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We explored the pulmonary effects of continuous mechanical ventilation (MV) at a peak inspiratory pressure of 50 cm H2O in healthy, paralyzed, and anesthetized adult sheep during a period of 48 h. The 9 control sheep (Group A) were ventilated with 40% oxygen at a tidal volume of about 10 ml/kg and a peak inspiratory pressure of 15 to 20 cm H2O. All these animals remained stable throughout the 48 h of MV with no change in lung function. The 7 sheep in Group B were ventilated with 40% oxygen using a pressure-controlled ventilator at 50 cm H2O peak inspiratory pressure, at a VT of 50 to 70 ml/kg. All sheep in Group B developed severe respiratory failure and died or were killed within 2 to 35 h, and showed parenchymal consolidation at autopsy. The 9 sheep in Group C were ventilated as in Group B, except that 3.8% CO2 was added to the inspired gases: the Group C animals deteriorated more slowly, with little change in PaO2 but with a severely reduced FRC, VT, total static lung compliance, and grossly abnormal lungs at autopsy. We conclude that in this model, mechanical ventilation at peak airway pressure of 50 cm H2O will lead to progressive impairment in pulmonary mechanics, lung function, acute respiratory failure, and alveolar cellular dysfunction, as demonstrated by highly abnormal minimal surface tension values of saline lung lavage fluid in both study groups. | <urn:uuid:51d5052d-7c9d-49f0-97a7-677e18c9634a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3544984/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952891 | 305 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Logan AC, Jacka FN, Craig JM, Prescott SL (2016) Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci. 14(2): 131-47. doi: 10.9758/cpn.2016.14.2.131
Relationships between gastrointestinal viscera and human emotions have been documented by virtually all medical traditions known to date. The focus on this relationship has waxed and waned through the centuries, with noted surges in interest driven by cultural forces.
Here we explore some of this history and the emerging trends in experimental and clinical research. In particular, we pay specific attention to how the hygiene hypothesis and emerging research on traditional dietary patterns has helped re-ignite interest in the use of microbes to support mental health.
At present, the application of microbes and their structural parts as a means to positively influence mental health is an area filled with promise. However, there are many limitations within this new paradigm shift in neuropsychiatry. Impediments that could block translation of encouraging experimental studies include environmental forces that work toward dysbiosis, perhaps none more important than westernized dietary patterns. On the other hand, it is likely that specific dietary choices may amplify the value of future microbial-based therapeutics.
Pre-clinical and clinical research involving microbiota and allergic disorders has predated recent work in psychiatry, an early start that provides valuable lessons. The microbiome is intimately connected to diet, nutrition, and other lifestyle variables; microbial-based psychopharmacology will need to consider this contextual application, otherwise the ceiling of clinical expectations will likely need to be lowered. | <urn:uuid:c7259a2b-c2f6-48c5-a75e-5029554f7178> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fabresearch.org/viewItem.php?id=10257&listId=5374&categoryId=&navPageId=978&searchText=&startNo= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939025 | 321 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Freshly Roasted Coffee
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𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥/𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐨, 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 (𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚, 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚). 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
COFFEE PROCESSING METHODS USED IN OUR PRODUCTS
We de-pulp our coffee cherries, then store them for at least 24 hours, allowing them to ferment. After which, we washed them, removing all the mucilage left. Once clean, we sun-dry them for 4-6 days approximately (depending on the weather). Finally they are ready to be peeled and roasted.
Our fresh coffee cherries are de-pulped, but allowed to dry without washing. Most of the cherry is gone, but there's golden/sticky mucilage remaining; reminiscent of honey, which is where the process gets its name. The result is a naturally sweet, fruit-foward cup of coffee.
Dry processed coffees are dried in the full cherry. Which is why they tend to have more fruit and fermented flavors, because the bean has more time to interact with the natural sugars from the cherry. We use this process in our "coyol" cherries, which are picked near the end of the harvest.
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The Environmental Foundation Limited v. The Urban Development Authority of Sri Lanka and others
The Environmental Foundation Limited (EFL) filed an application in the Supreme Court, in the public interest seeking disclosure of the vesting order issued under the Urban Development Authority (UDA) Law, vesting Galle Face Green in the UDA. The agreement entered into by the UDA with a private company to lease out the Green. The UDA was the 1st respondent while the 2nd respondent was the EAP Network (Pvt) Ltd.
The court made an interim order directing the UDA to refrain from putting into operation any lease or any kind of arrangement affecting the use, occupation and management of the area described as the Galle Face Green.
The interim order did not make specific reference to the impugned Agreement since it was not in the public domain at that time and the petitioner had been denied access to it, being the alleged infringement of the constitution. The Agreement was subsequently produced by EAP Network (Pvt) Ltd.
After the respondent failed to produce any grant, lease or order by which Galle Face Green was vested in the UDA, the court declared that the UDA had no power to enter into the Agreement with EAP Network (Pvt) Ltd.
The Court declared that the Galle Face Green should be maintained as a public utility in continuance of the dedication made by Sir Henry Ward and necessary resources for this purpose should be made available by the Government of Sri Lanka, being the successor to the Colonial Governor who made the dedication to the “Ladies and Children of Colombo”.
The 1st respondent was directed to pay the petioner (EFL) a sum of Rs. 50,000/- as costs.
For more information about this case, please download the handbook “Some Significant Environmental Judgements in Sri Lanka” by visiting our publications page.
Significance of the Case
EFL instituted this case in Public Interest seeking disclosure of information about the Lease Agreement between Urban Development Authority (UDA) and a private company to lease out Galle Face Green which has been maintained as public utility for more than 150 years. The Supreme Court decided that the purported lease agreement between Urban Development Authority (UDA) and the private company was ultra vires the powers of UDA and same to be of no force or avail in law and Galle Face Green should be maintained as a public utility. | <urn:uuid:c2cf6067-e7d7-4f6a-b51f-1b0dcc8141ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://efl.lk/portfolio/the-galle-face-case/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956936 | 512 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Windley Key is the pair of islands that are between Snake Creek and Whale Harbor. The two islands are now officially one island, having been joined together with railroad fill. It was reported to have been named after a settler, and has also been called Windlys Key, and Vermont Key.
Before the railroad arrived, the two islands that now form Windley Key were called the Umbrella Keys.
While the waterway between the two Umbrella Keys would have been effective at releasing storm ebb current (due to having a Bay side catchment and wider gap between the two islands at higher storm surge heights), during non-storm conditions it was shallow and narrow, likely making it of little interest to visiting large boats that needed to look for deep water passages. Therefore, early nautical charts, mainly used by visiting large boats (instead of locals), did not show a passage between the two islands.
Nevertheless, naming it as a plural of more than one Key may have been intended to help convey the possiblity of small craft passage.
The portion of highway dike between the two islands of Windley Key could be removed and replaced with a bridge to restore storm ebb current capability under the bridge. Recreational opportunities could include launching smaller boats to explore mangroves.
Consider the idea behind using an umbrella. An umbrella has a water repellent membrane that is convex toward the rain and concave toward the object to keep dry (a person or thing).
Even an umbrella that is crumpled at the top will help.
Now, rotate the map of Windley Key so that its Atlantic coast is up:
Notice how it looks like a crumpled umbrella.
Next, consider storm surge waves hitting it from the Atlantic:
Most of the waves would try to bounce back. Windley Key is like an umbrella against the Atlantic Coast waves.
Consider if there was a gap for water to flow between the two islands, like there used to be. Some waves from the Atlantic would go through that gap, but many of the waves would be reflected away from the gap.
What is actually happening is that each wave generates reflected waves in multiple directions, and for most of these waves the multiple directions will be back toward the ocean.
Now consider storm ebb current in Florida Bay flowing toward the Atlantic Ocean. The Bay side of the two islands would reflect waves more toward the gap. Each incoming wave reflects in multiple directions, with more of those directions toward the gap, due to the concave orientation of this side of the two islands which forms a waveguide. | <urn:uuid:a5d51864-f3cc-4345-8e69-7ba063c5fa16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alternativeuniversity.net/aec/transport/keys1935/umbrellakeys/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972346 | 526 | 3.28125 | 3 |
With its 100th blog post, BikeVCar has seen this as an appropriate landmark to fall in line with the cycling world and go metric, where distances are communicated in kilometres and ascents in metres. I appreciate that this may cause some confusion to readers from the USA where the imperial system is still used. I doubt anything could make things more confusing in the UK where both systems are partly used, with the bizarre result that short distances are measured in metres and long distances in miles, with many people apparently unsure how to convert between the two.
Henceforth, kilometres will be the unit of measurement on this blog. If you are unsure how to convert kilometres to miles, then a simple trick is to divide the number by 8 and then multiply by 5.
If you are unsure how to do this, then you could find a 10 year old and ask for their help.
I hope you continue to enjoy the blog and that its decimalisation doesn’t cause too much confusion. I would love to write more but the temperature outside is a beautiful 303 Kelvins which seems like perfect cycling weather for a ride. | <urn:uuid:2dfd187e-47ea-4347-b728-3e23135e4c58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bikevcar.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/100th-blog-post-going-metric/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964853 | 227 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Do you know that calluses, unwelcome as they could be, truly kind to guard you? The pores and skin in your toes takes fairly the beating, because it encounters a ton of friction on the day by day (from operating, too-tight sneakers, and the like). Consequently, areas that have probably the most trauma naturally thicken to protect your pores and skin from these bumps and dings. Neat, no?
The issue arises when you do not are inclined to these calluses often: If left untreated, these tough patches will proceed to construct up and up, which may trigger the pores and skin to crack—and when it is open to the atmosphere, micro organism can simply sneak inside.
So if you have not thought twice about exfoliating your toes, properly, think about this your signal to ship some like to your soles. Beneath, 5 foot scrubs that can buff these calluses baby-smooth:
Salt, sugar & olive oil scrub
Gloria L. Williams, Oprah’s pedicurist and founding father of Footnanny, swears by this straightforward sea-salt/sugar scrub to buff away calluses. “That is one thing straightforward so that you can attempt at residence,” she affords.
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup sea salt
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- Optionally available: 2 to three drops of your favourite important oil, like peppermint or lavender. “For a kick of aroma,” says Williams.
- Pour the sugar and salt right into a mixing bowl and stir till mixed.
- Drizzle within the olive oil slowly “and mix to your required stage of thickness,” Williams says. The extra oil you utilize, the thinner your scrub. At this level, you possibly can drop in your important oils, if you happen to so select.
- Combine till it kinds a paste. Use instantly or retailer in a cool, dry space with an hermetic lid.
Baking soda scrub
Baking soda has a barely abrasive texture that may gently slough off useless pores and skin—that is why it is formulated into many physique scrubs, face scrubs, and even scalp scrubs. Here is what you will want for this two-ingredient marvel:
- 1 cup baking soda
- 3 to six tablespoons oil of alternative (jojoba, olive, almond, and so forth.).
- In a mixing bowl, mix your baking soda and oil, including in 1 tablespoon of oil at a time till you attain your required consistency.
- Mix properly till it kinds a paste. Use instantly or retailer in a cool, dry space with an hermetic lid.
Honey-shea butter scrub
Shea butter and honey are inclined to mix collectively higher than an oil (far much less sticky), so it makes a greater base. “Honey is an excellent ingredient so as to add since it’s a pure humectant, which means it helps pores and skin retain moisture,” Jana Blankenship, product formulator and founding father of the pure magnificence model Captain Blankenship, advised us a few honey physique scrub.
Use no matter bodily exfoliator you will have readily available—brown sugar, sea salt, and finely floor flours all make prime decisions. May we advise oat flour, because the ingredient will help soothe irritation and help barrier perform (excellent for extra delicate soles).
- ½ cup oat flour
- ⅓ cup shea butter
- 3 to five tablespoons uncooked honey
- Mix your oat flour and shea butter in a mixing bowl.
- Add in a number of tablespoons of honey, and blend till blended evenly.
- Use instantly or retailer in a cool, dry space with an hermetic lid.
Espresso-coconut sugar scrub
Espresso and caffeine are lauded in skincare circles for exciting blood circulation, which may make your soles seem radiant and vivid. To not point out, the confection smells simply divine. Be happy so as to add a number of dashes of vanilla further for much more of a dessert-inspired scrub.
- ½ cup brewed espresso grounds (Ensure the grounds have cooled earlier than utilizing.)
- ½ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup melted coconut oil
- Optionally available: 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- In a mixing bowl, mix the sugar and occasional grounds.
- Slowly drizzle within the melted coconut oil till you attain your required consistency. Add within the vanilla extract if utilizing, and stir till properly mixed.
- Use instantly, or retailer in a cool, dry space with an hermetic lid.
ACV is of course stuffed with AHAs, particularly lactic, citric, and malic acids, which can provide your foot scrub a chemical increase. Because you’re including a chemical exfoliator, you would possibly need to go straightforward together with your bodily base—maybe use finely milled oat or almond flour as a substitute of abrasive sea salt. You do not need to irritate the toes, right here.
- 1 cup oat flour
- ⅓ cup jojoba oil
- Sprint of apple cider vinegar. “A teaspoon and even much less,” Marisa Plescia, analysis scientist at clear magnificence e-tailer NakedPoppy, beforehand advised us concerning the recipe.
- Combine the oat flour and jojoba oil slowly right into a bowl till you attain a paste-like consistency.
- Add your ACV and stir till evenly blended.
- Use instantly, or retailer in a cool, dry space with an hermetic lid.
How one can use a foot scrub appropriately.
Do not simply slap on the scrub and name it a day. Thoughts the following pointers:
Clear and soak your toes.
To assist loosen the highest layer of pores and skin, you will need to give your self a fast foot bathtub—that approach, the water can penetrate the pores and skin and make useless cells simpler to take away. Plus, as board-certified dermatologist Loretta Ciraldo, M.D., FAAD, as soon as advised us about lukewarm baths, soaking can truly swell up the floor space of the pores and skin and permit for extra penetration of skin-loving substances (on this case, these good-for-you oils and butters combined into your foot scrub).
Merely fill your tub, sink, or basin with lukewarm water and soak for 5 minutes; you can even drop in some Epsom salts or add a number of drops of a nourishing oil or cleaning soap for further pores and skin softening.
Apply the scrub.
Now, the enjoyable bit: Scoop a dollop of your favourite scrub onto these soles and scrub away. Rub the goop in round motions over cracked, dry areas till they’re touchably smooth.
Keep in mind: With bodily exfoliators, you management the strain—and whilst you might profit from medium strain on robust heels and calluses, watch out to not scrape up the extra delicate pores and skin in your soles. “Rubbing too onerous can worsen your pores and skin,” Plescia warns, which may solely end in indignant, irritated toes.
Rinse and moisturize.
The moisturizing step is, arguably, simply as vital because the exfoliation bit. After scrubbing, you need to seal all these skin-healthy oils and lipids into the pores and skin, in addition to the water you simply used to rinse. An oil, lotion, or foot cream retains every part locked in—with out it, your pores and skin might seem even drier than it was earlier than.
“Because the handbook exfoliation of the stone could cause microabrasions on the pores and skin, it is vital to use moisturizer to assist restore the small cracks within the pores and skin,” board-certified dermatologist Purvisha Patel, M.D., founding father of Visha Skincare, as soon as advised us about utilizing a pumice stone.
Discover a foot cream loaded with emollients, which have the power to sit down in between pores and skin cells, fill in any micro-cracks, and soften irritated pores and skin. Right here, our favorites.
Use as soon as per week.
The precise variety of occasions to exfoliate differs for everybody, however you positively do not need to overdo it—sure, even on tough calluses. “A very powerful tip is that ‘much less is extra.’ You need to exfoliate simply sufficient to extend cell turnover and reveal contemporary new pores and skin,” Ife Rodney, M.D., board-certified dermatologist and founding father of Everlasting Dermatology, advised us about how usually you must exfoliate. You do not need to therapeutic massage in a foot scrub, slather on a foot peel, and sink your toes in an apple cider vinegar soak all on the identical day (and even in the identical week); your toes might grow to be irritated or infected.
In terms of any sort of exfoliation, a once-a-week cadence is a stable place to begin: See how your pores and skin reacts, and work your approach up from there.
For smooth, supple toes, foot scrubs work wonders. The pores and skin runs a bit harder (particularly on robust calluses), so you possibly can have a bit extra freedom with DIY substances that would not essentially work for different components of your physique or face. As all the time, although, make sure that to patch-test earlier than slathering on—painful, tender soles are definitely worse than dry heels.
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Australia, the land of long, hot summers. A country where refreshment is a way of life. A country where health and wellness has long been “mainstream”. So, what’s the next fad in the beverage space you ask? No, it’s not another Kombucha!
It’s Yerba Maté – A South American green tea that is naturally high in caffeine, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that is famous for delivering energy without the jittery buzz normally associated with caffeine.
There seems to be some misconceptions about Yerba Maté with consumers. Likely because someone tried it, for the first (and only) time, while riding a donkey in Patagonia on a ledge 10,000 feet high, from a traditional gourd that was jammed packed full of this interesting herb.
The rush of caffeine would have been immense, but the overwhelmingly strong, tannic and somewhat ashy aftertaste would have been the lasting memory. Equivalent to giving someone a triple shot espresso for their first coffee. You have to ease them in!
This traditional method of consuming Yerba Maté is where people end up in the journey. The best way to introduce it, is for a lighter infusion of pure leaf (little, to no stem) and the resulting drink is a lot more like a Japanese green tea in flavour.
Soft tannins, grassy and fresh. Even with this style you get half a cup of coffee (worth) of caffeine but it’s the antioxidants and long list of health benefits that really set this magic herb apart and give it the cringe worthy “superfood” status.
In 1964 the Pasteur Institute of Paris conducted a study, to see how many vitamins Yerba Maté possessed. The study concluded that, “It is difficult to find a plant in any area of the world that is equal to Maté in nutritional value”.
When friends Luke and Aliy bumped into each other on the dancefloor at a music festival on a 40-degree day they realised that there were no, non-alcoholic drink options that were low in sugar, high in energy and all natural.
With Luke’s background in brewing (beer) and Aliy’s passion for all things Yerba maté and experience working at festivals all over the world, it was clear that with Yerba Maté there was a huge opportunity.
“Australia’s alcohol consumption is on the decline, which has created a gap that continues to widen in the Australian beverage market”
NATURALLY DRIVEN WAS BORN
The mission was simple at first, Cold Brew high quality organic Tea leaves, blend with organic juice, carbonate and put in a can. Reality was a different story.
It took 12 months of development which resulted in a propriety method of cold brewing and filtration that has resulted in an all-Natural iced Yerba Maté that is fizzy and refreshing meanwhile locking in all of the Teas nutrients
It was out of the development of these energy drinks that the true versatility of Yerba Mate was discovered and hence the decision was made to release a range of loose-leaf Teas so that cafes and consumers alike could discover their own take on the Iced Yerba Matê (known as terere).
“It’s so refreshing, and it acts as a stimulant and contains almost no calories. Iced with fruits and flavours It’s the ultimate cafe drink for summer delivering great margin opportunities and broadening a café’s offering, made as a hot Tea it has the power and bitterness to please any coffee drinker. It’s the perfect all-rounder” says founder Luke Langton
Yerba Maté has already proven hugely popular in North America and Europe achieving cult status in the hacker and electronic music scenes.
Famous for giving longevity and a cleaner type of energy it’s this type of popularity that if executed well would suit the Australian consumer and their unwavering desire for something new that’s healthy and above all, functional
It’s in the “serving suggestion” where the opportunity exists. Due to its flavour profile its very versatile. You can add herbs, fruits and numerous flavours
NATURALLY DRIVEN TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Naturally Driven have teamed up with Rainforest Rescue. An Australian environmental charity that protects and regenerates Rainforests in Australia.
Coming together with the shared point of view that humans have a responsibility to protect our natural world. The mission has always been to give back to a charity that is doing great things for the environment and ultimately helping to reverse the effects of climate change
Rainforest Rescue purchase blocks of private land which had been previously cleared and used for agriculture that is either connected, or close to existing rainforests.
The site is cleared of the old crops, the soil is regenerated, and native rainforest trees are then planted by hand. The trees are all grown from seed in the nurseries and when they are strong enough, they are moved out to the lot.
A painstaking process that requires huge amounts of time and resources.
Naturally Driven donates 2% of all domestic revenue towards this great cause.
Organic Loose Leaf Tea
Organic Pure Leaf Yerba Maté
Grandmas Garden – Yerba Maté with Hibiscus, rose and Calendula
Pep in your step – Yerba Maté with Peppermint and Siberian Ginseng
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“What is your purpose on Earth?”
This is the central question of director Denis Villeneuve’s alien invasion thriller, Arrival. Villeneuve is known for slow-build, tense storytelling like Prisoners and Sicario and with Arrival he applies that expertise to a 300 level Comm Theory class. The film isn’t so much set around asking that question to the audience or the aliens as much as it is the journey to understanding how to ask this question, “What is your purpose on Earth?”
This is the job of famous linguist Dr. Louise Banks played with care and intensity by Amy Adams. That’s right, Arrival is about the super sexy field of linguistics. It is Dr. Banks’ job to ask this question to alien visitors who showed up unannounced to 12 random places around the globe. Have you ever had a problem communicating with someone who speaks your language, maybe even someone in your own family? Where in the world would you even start with a brand-new alien race?
Here the tension of Arrival begins. What if this is an alien military invasion on a global scale? What if this is an elaborate plot by this alien race to pit Earth’s military powers against each other? What if the aliens have discovered we are the only planet in the universe to master having “pizza anytime” and have come to partake in some sweet, sweet Bagel Bites? Until we figure out how to communicate with the aliens, we will never know.
If you’ve never thought about how complicated human communication is, Arrival will make your head spin. We live in a time with some of the most widely accessible and powerful communications technology, so why is it that we still find it so hard to talk to one another, to understand one another?
At its core, Arrival, is about learning to communicate with the “other.” The timeline of our history is littered with the consequences of fearing those who are different from us. Fear comes from the aliens’ unpredictable behavior. Is their behavior truly threatening or is it scary because it’s not what we would do? Tensions come from the frustration of not being able to talk to the aliens. Is this language barrier an act of war or does that frustration come from our belief that the burden of communication lies on our visitors? We would be put at ease if they just spoke our language. They came to us after all.
When we reach a comfortable cocktail of confusion and fear in our communication with others it is easy to find any number of meanings in their actions. If you watch Arrival, and I recommend that everyone should, allow the movie to reveal the barriers you have in communicating with people different from you. Do they look very different? Do they not speak your language? Do you fail to understand why they do some of the things they do the way they do them?
Discovering these barriers and breaking them down are a worthy exercise. Intimacy with the “other” is something God calls us to in our human relationships. An easy example might be marriage, though this is not the sole relationship where emotional intimacy and support is possible. The further we get into our marriage, my wife and I continue to understand our biggest obstacle is that we are two different people.
We think differently, we perceive differently, we experience differently, and we respond differently. To me, a clean bathroom looks visibly clean. To my wife, a clean bathroom involves bleach. To me, laundry is separated into whites and colors, hot and cold wash. To my wife, laundry instructions are a humble suggestion. Yes, at times, the fact that we are the “other” causes pain, fear, and confusion but as we live into our otherness we experience some of life’s most profound beauty.
Do we ever really know ourselves unless we experience ourselves through the eyes of the “other”? Do we ever really experience the love of God unless we have been loved by someone who objectively knows us…and loves us anyway? When we make space in our lives for the “other” we open ourselves up to the deeper mysteries of how God loves us. That is what we offer each other if we can learn how to talk to one another. You might just find your purpose for being on this Earth.
Breaking down these barriers is difficult and is the hard, emotional work we see Dr. Banks go through in the film. It requires strength, it requires grace, and it requires an open mind. We are always more comfortable with people that are most like ourselves. It is easy to love those with whom it is easy to communicate, but imagine how much bigger your love could be. Imagine how much bigger a love you could receive. Having your space invaded can be scary, but just imagine how terrifying you are to the “other.”
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Most countries are finding it difficult to communicate with the aliens, what makes Dr. Banks different? How does her approach differ from her scientist and military co-workers? What are her beliefs behind her methods and why is it more successful?
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These Surprising Things Might Drag Down Your Credit Score Significantly
Your credit score is a pretty important number in your life. Some might say it’s the most important number in your life. After all, this is the number that determines whether or not you can get a job, buy a house, get a loan or do most anything you might imagine. It’s important, and we know that you want to keep your credit score as high as possible. The problem, however, is that it’s not always that easy to do just that. What happens when your credit score drops and you don’t know why? It’s easy to know that your score will drop if you’re out making late payments on things, if you’re skipping payments or if you are maxing out all your credit cards, but what happens when your score drops and none of the above has occurred? The answers aren’t simple, but we can help you figure them out.
You Have An Unpaid Parking Ticket
Yes, this is true; and no, I didn’t even know this. Fortunately for me, there is nowhere but parking lots or driveways to park where I live, so I’ll never get a parking ticket. In fact, I don’t even know if police officers hand out parking tickets around here. However, forgetting to pay one parking ticket can result in a collection agency taking over and your credit being negatively affected.
You Have Too Many Credit Cards
You didn’t think it mattered how many cards you had so long as they don’t have a balance, right? Wrong; the max number of credit cards you should carry is five, but we recommend not having more than three. Keeping it between three and five will keep your credit score looking good. Creditors might see that none have a balance, but they will wonder what might happen if you decide to go on a spending spree. If you have more than five cards, start closing accounts – but be sure you cancel new accounts. Closing your older cards can hurt.
Overdue Library Books
I remember in high school one of my friends was unable to accept her diploma or even walk with us at graduation because she had an overdue library book from her freshman year she just honestly forgot about. She had to pay over $100 in late fees and fines because of it, and that’s how she was able to graduate with us. Now imagine in the real world that your overdue library book is sent to a collection’s agency and your credit report is affected over a $10 book for the next seven years. It happens. Return those books on time or face the wrath.
Consolidating Credit Card Debt Onto One Card
It might be very tempting to put all your balances from your cards onto one brand new card with no interest so that you can pay it off a bit cheaper, but it’s a bad idea. What it does is clear up some other cards, but it makes your credit score drop. Why? Because now you are exceeding your 30% recommended debt on one card, and it looks bad. It looks really bad to have a high balance on one card and none on others, even if you are working hard to pay them off. A much better option is a small personal loan you can use to pay these cards off and raise your credit score.
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Not Having Your Own Credit After Marriage
This might happen more than you think. When you and your spouse apply for all your credit jointly, it can have a negative effect on both of your individual credit scores. Additionally, if you take the time to only use one partner’s credit, you might even find that you have to rebuild your own if you want to have any. Let’s say your credit wasn’t the best when you got married, so everything is in your spouse’s name. You might begin to think that after a few years your score is better, but you have no individual credit anymore, so you don’t actually have any good scores to call your own. It happens; be sure to keep things pretty equal in your marriage to avoid this one.
Overall, there are so many things you can do to affect your credit in a negative light, just as you can do other things to affect it in a positive light. Your job is simply to make sure you are using your credit wisely. Pay your bills on time, pay off your credit cards each month, don’t go applying for every card under the sun to save 15% on your total purchase for the day (unless it’s a big, big purchase like new appliances or new floors or something) and check your credit score every few months to make sure there are no mistakes on your credit report.
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When Aronnax wakes up, he's in the cabin of a fisherman, in the remote Lofoten Islands (off the coast of Norway). Ned and Conseil are there too.
Aronnax waits to head back to France. The ferry to the mainland doesn't come too often.
So there he is, working on his manuscript… which happens to be the book we've just read. It's all true, he says; "[n]ot a single fact has been omitted" (2.23.3).
Aronnax isn't sure anybody will believe him, but that's alright. He knows he's traveled—and here's the title line—20,000 leagues under the sea in under ten months. He's been through the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, and Antarctic oceans.
And what is he left with, other than some great stories? A whole lot of unanswered questions. Like: what happened to the Nautilus? Is Nemo still kicking? Is he still killing? Will we ever know where he's from or why he does what he does?
Aronnax hopes so. He hopes Nemo is still alive. He hopes Nemo will stop hating on everyone so much. He hopes he'll stop seeking revenge. He hopes he'll keep exploring. In any case, Nemo's an extraordinary man. Aronnax knows this for sure. He's got firsthand experience. He's spent ten months down there with him, under the sea.
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Deciding to quit drugs is a great first step in your journey to sobriety. However, even when you feel you’re ready to overcome your addiction, the withdrawal process can be hard to bear. Prolonged drug use can change your brain chemistry, causing your body to react in an unexpected way when you stop doing drugs. But medical detox can reduce the side effects of withdrawal so that recovery becomes easier to attain. It also considerably minimizes the risk of relapse. Medical detox is done in a comfortable and medically supervised environment.
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Detoxification from drugs entails purging your body of drugs and toxic substances. The process can be painful, uncomfortable, and even life-threatening. But medical detox can minimize the symptoms of withdrawal and is usually the first step in drug and alcohol treatment in Los Angeles, California. The importance of supervised drug detoxification include:
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Most drug detoxes use approved medications to alleviate the uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal. The medications help your brain and body to stabilize and keep you safe. Some of the common symptoms prescription medication aid with include high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, hallucinations, and seizures.
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Medical detox sets you up for long-term Los Angeles addiction recovery. Drug detox is crucial because it might be impossible to completely stop using before getting rid of the toxic substances in your body. Medically assisted detox helps you to withstand the severe withdrawal symptoms that come with quitting drugs.
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[nobe-l] Looking for Suggestions: Moon Project for Next Year's BELL Program
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Do you mean, Orieo cookies? That’s one way to show the phases of the moon. I didn’t think of using Orieo cookies. I’d probably use the regular ones because of the visual colors because the inside is white like the moon and the outside is black like outerspace. I also have an swell form picture of the quorter moon that I got at Youth SLAM in 2007 when I attended it in Baltimore, Maryland. I can also bring that as well to show the kids what swell form printing is all about. When I first touched swell form pictures at Youth SLAM, I didn’t let the teachers of the star party where I touched them hear the end of my questions about it until they told me that they’d explain all about it at the end of the party. I don’t know if those moon globes at our closest science musium shows the craters on the moon but if not, does anyone have ideas on how to show off the lunar craters?
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I like using Oreos to teach the phases of the moon. We remove parts of the filling to represent each of the phases. It also makes a nice snack afterwords and all of my students absolutely love the activity. Good luck and fun theme!
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> Since next year is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first ever moon
> landing, I thought about doing something around that as part of our state's
> BELL program next year. However, I'm not sure what would be a
> goodpresentation. I have a general idea of what I want to do, to somehow
> recount the story of that landing, but I don't want to have the students
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These are the easiest resolutions ever! So you want to lose 50 pounds? Or is it 10 pounds? This year, think positive! Set yourself up for success instead of failure.
Write down your goals. Then, as you succeed at one, scratch it off the list. Like a bucket list of resolutions. Tell a close friend your goals. This helps to keep you accountable. After all, you don’t want to let a friend down!
The best way to achieve your goals is to make them achievable. It’s almost impossible to lose 50 pounds. But it’s totally achievable to lose 10 pounds. You could start there and go on to the next 10 pounds.
If you start with smaller resolutions, then move up to a bigger one (if you want to), you’ll have a greater chance of succeeding. And success is such an awesome feeling!
How about no more excuses? Make a resolution to get rid of the flimsy excuses not to do something (like the no-good excuse to not see your Mom and Dad)? Or the excuses we all make not to lose weight? We all know that excuses are the easy way out. Let’s not do the easy way anymore.
Another one we all do….complain. A resolution to complain less is so achievable. Try not to even complain to yourself (self-talk). Doesn’t even take much effort. Self-talk is super important! Stop letting your inner critic take over. Or how about this? Every time you feel a complaint coming on, think about one thing you have to be grateful for. Works every time.
Stock up on patience. Hard to do, I know. We want it right now! We want someone to answer us right now! Well, from personal experience, let me tell you that if we exhibit more patience, our stress levels would dramatically go down!
Another biggie? Procrastination. I usually say “always put off till tomorrow what you could’ve done today.” But everyone knows I am making a joke. Do it today because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
Let’s choose to eat a bit more healthy this next year. We can do it! Even cutting out one or two “bad” things a week will help. Drink less Cokes. Cut out as much sugar as possible (well, you know, within reason). You don’t have to eat salads, broccoli, or spinach. Just try to cut out a few of the bad choices. Another option is to eat healthy during the week and slip up a bit on the weekends. Good idea, huh? Bottom line is to replace unhealthy eating habits with good eating habits (or better ones).
Start working out. Not necessarily to lose weight but to get those muscles toned up. They say muscle weighs more than fat anyway. So how about working out and get some muscles? Even a tiny bit of lifting light weight is excellent for muscle tone and bone density.
Oh, no, here comes a hard one! Less social media. Put that phone down and really be present with the person speaking to you (especially a spouse, just sayin’). Aim to cut down 15 minutes a day of checking all the social stuff. Bet you won’t miss it a bit!
You cannot go wrong by adopting a furry little friend from a shelter! There is nothing like the unconditional love of a pet. Even if you’ve never had a pet, I promise you will love a dog/cat more than you ever thought possible. The joy they bring is immeasurable!
Now this could be a hard one! Clean up your debt and don’t get back in it! Pay off those extremely high interest rate credit cards. Keep your money rather than giving it to someone else. If you have a monthly payment on credit card debt, pay an extra $10, even $20 a month on that debt, reduce it quicker, and don’t charge anything else on credit cards. Oh, my, how good you will feel! Credit is one of the most important things as an adult. Without it, it is difficult to own very much of anything. The Ultimate List of Money Saving Tips
So it’s time for an easy one. Figure out something you love to do and make it a hobby this year. Relaxing could add years to your life! Golf, scrapbooking, playing piano, reading. Whatever you think you can enjoy making a hobby, do it! Great stress reducer too!
Another easy one! Make a resolution (commitment) to drink more water this year. How can you not like it? It has no taste! And the benefits of water are astronomical! If you want to add a little taste to it, add a lemon or lime. It is so refreshing! Rather than grabbing that Coke at work, grab a bottle of water. Or take a glass to work, leave it in your desk and fill it with water during your workday. Very cleansing and super good for you!
Another beneficial tip is to create a gratitude journal. Might take two or three minutes to write down what you are grateful for every day. Who doesn’t have that kind of time? There is always something to be grateful for, even the little things!
Start a savings account (only if you do not have large credit card debt because you need to pay that off first). Never pay anyone interest if you can keep from it. Even if you save 5% or 10% of your income every month, it will add up to an amazing amount. Heck, save even 3%! You will be surprised at what you will be able to save every year. Come on, you can do it! I would advise anyone to speak to a financial advisor. Just a one-time appointment is all you need. Clean up your financial world! You’ll sleep better at night. Promise!
Reconnect with those long lost friends or relatives. Holding grudges only eats away at YOUR health, not theirs. Forgive and move on. Some people believe they never make a mistake, but the reality is there is not a single person who does not make mistakes. We are all just perfectly imperfect!
This may be a hard one due to time constraints. But the reward is awesome. Volunteer once a month for something, anything. Start a clean-up project in your neighborhood. How about a neighborhood watch volunteer once a month? Volunteer at a food bank or a local charity.
This is a resolution that may not be feasible for everyone. But I did it, and I am so glad I did. When I became a court reporter, I worked for a court reporting firm for one year. Then I started my own business. I hated paying a firm 25% of what I made. So after one year of that, I took a leap of faith and started my own (very successful) court reporting business. Kept it for 30 years before I couldn’t take hearing people argue anymore.
If at all possible, my advice would be to start your own business. You might be amazed at the information you can glean on-line about starting your own business. It is definitely a leap of faith, but without faith, what do we have? Do not get me wrong! I would not quit my 9:00-5:00 job to start a business. Do not advocate that AT ALL. But being your own boss is unequal to anything job-wise.
Get on-line and get that information about being your own boss! You may be glad you did! But please, for the sake of all things self-employed, DO NOT go into debt to be self-employed. Don’t do it. I promise you will be sorry!
Another excellent resolution to begin (or continue) in 2019….If you are trying to further your career but you have a family of little ones that make this difficult, try taking a night class, maybe just one night a week. Or take on-line courses. I have a relative who obtained a BS degree taking on-line courses while taking care of four children, all at home. It is possible to further your career by staying up a little later at night and taking those on-line courses. What an accomplishment!
Please, for the love of all people and things you love, do not text and drive. Need I say more? Make it a resolution (commitment)! Please.
If we could all do this one, the entire world would be a much better place. Every now and then just pay it forward. Just remember the next time something good happens to you to pay it forward. You will be blessed beyond measure!
I’m not going to say much about quitting smoking because we all know what a great New Year’s resolution that is. Many people make that resolution every single year. But please, do yourself and your loved ones a favor…if you make that resolution, keep it! Your loved ones will be so glad you did. And I promise you will feel so much better physically. I have never been a smoker, but I have witnessed firsthand through my loved ones the possible ramifications of it. Again, please do your loved ones (and you) a favor, and just don’t do it.
Another biggie and a great resolution! Make it a point to not let your past ruin your future! Get the skeletons out! There is not a person living who does not have skeletons. Don’t let yours ruin your future. Everyone deserves a second chance, maybe even a third or fourth. Go for it. Mend those fences. The day will come, I promise it will come, when you will wish you had.
Last, but definitely not the least. If you keep even one of these resolutions and commitments, give yourself credit, pat yourself on the back, and be grateful for your strength and perseverance! But please do not belittle yourself if you did not make it. Just try again. Put a smile on that face! | <urn:uuid:f7cc8b1e-2486-4f7d-909d-f7d46c22d600> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.justperfectlyimperfect.com/easiest-effortless-anytime-resolutions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958437 | 2,084 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The role of computer vision in the real estate sector is vast, and applications of the technology can bring considerable value to clients and businesses. From helping in content search and discovery to generating recommendations, metadata, content moderation, and damage analysis, computer vision has the potential to disrupt the real estate sector. Images and videos are extremely important for running a successful real estate business. They are used for a variety of purposes and can often influence decision making to a large extent. There are many companies such as Amazon Rekognition and restb.ai that offer readymade solutions to integrate computer vision into existing business databases. The subsequent analysis can be used to empower real estate professionals in the pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase stages of a product. This blog by the Iqbal Institute of Policy Studies explains the importance of images in the real estate sector and how computer vision can disrupt the current business practices in the sector.
How Important are Property Photos and Videos?
Understanding the course of searching properties is important to realise the importance of photos and videos in the process, and how streamlining data from these images can bring additional value to buyers, sellers, and investors. A variety of different factors are used to search for properties such as floor plans, real estate agents, virtual tours, comparables, neighbourhood information, videos, and real estate news and articles. However, according to a 2019 survey conducted in the USA real estate market, photos were the most important purchase driver for searchers of properties. The quality of images that are posted in listings can also have a significant impact on the decision of the buyer and investor. More than 1 million property images are uploaded every day in the US, and there is no way to leverage the valuable insights hidden within these photos at scale. Similarly, considering that property valuation is an important part of the process of buying and selling real estate, conducting remote appraisals is also a growing trend among real estate professionals. Images and videos can be an extremely significant part of the process as high-quality images collected from appraisal sites can be analysed remotely using computer vision to extract valuable insights. Therefore, it can be understood that images and videos are an important asset to businesses related to real estate.
How can Computer Vision and AI Enhance Real Estate Professionals?
Real estate professionals can leverage computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance different aspects of listing creation, property search, advertising, appraisals, insurance, renovations, and refinancing. Advanced applications of computer vision can also detect different types of rooms in a building and highlight the features of a property. This can help agents in creating listings as the software will automatically categorize images and videos to save time for the agent. Computer vision can also be used to detect distinct features of the property, such as the number of amenities available in the kitchen. Normal listings do not have such a level of detail mentioned about a property, and therefore, the use of computer vision can greatly enhance and add value for the customer. Property insurance and financing is another area where computer vision can play a vital role. It can be used in compliance detection and highlight aspects that would reduce the risk for the lending institution. Moreover, using style detection and condition detection, the technology can also be used to rate different properties according to market trends and client preferences. Additionally, computer vision can also be used for automatic photo enhancements, generating SEO image captions, and similarity detection.
Computer vision is a disruptive technology that has vast applications in the real estate sector. From helping in content search and discovery to generating recommendations and content moderation, computer vision and artificial intelligence can help real estate advisors in providing effective and efficient services to clients in the pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase processes of a property transaction. Companies like Amazon Rekognition and restb.ai are already providing solutions to different real estate companies in terms of integrating computer vision with their existing database of images and videos. Pakistan’s real estate sector is booming and the introduction of technologies like artificial intelligence and computer vision can greatly enhance investor interest and develop market best practices.
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How can real estate companies and businesses use computer vision?
Are these use cases relevant to Pakistan?
The role of computer vision in the real estate sector is vast, and applications of the technology can bring considerable value to clients and businesses.
From helping in content search and discovery to generating recommendations, metadata, content moderation, and damage analysis, computer vision has the potential to disrupt the real estate sector.
There are many companies such as Amazon Rekognition and restb.ai that offer readymade solutions to integrate computer vision into existing business databases.
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Afghanistan, Taliban resume fresh talks
Amid the Taliban's growing offensive in Afghanistan, the delegations of the Afghan government and the Taliban began a fresh round of talks on 17 July 2021 in Qatar. Addressing a conference in the Qatari capital of Doha, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah said to achieve peace, there is a need for flexibility from both sides.
- Afghans want the continuation of the world's support to the peace process... Afghanistan still needs reconstruction and it needs 'constructive' ties with the region and the world.
- The Taliban said that despite a lack of progress in intra-Afghan negotiations, there is a need to keep the hope and that they will make efforts to make the talks a success.
- To ensure Afghanistan's prosperity, there is a need for a central and independent Islamic system. To achieve this we should ignore our personal interests.
- Earlier this week, local reports had suggested that that Kabul would send a high-ranking delegation.
- The delegation includes former President Hamid Karzai and head of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, to Qatar's Doha.
- In recent weeks, Afghanistan has witnessed a spike in violence. Taliban have stepped up offensive since the foreign forces began to withdraw from the country in May.
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Safety must start with the owner or CEO of your company and be enforced through your entire management team down to every employee and jobsite visitor, as well as after--hour sightseers, vandals and thieves.
Last month we stressed the importance of eliminating that “safety sucks, it can’t happen to me” attitude in your employees (February 2012, “You can fix that ‘safety sucks’ attitude”). Employees must be kept aware of existing hazards every minute of every hour of every day.
You can justify whatever your safety program may cost:
1.Jobsite accident - Death, disability or painful injury causing undue suffering for your employee and the employee’s family.
2. Will this accident involve an OSHA citation and your safety compliance record?
3. Will you incur legal expenses and court costs?
4. Are there liquidated damages for jobsite delays?
5. Could this damage your reputation in this competitive industry?
6. Naturally, you would feel terrible if any of your employees were injured on the job. Consider how you would feel if the accident was due to your negligence!
Our mission with this series of articles is to help you concentrate on what you must do to ensure the safety of all your employees. To begin, appoint a company safety director, establish a safety committee, conduct quarterly company safety meetings, hold weekly toolbox talks on every jobsite, and maintain timely documentation of every meeting and required training course.
Enforcing jobsite safetyI am not an OSHA employee, nor have I memorized every word in its nearly 500-page regulations book. Since construction employees do not have time to interpret every OSHA rule, we have compiled this list of do’s and don’ts for easy jobsite reference and enforcement.
The Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 was enacted to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. Section 5 (a)(1), known as “The General Duty Clause,” is a catchall for citations for unsafe conditions to which a regulation does not exist.
OSHA requires every employee must receive “hazard communication” and be aware of where Material Safety Data Sheets are located on each jobsite. You must have a current OSHA poster and a first-aid kit in your trailer or in the foreman’s vehicle.
Let’s begin with addressing these six jobsite hazards that should be maintained in every foreman’s safety manual for easy reference. This manual can provide quick reference for solutions to safety hazards listed by employees on their weekly Safe Plan of Action.
1. Fall protection.Required for employees working near a leading edge of 6 ft. or more. Four options for approved fall protection are: guard rail and toe board (42 in. plus or minus 3 in. to top rail); warning line and safety monitor; harness and lanyard (minimum tensile strength: 5,000 lb.); and a safety net.
Rigid scaffolding requires railing at 10+ ft. above. Rolling scaffold can be erected only four times the width at base and must have railing above 6 ft.
All employees must have training before using scaffolding. You should never use the mason or carpentry contractors’ scaffold without having a competent person check for compliance.
2. Ladder safety.Employees must have proper training before using ladders. It is mandatory to check the condition of the ladder as well as the proper footing. Do not lean a step ladder against a wall; it must stand on all four feet. A ladder must extend 3 ft. above the deck and be tied off. Stay at least 10 ft. clear of power lines. You should be 1 ft. away from the wall for every 4 ft. of ladder.
Never carry anything in your hands while going up a ladder; use a tool pouch or belt, or a rope and bucket. On a stepladder, the highest step you may stand on to work is two steps down from the top. On an extension ladder, it is five rungs down from the top.
Take down any ladder at the end of your workday to prevent children or vandals from using it. Or tie a plank or piece of plywood on a long ladder to lessen that possibility.
3. Excavation and trench safety.Every year, 100 employees are killed and 5,000 are injured on jobsite excavations. Always call for existing line locations before digging. To minimize hazards, your soils person must inspect any ditch that is 4 ft. or deeper before anyone may enter. You must maintain a 34° angle (1 1/2 to 1) of repose, provide 2 ft. benches at 4 ft. intervals, or use a trench box or proper shoring. The soil must be piled at least 2 ft. back from the edge of the trench.
A ladder is needed less than 25 ft. in each direction for entering and leaving the trench. Do not work in a ditch with water, which may loosen the soil. All employees must wear hard hats and check for harmful gases. Provide barricades and lights to prevent someone falling into your trench. A professional engineer must design your safety compliance procedures before you begin excavating a trench 20 ft. or deeper.
4. Foresight preserves eyesight.We have every kind of eye protective device readily available. It may be inconvenient and unwieldy to use eye protection, but consider having to learn Braille if you don’t. Here are the most common operations where eye protection is a must:
5. Head protection. An object as small as a washer, nut, or bolt can kill you or inflict massive damage to your brain if it strikes your unprotected head. If you are injured without head protection, you will automatically lose 25% of your compensation benefits. Keep in mind, a welding hood is not a hard hat. You need a hard hat with hinges to support your mask.
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The key to combatting food insecurity is the creation of sustainable community-based food supply chains, argues Refilwe Pico, communications officer at the Seriti Institute. This non-profit is a developmental facilitation agency that helps communities and social partners reach their goals by delivering innovative, sustainable and comprehensive solutions to enhance socioeconomic impact.
2020’s Covid-19 hard lockdown exposed the reality of South Africa’s long-standing levels of inequality, deep poverty and food insecurity. And for many, the country’s current economic crisis promises no change in these bleak affairs for at least the next few years.
According to an article in The World Bank which was released on 16 July 2021, the Agricultural Commodity Price Index has risen by 30% since January 2020. Maize prices are 43% higher, wheat prices 12% higher and rice costs 10% more than in January 2020. These figures, coupled with the stark reality of the high unemployment rate and slow food relief systems in South Africa, paint a dire picture of the situation most South African citizens find themselves in.
According to an analysis released in September 2020, 20% of the South African population, that is 11,8 million people, were expected to fall into the “crisis” level of food insecurity by March 2021. This means that urgent action is required to reduce food gaps and protect livelihoods, especially considering that food insecurity causes chronic malnutrition in children which increases their risk of stunting, diseases and death, ultimately, threatening our future.
The challenges are significant, but the need to intervene is too great to ignore. Over the years, civil society organisations have played the role of trying to fill these gaps with varied interventions such as skills transfer, food relief and community development projects, but they cannot close these gaps fast enough and on such a large scale. To do this, we need community-based organisations that are empowered enough to impact the lives of their own marginalised communities.
Some of these civil society organisations are experiencing the ripple effects of their interventions. We recently saw this in Bela-Bela, where two communal gardens, after receiving inputs incorporated with training on how to start and maintain a food garden, evolved to being providers of food relief to their vulnerable community members.
One such case is the Reamogetswe Centre for Disabled Adults which does not only grow enough vegetables for their own consumption but are now also able to provide a nearby Early Childhood Development Centre with vegetables.
This gives the neighbouring centre a guarantee of healthy and nutritious food which improves children’s mental development, prevents stunting, and increases their physical activity. Furthermore, the Reamogetswe Centre for the Disabled provides women and children from underprivileged backgrounds with access to food.
Another example is the Development Skills and Community Project which underwent the same training programme and received the same inputs for implementation and has recently opened a feeding scheme that caters to destitute children, women and the elderly in their community. This garden also makes provision to neighbours, relatives, and those dependent on social grants.
By partnering with community-based organisations, civil society organisations assist community-based organisations to reach their goals, deeply impact their communities and create a sustainable synergy for development. The key to combatting food insecurity is the creation of sustainable community-based food supply chains, which have the potential of generating work opportunities and improving incomes and food security by supporting household production and selling fresh vegetables to the local market. | <urn:uuid:a52e49b9-130e-4550-bec5-5c2eea2afe14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foodformzansi.co.za/civil-society-bodies-send-ripples-of-change-through-sa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9588 | 703 | 2.5 | 2 |
Before urine drug testing, it is important to know the possible side effects that can occur. Since this is a drug test, it is possible that you could be allergic to some of the substances that are typically used in the process. In some cases, if the individual has a history of drug use and abuse, then their reaction to the substance might be increased.
Before you undergo a urine drug testing, it is important to remember that there are many drug testing kits that are available for purchase on the market today. However, you need to be very careful when considering which one to use in your situation. Some kits contain certain medications that will cause side effects for the individual in question. For example, amphetamines, diazepam, and codeine are all commonly mixed with urine in these type of drug testing kits.
If you have any questions about what should you not do before a urine drug test, you should discuss these with a drug testing professional at a drug rehab facility or medical clinic. In some cases, you may be able to get the information that you are looking for online. However, you should be careful about how much information you give online. The anonymity that many individuals enjoy on the internet can make them vulnerable to harmful fraud. In some cases, you may find that you are requested to pay a fee to talk to an actual person or to contact an online expert.
If you are wondering what should you not do before a urine drug test, remember that it is extremely important that you only take medications as directed by your doctor. This includes over-the-counter medications that may contain various ingredients that could be toxic to you. Anytime that you take prescription drugs that are intended to affect an important system in your body, such as the liver or kidneys, you should consult with your physician regarding the best course of action for taking these drugs.
Another thing that you should remember when you are thinking about what should you not do before a urine drug test is that smoking is extremely dangerous. Smoking does not only affect your health as a whole; it can also affect your ability to pass a urine drug test. Some tests require that the individual is smoke free for several hours prior to the procedure. Smoking cigarettes will make it much more difficult for the tester to determine drug residue in your blood. It can also slow down the results that are given from the test. Therefore, it is very important that you quit smoking if you are going to be tested.
You should also exercise proper consideration when you are considering what should you not do before a urine drug test. If you drink alcohol on a regular basis, you should think about whether or not you are under the influence of alcohol. Many times people who are going through drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs are tested for alcohol. Even if you are not a regular drinker, you should still avoid drinking altogether if you are going through a rehabilitation program. It is not safe to drive while you are under the influence of alcohol. Make sure that you get plenty of rest and that you are sleeping on a regular basis.
Something that many people do not realize is that prescription medications can have negative effects on a test. The reason why this is so important to think about is because urine drug tests are often used to gauge the effectiveness of different types of medications. If you take antibiotics regularly, for instance, you may find that your results are very negative. Because some prescription medications can be very harmful to your health, it is vital that you understand what should you not do before a urine drug test.
When considering what should you not do before a urine drug test, you should remember that there are some things that you should never do. For example, if you are taking any type of sedatives or anti-anxiety medication, you should stop taking them. These drugs will interfere with the test. Also, you should try to avoid alcohol and any other drugs that will negatively affect the test. If you can test yourself before you go to work, make sure that you do so. | <urn:uuid:7f688af2-02af-4ffb-8979-df112aee6cdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://waterdamagerestorationcompany.net/2021/08/19/what-should-you-not-do-before-a-urine-drug-test/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964816 | 812 | 1.804688 | 2 |
By Cecil J. Carter
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The Doctrinal Significance
of the Deleted Portions of Holy Scripture
"Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."Matthew 17:21
Prayer and Fasting
This deletion affects the doctrine of Biblical "prayer and fasting." The great secret of power over demons is excised. The NIV drops this statement of supreme importance to a tiny footnote, with no reason given for the robbery, except
"(20) Some manuscripts you. (21) But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
NASB brackets vs 21. A marginal note reads; "Most ancient mss. omit this verse." No wonder some do - satan hates this verse! If this note is as deceptive as that marginal note for Matthew 18:11 forget it.
"For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."Matthew 18:11
NIV again reads, in a tiny footnote:
"(11) The Son of Man came to save what was lost."
Here the doctrine of 'the incarnation of our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ' is rudely stripped of the primary reason and purpose for which He came. The omission opens the door for the insertion of "doctrines of devils" in other portions of the scriptures.
The NASB, as usual, brackets this priceless gem of Holy Scripture with the same deceptive marginal note as given for Matthew 17:21; and thus quietly, by means of brackets, prepares for its complete removal by future scholars.
We read with amazement the gross deception:
"Most ancient mss omit this verse."
Let a world class scholar correct his erring juniors. Re Matthew 17:21 "This precious verse ... is expunged by our revisionists; although it is vouched for by every known uncial but two (Vaticanus and Sinaiticus), every known cursive but one, (Evan. 33); is witnessed to by the Old Latin and the Vulgate," - he adds 6 versions in different languages, at least 13 of the church Fathers - "having been read in all the churches of Oriental Christendom on the 10th Sunday after Pentecost from the earliest period."
WHY was this omitted by Westcott and Hort from their mutilation of the Scripture in their revision of 1811?
Because - "For no other reason, we answer, but because Drs. Westcott and Hort place them among the interpolations which they consider unworthy of being even, 'exceptionally retained in association with the true text' ... "
John W. Burgon. Revision Revised p. 91-92
With reference to the omission of Matthew 18:11 Burgon continues; regarding the reading.
"It is attested by
Every known uncial except Vaticanus, Sinaiticus and L.
Every known cursive except three,
Eight ancient language versions,
Ten of the Church Fathers,
The Universal Eastern Church,
It has been read in all the assemblies of the faithful on the morrow after Pentecost, from the beginning.
Why then have the revisionists expunged this verse? We can only answer as before. -
Because Drs. Westcott and Hort consign it to the limbus of their Appendix: They class it among their 'Rejected Readings' of the most hopeless type."
Revision Revised, p. 92
The foregoing rather lengthy presentation reveals the clearly deceitful nature of the Westcott-Hort deletions, and provides us with a clue how it is that a presumably sincere group of scholars working on modern version have been so deceived by admittedly deceptive means used by Westcott and Hort, that they find themselves floundering around in the scholarly ditch of error, along with the real culprits, whose vicious pen knifing of the scriptures, they accepted at face value, many of them being absolutely ignorant of the fact that they were simply repeating doctrines of devils.
For the remainder of this essay only the omission and their biblical implications will be given.
"If any man have ears to hear let him hear."Mark 7:16
This verse emphatically underscores the importance of the preceding verse 15.
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Our examination of this verse reveals the fact that it is a Holy Spirit given corrective of "Doctrines of devils," namely the teaching that the eating of certain foods is defiling.
3) Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4) For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5) For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer
13) And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill, and eat.
14) But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15) And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
This evil doctrine is corrected plainly and powerfully by these Scriptures.
Why then the shrill cries of modern commentators, that no biblical doctrine is affected by deletions from the true text of Holy Scripture?
"Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched."Mark 9:44
"Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched."Mark 9:46
Eternal Punishment of the ungodly
NASB Margin reads,
"verses 44 and 46 which are identical with verse 48 are omitted by the best ancient mss."
Again the voice of John W. Burgon is heard; "where as they are the worst."
The scripture says;
"In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established"
This word of warning is established by the Holy Spirit in three verses. It is erased on two occasions by Westcott and Hort and their unthinking successors in many of the new versions.
These scholars, instead of cutting off their critical hand or foot, or plucking out the scholarly eye that offends doctrinally, and thus to sin, use these same God given instruments to cut off or pluck out the scriptures that are offensive to their spiritually blinded eyes.
"But if ye do not forgive neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."Mark 11:26
Condition for forgiveness of trespasses
vs 25 - And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
The devil would hide this great truth from the churches in order to further his purpose to stir up a perpetual strife between Christians.
14)For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15)But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will you Father forgive your trespasses.
"And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors."Mark 15:28
The Fulfillment of Scriptural Prophecies
Proof that Bible is the Word of God.
Answer: Fulfilled Scriptures.
"And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.""Acts 8:37
The Deity of Christ
A) Baptism is definitely for born again believers only. Note the missing words:
"if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest"
Bible Believers Baptism is:
21) The answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Christ
22) Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels authorities and powers being made subject unto him."
15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
"Jonas the prophet"Mark 16:5
1991 edition of NASB omits
"Spoken of by Daniel the prophet"Mark 13:14
NASB omits - no marginal notation
Our Lord's word Daniel "the prophet" validates the book of Daniel against all the contradictions of all the scholars.
NIV omits - no marginal note acknowledging that this tremendous statement has been deleted from the text.
"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, they parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots"Matthew 27:35
NASB omits - with no indication of the robbery.
NIV relegates this powerful attestation to the divine inspiration of Scripture with a tiny footnote:
A few late manuscripts, 'lots that the word spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled': "They divided my garments among themselves and cast lots for my clothing" (Psalm 22:18)
Remember! One of the Great evidences of Biblical inspiration is fulfilled prophecy.
1)The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
2)As it is written in the prophets Behold I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
3)John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet
A horrible error. Verse 2 is a quote from Malachi 3:1. NASB leaves the error without comment.
It is written in Isaiah the prophet
The NIV study Bible points out the fact that two prophets are involved but leaves the error in the text.
As it is written in the prophets
Plural, perfectly sets forth the truth; thus excluding the pitiful confusion of the NIV
Marginal note on Mark 1:1
Many mss omit, the Son of God
NIV small print footnote reads:
Some manuscripts do not have the Son of God
J. Burgon speaks continuously to his greatly inferior Junior scholars
To speak plainly, since the clause is above suspicion, Why are we not rather told so?
Revision Revised P. 132
16(a))He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved
37)Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38)Then Peter said unto them, Repent , and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost
Note: "Repent and be baptized every one of you..."
Clearly the accumulated evidence of Scripture calls for personal repentance and an obedience of a good conscience toward God.
The erroneous and deadly practice of baptizing babies finds no true Biblical grounds to substantiate the doctrine. So the adversary strikes like a serpent at Acts 2:38 and Mark 16:16.
Note the Ethiopians response shows basically and fundamentally the essential doctrine.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Today there are a great many pulpits, seminaries, and religious movements where Bishops(?), Reverends, and Doctors of Theology proclaim the devils lie ...
Jesus Christ is not the Son of God
Doctrines of devils indeed!
Note - The first one to try to cast doubt about the Deity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the devil himself.
16)And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17)And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
3)And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
The next voice is that of the "old serpent, the devil," hissing out his first of millions of "yea hath God said?" a doubt followed by an outright denial; "ye shall not surely die," followed by an infernal delusion, "ye shall be as gods."
There we have in embryonic form the diabolical basis for the New Age religion
All are Doctrines of devils.
4)And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5)For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Million today cry out of diabolical delusion:
I am co-creator ... I am the Christ of God
1)God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets
2)Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3)Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholdling all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
"... by himself"Hebrews 1:3
The Atonement of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Here we have a jewel robbery of major importance. Nearly, if not all new versions delete words that greatly affect the doctrine of the Atonement.
The NIV reads,
After he had provided purification for sins he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
The NASB reads,
When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
Neither of these versions appear to notice that a horrendous jewel robbery has taken place.
No marginal or footnote give the least attention to the deletion of "By Himself" from the teaching.
The omission of "By Himself" from the text throws the door wide open for the Roman Catholic heresy to be brought in to the text at a later date: that is the doctrine that Mary the mother of Jesus was co-redemtress with the Christ of God.
The true reading in the AV effectually prevents such an error from taking hold of the thinking in the minds of Bible believers.
Therefore, it must be very quietly removed from Holy Scripture with not a trace of it ever had been a part of Divine Revelation.
The foregoing is but a portion of the places where the new versions of the Bible mutilate the Holy Scriptures. Who would, in their right mind, trust the salvation of their souls to such obviously perverted publications? Keep in mind there are literally scores of English Versions all differing from the AV and from each other. Is our God the Author of such confusion? | <urn:uuid:efb894a6-4cb6-4e43-b6e0-9dcbe3899812> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maranath.ca/DD2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93764 | 3,419 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Dating & Depression
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused everyone a lot of distress, challenges and changes. For me, a significant change has been finding a partner during one of the most challenging times for my own mental health.
Below is my insight into dating with depression.
Please be conscious of your own wellbeing before reading and seek help if needed.
Depression is a mental illness and is most often associated with persistent low mood and/or low motivation. Everyone experiences depression slightly differently and their route to recovery is different too.
It's me, not you
When you're with someone who is living with depression it can be really challenging to not think that you've done something wrong or upset them. That it's about you and something you've caused.
It's not. It shouldn't be.
Depression is something that they are living with, it's theirs to own. You can care for them and support them but it's important to remember that depression isn't your fault.
Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses and people live with it every day worldwide.
It's not something you can fix
Depression is incredibly complex and there's no quick fix, cure or magic pill.
Watching someone you care about in pain must be very challenging but it isn't something that you solve. Some of us just want to dive in and save the day but with depression that's not possible.
All you can do is support them and care for them and try to understand.
For me, my boyfriend shows their support by lightening the load and managing my own expectations and perfectionism. It could be reminding me that the chores can be done another day, or making me a strong brew (a cup of tea) or putting on my favourite show.
There's going to be good days and bad days
All relationships have their ups and downs. Dating someone with depression adds an extra element. Somedays I've not been able to find the energy to do what we had planned. Other days I've felt unbearably sad but can't find any release or pinpoint the reason why. The important thing is to not let the illness take over your relationship.
Supporting a partner during a time when they might be at their lowest is going to show your relationship at it's best - effective communication, sensitivity and caring with your loved one.
Depression is not you being weak, or something you should just 'get over' or something that everyone experiences.
It's going to take time
Living with depression can be incredibly frustrating. Recovery isn't quick, or easy. Somedays you think you've made it, to find that nope, the black dog is still there.
Your recovery may mean that you choose to take up therapy or counselling, you may have chosen to speak to your GP to take medication to support you, or you've supported yourself through careful self-care and management or a combination of some or all of these.
All of this takes time and adjustment and it's important to learn the importance of being patient with your partner and yourself.
If you think you may be suffering from depression I would encourage you to seek help.
But it gets better
Many people are able to effectively manage their depression and pursue recovery. You'll reach a time where their good days outnumber the bad, and the good days get higher and higher.
Remember that your partner is more likely to succeed with your support, understanding and help.
Some might be able to manage their depression with self-care, some may need talking therapy and others may combine this with medication or use medication alone.
Working in Partnership
The project is nation-wide, and we're making a real effort to engage with everyone interested in international student mental health, including universities, mental health services, students unions, sector bodies, charities and organisations such a private student accommodation.
The project is led by the University of Nottingham, in partnership with the University of Nottingham Students' Union, University of Leeds, Leeds University Union, SOAS, SOAS Students' Union, Student Minds and Campuslife Ltd.
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The humidity levels in your house play a crucial role in your health. However, there are times, especially during the winter, when the humidity levels in your home are low. Such conditions bring about several issues, including respiratory problems. For this reason, you need to find effective ways to increase humidity. Most people usually get a humidifier but like most electric equipment, they will experience some issues. So, is your humidifier not increasing humidity?
Well, that should not worry you. This is because you can rely on other ways to humidify your house. Read on to find out more about these effective tricks.
Dry Air Impacts for Health
By now, you’re probably wondering why it is so important to regulate the humidity levels in your home. To begin with, when the humidity is low, it results to dry air. Turns out, dry air has adverse effects on your health. Dry air will cause respiratory issues such as nose and throat irritation. It also causes eye irritation and results to dry and flaky skin. See? That’s why you need to know how to increase humidity in body.
But that’s just one side of the story. Low humidity levels will also deteriorate the quality of wood furniture in your home. They also create excellent conditions for specific germs to thrive. As such, you need to keep your home’s humidity levels in check.
What Is Considered a Low Humidity Level at Home?
Humidity is defined as the amount of water vapor in the air and its level varies. The humidity levels in your home will be lower during winter and higher during summer.
The ideal humidity level in your house should range from 30% to 50%. Anything below that is considered low humidity, and it could cause health problems.
Ways to Increase Indoor Humidity
Now, it’s time to dive into the most effective ways of increasing indoor humidity. Each of these methods works differently, but they achieve similar results. There is no need to worry about how long to raise humidity in house a specific method takes. The aim is to regulate humidity levels.
Let’s have a look at some of these tactics.
1. Get a humidifier
One of the proven ways to increase indoor humidity is by using a humidifier. Basically, a humidifier is a device that is easy to operate, and it increases the humidity levels indoors effectively. The device includes a tank, which you’re supposed to fill up with water. The water in the humidifier gets released into the air, creating a cool and warm mist. The tiny particles that are released are what you inhale.
Want to know the best part? Humidifiers are economically priced. However, the low price is for the small-sized models. You can also find larger models that could even cover the entire floor in your home. So, you should get one depending on the size of your home.
You must also ensure to clean and empty your humidifier often to prevent the growth of mold and other contaminants.
2. Hang your laundry indoors
Do you use a dryer every time you do your laundry? Well, it’s about time you consider hanging your clothes on a drying rack instead. By doing so, you’ll increase the humidity levels in your home.
If you’re wondering how this works, here’s how. The moisture from your wet clothes will evaporate into the air, improving the humidity levels in your home.
But here’s the kicker. This method is very affordable. All you need to do is purchase a drying rack, which goes for a cheap price. Better yet, you get to save on your electricity bill.
3. Get some houseplants
Most people think that houseplants are only meant to improve a house’s aesthetic value. However, they serve other purposes. For starters, house plants help to purify the air. Moreover, they act as an effective natural humidifiers.
The plants usually absorb the moisture through their roots, which is then circulated through the stems to reach the leaves. From here, the leaves release moisture into the air, thus improving your indoor humidity.
However, as the plants release the moisture into the air, they eventually dry up and die. Want to know how to increase humidity for plants? Simple. Water them regularly. That way, your houseplant will not die.
But here’s the deal, you have to select your plants carefully. Get those that’ll purify and humidify your air effectively. According to a reliable study, spider plant is one of the best plants for this purpose.
4. Leave your shower door open
You might have noticed how much steam accumulates inside your bathroom as you shower. Now, you should not let all that steam go to waste. Instead, leave your shower door open, so that this steam can escape into the other parts of your house to increase indoor humidity.
5. Leave your bathtub full
If you prefer the tub to the shower, you can take advantage of a full tub to increase the humidity levels. Look, when you’re done with your hot bath, don’t be in a rush to drain your tub. The hot water will start to cool. Before it cools down, however, some water evaporates gradually into the air, thus humidifying your room.
6. Leave your kitchen sink full
Did you know that you can use your kitchen sink for more than washing utensils? Well, you can use it to increase the humidity levels in your house. How so? Once you’re done washing the dishes, don’t drain the water immediately. Instead, leave the sink full for the water to cool. As it cools, some moisture will escape into the air to humidify the house.
7. Put bowls of water near heat sources
Apart from air conditioning your house, you can use your HVAC system to increase indoor humidity. So, how does this work? Simple. Place bowls or dishes of water – both metal and ceramic, on top of your HVAC register. The warm air from the register will heat the water, which will then evaporate to humidify the room.
8. Boil water and cook on your stove regularly
A majority of homeowners prefer to heat up water using the microwave and cook using the oven. However, if you need to increase indoor humidity, you need to start using your stovetop more often.
When you’re cooking, the moisture from your pot will evaporate into the air, thus increasing its humidity levels. It’s also the opinion of most cooks that food cooked on the stove tastes much better. So, why don’t you try it?
How to Get Indoor Humidity Reading
Needless to say, it’s hard to determine the humidity levels in your home using the naked eye. The most you can do to determine the levels is to check for condensation and fog accumulating on your windows. You can also see an accumulation of mold on your walls. These methods, however, only indicate high humidity levels.
What about low humidity? Well, you can tell this when the paint has cracked, or when your woodwork is damaged.
However, these methods won’t tell you the exact indoor humidity reading. To get this reading, you need a good device such as the ThermoPro indoor hygrometer and thermometer. The device will allow you to keep track of the amount of moisture in your home.
Interestingly, it has an LCD display that indicates the exact readings.
But wait, there’s more. The Hygrometer and Thermometer also allows you to calculate the temperature change between specific periods. With such a device, you’ll clearly know the level of humidity in your home. If the humidity levels are below 30%, then you can employ the most effective tips to increase indoor humidity.
Nobody wants to live inside an uncomfortable house. Among the factors that contribute to the discomfort are poor humidity levels. That’s why it is so important for you to regulate indoor humidity. The recommended levels are between 30% and 50%.
Anything below that could result in health problems such as nose, throat, and eye irritation. Dry air could also cause dry skin. Fortunately, you can rely on some of the tips mentioned in this post to increase indoor humidity.
Before employing any of the above methods, however, you need to know the exact humidity readings in your home in order to regulate it accordingly. If you’re looking to acquire a hygrometer for this purpose, you can’t go wrong with the ThermoPro indoor hygrometer and thermometer. | <urn:uuid:5131ce49-1c88-4d77-967a-8db5e89966bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buythermopro.com/knowledge/increase-indoor-humidity-tips/?add-to-cart=100188 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943348 | 1,817 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Firefox:22.214.171.124:Test Plan:Software Update
126.96.36.199 Software Updates
Testing Partial, Complete, and Fallback Updates
To test partial, complete, and fallback updates:
- Partial: This refers to testing an update from the immediate last release, in this case going from 188.8.131.52 to 184.108.40.206.
- Complete: This is testing an update from an older version, say from 220.127.116.11 to 18.104.22.168 (because it downloads a 'complete' mar file).
- Fallback: For this you first get whatever update the usual way, but you don't apply it. Then you test that it can get fetch another copy of the update if something were to go wrong. You do this by:
- Checking for updates. Choose to apply later. Close application.
- Then go the /Mozilla Firefox/updates/0/ folder, in WinXP for instance. Inside you will find a file called 'update.status'.
- If you are in Vista the update.status file will be in ...AppData/Local/Mozilla Firefox (or thunderbird)/updates/0/
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The Our Other Mother campaign was launched on Mother’s Day 2021 by parents’ groups and children’s illustrators, who are worried about climate change and want to push for a brighter, safer future for all our children.
We called on creatives – aged 5 to 95 – to produce a piece of art or a message (illustration, poem, story, photo or song) showing our love for mums and #OurOtherMother – planet earth.
We were delighted that iconic British illustrators Jim Field of Oi Frog! and Rebecca Cobb of Paper Dolls joined the campaign and engaged their networks. Other leading illustrators including Rob Biddulph, Lydia Monks and Emily Gravett also contributed to the campaign.
The campaign was launched by parent climate groups – Our Kids’ Climate, Parents For Future UK, Mother’s Rise Up – and illustrator networks, Kid Lit For Climate and EditArtz on UK Mother’s Day. It has since expanded and travelled the world. It has been embraced by climate parent groups in Australia, Brazil, Nigeria, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and USA on their respective Mother’s Days. There are now over 1000 posts under the #OurOtherMother hashtag on Instagram.
To coincide with COP26, the Our Other Mother campaign left virtual world and entered the real one! Parent groups from all across the globe – Ghana, Slovakia, Germany, Spain to name just some – were empowered to put on Our Other Mother exhibitions in galleries and other community spaces. We even had an Our Other Mother exhibition at Silverburn Shopping Centre in Glasgow during the COP 26 climate talks – and handed out Our Other Mother postcards urging climate action to COP 26 delegates. Parents and children marching for climate action in Glasgow carried placards and banners emblazoned with art from the Our Other Mother campaign.
To join in:
Get creative! Celebrate #OurOtherMother (planet earth) through an illustration, image, poem, image or anything… Get those creative juices flowing!
Share It. Post on social media using the hashtag #OurOtherMother Tag us too, so we can see!
Spread the word. Tag people you think would like to be involved and create something celebrating #OurOtherMother.
Host an exhibition. Exhibition packs are now available! They are a creative and fun opportunity to bring people together and reflect about what we can all do to push for change on climate.
Decisions made on climate change by our leaders on climate will affect the chances our children have tomorrow. We are calling on world leaders to act to give all the world’s children the brightest possible future.
We want to show our leaders how much we care for our planet, #OurOtherMother. Our shared home, planet earth, is under threat and we all have a role to play in protecting it. So get involved and show your love for #OurOtherMother!
We have created an exhibition pack, making it super easy for groups of parents to put on Our Other Mother exhibitions in their own communities. There are plenty of hooks parents can tie an exhibition to – Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Environment Day! If you want to get hold of an exhibition pack and host an Our Other Mother exhibition please to get in touch at email@example.com
We have also created these colouring sheets together with illustrator Anita Bagdi making it easy for the very youngest of children to get involved! Click images to view and print or download high resolution images in a new window here: image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, image 6, image 7, image 8. | <urn:uuid:f43041b3-6922-470c-9a04-8ec8af5a638e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ourkidsclimate.org/our-other-mother/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944518 | 756 | 1.898438 | 2 |
What is Work from Home Employment?
Over the past few years, the entire world got more acquainted with remote work, but there is still some confusion around the term.
At its most basic level, the term describes employment where an employee does work in a nontraditional setting. Most people who work from home do so consistently from the same place, like a home office. Remote work from home is the most common form of remote work because people often find working more enjoyable while they’re able to enjoy the comforts of home. Some people work remotely full time, while others do part-time remote work. Regardless of where they are working from or how often they do, most people engage in online remote work because they need a way to communicate with their co-workers.
Whether or not an employee does remote work from home or elsewhere and how often they do mainly depend on their employer’s preferences.
What jobs are sited for remote work?
Obviously, not all jobs can be done remotely. For example, individuals in the healthcare field, retail or restaurant industry, or construction must be at an employer’s site to complete their work. However, the number of jobs that can be done through online remote work may surprise you.
Many of the jobs that are best positioned for remote work from home have measurable results and specific, quantifiable deliverables. These often include positions in the customer service industry, technology, and creative fields.
Are remote jobs more efficient?
Considering the potential distractions, one may assume that remote work from home isn’t as efficient as working in a traditional office setting, but you’d be wrong.
A study from Stanford University showed that online remote work could actually increase productivity. Researchers studied a 16,000 employee NASDAQ-listed travel agency over a nine-month period and found that working from home increased employee productivity by 13%, and workers reported an improved sense of satisfaction in their work. The study also showed that attrition rates were cut in half.
What are the benefits and drawbacks of work from home jobs?
For employees, many of the benefits that come with remote work from home are obvious. Remote work means no commute to and from work and allows for a more flexible schedule that can improve work-life balance, but that’s not all. Working remotely also allows employees to work in a more comfortable environment and has been associated with fewer health problems.
These benefits make online remote work sound great, but there are some drawbacks that employees must consider. Remote workers can feel isolated because they miss out on the regular social interactions of on-site work. They can also feel left out during company events and miss certain opportunities because they are not present with their fellow employees.
For employers, allowing employees to work remotely improves employee satisfaction and can make employees less likely to seek employment elsewhere. These employees also are more productive and take fewer sick days. It also expands the pool of talent they can draw from, as they are not limited to applicants within their area or willing to relocate.
Employers must also consider the potential security risks of remote work, considering their data will be exposed to an uncontrolled environment. Employee engagement also needs to be considered, as it’s easy for remote employees to become disengaged in company culture and feel isolated.
Who is the HT Group?
We are an Austin-based company dedicated to providing staffing, recruiting, and executive search services to businesses and job seekers. Our team will find businesses highly skilled, qualified candidates for their openings and will give job seekers a boost to find their dream job.
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Can you partially tear your UCL?
You can injure the UCL if you stress it over and over again. This is called an “overuse” injury. Repeated overhand throwing can weaken, stretch and irritate the ligament. It can partially or completely tear the ligament, or cause one end to pull away from the bone.
Can a partial UCL tear heal?
The UCL is rarely stressed in daily activities. It is injured in throwing types of sports or after elbow dislocation or surgery. It may occur as a sudden tear or may gradually stretch out over time with repetitive injury. When torn, the UCL does not typically heal or may heal in a lengthened position.
What does a partial UCL tear feel like?
Pain on the inner side of the elbow is the most common symptom of a UCL injury. A UCL tear may sometimes feel like a “pop” after throwing followed by intense pain. UCL injuries are diagnosed by physical examination and a valgus stress test to assess instability of the elbow.
How can you tell if you tore your UCL?
If you experience any of the following symptoms, you may have a UCL injury:
- Clumsiness and weakness of hand grip.
- Elbow pain and stiffness.
- Loss of function in the elbow and arm.
- Numbness or tingling in the ring and little fingers and hand.
- Swelling and bruising.
Does a partial UCL tear require surgery?
If enough of the UCL is torn that an athlete continues to have symptoms with throwing, surgery is often still necessary. Some athletes with partial tears might be able to return to sports with rest for up to six weeks and physical therapy. Some athletes have improved with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections.
How long does it take to recover from a partial UCL tear?
Although outcomes are favorable, UCL reconstruction generally requires a 12- to 16-month recovery period, and a number of complications have been described such as fracture, inadequate healing, and nerve injury .
How long does a partial UCL tear take to heal?
How do you fix a torn tendon in your elbow?
How is tendon repair done?
- make one or more small incisions (cuts) in the skin over the damaged tendon.
- sew the torn ends of the tendon together.
- check the surrounding tissue to make sure no other injuries have occurred, such as injury to the blood vessels or nerves.
- close the incision.
Can partial UCL tear heal without surgery?
As Dawkins wrote elsewhere, “The UCL does not completely heal on its own ever. Without surgery, the area is only stabilized by two methods. First, the elbow can be strengthened up to the point where the muscles take up the slack for the lack of ligament stability.
What does a torn tendon in your elbow feel like?
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Brimstone Creek facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsBrimstone Creek
Brimstone Creek west of the Village of Ames. Budd Hill is in the background.
Location of the mouth within New York
|Region||Central New York Region|
|Main source||East of Sharon Springs|
|River mouth||Canajoharie Creek
North-northwest of Ames
676 ft (206 m)
|Basin size||14.9 sq mi (39 km2)|
Brimstone Creek is a river in Schoharie County and Montogomery County in New York. It begins east of the Village of Sharon Springs and flows mostly in a northwest direction before flowing into Canajoharie Creek north-northwest of the Village of Ames.
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Yale University has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Annie Le, a graduate student who was murdered in a research laboratory by a co-worker in 2009.
The lawsuit, filed in 2011 by Le's mother, Vivian Van Le, was supposed to go to trial last month in Waterbury Superior Court but was postponed. The case was withdrawn last week after the two sides reached an undisclosed settlement.
The Associated Press, citing probate court documents it obtained Tuesday, said the case was settled for $3 million.
Annie Le was murdered just days before her wedding by Raymond Clark III, a lab technician at the Yale Animal Research Center where Le also worked as a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology.
Clark plead guilty to murder in 2011 and is serving a 44-year sentence based on a plea agreement. At his sentencing, Clark said, "Annie was and will always be a wonderful person, by far a better person than I will ever be in my life."
Le, 24 at the time, was reported missing on Sept. 8, 2009, but the lawsuit alleged that school officials "did not investigate her absence in earnest until the following morning."
For days, local and state investigators and the FBI searched the basement of the Yale Animal Research Center, a research building at the Yale School of Medicine complex where Le was last seen alive.
Five Things You Need To Know
They also interviewed other employees and reviewed electronic records that allowed them to trace employees movements through the facility. Investigators were able to place Clark in the same lab as Le on the day she went missing through the electronic key cards.
There was initial speculation that Le may have run away to avoid her upcoming wedding, although there were no surveillance images that showed her leaving the building.
Her body was discovered stuffed inside of a wall in a basement locker room by a state police officer four days after she disappeared and on the day she was to be married.
The state medical examiner said Le was strangled and her body was badly beaten. Many of her bones were broken in the attack.
The lawsuit claimed that Yale knew or should have known that Clark posed a potential threat to the safety of Le, claiming that Clark "previously demonstrated aggressive behavior and a violent propensity towards women." The lawsuit didn't elaborate on the previous behavior.
The lawsuit alleged that "sexual attacks on and harassment of women at Yale had been a well-documented and long-standing problem, and there was a widespread belief that Yale repeatedly failed to impose meaningful discipline on offenders."
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Downspouts should match the type of gutter being installed. Fascia gutters only have a 2-1/4" wide bottom so a 3-inch x 4-inch downspout would not be the best choice for size. Aluminum downspouts are made up of three different components. Two elbows and section of pipe at the top called a leader, the main downspout pipe and an elbow at the bottom. The downspout is straped to the home using matching material to help it blend in.
Steel downspouts do not require elbows as the steel pipe is notched and bent to the downspouts shape. The bends are then soldered or riveted and sealed together. These bends tend to be more sharp or have tighter turns then the aluminum style, which may cause the downspout to become clogged more easily.
Available materials are Copper, Aluminum, Bonderized, Galvanized or Steel. Available shapes are Round, Round Corrugated, Rectangular Smooth and Rectangular Corrugated. The round shapes come in 2-inch, 3-inch or 4-inch, while the rectangular come in 2-inch x 3-inch and 3-inch x 4-inch. | <urn:uuid:130689ad-75a5-4918-afb9-a09c709cf214> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://actionraingutters.com/products/downspouts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937065 | 250 | 1.601563 | 2 |
This print expresses the artist's opposition to the non labeling of genetically engineered food. Wheat was chosen since it has been genetically modified for over 5000 years using traditional methods of cross fertilization. However, modern gene engineering techniques are currently being researched in order to obtain a variety of wheat that is resistant to pests and diseases. In order for this to be achieved its genome is currently being catalogued. A number of motifs in this print indicates that it is human intervention (not Nature's) that now controls the evolution of some plants.
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The chords are printed above the words (lyrics) so you can see when to change chords.
The Old Grey Mare is another slow song with no fast chord changes. 4/4 - ONE, 2,3,4 etc.) (you can use any song that has chords written in, even if it's supposed to be for guitar/ukulele etc. As the banjo has such a long neck, you will find the first 5 frets can involve quite a lot of stretching of the fingers. If you notice any odd things or errors in the song sheets, please let me know (via. B L.3_I Am Weary Let Me Rest _1.Key G_G,C,D7, B L.3_I Am Weary Let Me Rest_2.simpl _Key G_G,C,D7, Big Rock Candy Mountains - this has plenty of chord changes, some quite fast, but still the 3 chords G,C and D7 so it gives you plenty of practice.A, B.L.3 Big Rock Candy Mountains Key_G_ G,D7,C, Levels and Tips for Chords on Banjo - for 5-string banjo tuned as above. to help you practise. This would be an A. G is the last on the major scale, so it loops back to A. Note - In this song sheet, the chords are inset in the lines of lyrics instead of over the lines. Located in Spring Valley, CA, Deering produces all of its quality 4-string, 5-string, and 6-string banjos in the same US facility and boasts the most knowledgeable team in the industry. Your ear will tell you if that string works in the chord or not:) The key to becoming a great banjo player is having solid timing and rhythm in your picking hand. This means that more lines of lyrics will fit on the page, but you will have to work out how many bars fit in between each chord change; if you know the song, it shouldn't be hard as you just keep strumming (ONE, two & three &) until you get to the next chord change. - if it has chords you can play on your banjo, just play your banjo chord shapes).
What I’m aiming for here is NOT a complete banjo course - you can find lots of good banjo instruction sites and videos on the Internet to help you learn picking patterns etc. The chords here are based on the standard “G” tuning.
We've broken down the first five string banjo chords you should learn to play. I have done the chords in blue so they show up, but they are fine to print or copy in black and white too. For information on the tab format, see this article on rolls.But instead of T, … I have concentrated on a selection of chords that can be used for a range of songs. Look at photos of Belá Fleck playing while sitting to get a good idea of the proper angle. The vertical lines on a banjo chord diagram represent the 4th through the 1st strings of your banjo, moving from left to right — as if you were looking down on the fingerboard of your instrument from above. If you have a banjo with no case, you can easily make a soft cover from a pair of jeans or soft trousers - here are instructions: This site is funded by myself and by donations. The change from C to 'simple D7' is very easy (keep your 1st finger down as an 'anchor', move your 2nd finger down one string and lift your 3rd finger up). Banjo Chords and Key Chart in Open G tuning (gDGBD) Here are some of the most common chords used on the Banjo organized by key. 12 Essential Fill-In Licks on the Bluegrass Banjo, 10 Essential D Licks on the Bluegrass Banjo, 10 Essential G Licks for the Bluegrass Banjo. of course if you have a few spare dollars) are always welcome! Your experience may be different – and you may find easier ways to play some of the chords - there is more than one way to form each chord, and they are easy to find on the Internet.
These next 2 songs also have an open G between the other chords, so you have time to get ready for the changes (with a couple of faster changes) . Adjust your left hand fingers if necessary. There are many ways of making the chords on a banjo, but I have included mainly the “first position” chords which use the first few frets, and I’ve tried to avoid chords that need too much stretching to reach all the notes. Another two frets (four total) and its an A. G, C, and D are the three most important chords to learn starting off, because there are so many songs in the key of G. Those are the three major chords with Open G tuning.
I have put the chords in levels so that you can start with a couple of easy chords and play some songs straight away, then gradually add more chords as you progress. D7 on a banjo needs quite a stretch to form, but you can play an 'easy' 2-finger version (this is not a full D7 chord as it doesn't have an F# note, but it still has a good sound). Down in the Valley - B.L. Download a free chord chart for 5-string banjo in PDF format. 3 Down In The Valley - Key G; chords: G, D7. This level introduces the D7 chord. hold down all the strings with one finger right across the fingerboard just behind the fret*) you can make your chord higher, fret by fret (so the first fret would be Ab chord, then A, Db, B…). Lord of the Dance -BL 3 Lord Of The Dance - Key G; chords: G, D7 - this song has a nice, easy pace, and the chord changes are not too fast. G chord is easy to play (just strum or pluck the 'open strings', i.e. The single easiest aspect about learning banjo is chords. It has the same 2 chords (open G chord and bar D), and it also has a 3-finger D chord to work on once you have a bit more practice. The first fret is G#/Ab (lowercase b= flat, so Ab= A flat), and the 3rd fret is A#/Bb. My background is in guitar, and though I have picked up the banjo several times over the years I have never applied myself to learning the right-hand techniques or more advanced chords and notes, so I have no expertise to share in playing the banjo - just some fun, easy-to-play songs.
Strum the rhythm with your right hand thumb or fingers, nice and relaxed. That open g will work with some chords (G, G7, C, C7, and Em) but not with others. There are only three shapes for major chords. 3 Streets of Laredo - Key G; chords: G, D7 - this song has a good, slow pace with mostly regular changes between the 2 chords (open G and 'formed' D7). Make sure your banjo is in tune; there are various electronic tuners you can buy and there are apps and sites with tuners -some that use the microphone on your smartphone, tablet or computer. You will learn the G, C, D7, and Em chords. Created by Deering Banjo Master Dealer Banjo Studio, this chord chart will help you learn basic 5-string banjo chords with both open and movable chord shapes. Feedback/comments (and Donations of course if you have a few spare dollars) are always welcome! He has produced numerous instructional DVDs and hosted hundreds of instructional workshops.
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AP® Computer Science Principles (CPSC520)
Computers and Electronics
1.0 (yearlong course)
This course introduces the foundations of modern computing, while preparing the student for the Advanced Placement® Computer Science Principles exam. The course looks at a broad range of foundational topics including programming, algorithms, the Internet, big data, digital privacy and security, and the societal impacts of computing.
If you are planning to take the AP® exam associated with this course, then be aware that beginning in Fall 2019 the College Board requires that all students register in October of each school year to take the exam which is held in early May. The College Board also requires Performances Tasks to be completed for this course which must be submitted in late April. You must make your decision early. There are penalties associated with late registration and with registering and then deciding not to take the exam at a later date. Please plan accordingly. For more information or if you have more questions, please visit https://apcentral.collegeboard.org . Once on the site, search Home-Schooled Students to find information on locating testing locations near you.
As an online school, NorthStar Academy is not a testing center. We are a certified AP® course provider. Students must locate a face to face school in their local area that will allow them to sit the exam with their students.
This version of the course is not Dual Credit eligible. To receive Dual Credit, you must register for the DC version of this course, if available.
In today’s world, technology surrounds us. We are required to interact with it every day in various aspects. Almost every occupation requires some knowledge of technology. The Computer Science Principles course will look at several areas of technology, to help students understand these areas and how they affect us. How does the Internet work? When you load a page in your web browser, how does the information get to you? How much information about you is available on the Internet? You will learn the answers to these questions and some basic programming skills. At the end of the course you will be required to submit a program demonstrating what you have learned.
If there are books and materials for this course, they can be purchased from our Online Bookstore.
I enjoyed the class; well-structured, easy to understand and good amount of work. I liked it and cannot wait for Semester B!
The course is organized so that the students can learn the best.
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If you are relocating overseas and do not have a full container worth of stuff, you can share a container with other shippers. This process is called an LCL (Less than Container Load) shipment.
Below is additional information you may want to review and understand when shipping Less than Container Load (LCL) shipments:
MINIMUM REQUIREMENT FOR LCL SHIPMENT
If you just have a few boxes, a TV, and some furniture you can go for the LCL shipping option where you are charged by space (cubic Feet) you use inside the container. Generally, the minimum requirement for LCL shipment is 30 cubic feet. Some shipping companies may require a minimum of 50 cubic feet as well. One large box (18x18x24 Inches) is 4.5 cubic feet. If you have 6 large boxes to ship, you can qualify for the LCL shipping option.
ARE MY BELONGINGS SAFE UNDER LCL?
The LCL shipping option is a safe and economical way of shipping by ocean. All shipments are carefully packed on a 48” x 40” size wooden pallet and shrink-wrapped to separate from other shipments. Additionally, each item/box is assigned a unique sequence number. At the destination, it makes identification of shipment by customer easier for the customs officials and they can clear the shipment faster.
SHIPPING COST COMPARED TO FCL (FULL CONTAINER LOAD)
From the cost standpoint, if your shipment is less than 500 cubic feet (CFT), then LCL shipment will be an affordable option. But if you have more than 500 CFT then, you should consider a full container (FCL) to avoid consolidation and distribution process.
When you ship under the LCL option, transit time will be a little longer than FCL due to shipments being consolidated prior to filling the container. The faster the consolidation processes, the faster the transit time. Generally, consolidation and distribution add 30 days that is included within your delivery time frame. For example, if the transit time of FCL is 60 days then, LCL will be 90 days. | <urn:uuid:e899b0ad-e724-4d16-876d-20be6635a62f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sflworldwide.com/blog/sharing-a-container-lcl-explained | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928715 | 447 | 1.960938 | 2 |
There were several special exhibits displayed at the AQS QuiltWeek in Des Moines. One was The World Painters Challenge. In 1995, a group of quilters from Japan formed the Nihon Heritage Quilters Guild. They participate in an annual quilt challenge and every few years, the challenge is extended to include other nations. A list of 30 world-famous painters was chosen for 30 quilters from Japan, France and USA. Each quilter was assigned an artist and challenged to design a piece of fiber art either representing a work of their painter of making a design of their choice in the style of that painter. Here are photos of four of the quilts that particularly appealed to me. The famous painters are easily recognizable in these creative pieces.
Benedicte Hanot from France made the Salvador Dali piece. She painted plain white fabric with acrylic paints and machine and hand appliqued a variety of textiles including leather. There is embellishment with embroidery, pearls, driftwood, sequins and machine quilting. The Vincent Van Gogh piece was made by Nancy Kibbey from OR. Her inspiration came while sketching a lawn chair which reminded her of Van Gogh’s painting of The Chair and the Pipe. She included themes from other paintings too, including The Harvest. She used cotton fabrics, both commercial and hand painted, which are fused with raw edges.
Joan Miro’s work is represented by Ginny Steller from OR. Although much of Miro’s artwork is childlike with a sinister twist, she chose a lighter moment depicting a cat in a garden. Dark lines and solid colors define the shapes. Jae McDonald, also from OR, interpreted Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Jae writes, “I’ve often thought of Klimt as a very “quilterly” painter, with his peculiar use of shape, pattern and color.” This is made from hand-painted cotton and lamé, and commercial fabrics embellished with acrylic inks, fabric paints, metallic threads, gold-plated paillets , beads and wire.
I am so thankful for my amazing quilting adventure: the friends I have made; the places I have been; the joy of sharing my quilting passion when I teach; the opportunity to keep on learning from my students; the inspiration from the work others and the patterns that surround us every day; and the excitement of exploring the endless possibilities of new designs and techniques.
I saw this wonderful sewing machine quilt at the AQS QuiltWeek show in Des Moines. Quilting with Silk, 34″ x 29″, was made by Charlotte Noll, of Lauderhill, FL
The judged AQS show at Des Moines had almost 200 contestants. Here is the quilt that won Best Hand Workmanship. My Sweet House with Kirara, 68″ x 76″, was made by Ayako Kawakami from Chiba, Japan.
From a distance this quilt looks complicated, but not particularly striking because of the low contrast in the values of the fabrics. However, the closer you get, the better it gets, and up close it is amazing. The details in the hand embroidery on the delicately pieced blocks, quilting, pictorial applique and embroidery embellishments are beautiful. This is an exquisitely made quilt which must have hundreds of hours of work invested in it. Here are some detailed shots.
In honor of Veteran’s Day, I thought I should revisit the American Heroes Quilts project. At our Bainbridge Island Quilt Festival this September, there were several American Heroes quilts exhibited and the opportunity for show attendees to stitch quilt blocks at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Our local American Heroes quilt group meets on the third Thursday of the month at Esther’s Fabrics and is open to all. You can also pick up American Hero blocks at Esther’s to make at home. (This may change as Esther’s is about to have a new owner).
The American Heroes Quilts project was established in 2004 to provide recognition and appreciation to wounded service men and women who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The quilts are like metaphoric hugs and a way to express gratitude. There are over 800 volunteers participating in the program. As of the January 2016, over 21,500 quilts had be given to deserving service men and women and their families. The quilts are sent to Madigan Hospital at Joint Base Lewis McCord, other Warrior Transition Centers in the US, and directly to bases in Afghanistan.
The quilts are made using red, white and blue fabrics, often with patriotic prints. Quilters seem to be generous by nature and this is one of many examples of the outreach projects in which they participate.
The judged AQS show at Des Moines had almost 200 contestants. Here is the quilt that won Best Original Design. It is Ewe Are My Sunshine, 63″ x 72″, by Janet Stone from Overland Park, KS. This quilt is one in a series of alphabet quilt designed and made by Janet. Her goal is to make 26 alphabet quilts and she is now over half way. Many of her previous quilts have also been major award winners and I have admired them over the years.
Janet’s design sense and attention to details are incredible. She uses vibrant colors in this quilt, beautifully combining applique, piecing and free motion embroidery. The quilting is exquisite and all done on her home sewing machine. Each block is a little master piece. Here are some detailed shots that give you a taste, but the pictures don’t do it justice. | <urn:uuid:9943783c-73f5-4d3c-9d6e-302912003cb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.dragonflyquilts.com/weblog/?m=201611 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966455 | 1,208 | 1.882813 | 2 |
How the EU's asylum policy affects us
"The problem the government have got is this. They've said, look, we're opted out. We're not going to be forced into the EU's Common Asylum Policy"
Nigel Farage, 20 May 2015
Although the UK was included in earlier EU moves towards a more consistent approach to granting asylum—basically, allowing people to stay in the UK if deporting them would put them at serious risk—we have opted out of more recent changes to this Common European Asylum System.
The last government said it was worried that the new rules would encourage "unfounded asylum claims", jeopardise fast-tracking of some claims, and cost too much.
The reason this is in the news now is because of new proposals prompted by recent migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. These include the idea of temporarily allocating new arrivals to different EU member countries, rather than them being concentrated in their first country of arrival, as the rules usually demand.
There's little doubt that we have an opt-out on these measures, although that could have consequences for our participation in the existing system for returning asylum-seekers to the country they first arrive in (which the government sees as working in our favour).
But there's no question of the UK having to accept a 'quota' of asylum seekers without the government's consent—the European Commission acknowledges as much in its proposals.
Mr Farage points out an apparent difficulty:
"All that Italy, or any country, has to do is just to give people EU passports and then they're free to move wherever they want within the European Union"
Nigel Farage, 20 May 2015
People granted refugee status in the EU can get the right to move to most other EU countries if they've been living here "legally and continuously" for five years. This takes into account some of the time waiting for their asylum application to be processed. But the UK is an exception: once again, we've chosen not to be covered by this law.
So refugees in an EU country like Italy would need to become citizens of that country in order to benefit from EU law on freedom of movement and come here.
That process normally takes between 5 and 10 years in the EU but may be lower for refugees, who are recognised as a special case.
In Italy, research from 2010 showed that citizenship may be granted to refugees after five years but with language and other conditions attached. And the Italian government, like most others, has discretion to refuse citizenship; it's not automatic. Researchers say that it's quite hard to get citizenship on the ground of residence.
In 2012, 1.4% of foreign nationals living in Italy were granted citizenship—below the EU average of 2%. That's around 65,000 people. Over 90% of these were previously non-EU citizens, but we haven't found any indication of how many arrived as refugees.
It can't have been very many; formal refugee status is granted only to a few thousand people a year in Italy. In 2013, for instance, just over 3,000 people were granted asylum there, whereas over 11,000 were given a different form of humanitarian protection that doesn't come with an accelerated path to citizenship.
Mr. Farage is correct that, in general, anyone who is or becomes a citizen of one EU country can live and work in any other. But newly minted EU citizens having the opportunity to come to the UK in some years' time—they might, or they might not—is obviously very different from being forced to take a binding quota of refugees or asylum seekers straight away. | <urn:uuid:8f83ad14-52d3-4227-98cf-eecabb8ad00d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fullfact.org/europe/how-eus-asylum-policy-affects-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.979623 | 736 | 2.375 | 2 |
Most Catholics will walk into a candlelight procession this weekend and be completely surprised by it. The Catholic Church blesses and lights candles every year on February 2nd. But because it rarely falls on a Sunday, this important feast has been virtually forgotten. What exactly are we celebrating?
You probably know the Feast of the Presentation as the Fourth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary. It commemorates the moment when Mary and Joseph brought baby Jesus to the Temple. He as greeted there by Simeon and Anna. You can read about it in Luke 2:22-40. The law required the purification of a mother 40 days after the birth of a male child (Leviticus 12:1-8). It also stipulated that the first-born belonged to the priests. A firstborn cow, sheep or goat would be sacrificed to God by the priest. God's law forbid the sacrifice of children and instead specified that the child be ransomed by a payment of money (see Exodus 13:11-16, Numbers 18:13-16). It is a reference to the 10th plague in Egypt, the death of the firstborn, that finally convinced Pharaoh to free the Israelites. We are also reminded of the sacrifice of Issac by Abraham.
St. Luke loves the Temple (his Gospel begins and ends in the Temple, and his symbol is the Ox, a sacrificial animal). The way he writes this moment, Jesus isn’t being redeemed but rather presented. The unseen God has been worshipped here for centuries. Now God himself, in the person of Jesus, is visiting his own temple. He comes in humble form as a little baby. However, his visit does not go unseen. Simeon and Anna are symbols of the whole Old Testament. They have grown old waiting for God’s promises to be fulfilled. And they have not been disappointed. Simeon declares: “My eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.” Remember how back at the beginning of Advent we were told to watch? Well these two old people are the only ones still watching. And they are rewarded with a vision of the Savior and Lord that all the people are waiting for.
A Light! That reminds us of Christmas and candles. So traditionally this feast is celebrated with a blessing and procession of candles, giving it its old English name of Candlemas. And that's probably why the blessing of throats for St. Blasé's feast day make use of blest candles (his feast is February 3rd). Apparently some old traditions connect this feast with its more popular name as Groundhog Day. It's also traditionally the day after which Christmas decorations must be removed. Why does this feast matter?
A Sparkler Send-off for the Christmas Season
A year ago I attended a cousin’s wedding. As the reception wore on, I got tired and planned to leave. People were telling me: “The sparkler sendoff is coming.” I didn’t know what they were talking about. The next day I saw a printed copy of the schedule. There, in black and white, was clearly listed: Sparkler Send Off. It was scheduled for just 15 minutes after I had left. The guests had all lit sparklers and the couple had walked through them on their way out to the car. The pictures on Facebook made it look pretty cool. I was sorry I missed it.
Have you noticed how the Christmas season ends strangely? Christmas music disappears from the radio basically on Christmas day. Some folks even throw out their trees that day. Most of us celebrate through New Years and then it’s back to work again. The Church keeps up her decorations until the Baptism of the Lord, but it feels out of place, as though Christmas is bleeding into Ordinary Time. Christmas needs a better ending. And this is why our ancestors celebrated Candlemas. We light candles one last time and celebrate the Light of the World being presented in the temple. It is a sparkler send-off for the Christmas season.
There are several things I love about this feast. First, it reminds us to never stop watching for Jesus. We lit one candle after another on the Advent wreath to prepare our hearts for the Light of Christ. God’s light has continued to grow brighter and brighter in the Christmas season. His light should fill our hearts, our homes, and our church. We should carry the light of Christ out into our dark world.
The next time that Mass will start with a procession will be the blessing and procession of palms on Palm Sunday. Then we will process with lit candles at the Easter Vigil. We spent the four(ish) weeks of Advent preparing for Christ. Now we have spent 40 days celebrating Christmas. This is similar to the way we will spend 40 days in Lenten fasting, followed by 50 days of Easter feasting. Candlemas is guaranteed to happen before Lent begins. It calls us back to Christmas, and forward to Easter. And frankly, it's just plain cool. Who doesn't like another excuse to party?
A Suggested Timeline for Your Christmas Celebrations Next Year
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’ve been writing a book of meditations for the Advent and Christmas season. The book begins with the First Sunday of Advent and runs until February 2nd. The more I’ve worked on this book, the more convinced I am of the value of the Feast of the Presentation as a capstone to Christmas. I encourage you to plan for it in to your family’s celebrations. Here is a suggested timeline for Christmas next year:
- November 29, 1st Sunday of Advent: Light the first candle on your Advent wreath.
- December 6 (Sunday): Surprise! Treats for St. Nicholas Day!
- December 8 (Tuesday, holy day): Put up your Crèche (manger scene).
- Before December 17: Put up your Christmas tree. Decorate it, but don’t plug the lights in. Wait until the Light of the World is born.
- After attending Christmas Mass, put the Baby Jesus in the crèche and light up your Christmas tree. Change the candles in your Advent wreath to white.
- January 1 (holy day): Octave Day of Christmas; start the New Year with Mary.
- January 6 (Wednesday): Epiphany. Have a family party to bless your home with blest chalk. Afterwards you can take down the tree (if you want to) and the decorations but don’t take down the Advent wreath or the crèche.
- February 2: Feast of the Presentation. Have one last Christmas party! Light the candles on your wreath and have a family Candlemas procession to the crèche. Sing Christmas carols. Then put away any remaining Christmas decorations.
- PS: Buy your new purple-and-pink Advent candles after Christmas when they are on sale, and store them with your wreath so it's easy to get started next year.
The Ritual of the Blessing of Candles
Here's what happens at the Mass. The people should all be holding candles, which are then lit just before Mass begins. The people may gather in the back of church or in a gathering space where they can process into the church. After starting Mass with the sign of the cross and the greeting, the priest begins:
Dear brothers and sisters, forty days have passed since we celebrated the joyful feast of the Nativity of the Lord. Today is the blessed day when Jesus was presented in the Temple by Mary and Joseph. Outwardly he was fulfilling the Law, but in reality he was coming to meet his believing people. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, Simeon and Anna came to the Temple. Enlightened by the same Spirit, they recognized the Lord and confessed him with exultation. So let us also, gathered together by the Holy Spirit, proceed to the house of God to encounter Christ. There we shall find him and recognize him in the breaking of the bread, until he comes again, revealed in glory.
Then he blesses the candles:
Let us pray. O God, source and origin of all light, who on this day showed to the just man Simeon the Light for revelation to the Gentiles, we humbly ask that, in answer to your people’s prayers, you may be pleased to sanctify with your blessing ✠ these candles, which we are eager to carry in praise of your name, so that, treading the path of virtue, we may reach that light which never fails. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The priest says: Let us go in peace to meet the Lord.
Or he may say: Let us go forth in peace.
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Eagle Ridge: The Cheaper, (optionally) Smaller Thunderbolt Controllerby Anand Lal Shimpi on July 28, 2011 3:42 AM EST
If you've seen any of the new Thunderbolt Macs torn apart you will recognize the piece of silicon above. That flip-chip package is Intel's first Thunderbolt controller, codename: Light Ridge (clever). It features four Thunderbolt channels (4 x 10Gbps bidirectional = 80Gbps aggregate bandwidth) and up to two DisplayPort outputs. It's used in the 2011 iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac mini.
This is Eagle Ridge, it's little brother:
Eagle Ridge is available in two form factors (normal and SFF) and is effectively half of a Light Ridge chip. That means you only get two Thunderbolt channels (2 x 10Gbps bidirectional = 40Gbps aggregate bandwidth) and one DP output. Apple used the small form factor version of Eagle Ridge in its new MacBook Air to cut cost and save on motherboard real estate. The MacBook Air's GPU also doesn't support more than one external display so there was no point in using a Thunderbolt controller with two DP outputs. Note that performance is identical to Light Ridge as we demonstrated in our review here.
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What is IGNITION?
Urban nature-based solutions like green walls and roofs, sustainable drainage systems and street trees have the potential to provide around 30% of the adaptation needed to protect our towns and cities from increased rainfall, flooding and heatwaves by 2030. They can also increase property value, provide insulation, improve air quality, capture carbon, enhance health and well-being and help create healthy, vibrant, active green towns and cities.
Backed by €4.5 million from the EU’s Urban Innovation Actions initiative, the IGNITION project compiled evidence, developed business cases and ran pilots to provide a robust case for how, why and where this needs to be done in Greater Manchester, alongside insight into how our approach could be applied elsewhere. This website provides you with the insight and tools to help justify and implement nature-based solutions across your projects, buildings and land. | <urn:uuid:1d4c26ec-5e5b-418f-84b1-76bd2c536731> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gmgreencity.com/projects-and-campaigns/ignition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942487 | 178 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Wideband air/fuel ratio sensors utilize a sophisticated sensing element that enables them to measure the amount of oxygen in the exhaust rather than switching between rich and lean responses. Building on the planar sensor base, wideband sensors provide the ECU with an exact AFR response, resulting in better performance, lower emissions, and increased gas mileage. Planar sensors utilize the same zirconia ceramic sensing technology as their predecessor, the thimble sensor, but engineered into a more compact version. The heater and small sensing element are contained in the small, thin, flat tip of the sensor, enabling a smaller and lighter design that requires less power. The smaller design allows the sensor to be utilized in tighter, more compact areas. Wideband planar sensors utilize 5 or more wires.
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Rotary’s ‘Happy Feet’ project provides RSS students with new shoes
Published 12:00 am Thursday, August 22, 2019
By Josh Bergeron
All third-graders from six elementary schools across Rowan-Salisbury Schools are receiving brand new “back-to-school” shoes through a project of the Rotary Club of Salisbury.
This marks the fourth year for the Rotary Club’s “Happy Feet” project and the first year that included all third-grade students from six elementary schools.
Donations from the Rotary Club of Salisbury as well as Fred and Alice Stanback provided enough money to buy shoes for roughly 400 Rowan-Salisbury Schools students, a news release stated. In the past, Salisbury Rotary has been able to serve 70 children. Manpower from the Salisbury Rotary Club and staff at the Shoe Carnival in Salisbury helped make the project possible, too.
Students from Overton, Isenberg, Hurley, Hanford-Dole, Koontz and North Rowan elementaries participated in the project
Rotarian Chris Bradshaw, who organized the event, said the importance of the annual project is tied into the club’s mission.
“The Rotary Club of Salisbury is service organization that strives to unite communities and help those less fortunate,” Bradshaw said. “Doing for others is possibly more beneficial to those giving as those receiving. This project hopes to be a boost for those students to brighten their day and let them know someone is encouraging them as they start a new school year.”
On Friday morning, it was Hanford-Dole Elementary school’s turn, as buses rolled into the shopping center off of Klumac Road, bringing more than 70 third-graders so they could shop at Shoe Carnival.
Students were guided by their teachers into the store, where they were greeted by staff and Rotarians.
After being instructed on how the morning would unfold and after each child’s shoe size was measured, children began scanning the shelves and looking for their favorite shoes.
In less than an hour, students with shoeboxes in hand were boarding buses to head back to school.
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Essential Physiology for Dental Students offers comprehensive information on human physiology, tailored to the needs of students of dentistry. This new addition to the Dentistry Essentials series helps students gain a deeper understanding of how physiological concepts apply to clinical dental practice. Each chapter outlines an organ system in sufficient detail whilst emphasizing its relevance to clinical dentistry. Written in a student-friendly style, it contextualizes how normal and altered physiology affects dental care and highlights the implications of dental interventions on the body’s functioning.
Essential Physiology for Dental Students provides readers with complete coverage of: cell physiology; nerve and muscle physiology; the cardiovascular system; the respiratory system; the gastro-intestinal system; the renal system; haematology; endocrinology including the regulation of blood glucose and blood calcium; and the central nervous system.
Covers each system in detail, while emphasizing the relevance to dental students
Presented using a reader-friendly layout with illustrations and clinical photographs throughout
Features interactive MCQs and EMQs and downloadable images on a companion website
Essential Physiology for Dental Students is an excellent resource for undergraduate dentistry students, dental hygiene and therapy students, and dental nursing students. It also greatly benefits newly qualified dentists preparing for postgraduate examinations such as MFDS, LDS, ORE, and also the US National Boards. | <urn:uuid:d0d8fd35-4eb9-4d11-ba16-6fb5fcbaa83a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hsbookstore.com/bh_en/essential-physiology-for-dental-students | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.885744 | 287 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Earth1 Magnesium oil is certified organically harvested from Australian Salt Lakes and Oceans. Each batch of our magnesium goes through a full chemical analysis to ensure our product is of the highest standard and has the highest concentration of magnesium chloride. In fact our magnesium content is as high as 30%, which is the highest concentration possible before the magnesium starts to fall out as a solid. We do not reconstitute magnesium flakes by adding water. Nor do we dilute our product with water. One Teaspoon or 5ml of earth1 Magnesium oil delivers approximately 1950mg of magnesium chloride or 497mg of elemental magnesium onto the skin.
Earth1 Magnesium oil is created in Australia in accordance with good manufacturing practice, under a quality system that complies with ISO 9001. It is organically harvested and is licensed as a Product of Australia.
What is Magnesium Oil
Magnesium oil, even though it has an oily texture is not actually an oil. Magnesium oil is actually magnesium chloride and is considered by many as one of the most powerful medicinal products in the world. Oil, however is still the correct word, not only because you can use it topically as a lubricant to transform simple massages into a medical treatment, but also because it acts as an oil for almost all physiological processes in the body. What oil does for an engine, magnesium oil will do for your body.
Once considered a home remedy for many day to day ailments, magnesium use has attributed to decreasing stress levels, sustaining a sense of well-being and improving one’s sleep. More recent studies have shown that magnesium may also increase performance levels, improve skin quality, and even decrease hypertension and diabetes levels. Magnesium is an essential element in the natural detoxification and self-cleansing responses of the body
Why does the body need Magnesium
Magnesium plays a critical role in supporting literally everything in your body, from healthy muscles to a healthy immune system, healthy bones and much more.
An abundant element on our planet, magnesium is also present in every organ in the human body. In fact, it is considered a vital mineral for over 300 biochemical reactions in our body, that regulate our health and wellness. Sadly, many of us simply don’t get enough magnesium in our bodies to the point that we unknowingly suffer from a magnesium deficiency.
Magnesium is crucial to muscle contraction, nerve transmission, energy production, nutrient metabolism, blood coagulation and bone and cell formation.
Are you Magnesium Deficient
Common symptoms of being Magnesium deficient are:
High Blood Pressure
Type 2 Diabetes
If you suffer from any of the following you are most at-risk of being Magnesium deficient
GI Ailments like Gut issues
Any forms of Colitis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Medications for Heartburn and Acid Reflux could compromise your ability to utilise Magnesium.
Type 2 Diabetics or obesity
Benefits of getting your Recommended Daily Allowance of Magnesium can
Increase Energy Levels
Relieve Muscle Pain and Cramping
Support your Health
Assist in Migraine relief
Improve Bone Health
Due to the widespread role Magnesium plays in the body, it has been extensively investigated for therapeutic use. There is evidence of its effectiveness in treating eclampsia, pre-eclampsia, arrhythmia and migraines. It’s possible efficacy for lowering the risk of metabolic syndrome, improving glucose and insulin metabolism, prevention and management of osteoporosis, alleviating leg cramps and relieving symptoms of dysmenorrhoea. Studies have been done to consider its potential use in disease prevention, reducing blood pressure and atherosclerosis, also in the reduction of the risk of dementia and stroke.
Further studies into Magnesium Disorders can be found by clicking here.
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Snæfellsstofa is a visitor centre for the east territory of Vatnajökull National park. The visitor centre opened in june 2010 and is the first BREEAM certified building in Iceland. The centre also has an interesting exhibition about the circle and forming of the nature and in the visitor centre you can get information about the area, the wildlife and the nature.
May (from 3rd): weekdays 10-15 – weekends 12-17
June/ July/ August: Every day 10-17
September: weekdays 10-15 – weekends 12-17
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The Torna fort or the Prachandagad, situated in the southwest of the Pune district of the western part of the Maharashtra state, is a the major tourist attraction of Maharashtra tourism. The village base of Velhe is situated 50 km. from the city of Pune. This was the first fort to be captured by the Shivaji Maharaj in the year 1643, when he was just 16 years old and this formed the nucleus of Maratha Empire. This fort is perched at a height of 1403 meters above the sea level. The name of the fort is derived from the words, Prachanda, which means huge and gad, which means fort in Marathi. This hill fort Torna is known as the highest fort perched on a hill top in the district of the Puna Satara Highway at Nasarapur. Traveller need to take the road Nasarapur to reach the Torna Fort. It takes about 2 hours to see the fort properly. Various places can be seen around the fort, such as Budhla Machi, Zunjar Machi, Kothi Darwaja, Kokan darwaja, Menghai Goddess temple, Bini Darwaja, Sadar, Toranjai Goddess temple etc. This fort is now a heritage site.
Trekkers should avoid trekking in this region during the rainy season. The ideal time to trek here are the winter months. This is a popular camping ground for the trekkers, who carry their own camp equipment while going for camping there. The Mengai temple is a good place for staying inside the fort.
History of the Attraction
This fort is of considerable historical importance as it was the first fort to be won by the Maratha ruler Shivaji at the age of just 16 years. This Torna fort was captured by the Mughals in the 18th century after assassinating the great Naratha warrior,Shivaji’s son Shambhaji. The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb renamed the fort as Futulgaib. By the “Treaty of Purandar” this fort was given to the Maratha confederacy. This Torna fort is an architectural marvel with a host of towers and monuments built inside the fort. It is a popular attraction of a Maharashtra tour.
The Torna fort is about 50 km from Pune and 220 km from the state of Maharashtra. Tourists can take a train or flight to Pune or Mumbai as these cities are well connected to major cities all over India. The trekkers can follow two routes to reach the Torna fort, such as the Torna trek from the Velhe that is return on the same day after a one day trek. The other trekking route is from the Rajgad fort, which is a 2 day trek and requires camping overnight.
Opening/Closing timings and days
The fort is open all year round.
The entry to the fort is free.
Things to do in and around
Some of the best places for sightseeing near the Torna fort are Toranjai Temple, Mangai Temple, Balekilla of Torna fort, Devi Kadjai Mandir, Maruti Mandir, Somgai Mandir, Rajgarh Fort, Rajgad Fort, Kalubai Temple, Ram Mandir, Bhairavnath Mandir, Madhe Ghat, Ajmai Lake. These are some of the best places to visit around the awe-evoking Torna Fort.
Best time to Visit
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The July 2, 1997, tornadoes - the worst to hit Detroit in a century - killed five people, tore off roofs and shut down businesses that were flooded, damaged or lost power. These twisters struck just after 5 p.m.
What if people still are at work when the next one hits?
Most companies, particularly smaller ones, don't have an emergency plan for reacting to such a storm and don't even think about it until a new disaster dominates the news, said Jane Buiting, corporate emergency planner for Pontiac-based Disaster by Design Inc. The company helps businesses prepare emergency plans and policies.
"We put a priority on so many things but not on taking care of each other," Buiting said of the lack of sound emergency plans.
Colleen Prosyniuk, emergency-management specialist for Oakland County's emergency-management division, said communities have added more tornado-warning sirens since the 1997 storm. The county had long had sirens in its heavily populated southeastern areas but needed more as people pushed farther north and west. Today, Oakland County has 174 sirens, one of the largest number of any county in the Midwest.
The sirens, however, are designed only to warn people who are outdoors.
Among tornado safety tips from Prosyniuk and Buiting:
Prepare an emergency plan. Pick the safest places to go during a tornado warning, preferably a basement, interior stairwell or a small interior or lower-level room without windows. Prepare first-aid kits, flashlights and other items that could be needed in an emergency.
Office buildings should have a public address system, allowing people to be told when to take cover.
For less than $60, companies can buy a Noah radio that comes on when a weather warning is posted.
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Newswise – A rare 1943 document — a psychological analysis of thepersonality of Adolph Hitler that predicted, among otherthings, his eventual suicide — is now available on theCornell Law Library’s Web site, at:thislink.
The profile was written by Henry Murray, the same doctor wholater administered stress-related mind control tests to TedKaczynski while he was as Harvard. Kaczynski’slawyers in his trial as the Unabomber traced some of hisemotional instability and fear of mind control to his roleas a subject in those tests. Murray helped found the OSS(Office of Strategic Services) in 1943 and became associatedwith the CIA and its MK-ULTRA mind control program after thewar. He reportedly carried forwardmind control experiments which hadoriginated in the concentration camps.
The copyright to the original document — number three ofonly 30 copies made — was granted to the Law Library byNina Murray, the widow of the document’s main author, Dr.Henry A. Murray.
Henry Murray was a pre-World War II director of the HarvardPsychological Clinic and, during the war, served in theOffice of Strategic Services, the forerunner to the CentralIntelligence Agency. The psychological profile of Hitler wasamong the papers discovered in the Law Library’s DonovanNuremberg Trials Collection.
“It’s almost a unique piece,” said Claire Germain, theEdward Cornell Law Librarian and professor of law at CornellLaw School. “Posting it on the Web in pdf format makes itavailable to a broader audience and shows the uniqueness ofthe documents located at Cornell Library.”
Murray was commissioned in 1943 to help the Alliesunderstand Hitler’s psychological makeup. He wrote thatHitler had a personality type stimulated by real or imaginedinsult or injury, that held grudges, had a low tolerance forcriticism, an excessive demand for attention and a tendencyto belittle, bully or blame others and seek revenge. But hispersonality also manifested a persistence in the face ofdefeat, along with strong self-will and self-trust. However,Hitler lacked “the offsetting qualities that round out abalanced personality,” wrote Murray. Murray guessed that ifGermany were to lose World War II, Hitler might kill himselfin a dramatic, explosive way, but he worried that Hitlermight become a martyr if he were killed.
We fought hard against the Nazis in World War II, but did wefight the war as a Christian country…or not? Our FoundingFathers believed in the principles of Masonry, the KnightsTemplar, the Rosicrucians and more. Don’t miss WhitleyStrieber’s extraordinary interview withWilliamHenry on this week’sDreamland!Subscribers willbe able to download this show to an MP3 disc–as they canwith all Dreamland and Mysterious Powers shows–and listento it in their cars. They’ll also get to hear a specialinterview with William, in which he reveals some of his mostprovocative information!
NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.
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The laser particle size analyzer refers to a particle size analysis instrument that uses a laser as a detection light source. The development of laser particle size analyzers in our country began in the 1980s. Tianjin University, Jinan University, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Dandong Institute and other units have done a lot of work and have made significant breakthroughs in the past decade.
The laser particle size analyzer uses a laser light scattering method. This method has a wide measuring range (usually 0.1 to 3500 μm), fast particle size analysis, good reproducibility, and online measurement. It is also suitable for scientific research and production process. Control plays an important role. In addition, the laser particle size analyzer can obtain a variety of particle size data, such as volume, average particle size, specific surface area, interval particle size distribution, and cumulative particle size distribution.
First, the four principles of laser particle size analyzer
1, based on the principle of static light scattering, that is, according to different sizes of particles scattered on the light have different angular distribution principle of measuring particle size of the instrument;
2, based on dynamic light scattering (photon correlation spectroscopy) principle, that is, according to the Brownian motion of tiny particles (usually less than 1μm) in the liquid, causing the frequency of scattered light to move (or phase change), scattering light interference with each other, making a certain observation point The principle of the change of the scattered light intensity with time, the instrument for measuring the particle size;
3, Photoresist particle counter;
4, light pulsation particle size analyzer.
Second, the common problems in the process of particle testing
1, the particles are too small
The finer the particles, the smaller the angle of scattered light. When the particle geometry reaches the sub-micron level, scattered light scattering angle greater than 90 degrees will be significantly enhanced. Scattered light from tiny particles is even distributed within 360 degrees, as shown in Figure 1.
2, too large particles
The scattering angle of large particles is very small and it is not easy to distinguish and measure, as shown in Figure 2. When the particle geometry is more than 500 microns, the scattered light scattering angle is extremely small, and the scattering angle of the scattered light generated by the difference between the particle size and the time scale is small, and the prior art is not easy to accurately measure.
To effectively resolve the light intensity distribution of large particles, it is possible to simply lengthen the focal length of the focusing lens (for example, 500 or even 1000 mm or more), but a large focal length will cause the size of the laser particle size analyzer to increase significantly and it is very inconvenient for large particles to be large angles. Scattered light detection. At the same time, the processing precision of the lens will be higher. This technical difficulty makes it difficult for a conventionally designed laser particle sizer to actually exceed the upper limit of 1000 microns.
3.There is a blind spot for scattered light detection. Regardless of the design of the laser particle size analyzer, there is a measurement window in which the sample is fully dispersed in the window and is irradiated with laser light to generate scattered light. As shown in FIG. 3 , due to the total reflection of the mechanical structure and the optical glass in the conventional measurement window, there is always a scattered light detection dead zone. This blind spot is roughly distributed in the area of 75-105 degrees and 255-285 degrees.
4, scattered light intensity is too small
The smaller the particles, the smaller the scattered light intensity distribution in the 360-degree spatial range. When the particles are small to a certain limit, the light intensity difference will be almost too small to be distinguished. At this point, the measurement limit of the laser particle size analyzer was reached. As can be seen from Figure 4, when the particles are small to a certain extent, the vector of light intensity is infinitely close to a circle (the particle is infinitely close to the center of the circle), and the light intensity difference at this time is difficult to distinguish. The obstacles in the optical design and the nature of the scattered light itself determine that the lower limit of measurement of conventional laser particle size analyzers is generally around 0.2 microns.
Third, the prospect of China-made laser particle size analyzer
As a mainstream instrument for sub-micron particle measurement laboratories (as opposed to on-line), the Chinese product brand of laser particle size analyzer has occupied a major market share in China, but in terms of technical level, domestic equipment is in the sub-micron range and widely distributed samples. In terms of measurement, there is still a certain gap compared to the advanced level in the world.
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In today’s information age, a great user experience and digital transformation are becoming critical to an organisation’s success and ability to remain competitive.
In a recent study by IDC, “84 percent of respondents are already digitally transforming or planning to digitally transform their business.”
However, of that 84 percent, 12 percent report that their “organisation has completed its digital transformation” which is contradictory in itself.
Digital transformation is a continual process with iterations so that continuous feedback can be analysed at the design stage for the next iteration.
So whilst a phase may be completed, the process is ongoing and therefore every business area needs to understand how they contribute to the delivery and success of digital experiences.
HR needs to also support the enabling of a culture of agility and adaptability, as managing change should also be an ongoing process and not seen as a one-off to facilitate a change that may often be perceived as negative.
To measure how successful the user experience for a product, system or process is, typically factors such as usability, accessibility, value, and desirability amongst others are applied.
Metrics are then linked to these criteria so quantitative and qualitative data such as time spent doing an activity, engagement rates, and conversion rates can be assessed.
There are also various models such as Google’s HEART framework which support assessing user experience, but there are no universal standards in place. This makes sense as user experience metrics may need to vary as each product or system could require tailored criteria even if based around common principles.
The same applies in both customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) in relation to there being no formalised set of assessment criteria to analyse success.
There are common methodologies which are used but no universal standards for comparison. However, an interesting trend is the creation of CX or EX indexes by consultancies which rate where organisations fit according to the index they have created.
This allows for a consultancy to ‘benchmark’ companies that wish to use their services in terms of the criteria they have set.
This may seem contradictory, however, to the whole user-centric approach. Shouldn’t the users be assessing whether an experience is great against standards which are agreed by an independent body that can verify the data if indexes are to be used? Also, shouldn’t we be combining CX and EX if we are going to rate what great experiences look like?
If a company were to score high on CX and low on EX or vice versa, it would suggest that the great experience is unsustainable due to the inter-dependent relationship between CX and EX. Delivering a great employee experience is often linked to criteria such as meaningful, authentic, and engaging whilst being measured through metrics such as satisfaction, retention, and absence levels. However, these stem from our more traditional HR metrics and perhaps we should start challenging how relevant these are in the modern organisation.
Many employees see their employment with their current organisation as one touch-point in their whole career journey and therefore, is retention really an indicator of a great employee experience?
Perhaps viewing advocacy post-employment over retention is a better metric because if our talent is advocating working for their previous employer to their connections, it may offer more value than trying to retain talent from leaving.
With this in mind, before you can even start delivering great experiences, you need to start with the design of your organisation to allow the right environment for great experiences and understand what the criteria and metrics should be.
The organisation design should be human-centred if experiences are our focus so we can understand how critical factors impact the experiences in order to shape the organisation to deliver the desired behaviours and in turn, great experiences. Therefore, should we approach organisational design the way we design user experience in order to get the best employee and customer experiences?
The CIPD defines organisation design as “the process and the outcome of shaping an organisation structure, to align it with the purpose of the business and the context in which the organisation exists. To be effective, it requires familiarity with the external environment and the business needs, as well as an understanding of people behaviours and people processes”.
We have developed this model with Professor Karen Cham of the University of Brighton to incorporate elements from both HR and UX disciplines. Within user experience methodology, the design process is collaborative and human-centred.
Employees and customers need to be emotionally connected to the brand, purpose, and values, which is why they should be central to the human experience within an organisation. This means that they need to be embedded into an individual’s interactions with the organisation in order for them to feel engaged.
The design phase should seek input from around the business and the various stakeholders. The development phase would then look to test, gather evidence and feedback, and then modify for the next iteration.
In the digital era, the key drivers for effective organisation design are enabling structures to allow the most efficient flow of information and communication as well as processes that will create the most effective emotive responses so the desired behaviours can be realised.
The Human-Centred Org Design model is not focused on hierarchies or silo departments, but rather the critical components that will allow for innovation, growth, satisfaction, and collaboration for both the user and the organisation.
In today’s modern environment, boundaries in the workplace are not confined to the same principles from years ago due to the capability of technology and the external environment which allows and necessitates us to work differently.
The IDC report on Future Business found that culture is the number one barrier to digital transformation followed by talent retention and leadership.
If HR understands that change management is continual, leadership understands the importance of putting its people at the centre, and the business is focused on delivering great experiences rather than being targeted on revenue and profit, would the capacity for innovation and growth go beyond expectations based on current output?
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“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” - General Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 5, 1944
"We'll start the war from right here." - Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who landed in the wrong place with the first wave, Utah Beach, June 6, 1944
At 0020 hours on the morning of June 6th, 1944, the first paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division began landing behind enemy lines on the Cotentin Peninsula. They were quickly followed by the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, in what is now immortalized as The Greatest Day. By the end of the day, over 13,000 paratroopers and 20,000 Soldiers of the VII US Army Corps would be in France, holding the right flank of the D-Day invasion at Utah Beach.
The Greatest Day: Utah Beach is the second of three volumes in the Grand Tactical Series that covers the Battle for Normandy in June of 1944.
We at Multi-Man Publishing are proud to present our tribute to the brave men of yesteryear, who fought on Utah Beach and in the hedgerows of the Cotentin Peninsula. The Greatest Day: Utah Beach includes a wide array of scenarios from the beach landings, to airborne troops seizing Carentan, to cutting the Cotentin Peninsula. There are small 8.5”x11” scenarios up to full campaign games stretching across the entire peninsula.
The Greatest Day: Utah Beach will be packaged in the same type of large flat box that was used for The Greatest Day: Sword, Juno, and Gold Beaches.
Unit Scale: Company and Platoon
Hex Scale: 500 Meters
Time Scale: 2-Hour Turns
- One full color Grand Tactical Series Rulebook 2.0c
- One full color The Greatest Day: Utah Beach Exclusive Rules
- One full color The Greatest Day: Utah Beach Scenarios booklet
- One GTS Rules Summary
- Sixteen full color counter sheets (5/8” counters)
- One full color half counter sheet (5/8” counters)
- Two full color 22”x34” map sheets
- Two full color double-sided 22” x 34” map sheets
- One full color 11” x 34” double-sided map sheet
- Four 8.5” x 11” full color scenario maps/overlays
- Two full color double-sided CRT/TEC Note player aid cards
- Two full color double-sided Terrain Effects Chart player aid cards
- Thirteen full color Divisional Charts
- One full color Turn Record Chart
- Four 10-sided dice
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Dutch-based firm MVRDV just completed the first of ten buildings located next to Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport, the fourth busiest airport in mainland China. The floral-shaped structure, dubbed the Flower Building, has more than 161,000 square feet of office space, designed to meet a three-star green building label, the best energy performance rating available in China, a country known for its pollution woes. Over the next few months, MVRDV will add nine more buildings to the planned office park, including retail space and parking. Underneath the development, the architecture firm Aedas will build an subterranean shopping mall.
MVRDV won the competition to build the office park with a striking design that incorporated eco-friendly materials and systems. Once awarded the job, the firm ensured the space would be both beautiful and eco-friendly. All of the buildings will include high-performance insulation, natural ventilation systems, and rainwater collections through green rooftops. The complex will have permeable road surfaces, and nearby links to public transportation.
“The Flower Building is the landmark in our overall plan,” says MVRDV cofounder and principal architect Jacob van Rijs. “The building is located near the entrance to a new metro station and acts as a beacon for pedestrians. The second phase of the master plan is under construction; there we combine flexible, more generic office spaces with a village-like urban plan that offers intimacy and friendly outdoor spaces.” The project is scheduled to be completed by early 2016. | <urn:uuid:34d76fd5-4254-43fe-8f89-1be4fc5b2894> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/mvrdv-flower-building-shanghai-hongqiao-airport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956754 | 320 | 1.664063 | 2 |
CREATIVE DESIGN (Graphics)
The fundamental purpose in the art of design is communication. Building on many years of visualizing and implementing Creative Design both Environmental and Marketing/Advertising; providing clients with unique strategies and results that stand out and reflect the core message, enabling success in their respective markets through Design.
"The fundamental purpose in the art of design is communication"
Creative Design - Marketing and Advertising, Environmental, Art & Illustration; Graphics Arts and Photography; Project Management; Event Management.
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Our MA in Anthropology of Travel and Tourism allows you to study global voluntary mobility while at the same time gaining advanced training in social and cultural anthropology. This programme is designed for students with or without a prior degree in Social Anthropology.
Tourism is not only a culturally and historically shaped form of travel, but a complex social field that spans the globe, comprised of diverse actors, institutions, activities, and modes of interaction that overlap with other forms of global interconnection. As a whole, it comprises the world's largest industry and the single greatest peacetime factor moving people around the globe.
You will develop expertise in anthropological theory and practice; learn to undertake ethnographic research; and gain comprehensive grounding in the anthropological study of travel and tourism, including issues of development, political economy, cultural change, heritage, cross-cultural encounter, representation and meaning, space and place, commodification, and interconnections between diverse histories and cultures of travel worldwide.
Learn about the Anthropology modules (courses) for this programme.
Both a manifestation and a medium of globalisation, tourism has profound significance in multiple realms of human life-economic, environmental, material, social, and cultural. This makes it an ideal lens through which to explore core themes in contemporary social anthropology, such as identity and alterity, political economy, development, heritage, locality, representation, imagination, commodification, and the global circulation of people, objects, ideas, images, and capital. The MA Anthropology of Travel and Tourism programme draws upon:
- The emerging body of theoretically sophisticated, ethnographically rich work involving tourism and travel
- A thorough grounding in the history and contemporary theoretical trends of social-cultural anthropology
- Close engagement with noted and rising scholars in the field, via the programme's Colloquium Series in the Anthropology of Tourism and Travel , as well as opportunities for informal dialogue with visiting anthropologists and sociologists of travel/tourism/mobilities
- Other areas of expertise in the Department of Anthropology, including anthropology of development, migration and diaspora, museums and material culture, anthropology of food, global religious movements, anthropology of media, human rights, and anthropology of globalisation
- The unparalleled concentration of area expertise among SOAS' academic staff, covering Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, together with their diasporas
- The opportunity to engage with numerous other modules at SOAS, such as the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, the Food Studies Centre, the Centre for Ethnographic Theory, and the Centre for Media Studies, among many others
- The vibrant intellectual and cultural life of the School, the University of London, and the city of London itself-a global tourist destination inviting study on a daily basis
The degree is suitable for students with an interest in anthropological approaches to diverse aspects of tourism as a cultural force in the contemporary world, from sustainable development to cultural heritage.
Our students come from all over the world, following BA study, an MA degree in another field, or work and travel experience. This combination of diverse backgrounds and skills creates a uniquely stimulating intellectual environment.
- View a sampling of past MA dissertation titles
- View profiles of alumni and current students
- Overview duration: 1 year full-time or 2-3 years part-time.
- Fees 2019/20 UK/EU fees -
Who should take this course
Structure Programme Overview:
The programme consists of 180 credits in total: 120 credits of modules and a dissertation of 10,000 words at 60 credits.
All students are expected to take the core and compulsory modules listed below, except for students with a previous Anthropology degree, who are not required to take the Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology module but may wish to select this as part of their 120 credits from the options lists. All students must audit the compulsory module, Ethnographic Research Methods during term 1. This will not count towards the 180 credits. Students will be expected to attend only lectures and do not attend seminars or submit any assessments. Students may choose to take this module (worth 15 credits) as part of their 120 credits from the option lists.
Students with a previous Anthropology degree will be required to take 30 credits from the Anthropology and Sociology options list. All students can select the remaining credits from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology or relevant options from other departments or a language module. Note that students are NOT limited to the modules in other departments listed below; additional options may be available on approval.
About Course Provider
Our mission is to inspire the next generation to develop ideas for a fairer and more sustainable world. We welcome the brightest minds from over 130 different countries, creating a community that is diverse, vibrant and multinational. From day one at our central London campus, our students are encouraged to challenge conventional views and think globally – and that’s one of the reasons why they develop careers that make a real difference. A SOAS student is typically passionate about their subject, opts to learn a second language, loves to learn, to travel, to be surprised; and is interested and engaged with the world around them. | <urn:uuid:7f92d567-c3f9-48a4-a28e-e290bf69f739> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gulftalent.com/United%20Kingdom/courses/ma-anthropology-of-travel-and-tourism-not-running-2019-20-2019-entry-23201 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.912451 | 1,056 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Making higher education great again
As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to name his secretary of education, it seems like a good time to offer the new administration a higher education to do list. Admittedly, getting legislation through a highly partisan, closely divided Congress will be difficult, but the new secretary and president can — and should — use executive orders to eliminate harmful policies, initiate reforms, and change the conversation about higher education.
Pandemic relief — While higher education as a whole has fared better than generally feared, many colleges and universities are in grave financial danger. Faced with declining enrollment, higher financial aid costs, drops in auxiliary revenues, cuts in state funding, and sharp increases in pandemic-related spending, they have drained their reserves, frozen or cut salaries and benefits, laid off or furloughed large numbers of employees, trimmed majors and programs, and taken on new debt. CARES Act funding provided some relief in the spring, but much more is needed. Concerned about an impending “crisis of almost unimaginable magnitude,” the American Council on Education has urged Congress to allocate $120 billion for higher education. Securing that help must be job number one for the new education secretary.
Student debt — While most students graduate with “little or no debt,” some 45 million borrowers collectively owe more than $1.6 trillion, more than triple the amount owed in 2007. For many graduates, a high debt burden constrains career choices, delays decisions to marry, have children, or buy a home, and limits the ability to save for retirement. In March, President Trump suspended student loan payments, but that forbearance is scheduled to end on Jan. 31. While many Democrats have urged Biden to forgive billions in student debt, the President-elect has taken a more cautious approach, promising to cancel $10,000 per borrower as a form of economic stimulus, with more comprehensive relief for particular categories of borrowers. Biden has also proposed doubling the maximum size of Pell grants and making “public colleges and universities tuition-free for all families with incomes below $125,000.” Biden’s approach seems to us a reasonable opening gambit.
For-profit colleges — Critics accuse the for-profit college sector of enticing students into expensive but poorly designed degree programs with minimal career prospects. In 2019, the Department of Education modified rules governing borrower defenses to repayment and took other steps to make it harder than ever for defrauded students to secure relief. The Biden administration should reverse those changes and tighten accreditation rules to ensure students who find themselves the victims of educational fraud are not left without recourse.
Sexual misconduct — In 2011, then Vice President Biden played a major role in the Obama administration’s drive to ensure more rigorous campus enforcement of sexual assault rules, culminating in the now famous “Dear Colleague” letter outlining how the Department of Education would assess compliance with Title IX, a 1972 statute prohibiting “discrimination based on sex in education programs.” During her tenure Education Secretary Betsy DeVos championed new regulations intended to restore balance to a system she believed favored accusers. A one size fits all system modeled on the court room, with lawyers and cross examination of witnesses allowed, the new mandates are expensive, burdensome, and likely to deter many victims of sexual assault from going through the process. As we have argued elsewhere, efforts to address sexual assault should include reforms to a civil system that is often slow, costly, and, for those who cannot afford it, ultimately fruitless — as well as reforms to a criminal justice system in which only a very small percentage of cases results in convictions.
International students — Once the world’s premier destination for international students, the United States saw a modest decline in international student enrollment in fall 2019, the first in over ten years, and a 16 percent drop in fall 2020. While the pandemic accounts for much of this fall’s drop, lackluster growth in recent years can be attributed in significant part to a series of actions by the Trump administration that have rendered the United States a far less hospitable venue for international students. The new secretary of education can help rebuild America’s stature as a home for the world’s best and brightest students. Biden has already promised to preserve the protections against deportation of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children contained in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and to repeal the ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries. The new administration should also eliminate proposed constraints on an international student’s “duration of status,” which undermine confidence that they can complete their education in the United States in the time allowed, shore up the Optional Practical Training program, which enables international students to gain work experience, and withdraw proposed rules making it harder to obtain H-1B visas (and much more expensive for employers to hire highly skilled foreign workers).
As helpful as these steps would be, nothing would do more to secure our position as the world’s higher education leader than a bipartisan reform of an immigration system no one likes — to include measures that provide greater security and certainty for international students and migrants alike.
Race relations on campus — The new secretary of education should begin to address the continuing impact of racism in colleges and universities by dropping recent demands that Yale cease any consideration of race in admissions, withdrawing support for the legal challenge to affirmative action at Harvard, and ending the investigation of Princeton for simply acknowledging the continuing effects of systemic racism on its campus. Similarly, the Biden administration should repeal the recent Executive Order on Race and Sex Stereotyping, which imposes unwarranted constraints on antiracism training at federal agencies. Most important, the new secretary of education should use his or her bully pulpit to make equal access to higher education a reality for students from economically disadvantaged families and underrepresented minority groups.
We recognize that this agenda is ambitious, especially in the midst of a pandemic and a severe economic recession.
That said, we are convinced these are urgently necessary first steps if we are to ensure economic prosperity, make equal opportunity a reality, and restore higher education to its stature as the envy of the world.
Glenn C. Altschuler is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the co-author (with Isaac Kramnick) of Cornell: A History, 1940-2015.
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School is out for the summer. Now, what to do?
The Jerusalem Light Festival in the Old City started on June 26 and ends July 4th.
Israeli dancing begins at First Station on Sunday evenings at 8:00 pm.
Music will play in Kikar Safra, Safra Square for two big night concerts, July 11 – Goran Bregovic and July 25 – Stavros Xsarchakos.
Too classical and late at night? Programs for children are available in community parks.
And of course, many museums are including summer events for families.
In Jerusalem, the Israel Museum is always a go-to place on a hot day.
There are new temporary exhibits, like Peter and Pan.
From Greece to Neverland starts with larger than life Greek statues.
Then it progresses over the centuries to James Barrie,
and eventually to Disney’s Peter Pan,
with Tinkerbell and tales of fairies.
A family-friendly reading corner compliments the video presentations at the end.
From one extreme to another: nude Greek statues to the Veiled Women of the Holy Land.
Here we find three religious extremes in women’s clothing, Nuns,
and Jewish women, covered in layers head to toe, with even their faces covered.
New trends in modest dress, or flashbacks to ancient times?
Across the hall from Pan to Peter, is another temporary exhibit.
Enter from the Ancient Civilizations section of the Israel Museum,
and you find this darkened room that holds the remains of the diary of astronaut Ilan Rimon z”l, recovered and reconstructed after the explosion of the Columbia Space Shuttle
Rimon took a miniature Torah into outer space, which was destroyed in the explosion. A duplicate miniature Torah was located and is on exhibit. The story of its use during the Shoah in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for a Bar Mitzvah is next to the display case.
The halls of the Israel Museum are filled all summer, only empty at closing time.
Besides the Israel Museum, there are many events happening.
There is a special exhibit at the Art Shelter where 62 works by 22 artists are for sale, July 9 – 16th.
The Outline Festival – Illustration and Words in Jerusalem is from July 4 – 11th.
For the summer a very different exhibit is on at First Station in the Hangar.
When Prime Minister Netanyahu saw Zahal Shelanu in Holon, he said this should be in Jerusalem, Israel, for more to see.
So the special IDF display is at First Station in the Hangar for the summer.
The big equipment is on display outside.
But if you want to get inside, it is only open from 9-5:00 pm.
Special tickets are free but have to be ordered online in advance.
My attempt to go at night for good light was not so bright.
Also this week there was an official opening of the Pilgrimage Road.
It will still be another four years before the public will be able to walk this underground path.
We saw the beginnings of the project two years ago.
More on the story from then HERE.
The Wine Festival is coming next week, so that means the beer festival should be soon after.
There is a new Happy Hour on Monday evenings in July at the Tower of David.
Enjoy the views with a glass of wine!
As always so much happening on the Jerusalem streets.
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Ever received an email from eBay asking you to verify your account? Or from Gmail warning you to login otherwise your account will be suspended? How many times have you gotten a supposed Paypal email asking reactivation because your account has been hacked?
If you dismissed the email and simply deleted it, good for you. But if you opened it, clicked and accessed the link, and tried to login to the website, congratulations, you have just become a victim of an unfortunate phishing attempt!
Phishing (pronounced “fishing” as in “fishing for information”) is a type of deception designed to steal one’s personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords, account login information, etc.
The phishing email usually looks like an official letter from a trusted source, such as a bank, credit card company, payment processor, or online merchant. Phishing emails normally direct recipients to a fraudulent website where they are asked to provide personal information. This information is then used for identity theft.
6 Items to Check if an Email is a Phishing Email
Here are six (6) things to look for if you think an e-mail message is a phishing scam.
1. Suspicious email subject
Most phishing emails alert you that something is wrong with your account, and email subject headings are used to entice you to open the mail and follow instructions outlined in the email. Most phishing emails usually use any of the following subject headings.
- Account Alert
- Account Incident
- Account Issue
- Account Renew
- Account Review
- Account Suspended
- Avoid your account or credit card suspension
- Check your account
- Confirm that you are the real owner of this account
- Confirm your bank account
- IMPORTANT: Your account has now been suspended and may be terminated
- Notification of account update
- Notification of Unclaimed Parcel
- Password Change Required
- Protect your bank account
- Restore your account access
- Second (third) notification
- Steps to remove limitation
- The Security of your account
- Unauthorized access report
- Unauthorized account access
- Update your xxxx account
- Verify your xxxxx account
- Warning – Your email account will be closed
- Your account might be compromised
- You have successfully updated your password
- Your email requires verification
- Your profile has been updated
2. Sense of urgency in the letter
Phishing emails usually use the line, “If you don’t respond within 24 hours, your account will be closed.”
These types of messages convey a sense of urgency forcing you to act immediately without thinking. They want you to quickly click and visit the link and access your account in the fake site. Don’t fall for this trap.
3. Unofficial email address
Some senders of phishing mails merely use a generic email address from, say, Gmail or Yahoo. That’s why you might receive a supposed PayPal warning which came from email@example.com or an email about your eBay account sent by firstname.lastname@example.org.
Instinct should tell you that since the email did not come from the official email address of the company, it might not be a genuine email. Genuine Paypal’s emails, for instance, should come from their official email address email@example.com, and eBay’s email should come from firstname.lastname@example.org or any other official email addresses they are using.
4. Masked URLs
Some phishing scammers, however, spend some time and effort to change the email information to make it look like it was sent from the official email address of the company. This practice is called “masking” — that is, the link looks like a trusted site’s official link but the actual URL or landing page has been masked and is different. In short, the link you visually see does not take you to the actual website address but to somewhere different, usually to a fake website.
Two examples of this “masked URL” technique is shown below. You will see that the links appear to direct you to the websites of Paypal and eBay. However, what you see is not always right!
- www.paypal.com (Looks like paypal.com but embedded URL is pavpal.com)
- www.ebay.com (Looks like ebay.com but embedded URL is ebav.com)
If you hover or rest your mouse pointer on the links above, you’ll be surprised to see that the links actually go to a different URL! (By the way, we do NOT encourage you to click the link. These are just for illustration purposes.)
5. Unspecified recipient
Phishing messages are usually sent out in bulk and often do not specify your first or last name. Normally a phishing email’s opening line is a generic “Dear Customer” or “Dear valued customer” greeting. If you receive an email with such opening or greeting line, this should alert you that the email you’re reading could be a phishing email.
6. Spelling or grammar errors
A legitimate company would take time to proofread its email so that no spelling or grammar error appears in the email. Senders of phishing emails are usually not concerned with that.
How to protect yourself from phishing emails
Almost all legitimate companies will never ask you to provide your personal or account information. If you received an email supposedly sent by your bank, credit card, PayPal, eBay, etc., confirm with them by going to the official website and contacting them using the company’s contact information. Do not simply click on any links you see in an email.
Also never open any attachment in an email sent by people you do not know. It might contain an executable (.exe) file that will unleash a trojan, virus, or malicious software that will steal your data or hack your accounts.
You can also copy parts of the suspicious email you got and search for it in Google. You’ll most likely see if other other sites have already given warning that the email you received is a phishing email.
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30 melodies or fragments of melodies come down to us
A couple are passed down through the medieval tradition
Five are preserved on stone inscriptions
The rest, however, survive on the waste paper of antiquity -- papyrus
Among the many extraordinary treasures that have been dug from the sands of Egypt are the musical papyri: scraps of papyrus (the ancient equivalent of paper) containing musical notation.
Most are very fragmentary, preserving only a few notes here, a couple of phrases there
P. Yale CtYBR inv. 4510
the sort of musical notation sometimes used
by professional singers in antiquity
the notation is represented by an ancient Greek alphabet
ancient musicians had two separate systems of musical notation, the one meant for voice, and the other for instruments
P. Mich. 1205r
This Roman era papyrus contains the sort of musical notation used by instrumental musicians in antiquity.
The papyrus is a fragment from what was probably a collection of melodies for performance, perhaps intended for the ancient aulos, a woodwind not unlike a modern oboe; or, less likely, the ancient kithara, the performance version of a lyre.
P. Mich. 1205r,
Papirus on internet
In order to have a musical system, scales were discovered, and from these foundations the musical systems of all nations have sprung.
The scales differed greatly.
Chinese pentatonic system
The Chinese, for instance, had a scale known to us as the pentatonic, or five-toned scale, which sounded very much like this:
The music, the soul and the whole universe were governed by the same mathematical order and proportion
An elaborate set of these correspondences is given by the late Greek theorist Aristides Quintilianus.
Man, the microcosm, shares in this harmony: everything from the gestation period of the human embryo and bodily proportions to the smallest details of human behavioris governedby analogy with, or dependence upon, celestial (musical) harmony.
Music to heal the soul
Also the ”human” music could alter the disposition of the hearers
Theories about the moral and emotional effect of different musical modes, rhytms, instruments
Music to purifying the soul
The Pythagoreans use ”medicine to purify the body, music to purifying the soul”
Pythagoras used to sing to his disciples, accompaining himself on the lyre, to bring them in a serene mood.
For example, special melodies were usedat night to calm their minds and to ensure peaceful sleep and good (and prophetic) dreams
others were used in the morning to bring alertness.
In one case, a young man was about to burn down the house of an unfaithful girlfriend.
Pythagoras realized that he was being agitated excessively by the music played nearby, and so he told the musician to play in a different mode, which immediately calmed the young man.
Some musical patterns would shape a boy’s caracter, or bring out a man’s latent trait
Some rythms expressed agression
He addressed his essay to the Council of the Aeropagus: he was seriuosly proposing some sort of state control over music as a public health measure
The right melody is an aid
”to bringing our soul circuit,
when it has got out of tune (!),
into order and armony with itself”
Used instrumental music to cure hysterics
steady, dignified, without frills (preferred by the Pithagoreans and Aristotle)
Phrigian - aulos
The dancing overcomes the wild internal jerkings of the soul and creates order and calm (Plato)
Aulos could cure: panic, epilepsy, sciatica, snakebites
The performance made the ”painful places” palpitate, as dancing in response to the music, and the pain had gone away
The hymn Pean was associated with the purification from injourios element
When Sparta suffered from a plague, Thaletas delivered the city from the pestilence by means of his music
The performance of 720 peans released the women of Locri from madness
A long tradition
For the Church Fathers Pythagorean beliefs were acceptable as long as biblical parallels could be found for them
The great revival of Neo-Platonism among fifteenth-century humanists led to some imaginative restatements of Pythagorean cosmic belief by such men as Giorgio Anselmi of Parma (Dialoghi, 1434) and Marsilio Ficino
The Modal Glyph
First consider the Heptagram, the star of seven points connected by red arrows. Around these points are the letters C-B, which represent notes in a C-major scale (CDEFGAB)
Note, planet, day, mode
Each note is corresponds to a day of the week and to the corresponding planet
each planet (note, day) corresponds to a mode (scale)
each mode (note, day, planets) corresponds to one or more astrological symbols
The signs are also associated with parts of the body
The planets have powers , and are connected to the 4 elemets (fire, earth, water, air)
the qualities or powers of the planets -- warm, moist, etc. - are given by Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos
Eight mode: fixed stars
In later times an eighth mode was added:
the Hypomixolydian, corresponds to the Fixed Stars
Muses and modes
Each mode is under the patronage of a Muse: Clio, Calliope, Terpsichore, Melpomene, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Urania
The ninth Muse, Thalia is assigned the Terrestrial Sphere and governs Silence
"Thalia remains silent, like the Earth."
Each mode have a different pattern
Each mode has a different Form, or pattern of tones and semitones, which determines the character of the mode and is of central importance in applying music to therapeia (cure and care) for the soul
The therapeia of the soul is based to is based on the influence that the modes have on the four humors:
the subtle fluids that influence our psychical and bodily state, and which must be in harmony for proper mental, spiritual, and bodily health.
Their state of balance determines one's temperament
Ramis de Pareja
The mode-humor correspondences are given in
Ramis de Pareja, 1482. Musica Practica. Bologna.
A selection is translated in Godwin, Joscelyn, 1993. The Harmony of the Spheres: A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music. Rochester: Inner Traditions.
Music in a particular mode amplifies or weakens a humor
Phlegmatic humor - water, cool and moist
Dorian imparts the fiery Solar power and thereby dries the watery Phlegm, which diminishes its tendency to lethargy
Hypodorian, in contrast, imparts the watery Lunar power, which reinforces the Phlegmatic tendency, encouraging sleep
The guardians associated with the Dorian mode are Demeter (Virgo) and Aphrodite (Taurus), but Hypodorian has only Hestia (Capricorn).
Dorian scale, resembling the scale of D minor
Hypo-dorian scale, resembling the A minor scale
Fire (warm, dry)
Choleric humor, exuberance, and passion
Phrygian invokes the power of Mars, which is warm and dry, and therefore magnifies the Choleric effects
The guardians associated with Phyrigian are Hephaistos (Libra) and Athena (Aries), but Hypophrygian has only Hermes (Cancer, the Gate of the Moon), which corresponds to its planet the Planet Mercury
Phrygian scale, resembling the scale of E minor
Hypo-phrygian mode, resembling the B minor scale
Air (moist, warm)
influence the Sanguine humor, which imparts good cheer, optimism, friendliness, and a tendency to laughter, love, and song. Astral body.
The Lydian mode invokes the power of Jupiter (moist, warm), which reinforces the Sanguine humor resulting in Jovial happiness
Hypolydian draws down the power of Venus, the results are Erotic sadness
The guardians associated with Lydian are Ares (Scorpio) and Poseidon (Pisces)
those with Hypolydian are Zeus (Leo) and Apollo (Gemini).
Lydian mode, resembling the scale of F sharp minor
Hypo-lydian scale, resembling the C sharp minor scale
Earth (dry, cool)
Melancholic humor, which is the most complex humor in its effects; it is associated with the physical body
Because of its earthy nature, the Melancholic humor imparts solidity, firmness, and steadfastness, but also therefore a certain indolence and tenacity
Mixolydian invokes the power of Saturn (dry, cool), which magnifies the effect of the humor, leading to Saturnine melancholy. This may lead to paralyzing depression, but, if well tempered, it may produce introspection, artistic genius, good memory, a love of scholarship, and the inclination to retire from the world and devote oneself to spiritual matters
Melancholia and genius
Melancholia has been recognized as the dominant humor in many people of exceptional ability, for it provides the sensibilities required to experience deeply, and thereby to transcend the ordinary
The guardians associated with Mixolydian are Artemis (Sagittarius) and Hera (Aquarius)
Mixo-lydian mode, resembling the G minor scale
The Hypomixolydian mode is associated with the Celestial Sphere, which tempers the Melancholic humor
It represents the heavenly repose achieved when one has ascended the planetary spheres; it is the mode of Celestial bliss
"More than any other, this mode has an innate beauty and loveliness; it is free from all qualities and suitable for every use" (Ramis, op. cit.).
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Being a beneficiary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is not enough for you to travel abroad and be admitted on your return.
DACA recipients can travel abroad, however, they must first apply for and obtain a special permit called Advance Parole or immigration parole. Through this permit, DACA recipients can travel abroad and re-enter the United States without any problem.
If a DACA recipient travels abroad without Advance Parole, they will lose their DACA status and will be denied entry to the United States. To apply for Advance Parole, it is necessary to complete form I-131 Application for Travel Document, which must contain the surname of the interested party, address, date of birth, type of application and signature: https://www.uscis.gov/es/i-131.
You can consult the detailed instructions for filling out this form at the following link: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-131instr.pdf
The filing of the form has a fee of $ 660 USD for people from 14 to 79 years old, and of $ 575 USD for those under 13 and over 80.
Other documents necessary for this process are: a copy of a photo identification, form I-797, which will serve as proof that the applicant is a beneficiary of DACA; a document that supports your trip, for example, a permit from the employer, a document from a relative, a letter from a university, among others depending on the case. These must be translated into English.
In addition, documents from relatives are also necessary, such as birth certificates that prove the relationship of the applicant with his family abroad; two passport-style photographs taken between 1 and 30 days after the Advance Parole was submitted; and information about the trip, or the duration of the trip, for example, documents that prove that the beneficiary will travel by plane or by land.
The waiting time can vary from 3 to 30 months. That is why it is important to submit the application with all the requested documents.
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Austro-Hungarian Empire, circa 1870
A heavy antique 18K gold cluster ring is centered with a blue sapphire (approximately 0.80 ct) encircled by six sparkling old mine cut diamonds (G-H color, VS1-SI1 clarity), set in a geometric bezel.
Estimated total diamond weight is 2.80 ct.
The ring is marked with chamois shaped Austro-Hungarian 1867-1872 assay mark for the 3rd gold standard (750 gold / 18K) and maker’s mark.
The sapphire and diamond cluster is 14 mm (9/16 in.) in diameter.
Weight 12.95 grams
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We can thank the Flint water mess for one positive: It sounded an alarm that lead could be leaching into aging water systems — and in household pipes — across the country.
Tests are showing more lead-laden water supplies.
The question is: How do you pay for replacing massive infrastructure?
Water system overhauls can get in line with crumbling roads and deteriorating bridges.
Gov. Rick Snyder recently created the 21st Century Infrastructure Commission to study ways to modernize transportation, water and sewer, energy and communications infrastructure.
Recently, the state Bipartisan Policy Center's executive council held a briefing in Detroit, noting that the American Society of Civil Engineers is projecting that the country faces $2 trillion in capital investment needs for transportation and water alone.
As a country, we are spending less now as a percentage of GDP — under 2 percent — than we were 20 years ago on such infrastructure needs.
The topic is not getting much traction in the presidential debates. But at the state or federal level, maybe it's time to revisit Civics 101. A primary purpose of "big government" was to provide the infrastructure that a local unit could not efficiently do itself.
The expansion of what government is, what it actually does — and what it is expected to do — has grown tremendously.
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France’s Sarkozy announces $1.43-billion nuclear investment
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a $1.43-billion investment in atomic power Monday, going against Europe’s antinuclear tide following the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Despite growing safety concern among neighboring countries, Sarkozy said abandoning the development and building of new nuclear reactors made no sense. “There is no alternative to nuclear energy today,” he told reporters.
Sarkozy also promised “substantial resources” to strengthen research into nuclear safety and a further $1.85-billion investment in renewable energy sources, including solar and wind power.
The announcement came as Germany drew up plans to shut all 17 of its nuclear stations by 2022, bowing to concerns about the safety of atomic power after the earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March, releasing radioactivity into the environment.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in May that Germany would concentrate on renewable energy. “We want to end the use of nuclear energy and reach the age of renewable energy as fast as possible,” Merkel said.
Another of France’s neighbors, Switzerland, has decided not to replace the four nuclear power plants that supply about 40% of the country’s electricity. The last of Switzerland’s power nuclear plants is expected to end production by 2034, leaving time for the country to develop alternative power sources.
In Italy, a proposal by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to restart the country’s nuclear energy program, abandoned the 1980s, was rejected by 94% of voters in a referendum this month.
France has 58 nuclear reactors, which supply 74% of the country’s electricity, and it is the world’s largest net exporter of electricity from nuclear sources. Sarkozy said France was known to be “considerably ahead” of other countries in terms of atomic power technology and safety.
“Our power stations are more expensive because they are safer,” he said.
The French Nuclear Safety Authority is carrying out an audit of nuclear installations to examine the risks of flood, earthquake and loss of power and cooling, as well as emergency accident procedures.
All 143 working nuclear power plants in the European Union’s 27 member states are facing new safety tests in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
Willsher is a special correspondent.
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20% of Israeli women are Orthodox/Religious and as such are extremely hard to reach when it comes to feminine hygiene communication.
Not only is the topic of menstruation an absolute taboo, these women also avoid any info communicated to the general public, they do not own TVs and only have access to heavily censored sectorial media. Even digital devices are filtered to meet the protective standards of the religious community.
Despite the inherent barriers we managed to break through to this important audience by launching a much needed branded utility using unique touch-points like ritual baths and dedicated social groups.
Always was underperforming in the Orthodox sector. We were unable to justify our premium due to religious restrictions on media consumption that hindered the reach of our communication.
Aiming to build equity and increase relevance of Always feminine protection products amongst this key population group we looked to solve some of the tensions a modern Jewish religious woman faces when it comes to biblical commandments related to menstruation. Israel is known for its amazing tech entrepreneurship but for modern religious women this could also sometimes become a source of immense tension when tradition clashes with their modern lifestyle.
Always’ brand purpose is to build feminine confidence both as a direct function of its products as well as on a higher-level by empowering women. Our aim is to go beyond simply raising awareness to causes of uncertainty amongst women but rather focus on “action”, taking credible steps to improve women’s confidence.
Describe the creative idea / insights (30% of vote)
Biblical laws concerning menstruation prohibit sexual intercourse while menstruating, imposing punishment of extinction on both husband and wife if violated. No wonder religious couples take very seriously the rituals that guide marriage.
Once menstruation ceases the woman counts 7 “clean-days” and takes a ritual bath before the couple can have sexual intercourse again. Women test whether menstruation has ceased using a pad and in case there is still discharge the couple needs to consult a rabbi who carefully inspects the nature of the stains to decide whether to give the "green-light" or not.
Women dread this consultation, they wish they could practice their faith without encountering this embarrassing and time-consuming practice.
Always' Rabbi-Bot is a customized app using the power of Artificial Intelligence to help women determine whether they are still menstruating or not, all directly and conveniently from her smartphone with no need to discuss intimate affairs with others.
Describe the strategy (20% of vote)
Can Always, Israel’s leading feminine protection brand, which stands for feminine confidence, find a way to ease her tensions around her period?
Difficult to reach her with standard media outlets, we were looking for ways to make Always relevant to this community via other means.
We would start out by creating a much needed utility, a service that eliminates the need for the unpleasant monthly consultations with the rabbi and we will do it all with the approval of the highest religious authorities by making sure it adheres to the highest religious standards.
To build initial awareness we would announce the launch of the app in a press release in the sector’s media, bound to stir up some reaction. Next we will recruit the lady attendants at the ritual baths (Mikveh) to inform women of the app first hand followed by authentic testimonials showcased on private social groups.
Describe the execution (20% of vote)
Our AI based app replaced the uncomfortable Rabbi consultations. Just scan your pad and instantly determine whether you are still menstruating directly from your smartphone.
With the help of prominent religious marriage guides we “fed” an A.I. engine all the biblical rules concerning menstruation pertaining to multiple parameters of possible period and post-period discharge including color, size, shape and dimension of the stain. We also uploaded scanned sample pads classified by rabbinical authority which would serve as our initial data base. Each newly scanned pad would be compared to the existing base to determine status and would also join the data base by itself to further improve results.
A press release drove initial buzz while ritual baths' attendants served as our direct app promoters providing additional "how to" info. Testimonials on private Facebook groups further drove the message and generated extensive discussions.
List the results (30% of vote)
Finally, there was a solution to a problem that bothered hundreds of thousands of women.
We ignited the discussion and elevated it to the public agenda and the conversation exploded!
Since launch, 3,000 women on average have used the app per month (about 5% of monthly Orthodox menstruating women) and the numbers are growing steadily despite Covid leading to the shut down of the public ritual baths and consequently of our related DTC program.
App users reacted by thanking Always publicly, talking about how technology enables them to both follow their religious beliefs while keeping their intimate lives private. Even the husbands joined the positive talk.
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As the NFL Cracks Down on Protest, the High Museum Celebrates an Historic Act of Athlete Activism
Artist Glenn Kaino and Olympic athlete Tommie Smith team up for a show at the Atlanta museum that delves into sports and social justice.
Five decades after gold medalist Tommie Smith raised a black-gloved fist to protest civil rights injustices during the medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics, the issue of athletes using the field as a forum for activism is again at the forefront of intense discussion about race and social justice.
On Wednesday, the NFL ruled that players can no longer kneel during the national anthem without risking punishment or their teams facing possible fines. The decision came after nearly two years of heated debate starting in August 2016 when San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick began to kneel during the national anthem to protest the country’s treatment of people of color.
Now, the High Museum in Atlanta is delving into another historic athlete protest with an upcoming show, “With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith” that will open in late September. The collaboration between the contemporary art star and the athlete reflects Kaino’s longstanding relationship with Smith, whom the artist first sought out and met in 2013. Years before the current NFL controversy, Kaino had observed that Smith was living in a “time bubble” centered around his record-setting race and subsequent salute. Their partnership has yielded several sculptural collaborations.
Bridge, the first such work, was installed in a historic Naval building, at the second edition of Washington, DC’s 5×5 Project. Though it appeared to be an elegant footbridge with suspended gold objects for slats, each of the bronze slats was actually a painted cast of Smith’s arm.
Bridge and several new works will be on view at the High. They include drawings by Kaino and Smith, excerpts from an original documentary about Smith’s life and his collaboration with Kaino (directed by Kaino and Afshin Shahidi), objects from the Tommie Smith Archives, and a series of drawings contributed by students from across the US.
“There may be no other event in the 20th century that so powerfully speaks to our present moment of confrontation with the endemic racism and inequality that persist in society today,” Michael Rooks, the High’s curator of modern and contemporary art, said in a statement. Rooks said the combination of Kaino’s “activist art and Tommie’s heroic fortitude and resilience in the face of overwhelming adversity amplifies a young generation’s rising call for social justice.”
Speaking to artnet News, Rooks said he has long been a fan of Kaino’s work and knew he had been coming back and forth to Atlanta to work with Smith. “[Kaino] filled me in over the course of the year and we just both decided this makes a lot of sense to do an exhibition at the High Museum so that’s where we came into the picture,” he said.
Parts of the documentary film project are excerpted specifically for the exhibition and will be shown in a dedicated gallery at timed intervals. Musician John Legend, his partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius, and actor Jesse Williams serve as executive producers for the film.
The presentation aims to show the various chapters of Smith’s life, Rooks said: “We see Tommie’s life before the Olympics, the moment that he made his salute—which in essence symbolizes a great sacrifice but of course the loss of his autonomy—and then the third part or chapter is about what Tommie means today in context of the social or political atmosphere that we’re living in today.”
Further, Rooks said Kaino and Smith have been traveling around to various cities with members of his studio, conducting workshops with students. “So basically it’s pedagogical, teaching them about the historical moment the 1968 Olympics and Tommie’s life,” he said. The students are then invited to draw a frame and those drawings are presented as a group as well.
Also on view will be Kaino’s 19.83 (2013), a steel-and-gold-plated, life-size recreation of the Olympic medal podium on which Smith stood, and altered images that critically examine the language used in the July 1968 Newsweek cover that labeled Smith “The Angry Black Athlete.”
A new Kaino sculpture, titled Invisible Man (Salute) (2018), is a life-size likeness of Smith with his fist raised, made of blackened aluminum and mirrored stainless steel. From the back, the sculpture is a detailed and true-to-life sculpture of Smith in his tracksuit. But the front is a mirrored surface where visitors see themselves reflected “thus contextualizing each individual’s experience within a continuum of history since 1968,” according to the museum’s statement.
“We learned all these incredible details about his story,” Rooks said. “The idea of the ‘Invisible Man’ is really central to his whole story. If you recall the images of him racing, he wore sunglasses when he ran, which is really unusual. He said he always felt invisible. He talked about growing up in a poor black family picking cotton and having to ask his dad for a day off to go run his first race. And his father said basically if you don’t win, you’re not running anymore, that’s the end of your sports career. You’ve only got one shot.”
According to Smith’s website, he has been asked over and over again what was on his mind when he gave the salute. His answer? Praying. “I was praying underneath the bleachers, I was praying on the walk up to the victory stand, and the entire time I was up there.” According to the site, Smith’s historic act of protest on the Olympic podium has also been misunderstood: “It was not a ‘Black Power Salute’ as has been written on numerous occasions. It was a ‘human rights salute’ more than anything else.”
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Tutoring is online: you can stay at home while you get interactive lessons using screen sharing as if you are sitting next to the tutor. An excellent solution for students who live far outside of Rotterdam!
Nothing changes in the way of teaching, which is still old-fashioned.
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A clip of Dr. Deborah Birx went viral Thursday, showing the White House coronavirus response coordinator looking pained as she listened to President Donald Trump wonder if sunlight exposure and injecting the human body with disinfectants could be used to combat COVID-19.
Trump made the remarks — which are not backed by science and have been decried as wildly dangerous by medical professionals and even disinfectant manufacturers — at a press conference Thursday.
The president attempted to walk back his comments on Friday, saying he was being sarcastic when he made the claims. "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen," he said Friday.
In fact, video of the press conference clearly showed Trump asking Birx, a renowned virus expert with decades of government experience, to investigate if some of the treatments were feasible.
On Thursday evening, following a presentation by William Bryan, the undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, about the effect of solar light, bleach, and isopropyl alcohol on the coronavirus, Trump suggested scientists should study if these methods could be used on humans.
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it," Trump said. "And then I said, 'supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way,' and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting."
Birx, sitting on the sidelines, reacted with visible discomfort as the president touted these unscientific theories.
Video footage showed her staring at the president before inhaling deeply and staring at the ground.
"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute," Trump also said. "And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning — because, you see, it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that— You’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.
"But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s — that’s pretty powerful," Trump said.
Later in the press conference, Trump sparred with a reporter who asked if his comments about heat and humidity could be considered dangerous and lead people to believe going outside is safe.
"Here we go. The new — the new headline is: 'Trump Asks People to Go Outside. That’s Dangerous.' Here we go. Same old group," he said.
"You ready? I hope people enjoy the sun. And if it has an impact, that’s great," he said.
Trump then asked Birx to "speak to the medical doctors to see if there’s any way that you can apply light and heat to cure" and if she'd ever heard of "the heat and the light, relative to certain viruses, yes, but relative to this virus?"
The visibly uncomfortable doctor said she'd never heard of it "as a treatment."
"When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But not as— I’ve not seen heat," she said.
"I think it’s a great thing to look at," Trump told her.
This particular interaction was incorrect in the White House's first transcript of the press conference, which said that Birx had told the president that light and heat "was a treatment."
The administration released a second transcript with her actual response.
On Friday, Trump said he wasn't being serious when he suggested that disinfectant injections could cure COVID-19.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also said the media had taken Trump out of context.
"President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should consult with medical doctors regarding coronavirus treatment, a point that he emphasized again during yesterday’s briefing," she said in a Friday statement.
The American Chemistry Council says bleach and disinfectants should never be ingested or injected into the body.
"Chlorine bleach is critical to combating the spread of COVID-19 as it effectively disinfects surfaces that inactivate the virus SARS-CoV-2," the industry group said in a statement. "However, chlorine bleach should never be administered inside the body under any circumstances."
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106,300 clean energy workers returned to their jobs in June
514,200 clean energy workers remain jobless in wake of COVID-19
Troubling signs cloud clean energy sector’s outlook; stimulus needed now
WASHINGTON – As the U.S. economy began to reopen in June, some employees returned to work in the clean energy sector, which had been reeling from three months of devastating job losses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest analysis of federal unemployment filings from E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), E4TheFuture and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).
About 106,300 jobs were added back to the economy by clean energy companies in June, according to the analysis by BW Research, leaving over half-a-million clean energy workers (514,200) out of work since March. In all, clean energy employment is still down 15 percent from the start of the year, when nearly 3.4 million Americans worked in renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean vehicles and fuels and other clean energy sectors.
While the June jobs improvement is an encouraging sign of clean energy’s ability to quickly put Americans back to work, resuming a robust recovery in one of the nation’s biggest employment sectors anytime soon remains unlikely without direct action by Congress. Only one out of every six clean energy jobs lost since March returned in June, and as federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds are exhausted and states are forced to close businesses again in the face of COVID-19’s resurgence, more layoffs could be imminent without congressional action. According to the analysis, as many as 2.3 million clean energy workers are employed by small businesses that received PPP loans.
Other troubling trends include a sharp increase in permanent job losses, rising initial weekly unemployment claims, and COVID-19 cases spiking in states with some of the largest clean energy workforces, according to the analysis.
Before COVID-19, nearly 3.4 million Americans worked in clean energy occupations – renewable energy, energy efficiency, grid modernization, clean vehicles and fuels – in every state. That’s more people than work in real estate, banking, or agriculture in the U.S., and three times the number that work in fossil fuels. Clean energy jobs had been growing 70% faster than the overall economy from 2015-2019, according to E2’s Clean Jobs America report.
Bob Keefe, Executive Director of E2 said:
“We sputtered back a bit, at least temporarily, but Congress really needs to put some gas in the tank if we’re going to make it over the high hill to real economic recovery. The best way to stimulate a robust and lasting economic recovery, we know, is by focusing on clean energy in any forthcoming economic stimulus. But we’re running on fumes and running out of time. Congress must act now.”
Pat Stanton, Policy Director for E4TheFuture said:
“With an encouraging uptick in clean energy jobs for early June nationwide, it would be easy to raise hopes among our stakeholders — but it’s likely they would be false hopes, given the many warning signs. This industry needs help short-term, so that its workers can help our country long-term. The value of clean energy deployment requires that it move forward rapidly.”
Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), said:
“While last month’s numbers show a clean energy job market that stopped its free fall, we are by no means out of the woods yet. This report shows more than 82,000 in the renewable workforce remain unemployed, and thousands of jobs continue to be at risk. To help mitigate these ongoing pandemic-related impacts, the renewable sector is asking Congress to include commonsense emergency relief provisions like temporary refundability and a delay in the phasedown of renewable energy tax credits in the next round of COVID legislation.”
Phil Jordan, Vice President and Principal at BW Research Partnership, said:
“The topline number shows some short-term improvement as some clean energy workers returned to their jobs in the weeks following Memorial Day, as states largely reopened their economies. The slow rate of return despite aggressive reopening, most states now pausing or reversing their reopening plans, the importance of PPP to this sector, and perhaps most importantly, the rapid increases in the permanent unemployment – they’re all troubling issues that are major threats to a real recovery.”
National Highlights from June:
- Energy efficiency, the largest clean energy sector, experienced a 4% gain in employment, with the addition of approximately 71,800 jobs. The energy efficiency sector continues to suffer from 360,000 job losses impacting a full 15% of its workforce.
- Renewable electric power generation saw a 3.5% rise in employment, with nearly 17,300 jobs regained in June. A total of 82,400 renewable electric power generation workers (14% of the sector’s workforce) remain unemployed due to the
- Clean fuels and clean transmission, distribution, and storage saw smaller rebounds in June, gaining 2,400 and 4,600 jobs, respectively. The complete impact of the pandemic on clean fuels and clean transmission, distribution, and storage totals 38,200 and 22,800 lost jobs from their respective, pre-pandemic employment levels. Clean fuels jobs have dropped more than 10% since March, while clean transmission, distribution, and storage jobs have dropped nearly 16% thus far.
- Clean vehicles added back less than 5% of its workforce, or 10,300 jobs in June. The clean vehicles sector continues to experience a nearly 15% decline in jobs over its pre-COVID-19 employment levels. This translates to 38,200 ongoing job losses.
Monthly Clean Energy Job Losses by Sector:
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State and Local Highlights from June:
- California had the largest increase, with 5% of its clean energy workforce or 19,800 jobs returning in June. Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, and Florida each added nearly 6,000 clean energy jobs in June.
- States that have fared better than average as a percent of their workforce include North Carolina, Michigan, and North Carolina, all growing about 6% or more in June.
- Alaska, Wyoming, New Hampshire, and Montana saw the smallest growth, all with less than 250 jobs gained over the past month.
The data analyzed for this report did not include workers who had their hours slashed and are now significantly underemployed.
The analysis expands on data from the 2020 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) produced by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) in partnership with the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), using data collected and analyzed by the BW Research Partnership. The report was released in March 2020 and is available at www.usenergyjobs.org. E2 and E4TheFuture are partners on the annual USEER, the fifth installment of the energy survey first released by the Department of Energy in 2016 and subsequently abandoned under the Trump administration.
Previous E2, E4TheFuture, ACORE Clean Energy Unemployment Reports
- Clean Energy & COVID-19 Economic Crisis | May 2020 Impact Analysis
- Clean Energy & COVID-19 Economic Crisis | April 2020 Impact Analysis
- Clean Energy & COVID-19 Economic Crisis | March 2020 Impact Analysis
For policy recommendations from E2 on building America’s economy back better and faster through clean energy visit E2’s Build Back Better homepage.
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate for smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. Our members have founded or funded more than 2,500 companies, created more than 600,000 jobs, and manage more than $100 billion in venture and private equity capital. For more information, see www.e2.org or follow us on Twitter at @e2org.
E4TheFuture works for clean, efficient and safe energy solutions. A nonprofit organization, we promote energy efficiency, renewables, demand management, energy storage and electric vehicles to advance climate protection and economic fairness. We work to achieve an energy economy that is sustainable, lower cost, and resilient. Our “Faces of EE” initiative shines a light on energy efficiency professionals nationwide. Visit www.E4TheFuture.org or follow us on Twitter at @E4TheFuture and @FacesofEE.
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The Business Economics group of Wageningen University has a PhD position available, focussing on the economic sustainability of alternative protein production chains.
Are you a highly motivated, curious researcher who would like to contribute to the development of more sustainable food production systems? Do you enjoy working interdisciplinary? And do you like analytical thinking and modelling? Then you could be the PhD candidate we are looking for!
The proposed research topic is embedded in the European HORIZON research project GIANT LEAPS (Gap resolution in safety, nutritional, allergenicity and environmental assessments to promote Alternative Protein utilization and the dietary shift). This EU project aims to assess the pros and cons of alternative protein sources on sustainability in comparison to traditional animal proteins. To this end, an integrated sustainability assessment framework will be developed, considering all three pillars of sustainability; environmental, social and economic. For the evaluation of the economic pillar a generic Life Cycle Costing model needs to be developed, and applied to the production of novel protein sources (e.g. as micro, plant, insects) reflecting the research objective of the PhD position.
In this PhD position, you will
- perform literature reviews, data collection, analytical analyses and simulation modelling
- develop a generic Life Cycle Costing model to evaluate the economic viability of alternative protein production chains in Europe
- apply the model for a set of alternative protein sources, viz. plant, microbe & fungal, insect, ocean-based and cultured meat sources.
As a PhD candidate you will work on an individual research project, of which part will be aligned with the European project activities, guaranteeing collaboration with researchers from other universities and institutes within Europe. The PhD position will last 4 years, during which you are expected to write a PhD thesis that contains a series of scientific papers.
As the ideal candidate you:
- have a completed (or about to be completed) MSc degree in business economics, agri-food systems, applied mathematics or a related field,
- have sound scientific and analytical skills, with the ability to translate results into practical recommendations and solutions,
- have sufficient knowledge of European food production systems,
- have the ability to work independently as well as in multi-disciplinary teams,
- have good communication skills and proficiency in English, both oral and written (a minimum of CEFR C2 level is required). For more information about this proficiency level,
- and meet all the entry requirements of the WUR PhD programme.
Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:
- study leave and partially paid parental leave;
- working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
- the option to accrue additional compensation / holiday hours by working more, up to 40 hours per week;
- there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
- a fixed December bonus of 8.3%;
- excellent pension scheme.
In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will receive a fully funded PhD position and you will be offered a course program tailored to your needs and the research team.
The gross salary for the first year is € 2.541,- per month rising to € 3.247,- in the fourth year in according to the Collective Labour Agreements for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU) (scale P). This is based on a full-time working week of 38 hours. We offer a temporary contract for 18 months which will be extended for the duration of the project if you perform well.
There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a unique position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.
You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the “ Best University ” in the Netherlands for the 17th consecutive time.
Coming from abroad
Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees. Applicants from abroad moving to the Netherlands may qualify for a special tax relief, known as the 30% ruling. Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.
Feeling welcome also has everything to do with being well informed. Wageningen University & Research’s International Community page contains practical information about what we can do to support international employees and students coming to Wageningen. Furthermore, we can assist you with any additional advice and information about helping your partner to find a job, housing, schooling, and other issues.
Do you want more information?
For more information about this position, please contact prof. Ine van der Fels, email@example.com, or dr Monique Mourits, firstname.lastname@example.org, Business Economics group- WUR.
For more information about the procedure, please contact: Jouke van Oostenbrugge, email@example.com, or Jeanine van ‘t veer-Drost, e-mail jeanine.vantveer-drost, Corporate Recruiters, firstname.lastname@example.org
Do you want to apply?
You can apply directly using the apply button on the vacancy page on our website which will allow us to process your personal information with your approval. To apply you have to upload a cover letter (max 2 page A4) outlining both your motivation and your suitability for the project, and your CV (max 4 pages A4) including names and contact details of two potential references.
This vacancy will be listed up to and including July 31st. We hope to schedule the first interviews for mid-August; if you are not available in that period, please indicate this in your application letter. Preferred starting date of the position is October/November 2022.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) employs a large number of people with very different backgrounds and qualities, who inspire and motivate each other. We want every talent to feel at home in our organisation and be offered the same career opportunities. We therefore especially welcome applications from people who are underrepresented at WUR.
Wageningen University & Research
The mission of Wageningen University and Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.
With its roughly 30 branches, 7.200 employees and 13.200 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of Wageningen’s unique approach. WUR has been named Best Employer in the Education category for 2019-2020. | <urn:uuid:b4b2c0ad-10e5-41fb-9a65-001d550bef5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agristok.net/2022/07/15/phd-fully-funded-in-economic-agri-food-systems-at-wageningen-university-in-the-netherlands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.917957 | 1,536 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Why aren’t our teachers the best and the brightest? Oct 10, 2010 Washington Post
By Paul Kihin and Matt Miller
“Why don’t more of our smartest, most accomplished college graduates want to become teachers?
People trying to improve education in this country have been talking a lot lately about boosting “teacher effectiveness.” But nearly all such efforts focus on the teachers who are already in the classroom, instead of seeking to change the caliber of the people who enter teaching in the first place.
Three of the top-performing school systems in the world — those in Finland, Singapore and South Korea — take a different approach, recruiting 100 percent of their teachers from the top third of their high school and college students. Simply put, they don’t take middling students and make them teachers. They tap their best people for the job.
Of course, academic achievement isn’t the whole story in these countries. They screen would-be teachers for other important qualities, and they invest heavily in training teachers and in retaining them for their entire careers. But scholastic prowess comes first: You don’t get through the classroom door in Finland, Singapore or South Korea without having distinguished yourself academically. In the United States, by contrast, only 23 percent of new teachers scored among the top third of SAT and ACT test-takers back in high school. In high-poverty schools, that figure is just 14 percent.
… it’s not just pay that’s a problem. A teaching career does not offer our nation’s top college graduates a compelling peer group, opportunities for continued learning or the prestige of other professions. Moreover, our most needy schools mostly fail to offer the working conditions or the leadership needed to retain top talent once it has been recruited.
Our approach to teacher recruitment and development doesn’t hold a candle to the methods used in Singapore, Finland and South Korea, where attracting high-quality people to the profession is considered a national priority. The good news, based on research that we and our colleagues at McKinsey & Company recently completed, is that the United States could dramatically increase the number of top students who choose teaching by adopting some of these countries’ practices.
How do they do it? For starters, these countries make teacher training programs highly selective, accepting no more than one out of every seven or eight applicants. Their governments also limit the number of training positions to match the expected demand for educators, so that those admitted are assured jobs. American teachers, by contrast, mostly enter the profession through programs that are not selective at all. As a result, more than half of newly certified teachers in the United States — about 100,000 each year — do not take jobs in the classroom.
Next, Singapore and Finland fully fund teacher education and pay students salaries or stipends. In the United States, meanwhile, students must often go into debt to attend education schools. In addition, the quality of teacher training in top-performing nations is first-rate. Companies such as Nokia, for example, covet teachers who leave the classroom in Finland, because graduates of teacher training there are known to be exceptional talents.
These countries also foster a professional working environment….
Crucially, these other countries provide competitive compensation. Of the three, South Korea puts the greatest emphasis on salary, with starting pay equivalent to about $55,000 and top salaries reaching $155,000. According to Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University, these earnings place South Korea’s teachers somewhere between its engineers and its doctors. Singapore, in addition to competitive pay, offers retention bonuses of $10,000 to $36,000 every three to five years.
To top it all off, these nations accord enormous cultural respect to teaching and teachers. Leaders in the United States routinely offer rhetorical tributes to teaching, but the profession here enjoys nothing like the exalted status it holds in these three countries”– End of excerpt read more here. | <urn:uuid:42670b32-1b80-46c8-8799-60fa0194fb50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://educationinjapan.wordpress.com/education-system-in-japan-general/the-connection-between-teacher-quality-and-top-performing-school-systems-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957742 | 823 | 1.875 | 2 |
Inventors Alessandro Baticci and Rafal Zalech have begun a Kickstarter campaign to launch the product
A pair of experimental composers and performers based in Vienna have created a device designed to expand the sonic possibilities of stringed instruments. Alessandro Baticci and Rafal Zalech, two former students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, claim that their Digitaize system allows violinists, cellists and bassists ’to control virtual sounds, use real-time auto pitch-correction [and] live-notation’ via a sensor-based digital mapping system. The device, weighing 20g, fits underneath the instrument’s fingerboard and can be linked to software on a smartphone or computer to enable recordings and notation for composition.
The duo, who compose and perform under the name Nimikry, have set up a Kickstarter campaign to launch the product. ’Being musicians ourselves we know the needs of creative people,’ said Baticci. ’We have designed our products from this point of view: they are from musicians for musicians. And they will always be.’
The Digitaize system allows users to control virtual sounds from their fingerboard; to shape digital samples; and to visualise the movements of their instrument on a computer screen. The device consists of a patented high-resolution sensor that keeps track of the player’s finger movements, with roughly 150 contact points under a single fingertip. The inventors claim it is ’the most powerful mapping system ever designed for any acoustic string instrument’. | <urn:uuid:69af27e9-b8cc-4b29-a992-2938cbb28423> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestrad.com/news/new-technology-turns-violins-into-digital-music-creators/10512.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.924377 | 327 | 1.914063 | 2 |
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)- Aurora Public Schools is requiring that all students in child development centers, elementary and PreK/K-8 schools wear masks while indoors. The school district made the announcement on Friday evening.
Aurora Public Schools issued the mask mandate after Tri-County Health Department advised the district that "circumstances have changed over the past few weeks and that disruption to our in-person learning environment has become increasingly likely if APS does not add an additional mitigation layer to our layered approach. The choices are to either add a stricter mask mandate focused on students who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated or to implement strict quarantines for close contacts."
In addition to all students in child development centers, elementary and PreK/K-8 schools wearing masks at school, masks will be strongly encouraged for all students at middle and high schools. All unvaccinated staff at APS are also required to wear masks while vaccinated staff are strongly encouraged to wear masks.
APS said they made the decision based on maintaining strong in-person learning environments as much as possible. They also stated that they encourage everyone ages 12 and up to get vaccinated.
Aurora Public Schools follows other school district around Colorado requiring masks in some capacity; Denver Public Schools announced mandatory masks for all students and staff while inside buildings, regardless of age or vaccination status. Jeffco Public Schools announced a similar mask policy for students ages 3-11.
Masks are required on school buses and a federal CDC requirement mandates face masks on all public transportation and transportation hubs.
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History – Churches
The First church in the new town was erected on what is now Church Street and was known as the Williston Baptist Church. Records show that the church was first a member of the Savannah River Baptist Association and was received through their delegate, William F. Matthews. In the beginning there were only nine members. The ‘Mother’ church of Williston Baptist was Rosemary Baptist Church.
The first pastor was the Rev. H. D. Duncan who had been ‘circuit preaching’ at Williston once a month for more than a year. The formation of the church and the erection of a house of worship were due to his energy and fidelity.
William F. Matthews and his son Gideon C. Matthews Sr. were the first deacons and J. B. Armstrong the first clerk. G. C. Matthews was killed in battle at Battery Wagner on Morris Island in 1863, at thirty-nine years of age.
In 1859, the church withdrew from the Savannah River Association and united with the Barnwell Association. The 1866 session of the Barnwell Association was heard in the Williston Baptist Church.
The original church building was torn down in 1908 and a larger building was erected on the same site.
The Rev W. R. Davis became pastor in 1923 and served the church for ten years. In 1924 the membership decided to build a larger and more centrally located brick building. The architect was Willis Irvin of Augusta,Ga. The old building on Church St. was sold and remodeled as a residence in 1944.
From a small beginning, the church has advanced steadily forward through the years. In 1855 there were nine members; in 1936, 535; in 1962, 884; and in 1968 the church membership was 862. Winfield Heights Baptist Church was a mission church formed from The First Baptist Church.
Methodism in Barnwell County goes bark to the early 1800’s when the Barnwell Circuit came into the Conference and Columbia District in 1844. The Rev. Q. M. Chrestyberg and the Rev. Peter W. McDaniel were the pastors that year, serving the Williston Methodists who were without a church building.
In 1859 Dr. W. W. Smith, early church leader and generous benefactor, granted a piece of land to the Methodist-Episcopal Church on which to build a house of worship. It is believed that work was begun on the Church St. building in the early 1860’s. The building was in use in 1866.
The 1873 Conference minutes named seven churches in the Williston Circuit (Williston, Springs, Copen’s Chapel, New Hope, Sharon, Pierce’s Chapel, Siloam), and lists two hundred white members and two [sic] colored. There were four Williston families named: W. W. Smith, Hugh. E. Phillips, H. J. Harvey, and W. W. Graham.
In 1879 Williston and Blackville Circuits were joined with D. Z. Dantzler serving as pastor. Later they were united with the Springfield Circuit. This alignment remained until 1915 at which time Williston became part of the Aiken charge under the Rev. Driggers. This arrangement lasted until 1952 when Williston was made a full time appointment as result of the construction of the Savannah River Plant. The Rev. Levy Rogers was assigned by the Conference and served the church until October, 1956. The Rev. Rogers led the membership in building a beautiful new church one mile from town on the Springfield Road. It was completed in September, 1956.
The Williston Presbyterian Church was organized by a committee appointed by the Charleston Presbytery and first met in the Williston Baptist Church on September 21, 1920. The initial membership consisted of Mr. J. A. Latimer, Mrs. W. E. Protro, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cunningham, Mrs. R. S. Martin, Mrs. H. R. Thompson and Mr. W. C. Cunningham. The Rev. Hugh R. Murchison, D. D. of the Columbia Seminary faculty was called as supply pastor. For many years the services, through the kindness of friends, were held in the Baptist Church, Methodist Church, Kennedy Hall, and in various homes of the members.
The Rev. Stuart came in 1938 to serve the churches in Allendale, Boiling Springs, Barnwell and Williston. At that time there were only thirteen members. A new building was erected on land donated by Mr. W. E. Prothro. The beautiful stained glass windows were formerly in the old Baptist Church building, and were given to the Presbyterians by the families of Q. A. Kennedy, Dr. J. L. Smith and D. L. Merritt. Mr. William Henry Belk of the Belk Department Stores gave the brick for the building. The pulpit was made from an antique organ by the Rev. William D. Stewart. The church was completed and dedicated to the glory of God on January 24, 1943.
The Rev. Cecil Brearly followed the Rev. Stewart as pastor and organized an active Church School.
With the coming of the Savannah River Plant in 1950, the membership of the church began to increase. Regular weekly services were begun with the Rev. Sterling Edwards serving the Williston and Barnwell churches.
In 1954 an educational building was erected. Later a Hammond organ was installed. The membership increased to fifty.
The Williston Church was separated from the Barnwell Church in 1958 and the first full time pastor for Williston was the Rev. Charles Cook. An addition to the educational building and a pastorÕs study were completed in 1962. A new Office for the Pastor and Hall were added in the 1970s.
Beginning with eight members the church had 125 in 1970. Louise Prothro Alderman, daughter of Mr. & Mrs W.E. Prothro, was the last surviving charter member of the Church upon her death in Sept.1975.
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A resolution calling for a study of the potential effects of three major planning initiatives on the Occoquan reservoir will be presented at the August 2 Prince William Board of County Supervisors meeting.
Should it be ordered, the water study would address initiatives proposed by the Comprehensive Plan vision for 2040 such as the proposed changes to the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District and the Proposed Prince William Digital Gateway in the Catharpin area of the Gainesville District.
The Northern Virginia Regional Commission would conduct the simulations, and the results would be presented to the board prior to its considering approving those land use designation changes.
The proposed resolution is at: 9-C.pdf (legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com)
“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Prince William Board of County Supervisors hereby requests Northern Virginia Regional Commission to conduct simulations using the Occoquan Watershed and Reservoir Model, calibrated to the 2015 land use dataset, to assess the potential changes in loading of nutrients and sediment associated with development in the Occoquan Watershed to include the Comprehensive Plan Update Pathway to 2040, revisions to the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District, and the proposed Prince William Digital Gateway Comprehensive Plan Amendment and that the results be presented to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors prior to its consideration of the proposed changes to the Comprehensive Plan, Data Center Opportunity Overlay District and the Prince William Digital Gateway Comprehensive Plan Amendment.”
Members of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County have been calling for a water study, believing that replacing unpaved open spaces with impervious surfaces would cause runoff that could negatively affect water quality in the Occoquan Reservoir.
The National Parks Conservation Association released an analysis on May 17 that was performed by CEA Engineers to examine the potential negative impacts of the county's rezoning proposals. It looked into the effect on Quantico Creek, Bull Run, and the Occoquan Reservoir.
According to the CEA analysis, impervious surfaces would be problematic, resulting in 280 million gallons of additional stormwater runoff and flash flooding.
"New analysis from water quality experts at CEA Engineers reveals that if these two developments are built as planned, could result in more than 57,000 tons of sediment dumped into the Occoquan Reservoir – an important drinking water supply for more than 800,000 people who live and work in Northern Virginia. Another 1,350 tons would flow into Quantico Creek," said the press release.
Fairfax Water Authority urged Prince William County to request that the Northern Virginia Regional Commission conduct a water study. Its experts believe that runoff from the new sites would negatively affect drinking water from the Occoquan Reservoir. Fairfax Water has interested in the project since it would affect water quality in its county.
That is because the Occoquan Watershed provides drinking water to the parts of the counties of Prince William, Fauquier, Fairfax, and Loudoun as well as the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park. It is the primary source of drinking water for Eastern Prince William County, the City of Alexandria, Ft. Belvoir, and certain portions of Fairfax County.
Fairfax Water emphasized that models are easily accessible to jurisdictions if only the supervisors choose to utilize them.
“The Models already developed are available to the NVRC member jurisdiction, is a valuable tool for that should be leveraged for these planning efforts, along with the expertise and the data resources of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory," said the letter from Fairfax Water.
More information on the Occoquan Reservoir and Water Shed from the Prince William Conservation Alliance.
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If the Interest rates on the loan rise then people will most be less likely to Invest In a college education. Thus, investment in education may be negatively related to the interest rate, much as physical investment is. This is one reason why, in order to encourage economic growth and productivity, the U. S government provides low interest loans for college students, making an investment in college more attractive. Entrepreneurs do not need special additional incentives provided by the government to encourage them to assume the risks of creating a new business.
True risk takers believe that their Ideas will succeed In the market and have so much of their Identities Invested In them, they ally don’t care if they receive any return at all on their invested time and money, sometimes for several years, as long as they have hope of eventual success. The problem for them is not that they lack motivation; it’s that they can’t find someone who is willing to provide them with a loan that banks, venture capitalists, and angel investors find too risky. In confronting this situation, Congress has a couple of options.
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It can choose to do nothing and simply allow the marketplace to reward firms-that-make-wise-Investments with the market share of firms-that-do-not. The other option would be for lawmakers to help entrepreneurs [and established too- risky’ firms] to obtain the funding they need in the hope that they might then be competitive with better established firms. The rational way to do this would be to provide these marginal firms with targeted investment tax credits or perhaps with guarantees on private loans.
These kinds of Initiatives would put the money directly Into the hands of those who will be Investing the money, Compare this to the Insane idea of Glenn tremendous amounts of extra disposable dollars to lately savers in the hope that their extra savings might somehow make their way into the hands of true economic investors when private banks have already rejected their borrowing plans as too risky. Very little, if any, of those billions of dollars would actually end up helping needy entrepreneurs and firm managers. 2. Recognizing the negative Impact of restraining forces, which ones would you expect to encounter In the above Interventions?
According to the National Archives and Regulations Administration these are aspects do for changing: Better align workforce management with the strategic priorities of the agency; Develop workforce planning capabilities and analysis tools; Identify NARK’S mission critical occupations and the core competencies associated with those occupations; Establish an active, professional recruitment outreach diversity of NARK’S workforce by establishing partnerships with minority-serving organizations to help increase the pipeline of minority applicants for NORA positions; Create a continuous learning culture at all levels of NORA; Develop future leaders through structured management development programs; and Leverage technology to support how we recruit, develop, and retain employees 1. Do you think the gasoline tax should be changed? He gasoline tax should not be changed. Why? It encourages people to purchase fuel efficient vehicles, carpool, and micromanage. With fewer cars on the road, traffic has fewer Jams, roads get less wear and tear, and people start to do things together or combine errands, rather than being on the road multiples times a week they manage to do things all at once. B. What principle did you base your answer? Some historical tidbits: from Forbes, 2012. The current rate is 18. 4 cents in 1932-1933 dollars, which comes to about 1. 1 cents per gallon, or very close to the initial rate of 1 cent per gallon, set in the Revenue Act of 1932 that created the federal gas tax.
The first year of the tax generated $125 million in revenue (Forbes 2012). In 1940, the tax was raised to 1. 5 cents per gallon, which would be equivalent of a rate of 24. 26 per gallon in 2011 dollars (Forbes 2012). Current federal gas taxes adjusted for inflation, dipped below the effective rate of today after the war and during the early ass, but then came the Federal Highway Act of 1956. Taxes went to a whopping 3 cents a gallon, equivalent to 24. 97 cents per gallon today. Eisenhower raised the rate to 4 cents a gallon in 1959, popping it to an effective rate of 30. 6 cents in today’s dollars. But then it stuck. The 4 cents per gallon rate stayed constant until 1983.
Reagan, the alleged tax fighter, raised the rate to 9 cents per gallon in 1983. Subsequent hikes by Bush (14 cents a gallon in 1990 dollar or 24. 4 cents today) and Clinton (18. 3 cents or 28. 8 cents in today’s terms) kept older rates higher (Forbes 2012). History tends to show gas axes don’t seem to have that much impact on the overall economy. The hikes have occurred under both Republican and Democratic administrations: the most prominent increases, in fact, occurred under Republicans Hoover, Reagan and Eisenhower. 4. “Real economic growth is critical for the economy and desirable for the United States” The middle class is the indispensable workforce and the all- important consumer.
The great American entrepreneurs and inventors who have been vital to our national success have come from the middle class. It is the education and skills of the middle class that have driven the rise in productivity that as underpinned our prosperity. And it is a stable middle class that has kept America free of the turmoil of much of the rest of the world and has made vital investments in education, roads, and other economically important infrastructure. The ascendancy of America to being the richest nation in the history of the planet is fundamentally a middle-class achievement. For our country to succeed going forward, we need to get back to the fundamental truth that our success hinges on the strength of the middle class.
Businesses need middle-class customers. If you ask business owners what titivates them to make investments and create Jobs, they’ll tell you its customers. From where do the majority of customers come? The middle class of America’s class. If you look to what has been at the root of economic growth over time, it has been growth in worker productivity and the inventiveness of our people. Who among JUS has had the flexibility to postpone Jumping directly into the workforce after a minimum level of education and instead avail themselves of the opportunity to enhance skills by pursing higher education? It is the children of those families that sit securely in the middle class of society. | <urn:uuid:8bffbed4-e860-445a-99b3-eff2f31a3c6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anyassignment.com/social-science/federal-government-assignment-52090/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952316 | 1,341 | 2.40625 | 2 |
There have been times when the seeking for spiritual attainment was, at least in certain civilisations, more intense and widespread than now or rather than it has been in the world in general during the past few centuries. For now the curve seems to be the beginning of a new turn of seeking which takes its start from what was achieved in the past and projects itself towards a greater future. But always, even in the age of the Vedas or in Egypt, the spiritual achievement or the occult knowledge was confined to a few, it was not spread in the whole mass of humanity. The mass of humanity evolves slowly, containing in itself all stages of the evolution from the material and the vital man to the mental man. A small minority has pushed beyond the barriers, opening the doors to occult and spiritual knowledge and preparing the ascent of the evolution beyond mental man into spiritual and supramental being.
Sometimes this minority has exercised an enormous influence as in Vedic India, Egypt or, according to tradition, in Atlantis, and determined the civilisation of the race, giving it a strong stamp of the spiritual or the occult; sometimes they have stood apart in their secret schools or orders, not directly influencing a civilisation which was sunk in material ignorance or in chaos and darkness or in the hard external enlightenment which rejects spiritual knowledge.
The cycles of evolution tend always upward, but they are cycles and do not ascend in a straight line. The process therefore gives the impression of a series of ascents and descents, but what is essential in the gains of the evolution is kept or, even if eclipsed for a time, re-emerges in new forms suitable to the new ages. The creation has descended all the degrees of being from the Supermind to Matter and in each degree it has created a world, reign, plane or order proper to that degree. In the creating of the material world there was a plunge of this descending Consciousness into an apparent Inconscience and an emergence of it out of that Inconscience, degree by degree, until it recovers its highest spiritual and supramental summits and manifests their powers here in Matter. But even in the Inconscience there is a secret Consciousness which works, one may say, by an involved and hidden Intuition proper to itself. In each stage of Matter, in each stage of Life, this Intuition assumes a working proper to that stage and acts from behind the veil, supporting and enforcing the immediate necessities of the creative Force.
There is an Intuition in Matter which holds the action of the material world from the electron to the sun and planets and their contents. There is an Intuition in Life which similarly supports and guides the play and development of Life in Matter till it is ready for the mental evolution of which man is the vehicle. In man also the creation follows the same upward process,—the Intuition within develops according to the stage he has reached in his progress. Even the precise intellect of the scientist, who is inclined to deny the separate existence or the superiority of Intuition, yet cannot really move forward unless there is behind him a mental Intuition, which enables him to take a forward step or to divine what has to be done. Intuition therefore is present at the beginning of things and in their middle as well as at their consummation.
But Intuition takes its proper form only when one goes beyond the mental into the spiritual domain, for there only it comes fully forward from behind the veil and reveals its true and complete nature. Along with the mental evolution of man there has been going forward the early process of another evolution which prepares the spiritual and supramental being.
This has had two lines, one the discovery of the occult forces secret in Nature and of the hidden planes and worlds concealed from us by the world of Matter and the other the discovery of man’s soul and spiritual self. If the tradition of Atlantis is correct, it is that of a progress which went to the extreme of occult knowledge, but could go no farther. In the India of Vedic times we have the record left of the other line of achievement, that of spiritual self-discovery; occult knowledge was there but kept subordinate. We may say that here in India the reign of Intuition came first, intellectual Mind developing afterwards in the later philosophy and science. But in fact the mass of men at the time, it is quite evident, lived entirely on the material plane, worshipped the Godheads of material Nature, sought from them entirely material objects. The effort of the Vedic mystics revealed to them the things behind through a power of inner sight and hearing and experience which was confined to a limited number of seers and sages and kept carefully secret from the mass of humanity—secrecy was always insisted on by the mystic. We may very well attribute this flowering of Intuition on the spiritual plane to a rapid re-emergence of essential gains brought down from a previous cycle. If we analyse the spiritual history of India we shall find that after reaching this height there was a descent which attempted to take up each lower degree of the already evolved consciousness and link it to the spiritual at the summit. The Vedic age was followed by a great outburst of intellect and philosophy which yet took spiritual truth as its basis and tried to reach it anew, not through a direct Intuition or occult process as did the Vedic seers, but by the power of the mind’s reflective, speculative, logical thought; at the same time processes of yoga were developed which used the thinking mind as a means of arriving at spiritual realisation, spiritualising this mind itself at the same time. Then followed an era of the development of philosophies and yoga processes which more and more used the emotional and aesthetic being as the means of spiritual realisation and spiritualised the emotional level in man through the heart and feeling. This was accompanied by Tantric and other processes which took up the mental will, the life-will, the will of sensations and made them at once the instruments and the field of spiritualisation. In the Hathayoga and the various attempts at divinisation of the body there is also a line of endeavour which attempted to arrive at the same achievement with regard to living Matter; but this still awaits the discovery of the true characteristic method and power of Spirit in the body. We may say therefore that the universal Consciousness after its descent into Matter has conducted the evolution there along two lines, one of ascent to the discovery of the Self and Spirit, the other of descent through the already evolved levels of mind, life and body so as to bring down the spiritual consciousness into these also and to fulfil thereby some secret intention in the creation of the material universe. Our yoga is in its principle a taking up and summarising and completing of this process, an endeavour to rise to the highest possible supramental level and bring down its consciousness and power into mind, life and body.
The condition of present-day civilisation, materialistic with an externalised intellect and life-endeavour, which you find so painful, is an episode, but one which was perhaps inevitable. For if the spiritualisation of the mind, life and body is the thing to be achieved, the conscious presence of the Spirit even in the physical consciousness and material body, an age which puts Matter and the physical life in the forefront and devotes itself to the effort of the intellect to discover the truth of material existence, had perhaps to come. On one side, by materialising everything up to the intellect itself it has created the extreme difficulty of which you speak for the spiritual seeker, but, on the other hand, it has given the life in Matter an importance which the spirituality of the past was inclined to deny to it. In a way it has made the spiritualisation of it a necessity for spiritual seeking and so aided the descent movement of the evolving spiritual consciousness in the earth-nature.
More than that we cannot claim for it; its conscious effect has been rather to stifle and almost extinguish the spiritual element in humanity; it is only by the divine use of the pressure of contraries and an intervention from above that there will be the spiritual outcome. | <urn:uuid:a22e34fa-8565-4fa3-ad79-72da15854dd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiadivine.org/sri-aurobindos-letters-the-supramental-evolution-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962928 | 1,660 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Opiate receptor ligands
Compounds of Formula 1 bind opioid receptors: ##STR1## wherein X and Y are each independently ##STR2##
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1. Technical Field
The invention relates generally to the field of medicinal chemistry, and specifically to compounds which bind to opioid receptors.
2. Background of the Invention
Opioid receptors are named for their binding affinity to morphine and other opium-derived compounds. The three classes of opioid receptor are designated p (morphine-like), .kappa.(ketazocine-like), and .delta.. ##STR3##DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
One aspect of the invention is a compound of Formula 1 which binds to the opioid receptor: ##STR4## wherein X and Y are each independently ##STR5## where n and p are each independently 0, 1, or 2; m is 1 or 2, and R.sub.7 is H, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, phenyl, or aryl-lower alkyl;
R.sub.2 is lower alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkyl, haloalkenyi, or ##STR6## where r is an integer from 1 to 8 inclusive; a, b, and c are each independently 1, 2, 3 or 4;
Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 are each independently ##STR7## where s, t, and u are each independently 0 to 6 inclusive, and R.sub.9 and R.sub.10 are each independently H, OH, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, aryl, or ##STR8## where v and w are each independently 0-4 inclusive;
R.sub.1, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.8 are each independently H, halo, OH, NH.sub.2, NO.sub.2, CN, SH, SO.sub.2, SO.sub.3, or --W--(CH.sub.2).sub.q --Z-R, where q is an integer from 1 to 6 inclusive; R is H, lower alkyl, aryl, or benzyl, and W and Z are each independently a bond, --O--, --NR--, --S', --SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.3 --, ##STR9## or two R.sub.1, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 or R.sub.8 together form a ring.
Another aspect of the invention is the method of modulating opioid receptor activity, comprising contacting an opioid receptor with a compound of formula 1.Modes of Carrying Out The Invention A. Definitions
The term "compound of formula 1" refers to compounds of the formula: ##STR10## wherein X and Y are each independently ##STR11## where n and p are each independently 0, 1, or 2; m is 1 or 2, and R.sub.7 is H, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, phenyl, or aryl-lower alkyl;
R.sub.2 is lower alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, or ##STR12## where r is an integer from 1 to 8 inclusive; a, b, and c are each independently 1, 2, 3 or 4;
Q.sub.1 and Q2 are each independently ##STR13## where s, t, and u are each independently 0 to 6 inclusive, and R.sub.9 and R.sub.10 are each independently H, OH, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, aryl, or ##STR14## where v and w are each independently 0-4 inclusive; R.sub.1, R3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.8 are each independently H, halo, OH, NH.sub.2, NO.sub.2, CN, SH, SO.sub.2, SO.sub.3, or --W--(CH.sub.2).sub.q --Z--R, where q is an integer from 1 to 6 inclusive; R is H, lower alkyl, aryl, or benzyl, and W and Z are each independently a bond, --O--, --NR--, --S--, --SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.3 -- ##STR15## or two R.sub.1, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 or R.sub.8 together form a ring (for example, two R.sub.1 s may form an alkylenedioxy ring, such as ##STR16## A presently preferred subgenus of compounds of formula 1 is that wherein X and Y are each --CH.sub.2 --, and R.sub.2 is 3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl.
The term "peptoid" refers to monomers other than the twenty conventional amino acids and the common nucleotides and nucleosides (i.e., the DNA bases dA, dC, dG, and dT, and the RNA bases A, C, G, and U). The terms "amide peptoid" and nonconventional amino acid" refer to peptoids which are linked together through amide (peptide) bonds. Amide polypeptoid bonds may include substituents on the amide nitrogen atom. Presently preferred peptoids include those wherein the side chain (the residue attached to the backbone N) is selected from the following: 2-hydroxyethyl, 3-hydroxypropyl, 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethyl, 2-phenethyl, 2,2-diphenylethyl, 1-naphthylmethyl, 4-(phenyl)phenyl, methyl, 2-methylpropyl, 2-methoxyethyl, pentyl, 1-ethylpropyl, cyClohexyl, (1-tetrahydrofuryl)methyl, 4-(phenoxy)phenyl, 3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl, 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl, 2-aminoethyl, 2-(N-morpholino)ethyl, 2-carboxyethyl, 2-(2-(2oaminoethoxy)ethoxy)ethyl, 2-methoxypyrid-5-yl, adamantyl, 1-hydroxy-1-phenylprop-2-yl, 4oethenylphenyl, 4-biphenyl, 3-biphenyl, 4-butylphenyl, 4-cyclohexylphenyl, 4-iodophenyl, 2,2-diphenylethyl, 4-trifluoromethylbenzyl, 2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl, 2-(cyclohex-1-enyl)ethyl, 2-phenoxyethyl, 2-phenethylamino, 2-(4-sulfonamidophenyl)ethyl, 3,4-dihydroxyphenethyl, 4-nitrophenethyl, 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-hydroxyethyl, 2-(4-aminophenyl)ethyl, and 6,7-dimethoxytetrahydroisoquinolinyl.
N-substituted glycine monomers are named Nxxx, where xxx is the multiletter abbreviation for the amino acid that has the corresponding side chain. An "h" immediately following the N indicates that the monomer is a homolog, having an additional --CH.sub.2 -- between the nitrogen atom and the rest of the side chain (e.g., Nhhis has imidazolylethyl rather than imidazolyhnethyl as its side chain). An "m" following the N indicates an .alpha.-methyl residue (i.e., an N-substituted alanine instead of an N-substituted glycine): a "p" indicates an .alpha.-phenyl residue. A "p" following the N indicates that the backbone is .beta.-alanine (3-aminopropanoic acid) rather than glycine. A "z" following the N indicates that the submonomer used is a hydrazine derivative, resulting in an N--N bond between the side chain and the backbone:
__________________________________________________________________________ Nala = N-methylglycine (sarcosine); Nasp = N-(carboxymethyl)glycine; Nglu = N-(2-carboxyethyl)glycine; Nphe = N-benzylglycine; Nhhis = N-(imidazolylethyl)glycine; Nile = N-(1-methylpropyl)glycine; Nlys = N-(4-aminobutyl)glycine; Nleu = N-(2-methylpropyl)glycine; Nmet = N-(2-methylthioethyl)glycine; Nhser = N-(hydroxyethyl)glycine; Nasn = N-(carbamylmethyl)glycine; Ngln = N-(2-carbamylmethyl)glycine; Nval = N-(1-methylethyl)glycine; Narg = N-(3-guanidinopropyl)glycine; Nhtrp = N-(3-indolylethyl)glycine; Nhtyr = N-(p-hydroxyphenethyl)glycine; Nthr = N-(1-hydroxyethyl)glycine; Ncys = N-(thiomethyl)glycine; Norn = N-(3-aminopropyl)glycine; Nhphe = N-(2-phenethyl)glycine; Ncpro = N-cyclopropylglycine; Ncbut = N-cyclobutyglycine; Nchex = N-cyclohexylglycine; Nchep = N-cycloheptylglycine; Ncoct = N-cyclooctylglycine; Ncdec = N-cyclodecylglycine; Ncund = N-cycloundecylglycine; Ncdod = N-cyclododecylglycine; Nbhm = N-(2,2-diphenylethyl)glycine; Nbhe = N-(3,3-diphenylpropyl)glycine; Nbiph = N-(4-phenyl)phenylglycine; Npop = N-(4-phenoxyphenyl)glycine; Nmhphe = N-(2-phenethyl)alanine; Nphphe = N-(2-phenethyl)beta-alanine; Nphtyr = N-(p-hydroxyphenethyl)beta-alanine; Npbiph = N-(4-phenyl)phenylbeta-alanine; Nnbhm = N-(N-(2,2-diphenylethyl)carbamylmethyl)glycine; Nnbhe = N-(N-(3,3-diphenylpropyl)carbamylmethyl)glycine; Nbmc = 1-carboxy-1-(2,2-diphenylethylamino)cyclopropane; Naeg = N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine; Nzhphe = N-(2-phenethylamino)glycine [or 2-phenethylhydrazopropanoic acid]; Nzhtyr = N-(p-hydroxyphenethylamino)glycine; Noco = N-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenethyl)glycine; Npen = N-pentylglycine; Nmdb = N-(3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl)glycine; Nddb = N-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)glycine; Nedb = N-(3,4-ethylenedioxybenzyl)glycine; Ntmb = N-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)glycine; Nbha = N-(2,2-diphenylethyl)alanine; Nvbhm = 4-(N-(2,2-diphenyl)ethyl)aminobut-2-enamide; and Nbvp = N-(3,3-diphenylprop-2-enyl)glycine. __________________________________________________________________________
The term "alkyl" as used herein refers to saturated hydrocarbon radicals containing from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, inclusive. Alkyl radicals may be straight, branched, or cyclic. Exemplary alkyl radicals include n-pentyl, n-hexyl, n-octyl, n-dodecyl, 2-dodecyl, 4-octadecyl, 3,5-diethylcyclohexyl, duryl, and the like. The term "lower alkyl" as used herein refers to straight, branched, and cyclic chain hydrocarbon radicals having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, s-butyl, t-butyl, n-pentyl, n-hexyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, 2-methylcyclopentyl, cyclopentylacetyl, and the like. "Alkoxy" refers to radicals of the formula --OR, where R is alkyl as defined above: "lower alkoxy" refers to alkoxy radicals wherein R is lower alkyl. "Hydroxy-lower alkyl" refers to radicals of the formula HO--R--, where R is lower alkylene of 1 to 8 carbons, and may be straight, branched, or cyclic. "Hydroxy-lower alkoxy" refers to radicals of the formula HO--R--O--, where R is lower alkylene of 1 to 8 carbons, and may be straight, branched, or cyclic. "Lower alkoxy-lower alkyl" refers to groups of the formula R.sub.a O--R.sub.b --, where R.sub.a and R.sub.b are each independently lower alkyl. "Lower alkoxy-lower alkoxy" refers to groups of the formula R.sub.a O--R.sub.b O--, where R.sub.a and R.sub.b are each independently lower alkyl.
"Alkenyl" refers to hydrocarbon radicals of 2-20 carbon atoms having one or more double bonds. Alkenyl radicals may be straight, branched, or cyclic. Exemplary alkenyl radicals include 1-pentenyl, 3-hexenyl, 1,4-octadienyl, 3,5-diethylcyclohexenyl, and the like. "Lower alkenyl" refers to alkenyl radicals having 2-8 carbon atoms.
The term "alkynyl" refers to hydrocarbon radicals of 2-20 carbon atoms having one or more triple bonds. Alkynyl radicals may be straight, branched, or cyclic. Exemplary alkynyl radicals include 1-pentynyl, 3-hexynyl, octa-2-yn-6-enyl, 3,5-diethylcyclohexynyl, and the like. "Lower alkynyl" refers to alkynyl radicals having 2-8 carbon atoms.
The term "haloalkyl" refers to an alkyl radical substituted with one or more halogen atoms. Exemplary haloalkyl radicals include trifluoromethyl, 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl, -chlorocyclohexyl, 2-bromo-3-chlorocyclohexyl, 2,3-dibromobutyl, and the like.
The term "haloalkenyl" refers to an alkenyl radical substituted with one or more halogen atoms. Exemplary haloalkenyl radicals include 3-chloroprop-2-enyl, 4,4-dichlorobut-2-enyl, 5-bromo-3-methylcyclohex-2-enyl, and the like.
"Aryl" refers to aromatic hydrocarbons having up to 14 carbon atoms, preferably phenyl or naphthyl. "Aryl-lower alkyl" refers to radicals of the form Ar--R--, where Ar is aryl and R is lower alkyl. "Aryloxy" refers to radicals of the form Ar--O--, where Ar is aryl. "Aryloxy-lower alkyl" refers to radicals of the form ArO--R--, where Ar is aryl and R is lower alkyl.
The term "acyl" refers to a radical of the formula RCO--, in which R is H, alkyl as defined above, phenyl, benzyl or naphthyl. Exemplary acyl groups include acetyl, propionyl, formyl, t-butoxycarbonyl, benzoyl, and the like. "Lower acyl" refers to radicals wherein R is lower alkyl.
The term "halo" refers to a halogen radical, such as F, Cl, Br, or I.
The term "treatment" as used herein refers to reducing or alleviating symptoms in a subject, preventing symptoms from worsening or progressing, inhibition or elimination of the causative agent, or prevention of the infection or disorder in a subject who is free therefrom. Thus, for example, treatment of opiate addiction in a patient may be reduction of opiate effect (blockade), or the prevention of relapse in a patient who has been cured.
The term "preparation" refers to a sample to be tested for the presence of opioid receptor. Preparations may be whole tissues, tissue homogenates, host cells (e.g., recombinant host cells), biopsy samples, blood and/or blood fractions, lymph, and the like.B. General Method
Compounds of the invention are easily synthesized by standard chemical methods. The presently-preferred method of synthesis is the "submonomer" technique described by R. Zuckermann et al., J Am Chem Soc (1992) 114:10646-7, incorporated herein by reference. Briefly, an activated solid-phase synthesis resin is treated to remove any protecting or capping groups, then acylated with an acetic acid derivative having a good leaving group (e.g., bromoacetic acid) under standard conditions. The leaving group is then displaced in an S.sub.N 2 displacement reaction using an amine corresponding to the desired side chain, producing a secondary amine. The resulting secondary amine is then acylated with an acetic acid derivative, and the cycle repeated for each desired sidechain. Compounds in which R.sub.7 is a residue other than H are synthesized by employing an acetic acid derivative incorporating the desired residue. Thus, where R.sub.7 is methyl one would employ 2-bromopropanoic acid.
For example, to synthesize the compound Nhtyr-Nbiph-Nhphe, the acylated resin is treated with phenethylamine (to provide the homo-Phe side chain), acylated with bromoacetic acid, the bromine displaced with 4-aminobiphenyl (to provide the 4-(phenyl)phenyl side chain), acylated with bromoacetic acid, and the bromine displaced with 4-hydroxyphenethylamine (to provide the homo-Tyr side chain). The last amine may be further acylated or alkylated to reduce the basicity of the compound. The compound is then cleaved from the resin using standard methods, providing either an acid or an amide, depending upon the cleavage conditions. In either case, the terminal carbonyl function may be converted to an amide, acid, aldehyde, alcohol, amine or other group as desired. The final compound is typically purified by chromatography. If desired, simple acid addition salts and/or esters may be prepared using standard techniques.
Compounds of the invention may also be prepared by traditional solution-phase synthesis, beginning with an ester of bromoacetic acid, and proceeding as described above. Alternatively, one may synthesize compounds in the N.fwdarw.C direction in the solution phase, using complete monomers (rather than "submonomers"). For example, Fmoc-protected Nhtyr (with Fmoc protecting the amine) may be condensed with Nbiph-tBu ester with N,N-diisopropylcarbodiimide (DIC) in DIEA/CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 to forIn (Fmoc)Nhtyr-Nbiph-tBu. The tBu ester is then removed with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and scavengers, and the compound condensed with Nhtyr-tBu ester to form (Fmoc)Nhtyr-Nbiph-Nhtyr-tBu. The compound is then deprotected using TFA, scavengers, and pyrrolidine to provide Nhtyr-Nbiph-Nhtyr. Alternatively, one may use tBOC-protected Nhtyr, and employ methyl esters of Nbiph and Nhtyr, cleaving the esters with NaOH rather than TFA with scavengers. It may be necessary to isolate intermediate stage compounds, e.g., by chromatography or fractional crystallization.
The reactants employed in synthesis of the compounds are generally commercially available. Other reactants (e.g., less-common substituted amines) may be prepared by standard chemical means from amines that are commercially available.
Compounds of the invention may be assayed for activity using standard protocols. For example, one may employ the protocol demonstrated in the Examples below to determine binding of compounds of the invention to any desired receptor subtype (e.g., using different sources of tissue). Compounds which exhibit strong binding to receptors will exert either agonistic or (more usually) antagonistic activity, which may be determined by means of appropriate tissue-based or in vivo assays known in the art. Compounds within the scope of the invention may easily be assayed for activity by standard receptor-binding assays.
The compounds of the invention may be administered by a variety of methods, such as intravenously, orally, intramuscularly, intraperitoneally, bronchially, intranasally, and so forth. The preferred route of administration will depend upon the nature of the compound and the condition to be treated. Compounds may be administered orally if well absorbed and not substantially degraded upon ingestion (compounds of the invention are generally resistant to proteases). The compounds may be administered as pharmaceutical compositions in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. Such compositions may be aqueous solutions, emulsions, creams, ointments, suspensions, gels, liposomal suspensions, and the like. Thus, suitable excipients include water, saline, Ringer's solution, dextrose solution, and solutions of ethanol, glucose, sucrose, dextran, mannose, mannitol, sorbitol, polyethylene glycol (PEG), phosphate, acetate, gelatin, collagen, Carbopol.RTM., vegetable oils, and the like. One may additionally include suitable preservatives, stabilizers, antioxidants, antimicrobials, and buffering agents, for example, BHA, BHT, citric acid, ascorbic acid, tetracycline, and the like. Cream or ointment bases useful in formulation include lanolin, Silvadene.RTM. (Marion), Aquaphor.RTM. (Duke Laboratories), and the like. Other topical formulations include aerosols, bandages, sustainedrelease patches, and the like. Alternatively, one may incorporate or encapsulate the compound in a suitable polymer matrix or membrane, thus providing a sustained-release delivery device suitable for implantation near the site to be treated locally. Other devices include indwelling catheters and devices such as the Alzet.RTM. minipump. Further, one may provide the compound in solid form, especially as a lyophilized powder. Lyophilized formulations typically contain stabilizing and bulking agents, for example human serum albumin, sucrose, mannitol, and the like. A thorough discussion of pharmaceutically acceptable excipients is available in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences (Mack Pub. Co.).
Compounds of the invention may be used to detect the presence of opiate receptor in tissues, cells, body fluids, and the like, exploiting the fact that compounds of the invention bind to opiate receptor. In general, a sample is obtained, and is contacted with a compound of the invention under physiological conditions. The sample is then rinsed, and examined for binding of the compound. Examination may be facilitated by using labeled compound (e.g., radiolabeled with .sup.3 H, .sup.13 C, .sup.125 I, and the like). This assay may be useful, inter alia, for examining expression of opiate receptor in recombinant host cells, and for studying pathological distributions of opiate receptor.C. Examples
The examples presented below are provided as a further guide to the practitioner of ordinary skill in the art, and are not to be construed as limiting the invention in any way.EXAMPLE 1 (Preparation of Compounds)
Compounds of the invention are prepared as follows:A.) General Synthesis of Compounds
Oligomer synthesis was performed on a Rink amide polystyrene resin (0.61 mmol/g, 1% crosslinked, 100-200 mesh). N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF), dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), methylene chloride, glacial acetic acid and trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) were obtained from commercial suppliers and used without further purification. Piperidine, bromoacetic acid, N,N-diisopropylcarbodiimide (DIC), 4-aminobiphenyl, tyramine, 3,4-methylenedioxybenzylamine, 2,2-diphenethylamine, and other reagents were obtained from Aldrich and used without further purification.
All reactions were performed at room temperature in a 2.0 L vessel equipped with a 10 cm coarse glass frit. Agitation of the resin-reagent slurry was performed at every step by rotary shaking at 200 rpm. Filtration of the resin-reagent slurry was achieved by the application of vacuum.
A 2.0 L vessel was charged with Rink amide resin (100 g, 0.061 mol). The resin was briefly swelled in DMF (1.5 L) with gentle agitation and drained. The 9-fluorenyhnethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc) group was then removed by treatment with 20% piperidine/DMF (1.7 L, 1.times.5 rain, followed by 1.times.20 rain). The resin was then washed with DMF (6.times.1.7 L). The remainder of the compound was synthesized by performing three cycles of acylation with bromoacetic acid and displacement with an amine.General acylation conditions (0.061 mol resin)
Resin-bound amines were bromoacetylated by in situ activation with DIC. To the oligomer-resin was added a DMF solution of bromoacetic acid (0.67 M, 900 mL) followed by DIC (neat, 93 mL, 0.60 tool). The reaction mixture was agitated for 30 min at room temperature. The mixture was drained and the reaction was repeated once. The resin was washed with DMF (3.times.1.7 L).General displacement conditions (0.61 mol)
Resin-bound bromoacetamides were displaced by the addition of the amine as a solution in DMSO (1-2 M, 1.0 L). The reaction mixture was agitated at room temperature for 2 hours. The reaction mixture was drained and the resin was washed with DMF (3.times.1.7 L). Reagents were used at 2.0 M concentration, except tyramine and. phenethylhydrazine (used at 1.0 M).General Cleavage and Purification
After completion of the synthesis the resin was washed with CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 (3.times.1.7 L) and air-dried for 5 minutes. The full length trimer was cleaved from the resin (0.061 mol) by treatment with 95% TFA/5% water (1.5 L) at room temperature for 15 minutes. The resin was then washed with 95% TFA/5% water (1.times.1.0 L) and CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 (1 .times.1 L). The filtrates were pooled and the solvent removed by rotary evaporation. The residue was dissolved in glacial acetic acid (150 mL) and lyophilized.B.) Synthesis of Nbhm-Nmdb-Nhtyr (CHIR-4531)
The compound Nbhm-Nmdb-Nhtyr (Nbhm=N-benzhydryhnethylglycine; Nmdb=N-(3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl)glycine; and Nhtyr=N-4-hydroxyphenethylglycine) was synthesized as described in part A) above, using 4-hydroxyphenethylamine as the first amine added, 3,4-methylenedioxybenzylamine as the second amine added, and benzhydryhnethylamine as the third amine added. ##STR17##
After completion of the synthesis the resin was washed with CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 (3.times.1.7 L) and air dried for 5 minutes. The full length trimer was cleaved from the resin (0.061 mol) by treatment with 95% TFA/5% water (1.5 L) at room temperature for 15 minutes. The resin was then washed with 95% TFA/5% water (1.times.1.0 L) and CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 (1 .times.1 L). The filtrates were pooled and the solvent removed by rotary evaporation. The residue was dissolved in glacial acetic acid (150 mL) and lyophilized to afford the crude product (CHIR4531, depicted above). The purity of the crude product was determined by reverse-phase HPLC. The product was characterized by FAB-mass spectrometry.C.) Synthesis of Backbone Variants
Proceeding as described in part A) above, but substituting 3-bromopropanoic acid, 2-bromopropanoic acid, and 2-phenyl-3-bromopropanoic acid for bromoacetic acid at some positions, compounds wherein X and/or Y are other than --CH.sub.2 -- are prepared.D.) Synthesis of Additional Compounds
Other compounds are prepared proceeding as in part A above, but substituting for 2,2-diphenethylamine the following compounds: 2,2-diphenylpropylamine, 3,3-diphenylpropylamine, tritylamine, benzhydrylamine, 2-phenethylamine, 2-phenethylhydrazine; 2-hydroxy-2,2-diphenethylamine, 2-(4-t-butyl)phenethylamine, 2-phenylpropylamine, 2-(4-methyl)phenethylamine, 2-(4-ethyl)phenethylamine, (naphth-1-yl)(phenyl)methylamine, (4-methylphenyl)(phenyl)methylamine, (4-chlorophenyl)(phenyl)methylamine, 2-(2-chlorophenyl)ethylamine, 1-phenyl-2-methylprop-2-ylamine, 1-phenyl-prop-2-ylamine, 2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethylamine, 2-(3-chlorophenyl)ethylamine, 2-(3-fluorophenyl)ethylamine, and 1-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-methylprop-2-ylamine.
The following reactants are substituted for 3,4-methylenedioxybenzylamine: 3,4-methylenedioxybenzhydrazide, 3,4-methylenedioxyphenethylamine, 3,4-methylenedioxybenzylthiosemicarbazide, 1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)prop-2-ylamine, veratrylamine, 3,4-methylenedioxyaniline, 6-amino-3,4-methylenedioxyacetophenone, 1,2-dimnino-4,5-methylenedioxybenzene, 3-methyoxy-4-hydroxybenzylamine, 6,7-methylenedioxynaphthylamine, 3-methyoxy-2-hydroxybenzylamine, 2,3-dimethoxybenzylamine, 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylamine, 4-methoxybenzhydrylamine, 2,4-dimethoxybenzylamine, 2,4,6-trimethoxybenzylamine, 2-ethoxybenzylamine, 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-phenethylamine, 4-(4-methoxyphenyl)phenylamine, 2-(3-chlorophenoxy)ethylamine, 2-amino-4,5-dimethoxybenzamide, 3-methoxyphenethylamine, 4-amino-2-methylnaphthol, 3-hydroxybenzylhydrazine, lauryamine, decylamine, nonylamine, octylamine, 1,12-diaminododecane, 1,10-diaminododecane, 1,9-diaminododecane, 1,8-diaminododecane, 1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutylamine, 2-amino-3-methylbutane, 2-octylamine, isobutylamine, 1,3-diaminopropane, 1,1-dimethylpropylamine, 1,4-dimethylheptylamine, 2,2-dimethylpropylamine, 1,2-diaminopropane, 2-aminopropane, pentylamine, 1,5-diaminopentane, 1,5-diamino-2-methylpentane, 2-aminohexane, hexylamine, 2-aminopentane, butylamine, 2-amino-5-methylhexane, 3-aminoheptane, 1,6-hexanediamine, 1,3-dimethylbutylamine, 4-methylbutylamine, 2-methylbutylamine, 1-ethylpropylamine, 1,4-diaminobutane, 2-ethylhexylamine, 2-aminoheptane, heptylamine, 1,7-diaminoheptane, 3-amino-2,4-dimethylpentane, 1,2-diaminobutane, 2-aminobutane, propylamine, 1,5-dimethylhexylamine, 1,6-diamino-2,4,4-trimethylhexane, stearylamine, pahnitylamine, pentadecylamine, tetradecylamine, and tridecylamine.
The following reactants are substituted for tyramine: phenethylamine, benzylamine, 3,4-methylenedioxyphenethylamine, 3-tfifluoromethylphenethylamine, 2-chlorophenethylamine, 3-chlorophenethylamine, phenylpropylamine, 4-chlorophenethylamine, 2,4-dichlorophenethylamine, 3-bromophenethylamine, 4-iodophenethylamine, 3-hydroxyphenethylamine, 4-hydroxyphenethylamine, 2,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine, 2-methylphenethylamine, 3-methylphenethylamine, 4-methylphenethylamine, 2,4-dimethylphenethylamine, 2,4,6-trimethylphenethylamine, 3-ethylphenethylamine, 4-ethylphenethylamine, 4-hexylphenethylamine, 3-nitrophenethylamine, 2-aminophenethylamine, 4-aminophenethylamine, 2,4-diaminophenethylamine, 2-methoxyphenethylamine, 3-methoxyphenethylamine, 4-methoxyphenethylamine, 2,4-dimethoxyphenethylamine, 2,4,6-trimethoxyphenethylamine, 3,4-dimethoxyphenethylamine, 2-ethoxyphenethylamine, 3-ethoxyphenethylamine, 4-ethoxyphenethylamine, 3-propoxyphenethylamine, 4-butoxyphenethylamine, 4-t-butoxyphenethylamine, 3-methoxymethylphenethylamine, 4-methoxymethylphenethylamine, 3-(2-methoxyethyl)phenethylamine, 4-(2-methoxyethyl)phenethylamine, 4-(2hydroxyethyl)phenethylamine, 4-(3-hydroxypropyl)phenethylamine, 4-(2-hydroxyethoxy)phenethylamine, 4-phenylphenethylamine, 4-(2-chlorophenyl)phenethylamine, 4-(2-aminophenyl)phenethylamine, 3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)phenethylamine, 4-phenoxyphenethylamine, 4-(3-chlorophenoxy)phenethylamine, 4-(4-aminophenoxy)phenethylamine, 3-benzylphenethylamine, 4-phenethylphenethylamine, 3-acetylphenethylamine, 4-acetylphenethylamine, 4-(2-phenoxyethyl)phenethylamine, and 3-benzyloxyphenethylamine.
The compounds corresponding to the above-listed substitutions are prepared following the procedure set forth in part A) above.EXAMPLE 2 (Activity In Vitro)
Compounds were screened in vitro using the following assay:
High-affinity ligands for the .mu.-specific opiate receptor were identified from a diverse peptoid library by testing the pools of compounds in solution-phase radioligand competition assays, and tracing the binding activity to individual compounds by iterative resynthesis and screening of smaller sub-pools.
Rat forebrains were homogenized and washed in 50 mM Tris, pH 7.5 containing 20 mM NaCl, 5 mM EGTA, 2 mM MgCl.sub.2, 21 .mu.g/mL aprotinin, 0.5 mg/L leupeptin, 0.7 mg/L pepstatin, 0.2 Mm PMSF. 50 .mu.L of membrane (10 mg/mL protein) were dispensed into 1 mL of 50 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 1 nM [.sup.3 H]-DAMGO and the peptoid mixture. All assays were performed at 100 nM per peptoid.
Nonspecific binding was determined as [.sup.3 H]-DAMGO bound in the presence of 1 .mu.M naloxone. Incubation was for 1 hr at room temperature. Unbound radioactivity was removed by rinsing the membranes on Whatman GF/B glass fiber filters. Each filter was washed 3 times with 3 mL of 50 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 4.degree. C. Filters were soaked overnight in 5 mL of Beckman ReadySafe scintillation cocktail and then counted for one minute in a Wallac 1409 liquid scintillation counter. Assays were performed in duplicate.
Compound CHIR-4531 (Nbhm-Nmdb-Nhtyr) exhibited a K.sub.i =7 nM. Compound CHIR-4534 (Nbhm-Npen-Nhtyr) exhibited a K.sub.i =30 nM. Compound CHIR-4537 (Nbhm-Nddb-Nhtyr) exhibited a K.sub.i =45 nM.
______________________________________ % Inhibition CHIR Compound K.sub.i at 100 nM ______________________________________ 4531 Nbhm-Nmdb-Nhtyr 7 nM 4534 Nbhm-Npen-Nhtyr 30 nM 4537 Nbhm-Nddb-Nhtyr 45 nM 4622 Nbhe-Nmdb-Nhtyr 78% 4626 Nbhm-Ntrnb-Nhtyr 86% 4627 Nbhm-Nphe-Nhtyr 90% 4628 Nbhm-Nphe-Nhphe 77% 5052 Nbha-Nmdb-Nhtyr 73% 5045 Nvbhm-Nmdb-Nhtyr 58% 5062 Nbvp-Nmdb-Nhtyr 65% ______________________________________EXAMPLE 3 (Assay In vivo)
Compounds of the invention are tested in vivo as follows: Male Swiss (ICR) mice (25-30 g) and male Sprague Dawley albino rats (100-125 g) are housed in groups of 5, and allowed food and water ad libitum until the beginning of the experiment.
A. Mouse stretch test: This procedure is a general, non-specific test for detecting antinociceptive activity in a wide variety of pharmacological agents. Each mouse (n=10) is administered either vehicle or test compound (0.1 mg/Kg to 300 mg/Kg) subcutaneously. After 5 rain, dilute acetic acid (0.6%) is injected i.p. (0.25 mL/25 g). Each animal is then observed after an additional 5 min, and the number of abdominal twists/hind leg stretches displayed by each mouse is counted for a 5 min. test period. Percent inhibition of response is calculated from 100.times.(mean number of stretches in vehicle group - mean number of stretches per mouse)/(mean number of stretches in vehicle group). The dose of compound causing 50% antinociception (at 95% confidence limits) is calculated by regression analysis.
Oral studies are performed with different mice. Test compound (or vehicle) is administered orally, followed by acetic acid injection 25-55 min after administration.
Antagonism studies are performed by first obtaining a dose-response crowe for s.c. morphine and vehicle. Mice are administered test compound s.c., (0.1 mg/Kg to 300 mg/Kg) followed 5 rain later by morphine in one of 4 doses s.c. (determined according to standard experimental protocol). Morphine antagonism is demonstrated if the morphine dose-response curve is displaced to the right.
B. Rat Formalin Test: Dilute formalin provides a continuous (tonic) background of pain that may be neurochemically and neurophysiologically different from the transient (phasic) pain associated with hot plate and tail-flick tests.
Rats (n=8) are acclimated to individual Plexiglas observation chambers for at least 1 hr prior to testing. Each animal is then injected with 5% formalin (50 .mu.L) or saline (50 .mu.L) s.c. into the dorsal surface of the right hind paw. The rats display two spontaneous behaviors indicative of pain: flinching/shaking of the paw and/or hindquarters, and licking or biting of the injected paw. Flinching is the most reliable behavior to score in rats. The behavior is monitored between 0-10 rain (early/acute phase) and 20-35 min (late/tonic phase) following injection.
Four doses of test compound are injected s.c. (0.1 mg/Kg to 300 mg/Kg). The pretreatment time is chosen so that peak antinociceptive activity coincides with the late/tonic phase of response. Results are expressed as mean % antagonism of formalin-induced flinching, and are calculated for individual, drug-treated formalin-injected rats.
C. Neuroadaptation of Rats: This protocol provides information on how rats react to multiple doses of test compounds, and on eventual challenge with naloxone, a standard antagonist of opioid receptors.
Four groups of 6 rats are injected s.c. with either vehicle or test compound at 8:00 AM, 4:00 PM, and midnight over 5 days. On the fifth day, only the morning injection is administered. The initial dosages are: day 1=1 mg/Kg, day 2=2 mg/Kg, days 3-5=4 mg/Kg. Naloxone (3 mg/Kg, s.c.) or saline is administered 4 hr after the final injection of test compound.
On day 4, the rats are acclimated to Plexiglas observation cages in a constant temperature room (20.degree. C.). The animals are trained to have their weights and rectal temperature taken. On day 5, this procedure is repeated before noting baseline readings, and challenging with naloxone or saline. Behaviors are monitored for 30 min before and after challenge with naloxone or saline. After the final weighing and temperature reading, 1 hr post challenge, each animal is euthanized with solid CO.sub.2.
Behavioral changes in the 4 groups of rats (vehicle-saline, vehicle-naloxone, compound-naloxone, compound-saline) are assessed by a point-scoring technique (with weighted signs): Cowan et al., J Pharmacol Exp Ther (1988) 246:950.
1. A compound of Formula 1: ##STR18## wherein X and Y are each independently ##STR19## where n and p are each independently 0, 1, or 2; m is 1 or 2, and R.sub.7 is H, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, phenyl, or aryl-lower alkyl;
- R.sub.2 is lower alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, or ##STR20## where r is an integer from 1 to 8 inclusive; a, b, and c are each independently 1, 2, 3 or 4;
- Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 are each independently ##STR21## where s, t, and u are each independently 0 to 6 inclusive, and R.sub.9 and R.sub.10 are each independently H, OH, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, aryl, or ##STR22## where v and w are each independently 0-4 inclusive; R.sub.1, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.8 are each independently H, halo, OH, NH.sub.2, NO.sub.2, CN, SH, SO.sub.2, SO.sub.3, or --W--(CH.sub.2).sub.q --Z--R, where q is an integer from 1 to 6 inclusive; R is H, lower alkyl, aryl, or benzyl, and W and Z are each independently a bond, --O--, --NR--, --S--, --SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.3 --, ##STR23## or two R.sub.1, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 or R.sub.8 together form a ring.
2. The compound of claim 1, wherein X and Y are each independently --CH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, or --CH(CH.sub.3)--.
3. The compound of claim 2, wherein X and Y are each --CH.sub.2 --.
4. The compound of claim 1, wherein Q.sub.1 is ##STR24## and R.sub.6 is H.
5. The compound of claim 1, wherein R.sub.3 is H.
6. The compound of claim 1, wherein Q.sub.2 is --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, and R.sub.1 is OH.
7. The compound of claim 1, wherein R.sub.2 is ##STR25## b is 2, and both R.sub.8 together form 3,4-methylenedioxy.
8. The compound of claim 1, wherein R.sub.6 is H.
9. The compound of claim 1, wherein R.sub.5 is --CH.sub.2 C(O)NH.sub.2.
10. The compound of claim 2, wherein X and Y are each --CH.sub.2 --, Q.sub.1 is ##STR26## R.sub.1 is OH, R.sub.3 and R.sub.6 are H, and R.sub.5 is --CH.sub.2 C(O)NH.sub.2.
11. The compound of claim 10, wherein R.sub.2 is n-pentyl.
12. The compound of claim 10, wherein R.sub.2 is ##STR27## b is 2, and both R.sub.8 together form methylenedioxy.
13. The compound of claim 10, wherein R.sub.2 is 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl.
|5272175||December 21, 1993||Hansen, Jr. et al.|
Filed: Apr 11, 1994
Date of Patent: Jul 16, 1996
Assignee: Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, CA)
Inventors: David C. Spellmeyer (Alameda, CA), Walter H. Moos (Oakland, CA), Eric J. Martin (El Cerrito, CA), Ronald N. Zuckermann (Berkeley, CA), Gregory Stauber (Danville, CA), Kevin R. Shoemaker (San Francisco, CA), Dane Goff (Redwood City, CA)
Primary Examiner: Ba Kim Trinh
Attorneys: Grant D. Green, Robert P. Blackburn
Application Number: 8/225,758
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NRDIS, Styled with a nod to Georgian Revival with door bays decorated with very elaborate neoclassical facades. Reinforced concrete throughout with a brick and limestone facing, consistent with the "Colonial Revival" architecture of the Village.
Themes - Architectural, Commerce, Community Development, Industry & Transportation.
Shawsheen Village was named after the Native American name for the river Shawshin, which means Great Spring. Prior to Shawsheen Village this area was known as Frye Village.
The Shawsheen Garage was built as part of the Shawsheen Village development, 1918 - 1924, by William M. Wood, President of the American Woolen Company. Wood hired about eight different architects to design the homes and structures for the village. Adden and Parker of Boston were the architects, and also designed the Post Office building across the street, the Balmoal Spa building and the Administration Office Building for American Woolen Company, (now Balmoral Condominiums).
This garage was used for parking cars or "live storage" and primarily as a full service mechanical facility. The building was opened in 1921 and by 1922 it was necessary to construct the second garage on Haverhill Street. William Madison Wood, the "dreamer" of Shawsheen Village, considered individual garages unaesthetic, so Shawsheen residents were required to park in the common garage. This first garage, which also included a repair shop and was quickly outgrown.
Andover Townsman - July 22, 1921 p. 8 - "Shawsheen Garage - Nothing Has Been Spared to Make It a Completely Equipped Service Station - Employing a force of eighteen men, with a car storage capacity and gas and oil storage capacity equaled by few garages in the state, and with a machine shop and repair shop which boasts equipment complete enough to do anything to any car, the Shawsheen Garage can well lay claim to being amoung the best, if not the best garage in the state.
Certainly nothing has been spared to equip it fully in every detail and to make it a complete unit as far as garage repair is concerned. With underground tanks on both the first and second floor, the garage is capable of storing a maximum of 3500 gallons of gasoline at one time. Eight Bowser hydraulic pressure oil thanks, store a total of 800 gallons of oil.
It is impossible to judge the size of the garage from the street floor on Main street. While the upper floor has a capacity for car storage of fifty cars, the lower florr with an entrance from Haverhill Street, stores more than sixty and may even take a few more in the machine shop. All permanent berths on both floors are taken at the present time. Everything has been done on the upper floor for the convenience of the touring motorist. Does he desire gas, an air-pressure tank will furnish him with five gallons in ninety seconds and he need not enter the garage and go to the trouble of backing out again. If he desires repair work done, he but drives his car into the garage and while the work is going on, his wife or other women guests may enjoy the ladies' rest room. Most certainly a garage is something different from others if it provides a blue and gold, wicker-furnished rest room for its lady patrons, furnishes reading matter, and even the necessary accoutrements for a short game of bridge, if the repairs are longer than usual.
No other garage in the country has such an efficient system of air for tires. A compressor on the lower florr which automatically keeps air pressure above 135 pounds and below 190, furnishes air to a stopcock on every cement column in the garage, upstairs or down. No maneuvering or hauling of a tank on wheels is necessary. A peculiar feature of the system is the attachment which allows the use of the air to spray gasoline or kerosene when cleaning parts of the car or engine, and also to spray polish when shining is to be done. The nozzle has a very delicate adjustment and a trigger action which makes its use extremely simple.
The repair shop, under the direction of Carl M. Peterson, is said to be the finest and best-equipped repair shop in the country. The shop is fitted out to do repair work and machine shop work of all kinds. It has a traveling crane with 20-ton capacity that lifts up a motor truck like an infant in arms. It has a two and one-ton trip hammer, a moving hoist for motors and another for truck and pleasure car bodies, several power lathes with all attachments necessary for grinding and reseating valves, etc., it has a 20-ton press which is used only for putting solid rubber tires on heavy trucks; in short, there is nothing much which a first class machine shop should have, which this one has not.
The garage building itself is 150 feet long and eighty feet wide in addition to the back ell containing the machine shop, which is about thirty-five feet by eighty feet. It is built throughout of reinforced concreted and sis made especially suitable for garage purposes through the use of steel-silled windows which afford an abundance of daylight throughout the garage. Plans were drawn by Adden & Parker of Boston. Carl M. Stevens is in general charge of the establishment."
After the death of William M. Wood on Feb. 2, 1926 most of the residential and commercial buildings were then sold. Some were held by the Wood family in the "Arden Trust" and others with the American Woolen Company, which had been deeded the property in December 1920. The A.W.Co. Board of Directors authorized its President, Lionel J. Noah, to deliver all deeds, as deemed necessary to the Textile Realty Co. for sale on Dec. 29, 1931.
The Textile Realty then transferred ownership to the Andover Shawsheen Realty Company on June 30, 1932, holding the mortgage on the properties. T. Edwin Andrew, treasurer, was authorized to sell or lease the properties. With the Great Depression sales were sluggish and many homes were rented until the economy rebounded.
The property was first leased then sold to Claude P. Woodworth, agent for the Jenny Manufacturing Co. on August 3, 1936. Jenny Manufacturing Co. then owned and operated the garage from 1936 to 1960. The gas and oil sold was Jenny. The property was then purchased by Claude P. Woodworth on Nov. 1, 1960. Woodworth expanded the business into automobile sales of Chevrolet and Cadillac with a new show room built on the corner park between the Shawsheen Garage and the former Shawsheen Laundry on Haverhill Street. The new structure was not without controversy as many residents in the Village felt the building did not fit into the style or design of the Village.
Woodworth owned for 18 years making use of every piece of the property for service and retail. Woodworth family sold to William P. & Kathleen M. DeLuca, Jr. on May 16, 1978.
Essex County Registry Deeds, Salem, MA
Essex Northern Registry Deeds, Lawrence, MA
Andover Maps, 1852, 1872, 1888, 1906, 1926
Andover Street Directories
Mills, Mergers and Mansions, by Edward Roddy 1982
Andover Historical Society files - See Area Form - Shawsheen for complete bibliography
See Map plan #704 - American Woolen Company - Sept. 1927
#880 - June 1932 - Textile Realty Company lot #
John Smith & Peter Smith – Dec. 29, 1841 –b. 335 leaf 99
Smith & Dove Manufacturing Co. – July 1, 1864 - b. 677 leaf 259 Salem deed
Robert Braisford, General Degreasing Co. – July 21, 1902 – b. 197 p. 32
Beacon Trust Company. – Dec. 23, 1904 – b. 217 p. 80
Daniel C. Smith –Mar. 28, 1909 – b. 258 p. 446
Arlington National Bank – June 11, 1909 – b. 274 p. 565
James E. McGovern – July 17, 1909 – b. 275 p. 400 – mgt sale
Henry P. Binney, Trustee of A. W. Co. – Aug. 14, 1909 - b. 277 p. 310
American Woolen Company, Wm. M. Wood Pres. - Dec. 30, 1920 - p. 435 p. 215 14th & 24 parcel
Textile Realty Co., Lionel J. Noah, Pres. A.W.Co. - Dec. 30, 1931 - b. 563 p. 351
Andover Shawsheen Realty Co. - June. 30, 1932 - b. 565 p. 87
Andover Shawsheen Realty Co - Oct. 30, 1937 - b. 611 p. 177 - parcel 2
Jenny Manufacturing Co, Claude P. Woodworth, agt. - Aug. 3, 1936 - b. 599 p. 456 - parcel 1
Jenny Manufacturing Co., Claude P. Woodworth, agt. - Dec. 29, 1944 - b. 670 p. 278 parcel 2
Claude P. Woodworth - Nov. 1, 1960 - b. 947 p. 243 - 2 parcels
Woodworth Realty Trust, Grace A. Hardenbrook, pres. & treas. - May 16, 1978 - b. 1338 p. 362
Samuel T. Concemi - May 16, 1978 - b. 1338 p. 365
William P. & Kathleen M. DeLuca, Jr. - May 16, 1978 - b. 1338 p. 367
William P. DeLuca Jr. & Kathleen M. DeLuca - Dec. 30, 2013 - b. 13744 p. 69
Shawsheen Laundry Company, Inc. - 8 Haverhill St. parcel
Woodworth Motors, Inc., Claude P. Woodworth - July 21, 1953 - b. 778 p. 237
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|Original Use||garage and parking for 400 cars|
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|Architectural Style||Georgian Revival|
|Architect/Builder||Adden and Parker|
|Foundation||stone and concrete|
|Roof||slate & asphalt|
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|Organization||Andover Preservation Commission|
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What you need to know
- Google is placing new limitations on the targeting of political ads, beginning next week in the UK and worldwide on January 6, 2020.
- Previously, political ads could be targeted using "public voter records and general political affiliations (left-leaning, right-leaning, and independent)" in the U.S.
- Going forward, political ads will be restricted to "age, gender, and general location (postal code level)."
Whether we like it or not, tech companies are becoming integral to the election process. All you have to do is look back at the scandal with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica to see just how influential they can be and why we should all be concerned.
Thankfully, some tech companies are stepping up and doing something about it. Some are doing more than others though, for example, Twitter has decided to ban all political ads on its platform. While other companies, such as Google, are simply adding some more restrictions on how ads can be targeted ahead of the elections.
In the past, Google allowed verified advertisers to target users based on "public voter records and general political affiliations (left-leaning, right-leaning, and independent)" in the U.S.
Going forward, Google will now only allow election ad targeting based on "age, gender, and general location (postal code level)." This will affect ads across all Google platforms, including search ads, YouTube ads, and ads served by Google that appear on websites.
However, political advertisers will still be able to do contextual advertising based on the subject matter. For example, serving political ads to people who are reading articles about the economy.
The new changes will take effect within the next week in the UK just in time for the EU general election, and will roll out worldwide beginning on January 6, 2020.
Along with the new changes to targeted ads, Google also points out that it holds political ads to the same standards as all advertising when it comes to false claims. Saying just as it would not allow a company to advertise a chair with a misleading price, it also won't allow political ads that include obviously fake information such as a candidate dying or election day being postponed. However, Google recognizes that it will be impossible to catch every mistake but it will continue to look for "clear violations."
Google also understands that transparency is of the utmost importance when it comes to political advertising. This is why it offers a transparency report where you can look up the "content of the ads themselves, who paid for them, how much they spent, how many people saw them, and how they were targeted." Beginning December 3, 2019, Google is even expanding this to now cover "U.S. state-level candidates and officeholders, ballot measures, and ads that mention federal or state political parties" as well as making them searchable.
I guess it would have been a little much to expect Google to completely ban political ads, the company does make a lot of its money off of its advertising platform after all. However, it's nice to see Google taking some steps to restrict the ads and to try to "do the right thing" as its motto states.
I'd rather see ads from candidates I might actually vote for instead of bunch of obnoxious lies from people I would cross the street to punch. This could definitely make things worse.
EU general election? I thought I was to be voting in a UK general election.
That's a two edged sword. Sure they might filter out some "fake news"...while also further encroaching on and damaging free speech. The question must be asked again...do we want a corporation deciding what free speech ought to be?
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Kazem Nabavi, owner of a tire shop in Port Richmond, mourned the death of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a figure he admired.
“He [came] from poor family and became a general,” said Nabavi, who was born in Iran and describes himself as having pulled himself up by his bootstraps, like Soleimani. “In Iran, this is very, very, very hard. You have to be son of somebody to become somebody, but he did it. He broke that barrier.”
Fredoun Rashidian, the Iranian-born owner of a Persian restaurant in Lafayette Hill, tried to make sense of Soleimani’s killing.
“It was shock to me, a big shock,” Rashidian said of the news. “My hand was at the top of my head. Why this happen?”
But that’s where the political similarities between Nabavi and Rashidian end.
According to the latest American Community Survey data, 2013-2017, there were about 500 Iranian Americans in Philadelphia County. Nabavi and Rashidian show just how much views on U.S.-Iran relations can vary in the community.
In the 1950s, Nabavi left Iran for Hong Kong when he was 13 because he thought Shah Reza Pahlavi’s government was too oppressive.
“I was a free person and if they don’t like it, maybe they kill me,” he explained. But he thinks the country is worse off under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s current supreme leader.
Nabavi says he only had $13 in his pocket when he arrived to Philadelphia in 1959, but he got to work right away. He went to school, opened a tire shop business in Port Richmond and raised two children who became a lawyer and a doctor.
“This is beautiful and I don’t give it to nothing. It’s my country and I love it,” he said of the U.S. “I love Philadelphia. I love Port Richmond.”
Rashidian came to America to study during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He stayed because, by the time he graduated in the 1980s, war had broken out between Iran and Iraq.
Though Rashidian isn’t thrilled with how the current Iranian government is working for its people, he loves Ayatollah Khamenei — he compared it to the way Catholics love the pope. Khamenei is part of why Rashidian admired Soleimani.
“We know [Soleimani] and we see many, many different pictures of him when our leader Ayatollah Khamenei hold him, kiss him,” said Rashidian. “We see how nice this is that our leader is always hold [Soleimani] and kiss him. Always when [Khamenei] was talking to [Soleimani] his face was happy.”
A different Soleimani outside Iran
Still, both men are quick to admit they don’t know much about the accusations against the general who went from “nothing” to Iranian national hero.
Soleimani was the leader of the Quds Force, an elite unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and a terrorist organization, according to the United States government.
The U.S. Department of Defense said the Quds Force was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members.
The defense department also accused the general of “developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” in a statement.
“Even those people in Iran who are vehemently opposed to the system of government, they would not be directing their frustration or anger against Soleimani in particular,” said John Ghazvinian, interim director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ghazvinian is the Iranian American author of “America and Iran: A Passionate Embrace, from 1720 to the Present, ” due to come out in September.
“[Soleimani] is someone who is most known for his heroism in Lebanon, in Syria and in Yemen,” Ghazvinian explained.
‘We are used to it’
Rashidian’s initial shock over Soleimani’s death wore off quickly. After all, he said, relations have been tense for decades.
“We are used to it because the policy of the United States never changes,” he said.
Rashidian pointed to how the U.S. shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 toward the end of the Iran-Iraq war, killing 290 people. The U.S. said it thought the flight was a fighter jet.
“It’s not something new,” said Rashidian. “[The U.S.] kills many, many people in Iran.”
Nabavi couldn’t help but ask himself, “[The U.S.] didn’t think about the consequences?”
Since U.S. missiles killed Soleimani while he visited Baghdad, Iraq has threatened to expel all American troops from its country, and Iran ordered missile strikes on U.S. air bases where no one was killed.
Tensions appeared to ebb again Wednesday as President Trump announced there would be no further military action against Iran.
Nabavi, a self-described pacifist who hates the thought of seeing any living creature hurt, is closely watching how U.S.-Iran relations unfold from Port Richmond.
There are too many financial interests in Iran — including oil — for a war to break out, said Nabavi. Though he does regret how people have already died amid increasing tensions between the U.S. and his home country.
Both Navabi and Rashidian have families living in Iran. They say they aren’t more concerned about their families’ safety than usual.
Rashidian, who plans a vacation to Iran in the next couple of weeks, said he was more worried about Iranians in the U.S.
“Especially since Trump is president,” he said.
Ghazvinian said it’s been his experience that Iranians in the Philadelphia region are largely opposed to the Islamic Republic in one way or another, but feel caught between two extremes.
“The day-to-day frustrations and difficulties of being caught between these two countries is very, very difficult for a lot of people, especially with things like the travel ban and the sanctions,” he said.
This week’s tensions have caused some Iranian-Americans to drop travel plans after reports of additional screenings at the airport.
Ghazvinian was questioned at John F. Kennedy airport himself last Sunday. He said he feels lucky because his questioning only lasted a few minutes.
“I don’t think I was particularly mistreated,” he said. “I think Iranians on green cards or student visas are having a much, much more difficult time at the moment, from everything I’ve been hearing.”
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What are auto accidents?
Cars have quickly become the primary means of transportation for a lot of people. But with so much traffic, accidents also become commonplace. Auto accidents are defined as unintentional collisions involving automobiles, either with another automobile, with stationary objects such as light posts, or with pedestrians or animals. The force of the collision can possibly result to varying degrees of physical injury, loss of property, and sometimes, loss of life.
What are auto accident injuries?
People who do survive vehicular accidents are usually left with injuries from different parts of the body. Depending on the intensity and nature of impact, patients may suffer from broken bones, facial injuries, internal organ damage, or even mangled body parts. In some cases the injuries also leave patients unable to regain the use of their injured limbs. Some of the common auto accident injuries include the following:
- Head or brain injuries – trauma sustained by the head can result to varying degrees of damage to the brain, from mild concussion to life-threatening internal bleeding.
- Facial injuries – typical injuries include cuts from flying debris such as broken glass resulting to loss of eyesight or facial muscle functions, dental, and jaw-related damage.
- Neck and spinal cord injuries – also occurring in differing severity are injuries such as whiplash, spinal disc injury, and spinal cord damages
- Internal organ injury – usually occurs as a result of broken bones or debris puncturing internal organs such as the lungs, liver, and kidneys
- Psychological injury – auto accidents usually also affect the emotional and mental state of patients, especially in cases where loss of lives have to be endured by family members
What are the treatments for auto accident injuries?
Depending on the severity of the crash and the nature of the patients’ injuries, treatment may range from simple wound cleaning to more serious procedures such as surgery. While some of the sustained auto accident injuries are obvious from the onset, some damage would not manifest symptoms until it is too late. That being the case, patients who have been through an auto accident are usually immediately subjected to tests such as CT scans for a thorough evaluation of possible internal damage. Treatment is critical for the first 72 hours, so if any internal injuries have been sustained, patients may be recommended to undergo certain procedures (e.g. surgery) immediately. Some other forms of care include rehabilitation therapy to help patients regain functional capacity of the limbs or muscles injured or affected in the accident. Some of the treatments include:
- Physical tending of lacerations, bruises, and concussions
- Oral medication
- Interventional therapy
- Chiropractic care
- Physical therapy
- Psychological therapy
What is an auto accident injury doctor?
Auto accident injury doctors are physicians who specializes on injury related auto accident trauma. They help patients with diagnosis, injury repair treatments, pain management, surgery, and rehabilitation. Auto accident injury doctors come from a wide variety of disciplines such as orthopedics, internal medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, neurology, physical therapy, and chiropractic care. Auto accident injury doctors not only take care of immediate conditions, but also help patients with long term treatment and rehabilitation. Have you been through an auto accident recently? Don’t hesitate to seek an auto accident injury doctor to take care of you.
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Ammonia gas senior which has a high sensitivity in robust condition has investigated. Nano-porous thin film consisted of polyelectrolytes and sheet particulate α-ZrP was assembled by a layer-by-layer self assembly method on a electrode of quartz crystal microbalance(QCM). This QCM sensor showed a eight times higher sensitivity than that of QCM deposited with n-ZrP by a casting method in low relative humidity. This means that the polyelectrolytes were worked as not only a stabilizer to form a porous structure but also as a material to keep moisture. Consequently, we considered that the gas sensitivity of thin film was increased for other hydrophilic gases.
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Big Toe Arthiritis
What is a hallux rigidus?
Hallux rigidus is arthritis (wear and tear) of the joint of the big toe. It causes a destruction of the normal working of the big toe joint. The term ‘hallux’ means the big toe and ‘rigidus’ means stiffness.
What causes hallux rigidus?
There has been no definite cause found for hallux rigidus. The big toe takes an enormous amount of pressure during normal gait. Almost twice the amount of body weight passes through the big toe during each step which may cause wear and tear of the joint. People with flat feet may be predisposed to this condition due to the abnormal forces passing through this joint when the arch of the foot collapses.
What are the symptoms caused by hallux rigidus?
In the early stages you may experience
Pain and stiffness of the big toe
Swelling and redness around the big toe joint
Pain or stiffness may worsen in cold or damp weather
As it progresses you may develop
Pain at rest
A bony bump ‘osteophyte’ over the top of the big toe which may rub against the shoe.
How is this condition diagnosed?
Your consultant will examine your foot clinically and this usually makes the diagnosis clear. Particularly pain on attempts to move the big toe joint with reduced range of movement. X-rays of the foot are also taken to determine how severe the condition is.
Can the condition worsen?
Big toe arthritis may gradually deteriorate over several years. Initially you may experience just stiffness of the big toe but with time pain may also develop particularly on running or walking. As the condition deteriorates one may also get pain at rest.
What treatment options are there?
Foot wear modification
Pain often occurs when the big toe bends upwards during walking.The thinner the sole of the shoe, and the higher the heel, the worse are going to be the symptoms from this condition. Therefore a shoe with a well supported stiff sole, will help reduce the amount of movement of the big toe during walking and help with your symptoms. A ‘rocker-bottom’ shoe may also help as it allows the big toe to rock forward rather than bend during gait. A ‘large toe box’ shoe is preferred to a narrow pointy toe shoe .
Non steroidal anti- inflammatories
A large number of patients will have good control of symptoms with non steroidal anti inflammatory medicines and may not require anything further.
Several surgical options are available and your consultant will tailor based on your symptoms and degree of arthritis.
‘Cheilectomy’ involves removing the bony bump at the top of the big toe which usually causes irritation whilst wearing shoes. The big toe joint may either be fused or replaced. Fusion creates a stiff big toe which will be done with a small plate and screws. This eliminates the pain in the big toe but sacrifices movement. This is ideal for young active patients. A joint replacement on the other hand will help preserve movement but the results of a replacement are not as predictable as a fusion. A fusion remains the gold standard treatment for big toe arthritis.
Is surgery necessary?
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Quark anomalous magnetic moment and its effects on the ρ meson properties
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Xing, Z., Raya, K., & Chang, L. (2021). Quark anomalous magnetic moment and its effects on the ρ meson properties. Physical Review D, 104(5), 054038. [https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.054038]
SponsorshipNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 12135007
A symmetry-preserving treatment of mesons, within a Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations approach, demands an interconnection between the kernels of the quark gap equation and meson Bethe- Salpeter equation. Appealing to those symmetries expressed by the vector and axial-vector Ward-Green- Takahashi identitiges (WGTI), we construct a two-body Bethe-Salpeter kernel and study its implications in the vector channel; particularly, we analyze the structure of the quark-photon vertex, which explicitly develops a vector meson pole in the timelike axis and the quark anomlaous magnetic moment term, as well as a variety of ρ meson properties: mass and decay constants, electromagnetic form factors, and valencequark distribution amplitudes. | <urn:uuid:6bf1efc3-b80a-4677-8375-9d5739770a49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/71287 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.761547 | 317 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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MBA 1st Year Introduction Micro Macro Business Environment Long Question Answer :- In this Post you will find MBA 1 year related to important questions related to the answer such as the Introduction Micro Business Environment Answer and many other important questions. long Questions are answerer in section C
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
Q.1. What are the essential characteristics of business?
Ans. Characteristics of Business: The essential characteristics of business are as follows:
1. Entrepreneur: There must be someone to take initiative for establishing a business. The person who recognizes the need for a product or service is known as entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is a key figure in the process of economic growth.
2. Economic Activities: These also play an important role in carrying out business activities.
3. Deals in Goods and Services: Business always deals in goods and services. The goods include hath customers goods like clothes, Shoes, toothpaste and industrial goods like raw material, tools and machinery.
4. Risk: The business involves a greater element of risk and uncertainty. In fact, a businessman tries to foresee the future uncertainties and plan his business act future uncertainties and plan his business activities accordingly.
5. Profit: Profit is the most important character of business. Business is started for purpose of profit Profit is driving force of every business activity. The incentive of earning profits keeps business and is also necessary for the continuity of business. This does not mean that there earning profit. Profit is driving force of e person in business and is also will be no chances of losses in business.
6. Production: Business always always deals on production of goods and services The object of business to provide goods and services to society for the purpose of earning profit. The goods must be produced or manufactured so that they can be sold in market.
7. Sales: Sales are related with the transfer of values. The production for personal use does come under the scope of business. For example, if a shoe-maker makes a pair of shoes and wear himself his act is not treated as business. If a person makes a pair of shoes for the purpose of selling, now his act is treated as business.
8. Finance: Finance is another important character of business. No businessman can without finance, finance is the lifeblood of every business organisation.
9. Management: Every enterprise needs an organisation for its successful working. Various business. activities are divided into departments sections and jobs. In this way, organization creates the framework for managerial performance and helps in coordinating various business activities.
10. Regularity: In business, only those transactions are included which have regulartity and continuity and disolated transaction will not be called business, even if the person earns profit from that deal. A person builds house for himself, but later on sells it on profit.
11. Creation of Utility: The goods goods are provided to the consumer as per there likes and requirements Business creates various types of utilities in goods so that consumer may use them.
12. Consumer Satisfaction: The ultimate aim of business is to supply goods to the consumers which are produced for them. If a consumer is satisfied with the product he will purchase the same thing again, otherwise he will go for an alternative commodity.
14. Planning: Planning is the most important character of business Planning is related with all the activities of business. Planning is always based on past experience.
MBA 1st Year Introduction Micro Macro Business Environment Long Question Answer
Q.2. What are the different types of business? Discuss the forms of business organisations.
Ans. A business is an organisation that uses economic resources or inputs to provide goods or services to customers in exchange for money or other goods and services.
Business organisations come in different types and forms: Types of Business
There are four major types of businesses:
1. Service Business: A service type of business provides intangible products (products with no physical form). Service type firms offer professional skills, expertise, advice and other similar products.
Examples of service businesses are: schools, repair shops, hair salons, banks, accounting firms and law firms.
2. Merchandising Business: This type of business buys products at wholesale price and sells the same at retail price. They are known as ‘Buy and sell businesses. They make profit by selling the products at prices higher than their purchase costs.
A merchandising business sells a product without changing its form. Examples are grocery stores, convenience stores, distributors and other resellers.
3. Manufacturing Business: Unlike a merchandising business, a manufacturing business buys products with the intention of using them as materials in making a new product. Thus, there is a transformation of the products purchased.
A manufacturing business combines raw materials, labour and factory overhead in its production process. The manufactured goods will then be sold to customers.
4. Hybrid Business: Hybrid businesses are companies that may be classified in more than one type of business. A restaurant, for example, combines ingredients in making a fine meal (manufacturing), Sells a cold bottle of wine (merchandising), and fills customer orders (service).
Nevertheless, these companies may be classified according to their major business interest. In that Case, restaurants are more of the service type, i.e. they provide dining services.
Forms of Business Organisation
These are the basic forms of business ownership:
1. Sole Proprietorship: A sole proprietorship is a business owned by only one person. It is easy to set-up and is the least costly among all forms of ownership.
the owner faces unlimited liability, meaning, the creditors of the business may go after the personal assets of the owner if the business cannot pay them.
The sole proprietorship form is usually adopted by small business entities.
2. partnership: A partnership is a business owned by two or more persons who contribute resources into the entity. The partners divide the profits of the business among themselves.
in general partnerships, all partners have unlimited liability. In limited partnerships, creditors cannot go after the personal assets of the limited partners.
3. Corporation: A corporation is a business organisation that has a separate legal personality from its owners. Ownership in a stock corporation is represented by shares of stock.
The owners (stockholders enjoy limited liability but have limited involvement in the company’s operations. The board of directors, an elected group from the stockholders, controls the activities of the corporation.
In addition to those basic forms of business ownership, there are some other types of organisations that are common today. These are:
1. Limited Liability Company: Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) in the USA, are hybrid forms of business that have characteristics of both a corporation and a partnership. An LLC is not incorporated, hence, it is not considered a corporation.
Nevertheless, the owners enjoy limited liability like in a corporation. An LLC may elect to be taxed as a sole proprietorship, a partnership, or a corporation.
2. Cooperative: A cooperative is a business organisation owned by a group of individuals and is operated for their mutual benefit. The persons making up the group are called members. Cooperatives may be incorporated or unincorporated.
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Field boundaries make an important contribution to the character and biodiversity of the landscape and are one of the strongest surviving links to the farming traditions of the past. Some hedges and walls along parish boundaries, old roads and tracks date back to the medieval period and perhaps even earlier. Most were laid out in successive waves of enclosure from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century.
For further background information on Field Boundaries visit the Landscape Assessment section.
Over much of the County the network of field boundaries has been subject to piecemeal erosion over many decades. The Durham Hedgerow Survey 1994 found that almost half of the hedges on parish and township boundaries had been lost since 1860, or survived only as relics. The Durham Hedgerow Survey 2006 estimated that 21% of the hedgerow resource had been lost since 1979.
The removal of hedges to create larger fields has had a large impact in the lowlands where the emphasis has moved to increasingly specialised arable production after a long period of mixed or pastoral farming. The decline of hedges and walls through neglect has been a less conspicuous but equally powerful force in the pastoral farmland of the uplands and upland fringes. Many hedges have also been lost to development, both built development and mineral extraction. The fragmentation of boundary networks has consequences for both the character and biodiversity of the landscape. The loss of habitat – and the loss of connectivity between habitats as the network declines – has impacts on wildlife, which increasingly depends on hedgerows for food, shelter and dispersal in intensively managed agricultural landscapes.
In recent years concern over the decline of hedgerows has lead to the development of both protective legislation (The Hedgerow Regulations 1997) and financial support for hedgerow planting and renovation in the (now obsolete) Hedgerow Incentive and Countryside Stewardship schemes. The current Environmental Stewardship Entry Level Scheme encourages appropriate cutting regimes for hedges but does not provide support for renovation works like laying and coppicing. The Higher Level Scheme is likely to be more focussed on national land management priorities and is unlikely to offer the same level of support for field boundary work as Countryside Stewardship. In County Durham, the County Durham Hedgerow Partnership was established to address the decline of hedgerows and walls and provides financial assistance through its Field Boundary Restoration Grant. The Durham Biodiversity Action Plan contains an Action Plan for hedgerows.
Issues and Objectives
The rate of hedgerow removal for agricultural purposes has slowed in recent years but some pressure continues in arable areas as farmers seek increases in efficiency from larger field sizes. Further pressure might be expected in the longer term and particularly if climate change brings changing patterns of land use. The removal of hedges when land is developed continues to be an issue wherever there is development pressure. Established hedges and trees can often be successfully incorporated into the design of new development and in some circumstances can be translocated where preservation is impractical. Losses of hedgerows can be mitigated in some cases by the provision of new hedges or the renovation of hedges in the locality.
Hedgerow removal is controlled by the Hedgerow Regulations 1997. The regulations have been criticised by some as being difficult to apply and failing to protect important hedges. They are currently under review. Further work is needed in the County to identify hedges of particular historical or ecological importance.
- To encourage the protection, conservation and restoration of field boundary networks to maintain and strengthen landscape character.
- To promote awareness of the importance and value of hedges in the landscape and to provide information on the hedgerow resource to decision makers and land managers.
- To encourage and inform the reform of the Hedgerow Regulations and to guide their application.
- To encourage the retention of mature hedgerows and trees in new development together with new hedgerow planting and renovation.
- To encourage the mitigation of hedgerow loss in development through compensatory hedge planting or maintenance using Section 106 Agreements.
Neglect and Abandonment
In pastoral areas, particularly in the upland fringes where returns from land are small, hedgerow maintenance can be a low priority. Unmanaged hedgerows, reduced by grazing pressure to lines of individual thorns, are gradually supplanted by fences or abandoned altogether in favour of larger enclosures and more extensive grazing regimes. The Durham Hedgerow Survey 2006 found that 62% of the hedges surveyed showed no signs of active management, and that only 17% were in ‘favourable’ condition, with gaps along the length and in the base of the hedge being the main factors in this.
Most pastoral landscapes in the county are subject to these trends and are therefore undergoing a period of transition that will significantly affect their character in the medium to long term. Where field systems are old, or their pattern has a strong influence on the character of the landscape, this decline is of particular significance. In landscapes of more recent enclosure, a return to extensive grazing and a more open landscape may be unavoidable.
Well-managed hedgerows are cost-effective to maintain, but when management has been abandoned for some time, renovation by can be expensive. Land managers may lack the resources or the skills to carry out the work. Grant assistance for renovation was available in the past through the Hedgerow Incentive Scheme and its successor Countryside Stewardship. As Entry Level Environmental Stewardship does not provide for capital works and the Higher Level scheme is likely to be focussed on more environmentally important sites, there is currently (2007) a significant gap in funding for this kind of work. In the Durham BAP area the County Durham Hedgerow Partnership’s Field Boundary Restoration Grant is available, though it has limited resources. The Partnership produces detailed guidance on the restoration and management of field boundaries which is published on the County Council’s website.
- To encourage the restoration of neglected hedges, particularly those of older field systems, ancient boundaries and where field patterns are an important component of landscape character.
- To promote the development of rural skills in hedgerow management.
- To secure resources for the County Durham Hedgerow Partnership’s Field Boundary Restoration Grant.
- To advise Government on the need for financial support for hedgerow renovation.
Hedgerow and Headland Management
Mechanical trimming is the commonest form of hedgerow management and in most circumstances the most cost efficient. Excessive trimming has been linked with declining vigour in hedges and greatly reduces the value of a hedge as a habitat and food resource for wildlife. In arable fields uncultivated headlands are often narrow or absent which reduces the habitat value of hedges and makes them more vulnerable to spray or fertiliser drift. In open arable landscapes hedgerows are often important refuges for wildlife and significant, if sometimes isolated, features in the landscape. Trimming over longer rotations can be more cost effective than annual trimming and create more robust and ecologically valuable hedgerows. This is now a requirement of Entry Level Environmental Stewardship. The adoption of broader field margins of permanent grass increases the value of hedges as habitat for invertebrates, including pollinating insects, birds and wildlife. The County Durham Hedgerow Partnership produces detailed guidance on the trimming of hedges which is published on the County Council’s website. The National Proficiency Tests Council (NPTC) now has a module on the environmental aspects of hedgerow maintenance in its Certificate of Competence in the Safe Use of hedge Trimmers.
- To encourage the appropriate management of hedges to maintain and improve their vigour and value as habitat.
- To encourage the adoption of permanent grass field margins along field boundaries.
- To promote training in the environmental aspects of hedgerow maintenance and the use of suitably qualified personnel in maintenance works on the council’s land holdings.
Hedgerow and Field Trees
Boundary trees are important feature of much of the lowland and upland fringe landscape and in many cases are veteran survivors of a time when they where more highly valued for their timber or for shading livestock. A high proportion of hedgerow trees are mature and there is little positive recruitment of new trees to replace those that are lost to sustain their overall numbers. Boundary trees are vulnerable to damage from close cultivation, from fencing works and mechanical hedge trimming. Trees may be removed in arable areas to reduce crop shading or increase field size.
- To support the recording and mapping of ancient and veteran trees.
- To encourage the protection and careful management of mature hedgerow trees.
- To encourage the planting or recruitment of new hedgerow and boundary trees in landscapes where they are characteristic.
Dry Stone Walls
Dry stone walls are a distinctive feature of the County’s upland and upland fringe landscapes. In places the network is in generally good repair and particularly in the Pennine Dales Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) where financial assistance has been available for restoration. Elsewhere the situation is more varied. In the marginal land of the upland fringes many walls are derelict or in poor repair and are often abandoned, replaced by fences, or removed as a source of building stone. Roadside walls in particular are vulnerable to damage and theft. Grant assistance for repairing walls was available in the past through ESA agreements and Countryside Stewardship. Some assistance will continue to be available in Environmental Stewardship Higher Level schemes but only for whole farm schemes within the AONB. There is likely to be a significant gap in funding for this kind of work elsewhere. A new training scheme for apprentice wallers was launched in 2007 by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and BTCV. This should go some way to addressing the skills shortage in dry stone walling in the area as a whole.
- To encourage the restoration of dry stone walls and particularly where they are part of a wider network or make a strong individual contribution to local landscape character.
- To support the development of rural skills in dry stone walling.
- To advise Government on the need for financial support for walling renovation.
New Hedges in the Landscape
There is increasing interest in planting new hedges both amongst farmers, conservation organisations and developers. Priorities for new planting include areas where hedgerow networks have been severely disrupted in the past – for example in areas of intensive arable farmland and restored mineral workings – and in connecting isolated habitats such as semi-natural woodlands, field ponds and species rich grasslands. The County Durham Hedgerow Partnership produces detailed guidance on hedge planting which is published on the County Council’s website.
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Mayfield High school student receives honorable mention in 2020 Aldo Leopold writing contest
Community Snapshot: The Leopold Writing Program announced the winners of the 2020 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest. Two hundred three students from New Mexico in grades 6-12 entered this year’s contest, which asked students to submit original essays in response to the following question: How might reuniting our understanding of “ecology” and “economy” help solve today’s environmental problems? Mireya Sanchez-Maes, a senior at Mayfield High School, received an honorable mention award. Originally these students were going to receive their awards from New Mexico native Nobel winning climate economist William Nordhaus in Albuquerque on April 20 but that event has been cancelled. To submit an item for community snapshot, email photo and information to email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:514ef5dc-1579-4a12-99a3-93fe2dcdf3c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/community/2020/04/02/student-receives-writing-recognition-contest/5116450002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952504 | 182 | 1.773438 | 2 |
A dashboard is a visual representation of your work. It gives decision makers a way to easily visualize their company’s performance and projects in real time. Dashboard building must meet specific criteria, and you’ll find out about ours in this article.
Rule # 1 : Favour default settings
Your foundation should be simplicity. Most dashboard solutions are highly customisable. Just think Excel stacked with infinite features.
These tools allow for very advanced options, like linking several graphs on the same screen or cross-checking thousands of data. Word to the wise: don’t. Just aim for simplicity. Let data scientists deal with complex cross-checking.
Our clients are large corporations with complex issues. Our only advice: make it simple. The more complex the issue, the simpler your screen should be. This is key to manage your operations efficiently.
On top of that, think end user. Neither you, nor anyone else wants to go through endless clicks or filter settings to get some piece of info. Offer just one way to use your graph. Take this opportunity to jump into data storytelling and truly bring your data to life. I’d say you should just trust the tool you’re using. Believe in default!
Rule # 2: Design first, Data second
What do you mean “Design first”? Sure, data collection is a major step. But going with Design first enables iteration without investing time into structuring the data. Consequence: massive time savings.
Have a little test with your end user and a sheet of paper. Offer one way to use the data. The only thing that matters is the need expressed by the user.
The first iterations are meant for projection and to better define their requirements with you. Once they’re happy, sort out the enormous work of data creation and connection.
Design first puts things into perspective for the user. It allows them to provide immediate feedback before investing too much time. The traditional method on the other hand? A harrowing multiple weeks journey to draw up a graph connected to the data before getting any feedback.
What usually happens is your user will ask for different requirements. Worse yet, you might have to do it all over again and you’d have wasted loads of time. One of the reasons why so many IT projects have failed in the past is due to the Waterfall model.
The end goal is quite simple though: deciding what dashboards will feature before the data connection stage. This step makes it easier to sort out what we really want to tell through our visualizations.
Rule # 3 : One need = one graph
Putting multiple graphs on a single dashboard often stems from a fear of not seeing a key indicator. That’s why so many dashboards are exhaustive. But when it comes to day to day information gathering, simplicity and relevance prevail over exhaustiveness.
Before anything else, your dashboard must be a communication and education tool. Unique information is easier to understand. The big issue with BI tools is they are over exhaustive, which makes them incomprehensible for dashboards.
With one message per screen, the story you’re telling with your graph is clearer. Remember, the dashboard is there to tell a story through your data.
Not to mention having a single graph per screen allows you to feature actions on this same graph. One click to expand an area dives into a higher level of granularity to get more specific information. A fantastic way to combine simplicity and exploration capacity.
Rule # 4: Users are humans too
This rule is about formatting only. View it as your gateway to power. When building your dashboard, there should be no room left for ambiguity in your formatting.
You want to avoid writing 10.05.2017 and favor 10th May 2017 when processing date or period. It will avoid confusion with date formatting. Let’s take an international date as an example. Although the US format is month/day/year, the international format tends to be day/month/year.
This could lead to confusion if you choose to write 10.05.2017 instead of 10th May 2017. Depending on the country you’re in, the reader might not be able to guess right.
Humans are not robots, avoid treating them as such.
Rule #5: 3 filters per dashboard
Here comes our friend simplicity again. Rule n°5 resembles the “1 screen, 1 message” rule. Too many filters in one single visualization are bound to create readability issues. We don’t want that to happen.
Whenever you’re tempted to go over 3 filters per screen, you just need to tell another story. Put on your fashion hat for a second and think about the “3 colors rule”. More than 3 colors and you lose any sense of harmony in your outfit!
Now that you’ve been over these golden rules, you are ready to build simple, precise and educational dashboards to tell wonderful stories. Well done, A+!
Charles Miglietti, Co-founder @ Toucan Toco
About Toucan Toco
Our mission: using pedagogy to turn raw and complex data into Dataviz and interactive stories
Our users: Management teams working in Marketing, Operations, Finance, HR or Sales in large corporations.
Toucan Toco in numbers:
- From 4 partners to a team of 50 in 3 years
- 90+ key account clients
- 200 projects including EDF, Total, Renault, JCDecaux, Marques Avenue or BPCE
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Your slip is showing
Meanings of "Your slip is showing"
Literal; A slip is a woman's undergarment worn usually beneath a dress. Sometimes it is very close to the same length. If the dress 'rides up' such as when sitting someone may say your/her slip is showing.
Figuratively it means that 'you' made a 'slip of the tongue' and spoke of something that shows your true intent or beliefs that may not be the most appropriate at the time. When it is literally used it pertains to women. When it is figuratively used it can be used to address both a woman or a man. Take care that it is not regarded as an insult to masculinity.
Φαίνεται το εσώρουχό σου, για κάτσε καλύτερα!
Η αλεπού κρυβότανε, μα η ουρά φαινότανε
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The document provides basic information on producing 360° video using consumer-oriented equipment. It will discuss what is important to know when shooting 360° video, like tips about equipment, camera settings and camera position.
You will also learn about what you can do post-production; such as editing and exporting the finished video. The user guide gives recommendations and descriptions of different kinds of hardware and software that can be used, with links to several video tutorials.
After reading this – you should have the information you need to get started. We wish you the best of luck!
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Receiving an Offer of Help Reminded Me What It Means to Be a CMTer
I had just exited the county building after getting my second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and was making my way across the parking lot toward my car. Then I heard a man calling out from behind me.
When I turned back, I saw a county worker leaning against a small shuttle bus. I wasn’t the only person in his line of sight, but it was me he singled out among the scattering of folks walking back to their vehicles. With a head nod and a glance, he communicated his observation of the way I walked — swaying and with a bit of a limp — and asked me whether I needed a ride.
Although I ultimately turned down his offer because I had found an amazing parking spot only a few steps farther, that moment brought a few things to mind. It reminded me that I’ve changed and grown comfortable in my identity as a person with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, that I’m thankful my county has taken some steps to make things a bit more accessible, and that ultimately, there are still many systemic problems that perpetuate inequalities in our society.
Firstly, the experience reminded me of my growing comfort as a CMTer because I can remember a time when I might have been ashamed of a stranger making note of my gait, or insulted by an offer of help. So averse was I to the fear of people taking pity on me that I would reject honest and genuine offers of assistance.
And that is foolishness. Refusing help when needed isn’t indicative of strength, and I don’t think any of us with CMT should feel any shame when turning to an assistive or mobility device, or when accepting an offer for a quick ride, whether at airports or theme parks.
As such, I was happy to see my county invest in employees and equipment to help people with mobility difficulties, such as those of us with CMT. With initiatives like the push for COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States, it’s important we try to carry them out in fair and equitable ways.
And yet, I couldn’t help but also think of all the ways this pandemic has revealed shortcomings in how our society cares for many populations. Although I was able to get my COVID-19 vaccine quite early compared with many other folks in my county, it was purely due to certain privileges I have.
It wasn’t the result of CMT or any health-related reason. And I’m not technically a healthcare worker. However, I work at a county library, and when the county needed help at one of its mass vaccination sites, it welcomed library folks such as me to help out. In exchange, I was able to get vaccinated a bit sooner than I otherwise would have.
Being physically able enough to work at a mass vaccination site and not having other obligations in my schedule are certain privileges that I have. And although I’m very happy to be fully vaccinated, part of me feels like I was just able to take advantage of an inequitable situation.
I don’t know what to do with these feelings yet. However, this whole experience of getting vaccinated and recognizing some personal growth in myself has strengthened my resolve to continue exploring what it means to be a CMTer and to keep my eyes open to the needs and inequalities in our society.
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal about the benefits of rising at 4:00 a.m. so intrigued me that I felt compelled to pen a post about getting up before everyone else.
First, though, a disclaimer: I am not now, although I have been, a confirmed early riser.
My Time as an Early Riser
At one time in my career with General Motors I regularly commuted (twice a month) from Michigan to my home in Los Angeles. While I worked in Michigan, I had to travel to downtown Detroit from the suburbs where I stayed at the home of relatives. To escape the traffic gridlock, I left for work in the pre-dawn hours and returned well after the regular dinner hour.
Here’s what I learned from that experience.
- Getting to/from work was a breeze – even in the worst winter weather. At least there were fewer vehicles on the freeway and surface streets to contend with. And having lived in Michigan most of my life, I knew how to navigate snow and ice.
- I could catch up on emails before anyone else stumbled their way to their desks or hung out at the coffee room trading small talk.
- Working on a speech, writing a press release, or editing a presentation was much easier when the din of conversation and machines wasn’t present. There’s something sublime about looking up and not seeing anyone else’s head in the room. This was such a productive time that I realized an early start was the best way to tackle an important project or task. I adhere to this strategy today and it’s never failed me.
- Knowing that I got so much done in such a short period of time was like a gift. I knew that this was something I did for myself.
Today, however, I confess I get up at a much later hour. Unless I’ve stayed up late the night before, I’m usually awake and out of bed before 7:00 a.m. That may sound luxurious or indulgent from the standpoint of those who have to travel long distances or commute in heavy traffic, but consider that I work from home. The farthest I have to travel to get to my office is a few feet.
What I Like About Getting Up Early
Still, there are benefits to getting up early that I enthusiastically recommend. Some of these tips include:
- Having some time for yourself.
- Getting through your inbox without a deluge of new mail.
- Spending a few minutes reflecting on what you’re most grateful for in life.
- Prayer or meditation (which, for some, may be synonymous).
- Leisurely enjoying a home-made hot latte, breakfast or juice smoothie.
- Jotting down a list of priorities for the day.
- Rearranging those priorities to suit a) preference, b) resources, c) timing, d) energy, e) due date or deadline.
- Making full use of your creativity when it’s at its best.
- No distractions to get in the way.
- A sense of being ahead of the game.
- Knowing that you’ve given yourself an added boost means you’ve got time left over to devote to something you want to do – like take a walk at lunch, meet a friend for an early dinner, go shopping, get a massage, make a date with your spouse or significant other…
- No phone calls to interrupt your stride, demand immediate action or make you lose focus.
- For those with small children, adolescents or teens (or all of these), getting a jump on the day means you’ll have more energy and enthusiasm to give to them – and they will soak it up like thirsty flowers. Been there, done that, highly recommend.
What Do You Think?
What benefits do you find from getting up early? I’d love to hear them. On the other hand, if you care to list what’s to love about getting up later, let’s get a discussion going on that topic as well. Could be the subject of another blog post.
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Gold Investment Fundamentals. Gold is a rare-earth element that has actually boosted in value over the years. One ounce of gold is currently worth concerning US $780. In comparison, many globe currencies were valued at a lot less when you bought them from the mines.
Gold Financial investment in the context of a tax system typically includes either a bullion or gold scheme. Under the bullion plan, you purchase bullions or bars that can be physically situated throughout the globe. You are permitted to have several bars and also collect them right into a financial investment portfolio. gold ira reviews
If you buy gold investment via the gold scheme, you pay the tax obligations on the gains on your profile basis in addition to the gold rates that you paid throughout the year. This implies that you have to calculate the quantity that you make and then subtract it from the quantity you invest. If the distinction between both numbers is positive, after that you do not need to pay the tax. Conversely, if the difference is negative, after that you need to pay the tax obligation on any type of revenues you make.
As gold investments have grown in appeal, there are several plans and also automobiles that permit individuals to invest in them without paying tax obligations on their investments. The first type of scheme is called a holder share plan. This is when you invest in gold as well as yet you hold shares in the fund. You obtain dividends from the share you are holding. When you offer your shares, you will certainly get funding gain interest from the sale.
An additional sort of gold investment system is the gold savings plan. In this plan, you buy gold bars or coins as well as hold them as cash. When you come close to the financial institution to make a transaction, they will take the coins out of your account. You have the alternative of offering the gold at a certain point in time, which indicates that you would need to invest the cash you gain from offering gold bars or coins to spend for the tax obligations on your acquisition.
Investing in mutual funds is another way of investing in gold. Mutual funds are groups of stocks or bonds that are all handled by a specialist stock trader who selects the best financial investments for his clients. Most individuals watch mutual funds as a relatively easy method to purchase gold. Because funds normally deal securities by themselves, you are not needed to pay any taxes on your gains. Naturally, it is up to you whether you would certainly favor to have a round figure distribution or disperse your gains throughout the years. gold in your ira
You can likewise purchase gold bullion bars. When you invest in bullion bars, you are buying physical gold as opposed to shares of stock or bond firms. In numerous means, bullion bars are extra similar to gold coins than they are to gold bars. Many times, the bar is also referred to as “bells” or “dices.”.
An excellent way to diversify your investments is by owning shares in both types of financial investments. You can likewise select to add physical gold coins to your portfolio. The bottom line is that it does not matter how you buy gold. As long as you are tracking your financial investments and also boosting your degree of expertise regarding gold, you will certainly be fine.
One more option for investing is via gold funds. You may wish to check into spending with gold funds because these funds commonly pay a greater dividend. If you have a high returns yield from other financial investments, you will have much less cash left over at the end of the year. This leaves you with even more money to make use of in additional financial investments or for yourself, besides, you only have to pay your dividend two times a year. It is necessary to keep in mind that several gold funds additionally have costs so it may not be as budget friendly as other kinds of investing.
Gold bullion as well as gold coins are other excellent alternatives if you don’t intend to invest a great deal of time tracking your financial investments. One point that makes gold coins different from bullion is that they are simpler to ship as well as receive. There are also less opportunities for damages or theft when buying gold. However, you have to weigh the threat versus reward of your investing.
Ultimately, there are futures and choices for you to consider. Gold futures and options are contracts that offer you the right to purchase or offer particular quantities of gold within an established timespan. The agreements typically have an expiry date, although most exchanges have not a problem with these sorts of contracts. You can also utilize physical gold to acquire these contracts. There are also ETFs, or exchange traded funds, that concentrate on gold mining business. These can be a fantastic method to diversify your profile, given that you generally get better returns with ETFs than you would certainly from gold mining business.
Of all the rare-earth elements, gold has actually ended up being the most demanded as an investment, particularly for individuals who are currently well-off. Therefore, investors generally purchase gold as part of a diversified profile as a means of decreasing threat, particularly via making use of derivatives as well as futures agreements. The gold market, like the other financial markets, is very sensitive to volatility and also risk and also therefore is subject to considerable speculation.
Any type of gold investment scheme needs to have one or more investment vehicles in position prior to you will certainly be able to earn a significant return. If you do not have a varied scheme, then your possible returns will be seriously limited. A superb technique of achieving this is by picking an excellent high quality mutual fund item that invests in gold. As long as it is signed up with the Product Futures Trading Payment (CFTC) and the Financial Solutions Authority (FSA), you should be in excellent business. These items have strict investment standards which guarantee that the cash invested is maintained a regulated level, which the system adheres to regulations set by the law.
Another method to expand your profile is by investing in a gold cost savings plan. You may choose to put your cash into a gold mutual fund product or you might choose a specialized item such as gold exchange-traded funds or gold supplies. By choosing to buy a gold saving account, you will certainly diversify your investment portfolio however it will certainly likewise include some risk. If you pick the option of a gold supply system, after that it is a good concept to stick to widely known names which have an excellent credibility. Installing a vital owner in your gold savings account should also be taken into consideration if you want the assurance that you are really buying gold bullion. ira in gold and silver
When looking for an investment lorry, several capitalists think about both stocks and shares, yet ignore gold financial investment entirely, maybe as a result of lack of knowledge or maybe just because they are afraid the high price that comes with it. Others may believe that it is also unpredictable an instrument to be worth the moment or initiative, however the fact is that there are some superb factors to get associated with physical gold coins. Below are 3 reasons it is well worth your while to think about purchasing gold bullion. | <urn:uuid:30c563b3-31f5-4e03-9886-6251ee03c59a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dw3soul.com/2021/10/24/attributes-of-gold-financial-investment-that-make-everybody-love-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975431 | 1,450 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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|Exerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia
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There were 10 famous female prophets of the ancient world, one each in Persia, Libya, Delphi, Samos, Cimmeria, Erythraea, Tibur, Marpessus, and Phrygia, and one-most renowned of all-in Cumae near Naples, where Sibyl's cave was discovered in 1932 to have a 60-foot-high ceiling and a 375-foot-long passageway entrance.
The Cumaean Sibyl wrote her prophecies on leaves, which she then placed at the mouth of her cave. If no one came to collect them, they were scattered by winds and never read. Written in complex, often enigmatic verses, these "Sibylline Leaves" were sometimes bound into books. It was said that the Sibyl herself brought nine volumes of these prophecies to Tarquin II of Rome, offering them to him at an outrageous price. He scoffed, and she immediately burned three volumes, offering the remaining six at the same high price. Again-rather less casually--he refused. Again she burned three volumes, again asking the original price. This time the king's curiosity was high, his resistance low, and he purchased the Sibylline prophecies.
The volumes were carefully kept in the Capitol and consulted only on momentous occasions by the Senate. Some were destroyed by fire in 83 B.C. while the rest survived until A.D. 405, when they perished in another fire. The people of Rome searched the world looking for prophecies to replace the Sibylline Leaves but were unable to find any. The Sibyl herself, it was discovered, had vanished. So the way was left clear for the production of pseudo-Sibylline prophecies, a profitable business until the end of the Roman Empire.
The Sibyl of Cumae gained her powers by attracting the attention of the sun god, Apollo, who offered her anything if she would spend a single night with him. She asked for as many years of life as grains of sand she could squeeze into her hand. Granted, the sun god said; and Sibyl, glad to win her boon, refused his advances. Thereafter she was cursed with the furfillment of her wish--eternal life without eternal youth. She slowly shriveled into a frail undying body, so tiny that she fit into a jar. Her container was hung from a tree; Sibyl needed, of course, no food or drink, for she could neither starve nor die of thirst. And there she hung, croaking occasional oracles, while children would stand beneath her urn and tease, "Sibyl, Sibyl, what do you wish?" To which she would faintly reply, "I wish to die."
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Morningside Center works hand in hand with educators to build students' social and emotional skills, strengthen the classroom and school community, and make our schools more caring and equitable through restorative practices and brave conversations on race.
What We Do
Here's what our partnership looks like.
We consult with you about the needs of your district or school and tailor a program for you.
We provide interactive workshops for school staff on social and emotional learning (SEL), restorative practices (RP), and equity.
We provide hands-on coaching for educators in teaching an evidence-based SEL/RP curriculum (The 4Rs, C Squad, or Building Belonging).
We support you and your team in spreading SEL and RP to make your school even more productive and equitable (Restore360).
Young people and adults learn and practice skills to help them do well in school and in life.
Young people stay connected through processes that foster a caring and equitable school community.
School staff increase their cultural competency and ensure that school systems and structures elevate every child.
Reading, Writing, Respect & Resolution for grades pre-K to 5
The 4Rs uses children's literature as a springboard to strengthen students' social, emotional, and academic skills and build a caring classroom community.Read More
C Squad: Together for the Journey
for grades 6 to 8
C Squad provides a safe space where middle school youth can build relationships, address crucial issues in their lives, and develop social and emotional strengths.Read More
for grades 6 to 12
Building Belonging creates a sense of community among young people that increases their engagement with school, develops social and emotional skills, and supports restorative practices.Read More
School-Wide Comprehensive Program: Restore360
Restore360 is a comprehensive program for creating equitable K-12 schools where students and adults thrive. Restore360 schools go beyond classroom curricula to engage everyone in the school community in social and emotional learning, restorative practices, and equity.
After School Program Support
for grades K-12
After school is a great time to help young people develop and practice their social and emotional skills and deepen their connections to school and the world.
We operate the PAZ after-school program in New York City. We also facilitate engaging SEL workshops for staff of after-school programs across NYC that are funded through the city's Department of Youth and Community Development.Read More | <urn:uuid:7e83ac6a-ef8b-49ee-89a3-539bc84d3b50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.morningsidecenter.org/what-we-do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941568 | 528 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Towns get money to improve access to train stations
CENTRAL JERSEY - Raritan Borough, Bound Brook and Fanwood have received grants to improve access to their train stations along New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line.
Raritan Borough will receive $1 million for pedestrian improvements from its train station to its recreational area along the Raritan River.
Bound Brook was awarded $839,000 to rehabilitate the station on the railroad's eastbound tracks.
Fanwood will get $802,000 to improve the South Avenue streetscape by the train station.
The projects were among 27 grants totaling $19.46 million approved by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority’s Board of Trustees last week.
“These are important projects that will improve safety and enhance the quality of life in communities across our region,” said Somerset County Freeholder Peter S. Palmer, chairman of the NJTPA Board of Trustees. “This funding will improve access to train stations and make our sidewalks and streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists.”
The program is funded by the Federal Highway Administration and administered by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in in partnership with the NJTPA .
"We're very happy," said Bound Brook Mayor Bob Fazen, who has worked on obtaining grant money for the project for two years.
Restoring the station, which has been vacant for decades, is "very important" to enhancing Bound Brook's revitalized identity as a transit village, Fazen said.
"We're going to get to work as soon as we get the money," the mayor said.
The borough has already bonded $500,000 for its share of the project's cost.
In Fanwood, the grant will help fund stamped concrete sidewalks on South Avenue beginning at Terrill Road, replace current light fixtures with decorative lighting and help create multiple bus stop shelters and benches on both sides of South Avenue.
"I am thrilled that Fanwood has been recognized for the efforts that we have put forth to expand our community in a way that will both help enhance our residents’ quality of life and ensure that we utilize and develop the many transit options in our area,” said Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr.
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No matter what skill you are about to learn there always obstacles that you will have to overcome, as is with piano lessons as well. To learn to play the Piano in 21 days may sound easy, and it can be, but only when you have put in the right amount of practice, focus and dedication. Many people who take up piano lessons that go beyond 21 days, either by learning through traditional or online methods, find it difficult to continue learning new methods as they feel they have hit a slump and can’t go on. The six tips mentioned in this article will teach you how to maximize your learning potential and play the Piano in 21 days.
These tips will help you overcome any obstacles you may face while trying to master the art of playing Piano in 21 days:
- Have fun and give yourself some room:
The one con that online piano tutorials have is that no one will tell you when to take a break that decision is purely left to you. Granted that there is a dedicated time to play but you should also keep in mind to be open to failure and mistakes and not be too hard on yourself if you goof up now and then. Listed below are three methods on how you can remove the fear of failure and looking bad while playing.
Get away from your piano and turn off your tutorial, turn off all the devices that are noisy and distracting, turn off your lights and then sit back done in front of your piano. Once you are settled in front of your instrument, play the keys and in any random order and allow yourself to make mistakes. By doing so you are allowing your mind to be free from the anxiety that may come from making mistakes and looking bad.
This method focuses on your playing skills rather than your failure. Increase the noise distractions and then go back to playing your piece. Once you start playing, you begin to tune out all the distractions and focus on what the piano and the keys.
- Walk away from the keyboard occasionally:
When you feel overwhelmed by your lessons, you can turn off the tutorial for some time and just step away from the piano and focus on some other task. This helps you cool down before you can learn to play again.
- Motivate yourself with short term and long term goals:
Setting goals can be very satisfying as you are able to track your progress throughout the 21 days and finally notice the result on how far you have progressed since you have started the course.
- Identify your strengths
Everyone has a different kind of strength along with their skills, it’s very rare that the traditional teachers recognize the strengths and act upon them, so it is very important that you know your strengths and learn the piano according to them.
Whenever you feel inspired always remember to play and practice, without sufficient practice you will be disappointed, but once you have practiced enough you will notice a progress in your skills, so bust out those musical abilities and learn to play the Piano in 21 days. | <urn:uuid:06c45aa6-170a-4222-9919-5d3f13f44ede> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.winowner.com/fourtips-on-how-to-play-the-piano-in-21-days/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962212 | 613 | 2.609375 | 3 |
1 September 2016 - Best Beer HQ
5 Facts About The Boston Beer Company
More than 2 million barrels of Samuel Adams beer is sold every year in the United States, making it one of the top-selling craft beer brands in the world – but how much do you know about the brewery behind that brand, the Boston Beer Company? Try these fast 5 facts on for size.
1. The Boston Beer Company was born in 1984
The Boston Beer Company was founded by American entrepreneur Jim Koch (still the chairman of the company) and his business partner Rhonda Kallman in, you guessed it, the American city of Boston in 1984.
The company’s first and only offering back then was Samuel Adams Boston Lager, named after the American statesman and founding father of the same name. The recipe was Koch’s great-great-grandfather’s.
2. Sam Adams’ Boston Lager won a big award almost immediately
Just six weeks after its initial introduction, Samuel Adams Boston Lager was crowned “The Best Beer in America” by The Great American Beer Festival’s Consumer Preference Poll. The beer would go on to win the same award four more times over the years.
3. But its founder still had to sell it door-to-door
Business was so difficult back in the very early days of the Boston Beer Company that Jim Koch would literally have to fill a briefcase with bottles of beer and hit the streets, going door-to-door and offering samples of Sam Adams beer.
It must have worked, though, because by the 1990s rolled around had to contract out at various brewing facilities to keep up with demand; including at Pittsburgh Brewing Company, Portland’s old Blitz-Weinhard brewery, and Cincinnati’s Hudepohl-Schoenling brewery (which was eventually purchased by Boston Beer Co. in 1997).
4. It’s okay, because he’s super rich now
Jim Koch bet big on the Boston Beer Company and he won big, too. Fast forward 30 years and it’s a publically-listed company with new revenue exceeding $959 million last year (an increase of 6% from the year before). It employs about 1200 people, with breweries in Boston, Cincinnati, and Pennsylvania, and its beer is now available in all 50 US states and more than 20 foreign countries.
As a result, its founder made Forbes’ billionaires list last year. Not bad at all for a guy who had to borrow money from his friends and family to get the company up and running in the 1980s. Throw a couple of bucks our way, Jim!
5. Is Samuel Adams still considered “craft beer”? Probably not…
While there’s no denying that Jim Koch and his Boston Beer Company has helped to usher in the craft beer movement that we’re continuing to enjoy right now, there is much debate as to whether or not Samuel Adams is technically “craft beer” at all.
Though it remains independent, Boston Beer Company easily dwarves most craft breweries (and probably even the output of the largest beer conglomerates in New Zealand, where the editor of Best Beer HQ lives).
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The electric car sector in the UK is being given a boost by new BP and Nissan projects.
BP are to run a research programme with FreeWire, an American company which makes mobile fast charging units, and will see charging units installed on forecourts of BP garages across the UK.
Nissan are also working with the government to develop ‘electric-vehicle-to-grid’ systems after it was revealed that they are to launch a £9.8m programme to investigate how the power grid can be fed by electric vehicles whilst they charge to make it more resilient and efficient.
The project aims to create 1,000 vehicle-to-grid demonstrators which will see the chargers controlled by an aggregator.
These chargers will then collect and analyse data to see how the system could work when charging vehicles and providing back-up power to the national grid.
With the addition of both of these projects, electric vehicles look set to be further utilised and more readily supported in the UK, meaning electric vehicles could be a more viable option for UK businesses.
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I saw a sweet maiden trip over the lea,
Her eyes were as loadstones attracting of me.
Her cheeks were the roses, that Cupid lurks in,
With a bonny blue kerchief tied under her chin.
O where are you going my fair pretty maid?
O whither so swift through the dewdrops? I said,
I go to my mother, kind sir, for to spin.
O the bonny blue kerchief tied under her chin.
Why wear you that kerchief tied over your head?
'Tis the country girl's fashion, kind sir, then she said.
And the fashion young maidens will always be in
So I wear the blue kerchief tied under my chin.
To kiss her sweet lips then I sought to begin,
O nay Sir! she said, 'ere a kiss you would win,
Pray show me a ring, of gold most thin,
O slyest blue kerchief tied under the chin!
Why wear a blue kerchief, sweet maiden, I said,
Because the blue colour is one not to fade,
As a sailor's blue jacket who fights for the king.
So's my bonny blue kerchief tied under the chin.
The love that I value is certain to last,
Not fading and changing, but ever set fast,
That only the colour, my love sir to win,
So goodbye from the kerchief tied under the chin.
Songs of the West by S. Baring-Gould.
Notes from S. Baring-Gould.
Words and melody from John Woodrich, locally known as 'Ginger Jack.'The words have appeared with slight variations on Broadsides in ten verses. Catnach issued a parody on it, 'The Bonny Blue Jacket.' In Dr Barrett's 'English Folksongs,' he uses this tune for 'Paul Jones.'
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes in policies. On a national scale, individual countries have developed a set of regulations to mitigate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease. Countries imposed travel bans, lockdowns, prohibited large gatherings, etc. These changes have been apparent, although different, across countries.
The effects of the pandemic can be seen in politics, economies, and social aspects of every country as well. Throughout the year, the world has seen a massive decline in the economy—a decline that is reportedly worse than the depression. National governments were faced with problems that seem impossible to solve. In these times, people found the courage to stand up for their rights, as major protests broke out in different parts of the world.
The pandemic has brought issues such as human rights, peace and security, and finance to countries across the globe. Consequently, these are issues that concern Public International Law. However, the biggest concern in these times is health.
The Role of the World Health Organization (WHO)
As the global health institution, WHO’s role during the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial. According to the United Nations (UN), the following are the most important functions and contributions of WHO in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic:
- Helping the COVID-19 response of countries. WHO released a COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness Response Plan. It provides countries with actions and resources to aid them in their health responses. They also collaborate with governments via their offices all around the globe.
- Debunk myths by providing reliable information. The spread of myths about the COVID-19 disease has become prevalent on the internet. As a response, WHO provides reliable information backed by research. The agency spreads the information all over the internet and social media through the help of massive tech companies.
- Developing vaccines. At the start of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, WHO began its initiatives to search for a vaccine. They gathered 400 researchers, conducted a “Solidarity Trial” with 90 countries, and worked with scientists, funders, and manufacturers to search for a vaccine quicker.
International Health Regulations (IHR)
The International Health Regulations (IHR) is a set of rules for the signatory nations, aiming to “improve the detection and reporting of potential public health emergencies worldwide.” It encompasses the protection, detection, reporting, and assessment of potential public health concerns. As a treaty, it is legally binding among participating countries.
The IHR requires countries to report any public health concern that may become an emergency. The countries have to collaborate on decision-making regarding these concerns, especially emergencies.
Acknowledging the ease of transportation today, the IHR also aims to mitigate the spread of a potential health emergency. Because of this, the IHR specifies travel restrictions and regulations for ports, airports, and other modes of transportation.
The IHR has evolved after a series of SARS viruses. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a true test of its regulations and limits. While some analyses have pointed out the disparities within these regulations, the IHR has proven to have played a significant role in mitigating the virus’ spread.
Because of these rules, countries could detect the virus early and report it to the international community. It has also contributed to the health protocols that were put in place.
Public International Law in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a challenge for public international law as each country fight to survive. There are questions about human rights in relation to widespread quarantine and vaccinations. In relation to the IHR, critics have questioned the extent of the enforceability of these rules.
Throughout the years, public international law has garnered a reputation of “lacking teeth.” Even then, this branch of law has a way to make signatory countries accountable. The UN has international courts that arbitrate conflicts within countries. Member countries who are in the council may undertake action to cause member countries to follow the law or enforce a ruling.
In general, public international law is a nuanced topic. It is constantly evolving as the world experiences new and more unique challenges. As it evolves, lawyers have to keep up with their knowledge as well. Whether they are independently practicing or from a firm such as Duxton Hill Chambers (Singapore Group Practice), they have a duty to help in understanding this branch of law.
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