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Be organized. One of the most important traits for first-year residents is organizational ability. “If you’re good at time management and [are] well organized, it enables you to be more productive and get out earlier to spend time with your family,” said Dr. Takashima. “Those who are organized clearly shine, partly because they’re on top of things and well prepared for cases.” What’s the clearest path to organization? At Baylor, first-year residents are assigned to mentors, and teachings focus on efficiencies. These may include logistics such as getting scans to the operating room in advance of surgery.
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Ask for help. Whether it’s not fully grasping a particular procedure or protocol or struggling with a personal problem, it’s best to get help sooner rather than later. First years can and should talk to a trusted chief resident, program director, or faculty member if difficulties arise. “Don’t feel you have to overcome everything by yourself,” said Dr. Bumpous. “Get advice. Take constructive criticism. When you ask, ‘How do I do this better?’ be a good listener and accept people’s advice. The people who isolate themselves and don’t engage others in trying to stay on the best path are the most vulnerable to getting into a chronic problem or more serious trouble.”
Put the patient first (and do it with compassion). Physicians burn out when they lose touch with their own humanity. “Remember that you’re part of the human condition,” Dr. Bumpous said. “The person on the other end of your otoscope or scalpel is a human being—a mom, a dad, a sister, or a brother. Don’t let yourself become too removed from that.” Dr. Bumpous suggested residents learn at least one little thing about each patient as an important way to let patients know they are cared for. What do they do? Where are they from? What do they like to do? “That goes a long way toward helping people heal,” he added.
Relax before residency begins. If possible, future residents should spend any time off after med school enjoying life, whether that means relaxing with family or traveling. “It’s my personal belief that when [residents] start there is ample opportunity for them to learn what they need to learn and acquire the skill set they will need,” said Dr. Wax. “Trying to start reading or shadowing before residency is not going to really help them in the long run. Doing more things to prepare may put them ahead a month or two, but by the middle or end of the first year, everyone is at the same place, no matter what they did.” | <urn:uuid:d898f101-b4db-444d-ae3c-0673a7c91722> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enttoday.org/article/medical-resident-survival-tips/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959029 | 598 | 1.984375 | 2 |
A London-based rights group said at least 31 people were killed on Sunday in continuing violence [YouTube]
The European Union has welcomed the creation of an opposition council in Syria which is seeking international support for the six-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
A statement on Monday by EU foreign ministers welcomed the moves by the political opposition in Syria to establish a united platform and called on the international community to embrace the efforts.
Earlier in the day, the newly formed council, which is a collection of opposition activists, said it had agreed on a democratic framework for the post-Assad Syria. The group said it wants international observers to be
allowed into the Arab state to examine the situation there.
“The EU notes the creation of the Syrian National Council as a positive step forward,” read statement issued by the 27 EU foreign ministers after a meeting in Luxembourg.
The EU, however, stopped short of any calls to recognise the body. Syria threatened on Sunday it would retaliate against any country that formally recognised an opposition body.
Although the formation of the council has already been welcomed by some of Assad’s Western critics, including the United States and France, they have not approved it diplomatically as they did the Libyan rebels who overthrew former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
EU ministers and officials said any such moves, which would have to come from individual countries, were still some way off.
“I think we will have to find out a bit more yet,” said Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief. “We need to find out more and decide what we are going to do.”
Ashton continued: “I think we have been consistent in wanting to see significant change in Syria. The number of people who have died there is terrible.
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“The continued approach of the government to repress people is awful. We’ve been working closely with our colleagues in the [United Nations] Security Council and with Turkey now in trying to put the pressure on.”
The UN claims 2,900 people have been killed in Assad’s crackdown on mainly peaceful protests.
The Syrian leadership blames armed groups backed by foreign powers for the violence, saying 1,100 members of the security forces have been killed since the unrest broke out in March.
William Hague, the British foreign secretary, did not directly reply when asked if EU states should recognise the council, but said he had met some opposition activists and continued to call on the government to end the violence.
“That is the immediate priority,” he said. “The EU as a whole and member states will want to appeal for [an end to violence]. Of course, we can’t directly intervene.”
Hague’s French counterpart, Alain Juppe, said France wanted to have contacts with the opposition, adding, “We are pleased to see the opposition has organised.”
In the latest wave of violence, at least 31 people were killed across Syria on Sunday in clashes between gunmen believed to be army deserters and government troops, a Syrian activist group said on Monday.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll included 17 members of the army and security forces. It added that 14 civilians were killed, many of them in the city of Homs, where heavy gunfire was heard again early on Monday.
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Life Insurance Providing Little Protection from Terrorism
Recent statements by the City of London Police Commissioner James Hart that future terrorist attacks in London’s financial centre are, “a matter of when, rather than if”, will increase already serious concerns over issues of personal and business financial protection.
Mr Hart’s statement pointed out that, “if you want to hurt the government, hurt people at the same time, and you want to cause maximum disruption…where better to hit than at the financial centre?”
Mr Hart also echoed a report by the insurer Axa which warned that just under 50% of small firms do not have a plan in place to ensure that their business could survive should they be hit by an emergency or disaster. Axa highlighted that many businesses, especially in the South East danger zone, are not even covered against general risks such as fire and flood, which have a much greater chance of hitting a business than the now high profile terrorism threats.
The research carried out by Axa found that almost one in five small to medium-sized firms had been hit by some form of disaster and about 5% of them took more than a year to get their businesses back on track. Any company that does not have cover against potential future disasters could stand to lose large sums of money, or even go out of business, if the Commissioners warnings go unheeded.
Emergency services workers are also experiencing additional worries about their financial protection in light of the terrorist attacks. Somerset fire-fighters have recently temporarily called off threatened industrial action amid claims they may not be insured for dealing with terrorism. In a postal ballot, Union members had previously overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking some form of industrial action short of a strike, such as refusing to train on specialist equipment which can be used in response to terrorist incidents. The actions have been called off pending a report due next month from a working party which has been set up with the Somerset Fire and Rescue Service to study the fire-fighters’ personal insurance.
Adrian Woollaston, of the Somerset branch of the Fire Brigade Union said: “Somerset fire crews want our employers to address our very real concerns and this gives an opportunity for them to do so.”
The fears experienced by the fire-fighters revolve around exclusions which added to many group life insurance policies that prevent pay-outs being made should the policy holder be injured or killed as a result of a terrorist attack.
The Association of British Insurers has sought to reassure emergency workers who may die as an indirect consequence of terrorist events by stating, “exclusions do not generally apply on stand-alone life assurance policies, regardless of the occupation of the policyholder”, however, they also indicate that “other personal insurance cover” such as personal accident, mortgage protection, income protection and critical illness cover are usually subject to exclusions.
This would mean that many existing insurance policies held by emergency workers to protect their future and that of their family, such as mortgage payment protection, may not provide any cover in the event of a terrorist attack.
Searching through all the available insurance policies using information sites like Moneyfacts or Moneynet can go some way to helping by providing guide information and price comparisons, but more needs to be done.
Sam Oestreicher of Unison said, “We are asking all insurance companies to look at their policies and if they have such exclusion clauses to drop them”.
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The algoza is a Punjabi woodwind instrument adopted by Sindhi folk musicians, also called a Jorhi or Ngoza. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound is generated by breathing into it rapidly; the quick recapturing of breath on each beat creates a bouncing, swing rhythm. Algoza is generally used as a folk instrument and Punjabi folk singers use it to play traditional music such as Jugni, Jind Mahi, and Mirza. However, it is also a popular choice among UK musicians for making contemporary Bhangra music. The greatest exponents of Alghoza, however, are the Sindhi musicians Khamisu Khan, Misri Khan and Akbar Khamisu Khan(son of Khamisu Khan).
Ustad Marhoom(Late) Khamiso Khan was realy King of Sindhi Saaz Alghoza (Beenoon) now his son continued his art namely Mr.Akber Khamiso Khan I think he is prince of alghoza
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2022 Calendar With Holidays Pdf. Calendars are otherwise blank and designed for easy printing. The month starts from january and ends with december and a total number of twelve months in a year.
5, 2022, in response to governor hochul’s state of the state address: The 2022 pdf calendar version is optimized for printing purposes. Calendar 2022 & holidays 2022 created date:
The Month Starts From January And Ends With December And A Total Number Of Twelve Months In A Year.
The calendar will definitely guide and let you plan for all the holidays of january month ahead in the year 2022. “we applaud governor hochul for recognizing that our frontline healthcare workers are in desperate need of additional resources. Days aligned horizontally (days of the week in the same row) for easy week overview;
With Our January Holidays Calendar, One Can Have Quick Access To All The Holidays For The Month.
2022 calendar with india holidays in acrobat pdf format. December 2022 calendar with holidays keywords: Year 2022 on one a4 page, landscape orientation;
Free Download Printable Yearly Calendar 2022 With Indian Holidays Ai Vector Print Template, Place For Photo, Company Logo Or Graphics.
Some 2022 holidays and religious observances are included in. These templates are suitable for a great variety of uses: Calendar 2022 australia for pdf landscape, 2 pages, days aligned.
2022 Philippines Calendar With Holidays.
This template is available as editable pdf document. The calendar one page is the best destination to track the daily routine for a month or year. This calendar file can be scaled down and enlarged so they can be printed on sizes smaller or larger than standard letter paper (eg.
Below Are 2022 Pdf Calendars With Popular And India Holidays.
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Parabens are common ingredients found in an array of cosmetics, and for good reason: they preserve the lifespan of a product, and they also help to ward off bacteria buildup. Lately, though, a lot of beauty brands have been advertising... [#image: /photos/5582bd7aa28d9d4e05415975]||||||Parabens are common ingredients found in an array of cosmetics, and for good reason: they preserve the lifespan of a product, and they also help to ward off bacteria buildup. Lately, though, a lot of beauty brands have been advertising that they are "paraben-free", which causes one to wonder: what’s the big deal?
Apparently, a lot: one study found that parabens have been found in the breast tissue of 18 out of 20 breast cancer patients . Research also shows that the ingredient can mimic estrogen in bodily functions, which could be a possible link to the develoment of cancer. While there is still more research to be done to come to any definitive conclusions, the thought of a cosmetic ingredient behaving like a hormone or showing up in muscle tissue could be cause for alarm. The good news is that many companies are finding alternatives to parabens, and have already begun to eliminate them from their products. If the research concerns you, there is no need to panic: parabens are easy to avoid.
Make sure to examine the list of ingredients on any product you purchase from now on. Parabens usually show up in the middle or the end of ingredient lists, and will most likely come in the form of names like methylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben. To check out some paraben-free beauty brands and suggestions, check out our Earth Day Beauty Slideshow . Also feel free to look at this comprehensive database of beauty items and see how healthy your products are on a scale of 1-10! | <urn:uuid:0a69d8ba-7a13-4882-bccd-8cb6d5bba561> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teenvogue.com/story/toxic-face-parabens-in-beauty-products | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946041 | 403 | 2.125 | 2 |
Typewriter Font Generator
Typewriter Font Generator:
You can convert your text into various fonts and text styles using the Typewriter Font Generator. To use this font, simply enter your text into the input box, located at the top of the page. You’ll then see various fonts and styles of text in your chosen style. Once you’ve found the font you want to use, copy the URL address of the website to use it. This tool is easy to use and free! Here’s how it works:
The retro feel of Grandpa’s Typewriter is unmistakable. This font was designed on a real Olivetti Typewriter, with four distinct versions – a standard version, a light distressed version, and an X-typewriter version that is composed of typos and errors.
Its cutout effect and deformed lettering make for an intriguing visual dynamic, and it’s the perfect font for shabby chic designs. Zoe Branch is an artist, writer, and entrepreneur with a passion for sentimental typewriter goods.
She’s been writing on a typewriter reminiscent of her great grandfather for nearly two decades. Her work focuses on free verse poetry and limericks. You can request a custom poem from her or have it written by a friend. If you’d like, you can use the font to create a unique design that’s uniquely yours.
The typewriters produced by the 1952 Rheinmetall company were remarkably similar to those made in the United States today. The company produced typewriters, calculating machines, bumpers, transportation equipment, as well as tannery machinery.
After World War II, the factory was badly damaged by bombings and was reconstructed in the 1950s. Today, this company is better known for producing the Typewriter and is a major supplier of office equipment and computers in the United States.
If you are in the market for a font to use on your computer, one option is to download a free 1951 Rheinmetall typewriter font. These fonts look great on retro typewriters and will lend a vintage feel to your work. You can also use the RM Typerighter old if you’re looking for a classic feel. The old-fashioned lettering makes the font ideal for modern designs.
If you’re looking for a free typewriter font generator, try Courier. It’s a monospaced slab serif typeface that was created by Howard “Bud” Kettler in the 1950s. Originally designed for IBM typewriters, Courier has been adapted for computer use. In fact, most desktop computers are already equipped with this typeface. Here’s how to generate a free version.
The first typewriter font generator will give you a variety of styles that mimic the style of a real typewriter. Courier is the industry standard and serves a purpose of consistency, rather than a look. As the SoCreate screenwriting platform comes online, the standard screenplay will change, too. If you haven’t used it in a while, it’s time to give it a try.
There are many ways to use typewriter fonts. They are suitable for virtually any project, from headings to movie posters. You can even use them for scrapbook pages and logos. For example, if you want your typewriter font to mimic an early typescript, you can download the 1913 Typewriter font, designed by French graphic designer Gilles Le Corre. This font inspires by renowned authors like Joseph Conrad and William Shakespeare.
The Radio Newsman typewriter font is a bold and authentic style that adds a retro look to your designs. It is perfect for both long and short text, digital collages, branding, packaging, social media posts, logotypes, and more.
Download this font to create your own text effects! This font is free to download and can use online to create unique text graphics. The following are a few fonts you can download and use for your next project. Radio Newsman EC1100 has an interesting style, with irregular shading, and rounded serifs.
It is a very classic-looking font that evokes the feel of an old-fashioned news reporter. This font is most appropriate for titles, though it also works well for logos. It is also very versatile and easy to use. This font is a great choice for logos and modern designs. It is available in several styles, so it can use for a variety of uses.
So here you will get the latest download link of Typewriter Font Generator. Click the above link to download it. Also, Install Typewriter Font Generator easily by following the on-screen instructions. Still, you face any issues then ask here below in the comment section. Meanwhile, you can share this post with friends to help them as well. | <urn:uuid:72ea771b-f16d-46c6-8ec0-f2ea85f5f02f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samsungfontsapk.com/2022/05/05/typewriter-font-generator/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922609 | 1,042 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Walking and Easy Delivery
As we often mention, mothers should avoid mental tension caused by fear and anxiety about childbirth as much as possible for easy delivery. Of course, strengthening the body is also important for childbirth, since it provides more muscle control for releasing tension.
Considering these two factors, walking as an exercise during pregnancy is particularly helpful. It is a relatively low effort physical activity, so the mother would not do difficult exercise during pregnancy. But it offers both physical and mental benefits. So, let’s have a look at the relationship between easy delivery and walking.
Easy delivery effect of walking
You probably know that walking is an aerobic exercise. It can improve your overall physical strength. It can train the muscles that you often use during childbirth. It has the effect of firmly fitting the baby’s head into the correct position towards the pelvis, which is said to help stabilize the baby. Additionally, walking improves your blood circulation thanks to doing sort of a whole-body exercise, so it offers health benefits for the baby in the womb.
Of course, when the blood circulation improves, metabolism also rises, and the internal organs of the mother also work more actively and prevent obesity during pregnancy. Therefore, walking is also effective for burning fat by increasing metabolism.
Be careful while walking
Most of the time, walking during pregnancy is safe. Still, it is recommended to carry a mobile phone and some cache for a taxi ride in case something goes wrong or you get tired.
Your condition may change suddenly during pregnancy. So, if something goes wrong while you are walking, stop immediately and don’t push yourself to do your usual routine.
Also, if you are suspected of having any problem with your pregnancy, such as premature birth, preeclampsia, or gestational diabetes, you should consult your doctor before starting walking as an excise.
Make walking more fun
Although walking during pregnancy offers many benefits, not everyone enjoys just walking. When you don’t enjoy walking for only excise purposes, it can get boring, maybe even stressful as a task you have to complete without enjoying it.
If you think that walking is boring or it doesn’t make sense to walk around without a destination, you may make it better by adding some fun to it. For example, you can choose a route that you can look at shop windows. Or you can set yourself destinations such as exhibitions or galleries. You can also incorporate some light shopping with your walks.
Walking gets easier with right motivation
Walking during pregnancy, especially if you don’t like walking, can be too much tiring or difficult to find enough motivation.
To make it easier, consider your route by the minutes you will start returning home. You can first take a short walk, not too far away from your house, and go only 10 minutes away. Returning at this distance gives you a healthy 20 minutes of walking. Focus on getting just 10 minutes away, not the total distance you will walk. Most women can do walking during pregnancy in such short times without getting too much tired or bored. If you can keep up with these 10-minutes-away walks, you will see that it gets so much easier after a while.
It can get so much easier that after a while you may feel like you didn’t walk long enough at the end of your daily route. So, once you started to end your route comfortably, you can up your distance a bit. Instead of getting 10 minutes away from home, try getting 15 minutes away. That gives you 30 minutes of walking daily. Later you can increase this time based on how you feel.
Of course, if you already enjoy walking and exercising, you may start with a long time right away. Just be careful and do not push yourself to your usual limit with walking during pregnancy. As we mentioned, you may experience sudden changes in your condition and get surprised by sudden exhaustion much earlier than what you are used to. | <urn:uuid:ce5a0e5a-c75d-4080-b392-8c2352367ade> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.babiesmothers.com/birth/walking-during-pregnancy-for-easy-delivery-397/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962247 | 811 | 2.234375 | 2 |
MKT 355: Consumer Behavior
Abstract: This open textbook has been adopted in a Marketing course for Business major students by Kirti Sawhney Celly at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The openly available collection of notes, audio, and video resources provides students with a cost-effective assortment of learning materials that offers up to date industry knowledge. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was that I am an advocate for strong applied, experiential, and service learning approaches to education. Most student access the open textbook in digital format through Blackboard.
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Textbook Title: No required text
Description: Brief notes on topics and readings, audio and video materials online (free and paid for)
Formats: Audio, video, html
MKT 355: Consumer Behavior
Description: Consumer buying patterns, motivation, and search behavior; consumer decision-making process; interdisciplinary concepts from economics, sociology, psychology, cultural anthropology, and mass communications; case analysis and research projects.
Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing
• Identify important consumer behavior concepts and apply them to business and practical situations.
• Explain the pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase activities in consumer decision making.
• Demonstrate an ability to apply consumer behavior theories to marketing practice. ProfC’s Consumer Behavior, Spring 2020 2
• Identify issues pertaining to self, personality, and lifestyle as they relate to consumers as individuals.
• Explain how group influence and opinion leadership affect buying decisions.
• Demonstrate a foundation in consumer behavior that can be used professionally.
Curricular changes: I changed the text, syllabus, learning activities, assessment (though I do not formally use rubrics), and developing additional materials and Interactions. I also have added longer office hours, found ways to bring in current affairs (this semester the pandemic). I have also added office hours and 'intrusive' interactions with students. Finally, students have extensive individual feedback on the content and communication of their work and see others' work.
Teaching and learning impacts:
I Collaborate more with other faculty Yes/No
I use a wider range of teaching materials: Yes/No
I believe my students' learning has improved Yes/No/Unsure
I believe student retention has improved : Yes/No/Unsure
There have been unexpected results: Yes/No (please describe)
Share other lessons learned from using OER.
OER Adoption Process
Describe the main motivation for adopting the open textbook e.g. saving students money, better control over instructional materials, ability to customize for students needs, etc.
Describe any external materials that you used to supplement the textbook.
Student access: Brief notes on topics and readings, audio and video materials online (free and paid for) available within Blackboard
Student feedback about using OER: There is verbal appreciation across students for the 'free' and 'inexpensive' materials.
I am a Marketing professor at the California State University, Dominguez Hills . I teach Principles of Marketing and Consumer Behavior.
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The second hour consists of Larry spotlighting White House Press Secretary Jen Pskai announcing the US boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Morgan Ortagus Former spokesperson for the State Department presenting the reason why for the boycott.
80 years ago today on the Date That Will Live In Infamy. The famous speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that was given in front of the Joint Session Of Congress on December 8, 1941. Larry plays the speech and tells the story of the Final Draft of the speech which has been lost until 1984, when it was found within the paerwork that was submitted to Congress after being left behind on the podium that President Roosevelt used for his famous speech in 1941. (Written By Michael Cullen) | <urn:uuid:a3caa36e-88e2-4018-b711-f248e8296be3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.larryconnersusa.com/special-tribute-to-dec-7-1941-2pm-lc-usa-12-07-21/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965428 | 147 | 1.726563 | 2 |
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (May 2, 2016) – Glassdoor®, the world’s most transparent jobs and recruiting marketplace, today released the results of Glassdoor Salary Negotiation Insights Survey revealing salary negotiation is not as common as one might think. Close to three in five (59 percent) of U.S. employees1 accepted the salary they were first offered at their current/most recent job, and did not negotiate. Women are far less likely to negotiate than men. Among employees, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of women accepted the salary they were offered and did not negotiate compared to 52 percent of men.
The survey, conducted online by Harris Poll of 2,015 American adults 18 and older2, revealed that only one in 10 (10 percent) of U.S. employees report they successfully gained more money in their salary negotiations, in their current or most recent job. Men were more than three times more likely than women to be successful in negotiating greater pay. Among U.S. employees, 15 percent of men reported their salary negotiations for their current or most recent job resulted in more money compared to just 4 percent of women.
The survey also revealed that older workers (aged 45-54) negotiated their salary less than younger workers. 66 percent of those aged 45-54 accepted their initial salary offer without negotiation, compared to 55 percent of those 35-44, and 60 percent of those aged 18-34. Significantly more women aged 45-54 (77 percent) did not negotiate compared to 56 percent of men the same age.
These findings are especially interesting in light of a recent report from Glassdoor Economic Research that reveals the gender pay gap increases with age. While the “adjusted” gender pay gap3 in the U.S. is 5.4 percent, the gender pay gap for younger workers (18-24) is 2.2 percent compared to 10.5 percent for workers over age 55. These new findings substantiate a negotiation gap between men and women that increases with age.
“While we were surprised that the majority of candidates do not negotiate their initial offers, we have confirmed the negotiation gap exists between men and women and this is something employees, managers and employers should pay attention to in hiring and compensation reviews,” said Dawn Lyon, vice president of corporate affairs and chief equal pay advocate at Glassdoor. “Greater salary transparency can illuminate pay gaps that exist at companies and empower people and employers to close them. Employees and candidates can now arm themselves with insights from Glassdoor about how much a specific job title is worth and build their case with data to gain confidence to simply ask for what they deserve.”
More Glassdoor Research on Gender Pay and Salary Transparency
The Glassdoor Salary Negotiation Insights Survey comes on the heels of Glassdoor’s Pay Equality Roundtable Discussion, which featured Hillary Clinton and other leaders, last month in New York City. The roundtable discussed Glassdoor Economic Research’s recent report on the Gender Pay Gap and what can be done to close the gap. Glassdoor currently holds approximately 12 million workplace reviews, ratings and insights shared by employees, including millions of salary reports, on more than 540,000 companies 4 around the world. Glassdoor has also recently conducted several research reports and surveys diving deep into the topic of pay and salaries.
ADDITIONAL GLASSDOOR SALARY RESEARCH, REPORTS & REFERENCES:
- FACT SHEET: Gender Pay Gap & Salary Transparency
- Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap: Revealing The Gender Pay Gap
- Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap: 10 Jobs Where Women Earn Less, More and The Same
- Are You Being Paid Fairly? Glassdoor’s Global Survey Reveals Salary Transparency Perceptions
- The Gender Pay Gap: Is it Real? New Survey Reveals Employee Perceptions Don’t Match Reality
- 3 Ways Salary Transparency Helps Business
- Facing a Pay Gap? Salary Negotiation Tips to get the Salary You Deserve
- Top 5 Takeaways from Glassdoor’s Pay Equality Roundtable Discussion Featuring Hillary Clinton & Other Leaders
- VIDEO: 3 Minute Recap From Glassdoor’s Pay Equality Roundtable Discussion
- VIDEO: #ShareYourPay: Real Employees Share Their Salaries
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2 US Survey Methodology – This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of Glassdoor from March 8-10, 2016 among 2,015 adults ages 18 and older, among which 1,157 are employed or unemployed and looking for a job, 950 are employed full/part time. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact email@example.com
3 Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap, Glassdoor Research, March 2016
4Glassdoor Data Labs, April 2016
Glassdoor is the most transparent jobs and recruiting marketplace that is changing how people search for jobs and how companies recruit top talent. Glassdoor combines free and anonymous reviews, ratings and salary content with job listings to help job seekers find the best jobs and address critical questions that come up during the job search, application, interview and negotiation phases of employment. For employers, Glassdoor offers recruiting and employer branding solutions to help attract high-quality candidates at a fraction of the cost of other channels. Glassdoor, which has more than 30 million users and content from more than 190 countries, operates one of the most popular job apps on iOS and Android. The company launched in 2008 and has raised approximately $160 million from Google Capital, Tiger Global, Benchmark, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, DAG Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, and others.
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It’s been a long, strange trip for the IPO of Saudi Aramco.
The rollout of Saudi Aramco this week appeared successful—billions were raised and the company’s valuation shot above $2 trillion, an estimation once considered a pipe-dream.
It’s unclear if the IPO’s current momentum will sustain itself
But even with such success, it’s unclear if the IPO’s current momentum will sustain itself, or even if it will contribute meaningfully to Saudi Arabia’s long-sought economic reform. The event, expected for over a year, was in many ways watered-down, and failed to meet the once-lofty expectations of its engineer, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
On Wednesday, December 11 shares began trading on the Tadawul, the Saudi exchange. With only 1.5 percent of the company offered, trading pushed the price past expectations, rising from 32 Saudi riyals to 35 Saudi riyals ($9.38).
The share price gives Saudi Aramco a valuation of $1.88 trillion, launching it past Microsoft and Apple as the world’s most valuable company.
The following day, shares surged past 38.7 riyals ($10.32) before dropping to 37, putting Aramco’s value past $2 trillion.
It’s the biggest IPO in history, with Aramco raising $25.6 billion, surpassing the $25 billion raised by Alibaba in September 2014.
Two years ago, shortly after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) first announced plans for an Aramco IPO, enthusiastic projections of a $2 trillion valuation dominated headlines. Initial plans announced in 2017 had the IPO listing 5 percent of Aramco’s total value—a $100 billion offering.
It was a fairly simple formula. Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves in 2017 were 261 billion barrels. Multiplied at $8/barrel, Aramco could be valued at $2.088 trillion.
The news of the IPO shook the oil world, and Wall Street banks crowed over the fees attached to such mammoth undertaking.
Was Saudi Aramco really worth as much as the Crown Prince claimed?
But analysts were skeptical: in the face of uncertain demand, persistent low prices, and changing government regulations driven by fears of climate change, was Saudi Aramco really worth as much as the Crown Prince claimed?
Estimates of Aramco’s value varied wildly. Wood Mackenzie conducted its own survey, and came up with the discouraging sum of $400 billion. Commentators at Bloomberg put the company’s value between $500 billion and $1 trillion, based on performance measured against other large energy firms, including Rosneft and ExxonMobil.
Given the unprecedented nature of the IPO, fixing on a single figure proved nearly impossible. Estimates from one economist contributing to Forbes ran from $100 billion to $2.2 trillion.
More recently, as the IPO date approached, numbers started to shore up. But it didn’t look too good for Riyadh.
The Saudi government, hedging its bets in the aftermath of the Abqaiq attack in September, set Aramco’s value at $1.7 trillion. Bloomberg and Bank of America set the figure much lower, at $1.22 trillion.
Riyadh did its best to make the state-owned company an attractive investment. Taxes on Aramco operations were cut in 2017. Saudi efforts in OPEC have concentrated on cutting production in order to boost prices, in order to bolster the IPO, originally scheduled for 2018.
Interest in launching the IPO on an American exchange declined once it became clear that stringent requirements would endanger the IPO’s success.
But investors weren’t taking the bait. Interest in launching the IPO on an American exchange declined once it became clear that stringent requirements would endanger the IPO’s success. Earlier this year, MBS took Aramco on the road, in an effort to elicit investor interest. The reception was tepid.
Once it became clear that international investors valued Aramco at between $1.1 and $1.7 trillion, Saudi plans changed. The roll-out was scaled back, from 5 percent to 1.5 percent. instead of launching on an international exchange, Saudi Aramco would be launched on the Saudi exchange, Tadawul.
Instead of institutional investors, hedge funds, or other big buyers, the Saudi government has pushed the IPO at home. Saudi nationals have been strongly encouraged to buy into the company, with national media pushing support for the IPO as a form of patriotism.
The push seemed to work. Interest in the IPO inside Saudi Aramco spiked, with nationals buying shares at the bank or through ATMs. Interest-free loans were offered as a way to buy more stock.
Foreign involvement in the IPO has thus far been quite minimal. Wall Street banks brought on to supervise the IPO were paid $64 million, a fairly small fee compared to the $300 million paid out by Alibaba after its 2014 IPO.
Apart from local investors, regional interests have also reportedly bought into the Saudi IPO. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, both Saudi allies, contributed to the offering, though exact figures are not known. One source reported that 10.5 percent of offers came from foreign investors.
But analysts on Wall Street and elsewhere are waiting to see what happens next. Interest in the IPO outside of Saudi Arabia was low, and the initial surge of investment seems to have been “manufactured,” according to one source.
One of the initial justifications for launching the IPO was the idea of transparency and integration—that by tying Saudi Arabia’s biggest company to the international market, it would help open up the Saudi economy to further international investment. That’s unlikely to happen if the bulk of Aramco shares are held by Saudi nationals.
Still, Saudi citizens who buy shares will own a piece of a hugely profitable enterprise. Saudi Aramco earned $111 billion in 2018, after producing 13.6 million bpd. Saudi Aramco’s reserves are larger than its five biggest rivals—ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, and BP—combined.
But without international exposure, Saudi Aramco will continue to be an institution closely tied to the Saudi government—making MBS its effective CEO.
Can Saudi Aramco maintain its current momentum? As any investor will tell you, it’s still far too soon to tell. But the biggest problems facing the IPO—its true valuation, and the transparency of its operations—will likely continue to dog Riyadh, as it tries to cement the status of Saudi Aramco’s as the world’s most valuable company. | <urn:uuid:a39817ef-b8fc-4340-a9af-76a56270ee2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energyfuse.org/aramco-ipo-concerns-linger-as-value-hits-2-trillion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955895 | 1,394 | 1.679688 | 2 |
While this week Elon Musk seeks supporters for his proposal to take Tesla private – an agreement for which Tesla's CEO tweeted to have "secured funding" – an investor is offering a solution: cryptocurrency.
Haydar Haba invests in private technology companies through its Andra Capital fund, which is about to raise $ 1 billion in a symbolic sale of its so-called Silicon Valley Coin. The cryptocurrency will represent a shareholding in the 20-30 startups with risk capital, from Silicon Valley to China, in Haba's portfolio, chosen for their growth potential and the probability of becoming public in the coming years.
While Tesla, which currently has a public trading stock, does not meet Andra Capital's criteria for companies backed by VC, Haba hopes that Musk will follow a similar path.
"I adore Tesla, I love Elon Musk, and I think he should consider blockchain and tokenization of assets," Haba said this week on Fortune's "Balancing the Ledger" show. "We would call it Tesla's coin."
If Musk takes Haba's advice, he could become a pioneer for a new way of investing in the stock market using digital tokens instead of traditional stocks, which many financial companies are already exploring.
"From my point of view, in 20 years, public and private will go away, and we will only have a high quality tokenised offer," added Haba. "These are the growth coins of the future."
Cryptocurrency, based on a blockchain that acts as a permanent ledger of transactions, offers investors many benefits that traditional actions do not have, he continued. For example, when Haba owned a private company, it would take "90 days and $ 30,000" just to transfer his shares to someone else.
"Now we can do it on the blockchain in seconds, between global investors," Haba said. "This is far better than anything else out there."
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Receding Gums Reverse Naturally
If you’re like most, then you’re looking for the ideal treatment for receding gums. But what is the ideal treatment for Receding Gums? Most folks do not possess the cash to venture out and find the very ideal treatment for receding gums.
The greatest natural treatment for receding gums is home remedies. It’s possible to use things that are normal household items you will have around your home. Today Read More About Receding Gums Reverse
First you wish to take a hot bath. If you have a bathtub, then apply your bathroom sink. At a tub, put some hot water in the bathtub having an orange peel inside. There are some natural products which may help with both types of Gum Disease.
Other home remedies for receding gums are baking soda and white vinegar. Take a teaspoon of white vinegar and sprinkle it evenly on your teeth. This mixture will serve as a natural toothpaste and help in keeping your teeth healthy.
Applying a small number of coconut oil into your teeth each day can help lessen the pain of gum tissue loss. You might also feature this natural treatment for receding gums by employing natural toothpaste.
A home remedy for natural treatment for receding gums is to consume regular apples. While they are not just a great supply of vitamin C, they’re a good source of vitamin C. Try having a fresh apple each day and eat it in the daytime. This may help replenish the vitamins that have been lost from the human body because you suffer with this condition.
Reverse Receding Gums
Yet another natural treatment for receding gums will be garlic. Pick a clove of garlic and set it on your tongue and chew it for 10 minutes.
The next and last home remedy for natural treatment for receding gums is yogurt. Eating the perfect type of yogurt might be beneficial to anybody who has to suffer from a receding gums. A lot of people only eat plain or low fat yogurt for this intention.
Just get some honey and break it up into pieces. This really is significantly better than chewing on a piece of gum because it’s just not sweet.
There are many home remedies for natural treatment for receding gums that is found online. You can discover many reviews of different natural products which are being used together with other treatments for this condition. You might also find strategies to quit chewing too much or just how to avoid grinding your teeth.
For most people, the best home treatment for receding gums would be natural. This could be the safest way to deal with this condition.
There are many people who experience tooth problems such as receding gums and teeth. The fantastic thing is there are lots of natural methods that can be utilized to fix the problem, for example treatments and whitening hints.
How To Reverse Receding Gums?
It is possible to see to the problem in many different ways. You need to determine which methods are readily available to you.
For example, if you stay near your dentist’s office then it is very likely that the practice is using got the use of a mouth guard. That really is very important if choosing the treatment so as to prevent any risks which could result from working together with a nonprofessional.
Once you visit your dentist’s office to have your teeth cleaned it really is important to show up early. You need to also contact the office ahead of time that they understand when you will be there so that they are able to wash the area properly.
Please be aware the area in which you need the treatment is sensitive and you should protect it by utilizing a barrier. If you don’t then you will feel discomfort when cleaning it. It could be best in order to prevent this as far as possible.
It’s strongly recommended that you drink plenty of water before, during and following the treatment. This helps to flush out the plaque and bacteria. It is best to drink at least eight glasses every day.
Reverse Receding Gums Naturally
The awful point about smoking is that it disturbs the gums and teeth. This can cause problems over time.
Lots of people realize that they are able to use home remedies such as ginger and other natural products. These products are designed to soothe the aggravation and help get rid of the bacteria that can be a problem within the moutharea. The most common way to do so is by using fresh or frozen raw vegetables such as celery, cabbage, apples, broccoli and green leafy vegetables.
Foods which are cooked as well as those which can be raw may also be used as natural products. It’s important to keep a source of the items on hand so that you can be sure that you have these available. This also makes it a lot easier to take a break and break as you’re brushing your teeth and using your toothbrush.
You should also be sure to brush more than one tooth when using the natural treatments. You must be mindful that brushing too frequently can let you suffer from more problems. When brushing two teeth in a time make certain you are employing the softest setting.
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Our random article today is Arthropleuridea.
Arthropleuridea is an extinct subclass of myriapod arthropods that flourished during the Carboniferous period, having first arose during the Silurian, and perishing due to climate change just before the Early Permian. Members are characterized by possessing diplosegement (fused "double segments", as in modern-day millipedes) paranotal tergal lobes separated from the body axis by a suture, and by sclerotized plates buttressing the leg insertions. Despite their unique features, recent phylogenetic research suggests Arthropleuridea be included among millipedes in the class Diplopoda. The subclass contains three recognized orders, each with a single genus.
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One of the biggest assets in any industry, business, or enterprise is information. The information can be structured or unstructured forms in paper documents. The documents often carry sensitive corporate ownership, policies, transactional, employee, decisions, and evaluation information. And since information is a huge business asset, document management becomes a critical yet essential business tool.
With many businesses also transforming into the digital world, creating and implementing the necessary document and data management platforms is imperative. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation efforts since more services are happening online. Similarly, it has exposed the loopholes and challenges in most document management systems available. So, how does blockchain technology help in all these? This article answers that in more detail.
What is Blockchain?
In plain English, Blockchain can be defined as a system of information recording that makes it impossible to alter, hack, or manipulate a system. Technically, it’s a duplicated and distributed digital ledger of transactions in a decentralized network of computer systems on the blockchain. Each block has several transactions, and every new transaction is recorded and added to each participant’s ledger. You can use it to create an effective online documentation system.
Obstacles in Document and Records Management
Even with the available document management systems, information management still faces some obstacles. They include:
Today, the issue of cyberattacks on data is not a matter of if it happens but when it happens. 2020 alone reported 69% higher cases than those recorded in 2019. Not even managed services providers are safe from these attacks. Storage and information sharing need to be in a completely private and confidential environment and have access control. But, having a single point of failure makes centralized databases vulnerable to cyberattacks and data loss.
• Data Regulations Compliance
In the recent past, there has been a rise in tighter cross-industry regulations. Organizations need to prove to courts or auditors that there has been no intentional data manipulation, logs, or workflows for use by the government, enforcement by a regulatory sector, or e-discovery processes.
• Industry Inefficiencies
Transaction consolidation through private or individual ledges is prone to errors in addition to being time-consuming. The systems may suffer from slow processing, high costs, and inconsistent or inaccuracy —here are some document management systems examples for managed document services.
Entry of Blockchain Technology in Document Management
Blockchain technology comes with unique and distinct benefits in the development of enterprise document management systems. The most prominent of the advantages is anonymity. Blockchain allows for transparent, trustworthy transactions where parties don’t need to reveal their identities. There’s also no need to register with any central authority, effectively eliminating the costs of third parties in a transaction.
Now to how blockchain helps in document management. Blockchain technology offers the benefits provided by the traditional online document management systems but enhances each feature and quality. Blockchain improves document management in the ways below:
Through blockchain document management systems, a business can store documents and data in an immutable form. This ensures that no one can tamper with documents, and every action taken on a document is recorded for transparency and traceability.
Document sharing is a normal part of the document cycle, and blockchain eliminates the risk of unauthorized access or data corruption. It provides a reliable and secure way of sharing data across an organization.
For a document management system to be effective, tracking is a vital element. With blockchain, any change starting from creating a document, changes, signatures, delivery, or receipt is tracked and verified.
Only the relevant parties access a particular document. The lesser people involve in document processing, the lower the chances of errors and data breaches. Access to documents in storage is also limited to the persons allowed, which are also recorded making enhancing transparency in document tracking.
• Cost efficiency
Blockchain eliminates the need for intermediaries and document management services, significantly reducing business costs. There’s also no need for legal professionals or auditors to verify the accuracy of documents and data. The technology keeps a clean record of every change within the document cycle with no chance of manipulation.
Overall, blockchain offers something that traditional document management services can’t. That’s efficiency, transparency, and trust.
The Bottom Line
Document management is an essential part of business processes. Implementing blockchain-based document management systems can save time, costs while making the process more efficient, reliable, and secure. Besides, it digitizes the entire paper process, ensuring there are no loopholes for document manipulation or alteration.
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BUY Zimbabwe is a campaign meant to promote quality, competitiveness, production and consumption of local products and services. The campaign has, however, faced a number of challenges, among them the importation of cheap products, smuggling and doubts from a skeptical consuming public. Zimbabwe Independent business reporter Kudzai Kuwaza (KK) caught up with the deputy chairman of the Buy Zimbabwe board of trustees and chairman of the business affairs committee as well as past president of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) Oswell Binha (OB, pictured) to discuss, among other issues, the challenges the campaign has faced, the impact of Statutory Instrument 64 (SI64) and the growing calls for the country to adopt the South African rand.
Find excerpts below:
KK: The Buy Zimbabwe campaign has been criticised for creating a monopoly for some products, leading to steep prices for consumers. What is your take on this?
OB: Buy Zimbabwe is a competitiveness driver that pushes for the production and consumption of quality goods and services. There is no nexus between the work of Buy Zimbabwe and price increases that you could have seen in the market.
The upward price trend we have seen in the country of late has been mainly a cost-push inflation exacerbated by increases in transactional costs due to shortage of foreign currency.
Commitment to consumption of locally-produced quality products does not only result in boosting capacity utilisation in productive sectors but acts as a comprehensive tool to create formal jobs, attract both domestic and foreign investment in our productive sectors.
Countries which have developed sophisticated industrial value chains ensured that citizens in those respective countries developed a propensity for consumption of their local products as a building block to producing for exports.
KK: Would you say the introduction of SI64, which bans imports of certain products, has benefitted your campaign? If so, how?
OB: SI64 has always been determined as a short-term measure to manage imports through removal of 43 product items on the Open General Import Licence. These products were carefully chosen after taking into account their potential market position, production possibility and impact in the economy. Notwithstanding the controversy regarding the SI64, the impact of the instrument together with previous measures, for example, measures which were previously applied to the cooking oil and dairy sectors, have yielded positive results which inter alia include:
Increase in capacity utilisation and employment;
New investments as in the case of D’Lite, Trade Kings, etc; and Improvement in value-added tax (as reported by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority).
In as much as the measures have successfully worked to save the selected sectors, they cannot foster sustainable solutions to Zimbabwe’s competitiveness problems because the measures by themselves are temporary and are constrained to cover the entire economy due to bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements assented to by Zimbabwe.
I must also not hasten to indicate that SIs are reactive tools to correct unforeseen negative pressure points in the economy. Zimbabwe needs a long-term national economic vison with clearly defined economic development benchmarks, investment security, certainty and consistency.
KK: The SI has also been criticised for promoting protectionism. What is your view on this?
OB: It is fair criticism, I must acknowledge. This criticism may be emanating from sectors whose economic activities largely depend on imports. However, it is unfortunate if the instrument is viewed as outright protectionism. Instead, it is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and a time-bound measure designed to achieve industrial growth.
While the principle of import substitution is sometimes viewed in a retrogressive manner in that it is seen as being counter to the central tenets of globalisation, the situation in Zimbabwe demands that we rely on it to offer temporary protection for our industry to counter the surge in the disruptive imports of cheap and “dumped” goods which can easily be produced locally.
Buy Zimbabwe thus provides an ecosystem of survival. This is a hopeful message in a recession because it’s not about how much money you have got, but how much you can keep circulating without letting it leak out.
KK: How has smuggling of products into the country affected your campaign?
OB: Smuggling is a perennial challenge. It has always been there and it is likely to continue, given the porosity of our borders and weak imports management infrastructure, systems and procedures. Its negative effects on the campaign are the same on the economy. It just distorts the market. It is our hope that the authorities shall work towards strengthening all institutions entrusted with superintending over imports management.
KK: What have been the challenges to the Buy Zimbabwe campaign?
OB: The biggest challenge has always been a complete buy-in from the generality of Zimbabweans. There is a clear lack of understanding on the generality of our consumers on how economies work hence the insatiable appetite for imported goods. Few consider the effects of purchasing on the local economy, on the ability of spending to increase wealth and jobs in local communities and regions, often referred to as the “local multiplier”.
As a result, the major strategic tool at the disposal of both public and private bodies often goes unused. For instance, government at various levels spend millions on economic and business development, and tens or hundreds of millions on procurement, yet these efforts are rarely co-ordinated to meet the same end. The wider economic impacts of purchasing are rarely taken into account, partly because there is lack of awareness and data regarding the different economic impacts of local and non-local businesses.
Secondly, Zimbabwe is a high-cost producing country and that makes most our products uncompetitive. This is also worsened by the low economies of scale, given the dwindling levels of capacity utilisation.
KK: As an industrialist and former president of the ZNCC, what is your view on the proposal in some quarters to re-introduce the Zimbabwe dollar backed by gold deposits? Some are calling for the country to adopt the rand as a currency. Is this feasible in your view?
OB: Zimbabwe’s economic challenges have never been a monetary phenomenon. Any monetary regime thrives on confidence, which is the major missing link in this economy. This country has a production challenge; we are consuming more than what we are producing.
We have a regime of dead economic enablers which continue to drain the fiscus hence crowding out investment in productive sectors. We have a crippling and increasing national debt which is militating against the country’s ability to access cheaper external funding. Continued supplementary budgets are symptomatic of the appetite of the state to spend outside the means of the national fiscus. The country has an enormous confidence gap.
Efforts for confidence-building initiatives and creation an environment of trust and certainty are key. These are the fundamental challenges that require attention forthwith. There is no magnitude of tinkering with the colour, value or type of currency that will bring real solutions to these real problems.
KK: A survey has found that companies are losing between US$20 million to US$40 million a month in lost production hours due to workers queuing for cash. How serious is the cash shortage problem for industry?
OB: Indeed, this is a serious albatross on the industry in terms of working hours lost. The cash challenge emanates purely from an unbalanced current account, where we are importing more than we are exporting. Secondly, because of the confidence issue, I strongly suspect people are hoarding cash which they then offload on the informal market where returns are very lucrative.
Utilisation of financial innovations has had a slow uptake. Plastic money, mobile money and internet banking acceptance, though noble, suffered a serious setback because their introduction was gravely misunderstood by the consumers, among other setbacks. The challenge has not only negatively impacted productivity in industry, but has heavily reduced disposable incomes.
KK: How is industry coping with the current liquidity crisis and how has this affected trade and retooling?
OB: Again, this is a serious challenge. Most micro decisions, at company level, have now been surrendered to the monetary authorities. It has stalled production to a significant extent due to slow the movement of external payments. In some instances, it has also contributed to the cost premium as companies sometimes have to access the money at a very high premium.
KK: Government has put in place measures to improve the ease of doing business and yet foreign direct investment has declined from US$545 million in 2014 to US$319 million last year. Why, in your view is there a contradiction between government’s efforts and falling investment inflows?
OB: Indeed, the country needs a policy framework that supports enterprise development and innovation by reducing bureaucracy and cost of business. However, this is not a sufficient and necessary measure as it does not deal with historical legacies which have been causing capital flight and diversion.
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Conditional formatting allows you to highlight important data and apply specific formatting to cells that meet certain criteria.
Excel’s conditional formatting is a powerful feature that allows you to change the format of cells based on a condition (or criteria). Conditional formatting helps highlight, emphasize, or differentiate data stored in an Excel spreadsheet.
All conditional formatting rules are based on simple logic: If the conditions are true, then specific formatting will be applied; if the conditions are false, then formatting will not be applied.
Conditional formatting helps you highlight important data in a dataset, emphasize anomalies, and visualize data using data bars, colors, and icon sets. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to apply conditional formatting to highlight cells or ranges of cells based on a condition.
How to Apply Excel Conditional Formatting
For instance, You are in charge of managing a large inventory list with several items and their respective quantity in stock. And if the quantity in stock of a particular item goes below, let’s say 50, it’s important that you need to kow that, so you can restock it.
If that inventory list has a dataset with hundreds of rows, it’s not very effective to search row by row to see if there are any numbers in that column that are below ’50’. That’s where the Conditional Formatting feature comes in handy. With a few clicks with your mouse, you can highlight all the values in a column that is less than ’50’.
Conditional Formatting with Highlight Rules
In our example, we have a worksheet containing sales records of some products. we want to highlight the amount that is less than 500 in sales.
To do that, first select the cell range you want to apply a rule (condition) to. In our example, we want to highlight the amount that is less than 500 in the ‘Amount’ column, so select column D. You can highlight values in a range of cells or multiple cell ranges, or even an entire sheet.
Then go to the ‘Home’ tab and click ‘Conditional Formatting’. Select ‘Highlight Cells Rules’ from the drop-down and since we want to find less than 500 values, click the ‘Less Than’ option. Excel offers seven preset highlight rules. You can use any of them to highlight data.
Next, a ‘Less Than’ dialog box will appear. In that, enter ‘500’ in the ‘Format cells that are LESS THAN’ box and select formatting for the highlight in the drop-down next to it.
Now, the cells that contain less than 500 in their values will be highlighted in the chosen formatting.
Let’s see how to highlight values that contain a specific text string. In the following example, we want to highlight all the employees from New South Wales (NSW).
To do that, go to Home tab –>Conditional Formatting –>Highlight Cells Rules –>Text that Contains.
You can use other options in the ‘Highlight Cells Rules’ horizontal drop-down menu to highlight Duplicate Values, Dates, Greater than, Equal to, or Between values.
In the Text That Contains dialog box, enter ‘NSW’ in the box and choose the formatting, and click ‘OK’.
Conditional Formatting with Top/Bottom Rules
Top/Bottom rules are another helpful built-in preset conditional formatting rules available in Excel. These rules allow you to call attention to the top (n) number of items, the top (n) number of percent, the bottom (n) number of items, the bottom (n) number of percent, or cell values that are above average or below average.
Let’s say you have a student’s mark record in a spreadsheet and you want to find out the top 10 performers (top 10 ranks) from that list. With conditional formatting, you can highlight the top 10 marks or top 15, or any (n) number of top items. To highlight the Top 10 items in a range of cells, first, select the range (Total) in the table.
Then, go to ‘Conditional Formatting’, expand ‘Top/Bottom Rules’ and select ‘Top 10 items..’ option.
In the ‘Top 10 items’ dialog box, change the number of ranks using tiny arrows in the left field. If you want to highlight the top 20 ranks (total mark) in your mark list, then set the number to 20. The default is already 10, so we keep it. Choose the cell formatting in the right field and click ‘OK’
The top 10 marks from the ‘Total’ column are highlighted as shown below.
Let’s say you want to find below-average marks in the ‘Exam 1’ column in that same mark sheet. To do that, go to Home tab –>Conditional Formatting –>Top/Bottom Rules –>Below Average.
You can set up your own conditional formatting instead of choosing one of the predefined conditions. To create your own formatting, select ‘Custom Format’ option in the ‘Below Average’ window.
A new Format Cells window will open up, here you can customize your formatting cells. We’re selecting an orange color to highlight the below-average marks. Once, your finished click ‘OK’ twice to see the result.
Apply Data Bars
Data Bars are simply horizontal bars in your cells. The size of the bar is relative to the value of the cell respective to the value of other cells in the selected range. That means the value of the short bar is low compared to other cell values and a long bar means the value is high compared to other cell values.
First, select the range of cells that you want visualized with the data bars.
Next, go to ‘Conditional Formatting’ in the ‘Home’ tab, then expand ‘Data Bars’ in the drop-down and choose your choice of the data bar.
The difference between the Data Bar format and other formats is that it shows on all cells instead of meeting a specific condition.
Apply Color Scales
Color scales are very similar to data bars because they both correlate the value of the individual cell to the value of other cells in the selected range. However, data bars visualize the cell value by the length of a bar, while color scales do it with color gradients.
Each color scale option uses two or three-color gradient patterns. One color is allotted to the highest values, another color is allotted to the lowest values and all other values in between get a blend of those two colors.
For this, we’ll use the same example we used for data bars. Select the cell range, the go to Home –> Conditional Formatting –> Color Scales. Then, choose a color range from the Color Scales horizontal dropdown menu.
When we chose the first color range, red color is allotted to the lowest value, green color is allotted to the highest value, and all the values in between are allotted colors that are a blend of red and green colors (as shown below). Since yellow is made by combining red and green at equal intensity, the cells with average values are assigned with it.
Apply Icon Sets
Icon Sets are another method to visualize the data inside each cell and correlate cells to one another.
Select the cells and click Home –>Conditional Formatting –> Icon Sets. You can choose any of these icon sets that are more suitable for your need. For our example, we’ll choose the first option under Directional.
Red, yellow, and green arrows that respectively indicate low, middle, or high-priced items.
Remove Conditional formatting
To remove conditional formatting, go back to the ‘Conditional Formatting’ option in the ‘Home’ tab and click ‘Clear Rules’. Then, choose which rules you want to clear.
We’ll choose ‘Clear Rules from Entire Sheet’ to remove all conditional formatting from the worksheet.
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Lightning struck the launchpad of NASA's new mega-rocket on Saturday, a spectacular-looking event that ultimately did no damage.
Thanks to proper preparation, NASA said that the event did no damage to the Artemis I, a 30-story vessel that aims to bring humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.
A video shared by photographer Jerry Pike on Twitter shows the moment a bolt of lightning struck the tower supporting the rocket.
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Artemis I was in the midst of a series of crucial fueling tests ahead of its maiden voyage when the lightning hit.
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A wet-dress rehearsal is when launch controllers load up the rocket with fuel, count down the launch all the way down to 10 seconds before liftoff, then stop and empty the tanks, Insider's Morgan McFall-Johnsen previously reported.
Four lightning bolts hit the launchpad on Saturday, three of which were relatively low intensity, per an update from NASA released Saturday.
A fourth strike was "the strongest we have seen since we installed the new lightning protection system," said Jeremy Parsons, NASA's deputy manager of the Exploration Ground Systems, according to Space.com.
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The system is equipped with sensors that help monitor the health of the rocket after a lightning bolt hits the structure, per Parsons.
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11. The Bradley Family
This information about the family is based almost entirely on the research of Jaap Arriens, who also supplied most of the images. Jaap's information, and some from other sources, has been assembled here by Frank Sharman
The founder of the firm was Walter S Bradley, whose father was an ironmaster, Thomas Bradley.
Thomas and Isaac Bradley
Thomas and Isaac were sons of William Bradley (born 1795 in Sedgley, died 1867 in Dudley) and Rose Hannah Hughes (born 1799, died 1879), who had married at All Saints, Sedgley, in 1816. Id addition to Thomas and Isaac they had two other sons, Benjamin and William John, and 4 daughters, Louisa, Mary Ann, Sarah and Hannah.
In Kelly's Directory of 1868 Isaac Bradley was living at "Ettingshall Villa, Ettingshall", and Thomas lives on "Wellington Street", both of which would be good addresses, suggesting that they were already well established. The same directory also lists them as iron masters and proprietors , together with John Southan, of Brook Furnaces Iron Company. Nothing is known about this company but the Black Country Sites and Monuments Record shows several iron works beside Bilston Brook. One suspects that the Brook Furnaces were here. The same information appears in Post Office Directory of 1872 with the addition of the information that they are "makers of best & common foundry pig iron."
In Kelly's Directory of 1880 Thomas and Isaac (without mention of John Southan) are listed as "iron masters, Capponfield". Presumably, since no mention is made of Brook Furnaces, they have left there altogether and acquired the Capponfield furnaces.
Of the Capponfield Furnaces the Black Country SMR, Site No. 10654, gives details of the ownership of the site from 1805, with Bagnals being in possession from 1839 to 1881. Then, in 1882 T & I Bradley appear. The SMR also records that the furnaces were blown out by the Bradleys around 1920, blown in again for one month in the late 1920s, and then gradually dismantled.
The document D/JSR/44/147 in the Wolverhampton City Achives is an "Abstract of the title to a piece of freehold land situate Broad Lanes in the County of Stafford" . The abstract recites a conveyance, in 1918, to Thomas and Isaac Bradley Ltd. of a piece of land of a little over 3 acres, fronting Broad Lanes "and known as Sandiford Meadow Estate" . (1918 is the year of W. S. Bradley’s death but there is no way of telling whether or not this is significant). This appears to be an extension of the Capponfield property. The abstract then recites a conveyance of 1932 by T & I Bradley Ltd to Bradley & Foster Ltd.. of land "known as the Caponfield Furnaces which said land was bounded on the north east by the GWR and the south by the BCN and on the west in part of Broad Lanes and contained an area of 12 acres 2 roods".
This last sale involves a receiver acting on behalf of debenture holders but that does not mean the company was in receivership. It is likely that the Bradley Co. wanted to sell up and the denture holders had to be satisfied first. It is not known whether the occurrence of the name Bradley in Bradley and Foster Ltd indicates that the sale is an arrangement within the family or whether there is no connection at all.
Walter S Bradley
According to an account of the life and work of Walter S. Bradley, which appeared in the Birmingham Gazette on 16th September 1908 Walter S. Bradley was born in 1854 and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School. The School Register (published in 1926) records, entering the school in 1866: "Bradley, Walter Smith. July 1854. Son of Thomas Bradley, Caponfield, Bilston. J. P.. Late of Somerset Grange, Edgbaston. Died March 17th, 1918". His birth certificate records that he was born in 1854 at Shut End, Kingswinford. In 1868 he is with his parents in Bilston. In 1881 he is with his parents at 8 Soho Road, Handsworth. (On the site of this house there now stands a large Sikh temple).
In 1883 he married Sophia Margaret Lindley, who had been born in 1858 and was about four years his junior. She was from Staleybridge, Ashton-under-Lyme, near Manchester. They had three children, Hermon (born 1885), Irene (born 1888) and Hector (born 1891).
When it was on the market in 2005 it was described as being in a plot of about half an acre and having a drawing room, dining room, morning room/library/ breakfast kitchen, 8 bedrooms and three bathrooms, as well as a coach house and beautiful gardens. His initials were carved on the fire surround in the drawing room.
The report in the Birmingham Gazette notes that on the death of his father, in 1898, Walter not only took over the reins at Bradley’s but also took over his interest in the "Caponfield Furnaces" and became a life director of that company. It also notes that he was a member of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce; that he was a strong Unionist and Tariff Reformer; and that he had declined invitations to enter public life – although he was a J.P. - and, in his limited spare time from work, "his recreations have been restricted to riding and driving and, latterly, motoring". (The "driving" referred to would have been carriage driving).
Walter S. Bradley died at Somerset Grange on 17th March 1918, aged 63. His wife, Sophia, died on 10th July,1921, aged 58.
Hermon Bradley, the first son of Walter S, was born in 1885 and christened Cuthbert Hermon, but was always know as Hermon. He was educated at Rossall School. He joined the company in 1903 and took over control of it when his father died in 1918.
His first wife was Eleanor M. Bird, whom he married in 1912. She was the daughter of Sir Alfred Bird, the inventor of baking powder and of Bird’s custard, and a millionaire, who lived at Tudor Grange. He died 1878. His son, Sir Alfred Bird, was MP for Wolverhampton West, from 1910 to 1922.
Hermon and Eleanor had two children, Sylvia (always known as Brownie) who was born in 1914 and Lesley. When their mother, Eleanor, died early the two daughters went to live with their maternal grandmother at Tudor Grange. At this time Hermon was living in the Queen’s Hotel Birmingham, paying weekly visits to his daughter at Tudor Grange.
On leaving Birmingham Hermon bought a house called "Eyot Wood", at Shiplake on Thames. He also had a holiday home somewhere in Wales. His daughter, Brownie, recalls:
"My father, who was a Bradley, made hardware, dustbins, stable buckets and so on. He lived in the Queen's Hotel in Birmingham and used to visit us every week. Then he met my stepmother, married her and bought a house at Shiplake, Henley, in Oxfordshire, because Daddy simply adored boats and had always longed to live by the water".
The stepmother was, of course, Hermon’s second wife, Marie Josette Tooth. They had two daughters, Pamela and Yvonne Jenifer (always known as Jenifer). In 1952 Jenifer married James Michael Dalrymple Symons. who participated in the 1948 Olympics in London. He was in the 1,000 metre Canadian Canoe pairs. He and his partner finished 8th out of 9.
Hermon not only "adored boats" he had been, as a young man, a racing car enthusiast and is said to have driven at Brooklands. He remained noted for his fast driving for most of his life.
Brownie married Neville Crump, the most famous and successful national hunt trainer of the post-war years. He went on to win three Grand Nationals, five Scottish Grand Nationals and two Welsh Nationals.
In a biography of Neville Crump ("Ever Loyal: the biography of Nevllie Crump, Tim Fitzgeorge-Parker, 1986) Brownie is described thus:
"It was after Neville had decided to leave the Army that he met Brownie. In view of his total involvement with horses, it was fairly inevitable that he should meet the love of his life at a hunt ball. Twenty-year-old Sylvia Diana Bradley was enough to turn the head of any young man. Blonde, vivacious, with a lovely figure, she had a wonderful sense of humour and was always tremendous fun".
Brownie's sister, Lesley, married Robert Leonard Duller, who served as a naval officer in Wolrd War 2 and later was a well know car racer at Brooklands.
Hector Bradley was Walter S. Bradley’s second son. He was born in 1891, married in 1922 and died in 1940. He had two children: a daughter, Joan and a son, Dennis.
Hector joined the family company but when the First World War broke out his older brother, Hermon, stayed with the company and ran it, and its war work.
Hector "was put with the dead and the dying" (as his daughter Joan recalled) but miraculously survived and was sent back to England immediately, where the doctors told him that he would probably live for no more than 5 years. For the rest of his life he had to live with a stoma in his throat. He was gazetted Captain, perhaps on his leaving the army. He rejoined the company. In 1940 he took his own life, an act perhaps not unconnected with a feeling that the horrors of the first war were starting all over again.
Vivienne Joan Bradley
Joan (as she was always known) was Hector Bradley’s daughter. In August 1946 she married Captain Willem Jacob Arriens, Regiment Jagers, Royal Netherlands Army.
From the certificates that Willem had to obtain from the Dutch Army permitting him to marry, we learn that Joan was born at Lichfield on 21st March 1927 but her address at the time was Little Aston Park, Little Aston, Sutton Coldfield. Capt Arriens was born at Arnhem (Netherlands) on 5th September 1917.
One of their children is Jaap Arriens who undertook the research on which this page is based. (Jaap also had to get Dutch Armey permission to marry when he married Joy in 1972!).
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- Genetic factors define the sex of an individual where as Gender tends to denote the social and cultural role of each sex within a given society.
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Gender is considered as a process, a type of social stratification and also as a structure of the society .Gender is socially constructed . Society assigns roles to the different sex ; like in daily interaction , observation of rituals , taking the leadership , managing household jobs , doing works out side etc. There are certain norms which society fix for the people . Individual learns gender assigned roles from parents , schools , religious and cultural teachings ,from media and from other social institutions .
Gender may be masculine and feminine. In every society masculine depicts men who tend to enjoy more social and cultural freedom than that of their feminine counterpart .It is a way of life which is directed by the society and is reflected in the activities of human being . But it is not sex and it is separate from the sex on the ground that it depends upon the social phenomena rather than biological.
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Uses of Flonase Sensimist
Flonase Sensimist is an over-the-counter (OTC) medicine used to treat seasonal and year-round allergy symptoms in adults and children 2 years old and older. Flonase Sensimist may also help red, itchy, and watery eyes in adults and teenagers with seasonal allergic rhinitis.
Flonase Sensimist Drug Class
Flonase Sensimist is part of the drug class:
Side Effects of Flonase Sensimist
Common side effects of Flonase Sensimist include:
- irritated or burning nose
- runny nose
- stomach pain
This is not a complete list of Flonase Sensimist side effects. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Flonase Sensimist Interactions
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take including prescripion and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your doctor if you take:
- Some antibiotics and some antifungals, including: clarithromycin (Biaxin); erythromycin (Ery-Tab); isoniazid (Nydrazid); itraconazole (Sporanox); ketoconazole (Nizoral); telithromycin (Ketek).
- Protease inhibitors, including: amprenavir (Agenerase); atazanavir (Reyataz); fosamprenavir (Lexiva); indinavir (Crixivan); nelfinavir (Viracept); ritonavir (Norvir); saquinavir (Invirase).
This is not a complete list of Flonase Sensimist drug interactions. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Flonase Sensimist Precautions
Flonase Sensimist may cause serious side effects including:
- slow wound healing. Do not use Flonase Sensimist until your nose has healed if you have a sore in your nose, if you have surgery on your nose, or if your nose has been injured.
- eye problems including glaucoma and cataracts. You should have regular eye exams.
- decreased ability to fight infection. This will make you more likely to get an infection. Tell your doctor if you are exposed to chickenpox or measles.
- slow growth in children. A child taking Flonase Sensimist should have his/her growth checked regularly.
- allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Call your doctor and stop Flonase Sensimist right away if you have any symptoms of an allergic reaction:
- swelling of the face, throat and tongue
- breathing problems
Flonase Sensimist can cause dizziness. Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how Flonase Sensimist affects you.
To avoid withdrawal side effects, do not stop using Flonase Sensimist spray at once. Discuss with your doctor about slowly decreasing the dose before stopping use of this medication altogether.
Do not take Flonase Sensimist if you:
- are allergic to Flonase Sensimist or any of its ingredients
- are taking ritonavir (Norvir)
- have an injury or surgery to your nose that has not fully healed
Flonase Sensimist Food Interactions
Medicines can interact with certain foods. In some cases, this may be harmful and your doctor may advise you to avoid certain foods. In the case of Flonase Sensimist there are no specific foods that you must exclude from your diet when receiving Flonase Sensimist.
Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you are:
- pregnant or breastfeeding
- have or had glaucoma or cataracts
- taking medications for HIV infection
- are taking ketoconazole (an antifungal medication)
- are using a steroid medication for asthma, allergies, skin rash, allergic reactions, inflammation or eye conditions
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Flonase Sensimist and other medicines may affect each other, causing side effects. See "Drug Interactions" section.
Flonase Sensimist and Pregnancy
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies with Flonase Sensimist in pregnant women. Flonase Sensimist should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the unborn baby.
Flonase Sensimist and Lactation
It is not known whether fluticasone furoate (the active ingredient in Flonase Sensimist) is excreted in human breast milk. However, other corticosteroids have been detected in human milk. Since there are no data from controlled trials on the use of this medication by nursing mothers, caution should be exercised when Flonase Sensimist is administered to a nursing woman.
Flonase Sensimist Usage
- This medicine is for use in the nose only. Do not spray it in your eyes or mouth.
- An adult should help a young child use this medicine.
- Do not take extra doses or stop taking Flonase Sensimist without telling your healthcare provider.
- Flonase Sensimist may begin to work within 24 hours after you take your first dose. It may take several days before it has its greatest effect.
- You will get the best results if you keep using Flonase Sensimist regularly each day without missing a dose. If you miss a dose by several hours, just take your next dose at the usual time. DO NOT take an extra dose.
Flonase Sensimist Dosage
Take Flonase Sensimist exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully.
Adults and Adolescents Aged 12 Years and Older
- For people aged 12 years and older, the usual starting dosage is 2 sprays in each nostril, once a day. After you begin to feel better, your healthcare provider may tell you that 1 spray in each nostril once a day may be enough for you.
Children Aged 2 to 11 Years
- For children aged 2 to 11 years, the usual starting dosage is 1 spray in each nostril, once a day. Your healthcare provider may tell you to take 2 sprays in each nostril once a day. After you begin to feel better, your healthcare provider may change the dosage to 1 spray in each nostril once a day. An adult should help a young child use this medicine.
Flonase Sensimist Overdose
If you take too much Flonase Sensimist, call your doctor or local Poison Control Center right away.
Forms of Medication
- Store the device in the upright position with the cap in place between 15° and 30°C (59° and 86°F).
- Do not freeze or refrigerate.
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Use of fecal occult blood test up during pandemic; more than half of respondents willing to do at-home FOBT in lieu of colonoscopy
TUESDAY, Oct. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Colonoscopy rates were similar during versus before the COVID-19 pandemic, but use of the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) increased, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons, held virtually from Oct. 23 to 27.
Kristine Kenning, M.D., from the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study involving 745 individuals to examine attitudes toward colorectal cancer screening during the pandemic.
The researchers found that respondents had higher completion of FOBT in the previous three years than American Cancer Society-reported FOBT use pre-COVID-19 (32 versus 11 percent); during the pandemic, 50 percent of respondents completed FOBT. Compared with pre-COVID-19 rates, respondents had higher unemployment rates (7.4 versus 2.6 percent). When scheduling colonoscopies, respondents confirmed concerns about copays and COVID-19 (41 and 65.9 percent, respectively). Some of those who had concerns reported that this delayed their screening. The likelihood of colonoscopy was increased with offerings of gloves and masks, smaller offices, and weekend screening. In lieu of colonoscopy, 48.1 percent of respondents were willing to do an at-home FOBT. If the FOBT was positive, 93.0 percent would be willing to do a follow-up colonoscopy.
“Our study found that people are compliant with, and willing to do, home-based fecal occult blood testing,” Kenning said in a statement. “This test provides a very important way for us to increase screening for colorectal cancer.”
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Chronic Disease – Stroke
Chronic Disease in the United States – Stroke
This week the focus of my thoughts for the blog post has moved to strokes, sometimes called a brain attack. A stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks the blood supply to the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts. Anyone can have a stroke, including children, and some risk factors are beyond your control such as age, sex and ethnicity.
Stroke risk varies by race and ethnicity and is the fourth leading cause of death for Americans. Risk of having a first stroke is nearly twice as high for blacks than for whites and blacks are more likely to die following a stroke than are whites. Hispanics risk of stroke falls between that of whites and blacks. American Indians, Alaska Natives, and blacks are more likely to have had a stroke than are other groups.
Stroke risk increases with age, but stroke can, and does, occur at any age. In 2009, 34% of people hospitalized for stroke were younger than 65 years. The prevalence of stroke between men and women is pretty much the same except between the ages of 20 – 39 and 60 – 79 when a slightly higher percentage of women were afflicted from 2007 – 2010 according to the American Heart Assn.
Signs of Stroke
We hear it often, but it never hurts to be reminded when it could be the difference between strength and disability, life and death, so here are five warning signs of stroke in men and women:
- Sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm or leg – especially on one side of the body.
- Sudden confusion, trouble speaking, or difficulty understanding speech.
- Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes.
- Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or lack of coordination.
- Sudden severe headache with no known cause.
Also, if you think someone may be having a stroke, act F.A.S.T. and do the following simple test:
F – Face: Ask the person to smile. Does one side of the face droop?
A – Arms: Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?
S – Speech: Ask the person to repeat a simple phrase. Is there speech slurred or strange?
T – Time: If you observe any of these signs, call 911 immediately.
Several conditions and certain lifestyle choices can put you at a higher risk for stroke. The most important risk factors are:
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Cigarette smoking
- Prior Stroke
There are several steps you can take to reduce your risk for stroke:
- Eat a healthy diet
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Be physically active
- Don’t smoke
- Limit alcohol use
- Prevent or treat high cholesterol
- Prevent or treat high blood pressure
- Prevent or treat diabetes
If you think you or someone you love is having a stroke, acting quickly to get medical treatment lowers your risk of disability or even death, so recognizing the symptoms and getting help is extremely important.
Following are several different types of strokes that can affect a person.
- TIA – Transient Ischemic Attack
This is often labeled “mini-stroke”, it is more accurately characterized as a “warning stroke” and is a warning you should take very seriously.
TIA is caused by a clot, the only difference between a stroke and a TIA is that with TIA the blockage is transient (temporary). TIA symptoms occur rapidly and last a relatively short time. Most TIAs last less than five minutes; the average is about a minute. When a TIA is over, it usually causes no permanent injury to the brain.
- Ischemic Strokes (Clots)
Ischemic stroke accounts for about 87 percent of all cases.
Ischemic strokes occur as a result of an obstruction within a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain. The underlying condition for this type of obstruction is the development of fatty deposits lining the vessel walls, which is called atherosclerosis. The fatty deposits can cause two types of obstruction:
- Cerebral thrombosis – blood clot that develops at the clogged part of the vessel.
- Cerebral embolism – this term generally refers to a blood clot that forms at another location in the circulatory system, usually the heart and large arteries of the upper chest and neck. A portion of the blood clot breaks loose, enters the bloodstream and travels through the brain’s blood vessels until it reaches vessels too small to let it pass. A second important cause of embolism is an irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation. A-fib creates conditions where clots can form in the heart, dislodge and travel to the brain.
- Hemorrhagic Strokes (Bleeds)
Hemorrhagic stroke accounts for about 13 percent of stroke cases and results from a weakened vessel that ruptures and bleeds into the surrounding brain. The blood accumulates and compresses the surrounding brain tissue.
Two types of weakened blood vessels usually cause hemorrhagic stroke: aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations or AVMs.
- An aneurysm is a ballooning of a weakened region of a blood vessel. If left untreated, the aneurysm continues to weaken until it ruptures and bleeds into the brain.
- An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a cluster of abnormally formed blood vessels. Any one of these vessels can rupture, also causing bleeding into the brain.
May is American Stroke Month – a good practice would be to make sure your family and friends know the warning signs of a stroke by reviewing the act F.A.S.T. test.
Spring has finally arrived! It is my hope that you will be able to get outside and enjoy the weather and have fun being active.
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Do What You Know
“And he answered, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’” Luke 10:27 (NASB)
When you are sick, you go to the doctor, and if she finds an infection, she writes you a prescription. Guess what the doctor expects you to do while you are waiting to get better? Take the medicine.
She doesn’t expect you to read about the medicine. She doesn’t expect you to talk about the medicine. She doesn’t even expect you to understand what the medicine is or how it works. Just do what the doctor told you to do, and let the outcome present itself in time. When we take medicine, we wait for it to work. It is never instant.
But keep in mind, the longer you put off taking the medicine, the longer it will take to work. And, if you choose not to take the medicine at all, you can pretty much expect to remain sick.
Far too many Christians like to talk to other people about what God’s Word says we are to do in our lives. We like to think about His Word. But far too few will actually act on it.
And yet, God, the Great Physician, has prescribed what we need in His Word. Whether or not we follow what He has revealed — things like love, forgiveness, trust, faith, hope and more — will determine how long we wait. These are the things being developed within us on detours. These are the characteristics of Christ.
“So, what am I to obey?” you may be asking. You are to obey what you know. We are to obey what God has already revealed to us in His Word. You or I will never see what God plans to do in secret unless He sees us obeying what He has already revealed in public.
God never tells you everything at once. But, He has told you something. Whatever that is, obey it. However small, however insignificant it may seem — obey it. Do what you know to do, even if you don’t know what it is doing.
If you still don’t know where to start, you can start with the simplest of all commandments to remember, but the most difficult to live out. It’s simple to remember because it basically boils down to one word: love. It’s difficult to live out because this one word contains the essence of all the other commandments we’ve ever been given.
It says: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27).
One man who obeyed and loved well was Job. Job’s friends were not that friendly. In fact, when Job was at the worst of times, his friends judged, griped, criticized, accused and more. For Job, praying for his friends involved a lot more than asking God to bless them. It involved a significant amount of faith, forgiveness, acceptance, humility and love.
It wasn’t until after Job showed grace and kindness to those who had brought him pain that God restored him. This is because Job had obeyed the law of love and asked God to give His goodness to others.
Learning to wait well with patience involves learning how to put into practice the regularity of living as a child of God. It means putting into practice those things we already know.
- Working as unto the Lord, even if it’s not your favorite place to work
- Honoring the authority over you, even if you don’t particularly like or respect that authority
- Bearing with one another’s burdens, even when you feel weighted down by your own
Do what God has already said to do. Then watch Him usher you straight out of your detour and into your destiny.
Heavenly Father, I want to love like You love, forgive like You forgive and honor You with my heart in every way. Mold me into the person You will take great pleasure in. Use me as a testimony of grace, kindness and love to those around me. I pray for a double portion of favor and blessing in my life, God, and ask You to give me wisdom on how to set myself up for just that. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
TRUTH FOR TODAY:
Galatians 5:14, “For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’” (NASB)
Psalm 27:14, “Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.” (NASB)
REFLECT AND RESPOND:
In what area is God asking you to wait and trust Him for His leading and timing?
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This month got here to gentle a zero-day vulnerability that has lengthy been exploited through evildoers inside of Google Chrome, however that has now been patched through the corporate. This flaw has been weaponized through an Israeli undercover agent corporate and utilized in assaults towards Heart Jap newshounds and their households.
In accordance with the exploitation, cybersecurity company Avast hooked up the incident to Candiru (often referred to as Saito Tech). A Home windows malware dubbed DevilsTongue has been deployed through this staff on quite a few events in the past through exploiting prior to now unknown flaws.
Necessarily, this can be a zero-day vulnerability, with the CVE-2022-2294 designation, which has been recognized in Google Chrome. Because it seems, it’s reminiscence corruption in WebRTC that used to be exploited in Chrome’s renderer procedure to be accomplished shellcode in some way that used to be now not meant.
Explotaion & Goals
Right through the months following the July 2021 discovery of the malware through Microsoft and CitizenLab, Candiru saved a low profile for a number of months.
It’s most likely that it took its time updating its malware as a way to steer clear of detection through the present detection gadget, that’s why it took goodbye.
This time it go back with an up to date toolset in March 2022, focused on customers positioned within the following nations:-
Attackers are exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome to release watering hollow assaults on customers. The assaults have been considered extremely centered, but it surely’s now not but transparent whether or not that is true.
It sounds as if that the attackers in Lebanon have compromised a web site this is utilized by information company workers as a way to perform their tasks.
An artifact of chronic, XSS assaults used to be discovered at the compromised web site, similar to pages that contained the next knowledge:-
It’s at this level that Candiru gathers extra details about the sufferer as quickly because it arrives on the exploit server. Attackers acquire about 50 information issues concerning the sufferer’s browser and ship that knowledge to them within the type of a profile of the sufferer’s laptop.
Quite a few details about the sufferer has been gathered, together with the:-
- Display screen knowledge
- Tool sort
- Browser plugins
- Tool reminiscence
- Cookie capability
On account of this, it’s ensured that the exploit can be additional safe and that most effective the centered sufferers would obtain it. The exploit server sends an encryption key to the sufferer by the use of RSA-2048 if the knowledge gathered within the exploit has happy its necessities.
The usage of this encryption key at the side of the AES-256-CBC set of rules, it’s conceivable to ship zero-day exploits to the sufferer. So as with the intention to ship the exploit, an encrypted path will have to first be established in order that it may be delivered anonymously.
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Cholera is an acute, transmissible and dangerous infectious disease, as it is characterized by a severe intestinal infection that can lead to death due to dehydration. The causative bacterium is the choleric vibrion or Cholerae swing, comma-shaped, mobile that develops in the human gut and produces the toxin responsible for the disease.
The etiological agent of cholera is found in the feces of infected people, sick or not. Man, the vibrion's only reservoir, even eliminates 10 million bacteria per gram of feces. Contagion is direct through contaminated water and food. Flies and other insects can act as mechanical vectors, transporting the vibrium to water and food.
Vibrio cholerae under the electron microscope
The incubation period is from 6 to 10 hours to 2 to 3 days. After incubation, diarrhea suddenly appears, accompanied by headache, muscle cramps (calf), abdominal pain, vomiting and dehydration. The evolution of the disease is also caused by the state of malnutrition of the individual. The duration of symptoms is 3 to 4 days on average. If the patient is not treated urgently, death occurs within 14 to 48 hours.
Cholera prevention is done by basic hygiene measures:
- wash hands with soap and water whenever food is prepared, before meals, after using the toilet, after changing diapers, and after arriving from the street;
- disinfect, with bleach, sinks, sinks and toilets;
- use garbage bags in the dumpsters and keep them covered;
- fruits and vegetables should be thoroughly washed and soaked for half an hour in one liter of water with one tablespoon of sodium hypochlorite (bleach);
- red meat must have sanitary control.
Treatment is simple and should be performed as close to the place where the symptom started. Cholera requires medical attention. Antibiotics, always under medical advice, may be used orally or intravenously. It is important that hydration starts as soon as possible. Oral serum should be given while providing medical attention.
Educational campaigns on personal hygiene among the neediest populations are very important.
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I was working at Wired magazine when the iPod Nano was announced, early September 2005. MacWorld was happening a few blocks away, but I couldn’t leave to check it out that day. Late in the morning, I saw the first photo of the Nano on a coworker’s monitor. Initial reaction: “Wow, that fake ‘tiny iPod’ ad is pretty funny.” An hour later I realized it wasn’t fake – and immediately became infatuated.
By the end of the week I owned two Nanos and created a successful “DIY iPod Nano Case” project post on Sneakmove. Here’s the post and original template for you to use, update, enjoy, etc.
[Originally posted September 24, 2005]
the new ipod nano is amazing but what a pity that cases are still unavailable.
amid reports of scratch-sensitive screens we propose a solution: take matters into your own hands and make your own nano case.
how it works:
1. download the nano template and print it out.
2. following instructions, cut on solid lines and fold on dotted ones.
and even better is to use the cutout as a guide to trace onto any other material. fold and tape. voila! (here’s a secret: a packet of eclipse gum is nearly the perfect size–one less piece of packaging clogging up a landfill, and no one will know what you’ve really got in your pocket.)
you can probably do better, so feel free to tweak template (.ai illustrator vector format)-mix, modify, improve. send the files and pics (sneakmove at gmail) of your achievements and we’ll put ’em online.
need an ipod? get one here: ipod nano.
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Canned food are boring, right? They are usually the last option for a meal when we discover there is nothing to eat at home. But apparently it doesn’t have to be that way here in Japan. Canned food first developed in 1804 in France when they began canning food for soldiers to take with them to the battlefield. Canned food can be found everywhere in the world today, but we were surprised to learn that of approximately 1,200 varieties available in the world, about 800 kinds are produced in Japan – a whopping 67% share.
It’s great that Japan produces such a huge variety, but then, it makes it really hard to figure out which ones are good. In his new book about Japanese canned food, Hayato Kurokawa, aka Dr. Canned Food, kindly lists up the best 36 local canned food which can be purchased at supermarkets in Japan. Thank you, Dr. Canned Food, for your passion for and dedication to the art of canned food!
In the book there are quite a few canned products that I never knew existed. For instance, meet “Muki Soba” by Umeda. Muki soba is a delicacy of Yamagata Prefecture, but this soba is not the kind of long noodles that you are used to. Rather, the can contains boiled round buckwheat (the skin is peeled off) in the special soba dashi sauce.
Top 10 from the 36 best canned food selected in Kurokawa’s book are (*drum beat, please*):
- Hotei Yakitori Tare Aji
- Hagoromo Sea Chicken (Tuna) Fancy
- Hotei Nagoya Kohchin Yakitori
- Hagoromo Japanese Sea Chicken Large Flake
- Maruha Ariakeni (canned sea shell)
- Maruha Saba Mizuni Gekka (canned fish)
- Nozaki Japanese Beef Stew
- Sunoko Whale meat stew
- Inaba Tuna and Thai curry
- Meijiya Vienna Sausage
What we were most surprised to learn was the fact that Hagoromo Foods Co. Ltd. has sold over 10 billion cans of its ‘Sea Chicken‘ Tuna series to date since 1958. 10 BILLION CANS! As big fans of Sea Chicken, I’m sure all of us at Takaski have contributed to that statistic and will continue to do so in the future.
When Dr. Canned Food appeared on a very popular TV show “The World Matsuko Doesn’t Know”, he also introduced one of the most expensive canned food in Japan – Maruhanichiro’s Akebono Select King Crab Leg Meat”. The price for this can of crab meat is US$82.With $82, you could have a fairly good meal at a fairly decent restaurant in Japan, so it must be really, really and really good.Only high end department stores or restaurants sell this can, so if anyone wants to try the can, please let me know.
Another product Dr. Canned Food introduced was canned agedashi tamago or canned rolled omelet. It was sensational to us – canned omelet!? So we decided to give it a go in our office. It’s an interesting concept, but we will probably stick to fresh omelet in the future.
Now, apparently there is one weakness that the Japanese canned food industry has been criticised for. It has long been pointed out by experts that while canned food itself is amazingly tasty, the design of labels is tasteless. What does it mean ‘tasteless’ when there is such a diverse design out there in Japan. Our favourite is the design of Saba Curry and Coach Curry. Who wants to try with us? | <urn:uuid:3fdb10d7-d0a7-42f3-bdce-587d27047afa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.takaski.com/legendary-canned-goods-in-japan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961902 | 800 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Why Is Every Person Talking About Blog Writing?
Blogging is an exceptional way to broaden your reach. As a material creator, you can share your knowledge and also create useful web content for your target audience. You can additionally help your audience develop count on by supplying info that they discover useful as well as fascinating. As a result, your blog site can be a beneficial device for aiding consumers find out about your market as well as recognize your expertise. It’s easy to use a blog as part of your organization technique. So, begin currently and grow your target market!
In the early nineties, the first true blog sites began appearing on the net. These were open journals that anyone could read. Pioneers of this on the internet area consist of Claudio Pinhanez, Justin Hall, and also Carolyn Burke. As the appeal of blog writing expanded, the general public and also media paid attention to the material, as well as bloggers began documenting their very own experiences. In 1997, the Net organized the first popular blog site, called Open Diary. The initial true blog sites, which were individual diaries, began to spread out.
The very first blogging website was created in 1994. It was a shared journal of life, incorporating text with electronic images and video clip. The first on the internet journal was a “Wearable Wireless Web Cam.” In 1994, the Wearable Wireless Webcam transferred live video to an internet site. This was the very first instance of semi-automated blogging. The technique of sousveillance was after that developed. It was a prominent way for organizations to check their employees and also clients.
The concept of blogging emerged in the late nineties. It was a new method for non-technical people to upload information on the internet. Prior to this, releasing material online needed expertise of HTML, File Transfer Protocol, and the capability to create a blog post. The very early Web individuals were usually computer system lovers. Today, many blogs are interactive Web 2.0 sites. Somehow, this makes blogging a social networking service. However, it is important to recognize that a blog is various from a websites that is static.
As opposed to conventional sites, a blog site is a conversational medium. Rather than focusing on a particular subject, a blog writer can discuss anything pertaining to his/her business. The content on a blog can be as varied as a viewpoint or a comment. The majority of blogs fall into one of a number of classifications. Usually, blog sites come under 2 primary classifications: personal blogs as well as service blog sites. The very first, personal blogs, focus on the writer. Most of them might have journal-like entries, commentary, and various other web content.
While blog writing is a social medium, it is additionally a business possibility. A blog can assist you advertise your services and products, or it can be used for advertising. However it can be tough to start without a method. With a great plan, you’ll have the ability to generate income from your blog. A blog site can also be used for promoting your company. You will soon have the ability to grow your audience and also your organization.
Blogging is an increasingly prominent methods of interaction. Several blogs are made use of for marketing or to interact with consumers. For businesses, it’s a way to get in touch with the public. And also it’s an excellent location to engage your target audience. And if you’re a consumer, it’s a possibility to advertise your items. The only drawback to blogging, naturally, is the fact that it’s more than a pastime.
Prior to blogging came to be prominent, electronic communities existed in the form of e-mail listings and also bulletin board systems. These services were the very first electronic neighborhoods. Yet, today, it is a powerful business device. While it can boost sales, it can also aid you bring in more consumers. With the ideal technique, you can produce a blog that appeals to your target market and also boost your revenues. This can be an excellent means to market your products and services.
Several types of content on a site don’t require frequent upgrading, such as posts, can be hidden under a great deal of content. With a blog site, you can upload the same details as you would with a conventional internet site. In addition to promoting your products, you can also use it as a tool to promote your service. There are several advantages to blogging. So, make certain to use it. It can be an effective tool for your organization.
Blog writing is a good way to increase site traffic and also profits. It enhances the chances of revenue for your organization. If you have an interest in beginning a blog, see to it you have a lot of time to release new articles. It is necessary to upgrade your blog site on a regular basis, and also ensure that it pertains to your niche. You may intend to include pertinent links in your internet site’s meta tags. Then, you can connect back to your site in your bio.
An additional significant advantage of blog writing is that it permits you to share your viewpoints. You can blog about anything that fascinates you. Some blog writers discuss their day-to-day tasks, while others write about much more intricate topics, such as climate modification. You can discover a specific niche you’re passionate concerning and keep it upgraded. If you have an interest in advertising and marketing and have a passion for a specific subject, you’ll most likely discover a blog site that will fit your needs.
Apart from assisting people communicate with other individuals, blogs allow them to construct brand-new partnerships. They can additionally obtain understandings right into other people’s lives. This is particularly crucial for people who are not thinking about forming connections. It allows them to better recognize the globe around them as well as communicate with other individuals. It also offers chances to learn about various other societies as well as occupations. This is a fantastic benefit for those that intend to increase their network of contacts. You’ll find a blog that relates to your specific niche.
While many people utilize their blogs as an individual outlet, a few other utilize them to develop an expert visibility. For instance, publishing consultant Jane Friedman utilizes her blog site to blog regarding her sector. Her blog aids her brand herself as a market believed leader. However, blogging is not only an individual or company electrical outlet for people. There are likewise service blog sites as well as companies that use blogs as a channel for marketing. For example, a blog for a corporation would certainly be a lot more fit for an organization. “Click here to find out more “
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Artist Needs Help With Major Project.
ARTIST Alwyn St. Omer is desperately seeking all the assistance he can muster in his attempt to make an almost 30-year-old dream become reality.
Ever since Saint Lucia became independent in 1979, there had always been a desire by authorities here to create a symbol of Saint Lucia’s independence, something that people can be proud of. The 56-year-old son of the late acclaimed painter and designer of the Saint Lucia flag, Sir Dunstan St. Omer, said his design won a competition back in 1986 for designing a proposed National Monument.
The competition was launched early enough to come up with a design so that the monument could be erected in time for Saint Lucia’s tenth anniversary of independence in February, 1989. The young St. Omer, who was in his twenties and studying art at the Jamaica School of Art at the time, came to Saint Lucia during his holiday break, worked on the design and submitted it.
“My main design won, but they liked the approaches and base as designed by architect, Alexis Felix. So the final design was a combination of my design and Alexis’s base and approaches. They liked the combination with my main super-structure of a bird rising in flight,” St. Omer said.
St. Omer had the ideal vision for the monument of the national bird – the Amazona Versicolor — in abstract rising in flight. The national bird was an endangered species and efforts were being made to save and promote the ‘Jacquot’ population which stood at around 300. St. Omer was also involved in doing the Jacquot Magazine that was published back then.
“I thought the monument would be a wonderful symbol of the spirit of survival,” St. Omer told The VOICE. “So I saw it fitting to produce a monument that would depict the survival of the parrot and the people’s aspirations rising in flight. That was my dream at the time.”
From the beginning, he said, former Prime Minister Sir John Compton and government minister, Romanus Lansiquot, were the ones spearheading the campaign to have the monument erected “as a symbol to express our nationalism.” There was even a sod turning ceremony held at TrouGarnier in 1989 where Lansiquot was quoted as saying that the monument would be a public tribute to Saint Lucians “who laboured hard to bring dignity, respect and pride to our island”. Prime Minister Compton performed the sod turning ceremony while the wife of the Acting Governor-General at the time unveiled a plaque on the monument’s proposed site.
St. Omer was given the task of preparing a 3-D model of the monument in concrete and steel, which he did under the guidance of one of Jamaica’s leading sculptors. He was studying sculpting at the time and in his class were some of the most avant-garde sculptors. With their help, he did a full-scale model which was launched in Saint Lucia for the island’s tenth anniversary of independence.
He said Kier International was eventually assigned the job of doing the feasibility study for the monument, so they had the model for a while. One of the concerns was that since Saint Lucia lies within a hurricane zone, there was the possibility that high winds would cause the monument’s wings to take flight.
“They tried it in a wind tunnel in England and the concrete model flew. So they suggested that the design be modified. In effect, the height would be 60 feet or more and instead of using concrete and steel, we would use of the modern metals and something that would allow us to have retractable wings. However, those plans fell through,” the artist explained.
At that time in the early 1990s, the estimated cost of building the National Monument was $3 million and the proposed location for its erection was the park opposite the National Insurance Corporation (NIC) building, overlooking the Castries Waterfront, St. Omer stated. With the recent advances in technology, he said the price tag for the monument might be less or the same. However, no definitive decision has been made since then to commission the monument.
“The last administration wanted to build this monument,” St. Omer said. “Even the Mayor of Castries at the time, Irving John, was interested in the project. He felt it would really elevate Castries’s stature and make it a modern city.”
St. Omer said he got some promising words from current Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny Anthony, in the past two years regarding the national monument coming to fruition. The Prime Minister, he said, indicated that government might be able to source the relevant finance to construct the monument but asked him to get an estimate done on the project first. However, that in itself comes with a few challenges.
“Actually, Alexis Felix and I have already put a team together to get the costing aspect done,” St. Omer told The VOICE. “But just getting the costing done costs a lot of money because you have to use the expertise of various experts who have to investigate the site and do technical drawings and stuff like that. So it might take about a year of planning and using the relevant architects and designers.”
For now, St. Omer and his team are depending on grant funding to be able to conduct the costing of the National Monument. He is seeking about $1 million to be able to create a working design from his three-dimensional model. The working design will then be given to a contractor. Any assistance to the cause, he said, is welcome and appreciated.
The artist said, his father, who passed away last month at age 87, really wanted to see this project get done in his lifetime. Unfortunately, that was not to be. He said his father felt the monument would be a masterpiece and that Saint Lucia deserved it. He believes there’s still time for the monument to come to fruition in time for the island’s next milestone.
“This monument is not for me; it’s for Saint Lucia. It would be a fantastic gift for Saint Lucians if it can be done in time for our fortieth anniversary of independence in 2019. We have time and it seems feasible that we can have it done within the next three years. We just need the funding that would make it possible,” St. Omer explained.
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Bringing It All Together
Combining Preventive, Predictive, and Precision Maintenance in a comprehensive maintenance strategy yields tangible results for your organization. The trick is understanding how they should be combined so they can achieve these results.
Many facilities have focused on one or two of the three “Ps” of maintenance improvement. The three “Ps” include Preventive, Predictive, and Precision Maintenance. The problem is that in order to produce a step change in performance, the site needs to address all three and allow them to work together to drive improvement. We will look at each to discover its benefits and limitations and then bring them together to show the synergies of “and”.
First, let us look at Preventive Maintenance, or PM as it is commonly known. This is the first and most basic of the “Ps”. The PM mindset was the beginning of proactive maintenance, prior to Preventive Maintenance our world was run to failure only. For example, if a wagon cart was designed and built, it would be used until the axle broke. Then the axle would be replaced and the cycle restarted. People noticed that as time passed, items failed. Their belief was that if they could measure the time and replace the component prior to this failure, then the equipment could be more reliable. From our cart example, a farmer might notice that axles fail after four years of use; therefore, he would replace the axle after three years to lower the likelihood of a failure in the field.
The tasks associated with PM include time-based replacement and time-based intrusive and non-intrusive visual inspections. Intrusive inspections are the inspections where the asset is shut down and disassembled for inspection. PM works very effectively with the wear out and fatigue failure curves shown in Figure 1. However, only 7 % of the failure modes in the original Nowlan and Heap study fall into those categories.
If that data surprises you and you would like to learn more, the Nowlan and Heap study, which was the foundation of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), can be found on various Internet sites, including my blog at www.reliabilitynow.com in the links section.
The second of the “Ps” is Predictive Maintenance. Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is all about identifying the existence of a failure in a non-intrusive manner, preferably while the equipment is running. One of the benefits of PdM is that in many cases it does not require downtime because PdM does not use intrusive inspections like the ones used by many PM tasks. These intrusive inspections require downtime and can induce infant mortality failures by introducing debris into the equipment or creating errors based on reassembly issues. These errors include improper torque on bolts or poor alignment on shafts as examples.
Figure 1. Equipment Failure Patterns.
Figure 2. The P-F Curve.
This proclivity to introduce failures during assembly is demonstrated by the extremely high percentage of failures on the infant mortality curve from Figure 1. PdM allows us to avoid this potential problem. PdM is based on using technology that can “see, hear, feel and smell” the faults, even though they are all outside of the normal range of the human senses. The five most common PdM tools are:
- Ultrasonic, which “hears” faults in equipment
- Vibration, which “feels” faults in rotating equipment
- Oil Analysis, which “smells” chemical changes and “sees” wear particles in the oil
- Infrared, which “sees” changes in heat that can indicate possible faults
- Motor Current Analysis, which “sees” changes in frequencies and amplitude of electricity in motors, much like Vibration does for rotating equipment
Figure 1 demonstrated that only 11 % of the total failure modes were time based; therefore, 89 % of the existing failure modes cannot effectively be addressed with traditional time-based PM. Many of the 89 % can be effectively addressed with PdM.
The P-F curve is a model that shows how the PdM technologies provide you with additional time to plan and schedule needed repairs and lower total maintenance cost. PdM tends to identify defects much earlier and closer to Point P, which is the first time they can be detected. If we rely only on the human senses, then detection occurs closer to Point F, which is the functional failure. This late detection leads to emergency repairs and higher maintenance cost due to lack of planning, parts that must be expedited, and overtime that must be worked.
The third “P” is Precision Maintenance. It is the opposite of percussion maintenance, which I have seen many maintenance craftspeople practice as a standard. Percussion maintenance is when a hammer is used to install new bearings or knock a motor into place on the stand. The better practice is Precision Maintenance, which is about using superior craft skills and the correct tools to ensure that the asset is properly installed and has as few infant mortality defects created as possible.
As we mentioned in our discussion about the first figure showing the failure curves, infant mortality is a major cause of downtime, and Precision Maintenance is by far the best way to address it. Precision Maintenance includes activities like:
- Shaft alignment,
- Rotating equipment balancing,
- Belt tensioning and alignment,
- Bolt torquing,
- Lubrication calculation, and
- Proper bearing installation using specialized tools such as bearing heaters and installation collars.
If the craftspeople in your facility practice these skills, then you will eliminate or postpone many failures.
Now, let us look at the benefit graphically, if you reference back to the P-F curve shown in Figure 2, you will notice a Point I representing the installation point prior to Point P. If we apply Precision Maintenance techniques, then we extend the I to P interval, which improves Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and, therefore, reduces operations downtime and maintenance cost. It is improved due to the fact that we are working at every maintenance-machine interaction to effectively meet the operational needs of the machine without committing errors that could induce failures. If it is installed correctly, started up correctly, and provided with the proper lubrication at the proper time, then we have mastered the act of Precision Maintenance.
As shown, if you can apply all three of the “Ps” to your maintenance organization, then you can create the step change in uptime and maintenance cost that is required in the competitive world we live in today. To bring it all together, Preventive Maintenance should be used for your time-based failures and the task must be failure mode-based with Precision Maintenance techniques applied. According to our studies 15 % of the work that your organization does should fall into this category.
Predictive Maintenance should be used for another 15 % of your work and should target to your random, non time-based failures so that they can be detected and the repairs planned and scheduled for correction using Precision Maintenance techniques. Finally, as I alluded to before, we should use Precision Maintenance with each of the other “Ps”. If we do, then PM and PdM will detect fewer failures and some failure modes may be eliminated entirely.
As failure modes become less common or are eliminated, the need for some PM and PdM inspections will lessen reducing the workload. Together, the three “Ps” generate a fourth “P” for those who take the time to use them correctly – increased Profit.
Director of Education,
Chairman of the Society for
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Important Safety Tips for Driving a Tractor
The National Agricultural Tractor Safety Initiative reports that approximately 130 people die each year in tractor accidents, with rollovers being the most common cause. So before you hop aboard a tractor to dig into your project, you'll want to make sure that you're taking the proper safety precautions. At Highland Rent All, we offer tractor rental in the greater Albuquerque area and are happy to discuss tractor safety with you before you rent from us. Here's a look at some helpful safety tips for operating a tractor.
Be Extra Careful on Slopes
It's safest to operate a tractor on level terrain. However, in some cases, you may need to operate in a sloped area. In such a situation, you should drive up and down the slope instead of across it. And whether you're on a slope or flat land, it's important to maintain your patience and not be in a rush to get the job done.
Rollover Protection System
It's safest to only use tractors that have rollover protections systems (ROPS). While four-post and two-post ROPS offer increased safety, the greatest protection is provided by an enclosed cab.
Wear Your Seatbelt
If your tractor does rollover, it's very important that you stay within the protection zone. When you're wearing your seatbelt, you'll have a safeguard against being tossed out of the protective zone and into an area where you could be crushed by the tractor's massive weight.
For optimal safety, it's best if you don't use any implements that don't have a guard.
Not for KidsThe idea of giving your child a tractor ride might seem like wholesome fun. However, this can potentially put you both in danger because there should only be one person in the tractor seat and the driver needs to remain fully focused on safe operation.
Tractor Rental in Albuquerque
If you need to rent a tractor in Albuquerque and the surrounding area, visit Highland Rent All. We have an extensive inventory of construction and landscaping equipment. Feel free to give us a call at (505) 293-4100 to find out more about our inventory!
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Posted: March 2022
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Researchers in Barcelona have developed a shuttle to transport drugs into the brain, running through the blood-brain barrier.
If there is an irreplaceable organ, for the moment, that’s the brain. The gray matter is not only protected by the skull, but also by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in order to prevent infection. The essential protective function of this barrier is also a red light for 98% of drug candidates for the treatment of the central nervous system. However, scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have presented a shuttle able to cross the blood-brain barrier and transport various substances into the brain.
The blood-brain barrier is not totally hermetic as the brain constantly requires oxygen, iron, insulin, etc. So there are transport mechanisms through “doors” which open and close continuously. Taking advantage of the receptors through which the brain receives iron, the shuttle-ambulance crosses the barrier without disrupting nutrient flow or altering the protective function of the barrier. Open sesame.
The therapeutic value of the shuttle lays precisely in these two properties, which make it unique, namely its small size, comprising only 12 amino acids, and its permanence in blood from between 12 and 24 hours thanks to its protease-resistant profile. In preliminary experiments with mice, the study also demonstrated the absence of an immune response and low toxicity.
Meritxell Teixidó, researcher associate at IRB Barcelona and leader of this line of investigation, explains “It is estimated that 20% of humans at some time will need a treatment that targets the brain. For many diseases, there are some good candidate drugs but none of them have the capacity to reach their target and thus there is a subsequent loss of potential. Our shuttle offers a solution to an urgent clinical need”.
The work has been carried out in IRB Barcelona’s Peptides and Proteins laboratory. Directed by Ernest Giralt, also senior professor of the University of Barcelona, this lab is one of the few leading labs worldwide devoted to these kinds of developments. The team is now studying its application for specific medical conditions. Together with clinical researchers, they are preparing treatments for glioblastoma (the most aggressive brain cancer in adults), Friedreich’s Ataxia (a hereditary neurodegenerative disease), and a type of paediatric brain cancer. | <urn:uuid:a77984f0-61dc-4075-9909-26d80a337403> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.labiotech.eu/trends-news/highway-brain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942725 | 501 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Everyone should consider making a Will and, once a Will has been made, it is essential that you continue to review your Will on any change in personal circumstances: for example, the death of a loved one, birth of a child or breakdown of a relationship. The consequences for a deceased’s family if no Will is in place can be very distressing. This can be for a variety of reasons.
A Will appoints Executors to avoid the additional expense of the court having to appoint them when you are gone. It leaves clear direction on how property should be divided to avoid indecision or family arguments.
Cohabitants have the right to claim on their partner’s estate if no Will is in place. So if you are living with a partner but do not wish them to inherit your property it is essential that it is put beyond doubt within a Will. Equally, if you do want them to inherit it is important to make the proper provision in a Will.
Parents of young children should leave direction to friends and relatives concerning the care of any children under the age of 16 that survive them and this can be achieved through a Will. It is important also to protect youngsters from inheriting before they are mature enough to deal with substantial assets. Where children or other dependents are disabled in some way, these matters are brought into sharper focus.
The preparation of a Will when you have Second Family can often be a real headache. Often, the laws of succession do not correspond with the modern family set-up. There are various mechanisms that we can use to ensure that everyone gets their ‘fair share’.
If you own a business, it is important to consider what will happen to the business if you are no longer here to be a part of it so that the value of the business is retained.
Funeral wishes can also be confirmed in a Will. What can be an upsetting topic of conversation with a loved is sometimes more easily addressed by your Will.
Trusts can be used for tax planning, to protect young or vulnerable persons and to preserve assets. We try to look at the bigger picture and where appropriate create the right type of trust to give you peace of mind now and in the future.
The death of a loved one in any circumstances can be a difficult and stressful time. The legal procedures which are required after somebody dies can vary greatly depending on the individual’s circumstances including such things as whether or not he or she left a Will and the level of estate left. Before starting to deal with the winding up of an estate it is a good idea to take legal advice.
The prospect of winding up an estate without the benefit of legal advice can be a daunting one for an executor. In the absence of a Will it will usually be necessary to have an Executor appointed by the Sheriff Court. Whether appointed Executor in terms of a Will or by the Sheriff Court there are a number of duties incumbent on an Executor. These duties can include completing a full Inventory of the deceased’s estate, contacting beneficiaries as well as fundholders and creditors, dealing with H.M. Revenue and Customs in relation to any tax aspects of the estate, paying any Inheritance Tax due and applying for Confirmation to the estate the grant of which will allow the Executor to deal with the various assets and to pay any debts or liabilities. Before finally distributing the estate – either in terms of the Will or, if there is no Will, in terms of the rules laid down by law – the Executor must be sure that all debts and any claims against the estate have been paid. The Executor may find himself personally liable for any breach of his duties.
By letting us guide you through any practicalities and paperwork that may be necessary, you will have peace of mind that the estate is being properly dealt with on your behalf and leave you free to deal with other matters that may require your attention or simply give you the time you need to grieve. We will advise you on and guide you through the legal processes involved in a sympathetic manner, at a time and pace to suit you and taking into account the work required in winding up the estate. | <urn:uuid:62a5fb23-b894-4c53-a2a1-23f0814b1c0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shawslaw.co.uk/what-we-do/willsandexecutries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958557 | 861 | 1.742188 | 2 |
For the month of February we are exploring how our emotional intelligence impacts our conversations. Self-Regulation is the second part of having high emotional intelligence.
But first if you did not see last weeks tip: I'm inviting you to do an EQ check up with me. My Valentines gift to you is a complementary EQ assessment that will show you how you are doing in Self Awareness, Self Regulation, Motivation, Empathy, and Social Skills. You will receive your report in email as soon as you complete the questions.
Last week we focused on Self Awareness and you have been asking yourself, "What am I feeling now?" to raise your awareness about which of the 7 core emotions you are marinating in at the moment.
This week we want to explore Self Regulation. Our ability to use the emotion we are feeling wisely rather than experience an emotional hijack is our Self Regulation. For example, when we notice that the current feeling is anger, we are using strong self-regulation muscles when we then ask, "What crossed my boundaries and triggered this anger? Who do I need to talk with to clean up the boundary issues? What do I really want instead and how can I make the request for what I want next time?" By answering these questions we use the feeling of anger to inform our communication in a positive way. We self regulate to create a better outcome rather than expressing the anger by kicking-the-dog or coming out sideways at someone else in an aggressive or passive aggressive manner.
It takes focus to build our self-regulation abilities. If you have a low self-regulation score I suggest you focus on building this muscle over the next 90 days. Your report will give you specific ideas to grow your self-regulation ability based on your own score.
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There are so many different fun projects to choose from at the Mudroom Studio! Come in any time during our studio hours to check out your options and get started on a fun, creative project!
Paint your Own Pottery (PYOP)
We have hundreds of options of pottery to choose from! Our selection includes several different functional pieces like mugs and platters and fun kid pieces like princesses and comic book superheroes. Need a special gift for some of the big holiday events— stop in and check out our seasonal section that is ALWAYS changing!
Pick as many colors as you want from our color wall to make your piece pop! We also have stencils, stamps, and an awesome staff that can help you throughout the entire process. If you’re looking for some ideas, we also have books that will help your creative juices flow.
Leave your painted piece with us for firing. We will dip your painted piece in a clear glaze, fire it and it will be ready for display or use in no time!
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- Leave your glass piece with us for firing. If you chose to have your piece slumped into a functional form, we use a double firing technique.
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A digital marketing plan broadens the scope of online commerce. Marketing is the vendor’s final step toward sales and conversions. Customers that are pleased with a product or service will return and recommend their friends.
What if we said that digital marketing can be risky in terms of privacy and security? You read that correctly!
We’ll look at digital marketing security threats throughout this post. Marketers that wish to prevent suffering an unfavorable business endpoint should prioritize security considerations.
Any digital firm that employs digital business pathways and platforms face the same security risks as digital marketers. Cybersecurity attacks, on the other hand, tend to target digital marketers’ most lucrative targets with the most data!
How Digital Marketers Can Keep Cyber Security at the Forefront of Their Minds
Mountain climbers want to reach the summit, but safety must always come first. When defining goals, digital marketers should make security a key focus. Spreading harmful viruses could have disastrous repercussions. The first step is to be aware of the hazards. Your website and linked accounts can be hijacked in the most insidious way possible by a digital marketing agency.
Threats to Privacy and Security in Digital Marketing :
1. CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
CRM is used by every business. It maintains track of critical business data. CRM is vulnerable to cyberattacks because it contains sensitive data and functionality.
CRM systems are used in digital marketing to identify, collect, and store data about customers. As a result, malicious attack vectors may be used. CRM solutions that are popular include Zoho, HubSpot Sales, and Salesforce. Even with frequent software updates, such systems are vulnerable to hacks and malicious assaults.
Cybercriminals use a variety of methods, including data breaches, DDoS assaults, identity theft, and malware. A CRM system is made up of many platforms and combines numerous functionalities. Responsibility is divided unequally. Cyberattacks are more likely a result of this false sense of security.
Every department inside a business must manage security systems proactively. There will be fewer weak links to exploit this way. Businesses can reduce their vulnerability to cyber-attacks by employing the following measures:
• Cybersecurity software
• Putting up firewalls
• Using VPNs
2. Marketing on Social Media
Because of social media, communication and engagement have changed!
Companies may now use Facebook and Instagram as a storefront to show things, sell products, and engage with customers to acquire and convert them. They do so, however, at the risk of exposing themselves to danger.
It is feasible to steal someone’s identity through social media. Users that download all attachments, provide confidential information or have weak user account passwords are vulnerable.
Using these platforms, attackers can target firms and uncover vulnerabilities through their users.
The following safeguards should be taken by social media marketing teams:
• Strengthening passwords
• Monitoring social media activity
• Informing clients about social media attacks
• Ensuring that privacy settings are rigorously enforced
Businesses have been discovered to be vulnerable to social media attacks as a result of social sharing. It is critical to creating a security-conscious social media marketing plan. As a result, all members of the marketing team will be informed of security concerns!
3. E-mail Promotion
Email marketing’s relevance in digital marketing cannot be emphasized. However, phishing and spear-phishing are difficult to detect.
For example, in 2015, Anthem (a health insurance organization in the United States) was the target of a cyberattack in which hackers obtained access to the personal information of over 80 million subscribers.
The company’s data breach cost more than $100 million. To enter the firm, phishing emails were employed.
Phishing scams are not a new phenomenon. As more organizations use email marketing as a marketing medium, phishing assaults are on the rise.
As more businesses migrate to the digital realm, the sophistication of phishing assaults grows. Businesses of all sizes are vulnerable to these attacks since most are uninformed of the dangers.
Customers are the weak points that allow attackers to gain access to your firm through email marketing. Attackers are looking for customer vulnerabilities.
Attachments and hyperlinks can be used by attackers to launch cyberattacks.
Email hijacking can be reduced by doing the following: • Updating the ISP and servers
• Ensure that all email marketing initiatives are tracked and secured. Encryption is used by email marketing applications to ensure that only the intended recipients get email marketing emails.
• Learn how to recognize phishing emails and assist in educating the marketing team and customers.
4. Online Businesses
Because eCommerce platforms are insecure, digital marketers have a difficult time converting prospects. eCommerce platforms are vulnerable to cybersecurity problems and identity theft.
Consumers may not take action if they believe their data is not secure or their financial accounts are in jeopardy, no matter how hard the digital marketing team tries.
Every company’s success is dependent on offering a really authentic eCommerce consumer experience, which involves gaining, retaining, and expanding customers. Every marketing strategy should prioritize customer acquisition, retention, and growth!
Companies must implement a variety of security techniques to alleviate any concerns their clients may have about online transactions. Businesses can allay their consumers’ concerns by deploying SSL protocols and a two-factor authentication technique.
Multiple security techniques may not guarantee a secure transactional process. It does, however, help to provide a strong security system that inhibits hackers from initiating attacks on eCommerce sites!
5. Training and Protecting Digital Marketers
Security concerns and dangers exist in all aspects of digital marketing. During marketing efforts, data is exchanged and parcelled between systems and platforms.
Although security mechanisms and software may have flaws, the biggest weak links are marketing teams and customers.
Businesses should clarify the hazards of data transfer across several platforms with their marketing staff and customers. Some things that could be mentioned include:
• detecting phishing emails
• requiring strong passwords
• having an external storage device
• keeping login information confidential
6. Scheduling and Time Management
Cyberattacks can be avoided with good planning and timing. Identifying hazards and where they exist is the most effective technique for securing an organization.
Companies can determine where data originates, how it is stored, and how it is moved. Is the data adequately safeguarded? What kind of security precautions do they have in place?
Have any of the company’s digital marketing channels ever posed a risk?
If employees use personal phones and laptops at work, it may be difficult to verify that the security framework in place is not jeopardized.
Working collaboratively will ensure that there are no gaps in responsibilities across departments!
At all times, there is the possibility of an attack. To keep your company safe at all times, your digital marketing team must keep an eye on all internal and external hazards.
To achieve cybersecurity success, a corporation must plug any gaps in its software systems and increase its human resources.
When it comes to software and hardware systems, weak links can be cut down through frequent updates, but education is best suited when it comes to humans.
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The Indian government has signed an MoU to import 250,000 tonnes of black gram beans and 100,000 tonnes of pigeon peas from Myanmar through the annual private trade from fiscal year 2021-2022 to fiscal year 2025-2026, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The two sides have been negotiating since 2016 to sign the G to G Memorandum of Understanding (Draft) on black gram beans and pigeon peas trade cooperation between Myanmar and India. At present, the two governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation between Myanmar and India on June 18, 2021 under the G to G program to promote pulses and pulses trade between Myanmar and India, depending on the volume and consumption needs of Myanmar.
According to the MoU, the Indian government will import 250,000 tonnes of black gram beans and 100,000 tonnes of pigeon peas from Myanmar annually through private trade between the next five years, 2021-2022 to 2025-2026 (April to March), according to the Ministry of Commerce. The G to G MoU will not affect the international bean quota issued annually by the Government of India, and Myanmar bean exporters will also be able to participate in the international guota. In the 2019-2020 fiscal year, more than 1.6 million tonnes of pulses were exported, earning nearly $ 1.2 billion, an increase of nearly $ 190 million, despite a decrease of more than 23,000 tonnes from the previous year.
This fiscal year, Myanmar earned US $ 1,195.483 million (nearly 1.2 billion) from the export of 16.061 lakh tonnes (over 1.6 million tonnes) of pulses. It was 23,000 tonnes less than the previous fiscal year, but earned $ 169.232 million more. Last fiscal year, it exported 1.63 million tonnes of pulses, earning just $ 1.026 billion. Among domestic produced legumes, the black gram beans, pigeon peas and green peas are three main types of import. Among them, black gram beans and green peas are mainly exported to India, while green peas are mainly exported to China and some European countries. Myanmar has over 11 million acres of pulses grown annually, accounting for more than 35% of the total production of pulses and pulses. In Myanmar, a total of 11.45 million acres of pulses are cultivated annually for 18 varieties of pulses. Standing 25 percent; Pulses are grown at 15% and lentils at 8%.
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It is with grave concern that we note that the Budget for 2017 does a great injustice to the ordinary people of this country, the vast majority of its citizenry. Education in general, in all forms, primary, secondary and tertiary, has been the cornerstone of our democracy. It has meant mobility for many, made social justice its focal point and made our struggles vibrant. Any attack on free education is an attack on democracy.
Our education policy is founded on the 1943 policy which states “education in a democratic society should be free at all stages. Talents and ability are not confined to any social class or group and any social system must provide for their emergence by the provision of equal educational opportunities…” (Government of Ceylon, 1943).” All subsequent educational initiatives must extend that fundamental tenet and be justified on those grounds. The present government has undermined this basic feature of our national policy in this budget.
The 2017 budget proposes a significant erosion of and a roll back of the gains of free education, namely the widespread distribution of education to the people. Specifically, the budget proposes both a scaled down allocation for education, at all levels, and worse, a channelling of funds toward private establishments, taking away what could be given to state schools and universities and bestowing them on private enterprises. The cherished ideals of free education have been abandoned as evident from the provisions of the budget.
The Finance minister says that this year’s budget for education is much reduced from last year’s allocation, as the government found that it could not spend the latter. If that is so, why do we still have the phenomenon of schools compelling parents to provide for their children through so many fees and expenses? It is almost two years since the current government took office and it has failed to achieve the many promises made as regards education. It has failed to: create an effective teacher training programme; develop a salary scale fitting a professional job category for teachers; address the problems of parents and students over mounting costs of education; address the problems in admitting students to good schools that allow them to fulfill their aspirations and; do away with an exam oriented educational system that robs children of their childhood. The government has failed to even develop a comprehensive policy on education. Yet, Ravi Karunanayake states:
The Ministry of Education has been able to utilize only around Rs. 38,850 million at the end of the 3rd quarter of 2016. We took careful stock of the situation and therefore allocated almost Rs. 90,000 million for 2017 (2017 Budget Speech, Ravi Karunanayake, 9th November, 2016).
Such a statement requires explanation and accountability. As explanation the Minister of Education responded with, “Often, the money is not passed by the Treasury when we want it. There are delays. That is one reason the utilisation rate is low” (Nov 20, 2016). Clearly there is need; the problem lies with the treasury, red tape and the lack of will on the part of the government.
Instead of keeping their promises to the people, the Minister of Finance proposes to bill students at the beginning of their university education so that they know how much the public is paying towards their education. Considering that the Minister feels he can brush aside unspent funds in such a cavalier fashion, this proposition is somewhat ironic. It also comes at a time when the government is proposing tax holidays for businesses. Who will foot the bill here?
Education in the 2017 Budget
The budget is troubling both because of amounts allocated and the nature of allocations quite contrary to the values underlined in the UNP election manifesto, which outlined a plan to gradually increase allocations to education to 6% of GDP. The budget estimates indicate an approximately forty billion rupee decrease to education, higher education and provincial education combined.
Budget for Ministry of Education. Allocations to education are funneled through several ministries, such as Education, Higher Education and Highways, and Local Government and Provincial Councils. If there is to be a significant revamping of the education system to increase the reach of education to even the most marginalized segments of society the budget should show an appreciable increase to the Ministry of Education. However, the budget does not demonstrate any such focus. In fact there is a decrease in allocations to the Ministry of Education in this budget by approximately Rs. 20 billion.
Budget for Provincial Education. A desirable policy direction would also be to strengthen the provincial school system which caters to a majority of students in rural areas. This would improve access to good schools locally, rather than to distant urban schools. However, allocations to provincial schools are down by Rs. 10 billion from last year’s estimates.
Budget Proposals for Education. An analysis of the budget proposals gives the best indication of the government’s vision for education, especially when no policy document on education has been created. Figure 1 clearly shows that a substantial portion of the allocation goes to private entities (16% for loans and insurance and 45% for computer rental and tabs).
The extent to which the public will finance private business interests is highlighted in the breakdown of insurance and loan schemes given in Figure 2. These schemes allow the government to channel public funds to the private sector as ‘welfare’. For instance, funds for health insurance will cover private healthcare services for children. These funds should be instead be used to strengthen Free Health; they belong in the health budget, not education.
There is no evidence of a long term vision that would strengthen the school systems’ teaching, curricula, infrastructure, and access in a systematic way. It is almost as if the government has given up on the system. Overall, one can see that the budget offers little toward strengthening free public education.
One is compelled to ask the question: Why should the state fritter away people’s resources, publicly owned capital, in funding profit making ventures? Whom does the state serve? The people or business ventures which serve not the people by promoting their wellbeing, their upliftment and empowerment, but the interests of a profit making class.
The budget ushers in voucher systems, opening education to private and for-profit business initiatives, and the use of ICT as an area that will promote growth, but as we can see from global happenings, the trend is now to get back to basics, slow down, and consolidate the gains of what we have while promoting local interests (Stiglitz, 2016). Globally, we see people fighting back against neoliberal education policies in South America and Western Europe. Yet, the government feels the need to push on with its agendas. This government’s regressive actions will haunt us for decades and generations to come.
We protest: our struggle for free education and the right to protest
In addition to creating a budget that is clearly not people-friendly, the Minister of Finance feels the need to attack our democratic traditions. Ravi Karunanayake states, “As a responsible government, we cannot allow the country’s development be held at ransom by a few placard carrying politically motivated groups.” We say we cannot allow the country’s education to be left to ruthless racketeerism and profiteering politicians. If a high-ranking politician is going to sneer at the active forces of democracy, as placard bearing activists, we would like to remind him that he too joined the sea of placards not too long ago to fight for the 6% demand! Short memories might be the mainstay of this government’s anti-people policies and it’s all too quick dismissal of social justice and free education, but we will continue to hold our placards high in our struggles!
Education is a heritage gained through massive public mobilization 70 years ago. From the time of the Kannangara policy of free education, we have fought to uphold our free education system. To that end, we publicly condemn the budget’s lack of commitment to free education and raise the banner of struggle and protest here.
- We demand from the government to uphold the ideals of free education, make a strong commitment to strengthening free education and demonstrate that commitment in its policies.
- We demand from the business community that it act with responsibility in their public statements and see beyond the wisdom of profit making investments when addressing education.
- We call on all democratic forces, trade unions, working people’s forums, women’s groups and others, to rally around the concerns raised here and collectively fight for preserving and strengthening free education.
The statement above is initiated by the Coalition for Public Education and co-signed by the following trade unions and other organisations:
Alliance for Economic Democracy
Centre for Social Concerns Ja-ela
Ceylon Mercantile Industrial & General Workers Union (CMU)
Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU)
Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA)
Joint Plantation Trade Union Centre (JPTUC)
Lanka Estate Workers Union (LEWU)
Mannar Women’s Development Federation
Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform
Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum
Organization for Elanka Refugee Rehabilitation (OfERRCeylon)
Professional Educationists’ Association
Suriya Women’s Development Centre, Batticaloa
United Federation of Labour (UFL)
University Teachers for Dialogue and democracy (UT4DD)
Women’s Action Network
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Luke 1:5-25. John told everyone who Jesus was.
John was the forerunner to Jesus.
John was the last of the Old Testament prophets because he started his ministry before Jesus started His.
The Angel Gabriel announced to Zechariah the priest about the birth of his son John the Baptist.
The Birth of John the Baptist is Foretold
1:5 During the reign of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 Both of them were righteous before God, having lived blamelessly according to all of the commandments and regulations of the Lord. 7 They had no children because Elizabeth was barren and because both of them were getting old.
8 When Zechariah was serving with his division of priests in God’s presence, 9 he was chosen by lot to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense, according to the custom of the priests. 10 And the entire congregation of people was praying outside at the time when the incense was burned.
11 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the incense altar. 12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled, and fear overwhelmed him. 13 But the angel told him, “Stop being afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to name him John. 14 You will have great joy, and many people will rejoice at his birth, 15 because he will be great in the Lord’s presence. He will never drink wine or any strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. 16 He will bring many of Israel’s descendants back to the Lord their God. 17 He is the one who will go before the Lord with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and to prepare the people to be ready for the Lord.”
18 Then Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this, since I am an old man, and my wife is getting older?”
19 The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to announce this good news to you. 20 But because you did not believe my announcement, which will be fulfilled at its proper time, you will become silent and unable to speak until the day this happens.”
21 Meanwhile, the people kept waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed in the sanctuary so long. 22 But when he did come out, he was unable to speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them but remained unable to speak. 23 When the days of his service were over, he went home.
24 After this, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and remained in seclusion for five months. She said, 25 “This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace.”
Also read John 1:22-36, Matthew 11:1-19 and Matthew 14:1-12.
Other modules in this unit:
- Start of the 400 Year gap between Malachi and Jesus
- Alexander the Great
- Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- Hasmonean Dynasty. This family stayed faithful to God
- Temple built by Zerubbabel is purified and rededicated
- High Priest
- High Priest – John Hyrcanus II
- Roman Soldier
- King Herod the Great
- Temple Built By King Herod the Great
- End of the 400 Year gap between Malachi and Jesus
- John the Baptist suffered wearing sheepskins
- The Angel Gabriel Talks To Mary
- Jesus A Newly Born Baby
- Jesus the Man
- The death of Jesus on the cross
- Jesus is coming from the cloud
- Questions and Answers 1-17
- Next Module – The Birth of Jesus » »
- Time Line for 400 years
- Background Information: 400 Years
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Getting the whole skinny on 'I Love Lucy'
My husband and I are avid "I Love Lucy" fans. In its continuing reruns, this 1950s TV comedy is still awesome.
At a recent neighborhood cookout, we discovered that people of all generations appreciate the Ricardos, the Mertzes, and everyone associated with "I Love Lucy." Over hot dogs and hamburgers, some questions about "I Love Lucy" characters remained unresolved in our community. Hopefully, you can answer them before our mid-July cookout.
1. The Ricardos had an upstairs neighbor whose name was Mrs. Trumbull. Did she have a first name?
2. In the early years, Lucy had a friend called Lillian Appleby. Later, she had a friend called Carolyn Appleby. What was the connection between the two?
3. Regarding the birth date of Lucy Ricardo, there are inconsistencies. Was she born on August 6, 1911?
4. Did Lucy Ricardo have a middle name?
5. Are any major characters from "I Love Lucy" around today?
We anxiously await your response.
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1. Though it was almost never mentioned, Mrs. Trumbull's first name was Matilda. On one occasion, Mrs. Trumbull's nephew, Joe, visited the apartment building. He called her "Aunt Matilda." The actress who played Mrs. Trumbull was Elizabeth Patterson.
2. Lillian Appleby and Carolyn Appleby were the same person. Initially, she was called Lillian Appleby. Soon thereafter, Lucy decided to call her Carolyn Appleby. The actress who played both Lillian Appleby and Carolyn Appleby was Doris Singleton.
3. Lucy Ricardo, the TV character, was supposedly born on Aug. 6, 1921. Lucille Ball, the actress, was born on August 6, 1911. Accordingly, when the show was filmed during the 1950s, Lucy Ricardo played the part of a woman in her 30s. Lucille Ball, playing the role, was actually in her 40s. Lucy Ricardo once commented her astrological sign was Taurus. Given she subsequently identified her birthday as Aug. 6, that would make her astrological sign Leo.
4. Before her marriage, Lucy Ricardo was purportedly Lucille Esmerelda McGillicuddy from West Jamestown, N.Y.
5. One major character from "I Love Lucy" is around today. He is the actor who played Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's son, "Little Ricky." His name is Keith Thibodeaux. Today, the toddler who played that role is 64 years old.
There are hundreds of reasons why "I Love Lucy" enjoys a unique standing in television history. One would be the name performers attracted to the show. Among the entertainers who played cameo roles on "I Love Lucy" were Eve Arden, Milton Berle, Charles Boyer, William Holden, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Van Johnson, George Reeves (the original "Superman"), John Wayne, Orson Welles, Richard Widmark, and Cornel Wilde. I cannot be certain whether the younger people at your community cookout are familiar with those legends.
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of books to satisfy your curiosity about "I Love Lucy" trivia. That includes on-the-air anecdotes, behind-the-scenes issues, confusion, inconsistencies, and more. At this point, the degree of accuracy is probably irrelevant. Any incorrectness is upstaged by quality scriptwriting, phenomenal acting, and memorable comedy. To fill in the blanks on "I Love Lucy" specifics, you can find obscure information in these many publications.
At large bookstores, consumers can peruse the entertainment section. Huge choices are devoted exclusively to "I Love Lucy" and the characters contained therein. Online, you can visit the usual book resources (e.g., www.abebooks.com, www.amazon.com, www.bookfinder.com, www.froogle.com). Type "I Love Lucy," "Lucille Ball," "The Ricardos," plus any additional references that come to mind. At easily affordable prices, you can order new books or used copies.
The "I Love Lucy" reruns appear in dozens of languages throughout the world. The Ricardos, the Mertzes, and all their antics are here to stay.
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Backpack is a free flash card program designed to help you learn foreign language vocabulary. Just enter the words you want to learn and their definitions, then click on the 'Test' button and Backpack will prompt you with the foreign words and keep track of which definitions you get right.
There are a few nice touches to this app. For example, you can label words so that you know if they're particular parts of speech or particular genders. There's an online sharing facility, so that you can use other people's lists of words as well as upload your own lists. An export option allows you to save your flash cards as iPod notes, or print them out in various formats.
You can add synonyms to definitions. If you're getting bored, you can be tested using a game of Hangman. Most thoughtful is an option for you to override a result if you knew the word but typed the answer incorrectly.
Unfortunately, Backpack has quite a few problems. The most ironic is the bad English localisation: numerous parts of the interface are in Dutch, as is the help system. Hangman is called 'Play the gallows' and few of the online lists are anything other than Dutch and another language.
Those that are English-based are often on bewildering topics (the main German decks contain definitions for 'plant extract', 'subsistence farmers' and 'North Atlantic Free Trade Area'), and are littered with typos and other inaccuracies, or contain transliterations rather than native script in the case of Greek decks.
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Transcript from the "Graph Databases" Lesson
>> So the two things I've shown you so far MongoDB and Postgre are very general purpose kinds of databases. As in like, if you're gonna be writing a new app tomorrow there's decent chance you're gonna use one of these too, right? They're meant to be very flexible. They're meant to fit nearly every use case, they're obviously very powerful databases.
[00:00:27] We're gonna get into one that's a more specialized use case. So you're not gonna use a graph database for your everyday e-commerce website, for example. You're gonna be using it probably in conjunction with another database. You're gonna be using graph databases with another database for the most part.
[00:00:46] So graph databases are more niche, they're more intended to solve a specific problem and less meant to be general-purpose, right? This is not meant to power your e-commerce website. So the example that we're gonna use today is kind of the classic graph database kind of example problem, which is movies and actors, right?
[00:01:07] And we'll kind of get into how that works. So, let's get into some of the terminologies. Again, this is one of those things where I use the terms interchangeably, and I'm very sorry about it, but it's also just kind of how this is organized in my brain. And it's probably useful for you to hear all the terminologies mixed together cuz that's kind of how it ends up working.
[00:01:27] So the first thing we'll talk about in a graph database is a node or an entity. The correct term for Neo4j, which is the name of the graph database that we're gonna be looking at today is a node, but sometimes you might hear me call it an entity.
[00:01:39] A node is just a thing. It's basically a row or a document in a graph database. It, yeah represents a thing. So in our case, if we're looking at movies and people, right, those are gonna be the two different kinds of nodes that we're gonna have. Those are both going to be considered nodes, right?
[00:01:59] There's gonna be a person node, and there's gonna be a movie node. Something that's peculiar to Neo4j is one node can actually be multiple different things. So let's say instead of having just a person label as they're called, you can have one person be both an actor label, or actress label or director label.
[00:02:22] I node can have multiple different kinds of labels. In this particular case, the only two labels that we're gonna be looking at today are persons, right? Which will represent both actor, actresses and directors. But you could also have a label for each one of those depending on kind of how you choose to solve that problem.
[00:02:42] And then, the other label will be a movie, and a movie is kind of a thing, right? So you can think of nodes as documents or rows in a graph database. Now the interesting thing and where graph databases really kind of get their power is they have this things called relationships.
[00:03:01] Or frequently these are called edges as well. The correct term for Neo4j is relationship. And it just describes this node is related to this other node, and we're gonna draw some sort of connecting line between the two of those things. And we'll kind of visualize this here in just a second.
[00:03:21] That's the power of graph databases, is you can describe this kind of graph, like a web of relationships between different things. A really good use case for graph databases, and probably where they really got pushed forward a lot, is social networks, right? So you can imagine like on LinkedIn, you're connected to this person, this person is connected to that person and that person is connected to that person.
[00:03:45] And that's how LinkedIn knows how to recommend. Is like, hey, you probably know this person because you know these 10 people and they all know this person and they're connected to them and you're not. Decent chance that as so many people in your network know this person, you also probably know that person.
[00:04:01] So that's where these kind of interesting insights of connections can kind of lead to these insights. Yeah, using these relationships. One thing about Neo4j, that's again kind of peculiar to Neo4j is every relationship is directional, right? So it's not that just, well, let's use an example from a social network.
[00:04:22] On Facebook when you are connected to someone, you're both friends. Like you can't be connect to someone you both have to acknowledge we are both friends. That relationship has no direction, right? I'm friends with Mark, Mark is friends with me, and we can't have that be one way.
[00:04:39] Compare that to something like Twitter. If I follow Ayesha, right? She doesn't necessarily have to follow me back. That's a directional relationship. So in Neo4j, all of these relationships have directions associated with them. And sometimes you can just ignore these directions if you don't really care about them, but every relationship is going to have a direction.
[00:05:03] So in this particular case, if we were describing the relationship between me and Ayesha on Twitter, and we both follow each other. We would actually need two different relationships. One, from me to her and one from her to me to fully describe that relationship. Whereas in Facebook, you just need one relationship because there's only one way that relationship can go, cool.
[00:05:28] So, there's things called properties or attributes, I probably will mix up those terms. Cuz they're relatively similar, but in this particular case, they're gonna be the same thing. Every relationship and every node can have properties associated with them, right? So, for example for talking about like an actress, like we have Charlize Theron or something like that.
[00:05:51] She can have a birthday. She can have, I don't know hair color, eye color, those kinds of those will be attributes of that particular node. And then a relationship can also have a node. You can also have if Charlize Theron acted in Arrested Development, that's what I'm watching right now.
[00:06:07] That's why it's top of mind. It can have like the role that she played in it. It can have the year that that happened. It can have the episodes that she was in, right? So those are kind of the attributes that a relationship can have as well. So both entities and relationships can both have properties.
[00:06:31] So that's kind of the high level terminology of what goes into a graph database. We'll start kind of getting into it, and using them and sort of become a bit more concrete. We're gonna be using Neo4j, that's kind of like the de facto. If you're gonna use an open source graph database, it's kind of one that people reach for the most or at least it's the most well known.
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Earlier this week, Sir David Attenborough hand wrote a letter to a Wirral councillor to thank the council for their work for the natural world.
Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport Committee chair, Labour Cllr Liz Grey wrote to the prominent climate campaigner detailing their decision to stop raking and spraying glyphosate - a low toxicity weed killer - on Hoylake beach, and in response, he said: "Thank you for all you are doing to help the natural world.”
The letter comes ahead of an important council meeting next Tuesday over the controversial beach plans and prompted some passionate responses online.
The ECHO asked Cllr Grey how the decision to stop raking and spraying the golden sands of Hoylake first came about.
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She said: “I was made the cabinet member for the environment in May 2019 and at that time, beaches were not in my portfolio. But no one really realised that so I received, and had to deal with, all the queries about them. So I asked for beaches to be put in my portfolio and they were.
“Then the council got a lot of abuse about spraying the beach in the national press, and I thought, ‘well if people like George Monbiot [a high profile Guardian journalist and climate campaginer] are raising this, it must be an issue’.”
Spurred on by the coverage, Cllr Grey reached out to Natural England, the government organisation that oversees the country’s environment, to ask what was the best practice.
Cllr Grey said: “You can not do anything to our beaches without permission from Natural England. And while we do have permission to spray the beaches, we don’t have to, only as and when we deem it is needed.
“I met with representatives from Natural England on Hoylake beach in October 2019 and said we might be overstepping the mark with spraying the beach.
“I went back to officers and immediately told them to stop everything until reports could be carried out and I asked Natural England for a best practice guide.”
The permissions for spraying and raking beaches are given out by the national body and reviewed and renewed.
Cllr Grey added: “Our permissions were given in 2016, but things have changed, science has moved on, we know a lot more now about the glyphosate [the mild toxic weed killer used on Hoylake beach] and there is a climate emergency.
“When Natural England gave us their full report it concluded that we had been over-spraying, and perhaps even raking the beach was too much.
“And since then we have been following that instruction.”
But there have been concerns about the sudden suspension of the beach management among ward councillors who argue a scientific report and public consultation should have been carried out before raking and spraying was stopped.
Conservative Cllr Andrew Gardner said: “The Hoylake ward councillors are clear that the action of being inactive is not what most people in Hoylake want - they’ve lost their park [the beach itself] and in the middle of a pandemic when we need our open spaces more than ever.
“The fact that we are now two years in and only just considering asking the public is appalling.
“There’s no proper research been done - amateurs, hobbyists, interested academics etc do not constitute proper independent research and factual conclusions.
“Studies and consultation happen before action, not post action as by then both are pointless.”
Cllr Grey disagreed and said in response: “We have permission from Natural England to rake and spray the beach, but it doesn’t mean we have to do it. Natural England has been very supportive."
A spokesperson for Natural England confirmed to the ECHO that raking and spraying should be avoided, they said: "We are providing advice to Wirral Council to support the development of their new beach management plan and will continue to discuss options to help provide both ecological and recreational benefits with them.
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"Beach raking and the use of week killers can damage coastal habitats so Natural England generally advises that these practices should be avoided."
Cllr Grey also confirmed to the ECHO that there are definite plans for a public consultation, but said she wants to ensure local residents have the full facts with concerns the debate has been heavily politicised over the past year.
She said: “We are going to have a consultation, but after the science.
“Next week, we will be voting to endorse more scientific studies over the next six months, early indications show that the species growing and wildlife are clearly of great importance.
“Then the public can tell us if they still want their golden sands in a public consultation.”
Cllr Gardner also raised issues over “damage being done to the SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) ecosystem” by not raking the beach.
He said: “No one is talking about spraying the beach. We are talking about taking the beach. The agreement with Natural England clearly states that a managed amenity beach provides a clear and distinct intertidal area for the birds that have qualified the area to be SSSI.
“Ask yourself a very simple question - if we change the habitat (which we have) and we have moved the habitat from the status quo, then what do you think the new habitat means to the inhabitants of the former habitat?
“What are the risks of this? We don’t know the risks because we haven’t done the research. So yes, the SSSI has been unnecessarily put at risk.”
But Cllr Grey said this was “misleading”, she said: “He needs to reread the Natural England report. Any habitat that grows on the beach is automatically protected under the SSSI. 99% of the beach will still be open sand, so there is still plenty of habitat for the birds.”
In a statement from the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), officer Natalie LeBrun said: "The naturalised section at Hoylake Beach has proven to be a success for nature attracting species such as snow bunting.
"It is clear that the naturalised area of Hoylake Beach now plays an important role is supporting the local ecosystem, and we therefore urge the council to continue their sustainable management of the foreshore, with no further removal of vegetation, raking, or glyphosate spraying.
"Naturalisation of sections of beach have been successfully applied elsewhere in the region; for example, Southport beach where Sefton council allowed sections to ‘green over’, promoting and defending the position with residents.
"We are in the midst of ecological, climate, and health crises, and now more than ever we need the support of local government to protect and enhance nature-rich green spaces such as Hoylake Beach."
Botanist Joshua Styles who has appeared on BBC Countryfile and Spingwatch says the beach is host to 72 different plants including a number of grasses and sent pictures of some of the individual species.
Of the 72 species, 11 are of conservation importance - which is to say they are threatened with extinction in a district to nationwide context.
He said: "Hoylake Beach is an internationally important site included within the Dee Estuary Special Area of Conservation and North Wirral Foreshore Site of Special Scientific Interest.
"Following significant yearly sand accretion across the area, a mix of dune and embryonic saltmarsh vegetation is colonising the beach across a narrow band above the strandline.
"This is a habitat that used to exist across Hoylake although most of this is now built on, whilst it is a very rare and special habitat in an international context."
Last year, some issues were raised over the fears of a drop in tourism to the beach if it wasn’t sprayed, but Cllr Grey dismissed this, she said: “Ecotourism is fast growing and I believe it fits with the ethos of the area.
“And the financial gains of ecotourism are referenced in the document from Natural England, economically there is a lot to got at.”
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Cllr Grey also wanted to be clear, for people concerned about the beach becoming like Park Gate further down the coast with its marshy wetlands, that it was not possible.
She said: “Both Parkgate and Hoylake are estuarine but in different ways. West Kirby is much more part of the Dee river system and Hoylake is part of the Liverpool Bay, open sea system, more affected by wind and waves and saltier water - Hoylake simply can’t be like Parkgate."
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The idea of convergence devices are pretty cool – it helps you save in terms of money as well as time, as there is one less item to tote around if a single device is able to do more than one task or perform more than a single chore, right? The modern day smartphone is an excellent example – it is a mini computer of sorts, a clock, a camera, a navigation device, and heck, even a flashlight, all without forgetting that it was created to help us keep in touch with one another. If you would like something different in the kitchen while on the lookout for an espresso machine, then the $4,200 Music Box Espresso Machine would certainly be the perfect fit for the bill.
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This coffee maker offers a simple, cheap method of preparing quality coffee. The machine may be controlled in two distinct ways for usage in the conventional “drip” technique or utilizing an electric hot water kettle. This machine has several benefits, such as being handy, simple to operate, and requires little cleaning. By this guide, you will learn everything about how to use Proctor Silex Coffee Maker.
Good days begin with delicious coffee. No longer do you have to travel to a shop to enjoy a cup of fragrant espresso: you can create a cup of your favorite beverage with the Proctor Silex coffee maker.
What is a Proctor Silex coffee maker?
A drip machine. When you discovered that drip coffee machines are the most suitable for preparing “Americano,” this gadget quickly gained popularity.
It has also helped Proctor Silex appeal because the machines are effortless to operate.
A contemporary Proctor Silex machine has an elegant black finish and chrome finish with contrasting silver accents. The heater starts here as one of the critical machinery. Water passes through a specific filter that retains the ground coffees while also heating it to the desired temperature. And now the beverage goes into the tank.
Despite all these gadgets being of the same sort, they are very diverse from one manufacturer to another.
All of these things include the following: design, power, volume, and the device’s material.
It comes with a timer and a delayed start. And it can be electrical or mechanical. However, the Proctor Silex coffee maker is a fine piece of equipment.
How to use Proctor Silex coffee maker
- To prepare coffees with the Silex maker, first put the thumb-operated handle into the left hole of the brew basket, then press down firmly to snap the basket into place. Make sure the basket is completely seated.
- Now fill the basket with a cone paper filter.
- Coffee, the strength of which might vary, is put in the filter of coffee makers based on the kind of machine.
- It would be best if you put Coldwater into the water reservoir. You mustn’t fill the cup up to the 12-cup mark.
- Placing the carafe on the hot plate keeps the coffee hot.
- To ensure the lid is secured, give it a firm press while also checking to see that the cover is completely shut.
- When you’ve shut the lid, press the button to begin brewing.
- Once the brewing process is complete, turn off the switch. The carafe will be ready once the coffee in it has through brewing.
- It would be best if you served the attendees piping hot and fresh coffee by the staff.
Instructions to use Proctor Silex machine
The following instructions will provide guide you in making your own personal Americano:
- Make the connection between the machine and the power source.
- Add some water to the tank.
- Put some coffee in the filter. To obtain the same volume, use this proportion: one teaspoon per 100 milliliters of water.
- The filter should be closed. Position the finished drink container.
- Start the gadget by pressing the button.
- Wait for all the water to flow into the reservoir before making coffee.
- Let the machine turn off.
- After straining, pour the completed drink into a cup.
Tips for how to use Proctor Silex coffee maker
- To achieve the most outstanding results, use a high-quality paper filter.
- The grounds among the filter and the filter basket must be free of spillage, or there would be coffees grounds all over the place.
- Confirm the filter basket is firmly in place.
- Keep-hot-plate should be level and sufficiently connected to the carafe cover before brewing begins.
- Overfilling stops grounds and water from the filter basket in the Silex coffee maker as long as it takes to set the carafe within 20 seconds.
Why you should buy a proctor silex coffee maker
It is essential to ensure that your morning coffee is as tasty and fresh as possible, therefore get a proctor-Silex
This Procter & Gamble product streamlines the process of making coffees or tea for busy individuals so they don’t have to spend time making it themselves. There’s no better method to pass the time when you need to do things after work than to sit up all night while an appliance performs its job.
The benefits of buying a proctor silex coffee machine
Proctor Silex’s machine is the best choice for a busy, highly-concentrated professional who also wants to multitask. With the short time and effort it takes me to get dressed before I go to work, this great coffee brewer can grind, brew, and distribute.
I have found that while I am running errands or just sitting down with friends, my productivity has skyrocketed. What’s great about it? After you are through using it, there’s no need to ever worry about leaving a mess on your counter again, as the only items you’ll discover on the counter are the empty grounds that slide directly into a garbage bag!
How to use an old proctor silex coffee maker
Learn how to brew the world’s most delicious cup of coffee using the proctor Silex machine in this piece.
There are several methods for utilizing the Proctor Silex 4-cup coffeemaker. When water has started to boil, cover the top of the cup with its lid to prevent steam from escaping.
You’ll need to flip the filter on top of the part you’re going to put ground beans too, and then you may add the rest of the things in the basket. With one knob increased and another reduced, there is only enough pressure for the required amount of brew time (typically 6 minutes) before starting the brewing process.
Proctor silex coffee maker 12 cup
A trustworthy machine that can brew your daily coffees or tea quickly is the Proctor Silex 12-Cup. This safe has non-slip rubberized handles, is constructed of solid materials, and can withstand spills due to this being well built.
This professional coffeemaker serves about twelve cups of coffee, which may be enjoyed by coworkers or shared with friends. It’s easy enough to use at home, but it’s also durable enough to use while camping without worrying about breaking down. Instead, carry some ground beans.
FAQs :How to Use Proctor Silex Coffee Maker
- How do you turn on a Proctor Silex coffee maker?
Place a carafe that is empty on top of it.
To the reservoir, pour one pint of simple white vinegar.
To attach to the electrical outlet, insert the power adapter and then turn it on.
In thirty seconds, shut off.
Allow the vinegar to do it for 30 minutes before you use it.
Press the button to activate.
Do not touch when the process is complete.
- How much coffee do you add per cup?
The “Golden Ratio” – one tablespoon of ground coffees per six ounces of water is an excellent general rule to follow. There are individual tastes that you may modify to fit personal preferences. First, find out how the brewing measurement is taken by looking at the lines that are in the brewer's cups or on the brewer it.
- What kind of coffee is used in coffee makers?
Instant coffee is ground-roasted coffee, which is brewed and then discarded afterward. An alternative that produces both forms is available. While the public generally favors ground coffee, the prevalence of instant machines and coffee makers much exceeds it. You don't have to give the instant coffee powder a thorough washing before use. Just putting boiling water in a bowl is enough.
- How do you fix a coffee maker that won't brew?
To clean and deodorize:
Use equal parts vinegar and hot water.
Continue to prepare coffees as you usually would with the Keurig brewer.
Repeat the water-and-vinegar rinse to return the reservoir to full.
Start the machine and let it finish a cycle.
We just wanted to remind you to remember safety while you prepare coffee.
Paying attention to your cooking to not utilize the pause feature is crucial while preparing your food. Always return the cooking pot to the hotplate after you are through cooking. As a result, hot water dribbles down over time.
Another thing to bear in mind is that you should only set the hot coffee jug on the hot plate. Additionally, if the server basket begins to overflow, disconnect the computer as soon as possible. Wait until the server is excellent before removing the basket.
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The last two years have spurred enterprises to discover new modes of digital expertise and pushed people to reside virtually to an extent they by no means anticipated. Now the metaverse is rising, reconciling how the internet is designed with what we are going to demand from it going forward. As these developments problem our basic assumptions about technology and enterprise, we’re coming into a brand new panorama with no guidelines or expectations.
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How Nursing Differs in Other Countries
The United States has the largest professional nurse workforce in the world, yet there continues to be more positions open than nurses available. Recruiting foreign nurses is one of the many strategies used to address the nursing shortage throughout the country. However, the education, regulation and licensure of nurses in other countries is very diverse with considerable differences in scope and complexity. Explore nursing differences from around the globe to learn how nursing programs in other countries compare to North America's.
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Not all countries, including Mexico and Nepal, require you to have a nursing license, and only some countries require nurses to pass an exam following the completion of their nursing education before they can practice. Nurses in Australia, Japan, Korea, Poland, Singapore, Thailand, the Cameroons, and the Philippines pass a licensing exam to obtain national licensure. India only allows nurses to be licensed in one state at once, and Canadian nurses are licensed by individual provinces but can earn endorsements for additional licensure in other provinces.
In the United States, nurse licensure varies by state, with regulations created by each state's Board of Nursing. Previously, nurses who wanted to practice in more than one state had to apply for a license by endorsement after obtaining a license in their home state and pay for multiple licenses. The 2000 Nurse Licensure Compact provided a multistate license that let nurses practice across state lines but only in participating states. In non-participating states, you must still pay for a license by endorsement.
While many countries have comparable education and regulatory systems, they're not equivalent to that of the United States. Countries that have historically supplied nurses to the United States include Canada, India, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, China, Mexico, and sub-Saharan Africa are emerging suppliers. Still, other nurses come from Australia, Japan, Israel, and Zimbabwe. Here are some differences between these countries' nursing requirements compared to the United States.
- Australia requires registered nurses to have a three-year Bachelor of Nursing degree as an entry-level to practice. Graduating nurses must register with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency's Nursing and Midwifery Board, but they aren't required to pass an exam.
- Japan's nursing requirements include basic nursing education through a 4-year college/university, 3-year junior college, or 3-year training school, and nurses must pass a national licensing exam to obtain a license from the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Unlike in the United States, once you obtain your nursing license in Japan, it's good for life. Since there are no renewal requirements, nurses also aren't required to earn continuing education credits.
- Zimbabwe applicants for nurse training at government hospitals must pass the required minimum of five Ordinary Level exams in one sitting and be between 18 and 30 years old. All practicing nurses must register with Zimbabwe Health Professions Council and renew their practicing certificates each year.
- Israel nursing license applicants must complete theoretical and clinical nursing studies, study Israeli laws and regulations, the Israeli health system and states of emergency and trauma through a hospital mentorship, and take professional CPR and Measurement Conversion courses. Once they complete all prerequisites, they must pass a licensure exam before being issued a license by the Nursing Division of the Ministry of Health.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing created the Resource Manual on the Licensure of Internationally Educated Nurses to provide a detailed guide for state boards of nursing to use for uniform licensure requirements. Foreign nurses must contact the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools for prescreening after completing a comparable nursing program in their home country.
They must also pass the NCLEX-RN or NCLEX-PN exam and an English proficiency exam and obtain a work visa to receive a nursing license. Some countries, including the United States and Canada, test the competencies of nurses before they leave their home countries.
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Elementary science doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive! One of the best things about science experiments for kids has to be the ease in which you can set them up! Here’s over 50 science experiments for elementary that are a super fun way to get kids engaged with easy to understand science concepts using simple materials.
SCIENCE FOR ELEMENTARY
Why Is Science So Important?
Elementary age kids are curious and always looking to explore, discover, investigate, and experiment to find out why things do what they do, move like they move, or change.
Indoors or outdoors, science is definitely amazing! Holidays or special occasions just make science all the more fun to try!
Science surrounds us, inside and out. Kids love checking things out with magnifying glasses, creating chemical reactions with kitchen ingredients, and of course exploring stored energy for physics!
Check out 50+ AMAZING science experiments to get started any time of the year.
Science starts early, and you can be a part of that with setting up science at home with everyday materials. Or you can bring easy science to a group of kids in the classroom!
We find a ton of value in cheap science activities and experiments. Check out our homemade science kit for a full list of supplies and materials you will want to have on hand. Plus, our free printable science worksheets!
Elementary Science Activities
The elementary years are the perfect time to get young kids excited about science!
Kids are asking all sorts of questions about different areas of science, and they also are developing reading skills and a vocabulary that make recording beginning experiments so much fun!
We love to plan science activities seasonally, so students have a wealth of experiences. Here are some elementary science activities for the school year!
Fall is a perfect time to study chemistry and this age is not too young to explore chemistry. In fact, our favorite erupting apple experiment is hands-down one of our favorite fall elementary science experiments. Using baking soda, vinegar, and apple, your students can see a chemical reaction with a fall fruit!
When I think of Halloween elementary science experiments, I think of zombies, and when I think of zombies, I think of brains! Don’t shy away from creepy, gooey activities this time of year!
Try making creepy frozen brains with your kids. This activity takes a brain mold, water, food coloring, eye-droppers, a tray, and a bowl of warm water.
Freezing a brain (and then melting it) will allow your students to explore melting ice and reversible change. Buy a couple of molds and have students work in groups if you have multiple students in a class.
One of the most accessible fruits during Thanksgiving are cranberries! Using cranberries to build structures for STEM is also a great way to incorporate engineering into your classroom. Your students’ imaginations are the only limit to the structures they can create.
Winter may be chilly in some parts of the country, but there are a lot of indoor activities for your elementary age kids to enjoy. Using printable STEM cards to let students solve different winter-related problems is so much fun!
From designing a fort to building a 3D snowman, there’s something for every child to do with STEM. STEM activities encourage collaboration and community. Kids work together in pairs or groups to solve mini problems or challenges.
Tis’ the season for science activities! Why not integrate the popular Elf on the Shelf into your classroom science activities?
Make some Elf themed slime to teach mixtures, substances, polymers, cross-linking, states of matter, elasticity, and viscosity in a beginning chemistry lesson!
This means you can use the other things that come with the “Elf” like welcoming messages, little notes to tell your kids to be on their best behaviors, and messages to deliver back to “Santa”!
Valentine’s Day is our latest official winter holiday, but we have a lot of love for it! Study chocolate! This is another great way to study reversible change.
Have your students observe what happens when chocolate is heated up and figure out whether or not it can be reversed. Make sure to leave some chocolates untouched for a quick and yummy taste test!
Try a BIG spring project with your students by building a DIY bug hotel! This insect habitat will give you a chance to get outside, learn about insects and their natural surroundings.
This project could incorporate journaling, research, as well as engineering and design. When you introduce your students to bugs in a scientific way, they are less likely to scream at spiders and all things creepy-crawly at recess time!
Easter activities mean jelly beans! Dissolving jelly beans or making engineering marvels with jelly beans, toothpicks, and peeps (for glue) will bring a fun candy treat into your spring science study. Just like the chocolate, make sure there are extras for treats!
Earth Day is one of my favorite times of the year for science activities in elementary. Our kids care deeply about their environment and are highly motivated to make a difference. Why not make this a school-wide activity.
Have your kids do some fundraising with penny wars or another easy to do fundraiser and buy a tree to plant at your school. This Earth Day activity brings communities together!
More Helpful Science Resources
- 100 STEM Projects For Kids
- Scientific Method For Kids
- Fizzing Science Experiments
- Water Experiments
- States of Matter Experiments
- Physics Experiments
- Chemistry Experiments
- Kitchen Science Experiments
AWESOME ELEMENTARY SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS FOR ALL YEAR LONG
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A young design house can never dream of flying high when a couple of young designers decided to put their dreams and creativity into a real business.
On the way to register some of the drawings as trademarks, they ran into the “Intellectual Capital Management Consultancy Programme” offered by the
Intellectual Property Department of The Government of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region. When they decided to enroll the programme, they had no
idea of what “intellectual capital” was. It was like some kind of “stuff” that
relevant to them but they were not sure what.
During the six hours of intensive discussion and free-style exchange of idea, founders of the design house had a good grasp of what kind of intellectual
capital they already had. Hidden value was uncovered at a degree far more than
what they originally anticipated, especially at the time when a potential
partner approached them for a business venture.
They were equipped with the knowledge of stakeholder-care mentality, an intellectual capital (IC) value tree, and challenges on intangibles ahead of their business course.
In May 2009, their IC value tree was identified as:
Human capital: 52%
Structural capital: 20%
Relational capital: 28%
The weighting was based on the importance per each intellectual capital item in generating value to their stakeholders. After a year or so, it was
observed that they have accumulated several folds of intangibles. They knew
they have done something right from that point.
It all started few years ago in a night packed with friends and drinks where the crazy designers announced that “lets give it a try! I don’t really care whether it works or not!”
Note: Their 1st IC reporting can be viewed at:
Some of the lessons top management learnt from the programme:
1. Ratio of intangibles vs. tangibles which is amazing
2. Relative importance of different IC elements
3. Very hard to estimate the dollar value for IC
The What Works in IC is now a formal academic study. We would love to have your story in the study.
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The passion and ability to treat others is unique. It takes tremendous intelligence and self-discipline to become an osteopathic physician. But even those qualities are not enough. For so many young people capable of practicing medicine, the cost is simply prohibitive. For others, their abilities and natural inclinations toward areas such as family medicine are curtailed by the cost of their educations and the pressure to pay back student loans.
Honoring your donations with lasting symbols on our campus
When you give $500 a year for five consecutive years (or a minimum single contribution of $2,500), you will be recognized with a leaf on the Donor Giving Tree. A cumulative gift of $10,000 or more will be honored with an acorn, and a cumulative gift of $25,000 or more will be honored with a rock beneath the Donor Giving Tree.
Reduce student debt.
Scholarships and academic achievement awards make medical school more affordable and decrease the burden of student debt.
Provide the latest technologies.
Tomorrow’s physicians must leverage simulation, electronic medical records and other technological advances to deliver the best, most cost-effective patient care.
State-of-the-art structures are critical to meet the needs of our students for classrooms, labs, research and collaboration.
Teach future physicians.
Faculty recruitment and development, guest lecturers and research grants are just part of the reason WVSOM is a national leader in osteopathic medicine and rural health care.
Enhance community outreach.
With your help, our school has developed three unique programs that deliver healthy lifestyle opportunities to West Virginians.
- RHI - Rural Health Initiative
- CRCH - Center for Rural and Community Health
- Healthy Children’s Initiative - Abracadabra on PBS
Deliver physicians to our communities.
Since 1978 we’ve produced more than 3,000 Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine. Over 2,300 are currently in primary and specialty care throughout the nation – over 800 right here in West Virginia.
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In cooperation with the primary school Elzeneind in Oss, Synappz organized and mentored a CodeKids day.
Today children play a lot with tablets, laptops and mobile phones, and are often better at it than many adults.
It seemed like a fascinating idea to us to introduce children to the underlying technology and to arouse their interest for a potential future career path!
Pupils between the ages of 7 to 11 years were given the possibility to register.
There were 5 different workshops, each mentored by a team member and composed of small groups of 2 to 3 children. They worked on:
• Design: children design their own app on paper, which will then be transferred to a smartphone.
• Programming: by following a set of successive instructions the little figure on the screen moves about.
• Robotics: the robot follows a trail programed by the child.
• Gaming: designing a game on paper, which will then be transferred to an iPad by Synappz.
• Hardware: build your own little computer and control it.
In addition, they were given the opportunity to discover virtual reality, 3D printing and drone flying.
We welcomed over 40 enthusiastic children on the day. They all went home with a nice certificate of attendance. It was a lovely experience for the kids as well as for the Synappz team. | <urn:uuid:44d2d91c-b1dd-4f4f-b6fa-aa7db10ae8d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.synappz.nl/codekids/?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978274 | 279 | 2.375 | 2 |
Building and Scaling Human-Centered Citizen Experiences–Keys for Success
Sponsored by IBM Watson Health
Wednesday, December 11
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Offering Leader – IBM Social Program Management, IBM Watson Health
Legislation, recommendations, and citizen demand tell us that great digital services are consistent, user friendly, and available online from any device. What does it take to make this a reality? Hear practical advice for business and technical leaders based on the lessons learned building and scaling multi-program portals used by government agencies in states, counties, and globally.
Why are some States using native web apps for citizen engagement, some using responsive web applications, and some both?
What is a Design System, and why is it not enough on its own to deliver great online services?
How do you balance build vs. buy decisions for citizen portals?
These questions and more are addressed in this session.
U.S Federal government customer satisfaction declined in 2018. Why? As with most things, it’s complex…but long wait times, poor office experiences, and difficult-to-use technology all contribute to citizens feeling like governments don’t value them or their time, or treat them with fairness and respect. One of the impacts of this is reduced engagement between citizens and their government. In fact, research suggests that this might explain why people receiving benefits are less likely to vote.
To tackle this, governments are prioritizing inclusive, accessible public services. They’re involving their citi zens in the process of designing those services. And they’re promoting digital as the default channel for engaging with government through their own digital strategies. And yet, while by many measures eGovernment is strengthening globally, there’s still a huge distance to travel. The US Federal Government spends 11.4 billion hours annually, processing paper forms. Almost half of US states don’t have an online portal for benefits applications designed for use on a mobile device.
But building great digital services is not easy. Using examples both good and not so good, this session explores the business, technical and operational challenges for any Government organization looking to take applications for services online, and suggests strategies for dealing with them.
About GTS Educational Events
If you are a nonprofit or public sector group looking to create a conference, workshop or educational event with impact, look to GTS. We believe educational events are successful when participants learn and grow and then return to their organizations and communities to make them stronger. We look forward to continuing our work with the broad spectrum of organizations striving to make a difference for the people and communities they serve.
Alex Hepp, City of Hopkins
Bill Bleckwehl, Cisco
Dave Andrews, DEED
Jay Wyant, Minnesota IT Services
Jim Hall, Ramsey County
Matt Bailey, IBM
Melissa Reeder, League of Minnesota Cities
Nathan Beran, City of New Ulm
Sue Wallace, IT Futures Foundation
Lisa Meredith, Minnesota Counties Computer Cooperative
Justin Kaufman, Minnesota IT Services
Renee Heinbuch, Washington County/MNCITLA
Jerine Rosato, Ramsey County
David Berthiaume, Minnesota IT Services
Cory Tramm, Sourcewell Tech
Tomas Alvarez, Federal Reserve
Tom Ammons, MN.IT – Central
Dave Andrews, MN State Services for the Blind
Susan Bousquet, MN.IT – DOT
Robert Granvin, Metro State
Alex Hepp, City of Hopkins
Shawntan Howell, Ramsey County
Jenny Johnson, Metropolitan Council
Millicent Kasal, MN.IT – Central
Ping Li, MN.IT – MMB
Chibuzor Nnaji, MN.IT – DHS
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Effect of Climate Change on Biomass and Human Population Intensified by Unplanned Urbanization
This paper aims to see the effect of climate change on the human population and biomass surmounted by unplanned urbanization. Model is formulated using the system of non-linear differential equations. In the modeling process, four variables are considered, namely, density of biomass, population density, unplanned urbanization and change in the climate. It is assumed that, human population and biomass growing logistically. Criteria for the local stability and global stability of the non-negative equilibrium points are obtained. Furthermore, the results are also illustrated using numerical simulation. It has been shown that biomass and population decreases due to climate change intensified by unplanned urbanization.
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THE DEATH OF PUNISHMENT: Searching For Justice Among the Worst of the World’s Worst (Palgrave Macmillian, November 2013)
“A truly remarkable and deeply moral book — an eloquent, unsparing, often counterintuitive, and sometimes painful meditation on why, whom, and how a decent society should decide to punish, and what those questions can teach us about universal truths of morality and justice. A philosophically and legally sophisticated page-turner is a rare thing to behold, but Robert Blecker has produced just that. If you think you already know what you believe about the death penalty, think again and read this book. If you care deeply about questions of right and wrong, read it twice.” —Laurence H. Tribe, University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, and author of The Invisible Constitution and American Constitutional Law
“Arresting fusion of memoir and jeremiad, arguing for a punitive approach toward the worst perpetrators of social violence, amid a general overhaul of attitudes toward criminality… While many will dismiss his viewpoint, Blecker presents a strong case with legalistic rigor on some of the darkest questions facing society.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Written in a breezy, conversational style, the [book] contains Blecker’s commentary about the administration of punishment and his conversations with prisoners about it. This is a valuable addition to the literature, written for a popular audience.”—Library Journal
Featured on Fox News by former prosecutor Kimberly Guilfoyle on The Five.
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How To Install Wireshark Network Analyzer In Ubuntu – A Best Network Traffic Analyzer For Linux
In this article, we are going to learn How to install a Wireshark network analyzer in Ubuntu. Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer application used to collect networking live data like sending and receiving packets, daily bandwidth usage..etc..and shows the data in a highly informative manner. In all small and large organizations, you will find a network traffic analyzer application which helps network administrator not only to troubleshooting the network-related errors but also provides a nice platform to analyze the complete network from a single location. Wireshark network analyzer is a nice lightweight application that comes with various features mentioned below :
- Wireshark network traffic analyzer application is an open-source cross-platform application that comes for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS.
- Analyzes both wired & wireless live network data with exact statistics.
- Official Plugins are available to get more features as per your need and requirement.
- You can set different color codes for different send and receive packets for quick identification.
- You can add multiple network cards in the Wireshark network analyzer application to capture network data.
- It allows saving captured network data for future reference.
In short Wireshark network analyzer is a nice tool with complete network traffic analysis features and a recommended tool for use. Wireshark was developed by Gerald Combs on the year 1998 using C & C++ programming language and released under GNU GPL license.
Follow the below steps to install Wireshark network analyzer in Ubuntu – A Best Network traffic analyzer for Linux:
Before starting the installation of the Wireshark network analyzer we have to install the official PPA repository for that as it’s not a part of the default repository of Ubuntu. So to install the PPA repository use the below command.
[email protected]:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable # Install PPA Repository Latest stable Wireshark releases back-ported from Debian package versions. Back-porting script is available at https://github.com/rbalint/pkg-wireshark-ubuntu-ppa From Ubuntu 16.04 you also need to enable "universe" repository, see: http://askubuntu.com/questions/148638/how-do-i-enable-the-universe-repository More info: https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphd0sx8go/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphd0sx8go/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key 14ECA0F0 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: /tmp/tmphd0sx8go/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 14ECA0F0: public key "Launchpad PPA for Wireshark Developers" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) OK
After installing the PPA repository let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu to take effect.
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Now we are ready to install the Wireshark network analyzer package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using the below command.
Note: During installation, you will get a message for Configuration of Wireshark-common and will ask for Yes or No to continue the installation. Here you just have to select and press enter on Yes.
As you can see above we have successfully installed the Wireshark network traffic analyzer package. To confirm the same refer to the below command.
[email protected]:~$ sudo dpkg -l wireshark # Confirm the installed Package Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-====================================-=======================-=======================-============================================================================= ii wireshark 2.4.2-1~xenial1 amd64 network traffic analyzer - meta-package
Now to open the application just type the command wireshark on the shell prompt. Refer to the command below.
[email protected]:~$ wireshark # Open the Wireshark network analyzer application
You can also open the Wireshark network traffic analyzer using Search your computer box.
How To Uninstall Wireshark Network Analyzer On Ubuntu?
To uninstall the Wireshark network analyzer application use the below command.
[email protected]:~$ sudo dpkg -r wireshark # Uninstall the Wireshark application (Reading database ... 251375 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wireshark (2.4.2-1~xenial1) ...
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UAE has long been an attractive goal for entrepreneurs throughout the world.
Offering low taxes, strategic locations in the heart of the largest and fastest-growing developing countries, and the government helps maintain and support the business. It is not difficult to see the reason.
But while this might be the factors that get headlines, there are other main reasons why so many flocks to the UAE coast to do a free business zone.
What is Dubai Freezone?
Free zones are geographical areas where goods, services, and commodities can be traded without strict customs regulatory interventions. In most free zones, companies are subject to minimal taxes or even wholly released to encourage economic activities.
Over the years, the UAE free zone has evolved to offer advantages that continue to increase for business. Many free zones serve specific industries or business types – for example, Dubai Healthcare City helps those in the health care industry. In contrast, Jebel Ali’s free zone authority is directly related to the region’s largest port and therefore preferred by those in import/export.
Best Freezones for Company Formation in Dubai
There are many Freezones in Dubai for starting your new business, and every free zone has a different set of advantages. Some of the expected benefits that every Freezone offers are 100% foreign ownership, Exemption for corporate tax, Repatriation of profits and capital, and support service availability.
Five Best Freezones of Dubai are-
- DMCC Authority Free Zone
- Creative City Fujairah
- Dubai South
- UAQ FTZ
Why Should You Start New Business in Dubai Freezones?
Company formation in Dubai Free zone is a perfect decision for foreign investors because Freezone brings along various benefits. The free zone area in the UAE is a part that is geographically distinguished and participated in in-laws and regulations that are very different from the laws that regulate the company in the UAE. Companies that operate in a free zone are considered as foreign companies or companies operating outside the UAE.
There are plenty of reasons to open a business in Freezone Dubai-
Easy Business Setup Process
The setting process in most free zones is straightforward. The right application process will depend on your business activities and the selected free zone. You must only provide some essential documentation, such as copies of passports and business documents in many cases.
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Get 100% Foreign Ownership
You can maintain 100% foreign ownership in the UAE free zone, so there is no need for local pairs or sponsors. You can also repatriate 100% of capital and profit, with complete autonomy to liquidate your company anytime. And because there are no currency limits, the movement of funds is effortless.
0% Corporate Tax
Companies that start in Dubai free zones get benefits from corporate and personal income tax. It also includes services from a dual taxation avoidance agreement. Besides, it is possible to get a 3-year residency visa for investors, staff, and family members.
Support and Assistance
The freezones supports the business owners by registering the visa for their shareholders and other dependents like spouse, children, domestic helpers, etc. They also assist in bank account opening and helps you select the best bank that best suits your needs.
Carry Out Wide Range of Activity and Hold Properties
Companies can do various activities. It includes business and international import/export. You can save property and have full freedom to open a bank account in the UAE.
How to Start New Business in Freezone Dubai?
Some of the critical points of setting up a business in Dubai Freezone are as follows-
Select a Business Activity
The first step in getting the Dubai free zone business settings you decide on the business activities you want to do because this will impact where you can register your company. The type of license you apply for will also depend on the activities you want to do – such as professional, commercial, trade, etc.
Dubai does have some specific requirements about what activities are permitted under what license, so the best advice is to work with a company formation specialist at this stage to ensure a smooth process.
Set a Trade Name
Deciding the company name can be a challenge anywhere globally. Still, here in the UAE – with its specific rules regarding the naming convention – this is the task you want to tick as early as possible. There are several things to remember here: Offensive language is prohibited, the company name cannot contain religious references or references to any organization known (anything from ‘FBI’).
Because there is some other satisfaction for the UAE naming process, it is best to work with a company formation specialist to help you decide on an obedient name and check whether it is available to register.
Finalize a Freezone Location
Once you have finalized the trade name, the next step will be to complete the business location for doing business. There are many factors you should consider while finishing a freezone. Like which Freezone have access to the main highway, proximity of airports, what type of activities is permitted in that free zones, etc.
Complete the Paperwork and Issue Your Business License
There are some standard documents required for issuing a license for company formation in Dubai-
- Complete Application Form
- Shareholder Passport Copies
- Business Plan, etc.
The documents may vary from Freezone to Freezone. Submit all the required documents properly to get your license application approved.
Bank Account Opening
After you get your trade license, the next step will be to open a corporate bank account. The free zone you choose can also help you find the right bank, or you can visit the bank of your choice to open a bank account.
- Bank account opening form
- copy os share certificates
- MOA and Article of association
- Passport copies
- Resolution from the board of directors who allows the bank account opening.
Apply for Visa
At this stage, you can complete your visa application. You can apply for a visa for yourself, your employees, your family, etc. It is the final stage of business setup in Dubai, Freezones. Just a few steps and you are ready to set up your new business in Dubai Freezones.
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Postal bureau joins enforcement agencies for CITES training
Xi’an, China, December 2016—more than 50 officers from government departments in Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia provinces were joined for the first time by representatives from the Shaanxi Postal Bureau for two days of training on implementation of measures under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) late last month.
The workshop was organized by the Xi’an Branch of China’s CITES Management Authority (CITES MA) and held in co-operation with TRAFFIC and other NGOs under the auspices of the Provincial Inter-agency CITES Enforcement Coordination Group (PICE-CG).
Government departments attending from the four provinces included Forest Police, Customs, Industry and Commerce Administration, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Forestry Department and Fishery Department, plus representatives of Shaanxi Postal Bureau, the newest member of the PICE-CG.
“More and more wildlife products are being traded online using the internet and social media with delivery taking place via courier companies,” said Jia Yongyi, Director of Xi’an Branch of China’s CITES MA. “As the overseer of the courier industry, the Postal Bureau is an important stakeholder joining the PICE-CG to help implement CITES measures.”
Delegates received species identification training from experts from China’s CITES Scientific Authority and heard about the latest developments following the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to CITES that ended in South Africa in October, while an expert from Beijing Forestry University spoke about significant changes in the revised “China Wildlife Conservation Act”.
TRAFFIC presented an overview of the latest developments in illegal wildlife trade globally and nationally and outlined how information sharing with government departments was facilitating enforcement actions. Acting on information supplied by TRAFFIC, government enforcement agencies in Shaanxi province undertook a series of enforcement actions against illegal wildlife markets in June 2016. TRAFFIC surveys of the same markets in November 2016 found no illegal wildlife products for sale.
Follow up surveys clearly showed the impact of the government’s fast and effective enforcement actions, acting on the information provided by TRAFFIC. Nevertheless, wildlife trafficking remains a highly profitable activity and we must not grow complacent: TRAFFIC will continue to monitor the markets and share our findings with relevant government agencies
Zhou Fei, Head of TRAFFIC’s China office
Members the PICE-CG reviewed various issues to be addressed in 2017, including more emphasis on species identification, raising public awareness of conservation issues, and addressing the relatively low punishments dealt out for minor wildlife trafficking infringements. Shaanxi Postal Bureau representatives spoke of their plans to address transportation of wildlife products through staff training and outreach to courier companies and collaboration with enforcement agencies. All the delegates spoke of their desire and willingness to enhance interagency co-operation and collaboration in the coming year.
TRAFFIC’s capacity building work in Northwest China is kindly supported by WWF UK and GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).
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How to Add a Song to an iPhone Without Syncing
By Christina Shaffer
iTunes automatically syncs your iPhone with your current iTunes library each time you connect the device to your PC. Depending on the size of your music collection, however, the process can be inconvenient and take several minutes to complete. To add songs to the iPhone without synching your entire library, access the program’s settings and disable the automatic sync option. After switching the sync setting, you can manually transfer songs to the device each time you connect it to your computer.
Connect the iPhone to the computer. If iTunes doesn’t launch automatically, open the program manually.
Click your iPhone in the Devices section of the navigation pane on the left.
Click the “Summary” tab.
Enable “Manually manage music and videos.” Click “Apply” to enable manual synchronization for the device.
Click Music in the Library pane and select your preferred song. Click and drag the highlighted song to the iPhone icon to transfer the file to the device.
Christina Shaffer is a freelance writer based in New Jersey and has been writing arts and entertainment articles since 2005. Her articles have appeared in "Philadelphia City Paper." Shaffer received a B.A. in journalism and gender studies at Rutgers University. | <urn:uuid:05498ad9-fc5b-48e3-ae30-caa0b6cef6e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://itstillworks.com/add-song-iphone-syncing-15324.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.87247 | 290 | 1.640625 | 2 |
on Jane Friedman site:
What’s the difference between a story and a narrative relating a series of events? Once upon a time, dear reader, I might have answered, “Causality.”
Because it’s a basic truth I’ve discovered as a book coach and editor: if you have plot that’s basically episodic—this happens, then that, and then this thing over here—the single most effective thing you can do to make it feel like a real story is to introduce the element of causality in revision: this happened, and as a consequence, that happened, which then led to this.
But there’s an element of storytelling that operates at a deeper level than the plot, and in recent years, I’ve come to believe that this is the thing that signals to readers that they’re in the presence of a real story. | <urn:uuid:a4008756-8228-4851-a909-5eab195a595e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2021/12/30/what-makes-a-story-feel-like-a-story-by-susan-defreitas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956191 | 189 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians on the COVID-19 situation from Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on March 23, 2020.
Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
The Liberal government announced late Monday that it has agreed to change draft legislation that proposed to grant itself wide-reaching new powers to tax and spend without parliamentary approval until Dec. 31, 2021, through an emergency spending bill.
Thirty-two MPs, divided proportionally based on party standing, will be in Ottawa to debate the bill being tabled on Tuesday. It includes sections aimed at adopting some of the fiscal measures announced last week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
But a draft version of the bill goes well beyond those measures and includes provisions that would give the minority government the power to act unilaterally for 21 months.
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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer issued a statement late Monday announcing the Official Opposition will not support a bill that gives the government unlimited powers to raise taxes without a parliamentary vote.
“In a crisis, broad, all-party agreement is essential, especially when the government has a minority in the House of Commons,” he said. “We will authorize whatever spending measures are justified to respond to the situation, but we will not sign a blank cheque.”
Just after 11 p.m. Eastern, Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez announced that changes would be made to the bill.
“We consulted with the opposition and will bring changes to the draft legislation,” he wrote on Twitter. “We will always work collaboratively and respect the fundamental role of Parliament.”
The statement did not clarify what sections will be changed.
The Globe and Mail has reviewed a copy of the draft bill.
One section would grant cabinet the power to change taxation levels through regulation, rather than through legislation approved by Parliament. It states that cabinet would have this power during the period “before 2022.”
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“For greater certainty, a regulation made under this section may contain provisions that have the effect of repealing or imposing a tax, decreasing or increasing a rate or an amount of tax or otherwise changing the incidence of tax,” the bill states.
The bill contains similar language and timelines regarding government borrowing.
Government officials shared a draft copy of the bill with some opposition MPs Monday in confidence until the legislation is tabled in the House of Commons. Discussions between parties were taking place Monday evening, meaning the final version could potentially be different from the draft.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux, who has reviewed a draft version of the bill, said the new powers would be “unprecedented."
“The draft legislation would provide powers that go well beyond the initial response to COVID-19 announced last week,” Mr. Giroux told The Globe. “It seeks to circumvent Parliament, for both spending and tax, by granting extraordinary powers to cabinet and individual ministers.”
A senior government official said earlier Monday that the legislation is meant to increase benefits as reasonably needed. The official is not being identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The official said the bill is subject to negotiations with Mr. Rodriguez and his opposition counterparts.
Mr. Rodriguez’s senior communications adviser would not comment on the bill or the impasse with the opposition parties.
Pierre-Olivier Herbert, a spokesperson for Mr. Morneau, also declined to comment on the contents of the bill because it has not yet been made public.
“I cannot comment on the content of a bill before it is introduced in the House,” he said in a statement. “All parties are working together to ensure that Canadians can get rapid access to the financial support they need.”
The bill has 44 numbered pages and is divided into 19 parts. The first part would implement the measures announced last week, including expanded Canada Child Benefit payments and GST credits.
Part 2 contains the new taxation powers for cabinet. Part 6 would amend the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Act to allow the government to increase the Crown agency’s capital.
Part 8 would amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act to allow Ottawa to book increased transfers to the provinces and territories in the fiscal year that ends on March 31.
Other sections contain changes to the Food and Drugs Act, the Canadian Labour Code, the National Housing Act, the Patent Act, the Canada Student Loans Act and the Financial Administration Act, among other legislative moves.
The government's plan is for MPs to pass the bill through all stages Tuesday and for the Senate to do the same on Wednesday.
However, without all-party support, passing legislation quickly becomes more challenging procedurally.
Meanwhile, a report released Monday warns of the economic consequences if mitigation measures such as social distancing and travel bans stay in effect until the end of August. The Conference Board of Canada’s forecast said the country’s real GDP could fall 1.1 per cent in 2020.
“These are extraordinary times. Canadian leaders, business owners and households are facing unprecedented uncertainty," said Pedro Antunes, the Conference Board’s chief economist. “If this scenario holds true, we can expect a deeper and longer-lasting hit to the Canadian economy. Still, governments have acted swiftly to mitigate health and economic impacts," he added. “Once COVID-19 is contained, the economy will rebound.”
The Conference Board estimates that in that end-of-August scenario, the economy could shed 330,000 jobs over the second and third quarters and the jobless rate could climb to 7.7 per cent. The resource sector, tourism and household services will be hit the hardest, the board said, warning they could suffer double-digit drops.
Two former senior Finance Department officials, Scott Clark and Peter DeVries, said Canadians should expect a government deficit of $93.9-billion for 2020-21 – but warned it could be even larger if the pandemic persists into the second half of the fiscal year.
“This could add another $55-billion to the deficit. A deficit of $150-billion (6 per cent of GDP) or higher is very possible,” they wrote in an online post. “But this is a manageable deficit. It is a cyclical deficit, not a structural deficit."
In a letter to the Prime Minister Monday, Canadian Chamber of Commerce president Perrin Beatty urged Ottawa and the provinces to significantly boost aid to small businesses.
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- Understand the concept of the love of money
- Comprehend the consequences that occur from the love of money
Money is amoral. But to love it can lead to all kinds of evil. First, we will look at four thoughts about the concept of the love of money, Then, we will discuss the consequences that may occur in our lives if we choose to love money instead of the giver of money.
Where We Are Going
How Humankind Sees Money
The Love of Money
The Love of Money will never satisfy you
The Love of Money can plunge you into ruin
The Love of Money could escort you into evil
The Love of Money can separate you from God
The Consequences of Loving Money
We will disown or dishonor God
We will stop trusting God: Selected Scriptures
We can be deceived
We can become proud
We can become conceited
We will steal from God
We will steal from others
Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going
How Humankind Sees Money
Money is a gift and blessing from God. How we regard it tells us a lot about whether we control money or money controls us. Ever heard anyone say, “If I only had a million dollars, I would give a lot of it to the Lord.” The question is not what would you do if you had a million dollars, but what are you doing with the ten, twenty, fifty, hundred, or thousand dollars that you presently have?
The Love of Money
Remember, God owns all the money. He gives it to us as a gift and a blessing. We should love the giver and not be controlled by the gift. Here are some interesting thoughts to consider about the love money.
| The Love of Money will never satisfy you
Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them? (Ecc. 5.10-11)
The next verse in Ecclesiastes has a true ring to it.
The more you have, the more you spend, right up to the limits of your income. So what is the advantage of wealth— except perhaps to watch it as it runs through your fingers! (Ecc. 5.11 Living Bible)
Verses 8-9 suggests that the money we work for is taken by the government and that we should not be surprised that the poor are oppressed and that their justice and rights are denied. Verse 10 suggests that a person’s greed becomes meaningless. Verse 11 then tells us plainly that even if we had more, we would probably not give any more than we are presently giving from what we have.
| The Love of Money can plunge you into ruin
People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction (1 Tim. 6.9).
Haven’t we all heard about people who would like to become rich and why they dream of riches? There are as many reasons as there are people. Paul told Timothy that those who wish to become rich open themselves up to an attack and could be snared by it. Think of an animal who is seduced by what is placed before it in a trap. For all intents and purposes, when the animal enters it, he or she has forfeited his or her life. Paul also says that those who wish to be rich fall into dangerous desires (foolish and harmful). This may mean that they lust for more and more. The desire for money tends to be an insatiable thirst. Finally, those who wish to be rich are plunged into ruin and destruction. These words carry a sense of moral destruction. There is a downward progression in Paul’s words. The desire for riches leads to being trapped by their lust for more and, finally, dragged into some moral destruction. We might translate the verse this way: “People who want to get rich are attacked by Satan and caught in his trap. They are overcome by foolish and harmful desires which pull them down to complete and final destruction.” One might note that the specific context of this passage is written about the false teachers in the ecclesiae at Ephesus. It reaches out laterally to any who would want to get rich.
| The Love of Money could escort you into evil
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs (1 Tim. 6.10).
We must be clear. Money is not the root of evil. It is the love of money that leads to evil. We can have a lot of money and love it or not love it, or we can have very little money and love it or not love it. Money is amoral! The issue here is attitude. It is one’s attitude about money that leads one into all sorts of evil. The word “root” in this passage could be translated source and the little article “a” should be “the.” It should read “the love of money is the source of all kinds of evil.”
| The Love of Money can separate you from God
In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6.24). Scripture is full of stories of lovers of money being separated from God. Achan brought down the wrath of God on Israel and his family because of money (Joshua 7). Balaam tried to curse the people of God for a little money (Numbers 22.1-22, cf. 31.8, 16). Delilah betrayed Samson and brought him to ruin because of money (Judges 16.4-31). Ananias and Sapphira lost their lives because of money (Acts 5.1-11). Judas sold Jesus for money (Matthew 26.14-16). I would think that the followers of Jesus would not want to be counted with this motley crew of money lovers.
The Consequences Of Loving Money
For every action, there is a consequence. For those who choose to be lovers of the gift instead of the giver, there will be certain consequences.
| We Will Disown or Dishonor God
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God (Proverbs 30.8-9).
One must wonder if Agur the author of these words might not have had Solomon in mind when he wrote them. To gain money for his treasury, Solomon married foreign wives and brought idolatry into Israel. These actions ruined his life.
| We will stop trusting God: Selected Scriptures
It is easy when you have a lot of money to begin to trust it. You can develop a sense of security when your bank account is full, your stocks are rising, and your retirement fund is secure. The book of Job speaks to this position. If I have put my trust in money, if my happiness depends on wealth, or if I have looked at the sun shining in the skies or the moon walking down her silver pathway and my heart has been secretly enticed, and I have worshiped them by kissing my hand to them, this, too, must be punished by the judges. For if I had done such things, it would mean that I denied the God of heaven (Job 31.24-28 Living Bible).
Proverbs tells the same tale.
Those who trust in their riches will fall,
but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf (Proverbs 11.28).
Paul writes to Timothy with a similar exhortation.
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment (1 Timothy 6.17).
We must note that Paul writes that God graciously (richly) provides us with everything to enjoy. We often live with such ascetic tendencies that it is difficult for us to enjoy the gifts that God has given us: the beauty of the world that we live in, its sunrises, sunsets, cloud formations, forests, animals, etc.; our families; fathers, mothers, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. We are so caught up in our day-to-day existence that we forget to enjoy life. I have often told my kids that the specific day they are living will never occur again. Once it has passed it is gone forever. It cannot be retrieved. So enjoy the day to its fullest. We live far below the level of enjoyment in which God has provided for us to live.
| We can be deceived
Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful (Mark 4.18-19).
Jesus told his disciples among other things in the Parable of the Sower that wealth can be deceitful or give a false impression that you are secure. Building on the wrong foundation will cause great pain and agony.
Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle (Proverbs 23.4-5).
Building on the wrong foundation will cause great pain and agony.
| We can become proud
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery (Deut. 8.12-14).
Again, the ease of which our attitude turns against the one who owns it all is prevalent.
| We can become conceited
The rich are wise in their own eyes;
one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are
Living Bible paraphrases it this way, “Rich men are conceited, but their real poverty is evident to the poor.”
| We will steal from God
When you love money, you tend to even steal from God. To the ones restored to their land, he asked the question through his prophet,
“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.
“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’
“In tithes and offerings. Malachi 3.8
The point of this passage is that if you keep from God what is rightfully his, you are stealing from him. By the way, don’t think of the word “tithes” as meaning ten percent of your income and then get caught up in the modern argument about “net” or “gross” income. We will discuss that subject in another session.
| We will steal from Others
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? (1 John 3.17)
We have seen this passage earlier. We may say that when a person has money and sees his brother or sister in need and does not give to them, it is like stealing from them the gift and blessing of God.
Where Have We Been And Where We Are Going
The whole issue of money is about attitude. If you have a lover of money attitude, some severe consequences await you.
Remember, all money belongs to God. It’s all his! We are just the managers of it. Our task is to bring glory and honor to God in the use of his gift.
Fasten your seatbelts as we turn to the First Testament and discuss the concept of “tithes and offerings.”
Community Discussion Questions
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- In what ways do you make choices to love money?
- How has the lure of riches caused you to respond to your family, friends, business associates, etc.?
- What kinds of evil have you noticed in your life that have come because of your love for money?
- In what way do you make choices that ultimately cause you to choose between God and money?
- How have you dishonored God because you pursued money?
- How does having money or the pursuit of it cause you to place your trust in it instead of God?
- How has the love of money deceived you?
- In what ways do you continually steal from God?
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Previous installments of our series analyzing in detail the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the regulations interpreting that law issued by the US Department of Labor addressed the following issues:
- Part One – employee eligibility and employer coverage;
- Part Two – the coronavirus-specific circumstances why eligible employees may take paid leave;
- Part Three – the rules that apply to employees’ use of emergency paid sick leave and public health emergency paid family leave; and
- Part Four – how employers calculate the amount of pay to be provided as paid FFCRA leave.
In this final installment, we close out our analysis of the FFCRA by discussing what happens at the end of FFCRA leave, including employee job restoration rights, and the protections in the law against discrimination and retaliation.
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Gary McKenna, consultant mortgage broker at Mortgages for Business looks at the role of swap rates in determining fixed rate mortgage pricing.
You may question the mental stability (or possible absence of having a ‘life’) of someone who wakes up thinking that a blog about SWAP rates will make interesting reading.
However, I would ask that you humour me as this may well save you money.
I appreciate that there will be a temptation to skip to the ‘money saving bit’ but I would ask you to first read the small amount of theory below regarding SWAP rates and their impact on fixed rate mortgages as it may prove quite interesting…
The pricing of a fixed rate mortgage is determined by several factors, but mostly it comes down to how cheaply the lender was able to obtain the money to lend out in the first place – the SWAP rate.
Put simply, a SWAP rate is a fixed interest rate at which a lender buys money for a certain period of time - normally from one to 10 years, although most commonly two, three, five and 10 year SWAP rate programmes are used. These are then used to create fixed rate mortgage products.
SWAP rate pricing is based upon what the money markets see as the likely average rate over the chosen time frame, factoring in expectations of future interest rates and inflation.
Based on estimations this means SWAP rates can sometimes be cheaper than prevailing variable rates and result in fixed rate mortgage products that are not only attractive but also provide the borrower with certainty of knowing their exact monthly mortgage payment going forward, (even after the lender has added its margin).
With “uncertainty” being a common word used by mortgage market professionals and the press at the moment, I suggest that the most pragmatic approach for property investors going forward would be to base borrowing decisions on certainty.
Personally I am a keen promoter of five year fixed rates. Although pricing tends to be higher for five year money than for their two year counterparts, in the long run I believe they often offer a better deal.
The money saving bit…
So, enough of the theory and my preferences, now let me explain how you could save money by taking SWAP rates into account and planning for the future.
If you came to me today asking for a two year fixed rate I could offer you an excellent deal, but what about when that initial deal comes to an end? You will be picking from the pricing available at the time which is likely to be higher than it is today. And what about the fees that come with remortgaging?
By selecting a five year rate instead and you are free from any possible rate rises in the next five years and will only need to pay remortgage fees once every five years, instead of every two.
In a similar conclusion to my blog on why you should consider five year fixed rates, each individual (or company) needs to consider the best approach for their needs and requirements, i.e. if you want to release equity every two years and can stomach the fees then two year fixed rates and tracker products may be for you.
However, if you are in it for the long term and what the security at the cheapest five year money that we have seen in my living memory, then select a five year fixed rate.
I am happy to review your portfolio free of charge to see if I can save you money.
Simply send over your existing portfolio details or download our review form, fill it in and email it back over to me.
I’m equally happy to source rates for new purchases.
And finally, I am mentally stable and not as boring as the above makes me sound.
Gary McKenna has left Mortgages for Business for pastures new. For more information or for any questions relating to this blog, please contact the Buy to Let Team on 0345 345 6788, where one of our consultant mortgage brokers will be happy to assist.
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On a nature safari you can discover the amazing world of the plants and the use of them in the traditional masai medicine. (Walking safari takes around 1½ hour)
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How to Prepare Shasta Daisies for Winter
Shasta daisies (Leucanthemum × superbum) are low-maintenance perennials in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 to 9, according to North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension. Shasta daisy care in the winter includes mulching and pruning back the plant. This helps to ensure the plant will come back the following year and display bright spring and summer blooms that feature white petals surrounding a yellow center.
How to Prepare Shasta Daisies for Winter
1. Pruning Shasta Daisies for Winter
Prune back the daisies after the first killing frost, advises the National Gardening Association. Remove the dead foliage and leave 1 or 2 inches of stem above the soil line.
Before pruning Shasta daisies for winter, be sure to disinfect your shears. Clean any dirt and debris from the blades and then soak the tool in a 10 percent bleach solution for 30 minutes and rinse clean, advises University of Florida IFAS Gardening Solutions. This prevents the spread of fungi and other diseases in your garden.
2. Mulch Shasta Daisies
Spread 2 to 3 inches of mulch over the daisies to help protect them throughout the winter. Straw, leaves and pine needles will work well, advises Roberta's Gardens. Mulching helps to maintain consistent soil temperatures and prevent heaving from the repeated thawing and freezing of the ground, notes Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Move container-grown Shasta daisies into a cool, dark room for the winter if desired. An outdoor shed, garage or unheated room makes an ideal storage location for dormant daisies. Dormant Shasta daisies do not need light or fertilizer.
3. Water and Fertilizer Requirements
Water the plants infrequently and only when the soil feels very dry. Shasta daisies require well-drained soil and can tolerate occasionally dry soil. They need less water when the flowers are dormant, and wet soil may kill or shorten the life of the plants, advises the University of Illinois Extension.
Daisies planted in the garden typically do not need to be watered during the winter, as natural precipitation will meet the plants' moisture needs. If you do provide water to outdoor daisies, only do so when temperatures are above freezing early in the day, advises Colorado State University Extension. Container plants dry out quicker and generally need more water than daisies planted in the garden.
Do not fertilize dormant flowers. This may stimulate plant growth and cause the daisies to suffer damage from the winter cold.
4. Springtime Shasta Daisy Care
Resume regular watering of Shasta daisies when they begin growing again in the spring. They need approximately 1 inch of water each week from precipitation and supplemental irrigation. Remove the mulch applied to the outdoor daisies. Gradually move container-grown Shasta daisies outdoors after the danger of frost has passed to allow them to reacclimate to outdoor temperatures, advises PennState Extension.
Divide clumps of Shasta daisies every two to three years in the spring after the last frost date passes, advises Missouri Botanical Garden. Separate the plants and discard them or replant them in individual containers or in another flower bed.
Things You Will Need
- National Gardening Association: Shasta Daisies: Plant Care and Collection of Varieties
- Missouri Botanical Garden: Leucanthemum × superbum
- North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension: Leucanthemum × superbum
- University of Florida IFAS Gardening Solutions: Disinfecting Your Garden Tools
- Colorado State University Extension: Perennial Gardening
- Roberta's Gardens: Snowbound Shasta Daisies
- Iowa State University Extension and Outreach: Yard and Garden: Late Autumn Perennial Care
- University of Illinois Extension: Shasta Daisy
- PennState Extension: Overwintering Plants in Containers
- Divide Shasta daisies every three or four years in the spring, after the last frost date passes. Separate the plants and put them in individual containers or in another flower bed.
- Don't provide fertilizer for dormant Shasta daisies. Doing so may prompt the daisies to start growing even if temperatures are still too cold for them.
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We live in interesting times. The rise of social media, artificial intelligence, internet of things and other advancements in technology have impacted the way people interact with one another. Some, to a certain extent may even argue that it has fractured our interactions, even though we find ourselves more connected than ever through technological means. The disconnect in this instance comes from less and less personal relations with each other because of technology. Globalisation and the intertwining of cultures has also created and led to interesting changes and developments in our interactions. Despite these advancements, developments and changes, the fact remains that we human beings are by nature, social beings. We exist with one another and for one another. We crave connection and interaction with others. From our earliest time on this planet, we’ve understood the importance of community and the reality that we are co-dependant and inter-dependant. Those who lived near the seas and great rivers used to gather and go fishing for their food. Those who lived in-land used to gather and hunt as a collective. These people didn’t gather merely because they had a greater success rate when working together, they gathered because they needed to speak to, laugh with and share thoughts with other human beings.
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This video from the USA says about itself:
Hurricane Irma brings devastation to the Florida Keys
11 September 2017
ABC News’ Amy Robach gives a firsthand look at damage from Irma in the Keys, where cars are buried in sand, boats are on roads and homes are nearly destroyed.
By Patrick Martin in the USA:
Millions face devastation from Hurricane Irma in southwest Florida, Tampa metro area
11 September 2017
Hurricane Irma came ashore in southwest Florida Sunday late afternoon, with winds exceeding 120 mph hitting Naples, Ft. Myers and other Gulf Coast communities. A storm surge estimated at 15 feet or more hit Marco Island, an affluent area near Naples.
So powerful was the storm that wind speed instruments in both Naples and Marco Island were destroyed.
As of this writing, high winds have begun to blow in the Tampa metropolitan area, population 3 million, with the hurricane bearing down on the area and expected to hit around 2 a.m. Monday morning. Although the hurricane has been downgraded, authorities expect the Tampa Bay area to be hit with damaging winds from 75-100 mph, along with storm surges in the low-lying area.
Some 7 million people are without electric power throughout the state, according to Florida Power & Light, including nearly ten thousand crammed into a shelter at Germain Arena in Estero, near Naples, where there were long lines to gain admission on Saturday.
More than 100,000 people are in shelters across the state, and in the Tampa metropolitan area shelters were totally full and closed to late arrivals. The Tampa-St. Petersburg area has not been struck directly by a hurricane in nearly a century.
Heavy flooding was reported in the Florida Keys, where the storm first made landfall on the US mainland early Sunday morning, and along the Atlantic Coast, including Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
While Miami and cities further north along the Atlantic were spared a direct hit by the center of the storm, Irma is so extensive that it spread across the entire peninsula, producing storm surges from the Atlantic Ocean as well as the Gulf of Mexico.
High winds collapsed at least two tower cranes on constructions sites in downtown Miami, although no one was reported injured in either incident. A tornado was reported near the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale International Airport.
In response to a request from Florida Governor Rick Scott, the White House declared the entire state a disaster area. This was a legal formality, enabling the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin releasing funds and emergency supplies.
The full dimensions of the disaster will not be known until the brunt of the hurricane has been felt in Tampa-St. Petersburg, as well as the impact on rain, wind and storm surge throughout the state.
One of the key areas of concern is Lake Okeechobee, which supplies water to both the Everglades and much of Florida’s agricultural region. Communities on the edge of the lake are protected by the Herbert Hoover Dike, named after the president under whose administration it was first proposed. The more than 80-year-old earthen structure faces assault from both sides: wind storms on the outer perimeter and rain-fed rising waters on the inner.
The US Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the Hoover Dike as it did the levees around New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina, conducted a controlled release of water from Lake Okeechobee on Saturday, claiming it had lowered the lake level sufficiently to ensure against flooding. Governor Scott nonetheless ordered the evacuation of seven towns near the lake as a precautionary measure.
While much of the media coverage has been limited to the daily tracking of the storm, virtually nothing has been said about the lack of any serious government measures to protect the population or the deep social divide which has been revealed by the storm.
The Guardian noted that there were “two Irmas,” two experiences of the hurricane: one for the wealthy, for whom it was a mere inconvenience, and one for the poor living in neighborhoods like Miami’s Liberty City, deprived of the means either to escape the storm or to make even minimal preparations to ride it out.
In Miami, police have invoked a reactionary law known as the Baker Act, allowing them to detain anyone believed to pose “a danger to themselves or others” and send them to a mental institution for evaluation, where they can be held for 72 hours against their will. This was being used to round up any of Miami’s more than a thousand homeless people who refused or were unable to go to shelters.
Denise, a resident of Tampa, spoke to the World Socialist Web Site as the storm approached her home and her power was flickering on and off. “They’ve built so much here but none of it has been thought through—it’s backwards. You’ll see multi-million-dollar houses along the water in places like Bayshore. Then a short distance away you’ll find homeless people essentially camping in swampy areas, back behind nice subdivisions, where the city can’t build anything.
“There used to be public housing but it’s all been replaced with condos and stuff that is not affordable. There are no programs to help people, whether you’re working or not working. Tampa has seen an influx of the homeless from Orlando because the tourist industry doesn’t want them there. But Tampa doesn’t want them either—they want yachts, stadiums and luxury houses. There was a story last year about the Tampa police putting a homeless mother with three small children back on the bus and shipping her back to Orlando.”
Like in Houston and New Orleans before it, the hurricane in Florida will hit the working-class and poor residents the hardest. The economic impact of the storm will be especially devastating to the more than 50 percent of Florida homeowners who lack flood insurance. There is an estimated $1.73 trillion in real estate in the path of Hurricane Irma, and even the restricted number of insured will file enough claims to wipe out the reserves of the National Flood Insurance Program, already $25 billion in debt. Thirty percent of all federal flood insurance policy holders live in Florida, the agency said.
More than half of the homeowners in Hurricane Irma’s direct path lack flood insurance, according to a recent study by the Associated Press, highlighting a growing political crisis for lawmakers that is years in the making.
The combined economic impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma could produce a significant downturn in the US economy. Harvey’s cost, estimated at $180 billion or more, amounts to one percent of US GDP. Irma’s cost is expected to be even greater.
Why was American capitalism unable to prepare for Hurricane Irma? Here.
Hurricane Irma completed its passage through the islands of the Caribbean Sea Saturday, slashing along the northern coast of Cuba as a Category 5 storm, the most powerful to strike the country since 1924, before turning north toward the Florida Keys and the US mainland. As it has repeatedly in previous storms, the Cuban government was more successful than any other in the region in conducting an orderly mass evacuation, which took one million people away from the endangered coastal regions along the eastern half of the island: here.
AT LEAST 10 DEAD, OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE IRMA Read the latest on the storm, which has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone early Tuesday morning. Here’s what we know about the damage to the Florida Keys. Meanwhile, Hurricane Jose is looming in the Atlantic. [HuffPost] | <urn:uuid:3b617791-b13d-4675-a558-d036032d1e2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/hurricane-irma-disaster-in-usa-caribbean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964862 | 1,562 | 2.078125 | 2 |
What is back office application?
A back office application includes the software used by an organization to manage operations that are not associated with a direct sales effort (e.g., a salesperson with a customer) and interfaces that are not seen by the customers.
In contrast, a front office application would be a customer interface (whether in person or through sales staff) that enables a sale or the processing of a transaction.
Application Service Providers (ASP) offer back office technologies in which computerized services are provided over a network, usually the Internet.
PurchasingBack Office applications can vary depending on the technologies involved and, depending on the provider, cannot be ported as well (or not at all) to one another.
Many organizations have evolving computer systems and networks, and some have over-administration due to the non-interoperability of their back office applications. Integrated back office applications that have multiple functions are now becoming increasingly popular as they circumvent this problem. Problems can arise when there is a need to share sensitive data as legislation often prevents data sharing as in the world of medical, criminal and legal records.
Back office applications are offered by a number of software vendors from the larger back office systems that large corporations or public services use for the more modest applications that might have some functionality but that may only be intended for smaller organizations.
The range of functions of a back office could include:
- inventory control
- human resources
- management reports
- quality control
- General office administration
- CRM (Customer relationship management) System
Vendors offer options that make a back office suite customizable, as it is often delivered in a modular format or with compatible applications such as Microsoft Office.
The most efficient back office applications help reduce bottlenecks in service because the data they use is shared and readily available between the back office applications.
For example, data sharing would be useful in the case of a shared customer name and address database where multiple back office applications could access the same data. This would save the data that needs to be transferred, copied, or re-entered by a worker, thus reducing administrative costs and also reducing administrative errors.
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Staff writers at the Fifth Estate collective have been vigorous critics of technology for more than two decades. Rather than isolate particular tools or situations for a contextual attack, our challenges to the totalitarian tenets of the megamachine look to the deeper motivations that propel producers and consumers to make and want more and more automobiles, nuclear power plants, computers, televisions (to mention only a few of the gadgets of modernity that have gouged biological communities).
Rather than oppose individual aspects of progress in an ideological vacuum, we confront the technocratic totality that domesticates living beings, destroys the natural world, and diminishes the meaning of everyday experience.
Within this neo-luddite, primitivist, and anti-civilization tradition, I wrote “A Treatise on Electronic Anarchy & the Net: Arguments for the Elimination of the Information Age” (see Winter 1995 FE). This article generated a spirited debate in our letters section and has been both celebrated and condemned in a handful of essays that take on the technology debates.
In fall 1997, I began using the internet for personal communications and academic inquiry as a graduate student in English at Middle Tennessee State University. One of my professors prompted my initial foray into the cybernetic abyss with electronic research assignments for a course aptly catalogued as “English 666.” Since those initial excursions, my everyday use of computers for word processing, correspondence, research, and entertainment continues to increase.
On any given day, I may log on to the Internet to write a love letter, buy a book, read accounts of international activism, or check the local weather forecast. As much as I use or even depend on the Internet these days, I do not unequivocally praise the benefits of this bad habit.
The wrist strain, back pain, and brain drain wrought by regular computing hardly confirm the advantages of my latest addiction; rather, I view my slippery descent into the techno-illogical unknown as yet another compromise with the demands of the post-industrial, information age.
Even as my fingers float across the keyboards of the future, my feet remain planted on the muddy earth. I cherish the subtle beauties of immediate experience and direct communication as much in 1999 as when I wrote my rant against the Internet in 1994.
Even when composing my poetic critique of the information age, I anticipated the response of the anarcho-futurists who heralded on-line pranks and activism with a giddy enthusiasm. How could my essay be anything but a futile gesture in naive purism or preachy hypocrisy? How could I defend my own word-processing for print media while challenging others for their postings on the web?
Interpreted through the filter of those totally immersed in cyberspace and completely dependent on computers for their livelihood, my essay must have read like a shrill warning from the savagery of past generations where romantic idealism still held both rhetorical power and creative allure. But when many great artists have traded paint brushes for mouses and darkrooms for digital cameras, could my pitch for the pleasures of primordial experience appeal to anyone outside the small primitivist milieu?
Futurist critics of the Fifth Estate position on technology should not feel vindicated or triumphant as we further succumb to the tools and temptations of the technological age.
Anything I’ve learned or any minor pleasures I’ve gained while perusing the Internet still suffer in comparison to the joys of my simpler life on a rustic, rural commune. I do not suggest that every minute I spend working on a computer is a total waste of time.
However, this is not a victory for technology’s advocates and apologists, but for the machine itself and its totalizing logic that daily erases greater portions of our shared intellectual and physical aptitude.
We should criticize and question all compromises that increase technology’s grip on our primal capacities. If we remain cognizant of the spontaneous urges in the depths of our bodies and memories that resist each concession, we might hang on to the threads of radical coherence we will need to break free.
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The article first appeared on Ashoka.org.
Ashoka fellow's platform, SIMPLON.co, supports social inclusion by training over 20.000 learners throughout France and internationally to become qualified for technology jobs. Frédéric created SIMPLON in 2013 as an alternative route to the technology institutions that exclude disadvantaged groups from training and, therefore, the job market.
SIMPLON’s reach and impact expand after Ashoka-IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator
There is high demand for professionals with coding and information technology skills in the rapidly expanding digital job sector. Yet, for many, adequate training is often out of reach. SIMPLON.co is bridging this gap by training disadvantaged individuals with the skills required to enter jobs in the digital sector such as web development, data analysis, and cloud administration.
During the Dela programme, Frédéric and his team received support and advice from experts in the field to redesign their strategy in order to maximize their systemic impact. Reflecting on the accelerator results, the outcomes revealed a focus on developing a network of competitors and actors who understand and engage with Simplon.co, gaining support beyond its original scope.
Fréderic is now wider creating positive change in the digital education network by expanding SIMPLON’s pedagogy in organizations that are also working beyond the digital sector. During the accelerator, Simplon was able to gather valuable feedback by conducting various interviews and testing its tools. This experimentation allowed for collecting important insights for business development. Some of the experts that supported Frédéric during the accelerator agreed to continue after the Dela programme with the communication strategy and finalizing the business model. After completing the accelerator, Frédéric shares his thoughts on the process:
It made us deeply question our objectives and our path to reach them. We learned a lot about the idea of experimenting.
Expanding SIMPLON’s impact in partnership with Ashoka-IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Dela Programme
IKEA co-workers also benefit from the systems change accelerator, as participants engage in a collaborative process. For instance, IKEA co-workers who participated in the Dela programme state that they gained insights into social challenges, innovation and the realities of social business, playing an essential role in contributing as mentors, as well as market and business insights and leadership skills. These learnings on how to work with inclusion and social business showcase the relevance of such partnerships for supporting marginalized communities. Enthusiasm, energy and mission accomplished were some of the key words that summarized Frédéric’s co-workers experiences after participating in the programme.
Elena Alemanno, Business steering manager at Inter IKEA Systems B.V and former IKEA co-worker from the Dela II edition, stated:
“Systems thinking is deeply rooted in Dela, and in the work of the participating social entrepreneurs. I definitely think that this ‘system thinking’ approach is relevant for our own work too. It is something that we have to practice more and in an open operating model. In a world where people are losing trust in formal institutions and big brands are growing their influence, we definitely have an important role to play.”
The goals that Frédéric and his team have for SIMPLON align with the goals of the Ashoka-IKEA Social Entrepreneurship partnership that focuses on facilitating positive change – in this case, through reducing inequities and offering training for proficiency in information technology skills.
From individual purpose towards a collective mission
Frédéric’s drive to become a social entrepreneur stems from his focus on ikigai (defined as ‘reason for being’ and related to purpose, personal values and personal aptitudes), which aligns his own strengths and purpose with addressing the problem of unemployment in society.
Frédéric focuses SIMPLON’s training on equipping people with the tools and knowledge to be competitive in the current economy, focusing on digital technology but also skills such as creativity and self-motivation. For example, students are trained to figure out coding problems in addition to basic coding languages, learning how to operate software and hardware. Other programmes exist for data and AI (with Microsoft), mobile development (with Apple), VR and metaverse (with Meta), cybersecurity, blockchain, etc.
Through Frédéric’s participation in the Dela programme, SIMPLON is continuing to fight digital illiteracy and encourage diversity and inclusion in the digital sector by providing immediate, sustainable job prospects for at-risk populations, such as refugees and people with disabilities.
In terms of impact, SIMPLON is currently running in every region in France and 25 additional countries (in 4 continents), where they have trained over 20,000 people globally since 2013. Frédéric’s current goal for SIMPLON is to continue expanding the Simplon training to Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Maghreb, Colombia and India through partnerships and social franchising with local organizations. In Switzerland, Simplon’s partner is Réalise, another Senior Ashoka Fellow.
Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship have created a global accelerator to offer space to scale social initiatives. During the first two editions of the Dela Program, 204 selected experts from the global social and corporate innovation sector (including IKEA co-workers and associates from companies such as Microsoft) provided 24 leading social entrepreneurs with support in developing an impact scaling strategy, testing its elements in practice. In addition to the strategic work, the program enabled financial support, networking and offered other opportunities for participating social entrepreneurs selected from the Ashoka Network. | <urn:uuid:ae57af43-3fdb-4057-8ec7-ace27104d41e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ikeasocialentrepreneurship.org/en/news/when-technology-meets-equality | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94966 | 1,186 | 1.625 | 2 |
Potatoes are a versatile root vegetable and a staple food in many households.
They are an underground tuber that grows on the roots of the Solanum tuberosum plant(
Potatoes are relatively cheap, easy to grow and packed with a variety of nutrients.
Here are 7 health and nutrition benefits of potatoes.
Potatoes are an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals.
One medium baked potato (6.1 ounces or 173 grams), including the skin, provides (2):
- Calories: 161
- Fat: 0.2 grams
- Protein: 4.3 grams
- Carbs: 36.6 grams
- Fiber: 3.8 grams
- Vitamin C: 28% of the RDI
- Vitamin B6: 27% of the RDI
- Potassium: 26% of the RDI
- Manganese: 19% of the RDI
- Magnesium: 12% of the RDI
- Phosphorus: 12% of the RDI
- Niacin: 12% of the RDI
- Folate: 12% of the RDI
The nutritional content of potatoes can vary depending on the variety and how they are prepared. For example, frying potatoes adds more calories and fat than baking them.
Summary Potatoes are packed with vitamins and minerals, though the variety and preparation method can affect the nutritional content.
Potatoes are rich in compounds like flavonoids, carotenoids and phenolic acids (4).
These compounds act as antioxidants in the body by neutralizing potentially harmful molecules known as free radicals. When free radicals accumulate, they can increase the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer (
For example, a test-tube study found that the antioxidants present in potatoes may suppress the growth of liver and colon cancer cells (
Studies have also found that colored potatoes like purple potatoes can have three to four times more antioxidants than white potatoes. This makes them potentially more effective at neutralizing free radicals (
However, most of this evidence is from test-tube studies. More human-based research is necessary before making any health recommendations.
Summary Potatoes are a good source of antioxidants, which may reduce the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers. However, more human-based research is required before making any recommendations.
Potatoes contain a special type of starch known as resistant starch.
This starch is not broken down and fully absorbed by the body. Instead, it reaches the large intestine where it becomes a source of nutrients for the beneficial bacteria in your gut (
Research has linked resistant starch to many health benefits, including reducing insulin resistance, which, in turn, improves blood sugar control.
In an animal study, mice fed resistant starch showed reduced insulin resistance. This means their bodies were more efficient at removing excess sugar from the blood (
A study of people with type 2 diabetes found consuming a meal with resistant starch helped better remove excess blood sugar after a meal (
In another study, ten people were fed 30 grams of resistant starch daily over a four-week period. Scientists found that resistant starch reduced insulin resistance by 33% (
Summary Potatoes contain resistant starch, which may help reduce insulin resistance. In turn, this can help improve blood sugar control.
The resistant starch in potatoes may also improve digestive health.
Studies have shown that butyrate can reduce inflammation in the colon, strengthen the colon’s defenses and reduce the risk of colorectal cancer (
Moreover, butyrate may aid patients with inflammatory bowel disorders, such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis (
That said, most of the evidence surrounding butyrate is from test-tube or animal studies. More human-based research is necessary before making recommendations.
Summary Resistant starch in potatoes is a source of nutrition for beneficial gut bacteria. They convert it to the short-chain fatty acid butyrate, which has been linked to reduced inflammation in the colon, improved colon defenses and a lower risk of colorectal cancer.
The gluten-free diet is one of the most popular diets worldwide. It involves eliminating gluten, which is a family of proteins found in grains like spelt, wheat, barley and rye.
Most people do not experience adverse symptoms from consuming gluten.
However, people with celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity can experience severe discomfort when consuming foods that contain gluten. Symptoms include sharp stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation, bloating and skin rashes, just to name a few (
If you follow a gluten-free diet, then you should consider adding potatoes to your diet. They are naturally gluten-free, which means they won’t trigger uncomfortable symptoms.
While potatoes are gluten-free, many common potato recipes are not. Some potato dishes that contain gluten include certain au gratin recipes and potato bread.
If you have celiac disease or a non-celiac gluten sensitivity, be sure to read the full list of ingredients before eating a potato dish.
Summary Potatoes are naturally gluten-free, which makes them an excellent food choice for people with celiac disease or a non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
Aside from being nutritious, potatoes are also incredibly filling.
In one study, 11 people were fed 38 common foods and asked to rate foods based on how filling they were. Potatoes received the highest fullness rating of them all.
In fact, potatoes were rated as being seven times more filling than croissants, which were ranked as the least filling food item (
Foods that are filling may help you regulate or lose weight, as they curb hunger pains (
Some evidence shows that a certain potato protein, known as potato proteinase inhibitor 2 (PI2), can curb appetite. This protein appears to enhance the release of cholecystokinin (CCK), a hormone that promotes feelings of fullness (
Summary Studies have shown that potatoes are among the most filling foods. They may increase the levels of fullness hormones, such as cholecystokinin (CCK).
Not only are potatoes healthy, but they are also delicious and versatile.
Potatoes can be prepared in many ways, including boiled, baked and steamed. However, frying potatoes may dramatically increase their calorie content if you use a lot of oil.
Instead, try slicing potatoes and then roasting them in the oven with a light drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a sprinkle of rosemary.
Make sure not to remove the skin of the potatoes, as most of the nutrients are located there. This will ensure you receive the maximum amount of nutrients from the potato.
Summary Potatoes are delicious, versatile and easy to add to your diet. Try boiling, baking or steaming them and consuming them with the skin intact.
How to Peel Potatoes
Potatoes are rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which make them very healthy.
Studies have linked potatoes and their nutrients to a variety of impressive health benefits, including improved blood sugar control, reduced heart disease risk and higher immunity. They may also improve digestive health and combat signs of aging.
Potatoes are also quite filling, which means they may help you lose weight by curbing hunger pains and cravings.
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Svetlana Kim came to America with nothing more than a dream for a better life. With no money this determined woman decided on the spot that she was going to be somebody and make a difference in others life. Her story is truly remarkable, and she is living proof that if you never give up , no matter what your circumstances you can succeed.
Svetlana Kim’s Biography
Svetlana Kim, International Speaker, Spokesperson for the 2011 Macy’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Best selling Author of White Pearl and I: A Memoir of a Political Refugee, Founder of Svetlana Kim LLC, and Community Advocate.
Svetlana Kim is the author of White Pearl and I: A Memoir of a Political Refugee, which chronicles her journey from Russia to the United States, where she arrived with only one dollar in her pocket and not a single word of English at her disposal; today, she is a leader among her peers in the business world, and has been honored with numerous awards citing her commitment, skill, and integrity.
Svetlana Kim’s remarkable story opens in Leningrad, Russia, on a frigid winter afternoon. Standing in the bread line for the third day in a row, she listens as her neighbors discuss the impending fall of the Berlin Wall. Life as a student in a crumbling country offered few possibilities for the ambitious young woman, so when a former classmate offers her a plane ticket to the US., she jumps at the opportunity.
She arrives in New York speaking no English, with only a dollar in her pocket. With the help of a good Samaritan, she travels by bus to California, hoping to connect with an acquaintance from home. Yet when she mistakenly disembarks in San Francisco instead of Sacramento, she finds herself penniless and alone. What unfolds is a miraculous story of survival as Svetlana encounters kind strangers while she struggles to cobble together a meager existence working as a cleaning lady. Determined to succeed, she lands a job selling cosmetics. Within a few years, her hard work carries her up the corporate ladder. She earns American citizenship after living ten years as a political refugee, and gains the opportunity to become a stockbroker. In her career as a stockbroker Svetlana is introduced into the realm of powerful businesswomen and politicians.
Through it all, when her nerve threatens to fail her, she returns to memories of her grandmother, White Pearl, whose parents immigrated to Russia from Korea. As a girl, White Pearl was among 200,000 Soviet Koreans deported to central Asia by Joseph Stalin, who feared they would spy on behalf of the Japanese. Svetlana reflects often on her grandmother’s tales of that hard time, drawing on the strength of her belovedbabushka to enable her to make the very best of her own life. White Pearl and I is a modern and uplifting account of Svetlana’s tireless search for the American dream.
Svetlana Kim LLC features workshops and seminars to help your organization achieve the ultimate results. Now she has impacted the lives of thousands people from all walks of life with her best-selling book, public speaking, and workshops.
Svetlana Kim was selected to be a Spokesperson for the 2011 Macy’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
In February 2010, Orphan International Worldwide honored her with its Global Citizenship A ward for her work towards saving the lives of children in Haiti.
Kim’s stellar leadership, ethical business practices, and community service was recognized when the Euro-American Women’s Council bestowed her with the Goddess Artemis Award. The EAWC brings together women of diverse backgrounds and accomplishments to work together toward the advancement of women’s access to positions of leadership and to pave the way for the next generation of women business leaders.
In 2009, the International Leadership Foundation paid tribute to Kim with its Leadership Award, selecting her from among a group of potential honorees including congress members, presidential cabinet secretaries, and other high-ranking officials.
In 2008, Kim became an Asian Academy Hall of Fame inductee. She shares this acclaimed honor with Norman Mineta, the former Secretary of Transportation, and with the nation’s 24 th Secretary of Labor, Elaine L. Chao.
Having left the communist world behind, Kim has fully embraced the freedoms of the American political and social system, and has actively been involved in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; the Hillary for President presidential campaign; the Women’s Campaign Forum; the Women’s National Democratic Club; AARP Women’s Leadership Circle; and Calvary Women’s Services. She has held committee or officer positions with the Junior League of Washington, D.C.; the Asian Leaders Association of the Asian Academy Hall of Fame; the National Press Club (authors’ committee); Capital Speakers Club; and the Asian American Justice Center.
Kim has been featured and profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, MSN Money, MSNBC, Women’s Life magazine in Seoul, Korea; the Asian Fortune; Networking Times; NASDAQ’s Closing Bell; and The Gazette, a publication of the Library of Congress.
Kim shares her business acumen and managerial experience by serving on several boards of directors, including: the Asian Division Friends Society of the Library of Congress (Board Vice President, 2007 – present); the Global Advisory Board of the Euro-American Women’s Council (2007-present); the National Council of Asian American Business Associations (East Coast president, 2009 – present); the Asian Leaders Association (2007-present); the Pacific Coast Immigration Museum (Board member, 2009-present); and Korean American Women’s Chamber of Commerce (Board member, 2009-present). She also serves as a steering committee member of the Global Coalition for Korean reconciliation.
Committed to giving back to her local and worldwide community, Kim has donated over 180 hours in eighteen months to the Calvary Women’s Services in Chinatown in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she volunteers at the Office of Presidential Correspondence in the White House. F. Michael Kelleher, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Correspondence wrote about Svetlana Kim: “Your time and conscientious attention to every American who contacts our President is inspiring. Thank you for your hard work and your commitment to our office, to our President, and to our Nation.”
Svetlana Kim’s passion for helping young Asians achieve their own American dreams fuels her daily work and volunteerism. Svetlana resides in Washington, D.C.
Letter from President Barack Obama
Letter from Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
Letter from F. Michael Kelleher, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Correspondence
NAAAP 100, 25th NAAAP Annual Convention and Job Fair, Boston, August 13, 2011, Boston, MA, USA
“Above and Beyond Junior League of Washington” Award, Junior League of Washington, May, 2010, Washington, DC, USA
Orphan International Worldwide 2010 Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Helping Humanity, February 28, 2010, New York, NY, USA
USA ILF (International Leadership Foundation) Award, July 23, 2009, Washington, DC, USA
EAWC (Euro-American Women’s Council) “Goddess Artemis” Award, July 23, 2009, Athens, Greece
Award from the Mayor of Athens, July 22, 2009, Athens, Greece
Points of Light Honoree, Point of Light Institute, May 11, 2009, Washington, DC, USA
Asian Academy Hall of Fame, February 4, 2008, Beijing, China
UBS PaineWebber Excellence Award, 2002, New York City, NY, USA
Lancome President’s Circle Award, April 1996, San Francisco, USA
Recognitions: Orphan International Worldwide 2010 Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Helping Humanity, February 28, 2010, New York , NY., National Council of Asian American Business Associations “Business Role Model of the Year” Award, June 21, 2010, Baltimore, M.D., USA ILF (International Leadership Foundation) Award, July 23, 2009, Washington., D.C., Junior League of Washington “Above and Beyond Junior League of Washington” Award, May, 2010, Washington, D.C., USA EAWC (Euro-American Women’s Council) “Goddess Artemis” Award, July 23, 2009, Athens, Greece Award from the Mayor of Athens, July 22, 2009, Athens, Greece, Asian Academy Hall of Fame, February 4, 2008, Beijing, China, UBS PaineWebber Excellence Award, 2002, New York City, USA Lancome President’s Cirle | <urn:uuid:cf3650ae-65fe-4e35-8c00-d0b01086328b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.chatinmanhattan.com/portfolio-view/svetlana-kim-the-power-of-determination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929649 | 1,864 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Jewish Secular Community’s Philosophy
Human beings have the power and responsibility to shape their own lives independent of supernatural intervention.
- Life should be directed to human growth and self-fulfillment.
- We have a responsibility to work toward the achievement of freedom, dignity, and happiness for all people.
- Judaism is the continually evolving culture and civilization that the Jewish people have been creating throughout history.
- A Jew is an individual who identifies with the history, culture, struggles, triumphs, and future of the Jewish people.
- No single Jewish ideology or lifestyle will be relevant and meaningful to all Jews. Only Jewish pluralism will guarantee the continuity of the Jewish people.
- Jewishness is an integral part of our lives and we strive to make our choices consistent with our Secular Humanistic Jewish beliefs.
Jewish Secular Community’s Purpose
The Jewish Secular Community provides a warm and supportive community where we can:
- Celebrate the rhythms of life and the Jewish calendar in a meaningful and secular humanistic manner
- Learn about Secular Humanistic Judaism
- Meet to discuss issues of universal and Jewish importance
- Socialize with friends and family
- Belong to a world-wide movement of Secular Humanistic Jews
Our Secular Jewish Identity
A Jew is a person of Jewish descent or any person who declares himself or herself to be a Jew and who identifies with the history, culture, civilization, community, and fate of the Jewish people.
Our Social Action Positions
As an affiliate of the Cultural and Secular Jewish Organization, the Jewish Secular Community has taken positions on a variety of social action issues including, the environment, sexual orientation, Israel, intermarriage, and women’s rights.
JSC supports an ongoing dialog between Israel and the Palestinian people so that each national group can live in mutual peace and cooperation.
JSC strongly affirms the right of all Jews to choose their own marriage partners. It is the responsibility of all Jews to welcome non-Jewish partners of Jews into the Jewish family circle and to offer them acceptance and respect. For more information on what the Jewish Secular Community has to offer, visit our Life Cycle Events page.
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Re-meet George Jetson: Innovation inspiration goes back to the future
According to fans of the futuristic cartoon series, The Jetsons' patriarch, George would have been born in 2022. To mark the occasion, Reichman University's Prof. Dov Greenbaum examines the innovation the show predicted and promoted
The internet concluded, and Snopes has half-heartedly acquiesced, to the idea that the fictional but beloved cartoon character George Jetson of TV's "The Jetsons" was born earlier this week, on July 31, 2022. George J. Jetson, a digital index operator at the fictional Spacely's Space Sprockets company (valued by Forbes at over a billion dollars) was the patriarch of the Jetsons, the eponymous and ubiquitous Hanna-Barbara cartoon that aired around 70 episodes on television intermittently between 1962 and 1989. The show was set 100 years in the future in a space-age 2062.
Despite its relative paucity of episodes, the show arguably had a huge cultural impact that spanned generations of Saturday morning sugary cereal munching kids and future engineers, even though it was initially cancelled after just one season.
Even as the show presented us with what now seem like 1960s era archaic social interactions, it imagined cool new technologies that we now find commonplace, such as flat screens, tablets, video conferencing , pill cameras, esports and smart watches. And like other popular science-fiction shows (such as Star Trek), the cartoon was reportedly even the primary motivation for some current innovations, including the founding of the iRobot company and the development of its Roomba AI vacuum. iRobot’s cofounder Colin Angle noted that Rosie, the Jetson’s robot maid “had a huge influence on the industry. But she did much more than clean, and in some ways she might still be something of a goal when it comes to the future of robotics.”
What stands out about the Jetsons was that unlike much of the science fiction canon, the show didn’t create a future that was dystopian, like Black Mirror, or utopian, like Star Trek. Rather the Jetsons presented the future that mirrored a society that was familiar during the second half of the twentieth century, just with amazing technology, much like Hanna Barbara’s other cartoon hit, the Flintstones, albeit set in the stone age.
Part of that Star Trek utopia coincidentally also had a milestone this week with the passing of Nichelle Nichols, aka Lt. Uhura, who was a member of the multi-racial, multi-gender Star Trek bridge. Like the Jetson’s influence on innovation, Nichols’ impact from the show has been credited with “helping draw the first US woman astronaut Sally Ride and the first black woman astronaut Mae Jemison to the \[NASA astronaut\] program.”
While the technologies presented in both Star Trek and the Jetsons tended towards the helpful and the useful for humanity, in reality many innovative technologies are inherently double-edged swords, capable of doing both good and evil. To wit, also this past week, the UN's chief administrative officer, secretary-general, António Guterres announced that “humanity was just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.”
Nuclear power which is one of the cleanest and safest forms of energy, is also the destructive force in over 13,000 weapons held in arsenals around the world. Arguably, this association between the good and the bad of nuclear energy has also led to laws and decisions to decommission many of Europe’s nuclear power plants. The bad timing of which coincided with Russia’s war with Ukraine and the resulting power crunch felt by many European nations that could have turned to locally produced nuclear energy rather than rising uncertainties related to natural gas from Russia.
However, we need not necessarily look down into the Minuteman ICBM silos to see danger to humanity from various forms of innovation. This past week also saw reporting on two separate incidents where space debris from a Chinese Rocket and a SpaceX rocket landed in Indonesia and Malaysia and Australia respectively. Given these and a growing number of uncontrolled rockets falling back to Earth, a new study in Nature Astronomy has shown an increasing chance of someone getting killed from a rocket from above over the next ten years. Space debris continues to be a non-trivial problem in space exploration. Space debris is so endemic that researchers have even recently proposed that we can spot other planets hosting intelligent life by looking for their orbiting space debris fields.
Many non-governmental organizations have aimed to tackle this issue. For example, the EPFL Space Center (eSpace) just launched a Space Sustainability Rating system, a “tiered scoring system that recognizes efforts and incentivizes sustainable building and operation practices,” such as the mitigation of space debris.
Still, space debris remains such an intractable issue because every space mission leaves a signature debris field relating to any of the numerous steps involved in getting a payload into space, and we currently lack both the international incentive and enforcement structures to meaningfully curtail this problem, although some countries do have relevant national laws and regulations.
To wit, the just published McGill Manuel on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space – a comprehensive multinational six year project to clarify international law as it relates to the military use of outer space sets out in rule 129: “International law does not contain explicit rights and obligations regarding the creation of space debris. However, to the extent necessary to comply with other rules of international law, States and international organizations shall limit the creation of space debris when carrying on space activities, including military space activities.”
But it’s not just public actors like the military that create space debris concerns: some of these concerns arise out of the increasing number of private players in the space race, another innovation predicted by the Jetsons that saw George vacationing on the Moon, which included the private Moonhattan Tilton Hotel, a parody of Hilton Hotel Company’s promise in the late 50s to build the first hotel on the moon. If and when Hilton ever builds their Jetson’s inspired moon hotel, we hope that they do so in a safe and sustainable fashion.
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Segway presented a new electric scooter powered by artificial intelligence at the Micromobility Europe (MME) 2022 trade show in Amsterdam. And this in order to improve the safety of users and the durability of machines.
Segway is now a key player in the electric scooter sector, which came under the Chinese Ninebot in 2015. Between them, the two companies have a considerable strike force on the market thanks to a rich and varied range . The group also wants to go further by standing out from the competition as much as possible.
To do this, Segway has designed an electric scooter with artificial intelligence. The machine is based on an integrated and unprecedented platform called Segway Pilot, we learn in a press release. The whole project was introduced at the Salon Micromobility Europe (MME) 2022, in Amsterdam.
The Segway S90L, from its name, was designed for self-service sharing. The manufacturer will therefore seek to forge strong links with the main operators in the sector, who would be keen to improve the safety and durability of their vehicles.
For its part, the Segway Pilot platform relies on both sensors and a series of algorithms. To do this, the company used the latest AI technologies from Qualcomm, but also its own know-how in computer vision and machine learning.
The electric scooter will be able to detect several elements of an urban environment, such as sidewalks, parking spaces and even pedestrians. She will also be able toprovide real-time advice and assistance to various users“. For the moment, Segway does not give any concrete use cases.
Artificial intelligence requires, we imagine that in the future the system will project itself even further in terms of functionalities. It’s up to Segway to find uses to optimize our future user experiences.
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Supporting English Learners
By: Joshua Lin, Ruth Curran Neild
This study provides evidence on the progress toward English proficiency of ELs who entered the District in kindergarten across four cohorts of students: 2008–09 through 2011–12.
By: Jeannette Rowland, Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Rosemary Hughes, Joshua Lin
This brief examines the challenges schools face in these areas and the strategies they use to mediate them. The purpose of this brief is to share these strategies across schools and with the larger Philadelphia community, in order to help schools continue to improve ELL programming.
By: Rosemary Hughes, Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Jeannette Rowland, Joshua Lin
This brief focuses on the ways family and community engagement can enhance schools’ efforts to improve outcomes for ELLs and highlights specific strategies schools can use to more effectively engage families and communities.
Educating English Language Learners: Instructional Approaches and Teacher Collaboration in Philadelphia Public Schools
By: Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Jeannette Rowland, Rosemary Hughes, Joshua Lin
This brief highlights key findings about how Philadelphia public schools were crafting instructional approaches to serve their ELs and creating possibilities for teachers to collaborate to strengthen teaching and learning.
By: Joshua Lin, Rosemary Hughes, Daniel Long, Dae Kim
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The Use of Animal Training Pads Requires Training
Smell is one of the most important media for cats and dogs to transmit and receive information. In nature, they use their own excrement to delineate their territory, and they can also sniff the excrement of other animals to avoid danger. This is them. The survival instinct that evolved.
But when they entered the life of humans from the wild, this instinct has brought us a lot of trouble, especially the pet family with young pets or new pets at home, before they are taught to excrete at a fixed point, almost every day all need to clean up the “traces” left by these little guys everywhere in the home.
If you are also in this frustrating situation, then animal training pads will be a good choice for you.
Best Excretion Products for Pets-Animal Training Pads
The use of pet changing pads can help pet owners save precious time to deal with pet excrement every day, and it has become a necessity in the life of pets.
Pet changing pads are also called urinal pads or training pads. Like the diapers used by human babies, pet training pads are disposable sanitary products specially designed for pets. Most of them are square or rectangular, composed of an absorbent layer and an outer lining, and are powerful. Water absorption function.
The unique material and structure design can also keep the surface of the changing pad and the surrounding area dry for a long time. Some products will also add some adhesive tape on the back, the pet changing pad can be more firmly fixed in place.
Most pet urine pads use antibacterial materials or contain antibacterial agents, which not only prevent the growth of bacteria, but also have the function of deodorizing and eliminating peculiar smell, eliminating the peculiar smell of excrement and keeping the air clean.
In addition, some pet urinals with training functions still add inducers or pheromones to their products to help pets develop good fixed-point excretion habits.
The most important reason why animal training pads can become “necessities” is that their rich use scenes cover almost all aspects of pet life.
Many people think that as long as they put the urine pad on the floor, their pets will pee on it.
But it’s a pity that this is just an absurd dream. If things are so simple, then training pets for fixed-point excretion will not be the most distressing problem for many pet owners.
In fact, pets need training to be able to use the changing pad, and even this will cost the owner a lot of energy and patience. The following points may help you.
It is best to place the changing mat in a quiet and undisturbed location, preferably in the farthest corner of the room, so that your dog can find it easily and will not be disturbed during the excretion process, especially For those small breeds.
If you can’t supervise your pet when you are going out during the day, it is best to close it in a small area before leaving. The changing pad should be placed opposite the kennel, water bowl and toys, because many dogs do not like to excrete in the place where they sleep, eat and sleep, so the changing pad will be their best choice.
The position of the changing pad must be determined, and it is best to fix it and keep it unchanged. Because dogs are very regular animals, if you change the position of the changing pad, they will feel very confused, resulting in training failure. If you have to move the changing pad, it is best to move it once a day. For a short distance, gradually change the position of the changing pad.
Use powerful deodorants to remove “accidents” caused by dogs in other areas, because any residual odor can remind dogs, which may cause them to excrete in the same location again.
Once your pet has become accustomed to toileting on the changing pad, you can gradually increase its enclosed area (do not move the position of the cushion) until it can easily find and remember the position of the changing pad in the room.
With the increasing popularity of pets, more and more pet products such as animal training pads have entered the market. However, if you want to select a product that is suitable for your pet, but also inexpensive and good-quality, you must learn about the pet itself, learn more professional knowledge, so that you can choose the right product and choose the good product. | <urn:uuid:cf69de8c-a69c-4f3d-b834-5b5171fe43d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yeesain.com/2021/09/22/the-use-of-animal-training-pads-requires-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948668 | 951 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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Congratulations on your new bundle of joy! This is a wonderful time in your life, but it can also be a scary one. Your baby is coming home to a potentially dangerous environment, so what things can you do to baby proof your house?
We reached out to Arvey Levinsohn, owner of A&H Childproofers and a certified member of the International Association for Child Safety (IAFCS). Arvey shared with us this baby proofing house checklist and additional tips to keep your bundle of joy safe throughout their youngest years.
The most dangerous threats to younglings
“That’s a long list sometimes,” says Arvey, who has been childproofing homes since 1993. “Every child has a personality, and they have a tendency to use all their senses to explore.”
Baby gates, toilet locks, and outlet covers may not be an immediate concern for newborns, but you will need to make the crib a safe space. That’s where most of the injuries occur within the first six months of a newborn’s life.
“You just want to make sure certain things don’t go near a crib, such as electrical wiring,” says Arvey. “Many families I see put the monitor with a wire right on top of the crib, which can be knocked in.”
The baby may also be able to reach through the slats and either bite or get the wire around their neck, leading to electrocution or strangulation.
“Kids keep us on our toes,” says Arvey.
Other dangers around the home can quickly become a concern, so beyond the crib, where can you start your baby-proofing journey?
“Getting down on their hands and knees, and crawling around on the floor where the baby is going to be,” says Arvey. “Anything that’s small enough to fit through a roll of toilet paper is too small to be around a baby.”
This is when you might need those electrical outlet covers and safety gates.
“I tell my clients, ‘Do what you feel you need now, and if you need something later, I’ll come back and make it safe,'” says Arvey, who doesn’t charge for trip charges or even the home evaluation.
“It all comes back to the babies. Let’s keep the babies safe.”
Awesome baby proofing house checklist for your growing little ones
Arvey suggests following this baby proofing house checklist to make sure your little one stays safe, in the living room and throughout the house.
- Avoid using outlet plugs, which can be a choking hazard.
- Don’t leave small items around where children can reach them, including ear plugs, medications, and jewelry. (“All of these need to be on a high shelf or in a locked container.”)
- Install anti-tip device on furniture, including heavy furniture, and use a quality product with metal and heavy-gage nylon straps. (“These work better than zip-tie bands and plastic, and it has to go into a stud. Drywall will not hold any weight.”)
- Check the hot water heater and consider turning it down to a medium level (about 120 degrees. (“It takes virtually no time for a baby to get scalded by hot water.”)
- Beware of sharp corners on TV stands and coffee tables, which can give kids bumps, bruises, and cuts. (“There’s nothing you can really do if you want to keep it looking like it does. You can’t put covers on them because that would be a choking hazard.”)
- Strap the oven door and the lower drawer because kids like to sit in those. You can also child proof a stove by easily removing the knobs and putting them in a drawer until you need your cooktop.
- Use a lockout device if provided on your oven, microwave, and dishwasher, so the children can’t turn on the device.
- Beware of Wi-Fi router wiring as it can lead to an electrical shock or strangulation. Bundle the extra wiring up with a couple zip-ties. (“If you can put it in a cabinet or on top of a cabinet, out of the baby’s reach – that’s always going to be the safest.”)
As a child grows, you’ll also need to think about your outdoor living environment, too.
“Some plants are very toxic to children,” says Arvey. “They can create rashes or breathing problems.”
Connect with your landscaper to learn what’s in your yard or garden, so you’ll know which plants to take out and which are safe to leave.
Don’t forget about smoke detectors!
Home safety is never complete without working smoke alarms.
“I suggest a smoke detector be put in every room of the home,” says Arvey. “You don’t have your electronic devices in the hallway. You have them in the bedrooms.”
Placing smoke alarms in the bedrooms can alert parents to an emergency before it’s too late. Also, install smoke alarms on all levels, even in your attic or basement.
Get more home fire safety tips in 11 Home Fire Facts That Will Alarm You.
When you absolutely need to call a baby-proofing specialist
Most of Arvey’s clients contact him when the baby starts to explore, around six months. Out of the 800-plus homes Arvey childproofs a year, only about three or four contact Arvey’s business before the baby is born.
Childproofing can be done in stages
“I go through a client’s home with a form that has each room broken down with a list of items I normally do,” explains Arvey. “Down the road, one of my clients is going to get some new furniture, or the child is going to start doing something they weren’t before. The task will already be listed on my paperwork, so we’ll come and take care of it.”
(Content Manager Susie: The morning of the interview, Arvey received the text, “Hi Arvey, you were right. You told me I’ll be calling you to come back, and I am. We definitely need three more gates and a latch on the basement door.”)
When should a home owning parent call in a baby proofing service for professional installation?
“Only if they’re worried that they didn’t buy the right products or they’re afraid that they missed something where a professional can help,” says Arvey.
Before you start baby proofing yourself, Arvey highly recommends new parents buy the higher-end products. Certain items, like the plastic tip-over devices, do not safeguard as well as metal and nylon straps.
You weren’t born ready –
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AB 1266 "The School Success and Opportunity Act":
LGBTQ Students are Protected by the Law. The OCEC School Compliance Task Force can help you:
The School Compliance Task Force (SCTF) monitors and supports schools in Orange County and across California in their efforts to comply with state and federal anti-discrimination laws, safe school laws and the FAIR Education Act. The SCTF supports LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) and other minority students in the following ways: by advocating for students rights, by speaking at and attending School Board Meetings, by writing Letters of Support, and by filing Uniform Complaint Forms against schools and districts on behalf of a student or group of students. To file an incident report or contact us, fill out the form below.
Introduced in February 2013 by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (CA-17) and co-authored by Senators Mark Leno (CA-3) and Ricardo Lara (CA-33), the School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266) makes clear the obligation of California schools to allow transgender students to participate in all school activities, programs, and facilities. It is designed to spell out the requirements of existing federal and state law in California statute so school administrators, educators, parents, and students understand their obligations and rights. Those requirements are that all students in California be allowed to participate fully in school so they can thrive and achieve academic success. It restates existing state law prohibiting discrimination against transgender students in public education and permitting students to participate in sex-segregated facilities and activities based on their gender identity.
While existing California law already broadly prohibits discrimination against transgender students, AB1266 makes sure that schools understand their responsibility for the success and well-being of all students and that parents and students understand their rights.
Every school and every school leader has a responsibility to protect all students and ensure every child is respected and can learn in an accepting environment. Title IX protects all students, including LGBTQ students, from sex discrimination. Title IX encompasses discrimination based on a student’s failure to conform to stereotyped notions of masculinity and femininity. Schools should also be aware of their obligation under Title IX and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to protect the privacy of their students when maintaining education records.
Trans 101 Handout (updated 2018)
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Research done by TCNJ undergrads may slip the surly bonds of earth, as NASA plans to use the work as part of an effort to gauge the impact of long space flights on the health and performance of astronauts.
Anthony Lau, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a $150,000 grant from the space agency to expand his research on the effects of radiation on bone health. Lau and his students are working with Catherine Davis-Takacs at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland to determine the relationship between bone and cognitive changes from radiation exposure.
Lau’s proposal was one of eight selected from 66 applicants competing to investigate biological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations to spaceflight. Those research projects will “contribute to NASA’s long-term plans, which include crewed missions to the Moon and Mars,” the agency said. Lau was also named a principal investigator in NASA’s Human Research Program.
The broader impact of this research could lie in its down-to-earth applications, including in assessing the effects of radiation therapy on the bone health of cancer patients, Lau said.
As part of the two-year NASA grant, Lau and his students also will be collaborating with Gary Dickinson, associate professor of biology at TCNJ, on performing material property characterization of bone.
The idea for this research predated Lau’s arrival at TCNJ in 2015. “This was so many years in the making,” he says, adding that the grant will allow for an expanded analysis. Preliminary data seems to correlate bone hardness with better memory, he said.
Sophomore biomedical engineering major Sabrina Vander Wiele is working on computational modeling that will be used in the grant-funded research.
“Now, as a young and curious researcher, I have the amazing opportunity to study the micromechanics of bones with Dr. Lau and the help of a NASA grant,” she says.
Chiebuka Okpara, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering, says the lab work was a great opportunity to see the real-world applications of his learning as an undergraduate. Okpara was awarded a state Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for his micromechanical modeling of the bones exposed to radiation. He presented that work recently at the NASA Human Research Program Investigators Workshop, and plans to pursue research as a graduate student.
Research conducted by nine students over the past few semesters helped lay the groundwork for the preliminary studies that led to the NASA grant, Lau said. The grant money will allow for more students to participate in research and field experiences traveling to NASA’s Space Radiation Laboratory at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York and the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Safe Space for All
Chaparral Star Academy is a welcoming environment with a diverse student population. Students of varying race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability and/or sexual orientation thrive under CSA’s non-discrimination model.
Students enter our hallways with a focus of learning and preparing for post-secondary goals. CSA prides itself on having a staff that supports student individuality, to include all walks of life.
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About the Business and Finance Cluster
Today’s eighth graders have more options available to them than any previous generation. When we consider the number of ways to consume information, the available activities to participate in and the menu of entertainment options; the variety of choices available makes it possible for each student to choose a career path and pursue their dreams.
The Business and Finance cluster plays an important role of introducing eighth graders to jobs of value across all industries. If you walk into an insurance agency, accounting firm, manufacturing plant, tech developer or real estate company you will find a consistent theme within each organization. While the goods and services each company produces may vary, the one constant are the jobs required to make the respective organization successful. Organizations in every industry need qualified people in accounting, legal, marketing, sales and operations, who possess the skills necessary to execute the mission of the business.
The Business and Finance Cluster represents a broad range of industries, including: banking, accounting, staffing, marketing, pharmaceutical, real estate and education among others. Although we come from different industries, we speak the same language when it comes to delivering a meaningful experience for the students attending JA JobSpark. That shared language and desire to empower young people to own their future success is a product of our combined experiences in finance, operations, sales and marketing and our passion for preparing our future workforce while inspiring students to reach their potential.
As we prepare for the event, the purpose of the Business and Finance Cluster is to expose these young minds to an abundant world. A world where there are no limitations, where anything can be accomplished and the possibilities are endless. We are grateful to Junior Achievement of Central Indiana for the opportunity to spark interests, open minds and help guide future leaders toward fulfilling and prosperous careers.
About our Members
The Business and Finance Cluster is a diverse group, each member brings unique experiences and interesting stories to tell. These talented individuals have chosen to volunteer their time to make a positive impact on students and increase the impact of JA JobSpark. Learn more about our members and their passion for JA JobSpark.
Why did you want to be a part of JA JobSpark? “To create a better future, we have to give our future, the children of the Indianapolis, opportunities to discover their interest, feed that interest and excel in their interest. JA JobSpark gives me the opportunity to enable that discovery and help those children build a better future for themselves and society.” Stephen Hopkins, Sr. Associate- Base Support/Audit and Controls at Eli Lilly and Company
What impact can you see JA JobSpark having on the next generation? “I think research has shown time and again that education and one’s ability to contribute to society are some of the biggest drivers of economic well-being. If JA JobSpark can even open the eyes of a fraction of the students who attend to propel them into careers (vs. jobs) that they never would have considered prior, then it will strengthen our future society.” Kathryn Allen, Sr. Analyst, Investor Relations at Eli Lilly and Company
How do you think JA JobSpark and your interactions with students will impact the future of your industry? “Many students don’t think of the various aspects of business or how a business degree/career impacts the world. Many don’t think of “the mall” in the true sense of a business career – e.g., management or marketing degree. Many don’t think of accounting/an accountant as having an impact or aspect to the cereal they eat in the morning. I think the business cluster helps bring some “fun” and interest into the business sector and shows the kids accounting is not just boring number crunching.” Kate Kuhn, CFSA, FLMI, Sr. Mortgage Production Analyst at American United Life Insurance Company
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This story was published more than 13 years ago.
The online poker chestnut 'pokerbots' surfaced in the UK press again over the weekend as The Times carried a short story in which a botmaster claimed to earn up to £50,000 a year deploying remote softwares on small stakes and multi-table games.
The article was questioned by some readers, who pointed out that bots are only really good playing Limit games due to pure mathematical probability. "In No-Limit games I believe there are no bots which can match the ability of a human player, as they have no spontaneity nor ability to use positional advantage at the table," one critic posted.
Another reader opined that the only source quoted in the newspaper's story was actually a forum post - and a "spam" one at that - and therefore hardly authoritative. "Such software is hardly as popular or reliable as suggested here," the reader suggested, adding: "These non-news items on "poker bots" pop up every 3-4 mos. or so, it seems. Perhaps a bot is writing them!"
The article reports that poker bots are earning their human masters up to £50,000 a year by playing dozens of low-stakes games at once on the internet. "The UK is enjoying an online poker boom, with almost 1m Britons expected to take part this year. An increasing number of them will be using robots," the author claims.
The software can be bought for as little as £25, but many of the poker sites have rules banning bots and employ security teams dedicated to detecting them.
The article quotes one bot master who claims he can earn £40 an hour using poker bots. “I use software that plays poker for me in six different rooms and I’m raking in the dough,” he said in a posting on Cardschat, an online forum for players. “Do you think that’s evil or genius? The software does lose, but I’ve never seen any playing like it. Bottom line: not only does it work, but I’m entertained watching it.”
The Times recaps the events of 2007, when researchers from Alberta University in Canada deployed a bot player against poker ace Phil Laak, in which Laak won overall. In the following year the same scientists repeated the exercise using a bank of bots known as Polaris against several professional players and the robots were victorious.
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Robots designed to interact socially with humans are slowly becoming more and more common. They’re appearing as receptionists, tour guides, security guards, and porters. But how good are we at treating these robots as robots? A growing body of evidence suggests not good at all. Studies have repeatedly shown we’re extremely susceptible to social cues coming from machines, and a recent experiment by German researchers demonstrates that people will even refuse to turn a robot off — if it begs for its life.
In the study, published in the open access journal PLOS One, 89 volunteers were recruited to complete a pair of tasks with the help of Nao, a small humanoid robot. The participants were told that the tasks (which involved answering a series of either / or questions, like “Do you prefer pasta or pizza?”; and organizing a weekly schedule) were to improve Nao’s learning algorithms. But this was just a cover story, and the real test came after these tasks were completed, and scientists asked participants to turn off the robot.
In roughly half of experiments, the robot protested, telling participants it was afraid of the dark and even begging: “No! Please do not switch me off!” When this happened, the human volunteers were likely to refuse to turn the bot off. Of the 43 volunteers who heard Nao’s pleas, 13 refused. And the remaining 30 took, on average, twice as long to comply compared to those who did not not hear the desperate cries at all. (Just imagine that scene from The Good Place for reference.)
When quizzed about their actions, participants who refused to turn the robot off gave a number of reasons for doing so. Some said they were surprised by the pleas; others, that they were scared they were doing something wrong. But the most common response was simply that the robot said it didn’t want to be switched off, so who were they to disagree?
As the study’s authors write: “Triggered by the objection, people tend to treat the robot rather as a real person than just a machine by following or at least considering to follow its request to stay switched on.”
This finding, they say, builds on a larger theory known as “the media equation.” This was first established in a 1996 book of the same name by two psychologists: Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass. Reeves and Nass theorized that humans tend to treat non-human media (which includes TV, film, computers, and robots) as if they are human. We talk to machines, reason with our radios, and console our computers, said Reeves and Nass.
Various studies since have shown how this principle affects our behavior, especially when it comes to interactions with robots. We’re more likely to enjoy interacting with a bot that we perceive as having the same personality type as us, for example, and we’ll happily associate machines with gender stereotypes. We observe what’s known as the “rule of reciprocity” when interacting with robots (meaning we tend to be nice to them when they’re nice to us) and will even take orders from one if it’s presented as an authority figure.
“Now and in future,” wrote a group of scholars on the topic in 2006, “there will be more similarities between human-human and human-machine interactions than differences.”
And this isn’t the first time we’ve tested the “begging computer does not want to die” scenario. Similar research was carried out in 2007, with a robot resembling a cat that also pleaded for its life. Participants were forced to turn it off by observing scientists and all of them did — but not before going through a serious moral struggle.
In a video clip of the experiment, you can see the robot asking a volunteer: “You’re not really going to switch me off, are you?” The human says: “Yes I will!” — while failing to do so.
The new study, which was published July 31st, builds on this earlier work by using a greater number of participants. It also tested whether it made a difference if the robot was shown to have social skills before it asked not to be turned off. In some of the trials, Nao expressed opinions to the human volunteers, told jokes, and shared personal information. Surprisingly, this social behavior did not have a huge effect on whether the volunteers “spared” Nao.
So what does all this mean for our machine-filled future? Are we destined to be manipulated by socially sophisticated bots that know how to push our buttons? It’s certainly something to be aware of, says Aike Horstmann, a PhD student at the University of Duisburg-Essen who led the new study. But, she says, it’s not a huge threat.
“I hear this worry a lot,” Horstmann tells The Verge. “But I think it’s just something we have to get used to. The media equation theory suggests we react to [robots] socially because for hundreds of thousands of years, we were the only social beings on the planet. Now we’re not, and we have to adapt to it. It’s an unconscious reaction, but it can change.”
In other words: get used to turning off machines, even if they don’t appear to like it. They’re silicon and electricity, not flesh and blood. | <urn:uuid:833bb914-2e26-4058-b9d6-9f0002724a85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17642868/robots-turn-off-beg-not-to-empathy-media-equation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973255 | 1,156 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Edith Grossman’s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition
Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven’t experienced Don Quixote in English until you’ve read this masterful translation.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Pub Date: 10/2003
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CHICAGO — With more people than ever before working from home, remote communication has become a staple of the business world. While emails may make things easier for both employers and employees, a rude message can do lasting harm. A study out of the University of Illinois at Chicago finds rude email exchanges can cause lingering stress for workers and even affect their family life.
A pair of studies show rude and impolite emails can negatively affect work responsibilities and employee productivity. People dealing with these exchanges can also begin to suffer from insomnia, which affects their emotional state the next day.
“Given the prevalent use of emails in the workplace, it is reasonable to conclude this problem is becoming an increasing concern,” says lead author Zhenyu Yuan in a university release.
Two types of rude emails
Yuan and the team surveyed 233 workers in the U.S. about their experiences handling unpleasant emails. They then examine the spillover effects of these communications on an employee’s well-being and sleep habits.
Study authors find there are two main types of rude workplace emails. Active email rudeness involves demeaning or disrespectful comments from the sender to the recipient. Passive email rudeness can be harder to diagnose. This occurs when a sender’s emails go unanswered, making it seem like an opinion or request is being intentionally ignored.
The results reveal “active” rudeness tends to create strong negative emotions in the recipients. “Passive” rudeness leaves senders with more feelings of uncertainty and results in more sleep problems. The assistant professor of managerial studies says it’s much easier for people to dwell on email communications, coming or going.
“Because emails are securely stored, people may have a tendency to revisit a disturbing email or constantly check for a response that they requested, which may only aggravate the distress of email rudeness,” Yuan explains.
Learning to let go
Researchers say employees need to “psychologically detach” after getting negative work emails. The most positive solution is to turn off business devices after work hours. The study also suggests managers should set clear standards and limits on their company’s expectations for responding to work emails.
“It should be noted that efforts to address email rudeness should not be interpreted as the same as creating pressure for employees and managers to always check their email and respond to emails (i.e., telepressure),” Yuan adds. “On the contrary, setting clear and reasonable communications norms can prove effective in addressing both.”
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To enhance international cooperation to continue long term genetic improvement of poplars. Selection traits are specifically adapted to short rotation intensive culture (SRIC). Biotechnology will shorten breeding programmes. Basic functional and structural components involved in growth, development and production, will be used in early selection.
Poplar has proved to be the most promising tree genus of temperate regions for SRIC for the production of renewable raw material for energy and industry. It is well adapted to many European sites and climates (including very low winter temperature and spring frost). It is one of the viable solutions to diversify agricultural production and to rehabilitate abandoned farm land.
The European poplar research network will :
A) Make an up-dated survey of the European situation in research and development on the use and the production of poplar under SRIC. This survey will include : 1) a list of existing clones and techniques available for immediate planting, 2) an inventory of research trials and demonstration plots established in the near past, their objective, their geographical distribution and their results. This information will be included into a data base available for research scientists, developers and interested agencies. It will provide comprehensive information and avoid research redundancy, 3) a summary of existing production figures according to clone, spacing, rotation, cultural technique, site and climate, 4) a list of the production sites and their industrial outlet.
B) Make a comprehensive list of topics which still need research. This list will include : 1) classical genetic improvement, 2) advanced molecular physiologic and biotechnological methods applicable to shorten and speed-up breeding programmes, 3) diseases and insect pests causing damage in poplar SRIC, 4) critical physiologic traits useful as early predictors of future growth performance development and production.
Topic(s)Data not available
Call for proposalData not available
Funding SchemeCSC - Cost-sharing contracts
AB9 1FX Aberdeen
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Facts about Short-Term Rentals
Short-term rentals provide tangible benefits to providers, residents, travelers, businesses, and the local community. As such, it is important to ensure that communities develop smart regulations for governing short-term rentals that establish safeguards for both providers and travelers, alleviate neighborhood concerns, and offer a framework that promotes compliance.
By definition, a short-term rental is a property that is rented for less that 30 consecutive days. And while the ability to locate short-term rentals online has made them more accessible and affordable.
Because technology has made is possible for travelers and providers to connect, the growing popularity of short-term rentals was inevitable. Remember, travelers have been utilizing short-term rentals in some areas of the country for more than a hundred years. As short-term rentals grow in popularity among travelers, policymakers should embrace the wonderful opportunity they present by formalizing and legalizing short-term rentals as accommodations.
In crafting short-term rental regulation, it’s important that policymakers recognize the value of short-term rentals in providing flexible housing, and legalize and formalize short-term rentals as a unique and valuable alternative for travelers. They also need to recognize that short-term rentals are a non-commercial activity, governed by the same or similar guidelines and laws as those governing long-term residential rental properties, including the absence of additional laws or ordinances for dealing with nuisance issues already covered under existing municipal and city codes. Under any regulations, all short-term rentals should be treated the same, without differentiations between residency, use, advertising or booking platforms or business models, and that if fees associated with licensing or permitting are part of the local regulation, ensuring they are manageable goes a long way to encouraging compliance.
Most importantly, successful short-term rental regulations should be developed through an open and transparent dialogue between you, as a provider, policymakers, industry stakeholders, and the entire community.
United States Conference of Mayors Support for Vacation Rentals
On Thursday 6/14/12, this resolution unanimously passed the US Conference of Mayors Community Development and Housing Committee. On Saturday 6/16/12, it unanimously passed a vote of the full conference and is now the USCM policy.
PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE VISITORS INDUSTRY
WHEREAS, communities throughout the United States rely on local hotel taxes to promote travel and tourism and support the local visitors industry; and
WHEREAS, local hotel taxes often fund convention and visitors bureaus, convention centers, sports arenas and sports teams; and
WHEREAS, local hotel taxes often support local cultural programs including music, film, gaming, visual arts, dance and more; and
WHEREAS, short-term rental of homes can often be subject to hotel taxes; and
WHEREAS, short-term rental of homes can provide a flexible housing stock that allows family travelers spending longer periods of time in a community a safe accommodation while contributing to the local economy; and
WHEREAS, short-term rental of homes can provide homeowners an opportunity to hold property as an investment, for a better sales market, or for future planning; and
WHEREAS, fair regulation of short-term rentals ensures greater compliance and greater receipt of local hotel taxes; and
WHEREAS, regulations of short-term rentals that establish a reliable way for a municipality to identify and contact the short-term rental owner, make the tax collection and remittance obligation clear and treat the short-term rental owner the same as long-term rental owners can achieve the highest level of compliance; and
WHEREAS, onerous regulations of short-term rentals can drive the industry underground, thus evading local regulations and local hotel taxes;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors urges support for economic development opportunities through the visitors industry by encouraging regulations of the short-term rental industry that (1) establish a reliable way for the municipality to identify and contact the short-term rental owner; (2) make the tax collection and remittance obligations clear to the short-term rental owner; and (3) treat short-term rental tenants the same as long-term rental tenants. Regulations that accomplish all three can achieve a high level of compliance, and are highly effective. | <urn:uuid:ce2fdd09-c9c3-4570-9d68-1d026ff4db4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vvra.org/post/facts-about-short-term-rentals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.907415 | 884 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Mexican pozole is traditionally a celebratory dish made with pork. There are three main types: pozole rojo (red), pozole blanco (white), and pozole verde (green). Here is a recipe for pozole rojo, using red chiles, and of course no pork! This pozole recipe is completely plant-based, but definitely doesn’t lack the flavor of this delicious Mexican dish.
Our main ingredient in this vegan pozole is hominy (maiz blanco), which is made by soaking shelled corn in a water-lime mixture.
Pozole History: Human Meat, to Pork, to Vegan!
We’ve come a long way since the beginning of pozole, that’s for sure. In the days of the Aztecs, where human sacrifice was a ritualistic offering to their gods, cannibalism was also common. This is the frightening start of pozole according to many historical accounts – containing human meat of sacrificed prisoners.
Fast forward to more recent history, traditional pozole for holidays and special events is made with pork. Arguably a nice improvement, but still not quite there.
How about vegan pozole? Sound better? I thought so.
The delicious flavors of the dried chiles, garlic, onions, and herbs are more than enough to make this plant-based soup a perfect addition to any celebration. It’s perfect for pot-lucks, holidays, or (if you’re like us) any normal day of the week!
Makes Approximately 6 Servings
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Container Vegetable Broth (32 oz)
- 2 Cans (25 oz) White Hominy (the more, the merrier though!)
- 1/4 Cup Coconut Oil
- 1 Guajillo Chile Pepper, dried
- 2 Ancho Chile Peppers, dried
- 8 Arbol Chile Peppers, dried
- 1 White Onion, diced
- 4 Cloves Garlic, diced
- 3 Tbsp. Seasoned Salt
- 1 Tbsp. Mexican Oregano (standard oregano is a fine substitute)
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 1/2 Cabbage, shredded
- 5 Radishes, julienned
- 1 Limes, cut into wedges
- 1 Bunch Fresh Cilantro
- Add water and vegetable broth to a large pot and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, turn heat to low and stir occasionally.
- Dice onions and garlic and add them to the pot.
- Remove stems from the chile peppers and blend them into a powder using a food processor. If you don’t have a blender or food processor, you can grind them with a mortar and pestle. Add these to the pot and continue stirring occasionally.
- Add in hominy, coconut oil, seasoned salt, oregano, and bay leaf.
- Continue to simmer over low heat for approximately 30 minutes.
- Serve garnished with cabbage, radish, cilantro, and lime. We also like to eat pozole with tostadas, or even crunch them up and put them in too! | <urn:uuid:190997ec-ca35-44b6-ab4e-fceb86959484> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.veggums.com/recipes/dinner/vegan-pozole-rojo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.897985 | 694 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The LifeWorks Transition Academy is a structured, two-year certificate program that empowers young adults with autism and other learning differences to successfully transition to lives of independence, self-direction, and employment.
Our participants receive classroom instruction as well as real-life training experiences in their apartment, in the community, and on the job. Our instructors use the proven Learn4Independence® curriculum. Participants take part in 32 semester-length courses. The curriculum is taught over four semesters during the Fall and Spring of Year 1 and Year 2. Each course is 17 weeks in length and covers a variety of crucial skill-building areas, including: | <urn:uuid:16615349-07af-4558-a8ac-764a8f95d5c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifeworksatwku.org/transition-academy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954102 | 129 | 1.742188 | 2 |
High Schools That Work
Presents a Pre-engineering Program of Study
U.S. Department of Labor statistics indicate that 20 percent more engineers will be needed by the end of this decade. Too many students lack the rigorous academic background or the reasoning and problem-solving skills to study or work in engineering-related fields. This brochure describes a partnership between HSTW and Project Lead the Way- an organization that works to increase the quantity and quality of engineers by providing high school students with engaging pre-engineering studies. | <urn:uuid:f661a956-10cc-4740-8e3d-82a95b217ff6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sreb.org/publication/high-schools-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949828 | 106 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Last Updated on March 13, 2020
John Doe was a foreign male student who attended Williams College in Massachusetts until he was suspended for not investing in a long-term relationship with a foreign female student he had engaged in “kissing and touching” with.
The John Doe was accused of not engaging in further romantic relations due to a root in “cultural insensitivity,” and was suspended because of this reason from Williams College.
This is all according to the lawsuit filed against Williams College.
“Both the unnamed Hispanic student ‘John Doe’ and his accuser ‘Sally Smith’ are foreign students. She accused him of sexual misconduct not because he acted without her consent, John claims, but because he was ‘culturally insensitive’ after their amorous encounters,” as reported by Alexander Pease of UMASS Boston.
According to John Doe, there were several aspects of the investigation that he was subjected to unfairly and subsequently meant he had disadvantages during the Williams School’s investigation.
For one, Williams School would not agree to a witness “face to face.” This would involve the board that decided to suspend the male student refused to personally evaluate the credibility of both parties concerned in the case.
John Doe was also refused by Williams School to offer evidence in his defense. Allegedly Sally Doe had a long history of “repeated accusations of cultural insensitivity,” which would have been cause to reasonably doubt her claims against this most recent male student.
“The college wrongly found John responsible based on ‘a flawed disciplinary process’ where gender bias was a ‘motivating factor, the suit claims, citing biased and stereotypical training materials for the Title IX panel,” as further reported by Pease.
Judge Mark Mastroianni, who granted the Williams ̉permission to pursue this lawsuit while maintaining anonymity has approved other similar cases against private institutes in Massachusetts.
In a case involving Amherst College, the lawsuit was settled out of court, and therefore not analyzed during a trial.
The Williams College Code of Conduct clearly defines that “consent once given may be withdrawn at any time.” This wasn’t the case with Sally who tried to withdraw her consent after the encounters, as judged by her text messages to John Doe.
Sally “expressed anger about what she saw as Doe’s cultural insensitivity around their prior interaction” – failing to seek a romantic relationship with her after showing physical affection.
While John told Sally he was “emotionally unavailable,” he again asked to kiss her, and she agreed again. The suit claims that he “asked Smith before initiating any new touching and did nothing without her consent.”
in addition to the sudden shift in how Sally described their encounter, she also has insinuated to the John Doe that she had “lots of people ready to hurt him” because he didn’t want to date her after they made out consensually.
After a while of not succumbing to the threats of Sally, she finally filed a formal Title IX complaint now claiming that the two sexual encounters were nonconsensual. | <urn:uuid:2c915003-6584-4514-8deb-4065da6b6303> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nationalfile.com/cultural-insensitivity-college-student-kicked-out-because-he-wouldnt-date-girl-he-kissed-fondled/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.98617 | 665 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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Recently I was developing a simple database application in LibreOffice Base version 4.x. This is quite slow tool, but with a few modifications and tricks complex applications can be made.
Usually, database application consists of several forms supporting several tables opened from each other or common "switchboard" form. The problem in LibreOffice base is that it is not possible to easily make the "switchboard" form with buttons launching forms for other tables. There is no "macro wizard" to make it easily and most existing databases use extensions or hard-coded macros for it.
Officially, the only way to do it is by using Switchboard extension which is not much supported in later versions. Another way is to create macros for buttons. If you have 10 buttons opening 10 forms, you will have to make 10 macros connected to them, opening different forms. As in pure Open-Source programs, the only documentation is source code. Let's do it in more universal way: I inserted a target form name in ToolTip...
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