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In this age of information overload, it’s very easy for people to look up their symptoms on the internet and self diagnose. But that’s where the problem starts in terms of falling prey to misinformation and rumours.
Breast cancer is one of the better-known cancers and has been subject to various awareness campaigns. Still, there are a plethora of myths and misconceptions about it that need to be addressed.
Only those who have experienced breast cancer closely genuinely understand what it is, others may fall into the trap of myths and rumours, and might not truly realise the underlying reasons and risks of the disease.
Here, we dispel eight persistent myths about breast cancer and its causes.
This myth around male breast cancer arises from an improper understanding of human biology. Whether male or female, all people have breast cells and tissues. Even though men do not develop milk-producing parts, breast cells and tissues can develop cancer. One in 1000 men will ever be diagnosed with breast cancer, and it is usually detected as a lump underneath the nipple and areola.
Of all breast cancer cases, only 1% of cases happen in men, but the mortality in men is much higher when compared to women. The reason for the higher mortality rate can be attributed to lack of awareness amongst men regarding the symptoms of cancer and delay in seeking treatment.
Even though people worry that radiation from mobile phones can cause cancer, there has been no such recorded case or any evidence to support the claim. Many media reports have raised concerns that carrying a cell phone in your bra can lead to breast cancer, but no research has yet been conducted about the same.
Rumours and misinformation on the internet have fueled myths that wearing a bra or a particular variety of bra, like underwire bras can lead to breast cancer. There is no scientific proof to support this claim. A 2014 study of roughly 1,500 women with breast cancer found no link between bra-wearing and breast cancer.
Pain is very rarely the indicator of breast cancer, but it may or may not accompany a cancerous lump. Breast pain is the third most common non-cancerous breast complaint and may be caused by a variety of conditions. If a patient has breast pain, they should get mammography done just to be sure.
While a majority of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have a lump, it is not always necessary. A lump is just one of the symptoms, and even if unnoticeable, breast cancer can still occur in women of all ages. Therefore, women should check for redness of nipples, change in the size, shape or symmetry of your breast, thickening or swelling of the breast, nipple tenderness or pain, etc. during a self-check.
This myth is based on the fact that underarm antiperspirants or deodorants are applied near the breast, and may contain potentially harmful ingredients. Even though several scientists and others have suggested a possible connection between their use and breast cancer, there is no hard evidence to support the claim and until research proves it otherwise, you need not give up on your deodorants.
If your family has a history of breast cancer, it doesn’t mean that you will get it too. However, it is important that you are aware of the causes, risks and undergo tests regularly.
Also, most women with breast cancer don’t have a family history of the disease. In fact, only about 13% of women with breast cancer have a close relative with breast cancer.
Women, in general, need to be aware of spotting the early signs of breast cancer, as it can happen even to those who are at moderate risk. The exact causes are still unknown, so one needs to be aware and informed.
Breast cancer is rare in ages below 40, and only makes up a small portion of the total number of cases. But it is the most common cancer for women in the age group of 20-40. Even though rare, breast cancer in younger women is as catastrophic as for women under 40, breast cancer is often diagnosed in its later stages, when it tends to be more aggressive. Due to this, the survival rate for the age group is low.
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Non-dispersive infrared spectroscopy (NDIR) is widely used for the detection of gases. Here, the gas to be examined is fed into a closed chamber and irradiated with light in the infrared spectral range.
The production of the necessary infrared emitters based on standard MEMS technologies is time and cost intensive. In niche markets and special applications there is a high interest in low-cost components and short development time. Conventional manufacturing requires complex lithography steps to structure the layers deposited on the carrier substrate using various processes. Each change of the structures requires adapted new lithography masks, which increase time and costs. In CMOS-compatible deposition systems, the choice of materials is severely limited because impurities trigger costly cleaning procedures.
Inkjet processes allow direct writing of structures without lithography steps and are no longer limited to CMOS compatible materials, development times are shortened.
If this process is combined with electrodeposition, it is possible to grow thick films on the printed structures. The choice of materials becomes even more diverse. In addition, the printed structures can be optimized in terms of their electrical, optical and mechanical properties as well as bondability.
With these technologies, fast development times as well as flexible process designs can be realized and are conceivable for other sensor developments.
The research and development work in the “Inkjet Printing of Galvanically Amplified Infrared Emitters” (IJP-IR) project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
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Why pico-ionics? Why picometer minerals? Can you imagine how many benefits bring minerals straight to the cell? The absorption is 100 percent. Why pico-ionic minerals? They do not stick on intestine walls, do not make mucus, and plagues. They go straight to cells: no enemas or colon cleansing. The body can have rest from additional detoxification when side products burden organs, tissues, and blood.
The Effect is Immediate
I can tell from my own experience when I started to use ReMag. I did not have massive problems with my well-being, but I felt the difference after eating before bed and consuming pounds of chocolate any time I could get my hands on it.
What kind of difference was it? My sleep improved. I could live without chocolate for two weeks. Can you imagine? I ate Trader Joe’s dark chocolate, weighing one pound every week. Now I can choose when and how much I want to consume chocolate. I am in charge, not my habits.
Dr. Carolyn Dean M.D., N.D. mentioned that craving dark chocolate shows that magnesium is deficient. Besides it, I felt that I did not have a heart after a few days when I started to drink ReMag. Maybe it sounds funny, but sometimes I think my heart is unhappy. It was a slight pain, but not a real one.
According to Dr.Carolyn Dean the author of The Magnesium Miracle,
ReMag is a form of magnesium that is 100% absorbed at the cellular level, and it is the non laxative. It successfully treats heart disease, anxiety, muscle pain and spasms, nerve problems, and much more.
Can you imagine that this mineral, found in Earth’s crust, can treat “acid reflux, adrenal fatigue, angina, anxiety, atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, constipation, depression, diabetes type 2, fibromyalgia, headaches, heart attacks, IBS, insomnia, kidney stones, migraines, muscle spasms, nerve twitches, osteoporosis, PMS, seizures, and more?” These words are from Dr.Carolyn Dean about magnesium benefits and usage.
Science Spoke Out
Seventeen years ago, researchers found out that
- Minerals enter through ion channels
- Cell gateways for joining minerals are 400-500 picometers in diameter.
More exciting than the single magnesium ion is only 70- 86 picometers in size. Can you imagine how easy it is for magnesium ions to enter cells?
You would think that all magnesium supplements are made in this way. No. Just monoatomic, single, stabilized ions can enter cells. It means 100 percent absorption. There are no side effects such as laxatives.
Picometer Minerals for Animals
Furry and not-so furry animals benefit from pico ionic minerals. Dr.Terry Wood uses picometer minerals with success. These minerals reach cells directly without side effects. Picometer minerals bypass the gut and save energy for animals because it does not need to be digested.
Stabilized Picometer Ionic Minerals
ReMag, ReMyte, and ReCalcia are monoatomic, picometer, and stabilized liquid mineral formulas. These minerals are of the same size as minerals absorbed from the soil by plants.
Ions in these formulas are unique. Why? Ions do not form clusters as. Usually, ions would like to behave. These ions do not bond with oxide and hydrogen.
The manufacturing technology ensures that minerals stay stabilized, picometer size ions. The weight of an ion is an atomic weight. It is the same size as Nature-created minerals. There is no smaller size than ions in nature.
The manufacturer controls the process where ions are stable, monoatomic, and picometer size. These minerals in ReMag, ReMyte, and ReCalcia are absorbed straight into the cell 100 percent. The assimilation happens through the cell membrane. Do you remember the size of the ion channels and the size of magnesium? Do you see how it is easy to get these minerals?
Pico ionic minerals serve us at the best when they are stabilized and picometer size. The body can save energy because these minerals go straight to the cell. There is no digestive tract involved.
Of course, if you drink ReMag with water, you will get magnesium through the walls of the intestine too. However, by holding the sip of ReMag in your mouth, you will get magnesium without swallowing it right away. The absorption is 100 percent.
Minerals participate in metabolism. Without them, the body can not function properly. The deficiency of minerals leads to various unpleasant symptoms and disorders.
ReMag, ReMyte, and ReCalcia are unique formulas. These picometer sizes and pic0 ionic stabilized minerals give the body support. The quality of life changes immensely, especially when somebody is deficient in minerals.
Did you have experience with magnesium and other products from Dr.Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.? Please leave a comment below; I would be glad to hear your opinion.
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Does a 125th birthday count as a significant anniversary? If so — also if not — today is Alban Berg’s 125th. In commemoration, I’m playing the only really tolerable pieces written by the New Vienna School, Berg’s Violin Concerto and Lyric Suite for String Quartet. Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg published a few other pieces that are not just tolerable but very pleasant, but they are arrangements of Strauss waltzes — the Old Vienna School reworked by the New — so they don’t really count.
So what would we call a 125th birthday? A hemi-demi-semi-millennium, of course.
By the way, ‘Alban’ seems an odd name for a German. I mostly know it from the name of the Alban Mount, southeast of Rome. It’s odd that ‘Berg’ is German for mount(ain), though the mountain is apparently not called the Albanberg in German. The ancient Roman name is singular, Albanus Mons, but German Wikipedia gives the plural ‘Albaner Berge’ as the preferred form, with ‘Albaner Hügel’ and ‘Albanergebirge’ as alternatives. I still wonder if Alban’s father was indulging in a pun: perhaps a native speaker can tell us. | <urn:uuid:fa74281f-73f2-46bc-81ee-ecf07b0b889d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://curculio.org/?p=466 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957472 | 296 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Located in Heritage Park, this colorful mural is composed of historic and contemporary photos from ethnic and cultural groups who lived in the Walla Walla Valley from 1850-1950. They are reproduced in porcelain enamel on steel panels and inlaid on the historic façade of Henry Osterman's 1902 Odd Fellows' Temple.
The Art Director and production artist is Walla Walla artist Jeanne McMenemy. The Research interns, including students from Whitman College and Walla Walla University have assisted with research and photo procurement. This project was made possible by many individual, local, regional, and national grantors. For a list of its sponsors click here. The panels were installed by the Walla Walla Foundry.
The "Windows on the Past" online tour is divided into three sections below: the left panel, center panel, and right panel. Each has its own "story map" slide show, with images on the left and information on the right. Click on each panel below to begin the tour:
Jeanne McMenemy, Art Direction and Digital Production
Jeana Garske, Director, ArtWalla
Rob Robinson, President, ArtWalla
Hans Matschukat, Photographer
WinsorFireform, Panel Production
Walla Walla Foundry, Installation
Mark A. Anderson
Major Funding Provided By:
Donald & Virginia Sherwood Trust
Washington State Arts Commission
The National Endowment for the Arts
Mary Garner Esary Trust
Opp & Seibold General Construction, Inc.
Walla Walla Electric
Walla Walla Foundry
George T. Welch Testamentary Trust
Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center
Blue Mountain Community Foundation
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Beautiful exploration game, black and white
I love games that genuinely are about exploration, where your discovery of a space is front and center the core of the game. Well, in this one you will get to explore these beautifully raster graphics, black and white caves, though, caves is more of an umbrella term, for what actually is some cool, almost abstract constructions. What takes away from the game a bit, is the fact that along with the actual messing about in the caves, you also get a map of the way the caves are connected, which, unfortunately, takes away from the fun you have in them. Not that there is anything wrong with this way of getting it done, it's just that well, it rubs a bit of the mystery of the discovery off. Anyway, as an educational game, as it was intended to be looked at, Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo does a good job as well, teaching kids about hypercard usage (a sort of on-site prototypical pseudo linking system, that was the base of HTML!) as well as the beauty of discovery and coordinates. Play it, it's a relaxing experience, not very charged, but cool enough. Similar to Myst in a way, but clearly more original. | <urn:uuid:ee6153d3-0747-4f62-b00f-6984f64fce9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.squakenet.com/game/spelunx-and-the-caves-of-mr-seudo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97472 | 261 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The road is one of the most important aspects of our lives, and it’s also one of the most ethically challenging. Driving schools are an important part of our education, and they can help us learn not only how to drive safely, but also how to be responsible citizens on the road.
Driving schools can help you learn how to drive safely. The best teenage driving education & training classes will teach you all the basics of safe driving, from how to steer your car to how to avoid accidents. They will also teach you how to respond in emergencies, so that you can stay safe and protect yourself and other drivers.
Driving schools can help you learn how to be a responsible citizen on the road. Good driving schools will teach you about traffic laws and etiquette, so that you can operate your vehicle in a safe and polite manner. They will also teach you about basic safety techniques, such as using seat belts and avoiding distractions while driving.
Driving schools can help you develop good driving habits. They will teach you how to be a safe and conscientious driver, through informative classes and hands-on training sessions. They can also help you identify and correct bad habits, such as distractions while driving or drowsy driving.
Concept maps are a great way to organize information, thoughts and ideas. This article will teach you how to create your own concept map in just a few key steps so that you can begin organizing your thoughts more effectively.
A concept map is a simple visual way to organize your thoughts. Concept maps are like sticky notes for your brain. You can use them to store ideas, memories, and thoughts. If you are looking for the best concept mind map you can also visit this site .
There are a few tools that you will need in order to create a concept map. The most important tool is a whiteboard or piece of paper, which you can use to draw the map. Other tools that you may want to have on hand include markers, scissors, and a calculator.
To begin creating your concept map, you will first need to gather all of the information that you want to include on the map. This can be done by either reading through your article or making notes as you go. Once you have gathered all of the information, it is time to start drawing the map.
The first step in drawing your concept map is to divide the space on the whiteboard or paper into quadrants. This will help you organize your thoughts about the topic at hand. Next, each quadrant should be divided into cells. Each cell should contain one sentence that explains the concept that is being represented in that cell.
Once the cells are filled in, it is time to connect the cells together. This can be done by using arrows or lines connecting the cells. It is important to keep in mind what each connection means so that everything makes sense once it is completed.
When it comes to house cleaning, there are a few things you should always keep in mind. One of these is the use of disposable gloves. While they may seem like an insignificant detail, gloves play an important role in the cleanliness of your home.
You can look at this site https://jodoex.ca/services/residential/soft-brush-house-wash-services-surrey-langley-abbotsford-coqu for a cleaner that does exterior house cleaning services, there are a number of great companies out there that can help you.
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Some tips for exterior house cleaning:
1. It Keeps Your House Looking Its Best:
Regularly cleaning your house will help keep it looking its best. Not only will you reduce the amount of dirt and dust that accumulates over time, but you'll also avoid creating a mess that can be difficult to clean.
2. It Reduces the Risk of Germs Growing:
Cleaning your house regularly prevents bacteria, mold, and other harmful germs from growing. By keeping surfaces clean, you decrease the risk of health problems such as pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses.
3. It Helps Reduce Energy Costs:
Keeping your home clean not only looks great but also helps reduce energy costs. Not to mention, living in a dirty home is incredibly uncomfortable. Cleaning your exterior house regularly can help you save money on your monthly utility bills.
Some of the more common materials used for exterior house cleaning are:
1- Paint scrubber
2- Exterior window cleaner
3- Carpet cleaner
4- Pressurized hose
Automatic pool covers are a great way to keep your pool clean and algae-free. They automatically open and close when the pool is in use, which helps to keep the water clean. Plus, they're easy to install and keep your pool looking great.
Automatic pool covers is a great way to keep your pool clean and protected from the sun and rain. They open and close when the sun rises and sets, protecting the pool from direct sunlight while keeping it shady during the day. They also close at night to protect the pool from rain or snow.
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Pool covers are necessary to protect your pool from harmful UV rays and weather conditions. But if your pool cover is manual, it can be time-consuming and difficult to open each day. That's where automatic pool covers come in handy – they open automatically when the weather conditions change, saving you time and hassle.
Here are a few reasons why you should consider investing in an automatic pool cover:
1-They protect your pool from harmful UV rays and weather conditions: Pool covers help keep your pool protected from the sun's harmful UV rays and elements that can damage the liner and pool deck.
2-They're convenient: Automatic pool covers work with sensors to know when it's time to open, so there's no need to get out of the water every day – just wait for the cover to lift.
3-They're environmentally friendly: Automatic pool covers use less energy than manually opening and closing a cover, which helps save on your electric bill.
There are a number of reasons why you might want to use self-service software. Perhaps you want to reduce the amount of time you spend on tasks that don't involve direct customer interaction.
Alternatively, you may find that self service portal is more efficient than traditional methods because it allows you to handle more transactions at once. Whatever your reasons, self-service software can make your life easier.
– Improved efficiency: Self-service software can help you maximize your time by automating repetitive tasks. This can save you hours each week.
– Greater control: With self-service software, you have more control over your work and personal life. You can customize the software to work specifically for you.
Self-service software is a great way to improve efficiency and communication within an organization. Here are some of the benefits of self-service portals that users can enjoy:
-Reduced training time for new employees: Self-service software allows employees to learn through experience, instead of having to attend lengthy training sessions.
-Efficient communication: With self-service software, workers can easily send and receive messages without requiring assistance from supervisors. This can save valuable time and energy.
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Addgene offers a variety of AAV serotypes for your gene therapy needs. Here are four reasons to choose Addgene’s services:
1. Experienced Therapeutic Development Team: Addgene has a team of experienced therapeutic development professionals who have extensive experience with gene therapy and AAV serotypes. Their expertise will help you develop your treatment safely and efficiently.
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3. Customizable Delivery Vehicles: Addgene can create custom-made delivery vehicles using various methods, including liposomes and nanoparticles. This allows you to choose the most effective delivery method for your patients’ individual needs.
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The Addgene Serotypes Services are based on the company’s world-class in-house AAV vector production capabilities. The service includes the design, construction, and quality control of recombinant AAV vectors. In addition, the Serotypes Services include the provision of customer-specific AAV sequences, as well as expert consultation and support.
Digital marketing agencies play a very critical part in our own life. It is now impossible to accomplish any sort of business with no assistance from this digital promotion.
The digital marketing agencies strive their level best to paint a purposeful image of any business within the world wide web. If you want to know more you can search for the best digital marketing agency via online resources.
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Today the majority of people of civilized nations understand how to work the internet and computer so they hunt for whatever on the internet and also the digital marketing agencies make an effort to create all viewers or readers. The electronic market and online market possess substantial importance.
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Digital marketing agencies bring various parts of this internet for example search engine optimization, societal networking advertising, social support systems, web technology, and multimedia features under one single roof. They have been able to create a substantial network on the list of people and the world of business.
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They can possess powerful audiences that are happy with their superb support. Before the company houses prefer to establish or present anything new to the clients with the assistance of printing and digital media.
Solar panels are devices that use the sun’s energy to produce electricity. They are becoming more popular because they are a renewable resource and they save people money on their electric bills. Solar panels can supply enough electricity to power a small home or office, and they can be installed on roofs, in windows, or even on the ground.
There are a number of different types of solar panels, but all of them work the same way. They convert the sun’s energy into electricity using a photovoltaic panel. solar panels could help provide you with cheaper electricity and save you money on your electric bill. If you are looking for the best solar panels you can also check this website https://www.stanthonyssolar.lk/
Solar panels are devices that use the sun’s energy to produce electricity. They are becoming more popular because they are a renewable resource and they save people money on their electric bills.
Solar panels can supply enough electricity to power a small home or office, and they can be installed on roofs, in windows, or even on the ground. There are a number of different types of solar panels, but all of them work the same way. They convert the sun’s energy into electricity using a photovoltaic panel.
Solar panels are a great option for homes that want to reduce their electric bill. Not only do they help reduce your carbon footprint, but solar panels also provide a steady stream of electricity that can be used at any time. If you're thinking about installing solar panels in your home, take the time to do some research and find the best option for you.
One of the best things about buying hoodies is the fact that they are available in a wide variety of designs, colors, and shapes. However, shopping for printed apparel can get expensive. Fortunately, there are ways to save on your purchase without sacrificing quality.
Hoodies are one of the most popular items on the market today. They are versatile and can be worn in a variety of ways, making them a great choice for a variety of occasions.
One of the biggest benefits of buying a custom printed hoodies is that it is unique. There are not many other places where you can find printed hoodies, so if you are looking for something special, printed hoodies are the way to go.
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You can create the perfect hoodie for your unique style. You can choose to have your logo or text printed on the front or back of the hoodie or even on both sides! This means that you can create a personalized hoodie that is perfect for you.
Additionally, printed hoodies are made from high-quality materials. They will last longer and be softer than regular hoodies. This is important because it means that you will be able to wear your hoodie for years to come without having to worry about it starting to wear down or becoming torn.
Finally, printed hoodies look great. They can add a touch of style and class to any outfit. If you are looking for something special that will stand out from the rest, print your own hoodie today!
The prodigy disc golf bag is a high-quality, durable bag that can withstand the most extreme weather and still provide a sense of style and comfort. The prodigy disc golf bag is a bag designed specifically for disc golfers. It is a large and spacious bag that can hold a lot of supplies.
The prodigy disc golf bags are made from heavy-duty materials. It has a water-resistant cover and can withstand tough weather conditions. The bag also has a strap system that makes it easy to carry. The prodigy disc golf bag is perfect for players who want to travel with their supplies without having to carry them in their hands.
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Where to buy the Prodigy Disc Golf Bag?
If you're in the market for a new disc golf bag, you've come to the right place! Prodigy disc golf has several different models of disc golf bags available to purchase. You can find the prodigy disc golf bag at many online retailers, like Amazon and eBay. You can also find it at physical stores across the country. If you're looking for a quality disc golf bag that will make playing more enjoyable, the prodigy disc golf bag is the perfect option!
Things to Consider before buying a prodigy bag:
- First, you need to decide what kind of player you are.
- Second, you need to decide what size bag you need.
- Finally, consider your budget.
Pros of the prodigy bag:
- The prodigy bag has a lot of space for all of your gear.
- The bag is very durable and can handle heavy use.
- The straps are very comfortable, which makes it easy to carry the bag long distances.
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Template for Systematic Biology (SYSBIO)
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Systematic Biology is the bimonthly journal of the Society of Systematic Biologists. Papers for the journal are original contributions to the theory, principles, and methods of systematics as well as phylogeny, evolution, morphology, biogeography, paleontology, genetics, and the classification of all living things. A Points of View section offers a forum for discussion, while book reviews and announcements of general interest are also featured.
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The La-Z-Boy Inc manufactures furniture and has its roots in Monroe, Michigan, in the United States. It produces furniture items, which include sofas, sleeper sofas, stationary chairs, and upholstery recliners.
From wooden tables to trademark recliners, an array of choices is showcased by the furniture galleries. In addition to the main brands of the company, also present at the stores are children’s furniture and brand names such as ‘England’, Bauhaus, Kincaid, and Hammy.
The La-Z-Boy Inc has three operating segments viz. the Casegoods Group, the Retail Group, and the Upholstery Group.
The Casegoods Group typically sells imported or manufactured furniture to retailers of furniture. The items include entertainment centers, tables, dressers, chairs, headboards, accent pieces, plus some upholstered furniture.
The Retail Group has seventy stores that are company owned. It generally sells upholstered furniture ending customers through a network of retail.
The Upholstery Group manufactures and also sells the furniture to proprietary stores and furniture retailers. The furniture included in this group varies from sleeper sofas, ottomans, chairs, and loveseats, to sofas, recliners and motion furniture.
Working Hours – Monday – Saturday: 10:00am to 9:00pm; and on Sunday: 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Age Eligibility – 18 years
Delivery Driver, Office Assistant, Administrative Assistant, Warehouse Associate, Interior Designer, Designer Apprentice, Accounting Manager, Regional Human Resources Manager, Store Manager, Assistant Manager, Sales Lead, Sales Associate, In-Home Designer, Part-Time Design Assistant, Furniture Sales Consultant, Retail Sales Consultant.
Two youngsters started the La-Z-Boy in the year 1927. They discarded steady work and opened a furniture store. After some years, it became a key component of living rooms in America.
Dozens of retail locations of this company can be found in the United States. Stores are also maintained in Canada. It also distributes furniture to international locations like Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Italy, Germany, and Turkey. The company holds international and US patents on about 200 mechanisms and different styles.
Many brands and companies are included as a part of La-Z-Boy, such as England Furniture Incorporated, Hammary Furniture, Bauhaus USA Furniture, Kincaid Furniture, American Drew, Lea Furniture, La-Z-Boy Hospitality, La-Z-Boy Kids, and La-Z-Boy Residential. The company offers products like casegoods and upholstery furniture.
On the New York Stock Exchange, the La-Z-Boy Inc trades publicly using the symbol ‘LZB’. It last reported a sales figure of close to $1.2 billion. In the corporate offices and stores, about 8,200 associates are reported to be employed.
The headquarters can be found in Monroe, Michigan, USA
Job Descriptions & Remuneration
The candidate must be having a both a high school diploma and a retail job experience if he or she aspires for a career in managing the La-Z-Boy stores. Job titles available are:
Retail Sales Consultant – A candidate at this position carries the task of creating sales by using excellent customer service. This person must also be having a good knowledge of the merchandise such that sales goals are achieved. Certification has to be achieved through the programs of La-Z-Boy and guaranteeing that every client goes through an experience that is positive and practical. The candidate also must have a high level of originality. There should be an ability of multi shift working. A dress and professional development is essential, as well. Working in different shifts, hours, weekends, and even on holidays must also be an ability of the candidate. The average income available for the retail sales consultant comes close to $38,000 per year.
Sales Manager – This worker has to achieve the aims of store sales by making a rational use of information about the products of the company and customer service. Customer affiliations have to be built by this manager, this will help to increase sales and productivity. He or she is also needed to achieve the store standards, and the sales objectives. Sales experience of two or more than two years attached with a straight track record is often favored. There should also be a skill at using the MS-Office, which includes Excel, Outlook, and Word. The average salary for this employee starts at $38,000 per year.
Advantages of working@La-Z-Boy
There are numerous benefits that await the workers who are qualified at La-Z-Boy. The package includes health coverage, paid vacation, employee discount, and a 401 (k) retirement plan. Also present in the list of the perks available for associates are options for work scheduling, paid training, as well as opportunities for advancement.
La-Z-Boy Job Application
Job Interview Questions@La-Z-Boy
- What have been the top sales accomplishments achieved while working at the previous company?
- How did you improve your ability towards any kind of job given?
- How would you defeat an environment of stagnation, which sometimes happens in the store?
- What would be your reaction, if a customer demands a substantial discount?
- How would you handle rude customers?
- Where do you want to end up after, say five years of continually being employed in this store?
- What would be your reaction if you notice a coworker misleading a new customer?
- Do you have computer knowledge, which includes MS Word, Outlook, and Excel?
- If given an option, in which department will you like to work and why?
- Can you determine, whether a customer is impressed, by a new design of any kind of furniture? | <urn:uuid:7b3e50d0-b6cd-4088-806e-26868822414a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.topjobapplications.com/la-z-boy-job-application/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948036 | 1,252 | 1.601563 | 2 |
|Appears in Collections:||Faculty of Social Sciences Journal Articles|
|Peer Review Status:||Refereed|
|Title:||The impact of Linguistic knowledge on Learner Strategy Deployment|
|Keywords:||Learner strategy deployment|
|Citation:||Razi O & Grenfell M (2012) The impact of Linguistic knowledge on Learner Strategy Deployment. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 47, pp. 818-822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.741|
|Abstract:||It is generally accepted that linguistic knowledge is a key element in the comprehension of reading of texts in a second language (L2). Research on the ‘threshold level' argues that learners need to reach to a certain level of L2 proficiency in order to be able to understand printed text. However, it is still not clear when and how learners reach the threshold level and, when they do, which reading skills are sensitive to this proficiency. It is argued that Strategy Based Instruction (SBI) may provide beginning level students with tools to cope with challenges of reading. However, although learners are able to use learner strategies as guiding mechanisms while reading, a lack of linguistic knowledge can short-circuit the deployment of such. This paper presents extracts from think-aloud protocols that were conducted as part of a quasi-experimental study carried out with 12-year-old secondary school students in Cyprus. Strategy deployment was analysed in terms of order, complexity and simplicity, symbiotic relationships and sophistication. The findings show that learners, despite their weak linguistic knowledge, were able to use certain strategies to cope with difficulties. Nevertheless, examples are also offered which suggest that weak linguistic knowledge can sometimes get in the way of successful strategy deployment; thus providing evidence to support the threshold hypothesis. It is argued that SBI can offer a guiding mechanism for beginner level students' language learning. Such students can use strategies as tools to cope with the challenges of reading texts. However, a certain level of proficiency is necessary if students are to be able to draw on these strategies.|
|Rights:||© 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Uzunboylu; Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.|
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Ramboll assisted Energinet.dk in carrying out environmental investigations and an environmental impact assessment (EIA) in relation to the expansion of the capacity of the gas transmission system between Ellund and Egtved in the southern part of Jutland, Denmark.
The project is an important part of the overall strategy to ensure future supply of gas in Denmark. By establishing a new gas pipeline it was made possible to import gas from Germany.
The gas pipeline is approximately 94 kilometres long and runs through 6 municipalities in the southern part of Jutland, which made it necessary to carry out mapping of planning issues, environment and nature prior to the completion of the EIA.
In order to obtain the necessary permits for the construction of a new natural gas pipeline, an EIA process was carried out with the elaboration of an EIA report and a municipal plan addendum. Ramboll carried out all preliminary investigations, assisted during adjustment of the project, and elaborated environmental assessments.
In addition, the project involved a compressor station, 4 M/R stations and 5 L/V stations connected to the existing gas pipeline.
The pipeline route was challenging due to many crossings of protected streams as well as NATURA 2000 sites. Although the time schedule was very tight, Ramboll managed to complete the project within the estimated time.
In connection with the environmental assessment, Ramboll also assisted Energinet.dk with participation in public meetings and answering questions during the public hearing process.
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Source: European Educational Research Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, (2010). p. 257-268.
This paper focuses on students’ perceptions of gender relations in school over the last three decades.
The analysis is based on data from three inquiry surveys in Swedish secondary schools from 1974, 1992 and 2005. The article compares how young students
(a) perceive the behaviour of boys and girls in a classroom situation,
(b) value different aspects of family and work in their future lives, and
(c) experience the power relations between girls/women and boys/men.
The analysis indicates both stability and change.
In some aspects, the students perceive certain classroom behaviour as highly gendered, but in parallel there is a trend that girls have taken on a more active role in the classroom and are more career-oriented than before.
But even though girls seem to have expanded their positions of agency over time, they have not improved their overall status in the gender hierarchy.
Rather, the results point in the opposite direction, since the general opinion is that it is more favourable to be male than female. Compared to 1974, this is expressed even more strongly in 2005. | <urn:uuid:821bbaba-ce68-4a4c-a171-26cdaeb4390e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://education.eng.macam.ac.il/article/2119 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957435 | 240 | 2.5 | 2 |
WW2 Umvoti Rifles Cover South Africa 2nd Division 1942 MISSING IN ACTION North Africa
WW2 plain cover (much travelled) franked South Africa 1s 3d (air mail rate) cancelled machine QUEENSTOWN and sent to:
No 27821 Sig R J Morum
Sig Platoon H.Q. Company
Umvoti Mounted Rifles
4th S.A.I. 2nd Division
Addressed crossed through and shows the large cachet "MISSING" RETURN TO SENDER. To reverse senders addressed and Egypt 37 Postage Prepaid datestamp -6 OC 42 - the U.D.F Base Depot at Helwan Egypt.
(Ross MOrum was taken POW in North Africa during the German/Italian push to Tobruk and El Alamein in 1942)
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If you would ask any semicha student which of the מלאכות ( forbidden categories of shabbos work) are the most complex, my bet would be that it would be a tough choice between בשול ( cooking ) and הוצאה (transferring.)
If that student had extended his usual semicha studies to include ערובין , it would become a no brainer- הוצאה would definitely scoop the prize .
This is the only one of the מלאכות that takes up virtually an entire masechta ( Eruvin) , as well as at least 4 full chapters of Shabbos.
It is also one of the only 2 מלאכות ( I stand to be corrected ) that gets it own source:
- the מלאכה of הבערה ( lighting a fire) is specifically mentioned (Shmos 35/3) – לא תבערו אש בכל מושבותיכם ביום השבת ( You may not kindle a fire in any of your dwelling places on the Sabbath day .)
Chazal debate why it is singled out and their are 2 major approaches to this (הבערה ללאו יצאת או הבערה לחלק יצאת) , but thats not for this post.
- Our Gemara asks where the source is that הוצאה is forbidden on shabbos, and brings a passuk ויעבירו קול במחנה (Shmos 36/6) , an instruction to stop bringing ( transferring) things for the Mishkan.
Given that we are already aware from various sugyos that we have studied that the source for all the מלאכות is the verse “You shall not do any מלאכה ” and the proximity of the verse that discusses Shabbos to the one that discusses the משכן (sanctuary) , teaches us that the מלאכות referred to in the prohibition are those that were done in the work of the משכן.
In our very Mishna, this same idea is applied to the מלאכה of הוצאה to explain why passing something from one private domain to another through a public domain is forbidden yet throwing is not, according to Chachamim ( Rabbi Akiva of course disagrees and forbids throwing as well- welcome to הזורק! )
In chapter 4 of our Masechta (Shabbos 49b) , it also specifically mentioned that both הוצאה ( literally taking out ) and its תולדה ( derivative ) הכנסה ( bringing in ) , are derived from what was done in the Mishkan.
As such, the question screaming out at us is why do we need a separate passuk to teach us the prohibition of הוצאה and its תולדות of הכנסה, זריקה, etc , when it was already one of the 39 מלאכות done in the Mishkan and is indeed derived from there too!
Tosfos on the first daf of the Masechta ( Shabbos 2a ” פשט” ) , deals with this question at length, and focuses on the idea that הוצאה is a מלאכה גרועה ( inferior מלאכה ).
This seems to be because unlike most מלאכות where an actual physical change ( usually an improvement) is made in the object the מלאכה is applied to, transferring an item from one domain to another does not have any physical affect at all- it remains the same item as it was before.
Tosfos points out that it is so questionable whether this should even qualify as a מלאכה that transferring from one adjoining private domain to another is completely permitted on a biblical level while transferring from a private domain to a public domain is forbidden, despite their similarity in terms of the action done!
The question that still bothers Tosfos though, is the converse .
If we already know that הוצאה is forbidden from a separate verse despite it being a מלאכה גרועה , then why does our Mishna and other sugyos have to show that it was done in the Mishkan ?
He answers with the radical idea that had we not been able to show that הוצאה was indeed one of the מלאכות in the Mishkan, we would have learnt from the passuk that explicitly forbids it that ANY melacha like action, (perhaps even a weak one like הוצאה) , is forbidden on shabbos, even if it was NOT done in the Mishkan !
We thus need a separate passuk to teach us that even though it is a מלאכה גרועה, it is still included in the prohibition with its sister melachot that were done in the Mishkan, but we need the fact that it was in fact done in the Mishkan to save the famous rule that only מלאכות done in the Mishkan are in fact forbidden !
It thus comes as a leniency rather than a stringency as we thought .
But what would we have done with the דרשה that derives the forbidden מלאכות from the משכן due to proximity of verses ?
Tosfos suggests that this would have simply been used to teach us something else , perhaps a fascinating statement about how he views the world of דרשות in general , but thats for another time perhaps …
Lets take a minute go consider how far-reaching this suggestion is- The golden rule that we always take for granted about the connection between the Mishkan and Shabbos would have come tumbling down in a moment had Chazal not shown that this “inferior Melacha” was also done on the Mishkan!
There is another, philosophical lesson, I would like to learn from this .
What seems to us like the weakest of Melacho, one that has NO physical impact on the item at all, to the point that it needs its own unique prohibition, has become the Melacha which our Masechta opened up with, that occupies 2 of the longest and most complex chapters of the Masechta, and also gets its own entire Masechta virtually to itself !
Despite the emphasis placed on the laws of לשון הרע ( gossip) and אונאת דברים (offending people ), in practise , we still often tend to harbour the mistaken belief that ” sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never harm me .”
So long as one doesn’t actually physically hurt a person, it is OK to hurt him emotionally, after all emotions cannot be seen or measured !
Yet the message of this מלאכה is precisely the opposite.
If a constructive action that involves no physical improvement to an item can not only be considered מלאכת מחשבת , a significant form of work, but even dominate all the other מלאכות in the time spent studying it , how much more so should we focus on the significance of non physical damage that appears to be less significant, but in fact, can be as damaging , or even more so, than physical actions, , as we know from the innocent lives that have been utterly ruined by lashon harah. | <urn:uuid:6e0e1830-8676-4266-8943-d6b1e45dafcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yoniisaacson.com/tag/carrying/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932777 | 1,766 | 1.734375 | 2 |
What is the main and the most obvious difference between design in 2000 and 2020? Availability and existence.
Twenty years ago, users were not yet tempted with modern technologies. There were much fewer products, the variety was not boring yet. And each new product was innovative, opening new horizons and, important, exciting.
As we know, The World Wide Web system was invented near 30 years ago by Tim Berners Lee. His aim was to help people in faster and easier way share information all over the world. Now it has changed significantly. We don’t want just to share information nowadays. Interface should be user-friendly, environmental-friendly, clickable, fast, modern, colorful and convenient. We want technologies to work fast, without any bugs — ideal, so to say.
Web has start deeper involving in society and reflects the changing fashions, beliefs and technologies of the time.
The first website contained only text with hyperlinks explaining what the web was, how to use it, and basic set-up instructions. From those early days to the present, web design has taken a long and winding journey.
Firstly, possibility of adding images in 1990, later — Flash. Flash was a software platform that allowed designers to incorporate sound effects, video and animation into websites, making for a more dynamic audio-visual experience. Flash also gave designers more freedom to make websites interactive. This was indeed the era of a creative and technological breakthrough in web design. Splash pages, decorative animations, and beautifully rendered bubble buttons dominated the web design trend to make people stare.
People became sophisticated at browsing the Web, and the design elements no longer had to educate in a way that visually articulates the functionality, such as blue underlined hyperlinks.
Fast forward to 2010 when a new web design approach called responsive web design was created by Ethan Marcotte. This introduced a different way of using HTML and CSS.
The main idea underpinning responsive design was that a single website could respond and adapt to different display environments, facilitating use on different devices. People would have the same experience on their mobile device as on their desktop computer, meaning increased efficiency in web development and maintenance.This led to another wave of web design trend: flat design. A minimalist approach to design for usability was at the forefront. To put it otherwise, the bet is made on user comfort. This is a pronounced protest against Skeuomorph . The choice fell on more simplified and aesthetic solutions.In the modern world, designers need to create not only high-tech extensive functionality without visual overload, but also think not only about what we can do, but rather about what we should do. That means being considerate about how design can affect the people who use it, and designing websites that result in positive experiences for users. | <urn:uuid:2cee1be5-049f-4aa2-bb98-4e5404bf076d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://desres20.netornot.at/?p=1495 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959166 | 573 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Le Musee’ Bar and Museum has a history longer than that of the town of Iota. Built by Dr. Francis Nathaniel Hayes in 1906, this building precedes the town and was the only place for any sort of medical treatment in the area. Dr. Hayes ran his business for many years, and the building lived longer. As the only brick building downtown, it survived a large fire. The Dupre’ family purchased the building in 2005 in order to restore it to its former glory, and in 2006 the building had its grand opening on its 100th birthday. Briefly a museum and mercantile, the building now serves as a social gathering place for the community, as well as a functioning bar and operating museum. The history of the town of Iota and surrounding areas is preserved through the curation of donated family artifacts and photos from across northwest Acadia Parish, including the town’s first and only traffic light, many yearbooks, medicines from the early 1900’s, and official town artifacts. The museum also serves to promote local artists, hosting artwork from the parish for free. Local paintings, quilts, crafts, drawings, and a large mural can all be discovered here. For the bar, self-imported wines and cigars from the United States, Mexico, and Europe help to keep a classy environment. As an aid to the community, Le Musee’ also hosts and sponsors many nonprofit community, political, and cultural events. Come and stop by. Let an antique medical office from the past be your cure for a good time. | <urn:uuid:5cc618e9-b4a9-41d0-87d8-51e853c080e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://members.crowleychamber.com/list/member/le-muse%c3%a9-1580 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980076 | 320 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Synopsis: A Darwin family try to deal with their grief as it ripples out from the most recent death in their community. Young Ruben, Joe, and Jarrod had a good thing going with their patched up fishing boat, the Front Yard Challenge. Disaster strikes even harder, then, when Joe decides to kill himself. Ruben is unable to shake his sense of responsibility for Joe’s decision and it takes a great coming together of his family to not let his grief chew him and spit him out as nothing but sad bones.
What moved me: I heard Chris Mead speak recently about the importance of understanding dramaturgy more dynamically than we currently do – that we should think of it as the membrane of a living organism rather than as a slab of meat that can be sectioned into plot, character, themes, etc.
Reading ‘Brothers Wreck’ immediately brought this image of an organism to mind. This play is a living, breathing beast, a working muscle pumping blood that is covered in a fine membrane of grief, grief which also shoots its roots (or tentacles) down into the beast itself. I had to wrestle with this text. I know Darwin – the sticky air, and the people who have had to deal with death every day of their lives. As I read, I cried, in sadness but also in wonder at how alive it was, at its vitality, at its youth and its sad-bone-weariness. Alberts made the strength of the “skin-ship system” of the play beat as steady as a heart and made me long to be part of something with such a close weave.
My grandfather, Robert Gordon Martin, served in Darwin during WWII. He never spoke of this experience. Our only real evidence of it was his blindness, which had been induced in old age by his smoking (they gave out free cigarettes during the war). My grandmother, Mary Jean Martin, also served, although in wireless communications and not, as I thought, by delivering bomb-filled cigars to the front line of Germans on horseback.
I think Poppy’s exposure to the war, and his profound reticence about the experience, has fuelled my fascination with the way humans act when exposed to this very particular form of adversity. It not only exposes our predilection for mutual suffering and barbaric cruelty but it also shines a light on our nobility and the pure selflessness of bravery.
For a long time I have been trawling the War Memorial website, reading the stories of those soldiers who were awarded for their exceptional courage, and this morning I came across Ron Middleton, who was born a year after my grandfather and died in 1942, at the age of 26. This account has been taken from the War Memorial Victoria Cross Encyclopedia.
Rawdon Middleton was born on 22 July 1916 at Waverly in Sydney, a great-nephew of the explorer, Hamilton Hume. His family moved to the western districts of New South Wales when he was young and he attended school in Dubbo, becoming a keen sportsman and later finding work as a jackeroo.
He enlisted in the RAAF on 14 October 1940 under the Empire Air Training Scheme. Having learnt to fly at Narromine, New South Wales, Middleton was sent to Canada to continue his instruction. He reached Britain in September 1941 and was promoted to Flight Sergeant in December that year. In February 1942 Middleton was posted to 149 Squadron, Royal Air Force, and began his operational career. His first operational flights, to the Ruhr, were as second pilot in Stirling bombers but by July he had become first pilot. His first operation as captain of an aircraft was to Düsseldorf.
On 28 November 1942 he took off on his 29th operation (one short of the thirty required for completion of a ‘tour’ and mandatory rotation off combat operation) to the Fiat works in Turin, Italy. Middleton’s aircraft was struck by flak over the target, one shell exploded in the cockpit wounding Middleton in the face and destroying his right eye. The same shell also wounded the second pilot and wireless operator. Middleton lost consciousness and the aircraft dived to just 800 feet before the second pilot brought it under control. They were hit by more flak as they tried to escape the target.
When Middleton regained consciousness he began the long and gruelling flight back over the Alps towards England, knowing that his damaged aircraft had insufficient fuel to complete the journey. The crew discussed the possibility of abandoning the aircraft or trying to land in northern France but Middleton decided to head for England where his crew would have the chance to bail out. During the return flight he frequently said over the intercom “I’ll make the English Coast. I’ll get you home”. As they approached the French coast the Stirling was again hit by flak but flew on. Now over the English coast with only five minutes of fuel left Middleton ordered the crew to abandon the aircraft. Five men left the stricken plane, and two remained on board to help Middleton before attempting to parachute to safety, although unfortunately both were drowned. The Stirling then crashed into the sea, killing Middleton. He was only one operation away from completing his first tour on bombers.
Middleton’s bravery was recorded in the English press and earned him the admiration of the British public and a posthumous Victoria Cross. His body washed ashore at Dover on 1 February 1943 and he was buried in the churchyard of St. John’s, Beck’s Row, Suffolk, with full military honours.
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There is a harrowing scene midway through Empire of Pain (Bond Street Books), every sentence slick with danger and dread. It is an April morning in 1995. Inexperienced workers at a New Jersey chemical plant have been tasked with mixing volatile chemicals they scarcely know or understand. And on this particular day, the mix goes terribly wrong. “The chemicals were smouldering and bubbling, like the contents of some infernal cauldron, and emitting this sickening, noxious smell,” the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe writes. Temperature and pressure begin to climb. A chemist later compares the brew to a hydrogen bomb. Soon, the smell is so overwhelming, so odious, that it becomes clear something must be done. Seven men go back into the plant to try to clean the mess up.
Radden Keefe’s description of the chaos is so visceral that I was immediately reminded of a particularly distressing moment in HBO’s Chernobyl, when members of the cleanup crew race to shovel radioactive debris off the ruined reactor’s roof. Inside the New Jersey chemical plant, a similar threat is unfolding: urgent, palpable, and invisible to the untrained eye. As the men inside the plant begin to empty the smouldering vat, the mixture begins to hiss. Then it explodes. Five people died, forty people were injured, and incredibly, the owners of the facility felt no responsibility at all. As Radden Keefe recounts repeatedly over hundreds of meticulously researched and detailed pages, for the Sackler family this is something of a theme.
Empire of Pain is a book about dynasties and legacies, about cycles repeated across time and lineage, and the lengths that powerful people will go to hold onto their power. It is a story about a name, and how for decades, the Sackler name adorned countless museums and schools across the world while obscuring the source of their immense philanthropic wealth. It is a story about OxyContin, the powerful opioid created, marketed, aggressively sold and defended by the Sacklers, and the opioid crisis they helped create and sustain.
It is a story about a family more concerned with status and standing—with how they should be perceived, be remembered—than the impact of the drugs from which they made their fortune. It is a story shrouded in secrecy and obfuscation, one that starts with Arthur Sackler, born in 1913.
Radden Keefe has made a career out of finding the messy truths at the heart of sprawling mysteries, of pulling the most thrilling, revealing threads. Empire of Pain is based on a story he first wrote for The New Yorker. Last year he hosted an eight-part podcast that asks: what if the CIA wrote the Scorpion’s hit metal power ballad “Wind of Change”? Denial is a frequent theme, and the stakes are often high; Say Nothing, his last book, was about the Troubles and the IRA. His writing is vivid, gripping, and hard to put down; he knows how to tell a compelling story, how to put us inside people’s heads. That skill is of particular importance in Empire of Pain—a book whose main subjects were not merely reluctant but unwilling to speak with the author. Thankfully, Radden Keefe does not share the Sacklers’ penchant for silence, and spoke with me via phone late last month.
Matthew Braga: I saw on Twitter that you had come down with COVID. How are you feeling?
Patrick Radden Keefe: I’m fine. I’m better. Thank you. I was sick last week, right around the time the book was published. So I’ve been kind of isolating. I’m sitting in my backyard right now, away from my family. But my symptoms are not bad at all, and I’m actually out of isolation tomorrow. So I’m fine, thank you.
Say Nothing came out in 2019. Wind of Change came out in 2020. Now you have Empire of Pain. It’s an incredible amount of output, and as someone who frequently feels like I’m not being productive enough, or writing enough, or publishing enough, I wonder if I could ask you: how?
It’s been a busy few years, definitely. But it’s a little bit misleading, because Say Nothing took me four years, during which time I didn’t take leave from the New Yorker. So I was working on this book on the side, but I basically had a full-time day job. And then when that came out, I decided to write the Sackler book and do Wind of Change pretty close in time. At that point, I realized I couldn’t stay at the New Yorker. I had to take a leave.
I like having different projects so that if I hit a dead end in one, rather than just kind of mope around and feel sorry for myself, I can turn my energies to another one. So it was really helpful for me to have the podcast going while I was working on this book, particularly because the podcast is just so fun and collaborative, and the stakes felt lower.
Are you saying that you don’t ever still mope around and feel sorry for yourself?
Oh I do [laughs]. Believe me, I’ve been feeling very sorry for myself for the last week with my extremely mild case of COVID. But I think the pandemic affected different people differently. And for me, what it did was it just kind of wiped the slate clean in terms of plans. And that ended up being an opportunity. I had not a lot going on, I couldn’t leave my house, and by an excellent coincidence of timing, I had done a lot of the research already. So really all there was left to do was just write the damn book.
Secrecy figures prominently in Empire of Pain, and also in Say Nothing, Wind of Change, and the work that you’ve done previously—secrecy in terms of worlds and occupations, but also secrecy as a human trait. What it is about secrecy that fascinates you? Why is that a well you keep returning to?
I don’t really have a good answer for it. It’s funny, because in my writing, I am always looking for these rosebud moments in the lives of characters that help explain who they are. And I stumbled on that moment when Isaac Sackler tells his son [Arthur] the importance of a good name. He knows it’s the most important thing. That becomes this key that helps me understand them. But I’m not as good at identifying those moments in my own life.
Some of it is probably a stubbornness on my part where, if there’s something I’m not supposed to know, I want to know what it is. But I’m also interested in the dynamics of secrecy in a community, in a family, and even on a national level. I’m interested in the stories that people tell themselves about the choices they’ve made. I want to know the story they tell themselves when they look in the mirror. You can also ask those kinds of questions about a nation looking at its own history and how it accounts for choices that have been made at a national level.
You mentioned that rosebud moment of Isaac Sackler conferring the value of a good name. I was so struck by how good of a frame that was to look at the family through. It’s so simple, but so powerful in its simplicity. When do organizing principles, or threads like that, typically emerge in the process? Was that something that you had very early on? Or was that an “ah-ha!” moment later on, like you had with Say Nothing?
It was fairly early on in my research. I don’t really have a technique per se, other than to just do as much reporting as possible, and to report as widely and as deeply as I can. And I know those details when I see them. It’s my favourite thing, honestly, certainly professionally and possibly in life—that moment when you’re in the midst of reporting and then there’s just this thunderclap moment when you discover something. And in that case, I knew that Arthur Sackler had donated money to have this library with the Sackler name at Tufts University in the 1980s. Arthur didn’t give all that many interviews in his life, and I thought I had them all. But it turned out that there was this newspaper at Tufts that had done a special issue in which they covered the opening of this Sackler building. Arthur gave a one-page interview—this is, like, something on microfilm, and I think I got somebody to PDF it and send it to me—and in that interview Arthur tells this story about his father. And as I was reading it, I knew, “This is it. You have to tell the story early in the book.” Because it explains this kind of bizarre family attribute that you then see manifested over three generations.
That idea of a name and the legacy it can confer, the values that it can confer upon the wearer… once you started thinking about that as a frame, did you start to look at your own world differently? Your own family differently? Your friends?
Oh, that’s so interesting. I don’t know that I did. I have an extremely common name, so I don’t know that I ever had any sort of particular sense of a name as quite the talismanic thing that it was for the Sacklers. What I became very aware of after discovering that story about Isaac is you start seeing this theme played out with different Sacklers. They talked about it in this way that just seems very weird. I’ve never known anybody to discuss carrying a name in quite that way. There’s an analogy that I didn’t really think about much when I was writing the book, but which a number of people have raised since the book has come out, which is Donald Trump, and that idea of the name as brand.
On the other hand, it wasn’t far into the book before the dysfunction of the family in HBO’s Succession popped into my brain, and I’m glad to see it was mentioned in the book as well. Do you have the sense that the world of Succession is even on any of their radars?
One thing that I puzzled over in this book with the younger generation of Sacklers was how anybody could be so un-self-aware. I imagine they would watch something like Succession and think that it couldn’t possibly have any comparison to them, because they’re all very serious people who are really brilliant and bear no resemblance whatsoever to the pampered idiots in that show. The funny thing for me was three sources, totally independently, compared the experience of working for the family and the company to living inside that show.
Denial has always been a subject I’ve been very interested in. And part of what’s so intriguing to me about the Sacklers, as personalities, is that they believe that I’m wrong, and that The New York Times is wrong, and The Wall Street Journal is wrong, and The Washington Post is wrong. And the 49 states that are suing their company are wrong, and the congressional investigators are wrong. And all the books are wrong. And all the studies are wrong—that they’re just terribly misunderstood.
By the end of the book I was left with a feeling of, well, if everything up until this point hasn’t spurred some introspection—if even the arrival of this book doesn’t spur introspection—then what will?
I think that’s exactly right. In recent years there’s been a very slight recasting of their public persona, their kind of public posture on this issue, where they’re saying, “Oh, we feel great compassion. We care about the opioid crisis. It is very regrettable that there has been a loss of life associated with our product”—all this kind of carefully scripted stuff. And what I found so revealing is I got these private emails from just a few years ago—like 2019, 2018, where privately, Jacqueline Sackler is saying, “our family’s done nothing wrong,” and Mortimer Sackler Jr. is saying, “the so-called opioid crisis.” Their willingness to cynically recast the talking points, just to the degree that they think is necessary—which is to say, like, “We accept no responsibility, we make no apologies. But opioid crisis, sad”—inclines me to think that nobody’s going to be having any moral epiphanies anytime soon. I just don’t think they’re capable of it.
You combed through so many documents for this book. The Sacklers also wouldn’t speak to you, wouldn’t answer your questions. What was different this time, compared to some of the work you’ve done in the past, in trying to peel back those layers of secrecy?
It actually wasn’t that different. The idea of a big, formidable reporting project in which there’s a story that I want to tell that a variety of people who are characters in the story would prefer that I not tell—that actually is pretty familiar territory for me. One big thing that was different in this case was… I often think about Robert Caro, who published a book about reporting and writing while I was working on this project. And he has a line in that book, where the advice that he gets as a young reporter from some seasoned old newspaper man is, “turn every goddamn page.” And it was funny, because I thought about Caro turning the LBJ archive. Like, there’s millions of pages! It’s a daunting prospect. And I was in a similar situation with this where, usually, the problem is you want, as the lawyers call them, the hot docs. You want the hot docs. You want to get your hands on the hot docs, and there’s never enough that you can get your hands on. In this case, there were too many. It was overwhelming the amount of paper, and it led to some really crazy, truly crazy moments in terms of reporting.
At the risk of exposing what an obsessive maniac I am… at a certain point fairly late in the game, I was close to done with the book, and a source that I knew—a lawyer, who had been involved with some litigation involving Purdue—called me up and said, “I have 40 boxes of documents that I want to share with you. I’m going to send them to your house.” And I got very excited at the prospect of 40 boxes of documents. But the Sacklers had sent me what’s called a litigation hold, which means that a lawyer representing the family basically said, “Look, we’re probably going to sue you. So don’t destroy any of your files, any of your emails, any of your text messages, any of that. You need to hold on to everything until the day that we sue.”
I had this conversation with my wife and I said, “This guy is gonna send 40 boxes of documents to the house, and we can never throw them away.” And she was just like, “No, we cannot have 40 boxes of documents that we just carry around with us indefinitely into the future. That’s not an option.”
So I decided to go fly to the place where this guy was—that way I could just go through the documents and they wouldn’t be in my possession—find what I needed, and then come back. This is during the height of the pandemic. I spent four days going through these 40 boxes of documents. And in the end, I didn’t use a single thing from any of them. But I also couldn’t not go through them, you know what I mean? Like if I hadn’t done it, I’d still be wondering now if there was some amazing little golden nugget that I overlooked. The only way to figure that out is just through brute force. It’s through turning every goddamn page.
We’re talking about stuff that is very heavy on research, very heavy on time. In this particular case, you have legal threats from the Sacklers coming at you as well. I’ve been thinking a lot about how folks are leaving jobs and going independent and starting newsletters and going direct to their readers. I know you’ve been a freelancer, and you also know how difficult it is to be a freelancer, and I wonder, would you be able to do the kind of work that you are doing today without the support of your editors? The backing that you have of the institutions that you work for?
Yeah, not at all. Personally, I’m so grateful for my editors, that I think I’d be very nervous about doing anything where I didn’t have a really astute editor coming in after me to protect me from myself. I feel incredibly lucky to write for The New Yorker—both in the sense of, the people that I’m working with are so resourceful and so smart and make everything I do so much better. But also because there’s just a level of institutional support, that in the case of the initial Sackler piece, yeah, it would have been very hard to do that without my boss David [Remnick], my editor Daniel Zalewski, and our general counsel at The New Yorker, and all the fact checkers, and everybody willing to stand by this piece of writing that made some very powerful people very angry. And similarly with Doubleday, they’ve been incredibly supportive since the beginning. I think the Sacklers probably won’t sue. But if they did, I’m confident that Doubleday would be amazingly supportive through that process as well. So I don’t take for granted for a second the kind of structural institutional advantages that allow me to do this work. None of this is easy. And I’m not alone. I have very good supportive people and resourceful people in my corner.
In the book you detail the level of obfuscation the Sacklers go through—certainly Arthur Sackler—to obscure their various business ventures, the connections between those ventures, the conflicts of interests, the subterfuge. Would that be harder to pull off today?
I think it would be harder. Yeah. It would be a lot harder. I went through the files of the Kefauver investigation [into pharmaceutical industry practices in the early 1960s], and I was just kind of amazed that, in some of their internal reports, you have these senate investigators from this pretty powerful committee. And they just had some very baseline questions, where they were just saying, “Who are these brothers? What’s the scope of the stuff that they control?” And I think that today, when you think about accessing corporate registries and looking up identities that are associated with particular addresses and so forth, there would be a level of easy checkability that would probably make it hard to obscure things to the extent that they did. That doesn’t mean to say that they wouldn’t still be able to keep things pretty obscure. I mean, Arthur Sackler had all these weird relationships where he would put frontpeople in instead of himself, and he had all these handshake deals, and that kind of stuff is not, I don’t think, any more legible today with the Internet and various databases for reporting than it would have been back then. But I think in terms of the kind of baseline questions, like, “Who’s this family? Where do they live? Which businesses do they control? Here’s this strange building on 62nd Street; how many corporations are registered there?” Those types of questions I think would be easier for reporters to answer today. And congressional investigators.
In a similar vein, I wonder whether the ability to burnish your legacy in the same way would be harder today? Would it be harder to build a legacy like that If you were starting today? If you had started in the ’90s, let’s say, or the early ’00s?
I don’t know. What strikes me as significant, though, is that with the Sacklers, it was kind of an open secret. When I reported on the Sacklers in 2017, I was not the first person to report that they were the owners of Purdue Pharma, this company which had pled guilty to felony charges and had been so intrinsic in helping start the opioid crisis. The truth was out there for anybody who wanted to Google. And that was true in 2003, when Barry Meier’s book came out. It was true in 2015 when Sam Quinones’ book came out. But even then, at a time when you had the Internet and stories, if people cared to look, connecting the family to the opioid crisis, they kind of managed to sort of stay above the fray. They had no problems at any of the institutions. After my piece came out in 2017, The New York Times contacted 21 cultural institutions, and there wasn’t a single one that put any distance between themselves and the Sacklers. So I don’t know that it’s gotten that much harder.
Honestly, what really started bringing about some accountability in the philanthropic sector for the Sacklers was Nan Goldin more than anything else. And Nan Goldin is kind of lightning in a bottle. The idea that you would have somebody happen along who was a revered artist whose work really meant something in that world, who was recovering herself from an OxyContin addiction, and who, because of her experience during the AIDS crisis, had this history and taste for and talent for activism… it’s hard to dream up a more threatening scenario for the Sacklers than Nan Goldin.
Do you think the names would have come down if not for her?
I don’t. I think my piece had an influence. And there was an Esquire piece that came out at the same time. And I think that made a difference. And I think that when the state of Massachusetts became the first state to individually sue members of the Sackler family, that made a difference. But I also think that it was Nan’s willingness to be the skunk at the garden party and actually show up at the Guggenheim and show up at the Met and show up at the Louvre.
And has that had a knock-on effect? I remember around the same time I started to see other artists say, “Okay, well now we have to do the same for exhibitions and galleries that are funded by oil and gas money,” for example. Has that ripple effect played out?
This is the big fear of the institutions. And I actually think this is part of the reason the institutions have, in many cases, been reluctant to take any bold steps when it comes to the Sacklers. They’re worried that if you start introducing an ethical litmus test to any money given to arts organizations the arts might dry up altogether. And I think you have started to see hard questions being asked. To what degree are these types of institutions complicit in reputation laundering? To what degree do they end up effectively co-signing on some of the really repulsive behavior of the families and businesses that donate to them? I don’t, for a second, pretend that these are simple issues. But I also feel as though we are living through a moment in our culture in which this question of naming and legacies and the kind of prerogatives and institutional approval that money can buy, are being re-evaluated almost in real time.
For all the people affected by this crisis, people who have lost loved ones to opioids who have struggled with addiction, what do you hope this book will mean to them?
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Eight killer whales have been taken from the wild in the Russian Far East in the last year, seven of them since August. They are being held in small pools near Vladivostok and are awaiting their fate. The news, as revealed on the russianorca facebook page run by a group of Russian killer whale researchers, has prompted hundreds of comments, more than 1,600 shares to date, and extensive activity on twitter, blogs and websites. People are clearly upset.
To find out more about the captures, the status of Russian orcas and where they may be headed, Tim Zimmermann, Outside writer and Blackfish associate producer and co-writer, interviewed Erich Hoyt, WDC Research Fellow, Author, and Co-director of WDC’s Far East Russia Orca Project.
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Tim Zimmermann: How long have you been studying the Russia orca populations, and what do we know about them in terms of numbers and types?
Erich Hoyt: I started studying killer whales off northern Vancouver Island in 1973 and spent 10 summers with Northwest Coast orcas, as told in my book Orca: The Whale Called Killer. We were always curious about what might be going on the other side of the Pacific, off Russia. We had also heard that a Japanese aquarium wanted to capture Russian orcas and we hoped we could influence that and maybe stop it. In 1999, I started the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) with a Russian scientist Alexander Burdin and a Japanese researcher Hal Sato. The goal was to engage Russian students and to build an all Russian team that could do the long-term studies needed. From the start, the goals were both science and conservation — we were sponsored by Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), and the Humane Society International, and soon joined by Animal Welfare Institute and others. We have found two main ecotypes of killer whales: fish-eating (resident-type) and mammal-eating (transient-type) orcas, equivalent in size of pods, physical features and habits to those orcas living off the Northwest Coast of North America. Russian orcas have similar dialect systems, too. Most of our work has been with the fish-eating residents. Using photo-ID we have identified more than 500 killer whales off Kamchatka and about 800 around the Commander Islands.
Tim Zimmermann: What do you think prompted the onset of wild captures in the Sea Of Okhotsk?
Erich Hoyt: Russian captors have been trying to capture orcas for at least 15 years. They finally managed to surround multiple pods off southeast Kamchatka in 2003 including many orcas that we knew well from our studies, only a few days after we had left the field. They may well have waited for us to leave. One young female died in the nets, and another female was hoisted on board and died 13 days after being shipped across Russia to a Black Sea aquarium. Our whole FEROP team was really upset. After that, the captors made a number of failed attempts, but our team managed to get zero quotas for Eastern Kamchatka for the first time, effectively making any captures much more difficult on the Eastern Kamchatka side. Quotas of from 6 to 10 orcas were still issued every year for the Sea of Okhotsk, West of Kamchatka, but logistics there made captures more difficult. A few years ago, however, the Utrish Dolphinarium, the same one that made the previous orca captures off eastern Kamchatka, managed to catch one orca in the Sea of Okhotsk but she later escaped. Then, last year, another group of Russian captors caught a young female orca and brought her into captivity near Vladivostok. She is the one who is being called Narnia and she is still awaiting her captivity assignment. That capture gave the captors confidence that they could do this and — we suppose fueled by international demand that they are no doubt aware of due to beluga sales — they captured 7 orcas in 2 different capture operations in the Sea of Okhotsk from August to October this year.
Tim Zimmermann: What do we know about the outfits engaged in the wild captures? Are they also involved in the wild beluga captures?
Erich Hoyt: Yes, for these 7 orcas this year and the one last year, it’s one company doing the orca captures and they have also done beluga captures for some years. They have been identified publicly as “White Sphere”. This is a group of companies, in fact, with White Sphere building dolphinariums in Russia, White Whale capturing animals in the wild, and Aquatoriya operating dolphinariums. The Sochinskiy Delfinariy is a subsidiary of Aquatoriya, identified as the captor and owner of Narnia.
Tim Zimmermann: What methods are they using to make these wild captures? Why are the orcas trucked so far instead of being held on site?
Erich Hoyt: The whales are surrounded by a net in a shallow place close to shore, usually whole pods or even several pods, but we don’t know the precise details in this case. After being contained, the whales to be captured are picked out one at a time and dragged by the tail to the shore and transported from the enclosure — the same as they catch belugas. Young females are highly sought after but some males are of course required too. They move the whales quickly because there is no place to keep them onsite and they are no doubt afraid of sea conditions, so they must transport the orcas to the nearest port. We know from our research that the logistics for doing anything in Russia are difficult and expensive.
Tim Zimmermann: I’ve seen reports of orcas being killed over the years during Russian capture attempts. What do we know about orca deaths during the recent captures or previous captures?
Erich Hoyt: We have confirmed reports of the 2 young females who died in 2003, as I described above. About a year ago, the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) estimated that 5 orcas had died due to captures in the past, but only the 2 from 2003 are officially confirmed. We don’t know if any orcas died during the captures this year.
Tim Zimmermann: There are lots of rumors about where the orcas might go. What, if anything, is known about where the orcas might end up? Do you know anything about the prices they are being offered at?
Erich Hoyt: The rumors are China and Moscow where new facilities are coming on stream. To send the whales to China requires CITES permits and we have now found out that at least 2 CITES permits have been issued. We have no idea of the prices being offered now, but as long as 10-15 years ago, we know that a young female orca in prime condition could be worth $1 million USD. A lot depends on how many people per year pay to get into Sea World in the US, as well as paying to get into the growing number of such facilities in China, Japan and Russia. By last count, more than 120 facilities in these countries exhibit whales and/or dolphins. If there is no demand from the owners of these facilities and from the paying public, the selling price will go down and eventually there may be little or no supply offered for sale. Then the orca trafficking can stop.
Tim Zimmermann: You mentioned in an update that Russian scientists and the state ecological commission have recommended to the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency that no permits be allowed in 2014. Are you hopeful the Federal Fisheries Agency will accept that recommendation, and when would you expect a decision?
Erich Hoyt: Scientists from our team and other scientists in Russia who understand killer whale biology made this recommendation even before the captures occurred this year. The recommendation was based on the fact that orca quotas are being given on the basis of a single management species, when we know that there are at least two distinct ecotypes, the fish-eating residents and the mammal-eating transients, who are separate and need to be evaluated and managed separately. Getting the state ecological commission to endorse this idea was key. We were hopeful that the federal Russian fisheries agency would accept it but late last week we found out that they are going to find their own experts and get their own assessment. This is not good news. It seems that they have already made their decision about allowing quotas and now are working backwards to justify it.
We will know later this year if quotas for capturing killer whales will be issued for 2014 and the number permitted. If it is “business as usual”, with a quota for 6 to 10 killer whales, there is going to be a lot more disturbance to killer whale families in the wild.
Research is urgently needed on the killer whales in the Sea of Okhotsk. We are learning more and more about them in other parts of the Russian Far East, but we know almost nothing about the Okhotsk orcas.
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Erich Hoyt’s book Orca: The Whale Called Killer, the book that started the discussion on orcas and the debate about keeping them captive, is re-released as an eBook this week on Amazon and other eBook sites worldwide.
Tim Zimmermann’s recent article on the Russian orca captures can be read on Outside online.
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You can send a letter to the Russian Fisheries agency asking them to end these captures. The web page is in Russian – in the first field enter your first name and last name. In the second field add your address or alternatively ask for a email response with the following:
Ответ на мое обращение просьба прислать на указанный адрес e-mail
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Entertainment law is a branch of law concerned specifically with the property issues that surround pieces of entertainment like books, movies and visual arts. In the entertainment industry, protecting your work from being exploited or plagiarized by others is an imminent concern. To protect the intellectual property rights of artists, copyright and trademark laws are available to those working in Missouri.
What is A Copyright?
A copyright includes the privilege to exclusively produce a certain form of entertainment, and the copyright holder must give consent for others to be able to use it. The consent of the copyright holder for others to use the protected material is called a license. In Missouri, the copyright holder has the exclusive privilege of negotiating any licenses it issues. The procedure for getting a copyright and how long it lasts once issued are governed by entertainment law. Aside from protecting your property rights, getting a copyright will allow you to sell licenses to others.
What is a Trademark?
Commercial brands sometimes choose visible characteristics or symbols that are intended to be associated with their products. These symbols are called trademarks. They can go a long way in the entertainment industry to help buyers better recognize your products. Although they do not expire, trademarks must be obtained through registering with the U.S. patent and trademark office. With your trademark, buyers will start to recognize your product more easily.
How Can a Missouri Attorney Help?
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Fig. 1 plots the new standard estimates in one regression model, appropriate adult money when you look at the dollars in order to heat in the additional vital periods regarding youthfulness advancement at more circumstances of heat distribution. For each dashed range on chart plots of land this new coefficients add up to an extra go out with suggest heat dropping inside a temperature container from inside the crucial months conveyed from the key. 1 reveals brand new estimated effect of a supplementary go out about first trimester out of gestation (estimated regarding the date out of birth, such as the actual situation of all of the vital symptoms), holding almost every other crucial symptoms fixed and where in actuality the coefficient to the effectation of good 0 °C to cuatro °C time has been stabilized in order to 0. Which sugar baby Albuquerque NM regression design in addition to regulation to own competition ? gender ? beginning condition ? delivery day’s 12 months fixed consequences and you will year fixed effects.
While the Air conditioning use has grown through the years, therefore reveal below you to definitely Ac adoption offsets the majority of the results away from hot temperatures, it’s likely that the relationship ranging from heat and you can birth weight are drastically larger on the old cohorts that people studies
Heterogeneous aftereffect of temperature towards annual earnings of the focal period. The regression quotes try plotted from 1 types of Eq. step 1. For each system corresponds to the newest predict marginal effect of a 1-d upsurge in mediocre heat regarding the relevant temperatures bin (shown to your x-axis) into the mature earnings on the crucial period conveyed on secret. The regression control to have beginning county ? day’s year ? competition ? sex fixed outcomes, seasons repaired effects, and you will an excellent cubic polynomial in the rain.
Third, dual training of one’s matchmaking ranging from delivery weight and you can adult consequences could possibly get make rates which can be downwards biased on account of you are able to compensatory financial investments by mothers (28)
There’s two trick takeaways from Fig. step 1. First, the effect out-of connection with temperature during the pregnancy and also in the newest first 12 months out of life is extremely nonlinear-contact with hot months which have mediocre temperatures over twenty-eight °C and you may, so much more strongly, more than thirty two °C provides disproportionately large unwanted effects with the adult money. Second, the end result all over additional crucial episodes anywhere between conception and you will decades 1 y is quite homogeneous, in addition to negative effectation of experience of heat above thirty two °C towards earnings is available from inside the the majority of the first-lifestyle values i think. We can not deny the fresh null theory that the effect of a good day which have mean heat over 32 °C in the first trimester is significantly unlike the effect out of a day which have suggest temperature significantly more than thirty two °C on the 3rd trimester. (From inside the Lorsque Appendix, Dining table S5, we find the effect of exposure to sexy temperatures dissipates just after around many years step one y.)
Fig. 1 suggests the marginal effect of temperature is constant across the temperature range 0–24 °C. Thus, we estimate more parsimonious models that impose a constant effect over this range to reduce the number of coefficients to be estimated. Table 1 presents results from a specification that aggregates exposure into five temperature bins ( < 0 ° C, 0–24 °C, 24–28 °C, 28–32 °C, 32+ °C), with the 0–24 °C temperature bin normalized to be equal to zero in each critical period. The estimates of the coefficients on exposure to high daily temperatures (i.e., 28–32 °C and 32+ °C) in Table 1 are very similar to those in the baseline nine-bin model.
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Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: methods and applications from regional to global scale
39th International Remote Environmental Sensing Symposium
24-28 Apr 2023Antalya, Turkiye
Themes of Event
From Human Needs to SDG's
The massive social, economic and political influences of the COVID-19 crisis have inevitably resulted in important public health, economics, governance and ecological decisions being made with less information than usual and a reversal of recently adopted policies; as this leads to an era of disruptive transformations to sustainability, the main theme of the symposium was chosen as "From Human Needs to SDG's". Hence, the conference will focus on remote sensing of the environment and will bring together scientists, technologists and environmental users of remotely sensed data to understand and overcome the latest developments in the environment we live in.
Exhibition: Defense + Commercial Sensing Exhibition
Dates: 2 - 4 May 2023
Documenting, Understanding, Preserving Cultural Heritage.
Humanities and digital technologies for shaping the future
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is a non-governmental organization
devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and
remote sensing and their applications. The Society operates without any discrimination on grounds
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On this day in Black History we celebrate the birth of one of Hip Hop’s most passionate revolutionaries. Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, better known as Lupe Fiasco, was born today [February 16] in 1982. Lupe Fiasco is an American rapper, producer, and entrepreneur based in Chicago, Illinois.
Fiasco was born to a family with eight other children. His parents, Shirley and Gregory Jaco, were model citizens. His mother was a gourmet chef and his father was an engineer, karate instructor and dojo owner, prolific African drummer, and owner of an army supply store. He was also a member of the Black Panther Party. Fiasco was raised Muslim on the west side of Chicago in the Madison Terrace projects.
Growing up in the inner city of Chicago, Fiasco developed a love for Hip Hop after first disliking the genre for its misogyny and vulgarity. He began recording music at age 17 in his father’s basement and two years after joined a local rap group called Da Pak, who had a short lived record deal with Epic Records. After the group disbanded, Fiasco met rapper and mogul JAY Z who helped him to sign a record deal with Atlantic Records.
On September 19, 2006, Fiasco released Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor which received three Grammy nominations for Best Rap Album, Best Solo Rap Performance, and Best Rap song for his timeless single “Kick, Push.” This album had a great commercial reception, peaking at #8 on the Billboard 200 chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Rap albums chart.
This album helped Fiasco leap to commercial success and allowed him to release his second, and more politically influenced, album The Cool. During the recording of this album Lupe Fiasco ‘s father died of type II diabetes, his good friend Stack Bundles died, and his business partner and mentor, Charles “Chilly” Patton, was sentenced to 44 years in prison. When asked about this album, Lupe said:
“Oh yeah. A lot of loss. I lost my father, I lost my business partner to prison, and I lost some friends. It was a very dark period. It still is in some aspects, but you know, I’m kind of coming out of it. But especially during the time that the album was being cooked, in my head was a very dark kind of period.”
The album went on to peak at #14 on the Billboard 200 list and #1 on the Billboard Rap chart for nine weeks. The album was also nominated for four GRAMMYs including Best Rap Album.
Fiasco released his third studio album Lasers on March 7, 2010. Although it received the most mixed reviews of all his albums, it was the first to peak at 31 on the Billboard 200 chart. This was his most successful commercial album, being certified double platinum In sales in the United States alone.
Since Lasers, Lupe Fiasco has released two albums titled Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 and Tetsuo & Youth. Both albums were quite successful making appearances on the Billboard 200 charts, Food and Liquor II peaking at #5 and Tetsuo & Youth peaking at #14. Both of these albums can also be considered the two least commercial albums from Lupe Fiasco’s career to date. They are both heavily conscious and focus on issues in this country effected people of color, those effected by poverty and Muslim-Americans.
Apart from music, Fiasco has ventured into a few other realms of business. He currently runs two clothing lines, Righteous Kung Fu and Trilly & Trully. He has also designed sneakers for Reebok. Fiasco is also a known philanthropist and has been involved in many charitable activities such as the Summit on the Summit expedition. He also recorded a single for the 2010 Haiti Earthquake relief fund. Most recently, Fiasco has founded a start up company called Neighborhood Start Fund which provides funds to help small businesses in the inner cities of this country get their start.
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How to Safely Manage Your Medications
With age comes new conditions and medications to treat them. In fact, studies show 87% of seniors take one prescription drug, 36% take five or more, and 38% use over-the-counter medications.
Managing a growing pile of prescriptions can be a big job, especially considering that missing doses or taking medicine incorrectly can be a major safety risk. Whether you’re personally responsible for your medications or a caregiver is helping you, it’s important to know how to properly manage prescriptions and other medications.
Make a detailed medication list.
Keeping a current list of all of your prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, and any vitamins or supplements you take is an important first step in medication safety for older adults. This list can serve as a critical resource if there’s an emergency and first responders have questions about what medications might be in your system. If you’re admitted to a hospital, your list will help doctors quickly determine what medications will need to be administered to maintain your health.
A complete medication list should include every medication of every kind that you take, including the dosage and frequency. If there are special notes, such as medications that should be taken with food, that should be included, too. If possible, you should also include the prescribing doctor, when you began taking the prescription or medication, and what condition it is intended to treat.
Keep a copy of your medication list where it can be easily seen by a first responder. Also ensure a family member or caregiver has a copy. You can also keep a reference copy where you keep medicine, such as in a plastic envelope attached to the inside of a cabinet door.
Be sure to update and print out new copies every time you have a change to medication, and include a date to indicate when the list was last updated.
Use a pill organizer.
A pill organizer can be an effective tool to encourage medication safety for older adults. Pill organizers come in many shapes and configurations, from a single box for each day of the week up to four or more boxes for each day.
Once a week, you should sit down with your current medication list and distribute pills according to the required dosages. This is a good time to cut any pills that need splitting, as well as removing pills from blister packs that may be difficult for arthritic fingers to handle.
Enlist help from family or a professional.
Sorting an entire week of medication can be an enormous task. If you find it’s more than you can (or want) to handle on your own, ask for help from a loved one or a skilled professional. Our medication administration program is one of the many services and amenities that assisted living residents like those at The Moorings at Lewes enjoy as part of their monthly fee. If you’re living independently at home, a private nursing service may be better suited for your needs.
Use tools to keep on track.
Because medication management is so important to a senior’s health and safety, there are many apps available to answer the problem of how to help the elderly remember medications. Common features include reminders to ensure you never forget a dose, refill notices so you don’t run out, and options to export or print your information to share with various members of your healthcare team. Some apps also allow you to involve a caregiver, so there’s an alert if you forget to take a prescription on time.
If an app isn’t practical, another idea for how to help the elderly remember medications is a paper chart where doses can be marked off as they’re taken. If you have trouble keeping on schedule, set alarms on your alarm clock or phone to remind you when it’s time to take your meds.
Store medications safely.
Another important aspect of medication safety for older adults is properly handling and storing medications when they’re not in use. Most prescriptions and medications should be stored in a dry, cool place. Avoid using a cabinet near the stove or in the bathroom, where humidity and moisture can be problematic. Lids should be securely tightened, and all pills should be out of reach of pets and children who may visit.
Also make a point, at least quarterly, to review all your medications and safely discard any that have passed their expiration date. Be sure to note anything that needs to be refilled, including over-the-counter medications that you regularly keep on hand to treat cold or allergy symptoms.
Consider a lifestyle change.
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"the path to peace" (lk 19:42)
"You failed to recognize the time of your visitation." —Luke 19:44
King Jesus visited the people of Jerusalem. They refused to accept Him as King and wouldn't rest until He was nailed to a cross. Refusing to accept Jesus as King had disastrous consequences. They could have had peace (Lk 19:42). Instead, in 70 A.D., they were surrounded by their enemies, the Romans, and Jerusalem was completely destroyed (see Lk 19:43-44).
In today's psalm, the people do recognize the visitation of their King, the Messiah. "The children of Zion rejoice in their King" (Ps 149:2). They praise Him and dance in festive celebration (Ps 149:3). Instead of being surrounded by their enemies, they bind their enemies in chains, wiping them out (Ps 149:6-9).
Our enemy is Satan and his kingdom of darkness (Eph 6:12). He has surrounded us with his culture of death. He has wreaked havoc upon us, wiping out many millions of babies in the womb, inundating us with rampant perversion and impurity, eliminating prayer from schools, workplaces, and often churches, etc. The psalmist proclaims that victory over our wicked enemy lies in openly welcoming Jesus as King. Are we in this predicament because we have failed to recognize Jesus as our King?
In three days, the Church celebrates the great feast of Christ the King. In five weeks, we celebrate Jesus' Christmas coming. King Jesus is coming. What kind of reception will we give Him?
Prayer: Jesus, Lion of Judah, I ask You to roar through me.
Promise: "The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has won the right by His victory to open the scroll." —Rv 5:5
Praise: St. Cecilia "kept the Gospel of Christ ever near her heart; day or night she never ceased praying and speaking with God."
Reference: (This teaching was submitted by a member of our editorial team.)
Rescript: †Most Reverend Joseph R. Binzer, Auxiliary Bishop, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, May 10, 2012
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Birds’ Nest Coral turning white is not news or unusual.
It could happen in any aquarium setting, but there’s good news.
We have the reason for this issue and steps to take to solve it. Read on.
Why Is My Birds Nest Coral Turning White?
Aquariums are always a delight to see, especially when you have a Birds Nest Coral in them. However, things could go south in a short while, and you start to wonder why your Birds Nest Coral is turning white.
Birds Nest Coral turning white shouldn’t scare you at all. This issue follows the pattern of almost all living organisms – challenges.
Interestingly, this article discusses the solution as it seeks to fill you in on other helpful information about the Birds’ nest coral and the ways to maintain it.
Coral bleaching is the most likely reason birds’ nest coral turns white.
What is coral bleaching? Coral bleaching occurs due to warmth or exposure to too much light. You may have encountered coral bleaching if you’re familiar with climate change conversions.
Among the damages of global warming is coral bleaching, worsening the state of the environment.
However, Birds nest coral can get support from Zooxanthellae algae. The algae aid the coral by supplying enough nourishment and photosynthesizing. This support boosts the resilience of the coral and allows it to stay alive as long as the algae.
How To Look After Birds Nest Coral
Before purchasing the Birds Nest coral, you must have a well-established aquarium. To be safe, ensure your tank is at least a year old.
At all costs, avoid changes in salinity or temperature. A steady system is one of the most crucial aspects of these animals’ health.
The same organism can exist in multiple reef settings and adapt to variable light levels across places and depth differences within a single location. Some yellow Birds’ Nest Corals thrive in low light, while others prefer moderate to full brightness.
You should research the corals you intend to purchase. Excess light may bleach the coral if you have Birds Nest corals from deeper water. Coral is still alive until it is completely ‘bleached.’
Required Water Conditions
A reef aquarium should be as close to the natural appearance. Corals generate their biomass using materials found in the water. Corals need calcium, magnesium, and carbonate in their metabolism to sustain and grow while maintaining their brilliant hues.
You should regularly test the parameters to maintain the proper levels. We recommend that you do partial (20 to 25%) water replacements at least monthly to preserve the elemental balance of your saltwater.
Also, it would be best if you kept the tank at a temperature of around 74° and 83°F (23 – 28°C). To maintain a healthy tank, the salinity should be between 1.023 and 1.025.
It is up to you to choose how frequently you want to replace the water, but we recommend doing this regularly because this species is quite sensitive to changes in their habitat.
The tank must be clean. The species will be subject to infections due to poor hygiene if it is dirty. A steady water flow can also keep cyanobacteria and algae from overpowering the coral.
The water conditions should be stable, and nitrate levels should be low. Furthermore, your calcium and alkalinity concentrations should be steady.
How To Prevent Birds Nest Coral from Turning White
You can typically prevent your Birds nest coral from becoming white by ensuring that its water quality parameters, lighting, and feeding are all appropriate. These issues are often much easier to resolve than most people realize.
In rare cases, a non-reef-safe fish may be eating your coral and making it white, with removing the fish being the best solution if you want to focus on producing corals.
When in a reef tank, it is common for birds nest corals and other corals to begin bleaching owing to nutritional issues rather than difficulties with water parameters. Grab some reef roids for food for your birds’ nest corals and a cheap coral feeder to ensure the food goes to your coral and is not consumed by your fish as soon as you add it to the water.
Some aquarists may purchase a low-cost water test kit to check the water parameters. However, these kits typically only test for the essential factors.
Why Is My Birds Nest Coral Losing Colour
Too much light causes the flesh to burn and turn white, eventually leading to algae growth. That’s when the area goes dark. Other explanations could exist, but parameters are usually the case before the light factor.
Why Is My Birds Nest Coral Turning Brown
When the numbers of red/brown zooxanthellae increase, browning takes place. This happens due to excess nutrients in the tank, excess stress, or insufficient brightness levels. The brown frequently obscures the vibrant colors within the tissue that we seek.
Are Birds Nest Coral Hard To Look After
Corals are more challenging to keep than saltwater fish, so if you want to add these critters to your aquatic habitat, researching their food demands, light needs, appropriate temperature, and other requirements will come in handy.
Birds’ nest corals make a beautiful addition to aquariums. But they are hard to cater to already. Having issues with them is just an extra headache.
We believe this well-researched piece will offer you a helping hand in caring for your Birds nest coral. Remember, parameters and maintenance measures may vary depending on the owners. But, it would help if you were careful of excess additions.
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Critical Purpose is a new term to define an approach that emphasises the key deliverables. On every project there are a small number of critical questions that must be answered if success is to be achieved. The goal is to isolate these critical success factors and to remove the uncertainties as soon as possible by producing some tangible output that can be dependably validated and indisputably verified.
Critical Path technique identifies the longest path through a project which defines the shortest possible time to complete the project, according to the estimates of how long each activity will take and the interdependencies between activities.
Critical Chain methodology concentrates on rare resource, thus giving it more of a cost focus. By planning around the key constraint and reallocating resources, pressure is reduced on bottlenecks.
Critical Purpose will make people think of agile development methods. However, the word agile can conjure up an image of agitation. The risk is that it over-emphasises reactivity; people may think that if they conceal their intentions, they will be able to make things up as they go along.
Rapid prototyping, risk-based, test-driven, user-centred and team-based are all terms that are used for agile development and each of them emphasises one aspect, whilst in practice the use of one technique makes the others vital.
If you develop the test plans at the beginning of the project, then you are going to need models and prototypes to test many of the assumptions. If you build a plan around prototype reviews, then you will need workshops to facilitate the decision making process. If you focus on risks, then you are going to need the presence of the team and subject matter experts. If you prioritize the requirments then you need to involve users. In fact, of course, you need all of these. It is reassuring to think that if you do one of them, it pulls the others.
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Thomas, 22, from the University of Pennsylvania, back in March 2022 became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I national NCAA title in a women’s swimming race.
Binder and Thomas were among eight athletes nominated from the Ivy League conference. They were also among 577 overall nominees that NCAA member institutions submitted.
Out of the 577 nominees, conference offices across the United States named 151 college athletes, of which Binder is one, to advance to national-level consideration for the prestigious award.
Binder, of Armonk, New York, was an NCAA Women’s Foil Champion in 2019. She also took the Ivy League Women’s Foil Champion title in 2018 and 2019.
Binder finished fifth at The Ivy League championships this season, and second at the Northeast Regional, and third at the NCAA Championships with an overall record of 17–6. She also won third place at the NCAA championships in 2018.
She posted a record of 131–22 throughout her career, including a mark of 39–7 against Ivy League opponents, according to an Ivy League release.
According to the release, Binder has been recognized with multiple awards in May, including the Columbia Athletics’ Connie S. Maniatty Award, which is an annual honor presented to the top senior male and female student-athlete.
Other awards Binder has received include Columbia’s Rookie of the Year, William V. Campbell Performer of the Year, and Maniatty Awards, as well as the Columbia University Alumni Association Achievement Award, the Columbia University Spirit Award, and the Columbia University Senior Marshal Award.
Thomas was nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year award earlier in July by the University of Pennsylvania. The nomination sparked criticism and questions over whether Thomas, who is biologically male, should be eligible for the award.
Thomas was a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer for the men’s team and competed for three years, before starting hormone replacement therapy in 2019. After competing against females since the start of 2021, Thomas set new records for the university and the Ivy League.
Thomas’s case has garnered widespread controversy and debate about transgender participation in sports. Critics say biological males shouldn’t be allowed to compete against females, but others say that Thomas has no competitive advantage.
According to the NCAA, its Woman of the Year program is “rooted in Title IX and has recognized graduating female college athletes for excellence in academics, athletics, community service, and leadership since its inception in 1991.”
The ultimate winner of the award will be announced in January 2023 at a NCAA event in San Antonio, Texas.
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As part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series—a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories—Corey White, the CEO and co-founder of Cyvatar, shares insights on the steps companies in IP-focused sectors should take to ensure a cyber-secure future for themselves and their business.
Growing businesses are attractive targets for cyber-criminals—that’s a given. However, many don’t understand that certain companies, like tech startups and other IP-focused sectors, are especially vulnerable targets. Threat actors increasingly seek out companies that are asset rich and whose security stacks, strategies, and cybersecurity teams typically aren’t as strong as those from established companies of similar market cap.
Crypto.com, Dropbox, SendGrid, Evernote, Mt. Gox, and CodeSpace are just a few recent examples of tech startups hit by cyber-attacks. High-growth companies often hit by attacks are laser-focused on sales, getting products out the door, getting talent in the door, and raising funds. These companies often believe they’re too small and “under the radar” to be in the crosshairs of would-be attackers. The first indication that they might be wrong in that belief is all too often also their “worst nightmare” scenario.
Companies with a less than complete understanding of cybersecurity issues and best practices typically have weak defenses, which makes them an easy mark. Consider some of the cybersecurity gaps that can make an organization an easier target for attackers:
- Poor Physical Inventory Awareness: A surprising number of companies don’t know what digital assets they have and need to secure. It’s impossible to secure assets the security and IT teams don’t know about.
- Poor Software Inventory Awareness: Equally surprising are gaps in knowledge about what’s running on organizational assets, which is essential to securing them from threats like Log4j.
- Sporadic Vulnerability Management: Many startups treat cybersecurity as a one-time activity rather than a continuous process. Attackers probe constantly and regularly update their tools and techniques, so defenses must be frequently updated—vulnerability scanning, application, operating systems patching, and fixing misconfigurations must be conducted continuously.
- Absence of Preventative Controls: Many startups will purchase MDR, EDR, and XDR solutions that are not designed to stop an attack but merely to detect one. This is wasted money and time. Without preventative controls, an attack will eventually succeed, increasing the number of attacks. We frequently hear comments from security pros like this: “The cybersecurity industry is not trying to stop attacks. Instead, it’s profiting from detecting them when easy counter-measures could be implemented.”
- Absence of Multi-Factor Authentication: The network firewall protecting the perimeter is long dead. Passwords are compromised and not a viable layer of protection, yet too many startups still rely on username and password schemes as their only line of defense in cloud-only companies.
- Absence of Next-Gen AV Configured to Block Execution: Most companies still use legacy AV or no AV. Others are using next-gen AV but haven’t configured it to block the execution of malware. This is lunacy, and it means the organization can stop a ransomware attack but instead chooses merely to detect it.
- Outdated, Unsecured Assets: Too many organizations leave online artifacts such as “test” pages and other outdated, abandoned assets that give attackers open, unprotected entry points into the organization.
Taking the First Essential Cybersecurity Steps
Creating a robust, cyber-secure environment takes many steps and requires constant vigilance and adaptation—so much so that we could look at 30 steps to get a company started building their offenses. But here are five steps to consider starting with:
1) Consider Cybersecurity as a Service (CSaaS)
There are many guidelines like the NIST framework for cybersecurity or the CIS Security Controls, V8 that organizations can use when setting up their cyber-secure defense. Still, those guidelines aren’t easily followed by understaffed startups. It’s well worth considering CSaaS managed security services that incorporate asset discovery, threat mitigation, and resolution, but choosing the CSaaS service is essential.
Most first-generation managed security services providers (MSSPs) specialize in alerting companies to cyber problems but don’t effectively prioritize and mitigate those threats. As a side note, beware of MSSPs that use “alert storms” to threaten and upsell.
Look for a CSaaS provider that starts with a solid cybersecurity strategy. Securing a company against cyber-attacks takes much more than merely adopting a few tools and technologies and reacting after a threat has breached defenses. Also, look for a CSaaS provider with expertise in the regulatory requirements your organization must meet.
2) Develop a Cybersecurity Risk Analysis
Every company’s risk profile and threat landscape are unique. It’s essential to know the kinds of threats the organization faces, its vulnerabilities (and every company has them), the likely impacts and costs of various cyber-attacks, and the most crucial assets and most at risk.
This analysis needs to include an audit of all physical infrastructure, such as computers, devices, and other hardware, that provide the surface for cyber attackers to attack. It must include both company-owned and user-owned mobile devices and network devices.
It must also include a thorough inventory of the software the company uses. Remember that attackers are always on the hunt for vulnerable versions of software that are unpatched and easily exploited. Importantly, look for any “shadow IT”—resources that aren’t managed by or known to the IT or cybersecurity teams. These resources are often open portals for threat actors.
These are some of the significant components of your threatscape, and knowing the landscape will help you make many decisions that companies otherwise struggle with.
3) Build a Cybersecurity Culture
The risk analysis informs the organization’s decisions, but it also needs to educate its employees. Tools and technologies are essential, but they’ll never be enough to protect an enterprise. It’s often said that the greatest cybersecurity vulnerability in any company can be found between the seat and the keyboard. It’s the human element: people are often the weakest link in cybersecurity, and enforcing cyber-aware strategies and habits can be a monumental effort.
Amnesty is crucial to reporting, too. If an employee unwittingly makes a mistake, make it easy for them to report it so that defenses can be rallied. That’s where a promise of amnesty is essential: it’s only human nature that an employee would balk at reporting a potential problem if they think it will cost them their job, a pay raise, a growth opportunity, or reputation.
By educating employees on your cybersecurity risk analysis, they’ll be informed of the threats cyber-attacks pose and be better equipped to be part of the solution. That includes having the founders and executives participate—if they’re reticent or feel too busy, sharing a few examples of “whale phishing” should help encourage them.
4) Secure Configuration of Hardware & Software Assets
The default configuration for newly purchased hardware and software is set for ease of installation and use, not security. Default accounts and passwords and pre-configured settings are easily exploited. Set (or be sure your CSaaS provider sets) secure device and systems configurations. It’s also worth considering:
- Managing a firewall on end-user devices by blocking certain ports based on specific needs of your organization’s online safety
- Configuring automatic session locking systems on the devices
- Changing the default configuration of the operating system to suit your organization’s needs better
5) Manage Account & Access Control
One of the easier ways cyber-criminals gain unauthorized access to your cyber-infrastructure and critical data is through valid user credentials. There are many ways attackers gain access to accounts, such as:
- Weak or easily discernible passwords
- Privileged access
- Dormant accounts even after the employee has left the organization, etc.
Take specific steps to secure all accounts:
- Establish and maintain an inventory of all the accounts in the enterprise, including both user and administrative accounts
- Maintain access granting & access revoking process
- Use unique passwords
- Disable or delete dormant accounts that are inactive for 45 days or more
- Use the Least Privileged Access policy so that privileged access is given to persons to perform only that particular task
- Centralize account management for better control
- Make multi-factor authentication mandatory for externally exposed applications and remote network access.
- Centralize all access control
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A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets in the atmosphere, resulting in a spectrum of light visible to the human eye. To paint a rainbow on a wall, you will need: blue, green, yellow, orange and red paint; a paintbrush; and a wall. Step 1: Decide where you want to place your rainbow. Step 2: Paint the blue section of the rainbow first. Use a
How To Paint A Rainbow On Wall
There is no one definitive way to paint a rainbow on a wall. Some methods include using tape or a stencil, while others involve freehand painting. It is important to use bright colors that will show up well against the wall and to avoid painting over any electrical outlets or light switches.
-A large surface to paint on (preferably a wall) -Paint in various colors -A paintbrush
- Pick the spot on the wall where you want to paint the rainbow
- Next, use a slightly
- Beginning at the top of the wall, use a light blue paint to paint a stripe that is about six inches wide
A rainbow is one of the most beautiful natural wonders. It can be a great addition to any room in your home. If you want to paint a rainbow on your wall, here are some things to consider: -Choose the right spot. The best place to paint a rainbow is in a bright, sunny spot where there is plenty of room to work. -Decide on the colors. To paint a rainbow, you will need six different colors: red, orange,
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do You Make Rainbow Wall Decals?
There are a few ways to make rainbow wall decals, but one of the easiest is to use contact paper. Cut out a rainbow shape from contact paper, then stick it to the wall. Add some clouds, and you’re done!
How Do You Paint A Pastel Rainbow?
To paint a pastel rainbow, you’ll need to use a range of different colors and shades. Start by painting the sky with a light blue color, then add some clouds. Next, use a range of different colors to paint the rainbow, starting with light pink and working your way up to dark purple. Finally, add some finishing touches to the painting, such as trees or flowers.
How Do You Measure A Rainbow Wall?
A rainbow wall is typically measured by the height and width of the wall.
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The National Centre for Mental Health is quiet. Indeed, for anyone who is used to mental health units consisting of open-plan wards that echo with daytime TV, it is unsettlingly quiet. This is no accident: the lack of privacy and risk of users upsetting each other inherent in an open plan layout has been shunned in favour of individual rooms and treatment suites which better suit users’ needs.
“A lot of people ask where all the patients are when they first get here,” says Natalie Willetts, a nurse consultant at the recently opened centre. “But there’s the same number as in the old site. The design is just more effective.”
The rediscovery of doors in hospital design may seem relatively insignificant, but it is the sort of minor change that constructing a centre from scratch has allowed to be built in – minor changes that add up to a big difference. Combining the building design with organisational changes has resulted in more patient-centred care at what is hailed as the UK’s leading mental health hub.
The £70m NCMH was built near the sprawling Queen Elizabeth Hospital complex in Edgbaston, Birmingham. It’s been up and running since the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital was vacated in May. But in contrast to its massive neighbour and its overcrowded predecessor, the NCMH is a low-key sanctuary.
Relaxation is built into the fabric of the centre, with the three units that comprise the 137-bed service named after relaxing herbs. The Barberry unit provides specialist services, including a mother and baby centre, neuropsychiatry and a centre for eating disorders. Next door, the Oleaster provides acute in-patient care. And the 32-bed Zinnia is in the Sparkhill area of the city to engage hard-to-reach groups.
The development process involved users and staff. Pat Fleetwood-Walker’s daughter used the old hospital, and Pat participated in the planning of the new one. “One of the most dramatic changes is the individual rooms. Before, there were no rooms, just mixed wards,” she says. “The women were often scared. We were concerned about the security both in the wards and in acute care. That, and the fact there was nothing to do, were the biggest concerns.”
An activity worker now focuses on providing events in the evenings and weekends. There are individual rooms in the Barberry and the Oleaster is split into male and female wards. Willetts says the separate wards add security and allow for the different care needs of men and women.
Such responsive development means that the staff are proud of the centre, and praise both the architects and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust. Surprisingly, the old hospital was just 15 years old when it was demolished. But Kate Phipps, who was the hospital’s project director, says the site was not built for purpose and wasn’t working.
“When the national services framework for mental health was launched, it caused everyone to look differently at their services,” she says. “The trust began to question the relevance of the old hospitals.
“We’ve had an 18-month transformation process to see what people wanted when they came into care. For example, we now have doctors who work only with in-patients, home treatment or in the community.”
Before the changes, there could be up to 18 consultant psychiatrists admitting people to a single 24-bed ward. Staff time would be sucked up dealing with the bureaucracy of handling so many people. Now, dedicated doctors allow staff to spend more therapeutic time with patients.
Another change is the relocation of south Birmingham’s two home treatment teams into the Oleaster building. Then project manager Suzanne Bramall oversaw the move to the site, and says that it has allowed more efficient working with centre staff too.
“We now have daily contact with the wards without fail. By being here we can be involved from when someone comes in and we can be planning their discharge. If there is someone who has not been claiming benefits and not maintaining their property, we can get those sorted at an earlier stage and discharges aren’t held up,” she says.
Each specialist unit is tailored to specific needs. Take the 12-bed Jasmine Suite in the Barberry, which is one of the UK’s few deaf services for mental health. Door buzzers and vibrating pillows let staff contact users when they are in their suites. Massive windows let in light, in contrast to the dark corridors of the old hospital. Users don’t stay in their rooms, but can visit the unlocked art room and the two courtyards. An impromptu photo shoot seems to draw most of the unit to the lounge in double-quick time. This is a unit that works.
It’s also a centre that engages with current national mental health issues. Drivers in patient-centred care are being followed – most notably for protected meal times that allow users to eat their meals in peace. For example, despite being accompanied by Willetts, we were blocked from entering a ward on Oleaster during dinner.
All staff are being trained in basic talking therapies. Willetts says: “We have a designated in-patient psychologist who teaches everyone what we call psychological mindedness, which is about working with users from their point of view, rather than seeing everything as a medical diagnosis. All staff have the same starting block, whether they are a domestic or a ward clerk.”
It is perhaps testament to these changes, however, that users barely even notice the nuts and bolts of what’s going – they are simply seeing an improved level of care.
Gene Needham, who has used the old hospital and the new centre, thinks the most effective improvements are the most straightforward ones. “The new suites are unbelievably beautiful – light and bright, with lovely furniture.
“Before, if you were ill, it was dreadful to be in a ward with people you couldn’t get away from. Now if you are in your room, it’s your choice whether to go and mix with others. The rooms are lovely, staff morale has lifted, and the service user is listened to,” Needham says. “It is, simply, conducive to better healthcare.”
Centre of excellence: local project with a national outlook
The title of National Centre for Mental Health may be grand, but in terms of the services, the NCMH isn’t that different from the old hospital.
The site is using the title in recognition of the services that are provided beyond south Birmingham – neuropsychiatry and the deaf service, for example, take on patients nationally.
The idea for the £70m centre came locally and is funded through a 35-year deal under the private finance initiative.
The PCT, says project director Kate Phipps, is also committed to a £2.6m investment that funds an extra 170 staff and the development of older people’s services.
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Glaciers. Polar bears. Arctic Fox. Whales. We all know and love these icons of the Arctic. For the few of us who have been fortunate enough to visit the Arctic, this is a life-changing experience. The stark beauty of the Arctic’s white ice in contrast with its deep blue water, provides a soothing sense of peace (at least until you hear a glacier suddenly calve in front of you with a big splash)!
National Geographic released Before the Flood this fall, a documentary film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio which focuses on climate change around the world, how it affects our communities, and what we can do about it. The first place that DiCaprio visits in this National Geographic film is Baffin Island, a remote, rugged island in Canadian territory of Nunavut within the Arctic Circle. The film segment features the polar bears, bowhead whales, and glaciers found on and around the island, and shows the rapid pace at which the ice is melting. The film is available for free for a limited time on some National Geographic channels; we recommend watching it!
The Arctic ice is melting at an alarming rate, and Baffin Island will likely change significantly as a result of this melting. We wanted to share this unique, stunning island with you in its pristine, rugged state, so we are offering a once-in-a-lifetime exclusive AdventureWomen trip to Baffin Island in August, 2017. You’ll get to experience the long days and twilight of the Arctic summer, searching for polar bears by land and searching for whales by boat. Cruising in small boats allows you to get up close with the Arctic’s polar bears – a remarkable and unique wildlife experience. Spend your evenings in a premium safari-style tented camp with a backdrop of spectacular Arctic scenery.
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Hojuelas are a fried pastry revered by Colombians and other Latin cultures, particularly at Christmas time. These thin and crispy strips of dough are straightforward concoctions of egg, flour, sugar, milk and salt. After a deep frying, they are often drizzled in a simple syrup of butter, brown sugar, ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon, then dusted in a fine coating of powdered sugar.
It is imperative for the dough of hojuelas to be rolled out thinly. Otherwise, the final product will not have the proper consistency. One recipe calls for a standard sweet dough of two eggs for every 1 cup (about 125 g) of flour. First, the eggs are whisked with 1 tsp (about 5 g) of sugar and a touch of salt, then about 0.5 cup (about 118 ml) of milk is stirred into the mix. Once blended, a mound of flour is dented in the middle, and the mixture can be poured in and kneaded through.
After a firm ball of dough is formed, many chefs will let it rest for at least 10 minutes before rolling it out with a rolling pin. During this time, the syrup can take shape on the stove. It starts with melting butter over medium heat, to which brown sugar, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon are added until it sticks firmly to a spoon. After this mix is syrupy, it gets removed from the stove to cool a little.
The final steps of making hojuelas entails rolling out the dough extremely thin and cutting out strips about as long and wide as two fingers. Some will cut them into triangles; others prefer thin rectangles. The size is not as important as the heat of the oil, which should be at least 350°F (about 177°C), but no hotter than 400°F (about 205°C).
Once browned, the hojuelas are placed on a paper towel to sop up extra oil. The strips should be crispy, with a slightly bubbled consistency. On the plate, they can be doused in the syrup and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
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The Veterans Freedom Center provides a one-stop location with trained staff prepared to provide a combination of services stressing academics, camaraderie, and wellness. We empathize with veterans many struggles; and strive to help veterans help themselves achieve success.
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Pasting GHS Plots into Your Own Documents
With GHS's Windows-based printing, you can now save plots to files in
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format, manipulate them using an image-editing
program, and then insert them into a word-processing document. Here's how:
(1) Click Start, Control Panel, and Printers to open the Printers window.
(2) Double-click Add Printer in the Printers window. Click Next, choose
Local printer, then click Next again. Choose a PostScript printer in the list
(use "HP LaserJet 4P/4MP PostScript" under manufacturer "HP" if available),
and click Next. Choose the port FILE: and click Next. Call the new printer
"EPS File", make sure it is not your default printer, and click Next.
Choose "No" when asked whether you want a test page, then click Finish.
If your Windows installation files are not present on your hard drive,
you will may be asked to insert your Windows installation media.
Wait until the printer EPS File appears in your Printers window.
(3) Right-click on EPS File and choose Properties. Select the PostScript
tab and click the triangle next to PostScript output format, then choose
"Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)". Click OK to close. Your system is now
configured to produce EPS file versions of GHS printouts.
(4) In GHS, enter PRINT CONFIGURE to get a pop-up window, click the
triangle next to the Name field, choose "EPS File", and click OK to close.
This print method will be used by GHS until it exits, but when GHS is
restarted, the Windows default printer will be restored for GHS printing.
(5) Be aware that each EPS file corresponds to a single page of printed
output, so if your report is more than one page long, an error message
will be displayed and only the first page will be saved in the EPS file.
To get an EPS image of a particular plot within a multi-page report, make
a backup copy of the .PF file, edit it with a word processor, delete
everything before the ".PLOT PAGE" line for the page you want to save,
delete everything after the next ".END PAGE" line, and save as a text file.
(6) In GHS, enter PRINT followed by the name of the .PF file to print.
When a window pops up to ask for the location of the "Print To File",
choose any file name and folder you want, but make sure it ends with
the .EPS file extension (e.g. PP.EPS).
(7) Once the EPS file has been created, you can open it in an image-editing
program (such as Adobe PhotoShop or ImageReady), modify it (such as by
adding additional labels or cropping off unneeded portions), and save
it in the desired image format (such as EPS, BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, etc.).
(8) Depending upon your image format and word-processing software, you
should now be able to insert the modified image into your word-processing
document. For example, in Microsoft Word, you would click the Insert menu
then choose Picture From File and select your file (which could be in EPS,
BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, or other image formats). In Microsoft WordPad, you
would click the Insert menu, choose Object, click Create from File, and
select your file (which would need to be in BMP format to work).
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Oakland, Los Angeles, and Fresno were not always some of the most polluted and impoverished communities in California, but they are now. As California contemplates updating its clean energy policies, including cap-and-trade, we must remember the debt we owe these and other communities devastated by decades of disinvestment and structural racism. Industrialization, migration, white flight, redlining, and massive (and misguided) infrastructure spending resulted in concentrations of poverty and pollution in communities of color throughout California.
In recent years environmental justice and equity advocates have successfully passed laws to tackle this problem, making a cleaner and more equitable future for impacted communities more likely. But progress remains too slow and too limited resulting in California having some of the most polluted air basins in the Country. We need higher levels of investment and more aggressive government interventions because delays in achieving pollution-free environments in the most impacted communities and transitioning these communities to a clean energy future literally results in death.
Since the California Air Resources Board selected cap-and-trade as part of its arsenal of policies to reach our climate goals, it has dominated environmental policy conversations. Many bemoan the program, others champion it, and many fall in between. This year again, cap-and-trade is taking center stage in climate policy conversations as legislators ponder significant changes. If you want more details on the proposals read here and here.
It seems clear [at least to me] that the legislature must act to continue to program past 2020, but that is pretty much the only clear thing with cap-and-trade these days. Uncertainty abounds: Why have recent auctions performed so poorly? Why did the last auction do so well? Is the court case filed against the program going to the Supreme Court? Must the legislature reauthorize the program by a two-thirds or a simple majority vote? Does it even have to be reauthorized? Wait, I thought that was clear. I guess nothing is clear with the program right now.
Whatever the future holds for cap-and-trade we know that California cannot roll back on pricing carbon. One way or another, to reach our ambitious climate change and clean energy goals, we must put a price on the use of deadly fossil fuels. So, if we must make changes to cap-and-trade, let’s take the opportunity to strengthen California’s commitment to addressing poverty and pollution at the same time.
What does that mean in concrete terms?
Prioritize air quality in our most polluted communities.
Pollution has increased in frontline communities – the ones with the dirtiest air and most poverty — since the implementation of cap-and-trade, while overall pollution in the state has decreased. Regardless of where people land on this finding, no one disputes that we must prioritize air quality improvements in frontline communities. Last year AB 197 (Garcia) put California environmental policy on this path and this year AB 378 (Garcia, Holden, Garcia) would have taken even more aggressive action towards improving air quality in frontline communities. Unfortunately the Assembly failed to take action towards curbing air pollution last night by voting down AB 378. The bottom line is we must do more to prioritize air quality in our most polluted communities.
Invest heavily in climate mitigation and adaptation in most burdened communities.
Since 2014, over $1 billion has been invested in projects that benefit disadvantaged communities — a nice start, but not nearly enough. SB 775 (Wieckowski) proposes many changes to cap-and-trade, including a pricing mechanism that would increase the price floor to $20 (meaning polluters would pay more for the junk they put in our air) starting in 2020 and increasing every quarter thereafter.
This could potentially mean a lot more resources for clean energy investments, but, the bill author has suggested dedicating a large portion of the revenue to a dividend program. I support a dividend program if we do it as I describe below. But just as California must not roll back on pricing carbon it also must not roll back on investing in the most impacted communities to transition to a clean energy future. In fact, we need higher levels of investment to mitigate pollution and to build communities that can adapt to a changing environment. Setting a higher price on carbon as SB 775 does is the right start and we need the right balance between this critical infrastructure and dividends for consumers.
Structure any dividend program to meet the needs of the most impacted residents.
Let me make one thing clear: We must end our dependence on fossil fuels because it is killing us and our planet. Transitioning to a clean energy future, however, won’t be cheap, and many Californians will feel those costs in our wallets. I am so proud and thankful to live in a State that commits to equity and justice, no matter what the cost. So, to honor our Resistance, we should establish a means-tested dividend program that prioritizes the needs of low and moderate income families as well as small businesses. In other words, let’s give the most help to those who really need it.
Pay for a just transition.
Our transition to a clean energy future can’t help but impact economies built on fossil fuels. To achieve a just transition to clean energy, we must do all the things listed above and also support workers and communities that depend on the fossil fuel industry for economic security. Dedicating resources towards workforce development targeted at workers in the fossil fuel industry is a must. The fossil fuel economy is built on extraction and oppression, so the clean energy economy must promote people, our planet, and prosperity.
Embrace a bottom-up approach to economic development.
Ending approaches based in structural racism that resulted in the oppression and death of our people will require drastically different approaches to decision-making and economic development. Top down, trickle-down, economic development approaches must be replaced by a new, bottom-up, community led approach to tackle the pervasive poverty and income inequality that plague our state.
Invest the resources generated by the current program immediately.
The latest cap-and-trade auction surprised many by selling all available allowances. This could be great news for the programs currently funded by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, but appropriating the funds is complicated by the politics surrounding the future of cap-and-trade. Governor Jerry Brown stated in his budget proposal that funds would not be allocated unless legislators pass a two-thirds majority extension of cap-and-trade. Whether legislators can do this remains unclear [some say it’s unlikely], which means that the funds might be held politically hostage. This is unacceptable. We have resources available now to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects, many of which greatly benefit disadvantaged communities that urgently need the relief from pollution and poverty these funds can provide.
California has taken bold steps to address climate change, pollution and poverty together. It’s time to move forward with even greater urgency and make sure we remember our most vulnerable communities.
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Divided High Court Strengthens Police Searches
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick with Madeleine Brand.
Coming up, we test drive our summer series: Just Where Can You Get with 100 Bucks of Gas?
MADELEINE BRAND, host:
First though, police now don't have to knock before entering private homes. The Supreme Court issued that decision in a narrow four to five vote. Joining us to discuss the case is Dahlia Lithwick, she's legal analyst for the online magazine Slate and for us here at DAY TO DAY.
And Dahlia, this case is called Hudson v. Michigan. Tell us about it, and what was at issue here.
Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Slate Magazine): Well, we had the poor defendant who was sitting in his Detroit apartment in the front room, casually minding his own business when suddenly - after a apparently three-second knock - seven police officers burst in, found him there, found five rocks of cocaine on his - of crack I'm sorry - on his person, and other drug paraphernalia around the apartment.
The question then became because they did not knock prior to - and announce themselves - prior to coming in, whether they had violated this age-old quote "knock and announce" rule, whereby the police - even when they have a valid search warrant are supposed to sort of let you know that they're coming. And the police in this case acknowledge that they didn't really give him time.
There's a constant tension in the knock and announce doctrine between the sort of police need to get in there before you flush the evidence, and your right to know that the police are coming in. So it issue really was whether this evidence should be suppressed, because the police did not, in fact, follow the knock and announce rule. That was the issue for the court today.
BRAND: And they decided that no, indeed, they don't have to knock? They can just rush on in?
Ms. LITHWICK: Well, yeah. Essentially, what they said was not that they don't have to knock. There still is a knock and announce rule. But the question was what is the remedy? In effect, is this evidence all suppressed, or can it still be used? And Justice Scalia, writing for a five/four court - a very, very narrowly, by the way, five/four court, in some places there were only three other people who signed off on his opinion - but Justice Scalia essentially said I'm going to hang my hat on something called the inevitable discovery doctrine. And what that says is, and you probably know this from NYPD Blue, Madeleine, that if the cops were going to find it anyway, if they were going to execute the warrant and find all that stuff anyway, then you don't have to suppress everything. And so what he said was I'm going to sort of say this evidence could all come in otherwise, quote, "Every single bad guy would have a sort of get out of jail free card and that's not acceptable." So whether in fact there is some sort of other remedy for when the police, in fact, don't knock and announce, we don't know, that remains to be seen. But Scalia says the correct remedy here is not to suppress all that evidence.
BRAND: So, inevitably, the fallout will be that police don't have to knock anymore, right?
Ms. LITHWICK: One would certainly wonder if the evidence is not going to be suppressed, and you're not on the hook for anything why the police would ever knock and announce again. It gives the guy a chance to - as I said - flush the drugs. And it's much more dangerous for the police to announce their presence. They don't want to get shot, so why any cop would ever announce his presence before busting in does remain to be seen.
BRAND: And Dahlia, what were the arguments against it?
Ms. LITHWICK: Well, I think the argument against it is preserving this age-old doctrine of the police don't get to just knock down your door. They have to knock, they have to announce themselves. You have that sort of tiny shred of privacy to which you're entitled, and if there is no remedy, if there's nothing, there's no consequence for the police to just come in and search your home, then there's absolutely no way to prevent them from doing this.
BRAND: This was a five to four decision. And the newest justice, Samuel Alito, broke the tie. What does that tell you about how future cases will be decided?
Ms. LITHWICK: Even more important than that, Madeleine, this case was re-argued. In other words, the court heard it when Sandra Day O'Connor was on the bench. They heard it again after O'Connor was replaced by Alito. And certainly, some court watchers thought that O'Connor would have gone the other way. In other words, she would have voted with the far more liberal members to preserve this knock and announce rule and to really not lay too much importance on the inevitable discovery doctrine. So it's not simply that Alito is the tiebreaker, it really does show the absolute sharp jag to the sort of political right that the court may take when Alito replaces O'Connor as that swing vote.
BRAND: Dahlia, this isn't the only case that we're waiting on for the court to decide as the end of the term nears. What other big cases are we waiting for?
Ms. LITHWICK: I think the two really big ones that everybody is holding their breath about are one, the Texas redistricting case that is going to really test this question of whether there can ever be a political gerrymander, a redistricting that violates the constitution - that violates this principal of one person, one vote.
The other big one - and probably the biggest one that's going to really tell us about the sort of ongoing stamp of the new Roberts court - is the Hamdam decision. The decision that is testing the constitutionality of President Bush's military tribunal system that he's set up for the people that are at Guantanamo Bay.
BRAND: Opinion and analysis from Dahlia Lithwick. She covers the courts for the online magazine Slate, and for us here at DAY TO DAY. Thank you, Dahlia.
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Merete Røstad, Saša Asentić and Per Roar, Lars Ebert, Suzana Milevska, Mapping the field, MEMORYWORK”, Art and Craft and Dance Department
“MEMORYWORK” day 2
MEMORYWORK is a platform for sharing interdisciplinary artistic research on performative memory work. The project is developed by artists with backgrounds in Choreography, Theatre, Performance Art and Art in Public Spaces.
For more information:
Merete Røstad is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and researcher whose practice is rooted in examining collective memory research, memory work and archives. Røstad has a doctorate in artistic research on The Participatory Monument – Remembrance and Forgetting as Art Practice in Public Sphere (2019) at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Røstad is an Associate Professor in Art and Public Space (MFA) and is Research leader at the Department of Arts and Crafts at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). In addition, Røstad leads two international interdisciplinary research projects: MEMORYWORK and ARcTic South.
Saša Asentić is a choreographer and cultural worker. He is interested in exploring the relationship between the individual and society and analyzing it in terms of social choreography. He works in the field of contemporary dance, performance and disability arts.
Lars Ebert is co-director of H401 in Amsterdam where he develops international co-operation projects on the role of the arts and participation in memory work and heritage. He also maintains an independent practice as curator, facilitator and teacher. He is a board member of a.o. Culture Action Europe and the chair of EQ-Arts.
Suzana Milevska is a curator and theorist of visual art and culture based in Skopje, North Macedonia. She was Endowed Professor for Central and South Eastern European Art Histories, Academy of Fine Art Vienna (2013-2015) and Principal Investigator, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (2016-2019). She holds a PhD in visual culture from Goldsmiths College. She won the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory. | <urn:uuid:b07ebe41-a401-42c6-8c64-180161495139> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artisticresearchweek.khio.no/project/merete-rostad-sasa-asentic-and-per-roar-lars-ebert-suzana-milevska-mapping-the-field-memorywork-art-and-craft-and-dance-department/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93112 | 466 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Spain is officially insolvent: get your money out while you still can
I'd not noticed this until someone drew my attention to it, but the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor, published last month, comes about as close to declaring Spain insolvent as you are ever likely to see in official analysis of this sort. Of course, it doesn't actually say this outright. The IMF is far too diplomatic for such language. But that's the plain meaning of its latest forecasts, which at last have an air of realism about them, rather than being the usual dose of wishful thinking.
Let's take the projected budget deficit first. This is expected to decline quite steeply this year to 6.6 per cent of GDP, but that's mainly because the cost of bailing out the banking sector fell substantially on last year's budget. On a like-for-like basis, there has in fact been very little fall in the underlying deficit. And nor on the present policy mix is there ever likely to be, for that's where the deficit is projected to remain until the end of the IMF's forecasting horizon in 2018.
Next year, the deficit is expected to be 6.9 per cent, the year after 6.6 per cent, and so on with very little further progress thereafter. Remember, all these projections are made on the basis of everything we know about policy so far, so they take account of the latest package of austerity measures announced by the Spanish Government.
The situation looks even worse on a cyclically adjusted basis. What is sometimes called the "structural deficit", or the bit of government borrowing that doesn't go away even after the economy returns to growth (if indeed it ever does), actually deteriorates from an expected 4.2 per cent of GDP this year to 5.7 per cent in 2018. By 2018, Spain has far and away the worst structural deficit of any advanced economy, including other such well known fiscal basket cases as the UK and the US.
So what happens when you carry on borrowing at that sort of rate, year in, year out? Your overall indebtedness rockets, of course, and that's what's going to happen to Spain, where general government gross debt is forecast to rise from 84.1 per cent of GDP last year to 110.6 per cent in 2018. No other advanced economy has such a dramatically worsening outlook. And the tragedy of it all is that Spain is actually making relatively good progress in addressing the "primary balance", that's the deficit before debt servicing costs.
What's projected to occur is essentially what happens in all bankruptcies. Eventually you have to borrow more just to pay the interest on your existing debt. The fiscal compact requires eurozone countries to reduce their deficits to 3 per cent by the end of this year, though Spain among others was recently granted an extension. But on these numbers, there is no chance ever of achieving this target without further austerity measures, which even if they were attempted would very likely be self defeating. IN any case, it seems doubtful an economy where unemployment is already above 25 per cent could take any more.
In the past, the IMF has been guilty of being far too optimistic about Spain, both on the outlook for growth and the public finances, so it's possible it is now committing the reverse mistake of undue pessimism. Yet somehow I doubt it. Spain is chasing its tail down into deflationary oblivion.
All this leads to the conclusion that a big Spanish debt restructuring is inevitable. Spanish sovereign bond yields have fallen sharply since announcement of the European Central Bank's "outright monetary transactions" programme. The ECB has promised to print money without limit to counter the speculators. But in the end, no amount of liquidity can cover up for an underlying problem with solvency.
Europe said that Greece was the first and last such restructuring, but then there was Cyprus. Spain is holding off further recapitalisation of its banks in anticipation of the arrival of Europe's banking union, which it hopes will do the job instead. But if the Cypriot precedent is anything to go by, a heavy price will be demanded by way of recompense. Bank creditors will be widely bailed in. Confiscation of deposits looks all too possible.
I don't advise getting your money out lightly. Indeed, such advise is generally thought grossly irresponsible, for it risks inducing a self reinforcing panic. Yet looking at the IMF projections, it's the only rational thing to do.
PS. I don't include creditors of the British arm of Santander in this warning, who are ring fenced from the mothership back bome in Spain, theoretically at least.
[Source: By Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph, London, 10May13]
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Mental Illness Tied to Increased Dementia Risk!
Mental disorders in early life are associated with a significantly increased risk of dementia in later years. Results of a large, longitudinal, population-based study show that individuals hospitalized for a mental health disorder had a fourfold increased relative risk (RR) for developing dementia compared to those who were not hospitalized with a mental illness. In addition, those with dementia plus a mental disorder developed dementia almost 6 years earlier than those without a mental illness.
@sohini The findings were consistent among men and women, in patients with early- and late-onset dementia, in those with Alzheimer's and non-Alzheimer's dementia, and across all mental health disorders — and remained so after accounting for preexisting physical illness and socioeconomic factors. Previous research suggests mental disorders may "comprise an underappreciated category of modifiable risk factors." However, those studies focused primarily on midlife and older individuals, not on capturing mental disorders during young adulthood, which is the time of "peak prevalence," they add. In addition, most studies have not explored the full range of mental disorders. | <urn:uuid:ea71f4ea-be15-4854-a0ba-50a1a1aa5758> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.reanfoundation.org:443/topic/3067/mental-illness-tied-to-increased-dementia-risk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959601 | 237 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Research Paper Title
Visual Identification of Obesity by Healthcare Professionals: An Experimental Study of Trainee and Qualified GPs.
Guidelines suggest that healthcare professionals should screen and offer help to overweight and obese patients to lose weight. Despite this. such discussions are uncommon in practice. One reason for doctors lack of intervention on weight could be that they fail to recognise a person as obese.
A physician has to raise the topic of weight in the first place to record a weight, and this conversation is initiated presumably mostly on visual perception. A substantial proportion of parents of obese children underestimate their child’s weight status and healthcare professionals may be no more accurate than the general population at estimating both children’s and adults· weight status.
This study examined whether GPs and trainee GPs could correctly recognise healthy-weight, overweight, and obese males, and whether they would consider intervening with such patients. The aim was to examine the extent to which visual perception can impact on GPs propensity to treat obesity.
- Recruitment: Between April and May 2013. 2055 GPs and trainee GPs on the lists of the UK NHS Workforce West Midlands Deanery and NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group were emailed.
- Stimuli and Procedure:
- Participants rated 15 photographed white British males aged 18-30 years old. The photographs were evenly split between healthy-weight, overweight, and obese individuals (that is, five of each category). Models wore normal-fitting, short-sleeved shirts and trousers and were photographed standing both front – and side-on with their arms at their sides and next to a standard-sized door.
- Participants were then informed that they would be categorising photographs of males as being underweight, healthy weight, overweight, or obese. and they should do this according to the World Health Organisation body mass index (BMI) guidelines, which were shown.
- Participants were shown each of the 15 photographs and underneath each one they were asked to categorise the model into one of the four weight categories, estimate BMI, and select a response to “If I were this person’s GP, I would discuss their weight with them”.
Three-hundred and fifteen GPs participated with a mean age of 33.9 years [SO 8.3) and mean BMI of 24.0 kg/m2 [SO 4.7) Of these. 109 [35%) were male and 248 were GPs in training.
GPs were more accurate when classifying healthy-weight photographs than overweight or obese. They classified 4.0/5 healthy-weight, 2.4/5 overweight. and 1.7/5 obese photographs correctly.
GPs underestimated BMI associated with the photographed males· actual BMI. The mean and SD of the slope for GPs was -0.21 [0 18). with 95% Cl = -0.22 to -0 19, P<0.001, meaning that on average GPs would underestimate the BMI of someone with a BMI of 30.0 kg/m2 as being 27.58 kg/m2 (see Figure 1 for actual and estimated BMI of each photograph).
GPs varied greatly on whether they would be likely to intervene on weight. As expected. GPs were more likely to intervene the higher they estimated the photo’s BMI , with an OR of 1.53 [95% Cl = 1.49 to 1 58) per 1.0 kg/m2 increase in estimated BMI. Neither feeling responsible for weight management nor GPs weight consciousness were significant in the model separately or together (Table 1). There was some evidence that qualified GPs were slightly more accurate at categorising the photographed participants than the trainees. but this difference was small. The tendency to underestimate BMI associated with the photographed males actual BMI was similar for trainees and qualified GPs.
A sample of mainly trainee GPs was unable to recognise most obese men as obese by sight alone. There was a tendency to underestimate BMI. which was more pronounced the higher the photographed subject’s actual BMI. Intervention was more likely if GPs did not underestimate BMI. The main study findings are in line with other research indicating that laypeople often underestimate body weight. One explanation for this effect may be that social norms regarding what constitutes a normal weight have altered in recent times and this makes heavier weights seem more normal and healthier than they actually are.
Most participants in this study were GPs in training. Some evidence was found that the more experienced qualified GPs were slightly more accurate at estimating weight status. This difference was small, however and there was a tendency to underestimate weight across both the experienced and lesser experienced GPs in this sample.
It is not usual to think of estimating BMI by sight as a core clinical skill. It is, after all, accurately assessed by weight and height measurement, which takes less than a minute. However, for GPs to do this they have to start talking to the patient about weight. Assessing that the patient may have a significant weight problem is an important cue for that discussion. It is important that healthcare professionals do not rely visual judgements when identifying patients who may benefit from weight management treatment.
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Shaun Garrity returns to the 1980s with the low-wing classic design from David Boddington
The high wing Whisper and low wing Excellence were designed by Dave Boddington in the mid 1980s for the new breed of small four-stroke engines that were starting to appear, specifically the latest O.S. FS-20.
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Dave noted that choosing names for his latest creations could be quite time consuming, but this wasn’t a problem for this model; Excellence was the name O.S. had given to their new range of engines, so it seemed appropriate and fitting to call it just that.
Whisper was conceived as a 3-channel (rudder, elevator, throttle) trainer, with the potential to add ailerons later. However, the 4-channel Excellence was designed to be capable of advanced aerobatics with no modifications.
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Early four-strokes were less powerful than their equivalent two-stroke engines so lightweight construction was important and a quick look at the plan will confirm this. The power gap was such that Boddo suggested using a good .15 size two-stroke as an alternative.
He also stressed there were no problem areas in the construction and any modeller with a couple of projects under their belt will breeze it.
A BODDO SNIPPET
In the late 1960s Boddo designed and built a full-size BE2c replica for a Biggles movie. However, for financial reasons the movie was never finished, but the aircraft was. The BE2c was eventually sold to an enthusiast in America who regularly flew and displayed it. Where am I going with this?
Well, in 1977 Boddo was contacted by the BBC about a twelve-episode TV series to be called Wings. The conversation basically went as follows: “Would you be interested in building some 1/6th scale models? We would like a couple of BE2s, a couple of Albatros 1s and a couple of Avro 504s. Oh, and we need them in six weeks please.”
It was a good job Boddo had a team of modellers willing to help with the building. A little further down the line, after much negotiation, the BBC mentioned they would like the BE2s to look like a full-size replica they had filmed in the States and Boddo realised this was the aircraft he had designed and built years ago.Article continues below…
There was a small problem though as the full-size aircraft wasn’t an exact scale replica. This meant he needed to modify the scale models he had just built by tweaking the nose and building a new tailplane.
Now we come full circle; years later it was Matthew Boddington who was involved with the restoration of the full-size replica BE2c (it had crashed and been abandoned, and I believe Matthew brought it back to the UK).
It was Matthew, too, who built and flew the prototype Excellence featured in the original article. If you have access to the April and May 1977 issues of RCM&E then there’s an interesting two-part feature about Wings detailing the full story.
MORE WINGS & THINGS
Different in design to Whisper, there is no leading-edge sheeting so, to maintain profile, sub-ribs are used instead to prevent the covering from sagging. Being parallel chord the ribs can easily be made using the sandwich method.
The wing is built in two panels and the only modification I would suggest is using a servo per aileron rather than the old way of just one in the middle as shown on the plan.
Start by pinning the lower spar in place, gluing the main ribs using PVA or aliphatic; you will need to pack up the rear of the ribs to the correct height. Add the top spar, and leading and trailing edge pieces. The sub-ribs can be slipped in diagonally, then glued in place; don’t forget to position the root ribs to achieve the correct dihedral angle, then add the ply dihedral brace.
Wing tips are shaped from soft 1” triangular balsa block. Add the shear webbing as this imparts significant strength and resistance to twisting. Use medium hard balsa for the ailerons.
The tail group is built up to save weight but note the use of 3/16” spruce to stiffen up the centre section of the tailplane. So don’t omit this.
Nothing too complicated here. It’s a little more involved than your basic boxy trainer but shouldn’t cause any problems. Whisper had a cowl moulded from ABS, Excellence uses good ol’ balsa to make things simpler.
You will need to decide how you want to power it before starting to cut wood. If going electric check F2 is positioned to get the prop driver in the correct place. You can obviously omit the engine bearers.
Cut the sides from medium 1/8” balsa then accurately glue formers F2, F3 and F5 in position. When dry, jig up or use a simple line on the building board to accurately form the rear fuselage. I would bind the tail skid to F8 now as it will prove difficult later if you forget. Glue in the 1/8” x 3/8” stern post and when dry sheet the rear lower and top fuselage with 1/16” cross grain balsa. Then glue on F6, F7 and the 1/8” x 3/8” top stringers.
Use 1/8” marine ply for the undercarriage leg retainers, noting that the angles for the slots differ on each side. Not far to go now just the front lower 1/8” ply and 3/8” block and the top decking from 3/32” sides and 1/8” as detailed. Form the tank hatch. If going electric you could modify this area, adding a battery tray allowing easy access for changing the LiPo.
Once you’ve fixed F4 and the canopy fillets in position you can get on with the glazing. The canopy doesn’t require a moulded item as it’s made from acetate sheet. Boddo suggested mocking up the shape required first from card to get it spot on.
I would suggest fitting the canopy after painting and decorating. Add any remaining balsa and ply parts detailed on the plan, round off the nose to suit a 2” spinner and the job’s done.
No problems will be encountered here as modern gear is so much smaller than that available in the 1980s. Although the elevator is shown having an internal connection on the plan, if you don’t like that method then go external. Pushrods, snakes or pull-pull on the rudder will all work well, just ensure the hinges are free and nothing binds.
Standard sized servos can be used for rudder, elevator and throttle (for IC) but modern micro-size types (around 15g) will make life easier, especially when going electric and finding a home for them in the fuselage alongside the flight LiPo. As mentioned, I would use a micro servo per aileron as this will also allow you to program flaperons if required.
The prototype was covered in a Solartex (possibly Polytex, like the Whisper) but modern heat-shrink films will work well as the wing is pretty rigid in its uncovered state.
Due to the demise of Solarfilm I’ve recently used the Hobbyking range of films with great success. They have great shrink, mould round curves well and appear not to slacken off on hot days.
Whatever covering system you use keep it as light as possible and pick a colour scheme that aids orientation.
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Check all the usual things such as C of G, the control surfaces move as expected, nothing binds, servo and surface horns have been tightened up and the wheels don’t bind. Boddo noted that Excellence
“…had good positive control response but was in no way twitchy. She can be pulled around the sky in tightly banked turns without fear of high-speed stalling and it’s possible to fly a display routine in a very small box of air. Inverted performance is fine, and Excellence will execute flick manoeuvres.”
One point he made was not to over-power the model and even suggested that if using a hot .20 two-stroke then nylon covering was highly recommended.
The black and white images were kindly provided by Andrew Boddington and my thanks go to him.
If you want to buy a copy of the original Radio Modeller plan then it is still available from Sarik Hobbies:
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Have you ever considered why Homer’s stories made it from ancient Greece to your local bookstore? Far from their Mediterranean home, long separated from the toga-clad gatherings that the storyteller commanded, Homer’s tales survive. Much like its protagonist, “The Odyssey” stood up to tempests and time to find its way to you. All because Homer could spin one heck of a yarn.
If “The Odyssey” is any indication, the art of story selling is the most powerful method of persuasion known to man. In their bestselling book, “Story Selling: Hollywood Secrets Revealed,” Emmy winner Nick Nanton and Emmy-nominated J.W. Dicks explain the science behind why stories are essential to the human mind and create a how-to guide for a marketing campaign that’s built around this powerful method of persuasion.
A How-To Guide to Storytelling and Story Selling
Nanton and Dicks are masters at taking complex concepts and distilling them into easy-to-understand terms. Their book reveals the principles Hollywood has built billion-dollar franchises on. They make it an entertaining read by using well-known examples. The making of “Rocky” and the story of Nike’s famous slogan illustrate their points. Through these, they demonstrate how any entrepreneur or business owner can put stories to work to create their own blockbuster success in the form of a marketing campaign.
In business, it’s hard to know who to trust. When you get to the root of people’s desires, you find that what they ultimately want to know is your story — who you are and where you come from. As a business owner and entrepreneur, if you haven’t defined your story, you haven’t truly defined your brand. You’ve given others the opportunity to create a story for you.
Science Confirms the Rumor: People Love Stories
As Instagram’s move to add the feature indicates, people love stories. Nanton and Dicks start from the idea that everyone likes to be on the receiving end of a story, and they point to revealing brain scans to prove it. Researchers at Claremont Graduate University found that when we hear a story, our brains produce “the love hormone,” oxytocin. Crazy, isn’t it? But maybe not all that surprising.
Think about the last time you almost cried (okay, maybe a few slipped out) by a commercial. You know the one — sad music comes on as you watch a young child in a hospital bed, surrounded by family, then watch as they recover and eventually play outside with their siblings. How did a simple advertisement cause such a visceral reaction? Our brains are activated because a story is something we relate to, it’s an experience that humanizes and connects us to others. It makes remote experiences suddenly feel close.
Your story is the most persuasive tool you have, and it should also be what defines your brand. How you choose to tell it as also largely up to you. Nanton and Dicks have identified some pointers in their book.
4 Key Elements of a Story
To craft a story that hits home, Nanton and Dicks have identified four key elements that need to be present:
- Simplicity (How easy is your story to grasp and repeat?)
- Authenticity (Does it feel authentic, or does it sound like a sales pitch?)
- Visibility (Put it in front of your target audience.)
- Relevancy (Make it something people are interested in.)
Nanton and Dicks encourage creative license to craft the message you want to share with consumers. However, the authors warn against abusing the power of a story or sacrificing one of the four elements. Use caution when deciding how much to embellish your story; otherwise, you risk violating the authenticity element. Creating a larger-than-life version of reality will ultimately fail. “When a big lie is told, it’s only a matter of time before it does catch up with you,” the authors caution. In the age of the internet, when information is available at the drop of a hat, it won’t be long before someone calls your bluff.
The Hero’s Journey
Not that long ago, in a galaxy relatively close by, a scholar by the name of Joseph Campbell identified a storytelling pattern. The likes of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg went on to use it with massive success. In his research, Campbell found that all stories share a common thread: they depict the Hero’s Journey, or, as Nanton and Dicks refer to it, “The Ultimate Story.” From Odysseus to Luke Skywalker to Harry Potter, it’s the journey (both the struggles and victories) of these heroes that we watch and listen for.
For a nonfiction example, Nanton and Dicks refer to Steve Jobs to illustrate the arc of The Ultimate Story. From meeting Steve Wozniak and dropping out of college to start Apple, to being booted from his own company, all the way back “home” again to the success he found after returning to Apple, it’s this type of journey that Nanton and Dicks encourage you to find in your own story. They make creating “The Ultimate Story” achievable by applying traditional writing techniques to business to help you distill the message you want to convey.
Of their approach, Dan Kennedy, author of “No B.S. Trust-Based Marketing,” says, “Nanton and Dicks are masters of the art, science, and process of identifying, crafting, and presenting stories for strategic purposes. This book is rich in examples, authoritative research, and direct ‘case history’ experience. It gives you practical blueprints, nearly templates. Most importantly, it proves its case beyond a shadow of a doubt.”
If Kennedy’s testament is any indication, “Story Selling: Hollywood Secrets Revealed” not only gives you a new perspective on marketing, but it shows you how you can immediately implement Nanton and Dicks’ storytelling philosophy into your marketing strategy.
So, what’s your story?
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There is an approximately 50-60% chance of El Niño within the late Northern Hemisphere winter and early spring, with ENSO-neutral slightly favored thereafter. Equatorial sea surface temperatures (SST) remained above average in the western and central Pacific during January 2015 and cooled across the eastern Pacific.
Accordingly, the latest weekly Niño indices were +0.5oC in the Niño-3.4 region and +0.9oC in the Niño-4 region, and closer to zero in the Niño-3 and Niño-1+2 regions. Subsurface temperature anomalies across the eastern half of the equatorial Pacific also averaged near zero during the month.
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Knee pain should not be overlooked. The moment you experience knee pain, it is suggested that you observe it for a couple of days. If the pain doesn’t subside or if it gets worse over time, you should contact a knee specialist right away to have it treated. There are different modes of treatment for knee pain and other knee joint disorders; they can either be surgical or non-surgical. The best person to consult when it comes to knee pain is a knee specialist.
What are the Common Causes of Knee Pain?
There are a number of factors that contribute to knee pain. Examples include arthritis (gout, pseudogout, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis), bursitis (inflammation of the bursa), tendonitis (patellar tendonitis), jumper’s knee, runner’s knee, meniscus tear, anterior cruciate ligament, infection, a break or fracture or a dislocated kneecap. All these conditions can cause knee pain.
When Should You See a Knee Specialist?
Knee pain can happen to anyone and it can be a result of wear and tear, injury, sports or accidents. If your knee causes severe discomfort to the point that it affects your range of motion and your activities of daily living don’t hesitate to call your doctor. Other signs that need immediate treatment are sudden pain, severe swelling and if your knee is paralyzed that you can no longer move. Also, if hot and cold compress or OTC painkillers don’t work, that’s also a sign that you need a specialist.
What is the Point of Seeing a Knee Specialist?
The best solution for debilitating knee pain is to see a knee specialist. Knee specialists possess the skills and the knowledge to diagnose and treat knee conditions. They also have the tools needed to help relieve the pain.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Spread the word – or, in this case, the peanut butter! You can donate unopened jars of peanut butter to hungry Panhandle families from Oct. 1 through Nov. 22, through the Peanut Butter Challenge, a project coordinated by UF/IFAS Extension faculty and volunteers.
During this period, you may drop off jars at your UF/IFAS Extension county office. UF/IFAS Extension works with the Florida Peanut Producers Association to send the peanut butter to food pantries from Pensacola to Monticello.
Since 2012, the volunteers and UF/IFAS Extension faculty have collected thousands of jars of peanut butter from residents, volunteer groups and businesses in 16 northwest Florida counties. Last year, UF/IFAS Extension county offices received 3,236 jars of peanut butter, said Libbie Johnson, agricultural agent for UF/IFAS Extension Escambia County and co-organizer of the Challenge.
In addition to these donations, the Florida Peanut Producers Association also contributes, supplying more than 3,000 jars each Challenge, Johnson said.
Why peanut butter? In addition to feeding the hungry a nutrient-packed spread, peanuts are a major crop in the Panhandle. Growers produced 244,000 tons of peanuts in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“The Peanut Butter Challenge not only raises awareness about the important contribution of North Florida’s peanut growers to the state peanut industry, but also helps provide a healthy, locally produced product to food-insecure families in northwest Florida,” said Johnson.
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Humanising British East and South East Asians:
The positioning of East and South East Asians into British society means we are celebrated as a model minority. But this myth does a disservice to the realities of being British East and South East Asian [BESEA]. It is a misconception that exaggerates the socioeconomic success of BESEA, perpetuates a denial of racial reality and continues false stereotyping.
Worst still, the myth is a form of systemic oppression which renders BESEA invisible. Being unseen means issues affecting BESEA can be simply ignored because our struggles don’t even register. Consequently, BESEA in arts and culture are underrepresented, marginalised and maligned. In short, we are dehumanised.
Increasing our visibility is a vital step in emancipating BESEA from invisibility and frees us from a chain of systemic discrimination. We seek representations of BESEA in the mainstream media that are not one-dimensional or ‘other-ing’, thereby normalizing our voices and faces. In this process of humanising our identity, we work towards building a new generation of role models and storytellers who are unencumbered by stereotyping and a society where we are no longer ridiculed, perceived as threats or the perpetual foreigner.
Lobbying for the term British East and South East Asian:
Under the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) label, we have never been able to refer to ourselves, using the correct geographical term, Asian. This is another slight to BESEA and part of parcel of the way our experiences of racism and racial discrimination are not acknowledged.
Asian is a term in the UK which describes those whose heritage is that of the subcontinent of India. BESEA have been stuck with being described as Oriental or Chinese. For the most part, China or identifying as Chinese became the catch-all. This ignorance of the differences between the rich spectrum of ethnicities is symbolic of a lack of understanding driven by a colonial perspective and amounts to the racist notion that “we all look the same.” This should be abolished.
In the same manner that the term Black has now come to be understood, to represent and describe people of Black, African and Caribbean heritage, we believe that using the broad term British East and South East Asian can act as an umbrella and acknowledge our diversity.
We use the term BESEA to mean people of the following descent: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and their diasporas. These people remain severely underrepresented in the arts in the UK. | <urn:uuid:dbd2c9e9-8ae3-43dc-be26-4db80a1f8ca6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wearebeats.wordpress.com/why/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944629 | 565 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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Use of Electron Fractography to Diagnose Hairline Cracking in an AISI 4340 Main Landing Gear Cylinder
Ground maintenance personnel discovered hydraulic fluid leaking from two small cracks in a main landing gear cylinder made from AISI 4340 Cr-Mo-Ni alloy steel. Failure of the part had initiated on the ID of the cylinder. Numerous cracks were found under the chromium plate. A 6500x electron fractograph showed cracking was predominantly intergranular with hairline indications. Leaking had occurred only 43 h after overhaul of the part. Total service time on the part was 9488 h. It was concluded that cracking on the ID was caused by hydrogen embrittlement which occurred during or after overhaul. The specific source of...
James A. Scott, Use of Electron Fractography to Diagnose Hairline Cracking in an AISI 4340 Main Landing Gear Cylinder, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Air and Spacecraft, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.aero.c9001540
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Time for a story
Choose someone quite ordinary but someone you can observe for a few moments. Someone you don’t know. Another person in a restaurant where you are eating, or someone on a bus or train who you can see for a short while. Have enough time for you to remember the main details of the person – age, sex, taste in clothes, apparently wealthy or poor. Shoes, if you can get a glance at them, are always interesting but interpreting them is tricky. Accessories including handbags and shopping carriers are good clues, too. Choose these few indicators about the person as you might choose colours for a painting you were contemplating. Don’t write them down, but if you want to dictate a few notes quietly into your handphone, please do so.
It’s not essential to have a record of your notes, Your memory will yield up the main ones when you need them. You are going to write a story. Why? Because in our rush to keep up to date we are forgetting the art of storytelling. Our grandchildren and great grandchildren will miss that when they want to look at your life and a record of the times in which you lived. Your story is going to be a fiction about the person you spotted. It will start with a very broad plot – but don’t get put off by that, just an outline of what is going to happen to this person, his friends and family.
Let your imagination out of its cage. I say ‘cage’, rather than ‘box’, because your memory is alive and you don’t keep live creatures in a box. Your mind isn’t a rapacious tiger – though it can be for some people – more a fit and healthy being that at times can be rather timid. Well, it’s not going to be timid now. It’s going to take the person you spotted and turn him or her into an adventure, possibly even a crime story or something completely the opposite. The only requirement is that whatever they are, they are exaggerated. Make them bigger than life.
Perhaps they live in a palace but don’t have enough ready money to dress and drive like a Prince. Maybe they are a top surgeon who resents paying for whatever activity your chosen model was doing. Maybe the next day they are leaving for Nepal to climb Everest, or diving to the maximum depth a human body can stand. Maybe they are falling in love, or could do so if the right person crossed their path. Imagine them running a bootleg or an illicit gambling den. Have they turned a perfectly innocent teenager’s game into a lure to solicit people to carry drugs?
On the other hand they could be a spy, now you come to think of it. Invest your imagination in this character for a while. Jot down some phrases about, or by, him or her that you can use later on. Things they might say or do a little out of the ordinary. It’s easier to write something highly imaginative rather than the pedestrian events of life. Start writing when you feel like it. You must get your reader caught in the first few lines of your story. Readers are attracted initially by the title – but leave that until you’ve finished – and possibly involve someone else to help you with it.
Make sure that, when you reach the point at which you think the reader will turn the page, there is something more they want or need to know, and which only appears on the next page. Page turners are vital about every four or five hundred words. You will probably be editing your story so don’t worry about getting your page turner in the right place. Make the story flow. Don’t reveal the end of it until you get there. The denouement is when the reader discovers the reason for reading it. Good if it can be a one-page story but perfectly all right is you want it to be longer. Don’t write for metrics, write for pleasure.
Try this a few times and you will get the hang of it. If you want to send me a draft I will read it and give you very frank comments. I’ll have to limit that offer to the first five I receive. Send to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Or perhaps it was a dog you spotted or a wild animal at the zoo, or a mouse in the cupboard under the sink. You can write about any of them – but remember that the less human they are the more difficult it is to write about them. But please, oh please, do write a story. There are more books now than ever before. Sadly, a lot of them aren’t worth reading.
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ECDC headquarters in Solna, Sweden
|Formed||28 September 2004|
|Headquarters||Solna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden|
|Annual budget||€57 million EUR (2020)|
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is an agency of the European Union (EU) whose mission is to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases. It covers a wide spectrum of activities, such as: surveillance, epidemic intelligence, response, scientific advice, microbiology, preparedness, public health training, international relations, health communication, and the scientific journal Eurosurveillance.
The centre was established in 2004 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.
As EU economic integration and open frontiers increased, cooperation on public health issues became more important. While the idea of creating a European centre for disease control had been discussed previously by public health experts, the 2003 SARS outbreak and the rapid spread of SARS across country borders confirmed the urgency of the creation of an EU-wide institution for public health. ECDC was set up in record time for an EU agency: the European Commission presented draft legislation in July 2003; by the spring of 2004, Regulation (EC) 851/2004 had been passed, and in May 2005 the Centre became operational. The relevance of the centre's mission was confirmed shortly after it began operating, when the arrival of H5N1 avian influenza in the EU's neighbourhood led to fears that the disease could adapt or mutate into a pandemic strain of human influenza.
The Centre moved to its current location at Gustav III:s Boulevard 40, 16973 Solna, Sweden, on 3 March 2018.
The ECDC currently operates on a matrix structure based on five units:
The office of the Chief Scientist oversees the seven Disease Programmes, the Microbiology Coordination Section and the Scientific Advice Coordination Section.
The Disease Programmes focus on specific disease groups:
Two shared-resource units – Surveillance and Response Support, and Public Health Capacity and Communication – provide specialist expertise. The Information and Communication Technologies Unit provides infrastructure, application development and support. The Resource Management and Coordination Unit controls ECDC's human and financial resources.
ECDC publishes numerous scientific and technical reports covering various issues related to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Comprehensive reports from key technical and scientific meetings are also produced by the organization.
Towards the end of every calendar year, ECDC publishes its Annual Epidemiological Report, which analyses surveillance data and infectious disease threats. As well as offering an overview of the public health situation in the European Union, the report offers an indication of where further public health action may be required in order to reduce the burden caused by communicable diseases.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is monitoring the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
Other ECDC publications include disease-specific surveillance reports and threat reports, as well as analyses of trends in European public health.
Eurosurveillance, a European peer-reviewed journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of infectious diseases, has been published by ECDC since March 2007. The journal was founded in 1995 and, before its move to ECDC, was a collaborative project between the European Commission, the Institut de Veille Sanitaire (France) and the Health Protection Agency (United Kingdom). Eurosurveillance is an open-access (i.e. free) web-based journal that reports infectious disease issues from a European perspective. It publishes results from ECDC and the EU-funded surveillance networks, thereby providing the scientific community with timely access to new information. The journal is published every Thursday.
In addition to the member states of the union, three members of the European Economic Area also participate in the ECDC network: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway.
The United Kingdom benefited from the ECDC during the Brexit transition period from February 1 to December 31, 2020.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, involved in the European Union response to the COVID-19 pandemic the ECDC published data related to COVID-19 such as number of people affected in the European Union.
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Teach Tech MECH 5 Mechanical Coding Robot
In case anyone asks, it's a mission-based, entry-level mechanical coding robot, and it's absolutely loaded with lively STEM learning. As your coding skills develop, the robot's will, too, advancing from moving forward and backward, to throwing and kicking. Requires 2 AAA batteries.
For ages 10 yrs-teen, from Elenco Electronics.
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Pool Maintenance During Freezing Temperatures
December 30, 2021
Hi Green Army family!
With colder temperature approaching, we wanted to share some tips to prepare your pool system in the event of a freeze.
Follow the guidelines below to keep your pool safe during freezing temperatures.
Begin this process before the water begins to freeze and all the way through until the temperatures are no longer freezing
- Run the pump and filter continuously. The water’s movement and constant flow makes it more difficult to freeze. If there is a variable speed pump, run it at a higher speed.
- Cover plumbing with blankets and/or towels as insulation to prevent freezing. If you can get to the equipment safely.
Couple things to remember…
- This is a great time to listen to the pump motor. If it is making any strange noises while running, this could indicate a bearing issue. Make a note and let us know by responding to this email or giving us a call.
- Do not use electrical heaters, electric blankets, gas heaters, or heat lamps to keep the pool pump warm. This can cause a fire.
If you lose power during freezing weather:
- Make sure all equipment has been shut off and that the breakers to your equipment have also been turned off.
2. Open the air relief valve on your pool’s filter.
3. Remove the drain plugs from the front and rear headers of your pool heater. If you have a heat pump, remove those drain plugs too. (If needed)
4. Remove the lid and drain plugs from your pump.
5. Remove the drain plugs from the filter or any other unit, such as a leaf trap, that holds water, including in-floor system water valves.
6. Put empty plastic gallon jugs in your pool to take up ice expansion and protect your pool tiles or finish from freezing weather. Make sure each jug has enough water to give it weight (but not full), so it breaks the surface of the water but is not fully submerged. Additionally, you can use floats or anything that can absorb pressure. Place a weighted 5-gallon bucket on your steps or hanging over the edge in the pool.<Back to All Blogs | <urn:uuid:330c5062-248b-42dc-9e7f-5fba26bc61eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greenarmy.com/blog/pool-maintenance-during-freezing-temperatures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936777 | 457 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Your MIT’s are the absolute key to your balance, performance and focus. Without understanding what’s most important, we are the whim of other people’s direction. A great performance planner like the Focus Planner helps you keep these MIT's front of mind as you choose your actions throughout the day.
Watch the Video or read on…
EVERYONE IS BUSY
It's true... everyone is busy, but how many times have you gotten to the end of the day, and realised that you haven’t made any real progress toward the things that are most important?
Productivity is no longer a function of how long we spend doing anything. It's not about how long you sit at your desk or how much time you're spending with your family and friends. It’s about paying attention to the right things, at the right time, while shutting out distractions.
And this is where our MIT’s become crucial.
MIT’s are your Most Important Things. It seems simple, but when we ask people what is most important, they struggle to find an answer. They can name twenty important things, but they can’t seem to narrow it down. The result is that they get pulled in too many directions and don’t make real progress.
But when we are clear on our MIT’s, it makes it possible to be more disciplined about the things we choose to do throughout the day.
There is a clear area for your MIT's in our Focus Planner, making it a great productivity planner for all aspects of your life. This planner diary (or planner journal) makes it easy to keep connecting to your MIT's daily.
"It seems simple, but when we ask people what is most important, they struggle to find an answer. They can name twenty important things, but they can’t seem to narrow it down. The result is that they get pulled in too many directions and don’t make real progress"
YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION
Here is a quick audit:
Think quickly about what is most important to you. Maybe write down your top three things: you might say health, family, friends, happiness... it really doesn't matter, just write them down.
Once you’ve done that, think about the things that get the majority of your focus and effort.
Now, if you’re like most people then there is a disconnect between these two things. You probably find that you spend relatively little time and effort on the things that should be most important. It probably turns out that you put 'work' further down your list and yet this is the thing that takes up your time effort and energy.
I know you spend more time at work than you would like, but I didn't ask you what gets most of your time, I asked what gets the most focus and effort. And this happens for a few good reasons, but for most people, it happens because we are not truly clear on what those Most Important Things are. Without a clear idea of what we are saying 'yes' to, it becomes hard to say 'no' to other things.
The Focus Planner is a performance planner that is going to help you fix that.
MIT's IN THE CRITICAL AREAS
In the Focus Planner, we look at some Critical Areas for our MIT’s: Work, Home and Relationships and Self. If you haven’t done it yet, check out the Video and Article on these Critical Areas.
Each Critical Area affects the others in a very real way, and if we want to perform at our best in one Area, we need to try to maximize performance in the other Areas as well.
BUILDING GREAT MIT's
Read this carefully: You need to do this if you want any chance of making real progress in these Critical Areas.
What are the Most Important Things for you at this point in time?
You can only pick two MIT’s in each Critical Area, because if you focus on more than this, you don’t get things done. And being most productive is sometimes more about what you choose not to do rather than what you choose to do.
What are the most important things you need to focus on right now at work? It’s a hard thing to do, but you need to whittle away all the day-to-day activities until you get to the one or two things that are most important. Maybe it’s to increase sales or to build staff engagement. It will be different for everybody.
What about home and relationships? What’s your MIT there? To be an outstanding father, mother, husband or friend? I know it sounds a bit silly, but don’t let that hold you back - go ahead put something big out there. Remember, you need to know where you want to go in order to choose the behaviours that will get you there.
And then the Area of Self – what do you need to do to make sure that your physical, mental and emotional health is on track?
Again, there is a specific section in our Focus Planner - or any good performance planner - for these three areas of balance.
"Without a clear idea of what we are saying 'yes' to, it becomes hard to say 'no' to other things"
FOUR COMPONENTS OF GOOD MIT's
It’s really important that your MIT’s have four components:
Firstly, they are outcomes - MIT's are something you want to achieve, not a task you need to perform. 'Make more sales calls' is not an MIT, but 'Increase sales' is a great MIT.
Secondly, they are aspirational - they are a stretch and reflect something you haven't yet achieved
Next, they have an action word - like increase or maximise or create
And most of all, they are high impact. They are the things that will make the biggest difference to your life over the next 12 months or so.
Once you’re done, here are some key things to think about:
- What would be the impact of spending more time on these MIT’s?
- What is stopping you from getting these MIT’s done? What things are getting in the way and where are you spending your time instead?
- What are you going to do less of, in order to spend more time doing these Most Important Things?
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Survey of Historic Costume : Bundle Book + Studio Access Card
Learn about Western dress from the ancient world to today. Each chapter establishes the social, cross-cultural, environmental, geographic, and artistic influences on what people wore, providing important context to understand the role of dress from a diverse, global perspective. More than 600 images help you to recognize recurring themes, and box features throughout highlight contemporary voices and the impact the fashions of the time had on the generations that followed. The book covers each decade, from the 1920s to the present, in separate chapters that follow the gradual changes in modern fashion.
-Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom, supplemental assignments, and lecture notes
-Test Bank includes sample test questions for each chapter
-PowerPoint (R) presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion
Survey of Historic Costume STUDIO
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The time was 7.40 p.m., the date 15 February 1942. The light was fading fast, the Allied forces were encircled, and the bombardment was relentless, as Singapore fell to the Japanese.
Discarding their weapons, the Lancashire Loyals quietly withdrew to their quarters, where they ‘composed themselves as best they could for the silent ordeal of the night, numbed and galled by the bitterness of enforced surrender’. So began three and half years of incarceration at Keijo POW camp in Korea.
This is the previously untold story of the brave Lancastrians who endured, told by Chris Given-Wilson, whose father was one of those captured. It is a story of brutality, starvation and disease, but also one of survival, determination and creativity. Among the many ways the prisoners sought to keep their spirits up were the staging of surprisingly sophisticated shows, complete with Gloria d’Earie, the resident female impersonator; the growing of fresh vegetables to improve their health; and the regular publication of Nor Iron Bars (co-edited by the author’s father), with its satirical portrayals of camp life. Copies of this banned journal were successfully concealed from the guards to be smuggled home, and can be seen at the Lancashire Infantry Museum.
Chris Given-Wilson writes with warmth and humour, to reveal both the best and the worst of human nature. This book should be read by everyone, but perhaps especially all proud Lancastrians.
- Author: Chris Given-Wilson
- ISBN: 978-1-91083-7351
- Binding: paperback
- Pages: 160
- Illustrations: colour, throughout
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Frequently Asked Questions
Horse farms of the Bluegrass
Before we go too far here, a lot of questions about the Free Methodist church and denomination can be answered by clicking here. Beyond the denominational web site, we’ll list some quick answers below to common questions.
So…what is a “Free Methodist?” Here’s a pretty good explanation.
What isn’t mentioned above is that the Free Methodist Church is a global denomination with far more than a million members, and organized structures and ministry in 82 nations. Wikipedia actually gives a pretty good overview of all that.
What are Free Methodist churches like? Really, they vary quite a bit. Some are large, but most are small – less than 100, especially in the New South Conference. Worship style varies too – some are more highly liturgical, others are very casual. Music ranges from hymns to the most rockin’ of contemporary choruses. In all of them, however, you will find a faithful proclamation of the Bible, revered as God’s holy Word.
What do Free Methodist’s believe? The short answer is, classic, orthodox Christian faith in the Wesleyan/Arminian tradition. We would be similar in theology to, say the Wesleyan Church, the Nazarene Church, the Evangelical Church of North America and other denominations of the Wesleyan/holiness tradition. Again, check out our Articles of Religion for a full explanation.
How are Free Methodist churches structured? Pastors of FM churches are not members of the local church, but instead are members of the Annual Conference and are appointed to local churches by the will of the area Bishop, while local churches are governed by an elected Board of Administration. So local church leadership is shared by an appointed pastor and elected laity.
Who are the leaders of the denomination? Click here to meet our Bishops and Superintendents…and here to see the leadership of our Global church.
Who are the leaders of the New South Conference? All FM Conferences are led by a superintendent. Beyond that, there is quite a bit of variety to our structures. Most would have an administrator, a treasurer, and a trustee – all with teams of volunteers helping in each of these areas. New South also enjoys the ministry of District Leaders – stationed pastors who help care for pastors and people in their geographical area. All conferences also have a Board of Administration that meets throughout the year to do conference business…all of these are elected positions.
Ultimately, the annual gathering of the conference, led by the area bishop, is the decision-making body.
Presently, New South is functioning under an interim superintendent. Daryl Diddle (also pastor of the Wilmore FMC – KY) is filling the role.
Our District Leaders include Scott Clark – Bowling Green, Reed Wilbanks – Charlotte, Tim Huff – Knoxville, Daryl Diddle – Lexington, and Al Buckta – Nashville.
What’s involved in ordination? More than can be addressed here, so check out the FM Department of Credentialing, or contact the superintendent or conference administrator. There is also some ordination information on the Resources page. If you think you may be called to ordained, vocational ministry, we’d love to speak with you.
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IJSRP, Volume 2, Issue 9, September 2012 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Aryak Shori, Dr. R.K.Tripathi, Dr. M. K. Verma
This paper presents Safety Analysis of Rupsiabagar Khasiyabara dam situated in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand in India, using CADAM. The purpose of this work is to see the impact of earthquakes on dam structure & if require modify it by seismic retrofitting to improve the resistance of dam to earthquake. The safety Analysis of concrete gravity dam owes continuous concern to dynamic seismic activities due to earthquake. These Earthquake results in change in seismic parameters due to tectonic movements. CADAM software has been primarily designed for structural stability evaluation of concrete gravity dam using pseudo static method & pseudo dynamic method.
Rupsiabagar-Khasiabara dam is located on river Goriganga, which is originates from the Milam glacial regions of Himalayas and has tremendous scope for development of hydro-power, which needs to be harnessed to meet the ever-growing demand for power.
With reference to the present value of Peak Ground Acceleration, seismic hazard analysis for Rupsiabagar-Khasiabara dam has been performed .The section of dam is checked for present value of Peak Ground Acceleration for stability for various loading conditions and was found safe with the present study. | <urn:uuid:102b952c-ec8a-4bb6-8f97-07fde0171f4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0912.php?rp=P09201 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919314 | 302 | 2.375 | 2 |
In the shot peening process, the substrate undergoes large plastic deformation near the surface due to the hit with many shots. A large plastic deformation characterized by a shear droop occurs at the edge of the substrate. When the dissimilar sheets with the edge of the notch geometry are connected without level difference and then the contact area are shot-peened, the sheets can be joined due to the plastic flow generated by a large plastic deformation during shot peening. This method is similar to joining by caulking. The aim of this paper is to investigate the butt joining of high strength steel and dissimilar metal sheets using a shot peening process. The shot velocity and the coverage were controlled in the experiment. The shots used were made of high carbon cast steel and cemented carbide with an average diameter of 0.1 mm. The sheets were high strength steel and aluminum alloys. The influences of processing conditions on the joinability were mainly examined. The joint strength increased with the kinetic energy of shots. Tensile test was also examined to evaluate bond strength. It was found that the present method can be used to enhance the butt joining of high strength steel and dissimilar metal sheets. | <urn:uuid:d8522948-9335-420a-a7a3-1446e5b323e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://okayama.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/butt-joining-of-high-strength-steel-sheet-and-dissimilar-metal-sh | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975898 | 241 | 2.21875 | 2 |
When you lose your teeth, your entire life is affected. First, and most noticeably, is your smile. You may find that your confidence is shaken when you are missing teeth, and you try to hide your smile from those around you. Your ability to eat is affected. You cannot chew properly, which can also affect your digestion and your overall health. Your speech is also impaired. Your teeth control air flow and allow you to make certain sounds. Without them, people may have a difficult time understanding you. Your jawbone will begin to deteriorate, which alters the shape of your jaw, causing several more oral health issues. At Implant and Periodontal Wellness Center of Arizona, we offer dental implants, which can help to solve these issues. If you have already suffered significant bone loss, we can first perform a ridge augmentation.
Dental implants involve a surgical procedure that places small, titanium rods in your jawbone. These rods fuse with your bone, becoming a strong, stable support for one or more false teeth. Implants have become one the top tooth replacement option available because they offer numerous benefits over traditional dentures. The main benefit of implants is that they prevent the bone loss that is associated with missing teeth, standing in for the roots of your natural teeth to keep the bone strong and healthy. However, to be considered for implant surgery, you must first have sufficient bone mass in your jaw. This is where the ridge augmentation comes in.
What Is a Ridge Augmentation?
A ridge augmentation is a surgical procedure that uses bone graft material to fill in the weakened portions of your jaw, allowing it to become strong again. The material used for the graft can be from your body, from a donor, or even another species (the bone is processed first to minimize the risk of rejection). We may choose instead to use a synthetic material. We will decide which is best during your initial consultation.
How Is it Performed?
Before we start the procedure, we first give you a local anesthetic, along with a sedative, if you need help relaxing. We then make small incisions in your gum tissue to expose the weakened areas of bone. The chosen bone grafting material is placed. We may place a membrane over the bone to keep it separated from the gum tissue while it heals, a procedure known as guided tissue bone regeneration. We stitch your gums closed, and you can start to heal. After several months, when the graft is completely healed, we can begin the process for dental implants.
Healing From a Ridge Augmentation
Healing from a ridge augmentation can take anywhere from 4 to 12 months. During this time, rest, care of the surgical sites, and proper oral care are essential and can expedite the healing process. Avoiding strenuous activities for a while is a must, at least for a week or so. We will send you home with a set of aftercare instructions that detail how to care for your gums, how to prevent infection and how to deal with common postsurgical issues, such as pain and swelling. In a majority of ridge augmentations, so long as you take care of yourself and the surgical sites, you will experience no issues healing.
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GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, which is the most stringent security and privacy law in the world. Although it has been drafted and passed by the EU, the obligations of GDPR are imposed on businesses around the world.
With that being said, it is imperative to understand GDPR and how it pertains to your business. So, let’s dig a little bit deeper in this post.
The Seven Principles of GDPR
There are seven key principles that are set out in the GDPR:
- Transparency, fairness, and lawfulness
- Purpose limitation
- Confidentiality and integrity
- Data minimization
- Storage limitation
These principles lie at the heart of GDPR. They are established right at the beginning of the legislation, and they inform everything that follows.
They do not present hard and fast rules. They embody the spirit of the GDPR. Compliance with these principles is, therefore, a critical building block when it comes to effective data protection practices at your business.
Is GDPR a concern for B2B businesses?
If you run a B2B business, you may assume that GDPR is not something you need to worry about. After all, you handle business-to-business transactions, rather than consumer-to-business transactions. However, it is not that simple.
GDPR does apply to B2B businesses! If you are processing any sort of personal data, GDPR is applicable.
So, what is personal data? This is any sort of data that enables you to identify a person, either directly or indirectly.
Personal data can be anything that makes a person identifiable. Good examples include personal email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, and names.
Can I still utilize B2B data under the GDPR?
When the GDPR first came about, a lot of sales teams around the globe worried that cold outreach had ended once and for all.
Successful outbound sales teams need to have a good source of B2B data. If you are not able to use this data, it will hurt you. Luckily, this is not the case.
However, you will need to make sure you treat personal data with care to make sure you are compliant with the GDPR. Here are some questions we recommend asking yourself:
Who are you contacting?
You do not need to fret about GDPR if you are not contacting anyone situated within the EU. However, do make sure you are CASL and CAN-SPAM compliant.
Nevertheless, if you are contacting anyone situated in the EU, you need to ensure that you are compliant with GDPR. This is applicable even if your business is not situated in the EU.
There are limitations in terms of who you can contact. If you sell to other companies, there should be no significant problems here. However, if you are selling to partnerships or sole traders, there are rules you need to adhere to.
- Contacting people within companies – If you contact people on their individual business emails, you need to adhere to GDPR.
- Contacting partnerships and sole traders – If you contact partnerships or sole traders, you need to adhere to GDPR. You can only call, text, or email them if they have given you explicit consent for you to do so.
How do you source data?
You also need to make sure that you are sourcing data appropriately. If you collect data in-house yourself, verification is imperative to make sure your data sourcing process is GDPR compliant.
You should review the tools you are utilizing to collate data and verify that you are storing it in a secure manner once the data has been controlled.
If you use a third-party data supplier, you should verify that their data is compliant with GDPR. A key part of the GDPR is protecting personal data, and you must make sure you are handling it with care.
Important B2B GDPR marketing considerations
There are a number of different things that need to be considered when it comes to GDPR for businesses. This includes the following:
- If your data processing activities are not occasional or your business has more than 250 workers, you need to make sure you keep and maintain extensive and fully up-to-date records of the particular data processing activities you are carrying out.
- If you depend on consent, the person has the right to withdraw their consent at any moment. If consent is withdrawn, you need to stop processing the data.
- If you depend on legitimate interest for direct marketing and someone objects, you need to stop processing this data immediately.
Applying GDPR to your B2B emails
Before you send a cold email, you need to verify that you are permitted to contact this person under the GDPR. There are six ways you can establish a lawful basis to process someone’s personal data. These are as follows:
- Consent – The person has provided you with clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose.
- Contract – Data processing is vital for a contract you have with a person or because they have asked you to take certain steps prior to entering into a contract.
- Legal obligation – You need to process the data to comply with the law.
- Vital interests – Data processing is required for the purpose of protecting someone’s life.
- Public tasks – Data processing is needed for you to perform a task for your official functions or in the public interest, and the function or task has an evident basis in law.
- Legitimate interest – You must process data for your legitimate interests or a third party’s legitimate interests unless there is good reason for the personal data of the individual to be protected, which will override those legitimate interests.
It is the latter – legitimate interest – that you should rely on when you send a cold email to a business email address, for example, email@example.com.
As per legitimate interest, data must be used in a manner that people reasonably expect it to be used while also having minimal privacy impact. In situations whereby a person’s individual rights would be breached, their rights will override your legitimate interest.
In more simple terms, you need to ensure that you are emailing the right people with a message that they will be interested in hearing.
Alternatively, if you have received verifiable consent from a sign-up form, you will be just fine!
However, you should note that the decisions in terms of what legal basis is applicable can be difficult, and as a consequence, it is always a wise idea to consult with a legal professional in this regard.
It is also imperative to bear in mind that if an email address is not tied to one specific person, for example, firstname.lastname@example.org, it may even fall out of the scope of “personal data.”
Complying with GDPR at your B2B business
There are a number of different steps you can take to adhere to GDPR at your business, including the following:
- Manage consent in a compliant manner and keep valid records of consent
- Keep valid records of all data processing activities, for example, internal records of processing
- Review your systems for honoring GDPR user rights
- Identify and/or review your legal basis for personal data processing, ideally with the assistance of a legal professional
- Apply data minimization as a principle – the more kinds of data your process, the bigger the risk, so you need to strategize and plan with risk in mind
What happens if you do not comply with GDPR?
You may be wondering what would happen if you simply decided not to comply with GDPR. Quite simply, non-compliance should never be an option.
The consequences of non-compliance can be a fine of four percent of your yearly global turnover or $20 million, whichever is greater.
Not all infringements of GDPR result in fines. Sanctions can include liability damages, official reprimands, and periodic audits of data protection, which could cause you to be barred from utilizing data associated with the violation, including complete email lists.
Final words on GDPR for B2B organizations
So there you have it: everything that you need to know about GDPR and how this applies to B2B organizations.
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NEW MODEL OF HYDROLYSIS IN THE ANAEROBIC CO-DIGESTION OF BOVINE MANURE WITH VEGETABLE WASTE: MODIFICATION OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION MODEL No. 1
A new model of the stages of disintegration and hydrolysis, and co-digestion process following the classical Anaerobic Digestion Model No.1 (ADM1) structure is proposed. In the new method, substrate-microorganism relationships are represented using the Contois equation rather than the first order models previously used to represent substrates in the degradation process. This model was validated by assessing the biogas production from the co-digestion of vegetable (V) and manure (M) with variations in the V/M ratio in the feed. The highest biogas and yield levels were obtained when the feed ratio was 50/50 V/M. This finding was reproduced by running simulations of the original and modified ADM1. The original ADM1 explains the low digestibility and utilization of manure for biogas production as a consequence of a slow disintegration or hydrolysis stage, which depends exclusively on the disintegration and hydrolysis constants used. The new model offers a more mechanistic explanation; it assumes unfavorable substrate-microorganism relationships, which cause disintegration to become a limiting factor in the process. In addition, biogas production in the new model is primarily associated with carbohydrate degradation, as well as low concentrations and rapid consumption of intermediary metabolites, which do not favor the proliferation of acetanogenic or methanogenic communities.
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Indicators are technological evaluation equipment that assist you in learning the motion of Forex rates. The indicators usually are containing certain formula therefore they’re precise within their functioning. There are numerous kinds of indicators in the market. A number of the distinctive kinds are:
These rings are created by computing the normal movements of an offered Currency trading. They’re plotted around the Foreign exchange price tag chart being an lower and upper price music group which represents the ups and downs from the common unpredictability range. You need to use the indications to buy Foreign exchange if the price tag has gone down for the reduced wedding ring. Its also wise to make use of them to trade your Forex trading when the price tag rises on the higher wedding ring.
Usually several indications and so they consist of: stochastic, family member energy signs (RSI) and product station catalog (CCI). Stochastic indications are based on thorough increased and lower value shutting, RSI are created based on family member price tag durability while CCI gets its final results soon after looking at its price to that in the prior cost imbalances.
You can use any indicator that you would like and all you have to do is to decide on the one that is a convenience to you the most.
In the about three oscillator indications, stochastic sign is regarded as the common. A stochastic is a range that is plotted over a graph and measures among and 100. The line supports exposing regardless of whether a certain share is overbought or oversold.
If you’re a quick-phrase trader you should employ the indicator to purchase a certain Foreign exchange in the event the stochastic line techniques under 20 thus showing that this investment is oversold. It’s also advisable to utilize indicator to trade your share when the stochastic goes above 80 showing that the price is overbought.
The transferring common convergence-divergence (MACD) sign is an indication which is generally plotted at the base of your value graph. The indicator is usually pulled as two separate moving typical outlines. Exactly like other indicators, this sign offers you trade signs.
If the 12-evening common converges and movements within the 26-day typical, a obtain sign is produced and you will choose the Forex trading that you are interested in. On the other hand in the event the 12-morning typical techniques over the top of the 26-morning regular, a offer indication is produced and you will sell your Forex.
These are among the signs that can be used in Foreign exchange trading. To become on the safe side always try and understand every little thing concerning the indications just before placing them into work. | <urn:uuid:36a25539-39ac-4ed8-b73c-5f8ae7bbf8ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalforumonline.com/understanding-3-of-the-most-frequent-forex-indicators/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953177 | 566 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The slip and fall lawyers in New Cassel, NY, at Banville Law sponsored this article to share a detailed excerpt about the area.
New Cassel is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York. Located in ZIP code 11590, the community is an incorporated part of the Town of North Hempstead. The community spans 1.5 square miles and is home to approximately 14.059 residents.
The New Cassel area is home to a unique resident population. If you're looking to live in or visit a close-knit, diverse, and active community, New Cassel might be the area for you.
The New Cassel area is home to a friendly community. More residents of New Cassel live in the same neighborhood for five years than are found in 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. The neighborhood is composed of residents who really know one another and have lived in the neighborhood for quite some time. Another interesting note is that New Cassel has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (46.3%) than are found in 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
One of the most interesting facts about New Cassel is that the neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America. With 8.2% of neighborhood residents having Haitian ancestry and 8.7% of residents five years old and above primarily speaking French at home, New Cassel is a uniquely diverse place in Nassau County.
For those looking to live an active lifestyle, look no further than the New Cassel community. Home to the area is the Nort Hempstead community center where residents join together for sport and recreational activities. In the New Cassel neighborhood, 5.6% of residents get their exercise via commute on a bicycle to and from work daily, making this neighborhood hold more bicycle commuters than 98.0% of all neighborhoods in the United States.
The residents of New Cassel are no strangers to hard work. In the neighborhood, 32.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. Secondly, the most significant occupational group is sales and service jobs, with 24.4% of the residents employed in the industries. Many other residents are also employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.6%) and 20.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
As of the 2010 U.S. census, the racial demographic of New Cassel is as follows:
New Cassel, NY, is one of the few hamlets in Long Island where white identified residents are the minority. Black and Hispanic people make up roughly 90% of the population. Due to this diversity, Spanish is the predominant language spoken in nearly 60% of New Cassel households.
As of 2010, the median income household in New Cassel was $71,270USD, and the median income for a family was $69,044USD. Male residents had a median income of $22,526 versus $28,193 for female residents. The per capita income for the community was $15,673USD, and approximately 10.5% of families and 14.8% of the population were below the poverty line.
The New Cassel neighborhood may be the most unique area in Nassau County, and promises for new development in the area only make it that much more a must-see for your next visit.
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Arthur Mattson: Water and Ice
The Tragic Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico on the South Shore of Long Island
A tall, marble obelisk stands in a Lynbrook, Long Island cemetery marking a mass grave containing 139 victims of two 1830s shipwrecks, the Bristol and the Mexico. The three-masted barque Mexico had been returning to New York City from a voyage to Europe when a winter storm drove it onto a sandbar just 200 yards off the south shore of Long Island. Over 100 passengers and crew froze to death. Noah Jordan, the first mate from Biddeford Maine, was one of the victims.
The loss of the two ships is among the most important -- and tragic -- events in US maritime history, yet the story remained largely forgotten for 150 years. Lynbrook Village Historian and author Arthur Mattson will explain how the wrecks happened and he will discuss the impact the tragedies had locally and nationally. He will "make history come alive" with prints, paintings, and maps from the era.
Mr. Mattson is a retired investment banker with a second career as a historian, author, and lecturer. His published books are:
- The History of Lynbrook (2005 and 2010)
- Water and Ice: The Tragic Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico on the South Shore of Long Island (2009)
He is a frequent lecturer on Long Island History, Motorcycling in Europe, Opera, and Art. His articles have been published in magazines, books, and newspapers in the U.S. and Europe. Art and his wife Nori traveled extensively in the U.S., England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales researching the story he will discuss today. His book, Water and Ice, received the 2010 Joseph F. Meany Award for Excellence in New York State Maritime History.
2:00 p.m. BHS Annual Meeting
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Art Mattson
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Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard made headlines on Saturday when he glided a solar-powered plane onto Moffett Airfield in California after a three-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. It’s the most recent stop in an around-the-world trip that began in Abu Dhabi last spring and is intended to raise awareness about the importance of reducing carbon emissions through the use of clean energy.
The plane itself, “Solar Impulse 2,” is a true zero-fuel aircraft, powered by more than 17,000 solar cells. It’s designed to carry just one pilot — Piccard and his colleague André Borschberg have been tag-teaming the journey around the world — and has the wingspan of a jumbo jet, although it weighs only two tons.
The daring trans-Pacific flight has drawn global interest to the concept of electric planes, which have existed in various forms for several decades now. Some designs rely on solar cells, while others use various types of batteries, but the overall goal is the same: to achieve flight with minimal or no fuel burning.
The challenges to electric flight
Electric aircraft are among the more ambitious technologies being researched around the world in an effort to reduce carbon emissions from aviation. It’s a cause that’s rapidly gaining international attention. Aviation is currently responsible for about 1 percent of all the world’s carbon emissions — and as air traffic is expected to experience rapid growth in the coming decades, that proportion could quickly climb if no steps are taken to improve the fuel efficiency of aircraft. Some estimates have suggested that by 2020, emissions from aviation could be 70 percent higher than they were in 2005.
To that end, the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposed the world’s first carbon dioxide emissions standards for aircraft back in February. And while some environmentalists have argued that the proposal did not go far enough, the action has placed aircraft emissions on the international radar — and scientists around the world are researching ways to reduce them.
Electric flight, however, may be among the technologies that are furthest from becoming practical. So far, most of the electric planes that have achieved flight have only been able to accommodate one or two people, and it will likely be at least a decade or two before the technology will progress to the point that it’s commercially viable.
“The big challenge is the batteries,” said David Zingg, director of the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies. For electric planes to become competitive, their power sources need to be able to store more energy per unit mass — otherwise, their speed and weight capacities will remain impractically low.
“You can imagine in 20 years you can have an aircraft the size of a 737 that’s electric — but you can’t be sure,” Zingg said. “That all depends on battery technology.”
For smaller aircraft, the technology may even be able to work its way into the market within the next 10 years, said Sean Clarke, co-principal investigator on a NASA project called Sceptor, which is working on an experimental electric propulsion-powered aircraft.
But in the meantime, there are plenty of other alternatives being explored that could start cutting emissions far sooner.
In March, United Airlines became the first American airline to use renewable fuel for commercial operations when it began using biofuel in flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco. However, others may be following suit soon. Both Southwest Airlines and FedEx, for example, also have contracts with biofuel producers that will allow them to start buying renewable jet fuel for future use.
The basic idea behind renewable fuels is to use biological sources — usually plant or sometimes animal matter — instead of oil. Many biofuel companies have developed “drop-in” fuels that are designed to work safely in existing jet engines — usually requiring mixing with traditional fuels — making them an easy way to cut down on carbon emissions without requiring costly mechanical alterations.
But there are some cons to consider. When biofuels first started to become competitive, there was concern that they were competing with food growers for agricultural land — an issue that’s become more salient as concern heightens over the planet’s rapidly growing population and the future of global food security. As a result, producers are increasingly focusing on fuel sources that can be grown on land that’s unsuitable for food crops.
Additionally, Zingg pointed out, “there’s a ton of work to be done to make the processing efficient enough that it’s cost efficient compared to fossil fuels.”
Making physical design changes to planes is another way of increasing fuel efficiency. Finding ways to reduce the drag on aircraft in flight is one important research area, Zingg said — for example, redesigning wings to improve the way air flows over the plane.
NASA has focused a great deal of research on these types of design challenges in recent years. It’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation project, which took place between 2009 and 2015, focused on solutions that would cut down on noise, pollution and carbon output and included research on more efficient engines, lighter-weight aircraft materials and new body designs. At least one of the resulting technologies — a new, more aerodynamic design for airplane wing flaps — is already on its way to becoming commercialized, according to the agency.
Other design research is ongoing. The Sceptor project, for example, which Clarke is helping to lead, is working to design a smaller, more aerodynamic and efficient wing than would normally be possible by equipping it with electric motors to help energize the flow that generates lift on the plane.
But it’s not necessarily all about the technology, Zingg added. Even the way air traffic controllers guide planes can make a difference. Adopting procedures that allow for smooth, continuous descents rather than forcing planes to fly in inefficient landing patterns can help reduce carbon output. Similarly, an imaginative idea known as “formation flight” could be helpful as well, he noted — this is a concept in which planes fly in bird-like formations that take advantage of airflow and reduce drag.
In the end, integrating many carbon-cutting ideas together is likely to give the best shot at making a difference in aviation emissions, according to Zingg. There are plenty of concepts already commercially practical now — and one day, even solar-powered planes may join the mix.
“There’s a huge range of different things that can be done — the most important thing is to try to do them all,” he said. “Individually, they might have a modest benefit…but if you add them all up you can make a pretty big improvement.” | <urn:uuid:085ccefd-3e80-4021-9b00-94186345e44a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/04/27/why-solar-powered-planes-are-still-a-long-way-from-carrying-passengers/?utm_term=.c873713d25e5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955614 | 1,409 | 3.875 | 4 |
The Rochester Bridge Trust is known for its ownership of and responsibility for the bridges between Rochester and Strood, but did you know we also own a section of the Esplanade?
Walk away from the bridges, along the Esplanade, and you’ll notice an engraving on the Castle wall that reads RB CR. The same engraving but in reverse can also be seen emerging from the pavement on the riverside balustrade. This marks the boundary between Rochester Bridge Trust land and City of Rochester land.
We carry out regular maintenance of our bridges, and the same is required of the land we own on the Esplanade.
From this week, areas of footway will be closed to the public to enable us to inspect the condition of this area by means of a series of bore holes and trial pits.
It is expected the work will cause only a minor disruption to road traffic, but as it will take a couple of weeks we appreciate your patience at this time.
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The basic sourcing and shopping for real food has become much easier. So instead of “Where do I find it?” the biggest stumbling block for most people today has become ”Where do I start?”
You can source fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs, and meat products locally. Local produce is fresher and easier on the environment. By purchasing local foods you support small farmers, and your money stays within the local economy, close to home where you’ll see it return the most value.
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An Introduction to Robotic Welding
Robotic welding is a manufacturing process that utilizes robotic technology to automate the formation of welds on assemblies. Compared to traditional welding methods, it requires little to no human involvement during actual welding operations. As a result, it offers increased weld accuracy, precision, speed, and safety, all of which can help shorten project timelines and reduce project costs.
Robotic welding machines have an articulating robot arm that holds, positions, and moves the welding torch as needed to create the welds. The arm needs to pre-programmed certified operator before the start of the welding operation. Its operational parameters should be based on the part and production specifications of the particular project.
Introduced in the 1960s, robotic welding has since been adopted by many industries for various welding assembly line purposes due to its effectiveness and efficiency. This blog post focuses on robotic TIG welding, including what it entails, what materials it accommodates, and how it differs from robotic MIG welding.
Robotic TIG Welding
Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding—also referred to as gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW)— is an arc welding process that utilizes a non-consumable electrode to produce the weld. During TIG welding operations, electrical current is applied, resulting in the formation of a small, high-intensity arc between the electrode and the workpiece. This arc heats and melts the workpiece. Filler can be added separately to the weld pool to strengthen the final weld.
Materials for Robotic TIG Welding
The robotic TIG welding process can accommodate a wide range of materials, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Carbon steel
- Stainless steel
Robotic TIG vs. MIG Welding
TIG welding is one of the most commonly utilized welding processes. Another is metal inert gas (MIG) welding or gas metal arc welding (GMAW). While the two processes rely on the same basic principles, they have distinct characteristics that make them suitable for different applications. Key differences include:
- TIG welding uses a non-consumable electrode, while MIG welding uses a consumable electrode.
- TIG welding may or may not use a filler, while MIG welding always uses a filler since the electrode serves as one.
- TIG welding is best suited for joining small and thin materials, while MIG welding is best suited for large and thick materials.
- TIG welding offers better welding control, stronger welds, and broader material suitability, while MIG welding offers faster welding speeds, easier training requirements, and lower error rates.
Robotic TIG Welding at Ohio Valley Manufacturing
Robotic TIG welding is a suitable joining solution for many metal components and assemblies. It produces strong and clean welds on tighter timelines at lower costs than traditional welding methods. If you’re considered robotic TIG welding for your next manufacturing project, the experts at Ohio Valley Manufacturing are here to help.
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LIHUE — School starts for the Department of Education on Aug. 1 for educators, and Aug. 7 for most students.
Hundreds of people converged at the Kukui Grove Center to take advantage of the many Back to School activities taking place highlighted by the distribution of 1,800 free bags of assorted school supplies selected from lists of school requirements.
Following registration for the bags, shoppers were treated to opportunities to earn more prizes by visiting the number of vendors in the family resource and health fair. Entertainment by the appearance of the Minions and Moana and Maui by the Showtime Characters combined with acts from the Band Wagon music program to keep everyone hopping between the fun zone, Kumu’s Cupboard, a free resource center for educators and the last day of collection for the Backpack Brigade.
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How can the vine prosper if its roots are removed?
Won't the whole house crumble, when the foundation's destroyed?
So what does our division and ineptitude prove,
but that we, by our Doctrines have profaned and annoyed,
the God of the Torah, and discounted His Love?
Our Traditions and Rituals, with His affections have toyed!
How can we prove to the world that we've been grafted in,
When we've forsaken the Thing Our LORD came to fulfill?!
How can we to the Savior, their wandering hearts win,
When we've mixed His great Truth with our vain, fleshly swill!?
Into what are we grafted? When our fruit is still sin?
When will we awaken to the fact we are out of His will?
We can not serve two masters, for to one we must cling;
Despising the other, forsaking His way!
And yet in our Churches, His Word is not King!
Traditions have grown until they hold full sway!
False sacrifice offered, foul flesh do we bring -
Deception we enable, the Torah we betray!
The Living Torah, Yeshua, The word made flesh, He personifies all that's true;
Yet that Torah has been shoved back on some religious shelf;
forsaken for idolatrous, man-mixed, fleshly, stew!
Yet He plainly told all that He came to fulfill the will of His Father, not to please Himself;
But we follow little of what He taught us to do!
Is He our Lord, or do we serve only our self?
We are told that deception is hard to detect,
it is hidden in truth, it is clothed in bright light!
We have gotten confused about what to reject,
We have traded the Truth, for the doctrines of night.
We have shunned all the things which God said to select,
and deception has robbed us of power and might!
Turn back to the Torah, as Yeshua has taught,
His Spirit will lead us to all that is True.
We need not fear bondage, that's the lie which we've bought;
Obedient Service is long overdue.
We must shun doctrinal strongholds, in which we are caught,
the Anointing delivers the following few!
Come back to Messiah, Come back to His Word,
Come kneel at His feet, Be washed, and be clean.
Let all flesh fall away by the two-edged sword,
we die only to live, that is not hard and mean.
Once washed in the Water, refreshed by the LORD,
then forever on Him can we lovingly lean!
Teshuvah, repentance, turning back to what's right!
We must see the darkness, and forsake what is wrong,
or else we will perish in the blackness of night,
only faint echoes will be left of our song!
We must find the real vine and be grafted in tight,
and we must do it quickly for we don't have long!
Maranatha Yeshua, Please come quick, Adonai;
We languish for Your presence, we long to see Your face!
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Are you currently experiencing tooth discomfort? Has it been some time since you’ve seen a dental professional? Well, they are signs that you ought to most likely be taking better proper care of your oral health. Continue studying to discover methods to take proper care of the teeth and return to the track to get affordable oral health.
After brushing the teeth, it is best to make sure to rinse your toothbrush by helping cover their water. When storing your brush, try to look for a storage container that will permit your brush to remain upright and air dry. Should you put your wet brush right into a container having a lid, bacteria comes with an simpler time for you to grow.
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Brush All your teeth, each and every time. The action of brushing the teeth appears not so difficult, how come a lot of people get it done incorrectly. A current survey of dentists reveals that probably the most common errors people make is brushing only their front teeth. Don’t concentrate on brushing just the teeth that others see. Your molars along with other back teeth are essential, so don’t neglect them!
While you floss, concentrate on only one tooth before turning your attention to another one. Work the floss lower for your gumline after which carefully pull it look out onto eliminate any plaque which has accrued. Inside a back-and-forth motion, rub the floss in order that it cleans your tooth well.
For those who have gum inflammation or else you are inclined to it, it is crucial that you avoid hot drinks and foods. These food types and beverages only cause gum inflammation and irritate problems you have. If this sounds like an issue for you personally, stay with either awesome or warm foods and beverages.
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United States House Committee on Appropriations
United States House of Representatives
|Formed||December 11, 1865|
|Chair||Rosa DeLauro (D) |
Since January 3, 2021
|Ranking member||Kay Granger (R) |
Since January 3, 2019
|Vice chair||Brenda Lawrence (D) |
Since January 3, 2021
|Political parties||Majority (33)
|Policy areas||Appropriations bills, Discretionary spending, Rescission bills|
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The United States House Committee on Appropriations is a committee of the United States House of Representatives that is responsible for passing appropriation bills along with its Senate counterpart. The bills passed by the Appropriations Committee regulate expenditures of money by the government of the United States. As such, it is one of the most powerful of the committees, and its members are seen as influential. They make the key decisions about the work of their committees—when their committees meet, which bills they will consider, and for how long.
- No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
This clearly delegated the power of appropriating money to Congress, but was vague beyond that. Originally, the power of appropriating was taken by the Committee on Ways and Means, but the United States Civil War placed a large burden on the Congress, and at the end of that conflict, a reorganization occurred.
The Committee on Appropriations was created on December 11, 1865, when the U.S. House of Representatives separated the tasks of the Committee on Ways and Means into three parts. The passage of legislation affecting taxes remained with Ways and Means. The power to regulate banking was transferred to the Committee on Banking and Commerce. The power to appropriate money—to control the federal pursestrings—was given to the newly created Appropriations Committee.
At the time of creation the membership of the committee stood at nine; it currently has 53 members. The power of the committee has only grown since its founding; many of its members and chairmen have gone on to even higher posts. Four of them—Samuel Randall (D-PA), Joseph Cannon (R-IL), Joseph Byrns (D-TN) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)—have gone on to become the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; one, James Garfield, has gone on to become President of the United States.
The root of the Appropriations Committee's power is its ability to disburse funds, and thus as the United States federal budget has risen, so has the power of the Appropriations Committee. The first federal budget of the United States, in 1789, was for $639,000—a hefty sum for the time, but a much smaller amount relative to the economy than the federal budget would later become. By the time the Appropriations committee was founded, the Civil War and inflation had raised expenditures to roughly $1.3 billion, increasing the clout of Appropriations. Expenditures continued to follow this pattern—rising sharply during wars before settling down—for over 100 years.
Another important development for Appropriations occurred in the presidency of Warren G. Harding. Harding was the first President of the United States to deliver a budget proposal to Congress.
In May 1945, when U.S. Representative Albert J. Engel queried extra funds for the Manhattan Project, the administration approved a visit to the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge (CEW) (and one to HEW if desired) by selected legislators, including Engel, Mahon, Snyder, John Taber and Clarence Cannon (the committee chairman). About a month earlier Taber and Cannon had nearly come to blows over expenditure but, after visiting CEW Taber asked General Groves and Colonel Nichols "Are you sure you’re asking for enough money? Cannon commented "Well, I never expected to hear that from you, John."
In the early 1970s, the Appropriations Committee faced a crisis. President Richard Nixon began "impounding" funds, not allowing them to be spent, even when Congress had specifically appropriated money for a cause. This was essentially a line-item veto. Numerous court cases were filed by outraged interest groups and members of Congress. Eventually, the sense that Congress needed to regain control of the budget process led to the adoption of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which finalized the budget process in its current form.
The Appropriations committee is widely recognized by political scientists as one of the "power committees", since it holds the power of the purse. Openings on the Appropriations committee are often hotly demanded, and are doled out as rewards. It is one of the exclusive committees of the House, meaning its members typically sit on no other committee. Under House Rules, an exception to this is that five Members of the Appropriations Committee must serve on the House Budget Committee—three for the Majority and two for the Minority. Much of the power of the committee comes from the inherent utility of controlling spending. Its subcommittee chairmen are often called "Cardinals", likening them to the most senior members of the Catholic Church, because of the power they wield over the budget.
Since the House is elected from single-member districts, securing financing for projects in the district can help a member to be reelected as the funds can create jobs and raise economic performance. This type of spending is derided by critics as pork barrel spending, while those who engage in it generally defend it as necessary and appropriate expenditure of government funds. The members of the Appropriations committee can do this better than most, and better direct funding towards another member's district, increasing the stature of committee members in the House and helping them gain support for their priorities, including seeking leadership positions or other honors.
The committee tends to be less partisan than other committees or the House overall. While the minority party will offer amendments during committee consideration, appropriations bills often get significant bipartisan support, both in committee and on the House floor. This atmosphere can be attributed to the fact that all committee members have a compelling interest in ensuring legislation will contain money for their own districts. Conversely, because members of this committee can easily steer money to their home districts, it is considered very difficult to unseat a member of this committee at an election—especially if he or she is a "Cardinal".
The Appropriations Committee has one of the largest jurisdictions of any federal committee. Under Rule 10 of the House rules, the committee's jurisdiction is defined as:
(1) Appropriation of the revenue for the support of the Government
(2) Rescissions of appropriations contained in appropriations Acts
(3) Transfers of unexpected balances
(4) Bills and joint resolutions reported by other committees that provide new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and referred to the committee under clause 4(a)(2)
Members, 117th Congress
Reorganization in 2007
In 2007, the number of subcommittees was increased to 12 at the start of the 110th Congress. This reorganization, developed by Chairman David Obey and his Senate counterpart, Robert Byrd, for the first time provided for common subcommittee structures between both houses, a move that both chairmen hoped will allow Congress to "complete action on each of the government funding on time for the first time since 1994".
The new structure added the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, and transferred jurisdiction over Legislative Branch appropriations from the full committee to a newly reinstated Legislative Branch Subcommittee, which had not existed since the 108th Congress.
List of subcommittees
List of chairs
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- "About the Committee". house.gov. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
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- "Granger Announces Republican Subcommittee Assignments for 117th Congress". 28 January 2021.
- H.Res. 6 (Chair), H.Res. 29
- H.Res. 7 (Ranking Member), H.Res. 45
- H.Res. 6
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International Transformation Foundation (ITF) is an international youth led non-profit organization providing youth educational and self development programs, encompassing leadership and entrepreneurship, to harness creativity for a youth system that provides jobs, offering security, opportunities to grow, and contribute to the development of our communities.
Since its establishment ITF has been developing and operating youth development programs to lead the youth of today as leaders with a strong heart and mind as true workers of society with creative and progressive thinking. Our current projects are:
1. Join the Pipe Project: Installing sustainable tap water stations near playgrounds, city centers, parks, schools and bus stations in Africa; for people to access clean tap water whenever possible.
The project also works to bring awareness to the environmental impact of production and waste of bottled water through two ventures:
- A water kiosk at school: a school based and students managed business selling clean tap water to community residents. It involves financing a community school to set up an onsite water kiosk with specially designed and sustainable products for children to transport tap water at home straight from school. It is both an educational and profitable business – teaching students’ business and entrepreneurial skills, and generating much-needed income for schools.
- Public drinking tap water station: In partnership with urban Communities/Towns/Cities we install our non-breakable drinking water station in Public places for people to access clean drinking tap water free of charge.
2. Jijenge Kijana Fund: a youth livelihood pathway offering microcredit, micro-saving and training which enables ITF members to engage in productive and stable livelihoods
3. Erasmus Plus Projects:
- GO-PRO The main objective of the project is to create space for the development of key information and communications technology (ICT) competences in the field of programming for children and youth. The project plans on achieving this by creating GO-PRO centers where modern programming education can take place and in the process awaken the passion to code in the youth. This project is done in collaboration with Meritum (Poland) and International Transformation Foundation (Kenya).
- Evergreen This is a project aimed at empowering the youth which ITF will implement in collaboration with the Association for European Cooperation, Development and Communication (CODEC vzw), Belgium. Evergreen will bridge 2 programme objectives– to support awareness raising on the environmental and climate goals and taking up innovative practices in a digital era. The project's main aim thereafter is to contribute to the just and inclusive transition to sustainable living through empowering the youth work sector across the globe to raise awareness on environmental issues by personal example and digital tools – the language of young people.
The “Fundraise and Project Implementation Volunteer” is a position under ITF’s international youth outreach and engagement initiative focused on European youth. Your role will be to accompany a project from start to finish, including fundraising and project coordination and implementation. The project will run under our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene activity in Kenya, with the end goal of implementing either a water kiosk at school or a public water station.
The objective of the position and project is both to help communities in Africa efficiently obtain access to reliable, affordable, clean tap water and to provide you as a volunteer an opportunity to grow on a professional and personal basis through leadership development and social and cultural exchange with the youth of Kenya.
Prior experience in a nonprofit position is preferred, but not required, as this position is aimed at building upon your skills and experience but also providing an avenue for growth.
- Research potential donors to gain insight into needs, beliefs, and donation habits to understand how to position our organization to them.
- Brainstorming and creating new strategies to raise funds.
- Planning and coordinating events meant to raise funds.
- Creating marketing materials, like flyers and brochures, to be used for the promotion of fundraising events
- Build upon existing donor relationships and form new donor and community relationships on a regular basis
- Project Coordination
- Preparing documentation (reports, proposals and records) to support the project team.
- Creating activity plans
- Monitoring project plan implementation and tracking timelines and milestones of your project.
- Coordinating and monitoring status of deliverables.
- Attending beneficiaries/partners meetings and assist with determination of project requirements.
- Working with other volunteers on projects towards shared targets
- After the fundraising goal is achieved, the volunteer must travel to Kenya to implement the project.
- Must be prepared to travel to Africa for project implementation.
The applicant must possess the following knowledge/skills and can demonstrate, that the essential functions of this position can be performed:
- Background/experience in working/volunteering at an NGO / NPO.
- Preferably, but not necessary, experienced in fundraising and project coordination.
- Ability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on results.
- High level of self-confidence, flexibility, integrity, and honesty.
- Should possess computer/internet skills and knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Ability to work well independently, works with all levels of management, prioritizes tasks and can resolve problems.
- Ability to maintain an established work schedule, with or without flexibility,
- Motivated to learn and take on new challenges.
- Culturally sensitive
- Unparalleled passion and commitment to youth development.
- Volunteers need to be empathetic, great communicators, and comfortable working as part of a team towards shared goals and targets. The following skills are beneficial:
- Communication skills
- Organization skills
- Work ethic
ITF does NOT provide any kind of compensation. ITF staff operate on a full-time volunteer basis for a minimum of 6 months contract. They are responsible for all basic expenses such as home – office transportation, accommodation, etc. ITF ONLY provides direct operational expenses such as staff transportation to a meeting outside of the office, field visit, operations, etc.
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We DO NOT consider incomplete applications as well as candidates who are not able to cover the volunteer term expenses.
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What Computer Hardware Magazines Are Out There
Because there are many different kinds of computer hardware and products in the industry it makes sense that there are various different computer hardware magazines to choose from also. These computer hardware magazines can be used by computer users to get good ideas of what computers are going to be better for one to use. These magazines include ones that can be used for information on hardware that can be used for business or for fun. Apple computer hardware is also covered in magazines tailored for Apple users too. Here is a look at some of the many computer hardware magazines that are on the market right now.
For those who are new to the world of computers First Glimpse is one of the best computer hardware magazines to use. This features information on not only the best types of computers to use but also other forms of electronics that are used in society today. This is great for those who are looking to learn more about computer hardware and how it works for a particular computer.
People who are interested in computer hardware for business purposes should know that there are also computer hardware magazines that cater to their needs. InfoWorld, for instance, is a magazine that works with information technology hardware. This includes data and news on products in the IT industry.
EWeek is another of the computer hardware magazines for those who are looking for computer hardware for business. This magazine is famous for its lab tests of software and hardware that is used for enterprise purposes. It also covers products in the IT industry.
There are also computer hardware magazines that work with computers for entertainment purposes. Maximum PC is one of the country’s top computer hardware magazines. Known for its interest in entertainment services from computers and its sense of humor, this works especially with hardware that can be used for entertainment programs on the computer. This includes information on how to make top performing computers and how to make computers that perform very well without having to spend lots of money. Inspections of various different types of computer hardware are also featured.
PC Gamer is another big name product in the world of computer hardware magazines. While this magazine does more to cover computer games as a whole computer gaming hardware and other pieces of hardware for entertainment purposes can be found in this magazine too. This includes video cards, monitors and audio systems that will work great for computers. These technology products can be used not only for games but also for entertainment products and for home theater systems based out of a computer.
There are also computer hardware magazines that are for Apple users. Macworld is the most widely produced and famous of these magazines. This includes information on hardware that can be used with Apple computers and comparisons of various different Apple products and hardware that can be used in the line of computers. Information on tuning up an Apple computer for maximum hardware performance is also included.
MacAddict is also for those who use Apple computers. This features information on hardware that is included in new Apple products and on upgrades that can be used with Apple computers. Details of other products in the Apple universe and even software demos of new programs that can be used on Apple computers are also featured here. Full video previews of the hardware featured here is included in video discs that come with issues of MacAddict.
Those are some of the many computer hardware magazines on the market. Whether it be for a first time user, one who is interested in information technology hardware, a person who wants to improve the entertainment quality of the computer or even an Apple user there’s a magazine for everyone. These magazines can be found at a typical bookstore that sells magazines or at a computer product store. | <urn:uuid:16eebaed-6299-46e8-b6f0-28ee557cf238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jakob22.com/what-computer-hardware-magazines-are-out-there/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962986 | 724 | 1.734375 | 2 |
By Maren Swain and Ryan Davies (Year 7)
As part of ‘Careers Week’ both myself and Ryan Davies interviewed Ayse Colak who is a communications engineer.
What is your favourite part of your career and why?
I am working for my dream company. I studied electronic and communication engineering, but I am mostly interested in the communication part. I find the sky very exciting and I establish communication links between the sky and the ground.
How long have you worked for TT&C?
I have been working for them for 5 months. Do you prefer Turkey or Wales and why? It is my first experience of working in Wales, but I can compare both countries because one of my friends is working as a TT&C engineer in Turkey. He doesn’t have enough chances to do practical work. In Wales, I get lots of opportunities to launch robots into the sky and read the data it transmits. His job is mostly software, I am happy to be doing both sides (software and hardware).
What is the most interesting thing you have discovered in the sky?
Clouds are extremely heavy. They can contain millions of tons of water.
How long did it take you to get where you are today?
I studied for 5 years for my Bachelor degree, 1 year for my Masters and then I had this job opportunity.
How much can you earn in your job?
It is approximately £28-35k per year (as a full-time graduate engineer). This is for when you just start. When you have more experience, you can earn more.
Are there many girls in your job?
Not many. I studied my Bachelor degree in Turkey and in my class more than 50% were girls. I did my Master in Cardiff and there were only 2 girls in the class. In my company, I am the only girl but there is one more girl who works in the Spanish office. Why do you think your job is important? I think “communication” explains the importance of my job. Even the idea of creating your own communication link is incredible. Cloud-based communication is the future.
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The Game's File Structure
As you can see, we’ve already created many files for you. The structure of the game has already been laid out, and you will be filling each file with content. So, in order to begin, we must first have at least a basic understanding of what each file does and how they relate to each other.
Next, look at
Game.js. This is the file that essentially represents our game. Within it, the actual game code branches out through
Scene2.js. These scene files are where you’re going to write the majority of your code, and we will go into further details on Phaser scenes a bit later.
Explosion.js are files that create specific objects for our game.
assets folder contains all of the images that our game uses. | <urn:uuid:97f536d6-d3d6-4897-a39a-40a84cdc3ff1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://workshops.nuevofoundation.org/phaser-space-invaders-game/game-structure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941615 | 289 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Michigan State Police Want Local Cops To Jump Ship
Battle Creek Police Chief Jim Blocker and his department regularly work closely with the department of Michigan State Police. Troopers and investigators with the state often work alongside city police and detectives on all kinds of cases and crime prevention programs. But this one, probably not so much.
State Police are announcing the first-ever trooper academy specifically being offered to current law enforcement officers. In other words, the state is now actively recruiting current law enforcement officers from departments throughout Michigan to jump ship. Having the required state certification along with enforcement experience makes entry to the state police a lot easier. The new academy is nearly two-thirds shorter than what is staged by the MSP for green recruits.
But as law enforcement departments feel the pinch of recruiting issues, mainly not enough people qualified people applying for the open positions, competition between departments for top candidates is building. Sometimes it’s done quietly and not so public. But in this case, the state police academy is openly beckoning current police officers to move into the ranks of state troopers. This initial academy will be open to 35 recruits.
Michigan State Police Director, Col. Joseph Gasper is hoping this initial offering of what the department calls a “lateral academy” is a success. "As we continue to improve and modernize our recruiting and selection processes, holding a lateral entry recruit school for licensed police officers is a logical next step. Many other state police agencies across the country have similar successful programs and I'm pleased to offer this opportunity for officers here in our state."
Anyone interested in the Battle Creek City Police recruiting program can connect here. Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek is also offering a part-time law enforcement training academy making it easier for recruits to get trained without a full-time commitment.
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january 12-19: let them stay week 2014: stop the deportations!
From January 12 to 19, join Canadians across the country in Let Them Stay Week 2014, to send a message that U.S. war resisters are welcome in Canada, and that the Canadian government must stop the deportations and enact a provision to let them stay.
Here are some of the ways you can participate, to ensure that our message comes through each day of Let Them Stay Week.
Sunday, January 12
Tweet or post your support for U.S. war resisters on Facebook!
Monday, January 13
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. For ideas, see sample letters here.
Tuesday, January 14
Call or email the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander. and ask him to ensure that no more US war resisters are forced out of Canada for their opposition to an illegal and immoral war, and to enact a provision to let them stay in Canada.
You can send an email from our Take Action page, or write your own message. Email it to email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.org. Please copy the opposition leaders and critics: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org, email@example.com.
You can also phone Minister Alexander at 613.954.1064.
Wednesday, January 15
Write a letter to the Minister and to your MP in support of US war resisters.
Send your letter to: Hon. Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship & Immigration, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
In Toronto, join a letter-writing event at 7 p.m. at the Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street (near College and Beverly). The evening will feature a preview of the upcoming film Peace Has No Borders and updates from war resisters Joshua Key and Dean Walcott.
Thursday, January 16
Social media day: change your Facebook status to the graphic on this page and tweet a link to resisters.ca #LetThemStay.
Friday, January 17
MP and Community Outreach Day. Meet with your MP, or call their office to request a meeting.
For a lobbying guide to help organize your visit to your MP, email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Circulate this petition among your friends and family, at work or at school.
Saturday, January 18
Building Sanctuary: a panel discussion with Jessica Squires and Alyssa Manning, 5–7 p.m. EST, Ryerson University. Part of the Canadian Peace Alliance convention.
Jessica Squires is the author of Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965-73. Alyssa Manning is the lawyer representing US war resisters in Canada. The panel will be livestreamed here.
Any Day or Every Day
- Display a sign in your window in support of war resisters. Download a sign here.
- Make a donation to our defense campaign in support of U.S. war resisters. Please make cheque payable to the War Resisters Support Campaign and send to War Resisters Support Campaign, Box 13, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1X7, Canada. | <urn:uuid:a8a6829f-cc19-44c6-b318-0431033cc0f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.wmtc.ca/2014/01/january-12-19-let-them-stay-week-2014_68.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.896639 | 741 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Research is a crucial piece of what we do.
The City Connects evaluation team operates independently, analyzing data from City Connects programs and producing peer-reviewed studies.
So there’s a lot we know about boosting students’ success — and there’s more that we want to know.
Here’s a quick rundown:
Four things we know:
- Up to two-thirds of academic achievement is related to nonacademic factors.
Growing up in challenging circumstances is one of the biggest factors that can erode students’ success.
- City Connects has a positive impact on students’ academic achievement.
Students, for example, do much better in math and English on the statewide exam in Massachusetts.
- City Connects has a positive impact on students’ attendance.
Students at City Connects schools attend significantly more days of school — both when they are in City Connects schools and long after they leave.
- City Connects lowers high school dropout rates.
Years after they’ve left City Connects schools, students are less likely to drop out of high school.
Four things we want to know more about:
- How does City Connects lead to positive outcomes, especially over the long term?
We can see the good outcomes, but we’d like to know more about what produces them and why they stick.
- How does City Connects affect students’ social and emotional learning?
Teachers report that students are improving on these skills, and we’d like to better understand this.
- How does City Connects affect school climate?
From the individual experiences of students to how groups of students, teachers, and parents function, school climate has been found to affect student achievement. We want to understand how City Connects contributes to this.
- Do we see the same positive impacts on students at every City Connects site?
Where we’ve looked, we’ve seen those outcomes replicated, but we want to continue to study both implementation and outcomes in communities across the country.
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We recognize words as pictures
As your eyes scan these words, your brain seems to derive their meaning instantaneously. How are we able to recognize and interpret marks on a page so rapidly? A small new study confirms that a specialized brain area recognizes printed words as pictures rather than by their meaning.
Researchers led by neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber of Georgetown University Medical Center scanned the brains of 12 subjects with functional MRI. They focused on a tiny area of the brain known to be involved in recognizing words, the visual word form area (VWFA), found on the surface of the brain, behind the left ear. The VWFA's right hemisphere analogue is the fusiform face area, which allows us to recognize faces. In young children and people who are illiterate, the VWFA region and the fusiform face area both respond to faces. As people learn to read, the VWFA region is co-opted for word recognition.
The researchers presented the subjects with a series of real words and made-up words. The nonsense words elicited responses from a wide pool of neurons in the VWFA, whereas distinct subsets of neurons responded to real words. After subjects were trained to recognize pseudo words, however, neurons responded as they did to real words, according to the paper published in March in the Journal of Neuroscience. Because the nonsense words had no meaning, Riesenhuber deduced that our neurons must respond to words' orthography—how they look—rather than their meaning.
As we become more proficient at reading, then, we build up a visual dictionary in the VWFA—much as we accumulate a catalogue of familiar faces on the opposite side of our brain.
We “hear” written words in our head
Sound may have been the original vehicle for language, but writing allows us to create and understand words without it. Yet new research shows that sound remains a critical element of reading.
When people listen to speech, neural activity is correlated with each word's “sound envelope”—the fluctuation of the audio signal over time corresponds to the fluctuation of neural activity over time. In the new study, Lorenzo Magrassi, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pavia in Italy, and his colleagues made electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings from 16 individuals. The researchers measured neural activity directly from the surface of the language-generating structure known as Broca's area as subjects read text silently or aloud. (This measurement was made possible by the fact that participants were undergoing brain surgery while awake.)
Their neural activity was correlated with the sound envelope of the text they read, which was generated well before they spoke and even when they were not planning to speak, according to the report published in February in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. In other words, Broca's area responded to silent reading much in the same way auditory neurons respond to text spoken aloud—as if Broca's area was generating the sound of the words so the readers heard them internally. The finding speaks to a debate about whether words are encoded in the brain by a neural pattern symbolic of their meaning or if they are encoded via simpler attributes, such as how they sound. The results add to mounting evidence that words are fundamentally processed and catalogued by their basic sounds and shapes. | <urn:uuid:850a1af3-3532-4525-8697-a142e2afcd77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-we-read-we-recognize-words-as-pictures-and-hear-them-spoken-aloud/?error=cookies_not_supported&code=0d684408-000b-4ce9-a6c9-e482f3253812 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969054 | 682 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and a leading cause of cancer mortality. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been found to play a key role in proliferation, metastasis and invasion of cancer. In previous study, we found that miRNA-223 was significant expression inexosome derived from peripheral blood serum of breast cancer patients than in samples from control subjects, Therefor,the role ofmiRNA-223willbe researched in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.In this study, to explore the role of miRNA-223in influencing cell proliferation, metastasis and invasion of breast cancer, TargetScan tools (http://www.targetscan.org/vert_71/) was used to scan target genes of miRNA-223, and thenmiRNA expression, real time PCR, Western blotting andluciferase report assay were used to test regulates relationship of miRNA-223and its targets,cell viability and BrdU analysiswere used to test cell proliferation of MCF-7 breast cancer cells after expression miRNA-223inhibitor. Scanning targets of miRNA-223found FOXO1 was listed in targets content, and luciferase reporter assay was used to assess and confirm the binding sequence of 3'untranslated region between FOXO1 and miRNA-223. Results showedthat miRNA-223inhibitorexpression increased protein expression level of FOXO1 in MCF-7 breast cancer cells,meanwhile, cell viability and BrdU analysis showed MCF-7 breast cancer cells were suppressed proliferation after up-regulation of FOXO1.In conclusion, we demonstrated that the miRNA-223can maintain cell proliferation of breast cancer cell through targeting FOXO 1, these results provide a new insight in tumor marker and potential therapeutic targets for breast cancer.
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Eczema treatment and prevention
overcome hand blister ezema/dermatitis/How to save the hand blister ezema
When eczema, a chronic inflammatory skin disorder, flares up in the winter it's known as winter-related atopic dermatitis. Researchers found vitamin D significantly reduced the uncomfortable symptoms associated with this disorder.
Carlos Camargo, of Massachusetts General Hospital's department of emergency medicine.
A common treatment for severe atopic dermatitis is the controlled use of ultraviolet light, which stimulates production of vitamin D in the skin, the study's authors said. In conducting their research, they explored the possibility that vitamin D deficiency -- the so-called sunshine vitamin -- could help explain why the condition often gets worse during winter. The study, conducted with the help of scientists at the Health Sciences University of Mongolia, involved Mongolian children between the ages of 2 and 17 from nine outpatient clinics in the capital city of Eczema treatment and prevention.
All of the children had atopic dermatitis that flared up in cold weather or during the transition from fall to winter. The participants were randomly divided into two groups: those who received a IU daily dose of vitamin D and those who received a placebo.
The children's symptoms were evaluated when the study began, and one month later when it psoriasis signs and symptoms. The children's parents were also asked whether or not they felt their child's skin condition had improved.
The study, published in the October issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, revealed the children who received the vitamin D supplements had an average 29 percent improvement in their symptoms. In contrast, the children who received the placebo had a 16 percent improvement.
Although the study authors did not determine whether or not the children in the study had a vitamin D deficiency when the study began, they pointed out that another larger study involving Mongolian children found 98 percent had low levels of vitamin D.
The researchers said it was very likely the children in their study also had this deficiency. Although more studies are needed to determine if vitamin D could eczema treatment and prevention adults and children with year-round symptoms of atopic dermatitis, the researchers concluded children with symptoms that get worse during the winter months could try a vitamin D supplement for eczema treatment and prevention few weeks to see if their condition improves.
They advised parents to discuss the benefits of vitamin D and the findings with their child's doctor.
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Two weeks after landing almost $1 million from a European angel investor, 3Dprintler.com is looking to share some of that wealth.
The Ottawa-based search engine for the 3D printing industry announced Thursday it is launching a $100,000 pre-seed early investment fund in an attempt to help would-be tech entrepreneurs develop new projects.
“We are looking for new blood and talent at 3Dprintler. We will invest $5K to $25K per company to help you validate the idea and develop a minimal viable product (MVP) and join the 3Dprintler ecosystem,” the company wrote on its blog.
The firm says it is targeting the 3D printing, 3D scanning, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, artificial intelligence and bots sectors.
“For example, somebody with an algorithm to move 3D files more efficiently,” CEO Michael Golubev said. “I’m sure there’s somebody out there who’s trying to figure out how to make this into a business. By joining our ecosystem, we can do it together.”
Mr. Golubev says the new fund is just another example of how the firm does things differently.
“It’s basically like saying ‘Hey! We’re hiring,’” he said.
The company doesn’t hold back on its blog when discussing how difficult it can be for early-stage companies to get funding.
“We went through hard times, looking for support and funding from the Canadian government, and we know first hand that it is one of the toughest things to do, especially when you need to make big decisions quickly but you’re forced to deal with a slow and highly inefficient bureaucratic system, packed with people who do not even understand today’s most important technologies,” it said. | <urn:uuid:e9a6bd57-3776-4281-81de-fe4360ab9269> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.obj.ca/article/3dprintlercom-launches-investment-fund-boost-ecosystem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944217 | 394 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The OmniClass™ Construction Classification System (known as OmniClass™ or OCCS) is a means of organizing and retrieving information specifically designed for the construction industry. OmniClass™ is useful for many applications in the area of Building Information Modeling (BIM), from organizing reports and object libraries to providing a way to roll up or drill down through data to get the information that meets your needs. OmniClass™ draws from other extant systems in use to form the basis of its Tables wherever possible — MasterFormat™ for work results, UniFormat™ for elements, and EPIC (Electronic Product Information Cooperation) for products
OmniClass™ is designed to provide a standardized basis for classifying information created and used by the North American architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, throughout the full facility life cycle from conception to demolition or reuse, and encompassing all of the different types of construction that make up the built environment. OmniClass™ is intended to be the means for organizing, sorting, and retrieving information and deriving relational computer applications.
OmniClass™ consists of 15 hierarchical tables, each of which represents a different facet of construction information. Each table can be used independently to classify a particular type of information, or entries on it can be combined with entries on other tables to classify more complex subjects.
Please consult the OmniClass™ EULA (PDF) prior to downloading the tables below.
The 15 inter-related OmniClass tables are:
Construction Entities by Function - Table 11 (ZIP)
Construction Entities by Function are significant, definable units of the built environment comprised of elements and interrelated spaces and characterized by function.
Construction Entities by Form - Table 12 (ZIP)
Construction Entities by Form are significant, definable units of the built environment comprised of elements and interrelated spaces and characterized by form.
Spaces by Function - Table 13 (ZIP)
Spaces by Function are basic units of the built environment delineated by physical or abstract boundaries and characterized by function.
Spaces by Form - Table 14 (PDF)
Spaces by Form are basic units of the built environment delineated by physical or abstract boundaries and characterized by physical form.
Elements (includes Designed Elements) - Table 21 (ZIP)
- An Element is a major component, assembly, or "construction entity part which, in itself or in combination with other parts, fulfills a predominating function of the construction entity" (ISO 12006-2). Predominating functions include, but are not limited to, supporting, enclosing, servicing, and equipping a facility. Functional descriptions can also include a process or an activity.
- A Designed Element is an "Element for which the work result(s) have been defined." (ISO 12006-2).
Work Results - Table 22 (ZIP) (National Standard 2012-05-16)
Work Results - Table 22 (ZIP) (Pre Consensus Approved Draft 2013-08-25)
Work Results are construction results achieved in the production stage or phase or by subsequent alteration, maintenance, or demolition processes and identified by one or more of the following: the particular skill or trade involved; the construction resources used; the part of the construction entity which results; the temporary work or other preparatory or completion of work which is the result.
Products - Table 23 (ZIP)
Products are components or assemblies of components for permanent incorporation into construction entities.
Phases - Table 31 (ZIP)
Life cycle phases are often represented by two terms used somewhat interchangeably in our industry. For the purposes of clarity and standardization, OmniClass™ defines these terms:
- Stage: A categorization of the principal segments of a project. Stages usually are: Conception, Project Delivery Selection, Design, Construction Documents, Procurement, Execution, Utilization, and Closure.
- Phase: A portion of work that arises from sequencing work in accordance with a predetermined portion of a Stage.
For purposes of usage in OmniClass™ classifications, a Stage is a higher-level of categorization and a Phase is a subordinate level of titling within a Stage.
Services - Table 32 (ZIP)
Services are the activities, processes and procedures relating to the design, construction, maintenance, renovation, demolition, commissioning, decommissioning, and all other functions occurring in relation to the life cycle of a construction entity.
Disciplines - Table 33 (ZIP)
Disciplines are the practice areas and specialties of the actors (participants) that carry out the processes and procedures that occur during the life cycle of a construction entity.
Organizational Roles - Table 34 (ZIP)
Organizational Roles are the functional positions occupied by the participants, both individuals and groups, that carry out the processes and procedures which occur during the life cycle of a construction entity. Table 34 can be combined with Table 33 – Disciplines, to provide a full classification of each participant in the creation and support of a facility.
Tools - Table 35 (PDF)
Tools are the resources used to develop the design and construction of a project that do not become a permanent part of the facility, including computer systems, vehicles, scaffolding and all other items needed to execute the processes and procedures relating to the life cycle of a construction entity.
Information - Table 36 (ZIP)
Information is data referenced and utilized during the process of creating and sustaining the built environment.
Materials - Table 41 (ZIP)
Materials are substances used in construction or to manufacture products and other items used in construction. These substances may be raw materials or refined compounds, and are considered subjects of this table irrespective of form.
Properties - Table 49 (ZIP)
Properties are measurable or definable characteristics of construction entities.
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Am I my neighbour’s keeper?
Between 26 and 29 May this year, a colleague from the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence and I were privileged to attend the sixth Christ at the Checkpoint Conference held at Bethlehem Bible College, writes Helen Paynter.
I believe I was the only British Baptist in attendance, and so I thought it might be helpful to offer a brief report and some personal reflections.
Bethlehem Bible College was established in 1979 by Bishara Awad, who as a child was one of tens of thousands of Palestinians evicted from their ancestral homes in the 1948 Nakba (the ‘great catastrophe’, of which more later). The College is an evangelical, ecumenical centre for the theological education of Palestinian Christians, many of whom go on to become church leaders in the region. The College’s Christ at the Checkpoint conference, which began in 2010, has the aim of offering a truthful, peaceable theology of hope in the Palestinian context.
Watchtower in the Bethlehem wall, May 2022
The theme of the conference this year connected with Genesis 4:9 and Matthew 22:37-39, and was summarised in the title ‘Am I My Neighbor’s Keeper?’. The four days of the event offered a rich exploration of this theme, including sessions on the impact of Covid-19 on Palestine, the place of women in Palestinian society, and what loving the ideological or theological ‘Other’ looks like.
Of particular note were a number of sessions led by South Africans and African Americans, who drew on their experience of apartheid and American racial discrimination respectively to speak very powerfully into the Palestinian situation. Also of note this year was the prominence of young voices – the emerging generation of Palestinian theologians – who showed both continuity with, and a challenge to, the work begun by their forebears. (A link to the videos from the conference can be found here and at the bottom of this article.)
Delegates were also taken on a number of field trips: to Palestinian East Jerusalem; to a refugee camp in Bethlehem; and to one of the checkpoints which Bethlehemites who work beyond the wall that surrounds their city have to cross on a daily basis.
On the East Jerusalem trip we met a family in the district of Silwan whose house (a small apartment block which accommodated five families and a health centre) had been pulled down a fortnight previously. They had not been permitted to take any possessions out of the house – even schoolbooks, family photos or a baby buggy – before the demolition commenced. They were then handed a bill for the demolition work and will have to clear the land at their own expense.
We were told that the pretext for the demolition was that they did not have the necessary permissions to build, although their legal ownership of the land is not in dispute. However, it is almost impossible for Palestinians living in that area to obtain a building permit and most resort to building without one, and keep their fingers crossed.
The following day we visited one of the refugee camps within Bethlehem. This began 74 years ago when thousands of Palestinian families were displaced in the Nakba – the great eviction of Palestinians by Israeli troops during and following the Arab-Israel war of 1947-9. Many of the families evicted had lived in those homes for centuries. They fled, often with the barest of essentials, hoping to return in a few weeks. They never did.
Over the decades, the tents in the refugee camps were replaced by informal buildings, and the third and even fourth generation of IDPs (Internally Displaced Peoples) are now living in the camps. They still assert their ownership of the homes they were evicted from, and many still hold onto their keys as a symbol of that. We visited a treatment centre set up for children with disabilities, and were impressed by the resilience and hopefulness of the people living in such difficult circumstances.
Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem, May 2022
My first real exposure to the Church’s role in the plight of Palestinians came years ago when I heard one of Bethlehem Bible College’s theologians speak at a conference. He began by saying this: ‘I am a Palestinian Christian… and for many Christians in the world today, that is considered a contradiction in terms.’ Those words broke my heart. How could any Christian imagine that someone is beyond the saving love of God because of their ethnicity?
Tragically, there is a whole theological movement today which leads in that direction. It is called Christian Zionism. At its best, it is a well-intentioned movement based upon a misunderstanding of parts of the Bible, which includes an erroneous conflation of the ‘Israel’ of the Old Testament with the geopolitical entity that has that same name today. At other times it employs a self-serving instrumentalization of Israel, driven by the belief that God will bless (i.e. prosper) those who bless Israel. At its worst, it has elements in common with White Supremacism.
Driven by Zionism, some Western Christians have promoted the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from their homes by funding illegal Israeli settlements. They have pressured their governments to support rather than challenge illegal and unjust actions by the Israeli government. They have dismissed and minimised the very real suffering of Palestinians, who exist as second-class citizens in their own land.
It is true that there has been terrible suffering by people on both sides of the conflict, and the situation in Israel-Palestine is complex. There are clearly rights and wrongs on both sides, although it must be noted that there is an enormous imbalance of power and resources in the land today. But the Zionist claim that Palestine was ‘a land without a people’, vacant and available for the ‘people without a land’ who emerged from the unspeakable atrocity of the Holocaust, is a historically verifiable lie. Palestinians – both Muslim and Christian – have lived in the land for generations. Many can track their ancestry back to the early centuries of the first millennium AD; some trace their family story back to the conversion of their ancestors on the day of Pentecost.
The enthusiastic and uncritical endorsement of the actions of the state of Israel by parts of the Western church is problematic on a whole range of levels. The organisers of the Christ at the Checkpoint conference are committed to doing something better – by presenting a loving challenge to those who might be regarded as their enemies. Through this commitment, they are able to offer peaceable, truthful theology in the Palestinian context, and to provide resources to help those of us outside that context to learn more.
I would urge us all to grapple with the issues, to find ways of supporting truth, peace and hope in that troubled land, and to take care that the theology we espouse does not promote oppression and perpetuate injustice.
All the videos from the conference can be found here.
Helen Paynter is Tutor in Biblical Studies at Bristol Baptist College and director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.
The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the College.
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