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How to . . .
find committee hearings
Published hearing transcripts contain all witness testimony, the question-and-answer portion of the hearing, and any other material requested of the witness by the committee. It takes several months, or even years, for a hearing to be published. Unlike most other congressional documents, hearings are not available from the Senate or House Document Rooms. You may be able to locate a hearing from the Government Printing Office, from a committee website, or from a federal depository library.
Many committees post witness testimony on their websites shortly after a hearing takes place. However, the transcripts are generally the prepared statements submitted by each witness, so they will not contain the question-and-answer portion. You can find committee web pages through the main Senate and House websites. Most committees organize their hearing transcripts by date, and sometimes by subcommittee. Generally, testimony is only available for witnesses who submitted their statements electronically.
Many of the officially published hearings since the 105th Congress (1997-1998) are available in full text on the Government Printing Office (GPO) website.
Published hearings may be available in large library systems or college libraries, frequently as a part of their participation in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Over 1,100 libraries participate in the FDLP, collecting and/or providing public access to government documents. A list of depository libraries is on the GPO website. Since most depository libraries are within a university or state library, calling ahead to ask about hours is advised.
Purchasing from GPO
Published hearings may be available for sale from the Government Printing Office (GPO), although it is often difficult to locate them in GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. More information is available from GPO by calling 202-512-1800 or 1-866-512-1800 or by visiting the online
U.S. Government Bookstore. You may also
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Q. How many sidewalk gaps are there in Ann Arbor?
A: The city has over 436 miles of existing sidewalks. By contrast there are approximately 144 miles of “gaps" in the city as define by locations in the public right-of-way adjacent to a street that do not currently have sidewalks. An electronic “dashboard" is available with information on sidewalk gaps. The magenta lines on the dashboard show all the places where there are currently no sidewalks.
Q. Who pays for new sidewalks in Ann Arbor?
A: In November of 2020, voters approved a six-year New Sidewalk Millage. This millage, which will generate an annual revenue of approximately $1.3 million, will be used exclusively for sidewalk gap filling projects. Prior to the passing of this millage, new sidewalk construction costs were assessed to the property owners abutting the new sidewalk. Funding from the New Sidewalk Millage will apply to all sidewalks constructed adjacent to tax-paying parcels in the City of Ann Arbor.
Q. Are there other sources of funding available to pay for new sidewalks?
A: In some situations, federal or state funds may be available for construction of new sidewalks. These potential sites are typically located along main transportation routes. The city seeks federal and state grants when possible, however their availability is limited, and use must meet strict requirements. These funds also do not cover the full cost to design, construct, and inspect a new sidewalk.
Q: How can residents initiate getting a new sidewalk installed where none currently exists?
A: The cost of filling all sidewalk gaps in the city is estimated to cost between $150 and $220 million. The city does not have near the funding each year to fill that need, therefore, the city must prioritize locations.
To that end, the city developed a prioritization system for all the locations in the public right-of-way where sidewalks do not currently exist. The system considers such factors as: proximity to schools, transit, and other pedestrian attractors; equity; classification of adjacent road; community support/citizen requests; and safety. This system has been used to identify the highest priority sidewalk gaps and create specific sidewalk construction projects for inclusion in the City's Capital Improvements Plan (CIP). Smaller segments of high priority sidewalk which are too short to justify a standalone project may be addressed through an annual "Sidewalk Gap Elimination" program, or through other capital improvement projects such as road and utility projects.
Since citizen requests are one of the criteria to prioritize sidewalk gaps, if new sidewalk is desired in an area, a written/digital request may be submitted which may help move the location forward in the prioritization. This criteria is scored such that submitting a petition for the desired project will earn more points depending on the number of signatures, as follows:
- No requests (0 points)
- A single request (2 points)
- A petition submitted by 2-9 households (5 points)
- A petition signed by 1-20 households (8 points)
- A petition signed by 21+ households (10 points)
Please download a petition form (PDF) to submit a request and/or petition for new sidewalks, then email that completed form to [email protected] or mail to:
Public Services Area: Engineering
City of Ann Arbor, Larcom City Hall
301 E. Huron Street, P.O. Box 8647
Ann Arbor, MI 48107-8647
Q: How does the process work once a project is created?
A: Once a project is created, it gets scheduled for a particular year as part of the City's Capital Improvements Planning process. During the planning and design process, city staff will reach out to the neighborhood, and to individual property owners adjacent to the project, to further discuss the details of the project.
Q: What are the adjacent property owner's responsibilities once a new sidewalk is installed?
A: As per City Code, the adjacent property owner is responsible for keeping the sidewalk clear, which includes snow and ice removal, and trimming nearby vegetation on private property. Future repairs to the sidewalk are the responsibility of the city, so long as the Street, Bridge, & Sidewalk Repair Millage continues to be approved by voters.
Q: What sidewalk gap projects are coming up in the next couple of years?
A: Tentative sidewalk gap projects for 2021 and 2022 are listed below:
- Barton Drive (north side from Brede to Pontiac)
- Boardwalk Drive (east side from Eisenhower to Oakbrook)
- Jackson Avenue (south side from Wagner to Park Lake)
- Scio Church Road (north side from Landmark Court to Winsted and Greenview to Seventh)
- Stimson Street (both sides; near State Street)
- Yost and Eli (at frontage of 2609 Yost Avenue)
- Manchester (near Washtenaw)
- Arborview Boulevard (various gaps from Ross to Wildwood)
- Argo Drive (south side from Pontiac to Chandler)
- Broadway Street (various gaps from Baits Dr. to Plymouth)
- Ellsworth Road (north side from State Street to Stone School Road)
- John A. Woods Drive (south side from Pontiac to Pear)
- Newport and Sunset (east side from Downup Circle to Sunset; north side from Newport to Brooks)
- Nixon and Traver (west side from Westbury Court to Traver; north side from Nixon to Logan School entrance)
- Winchell and Frieze (Brockman to east end of gaps)
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How Bridges Are Made Over Water
No matter where you travel each day across the country, you’re likely to pass bridges. They’re a key connecting link across the country and throughout the world. Ever stop to marvel at this fantastic accomplishment? Ever wonder exactly how bridges are made over water, particularly when that body of water is incredibly large? It’s a long, fascinating process, and often it involves scaffolding docks.
Many Methods, One Result
Bridge creation typically involves different methods, and they depend a bit on the level of water and the quality of the soil under the water. For example. in low depths, the foundations of a bridge are usually laid when you fill a given location for a temporary period of time to build piers. This is perhaps the easiest form of bridge construction.
However, when the water depth is deeper or the soil is not very favorable, scaffolding docks get involved. Temporary docks are built, then piles are created deep into the water. The bridge is then created by taking support from the piles.
In even deeper waters, typically those involving rivers or the ocean, the Cofferdam technique is used. In this situation, a scaffolding dock is constructed so a team can build a wall to enclose a given area of the water. Once the wall is in place, water is pumped out of the area, and the foundation of the bridge is built inside that space. Continual monitoring is required from the scaffolding dock to ensure the tides of the water don’t change. Once the foundations are built, the walls can be removed, and the bridge itself can be constructed.
In really difficult situations, case drilling is used to create a bridge. In this technique, scaffolding docks are created to install a watertight chamber in the water. That watertight chamber uses air pressure to keep the water out, then a sealed tube is installed. At this point, a long drill is put inside the tube and drilling begins. Any water that fills the tube during the drilling process is pumped out and a case is pushed into the resulting hole to create the support for a bridge. That case is filled with concrete to form the pillars, and the bridge is created.
Scaffolding Docks Must Meet Key Requirements
Many of these bridge-building processes rely on the use of scaffolding docks, so requirements for these docks are incredibly strict. Guided by OSHA standards, these docks must be constructed to help prevent any potential dangers that might befall employees as they move equipment onto those docks and work from them day after day. They must be structurally sound enough to support their weight as well as four times the maximum intended load without any settling. Additionally, they have to be equipped with guardrails to protect employees aboard.
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I am trying to find an example that will allow us to use a ComboBoxAdv control with AutoSelection of items as the user types in the text. Currently, you provide AutoCompletion which only displays a subset of matching items from a data source in a dropdown box. I reviewed most examples in the forum and the AutoCompletionDemo, but none of them have what we want.
In our case, we just want the text typed by the user to locate a matching item in the list of available items in ComboBoxAdv. Is there an example for this that we could use?
Found a temporary fix to auto selection by setting the DropDownStyle to DropDown. When DropDownList is used every character typed moved the selection to the option starting with the typed character. The only limitation is that the user is not provided the drop down list of the options while typing the text.
ADAdministrator Syncfusion Team May 12, 2005 01:21 PM
Unfortunately, I''m not aware of any way to cause the dropdown to open when a key is pressed. The only suggestion I can give you is to try setting MatchFirstCharacterOnly to false.
However, I do have a sample with a simple-style ComboBox (with the dropdown always open in the form of ListBox) if you''re interested. It isn''t a ComboBoxAdv however. Please let me know if you''re interested.
WCWalter CedenoMay 12, 2005 02:27 PM
Please post the sample so that we can evaluate the best interface.
ADAdministrator Syncfusion Team May 12, 2005 03:31 PM
Please refer to this forum post. It contains a link to the sample and a discussion of its exact nature.
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Second challenge to Den Brook wind farm approval
The Den Brook Judicial Review Group (DBJRG) is challenging the decision on a number of grounds including that the noise condition imposed by the appeal Inspector Andrew Pykett, is defective.
DBJRG submitted a statutory appeal of the decision on Friday, January 22.
The move will come as a blow to Renewable Energy Systems Ltd (RES) who first announced plans for a wind farm in the Den Brook valley more than five years ago.
The current RES plan is for nine three-bladed horizontal axis wind turbines, electricity transformers, access tracks, crane hard standings, control building, sub-station, temporary construction compound and met masts.
RES say the turbines will produce enough power for 10,000 homes on an average output of eight to 10 megawatts.
RES intend to bring some of the components to build the turbines by railway and say it will bring improvements to the Dartmoor Railway, as well as generate an annual community fund of £27,000.
The turbines will be three times the height of Exeter Cathedral.
Government appointed Inspector Andrew Pykett approved the wind farm in December after he decided that combating global warming was more important than local people's quality of life.
He said that the wind farm at Den Brook "would be a cause of some harm in terms of its visual effect on the landscape" but said the decision was also bound by legal guidance to "thrust in favour of adoption and growth of renewable energy".
While the inspector acknowledged the site "will not be visible from North Tawton" and "minimally from Spreyton", he did admit that it will be clearly visible from many properties in Bow, especially from houses in Hobbs Way, Nymet Avenue, Collations Walk, Gregory Close, the village hall and playing field and from properties in the Nichols Nymet area.
Other areas he said the wind farm will be visible from include Cosdon Hill on Dartmoor, the churchyard at Zeal Monachorum and other higher viewpoints.
Mr Pykett acknowledged that a Roman road crosses the site of the wind farm.
In his report he said that the lifespan of the turbines should be 25 years and that they should be lit at night.
He imposed a range of noise conditions but rejected a RES claim for costs resulting from the second public inquiry.
He also imposed "shadow flicker" conditions and raised no objection to a scheme to investigate and alleviate any electro-magnetic interference with radio or television reception.
'POTENTIALLY HEALTH DAMAGING'
Concerning the recent DBJRG decision to continue its fight against the plan, member Mike Hulme said: "This is yet another extensive undertaking in this long standing saga.
"Our assessment of the decision leaves neighbours surrounding the wind farm proposal vulnerable to sleep disturbance from potentially health damaging noise pollution created by the industrial scale turbines.
"We would like firm assurances from the developer and a robust planning condition to provide protection for us all."
Specialist acoustic advisors working on behalf of Mr Hulme and the DBJRG have carried out a comprehensive analysis of the developer's own five years worth of wind speed data. DBJRG results say they show a high probability for excessive noise disturbing neighbours for anything up to 50 per cent of the time that the turbines are likely to operate.
It adds: "To complicate matters, the levels of noise disturbance are, in the main, unpredictable because no one yet fully understands the precise causes of the excessive amplitude modulation (whump, whump sound) of the wind turbine noise that is increasingly happening at developments elsewhere".
Mr Hulme added: "RES, the developer, continues to claim: "There will be no noise nuisance."
"However, evidence from around the country shows growing numbers of people neighbouring the latest generation of wind farm developments are suffering.
"The developer adopted the current, now ageing, guidelines to assess the wind farm's likely noise impacts. These guidelines, known as ETSU-R-97, were devised more than 12 years ago and have not been revised since, even though a recommendation for continuous updating and revisions is clearly made within the guidelines themselves.
"It is now widely acknowledged that the ETSU guidelines are outdated and in urgent need of review.
"Indeed, Inspector Pykett, commenting in his written decision of the Den Brook case stated, "...the issue is the subject of specific guidance, but I am concerned that with the growth of knowledge and the advent of larger commercial machines, ETSU-R-97 is not now as applicable as previously." (Decision letter paragraph 186).
"Advice from both our legal and acoustics advisors, leads me to be extremely concerned about the situation," explained Mr Hulme, who added: "What is more, this places my family in a very insecure and financially precarious situation. We can ill-afford the huge costs of yet another trip to the High Court but I feel there was little choice other than to appeal the decision."
"It is essential to ensure that adequate remedial procedures are in place and legally enforceable. Our extensive research leads us to foresee that there will be noise nuisance problems arising from the development, despite RES' claims to the contrary.
"Not to adequately protect families neighbouring the wind farm from potential health damaging noise pollution seems to me not only wholly unreasonable but totally unacceptable.
"Sadly, we know of many people and families throughout the UK already badly affected and finding there is little or no recourse other than to suffer or attempt to move away, often at great personal loss.
"The increasing number of homes becoming impacted is seriously worrying. More and more huge, modern-day wind turbines are being built without there being due consideration given for the well being of neighbours.
"It is quite reprehensible that long awaited developments for renewable energy, intended to help clean up our environment, are being tainted by practices rushing to meet arbitrary targets and putting profits before people."
After the Inspector approved the plan, West Devon Borough Council said it was "disappointed" that the appeal had been allowed.
A council spokesperson said: "The Inspector felt that although there will be an impact on the rural environment in allowing this, the harm caused could be outweighed by the renewable energy benefits of the development."
Helen Hall, RES project manager for Den Brook wind farm, told the Courier: "RES was disappointed to receive the news that Mr Hulme has chosen to take out a second legal challenge against the Den Brook Wind Farm.
"Since being awarded planning consent for the Den Brook wind farm, RES has held a series of positive meetings with local community representatives, at which people said they were keen to move on from the previous uncertainty over the scheme, acknowledging that the planning consent had been granted through a fair and thorough process.
"The wind farm, which has been through exceptionally rigorous planning scrutiny for the past five years, during which no stone was left unturned, was awarded consent for the second time by an independent Planning Inspector in December.
This approval provided further reassurance to local communities that the wind farm will produce clean, green electricity for 25 years with minimal impact on local people or the environment.
"The project will generate a community fund of £27,000 per year once up and running, provide much-needed improvements to the Dartmoor Railway for the wider community, and input millions into the local economy, through contracts with local construction materials suppliers and civil engineering firms. RES is already fielding many inquiries from local companies seeking to tender for work on the wind farm.
A community liaison group is being set up, with the first meeting due to take place in March, to ensure an open and constructive dialogue with the local community and to keep them fully informed as work on the wind farm progresses.
"It is surprising to see that after a year's preparation for the second inquiry, culminating in a detailed presentation of the case against the wind farm lasting more than three weeks, Mr Hulme wants to present all the same points over again in his legal challenge.
"It seems that he doesn't agree with any of the independent Planning Inspector's conclusions and this further challenge will serve only to introduce more costs, delay and uncertainty for everyone. The need for clean energy is ever more pressing and it is time now to get on and start producing it. The local community seem to be tiring of the uncertainty and keen to get on and maximise the benefits that the wind farm will bring".
RES recently announced it wanted local people to invest in the wind farm in return for a share of the profits.
It also said that it intended to begin building the wind farm at the end of this year, an announcement which, now another hearing will have to take place, appears was premature.
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Why should you use only open source technologies?
Open source technologies are technologies that are open to the public. These technologies are basically programs or applications which are created using a licencethat allows the source code to be freely available to the public to view, edit and recirculate. A few examples of this technology is WordPress, Open Cart, Joomla, Linux, etc.
The opposite of this is closed source technology which is sold with an attached license to it.
Open source technology is often misinterpreted to be free of cost. In most of the cases, this is true, however, open source makes only the source code freely available to the public. The program, on the other hand, can have a price attached to it. Having said that, let’s delve deeper into Open Source Technology:-
- More usage
Since open source technologies have their source code readily available to the public at an absolutely free cost, hence there is a far greater number of users downloading it and using it when compared to closed source technologies.
- Fixing Bugs
As mentioned in the previous point, you have a great number of people constantly downloading the source code. Since the technology not only allows you to freely download but also edit and recirculate, it is constantly being downloaded by contributors who are editing the code, fixing the bugs and redistributing it to the public. These updates are again freely available and easy to download.
- Free themes, extensions and plug ins available
On basis of your product and service, since the source code is freely available, you have multiple themes and plug ins made available by the multiple users of this technology.
- Wide information documentation
Since you have a wide array of users attached to this technology, there is a wide documentation of information pertaining to the customization of this application. Hence you have resourceful information to any problem associated with the application.
- Tried and Tested
Being employed by a large number of users, this is a tried and tested technology with the approval of these users.
- Less prone to hacking
Since the technology is already freely available to users, it is less likely to be attacked by hackers.
A good example of open source technology is Wikipedia. Wikipedia was an open source technology that allowed users to share information on a common platform, edit and re-distribute the shared information whereas Encyclopedia, that was owned by Microsoft, had information distributed by a fixed set of individuals with a fixed price attached to it. Today, Wikipedia is the no. 1 information portal in the world whereas Encyclopedia is no longer available.
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August Climate Briefing: “100%” El Niño
Read our ENSO Essentials & Impacts pages for more about El Niño.
Tony Barnston provides an overview of the briefing
Changes from last month’s briefing
Although 100% is technically not an achievable number in the world of ENSO and climate prediction, this El Niño forecast all but reaches it for the next several months. The odds are similar to last month’s forecasts, but even just a little bit higher. There is a >99.5% chance of El Niño continuing through the November-January season, and chances stay above 90% through early spring.
These probability calculations are based only on the chance of at least weak El Niño conditions persisting. Nonetheless, the El Niño has continued to strengthen, and Barnston says this event may be in the top four strongest events since 1950. Last week, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Nino3.4 region were 2.0ºC above average (see image). The SST anomaly for the month of July was 1.6ºC. This tops the threshold (1.5ºC) and required length of time (1 month) for a “strong” El Niño to be declared, according to criteria set by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
To predict El Niño, computers model the SSTs in the Nino3.4 region over the next several months. The graph below shows the outputs of these models, some of which use equations based on our physical understanding of the system (called dynamical models), and some of which used statistics, based on the long record of historical observations.
The mean of both statistical and dynamical models call for an event peaking above the +1.5ºC strong El Niño threshold. The average of the dynamical models is stronger, with a peak strength nearly reaching the 2.5ºC mark (up from a peak strength of about 2.0ºC last month). While the variation among the model outputs is significant, all of the models call for at least a weak El Niño through the end of the year.
The El Niño advisory issued in March by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center and IRI is still in effect.
Effects of El Niño on global seasonal forecasts
Each month, IRI issues seasonal climate forecasts for the entire globe. These forecasts take into account the latest ENSO SST projections and indicate which areas are more likely to see above or below normal temperatures and rainfall.
For the September-November period, the forecast continues to show a strong likelihood of drier-than-normal conditions over Indonesia, northern South America, northern Australia and the Caribbean (image right). There are also increased odds for drier-than-normal conditions in parts of central and western Africa, the northeastern US and Central America. Wetter-than-average conditions are predicted to be more likely in parts of eastern Africa, southeastern South America, central Chile and the southwestern US.
Forecasts for the end of 2015 and beginning of 2016 are also showing typical El Niño climate impacts. In addition to the areas listed above, other areas with strong seasonal forecast signals later in the year include eastern Europe, far eastern Asia, the southeastern US, southern Africa, western Australia and southwestern Asia. See forecast maps through the December-February season on our seasonal forecast page.
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Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of Nepal inaugurated the Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA), Nepal’s second international airport. The opening will contribute to the country's overall development and long-term prosperity, according to Mr. Deuba. ADB supported the Government of Nepal to build and upgrade the GBIA through the Asia Tourism Infrastructure Development Project.
Tags: ADB, Nepal, Airports, Air Transport
The Government of Nepal and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a loan agreement for the SASEC Airport Capacity Enhancement Project. The project will improve the capacity of two major airports in Nepal, the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu and the Gautam Buddha Airport (GBA) in Lumbini.
Tags: Nepal, ADB, Transport, Airports
The Government of Maldives invited Sri Lankan businesses to invest in the archipelago, and bid for projects in airport development, housing, hospitals and renewable energy. Maldivian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Zahiya Zareer emphasized the need for Maldives and Sri Lanka to build more commercial ties.
Tags: Maldives, Sri Lanka, Airports, Renewable Energy
Bhutan is upgrading three domestic airports—Bumthang, Gelephu, and Yonphula—to enhance their capacity, safety, and efficiency. The Asian Development Bank is providing additional financing for this SASEC project, to further strengthen safety and security, and improve passenger convenience and service at these airports.
Tags: Bhutan, Airports, Transport, Tourism
Mr. Wencai Zhang, Vice-President, Asian Development Bank, discussed ways to accelerate Nepal's economic structural transformation with policy makers, scholars, and Government officials in “Envisioning Nepal 2030”, an international seminar jointly organized by the National Planning Commission and ADB. In his address, he discussed how regional cooperation and integration could turn Nepal from a landlocked to a land-connected country.
Tags: Nepal, Energy, Airports, Hydropower, LLDC
The Government of Nepal unveiled a number of infrastructure projects for transport and energy in its budget for fiscal year 2015-2016 to further boost the country's economic growth. Planned road projects include development of six-lane trade roads and an alternate link road to Kathmandu. The Government is also prioritizing development of airports.
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Decisions made during planning will influence what support is offered, to whom and for how long. As well as how the programme is managed or led.
All projects need some level of organisation, whether staff or community-led:
Staff-led programmes - tend to have more traditional leadership approaches with volunteers managed and supported by members of staff.
Community/volunteer-led programmes - These programmes are connected to a hospice but have fewer boundaries and restrictions, giving volunteers a higher level of trust, responsibility and freedom to act.
When an organisation is responsible for funding, running and referring people to their community volunteering service, they are accountable for all that happens in that programme.
Volunteer- and community-led programmes also have to ensure that their activities are safe, effective and meet the needs of those they support. However, their accountability to the community and each other is different and enables them to be more responsive to changing and individual needs.
There is no right or wrong approach to community volunteering. The determining factors in leadership approaches arise mainly from the intention of the community volunteering programme, organisational culture and the readiness to embrace such a programme.
For some hospices this may be a journey that starts with a staff-managed programme, moving gradually to a more empowered volunteer-led approach.
What's important is it meets the needs of those it seeks to support, and there is evidence to prove it.
Activities that volunteers should avoid undertaking.
Volunteers in most hospice community programmes were not permitted to undertake personal care or give medication however, there were some additional activities noted by hospices.
More information can be found in the Analysis Report Section 9.
Boundaries emerged as a common theme. Many staff-led services had strict boundaries around the activities of volunteers.
In staff-led programmes, boundaries are often managed through training, supervision and support.
Community or volunteer-led programmes often have fewer and more flexible rules. Volunteers in these programmes have more freedom to act and are empowered to respond to any situation using their initiative, skills and experience.
Boundaries are essential for safety, but they must be proportionate, enabling volunteers to use their skills and initiative. Anecdotal evidence suggests that rigidly enforcing boundaries results in volunteers stepping beyond them without informing staff.
Co-creating boundaries may go some way to avoid this as may ongoing dialogue and discussion about experiences and scenarios. More information can be found in the Analysis Report, Section 6.
The management of risk was an area that hospices raised throughout the study. All organisations had risk management strategies in place.
A small number of community-led programmes indicated a more hands-off approach to risk as volunteers had a more generic relationship with the people they supported.
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Alida Nugent wasn’t always a feminist. There was a time when she was much more interested in being cool. Not Like Others Girls was a prized label and she was aiming for it. She considered herself a Guy’s Girl. I think most of us know at least one woman who sees herself that way. The question that led Alida to eventually realise that One of the Guys wasn’t a prize she needed to be aiming for, was this: Why do you hate being a woman so much?
I mean, it’s kind of understandable. We live in a culture where women are considered less than. There’s the serious, if you leave the house after dark there’s a genuine possibility you might be raped/murdered issue. But in addition to that there’s also the blatant derision that exists toward anything that is created by women, for women. Just to use an appropriately bookish example, rather than being simply, writers, women who write books aimed toward women produce ‘chick lit’, a title that has intrinsically less value than literary or genre fiction. What’s the massive difference? Usually that it’s written by a woman and the romantic relationship comes from the woman’s perspective (rather than her simply being the sexy catalyst for the character development of a white guy who’s sad about the quality of his art – that’s literary.).
‘Calling yourself a feminist is like making a comment on the Internet in real life: there’s always somebody who is going to disagree with your beliefs, and that person is going to express their disagreement with great passion and little digs at your life choices.’
With all this in mind, it’s not difficult to see why girls want to distance themselves from their female-ness. Everything that they create, enjoy, and – let’s face it – are, is considered somehow less. That Alida Nugent used this perspective to explore the discomfort that she felt about feminism when she was younger was really refreshing to read. She talks about how this anti-women attitude can lead to committing what she refers to as ‘crimes.’ A lot of these ‘crimes’ have to do with language choices. For her, part of growing up and finding feminism was realising the harm the words she had used about other women – slut, crazy, bitch – were doing. Sometimes we only learn the damage words can do when we’ve already said them, but that doesn’t make it too late to change.
‘Ah, to be the kind of person who declares that she just doesn’t get along with many women. What this can also be translated to is, “I don’t get along with half the entire world.” That is most definitely a “you problem.”’
What I like most about this part of the book is the demonstration that a person’s entire worldview can change. We can get so stuck in our beliefs that we totally shut down the possibility of being wrong, and in doing that the chance to learn gets lost. Nugent shows that it doesn’t have to. We can grow and change – even when doing so means we’re left cringing at the person we used to be. Whether you’re a feminist or not, I think that’s a pretty great message.
Alida Nugent writes with an intent that reminded me of Roxanne Gay’s book, Bad Feminist – that declaring oneself a feminist is by no means and mistake-free process.
You Don’t Have To Like Me takes the challenges that a woman faces during her teens and early twenties, and studies them through a feminist lens. Nugent covers female friendships, eating disorders, unwanted pregnancy, bonding with women in club bathrooms and the amount of thought a girl puts into the five minute walk from her subway station to her door. A lot of thought goes into that 5 minute walk.
I would like to give this book to all the girls I know who say they aren’t feminists ‘because of all the radical stuff.’
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A key security flaw in Dell’s SupportAssist software was recently discovered by Eclypsium’s security researchers. This is something that all Dell PC owners should be aware of since the software is pre-installed on the majority of Dell machines with Windows in today’s market. On a scale of 1 to 10, the severity of the flaw created is 8.3. Remote attackers can impersonate the Dell website for complete control of the target machine.
Operating system (OS)-level security protocols will be easily bypassed by the booth process. This information should also be known to anyone that does computer repairs so they can address it head on.
As mentioned earlier, SupportAssist is already preinstalled on a majority of Windows OS Dell devices. The OS recovery features and remote firmware updates come from BIOSConnect.
There have been quite a few incidents with SupportAssist having security vulnerabilities that Dell computer owners have gone through. Back in May 2019, there was a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) with SupportAssist that was patched. It happened because there was an improper origin validation weakness at play. Another patch happened just last year, in February of 2020, because of a DLL search-order hijacking bug. It gave local attackers the means to use Administrator privileges on vulnerable devices in order to execute code that was arbitrary.
More recently, Dell had to address a flaw in the DbUtil driver found in millions and millions of devices. It allowed privileges of non-admin users to reach kernel privilege permissions.
Suffice to say, SupportAssist has had a number of vulnerability issues over the past couple of years.
Dell SupportAssist’s BIOSConnect feature was found to have four security vulnerabilities that are quite hefty. Half of them affect the firmware update process, while the other half affect the OS recovery process. Remote attackers could execute code within a device’s BIOS. Even Dell devices that are protected through Secure Boot and Dell Secured-core PCs are affected; all in all, there are over a hundred models of consumer and business tablets, laptops and desktops.
The good news is that CVE-2021-21573 and CVE-2021-21574 were addressed server-side back in late May. However, CVE-2021-21571 and CVE-2021-21572 still need their Dell Client BIOS updates looked over. They could let a remote attacker exploit the UEFI firmware of a host, giving them control over the device’s most privileged code.
In light of this, affected Dell users should not update their BIOS with BIOSConnect. Instead, they should find an alternative to update their BIOS/UEFI. Professionals that do computer repairs can assist with this for users that may not be tech-savvy or are worried they won’t do it correctly.
The latest issue with Dell’s SecurityAssist feature lies in a major security vulnerability. On a scale of 1 to 10, the problem is a solid 8.3, according to experts. It’s a security flaw that affects over 129 models of the company’s devices, such as laptops and desktops all over the world, since SupportAssist is typically pre-installed on most Dell machines.
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This series of Precise Fluid Dispenser operate by means of air pressure. No high-pressure compression on supply materials is required. For low liquidity fluid, no supply pump is required.
For high viscous materials, ACG series of low discharge pressure Supply Pump or pressure tank is used.
The Precise Fluid Dispenser consists of manifolds to easily increase or decrease the number of discharge ports by means of block plates.
Description of ACV Dispenser Operation
1 Standby(Main plunger goes up and suction)(Continuation from Step)
With the air solenoid valve (SOL-V2) OFF, air in the air cylinder (upper) on the main side is exhausted from A2. The air piston (M) and main plunger rises (up) under the force of spring. In this case, the fluid is sucked below the main plunger, and the dispenser enters the standby state.
2 Pilot plunger goes down
With the air solenoid valve (SOL-V1) ON, Air comes in the upper portion of air cylinder on the pilot side from A1. Along with lowering of the air piston (P), the pilot plunger lowers (down).At end of lowering, the dispensing outlet and the lower passage of main plunger open.
3 Dispensing Process(Main plunger goes down)
With the solenoid valve (SOL-V2) ON, air comes in the upper portion of air cylinder on the main side from A2.Along with lowering of the air piston (M), the main plunger lowers (down). In this case, fluid accumulated under the main plunger is dispensed through the discharge port to the nozzle side.
4 Pilot plunger goes up
With the air solenoid valve (SOL-V1) OFF, air in the air cylinder is exhausted from A1.The air piston and plunger on the pilot side go (up) under the force of spring. In this case, the dispenser draws back the fluid accumulating in the discharge port, preventing fluid dripping. This function is called Suction back.
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Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed this week that the new PlayStation Eye virtual pet game EyePet will be out in time for Christmas 2009, much to the delight of younger PS3 gamers everywhere!
Sony has yet to really mine the possibilities opened up by its own PlayStation Eye camera attachment, and it clearly hopes that EyePet's little interactive virtual monkey might well be the game/app to really show off what the tech is capable of.
Teach, Feed, Play
"Experience the first virtual pet who doesn't just live on screen, he lives in the living-room," explains Sony's press release. "Using the PlayStation Eye camera, EyePet will interact with users and the environment to deliver entertainment and fun for the whole family.
"With EyePet players will learn to care for their new pet, including teaching, feeding, and playing with them. Additionally, players can compete in daily challenges to make their EyePet more intelligent and agile, and to earn special rewards."
SCEE is still to confirm an exact release date, but a rep confirmed with TechRadar this morning that the game would definitely be out in time for Christmas.
Eager fans of virtual monkeys will be able to buy the game on its own or bundled with a PlayStation Eye (and a PS3, too, no doubt - if you still need one!).
• EyePet Reacts to Every Move and Command – Place an object in front of the camera and EyePet will interact with it. Tickle EyePet by waving your fingers in front of the camera and he will laugh. Poke him, and he will jump. Roll a ball and EyePet will chase after it.
• Customize Your EyePet – With over 250 unique collectibles you can customize your pet's look by styling his fur, changing his clothes, and giving him new toys.
• Graphics and Animation That Only the PS3 Can Deliver – EyePet features Pixar-like fur technology and facial expressions. Watch EyePet change as he evolves over time.
• Create and Share With Friends – Draw new toys and watch EyePet interact with them as they spring to life on-screen.
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The British Army in Africa
Outside the UK, the largest number of UK Armed Forces deployments are currently training or on operations in Africa. The UK has deployed many short-term military training teams to help build the capacity of national military forces, ensuring a number of states across Africa can respond appropriately and proportionally to the security threats they face, including terrorism, the illegal wildlife trade, violations of human rights and emerging humanitarian crises.
British Army in Africa - Supports Security
By continuing support for developing countries in Africa by supporting their people and helping them improve their security and overcome the threats, our Armed Forces help make the world a more stable and they help keep our country safe and secure.
The UK is helping to build the capacity of partner nations, both those directly affected by security threats and those able to play a leadership role in the continent to strengthen stability.
We are reinforcing the ability of international and regional organisations to deal with crises on the continent through the UK’s military deployments to train troops on AU and UN operations and increased support to UN peacekeeping and the prevention of piracy.
Peacekeeping in Africa
The UK is supporting UN peacekeeping missions in Africa with deployments to South Sudan, Somalia Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali. Our contributions to UN missions, demonstrates the UK’s global commitment to peacekeeping.
Illegal wildlife trade
Our troops are conducting tracker training in the continent, increasing the capabilities of local park rangers to protect elephants from poachers in the illegal wildlife trade
British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK)
BATUK is a permanent training support unit based mainly in Nanyuki, 200 km north of Nairobi, but with a small element in Nairobi. BATUK provides demanding training to exercising units preparing to deploy on operations or assume high-readiness tasks. BATUK consists of around 100 permanent staff and reinforcing short tour cohort of another 280 personnel.
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Within the Financielle community, a big goal for many is buying their first home. You may be buying alone, buying with a partner or just planning for someday. Whatever your goals, it’s important to find your own ways of saving for a house deposit. In this article, we’re going to be talking about the process of saving for a house deposit.
In the Financielle Playbook, we place this step after becoming debt-free and building a solid emergency fund. This is because buying a house without strong financial foundations can be a painful recipe for disaster.
So, you’re debt-free, you have 6 months’ worth of expenses behind you in the bank and you’re ready to start piling up the cash for your house deposit. Let’s get into it!
So how much should I save for a house deposit?
You’re going to need to save a minimum of 10% of the purchase price of the home for the deposit, plus you need to allow money for all the extras that will be needed including:
- Survey Fees (basic survey could be included in your mortgage)
- Stamp Duty* (*note current exemptions – see this UK government guidance here)
- Solicitor / Conveyancer Fees (can range between £500 – £1000 on average – more if it is a complicated purchase)
- Mortgage Fees (your mortgage could be fee-free or have fees)
- Removal Costs
I now have a savings goal total; how do I actually start saving?
Whatever your savings goal number, it is likely to be higher than anything you’ve ever saved before. Let’s say your goal is £20,000 (£15,000 deposit plus fees).
Make the goal visible
Make a vision board of your goal – whether that be a physical cut and stick one or a digital one on your computer or phone home screen, or even make a Pinterest board of your ideal home. Think about what it will look like, what will the garden be like? What will the décor be like? Where will it be? Imagine yourself turning the key to the house on the day you complete the sale – you need to think about how this will feel. This helps to make the goal more real for you and help you make it a priority in your life.
Do the maths
So, if you follow The Financielle Playbook method, you will know your Excess (which is what is left after your outgoings are taken from your income). You need to take your goal figure and divide it by your monthly Excess, and this is the number of months it will take you to reach your goal. Every month, you need to transfer the Excess at the beginning of the month to a separate savings account. Now if this amount of time is too long for you and your dreams, then we need to do a couple of things!
Squeeze Your Budget
Now to accelerate working towards your goal, you need to squeeze your budget by going through line by line and considering how you may reduce your outgoings to increase your Excess. What are you willing to sacrifice to bring you closer to your goal?
Increase Your Income
Your second variable that brings the goal closer is to increase your income – whether that is at your main role or whether it is picking up extra jobs if you can, such as delivering pizza or working in a supermarket on weekends. It could also be done by selling things around the house on Facebook or eBay – everything goes towards your income total and remember; any Excess goes into the separate savings account.
Track Your Progress
Using a simple tracker to track your progress will mean that you gain momentum when you see progress and the small wins, such as £50 or £100 take you closer towards your goal. Printing off a goal tracker, putting it on the fridge and colouring each square in as you put the effort in to save will help you visibly see progress and motivate you to finish your goal. See here a free download of a House Deposit Savings Goal Tracker you could use for the amount you need – with 50 spaces to colour in, just divide the amount by the number of spaces and that’s how much each square is worth.
The skills you learn in paying down debt and building up an emergency fund are exactly the same – and remember without consumer debt payments, there is more of your income to throw into savings as your Excess. And this can be applied to any goal – a trip of a lifetime, campervan, garden office, new car.
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Guardianship and special needs law encompasses a range of issues associated with caring for and meeting the needs of individuals who are either unable, or only partially able, to care for themselves. Examples of these situations range from a developmentally disabled child or a senior with some form of dementia, to the victim of a car accident in a long-term coma who has failed to create any type of power of attorney. Our firm is experienced in and able to assist you with the development of a comprehensive legal plan for any such situation.
A Guardianship, also known as a conservatorship, is where one person, the guardian, is appointed by the Courts to make medical and/or financial decisions for another person. A person may need a guardian if that person is no longer able to care for themselves due to a stroke, Alzheimer’s, dementia, or other serious medical condition. Unless a guardian is appointed for a developmentally disabled person who is older than 18 years of age, the law will presume that person is capable of making all decisions for himself or herself.
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The category of special needs law specifically addresses the needs of an adult or child who is disabled, due to either a physical or mental disability, or a chronic illness. A Special Needs Trust, also known as a Supplemental Needs Trust, is an irrevocable trust created according to federal law for the benefit of individuals who are disabled under Social Security standards and who are under age 65. Our attorneys are well-versed in this area of the law and can assist clients with a trust in order to qualify for available government programs and benefits.
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Guardianship & Special Needs Law Resources:
- AARP – Advance Directives: Creating a Living Will and Healthcare Power of Attorney
- AARP – Caregiving Resource Center
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – North Carolina Advance Directive: Planning for Important Health Care Decisions
- North Carolina Guardianship Association
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Plain Language BIM guides you through the complexities of the BIM process. It is intended for both beginners and intermediate users. Whilst the legislation covered in the book was enacted in the United Kingdom, it is still a valid basis for a guideline to the BIM process on an international basis.
The vital essence of BIM is gathering data about the asset that is the subject of our BIM process. If we don't have good quality information, delivered in a manner we can understand and consume, that can be trusted and relied upon, then we cannot decide from the outset on whether we need to upgrade, augment, replace, decommission or leave our assets alone, regardless of whether they are railways, highways, power stations, tunnels, hospitals, schools or prisons.
The author, Iain Miskimmin, has spent the best part of two decades working in support of the infrastructure and construction industries. Helping to deliver the first BIM projects in the UK before the questionable acronym was set in stone. Since 2012 he has run the Crossrail/ Bentley Information Management Academy and the BIM Advancement Academy in London. This has allowed him to interact with over 4000 industry people from all over the globe to capture their thoughts and experience of BIM, including some of the biggest infrastructure projects in the world. He was worked closely with the UK BIM Task Group and leads the Infrastructure Asset Data Dictionary for the UK (IADD4UK) initiative. | <urn:uuid:9af771fa-a201-40e0-9333-90b613a8e2e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1311486748 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946734 | 305 | 2.359375 | 2 |
MENLO PARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) - Experts say cashless businesses are becoming more popular as technology expands.
New Jersey just decided to swipe that idea away.
Cash is gold? Or credit cards are convenient?
"I don't carry cash. Very little. Always use a card. It's much easier," one man told CBS2's Meg Baker.
"Cash is easier. You can count cash in person," said Elijah Rodriguez of Woodbridge.
Assemblyman Paul Moriarty sponsored the bill.
"I think a ban on cash is discriminatory. It marginalizes the poor, marginalizes young people who haven't established credit yet. People prefer to pay in cash, and people who don't want every aspect of life notated by a credit card company, right down to a stick of gum," Moriarty said.
The New Jersey Business and Industry Association says this removes a business owner's right to freely determine how they want to receive payment for products or services, and credit is most efficient.
"Businesses would not do something that would cause them to lose customers," said Michele Siekerka of the NJBIA. "Business-side efficiencies: Safety, security, not having to take bags of money to the bank at the end of the day, another cost to the business."
Most shoppers Baker spoke to in Menlo Park say they often don't have time to run to the bank and withdraw cash, and prefer not to pay ATM fees.
"I usually pay with a card. Almost always. Cash, you never have enough of it, don't know what the total is going to be," one woman told Baker.
"I guess what's troubling me is businesses like nail salons using applications like Venmo - stuff like that - more inconvenient than credit cards," another woman said.
Moriarty says the move to kill cash isn't a huge problem in New Jersey, and that this was a preemptive move to stop the practice, which is becoming more and more popular in neighboring cities like New York.
New Jersey is the second state to pass a cashless ban law. Massachusetts has also made it illegal.
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A recent report from The Economist shows that despite our best attempts to keep Big Tech out of our lives, they’re going to bully their way in.
Google, and its parent company, Alphabet, are two of the biggest offenders of this.
Not far behind them is Amazon.
As if controlling the media wasn’t enough, these three groups are ready to get deeply involved in your health care.
That’s right. Our health care system is a mess, and it’s about to get even worse when these snakes get involved.
All three organizations have recently made billions and billions and billions (and billions) in healthcare bets and deals.
Here’s a segment of The Economist article that shows how involved Google is really getting:
“So far this year, it has injected $1.7 billion into future health ideas, according to data provider, CB Insights, which, leaving its fellow tech giants, has spent nearly $100 million in the dust. Alphabet is the fifth-highest-ranking business in the Nature Index, which measures the impact of scientific papers in the life sciences, behind four giant drugmakers and 20 places ahead of Microsoft, the only other tech giant in the running. The company has hired former senior health regulators to help navigate America’s health care bureaucracy.
Alphabet’s approach to innovation—throwing a lot of money at a lot of projects—has worked well in few other businesses beyond its core search engine. This has given rise to clever products, from Gmail and Google Docs to the Android mobile operating system and Google Maps, that support people’s digital lives. Alphabet thinks that some of its health offerings will become central to their physical existence. Is this an accurate forecast?
Alphabet Health has dabbled in health since 2008, when Google introduced a service that allowed users to compile their health records in one place. That project was shut down in 2012, relaunched in 2018 as Google Health, which included Google’s other health ventures, and was scrapped again last year. Today Alphabet’s health adventures can be divided into four broad categories. These are in thick order of ambition: wearables, health records, health-related artificial intelligence (AI) and the ultimate challenge of increasing human longevity.“
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.
If you're remotely foodie-adjacent, you probably have a sense of where your dinner comes from. But fashion, which has no real equivalent to the term "free-range," is a bit more of a gamble. Beyond a location listed on a tag, you may have no real idea about the origin story of your new garment.
Christy Baskauskas had the same quandary when she founded her line Christy Dawn. She was mainly using deadstock fabrics because they were an affordable and relatively green option. But their provenance, and chemical content, were harder to track. Says Mairin Wilson, the brand's head of regenerative practices, "Deadstock is amazing. And it's a great way to not be a part of the problem in the fashion industry [of] all these toxic practices. But it's also not a solution."
Baskauskas keeps a small garden and chickens, but she's not a farmer per se. When she did a little more digging, so to speak, she decided to put her energy into regenerative farming, a practice which seeks to enrich the earth rather than strip-mining it of nutrients. She certainly isn't the only fashion brand embracing regenerative techniques—so are outdoor staples The North Face and Patagonia and luxury giant Kering—but she's been one of the most vocal on the subject. As Wilson says: "Healing the soil will heal the Earth. And so, how can we really work to use it as a solution to climate change, to all of these problems that we're facing environmentally, in a way that not only helps the soil, but also helps the farmers and helps our consumers learn more about what's going on underneath the surface of each piece of clothing we make?"
The answer was to create their own farming experiment. Working with Oshadi Collective, the company found a site in India and began operating on a land stewardship model. In addition to the cotton, the land supports more than a dozen other plants, which serve as pollinators, cover crops or trap. Both women are quick to acknowledge that this isn't a new or particularly technologically cutting-edge concept. Instead, it draws from ancient Indigenous practices. For example, one of the farmers has a longstanding family tradition of burying a pouch of rice under the oldest tree on the property, then turning it into a tea and distributing that among the other crops. "From a traditional perspective, that's such an amazing story," says Wilson. "But when you think about it scientifically it [also] makes total sense, because the oldest tree on the farm is going to have the most nutrients. It's going to have this abundant microbiome underneath it because it's been there for so long. So whatever nutrients the rice absorbed are creating a really amazing fertilizer without using chemicals."
One of the most important parts of the process is "creating systems of trust," she adds. "The only way to have an ethical relationship to something is to understand it. Christy and I, as two women sitting here in downtown Los Angeles, we don't understand what's happening on the farm in India. So we're not going to tell the farmers exactly what to do," but will simply provide ground rules, like keeping the land chemical-free, full of diversified crops, and fed with drip irrigation. The result: their "Farm to Closet" collections, the first of which debuted in May.
Baskauskas defines regeneration as "starting somewhere, trying and then learning each step of the way and continuing to do better each time." That means there are some hiccups along the way that might not occur with mass production, but the label is embracing them as happy accidents. For example, when a monsoon recently struck the region, it delayed the latest collection, which is block-printed, since there was less sunlight available to dry the fabric and cure the dyes. But the label is rolling with it, making the pieces available for pre-order; each dress represents 42 pounds of sequestered carbon.
And now, the brand is offering something new for those who truly want to go all in: the purchase of land stewardship. $200 covers 3485 square feet of land, as well as line items like the farmers' salaries, seeds for other crops, compost, and worms. They'll receive a gift card based on the amount of usable yield produced, which goes towards buying a dress made with that very cotton. (Think of it as a much chicer CSA box.)
Baskauskas has been learning by doing, and she wants to make sure the knowledge she's acquired along the way stays open-source so that others in fashion can use it, too. "We want to create a roadmap for everybody as we try everything and we see how it works," she says. "We're journaling it all down and creating this roadmap for our customers and also for any other brands that want to jump in and learn more." For her, sustainable is no longer the goal: "The word itself is just a linear line. You're just sustaining something. When you really look into the work, it feels like, Is sustainable actually something that I want to be? I have two small kids. I don't really want to sustain where we are right now in the world. We need to make it better now. And can we do that by making clothes? Yes, we can—because we're doing it." | <urn:uuid:40580168-b076-4cef-be2b-7ba281b0fa11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://jsscpx.com/index-25.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974777 | 1,129 | 1.875 | 2 |
SINGULAIR NEW USE
Since launched in 1998, Singulair has always been indicated for prophylaxis and chronic treatment of asthma in patients from 2 years and up. Now Merck Frosst announced Singulair is also indicated for the relief of symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever) in patients 15 years and older. There are no noticeable side effects when used for hay fever but in asthma patients, there is a little over 1% incidence of abdominal pain and headache. Patients with mild to moderate hepatic insufficiency may produce a higher blood level and longer elimination of the drug. Elevations in serum transaminases have been observed but mostly transient although jaundice has been reported. | <urn:uuid:7830d290-fb36-40b2-a494-6e599c5067d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://millbrookpharmacy.com/page_174 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.924547 | 147 | 1.796875 | 2 |
CLINICAL TRIAL article
Sec. Mood Disorders
A Retrospective Naturalistic Study Comparing the Efficacy of Ketamine and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
- 1Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2Cyprus rTMS Centre, Larnaca, Cyprus
- 3Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 4School of Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Cyprus
- 5Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Brain + Nerve Centre, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, Netherlands
Depression is a common mental disorder that affects many people worldwide, while a significant proportion of patients remain non-responsive to antidepressant medications. Alternative treatment options such as ketamine therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy are offered nowadays. This study aims to describe and compare the acute antidepressive efficacy of both, intramuscular ketamine and rTMS in depression patients seeking help in a naturalistic clinical mental health setting. The clinical records of 24 patients with treatment resistant depression were collected from the clinical base of a real life clinic. Twelve patients were treated with intramuscular ketamine, twice weekly for 8 sessions, and twelve patients were treated with 30 sessions of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex – intermittent theta-burst stimulation (DLPFC-iTBS). Using three clinical assessments (HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II), our data reveal that both therapies led to significant improvement in symptoms from pre- to post- treatment, as well as that the two experimental groups did not differ significantly with respect to pre- to post- depressive and anxiety symptoms, indicating that the effect of both experimental groups in our sample was equally effective. Furthermore, our results showed high remission and response rates in both groups, with no statistical differences between the patients of ketamine group and rTMS group in remission and response rates. We show a significant pre- to post- treatment reduction in depressive and anxiety symptoms, with no significant differences between the two experimental groups, indicating that the effect of both therapies was equally effective in our limited sample.
Depression is a common mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people worldwide, irrespective of age (1). Clinically effective first-line treatments include pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. However, ~30% of depression patients remain non-responsive to antidepressant medications and are suffering from treatment resistant depression (TRD) (2, 3). Conventionally, TRD is diagnosed when a patient is not experiencing any significant clinical improvement from at least two different methods of antidepressants (4). TRD patients are therefore in need of new (non)pharmacological treatment alternatives.
In recent years, there has been a considerable interest in the use of ketamine as an antidepressant in humans. Ketamine is a racemic mixture of two enantiomers, S-ketamine (esketamine) and R-ketamine and the antidepressant properties of N-methyl d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists have received much attention in experimental animal studies several years ago (5, 6). In patients suffering from TRD, the antidepressant effect of ketamine can be observed within a few hours following a single subanesthetic intravenous infusion (7). As reported by a two-site randomized controlled trial, a single infusion of ketamine was associated with greater improvement in the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) score, compared to an active placebo control condition (anesthetic midazolam), 24 h after treatment (7). The administration of ketamine was not only found to be effective for treating depression, but also in bipolar disorder, as well as in suicidal ideation (8, 9). Furthermore, repeated administration of ketamine may be associated with rapid, longer-term and sustained antidepressant effects (10, 11). According to a recent article by Kim and colleagues (10), methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) phosphorylation at Ser421 (pMeCP2) plays a crucial role in the sustained antidepressant effects of ketamine in mice. The authors also found that repeated ketamine administration induces processes of metaplasticity through post-synaptic functional changes. This may explain why repeated intake of ketamine doses produce sustained effects (10).
As a drug with brief euphoric effects that may last from 1 to 2 h, ketamine must be administrated under controlled settings (12). The most common adverse effects of ketamine administration are dizziness, drowsiness, poor coordination, blurring of vision, feeling strange, light-headedness, headache and nausea (13).
Ketamine is associated with a robust increase in glutamate and dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex as well as with improvement in neuroplasticity within the hippocampus. Both these brain regions play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of depression (14). The first randomized clinical trial (RCT) that aimed to assess the effectiveness of a single dose of an NMDA receptor antagonist in depressed patients showed a robust significant improvement in depressive symptoms within 3 days post ketamine (15). A recent review and meta-analysis highlighted the effectiveness of a single ketamine (0.5 mg/kg) infusion in reducing depression scores in TRD participants (5). The impact of ketamine was found to be rapid, as the antidepressant effect was observed 4 h post-infusion. However, a subsequent reduction of this antidepressant effect of ketamine appeared 7 days post-infusion, so its effectiveness seems to be short-term (5). In line with this, also other studies documented that the antidepressant effect of a single dose of ketamine typically vanishes after ca 7 days (7, 12).
Ketamine can be delivered in several manners such as via intravenous (IV), intranasal, oral, sublingual, subcutaneous and intramuscular (IM) routes (13). Only very few studies are available that investigated the potential use of IM ketamine delivery in the treatment of depression (16–18). A recent study aimed to compare the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of IM and IV ketamine delivery in treating major depression, showing that a small dose of IM ketamine (0.25 mg/kg) is as effective and safe as a larger dose (0.5 mg/kg). No statistically significant differences were found between IM and IV groups. Reduction of HAM-A scores have been reported 2 h post ketamine in all groups and sustained for the following 3 days. The adverse effects were mild and subsided within an hour post ketamine (19). Furthermore, 6 IV ketamine infusions over a 12-day period were associated with a large, sustained effect as the median time to relapse was 18 days (11).
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ketamine (ketalar) for human use for the first time in 1970 and more recently, in 2019, approved esketamine as an intranasal spray for the treatment of TRD in adults who have failed to receive sufficient improvements from other antidepressant medicines (20). However, the intranasal application of ketamine might not be the best treatment for TRD patients. According to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis, esketamine was found to be less effective, compared to racemic IV ketamine, in treating depression (21). IV and IM administrations of ketamine were also found to be 100 and 93% bioavailable, respectively, in contrast to other routes of administration such as intranasal, which is only 8–45% bioavailable (22). Medications with higher bioavailability could potentially be more effective. Furthermore, treatment using intranasal esketamine spray is more expensive compared to treatment using IV or IM ketamine. Ketamine can be safely given through the IM route and has an easier access of administration than then IV route. In the present study, we therefor applied IM ketamine.
Another, fundamentally different treatment alternative for TRD that has received much attention in the literature is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). TMS is a non-invasive brain stimulation method using the repetitive administration of electromagnetic pulses to targeted regions in the brain to modulate neural activity (23). Repetitive TMS (rTMS) has been shown to lead to longer lasting neuroplastic changes with beneficial clinical effects across various neuropsychiatric disorders (24, 25). rTMS is by now a clinically proven effective, widely recognized, approved and well-tolerated depression therapy in TRD patients (26–28).
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is the most prominent and commonly used target area in rTMS treatment of depression (29–32). TMS over the left DLPFC for several weeks has been shown to be a safe and effective treatment for TRD (28), including often reported beneficial effects on psychomotor speed and cognitive control (33). Furthermore, TMS over the left DLPFC is associated with improvements of suicidal ideation in adolescents with depression (34). One of the largest studies testing the effectiveness of rTMS in depression, the THREE-D study, documented clinically meaningful improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs), including quality-of-life (QOL), and disability post rTMS treatment (35).
When targeting the DLPFC with TMS, different repetitive or patterned stimulation protocols can be applied. In addition to the standard high frequency 10 Hz rTMS protocol administering 3,000 pulses in one of the in total 20–30 treatment sessions each lasting for ca 38 min (36), theta-burst stimulation (TBS) has more recently gained in popularity due to its much shorter treatment session duration. TBS mimics endogenous theta rhythms and has the ability to induce long-lasting effects on cortical excitability (37, 38). Intermittent TBS (iTBS) is one of the main patterns of TBS that have been developed, which increases cortical excitability (39), similar to high frequency 10 Hz rTMS but in a much shorter time frame. According to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis, TBS over DLPFC is well-tolerated and has significant antidepressant effects (40). A double-blind sham-controlled study of Li and colleagues among 60 treatment-refractory patients showed that iTBS is a safe, well-tolerated, and effective treatment for TRD (38). A large non-inferiority trial further indicated that iTBS has the same level of clinical efficacy as standard high frequency 10 Hz rTMS, thus offering a potentially much shorter and therefore cost-effective rTMS protocol alternative for TRD (41). In 2018, based on this study, FDA cleared the iTBS protocol for the treatment of MDD, in adult patients who have failed to receive satisfactory improvement from prior antidepressant medication.
A few case reports and a long-term retrospective review reported that the combination of ketamine and rTMS may be an effective long-term therapy for patients with depression (42–44). To the best of our knowledge, there is no study comparing the effectiveness of ketamine and rTMS in patients with depression in a naturalistic setting. Only a limited number of alternative non-pharmacological treatments for TRD are available today and more research is needed to directly compare a non-pharmacological treatment with a pharmacological treatment in terms of their efficacy and tolerability. In this study, we exploratively describe and compare the acute antidepressive efficacy of both, 8 sessions of intramuscular ketamine administered twice weekly for 4 weeks, as well as 30 sessions of left DLPFC-iTBS (over a period of 6 weeks) in depression patients seeking help in a naturalistic clinical mental health setting. While the iTBS protocol is FDA approved and by now a widely used method for the treatment of TRD in clinical practice, the potential use of IM ketamine in TRD has not been extensively researched and therefore is not widely used. This comparative study is important in order to point out that more research need to be done in this area and in order IM ketamine to be considered for FDA approval for TRD. Thus, the present study aimed to indicate for first time the potential of IM ketamine to reach similar effects in TRD as rTMS in shorter duration (less visits).
Materials and Methods
A retrospective comparative study was conducted which included clinical records of TRD patients, as collected from the clinical database of Cyprus rTMS Center. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by Cyprus National Bioethics Committee (EEBK E Π 2021.01.149) and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Clinical records of twenty-four patients with treatment resistant depression who were referred to the Cyprus rTMS Center in the period of January 2018 to August 2021 and received either IM ketamine or rTMS as treatment for depression were included in this retrospective comparative study. During the clinical evaluation for treatment purposes, all patients were assessed using the ICD- 10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders and met the criteria for either moderate depressive episode or severe depressive episode without psychotic symptoms. All patients were on psychotropic medication (such as Sertraline and Venlafaxine) before, during and after the study. The Cyprus rTMS Center commonly offers both treatment options, IM ketamine and rTMS, to the patients. Treatment options were discussed with patients and literature findings were explained to them. Then, patients chose the treatment option (IM ketamine or rTMS) based on their preference. Twelve patients were treated with IM ketamine and twelve patients were treated with rTMS therapy using the iTBS protocol. An experienced psychiatrist and a TMS technician performed the rTMS treatment. Patients were reviewed regularly by the treating psychiatrist, every few weeks. The psychiatrist had regular contact with patients, weekly during the sessions of rTMS or ketamine, as well as a formal monthly review. Depression and anxiety severity were measured prior and after the completion of each treatment using clinician-rated and self-rated assessments (HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II). The time between the two assessments (pre and post treatment) was not the same for both groups, as IM ketamine treatment was completed after 4 weeks and rTMS treatment was completed after 6 weeks. Patients thereafter followed an individual treatment plan, which may or may not, include maintenance and there was no relapse in their mental state for the following 4 months based on psychiatric reviews, no formal questionnaires were given. The criteria for inclusion of patients' clinical records in the study were: (1) patients aged 18 years and older, (2) patients meeting the criteria for either moderate depressive episode or severe depressive episode without psychotic symptoms, (3) patients not experiencing any significant clinical improvement from at least two different methods of antidepressants and (4) the existence of completed clinical evaluations prior and post treatment. The exclusion criteria were: (1) patients aged younger than 18 years and (2) mental objects or implants in the brain, skull or near head (e.g., pacemakers, metal plates). Demographic (age and gender) and depression severity (duration of current episode, number of episodes, duration of depression, number of unsuccessful antidepressants tried in current episode) data were collected.
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale
HDRS (45) and HAM-A (46) are the most widely used depression and anxiety assessment scales to be administered by clinicians in order to assess the severity of depressive and anxiety symptoms, respectively. HDRS consists of seventeen items whereas HAM-A consists of fourteen items and a total score in both instruments is calculated by summing the individual scores from each item. In HDRS, the total score range of 0–52, where 0–7 is generally accepted to be within the normal range and represent the absence or remission of depression, while a score of 20 or higher indicated at least moderate severity. In HAM-A, the total score range of 0–56, where scores <17 indicated mild severity, scores 18-24 mild to moderate severity and scores 25–30 moderate to severe anxiety.
Beck Depression Inventory II
BDI-II is a one of the most widely used multiple-choice self-reported instruments that designed to assess depression severity (47). It consists of 21 items and the score of each item range from 0 to 3. The total score range of 0–63 with higher total scores indicating more severe depressive symptoms. Specifically, scores 0–13 indicated minimal range, scores 14–19 mild severity, scores 20–28 moderate severity, and scores 29–63 indicated severe depression.
As mentioned above, data of both experimental samples were retrospectively obtained from a real-life clinic. The patients had chosen the treatment method based on their preference; hence they were not randomly placed to these two experimental groups. However, both groups were being compared for relevant parameters (age, gender, depression severity) to ensure that they are not fundamentally different. Essentially, the only difference between the two experimental groups was the treatment method that they had received.
In the rTMS treatment condition, stimulation was performed using a MagPro X100 stimulator (MagVenture, Farum, Denmark) and a figure-of-eight coil (Cool-B65). Prior to stimulation, the individual resting Motor Threshold (rMT) was estimated over the left primary motor cortex (Mean = 50.25, SD = 4.03). The rMT is the amount of machine output (intensity) required to elicit a motor-evoked potential (MEP) in at least 50% of all attempts (48). Five iTBS sessions were administrated per week for 6 weeks, over the left DLPFC. To localize left DLPF, the software Beam_F3 Locator, an efficient and accurate method to mark the F3 position according to the 10-20 EEG system was used (49). Stimulation intensity was set at 120% of the rMT. The stimulation coil was placed at a 45° angle off the midline. iTBS was administrated at 5 Hz and each session included 20 trains with 8 s inter train interval (triplets of 50 Hz). A total number of 600 pulses was given per session for 3:08 min (41).
In the ketamine treatment condition, intramuscular ketamine was administrated twice weekly for 8 sessions. In the first session, patients received a dose of 0.25 mg/kg, and then the dosage was titrated upwards, to a maximum of 1 mg/kg by session 4, depending on patient effect and safe vital sign assessments in order to achieve the maximal antidepressant effect. All the necessary requirements were followed: ketamine was administrated by an experienced physician, the patient was monitored for 2 h after the administration under control settings and any side effects were recorded. The administration took place in a private room specially designed for the purposes of the treatment.
SPSS software version 27.0 was used for statistical analysis of data (IBM corporation, Endicott, New York). Independent sample t-tests and chi-square tests were used to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics between ketamine group and rTMS group. Due to the small sample size, Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks tests were used to evaluate changes in HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II scores from pre treatment to post treatment for each experimental group individually and for the overall sample. The χ2 test was used to compare responders and remitters between the two groups. Responders were defined as patients with a 50% or greater decrease on the post treatment scores from the pre-treatment scores and remitters were defined as patients with HDRS post score ≤7, HAM-A ≤7 and BDI-II ≤13 (50–52). Mixed factorial ANOVAs were conducted to investigate the effect of both the within factor (Time) and the between factor (Experimental group). The within factor evaluated time depended effects (baseline vs. end of the treatment) on depressive and anxiety symptoms (HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II). The between factor determined whether the patients who received ketamine had a different response compared with patients who received rTMS. The significance level was set at p < 0.05.
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics
The clinical records of twenty-four TRD patients (11 male, mean age 47.9 ± SD 12.7) were collected. From these reports two groups were created, one group which received ketamine therapy and one group which received iTBS therapy. Analysis showed that both groups did not differ in demographic (age, gender) as well as clinical (duration of current episode, number of episodes, duration of depression, number of unsuccessful antidepressants tried in current episode, HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II) characteristics. Accordingly, no significant differences were observed between the TRD patients who underwent the intramuscular ketamine therapy and those patients receiving rTMS (all p > 0.05; Table 1).
In the Ketamine group, a Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test indicated that the post HDRSscores were significantly reduced compared to pre-treatment scores (Mean change = 26.08, SD = 7.33) (Z = −3.06, p < 0.005). Alike, post HAM-A scores were significantly reduced compared to baseline scores (Mean change = 29.08, SD = 6.93) (Z = −3.06, p < 0.005). Finally, significant reductions were observed also in BDI-II scores (Mean change = 32.50, SD = 15.40) (Z = −2.98, p < 0.005).
In the rTMS group, a Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test indicated that post HDRS scores were significantly reduced compared to pre-treatment scores (Mean change = 23.18, SD = 3.97) (Z = −2.94, p < 0.005). Similarly, post HAM-A scores were significantly reduced compared to baseline scores (Mean change = 27.42, SD = 8.99) (Z = −3.06, p < 0.005). Finally, significant reductions were observed also in BDI-II scores (Mean change = 30.00, SD = 17.01) (Z = −2.93, p < 0.005).
Response and Remission
Responders were defined as patients with a 50% or greater decrease from the baseline scores to the post treatment scores and remitters were defined as patients with HDRS post score ≤ 7, HAM-A ≤ 7, and BDI-II ≤ 13.
Out of a total of 12 patients in the Ketamine group, based on HDRS, 4 patients were responders (33.30%) and 8 patients were remitters (66.7%). Based on the HAM-A, the Ketamine group consisted of 3 responders (25%) and 9 remitters (75%). Finally, based on the BDI-II, 3 patients were responders (25%), 7 patients achieved remission (58.30%), whereas 2 patients were non-responders (16.70%) (Table 2).
Out of a total of 12 patients in rTMS group, based on HDRS, 3 were responders (25%), 8 achieved remission (66.70%), whereas 1 was a non-responder (8.30%). Based on the HAM-A, 3 patients were responders (25%) and 9 patients were remitters (75%). Finally, based on the BDI-II, 1 patient was a responder (8.30%), 9 patients achieved remission (75%), and 2 patients were non-responders (16.70%) (Table 2).
Overall, using χ2 tests, no significant differences were observed between the MDD patients of ketamine group and rTMS group in terms of responders, remitters and no-responders (all p > 0.05).
Ketamine vs. RTMS
2 (Time: pre-treatment, post-treatment) * 2 (Experimental Group: Ketamine Group, rTMS group) mixed factorial ANOVAs were conducted as measured by the three clinical assessments (HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II). Results were consistent in all three clinical assessments. The interaction effect between Time and Experimental Group was not statistically significant [HDRS: F(1,21)= 1.355, p > 0.05, = 0.061; HAM-A: F(1,22) = 0.258, p > 0.05, = 0.012; BDI-II: F(1,22) = 0.142, p > 0.05, = 0.006]. There was a statistically significant main effect of Time [HDRS: F(1,21) = 390.771, p < 0.05, = 0.949; HAM-A: F(1,22) = 295.945, p < 0.05, = 0.931; BDI-II: F(1,22) = 89.008, p < 0.05, = 0.802], suggesting a difference in the pre-treatment compared to post treatment. However, there was no significant effect of Experimental Group [HDRS: F(1,21) = 0.273, p > 0.05, = 0.013; HAM-A: F(1,22) = 0.013, p > 0.05, = 0.001; BDI-II: F(1,22) = 2.934, p > 0.05, = 0.118]. Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks tests indicated that post HDRS (Z = −4.20, p < 0.005), HAM-A (Z = −4.29, p < 0.005) and BDI-II (Z = −4.17, p < 0.005) scores were significantly reduced compared to pre-treatment scores (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Bar graphs showing difference in pre-treatment and post-treatment scores of patients in Ketamine and rTMS groups. Error bars indicate standard error. ***P < 0.001.
Post-hoc power analysis was conducted using the Superpower's Power Shiny App. Results showed that with 12 participants per group, we have 100% power for the main effect of Time. Also, the observed power of the main effect of Time was 1.00.
To our knowledge, this is the first study describing the effectiveness of both, ketamine treatment and rTMS treatment, in depressive and anxiety symptoms of MDD patients in a naturalistic real-life setting. Patients in the rTMS treatment group received 30 iTBS sessions over a period of 6 weeks, whereas patients in the Ketamine treatment group received 8 IM injections over a period of 4 weeks. Using three clinical assessments (HDRS, HAM-A, BDI-II), our data reveals that both therapies led to significant improvement in symptoms from pre- to post- treatment. Based on the HDRS, in the Ketamine group, 33.3% were responders and 66.7% were remitters and in rTMS group, 25% were responders and 66.7% were remitters. Based on HAM-A, in both experimental groups, 25% were responders and 75% were remitters. Finally, based on BDI-II, in Ketamine group, 25% were responders and 58.3% were remitters and in rTMS group 8.3% were responders and 75% were remitters. An explorative post-hoc direct statistical comparison indicated that ketamine therapy did not differ significantly from rTMS therapy with respect to pre- to post- depressive and anxiety symptoms, indicating that the effect of both experimental groups in our sample was equally effective. In line with this notion, statistical χ2 tests showed that there were no statistical differences between the patients of ketamine group and rTMS group in remission and response rates. These results indicated that IM ketamine therapy has the potential to reach similar effects in patients with TRD as rTMS therapy in a shorter treatment period as less visits are needed to complete the treatment. No significant side effects were reported from either the rTMS group or the ketamine group.
The results support the preliminary effectiveness of the treatments and adds to the existing literature regarding the efficacy of both treatment options in depression. Regarding TMS, a prior study by O'Reardon et al. (36), found that TMS was effective in treating MDD with minimal side effects. Furthermore, iTBS protocol, has proven to be an effective, safe and well-tolerated treatment for depression (38, 40, 41). Although there are many studies regarding the efficacy of ketamine in depression (5, 7, 11), the research in IM ketamine remains limited. There are only a few case reports that demonstrated the potential effectiveness of IM ketamine in depression, therefore the optimal use of IM ketamine warrants further investigation. A report on two cases with acute depression has shown that IM ketamine injection bring rapid relief from depressive symptoms and especially in the suicidal ideation (17). Another case report demonstrated that IM ketamine is a potential treatment for treatment-resistant bipolar depression (16). IM ketamine injection was also used in a female patient with metastatic ovarian cancer. The treatment was well-tolerated and after 6 sessions the patient achieved remission of her depressive symptoms (18).
Previous studies investigated the potential efficacy of combining ketamine and rTMS therapy in depression and bipolar disorder. However, to our knowledge, only a few case reports and a long-term retrospective review were reported so far. It is important to note that, a case report by Best and Grifflin, indicated that the combination therapy of ketamine and rTMS may be a more effective treatment for refractory depression, than either ketamine or rTMS alone (43). Furthermore, a recent long-term retrospective review demonstrated statistically significant reduction of depressive symptoms, after the combination therapy showing clear indication of the effectiveness of the treatment for refractory depression (44). Their review also found that this reduction in depressive symptoms could be sustained for a period of 2 years (44). Finally, according to some case reports, the combination therapy can be effective in treating severe depression in bipolar I disorder (42) and in bipolar II disorder (53).
Whereas previous research suggests that a combined treatment by ketamine and rTMS is an effective and long-term treatment for depression, the present comparative study represents a first attempt to describe and exploratively compare both treatment options as standalone therapies in a naturalistic setting. It is important to consider the limitations of our conclusions here. The current study is a retrospective comparative study with no a priori randomization and a very limited number of patients. Small sample sizes usually undermine the internal and external validity of a study and affect the generalizability of the results (54, 55). Especially for statistically comparing the effectiveness of two treatment options (clinical inferiority trial), a much larger same size would be needed. Another main limitation is the retrospective design of the study. Specifically, this study was based on data of patients with MDD, who were referred to the Cyprus rTMS Center in the past and received either intramuscular ketamine or rTMS as treatment for depression. Therefore, the patients were not randomly divided into these two experimental groups and no sham control groups were used. Finally, this study suffers from sample selection bias. A larger number of patients was treated with either IM ketamine or rTMS in the Cyprus rTMS center during that period, but we chose to include only patients who completed the total number of sessions required (rTMS: 30 sessions; Ketamine: 8 sessions) and patients with completed clinical evaluations prior and post treatment in our analysis. Unfortunately, we did not collect information about the number of patients with incomplete clinical evaluations prior or post treatment and the number of patients who terminated treatment prematurely. Thus, we selected only completers from a larger sample of patients of unknown size. Despite these limitations, this study could serve as a starting point for identifying and comparing the efficacy of these two depression treatments in a real life clinical setting.
Future research should further develop and confirm these initial findings by comparing the efficacy of ketamine treatment, rTMS treatment and the combination treatment in depression using a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial sufficiently powered to also reveal potential non-inferiority. Furthermore, clinical assessments should be collected weekly in order to investigate whether there are differences in response time between the treatment groups. In a future study, a follow up measurement is needed to examine and compare the long-term efficacy of these treatments. To the best of our knowledge, this comparative study was the first that directly compare the efficacy of rTMS and IM ketamine, a non-pharmacological treatment, and a pharmacological treatment for TRD. Finally, our results showed that the iTBS protocol, which has received FDA approval for MDD, and IM ketamine, which is not an FDA approved treatment for MDD, are equally effective treatments. This is an important finding as IM ketamine treatment is not widely used in clinical practice and can be administrated in a shorter duration compared to rTMS. Further research with more focus on the use of IM ketamine treatment in depression is therefore suggested, which may allow this treatment to gain a formal approval and a wider acceptance in daily practice.
This retrospective study compared the efficiency of IM ketamine administered twice weekly for 8 sessions and 30 sessions of iTBS applied to the left DLPFC in MDD patients. Our results indicated significant pre- to post-treatment reduction in depressive and anxiety symptoms, with no significant differences between the two experimental groups, indicating that the effect of both therapies was equally effective in our limited sample. In line with this notion, response and remission rates were not statistically different between the two treatment groups. This study can be seen as a first step toward enhancing our knowledge regarding the therapeutic efficacy of two alternative depression treatment options such as ketamine therapy and rTMS therapy in a naturalistic real-life setting.
Data Availability Statement
The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by Cyprus National Bioethics Committee. The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
GM, PM, and LP analyzed data and wrote the manuscript. TS and AS critically reviewed the manuscript and supervised the project. All authors agree with the contents of the manuscript and were fully involved in the study, preparation of the manuscript, have read the final version of the manuscript, and approved the submission.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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The authors thank the patients who gave their permission to include their clinical data in this study.
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Keywords: treatment resistant depression, antidepressants, ketamine, IM ketamine, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, iTBS, DLPFC
Citation: Mikellides G, Michael P, Psalta L, Schuhmann T and Sack AT (2022) A Retrospective Naturalistic Study Comparing the Efficacy of Ketamine and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression. Front. Psychiatry 12:784830. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.784830
Received: 29 September 2021; Accepted: 15 December 2021;
Published: 13 January 2022.
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Shine serum or spray. These products sit on the floor of the hair, resulting in that smooth, shiny look. Apply from the ends up to the middle. Part your hair and begin applying the mask from the roots to the tips. Diet Some consultants say that individuals who don’t devour sufficient foods that comprise zinc, B nutritional vitamins, and a few forms of fats are extra susceptible to dandruff.
Neem and curd A mixture of neem and curd is the ideal strategy to curb dandruff. Make a paste of neem leaves, add it to a bowl of curd and apply throughout your scalp. Depart it on for 15-20 minutes and then rinse. The anti-fungal properties of neem together with the soothing and cool impact of curd does wonders in combating dandruff.
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The coronavirus epidemic changed many things, including traffic, as the urgent need and desire to travel by bicycle increased in almost every corner of the world. In the previous months, this need caused a lack of bikes at stores, but salespersons added that it was the quality of the bicycles that lacked and not their number.
G7 reported that no matter the type of the bicycle, whether it was made for cycling in the city or the mountains, every store in Budapest was able to sell the last piece of them. As the epidemic started in Hungary and the weather became warmer, people started to search for alternative ways of travelling. Being scared of the infection, many chose to ride a bicycle. Companies were in their prime during the spring season as every single vehicle from the cheapest to the most expensive was sold in many stores of Budapest and other parts of the country.
The number of bicycles sold increased by 35% in the spring months. According to the director of the Hungarian Bicycle Association, every single prototype that was manufactured found its owner.
Some stores experienced hardships, though, especially those that sell imported vehicles. When the epidemic’s first wave started, many French, Chinese, and Italian companies closed for weeks or months to keep their workers safe, and trade between the countries stopped. China, for example, was not able to export bicycles to Europe between December 2019 and April 2020. Hungary, on the other hand, is considered to be one of the many countries with the strongest market for bicycles. In 2016, 402,000 bicycles were made in the country, which is 3% of all the bicycles of the European Union.
The bicycle market does not expect an increase in the number of sales as many vehicles were sold during the spring months, and the autumn and winter seasons do not increase the enthusiasm to ride a bike.
According to statistics, 250,000 to 300,000 bicycles can be sold each year in Hungary. Companies expect that those people who bought cheaper prototypes would like to put more effort and energy into this healthy and relaxing sport and soon will come to stores again to buy more advanced and expensive bicycles. | <urn:uuid:d41ff605-32da-4186-b100-08fc03184e09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailynewshungary.com/hungary-sold-record-number-of-bicycles-during-the-spring-season/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.986589 | 438 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Ladies, if you have trouble reaching climax, you are not alone. While the drive may be there, the ability to finish may be sorely lacking, which can be SO frustrating! While sex can still be pleasurable, some women have never once experienced an orgasm! And perhaps equally tragic are women who once possessed the ability to climax but have lost it due to hormonal changes after childbirth and throughout the course of aging.
I covered the multi-faceted complexity of the female libido in a previous blog entitled Sex Drive for Women vs. Men, including specific herbs and supplements that can enhance the organs involved in sex hormone production. And now, we are going to delve deeper into several more nutritional components specifically related to orgasm for women.
I have mentioned the beneficial release of oxytocin during sex for pain relief, stress reduction, and bonding. But what I didn’t cover was the importance of oxytocin for orgasm in women: This is the Missing O in Orgasm! Without adequate oxytocin, a woman may not go into labor or progress. Pitocin is the synthetic version of oxytocin used by allopathic medicine to induce labor. Oxytocin also stimulates the let-down of milk in nursing mothers. In both cases, the uterus contracts due to the release of this hormone. Through a similar action during sexual arousal, particularly nipple stimulation, oxytocin contributes to the ability for women to climax through uterine contractions. At least two studies have revealed an increase in plasma oxytocin at orgasm---in both men and women. (1), (2) This hormone is based on a sequence of 9 amino acids:
Consuming eggs, fish & seafood, poultry, beef, organ meats (such as dessicated bovine liver and pituitary glands), seeds & nuts, cruciferous vegetables, and dairy can supply all 9 amino acids. These basic building blocks are synthesized into oxytocin in the hypothalamus, then stored and released by the posterior pituitary into the bloodstream. So, if these endocrine organs are not functioning up to par, then hormone production will be affected. Read Sex Drive for Women vs. Men to learn more about how to support your hypothalamus and pituitary.
Interestingly, not only does oxytocin contribute to female reproductive and sexual functions, but it also assists with:
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Addiction & withdrawal
- Reducing cravings
- Insulin production
- Building trust & generosity
- Fidelity in marriage/ monogamy
- Injury healing
- Counteraction of cortisol
- Impotence in men
As you can see, oxytocin plays a significant role in multiple functions in the body, not just sexual pleasure. But deficient oxytocin may not be the only cause of female sexual dysfunction (FSD); low testosterone can also be a contributor. Stimulation of the proper organs plus the necessary building blocks can increase testosterone, or the “mother hormones” of pregnenolone and DHEA which convert to testosterone:
|Hormone||Organ(s) Where Produced||Raw Materials||
(not mentioned in my previous blog on sex drive)
Pregnenolone "Mother Hormone"
(precursor to DHEA, progesterone, testosterone)
Once again, refer back to Sex Drive for Women vs. Men to learn about herbal and nutritional support for your endocrine organs that stimulate of sex hormone production. Or download End the Hormone Madness for more information about balancing your hormones naturally
Also important for orgasm is Acetylcholine, which aids in concentration/ prevents distraction and improves the ability for arousal. Important Acetylcholine boosters include:
- Choline--dessicated liver, cauliflower, soybeans, spinach, lettuce, nuts, and eggs
- DMAE from oily fish such as salmon, anchovies, and sardines
- Phyophatidylserine-- dessicated liver, dairy, cabbage
Inositol & GABA assist with relaxation and letting go of fear. Along with these two components, valine and L-carnitine are two more amino acids that assist with orgasm. The mineral chromium and the herbs Rhodiola Rosea and Ginkgo Biloba assist with the production of dopamine (made from L-tyrosine, another amino acid) which is important for enhancing sexual desire.
To summarize, amino acids, good fats, cholesterol, and organ meats to the ability of women to achieve orgasm. A full complement of nutrition in both food and supplementation, proper digestive support for the breakdown of proteins, and support of the endocrine system can greatly improve your chances of getting what you need to reach full enjoyment during sexual intimacy. Nine amino acids are essential, and the rest can be produced by our bodies, so it is important to ensure that the essentials are being consumed EVERY day. More than 90 for Life, these are the 90 for a Healthy Sex Life!
Last, but not least, consider other alternative treatments such as acupuncture, which stimulates the flow of energy to sexual organs. Dr. Jaci Zitterkopf at Natural Living Chiropractic & Acupuncture specializes in fertility, pregnancy, and children. Acupuncture and chiropractic are great complements to nutrition and herbs!
Contact me to learn more about how to get things back on track in your sex life!
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A contract in California is an agreement about something of value between two or more parties who intend the agreement to have legal effect. It may be oral or written, as long as all parties agree to the contractual terms. The reliability of written contracts usually make them the preferred means for businesses to transact. Since the intent of a contract is to be legally effective, they are best formed by those who understand the law.
Negotiating a Contract in Fontana
Negotiation of each particular term in a contract is important to ensure that the intent of each party is met. Also, there are certain clauses that should be included in every Fontana contract to give it the desired legal effect. Being upfront about your intentions can help the contract goal of mutual understanding of expectations. To conclude negotiations, you may want to include a clause that determines what is to be done if a party fails to meet its duty.
Using a Form Contract
Form contracts can serve as a good starting point for a sound agreement. Lawyers in Fontana, California often keep past contracts on file, and can add or remove clauses based on the situation. They can also reword the specific language of form contracts to make them more clear. There are risks to using a contract that neither party has written, particularly if you proceed without the guidance of an attorney. First, form contracts have the tendency to go unread. Any party who does not carefully review all the contract clauses can be left unaware of their obligations under the contract. Second, form contracts will often contain language that is difficult to understand outside the legal community. This can cause disagreement over the meaning of a clause. An attorney can ensure that a written contract matches the intent of the parties, both with form contracts and in negotiations. In Fontana, many Lawyers specialize in California contract law. | <urn:uuid:47aa63dd-0500-4677-bd2e-1f93e5f5e413> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessattorneys.legalmatch.com/CA/Fontana/contract-drafting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967493 | 363 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Introduction: Kids Calculator
Guaranteed a great learning effect!
The children can throw mumbles, building blocks, stones or similar into it on both sides and then find out the result by counting.
Step 1: What You Need...
- 2 paper rolls
- wrapping paper
- washi tapes
- cards with mathematical calculations
- cards with results
Step 2: Paper Roll
Place the paper roll on the wrapping paper and wrap it around. Cut off as much paper as you need.
Step 3: Glue It
Put glue on the paper rolle.
Step 4: Cut Off
Cut off the remnants from the wrapping paper.
Step 5: Repeat
Repeat the first three steps. Now you have two rolls of paper.
Step 6: Glue the Paper Rolls On
Glue the paper rolls onto the maxi-letter-box. Make sure that you are slightly crooked.
Step 7: Plus and Is the Same
Cut a "is the same" and a "plus" out of the washi tapes and stick them on the maxi letter box.
Step 8: Attach the Card
Take a clip and use it to attach the mathematical calculation card.
Step 9: Ready!
The kids calculator is ready!
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National Mortgage Interest Rate Today
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The rated power of Envision EN110-2.3 is 2,30 MW. At a wind speed of 3 m/s, the wind turbine starts its work. the cut-out wind speed is 25 m/s.
The rotor diameter of the Envision EN110-2.3 is 110 m. The rotor area amounts to 9.503 m². The wind turbine is equipped with 3 rotor blades.
In the generator, Envision Energy sets to double fed induction. The manufacturer has used one generator for the EN110-2.3. The voltage amounts to 690 V. At the mains frequency, the EN110-2.3 is at 50 Hz.
In the construction of the tower, the manufacturer uses steel tube. As corrosion protection for the tower Envision focuses on painted outside C5m.
Unfortunately there are no photos available for this wind turbine. There are no models for this wind turbine. Power data for the EN110-2.3 of Envision are not stored in the system.
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Maintaining an ideal body condition is vital to help reduce the chances of your dog developing weight related conditions that can both be painful for your dog and life shortening. Maintaining a lean body condition for dogs can actually extend their life.
The Purina Canine Lifespan study was the first of its kind. A result of over fourteen years of research, it began when the dogs (48 Labrador retrievers) were just eight weeks. The following conditions and results were observed.
- Dogs were assigned to a control or lean-fed group.
- All the dogs ate the same 100% nutritionally complete and balanced diet for the entire study.
- The control group was allowed to eat an unlimited amount of food during the 15 minute daily feedings.
- Dogs in the lean group were fed 25% less than their littermates. The dogs in the lean group maintained a significantly leaner body condition from six – twelve years of age than the control group.
- In the lean group the median lifespan was increased by 1.8 years or 15 percent vs the control group.
The study proved the significant impact that maintaining a lean body condition has on your dog’s life.
As the obesity levels rise in our pets, overweight and well-covered dogs have become the norm. Interestingly a dog in ideal body condition might be considered by many as too skinny, purely as we have been conditioned to see cute roly-poly puppies and fuller, chubbier dogs as the norm.
It also gets confusing as to how we really check body condition, especially when taking in to consideration different dog breeds. However, it’s absolutely possible to use the same methods no matter the breed as you are focusing on a few key things to assess.
To help you with these methods, Purina has created the body condition chart.
Working out a body condition score can help identify the proportion of fat and lean tissue or muscle.
1. Ribs visible on shorthaired cats; no palpable fat; severe abdominal tuck; lumbar vertebrae and wing of ilia easily palpated.
2. Shared characteristics of BCS 1 and 3.
3. Ribs easily palpable with minimal fat covering; lumbar vertebrae obvious; obvious waist behind ribs; minimal abdominal fat.
4. Shared characteristics of BCS 3 and 5.e
5. Well-proportioned; observe waist behind ribs; ribs palpable with slight fat covering; abdominal fat pad minimal.
6. Shared characteristics of BCS 5 and 7.
7. Ribs not easily palpated with moderate fat covering; waist poorly discernible; obvious rounding of abdomen; moderate abdominal fat pad.
8. Shared characteristics of BCS 7 and 9.
9. Ribs not palpable under heavy fat cover; heavy fat deposits over lumbar area, face and limbs; distention of abdomen with no waist; extensive abdominal fat deposits.
Checking your dog’s body condition regularly will help to assess whether your dog is getting the right amount of food to maintain the best body condition with an ideal body weight score around 4 or 5.
A dog with an ideal body condition will have:
- An obvious waist behind the ribs when you are looking down on them.
- A tuck in the belly when viewed from the side
- Ribs that are easily felt but not seen – view how you can use your own hand to understand the feel of the ribs.
Just like humans it’s all about diet and exercise, and maintaining the correct body condition is much easier than having to lose weight. Here are some tips to help get your dog back to his optimal health:
- Try not to feed his daily food amount in one serving. Instead evenly spread out his meals to two or three smaller meals. By doing this you’ll help reduce him feeling hungry.
- Always ensure the food is measured rather than just poured into a bowl. It’s also easy to give titbits and leftovers but this can add extra calories so best avoided.
- Treats are a great way of building a relationship with your dog; as rewards during training, or time occupiers while you’re out. Just be careful not to be adding extra calories. Choose treats that are lower in fat.
- Put aside a small amount of their daily healthy weight management food and use these throughout the day to treat them. Also, rather than rewarding with food, give them attention through pats or a tummy rub or a play with their favourite toy.
- Exercise is great for losing or maintaining weight and is an ideal way to increase your bond and enjoyment together. Introduce variety, take toys with you, play fetch with a tennis ball and racket or special tennis ball thrower. It’s important to note that if your dog is older, has had an injury or has arthritis, consult with your vet to determine the best exercise routine.
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Advice to Filipina who wants to Marry a Foreigner- Part 1
Western dating culture v. Filipino culture stages of relationship
Western Stages of relationship
People in America and other western countries have a very different outlook on dating compared to people in the Philippines. In the West, there are stages to a relationship. You start out as strangers and get to know each other by dating. This first stage is dating. There is no commitment and you are not in a relationship at this stage. Every westerner is different, but generally people date several times until they move on to being friends.
After a couple has gotten to know each other they will then consider each other friends who are romantically dating. This stage of the relationship will typically go on for several months. During this time the man and the woman will continue to date other people. In America, people date multiple people at the same time and that is considered normal. It is a much different way of thinking than what someone in the Philippines is used to during the dating phase.
Eventually if both people want to progress the relationship they become exclusive. This is where they are boyfriend and girlfriend and agree not to date anyone else. The process to become exclusive generally takes months in western countries.
After months or years of being exclusive a couple will then gets engaged or get married. This is the normal progression that an American is used to in developing a relationship with the opposite sex. So if you go out a two or three dates with a western man, you need to understand that he probably does not think of you as his girlfriend and he almost certainly does not think that the two of you are in an exclusive relationship.
It is important that you give him time to get to know you if you want the relationship to progress. In western countries like the United States there is a difference between being in a relationship and just dating. Being in a relationship requires commitment that is agreed upon by both parties. It is not normal for someone from the west to simply meet someone and jump into a relationship.
It is also important to understand that in America and other western countires having sex does not mean that you are in a relationship. I know that may sound completely crazy to you, but that is from what I can tell a big cultural difference. In the west just because two people went on a date and had sex does not mean that they are a couple. In fact they might do that and then never see each other again. So it is important to understand that simply sharing intimacy with an American is not going to create a relationship in his mind.
For Filipina’s the stages of the relationship are different. My observations are that a Filipina thinks that after a few dates she is in a relationship with the foreigner. She will get jealous if he goes out with other women. It is common in the Philippines to only date or court one woman at a time. This is very different from the States where people date multiple people at the same time.
You have to understand that there is a cultural difference in attitudes towards dating, In the Philippines everything seems to be in a hurry where dating is concerned, but in the west people are used to taking it slower when it comes to dating. Make sure that you are giving the American or westerner time to get to know you.
In my experience people in the Philippines want to skip the dating stage and go straight to and exclusive relationship. You do not want to do this or you will scare your American away. He is not used to dating like this. You need to give him time to get to know you and determine if you are the one for him.
Try to understand that he will probably date other Filipinas in the early stages of dating. Do not get jealous about this. Understand that in these early stages that he does not owe you anything and that you do not owe him anything either. If he can talk to others you can talk with others as well. If he wants to have an exclusive relationship he will tell you.
Understand that you are not his girlfriend just because you went out on a few dates together.
2. Meeting the parents
Filipinas typically want someone that they are dating to meet their parents very quickly. At least this has been my observation for most women from the Philippines, especially younger Filipinas.
For an American man, meeting a girl’s parents is a very big deal. It implies that he is in a committed relationship and is generally an uncomfortable position for him to be in unless the relationship has become exclusive. In the early stages of dating he really does not care about your parents and is not interested in meeting them. He is interested in you and getting to know you.
Asking him to meet your parents too soon is way to serious for him and will possibly scare him away. Once you are in a relationship and he is really interested in a long term relationship he should be perfectly willing to meet your family. In fact he will probably want to meet your family at that point. But understand that this is a huge step for an American.
If you start telling him that he must meet your family after one or two dates, you will probably scare him away. There are exceptions to this, but it is not how things typically happen in the west.
3. Asking for money
Don’t ask an American for money, especially in the early stages of the relationship. When Americans are doing research on dating or marrying a women from the Philippines they find all kinds of information on the internet. Tons of articles are out there about Filipinas asking foreigners for money. So if a Filipina asks an American for money it will immediately raise a red flag.
I know that emergencies come up and you may see your new American boyfriend as a possible solution, but you should not ask if you want the relationship to progress. If you do ask he will likely be questioning your true motives and wonder if you see him as a walking ATM. If you are only dating and not yet in a relationship you definitely should not even hint for money. At this point he has no obligation to you and you probably will never hear from him again.
Now if he offers to give you a gift that is fine. If he offers to take you somewhere and pay such as dinner or a trip that is okay. Just don’t ask him for things or money. Also don’t try to lay any obligations on him during the dating phase, because in his mind he does not owe you anything and you will likely scare him off. The only exception to this would be if you really cannot afford transportation to meet him somewhere you could tell him. If he then offers to help you are fine.
It is also important in the dating stage not to talk about your hardships. American men have heard horror stories from the internet about being treated as a wallet by women from the Philippines. If you talk about this in the early stages of dating or when you only know them by way of the internet, you will be setting off alarm bells.
If you are in a relationship and have met in person, then you can let him know about your problems. But you should not ask for money. If he really cares about you he will want to help if he can. But always let him make the offer. If you are in a long distance relationship it will still probably cause him some concern as to your true intentions.
Finally, if you have never met in real life, you are not in a relationship. You just have a friend that you are communicating with and should never ask for money. You should probably not talk about your hardships. You cannot see this person as an option for money if you want to have a chance of being in a relationship one day. In the United States our friends are the last place we would ever go for money. This is because it creates problems in the friendship. | <urn:uuid:ffe1c20b-1d67-473a-840e-09a884e617fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://filipinalove.net/advice-to-filipina-who-wants-to-marry-a-foreigner-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983723 | 1,619 | 1.671875 | 2 |
This page of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt guide contains all the most important information about the witcher gear . We explain the importance of different schools of witcher equipment and various quality classes of equipment elements, as well as we describe the entire process of obtaining equipment (from obtaining a diagram to crafting a finished item).
- Witcher gear - a list of items and locations where you can find diagrams
- Witcher gear - what is it?
- Witcher gear sets
- Crafting Witcher gear items
Witcher gear - a list of items and locations where you can find diagrams
On the following pages of this chapter, we have included information about the locations of diagrams related to different types of witcher gear. Our guide will help you acquire all sets of witcher items.
Griffin school gear
Cat school gear
Bear school gear
Wolf school gear
Other witcher sets
Witcher gear - what is it?
In The Witcher 3 the main character finds many different schemes and by far the most valuable are those related to the elements of the Witcher armor. Acquiring these types of schemes will allow you to produce very high quality swords and armor pieces (with the help of craftsmen).
The search for items related to the various witcher schools is characterized by a high level of freedom. You don't have to find all the elements of a set at all costs, although it is of course advisable, because you can receive an additional bonus to your stats. You can also locate the schemes in any order you wish. The exact places where the schemes are hidden are presented on the following pages of this chapter. If you want, you can also make finding them easier by setting quests related to Witcher schools as active.
Witcher gear sets
Witcher's equipment consists of Armor, Gauntlets, Trouser and Boots along with the swords - silver and steel. Two schools (Cat and Bear) also provide unique crossbows.
Each of the set's elements (except for the crossbows) can be upgraded three times: Items can be enhanced, superior and mastercrafted. Creating each element replaces the one of a lower class (as it is one of the 'ingredients' of the schematic). Parameters change along with the required level needed in order to use the item. It may happen that you will find a schematic and creating it will create an item you won't be able to wear yet.
Crafting Witcher gear items
You should be equipped with a treasure map each time you embark on a journey. You can buy them from different merchants (named in each chapter). Each map costs less than 100 crowns and activates quests connected to the particular gear element. The gear usually has four maps that go along with it. The first one concerns the schematics and a task for upgrading some of the gear elements whilst the rest enable you to upgrade the whole gear.
In the hidden chests you will find only the schematics and not the items itself. These schematics have to be used in a process, to create these items they are connected to. The cost for creating the upgraded elements of the set are always higher than its basic forms (preparation of ingredients, their price/rarity). If the crafter you have found isn't skilled enough, try to find another. On the Novigrad's square you will find NPCs creating the items of the 2 level. If you want to create a mastercrafted version, however, you will have to talk to the arch masters: Yonna from Baron's Garrison in Velen or Hattori who lives in the dock district of Novigrad. Both of them require the completion of their quest in order to be able to use them for crafting:
- In the case of Yonna, you need to complete the side quest Master Armorers at Crow's Perch.
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This song's rhythm section consists of 3 instruments: drum, bass, and an acoustic guitar.
When anticipation/syncopation happens with harmonic rhythm (Chord changes one triplet beat earlier than downbeat), usually drum, bass, guitar are syncopated together. But sometimes drum and bass would play the downbeat and only guitar would be syncopated.
What are the differences?
Is it common practice to do alternate these two methods?
What is the style/genre called?
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IJSRP, Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2018 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Grace V. Villanueva, Yunalyn Labajo-Villantes, Myles Lasutaz-Pusod, Marlo Engelberto Lasutaz
Oral health is the most neglected area of public health that needs emphasis on developing global and local policies and intervention on oral health promotion and oral disease prevention. In the country, the Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) as the primary health care service providers must be trained so that they can deliver basic oral health care messages on oral disease prevention and timely referral. This study determined the basic oral health care knowledge among BHWs through descriptive survey method. | <urn:uuid:f42f66d3-bb05-4440-afb2-8514545f5526> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1218.php?rp=P848002 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.861522 | 154 | 2.375 | 2 |
Going back to school after the coronavirus is different than most people expected. There are many schools continuing distance education, while some parents are not comfortable sending their kids out of the house and opting to homeschool instead. No matter what your situation, these distance education tips can help you make the adjustment easier for your children.
Consider the Curriculum
If your child is still enrolled at a public or private school, they will have a set curriculum they have to follow. Many teachers are hosting virtual classrooms and offering instruction through live video. Other schools give parents a list of subjects and objectives they need to accomplish. For homeschooling parents, you need to look at your state’s curriculum standards. The Common Core Standards establish the framework for K-12 learners, and it should be incorporated into any curriculum you decide to use.
Make a Schedule
Learning from home is a challenge for students who are used to their house being a place to relax and play. Although they’ve had months to adjust, many families have struggled to adopt a normal pattern. Now that the new school year is afoot, it’s time to buckle down and develop a school schedule that adds structure to your child’s day. Follow a healthy morning routine that goes through all the motions of a normal school day. This will also help kids be more prepared should you intend to send them back to the classroom once schools reopen.
Learning is different for everyone. Distance education can be advantageous in that students have much more freedom to adopt their own learning style. You may feel pressured to teach your child in a certain way, but these expectations can be limiting. If your child learns more by watching an educational YouTube video than reading a textbook, so be it. Learning from home can give you more chances to inspire a love of learning and make education fun. Physical education can be yoga in the backyard or playing Dance Dance Revolution. Parents can make learning a bonding experience, too. Reading stories, watching documentaries and playing educational games together makes school fun and brings you closer together.
As a parent, you still have a job and other responsibilities that don’t involve teaching. Some parents struggle to keep up with their children’s education because they’re already overwhelmed with their own duties. Make sure that you have all your bases covered, whether that’s setting up a workspace or taking out private student loans to cover your online degree. You can’t do everything, and that’s okay. Prioritization will help you clarify goals, avoid burnout and keep the entire household on track.
Hire a Tutor
If your child needs additional support, there are many virtual tutors you can hire for every grade level and subject. Tutors can also help build better study habits and help kids become more independent with homework. It takes time to adjust to remote learning, and each school year poses its own challenges. You likely won’t be a master at everything your child studies, especially as they get older. Hiring a tutor can give you a much-needed break without sacrificing the quality of your child’s education. A tutor can also help solidify the idea in your child’s mind that learning from home is just as important as regular school. | <urn:uuid:b5c319aa-4236-4d23-a412-9a6df92ea1ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jennyatdapperhouse.com/how-to-help-your-kids-adjust-to-distance-learning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962842 | 675 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Antibiotics kill bacteria, not viruses such as:
Get smart and read the chart to know which common illnesses are usually viral or bacterial and when antibiotics are necessary.
Dangers of antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems. It can cause significant danger and suffering for people who have common infections that once were easily treatable with antibiotics. When antibiotics fail to work, the consequences are longer-lasting illnesses; more doctor visits or extended hospital stays; and the need for more expensive and toxic medications. Some resistant infections can cause death.
Example of antibiotic Resistance
Today Penicillin is not really used any more. The reason? bacteria are no longer affected by it because they have developed resistance to it.
The same goes for all other antibiotics that are used. There will come a time when they are no longer effective.
People who rely a lot on antibiotics tend to get lots of recurring infections and illnesses. Antibiotics should really only be used for life-threatening and serious situations, and not for minor colds, ear infections and so on as the body will be able to deal with that itself and thereby develop natural immunity.
We (including children) need to be sick sometimes. That's how we build our immune defenses naturally. It's fine to get the cold once in a while. It gives the body a chance to use its own powers of defense, like fever, inflammation, coughing, and swelling. These symptoms are not the actual illness. They are signs that the body is successfully attempting to restore its balance. To attack the symptoms (with medication) is to fight the body itself and make it that much more difficult to return to a normal health state. A body allowed to heal itself will be far more resilient, and more resistant in the future.
So now you know to think twice about using antibiotics!
Source: Adapted from an article on the Centers for Disease and Control Website.
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THE CITY IS IN YOUR HANDS
The Albatros Premier located in main heart of Old City Center called Sultanahmet, where all famous historical monuments such as St.Sophia, Blue Mosque, Grand Bazaar, Topkapi Palace and many other sides. In the short distance from the Hotel there are: city center, countryside, seaside location.With the local transportation system nearby, guests will enjoy easy access to the Bosphorus, lively Taksim Square, and the biggest shopping centers of Istanbul.
The Blue Mosque or Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii) is a historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey.
A popular tourist site, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues to function as a mosque today; men still kneel in prayer on the mosque's lush red carpet after the call to prayer. The Blue Mosque, as it is popularly known, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes. It sits next to the Hagia Sophia, another popular tourist site.
The Hagia Sophia, one of the historical architectural wonders that still remains standing today, has an important place in the art world with its architecture, grandness, size and functionality.
The Hagia Sophia, the biggest church constructed by the East Roman Empire in Istanbul, has been constructed three times in the same location. When it was first built, it was named Megale Ekklesia (Big Church); however, after the fifth century, it was referred to as the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom). The church was the place in which rulers were crowned, and it was also the biggest operational cathedral in the city throughout the Byzantine period.
The first church was constructed by Emperor Konstantios (337-361) in 360. The first church was covered with a wooden roof and expanded vertically (basilica) yet was burned down after the public riot that took place in 404 as a result of the disagreements between Emperor Arkadios’ (395-408) wife empress Eudoksia and Istanbul’s patriarch Ioannes Chrysostomos, who was exiled. The patriarch’s mosaic portrait can still be viewed at the tymphanon wall located in the northern part of the church. No remains have been recovered from the first church; however, the bricks found in the museum storage branded ‘Megale Ekklesia’ are predicted to belong to the first construction. The second church was reconstructed by Emperor Theodosios II (408-450) in 415. This basilical structure is known to contain five naves and a monumental entrance; it is also covered by a wooden roof.
Topkapi Palace Museum, understanding the administrative structure of the Ottoman Empire, observing the palace life of the Ottoman Empire and reaching the riches of the Ottoman Empire. In the museum you can visit the administrative buildings of the Ottoman state and the Haremeden Treasury, Sacred Relics, Weapons Collection, Sultan's Portals, Portalı and Porcelain sections of the Sultan's family.
The Topkapi Palace, which is the administrative center of the state and the place of life of the sultan and his family for 380 years since 1478, was opened as a museum on October 9, 1924 and was opened on that day it continues to serve as one of the highest number of visitors since the number of visitors.
The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving.
The word hippodrome comes from the Greek hippos (ἵππος), horse, and dromos (δρόμος), path or way. For this reason, it is sometimes also called Atmeydanı ("Horse Square") in Turkish. Horse racing and chariot racing were popular pastimes in the ancient world and hippodromes were common features of Greek cities in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine era.
The Grand Bazaar (Turkish: Kapalıçarşı, meaning ‘Covered Market’; also Büyük Çarşı, meaning ‘Grand Market’) in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops which attract between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily.
In 2014, it was listed No.1 among the world's most-visited tourist attractions with 91,250,000 annual visitors. The Grand Bazar at Istanbul is often regarded as one of the first shopping malls of the world. | <urn:uuid:465b351c-1a69-4374-a4e2-4c8a6f2b99c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hotelalbatros.com/istanbul.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967683 | 1,089 | 1.6875 | 2 |
|Dr. Alan Goldberg|
|When I speak to parents groups around the country one of my more important messages is: If you really want to give your children the gift of success in everything that they do in their lives, then teach them how to fail! The absolute worst thing that a parent can ever teach a child about failing is that it is a bad thing and cause for shame/embarrassment. Unfortunately, this is the lesson that is most often taught in our culture, a lesson that always leaves a child feeling fearful about his/her performance. Fear of failure is probably one of the biggest causes of repetitive performance problems both in and out of sports. This worry steals your child’s enjoyment of the sport, tightens his/her muscles, distracts him/her from the proper concentration and insures that his/her performance will consistently be way below potential.
As a parent you need to go out of your way to help your children separate themselves from the outcome of their performances. You need to help them let go of the twisted notion that making mistakes and failing are two of the worst things that they could possibly ever do. This means that both verbally and non-verbally you have to consistently give them the message that they are NOT their performances. Simply put, when they perform badly, they are NOT bad or when they struggle performance-wise or lose, they are not losers. This means that you have to help them better handle the natural feelings that are associated with failing. How successful you are in doing this depends upon your ability to take an honest look at yourself in the mirror.
Last week I met with a 16 year old tennis player, the youngest of three boys. Mike was referred to me by his father for problems with choking under pressure. It seemed that whenever the match got close, Mike would become overwhelmed by nervousness and stop playing his normally relaxed and aggressive game. Instead, he would get very tentative and defensively push the ball back. As a consequence, he would often steal defeat from the closing jaws of victory and lose to much weaker players. More important, Mike told me that he hadn’t had much fun playing tennis over the past year and half because he was constantly too stressed whenever he competed.
It’s interesting to note here that Mike’s next older brother, Billy, 17, who was a very talented tennis player in his own right, had recently quit the game a year earlier because it was no longer fun for him either. A few years before that, the boys oldest brother, Josh had been scouted by a number of high level college baseball teams during his junior year in high school but then he had suddenly and inexplicably quit the game. He refused to talk about it with his parents other than saying I hate baseball and don’t want to play anymore!
How do we explain this interesting family pattern? Predictably! It turns out that the boys father put a tremendous amount of pressure on each of his sons to excel in their sport. Whenever they performed badly, the father had a tendency to get really angry at them. At times he would leave a game or match in disgust if they were playing badly or losing. After a loss, he wouldn’t speak to the his son for several days. Josh had quit baseball because it stopped being fun for him and because he was sick and tired of fighting with his dad after games. Apparently the same thing had happened with Billy and his tennis. While Mike loved the game and didn’t want to quit, his performance problems and lack of enjoyment were pushing him in that direction. Like his brothers’ problems, Mike’s struggles were a direct result of the pressure that his dad put on him to excel and win.
While I know for a fact that Mike’s dad meant well and truly wanted his boys to be happy and successful, he was totally unaware of how destructive his responses were to his sons failures and mistakes. He had inadvertently, by his behaviors taught all of his boys that making mistakes and failing was not only unacceptable, but something that they should avoid at all costs. In the family, the consequences for making mistakes and failing were clear and predictable: Dad would be disappointed and angry and there would be hell to pay.
As a result of this conditioning, Mike was overly concerned with the outcome of his matches. He was so worried that his dad was going to be upset with how he played after the match that he put an undue amount of pressure on himself before and during the match to be perfect with every shot he hit. Trying to be perfect as an athlete is ABSOLUTE POISON! It creates a sense of internal urgency that tightens muscles, distracts concentration and sabotages performance. This sense of urgency intensifies with every mistake the athlete makes. I know of no better way to set an athlete up to choke than to get him/her worried about making mistakes and failing.
Teaching your children to over-focus on the outcome in this manner will insure that they follow the very same footsteps as Josh, Billy and Mike. They will be fearful approaching competitions, be unable to stay relaxed and properly focused throughout them and will eventually come to hate the sport before they prematurely quit. Do you want your children to have this kind of relationship with their sport? Do you want them to be overly focused on you and worried about your disapproval when they compete?
If you would sincerely like to help your children develop a healthier, more rewarding relationship with their game, then it’s up to you to teach them to have a more relaxed relationship with failing and making mistakes. This means that you have to help them relax more when they go into competition. You have to help them understand that the main purpose of them playing their game is to grow as a person and have fun. Sports are a vehicle through which an athlete can learn valuable life lessons and, in the process, learn to feel good about him/herself. This can never happen if you make the main purpose to win. You may think that you are really helping your son and daughter by emphasizing the outcome in this way. Unfortunately the contrary is true! You are really hurting them.
How do you help your children have a more relaxed attitude towards failing and making mistakes? You do so by how you respond to and manage their feelings of failure. When your children fail or make mistakes, YOU have to learn to respond more appropriately and constructively.
Let me state the obvious here: NO CHILD MAKES MISTAKES AND LOSES BECAUSE HE/SHE WANTS TO! NO CHILD WANT HIS/HER PARENTS TO BE DISAPPOINTED IN HIM/HER. What are the implications of this? When your child fails, he already feels miserable. Even before you open your mouth to criticize or offer helpful hints, your son or daughter is already hurting big time! He/she may be embarrassed, ashamed, frustrated, discouraged, sad, angry with him/herself, struggling with feelings of worthlessness, etc. Before you decide to get angry at them and tell them how much of an embarrassment they are to you, STOP & THINK! How is what you’re about to say going to help them? How will it make them feel better about themselves? How will it motivate them to improve? More important, HOW WILL IT HELP THEM MANAGE THE PAIN THAT THEY ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING?
If you overtly or covertly show your displeasure with their failing, if you criticize or put them down for not living up to your expectations, angrily walk out on them when they’re losing, then you should know that at that very moment, YOU ARE DOING YOUR CHILD A SERIOUS DISSERVICE. To respond to their pain by making them feel even more pain is to emotionally traumatize them. When you do this you fail your child in far more serious ways than striking out to end the game, getting beaten in the last 25 or losing a match.
To teach your child how to have a healthy attitude towards failing you must respond constructively to their feelings of failure: Specifically this means that when they fail you must:
1)Respond with empathy, NOT anger – Step inside their shoes for an instant and feel the pain that they’re feeling. Then respond to their pain, NOT your own selfish needs and wants. For example, you see how upset your daughter is after a loss and, at an appropriate time you say, That must really hurt hon. I can see how frustrated and disappointed you are. It really feels pretty crappy to give it your all like you did and to come up short. Just keep in mind that you’ll have plenty of other games and there will be other chances.
To sum, if you truly want to teach your kids how to have a healthy attitude about failing and making mistakes, then you need to learn how to better manage their feelings when they fail. Paradoxically, in order to do this well, you need to learn how to first manage your own feelings when they fail so that these do not get in your way of lovingly be there for your child | <urn:uuid:31f5e919-80cf-452d-80b2-7a15a1cc9b84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://windycitydiving.com/resources/note-worthy-articles/properly-handling-your-childrens-feeling-of-failure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983491 | 1,873 | 2.21875 | 2 |
While it had a rocky start as the Bristol F.2A
, it wasn't long before crews figured out how to turn the Bristol F.2B Fighter's
considerable assets to their advantage, and the plane gained the respect of both crew and adversaries alike. Over 3,000 were built by the end of 1918, and they served in France, Italy, Palestine, and on home defense. While experiments were performed with various other engines, the 220hp Rolls-Royce Falcon II powered most Bristols and provided excellent performance.
Note: the 1:285/6mm/ 1:288 scale product has two planes
; the 1:144 and 1:100 products have one. Detachable, translucent propeller disks are used on the smaller scales, rather than blades. They are joined by disposable links to keep the price down, since single-part models are more affordable. You can break the links with nail clippers, wire cutters, or similar.
Also available: a variant with twin Lewis guns
for the observer.
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Our soggy, arrival at Land’s End will forever be imprinted on our memories, a goal we worked extremely hard for some days. However, our last day of walking was filled with visions of the historic remains of the region’s tin mining industry. Fortunately, the rain caused me to pack my good camera deep inside my pack, or I’d probably still be out on the bluffs snapping photos.
Much like the Doc Martin series put the little village of Port Issac on the map, the BBC series Poldark brings the world to the Pendeen Coast, where the Geevor Tin Mine (closed in 1990) remains open as a tourist attraction.
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Enabling ground-breaking research and development
Government laboratories and facilities provide research, testing, manufacturing, and development in pursuit of breakthrough innovations in defense, computing, energy, space exploration, and scientific discovery. They enlighten our understanding of everything from sub-atomic particles to humanity’s place in the universe.
In turn, these advances improve lives, strengthen economies, make the nation a safer place.
The U.S. government turns to academia and private industry to manage and operate its national laboratories, testing centers, and production facilities. It expects these organizations to integrate world-class science with excellence in project management and business systems to operate these “crown jewels” of science as safely and efficiently as possible – as we have proudly done at multiple sites for decades.
Cutting edge science and technology
Critical aerospace research and testing
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Chest To Turn
If you want greater control of first touch with your chest when the ball’s arriving in the air and a defender’s on your back, this is a great technique. First you need to think ahead about where you want the ball to land. Then turn while receiving and keep your chest big to maximize surface area. Stay wide and balanced so you can direct the ball exactly where you want it to go. Using this skill on the field will help you not just stop the ball with your chest, but enable you to have greater control over the ball than ever before. | <urn:uuid:958b8948-4dcf-465c-8b9c-54baf7aa5d17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://the18.com/es/aprendizaje-de-futbol/video-de-entrenamiento/chest-turn | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946504 | 120 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In an age the place above half of the globe utilizes the world-wide-web, brand names have started off to fork out consideration to their marketing approaches a lot more than ever. With around 4 billion folks online, it can be only all-natural that the desire for structure, much more importantly, sound style and design, increases in the sector.
As an company, no matter of irrespective of whether you specialize in style and design or not, it is highly important to keep on best of each and every development shift. This is where we introduce you to the notion of structure ops or style functions.
Modern-day-working day enterprises (such as businesses) have currently started applying layout operations to scale their small business even further. Let us examine how they are producing it achievable and increasing efficiency in general.
What is Style Ops?
Now, principles prior to every little thing. We understand that not all audience here will be knowledgeable of what style ops are. We will deal with that correct now to apparent any and all uncertainties that you may possibly have. This will also help you fully grasp the relaxation of this write-up much better.
Design and style functions is a versatile expression that refers to possibly a team or a person man or woman who ideas, crafts, and organizes all layout procedures to improve in general design and style benefit (and impacts). The design ops are also accountable for guaranteeing that the most handy options are offered for worries confronted by design groups.
Apparently, design and style ops do not necessarily focus only on designing considering that the leaders are normally out there to deal with a full set of tasks. They acquire care of even far more aspects, these as budgeting and creating the suitable workforce for various tasks. A person such factor, and an significant a single nonetheless, is structuring.
There has to be a distinct line of hierarchy that informs personnel who report to whom and how authority is established in position. This also decides the standard workflow that flows through various teams inside of an group, this sort of as IT aid, innovation, product or service administration, etc., at a significant scale.
All in all, design and style ops is present to ensure that each step is taken in accordance to prepare and that your groups do what they’re very best qualified at.
How does style ops help in scaling an agency?
Now that we have protected design ops and its standard workflow, it’s time to take a look at how the complete notion can support scale your agency.
If your agency retains expanding at a first rate amount, you’re sure to encounter one particular of the two problems you retain hiring much more individuals or have an particularly intricate workflow within just your services. This is how style operations help agencies scale :
They Employ The Very best Individuals in City
You will find yet another issue that layout operations are liable for – employing the greatest abilities for your agency. You’ll come across a job or two at periods that demand intense specialization or practical experience to get the career accomplished. Choose, for case in point, animators. In accordance to AIE, the typical salary for an professional artwork director is about $70,000 (annually). It won’t make substantially perception to have a different worker on the payroll for simply a single additional job.
Layout operations can aid you hire component-time freelancers with the exact abilities and practical experience desired for the job. In point, you can find a superior likelihood that the freelancer they employ is more suited for the unique process than anybody you could possibly retain the services of.
Retain Issues in Check out
Your staff simply cannot operate devoid of a good objective or roadmap in mind. Design and style ops assistance generate robust programs, coach group users, and develop procedures that support in interaction to reduce the problems your staff might deal with.
It really is also very important to remember that style ops are the only one who communicates with anyone from the client to every single member of the layout crew. They are the closest to your customer and crew that’s why they are more knowledgeable than any person on board about vital conclusions.
How to Carry out Design Ops in your company?
Confident with the abilities of major-notch design and style ops nonetheless? Let’s deep dive into comprehension how you can put into practice it in your agency. We all know the significance of a fantastic layout. It demands to be near to perfection.
Even so, in actuality, there are huge issues that a designer faces. At times it can even be frustrating to make your mind up the place you really should start off applying successful modifications. Here’s how you ought to put into action style operations for your agency:
The 1st move is to have an understanding of what your design and style group struggles most with. You can do this by conducting surveys and acquiring opinions on the workload, tiresome tasks, typical issues absolutely everyone faces, etcetera. Also, recall to not undertake jobs from clients that you could not be capable to complete.
Obtaining the Solution
Once you have received all the challenges shown, explore the various probable techniques these difficulties can be dealt with. This is in which you can assign price to the distinctive sectors of your agency and forecast how they could be impacted if you convey in these variations. Assigning values to distinctive areas is only wanted for businesses that are not specializing in layout by itself and function in other fields as very well.
Get Factors Heading
The following action is to prioritize which issues require to be tackled prior to others. Making a roadmap will also verify to be of terrific aid right here. You are going to also require to recognize the kind of productiveness in will need of every plan.
This will guide you in abandoning any weak-undertaking procedures or propelling the ones who are executing better.
And let’s not fail to remember how determining the concerns and coming up with options is just the suggestion of the iceberg. This is exactly why businesses have shifted to count on operational administrators or a crew of style ops guides, which we are going to go into detail later.
Signals your company can make use of layout ops
By now, you have almost certainly gotten a distinct image of the impacts of a layout ops, but is it time your firm also requires a single? Well you will not be able to remedy that question unless of course you detect specified symptoms within the operating of your agency. To help you fully grasp better, let us glimpse at some indications which point out you require a structure guidebook:
Your design and style group has developed
If your design workforce dimension has expanded, you will need to have to make confident everybody is on the same page in phrases of creativeness. Honestly, you will find only so significantly you can cope with. Frequently, you will shed your team stream in this kind of eventualities because they do not observe explicit suggestions as for each better-ups. This is in which design ops comes in useful.
Structure ops will establish a bridge in between the advertising and marketing crew and what your client desires. They also manage the total approach of coming up with. You can acquire a much more intrinsic approach to guideline your staff and get the expected output.
Even the most minimal jobs get good evaluation and approval. This way, high-quality is hardly ever compromised, and perform receives accomplished rapidly.
You have specialised roles in style
Another typical sign is that you have to have more specialized designers for instance, you have illustrators, movement animators, and so forth. They functionality strictly for that specified position but then once again, it’s almost close to extremely hard to micro-take care of just about every activity.
Nevertheless, if you introduce design ops, they can simplify directions that drive designers to perform seamlessly. In quick, they scrutinize the workflow of all workforce associates and allocate them tasks respectively.
Large need for design operate
A major explanation your agency requires a design and style ops is that you are obtaining bombarded with jobs. We know it’s really hectic, hence you will frequently see chaos when it arrives to collaboration across all staff members.
Consequently, it is critical to align the designers to have a obvious course. When designers require to mail do the job at a faster speed, there really should be a filter in which top quality is often maintained. Also, all the things is just not to be completed by staff.
The worth of style and design ops
Designers have to juggle a lot of distinctive duties and a pile of responsibilities to make certain a better shopper practical experience. Whilst delegating a lot of obligations to designers might give some groups satisfactory outcomes, this requires a toll on coordination, scaling, and effectiveness.
That’s why, ahead of knowledge the significance of structure ops, it is equally (if not more) important to acquire a closer look at the important worries and complexities confronted by designers.
Designers have a good deal on their plate
With the expanding demand and additional investment decision by corporations in style and design, running roles and developing a procedure becomes far more intricate.
As a result, designers are remaining to have out an frustrating quantity of do the job besides attending numerous conferences, catching up with e-mails, Receiving the correct contents and handling challenge administration.
Isolation of the layout group
Having a centralized group would let designers to do the job much more collectively and have continuous interactions to examine suggestions. On the other hand, this frequently leaves designers isolated with the entire crew only obtaining work requests from other departments.
As a result, the ineffective coordination leads to constraints currently being discovered at the close of the approach and slows down the delivery and iterations.
Absence of obtainable equipment
The lack of appropriate applications, assets, and technology coupled with shifting specifications and technical specs stress designers. Furthermore, the demand for superior-speed delivery interprets into lousy good quality design and style.
If your technology is not updated, it will be a major hole for your staff to get things finished. Assume of it like this you can’t produce electronic illustrations unless of course you have a stylus.
Whether or not it be animations, graphic planning, or even user software program tests, there are a plethora of options accessible on the net, leaving you with the accountability of selecting the best just one.
Now style ops are what we would phone an ‘insider’ mainly because they can distinguish in between the tech instruments that only discuss and all those that can perform effectively.
They not only address the inefficiencies that hamper the design and style method to streamline easily, but also present answers to establish a process that consists of coordination, coaction, composition, and roles.
Design and style functions solve bottlenecks in the organisation and engage in an crucial part in overcoming the difficulty of miscommunication among designers and other departments.
Authentic-Daily life Examples
Now that we have a deep comprehending of how layout ops make organizations a lot more practical and effective. It truly is time to acquire notes from authentic-existence examples of firms that have executed these techniques and explore how it has benefited them.
The infinite scrolling down Pinterest for inspiration is a typical phenomenon amid several creatives currently. The visible pinboard web site is amongst the most popular graphic-based mostly social media networks, with about 433 million month-to-month energetic users throughout the world.
Amazingly, the co-founders of Pinterest had been each designers, which is no wonder why the system is regarded for its amazing style and design execution and smart user interface. With a swiftly increasing business and a group of designers, Pinterest made a decision to employ design ops to deal with its scaling.
One more firm that carried out layout ops is Getty Pictures. They introduced the team to the product or service style and design. Only put, their target was to speed up the style course of action and force the improvement. They established devices and efficient processes that refined the workflow.
Over-all, these firms didn’t do something much too nuts, and the essential takeaway from their experiences is that a straightforward addition of a group can scale a business to bigger heights. While these makes could not be agencies, it is really excellent to see that implementing style and design operations can do wonders in follow.
Wrapping points up
Structure ops can administer the move and high-quality of perform. They are normally in charge of setting suitable, concise, and comprehensible programs for all types of designers these types of that they operate in sync with the vital standards.
As a outcome, it gets easier to hand down certain responsibilities to the group and ensure consistency with just about every output. As a result, they grow to be key players in communication as they are responsible for translating the rules to the team.
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Covering an area of 7,434.4 square kilometers, Guangzhou is home to more than 12 million people. It has direct jurisdiction over 11 districts, namely Yuexiu, Liwan, Haizhu, Tianhe, Baiyun, Huangpu, Huadu, Panyu, Nansha, Conghua and Zengcheng. Click to know more about them.
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Old driver's license? You can still fly for 2 more years
NEW YORK — Fliers who don’t have the latest driver’s licenses will have a two-year reprieve before their IDs are rejected at airport security checkpoints.
Many travelers had been worried that the Transportation Security Administration would penalize them because of a federal law requiring newer, more-stringent IDs at the start of this year.
But late Friday afternoon, the Department of Homeland Security said passengers could continue using their current IDs until Jan. 22, 2018. Some would have until Oct. 1, 2020.
After those dates, passengers without the proper driver’s licenses would have to use other federally-approved forms of ID, such as a passport.
The Real ID Act, approved by Congress in 2005, set minimum standards for licenses in response to security concerns following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Enforcement of those requirements has repeatedly been delayed.
For a license to be compliant with the Real ID Act, the state issuing it must, for example, incorporate anti-counterfeit technology into the card, verify the applicant’s identity and conduct background checks for employees involved in issuing driver’s licenses.
Currently, 23 states and U.S. territories have complied with the act and 27 states and territories have been granted an extension. Five states — Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, Missouri and Washington — and American Samoa have not complied and have not been granted an extension.
Those states oppose requirements in the law that include storing images of documents that driver’s license applicants present as proof of their identity, such as birth certificates. State officials say that information could be breached and could be used to track law-abiding U.S. citizens.
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You must have read articles about how a platform is revolutionizing the way websites are created by letting people design sites without needing any coding or programming skills. There are loads of website builders that claim to deliver but the vast majority of are over exaggerated.
Here is my insight and rebuttal to those amateur website creators, Webydo the online professional platform, is helping designers to create, manage and publish websites without the need to write a single line of code. Why should you trust Webydo when many other platforms are not delivering on their promise?
For starters, Webydo has been featured in numerous top notch publications such as Forbes, BBC, The Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. Then there is the fact that over 96,296 websites have been created and published with Webydo’s design platform and by more than 35k designers worldwide.
Webydo was created because the developers of Webydo needed a professional solution for themselves. They were well aware of the drawbacks of the traditional methods to create websites and so they decided to create a platform which would put the designers in charge.
Webydo lets designers create beautiful websites while the system converts the design into completely responsive code in the background. This means that designers won’t need a developer to create convert the PSD file into HTML code to create the website. Webydo’s technology does it for you, so you so you can design to your hearts content. Some of the important features of Webydo are discussed below.
Mobile and Tablet Versions
Millions of people are browsing the net on their cell phones and tablets. If you are designing a website, you just can’t ignore them and have to design your website to be to fit on all these platforms.
Webydo allows designers to create their website as usual and then easily adapt the design for the mobile version, along with the regular desktop version. The tablet view will be launched soon.
It also allows designers to create a responsive website with cross-browser capabilities which means the website will look fine no matter on which device it is viewed and no matter in which browser.
Drag and drop
Webydo offers the feature where designers can drag and drop elements such as shapes and images; texts and videos; flash and forms; widgets and menus; etc. The system automatically optimizes all the assets to deliver quality performance and pixel perfect designs.
The CMS or Content Management System of Webydo is professionally designed to suit designers’ needs. Though it is not a full-fledged CMS system, the users can still create their own new pages and will have access to content of all pages of the website. This implies that CMS users can alter the splash page and content of all pages and that CMS users should go through the same procedure as website designers while creating new pages. Both the designer and CMS user must create links from new pages to the main pages and similarly from the main pages to the new pages. An added benefit of the CMS is that the designers can set site permissions and lock specific design elements so that when a client enters to edit or update their site, they will not need to worry about tampering with the design.
A font that may look good on paper may not necessarily look good on a screen. For example Times New Roman is the font most widely used in books but hardly anyone uses it online. Fonts for the online world require different treatment.
Webydo offers hundreds of free open source fonts which are crafted for online usage. These fonts ensure clear typography that will give a great overall look and feel to your site.
Webydo has an option which allows for easy integration of Ecwid E-Commerce widget. This widget accepts a wide variety of payment solutions with a lot of stock control, a media rich category and product description. This famous E-Commerce solution gives you total creative freedom in creating quality online stores for your clients.
This professional website builder is setting the way as we move into 2014 in regards to web design and how creative professionals are approaching the web design process. Now, designers have complete and total freedom to take on clients, design, manage and publish these products from start finish and at a reasonable price. Webydo offers both freemium and premium plans. In both plans, you have access to all of the professional design features and CMS. In the free, you can create up to 15 pages, enjoy 1GB of storage, 24/7 customer support and publish your site on a Webydo sub domain. The Premium plan boosts the storage to 2GB, allows for unlimited page creation and hosting of custom domain name for $7.9/ month when billed annually or $9.9/ billed biannually.
In addition, if there is a feature that you do not yet see but feel like you can’t work without head over the Participate page and add it in. Webydo’s future is decided on you the designer. They created the forum so that you can add new feature suggestions, vote on ones you see and watch as your comments turn into reality. Enjoy the creative freedom, and let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. | <urn:uuid:e8249578-a4e4-4bb2-9e3a-c56c4747b963> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.queness.com/post/15863/webydo-the-intuitive-website-creator-for-design-professionals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939346 | 1,066 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Recently I saw a brief article about a computer program called the De-jargonizer for identifying jargon. Details are described in a magazine article by Tzipora Rakedzon, Elad Segev, Noam Chapnik, Roy Yosef and Ayelet Baram-Tsaba titled Automatic jargon identifier for scientists engaging with the public and science communication educators which appeared in PLOS ONE in February 2017.
I tried it out on the ending of a speech by President Donald Trump on tax reform from August 30, 2017 with the results shown above. Program instructions say:
“Results are displayed both by color and by percentage. Words in black are common words, words in orange are mid-frequency words, and words in red are jargon. The table on the right presents the number of words in the text and the results: the number of words and the percentage of words for each frequency (high, mid and jargon).”
This isn’t the only tool. Back on September 21, 2013 I blogged about Funneling your big ideas through a small vocabulary and discussed the Up-Goer Five Text Editor.
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Washington D.C. (WTRF) – The U.S. Senate failed to pass the Sgt. First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Pact Act on Thursday.
The Pact Act aims to expand military benefits for approximately three-point-five million post-9/11 veterans that were injured after being exposed to toxic burn pits during their service. 84 Senators voted yes on an earlier version of the bill. 25 Republicans changed their votes, on the amended version voted on on Thursday.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown says the amended version was not changed in any substantive way, and he believes the Republicans are playing games.
“In Ohio alone there are at least 100,000 veterans who we think were exposed to the burn pits. We don’t know how many of them are going to be sick, but we know some of them are going to be sick. Some of them have died. Heath Robinson, after whom we named the bill, is an Ohioan who died.”Sen. Sherrod Brown
Republicans say the bill stalled because the way it was written would allow for 400 billion dollars in additional spending.
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The story of the elegant, crisp and artistic textile designs that burst upon the world in the 1950s - the period now known as Mid Century Modern. It looks at the women who created them and in doing so became part of the first cohort of women to dominate any field of design, and it thinks about how these fabrics transcended their function and became a symbols of peace and better times.
I provide a full transcript, pictures, links to the work of the contributors to these podcasts, and a list of resources that have inspired me on my website at: www.hapticandhue.com/listen.
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If you are interested in a long read or two, or want to know why and how cloth speaks to us then you can find writing at www.hapticandhue.com/read
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And if you’ve got a great idea for Series Two (coming in the New Year!) then drop me a line via the website.
Have fun and enjoy your own making practice or just listening to the chatter of cloth!
With heartfelt thanks to the contributors for this episode
Nicola Wood who shared her amazing memories of being a successful textile designer in the 1960s. Nicola’s paintings can be seen here.
Ashley Gray, Director of Gray MCA – an expert in mid-century textiles and co-curator of the recent exhibition on Modern British Female Designers at Messums, Wiltshire. Instagram: @GrayMCA
Shanna Shelby, Curator and Director of Shelby Fine Art, who can be found here
Kirk Brown III and Jill Wilste, whose generosity and foresight have ensured that the legacy of these textile designers is preserved. See what they keep on their walls at home and read more about their collection: here | <urn:uuid:2c3dc01d-08bb-46e7-bf81-c14d3f26d072> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/16204193/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944849 | 474 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Posted by: Santosh.s on 08.08.2017
(x+5)=0 or (x-3)=0
x=-5 or x=3
Apologies for posting the different answer here. Accidentally it got happen. Kindly consider this solution:
use splitting the middle term:
Steps are mentioned below:
Zeroes of polynomial means the roots of polynomial.
X^2 + 2X-15
X^2 + (5-3)X - 15
X^2 + 5X - 3X - 15
Therefore the roots are -5 and 3
Zeroes of a polynomial means roots of the polynomial
By splitting midle term, given polynomial = (x+5) (x-3)
Therefore roots are 3 and -5
x^2+2x-15 = x^2+5x -3x-15 = x(x+5)-3(x+5) = (x+5)(x-3)
therefore the zeros of the polynomial are 3, -5
Hence option 4 is the correct ans.
= x2 + 2x - 15
= x2 + 5x - 3x -15
= x(x+5) -3(x+5)
Therefore zeroes are x+5 = 0 or x - 3 = 0
-5 and 3 are the zeroes of the given expression
x^2 + 2x - 15 = 0
x^2 + 5x - 3x - 15 = 0
x(x + 5) - 3(x + 5) = 0
(x - 3)(x + 5) = 0
Hence, zeroes of the polynomial = 3, -5
Option 4 is correct.
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A little-known provision of the CARES law helps employees pay their student loans
Recent research has shown that the Millennial population (typically born between 1981 and 1996) is now the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, and that rising generations (those born after 1996) are expected to cause a influx of around 60 million job seekers over the next decade.
There’s one thing many of these young workers have in common: They take on huge student debt with their college loans – $ 1.6 trillion, according to some sources. The Biden administration is considering the idea of ââwriting off some of that debt – up to $ 10,000. But it’s still a long way off. Meanwhile, the numbers continue to grow at a rate five times that of our economy.
However, thanks to the CARES law of March 2020, companies received more incentives to help repay their employees’ student loans. The provisions of the legislation – which were extended until 2025 in a subsequent stimulus bill – now allow employers to repay or directly repay up to $ 5,250 of their employees’ student loans each year. And this amount will be tax-free for the employee but still deductible by the employer.
This is an attractive – and affordable – benefit to offer, especially during this tight job market.
According to Scott Simmons, COO of Tuition.io, a platform that helps businesses make it easier to repay student loans, employers have a growing appreciation for the financial burden that student loans represent on their employees and demand. for this benefit has increased significantly.
âFor many employees, paying off their student loans is a much higher priority than saving for retirement or other traditional benefits offered by employers,â he said. âBy adding student loan payments, employers are providing a more relevant benefit to a large portion of their workforce, which is greatly appreciated and helps attract new talent. “
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It also helps with retention. Simmons said Tuition.io customers typically see 20% to 40% lower turnover rates in groups of employees who participate in their student loan repayments compared to employees who do not. He also said that this benefit can have a significant impact on a company’s diversity and inclusion goals, as studies have shown that non-white students are more affected by student debt responsibilities than whites. (The Brookings Institution estimates that, on average, black college graduates owe $ 52,726 in student debt, while white college graduates owe nearly $ 28,006).
Julie Olters, head of human resources at Manasquan Bank in New Jersey, implemented a student loan repayment program in early 2020 and is already seeing the benefits.
âHe was very popular with the staff,â she said. âWe have 23 loans enrolled and one employee has already successfully paid off his student loans ahead of schedule. Olters said that on average, three to four employees per month join the company’s overall financial wellness program, and nearly 15% of their employees enjoy the loan repayment benefit.
A student loan repayment program has also proven popular for employees of Integrichain, a data and business process analytics company in Philadelphia. According to Vickie Kozhushchenko, the company’s senior vice president, offering a student loan repayment program has been a desirable advantage, given the average age of its workforce is 32.
“Offering a loan repayment assistance program allows an employee to speed up the rate at which they repay their loan, gives them a set of tools to help them manage their loan repayment and help them acquire financial independence and essential knowledge to manage own finances âmentioned. The program, which began over four years ago, “helps take a [more] list personal finance issues and allow them to be more productive.
If you are considering this benefit in your business, the good news is that it is not difficult to implement.
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Most employers, regardless of size, tend to rely on services like Tuition.io or Gradifi, which can connect major loan repayment services to their payroll systems. Once an employee is added to the system, automatic emails are generated for the worker to fill out a full profile and sign up. From there, loans are usually paid directly from the platform to the loan department with minimal administrative involvement.
Simmons of Tuition.io said setup and administration for the employer is “straightforward and much easier than most other employer benefits” and “implementation typically takes four to six weeks. , depending on the complexity of the benefit design and the specific employer requirements. âSome employers, like Integrichain, typically require a new employee to wait 90 days before joining the program.
And just because a business can offer up to $ 5,250 a year tax-free doesn’t mean you have to. Integrichain starts by paying $ 100 per month and then increases that amount to $ 200 after one year of service.
âWe felt it was our responsibility as an employer to help ease this burden and provide a significant benefit that employees could easily enjoy and see quick results,â Kozhushchenko said. âFor an employee, adding an additional $ 100 to $ 200 per month to pay off their loan can cut their repayment time by months or even years. “
Gene Marks is a Chartered Accountant and owner of Marks Group, a technology and financial management consulting firm in Bala Cynwyd.
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History & Geography
History and geography are central to the curriculum at Bessemer and are the focus of our half-termly topics. We take a creative approach to the curriculum so that children become fully immersed in each of these subjects and come away with a secure knowledge base. We believe creativity is crucial in enabling children to achieve high standards. In both subjects, enquiry is key and children are given opportunities to ask questions and debate viewpoints in order to give them a more deepened understanding. Please click the links below to see how history skills and geography skills progress across the year groups.
In the teaching and learning of history, children learn about significant events in British history as well as history from different periods around the world. We approach history, like all subjects, with a critical mind, encouraging children to contrast and compare different accounts and where possible expose them to primary and secondary sources. We regularly have visitors and hold historical workshops where children get to experience historical events hands on.
Geography enables children to make sense of their world around them. When the topic focus is geography, children develop awareness of where they live and how it is similar and different to various geographical places in the world beyond, its physical and human geography, culture, traditions and what it’s like to live there. Our many trips and school journeys incorporate geographical skills such as map work, looking at aerial photos and making comparative studies.
Across the school, children are given opportunities to communicate their geographical understanding through a wide range of digital media such as films, drama and photographs.
At Bessemer, we are committed to installing a sense of wonder about the world both past and present throughout our topics through ‘hook days ‘exciting trips and a wide and varied range of various activities. By being creative children learn to think for themselves, become adaptable and learn key skills for life. Both history and Geography play an important part in the curriculum by motivating and engaging the children, supporting them to become more independent and confident learners.
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Women's History Shows
The following shows highlight women, their history, their work and their accomplishments and are appropriate for March, women's history month.
Just a few of the women portrayed in this show:
60 Minutes with Q & A afterwards.
Appropriate for ages 10 & up
Born Salamah bint Said, Princess of Zanzibar, in 1844, Emily Reute grew up in a harem with scores of siblings. The royal family maintained it's fabulous wealth and luxury with a robust traffic in ivory, spices and human bondage. The Princess would venture beyond the palace, into the city and plantations where European traders, missionaries, and colonists exercised a growing influence. There she met Rudolph Reute, a German trader,with whom she eloped to Germany. The Princess also converted to Christianity and took the name Emily.
While living in Germany, she attained the perspective to form a comparison of the lives of women in Muslim society with those of their European contemporaries. Originally published in 1886, Waterfall Productions, has adapted this remarkable autobiography for a theatrical presentation, where the audience will meet Princess Salamah and learn about her life in both Zanzibar and Germany as a royal, daughter, outcast, wife, widow and mother.
65 minutes with talk-back afterwards. Ages 12 & up.
"Many thanks for bringing the Arabian princess to our stage...it's a wonderful piece in addition to being so very timely. We were transported into a world of wonders and stirring human drama."
-Marc Clopton, Artistic Director Actors Studio of Newburyport MA
In 1908, the world was on the cusp of change. The traditions of the Victorians were giving way to a more modern way of thinking and living. Mrs. Gordon, a woman having lived in both the 19th and 20th century, has a lot to say about all these new changes. Her stories will highlight technology, sports, fashion, beauty and more.
"(Rita) Parisi, a charming and animated storyteller, skillfully drew her audience back in time and led her guests in a lively conversation, encouraging questions and comments...an entertaining afternoon with glimpses in the lives of our grandmothers."
-Pelham-Windham NH News
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is often known as the crazy wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. She was the glittering half of the Golden Couple of the 1920's and muse and inspiration for the flapper characters in Fitzgerald's Jazz Age stories. But before she met Scott, she was the flamboyant and outrageous Zelda Sayre, the famous belle from Montgomery Alabama and the daughter of a judge and an artistic mother. Her antics before and after marriage became the stuff of legends. Though a legend in her own time, Zelda was much more than a southern belle, a glittering jewel on Fitzgerald's arm, Roaring 20's icon or an American expatriate wife in Paris. This original play, will pay tribute to an often misunderstood woman; a women who battled schizophrenia for much of her life; a woman who was also a mother, an accomplished ballet dancer, an exhibited artist and a published writer . *Appropriate for mature teens and up.
65 minute with 10 minute talk-back
with set and printed show program.
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The holistic education establishes that external action should be an expression of the inner life, referring to the new paradigm of holistic education which should lead us to a change, a revolution of consciousness with a sense and universal love, a transformation. Our current problem is human is to say it is a problem of evolution of consciousness and we must be prepared to fully understand the world we inhabit and to understand ourselves. The students aren’t machines, empty containers or raw material that needs to be processed. They are alive and in growth that has their own knowledge and the need for find their own meanings. Transdisciplinarity is the only thing that allows us to consider the student as a multidimensional being. This works with six aspects in students: educate us as holistic educator really is essentially a spiritual awakening, this awakening to your true spiritual nature is the heart of your training as educator holistic.
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- A-Z Animals
One of the largest birds in the stork family is the white stork which is characterized by a white plumage and black wings. The European White Stork is a member of the Stork family, Ciciniidae and shares a close relationship and resemblance with Maguari Stork of South America and the Oriental White Stork of East Asia. It is a long-distance migrant bird which has breeding grounds on different continents. It is conspicuous by nature of breeding but shares a close proximity to humans.
For this reason, the bird has left a deep imprint on human minds which are quite reflected in forms of expression such as paintings and literature. In fact, they were considered to possess filial virtues which were supposed to inspire children to cultivate such virtues.
It is also believed to bring in good luck and fertility to the home over which it built its nest.
The white stork bird is a large one measuring around 100 to 120 cm from the tip of its beak to its tail and has a wingspan of 190 to 220 cm. It is a light bird weighing only around 2 to 4.5kgs. Males can be distinguished from their female counterparts on the basis of their larger size. These storks are long-necked creatures with long hind legs and a straight and pointed beak. Both the legs and the beak are red in color. It has a white plumage with feathers black and shiny. A tinge of purple and green provides glossiness to the feathers of the beautiful bird. It has long and shaggy feathers on its breast which form a fluffy ruff that gets erected during displays of courtships. They possess grey or dull brown eyes which are surrounded by a patch of bare black skin.
The newborn ones or the juvenile birds are dull by nature of their color but do become colorful as soon as they acquire maturity with age.
Although it is considered to be a peace-loving bird, yet its broad and long wings help it to soar high, producing a lot of sounds while flapping and beating its wings. White storks always fly with their necks stretched, and legs extended beyond their tail. It walks at a steady pace with its neck upstretched but is seen hunching its head between its shoulders while being at rest. It may molt during its breeding season.
White storks have a breeding range in various regions in central and southern Europe, west-central Asia, and parts of the Middle East. It migrates to Southern Africa and parts of the subcontinent during the winter months.
The White storks prefer to feed in areas of shallow wetlands and farmlands, grassy meadows and avoids areas having tall grasses and shrubs. This is contrary to their breeding preferences as they like to breed in wet grasslands. They tend to feed and breed in meadows, lakes, and pastures which are scattered by trees all over for the purpose of nesting and roosting. They have also adapted themselves since time immemorial to live in close proximity to humans by building nests on rooftops and other places dominated by human activities.
Being a long-distant bird, the white stork winters in Europe migrate to Africa to even as far as the Indian subcontinent while flying southwards from their breeding grounds in Europe. This happens in the month of August and September. They migrate in huge numbers during this season of the year. While migrating from Europe to Africa, they avoid flying over the Mediterranean Sea since air thermals are not built on it, on which they rely for gaining energy. Accordingly, they detour via the Strait of Gibraltar on the western front. They migrate to the east via the Levant and the Nile. This eastern route is actually the most favored one for the storks as is evident from the number of white storks who follow this eastern path. To go by the recorded statistics, more than 500,000 storks take this path annually.
A group also migrates westwards to Sudan, Chad, and Nigeria. After a long journey of almost 50 days, the European white stork completes its sojourn and finds peace in their original habitat. However, such a process of migration may be affected by khamsins, which are strong gusty winds that make the weather unsuitable for flying. Such adverse conditions delay the duration of migration.
The diet of white storks depends on the season of breeding and migration, the place of migration, and the availability of prey. White storks hunt for preys in meadows, areas of low vegetation, and shallow water. They usually feed on insects such as grasshoppers, beetles, crickets and locusts; reptiles, earthworms, amphibians especially frogs; mammals such as moles, shrews, voles. They also eat bird eggs and their young ones, fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, and scorpions, etc. Their nature of eating a prey is to swallow it if it is a small one, and killing and tearing apart the prey if it is a larger one. In a nutshell, they may be categorized as carnivorous.
The white stork bird breeds in open farmlands, marshy wetlands, and builds nests in trees, and on rooftops. As a matter of fact, they form loose informal colonies during the time of breeding. They usually form a monogamous pair for breeding and the same ones may pair successively every year.
Male white storks are the first ones to arrive at the nesting site for breeding. The male uses the Head-Shaking Crouch display method as a way of attracting the female. Once the female gets attracted, she displays her approval in her own way. A courtship within a short span of time indicates greater affinity.
The nests made by them are usually huge in size, constructed of sticks and branches, grasses, twigs, rags, and other materials. The nests are usually 1m in diameter but may grow up to 2 to 3m depending on the nature and amount of the material used.
The female white stork lays only three to four eggs which may also be as many as seven in exceptional cases. Both the parents share the duty of nurturing the stork babies during the incubation period. The young chicks have black bills and white body. This nurturance may continue till the chicks learn to fledge which happens within eight to nine weeks since birth. By the time the babies grow two to three years of age, they are capable of breeding. The maximum number of years a stork can survive is for thirty-five years.
There has been a substantial decrease in the population of white storks since the last century. This has concurred both due to natural and anthropogenic factors. The natural factors include parasites causing diseases such as mesostigmatic mites such as Trichouropoda orbicularis, Macrocheles merdarius, Petrolichus ciconiae, and others such as West Nile virus (WNV). A disease caused due to this virus is highly contagious. And the man made factors include pollution, deforestation causing loss of habitat, electrocution, drainage of wetlands, and loss of agricultural lands for the setting up of industries, use of persistant pesticides and illegal hunting.
Being rated as Least Concern by International Union for Conservation of Animals and natural Resources (IUCN), several measures have been undertaken for the conservation and preservation of this beautiful flying creature such as zoo rearing, nest building and other methods aimed at boosting its existence and breeding.
Such measures if undertaken sincerely shall prove highly beneficial for the preservation and conservation of all those creatures that stand on the threshold of existence and extinction. The White Stork is one of the most beautiful birds on the planet and our efforts shall ensure their survival in future and prevent them from getting extinct.
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Faced with a challenge to convert forest product residues into new chemical compounds like ethanol and polymers, research institutions in Brazil and Sweden and companies in the paper and cellulose industries realized that the chances of success would be greatly increased if they could share experiences and technologies on a broad research platform. And so in June 2013, companies like AkzoNobel, Fibria, Novozymes and Sekab, working with universities such as the University of Campinas (Unicamp), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Chalmers University in Sweden, launched a program aimed at integrating the cellulose industry with biorefineries, facilities that can convert biomass into a variety of chemical products.
Dubbed Polynol, the project is coordinated by the Swedish institute Innventia, known for its leadership of projects that bring together industry, universities, and research centers in Europe. “There are a lot of partners from industry and research centers that are working together as a value chain, openly sharing research results in order to reduce the time required to implement their projects,” explains Niklas Berglin, assistant director of the business division of Innventia’s biorefinery.
Similar initiatives have been attracting enthusiastic support in Brazil and all over the world during the past ten years, owing to dissemination of the concept of open innovation. The term first appeared in 2003, in the book Open Innovation by an American, Henry Chesbrough, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who used it to describe a practice that had emerged in the mid-1990s with the establishment of partnerships among company research departments. Compared to the traditional model in which corporate secrecy prevailed, open innovation distributes the innovation process over an external network of partners; there is room for universities, nearby partners or partners from other countries, suppliers, and even competitors and customers—each contributing their special expertise. In his books, Chesbrough shows how, until the mid-1990s, companies tried to do everything themselves, as if self-sufficiency was the key to innovation (see infographic). Gradually, companies came to realize that they could do better if they took advantage of ideas from outside, contributed by universities and by other companies. “They saw that this would cut costs and give them more time to focus on their specialties, as well as enabling them to share risks,” says Bruno Rondani, founder of Wenovate, an association established to encourage and promote innovation projects. This does not mean that everything will be shared. Companies will open up their innovation efforts in order to capture and offer new knowledge, but close them when they want to appropriate something. Some companies, for example, license technologies only after their products have been on the market for awhile.
In the past 20 years, several multinationals like IBM, Xerox, P&G, and Philips have started to involve customers, suppliers, researchers, and other companies in their innovation efforts, signaling to other companies that they too could seize the opportunity to opt for open innovation. According to a study published in 2012 by the U.S. institute Forrester Research, 77% of the world’s largest companies are adopting the model as their principal innovation strategy. The study, which consulted top executives from more than 200 companies in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, shows that most (81%) of the open innovation initiatives occur in the form of collaborative research networks].
In the case of the Polynol project, the laboratory run in Curitiba by the multinational Novozymes was chosen to evaluate the possibility of extracting sugars from different types of biomass, such as brushwood and leaves in a process known as enzymatic hydrolysis. Meanwhile, the technology center operated by the Brazilian firm Fibria, in Jacareí (SP), is focusing on the logistics and production costs of the new raw materials. “This way, we can see the whole picture and make more complete analyses of the problems,” says Paulo César Pavan, president of the project committee in Brazil and process and product manager of Fibria’s Technology Center.
According to Rondani, one trend that is slowly taking hold is the interaction between big companies and technology-based startups. A study done in 2012 by Flanders DC, a foundation associated with the Belgian government that supports innovation, suggests that big companies should interact more frequently with small and medium-sized companies. However, according to that research, which examined cases in Europe, big companies still prefer to work with universities and other, larger companies, rather than with smaller ones that depend on that sort of initiative in order to survive in the market. Rondani admits that pursuing interaction with smaller companies and startups as a facet of open innovation is still a very new concept, especially in Brazil. “But a lot of startups have the capabilities needed to help large firms solve a problem,” he says.
In Brazil, programs organized by big companies in their effort to absorb technologies and knowledge generated by other companies are beginning to gain strength. One of these is Wayra, a startup acceleration program run by Telefônica. The initiative began in 2012 and has already selected more than 30 companies to be its partners for a ten-month period, sharing the same space in a building in the city of São Paulo. There, the owners of startups have direct contact with executives of the company, who provide consulting services in the areas of business and marketing. Many of the startups chosen by Telefônica are working on developing applications and software that are in increasing demand on the world market.
According to Carlos Pessoa, director of Wayra, Telefônica benefits in two ways. “Over the long term, by investing in startups that have innovative technological potential the company can reap a significant economic return,” he says. In the short term, Telefônica plans to reach out to find new business deals and diversify its activities in the market with technologies and services that have never been part of its portfolio. “In addition, startups can offer Telefônica preferential access to certain products and services for its internal use, before the startup begins serving other customers,” Pessoa says.
One of the companies that has set up at Wayra is Proradis, established in 2013 by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Ribeirão Preto. Specializing in the development of medical diagnostic software, the company used the program to refine a tool, based on cloud computing, that organizes and stores clinical exam data on the Internet so that it can be accessed from different locations simultaneously. “Here at Wayra, we have had contact with the day-to-day life of a big company, which has kept us informed about new administrative tools and exposed us to a larger network of clients and investors,” says Haissan Molaib, one of the partners in Proradis. Another startup selected by Wayra is BovControl, which develops software to help cattle ranchers manage data about their herds. “Telefônica facilitates our relations with potential partners or customers by promoting a favorable environment so we can grow,” says Danilo Tertuliano Leão, founding partner of BovControl.
Another company that decided to reach out to attract technological startups is Bradesco. In 2014, the bank launched InovaBra, a program featuring interaction between closed and open innovation intended to support startups that submit solutions applicable to financial services. The program will begin in 2015. The difference between the Bradesco and the Telefônica initiatives is that the bank is turning to open innovation as a means of complementing its own internal innovation process, such as developing of new technologies to improve interaction between the bank and its customers, while Telefônica is investing in startups that are not necessarily working in telecommunications. “We are thinking about our strategic horizon for the next ten years,” says Fernando Moraes de Freitas, executive manager of the economic department of Bradesco and coordinator of the InovaBra initiative.
New initiatives of this kind are also being launched by Brazilian companies that are already familiar with open innovation. One of these, Braskem, has adopted the concept as part of its innovation strategies ever since its founding in 2002. In June 2014, the company inaugurated a new biotechnology laboratory in Campinas (SP) for use in research with new raw materials. It also maintains technology centers in Triunfo (Rio Grande do Sul State) and in the United States, in Pittsburgh. Although Braskem is investing in internal laboratories, a great number of the 270 innovation projects now under way at the company are being developed openly with universities and other companies. “Investing in our own team enables us to set more specific targets and strategies with our collaborators,” explains Patrick Teyssoneyre, director of Braskem’s technological center in Triunfo.
Some partnerships recently forged by Braskem with foreign startups demonstrate that one of the merits of open innovation is that it facilitates international collaboration. One of these partnerships was established in September 2014 with the U.S. firm Amyris and the French company Michelin to develop technology for producing isoprene, a chemical compound used in the tire industry, from a renewable source. The three companies will work together to accelerate the biochemical studies that use sugars obtained from sugarcane and cellulose inputs. Amyris will share with Braskem the rights to market the renewable isoprene technology that is to be developed, while Michelin will be given a nonexclusive preferential right to access the green isoprene technology.
Gathering collaborators around a project is not just some crazy idea. Without it, many ambitious projects would hardly get off the drawing board. A prime example of this in today’s world is the Watson platform, a cognitive computation system introduced by IBM in 2011. The computer, still in development, interacts with the language of the user, has a voice, and can process large quantities of data and acquire knowledge, according to how it is used. But for that to occur, dozens of universities and startups had to be involved to help create the software able to make the computer learn specific languages and vocabularies.
In the near future, Watson could serve as an electronic manager of a bank by recommending the best investments based on a client’s personal profile. In hospitals, where it is already being used in the United States, it assists with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. “We must not underestimate the capabilities of other companies. Our partners and customers are as good as we are,” says Jean Paul Jacob, a Brazilian who is a researcher emeritus of IBM and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been living for more than 40 years. “By identifying a supplier’s talent we can solve a problem faster without having to hire that professional,” Jacob says.
Looking to suppliers for ways to differentiate themselves in the market is one of the motivations that led Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer to announce, in May 2014, an initiative for consolidating the open innovation culture in the Brazilian aerospace industry. Working with the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), the Brazilian Innovation Agency (FINEP), and the São Paulo Development Agency (Desenvolve-SP), the company launched an investment fund with initial assets of R$131.3 million to be used in supporting collaborative projects involving companies and startups in the industry with Embraer.
“If an innovation appears to be promising, the fund will contribute resources to support the company and Embraer could become a customer by incorporating those innovations in its products, services, and business operations,” says Peter Seiffert, head of the strategic planning unit at Embraer. In his opinion, knowledge generated at universities needs to be incorporated into new products and services. “Ideas must leave the academic world and enter the market so that Embraer, as a customer, can incorporate those innovations in its business,” Seiffert explains.
An historic example of how Embraer woke up to the idea of open innovation took place with its development of the ERJ-145 regional jet, achieved in a collaborative effort with four other companies. In the 1990s, work on design of the aircraft had stalled for economic reasons and could not be completed without outside help. Thanks to cooperation, the jet was introduced in 1995 and became a commercial success. Since then, other models have been developed cooperatively, but in each case the concept was developed by Embraer alone.
But it was not always so. Some years ago, Embraer creations received preferential protection under industrial secrecy rules—an approach that satisfied the need for protection during the development of a specific product. As the industry became more competitive, research became more complex, frequently requiring competencies that Embraer had not yet mastered. The company then began to build networks of knowledge within the context of pre-competitive research, i.e., research limited to basic science. In that stage, companies in the aerospace industry conducted research jointly with a specific objective—to study new materials, for example. As a project moved closer to finding an industrial application, each company internally developed its own product or technology for which it would later obtain patent protection.
This networking helped Embraer register more and more patents for product and process solutions for manufacturing in Brazil and abroad. By licensing its patents, the company expanded its sales possibilities. “The open innovation model makes intellectual property a saleable product,” explains Henry Suzuki, an intellectual property consultant. He cites as example the Fraunhofer Institute, in Germany, founded to handle the technological needs of companies in Europe. The knowledge generated from a partnership with one company is licensed to other companies to resolve common problems.
In Brazil, one of the examples that illustrates this practice is the partnership between Petrobras and Pipeway, a Brazilian company that makes and operates tools for inspection of oil and gas pipelines in order to identify dents, corrosion, and leaks. In 1998, researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Petrobras Research Center (Cenpes) developed a new pipeline management tool. Until then, the service had been contracted out to foreign companies that charged high fees for it.
Although it had developed the technology, Petrobras was not in a position to execute the service internally. The company then decided to license the technology developed with the university to the researchers themselves, who then founded Pipeway. “The company became a Petrobras supplier and, besides providing the service, perfected new solutions based on the original design,” recalls engineer Ivan Janvrot, vice president of Pipeway and a retired Cenpes researcher.
Today, open innovation is present in various research projects being carried out by Pipeway. One of them was recently completed in partnership with the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), with support from FINEP, to develop equipment that maps the trajectory of an underground pipeline and integrates the information with Google Earth.
Until the 1970s, Petrobras did research in conjunction with other companies, especially in developing refining technologies. With the discovery of sizeable petroleum reserves in deep waters of the Campos Basin in the 1980s, Petrobras began to intensify that cooperation. The reason was the need to develop technologies for operating in deep water, since the basin is more than 1,000 meters deep and, at the time, no proven technologies were available for extracting petroleum under those conditions. “We made a strategic decision not to develop everything ourselves but to establish networks of domestic and foreign partnerships,” says José Paulo Silveira, associate director of Macroplan, a consultant to companies in the field of open innovation. He had been superintendent of Cenpes for Petrobras in the 1980s. In the case of the deep water program for the Campos basin, 109 projects were carried out with 61 Brazilian and 42 foreign partners over the course of six years. A total of $70 million was invested in projects. “The scale of the effort made it a pioneer in open innovation here in Brazil,” says Silveira.Republish | <urn:uuid:050631e1-6ceb-4cf4-99ae-4ab8e2d2c2a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/collective-creativity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964924 | 3,358 | 2.34375 | 2 |
While in school, you can either choose to write your own papers or have a custom paper writing service platform write it for you. When someone else writes your essay, then it is only fair that you get to know the person or know a few tricks to help you choose the right person. So, here are a few tips to help you choose the best and right person to write your paper.
Ask Friends and Those around You
The first mistake you can make when you decide to use a writing platform is to think you know what is best for you. It is true that you may know what you want or need. But, finding the person to deliver what you need can be a problem. You need to learn from other people’s experiences. So, ask those around you and your friends about the best writers or platforms around. Kenny Gill a senior advisor and writer in the department of customessayorder says that chances are that you will find at least one person with some information that you can use. So, ask around and use whatever information you receive.
Reviews are a way for clients to share their thoughts about the services they receive from custom essay writing platforms. These contain a lot of truth and can offer one a clearer insight into a service. Here, you will find clients’ complaints and praises and from these, you can make a better decision.
You need to avoid a platform that does not have any reviews. Others also seem to have positive reviews only. Remember that there is no service that has a perfect record. At one time or another, a service will receive a complaint from a client. So, even as you read reviews, take them with a pinch of salt and only accept the ones that seem real.
Avoid Cheap Platforms
Before you make a decision to use a platform, compare their prices. It is normal for people to choose the cheaper option. However, as many come to realize, this may not always be the best option. Cheap as many say is expensive, and if you are new to using writing services, you need to be careful.
With cheaper options, you cannot make certain demands. When you seek writing help, you need a service that will be ready to give you the best quality. So, going cheap may not work to your advantage.
Request Writing Samples
How else will you know what to expect from a writing service if you do not have access to a few samples? The platform you choose has to be ready to give you samples which you can read to help determine whether you will receive the quality you want. Darren Barden a writing coach at Write My Essay For Me says that you should not work with a service that is not willing to show you a few of their papers. Often, a platform that is not willing to share their files is trying to hide something. So, if there is no response to your request, find another.
Request for Proof of Specialization
The writers you work with have to be specialists or else you will end up with a paper that does not meet your requirements. By specialists, we mean that the writers have to know how to interpret your instructions and follow whichever guidelines you provide. Also, they have to know what different fields expect. A platform that considers itself the best online writing service needs to have writers with different fields of specialization. A person with a rich background should handle your chemistry or engineering or law paper. So, request proof of specialization before you decide to work with a platform.
24/7 Customer Service is Non-negotiable
Whenever you need essay writing help, one guarantee from the platform should be that there is 24/7 customer service. This should be non-negotiable. A platform that claims to care about its clients, needs to have a channel of communication that is open at all times. Here is where you channel your complaints and concerns. You can also use the customer service platform to inquire about the progress of your paper. This is the only connection you have with your writer. So, it is a non-negotiable feature that you have to make sure is available.
Know the Guarantees
Every writing platform has a few guarantees they offer clients. There are some that are universal and some that are specific to a platform. Some of the universal guarantees include free revisions and the money-back guarantee. Platforms that offer these are confident in themselves and the quality they offer clients. Others will go a step further and say they will attach a plagiarism report for you. Christopher Mansfield a content writer at Perfect Essay reports that these guarantees are important, and you have to be wary of them every time you seek writing help online.
In conclusion, heed to the tips above and you will avoid making the same mistakes others are making. Writing services that offer custom essay papers will promise you heaven. However, only a few can deliver this heaven. So, take your time before you decide to work with a writer.
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A Rutgers Scientist’s Third Act: a Documentary on AIDS
Helen Berman helps create film showing how science saves lives.
She’s a renowned scholar whose work in the field of structural biology has helped advance human health and influence science research and education.
But Helen Berman, a longtime Rutgers University professor, will be the first to admit that the impact her field has had on medical science remains largely unknown to the public, even though that impact includes monumental breakthroughs, such as treatment for AIDS.
“Nobody has any idea why you would want to know about a molecule,” says Berman, who co-founded and managed the Protein Data Bank. “But we know now that understanding the interactions of these molecules can sometimes mean the difference between life and death.”
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An informative—and joyous!—course for early childhood educators, parents, grandparents, eldercare-givers, and anyone interested in puppet play
Puppetry creates an opening for magic in both the watcher and the puppet story teller. It nourishes the senses, creates connection, and requires unique participation on the part of the audience; the more we believe the more real it becomes! Puppetry can be as uncomplicated as tucking a simple handkerchief over the hand or as elaborate as manipulating a many-tiered harness tied with multiple strings. But one look into the eyes of a rapt audience filled with children and the “young at heart,” and the certainty exists that puppetry speaks to everyone.
In this course, led by a master puppeteer, you will explore the roots of puppetry, create and bring to life beautiful yet simple puppets, explore their use in seasonal puppet storytelling, and discover ways to bring puppet delight to home life. When possible, we will create and share puppetry in peaceful outdoor campus settings.
Our experience will be filled with musical exploration using simple percussive instruments, the pentatonic lyre, choroi flutes, enchanting melodies, and simple harmonies (bring your favorite songs). Eurythmy sessions will deepen your puppetry journey as we joyfully explore archetypal characters and storytelling with gesture.
For those of you who have worked with Connie previously, this is your chance to further deepen your work; for those of you who haven’t yet met Connie, this is a wonderful opportunity. No prior experience is necessary. Bring your questions and your sense of wonder!
Connie Manson has taught Waldorf nursery, kindergarten, and parent-child programs for two decades and currently teaches kindergarten and music in the grades at the Suncoast Waldorf School (FL). The founder of Starlite Puppets, Connie has shared the magic of puppetry and music as a professional storyteller/puppeteer through many workshops for parents, performing artists, and teachers of young children in Waldorf schools and training centers nationwide (you can catch a video of Connie discussing her work here). She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts and earned a master’s degree in education from the Waldorf Institute of Sunbridge College.
Sunday: 5:30-6:30pm registration; 6:30-7pm optional campus tour; 7pm opening session/first class
Monday-Wednesday: Classes begin each day between 8-8:30am and run through 5:30-6pm, with times for break and lunch
$480 (includes all materials and non-refundable $45 registration fee)
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Our previous articles covered audit trends we have noticed at Sovos and common triggers of a VAT audit. This article discusses the best practices on how to prepare for a VAT audit.
Each country and jurisdiction may have different laws and requirements related to the VAT audit process. Tax authorities can carry out audits in person or by correspondence, the latter often being the case for non-established businesses in the country in question.
A business may be audited at random or because there are reasons for the tax authority to believe that there is a problem with the company’s VAT return.
Generally speaking, authorities use audits and inspections to verify the accuracy of taxpayers’ declarations, identify possible errors or underpayments, and approve refunds.
As discussed in our previous article, to understand how to best prepare for a VAT audit, it’s essential to identify the reason why the audit was initiated.
Although specific checklists are available depending on the country of the audit, there are several actions that a business can carry out to prepare for an VAT audit. The most important of which is to collect documents and answers in advance. Frequently requested items during an audit include:
It is important that records of the above-listed documents, where applicable, are kept in line with local record keeping requirements. The need to prepare these documents in advance and the ability to produce them quickly becomes essential when a company is, for example, due to request the refund of VAT credits, to submit a de-registration or has, in general, any reason to expect for an audit to be initiated.
Authorities can open a cross check of activities with the company’s customers and suppliers, which will be initiated in parallel to the audit to verify that the information provided from both sides is consistent. Therefore, it is recommended to inform suppliers about any ongoing audit, communicate any questions or clarify outstanding queries. If, for example, a correction of invoices appears to be necessary, these should be finalised already in preparation for the VAT audit.
The tax authorities may impose very short and strict deadlines once an audit is initiated. Although it may be possible to request an extension, it is not necessarily guaranteed to be granted. In certain circumstances, authorities may impose penalties for late responses. Providing a clear and understandable set of documents to the tax office queries is essential to avoid any detrimental effects.
The advantages of preparing for a VAT audit can be summarised as follows:
Whether a business decides to handle the audit in-house or request the support of an external advisor, it is essential to consider the consequences of the audit, especially if high amounts of VAT to recover are at stake. In the event of an audit, the main objective should be to resolve it successfully and quickly, limiting as much as possible any detrimental impact to the business.
The most recent update to the Portuguese Stamp Duty system has included some of the most comprehensive tax reporting changes seen in recent years. Stamp Duty is the oldest tax in Portugal and has been around since the Royal Decree in 1660. Considering its age, updates to bring it in line with the global standard of tax reporting were much needed. Although the tax rates within Portugal have remained unchanged, the reporting process to incorporate the provincial liabilities within one return has been greatly appreciated.
The additional information that insurers are obliged to collect, disclose and submit in their Stamp Duty Declaration is as follows:
It’s important to note that the ability to offset taxes relating to previous periods has been revoked by Law Decree no. 119/2019, which allowed insurers to report reduced tax amounts for overpaid liabilities. The modifications to the reporting procedure enable companies to amend previous periods through their internal system. Consequently, this permits adjustments to prior periods and the reclaiming of overdeclared liabilities directly from the Portuguese tax authority. It is our understanding that reclaims will be reimbursed to the client two months after an amended return is submitted.
Sovos has developed a unique relationship with the Portuguese tax authority, allowing for comprehensive reporting between Sovos systems and the Portuguese API. The reporting procedure can confirm validated IDs to ease data validation and reporting. This collaborative process has allowed Sovos to provide our customers with a smoother and more fluid submission process for Stamp Duty reporting.
To understand more about Portugal’s Stamp Duty and how it impacts your IPT compliance, get in touch with our team of experts.
Learn more about the latest rates, rules and regulation of Insurance Premium Tax in our e-book, IPT Compliance – A Guide for Insurers.
There are many taxes (IPT) and parafiscal charges levied on insurance premiums throughout Europe. As a consequence of the lack of tax harmonisation, no general rules can be applied to establish which taxes exist in which countries and how to calculate the correct IPT amounts.
Some insurers do not have a dedicated IPT team; this is usually the case with smaller insurers. This could lead to IPT miscalculation and can trigger penalties. Without the proper and up-to-date knowledge, it is easy to be lost in the rules and regulations.
The following blog gives an overview of the tax calculation methods highlighting some unique elements of the IPT calculation.
There are two basic tax calculation methods in the European IPT world
In the first instance, there is a tax rate. For example in Bulgaria (2%) businesses can easily determine the tax amount by multiplying the taxable basis with this tax rate. Fortunately, several IPT calculations are based on this so-called basic rate model.
While in the second case, the local regulations determine the tax amount which needs to be settled on the insurance policies. Irish Stamp Duty can be mentioned as an example.
One can say that this is not rocket science. Furthermore, it is easy. These calculation models are just the basics. IPT regulations are built on these basic models adding several specific rules making the IPT calculations fairly complex. Here are some examples of these specific rules:
To add further colour to this topic, we can mention that reversing a policy line in the calculation does not always result in the same tax amount in a negative position. The best example is Malta, where the same amount of Stamp Duty is not refunded when the policy is cancelled after the cooling-off period. Instead of getting back the same stamp duty paid, an additional EUR 2.33 Stamp duty is triggered if certain conditions are met.
Although this is a unique regulation this highlights that when it comes to reversing a policy line, it is strongly recommended to check the rules beforehand and clarify whether or not the negative IPT can be offset or reclaimed and adjust the calculation method accordingly.
IPT calculation requires detailed knowledge of the rules and regulations. Sovos has a dedicated team of compliance experts to walk you through even the most challenging calculations. Contact our team today.
In 2019, the Portuguese government enacted Law Decree n. 28/2019, introducing a full reform of the rules concerning the issuance, processing and archiving of invoices, with the main goals of implementing electronic invoicing, simplifying compliance for taxpayers and reducing the VAT gap.
The expanded scope of those obliged to use a billing software certified by the Portuguese Tax Authority, the inclusion of a QR code and a sequential unique number code (ATCUD – código único de documento) and the stricter integrity and authenticity requirements when issuing invoices and other relevant fiscal documents were some of the most impactful mandates introduced by this law.
However, many taxpayers struggled to comply with the new requirements. As such, the tax authority has delayed the launch of different components of the Decree, and some of them remain to be implemented.
In a recent Ministerial Decision from 26 May 2022, the goal line for implementing the stricter integrity and authenticity requirement, this article’s focal point, has been moved yet again, now to 1 January 2023.
The Decree from 2019 established that in order to guarantee the requirements of authenticity and integrity of electronic invoices and other relevant fiscal documents have been met (per article 233 of the EU VAT Directive 2006/112/EC), taxpayers must use a qualified electronic signature, a qualified electronic seal (QES) or an electronic data exchange system (EDI) with security measures per the European Model EDI Agreement. This change is important as it limits the choice of compliance methods generally recognised within the EU to one between only QES and EDI.
To achieve this goal, the Decree determined that taxpayers would only be able to use previously accepted advanced electronic signatures or seals (the lower level of signature security) until 31 December 2020. After that, all invoices would be required to incorporate a qualified signature or seal or be issued through EDI.
The original deadline for implementing the stricter integrity and authenticity requirements has been postponed many times. The first delay was ordained through Despacho n. 437/2020-XXII of 9 November 2020 of the State Secretary for Fiscal Matters (SEAF – Secretário de Estado dos Assuntos Fiscais). According to this, PDF invoices without a QES would be accepted until 31 March 2021 and considered electronic invoices for all fiscal purposes.
Since then, the mandate has been postponed four additional times, with the last one taking place on 26 May 2022, by Despacho n. 49/2022-XXIII of the SEAF. According to this act, PDF invoices with no specific security measures must be recognised as electronic invoices for fiscal effects until 31 December 2022, instead of the previously established date, 30 June 2022.
Therefore, from 1 January 2023, taxpayers covered by Law Decree n. 28/2019 must comply with the requirement to ensure authenticity and integrity either by applying a Qualified Electronic Signature/Seal or by using “EDI by-the-book” (EDI under the European Model EDI Agreement).
Besides the stricter authenticity and integrity requirement, taxpayers must be ready to comply with additional new invoicing mandates underway in Portugal. On 1 July 2022, it will be required to only use structured electronic invoices in CIUS-PT format for B2G transactions. The B2G mandatory e-invoicing is already under implementation through a phased roll-out. It is set to be finalised and become compulsory for small and medium companies and microenterprises on 1 July 2022. Furthermore, the inclusion of the ATCUD code on invoices and other fiscal relevant documents, which has also been previously postponed, is set to become mandatory on 1 January 2023.
Need to ensure compliance with the latest e-invoicing requirements in Portugal? Get in touch with Sovos’ tax experts.
Since becoming the first EU country to make electronic invoicing mandatory through a clearance process in 2019, Italy has kept a steady pace in improving its continuous transaction controls (CTC) system to close the gaps in VAT compliance.
Over recent years, Italy has gradually expanded its system by introducing various mandates. The following changes reflect the government’s efforts to tie up loose ends and assert more far-reaching control mechanisms to achieve an efficient and well-rounded system.
The changes listed below become effective on 1 July 2022, with some already available on a voluntary basis and others allowing a short grace period for adjustment.
The retirement of the tax reporting scheme, Esterometro, will require Italian taxpayers to report all cross-border transactions through the Sistema di Interscambio (SDI). Since the clearance of cross-border invoices is not within the Italian CTC system’s scope, this is a clear step towards centralisation.
Taxpayers may continue to exchange invoices in any agreed way, including the FatturaPA format. The reporting, however, must be done through the SDI using the FatturaPA format. This has been optional since January 2022.
Italy has recently expanded the scope of its e-invoicing mandate bringing in new groups of taxpayers:
A short grace period has been established from 1 July 2022 until 30 September 2022. During this period these taxpayers may issue e-invoices within the following month from when they carried out the transaction without any penalties being applied.
The new mandate also states that microenterprises with revenues or fees up to €25,000 per year will be required to issue and clear e-invoices with the SDI, but this only starts in January 2024.
Following the Italian CTC mandate, Italy and San Marino began negotiations to accommodate invoice exchange between the two countries through the more modern clearance-based system, which requires taxpayers to issue and clear e-invoices using the FatturaPA format. This was established by creating a “four-corner” model with the Italian SDI as the access point for Italian taxpayers and the HUB-SM platform as the SDI counterpart on San Marino’s side.
The mandate covers the sale of goods shipped to San Marino for taxpayers who are residents, established or identified in Italy. For sales of goods to Italy, an e-invoice must be issued by the economic operators with identification attributed to them by the Republic of San Marino. A significant effect of this mandate is that the reporting obligations through Esterometro will come to an end.
The voluntary transition phase started in October 2021.
The start of the second semester of 2022 will bring significant changes, and taxpayers have limited time to conform as July approaches. Understanding how these new requirements can affect your company will ensure compliance and avoid unnecessary mistakes.
Speak to our team if you have any questions about the latest e-invoicing requirements in Italy. Sovos has more than a decade of experience keeping clients up to date with e-invoicing mandates all over the world.
Saudi Arabia´s e-invoicing system is being rolled out in two phases; the second phase’s requirements differ from the first phase. The first phase started as of 4 December 2021 for all resident taxable persons. The second phase will go live on 1 January 2023, and the impacted taxpayer group has not yet been announced. However, the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) has made considerable progress in kicking off phase 2.
Phase 2 will introduce a Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) regime in which e-invoices, electronic credit and debit notes will be transmitted to the ZATCA platform in real-time. A clearance regime is prescribed for B2B invoices, while B2C invoices must be reported to the tax authority platform within 24 hours of issuance. Therefore, ZATCA was expected to introduce its e-invoicing platform well in advance of the launch of phase 2.
As expected, the ZATCA recently announced the launch of an E-Invoicing Developer Portal (Sandbox). Users will use the Sandbox to simulate the integration with ZATCA’s platform and can access details on the APIs and other requirements through this platform upon registration.
ZATCA has proposed specific changes to e-invoicing rules. The proposed changes are under public consultation and interested parties may submit their feedback until 10 June 2022.
The changes aim to clarify some requirements (e.g. Cryptographic Stamp, hash, counter etc.) rather than introducing new ones.
The last clarifying changes to the e-invoicing rules are underway, and the developer portal has been launched. We’re now expecting ZATCA’s announcement of the taxpayer groups in the scope of the mandate and expect it to happen at least six months before the go-live date. As the ZATCA plans to roll out phase 2, there will be different timelines for different taxpayer groups. We expect this information within the coming months.
Need to ensure compliance with the latest CTC requirements in Saudi Arabia? Get in touch with Sovos’ team of tax experts.
In an effort to combat VAT fraud, Israel is undergoing a tax reform. Currently under an EU-based post-audit approach, Israeli authorities have announced their ambition to move towards the more Latin American-style of continuous transaction controls (CTCs) where invoices are approved prior to their issuance. The details of the proposed system, as well as a timeline for roll-out, have yet to be published.
Israel is currently in the process of moving away from a post-audit approach to VAT. We expect to learn more about the details of the new CTC regime in the near future.
Our experts continually monitor, interpret and codify complex legal and technical changes into our software solutions, keeping you up-to-date and reducing the compliance burden on your tax and IT teams. Learn how Sovos’ VAT solutions help companies stay compliant in Israel and around the world.
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We spoke to Hooda Greig, compliance services manager about ways insurers can make the Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) process more efficient.
I lead an IPT team that delivers compliance services in Europe. I oversee the day-to-day management and delivery of IPT compliance for an extensive portfolio of global clients. We are the first point of contact between Sovos and our clients. My focus is ensuring all tax requirements for the clients are met, that is filing and paying their liabilities to the various territories they are registered in. I also work closely with other departments within our company, particularly our consulting team to assist with more technical aspects of IPT compliance.
Modernising the tax process will help insurers operate efficiently. There are still many insurers reliant on manual reporting methods for IPT. Strategic management of the end-to-end process is key to improving efficiencies, with a focus on managing risks by investing in digitization. Tax technology tools will make compliance for insurers simple, as will collaborating with tax teams with specialised IPT knowledge at a local level.
My top tip to manage risk is the use of tax technology. Tax authorities are introducing more demanding reporting requirements and digitization of filing and reporting processes can result in efficiency, accuracy, and cost reductions.
Efficiency, accuracy, and the costs of getting it wrong are concerns for insurers. The consequences of IPT non-compliance are not limited to statutory or legal penalties, the indirect costs to insurers are often more significant, the cost of correcting a mistake and non-compliance could also have an impact on the company’s reputation. Tax authorities are becoming more stringent in their reporting requirements. It’s important for insurers to work closely with a managed services team to help meet all their tax obligations and in preparation for future IPT requirements to ensure compliance now and in the future.
To minimise risks, we’re seeing an increasing number of insurers looking to technology solutions to change the way they operate. Sovos’ mission is to solve tax for good and we specialise in tax technology and data analysis with specialised knowledge at a local level, ensuring insurers’ compliance requirements are met. Keeping abreast of all regulatory changes can be difficult, Sovos issues regular tax alerts, newsletters and hosts webinars to keep clients up to date with the latest IPT updates.
Have questions about IPT compliance? Speak to our experts or download our e-book, Indirect Tax Rules for Insurance Across the World.
It’s no surprise that inflation is on the forefront of everyone’s mind, with prices continuing to sky-rocket month by month. Data from the United Kingdom shows that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation jumped to a 40-year high of 9% in the past 12 months. Governments around the world are looking for ways to reduce the burden for consumers to keep global economies afloat. One method – implementing VAT rate cuts to certain goods and services – looks to be coming out on top as multiple countries around the world announced emergency budget sessions or introduced proposals to temporarily cut VAT rates.
Temporary VAT rate cuts are generally quick and easy to implement, which is why they are favored by governments globally. These cuts essentially allow for a boost to the economy by providing consumers with an overall higher amount to spend, incentivizing consumers to spend now while rates are lower.
As expected, many countries have already announced VAT rate cuts or measures to stimulate their economies:
Additional countries such as Estonia, Netherlands, Latvia, Greece, and Turkey are also taking measures to implement VAT rate cuts to fight the ever-rising costs for consumers.
These VAT rate cuts coincide with new measures passed recently by the European Commission allowing Member States to apply reduced rates to more items, including food. Though many Member States seem to be moving towards taking advantage of this new flexibility on VAT rate reductions, it’s expected that as costs continue to rise more Member States and countries around the world will introduce VAT rate cuts to ensure consumer spending doesn’t continue to trend downward.
Since many audits seem to occur at random, it’s not always possible to identify the reason why a tax office would decide to initiate one.
We’ve previously spoken about an increased interest in audits from the EU and audits for e-commerce. This article covers the most common reasons behind a VAT audit to help businesses anticipate and prepare for one when possible.
There are specific “trigger” events among the most common reasons that could cause further queries from the tax office. Generally speaking, these are changes in the company’s status such as a new registration, a de-registration, or structural changes within the company.
VAT refund requests also fall into this category. In some countries (Italy and Spain, for example) a refund request is almost certainly a reason for an audit to be initiated since the local tax office cannot release the funds before checks are completed. In this case, the likelihood of an audit increases when a refund is particularly substantial and the business requesting it is newly VAT registered. However, it doesn’t mean that the tax authority will not initiate an audit if the amount requested in a refund is relatively small.
Certain types of businesses are naturally more subject to audits due to their structure and business model. Groups commonly selected for scrutiny include, for example, large companies, exporters, retailers and dealers in high-volume goods. Therefore, elements such as a high number of transactions, high amounts involved and complexity of the business structure could be another common reason for an investigation to be initiated by the local tax authorities.
Tax authorities often identify individual taxpayers based on past compliance and how their information compares with specific risk parameters. This would include comparing previous data and trading patterns with other businesses in the same sector. Therefore, unusual patterns of trading, discrepancies between input and output VAT reported, and many refund requests may appear unusual from the tax office perspective and give rise to questions.
Another common reason for the tax authorities to request further information from taxpayers is the so-called “cross check of activities”. In this case, either a business supplier or client is likely to be subjected to an audit. The tax office will contact their counterparts to verify that the information provided is consistent on both sides. For example, if a business is being audited following its refund request, the tax office will likely contact the suppliers to verify the audited company didn’t cancel the purchase invoices and that they have been paid.
This category also includes cross checking activities on Intra-Community transactions reported by a business. In this scenario, the cross check would be based on information exchanges between local tax authorities through the VAT information exchange system (VIES). The tax authorities can check Intra-Community transactions reported to and from specific VAT numbers in each EU Member State and then cross check this information with what has been reported by a business on their respective VAT return. If any discrepancy arises, the tax office will likely contact the business to ask why they have (or haven’t) reported the transactions declared by their counterparts.
As we’ve already seen in an earlier article, audit triggers are also influenced by changes in legislation or shifts in the tax authorities’ attention to specific business sectors.
Regardless of whether it’s possible to identify the actual reason the tax authority initiated an audit, a business can undertake several actions in preparation for a check of activities, which will be covered in the next article of this series.
Romania is introducing a mandatory e-transport system from 1 July 2022 to monitor the transport of certain goods in the national territory, an initiative that will operate in parallel with the newly launched continuous transaction controls (CTCs) system for e-invoicing. This means that in a little over a month’s time, the issuance of an e-transport document will be mandatory for transportation of certain goods within Romania. In this blog, you will find answers to frequently asked questions related to this new system.
The Romanian e-transport system monitors the transport of goods on the national territory categorised as high risk from a fiscal perspective.
This includes the following:
In addition to the transportation type, the categories of road vehicles in scope were recently published in a draft order by the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) as follows:
The transportation of high fiscal risk goods will not be declared in Romania’s e-transport system if the transportation doesn’t fall within the scope described above.
ANAF had already established a list of high fiscal risk products and used the same criteria to determine the scope of the e-invoicing system (E-Factura). Although that list partially overlaps with the list for the e-transport system, there are differences.
The product categories of high fiscal risk products for the e-transport system are as follows:
If the transportation includes both goods with high fiscal risk and other goods that aren’t in the category of high fiscal risk, the whole transportation must be declared in the Romanian e-transport system.
It will be operational through the Virtual Private Space (SPV), which is the tax authority portal used for tax purposes, including the Romanian e-invoicing system. The system can either be used through API or through a free application provided by the Ministry of Finance.
According to the regulation, taxpayers will declare the transportation by transmitting an XML file in the e-transport system a maximum of three calendar days before the start of the transport, in advance of the movement of goods from one location to another. Following the transmission, the system will perform some checks (structure, syntax, and semantics), and the Ministry of Finance will apply its signature confirming receipt of the declaration.
The system will generate a unique code (ITU code) if the XML file complies with the requirements and make it available to the taxpayer in a zip archive file with the signature of the Ministry of Finance. This code must accompany the goods in physical or electronic format with the transport document to enable the competent authorities to verify the declaration and the goods while enroute.
The ITU code is valid for five calendar days, starting with the date declared when the transport begins. It’s prohibited to use the ITU code once it has expired.
The declaration will include the following:
Noncompliance with the rules relating to the e-transport system will result in a fine reaching Leu 50,000 (approx. €10,000) for individuals and Leu 100,000 (approx. €20,000) for legal persons. In addition, the value of undeclared goods will be confiscated.
What happens next?
Most of the regulations have been finalised although the approval process of the recently published draft order, technical documentation, APIs, and the e-transport system website are not yet available to taxpayers. As the system is currently due to become mandatory on 1 July 2022, businesses in Romania need to either prepare for last-minute implementation once the outstanding documentation is published or expect a postponement.
Continuing our series on VAT audits, we take a closer look at the trends we’ve seen emerging in the activities of the EU Member States’ independent tax administrations throughout the European Union.
In a recent report from the European Commission (EC) specific guidelines were published not only on best practices but also on how EU Member States can harmonise the focus of their VAT audit projects. We’ve seen a significant shift away from scrutiny of historically complex businesses in sectors such as automotive and chemicals to the other sectors such as online retailers and distance selling.
The report released by the EC in April noted that there should be a conscious effort from the local tax authorities to increase the efficiency of audit practices and outcomes, by indicating how complex projects can be directed to solve industry specific issues.
Speaking about EU Member States they noted:
“They should also put in place more complex audit projects (for specific groups of taxpayers, an industry or a line of business such as retail, to address a particular risk or to establish the degree of non-compliance in a particular sector) and perform comprehensive audits and fraud investigations.”
We’ve seen this already happening in some countries, such as the Netherlands and Germany, with a greater shift towards auditing of previously neglected companies in the e-commerce industry as a result of Brexit and the E-commerce VAT Package implemented in July 2021. Our own audit team here at Sovos has seen a 45% increase in audits opened on our e-commerce clients in the second half of the year – driven both by changing activity post-Brexit and the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) regime commencing.
Looking in more detail at different tax administrations’ approach to auditing, we’ve observed a greater focus in VAT refund audits in the Netherlands, whilst Germany has scrutinised e-commerce retailers on more specific matters. These polarisations both reflect the individual interests of EU Member States and also the activities of the businesses operating across the EU, but it’s clear that the tax administrations in all countries are taking note of the importance of conducting audits to close the VAT gap.
It’s recommended to involve administrative agencies and governmental bodies to assist with the more complex audit projects embarked upon by EU Member States. With changes to how goods move cross-border between the United Kingdom and the EU taking centre stage in 2021 there has been an increased importance placed on the information transfer between customs offices and their tax administration counterparts. As mentioned earlier, the implementation of the OSS regime has led to a greater shift in the reporting of e-commerce businesses operating in the EU and the impact on the audit process is yet to be revealed.
It’s clear that the major shifts in the VAT landscape in 2021 created a different set of challenges for businesses and tax administrations but encouraging accurate record keeping is still a central goal of most EU Member States. In our next article in this VAT audit series we’ll explore the common triggers of a VAT audit.
Need help ensuring compliance ahead of a VAT audit? Get in touch to discuss your VAT compliance needs.
France is known for its challenging Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) filing system. Understanding which tax authorities you need to register with, file with and talk to when you have questions is essential to meeting your business’s IPT compliance obligations. In this blog, we identify France’s IPT tax authorities and explain what makes IPT so different in this European country.
There are three different tax bodies in France in charge of collecting IPT. They are the Business Tax Department (Service des Impôts des Entreprises) (SIE), the Compulsory Damage Insurance Guarantee Fund (Fonds de Garantie des Assurances Obligatoires de Dommages) (FGaO), and the Union for the Collection of Social Security Contributions and Family Allowances (Union de Recouvrement des Cotisations de Sécurité sociale et D’allocations Familiales) (URSSAF).
Dealing with France’s tax authorities can be challenging, especially once an insurance company obtains authorisation from the Prudential Control and Resolution Authority (Autorite de Controle Prudentiel et de Resolution) (ACPR).
Have questions about IPT compliance? Speak to our experts or download our e-book, Indirect Tax Rules for Insurance Across the World.
In a recent blog, we considered the upcoming changes to the VAT treatment of virtual events. Today, we will consider some of the issues that may arise.
Many hosts currently use the available educational or fundraising exemptions, especially where the delegates are private individuals without the right of deduction, e.g., doctors. For events with physical attendance the host must consider the rules of the Member State where the event is held since that is where the VAT is due.
Under the new rules, a VAT exemption will be less relevant for B2B virtual events where the reverse charge applies as the attendee assesses the charge to tax themselves. However, it will remain relevant where delegates are unable to apply the reverse charge and unable to deduct the VAT charged – e.g. doctors. In such circumstances VAT is due where the doctor normally resides and that is where the exemption must be considered.
These new rules may require the host to assess the availability of the exemption in several Member States and may also require multiple ruling requests to be submitted. This is likely to increase operating costs substantially, and the (unintended) consequence could be that exemptions are not considered to the detriment of delegates.
Many future events are likely to include virtual attendees since it increases overall attendance at an event, requiring the host to manage two invoicing regimes. There could be issues where one taxpayer has both physical and virtual attendees. In this case, the host will need to issue two invoices – one with local VAT for the physical attendance (and where the exemption may apply) and one where VAT is due in the customer’s Member State and the general reverse charge may apply. The attendance of B2C delegates will further increase this complexity for the host.
What happens if a delegate is invoiced for physical attendance, but changes to virtual attendance at the last minute?
When the host provides the login details for virtual attendance, this may change the place of supply. If the place of supply changes, the host must cancel the original invoice and issue a new invoice with the amended VAT treatment.
Where a host currently holds an event with virtual admission for non-taxable EU delegates (e.g. doctors) then the place of supply is where the supplier is established. For a host established outside the EU, no EU VAT is due (ignoring the possibility of use and enjoyment), and it is also likely that no local VAT is due in the host’s own country.
Implementation of the new rules will mean that the host must charge VAT in the Member State where the doctor normally resides. This will not only result in unrecoverable VAT for the doctor but will also increase the compliance costs of the host. Virtually attending such an event in 2025 may become significantly more expensive than in previous years.
The article governing the transposition of these changes requires Member States to “adopt and publish” the necessary laws, regulations etc., by 31 December 2024. The changes will then apply from 1 January 2025.
Member States must not break rank and apply these rules before this date. A situation where some Member States adopt and apply the rules early could lead to double taxation, particularly in B2C transactions.
Once the rules are in force on 1 January 2025, several issues could arise. What happens for an event in January 2025 where delegates must pay for admission ahead of time in 2024? Where is VAT accounted for, and under which rules?
For B2B, there should be no issue since the service remains a general rule, but there is a real issue for non-taxable delegates, e.g. doctors.
For example, a US host holds an event where a German doctor will attend virtually. The event is in January 2025, but the delegate must pay the admission fee by 30 November 2024 to secure a place. Under current rules, applicable in 2024, the place of supply is where the supplier is established, so no VAT is due on the invoice. But when the event happens in January 2025, the new rules say that German VAT is due.
The time of supply rules are not affected by these changes but could a tax authority seek to change these to increase its tax revenue? For example, Greek VAT law says that the tax point is when the event takes place – not when the invoice is issued/payment received. So, in the above example, Greek VAT would be due for a Greek B2C delegate.
When considering the taxation of virtual events, the new rules state that in view of the digital transformation of the economy, it should be possible for Member States to provide the same treatment of live-streamed activities, including events, as those which are eligible for reduced rates when attended in person. To enable this, the annex detailing which services can benefit from a reduced rate will be amended to include admission to:
This change means that events that are live streamed can benefit from a reduced VAT rate. Though the changes to the place of supply rules refer to “virtual attendance” for B2B and “streamed or made virtually available” for B2C.
Are we to assume that “virtual attendance” = “live streamed”? But “streaming” can be live or recorded. Do these changes also cause an issue for VAT rate determination?
If a delegate watches an event live, then a reduced rate is possible. If the same event is watched via downloading a recording later, then the reduced rate is not possible. If one fee gives a delegate the right to attend the event virtually and download the event for future reference, then the concept of a mixed supply may be relevant.
A recent report released by the European Commission has stressed the need for Member States to increase the number of audits they undertake, particularly in e-commerce businesses. The European Commission specifically highlighted the need for Malta, Austria and France to make additional efforts to improve their value-added tax audit practices. They highlighted the seriousness of the issue and that the consequences of inaccurate VAT reporting can be severe. VAT audits, therefore, promote accurate reporting and mitigate fraud, and as such, they are being encouraged by the Commission.
The European Commission specifically stated that tax authorities should have a strategic approach which must observe multiple elements, including:
The report notes some of the positive actions taken by Member States. Generally, they pay close attention to the audit process, with Finland and Sweden highlighted as particularly good. Furthermore, the report notes that some Member States have established special “VAT task forces” to deal with audits.
Following this report, the European Commission also announced that Norway should be authorised to participate in joint audits with their counterparts in the EU as a further measure to crack down on fraud.
E-commerce is a good example of an area that continues to grow, with the VAT stake ever increasing. With tax authorities globally struggling to keep pace with new technology and consumer offerings, local tax authorities are implementing further measures to ensure that fraud is combatted at an EU-wide level. Whether further changes occur through a difference in how VAT is reported or new forms of reporting such as continuous transaction controls (CTCs) that are in place in some Member States already, VAT audits are at the heart of this strategic plan. In this report, the European Commission has clarified that the approach and scope of audits should be extended.
With increased Member States co-operation and new measures adopted by the European Commission, such as the implementing regulation that provides details on how payment providers should start providing harmonised data to tax authorities from 2024, businesses should ensure that they have adequate controls in place to be able to handle any audit request. Future blogs in this series will focus on the audit trends we’ve noticed at Sovos and how businesses should prepare for an audit.
For more information about how Sovos’ VAT Managed Services can help ease your business’s VAT compliance burden, contact our team today.
The Belgian taxation landscape can be challenging for insurers if they are not well versed in the rules and requirements for ongoing compliance. Belgium ranks as one of the somewhat trickier countries to deal with in the Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) sphere with a plethora of different taxes due dependant on the class of business as well as IPT prepayment requirements.
There are two different tax bodies Belgium insurers should be aware of: the Service Public Fédéral Finances which covers IPT and the National Institute for Health & Disability (INAMI) which covers a vast range of parafiscal charges.
The standard rate of IPT in Belgium is 9.25% which is due on the total amount paid by the policyholder to obtain cover, inclusive of any third-party fees. Goods in Transit risks as well as specific motor risks are subject to a different rate, whilst certain life cover can also have varying rates.
The tax point is the date which triggers the tax, and in Belgium for all taxes it is triggered on the maturity date. This is formally defined as the contractual date when the policyholder pays the premium to the insurer.
Something which sometimes causes issues for insurers is the existence and application of the Belgian prepayment. The prepayment is based on the IPT figures for the October declaration and is due by 15 December.
Similarly to the Italian prepayment the rate stands at 100% but that is where the similarities end. Initially prepayment was only allowed to be offset against the IPT liabilities in the December declaration. However, we did experience some issues in receiving monies from the tax authority where the December liability exceeded the prepayment, thus resulting in a reclaim due.
In 2021 an exercise was undertaken whereby insurers were able to offset any excess prepayment not received in the previous four years against current IPT liabilities. In 2022 insurers have been able to utilise the prepayment up until the March declaration i.e four periods in total (December-March), thereafter if there is any prepayment remaining, in theory a reclaim should be received.
In certain circumstances an exemption was granted to not pay the prepayment. This was often with Captive insurers where they were paying liabilities solely in October on a yearly basis and didn’t expect any further liabilities until the following October. Such exemptions were negotiated directly with the tax office.
To ease the burden for insurers covering solely life insurance, such coverage is exempt from IPT prepayment.
There are seven different taxes covered by INAMI, five of which are due monthly, these are:
Taxes are due on certain motor and motor liability risks dependant on what the contract is covering, with the exception of fire. Some insurance policies are taxed with an element charged to the insured and an element charged to the insurer.
Fire risk is the most common parafiscal we see from the above and care should be taken in its application. Unlike other countries where the fire element percentage is largely determined by the insurer and the scope of the contract, fire risks in Belgium must be apportioned according to a predetermined set rate.
The hospitalisation INAMI charge is due on a biannual basis for ‘Sickness – Pre & Post Hospitalisation Costs’ on an individual and group level. For the charge to apply the insured must receive the benefits of Belgian healthcare insurance (not applicable to doctors, dentists, optician’s fees etc). The applicable rate is 10% on the taxable premium unless the insured’s benefit is less than EUR 12.39 per day, in which case a de minimis limit exemption applies.
Finally, we have the Security Fund for Fire & Explosion due annually, which is currently 3% on the taxable premium. This applies on compulsory liability insurance for fire and explosion in premises open to the public.
Navigating the rules and requirements in Belgium can be demanding for even the most experienced insurer. Sovos has a dedicated team of compliance experts to walk you through even the most challenging problems and ensure you are on the right compliance path.
Eastern European countries are taking new steps concerning the implementation of continuous transaction controls (CTC) systems to reduce the VAT gap and combat tax fraud. This blog provides you with information on the latest developments in several Eastern European countries that may further shape the establishment of CTC systems in other European countries and beyond.
Previously announced on 1 January 2022, taxpayers have been able to issue structured invoices (e-invoices) using Poland’s National e-Invoicing System (KSeF) voluntarily, meaning electronic and paper forms are still acceptable in parallel. On 30 March 2022, the European Commission announced the derogatory decision from Article 218 and Article 232 of Directive 2006/112/EC. The decision will apply from 1 April 2023 until 31 March 2026, after receiving the last approval from the EU Council. Moreover, on 7 April 2022, the Ministry of Finance published the test version of the KSeF taxpayer application that enabled the management of authorisations issuing and receiving invoices from KSeF. The mandatory phase of the mandate is expected to begin the second quarter of 2023, 1 April 2023.
The Romanian CTC system is one of the fastest developing in Eastern Europe, with the E-Factura system being available for B2G transactions since November 2021. Based on the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 41, published in the official gazette on 11 April 2022, the use of the system will become mandatory for transporting high fiscal risk goods domestically as of July 2022.
Moreover, Draft Law on the approval of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 120/2021 on the administration, operation, and implementation of the national e-invoicing system (Draft Law) on 20 April 2022 was published by The Romanian Chamber of Deputies. According to the Draft Law, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) will issue an order in 30 days following the derogation decision from EU VAT Directive and establish the scope and the timeline of the B2B e-invoicing mandate. As derived from the proposed amendments, B2G e-invoicing will become mandatory as of 1 July 2022, and mandatory e-invoicing for all B2B transactions is in the pipeline.
Serbia has introduced a CTC platform called Sistem E-Faktura (SEF) and an additional system to help taxpayers with the processing and storage of invoices called the Sistem za Upravljanje Fakturama (SUF).
To start using the CTC system Sistem E-Faktura (SEF) provided by the Serbian Ministry of Finance, a taxpayer must register through the dedicated portal: eID.gov.rs. SEF is a clearance portal for sending, receiving, capturing, processing and storing structured electronic invoices. The recipient must accept or reject an invoice within fifteen days from the day of receipt of the electronic invoice.
The CTC system became mandatory on 1 May 2022 for the B2G sector, where all suppliers in the public sector must send invoices electronically. The Serbian government must be able to receive and store them from 1 July 2022. Additionally, all taxpayers will be obliged to receive and store e-invoices, and from 1 January 2023, all taxpayers must issue B2B e-invoices.
The Slovakian government announced its CTC system called Electronic Invoice Information System (IS EFA, Informačný systém elektronickej fakturácie) in 2021 through draft legislation.
The CTC e-invoicing covers B2G, B2B and B2C transactions and will be conducted via the electronic invoicing information system (IS EFA).
The official legislation regulating the e-invoicing system has not been published yet although it is expected to be published soon. However, the Ministry of Finance has recently posted new dates concerning the implementation of the electronic solution:
The second phase will follow for B2B and B2C transactions.
Slovenia has not progressed in introducing its CTC system. Due to the national elections in April 2022, the CTC reform was not expected to gain much traction until at least the summer of 2022. Nevertheless, there are still ongoing discussions around the CTC reform, which intensified soon after the Slovenian parliamentary elections.
The fast pace of the developments happening within Eastern European countries brings challenges. The lack of clarity and last-minute changes makes it even harder for taxpayers to stay compliant in these jurisdictions.
Staying compliant with CTC changes throughout Eastern Europe is easier with help from Sovos’ team of VAT experts. Get in touch or download the 13th Annual Trends report to keep up with the changing regulatory landscape.
Events and conferences typically take a long time to organise and in the early part of 2020 several events that were scheduled to take place were impossible because of the various Covid-19 restrictions. Looking at a loss of revenue, and not knowing how long restrictions would last, many hosts went online and hosted virtual events. This changed both the nature and the place of the supply.
Where there is physical attendance at an event then the place of supply is the place where the event takes place for all delegates.
For B2B delegates the current rules mean that virtual admission will be classified as a general rule service so VAT is due where the customer is established.
For B2C delegates the current rules depend on whether the virtual attendance can be considered an electronically delivered service or a general rule service. For electronically delivered services supplied the place of supply is where the customer normally resides and for other services the place of supply is where the supplier is established.
An electronically delivered service is one which can be delivered without any human intervention such as downloading and watching a pre-recorded presentation. Where a service requires human intervention, this is not considered to be electronically delivered.
Online conferences and events typically have a host or compere and will normally also allow delegates to ask questions in real-time via live chat or similar. The human dimension excludes the possibility of this being classified as an electronically delivered service which means that for B2B the place of supply is where the customer is established and for B2C the place of supply is where the host is established.
The changes are being introduced to ensure taxation in the Member State of consumption. To achieve this, it is necessary for all services that can be supplied to a customer by electronic means to be taxable at the place where the customer is established, has his permanent address or usually resides. This means that it is necessary to modify the rules governing the place of supply of services relating to such activities.
The changes apply to “services that can be supplied by electronic means” but this is not defined. It would appear, from the following to be wider than “electronically delivered”.
To achieve this the current law governing attendance by B2B delegates which results in VAT being due where the event is held will specifically exclude admission where the attendance is virtual.
This suggests that “supplied to a customer by electronic means” occurs when attendance is virtual and has the effect of removing the distinction of “human intervention” in respect of electronically delivered services.
The law governing B2C sales will state that where activities are “streamed or otherwise made virtually available”, the place of supply is where the customer is established.
These changes suggest that “supplied to a customer by electronic means” occurs when the service is streamed or made virtually available. The possibility of streaming (which can be live or recorded) does not appear in the amendment to the B2B rule.
The law governing Use and Enjoyment has also been updated to reflect these additions.
For events that are attended virtually the place of supply for both B2B and B2C will be where the customer is established, although this can be amended by application of the Use and Enjoyment rules.
For B2B attendees, the host will not charge local VAT as the reverse charge will apply unless the host and attendee are established in the same Member State.
For B2C attendees the host will charge local VAT according to the location of the attendee. The Union and non-Union OSS will be available to assist reporting where the attendee is in the EU.
Member States are required to adopt and publish the required laws, regulations and administrative provisions by 31 December 2024 and must apply these from 1 January 2025.
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While Cato gives his little Senate laws,
Britons, attend: be worth like this approv'd,
Dare NOTES. VER. 27. Ev'n when] The twenty-seventh, thirtieth, thirtyfourth, thirty-ninth, and forty-fifth lines, are artful allufions to the character and history of Cato himself.
WARTON. VER. 37. Britons, attend :] Spence told me, that Pope had written it-“ Britons, arise”; but that Addison, frightened at so strong an expression, as promoting insurrection, lowered and weakened it by the word, attend,
WARTON. Ver. 42. On French translation,] He glances obliquely at the Distreft Mother of his old antagonist Philips, taken, evidently, from Racine. Cato's last foliloquy is translated with great purity and elegance by Bland.
It is a little remarkable that the last line of Cato is Pope's ; and the last of Eloisa is Addison's.
Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage,
NOTES. VER. 45. Such Plays alone] Addison, having finished and laid by, for several years, the firit four acts of Cato, applied to Hughes for a fifth ; and Dr. Johnson, from entertaining too mean an opinion of Hughes, does not think the application serious. When Hughes brought bis fupplement, he found the author himself had finished his play. Hughes was very capable of writing this fifth act. The Siege of Damascus is a better tragedy than Cato; though Pope affected to speak flightingly of its author. An audience was packed by Steele on the first night of Cato; and Addison suffered inexpreilible uneasiness and folicitude during the reprefentation. Boling broke called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty to well, against a perpetual dictator.
WARTON. VER. 46. As Cato's felf, &c.] This alludes to that famous ftory of his coming into the Theatre, and going out again, related by Martial.
EPILOGUE TO MR. ROWE’S
THE Epilogue to Jane Shore is written with that air of gallantry and raillery which, by a strange perversion of taste, the audience expects in all Epilogues to the most serious and pathetic pieces. To recommend cuckoldom, and palliate adultery; is their usual intent. I wonder Mrs. Oldfield was not suffered to speak it; for it is superior to that which was used on the occasion. In this taste Garrick has written fome that abound in spirit and drollery. Rowe's genius was rather delicate and soft, than strong and pathetic ; "his compositions foothe us with a tranquil and tender sort of complacency, rather than cleave the lieart with pangs of commiseration.
His distresses are entirely founded on the passion of love. His diction is extremely elegant and chaste, and his versification highly melodious. His plays are declamations, rather than dialogues ; and his characters are general, and undistinguished from each other. Such a furious character as that of Bajazet, is easily drawn; and, let me add, easily acted. There is a want of unity in the fable of Tamerlane. The death's head, dead body, and stage hung in mourning, in the Fair Penitent, are artificial and mechanical methods of affecting an audience. In a word, his plays are musical and pleasing poems, but inactive and unmoving tragedies. This of Jane Shore is, I think, the most interesting and affecting of any he has given us; but pro. bability is sadly violated in it by the neglect of the unity of time. For a person to be supposed to be starved, during the representation of five acts, is a striking instance of the absurdity of this violation.
Ít is probable that this is become the most popular and pleafing tragedy of all Rowe's works, because it is founded on our own history. I cannot forbear wishing, that our writers would more frequently search for subjects in the annals of England, which afford many striking and pathetic events, proper for the
ftage. We have been too long attached to Grecian and Román stories. In truth, domestica facta are more interesting, as well as more useful; more interesting, because we all think ourselves concerned in the actions and fates of our countrymen ; more useful, because the characters and manners bid the faireft to be true and natural, when they are drawn from models with which we are exactly acquainted. The Turks, the Persians, and Americans, of our poets, are, in reality, distinguished from Englishmen, only by their turbans and feathers ; and think and act as if they were born and educated within the Bills of Mortality. The historical plays of Shakespear are always grateful to the spectator, who loves to see and hear our own Harrys and Edwards, better than all the Achillefes or Cæsars that ever exifted. In the choice of a domestic story, however, much judgment and circumspection must be exerted, to select one of a proper æra; neither of too ancient, nor of too modern a date. The manners of times very ancient, we shall be apt to falsify, as those of the Greeks and Ro. mans. And recent events, with which we are thoroughly acquainted, are deprived of the power of imprefsing folemnity and awe, by their notoriety and familiarity. Age foftens and wears away all those disgracing and depreciating circumstances, which attend modern transactions, merely because they are modern. Lucan was much embarrassed by the proximity of the times he treated of,
I take this occasion to observe, that Rowe has taken the fable of his Fair Penitent, from the Fatal Dowry of Maffinger and Field.
WARTON. Thsee observations are in general very juít, but Dr. Warton should not have cited Shakespear, as having founded his most in. teresting Plays on “ domeftica facta.” Who ever read Julius Cæsar, without sympathy and interest ? Who ever read, without a tear, the passage where Brutus, after his disagreement with Caslius, speaks of his wife's death? Who is not a partaker of his griefs, and fortunes ? In truth, Genius can make at all times a “ Cæsar," as interesting as an “ Edward, or Henry."
EPILOGUE TO MR. ROWE’S
DESIGNED FOR MRS. OLDFIELD.
PRODIGIous this! the Frail-one of our Play
From her own Sex should mercy find to-day! You might have held the pretty head aside, Peep'd in your fans, been serious, thus, and cry'd, The Play may pass but that strange creature, Shore, I can't-indeed now I fo hate a whore
6 Just as a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull, And thanks his stars he was not born a fool; So from a sister sinner
shall hear, “ How ftrangely you expose yourself, my dear ?" But let me die, all raillery apart, Our sex are still forgiving at their heart; And, did not wicked custom so contrive, We'd be the best, good-natur'd things alive.
There are, 'tis true, who tell another tale, 15 That virtuous ladies envy while they rail ; Such rage without betrays the fire within ; In some close corner of the soul, they sin; Still hoarding up, most scandalously nice, Amidst their virtues a reserve of vice. The godly dame, who fleshly failings damns, Scolds with her maid, or with her chaplain cramış.
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Aizawl is the capital of the state of Mizoram in India. The state is rich in bird diversity, which has the potentiality to make it a major birding destination. Mizoram is also home to many hill stations and waterfalls.
Aizawl is a scenic capital of North East state Mizoram, India. Aizawl is a peaceful little town..
Champhai District in Mizoram, India is popularly known as the 'Rice Bowl of Mizoram' and it a..
Ṭam Dil is a beutiful human-made reservoir lake situated near Saitual village and 88km from A..
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“My upstairs neighbour regularly played loud music late into the evening. I tried earplugs but still couldn't sleep. I invited my neighbour over for a coffee. I explained how I had to get up early for work. I played a recording. My neighbour said they had no idea how loud it was. They apologized. Now they play their music more quietly, and not after 10 pm. I’m glad we talked. I’m finally able to get some sleep, and we’re still on good terms.”
– Edwin, Victoria, BC
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A Hill Full of Magnetized Iron
Imagine the movement of a vehicle up a steep mountain with its ignition off. Truly unbelievable! Opposing the Newton's Law of Gravity! But, it's not merely an optical illusion. In the outskirts of the picturesque cold desert town of Leh, is a Magnetic Hill. The magnet magic of this hill can be experienced while travelling to Leh-Ladakh. This wonder hill is located on the Leh-Kargil-Batalik National Highway, about 30 km from Leh at an altitude of about 14,000 feet. It stands on the western side of the Sindhu River.
The hill is believed to have some sort of magnetic properties because of which it attracts metallic objects, vehicles and even planes and helicopters. You just need to place your vehicle on a specific spot on the road with its engine off and the vehicle starts moving up at a speed of 20 km/hour. Even the helicopters and aircrafts feel the same magnetic impact. Pilots need to fly at a very high speed in that area to avoid the magnetic impact of the hill. Planes start to jerk if it comes within the magnetic radius of the hill.
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Lessons From Around the World
Since the middle of the 20th century, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of women’s participation in the labor market. Accordingly, supporting policies focused mainly on the ability of women to combine paid labor with traditional homemaking.
These policies were based on the model of “main breadwinner/main caregiver,” according to which men are the main providers while women are secondary providers and the main caregivers. It was the need for women’s labor that led to the development of policies to support working women: childcare frameworks, tax benefits to working mothers, paid maternity leave and protective labor legislation targeting women.
The policies supporting women’s labor force participation increased gender based occupational segregation in most countries, resulting in the concentration of women in the public sector, mainly in care and service occupations such as teaching, secretarial work, sales work, and nursing, as well as in part time jobs. The gender based occupational segregation and shorter working hours legitimized wage differences between men and women; thus they were not perceived as discriminatory or as a gender inequality issue.
In contrast, the last decade has been characterized by a growing understanding that the same policies that enabled the successful integration of women into paid labor created and reproduced gender segregation in the labor market, as well as gender pay gaps. Correspondingly, international organizations such as the OECD and the European Union focused their efforts on coping with gender occupational segregation and pay gaps. This required a thorough examination of gender pay gaps per month and per hour, in the private and the public sectors, by occupation and by economic sector. In addition, there emerged a critical examination of the influence of “women friendly” policies that boosted women’s labor force participation on women’s patterns of work and pay levels. The result was the realization that the “main breadwinner/main caregiver” model needs to be replaced by a “dual breadwinner/ dual caregiver” model. That is, labor policies need to support the integration of both parents in paid labor as well as in homemaking. New strategies were developed to meet this challenge: gender de-segregation policies, such as encouraging women to work in “male” professions and to a lesser extent efforts to integrate men into “female” occupations; incentives for men to play a larger role in child care; educational programs to cope with gender stereotypes and gender tracking of girls and boys from an early age.
Eradication of the gender pay gaps requires tackling the roots of the gender division of labor in the household and the labor market, a comprehensive and long term process. The experience accumulated over the last decade indicates it requires the cooperation of all parties involved in the labor market — the state, employers’ and workers’ organizations and civil society groups. Policies need to be diverse and to address different aspects of the gender division of labor — in the workplace, at home, patterns of education and professional training.
In this paper we review the main steps taken by different countries in the course of the last decade to narrow the gender pay gap and we discuss the lessons that can be learned from these efforts. Both the OECD and the European Union set a target of closing gender pay gaps for their member countries and are active on the issue. Most of the countries have established state organs to address gender pay gaps. The evidence presented in this paper in based mostly on the reports of the member countries of both organizations and on the studies on the topic conducted in those countries.
The task of reducing gender inequality is not new. However, the development of policies directly targeting the gender pay gap is a recent endeavor. This is the reason why it is still not possible to present clear-cut winning strategies. Follow up research and evaluation of the results of steps taken is still only partial. All the same, it is possible to indicate directions of what appears to be effective action and what seem to be good practices.
We divided strategies to narrow the gender pay gap into four categories:
The first category includes steps to expose the gender pay gaps and acknowledge them as a social problem. In this endeavor there has been significant progress — in the scope of data collection, promoting transparency, legislation requiring employers to collect and publish data about gender pay gaps or provide incentives to do so and voluntary tools such as the wage simulator.
The second category deals with the steps taken by actors in the labor market – workers, employers, and their respective organizations — to narrow gender pay gaps. These include initiatives designed to change occupational norms, such as flexible working hours, and relating to gender pay levels when negotiating and signing collective agreements or recruiting new employees.
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INF, supported by donors in Australia, has a long and successful track record working with communities in Nepal’s rugged Jumla district to overcome poverty and social exclusion.
As we approach the End of Financial Year, could you prayerfully consider making a tax-deductible donation to new work we are commencing in some of Jumla’s most remote and under-resourced communities?
From month to month, families in these communities don’t know whether they will have sufficient, safe and nutritious food or whether they will go hungry.
Jadeni’s story is an incredible example of the impact of INF’s inclusive, community-led approach in Jumla, made possible through donations from Australia.
Jadeni grew up in a very poor family and never had the opportunity to go to school. In her community, women were also not allowed to talk at or participate in village meetings. But Jadeni has risen to become an elected local leader after joining an INF self-help group.
The self-help group held monthly meetings to identify the causes of problems in their village and make action plans to address them. These included constructing a water supply, maintaining personal hygiene and developing a group savings fund.
Through the self-help group, Jadeni received leadership training and also gained the trust of her village. Emboldened, she ran in the local elections and won!
“I am now part of planning for the village, raising the voice of women,” she says. “I am an illiterate person, but with the help of INF I have managed to reach this pinnacle in my life.”
This End of this Financial Year, you can support the emergence of leaders like Jadeni in the new communities INF will commence work in in two ways:
1] Make a one-off, tax-deductible donation
2] Become a monthly INF supporter as part of our Journey with Jumla program
Our work takes patience and long-term commitment. We need new long-term supporters who will journey with us as we journey with these communities in Jumla over the next three years, to seek the fullness of life that we know God desires for them.
God longs deeply for the flourishing of these communities. Join us this End of Financial Year to be part of making this vision a reality.
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Flavor: Don't limit pumpkin use to just pies, cookies
just a pie
When it comes to pumpkin, why stop at pies, cookies and tarts?
A low-calorie food that adds protein, fiber and mega amounts of vitamin A to your diet, pumpkin lends itself to an endless variety of dishes.
If you want to make pumpkin puree from scratch, remove seeds, cut into large chunks, rub with oil and roast at 400 degrees for 45 minutes. Or, cut into wedges and microwave on high for 5 minutes or until easily pierced with a fork. Take off skin and puree cooked pumpkin by pulsing it in a food processor or mashing it with a potato masher. One pound of fresh pumpkin will yield about 1 cup of puree.
Pumpkin Spice Latte
1/2 cup brewed espresso or 3/4 cup strong coffee
2 cups milk (1 percent or whole)
2 tablespoons canned pumpkin (not pumpkin-pie filling)
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice or 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon cloves, 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg and a tiny pinch of ground ginger
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
Whipped cream and 2 cinnamon sticks, optional garnish
Use a 2-quart slow cooker. Add coffee or espresso and milk to the stoneware. Whisk in pumpkin, spices, sugar and vanilla. Cover and cook on high 2 hours.
Whisk again. Ladle into mugs, and garnish with whipped cream and additional cinnamon. You can add a cinnamon stick to be fancy.
From “Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking,” by Stephanie O’Dea, (Hyperion, 2009)
Serve this kid-friendly recipe with crackers, celery or carrot sticks, or slather it on a toasted bagel.
2 cups pumpkin puree (canned or fresh)
8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice
Place pumpkin puree and cream cheese in a large bowl and mix together. Add all other ingredients, and mix until smooth and creamy. Refrigerate at least four hours or overnight.
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Here’s what’s coming up on Texas Standard for Friday, September 25, 2020. Listen on your Texas public radio station, or ask your smart speaker to play Texas Standard. We’ll have full posts for each story, including audio, a little later today.
Legislative Priorities Shaping Up
When Texas lawmakers return to Austin next year, they’ll be facing a budget shortfall and more COVID 19 challenges. Bob Garrett, the Austin bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News walks the Standard through what the next legislative session holds for Texans.
It’s been six months since the Texas border with Mexico was closed to all but essential travel as a COVID-19 precaution. The impact has been felt in both Texas and Mexico. Before the pandemic thousands crossed the border on a daily basis. KTEP’s Angela Kocherga went to one international bridge to see how people are coping on both sides.
Black Is Beautiful Beer
Beer collaborations are pretty common. Brewers like to team up and get creative with their recipes. But an idea from a San Antonio brewer has taken that idea to new heights – and it’s accomplishing more than just new sales. Marcus Baskerville is the founder and head brewer at Weathered Souls Brewing Company. He created the “Black Is Beautiful” stout – and it appears to be succeeding way beyond his expectations. Baskerville joins the Standard to talk about his company.
Peniel Joseph on Police Funding
The Dallas City Council approved a budget this week that largely leaves intact funding for police. That’s despite calls for reallocating some money in the wake of nationwide examples of continued police violence against people of color. Meanwhile, Austin reduced its police department budget by about 5%, prompting a quick and negative reaction from Gov. Greg Abbott. Peniel Joseph calls Austin’s move the “opening salvo” in national efforts to reimagine public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
The Future of Women on the Supreme Court
It is likely Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement on the Supreme Court will be a woman. Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, has emerged as a front-runner. Renee Knake Jefferson, law professor at the University of Houston and author of “Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court” joins the Standard.
Shangela on Quarantine Vogue and Paris Texas
D.J. Pierce, famously known as drag superstar Shangela, was nominated for an Emmy this year for her reality TV series “We’re Here” which she cohosts. Because of the pandemic, she wasn’t able to walk the red carpet. So what’s a girl to do? Hang out in Paris, of course – and let the red carpet come to her! Only, in this case, we’re talking about Paris, Texas, and the red carpet? Vogue Magazine rolled it out big time for Shangela in a hometown photoshoot – gowns, high fashion and all that glitters. Shangela joins the Standard.
The Week in Texas Politics with The Texas Tribune
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You’ve made a great investment into your health by having your orthotics made, and like anything you wear, if you want them to last as long as possible, you need to look after them. Your age, activity levels, occupation and the shoes you wear can all affect the longevity of your orthotics.
Most patients will have a covering material added to the top surface of their orthotics at their orthotic fitting or review visit. This covering material is extremely important because it protects the orthotic and reduces wear and tear on the upper surface.
If you do not have a cover, you will wear through your orthotics much faster, especially in the ball of the foot and toe area. Covers also make your orthotics more comfortable to wear, reduce heat and also make your orthotics much easier to clean.
If you don’t have a cover because you missed your orthotic review, we recommend that you organise this as soon as possible.
Old covers that look worn-out should be replaced immediately. Peeling, cracked and split covers can become uncomfortable and irritate your skin. If you’ve worn holes through the cover, it means you’re now wearing into the orthotic, which will shorten their lifespan.
Clear Debris From Your Footwear
Depending on your occupation, it may be a good idea to remove your orthotics from your shoes on a weekly basis and empty out any debris. Small pebbles, for example, can dig into the orthotic and destroy it’s wedging and support.
Dry Them Out
If your shoes get wet, we recommend that you remove your orthotics from your shoes and let them dry completely. Moisture doesn’t necessarily destroy the orthotic material, but it will ruin covers and cause peeling if not dried properly.
Make sure to dry your shoes well too – moisture trapped in footwear not only causes them to become smelly, but also creates the ideal breeding ground for the fungus that causes Athlete’s foot and fungal nail infections.
Always let your orthotics dry in the shade, never in the sun for long periods, as this can affect both the covers and the orthotic materials. With this said, brief periods of time in the sun, up to 15 minutes, is acceptable if the orthotics are not wet to begin with. Drying in the sun from a wet state may also cause the cover to shrink in size.
If you do not wear socks with your orthotics, make sure you wipe and clean the covers on a regular basis. A damp cloth is okay, but an antibacterial wipe is much better.
Swapping Between Various Shoes
If you swap your orthotics between multiple shoes, take care when removing them. Do not force them into smaller shoes. This can damage the front edge of the orthotic, making them uncomfortable when you put them back into a correctly fitted shoe.
We can manufacture your same orthotic prescription to fit in different shoes. If you want to know more about obtaining an additional pair of orthotics, please don’t hesitate to book an appointment with us to have an additional pair made and fitted to your shoes.
Don’t Throw Them Out By Accident
This may seem obvious, but always make sure your orthotics have been removed from your old shoes before throwing them out. This happens more often than you think!
Keep Them Away From Your Pets
The saying ‘my dog ate my orthotics’ is floated fairly commonly around here – pets love to chew and play with orthotics, so keep them out of their reach. | <urn:uuid:92ed63e0-9264-4c7c-9a00-38198416ebbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myfootdr.com.au/advice/caring-for-your-orthotics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951162 | 753 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Som Tom, Som Tum, spicy papaya salad, green papaya salad (Thai)
Som tam ' spicy papaya salad ' comes from northeast Thailand, but it's reached near-cult status throughout the rest of the country. Slight regional differences in ingredients means placement on the sweet-or-sour scale may vary greatly between restaurants. Common to all recipes is shredded green papaya and a healthy dose of heat. Barbequed chicken and lumps of sticky rice are the perfect companions.
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French verbs are notoriously the biggest barrier to speaking French fluently. Pronominal verbs are a class of verbs that are conjugated with a pronoun like me, te, se, nous or vous in front of the verb.
The most common form of the pronominal verb is the reflexive verb that I’m sure all readers here are familiar with. Typical verbs are: se laver, se coucher, s’endormir, se lever and se réveiller.
There are other kinds of pronominal verbs, however, including a class of verbs that is often called simply “idiomatic” pronominal verbs because the pronoun seems to serve no purpose whatsoever. These verbs have a pronominal form but should not be seen as actually made up of two distinct words.
For example the verb s’en aller means to go away but cannot be analyzed in terms of s’en and aller. The two words make up a single unit. A similar form s’en venir (to arrive) is very common in Québec but rare in France. To remember is se souvenir. Again here, there are two words but they cannot be seen as separate in terms of meaning.
Some of these verbs exist only in the pronominal form. For example, s’évanouir (to faint) doesn’t have a separate verb évanouir. Others, however, can have non-pronominal relatives, but their respective meanings are very different:
For example féliciter is to congratulate, as in:
Le directeur a félicité l’employé pour la qualité de son travail. (The director congratulated the employee on the quality of her work.)
However, se féliciter usually means “to express satisfaction” as in:
Le syndicat s’est félicité de la décision du gouvernement. (The trade union expressed its satisfaction with the decision of the government.)
Rendre compte is to give an account, but se rendre compte is “to realize” or “become aware of,” as in:
Je me suis rendu compte que tout le monde était déjà parti. (I realized that everyone had left.)
As you can well appreciate, it is not always easy to use these idiomatic pronominal verbs because there may be situations where they may be used in a non-idiomatic fashion. This leaves considerable room for all kinds of subtle distinctions and word play. Here some examples of common idiomatic pronominal verbs (remember that the past auxiliary is always être.):
se contenter de: Ils se contentent d’un petit salaire. (They’re happy with a small salary.)
se souvenir de: Je me souviens très bien de vous.(I remember you well.)
s’évanouir: Le patient s’est évanoui dans la salle. (The patient fainted in the room.)
se rendre: Je me rends à Paris la semaine prochaine. (I’m going to Paris next week.)
s’apercevoir que : Je me suis aperçu que j’avais oublié mes clés à la maison. (I realized that I had forgotten my keys at home.)
s’en aller: Viens, on s’en va. (Come, let’s go.)
s’en venir: Attendez-moi, je m’en viens. (Wait for me, I’m coming.)
s’ennuyer: Avec lui on ne s’ennuira jamais. (You’ll never get bored with him.)
se passer de: Elle ne pourra jamais se passer de son chien. (She’ll never be able to do without her dog.)
se moquer de: Tout le monde s’est moqué de moi.(Everybody made fun of me.)
se douter de: C’était une surprise; elle ne se doutait de rien. (It was a complete surprise; she didn’t suspect a thing.)
s’amuser: On s’est amusés comme des fous. (We enjoyed ourselves totally.)
se tromper: Je crois que vous vous êtes trompé de numéro de téléphone. (I think you have the wrong number.)
s’attendre à: On s’attend au pire. (We’re expecting the worst.)
se comporter: Il doit apprendre à se comporter comme il faut. (He has to learn how to behave properly.)
Although there may be room for some disagreement, we see that the pronominal verb form here is not reflexive and has no special significance. You have to accept the fact that this is how these kinds of verbs are used. As I have said many times, if you want to speak French both fluently and accurately, you just have to pay special attention to these details.
Stanley Aléong is a polyglot, author, musician and language coach in French, English and Spanish. He likes to share his passion for languages and believes that anybody can learn to speak a foreign language well with the right methods and tools. He has also invented a cool visual learning tool called the Language Wall Chart Calendar that is based on his own learning experience. Reach him at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:9b4d4aaa-f285-4bae-b9af-0db2e8276f8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.fluentfrenchnow.com/how-to-use-idiomatic-french-pronominal-verbs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.784237 | 1,234 | 3.09375 | 3 |
In a media landscape muddied by unfounded biases, questionable metrics and marketing jargon, the challenge for advertisers and agencies is to cut through the BS and identify which channels legitimately boost marketing effectiveness. It’s no easy task in an evolving, expanding and increasingly fragmented marketplace. And doing so asks that marketers leave their preconceptions at the door and consider all channels.
From print to social media, all have strengths and weaknesses. What’s important now is that marketers in all their various guises take an evidence-based approach to the increasingly complex business of media planning in the digital age.
The perception/ reality chasm
This issue of media bias was highlighted most starkly in a report penned in 2018 by the Radiocentre and Ebiquity. Titled Re-evaluating Media, the findings, in the words of media commentator Mark Ritson, “laid bare marketers’ perceptions about which channels perform best, and the extent to which they’re divorced from reality”.
Looking at the 10 channels that claw the majority of advertising spend (direct mail, magazines, newspapers, online display, online video, out-of-home, radio, social media and TV), the study first identified the four main drivers for media selection and compared marketing perceptions against actual performance.
The report sheds light on which factors marketers most value (targeting, ROI, emotional response and brand salience), but the results also illuminate whether this love-in with digital and the reticence towards traditional media is grounded in reality. Spoiler: It’s not.
Ritson says the conclusions are twofold: “First, a significant number of marketers are not driven by data any more. They look at their own highly unrepresentative media consumption and use that as a proxy for their media planning.”
Second, he says, “there is a significant bias within media agencies towards digital media and against so-called traditional alternatives. If you look at the amount of money that can be made in fees and rebates from digital media it is often a factor of three or four times more profitable to recommend digital video over TV or radio.”
Clearly the likes of newspapers, magazines and direct mail are dismissed far too easily by marketers, many of whom are suffering from a touch of the shiny things syndrome. Clearly, there is a gulf between perception and reality.
On emotional response metrics, advertisers and agencies ranked magazines, newspaper and direct mail in fifth, eighth and ninth place out of ten respectively, when in reality they number second, fifth and seventh. The same applies to brand salience, where perceptions say fourth, eight and tenth, and the facts say joint second and fifth.
Most worrying of all was that the perception/reality gap was most pronounced when measured against 12 criteria (including the four mentioned above). This “overall weighted score” put magazines, newspapers and direct mail in tenth and joint seventh. While in reality the three channels placed in fourth, third and sixth respectively, beating social (7), online video (9) and online display (10). | <urn:uuid:ca1440a2-4b57-4bff-971e-04aaa269d26f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.printpower.eu/why-print/print-advertising-effectiveness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951471 | 635 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Above, Rachel Slobert, Batavia Academy principal, celebrates being first to be successfully pied.
Submitted photos and press release:
Every fall, Batavia Academy students enjoy a special Thanksgiving dinner. This year, students worked together to raise funds for this luncheon by collecting cans and bottles, and offering a pizza sale as well as an in-school snack cart sale. New this year, the students organized a Pie the Face event.
Students and staff paid to throw a whipped cream pie in the face of Batavia Academy teachers, administrators and campus administrators. This was the first time such an event was held and it was a great success!
Much laughter and many cheers occurred as Batavia Academy teachers and staff, along with Rachel Slobert, Batavia Academy principal; Jon Sanfratello, executive principal of the Batavia Campus; and Chad Cummings, school resource officer of the Batavia Campus, took their turns getting "pied."
“This was a great fundraiser that raised $120 for our Thanksgiving dinner. We hope to make it an annual event,” said Rachel Slobert, as she carefully wiped whipped cream from her face.
About Batavia Academy
The Batavia Academy is an alternative education program that provides a small, nurturing environment, which gives each student the maximum amount of attention necessary to improve academic and social skills.
Programs have been specifically designed to provide an educational option for students from our component school districts in grades 7-12 whose needs are not met by our traditional secondary schools. Teachers assist students in attaining a high school diploma through maintaining the same academic requirements as home schools.
The Batavia Academy is set on the Genesee Valley Education Partnership campus located in Batavia.
The Partnership operates as a Board of Cooperative Educational Services providing shared programs and services to 22 component school districts located in Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston and Steuben counties in New York State.
Below: Chad Cummings, Batavia Campus school resource officer, gets a pie in the face. Nice mustache!
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RULES FOR ARRANGING ARTICLES FOR THE JOURNAL "BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY"
Articles written in one of three languages (Uzbek, Russian, English) are accepted. Submitted articles must not have been previously published.
1. Formatting the text of the article:
fields from all sides - 2.5;
orientation - book A4;
the interval is single.
2. UDC (in the upper left corner of the first page).
3. Title of the article - font 14 Times New Roman (no more than 10 words), bold, centered.
4. The surname and name of the author / authors, organization, country - are located under the heading - font 11 Times New Roman.
5. E-mail address of the author / authors in the center - font 11 Times New Roman.
6. An abstract in three languages (150 words each) is located at two intervals under the data of the author / authors, should briefly contain a description of the following parameters presented in the article: purpose, method, results, conclusion. Font 11 Times New Roman, single spacing.
7. Key words (up to 5 words) are spaced one space below the annotation. Font 11 Times New Roman, italic, single spacing. The main text of the article is separated from the keywords by one space.
8. The main text of the article should be divided into headings and subheadings. 12 Times New Roman font. Headings and subheadings are aligned to the left.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
3. RESEARCH METHODS
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
9. The volume of the article should be at least 5 to 8 pages.
10. All tables and figures are included in the text and must be consecutively numbered. Under the tables and figures, it is necessary to indicate the source from which the figure or table is taken (Source: author, book, magazine, etc.). Times New Roman 10, single spacing.
11. References are arranged in alphabetical order. Each source listed in the bibliography must be referenced in the text. Links to authors in the text of the article are given in parentheses. One author - (Black, 2015), two authors - (Black and Nordy, 2013), three or more authors - (Black et al., 2014).
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Lives and works in Glasgow. Studied at Glasgow School of Art.
Michael Fullerton works in painting, printmaking, sculpture and film. Unusually for a contemporary artist, portraiture is a crucial part of his art. At first his painted portraits seem to be in the tradition of historical artists such as the famous eighteenth-century painter Thomas Gainsborough. Indeed, he has frequently referred to Gainsborough as an influence. On closer inspection, however, and in combination with his overall practice, his paintings challenge many of the traditional assumptions of portraiture. They ask what kinds of people are portrayed and question how much information a painting can reveal about its subject. They investigate different types of representation and how representation might be related to power. Fullerton’s choice of subjects is important; he paints individuals rather than situations, but is often drawn to figures whose lives are connected to complex political histories. He has depicted people including Paddy Hill, wrongfully convicted for an IRA bombing, a man jailed for anti-capitalist protest and a member of Glasgow’s Housing Benefit Anti-Fraud Unit.
Selected solo exhibitions: Meaning Inc, Greene Naftali, New York and Glasgow (2014); Columbia, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2010); Black and White Are Colours, Art Nova, Art Basel, Miami (2008); Pleasure in Nonsense, Carl Freedman Gallery, London (2007); Get Over Yourself, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (2006); Art Now, Michael Fullerton, Tate Britain, London (2005); Suck on Science, CCA, Glasgow (2005); Are You Hung Up, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2003) and Michael Fullerton, British Council, Glasgow (1997). | <urn:uuid:945655a9-ee84-4fe4-b2fd-28833eef181c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/fullerton-michael-1971/initial/f/page/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957907 | 357 | 1.796875 | 2 |
For those who follow the fortunes of Israeli films in the run-up to the Academy Awards, the prospects are looking up after an initial disappointment.
In the category of foreign language films (renamed international features), Israel’s entry “Asia” — an intimate mother-daughter film about Russian immigrants in Israel starring Shira Haas — failed to make the initial cut to 15 semifinalists among the entries from 93 countries.
However, even professional observers of Israeli movies initially overlooked a short film titled “White Eye,” which has reached the shortlist of 10 finalists among 174 entries for best international short.
(For full-length foreign language movies, each country’s film academy enters its “best” choice. However, in the short film category — maximum length 40 minutes — producers and directors can submit their own works.)
“White Eye,” from 33-year-old director Tomer Shushan, tackles an Israeli problem familiar to Americans: open or subliminal prejudice by much of the population and police against nonwhite inhabitants, especially immigrants.
Shot in one take — after numerous rehearsals — during one night in a squalid quarter of Tel Aviv, the protagonist of the 20-minute film is Omer, a light-skinned middle-class native Israeli. In the opening, he spots his bicycle recently stolen during a beach outing. While he tries to repossess the bike by sawing off its lock, Yunes, a black Eritrean immigrant taking a break from his job in a nearby meat packaging plant, spots Omer and claims that he owns the bicycle and had bought it for 250 shekels, roughly $75.
Omer, played by actor Daniel Gad, calls the police and two officers — one wearing a kippah — discover that Yunes (Dawit Tekelaeb) has overstayed his visa. That means that he, his wife and child are likely to be deported to their strife-torn native land.
Suffering twinges of conscience, Omar walks over to a nearby ATM and withdraws 250 shekels, then hands the cash to Yunes.
The final scene — a shocker — is based on Shushan’s personal experience.
In a phone interview, the director said he chose the film’s title as an allusion to “white eye” as an affliction of blind people and implies that many of his fellow Israelis are blind to the racial bias in their country.
“Though less intensive than in the United States,” he observed, there is considerable prejudice in Israel, notably among the police, against dark-skinned inhabitants and immigrants.
There are some 70,000 to 80,000 Eritreans and Sudanese in Israel, according to Shushan and government statistics. Half live in the Tel Aviv area.
Shushan, a descendant of Moroccan Jews, said he had experienced prejudice, though less in liberal Tel Aviv than in Jerusalem.
Harking back to his own experience paralleling the film, Shushan recalled that he felt sorry for the alleged thief, asked the police to go away, gave 250 shekels to the immigrant and took back the bicycle. However, the immigrant continued to cry, saying he was afraid the police would return and that everybody was against him.
By that time, Shushan said, he “didn’t like the bicycle anymore” and consigned it to the fate illustrated in the finale of the film.
The total cost of the film came to $34,000 — loose change by Hollywood standards — of which 90% was covered by the government-backed Makor Foundation. Shushan is now trying to raise funds for a feature film on a similar theme to be titled “Between Sand Grains.”
In other Academy Award news, a group of Israelis from Tel Aviv University and the startup industry Aminom have already been named as the recipients of a special Oscar in the sciences and engineering category. The group developed a wireless video technology now used throughout the global film industry. | <urn:uuid:e291ebf3-fce1-4c50-8f98-5e51f4642c61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-03-11/ty-article/acclaimed-short-film-white-eye-tackles-israels-bias-toward-african-migrants/0000017f-e8a1-dc7e-adff-f8adf6300000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971615 | 847 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Please note that the Dementia Palliare Community of Practice site is currently being developed and the web site pages and content may change over this period of time. In the mean time, if you have any comments please feedback to us using the Contact us form.
In the early stages of dementia many people live independently but, as dementia advances, living well requires increased levels of support and care. Dementia is a progressive condition, with an extended, intensive palliative care phase. At the advanced stage, people with dementia and their family need to be supported by a qualified and confident care workforce, who are both evidence informed and supported to continually develop their practice.
Workforce training with a commitment to good quality continuing care and services for people living with dementia are World Health Organisation priorities. However, the reality is that training and research with individuals who are in the advanced stage of dementia is limited. This highlights the importance, in the face of the rising incidence of dementia, for accessible education to support and manage care for people with advanced dementia. Palliare will embrace modern technology, communication and networking to support learning in a virtual environment.
To collaboratively create a range of practice based and experiential online learning resources to support carers of people in the advanced stage of dementia. This will be facilitated through a virtual international Community of Practice, a learning environment where people with common interest come together to share and learn from each other, to meet pre-determined needs
To review the literature on advanced dementia / to compare and analyse current dementia policies / to analyse the gaps in education for the qualified dementia workforce / to conduct in-depth case studies on the experience of advanced dementia / to develop a virtual Community of Practice / to produce a European Advanced Dementia Care Best Practice Statement.
Professor Debbie Tolson
Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice, University of the West of Scotland
The partners have been selected to include dementia experts from a range of disciplines with international repute, and educators with a track record of innovative experiential learning methods.
Scotland – The UWS team is led By Professor Debbie Tolson and includes Anna Waugh, Dr Rhoda MacRae, Dr Karen Watchman, Margaret Brown, Dr Barbara Sharp and Professor Graham Jackson
Slovenia – The Faculty of Healthcare Jesenice, Slovenia is led by Professor Brigita Skela Savic and includes Dr Simona Hvalic Touzery, Dr Katja Pesjak, Jozica Ramsak Pajk and Sasa Mlakar
Sweden – Linnaeus University, the Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Sweden is led by Professor Elizabeth Hanson and Dr Amanda Hellström.
Finland – Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland is led by Kimmo Polvivaara and the Finnish team includes Pirkko Routasalo, Anne Merta and Mia Vuopio
Portugal – Escola Superior De Enfermagem Do Porto, Portugal is led by Professor Dr Wilson de Abreu and includes Professor Dr Carlos Sequeira and Professor Dr Teresa Rodrigues.
Spain – Universidad De Alicante, Spain is led by Professor Dr Manuel Lillo Crespo and includes Professor Dr Maria Josefa Cabañero Martinez, Miriam Sanchez-SanSegundo, M. Cristina Sierras and Jorge Requelme.
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Hui Xin, an oil painting major, stayed away from the white-hot job market when he graduated from a southwestern China university for fine arts two years ago.
When most of his classmates spent sleepless nights preparing for job interviews, Hui rented a small apartment close to his school, where he devoted himself to painting and selecting his favorite works for various shows.
"I don't want a full-time job because I need time for free artistic creation," said Hui. "That's my choice and I've got to keep to it -- my future is in my own hands."
Hui is not alone. As competition on the job market heats up year on year, many graduates have decided to postpone looking for a job, or even not to seek a full-time occupation at all.
A Ministry of Education report suggested that 5 percent of the nationwide college graduates chose to remain unemployed in 2002. But the percentage is going to rise sharply this year, according to sources from the education sector in the southwestern municipality Chongqing.
At the City Planning and Construction Institute of Chongqing University, over 40 senior students, or 20 percent of the total 209, are not planning to enter the job market this year, says their tutor who gives only her family name Li.
The percentage is as high as 45 percent at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, according to Hou Baochuan, a school official in charge of the students' employment work.
"It's not that the job market is gloomy for them," says Li, whose job is to help senior students find jobs, "In fact, each construction major gets six offers on average."
The prospect is quite rosy for them, given the immense competition heated up by more than 3 million graduates from nationwide colleges and universities this summer -- 53,000 in Chongqing alone, insiders say.
Instead of looking for a full-time occupation, many senior students are preparing to enter graduate schools at home or abroad.
Dou Xiaoming, an official with the Chongqing municipal recruitment office, said some 19,000 senior students in Chongqing,or 35 percent of the total, sat for the national graduate school entrance exam in January 2004. The figure was 12,000 in 2002 and 15,000 in 2003, he added.
In addition to further schooling, some senior students plan to become freelancers or start their own businesses after graduation. Meanwhile, some female graduates have chosen to get married and become full-time housewives.
Despite their different reasons for staying away from the job market, these students normally have something in common: most of them are from well-off urban families and have open-minded parents.
"We won't force him to do what he doesn't want to do," said a Mr. Guo in Chongqing, whose only son, Guo Hongze, a sculpture major, chose to start his own business after he graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2000.
"It was a frustrating experience," said Guo, whose business is booming today, "If I could choose again, I would have chosen to take up a steady job to start with -- life could be much easier that way."
Some officials say these students have helped relieve the bottleneck issue on the job market, but many others express concern over the "cumulative burden" they may bring in the long run.
"The number of unemployed people will rise year on year and competition would be more fierce if these people suddenly decide one day they want a job," said Xie Jiansong, an official with the Chongqing municipal education commission.
Though the growing trend mirrored the young people's pioneering spirit and their confidence in life and themselves, Xie warned these students, most of whom were brought up as the only child in their families, could be expecting too much from the employment market.
"Some students simply think they deserve the best job: they'd rather stay home if they can't get what they dream of," said Xie. "This, of course, is not a proper attitude toward life."
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Chief Minister of northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav has announced free distribution of smart phones from latter half of the year, a move that replicates Samajwadi Party's experiment of promising free laptops to students ahead of 2012 polls.
Government employees and their wards however, will not be eligible for this scheme.
"The government has decided to start Samajwadi Smart Phone scheme to help a two-way communication between the government and people and also take direct feedback on the various schemes of the government," an official release quoting the Chief Minister said.
"The distribution of smart phone will start in the second half of 2017 on the basis of first come/registration, first serve basis," it said.
In 2012 elections, the Samajwadi Party had secured complete majority and one of its main poll promises was distributing free laptops to students.
"The phone will have a detailed app through which all information about the state government using audio-visual and text will be provided to people," the release said, adding beneficiaries will be selected in a totally transparent manner.
"Selecting the beneficiaries online, the smart phone will directly reach them to avoid any corruption.
The registration for the same will start in a month's time. Those having passed High school and completed 18 years of age on January 1, 2017, provided their family income is less than Rs200,000 a year, will be able to apply," it said.
Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are slated to be held early next year.
Akhilesh recalled that his government had successfully distributed about 1.8 million free laptops in a transparent manner and similarly, the smart phones to be distributed under the scheme will be of good quality and the process will be corruption-free.
"Through the distribution of laptops, the SP government helped bring digital democracy in the real sense," he said adding, 21st century is the century of possibilities and his government is committed to encourage information technology to help all sections of society get equal opportunities.
"The mobile phone will also have an app for providing information beneficial for farmers, villagers, unemployed, students and government schemes meant for small traders," the release said.
At a function recently, Akhilesh had hinted at bringing such a scheme by saying "Samajwadis will think of something which we can give to next generation or something through which they can get more information about the government and share their expectations.
The cities are becoming smart and through mobile applications people are getting information.
"We have fulfilled our promise (made in 2012 assembly manifesto) of providing free laptops to students.
In the days to come, it is possible that for the poor, government might decide to give some facilities.
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- 17 Secrets to Improving Teamwork
Within this book, we shall glance at the foundation about a team and you will offer you 17 tips for boosting teamwork.
What makes Good Cluster?
In advance of we start exploring the tips for boosting teamwork, it’s important to investigation the thought of a good class. So you’re able to it really is increase the method your people works, you should know of your own attributes about the successful party.
Harvard Providers Comment blogged a look at MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory’s learn from 2012, and that examined the constituents of a good cluster. The analysis followed the fresh new habits out of telecommunications of the apparently similar groups more a six-week period.
- Equivalent sum out of each and every member of the team
- The group common a great amount of time
- People member’s presented in person with each other
- The team presented back-channel conversations
- The latest players explored the surface business and stated the results back to your cluster
The study along with ended the newest information that individual talent is much faster vital that you cluster success as compared to ability of your whole class to speak efficiently. Ergo, a lot of the advance so you’re able to teamwork relies on the advance of the new team’s correspondence patterns.
The main an effective way to boosting teamwork tend to be issues particularly managing classification dynamics, boosting telecommunications, assisting liability, and guaranteeing further creativity.
We will now offer tips that concentrate on this type of items managed on how best to enhance an informed on the people.
Do Group Fictional character
When you begin allocating the group roles, it misstravel login is very important concentrate on the personal benefits of class members. It is not necessarily as often from the getting the finest individual to own for each and every part, since it is regarding carrying out a sense from achievements and you may accomplishment.
In the event that per party user has actually a job he could be good at, he or she is prone to end up being cherished and radiate this type out of confident time towards the remaining portion of the category. Additionally, when the men and women are in positions that do not fit him or her or help her or him get to confident expectations, the brand new frustration and bitterness inside class will start gathering.
Magic dos: Ensure it is players so you’re able to step up
It’s extremely important the team management doesn’t begin favoring one type of people of one’s cluster by usually giving the key positions and you may commitments on it. You need to as an alternative encourage team members in order to step up and you may issue themselves.
A great way to do this is through asking for volunteers to have spots. Eg, in lieu of saying that person A great has been doing a certain employment; posting the group you need some one to have a certain activity. Whether your exact same individuals are always upgrading, just be sure to enable the far more quiet people in the group in order to take the head.
A different way to score men inside is via guaranteeing for each and every group affiliate reviews methods and you will conclusion ahead of finalization. Ahead of data otherwise preparations is closed, enjoys for every single user bring quick viewpoints.
Miracle 3: Work with confident viewpoints
Teamwork might be enhanced from the opinions, nevertheless the focus must be toward confident in the place of negative opinions. Confident views is another powerful product to own promising confident atmosphere within the group and you can making sure folks feels cherished.
It is better to organize private testing training which have people professionals, but also bring worthwhile feedback into the class as a whole. From the claiming the worth of the latest team’s overall victory and individual contributions, you can improve the team’s comfort.
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CORNELL, N.Y. (WROC) — The $25,000 Breast Cancer Coalition grant was awarded on Tuesday to a PhD student at Cornell.
The trainee grant is named in memory of Dr. Pamela Polashenski, a former physician and board member who passed away from breast cancer in December.
The grant is going to a cancer research trainee by the name Sangwoo Park, a PhD student at Cornell University, who has been studying cancer research for a total of seven years.
“I’m working on developing new therapeutics to target breast cancer,” Park said. “So most of the grant will be used for purchasing the cell lines, like breast cancer cell lines. And also, it supports my tuition.”
He said his interest in cancer research began when working with a stage four cancer patient.
“At that time there was nothing I could do for him other than just supply oxygen and measure the blood pressure,” Park said. “So I felt very useless. At that moment I wanted to do something for cancer patients with my physics background because my major was physics.”
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Imagine going back to school after the Easter holidays and being the only child in your class who didn't get any Easter eggs at all; not because your parents don't believe in it, but because they are struggling to afford food full stop.
Whilst the average child in the UK receives 8.8 Easter eggs, and one in five reportedly make themselves sick on chocolate over Easter, there are thousands of children in poverty across the UK who face having nothing at all.
Thankfully, for the last few weeks, food banks across the UK have seen so many local heroes come forward to help children in poverty to have a happier Easter.
An estimated 40,000 people, and 15,000 children are likely to be helped by Trussell Trust food banks alone over the Easter break, and thousands of Easter eggs have been given out alongside food parcels right across the country.
Here we want to pay tribute to the amazing (and sometimes unusual) ways that, you - the public - have helped food banks be there for families in crisis this Easter.
1. 600 leather-clad Easter bunny bikers of Grantham revved up their engines to deliver hundreds of Easter eggs to local charities in the annual Bottesford Egg Run - including 80 eggs to our very own Grantham foodbank.
2. A big thank you to the little three-year-old girl who donated a big basket of goodies to Colchester foodbank because she wanted to help other children like her to have some treats this Easter. We don't know your name but we hope your parents read this and let you know how grateful we are. Also well done to this class of primary school children who gave a huge box of Easter eggs to the Inverclyde Foodbank.
4. One very big hearted Dad couldn't stand the idea of children not getting an Easter treat so he donated an eggceptionally kind 207 Easter eggs to Norwich foodbank - what a hero!
3. Every cloud... we weren't too unhappy to hear of the Exeter lawyers who over-ordered their Easter eggs and kindly donated 100 to Exeter foodbank as a result - a happy accident that will lead to some much happier Easters.
5. The people of Westminster have given enough Easter eggs to make sure that everyone who comes to the foodbank gets one, and they've also donated to help Westminster foodbank put on a special Easter Sunday tea for local people who are struggling.
6. Active Fitness Centres in South Gloucestershire waved their joining fee for all new members who donated an Easter egg to go to local food banks. Meanwhile Styles and Wood did an egg collection at the office and donated 129 Easter eggs to Timperley foodbank.
Easter is a time of hope, and it's been so uplifting to hear all the different ways that people across the country have helped Trussell Trust foodbanks be there to give a bit of hope to people in crisis this Easter.
We could keep telling stories of kind-hearted people for days, but we wanted to make sure we took this chance to say a huge thank you and Happy Easter to everyone who's given Easter eggs or emergency food to help stop hunger.
It may seem small but it makes a big difference.
This morning a man came to Wandsworth foodbank and was moved to tears when he was given Easter eggs for the family, saying that without the foodbank and the church there would be nowhere for him to turn. Another person visited Fallowfield foodbank and said "your compassion, care and tenderness has healed my heart."
If you could have seen some of the grins from children at food banks this week, and the relief on the faces of so many mums and dads, we know your Easter would be happier too. It's thanks to you that far fewer children will be going back to school saying that they didn't get anything for Easter this year. | <urn:uuid:30bdd7fc-c1cf-4001-abce-02e539af683f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/molly-hodson/easter-sunday-food-banks_b_9552326.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971349 | 801 | 1.84375 | 2 |
With the rise of functionally rich PaaS services delivered by the so called cloud mega vendors such as Microsoft, quite a lot has changed. First of all, it has resulted in confusion in the market, but right now we can see that organizations are really starting to understand the philosophy and embracing it.
Think in services
Especially in the early days it was difficult to understand for both consumers as suppliers of cloud services. For data- and integration products it was the hardest to grasp. In yesteryears, it was quite easy for organizations with a Microsoft-unless policy: if you wanted a solution for data you got SQL Server and if you wanted a solution for integration you got BizTalk Server. Very easy to compare features between those products provided by Microsoft and other vendors such as Oracle or IBM. Work through a checklist, score and choose.
Nowadays, these kind of data- and integration functionalities are no longer delivered by products but by a set of cloud services. This has at first resulted in great confusion. What do we compare with what? Especially when comparing a set of cloud services on the one hand and a monolithic platform on the other.
Say goodbye to platform “products”
Even for Microsoft this was difficult. Because on the one hand there is a very powerful message because Microsoft Azure provides all building blocks to build a mature integration platform, but on the other hand Microsoft has to compete with some pure-play vendors that provide monolithic productds. Products that are very good at one thing. And in which the various components are 1:1 dependent on eachother. Microsoft also provided one of those products: BizTalk Server. A fantastic integration product, but monolothical and not very service oriented. The processes in such a product are designed beforehand and therefore “baked-in”. And therefore not very flexible.
However, we saw that competing with the pure-plays was (and still is) not easy. At one moment in 2018, Microsoft chose to rebrand and bundle the services in Azure that are needed to build an integration layer to “Azure Integration Services”. The same happened to “IoT Suite” for example. Of course this was done to make it easier for potential customers to make product comparisons. But personally, I thought this was an admission of weakness by Microsoft. It basically does not make sense at all. It is simply the power of the platform to provide a set of loosely coupled services with which you can build very flexible integration layers. And besides that, you get the whole Azure platform with it that you can make part of your end-to-end processes, potentially being integration-, data-, app- or collaboration oriented solutions.
The same goes for data solutions. These days we have relational data stores, table stores, document stores, blob stores, data lakes, etc. It has been tried to put that all in SQL Server in that past. In Microsoft Azure, these are all “loose” services that all run in their own scalable containers and that can be connected to eachother through (among others) Azure Data Factory, to create a data platform that suits your organization best. And on top of which you can deliver all kinds of analysis services such as Databricks or PowerBI in order to create information from the data.
What is very interesting, is that Microsoft has not only provided all these great features as services, but at the same time has invested a lot in architecture guidance and non-functional aspects. Where you had a silo application such as BizTalk Server and SQL Server (and comparable products from other vendors) before, in which all the management and monitoring tools where built-in, you can see right now that on top of all cloud services you have tooling for end-to-end management and monitoring. For example, for deploying workloads by means of infrastructure-as-code and to gain insight in the relationships between services. Right now we can deal with loosley coupled platform solutions that at the same time are very manageable and quite easy to monitor. That’s real progress! I predict that monolithic integration-, data-, collaboration- and app platforms will die a slow death. Long live PaaS! | <urn:uuid:270b81d5-9a43-4182-88a0-7e17599cc41e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indafield.com/tag/azure-integration-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957192 | 877 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Heated tobacco products heat the tobacco and produce no smoke. In Japan, these products are very popular after the introduction of an electronic device called IQOS (Intelligent Tobacco System) in 2016. There are many heated tobacco products now available in countries worldwide. But, we were left with questions about their effects on smoking and health. So, we decided to look at the evidence.
The key finding is that people switching from cigarettes to heated tobacco were exposed to less harmful chemicals than smokers, but they had greater exposure to these toxic chemicals than people who quit smoking.
This was true for many harmful substances, including those linked to heart disease, cancer, or respiratory problems. The possibility exists that switching from smoking to heated tobacco could decrease the chance of developing these diseases. But, we don’t have enough data. Because people often develop tobacco-related diseases over time, the studies were only of short duration.
The evidence has shown that smoking is extremely dangerous. Most of the harmful effects of cigarettes, which kill half the regular smokers are due to inhaling toxic chemical compounds made from burning tobacco. Because heated tobacco products are made to not burn tobacco, they should be less dangerous.
Heated tobacco products can be beneficial to public health, as they reduce tobacco use and discourage people from smoking.
No studies were found that examined whether heating tobacco products helped smokers quit smoking. However, we did find two Japanese studies that examined the effects of IQOS on cigarette sales. Both studies indicated that IQOS 3 Duo launched saw a rapid decline in cigarette sales, suggesting that heated tobacco products may replace or complement cigarettes.
On the other side, it’s possible that cigarettes sales dropped because many people reduced their smoking habits without ceasing altogether. Stopping smoking is better than smoking fewer cigarettes.
What Are They Like Compared To E-Cigarettes?
E-cigarettes (or vapes) are another category of nicotine products that have become very trendy over the past few years. These products have vastly different science and regulations. E-cigarettes were on the market longer than heat tobacco so we have more evidence regarding their benefits.
E-cigarettes, unlike heated tobacco, have been proven to be effective in helping people quit smoking traditional cigarettes. Shortly, the UK may offer e-cigarettes if the products clear the regulatory hurdles.
The cigarette industry dominates the market for heated tobacco. It has historically been known to distort scientific into cigarettes’ harm. Many e-cigarette producers are independent of cigarette companies. In contrast, all safety studies that we reviewed for heated tobacco were conducted in collaboration with cigarette manufacturers. There are numerous independent studies about e-cigarettes.
A Search For A Less Dangerous Cigarette
The tobacco companies claim they have been searching for a safer way to smoke for many years. Some attempts, like adding ventilation slots to cigarette filters, have done more harm.
The e-cigarette was the first alternative to smoking that wasn’t medically prescribed. E-cigarettes contain no tobacco and are made by companies that are not affiliated with cigarette manufacturers. Instead, many tobacco companies concentrated their efforts on developing heated tobacco devices. This market would be easier for them to control with patents. | <urn:uuid:18e48075-c16c-41ae-8070-947084d54a9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ethiopianetwork.org/2022/03/30/heat-tobacco-a-review-of-the-benefits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967587 | 644 | 2.828125 | 3 |
16 Ships Lost in Unprovoked Actions
Captain Frank Forde, the author of this articleIn the years following 1922, Ireland, unlike the majority of more recent independent nations, made no attempt to encourage the development of her own mercantile marine. Each year the fleet declined: from 127 in 1923, until in September 1939 we had only 56 ships flying the Irish flag, none ocean-going, all designed for the short sea trades. They were a very mixed lot, including passenger vessels, livestock carriers, coal colliers, lighthouse tenders, schooners and general cargo traders. The oldest was the schooner Brooklands of Cork, built in 1859; the most modern the motor vessel Menapia of Wexford, just launched and fitted out at her builders in Rotterdam. Within a few days of the outbreak of war a massive exodus from the Irish register had occurred and we were left with only those 56 ships.
Ships boughtThis tiny fleet increased with the formation of Irish Shipping Ltd. in March 1941 when, under great difficulty, 15 ocean-going dry cargo ships were purchased or chartered. Finding suitably qualified personnel was another major problem but many Irishmen, serving under other flags, were glad of the opportunity to sail for the first time on their own ships and the manning shortage was overcome. Casualties were heavy, for although never more than 800 men were serving the fleet at any time, 136 of them died in 16 ships that were lost. In addition to these fatalities a further 14 fishermen were killed aboard two trawlers.
MUNSTERThe first Irish ship to be sunk in World War Two was the passenger ship Munster, which fell victim to a mine in Liverpool Bay on 7th February 1940. Built at Belfast in 1938 for the British and Irish Steam Packet Company she ran on a nightly service between Dublin and Liverpool until the out -break of war when the service was suspended. She was trading between Belfast and Liverpool, on charter to the Belfast Steam Ship Company and commanded by Captain J. Paisley when sunk. Fortunately there were no deaths, though Captain Paisley and four of his crew were wounded. Over 200 passengers and the crew of fifty escaped in lifeboats and were rescued a few hours later by the collier Ringwall.
A month later on 9th March 1940 the steam trawler Leukos, owned by the Dublin Trawling Company, was sunk by gunfire from U - 3 8 (Kapitanleutnant Heinrick Liebe) while fishing off Tory Island. Eleven men died with her.
- Steam Trawler Leukos
CITY OF LIMERICKCity of Limerick was the first Irish ship to be sunk by German aircraft in World War Two. Owned by Palgrave Murphy Ltd. and commanded by Captain Robert Ferguson she departed Cartagena, Spain for Liverpool in early July 1940. At 8 a.m. on 15th July, when 100 miles west of Ushant, she was attacked from astern by an aircraft with machine-gun fire. As the plane roared overhead it dropped a stick of bombs which hit the ship but failed to explode. It returned for another attack and this time two men were killed. The ship was now stopped and disabled and the captain gave the order to abandon her. As the crew pulled away in lifeboats more German planes appeared and following further attacks the ship sank. After a cold night in the boats the survivors were rescued next day by a Belgian trawler and landed at Penzance, Cornwall.
MEATHMeath, a livestock carrier was built at Ardrossan, Scotland in 1929 and was owned by the British and Irish Steam Packet Company. Just before midnight on 15th August 1940 she sailed from Dublin for Birkenhead with 700 cattle on board. She first had to call at Holyhead to obtain clearance from the Naval Control Service. The work was completed when a terrific explosion occurred under the port side of the bridge; a magnetic mine had gone off beneath her. Three men including Captain Thomas MacFarlane were wounded. All hands cleared the ship in the port lifeboat. Twenty minutes later they were picked up by a trawler and watched Meath sink with the 700 animals still on board.
LUIMNEACHIn 1922 the Limerick Steam Ship Company purchased the steamer Fairfield and renamed her Luimneach. She saw action during the Spanish Civil War enduring twelve air raids in five days in Valencia in October 1938. In the last attack the ship was hit and one man killed. 4th September 1940 found her in the Bay of Biscay bound from Huelva, Spain to Drogheda with a cargo of iron pyrites commanded by Captain Eric Jones. Shortly after 7 p.m. a submarine was sighted astern, rapidly overtaking the Limerick ship. What happened next is record - ed in Captain Jones’s logbook; “4th September 7.30 p.m. sighted submarine, warning shot across bows, hoisted name and destination. Nationality plainly marked on vessel’s side. Second shot fired, vessel stopped. All hands manned star-board lifeboat and pulled clear. Submarine hailed me, told me to return for second boat, this done, pulled clear with nine men in each boat. Vessel sunk by gunfire”. The submarine that sank her was U- 46 (Oberleutnant zur See Englebert Endrass). Two days later the captain’s boat was sighted by the French fishing boat St. Pierre, which transferred them to a Spanish boat that a week later landed them near San Sebastian. A French fishing boat also rescued the other boat but they were brought to Lorient in German occupied France.
- Artist’s impression of the Kerry Head, first Irish ship to be deliberately attacked. This and other pictures in this article are details from paintings by the marine artist, Kenneth King.
KERRY HEADThe first Irish ship to be deliberately attacked was the collier Kerry Head of Limerick; the incident occurred on 1st August 1940 off the Old Head of Kinsale when an unidentified aircraft straddled her with bombs. No hits were recorded but the underwater explosions caused leaks through fractured plates and sprung rivets. Fortunately the pumps were able to control the inflow of water and she reached Limerick safely. Next time the attackers were more successful. On 22nd October 1940, in full view of watchers on Cape Clear Island she was bombed and sunk. There were no survivors from her twelve-man crew, which included two brothers, George and James Naughton of Windmill Street, Limerick.
ARDMORECity of Cork Steam Packet Company owned the livestock carrier Ardmore which sailed from Cork for Fishguard on 11th November 1940 under the command of Captain Thomas Ford. The crew numbered 24. She never arrived at the Welsh port but three weeks later the bodies of several crewmen were found on beaches north of Fishguard. Her wreck was discovered south of the Saltees in 1995. The damage indicated she had struck a mine.
INNISFALLENInnisfallen was a passenger ship owned by the City of Cork Steam Packet Company and in December 1940 she was operating between Dublin and Liverpool commanded by Captain George Firth of Clontarf, Dublin. At 6 p.m. on 20th December 1940 she left Liverpool landing stage for Dublin with 157 passengers and a crew of 63. She had just left the berth when air-raid sirens began sounding a warning and the harbour authorities closed the port to navigation. Captain Firth anchored the ship in the river as bombs and mines fell about her. At daylight it was reported there was an unauthorised passenger on board and when the ‘All Clear’ sounded Captain Firth took the ship back to the stage to land him. In the early afternoon the port re-opened and at 3 p.m. Innisfallen again sailed for Dublin.
Big explosionTwenty minutes later when moving slowly down river past New Brighton Tower a massive explosion occurred just forward of the bridge on the port side; a magnetic mine had activated. Three crewmen were killed outright and quartermaster Daniel Geary sustained injuries from which he died a few hours later. Two other seamen and Captain Firth were wounded. However he remained in charge and ordered the evacuation of the ship. He was the last off, sliding down a rope into a tug that had come to the rescue. Innisfallen sank fifteen minutes later. The Tower buoy off New Brighton marks her wreck.
CLONLARAClonlara joined the fleet of the Limerick Steam Ship Company in 1926 when she was built at Dundee. Commanded by Captain Joseph Reynolds, the opening days of August 1941 found her in Cardiff loading coal for Lisbon. When loading was completed she sailed down the Bristol Channel and anchored in Milford Haven where convoy OG 71 was assembling. When they sailed, 22 strong, on 12th August another Limerick ship, the Lanahrone was with them. Their naval escort consisted of a destroyer, a sloop and six corvettes. All went well until a German aircraft sighted the convoy on 17th August and then followed six days and nights of battle as OG 71 defended itself against air and submarine attacks. In all seven U-Boats were involved in the battle and they were most successful sinking eight merchant ships and two naval vessels with no losses to themselves. At the height of the battle in the early hours of 20th August, Clonlara d distinguished herself when, with ships in flames about her, she stopped to pick up survivors from the Scottish ship Alva torpedoed in the column ahead of her. She herself was sunk two nights later with the loss of eleven of her crew.
NO COMPENSATION On August 16, 1940 the Loch Ryan (Captain J. Nolan) was bombed off Lands End. There were no casualties. On March 9 of this year The Irish Times reported that the German authorities insisted they had no liability for the bombing of the Loch Ryan. The family of the late owner of the Loch Ryan had sought compensation from the German authorities but, the paper reported, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Cowen, said there was no international legal forum before which Germany could be compelled to attend.
CITY OF WATERFORDCity of Waterford was built at Belfast in 1879 as the Fair Head for the Ulster Steam Ship Company and was renamed when purchased by Palgrave Murphy Ltd. in 1934. Under the command of Captain Thomas Aplin from Sandymount, Dublin she joined convoy OG 74 at Milford Haven in September 1941. The naval escort in addition to a destroyer, sloop and six corvettes included the escort aircraft carrier, HMS Audacity and the rescue ship Walmer Castle. When all its 22 ships had assembled the convoy sailed for Gibraltar. On 19th September 1941 City of Waterford sank following collision with a Dutch ship which was also in the convoy. All her crew were rescued by a naval escort and transferred later that day to the rescue ship Walmer Castle. She was attacked by aircraft next morning and sank with heavy loss of life including five survivors from City of Waterford. Several months after the sinking there was a postscript to the saga. In the Dublin Circuit Court Judge Davitt ruled that the parents of Seaman Edward Kearney had no case against Palgrave Murphy Ltd for the loss of their son, for his contract of employment ended when City of Waterford sank and he was technically unemployed when killed on board the rescue ship. Therefore damages could not be paid under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.
Torpedoed ship’s crew rescued by another Irish vessel
IRISH OAKIn September 1941 at New Orleans the American steamer West Neris was taken over by Irish Shipping Ltd. and renamed Irish Oak. Built at Seattle in 1919 she was a sister-ship of Irish Pine sunk in November 1942. She too would not survive the war. Under the command of Captain Eric Jones she departed Ta m p a , Florida for Dublin with a cargo of phosphate in late April 1943. Shortly before dawn on 15 May she was sighted by U607 (Oberleutnant zur See Wolf Jeschonnek) who noted the neutrality markings and name but was unable to find Irish Oak in his Standing War Orders as a recognised neutral. At 12.19 German Summer Time he fired two torpedoes. One missed, the other struck the port side of No. 1 hatch and exploded inside raising clouds of phosphate dust. A radio distress call was transmitted and picked up by Irish Plane that was eighty miles away. All hands safely cleared Irish Oak in her lifeboats and were rescued in the afternoon by Irish Plane and landed in Cobh on 19 May.
IRISH PINEShortly after the formation of Irish Shipping Ltd. in March 1941 the company chartered two ships from the American government for the duration of the war. West Hematite was taken over at New Orleans in October and renamed Irish Pine. For the next twelve months she carried grain across the Atlantic from Canada. In November 1942 she was bound to Boston and was only two days from there when sighted by U- 608, (Kapitanleutnant Rolf Struckmeier). He followed her for eight hours, frequently losing her in rain and snow squalls. At no stage does he record seeing her neutrality markings. At 7.15 p.m. Zone Time on Sunday 15th November he attacked her. The War Diary records the last moments:
“Range 800 metres, torpedo depth 2 metres, running time 80 seconds. Target stopped. The torpedo hit the after part of the ship and she began to settle immediately by the stern. A lifeboat with a very bright light is lowered. Ship becomes perpendicular and sinks stern first at 0017 Central European Time. Wind north-west force 6, sea very rough, barometer 1014 millibars, temperature 12 Centigrade”.So ended the Irish Pine, sinking in just three minutes. No wreckage or any of the bodies of her 33 crew were ever found.
KYLECLAREKyleclare was built at Dundee in 1932 for the Limerick Steam Ship Company and up to the outbreak of the war mainly traded from ports in the west of Ireland to Liverpool. The morning of 21st February 1943 saw her departing Lisbon for Dublin as she steamed down the Tagus and into the Atlantic. Two days later she had made good progress northwards and was at 48 50 north, 12 20 west when sighted by U-456 (Kapitanleutnant Max Teichert). He manoeuvred into attack position; wind was south-southwest, force 3, sea smooth, gentle swell, good visibility. He later claimed that he had not seen Kyleclare ’s neutrality markings as she was so low in the water, listing to starboard and his periscope was awash. From a distance of 500 metres he fired a fan of three torpedoes. The moment of firing was logged; 2.38 p.m. Central European Time, 23 February 1943. As the torpedoes left the tubes, the submarine rose higher in the water and at that instance Teichert saw the double inscription EIRE on the ship’s side. Seconds later a double explosion echoed throughout the submarine. He proceeded to the position of the sinking but found nothing except wreckage; Kyleclare had disintegrated in a massive cloud of brown smoke. Eighteen Irish lives were blasted into eternity with her.
NAOMH GARBHANThe last Irish marine casualty of World War Two occurred on 2nd May 1945 when the Helwick fishing vessel Naomh Garbhan, working nine miles off Dungarvan, picked up a mine in her nets. It exploded killing three of the crew.
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