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Sandor Mecs was a child when his family lived in the town of Szentendre, Hungary. Today, it is a picturesque town 20 miles north of Budapest that is lined with winding cobblestone streets, colorful centuries-old homes, cottages and churches. It is a tourism center with its flourishing museums, charm and proximity to the capital.
While the picturesque footprint was the same for Mecs and his family and thousands of other Hungarians 60 years ago, life in post-World War II Hungary was anything but ideal if you were a free thinker.
“At that time, we had become a Stalinized state of the Soviet Union, and Matyas Rakosi ruled the country for over seven years as a dictator who demanded no one strayed from the collective approved government thought,” he said.
If you did, you disappeared.
“Everything in government was militarized, and everything in our culture, the arts, the media, where you shopped, was all part of the government,” he explained.
There was no freedom of thought. You believed what the government and, by default, culture and new organizations told you to believe.
The government force was so oppressive that it established a secret police called the AVH, or the Allamvedelmi Hatosag, to make sure everyone thought the same and that no one dissented from whatever the government believed. Mecs explained, “My parents and family members lived in fear of people overhearing a conversation that might deviate from accepted thought.”
He said his father understood that after the doomed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 failed, it was time to flee the family’s home country.
“You have to understand when you leave, you leave everything behind, whether it is family members, belongings or the roof over your head,” he said. “A week after the revolution, my dad realized we’ve got to get out of here, and we literally snuck across the border with Austria in the dead of night.”
Back then, there were people who, for money, would get you safely across the border. “They were taking groups of maybe 20 people at a time and getting them past the barbed wire. One of the border guards actually caught the group that we were in when a very familiar face caught his eye,” he said.
It was the guard’s sister. “So he let us go,” he said.
Within a short period, over 200,000 men, women and children escaped their homeland, much like the Mecs family did. It was an exodus and scattered much of the educated and intellectual class. The only people who could afford to leave managed to spread globally, with many of them going to the United States and the United Kingdom.
Many intellectuals in the U.S. frequently toss around the word “dictatorship” or “dictator” about political parties they don’t like, and with such abandon, it is now deemed normal in some circles to use the terms without irony, primarily when referring to the Republican Party.
In their zeal to dismantle conservatism, they miss the true dictator in our country. They are our cultural curators. The corporations, much of the media, the entertainment industry, major league sports organizations, academia and Silicon Valley all demand that we fall in line with how they think. They want to approve of how we speak, what books we read, what movies we watch, what words we use, who we support politically, how we educate our children and what parts of history are acceptable to teach.
Many of these entities have gone from trying to appeal to a wide range of customers based on the products they sell or services they offer to social justice organizations, far removed from their core missions and their consumers.
When one of them deems something unacceptable in its version of the world, many others follow suit, often crumbling to their younger employees’ demands. The latter has been given enough power in this age of corporate social justice to destroy the very place they work if that corporation does not bend to their demands.
The decision no longer to publish six Dr. Seuss books was made internally. So was Disney’s decision to prevent young viewers from watching “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” “Swiss Family Robinson” and “The Aristocats.”
Voice an opinion on social media about the practice of removing books and the result is usually ugly, even if you argue that offensive images should exist in the marketplace so that you can point out their offensiveness.
Last week, Winston Marshall, the banjo player for the band Mumford & Sons, tweeted his support for author Andy Ngo for his recent book “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” Within moments, his life changed, thanks to the culture curators. The next day, he announced that he’s “taking time away from the band” to examine his “blind spots.”
His career and life may have been destroyed because his thoughts were outside the norms of what our cultural curators deem socially acceptable, and why? You see, Ngo is conservative. Almost no one within our cultural curators is conservative, and if a person is, he or she remains silent.
One of the most significant reasons conservative populism began to rise in 2009 was that these people lacked a connection or commonality with our cultural curators. The people who run things in this country have little in common with the very people who use their products or watch their shows or attend their football or basketball games.
Part of that reason is the culture curator boardrooms have very little diversity — not only racial or by gender, but also in culture. Rarely does someone who attended a community college or state school have any input in how something is marketed. There is also a scarcity of gun owners or churchgoers in newsrooms getting dispatched to cover gun control, hunting, religious freedom or the anti-abortion movement.
When you have little commonality with those you are marketing to or covering, you will often be blind to how they view the tone in an ad, tweet or coverage.
But the more significant problem is that none of these cultural curators quite care if you don’t like the way they demand you think or if you are going to buy their product, because their people — the people who think the way they do — are the people who have the largest megaphone.
It isn’t cancel culture. It is a cultural dictatorship because the suppression of dissenting speech is an instrument that only the most brutal dictators have used throughout civilization.
Mecs said the right to free speech was one of the compelling reasons his family came here: “It is the very core of American exceptionalism and idealism, and it should be cherished and celebrated.”
In December 1860, Frederick Douglass declared in a speech in Boston that “liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.”
His words in that speech emerged because of an incident that happened the week before, when a meeting in which he was scheduled to speak at on abolishing slavery was invaded by a mob that sought to silence him.
Those powerful words in Douglass’ speech were not directed at the mob’s disruption. Instead, they were directed at the mayor of Boston, who canceled the event rather than defended Douglass’ right to speak.
Private companies, industries and organizations are not obligated to allow your viewpoints to be heard. Still, when they hold this much power in our culture and their sentiments are shared by the ruling party, we are heading down a road on which we may never be able to reverse course.
Salena Zito is a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through shoe-leather journalism, traveling from Main Street to the beltway and all places in between. To find out more about Salena and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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Blog > Home Projects to Tackle While You're in Quarantine
Now is the perfect time to take control of your home! This extended time indoors is a good opportunity to tackle those long-avoided home projects.
If you aren't sure where to start, here are some projects that you can do while social distancing at home:
If you’re focused on the literature, for example, arrange your books by alphabetical order or by theme. Use neutral colors, and focus on a few standout pieces.
There’s no better time to add a bit of drama to your table, so bust out the china, special silverware, or fancy wine glasses.
Start by taking everything out of the closet, purging what’s no longer used, and cleaning the interior. Sort your clothes by category and be sure to hang delicate items and stack thicker things like denim. Put your most-used items at the front, while seasonal or rarely used pieces can go up higher or in the back.
A few labels can go a long way in creating a more organized household. Have storage bins or containers in your kitchen pantry, under the bed, or in a linen closet? A label maker works great if you have it, but you can also write on regular paper and tape the labels on.
Most of us probably clean out the refrigerator and wipe down the stove on a regular basis, but small appliances are often neglected. Hand-wash all of the removable parts of your coffee maker and run a few brewing cycles with distilled water. Empty out your toaster oven or toaster trap door and then shake the appliance over the sink to remove loose crumbs. Deep-clean your Instant Pot by wiping down the inner cooking chamber with a damp dishcloth; washing the silicone sealing ring in hot, soapy water; and running a cycle of water, distilled white vinegar, and a few lemon peels to remove odors.
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We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes is a PBS series of five heartbreaking, inspiring stories highlighting Native ingenuity and resilience over the course of 300 years, establishing Native history as an essential part of American history.
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Mr Nicholas Quek (right) believes building a sustainable business starts from treating migrant workers well.
While most work-permit holders in sectors such as construction are typically housed in cramped dormitories, entrepreneur Nicholas Quek houses all 10 of his migrant workers in condominiums or landed houses.
There, the Bangladeshi workers each have a room to themselves or share it with another worker.
This may not make sound business sense. After all, Mr Quek’s manpower costs are higher than those borne by companies of a similar size.
In housing costs alone, he racks up S$400 to S$700 a month per worker, including utilities fees.
But the 32-year-old who runs soundproofing company Noise Plaster believes that treating his workers well and ensuring they have a good quality of life are vital to building a sustainable business.
“(For) sustainable business, respecting the dignity of people is part of it, upholding social justice is part of it,” he said.
Mr Quek, who started the business in 2018, decided to strike out on his own after being an acoustics consultant in the home and professional audio-visual industry between 2011 and 2016.
That stint helped shape his vision for his soundproofing firm, where workers are trained in specific skills and paid competitively. His workers take home an average of S$2,000 to S$2,500 a month.
“If the company wants professional work done, the company should give professional treatment to the workers. A proper professional relationship has to be two-way,” he said.
Mr Quek believes that lower-skilled foreign workers come to Singapore for the same reason that highly skilled expatriates do.
“They just want to have a successful career. Just like anyone else going overseas for a job and leaving their family behind, they are hoping to get a correspondingly higher salary,” he said.
Before his foreign employees become full-time workers, they undergo a one-month traineeship, during which Mr Quek assesses their suitability for long-term employment.
Besides providing the technical skills needed for soundproofing projects, he said that much of the training centres on helping the workers adjust to the culture and demands of Singapore customers.
These cultural adjustments could be as simple as using a fresh plastic sheet to cover the furniture at a customer’s home while they install a soundproof window.
If he does not build a professional work culture, Mr Quek said workers might not be willing to cooperate and meet the standards expected of them.
As they get better at their job, these workers also get salary increments.
Aside from the tangible benefits, workers who stay with the firm are also given skill upgrades. Some of them work independent of Mr Quek’s supervision and are even given the responsibility of working with clients, such as interior designers.
“Once they are given the chance to be authoritative and have bigger responsibilities, I believe that they feel more independent and have greater job satisfaction.”
He stressed, though, that it takes two to tango: “The benefits are given not without condition. We expect professional work with the correspondingly higher salaries as well as welfare.”
Asked if he has seen positive results from building a professional work culture, Mr Quek said that his efforts have borne fruit because he has noticed that customers are willing to pay more for better service.
Mr Quek’s philosophy, however, appears to be an anomaly in the construction sector, which is at times bedevilled by stories of exploitation and deplorable working conditions.
Even so, he believes that treating migrant workers well should be the norm, rather than the exception.
The starting point for young entrepreneurs, he said, is to recognise that there are customers who appreciate higher-quality service and are willing to pay for it.
“Although these workers are foreign and from developing countries, it doesn’t mean we should accept lower standards of service. We should accept higher standards and train them to deliver those standards we want,” he said.
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If you’ve ever suffered from cartilage damage, you’ll know that it can be excruciating. Cartilage is incredibly flexible but also relatively easy to break.
And for many, a quick healing process is vital as it can be induced by injury in taking part in most forms of sport. Therefore, sportspeople and laborers alike require swift and effective cartilage repair. If surgery is avoidable, then why not try it.
Here are three popular treatments for cartilage damage that may help your body heal and avoid a surgery room trip.
1. Self-Care, Rest, and Recovery
The first method to try is self-explanatory. It involves firstly constricting the cartilage to reduce movement. For example, suppose the cartilage is on a joint. In that case, a brace such as a knee brace will restrict movement, allowing for natural healing.
Once wrapped up, it’s a case of rest and recovery, making sure to elevate the cartilage and keep it cool. You can control it by applying an ice pack in intervals to reduce blood flow, allowing the area to heal.
For minor injuries, this should allow the break to heal after a few days. Still, if not, then it’s advised to seek further medical attention.
2. Medicinal Treatments Including Peptides
Self-medicating using anti-inflammatories and cartilage repair supplements can help in the short term. Ibuprofen, for example, is just one of many that can help alleviate pain and swelling. This method is useful if you don’t have immediate access to something tailored towards cartilage injuries.
From there, you can look at alternative medicinal treatments. Depending on where you live, these treatments can be a legal minefield. It’s essential to do your due diligence and always look for approved medicines. One example of such approval is by FDA approval in the USA.
Peptides are known to heal cartilage and contain anti-inflammatory properties. These chemicals are proven to stimulate recovery at a quicker rate without the risk of further damage. You can view more details about the benefits of peptides at Umbrella Labs.
3. Physiotherapy Exercises for Cartilage Damage
Suppose you rely on the injured area for work purposes, for example, as a sportsperson. In that case, physiotherapy is an excellent way to help cartilage regeneration and reduce further injury.
A qualified physiotherapist can analyze the injury and create a tailored exercise plan to encourage healing. This healing process will not only speed up recovery but, more importantly, avoid any regrowth or changes to the limb structure. These changes, if not avoided, could create further injury down the line.
Some of these exercises exist online. Make sure you know exactly what damage you have, for example, knee cartilage damage or articular cartilage damage. Still, again, unless you are sure about the nature of the injury, it’s worth investing in a relationship with a quality physiotherapist.
Don’t Forget to Seek Medical Advice
Of course, always seek medical advice for cartilage damage. As much as you can be healed and back to work in no time, it’s not worth the long-term risk if there are any other underlying injuries caused as a result of an impact.
Although you’ll be back out there and doing what you love best, consider the future risks involved before jumping straight into any treatment.
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SpaceX Starship explodes on landing during a test
Starship Serial Number 9 (SN9) finally took to the skies last Tuesday after weeks of delays. SpaceX attempted to launch and land the rocket at its Boca Chica facility in South Texas, more than a month after the crash landing of its previous iteration, SN8. But not all went according to plan as after acing its 6.2 mile (10km) hop, Starship failed to stick the landing.
SpaceX fans worldwide were glued to their screens as the stainless steel rocket plunged to the ground belly-side down.
Then, just seconds before hitting the ground, SN9 fired two of its three Raptor engines and flipped upright again for a soft landing attempt.
Instead of slowing down, the rocket flipped almost entirely onto its back and crashed into the launch pad, sending a mushroom cloud of fire and smoke into the sky.
But what at first glance appeared to have been an engine failure, may have been a conscious decision on SpaceX's part.
SpaceX Starship crash: Elon Musk has opened up about Starship SN9's crash landing
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut tweeted about the crash after Elon Musk, 49, joked he and his team were "too dumb" about the test flight.
He said: "Of course, @SpaceX isn't "dumb" as @elonmusk joked, but they definitely are trying to bite off a lot with these early test flights and there's certainly room for improvement.
"We'll go over how we'll likely see this manoeuvre evolve and what upgrades we'll see in the future."
Elon Musk replied to the tweet, saying it was a bad call to not ignited all three of Starship's raptor engines.
He said: "It was foolish of us not to start three engines and immediately shutdown one, as two are needed to land."
Mr Musk believes Starship could be the first spacecraft to land humans on Mars.
Towards this goal, SpaceX is pioneering a unique approach to multi-planetary travel.
Starship's upper stage, the Starship spacecraft, will launch on top of the Super Heavy booster rocket.
Much like the company's Falcon 9 boosters, Super Heavy will go to orbit and return back to Earth.
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SpaceX perform 150m hop with Starship SN5
Starship will then fly to destinations like the Moon and Mars, and possibly even beyond.
When landing on Mars or Earth where there is an atmosphere, Starship will perform a belly-flop manoeuvre by falling to the ground belly-side down.
Doing so will slow the rocket down aerodynamically and without having to burn any fuel until the very last moments.
It is, therefore, critical SpaceX nails down the manoeuvre even if it means sacrificing one or two prototype models in the process.
The next Starship in line, the SN10 model is already waiting on the Boca Chica launch pad for its chance to earn its wings.
SpaceX's ultimate goal is to have a fully reusable fleet of Starships that can be launched multiple times a day.
And the Starship explosions do not appear to concern SpaceX too much - the test rockets are expendable after all.
SpaceX engineer John Insprucker said on Tuesday: "We demonstrated the ability to transition the engines to the landing propellant tanks, the subsonic reentry looked very good and stable.
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For many animal lovers, dogs are cute at any age, but scientists managed to zero in on the exact age of when they're at the peak of their cuteness.
Puppies are no doubt one of the cutest creatures in the animal kingdom but according to experts there's a perfect age for when they are at their “peak cuteness.” Scientists from the Arizona State University, Utrecht Universty, and the Texas Tech University conducted a study to find the exact age when puppies are their most adorable. Their findings were published in the journal Anthrozoös.
Rating Their Attractiveness
“Just as their mother is getting sick of them and is going to kick them out of the den and they’re going to have to make their own way in life, at that age, that is exactly when they are most attractive to human beings.”
The researchers asked 51 college students to rate the photos of 39 puppies from three different breeds — Jack Russell Terriers, White Shepherd, and the Cane Corsos. The puppies' age ranged from newborn to 8 months old.
The scientists told the participants to rate the dogs based on “attractiveness” to keep things neutral. Researcher Clive Wynne told National Geographic that they didn't want the rating to be influenced by a characteristic common to young dogs: cuteness. In other studies, humans have rated cute dogs based on infantile features like large beady eyes, small mouth, and round face.
Before the test, the researchers gauged that puppies are most appealing to humans at around two to three months old (8 weeks to 12 weeks), or when they begin weaning. It's also the age when the dogs' mom naturally leaves her pups in the hands of carers or new owners.
Their hypothesis was nearly correct because the ratings showed that the puppies were in their peak cuteness between six to eight weeks. Based on the participants’ perception, Jack Russells were at their cutest at 7.7 weeks. White Shepherds, on the other hand, reached their peak cuteness at 8.3 weeks, while Cane Corsos at 6.3 weeks.
Relying On Human Care
The study indicated that this peak cuteness could be the link that will show how dogs evolved from wolves to rely on the care of humans, something we know already from studying the history of dogs and wolves.
Thousands of years ago, wolf puppies were under their parents' care until two years of age. As they evolved, however, the survival rate for young canines, which were left to fend for themselves by their parents, was around less than 20 percent. Many pups died on their first year without a human taking them in.
Apparently, by evolving towards peak cuteness at a phase where they were most vulnerable, the canines were able to attract the interest of humans, and thus they survived. They became — simply put — too cute to die.
Peak cuteness also exists in human babies. Called kinderschema, this was also a necessary part of human evolution. The brain apparently activated something that made humans want to protect and nurture their adorable and vulnerable-looking young.
Limitations Of The Study
The experts, however, said that they didn't ask the participants if they were familiar with the three specific breeds. The fact that the ratings were only for still photos also affected the results. Harold Herzog wrote about the study when it started a few years ago. He said on Psychology Today that while the process was brilliant, the scientists could have shown more photos of the dogs as they aged.
The experts could have also used images of wolves in the control group. Instead of conducting the study in the laboratory, the participants could have been asked to observe real and living dogs. Herzog explained that if given diverse samples then determining peak cuteness in a dog’s age might change as well.
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Blinken faces global challenges in round-the-world trip
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will confront a number of daunting global challenges as he embarks this week on an around-the-world diplomatic tour that will test the Biden administration’s resolve on various fronts .
From Russia and Ukraine to China and Myanmar, Blinken will have a full agenda as he travels first to Britain and then on to Southeast Asia for what will be his longest overseas trip yet as America’s top diplomat.
The State Department announced Wednesday that Blinken will attend a meeting of the Group of Seven foreign ministers in England this weekend before flying on to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
At each stop, Blinken will be seeking support for U.S. efforts to tamp down tensions between Russia and Ukraine, push back on China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific and secure backing for pressure on Myanmar’s military rulers.
The trip follows President Joe Biden’s warnings to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about any military moves against Ukraine, the announcement a day earlier that the U.S. would not send any official representatives to the upcoming Winter Olympics in China to protest human rights abuses in China’s western Xinjiang region, and a stern U.S. condemnation of the conviction of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Blinken leaves late Thursday for Liverpool, where the British government is hosting a Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting that is focused on global issues such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic as well as regional issues like Russia and Ukraine and China’s rise, particularly in Asia. His counterparts from some non-G-7 nations, such as Australia, India, South Korea and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, will also participate.
Blinken “will discuss a range of issues, including geopolitical and security matters, the buildup of Russian forces on Ukraine’s border, development infrastructure through the Build Back Better World initiative, COVID-19 vaccines and global health security, and growth in the Indo-Pacific region,” the State Department said.
From Liverpool, Blinken will travel to the capitals of ASEAN’s three largest nations, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, before returning to Washington by way of Hawaii late next week.
In Jakarta, which hosts ASEAN’s headquarters, the State Department said Blinken plans to deliver a major speech on the significance of the Indo-Pacific to U.S. foreign policy and highlight the importance of ensuring freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, on which many of China’s neighbors have accused Beijing of encroaching.
In Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, Blinken plans to deliver similar messages along with expressing deep U.S. concerns about developments in Myanmar, where a military junta took power shortly after the Biden administration took office.
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Queen bees and the microbial fountain of youth
To the untrained eye beholding a beehive, all animals seem equal, but new research reveals that some are more equal than others.
A team of researchers including three graduate students at the University of Arizona discovered that while worker bees and queens can be genetically identical, their vastly different lifespans appear to be connected to different microbes living in their guts.
The observed differences in gut bacteria populations, called microbiomes, could be a clue in a mystery that has vexed scientists for a long time: In two genetically identical castes, why do worker bees die after mere weeks whereas queens can live years?
"Our study is the first to suggest a connection between the bacteria that inhabit the bees' guts, the foods they eat, and physiological differences related to aging, stress and longevity," says Kirk Anderson, a research microbiologist with the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. Anderson is also an adjunct scientist in the Department of Entomology and Center for Insect Science in the UA's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The study resulted from an interdisciplinary collaboration between the UA, the UA's BIO5 Institute and the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, which is operated by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The group published their results earlier this month in the high-tier scientific journal Microbiome.
Taking advantage of the UA's next-generation sequencing capabilities, Anderson's team identified the species and amounts of bacteria living in honey bee intestines. This allowed them to compare the bacteria that make up the gut flora in aging workers versus aging queens.
A growing body of research suggests that in humans, so-called probiotic bacteria like Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are associated with health and longevity, whereas bacteria belonging to a group known as Proteobacteria often are associated with unhealthy microbial imbalances. There appears to be a similar trend in worker bees, leading the researchers to hope that bees could be used as model organisms to study the more complex assemblies of microbes that make up the microbiome in mammals, including humans.
Similar to the physiology of aging, the researchers discovered that queen and worker bees embark on different microbial trajectories: as workers age, their gut microbiomes shift away from the initial dominance of beneficial, probiotic microbes, and their intestines are taken over more and more by bacteria associated with poor health and shorter life expectancy. Queens on the other hand, somehow manage to support a more refined, efficient microbiome, retaining "signatures of youth," as Anderson puts it.
"The aging human gut goes through the same exact thing," he says. "Like the worker bee, it loses the probiotic species like Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus and gains a variety of Proteobacteria, and those changes are intimately tied to our health."
In recent years, interest in the roles of gut microbes has surged. Extensive research has been aimed at disentangling the complex metabolic pathways and interactions among the cells in our body and our microbial commensals and the myriad chemical compounds they produce and exchange.
One such molecule is butyrate, one of many short-chain fatty acids produced by microbial fermentation of dietary fiber. Short-chain fatty acids are known to have important functions ranging from hormone production to the suppression of inflammation and possibly cancer.
"Butyrate is produced in the hindguts of honey bees, via the co-metabolism of bacteria we found to deplete in aging workers and accumulate in aging queens," says Duan Copeland, a co-author and doctoral student in the UA's Department of Microbiology. "Both in honey bees and humans, butyrate is critical to gut health but also affects a broad variety of systemic health issues. It increases immunity and detoxification in bees, and it is known to influence core function in humans, including energy levels and behavior."
"We assume that the presence of the probiotic bacteria is one component of longer life of the queen," says Patrick Maes, a fifth-year doctoral student in the Department of Entomology and Center for Insect Science at the UA. "The other is her much higher levels of vitellogenin, which remain high throughout her life. In workers, you'll see it peak early, then taper off within a few days."
Vitellogenin is a nutrient storage molecule always abundant in the fat and blood of queens. More than simple nutrition, it acts as an antioxidant, improves immunity and suppresses inflammation.
"Many of the gut microbes shared by humans and bees can be considered the same characters in a different play," Maes says. "Each harbor similar classes of bacteria. By looking at this simplified system, we can learn a lot about, and possibly augment, the human system."
"The workers will feed her only royal jelly, which they produce in specialized glands. You can think of royal jelly as a type of super food, the bee's equivalent of breast milk, supporting beneficial bacteria and containing antimicrobial peptides."
The study suggests that royal jelly, which enhances the growth of queen-specific gut microbes, sets the queen on a trajectory toward a much longer life by shifting her gut microbiome away from that of the common worker bee. Workers, on the other hand, rely mostly on pollen as their staple food.
Royal jelly, honey and other factors in the hive environment keep unwanted microbes at bay, says Copeland. Bees can acquire their beneficial microbes by coming in contact with food stores, their nest mates and the overall environment in the hive.
The researchers think honey bees could make an excellent model for human microbiome research, because of the striking similarities. While the human microbiome likely comprises thousands of bacterial species, the honey bee has only about a dozen, a much more manageable number to study.
Conventionalized microbiomes, in which all microbes and all their genes are known, are already available for mice, and the same is being realized for honey bees. Such research, says Anderson, could help solve two of the big confounding factors in human microbiome studies: diet and longevity.
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Hydra Energy has teamed with First Truck Centre for installations of its hydrogen/diesel retrofit systems.
Hydra says the retrofits curb carbon emissions by up to 40% per truck without degrading performance or increasing fuel costs. First Truck Centre’s 13 Western Canada locations are being trained on the installation process and will become official Hydra conversion kit installers.
They will also be able to provide ongoing maintenance, Hydra announced. And First Truck Centre will act as a liaison of sorts between its existing customer base and Hydra, providing the company with customer feedback.
“Furthering relationships like this one with First Truck Centre is the fastest way for Hydra to convert more heavy-duty vehicles to run on both hydrogen and diesel. It’s also critical that we work with partners who have existing relationships with fleets so Hydra’s two-day conversion and any ongoing maintenance can be done locally,” said Hydra CEO Jessica Verhagen. “We’re honored to work alongside the First Truck Centre team and welcome their experienced input as we continue to perfect our economical, transition solution on the road to Net Zero.”
“After seeing first-hand a Hydra-converted truck performing so well in the tough Northern Canadian conditions of extreme cold, challenging terrain, and heavy payloads, we knew we had to learn more about the company and their solution,” added First Truck Centre president Rod Graham.
First Truck Centre and Dymin are working on 64 hydrogen truck conversions in Prince George, B.C. The trucks will be fueled at a fueling station Hydra is building, which it claims will be the world’s largest. It’s scheduled to be operational by the end of 2023.
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Source: 100MW solar project gathers pace | The Herald 17 AUG, 2019
Africa Moyo Deputy News Editor
FORMER Eskom chief executive officer Engineer Matshela Koko is pressing ahead with his company’s 100MW solar project in Gwanda, which is expected to be the envy of the continent upon completion.
Eng Koko, who is investing US$250 million in a massive solar farm, on Wednesday said he was bringing “cutting edge” technology to generate electricity in Zimbabwe.
“What we are busy with in Zimbabwe has not been done in Africa before. We bring the cutting edge of electricity generation to Gwanda,” said Eng Koko on his Twitter handle on Thursday.
“Once we are done, Zimbabwe will be the envy of the continent. Even South Africa will not compete. Siyaquba (we are working)!!!
“Today (Wednesday) I spent the day with the design team of Matshela Energy.
“The flexibility of dispatch scenarios for the Solar PV (photo voltaic) plant combined with advanced battery storage will provide Zimbabwe with improved energy security. This scenario prioritises the evening peak.”
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) awarded Matshela Energy a licence to set up the solar power plant on July 17.
Its licence is valid for 25 years.
Once completed, the project is expected to become the largest solar venture in Zimbabwe.
Expectations are also that it will create up to 1 000 jobs.
Matshela Energy has resolved to ring-fence US$100 000 per annum for 20 years to put towards research and innovation in the field of advanced energy storage and renewable energy generation.
This is set to be done in partnership with a local university, which would be selected in partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Power Development.
The project can be expected to feed power into the national grid within 12 months.
The investment comes at a time when thermal and hydro-power generation is constrained as a result of aging generation equipment at Hwange and other small thermal power stations, coupled with low water levels in Lake Kariba.
This has resulted in the proliferation of solar energy projects, with Centragrid (Pvt) Limited in Nyabira already feeding 2,5MW into the grid after a technical commissioning recently.
Centragrid plans to increase its capacity to 100MW in the future.
Another company, Harava Solar Park in Bwoni Village, Seke, is also working on a 20MW solar project and is expected to start feeding power into the grid in December.
The company also wants to increase its capacity to 100MW going forward.
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What is BPPV?
Or, to give it its full title, “Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.”
This is the feeling of extreme dizziness when your head is in a particular position, usually when lying on your side or looking up.
The sensation can be intense for about 10 seconds but can sometimes leave you feeling unwell for hours. It can often make you feel sick.
It is useful to break down the name of this condition to make it a little easier to understand:
Benign – there is no health threat
Paroxysmal – not long lasting
Positional – relating to the position of the head
Vertigo – the correct medical term for dizziness.
BPPV can often clear up on its own without intervention but if it persists a short course of treatment which involves moving the head and body in controlled and slow movements will stop the dizziness.
If you feel you may have BPPV it is very useful for the physiotherapist to know about the symptoms you are experiencing. Perhaps you could keep a diary before your appointment noting:
The details of your symptoms and how they make you feel.
Positions that are the most aggravating.
Stiffness or limited movement in your neck.
When and how the symptoms started.
Your past medical history even if you are not sure it is relevant.
Why does this happen?
“Otoconia” are small crystals in the ear canals which play an important role in our balance. When these crystals become dislodged the brain is tricked into thinking that you are moving when you are not.
This may be brought on after a head injury or an infection but also, it can just occur.
Useful Information From The Menieres Society
Patient Information Leaflet On BPPV
Epley Maneuver From BMJ Learning
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We are very lucky to have Lucy, a physiotherapist who specialises in BPPV and neurological conditions. Lucy works at both our Ashbourne and Hilton Physio Clinics. | <urn:uuid:8cc1d4b8-1c08-44ff-8b51-9716542f1e9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ashbournephysio.co.uk/benign-paroxysmal-positional-vertigo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929354 | 463 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The internet brings the world together. You can now contact your relative that lives halfway across the planet. However, everything can be a double-edged weapon. Some people with malicious intentions can reach you across the globe just as easily. To help you protect yourself, and your money, we have two general tips that will help you.
If It Is Too Good To Be True, Then It Is Fake
This is a very common indicator whenever you surf the web, or when you receive an e-mail. A distant relative wants to send you a crate of gold worth $10,000,000? It’s a scam. Browsing through Amazon and find this amazing deal from a fresh seller? Avoid it. You will run into it very often. If you see such a tempting offer just randomly pops up in front of you, avoid it like the plague. Curiosity kills the cat, and it might as well kill your remaining balance in your bank account.
For example, while you are browsing the web for a cryptocurrency trading platform, a message pops up saying “If you are looking for the best cryptocurrency trading platform, click here!” Whatever website it may lead you to, you can be assured that it is not what you are looking for. As such, be sure to do your research and read the reviews. There, you will find everything that you need to know about the trade, and you can get started right away! Binary Options Expert is a legitimate cryptocurrency trading platform that strives to facilitate your crypto-based businesses.
Be Careful With Public Wi-Fi
When you go to a coffee place, you might instantly log into the local public Wi-Fi and do your business. At first, it seems that every page you logged into is legitimate. Unfortunately, you run the risk of having your information stolen. Some people create a fake Wi-Fi hotspot and create fake websites that look exactly like the legitimate websites. Then, they mine your computer for your personal information. You can avoid it by simply not use public Wi-Fi unless you are absolutely sure that it is legitimate. Another thing you might want to consider is to not make any online purchase when you are connected to a free public Wi-Fi.
For example, you were using the public Wi-Fi to browse the internet in a search for the best home mortgage. Then, you stumble upon this legitimate-looking website. You entered your information and everything only to find that you balance is empty the next day. It is not the website’s fault. Someone managed to grab your credit card information and stole all your money. Instead, we suggest you browse from a trusted Wi-Fi hotspot instead.
Avoid Mortgage Scams
Hidden fees, re-payment penalties, balloon payments, etc. Just a few areas you need to be aware of when taking out a mortgage. When selecting a provider online, ensure you read through reviews and find out if the mortgage provider is backed, complies with, and approved from relevant government schemes.
If you are looking for a new home, why not try out Your Mortgage Solutions – great if you are from England and are located within the West Midlands? They are dedicated to helping their customers in choosing a safe and secure mortgage at the best price. They are experienced in the industry, so you can be sure that you will get the best deal at your budget! They are your mortgage solutions.
Also, be aware, that when you send a payment to your solicitor for a home, which can be a large sum of money, ensure it is going to the right party. For example, some unlucky induvials have lost fortunes due to email scammers, you can read about such a horror story here: ‘We lost £120,000 in an email scam but the banks won’t help get it back’.
Handy Man and Tools for Hire
Need a new roof fitting? Perhaps you wish to hire Specialists in Environmental & Borehole Drilling. Maybe a new boiler installed. How about a new patio? You get the idea, many head over to the internet to find out who they can hire to do the needed task. Sadly, it’s entirely possible to end up with someone who claims to have the necessary experience and skills, but actually does not. Thankfully there are websites and platforms online that allow you to see reviews before hiring the perfect candidate, which are vetted and confirmed. One such site is Ratedpeople.com.
In this article, we have explored a small amount of areas you should apply caution when using the internet. Always be careful and use the internet wisely.
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PAOLA, Kan. — In an effort to prevent warehouse development from crossing the Johnson County/Miami County border, homeowners in rural Miami County have petitioned to form a new city.
In June, the county commission heard public feedback on the potential incorporation of the City of Golden. Now the commission is hosting a series of study sessions to get expert testimony about how creating a new city could affect the county overall.
On Wednesday, the Miami County Board of Commissioners heard from water quality experts from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) about how incorporation could affect water quality within the Hillsdale Lake Watershed.
“Incorporation, if you leave the land use as is, I don’t think it will have any impact,” said Tom Stiles, KDHE water bureau director. “The question is if they incorporate this new city, are they going to have to add more infrastructure? Are they going to have to add more impervious area? If they do, then that is going to start increwing some type of impact to Hillsdale.”
KDHE monitors the volume of pollutants that enter waterways throughout the state and takes action to prevent water contamination leading to unsafe conditions. Stiles said the state department doesn’t regulate warehouse development, how a property is zoned or what a property can be used for. That power lies with the county and other local municipalities.
Stiles said private homes, businesses and warehouses all contribute to water runoff that can lead to pollutants entering waterways.
In the last two decades, Miami County and southern Johnson County have seen an overall increase in urban development and crop farming and a decrease in pasture.
Stiles said overall density, regardless of the type of development, has a large impact on the water quality, but it’s unclear how warehouse development has played a factor in water degradation.
“Anything that comes in proximity to one of our reservoirs that has too much density is going to cause a water quality impact. It could be people. It could be some industry. It could be geese,” Stiles said.
Nathan Westrup, chief of hydrology and evaluation for the Kansas Water Office, said next year the state will update the hydraulic study that will include data on the overall growth in the watershed and an overall look at the impact of the intermodal.
“I believe the current population served from Hillsdale is in the neighborhood of 45,000 people,” Westrup said. “Back when we entered into this water purchase contract, it was projected that this is a growth area. The growth and the number of people it supplies, probably more than 100,000 through 2052.”
State water officials said more research needs to be done, but it’s clear that the area surrounding the Hillsdale watershed will experience more new development in the future.
Stiles said prior to Wednesday’s meeting, KDHE did not intend to perform any additional studies evaluating the impacts of new growth in the area and its impact on Hillsdale watershed.
Now, Stiles said it will be a priority, but the state will first need to secure funding.
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Travelling the back roads of Hawaii is always a serene experience. The roads in the Kona coffee growing region, in South Kona, are loaded with small country churches so unassuming their exteriors speak to the simplicities of life in the mid 1800’s. St. Benedict Church in Captain Cook is known as “The Painted Church.” A quaint, simple church on the outside, but upon opening the doors, one is transported to another world….the interior walls of the church are beautifully painted with some striking scenes of the Bible. Designed, constructed and painted as a miniature European Gothic Cathedral by Father John, St. Benedict Church is now considered to be rather unique in the annals of American Art. Without any professional training and using house paint on ordinary wood he beautified the church with his paintings. In those days few Hawaiians could read and so he taught with pictures-most successfully.
The painted church is a photographers dream, the way the light hits the walls and envelops the paintings…. so much texture and color. Take a look at Allisha and Edwards wedding and you’ll see why they fell in love with this little church, and why i was thrilled to photograph it! | <urn:uuid:8d15a65b-dcf8-4c95-8768-3b7891966273> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.karenloudon.com/painted-church-wedding-captain-cook-allisha-edward/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968956 | 251 | 1.710938 | 2 |
This volume responds to the growing need for intercultural approaches to teaching and learning languages. The central premise is that the aim of intercultural language teaching and learning is to foster effective communication and effective learning in spaces between cultures in order to prepare learners for global citizenship, but that the corresponding models and methods must emerge from the bottom-up in order to meet the needs of each unique context. The book offers a collection of successful experiences rooted in praxis. It shares the activities, methods, models, and approaches which have been developed within specific contexts. Thus, it offers an example of how to adopt an “intercultural perspective” in teaching and learning. The editors and contributors share the conviction that the experiences detailed here can be informative to the realities of all readers in the same way that their own practices have been informed by others.
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Sometimes lost in conversations about technology or specific musical genre or minutia of social media is the fundamental question of what sound is and what we can discover. From Berlin’s tech/culture conference re:publica, we got to tackle some of those questions.
I got to ask three fascinating individuals about their connection to sound and where future sounds might be discovered. On the panel last week:
Kathy Tafel, now at Native Instruments, has one of the broader backgrounds in the entire music technology realm, spanning the birth of the DAW (Deck II!) to key roles at Apple to interning with ground-breaking multimedia band D’Cückoo. And now she’s charting the course of projects like Sounds.com and TRAKTOR and – I have to say, I’m optimistic about the direction she’s taking them. (Kathy probably merits a separate story on this site if I can compel NI to agree to it.)
I don’t know whether Kathy wants this trip down memory lane, but let’s go there – a MIDI ball:
Valentin von Lindenau has diverse work across audio and music, and with his firm kling klang klong has established himself as a rare leader in audio interaction experience and design, in a way that leads this medium internationally.
Lucrecia Dalt has come from Colombia to making a name for herself in the packed artistic landscape of Berlin, with unique poetic-musical hybrids. Maybe better to let her speak for herself:
We tread lots of ground here – I can’t take credit for either the topic/theme or the selection of panelists, but I’m grateful to have participated in the program.
And actually – I’m glad to even flounder on this sort of topic, but ask ourselves those kinds of deeper questions. I have my own opinions, naturally, but I was keen to get these fresh perspectives.
The full topic:
Can music and sounds be developed infinitely, or is everything at some point composed and tried out? If we follow John Cage and reserve the word “music” for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instrument, the contemporary “organizer of sound” will not only be faced with the entire field of sound but also with the entire field of time. Matthew Herbert on the other hand stands with his manifesto for a kind of artistic self-limitation, demanding for instance that the sampling of other people’s music is strictly forbidden and that the use of sounds that exist already is not allowed (No drum machines. No synthesizers. No presets). For our reality check, we want to discuss what sound engineers, designers and artists are working on right now. Which sounds actually sound new and why? And also – which new applications for such sounds are in the works or theoretically conceivable?
Sources / inspirations:
«The Future of Music – Credo»
And I’m interested to hear your reflections, too – do let us know your answers, whether the sound that first inspired you as a kid or the way you get in the flow for new sounds now.
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Baskets provide storage for a variety of items and often are used in home décor. You can buy baskets online or at many retail stores. However, you also can make your own baskets using supplies purchased at craft stores, or simply using things you have around your house.They are great for decor. See step 1 to get started making your basket!
Method 1 of 2:Weaving Reed Baskets
1Make the base of the basket. You'll need to lay out 5 reeds parallel to one another, with about 3/8ths of a space between them. Weave a sixth reed perpendicularly through the other 5. Bring the sixth reed over the first reed, under the second, over the third, under the fourth and over the fifth reed. Weave 4 more reeds in this manner, making sure that they are parallel to the sixth reed. X Research source
- Ensure that the squares formed by the base weaving are no bigger than 3/8 inch (.9 cm).
2Bend the reeds. Bend the reeds that stick out from the square base into an upwards position. These bent reeds are called spokes. Bending them will make it easier to weave and these spokes will act as the supports for the basket.Advertisement
3Split a center spoke. Split one end of either the third or eighth spoke, starting where it comes out from under the last spoke to cross it. You will now have eleven spokes. You'll be putting the weaver into the split.
4Weave the basket. Put the tapered end (the smaller end) of a weaver reed into the split spoke and hold it in place with a clothespin. Keep the weaver reed near the base of the basket and weave, by going over one spoke and under the next.
- If you're going for a square shape, hold the base corners together with clothespins. This will help maintain the shape of the base.
- Continue to attach and weave new reeds through the spokes for 3 or 4 rows, depending on the desired height of the basket. Each new reed should be stacked above the reed woven before it.
- Do your best to make the weave snug and tight, but not too tight or you can screw up the base of the basket. You, also, want to make sure that the weave isn't too loose.
5Foot the base. This means closing up those square holes that are still in the base. Starting in the left corner of your basket, take the corner spoke and tug it gently. Tug more firmly on the second spoke. You want to tug quite firmly on the middle spoke because this will create an arch in the bottom of the basket. Move to the 4th spoke and tug gently again.
- Straighten your spokes and repeat on all 4 sides of the basket, until the holes in the base are closed.
6Continue weaving. Keep attaching and weaving new reeds through the spokes. Make sure that you don't pull too hard on the corners, because that will make your spokes bend inward and you'll lose your basket's shape.
- You also don't want your corners to be too loose, which can happen if you aren't keeping your spokes upright and parallel while you weave.
- Stop weaving once you've reached your desired height.
7Pack the base. Push or pull the woven rows down towards the base as you weave. Ensure that there is no space between the base and the rows. Start pressing or pulling from the base and move up to the newer reeds as you go.
- A properly packed basket should have a nicely arched base, straight, parallel spokes, properly spaced corners, and tight weaver rows.
8Finish the top of the basket. Stop weaving your last reed after you have woven 4 spokes past the split spoke. Taper the reed with scissors, moving from the fourth spoke to the end of the reed. Weave until all of the final reed has been woven into the spokes.
9Trim the basket. Cut the spokes with scissors. The spokes should be 1/2 to 2 inches (1.3 to 5 cm) higher than the last woven reed. Fold the spokes towards the inside of the basket over the top row of reeds. Insert the end of each spoke into the third row from the top. Ensure that each spoke lies flat against the inside of the basket.
10Make the rim. You'll wrap a reed around the top row of the basket and pin it to the basket with a clothespin. Now, anchor the new reed by weaving its bottom end into the top few rows inside the basket. This reed is called the lacer.
- Bring the lacer up and over the reed pinned to the basket and insert it through the front of the basket into the woven rows. Now pull the lacer inside the basket.
- Continue wrapping the lacer around the pinned reed, circling the circumference of the basket.
- Glue the end of the lacer inside the basket.
Method 2 of 2:Weaving With Newspaper
1Make your newspaper sticks. You'll use these rolled up sections of newspaper as the spokes and weavers for your basket. Get a thin stick, like a thin knitting needle or a pine skewer or 3mm dowel. X Research source
- Cut the newspaper in half horizontally and then again horizontally.
- Place the stick at a corner of the piece of newspaper at an acute angle to the newspaper. Start rolling the newspaper around the stick, making sure that you're doing so tightly.
- When you've rolled it all the way to the other corner, glue it onto the newspaper roll to hold it in place. Remove the dowel or knitting needle.
- One end will usually be a bit narrower than the other on the newspaper sticks, but that's how it is supposed to look. When you're weaving you'll stick the narrower section of one newspaper stick into another to make them longer.
2Make the base. Cut out two rectangular pieces of cardboard whatever size you want your basket to be. On one side of one of the cardboard pieces, put double sided tape. Lay out your newspaper sticks along the sides (you'll want to do about 13 on the long side and 7 on the short size).
- Always use an odd number of sticks when making your base.
- Use double sided tape on the second piece of cardboard and press into place a piece of fabric, whatever color you'd like. Put glue on the side that won't be facing out and glue the two pieces of cardboard (one with the fabric and one with the sticks) together. Put something heavy on them and leave to dry (about and hour).
3Begin weaving. Start at one of the corners. Take a newspaper stick (a weaver) and fold it in half. Thread it around the corner stick. Using each half of the weaver weave around the upright sticks, with one half of the stick and the other half in back.
- Keep the upright sticks parallel to one another and pulled upright, and keep the weavers pulled tight. You don't want them too loose.
- At the corners you'll want to do an extra twist (over and under) before continuing the twist down the next side.
4Make the newspaper stick longer. As you reach the end of a tube, you'll need to add another stick to it, so that you can keep going. This is a lot easier than it sounds! All you have to do is insert the narrow end of the second stick into the first and push it in enough that it is secure.
5Finish the basket. Once you've added rows until you've reached the height you want, it's time to finish the basket. This is very easy. Cut the leftover upright newspaper sticks to about 1 inch (2.54 cm).
- For every other upright stick you'll fold into down into the basket and glue it in place. Use a clothespin to dry it in place.
- For the sticks you didn't fold into the basket, you'll fold down on the outside and weave into the upper part of the basket.
6Paint it. This is a completely optional step, as newspaper baskets look cool just as they are, but you can also paint them a color of your choosing. You could use a white acrylic paint and add a tinted varnish (which makes them look like a more 'authentic' basket), or you could use a bright, bold spray paint. X Research source
QuestionWhy would I want to make a basket?Community AnswerBaskets can be useful for holding everyday items such as fruit, car keys, and dog treats. They also make great artistic decorations.
QuestionWhat are some different types of weaves?Community AnswerHavana twists, mico/mini braids, and boxer braids, just to name a few. You can find plenty of weave types online!
QuestionHow many weaving reeds will I need?Community AnswerA good number of them, as I was using palm fronds and needed more than twenty. For the base, I used 6 horizontal and 6 vertical. The sides depend on how tall you want your basket.
- If you need to take a break during you're basket weaving use a clothespin or clip to hold the weave in place.
- You're first basket is probably going to come out a little screwy, because it takes time to figure out the right tension level when weaving, but that's okay! Keep practicing and you'll get more used to how tight and how loose to make the weaves.
- Be sparing with the glue, as you don't want it to get all over everything while you're working.
Things You'll Need
- Weaving reeds (size and number according to preference)
- A newspaper
- A small stick, like a small knitting needle or 3mm dowel
- Double sided tape
- Fabric (color and type of your choice)
- Paint (optional)
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To make a basket with newspaper, first roll newspaper around a long, thin rod and glue it in place before removing the rod. Then, make a base from cardboard and fabric, and lay out your newspaper "sticks" in a spoke pattern on the base to make the uprights that will be the frame of your basket. Next, weave the sticks in and out of the uprights, adding sticks by putting the end of one tube into the beginning of the next. Keep weaving newspaper sticks in and out around the uprights until you reach the height you want, then finish your basket by gluing down the tops of the uprights. To learn how to make a basket by weaving reeds together, scroll down! | <urn:uuid:7bb6c29b-b71d-4cf9-94c0-0499dfd35c5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Baskets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950667 | 2,393 | 2.625 | 3 |
In a belt-driven air compressor, a belt connects the motor to the compressor pump — as the motor turns, the belt turns with it, activating the pump. In a direct drive motor, as the name suggests, the motor attaches directly to the compressor crankshaft.
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Size: Segmentation By the Size of Customers Includes Grouping Customers By Their Dimensions or Weight
A Final customer buying from an intermediary of the product The Final customer is the one who makes the final decision on what product to buy and from which supplier to buy it. Most consumer products, and many industrial products, reach Final customers through Intermediaries.
Use Steps: Use steps include all the Final customer's activities to find the appropriate product category at the Intermediary, to choose among the alternatives to the product and to take delivery of the product.
A. Physical state of the individual customer: Segments of the general customer population may have different characteristics of sizes and of their ability or disability.
1. Size: Segmentation by the size of customers includes grouping customers by their dimensions or weight.
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Many technologies have been introduced in the web service world, and probably many more will be created, but the following are the most commonly used technologies for the current web services:
The HyperText Transfer Protocol or HTTP is a protocol for collaborative, distributed information system and it is used at the application-level. It has been the base for data communication in the World Wide Web (WWW) since the 90’s.
The HTTP communication is usually over TCP/IP connections. The HTTP protocol is based on the interaction of request/responses messages. It is initiated by a client sending a request method to the server with an URI and a protocol version, followed by a MIME-like message containing additional information like client information, or some content. Once received, the server responds with a response message containing a status line, which includes the message protocol version and a status code, followed by a MIME-like message that contains additional server information.
The Simple Object Access Protocol is standard protocol that provides a definition for XML-based information exchange by means of XML messages. The SOAP version 1.2 defines how structured and typed information can be exchanged between peers in a distributed, decentralized environment.
SOAP provides a paradigm for allowing different programs running in different or the same operative system to communicate with each other using a transport protocol (mainly HTTP) and XML based structures.
SOAP is a lightweight protocol that provides a message exchange pattern for structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment; it defines an extensible messaging framework based on XML to provide a message construct (SOAP messages) which can be exchanged over different underlying protocols. This framework is independent of any programming model and other implementation semantics.
WSDL stands for Web Service Description Language, and it is used for describing the interface of any web service this interface describes how your application can call the existing web service, which parameters are required, which are optional, and it also defines how your application should process the responses it receives from a web service. We will be focusing at WSDL 2.0 standard.
WSDL files are XML files that describe the interface of a web service. It contains the following elements:
- description: this element is the root of any WSDL 2.0 file, any other WSDL element will be nested within this element
- types: this element contains an specification of the data types that are to be exchanged between the provider of the service and the consumer.
- interface: this element describes the operations available in the web service and what messages should be exchanged between the provider and the consumer for each operation (request / response). This element is also used for describing any possible fault message.
- binding: this element describes how you can access the service over the network. This is usually binding the web service to the HTTP protocol.
- service: this element describes where the service can be accessed over the network, it usually contains an URL leading to the service.
- documentation: this element is optional and provides a humanly readable description of the web service.
- import: this element is optional. It is used for importing XML schemas or even other WSDL files.
The function of the Universal Distribution, Discovery and Interoperability (UDDI) registry is to allow the publication of web services, and to allow anyone to find web services someone else may be offering and you may want to use.
UDDI is very much like yellow pages for web services, it is a directory of Web Services. The service providers register themselves in UDDI proving contact details (name, phone, fax, etc), geographic information (where in the world they services could be used). Any service provider or service requestor could search in UDDI to find other service providers, which could also include a link to the WSDL that the service provider is offering.
The service providers can use SOAP messages for registering themselves, or for discovering others.
The information in UDDI could be divided in three categories:
- White pages: business name and address, contact information, etc.
- Yellow pages: type of business, location, industry type, etc.
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Do you grapple with confidence or devotion?
- “we can’t frequently allocate in commitments.”
- “we decide on individuals who dont dedicate.”
- “I start off good, but a thing takes place so I opt completely.”
- “I find people I’m considering and poof they’re lost.”
Sound familiar? The concept of repetition compulsion comes from psychoanalytic principles. It implies repeating shape in relationships being just like unconscious aspects of a childhood union or knowledge. But you might consult, why do that?
“ If my very own father or mother can’t like me personally, who could?” In aiming to get good at the traumatization of becoming unloved in child, many instinctively draw in partners possess willpower or confidence problems following earnestly attempted to get this people like these people. In the event the spouse gets the the exact same dilemmas, the path is definitely crude. Unfortunately, until we actually manage healing, we have been keen on the familiar. That smelly old unfavorable relationships from last stress becomes internalized. it is like becoming suspended in no time and disturbs a chance to like and become insecure. Easily have always been vulnerable, I could feel mentally discontinued once again.
So is this gender appropriate? Men are observed more as engagement phobics as underscored by Warren Farrell which writes, “ as soon as women postpone from marrying guys, we refer to as it health, if boys hold off from marrying people, we refer to as they concern with devotion.” One can watch misconception into the folklore. Both women and men demonstrably might traumatization from history and both inevitably would have problems with count on and determination dilemmas.
We frequently determine individual business trapped inside the craze associated with the matchmaking market. A common concern which comes up in therapy is which dares to tell you these people consider 1st? If a number of declines crazy, which of this pair should to begin with mention the words, Everyone loves we? Who would like to have threat? I usually emphasize to that it can be an awesome surprise determine appreciate. It will be the a lot of enjoyable sensation undoubtedly to own your heart health filled with love for a different inividual. Regardless if other wants right back, it’s a proud and interesting methods knowing how exactly to like. Narcissistic mom are deprived of that capabilities so when kids have a problem with this dilemma; most people celebrate to be able to like! We afflict believe that it is in fact far better to really like than feel dearly loved, although everybody wants both. Jarod Kintz provides an announcement of love that virtually pulls a photo.
“With simple latest breath, I’ll exhale my personal fascination with an individual. I hope it’s a cool day, so you we supposed to myself.”
Viewing divorce or separation reports these days makes one wonder about how exactly contract currently is looked at. In several marriage ceremonies the old promise, till death does people component, is definitely omitted. But it is all more complex than this. Without a doubt, if two different people become united and would like to need a long lasting partnership, commitment to that device happens to be a devoted alternatives that may really make a difference within the profits. But, determining the best people, and mexican cupid dealing through previous stress include two key steps to achievement crazy affairs.
If reliability had been damaged in early youth, it will certainly often be an issue with which approach. Lots of consumers submit being troubled about creating faith problems and twosomes in treatment get sick and tired of 1 over trust. From our experience as a therapist I do think really extra enjoying to self, to receive that put your trust in is a problem, admit it, mention they, become in charge of they, and run through it along as several. Whether it’s a given at any rate, why don’t you feel compassionate to yourself? Fighting oneself upwards for having put your trust in issues is taking three strategies backwards and makes it tough to mature, repair and proceed. All of us admiration responsibility.
When you are just cultivating one-foot within connections and now you wish to grow both, it’s energy for introspection and recovery. Teaching themselves to thank you is actually first of all.
Reiterating bad patterns from past cannot treat the injuries, but in fact, in fact reenacts injury. Make use of your present of absolutely love as well as provide they to yourself, run through recent upheaval, and you will definitely locate the magnets that pull more enjoying consumers. Commitment to yourself is worth it regardless if it seems like fancy can not ever occur. As Charles F. Kettering says, “Keep on-going and then you will fall on one thing, possibly when you are the very least planning on it. I have never heard of anybody stumbling on things being seated.” Perhaps it’s a chance to grow an individual, both base, and discover the place where you will grow. If you h2o, fertilize and develop your very own increases, chances are you will probably discover that suitable fit who really wants to go along with you. | <urn:uuid:7e9fcbc4-f214-4597-aa2b-8c7c368eee53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://psb.nfbslembang.sch.id/2021/09/03/i-frequently-hear-adult-youngsters-of-narcissistic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966786 | 1,085 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Tina is saving to buy a notebook computer. She has two options. The first option is to put $100 away initially and save $10 every month. The second option is to put $100 away initially and save $39 every month. After how many months would tina save the same amount using either option?
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Court finds that keyword advertising does not constitute passing off
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc (2015 BCSC 1470) addresses an interesting trademark issue in the context of online advertising. In particular, the law in Canada regarding keyword advertising and whether it constitutes trademark infringement or passing off has been relatively undeveloped. This decision addresses the issue of keyword advertising in greater detail than other Canadian decisions to date.
In this case, the plaintiff, Vancouver Community College, alleged that the defendant, Vancouver Career College, misrepresented its educational services as those of the plaintiff, primarily via keyword advertising but also by other means. The plaintiff asserted common law trademark rights in the term 'VCC' as a short form of its name. The evidence indicated that both parties for some time had used the short form VCC internally to refer to their respective institutions, but only the plaintiff had actively marketed itself publically using the term.
Keyword advertising services such as Google AdWords allow an advertiser to pay to have its advertisement associated with specific keywords, so that when those keywords are searched using a search engine, the advertisement is displayed as a 'sponsored link' along with the 'organic' links generated by the search engine. Advertisers can place bids for certain keywords with the search engine, and the value of the bid will be a factor in determining the rank in the list of sponsored links when that keyword is searched. These 'sponsored links' are different from the organic search results produced by the search engine algorithm, and are typically clearly distinguished from organic search results, often by placement or font colour.
It is a well recognised strategy for advertisers to purchase keywords relating to a competitor (eg, the competitor’s business name or trademark), such that the advertiser’s sponsored link is displayed when a consumer searches for the competitor. This is precisely the strategy that was at issue in this case.
The evidence indicated that the plaintiff had marketed and referred to itself in the short form as VCC from 1965 to at least until 1990. Use of the term 'VCC' in the plaintiff’s marketing materials appears to have ceased after 1990, but recommenced in 2013.
As part of an extensive advertising campaign beginning in 2009 to promote the defendant’s institution, the defendant purchased VCC as a keyword for the search engines Google and Yahoo!. Users searching for 'VCC' would receive a sponsored link to the defendant’s website. At the same time, the defendant adopted the domain 'VCCollege.ca' for its website, though it did not otherwise use the term or refer to itself as 'VCCollege'. The defendant also purchased a series of other domains which included the term 'VCC', including 'my-VCC.com', 'VCC-bc.com 'and 'VCC-canada.com', but did not operate websites at these domains.
The plaintiff filed evidence from numerous students and prospective students who used online search engines to search for the term 'VCC', and who were ultimately directed to the defendant, mistakenly thinking it was the same institution as the plaintiff. However, the defendant’s website itself did not use the term 'VCC' or any other mark in which the plaintiff asserted rights and it was apparent that the website related to the defendant and not the plaintiff. In addition, before enrolling with the defendant, prospective students were required to attend an on-campus interview where signage clearly referring to the defendant was displayed, and sign forms which also clearly referred to the defendant.
In order for a plaintiff to succeed in an action for passing off, it must establish the following:
- goodwill in the mark being asserted and that the mark has acquired secondary meaning among consumers (ie, that consumers see the mark as distinctive of the plaintiff);
- the defendant has misrepresented its goods/services as those of the plaintiff leading to a likelihood of confusion amongst the relevant consumers; and
- the plaintiff has been damaged as a result.
While ultimately the plaintiff failed to satisfy the first factor in this case - being unable to demonstrate the requisite distinctiveness in the mark VCC - it is the court’s analysis of the second factor, misrepresentation, which is of particular interest. Specifically, as a result of having searched for the plaintiff’s institution by entering the term 'VCC' into a search engine, consumers might have been initially led to the defendant’s website by virtue of the defendant’s sponsored link. However, once on that website, the court held that it was clear that it was the defendant’s website and not that of the plaintiff. The court held that the relevant timeframe for assessing whether confusion had taken place was when the consumer had reached and viewed the defendant’s website, and not before.
This finding is notable because it suggests that the appropriate time for assessing confusion is only once the consumer reaches the defendant’s website, not when the search results page is displayed.
More generally with respect to keyword advertising, the court stated as follows:
"A bid on a keyword may send a searcher to the bidder's landing page, but the process of the search is controlled by the searcher and the search engine, not by the advertiser. Google and other providers of search engines generate revenue by offering an efficient bidding process. I cannot conclude that the defendant causes confusion by taking advantage of this service offered by Google."
As a consequence, the court held that no misrepresentation had taken place, and that the defendant was not liable for passing off.
Timothy Stevenson, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh, Ottawa
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The founding of the Institute in 1968 was initially made possible by the combined funding of the University of Pennsylvania, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society.
Space was generously provided by the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 to 1984 and since that time by Columbia University.
The activities of the Institute, in support of Columbia faculty and students as well as collaborative projects with Columbia and other institutions, are entirely supported by external grants and gifts solicited and received for each specific project as it is devised. The Institute does not at present have funds whereby it can support the activities of other organizations or to fund individual scholars, unless current project grants so specify.
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Nearly half of Gen Zers (born mid-1990s to mid-2000s) — that is to say, roughly our 13-to-24-year-olds today — were born after the four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States 18 years ago.
That means they have never known a world without the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and long security lines at the airport. They’ve never known what it was like not to have to take your shoes off and walk barefoot through an X-ray scanner; not to have to limit your fluids in your carry-on bag to 3 fluid oz (100 ml) each; not to have to plop your laptop on a conveyor belt for high-tech X-ray analysis; not to have to undergo the occasional (or frequent, depending on your ethnic background) pat-down by a sometimes friendly TSA officer. The list could go on and on.
But what happened on that glorious, sunny, blue-skied Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in New York City (the Twin Towers), in Washington, D.C. (the Pentagon), and outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania (the crash of Flight 93) has not only altered our travel routines. It has sadly also altered our view of Muslims and eventually all immigrants, tinging our perceptions with a lurking fear or suspicion of these strangers’ alliance with evil.
That radical Islam exists, who can deny? That terrorist attacks have continued unabated since 9/11 is obvious. That lone-wolf anti-Muslim retaliation has subsequently shot up mosques the world over is also common knowledge. No, the world we live in today is not the world we knew on September 10, 2001. September 11 has rewritten all of our lives.
In fact, it can be argued that endemic societal fear took a massive leap forward on that Tuesday 18 years ago. We live in a culture afraid of everything now. Oh, sure, the shoot-’em-up mass killings that have escalated in recent years no doubt contribute to our insecurity and angst. And perhaps so does the “selfie, me-first” narcissism that too often turns human beings into solitary individual fortresses afraid to trust anyone outside our immediate social context. Perhaps.
It could be that our Lord Himself foresaw this global paralysis, predicting it would eventually become endemic: ”People will faint from terror [recognize that word?], apprehensive of what is coming on the world” (Luke 21:26, NIV). Not surprising then that Gen Zers now manifest the highest percentage of college entrance students ever with self-diagnosed mental health issues. You can blame the technological impact of the smartphone, but we can thank 9/11 for preparing the way.
But why such gloomy thoughts on this sunny, still blue-skied September 11, 18 years later? Because of all people, those who call themselves “Adventists” (believers in the soon coming of Christ) should be analyzing the rapidly gyrating news cycle and drawing the conclusion that we now live in the self-disintegrating world which ancient Scripture predicted.
While the Bible doesn’t calculate a calendar date for The End, we’d be fools to ignore Jesus’ somber admonition, ”Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him” (Matthew 24:42-44, NIV).
Jesus, our soon-coming thief? Of course not. Rather, Jesus, our soon-coming Savior, “the Savior of the world.” Which, if it doesn’t learn about Him, will not only be caught unawares but will be lost. Which means that if we consider ourselves Adventists, it is ipso facto our “Adventist” mission to tell others this truth. Inviting them to worship with you is a blessed idea. Sharing with them something you’ve read that’s inspired you is another effective method. So is “loving your neighbor” into a continuing conversation about the meaning of relevant Bible truths (“the truth as it is in Jesus”). Choose what works for you.
But let’s not simply yawn our way past this 18th anniversary of September 11. What a waste of opportunity! In the words of Jesus, “keep watch,” “be ready,” and “go.” And “I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20, The Message). | <urn:uuid:6c787dcd-fb61-4d50-84e2-a454612d68f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adventistworld.org/keep-watch-be-ready-and-go/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959532 | 1,020 | 1.984375 | 2 |
SOLD FOR: $4225
Make: Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik
Model: Karabiner 43
Year of Manufacture: 1944-45, C&R
Caliber: 7.92x57mm Mauser
Action Type: Semi-Automatic Rifle fed by a Detachable Magazine
Markings: The left side of the frame is marked with an “X” above a NSDAP style eagle over “214” which was a waffenamt used by Berlin-Lubecker Mashinenfabrik, “5770d” which is the serial number, a faded proof which is likely East German, “K.43” which was the model designation and “qve 45.” which was the code used on gun’s made at Berlin-Lubecker Maschinenfabrik and the year the gun was made. The nose-cap has been force matched to the rifle with an electric pencil. The gas cylinder and its connecting rod are force matched with an electric pencil. The portion of the barrel obscured by the handguard is marked “DB” on the left and has the Berlin-Lubecker Mashinenfabrik waffenamt stamped twice on the right. The action cover, bolt carrier, firing pin assembly, the bolt (the bolt’s original serial number 477 is struck out and it has the eagle over “359” waffenamt which indicates it was made by a separate company then the action) and the locking lugs (they appear to have been serial matched, but were poorly marked during the refurbishment process and have the eagle over “359” waffenamt) are all force matched. The belly is marked “5770”. The left side of the magazine is force matched to the rifle, “5770”, but also has the serial number “6672” penciled in, “aye” code for Olympia Buromashinenwekre A.G., an eagle above “WaAB43” which was the waffenamt for Olympia Büromaschinenwerke A.G. and the model designation “K.43”. The bottom of the magazine is also force matched “5770”. The barrel is marked “CAI ST. A. VT. / G43 8MM GER”.
Barrel Length: 21.5”
Sights/ Optics: The front sight is a raised banded ramp with a dovetailed blade under a protective hood. The rear sight is a “V”-notch tangent leaf marked 1-12, inclusive.
Stock Configuration & Condition/ Grip: The stock is two-pieces featuring a nose-cap secured by a spring with a fixed sling bar on the left side, a ventilated handguard, a through bolt, a semi-pistol grip, a straight comb, a sling well in the butt and a metal butt-plate with storage compartment. The stock has some scattered light handling marks, nicks and scuffs. Notably, the handguard has light play on the forend. There are no chips or cracks. The LOP is 13.5” from the trigger to the rear end of the butt-plate. The butt-plate has some finish loss around the leading edges, some light surface oxidation and light handling marks. Overall, the stock is in Very Good condition.
Type of Finish: Blued
Finish Originality: Arsenal Refurbished
Bore Condition: The bore is semi-bright with mostly sharp rifling. There is light-moderate erosion concentrated in the grooves.
Overall Condition: The rifle retains about 90% of its finish. There are some light handling marks, nicks and scuffs on the gun’s metal surfaces. Notably, there is some finish loss around the muzzle and front sight’s leading edges. Some of the markings have been obscured during the refurbishment process, but most remain clear. The screwheads are light tooled and remain serviceable. Overall, the rifle is in Very Good condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. We have not fired this rifle. As with all previously owned firearms, a thorough cleaning may be necessary to meet your maintenance standards.
Box Paperwork and Accessories: None.
Our Assessment: The Gewehr Modell 1943 was a German semi-automatic rifle introduced for service with the Wehrmacht towards the end of WWII. The concept originated with the Gewehr Modell 41, but that gun proved unreliable with only a small number ever produced by Walther and Mauser. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941 a number of Soviet SVT-40 semi-automatic rifles were captured and the Soviet gun’s superior engineering was integrated into the Gewehr 41 and the resulting reworked rifle was the Model 1943. The gun entered production in 1943 and a number of companies manufactured the rifle with over 400,000 manufactured before WWII ended. In April of 1944 the Gewehr 43 was renamed the Karabiner 43 but the gun was identical in all respects except the markings.
The Gewehr 43’s story did not end with the Third Reich, surplus rifles continued to service in the East German (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) security services into the 1950s. This particular specimen was refurbished for service within the DDR and has parts force matched with an electric pencil, a method typically seen on Eastern Bloc weapons. The gun also has a sunburst proof on the left side of the frame used by the DDR and a “X” which indicates the gun was captured by the Red Army (the “X” was placed on captured weapons by the Soviets). The gun was eventually phased out in the 1950s and put into storage before being sold commercially following the fall of the Berlin Wall. This rifle is well preserved with only light handling wear and should prove a fun addition to any historical firearms collection. Good luck on your bid! | <urn:uuid:6178616e-c8a1-4ba4-afbe-9e0d55f8a7d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lsbauctions.com/36870/east-german-refurb-qve-karabiner-43-g43-8mm-mauser-semi-auto-rifle-1945-cr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955561 | 1,297 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Smart Sustainability projects will help the community manage our precious resources more efficiently, using applied technology and innovation to create a cleaner and more sustainable future.
- The creation of a high-powered solar farm generating enough energy to power more than half of our annual electricity needs.
- Installation of solar panels on 13 City of Newcastle buildings to power our community facilities.
- Electric vehicle charging points throughout the LGA, using onsite solar panels and battery source for renewable power.
- City of Newcastle fleet transitioning to electric vehicles, and provision of e-bikes providing sustainable transport options.
- Accelerated upgrade of 5000 Street lights to LED, saving nearly 10 percent of City of Newcastle’s entire annual electricity usage. | <urn:uuid:ec1daa7b-463d-4708-8890-f0f2b265ef15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newcastle.nsw.gov.au/living/our-city/creating-a-smart-city/city-of-sustainability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.888424 | 152 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Background: Aluminum a known neuro and cholinotoxin has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Its exposure is associated with impairment of the memory and cognition.
Objective: The present study was undertaken to evaluate the anti-Alzheimer's activity of Vitis vinifera in aluminum induced Alzheimer's disease.
Materials and methods: In this study, we investigated the behavioral and biochemical effects of aluminum in Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were exposed to aluminum chloride (100 mg/kg/day) orally for a period of 8 weeks. Vitis was given in doses of 250 mg/kg and 500 mg/kg for 16 weeks and the possible effects of Vitis vinifera on the expression of Tau and amyloid precursor protein were evaluated by PCR analysis and the possible activities of lipid peroxidation, inflammation and anti-cholinesterase activity were evaluated.
Results: Aluminum intoxication was associated with significant impairment in learning and memory in Morris water maze test. A significant improvement was observed with Vitis vinifera in a dose dependent manner.
Conclusion: The findings of the present study revealed the significant neuroprotective actions of Vitis vinifera by modifying the biochemical parameters and inhibited the mRNA expression of Amyloid Precursor Protein and Tau, which are the key pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, which was further confirmed by histopathological observations.
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid Precursor Protein; Tau; Vitis vinifera.
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While it may not be the same as natural grass, your artificial grass still needs a certain level of care and attention. Find out what you need to do to maintain your artificial grass and keep it looking good as new.
The thought of having a perfect green lawn without any work is appealing to many people. With artificial grass Gold Coast, you get that dream come true! Well, not quite. Like real grass, your synthetic turf needs some TLC to look its best and last longer. In this article, we will talk about maintaining your artificial grass so that you can keep up with the high maintenance lifestyle of a busy homeowner or business owner.
Methods of Maintaining Your Artificial Grass
Your artificial grass can’t take care of itself. So you’ll need to make an effort in keeping it healthy and good-looking. To help you get started, here are a few things you need to keep in mind:
- Regularly grooming your artificial grass with a power rake will make it look fresh green. It is important for those who want to have that lush, manicured lawn appearance and feel. Raking also removes any debris on the surface, so you don’t end up tracking it all over your house or business building.
- Keeping an eye out for weeds can help prevent them from growing into troublesome plants if weeded early enough. An excellent way to do this is by using weed killer as soon as you see them sprouting. Be sure not to let the chemicals touch anything other than the desired weed species to keep down potential damage done elsewhere on your property due to accidental damage chemical spills.
- High-quality artificial turf requires periodic maintenance to make it last longer and look better over time. Still, even low-quality synthetic grass needs occasional care to keep up its appearance. A good way of doing this is by using a power rake every so often or just pulling the weeds manually when they sprout between your blades of synthetic grass.
- Clean your artificial grass Gold Coast using a mixture of mild detergent and water. Rinse the solution off with a garden hose. If there are stains on your artificial grass, you can use either hydrogen peroxide or baking soda mixed in water to scrub them out and get rid of any bacteria that might be lurking around.
- In some cases, it may require more than just a power rake and weed killer sprayer to keep up appearances; this is where professional help comes into play. Certain jobs such as repairing seams, undoing pet damage, fixing rips or tears from lawn equipment will need experienced hands. They can patch the area properly without causing further harm to other areas.
When you follow these valuable tips, you’ll have artificial grass that looks better and lasts even longer. However, always keep in mind that, like natural grass, artificial grass also needs regular maintenance to stay looking good. | <urn:uuid:7d9c87ce-da9f-4876-ad75-fbe1d45a2976> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://0913news.com/how-to-maintain-your-artificial-grass-tips-for-keeping-a-better-looking-and-longer-lasting-lawn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955101 | 587 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Tuesday November 30th is Giving Tuesday and here in West Texas local nonprofits need your help. After doing all your shopping, it's time to think about all the other people in the world that need a little help, every dollar counts.
Giving Tuesday was set up right after all the shopping events to help remind people what the holiday season is really about. Now more than ever it is really important because the pandemic really hurt nonprofits and their fundraisers and events.
A good way to keep up with everything that is going on is through the hashtag #GivingTuesdayWTX or this website. If you need some help deciding who to give to here are some ideas. Remember any dollar amount helps, if we all gave a dollar Giving Tuesday would go a long way.
RMHC of the Southwest: They help families whose children are in the hospital to give them somewhere close to stay for free so they can help get their loved ones better.
Lubbock Impact: It is a soup kitchen that encompasses ministries that serve those who are considered working poor and/or poverty-stricken with food, clothing, healthcare, and spiritual growth. They also have free clinics for those uninsured ages 19 to 64.
Habitat for Humanity: This nonprofit brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
YWCA of Lubbock: They have programs that ensure affordable childcare rates for families in need, scholarship programs for summer and day camps, and so much more.
Texas Girls & Boys Ranch: This nonprofit is a Child Protective Services referral organization providing services to children through three cooperative programs and helps as a shelter, agency and camp.
Milestones Development & Play Park: Milestones is a outside and indoor park that brings every kid together to feel safe and special. No matter the weather any kid has somewhere fun to go.
Make-A-Wish: This gives a child a chance that has critical illness to have one wish granted.
CASA of the South Plains: They inspire, educate, and empower solution-minded community members to support children in the foster care system.
Alström Angels: This nonprofit supports Alstrom Syndrome this is a orphan disease that is so rare, that very few people have heard of it. Alström Syndrome touches every organ in the body, causing unimaginable medical complications.
P.E.T.S. Clinic: This clinic provides high-quality, low-cost spays and neuters, veterinary services, and community-focused programs in a kind, nonjudgmental environment to ensure every pet has access to and can remain in a loving home.
Haven Animal Care Shelter: It is a no-kill, non-profit animal sanctuary and is generally home to over 100 animals, primarily dogs and cats on seven-acre property.
Morris Safe House: This is a non-profit, no-kill rescue facility for dogs on the South Plains addressing the physical and psychological needs of every dog.
Women's Protective Services: Their mission is to create an environment of empowerment for women, children, and families to eliminate family violence throughout the South Plains 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The Science Spectrum: This is a non-profit museum for science education that is dedicated to the pursuit of exploration and science education. No matter the age their is a lot to discover with their museum and OMNI theater.
The Lubbock Dream Center: Their mission is to connect people to God and surround them with a supportive community by building families, restoring hope, and inspiring dreams. The goal is to meet immediate, and log-term needs in areas of hunger, poverty, and education by offering free haircuts, food, clothing, GED classes, and many other Action Family programs.
High Point Village: Their mission is to create a village where individuals with intellectual disabilities can live, learn, work, worship, and achieve their full potential. Their programs empower Villagers to reach their full potential through engaging and motivating activities. Because of High Point Village, our Villagers have a place to belong.
LHUCA: This is a nonprofit visual and performing arts center in the heart of the Lubbock Cultural District. LHUCA has a broad-based constituency, due in part because it is the organizer of the First Friday Art Trail, that brings 5,000 people each month in.
Lubbock Community Theatre: This program puts on plays in Lubbock and gets everyone excited for theatre. No matter the age they have something for you whether it's watching a play, being in it or going to camp.
The Lubbock Cultural Arts Foundation: This foundation exists to cultivate and champion the arts in Lubbock. The funding will be used to support public art projects, professional development opportunities for musicians and other programming to support the arts.
East Lubbock Art: This is a community art center and art agency dedicated to supporting the arts and working towards the betterment of the Eastern portion of Lubbock. The funds will go to Lubbock Community Fridge, ELAH Free Library, Community Art Classes, Art Kits for Kids, Vivian T. Cooke Visionary Art Exhibition Series, and our upcoming Anti-Racist programming.
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The Moroccan government recently kick-started the exploration and exploitation of other minerals in order to bring diversity to the country’s mining sector.
Although Morocco relies more on its brains than its earthen sub-strata, mining does represent an important component for the economy. In 2010 the mining sector represented 6% of the country’s GDP, about 27% of the national export earnings, and provided employment to roughly 35,000 people.
Like many other countries, Morocco is basically a one-commodity show, with phosphates being the Moroccan bread-winner. Used mostly for agricultural fertilizers, phosphates represent about 94% of total mining output by volume.
Morocco is believed to hold the bulk of global phosphates reserves. The country is the world’s third-largest producer of phosphates and accounts for around 17% of global output. Due to strong international demand and tight supply, prices are expected to remain high in 2012.
The Phosphates Company (OCP) is one of the world’s biggest exporters of phosphates. It has a monopoly on phosphate mining in Morocco and plans to double annual production capacity by 2020 to 50 million tons a year. OCP employs almost 20,000 people.
The company is solely responsible for the production and sale of Moroccan phosphate resources, mined at the Benguérir, Khouribga, Youssoufia mines in central Morocco, and the Boucraa mine in southern Morocco. Altogether these sites represent about 86 billion cubic meters of reserves. OCP is a stateowned company created in 1920.
Morocco recognizes its mining sector is overly dependent on phosphates and needs to diversify. Therefore it has started mapping out its geological resources under the National Geological Mapping Plan and is actively leveraging private investors to help develop alternative minerals.
Although still small by international standards, Morocco is an active producer of precious metals (silver and gold) and of other ores (iron, lead, zinc, copper). In 2010 these latter four racked up production volumes of about 50,000 tons each.
Mineral deposits have been found throughout the country. Lead, fluorine and antimony are found in the center of the country. The Anti-Atlas Mountains contain copper, manganese, gold and silver deposits, as well as strategic metals such as cobalt, tin and wolfram. The High Atlas range has deposits of lead, zinc, copper, manganese, iron and barite, while the eastern part of the country has reserves of lead, zinc and coal.
To attract foreign attention to the country’s mining opportunities, Morocco has substantially changed the legal framework for mining. “Mining companies that export from Morocco have the advantage of a lower 17.5% corporate tax rate as do mineral producers who sell on to value-added transforming companies for export,” explains Julien David of French law firm Gide GLN.
Oil and gas exploration and research in Morocco is spearheaded by the National Hydrocarbons and Mines Office (Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines or ONHYM).
Compared to its neighbors (Algeria, Mauritania and Libya) which have vast proven reserves, Morocco’s petroleum potential is still largely unknown. But geologic research carried out from 2000 to 2011 shows a glimmer of hope. According to ONHYM: “Several viable petroleum systems, with good hydrocarbon potential, exist in Moroccan sedimentary basins.” ONHYM has carried out exploratory drillings, either on its own or via licenses granted to foreign companies, and has identified 26 sites as promising for future exploitation. Morocco currently counts only 18 active sites.
The strategic potential for phosphates is downstream in added-value activities, such as in the production of phosphoric acid, ready-made fertilizers and other chemical derivatives. The Moroccan chemical industry is growing rapidly as new compounds are being produced locally.
Elsewhere, the emphasis is on finding and developing new minerals production, in partnership with qualified foreign partners. Another area that offers future growth potential is quarrying, namely for marble and granite. ●
For more information:
Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and the Environment
Grand Central Phosphate
OCP, Morocco’s largest company with $5.2 billion in 2010 revenues, is helping move the country up the phosphate value chain. Why settle for the export of raw phosphates when one can produce finished or semi-finished products locally and export those?
With this vision in mind, OCP is developing Jorf Phosphate Hub (JPH) in Jorf Lasfar, a coastal town about 125 kms southwest of Casablanca. JPH is no small project: the total investment is set for $1.17 billion, in two phases. Over 300 acres have been set aside for factories, storage warehouses, materials handling equipment, and of course new harbor facilities to export the products (chemicals, fertilizers, and other phosphate-based products).
“The principle of JPH is to offer ‘plug-and-play’ options to companies wishing to develop downstream phosphate activities,” explains the JPH Project Manager at OCP. The hub will provide its industrial tenants with all the required infrastructure: water, electricity, waste treatment, pipelines, security, and of course roads and bridges to connect to the domestic and export supply chains. JPH will open in phases, with its first phase of four industrial plants opening in 2013, and the remainder in 2015. | <urn:uuid:2ebd4b6d-c49f-4b82-a469-5a4730aa0e0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.doingbusinessin.fr/phosphates-and-more/?lang=fr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934914 | 1,177 | 2.734375 | 3 |
A collection of poems composed by over fifty authors
in aid of the victims and survivors of the Orlando Pulse Attack.
On June 12, 2016, the most horrendous mass shooting in US history and an unfathomable act of hate was directed at the LGBT community in Orlando. The horror of this tragedy reverberated around the world, leaving millions shocked and appalled at the senseless violence that destroyed so many innocent lives.
In a display of solidarity with the victims and survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, a group of LGBTQ+ and straight allies, from all across the globe, came together to produce a collection of poems in celebration of love and acceptance.
The resulting Love is Love Poetry Anthology is dedicated to the families and victims of the shooting and all proceeds of this work will be donated to Equality Florida’s Pulse Victims Fund.
In this small way, the authors, along with the readers who purchase this work, seek to contribute to the lives of those who still suffer from the consequences of the malice directed toward them, and offer some positivity and compassion in the face of such bigotry.
AC Benus, Aditus, Andrew Jericho, Ann Anderson, Ash Marie, Asta Idonea, Betti Gefecht, Cam Kennedy, Cynus Eldranai, Darren White, dughlas, Eddy LeFey, Eden Winters, EmiGS Em, F.E. Feeley Jr., Gelybi , Headstall, Jack L. Pyke, Jana Denardo, Jason Frazier, Jay Rookwood, J.L. Merrow, Karina Rye, Kathy Griffith, Kay Ellis, Kaye P. Hallows, Kit Loffstadt, Laura B. Damone, Layla Dorine, Lily G. Blunt, L.J. Harris, L.M. Somerton, Louis Stevens, L.S.K Harris, L.V. Lloyd, Lynn Michaels, Maggie Chatterton, Maria Siopis, Monika De Giorgi, Parker Owens, Patricia Nelson, Pelaam, Petra Howard, Ravyn Bryce, Rick R. Reed, Ruski, Valik and Addy, S.J. Davis, Skylar M. Cates, Star Brady, Steve Baldry, Susan Crane, Tamara Miles, Tash Hatzipetrou, Tim Landon, Tracy Gee, Vicki Tubridy, Victoria Kinnaird, and Wendy Rathbone.
Sincere thanks go to everyone who contributed their time, energy, and skills in the making of this beautiful anthology.
Kelly O’Brien for the ‘Love Wins’ artwork,
and Petra Howard and Tash Hatzipetrou for proofreading the final document.
Many thanks to Kelly O’Brien for contributing the
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Pilocarpine is used to treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is a condition where pressure in the eye is increased. Untreated glaucoma can affect your eyesight and cause blindness. Pilocarpine helps to reduce the pressure in your eye.
If you experience blurred vision, you should avoid driving or doing things in places with poor lighting.
If these side effects happen and do not go away, check with your doctor as soon as possible.
Inform your healthcare professional if:
If you forget to administer a dose, use it as soon as you remember. Then administer your next dose at the usual time. Do not use two doses to make up for the missed dose.
Record the date opened on the eye drop bottle. Throw away this medication one month after opening.
Pack this medication into a black trash bag and seal it tightly before throwing into the rubbish chute or bin.
The symptoms of a drug allergy include one or more of the following:
If you experience any of these symptoms, you should stop your medication and see your healthcare professional immediately.
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Features and Overview
In order to reach the upper part of Death Mountain and Goron City itself, Link must travel through the Death Mountain Trail, which is filled with Red Tektites and giant Boulders. The path to the Death Mountain Trail is initially closed off and will not open until Link shows Zelda's Letter to the Gatekeeper guarding the gate.
Death Mountain Trail takes Link to all of the prominent locations of Death Mountain. It is home to Dodongo's Cavern, where child Link faces King Dodongo, eventually receiving the Goron's Ruby in the process. By following the Trail, Link can reach Goron Village. Death Mountain Crater, the inner part of the volcano of Death Mountain and the location of the Fire Temple, can be accessed via Goron City or by climbing up the mountain through the Trail. Atop the Death Mountain Trail is a Great Fairy Fountain where the Great Fairy of Power within grants Link the Magic Meter and the Spin Attack.
When Link is a child, Death Mountain is an active volcano. Any time Link approaches the northernmost part of the mountain in an attempt to climb it up to the crater, the volcano will activate itself. As such, Link must equip himself with the Hylian Shield in order to safely climb it. Biggoron, the giant Goron involved in the Biggoron's Sword sidequest, resides behind the mountain next to the crater entrance, although since he is always rolled up, Link cannot see him until he approaches him. Kaepora Gaebora can also be found atop the highest point of the trail near the Great Fairy Fountain entrance, where he offers Link a ride down to Kakariko Village.
After Link withdraws the Master Sword from the Pedestal of Time, Ganondorf revives the ancient dragon Volvagia and stirs up trouble in the depths of the crater, causing Death Mountain's white clouds to take on a red and fiery appearance. It is not until Link defeats Volvagia that Death Mountain returns to normal and the volcano stops its spontaneous eruptions, allowing him to safely scale the Trail.
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- "Death Mountain Trail" — N/A (Ocarina of Time 3D)
- "The road is closed beyond this point! Can't you read the sign over there?" — Death Mountain Trail Gatekeeper (Ocarina of Time 3D)
- "Wah ha ha ha hah! What kind of funny game has our Princess come up with now?! OK, OK, all right. You can go now... Just be careful, Mr. Hero! Wah hah ha ha hah!" — Death Mountain Trail Gatekeeper (Ocarina of Time 3D)
- "You should go see the Great Fairy on top of Death Mountain! She will power you up!" — Darunia (Ocarina of Time)
- "If you're going to climb Death Mountain, you should equip a proper shield! It is an active volcano, after all!" — Death Mountain Trail Gatekeeper (Ocarina of Time 3D)
- "I will perch here and wait for you. When you're ready to go back down, I can help you!" — Kaepora Gaebora (Ocarina of Time)
- "Ganondorf is causing trouble on Death Mountain again! He has revived the evil, ancient dragon Volvagia!" — Darunia (Ocarina of Time)
- Nintendo Official Guidebook—The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Shogakukan) pg. 155
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They are one of the most popular trees in the home garden but unfortunately unhealthy looking specimens are common, as their needs are not always understood. Citrus need regular feeding and attention paid to preventing pests and diseases. One important rule for citrus is never grow it in the middle of the lawn , with grass right up to the trunk and expect it to thrive. The grass competes for water and nutrients and also releases allelopathic chemicals into the soil that diminish the vigour of the tree. Planting In Queensland and warmer areas of NSW citrus can be planted in late winter or early spring but bare-rooted trees should only be planted in winter.
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Lemon Tree Won’t Grow Fruit? Here’s Why and What To Do
Apart from varieties that fruit every other year naturally, biennial fruiting is usually provoked when a fruit tree does not get enough water or is undernourished.The other common reason is that a heavy frost in spring can make the blossom unviable.
To compensate, the tree flowers and fruits extra heavily the next year and the cycle begins. The "Beast from the East" of " may well cause biennial fruiting in trees that previously cropped every year.
Persuading a tree to change its fruiting habits can be quite tough and may require some persistence. But it can be done. Whatever else you do, make sure the tree is as well fed and watered as possible.
From blossom, until it has fruited, it will need to be watered really well in dry spells. A newly planted tree will need a couple of full watering cans of water every two weeks for the first years of its life.
So the water goes where it is intended, keep a circle at least 1 metre in diameter around the trunk completely clear of grass and weeds. As the tree grows, make the circle bigger If you have not used Rootgrow, feed the tree in spring before mulching with a general-purpose granular fertiliser such as Growmore. Follow the instructions. Thin out the fruit on the tree when you have a heavy crop. This is always a good thing to do irrespective of whether the tree is a biennial fruiter or not.
You get better quality fruit and by reducing the crop size, you stress the tree less and so encourage it to fruit the next year as well year. The most draconian - and effective - thing to do is to thin the fruit buds in early spring in a heavy fruiting year. This is called "rubbing out" and you literally rub them using your thumb and first finger. You can choose between rubbing out every fruiting bud on every other branch, every fruiting bud on every other spur or between half and two-thirds of the fruiting buds on every spur on the tree.
Whichever you decide you will rub out the same number of buds on the tree. When selecting a method remember that you will need to do the same thing to the OTHER half of the buds next year.
My favoured method is to do every other branch and tie a bit of raffia or garden twin to the branches I have done to remind me which ones to leave alone next year. For those who are not sure, a fruit bud is a prominent, usually downy, rather plump bud that is obvious from autumn onwards. Leaf buds, by contrast, are smaller and tend to lie flat against stems. If you are worried about which buds are which, then as quickly as possible after the flowers open cut every other blossom off.
The purpose of this "halving" is to restrict the heavy crop thereby allowing your tree to have enough in reserve when fruiting is over to produce fruit buds for next spring. Plants will usually be available to order before they are ready for delivery.
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I can grow those. Bearss limes are distinguished from the other main kind of lime grown in California called the Mexican, West Indian, or Key lime. See the page for Mexican lime at U. Many limes are dropping from my tree right now, late January.
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Citrus is the main fruit tree crop in the world and therefore has a tremendous economical, social and cultural impact in our society. In recent years, our knowledge on plant reproductive biology has increased considerably mostly because of the work developed in model plants. However, the information generated in these species cannot always be applied to citrus, predominantly because citrus is a perennial tree crop that exhibits a very peculiar and unusual reproductive biology.Regulation of fruit growth and development in citrus is an intricate phenomenon depending upon many internal and external factors that may operate both sequentially and simultaneously. The elements and mechanisms whereby endogenous and environmental stimuli affect fruit growth are being interpreted and this knowledge may help to provide tools that allow optimizing production and fruit with enhanced nutritional value, the ultimate goal of the Citrus Industry. This article will review the progress that has taken place in the physiology of citrus fruiting during recent years and present the current status of major research topics in this area.
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Without pruning or training, citrus trees grow naturally into bushy trees and will initially crop well. However, trees will eventually become overgrown with high proportion of dense, unproductive and spent wood.If trained, shaped and pruned in a specific way, trees will be healthier, easier to manage and will crop more reliably. Citrus trees blossom and fruit on the terminal ends tip ends of branches.
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|King of Aragon, Valencia, and Majorca, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier|
|Preceded by||Peter II|
|Succeeded by||Peter III|
|Preceded by||New title|
|Succeeded by||Peter I|
|Preceded by||New title|
|Succeeded by||Peter I|
|Born||2 February 1208|
|Died||27 July 1276 (aged 68)|
|Spouse(s)||Eleanor of Castile|
Violant of Hungary
Teresa Gil de Vidaure
James I the Conqueror (Catalan: Jaume el Conqueridor, Aragonese: Chaime lo Conqueridor, Spanish: Jaime el Conquistador, Occitan: Jacme lo Conquistaire; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was the King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276. His long reign saw the expansion of the Crown of Aragon on all sides: into Valencia to the south, Languedoc to the north, and the Balearic Islands to the east. By a treaty with Louis IX of France, he wrested the county of Barcelona from nominal French suzerainty and integrated it into his crown. His part in the Reconquista was similar in Mediterranean Spain to that of his contemporary Ferdinand III of Castile in Andalusia.
As a legislator and organiser, he occupies a high place among the Spanish kings. James compiled the Llibre del Consulat de Mar, which governed maritime trade and helped establish Aragonese supremacy in the western Mediterranean. He was an important figure in the development of Catalan, sponsoring Catalan literature and writing a quasi-autobiographical chronicle of his reign: the Llibre dels fets.
Early life and reign until majority
James was born at Montpellier as the only son of Peter II of Aragon and Marie of Montpellier, heiress of William VIII of Montpellier and Eudokia Komnene. As a child, James was a pawn in the power politics of Provence, where his father was engaged in struggles helping the Cathar heretics of Albi against the Albigensian Crusaders led by Simon IV de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who were trying to exterminate them. Peter endeavoured to placate the northern crusaders by arranging a marriage between his son James and Simon's daughter. He entrusted the boy to be educated in Montfort's care in 1211, but was soon forced to take up arms against him, dying at the Battle of Muret on 12 September 1213. Montfort would willingly have used James as a means of extending his own power had not the Aragonese appealed to Pope Innocent III, who insisted that Montfort surrender him. James was handed over, at Carcassonne, in May or June 1214, to the papal legate Peter of Benevento.
James was then sent to Monzón, where he was entrusted to the care of Guillem de Montredón, the head of the Knights Templar in Spain and Provence; the regency meanwhile fell to his great uncle Sancho, Count of Roussillon, and his son, the king's cousin, Nuño. The kingdom was given over to confusion until, in 1217, the Templars and some of the more loyal nobles brought the young king to Zaragoza.
In 1221, he was married to Eleanor, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonora of England. The next six years of his reign were full of rebellions on the part of the nobles. By the Peace of Alais of 31 March 1227, the nobles and the king came to terms.
Acquisition of Urgell
In 1228, James faced the sternest opposition from a vassal yet. Guerau IV de Cabrera had occupied the County of Urgell in opposition to Aurembiax, the heiress of Ermengol VIII, who had died without sons in 1208. Although Aurembiax's mother, Elvira, had made herself a protegée of James's father, upon her death in 1220 Guerau had occupied the county and displaced Aurembiax, claiming that a woman could not inherit.
James intervened on behalf of Aurembiax, whom he owed protection. He bought Guerau off and allowed Aurembiax to reclaim her territory, which she did at Lleida, probably also becoming one of James' earliest mistresses. She surrendered Lleida to James and agreed to hold Urgell in fief for him. On her death in 1231, James exchanged the Balearic Islands for Urgell with her widower, Peter of Portugal.
From 1230 to 1232, James negotiated with Sancho VII of Navarre, who desired his help against his nephew and closest living male relative, Theobald IV of Champagne. James and Sancho negotiated a treaty whereby James would inherit Navarre on the old Sancho's death, but when this did occur, the Navarrese nobles instead elevated Theobald to the throne (1234), and James disputed it. Pope Gregory IX was required to intervene. In the end, James accepted Theobald's succession.
James endeavoured to form a state straddling the Pyrenees in order to counterbalance the power of France north of the Loire. As with the much earlier Visigothic attempt, this policy was victim to physical, cultural, and political obstacles. As in the case of Navarre, he declined to launch into perilous adventures. By the Treaty of Corbeil, signed in May 1258, he ended his conflict with Louis IX of France, securing the renunciation of French claims to sovereignty over Catalonia.
After his false start at uniting Aragon with the Kingdom of Navarre through a scheme of mutual adoption, James turned to the south and the Mediterranean Sea where he conquered Majorca on 31 December in 1229 and the rest of the Balearic Islands. Although a group of Aragonese knights took part in the campaign because of their obligations to the king, the conquest of Majorca was mainly a Catalan undertaking (Catalans would later make up the majority of Majorca's settlers). On 5 September 1229, the troops from Aragon, consisting of 155 ships, 1,500 horsemen and 15,000 soldiers, set sail from Tarragona, Salou, and Cambrils to conquer Majorca from Abú Yahya, the semi-independent Almohad governor of the island.
Also acquired during the reconquest were Minorca 1232 and Ibiza 1235). Valencia capitulated to Aragonese rule on 28 September 1238 following an extensive campaign that included the Siege of Burriana and the decisive Battle of the Puig, where the Aragonese commander, Bernardo Guillermo de Entenza, who was also the king's cousin, died from wounds received in action. Chroniclers say he used gunpowder in the siege of Museros castle.
During his remaining two decades after Corbeil, James warred with the Moors in Murcia, on behalf of his son-in-law Alfonso X of Castile. On 26 March 1244, the two monarchs signed the Treaty of Almizra to establish their zones of expansion into Andalusia so as to prevent squabbling between them. Specifically, it defined the borders of the newly created Kingdom of Valencia. James signed it on that date, but Alfonso did not affirm it until much later. According to the treaty, all lands south of a line from Biar to Villajoyosa through Busot were reserved for Castile.
Crusade of 1269
The "Khan of Tartary" (actually the Ilkhan) Abaqa corresponded with James in early 1267, inviting him to join forces with the Mongols and go on crusade. James sent an ambassador to Abaqa in the person of Jayme Alaric de Perpignan, who returned with a Mongol embassy in 1269. Pope Clement IV tried to dissuade James from crusading, regarding his moral character as sub-par, and Alfonso X did the same. Nonetheless, James, who was then campaigning in Murcia, made peace with Mohammed I ibn Nasr, the Sultan of Granada, and set about collecting funds for a crusade. After organising the government for his absence and assembling a fleet at Barcelona in September 1269, he was ready to sail east. The troubadour Olivier lo Templier composed a song praising the voyage and hoping for its success. A storm, however, drove him off course, and he landed at Aigues-Mortes. According to the continuator of William of Tyre, he returned via Montpellier por l'amor de sa dame Berenguiere ("for the love his lady Berengaria") and abandoned any further effort at a crusade.
James's sons Pedro Fernández and Fernán Sánchez, who had been given command of part of the fleet, did continue on their way to Acre, where they arrived in December. They found that Baibars, the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt, had broken his truce with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and was making a demonstration of his military power in front of Acre. During the demonstration, Egyptian troops hidden in the bushes ambushed a returning Frankish force that had been in Galilee. James's sons, initially eager for a fight, changed their minds after this spectacle and returned home via Sicily, where Fernán Sánchez was knighted by Charles of Anjou.
Patronage of art, learning, and literature
James built and consecrated the Cathedral of Lleida, which was constructed in a style transitional between Romanesque and Gothic with little influence from Moorish styles.
James was a patron of the University of Montpellier, which owed much of its development to his impetus. He also founded a studium at Valencia in 1245 and received privileges for it from Pope Innocent IV, but it did not develop as splendidly. In 1263, James presided over a debate in Barcelona between the Jewish rabbi Nahmanides and Pablo Christiani, a prominent converso.
James was the first great sponsor and patron of vernacular Catalan literature. Indeed, he may himself be called "the first of the Catalan prose writers." James wrote or dictated at various stages a chronicle of his own life in Catalan, Llibre dels fets, the first autobiography by a Christian king. As well as being a fine example of autobiography, the "Book of Deeds" expresses concepts of the power and purpose of monarchy, examples of loyalty and treachery in the feudal order, and medieval military tactics. More controversially, some historians have looked at these writings as a source of Catalan identity, separate from that of Occitania and Rome.
James also wrote the Libre de la Saviesa or "Book of Wisdom." The book contains proverbs from various authors, reaching from the time of King Solomon to nearly his own time with Albertus Magnus. It even contains maxims from the medieval Arab philosophers and from the Apophthegmata Philosophorum of Honein ben Ishak, which was probably translated at Barcelona during his reign. A Hebrew translator by the name of Jehuda was employed at James's court during this period.
Though James was himself a prose writer and sponsored mostly prose works, he had an appreciation of verse. In consequence of the Albigensian Crusade, many troubadours were forced to flee southern France and many found refuge in Aragon. Notwithstanding his early patronage of poetry, by the influence of his confessor Ramon de Penyafort, James brought the Inquisition into his realm in 1233 to prevent any vernacular translation of the Bible.
The favour James showed his illegitimate offspring led to protest from the nobles, and to conflicts between his legitimate and illegitimate sons. When one of the latter, Fernán Sánchez, who had behaved with gross ingratitude and treason toward his father, was slain by the legitimate son Peter, the old king recorded his grim satisfaction.
In his will, James divided his states between his sons by Yolanda of Hungary: the aforementioned Peter received the Hispanic possessions on the mainland and James, the Kingdom of Majorca (including the Balearic Islands and the counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya) and the Lordship of Montpellier. The division inevitably produced fratricidal conflicts. In 1276, the king fell very ill at Alzira and resigned his crown, intending to retire to the monastery of Poblet, but he died at Valencia on 27 July.
His mummified body was later exhumed in 1856, when the monastery was under repair. A photograph of the king was taken. The photograph of the head of the mummy clearly shows the wound in the left eyebrow that the king himself explained in a passage from his Llibre dels fets (Book of Deeds):
As I was coming with the men, I happened to turn my head towards the town in order to look at the Saracens, who had come out in great force, when a cross-bowman shot at me, and hit me beside the sun-hood, and the shot struck me on the head, the bolt lighting near the forehead. It was God's will it did not pass through the head, but the point of the arrow went half through it. In anger I struck the arrow so with my hand that I broke it: the blood came out down my face; I wiped it off with a mantle of "sendal" I had, and went away laughing, that the army might not take alarm.
Marriages and children
James first married, in 1221, Eleanor, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England. Though he later had the marriage annulled, his one son by her was declared legitimate:
- Alfonso (1229–1260), married Constance of Béarn, Viscountess of Marsan
In 1235, James remarried to Yolanda, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary by his second wife Yolande de Courtenay. She bore him numerous children:
- Yolanda, also known as Violant, (1236–1301), married Alfonso X of Castile
- Constance (1239–1269), married Juan Manuel, Lord of Villena, son of Ferdinand III
- Peter (1240–1285), successor in Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia
- James (1243–1311), successor in Balearics and Languedoc
- Ferdinand (1245–1250)
- Sancho (1246–1251)
- Isabella (1247–1271), married Philip III of France
- Mary (1248–1267), nun
- Sancho, Archbishop of Toledo (1250–1279)
- Eleanor (born 1251, died young)
James married thirdly Teresa Gil de Vidaure, but only by a private document, and left her when she developed leprosy.
- James (c.1255–1285), lord of Xèrica
- Peter (1259–1318), lord of Ayerbe
The children in the third marriage were recognised in his last will as being in the line of succession to the throne, should the senior lines fail.
James also had several lovers, both during and after his marriages, and a few bore him illegitimate sons.
By Blanca d'Antillón:
- Ferran Sanchis (or Fernando Sánchez; 1240–1275), baron of Castro
By Berenguela Fernández:
- Pedro Fernández, baron of Híjar
By Elvira Sarroca:
- Jaume Sarroca (born 1248), Archbishop of Huesca
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How To Install Fiber Cement Siding - Allura USA
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[MUSIC] Welcome to the Allura, installation how to video series. Today we're gonna be reviewing the general practices for installing fiber cement. When storing and handling fiber cement, it's important that you carry it on edge. And when you have it delivered, that it's on flat ground, out of the mud, and out of standing water. So when taking delivery of the product, it's important that you try not to
bend it or damage it. In the old days, and with some lumber yards, they do it off a tilt bed and that bends the product. If you can get a service that has a Moffett base skilled forklift or a boom truck, that will be the preferable way to place it. That allows you to put a unit on each side of the house and reduces some of the back and
fort that causes extra time and labor. So when cutting fiber cement, it's important that you cut outdoors, that you wear proper protective equipment. That you use shears if possible. But if not, make sure you use a fiber cement blade to cut it. When you cut fiber cement, it's important you cut it on the back side. The way the circular saws rotate through it. The way the shears work through it. You
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The sudden advent of a deadly virus led Congress to create a relief program lacking oversight and clear-cut rules, creating financial, and possibly legal, jeopardy for Southwest Florida business owners.
The rush to get money to businesses under the March 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act allowed banks to suspend credit checks and other screening of Payroll Protection Plan loan applicants. The streamlined approvals helped get all $349 billion in nationwide PPP money out the door in just 13 days.
The Small Business Administration, which administers the loans, doesn’t require businesses to repay the money, as long as at least 60% of it was spent keeping workers employed. The rest had to be spent on rent, mortgage interest and utilities. The problem: Some banks did not ask business owners for the documentation normally required for a loan, which means businesses might struggle to certify loan forgiveness now.
R. Scott Oswald, managing principal of The Employment Law Group, takes PPP fraud whistleblower complaints to court.
“Under the old program, banks had an obligation to check the business owner’s creditworthiness, even on a local level—such as their bank information, deposit history, past payroll costs—things banks normally have to submit to the SBA,” he says.
The lack of bank oversight leaves businesses on their own when convincing investigators they haven’t exaggerated payroll costs or made other fraudulent claims on their applications. Documentation certainly makes a difference when applying for loan forgiveness.
“Now it’s the company’s responsibility to show they met the certification requirements,” Oswald says. “Under the old SBA loan program, the bank would help them, telling them, ‘Here are the requirements.’ None of that was done in most cases.”
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Other Department of Justice cases involve companies exaggerating their number of employees and salaries to obtain a larger loan, padding staff with family and cronies—a “Cousin Bob” making $90,000.
The fraud hurts honest Southwest Florida businesses, DOJ spokeswoman Andrea Clark said. “That money is intended for businesses that do have a need, that suffered legitimately. It’s very important to the DOJ that we ensure as much as we can that the money goes to who is entitled to it.”
If the loan documentation is acceptable, that may be the end of it, said Justin Keen, DOJ’s national coronavirus fraud coordinator in Tallahassee.
“Federal investigators may request an interview of business owners or their staff to determine if a crime was committed, or if there is an in- nocent explanation for what may have occurred,” Keen says. “Further, businesses may receive a federal grand jury subpoena for the production of records and documents.”
The list of allowable expenses and deductions was lengthened in the second relief bill, the Bipartisan Emergency COVID Relief Act of 2020 in December (See “To Relief of SWFL Businesses, Congress Relaxes PPP Rules” story below.)
The boat that launched a probe
U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez, whose offices are on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, is prosecuting Target Roofing & Sheet Metal owner Casey David Crowther, 35, of North Fort Myers.
He allegedly spent $689,417 in PPP funds on a 40-foot fishing boat.
The indictment alleges that Crowther, whose company received $2.1 million in PPP, falsely certified on his application that the funds would be used for proper business purposes, such as keeping employees on the payroll during a 24-week period covered by the CARES Act.
He faces one count of bank fraud, one count of making a false statement to a lending institution (SBA records list Sanibel Captiva Community Bank as his lender) and two counts of illegal monetary transactions. If convicted, Crowther faces at least 30 years in federal prison.
Not so fast, says Crowther’s lawyer, who believes the DOJ itself may be confused about the SBA’s regulations.
Nicole Waid of FisherBroyles says Crowther’s company not only spent PPP money as required, it spent $3.5 million on payroll—about $1.5 million more than it received in PPP money.
She blames shifting and ill-defined SBA regulations for putting companies in jeopardy.
“Businesses face the danger of being subjected to stricter interpretations of the regulations by the government,” Waid says. “The regulations do not contain any requirements to segregate the money in a separate bank account. There is no prohibition on commingling of PPP funds with the other operating funds of the business. Congress specifically omitted these requirements.”
Proving expenses for loan forgiveness
The DOJ also looks for evidence of ghost employees or family members with high salaries appearing suddenly at the company trough, which means payroll records— from before and after COVID—are vital.
Victoria Loyola, partner at Markham Norton Mosteller Wright & Company P.A. in Fort Myers, said businesses must have accurate payroll records for the weeks
covered under the loan. For instance, if you received your loan before June 5, 2020, you can choose between an eight-week or 24-week covered period. If you choose the eight-week covered period and would like to defer payments, you must apply for forgiveness within 10 months of the end of your covered period, as early as April 2021—which is also tax time.
“Auditors see the number of employees you had during the covered period and compare it to previous months to make sure you’re maintaining that level,” Loyola says.
If a company was unable to operate at the same level of business activity as before Feb. 15, 2020, due to COVID-19, it is exempt from a reduction of loan forgiveness based on FTE, she said.
“The calculations for loan forgiveness can be complex,” says Loyola, whose firm set up a task force to keep up with the PPP tax changes. “We’re helping a lot of clients work through the FTE and Wage Reductions calculations.”
What if a company made a profit after all?
Scores of country clubs in Southwest Florida received between $350,000 and $5 million in PPP, SBA records show. Grey Oaks Country Club, which received $2.87 million, is being sued by William Verhelle, a member who claims the club fraudulently applied for a PPP loan it didn’t need.
He told WINK News he believes the club received a PPP loan from the government even though it shouldn’t have, and the case is heading to court.
“I guess we’re still trying to understand why they would need a million-dollar PPP loan,” Verhelle told WINK.
The general manager at Grey Oaks told reporters the loan allowed the club to bring back roughly 60 employees and argues they met PPP requirements. Like other country clubs, they had to shutter restaurants and banquet halls and cancel other events that were banned as a result of COVID.
So, what about country clubs that collect monthly membership dues regardless, project management firms that collect residents’ homeowner association fees anyway or companies that made a profit after receiving the loans? Should they return their money?
Businesses can argue that the government assumes country clubs and other profitable companies could not predict how badly their bottom line would be harmed by COVID-19, said Charles A. Massie, of Massie & Reilly CPAs in Fort Myers.
“I have no clients returning their PPP loans,” Massie says. “All are requesting forgiveness, even the large companies. Remember that the concept was based upon a company not being sure what was going to happen to them financially. In reference to country clubs, as long as they, too, kept the employees hired, they could request forgiveness.”
The SBA has tightened the rules there, too.
Government has ‘benefit of hindsight’
On Dec. 31, 2020—some nine months after the CARES Act passed— the SBA released a new form for companies that borrowed more than $2 million. The purpose of the form (OMB Control Number: 3245-0407) is to collect supplemental information that will be used by SBA loan reviewers to double-check business owners who stated that economic uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 made the loan request necessary.
The nine-page form includes this question: “As of the last day of the calendar quarter immediately before the date of borrower’s PPP loan application, how much did borrower own in cash and cash equivalents? Provide supporting documentation.”
“This is ridiculous,” Waid says. “The government now has the benefit of hindsight, but at the time that businesses were applying for the PPP funds, the outcome looked grim and every business was concerned about its ability to survive.”
“The first thing businesses had to determine at that time was how to survive,” says Steve Phillips, managing partner at Capital Care Group Inc., whose clients include hair salons, restaurants and larger businesses. “My fear is that some people won’t be forgiven because they didn’t know what to do. I spent all of April on the phone with my clients.”
TO RELIEF OF SWFL BUSINESSES, CONGRESS RELAXES PPP RULES
If you asked a Southwest Florida CPA in early December whether businesses could deduct expenses under the COVID-19 Payroll Protection Plan, you could hear their frustration. Without those deductions, businesses were looking at a big hit to their bottom lines—and business owners looked to their accountants for answers as end-of-year tax deadlines neared.
“Go call Congress and find out what they’re going to pass,” Steve Phillips, managing partner at Capital Care Group Inc., told Gulfshore Business in December. “The tax issue isn’t clear, is it? No, it’s not.”
Charles A. Massie, of Massie & Reilly CPAs in Fort Myers, says, “Depending
on the size of the loan, it will be a big deduction you can’t have. They’ve talked about changing it, but Congress has not gotten back together to get it fixed.”
The two are among the many CPAs helping the 56,114 businesses in SWFL who quickly applied for, and received, $2.34 billion in Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act money. The act, passed in March 2020, offered forgivable SBA loans to companies with fewer than 500 employees.
Under the original act, the companies—including restaurants, marinas, RV sales lots, car dealerships, country clubs, hair stylists, nail salons and, yes, CPAs—don’t have to pay the money back as long as they spent at least 60% of the money keeping workers on the payroll and the rest on rent, mortgage interest and utilities.
The act stated that businesses could deduct expenses paid for with PPP money, but Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin rejected that on April 30, 2020.
“The IRS said if the loan doesn’t have to be paid back, it’s not income, therefore you can’t deduct corresponding expenses,” Phillips says.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants lobbied Congress for relief, calling Mnuchin’s ruling a “surprise tax increase of up to 37% on small businesses when they file their taxes for 2020.” Local accounting firms tracked developments. “Back when everything started, we formed a task force to stay on top of everything,” says Victoria Loyola, partner at Markham Norton Mosteller Wright and Company in Fort Myers. “Everything was changing constantly over the summer and now, a lot of business clients wonder if they can deduct expenses under PPP.”
And that’s where things remained, into the fall, to Dec. 22, when Congress clarified the situation just as CPAs hoped. The December bill overturned the IRS rule, which means businesses that received PPP loans can now deduct expenses paid with that money.
The relief was palpable.
“Most of my clients were having a heart attack,” Massie says.
“This is what everyone was holding their breath on,” Loyola says.
The Bipartisan Emergency COVID Relief Act of 2020 not only allows the deductions, it lengthened the list of what the SBA considered forgivable expenses. In addition to payroll, rent and utilities, it now forgives spending for, and allows deductions for, costs associated with damage from rioting and looting, software and cloud computing services and accounting needs, sneeze guards, masks and personal protective equipment, as well as business or office modifications to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The new rules are retroactive for all PPP borrowers—whether forgiveness has or has not been granted.
LOAN FORGIVENESS SIMPLIFIED
The second act also introduced a simplified forgiveness application for loans of $150,000 or less (the average PPP loan in Florida’s 19th congressional district was $81,954). Such borrowers need only to execute a one-page certification as
to the number of employees the company was able to retain, an estimate of what was spent on covered payroll costs and the total loan amount. It does not require borrowers to document how their answers to certain questions were determined.
But be advised: PPP borrowers will remain obligated to comply with certain record-keeping requirements, including retaining employment and payroll records for four years.
The SBA reserves the right to audit the forgiveness certification. If a PPP loan is more than $150,000, records must be kept for six years.
“The new act also settles the question of double-dipping by companies that took PPP money and Economic Injury Disaster Loans,” says Rob Anstett of Anstett CPA in Naples.
Before the second bill, if a business owner received a $10,000 PPP loan and an EIDL grant of $1,000, the SBA would subtract the EIDL grant from the PPP loan amount, leaving $9,000 in possible PPP forgiveness.
“Unfortunately, I had some clients who did both, so when they apply for forgiveness of the PPP loan, they had to subtract what they received in EIDL grant, in effect, paying it back. You weren’t supposed to double up.”
The new act allows businesses to take both without being punished. If a company has already been penalized for the EIDL, the SBA said it
will issue a ruling that compensates companies or lets them apply the money elsewhere in their ledger.
SAMPLING OF PPP LOAN RECIPIENTS IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
In response to media lawsuits, the Small Business Administration in July released a list of Paycheck Protection Plan loan recipients nationwide. The searchable database (covidbailouttracker.com) allows the public to use various search criteria to determine who received PPP money and how much. The database also lists the number of recipients by industry, average amount of each loan and participating lending institution.
Gulfshore Business searched the recipients in Florida’s 19th congressional district, which had more than 18,000 recipients of PPP loans totaling more than $1.5 billion. The district stretches from Fort Myers to Marco Island, including Captiva, Cape Coral, Sanibel, Estero, Bonita Springs, North Naples, Naples and communities east of I-75.
Bailout subtotal: $15.26 million
Number of recipients: 26
Average bailout: $586,931
$2.87 million: Grey Oaks Country Club, Naples — Trustar Bank
$2.74 million: Naples Golf and Beach Club Inc., Naples — Synovus Bank
$1.33 million: Heritage Palms & Country Club, Fort Myers — Branch Banking & Trust Co.
$1.28 million: Gulf Harbour Golf & Country Club Inc., Fort Myers — National Bank and Trust
Bailout subtotal: $2.94 million
Number of recipients: 3
Average bailout: $980,154
$2.87 million: Lee County RV Sales, Fort Myers —Bank of America
$191,682: Southern Marine & RV Sales, Fort Myers — Bank of America
$24,451: Southwest Florida RV Rentals & Sales — Suncoast Credit Union
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANIES
Bailout subtotal: $5.2 million
Number of recipients: 125
Average bailout: $41,625
$941,300: Alliant Property Management LLC, Fort Myers — Branch Banking & Trust Co
$384,000: RAL Resort Property Management Inc., Fort Myers — First Citizens Bank & Trust
$265,683: Guardian Property Management, Naples — First Horizon Bank
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In the ongoing situation of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has advised the States and Union Territories to set up Anti Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs)across all the districts and also upgrade the infrastructure of the pre-existing ones.
THE AHTUs are an integrated task force to prevent and combat human trafficking. The task force consisted of trained representatives from the police, women and child development and other relevant departments as well as the NGOs, and was established in the year 2007.
On March of this year, the government released an amount of Rs 100 crore from the Nirbhaya fund to set up AHTUs around all the districts of the country. Although the Central Government has provided the States and TUs with some amount of financial assistance, it is their responsibility to dispatch appropriately skilled labour to the units.
Although India is the largest democracy, our country is plagued with poverty and lack of proper education which result in numerous human rights violations, especially crimes against women. As per the reports of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), there were nearly 4000 cases of human trafficking in 2018, and around 99% of it was internal trafficking. 92% of the people trafficked are women and children. But these numbers do not account to all of the actual traffickings that takes place in the country. These are only the statistics of the instances when trafficking has been reported. Human trafficking in India affects about 20 to 65 million people. Over 70,000 children in India are working under bonded labour. The naïve and uneducated children are an easy target for the traffickers.
In India, there are currently around 330 AHTUs which work as the confluence centres for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Women and Child Development, and the Ministry of Labour and External affairs to combat human trafficking. The States are required to evolve a co-ordination mechanism for the smooth sailing of the same. It should be monitored periodically by the highest level of officials of the particular State.
“Domestic violence, emotional or psychological abuse, neglect and other forms of trauma and violence makes a person vulnerable to human trafficking,” the advisory from MHA said. They also added “Traffickers often exploit the vulnerabilities of people by making false promises of a new job, better income, better living conditions and support to their families etc. While such promises of perpetrators appear legitimate to people, unfortunately, it makes many men, women, and children easily fall prey exploitation.”
Experts have welcomed this advisory, and say that the situation in the wake of the pandemic is ripe for the traffickers to exploit due to massive job losses and an expected increase in child labour.
There should be community awareness programmes and engagement at the local level with panchayats. Appointments of leaders and village wards are also recommended. The rural population is more prone to human trafficking since they are always hopeful and inclined towards the idea of going out somewhere and working. The panchayats can also be asked to maintain a register of complete information about the villagers and keep track of their movement because the people, especially children, can be transported in a large scale for wage labour, prostitution and trafficking.
The shelters for women and children are to be permitted to remain even during the pandemic and be called for the sensitization of the police personnel. The police situated at border outposts should “look out for trafficked children.”
The police are also told to make full use of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and Systems (CCTNS) and the Crime Multi-Agency Centre (Cri-MAC) applications launched by the NCRB in March this which facilitates the dissemination of information about significant crimes which includes human trafficking across the country in a real-time basis. The portals can help in locating and identifying the trafficked victims and also help in the prevention, detection and investigation of crimes. The police department is also required to constitute specific ‘intelligence’ and ‘surveillance mechanism’ to identify the gangs and gather information about their history, affiliations, modus operandi to deceive people, activities of the gang members, links with others, etc.
Former DGP, PM Nair who was a key instrumentalist in the establishment of the AHTUs in 2007, said that there has been a surge in the trafficking of children both online and physically. Nair said to The Hindustan Times, “I have held various discussion with many stakeholders across the government and non-government sector, Trafficking during Covid-19 times has increased manifold.” He also said that the increase in consumption of child pornography which is accessed by around 5 million Indians has led to the sexual exploitation of children.
The President of the NGO Shakti Vahini, Ravi Kant in a conversation with the Hindustan Times has said that the majority of the trafficking goes unnoticed by the NCRB. Solely based on the fact that not all of them are registered as trafficking cases, many of them are registered as kidnapping, abductions or missing person cases.
The states of West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand and Odisha are the states which have been worst affected by human trafficking. Children from tribal areas are at a greater risk of human trafficking, including the Kuki people from Manipur as well as the Nagas from the Northeast, while Jharkhand and the Anantapur and Prakasam regions of Andhra Pradesh are some areas prone to human trafficking. The cities of Mumbai and Kolkata are also cities which rank at the top. Post-pandemic, these areas will be more vulnerable to trafficking because of job losses. The parents will try to force their children into labour for money and due to the desperation on their part.
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I recently returned from Albany where I visited with a group of 20 women who were in a drug rehab program at Albany County Correctional Facility, along with Paul Grondahl of New York State Writers Institute and Dr. Alice Green of the Center for Law and Justice in Albany. It was striking for me to see the women assemble in the room in their identical orange uniforms. To me, that showed what incarceration can do: it takes away a person’s individuality and identity, stripping them of the very things that make them who they are.
Since it was a smaller group than I usually meet with on my tour, this visit was more intimate. We sat in a circle and I asked each woman to introduce herself and to share one of her goals. Many of the women talked about wanting to rebuild their relationships with their children. Others talked about wanting to become beauticians or pursue other careers.
There was one woman there who was a little over 50 years old. I could tell that she had been through a lot and that she had a wall around her, so I spent some time chipping away at that wall. I told her that I was 46 the last time I was released and I was almost 50 when I started A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project. Just because she’s middle aged, her life is not over yet. It’s never too late to change your life.
When I asked the women how many of them had been incarcerated here before, every single hand went up. I wish I could say that this surprised me, but it didn’t. Recovering from addiction is an issue for so many people who cycle through incarceration. Far too often, people fail during recovery because they go back into the same old environment where there is not a lot of support for them.
A woman opened up to me about a recovery home she went to that was filled with drugs. While she was there, she had access to any drug she wanted and she just didn’t have the ability to fight her urges in the center of this drug den that was supposed to be a rehabilitation facility. I think there’s a certain level of commitment that any provider must have to keeping drugs out, and some facilities simply lack that commitment.
The women and I had a good conversation for about an hour about my book and the need for them to get reentry support. Every time I walk away from one of these facilities, I have the same feeling: that these women need to be welcomed into a home that’s drug and alcohol free and into a safe space where they will not only be allowed to heal but also be treated with dignity. There isn’t a city or town in this country that doesn’t need a model like A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project. While I want to do everything for everybody, I know that in order to be effective, I have to focus on what is manageable. Later this year, I will be starting a new project to help others replicate what we do at ANWOL. More details on this will be coming soon. | <urn:uuid:67cc3b02-e5ae-42e7-b544-43196f792ff4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anewwayoflife.org/susan-burtons-book-tour-albany-county-correctional-facility-albany-ny/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988102 | 632 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Sicily and its Aeolian Islands are places of magic where myths and legends were born. The Greek gods made these lands their playground and demonstrated a penchant for “Sicilian real estate,” especially the stunningly beautiful Aeolian Islands, which served as the backdrop to some of the classic stories of antiquity.
On his epic ten-year voyage home from the Trojan War, Odysseus made the treacherous passage through the clutches of Scylla, a man-eating monster that lived in a cliff-side cave across from the mighty whirlpool of Charybdis (thought to be the Straits of Messina.) Then Odysseus journeyed on to the Aeolian Islands to pay his respects to Aeolus, the god of the winds, who resided in a castle on the island of Lipari, the largest of the fertile cluster of seven volcanic islands. The fearsome god Hephaestos, who represents blacksmiths, artisans, metallurgy and fire, lived on the fire-belching island of Vulcano where he forged the arms that protected the gods and heroes of the Trojan War.
While more and more Americans discover the many allures of La Bella Sicila, few have yet to venture to the largely undiscovered Aeolian Islands. As you dream of vacations to come, consider basing a stay on Lipari from which you can explore any of the Aeolian islands including the island of Stromboli which, after Hawaii’s Kilauea, is the world’s most active volcano.
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Research published today by campaigning charities Age UK London and Transport for All has highlighted a number of improvements needed to enhance the Dial-a-Ride service. The research has shown that the door-to-door service has a vital role in enriching the quality of life of its users and reduces social isolation and loneliness. However, the lack of flexibility in the way the service is run is limiting the potential it has to truly transform lives and reach those Londoners that would benefit the most.
The free, bookable bus service for disabled Londoners of all ages allows them to shop, meet with friends and family, and attend health, wellbeing and social groups and classes. The service can make the difference between being stuck at home and living the lives that people want to live. Yet many of the users find the booking service causes stress and frustration with one saying: “They tend to disappoint and it raises my anxiety which is not very good for my health.”
While celebrating the huge difference Dial-a-Ride makes to the lives of those using the service, the two organisations are making recommendations to enhance the experience of users. These include changes to the booking system, in particular to avoid situations where users give up on calls to the telephone booking line, due to long waiting times.
They are also calling for longer operating hours, fewer restrictions on the length of journeys and much better communication, particularly when it relates to service changes. Commenting on the fact that the service finishes at 10pm, one of the interviewees, quipped: “I forgot I’m disabled and I’m not allowed to have a social life after 10 o’clock.”
Speaking of frustrations with the telephone booking line another interviewee, said: “They keep telling you that your call is important to them and they will get back to you. You’re sitting there glued to the phone waiting and waiting.”
Caroline Stickland, CEO at Transport for All, said: “The Dial-a-Ride service is life-changing for its users. It provides a lifeline for many people and we’ve heard time and time again from our interviewees that without the bus they would not go out – to shop, meet friends and family or to go to social events. But, there are many flaws in the service that let it down and can easily be improved.”
Despite this, the overwhelming majority of interviewees were very happy with the Dial-a-Ride drivers who are much liked by users and who described them as helpful, courteous and often willing to go the extra mile.
Abigail Wood, CEO, Age UK London, said: “When Dial-a-Ride works well, it changes lives for the better, but when it does not, it can be a cause of stress and frustration to Londoners who are already facing challenges. Our report highlights aspects of the service which can be improved and must be addressed by TfL, especially as numbers of passengers increase post-pandemic.”
Users are slowly returning to the service following the pandemic, between April 2021 and March 2022 the number of weekly trips started to increase to between 5,000 and 10,000 trips per week. This is a vast drop since pre-pandemic when there were up to 20,000 trips per week.
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What’s the Story Here?
Going through course 3 has changed the way I look at images. It has changed the way I search for images for my blog posts and presentations. It is changed the way I interpret them. I am not as literal when looking at or for images. I ask more questions about what the images could mean. For example, the image above caught my eye because the photographer very obviously has pieced together a story for us. What exactly each image means in the story is open to interpretation from each of its viewers. There are obviousl parts to the story, they’re obviously catching a train, probably on a trip somewhere. The part I love best about this whole thing though is that images are never exact or precise, they could hold multiple meanings and emotions all at once with no right or wrong answer. How about the feature image for this post, what do you think the gummy bears are up to? 😉
It’s Only Natural
Like the wonderful workings of mother nature, storytelling probably is one of the most natural things to happen in a classroom. We’re always telling stories to our students, and asking them to tell us stories. Sure they tell stories in literacy, but they tell math stories too. They tell science stories whenever they record their findings and draw conclusions, and the same goes for social studies. Stories are an inevitable part of education, it is just the form that they come in has evolved through time. Digital storytelling is our 21st Century way of sharing stories with the world. I probably incorporate digital storytelling into my classes more than anything else because it integrates so naturally into almost every curriculum area!
Here is a recent example of a project that I’ve done in class. The first graders at our school were studying ‘Families’ in social studies and one of their objectives was to sequence major family events in their lives. The students created simple timelines in class sequencing four major family events, then during their session with me, we turned it into a movie so that they could narrate these events and share it on their blogs with friends and family around the world.
One of my favorite projects last year when I was teaching Kindergarten was having the kids create a stop-motion animation to illustrate simple past-tense. They worked in groups to illustrate the action verb, had to figure out a way to show that time had passed and then show the word again in past tense. I loved it mainly because of the all the collaboration that happened in each group but also because each group came up with different ways to illustrate time passing. Here are a few examples:
This didn’t quite happen in one of my classes but as a part of the Traveling Teddy Bears Project that I run. Two classes at my school participated in the project and I used a combination of Explain Everything and iMovie to create movies to share with the classes participating in the project. This summarizes some of the things the bears learned in their respective classes while they were at our school. Here is one of the videos.
It isn’t seamless, I was in a rush to ship these bears off to their next locations! But I do love the options that Explain Everything has to offer, I’ve used it before to put class books together as well. The students add their voices/video and it all then goes up on our class blog. Here is an example of a class book. Please note that there is a spelling mistake on one of the pages (see if you can catch it!). It was corrected in the actual class book 😉
I could go on and on with other examples. I love digital storytelling because it has given younger students a voice and a way to share what they are learning before they can even read or write!
A Future Project…
An up and coming project is with the second graders, they are studying Pebbles, Sand and Rocks in science. They are coming to the end of their unit and will tell the story of sand using ThinkLink. They will layer videos of themselves explaining the different parts to the story of sand onto a still image. This will be a project they work on in pairs so they also develop the skills of video recording others. | <urn:uuid:d46b1a00-d05c-436e-8645-0e29d325e5b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coetailspotlight.com/pana-asavavatana/tell-me-a-story/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970672 | 868 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Pansy Carpenter, Reeser’s landlady, dropped by her apartment on July 2, 1951, to deliver a telegram. Nobody answered the door when Carpenter arrived. She put her hand on the doorknob and discovered it to be unusually hot, so she dialed 911.
When police arrived at the apartment at 1200 Cherry Street, they discovered 67-year-old Mary Reeser dead in a mysterious fire. According to reports, her body was disintegrated by a “white-hot intensity” blaze.
Except for her leg, Mary Reeser’s human body was completely transformed into ash when police discovered her, but the rest of her apartment miraculously remained intact. Mary Reeser’s death was allegedly caused by spontaneous human combustion.
Who was Mary Reeser?
Mary Reeser was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1884. After her husband died, she relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida, to be closer to her adult son, Richard, and his family. Mary had been complaining about the hot weather in Florida. She was also a smoker who took sleeping pills on a regular basis.
The day before her death, she expressed her concerns to Richard about a trip she had planned to take back to Pennsylvania. She had been looking forward to getting away from the Florida heat and was worried that the trip would be cancelled. It was cruelly ironic that the telegram that led to the discovery of Mary’s remains came from a friend in Pennsylvania informing her that the trip had been planned and organised.
What happened on the night of Mary Resser’s Combustion
Reeser’s remains, mostly ashes, were discovered among the ruins of a chair in which she had been sitting. Only a portion of her left foot (which was wearing a slipper) and her backbone, as well as her skull, remained. Plastic household objects located a safe distance from the fire had softened and lost their shape.
The death of Mary Reeser shocked authorities because cremation takes three to four hours at temperatures around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It was shocking considering other things around her remained intact, and her body burnt at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
When the officials arrived, the apartment was very warm, and the majority of it was still intact. The object near Resser’s chair had softened and lost shape, but the rest of the room appeared to be unaffected by the flame that had engulfed Mary Reeser.
J. R. Reichert, the chief of police in St. Petersburg at the time, sent a box of evidence from the scene to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on July 7, 1951. Glass shards discovered in the ashes, six “small objects thought to be teeth,” a section of the carpet, and the surviving shoe were among the items he included.
According to her daughter-in-law “The cigarette fell to her lap. Her fat served as the fuel that kept her going. The floor was concrete, and the chair was alone. There was nothing to burn around her “.
The FBI eventually concluded that Reeser was killed by the wick effect. They assumed she had fallen unconscious while smoking and set fire to her nightclothes because she was a known user of sleeping pills. “Once the body begins to burn,” the FBI wrote in its report, “there is enough fat and other flammable substances to allow for varying degrees of destruction.” This destruction by burning can sometimes progress to the point where the body is almost completely consumed by fire.”
Because of the case’s ambiguous circumstances, it’s been speculated that Reeser died as a result of spontaneous human combustion. When a person bursts into flames as a result of a chemical reaction in their body, there is no apparent ignition of an external heat source. Despite the fact that there have been reports of alleged human combustion since 1663, not all scientists are convinced.
Dr. Wilton M. Krogman, an experienced fire researcher, and professor of physical anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania disagreed with the FBI’s conclusion. “I cannot conceive of such complete cremation without more burning of the apartment,” Krogman wrote of all the fire deaths he had investigated.
Mary Reeser passed away nearly 70 years ago. So, was it a case of unintentional human combustion? Given the length of time since her death, it appears unlikely that the true cause will ever be discovered.
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Miami, FL — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mark R. Warner (D-VA), members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today introduced bipartisan legislation to help combat tech-specific threats to national security posed by foreign actors like China and ensure U.S. technological supremacy by improving interagency coordination across the U.S. government. To do this, the bill creates an Office of Critical Technologies & Security at the White House responsible for coordinating across agencies and developing a long-term, whole-of-government strategy to protect against state-sponsored technology theft and risks to critical supply chains.
“China continues to conduct a coordinated assault on U.S. intellectual property, U.S. businesses, and our government networks and information with the full backing of the Chinese Communist Party,” Rubio said. “The United States needs a more coordinated approach to directly counter this critical threat and ensure we better protect U.S. technology. We must continue to do everything possible to prevent foreign theft of our technology, and interference in our networks and critical infrastructure. By establishing the Office of Critical Technologies and Security, this bill will help protect the United States by streamlining efforts across the government. I look forward to working with my colleagues and the Administration to enact this legislation and guard against these national security threats.”
“It is clear that China is determined to use every tool in its arsenal to surpass the United States technologically and dominate us economically. We need a whole-of-government technology strategy to protect U.S. competitiveness in emerging and dual-use technologies and address the Chinese threat by combating technology transfer from the United States,” said Warner. “We look forward to working with the Executive Branch and others to coordinate and respond to this threat.”
On October 12, 2018, Senators Rubio and Warner sent a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging his country to reconsider Huawei’s inclusion in any aspect of Canada’s 5G development, introduction, and maintenance. In September, Rubio introduced bipartisan legislation to enforce full compliance by ZTE with all probationary conditions of a U.S. Commerce Department’s deal struck with the company last year that ended U.S. imposed sanctions.
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jus in bello rules during war • right conduct in the midst of battle • responsibility for jus in bello falls to the military commanders, officers, and soldiers who create and execute the war policy • monitored by International Criminal Court (created by the 1998 Treaty of Rome) • 2 types External jus in bello concerns the rules a state should observe regarding the enemy and its armed forces n.b. the United States is not a part of the I.C.C.
jus in bello, cont. • Internal jus in bello concerns the rules a state must follow in connection with its own people during war • must respect the human rights of its own citizens as best it can during the crisis • issues include conscription, press censorship, civil liberties v. state security, elections postponement/cancelation, conscientious objectors
jus in bello, cont. six rules of external jus in bello • Obey all international laws on weapons prohibition • chemical and biological weapons are banned by treaties • nuclear weapons are not prohibited but a huge taboo is attached to its use
jus in bello, cont. • 2. Discrimination and Non-Combatant Immunity • soldiers must discriminate between the civilian population and military, political, and industrial targets • some collateraldamage is excusable • wrong to take deliberate aim at civilian targets • since 1900, most wars have featured larger civilian, than military, casualties Dresden, February, 1945 Est. civilian death – 24,000 to 40,000 • reason why this rule is the most frequently and stridently codified rule in all the laws of armed conflict
jus in bello, cont. “We saw terrible things: cremated adults shrunk to the size of small children, pieces of arms and legs, dead people, whole families burnt to death, burning people ran to and fro, burnt coaches filled with civilian refugees, dead rescuers and soldiers, many were calling and looking for their children and families, and fire everywhere, everywhere fire, and all the time the hot wind of the firestorm threw people back into the burning houses they were trying to escape from. I cannot forget these terrible details. I can never forget them.” - Lothar Metzger, survivor of Dresden “The Nazi Holocaust was among the most evil genocides in history. But the Allies’ firebombing of Dresden and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also war crimes... We are all capable of evil and must be restrained by law from committing it.” - Dr. Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch Were the bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki war crimes?
jus in bello, cont. • 3. Proportionality • must use restraint in using force • weapons of mass destruction are usually out of proportion to achieve appropriate end 4. Benevolent quarantine for prisoners of war (POWs) - once soldier surrenders, he is no longer engaged in harm - wrong to target them with death, starvation, rape, torture, medical experimentation, etc. - treatment governed by Geneva Conventions Should suspected terrorists be given same rights as traditional POWs?
jus in bello, cont. • 5. No Mala in Se (Evil in itself) • may not use weapons or methods which are “evil in themselves” • include: mass rape campaigns; genocide or ethnic cleansing; treachery (like disguising soldiers to look like the Red Cross); forcing captured soldiers to fight against their own side; and biological or chemical weapons 6. No reprisals - no retaliation of violations of rules of war if they do something evil does not mean we can do something evil Stacked skulls during Cambodian Genocide
jus post bellum rules regarding the termination of war Your Turn! You will be divided into groups Discuss what issues should be addressed at conclusion of war Develop 5-7 rules governing the termination of war Issues may include prisoners, war criminals, compensation, etc.
jus post bellum regulation of the end of war proposed principles for jus post bellum no set rules yet • Proportionality and Publicity • - peace settlement should be measured and reasonable, as well as publicly proclaimed 2. Rights Vindication - secure the basic rights whose violation triggered the justified war - rights include human rights to life and liberty and community entitlements to territory and sovereignty
jus post bellum, cont. • 3. Discrimination • distinguish between the leaders, the soldiers, and the civilians in the defeated country • civilians are entitled to reasonable immunity from punitive post-war measures Hermann Goering at Nuremberg 4. Punishment of war criminals of defeated - leaders of the regime, in particular, should face fair and public international trials for war crimes Saddam Hussein at trial in Baghdad
jus post bellum, cont. • 5. Punishment of war criminals of the victor • soldiers, from all sides to the conflict, must be held accountable to investigation and possible trial 6. Compensation - financial restitution may be mandated, subject to both proportionality and discrimination - post-war tax on civilians is not impermissible - enough resources left so that the defeated country can begin its own reconstruction Lt. William Calley – only American soldier convicted for war crimes at My Lai massacre
jus post bellum, cont. • 7. Rehabilitation • reform institutions in an aggressor regime • may involve: demilitarization and disarmament; police and judicial re-training; human rights education; deep structural transformation towards a just society governed by a legitimate regime • most controversial aspect of jus post bellum Iraqi Parliament Does the victor have the right to impose its system of governing onto the vanquished?
jus post bellum, cont. Should the victor help the vanquished with reconstruction? Dresden, 1945 Dresden today Hiroshima, 1945 Hiroshima today | <urn:uuid:088fb436-3c21-44fb-a77b-a43a96ad96f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fr.slideserve.com/Mercy/chemical-and-biological-weapons | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929389 | 1,194 | 3.25 | 3 |
Mt. Lebanon has many wonderful civic service and social organizations that do amazing work in the community, but they often come with something many people don’t like: meetings and required participation at events.
What if you could have all the benefits of giving back to the community, plus the social perks of meeting new and diverse people, without having to show up at everything all the time or sit in a business meeting listening to conversations about bylaws and dues? If you had a crazy week at work or a sick kid, you could skip an event and no one would give you any grief.
That’s the concept of the Women’s Club of Mt. Lebanon. “We want to be the place women in the South Hills come when they’re looking for a way to serve without the unwieldy requirements of some of the other women’s clubs in the South Hills,” says president Hilary Taylor. The mission is to promote friendship, civic involvement and community outreach in Mt. Lebanon and the surrounding communities. The club will have one event each month and no general membership meetings. And they’ll never take attendance.
Does the name Women’s Club of Mt. Lebanon sound familiar? It should. The similarly named Woman’s Club of Mt. Lebanon started in 1924 and thrived—peaking at 1,400 members—and it had a list of activities a mile long, from presenting a Snowball Dance for high school kids to sponsoring lectures to organizing antique shows at a clubhouse it used to own on Hollycrest Drive. It donated to major municipal projects, from the library to the public safety center, and helped the PTA. But times change; more women started working outside the home and running out of time for Club activities. The club disbanded in 2011 because of dwindling membership.
For the last few years, a group of women involved with the Mt. Lebanon Junior Women’s Club thought about bringing the concept of the Woman’s Club back. Five women-—all former Junior Women’s Club presidents—Bethany Casagranda, Caroline Lascek, Nadeana Cook, Robin Scibek and Hilary Taylor—started making plans early last year, and became the new nonprofit’s executive board. The Woman’s Club of Mt. Lebanon was reborn in September as the Women’s Club of Mt. Lebanon, using the former’s club’s original motto of “Service First.” It already has grown to 33 members.
It was a natural transition for the ladies of the executive board, whose average age is 40. “The five of us especially felt that it was clear our time in Juniors had come to an end,” Taylor says. “We had chaired everything. We felt, frankly, old in the room.”
The Women’s Club has no age or residency requirement. The board members come from all over the South Hills. Lascek called all the former members of the Woman’s Club and invited them to participate in the new group. Former Woman’s Club member Betty Fischer is the new Women’s Club’s oldest member. The new board is quick to point out they are not competing with the Mt. Lebanon Junior Women’s Club and will not poach members. Most important, they say everyone will have time for the Women’s Club, whether you work an 80-hour workweek or have five kids.
As the original club did, the 2.0 version will support community organizations wherever members see a need. Since they are a nonprofit but are not a 501(c)3, federal tax laws allow them to help faith-based organizations and they do not have to avoid politics. “Whatever the members want, we would embrace,” Casagranda says.
Among the groups expected to have the ladies’ support are the Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Family Hospice, South Hills Interfaith Movement, local veterans groups and the Historical Society of Mount Lebanon. That support could be financial or the group could volunteer for events. Every year, the club intends to pick a local gala to attend to support en masse.
Some of the giving would come with social opportunity. Last fall, the women threw a Philanthroparty—a potluck dinner, when 24 ladies in attendance raised $300 for SHIM. The Club will maintain an Angel Fund, and spare dollars collected at events will go into a jar and given to people who need it.
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Strategies to evaluate and treat pain after surgery
One of the more common questions I receive is how to deal with chronic pain after pilonidal surgery. Fortunately, these have not been patients on whom I have performed a cleft-lift, but rather other patients coming to me seeking solutions. However, it is possible for a patient to have a cleft lift and some time afterwards develop pain that seems similar to the pain that they had with pilonidal disease – raising the question about what exactly is happening. Although there isn’t always an obvious answer or a simple solution, I thought I’d share my observations on how to deal with this.
Pain developing months after a cleft lift is not a common occurrence. Having a cleft lift does not absolutely guarantee that a patient will ultimately be pain free, but in a recent article I wrote, 500 cleft lift patients were surveyed. Of the 500, only two said that they had some minor discomfort with sitting at two months post-op, so chronic, residual pain was not common at all in this group of patients. You can read about it by following this link.
What is the type of pain?
When dealing with “pain” it is important to differentiate the different kinds of pain, and there are several significant questions that have to be answered in order to start narrowing it down.
- When did the pain start in relationship to the previous surgery? Did something else set it off, like a fall?
- Is the pain deep inside, or on the skin?
- Is the pain an ache, stinging, burning, throbbing, etc?
- Does it hurt all the time? Just when sitting? With certain activities? At night?
- Is it “pain” that occurs spontaneously, or “tenderness” that only hurts when touched?
- Exactly where is the pain? In the gluteal crease? Next to the anus? Near the hip? Radiating down the leg? Low back?
- Does it occur with bowel movements? And persist afterwards?
What can you see?
- It is important to know if there are any physical findings that might help explain it. A rash? A raised scar? Any openings, drainage or bleeding? Any swelling or visible asymmetry?
- If there are physical findings, where exactly are they? Are they in the gluteal crease?
- Is there bleeding with bowel movements? Constipation? Any lumps around the anus?
So, what could be causing it?
It would be difficult in a short post to go through an “if this, then that” algorithm, so this may require you be evaluated by a physician, but here are some reasons for chronic pain:
- If there are any openings, drainage, or bleeding in the gluteal crease, then you may have recurrent pilonidal disease.
- Although patients with pilonidal disease usually blame any discomfort in that area to pilonidal problems, orthopedic issues can give pain in that area. Possibilities include sacroiliitis, lumbar disk problems, or coccydynia. Sacroiliitis is one of the more common causes of this problem, and here is a link discussing this in more detail.
- If the scar is thickened and raised, it could mean that you have developed a keloid (hypertrophic) scar, and that can be painful.
- If it is less than 6 months from your surgery, it still can be related to the surgery itself. Things are still healing and sutures are still in the process of dissolving.
- If you had a lot of pain before or immediately after surgery, it is possible to develop a chronic pain syndrome, where it keeps hurting even though things have healed. Names for this are causalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), or reflex neurovascular dystrophy. This is real pain that occurs as an aberrant response to previous pain. This is an unusual location to have this, it is more commonly associated with the arms and legs.
- If you had excisional surgery, where a fair amount of tissue was removed, there may not be much padding between the coccyx and skin, and it may be uncomfortable with sitting. Using a pillow or coccyx cushion may help. When I perform a cleft-lift, I add additional padding over the coccyx which prevents this kind of pain.
- Spasm of the gluteal or pelvic muscles can cause pain, but muscle spasm is usually caused by some other factor that is the source of the irritation or pain, and the muscle spasm is secondary. So, although muscle spasm may be present, one has to look for the cause.
- If there is bleeding or pain with bowel movements, or a lump on the anus, it could be an anal fissure, anal fistula, perirectal abscess or hemorrhoid. This page describes some of the other things that can be causing a problem.
- You may have noticed that I haven’t included “scar tissue” or “nerve regeneration” as a cause for chronic pain. I do not believe that the scar tissue caused by normal healing causes pain.
How to deal with the pain?
- If there are findings to suggest recurrent pilonidal disease, then a cleft-lift or revision of a cleft-lift is the best approach.
- If it seems to be related to a hypertrophic scar (keloid), then this should be addressed by your surgeon or a plastic surgeon. Plastic surgeons are usually the most qualified to treat keloid scars. Over the counter hydrocortisone gel may help with the discomfort.
- If it is related to position and activity, an orthopedic cause should be evaluated. Your primary care physician or an orthopedic surgeon can help you evaluate this. Anti-inflammatory medications, rest, and heat, may help.
- If you have a rash, the rash may be causing the discomfort. Keeping the area as clean and dry as possible may help. Anti-fungal or steroid applications may help, but seeing a physician for a diagnosis will help guide therapy.
- If you think it may be due to a chronic pain syndrome, seeing a physician at a “pain clinic” may be the best solution. They will help figure out what is happening, and suggest treatments.
I don’t think it is any of these things, what should I do?
If there are no physical findings, and this just seems to be some prolonged, but mild discomfort or tenderness in the surgical area, here are some strategies you can consider:
- Anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen or naproxen. Or, consider prescription Celebrex or over-the-counter Kaprex if you have a sensitive stomach.
- Ted’s Pain Cream. This has resveratrol, and has been successful in stopping post-op discomfort.
- CBD products, either topical or oral
In summary, pain is not normal, and there is usually a diagnosis and a solution. I recommend that you don’t give up and consider seeing the various physicians discussed above in order to resolve the pain. | <urn:uuid:77d478b9-2fef-4c2d-9c7e-9a787281422c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pilonidal.com/blog/2020/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949573 | 1,530 | 2 | 2 |
The worst-hit states are Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, where torrential downpours have wreaked havoc since late last week.
In Minas Gerais, 47 people have died since heavy rains fell on Friday, with four others missing and 65 others injured, the agency said.
At least 101 towns in Minas Gerais have declared a state of emergency after 14,609 people were driven away from their homes due to flood waters, and 3,386 others were left homeless.
The state's capital Belo Horizonte has registered 13 fatalities, mainly as a result of mudslides.
Nine people were reportedly killed in Espirito Santo, and at least two other deaths were reported in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazilian government has declared a state of calamity in four towns in south Espirito Santo, where rains have caused major damage. | <urn:uuid:7a9b39b3-9edc-45e2-b2c9-05e62350a1de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.trend.az/world/3183284.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.981285 | 189 | 1.585938 | 2 |
This antenna is fed for vertical polarisation, to give a low angle of radiation for DX and also a nearly omni-directional radiation pattern (broadside is the best direction by about 3 dB).
I have built two versions of this antenna; one using coax as a monoband antenna for 20m as simulated below, and the second as presently used with 450 Ohm slotted ladder-line feeder for multiband use (20 and 15m).
In the monoband application, the impedance at resonance on 14.2 MHz of about 100 Ohms is transformed by a quarter wavelength of 75 Ohm cable (3.5m long) to give a good match ( better than 2 : 1) across the whole band. The 75 Ohm coax braid is connected to the lower side of the loop element. I don't use a balun as the antenna is not balanced, due to the offset side feedpoint, but do implement a coaxial choke at the 50 Ohm cable connection to the matching stub of 10 turns, 20cm diameter. The antenna is 7.71m per side, with the feed point 3/4 of the way down one side (5.78 m from the top) note; 3/4 * 1/3 wavelength = 1/4 wave, this is important to obtain vertical polarisation.
This antenna is also effective on 15m provided open wire feeder is used up to the antenna instead of coax. I have found 10m DX performance to be rubbish! Simulation confirms this.The pattern is rather directional on both the higher bands.
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I’ll tell you of a raftsman right from the pinery,
And how he loved a lady, she was of a high degree,
Her fortune was so great it scarcely could be told,
And still she loved the raftsman because he was so bold.
One day when they had been to church and were just returning home,
They met her old father and several armed men,
“Oh daughter, oh daughter, oh daughter I pray,
Is this your good behavior, or is’t your wedding day?”
“I fear,” cried the lady, “we both shall be slain,”
“Fear nothing at all,” said the raftsman again,
“Now, since you’ve been so foolish as to be a raftsman’s wife,
Down in this lonely valley I will quickly end your life.”
“Hold,” cried the raftsma, “I do not like such prattle,
Although I am the bridegroom, I’m all prepared for battle,”
He drew his sword and pistol and caused them for to roar,
The lady held the horses while the raftsman battled sore.
The first man came to him, he ran him through the main,
The next one stepped up to him, he served him the same,
“Let’s run,” cried the rest of them, “we all shall be slain,
To fight this gallant raftsman is altogether vain.”
“Stay,” cried the old man, “you make my blood run cold,
You shall have my daughter and five thousand pounds in gold,”
“Oh no,” cried the lady, “the fortune is too small,
Fight on, my bold raftsman, and you shall have it all.”
“Oh raftsman, oh raftsman, if you will spare my life,
You shall have my daughter for your beloved wife,”
He took them home unto his house, he made him his heir,
It wasn’t out of love but it was from dread and fear.
Come all you rich maidens with money in great store,
Never shun a raftsman, although he may be poor,
For they’re jolly good fellows—happy, fresh, and free,
And how gallantly they fight for their rights and liberty.
A few months ago I came across a remarkable series of blog posts by folklorist Stephen Winick about the ballad “Arthur McBride” – the one that was so beautifully rendered by Paul Brady on the iconic Andy Irvine and Paul Brady album in 1976 and at this videotaped 1977 performance. Writing on the American Folklife Center’s Folklife Today blog, Winick tells us that Brady learned the song while living in New England, from a collection compiled by Carrie Grover of Gorham, Maine. Grover (1879-1959) was a singer herself who got most of her repertoire (which appears in her collection A Heritage of Songs) from her parents while growing up in Nova Scotia and Maine. She was part of the north woods singing tradition and that makes Brady’s “Arthur McBride” a northwoods song! What’s more, if you open Grover’s book to the Arthur McBride page, the facing page is her father’s version of “The Jolly Soldier”—also arranged and performed by Paul Brady on the album with Andy Irvine!
When I discovered the Grover-Brady connection, my mind went to an interesting song text collected in Wisconsin and published in Wisconsin Lore by Robert E.Gard and L.G. Sorden. Gard and Sorden’s “The Raftsman” is basically a version of “Jolly Soldier” with Raftsman swapped in for Soldier. It seems a little out of place for someone going down the river with a raft of logs to be packing both a sword and pistol but the character of the recklessly romantic hero does fit with the way raftsmen often portrayed themselves in other songs. Above I have paired the Gard/Sorden text (with a few small changes) with the melody (more or less) as published by Grover. For my own sung version, I swapped out the sword and pistol for the raftman’s trusty pike and peavey. | <urn:uuid:4671b0b4-a6fa-49c6-a3d1-2598e0f3b3ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.evergreentrad.com/tag/brian-miller/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961407 | 958 | 1.75 | 2 |
To enjoy the living world around us photographs often tell more than thousand words. You can find some beautiful photos of Vatesus beetles in the following. Enjoy and let's credit the photographers who have spent hours and hours to get such good shots. Many thanks for your efforts!!! If you have some nice images of Vatesus beetles too, and if you are willing to share them, please contact me.
For now enjoy...
Adult Vatesus specimen running in an emigration of Eciton hamatum. This beautiful photo was taken by Daniel Kronauer at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
Larval Vatesus specimen running in the same army ant emigration as the adult shown above. Larvae generally follow the emigrations at the very end, when almost all ants have passed already. Occasionally, like in this photo, one can also find them running among ant worker. Photo credit: Daniel Kronauer
Vatesus adult following a colony emigration of Eciton (probably E. hamatum). This image shows nicely the protective morphology of the beetles. In case of an ant attack beetles quickly escape and generally slip through the ant's mandibles. The head and the legs can also be fully retracted under the pronotum and elytra, offering no point of attack. Nicely you can also spot the wing vestiges beneath the elytra (see biology section for more info). This beautiful photo was taken by Alex Wild, check out his webpage for more amazing shots: www.alexanderwild.com
Vatesus adult following a colony emigration of Eciton (probably E. burchellii) in Peru. In colony emigrations the risk of being attacked is relatively low as ants are busy with carrying their young. When I disturbed an emigration while collecting myrmecophiles, ants got excited, stopped emigrating, and adult Vatesus quickly hide under leaves or in small cavities. It appears they might recognize the ants' alarm pheromones as their hiding reaction happened instantly. This beautiful picture was taken by Takashi Komatsu during a trip to Peru. For more great photos of myrmecophiles check out his blog.
Vatesus adult following a colony emigration of Eciton hamatum. This atmospheric photo was taken by Philipp Hönle during the 17th Ant Course 2018 in French Guyana (see course report here). Note that the beetle lifts its heavy body with its strong forelegs.
Don`t be fooled - two of the following images do not show Vatesus beetles, can you spot which ones? The two "foreigners" show feather-winged beetles which have convergently evolved a tear-dropped body shape as protective morphological adaptation (species Cephaloplectus mus).
Image credit: Carlos de la Rosa
Image credit: Carlos de la Rosa
Image credit: S. Pohl
Answer: right middle picture and left bottom picture are feather winged beetles
This photo blew me away when I saw it a couple of years ago. It shows what I think is Vatesus latitans Sharp 1876, which is the type of the genus. It is associated with the species Eciton quadriglume and is darker than its expected closest relatives V. clypeatus, V. goainus and V. gigas, the latter of which have a bright reddish color (see all other images on this page). In fact, it was the dark coloration that fascinated me most. Not only Vatesus, but also other guests of this emigration were much darker than the relatives I have studied in Costa Rica. In my opinion, the most likely explanation for this phenomenon is visual mimicry. The host ant you can see on the photo seems to be Eciton quadriglume. Little is known about the biology of this species - but apparently, this species (if the ID is correct) seems to emigrate during the day - which is an exception within the genus Eciton. This means guests are exposed to visual predators such as birds and lizards during daytime emigrations - a selection pressure which could well induce adaptations towards matching host coloration. There are only few specimens of V. latitans in museum collections and additional specimens of this species would greatly help my efforts to revise the genus - so if you have by any chance collected this dark Vatesus species or if you have seen it in a museum, please contact me. Felix Moll took this photo in the afternoon in a National Park close to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is worth reading his report (in German) about the excursion, which inlcudes more fascinating photos of army ant guests.
The following pictures show Vatesus beetles during host emigration at La Selva Biological Station. All pictures were taken by Sebastian Pohl. Note the Vatesus specimen following an emigration of Neivamyrmex giibbatus (left middle), which represents a yet undescribed species.
Vatesus adult in a laboratory nest with its rare host species Labidus spinoides. This is a new host record for Vatesus and it remains to be studied whether the collected specimens represent a yet undescribed species. The photo was taken by Philipp Hönle in Ecuador (Choco region). | <urn:uuid:462f68a8-d5e3-4bcc-af15-fed62d42563d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vatesus.com/gallerie | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957171 | 1,094 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Dubai: The conducive academic atmosphere of the UAE has helped inspire numerous students to push the boundaries of creativity and think out of the box.
A case in point includes two artificial intelligence (AI)-based projects — one by a group of school students and another by a group of dental college students -- designed to serve the community. Here’s a look at them:
Meet the Oxy-mix team: Seeking to enable anywhere, anytime oxygen delivery
This is a unique oxygen delivery mask with sensors using Internet of Things to connect to health-care centres. It was developed by teenagers from GEMS Founders School — Al Mizhar, under the guidance of their teacher, Saba Adnan, the director of Innovation, at the school. The device meets the criteria for fulfilling UAE’s Sustainable Development Goal No 3 for health care and wellbeing.
Overwhelmed by the impact that COVID-19 had on people, five young boys — Egyptian expatriates Giorgio Abdo, 13, Yahia Awad, 12, Omar Anwar, 12, Maalik Ahmed, 12, and British expatriate Azaan Adnan, 12 — to come up with a unique, cost-effective oxygen delivery system.
Team Oxy-mix wanted to play a role in supporting and saving the lives of patients who were dying due to oxygen deprivation. They learnt that when oxygen saturation fell, many patients passed away due to lack of oxygen cylinders or for not being able to make it to the medical facility on time. They wanted to build a device that would be as easily available as masks and at the same time could be controlled by professionals to ensure oxygen supply. The idea was to overcome limited oxygen supply, number of doctors and hospital facilities. Oxy-mix can also be used in treating cases of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and even cancer.
How Oxy-mix works
Elaborating on the device for which the students are applying for a patent and have worked out its cost to Dh500 per device, they said: “The Oxy-mix prototype we created is an innovative pocket device with a CO2 [carbon dioxide] Sensor that monitors the patient’s environment and sends data through IOT (Internet of Things) to their doctor or health facility. It is a mask with an in-built mechanism for oxygen release that is controlled by the doctor/health facility. Through it, a patient is supplied with the prescribed oxygen dose (just like an Oxygen Concentrator, but cheaper and controlled by a professional). This can be used by patients who have a weak respiratory system or in cases where an individual experiences a drop in his or her oxygen saturation level and requires external support.
The device contains a third feature, which is of specific use for cancer patients. The students said: “This is based on ‘Oxygen Therapy’, where high-concentrated oxygen supply over a period of time helps in eliminating acidic body environment, which in turn helps in preventing the spread of cancer in the body. This can be achieved through the same mask under a specified oxygen supply prescription or programme by the doctor.”
Adnan, the director of innovation at the school, guided the students in their project. Expressing gratitude to her guidance, they said: “When we shared the idea of the device with our teacher, Saba Adnan, she guided us to the potential application of IOT. She helped us sustain our interest and passion over a long period for the project. She also helped us connect COVID-19 patients at medical centres and their doctors who could monitor oxygen supply and patient vitals to ensure that the patient got the correct quantity of oxygen, as an oversupply can also lead to lung issues.”
Adnan also helped the Oxy-mix team to connect with industry experts who helped them develop the C02 Sensor and its use in association with Micro bit to detect the need of oxygen supply that could alert the necessary health-care centre through IOT.
The students pointed out that their device was an improvement over the existing respiratory devices such the CPAP used for oxygen delivery.
“In contrast to CPAP, which only supports patients with sleep apnea, Oxy-mix helps in various oxygen supply-related issues. In addition, the device allows itself to be connected with a medical centre through IOT, ensuring professional care and alerts medical teams in case an ambulance is needed.”
“Our idea is to save lives by providing oxygen supply in an easy and cost-effective way. Our idea can provide a device to ensure oxygen supply at minimal cost and ensure professional medical supervision for a large number of people without the need to crowd at hospitals. It is also the cheapest device available in the market,” they added.
Smilano, the Smile-Design project
Eleven students from the College of Dentistry at the Gulf Medical University, Ajman, led by Fatima Abdul Rehman, a 20-year-old Iraqi expatriate student in the fourth year of dentistry, came up with Smilano. This is a digital software and web-based application based on deep learning and machine learning, that can be used by dentists to correct smiles as per an individual’s face symmetry.
The AI-based tool can help gauge the vertical and horizontal proportions of a person’s face through the images and provide a correctional treatment plan. The project focuses on analysing the patient’s facial proportions and compare it with a hundred stored images to come up with a proposal for an ideal ‘smile design’ that suits the patient.
One of the unique aspects of this project is its time-saving benefits. As Abdul Rahman explained. “A treatment plan can be received within seconds. For instance, once the scanned image is received, the smile is fabricated and given to the patient during the same visit. Furthermore, it will give inputs to the patient on how the smile will complement his or her skin tone, create veneers, crowns, bridges, among others. Quick and cost-effective solutions were the key factors in developing this project.”
It took the students three months to programme and design Smilano.
How Smilano works
The main goal behind this application is to create a digital smile, providing quick and cost-effective solutions, based on each individual’s facial and dental proportions as well as skin tone. The application will, first, capture complete patient details, scan the information and provide a smile design accordingly. Once the scanned image is received, the smile will be fabricated and given to the patient in the same visit.
Abdul Rahman explained, “There’s no optimal age difference; any patient can go through this scanner and it will provide him with whole treatment plan. It is applied across all age groups where it can develop different types of fixed and removable prosthesis based on patient’s details. The tools used in the application are a mixture of different disciplines based on patient’s preferences: braces for orthodontic tooth correction, provisional restorations like veneers and crowns can be monitored according to a patient’s smile, facial analysis, etc.”
Direct result of an AI-inclusive curriculum
Professor Hesham Marei, Dean of the College of Dentistry, said the recently introduced structured AI course in the undergraduate curriculum was a great catalyst for students this year. “This course is a part of technology and innovation pillar that runs across all health programs in GMU. It is a 15 weeks course taught by an AI subject expert in collaboration with a faculty member. The students learn AI principles, machine learning, AI techniques, algorithms and the ethics behind using AI in healthcare. The course involved different teaching and learning methods, including lectures, case-based scenarios, e-learning assignments and research projects.”
At the end of the course, groups of dental students have applied the principles of AI, through six research projects, to help dentists in delivering better treatment outcomes. Other members of the group working on Smilano are Kareem, Goli Asraa, Fatima Almatroshi, Dalya Ibrahim, Venus, Hend Jasem and Negin, Nadeen. In the three months that team Smilano worked on the project, they integrated technical information and mathematical expression. They are confident that Smilano will be a true AI-powered tool to positively affect the whole field of dentistry, and make work more productive.
The students have submitted a paper on the working of the web-based digital application to ascertain its efficiency in processing complex algorithms and mathematical data. Abdul Rahman said: “The project is still under processing, but the idea itself was presented to the chancellor and the dean, which has received a positive response and the efforts were highly appreciated.” | <urn:uuid:a0fe90bc-1a9f-4847-a488-c6b9c5031dea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gulfnews.com/uae/health/uaes-push-for-creativity-meet-students-making-a-mark-with-ai-powered-healthcare-innovations-1.88691143 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956334 | 1,830 | 2.578125 | 3 |
School Board Zones Redistricting
Salem-Keizer School Board heard from the community on alternatives for school board zones
Salem Keizer Public Schools has seven elected school board directors that lead the district: seven zones in the school district and one director for each zone. Candidates for school board must live within the zone where they will run for election. In the current voting structure, everyone who lives in the Salem-Keizer school district votes on all candidates. This is called at-large voting.
With the 2020 Census complete, it is time to make sure that each zone has a similar number of people. To do this, we must make some adjustments to our zone boundaries.
Two different proposals
The board has two different proposals for redrawing the zones for the district. The board sought public input in a public survey on each map from Nov. 17 through Dec. 1 to determine the final board zone map. Please review the two alternatives for redrawing the zones. [Survey is now closed.]
What is redistricting?
Redistricting is a process that distributes the population equally among electoral districts. This usually happens after the U.S. census, which takes place every 10 years. The census shows population growth or decrease in these areas, requiring population rebalancing to ensure equal representation. Special districts, such as school districts, collaborate with their communities on determining the updated school board zones.
What it isn’t?
REDISTRICTING DOES NOT CHANGE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREA BOUNDARIES. Students will not be assigned to a different school if school board zones change.
Public input review and final decision
The board took all the public input and discussed the input in a school board work session on Dec. 7, 2021. You can review the meeting on YouTube in English and and on YouTube in Spanish.
The board is expected to make a final decision on zones at the school board meeting on Dec. 14, 2021. Public comment will be taken at the meeting. | <urn:uuid:4299a566-f13a-420b-9444-d9a866654497> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://salkeiz.k12.or.us/school-board-redistricting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93894 | 417 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Dr. Charles Stanley
Have you ever wondered if your life has a purpose? The Word of God says it does—one that is both noble and desirable: Every believer was created by God to love and be loved.
God loves you personally and individually, without limit or qualification. He desires to shower you with His affection and kindness. Let me assure you of several things:
God’s love is the most important thing we can know about Him.
The very essence of God’s being—in other words, His personality and nature—is love (1 John 4:8). It is the reason Jesus came to earth, lived a victorious life, and then died to restore man’s relationship with the Father (John 3:16). The most important decision we can ever make is to receive this gift of God.
The Lord’s affection is absolute, unwavering, and sacrificial. Moreover, God’s love is not subject to favoritism. He cares for the sinner as much as He does for the saint. In our human pride or our desire to be “somebody special,” we may find that fact difficult to swallow. But God grants love to each person.
The Bible tells us that the rain falls on the just and the unjust, and the sun shines on the righteous and the wicked (Matt. 5:45). This means that with or without faith in God, everyone experiences certain benefits and blessings from Him. But the person who receives Jesus as Savior is in a position to reap the blessings that accompany an outpouring of love into his or her life.
The Lord’s love is not based upon what we do, what we have, or what we achieve. He freely gives it to us simply because we are His creation. You cannot win or earn more of God’s favor—it has nothing to do with performance. Accept and delight in that truth.
The most important response we can make is to reciprocate God’s love.
John said it simply and eloquently: “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19, NKJV). And Jesus said the first and foremost commandment was this: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matt. 22:37). The only acceptable response to God’s great outpouring of love toward you is to love Him back.
We can choose to rebel. And while this doesn’t affect God’s nature, it will change us. Those who refuse to acknowledge and receive divine love cut themselves off from great blessing. Not only that, but such individuals typically yield to anger, hatred, and bitterness. To harden one’s heart toward God is the supreme act of rebellion—in doing so, a person hurts himself far more than he hurts others. Humbly receiving God, on the other hand, brings good into one’s life.
Satan constantly tries to convince us that if we follow Jesus, we will have to give up personal freedom, identity, and pleasure. But those who live apart from God’s love inevitably discover their rebellion did not make them any freer. They may not go to jail, but they end up in emotional or psychological prisons—caught in addiction or trapped by feelings of resentment. The longer they live separated from the Lord’s love and mercy, the less pleasure they find in life. In that situation, it is easy to become cynical, jaded, critical, and in the end, apathetic to nearly everything.
But those who embrace and reciprocate God’s love enjoy inner freedom they never imagined. They develop as individuals, discovering hidden talents and abilities. They experience true delight in God’s creation and know the joy of perpetual discovery.
When we choose to love and obey God, we can be sure He will guide us toward doing what will bring about the greatest fulfillment in life.
God’s love is our ultimate reason to hope.
If we know with certainty that God loves us and desires good for our lives, what is there to fear? Hope in Christ is for everyone. It compels us not to remain in a state of dread, doubt, or worry but to seek transformation by the Holy Spirit’s power. Trust encourages us to anticipate God’s best and look for the dawning of a new day.
Our heavenly Father is generous—even extravagant—in His love. Open your heart and let the Lord shower more of His good gifts upon you. You won’t regret yielding your life to Him. | <urn:uuid:5184fbfa-2756-4ab8-a294-96491e6b5185> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.wordofyeshua.eu/created-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942949 | 969 | 1.601563 | 2 |
HanoiMr. Thang, 34 years old, in Lang Ha, has been waiting for many days for a call from the local health care provider for instructions on Covid treatment but no response.
Before that, he tested himself quickly, the result was positive. He looked for the phone number of the ward to report, and was provided with another phone number to meet the medical staff at his residence. “They continued to give me another contact number, telling me that if the phone was busy, I could call again and again. In the end, no one answered,” Mr. Thang said. The next day, he was able to connect with a medical staff, declare information about background disease, vaccination history, … but was not guided or treated because there were no PCR test results (with no results). affirmative value).
He found a place to do a PCR test himself at home. That night, he coughed a lot, had a high fever, his body was hot and cold, and tried to call the ward doctor but failed. He self-medicated with multivitamins, water, fruit and steam to treat himself. Because he is young, has no underlying disease, has received two doses of the vaccine, he reassures himself that he “will soon recover from the disease”. 5 days later, the medical team called and sent someone to set up a cord for isolation. At that time, he had less cough, no more headache, only a slight fever. The isolation period is counted from the date of medical arrival, ie an additional 5 days.
“Now that we have Covid, we can cure it by ourselves, but we can’t call forever but can’t wait. However, we still have to follow the correct process to notify us that we are F0 in order to get a certificate of recovery and peace of mind to go back to work later. this,” said Thang.
Also tired of waiting for medical support in vain, Ms. Linh’s family (living in Dong Da, 36 weeks pregnant) had to manage their own treatment at home. Her husband, one-year-old daughter, sister and mother were all infected. Every day, pregnant women constantly call the ward’s health care center, but the phone is busy. “The whole family has been vaccinated, showing mild illness but still worried because they did not receive medical instructions. Then when the test is negative, who should I call, who will issue a certificate of recovery, how to handle and clean up the waste. ..”, she shared.
The infected Linh’s friends also took care of themselves at home, without medicine or help. “It feels like being abandoned. People often call each other to share how to take care of F0 at home and encourage them to overcome illness,” she said.
F0 in Hanoi has continuously increased rapidly in a recent week. On November 14 alone, the number of cases exceeded 3,000 – increasing pressure on medical forces and overcrowded hospitals. Currently, the health stations only have about 8-10 employees serving tens of thousands of people. In addition, due to the lack of facilities and degraded equipment, the grassroots health care sector faces many difficulties, so it is “difficult to take care of everyone”.
This leads to a more anxious F0 mentality. Many people have mentality No need for medical assistance, just report the number and get a certificate of recovery when the rapid test is negative, according to workplace or local requirements.
Doctor Nguyen Minh Nguyen (Hospital for the Treatment of Covid-19 Patients, under Hanoi Medical University Hospital) said this is wrong mentality, should not. He assessed that contacting the ward’s medical staff is an important step when discovering that he is positive to receive instructions on initial treatment, nutrition, and signs of worsening. In case of severe F0, the ward medical center is the focal point and connects the hospital for timely transfer. “Even vaccinated, there is a 2-5% rate of severe, critical, depending on the condition and the time of vaccination …”, the doctor said.
In addition, the ward health department is in charge of zoning, identifying outbreaks, limiting infection, and protecting people around. This is a mandatory process that needs people to ensure to take care of their health and that of others. “Issuing a certificate of recovery is only one of the processes. Not to mention, people who already have the disease are also at risk of getting sick again, so they should not be subjective,” the doctor recommended.
According to the leader of Dong Da district, the workload at the grassroots medical station is very large and the workforce is thin. Staff both handle severe cases of disease while doing investigation and testing tasks… so it’s difficult to answer all incoming calls. In Hoang Mai district, Dinh Cong ward health station has only 9 doctors and nurses, all female, in charge of 50,000 people from taking samples for testing, F0 instructions, vaccinations…
Previously, Hanoi had established Zalo groups and groups to connect with people. The group admin can be the head of the medical station, connecting with both private pharmacies and clinics in the group for continuous support, people can consult and ask for advice, reducing pressure on the fixed medical station. . Or a network of companion doctors to support and advise over the phone. If F0 has 3-4 risk factors, the doctor will notify the local health care provider for emergency referral.
Facing the situation that many F0 patients cannot contact the medical force, leaders of the Hanoi Department of Health have asked localities to change their approach in supporting treatment of F0 patients at home, focusing on Risk management to reduce the rate of severe patient cases and deaths.
The Department directed the medical centers of the districts, and suggested that hot areas such as Hai Ba Trung, Hoan Kiem, Dong Da, Hoang Mai add phone numbers, Zalo groups, for people to easily contact; accelerate the updating of patients as well as vaccination on the software system to facilitate the management; mobilize the participation of central hospitals, ministries, branches, private health systems, retired medical staff, medical students, etc. to participate in epidemic prevention and control and management and collection. , treatment of patients.
According to the Ministry of Health’s process, Covid-19 patients at home will be lifted from isolation when they have completed 10 days of treatment and tested negative for nCoV. Testing is performed by staff or patients themselves under the supervision of medical staff directly or indirectly via remote means (quick test licensed by the Ministry of Health). The medical station where the patient is managed is responsible for confirming that the patient is cured.
In the fourth wave of the epidemic, Hanoi recorded more than 80,000 infections, of which more than 50,000 were treated at home. Experts recommend that the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic is still complicated, people need to continue to adhere to 5K, maintain masks, disinfect more often, keep a safe distance, and limit large gatherings. people on weekends, especially the upcoming Tet holiday. Trying to prevent disease as much as possible will help reduce the risk to yourself, your family as well as the burden on health and society.
When the rapid test is positive, F0 calmly contact the ward medical center to guide the handling of health abnormalities, especially the SpO2 index in the first two weeks. “Don’t just think to call the ward because of the cure, until it gets worse, you won’t be able to return,” the doctor said. | <urn:uuid:56d8ca78-31fe-44c9-a708-b021ea2be757> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://briardforce.com/feeling-abandoned-amid-the-covid-wave/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971801 | 1,598 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Public Resources Code section 21080(a), CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(2), and CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3).
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The Urgency Ordinance implements an Essential Housing Program, whereby the Director of Development Services is authorized to ministerially determine, based on objective standards, if a project is an Essential Housing Project. Specifically, the Urgency Ordinance contains provisions that implement solutions to the City’s housing crisis by: (a) soliciting qualifying applications; (b) accepting applications that meet specified criteria designed to boost housing production and improve housing affordability in the City; (c) processing accepted applications in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Urgency Ordinance; (d) approving or denying such applications in accordance with objective criteria; and (e) using this overall framework to implement the City’s program on an urgency basis consistent with the Council’s findings and intent. The Ordinance does not entitle, authorize, or otherwise permit a development project. All projects certified as Essential Housing Projects must adhere to the City’s standard development review and environmental assessment process. | <urn:uuid:0a83b109-ce93-4ac7-8e69-4ddbe50b3b07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ceqanet.opr.ca.gov/2021080506 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.87755 | 241 | 1.75 | 2 |
As the summer is wrapping up, one of the banes of my teaching experience is gearing to make its appearance: classroom decor shopping.
Decorating the classroom is fun, but shopping for it is so disrespectfully expensive, that it makes one weary to purchase much of anything, because after all…. the kids are just going to destroy it right? Well after spending hundreds of dollars every year, just for my high school juniors [yep, you read that right], to tear up, rip up, and break everything I bought, I vowed never to pay full price for decorations again! This year, I’m taking a different approach – the cheaper approach – to decorating my classroom this year, and I’ve decided my share my three tips on how you can too!
1.) Hit Up the Dollar Store
The dollar store – more specifically the Dollar Tree is my favorite place to hit up when it’s time to decorate. The same paper border you’d typically find in your local teacher store that’s usually $8 a pack, is $1 here! If you want a little glitz and glam, then head to the party aisle to get party streamers that correlate to your colors too. The dollar store is also where you can stock up on classroom supplies [pencils, pens, and highlighters], books for your classroom library, and rewards [candy, pencils, and stickers] for your students as well!
2.) Get Creative
You don’t need to spend your whole summer check on decor. What I love to do is buy paper plates and buy spray paint that goes with my color theme, add cut out letters [either bought or made at work] and use them to create signs/decorations or even border for my walls. Another cheap option is instead of buying contact paper from Amazon, go to a fabric store [my go-to is Walmart] and buy a yard or two of fabric. Use the fabric as backdrops for your bulletin boards. If you want to go the free route, get butcher paper that is at your campus to serve as your backdrop.
Another idea for customized pencil/pen cup holders is getting the glass jars, adding Modpodge [Walmart] to it, and sprinkling colored glitter over them! Seal it back with Modpodge and you now have customized cup holders true to your classroom and nice to your pockets.
Other stores I love to check out for stuff on the low are:
- 5 Below
- Walmart/ Target
3.) Find Inspiration
This is the easiest tip! One of my favorite things to do a few weeks before school starts is by scouring YouTube and Pinterest for inspiration or tips to DIY my classroom. Both sites are literal goldmines of ideas and tips on creating your dream classroom for less than $50 – $100 too!
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I recently interviewed Nicola Roxon, the former minister responsible for cleaning up Australia’s public health policy through legislation on standardised tobacco packaging. It shed some light on how public support was won there.
The legislation was a world first but won’t be replicated in England after the government announced in July that it was shelving proposals to follow suit.
Since then, headlines have focused predominantly on the influence of the big tobacco companies’ lobbyists on the decision and the primary target was Lynton Crosby, Prime Minister David Cameron’s election guru, whose firm Textor-Crosby acts for tobacco giant Phillip Morris.
It’s not about the lobbyists
Having watched the story unfold while working in public health in Australia and in the UK, I couldn’t help but be struck by how the focus on lobbying has detracted from the health messages.
In the UK, more than 200,000 young people start smoking every year. That’s 200,000 more people a year taking up a habit that over a lifetime, is proven to kill at least half of them. Smoking related diseases cost the NHS 5 billion pounds a year.
So-called plain packaging could contribute to saving lives and taxpayers money. Surely, the British public care more about these facts than the minority who may or may not have the Prime Minister’s ear?
The Department of Health cite the need to wait for more evidence to emerge from Australia. But the need for more evidence is paradoxical here. We know that public health measures like this take years, sometimes generations to show their benefit. As Roxon said: “These people are asking for evidence that can’t exist yet”.
Some early evidence is emerging from Australia: standardised packaging makes tobacco less attractive, improves the effectiveness of health warnings and is therefore likely to reduce the number of those 200,000 plus children and young people who start smoking each year.
If it doesn’t work why do they care?
To the public, this surely makes perfect sense? Tobacco companies don’t spend millions of pounds on the way they market their product, the colours, the feel, the shape, the touch of the pack, for nothing. “They didn’t fight us [The Australian Government] tooth and nail because they think it makes no difference,” said Roxon.
The Labour Party’s response to the dropping of the proposals was to produce cigarette packet adverts with Crosby and Cameron’s heads on them; a “Bensons and Hedge Fund” quip from Ed Milliband at Prime Minister’s Questions, and a letter to the Cabinet Secretary asking for a inquiry into Crosby’s access to Ministers. But where in all of this was the health message to the public?
Capturing the public’s imagination
I realise three things that helped Australia win the battle to get this life saving piece of legislation implemented. This included building a strong grassroots and community led campaign to support the proposals. This type of community activism was critical in Australia, with NGO’s - such as the Australian Cancer Council - organising local campaigns that mobilised local people, visiting electorate offices and talking to people.
Roxon cites the “wonderful doctors, public health advocates, non-government organisations and academics” who time and time again spoke out against the claims made by the tobacco industry. Claims including the suggested impacts on illicit trade, the economy, and threat to jobs. Similar claims were made, and subsequently disproved in the Australian example.
Roxon also cites the importance of a united Cabinet on the issue. Although she was the face of the campaign, with Mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg famously calling her a “Rock Star” in tobacco control, she says there was never any “backgrounding or complaining” from other Ministers on the proposals. Maybe this is where the proposals fell down in England: you need strong cabinet, and crucially, Prime Ministerial support.
Cabinet relationships aside, Roxon is adamant, and I have to agree, that this is “a battle which will be won or lost in the court of public opinion.” The Observer recently published details of a Phillip Morris strategy which included collecting polling data from the most vulnerable Tory marginal seats.
Tobacco companies understand the importance of public opinion. The Australian Government understood it, and used it to their advantage. Standardised packaging was one of the few issues that “really captured the public’s imagination” during Roxon’s time in office.
It is now time for public health advocates, committed politicians, NGO’s and other supporters to re-capture the publics’ imagination. I for one am fed up with hearing about the lobbyists. Plain packaging is a measure that will eventually save lives, and the best lobbyist we can hire in a democracy is the public. | <urn:uuid:2d00e8e1-4745-4a91-aada-7ca5ed1fd0f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconversation.com/i-have-more-faith-in-people-than-tobacco-lobbyists-18307 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960263 | 1,017 | 1.945313 | 2 |
How do I want to be remembered when I’m gone? It’s a loaded question, one that can be uncomfortable to think about and even harder to talk about with those we love. It’s important, however, not only to answer this question for ourselves but to make those wishes known to our family and friends in order to leave a legacy that reflects who we are.
Let’s start the conversation here by answering some common questions.
What is a legacy? Is it how you want people to remember you, or is it something tangible? Or both?
A personal legacy broadly represents how we want to be remembered. Scrapbooks, photographs, letters, keepsakes – all of these can go in the column headed Legacy.
Conversations I’ve had with survivors include these ideas – mainly around wanting to leave a sense of connection, I think, when they are no longer available to those they love.
In a more structured way, it is taking care of business like having a will and a healthcare power of attorney. While it may seem daunting or not-right-timing or just plain uncomfortable, taking care of these things is one of the most loving things we can do for our family and friends.
Why is it important to think about and make these kinds of plans?
The reasons are from the legal to the intangible. Practically speaking: If you don’t want the state to decide what to do with your belongings (whatever they are — don’t worry so much about that piece of it), it’s wise to create a will. A will can capture how you want, say, for your books to be shared or donated. It takes the burden off of family and loved ones to make these decisions. You’re caring for them while also having your wishes honored.
Who should be thinking about legacy?
Everyone, really. It can be a lifelong endeavor. I think this links to one’s character and personal values. How one has spent her life – whatever that looks like in whatever time – is hers to decide.
I most often have had conversations around young mothers not wanting to miss big events in the lives of their children. We discuss going ahead and writing letters for those times (e.g. high school graduation). I also encourage tucking them away because no one can predict the future; we don’t know if the letters will be needed or when. I’m not trying to paint a rosier picture than is realistic on some occasions, but I am trying to help a survivor alleviate her own anxiety at the prospect of not being able to say what she wants to say at those times.
Young mothers are not the only ones to consider. Young women without children have some of these same concerns but with different people (e.g. parents, friends). It’s fine to write down what you want to say to them, too. Letters are one idea, but there are other options, too.
What if I don’t want to think about this?
I get that, and I tend to be gently pushy. I’ll use my mother as an example. Her legal documents were up to date and squared away, but she had no written instructions for her three children about what she wanted at her service (e.g. scripture, music). Mother said, when asked about it, “Oh, that’s morbid.” I said with a straight face, “That’s fine. Your children all like the Rolling Stones. We’ll figure something out.” The choir director (mother was a lifelong soprano in the choir) was at her house the next week. Her service was “so her,” and it was full of beautiful music.
I offer this to illustrate the importance of stating your wishes. You’re in control of it. You’re calling the shots on what happens, how it happens, when and where. Try to consider these decisions through that lens.
Okay, but what if my family doesn’t want to think about this?
We can’t predict how someone will react, and these kinds of conversations can be tough. Maybe consider relying on the fabulous Death Over Dinner model, and host an intimate dinner party to discuss not just your own wishes but theirs too. Food brings people together, and aren’t some of the best stories you’ve heard around the dinner table?
Maybe start with someone who created and left a legacy you admired and build from there. If fear shows up, acknowledge that rather than compartmentalizing it or stuffing it down, and say it out loud as part of the conversation. You might find it doesn’t feel so scary after doing that.
What are some concrete ways to get started?
Young women with metastatic disease who are attending our national Summit in February have the opportunity to take part in a half-day retreat on Legacy. Led by Lillie Shockney the program will help guide ideas and create a plan for leaving a legacy. Plus, you’ll be in the room with your peers and can give one another support and feedback – arguably not only at the retreat but after you all return home with your ideas.
Here are five additional resources to help start this important conversation:
Death over Dinner
I mentioned this above — this is an innovative program that helps create an open and safe environment to talk about death and end of life issues.
YSC’s End of Life Series
This is a series of videos featuring conversations about End of Life, covering topics like palliative care, legacy and more.
The Conversation Project
This site provides an excellent starter kit for having a conversation with yourself and your family about your wishes.
Cancer Legal Resource Center
This organization provides, among many other things, resources around creating a will and healthcare power of attorney.
Jack and Jill Late Stage Foundation WOW! Experience
This organization is for families with small children, with a parents facing a late-stage cancer diagnosis, and provides the opportunity for memory-making “WOW! Experiences.”
Living and Leaving a Legacy: Half Day Retreat for Young Women Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer is part of the 2018 YSC Summit, which takes place February 23 – 25, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Fee waivers are available, as well as a fundraising program to help offset the cost of travel.
Attend the Half-Day Retreat
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
This Collaboratory session will focus on engaging students through the creation of a classroom community of practice (COP). Three strategies for building a COP, inspired by inclusive teaching practices, will be shared and discussed among attendees.
About the discussant:
Dr. Kate Paesani is Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota. She is also affiliate faculty in French and provides research and curriculum consultation for the CLA Language Center. She regularly teaches the methods seminar for new graduate students in French, German, and Spanish, as well as undergraduate courses in French linguistics and culture. She also conducts research on multiliteracies curriculum and instruction and teacher cognition and professional development. | <urn:uuid:eae678fd-29be-45e5-a739-84172b59437c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/language-teaching/language-collaboratory/sessions/creating-a-classroom-community-of-practice.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948361 | 155 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Gov Steve Sisolak is extending the state’s eviction moratorium through the end of May, a month less than the federal moratorium, and won’t adjust it again when the two months are up.
Sisolak’s announcement Tuesday comes a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended federal protections until June 30.
“The CDC order, out of necessity, is broad and applies nationwide,” Sisolak said. “In reality however, every state’s eviction laws are different with different eviction notices and court procedures. That’s why our state eviction moratorium is so important during this transition period. It will continue to provide clear direction to courts eliminating much of the confusion and burden on judicial resources. It will help keep eligible tenants housed.”
Though the state’s protections were set to expire March 31, the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada said some landlords “got a jump” on the eviction process and sent tenants notices.
After the state’s moratorium expires, Sisolak said eviction case filings can proceed in the courts but tenants won’t be evicted until after the CDC’s order expires.
The moratorium isn’t automatic and requires eligible tenants to submit a declaration to their landlord. According to the directive, which went into effect in December, “covered tenants” include people who have been laid off or had loss of income, earn less than $99,000 and are at risk of homelessness if an eviction proceeds.
“Today’s extension comes with an additional requirement,” Sisolak said. “When landlords provide notices to tenants during this time period, they must also include information on available rental assistance programs and how tenants can access them.”
In addition to rental assistance programs, the state created an eviction mediation program run by Home Means Nevada, a nonprofit established by the Nevada Division of Business and Industry.
Labor Commissioner Shannon Chambers, who is president of Home Means Nevada, said Tuesday estimated there are more than 3,500 eviction cases currently in Clark County courts.
“I have seen data that shows it’s anywhere between 5 and 7 percent of residents potentially facing evictions in Clark County alone,” Chambers said.
Sisolak said he hadn’t intended to extend the moratorium.
However, he hopes the time allows for existing and incoming rental assistance to be disseminated to tenants who are behind on rent and at risk of eviction.
Since July, the County has used federal dollars to help more than 22,500 households with rent or mortgage assistance.
Kevin Schiller, the assistant county manager with Clark County who spoke alongside Sisolak, said the county is expected to receive an additional $161 million in rental assistance, which could help an estimated 20,000 households.
The County is also dealing with a current backlog of nearly 20,000 applications.
Schiller said the County can process about 2,300 applications per week, an increase from the projected 1,700 applications per week he indicated at a March 17 town hall.
Chambers added the extra time could also help those tenants who have received eviction notices get rental assistance.
For more information, visit the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Covid resource page or call its eviction hotline at 702-386-1070.
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The Bear and the Two Friends
Once, two friends were walking through the forest. They knew that anything dangerous could happen to them at any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would remain united in case of danger.
Suddenly, they saw a large bear approaching tern. One of the friends at once climbed a nearby tree. But the other one did not know how to climb. So being led by his common sense, he laid down on the ground breathless, pretending to be a dead man.
The bear came near the man lying on the ground. It smelt his ears and slowly left the place. Because the bear did not touch him, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend on the ground, "Friend, what did the bear tell you into your ears?"The other friend replied, "He advised me not to believe a false friend.
The text mostly uses….tense.
Mahasiswa/Alumni UIN Raden Intan Lampung
knew, promised, would, saw, climbed, did, laid, came, smelt, left, asked, replied, advised adalah V2 yaitu Verb yang digunakan dalam simple past tense. Berarti, tensis yang paling umum digunakan dalam teks tersebut adalah simple past tense (B).
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Know the Bible in its original languages. Perform word studies, follow complex sentences, and get comfortable with Greek and Hebrew pronunciation.
Study any Bible passage in its original language—no Greek or Hebrew classes required. The Exegetical Guide pulls out every Greek or Hebrew word from your passage—even if you’re reading an English Bible—and gives you everything you need to know about each word. See voice, case, mood, tense, senses, and alternative translations, and trace the flow of thought with sentence diagrams. | <urn:uuid:c6969a8a-fd1c-44dc-85ab-6993c6c92d6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://faithlifetv.com/items/306886?utm_source=blog.logos.com&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=whatisexegesis&utm_campaign=promo-SEOposts2021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.895593 | 107 | 2.609375 | 3 |
One of the world’s oldest and richest cultures, Chinese civilization stretches back more than 12,000 years. For centuries it was dominated by royal dynasties that constructed global landmarks like the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Terracotta Warriors of Xian.
But the nation’s economic revolution has created a whole different nation for visitors to experience, a modern China personified by the glass-and-steel skyscrapers and shopping malls of Shanghai and Hong Kong, the flashy casino hotels of Macau, and the tropical beach resorts of Hainan Island in the deep south.
With so many distinct regional cuisines — Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangsu, etc — China is also a foodie paradise. And there’s plenty of outdoor activities: visiting giant pandas in the bamboo forests of Sichuan; riding horses across the plains of Inner Mongolia; gawking at the fabulous frozen creations of Harbin’s annual Snow & Ice Sculpture Festival; or cruising the scenic Yangtze River. | <urn:uuid:cd830013-631f-44f5-913e-53d2dc19a0c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mail.geringerglobaltravel.com/tour-destination/china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.872974 | 231 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Product displays are important- even in the digital era
It may be tempting to think that the digital age has helped to slowly erode the value of your brick and mortar store. You may find that you are not pulling in the same levels of footfall as you enjoyed on previous years, and the savvier business owners may also have simultaneously seen growth in their online sales. This can result in many people assuming that there is a causal relationship at work here, and even cause them to question their investments in visual merchandising and digital signage. But do not be fooled- your displays are more important now than ever.
Whilst the advent of the internet saw many customers convert to buying things online increasingly often, it also brought other opportunities which were not possible previously. Social media and viral marketing has exploded in recent years, leaving merchandisers and marketers puzzling over how to make the most of it.
It is a known phenomenon that real-life photographs tend to be more engaging on social media than graphics, as photos usually bring in a human appeal that audiences relate with more, as well as giving you more credibility, saying ‘I exist!’. This reassures your customers that should they have any issues with your products, there is somewhere for them to go and get it sorted. Graphics are useful in helping to form a branding theme or injecting some personality into your media- but it’s your photos that help to sell your products. Customers taking photos of your displays are invaluable to your brand, that is, if your display is good, of course.
Giving your products some visual context can help to promote them far more effectively than if they were to be displayed on their own. Your brick and mortar store provides you with the unique opportunity to display products in groups to maximise certain features or appeal, rather than displaying them as a standalone product, which you regularly see when shopping online.
This is perfectly exemplified by the rainbow displays often seen from the likes of Le Creuset, which helps to bring out the visual benefits of the colours of these products far more effectively than if we were to see them individually. Like-wise, the awe-inspiring synchronicity of displays for products such as TVs, when all playing on the same channel, for example, are lost when viewing them individually. Without a display contextualising these products in an ‘all things being equal’ environment, there is little to assess its quality against, as and such, may put people off, especially at the higher end of the price scale.
Engagement is the key to good merchandising
Visual merchandising displays are the perfect opportunity to allow retailers and merchandisers to get their brand message to a wider audience- helping to establish their store as a top destination to visit. The more visually impressive your display is, the more likely it is to get people talking and posting their photographs online.
It’s as simple as that.
By using state-of-the-art technology such as our Transparent LCD Screens or our Interactive Mirror Screens as part of your merchandising display, you are engaging audiences who are present, making them far more likely to purchase from you. In addition to this, if they were impressed by what they saw, they are more likely to spread the word to their friends and family, as well as posting online.
In the past, we have written an in-depth guide about some of our products which would help a store put together amazing displays that places them head and shoulders above their competition. Our unique and innovative range of display technology can help usher your business into the digital era, providing you with the means to wow your in-store and online audience with stunning displays they will want to see again or in real life.
When applied in the right context, many of our products are primed to maximise engagement from your audience. Our display innovations are fairly new technologies which people don’t tend to see regularly, and often leaves intrigued onlookers wondering how they work. This element of mystery and awe can be a very powerful merchandising technique which you are missing out on by using traditional display solutions.
In fact, our digital signage and display technologies boast more benefits over traditional solutions than just the wow factor. On flexibility alone our display products offer you a superior solution. Traditional displays can get stale very easily and very quickly. Once a customer has seen it and evaluated their purchase decision, it can be difficult to convince them to change their mind if they have decided against purchasing. In this case, your display has failed, and to get them to notice the product again may require you to change your display. This can be costly in both physical display solutions as well as your employee’s time.
Using products such as digital signage as part of your display allows you to create new content for your audience, keeping it fresh and eye catching without a significant investment in finances or time. With traditional display signage, a simple typo or error can prove a costly waste, and when combined with the fact that it can age and fade, digital signage offers a superior solution in that it can simply be updated with new content. This saves you in the long term on shipping, printing, processing and labour costs.
One of the biggest benefits of using our innovative display products is that it grants you the ability to fine tune your displays. Updating your signage in real time allows you to experiment with your merchandising techniques to achieve optimal results. This also allows you to be responsive to changing situations instantly, everything from seasonal demand to fluctuating demand throughout the day.
Below is an outline of some of our products which would be perfect as part of your visual merchandising strategy-
Whilst holding its own as a unique solution, Digital Glass is also a great alternative to video walls. Offering better value and a better solution, digital glass boasts no bezels or join lines for sizes up to a huge 8 x 3m. It can also be combined with infrared multi touch capability, creating an impressively large touch screen that will be sure to leave your customers wowed.
Transparent LCD screens
An impressive and versatile technology that can also be granted touch capability. Allowing you to integrate digital content with real-life objects behind the screen, this solution can have an extremely powerful effect. Transparent LCD Screens are a great way to help you regulate the prominence of your products against the visuals displayed on the screen, offering you more control over how and which products are displayed at any given time.
Mirror Screens & Interactive Mirrors
The ideal choice for retailers looking for digital signage with a difference, our Mirrorvision Display range comprises of mirrors that come to life. Great examples of uses of this technology involve placing them in fashion retail changing rooms, toilets or even in place of standard digital signage. This allows businesses to not only leave a lasting impression, but also make the most out of all the wasted space that standard mirrors take up.
Our wide range of Touch Kiosks can meet a variety of requirements for display purposes. Most effective when used in areas that benefit from high-footfall, our kiosks are ideal for communicating information or providing entertainment in an innovative and engaging way. As this product is integrated with our infrared touch technology, a custom solution can allow it to be used for self-service applications, helping to improve efficiency and therefore, the productivity of your staff.
Interactive Touch Foils
A uniquely distinct technology that grants almost any glass or acrylic surface touch screen capability. Use our Interactive Touch Foils to turn those dull window displays into something people will be queuing up to engage with, bringing your store added publicity. You can even use touch foils to drastically improve efficiency by applying them to commerce and self-service applications.
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Eyewitnesses to the brutal killing of 28 civilians in Ye-U Township recall a junta attack that was found to have been documented by the soldiers themselves
By Myanmar Now
No one will stay in the eastern parts of Mone Taing Pin anymore, where locals claim that dogs howl without provocation, putrid odours materialise and vanish, and shadowy figures are spotted only to disappear before they can be identified.
In May, the military massacred nearly 30 people in this village in Sagaing Region’s Ye-U Township. Though the victims’ remains have since been cremated and buried, survivors believe, in accordance with Buddhist custom, that their souls cannot transition into the afterlife until certain religious rituals have been performed.
Due to continued Myanmar army attacks, the living have been unable to make offerings to monks to share the karmic energy that would guide their loved ones to the next realm.
Once a sceptic of such practices, Mone Taing Pin villager Ko Linn* said he now believes that the ceremony is necessary, speculating that bone fragments of the victims found in homes burned by junta troops may be binding the spirits of the deceased to the location.
“We are planning to make donations in the name of the victims so that their spirits can cross over,” Ko Linn explained. “We will also invite monks to pray for the village and we will spread consecrated sand all over.”
More than 100 locals were initially detained during a May 10 military raid on the 400-household Mone Taing Pin, following an attack by a local defence force on a junta column outside the village that morning.
Twenty-eight of the captives, all men aged 20 to 60, were later found to have been killed. Three local resistance fighters were also shot dead, bringing the total number of those slain at the site to 31.
Myanmar Now conducted interviews with five survivors of the attack.
Fifty-year-old Thin Kyi hid in Mone Taing Pin’s monastic library with her husband, Thein Aung, when soldiers opened fire on the village with guns and artillery on the morning of May 10.
She recalled bullets hitting the walls around them, and troops entering the compound soon after, capturing the 100 people who had sought refuge on the religious grounds. They separated some 30 men from the women, tying their hands with rope, questioning and beating them.
The remaining women, of whom there were more than 70, were held for three days without food, another survivor said.
The soldiers released eight elderly men, including U Myint, who described to Myanmar Now the interrogations that took place.
“They wanted us to say that we were funding the PDF,” he said, referring to the People’s Defence Force, the armed wing of the civilian National Unity Government (NUG). “They asked us where the PDF stayed, and how many PDF members were in the village. We got beaten when we didn’t know the answers.”
Ten of the men who were detained were killed on May 10, and 18 more the following morning, he said.
“They had their hands tied behind their backs and were blindfolded,” U Myint added.
He escaped with seven other men after the military left Mone Taing Pin on May 12. The soldiers reportedly took three monks from the village with them as hostages.
Thein Aung, Thin Kyi’s husband, was last seen being taken away by the soldiers from the monastery.
“Run if you see them, or else you will face the same fate my husband did. They burned him alive,” she said.
Now a widow raising three children, she told Myanmar Now that she did not expect she would ever fully recover from the trauma of losing her husband and neighbours to the junta’s violence.
“Don’t ask me if I hate the military. I will make sure to teach my children to burn with hate upon hearing the word ‘military,’” she said.
Visual evidence emerges
RFA published photographic and video evidence on June 17 of the military committing atrocities in a location later determined to likely be Mone Taing Pin. The cache of more than 100 photos and video clips was reportedly found by a villager on a phone in Ayadaw Township, south of Ye-U, and subsequently turned over to RFA. It is believed to have belonged to a Myanmar army soldier involved in raids in the area.
A revolutionary force in Sagaing also sent the same files to Myanmar Now on June 23.
In the now widely seen video footage, three soldiers are seen filming themselves discussing how many people they have killed, and the manner in which they dismembered their victims.
“I’m an expert in killing,” one of the men—assumed to be the phone’s owner—is heard saying.
Among the photos recovered from the phone was an image, dated May 10, of around 30 men sitting with their hands tied behind their backs in front of a wooden building, guarded by three junta soldiers.
U Win*, a 45-year-old man from Mone Taing Pin, told Myanmar Now that the photo was taken in the village’s monastery, as RFA also suggested.
“I can identify all of the people in the photo. Of all of them, I think only one survived. The rest were all killed,” he said.
Other photos, including one from the following day, show the soldiers standing over bloody bodies, some of which belonged to men who RFA sources identified as being present in the earlier photo of captives in the monastery.
The bodies of those killed were later burned in houses in the village, they said.
Myanmar Now previously reported that some 30 homes were torched in Mone Taing Pin during the raid, and that it appeared that the bodies of those found inside belonged to victims who had been murdered before they were burned.
“There was blood in the front of the houses, so it looks like they were killed outside and then dragged inside and set on fire,” a villager told Myanmar Now at the time.
RFA contacted the junta spokesperson Gen Zaw Min Tun regarding the evidence, but he declined to comment until the military had carried out its own investigation into the incident.
*Some names have been changed to protect the safety of the individuals
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Declaring intent is oh-so-easy. CEOs and other business leaders do it all the time. But delivering against declared pledges can be a very different matter. In recent years, for example, thousands of companies have signed up to various international charters and business-to-business platforms pursuing sustainable development — and rolled up at the growing number of events celebrating incremental progress. Then, last year, somebody sat on the fast-forward button.
In short order, business top teams were hit by a triple whammy, especially those thinking they could get away with a skim of change-as-usual to lubricate the continued forward progress of their business-as-usual strategies. The triple whammy kicked off with the papal encyclical, followed up with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and then landed a potential knockout blow for industries such as fossil fuels with the COP21 climate agreement.
Project Breakthrough is about setting a new direction for corporate sustainability that aligns with the sense of urgency and stretch ambitions outlined by the SDGs. It is also about joining the dots between companies on the one hand, and exponential thinkers and innovators on the other - to explore the disruptive potential of new technologies and enable the sustainable business models of the future to take shape. The Project Breakthrough website will go live on September 19 and feature interviews with some of the world’s most exciting and impactful innovators, investors and business leaders – and is intended to grow.
Project Breakthrough is now a keystone element of the Global Compact’s multi-year strategy to bring business acumen and resources to bear on the task of delivering the SDGs by 2030.
Also, in parallel, the Business & Sustainable Development Commission will be launching a new Volans report entitled Breakthrough Business Models, in which we identify five characteristics that will define the business models that help deliver key elements of the SDGs.
But what is meant here by ‘Breakthrough’? Volans uses the term as shorthand for a business agenda that:
- accepts that, while incremental change has its place, it is no longer remotely enough for what comes next;
- market disruption is happening — and is likely to accelerate;
- such times offer huge new opportunities for those who can move fast — and in the right directions; and
- business mindsets are shifting from doing less bad towards doing more good.
Whether we are talking about boards, brands or business models, the agenda is shifting from incremental to exponential forms of change - at least for a transitional period of a decade or two. In the process, we need an accelerating process of cross-pollination between today’s business incumbents and a new breed of insurgents, championed by organizations such as Google’s “X” initiative — known as the “Moonshot Factory,” The X Prize Foundation and Singularity University.
To carry all of this forward, Project Breakthrough is launching with a set of new filmed interviews, co-produced with Atlas of the Future, of some of the world’s leading breakthrough innovators and entrepreneurs — such as Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase; X Prize and Singularity U co-founder Peter Diamandis; Josh Tetrick of Hampton Creek; and Eric Rondolat, CEO of Philips Lighting. The videos will cover subjects as varied as peer-to-peer business models, the potential to develop plant-based egg substitutes and the ramifications of selling lumens rather than lighting equipment.
I’m thrilled that Sabine Oberhuber of Amsterdam-based Turntoo Foundation, which first spurred Philips into its breakthrough pay-for-lumens-not-light-fittings business model, will be joining me for a panel on all of this at SB’16 Copenhagen.
With 2017 marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Brundtland definition of sustainable business, we are on a trajectory to come out the other side with a real chance of shifting the needle from incremental to exponential, and from the sort of negative impact spotlighted for much of that period to the sort of positive impact sought by leading social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and the new breed of impact investors. Fasten your safety belts! | <urn:uuid:74fc3761-26f7-4d76-8980-375d311755ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sustainablebrands.com/read/product-service-design-innovation/project-breakthrough-can-your-brand-deliver-exponential-solutions-to-the-sdgs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937075 | 871 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Jesus The Healer – Jairus’ daughter craft competition
Hi Sunday School!! Your craft challenge this week is to make a shoebox scene of the story of Jesus the Healer and when he healed The daughter of Jairus. Lewis has already made one and here are some photos to give you some ideas of what you could do. Looking forward to seeing them all next time!
Love from the Sunday School teachers
A Sunday School Message
A special message from your Sunday School teacher
Make A Sheep
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The Good Shepherd
A Sunday School Story for Easter
Other Good Shepherd Activities
Children need to know that Jesus is their Good Shepherd. In John 10:11, Jesus makes this powerful promise –I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A page on the Ministry To Children website lists the lessons and learning activities to help you teach this important truth to children. | <urn:uuid:937951a3-558d-4856-8647-85ef5be180d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tottingtonstannes.org.uk/sunday-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935965 | 189 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Sampling methods allow researchers to cite information about a population from the results of a subgroup of the population without examining each individual individually. It is not practical for a sampling company to examine the entire population, for example through questionnaires or surveys.
Sampling is a technique that selects individual members of a subset of a population and draws statistical conclusions about them by estimating the characteristics of the population. In selective sampling, the researcher relies on his judgment when selecting which members of the sample should participate in the study. The researcher believes that they have obtained a representative sample with sound judgment and that the results will save time and money.
If you want to achieve results that are representative of the entire population, probability sampling is a good choice. To perform this type of sampling, you can use tools such as random number generators or other random-based techniques. Researchers’ knowledge is crucial in the preparation of samples, but with each sampling technique there is a chance of achieving results that are accurate with a minimal error rate.
Sampling companies carry out random sampling that allows researchers to obtain a sample of a population that represents the best of the entire population. It ensures that subgroups of a particular population represent the entire sample of the population studied or examined. The sample size for each layer is proportional to the population size for that layer.
Stratified samples differ from simple samples, where data from the entire population is randomly selected as often as possible, so that a sample is most likely to occur. The probability sample eliminates prejudice in a population of 1,000 members by giving each member a fair chance of being included in the sample. In the stratified sample, the population to be examined is divided into homogeneous groups, so-called layers.
Non-probability sampling is a technique used by sampling companies whereby a researcher selects objects or persons at random based on their research objectives and knowledge. Stratified samples are useful when a researcher knows the target population well enough to decide whether to divide or stratify them in a way that makes sense for research.
For example, when studying the travel behaviour of a group of people, it can be helpful to separate those who own a car and use it from those who use public transport. If you take a systematic sample, you have a list of members of the population to decide which sample you want to take. For example, selecting a selection of students who come to the library.
The number of people in your sample that you include depends on several factors including size and variability of the population and your research design. There are different sample calculators and formulas depending on what you want to achieve with statistical analysis. By dividing the population by the number of people in the sample by the number of people you want in the sample, you get a number that we call n. If you use the name n-th, you have a systematic sample that has the right size.
The idea of sampling is easy to understand; when thinking of large populations, it makes sense to use a sampling method to study this size type. The sample allows you to explore a larger target group with the same resources as a small, one-time sample, which opens up opportunities for research. You can decide from which parts of your sample you want to select and which people you want to represent as a whole population.
Product sampling is a technique used by sampling companies that leads researchers to collect representative samples that allow them to understand larger populations by examining the individuals in the sample. There are a number of variations in the sample, and researchers in science and industry rely on non-random samples rather than random samples. By using judgement samples, the researchers strive to ensure that their samples represent the interested population.
A good sample is representative of the part of the population we are interested in, with all study participants having the same chance of being selected for the study. In a simple random sample, all members of a population in a study have the same chance of being selected randomly for a study and researchers use a random method to select participants.
By following these steps, we can select the best method used by sampling companies for your study in an orderly manner. By means of systematic sampling, a supermarket selects the 10th and 15th customers who enter the supermarket to carry out the sampling.
Instead of selecting individual subgroups, select the entire subgroup. Specific demographic categories or strata are important to represent them in the final sample, but once selected, the researcher can select individuals from each category.
Researchers can divide the entire population into several clusters of engineering universities and select the clusters for the study. If 38% of the population has a university degree, the sample of 38% will be selected from the subgroup with a university degree in the sample. Each unit in the population whose probability of being included in the sample is clearly not zero is a sample (also known as a probability sample).
The most important types of probability samples are simple samples, stratified samples, cluster samples, multi-level samples and systematic samples. The main advantage of a probability sampling method is that it guarantees that the selected samples are representative of the population. There are two main types of improbable sampling methods: voluntary sampling and convenience sampling.
In this blog, we have discussed various probability and non-probability sampling methods that can be implemented by sampling companies in market research studies. Probability sampling is a sampling method in which researchers select a sample from a large population using a method based on probability theory. A probability sample is considered a member of the population that forms a sample based on a fixed process.
One way to get a random sample is to give a number to each individual in the population and use a table of random numbers to decide which people should be included in the sampling frame1. For example, if you have a sampling frame of 1,000 people labeled 0 to 999, use a group of three-digit random number tables to select your sample. In this case, each individual is chosen at random, and each member of the population has the same chance (probability) of being selected. For example, if the population had 1,000,000 members, each member would have a 1 in 1,000 chance of being randomly chosen to be part of the sample. | <urn:uuid:3ddb2445-7908-4994-bc2b-9335f98d8fd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedriftingdesk.com/what-are-the-different-sampling-methods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950318 | 1,267 | 3.984375 | 4 |
New Delhi: For some South Asian countries such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh, “China Nightmare” is no longer just a bad dream. It is a living reality that continues to threaten national interests and devour their sovereignty.
The fall of Sri Lanka’s dragon into a trap was triggered when China took advantage of the sour relationship between Colombo and Washington to launch an active court against the Mahinda Rajapaksa government from the time it took office in 2005. rice field.
By 2007, the war with the LTTE had intensified and the island nation was facing growing international criticism of human rights issues.
The United States has significantly reduced its foreign aid packages, and aid from neighboring India has been constrained by the sentiment of its hometown Tamils.
The dragon, which was closely watched, stormed in a $ 37 million deal for Chinese ammunition and weapons.
Following this, in 2008, six F7 fighters, a JY-11 radar, and an anti-aircraft gun were presented. By the end of the war with the LTTE in 2009, relations with China had been upgraded to a “strategic cooperation partnership.”
But the most deadly move China made in a strategy game took place in 2007 when Rajapaksa began leasing Hambantota’s land for the construction of a port at a cost of $ 1 billion.
By 2014, China’s aid and financing to Sri Lanka will be an astonishing $ 6 billion, including the Colombo Port City Project (CPCP), the South Container Terminal of Colombo Port, a dedicated investment zone 35 miles from Colombo Port, and a railroad project. Beyond. .. The net was cast.
Now China has begun to get it involved.
President Xi Jinping did just that during his visit to Sri Lanka in September 2014, signing an agreement with a Chinese company operating the now bleeding Hambantota Harbor.
Beijing, which caught its prey under debt, began to harness its power in Colombo, a twisting arm, to anchor a CCP Navy submarine at a port in Sri Lanka during its deployment in the Indian Ocean.
Submarines These submarines, accompanied by rescue ships, have recently invaded the area frequently, and we consider Sri Lanka to be a convenient port of call.
What is interesting here is that Sri Lanka is the only country in the Indian Ocean except Pakistan, and these submarines have entered during the last seven years of deployment.
The shadow of China has also emerged in Sri Lanka’s politics and elections.
Since 2011, China has also influenced Sri Lanka’s foreign policy decisions and has taken control of the government through a rapidly increasing debt trap.
Sri Lanka’s debt to China was over $ 8 billion, and the government’s maneuverability at the time was already quite limited. And, of course, China’s diplomacy was very agile to adjust its front lines to ever-changing dynamics.
In the aftermath of the 2015 elections, China began to open courts not only for political parties, but also for prominent Buddhist clergy in the island nation. This development was due to the realization of the influence of these religious figures in Sri Lanka’s domestic politics.
Other specific factors can push Sri Lanka deep into the dragon’s trap.
Last year, the IMF prematurely terminated a $ 1.5 billion loan program to the island nation. This was accompanied by a Covid pandemic that had a terrible blow to Sri Lanka’s tourism industry.
This “double pain” has ended the idea that Sri Lanka may have been nurturing to save the situation for China.
In March of this year, Sri Lanka announced a $ 1.5 billion currency swap with the Central Bank of China. It also declared a partnership with China by developing two irrigation reservoirs in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Sinharaja Conservation Forest.
On June 21, the China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) packed a project to build a 17 km elevated road in Colombo. The terms of this project allow the company to fully own the profits and profits for 18 years.
This is the same as CHEC, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), which leads the Hambantota Harbor Project, Mattala International Airport and the $ 1.1 billion Colombo Port City.
In the 2015 election, a total of $ 1.1 million in payments was linked from CHEC to Rajapaksa’s campaign supporters.
Today, the situation is so severe that China’s oppression has resulted in Sri Lanka retreating from transactions with other countries.
In December 2020, Sri Lanka canceled the $ 480 million compact with the US Millennium Challenge Corporation. In the same month, Sri Lanka also canceled the Colombo East Container Terminal Agreement signed by both India and Japan.
This year, Sri Lanka has made several attempts to show “nonalignment” in strategic projects, but due to China’s influence in Sri Lanka, these efforts currently appear to be very weak.
China’s strategy is a cancer trap that seduces victims when they are the weakest.
But the bait remains constant – money and obvious “soft” loans, thereby confining the government of the day to frivolous infrastructure projects at a “too good and untrue” rate.
The method of involvement is similar in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with countries receiving billions of dollars in loans from China.
Sri Lanka was fed when faced with international criticism of human rights issues, and its strategic allies and neighbors such as the United States and India could not help.
The decisions made by Sri Lankan leaders at the time led to dragons wrapping their prey, and today the island nation is aware that this close grip in Beijing is increasingly limiting its strategic decision-making.
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§ 2471. Definitions.
13 CA ADC § 2471BARCLAYS OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS
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Division 3. Air Resources Board
Chapter 9. Off-Road Vehicles and Engines Pollution Control Devices
Article 7. Certification Procedures for Aftermarket Parts for Off-Road Vehicles, Engines, Equipment (Refs & Annos)
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§ 2471. Definitions.
(a) The definitions in Section 1900(b), Chapter 3, Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations shall apply with the following additions:
(1) “All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV)” means any motorized off-highway vehicle 50 inches (1270 mm) or less in overall width, designed to travel on four low pressure tires, having a seat designed to be straddled by the operator and handlebars for steering control, and intended for use by a single operator and no passengers. The vehicle is designed to carry not more than 350 pounds (160 kg) payload, excluding the operator, and is powered by an internal combustion engine. Width shall be exclusive of accessories and optional equipment. A golf cart is not, for purposes of this regulation, to be classified as an all-terrain vehicle.
(2) “Alternate Fuel” means any fuel that will reduce non-methane hydrocarbons (on a reactivity-adjusted basis), NOx, CO, and the potential risk associated with toxic air contaminants as compared to gasoline or diesel fuel and would not result in increased deterioration of the engine. Alternate fuels include, but are not limited to, methanol, ethanol, liquefied petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, and electricity.
(3) “Alternative fuel” refers to liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, alcohol, and alcohol/gasoline fuels.
(4) “Alternative fuel conversion system” means a package of fuel, ignition, emission control, and engine components that are modified, removed, or added during the process of modifying a vehicle/engine/equipment to operate on an alternative fuel and to perform at an emission rate lower than or equal to the rate to which the engine family was originally certified.
(5) “Alternative fuel conversion system manufacturer” refers to a person who manufactures or assembles an alternative fuel conversion system for sale in California, requests, and is granted the Executive Order certifying the conversion system.
(6) “Confirmatory testing” means an ARB directed follow-up emissions test and inspection of the test engine or test vehicle that had been used by the manufacturer to obtain test data for submittal with the certification application. The emissions tests can be conducted at ARB or contracted out facilities or at the manufacturer's facility.
(7) “Conventional fuel” means gasoline or diesel fuel.
(8) “Diesel Cycle Engine” means a type of engine with operating characteristics significantly similar to the theoretical diesel combustion cycle. The primary means of controlling power output in a diesel cycle engine is by limiting the amount of fuel that is injected into the combustion chambers of the engine. A diesel cycle engine may be petroleum-fueled (i.e. diesel-fueled) or alternate-fueled.
(9) “Driveability” of an off-road vehicle or off-road equipment means the smooth delivery of power, as demanded by the driver or operator. Typical causes of driveability degradation are rough idling, misfiring, surging, hesitation, or insufficient power. Conversion from conventional fuels to alternative fuels may entail losses of volumetric efficiency, resulting in some power loss. Such power loss is not considered to be driveability degradation.
(10) “Dual fuel” refers to a conversion system which utilizes both an alternative fuel and a conventional fuel without further hardware changeover required.
(11) “Emission Control System” includes any component, group of components, or engine modification that controls or causes the reduction of substances emitted from an engine.
(12) “Engine Family” is a subclass of a basic engine based on similar emission characteristics. The engine family is the grouping of engines that is used for the purposes of certification.
(13) “Executive Officer” means the Executive Officer of the Air Resources Board or his or her authorized representative.
(14) “Exhaust Emissions” means substances emitted into the atmosphere from any opening downstream from the exhaust port of an off-road vehicle, engine, or equipment.
(15) “Fuel System” means the combination of any of the following components: fuel tank, fuel pump, fuel lines, oil injection metering system, carburetor or fuel injection components, evaporative controls and all fuel system vents.
(16) “Go-Kart” means any four wheeled, open framed vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine. These vehicles are generally found at amusement parks and rented to patrons on a “pay-by-play” basis. These vehicles are generally designed for a single rider and run on a confined track. A go-kart that is not used exclusively in competition/racing events in a closed course is not a competition/racing vehicle for purposes of these regulations.
(17) “Golf Cart” means a vehicle used to convey equipment and no more than two persons, including the driver, to play the game of golf in an area designated as a golf course. Golf carts are designed to have an unladen weight of less than 1,300 pounds and carry not more than 100 pounds, excluding passengers, accessories and optional equipment. A golf cart is not used for grounds keeping or maintenance purposes.
(18) “Heavy-Duty Off-Road Diesel Cycle Engines” or “Engines” are identified as: diesel or alternate fuel powered diesel cycle internal combustion engines 175 horsepower and greater, operated on or in any device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, but are primarily used off a highway. The engines are designed for powering construction, farm, mining, forestry and industrial implements and equipment. They are designed to be used in, but are not limited to use in, the following applications: agricultural tractors, backhoes, excavators, dozers, log skidders, trenchers, motor graders, portable generators and compressors and other miscellaneous applications. Specifically excluded from this category are: (1) engines operated on or in any device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; (2) engines used to propel marine vessels; (3) internal combustion engines attached to a foundation at a location; (4) transportable engines subject to District permitting rules which have been operated at a location for a period of one year or more on January 1, 1997; and (5) stationary or transportable gas turbines for power generation.
(19) “Inboard Engine” means a four-stroke spark-ignition marine engine not used in a personal watercraft that is designed such that the propeller shaft penetrates the hull of the marine watercraft while the engine and the remainder of the drive unit is internal to the hull of the marine watercraft.
(20) “Installer” means a person who installs alternative fuel conversion systems on off-road vehicles/engines/equipment.
(21) “Marine watercraft” means every description of boat, ship or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being operated on water.
(22) “Model year” means the manufacturer's annual production period which includes January 1 of a calendar year or, if the manufacturer has no annual production period, the calendar year.
(23) “Off-Highway Recreational Vehicle Engines” or “Engines” are identified as: two-stroke or four-stroke, air-cooled, liquid-cooled, gasoline, diesel, or alternate fuel powered engines or electric motors that are designed for powering off-road recreational vehicles and engines included in, but not limited to use in, the following: off-road motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, and golf carts. All engines and equipment that fall within the scope of the preemption of Section 209(e)(1)(A) of the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, and as defined by regulation of the Environmental Protection Agency, are specifically not included within this category.
(24) “Off-Road Aftermarket Parts Manufacturer” means any person engaged in the manufacturing of add-on or modified parts, as defined in Section 1900(b), (1) and (10), Chapter 3, Title 13, California Code of Regulations, for off-road vehicles, engines or equipment subject to California or federal emission standards.
(25) “Off-Road Engine” means any internal combustion engine or motor designed for powering off-road vehicles or off-road equipment. All engines that fall within the scope of the preemption of Section 209(e)(1)(A) of the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, and as defined by regulation of the Environmental Protection Agency, are specifically not included within this category.
(26) “Off-Road Large Spark-ignition Engines” or “LSI Engines” means any engine that produces a gross horsepower 25 and greater horsepower or is designed (e.g., through fueling, engine calibrations, valve timing, engine speed modifications, etc.) to produce 25 and greater horsepower. If an engine family has models at or above 25 horsepower and models below 25 horsepower, only the models at or above 25 horsepower would be considered LSI engines. The engine's operating characteristics are significantly similar to the theoretical Otto combustion cycle with the engine's primary means of controlling power output being to limit the amount of air that is throttled into the combustion chamber of the engine. LSI engines or alternate fuel powered LSI internal combustion engines are designed for powering, but not limited to powering, forklift trucks, sweepers, generators, and industrial equipment and other miscellaneous applications. All engines and equipment that fall within the scope of the preemption of Section 209(e)(1)(A) of the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, and as defined by regulation of the Environmental Protection Agency, are specifically excluded from this category.
Specifically excluded from this category are: 1) engines operated on or in any device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; 2) engines used to propel marine vessels; 3) internal combustion engines attached to a foundation at a location for at least 12 months; 4) off-road recreational vehicles and snowmobiles; and 5) stationary or transportable gas turbines for power generation.
(27) “Off-Road Motorcycle” means any two or three-wheeled vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine and weighing less than 1,499 pounds. An off-road motorcycle is primarily designed for use off highways. These vehicles are mainly used for recreational riding on dirt trails but are not limited to this purpose.
(28) “Off-Road Vehicle” or “Off-Road Equipment” means any non-stationary device, powered by an internal combustion engine or motor, used primarily off the highways to propel, move, or draw persons or property including any device propelled, moved, or drawn exclusively by human power, and used in, but not limited to, the following applications: Marine Vessels, Construction/Farm Equipment, Locomotives, Small Off-Road Engines, Off-Road Motorcycles, and Off-Highway Recreational Vehicles.
(29) “Otto Cycle Engine” means a type of engine with operating characteristics significantly similar to the theoretical Otto combustion cycle. The primary means of controlling power output in an Otto cycle engine is by limiting the amount of air and fuel which can enter the combustion chambers of the engine. As an example, gasoline-fueled engines are Otto cycle engines.
(30) “Outboard engine” means a spark-ignition marine engine that, when properly mounted on a marine watercraft in the position to operate, houses the engine and drive unit external to the hull of the marine watercraft.
(31) “Personal watercraft engine” means a spark-ignition marine engine that does not meet the definition of outboard engine, inboard engine or sterndrive engine, except that the Executive Officer may in his or her discretion classify a personal watercraft engine as an inboard or sterndrive engine if it is comparable in technology and emissions to an inboard or sterndrive engine.
(32) “Scheduled Maintenance” means any adjustment, repair, removal, disassembly, cleaning, or replacement of components or systems required by the manufacturer which is performed on a periodic basis to prevent part failure or equipment or engine malfunction, or anticipated as necessary to correct an overt indication of malfunction or failure for which periodic maintenance is not appropriate.
(33) “Small off-road engine” means any engine that produces a gross horsepower less than 25 horsepower, or is designed (e.g., through fuel feed, valve timing, etc.) to produce less than 25 horsepower, that is not used to propel a licensed on-road motor vehicle, an off-road motorcycle, an all-terrain vehicle, a marine vessel, a snowmobile, a model airplane, a model car, or a model boat. If an engine family has models below 25 horsepower and models at or above 25 horsepower, only the models under 25 horsepower would be considered small off-road engines. Uses for small off-road engines include, but are not limited to, applications such as lawn mowers, weed trimmers, chain saws, golf carts, specialty vehicles, generators and pumps. All engines and equipment that fall within the scope of the preemption of Section 209(e)(1)(A) of the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, and as defined by regulation of the Environmental Protection Agency, are specifically not included within this category.
(34) “Spark-ignition marine engine” means any engine used to propel a marine watercraft, and which utilizes the spark-ignition combustion cycle.
(35) “Specialty Vehicles” means any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine having not less than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, having an unladen weight generally less than 2,000 pounds, which is typically operated between 10 and 35 miles per hour. The recommended bed payload for specialty vehicles is usually up to 2,000 pounds. Specialty vehicles are mainly used off of highways and residential streets. Applications of such vehicles include, but are not limited to, carrying passengers, hauling light loads, grounds keeping and maintenance, resort or hotel areas, airports, etc.
(36) “Sterndrive engine” means a four-stroke spark-ignition marine engine not used in a personal watercraft that is designed such that the drive unit is external to the hull of the marine watercraft, while the engine is internal to the hull of the marine watercraft.
(37) “Test engine” means the engine or group of engines that a manufacturer uses during certification, production line and in-use testing to determine compliance with emission standards.
(38) “Ultimate Purchaser” means the first person who in good faith purchases a replacement, add-on, or modified part for purposes other than resale.
(39) “Warrantable Condition” means any condition of an engine that requires the manufacturer to take corrective action pursuant to applicable defects warranty provisions.
(40) “Warranted Part” means any emissions-related part installed on an engine by the equipment or engine manufacturer, or installed in a warranty repair, which is listed on the warranty parts list.
(41) “Warranty period” means the period of time, either in years or hours of operation, that the engine or part is covered by the warranty provisions.
(42) “Warranty station” means a service facility authorized by the equipment or engine manufacturer to perform warranty repairs. This includes all manufacturer distribution centers that are franchised to service the subject equipment or engines.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 39600, 39601, 43013 and 43018, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 39002, 39003, 43000, 43000.5, 43013 and 43018, Health and Safety Code.
1. New section filed 8-29-2000; operative 9-28-2000 (Register 2000, No. 35).
This database is current through 7/29/22 Register 2022, No. 30
13 CCR § 2471, 13 CA ADC § 2471
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The Celebration of the Mass: A Study of the Rubrics of the Roman Missal
Rev, J.B. O'Conell; 9 ½ x 6 ½ in: Hardcover, 622 pages
After having been out of print for over 30 years, this indispensable rubrical resource for the Extraordinary Form is now again available!
Author of several liturgically-related works, J.B. O'Connell is noted for his ability to clearly explain the complex ceremonial workings of the Roman Rite, particularly for the celebration of Mass by the priest.
The Celebration of Mass is valued by clergy and laity alike not only for its concise handling of the general rubrics, but also for its chapters that briefly describe the history of the development of the traditional Roman Mass, liturgical law, the proper understanding of the force of custom, the importance of the decisions made by the Sacred Congregation of Rites and the opinions of fellow rubricians.
O'Connell's last revision made of The Celebration of Mass was printed in 1964 after a span of nearly 10 years from his last edition, making it one of the few rubrical books completely in conformity with the new code of rubrics implemented in 1960 that comprise the 1962 edition of the Missale Romanum.
Fully indexed and beautifully hardbound in dark green with gold embossing on the cover and spine.
"Whilst preparing the most recent edition of Adrian Fortescue’s Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described I added to the bibliography the 1964 edition of Canon J. B. O’Connell’s classic The Celebration of Mass noting that, in fact, this was the only book published in English at the time which conformed exactly to the 1962 editio typica of the Missale Romanum (which itself only appeared from the Vatican Press early in 1963 – printing and binding having been stopped and re-started in order to accommodate Bl. John XXIII’s insertion of St. Joseph into the Canon of the Mass). The 1962 edition of Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described was, therefore, published before the 1962 Missale Romanum and missed some rubrical modifications that appeared only in the editio typica."
"But Canon O’Connell – undeterred, interestingly, by the approach of an ecumenical Council (on the Conciliar Liturgical Commission of which he was a peritus at the time) – proceeded with a thorough revision of his own comprehensive textbook on how to celebrate Mass. It received its imprimatur less than a month before the promulgation of Sacrosanctum concilium and appeared in print in the USA the following year whilst Fr. Bugnini was busy organising the infamous work of his Consilium."
"Needless to say, this fourth edition of O’Connell’s book was quickly found to be redundant (though Canon O’Connell prepared a four page supplement which was printed and sold with the book listing many of the early changes made immediately following the Council) and many traditionalists have missed its importance because of its date."
"Yet, for priests and seminarians learning how to celebrate the traditional rite of Mass, it is the basic textbook, more so, dare I say than even Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described. Ceremonies is certainly the basic manual for all involved in the celebration of the traditional rites, from sacristans to celebrants, but The Celebration of Mass is the textbook every seminarian and priest ought to have studied carefully in order to understand not only the ceremonial of the celebration of Mass, but the nature of the liturgy and the requirements of liturgical law, the rules occurrence and concurrence, the intricacies of the calendar, etc."
"The book does have much to offer laity involved in the celebration of the traditional liturgy, most especially its “Synopsis of the Ceremonies of Solemn Mass” (Appendix A) which lays out the respective duties of the celebrant, deacon, subdeacon and MC for each part of the Mass in parallel columns. The synopsis does contain one error (spotted by my longstanding friend Mr. Michael Pearce of Sydney) in that its instruction that the subdeacon lower the paten, genuflect etc., should be placed during the Pater and not at the Per quem haec omnia."
"It had long been my hope that O’Connell’s invaluable book would be reprinted and I am delighted to report that this has recently taken place in the USA. The worthy hardback reprint (alas, not a new edition) is being distributed by Preserving Christian Publications. Its availability will further enhance the intelligent and faithful celebration of the traditional Mass according to the typical edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum."
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Rewilding represents a new viewpoint on nature conservation, reaching beyond to bring a more functional vision and moving into notions of rural development and reconnecting people with nature and wildness. The concept originated in North America in the nineties and has been growing and developing in Europe since 2010.
Rewilding Iberia aims to assist rewilding in its development from theory to practice in Spain and to help extend its application to the whole of the north Mediterranean basin. The book combines academic rigour with readability, offering a complete survey of the implications of rewilding as a tool to complement the current paradigm for nature conservation, improving also its contribution to rural development.
The book analyses the main natural processes that have been significantly altered by human activity and establishes the tenets of rewilding as a strategy for the active restoration of their function wherever possible. This is achieved by examining the origin and significance of this new perspective for conservation, by exploring its possibilities in the Spanish geographic context, and by analysing the factors affecting its application in a given area.
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- 110 Photos
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- 380 Bibiographical references
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Colton, Norfolk (†Norwich) C.14/15
The Warning Against Idle Gossip
This painting, reported to have been destroyed, was an unexpected find. It still exists, as can be seen, but has been partly obscured by the erection of a gallery at the west end of the church. Its condition is poor, but the subject is identifiable and the main details, shared by many other examples of the subject, especially in East Anglia, are clear enough.
Two women sit in the centre of a trestle-like bench, each holding a rosary with red beads. Their heads have virtually disappeared, but their attention is clearly on the workmanship of the rosaries rather than on spiritual matters. The woman on the left has the buttoned bodice seen on one of her counterparts at Little Melton, also in Norfolk, and not far from Colton. To the left, standing behind her on the bench is a red devil with a curly tail who is pushing or clawing at her. An unreadable speech-scroll is above his head.
The woman on the right is similarly clothed, the folds of her robe delineated in red, and behind (i.e. to the right of her) stands another devil, this one hairy-limbed and with his foot in the small of the woman’s back. A speech-scroll above appears to contain nonsense syllables, perhaps making this devil the celebrated Tutivillus, who features in the poem quoted in the Introduction to this subject. There is probably another small devil on the ground at the extreme right of the painting, but this area is very obscure.
Conoisseurs of the Warning against Idle Gossip may like to know that there is a small, diamond-shaped example in glass at Stanford-on-Avon and a very interesting misericord with the subject at Enville in Staffordshire. Another wall painting, at Wissington in Suffolk, is in a parlous state and probably beyond redemption, although I will continue to keep an eye on it.
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On July 9, 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) published its decision rejecting two applications for a preliminary injunction against the German ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) that had been approved by the German parliament on 18 December 2020. The FCC had originally asked Germany’s Federal President to wait with his signature required for the underlying bill to enter into force. With the two applications dismissed, the President is now free to sign the bill into law, despite the still pending underlying constitutional complaints.
More than eight years after the adoption of the EU patent package by the European Parliament in December 2012, this decision marks a key step towards the implementation of the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
I. What is the UPC?
The UPC will unify patent litigation in Europe, for the first time establishing a single European court system dealing with patent infringement and revocation proceedings with effect for all participating Member States. Up until now, European patents, despite their unified examination and grant by the European Patent Office, were not more than a “bundle” of individual national patents that had to be asserted and revoked in individual litigation in each Member State in which they were validated. This made enforcement of European patents in all Member States cost prohibitive, resulting in a concentration of patent enforcement in just a handful of European countries, other than in truly exceptional cases.
II. The Long History of the UPC
Despite the looming Brexit, the UPC was already about to be launched in 2017. In order to launch, the UPCA requires ratification by thirteen Member States, including Germany, France and (after Brexit) Italy. Germany serves the role of the “gatekeeper”, being the last of the three required Member States to ratify and deposit its instrument of ratification to allow for a timed launch of the UPC. However, immediately after Germany’s first attempt at ratification, a first constitutional complaint including an application for a preliminary injunction was filed against the bill and the FCC asked the German Federal President to not sign the bill. The future of the UPC remained in limbo for almost three years as everybody waited for the FCC’s decision. On February 13, 2020, the FCC declared the ratification Bill to be null and void due to a violation of the two-thirds majority requirement for legislative acts that transfer core sovereign rights to international bodies (here: substantial modification of the judicial organisation intended by the Basic Law for patent disputes).
In June 2020, the German government introduced a new ratification bill into the Bundestag (the lower house of the German Parliament), which now approved with the necessary majority. After approval by the Bundesrat (the upper house of German parliament), two further constitutional complaints including applications for a preliminary injunction were lodged against the new ratification bill. The legal arguments of the complainants were already well-known, several of them having been part of the first constitutional complaint against the first ratification bill. The complainants assert that the approval of the UPCA violates their right to democratic self-determination (Art. 38(1)of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (GG) in conjunction with Art. 20(1) and (2) and Art. 79(3) GG), based on several alleged defects in the UPCA relating to, for example, the selection and independence of its judges and (the lack of) procedural safeguards (relating to democratic legitimacy of the administrative committee and costs). In its 2020 decision, the FCC had already dealt with several of these issues and had denied the complainant’s standing to raise those issues by way of a constitutional complaint against the ratification bill (pointing to possible constitutional complaints against the acts of the UPC itself, e.g. in case of their enforcement in Germany), notwithstanding the success of the first complaint on formal grounds. In its first decision, the FCC had left open whether the unconditional supremacy of EU law enshrined in Art. 20 UPCA could violate German constitutional law, and this is what the complainants focused on in their second constitutional attack, arguing that this supremacy constitutes an inadmissible interference with the constitutional identity protected by Art. 79(3) GG, in addition to new arguments regarding the selection of the judges, the term they serve and their independence.
In its decision of June 23, 2021, published on July 9, 2021, the FCC rejected both applications for preliminary injunction based on the inadmissibility of the main constitutional complaints. In particular, the FCC found that the complainants had failed to sufficiently assert and substantiate that their fundamental rights had been violated, with arguments along the lines already established in the first decision. The FCC also dismissed the argument based on Art. 20 UPCA it had left open the first time. It explains that Art. 20 UPCA can only be understood as ensuring compliance of the UPCA with EU law, but not changing the relationship between EU law, the UPCA and German law, in particular German constitutional law.
Even though the FCC still has to dismiss the still pending constitutional complaints and the complainants have the chance to amend their constitutional complaints with further arguments, the fact that the FCC has already thoroughly dealt with similar attacks in its first decision and has taken considerably more time with the current decision than was previously expected indicates that it has already examined the constitutional complaints extremely carefully. In view of the reasons given for the decision, it seems highly doubtful that the complainants will succeed in presenting a sufficiently substantiated violation of their fundamental rights.
In any case, this decision clears the way for the German Federal President’s signature under the ratification bill and, thus, Germany’s ratification of the UPCA.
III. Next Steps
Step 1: Ratification of the German Act of Accession to the UPCA
Under the German system, the Act of Accession must be countersigned by the Federal Government, executed by the Federal President, and published in the Federal Law Gazette. Before his signature, the Federal President has to enter into the constitutional review of the law, however a refusal of his signature is not expected here, after the two FCC decisions.
Step 2: Deposit of the Instrument of Ratification of the Protocol to the UPCA on its Provisional Application
In October 2015, a Protocol to the UPCA on its provisional application was signed by representatives of the Member States. This Protocol provides the legal basis for the institutional, financial and administrative provisions of the UPCA to become applicable before the rest of the UPCA enters into force. This allows the setting up of the administrative organization required to run the UPC. Germany is expected to ratify and deposit the Protocol this fall. With the deposit of the instrument of ratification by Germany with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, the Protocol will enter into force. This will initiate the provisional application period of the UPCA and enable the UPC to start the pilot phase.
Step 3: Pilot Phase
Once the ratification of the Protocol is deposited, the phase of provisional applicability starts, also referred to as pilot phase, which is supposed to last approximately 6 months and can be extended by a month or two. During this period, crucial decisions on the UPC’s practical setup will be finalized before the UPCA actually enters into force. The pilot phase involves, among other things, the recruitment and appointment of the judges of the UPC, the election of the president and the presidium, the renting of premises as well as the completion and testing of IT systems. The question of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the UPCA will also have to be addressed during this period. This procedure will ensure that the UPC can operate from the first day of entry into force of the Agreement. The pilot phase will also be used to allow for early registration of requests to opt European patents out of the UPC's jurisdiction.
Step 4: Deposit of the Instrument of Ratification of the UPCA
Once the preparatory work is complete, Germany will deposit the instrument of ratification of the UPCA itself with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. This will be followed by the so-called “sunrise period”, which lasts exactly 3 months. During the sunrise period, it will be possible for the first time to “opt out” European patents from the jurisdiction of the UPC (Art. 83(3) UPCA).
Step 5: Entry into Force of the UPCA
The UPCA will enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification of Germany. The UPC is therefore expected to become operational either at the end of 2022 or at the beginning of 2023.
During a transitional period of seven years starting with the entry into force, actions for infringement or revocation of European patents can still be brought before the national courts or other competent national authorities (Art. 83(1) UPCA). After that, the UPCA will have exclusive jurisdiction unless a European patent has been opted out. This remains possible for the duration of the transitional period for all European patents granted or applied for prior to the end of the transitional period, unless an action regarding the patent has already been brought before the UPC.
IV. The Current Status of Ratifications
The UPCA was signed as an intergovernmental treaty on February 19, 2013 by 25 Member States, which corresponds to all EU Member States except Spain, Poland and Croatia. For the UPCA to enter into force, it must be ratified by 13 Member States, including the three Member States in which the highest number of European patents were in effect in 2012. Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom in July 2020, these are Germany, France and Italy. Currently, 15 Member States have already deposited their ratification, including France and Italy, i.e. there is no need to wait for further ratifications other than the mandatory ratification by Germany.
Outstanding ratifications, which are not mandatory for the entry into force of the UPCA, can be divided into three groups:
- the ratification is on the way;
- legal obstacles stand in the way of ratification;
- no steps have been taken towards ratification.
The first group includes Greece, Romania and Slovenia. While a government draft ratification law already exists in Greece, Romania is expected to ratify soon and Slovenia's ratification law has already been approved in 2016. Legal obstacles stand in the way of Ireland and Hungary, which thus form the second group. While Ireland must hold a referendum on a constitutional amendment in order to ratify the UPCA, the Constitutional Court of Hungary, following a request for interpretation by the government, ruled that the UPC was incompatible with the Constitution of Hungary, and therefore an amendment of the Constitution is necessary for ratification. The third group, which concerns Member States that have not yet taken steps towards ratification, consists of Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Cyprus. Ratifications are still delayed in these countries for political reasons. In particular, these Member States fear economic disadvantages, which is why they would like to assess the situation after the system has already entered into force.
It remains to be seen whether and how the European Commission will influence the Member States that have not yet ratified the UPCA. It is conceivable that the participation in the so-called “enhanced cooperation” process, in which the “European Patent Package” was passed on the EU level, could lead to an obligation to implement it and thus to also ratify the UPCA. Failure to do so could therefore be regarded as a breach of contract.
V. The Uncertainty about the Planned Central Division in London
Finally, it still has to be clarified how to deal with the part of the UPC’s Court of First Instance’s central division, that was originally to be located in London (Art. 7(2) UPCA in accordance with Annex II). According to current plans, its responsibility for pharmaceutical and chemical patents, among others, is to be temporarily taken over by the headquarter in Paris and the part of the central division located in Munich. However, this is far from the end of the discussion on this matter. In the long run, three alternatives are conceivable:
- assumption of jurisdiction at the seat of the central division in Paris;
- accumulation to the two remaining parts of the central division in Paris and Munich;
- introduction of a new seat of the central division in another Member State, e.g. Italy or the Netherlands.
No solution in the sense of one of the three alternatives mentioned can be derived from the UPCA. The Member States obviously have different interests here. The seat of the central chamber was in dispute until shortly before the signing of the UPCA and was only decided by a political compromise at the highest level. It can only be assumed that the seat(s) of the central division will have to be renegotiated again, potentially leading to further political compromises, and that the UPCA will be amended accordingly as a result.
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The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the. In The Strangest Man, Graham Farmelo tries to get under the skin of one Paul Dirac: The man who conjured laws of nature from pure thought. “The purest soul” is a quotation about Dirac from Niels Bohr, as is Graham Farmelo’s title. (“Dirac is the strangest man,” Bohr said, “who ever.
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And he was very impressed with Ed Witten’s work…. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. It took significant time before his speculations could be confirmed in observations of cosmic rays at Caltech and then by his colleagues at the Cavendish Labs at Cambridge. And quantum mechanics, which is the most revolutionary theory of the 20th century, was developed, discovered by a handful of physicists, one of whom was Paul Dirac.
There were symptoms of being – that must be very controversial… Dr. April 29, at 2: At the University of Bristol Dirac studied engineering then switched to mathematics, his real love, and physics.
Farmelo thinks he was autistic.
The Strangest Man
Nonetheless, the account of Dirac’s formative years at Cambridge as a graduate student also his most productive ones when he laid the cornerstone of Quantum Mechanics along with Born, Schrodinger, Pascal, Heisenberg and Pauli was a motivating read specially for young grad students like me. An exceptionally well-written biography of one of the greatest physicists, Paul Dirac, one of the creators of quantum mechanics.
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This equation also turns out to play a fundamental role in mathematics, linking analysis, geometry and topology through the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. Such was it for Dirac. My quote is taken from a very good book: Dirac was a theorist, not an experimentalist. Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Fine, so quantum mechanics is a monumental achievements of human understanding.
Physicist Paul Dirac Is ‘The Strangest Man’
And can you describe what led him to predict its existence before it had been detected? Paul Dirac is a perfect example of being dira the right man for the job at just the right time in history. Farmelo reports the reaction Pierre Ramond got from Dirac in when he tried to sell him on the idea of replacing 4d QFT with a higher-dimensional theory: I really did not want to know the caus I’ve seen many nice reviews of this book and, inspired by the marvellous “Surely You’re Joking, Mr.
And if you’re not inclined in that direction, this book is the one you want.
The photograph is a record of the radiation given off in the electron-positron annihilations. It’s a great story, but it’s missing an important dimension.
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Well, I think we go back, you know, Dirac didn’t want public fame. It was intriguing to learn how certain aspects of the way we approach physics have been directly inherited from the past, as well as the many ways these ideas have evolved. I was wondering, why wasn’t he more recognized for his discovery of the anti-electron and other particles….
So he was really taking seriously this idea that mathematics should lead physics rather than experiment.
Physicist Paul Dirac Is ‘The Strangest Man’ : NPR
Paul Dirac won a Nobel prize mzn physics. Well, he won it for his contributions to quantum mechanics. Now, of course, you can’t go a day without benefiting from these insane, impossibly correct ideas. But most physicists think that one day it will be discovered. Temple Grandin, herself autistic, has repeatedly made the mistake of assuming that all autistic minds work in exactly the same way.
What would surely have impressed Dirac stranngest that modern string theory has none of the infinities he abhorred. He wasn’t in the game of physics to do just fancy mathematics. I really did not want to know the causes of deaths of all these great physicists and to read about their relationships with wives and non-wives.
Yes, he was a Professor of theoretical physics working in a notoriously abstract, abstruse and just plain difficult field quantum mechanics that you may feel has nothing to do with your daily life – but you would be wrong if you think that. I found that a times sigma sub x plus b times sigma sub y plus c times sigma sub z — quantity squared — was a squared plus b squared plus c squared, and I marveled at the beauty of this result.
Withoutabox Submit to Film Festivals. But I knew that Paul Dirac was a “strange bird”, and that his father was a control freak who seriously damaged his son’s mental state during his formative years. I rate this a top shelf biography.
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Help! I Am Going to Have a Student Teacher
Helpful Tips for First-Time Cooperating Teachers in Music
By NAfME Member Amanda Soto
“The principal calls you to announce that you will get a student teacher next semester from your local university. You are excited but nervous of the prospect of another human being observing your every move in the classroom. You begin to doubt your experience and expertise and wonder if you should decline the offer.”
The scenario described is a common experience of a music teacher who is about to enter the world of mentoring the next generation of music teachers. While the feelings of self-doubt and unworthiness are normal, I urge you to let them pass and to accept this next chapter in your professional development.
As a music education student teacher program coordinator for a large School of Music department, I often place up to thirty music education students in surrounding music programs. I work with cooperating teachers and field music supervisors to ensure the best possible placements and experiences for our students. Here is a list of successful strategies that I have learned when working with new cooperating teachers that may help you as you chart these unfamiliar waters.
Getting a Student Teacher
The process of assigning a student teacher is complicated and is unique to each institutions’ College of Education or School of Music department. There are differences in the amount of time you will have a student teacher. Some programs will place a student in a school for an entire semester or quarter, while other programs may do split placements that consist of a seven-week secondary and a seven-week elementary placement. It is important to fill out any district student teacher request and to let your principal know you are open and willing to host a student teacher.
This is your contribution to the field of music education and to provide the support that was once extended to you.
Most universities required a minimum of three years of experience at your current school. You may also want to contact your music education student teacher coordinator at your local university to let them know that you are interested in mentoring a student teacher and to describe what type of program and experience you have. Field supervisors are there to mentor and encourage growth from their student teachers and are not there to judge your teaching ability, skills, and music program. They only observe the student teacher and do not supervise you in the classroom.
It is important to understand that this service is often a labor of love. Some universities may pay a small fee of a few hundred dollars or give you professional development credit, but the amount of time spent is never truly compensated. This is your contribution to the field of music education and to provide the support that was once extended to you.
So, I Have a Student Teacher, Now What?
Below is a list of helpful suggestions to be a successful cooperating teacher.
- Meet with student teacher the week prior to their start date to review time schedules and teaching calendar and to discuss any expectations. It will be helpful to give your student teacher a copy of your teaching schedule, behavior plan, student and teacher handbook, and any other resources that may assist them. The field supervisor will set up a meeting to discuss expectations and other requirements. This can also happen over email or through the phone if distance and time is an issue. Make sure you read the institution’s cooperating teacher’s guide or handbook.
It is important that your students view your student teacher as another teacher.
- Share your campus calendar so that your student teacher is aware of required meetings and professional development meetings. Review the student teaching calendar to be aware of required assignments and off-campus seminars or job fairs. Other than required university events, your student teacher is often expected to attend all classes, performances, and school field trips that are planned even if they take place after school or during the weekend. Any absences should be pre-approved and made up by extending their required days.
- Provide a space or desk where they can work and keep their personal belongings. It is important that your students view your student teacher as another teacher.
Planning and Presentation Guidance:
- Share a copy of your weekly lesson plans with your student teacher.
- The first few days or the first week the student teacher will be observing and taking notes. They need to understand the structure of your classroom, learn your curriculum and behavior management protocols, and become familiar with the students in your classroom.
- Some cooperating teachers like to ask their student teachers to start teaching small portions of a lesson and slowly expand upon their teaching duties. Others will give them an entire class or ensemble after much observation and a thorough review of lesson plans. The best approach can be decided upon through discussion between you, your student teacher, and the field supervisor so that everyone is on the same page.
- Although, there may be times when you will ask the student teacher to jump right in and teach unexpectedly, try to limit these moments at the beginning. Make sure your student teacher has enough time to prepare and create a lesson plan for the class or session they are going to teach. Review and give feedback on detailed lesson plans that are submitted by the student teacher before they teach in order to fix any pitfalls in their lesson plan. Their field supervisor will also expect them to turn in lessons plans. It is best that everyone is on the same page about this date depending on your teaching schedule or rotation.
- Informally observe your student teacher and schedule a time to debrief at the end of each day. Allow the student teacher to experiment with their own teaching style.
- Formally observe and fill out required university paperwork specified by field supervisor.
- Be honest with the student teacher about any shortcomings they may have. Suggest further readings or resources that can assist them with their preparation.
- Communicate with field supervisor immediately if there are any concerns regarding tardiness, lack of lesson plans, communication issues, teaching ability, professionalism, or anything else that raises a red flag. It is important that the field supervisor is aware of these issues so they can be addressed formally. Documentation or a growth plan may need to be completed depending on the issue, which is important in case the student teacher does meet the student teaching requirements laid out by the syllabus and other student teacher contracts.
- Be honest about the type of recommendation you will provide for the student teacher once they start applying for jobs. You may need to craft a general recommendation letter or fill out online references for each job they apply for.
It is rewarding and invigorating to mentor a student teacher. Cooperating teachers often evaluate their own curriculum and teaching habits and have mentioned how they have become better teachers through this process. They learn different repertoire and teaching techniques from their student teacher. As mentioned above, you will continue to grow professionally as you learn from your student teacher and through this process of mentorship.
Clements, A. C. & R. Klinger. (2010) A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music. New York: Routledge.
DeWitt, Peter. (2014). Are You Prepared to Be a Cooperating Teacher?, Education Week.
About the author:
NAfME member Dr. Amanda C. Soto is the Assistant Professor of Music Education at Texas State University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate music education courses. She is the program coordinator of the Music Education Student Teacher program. She co-teaches the Smithsonian Folkways Certification Course in World Music Pedagogy. She earned a B.A. degree in Music Education from the University of North Texas and received a M.A. in Ethnomusicology and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Washington.
Dr. Soto’s ongoing research has produced publications in journals in both music education and ethnomusicology. Soto has presented clinical workshops and research presentations at conferences at state, regional, national, and international conferences related to music education and ethnomusicology.
Dr. Amanda Soto presented on her topic, “Social Justice Issues, Lesson Plans, & Resources for the Music Classroom,” at the 2017 NAfME National Conference last November in Dallas, TX. Register today for the 2018 NAfME National Conference!
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NASA’s first mission to Mercury in more than 30 years completed its final trajectory correction manoeuvre on Wednesday before a flyby of Venus in October 2006.
Messenger – short for Mercury, Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging – is on a 7.9 billion kilometre path to becoming the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
On Wednesday morning, Messenger fired four thrusters all on a single side for 2 minutes. The probe had already completed six previous thruster firings with its total of 17 thrusters since its 3 August 2004 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US.
During the craft’s 12 December 2005 correction, also known as the first “deep space manoeuvre”, Messenger used 18% of its propellant – 106 kilograms’ worth –and fired its largest thruster for the first time. Only the spacecraft’s entry into Mercury’s orbit on 18 March 2011 will change the vehicle’s velocity more than that December correction.
Its flyby of Venus in October is the first of two sweeps past the planet. Messenger also has four further deep space manoeuvres and three flybys of Mercury to complete before attempting to become a satellite around the first rock from the Sun.
Messenger will have completed 15 laps of the Sun by the time it enters orbit around Mercury. All the “gravity assists” from flybys of Earth and Venus, as well as thruster firings, should have conspired to put the probe at the exact angle and speed for it to become captured by Mercury’s low gravity. (See a short animation of its final approach, here.)
Without taking its circuitous path, Messenger would simply be too fast and zoom on past the hot rock. That was the goal of Mariner 10, NASA’s last mission to Mercury, which captured the first images of the planet in 1974 and 1975. But this time, the goal is to stay in orbit for a full year, mapping the planet’s surface, studying its composition and imaging the half of the globe that Mariner 10 could not see.
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Nucleotide diversity patterns at the DREB1 transcriptional factor gene in the genome donor species of wheat (Triticum aestivum L). Author information: (1)State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China. tauschii. Origin of wheat B-genome chromosomes inferred from RNA sequencing analysis of leaf transcripts from section Sitopsis species of Several genes associated with leaf development including the ortholog of maize ZmRAVL1, a B3-domain transcription factor involved in regulation of leaf angle, were predicted in physical intervals harboring these major QTL on reference genomes of bread wheat ‘Chinese spring’, T. turgidum, and Aegilops tauschii. Bread wheat is an allohexaploid species with a 16-Gb genome that has large intergenic regions, which presents a big challenge for pinpointing regulatory elements and further revealing the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms. ‘ It is like having tens of billions of Scrabble letters; you know which letters are present, and their quantities, but they need to be assembled on the board in the right sequence before you can spell out their order into genes’ Professor Neil Hall. 2830 homoeoSNPs in 523 genes with an average size of 3.98 kbp per gene) from the transition between 4x and 6x. Instead, the authors reported a nested topology of the A. taushii chloroplast genome. The D genome of bread wheat is closer to A.t. strangulata than A.t. tauschii. By contrast, we propose an alternative scenario where the increased divergence of the B subgenome in the hexaploid wheat compared to A. speltoides at the sequence (homoeoSNPs) level is the consequence of a differential evolutionary plasticity of the B subgenome compared with the A and D subgenomes in response to polyploidization events. . The Creso contains a higher gluten quantity and a lower quantity of some minerals compared to ancient wheats. Here, we show that extensive and, to an extent, functionally distinct changes in gene expression to the BBAA component of bread wheat have indeed occurred during its evolutionary residence at the allohexaploid … Working off-campus? The syntenome is constructed using a synteny‐driven approach to order genes/scaffolds on the chromosomes of a species that lacks a physical map. In the same manner, for the B subgenome, that is, homoeoSNPs observed in the B subgenome in the hexaploid and absent from A. speltoides, 11.5 homoeoSNPs/genes (i.e. The hybridization of the A and B ancestors as proposed in those studies does not entirely explain the origin of the modern D subgenome of hexaploid bread wheat that also derived from a specific D progenitor independent from A and B ancestors (Li et al., 2015a,b). Wheat and other cereals are significant sources of both of these minerals, contributing 44% of the daily intake of iron (15% in bread) and 25% of the daily intake of zinc (11% in bread) in the UK (Henderson et al., 2007). The genetic map is then enriched in syntenic (ancestral) genes intercalated between molecular markers, that is, the syntenome (Salse, 2013). 's (2014) scenario of a homoploid origin of the D subgenome, A. tauschii would be expected to share the chloroplast genome of one (the maternal) of the two progenitors (either T. urartu or A. speltoides). Milling wheat for flour only became common in the 12 th century, but by the turn of the 19 th century, wheat was the UK’s most significant crop grown for human consumption. This suggests a more ancient origin of the B progenitor (84% of B homoeoSNPs acquired between 2x and 4x) compared with the A progenitor (61% of A homoeoSNPs acquired between 2x and 4x), or, more precisely, a more ancient speciation between A. speltoides (2x)/B subgenome (6x and 4x) compared with T. urartu (2x)/A subgenome (6x and 4x). Given the short evolutionary time span of bread wheat since allohexaploidization and the stable karyotype of ETW, it is conceivable that transcriptome alterations likely contribute to phenotypic abnormality. The contrasting plasticity between the MF and LF compartments in B. rapa has been associated with bias in (1) gene retention and with genes retained in pairs or triplets enriched in functional categories such as transcriptional regulation, ribosomes, response to abiotic or biotic stimuli, response to hormonal stimuli, cell organization and transporter functions; (2) gene expression, with genes located in the LF subgenome proposed to be dominantly expressed over those located in the two proposed fractionated subgenomes (MF1 and MF2); and (3) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at the population level, with genes located in LF showing fewer nonsynonymous or frameshift mutations than genes in MF fractions (Edger & Pires, 2009; Cheng et al., 2012, 2013, 2014; Fang et al., 2012). Evolution of bread-making quality in wheat: implications about cancer prevention WCRJ 2014; 1 (2): e214 ... Today we all eat bread, pasta, cakes, make with Creso wheat. In this study, we sequenced 3286 BACs from chromosome 7DL of bread wheat cv. The A (43.5%) and B (37.5%) genomes are more closely related individually to the D genome than to each other (19%). The current study offers new insights into the origin of modern bread wheat. Preferential Subgenome Elimination and Chromosomal Structural Changes Occurring in Newly Formed Tetraploid Wheat—Aegilops ventricosa Amphiploid (AABBDvDvNvNv). However, no research on the dynamic evolution of these genes in domesticated species and their progenitors has been reported. Taking into account that the exact founder diploid individual(s) will never be known and that the progenitors and their resultant polyploids (4x and 6x) may have evolved differentially through differences in mutation rates, genetic drift, genetic admixture or may even have experienced distinct rounds of domestication, perfect homoeoSNP inheritance between 2x, 4x and 6x wheats is not expected. mutations from T. urartu not transmitted to the tetraploid), the number of A. speltoides mutations that were either transmitted to the tetraploid/hexaploid wheat (i.e. The authors also conducted quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis on six doubled haploid elite winter wheat populations. In the Brassicaceae, such subgenome dominance has been proposed following the Brassica rapa hexaploidization between the three post‐polyploidy compartments termed the least fractionated (LF), medium fractionated (MF1) and most fractionated (MF2) blocks. Learn about our remote access options, INRA/UBP UMR 1095 GDEC (Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals), 5 chemin de Beaulieu, Clermont Ferrand, 63100 France, INRA UR1164 URGI (Research Unit in Genomics‐Info), Université Paris‐Saclay, Versailles, 78026 France. This conclusion is supported by the mutations identified in the progenitors (T. urartu and A. speltoides) not transmitted to hexaploid bread wheat. either mono‐ or polyphyletic). not located on A, B or D subgenomes of the same chromosomal group). Given the short evolutionary time span of bread wheat since allohexaploidization and the stable karyotype of ETW, it is conceivable that transcriptome alterations likely contribute to phenotypic abnormality. During this evolutionary process, rapid alterations and sporadic changes in wheat genome took place, due to hybridization, polyploidization, domestication, and mutation. Bread wheat: a role model for plant domestication and breeding. The current model first reconciles data from previous studies addressing the origin of subgenome D, as our results support the conclusions of two recent studies suggesting that the D subgenome has a homoploid origin (Marcussen et al., 2014; Sandve et al., 2015). Any queries (other than missing material) should be directed to the New Phytologist Central Office. .). Clusters containing strictly three genes belonging to the A, B and D subgenomes of the same chromosomal group were considered as robust homoeologous genes (8671 homoeologous triplets were identified). not transmitted) ones, supports a more ancient origin of the B progenitor compared with the A and D progenitors. In addition to the previous insertional dynamics of TEs, accumulation of mutations at the gene level should provide additional insights into the origin of the A, B and D wheat subgenomes. In order to test the accuracy of using homoeoSNP dynamics as a proxy to investigate the origin of the wheat genome, we initially considered the previous 188 homoeologous gene triplets with shared TE insertions for which 19%, 43.5% and 37.5% relatedness between, respectively, the A/B, A/D and B/D subgenomes have been identified (cf. 1a, circle 2). This … In comparison to 84% T. urartu lineage‐specific mutations identified (i.e. Domestication of wheat led to changes in grain size, shape, and range of phenotypic variation. (2014), confirmed in Sandve et al. Overall, we precisely identified 19% of shared homoeolog‐based TE insertions between the A and B subgenomes, clear proof of an independent origin of the D subgenome that cannot be explained by a pure homoploid origin deriving from the unique hybridization of the A and B progenitors (Marcussen et al., 2014; Sandve et al., 2015), thus reinforcing the hypothesis of a more complex D subgenome origin (Li et al., 2015a,b). aestivum) is one of the most successful crops on 45 earth since the Neolithic Age. Simulation-Based Evaluation of Three Methods for Local Ancestry Deconvolution of Non-model Crop Species Genomes. In comparison, 61% of homoeoSNPs observed in the A subgenome in the hexaploid (6x), but not inherited from T. urartu (2x), were identified in the A subgenome of the tetraploid (4x), thus making 39% of such homoeoSNPs specific from the A subgenome in the hexaploid. Wheat Varieties . managed the research project; J.S. Number of times cited according to CrossRef: Reduced chromatin accessibility underlies gene expression differences in homologous chromosome arms of diploid Aegilops tauschii and hexaploid wheat. The authors reported that the two tree typologies A(B/D) and B(A/D) were twice as abundant as D(A/B). Phylogenomics Reveals an Ancient Hybrid Origin of the Persian Walnut. Wheat has been cultivated for more than 10,000 years, beginning in the Fertile Crescent and arriving in the UK around 5,000 years ago. The origin and evolution of the wheat group (the genera Aegilops, Amblyopyrum, and Triticum) in the wild and under cultivation is reviewed. monophyletic origin and ancestor closely related to A. speltoides from the Sitopsis section), and the second being that the B genome resulted from the introgression of several parental Aegilops species (i.e. 1a, center circle), 5157 pairs (involving 10 314 genes), 15 761 singletons and 10 143 groups of genes (involving 47 298 genes) corresponding to two homologous copies or more but not defining strict homoeologous relationships (i.e. Coevolution in Hybrid Genomes: Nuclear-Encoded Rubisco Small Subunits and Their Plastid-Targeting Translocons Accompanying Sequential Allopolyploidy Events in Triticum. previous section). diccocoides, and between Triticum turgidum ssp. A particular pattern of mutation accumulation has thus been observed in the B subgenome, presented previously as proof of a more ancient origin of the B progenitor, or more precisely an ancient speciation between the B subgenome in the tetraploid/hexaploid and A. speltoides (considered as a modern representative of AncB). Both a and b types have two subunits, named x and y types. Common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important crops because it provides about 20% of the total calories for humans. 23000720). Evolution of the BBAA component of bread wheat during its history at the allohexaploid level. Bread wheat is an allohexaploid (an allopolyploid with six sets of chromosomes: two sets from each of three different species). For the 188 triplets considered, we found that 15%, 44% and 41% of homoeoSNPs were shared between, respectively, the A/B, A/D and B/D subgenomes, a similar rate to that observed for the insertional TE (MITE) fingerprints. Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Important Candidate Genes Related to Nutrient Reservoir, Carbohydrate Metabolism, and Defence Proteins during Grain Development of Hexaploid Bread Wheat and Its Diploid Progenitors. Published: May 29, 2019 News. Genome-wide impacts of alien chromatin introgression on wheat gene transcriptions. The ancestral grass genome (ancestral grass karyotype (AGK)) as reported in Murat et al. Putative shared TE insertions were then manually checked using Dotter (http://sonnhammer.sbc.su.se/Dotter.html) and only breakpoints corresponding to the exact TE boundaries were retained for further analysis. Grains are representative of modern elite varieties (top) and ancestral wheat species (bottom). Wheat is one of the most important staple crops worldwide and also an excellent model species for crop evolution and polyploidization studies. This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. The most recent assembly of hexaploid bread wheat recovered the highly repetitive TE space in an almost complete chromosomal context and enabled a detailed view into the dynamics of TEs in the A, B, and D subgenomes. Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) evolved through two polyploidization events between Triticum urartu (AA genome) and an Aegilops speltoides‐related species (BB genome) 0.5 million yr ago (hereafter Ma), forming Triticum turgidum ssp. Please check your email for instructions on resetting your password. M.E.B., F.M., M.V., M.M. It is suggested that Ae. (2n= 4x= 28)] used for macaroni and low-rising bread. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Subgenome integrity in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum; BBAADD) makes possible the extraction of its BBAA component to restitute a novel plant type. Wheat Quality For Improving Processing And Human Health. Most of the 25,000 different forms of modern wheat are varieties of two broad groups, called common wheat and durum wheat. Differentiating homoploid hybridization from ancestral subdivision in evaluating the origin of the D lineage in wheat. However, little is known about the physio- logical basis of this trait or about the relative contributions of allohexaploidization and subsequent evolutionary genetic changes on the trait development. Wheat evolution mapped Wheat gene pools changed in part due to socio-economic factors. During this evolutionary process, rapid alterations and sporadic changes in wheat genome took place, due to hybridization, polyploidization, domestication, and mutation. By German Research Center for Environmental Health. ORIGIN, DOMESTICATION, AND EVOLUTION OF WHEAT Modern wheat cultivars belong primarily to two polyploid species: hexaploid bread wheat [T. aes- tivum(2n= 6x= 42 chromosomes)] and tetraploid hard or durum-type wheat [T. turgidumL. Milling wheat for flour only became common in the 12 th century, but by the turn of the 19 th century, wheat was the UK’s most significant crop grown for human consumption. inserted in their common ancestors) should be observed in the D homoeologous counterpart. (Adapted from Figures 1 and 4 of Gegas et al. A; green circle), ancestor genome B (Anc. The average substitution rate (r) of 6.5 × 10−9 substitutions per synonymous site yr−1 was used to calibrate the ages of ortholog/homoeolog divergences and then speciation event dates were estimated according to the identification of peaks in Ks distributions. Here, we compared the salt tolerance The BlastN alignment of 40 267 mapped markers from the wheat consensus single nucleoide polymorphism (SNP) map published by Wang et al. Such subgenome dominance following polyploidization has been reported in Arabidopsis (Thomas et al., 2006), maize (Zea mays) (Woodhouse et al., 2010; Schnable et al., 2012a,b), and Brassica (Cheng et al., 2012). The availability of such a ploidy-reversed wheat (extracted tetraploid wheat [ETW]) provides a unique opportunity to address whether and to what extent the BBAA component of bread wheat has been modified in phenotype, karyotype, and gene expression during its evolutionary history at the allohexaploid level. Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of large plant genomes and main drivers of genome evolution. The aim of this work is to briefly review wheat breeding, with emphasis on the current advances. of bread wheat with each containing five genes. and H.Q. In this study, we sequenced 3286 BACs from chromosome 7DL of bread wheat … Gu L(1), Si W, Zhao L, Yang S, Zhang X. The genome sequences (as reported in IWGSC, 2014) used to reveal the origin of the modern bread wheat genome correspond to Triticum aestivum (AABBDD; 99 386 genes), Triticum durum (AABB; 91 097 genes), Triticum urartu (AA; 53 056 genes), Aegilops speltoides (BB; 62 258 genes) and Aegilops tauschii (DD; 50 264 genes). durum, used in pasta and semolina products. Homoeologous (A, B and D) genes and their parental orthologs (diploid A, B and D and tetraploid A and B) were aligned (eight genes in total) using Mafft with default parameters and homoeoSNPs were automatically detected using a custom PERL script. These data illustrate the complex history of domesticated wheat evolution, suggesting that various traits (even some that are closely related) arose independently at different stages. (2015a), confirmed in Li et al. The Battle to Sequence the Bread Wheat Genome: A Tale of the Three Kingdoms. The time (T) of divergence was finally estimated using the formula T = Ks/2r. The authors argued that, in Marcussen et al. durum (AABB genome) and Aegilops tauschii (DD genome) 10 000 yr ago, forming the modern hexaploid bread wheat … Genome‐wide sequence information reveals recurrent hybridization among diploid wheat wild relatives. From these resources, Marcussen et al. tauschii underwent rapid selective evolution prior to combining with tetraploid wheat. Evolution of bread-making quality in wheat: implications about cancer prevention The breakthrough of sequencing the bread wheat genome and progenitor genomes lays the foundation to decipher the complexity of wheat origin and evolutionary process as well as the genetic consequences of polyploidization. Figs 2b, 1a, circle 4; Table S2). In these geologically new environments, a group of plants that have symbiotic association with humans evolved from wild plants through domestication in both the Old and New Worlds. 3). Science 345, doi: 10.1126/science.1251788 Google Scholar Jampates R, Dvorak J (1986) Location of the Ph1 locus in the metaphase chromosome map and the linkage map of the 5Bq arm of wheat. It is widely accepted that bread wheat arose from a hybridization event between free-threshing tetra-ploid emmer wheat (tg-A1/tg-A1; tg-B1/tg-B1; QQ) and Ae. A total of 13 168 protogenes matched to genetic markers from the most accurate wheat genetic map (Wang et al., 2014) involving 40 267 markers that allowed us to intercalate 59 732 wheat syntenic genes between 13 168 conserved markers (Fig. Identification and validation of reference genes for RT-qPCR normalization in wheat meiosis. Wild emmer wheat (WEW), T. dicoccoides, is the progenitor of cultivated tetraploid and hexaploid wheats. The overall TE content is very similar between the A, … A large number of QTL with dispersed effects between the parents were identified and were consistent with independent inheritance of grain size and shape parameters. Aegilops tauschii Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username, Wheat syntenome. Revisiting Pivotal-Differential Genome Evolution in Wheat. In addition to previous investigations of the evolutionary history of the hexaploid wheat D subgenome, the origin of the B subgenome has also been the subject of intense debate. The illustration shows the distribution routes of wheat based on its genetic similarity patterns. 3). Wheat and other cereals are significant sources of both of these minerals, contributing 44% of the daily intake of iron (15% in bread) and 25% of the daily intake of zinc (11% in bread) in the UK (Henderson et al., 2007). Variation and diversity of the breakpoint sequences on 4AL for the 4AL/5AL translocation in The A subgenome in tetraploid/hexaploid wheat derived from AncA and diverged from the modern T. urartu and T. monococcum AncA representatives, respectively, 0.23–0.46 Ma. Reading Time: 2 minutes. They are similar to human migration routes over the same period. 2b, black asterisks). 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Of the six sets of chromosomes, two come from Triticum urartu (einkorn wheat) and two from Aegilops speltoides. We do not capture any email address. Phenotype Them Fast, Accurately, and Easily with ARADEEPOPSIS! Briefly, for each position of the alignment, bases are scored to classify shared homoeoSNPs into three different classes: A/B, A/D and B/D. Aegilops The results show evidence of divergent selection for grain yield … The same subgenome affinity was observed when considering the entire set of 8671 homoeologous triplets from the hexaploid bread wheat genome as well as when considering the 3121 orthologous genes identified between the diploid (T. urartu, A. speltoides and A. tauschii) progenitors (cf. dominance or partitioning) of the subgenomes following polyploidization in wheat (Pont et al., 2013) and more generally in plants (Murat et al., 2014, 2015a,b). The evolution of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) is a complex process, due to that it is involved in a special hybrid speciation and subsequent global domestication and improvement [1,2,3].Recent studies indicate that bread wheat originated from hybridization between cultivated tetraploid emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum.L, AABB) and wild diploid Aegilops tauschii (DD) around … The origin of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum; AABBDD) has been a subject of controversy and of intense debate in the scientific community over the last few decades. Using the maximum likelihood method in the reference Paml package (Yang, 2007) Ks (synonymous substitution rate) calculation for orthologs/homoeologs between T. urartu and T. aestivum A subgenome, between A. speltoides and T. aestivum B subgenome, and between A. tauschii and T. aestivum D subgenome was performed. There has therefore been considerable concern over the suggestion that the mineral content of modern wheat varieties is lower than that of older varieties. The n = 12 ancestral genome (AGK) consists of 58 933 protogenes (including 17 340 genes conserved between grasses and 41 593 lineage‐specific genes), inferred from the comparison of rice, sorghum and Brachypodium genomes (Murat et al., 2014; cf. In 2015, three articles published in New Phytologist discussed the origin of hexaploid bread wheat (Thell.) Field trials were conducted over four years and four locations under organic farming conditions to test the hypothesis that evolutionary populations planted in contrasting locations, evolve adapting to the local conditions and becoming distinct from one another. Organization and evolution of transposable elements along the bread wheat chromosome 3B. Several phylogenetic studies have tried to identify the progenitor of the B genome of polyploid wheat based on cytology (Zohary & Feldman, 1962), nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences (Dvorak et al., 1989; Dvorak & Zhang, 1990; Terachi et al., 1990) and chromosome rearrangement studies (Feldman, 1966a,b; Hutchinson et al., 1982; Gill & Chen, 1987; Naranjo et al., 1987; Naranjo, 1990; Jiang & Gill, 1994; Devos et al., 1995; Maestra & Naranjo, 1999). . Recently published genome sequences of bread wheat and its two ancestors provide a good opportunity for comparing NBS-encoding genes between ancestors and their progeny. 1a, circle 1). Bread wheats retain three subgenomes, each of which represents about 35,000 genes from the three original grass species, and about 80 percent to 90 percent of bread wheat… In this scenario (from top to bottom), from the three ancestral progenitors (termed AncA, AncS and AncD), whereas the evolution of the A subgenome from hexaploid bread wheat appears quite simple, the evolution of the other two subgenomes is more complex than initially reported. This gene‐based phylogenetic approach then revealed that the A and B subgenomes are more closely related individually to the D subgenome than to each other. Bread wheat (Triticumaestivum) is a complex hybrid, composed of the complete genomes of three closely related grasses. The former has been associated with successful germination and growth of seedlings in cultivated fields, whereas the latter trait (a hallmark of domestication) prevents natural seed dispersal and allows humans to harvest and collect the seed with optimal timing (reviewed in Fuller, 2007; Purugganan and Fuller, 2009). (2015b), re‐evaluated the origin of hexaploid bread wheat based on the phylogenomic investigation of 20 chloroplast genomes, which are maternally inherited in this species complex. The genetic mechanisms of this … The modern cultivated wheat has passed a long evolution involving origin of wild emmer (WEM), development of cultivated emmer, formation of spelt wheat and finally establishment of modern bread wheat and durum wheat. 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Overseeing and dealing with Brexit might seem simple at hindsight, but the reality is extremely different. Many within the UK are still of the opinion that they did not know what they were voting for and what Brexit would entail, while others see the obstructions taking place as a means of derailment to Brexit actually occurring and as a sign of disrespect towards the majority of the British people who voted in favour of Britain leaving the EU. Some British politicians want what is being considered a ‘soft Brexit’, where the UK will retain some of the benefits of retaining a close relationship with the EU such as membership of the Custom’s Union, the Single Market and giving concessions on the free movement of people and preserving the rights of EU citizens to live and work in the UK. This concept is being largely perceived as a betrayal of the referendum result as it leans more towards the opinions of pro-Remain politicians and indicates an “ you can have your cake and eat it” mentality from the soft Breixteer’s.
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Beginning on Yorta Yorta Country, social service organisation Ganbina is supporting the education journeys of Indigenous youth.
Describing itself as the nation’s “most successful Indigenous school to work transition program”, Ganbina is running programs in areas including Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley in Victoria, and Townsville and Bundaberg in Queensland.
The organisation began in Shepparton in 1997 and is a 50-year program set to achieve generational change and economic equality for young Aboriginal people.
Supporting children from the age of six to 25, the program has an average graduation rate of 91 per cent and had 72 per cent of participants engage in work — compared with the national average for Indigenous youth, which sits at 58 per cent.
Ganbina chief executive and Taungurung man Anthony Cavanagh has been with the organisation since 2013, coming on board after three decades in community services.
“I am privileged to be in the position I am in. I feel that we are making such progress towards closing the gap for young ones — with deep, long-term fixes, not quick, band-aid fixes,” Mr Cavanagh told the National Indigenous Times.
“The beauty with Ganbina is that we are doing something that is well on the way to tearing some of those (colonial) structures down.
“It is a real risk and threat to the current structures because the program is not only a lot cheaper than others, but it does a lot more and has a lot more impact.
“We understand each community is different and they have needs that are central to that place — our model works because it is in the hands of that community.”
Ganbina provides voluntary long-term programs and provides each child with a case worker to ensure a holistic and culturally safe approach.
“We are unique in a lot of ways . . . we don’t have a mentoring program because we mentor every day. Every minute of every day we mentor,” Mr Cavanagh said.
“When students get to 13 and are in high school, they are case-managed. Every child has a case manager, right through until they are 25 years.
“Regardless of what program they do, they have that person with them. That’s what I mean when I say that we mentor every day.”
Having previously been government-funded, the organisation moved to the philanthropic model in 2005, Mr Cavanagh said.
“We thought how could we ask families to walk away from government supports when we are receiving government money,” he said.
“That was a big driver for us along with the ability to be a bit more flexible.”
“People are investing in our kids. They are providing money and resources to build their aspirations and reach for achievements. That is an investment in community.”
Moving into the future, Ganbina has aspirations to work alongside governments and to see their model operating in communities across the country and internationally.
However, despite its growing capacity, Ganbina’s core principle is self-determination. With its roots strongly in Shepparton, that community remains its top priority.
“Our core priority is the Shepparton model … we will never take the ball off Shepparton,” Mr Cavanagh said.
“We are 25 years old next year, we are halfway in our 50 years … but we remember that we are about Shepparton, and that community.”
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You saw Watson the computer humiliate humans on Jeopardy!, and now you can read what is effectively a tie-in book. Baker (The Numerati) tells the story of why and how Watson was created, and the long process that went into getting the talking bucket of bolts ready for its game show appearance. We see the technicians at IBM, led by Watson creator David Ferrucci, trying to prepare Watson for every Jeopardy! contingency, suffering through failures on the way to the eventual success: at one point, Watson suffers a classic meltdown right out of an episode of Star Trek: “it developed a small speech defect” and started delivering answers like, “What is Pakistand?”
Of course, IBM always has its ultimate goal in mind, taking down the world’s smartest human, Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings. We learn that they actually had a “Jennings arc,” based on data about Jennings’s quiz show achievements, that formed the basis of their goals for Watson.
It may seem odd at first glance that IBM put so much time and so many resources into getting a computer ready for a syndicated game show. But as Baker explains, there was a larger purpose in mind. Proving that a computer can be as nimble as humans in figuring out things like, “two of Jesus’s disciples whose names are both top 10 baby male names and end in the same letter,” and even faster when it came to buzzing in, points the way to the type of artificial intelligence scientists have been unable to create in the past. In rolling out a computer with “advanced powers of pattern recognition” and a familiarity with the English language, computer geeks may finally be able to create machines that can take all the jobs humans are still able to do. In the end, though, Baker tells us to cheer up, because these job-taking computers will leave us more time to do things “from singing and swimming to falling in love.” Until Ferrucci builds Watson II to take that away from us. | <urn:uuid:7c86acd1-a327-4d85-b290-22a603bc8372> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.macleans.ca/general/final-jeopardy-man-vs-machine-and-the-quest-to-know-everything/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964259 | 434 | 2.484375 | 2 |
In a major election pitch, Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has unveiled the Coalition’s “Power to the People” policy which would make up to $4,400 available for both solar PV and battery energy storage system to be installed in at least one million Victorian homes.
Under the plan announced at the weekend, Victorian owner-occupiers could earn rebates of up to $1,400 for solar panels and $3,000 for a residential battery energy storage system.
The plan, which would come into play if the Coalition is successful at the 26 November state election, also includes a doubling of the same rebate to about $8,800 for rental properties so that landlords can install the renewable energy technologies on at least 100,000 properties.
Guy said the plan would lower bills and emissions while providing more control over the energy system.
“Our Power to the People plan is a game changer,” he said. “We are going to turbo-charge solar, we are going to turbo-charge batteries. One million Victorian households will be supported to install solar and batteries by 2035.
“We’re going to subsidise the rental market as well. The plan is to ensure Victorian householders and renters will benefit from cheaper energy bills and lower emissions.
“By backing up solar with batteries, (we) will put the power back in households’ hands and make Victoria the heart of renewable energy in Australia.”
Guy said the Power to the People plan will improve the state government’s existing $1.3 billion Solar Homes program by allowing Victorians to claim rebates for both solar PV and batteries, adding that just 33% of rooftop solar systems in the state have included a battery when installed and that these are vital to the state’s energy future.
“Currently, households are forced to choose between support for either solar panels or a battery, not both,” he said. “Our plan gives households control over their power bills and will mean a more stable, lower-emissions grid for the wider community.”
Environment Victoria chief executive officer Jono La Nauze welcomed the announcement, saying installing solar and batteries at the same time makes sense with storage critical for maintaining a reliable energy grid as the nation transitions to renewables.
“The massive boost in support for batteries is a breakthrough that will benefit not just the individual household concerned but the whole energy grid,” he said.
“As ageing coal power stations retire, they need to be replaced by a combination of both renewable generation and storage.”
The Victorian opposition is also promising to legislate an emissions reduction target of 50% by 2030 if it wins the November state election.
The state government has already committed to reduce emissions 50% by the end of the decade but has not legislated the interim target.
Guy said writing the target into law would help drive investment in renewables and provide certainty on the state’s energy future.
“Our country is clearly moving towards emissions reduction targets,” he said.
“We believe that it is time to legislate these targets so that the next phase of the discussion as a state is around implementation, so that the politics is out of this debate once and for all. Then we can move on.”
Under the coalition’s plan to reach the 2030 target, it has pledged to establish a $1 billion hydrogen strategy to support the research, development and adoption of clean hydrogen strategies, upgrade transmission infrastructure in western Victoria to unlock an estimated 1.8 GW of renewables, and set up a taskforce to “fix” the state’s energy grid.
It will also legislate a local gas supply guarantee which would ensure that residents were offered on-shore gas extracted from Victoria first.
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Assisted Natural Recovery: A Novel Approach to Enhance Diadema antillarum Recruitment
The massive die-off of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in 1983–1984 is one the main reasons for low coral recruitment and little coral recovery in the Caribbean. As the natural recovery of D. antillarum is slow to non-existent, multiple restoration studies have been attempted. There are currently three different approaches to obtain individuals for restocking: the translocation of wild-collected juveniles or adults, lab-reared juveniles cultured from wild-collected settlers, or lab-reared juveniles cultured from gametes. All three methods are costly and can only be applied on a relatively small scale. We here propose a fourth, new, approach, which we term assisted natural recovery (ANR) of D. antillarum populations. ANR, a concept already applied in terrestrial restoration to restore forests and grasslands, can accelerate succession by removing barriers to natural recovery. In this study, performed on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, suitable settlement substrate was provided in the form of bio ball streamers that were attached to the reef shortly before the settlement season. At the end of the experiment, reefs with streamers had significantly higher D. antillarum recruit densities than control reefs without additional settlement substrate, indicating that the lack of settlement substrate is an important factor constraining natural recovery. However, D. antillarum recruit abundance was low compared to the measured settlement rates, possibly due to low post-settlement survival. The size distribution of recruits showed that recruits almost never became larger than 20 mm, which is likely due to predation. We conclude that, next to low settlement availability, low post-settlement survival and high predation on recruits also constrain the natural recovery of D. antillarum populations on Saba. To improve the survival of settlers till adults, we propose to 1) reduce predation on settlers by using bio balls or other substrates that can provide shelter to larger individuals and 2) optimize the reef habitat by removing macroalgae, either manually or by facilitating other herbivores. To improve the survival of recruits, we suggest to 1) choose sites with a known lower predation density or 2) protect recruits with a corral around the reef underneath the streamers. The combination of these measures could improve prospects for ANR, and we expect this new approach can contribute to the recovery of D. antillarum populations in the future. | <urn:uuid:afa2ca21-2da7-4a64-ab96-154f76ecc29e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dcbd.nl/document/assisted-natural-recovery-novel-approach-enhance-diadema-antillarum-recruitment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940394 | 516 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The Misbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development continued to distribute Ramadan aid to the families of orphans and the underprivileged in Iraq and Arab and Islamic countries.
The Foundation, operating under the auspices of the Shirazi Religious Authority in Karbala, and in cooperation with the IHC, aimed to distribute 100 thousand meals to underprivileged families, to help them out during the great month of Ramadan.
The Foundation said in a statement received by Shia Waves, “The project started in Iraq, and from there to other countries such as Lebanon, Afghanistan and Yemen,” noting that “the Foundation’s team delivered Ramadan food assistance to poor families in the African country of Niger.”
The statement pointed out that “the food aid was prepared and distributed to the beneficiaries by delivering it to their homes and bringing joy to their hearts during the days of the great month.”
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Word went out from a bird club about a tragic case of dog vs. bird. A 30-year-old, double yellow-headed Amazon had played regularly with the family dog, without incident. The bird was allowed to roam the floors freely and walked up to the dog’s food dish. The bird, being a bird, nipped the dog on the nose. The dog, being a dog, instinctively responded by grabbing the bird by the wing and ripping it off in front of the owner. The bird was rushed to the vet, but had to be euthanized. Now the owner will have to live with the horror of watching her beloved bird being killed by her dog. She said they had always played together fine without incident before.
Avian veterinarian Dr. Clare Fahy reported a similar incident with a cockatiel that was rushed to them after having its wing torn off by a dog. Amazingly that bird survived, albeit wingless, with the chest cavity sewn shut. A letter posted to George Sommers’ column, “From the parrot’s beak” tells of how they lost their “dear sweet” white-capped Pionus. A friend was watching their birds while they were away. The friend has dogs and was asked not to have the birds out of their cages when the dogs were in the house. The friend thought she could just run through the kitchen to upstairs with her shepherd mix. The Pionus was startled and took flight. The dog snatched the bird out of the air and killed her instantly.
Avian veterinarian Dr. Stephanie Lamb tells the story of a yellow-naped Amazon that lived in a home with four other birds and three rescue dogs of various breeds. The dogs normally did not have contact with the birds, but one night the owner let the birds out to play on their cages. The phone rang, and she left the birds “for just a second.” One dog snuck into the room and grabbed the Amazon right off of the cage. The owner rushed him to the vet, but he had died by the time they got there. There was a huge hole punctured in his stomach.
Dr. Lamb reports another case of an African grey parrot who lived with a chow chow breed of dog. The chow chow was always trying to get to the bird, and one year earlier had grabbed the bird through the cage and punctured the bird’s eye, blinding it in that eye. This time, the bird was walking around the floor and got grabbed by the dog again. The bird suffered multiple puncture wounds on the face and into the sinus cavities. The beak had a severe, lengthwise fracture down the center. The bird had to have a prosthesis placed on the beak and stayed in the hospital in intensive care for five days on numerous medications and oxygen support. The bird did survive and went home, but the recovery time was greater than two months. No word on whether the owner still allows the dog to be around the bird.
Dr. Lamb described a third case of an Eclectus that had had numerous encounters with a medium-sized dog. They “played” together, but it had escalated numerous times, causing puncture wounds, beak fractures, internal bleeding, and nerve damage. Dr. Lamb has advised the owners time and time again not to let them “play.” She said that she fears that one day the bird is going to get killed
Dangers Of Complacency
Maybe you’re sitting there reading this and horrified. Maybe you’re telling yourself that those cases are exceptions, and that your dog/cat would never harm your bird. They’ve “grown up” together. Your dog/cat is very docile and wouldn’t hurt a flea. Your bird has a beak and it can defend itself. Your bird is fully flighted and can always fly away. Your dog/cat is afraid of your bird. The list of why it’s OK for your dog/cat (or other animal) to play with your bird goes on and on. Except it’s not OK. It’s never OK.
The Internet abounds with videos of birds playing with dogs and cats. We’ve all seen them. We’ve probably thought how adorable they looked together, all the while telling ourselves that it was dangerous. But how dangerous is it? The stories above are not exceptions to a rule. They are the rule. Dogs and cats (and some other family pets, especially ferrets) are predators. They may be domesticated, but their predatory instinct is always there, either overtly or lurking just below the surface. If an otherwise friendly dog or cat is annoyed by a bird, such as by a nip on the nose (and what bird doesn’t occasionally nip?), it might lash out. It’s not going to stop and think, “Oh yeah, this is my buddy. I’d better not hurt him.”
In dog/cat vs. bird, the bird usually loses. Yes, the bird has a beak, but it’s not like they’ve set out to have a fight with their “weapons” at the ready. Once the dog or cat has struck, it can be game over for the bird. Even friendly dogs and cats can injure birds by overexuberant play or even stepping on a bird, so injury doesn’t just result from hostile behavior.
Also keep in mind that something as simple as a scratch from a dog or especially a cat can be fatal to a bird. Dog and cat bites, licks, and scratches can transmit a deadly organism called Pasteurella multocida. Not just to birds, but to you too! When outdoor cats “play” with a bird (or other animal) outside and the animal escapes, it frequently dies of this infection. So even if your docile cat just licks your bird, it can have deadly consequences.
But, you’re thinking, my dog/cat has never harmed my bird in all the years they’ve been together. That’s what the owner of the Amazon was saying too. Just because something has never happened before is no guarantee that it will never happen in the future. You’ve cooked with Teflon all these years and your bird is still alive (until Aunt Mabel calls you and you lose all track of time as the pan slowly burns on the stove, killing your birds). That stock has risen every year since you’ve owned it (until the CFO gets caught embezzling funds and the stock crashes). You don’t need to put ID tags on your dog because she’s never run out of the house before (until you open the door for the mail carrier and a squirrel runs by outside).
It’s called an accident. It’s unpredictable. You never meant for it to happen. Supervising your animals while they’re out isn’t good enough. The woman whose Amazon got its wing ripped off was in the room when it happened. Unless you can move faster than the speed of light, you won’t be able to stop it from happening. The only way to keep your bird from being injured or worse by your other family pets is to make sure they’re never out together and that the other animals can’t access the cages. A friend of mine with an outdoor aviary lost his cockatiel when a neighbor’s cat pulled the bird’s leg through the bars and ripped it off. The bird had to be euthanized as it slowly bled out.
Some people advocate “training” the dog/cat to be with the bird. It’s fine to let the dog/cat know that there are birds in the house and that they shouldn’t touch them. But that’s not the same thing as letting them play together. That is never acceptable. And size doesn’t matter. Ferrets are small, but deadly to birds.
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I asked 3 musical friends the following and I share the answer I received from one of the friends:
I was thrilled to get my 'Finnish Fix' at FinnFest 2008 again, seeing you folks and the music and the dancing and all the kanteles and a couple jouhikkos.
I somehow missed any events which included the birch bark flute. I have been active in a local recorder group which plays a lot of old renaissance music, etc. plus demos of the variety of sizes and sounds for kids in school.
I figured one of you would have insight into my questions... Is the Finnish version of the birch bark flute a whistle type instrument like the recorder, or does the player hold it and blow over a hole, as with the metal flute we see in orchestras?
Answer I received from the man, a good musician on several instruments and a well known tango instructor. He was one of only a few people in the USA who could give me jouhikko lessons last year:
I have a tuohi huilu that was given to me by a Dima of the Myllarit 7 yrs ago. I believe it is like a recorder to play . Cant seem to find anything on the internet as to pix or how to order.
I would appreciate any help I could get to find out how to get the instrument (birch bark flute?). I play with a recorder group. We go to schools and give programs for 8-9 year old students who are learning to play the recorder. We like to introduce different kinds of recorders and folk instruments.
As the musician you asked said, the Finnish birchbark flute is a recorder, or a fipple flute, not a transverse (cross, German) flute.
Here you can see a very good picture of a birchbark flute: http://www.laulumies.com/laulelma_ala4.html (scroll down, the right picture is third down). Rauno Nieminen has made the birchbark flute in the picture. He has a small company where he builds acoustic instruments. Here are his contact information: http://raunonieminen.com/sivusto/index.php?sivu=yhtied (his net pages are, unfortunately, only in Finnish, but no doubt you can e-mail in English)(in his e-mail address "etunimi.sukunimi" means "first name.last name", that is, you put rauno in the place of "etunimi" and nieminen in the place of "sukunimi").
Juniper Lynn Hill has written a dissertation on Finnish folk music for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of California: From Ancient to Avant-Garde to Global: Creative Processes and Institutionalization in Finnish Contemporary Folk music (http://juniperlynnhill.net/JuniperHill_Dissertation.pdf ). On page 237 (printed document) or 212 (pdf page) she deals with tuohihuilu, or birchbark flute. The next occurrence of the word tuohihuilu is on page 247/272. | <urn:uuid:a2c7d69e-5c05-4a11-938b-80299480aa3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.libraries.fi/ask/i-asked-3-musical-friends?from=term/256251&language_content_entity=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947324 | 686 | 1.570313 | 2 |
You may be a new mom, and you are excited to have your pre-pregnancy body again. It may be challenging but throw in breastfeeding, and things can become more complicated. You may feel like you are ready to go into exercise and decide on a diet plan. But you may not want to deprive your baby of the nutrients that he needs. Read more about breastfeeding in this link here.
Exercise for breastfeeding moms is a great way to unwind, get those joints moving again, and lose some pounds. You can exercise, but you also need to take care of your health. To get better exercise, here are some pieces of information that you may want to know.
Exercise Does Not Affect Milk Production
You may hear people tell you that exercise can affect breast milk production, but this is not true. The taste of milk may change because of the increase in lactic acid. But it does not change the amount of milk that you produce. As long as the baby is frequently feeding, your brain will signal your body to keep producing breast milk.
Keep the Exercise Moderate
You should not turn into vigorous exercise but choose a workout plan that has a moderate routine. Although you may feel that you have an advantage with exercise, keep in mind that exclusively fed babies that feed on sedentary moms grow the same rate as the ones who are feeding on moms who frequently exercise. Breast milk remains nutritional, regardless if you exercise or not. Do not force yourself unnecessary and just go on light jogs.
Choose Foods with Plenty of Calories
Breastfeeding is the best way to lose some weight. This is even considered as the golden ticket of some moms to achieve their pre-pregnancy body. Aside from the daily exercise that you are doing, you are losing an extra 300 to 500 extra calories each day. In order for you to not get too thin, you have to make sure to load on calories. There are sites such as Diet Fitness King – Health Advice that can give you more information about diet and exercise.
Eat healthy snacks such as salmon, beef, eggs, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds, and green leafy vegetables. They will make up on the extra pounds that you are losing through breastfeeding. This can result in a very healthy body. Many health and fitness coach experts say that moms may want to hit the gym immediately after they get their go signal from their OB-GYN. But they should do everything in moderation as their body is still recovering.
Give the baby all the nutrients that she needs. You should not cut down on calories. Do not decrease your diet in the aim of cutting down on pregnancy pounds. You need to support yourself and eat right in order to produce enough milk that your baby needs on a daily basis.
Drink Plenty of Fluids
When it comes to breastfeeding mom’s health, water is very essential to drink a lot of water. There’s no need to drown yourself but make sure to stay hydrated. Exercising can keep your joints and body in shape. However, too much exercise will result in sweating. This can lead to dehydration if done in the extreme. Stay hydrated because water is the primary source of breast milk. If you notice that your body becomes thirsty, you need to drink water immediately. Keep bottled water handy all the time. If you are bored with the plain taste of water, you can choose fruit or vegetable juices, almond milk, and infused water.
Exercise in the Right Time
You may want to do your exercise routines after breastfeeding. This way, your breast is emptier. You can plan a schedule that will suit with your infant’s sleeping schedule. It can be complicated but not impossible to do. A run outdoors can require pumping breaks so that your baby will not get too hungry. You may also want to do quick training sessions at home while the baby is sleeping sweetly. The key to getting things working out is to schedule everything. Don’t stress yourself too much. You are doing your best, and you are doing great.
Choose Low-Impact Activity Exercises
The body takes time to recommend after childbirth. It can take from up to four months for the body to recover. You should consider your ligaments and whether you still have lochia before starting an exercise routine. Get more information about lochia in this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochia. A great exercise to try is to start swimming, walk on the elliptical machine, and do some swimming routines. Include at least 15 minutes of strengthening your core muscles. This will help you regain strength. You can even do multitasking exercises while feeding your little one.
Eating Guidelines for Breastfeeding Moms
Eat a variety of foods to satisfy your hunger. A recommended of 1700 to 2000 calories a day should be the right serving for breastfeeding mothers. If you become unusually thirsty during each feeding session, make sure to sip small amounts of water throughout the day. Limit caffeine intake to two servings a day.
Eat fish because it contains healthy fats that are beneficial to the body. There are fishes that are high in contaminants such as king mackerel, shark and swordfish. Avoid those. You should limit your fish serving to up to 6 ounces week. Tuna steaks, scallops, crabs, catfish, Pollock, shrimp, salmon, anchovies, and sardines should be limited to 8 ounces of serving a week.
When it comes to food, you can eat almost anything aside from the four types of fishes mentioned above. Your baby gets introduced to a wide variety of food when you eat a wide range of diet. If the baby seems a little colicky after you eat a certain food, it is possible that he may be allergic to it. This can happen, especially if the family has a history of allergic reactions to certain foods. You can also how to store breastmilk for your baby. | <urn:uuid:5bd6fd15-58d7-4ffd-8257-25514be04170> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://youmustgethealthy.com/health-fitness-tips-breastfeeding-mothers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961841 | 1,219 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The hemp plant, first cultivated in China 6,000 years ago, produces more than 400 organic compounds. The two main groups of molecules with bioactive properties in hemp are terpenes and cannabinoids – CBD belongs to the latter group.
Cannabinoids are compounds that can affect the functioning of the human nervous system. The hemp plant biosynthesizes more than 60 of them. The main cannabinoids are THC, CBD, CBG, all of which differ in chemical structure and action.
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is one of the most abundant cannabinoids in hemp. It is believed that CBD has many therapeutic uses and helps to relax. While it is good for your health, CBD does not contain the psychoactive properties of its better-known cousin THC, and CBD should not be confused with THC.
CBD, in full cannabidiol, is an active ingredient extracted from leaves and flower tops of industrial hemp (fiber hemp), a hemp variety that is legally grown. It is sold as a dietary supplement, in the form of oil and capsules, and as a component of other products, for example skin care products.
Massive Media Attention
The oil received massive attention in 2013 when CNN aired a now legendary documentary about a three-year-old American girl with epilepsy. Charlotte Figi suffered from severe seizures (up to 200 per week) from her first months of life and largely got rid of them with CBD oil. Since then, parents from home and abroad are looking for good CBD oil.
WHAT DOES CBD OIL DO?
Epilepsy patients are not the only ones who claim to benefit from the oil. Although not everything has been scientifically established, according to users the oil offers support with many physical and mental complaints. Think of stress-related complaints, problems sleeping in or through the night, mood swings during and after the transition, depression and various pain symptoms. Also people with ADHD, Parkinson’s disease, migraines and rheumatic complaints report more positive experiences with CBD oil. There is no scientific evidence yet that the oil cures conditions. However, it can help to reduce symptoms caused by certain medications. In any case, many doctors are enthusiastic about its therapeutic effects.
Anxiety and Stress
One of the most well-known uses of CBD oil is for relief of stress and anxiety symptoms. In 2011, scientists published an article in the Journal of Psychopharmacology following a study on the relationship between CBD and social anxiety disorders. It suggested that CBD may provide relief to people with anxiety disorders. Another study from the same year found that preventive administration of CBD to public speakers significantly reduced their anxiety, stress and feelings of discomfort. Read this Readers Digest CBD oil article by going to this link.
Relief from Pain
CBD oil is regularly used by people with pain conditions, such as those with rheumatoid arthritis (especially fibromyalgia) and osteoarthritis. A study with laboratory animals (2012) showed that CBD can suppress inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Tests on mice in 2005 have shown that CBD can have a positive effect on osteoarthritis. Much research on humans has not yet been done, but it seems likely that CBD acts on cannabinoid receptors, causing the nervous system to ignore pain. The University of Nottingham conducted research and found that CBD oil not only acts on the central nervous system, thereby reducing pain, but also reduces inflammation in joints. The relaxing effect of CBD oil is also thought to help relieve stress and thus pain.
CBD is used by many people with sleep problems. It helps relax muscles, allowing you to sleep deeper and wake up more rested. Although there are many positive sounds, not everything has been scientifically proven. A lot of research is currently being done into the exact effects, including by SEIN, the expertise center for epilepsy and sleep medicine.
Various studies have been done to find out what effects CBD has on diabetes. These indicate that CBD can help to stabilize blood sugar levels and possibly relieve the symptoms of diabetes. Research on humans is not (yet) available. However, in 2006 an article was published about a study with diabetic mice. The mice were administered cannabidiol (CBD). This research showed that CBD could possibly slow down or even prevent destructive insulitis (damaging inflammation of the islets of Langerhans (the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin). | <urn:uuid:4f79e14d-dfb7-4816-aef9-9356d56a36f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://anonymousone.com/cbd-products/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960648 | 900 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Southeast PTTC Workforce Development Series
The Southeast PTTC Prevention Workforce Development Series
We all know that to be successful and sustainable coalitions and prevention providers must be able to plan and implement prevention strategies that are data-driven and evidence-based. Over the course of these three sessions coalition members, prevention providers and emerging professionals will be able to:
• Apply the latest best practices related to implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework
• Understand and implement effective assessment, planning and evaluation practices for their prevention efforts
• Build capacity to conduct community organizing practices that increase community partner and member involvement and ownership of the prevention processes and strategies
• Engage in a more detailed analysis and discussion of the information provided in the Workforce Development Series in a virtual Masterclass only open to those who have attended at least one session in the series
There are three sessions designed for this series.
Training 1: Prevention Fundamentals
Time: 2 hours
The Prevention Fundamentals training provides an overview of the key concepts in substance use and misuse prevention. Participants will be introduced to concepts of the public health approach to prevention, the continuum of care and the role of coalitions and providers in community-based prevention efforts. These concepts will be referenced as the participants are introduced to the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). This two-hour session provide the framework the upcoming trainings in the PTTC Workforce Development Series.
Training 2: SPF: Assessment, Planning and Evaluation for the Prevention Professional
Time: 90 minutes
The SPF: Assessment, Planning and Evaluation training provides a detailed overview of the Assessment, Planning and Evaluation elements of the SPF. The training emphasizes how each element builds on the previous – data from the community assessment informs the development of strategic and action – all which provide the bases for the community evaluation. Participants will be able to understand and participant assessment, planning and evaluation efforts occurring in their communities.
Training 3: Community Organization for the Prevention Professional
Time: 90 minutes
The Community Organization training provides information which community preventionists can use as they work to plan and implement prevention efforts in their communities. The training focuses on elements and skills needed to engage and organize a community’s prevention efforts. Participants will experience how these skills are relevant to each element of the SPF.
Meet the Instructors
Carlton Hall is the President and CEO of Carlton Hall Consulting LLC (CHC) , a multi-faceted, full-service consulting firm designed to provide customized solutions and enable measurable change for communities, organizations, families and individuals. Carlton Hall has been providing intensive substance abuse prevention focused and community problem solving services to the nation for the last 25 years. His responsibilities, unique set of skills and experience have made him one of the most highly sought after instructors and guides for community problem solving in every state and territory in the nation as well as internationally, with successful achievements in South Africa, Ghana, Bermuda, Kenya and others. Currently, Carlton and the CHC team provide executive training and technical assistance support to the Southeast PTTC (Region 4).
Tracy Johnson is the Founder & Managing Partner of TTJ Group, LLC (2013- Present) with over 29 years of experience, he has worked closely with states, nonprofits, small businesses, universities, communities and coalitions in helping them with community organizing, environmental strategies, strategic planning, substance abuse prevention, and cultural competence. Mr. Johnson provides interactive and resourceful trainings for participants. He has presented on Opioid Prevention strategies for communities (including faith based) and integrating cultural competence within opioid prevention strategies. Currently, Mr. Johnson is working with Ohio’s Partnership for Success Strategic Prevention Framework (PFS- SPF) SAMHSA funded statewide grant supporting twelve (12) rural Appalachian counties in developing coalitions to reduce the opioid crisis. His team has also provided training to SAMHSA Minority AIDS and HIV new grantees since 2010.
Dave Shavel has extensive experience in the substance abuse prevention field at the community, state and federal levels as a community organizer, coalition director, trainer and technical assistance provider, researcher, and state prevention manager. Dave specializes in technical assistance and training in the areas of strategic planning; needs, resource and readiness assessment; prevention program planning, implementation and evaluation; promoting youth involvement; and, community and state capacity building. | <urn:uuid:591ede72-9b6b-4096-85b3-d251eaa5bf6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pttcnetwork.org/centers/southeast-pttc/news/southeast-pttc-workforce-development-series | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931329 | 875 | 1.664063 | 2 |
By Sara Bondell - September 07, 2018
She says the colors drew her in, and it wasn’t long before one of the artists-in-residence was showing her how to make an origami crane.
“I found peace there,” said Young-Melnick. “I make cranes and send them all over to everyone I know. It helps me explore how I feel and helps me give back.”
The crane, according to Japanese tradition, is held in high regard for its lengthy lifespan of 1,000 years.
The process of folding 1,000 origami cranes is said to grant the maker a wish. The practice of folding cranes has gained popularity in the last century thanks to one young girl and her courageous spirit.
Sadako Sasaki was born in 1943 in Hiroshima, Japan. After surviving the atomic bombing when she was two years old, she developed leukemia. Throughout her illness she folded hundreds of cranes, remaining strong and positive the entire time. She passed away at age 12, but her memory has lived on in the cranes she made, each one carrying an intention of hope and healing.
A young Japanese patient and her family brought the tradition to Moffitt. When she was getting treatment, her family folded cranes as they waited. They explained the crane is a symbol of peace and healing in Japan and that tradition calls for folding 1,000 cranes for healing. The practice of folding “Healing Cranes” struck the Arts in Medicine team as a way of making hope visible and Moffitt began its own tradition of making and sharing wishes of healing words on the wings of the crane. The paper was painted by hand in the studio so each crane is as unique as the individual who receives it and the crane is hung where it can be seen 1,000 times.
The cranes and the paper used to make them are the focus of a new art exhibit at Moffitt’s Healing Arts Gallery called Hope Takes Flight: 20 Years of Arts in Medicine. It celebrates the program’s 20th anniversary by showcasing how it has helped patients, family and staff find peace and hope in healing over the years.
The Healing Arts Gallery is located in the hallway outside of Radiation. If you would like to learn to fold your own Healing Crane, please visit the Arts in Medicine Open Studio on the third floor of the Moffitt Clinic Building or the first floor of the McKinley Outpatient Center. | <urn:uuid:e0ea5760-467c-4db0-9640-9a3b432f3cd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moffitt.org/endeavor/archive/hope-takes-flight-at-moffitts-art-gallery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971478 | 507 | 2.875 | 3 |
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