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San Diego has surpassed San Francisco as the nation’s least affordable metro area, as home prices rose 14.3% year-over-year, according to the latest OJO Labs unaffordability report. The study showed San Diego bypass both San Francisco and Los Angeles to become the nation’s least affordable metro by comparing median home prices to local household incomes.
The median home price sold in San Diego rose to $764,000 in January, bringing the city’s unaffordability score to 8.1. Despite San Francisco having the most expensive housing stock of any metro in the U.S., a 4.2% home sold price decrease in January on an annual basis drove San Francisco’s unaffordability score below eight for the first time since OJO Labs began tracking data in July 2021. In January, San Francisco’s unaffordability score fell to 7.9, down from 9.2 last month.
The top five least affordable U.S. metros were:
- Los Angeles
- Mobile, Alabama
- Pensacola, Florida
- Boise, Idaho
- Austin, Texas
Data found Austin, Texas saw the biggest home price increase of any metro area in the U.S., with home prices rising 35.5% year-over-year, according to the data from OJO Labs real estate search site Movoto. The steep rise in home prices also moved Austin ahead of Seattle on the list in terms of unaffordability, however, the hot Texas market still sits outside the top 10 in terms of least affordable metros areas in the U.S.
Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin continued to be the most affordable of the top 50 metro areas in the nation in terms of homes sold. The median home sold price in Green Bay-Appleton in January was $149,900, an increase of 11.9% from last year.
The remaining affordable markets in the top 50 metros were:
- Cleveland-Akron, Ohio
- Buffalo, New York
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Detroit, Michigan
Outside of San Francisco, the only other metro area to see prices fall year-over-year was Fort Myers, Florida, which saw the median home price sold fall 0.2%. Although Fort Myers was the 8th most affordable metropolitan area, San Francisco was the second least affordable, sitting at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Nationally, the median annual home price increase dropped significantly from last month, but still remained high. Home prices rose an overall 10.5% year-over-year in January to $376,730, which is a significant drop from the 14.9% annual increase reported in December. The national unaffordability score also fell to 4.5 in January, after coming in at 4.9 last month.
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She is a goal achiever and her skills and knwoledge imbibed with excellent work experience is leading her in the successful journey of communications with architecture.
Ar. HimaniAhuja, the Founder & CEO at One Digital & Designworx Asia, glorifies the virtues of ingenuity and conscientiousness. Integrated with a tenacity to achieve her goals, it was her dynamism that resulted in the amalgamation of Communications with Architecture. Heading one of the only Architectural Communications firms of India; dedicated to Architects, Interior Designers & allied product brands, she is a celebrated member of the design and communications fraternity.
With women’s day around the corner, let’s bring attention to the successes of female entrepreneurs around the world. These women are icons of empowerment, and discussing their success is an important way to celebrate their victory in the face of endless obstacles. It is now becoming clearer than ever that women can do whatever they set their mind to, just like men can or even better!
More and more women are shattering boundaries every day in male-dominated industries by utilizing their vigor and leadership skills in knowledge and work experience. Women are at present, pursuing more than just 9-5 jobs and addressing the challenges head-on with action and smart execution. In leadership roles, they can make big differences with the natural attributes inherent in them. They are more likely to help set definite attainable goals, highlight teamwork and invest time in the mentoring and personal development of the employees. When women blend with the team and their strengths, they create strong team players and role models.
“As an architect & communications specialist, i believe that this is a great time for all, not just women to ascend into leadership roles & make a positive difference”
We are in the second decade of the 21st century, and I am of the opinion that today, all opportunities come equally for men and women. Rather than throwing a strong focus and light on the achievements of women alone, the greater area of discussions should be more towards the successes attained collectively. With head-on action and smart executions, anyone in a leadership role can break barriers and attain triumph. I dream of a world where women are not celebrated for just one day but their accomplishments are valued every single day. It is not about men being better than women or vice-versa but all being treated at par as humans.
As an Architect & Communications Specialist, I believe that this is a great time for all, not just women to ascend into leadership roles & make a positive difference. Though I also do believe that the AEC & Communications industry has an abundance of talented women who are poised and prepared to take up such roles. Business results and statistics have proved that having a stable leadership team makes for better business growth. I can say with utmost surety that our company has 95 percent of female staff handling important portfolios. They are performing significantly better, even when pushed out of their comfort zones to explore communication opportunities. Our company is all about digital outreach and having women at the leading head ensures that all voices are heard. With women in high-ranking positions, the team is secured with creative flexible opportunities in Communications while looking at a more gender-inclusive environment. The lingering traditional mindset of a woman’s role in India looks to change with the dynamic rise of women in ranks.
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ma·nip·u·la·tion /məˌnɪpjəˈleʃən/ 名詞
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2. The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.
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Major Setback for Vouchers in Tennessee
In a win for tens of thousands of public school students, Tennessee’s controversial Education Savings Account (ESA) private school voucher program will not go into effect in the 2020-21 school year. A trial court declared the program unconstitutional in May. On June 4, the Tennessee Supreme Court denied the State’s request that it be allowed to divert public school funding to pay for private school vouchers while an appeal of the lower court’s ruling proceeds in the coming months.
The State Supreme Court’s action prevents the draining of millions of dollars out of the Memphis and Nashville public schools at a time when funding and resources are desperately needed to address the impact of COVID-19 on students and families.
In early 2020, two lawsuits were filed in the Chancery Court for Davidson County challenging the ESA voucher law. Davidson and Shelby Counties – the only two counties targeted by the voucher law – filed one. Public school parents and community members in Nashville (Davidson County) and Memphis (Shelby County) filed the second lawsuit, McEwen v. Lee, challenging the voucher law’s diversion of public school funds to unaccountable private schools. The McEwen plaintiffs are represented by Education Law Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which collaborate on the Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) campaign, as well as by the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and pro bono law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLC.
Following the controversial passage of the voucher law by only one vote in May 2019, Governor Bill Lee announced his intention to launch the voucher program in 2020-21, a year earlier than required by the statute. After the State began accepting applications for vouchers, the McEwen plaintiffs moved for an injunction to temporarily block the law until the court could rule on its constitutionality. Davidson and Shelby Counties filed a motion for summary judgment in their lawsuit.
After briefing and arguments, Chancellor Anne Martin ruled that the voucher law violates the Home Rule provision of the Tennessee Constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly from passing laws applicable only to specific counties without local approval. Chancellor Martin also enjoined the State from starting the voucher program.
Following the trial court’s injunction, the State asked Chancellor Martin, and subsequently the Court of Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court, to stay the injunction while it appealed the ruling. A stay would have allowed Governor Lee to begin distributing publicly funded vouchers for fall 2020. All three courts denied the State’s request.
The Tennessee Supreme Court also denied the State’s request to bypass the Court of Appeals and take over the appeal. The case will now proceed through the normal appeals process, with the Court of Appeals scheduled to hear arguments in early August.
After the Supreme Court denied the stay, Governor Lee announced the voucher program would not be implemented in the coming school year and funding for the program would be removed from the state budget.
Tennessee’s public schools serve all students who come through their doors, yet they suffer from chronic underfunding by the State and are grappling with further budget cuts due to the COVID-19 economic crisis. This victory preserves tens of millions of dollars for Nashville and Memphis public schools and the students who rely on these schools to learn, grow and thrive.
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Shared opinions soaked in knowledge & experience – all well tested.
What Is Going On?
Many parents will have only heard of the word, NAPLAN, and wondered what it means and, perhaps, why it seems to be causing a lot of fuss? Why is it the cause of all the fuss?
This Treehorn Express here tries to provide a compendium of terms and issues and references for those who would like to understand and use the associated terms with more confidence during discussion with their child’s teacher or principal. This is for you, Mum or Dad.
NAPLAN is an acronym for National Assessment Program Literacy And Numeracy. It is a program that is fully controlled by the Federal Minister for Education. State Ministers are required to follow.
National – Every school in Australia is expected to provide pupils from Grades 3, 5, 7, 9 for testing during May each year. It is ‘expected’ that every child will participate. The tests themselves are compiled by a central authority. The scores are gathered by the same authority, which then makes various judgements about standards of schooling, pupil ability, teacher ability, administrative effectiveness. Scorers and measurement experts are in charge of the detail. While this notion breaches basic tenets of the principle of subsidiarity when applied to evaluation of pupil progress, it remains in force.
Assessment is the term applied to this gathering of scores and assignment of opinions for public information. Only political leaders are allowed to express an official opinion. The reliability and validity of the tests and their use in this manner for assessment purposes has been criticised by school-oriented expert statisticians and by classroom experienced educators. [See ‘testucators’ or ‘educators’] from around the world. The scores are released in September. Being so remote in time and distance from the measuring authority’s conclusions, the results are, obviously, of little use to anyone.
Program – Test construction has an range of sources. The Testing Industry, world-wide, is one of the most profitable. Once test questions have been purchased or arranged by the central authority, there is intense security in the arrangements made for testing procedures. Since 2008, Australian-issued tests have been of the paper-and-pencils variety. Pupils, for most of the tests, fill in ‘bubbles’ next to compiled questions. [Samples are readily available on-line and practice tests can be purchased. www.nap.edu.au ] Intense test practice is generally encouraged and supported in schools that want to get higher scores than some other school. Manipulation of testing administration’s orders is generally called ‘cheating’ and the guilty are ‘counselled’. Some details of such misdemeanours are available on-line in a subtle name-and-shame way. There has to be strict loyalty to good order and routine. Cheating on a wide scale, however, is approved and encouraged. That is : schools may practice as much as they like using published and supplied practice tests. That creates impure results, but it doesn’t matter.
Literacy refers to Reading, Writing and Language Conventions [once called ‘Grammar’]
Numeracy refers to the usual measureable mathematical basics.
History of Standardised Blanket Testing of which NAPLAN is a sample. Every now and then a cultural meme spreads around the world without apparent sponsorship. It could be a philosophical or political thought [e.g. Domino Theory, Reds under the bed, fascism, democracy], fashion statement [e.g. tattoos, torn jeans. long hair], health care [e.g. sun screen, water bottles] that cross national and cultural boundaries speedily in mysterious ways. Ever wondered? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme Some are beneficial; some can be loosely classified as ‘peculiar’; some are downright dangerous.
One of the most dangerous educational meme was a persistent criticism of basic school achievements that spread world-wide during the nineties, sponsored and supported by corporate interests and managerial mis-fits. Increased enrolments at tertiary institutions had reduced the quality of the left-over intellectual pool, so businesses who had to hire lower level workers thought that schools were not doing their job properly. The meme spread. The previous scato-memo of the seventies had started for similar reasons. British University snobs could only handle top-quality intellectuals in their classes. When attendance of the mere-bright students grew through the 1960s and 70s and challenged their teaching ability, some academic British chappies wrote ‘The Black Papers’, a series that blamed schools for a fall in standards; then academic snobs in other countries adopted their forte. Australian children of this second decade of the 21st century are now tolerating the 1990s’ scatty notions of a New York macabre system, which based its schooling philosophy on left-overs from the 70s. Education policies, powered by stubborn political behaviour has yet to be successful in advanced countries.
Schooling per se has been a busy host to quite a number of memes over the past few decades. There have been some really beneficial ones that have assisted the delivery of the school curriculum. Some, such as Standardised Blanket Testing, however, are pure scato-memes, more scatological than epistemological. When the 1970s’ scato-meme cut loose, it had more drastic consequences for U.SA. and U.K. than anywhere else. In the U.S. the Black Papers ‘Back to Basics’ scato-meme of this time led to the destructive Minimal Competency Movement invented by legislators to control graduation requirements in almost all school districts in the USA. The establishment of the Assessment of Performance Unit in the U.K. at the same time, proved to be a very costly exercise that led to the cessation of the kinds of British-based classroom activities that the rest of the world envied. [The world described what the Brits had been doing by semantic tags like ‘Integrated Day’, ‘Open Plan’. ‘Freedom to Learn’, all sorts of tags. The Brits just went ahead, however, teaching with the belief that a child’s natural love for learning can be happily integrated with a deep-seated desire to learn more and to achieve to the limits of personal ability….forever. No tags.]
Over the centuries there have only been quixotic responses to such ‘school basics’ issues, powered by mediocrity-bound sciolists who move into control positions where they exert their coercive and reward powers on schools with such detrimental damage to children’s cognitive development, that it takes years to repair. As Forest Gump observed, “It happens.”
The term Standardised Blanket Testing ensures that exactly the same test is given to the same sort of school cohort at the same time, without account for individual, social or human differences. NAPLAN is the Australian version compiled by non-school measurers following strict orders… for three days each May. ‘National Standards’ tests, as they are called. are imposed on schools in New Zealand and the UK countries; NCLB [No Child Left Behind] and Race to the Top tests are names given to required SBTs in the U.S.A…..all the same dogs, different leg action. It’s a pandemic which only child-oriented curriculum-wise countries [e.g. Finland] have avoided. Finland decided to call a halt to schadenfreude-based teaching and think about how children learn best at school and then put the thoughts into action…. over 30 years ago. It now avoids SBTs, recognising their threat to learning outcomes. SBT is opposed in each and every GERM-ridden country by highly reputable educators whose concern for basic achievements and children’s love for learning is obvious. Testucators are a different brand of fish. In each GERM country, Testucators maintain a high-stakes testing climate as compliant glautiers and kleinists, who have suspended normal educational principles to follow, blindly, all government directions without question.
If enough serious teachers and loving parents said that they wanted to re-introduce child-oriented learning into schools, NAPLAN and its dysfunctional cohort or SBT-freaks would disappear forthwith. There is no doubt. Australia would take that Finnish step…and think.
Sadly, children in classrooms in each GERM country have no sincere advocacy. That’s the basic problem. They have been deserted by those they love and respect. Fictional Treehorn typifies a contemporary school child.
GERM stands for Global Education Reform Movement, a term that Pasi Sahlberg created to describe those countries that believe in the use of fear to motivate higher achievements in ‘basic’ subjects, that concentrate on basic subjects, high stakes testing and then construct opinions about teacher quality and school leadership based on children’s scores. As a rule, they compile SBT tests, then write curriculum material without learning in mind, without classroom knowledge of the teaching-learning, pupilling exchanges. GERM-infected SBT relies on zombic functionalism to survive.
By the way, Mum and Dad, we imported the current Australian GERM system of schooling direct from New York with little to no modification. Fear-based, it was the modus operandi of a NY lawyer called Joel Klein who [as some American states are wont to do with inexperienced ‘know-it-alls’] was placed in charge of a large school district. His fearsome tactics, based on the coercions surrounding test performance. worked to a degree for a while, so much so that he was head-hunted by Rupert Murdoch to run his test publishing industry, worth billions. Get the connection? Klein proudly claims ownership of the Australian system. We call it Kleinism in his honour. He must be proud of how Julia, his protege protects it.
One day we might be able to have a system all of our own….based on love for learning and for achievement, teaching our children how to test their own progress as they are self-motivated towards high-level personal achievements while they outreach their diverse learning needs.
Let’s try a “Love for…..” rather than NAPLAN’s “Fear of….” credo, when we talk about schooling. One day SBTs will go! It’s up to you, as to how quickly. You’re a voter.
“The seventh heresy is the apparent belief that the sole purpose of education is academic achievement. High marks, good test scores – that’s all that matters. No one denies the central importance of academic achievement in schools. But it is not all that matters. not historically. Schools are places where children come together to learn, and it turns out that the coming together is as important as the learning. Or rather the coming together enables learning of a different kind – establishing an identity among peers, taking responsibility for one’s own actions, learning to tolerate and maybe appreciate diversity, balancing one’s own interests and desires with a sense of the common good. A good education helps children become competent, wise, and just. Competence is not enough. Our education system efforts need to be informed by a deeper and more spacious conception of teaching and learning.
Reducing the potential richness of a child’s education to a standardized test score is indeed heretical.”
Tom Sobo, former N.Y. State Commissioner of Education. 2003. http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?url=archives/757-A-Smarter-Mind-than-Mine-Takes-on-NCLB8serendipity[cview]=linear
Let’s make sure that NAPLAN eradication becomes a top election issue.
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I think most running tracks – and all-weather pitches – are made of a substance called ‘polyurethane’. It’s a bit like rubber in that it’s very flexible, and a bit like plastic, in that it’s very hard-wearing. The best of both worlds, really!
What an interesting question! Every official running track is made out of a synthetic rubber called Tartan. I think it gets it’s name because of it’s colour! It is better than using grass or concrete because it is springy and therefore kinder on the ankle, knee, and hip joints. Out of interest, some of the athletes that I work with say that a harder track is better for sprinting and a softer track is better for long distance! | <urn:uuid:557dfbdf-e568-4454-a94d-75e03f628adc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://11-19.imascientist.org.uk/question/what-material-is-a-running-track-made-of | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959511 | 167 | 2.140625 | 2 |
You may have started to read about changes that may directly affect your organization. In response to Europe’s new GDPR law.
In response to Europe’s new GDPR law, states have begun to draft and implement additional privacy laws and regulations. My home state of New Jersey is now attempting to lead the charge forward in seeing these new policies are in place.
We all know that security of credentials is critical to preventing data breaches, but now we have arrived at a point of what else defines “personal information”. States are not considering passwords and other credentials to be labeled personal information.
“The measure closest to becoming law, S-52, would force companies to disclose data breaches involving an expanded definition of “personal information.” The bipartisan bill was approved unanimously in the Legislature and now awaits a signature or veto by Governor Phil Murphy.
Current state law mandates that companies tell customers when their driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, account numbers or credit or debit card numbers have been compromised. The bill would expand that list to include user names, email addresses,
For more info:
SENATE, No. 52 – STATE OF NEW JERSEY – 218th LEGISLATURE
NJ Releases Annual Statistics on Cyber Breaches – https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases18/pr20181023b.html
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Today’s kitchens are built for entertaining, digital networks and cooking, but creating one that meets all of these needs can be a challenge.
A recent survey conducted by Consumer Reports asked more than 1,000 Americans what activities they do in the kitchen at least once in a typical week and found that uses for the kitchen go beyond meal prep. Nearly half entertain regularly in the kitchen, 58 percent go online (think FaceTime and recipe downloads), and 61 percent use the space to do homework or other paperwork.
Design your very own social kitchen with these suggestions:
- Open up the space – with care. Be judicious when eliminating barriers. Using half-walls or arched openings can create a sense of openness while maintaining traffic flow. Color can be a great connector between the kitchen and the larger living or dining room area.
- Bring back the eat-in kitchen. Built-in banquettes are making a comeback. Casual dining is integral to the social kitchen, and it’s good for resale value. It’s also a place to do the bills or help with the homework and its base can provide additional storage.
- Add an island. This central counter will give people a place to sit while the cook prepares the meal. Just don’t let it clog traffic – there should be 42 to 48 inches of clearance on all sides.
- Build in charging stations. For many people, the kitchen is where their electronic devices live. Charging stations can be tucked into a cabinet or drawer that’s fitted with docks and electrical outlets.
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The craft of home cheesemaking is exploding in popularity. Mastering Basic Cheesemaking provides a complete hands-on guide to making cheese and other fermented dairy products from scratch, geared toward helping the novice cheese maker to develop the intuition and abilities to position them for success, especially in the real world of the home kitchen.
This well-illustrated, clearly written practical guide assumes no prior experience on the part of the aspiring cheese maker. Topics include:
- Understanding your ingredients, tools and techniques
- Whipping up "instant cheeses" such as ricotta and paneer, while learning basic milk chemistry
- Progressing to fermented dairy products such as kefir, yogurt and sour cream
- Using bacteria and coagulant to create spreadable and tender cheeses like quark, chevre, cream cheese and American style cottage cheese
- Graduating to curdled, aged and ripened cheese—mozzarella, feta, cheddar, gouda, and parmesan.
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It is fun to take a trip to a faraway place.
My brother just went to Italy and France.
He got on a plane at Toronto Airport.
He took a flight to France.
He stayed there for a couple of days.
He visited the Eiffel Tower.
He was in Paris.
He said that he enjoyed the food in France.
He then traveled to Italy.
He saw many towns and villages in Italy.
He went to Rome and visited many of the tourist attractions.
In Venice, he saw the canals.
He tried to speak Italian, but he is not too good at it.
He said that the people were very helpful.
They tried to understand him.
He bought souvenirs for us when he was in Italy.
He ate Italian food.
He said that pizza in Italy is quite different from the pizza we eat here in Canada.
He saw many streets that were made of cobblestones.
He saw many old buildings.
A lot of people in Italy travel around on scooters.
He stayed at a very nice hotel in Italy.
He was sorry when it was time to come home.
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He likes to fly in airplanes.
The airlines lost his luggage once.
He was not too pleased about that.
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The WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) and WHO Health Emergency programme (WHE) are partnering with Project ECHO of the University of New Mexico (UNM), UNICEF, and TechNet-21 to host a series of 15 sessions that align with countries’ immediate and medium-term needs.
Webinar series topic: WHO Costing, Budgeting, Financing and Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines
- providing technical assistance on the use of C19 tools, guidance, resources, and trainings on costing, budgeting and financing, including the use of the updated CVIC tool version 2.2;
- sharing best practices in a community of practice on key challenges, benefits, and use of costing and budgeting tools such as the CVIC 2.2 as well as strategies to maintain routine immunization services
Topic of this session: COVID-19 Vaccination financing in the South-East Asia Region
This webinar will cover two discussion parts. In the first part, international health system experts will set the scene and provide an overview of the impact of the pandemic on health financing and the landscape for vaccine financing in the South-East Asia region. It will be then followed by a presentation by policy maker from Bhutan to share the vaccine financing related strategy, resource planning and financing considerations, challenges and lessons in the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination.
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The Los Angeles Maritime Institute is currently making a major investment in the restoration of the square topsail schooner Swift of Ipswich. Everyone is looking forward to her returning to the TopSail Youth Program, alongside the twin brigantine, Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson, providing character building sail training adventures for youth. As LAMI’s original vessel, Swift of Ipswich is a learning environment that nurtures the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are necessary for the education of today’s youth, but difficult to teach in a traditional classroom. About two thirds the size of one of LAMI’s twin brigantines, Swift is especially well suited for working with smaller, younger groups of who might be overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the LAMI brigantines. Swift is a special favorite of youth-of-all-ages, many of whom sailed her as Girl Scouts over 40 years ago…we are looking for Swift sailors who’d like to renew friendships, retell memories and support her restoration. Built to the lines of an historic Revolutionary War privateer, Swift of Ipswich was once the personal yacht of actor James Cagney and has been known as a floating landmark, mostly serving youth, in Southern California for over 60 years. | <urn:uuid:cd4e0166-6c94-4b30-814f-8ed5f60181d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tallshipsamerica.org/vessels/swift-of-ipswich/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953326 | 262 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Unethical decisions and behavior is the number one threat to the careers of law enforcement and every profession that holds a position of trust. The daily pressures and temptations that these professions often encounter can be quite overwhelming and have devastating consequences.
During this workshop participants will explore the following:
Learning definitions of Ethical and Unethical Behavior
Reasons for Unethical Conduct
Five Areas of Consequences from Unethical Behavior and Conduct
Seven Questions to Ask Yourself When Making an Ethical Decision
10 Commandments for Cop Survival
During this highly effective workshop, Anthony Bryant will provide shocking news footage of the consequences he and eleven other officers encountered, from the results of a split second decision.
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Pregnant women eating artificial sweeteners are linked with the increased risk of infant obesity, but this has yet to be determined. Researchers studied whether or not artificially sweetened beverages (ASB) during pregnancy could change the gut bacterial make-up and function of a newborn during the first year of life, and if these were associated with infant body mass index (BMI). In a study of 100 Canadian infants (50 ASB exposed and 50 ASB non-exposure) from the Canadian CHILD Cohort Study, it was found that those who were exposed to ASB during pregnancy had a higher BMI. Infant stool and urine were collected in early infancy (at 3-4 months) and late infancy (at 12 months) for analyzing 16S rRNA gene sequencing and untargeted metabolomics respectively. There were four microbiome clusters, two of which imitated the typical developmental pattern of the infant gut bacterial communities from immature (Cluster 1) to mature (Cluster 4) however, two different clusters deviated (Clusters 2 and 3) from the pattern. There was not much difference in the Maternal ASB consumption between clusters but led to significant shifts in the bacterial taxonomic structure of the guts of infants and decreased level of several Bacteroides sp. in Cluster 2. In the study, infants exposed to ASB had higher levels of urine succinate at age 3 months. One-year-old children who had higher urine succinate also had a higher BMI. In general, exposure to ASB during gestation was linked to the gut microbiota in infants from cluster 2, and the gut microbiota was linked to infant BMI. Exposure to ASB positively correlated with infant urine succinate and spermidine. Succinate was linked to a 29% reduction in the effect of ASB on BMI at one year old, suggesting that this metabolite may play an important role in the development of childhood obesity-related to gestational ASB consumption. Childhood obesity is a pressing concern. To combat it, researchers should study how maternal ASB consumption affects infant metabolism. | <urn:uuid:1a6ec8d0-10ce-475a-8cbc-3ec173f8395d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physiciansweekly.com/link-to-changes-in-childs-gut-microbiota-infant-bmi-due-to-ingestion-of-artificially-sweetened-beverages-during-pregnancy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972873 | 420 | 3.078125 | 3 |
J&K: The National Child Development Council (NCDC) has demanded English speaking course as mandatory subject in all the government schools of the country.
In a statement, NCDC members said: “English is a language which has a universal appeal and is also considered to be the most widely spoken language in the world.”
They further said that English speaking in particular is perceived to be very important for employment in today’s times, while it is seen that people who have high degrees with them are unable to crack a job interview because of their inability to express themselves in English.
“It is time that the Government takes into consideration the opinion of its own appointed panels that have suggested that English should be made compulsory in all schools, and every student from class 6th onwards should study English as a compulsory subject,” members said, adding that there are reports regarding suggestion that at least one English language school should exist in every block of the country.
The NCDC suggested that government must also direct schools to even consider providing additional time to English teachers so that they can focus on developing communication skills of students.
“It is imperative that Government takes this issue with utmost gravity as this will not only help students improve their English, but it would also help in improving the image of Government Schools. One of the major reasons for parents preferring private schools over Govt. Schools is the emphasis they give to English speaking per se,” the statement reads.
It further reads that, “the Government can also consider taking assistance of NGOs that have innovative ideas to make children communicate in English. There is no doubt that the traditional teaching methodologies adopted by many government school teachers will not improve the English communication skills of children.”
The BOARD MEMBERS of NCDC, who passed resolution were, Arathi I S (Resolution representative), Risvan Baba Alexander, Sudha Menon, Bindu Saraswathibhai, Dr Sruthi Ganesh, & Thomas K L.
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For us to live, parts of us must die. Every day, billions of our cells shrink, break up into small parcels, and get tidied away by other janitorial cells. This gentle, organised cellular suicide is called apoptosis, and we depend upon it. Our hands start off as solid lumps; it’s apoptosis that sculpts our fingers by killing off the cells in between them. Now and then, our cells threaten to grow out of control; it’s apoptosis that stops them from becoming tumours.
There are many ways of triggering apoptosis, and one route involves two large groups of proteins: the tumour necrosis factors (TNFs), and the receptors that they stick to. When they meet, they set off a chain reaction inside the cell. A large network of proteins is recruited, united, and activated, until the cell eventually dies. Think of TNF as a key twisting in the lock of a door, triggering a Rube-Goldberg machine that ends with the entire room catching fire.
Now, Steven Quistad from San Diego State University has discovered that corals—small tentacle animals that build mighty reefs—have their own TNFs and TNF receptors. Compared to our versions, these coral proteins are made of slightly different building blocks, but they fold into very similar three-dimensional shapes.
In fact, these shapes are so similar that the coral proteins are interchangeable with ours. A coral TNF can persuade our cells to kill themselves by sticking to our receptors. Likewise, human TNFs can kill coral cells by sticking to their receptors. We last shared a common ancestor with corals around 550 million years ago. Our respective lineages have been diverging ever since but our keys fit in their locks, and vice versa.
“[That’s] amazing”, says Marymegan Daly from Ohio State University. “I think this highlights that at some level, animal cells are animal cells. The differences among animals are in the ways that the cells are organized rather than in how they work.”
Quistad made his discovery after analysing the recently sequenced genome of Acropora digitifera, a coral that looks like a mound of miniature Christmas trees. And to his surprise, he didn’t just find TNFs, he found lots of them. We have genes for 18 different TNFs and 29 corresponding receptors, and the coral has a similar number—13 TNFs and 40 receptors. “That’s more receptors than anyone had ever seen in any organism,” says Quistad.
And why is that surprising? Because “they were expected to have just one,” he says.
Two of the animals that biologists have studied most intensely—the fruit fly and the nematode worm—have just one TNF and one TNF receptor each. Based on this, biologists deduced that ancestral animals were similarly poorly stocked. In back-boned animals, this lone pair of proteins diversified into the big families that we humans possess.
But the corals refute this story of simple beginnings. They belong to one of the earliest animal groups—the cnidarians. They’re even more ancient than the last common ancestor of humans, flies and worms. If they have a large number of TNFs and TNF receptors, that must have been the initial status quo. Flies and worms then lost the vast majority of this original diversity. Corals and humans kept and perhaps even expanded upon that old repertoire, but all the while keeping the same lock-and-key interactions. After all, apoptosis is so important for so many aspects of our lives that it is not easily tweaked.
Could corals and humans have evolved our TNF families independently? It’s unlikely, given how compatible the two proteins are. The fact that coral TNFs can kill human cells points to a shared ancestry—and a very deep one to boot.
“This is part of a really cool shift that’s happening in evolutionary biology,” says Quistad. “We’ve learned a lot from flies and worms, but they have led us to these erroneous conclusions about the evolution of all animal life. The assumption has been that older things should be simpler. If we saw something in flies and worms, it should be even simpler in a more ancient organism like a coral. But corals are actually more similar to humans in multiple ways, and flies and worms turn out to be very strange animals.”
Quistad’s work adds to the evidence that the machinery for apoptosis is at least half a billion years old, dating back to the origin of many of the animal groups we know today. “These main players in the immune system were already there, and everything has been tinkered with since that time,” he says.
Thomas Bosch from the University of Kiel notes that other scientists have already found proteins involved in apoptosis in cnidarians. For example, in 1999, Charles David and Angelika Böttger found caspases in a green, tentacled cnidarian called Hydra. If TNFs help to set cells down the road to death, caspases are the executioners that actually carry out the sentence. “Programmed cell death was one of the key inventions in the evolution of animal multicellularity,” says Bosch.
Coral reefs around the world are in decline, and a third of reef-building corals are in danger of extinction. If they vanish, countless species would disappear too, and coastal communities would suffer a huge economic blow. But we’d also lose valuable clues about the origins of the animal kingdom. These ancient and supposedly simple creatures can give us insights about the origins of the animal kingdom, in ways that more familiar workhorses like flies and worms cannot. “Corals have a lot more to teach us about how our own immune systems work and where they came from,” says Quistad.
Reference: Quistad, Stotland, Barott, Smurthwaite, Hilton, Grasis, Wolkowicz & Rohwer. 2014. Evolution of TNF-induced apoptosis reveals 550 My of functional conservation. PNAS http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1405912111 | <urn:uuid:94bd7f86-0b71-4d9b-bcbb-dbab318d1eb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/half-a-billion-years-of-suicide | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9546 | 1,328 | 3.453125 | 3 |
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|Native to||Uganda, Kenya|
|Region||Teso sub-region, parts of Pallisa District and Busia County|
|1.9 million (2002 & 2009 censuses)|
According to the 2002 Uganda population and housing census, over 1.57 million people in Uganda (6.7 percent of the total Uganda population) spoke Ateso. Also, an estimated 279,000 people in Kenya speak the language. Its SIL code is TEO.
There are 22 letters in the Ateso alphabet F,H,Q,V,H,X and Z are not used and ŋ and NY are added. F,H,Q,V,H,X,Z only appear in loan words. The pronunciation guides that follow are for practice only; the correct sounds can only be learned by practice from a teacher or an audio media.
There are five vowels in Ateso
A, E, I, O, U.
These five letters, however, represent more than five sounds, for the letters E, I, O and U have two values each; a "close" value and an "open" value.
Close vowels are pronounced approximately as follows:
- E [e] as in beg (French é): aipet----- to kick
- I [i] as in seat: aidip----- to hit
- O [o] as in Scottish pronunciation of bone (French eau): aimor----- to insult, to abuse
- U [u] as in fool: aikut----- to scratch the earth, to scoop something
Open vowels are pronounced approximately as follows:
- E [ɛ] as in beg (French è): aipet ----- to lay out
- I [ɪ] as in sit: ailid----- to fasten
- O [ɔ] as in gone (or in glory when long): aimor----- to share
- U [ʊ] as in full: aikut -----to blow
- A [a] is pronounced as in art (never short as in ram)
- abal 'to say'
Where the vowels AI or OI stand together, they represent sounds approximating the "i" in bite [ai̯] and "oy" [oi̯] in annoy respectively. In other vowel combinations, both vowels must be given their full values. The "au" in kau -----(behind) is pronounced [ka.u] not [kau̯].
All words ending in a consonant possess a semi-mute or "shadow" vowel after the final consonant, which is not pronounced when the word stands in isolation, but which is pronounced when the word is followed by another word beginning with a consonant:
e.g. The Ateso translation of "the women go to the house" is written:
- elosete aŋor togo ----- the women are going to the house
but is pronounced: elosete aŋoro Togo
If the word following is normally written as one with the preceding word, the "shadow" vowel is not only pronounced but written:
- e.g. elosete aŋoroke togo ----- his women are going to the house
Other examples are given in (vii) below.
There are sixteen consonants and one semi-vowel in Ateso, pronounced approximately as follows:
- B [b] as in bat: bobo -----again
- C [tʃ] as in chat (never as in cat): elacet ----- key
- D [d] as in dog: edou ----- rain
- G [ɡ] as in get (never as in geology): agasia rubbish/trash
- J [dʒ] as in jam: aijar life
- K [k] as in king: ekek door
- L [l] as in let: alalau width
- M [m] as in mat: mam ----- no
- N [n] as in nut: ainu ------ to hug
- ŋ** [ŋ] as in hanger (never as in finger): iŋai ----- who
- NY [ɲ] as in Spanish Señorita: anya ----- grass (plural)
- P [p] as in put: papa ----- father
- R [r] as in rat (should be well rolled): erute ----- gate
- S [s] as in service : aisab ----- to tell lies
- T [t] as in toss: toto ----- mother
- y [j] as in yellow: yoga ----- hello
- W [w] as in win: awasia ----- the end, aiwosa ----- to prosecute
(vi) In words of foreign origin introduced into Teso the missing sound F is replaced by P and the missing sound V by B or P. Z is replaced by S.
- Thus mesa -----table (Kiswahili) becomes e-mesa
- oku-fuga -----to rule (Luganda) becomes ai-puga
It is an invariable rule that two consonants can never stand together in the same word. Both in speech and in writing. When word construction brings two consonants together, either one of the consonants must be dropped or the "shadow" vowel mentioned in sub-paragraph (iv) above must be inserted between the consonants.
E.g. (Omission of one consonant)
- Nen-pe-nen 'just there' is written and pronounced nepenen.
(Insertion of "shadow" vowel)
- ŋon-tuŋa-nan 'every man' is written and pronounced: ŋonituŋanan
- Elacet-kon 'your key' is written and pronounced elacetekon
**Due to the introduction of typesetting & word processing machines, ŋ is now almost entirely written NG. It is only in old literature that ŋ still appears. The fact that in some works the two letters NG are found together in place of ŋ is no exception to the above rules. These two letters are merely an alternative representation of the sound ŋ, in the same way as the letters NY represent one sound. The semi-vowel W, however, can and frequently does follow a consonant:
- aswam work
- ekwam air
The Teso language board's alphabet uses NG in place of ŋ, and also uses ɛ, ɨ, ɔ, and ʉ, as well as the modifier letters ⟨ᵃ, ᵉ, ᵋ, ⁱ, ᶤ, ᵒ, ᵓ, ᵘ, ᶶ⟩.
The correct pronunciation of these letters when formed into words can only be learned by practice. As a general rule, all syllables should be given equal stress, though the stem or root syllable often carries slightly more stress than other syllables. Stress does not, however, affect the length of the vowel stressed or its pitch or tone. It is equally important to note that syllable pitch plays a vital part in correct pronunciation and that many words, which are spelled identically, have a different meanings according to syllable pitch.
- __ ↗ __ élípì ----- I am praying
- ___ ___ ‿ elìpǐ ----- I was praying
- ___ ___ ↗ elipí ----- he/she was praying
|Plosive||p b||t d||c ɟ||k ɡ|
- Vowels are phonetically represented with ATR as [i̘, e̘, o̘, u̘, a̘], [ɐ̘] and RTR as [ɪ̙, ɛ̙, ɔ̙, ʊ̙, a̙].
- [ɐ̘] is heard as an allophone of /a/ with advanced tongue root.
Voiceless vowel sounds are present, strictly occurring in word-final position before a pause, at the end of sentences or when standing alone.
(i) The spelling used in most of the first published Ateso books is in accordance with the official orthography agreed upon by the Ateso Orthography Committee in 1947. It was then accepted as a general principle that all words should be written in full even though normally contracted in speech. It should be particularly noted that a short -a or -e at the end of a word is dropped in speech when the word is followed by a word beginning with a vowel.
- e.g. ekitabo loka etelepat ----- the book of the boy
- is pronounced ekitabo lok' etelepat.
(ii) Recently, it is evident that the spoken language is continuing to move away from the written language especially in most parts of Uganda. This means that some aspects of orthography may well need revision soon.
(iii)While the Iteso of Tororo district in Uganda and Teso district in Kenya retain the letter k in the spoken language, the Iteso in most other areas of Uganda tend to omit it in most of the words.
Ateso in Teso, Kenya & Tororo, Uganda Ateso in Amuria district, Uganda English meaning Akilip lok'asuban ailip loasuban to pray to the creator akinyam emkati/atap ainyam atap to eat bread akimat akile aimat akile to drink milk akitabu lokalaunan eitabo loalaunan a holy book Akote inyamat/inyamen aimo ainyamat to look for food
Hello – yoga
How are you? – Ijai biai (singular), Ijaasi biai (plural)
Fine, and you? – Ejokuna, arai ijo?
Fine – ejokuna
What is your name? – Ingai bo ekon'kiror?
My name is ... – Eka'kiror ...
Name --- Ekiror
Nice to see you. --- Eyalama ewanyun (also: Eyalama aanyun)
See you again --- Awanyunos bobo
Book – Eitabo
Because – Naarai
The first sentence in the bible can be translated as Ageunet, abu Edeke Kosub akwap keda akuj ("In the beginning God made the earth and the heavens" lit. "the down and the up").
Gender and noun prefix
Every noun in Ateso has a prefix which varies according to the gender of the noun or according to whether the noun is singular or plural. Nouns (in the singular) starting with "E" or "O" are usually masculine. Those starting with "A" are feminine while those that start with "I" are neuter. See table below for details.
|e.g.||etelepat → itelepai
(boy → boys)
|apese → apesur
(girl → girls)
|ikoku → idwe |
(child → children)
The only exception to the above rule are certain nouns denoting relationships and directions.
e.g. toto ----- mother; papa ----- father; mamai ----- uncle; inac ----- sister ; ija ----- aunt
- kide ----- east; too ----- west; ŋalakimak (or agolitomei) ----- south; nyakoi ----- north
|pronoun or adjective||examples|
|ece, ace, ice – other, another;
ngol (m) or ngin (f,n) – every
edio (m), adio (f),
ediope (m), adiope (f) – one
|ecetunganan – another man; aceberu – another woman; |
icetunganan -another person; icetunga -other people
ediotunganan -any man; adiopese -any girl; idiokoku – any child
adiopeberu – one woman; ediope kiliokit bon -only one man
The following is a general classification of most nouns.
The masculine nouns are:
(i) Names of male beings:
e.g. ekingok – dog
- ekoroi ----- he-goat
- emong ----- bull
- etelepat/esapat ----- boy
- Ekue ----—fox
- Ekokor ----—cock
(ii) Names of most trees and fruit
e.g. eloa* – mvule tree (* now generally referred to as emapule )
- enimu ----— lemon
- etaget ----— banana
- emucuuga ----— an orange
(iii) Names of insects:
e.g. esirut – mosquito
- emukuny ----— black ant
- ekonyelet ----— beetle
- ecwarenit ----— bed-bug
- eidepit ----—flea
(iv) Names of non-indigenous liquids:
e.g. ecaai ----— tea
- akaawa** ----— coffee (** derived from the Arabic word qahwa)
- ebia ----— beer
- ebino** ----— wine (** ewain is also accepted )
The feminine nouns are:
(i) Names of female beings:
e.g. akingok – bitch
- akinei ----— she-goat
- apese ----— girl
- Akokor ----—hen
(ii) Names of languages and countries:
e.g. Ateso ----— the Teso language
- Amusugun ----— the English language
- Alulatin ----— the Latin Language
- Amugana ----—The Ganda language (or Ganda women)
(iii) Names of indigenous liquids:
e.g. ajon ----—local cereal brew
(iv) Abstract nouns:-
e.g. ajokus----—goodness (*also ajokis, ajokisu are used depending on the area)
- amina ----- love
- aojau ----—height
- alalau ----—width
- ajijim ----—tastiness
- apianis ----—tastelessness
- anyunyura ----—anger
(v) Verbs used as nouns:
- e.g. alosit ----- going
- abunere ----- coming
- aisiom ----- reading
- aisom ----- jumping
The neuter nouns are:
(i) Names of neuter or generic objects:
e.g. ituŋanan ----- person (sex unknown)
- irotin ----- roads/ways
(ii) Names of diminutive objects:
e.g. ikiŋok ----- puppy
- ipese ----- baby girl
- Imoru ----- pebble
- imiot ----- chick
- imukeru ----- baby
(i) To form the plural the ending of the noun is changed. This change may consist of the omission of the last syllable, the addition of another syllable or syllables, or the alteration of the last syllable or syllables:
Plural formation example omission: amukat (shoe) -amuk (shoes); atipet (bead) – atipe (beads); addition: akan (hand) – akanin (hands); akwap (country)- akwapin (countries) alteration: apese (girl) – apesur (girls); ekek (door)- ikekia (doors);
(ii) In the case of masculine nouns the noun prefix also changes as shown in the table on noun prefix above.
(iii) These changes in the endings of nouns are so irregular that it is not worth while trying to formulate rules for the formation of plurals.
(iv) Certain nouns, however, which are derived from verbs, form their plurals according to rules;
(a) Nouns denoting an agent of action (a person who does the action of the verb) form a singular ending in -an or -on and a plural ending in -ak or -ok:
e.g. ekamejan – hunter ; ikamejak – hunters; ekecokon – herdsman; ikecokok – herdsmen;
- ekadukon -a builder; ikadukok -builders; ekatubon – judge; ikatubok -judges.
(b) Nouns denoting something which does or, is done, form a singular ending in -et or -etait and a plural ending in -eta:
e.g. elacet – (a thing which loosens) key; ilaceta – keys; arapetait – cover arapeta -covers;
(v) Some nouns have no singular and exist only in the plural:
e.g. akipi—-water; ajony – local brew; asinge – sand; ajo – sleep; ileic – shame
Other nouns have no plural and exist only in the singular;
e.g. ekuron – ashes; akoloŋ—sun; adam – brain; eduan – weeds
(vi) Abstract nouns and names of diseases, as in English, have no plural.
e.g. aiyalama -happiness; amin -love.
(vii) Some nouns form their plural from other roots:
e.g. aberu – woman, aŋor -women; ikoku -child, iduwe – children.
(viii) Some nouns, in addition to the normal plural, form a generic plural by adding -sinei to the plural form:
e.g. etuŋanan - man, ituŋa - men; ituŋasinei - mankind
- akwap - country, akwapin - countries, akwapisinei - the world (n dropped for euphony).
There is no definite or indefinite article in Teso. Aberu means "a woman" or "the woman" according to the context.
Adverbs clarify the action of a verb.Interrogative adverbs usually follow the verb they qualify.
- e.g. Elosit nesi ai? where did he go?
But if the interrogative adverb is strengthened by the particle BO, the adverb must precede the verb
- e.g. aibo ejaas itelepai ? (Where are the boys?) =ejaas itelepai ai? , but all the other adverbs follow the verb.
Adverbs of place
nen =there (not far off)
- e.g. aibo ejai eka'kalaamu? Where is my pencil?; Ejai nen = it's there.
Ngina = over there (at a distance)
- e.g. Aibo ejai toto? Where is mom; Ejai ngina = (she's) over there.
Lailo, laije =this way, that way.
- e.g. Kobia lailo, mam ilosi ngina =come this way, don't go there; Kobongo laije, mam ibuni lailo = Go back there, don't come this way.
Juwai/Juwayi = at the back of / that way/that side (usually behind something)
- e.g. Elosit papa juwai =Dad has gone to the other side / Dad has gone to the rear
Ajesan = down there.
- e.g. Aeka je ajesan =He's gone down there
Nelwana/ne alwanan =far off
- e.g. Alot onac ameja nelwana = (my) brother has gone hunting in a far place
Eyapye/eyapiei/eyapie = near
- e.g.Eyapie ne elosit ngesi = he/she has gone nearby (to a near place)
- e.g. Ejai amunyu toma ocupa = the salt is inside the bottle;Eroko Yakobo ejai toma agoola ke = James is still inside his room
Kiding =in the middle/between
- e.g. Ejai eyapesi ka kiding na eiduka kede ekanisa = my office is between the shop and the church;Ibirokina ekitoi kiding na erot = the tree has fallen in the middle of the road
Kau = behind
Ngaren (na) = in front (of)
- e.g. Ngaren na ataker = In front of the boat
Osiep = near/on the side of/beside
- e.g. Ikunyu ber ijo osiep ka = Please come near me (move closer)
Diye = very close
- e.g. Anu inyo ilosia ijo diye do abongun kede akan? = Why did you go nearby and return empty-handed?
teten = (to the) right
- e.g. Ibelokin teten = turn to the right
Kediany = left
- e.g. Ejaasi kesi kediany = They're on the left (hand side)
Kide = East
Too = West
Nyakoi = North
Agolitomei / Ongalakimak = South
Ateso numerals are from ones place to hundredth place. Numerals upwards from one thousand are borrowed from other languages.
(i) Numbers from one to five are the basis of the whole numerical system in Ateso. Six (6) is literally translated as 5+1 (five and one), 7 as 5+2 (five and two), etc. In the same way 16 is 10+5+1, 17 is 10+5+2, 21 is 20+1, 26 is also 20+5+1, etc.
(ii) Numerals agree in gender with the noun they define:
e.g. itelepai iuni three boys, ikekia iuni three doors, imeesan iuni three tables
- apesur auni three girls, aturo auni three flowers, iduwe iuni three children
(iii) Numerals always follow the noun. ediope (one) can however, precede, in which case the noun prefix is dropped.
e.g. edioperot (or erot ediope) one road/way; adiopeberu one woman;
- angor auni three women, irotin iuni three roads/ways
|2||iyarei||aarei||as in masculine|
|16||itomon akany'kape||atomon akany'kape||"|
|17||itomon akany'kaare||atomon akany'kaare||"|
|18||itomon akanyauni||atomon akanyauni||"|
|19||itomon akany aoŋon||atomon akany aoŋon||"|
|20||akais aare||as in masculine||"|
|21||akais aarei kanudiope||"||"|
|60||akais akany kapei||"||"|
|101||akwatat kanu diope||"||"|
Ordinal numbers are formed from cardinal numbers by prefixing the relative forms lok- (m), nak- (f), yenik-(n) as appropriate, to the masculine form of the numeral and by adding -et after the numeral.
e.g. akany five, nakikanyet fifth (feminine singular)
- iuni three, lokiuniet third (masculine singular)
- iyarei two, yenikiyareit second (neuter singular)
|6th||loikanyet ape||naikanyet ape||yenikanyet ape|
Thus, nakikanyet is pronounced naikanyet, etc.
Ateso has taken a number of loanwords, primarily from English and Swahili languages.
Words marked with an asterisk (*) indicates that the last letter in the Ateso word is silent.
|Fax Machine||Afakis Mashin|
|Record Player||Arekod puleya|
|CD Player||Asidi puleya|
|DVD player||Adividi puleya|
++The Ateso word for a telephone that most Ateso speakers are familiar with is the word "Esimu" which comes from Luganda.
- Ateso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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- An Introduction to the Ateso Language, 1956, Fr – Hilders, J. H.; Lawrence, J. C. D.
- The Bantu languages, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, (Routledge Language Family Series, 4), pp 214
- A Guide to the Standardised Orthography of Atɛsɔ. Kampala: Atɛsɔ Local Language Board. 2014.
- Barasa, David (2017). Ateso Grammar: A Descriptive Account of an Eastern Nilotic Language. University of Cape Town.
- Report of the Ateso Orthography Committee., Uganda, Ateso Orthography Committee, 1947, Printed by the Govt. Printer
- Carol Myers Scotton (University of Nairobi), John Okeju (Manjast High School (Uganada) (1972). "Loan word integration in Ateso". Anthropological Linguistics. 14 (9): 368–382. JSTOR 30029119.
- Barasa, David. 2022. "Pronouns and Pronominal Alignment in Ateso." Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics, 4(1): 100-114.
- Loyola, Apuda Ignatius (2007). English-Ateso Pocket Dictionary Strategic Outcomes Inc., 274 pp. ISBN 9970-840-03-7. | <urn:uuid:730dcf92-7d2d-4996-a4f0-91adee6c122e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateso_language | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.770702 | 7,194 | 3.15625 | 3 |
weather, climate and best time to visit
Best time to visit Shīsindur
The best time to visit Shīsindur in Afghanistan is from May through September. In this period you have a pleasant temperature and little precipitation. The highest average temperature in Shīsindur is 25°C in July and the lowest is 1°C in January.
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Shīsindur has a continental climate. In the summer it is warm and dry, and in the winter it is cold and wet. The average annual temperature for Shīsindur is 13° degrees and there is about 318 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 217 days a year with an average humidity of 49% and an UV-index of 3.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Shīsindur?
Shīsindur is located in Afghanistan. It lies in a straight line 1,155 km from New Delhi.
The coordinates of Shīsindur are:
- Latitude: 37.458698
- Longitude: 70.721381
The GPS coordinates are 37° 27' N, 70° 43' E
How long is the flight to Shīsindur?
The flight time from Indira Gandhi to Shīsindur is approximately 2 hours.
What are the nearest airports to Shīsindur?
These are the airports closests to Shīsindur:
- Kulob Airport (100 km)
- Qurghonteppa International Airport (170 km)
- Chitral Airport (200 km) in Chitrāl
How big is Shīsindur?
The surface area of Shīsindur is 30 km².
What is the currency of Shīsindur?
In Shīsindur, the Afghan afghani (AFN) is used for payment.
Exchange rates on 18 August 2022
- 1 Indian rupee = 1.03 Afghan afghani
- 1 Afghan afghani = 0.97 Indian rupee
- 100 Indian rupee = 103.48 Afghan afghani
- 100 Afghan afghani = 96.64 Indian rupee
What is the area code of Shīsindur?
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It is really prohibited in a lot of nations for personal Detectives to also use any kind of kind of attire, bring badges and also have any type of kind of ammo such as pistols. Exclusive detectives do not also have any type of unique legal rights past those of a daily resident to make apprehensions also with sufficient proof versus the people they are examining.
Whilst regulations are naturally nation certain, below for image are some instances of several of the regulations in America (Florida) with pertains to private detectives:
In contrast to what the majority of individuals believe, exclusive detectives do not have any kind of cops powers. It is really unlawful in many nations for exclusive Detectives Investment Fraud Investigations to also use any kind of kind of attire, lug badges as well as also have any kind of kind of ammo such as hand guns. Personal detectives do not also have any type of unique legal rights past those of a day-to-day resident to make apprehensions also with sufficient proof versus the people they are exploring.
In numerous nations there are regulations detectives should follow by throughout their job as well as they can deal with a court look if they breach these legislations. Theirs is to validate uncertainty or locate out the fact behind an offered situation via ways that do not finish up going against the regulations managing them.
Despite the fact that private detectives do not have any type of cops powers, they ought to constantly utilize their very own lawful methods of acquiring the details they require on offered situations. You can take pleasure in some tranquility with the assistance of specialist detectives.
There is constantly an effort to locate the ideal work-life equilibrium, particularly if a lady has a family members as well as youngsters. There are the lengthy hrs as well as needing to discuss to kids in the very best method feasible the requirement for a camouflage or a covert procedure (without providing way too much away).
“Accredited private detectives as well as private detective trainees ought to be specifically mindful that making use of any type of badge throughout investigatory task develops a really solid tip of acting of a police officer, an act that would certainly make up transgression during managed tasks”.
The area of exclusive examination has actually commonly been understood to be a “male’s globe”. If we were to ask what photo comes to mind when you listen to the word ‘investigative’ or ‘private investigator’, you would possibly claim that you envision a high good-looking male. In situation you are an Agatha Christie follower, as well as can not obtain sufficient of the Belgian investigator with an international accent, you would possibly claim Hercule Poirot.
Many thanks to the truth that ladies are relocating in the direction of getting on the same level with males in every area today, the variety of females in the area of exclusive examination has actually additionally seen a surge. A great deal of ladies over the previous number of years have actually picked to get involved in this area as well as the obstacles they encounter are no various than they would certainly in any type of various other career.
From being housewives to flying room shuttle bus, ladies have actually essentially done it all, as well as yet when it comes to the area of personal examination ladies have actually generally remained away. Also when we stand in the 21st century, there is still a whole lot of bias versus a lady that selects to be a PI.
Personal examinations can truly come in convenient in situations such as discovering shed individuals, believed marriage events, examining prospective organization companions and also financial investments, youngster safekeeping fights as well as keeping an eye on unfamiliar people employed to do particular obligations. The examinations can take various periods of time depending on exactly how intricate the situations are as well as the quantity of input required.
These women have actually been influenced to go into the globe of personal examination. And also yet there are females in the area of personal examination for whom the last word is stability.
In spite of the lots of success of women exclusive detectives, this is an area that proceeds to be controlled by guys. Females from different histories are picking to take up personal examination as an occupation.
“Private detectives are not police officers as well as are not provided any kind of cops powers pertaining to apprehension or use pressure”.
Instances count mainly on monitoring and also human knowledge – this entails speaking with a number of witnesses or individuals to obtain to the base of the concern at hand. The examinations will certainly go deeper in even more complicated instances such as those calling for documents of proof to be offered in a court of regulation. One of the most usual examination equipment you will certainly discover will certainly consist of cams, camera in addition to spy gizmos as well as various other things like field glasses that make it less complicated for them to watch on the people they are checking out.
Exclusive examination is not a routine work, so to claim, and also the day-to-day stress while working with a complicated situation are much more requiring than several occupations. Females in the area of exclusive examination consequently would certainly not wind up as a football mama, however she would certainly have her success to promote herself when her children do mature to comprehend her career.
Would certainly you from another location consider Nancy Drew or perhaps Miss Marple for that issue? Which’s simply fiction! What we are attempting to access is that the area of PI job has actually constantly been recognized to be a “young boy’s club” which brings us to the numerous obstacles that females deal with in the area.
Representatives depend on a range of sources to do the job. These can consist of court documents, public documents, monitoring, federal government databases, investigatory data sources and also human knowledge to obtain the info they require on the individuals of rate of interest in an offered situation. Nowadays the net offers a much bigger system to do the job in regards to sources.
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Once again, Google is the favorite bogeyman responsible for the rapid deterioration in the health of the news industry. This time it is Nick Carr doing the finger-pointing, describing Google as the most powerful middleman in news:
When a middleman controls a market, the supplier has no real choice but to work with the middleman – even if the middleman makes it impossible for the supplier to make money.
So how powerful is Google when it comes to parceling out traffic to news sites? If you are talking about Google News, the answer is that it is not quite as powerful as you might think. In the U.S., Google News is overshadowed by both Yahoo News and even the sites controlled by the New York Times (which includes NYTimes.com, Boston.com, HeraldTribune.com, and several other newspaper sites). According to comScore, Google News attracted 16.2 million unique visitors in the U.S. in February, compared to 42.3 million for Yahoo News and 46.2 million for the sites operated by New York Times Digital.
So Google News is not the middleman here. Let’s just put that notion to rest. Yahoo News is three times as large, and Yahoo sends even more traffic to newspaper sites from other parts of Yahoo through its online newspaper consortium.
The bigger question is whether Google as a search engine is controlling access to news sites. That really seems to be Carr’s main concern, although it is not clear because he uses a Google News search as his main example. Nevertheless, Google’s main search engine is certainly a major source of traffic to information sites of all stripes. At TechCrunch, for instance, it is the single largest source of traffic, accounting for about a third of the total. I have no idea whether this is representative of other news sites, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Google search is a very important middleman indeed.
Does that make Google like Wal-Mart, as Carr suggests, a middleman of such might that it squeezes everybody else’s margins? Does that give it “monopoly control over content distribution,” as Scott Karp tries to argue? Not exactly. Information economics work slightly differently than retail economics. Let me stick with the TechCrunch example. One third is a lot, but it is not a monopoly. Google sends us all of that traffic because many of our posts rank highly for the topics they cover. We don’t pay them for that traffic. We are not buying keywords.
Yes, Google makes money from other ads shown besides any searches where TechCrunch posts shows up as results. But the money Google makes from those ads does not detract from our revenues. Quite the opposite. Those searches send a considerable amount of traffic to our site, where we have our own ads. The more people who see those ads, the more we can charge for them. It’s all good.
Google does not control the news, it exposes it.
The retail/distributor analogy is all wrong. Information is not the same as a flat-screen TV or a blender. It does not become less valuable the more available it is because all news is not the same. Information dissemination is not a zero-sum game. Carr and Karp would have you believe otherwise. Karp writes:
The more content there is on the web, the less money every content creator makes, and the more money Google makes by taking a piece of that transaction.
Again, that is not how it works. Google doesn’t force suppliers of information to charge less for it as Wal-Mart does with suppliers of packaged goods. The money Google makes from its search ads is not necessarily money that would have otherwise gone to a “news” or content site. If Google didn’t exist, those ad dollars might have gone to an e-commerce site or a travel site or a real estate site or any number of other places. News sites have no claim to those search advertising dollars. It is incumbent upon each of us to attract an audience by having something original or interesting to say. When news sites do that, other sites link to them, and then they rank more highly in Google search results, which sends new readers their way.
And then once those readers do find a news source they trust, you know what? Some of them actually keep coming back on their own volition without Google telling them what to do. That is called direct traffic. Or they come through other sites. Google isn’t the only one who benefits from all those links. If you want to be known as an authoritative source of news, it is no longer good enough to simply proclaim yourself to be one. | <urn:uuid:a1d145db-7c5e-4e5d-b091-da05145681c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/11/does-google-really-control-the-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953701 | 974 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The description below was taken from the R01 version of this FOA. Also, note specific interests of Institutes/Centers.
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to stimulate basic research to develop next-generation human cell-derived microphysiological systems (MPS) with improved fidelity to complex human brain, spinal, peripheral nervous system and/or sensory end organ circuit physiology in vivo, which will ultimately facilitate analysis of higher order functional deficits relevant to complex nervous system disorders. This FOA is distinct from those focusing on optimization and scalability of assays for compound screening, although projects could in principle have utility for late stage evaluation of drug efficacy and toxicity. These MPS will have a multi-lineage, complex architecture representing the normal characteristics and functions of the relevant nervous system structure (e.g., sensory input systems, brain or spinal integrative systems, motor output systems) and will substantially exceed the state of the art in cellular maturation and integration, allowing reproducible measurement of circuit-level activity under physiological conditions over a long culture period.
The applications should define the current state of MPS technology as a benchmark against which the new MPS assay(s) will be developed and measured. Example approaches include, but are not limited to:
- Utilization of novel materials, substrates or synthesis technologies (e.g., 3D printing, bioreactors, microfluidic platforms) to promote physiologically relevant tissue organization and/or maturation.
- Integration of cell types consistent with physiologically relevant nervous system anatomy (e.g., excitatory, inhibitory & modulatory neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, pericytes, endothelial cells) into functional units that may include multipartite synapses, vascularization-perfusion, blood-brain barrier, glymphatic system and/or cerebrospinal fluid flow.
- Novel strategies to reproduce physiologically relevant regional cellular organization (e.g., dorsoventral, rostrocaudal, laminar, columnar or nuclei structure), with both short- and long-range anatomical connectivity (e.g., local inhibitory-excitatory and/or modulatory connections, projections to distant lamina or nuclei).
- Novel strategies to promote maturation of metabolic, signaling or synaptic activity in MPS.
- Development of MPS with complex functional features potentially relevant to complex nervous system disorders (e.g., intrinsic and emergent network properties of cell assemblies, neural oscillatory activity, activity-dependent plasticity).
- Inclusion of conditional or intersectional strategies that allow temporally and/or spatially cell-selective monitoring or manipulation of gene expression/function or of live cell activity and function.
- Inclusion of innovative approaches to distinguish or deconvolute heterogeneous cell phenotypes from these model systems (e.g., multi-parameter single cell analysis), including those that are minimally perturbing.
- Evaluation of how data obtained from MPS compares with human anatomical, histological or systems-level data, or data from other physiologically relevant paradigms, to facilitate MPS validation. Investigators are encouraged to explore the tools being developed under the NIH BRAIN Initiative, which if utilized, could further the development of human brain cell-derived MPS.
Examples of applications that do not fit the research objectives for this announcement include:
- Developing tissues for transplantation.
- Developing MPS from non-human tissues.
- Utilization of simple 3D systems that do not significantly advance the state of the art to address disease-relevant questions.
- A central focus on scaling assays or adapting for use in compound screening.
Deadlines: Standard dates and standard AIDS dates apply
- R01 – http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-398.html
- R21 – http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-397.html
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We all want to get every last one of our hard-earned dimes back from the IRS. Fortunately, working with TaxAct® means you don’t need a master’s degree in accounting to put the figures in your favor. Knowing how deductions and tax credits affect your situation puts you in a position to file confidently, and when it comes to taxes, confidence is key.
Tax Deductions Vs Credit
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The difference between a credit and a deduction is commonly misunderstood. Many people use the terms interchangeably. Here’s what you need to know:
Deductions decrease your taxable income.
Your taxable income is the portion of your annual income that’s subject to federal and state taxes. Deductions help decrease that amount, making less of your income taxable. This reduces the amount of taxes you owe.
How a deduction affects your income varies based on the amount of the deduction and your tax bracket.
Let’s break that down:
- If your household happens to fall into the 24% tax bracket for 2020, a $1,000 deduction will net you a $240 reduction in your taxes owed.
- If you file single and earned between $39,476 and $84,200 for 2019 — putting you into the 22% bracket— then a $100 deduction would result in a savings of $22. (Psst… Those old clothes you’ll never wear again? Yep, that donation is a deduction.)
Tax Credits reduce your tax bill dollar for dollar.
Some of the more commonly claimed credits include:
- The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit – While this particular credit does depend on your household income, many filers save up to $2,100 every year just for childcare-related expenses. If you’ve got even one child in daycare, you know just how much a credit like this can help ease the burden of that massive weekly bill.
- The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – The EITC was originally established in 1975 to benefit working taxpayers, particularly those in the blue-collar sector. Today, individuals filing single or as head of household are eligible to receive a credit of up to $6,660. The credit amount depends on their income and the number of children they support.
It’s important to note that the tax credits above are specifically designed to help lower- and middle-income households prosper and save. If you don’t happen to know your tax bracket, we’ve got you covered.
The bottom line: We’re on your side.
Whether you’re a parent working your way through college, an entrepreneurial go-getter with your own business, or a nine-to-fiver climbing the corporate ladder — we’re here for you. TaxAct is designed to make the world of taxes more accessible and easier to understand, so you can file with confidence and keep more of your hard-earned money. | <urn:uuid:c06d0819-160d-49eb-87d3-a59bad57f72c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.taxact.com/deductions-vs-credits-how-do-they-affect-my-refund/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948607 | 623 | 2.34375 | 2 |
You will eat the fruit of your labour; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, You will be happy and it will be well with you.
You will enjoy the fruit of your labor. How happy you will be! How rich your life!
You worked hard and deserve all you've got coming. Enjoy the blessing! Revel in the goodness!
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.
When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
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1 tn The psalmist addresses the representative God-fearing man, as indicated by the references to “your wife” (v. 3) and “the man” (v. 4), as well as the second masculine singular pronominal and verbal forms in vv. 2-6.
2 tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”
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The INCREDIBLE project comes to an end. Time flies, but our three years and a half were eventful and we successfully managed to address some of the gaps in the value chains of Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) in the Mediterranean by connecting their actors to existing research results, best practices, innovations, and start-ups.
INCREDIBLE project created five innovation networks around five NWFPs with more than 2,000 participants, designed five roadmaps, organised 15 interregional workshops, 45 science to practice events, three cross-cutting seminars, created the Knowledge repository for Non-Wood Forest Products with 257 fact sheets under 12 themes and 80 FAQs, organised an open innovation challenge which awarded 5 NWFP start-ups with a two-week acceleration service, drew up the Alghero manifesto and a white paper on policy recommendations for NWFPs, organised a policy forum with more than 35 high-level speakers and attended by more than 100 participants, published more than 200 online news, and much more.
INCREDIBLE has left behind lasting resources, worth sharing with the whole of the NWFPs community:
Additionally, all public deliverables and reports are available in the Incredible Networks community on Zenedo (https://zenodo.org/communities/incrediblenetworks/). All of the are fully open access.
Hundreds of NWFPs stakeholders like you made the INCREDIBLE project a success. We hope to have created a sense of community. We would like to maintain it in the long term by providing you with space where you can continue to exchange your knowledge and innovations. The INCREDIBLE project partners believe that we have found the right social network for this purpose, aimed at professionals in the forestry and agricultural sectors, and developed with the support of the European Commission.
Unfortunately, this network is not yet online. As soon as it is available and we have found the best way to dynamise the existing INCREDIBLE innovation networks through it, we will invite you to join us to continue to interact online (and, if the opportunity arises, also in person) with practitioners and researchers sharing the same interest in NWFPs!
Besides, the INCREDIBLE Forest Newsletter replaces the INCREDIBLE Project Newsletter and the INCREDIBLE Project Events Bulletin. Through this publication, former partners of the INCREDIBLE project will promote events and initiatives on NWFPs.
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Here is a great way to celebrate the festive season with your work colleagues or friends? How about an Ethical High Tea!
Human Rights Day is on 10th December. And what a great way to party with a purpose! Because 100% of the profits from your high tea will help people who have experienced modern slavery in Australia.
High Tea Experience
Enjoy a set selection of finger sandwiches, sweet treats and of course the mandatory scones with jam and clotted cream. Our specialty coffee and boutique teas are included. Vegan options also included.
You will receive a beautiful information booklet to take home on Human Rights Day, the issue of Modern Slavery, and the work of the Freedom Hub Survivor School.
To add to your sitting, (if you would like), someone from the Freedom Hub will give you a short presentation on the work we do fighting slavery in Australia and take questions. (or we can just let you enjoy your indulgences uninterrupted!)
For those wanting to add some bubbles or wine to their experience, our ethically sourced bubbles & wines will be on sale by the glass or bottle on the day.
Vegan / Gluten and dietary options are available when booking.
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This legislation contains important permitting and Judicial review provisions for tribes and Alaska Native Corporations that work to eliminate attacks by outside special interest groups. Overall, this bill is based on the principle that Native communities, not the federal government or special interests, are the best stewards of Native lands.
by Marjorie Haun
Since at least 2015, the Native American Energy Act (HR 210) has been hampered by congressional inaction, largely due to a veto threat from Obama. But on October 4, with that threat no longer looming, the bill was approved by the Committee on Natural Resources, and appears to have significant support in the House of Representatives. Introduced by Alaska Representative, Don Young, the bill is crafted to give Native American tribes relief from federal over-regulation which has prevented the development of energy, from biomass to fossil fuels, on their own lands.
In the markup memorandum of the Native American Energy Act, some background is given about why this act is so necessary and so timely. It states:
Tribes and individual Indian landowners regularly encounter obstacles not encountered on leases of private and state lands. In general, federal law requires the approval of the Interior Department before a lease entered into by a tribe with an energy developer is valid. For example, Under the Indian Land Mineral Leasing Act of 1982, a tribe or individual Indian may only lease their trust lands for mineral development “subject to the approval of the Secretary.” Pursuant to this authority, the Department developed sprawling rules for the approval of leases of Indian lands. The rules often trigger National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) reviews, lengthy appraisals, expensive applications for permits to drill, and numerous other layers of dilatory bureaucratic review often involving multiple agencies. Each layer of review gives a federal or private special interest an opportunity to meddle, interfere, delay, appeal, or sue to slow or stop permitting of development on Indian lands.
The current federal regulatory scheme obstructs historically impoverished tribes from fully realizing the huge economic potential of developing their natural resources. Because tribes with large energy resources tend to be located in rural areas, development of these resources offers one of the few non-government means available for them to create jobs and a revenue stream to meet member demands for tribal services or activities, investment in the local community, and new energy supply to meet consumer demand.
It’s clear that alleviating persistent tribal poverty is one aim of the Act, and it opens the door to private sector, free-market solutions to the joblessness and government dependence common to many Indian reservations. Representative Young, apparently inspired by Native American-owned corporations in Alaska which have been impeded by green lawsuits and onerous federal regulations, summarized the bill this way:
“The Native American Energy Act is critically important to Alaska Natives and American Indians because it levels the playing field for responsible resource development, an essential step towards self-determination. The bill contains a number of policy improvements to reduce the hurdles and obstacles for energy and resource development imposed by the federal government, while empowering Native communities to better manage and develop their lands. This legislation contains important permitting and Judicial review provisions for tribes and Alaska Native Corporations that work to eliminate attacks by outside special interest groups. Overall, this bill is based on the principle that Native communities, not the federal government or special interests, are the best stewards of Native lands. I’m encouraged by the strong support my legislation has received from tribes and Native organizations throughout the country and thank Chairman Bishop for making this issue a top priority.”
The reforms listed in the Native American Energy Act include:
•Appraisal reforms giving tribes more options, and streamlining in transactions involving Indian land or trust assets belonging to a tribe.
•Standardizing oversight, review, and approval processes across all Department of Interior, and other federal agencies, involved in tribal applications for oil and gas activities.
•Limiting Environmental Review commentary related to energy development activities only to authorized tribal bodies, tribal members, local governments, and others living within the affected area, minimizing the influence from outside special interest groups.
•Setting a 60 day time limit for complaints to be filed during a period of judicial review. Setting a 180 day time limit for District Court actions.
•Creating a ‘loser pays’ system for court actions in which a (special interest) plaintiff brings a lawsuit for an energy-related action, wherein the losing plaintiff will have to defendants’ legal fees.
•Allowing for Indian tribes’ biomass projects (biofuel, heating fuel, electricity generation) on Indian lands and in nearby communities, using biomass obtained from Federal land.
•Tribal management of forests, wherein tribes may contract perform administrative, management, and other functions of the Tribal Forest Protection Act (2004).
•Giving the federal definition of ‘sustainable management practice’ to resources harvested pursuant to a Tribal Management Plan.
•Increasing Navajo Nation leasing rights on restricted lands from ’25’ years to ’99’ years by amending the ‘Long-term Leasing Act.’
Rob Bishop (UT), Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee cited ‘the federal government’s culture of paternalism‘ as a key factor limiting Native American’s ability to develop energy resources on tribal lands. Although the Native American Energy Act is in the early phases of its journey through congress, if it survives the trip, there exists little threat of a veto from President Trump, whose central mission for federal land management is development of domestic energy resources.
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Frontiers in Water and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation advance the evidence, science, and policies of climate resilience in a new collaboration.
While the pace of climate change is accelerating, our ability to develop effective, evidence-based approaches to resilience have not kept pace. Indeed, in March 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had one key recommendation for global efforts to advance resilience: implement “water-based adaptation.”
In response to such insights, the journal Frontiers in Water and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), an international members-based NGO working on climate-resilient water policy and practice, announce a new collaborative partnership to amplify these messages.
AGWA’s Executive Director, John Matthews, said:
“The research and practitioner communities need to align rapidly to communicate the evidence and pathways that show how to turn water-based adaptation into a reality — defining this practice for our communities, institutions, systems, and ecosystems.”
The multi-year collaboration intends to call for and cultivate a water-centric interdisciplinary dialogue, which will span the physical and social sciences, from engineering and ecology to economics and governance.
Bringing together the sterling reputation and academic rigor of the Frontiers publications with the robust network of AGWA’s 2100+ professional members provides a distinct opportunity to create innovative and thought-provoking research in the areas of water resilience and climate change policy, practice, and learning. With Frontiers’ open access publishing, the collection of research to come out of this collaboration is well positioned to result in equitable access for researchers, practitioners, and decision makers at a global scale.
Praveen Kumar, Field Chief Editor, Frontiers in Water, said:
“The practitioner community is at the forefront of climate-adaptation actions and Frontiers in Water is determined to provide such a community with a formal, peer-reviewed platform to share insights from the ground and enable a fruitful dialogue between academia and industry. The only way we can successfully address the current climate emergency is by putting our heads together and building on each other’s knowledge.”
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It is the matter of April 2009, when FDA announced that Coast IRB has voluntarily halted some of the clinical operations with the resultants of serious concerns about the ability of the company for protecting the subjects participating in the trials related to clinical aspects. The company’s records suggest that there were about three hundred active studies conducted by investigators for checking out the researches.
Coast IRB made agreement to terminate the review of FDA regulated studies. It focused on direct clinical investigators for on-going studies being approved by Coast IRB for keeping a check on the enrollment in new subject. There was warning letter issued to Coast IRB by FDA with the concerns related to quality check and it also made a decision for actively monitoring the company by undertaking necessary actions by their own. These restrictions were bound to get effected till the time Coast IRB would have been taken the corrective actions bringing the regulations on the right track.
FDA regulated products were required to get reviewed properly to get approval from IRB. The main constituents of IRB were a panel of doctors, researchers, scientists and experts to protect the welfare and rights of the people. US GAO submitted the Coast IRB for reviewing the fiction based research. FDA concerns were about the ability of Coast IRB to give the right report, but it was a fiction based approach. There were absolutely no human subjects involved and it was a negative aspect for the rights and welfare of human research subjects.
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This year, the Wolfville Library is happy to be one of the libraries our Writer-in-Residence Mark Oakley is most often stationed. As well as doing workshops in different branches, the Writer-in-Residence program is mostly designed for him to do his work and the rest of us to watch, ask questions, and consult him on works of our own creation.
One doesn’t often get to see the creative process in action. But this is exactly what happens with Mark Oakley: he comes in, sets up his easel and computer, and starts to make something out of nothing. First there are just faint boxes on the page, in pencil; then the boxes start to fill in with heads, backgrounds, dialogue bubbles…also sometimes magic and physical humour. At some point the fine point black felt-tipped marker comes out—but not necessarily in any discernible order, as some of the boxes on his page remain blank at this point and others are at various stages of completion. Mark goes over the lines, giving the drawing a final flourish, its definitive form.
It’s amazing to see the buzz of energy that gathers around him as people stop to watch what he is doing or ask him questions. Mark, ever gregarious, discusses his work or answers people’s questions, whether about his own work or something they have drawn. People of all ages enjoy checking out his work station and he is more than happy to discuss technique, materials, and inspiration. - Brogan Anderson
For more information on our Writer in Residence program, click here.
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The Economist has a fascinating article about the weird way that pedestrians behave as they walk through cities and how this knowledge is being applied to make city-living easier and safer.
IMAGINE that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other’s way. Which way do you step?
The answer is almost certainly to the right. Replay the same scene in many parts of Asia, however, and you would probably move to the left. It is not obvious why. There is no instruction to head in a specific direction (South Korea, where there is a campaign to get people to walk on the right, is an exception). There is no simple correlation with the side of the road on which people drive: Londoners funnel to the right on pavements, for example.
Although seemingly a trivial difference, the impact could be quite significant when, for example, trying to design emergency exit routes for international sporting events when people from many cultures mix.
The article is full of curious culture observations about how people move in crowds and the science of how and why people select their peoplescape navigating strategies. | <urn:uuid:2e9ee4c8-94db-42f2-9392-56e4db1f5d82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mindhacks.com/2011/12/18/the-crowd-dynamics-of-the-city-safari/?replytocom=24545 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965893 | 254 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Hair care is often a basic term for health and cosmetology concerning the locks that expands using a person’s scalp, to some degree, and in some cases, even going to the face head of hair, pubic head of hair and various other no-scalp hair. In line with the bodily and national properties of a person’s your hair, along with the existing sociable and fiscal components, good hair care strategies differ. These days, there has been some remarkable improvement in hair care procedures, including transforming behaviours to hair care amongst specified teams of people. This article lightly looks at a couple of main reasons of hair care both in males and females, for both full cleanliness and for specific uses.
For hundreds of years, good hair care included the very careful application of purely natural chemical dyes, products and herbal oils to maintain colour and curl. In recent times, hair care products and solutions have improved to feature numerous various types of chemical type ingredients which can increase the health and repair of your hair, and also supply styling products for a variety of hair solutions. Now, hair care products may be found in a wide selection of smells, designs, and formula sorts, from robust shampoos and hair conditioners to gentle gels, sprays and skin lotions. Head of hair products producers are continually looking for methods to enhance the end user experience, helping to make their products and services far more convenient and delivering much more extensive success in comparison to the same item could formerly provide.
Hair care solutions intended for your house consist of conditioners, hair shampoos and gels which can be pre-milled and stuffed in totes, bins or planting pots. Locks nets, head of hair ties, hair brushes and provides are other items that are offered for the home. The most typical style of good hair care products for any property are definitely the hair shampoo and conditioner packets, which are located into a clothing basket or installed to dried up with a lines. Your hair goods applied in the home might be segregated into two classes: people who are for damp curly hair and those that are for dry up head of hair. There are actually independent shampoos, frizzy hair and conditioners nets that are designed to do the job along with each other well so that you can give the finest cleanse and drying effect.
Shampooing is often a essential portion of healthier hair attention. Most hair shampoos possess additives that can help to eliminate trash, fats and soil out of the frizzy hair, abandoning it cleanser and flaky. The ideal shampoo will possess ingredients which are matched for the locks and scalp. Most people work with a slight hair shampoo, containing only all-natural preservatives and minor chemicals. You may use a tougher shampoo or conditioner that may battle surplus oils and dirt and grime, along with activate the scalp to generate healthier hair.
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When you have extremely dry out or destroyed head of hair, you may want to limit your design time for you to at most half an hour. If you do have to model, be sure to only use style solutions that are meant for exceptionally dry up your hair or destroyed frizzy hair. By using design solutions on damaged locks can make the situation much worse, so please do not do that. Rather, consult with a professional who are able to advise the most effective merchandise for your personal particular head of hair variety.
After getting washed and conditioned hair, the next step as part of your hair care regular will be to exfoliate. Exfoliating will assist you to eliminate departed epidermis particles and tissues with your head that consider it downwards as well as prevent it from staying as healthier as it may be. You might also opt to make just one your own self at home, though your stylist is likely to advise an exfoliating hair shampoo or conditioner. There are lots of exfoliators available on the market manufactured specifically your variety of hair, so make sure to exploration those are ideal for you.
Clarifying Hair shampoo: Clarifying shampoos are ideal for cleaning all types of your hair, no matter its condition or high quality. Clarifying hair shampoo will do away with dust and surplus trash which get in the tresses. But this will not be necessary, some people suggest that you leave clarifying shampoo or conditioner in the locks to get a full day before washing it. You will need to take note that you can not use frequent shampoo to wash your hair after by using a clarifying shampoo or conditioner. Only clarifying shampoo can successfully purify and issue your own hair.
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While social networks are certainly helping to make the world a smaller, more communal place, it can still be hard to pinpoint where in the world your contacts are located.
Twitter 360, a new app for the iPhone 3GS, makes use of geotagging to help find where all those messages from around the globe come from. While not a fully fledged Twitter client, Twitter 360 can use you iPhone’s GPS and camera in tandem to direct a user to nearby Twitterers using on screen arrows and markers.
Geotagging of tweets has been done before (the Tweetie app springs to mind). However the augmented reality visuals are a nice touch, especially if they work as accurately as the above demo video suggests.
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- Designer: Andrew Looney
- Manufacturer: Looney Labs
- Year: 2006
- Playing time: 20 minutes
- Ages: 8 and up
- Players: 2 – 4
Last weekend, as we were on our way out the door to the fireworks, David said to grab a game to take with us, something to play while we waited on the sidewalk the hour or so before the explosions started. So, what game to bring? There were only four of us, set-up had to be easy, it had to be one David could carry in his pocket, and it couldn’t be something that would blow away, since it was an outdoor, pretty crowded area.
Treehouse was perfect. All the pieces come in a small tube. The game can take up a small area and wind is not an issues, unlike with cards. It consists of of plastic pyramids and a die. In the initial set up, one set of three pyramids is set up as the “House,” the black set in the picture above. The players each have a set of three pyramids that start off as a “tree,” shown by the other colors. A six-sided die gives each player the option to Aim, Hop, Tip, Swap or Dig each turn, trying to rearrange their initial “tree” of pyramids to match the three in the “House,” which is the goal for all players.
Sounds simple, I know, but it can really be a challenge. And just when you think you’re one step away, something in the “House” changes, and you feel like you’re starting all over again. Not only do you have to pay attention to your own set of pyramids and the “house,” you also have to make sure you know how your opponents’ are arranged. You don’t want to accidentally give them the win.
We actually have to tubes of pieces, so we can play with up to 9 people. It’s a fun, original game. I didn’t realize until the other day thought that there are other games designed to play with these pieces. Check out all the different game boards and accessories at Looney Labs. I think I need the Martian Coasters.
There’s even a book I need to find, The Empty City by Andrew Looney, which describes the fictional origins of the pyramid gaming system. Here’s the blurb:
Enter an offbeat city where dreams blur with reality, eccentric characters populate the diners and donut shops, and instead of chess, everyone plays an exotic game with pyramids. A city where Martian artists lurk among us, and time travel has been patented!
Treehouse is a good game to have on-hand. It’s great for a variety of ages, fun, quick and portable. Sometimes it’s just the perfect choice.
2006 Origins Awards Winner, Board Game of the Year
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Tired of playing can make children snore while sleeping. But if the child continues to snore during sleep, it can interfere with the process of growth and development, emotions and behavior of children, you know moms!
Sleep snoring can also interfere with the immune system of children, so that children are more susceptible to infectious diseases. In addition, if snoring is accompanied by a period of stopping breathing (apnea) will make the child experience excessive sleepiness or hypersomnia and is manifested as hyperactivity.
Researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have revealed that frequent and loud snoring in children can be an indication the child is facing problems such as hyperactivity, lack of concentration, or depression.
prevent snoring in children by providing sleeping pillows that can support his head and neck properly, so that his breathing circulation can run smoothly.
Give Luvina Toddler Pillow or Luvina Kids Pillow for your little one, because besides being made from natural latex, it is also anti-allergic and dust-counting
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|Year : 2021 | Volume
| Issue : 4 | Page : 230-235
To review the effect of tightened and loosened torque on two different implant–Abutment connection designs: A scanning electron microscope study
Jyoti Arneja1, Salil Pawah2, Amit Gupta2, Manisha2, Chetan Pathak2, Neha Jain2
1 Department of Prosthodontics, Crown, Bridge and Implantology, Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Faridabad, India
2 Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India
|Date of Submission||23-Dec-2020|
|Date of Acceptance||27-Mar-2021|
|Date of Web Publication||08-Oct-2021|
Department of Prosthodontics, Crown, Bridge and Implantology, Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Faridabad, Haryana
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Introduction: It is crucial to take care of stability between various implant parts for the general success rate of the reconstruction. Component fit, saliva contamination, machining accuracy, and screw preload influence the steadiness of implant–abutment connection. Loosening of abutment screws has been a well-known technical problem. Aim: The aim of this study was to gauge repeated tightening and loosening torque on two commercially available implant/abutment connection designs. Study Design: This was an in vitro study. Methodology: A total of 32 implant analogs samples using a metal die with, metal ring of 20mm x 20mm x 20mm in size and a hole in the center were prepared. For both the groups, the implant analog was axially threaded within bases. They were clasped at an edge parallel to the standard minimal bone position. A 35 N/cm torque was enforced, each implant and abutment connection in both the groups using toque ratchet. After 20 min, screws were loosened and detorque measurement was recorded up to ten times. Scanning electron microscope micrographs of selected screws also are presented. SPSS (21.0 version) was used for analyzing data. Results: The mean residual torque for Group 1 was − 51.45 and Group 2 was − 43.29. The RTq (%) was found to be significantly less (0.028*) among Group 2: conical connection as compared to Group 1: butt joint connection. Conclusion: The loosening torque was significantly less in conical connection as compared to butt joint connection.
Keywords: Internal hexagonal connection, implants, residual torque
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Arneja J, Pawah S, Gupta A, Manisha, Pathak C, Jain N. To review the effect of tightened and loosened torque on two different implant–Abutment connection designs: A scanning electron microscope study. Indian J Dent Sci 2021;13:230-5
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Arneja J, Pawah S, Gupta A, Manisha, Pathak C, Jain N. To review the effect of tightened and loosened torque on two different implant–Abutment connection designs: A scanning electron microscope study. Indian J Dent Sci [serial online] 2021 [cited 2022 Aug 19];13:230-5. Available from: http://www.ijds.in/text.asp?2021/13/4/230/327815
| Introduction|| |
For the previous couple of 100 years, replacement of absent teeth using implant analogs has been a part of implantology. Dr. P-I Brånemark alongside his coworkers discovered coincidentally that steady liking between living bone and titanium oxides which they named as osseointegration. This implied research leads into another era of rehabilitative dentistry.
Implants provide an alternative fixed rehabilitation of edentulous areas. Despite achieving great success with implant rehabilitation, failures are usually encountered, especially with single restorations. Technical complication occurs at the screw connection link between abutment and implant alongside screw joint loosening.
On tightening the screw joint, contact occurs between the implant and abutment. The tightness of screw connection is directly proportional to the contact point between the connecting surfaces, which ends up in escalating resistance of the screw to the extrinsic loads.
The connecting area is partially governed by the endurance within the parts when fitted. It has been discerned that the larger areas are correlated with minimum screw slackening.
Initially, the implant designs employed only the extrinsic connection linking implant body and therefore the support; intrinsic connection was introduced to this assembly so as to decrease screw loosening (SL). They provided an in-depth contact area and it also facilitated the restorative procedures.
Procurement of sound fit joining the parts of this assembly: implant also as abutment link provided stability and diminished micromovement at the joint.
Requisite for a biomechanical argument in reference to prosthetic redesign on the implants is very expertly accepted. It takes into contemplation the unit of implants to be placed, location of implant sites, alongside cantilever forces. Despite this, constituent unclasping and splintering carry on to be a matter of distress till date.
Stability between different parts the implant connection is crucial for its success. This is often highly important for single-tooth restorations, where accomplishing a strong interlink among the assembly is essential.
Numerous propositions are given for connecting the implant–abutment to the implant body. There is variation within the systems with reference to their geometrical design, quality of materials used, and therefore the overall screw mechanics. Aside from this, component fit, saliva contamination machining accuracy, and screw preload also affect the implant–abutment connection stability.
The in vitro research suggests that the intrinsic connections are mechanically sturdier as compared to extrinsic plane (hex-type) connections. They further state a technical problem of loosening of abutment screws, which occurs within the initial first 2 years after delivery of the crown, amid the “classic” extrinsic-hex implant connection.
Improvement inside the stoutness of the extraneous implant–abutment relationship was earned by amending the screw compound, screw surfaces aboard duplicating real force values so on produce lofty commencing preloads.
Degree of micromovement alongside the accuracy of fit among components and therefore the applied reinforcing torque influences mechanical stability on implant–abutment connection.
In tapered connection, the tightening torque elevates frictional interconnection and also sustaining implant–abutment prosthetic attachment. Hence, the higher the tightening torque, the more the achieved preload, hence the more stable the implant/abutment attachment. For accomplishment of implant aiding restorations, abutment screw joint steadiness and resultant implant–abutment attachment steadiness are important. Hence, the recommended constructor's strengthening torque might not always be same because of different clinical circumstances. Hence, it is necessary to contemplate that the steadiness of tapered joints could even be accomplished with a deescalating abutment strengthening torque than suggested by the constructor.,
The present research was conducted with an aim to gauge repeated tightening and loosening torque on two commercially available implant/abutment connection designs.
The torque loss after succeeding tightening-loosening cycles is a smaller amount in conical connection than the butt joint connection.
| Methodology|| |
The sample size was calculated using G Power software (version 3.0.10). Supported the calculated effect magnitude of 0.88, 5% marginal error, 95% confidence level, and 80% power of the research. The least possible sample size for the research is 16 in each group, a complete 32 samples.
In total, thirty-two implant analogs were prepared.
They were allotted to two groups, namely:
- Group 1: 16 internal hex butt joint connection
- Group 2: 16 internal hex conical connection.
A metal die was first fabricated for placement of implant analog within the center of the acrylic block. This metal die consisted of a platform for the location of metal ring which was 20 mm × 20 mm × 20 mm in size and contains a hole, which holds the implant analog within the center of this metal ring. For both the groups, implant analog was axially threaded within the bases. They were clasped at an edge parallel to the traditional marginal bone level. Autopolymerizing acrylic (powder and liquid) was blended as per the manufacturer's instructions, and this acrylic in flow consistency was poured into the ring, which was left undisturbed for complete setting. After it had been completely set, die was far away from it.
Initially, each corresponding abutment was hand linked to the implant analogs of both the groups with no torque applied. Prosthetic key was securely linked to the connecting screws. The torque measuring instrument was held in such an edge in order that prosthetic key was securely linked to the connecting screw. Using toque ratchet, a 35 N/cm torque (according to the manufacturer's instruction) was enforced to every implant and abutment assembly in both the groups. After 20 min, screws were loosened and detorque measurement was documented. This cycle of tightening and loosening was finished ten times to every implant analog/abutment assemblage. The prosthetic ratchet was simultaneously adjusted to the implant/abutment assembly. Along liberating torque measurements. The recording for both the groups was documented.
Data were normally distributed as tested using the SPSS (21.0 version, IBM Corp, Armonk, NY) Shapiro–Wilk W test (P value was quite 0.05). Descriptive data were reported for every sample. Therefore, research was conducted using parametric test “independent t-test” (for contrasting two independent groups). Extent of statistical importance was set at P value (>0.05). This in vitro research was done to measure loosening torque (RTq) of two sorts of implant/abutment connection design. Loosening torque of two types of implant/abutment linking design was calculated using the subsequent formula:
RTq (%) =100 (RTq10 − Rtq1)/Rtq1.
(Mean and standard deviations of residual torque [RTq] from initial torque [ITq] after repetition of initial torque application ten times): (RTq-1 to RTq-10).
The intial torque used was as recommended by the manufacturer: (ITq: 35 N).
More than one reading was recorded to attenuate the error.
| Results|| |
The mean residual torque for Group 1 was − 51.45 and Group 2 was − 43.29, as shown in [Graph 1]. The RTq (%) was found to be significantly less (0.028*) among Group 2: conical connection as compared to Group 1: butt joint connection [Table 1].
The loosening torque (RTq) is described because of the torque needed for loosening a screw. Manufacturer's recommended initial torque was used (ITq: 35 N) for both the groups [Graph 2].
Scanning electron microscope results
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrographs of selected screws are presented. As a rule, it alright could also be seen that even an exactly machined new screw was not profoundly smoothed. In any case, SEM micrographs after 5 I/R cycles demonstrated a smoother surface of the peaks and vanishing of the knobs of the roots. Conversely, after 15 cycles, a kind of desquamation of the shallow layer was seen in some incline regions. Surface investigation for screw head showed that the corner fringe of the hexed opening was bit by bit adjusted because the test additionally continued. SEM examination after stacking likewise showed more annihilation of the string surface. Furthermore, even on another screw, a couple of pieces that had potentially been confined from the past screw might be basically recognized [Figure 1],[Figure 2],[Figure 3],[Figure 4].
|Figure 1: Sem image before cycling tightening and loosening torque in butt joint connection|
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|Figure 2: Sem image after cycling tightening and loosening torque in butt joint connection|
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|Figure 3: Sem image before cycling tightening and loosening torque in conical joint connection|
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|Figure 4: Sem image after tightening and loosening torque in conical butt joint connection|
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| Discussion|| |
The last three decades across the world have seen overwhelming advancement in modern implantology. Rehabilitation with osseointegrated titanium implant has been the mainstay of treatment for partially or completely edentulous patients.
Initially, “osseointegration” was solely the standard considered for implant success. Eventually with increase demand of quality by the patients, implant dentistry focused on simplifying the tactic and decreasing the time of therapy. The implant dentistry focuses on simplifying the tactic and decreasing the time of therapy both for the patient and the implantologist. Dental implants have undergone various modifications and changes in their design so as to achieve functional as well as esthetic success.
The literature documents several studies which have explored and discussed: biological aspects in context to the surgical procedures, restorative principles that determine the result also as prognosis of the implant restorations, and the implant–abutment interface dynamics.,
Implant failures such as soft-tissue defect or biomechanical failures: loss of integrity and failures related to implant position have also been documented within the dental literature.,
These researches unanimously project toward the location where the implant body connects to the abutment and restoration, commonly referred to as implant–abutment connection interface as an important attribute to contemplate when choosing an implant system.
The right decisions taken while finalizing the implant–abutment assembly can improve esthetics and prognosis by structurally providing a secure joint. This prevents biological issues like peri-implantitis related to the treatment procedure. The steadiness of the implant–abutment connection both laterally and rotationally further governs the general prosthetic stability of the implant-supported restoration.
The implant–abutment joint plays a pivotal role in maintaining the biomechanical properties. The strength of this assembly indicates whether it can resist the occlusal load, whether the rigidity focuses toward diminishing the micromovements. Implant–abutment assembly is externally and internally supported their well-defined projection. When the distinct projection is extrinsic to the implant body, it is referred to as external, and when it is recessed into the implant body, it is referred to as internal.
This assembly is often characterized as slip-fit joint, where a minor space is there between both the mating parts and therefore the joint is passive, also referred to as friction-fit joint, where between the mating parts no space exists and therefore the parts are forced to hitch together. The connection space of the matching surfaces is determined as butt affiliation and it's 2 flat surfaces touching each other perpendicularly and surfaces angled either internally or outwardly. The surface connection can also include a spinning resistance, lateral balancing geometry, and an assortment feature. This geometry is of varied types such as conical, cylindrical, hexagonal, octagonal, and hexagonal.
When selecting associate implant system, 3 essential issues relate to first is the mechanics, second is biology and third is clinical utility t is evident that a close relationship exists between these factors.,
Conventionally, Brånemark's external polygonal shape was principally used, however their square measure complications associated with it, i.e., loosening of the screws of the abutment, rotational super misfit at the implant–abutment joint thanks to masticatory forces, and microorganism penetration have led to changes within the external hexagon, with the adventl of internal implant–abutment assembly.
Internal implant–abutment connections begin to beat the clinical complications related to external connections. The aim of this new design was to enhance connection stability everywhere the location and functional periods and to untangle the armamentarium necessary for the clinician to finish the restoration.,
Stability and reliability are important prerequisites for future success of implant in implant–abutment connection. The first factor for stability is attachment of the abutment to implant by a threaded system. Henceforth, for our study, implant system with internal hex joint was employed.
Very frequently six-point internal hexagonal connection is employed. This comprises a hexagon depressed into the implant body. The geometry is hexagonal internally, on to which the abutment fits at every 60° of rotation, but not at in-between angle. Contact area in between the implant–abutment connection is increased by internal hexagonal connections, which helps in load dissipation along with providing greater stability.
The screw joint stability is governed by three factors: first, the adequate amount of preload; second, the precision of the fit of the implant components; and finally, the antirotational feature of the implant–abutment interface. The right torque, when applied to the implant screw, gets translated into the preload, liable for holding the components together.
SL is extremely often encountered when doing implant placement. The fit of both the abutment and the screw within the internal taper of the implant along with tightening torque governs the steadiness of this assembly.,,,
SL and reduction in joint preload below a intensity result in the joint instability micro gaps if present any can also cause the fracture of the implant body or maybe the prostheses.
The micromovements generated while the SL process initiated a pumping effect for the invasion of microorganisms which causes damage to the encompassing tissues and bone.
Henceforth, SL may be a warning indicator of inappropriate biomechanical design alongside or without occlusal overloading, affecting the prognosis of the implants.
For evaluating SL, this in vitro research was administered to assess the effect of torque removal on screws after simultaneous tightening and loosening cycles of the two different commercially available implant–abutment connection designs.
The focus of this analysis was to match the implications of continual modification and loosening of implant/abutment affiliation thus directing advise in context of upper connection design.
It is already documented in the literature that the conical connection implants have superior mechanical stability. The taper connection provides “platform switching” in between endosseous implant and therefore the components of the abutment. At the level of the connection, the dimension of the abutment is a smaller amount than the diameter of body of the implant prosthesis. This provides another factor for the optimal protection of the peri-implant soft-tissue and grants the formation of a tissue collar overlaying the bone–implant interface.
Furthermore, the conical implant–abutment connection helps in forming a healthy biological width because the area connecting implant shoulder and abutment is not displayed on the peripheral contour of the bone; this might decrease bone loss.,,
The result of this study depicted that conical interface showed superiority over butt joint design and supported the very fact that conical portion of interface in implant/abutment connection internal hex conical joint is in a position to soak up vibrational and functional load and further acts as a buffer.
Shortcomings of this research were that the prescribed torque of 35 N/cm was utilized in the study. Variations of this prescribed torque could have helped in understanding the prevalence of the implant designs. Second, a more sensitive instrument, i.e., scale utilized in assessing the loosening torque (RTq%), should be explored in future researches. Third, this was in vitro study; in vivo studies got to be executed to affirm the findings of this research.
| Conclusion|| |
From this study, it had been observed that the loosening torque was significantly less in conical connection as compared to butt joint connection, and the conical interface showed dominance over butt joint design because the internal hex conical joint was capable of absorbing vibrational and functional loads. The upper firmness of intrinsic connections, specifically the conical one, is significant as this furnishes the expected rehabilitation with outstanding durability and success outcomes. This joint yield superior resistance at interface of implant/abutment assembly allows antirotational attributes and resists SL.
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Prophet Yunus (Jonah)
no matter how desperate and difficult a situation, a person must always trust in allah and ask him for help. as we mentioned in the previous section, musa, peace be upon him, never despaired when he was caught between the armies of pharaoh and the red sea, but he put his trust in allah. yunus, peace be upon him, also exemplifies such good
although he was commissioned by allah to warn them, yunus, peace be upon him, left his people without warning them. upon this, allah put him to the test in several ways: first, he was thrown into the sea from the ship on which he sailed. then a giant fish swallowed him. this made him feel deep regret for his behaviour; he turned in repentance to allah, took refuge with him and prayed to him. this is related in the
qur'an as follows:
and [mention] the man of he fish [i.e., yunus], when he left in anger and thought we would not punish him. he called out in the pitch darkness: "there is no god but you! glory be to you!
truly i have been one of the wrongdoers."
we responded to him and rescued him from his grief. that is
how we rescue the believers. (surat al-anbiya: 87-88)
in the qur'an, allah relates what would have happened to him if he had not trusted in allah and prayed to him:
had it not been that he was a man who glorified allah, he would have remained inside its belly until the day they are raised again.
so we cast him up onto the beach and he was sick; and we caused a gourd tree to grow over him.
we sent him to a hundred thousand or even more. (surat as-
allah rescued yunus from a truly desperate situation. this is an obvious sign that one must never despair of allah's help. the experiences of yunus, peace be upon him, are a lesson for all believers: we must never slacken, no matter what hardship we face, and we must always pray to allah and ask for help from him. | <urn:uuid:be29335f-9c32-4ba3-bea1-e71365071984> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rasoulallah.net/en/articles/article/8912 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988093 | 490 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Were your colleagues’ eyes glazing over at your last Zoom meeting? Do webinar audiences nod off before you’ve completed a sentence? Communications expert John Miers reveals tips and tricks for engaging and retaining your virtual audience
We have now endured nearly 18 months of webinars and Zoom calls, and what have we learned? My answer is: Generally, nothing. Technology has improved but most performances are as dull as ever. Webinars presented by law firms can be worse still, with inherently dry and technical subject matter compounding other shortcomings to make the audience experience nothing short of mind-numbing.
Let’s look at some of the challenges presenters face when having to deliver to a computer screen instead of a live audience. Some of these are obvious but few people have attempted to cure these problems.
If it is a webinar, you are looking at yourself in a mirror almost all the time, so it is very difficult to engage yourself.
If it is a Zoom call, because your “camera” is either above or below your screen, the viewers see you either looking over their heads or at their elbows. This is especially true when you are seeing the person whom you are talking to. You want to look at them to see their expressions, so you look at the centre of the screen. They see you looking at their elbows or above their heads. Try talking to a friend face to face, and look at their elbows all the time – never at their eyes.
However high the definition of the plasma screen, you only ever see the front of the person’s face. In live situations, you and they turn away frequently and, strange as it may seem, this three-dimensional image that you get makes it much easier to assess the character of the person you are conversing with.
Lawyers are taught how to make written material legally watertight and, unfortunately, they often replicate this behaviour when speaking. The result is a performance that bears no relation to an engaging and interesting conversation.
Those are the challenges. Now we should see what we can do to conquer them. The first objective, I believe, is to think about why we are doing the webinar or the Zoom call.
Every time you speak, you are doing it so that the audience remembers your message. You also want them to remember you positively. This is not an “ego” thing. You want them to look forward to hearing you again – to have the recollection that you are genuine, honest, know your “stuff”, and are easy to understand. It is precisely this recollection that leads to business development. The opposite is fatally true. If you bore or fail to engage your audience, they will look for another “expert” in your field that they can easily understand and trust.
The key to engagement is to behave as if you are in conversation. If you are presenting at a Webinar, imagine you are actually talking to someone behind your screen. Some people may ask a colleague to sit behind the screen, to make this easier.
If you are on a Zoom call with another person, look at your camera, not their image, on your screen. It is difficult, but with practice you will feel more comfortable. Besides, there is no need to look at the camera/person all the time. Total eye contact in real life is very uncomfortable, almost threatening. The moments when you must look at your audience are when you are making a point, and pausing for a second or two looking at the camera/person. Your audience will see you looking as if you are checking that they have understood your last point. It will look as if you are in conversation with them.
Here at Black Isle, we often point out to our clients that the only time you must look at your audience is when you are not talking. That is so contradictory to conventional advice, which insists you must look at the audience all the time when you are talking. Amazingly, considering it is something you do all the time in conversation with friends, it takes a lot of practice to keep looking at your audience when you are not talking. It is a technique that we help our clients work on.
So, your behaviour must be as if you are in a conversation, where you and your audience share the time. Their part is silence. They can only think when you stop transmitting, so stop trying to talk in long-winded, perfect sentences. Talk in short bursts. Ideas not sentences. Hesitate after the idea, in the middle of speaking, and give each new idea a few seconds of silence so that the audience can think about what you have just said – better still, let them wonder what you are about to say.
The audience remembers what they think about, not what you say. And they can only think properly in silence.
If you examine a presentation from an acknowledged great speaker like Barack Obama, you will find that 50% of his presentation is silence.
That, in simple terms, is how you can get your style correct – broken and incomplete grammar, ideas rather than sentences, and plenty of silence.
So now they are listening. Next, we need to get the content of the talk palatable.
As Einstein said: “If you cannot explain your message in simple English, you don’t know your subject.” Put another way, whatever you say must cause instant thought or pictures in the minds of your audience. So avoid jargon, buzzwords and abstract words. They do not create pictures – just blanks.
A phrase like “bilateral litigation action” may be recognisable to you, given time to think about it. But unless this creates an instant picture in your audience’s minds, they will sweep it aside and deal with the next thing you say.
“Hong Kong has great amenities” leaves no instant picture, but if you say, “Hong Kong has terrific sports grounds, waterfront parks and theatres”, that will produce pictures in the minds of your audience – instantly. Jargon is generally shorthand. It is laziness – two or three simple sentences that are easy to digest, squashed into two or three abstract words.
Furthermore, you are not in an oral exam, nor are you getting marks for all the pieces of information you can transmit. The most engaging speakers give the audience just enough general information to keep them interested, but not overloaded. You should do what I call “leaving loose ends”. By that I mean deliver just enough so that they want more, and will want to ask questions.
I tend to describe talks where no questions are asked at the end as talks that have left the audience so far behind, because of the amount of information, that they stopped listening or could not absorb anymore.
Remember your job is to make them think so that they remember your message, not to prove that you know a lot.
Try not to speak for more than six to eight minutes without some break, or some sort of engagement with your audience. In live meetings, do you speak for 30 minutes without interruption?
In summary, whatever the format, Zoom call or webinar, treat it as a two-way conversation with your audience. Keep your words simple and thought-provoking, as if you are talking to a very bright but ignorant art student. And above all, have fun. When things are not smooth and polished, the audience enjoys it much more.
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"Web3" is a word for the next evolution of the internet. It features digital assets that use blockchain technology—like non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies—and metaverse-based companies.
Web3 hasn't quite transcended buzzword status, but brands are still eagerly hiring to make sure they don't miss out on the next big trend.
Meta, the newly branded company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been on a massive hiring spree. Meta said in October 2021 that it was hiring 10,000 new employees in Europe to help build its metaverse.
Even major retailers are looking to zoom in on the metaverse trend. Walmart has begun filing patents for virtual products and crypto it might soon sell as part of a planned push into virtual reality (VR) e-commerce.
The core idea of the metaverse is a shared, virtual world in which people interact through digital avatars. Yet the metaverse as a shared space doesn't fully exist yet.
The closest we have is the major gaming platform Roblox, in which people toggle through games that live in the same virtual universe. Fortnite, which regularly hosts concerts and movie nights, is a close second.
While "metaverse" only entered the popular lexicon at the end of 2021, when Facebook changed its name to Meta, brands have been quietly selling products in the gaming world for years:
For brands, in particular, digital goods—no matter which gaming universe they are sold in—can become significant for the business of fashion.
To dive deeper into the metaverse, Nike has acquired RTFKT Studios, a startup that creates virtual sneakers and collectibles.
Some analysts predict that digital goods, including NFTs and products bought within gaming metaverses, could represent 10% of the entire luxury goods market by 2030.
Here's how fashion brands should approach hiring their metaverse talent team:
Tommy Hilfiger was ahead of the metaverse hiring trend. In 2019, it announced plans to make 3D digital duplicates of all of its new designs, which it could sell along with the physical-world versions of its clothes.
To do that, the company hired two major groups of people: software engineers who could design 3D technology for the company, plus a team of digitally savvy fashion designers who could take the real-world products and re-imagine them in a digital world.
Together, the two teams aren't only able to build the infrastructure for digital clothes, but they are also able to craft their designs for a digital world.
The best employees for building virtual fashion lines are the artists who know the ins and outs of designing in 3D or in VR settings.
The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York holds 3D design courses, graduates from universities like these could make for excellent new hires.
A growing suite of companies has popped up, focusing on designing products and storefronts for the digital world.
One of the most prominent is the VR store developer Obsess, who has worked with Ralph Lauren, Coach, General Mills, and more to build VR stores that can display or sell products.
However, they aren't the only game in town: a newly formed company called Virtual Brand Group has helped Forever 21 build a storefront within Roblox, and it plans to design similar storefronts for other brands Fortnite and Minecraft as well.
Meanwhile, Zepeto creates digital avatars that can span multiple worlds—Dior, Ralph Lauren, and Gucci have all partnered with Zepeto to get digital versions of their clothes into the Zepeto virtual store.
Because the metaverse began in the gaming world, brands now looking to fit their products in the digital world need to first get in touch with agencies already well-versed in the gaming business.
Luckily, there is an entire industry of gaming-focused marketing agencies, many of which have experience working on digital goods. Among them are Greig, Subnation, and Twofivesix.
Meanwhile, the consultancy Futures Intelligence Group didn't start in the gaming sphere, but it now claims to be the first metaverse-focused agency.
As you make your first foray into digital fashion, it's important to have teams on hand to answer customer questions about the ins and outs of buying and owning digital goods.
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New Delhi: Justice M.S. Liberhan, who headed the commission set up to look into events leading to the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 and also the lapses on the part of the then state government, maintained there was a “conspiracy” to pull down the mosque.
This conclusion, he said, was drawn after the commission examined over 100 witnesses, the leaders present on the dais — including L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi — and newspaper clippings.
Justice Liberhan, however, refused to comment on the special CBI court’s 30 September verdict acquitting all 32 accused in the case.
Speaking to ThePrint, Justice Liberhan said, “I got no commentary to make on the trial court judgment. We are two separate identities. Our perception on the same facts may differ. But I stand by my report that said there was a ‘civil conspiracy’ to pull down the mosque.”
In its judgment, the Lucknow trial court held that the allegations of criminal conspiracy to demolish the mosque remained unsubstantiated, holding media reports and video footage as “unreliable” evidence.
As for statements given by journalists, the judge said they were incoherent and contradictory, refusing to treat them as conclusive proof to make a conviction.
What the Liberhan Commission found
Then a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Liberhan was appointed to head the commission, constituted by the P.V. Narasimha Rao government in 1992 following the demolition. The commission took 17 long years to submit its report to the Union government in 2009.
The enquiry commission had held that the destruction was a result of a “planned conspiracy” by leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party and other members of the Sangh Parivar.
Sixty-eight individuals, including Advani, Joshi, Uma Bharti, Sadhvi Rithambara, Kalyan Singh, Kalraj Mishra, Vinay Katiyar and Ashok Singhal among others, were pronounced guilty of “inciting communal discord”, leading to the demolition.
“It is established that the events of and leading up to the 6th of December 1992… were tainted by a joint conspiratorial enterprise. A handful of malevolent leaders unabashedly invoked the name of the paragon of tolerance to turn peaceful communities into intolerant hordes,” the report had stated.
‘Presence at site made it obvious demolition was planned’
Although Justice Liberhan refrained from speaking on the merits of the judgment, he expressed a different opinion on the evidence submitted in court.
Unlike the trial court, the Liberhan Commission had accepted the newspapers and video footage placed as evidence against the BJP leaders.
“These reports were never denied, not even by the accused. Newspapers and video footage were examined along with other evidence tabled before the Commission. And, since there was no denial, it was admitted as evidence to prove conspiracy charges,” he said.
The commission had also recorded statements of witnesses as well as the accused.
“The accused did not admit (to) the conspiracy and planning. However, they admitted being part of the gathering and their presence at the site while the demolition was on. The facts and circumstances, along with the admission of the accused to their presence at the spot made it too obvious that it was pre-planned,” the former judge said.
Constant sloganeering by the leaders — such as “Ek dhakka aur do Babri masjid tod do” (Give it another tug and break down the mosque) — was also part of the evidence appreciated to conclude there was civil conspiracy and that the demolition was planned, he added.
‘Misfortune that trial progressed at snail’s pace’
Of the evidence presented, one new piece of information that came to light in the trial court, Justice Liberhan said, was the intelligence inputs about the involvement of Pakistani agencies.
“I learnt about it for the first time after this verdict was delivered. There was no mention about such intelligence inputs before the commission,” he said.
He even recalled a newspaper report in the Indian Telegraph that talked about a meeting of the leaders — present at the site — at the RSS headquarters. “They were not there to have a tea-party. Also, this report was never countered by anyone then,” he said.
It was a misfortune that the trial progressed at a snail’s pace, the judge added, saying, “Everyone from high court to Supreme Court intervened … that delayed the trial considerably.” | <urn:uuid:eff26792-0c77-4aaa-8c99-639127148abb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theprint.in/judiciary/babri-demolition-was-planned-accused-never-denied-proof-justice-liberhan-who-headed-enquiry/516051/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.980414 | 1,001 | 1.695313 | 2 |
With Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea and support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, relations with the United States have deteriorated to lows not seen in decades.
But every coin has two sides, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is seeking to examine them both, with a two-day conference Friday and Saturday featuring U.S. experts in military affairs, business, and diplomacy as well as three Russian thinkers who specialize in Russia-U.S. relations. The visitors will outline their views Thursday during a panel at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
The Gazette sat down with Sergey Rogov, director of the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, one of Moscow’s most prominent think tanks, to discuss the tension between the Kremlin and Washington. Rogov, whose study of the relationship dates to the Soviet era, warned that U.S. efforts to isolate Russia could push the nation into the arms of China.
GAZETTE: How would you describe U.S.-Russia relations at this point?
ROGOV: Unfortunately, we are in a very deep, deep crisis. I think the relationship has not been as bad as it is now, not since the end of the Cold War, but since the Cold War. Sometimes it looks like we are in the early ’80s, when the Soviet and American relationship was extremely bad, before perestroika and [Mikhail] Gorbachev.
I think it’s maybe premature to say we’re in a new Cold War, but we’re sliding down and have not yet reached the bottom.
GAZETTE: What do you see as being the main steps in the deterioration? Clearly Crimea and eastern Ukraine have been important in the short term, but have there been other steps along the way?
ROGOV: The long story is that since the end of the Cold War, neither the United States nor Russia developed a strategy of integration for Russia. There were many nice words, many declarations, many smiles, but in practical terms, the relationship was not very stable. We still have … some built-in problems, like mutually assured destruction. Russia and America are able to destroy each other within 30 minutes. Somehow, that’s not good for a partnership. Normally you don’t prepare to destroy your partner with thousands of nuclear warheads.
Another problem is … there is no economic interdependence between Russia and America — that makes the relationship rather fragile. And the Ukraine crisis, which started a year ago, very quickly became a zero-sum game. We saw the United States deciding to punish Russia, to isolate Russia.
GAZETTE: What is your sense of Russia’s intentions in eastern Ukraine now?
ROGOV: The situation has been evolving and the Russian position has been changing. But last month [President Vladimir] Putin pushed a cease-fire, which stopped the offensive of the rebels. If it were not stopped, they would have probably taken control of half of Ukraine because the Ukrainian army collapsed.
Putin said the problem of Ukraine should be resolved by negotiations between Kiev and Donetsk, that’s the rebel region. So it is possible, and most of the experts — Russian, American — agree that the Ukrainian problem can be resolved if the Ukrainian leadership agrees to decentralization. For some reason they’re terribly afraid of federalization, which is difficult to understand because the United States is a federation, Germany is a federation.
If you take the bigger picture, what’s happening right now is that the United States is not recognizing Russian interests. … Russia is a regional power with vital interests in three regions: in Europe, the Middle East, and what we call the Far East. And that should be recognized. That doesn’t mean that Russia doesn’t make mistakes and blunders, and there are some people in Russia who hate America, like there are some people in America who hate Russia. But … Russia is not trying to restore the Soviet Empire.
Russia responded to the Ukrainian crisis, but didn’t originate it. The crisis was originated by the European Union … which wanted to have an agreement with Ukraine and some other Soviet Republics, which have very close economic connections with Russia, because we’ve been a single market for so long.
So Russia a year ago requested trilateral negotiations between the European Union, Ukraine, and Russia, about the economic consequences of this association, since we have free trade between Russia and Ukraine. It’s like what you have with Canada. Imagine Canada joining the European Union. Would that be of concern to the United States? Of course it would. And the European Union refused. And [Viktor] Yanukovych, who was president at the time, asked to delay implementation of this agreement so these problems could be resolved. Again the European Union refused.
Now, two months ago, with [current Ukrainian] President [Petro] Poroshenko, the European Union agreed to trilateral negotiations, and we have such negotiations and they’re very serious, and the European Union agreed to delay the implementation of the association agreement with Ukraine until the very end of 2015.
What’s most important right now is that the cease-fire should be maintained. There is still some shooting and some people are being killed, but the number of casualties has dropped dramatically and the bombardment of the eastern cities, which was like it was in Gaza, has practically stopped.
So, if we have this cease-fire and we have negotiations between Kiev and the rebels, we might see the beginning of a process, which in several years may produce a settlement.
GAZETTE: What is most important for the American public to know about Russia today, whether about the Ukrainian crisis or something else?
ROGOV: Russia is a country in a transition. It’s 23 years, in December, since the Soviet Union collapsed and we are still facing key challenges, which have not been resolved: the transition to a market economy, building political democracy, and the Russian relationship with the world. The most difficult problem is the problem of the new Russian identity. This is a problem that all post-communist countries encountered. The communist period, it was proletariat internationalism, class identity, not ethnic identity.
So Poland is today the land of Poles. Czechoslovakia collapsed, it’s the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Should Russia be the state of Russians? Or Ukraine be the state of Ukrainians? I mentioned ethnic Russians in Ukraine. There are not only Russians, there are others: Poles, Hungarians, many Greeks. And in Russia, 20 percent of the citizenship is ethnically non-Russian. On the other hand, 20 percent of ethnic Russians live outside Russia. …
Unfortunately, this transition Russia is in cannot happen overnight. There have been several ethnic civil wars in the former Soviet Union, in Georgia, in Armenia, in Azerbaijan, in Moldova. What’s happening in Ukraine is the most dangerous, since that became a Russian-American confrontation and, [though] Russia is not a superpower, we are a nuclear superpower, we still maintain parity with the United States in nuclear weapons.
And when the United States cuts normal political intercourse, cuts economic relations, cuts military cooperation, that’s very dangerous. Do you want Russia to become an ally of China? [The] United States is pushing Russia toward China and that might have very serious consequences not only for our two countries, but for the entire international system.
GAZETTE: Is an improvement in U.S.-Russian relations possible in the short term, and if so how do we get there?
ROGOV: The official American position is no business as usual unless Russia does this, does that, etc. — a whole list of American demands, and Russia is not going to accept those demands.
Right now, we’ve almost forgotten that we have many common interests, like nonproliferation, terrorism — the Islamic State is a common enemy of Russia and America. [There’s] Iran, Afghanistan, the climate. … We should think how to build the relationship while recognizing disagreements, and recognize that there will be differences, and build relationships on common interests.
As far as Ukraine is concerned, when I was talking about solutions, like decentralization, linguistic protection, economic assistance, and nonmembership in NATO, the United States’ interests are not against [those things], in my reading. Actually, as far as the solution of the Ukrainian problem is concerned, Russia and America agree on many things. What we disagree about is Crimea.
The greatest danger today is that both sides seem to believe their own propaganda.
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Just how to use a bong is one of one of the most basic points you can learn exactly how to do. The form of the bong resembles that of a big melon with a dome on top. This type of glass pipe is not very typical to purchase in stores but if you recognize where to look. They are generally more expensive than various other kinds of pipelines for smokers because they are handmade. Most of them are made in China and afterwards delivered across the United States in tiny deliveries. While they are definitely a high valued product, you will have the ability to discover them at various internet sites. The first step in how to utilize a bong is to purchase a new pipes called a bubbler. This is the piece of equipment you will certainly need to place your water into the bong. The other major piece of the device is called the stem. This is what holds the water in the mouthpiece as well as makes it less complicated for the cigarette smoker to breathe in. It also permits the cigarette smoker to blow out air from the mouth piece. Once you have your 2 tools, the first thing to do is to set up your watering and also smoking cigarettes area. To do this, you must locate the water pump and also connect it sideways of the chamber that is directly below the stem. This is the only location that the water pipe will really touch the plant issue so it have to be placed there. You can likewise set up your chamber any kind of place that will certainly maintain the air circulating correctly as well as create a smoother smoking cigarettes experience. Next, you need to set the mouthpiece in the facility of the stem. The reason for this is that it is most convenient to breathe in air into the bong this way. Next, the individual puts the foot right into the mouthpiece and also areas their mouth near to the stem. They then enable the water to come under the dish by burning out air from their mouth. Given that the mouthpiece gets on the bottom, the air will fall to all-time low as well. Next, you require to see to it that your carb-block is affixed to the stem. Carb blocks are available in 3 various dimensions. The majority of bongs will certainly feature these three sizes. If you’re unsure how to utilize your carb-block, I strongly recommend that you buy a couple of bongs to experiment. After all, it is only when you begin utilizing your carb-block that you will comprehend exactly how to utilize your bongs appropriately. Lastly, after your bong has been put together and set up, you are ready to start smoking cigarettes. The simplest way to smoke your bong is by entirely covering the bowl with rugged salt. The majority of bongs have the choice of using this type of salt. Smoking a bong can be an exceptionally enjoyable experience if you comply with these straightforward steps. | <urn:uuid:1b8d7f8b-ebf2-4157-a8a2-b2f56a91ebc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bhag.us/doing-the-right-way-31/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964697 | 583 | 1.734375 | 2 |
How's this for a conspiracy theory? A global agenda, unveiled in 1992 during the United Nations Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED, also known as the Rio Earth Summit), that is being progressively implemented in every level of government in America through a United Nations (UN) initiative called Sustainable Development Agenda 21. Agenda 21, as it is referred to in the UN's own documentation (UN.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21), is "a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally, and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts [sic] on the environment."
Its purpose: to centrally own and control the planet's resources under the guise of "smart planning" and "sustainable development." In fact, for most UN-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Agenda 21 is synonymous with sustainable development.
The two primary goals of Agenda 21 are to (1) decrease the world population to "sustainable" levels as a means to effectively control labor, the planet's number-one resource, and (2) eradicate individual property rights via comprehensive land-use planning that dictates land use according to a global master plan that includes control of everything from food to health to energy to security, and the list goes on.
Locally, in Scott County, the slow incremental steps of this globalist agenda are wide open for all to see. On February 3, the Scott County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to adopt the state of Iowa's "Smart Planning Principles" as part of its Comprehensive Plan. The language of such principles sounds laudable on the surface: collaboration, efficiency, diversity, revitalization. Who could not be for these principles?
On January 20, the county staff explained that adopting these principles was a requirement to be eligible for future state and federal sustainability grants. The fine print the county staff would prefer you don't read is that the resolution adopts Iowa Code 18B Land Use, which reads in part:
"Governmental, community, and individual stakeholders, including those outside the jurisdiction of the entity, are encouraged to be involved and provide comment during deliberation of planning, zoning, development, and resource-management decisions and during implementation of such decisions. Individuals, communities, regions, and governmental entities should share in the responsibility to promote the equitable distribution of development benefits and costs."
This language reinforces what many critics of Agenda 21 are concerned with: Accepting state and federal grants eventually leads to ceding local authority to more centralized regional councils of unelected governments - with the authority to levy more taxes (Does SECC911 ring any bells?) so they may further their top-down goals.
Supervisor Larry Minard addressed this concern prior to his vote, stating: "If such an organization does develop that relates to planning and other issues that might come before it ... the state will decide that and they will decide whether it's a taxable organization or it doesn't tax. They will decide what's going to happen; we won't. But I can guarantee you that if we have that organization that Scott County will be a participant and play an active role. And we will do what ... allows our people to have that quality of life that we think they should have."
Coming down the pipeline soon is the county's "Sustainability Plan" (funded by a federal grant), which if approved will be another brick in the wall of Agenda 21 implemented locally in Scott County.
This global-to-local strategy began with President George H. Bush as the signatory for the U.S., one of 178 nations that adopted Agenda 21 at UNCED. In 1993, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-California) submitted House Joint Resolution 166 for the implementation of Agenda 21, but it failed. So President Bill Clinton created the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) via an executive order to implement Agenda 21 that same year.
It is important to note that Congress has had no say in the matter because Agenda 21 is considered to be a "soft-law policy recommendation" requiring no ratification because it does not qualify as a "treaty." Soft-law policies are not internationally binding but can find easy application through local legislation.
For most Americans, it is inconceivable that our own government would be party to any program or process, such as the United Nations' Agenda 21, specifically designed to reduce population and eliminate private-property rights. Yet this is exactly what is taking place across our land, and around the globe. It is a long-range plan that is methodical and precise in its execution.
Sadly, like most effective conspiracies, many participants are not even aware of its existence as they propel much of this nefarious agenda forward through local, state, and federal programming in our schools, land-use agencies, county and city services, health and emergency-management processes, and, most critically, our courts.
The most widely used tool for implementing Agenda 21 locally is through stakeholder councils, which are charged with creating consensus on some project, typically the result of a perceived crisis in the community, such as a poor water-management system or high population density. (Supervisor Minard believes 350 humans per square mile is one such problem in terms of sustainability in Scotty County.)
Once a project has been identified, NGOs, regional councils of governments, not-for-profits, etc. have a vast stock of sustainable-development cookie-cutter solutions available through the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). That organization was launched in 1990 at the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future and has its headquarters in Toronto, Canada, with branches worldwide, including in Berkeley, California.
ICLEI's sole mission is to assist local governments, such as counties and cities, by providing policy recommendations for implementing sustainability programming. ICLEI was instrumental in writing a portion of the Agenda 21 handbook, specifically Chapter 28, and in the formulation of Local Action 21 Strategies that ensure the "unwavering, systematic implementation of local action plans over the next decade," as reported in ICLEI's Motto, Mandate, Movement (2003).
Agenda 21's primary directive is for human wants, needs, and desires to conform to the views and dictates of the planners. According to Harvey Ruvin, vice chair of ICLEI and clerk of the circuit and county court of Miami-Dade County, Florida: "Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective." (For more information, see Understanding Sustainable Development: Agenda 21 at FreedomAdvocates.org.)
Rather than all men being created equal - with government's role to ensure each individual's rights are not violated - "equity" will be accomplished by implementing international economic order and transferring resources from developed countries to undeveloped countries. Because the United States has a higher standard of living than most countries, developed or not, our standard of living must decrease to bring about international economic balance. That is what is meant by redistribution of wealth. Instead of utilizing private enterprise, however, the redistribution is taking place utilizing public/private partnerships. This model is accelerating and will soon appear to be the norm rather than the exception.
Public/private partnerships are antithetical to free enterprise. Big business melds with big government to form the unholy alliances that corrupt competition. The lethal combination of economic power and government force inevitably leads to tyranny, and clearly defines nearly every democracy on the planet, past and present.
Agenda 21 is primarily implemented through a network of agencies that provide carrots in the form of federal and state grants dangled in front of mostly unsuspecting bureaucrats and elected politicians who consider themselves omnipotent budget managers instead of upholding individual's personal-property rights as their oaths of office dictate.
Institutional laziness that infects every level of U.S. government makes formulaic programs even more attractive to bureaucrats and politicians because all the heavy lifting is already done. The funding abounds via tax-funded agencies and foundations. So that just leaves the quid pro quo or the necessary pay-to-play, which is, simply put, the sacrificing of Americans' unalienable rights - namely property rights that are forsaken so that massive amounts of land can be transferred, bought/sold, and/or controlled for the use of a global central-planning cabal.
Most nations are enthusiastically on-board with Agenda 21 because they have far less to lose and much more to gain. This is not the case in America. We have everything to lose and nothing whatsoever to gain. Perhaps that's why Agenda 21 is such a stealthily crafted conspiracy, one that has plausible deniability as long as you don't read any of the fine print. Be clear here: The "planners" are literally banking that you won't. | <urn:uuid:5e1a5190-cdd8-4bf7-bda4-af686b044301> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/rubber-stamping-agenda-21-starts-scott-county | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947677 | 1,804 | 2.515625 | 3 |
August 6, 2020
The bouncer in the brain
IST Austria scientists discover cells that filter and sharpen spatial signals
How do you keep orientation in a complex environment, like the city of Vienna? You can thank your brain’s “global positioning system” (GPS), the hippocampus, for this sense of orientation. To further understand its functions, scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) analyzed single neurons of this GPS in mice. They discovered that so-called granule cells filter and sharpen spatial information. The researchers recently published their findings in Neuron.
The hippocampus is a region within the brain that contains many neurons that help us to navigate in space. This leads to the nickname of this area: the GPS of the brain. The higher areas of the cortex send information packages to the hippocampus to generate location signals. However, not all packages contain relevant information. Therefore, the hippocampus needs to have a bouncer in place to select incoming signals. Such a gatekeeper could be the granule cell, a type of neuron situated at the entrance of the hippocampal circuit.
Identifying the correct cells
IST Austria Professor Peter Jonas, Xiaomin Zhang, and Alois Schlögl started to examine neuronal signals in granule cells. However, the main problem was cell identification. In the past, experts could not guarantee that they correctly identified the cells. “Since this region is densely packed with various types of neurons, it is technically challenging to identify granule cells, the cells we were interested in,” says Xiaomin Zhang, the first author on the paper. This makes it very difficult to distinguish between the activity of granule cells from that of other types of neurons located in the same region. Furthermore, granule cells typically show very sparse activity despite a vast amount of them. Thus, other cell types with higher activity levels could dominate the picture.
Gatekeepers of the hippocampus
To record the incoming and outgoing signals of the granule cells, the scientists developed a novel recording technique and machine learning algorithm to decode these signals. To unequivocally identify the neurons, cells were filled with a tracer during recording. In total, they recorded from almost a hundred granule cells, generating a large data set that describes the activity of this important type of cell. They found that a majority of neurons receive spatial information. However, only a minority of neurons relays this spatial information to the rest of the hippocampus. Thus, granule cells indeed appear to operate as gatekeepers.
Spatial information processing
However, granule cells not only select information but also appear to be involved in information processing. The team found that the input of the granule cells is broad, but the output is much more selective. Upstream cortical areas neurons are often grid cells that generate activity in multiple locations of the environment. In contrast, downstream hippocampal regions neurons are typically place cells, which fire only at a single location. The new study suggests that granule cells participate in this conversion. “In simplified terms, we can think of the granule cell as a unit that translates one neuronal language into another,” Jonas explains.
Saving computation power for the future
The majority of granule cells receive spatial information, but only 5% generate spatial output. Xiaomin Zhang explains: “Especially neurons with a more developed structure were active, whereas neurons with less mature structure remained silent.” What could be the functional significance of such a unique design, in which a huge fraction of cells is not directly used for information processing? The scientists suggested that the hippocampus reserves most granule cells for future conversion and storage processes.
The new work highlights the power of single-cell recording techniques. “Our study provides information about the inner workings of the brain’s GPS and the underlying single-neuron computations,” summarizes Professor Peter Jonas.
Xiaomin Zhang, Alois Schlögl, Peter Jonas. 2020. Selective routing of spatial information flow from input to output in hippocampal granule cells. Neuron. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.006
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 692692) and the Fond zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Z 312-B27, Wittgenstein award).
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1. American Whitewater
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2. KS Wild
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Though we may be biased, we are especially big supporters of their river conservation initiatives. Taking a whole-ecosystem approach, they prioritize projects that advocate for water quality, salmon conservation, and riparian health restoration.
Currently, they are working with partners across the state of Oregon to pass the River Democracy Act (S. 192). This is a bill that would expand protections to over 4000 miles of rivers and streams in Oregon. Show your support for KS Wild to get this bill moving forward!
3. Native Fish Society
Once iconic fish populations in the Pacific Northwest–such as salmon and steelhead–are rapidly declining. This is due to a combination of stressors resulting from climate change, habitat degradation, and historic overfishing.
Native Fish Society actively works to change this present-day crisis by advocating for the recovery of wild, native fish. Working in Pacific Northwest watersheds directly, this nonprofit aims to protect fish populations through science, field work, and advocacy.
By regularly involving local community members in their stewardship program and volunteer opportunities, Native Fish Society has built a network of support that educates and inspires everyone in the fight to keep both fish and rivers wild.
As a personal anecdote, this group is absolutely wonderful to volunteer with! I have helped with invasive plant removal and stream survey projects. Staff are enthusiastic about their work and provide excellent educational materials for new volunteers. Veteran volunteers are always welcoming when adding new numbers to their ranks! However you decide to help, I guarantee this is a great organization to support this holiday season.
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I am not a fan of Boolean operations but I am planning of taking CATIA v5 Certification Exams, and Boolean Operations are a part of the exam. Hi all. It is a long time I did not wrote anything. I was bit busy with my personal work. Let’s start with Boolean operations; many people don’t. What exactly is the purpose of Boolean Operation in CATIA V5. As I dont see it helps much in making shapes which are not possible to make.
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I also like to use individual partbodies when I do patterns of features using the ‘current solid’ option. Shrinivas November 18, at 9: While using Boolean operations we should always keep in mind the body which has to be extracted and the one that should be the principal body. Click on Remove Lump command and select the cubic body.
What is alternative option for intersect in part design. So, here is what Operatioon do. Yes, it’s basically derived from boolean algebra. Booolean pocket is created on one of the cubic part.
This removal solid has a boolean remove operation performed to Component B. Could you please make a video or booean detailed screenshots? If Possible correct the diagram, This For Making complicated plastic and casting parts Digital Transformation may be defined in a number of different ways by analysts or enterprise opeation vendors.
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Boolean operations ADD/ASSEMBLE and polarity
Here we have created two Pad features in two different bodies and we are going to perform the add operation on them. Bheemu Gadyal November 18, at Check out similar articles December 28th, Select the part one for Add section.
Thank you for your reply! Why do we need boolean method of design, when we can use pockets and pad and other simple options.
Boolean Operations in CATIA
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Why and when should we use the Boolean operation in catia?
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How much DNA do you need to be Native American?
Some tribes require as much as 25% Native heritage, and most require at least 1/16th Native heritage, which is one great-great grandparent. If you don’t know who in your family was a tribal member it’s unlikely that you would be able to meet the blood quantum requirement.
Will ancestry DNA show Native American?
DNA could help Native Americans affected by adoption or foster care re-establish their family connections. For reasons that include tribal sovereignty, Ancestry® does not break down DNA results by tribe, but we do provide an approximate geographical region (Indigenous Americas).
Why did my Native American DNA not show up?
DNA was not inherited from Native American ancestor
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Which DNA test is best for Native American ancestry?
1. AncestryDNA — Best for Connecting With Genetic Relatives. As one of the most popular DNA testing companies, AncestryDNA has the largest genetic database around. This means it’s the best DNA test for Native American ancestry if you’re hoping to connect with others who share your genetic makeup.
How many generations are native status?
The ability to transfer Indian status to children was created, as well. After two consecutive generations of parents who do not have Indian status (non-Indians), the third generation is no longer entitled to registration.
Does Native American DNA show up on 23andMe?
Do You Have Native American Ancestry? While 23andMe can reveal genetic evidence of Native American ancestry, it cannot identify specific tribal affiliations.
How do you find out if you have Indian bloodline?
www.bia.gov/bia/ois/tgs/genealogy Publishes a downloadable Guide to Tracing Your Indian Ancestry. Has a vast online library, Tracing Native American Family Roots. www.ncai.org/tribal-directory Provides the online tribal directory where contact information for specific tribes can be found.
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MCCAIN ON IRAQ
Sen. John McCain has an interesting op-ed in today’s WaPo on “Why We Must Win” in Iraq.
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America’s mission in Iraq is too important to fail. Given the stakes, we cannot launch this “generational commitment” to changing the Middle East on the cheap. The administration should level with the American people about the cost and commitment required to transform Iraq.
Americans must understand how important this mission is and be prepared to sacrifice to achieve it. Without an intensive campaign now to explain what is at stake and absent the necessary political and financial commitment, we raise the potential for a defeat that will deal a lasting blow to American interests and freedom’s progress.
Having liberated Iraq, we must demonstrate the tangible benefits of occupation, which the Iraqi silent majority will tolerate if it successfully delivers services, law and order and a transition to Iraqi rule. The danger is that our failure to improve daily life, security, and Iraqis’ participation in their own governance will erode their patience and fuel insurrection.
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George Tony Lyons
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 180 lb.
- Debut September 6, 1920
- Final Game September 23, 1924
- Born January 25, 1891 in Bible Grove, IL USA
- Died August 12, 1981 in Nevada, MO USA
George Lyons, also called Tony Lyons in some sources, pitched seven games for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1920 and 26 for the St. Louis Browns in 1924. He was born in Bible Grove, IL, east of St. Louis, MO. Tony also had 13 years in the minors, including three seasons each with the Wichita Witches/Jobbers, the Los Angeles Angels and the Columbus Senators.
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On Thursday President Obama expressed a desire to make community college more accessible by offering tuition elimination for students who earn a 2.5 grade point average or better. While this plan may seem to be a delightful idea for those of us saddled with student loans, if we take a closer look at our own experiences, it won’t be as helpful as many would think.
What happened when we graduated college? We looked high and low for those dream jobs we were taught would save us from a life of poverty. Did we find them? Hell no. Instead we became secretaries, interns and assistants, the same jobs we could have gotten had we simply gone to clerical school. Burdened with debt we moved back in with our parents hoping for someone to notice us and offer us a big break so that we can work hard for someone’s company, become an invaluable employee, forever wishing to serve someone else’s interests and profits, which is the whole point of going to college anyway.
What is the benefit of higher education? Those who are educated with advanced degrees are qualified to work in higher paying jobs for companies. Wise women know that although the majority of the population works for wages under the 5% of the country who create the employment opportunities, My Savvy Sisters aim to become the employers in this country. While higher education does benefit us through networking with other ambitious people and offering us the information we need to progress as business owners, it is not necessary.
How will free advanced degrees affect the education system in the US? In my opinion, it will only hurt the education system as community college will become like a 2nd high school. Kids will coast on through to the next tier in education, only to find that they are repeating the lessons they learned in high school. That is what my first two years of undergraduate studies were like, a direct repeat of high school. I thought it was a waste of time.
Instead of funneling young adults into a 2nd tier high school program, a more appropriate and life-changing course of action would be to offer them a trade school education upon graduation. This way, every young adult who graduates can learn a valuable skill that they will take with them for the rest of their lives regardless of whether they decide to pursue more formal education in pursuit of white collar jobs.
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1. Ilheus – Bahia
The land of Jorge Amado, the place the writer spent his childhood and used it as an inspiration for a number of of his works. Ilhéus is well-known for the cultivation of cocoa. the vacation spot stays situated offshore Bahia, south of Salvador. For these seeking to enterprise into rural tourism, Ilhéus is a superb choice as you possibly can go to a number of cocoa farms.
As well as, you may get to know the entire technique of fruit manufacturing, style and take with you delicacies produced there, equivalent to chocolate, liqueurs, honey, sweets and jelly. There’s even an annual cocoa and cocoa competition within the metropolis. A fantastic choice for an in a single day keep within the vacation spot is Pousada dos Hibiscus, which has the Sustainable Journey seal from Reserving.com.
2. Bom Jardim da Serra – Santa Catarina
The gateway to Serra Catarinense, Bom Jardim da Serra is legendary for its canyons, viewpoints and waterfalls. Along with the fantastic thing about nature, additionally it is a proposal for folks in search of rural excursions. It’s doable, for instance, to remain in agritourism resorts within the area and expertise an much more immersive expertise within the countryside.
Fazenda Santa Rita Turismo Rural provides ecological horse rides in addition to farming actions in a ravishing land with a backyard and lake. Fazenda Rota dos Cânions is stored in a country and comfy fashion, providing meals ready with recent produce from the farm, and actions equivalent to horse using, quad biking and biking excursions.
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3. São Roque de Minas – Minas Gerais
For cheese fans, go to São Roque de Minas, the place many producers of conventional Serra da Canastra cheese are concentrated, acknowledged by Iphan as Brazil’s intangible cultural heritage and which might solely be produced below this model in seven municipalities within the nation’s area.
A fantastic choice is to go to native farms, be taught in regards to the cheese-making course of and style the delicacies produced there. for many who like ecotourism and excessive sports activities, you possibly can go to the Serra da Canastra Nationwide Park and its waterfalls. Pousada Caminho da Serra is an efficient lodging choice.
4. Serra Negra – Sao Paulo
Along with being a part of the Águas Paulista circuit as a result of its pure springs, Serra Negra is situated within the Serra da Mantiqueira. It is a perfect place for lovers of espresso, cheese and wines. It has vacationer routes devoted to merchandise in addition to cachaças distillers. The farms and vineyards within the area produce drinks and artisanal meals, and open their doorways to vacationers to style the delicacies and be taught extra about their historical past and manufacturing.
For individuals who are going with their household, it’s doable to take the Maria Fumaça prepare and get to know crucial factors of the town. Additionally it is value collaborating within the Serra Negra summer time and winter festivals, with reveals of reside music, gastronomy, recreation and handicrafts. Relating to your keep, the Resort Fazenda Vale da Cachoeira is a tip.
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5. Coxilha Rica – Santa Catarina
One other vacation spot in Serra Catarinense, Coxilha Rica area, is situated within the municipalities of Lages, Capão Alto and Panel. The place is ideal for these in search of rural tourism. It’s distinguished by the manufacturing of livestock, soybeans and wooden. The area provides a number of horseback using alternatives, together with excursions as much as per week.
Additionally it is value visiting farms and attempting meals – incl. scrumptious mountain cheeses – and native wines as properly out of doors actions train or chill out whereas admiring the pure surroundings. Relating to lodging, a tip is the Boqueirão Resort Fazenda, situated in Lages, the place you possibly can go climbing, biking, fishing and enjoying varied sports activities.
6. Gravata – Pernambuco
A great location within the Northeast for these all in favour of rural points of interest, Gravatá can be a really perfect vacation spot for these in search of out of doors sports activities equivalent to climbing, climbing and zip-lining or conventional road events. Regardless of its location within the inside of Pernambuco, it’s well-known for its milder local weather.
Among the many rural points of interest supplied within the village are horse using and equestrian routes, visits to flower-growing websites and lodging or journeys in agritourism resorts with typical meals and make contact with with animals raised there. Considered one of these lodging choices is Resort Portal de Gravatá, which serves regional delicacies and provides an entire leisure construction.
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineer Prahalada Rao has high expectations for 3-D printing: no less than revolutionizing the world, in fact. Before that can happen, the process — already used to create many items from toys to car parts — must overcome a tendency to create flaws in the final product.
“People call it ‘print and go’; I call it ‘print and pray,’” said Rao, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
Three-dimensional printing transforms designs into parts more quickly and with less waste and expense than current technology. But its significant failure rate makes it infeasible to mass-produce airplane turbines or replacement knees, for example, where safety is paramount, he said. Using X-ray scans to ensure the final product is free of defects is time-consuming, expensive and limited by size.
Rao earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to develop a 3-D printing process, officially known as smart additive manufacturing, that produces flawless metal parts every time.
Additive manufacturing is adept at sculpting many different types of materials, such as plastics and titanium, into highly complex 3-D shapes using less material than conventional technology. Three-dimensional printing works by layering materials that are fused together through processes such as melting plastic or hitting metallic layers with a laser. However, flaws, such as holes or other malformations, can develop.
Rao works with metal, such as titanium. He’s developing algorithms that detect flaws while the printing is taking place. The process also identifies the type of flaw and enables the printer to correct it automatically.
Rao likened it to building a brick house. His process will detect a loose or weak brick while the house is being constructed, remove the brick and replace it before construction continues.
The technique requires attaching many types of sensors to a specialized hybrid 3-D printer that can both add and subtract material.
“It’s a ‘big data’ problem,” Rao said. “You’ve got so many sensors. The trick is how do you use all of that data you’re collecting to pinpoint when and where an error occurs and then correct as you build.”
To aid additive manufacturing research such as Rao’s, Nebraska has invested in three hybrid 3-D printers with capabilities unique to the university. They will become part of the Nebraska Engineering Additive Technology Labs, or NEAT Labs, scheduled to open in May.
If successful, Rao’s technique could be used to quickly produce complex metallic components across a wide variety of industries. For example, his technique could be used to print replacement knees specific to each patient, rather than modifying off-the-shelf components as is done today. The military could one day 3-D print a replacement part for a tank engine and send it back into service within minutes.
Rao’s award will also help educate a new generation of materials engineers using modern, hands-on teaching techniques. He’s developing an undergraduate course in additive manufacturing that will allow students to maximize time in the laboratory.
He’s also partnered with the Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico, to develop an eight-week summer camp for Native American students from across the United States to come to Nebraska and learn about 3-D printing.
“Nebraska is positioning itself as a hub for additive manufacturing in a variety of industries, including agricultural equipment, manufacturing and biomedical,” Rao said. “If this research is successful, it will have a huge impact on how quickly and reliably we can turn around new products and designs, spurring innovation in Nebraska.”
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Can The Agent Orange Act Help Veterans Exposed To Mustard Gas?
To understand the predicament of World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas, take a look at what happened to another set of American veterans who were exposed to a different toxic chemical.
Last month, NPR reported that some of those World War II vets are still fighting for disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs because the agency says they don't have enough proof to substantiate their claims.
Alan Oates says that's the same response Vietnam War veterans started receiving from the VA in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As a young Army private during the war, Oates was providing security for an engineering outfit in the jungle when he first noticed three planes flying overhead spraying something.
"I asked the engineers: What are they doing?" Oates says. "And [one] said: They're spraying herbicides to kill the vegetation, so that the enemy couldn't hide in it."
The herbicide was Agent Orange, and Oates says he assumed it was harmless to humans. But years after coming home, he noticed a tremor in his left hand.
"I had one finger that just one morning started moving back and forth," he says.
Oates made an appointment with his doctor and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He's one of thousands of Vietnam veterans who came down with similar diseases — such as type II diabetes, skin disorders and rare cancers — after returning from the war.
But when veterans first began reporting their illnesses, the VA said they didn't have enough evidence to qualify them for service-related compensation.
One of the problems was that the veterans couldn't prove they were exposed to Agent Orange because it wasn't recorded in their personnel records. So advocates for Vietnam veterans launched a lobbying campaign to change the way the VA treated their cases.
The effort was led in part by Mike Leaveck, a Vietnam War veteran and former chief lobbyist for Vietnam Veterans of America. Leaveck says they recruited thousands of activists and organized marches and letter writing campaigns.
"I lobbied myself blue," he says.
Ten years later, they celebrated a groundbreaking win.
"Proof of exposure is the key," Leaveck says. "Congress finally just came in and said, 'You just have to presume it.' "
Congress passed the Agent Orange Act in 1991, which required the VA to presume that anyone who served in and around Vietnam was exposed.
The law now allows Oates and thousands of others to receive disability benefits for their diseases.
Leaveck says a similar piece of legislation could help the World War II veterans who were exposed to mustard gas in secret military experiments. Thousands of enlisted men were tested. Like Agent Orange, those exposures were not recorded in military personnel records.
NPR reported that some of the few World War II veterans who are still alive — now in their late 80s and early 90s — are still fighting for disability benefits because the VA says they don't have enough proof.
Charlie Cavell, 89, has been appealing his claim for benefits since the 1980s. After last month's NPR report, the VA granted some of his claims for benefits. But he's still appealing others.
"I've had two heart bypass operations; I wear a pacemaker now," he says. "I have congestive heart failure; I have Stage 4 kidney disease."
Bart Stichman, an executive director at the National Veterans Legal Services Program, which helped get the Agent Orange law passed, says that if these veterans had another decade, maybe they could get a similar law enacted.
"The VA is run by the people who have been there for a long time. And they continue to do things the way they've been doing things. And moving the ship is a very difficult proposition," he says.
More than a dozen lawmakers have called on the VA to provide benefits in response to NPR's reporting. The VA responded, saying it's working in good faith to do right by these veterans. But Stichman worries that the veterans won't be able to keep that momentum going.
"It's going to take somebody to take on their cause," Stichman says. "Because of their numbers and their age, I don't think they're going to be able to pursue this on their own."
Stichman says the veterans' best chance at benefits is if a heavy-hitting member of Congress will champion their cause all the way to the finish line.
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Episode 112: Dr. Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny, how do citizens participate and uphold their democracy?
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Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
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Which Way is WEST?
The shortage of women in the STEM fields inspires so many gloomy op-eds that it would be easy to believe that there's no good news on that front. Had any of those editorial writers been at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering’s WEST Fest, however, they would have found plenty to celebrate.
Equal parts networking event, resource fair, Q&A session, and party, the event attracted dozens of incoming freshman women, high schoolers, and others to the Urban Future Lab--the NYU business incubator devoted to clean-energy tech--on the evening of July 23. It was the first time that many had ever been inside a business incubator, and the excitement was palpable.
It was not only the dynamic space causing the buzz, however. For some, it was their first experience of being in a room with so many other women of similar interests and talents. And, as they learned while browsing the information tables ringing the room, they’d be far from alone at the School of Engineering, which maintains a women-only dormitory floor; student chapters of groups like the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Women in Search of Excellence (WISE), and the cleverly named STEMinists; a weeklong women’s summit, and much more.
Joanne Lee, an incoming freshman, had been thrilled to receive her acceptance letter and was even happier upon seeing how warm a welcome the school was extending. “I’m interested in mechanical engineering and construction, and while you may not think of those as traditional fields for women, I can see that this will be a wonderful, encouraging place to be,” she said.
Many of the younger women had found out about WEST Fest as participants in the school’s Summer of STEM programming. Claire Dalkie, for example, had traveled all the way from Toronto, where she attends the all-girls’ St. Clement’s School, to participate in the two-week Summer of STEM offering known as GenCyber, an immersive and supportive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of cyber security through lectures, hands-on training, and day trips to New York City technology firms. With a sister already attending NYU, it seemed a distinct possibility that she might soon be following in those footsteps. “I’ve always love technology and programming,” she explained, “and GenCyber opened my eyes to the possibility of a whole new field.” While a visit to Google headquarters had been an unquestionable highlight of her New York City sojourn thus far, the chance to visit the Urban Future Lab and participate in WEST Fest wasn’t too far behind.
The event culminated with an informative panel session that included Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Phyllis Frankl, who took visible pleasure in the attendees’ enthusiasm and who has mentored countless female students. “Professor Frankl has been a tireless guide to young women pursuing STEM studies,” Elizabeth Ensweiler, the director of enrollment management and one of the hosts of the evening, asserted. “She is one of the reasons we can so confidently tell female students that this is the place for them.”
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Dental cavities have turned out to be a real problem in the modern society. This results from the accessibility of chips, crackers, and a wide range of sugary liquids and foods, which have turned to be part of everyone’s daily intake. As a result, you will find people seeking solutions for their cavities, especially when they do not expect to have their teeth removed. Dental sealant is the best solution in these situations and would help both children and adults. Encino Dentist offers excellent dental sealant services to anyone who needs the procedure.
Understanding Dental Sealants
A dental sealant or fissure sealant is a dental procedure that intends to reduce the chances of tooth rot. Teeth have features known as recesses, which are the biting surfaces. The intervals vary depending on the teeth. With the teeth at the back, they are referred to as fissures. With some frontal teeth, they are referred to as cingulum pits. The cracks and pits have the highest vulnerability to tooth decay since it is not easy to clean them, especially when bacteria and food stick on them.
Therefore, dentists prefer to put dental sealant on the fissures and pits to create a smooth surface that one can clean easily. This dental procedure is usual in children since they are at the highest risk of tooth decay. They can also be placed on adults, especially on their molar teeth, since their fissures are well defined compared with other teeth.
Type of Materials Used in Dental Sealants
Nowadays, dental sealants can either be resin-based or based on glass ionomers.
Resin-based sealant has evolved. Each of the generations of this material is different, and some of them are no longer in use. These generations are as follows:
- First Generation: This type of resin-based sealant was set using UV Curing and is no longer in use
- Second Generation: This kind of resin-based sealant were set using chemical-curing process, also known as auto polymerized
- Third Generation: This resin-based sealant is placed using the visible light-cured process
- Fourth Generation: This kind of resin-based sealant contain fluoride
The resin-based sealant contains a compound known as bisphenol A (BPA), and concerns have arisen about the safety of the compound. There is no need to worry about the amount of BPA available in this kind of sealant since it does not pose any harm to the user. Exposure to BPA is quite high through breathing more than its presence in the mouth, making it less harmful.
Glass Ionomer Sealants
Glass Ionomer Sealants(GIC) is another material used to manufacture dental sealants that can bond with dentine and enamel once it has been cleaned with a polyacrylic acid conditioner. One of the benefits of using this type of sealant is the presence of fluoride and less sensitivity to moisture. This implies that the sealant is quite useful despite its poor retention, and may continue preventing occlusal caries even after the sealant falls off since it can release fluoride.
Comparison between Resin Based and Glass Ionomer Sealants
It is hard to compare and pick a specific type of sealant and choose it as your favorite. Both options have the benefits that make them a reliable choice. With the resin-based option, it is usually selected since they are quite lasting. However, they do not produce fluoride as the glass ionomer, making them wholly unreliable.
On the other hand, glass ionomer sealants release fluoride, which helps in the reduction of cavities. That’s why they are the best choice when the patient has issues with moisture control. On their downside, they degenerate with time, which means that they have a shorter lifespan.
Why you Need Dental Sealants
Dental Sealant has numerous advantages. They are usually beneficial to kids, but they can be used in adults as well. In children, the sealant must be set once their permanent molars erupt. In adults, the sealants can be a suitable way to prevent the continuation of tooth decay.
Treating a cavity can be expensive, especially if your insurance does not cover such expenses. With the consideration that most people incur about three-tooth decay in their lifetime, this can be a substantial expense in the long-run. However, with the application of dental sealant, you will save your costs in the future as you try to adopt some corrective measures.
Other options available for the control or treatment of cavities usually takes a lot of time. However, with the use of dental sealant, you are sure of less time and no need to rearrange your schedule to accommodate the treatment. Also, since dental sealant reduces the possibility of dental cavities, it will save your time in the long-run.
Maintain Your Health
Teeth usually decay at a high rate and can be more severe with time. If you have a cavity-filled mouth, your oral and overall health will be compromised. However, if you apply a dental sealant, you are confident that your health is secure, and there is no need to worry about it.
It is a Simple Procedure
Since dental sealants are applied quickly, and there is no pain or discomfort, this makes it the most straightforward dental procedure that one can undertake. This makes it a suitable option for kids who do not love going to the dentist or are scared of them.
Possible Downside of Dental Sealant
Although there are several benefits of dental sealants, there are potential downsides that might arise. These cons are as follows:
- There is a possibility of sealing a decay that is already in existence
- They serve as an option hence represents an additional expenses
- They do not last for a long time
Dental sealants can also fail in their application. The most usual reason for their failure is saliva contamination during the application. However, other factors such as clinical inexperience, lack of cooperation between the client and the dentist, the use of less effective material might also affect its effectiveness.
How Dental Sealants Are Installed
As indicated above, setting the dental sealant takes less time and is inexpensive. The best procedure is well done if two people are applying it. The method is as follows:
Step 1: Preparation
Before the application process kicks off, the dentist must prepare your teeth through various means. The dentist usually cleans the teeth surface using an air polish, which is typically a non-fluoridated pumice paste, Enameloplasty, or hydrogen peroxide. The cleaning process should do away with all heavy stains, debris, or deposits. After cleaning the occlusal surface, the area should be dried thoroughly.
Step 2: Application of the Adhesive
Since sealants do not bond with the teeth directly, there is a need to use an adhesive. The force of an adhesive is improved by a tooth conditioner to ensure that the sealant is retained. The teeth must be isolated to apply the adhesive on individual teeth. The isolation process requires dry-angles, cotton rolls, or only a dental dam.
The dentist might follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the conditioner to stick on the enamel and provide a rinsing period. The procedure is required to be a one-time system, but there are a couple of factors that can limit such an option. Despite the method that you use, the enamel must turn to a white, dull, and chalky product after its use. If it does not appear as expected, the tooth conditioner requires reapplication, as provided by the manufacturer. The dentist should ensure that the teeth are thoroughly dry before applying the sealant.
Step3: The Application Sealant
When applying the sealant, the pits and fissures need filling with the material at approximately halfway-up the cusp ridge. The dentist should check whether there are any bubbles to avoid inadequate polymerization if the dentist is using a curing light.
Step 4: Checking the Sealant
The dentist will use an explorer to place the sealant properly and ensure that it polymerizes. The dentist should also check whether the occlusion with articulating silk or paper and check whether interproximal contacts with a floss.
If the sealant material has a wide interproximal, the dentist should use a scaler to do away with the excess. If the occlusion is quite high, the dentist should use a rotary bar, possibly a number four or eight round. It is recommendable to recheck the occlusion to ensure that it is in a good position. Finally, the dentist will give you post-instruction, as provided by the manufacturer. The dentist should check the sealant at each dental examination.
Once the sealant has been set, you can engage in whatever activity you desire. At first, you will feel as if you are biting onto something, although the odd feeling will go away quickly. After a few days, you will be used to the feel, and you will not even notice if the sealant is on your teeth.
Candidacy for Dental Sealants
Dental sealant is suitable for children with erupting teeth. Such teeth have small indentations that hold food particles and might be hard to clean properly. This usually affects the back teeth in particular since they are easy to carry food particles and allow the growth of bacteria. The use of sealant suits best in children a total preventive dental care. However, it only accounts for a third of complete dental preventive care. Therefore, a parent should adopt other preventive measures to achieve total dental preventive measures.
How to Take Care of Your Dental Sealants
Since the sealant protects the biting surface of the teeth, some gaps are left between your teeth, which remain susceptible to tartar and plaque buildup. The best way to handle tartar and plaque is by brushing your teeth surfaces, including the sealant. Make sure that your toothbrush has soft bristles and use the recommended toothpaste as well. Maintain your brushing procedure, which includes both the top and side as if you had no sealant.
Another great way to protect your teeth is by using an antiseptic mouthwash to rinse the food particles which have been loosened by the flossing and kill any lingering bacteria. Avoid using mouthwash to remove the food particles near the gum line rather than flossing since flossing is the actual procedure that will help in breaking down the bacteria film.
You should also visit your dentist regularly after the dental sealant has been placed. There is no need to adjust your regular dental checkup routine due to the dental sealant. Your dental care routine is enough to maintain your sealant. The dentist will repair the small chips or worn out areas during the regular appointment. With a good dental routine and dentist checkup, the dental sealant can last for as long as ten years.
The Cost of Dental Sealant
The price of a dental sealant is determined by the number of teeth that a patient wants to be set. The cost range per tooth is $30 to $40, but the price might be slightly higher in other places. The price includes the sealing of the tooth and maintenance of the sealant. Most dentists have different policies when it comes to maintaining the sealant. Dental sealant maintenance includes repairing and replacing the deficient sealants. Some dentists might decide to charge you for the repair and do a cost-free replacement while others prefer to do a free fix and charge for the replacement.
Dental Sealant and Medical Coverage
Many dental insurance policies provide coverage for dental sealants. Most insurance companies realize that it is a suitable way to reduce the chances of the tooth cavity, which cuts down the expenses in the long-run. Even so, certain policy limitations might follow. These policies are as follows:
- Most insurance policies may provide coverage to certain types of teeth. It is common for the first and second permanent molars to fall under the insurance. Such coverage does not favor children’s primary teeth or their premolars.
- Coverage might be limited to people of a specific age. In most cases, 16 years is usually the typical cutoff age.
- The policy might limit the frequency of the dental seal. For instance, the insurance policy might put a three to five years limit, which stipulates additional costs if the dental sealant requires sealant within a shorter timeline.
- The deductible of the policy might be included or not. Some plans provide full benefits of the procedure even when the total deductible is not met. Others would not be as generous as expected.
Find an Encino Dentist Near Me
Getting a dental sealant seems to be quite straightforward. However, you must involve a dentist if you want it to be set on your teeth. You need to be thorough with your choice of the dentist since not all can meet your expectations. Encino Dentist offers quality dental care services to clients living in Encino, CA. For more information about our services, call us at 818-650-0429. | <urn:uuid:e043e199-9303-485b-b3df-01db5eaafc28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theencinodentist.com/dental-services/general-dentistry/dental-sealants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952509 | 2,732 | 2.421875 | 2 |
There are thousands of animals out there who barely survive every day due to the awful conditions they live in. It’s a wonder that there are amazing organizations like Hope For Paws that dedicate their lives to saving so many of them. You probably recognize them from other animal rescue videos that we’ve shared; they’re one of the most prolific pet rescuers all across America, and their videos always inspire me with hope.
In this case, Hope For Paws received a report about a group of dogs who were living astray like a pack, inside a junkyard in the neighborhood of Compton, L.A., in California. They thought it would be just like any normal rescue mission, but they were mistaken. This story takes an unexpected turn, and you won’t believe what it is!
When they got to the scene, they realized that the mother was living nearby, hiding in the woods. After they got there, they thought that was it, but that’s when they realized that the dog was actually not the mother, but the father! Even though he was unable to feed them, he felt for the puppies and tried to give them anything he could find so that they could survive, and thanks to this organization, now they have a second chance at life!
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For Tribal Leaders
In this section you will find resources for those who own and manage community water systems and are therefore responsible for making decisions that will ensure their long term sustainability. Depending on the management model implemented in your community, the owner and manager of the water system may be the water utility itself or may be the local Tribe or city administration.
You will also find resources for those who, regardless of their role in water system management, want to initiate outreach and educational programs that support water system sustainability and healthy water use. This includes guidance on community engagement, promoting behavior change, starting critical conversations and celebrating local water culture.
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Carte des ILES DE FRANCE et de LA REUNION, par BORY de ST VINCENT, Officier d'Etat Major, Pour Servir à son Voyage dans quatre iles DES MERS D'AFRIQUE. Dessinée par Bory de St Vincent, et gravée par B. Very l arge and unusual antique map of the island of Mauritius and Reunion, in the Indian ocean , drawn by Bory de St Vincent, engraved by B. A nice compass in the center. He was the chief naturalist of the corvette Le Naturaliste in the second expedition of Nicolas Baudin in the southern countries.During a trip to Australia, he was forced to stay in Reunion island where he conducted scientific observations and drew up several drawings and maps. Size with margins : 90 x 63 cm / 35,4 x 24,8 inches. Good condition, a small repair in the left side in the margin, handed colored. WE DON'T SELL LASER AND COPIES MAPS, ALL WE SELL IS ORIGINAL AND ANTIQUE.
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The French government today added to international calls for WikiLeaks to be prevented operating online, warning that it is "unacceptable" for a "criminal" site to be hosted in the country.
Today's move by the French government is particularly significant because the 250,000 US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks to the Guardian and four other media organisations are hosted by a French company, Octopuce.
The industry minister, Eric Besson, today wrote to the French body governing internet use warning that there would be consequences for any companies or organisations helping to keep WikiLeaks online in the country.
French companies are banned from hosting websites that have been deemed "criminal" and "violate the confidentiality of diplomatic relations", Besson added.
WikiLeaks has been part-hosted by OVH, a small web hosting company based in northern France, since Thursday, when it was dropped by Amazon following pressure from Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security and one of its fiercest critics.
The site's cache of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables are also hosted in part by Octopuce, though they are also widely available on peer-to-peer filesharing sites which do not sit under the jurisdiction of one state.
Besson today said: "France cannot host internet sites that violate the confidentiality of diplomatic relations and put in danger people who are protected by diplomatic secrecy.
"I ask you to indicate to me as soon as possible what action can be taken to ensure that this internet site is no longer hosted in France."
OVH quickly hit back at the French government, saying "it's not up to politicians or OVH to decide the site's closure". The company said it will consult a judge on whether it is legal to host the whistleblowing site in France.
WikiLeaks was today largely offline for the third time in a week after being dropped by its US-hosting provider, Everydns. The California-based provider says it pulled the plug on WikiLeaks following a series of online attacks which threatened to destabilise the service it offers to 500,000 other companies.
The site is currently only available at the Swiss domain, WikiLeaks.ch, and a number of IP strings.
Julian Assange. WiliLeaks founder, earlier today said the development is an example of the "privatisation of state censorship" in the US and is a "serious problem".
"These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States," he warned.
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The Digital Organizing team at OXO breaks down why looking at family photos can improve our mental health.
Are you guilty of photo hoarding? Too often, we upload thousands of photos to our laptops and the cloud and seldom look at them again. What’s more, our digitized world has caused us to forget our family prints and physical albums, especially in times of stress, sadness, pain, or loneliness.
At OXO Digital Organizing, we hope to encourage you to change all that. It’s more than just fun and entertaining; looking at old family photos can quickly stimulate healing and improve our mood, and also allows us to practice mindfulness in the moment.
Try it today! Below are four distinct benefits of thumbing through your old photos:
Are you overwhelmed at work, struggling to bring a dream to fruition, or just suffering from a case of the Mondays? There is so much in the world to bring us down. By picking up your high school yearbook or rifling through an old photo album, you’ll be able to take a moment away from the grind and put a smile on your face.
Suffering from an illness can affect one’s outlook on life. Those afflicted with a long-term condition can easily find themselves depressed. If you’re house bound or on bed-rest, organizing and digitizing your photo collection may be a therapeutic project.
Pulling out a box of your mother’s old photos can also make you feel connected to your family. Meditating on the trials that your ancestors survived can give you the strength you need to continue putting one foot in front of the other.
The death of someone dear to us is devastating; yet it’s not uncommon to see people laughing and exchanging stories at a wake. It is a healthy and important part of the grieving process to honor our loved ones by cherishing their memories.
The passing of someone you love may motivate you to organize your photos and give you a great sense of closure knowing that your family’s memories are preserved and safe for future generations.
4. Connecting with Kids
Preserving children’s photos and works of art builds a bridge to the past that you can visit again and again. Children love to look at long forgotten masterpieces and old pictures of themselves – and so do parents!
If you’ve hit a rough patch with your child and are having a hard time connecting, consider breaking out the baby album. Sharing pictures from when they were small and anecdotes about the shenanigans they got into can help ease the tension and remind them how much they are loved.
Remembering and Reminiscing for our Mental Health
There are many reasons to sit awhile with some old photos and reminisce about the past. It reminds us of better times, connects us to passed loved ones, and can renew our determination to reach a neglected goal.
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The Casio GW-M5610U (also called GW-M5610U-1) is a digital G-Shock watch that charges using sunlight and keeps precise time by syncing with atomic clock radio calibration signals.
I like attending work meetings on time and started looking for a wristwatch that could maintain precision in time. To my surprise, I discovered that all digital/quartz wristwatches deviate by a few seconds within a month. Mechanical watches are worse (even million dollar ones) - deviate by seconds within a day!
The only precise solutions turned out to be smart watches (that sync with NTP servers over the internet) or digital watches that sync to the atomic clock radio signals that are transmitted on most continents. Needless to say that I preferred the radio sync - anything to avoid the complexity of smartwatches and their poor battery performance. I asked the friendly folks on WatchCrunch for a recommendation and the answer was GW-M5610.
I went to order the GW-M5610 (usually named GW-M5610-1 on sites) and found that it had been recently updated to GW-M5610U with an updated module and other features. And that is how I ended up with this gem.
The watch supports these 6 signals:
The user guide calls the 4 buttons A-D, but I will be referring to them using their position on the watch since that is unambiguously easier:
Solar charging: The display is surrounded by grey solar panels. The current charge is shown by the L/M/H (low/medium/high) bars at the bottom-right. The guide says that half an hour of direct sunlight can keep the watch running for a month.
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Conditions We Support You With
Whether it’s back, neck and spinal pain, something everyone will experience at some point in their lives, that you’re struggling with or you’re feeling constantly dizzy and off-balance, or simply require ongoing pain management, our team of Physiotherapists are trained in the latest evidence-based, hands-on techniques to help you.
Back and Neck Pain/Spinal
Approximately 80% of the population will experience back pain at one point in their life and half of the general population are expected to experience neck pain within their lifetime.
Back and neck pain are common musculoskeletal disorders. Physiotherapists vast knowledge of the unique anatomy and biomechanics of the neck and back coupled with their in depth understanding of pain science allows them to deliver world class management for back and neck pain.
Our physiotherapists are trained in numerous internationally recognised techniques to treat spinal conditions such as the Maitland approach, the McKenzie Method of mechanical diagnosis and therapy and the Mulligan Concept of manual therapy.
We treat all conditions related to neck and back pain. Some of the most common conditions including:
- Discogenic pain (bulges, protrusions, extrusions and sequestrations)
- Acute Wry neck
- Facet joint and articular dysfunctions
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Spondylolisthesis and Spondylolysis
- Nerve root pain
- Post-operative lumbar conditions (discectomy, laminectomy and fusions)
Our highly experienced team will implement the latest manual therapy techniques, individualised exercise strategies and pain science education all backed by the most up to date evidence to empower you to manage your back and neck pain.
Please call us today or book online to make an appointment.
The pain management program is a unique approach to managing chronic conditions.
Using training gained in post-graduate courses, Enhance Physiotherapy have developed a Pain Management Program designed to unpack and help people understand the science and psychology behind chronic and persistent pain. Run over 4 weeks, the once weekly sessions include education and activities designed to help those that may be suffering from persistent pain or those who may be at risk of developing persistent pain.
The program requires no doctor’s referral and encourages people to get involved and ask questions to help them better understand and manage their own pain.
Vestibular physiotherapists treat patients with dizziness and balance problems.
The vestibular system, a tiny apparatus within the inner ear is often the source of these symptoms and can be treated with a targeted exercise-based approach by a suitable qualified therapist.
Common conditions we treat include:
- Vertigo – Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Vestibular neuritis and labyrinthitis
- Vestibular migraines
- Concussion/post-concussive syndrome
- Vestibular hypofunction (bilateral/unilateral)
- Motion sensitivity
- Persistent postural perceptual dizziness
- Acoustic neuroma/Vestibular schwannoma
- Falls and general balance decline
All our physiotherapists are trained in vestibular rehabilitation with our physiotherapist, Chris Oats, having undertaken extensive post-graduate training by world class leaders in Vestibular rehabilitation. We are proud to offer the most up to date evidence-based assessment and management with the latest cutting-edge equipment.
This level of service and technology won’t be seen anywhere else in the region.
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That mold that you see on your roof is not actually mold. It’s some algae-like bacteria that brings dark streaks to your asphalt shingle roofs. Admit it, these dark streaks do not bring value to your home and are very unpleasant to look at. Know more about these bacteria below and find out how you can get rid of them.
What Causes the Mold in My Roof?
The problem with mold on the roof is relatively new. Before, the shingles were made using felt and asphalt. Presently, however, shingles are now made with fiberglass and limestone. As limestone was incorporated, these molds started appearing on roofs.
Although the dark streaks on your roof may be caused by an accumulation of dirt, the most common culprit is some algae-like bacteria. Also known as the blue-green algae, these cyanobacteria feed on limestone. This makes the modern shingle roofs their source of food.
Is the Mold in My Roof Harmful?
The growth of the blue-green algae is a very common problem on areas which have warm and humid summers. Fortunately, these molds in your roof make no damage on your roofing.
Of course, it is not a very pleasant view to look at. Additionally, if left alone, it can be inviting to fungi and other plant matters, adding more aesthetic problem to your home. This may not be so much of a problem now, but it will definitely be a problem on the resale value of your home, if that time comes.
How do I get rid of the Mold on My Roof?
Here are ways to remove or completely avoid mold on your roof.
Use Chemical Cleaning.
The less expensive way to solve this roof problem is to use a bleach and water solution. The solution is made with 50 percent bleach and 50 percent water. It is then applied on the shingles using a soft brush. Never use power sprayer or a pressure washer as they are likely to damage the shingles.
Keep in mind that this is not a DIY work and will cause more harm than good to you if done without consulting a professional. Note also that, as this is only a cleaning process, algae will eventually come back.
Utilize Zinc or Copper Strips.
Try looking around your neighborhood and find a house that has a chimney with copper flashing. Notice that the area below the flashings do not have any algae stains. This is because copper is lethal to algae.
To keep the mold in your roof from coming back, insert strips of copper or zinc under the shingling that is closest to the peak of the roof. That way, whenever it rains, zinc and copper traces will be washed down the roof by the rain, killing the algae along the way.
The roof of the house is one of the most important parts of our home. It is important to call a reliable roofing company that can help address all your roofing needs.
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Herd conduct states that people are inclined to mimic the monetary behaviors of the bulk, or herd, whether or not these actions are rational or irrational. Social impact bonds are a specific type of instrument that acts as a contract with the general public sector or native authorities. Repayment and return on funding are contingent upon the achievement of certain social outcomes and achievements. Around 3000 BC, banking appears to have originated in the Babylonian/Sumerian empire, where temples and palaces have been used as secure places for the storage of monetary assets—grain, cattle, and silver or copper ingots. Grain was the foreign money of selection within the country, whereas silver was most popular in the city. While it has roots in scientific fields, such as statistics, economics, and arithmetic, finance additionally contains non-scientific parts that liken it to an art.
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You can study extra concerning the standards we follow in producing accurate, unbiased content in oureditorial policy. Amount that wages within the finance and insurance trade have elevated since 2006, based on Payscale. However, there isn’t a denying the truth that the monetary trade also consists of non-scientific parts that liken it to an artwork. For instance, it has been discovered that human feelings play a large position in many aspects of the monetary world. For example, in July 2016, the newspaper publishing company Gannett reported web income for the second quarter of $12.3 million, down 77% from $53.three million in the course of the 2015 second quarter.
- The twin assumptions of rationality and market effectivity lead to fashionable portfolio theory , and to the Black–Scholes theory for choice valuation; it additional research phenomena and models the place these assumptions do not maintain, or are prolonged.
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Nonetheless, as time went on, lecturers in the monetary and financial realms detected anomalies and behaviors which occurred in the true world but could not be defined by any available theories. Modern types of social finance also embrace some segments of microfinance, specifically loans to small enterprise owners and entrepreneurs in much less developed nations to allow their enterprises to develop. Lenders earn a return on their loans whereas concurrently helping to improve people’ lifestyle and to benefit the local society and economy. Personal monetary planning usually includes analyzing a person’s or a family’s present monetary position, predicting quick-time period, and lengthy-term wants, and executing a plan to satisfy those wants within individual monetary constraints.
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While that might be true, it is more likely that the $80 determine was an anomaly, and $sixty five is the true worth of the shares. As a end result, academics began to show to cognitive psychology to be able to account for irrational and illogical behaviors which are unexplained by trendy monetary theory. Behavioral science is the field that was born out of those efforts; it seeks to clarify our actions, whereas modern finance seeks to explain the actions of the idealized “economic man” . There was a time when theoretical and empirical evidence appeared to counsel that standard financial theories had been moderately profitable at predicting and explaining sure forms of economic occasions. | <urn:uuid:229d54c4-27a3-44b3-84ec-8aed3ef10b6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessbuild.xyz/what-is-finance-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952113 | 784 | 2.1875 | 2 |
According to me, losing weight is much more than just consuming fewer calories to bring about a drop on the weighing scale. For a lot of people, it is essential to safeguard themselves against the growing menace of lifestyle diseases.
We all know that one of the first rules of losing weight is to ditch ‘fatty foods’ and switch to a ‘healthy diet’. But that’s not all. Weight loss does not simply mean scrapping fatty foods off the menu. Sometimes it requires you to bring about a balance by sneaking certain foods in your diet.
These foods are –
1. They are nutrient dense; rich in proteins, fibers and antioxidants.
2. They usually have low glycemic index.
3. They help in regulating blood glucose and keep insulin levels low. Low levels of insulin allow the release of fatty acids which help in fat loss.
Here’s a checklist of five foods that are not just granny’s home remedies chewed and digested through generations; they come with a scientific back up. Some foods have a high thermogenic effect, a process by which the body generates heat that accelerates metabolism, scorching away the calories, while others contain compounds and chemicals that are effective fat burners. Combine these fat burning foods along with a calorie-restricted diet to boost up the metabolic rate and reduce body fat.
1. Protein-Rich Foods:Proteins are thermogenic in nature which means they produce heat when they undergo the digestion process. Proteins use 30% of the body’s calories to break down. You should start by including the following in your daily diet –
- Fish: They are rich in DHA (omega 3 fatty acids) and lean proteins which help in burning fat.
- Beans: They are rich in proteins, low in fat and high in fiber. A combination of all three helps in fat loss.
- Nuts are rich in essential fats, fibers and proteins. Nuts help in breaking down fat and in fat mobilisation.
- Eggs are also great for burning fat naturally as they are packed with protein. Also, research supports that if you start your day with an egg you tend to eat fewer calories through the day.
2. Whole Grains: Whole grains help in fat reduction and should be included as the part of daily food intake. They are rich in B vitamins, vitamin E, magnesium and fiber which help in maintaining blood glucose levels and regulate your metabolism. These include – jowar,bajra, ragi, oats along with others. Oats contain a soluble fibre called beta-glucan which is known to absorb fats. It digests slowly and therefore leaves you with a feeling of being full for a longer time. Millets boost bile secretions that destroy undesirable fats. Moreover, the body uses up a lot of calories to break down and digest these grains.
Here are some interesting recipes to try at home –
Whole Grain Crackers
3. Apples: This forbidden fruit of Eden is the doctor’s pet. Apples are packed with pectin, a chemical that combines with water and limits the amount of fats absorbed by the body cells. Apples are also loaded with fiber, the consumption of which keeps you full for a longer time. Bite into an apple to curb your cravings into the bargain.
For some delicious apple dose –
Hot Apple Punch
Apple Carrot Muffin
Oat Apple Crumble
4. Cinnamon: You may have reserved it for Christmas cooking but cinnamon is actually one of the most effective fat burning spices. It helps in regulating blood sugar levels and reduces high cholesterol levels. Steady blood sugar levels help in preventing cravings and keep you energetic through the day. Use about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon in your morning cup of tea or mix it with warm water and honey and drink it.
5. Green Leafy Vegetables: Eat lots of green leafy vegetables as they are low in calories, high in fiber and contain calcium and vitamin C. Vegetables juices like spinach and celery help in cleansing the body, increase the metabolic rate and aid in fat loss.
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Science & Technology Experiments (U)
(U) This subthrust includes support to a wide variety of aerospace flight experiments, some of which are covered under other sections of this Technology Area Plan, the Directed Energy TAP, or planning documents external to DoD. Experiment support may include some or all program components from planning and development through actual execution of the flight operation.
Description User Impact Programmatics Images Related Initiatives Related Requirements Related Categories Road Map Placements Additional Hotlinks Lead Office POC
(U) The Balloon Assisted Launch System is a program to develop and demonstrate space access via a balloon-borne rocket carried to 80,000 feet prior to ignition. From this point a 250 pound payload can be placed into low earth orbit. An overall system weight of 10,000 pounds is anticipated with a balloon of 6 million cubic foot volume. The potential offered by the system is significant flexibility in launch location and a dramatic reduction in launch site infrastructure requirements. The balloon replaces the first stage of a traditional rocket system. The program is being conducted by Phillips Laboratory (SX) and Winzen Engineering under a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant. System development is currently underway with initial flight tests planned for FY97.
(U) The Superpressure Balloon System is a program to develop and to validate the performance of a balloon envelope capable of sustained high altitude flight for terrestrial and planetary research missions. The super-pressure system has the potential to dramatically increase the capability to conduct near space experiments, technology validations and operational missions at a fraction of the cost of space systems. Where traditional zero-pressure balloon systems must vent helium during the day and release ballast at night to avoid excessive altitude excursions, the superpressure system maintains a constant altitude by utilizing a pressurized balloon envelope. Future mission duration will be established by material endurance properties and the experimenterís requirements. Development of the superpressure system is being pursued as a cooperative venture between Winzen Engineering and Phillips Laboratory.
(U) A new generation balloon flight control package was developed under a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant managed by the Phillips Laboratory. This a bus based programmable set of instrumentation that allows the most flexibility for a variety of balloon experiments. This unit is lighter and more compact than previous versions and can be easily programmed for different experiments. It consumes less power and requires less thermal protection than earlier versions. This system was flight tested in May 97.
(U) A stand alone GPS was developed by Sandia Research Associates under a contract with Phillips Laboratory. This unit was designed to provide balloon positions and trajectories when the balloon was beyond line-of-sight of the telemetry station. Data are relayed at preset intervals from the balloon through INMARSAT to a ground COMSAT receiving station. The data are then placed on the internet and can be accessed via modem at the Balloon Control Center. Data are also stored onboard for data analysis. This system was flight tested in May 97.
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(U) To be supplied.
Related Initiatives (U): None.
Related Requirements (U):None.
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Name Title Adv Tech Integration & Demos Advanced Technical Integration and Demonstrations This Table Is Unclassified.
Road Map Placements (U):
Name Title TECHNOLOGY- RDT&E SPACE TECHNOLOGY This Table Is Unclassified.
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(U) Air Force.
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Date Of Information (U):
(U) 16 July 1997
(U) Road Map Production Date: 12 July 1999
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By going to India then you’ll see many of the women clad the traditional put on we know of as sari or saree. Indian sarees can also be present in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The fabric within the cloth varies too crepe, georgette, silk, chiffon, cotton along with other mixture of fabrics. The greater decent designed sarees are frequently putting on in special Hindu festivals and operations because the saree could be a traditional outfit. Essentially, Sarees are traditional and sacred. It signifies the wholesomeness in ladies many the women and a lot of women put on the saree.
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Ethics and artificial intelligence
From an article on Digital Insurance
Sheldon Fernandez, chief executive officer at DarwinAI, recently spoke on the topic, "Ethical AI: Separating Fact from Fad.” at an Artificial Intelligence conference in New York. Sheldon defined Ethical AI as "the effort to ensure that AI systems behave in a way that is morally acceptable by human standards."
Ethics in AI is extremely important given the proliferation of AI systems in consequential areas of our lives e.g. financial decision-making systems, what news we consume on Facebook and other media sites. Moreover, there are areas where AI decision-making can literally be the difference between life and death e.g. autonomous vehicles, health care diagnosis. In such cases it is paramount that AI adheres to the ethical standards we set for it.
'Unethical' AI examples have already occured. In 2016, for example, a US Parole Algorithm received negative press when it was discovered that the software predicting the future of criminals was biased against African Americans. Because the system was trained using historical data, it simply mirrored prejudices in the judicial system. In another recent example, a recruiting tool created by Amazon began favouring male candidates over female candidates as a result of the historical data it was fed.
Sheldon observed that it has become faddish to talk about the important of ethical AI and the need for oversight, transparency, guidelines, diversity, etc., at an abstract and high-level. This is not a bad thing, but often assumes that such ‘talk’ is concomitant in addressing the challenges of ethical AI. The facts, however, are much more complex. For example, guidelines themselves are often ineffective. Moreover, even if we agree on how an AI system should behave (not trivial), implementing specific behaviour in the context of the complex machinery that underpins AI is extremely challenging.
How then can we get artificial intelligence systems to behave ethically?
He observes, "With many modern AI techniques, the system’s behaviour is a reflection of the data the system is trained against and the human labelers who annotate that data. Such systems are often described as ‘black boxes’ because it is not clear how they use this data to reach particular conclusions, and these ambiguities make it difficult to determine how or why the system behaves the way does.
"In this context, ensuring that a system behaves ethically is quite challenging as its behaviour is not predicated on simple rules, but is rather the emergent by-product of numerous surrounding factors. Put another way, AI systems learn by looking at data from millions of examples. It is difficult to predict how they’ll behave in new scenarios outside these examples."
How does an organization best determine what is ethical behaviour in the first place, to instill that into AI programs?
Sheldon advises, "This is where the role of committees and guidelines are crucial, as they take the responsibility of prescribing behaviour away from the arbitrary quirks of a single engineer and place them in the hands of collaborative group that typically consists of policy-makers, industry experts, philosophers, ethicists and engineers. In this way, ethical guidelines are deliberatively determined through collaboration (though implementing them robustly is, again, another story)."
Read the full article here.
As we move towards a world where AI is embedded into a plethora of systems, we may need to see regulation in this area if practical guidelines and spread of best practices do not work. Creators of systems using AI need to build strong boundaries into their systems. This is especially true in scenarios involving the general welfare of human beings: autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis, weaponry, law enforcement, etc.
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The Global Market for Bioplastics in Packaging 2023-2033 provides an in-depth analysis of the current market, future outlook and growth opportunities in sectors such as food, drink, food-service and other packaging sectors. The packaging market is the main end use sector for biopolymers, with increased demand for sustainability from packaging producers and food and beverage brands. Packaging (including rigid and flexible packaging, paper coating, and foodservice) is the largest market segment for bioplastics, accounting for >1.3 million tons of the total bioplastics market in 2021.
Report contents include:
Data forecasts by volume and value for all major bioplastic types in packaging
Analysis of producers and production capacities.
Performance properties of biopolymers are a replacement for oil-based polymers for packaging.
Market analysis of bioplastics in packaging for food & beverages, food-service and other packaging sectors.
Analysis of bioplastics in packaging by type, including:
Polybutylene succinate (PBS)
Microfibrillated cellulose (MFC)
Algal and fungal based bioplastics and biopolymers.
More than 300 companies profiled including products and production capacities. Companies profiled include major producers such as Arkema, Avantium, BASF, Borealis, Braskem, Cathay, Danimer Scientific, Indorama, Mitsubishi Chemicals, NatureWorks, Novamont, TotalEnergies Corbion and many more.
Historical Data Available for
US$ Million for Value and Tonnes for Volume
Key Regions Covered
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As members of a Tri-M® chapter you and your ensemble are a part of an even larger musical community that is passionate not only about music, but about service. Expressing through actions and words what music brings to the world. Service is a major part of Tri-M® and there are thousands of different projects that chapters have taken on for their schools and communities.
January 18, 2016 marks not only the MLK National Service Day, but the National Tri-M Service Day as well! The mission of the National Tri-M Service Day is for chapters all across the country to come together and serve their communities.
Here are a few ideas on how your chapter can give back to your community on National Tri-M Service Day:
- Perform at a Local Nursing Home/Assisted Living Centers/Police Department/Fire Department/Community Center
- Educate your community on the benefits of a music education
- Help students learn about different musical instruments
- Organize a community music event
- Give music lessons at local group homes, orphanages, or retirement homes
- Establish an annual community award for the person, business, or organization most supportive of your music program
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Our study of attendance in City Schools’ early grades resulted in a surprising discovery. Head Start students began kindergarten with better attendance than peers from City Schools pre-kindergarten. Not only that, they maintained a higher level of attendance through the end of third grade! That’s four years after leaving the program.
Baltimore is making progress in our schools with the help of new investment and much-needed reforms. We know, however, that our efforts to improve facilities and teacher performance can only be successful if every student is present and ready to learn.
Chakel, an 11th grade law program student at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore City, believes she can make her mark through success in school: “Every day, I work on making an impact on the world.” But every day, other Baltimore City Public Schools students struggle just to get to school.
This week, alarm clocks will sound off throughout Baltimore city signaling parents, students and teachers to awaken for the first week of school. Some will bounce right out of bed eager to start the day while others will hit the snooze button hoping for an extra five minutes of sleep. Why should there be a […] | <urn:uuid:0efd805e-8f66-4d82-aadb-2bf9ab501a3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.osibaltimore.org/tag/attendance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949445 | 249 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Direct Implementation in Indian Country
EPA is responsible for implementing federal environmental statutes in Indian country. In the absence of a federally approved tribal program, EPA retains program implementation authority. Currently, EPA maintains responsibility for the implementation of the vast majority of federal environmental statutes in Indian country.
The EPA's Direct Implementation of Federal Environmental Programs in Indian Country document describes EPA’s direct implementation responsibilities and activities under nine major federal environmental statutes and for emergency response activities. Each section describes the key direct implementation responsibilities that EPA retains. | <urn:uuid:6a6dda32-0781-4783-9806-6090b49e1b58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/tribal/direct-implementation-indian-country_.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.868027 | 102 | 2.765625 | 3 |
America’s Abandonment of Traditional Values Has Hurt the Black Community
One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I’d like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people.
I graduated from Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin High School in 1954. Franklin’s predominantly black students were from the poorest North Philadelphia neighborhoods.
During those days, there were no policemen patrolling the hallways. Today, close to 400 police patrol Philadelphia schools. There were occasional after-school fights—rumbles, as we called them—but within the school, there was order. In contrast with today, students didn’t use foul language to teachers, much less assault them.
Places such as the Richard Allen housing project, where I lived, became some of the most dangerous and dysfunctional places in Philadelphia. Mayhem—in the form of murders, shootings, and assaults—became routine.
How might one explain the greater civility of Philadelphia and other big-city, predominantly black neighborhoods and schools during earlier periods compared with today? Would anyone argue that during the ’40s and ’50s, there was less racial discrimination and poverty? Was academic performance higher because there were greater opportunities? Was civility in school greater in earlier periods because black students had more black role models in the form of black principals, teachers, and guidance counselors? That’s nonsense, at least in northern schools. In my case, I had no more than three black teachers throughout primary and secondary school.
Starting in the 1960s, the values that made for civility came under attack. Corporal punishment was banned. This was the time when the education establishment and liberals launched their agenda that undermined lessons children learned from their parents and the church.
We have replaced what worked with what sounds good.
Sex education classes undermined family/church strictures against premarital sex. Lessons of abstinence were ridiculed, considered passé, and replaced with lessons about condoms, birth control pills, and abortion. Further undermining of parental authority came with legal and extralegal measures to assist teenage abortions, often with neither parental knowledge nor parental consent.
Customs, traditions, moral values, and rules of etiquette are behavioral norms, transmitted mostly by example, word of mouth, and religious teachings. As such, they represent a body of wisdom distilled through the ages by experience and trial and error.
The nation’s liberals—along with the education establishment, pseudo-intellectuals, and the courts—have waged war on traditions, customs and moral values. Many people have been counseled to believe that there are no moral absolutes. Instead, what’s moral or immoral is a matter of personal convenience, personal opinion, what feels good, or what is or is not criminal.
We no longer condemn or shame self-destructive and rude behavior, such as out-of-wedlock pregnancies, dependency, cheating, and lying. We have replaced what worked with what sounds good.
The abandonment of traditional values has negatively affected the nation as a whole, but blacks have borne the greater burden. This is seen by the decline in the percentage of black two-parent families. Today, a little over 30 percent of black children live in an intact family, where as early as the late 1800s, over 70 percent did. Black illegitimacy in 1938 was 11 percent, and that for whites was 3 percent. Today, it’s respectively 73 percent and 30 percent.
It is the height of dishonesty, as far as blacks are concerned, to blame our problems on slavery, how white people behave, and racial discrimination. If those lies are not exposed, we will continue to look for external solutions when true solutions are internal. Those of us who are old enough to know better need to expose these lies. | <urn:uuid:292d436c-9cb3-41aa-b51a-fbcc360e009b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huntforliberty.com/lost-traditional-values-hurts-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970418 | 794 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin is fast approaching a critical technical challenge that will fundamentally shape the course of its future. If unaddressed, an arbitrary protocol quirk implemented by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto as a short-term security measure could soon undermine Bitcoin's scalability, usability, and even its long-term viability—although, as always, opinions differ. It's a bit of a complex issue, but one that Bitcoin enthusiasts should pay attention to. The final outcome of this Bitcoin block size limit debate will affect how easy it will be to use Bitcoin for common everyday transactions and complex experimental transfers alike.
Bitcoin replaces third-party payment processing with a rule-bound distributed ledger of all transactions, called the blockchain, which is maintained by profit-seeking Bitcoin miners and stored and shared by volunteer nodes. When you send a transaction over the Bitcoin network, thousands of computers running the Bitcoin mining software are quietly competing to process your transfer and others as part of a new block, or ledger page, that is then stored as part of the full blockchain by thousands of computers operating bitcoin nodes. The miner first able to validate and seal a new block of transactions will receive a set amount of freshly-minted bitcoins, plus any user-set transaction fees.
Bitcoin block sizes are determined in the same way as Bitcoin prices: by the market. Bitcoin users want to utilize a fee that will attract miners to process their transfer quickly, while miners want to maximize their transaction fee and net reward by prioritizing certain block sizes and compositions. Aggregate mining supply interacts with aggregate transaction demand and block size equilibria emerge.
But an arbitrary protocol rule prohibiting blocks exceeding one megabyte in size from being added to the blockchain could now strain Bitcoin's potential as global payment system. Miners are currently forbidden from adding blocks bigger than one megabyte, even if it is profitable to do so. Because the protocol is designed to add one new block to the blockchain every ten minutes, this size limit imposes a theoretical cap on the total number of possible Bitcoin transactions per unit of time—and could make it harder to compete against entrenched payment systems like Visa and PayPal that can manage millions of daily transactions with ease.
There is no deep philosophical or technical reason for the current limit. Satoshi instituted the one megabyte rule as a temporary anti-spam measure in Bitcoin's early days. It wasn't a problem for most of Bitcoin's history, since the "market for block size" tended to be far below Satoshi's capricious limit—like a price ceiling set far above the prevailing market norm. Satoshi and other developers expected that a higher block size limit would be gradually phased in as the network matured and block sizes slowly approached the limit, which is projected to occur in late 2016.
What happens then? The same thing that always happens when demand exceeds an artificially limited supply: the price will increase. In this case, it's the "price" to send a transaction; Bitcoin users would pay more in either time or transaction fees.
Users unable or unwilling to entice miners with generous transaction fees may find themselves experiencing longer and longer confirmation times. The Bitcoin "haves," on the other hand, could simply pay for priority blockchain access. Bitcoin miners, meanwhile, would enjoy higher-than-market returns for lower-than-competitive service. It's quite possible that only large, perhaps institutional, transactions would remain cost-effective in such a market. Or perhaps, its core value proposition undermined, Bitcoin would slowly die out.
A number of proposals have been floated to address the impending limit. Two of the most public-facing developers, Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn, support increasing the limit to 20 megabytes, with the option of increasing it further in the future as necessary. Others have suggested that gradual block size increases could be overseen by a simple rule, similar to how the Bitcoin supply schedule is programmed to automatically increase.
Fundamental changes to the Bitcoin protocol require a "hard fork" with which all Bitcoin users and miners must agree to upgrade. Gathering such a strict consensus is even harder than it sounds.
Some of the most Bitcoin-literate developers fear that unlimited block sizes could harm network decentralization and security. If block sizes grow large enough and the cost of storing the full blockchain becomes too high, then many volunteer nodes that broadcast the blockchain without compensation may drop out of the network, forcing users to trust the stewardship of only a handful of deep-pocketed server farmers. Mining, too, could be consolidated in the hands of a few power pools. However, these very real problems might persist even if the one megabyte limit is never changed.
The stakes for Bitcoin are clearly high, and few envy the Bitcoin developers right now. The complex interactions that fuel the Bitcoin network are critical to conserve, easy to inadvertently sabotage, and difficult to anticipate. But the great block size debate highlights the inescapable political element lurking in the technical constitution of Bitcoin. Once mainly technological questions of scaling and centralization will now translate more obviously to social questions of access and inequality with each passing year. | <urn:uuid:30ce7079-000b-4205-b92f-8c3dc3b99a17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reason.com/2015/06/09/bitcoin-block-size-limit-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934208 | 1,025 | 2.46875 | 2 |
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? “Funny” Woody Allen or “Serious” Woody Allen? Coke or Pepsi? For many people, such questions trigger endless arguments bordering on warfare. In the world of modern superhero comics, the question for many is Kirby or Ditko? Mark Evanier’s Kirby: King of Comics (reviewed here) fired the first shot for the Kirby-philes, to which Blake Bell’s Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko responds in a less affectionate, but just as admiring way—a book as conflicted as the artist himself. Bell traces Ditko’s life from his earliest days in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to his meteoric rise in the comic industry and heyday helping create Spider-Man and other cultural icons, to his essentially turning his back on fame and fortune in the name of philosophical and artistic principle. Today, Ditko still churns out comics in his Times Square studio, living in relative poverty as his characters rake in millions in films and publications. Never once has Ditko cried out “Help!” (as in the stunning, almost Expressionist image above from Strange Tales #94, March 1962) and asked for retribution. A hero in his own mind, Ditko never compromised his principles and always placed the art before the artist, becoming as elusive as Thomas Pynchon for those trying to enter his world. Blake Bell storms Castle Ditko and sheds light into the darkest corners of his art.
Ditko grew up in the shadow of disaster—the Great 1889 Flood of Johnstown that claimed more than 2,200 lives. Haunted by that memory and facing the financial disaster of the Great Depression, Ditko and his family, like so many of that generation, found solace in the comic adventures of Prince Valiant, Batman, and The Spirit. After serving in World War II, Ditko used the G.I. Bill to study under Batman artist Jerry Robinson in New York City. Ditko took the skills learned under Robinson to a series of studios before landing at Charlton Comics in 1953. Charlton treated comics as “filler” for their other publishing ventures, so Ditko enjoyed full freedom, albeit poor payment, at Charlton before the institution of the Comics Code in 1954. “Ditko reveled in this short-lived freedom,” Bell writes. “His imagery of buzzing electric chairs, dismemberment and death by drowning continued the trend of horror that was garnering such negative attention.” Throughout, Bell uses concrete examples of Ditko’s early art to demonstrate the amazing story-telling techniques of the master. “His use of single design elements, spatial interaction of objects, negative space and spotting of blacks were giving his work a recognizable visual identity,” Bell writes. Bell’s dissection of Ditko provides a primer on the fundamentals of visual storytelling itself. Eventually, Ditko found himself at Marvel Comics working with Stan Lee. Fleshing out Lee’s rough outline, Ditko gave form to Marvel’s greatest character—Spider-Man. “It was Ditko’s ability to expand on Lee’s framework that separated the ‘hero with problems’ motif from being mere repetitious novelty added to flavor a generic superhero book,” Bell says when trying to recapture the revolutionary impact of Spider-Man. Ditko eventually took over the plotting and art of the first few years of Spider-Man, letting his imagination stretch and evolve like the villainous Sandman confronting the hero in Amazing Spider-Man #4 (above, from September 1963). The visual pyrotechnics of Sandman rival anything done by Jack Cole in the acclaimed Plastic Man while simultaneously creating stories that revitalized the comics industry with their relevance to a new, young audience.
“If Spider-Man set a new standard for superhero comics in narrative depth,” Bell asserts, “Doctor Strange raised the bar for the visualization of dimensions never before seen or imagined.” Ditko’s cosmic capers led many of the Woodstock generation to suspect he shared their love of mind-altering substances. Such suspicions seem reasonable when looking at the almost Dali-esque landscapes (above) Ditko wove entirely from his own consciousness. Ironically, while the hippies sought to claim Ditko as one of them, Ditko sought to separate himself from the prevailing spirit of that age. Already “the most straight-laced man in comics,” Ditko’s personal philosophy took a hard right turn when he embraced the works of Ayn Rand. In Amazing Spider-Man #38, Ditko’s final issue, Spider-Man as Peter Parker confronts a group of college-age protesters, whom Ditko portrays as shiftless and unprincipled. Bell calls this moment “a big ‘middle finger’” to Spider-Man’s core audience, something Marvel took note of when dismissing Ditko. Ditko went back to Charlton and eventually to DC Comics to create a score of Randian heroes such as Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Hawk and Dove, and The Creeper. The most Randian heroes of all, however, were the pair of The Question and Mister A. “Where other heroes’ powers are based on some accidental super element,” Ditko said, “The Question and Mr. A’s ‘power’ is deliberately knowing what is right, and acting accordingly.” While The Question operated under the Comics Code, Mr. A appeared in magazines outside the code, allowing villains to die with a cold ruthlessness the mainstream industry would never permit. Mr. A answers the questions The Question poses with cold-blooded Randian resolve. Bell truly walks a fine line in praising Ditko the consummate artist and storyteller while simultaneously showing the less attractive aspects of his narratives and the consequences those storylines held for Ditko’s career.
When Ditko drew Mr. A laughing at a bribe attempt in witzend #4 (above, from 1968) he might have just as easily drawn himself laughing at the overtures of the comic industry to bring the talented creator back into the fold. Even when independent, creator-driven comics companies arose in the 1980s, Ditko never found the unfettered freedom he desired for his work. Ditko saw any outside editorial imput as an affront to his principles. Such principles led Ditko to take jobs such as drawing Transformers coloring books in 1983 just for the money. Refusing all forms of altruism—from fans as well as from the industry—thanks to his Objectivist beliefs, Ditko survives on social security and veterans benefits. Always clear-eyed yet admiring, Bell recognizes the toll Ditko’s Randianism took not only on his relations with the comic industry but also on the work itself. “Ultimately, after his initial success in bringing Rand’s tenets to comics in the late 1960s, Ditko’s Objectivist-inspired work became prone to didacticism and repetition, accompanied increasingly by perfunctory artwork,” Bell writes. Ditko turns his characters, once so full-bodied, into “political ciphers” or mouthpieces for Rand’s polemics. Bell provides a sampling of “the lighter side” of Ditko near the end of the book, but there’s no shaking the sad decline of the great artist and storyteller. Fans of Ditko already know his prickly side, and may love him even more for it, but Blake Bell’s Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko will give even the most devout Ditko-phile pause not only in a reevaluation of the greatness of Ditko’s work but in the recalculation of just how far the mighty have fallen.
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- What is the purpose of toggle switch wiring?
- How do you wire a toggle switch with pigtail wire?
- Can I install a toggle switch in my car?
- How do you wire a toggle switch to a plug?
- What is a toggle switch?
- How do I add a pigtail to a toggle switch?
- How do you fix a broken toggle switch?
- How do I add a pigtail to a toggle switch?
- How do you wire a toggle switch with wire?
- How do you hook up a pigtail to a circuit breaker?
- What should I consider when making pigtail connections?
- How do I install a toggle switch?
- What are the different types of toggle switches?
- What are the advantages of installing a toggle switch?
- What should I do if my toggle switch is not working?
How do you hook up a toggle switch to a device?
Connecting Your Toggle Switch to Your Devices Wiring Defer to the instructions provided with your switch or your device. Cut the supply wire in your device. Add a pigtail if either end of the wire does not reach the switch. Connect the supply wire to the toggle switch. Test your switch.
What is the purpose of toggle switch wiring?
Toggle Switch Wiring. The toggle switch is a switch that can play crucial switching roles in circuits. A SPST toggle switch can act as a simple ON-OFF switch in a circuit. While SPDT and DPDT toggle switches can flip different devices on or off in a cirucit. Toggle switches are common components in many different types of electronic circuits.
How do you wire a toggle switch with pigtail wire?
Cut a piece of the wire long enough to reach from the cut end of the supply wire to the toggle switch. Strip 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) of insulation from each end of this piece of wire. Connect one end of the pigtail wire to the supply wire by twisting the ends of the wires together clockwise.
Can I install a toggle switch in my car?
For example, a person might install a toggle switch in their car to operate an aftermarket interior LED light system. Disconnect all power from the device before beginning. As with nearly all types of electrical work, its extremely important to ensure that theres no risk of electric shock before starting work on your device.
How do you wire a toggle switch to a plug?
The way you do this depends on the type of toggle switch you have. See below: If your toggle switch has wire leads, twist the end of each lead to one of the supply wires (or pigtail extensions) and twist a wire nut over each wire connection until theyre tight.
What is a toggle switch?
Though toggle switches come in several varieties, in their simplest form, theyre essentially on-off switches for whatever circuit theyre wired to. Usually, toggle switches are installed in devices that lack a pre-existing means for regulating an add-ons operation.
How do I add a pigtail to a toggle switch?
Add a pigtail if either end of the wire does not reach the switch. A pigtail is a short length of wire (usually about 6 inches (15 cm)) with both ends stripped. It can be connected to wires that arent quite long enough to reach your toggle switch as a sort of extender. Add a pigtail as follows:
How do you fix a broken toggle switch?
If your toggle switch has screw terminals, loosen the terminal screws, loop the ends of the supply wires and hook each loop over a terminal screw so the loops point clockwise around the shaft of each terminal screw. Then, tighten the terminal screws. If the toggle switch has solder connections, bend the ends of the wires around the switch ...
How do I install a toggle switch?
Before you install a toggle switch, make sure the power is turned off. Once the power is turned off, unscrew the housing on the device you are planning to add the toggle switch to. With a power drill, put a hole in the panel of the device where you want the toggle switch. Make sure the size of the hold matches the size of the toggle switch.
What are the different types of toggle switches?
There are rocker switches, push buttons, lever switches, and toggle switches, among many styles. All have different appearances and while some operate in the same way, they are used for different functions. What is a toggle switch? A toggle switch is any switch that is manually operated by moving a short handle.
What are the advantages of installing a toggle switch?
There are many advantages to installing a toggle switch. A toggle switch has the power to connect and disconnect electrical power to a device. The ability to turn off power occurs with the moving of a plastic or metal tab. It is easy to add a toggle switch to an already existing electrical device.
What should I do if my toggle switch is not working?
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When I was a closeted high school student in Florida in the late 1980s, discussions about gay people popped up in classes on a regular basis. Discussions about gay men, anyway. This was during the deepest, darkest part of the AIDS crisis, when gay men by their very existence were treated in some parts of American culture as threats to public health.
Many of the comments and observations by students—some of which were obviously parroting what they were told at home—were deeply ignorant, even at a time when we were still learning how HIV was spread. During a class exercise in which students decided what the laws of their own imaginary country would be, one of my classmates decided his regime would execute anybody who was gay because he believed it would prevent the spread of HIV.
Teachers by and large did not touch these conversations with a 10-foot pole, though at that point I was savvy enough to recognize the unstated distaste some of them expressed. The school didn't have any out gay students back then (much later, I'd find out that many of my classmates suspected I was gay anyway). Sodomy was against the law in Florida back then and the very idea of same-sex marriage recognition was absurd.
Times have changed a lot since then. Sodomy is legal and gay marriage is recognized in all 50 states (and supported by the vast majority of Americans—including Republicans). HIV hasn't been eliminated (yet!), but it is now manageable.
I bring all this up because I find it absolutely bizarre that some small group of lawmakers suddenly thinks people want to relive that era with a bill in Florida that aims to censor school discussions of LGBT issues. Somehow this part of the culture war is back, even though this part of the culture shift has been successful and is widely embraced and normalized—and that's not going to change.
In Florida, Republican lawmakers have introduced H.B. 1557, a bill that limits how schools and teachers may discuss LGBT issues with students. It pushes school personnel to violate student privacy by telling parents about the student's well-being even if the student doesn't want it (thus potentially outing kids who have turned to school staff for help on an issue they don't want to discuss with parents). And most importantly, it clears parents (and lawyers) to sue and get damages if schools break the extremely vague guidelines described in the bill.
The culture war has made evaluating the actual details of the bill a little challenging. It's being described as a "Don't Say Gay" bill—cultural shorthand for the types of bills introduced back in the '80s and '90s to try to stop LGBT issues from being discussed in the classroom. On its face, this description seems like an exaggeration. H.B. 1557 in its text doesn't fully ban discussions of LGBT topics in school. And the typical outrage-based response makes it very easy for its supporters to insist that the bill isn't about censorship but rather establishing appropriate guidelines for school discussions.
Here's what the text of the bill actually says:
A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.
While that sounds almost reasonable—it's not unusual or weird to push education on sexual issues to secondary schooling—the second part of the sentence is oppressively vague. The bill does not explain what sort of discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity is appropriate for which ages. The Florida Department of Education will hammer that out through policies. So, to be clear, government bureaucrats, not parents, will still be deciding what everybody's kids will be taught.
It's actually the next section of the bill that shows why the vagueness of the previous section is very, very bad:
A parent of a student may bring an action against a school district to obtain a declaratory judgment that a school district procedure or practice violates this paragraph and seek injunctive relief. A court may award damages and shall award reasonable attorney fees and court costs to a parent who receives declaratory or injunctive relief.
This bill is actually intended to serve as a lawsuit factory for culture war organizations to go after schools using parents as proxies. Because there isn't any objective measurement of "appropriateness," any parent can decide any level of discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity is too much and sue, forcing schools to have to shell out money to defend themselves.
Even if the school system can prove that its classroom discussion of LGBT issues is appropriate, it's a burden that schools will want to avoid. The subtext here is obvious: Don't bring up LGBT issues in the classroom at all. It's soft censorship via threats of lawsuits.
In the current culture war over whether critical race theory is or should be taught in schools, we're seeing the consequences. Any discussion of anything that touches on the issue of racism at all is being called "critical race theory." Schools are dealing with parents complaining about students simply being taught black history.
The fact that the bill authorizes lawsuits gives up the game that it isn't about setting "appropriate" boundaries for discussion. Lawsuits should be reserved for punishing behavior that is dangerous or threatening, not merely controversial. This is not about bringing parents to the table, despite Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' comments in support of the bill. Bringing parents into the discussion would mean recognizing that parents have differing comfort levels on the topic. This bill instead gives the most conservative parents the ability to veto school discussions that other parents are perfectly fine with.
It's worth noting that this same core conservative political constituency that says this is all about parents' rights are also the people who are pushing forward bills that would criminalize gender-affirming treatments for minors, completely overruling the decisions being made by parents on how to care for their children. The message here is clear: Only some parents' rights matter.
People who genuinely support school choice and parent participation in education need to understand what this bill does. It'll lead to the same terrible outcomes as lawmakers or school districts removing books from school libraries in response to some parents' complaints. While parents should have control over the educational opportunities of their own children, they should not have such power over other people's kids. H.B. 1557 actually takes power away from many parents, and if DeSantis were truly serious about parents' rights, he would veto this bill should it pass. | <urn:uuid:df47a16c-b3c3-44e0-92d2-47268eccf318> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reason.com/2022/02/10/floridas-lgbt-school-censorship-bill-is-a-lawsuit-factory-that-overrules-many-parents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977989 | 1,319 | 1.804688 | 2 |
When the big one inevitably hits, it will collapse bridges, destroy energy sources, ruin many commercial buildings and leave Portland's economy in ruins.
In 2007, the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) conducted a seismic risk assessment showing 1,018 of Oregon’s 2,185 school buildings were at a “high or very high risk” of collapse during a major earthquake.
The study was part of a 10-year battle to fund seismic retrofits for schools — a fight that ended, temporarily, last year when the Legislature approved $15 million in bond funds to upgrade K-12 facilities.
The grant program was a big step in the right direction, says Yumei Wang, geohazards team leader for DOGAMI and a national expert on seismic mitigation.
Nevertheless, considering the more than $1 billion needed to retrofit all the at-risk schools, the program is in urgent need of additional funding, says Wang, who hopes the Legislature will approve $200 million in bonds for the next biennium. Other states — and countries — are far ahead of Oregon on seismic school safety, adds Wang, who has seen parents around the world grieving children who died after school buildings collapsed in an earthquake.
“I can tell you, after an earthquake, Oregon politicians are going to slam their fists and say we need to do this now.”
The struggle to fund seismic school safety in Oregon is part of a larger, critical problem about the lack of money and political will to retrofit the state’s aging building stock and transportation and energy infrastructure. At stake is not just the tragic loss of lives, but also the fate of the Oregon economy, which would come to a standstill in the aftermath of a major quake — and take years to fully recover.
Portland’s economy is transportation-dependent, and the region relies on external fuel sources to power that economy.
But even as recent earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand spotlight the importance of seismic mitigation, a spate of reports and assessments indicate that Oregon’s highways and bridges as well as fuel storage and transportation facilities will be unable to withstand a major quake. What’s more, unlike the school retrofit program, there is no plan in place to upgrade these networks.
Add to that the hundreds of commercial buildings in Portland deemed at high risk of collapse — and Oregon’s seismic preparedness status “is pretty bleak,” says Debby Boone, a state representative (D-Cannon Beach) and member of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC). Upgrading Oregon’s infrastructure would cost tens of billions of dollars, says Boone.
But the sheer enormity of the task is not a reason to do nothing, seismic risk experts say. As the risk of a massive quake increases daily the question is whether Oregon’s businesses and governments will take another 10 years to even begin tackling the problem.
The need is unquestionable. Oregon’s coastal areas and the Willamette Valley are vulnerable to massive 9.0 magnitude quakes produced by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile-long fault running from northern California to Vancouver B.C. Subduction zones are known for producing the most powerful seismic events on the planet, as well as multiple aftershocks and tsunamis.
There hasn’t been a Cascadia earthquake for 300 years, but the most recent forecast from the U.S. Geological Survey puts the likelihood of a massive quake at 40% in the next 50 years.
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Ten years! A decade to the day that Hanna Williams/Hana Alemu died as a result of her adoptive parents’ cruelty. She would have been almost 23 years old now, had Larry and Carri Williams not starved and abused her until she died.
So let us today remember Hana, as we keep her in our hearts always. I always think also of he Williams’ children, including Emmanuel, and all that they witnessed and experienced. Devastating trauma all around, the kind that lingers in the body and soul. May Hanna rest in power and in peace.
Adoptions from Ethiopia ended in 2018, for many reasons, Hanna’s death among them. There are still vulnerable children there. While international adoption is no longer an option, there are many excellent organizations that support family preservation—please donate to them and promote them. I’ve listed several here. Always look for organizations that promote the community, that engage local leaders, and that empower rather than rescue.
A couple of personal notes: We hope the book “Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology By Ethiopian Adoptees” will soon be available. It is dedicated to Hanna, and to Ethiopian adoptees who have died by suicide. The profits from the sales of “Lions Roaring” will be used to establish a guest house in Addis Ababa for returning adoptees.
I am considering closing the door on my Light of Day Stories blog. I’ve been posting far less often for many reasons, I am proud of what I’ve written these last eight years. Recently, in the past few years, the number of adoptee blogs has increased dramatically, which is wonderful. Adult adoptees are occupying the space once used up too much by adoptive parents, including myself. It’s time to give more room to the voices of adoptees. And wouldn’t it be great if Ethiopian first/birth parents had equitable space in the decisions and policies and perspectives on adoption? Let’s keep fighting for that.
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Under certain circumstances, documents simply signed through the course of business may be considered contracts. Purchase orders, receipts, sales agreements and others are contracts when they are held to be legally binding. For any such agreements, it is essential that you understand your end of the bargain and the legal consequences of it. Otherwise, you could be held legally accountable for something you did not expect.
How Can I Ensure a Contract is Good?
As a general rule, read anything before you sign it. As you read it, make certain you understand the sections that state your obligations. However, documents can often be too lengthy for a worthwhile read, or so commonplace that reading each one is not practical. If so, there are still other ways you can effectively review it. Attorney in Greencastle, Pennsylvania can review any contract before you sign it, whether it is a negotiated agreement or a standard form signed during routine business. For Attorney, the process of a contract review is to ensure that the written documents match the legal intent of their clients.
What if I Don't Understand a Contract in Pennsylvania?
A written contract is the expression of an agreement between two parties; it is not the agreement itself. Regardless of any confusing contract language, you are legally bound only according to both parties' understanding of the contract. Since you will be bound by your understanding of a contract, it is unwise to rely too heavily on the other party's representation of your duties. A neutral third party in Greencastle can be hired to review and explain the contract. Contract negotiations, especially in the context of specific fields such as finance, can be time consuming and difficult. But as in all contracts, the objective is to record the intent of the parties so that their agreement will be given legal effect under Pennsylvania law. | <urn:uuid:2cef593d-33d4-4a6d-b030-dd845cdb4954> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessattorneys.legalmatch.com/PA/Greencastle/contract-review.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964905 | 358 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The challenge to Alabama’s preemption law lives to fight another day, according to an Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week. In 2016, the plaintiffs made various race-based challenges to the Alabama Uniform Minimum Wage and Right-to-Work Act. That Act bars political subdivisions from requiring employers to provide employees with wages or “employment benefits,” including paid and unpaid leave, not required by federal or state law. The Alabama legislature enacted the law the day after the City of Birmingham’s passed an ordinance increasing the minimum wage within the city. The state law voided that ordinance. The plaintiffs argued that the state law was unconstitutional and violated the Voting Rights Act. The defendants asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit.
Last year, a federal district court rejected all of the plaintiffs’ challenges and dismissed the case. The Eleventh Circuit last week affirmed the dismissal of all but one of the challenges. Concerning the plaintiffs “equal protection” constitutional claim, the Eleventh Circuit held that the plaintiffs have plausibly alleged both that the MWA “burdens black citizens more than white ones” and that it was enacted with a discriminatory purpose. The court remanded the equal protection claim to the district court for further proceedings. | <urn:uuid:f4a10aa4-9f0e-45ad-9d36-06e911a95561> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pslatwork.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/equal-protection-challenge-to-alabama-preemption-law-can-proceed-court-says/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929754 | 258 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Not looking for easy ways
Igor Bederov is not the most typical example of a former law enforcement officer.
“My work in law enforcementheld under the heading of secrecy. Contacts with public employees were not encouraged. When I headed the security service, it became necessary to assess the reliability of counterparties and employees. There were no “friends from the bodies”, so I decided to create my own rating system based on data from publicly available information sources. Today, our assessment model has been implemented in most large enterprises, and then what I did was interpreted by colleagues as heresy, ”recalls Igor Bederov.
Photo: Viktor Yuliev / "Hightech"
In 2014, Igor Bederov quit his job andlaunched its own project in the field of information and analytical security of business, from which Internet-Search was subsequently developed. Starting investments in the business - Igor’s personal savings only - amounted to only 200 thousand rubles. With this money, he rented an office space, purchased three computers and information and analytical software necessary for the further work of two analyst employees. It took several years for the research of Bederov’s agency to be noticed by the market, and the employees of Internet Investigation were invited to participate in the investigations into economic and crimes committed with the help of modern IT.
Number of crimes committed byIT is growing every year. According to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, over the past year, the department registered almost 223 thousand such crimes. However, only 17% of them were investigated and brought to court. The similar statistics proceeds, since 2013: the cybercrime grows, and its revealing falls.
Most at risk from scam actionsexposed business. Over the past two years, 66% of Russian enterprises have experienced fraud or economic crime against them. At the same time business losses are estimated in large sums. The losses of private individuals, if they are not known or rich people, rarely exceed 50 thousand rubles, and usually amount to 3-5 thousand rubles.
One of the most common crimesthis kind of activity - shops scam. A person makes and pays an expensive order through an online payment in the online store. It seems that everything is fine, but there is no product, there is no money either, and by phone and other channels you cannot contact the seller. In the bank or the payment aggregator can not help. Fraudsters create anonymous wallets, display the money received on international cards or accounts. It is extremely difficult to find them, since the criminal scheme is thought out to the smallest detail. Militiamen will block such a website on the statement of the victims, however, another one will appear, because it is easy to do.
How to deal with cybercrime
A legitimate question arises: “Who should conduct a search if the cybercriminal still needs to be found?” In addition, such crimes may be committed from abroad.
There are several ways to solve existing problems in the field of cybercrime:
- The training of specialists in this field is the creation of a training center where employees of the responsible departments will be taught to conduct investigations in the virtual space.
- Development of methodological materials for investigators and police officers.
- Transforming legislation - it is slow to respond to rapid changes (new schemes and tools of fraudsters) in the field of Internet crimes.
- The creation of an international center to combatcybercrime, for example, based on the EAEU. As a rule, many crimes are committed from neighboring countries or from abroad. Such a center would help to exchange experience and knowledge, develop a common strategy for interaction, respond to the activities of international criminal groups and so on.
- Acquisition of specialized software and hardware to find cybercriminals in the network, respond to their activities in a timely manner and prevent such crimes.
According to the Civil Code,business activities in Russia are carried out at your own risk. With this formulation, the law enforcement system signed for the removal of responsibility for the prevention of crimes against business, said Igor Bederov. As criminals “move” to the network, the issue of a fundamental change or improvement of the law enforcement system is becoming increasingly relevant. If we talk about business and security services, they absolutely do not solve the problem of risk prevention. They practically have no opportunity to assess the reliability of individual entrepreneurs and enterprises up to a year, as they are very limited in their functionality and often are outside the legal field.
Photo: Viktor Yuliev / "Hightech"
"I myself, being a security official, could not stand the bureaucracyand work on outdated methods, - says Igor Bederov. - Power structures react very hard to innovations, transformations. Therefore, he left the authorities for the security services of a private company. But they work the same way. I understood that such a department in organizations is expensive, therefore, it would be more profitable to use third-party services. So the idea came to me to create my own project - to organize business security. ”
Internet Tracing site is simultaneouslyInternet platform and platform for the provision of services for the collection of information, the search for fraudsters and the formation of business reputation. Outsourcing offers specialized services: legal support for the client, polygraph testing, the activities of private detectives, the services of lawyers and even collectors. Specialists of the narrow profile cooperate with the agency on a contractual basis, and if necessary, the client will be able to receive the full range of services relating to personal and corporate security. This decision allowed us to attract customers and at the same time not to inflate the staff with specialists whose skills are in demand only from time to time.
The number of specialists involved reaches 40. Depending on the number of completed orders, employees receive up to 150 thousand rubles per month. About half of the agency's revenue comes from the routine inspections of employees, 40–50 per applicant per day.
How is the verification of individuals
According to the “Internet-tracing”, 15–20% of hiredemployees are problematic and bear unpleasant consequences for domestic policy. If a company hires a wanted person, it signs itself responsible for hiding the offender. Debt problems of the applicant impose problems on the employer. The administration of the company may be obliged to pay the employee’s debt and impose a penalty in case of refusal. A person who has problems with the law is not quite suitable for the position of a decent employee of the organization. It is important to check the identity of the criminal record (theft, robbery), as well as try to check if the person has alcohol or drug addiction. The applicant can always be a front worker who came from a rival company to research domestic policies and steal special production technologies. Therefore, orders related to the verification of individuals, as a rule, is the verification of employees hired.
Regulation of inspections by law
According to Article 9 No. 152-ФЗ “On Personal Data”, an employer may verify data with the consent of the applicant. Otherwise, a person may sue the company.
It’s easy to get agreement; many organizations enter into the contract a clause on consent to the processing of personal information, so it’s impossible to get a job without a tick opposite the line
Part 1 of article 22 No. 152-ФЗ “On personaldata ”says that the employer is not obliged to notify the service of the protection of personal data that the company is processing personal information of the applicant.
According to Articles 5–9 No. 152-ФЗ “On Personal Data”, the employer does not have the right to distribute the received information about the employee to third parties who are not related to the procedure.
Reception of the primary information of the potentialAn employee of the company is carried out by means of an interview. Having received the necessary package of documents and information about the person, the responsible person has the right to check the data provided for accuracy. This can be done independently, but more reliably - you can entrust verification to professionals from Internet-Tracing, who not only learn open sources of information, but can learn about a person and quite unobvious things from social networks, purchase history and location of a person on his mobile phone.
Open sources for finding information about a potential employee
- Open resources of state organizations about the search - Interpol, FSIN, MIA, FSSP.
- Resources that carry out the verification of basic documents (TIN, passport, diploma) - service Tax.Ru, FrDoCheck.
- Resources providing data on debt (loans, collateral, bankruptcy) - “Register of pledges”, “No interest”, Unirate24.
- Resource providing data on the participation of an individual in legal proceedings - GAS RF “Justice”.
- Resources containing information on participation in business activities - “For honest business”, “OGRN.online”.
- To check accounts social networks - Yandex. People, PIPL.
In order to verify the personal data of a person, you must comply with the law.
Igor recalls a case studyuse of open network information. A cannery asked for help, sending a large consignment of goods to a military unit in Sevastopol. The cargo to the destination did not arrive, the driver of the truck did not contact us. Verification of documents revealed the fact of forgery, the driver of the logistics company got a job on forged documents. Analysts have suggested that the stolen goods will be put up for sale. Checking the ads on the network, the staff of "Internet-search" found the seller. The police made a test purchase. By marking on the product, he was identified as stolen and returned to the rightful owner. The agency’s earnings amounted to 300 thousand rubles.
Only in 2018, the agency staff providedAssistance in the detection of 68 economic crimes. A service for evaluating the security of cryptocurrency transactions based on the analysis of cryptotographs is in the development stage.
Most of the clients of the "Internet-Search" -legal entity, and the most popular service is to check partners before a transaction, analyze the reputation or evaluate candidates before employment. Carrying out an order, analysts of the company use information from open sources, databases of state bodies and provide the client with detailed analytical information. The cost of one check is 1–5 thousand rubles, but you can purchase a subscription, which will cost 20–50 thousand.
Photo: Viktor Yuliev / "Hightech"
"In total in our country just under 700 sourcesinformation suitable for use in evaluating counterparties. Some of them were automated and turned into services such as SPARK, Integrum, Kontur. Focus, Seldon, Globas and others, ”says Igor. - More data is processed by us at the expense of our own systems. We identified 46 signs for verification - we study the reasons for the refusal of banks to open accounts, blocking and suspending operations on current accounts, assess related individuals (director, founders). All these risks, of course, affect the performance of the contractual obligations by the counterparty. ”
How to check legal entity
There are no specific laws in the state that oblige companies to check their business partners, but in the first proceedings inaction is the reason for tax deductions.
What causes suspicions:
- lack of registration in the register;
- the presence of a "mass" founder (participant), the head of the counterparty;
- availability of the legal address of mass registration;
- absence of expenses typical for conducting business;
- lack of staff;
- lack of fixed assets;
- lack of storage facilities;
- lack of vehicles;
- lack of productive assets.
Information about the company can be found on the official website of the tax service, but if you need to view exclusive information, you should enlist the help of paid resources.
A legal entity is considered to be successfully verified if it meets the following criteria:
- Documents and powers of the director along with other representatives of the organization.
- Availability of production / technical / personnel capabilities, with the help of which the conditions of the proposed contract will be fulfilled.
- The accuracy of the address of the company.
- The absence of other “ephemeral symptoms”.
Sophisticated verification methods includeresearch of photographs of the company's signage, address, capacity, and production itself, which allows one to be convinced of the real existence of the enterprise. Often carried out checks on the participation of the company in litigation.
One-day events can be identified using the following features:
- incomes in reports are close to expenses;
- at the address specified in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities not identified;
- the organization opens settlement accounts in opposite regions;
- the company works less than six months;
- The staff consists of one employee or no staff at all.
"The problem of automated checks thatbasically everyone uses them and often does not reveal unreliable companies, ”says Igor. - For example, there are firms that are valued as trustworthy by any service, but their directors are wanted. Or other examples: the founder of the Nominal Nominal Nominalovich or companies with names whose meaning appears when reading from right to left, like IHOL - suckers, KODIK - kiddo ”.
If the check reveals that a successful companywith millions of turns registered at the address of a communal apartment, in which several similar firms are “registered”, this is a sign of a one-day or a transit company that serves to evade taxes. Analysts reveal fictitious directors, cases of registration of dozens of companies for a passport of a person unaware of their business activities.
Photo: Viktor Yuliev / "Hightech"
Within minutes the staff“Internet-tracing” can analyze the unfair tendering. For example, the winning company is a novice in the market. Comparing the registration data of the company and its management, it is established that it was created only for participation in the tender, and its owner is a classmate or neighbor of the person responsible for conducting the bidding. Based on the information obtained by the agency, bona fide companies are entitled to appeal the tender results.
Warn fraud and "hack" Telegram
In 2016, after two years of agency workBederova, Internet-Investigation specialists created a system for analyzing email addresses and mobile phones - TelPoisk. And at its launch took just half a month. The system analyzes open sources, identifies the owner, accurately determines where he is at the moment, and tracks the retrospective of his movements. TelPoisk uses 52 sources of information, including data on the email server, phone mapping to a specific receiving and transmitting station, public information of social networks and instant messengers.
By 50% of requests it is possible to get completeidentification data, and in 70% of cases the owner of the mail or phone number is set. The program has no territorial restrictions, which means it works all over the world.
After the update, "TelPoisk" learned to issuethe exact address of the location of the phone, a list of numbers located nearby, set the address of registration and the real residence of the person involved, and also displays a list of bank cards attached to the number.
“We happened to take part in severalinvestigations related to fraud on the electronic platforms “AutoTransInfo” and “Sberbank-AST”. What is the risk? No electronic platform does not really check their users. You submit an application for registration, send many scans of statutory documents (at least on behalf of Gazprom), you get access - that's all. After a couple of hours you start to look for a victim. And since you are Gazprom, the delay in payment for the delivery will be easily forgiven. No one bothers to check the contacts in the electronic application. And our TelPoisk checks and prevents fraud, ”explains Igor Bederov.
In the course of the investigation it was revealedthat the attacker registered in the Sberbank-AST electronic trading system a personal account from the NefteTransService company, which is included in the rating of the most successful companies in the Russian Federation. After that he placed tender applications for the supply of expensive computer equipment with a deferred payment condition. The fraudster provided fake documents upon registration. Similar situations occur with AutoTransInfo.
The criminal scheme is simple - registered underdata of a successful organization, filed an application, received the goods and disappeared. The trading system has not worked out the security system in the field of accreditation of bidders. Therefore, any unreliable citizen can create an office, for example, from Rosneft, and make purchases for deferred payment.
Another service developed by the company“Internet Search” in 2016 - “IP Search”, collects information based on IP-address. The development team Bederova receives information about the location of the computer until the building where it is installed. The initiator of the search will receive data even on the version of the operating system on this computer.
Recently, the Internet-Search company has finishedalpha testing of a new product - Telegram-Deanonymizer. The product is designed to establish the data of users of the messenger - ID, last name and first name, phone number. He can also set information about the approximate location and language group of the user of the messenger, check the activity and ownership of the phone number used to register an account in the Telegram.
At the beginning of 2019, the staff of the "Internet-tracing"recorded a leak. During the routine monitoring of hacking sites, the company's specialists came across an array containing the personal data of almost 300 thousand users living in Yekaterinburg, Volzhsky, Naberezhnye Chelny, Tomsk and Yaroslavl. In the course of studying the array, it was suggested that the source of the merged data could be the federal telecom operator Dom.ru, under whose brand ER-Telecom operates - it owns about 11% of the entire Russian segment of the Internet.
The fact of a possible leak has been informedMikhail Tereshkov, head of the information security service of the holding. He stated that the identified dataset could appear on the darknet as a result of only one of the leaks occurring in the period from 2013. In this regard, the work in this direction is of no interest to them, since the channels of these leaks have been eliminated. In other words, the profile manager of the telecommunications giant acknowledged the existence of gaps in the protection of the holding’s personal data and confirmed that Dom.ru belonged to the information published on the darknet.
On the one hand, company employeesThe “Internet Search” took measures to remove personal data of users from the resource on the darknet. On the other hand, the carelessness of the telecom giants inspires fears that such leaks will occur again and again. And, as a confirmation of this thought, a few days later the Dom.ru database appeared on the darknet. Only more recent, for 2016.
Igor Bederov notes that the loss is significantInformation can occur in various ways, ranging from theft of a phone or laptop and ending with the disclosure of data through employees and hacking of computer systems.
Fraud against business
During the work of the staff of the "Internet-search"regularly faced with fake or cloning activities of large businesses. Criminals can create full copies of the websites of major Russian business players in order to enter into contracts on their behalf. The average damage from one such attack is 1.5 million rubles.
For example, according to this scheme, the attackers workedwith the manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers "Mendeleevkazot". The company's official site is mendeleevskazot.ru, and the clone site is located at mendeleevscazot.ru.
The difference in one letter and the inattention of the consumer can entail a loss of money, and the manufacturer itself bears because of this, not only financial losses, but also reputational costs.
According to the representative of EuroChem, forThe sowing season of 2016-2017, the farms lost more than 2 billion rubles due to fraudsters. The attacker's work scheme is simple: a client enters a clone site of a large manufacturer, contacts a fake sales department, pays an invoice according to the order, but he will not see the goods, as well as cash. Money through a thoughtful chain of Russian and foreign banks is deposited in the hands of an intruder. Clone not only sites, but also corporate identity, business cards, brand. Rent an office near the "head office". They do everything to look like a subsidiary structure, a separate division. Individuals may also come across such criminal schemes.
How not to get caught and where to run, if you please
Services and databases must contain complete andreliable information about the counterparty, so that everyone can assess the risk of working with him. Working arrangements are needed that security experts could create. The problem with many products of the non-state security industry is that the specialists who create them often have no understanding about security. For example, you can take a conditional banking payment system. Programmers are engaged in its development, having received a certain technical task.
Photo: Viktor Yuliev / "Hightech"
"I do not think that in the area of security operationsIt will be executed perfectly, since it is not created by an expert in this field. Then there are such situations when a person purchases goods from a one-day store, realizes that he was deceived, immediately turns to the bank. There, they tell him about the uncompleted operation, and the next day the payment is made automatically, since the system does not allow marking the operation as unreliable until an internal investigation is conducted. This is a programmer’s and bank’s mistake, ”says Igor Bederov. - To defeat crime, we need new legal sources of information and the ability to freely process them. We need liberalization of personal data legislation. And we need state support in order to implement the development, so that products and ideas work for the good of Russia. ”
Instructions. What to do if a person or company is a victim of cyber fraud:
- Urgently file a complaint with the police. For a quicker response, it is recommended to contact the special department “K” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which deals with offenses in this area.
- If there was a fraud involving payment by credit card or bank transfer, then apply to the bank or electronic payment system with a statement about the possibility of cancellation of the operation.
- In fact fraud or extortion write a statement to Roskomnadzor.
- On the fraudulent resource, you can file a complaint for special services. They can assist in blocking such sites. For example, here.
- If the problem concerns the payment of goods on the Internet, which either does not come to the buyer, or comes not what is ordered, It is necessary to contact Rospotrebnadzor and the Prosecutor’s Office for assistance.
- You can also contact a personal data search company and security on the net for help, for example, in the “Internet Search”.
Today, the “Internet-Search” daily fulfills at least 150 inquiries, assists in the investigation of criminal cases and the search for hiding criminals passing through the federal base.
In the near future, the company Igor Bederova -creating a service to help HR agencies. The online system will allow you to check potential and existing employees in public databases, social networks and media. After analyzing the ratio of vacancies and resumes for security officers, Bederov concluded that there was a tendency to reduce the cost of maintaining a full-fledged staff of security officers. Separate functions are shifted to the personnel and legal departments, so the growth of the market for services provided by the Internet-Search agency will continue. | <urn:uuid:f19d1daa-629c-48e8-ac01-76fccb1a5ac2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geektech.me/internet-search-how-a-private-cyberpolicy-is-looking-for-fraudsters-and-helps-businesses-in-the-fight-against-economic-crimes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942258 | 5,066 | 1.585938 | 2 |
With the growing number of people affected by Celiac disease and gluten intolerance, many people are starting to pay more attention to grain. While bread is maybe the most quintessential of foods, and in biblical terminology the word “bread” can actually mean “food,” it is easy to forget about the diversity of grains out there that can be made into it.
Grains tend to be grown on large acreage and usually require extensive equipment to produce, so most home gardeners never have the satisfaction of growing grains and don’t know much about them. The grains that make up the vast majority of the food we consume are hybrid, industrial and increasingly genetically modified strains that require significant amounts of herbicide, pesticide and fungicides to yield. Hence, ancient heritage grains are exciting for a variety of reasons.
For one thing, some of them, like einkorn, may be more digestible to folks with gluten sensitivities. For another, the implications of ancient grains for sustainable cultivation and diversity of food sources is significant. Likewise, the nuances of flavor and texture can allow for fresh and delicious baking projects.
According to food anthropologist and heritage grain researcher Eli Rogosa, “Landrace grains (grains that have adapted over time to the local environment) have higher nutrition, richer flavor and more robust resilience under climate change” than industrial hybrids. Rogosa just released her new book, Restoring Heritage Grains, available online.
Closer to home, one Jewish farmer in the Baltimore region is combining his love of organic farming with a unique distribution plan to get more heritage grains and flours in the hands of local consumers.
Ian Hertzmark of Migrash Farm is farming a 28-acre plot just outside the city limits of Baltimore. His farm plan calls for different types of heritage grains, which he harvests the old-fashioned way: by hand.
Hertzmark “stooks” his grains—that is, he employs the ancient skill of sheaving and orienting them in an upright stack such that the grains can dry off the ground. He uses scythes (long handle) and sickles (short handle) for harvesting and practices ancient techniques of threshing (separating the grain from the plant), winnowing (separating grain from chaff) and seed cleaning before grinding them with a low-temperature, low-speed stone mill.
This year Hertzmark is trying emmer and spelt, as well as artisanal bread wheat varieties like Red Fife, turkey red and banatka. While the quantities he grows are currently small, this allows him to accomplish his threshing and winnowing with small-scale machinery and hands-on work parties. The result: some very special flour.
Hertzmark plans to use the CSA model to distribute locally sourced organic flours. Called Kehilah Kemach (“flour community” in Hebrew), the idea is for customers to sign up for a seasonal “share” and receive five or ten pounds of locally sourced, organically grown flour every two weeks.
Hertzmark’s second line is called Handmade Grains. This line will be sold retail in two- and five-pound portions and focus on whole heirloom grains with special attention to locally bred or adapted varieties. Handmade Grains will include ancient wheat varieties and dried heirloom soup beans like Jacob’s cattle. Next season he plans to grow lentils, millet, rye, landrace rice, oats, garbanzos and fava beans as well. Handmade Grains’ first batches of product are slated to be available just before Rosh Hashanah 2016.
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It's easy to set up a bare-bones wiki installation on a web site. It's very hard - much more difficult than most people imagine - to turn that into a successful wiki.
Making a successful new wiki is hard[edit | edit source]
- Protecting from spam and vandalism
- Continuing to develop the site
- Finding content
- Creating community. This is the central challenge - a huge job that takes hard work and persistence. The online communities page lists very valuable resources for building online communities. Wikis are even more challenging for building a community, as the platform is designed with knowledge sharing as the focus, rather than community. While issues such as resolving disagreements among participants can be handled, with patience, other key ingredients such as engagement and communication need more structured efforts on a wiki than on a simple forum. Additional tools may be useful, such as a forum or a mailing list - but be aware that while community members are using the other tools, they're not on the wiki. (A wiki-based forum such as DPLforum may be a good choice for this reason.)
- Managing the content for quality and structure. This takes commitment - it's not an easy job, and it's not the kind of thing most people do for fun. As the wiki grows, this will become an enormous job, so you probably can't rely simply on paying people to do this work (unless you have very substantial funding... and of course you mightn't have any funding at all).
- Building the infrastructure: templates,W categories,W help pages,W policy/guideline/procedure pages, etc. to foster productive collaboration. Beware of instruction creep though - keep things simple and intuitive as far as possible.
These tasks take a huge amount of collective skilled work.
It is a rare community that has even one obsessive wiki admin/contributor, let alone the half dozen or more that are needed to make a successful wiki. Building up the community and participation needed will take a serious commitment.
For a very sobering example, see the green wikis page: One commercial site has been set up by a leader in wikis who has contacts with global sustainability leaders. It is run by a company that manages many active wikis, with (at times) an employee working on the site and with the community, and was launched with media fanfare by a well known figure, yet has not achieved critical mass in public attention or in attracting editors, and is less active than several other green wikis. (This is not to criticize the effort - just to emphasize that the goal is a difficult one and the right team makes the difference.)
If we build it will they come?[edit | edit source]
Having built it several times, I have realised that even if you do built it, they usually won't come. Are we suffering from confirmation bias? Wikipedia is absolutely successful but given the colossally high failure rate of other wiki-based projects... we may well find that it is the exception... rather than the rule itself.
If they come, will they edit?[edit | edit source]
- It is possible to get editors - e.g. Appropedia and Greenlivingpedia have had a large number of contributions. Appropedia has had 659,297 edits since May 2006 (increasing over time) and many millions of page views.
- Appropedia has had 129 views per edit; Greenlivingpedia has had 157. On the English Wikipedia about 0.02% of the unique visitors actually edit, and yet it is extremely active and comprehensive. With these figures, a community-wide or a global wiki clearly has a much better chance. A locally based wiki will at best be moderately successful, and that only if there is someone very committed to editing the wiki.
- The large comparison table of wikis at Green wikis and development wikis shows a profusion of wikis, but a high proportion of them are inactive. Only a very small number have grown to a useful resource, mainly thanks to the dedication of a small, committed group of people - sometimes it is just one committed person, which is enough to create something useful but it is often not very visible, and does not contribute to encouraging broader collaboration by the viewers (to be precise, that tiny proportion of a large number of viewers).
Conclusion: Your wiki needs to engage with a very large number of people to get a significant absolute number of contributors. This is a classic manifestation of the Pareto principle,W also known as the law of the vital few.
How successful wikis started[edit | edit source]
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- wikiHow is commercially operated, with paid staff.
- Appropedia has a core of a number of people who work on the site daily, and academics who have their students (a large number in total) engaged with creating content on Appropedia (see Appropedia:Learning institutions on Appropedia). It hasn't been anywhere near as successful as the Wikimedia sites or wikiHow (in amount of content and page views) but it's the largest and most active green wiki. Factors include a small number of very active members, and a large amount of work done by university students and interns, along with their instructors.
- Fan wikis seem able to draw on the enthusiasm of their fans. Those on "geeky" themes such as science fiction, anime and comic book characters seem to be most active, with those targeting a relatively young audience also doing well. Examples include Battlestar Wiki, Wookieepedia, with more examples at Wikia:Entertainment (note also the Entertainment menu at top for more specific examples).
Think globally - collaborate don't compete[edit | edit source]
Collaboration and competition are both powerful creative forces in nature and society. They each have their place - but the nature of wikis is radical collaboration.
Advice from Jimmy Wales[edit | edit source]
- Mechanisms for effective collaboration (wiki software provides revision control, ability to revert unconstructive edits; but there must be a dedicated community of users to continuously monitor a wiki).
- Online identities (pseudo-identities are fine as long as they are stable).
- Shared vision. The community of participants must share the same vision of what they are trying to build.
- Flat hierarchies, with the fewest possible barriers to participation.
- Speed. People must be able to see results from their work with the least administrative delay.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Wiki synergy
- Yet another wiki
- Ingredients of a successful commons
- User:Teratornis/Template porting: theory and practice
Notes[edit | edit source]
- For Appropedia statistics see Special:Statistics; for Greenlivingpedia see Greenlivingpedia:Special:Statistics; and for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects see meta:User:Stu/comScore data on Wikimedia (the figures are obtained in a different way since the Wikimedia view counters are turned off).
- The initial comparison was carried out as part of a study for Akvo and UNESCO-IHE, on collaboration in appropriate technology and related areas.
- Lynch, C.G. (2007-06-28). "Five Things Wikipedia's Founder Has Learned About Online Collaboration". CIO. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
[edit | edit source]
- Online community Coalition of the Willing. Lists essential reading for building online communities.
- Factors for a successful wiki, an edited version of an enlightening discussion on the Mediawiki-L list November 2006.
- A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities, written version of a talk from Wikimania 2006.
- How to make a successful wiki - EditThis.info - brief tips.
- GettingYourWikiAdopted - extended advice on getting a wiki adopted. Focused on in-company wikis, but most is relevant to any wiki.
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Reasons you could still be pregnant after you just had a vaginal bleeding or “Presumed Periods.”
Many women often think that bleeding after having unprotected sex or without using any contraceptives means they did not conceive. Some women as well as some doctors get confused and believe that any blood that comes from your vagina must mean that you are having your periods. That’s not entirely correct either. Many conditions could cause you to bleed and it can happen that your periods may not be one of them. Remarks Dr. Paul a gynecologist in a reputable fertility clinic.
It is not usual, but once in a while, a woman conceives if at all she embraces the act of having unprotected sex at any time of her cycle or during the near time after she just had her menstrual periods. Likewise, it is possible for you to conceive if you have never had sex before and you do without using any kind of precaution (contraceptives), during and immediately after your first menstruation period.
Some definitions that might be worth noting; according to “CLUE”, an App that can help you track your menstrual cycle;
How would one know or understand the word “SPOTTING”?
According to “CLUE” (helloclue.com App), the bleeding can be noted as light, medium, heavy, and spotting. (That means any light or very light bleeding at the beginning or end of your period should be tracked as “light” so Clue can provide the most accurate predictions for you.)
1. Spotting can be understood as any bleeding that may occur but not in the course of your menstruation period. Therefore, if you happen to bleed lightly at the end or the beginning of your period, that is not spotting. Usually, you will experience bleeding that will not last more than 2 days and it is normally at the beginning or end of your period, take it as a spotting.
You should seek advice from a qualified healthcare worker if you notice bleeding that you do not understand, as it may not necessarily be spotting and could turn out dangerous.
The bleeding may start from either the upper or lower section of your reproductive system, in parts such as the Uterus, cervix, and vagina respectively. There is a thin line that separates between spotting and your periods. Menstruation is the repeated peeling and replacing of the walls of the uterus. The heavy bleeding (spotting) is that, commonly starting from the uterus, as the light bleeding (spotting) can originate from either of the 2 sections of the reproductive system, upper or lower.
In the list below are common misconceptions about conditions that cut through both pregnancy and menstruation that many women and some doctors often confuse or mistake one for the other quite a lot as there is a thin margin that separates the two.
Regular causes of BLEEDING (Menstruation Periods, Spotting), the differences and pregnancy.
1. Bleeding as a mistaken sign of terminated pregnancy. It is common that sometimes a woman can be pregnant and not sure or even aware of it, but possibly suspect, it means you are still early in stages, therefore, chances are you are experiencing implantation bleeding, this does not necessarily be the end of the pregnancy. When the bleeding occurs, women often start to wonder if it was or not a miscarriage after she has bled from the vagina.
In the process of the egg implanting its self in the uterus, there will be manageable bleeding. It is what is commonly referred to as implantation bleeding. Some women confuse this with menstruation periods but still, the pregnancy will continue with less or no danger at all. Still you have seek medical attention.
2. Infections. Infections in the cervix sometimes can lead to bleeding. Many women will mistake any vaginal bleeding for a menstruation period yet there are so many other reasons like UTIs that can cause bleeding. Sometimes, it’s painful to urinate and when you do, it’s a mixture of urine and blood. On sight of this; it is easy to conclude that the bleeding was a sign of your periods when it’s not. Though not related to the pregnancy, such bleeding may be mistaken for menstruation periods. Such infections may include but not limited gonorrhea. Talk to a qualified health worker.
3. Possible Threat of abortion. Bleeding in pregnant women sometimes happens when the system is alerting you about a possible miscarriage but most of the bleeding could stop naturally and the pregnancy will continue. Not aware of what could be happening, you may confuse the bleeding with your periods yet it was a sign of a possible miscarriage. The bleeding can stop the natural way, but it is advisable to go see your doctor.
4. Implantation; it is one of the major reasons you could have light bleeding that you could confuse with your menstruation period. Implantation bleeding is usually experienced by some women a few days after ovulation. Worthwhile to note is that implantation bleeding only occurs up to a few hours, though sometimes it may take up to 2 days, it cannot last for more than seven days. Usually, the density of the blood is light and contains no thicker clots than in usual menstruation blood.
5. Signs of Pregnancy characterized by bleeding. The bleeding, in this case, could be a sign of an “Ectopic pregnancy”; this is usually a situation where one has their embryo attached outside the uterus. Here, when the embryo grows, it attaches itself in other parts that are not the uterus, most of the time in the fallopian tube. Symptoms classically include abdominal pain usually one-sided that may be described as sharp or dull and vaginal bleeding. Those sometimes may come along with other symptoms such as shoulder pains and dizziness. (II) Normal pregnancy Bleeding. This is not rare, rather a common an early sign of pregnancy. It is estimated that 1 of 4 women experience this kind of bleeding when they are about 5-8 weeks pregnant. On the bright side is; with this kind of bleeding, usually, there is nothing that should get you worried as it has been proven by researchers that in 10 cases only 1 is associated with miscarriage. Though, some researchers call this kind of bleeding “implantation bleeding.” However, it has not been proven as a fact to support the assumption of the embryo’s implantation in the uterus. Sometimes it may be associated with changes in hormonal production. Go to your doctor for immediate medical attention on signs of an ectopic pregnancy.
6. Physical conditions sometimes lead to bleeding (spotting) in women. There is quite a list of changes that could take place in a woman’s reproductive system, physical and can cause vaginal bleeding. Some of the physical changes or conditions that can cause bleeding include but not limited to; muscle tissues that abnormally grow on your uterus. They are normally called fibroids. (I) Polyps can also cause bleeding. These are tissues that grow on mucous membranes of different organs. For the subject, they grow in the cervix and uterus. (II) Pelvic infections must be treated as they tend to cause Pelvic inflammatory diseases these, in turn, lead to random bleeding (spotting). In a situation that you are pregnant and you experience this; it is better to consult with medical personnel as you may not be sure if it is a sign of miscarriage. Some people may experience spotting after their first penetrative sexual experience and it is normal. But if you experience the same though it is not your first time, talk to your doctor. Sometimes, it is possible that you could be confusing blood from a UTI with blood from your vagina that could be thought to be menstruation periods.
7. Hormonal imbalances. The progesterone hormone sometimes can be produced in the newly forming placenta other than in the ovary and this can cause bleeding that may be hard to determine what its source is. There are other uterine anomalies such as cancer of the uterus that can cause bleeding as well while pregnant though in most women it is hormonal imbalances that cause the bleeding.
8. Hormonal contraceptives. Random spotting is not a rare side effect of using hormonal contraceptives, more so in the first months of switching to a new method. Birth control pills often cause the spotting to go on, but for a few months. And if it does not stop, chances are, the brand of the pill is not a good fit. It would be best if you tried another brand with a varying hormonal combination. Once on a pill, it’s best you keep track of them, timing at which it is supposed to be taken, once you miss, you may experience a drop in the hormone that the pill supplied in your body. That will be confusing as you may get pregnant yet you are sure that you are on a pill forgetting the time you missed. Or your periods could have come earlier than you thought now it is hormonal imbalances if you are taking birth control pill that is the cause of the bleeding.
9. Forceful penetration. It could be a forceful or energetic penetration during sex or any foreign body into the vagina that is causing slight bleeding. When this happens while one is pregnant, a good fraction of pregnant women after they see this bleeding during pregnancy, the first thing that will come to mind is “they are having a miscarriage”, well! Most of the time it is a false alarm and more than half of them (pregnant women) will still go on to have successful pregnancies. All the same, it is possible to bleed from other things like overly dynamic or forceful sexual penetration but you will still have a successful pregnancy.
10. Hormonal issues during ovulation can cause bleeding in the course of that time in some people. This situation is associated with a drop in estrogen rapidly before progesterone rise during ovulation. Some women experience bleeding during ovulation and others don’t, though it has not yet been clearly stated as to why this happens. Some research suggests that; it could be because of the different levels at which hormones are produced in different people.
Therefore, it is valid for one to argue that there is not a single time of the month that you can have unprotected sex without contraceptives and you do not getting pregnant. And there is a time during your menstrual cycle that you are most fertile and chances are higher to get pregnant during this period.
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As a parent, you must distinguish between your child’s behaviours, understanding the difference between those that are deliberate and those that are due to other factors, such as: fear, stress, fatigue, and hunger. Following these 5 parenting rules will help you figure out the clues your child is sending.
Each parent or guardian will have their own unique way of parenting, which you learnt from how you were brought up. We all tend to parent as we were parented, until we become aware of certain behaviours and make conscious decisions to try and modify them.
We can all think of times when we have said something and immediately had the thought, “I sound just like my mum (or dad).”
Becoming more aware of our influences enables us to select our methods of parenting. Things we like, we can use. Things we don’t like, we can discard.
As children, and even as adults, we learn by watching other people and by sharing our experiences. We also learn by trial and error. Most important of all, whatever parenting method you choose must be agreed upon and be consistently used by both parents. Always follow through on things that you said that you will do, even if you don’t feel like it. As time goes on you will have more experiences to draw from.
5 Rules for Modelling Positive Behaviours
There are five main parenting rules which can be summarized as follows:
- Clearly communicate your expectations to your children, using positive statements. For example, “I expect you to walk in the street and hold daddy’s hand,” versus, “There is no running in the street.”
- Ignore inconsequential behaviours. When a parent gives attention to inappropriate behaviour (e.g., shouting and saying no), they may actually be strengthening the behaviour they want to eliminate. IGNORE! Don’t look, don’t frown, and don’t say anything.
- Selectively reinforce appropriate behaviours. Behaviour management will only work effectively, and over the long term, through consistently reinforcing appropriate behaviours, such as: listening, attending, and speaking. It is more automatic to focus on what is wrong than what is right so, as parents, it will take some time to break those old habits. Your goal should be to have 8-10 positive interactions to every 1 negative, or at least 20 positives per hour.
- Stop, then redirect inappropriate behaviours. If a behaviour needs to be attended to, approach your child in a calm, firm, non-threatening way, and redirect their behaviour by stating expectations in a neutral manner. Avoid the trap of being drawn into an argument or debate about the incident: who started it, etc. Be empathetic but focus on the positive redirection.
- Stay close to your children. Punishment is humiliating. It creates the desire to escape, avoid, and punish back. If you hit me, I will hit you back. Spend quality time talking and listening to your child. It often works better to gain your child’s attention by getting down to their level, tapping them gently on the arm, and whispering their name. Use humour often. Increase appropriate physical interactions, such as hugging and non-threatening touch.
Your child’s younger years are a time of great learning for them – and for you. Parenting is a skill that can be practiced and learnt, much like learning to play a new sport. It usually takes approximately a month to learn a new habit. The time that you spend learning about your child’s development and ways to teach good behaviour are well worth it and you will continue to reap the benefits in the years to come.
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Starting a business can be a multi-million dollar proposition that requires massive fundraising and issuing stock to investors. But there are many types of small businesses that entrepreneurs can start with little or no financing, and few ongoing expenses as well. The key is to understand the type of business you run and know where you can find customers before you even start.
See: 9 Best Small Business Ideas To Make Money From Home
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Here are 10 small business ideas that have low overhead and low barriers to entry, assuming you have the skills to run them.
Blogging is perhaps one of the easiest things to start on your own, because all you have to do is start writing. Of course, the reality of turning a blogging hobby into a real business is a bit more complicated, but in terms of barriers to entry, there are effectively none. However, to become a successful blogger, you will need to create an attractive website, market it to new users and, of course, be fluent in writing and know your subject well. In terms of cost, however, starting a blogging business is one of the most affordable options you can find. Although many bloggers don’t earn much, those who are very popular can earn in the six figures.
Starting a business as a private chef may not cost a lot of money, but it takes some serious skills. However, if you have been trained in the industry and find yourself out of work or just want to fend for yourself, you can generate a lucrative salary without spending a dime on anything other than marketing. Private chefs are often hired on a word-of-mouth basis, so developing an industry presence is usually a good first step before starting your own business.
Tips: 27 Best Small Business Ideas to Make Money in 2022
Accountant at home
If you master accounting, you have the skills to start a successful business without ever leaving your home. Every business must keep accurate books, and many companies outsource this work rather than paying for expensive in-house support. With the right software, a good computer, and a strong internet connection, you can be up and running with minimal expense.
If you’re a creative maker, sites like Etsy and Ebay offer exposure to huge markets you couldn’t access before the internet age. While Ebay is a more diverse site with a larger audience, Etsy is a more niche marketplace that primarily showcases individual, creative, vintage, or handmade products. But you can use Etsy and other online sites to sell products you make at home yourself, with little or no start-up costs.
The term “consultant” covers a wide range of disciplines, but if you have specialist knowledge in a particular area or business, companies will likely want to talk to you. From the comfort of your own home, with nothing more than a smartphone and/or computer, you can offer your advice to companies around the world, often for a hefty annual fee.
A wide range of design services are best done using computer software. If you’re a designer, that means you can easily work from home using the computer you probably already own. You might want to invest in design software, especially if you’re an interior designer or plan to present graphic images to your clients, but beyond that your start-up costs are low. The real challenge to being a successful work from home designer is the ability to build a reputation in the industry, as this is key to developing new clients.
Once you have acquired the skills and talents to be a music tutor or teacher, your current expenses should be quite low. Typically, students bring their own computers or musical instruments to classes, which you can even arrange at your home if you want to reduce travel costs. You’ll probably want to get business cards and do some marketing, but beyond the cost of acquiring students, you shouldn’t expect to pay too much to start this type of business.
If you love fitness, starting your own personal training business could be a win-win situation for you. Not only will you enjoy the satisfaction of helping your clients stay active, but you’ll also get paid to perform your own personal workouts. Unlike some of the other businesses on this list, becoming a personal trainer can come with higher start-up costs, as you’ll likely need to purchase equipment, rent training space, and acquire various certifications. But your costs will still be much lower than those of manufacturing or production companies, which require facilities, inventory, raw materials and large staff.
If you want to do business as a notary, you will need to meet certain legal requirements before you can start. For example, you will need to be trained, licensed, bonded, insured and have your fingerprints, and you will need to invest in a notary seal. But beyond the few hundred dollars that are usually needed, the only additional costs are usually marketing and transportation. The notary’s salary varies depending on how many clients you can reach and the state you reside in, but it can be quite lucrative for a relatively small investment.
Wedding planning services
When couples are planning a wedding, the sky is often the limit when it comes to how much they are willing to spend. If you have a knack for providing all the services a couple could want for less than expected, you might have the skills to run your own wedding planning business. Relationships with venues, distributors and suppliers are key to success in this business, but in terms of start-up costs as an entrepreneur, you may only need a phone, a computer and a vehicle, assets that you probably already have.
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From Fiscal Rules to Fiscal Standards
The establishment of fiscal rules in the EU has proceeded along three main economic arguments: the “crowding-out” effect, fiscal policy ineffectiveness and monetary dominanceFootnote 6. However, persisting low interest ratesFootnote 7 have important implications for fiscal policy that go against these arguments and dismiss the requirement for fiscal rules.
Actually, fiscal policy becomes an essential tool to maximize employment, activity and preserve financial stability: in a low interest rate environment, active fiscal policy may have a stabilizing effect because it may raise GDP more than debt and interest payments. Moreover, in a world of low interest rates, debt and deficit concerns should be reconsidered. First, the usual crowding-out argument for private / public investment is less warranted. Second, the debt to GDP ratio becomes a misleading concept of fiscal sustainability as the present value of GDP has risen and debt services costs have fallen due to the decline in interest rates; hence, borrowing to finance appropriate categories of government expenditure pays for itself in budgetary terms on reasonable assumptions on interest rates (developments). Finally, fiscal rules were not successful at preventing large debt increases during a positive interest rate era. Although interest rates may stay long below economic growth rates, a situation for which debt sustainability is easily achieved, the situation might revert. Indeed, unless ECB monetary policy remains accommodative for long and has sufficient rooms for manoeuvre, some countries in the euro area may see their sovereign yields depart from those of Germany if spreads rise again. Therefore, debt sustainability may remain an issue but it depends less on deficit and debt levels than on macroeconomic and political uncertainty (Blanchard et al. 2020).
Consequently, Blanchard et al. (2020) have recently argued for a bold reform of the EU fiscal framework with the adoption of “enforceable fiscal standards”, hence “a statement of general objectives, coupled with a process for assessing whether member policies meet the standard which draws on all relevant information”. They go on and state that “unlike rules, standards distinguish good behaviour from bad behaviour in qualitative rather than numerical terms. Whether the standard is satisfied is determined ex-post, at the point of application. This allows an adjudicator to draw on a much larger set of information than typically enters rules. It also allows room for judgment”. Their proposal finally rests on stochastic debt sustainability analysis, not a novelty in itself in Europe for the European Commission has performed this kind of analysis for many years (as acknowledged by Blanchard et al. themselves).
Compliance and Enforcement, A Role for the European Parliament?
The lack of compliance with EU fiscal rules has given rise to many Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) since 2003 when Germany and France had infringed the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) thresholds. All EU-28 countries have undergone an EDP since the application of the SGP. The suspension of the SGP until 2022 does not ensure that fiscal rules’ enforcement will improve in the future. On the one hand, EU countries will long be overwhelmed with high public debts, and the risk of rising bankruptcies and unemployment in 2021 and the coming years may keep on requiring fiscal stimuli. On the other hands, absent an upward reassessment of potential output in the EU, fiscal rules expressed in terms of cyclical adjustment will push for early recommendations of fiscal austerity that would act pro-cyclically, hurt the economy and certainly foster social unrest. Thus, a broader assessment of the appropriateness of the fiscal stance under the application of fiscal standards is appealing to escape a front-loading fiscal consolidation.
That said, the application of fiscal standards also raises the question of its enforcement and the institutions in charge of it. Blanchard et al. (2020) argue that two EU institutions could be eligible. According to them, the European Commission may see its role strengthened as regards the enforcement of fiscal rules that finally rests in the hands of the European Council, and be allowed to delay the adoption of non-complying national budgets. While the Commission has the technical skills for fiscal surveillance, it has not had so far the jurisprudence to act as an adjudicator. In contrast, the role of adjudicator naturally and usually falls to the Europe Court of Justice, which has the jurisprudence but lacks the technical skills to appreciate deviations from the standards. Finally, the European Fiscal Board (EFB) might apply but it shares similar characteristics with the Commission though it is independent from it (technical skills but no jurisprudence). Moreover, the EFB is only an advisory board on fiscal matters and would need to see its statutes revised to make it suitable for the control and enforcement of fiscal standards. While there are no easy options, those reported above would all require changes in hard law, i.e. modifications in European Treaties. This is not an insurmountable hurdle but it may further delay the adoption of fiscal standards.
Whatever the future conclusions of the EU revision of its fiscal framework (status quo, adoption of new rules, adoption of standards), immediate compliance and enforcement will be key to the success of the reform, not only at the general macroeconomic level (fiscal management in the EU must produce both macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability), but also for European public opinion.
Certainly, a European public opinion does not exist. Nevertheless, European public opinions have representatives: they are the Members of the European Parliament (MEP). Therefore, a non-binding modification of current EU legislation, a soft-law change, like the creation of a Fiscal Dialogue may be contemplated. It would consist in regular hearings of Ministers of Finance before the EP. Hallerberg et al. (2011) made a proposal in this spirit ten years ago. While reviewing the challenges of the European Semester at improving economic and fiscal surveillance in the EU and at promoting economic cooperation, they promoted the creation of regular Economic Dialogues on a legal basis close to that of Monetary Dialogues. These Economic Dialogues would give the EP “an important role as a forum for the exchange of information and a watchdog in the relationship between the Commission and the Council that would serve the purpose of increasing the European Semester’s effectiveness and legitimacy”. Their proposal did not lead to a concrete reform.
The current circumstances of renewed thinking about fiscal policies, frequent economic crises and rise of so-called “populism” give a new impetus for advocating a Fiscal Dialogue between different tiers of political authorities in the EU, including therefore its most democratic and European institution: the EP. In the following, I revisit the proposal by Hallerberg et al. (2011) but I argue a bit differently. A Fiscal Dialogue would not be enshrined in the European Semester and would be a complement to it. At a longer horizon, a successful Fiscal Dialogue procedure may well replace the European Semester and the SGP for the surveillance and control of fiscal policies. This is not its primary goal though, and existing procedures may continue in parallel. The primary goal of the Fiscal Dialogue would be to create the conditions for an enhanced and continuous coordination of fiscal and monetary policies in the EU throughout the year.
Why a Fiscal Dialogue?
There may be at least four important advantages with the creation of a Fiscal Dialogue.
First, it would offer an arena for a genuine European discussion of national fiscal policies before the representatives of European public opinions. Although the EP would not have power to delay the adoption of a national budget, the discussion may offer more transparency on the compliance of each government with the common rules or standards.
Second and maybe more importantly, the Fiscal Dialogue would offer some transparency on how each government considers the EU general context in the setting of its policies. Softer forms of cooperation might ensue from a better internalization of the European constraints. The single fact of having to talk to a European audience may change the stance of a national fiscal policy: it would be more difficult to choose a given policy and argue publicly that its consequences on the other member states is none of the business of the national Minister of Finance. Hence, the Fiscal Dialogue would tend to produce a better internalization of the spillovers of national fiscal policies on their partner countries, hence generating smooth and more effective fiscal coordination in the EU. In July 2020, the President of the ECB, Mrs. Christine Lagarde, has been very clear on the costs of negative spillovers on the proper functioning of the European monetary union: “we have seen (recently) the value of policies complementing each other rather than working against each other. A key shortcoming of the euro area during the sovereign debt crisis was its failure to consider the aggregate policy mix—that is, the negative spillovers created by uncoordinated fiscal policy tightening at a time when monetary policy was aiming to stimulate the economy. From 2013–18, fiscal policy in the euro area tightened by around 2.5 percentage points of GDP, compared with a loosening of around 0.8 percentage points in the USA. This was one factor behind the euro area’s weak growth and inflation dynamics during that period. Now, policies are fully aligned in securing the fastest possible recovery, which also underpins medium-term price stability”. (C. Lagarde, Europe’s response to the crisis, ECB Blog, 23 July 2020, bold emphasis added) The academic literature has dealt with the spillovers of national fiscal policies in a monetary union and reached mixed results. Some papers found significant spillovers, mainly through trade linkages and when the fiscal shock originates in a large or neighbouring country (e.g. Beetsma et al. 2006; Bénassy-Quéré and Cimadomo 2006; Dabla-Norris et al. 2017), whereas some papers found negligible effects (e.g. Gros and Hobza 2001; Cwik and Wieland 2011; Attinasi et al. 2017). In a recent contribution, Devereux et al. (2020) developed a model incorporating international production network linkages. Then, they compare the simulation outcomes with models assuming that network linkages do not make a difference after an aggregate shock. They also compare with empirical estimates. They conclude that network linkages make a significant difference and give rise to simulation outcomes consistent with empirical estimates of the first group of papers. Fiscal spillovers matter in the euro area.
Third, a Fiscal Dialogue would give the EP a greater, though maybe symbolic, role and higher involvement in fiscal affairs that would reduce the criticism against technocracy and the possible misperception of the EP by voters. The latter may not fully understand the role of their representatives at the European Parliament in the overall setting of fiscal policies. They may be even inclined to think that they have a word in European fiscal affairs, though their role remains limited to the preparation, adoption and use of the European budget, only a tiny part of European-wide fiscal affairs, and to non-binding votes related to the European Semester. Public hearings would shed light precisely on the distinctive responsibilities of national Ministers of Finance and MEPs in the preparation and unfolding of national fiscal policies, while permitting Ministers of Finance to argue on their fiscal stance and debate with European representatives.
Fourth, to date, there is no regular public moment for a joint discussion of EU fiscal policies with the EP and the ECB, although there are four moments of that kind per year for discussion of EU monetary policies between the EP and the ECB, namely Monetary Dialogues. The quarterly hearings of the President of the ECB at the EP have their advantages and drawbacks (discussed recently by Claeys and Dominguez-Jimenez 2020). As for its advantages, the Monetary Dialogue embodies ECB’s concrete accountability and it offers an opportunity to MEPs to question the President of the ECB on past monetary policies, on the future strategy and on possible trade-offs between objectives (price stability, financial stability, recovery). The Monetary Dialogue is preceded by preparatory meetings with experts who have delivered policy briefs. These briefs on pre-defined topics give MEPs further insights on policymaking before they participate in the hearings. As for the drawbacks, the organization of the Monetary Dialogue permits too many MEPs to intervene. Thus, they ask very short questions to the ECB President, and too often, their questions are unrelated to the field of monetary policy and do not use the policy briefs that were prepared. Reforming the Monetary Dialogue may be on the agenda, to make it more effective for the sake of policy debate. In this respect, adopting a Fiscal Dialogue as a complement to the Monetary Dialogue may give a twofold impetus to transparency and democratic control on EU economic policies.
Fiscal Dialogue: A (More) Concrete Proposal
The Fiscal Dialogue may consist in quarterly hearings or testimonies of Ministers of Finance before the EPFootnote 8. During the first hearing, Ministers of Finance would present their national Law of Finance, after the vote of national parliaments, and discuss how they fit in the domestic and European business cycles. The Ministers would provide arguments on policy objectives (growth, reduction in inequality, prospects for improved competitiveness, climate change mitigation, etc.), presenting economic forecasts (GDP, inflation, trade balance, etc.), the underlying assumptions in the Law of Finance (e.g. on expected potential output, tax-base elasticities, fiscal multipliers, etc.), and the evolution of their public finances (overall deficit, interest payments, fiscal stance, etc.). They would certainly do so in a less technical manner than with the Commission, and they would include a discussion on the spillover effects of their policies and those from their partners’. Ministers would highlight the outcomes of ex-ante evaluation on new tax and fiscal measures on their objectives (via incentive and redistributive effects, employment effects, price effects, etc.). They would discuss the extent to which their policies would fit in general objectives of the EU (e.g. climate change mitigation, but also digitalization and internal cohesion). The main objective of this hearing would be to highlight enhanced fiscal coordination and accountability towards a democratic European institution. Domestic fiscal policies would tend to become public goods for the entire EU. This hearing may happen by the end of the calendar year, hence before the European Semester begins.
The second hearing may be devoted to the presentation of national debt sustainability analysis. Less oriented towards the short-run impact of the Law of finance on the real economy, this second hearing would help discuss the long-run impact of actual fiscal policy on debt sustainability (or stability). It would also highlight the possible deviations from the fiscal rules or standards and discuss about possible corrective policy actions. This hearing, say in March, would help share information on a better debt management across the EU Member States and would include a review of public spending, transfers and tax measures that would highlight the overall fiscal measures behind debt variations.
The third hearing would occur by the end of the European Semester, in June, and may give rise to joint discussion of European fiscal and monetary policies. The Monetary Dialogue in June may therefore become a joint Fiscal and Monetary Dialogue before the EP dedicated to a general discussion of the European policy mix. This event would have as a mere objective to enhance policy coordination between EU governments and the ECB—the policy mix in the EU would tend to become a public good in the EU—and to increase transparency towards the public.
The fourth hearing, in September, would be devoted to the presentation of Preparatory Law of Finance, hence before their vote at the national parliament. This hearing would share information on the shifts in the socio-economic framework that may have occurred since the previous Law of finance, it would highlight preliminary ex-post evaluations of the previous year’s new tax and fiscal measures and it would expose the underlying assumptions of the incoming Law of Finance. Of course, the organization of the hearings in September and December will need adjustments to limit possible overlaps: underlying assumptions in the Preparatory and Final Laws of Finance may be very close. Indeed, they will, unless democratic controls at the national and European Parliaments produce some shifts in national fiscal policies. The September hearing would enhance ex-ante fiscal coordination, a quarter after an exchange of view with the ECB to facilitate coordination of fiscal and monetary policies, whereas the December hearing would reflect ex-post coordination (or deviations from an optimal policy that the testimony may help curb).
The Limits/Shortcomings of a Fiscal Dialogue
The previous developments should not be overstated. There are only examples of what a Fiscal Dialogue may look like. The Fiscal Dialogue may well go deeper or simpler. The Fiscal Dialogue that I recommend may face many criticisms. I argue on a few here.
First, some of the above-mentioned proposals (mainly those regarding ex-ante/ex-post evaluations) may sound unrealistic for lack of statistical information in real-time. One may also argue that they may give an impetus for improving the availability of real-time information.
Second, general discussion on European fiscal policies, and maybe on their possible spillovers, may occur during Councils involving Ministers of Finance and during Eurogroup meetings. However, these discussions are neither public nor systematic. Discussions behind closed doors between Ministers of Finance could be complemented with public and transparent discussions before the European Parliament.
Third, the European Semester already provides a framework for the coordination of economic policies across the European Union. It allows EU countries to discuss their economic and budget plans and monitor progress at specific times throughout the year. However, the European Semester is mainly an exercise between two parts, a Member State and the Commission, until decisions are made on overall country-specific recommendations at the Council. It does not involve directly the EU governments and the European ParliamentFootnote 9 and it is not a full ex-ante coordination device between all EU Member States.
Fourth, EU governments are already accountable towards their Parliament and are not accountable towards the European Parliament because tax and fiscal policies remain sovereign State policies. However, external fiscal spillovers may not be (sufficiently) accounted for in their accountability towards their own Parliament, and may therefore expose the entire area to unsatisfactory aggregate fiscal stances. The objective of the European Fiscal Board (EFB) is precisely to advise on the appropriate fiscal stance in the EU. While the National Fiscal Councils (NFC) monitor compliance with domestic fiscal rules in the Member States and thus enhance the internal accountability of governments, the EFB also cooperates with NFC to share best practices and common understanding on EU fiscal rules. It is not clear whether NFC have to discuss about EU economic spillovers of domestic policies. Moreover, NFC and EFB see their advisory role, and the ensuing aggregate fiscal stance, embedded in the EU fiscal framework that focuses on a complicated set of rules. Finally, fiscal accountability is blurred by the reliance on independent but technocratic institutions (members of EFB and NFB are nominated). In contrast, regular Fiscal Dialogues at the EP would enhance accountability quite substantially. In the meantime, they may help governments better internalize EU spillovers and better cooperate at the EU level. Moreover, the ECB keeps its independence of means to pursue monetary policy despite the Monetary Dialogue. One may even argue that its independence is strengthened by its accountability. Sovereignty/independence and accountability are not mutually exclusive. Finally, EU governments have accepted some debt mutualisation in the Next Generation EU programme that may reveal some appetite for better cooperation that a Fiscal Dialogue is meant to foster.
Fifth, there are already many checks and balances to the use of fiscal tools in the EU. Beyond the SGP framework and the NFC and EFB mentioned above, the EU has set an Economic Dialogue. The Economic Dialogue is “held in order to enhance the dialogue between the EU institutions on the application of economic governance rules and with Member States, if appropriate, to ensure greater transparency and accountability”. Actually, Economic Dialogues are mainly with the Commission and Eurogroup although there are also occasional exchanges of views with the Member States' finance ministers. Having a regular economic dialogue with Member States is problematic at the level of the EP which lacks legal competence in this regard. However, there are certain cases where there is a legal basis to invite Member States (e.g. euro area countries under enhanced surveillance following a macroeconomic adjustment programme or an excessive deficit procedure, macroeconomic imbalance procedure and other cases) but they remain highly specific and rare. Since its inception in 2012, there have been seventeen Economic Dialogues and five Exchanges of Views with a Minister of Finance involving fifteen EU Member States. Regular and structured Fiscal Dialogues would make a difference and increase transparency on European fiscal choices.
Last, there is a risk of “nationalization” of the debate in the EP. Opposition MEPs from a given country may engage in discussions with their Minister of Finance over issues which are rather of national and not European interest. This is a shortcoming that has already arisen during the Monetary Dialogue. Therefore, it would be key to organize Fiscal and Monetary Dialogues in a way to prevent national biases and highlight that MEPs represent the interests of all EU citizens. Although there may not be any perfect solution, members of the ECON Committee may play the role of an intermediary in collecting questions and reactions to the presentations of Ministers and help dampen the “nationalization” of policy debates.
Although I have not found reference to a Fiscal Dialogue for the EU per se in the literature, I acknowledge that there have been earlier proposals for an improvement in the democratization of policy choices at the European level. I already mentioned the proposal by Hallerberg et al. (2011) of a regular Economic Dialogue, mimicking the Monetary Dialogue, to improve the effectiveness and legitimacy of the European Semester (see also Hallerberg et al. 2012). Let me mention a few more here.
Andor et al. (2018) and Bouju et al. (2019) have promoted the creation of a Parliament limited to Euro area countries to foster fiscal cooperationFootnote 10 and a new budget (with own resources) adopted by voluntary countries to meet future challenges (e.g. climate change and inequality mitigation). My proposal is much more limited as it does not require some changes in hard law. Meanwhile, it focuses on all EU countries, on regular meetings between governments and the EP, on EU fiscal spillovers to enhance macroeconomic management in Europe and on a closer and transparent coordination with the ECB via a joint annual Fiscal and Monetary Dialogue.
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Rebuilt every two years since the time of the Incas, the Q'eswachaka Bridge in Peru is a shining example of engineering, workmanship & collaboration
Two communities from either side of the river join together and painstakingly rebuild the bridge over a three day period. Local grasses are twisted to form cords which are then woven into ropes and these ropes are braided to form large cables. Each rope is constructed from thirty of the small cords. Three of the ropes make one cable. Both communities stretch and twist the cables to strengthen them and then they are carried down to where it will be installed.
Using the old bridge as a means of running the first new cable, this is then cut down where it falls to be washed away by the river. The communities continue to pull on the new cables throughout the day, preparing them for the new bridge. The cables are then anchored to stone abutments on either side of the canyon. The architect of the bridge uses traditional weaving methods that have been passed down from his family through the centuries.
Four cables form the floor and two are used for the handrails. The weaving begins from either side until they meet in the middle. When finished, the two communities join together and celebrate its completion.
Although it doesn't appear so, the bridge is surprisingly strong and is able to support dozens of people. Just goes to show what community spirit can do!
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