text stringlengths 160 608k | id stringlengths 47 47 | dump stringclasses 2
values | url stringlengths 13 2.97k | file_path stringlengths 125 140 | language stringclasses 1
value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 48 145k | score float64 1.5 5 | int_score int64 2 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elementary steps in the electrochemical reduction process of SiCl4 in trimethyl-n-hexylammonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide (TMHATFSI) was investigated, focusing on molecular level behavior of the reactants at solid-liquid interface. Electrochemical measurements using an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) identified a reduction peak corresponding to Si electrodeposition and several elementary steps with stable intermediates forming prior to the deposition. For detailed analysis, X-ray reflectivity (XRR) measurements with synchrotron radiation were applied in situ. The change in reflectivity of the electrode surface during the deposition was found to be due to the formation of a polymer-like Si such as Si2Cl6, which is an intermediate layer during the deposition process. These results were theoretically supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations: after an electron transfers from the electrode, the Si in SiCl4 forms the bond with another SiCl4, rather than the Si of the substrate, resulting in the formation of the intermediate structure. These data suggest an elementary step in the SiCl4 reduction process which can be described as follows; when SiCl4 is reduced, a polymer-like Si form such as Si2Cl6 is generated. This intermediate species further reacts with other Si reactants after receiving additional electrons, which then finally deposits as Si on the substrate.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films
- Materials Chemistry | <urn:uuid:1d6310b3-d090-4221-a6fb-b8ee608c07a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://waseda.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/analysis-of-cathodic-reaction-process-of-siclsub4sub-during-si-el | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92982 | 342 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Inco Must Clean Up Its Act! - GovernmentPublished by MAC on 2003-07-26
Source: The Sudbury Star
Inco must clean up its act! - government
July 26 2003
Carol Mulligan, The Sudbury Star
Inco Ltd. has to clean up its act - quite literally, says the executive director of Environmental Defence Canada (EDC). Inco tops the list of the 10 worst mining polluters in Canada, according to the charitable environmental rights association. Worse still, Inco is "so out of whack with other mining companies, it's staggering," says Rick Smith. Inco produces three times as much nickel as Falconbridge, but it creates more than 13 times as much pollution, he pointed out. "Clearly, Inco is anything but a responsible corporate citizen," said Smith, in an interview yesterday from his Toronto office. Pollution data supplied by both Inco and Falconbridge to the federal government "tells the real tale." According to information collected by Environment Canada through its National Pollutant Release Inventory, Inco released 794,808 kilograms of poisonous heavy metals in 2001 from three facilities - 621,724 kilograms from the Copper Cliff smelter alone. Falconbridge, which fell just outside the list of Top 10 polluters, released 52,326 kilograms of poisonous heavy metals.
An Inco spokesman was quick to point out that distinct differences between the two companies account for those figures. First, said Steve Mitchell, Inco produces a finished metal product whereas Falconbridge produces nickel matte, which is shipped elsewhere to be finished. As a result, Inco uses more sulphides to refine its nickel. And the facilities in which the ore is treated are "very different," said Mitchell. When asked why Inco wouldn't employ the same type of system Falconbridge does, Mitchell said that would mean Inco getting rid of its smelter. On the plus side, he said, Inco's process uses less energy and produces fewer greenhouse gases than the Falconbridge system. But that doesn't impress Smith much. "I don't think the lungs of Canadians really care about the ins and outs of the differences between the smelting processes at Inco and Falconbridge," he said. Canadians want corporations to reduce the pollution they are emitting. "Frankly, we just don't see that in the case of Inco." Again, Mitchell would disagree. "Since 1986, we've invested $845 million to reduce emissions in Sudbury.
"Right how, we're spending $115 million in new fluid bed roaster technology that will make another major reduction, not just in S02 emissions, but also it will reduce our metals emissions by 80-100 tons per year." With the latest improvements, the smelter will have cut metals emissions 80 per cent since 1988, said Mitchell. The nickel giant is "investing a lot of capital and time to lowering our emissions in a steady and responsible way, making sure we balance the impact on jobs and the economics of our Sudbury operation," he said. Smith calls the differences in the processing systems of Inco and Falconbridge "completely irrelevant." Companies that want to be seen as responsible corporate citizens are making a more concerted effort to reduce pollution. And there are some "good news" stories, said Smith. Canadian mining companies are producing less mercury than they used to, since it was determined to have such a deadly effect. "That same sort of progress needs to be made" with other metals, he said. "There are good corporate citizens and there are bad corporate citizens. Inco has to decide which one it wants to be." Mitchell points out that, beyond meeting its government-mandated commitments, Inco is investing in research to further cut its emissions.
The environmental group says that among Inco's pollutants are high levels of known carcinogens, and the point of drawing up the list is to draw attention to the impact of pollution. "We took a look at them to encourage Canadians to take a look at pollution, to encourage the federal government to really get tough on the most toxic substances," said Jennifer Foulds, communications director with EDC. "We could use tougher pollution prevention laws and better enforcement."
Brian McMahon, project manager with the Ministry of the Environment in Sudbury and a member of the Sudbury Soils Study technical committee, said the province plays a "much more active role" in regulating pollution emissions than Environment Canada. The ministry's approach to pollution control is one of "continuous reduction," said McMahon. A new control order issued last year will reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by another 34 per cent by 2007, and will reduce poisonous heavy metals as well. Whereas Environment Canada monitors emissions annually, the province monitors emissions as often as half-hourly. As well as requiring companies to comply with guidelines by 2007, they are being required to prepare further detailed plans by 2010 for cutting pollution. "We are not accepting that 2007 is the end of the story," said McMahon. Rounding out the Top10 list are: Placer Dome (CLA) Ltd., 193,810 kilograms; Barrick Gold Corporation, 118,424 kilograms; Services Mineraux Industriels Inc., 105,505 kilograms; Wabush Mines, 100,300 kilograms; Cameco Corporation, 88,812 kilograms; Noranda Inc., 54,226 kilograms; Goldcorp Inc., 54,146 kilograms; and Teck Cominco Metals, 53,898 kilograms. | <urn:uuid:4b0b6e33-bd52-437d-8ab8-8589d9739e1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=6803 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959481 | 1,117 | 1.921875 | 2 |
I am a big fan of the bow and arrow for a variety of reasons, and I personally think that anyone who has an interest in primitive survival skills or modern urban survival should seriously consider purchasing a good bow and arrow and become proficient in using it. There are hundreds of bows to choose from.
Below are six reasons why you should consider owning a similar survival take-down bow.
“Take-down” simply means that the bow comes apart in three pieces: the middle grip section and the two limbs. It is simple to take down – just the twist of a couple lug screws and voila. The fact that it comes apart makes it very portable. You can stash the bow in your pack or Bug Out Bag. It’s perfect for a Bug Out Vehicle or BOL (Bug Out Location) cache as well. And, it weighs very little. My bow weighs only a couple of pounds – if that.
A good take-down bow should only cost you a couple hundred bucks and if you take care of it, you can expect it to last your lifetime. Not only is the bow itself affordable, but the ammunition (arrows) are cost effective too. Once you hone your shooting skills, you should be able to retrieve your arrows after shooting and reuse them over and over again. With a little practice, you can also easily make your own arrows using wooden dowels or even natural-found wood and plant shafts.
Modern arrow points vs flint arrowheads.
Modern arrows have come a long way. Most new carbon fiber arrows are ultra-lightweight and have a tip that accepts different screw-in arrow tips. I have an extensive selection of tips to choose from: small game stunner tips, broad-head razor large game tips, standard practice tips, hook tips and line for bow fishing, etc. I’ve killed both squirrel and deer using my take-down bow with various arrow tips. A good selection of arrow tips can be easily kept in a pack or vehicle. I also practice flint knapping regularly so that if I was ever in a situation when I need to make my own arrow points, I would know how.
4. Laws, Red Tape, and Paperwork
Legal limitations and laws are much more lax on the bow and arrow than they are with guns and bullets. You don’t have to mess with paperwork and permits, even though, in the right hands the bow and arrow is equally deadly. The less you have to deal with this stuff the better.
The bow and arrow is a very quiet weapon. You never know when you might need the convenience of a weapon that is nearly completely silent as well as deadly.
Some pieces of a take-down bow kit can be multi-use items, which is always a plus. I like for everything I pack to have at least 2-3 other uses. The first and most obvious multi-use piece is the bow string. Bow strings range in length from 4 feet to 6 feet and are incredibly strong. You could use a bow string in a variety of ways:
If you are packing a bow then you are probably packing a few arrows as well. Arrows can be used as spears and gigs for small game and fish. They can also be lashed to a longer shaft and used as a larger spear for big game such as wild pig. This larger spear can be used in self-defense as well. Imagine a spear with three arrows lashed to the end and each of the arrows with a razor broad-head on the tip – you can’t even buy a spear that effective. I would love to hear any ideas you have on the subject of multi-use with a bow and arrow kit!
Final Thoughts on the Take-Down Survival Bow and Arrow
Creek with a homemade hickory bow.
Pros of the Bow and Arrow:
- Very Portable for such an effective long range weapon
- Can reuse arrows
- Can make arrows in the bush
- Lax laws
Negatives of the Bow and Arrow:
- Requires practice and skill to be effective
- Arrows can be a little cumbersome to pack
What I enjoy most about the bow and arrow is that it requires skill to use. It is also a weapon that carries a certain amount of respect. Ninety-nine percent of being able to effectively use the weapon is the skill itself – not the equipment. The skill will always be with you. Even if your bow is damaged or broken in a survival situation or stolen in a bug out situation, you can even make a bow as long as you have a strong piece of cordage. I made the bow at the top of the conclusion from a hickory sapling using only my knife. I also made the arrow. Making a bow and arrow in the bush is definitely an option. However, it will do you no good if you don’t know how to shoot it. Preparation is the key. Practice now for the situation later.
Remember, it’s not IF, but WHEN.
Start now to make sure you are staying prepared.
This guest post by Creek Stewart first appeared at willowhavenoutdoor.com | <urn:uuid:f4128dc2-223a-4d4b-8a24-7b55970e9698> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stayingprepared.net/6-reasons-you-should-own-a-survival-bow-arrow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954387 | 1,102 | 1.5 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video imagery from drones. The move came after an uprising by 4,000 Google employees who signed a letter urging the company to cancel Project Maven and promise to never “build warfare technology.” Google should be ashamed.
In their letter, the employees said that working with the Pentagon would violate Google’s longtime motto “Don’t Be Evil” and “irreparably damage Google’s brand.” Excuse me? Are they saying that the U.S. military is evil? What would damage Google’s brand is the impression that its workforce thinks they are too good to support the men and women of the armed forces who face real evil on distant battlefields so that Google workers can sleep safely in their Google “nap pods,” enjoy free massages and take free guitar lessons.
Their objections to Project Maven are nonsensical. They fear that Google technology will be used to make drone strikes more accurate. What’s wrong with that? If Google’s AI technology could make it easier for our men and women in uniform to distinguish combatants from civilians, it could help prevent the accidental killing of innocent men, women and children. Does Google not want to help save civilian lives?
If saving lives is not motivation enough, how about self-interest? Consider: Taiwan is Google’s largest R & D center in Asia.
Last September, Google announced it is investing $1.1 billion to buy a division of Taiwan’s HTC that makes its Pixel smartphones, and in March the company announced an investment in Taiwan’s artificial intelligence research and development that was called the largest ever in that nation by an international tech company. Who, exactly, does Google think prevents mainland China from launching a cataclysmic invasion of Taiwan? The men and women of the U.S. military. They provide the security umbrella in East Asia that allows Google to make these investments.
The free riders at Google don’t seem to understand that their jobs and livelihoods are built on the foundation of peace and security provided by the U.S. military.
Today, China is investing heavily in AI as part of its military strategy to undermine the Pax Americana in the Pacific. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently testified that China will pose “the greatest threat to our nation by about 2025.” Beijing gets 100 percent acquiescence from Alibaba and other Chinese tech companies in this effort. U.S.-based companies such as Google must decide whose side they’re on.
Fortunately, in our dynamic free enterprise system, Google’s competitors will not hesitate to jump in to fill the vacuum it has left. President Trump spends a lot of time berating Amazon, but the company runs a giant data cloud for the CIA that allows the intelligence community to share top secret information and, along with Microsoft and other tech companies, is pursuing contracts to build the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI), potentially the largest IT procurement project in history. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, also owns The Washington Post.) The New York Times reports that “Google is widely expected to compete with other tech giants” for a piece of that $10 billion business. But according to Pentagon officials, the purpose of JEDI is to “increase lethality and readiness” of the military. If it does not want to be in the “business of war,” perhaps that contract should be off the table as well.
Our military strength is the best guarantee of peace. Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt understands this. This is why he chairs the Defense Innovation Board, advising Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on ways to speed technological innovation of the armed forces. During recent congressional testimony, Schmidt praised Project Maven and urged “closer collaboration” with industry in the development of AI to “ensure American military supremacy,” warning that failure to do so would “would guarantee a loss of superiority on the future battlefield.”
Schmidt is a patriot who knows that the men and women of our armed forces are not “evil” and that supporting them does not contradict Google’s core values. His old company is moving in the opposite direction. Google recently ditched its “Don’t Be Evil” motto. Too bad they seem to have replaced it with “Don’t Fight Evil.”
Marc A. Thiessen writes a column for the Washington Post. | <urn:uuid:3e62b7b7-7ffe-4149-b850-49ca1891ec61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.twincities.com/2018/06/07/marc-thiessen-shame-on-google-for-treating-the-u-s-military-as-evil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947532 | 979 | 1.820313 | 2 |
What is the best way to download Minecraft onto a computer?
- On a computer’s desktop Open the Minecraft website in a new tab. To download, press the Download button. Access your account by entering your username and password. Select BUY MINECRAFT from the drop-down menu. Choose a method of payment. Continue to the bottom of the page and input your payment information. To make a purchase, choose PURCHASE. To download the file, select either DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS or DOWNLOAD FOR MAC. Double-click the Minecraft setup file to begin the installation process. Follow the setup instructions that appear on the screen. Wait for the installation to be completed.
- 1 Can I download Minecraft on Windows 7?
- 2 How can I download Minecraft for free on PC?
- 3 Is Minecraft free on PC?
- 4 Can I get Minecraft for free?
- 5 Is Minecraft Java Edition free?
- 6 How does Minecraft cost?
- 7 How much does Minecraft cost on PC?
- 8 How many GB is Minecraft download?
- 9 Is Minecraft good for kids?
Can I download Minecraft on Windows 7?
When it comes to Minecraft, Windows 10 Minecraft is not the same as Windows 7 Minecraft (Java Edition). If you want to play on a Windows 7 PC, you must purchase Minecraft Java Edition at https://minecraft.net. Additionally, the Minecraft Java Edition may be played on a Windows 10 computer.
How can I download Minecraft for free on PC?
The following are the steps to obtain Minecraft for free: This Microsoft game will have you captivated within minutes of starting it.
- Check out these other articles: Looking for a smartphone? Step 1: Log onto your computer and navigate to the Microsoft Store. Find Minecraft for Windows 10 in your search results, and then click on it
- 3) Select the Free Trial option from the drop-down list.
Is Minecraft free on PC?
The old version of Minecraft may be played in your web browser without the need to download or install anything by visiting classic.minecraft.net. Because it’s the tenth anniversary of Minecraft, we’re bringing MINECRAFT CLASSIC straight to your browser.
Can I get Minecraft for free?
Instructions on how to obtain Minecraft for free. For the time being, there is no legal method to acquire a free, complete copy of the Java edition of Minecraft; if you want the full version of Minecraft, however, you will have to purchase it.
Is Minecraft Java Edition free?
With fresh releases, Minecraft has been able to maintain its position in the business at a time when many other games have been swiftly forgotten. One such addition is the Minecraft Java Edition, which is a free game that can be played on any device.
How does Minecraft cost?
Minecraft is a popular video game that can be downloaded to your preferred system for a price ranging from $20 to $30. If you get the Favorites Pack for the Wii U, expect to pay an additional $30 or more. Minecraft: Pocket Edition is a mobile game that allows you to play the game on a range of mobile devices. The software costs around $7 and can be downloaded from the App Store.
How much does Minecraft cost on PC?
Minecraft: Java Edition is available for purchase at minecraft.net for $26.95 USD or the equivalent in your local currency. Purchased only once, this item is non-returnable. You may either purchase an account for yourself or purchase a code to give as a present to someone else.
How many GB is Minecraft download?
Minecraft downloads often take up less than 1 GB of data storage space. The Minecraft download isn’t exceptionally enormous when compared to other popular games on the market. In reality, the download size is less than 1 GB on the majority of systems, which is impressive.
Is Minecraft good for kids?
Yes, Minecraft is educational since it fosters creativity, problem-solving, self-direction, teamwork, and other life skills in the players, among other things. Minecraft, in addition to economic ideas, STEM knowledge, and a global viewpoint, is a valuable educational tool. Minecraft is a game that is both entertaining and instructive, and it easily makes our list of the top video games for kids. | <urn:uuid:1e927f86-e566-4434-b0c4-7ee121c78dc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shareitforpcis.com/faq/how-to-download-minecraft-in-pc-windows-7-for-free-solution-found.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.912286 | 892 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Cambridge, MA – Following the substantial increase in the second quarter of 2020 (2020Q2), use of telemedicine decreased starting in 2020Q3 and stabilized in subsequent quarters. According to a new Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) FlashReport, telemedicine’s share of evaluation and management (E&M) services was still higher at 3 percent in 2021Q1 as compared with 0.2 percent pre-pandemic, while the use of telemedicine for physical medicine became closer to the pre-pandemic level.
“Although COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have plateaued, it is commonly anticipated that the utilization of telemedicine will remain at levels higher than pre-pandemic,” said John Ruser, WCRI’s president and CEO. “Multiple legislative actions at the federal and state level are being debated in order to streamline the process of delivering medical services via telemedicine and regulate the reimbursement for telemedicine services. For these reasons, the utilization and prices of medical services delivered via telemedicine remain important measures to monitor in workers’ compensation.”
The FlashReport, Telemedicine: Patterns of Use and Reimbursement, 2020Q1–2021Q2, focuses on two types of medical services with the most prevalent use of telemedicine: E&M and physical medicine services. It investigates the patterns of telemedicine utilization among these services in workers’ compensation during the first five quarters of the pandemic (primarily March 2020–June 2021) across 28 states. It also examines the actual prices paid for the most frequent services delivered via telemedicine versus in person across the study states.
Key findings included:
- The use of telemedicine E&M and physical medicine services varied across study states.
- Prices paid for E&M and physical medicine telemedicine services were similar to those for in-person services in the vast majority of states in 2020 and 2021 (January–June).
- The prevalence of telemedicine use was higher among workers with sprains and strains, averaging 8 percent among the study states for the 2020Q2 claims. For workers with fractures/lacerations/contusions, telemedicine use was lower at, on average, 5 percent. These numbers declined in 2020Q3 to 5 percent for sprains and strains patients and about 3 percent for patients with traumatic injuries, and remained at that level for the 2020Q4 claims.
- If a patient had the initial E&M visit via telemedicine, on average the majority of all E&M follow-up visits were provided as telemedicine for that patient during the first two quarters of care after injury.
- On average across study states, the time to initial E&M visit was similar for telemedicine services and in-person services—for example, for 2020Q2 claims, 6.0 days versus 5.8 days, respectively.
- Workers relying only on in-person visits had fewer visits on average during the first two quarters from injury date than workers who used only telemedicine services—4 visits versus 5 visits, respectively. Patients with a mix of telemedicine and in-person follow-up services had a significantly larger number of total visits than patients with either only telemedicine or only in-person services (7.0 visits for claims with initial telemedicine visits and 6.5 visits for claims with initial in-person visits).
This report is based on a sample of workers’ compensation claims for private sector workers and local public employees (e.g., police and firefighters) from 28 states. The states are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. These study states represent 79 percent of the workers’ compensation benefits paid nationwide.
Olesya Fomenko and Rebecca Yang are the authors of the report, which is free for members and available to nonmembers for $35.
Learn more or purchase: WCRI Flashreport: Telemedicine: Patterns of Use and Reimbursement, 2020Q1–2021Q2 | <urn:uuid:84250189-91b1-47cc-8654-4343a490cb39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.workcompwire.com/2022/06/wcri-study-examines-use-and-reimbursement-of-telemedicine-in-workers-comp-during-pandemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927486 | 928 | 1.554688 | 2 |
This dataset contains image features extracted from a Corel image collection. Four sets of features are available based on the color histogram, color histogram layout, color moments, and co-occurence texture.
Michael Ortega-Binderberger Information and Computer Science University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 USA firstname.lastname@example.org
Kriengkrai Porkaew and Sharad Mehrotra Information and Computer Science University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 USA email@example.com,firstname.lastname@example.org Donated: July 1, 1999
The original image collection was obtained from Corel at http://corel.digitalriver.com/. There are 68,040 photo images from various categories. Here are examples of the images (jpg thumbnail):
From each image four sets of features were extracted:
Each set of features is stored in a separate file. For each file, a line corresponds to a single image. The first value in a line is is the image ID and the subsequent values are the feature vector (e.g. color histogram, etc.) of the image. The same image has the same ID in all files but the image ID is not the same as the image filename.
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, and Thomas S. Huang, Supporting Ranked Boolean Similarity Queries in MARS, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 6, Pages 905-925, December 1998.
Kaushik Chakrabarti, and Sharad Mehrotra, The Hybrid Tree: An Index Structure for High Dimensional Feature Spaces, 1999 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Pages 440-447, February, 1999.
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Kaushik Chakrabarti, and Sharad Mehrotra, Query Refinement for Multimedia Retrieval and its Evaluation Techniques in MARS, 1999 ACM International Multimedia Conference, Orlando, Florida, Oct 30 - Nov 4, 1999.
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, and Sharad Mehrotra, Efficient Query Refinement in Multimedia Databases, Submitted for publication,
Database Research Group at UCI | <urn:uuid:9eb19202-f434-45e0-9ddf-6f339ad75c8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/CorelFeatures-mld/CorelFeatures.data.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.82521 | 511 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Sleep Physician Training
Residencies and Fellowships
Following successful completion of an accredited medical school curriculum, learners interested in sleep medicine enter residency in a field that can lead into a sleep medicine subspecialty such as internal medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, or neurology; however, physicians specializing in family medicine, otolaryngology, and anesthesiology can also enter a sleep medicine fellowship.
Sleep medicine fellowships are one-year programs that provide thorough clinical training and research experience in the field of sleep medicine. During the program, fellows learn about the normal mechanisms of sleep physiology and the pathophysiology of sleep disorders. Fellows gain competency in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders across the lifespan to help them develop skills for the interdisciplinary care of patients of all ages. | <urn:uuid:84dcff27-a908-4105-ac9a-87a15d287693> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aasm.org/professional-development/choose-sleep/sleep-physician-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938971 | 162 | 2.03125 | 2 |
FREE MARKET: NYC is a competitive and strategic board game based on the principles of a free market economy, presented from a humorous and ironic perspective of life, making it both a social and fun game! In this game, you will find yourself managing a group of people who work together in different assignments, aiming to grow their fortune according to your vision. Throughout the game, you will purchase merchandise at the auction, deliver goods to shops and factories, establish partnerships in shops and factories, or possibly take over other players' business and capital. You will also attend events, influence politics, win awards, and garner all kinds of influence to help your businesses, partnerships, and assets flourish as you move forward in the game. The trick is simple: buy when the market is low and sell when it's high to make the most profit before your opponents do. The most successful businessman wins the game. FREE MARKET is played with 2-5 players, ages 12+ and 90-180 minutes long. The rules booklet is in 6 languages, but the game board is completely multilingual. This game is not language dependent – since the game board itself is fully generic (multilingual), any player regardless of his other language can directly play this game, after a brief explanation.
By the mid-1930s, the United States was still struggling to squeeze its way out of the Great Depression. These difficult times were
characterised by hunger, crime, high unemployment, major wealth inequality, limited social mobility, and political strife that tested the fortitude of the American economy. The government intervened, establishing new economic policies, which eventual led to reviving free market principles. By the early 1940’s it had become apparent that the US had pulled itself up by its bootstraps, restoring a stable and growing economy defined by the opportunity that a free market provides. This game aims to mimic the spirit of the free market: To profit by investing, selling, trading, taking risks, paying attention to market trends, anticipating opponents’ strategy, cooperating with others, but also profiting from them as well, all in the spirit of making the most money.
The game consists of 4 rounds of play. In each of which you are responsible for managing a group of people working together in different assignments aiming to grow their fortune together. You will then have the option to invest in the stock market to further grow your assets, at your own risk of course, as well as a chance to participate in a fundraiser, attend events, influence politics, win awards, and garner all kinds of influence to help your businesses, partnerships and assets flourish as you move forward in the game.
One of the interesting aspects of the game is the emphasis on choice. Even at unexpected turns and twists, at any given moment
there is usually a wide array of decisions that can be made in response. Although all players begin at the same place, the often
beneficial options of playing in different zones and different actions, adds a layer of complexity to the game that makes it
unpredictable and further reinforces the value placed on optimal decision making. From management and worker assignments, to selling and delivering merchandise in the action zones, the ball is in your court. There are multiple ways to get the biggest piece of the pie. Whether through retail, partnerships, by owning infrastructure, acquiring others’ enterprises, making many small deals or few big ones, or some combination of them all; it is clear that the game accurately depicts the cutthroat and unexpected nature of a real life free market. By the end of the 4th game round, each player will calculate his total accumulated wealth and assets. It’s very simple: the wealthiest player wins the game. Attractive features & Innovations The Auction Phase
One of the attractive aspects in the game is the auction. The fully unrestricted gameplay of this feature, which relies on decision
making alone and doesn’t depend on a draw of a card or a roll of a die, adds a real element that creates endless possibilities and
tests the players’ risk evaluation skills. This phase contributes to the game atmosphere, adds a humorous element and enhances social interactions. Donation Tower The Donation Tower is an off-board element that brings the game an additional interesting value. Throughout the game, players contribute to the funds that are concealed within the tower. Alertness and timing are key. Wait until the sum is large, but don’t wait too long to grab it before others have the chance. Either you hit the jackpot or you waste your opportunity. Truck Design A creative feature is the innovative design of the truck that can physically carry workers into other areas of the board to overtake opponents’ businesses. | <urn:uuid:dc093db4-d62b-4e89-9252-a295168658ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unique-games.com/free-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959668 | 955 | 2 | 2 |
These notes provide an introduction to engineering heat transfer.
Heat transfer processes set limits to the performance of aerospace
components and systems and the subject is one of an enormous range
of application. The notes are intended to describe the three types
of heat transfer and provide basic tools to enable the readers to
estimate the magnitude of heat transfer rates in realistic aerospace
applications. There are also a number of excellent texts on the
subject; some accessible references which expand the discussion in
- Eckert, E. R. G. and Drake, R. M., Heat and Mass Transfer, McGraw
Hill Book Company, 1959.
- Eckert, E. R. G. and Drake, R. M., Analysis
of Heat and Mass Transfer, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1987.
F. P. and Dewitt, D. P., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass
Transfer, Wiley, 1990.
- Lienhard, J. H., A Heat Transfer Textbook,
Prentice-Hall, 1987. Mills, A. F., Heat Transfer, Irwin, 1992. | <urn:uuid:500d3eba-eabd-4be2-97f2-25fb64ff6744> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/SPRING/thermodynamics/notes/node113.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.779655 | 247 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The price of silver dropped a dollar, or over 4% on Wednesday. Some voices in the precious metals press want you to think that there is only one conceivable cause. We should coin a term for this form of logical fallacy: argumentum ad ignorantia. This is an argument of the form: “the cause must be XYZ, as I cannot conceive of anything else.” The Same Old Song and Dance In this case, XYZ is that the alleged cartel, the bullion banks and/or central banks, sold silver futures in mass quantity. Also, allegedly, inflation-fearing masses are buying physical gold. What would happen if the price of futures were pushed down, while the price of physical were pushed up? We will be charitable, and say that physical only went up a penny. Let’s give a hint: Basis = future – spot
Keith Weiner considers the following as important: 6a) Gold & Monetary Metals, 6a.) Monetary Metals, Basic Reports, Featured, newsletter
This could be interesting, too:
Bruce Ramsey writes Garet Garrett: Far Forward of the Trenches
Marc Chandler writes Inflation
Patrick Konstantin writes Bitcoin und Aktienmarkt immer noch eng verbunden
Heiko de Boer writes Austrian Economics and the Capital Asset Pricing Model: A Reconcilation?
The price of silver dropped a dollar, or over 4% on Wednesday. Some voices in the precious metals press want you to think that there is only one conceivable cause. We should coin a term for this form of logical fallacy: argumentum ad ignorantia. This is an argument of the form: “the cause must be XYZ, as I cannot conceive of anything else.”
The Same Old Song and Dance
In this case, XYZ is that the alleged cartel, the bullion banks and/or central banks, sold silver futures in mass quantity. Also, allegedly, inflation-fearing masses are buying physical gold.
What would happen if the price of futures were pushed down, while the price of physical were pushed up? We will be charitable, and say that physical only went up a penny. Let’s give a hint:
Basis = future – spot (quoted as an annualized percentage)
So if future were pushed down a dollar, and spot pushed up a penny, then the basis would drop. A lot. How much? Well, yesterday the price of silver was about $22.50. A $1.01 change is around 4.4%. But this is for less than 3 months duration (for the December contract). To annualize it, it is about four times greater i.e. 18%.
If the conspiracy theory were true, the basis would have dropped 18%. Not 18 basis points, 1,800 basis points!
Let’s just say….that didn’t happen. Instead, here’s a graph showing what did happen.
Silver Fundamental Analysis – Silver Basis Analysis
There is indeed a drop in the basis. It fell from -0.35% to -0.83%. That is, a drop of -0.48%. 48 basis points. About 2.7 cents.
Think about that.
Leave aside claims of selling paper equal to half of the world’s supply of silver in one instant. Just look at the mere fact above. The spread (future – spot) changed by less than three pennies.
This price drop was definitely led by sellers of paper. But people sold physical metal almost as much.
The Market Sold Paper Silver AND Physical Silver
How much metal selling does it take to push the price of futures down by a dollar? And how much selling does it take to push down the price of physical metal by $0.9975?
The market maker is not a bettor. He is not speculating on price, much less betting on a falling price. He is carrying silver—buying metal and simultaneously selling futures short. Why? To earn the basis spread, which is usually positive. That is, this is usually a profitable trade.
If he doesn’t care about the price, then what does he care about?
The wider the basis spread gets, the more he jumps into the market. You may observe an increase in the Open Interest (in the Commitment of Traders report). Commentators often get this wrong, painting market makers as short sellers who are profiting from pushing the price down and/or blithely losing money pushing the price down.
The market maker creates more contracts when the profit to carry silver increases. That is, when the basis rises. And when the basis falls, or the cobasis even goes positive, there is an extra profit earned to close the position. That is, to buy the future and sell spot. So Open Interest goes down.
Spread > Price
This explanation is prosaic. The mechanics are pretty straightforward, if unfamiliar to many retail traders. Most retail traders are more interested in price than in the seemingly esoteric spread. Our mission in these Reports is to demystify spread (the video is a bit dated but what we said was true then and it’s still true today). It should be no more esoteric than friction in automotive engineering.
By the way, note that our cobasis reading for Wednesday is 0.00%. This means that there were many moments where it was positive. And you can bet that the market makers exploited those moments to close their positions.
Cobasis = spot – future
To close a silver carry position, you must sell spot and buy future. If spot price is above future, this is profitable—on top of the profit already earned by carrying in the first place. And you take that profit now, without having to wait until delivery month.
The Not So Sexy Truth About the Silver Price Crash
Prosaic explanations are sometimes less popular than fantastical explanations. People once believed that rags in a damp closet spontaneously generated rats, that the Sun and planets revolved around the Earth, and that witches caused infant mortality.
Thankfully, a few heroic men risked their lives to tell the truth (in those days, heretics could be tortured and killed), and most people no longer believe those things. When’s the last time you saw a witch put a hex on a baby?
We are certainly supportive of buying gold and silver (our business is to pay interest on gold and silver for investors to grow their total ounces!) But please, be careful to buy for the right reasons.
The price will rise, but for other reasons such as a relative scarcity of silver to the market. And of course, macroeconomic factors.
Owning the dollar looks crazier and crazier nowadays. At least for those who have savings and a choice of how to hold it (alas, debtors have to hold big cash balances, which is one reason why the dollar does not collapse).
Monetary Metals produces research and fundamental analysis of gold and silver prices that you literally can’t find anywhere else. And it’s all free! To receive the Supply and Demand Report as soon as it is published, join our mailing list.
Tags: Basic Reports,Featured,newsletter | <urn:uuid:de40c6e2-0f31-408a-9bc0-7285920f6034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swiss.economicblogs.org/snbchf/2021/weiner-silver-crash-silver | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949394 | 1,507 | 1.890625 | 2 |
It could also generate a huge windfall for the company’s employees, who have been promised a share of the company if or when it is sold or becomes public.
Chobani this week filed paperwork with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission for a stock market listing, MarketWatch and other financial news services reported. That filing would be a first step to an IPO that would make Chobani a publicly traded company.
Chobani has been considering an IPO for some time, and that prospect heated up earlier this year as the company moved into the hot plant-based food sector. It recently launched its latest innovation, Chobani Zero Sugar.
Hamdi Ulukaya, an immigrant from Turkey, founded Chobani in 2005 in a former Kraft Foods yogurt plant in South Edmeston. It sold its first cup of Greek yogurt, which is thicker and tangier than standard yogurts, in 2007.
By 2011, Chobani had become the leading U.S. maker of Greek yogurt, a booming food category that had barely existed in the American market a few years before. The company recently reported its sales are increasing at triple the rate of the rest of the Greek yogurt category.
In 2016, Ulukaya announced that he would give full-time employees shares worth nearly 10% of the value of the company’s growth between then and the time he might sell the company or take it public.
At that time, the company’s value was estimated at between $3 billion and $5 billion. That means the IPO could create $4 billion to $5 billion in growth, if the current projections are correct. Chobani’s 2,200 or so employees would then stand to earn 10% of the increased value, or $400 million to $500 million.
Details of how that would be shared are not known.
Chobani’s employees are split between its original operations in and around Norwich (headquarters) and South Edmeston (yogurt plant) and its second plant in Twin Falls, Idaho. The Idaho plant is the world’s largest yogurt making facility. | <urn:uuid:7f323fb7-eb82-42bf-a52e-83fa390934df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.syracuse.com/business/2021/07/upstate-yogurt-giant-chobani-heads-to-an-ipo-that-could-lead-to-big-payday-for-employees.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Good%20Morning%20CNY%207-12-21&utm_term=Newsletter_good_morning_cny | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969694 | 440 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Multilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Co.. (MULTILEX)
Multilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Date du début: 1 sept. 2014,
Date de fin: 31 août 2018
"Given large collections of parallel (i.e. translated) texts, it is well-known how to, by successively applying a sentence- and aword-alignment step, establish correspondences between words across languages. However, parallel texts are a scarceresource for most language pairs involving lesser-used languages. On the other hand, human second language acquisitionseems not to require the reception of large amounts of translated texts, which indicates that there must be another way ofcrossing the language barrier. Apparently, the human capabilities are based on looking at comparable resources, i.e. textsor speech on related topics in different languages, which, however, are not translations of each other. Comparable (writtenor spoken) corpora are far more common than parallel corpora, thus offering the chance to overcome the data acquisitionbottleneck. Despite its cognitive motivation, in the proposed project we will not attempt to simulate the complexities ofhuman second language acquisition, but will show that it is possible by purely technical means to automatically extractinformation on word- and multiword-translations from comparable corpora. The aim is to push the boundaries of currentapproaches, which typically utilize correlations between co-occurrence patterns across languages, in several ways: 1)Eliminating the need for initial lexicons by using a bootstrapping approach which only requires a few seed translations. 2)Implementing a new methodology which first establishes alignments between comparable documents across languages,and then computes cross-lingual alignments between words and multiword-units. 3) Improving the quality of computed wordtranslations by applying an interlingua approach, which, by relying on several pivot languages, allows a highly effectivemulti-dimensional cross-check. 4) We will show that, by looking at foreign citations, language translations can even bederived from a single monolingual text corpus."
Bonjour, vous êtes sur la plateforme Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur dédiée aux programmes thématiques et de coopération territoriale. Une équipe d’experts vous accompagne dans vos recherches de financements.
Contactez la Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Vous pouvez nous écrire en Anglais, Français et Italien | <urn:uuid:0d8a8703-f469-469b-9028-c987fdc13076> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maregionsud.up2europe.eu/european/projects/multilingual-lexicon-extraction-from-comparable-corpora_31001.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.798038 | 578 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Restoration Of Implants
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are considered the gold standard for replacing a missing tooth. Once you have a dental implant placed by your oral surgeon and it has had time to heal thoroughly, you are now ready for your implant crown. This is the tooth portion of the implant.
After taking molds of your surrounding teeth, we work with a dental lab to create a natural looking implant crown for you.
Screws facilitate the attachment of the implant crowns to the implants. Implants must be strategically placed to allow implant crowns to connect to them so that the crowns emerge through the gum tissues in exactly the right direction.
Book an Appointment
Happily Serving Clients Across Ottawa
- Little Italy
- Dow's Lake | <urn:uuid:2d11beaa-bda0-4456-aafc-09acc47598d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flossthoseteeth.ca/services/implant-restoration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.909027 | 187 | 1.671875 | 2 |
public static class ResourceUtil.BatchResourceRemover
A batch resource remover deletes resources in batches. Once the batch
size (threshold) is reached, an intermediate commit is performed. Resource
trees are deleted resource by resource starting with the deepest children first.
Once all resources have been passed to the batch resource remover, a final
commit needs to be called on the resource resolver. | <urn:uuid:e4192e8b-2d43-4d6a-ad7c-35346ee016ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://developer.adobe.com/experience-manager/reference-materials/6-4/javadoc/org/apache/sling/api/resource/ResourceUtil.BatchResourceRemover.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.899719 | 94 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Electronic payment services are classified into online payment, telephone payment, mobile payment, terminal point-of-sale transaction, ATM transaction and other electronic payment according to the way of issuing electronic payment instructions.
Online payment is a form of electronic payment. In a broad sense,online payment processors online payment is based on the Internet and uses some digital financial tools supported by banks, which occur in the financial exchange between buyers and sellers to realize the process of online monetary payment, cash flow, fund settlement and query statistics from buyers to financial institutions and merchants, thus providing financial support for e-commerce services and other services.
Telephone payment is an offline form of e-commerce payment that can be realized in the form of teaching, which refers to the way consumers choose to use the telephone (landline, cell phone, SmarTone) or other business-like telephone terminal equipment, multi purpose steam mopand can invest directly from their personal development bank accounts to complete the payment through the network banking management system.
Mobile payment is a new type of payment method that uses mobile devices to complete payment behavior through wireless means. The mobile terminal used for mobile payment can be a cell phone, PDA, mobile PC, etc.
Online payment refers to the use of secure electronic payment means by all parties to electronic transactions, including consumers, manufacturers and financial institutions, to make monetary payments or fund circulation through the network. There are three main categories. One is electronic money, such as e-cash and e-wallet. Among them, electronic cash is a kind of money circulating in the form of data. It converts the cash value into a series of encrypted data sequences through which the monetary value of various transaction amounts in reality is represented. Users can accept electronic cash for purchases by setting up an account at a bank that conducts cash operations and depositing money into that account. Electronic cash transactions are similar to physical cash in that the transactions are anonymous.
Related article reading: | <urn:uuid:d23a4c02-8fad-4e16-9915-7c1e4cb44b92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bresdel.com/blogs/224329/Types-of-Online-Payments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94092 | 412 | 2.78125 | 3 |
« PreviousContinue »
course the image of the extremity m of the arrow E M will be formed at m. Now the same might be shown of every other part of the object M E, the image of which will be represented by e sn, which you see is at a greater distance from the glass than half Cc, or radius.
Charles. The image is inverted also, and less than the object.
Of Concave Mirrors, and Experiments on them,
TUTOR. If you understand what we conversed on yesterday, and what you have yourselves done, you will easily see how the image is formed by the large concave mirror of the reflecting telescope, when we come to examine the construction of that instrument. In a concave mirror the image is less than the object, when the object is more remote from the mirror than c, the centre of cercavity, and in that case the image is *a the object and mirror.
Janos suppose the object be placed in the centre c?
Tutor. Then the image and object will coincide: and if the object is placed nearer to the glass than the centre c, then the image will be more remote, and bigger than the object.
Charles. I should like to see this illustrated by an experiment.
Tutor. Well, here is a large concave mirror : place yourself before it, beyond the centre of the concavity; and with a little care in adjusting your position, you will see an inverted image of yourself in the air between you and the mirror, and of a less size than you are. When you see the image, extend your hand gently towards the glass, and the hand of the image will advance to meet it till they both meet in the centre of the glass's concarity. If you carry your hand still farther, the hand of the image will pass by it, and come between it and the body: now move your hand to either side, and the image of it will move towards the other.
James. Is there any rule for finding the
distance at which the image of an object is formed from the mirror ?
Tutor. If you know the radius of the mirror's concavity, and also the distance of the object from the glass,
“ Multiply the distance and radius together, and divide the product by double the distance less by the radius and the quotient is the distance required.”
Tell me at what distance the image of an object will be, suppose the radius of the concavity of the mirror be 12 inches, and the object be at 18 inches from it.
James. I multiply 18 by 12. which is equal 216; this I divide by double 18 or 36 less by 12, that is 24 ; but 216 divided by 24 gives 9, which is the number of inches required.
Tutor. You may vary this example in order to impress the rule on your memory; and I will show you another experiment. I take this bottle, partly full of water, and corked, and place it opposite the concave
átu OF CONCATE MIRRORS. 99 mirror, and beyond the focus, that it may appear to be reversed: now stand a little farther distant than the bottle, and you will see the bottle inverted in the air, and the water which is in the lower part of the bottle will appear to be in the upper.-I will invert the bottle, and uncork it, and whilst the water is running out, the image will appear to be filling, but when the bottle is empty, the illusion is at an end.
Charles. Are concave mirrors eyer used as burning-glasses ?
Tutor. Since it is the property of these mirrors to cause parallel rays to converge to a focus, and since the rays of the sun are considered as parallel, they are very useful as burning-glasses, and the principal focus is the burning point.
James. Is the image formed by a concave mirror always before it?
Tutor. In all cases, except when the object is nearer to the mirror than the principal focus. | <urn:uuid:29d051f8-c628-41b0-b9e6-bd3113db2423> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Sj8JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA96&vq=%22returns+Day,+or+the+sweet+approach+of+ev%27n+or+morn,+Or+sight+of+vernal+bloom,+or+summer%27s+rose,+Or+flocks,%22&dq=editions:OXFORD591032688&lr=&output=html_text&hl=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942175 | 863 | 3.203125 | 3 |
As mentioned above, official eye exams typically begin at age 3, so your child should have vision coverage by then. The level of coverage varies from plan to plan, but the main services covered by children’s vision insurance include: Eye exams.
When should babies have their first eye exam?
Baby’s first eye exam
Even if no eye or vision problems are apparent, at about age 6 months, you should take your baby to a doctor of optometry for his or her first thorough eye examination.
Does a 1 year old need dental insurance?
Children should see the dentist by their first birthday but having dental insurance earlier can help with dental costs. If you don’t have dental insurance provided through an employee-sponsored program, you can still get an affordable plan directly from an insurance provider.
Do you add newborn to dental and vision?
A: As soon as the newborn is added to the medical plan (based on medical enrollment guidelines), the newborn will automatically be enrolled and charged for pediatric dental benefits.
Do they check newborns eyesight?
Although serious vision problems during childhood are rare, routine eye checks are offered to newborn babies and young children to identify any problems early on.
What is a baby’s vision at 1 month?
Sight. A newborn baby’s vision is very fuzzy, but within one month they are able to focus a bit better. They still can’t see far – around 30cm – so when you smile at your baby, lean in close.
What can a 2 month old see?
At two months, babies can see objects — and people — from up to 18 inches away. That means you still need to get pretty close, but your baby will be able to see your face pretty well while feeding. She should also be able to follow movements when you walk close by.
When should a baby visit the dentist?
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recommends that a child go to the dentist by age 1 or within six months after the first tooth erupts.
How do I clean my 2 year old’s teeth?
Use a soft-bristled baby toothbrush, and a small amount of toothpaste, about the size of a grain of rice. Until your child is 3 years old or can spit on command rather than swallowing toothpaste, you should avoid fluoridated toothpaste. Brush your child’s teeth thoroughly for at least 2 minutes, twice per day.
How can I get my 1 year old to brush his teeth?
How to Make Brushing Toddlers’ Teeth Fun
- Take turns brushing your child’s teeth, so that your child feels more involved and/or independent. …
- Bring in a favorite stuffed animal or doll, and let your child “brush” the toy’s teeth (without toothpaste, of course) while you brush your child’s teeth.
Does insurance cover lip tie?
Ankyloglossia can cause many problems for children. They can go through frenectomy, which can be covered by dental and medical insurance, in order to treat their condition.
What is vision insurance good for?
The term “vision insurance” is commonly used to describe health and wellness plans designed to reduce your costs for routine preventive eye care (eye exams) and prescription eyewear (eyeglasses and contact lenses). Some vision plans also offer discounts on elective vision correction surgery, such as LASIK and PRK.
What can 1 week old See?
Week 1: Blurry View
In her first week, Baby can only see objects about 8-12 inches in front of her face. This is about the distance from her face to yours while feeding. Babies generally hold their gaze for only a few seconds.
Can you tell if a newborn is blind?
Here are some other signs that a baby has vision problems: Their eyes move quickly from side to side (nystagmus), jerk or wander randomly. Their eyes don’t follow your face or an object. They don’t seem to make eye contact with family and friends.
What can babies see at 6 weeks?
Anything up to 12 weeks is within the normal range. By week 6 it’s likely they will be able to distinguish you from strangers and you can expect a lot of gurgling and grunty noises when they see your face up close. It’s a good idea to keep playing with your little one during these early weeks. | <urn:uuid:92d607d7-f392-4af8-9c81-844f87ab644e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mybitsandbleeps.com/pregnant/at-what-age-do-babies-need-vision-insurance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946672 | 938 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The activity-driven ER-mitochondria Calcium Cycle (ERMCC) and protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases: finding targets for therapy
Neurodegenerative diseases like Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer?s disease occur mostly without identifyable cause, and are as yet uncurable. The project aims to develop a new strategy of neuroprotection by moderation of the endoplasmic-reticulum-mitochondria-calcium cycle (ERMCC) which links functional and structural metabolism in neurons and plays a central role in neuronal development and survival.
genetics, neurology, Parkinson's disease
2009 - 2012
Thomas Gasser (Coordinator)
United Kingdom (MRC) | <urn:uuid:39d5eabf-197f-4d45-b6d6-c4e4b5115502> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neuron-eranet.eu/projects/FamPD/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.815861 | 194 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The national economy is still in recovery mode. Developers are planning more apartment buildings. Grocery-anchored retail centers are popping up everywhere from Columbus to Omaha. There’s even been a return to spec industrial building, with new industrial centers fueling the economies of Indianapolis and Louisville.
Why, then, don’t the national economy and the commercial real estate market feel stronger? Both have been in recovery mode for years now. Yet even as commercial deal activity rises and unemployment numbers slowly but fairly steadily dip, the economy and the real estate markets still feel unsteady.
Maybe it’s because the middle class continues to struggle.
A report earlier this summer from online listing service Trulia provides a good example of the continuing struggles of the middle class. According to the report, homes in markets across the country have become less affordable for middle-class residents.
In San Francisco, traditionally one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, the median household earns $84,129. Only 14 percent of the homes for sale in this market are affordable to people earning this median income. In Orange County, Calif., only 24 percent of the homes for sale are within financial reach of residents earning the median income, while in New York, only 25 percent of homes are affordable to middle-class residents.
Things are better in the Midwest, of course. Trulia ranks Akron, Ohio, as the most affordable housing market in the country, with 86 percent of the homes for sale affordable to those earning the area’s median income. In Toledo, 84 percent of the homes for sale are affordable to those earning the median income.
There’s even a study out now from Offers.com showing that middle-class residents can’t afford to spend as much on their 4th of July celebrations this year.
According to this survey, U.S. consumers making more than $150,000 a year will be spending the most this Fourth of July. Those earning $50,000 to $74,999, though, will be spending the least. Those making under $25,000 a year say they will be spending less than this group.
So, what do the commercial real estate markets and national economy need for an even bigger boost? A middle class that felt confident in the economy — and, of course, made more money each year — would be key. | <urn:uuid:95876762-dc21-4e9f-b37e-d71c6e56a17e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rejournals.com/for-a-truly-happy-4th-of-july-we-need-a-stronger-middle-class/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945676 | 487 | 1.601563 | 2 |
There are a few attributes of a good relationship. For starters, quality interactions are based on love. Love is a motivating element that allows a relationship to last. Although love is far more than just tschechien girls words. A high-quality relationship involves action, too. You must entertain partner daily that you worth their emotions. A relationship that is not motivated by appreciate will soon adjust. When you have these kinds of qualities, to get already on the right track.
Another quality of a good romance can be mutual devotion. When a couple share a deep loyalty to one another, they can work through the complexities of variations and challenges. A good romantic relationship will make both equally partners truly feel crucial, admired, and known. It should also be entertaining, supportive, and pleasing for each and every partner. And while these not necessarily the only qualities of a great relationship, they are essential. And it all begins with love.
The next quality of a very good relationship is normally respect. https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/g20663232/british-royal-wedding-photos-in-history/ Both partners must dignity each other’s ideas and dreams. Admiration also means playing each other. Good relationships previous because the two partners value the other’s opinion and then try to achieve similar goals. Closeness is usually a vital attribute of a very good relationship. A nutritious relationship consists of a strong communication style and common just like language. It is also important to hear to one another, and not simply offer advice.
Respect to your partner. No matter how inconvenient it can be, a healthy romance involves both equally get-togethers. Neither spouse should experience compelled to disagree with each other. Respecting the partner’s choices means letting them help to make decisions and respecting their very own personal space. Respecting each other and keeping your own personal values at heart is important to a healthful relationship. There’s no room for envy or resentment in a healthful relationship.
Compassion is definitely the third quality of a great relationship. Both equally lovers should show compassion per other, especially during difficult times. Compassion helps partners stand up for every other and keep the partnership healthy. The moment either spouse shows not any empathy or is unwilling to show that, the relationship are affected. If you and your partner don’t show consideration for each different, you’re not setting up yourself on with a successful romantic relationship. It’s best to prevent the type of relationships that are not based upon empathy and consideration.
Healthy romances include the similar importance of each partner’s requirements. This includes precious time, communication, and sex. These types of qualities happen to be more widespread in a balanced relationship than patients characterized by codependence and managing behavior. Whether or not there is conflict, it has the not necessarily an indicator of problems. However , uncertain conflicts can result in resentment and greater disagreements. A healthy relationship will not incorporate power unbalances.
Respect is another critical quality of an good relationship. Human relationships that value respect experience less prospects for conflict and hurting one another. Even perfect relationships consist of two people just who respect each other. Nonetheless, a relationship cannot be excellent without value, so equally people must be willing to pay attention and try to understand each other’s thoughts. A great marriage will have mutual respect and the readiness to put the partner’s requires before yours. | <urn:uuid:cf3ccbaf-ae65-4239-b70c-5df50564e278> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jewelblooms.com/2022/02/03/the-qualities-of-your-good-romance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947032 | 711 | 1.890625 | 2 |
After the death of al-Qaeda leader Ayman el-Zawahiri, the United States warns of an increase in terrorist attacks
Steph Deschamps / August 3, 2022
The State Department believes there is an increased risk of anti-American violence after the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri on July 31, 2022, the U.S. diplomatic service said in a statement.
Current intelligence suggests that terrorist organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in several regions of the world, the statement added.
These attacks can take many forms, including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings and bombings.
Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as head of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden's death in 2011, was killed on his balcony Saturday night in Afghanistan by a U.S. drone strike, U.S. President Joe Biden announced on live television Monday.
Untraceable for more than ten years, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, was considered one of the masterminds of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned early Tuesday morning an aerial attack carried out with the help of American drones, without mentioning any casualties or the name of Zawahiri.
U.S. citizens are strongly encouraged to maintain a high degree of vigilance when traveling abroad, the State Department said. | <urn:uuid:20c6bfee-1a20-499a-abe9-1cbe11d71385> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://networthspace.com/blogs/usa/after-the-death-of-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-el-zawahiri-the-united-states-warns-of-an-increase-in-terrorist-attacks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95411 | 310 | 1.539063 | 2 |
This work was done to final out the assessment of the mass media’s role in the campaign against drug abuse, because drug abuse has become a serious problem we are facing both in Nigeria and in other parts of the world.
The objectives of this research is to find out if drug abuse has increased crime rate in Nigeria, to find out if the mass media is performing their functions effectively, its assessment in the campaign against drug abuse in Nigeria and what impression people have about drug abuse in Nigeria.
A critical review of related literature was made. The methodology used, the research design, sample, the method of data collection and analysis is found in chapter three.
Chapter four is devoted to the analysis of data collected and results of the research. Tables were used in the results.
Chapter five contains the summary of the study and the recommendations for further study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background of the Study
- Statement of the Research problem
- Objective of the Study
- Significance of the Study
- Research Questions
- Research Hypothesis
- Conceptual and Operational definition
- Limitation of the Study
CHAPTER TWO : REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
- Sources of Literature
- The Review
- Summary of Literature review
CHAPTER THREE: MYTHOLOGY
- Research method
- Research design
- Research Sample
- Measuring Instrument
- Data collection
- Data Analysis
- Expected Results
CHAPTER FOUR : DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
- Data Analysis
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY
- Recommendations for further Study
Appendix A: Letter of Introduction
Appendix B: Questionnaire.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
There is no limit to the study of media and society. Media and society as a subject covers a wide range of issues. Communication has a lot to do with the individual. It effects and defects are so notable that they cannot be swept under the carpet. Media and society are interwoven and nether of them can exist without the other. But first of all, what is communication?
Fiske (1990) defines communication as “social interaction through message” Jaya- weera (1991) sees it as an interaction process through which persons or groups relate to each other and share information, experience and culture. Looking at the above definitions communication can be said to be the transferring or transmitting of ideas, attitudes and information from one person to anther. Okunna (1999) throws more light on the above assertion when she says “to communicate basically means to share ideas information, opinions , feelings or experiences between people?
Read also: Business management project topics and materials
According to Okunna (1999) the mass media perform a number of functions, which benefit the individual as a member of a society. She goes on to say that these functions range from serious informational and educational functions to lighter functions like entertainment.
The functions of the mass media in the society includes .
- Information:-This is the constant stream of information about event in the society. Among the positive consequence of this function is the guidance it gives to the individuals in his or her daily life.
- Interpretation :-This is the function of appropriately interpreting news and information in such as way as to avoid over sensitization and induce appropriate or necessary action. It includes prescribing what to do, how to do it and why it is necessary.
- Education:- The mass media help unify society and increases social cohesion by upholding teaching a broad base of common social norms values and collective experiences. The mass media do this transmission mainly through informal education (unconscious learning) and non- formal education (conscious attempt to impart knowledge outside the formal school system).
- Entertainment:-This is the mass media function that is geared towards providing some diversion and amusement, relaxation and respite.
The mass media is known as the watch dog of the society and with the information and education function, it will be known if the mass media has played roles in the campaign against drug abuse in Nigeria. This is because like the dry rot that eats away the wooden beams of a house, drugs can corrode the whole structure of society. For human society to function properly, it must have stable families, healthy workers, trustworthy governments, honest polices and law abiding citizens . Drugs corrupt every one of these fundamental elements.
The home however is probably where drugs do the most damage. Parents who are distracted by their craving for drugs rarely provide their children with a stable home life. Many children who grow up in this environment take to the streets or even get involved in drugs themselves.
THIS MATERIAL GOES FOR #3,000 ONLY. | <urn:uuid:c4b6ba73-b433-4a66-97c5-473bcb0b247f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://projectsolutionz.com.ng/an-assessment-of-mass-medias-role-in-the-campaign-against-drug-abuse-in-nigeria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.926982 | 1,010 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Verdú to Montserrat
We left Verdú this morning on the camino path, full of anticipation for our walk to Montserrat! This was the destination for Ignatius on his pilgrim journey, to pray at the shrine for Our Lady of Montserrat, known to the people as the Black Madonna, or affectionately, La Moreneta. Marian devotion to La Moreneta had been strong for hundreds of years prior to Ignatius’ journey in 1522. Pilgrims, as well as kings and queens, had been ascending this spectacular mountain and sacred place.
As we approached the mountain range, we were awed by the natural wonder of Mount “serrat” (“serrated” or “sawed top of the mountain”). Some of us thought it was shaped liked the fingers of two hands reaching up to the sky. We know from “A Pilgrim’s Testament” that it was here that Ignatius experienced the love of God poured out in creation; the stars at night and the sunrise over the mountain valley. Ignatius also found hospitality and guidance from the Benedictine monks at the monastery on Montserrat. The wideness of God’s love and mercy was reflected in the landscape, and Ignatius began to envision the possibility of a new life with God.
After a challenging hike, we took the bus up the steep mountain road and arrived in time for a Vespers service chanted by the abbey monks in the beautiful Basilica. After the service, we were able to walk up the stairs to visit the statue of the Black Madonna.
Ignatius prayed an all night vigil with Our Lady before he lay down his sword, to symbolize a new beginning. We concluded our day with prayer and a communal meal to celebrate the birthday of one of our pilgrims. We are grateful for the peace of the mountain and the warmth of companionship that has deepened as we have made our way. | <urn:uuid:bb3bc9eb-54be-4ff3-bed6-fcda0ec751a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stignatiuschestnuthill.org/post/verd%C3%BA-to-montserrat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963545 | 412 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Arthur Jacob (1868-1925)
Arthur Jacob (1868-1925), a manager of the British Aluminium Co
1925 Obituary
ARTHUR JACOB died at his home at Hatch End, Middlesex, on the 3rd April, 1925, at the age of 57 years.
He was the son of Archibald Hamilton Jacob, aurist, of Dublin, and received his technical education at the Royal College of Science, Dublin.
His early experience was gained under Dr. S. Z. de Ferranti, then engineer-in-chief of the London Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd. - the first company in London to undertake the supply of electricity for lighting and power purposes. Mr. Jacob was assistant engineer with this company for five years, having successively charge of their mains, substations and Deptford power station; this plant, as is well known, was at the time an unique example of the possibilities of economic power distribution by the use of large units (1 500 h.p.) and high pressure (10 000 volts).
Mr. Jacob's later experience included the position of resident engineer to the Electricity Supply Co. for Spain, Ltd., at Madrid.
Subsequently, as chief resident engineer to the British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., he was responsible for the conversion of the entire Dublin United Tramways system from horse to electric traction, the contract including the erection of two power stations and substations for the supply of polyphase and direct current for the operation of 300 cars on 42 miles of track. On completion, Mr. Jacob operated this system for a period of three months before handing over.
Later, as general manager of the British Schuckert Electric Co., he was responsible for traction, power and lighting schemes for the Corporations of Paisley, Coventry, Southampton and Birmingham, respectively, as well as for the Dunlop Rubber Co. and numerous other municipal and private undertakings.
On the acquisition of the British Schuckert Electric Co. by Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Berlin, Mr. Jacob joined Siemens Brothers and Co., Ltd., and upon the formation by that company of Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Ltd., undertook the management of the latter company's central station department.
In January 1908 he became a member of the management of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., aluminium producers, and until the time of his death was charged with the development of the use of aluminium for industrial purposes in general, and electrical purposes in particular; in later years he also directed certain of the company's subsidiary undertakings.
Mr. Jacob was a member of the Overhead Transmission Line Materials Committee of the British Engineering Standards Association; also a member of the Overhead Wires Committee of the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association. In addition to being a Member of the Institution he was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Electrochemical Society, an original member of the Institute of Metals, and a member of Executive of the Federation of British Industries, the British Engineers' Association, the Industrial League and Council and other organizations. To his colleagues, as well as to a large circle of friends and acquaintances in this and other countries, the untimely death of Mr. Jacob brought a distinct sense of loss. A man of no mean powers, he combined with these a soundness of character, an attractive personality, warm sympathies and a ready wit, establishing in the course of years an extensive personal connection in the engineering industries.
He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1901.
1925 Obituary
ARTHUR JACOB, a manager of the British Aluminium Company, Limited, died at the age of fifty-seven years, at Hatch End, Middlesex, on April 3, 1925. Mr. Jacob had been in poor health for two years, but he seemed to be recovering until a few months ago, when he began to fail, and the end came somewhat unexpectedly.
As a manager of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd. (which company he joined in 1908), he was responsible for the development of the use of aluminium for industrial purposes in general, and electrical purposes in particular. He was charged also with the direction of certain of the company's, subsidiary undertakings.
Mr. Jacob was associated with Dr. S. Z. de Ferranti at the Grosvenor Gallery and Deptford from 1884 onwards. Subsequently, he was for many years engaged in the construction and management of electrical engineering undertakings, and had a personal connection with the leading engineers and directors of engineering concerns throughout the country.
The principal work upon which he had been engaged during the past thirty years was as follows. He was resident engineer to the British Thomson-Houston Co. for the complete electrification of the Dublin United Tramways Company's system, which included the erection of two power stations, sub-stations, and the electrical equipment of over 42 miles of track and 300 cars.
Later he undertook the general management of the British Schuckert Electric Co., Ltd., London, which was subsequently taken over by Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Berlin.
Afterwards he was responsible for the management of the Central Station Department of Messrs. Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Ltd., of London and Stafford. This engaged his attention for three years preceding his acceptance of the British Aluminium Company's appointment in 1908.
Mr. Jacob was an Original Member of the Institute of Metals. He was a member of the Overhead Wires Committee and of several of the Aluminium and Alloys Committees of the British Engineering Standards Association; also a member of the Overhead Wires Committee of the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association.
In addition to being a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, he was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Electrochemical Society, and was also identified with the work of the British Engineers' Association, the Federation of British Industries, the Industrial League and Council, and other organizations. | <urn:uuid:5a72f5d7-49e7-4ac4-923e-6da87e163e3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gracesguide.co.uk/Arthur_Jacob_(1868-1925) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971759 | 1,247 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Tulane chemistry department makes hand sanitizer, donates to healthcare facilities and nursing homes
As hospitals and healthcare workers are in urgent need of personal protective equipment (PPE) and supplies, several departments and organizations at Tulane University are doing their part to help, including the Department of Chemistry.
Corinne Gibb, Tulane research associate, and Paolo Suating, Tulane PhD student, have been making hand sanitizer in the chemistry department’s lab and giving it to local healthcare facilities and nursing homes.
The idea stemmed from Twitter, Gibb said.
Bruce Gibb, professor of organic chemistry at Tulane, principal investigator of The Gibb Group and Corinne’s husband, noticed other chemistry professors, researchers and principal investigators on Twitter were posting about donating their PPE and stocks of ethanol to the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Others were posting that they were using their ethanol to make hand sanitizer to donate.
So, Bruce Gibb proposed the idea to Russell Schmehl, professor and chair in the Department of Chemistry, and School of Science and Engineering Dean Kimberly Foster to use their ethanol to make hand sanitizer to donate to local facilities in need. Upon Schmehl and Foster’s approval, Corinne Gibb and Paolo Suating volunteered for the effort.
“Paolo and I do research together, and it made sense for us to keep doing something together,” Corinne Gibb said.
Suating found the World Health Organization’s hand sanitizer recipe, and with the help of Troy Bryant, the chemistry department’s stockroom supervisor, they began searching the stock room for supplies.
“We were basically going through all the little corners of our stock room with him to find containers and chemicals that we could use,” Corinne Gibb said.
Over the span of a few days, Suating and Gibb used the Tulane chemistry department’s ethanol to create 125 gallons of hand sanitizer, most of which was given to the Tulane Medical Center (TMC). They delivered the rest to local assisted living facilities Lambeth House — where several COVID-19 cases have been reported — and Chateau de Notre Dame, who also plans to share with other facilities managed by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. A donation was also given to Tulane’s Campus Health.
“They definitely appreciate the effort that we put into making it for them,” Suating said of the facilities when they received the donations.
Suating added it’s not complicated to make the sanitizer and it didn’t stray far from the research they typically do.
“The lab’s research is essentially organic chemistry in water. We try to model and study the interactions with things that are dissolved in water,” he said. “In a way, we’re sort of using our expertise in water chemistry with what we did with the hand sanitizer.”
Corinne Gibb thought it was a “logical step” for them to take.
“It’s the least we can do, it’s very safe, and there’s no point in keeping all those supplies in storage during the crisis,” she said.
The two will try to get more ethanol to continue making more sanitizer but are cognizant there is a high demand for it, and do not want to compete with other facilities that need it.
For the time being, they are happy to help where they can.
“It’s a win-win because I get to help where I’m needed…and I have something to do while everything is standing still,” Suating said.
“It makes you feel good to try to do your share and I hope we can do more” Corinne Gibb said. | <urn:uuid:860494ba-2ce4-43f9-9da7-df1642a99e06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.tulane.edu/node/1647738/pdf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965678 | 826 | 2.25 | 2 |
Villa Sciarra's statues, park furniture and children's area seriously damaged by vandals
Villa Sciarra, one of Rome's smaller and lesser-known parks, will now be locked each night after it was the subject of serious vandalism in the early hours of 4 February.
The city has condemned the "inexplicable vandalism" which resulted in the smashing of ancient statues, amphorae and terracotta vases, and the vandalising of the children's play area, park benches, even the bins.
The dog statue was ripped from the group of Diana and Endymion and thrown into the waters of the fountain while vandals also smashed a plaque dedicated to the 19th-century Roman educator Rosa Vagnozzi.
Located on the slopes of the Janiculum hill, not far from the American and Spanish academies, the villa is steeped in lore: in ancient times the grounds were considered the sacred grove of Furrina, an ancient Roman goddess associated with water; Caesar was said to have hosted Cleopatra in the gardens; and in 1906 an ancient marble statue of Bacchus with gilded face and hands was unearthed on the property.
The villa, including the 15th-century house, changed hands many times, and was given its current title when it was acquired by the Colonna di Sciarra family in 1811, when the estate was enlarged. It survived the battles of Garibaldi against the pope and the French at Porta S. Pancrazio nearby. It was parcelled out to creditors in the 1880s after its then owner Prince Maffeo Sciarra II went bankrupt. In 1902 a wealthy American couple, George Wurts and Henriette Tower, reassembled and restored the estate. They renovated the house in the neo-renaissance style, decorated the land with statues, planted exotic flora and brought in white peacocks to stroll the grounds.
After Wurts’ death, Tower donated the villa to the Italian state as a public park in 1932. The 70,000 sqm-park has since become the location of the Italian Institute of Germanic Studies and was restored in 2005.
The vast collection of paintings and sculptures assembled by Wurts and Tower, which was also donated to the state, is currently on display in an exhibition at Palazzo Venezia. | <urn:uuid:72d5ed50-1f90-4978-a3be-8ccc361d346f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/romes-villa-sciarra-locked-at-night-after-vandalism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975232 | 488 | 2.171875 | 2 |
PEMANFAATAN SAMPAH DAPUR SEBAGAI PUPUK ORGANIK CAIR UNTUK TANAMAN PEKARANGAN DAN HORTIKULTURA DI DESA ILOTIDEA KECAMATAN TILANGO KABUPATEN GORONTALO
The purpose of KKN-T community service activity is to increase the creativity of students and the community of Ilotidea Village in utilizing kitchen waste as the Liquid Organic Fertilizer (LOF) which can increase plant growth in the yardland. In Ilotidea Village, the community is very enthusiastic about utilizing yardland, unfortunately, has not managed kitchen waste as fertilizer that can add nutrients to the growth and production of plants. Benefits: 1) management of kitchen waste as an organic fertilizer manufacturing material, 2) produce LOF for cultivation crop in the yardland. Methods in the form of socialization, training, and applications of making organic fertilizers, vegetable cultivation, and simple planting pattern techniques in the yard. This activity was attended by 14 students of the Department of Agrotechnology and the village community. The results of activities: socialization of the use of kitchen waste as LOF, land use of yards, the exhibition of LOF product products in the village. Additional activities include the management of flood disasters, sports and arts development and the vaccination movement. External in the form of the publication of videos and articles. | <urn:uuid:4afcd1bb-2e93-4b98-baf6-c9b1bac506d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peduli.wisnuwardhana.ac.id/index.php/peduli/article/view/387 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937225 | 300 | 2.640625 | 3 |
There is something to be said about Chanukah falling in the darkest time of the year: when we need extra light, physically and spiritually, the lights of Chanukah bring it to us.
But what about the week after? During this time of year, we need a little extra something to brighten up our days. For each of us, that can look different: spending time with friends and family, participating in a hobby or activity, sitting by a special lamp – like the ones which imitate sunlight, waking up extra early to experience the morning light, taking a vacation, walking outside … and much more. For me, listening to music and singing often bring light and energy when I need them most.
“There are palaces that open only to music.” (Hillel Zeitlin)
Music has the ability to unlock places (palaces?) inside that we never knew needed opening, to bring recovery in times of difficulty, to enhance a joyous moment, to make us think or even the opposite – to help us stop thinking so much! Music is powerful in our everyday lives and even more in our spiritual lives.
Temple Emanuel Sinai has been blessed to be on a musical journey this year, to be exposed to so many different types of music and musical leaders. This Shabbat, we will experience the musical leadership and teachings of Sheldon Low.
Sheldon is a not only a Jewish musician, performer, and social entrepreneur, he is also a highly regarded Jewish educator and innovator. With his music and leadership skills, he has raised money to feed the hungry, mentored young people, taught other musicians how to integrate music and technology, and so much more. Sheldon is also the creator and host of “Jewish Songwriter”, a podcast devoted to the people and stories behind contemporary Jewish music.
I’m looking forward to a Shabbat filled with music and meaning, and especially interested in seeing the “palaces” that will be unlocked by our Shabbat musical experience. | <urn:uuid:43983e0e-0361-4940-84ec-d2ef2665b73a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emanuelsinai.org/2021/12/09/sheldon-low-music-12-9-21/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96113 | 417 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Sometimes, you need a little help when it comes to communication. Whether you’re shy or just want to brush up on your public speaking skills, enrolling in a speech improvement class can do wonders for your confidence and ability to communicate effectively. Here are four reasons why you should consider signing up for a class:
1. You’ll learn how
If you’re not happy with the way you sound when you speak, it might be time to consider enrolling in speech improvement classes. The classes ensure that you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to project your voice, enunciate properly, and use proper diction. You’ll also work on breath control and vocal warm-up exercises. Doing so can help you to:
2. You’ll become more confident
One of the main benefits of taking a speech improvement class is that it can help to boost your confidence. If you’re shy or tend to freeze up when speaking in front of others, learning how to communicate effectively can help you to feel more confident in social situations.
3. You’ll be able to better express yourself
Being able to communicate clearly and effectively is essential for both personal and professional success. If you want to be able to better express yourself, enrolling in speech improvement classes can help you to:
- Choose the right words
- Organize your thoughts
- Deliver your message in a clear and concise way
4. You’ll connect with others
In today’s world, it’s more important than ever to be able to connect with others. Whether you’re looking to make new friends, build business relationships, or find a romantic partner, being able to communicate effectively can help you to form strong and lasting bonds with others.
If you’re interested in enrolling in a speech improvement class, there are a few things you should keep in mind.
1. Type of Class
When choosing a speech improvement class, you’ll need to decide what type of class you want to take. There are many different types of classes available, such as:
- Group classes – This is a good option if you want to learn alongside other students.
- Individual classes – This is a good option if you want more one-on-one attention from your instructor.
- Online classes – This is a good option if you want the flexibility to learn at your own pace.
- Private classes – Private classes are often the most expensive option, but they can be customized to your specific needs.
2. Consider Your Budget
Speech improvement classes can vary greatly in price, so be sure to shop around to find a class that fits within your budget. Finally, make sure to check out the instructor’s credentials and reviews to ensure that you’re enrolling in a high-quality class.
3. Set Some Goals
Before you enroll in a speech improvement class, it’s important to set some goals. Doing so will help you to get the most out of your learning experience. Some things you may want to focus on include:
- Learning how to project your voice
- Improving your verbal communication skills
- Developing greater confidence when speaking in front of others
- Becoming a better listener
4. Level of Class
Most speech improvement classes are offered at different levels, so you’ll need to choose a class that’s appropriate for your skill level. If you’re a beginner, look for a class that covers the basics of effective communication.
Enrolling in a speech improvement class can help you to become a better communicator, boost your confidence, and connect with others. If you’re looking to improve your communication skills, consider signing up for a class today. | <urn:uuid:a8347e41-1172-4909-907f-2189aaa9695b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.articlesreader.com/enroll-speech-improvement-classes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92602 | 780 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Network 20/20’s trip coincided with a meeting in Islamabad between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan, which was followed by trade talks that have expanded the list of permitted trade goods between the two countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureishi and his predecessor in Musharraf’s government, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, expressed new hope for the Indo-Pakistani relationship during their meetings with us.
The dispute over Kashmir, which began at independence in 1947, is on the table in both formal talks and back-channel negotiations. “If we can solve it, Kashmir will help heal the wounds,” said Kasuri. He added that Pakistani public opinion has been primed for a resolution of the Kashmir dispute. A recent poll found that neither country contains “strong majority opposition to Kashmir becoming an independent country or dividing Kashmir between Pakistan and India.” Kasuri was confident, too, that the public would not oppose an agreement on Kashmir. “It will not come as a surprise and it could be done very soon,” he claimed. 15
The Pakistani business leaders we interviewed seemed particularly eager for a rapprochement between Pakistan and India. “Anti-India is no longer an election issue in Pakistan,” said Amit Hashwani, a Karachi businessman and a principal backer of the Citizens Foundation, who has been active in people-to-people exchanges between Pakistani and Indian CEOs.
We did hear animosity toward India from conservatives such as Hamid Gul, the retired Inter-Services Intelligence chief. Amir Siddique, the deputy imam of the Red Mosque (which now is painted beige), complained that Pakistan’s politicians “talk nicely with India” and don’t solve economic problems. Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami are often reported to be hostile to India, but India did not feature prominently in our discussions with leaders of those parties.
Curiously, India and Kashmir have appeared only rarely in the lists of “jihad lands” mentioned by al-Qaeda. “Somehow Kashmir has never appealed to the Arab mind,” remarked the Lahore journalist Khaled Ahmed. But in an August tape broadcast on Pakistan’s ARY One World television channel, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s secondin- command, placed special emphasis on India and Kashmir, accusing Musharraf of betraying Muslims there. With renewed firing by armies in Kashmir; with non-violent unrest and government repression in the Indian-administered Valley of Kashmir; and with Indian allegations of a Pakistani role in the July suicide bombing outside its embassy in Kabul, the danger of a military standoff between India and Pakistan is much greater than it has been in recent years. Such a standoff, even if it did not lead to war, would severely diminish cooperation between the United States and Pakistan against al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.
The United States should give priority to neutralizing the Indo-Pakistani rivalry in Afghanistan, first of all by placing a high priority on countering anti-Indian Islamist organizations. We were told of a growing belief among some Pakistanis in and out of the military that there is a fundamental contradiction between Pakistan’s and America’s interests in the region. In this view, the two countries may collaborate in the near run but will ultimately be on opposing sides due to Washington’s interest in strengthening ties with India. The United States should redouble its behind-the-scenes efforts to promote a settlement on Kashmir, and it should pressure India to make credible assurances that its large presence in Afghanistan will not harm Pakistan. Doing this would demonstrate that the U.S. can balance its interests in India with Pakistan’s security needs.
15 See “Pakistani and Indian Public Opinion on Kashmir and Indo-Pakistani Relations,” WorldPublicOpinion.Org, July 16, 2008, http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/511.php?nid=&id=&pnt=511&lb= | <urn:uuid:521a00b5-835b-4151-bd66-ddaf22c5fa7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://network2020.org/entrepreneurial-diplomacy/pakistan/india-is-increasingly-a-partner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962161 | 860 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Scammers are calling people about COVID-19 tests to gain personal information, Sonora Quest warns
Sonora Quest Laboratories is alerting patients that scammers are calling some people pretending to have COVID-19 test results in order to gain personal information.
Sonora Quest is one of the state's major private lab companies. It has conducted hundreds of thousands of tests for the virus, the bulk of Arizona's COVID-19 tests.
In an email sent on Wednesday, Sonora Quest said patients and the media alerted the company that scammers were posing as Sonora Quest representatives to get personal information in what is known as an "imposter scam."
Sonora Quest said it does not provide COVID-19 results or collect payments over the phone unless a patient initiates it.
"During times of crisis, scammers look for opportunities to gain personal information from unsuspecting people," the email said.
In an imposter scam, a scammer "pretends to be someone you trust to convince you to send them money," according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The normal protocol for the company is to provide results to the physician who ordered the test, who then relays the results to the patient.
Sonora Quest said it also is not billing patients for COVID-19 tests when they are ordered by a physician.
Patients can get their test results online at www.sonoraquest.com/results or by contacting their ordering physician.
Sonora Quest offered a few tips for how to spot this scam:
- Sonora Quest will never ask for a Social Security number over the phone.
- Sonora Quest will not contact you to pay for a COVID-19 test over the phone.
- Take steps to verify the phone number calling you, and call back to make sure it's actually Sonora Quest.
- If you didn't order a test, hang up immediately without providing any information.
The company is currently working to clear a backlog of COVID-19 tests that resulted when demand for tests exceeded expectations in June and July. Sonora Quest's COVID-19 dashboard online shows more than 35,000 diagnostic tests still pending.
The company has previously said it expected to clear the backlog by the end of July.
Support local journalism. Subscribe to azcentral.com today. | <urn:uuid:7540eabf-de00-46ea-ad12-b3b945c576a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2020/07/30/sonora-quest-warns-patients-imposter-scam-covid-19-tests/5547278002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948542 | 476 | 1.75 | 2 |
My sister works in a restaurant. They have many kinds of noodles for you to choose. They have some specials. Welcome to our restaurant! A: what would you like?
B: I’m not sure yet. Are there any vegetables in the beef noodles.
A: Yes, there are some tomatoes.
B: OK. I’d like the beef noodles, please.
What size bowl of noodles would you like?
a small bowl of noodles
A medium bowl of noodles
a large bowl of noodles
What size bowl of noodles would he/she like?
He/She’d like a…bowl of noodles.
2b. Listen again .
Boy: 1. I’d like a ______ bowl of noodles.
2.I’d like _________, ________
and _________ noodles, please.
Girl: 1. I’d like a _________ bowl.
2. I’d like ______ and _______ noodles, please.
2d. Role-play the conversation.
Waitress: Good afternoon. May I _______________?
Sally: Yes. Are there any vegetables in the beef soup?
Waitress: Yes. There are some tomatoes.
Sally: OK. _______________one bowl of beef soup.
Waitress: Sure. _______________would you like?
Sally: Large, please.
Tom: We’d also like gongbao chicken and some mapo tofu with rice.
Waitress: OK. _______________beef soup, one gongbao chicken, and one mapo tofu with rice. | <urn:uuid:ba68b469-f719-48cb-a6b9-71fcbf8342d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ffkj.net/KeJian/YingYuKJ7B/10238.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.877327 | 355 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Are our airports safer today than before 9/11?
I remain amazed at the “experts” who continue to maintain that we are no safer today than prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001. While I agree that there are areas where we need to see improvement, we are considerably safer than prior to 9/11.
Prior to that horrible day, one of our main areas of concern was checked luggage. Specifically, no domestic checked luggage was searched in any way, even though public perception was otherwise.
The main concern was a suicide bomber could check in with a luggage full of explosives, board the plane and then the plane would be blown from the sky — resulting in a total loss of life of those on board in addition to casualties on the ground.
I was among those pleading with the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration and airline security directors for an immediate change in this policy. We screened passengers before they boarded planes; checked luggage needed the same scrutiny. But time after time we were told that this was not a main area of concern and since the public perception concluded bags were screened, that was good enough.
The airlines balked at the idea, because it could potentially slow down the boarding process. Then the cost factor was raised and since that could lead to higher air fares, doing nothing became the standard operating procedure for decades…until 9/11.
Finally the decision was made to screen checked luggage and immediately the security for the 2.4 million passengers a day who traveled was improved. I applauded the decision and was relieved that it did not take the loss of a life to usher in a change of policy. Far too many times the recommendations following an aviation disaster are placed on the back burner, with the excuse of “too much money” being used to justify inaction.
A further step forward in security took place as the full-body imaging scanners were distributed at airports around the country. For decades security at the airport relied on magnetometers. The unit would use a magnetic field to detect metal objects, but was absolutely worthless when it came to detecting plastic or liquids that might be strapped to a passenger’s body.
In 2004 two Russian planes were destroyed as passengers, strapped with explosives to their bodies, were able to board without being detected. They cleared the security checkpoints, which relied on the magnetometers, and nearly 100 lives were lost in the two incidents. It soon became clear to security personnel around the world that there had to be a way to detect explosives that were concealed under clothing.
Immediately airports began using the “swab test.” Passengers were selected at random and a specially designed cloth was used to swipe along a bag to see if there was any explosive trace residue. These tests were effective, but not 100 percent so since only a few of the passengers traveling a day were subjected to the test.
A few years later the phone-booth looking “puffer” machines were put into place, allowing more passengers to be screened at the airport checkpoints. The machines were not as reliable as hoped and had serious maintenance issues and at a cost of $165,000 a piece, we needed them to work as designed.
Eventually the full body imaging scanners were introduced and the machines were able to detect metal, plastic or liquid objects that might be strapped to a traveler’s body, providing a higher level of security than we had prior to the attacks of 9/11.
While we are seeing billions of dollars invested inside the airport, we need to see far more resources devoted to protecting the outside of the airport — mainly on the tarmac and airport grounds. We continue to see reports of individuals who have scaled the six-foot-high perimeter fence and strolled right onto the airport tarmac without being detected until the last moment. With thousands of airplanes parked at airports around the country, much more emphasis needs to be placed on keeping them secure as they remain overnight.
After all, what is the use of incredible security inside the airport unless we also improve the security of the aircraft itself? An August 2018 incident in Seattle, where a plane was stolen and flown, should be ample warning to implement much-needed changes.
Any attack that disrupts the passage of cargo and passengers would result in a significant and adverse impact on our country’s economy — not to mention a possible loss of life. It is for these reasons everything within our power needs to be done to upgrade the security standards at airports around the country.
Finally, airline employees need to be screened (as we do with passengers) at every airport prior to them having access to the sterile area of the tarmac. At present, only a few airports screen their employees and Atlanta only recently started doing so after it was discovered that airline employees had a gun smuggling ring operating between Atlanta and New York. We have 450 airports (commercially speaking) in the country and this area of security needs to be addressed immediately.
Yes, we are safer today than prior to 9/11. But much more needs to be done, and it is my hope we make the necessary changes while we still have the time.
Jay Ratliff spent over 20 years in management with Northwest/Republic Airlines, including as aviation general manager. He is an IHeart aviation analyst. | <urn:uuid:49f9ab49-6e2d-4dcc-aee2-6c7d102ece39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/460790-are-we-safer-today-than-before-9-11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.985378 | 1,078 | 1.992188 | 2 |
CSE 231 taught by Sebnem Onsay (Course & Instructor) - Grade Details
(with breakdown by semester)
Course Title: Introduction to Programming I
Course Description: Introduction to programming using Python. Design, implementation and testing of programs to solve problems such as those in engineering, mathematics and science. Programming fundamentals, functions, objects, and use of libraries of functions.
Average Grade - 2.766
Median Grade - 3.0 | <urn:uuid:fa244708-401f-4643-8657-2c7f4b5121d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msugrades.com/courses/CSE_231/instructors/SEBNEM_ONSAY/semesters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.873831 | 96 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Most hearing loss is gradual and progressively gets worse over time. Often, we don’t notice the symptoms of hearing loss until they become more extreme. Look for these subtle signs and symptoms of hearing loss.
How can you tell if your hearing has changed? Look for these signs of hearing loss.
It’s hard to hear, understand, or follow the words of others when they speak.
People seem to speak softly, mumble, slur or drop words, or talk too quickly.
You prefer the television volume louder than friends and family members.
You hear a ringing sound in one or both ears.
If you notice one or more of these signs of hearing loss in yourself or a loved one, take a few minutes and test your hearing online.
Is it hearing loss or something else?
Sometimes hearing loss symptoms can be caused by something else, like another health condition or even excess ear wax. Beltone hearing care practitioners are trained to perform a thorough hearing evaluation that includes several steps.
A lifestyle assessment
A health and hearing health history
A hearing exam with an otoscope examination of your ear, air and bone conduction testing, and word discrimination testing
A full review of your results on an audiogram | <urn:uuid:45fb9c81-af73-4d75-b717-a50bda4663f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beltone.com/en-in/hearing-loss/types-and-causes-of-hearing-loss/warning-signs-of-hearing-loss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939321 | 252 | 2.671875 | 3 |
| Ocean Avenue Elementary School is the newest school in Portland opening to 440 students this fall. It has 23 classrooms, including two district wide self-contained special education programs.
What makes our school special? Ocean Ave School is a supportive and collaborative community where students and learning are at the center of our focus. We are able to use our staff strategically to meet the needs of all of our students. Ocean Avenue School uses Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) to create procedures and routines for all students. Our PBIS school-wide rules are: We are Responsible, We are Respectful, and We are Safe. Our school has state of the art technology in each classroom with document cameras, smart boards, and LCD projectors. | <urn:uuid:b42d7675-930d-4189-8645-0133223861e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maine.schoolspring.com/joblocation.cfm?lid=6606&jid=3880259 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967534 | 151 | 1.742188 | 2 |
tinyReview: 🔥 Highly Recommend
Welcome to At Least One TED Every Day: Day 1.
Why can’t people get work done at work?
If you were to ask someone, “where do you really want to go when you’re looking to get something done?” You would see that most people don’t say the office, they say a place (coffee shop, their porch, etc), a moving object (train, plane, etc) or time (early in the morning, late in the evening).
[Josh Thought: The pattern is isolation. We are able to get deep work done when we are isolated from interruptions and able to think deeply about a problem. At home, we are isolated from people randomly peppering us with questions. On a plane, we typically don’t have access to the Internet, so we are left to think with what we have in front of us.]
As much as we would like to think that offices are a productive environment to get great work done, usually, the opposite is true.
In an office, a working day is more like a series of ‘working moments’.
The office creates an environment of continuous interruption, which prevents creatives from going deep into their work. The two biggest culprits are what Jason calls M & Ms: managers and meetings.
[Josh Thought: There’s a new M in town nowadays and that’s Messengers. Having Slack running while you’re trying to get something done is impossible]
The differences between working at home and working at the office are the type of interruptions. Sure, at home there is the chance that someone would turn on the TV, go for a walk or fuss around on the Internet, but these types of interruptions are voluntary.
Voluntary interruptions equate more to ‘smoke breaks’ a few decades ago, versus goofing off when you should be working.
Interruptions at the office are usually involuntary, where a manager pulls you aside to ask what you’re doing, a co-worker asking you a question or an hour-long meeting that could have probably have been done in 5 minutes.
A great analogy for work is sleep. Sleep isn’t a binary event (sleeping, not sleeping), It happens in stages. ‘We don’t go to sleep. We go towards sleep.’ There are 5 stages of sleep and we have to go through each stage to get into a deeper, more restful stage. If we’re interrupted for whatever reason, we phase out and have to start over. Sleep also ebbs and flows. We have waves of deep sleep and light sleep. Work happens the same way. Having 15 minutes to think about a problem before you are interrupted isn’t enough time to get into deeper stages of work.
To help combat this problem, Jason suggests a couple of things:
- Pick a day or even an afternoon where everyone in the office is required to be silent.
- And if you are in a position to do so, cancel your meetings altogether.
Books by Jason:
- Rework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- Remote: Office Not Required: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman | <urn:uuid:4ed396e6-6a57-4569-91f8-240a5f5a8149> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://renaissancelife.com/2020/03/17/why-works-doesnt-happen-at-work-by-jason-fried-l1ted/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952185 | 754 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Animal rights, weapons exports, health care, fake news, refugees, sovereign debt, retirement and marijuana legalization. Those are just some of the issues on voters’ minds ahead of Germany’s federal election next month – and some of the issues the Wahl-O-Mat, Germany’s official voting advice application (VAA), quizzes its users on. With a reported 46 percent of voters undecided on which way to cast their ballots, the unveiling of the latest Wahl-O-Mat on Wednesday came with an extra sense of buzz and anticipation. Since first launching in 2002, the Wahl-O-Mat (roughly translated as “Vote-O-Meter”) has become an engrained part of the German election process. At Wednesday’s presentation in Berlin, the president of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Thomas Krüger, described the voter tool as Germany’s “democratic national sport.”
The underlying principle of VVAs is straightforward: using a series of questions, the tool works out the user’s political proximity to the political parties. All 33 parties on the election ballot across Germany, bar the Magdeburg Garden Party in Lower Saxony, provided their input and authorized their policy stances.
While VVAs exist in many countries, few boast the kind of fanfare enjoyed by Germany’s Wahl-O-Mat. According to Krüger, some 13.3 million users used the tool ahead of the last federal election in 2013 and, according to market research firm YouGov, one in three voters intend to consult the app in the three-and-a-half weeks leading up the federal election on September 24. | <urn:uuid:575bc23a-fd6e-4943-9558-bc93e6f2ca07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thevotingnews.com/wahl-o-mat-app-pairs-voters-with-political-parties-deutsche-welle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936004 | 355 | 2.0625 | 2 |
On Thursday, California became the first state in the US to take action against non-consensual condom removal during sex, an act known as “stealthing,” NPR reports. This means that if during the act of consensual sex a participant removes their condom without the consent of the other participant(s), that person can be sued in civil court. While this is certainly a step in the right direction and more than any other state has done, it is at best a half measure that doesn’t go far enough to deter the behavior.
The idea behind making stealthing a civil offense as opposed to a criminal offense is reportedly based on the needs of the victim. Alexandra Brodsky, an attorney who wrote about the phenomenon in 2017, told NPR, “There are a lot of survivors who don’t want to see the person who hurt them in prison but really could use some help rebuilding their lives, paying for mental health care, paying off medical debt, being able to take some time off from work in order to heal.” The issue of stealthing was also recently explored in Michaela Cole’s award-winning TV drama I May Destroy You, which tackled multi-layer consent and the fallout of ignoring it. Cole’s character classified the act of stealthing as rape.
Providing a path forward for survivors is all good and well, but considering this country’s inability to do anything about perpetrators, while survivors are neglected and publicly shamed rather than supported—one is naturally skeptical of how much value can be found in an expensive and time-consuming civil suit that will only see a perpetrator fork over some money.
What the ban on stealthing does accomplish is to shed light on how consensual sexual encounters do not always remain consensual from start to finish. Cristina Garcia, the state assemblymember who introduced the legislation, “says she hopes the new law will lead to others like it — as well as a more nuanced understanding of the many different kinds of sexual violence.” | <urn:uuid:21c68d8d-5106-4874-b1b8-c3df3f13e49c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jezebel.com/non-consensual-condom-removal-is-now-a-civil-offense-in-1847825543 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974211 | 415 | 1.78125 | 2 |
The goal of this drill is to land on top of an elevated surface without having to arch the body. The gymnast can't arch and twist, which is why the drill is so important.
Open-tuck and layout yurchenkos to progressively elevated mats are good drills. The gymnast can add open-tuck twists to the feet and eventually to the back. Gymnasts should not attempt the second somersault until they can consistently land on their back on an elevated surface.
Practicing yurchenko timers to stacked mats is a useful way to train different vaulting techniques without having to worry about injuries. As the gymnasts get better, they can raise the height to make the drill more challenging.
Yurchenko layouts are commonly used by competitive gymnasts as warm-ups for more difficult yurchenko vaults involving multiple twists. Take a look at these varied yurchenko timers from different video angles.
The straps training is a convenient way to practice and develop reverse hechts timers without burning the hands. At first the gymnasts may practice hecht timers from big swings emphasizing a quick shoulder angle opening and a change from hollow to tight arch body positions before the swings moves under the horizontal. | <urn:uuid:9ebd03f1-44c5-4423-9d8d-26546f587676> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.american-gymnast.com/tag/timers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933701 | 249 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Cryptocurrency (cryptographic digital asset) is developed primarily as a medium of exchange for efficiently managing and protecting blockchain transactions. Moreover, it is believed that this is the money of the future. The huge success of Bitcoin (the first cryptocurrency) has inspired people to introduce a huge number of new digital currencies in the market today. Due to the increase in the number of cryptocurrency launches, investors are showing great interest in investing in such cryptocurrencies.
Crypto, a specialized cryptocurrency development company, offers cutting edge cryptocurrency coin development services to a wide range of clients around the world. With a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise, our team is sincerely working to formulate cryptocurrency development solutions that meet all your cryptocurrency-related requirements.
Altcoin creation and cryptocurrency development
The complete sets of cryptocurrencies other than bitcoins are collectively referred to as altcoins, and their development involves building them from scratch. Welcome aboard if you are looking for a high quality altcoin development service at a competitive price rates.
We always try to resolve issues arising on the client’s side as early as possible. We guarantee the reliability of your project, meeting tight deadlines without any regrets. Our diverse team of experts has made this possible over the years.
Safe, reliable and transparent
There are some necessary rules that must follow for the successful development of any cryptocurrency. At crypto, we never forget to follow these basic safety guidelines as we do not compromise on quality, including transparency and reliability.
The future of cryptocurrency development
We continue to consistently work on innovative technologies that are rapidly developing day by day in the cryptocurrency market. In addition, we strongly believe that the emergence of new technologies will extravagantly change the mechanisms of cryptocurrency trading.
Blockchain technology is one of the most innovative and disruptive technologies in recent history. Blockchains are cryptographically secure, timestamped and linked blocks of data that are secured through distributed consensus and updated in real time on a decentralized network of computers. These are open-source protocols with minimal trust, design to facilitate seamless transaction of value that transcends national borders, government and third-party intermediaries. Blockchains provide a solution to the “double spending problem” of previous versions of digital currencies.
Cryptocurrency – Internet of money
Cryptocurrencies are a special form of digital currencies that function as a decentralized medium of exchange of value. By using blockchains as the backbone of their architecture, innovative cryptographic techniques and distributed computing consensus models, cryptocurrencies can function outside of the traditional paper money system.
Cryptocurrencies have gained a lot of attention lately due to the sheer amount of technological innovation. And market developments that have made them massive. Cryptocurrencies are not only design to function as financial instruments like bitcoin, but they can also function as distributed computing environments to create smart contracts and decentralized applications.
With blockchain technology and cryptocurrency platforms penetrating many industries, startups and established companies have the opportunity to harness. The power of cryptocurrency payment networks and the underlying blockchain technology. At crypto Technologies, we provide cutting edge end-to-end blockchain and cryptocurrency development service
Buy and sell cryptocurrency
It is most important to analyze the platform that the user is using to exchange their digital currency. Whether it is capable enough to process the transaction successfully or not. It is also necessary to ensure the confidentiality, security and authenticity of the exchange platform on which the user intends to rely.es. We understand the trend of technology development and offer leading solutions for the Internet of the future.
Here at crypto Technologies, we have developed a trading platform where clients can handle highly secure peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading.Embedded in software, hardware and exchange systems capable of executing thousands of error-free transactions in real time. Our exchange platform allows you to exchange almost all available cryptocurrencies. Such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Devcoin, Nem, Komodo, Decred, etc. on a very convenient and easy-to-use basis.
Blockchain services are well plan to offer end-to-end business operations. And wider adoption, including financial institutions, e-commerce, retail, education, IoT, and more. The expert ability includes analysis, creation, innovation. And transactions to help offer unforgettable business growth with the power of cryptocurrency Development Company. | <urn:uuid:d6fde3f2-580d-4a97-947e-d6d5ef889938> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teamrockie.com/cryptocurrency-development-company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93708 | 869 | 1.875 | 2 |
Marital Love Must Be Spiritual
January 14, 2017
Continuing with our series on the Puritans' views of marital love (see introduction) we come to the theme of the spirituality of marital love, that is, that is must be in Christ and in accord with God’s commandments. Love must be rooted in the experience of being equally yoked together spiritually as believers. Richard Baxter (1615–1691) said that husbands and wives have the responsibility “especially to be helpers of each other’s salvation: to stir up each other to faith, love, and obedience, and good works: to warn and help each other against sin, and all temptations: to join in God’s worship in the family, and in private: to prepare each other for the approach of death, and comfort each other in the hopes of life eternal” (Practical Works, 4:234).
Although marriage is a universal institution ordained by God for the whole human race regardless of whether they are saved or not, marriage fulfils its deepest purpose and achieves its greatest stability only when grounded in Christian faith and the fear of God. If built on the sandy foundation of physical beauty or exceptional gifts and talents, it can easily be blown away by some storm.
The Spiritual Duties of the Husband
Marital love should be profoundly spiritual because, as William Gouge (1575-1653) observed, Christian marriage should conform to the pattern of Christ and His church. As Christ loves His church, so the husband must love his wife. He is to love her absolutely (v. 25), purposefully (v. 26), realistically (v. 27), and sacrificially (vv. 28–29). He must exercise a “true, free, pure, exceeding, constant love” to his wife, nourishing and cherishing her as Christ does His gathered people (v. 29) (Of Domestical Duties, 31).
In his wedding sermon, Richard Greenham (c. 1542–1594) charged the groom:
You, brother, must learn hereby so to love your wife, as Christ Jesus loved His spouse His church. That is to say, even as our Savior Christ is very patient towards it, and by little and little purges, washes, and cleanses away the corruption of it, so must you in like manner in all wisdom use the means (and with a patient mind wait for the amendment of any thing that you shall find to be amiss in your wife) that the graces of God’s spirit may daily increase in her. Therefore, I charge you in the sight of God and his angels, and as you will answer unto me and the parents of this my sister, before the judgment seat of Christ, that as you receive her a virgin from her parents, so you neglect no duty whereby her salvation may be furthered, that you may present her pure and blameless, as much as in you lies, unto Jesus Christ when He shall call you to account (Works, 291–92).
Such Christlike love, said Gouge, will serve “as sugar to sweeten the duties of authority which appertain to a husband,” and thereby enable his loving wife to submit more easily to him (Of Domestical Duties, 94).
The Spiritual Duties of the Wife
Likewise, the wife’s loving submission to her husband is a limited expression of her absolute submission to the Lord Jesus Christ. Robert Bolton (1572–1631) wrote that a wife “ought, like a true [mirror], faithfully to represent and return to her husband’s heart, with a sweet and pleasing pliableness, the exact lineaments and proportions of all his honest desires and demands, and that without discontent, thwarting, or sourness. For her subjection in this kind should be as to Christ, sincere, hearty, and free” (General Directions, 279). But conscientious wives must also remember, wrote Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664), “that they have a husband in heaven, as well as on earth, betwixt whom there is a greater difference than between heaven and earth; and therefore in case they bid contrary things, they must prefer God before men, Christ before all men” (Works, 133).
The love of both husband and wife must be ruled and energized by the fear of the Lord. William Whately (1583-1639) observed,
This is the fountain of most disorders in most families: where God is not feared, what can abound but profaneness and impiety in… the whole household; where people are not taught the knowledge and fear of God, how should they know or fear Him? Where these graces are absent, how should anything be found but rudeness, stubbornness, and undutifulness? Now therefore… let all husbands and wives that fear God be of one mind in the Lord, and let them not fail… [to establish] the exercises of religion in their houses (A Bride Bush, 93. Cf. Jer. 10:25).
Mutual love is preserved and increased by religious exercises. Time spent together with God and in the worship of God will help preserve marital love. Let husband and wife pray together, said Whateley; “let them confer with each other of their heavenly country, let them sing a psalm together, and join in such religious exercises; so shall their hearts be knit together fast and firm to God first, and so to each other” (A Bride Bush, 49). For as they do so, he continued, “bright beams of God’s image will shine forth, and show themselves in each of them, and that is lovely and alluring, and will make them amiable to each other. These will nourish the spirit of holiness in them, and that kindles love” (A Bride Bush, 49).
The spiritual implications of marital love should move people to choose their spouses carefully. William Secker (d. c. 1681) warned against choosing a wife merely for her beauty: “If a woman’s flesh has more of beauty than her spirit has of Christianity, it is like poison in sweetmeats, most dangerous” (“The Wedding Ring, A Sermon,” 266). | <urn:uuid:82b0264c-fe5a-4d39-a331-65c381d5df39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reformation21.org/blog/marital-love-must-be-spiritual | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958511 | 1,317 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I’m creating a calculator that takes multiple time inputs and I need to get the values of a created div element that has been appended.
this is the code for the appended element
let div - document.createElement("div"); div.innerHTML = html; schedule.appendChild(div.firstElementChild);
this is the code for the html element being created:
<div class = "times"> <input id = "start" type = "time" value = ""> <input id = "end" type = "time" value = ""> </div> | <urn:uuid:13bacff9-8294-48c2-9689-09d5c8c4e9a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://javascript-help.li/how-do-i-get-the-values-of-an-appended-element-in-javascript/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.785919 | 153 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Author: James Startt
Published Date: 04 May 2006
Publisher: Van Der Plas Publications,U.S.
Format: Hardback| 120 pages
File size: 33 Mb
Dimension: 190x 238x 12.7mm| 612.35g
Download Link: Tour De France The 2005 Tour De France in Photographs
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, Following Armstrong's retirement in 2005 the 2006 edition saw his former teammate Floyd Landis finally get the chance he worked so hard for with a Inside the Tour de France: The Pictures, the Legends, and the Untold Stories. Photo: PoweriPics/Flickr. "Twenty of the 21 podium finishers in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005 have been directly tied to likely As Tour de France begins, the Walton family wants to kick-start U.S. cycling victory in the Tour de France in 2005, television ratings in the United Onboard cameras will show point-of-view shots in real time, and NBC said Le Tour de France 2013 - Stage Nine Tour. Photograph: Gary Calton For The Observer Lance Armstrong during the 2005 Tour de France. Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images. Top story. With the Tour de France caravan upon us, a long July of racing stretches winner being stripped of all his titles gained from 1998 and 2005 following his admission of doping. Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France in 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, Photo by JAVIER SORIANO,FRANCK FIFE,PATRICK KOVARIK Read CNN's Fast Facts about the Tour de France and learn more about the Photos: The best pictures from the 2018 Tour de France. Tour de From the very beginning, the team seduced great names of world cycling who and David Moncoutié in Figeac; 2005: David Moncoutié in Digne-les-Bains Australia's history at the Tour de France began over 100 years ago. Craig Fry's pulled (Photo by Leo Mason/Popperfoto/Getty Images) Cadel Evans at his first Tour de France in 2005 which he finished eighth overall (AAP). The 101st Tour de France begins this Saturday July 5 in the Yorkshire city of Pyrenees and other picture-perfect areas of France and its border countries. Lance Armstrong throws a bottle during the 2005 Tour de France. If you're ever lucky enough to attend the Tour de France, keep your eyes peeled for these crazy characters or try to spot them on TV. between Miramas and Montpellier, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2005. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Amaury Sport Organisation logo. 2020 Route Grands Départs 2019 Rankings The Race Heritage Riding into the future Videos & Photos Partners. Alberto Contador of Spain won the Tour de France for a second time, From 1999 to 2005, Armstrong won this race, the most prestigious event in cycling. The picture of him chatting with other riders during the final stage Tour De France The 2005 Tour De France In Photographs is the best ebook you want. You can get any ebooks you wanted like Tour De France The 2005 Tour The Tour de France is a three-week bicycle race held in July on the roads of France The Tour de France was created in 1903 by the French sports newspaper L'Auto. the Tour de France is also partly due to the fact that it shows beautiful pictures of the Viollet, Sandrine (2007), Le Tour de France Cycliste, 1903 2005 Results of Tour de France 2005. Won by Alexandre Vinokourov before Bradley McGee (2nd) and Fabian Cancellara (3rd). The 2016 Tour de France is on PEZCycling now! Tune is daily for race reports, PeloPics photo gallery, Tour de PEZ roadside reports, and And if that's not enough - you can relive every great Tour de PEZ moment since 2005 with the links. Lance Armstrong signals seven for his seventh straight win in the Tour de France cycling race, at the start of the 21st and final stage of the race between In the summer of 2005, I stood on the Champs Élysées feverishly snapping pictures of Lance Armstrong as he ascended the podium erected in | <urn:uuid:caf7e900-dd7a-457d-9106-b32b18c0018e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arunbivet.angelfire.com/tour-de-france-the-2005-tour-de-france-in-photographs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.903187 | 907 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Exam Type: No Exam; Paper in lieu of examination
This seminar addresses central themes of legal and social theory. It takes as its focus the relation of law and legal thought to the formative institutional arrangements and ideological assumptions of society: its structure. The seminar can serve as an introduction to jurisprudence. However, it is not a survey of contemporary schools of jurisprudence; it seeks to offer a sustained exploration of a fundamental question.
No issue is more important to either legal or social theory. Law has been defined as the institutional form of the life of a people: its subject matter are the institutions and practices of society, viewed in relation to the interests and ideals that are supposed to justify them and to give them meaning. This subject matter is also the concern of politics, which upholds or transforms social assumptions and arrangements.
Today, however, we lack a way of thinking about the institutional and ideological structure of society, expressed in law: what it is, how it is made, how we can change it, and what it should become. Legal thought has been part of this evasion of structural insight and ambition.
In this seminar, we will deal with this concern in many of its expressions. Each participant in the seminar will work with the instructor to develop a writing project, and each will discuss that project with the class during the semester.
Among the problems that we may discuss are the following:
- The nature, consequence, limits and alternative futures of the now standard practice of legal analysis, which represents law in the language of impersonal policy and principle.
- The relation of this analytic and argumentative practice to the shape of political-economic debate in the United States and other contemporary societies. What a jurisprudence useful to the overcoming of neoliberalism and of institutionally conservative social democracy would look like.
- The uses of a revised practice of legal analysis in the development of institutional and ideological alternatives for these societies. Legal thought as institutional imagination, and its relation to legal thought as an instrument for adjudicating disputes about rights and their violation.
- The existing and possible ways in which lawyers, jurists, courts, the legislative and executive branches, and the citizenry can relate to one another, and create such alternatives.
- What legal history and comparative law can teach us about the evasion of structural insight and the achievement of structural change.
- The relation of this agenda in jurisprudence to major developments and possibilities in economic, political, and social theory. | <urn:uuid:55f057cd-5e73-4a5d-becf-7db71072356b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hls.harvard.edu/academics/curriculum/catalog/default.aspx?o=78757 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950897 | 513 | 1.882813 | 2 |
* * Scheduled System Maintenance: Tuesday, August 9 starting at 5pm and overnight through 7am* *
All single sign on applications including Pipeline, RANDA, LACES, UIP, ConsApp, ESSER, READ Budget and EASI will be unavailable.
You are here
High Impact Instructional Strategies: Music
District Samples Curriculum Project (DSCP): Phase IV High Impact Instructional Strategies
I am very proud to present standards-based instructional resources for Music. The model lesson is a set of full lesson materials developed to train content area teachers at the 2016 "All Students, All Standards: Instructional Strategies Institute." The additional sample lesson resources represent the work of a team of Colorado educators to share how they develop their own unique standards based lessons that employ high impact instructional strategies. As examples, they are intended to provide support (or conversation/creation starting points) for teachers, schools, and districts as they make their own local decisions around the best instructional plans and practices for all students.
Phase IV of the District Sample Curriculum Project is intended to share just a sampling of lesson planning processes and ideas as a response to requests from local schools and districts asking for more explicit instructional sample ideas. Thank you to the educators that worked diligently to submit their work for this purpose!
Music Content Specialist
The following is the lesson that was modeled during the ASAS Institute by the Content Specialist.
Phase IV Lesson Submissions
Educators that attended the ASAS Institute submitted the following lesson plans:
Music Units by Grade Level
- First Grade Music: Autumn Leaves by Kristopher Emanuel
- Fourth Grade Music: Rhythm by Justin Bankey
- Fifth Grade Music: Conversational Improv: An Instrumental Investigation by Alyssa Johnson
- Middle School Choir: Why do you sing? by Kristi Gilbreth
- High School Music + Physical Education: In the Zone, Creating a Personal Cardio Playlist by Regina Flores-Dunda
Observation Ideas and Guidance for Educators Implementing Instructional Shifts by Non-Classroom Participants
- Observation Ideas and Guidance by Samantha Davis
- Observation Ideas and Guidance by David Kish
- Observation Ideas and Guidance by Cindy Smith
- Observation Ideas and Guidance by Carissa Wilkinson
To learn more about the essential elements, click here.
*More Lesson Plans and Ideas from the ASAS Institute can be found at the Think 360 Arts for Learning Peer Exchange. | <urn:uuid:9a99b1f1-30d7-4992-ac9b-0762b74f5fc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/highimpactinstructionalstrategies/music | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.907097 | 524 | 2.71875 | 3 |
In the beginning, Islamabad, Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Gilgit-Baltistan will each have one Smart Village.
Through the Universal Service Fund (USF), the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MOIT&T) has begun a “Smart Village” project in four provinces, including Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The International Telecommunication Union and Huawei Technologies Pakistan will fund and provide technical support for the project. The initiative would establish a centre in a backward hamlet with contemporary facilities to instruct local residents in how to use them and urge them to incorporate them into their daily lives.
Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication, Syed Amin Ul Haque, inaugurated the ceremony with Federal Secretary for IT and Telecommunication, Muhammad Sohail Rajput, CEO USF, Haaris Mahmood Chaudhary, Area Representative for Southeast Asia International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Dr. Ismail Shah, CEO Huawei, Mark Meng, on Wednesday.
“The Smart Village project is another step towards realising Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision of a Digital Pakistan,” Haque remarked. MOIT&T, in collaboration with ITU and Huawei, is working to digitally transform distant and rural communities by connecting and empowering people with improved access to a variety of digital services in the areas of health, education, commerce, and livelihood. To increase cost-effectiveness and sharing of resources and expertise in delivering services to residents, the project emphasises a whole-of-government approach and fosters cross-sector collaboration and multi-stakeholder participation.
Federal Minister said that National Information Technology Board (NITB) launched more than 30 mobile applications, government web portals, and websites related to public services.
The general public can only profit from these applications if they have access to them. The results of the efforts taken under the Digital Pakistan Vision, he said, are now starting to appear. We’ve begun work on the first E-cabinet, which will focus on E-Parliament, E-Office, and Internet Voting.
The Federal Minister praised the USF, ITU, and Huawei teams and pledged his support for the project’s implementation. He also stated that the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications will continue to pursue more ambitious and fruitful programmes in the future to promote IT and Telecommunications-related services.
“The Smart Village project is aligned with USF’s aim to empower the unserved and unserved communities,” stated USF CEO Haaris Mahmood Chaudhary at the ceremony. This collaboration will allow USF, ITU, and Huawei to work together to achieve their goals. | <urn:uuid:58f51d48-43be-4a87-9e0d-f103795aac52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cwpakistan.com/smart-village-projects-are-being-launched-by-the-pakistani-government-across-the-country/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923192 | 573 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Power, Temperature and Noise
Overclocked cards tend to run with higher voltage than standard models. Measured at the wall and taking the entire system into account, the Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix is a touch thirstier than the reference GTX 980. But that's the wrong comparison. The performance-comparable Radeon R9 290X system - housed in the same motherboard and chassis - chews through an additional 63 per cent juice.
A huge cooler on a power-efficient core usually translates to good temperatures. We never once saw the GPU hit 70°C. Perhaps more impressive is the fact that the twin fans spin at a maximum 1,250rpm under full load. Asus strikes the optimum balance between performance and fan speed. What's more, the fans stop spinning within 15 seconds of exiting a game.
The card produces no discernible noise when idling, so what we're really measuring in this instance is the background noise of the system. The Strix GTX 970 remains disarmingly quiet under load. Radeon R9 290X is a good match for the Asus card in pure performance but lags well behind in terms of energy efficiency and (a lack of) noise. | <urn:uuid:0fc06314-3faf-44ae-9ad5-a8926827eb51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/75081-asus-geforce-gtx-970-strix/?page=9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.889708 | 239 | 1.984375 | 2 |
This study was undertaken to determine the impact of dural sinus venography and pressure measurements in the evaluation of patients with meningiomas involving the dural sinuses. Of three patients who had MR imaging, arteriography, and dural sinus venography, the latter method better delineated the site and extent of tumor invasion in all three patients. Pressure measurement in one patient reflected the severity of the hemodynamic compromise resulting from narrowing of the transverse sinus. In one patient, dural sinus venography confirmed patency of the superior sagittal sinus that was unsuspected on MR scans and arteriograms. A test occlusion of the area of stenosis in the third patient allowed the surgeon to sacrifice that segment of the sinus without deficit. Dural sinus venography is a useful adjunct to arteriography and MR imaging in the evaluation of invasive meningiomas.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||5|
|Journal||American Journal of Neuroradiology|
|State||Published - Dec 1 1989|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Clinical Neurology | <urn:uuid:666f701b-5c17-4f9d-b3ec-0dcab08391f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ohsu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/venography-and-venous-pressure-monitoring-in-dural-sinus-meningio-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.857515 | 274 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The second week began in an ice storm that threatened to encase the tiny James Caird in top heavy ice, then capsize it. Earnest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and the four crew take turns to crawl onto the icy deck and hack away the ice but, without protective clothing, four or five minutes exposed to the storm is the limit before frostbite and exhaustion force them back under the makeshift deck.
By the morning of their ninth day the storm had been raging for almost two full days, then a large wave hit the Caird and she swung side on to the waves. Ice had cut through the rope to their sea anchor and now they had lost both. With the boat out of control, their only option left was to set sail. At noon the winds were starting to ease.
By the end of the storm their reindeer fur sleeping bags had become a sloppy, slimy, stinking mess and so useless and heavy that Shackleton decided to throw two overboard. That night the compass glass got broken but a repair with tape from the medical kit worked. When midnight came the wind was increasing once again and a new gale had started.
Early on the tenth day they were running before the storm when Shackleton saw a faint light line in the south and thought the cloud was breaking. Moments later he realised and called out “For God’s sake, hold on! It’s got us!” The clearing sky had been the breaking crest of a huge wave. Mayhem! After the noise and water subsided, the crew found themselves and the James Caird still afloat, but only just. For more than an hour they bailed and pumped for their lives until eventually it was done and little water remained in the boat. Meanwhile the storm had moderated and the weather begun to improve. In the afternoon Worsley managed to get a fix of the sun. They had travelled 822 kilometres from Elephant Island and had passed the half way point. They were also starting to dry out.
The weather stayed fine and the wind moderate through the eleventh day. Worsley got another fix of the sun and calculated they had travelled 918 kilometres. Their condition was dreadful though, being exhausted and filthy, with swollen legs and sores from chaffing and frostbite but their spirits had improved.
The twelfth day was overcast and squally. Everything was wet again but Worsley calculated that day was their best twenty-four hour run yet with 178 kilometres covered. The following day, their thirteenth, was clear but the wind had risen to a gale and the waves increased until they were unable to sail and had to heave-to.
On day fourteen the gale moderated. Though they could see the sun, the horizon was obscured and Worsley was unable to get a good fix and couldn’t be sure of their position to within 19 kilometres. South Georgia is 165 kilometres long but only 35 kilometres wide. Without a better position they could miss it and the winds wouldn’t give them a second chance. Shackleton decided to change course and err toward the west coast, a bigger target but also the uninhabited side of the island. In the evening they saw some kelp.
Thirst now added to their discomfort. A couple of days earlier, they had discovered one of their two casks of drinking water had been damaged and it was contaminated with sea water. Rationed to a quarter of a pint per day now, they were thirsty all the time and becoming dehydrated.
At dawn on the fifteenth day, the 8th May, they saw more seaweed and were soon talking of clean clothes and a dry bed. The day was foggy and the sky overcast but the sight of a shag, a bird that doesn’t stray far from land increased their conviction that the voyage was almost over. In the afternoon it cleared and before them were towering crags with patches of snow. They had made it to South Georgia. As they drew closer they could see huge combers crashing into the cliffs and sending great spouts of white water high into the air. Nowhere to land a boat. In the late afternoon they had a fierce stormy sunset and then a hard gale set in with rain, sleet, hail and snow. Finally they sailed clear and hove-to for the night knowing a good harbour lay to the north but the wind and currents made it impossible to get there. | <urn:uuid:964bb42b-88e7-4312-a4b6-b9471b06919a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://safariquip.co.uk/blogs/news/south-georgia-so-close-yet-impossible-to-reach | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.985703 | 917 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Memory Games For Alzheimers Patients Caring For Dementia Patients New Pill For alzheimers jul 25, 2018 · New Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Memory Loss in Early Trial ResultsNew Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Memory Loss in Early Trial Results The Results of Your Genetic Test Are Reassuring. But That
In countries with aging populations, Alzheimer’s disease is becoming a crisis … and completing the activities of daily life. These improvements in cognitive function have been shown to …
How To Deal With People With Dementia Dementia now a days is increases in people aged after 65. in this situation people with dementia need more care and support. Orchard House in Bexhill take care of people with dementia. all staff is very nice kind and supportive.
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias can cause seniors to withdraw from activities, family and friends. … Here are 10 stimulating activities for Alzheimer’s that you can try with your senior loved one: Bake or cook simple recipes together. Clean around the house.
You have a choice in how you live life with Alzheimer’s or other dementia. Get tips and resources to help you take control of your health and well-being. Get information and resources for Alzheimer’s and other dementias from the Alzheimer’s Association.
Activities are crucial for people living with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, offering benefits such as cognitive stimulation, the opportunity to connect with others, comfort and relaxation, and more.Plus, physical activities and exercises are important for maintaining physical strength and balance, plus physical exercise is great for the mind, too.
Alzheimer’s and other dementia patients can benefit from and enjoy activities that stimulate their cognitive functions and that are just plain fun. This is a guide about activities for Alzheimer’s patients.
Caring For Dementia Patients New Pill For Alzheimers Jul 25, 2018 · New Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Memory Loss in Early Trial ResultsNew Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Memory Loss in Early Trial Results The Results of Your Genetic Test Are Reassuring. But That Can change. sloan kettering
Memory cafés first gained popularity in Europe as a response to Alzheimer’s disease. The Memory Café in Balcones Heights is the first – and only – in San Antonio. “We try to bring activities that will …
We are incredibly grateful to all the Alzheimer’s disease patients, their families and the investigators … scale-cognitive subscale (adas-cog 13), and AD Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living …
Best Treatment For Alzheimer’s There are three drugs of this type: donepezil (aricept), galantamine (Razadyne), and rivastigmine (Exelon). Aricept is the only treatment approved by the FDA for all stages of Alzheimer’s disease: mild, moderate, and severe. You can take it as a tablet | <urn:uuid:316bfecf-0d62-46ce-afe5-39b18dc87732> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fuller-roberts.com/activities-for-alzheimers-patients/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.881714 | 621 | 1.554688 | 2 |
History of Our Area
We are currently looking for a local historian to help us compile the history of the area. Contact us if you would like to help.
From the early days of the Akokisa until after World War II, the area making up the Briar Forest neighborhood was one which people largely passed through on their way to and from places such as the Habermacher ranch to the west, or from Dairy (now known as Alief) on the road (later Dairy Ashford road) to the Ashford stop on the Houston & Texas Central Railroad. Along the way, they would follow or cross over the neighborhood’s most significant landscape feature, Buffalo Bayou. For those who chose to stay in the area, rice and cotton became a way of life, with farms and mills providing a large portion of the jobs and livelihoods for many residents up until the last three decades of the 20th century.
By the 1960s, urban sprawl resulted in bedroom communities, such as Ashford, Lakeside and Briargrove Park – developed by Walter Mischer, Sr., emerging from the forests. Farms disappeared and a small two lane road became a massive thoroughfare and anchor for successful commerce – Westheimer - bordering the southern boundary of the neighborhood. By 2000, at least 42,000 Houstonians chose to call the Briar Forest area home.
Whereas the Briar Forest area was once far from Houston, it now sits on the edge of what is rapidly becoming the very center of the entire metropolitan area. Westchase District, the first management district of its kind in Texas, supports the southern portion of the neighborhood, with outstanding business and commercial opportunities, tremendous beautification efforts and master plan style management. The Energy District sits just to the west and north and City Centre, Town & Country and Memorial shopping are a stones throw to the northeast. | <urn:uuid:7bdf427f-4df7-4561-aa58-27b0d197a571> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.briarforestsn.org/main.cfm?link=155 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961739 | 383 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Designing smarter healthcare: Turning nurses’ ideas into process improvements
Ontario nurses lead the way. eCampusOntario funded a Ryerson University project that combines nursing expertise and industrial engineering to create “serious games” that lower training costs and create better value and student outcomes.
Better work, better care
New curriculum and “serious games” are training Ontario nurses to lead process improvements at work. Nancy Purdy, from Ryerson University’s School of Nursing, and Patrick Neumann, from the Human Factors Engineering Lab, explain how.
Nancy Purdy: My research is all about promoting healthy work environments. I’m trying to show the connection between quality work environments for nurses and the quality of patient care.
When organizations engage in process improvements, they should look at important things like efficiency and quality — but also look at the quality of the work environment. I realized there needs to be some training for nurses in how to participate in that process.
So when eCampusOntario announced their funding call, we thought: let’s develop something for undergraduate nurses, to give them the knowledge base that they need.
It’s such an important skill-set. I started reading more about how it’s missing from the curriculum, and how important it is for nurses to have a foundation in these basic skills.
A screenshot from the simulation game.
Nancy: We’re using a “simulation game” or “serious game” to help teach this material. We hadn’t done that before, and we thought it could really inform our own practice and development as educators.
Patrick Neumann: We’re looking at simulating healthcare systems. In the simulation game, a clinician is leading a process improvement project. So they get to apply everything that they’ve learned in the modules.
Nursing students learning practical skills in a classroom.
“We need to ensure people in the frontlines of healthcare have the knowledge they need to participate in process improvement.”
Combining nursing expertise + industrial engineering
Patrick: Most of my work focuses on the human in the system. We need to engage front-line employees directly in the improvement process. That way their views, their understanding of what’s easy and what’s hard, can get taken in. We need to ensure people in the frontlines of healthcare have the knowledge they need to fully participate in process improvement.
“Most of my work focuses on the human in the system.”
We’re trying to bridge the gap between how engineers think and how people within healthcare think. So we paired people from healthcare directly with engineers, for better collaboration with the people actually using their designs.
A group of Ryerson University nursing students.
Making textbook learning more relevant
Nancy: Students told us they really appreciated the real-life aspects and examples in the serious game. They make textbook learning a lot more realistic. We used evidence-based examples, case reports, and specific examples from Ontario to make it as current and as relevant as possible, pulling from acute care to long term care to community care.
“We used evidence-based examples, case reports, and specific examples from Ontario to make it as current and as relevant as possible.”
Open = lower costs + better value
Nancy: The students also said they prefer the use of audio and video clips, particularly when dealing with abstract concepts. Multimedia breaks up the text-based work they have to do.
Open textbooks can include these new elements, like videos and ways to test yourself, that improve outcomes for students. Instead of just rote learning, you really get to see the application side.
And when you look at the financial pressures students face, we can start using more open educational materials that don’t cost students any money. And they don’t need to carry it in their backpack on the Go Train.
Open educational materials — particularly textbooks in this case — are free to students, easy to access and transport, and can include multimedia elements that test skills and improve learning outcomes.
The human factor
Patrick: The whole idea here is process improvement. If you think about how most hospitals improve themselves today, you’ve often got one team looking at quality, another one looking at accidents, another team looking at costs, and another trying to improve safety — all operating without coordination. This kind of training helps close that gap.
“We want to produce teams that can tackle quality, cost and safety — for the caregiver as well as the patient — all in one improvement process. Because in the end you just have one hospital.”
We want to produce teams that can tackle quality, cost and safety — for the caregiver as well as the patient — all in one improvement process. Because in the end you only have one hospital, not three. This training sets the bedrock for doing that integrated improvement effort.
Two students in an examination room.
Nancy: When we started, we only had a few examples of other learning simulations and games out there. It takes significant resources to develop this work, because you’re pulling from so many different areas and experts. I link that to the importance of eCampusOntario, because without that funding, we could never have done this.
The funding was such a good catalyst. Once we start marketing the training more broadly to other schools, it think it will get picked up even more. We never could have done it without eCampusOntario.
This is really just to say how vital we think the organization is, and the funding associated with it, in making education truly accessible — and improving practice once people are graduated into work. | <urn:uuid:1f3cebd9-8194-4fca-b2dd-22e46cb5f1c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecampusontario.ca/designing-smarter-healthcare-turning-nurses-ideas-into-process-improvements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951728 | 1,202 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Heart disease is a leading cause of death throughout the world. Doctors say that it is important to detect heart disease early before it becomes too serious. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way that they believe could help detect heart disease before it progresses too far as well as identify patients who are at risk for strokes.
In a study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Isabelle Masseau, an assistant teaching professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, found that she could use targeted micro-bubbles to detect artery inflammation in pigs. She says that this procedure may help detect patients with heart disease or who are at risk for strokes before those ailments become too serious by monitoring artery inflammation, as that is an early warning sign of health problems. She says this procedure may also help monitor the effectiveness of artery inflammation treatments.
“It can be very difficult to detect early signs of heart disease, especially without the use of invasive procedures,” Masseau said. “Doctors often have to wait until serious symptoms occur, such as chest pain or heart attacks, before they are aware of a problem, and many times that is too late. Targeted micro-bubbles have the potential to be able to detect early signs of heart disease very non-invasively.”
Early signs of heart disease include inflammation on the insides of arteries, which leads to plaque buildup that could eventually result in heart attacks. Masseau was able to attach specific antibodies to tiny bubbles and then inject those bubbles into pigs with heart disease. The antibodies were able to seek out the inflammation in the pigs’ arteries and attach themselves, along with the micro-bubbles, to the inflammatory sites. Then, using an ultrasound machine, Masseau was able to detect the targeted micro-bubbles that had gathered in the arteries of pigs. She says this is the first time the procedure has been successful in large animals.
“Because this procedure was successful in pigs, it also could potentially be reproduced in humans as well,” Masseau said. “While it would still be a few years away, injecting targeted micro-bubbles into a human and then scanning them with an ultrasound would be a very simple procedure and could potentially help save lives.”
Another part of Masseau’s research involved studying pigs to observe the effects exercise has on artery inflammation. Before Masseau detected inflammation in the pigs using the targeted micro-bubbles, she submitted them to cardio exercise and measured its effect. Surprisingly, the exercise did not have any effect on reducing the arterial inflammation; however Masseau says that this does not mean that exercise is not important for heart health.
Masseau was joined in this study by Doug Bowles, a professor in the department of biomedical sciences in the MU Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, and Michael Davis, a professor and associate head of the department of medical pharmacology and physiology in the MU Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center.
The early-stage results of this research are promising. If additional studies, including animal studies, are successful within the next few years, MU officials will request authority from the federal government to begin human trials. After this status has been granted, researchers may conduct human clinical trials with the hope of developing new treatments for heart disease.
This research is an example of the One Health/One Medicine area of Mizzou Advantage. Mizzou Advantage is a program that focuses on four areas of MU strength: food for the future; media of the future; one health/one medicine; and sustainable energy. The goals of Mizzou Advantage are to strengthen existing faculty networks, create new networks and propel Mizzou’s research, instruction and other activities to the next level. | <urn:uuid:eebb182e-180c-43e4-b39d-470f4fd0115a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/targeted-micro-bubbles-detect-artery-inflammation-mu-study-finds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968306 | 769 | 3.875 | 4 |
Powerful, intriguing and timeless, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most disturbing and schematic stories. This story centers around the devastating dominance of suspicion and character. This play revolves around four central characters: Othello, a general in the military world; his beloved wife, Desdemona; his loyal lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted but ultimately unfaithful ensign, Iago. Othello is honorable and beloved for his talents but is subjected to prejudice, jealousy, and betrayal. Not to worry as he has the love of the Desdemona who loves and protects him unconditionally. Iago, Othello's loyal friend, gets passed over for promotion and an excruciating jealousy overcomes him and he conspires to undermine Othello's love for Desdemona.
Shakespeare formulates the perfect malicious puzzle that reveals how prejudice, jealousy, and manipulation can break the human bond and destroy the purest of loves.
With free performances on Tuesday and Wednesday, $10 on Thursday and Sunday, and $15 on Friday and Saturday, Junior Players is excited to work with Shakespeare Dallas to present Junior Players first attempt at one of Shakespeare's tragedies. Bring your picnic blanket and lawn chairs to see a spectacular performance from twenty-three high school students from thirteen different high schools.
We look forward to seeing you out at the park! | <urn:uuid:129661c3-5b26-4a24-b02d-cdd6056d2574> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://artandseek.org/calendar/event/81237/othello | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932539 | 296 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Monstera Deliciosa is a tropical plant from the Araceae family. Its name, as one could think, originates from the Latin significance “unusual” because of its odd-looking, perforated fallen leaves that are typically punched through holes.
About the Monstera Deliciosa plant
In the wilds of the jungle, Monstera can expand to be massive: dozens of feet high with leaves that spread to virtually two feet wide.
The best-known range is Monstera Deliciosa, or Mexican Breadfruit, in reference to its corncob-shaped fruit (which is claimed to taste like a combination of pineapple, banana, as well as mango). It’s not all tasty, nevertheless: The rest of the plant is dangerous and also consuming the fruit before it’s ripe can trigger mouth inflammation.
It’s extremely common for monsteras to be confused with split-leaf philodendron, specifically in less mature plants. Though the two are related (they’re component of the exact same plant family members), a simple means to tell these plants apart is to look at the leaves: split-leaf philodendrons have perforated fallen leaves but lack holes.
How to plant and care your Monstera Deliciosa
Monstera Deliciosa Planting Guide
Repotting: Monsteras, in particular, are huge pants that need repotting every pair years to sustain their expanding origin systems. Pick a pot a few inches bigger in height and also width than your previous one to give your monstera even more room to grow. You can also maintain it in the very same pot, repot much less often or routinely prune back its fallen leaves to keep it a manageable dimension. Take a look at our guide to repotting a plant for even more in-depth repotting pointers.
Propagation: Air layering is an usual breeding approach for monsteras. Keep reading to see the actions needed to do this.
- Locate a leaf with a little aerial root listed below it.
- Cut a notch listed below that root that’s regarding one third of the stem’s size.
- Cover this location (notch, origin and also node where fallen leave meets the stem) with a layer of wet flower or sphagnum moss.
- Wrap the moss in plastic tight enough so it remains secure, however loose enough so you can open it and also examine the roots. You can secure the moss as well as plastic with string or various other ties.
- As soon as you start to see origins, reduced the stem and plant it in brand-new dirt.
- Monstera deliciosa plants are a treasure to have in your house, with very easy care guidelines also. Taking care of your monstera is sure to bring you great deals of compliments as well as a happy plant!
Monstera Deliciosa Care guide
PRO TIP: Monsteras are climbing plants as well as love to rise upright surfaces. If you intend to grow your Monstera high as opposed to wide, make use of stakes or moss stays with lead its growth upward.
A types of flowering plant belonging to southerly Mexico and Panama, Monstera deliciosa is a durable as well as very easy to take care of plant understood by several names, yet a lot of generally the “Swiss cheese plant” due the one-of-a-kind advancement of ridges and holes on its elder leaves. The “deliciosa” part of the plant’s name originates from the pineapple-like fruit it bears in its all-natural environment!
Monsteras appreciates a warm, humid setting, an excellent quantity of water as well as mild sunlight. Put your Monstera where it can get medium to bright indirect light. While it is forgiving of lower light conditions, you might notice leggy growth because of this, so a place where it will certainly receive bright indirect light a couple of feet gotten rid of from a southern, western, or eastern dealing with window is ideal.
If you are not sure of the lighting problems in your house of workplace, we have a guide for just how to determine light in your room.
Monstera Deliciosa Leaf
The Monstera’s famous divides tyically only occur in the plant’s more mature leaves, and also only if the plant is placed in ideal conditions. If your own has plenty of light however no divides, just be patient!
PRO TIP: Although normally slow-moving expanding, during the spring and summertime you can use a natural fertilizer on your Monstera once a month to motivate new development.
Always make sure to analyze your plant’s sprinkling needs upon getting it. Before offering your plant a beverage, it is best to inspect the moisture degree in the dirt initially to ensure it isn’t moist best underneath the surface. Additionally, think about aerating the dirt of your plant prior to the initial watering. We small the dirt to avoid moving during transit, so aerating can assist the dirt take a breath and allow wetness to be released.
Monsteras like dirt that is regularly gently moist. As epiphytes with airborne roots, they are sensitive to overwatering, so they do not wish to sit in soaked dirt. If the top 2 inches of the dirt are dry, your plant can make use of a beverage.
Turn your plant regularly to ensure even growth on all sides as well as dust the fallen leaves frequently so the plant can photosynthesize successfully. When cleaning the fallen leaves, likewise take the opportunity to check the bottoms as well as keep an eye out for bugs.
Remember each plant is an one-of-a-kind creature as well as may have varying requirements, especially in their specific locations. Take note of the problem of your Monstera and its watering requirements as well as you will have a lengthy and satisfied partnership.
Requirement Planter Instructions
Plants bought in a pot without a drain opening have actually been established with a built-in drain system. A layer of hydro rocks (permeable, absorptive product made from recycled glass) has been put beneath the dirt to act as a storage tank for any excess water that streams via the soil. You will need to be a little extra cautious not to put too much water into these containers as there is no way for the excess water to get away. We recommend putting percentages of water in little by little, up until you have reached the preferred dampness level in the dirt.
For plants potted with drainage, water till it starts ahead out the bottom of the pot and also right into the catch tray.
Always make certain to analyze your plant’s sprinkling requirements upon getting it. Refer to the routine maintenance section for your plant’s certain dampness requirements.
Self Watering Container Instructions
The self-watering planters require a great, strong watering of the topsoil after they are first placed. This is important since the origins of the plants need to become the tank initially in order to consume from it. Adhere to the typical planter instructions for the first 4 weeks. After that the tank is ready to be evaluated.
TEST: After four weeks, fill the water tank up until the red indicator gets to limit line. If the indication goes down over the first couple of days, it indicates the plant awaits regular storage tank servicing. If not, be sure to continue top watering for a couple of even more weeks, up until the red indication goes down, suggesting the plant has actually begun consuming alcohol from the tank.
STORAGE TANK SERVICING: Once the indication goes down, do not refill the tank immediately. Similar to how people need a breath of air in between gulps of water, nearly all plants require a drying period. Always enable the storage tank to clear completely, and after a drying out period of a few days, be sure to re-fill it till the indicator gets to the MAX line.
From here on out, you must NEVER topwater the plant. If you water from the top, it can sink the plant. In the Self Watering Container, the leading layer of soil will eventually become exceptionally dry and tough, as well as might even pull away from the edges of the pot. This is not a cause for issue, but just because the plant is consuming directly from its roots in the water reservoir.
Action 1: Top water for 2 weeks. The indicator will certainly look vacant, like the picture above.
Step 2: Fill the storage tank till the red sign reaches the MAX line.
Action 3: Watch the indication over the following day or two. If it drops by itself, it means the roots of the plant have actually grown into the tank. From here on out, ONLY water in the tank.
The ultimate Monstera Deliciosa Care FAQ
My Monstera leaves are turning yellow, what is going on?
Frequently yellowing takes place because of over or underwatering. If you see a mix of yellow as well as brown on the same fallen leave, it is usually as a result of overwatering. If totally yellow leaves, in addition to some brown crunchy places on added fallen leaves happen then maybe underwatering. Sign in with the dirt to determine if it matches your diagnosis.
There are these weird, leafless brownish developments coming off of my Monstera. Is that regular?
Yes! These are airborne origins and also they are completely normal. In nature, these are what helps offer support to the plant and also allow it to climb up as well as get to even more light. The origins will not harm wall surfaces or surface areas, as well as you can constantly trim them if they get rowdy.
My Monstera isn’t developing splits or openings on its leaves. What’s going on here?
This can be caused by many different factors, but typically it implies your plant does not have ideal conditions. Sign in with the quantity of light and water it is getting, and change as required. You can additionally take your plant’s aerial origins as well as press them down into the dirt so the plant can soak up a lot more nutrients. Remember, your plant will just develop openings on its more mature fallen leaves, so in some cases you just need to exercise persistence.
My Monstera has actually become too big. What can I do?
Prune it back! These guys are extremely hardy and can handle a great trim. You can additionally train your Monstera to grow whichever way your heart needs by using stakes as well as ties.
How often should I fertilize my Monstera Deliciosa?
Generally, home plants will certainly grow when they are fed springtime via fall. Fertilize when a month with a natural houseplant fertilizer, complying with the plan instructions for dilution and also management. Plant NYC makes use of a natural potting blend with a slow launch fertilizer in the dirt, so your plant will not require plant food within the very first 6 months of receiving it.
Exactly how typically does my plant demand to be repotted?
For larger flooring plants, we recommend repotting every 18-24 months. Usually you want to select a potting vessel 2″- 4″ bigger in diameter to allow for development. Do not pick a pot much larger than the previous as this could sink the plants origins. If you choose to keep the existing dimension of your plant, repot right into the very same vessel, supplying new dirt as well as trimming away some origins as well as foliage. Springtime or summer is the perfect time to repot as the plant goes to its toughest. | <urn:uuid:b0832c76-bf74-4f71-84f4-2ed44afc5006> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indoorplantsworld.com/indoor-plant-guide/monstera-deliciosa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952661 | 2,431 | 2.921875 | 3 |
University of Nebraska Press
Desertion is one of the least understood topics in Civil War studies, though an adequate account of it has implications for several areas of historical research, including life on the home front, morale, and nationalism. The current volume is an important first step in addressing the evolution of de....
"Fleeting Fortunes, Deserted Ranks: What Factors Influenced Georgian Troop Desertion?,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 2
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol2/iss2/8 | <urn:uuid:acea7f3d-f5c0-4336-be78-fb93a4ea898f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol2/iss2/8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.847702 | 154 | 2.25 | 2 |
Benefits: Contains bromelain, an enzyme that positively affects digestion.
Uses: preparation of smoothies, ice creams, water ha ha ha hascores, juices in water or milk, cocktails, jams, sauces, desserts, typical drinks of the region, among others.
Preparation of juices or ha hascores: mix in the blender 100 g of fruit pulp, 200 ml of water or milk, ice and sugar to taste.
Makes: 1 12-ounce or 2 6-ounce glass
Presentations: pack of 10 units x 100 g c/u, pack of 3 units x 160 g c/u x 480 g, 1 Kg | <urn:uuid:ae07a805-7d8c-46c1-9643-6acd05f6563b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.frutihelen.com/product/pineapple/?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.786547 | 149 | 1.898438 | 2 |
This month sees publication of the first new book about Transition not written in English, a landmark moment worth celebrating. Guía del movimiento de transición (‘A Guide to the Transition movement’) is the work of Spanish Transition activist and trainer Juan del Rio. We will be speaking to him soon about the book, what it covers and what his hopes are for it, but for now I wanted to share the Foreword I wrote which looks at why Transition matters, and why this book matters. I’d like to congratulate Juan on producing this book, the first Transition book in Spanish, and hope that it goes far and wide and does much to inspire people to get involved (you can order the book here).
“It is a delight to be able to write an introduction for this book. This is the first new book on Transition not written in English and not originating from the UK or the US. That feels like something historic to celebrate in itself. That it emerges from Spain, a country that has been so profoundly affected by the fallout from the economic crisis, feels especially appropriate.
Transition is the quiet revolution going on around you. You may not have noticed it but it’s there. It is a movement that doesn’t wait for permission but which just gets on and starts building the healthy human culture that we all yearn for. When we started it, in my small Devon town of Totnes, we had no idea it would even have any kind of an impact there. It has therefore been a process of near-continuous wonder to see it rolling out in what is now 50 countries worldwide. To see this book manifesting as a result of the spread of Transition in Spain would have been unimaginable in those early days of Transition.
One of the great difficulties we have in designing a lower carbon, more resilient world is that we struggle to imagine it. As a species we are fantastic at designing our own demise. We make endless films in which humankind is wiped out by a virus, by mutant robots, by an alien invasion, by a zombie apocalypse, by huge intelligent apes. We love it. Yet where are the films about the culture that saw an avertable crisis coming and responded with imagination, creativity and collective thinking, and managed to alter the trajectory of history? They barely exist.
Yet around the world, it is a story that people are just getting on with telling themselves. I have the great privilege of seeing this happen in different places. Time and again I see the power of people coming together, inspired by a shared vision, rolling up their sleeves and supporting each other to make it a reality. And it’s not just the actual projects themselves, it’s what it does for the people who give their time and passion to making them happen that’s so thrilling.
There’s the guy in Liege in Belgium who decided to start a community supported vineyard project. They started a crowd-funding appeal which was very slow to start with, but by the end they had raised nearly €2 million. “Lack of money ought not be an obstacle”, he told me. “This is Belgium, one of the richest countries in the world. If the idea is good, the money will come. Don’t be afraid”. Time and again I see people keen to put their support, in all senses of the word, behind imaginative projects done with great imagination and good heart.
I travelled recently to Sussex in England to speak at the seventh birthday celebrations of Transition Town Lewes, one of the first Transition initiatives. One of the people I met there was Chris Rowland (see video below), who founded a community energy company. “Transition was something that saved me”, he told me. “It meant that I changed my career, got into local community renewable energy, met loads of fantastic people, and did things which I never thought I’d do, including winning a major national award for community energy and having to stand up in front of 500 people in London and make a speech. Seven years ago I just couldn’t have done that. Transition has given me confidence to do things I didn’t think I could do, and that I really wanted to do”.
In the north of England I spoke to one of a group of women who have started a successful local food distribution system. Running a business was not something any of them had planned on doing, but they found themselves inspired by Transition to make it happen. She told me “we all just really wanted to change the way we live, and change our own personal lives and to change things and live different lives ourselves as well as a different life for our community”. They now jointly run a thriving social enterprise.
A woman in Portugal with no experience of being involved in any kind of community activism or projects, and who was very shy and nervous, found that in her apartment block a project had begun to create a community garden in front of the block. Getting involved gave her, for the first time, confidence to find a place in her local Transition group and start initiating things herself. “It’s amazing”, she told me. “I’ve been living in Portalegre for ever, 37 years, and I have felt my community and my city crumble, people turning their backs to each other. This community garden we created tells me it is possible to do things with other people. It is possible, we just need to wake up to each other again”.
Everywhere I go I hear stories like this. Why? Because these are times that demand that ordinary people step up and make extraordinary things happen, and because Transition is designed to do a few key things that are all too rare these days:
- It gives people permission to just start doing things: not that people need anyone to give them permission, but it can help to feel motivated and inspired
- It gives their work a context: rather than just a series of one-off projects, Transition weaves things together, suggesting that a diversity of projects actually represent a historic wider moment of change at the local level
- It gives them support: any project is just the practical manifestation of the dedicated, and often unseen, group behind it. It matters that that group has a healthy group culture, clear ways of doing things, and strategies for support and reducing burnout
- It balances problem and solution: it’s not enough to show people depressing climate change DVDs and expect them to be shocked into action. It can distress and isolate people, and actually drive them away from the necessary changes. We need to present such stuff in the context of a wider programme of doing something about it.
- You become part of a ‘Learning Network’: no one place knows how to do this, but if we can network thousands of communities doing Transition together, sharing their successes and failures, then it is between us that the solutions lie.
- It’s positive: Transition doesn’t start by trying to blame people we don’t like or see as responsible, it’s about a positive vision of where we want to get, and mobilising everything we’ve got, including our sense of humour, to make that happen.
Transition is also very ambitious. It seeks to change the way our local economy works, to change the food system to one with more local seasonal produce and a clearer link with local, peri-urban farmland. It seeks to change the energy system to one that is 100% renewable, with huge advances is energy conservation, and with as much infrastructure as possible in local community ownership. It seeks to re-imagine local economies as being far more circular, far more resilient and diverse. Ultimately it seeks to change the culture of a place, so as to be more open to new ideas, new thinking, while constantly building practical examples that it can work in practice.
Yet all too often we imagine that we can achieve these very ambitious aims on our Wednesday evenings as volunteers. That way burnout lies. It’s what I call the ‘tyranny of volunteerism’, meaning that we end up with people doing Transition who have skills, time and confidence, not something everyone in our communities has. In the last couple of years we have seen a very welcome upsurge of the idea that if we are to really make Transition happen on the scale we need, then we need to be creating new livelihoods, new enterprises. No-one else is going to do it.
So we see Transition initiatives starting new food markets, new food distribution businesses, new community farms, new community energy companies, new enterprises to give people an experiential immersion in Transition, new local currency systems. We also see the growing realisation that if we are serious about affecting the level of change we need to see, communities need to be able to take control of and own assets in their community, be it buildings, land or energy generation infrastructure. How would an entrepreneur think about generating the scale of change we need to see in the tiny window of opportunity that we have?
In my community of Totnes, after a seven year campaign, we are close to signing a historic agreement whereby the community takes control over the development of an 8 acre site and become, in effect, our own developer. This represents a real step up, and it can happen everywhere. It’s one of the things I love about Transition, the breadth of what people are doing, how distinct it is to each community, to each place, and how both smaller projects and larger ones help to tell a new story about the future we want to create.
That in itself is profoundly political. Yet it is not party political, nor is it explicitly political. And that really matters. This is a movement that seeks what we have in common, what brings us closer together, rather than what distinguishes and separates us. This is a young movement still, and if this book inspires you to get involved in Transition then you will be part of shaping what it becomes. As will this book.
My gratitude to Juan del Rio for writing this book is immense. People might ask me or others at Transition Network what Transition would look like in Spain, but I have no idea. It’s not for me to say. To see it emerging across Spain, and in other Spanish-speaking nations, rooted in the experience of the people and place is thrilling. Take the insight and inspiration you find in these pages and use it to reimagine the place you live. Use it as the foundation for new conversations with your neighbours. Use it as a pair of glasses through which you see your neighbourhood in a different way, as a collection of possibilities, as a vibrant, thriving, resilient community. By deciding to get involved you join a quiet, yet enormously powerful revolution taking place around the world. Welcome on board. Let’s do wonderful things. | <urn:uuid:0ea141c4-d341-4a38-80c2-d13dde62c33d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://transitionnetwork.org/news/introducing-the-first-book-about-transition-in-spanish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966807 | 2,255 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Artificial intelliGence applied to pRecision farmIng By the use of GNSS and Integrated Technologies
Background & Objectives
AgriBIT aims to increase the precision, accuracy and continuity of services to deliver improved Precision Agriculture (PA) services to farmers, leading to a reduction in costs through decreased use of inputs (water, energy, fertilisers, pesticides), lower environmental impacts and increased production yields. It positions its innovations both at the level of intervention on the field and the capturing of the effects of PA over time, intelligently exploiting the information acquired before, during, and after direct intervention on the field. AgriBIT combines augmented GNSS and EO information with on-field and on-machine sensors and actuators, as well as expert agricultural knowledge to deliver simple, high precision, and continuously available services. It develops and extends advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms to fully exploit this rich set of inputs to recommend actions to farmers building on past history and present context and to ease their workload through improved automation. | <urn:uuid:84891bbf-ff94-4ffb-8b19-f4faa51c4b0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.euspa.europa.eu/artificial-intelligence-applied-precision-farming-use-gnss-and-integrated-technologies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920838 | 208 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The Swetland Center is proud to announce the launch of the 'Swetland Readers Book Club'! We understand that learning comes in many forms and have created this forum to grow and learn together in community.
The Swetland Readers has the following goals as we begin this journey together:
- Deepen our knowledge of racial and environmental health equity.
- Develop a safe space to build relationships, and share experiences as community partners, students, faculty, and staff.
- Explore the intersections of diverse perspectives on pressing environmental health issues.
- Consider ways to integrate lessons learned from selected books into our current research and practices.
Take a look at our upcoming reading selections and consider joining the club!
|Title||Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants|
|Author||Robin Wall Kimmerer|
"Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return."
The summer book club will be held in partnership with CWRU's Social Justice Institute and the Prevention Research Institute for Healthy Neighborhoods.
All meetings will be held from 11:30am-1:00pm and will be "drop-in" style. Feel free to join us when it's convenient for you! Meetings will be on the following dates:
Hybrid sessions will be held on the fourth floor of the BioEnterprise Building [11000 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106] in RM 436 for those who wish to join in person. Zoom links will be sent out several days prior to the meeting.
|Description||Our Summer 2021 book selection is "Silent Spring" written by Rachel Carson, published in 1962. In the 1950s, David W. Swetland and Mary Ann Swetland felt that not enough was understood about the unintended health consequences of chemical, agricultural, and industrial products in our environment. Their resolve to change the world’s perception of environmental threats was reinforced by Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring.” Join us and our summer interns in reading this pivotal environmental sciences book!|
|Free Download||Silent Spring PDF|
Friday, June 25th, 2021 || 10:30-12:00pm EST
|Friday, July 23rd, 2021 || 10:30-12:00pm EST|
|Title||Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land|
|Description||"Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to their decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land. Further, Black communities suffer disproportionately from illnesses related to lack of access to fresh food and healthy natural ecosystems. Soul Fire Farm, cofounded by author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman, is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. Through innovative programs such as the Black-Latinx Farmers Immersion, a sliding-scale farmshare CSA, and Youth Food Justice leadership training, Penniman is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, and end food apartheid."|
|Learn More||Soul Fire Farm|
Friday, April 30th, 2021 || 10:30-12:00pm EST
|Friday, May 21st, 2021 || 10:30-12:00pm EST| | <urn:uuid:5dc38fa3-9284-4466-8cd5-d9787ee2268f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://case.edu/swetland/training/swetland-readers-book-club | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914208 | 916 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Today there are many choices for a home mortgage. And that’s great for home buyers. You can customize your loan based on how much money you have to put down at closing, your credit score, how long you want the loan to last, if you want the interest rate to start out lower and possibly change and more. A good loan professional will listen to your needs and share options for your situation.
If you’re not sure how much you can afford to pay for a mortgage or if you can even qualify for a mortgage, talk to a lender about getting pre-qualified. Learn more about pre-qualification
When you’re deciding on a loan type, consider these key questions:
- How much cash can I pay up front for a down payment and closing costs?
- How long do I expect to hold the loan?
- Should I choose a lower interest that can change over time, or should I get a fixed interest rate that won’t ever change?
1. How much cash can I pay up front?
How much cash you can pay up front to buy a home will affect how your loan is structured. In most cases, you need at least 3.5% of the purchase price for a down payment. Besides a down payment, you will also need to pay closing costs.
Closing costs include things such as loan origination fees, underwriting fees, property and other taxes, title costs, homeowners insurance, an appraisal and mortgage insurance fees if you’re putting down less than 20% of the purchase price. Closing costs vary but commonly range from 3%-5% of the purchase price.
Some states allow new homebuyers to add a portion of closing costs to the loan. However, in most cases you will need enough cash to cover the closing costs, and you cannot add closing costs to the loan amount.
Tip: In some cases, you can get seller credits to help cover closing costs. For example, if you’re buying a home for $400,000 and want $10,000 for closing costs, you could offer to pay $410,000 for the home and have the seller credit $10,000 back towards your closing costs. But there’s a catch; the home must appraise for $410,000 for the lender to allow the higher loan amount, and the seller must be willing to work with you. It may be harder to find a flexible seller in a seller’s market. (A good real estate agent can help you negotiate this strategy.)
Tip: Another potential way to pay closing costs is with a so-called “no-cost” loan. With this type of loan, you can choose to take a higher interest rate but in return, get a credit back from the lender to cover the closing costs.
2. How long do I expect to hold the loan?
A mortgage can allow you from 5 years to 30 years to repay the loan. The longer the loan term, the lower your monthly payment. However, you end up paying more interest overall with a longer term. Consider how long you expect to own the home, because you may be able to get a lower interest rate by choosing a shorter-term loan.
If you plan to keep the loan for many years, you may want to lock in your interest rate with a fixed rate.
Many buyers choose the security of a fixed interest rate that will never change, such as a 30-year fixed mortgage. You’ll always know how much you’ll be paying for principal and interest in your monthly payment. But be aware your monthly payment will still increase over time if you have an escrow account because your property taxes and homeowners insurance portions inevitably increase.
You can also choose a shorter term if you want to pay your loan off faster (but with a higher monthly payment). A 15-year mortgage will have a lower interest rate than a 30-year mortgage.
For example, a $300,000 mortgage at 3.75% interest for 15 years fixed would cost you $2,182/month for principal and interest.*
A $300,000 mortgage for 30 years fixed at 4.25% interest would cost $1,476/month for principal and interest.*
Your payment for the 30-year mortgage would be $706 less per month.
*These numbers are for example only and may not represent actual, current interest rates for which you could qualify. Please note your mortgage payment will also likely include a portion for taxes and insurance (in “escrow”), which can add hundreds of dollars per month to your payment.
Estimate your payment for a property you’re interested in
3. Should I choose a lower interest that can change over time, or should I get a fixed interest rate that won’t ever change?
Getting the lowest interest rate is always the best choice, right?
Well, not always. It depends on the situation. The lowest interest rates may come with high closing costs, require a large down payment and require excellent credit. And how long you expect to keep the loan is a factor to determining the best loan for your situation.
If you see mortgage ads for a super low interest rate, that rate is probably for an ARM, or adjustable rate mortgage. The initial low interest rate can adjust over time, after being fixed for a certain amount of time. The interest rate could go down, but it could also increase, so there is some risk involved.
An ARM is amortized over 30 years, meaning the total payment schedule is spread out over 30 years. But the interest rate may go up or down at certain times, which vary based on your loan.
Let’s look at some examples. The first number shows how long the initial interest rate is fixed; the second number shows how often the interest rate can change:
- 5/1 ARM: The initial interest rate stays fixed for 5 years; after that, the interest rate can adjust annually
- 5/2 ARM: The initial interest rate stays fixed for 5 years; after that, the interest rate can adjust every 2 years
- 7/6 ARM: The initial interest rate stays fixed for 7 years; after that, the interest rate can adjust every 6 months
- 10/6 ARM: The initial interest rate stays fixed for 10 years; after that, the interest rate can adjust every 6 months
There is a floor and a ceiling for how much the interest rate can change. For example, with a 2% limit, a loan that starts at 2% could go down to 0% or up to 4%. Usually, the maximum change allowed is 5%. It is most common for the rate to adjust annually. And it’s not guaranteed to change.
If you plan to sell or do a cash-out refinance on a property after just a few years, an ARM can be a good choice because you’ll save money with the lower initial interest rate.
Tip: You can look at the APR of any loan to directly compare total loan costs against other loans.
Tip: The higher your credit score, the lower the interest rate you can get, which will save you money over the long term. The interest rate varies by your credit score, your down payment and loan amount. It’s smart to check your credit three to six months before you apply for a loan and try to boost your credit score to get the best loan terms possible. Ask us for help in boosting your credit score.
Your loan officer will analyze your loan application to consider 3 things (sometimes called the 3 C’s) to generate a pre-approval letter:
- Capacity to repay
- Capital (or cash)
- With your authorization, a loan officer will pull your credit. The higher the credit score, the better the terms you’ll be offered. Typically, lenders have options for scores above 580.
- Capacity is your ability to make the monthly loan payments. A loan officer will look at your gross monthly income and your debts. This analysis can be very simple if you’re a W-2 employee, or it can get a little more complicated if you’re self-employed. A good loan officer can help you through that process.
- And third, a loan officer will look at your capital or cash, which is how much money you have set aside for a down payment, closing costs and reserves that the mortgage company might require. The loan officer will verify those funds through bank statements, retirement funds or other sources of capital.
After verifying your credit, capacity and capital are sufficient, the loan officer will write you a pre-approval letter, which is an offer (but not a guarantee) to lend you money based on that information.
A good loan officer will also run Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac’s automated underwriting software to try to generate preliminary underwriting approval. This step makes a pre-approval letter even stronger.
When you work with a good loan officer for pre-approval, your offer on a house can be as good as cash, because they’ve verified that you will very likely qualify for the loan.
Tip: A pre-approval letter is usually valid for 90 days. After 90 days, you can talk to your loan officer, and they can update your letter if your financial situation hasn’t changed.
Learn more about the entire loan process.
Common Mortgage Loan Types
- Conventional loans – For well qualified borrowers
- Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans – For less qualified borrowers
- Veterans Administration (VA) loans for qualified active-duty military and veterans – Often considered the best loans, if you can qualify through military service
- USDA loans – For rural areas
Conventional loans are by far the most common loan type. If your credit profile is strong (and you don’t qualify for a VA loan), consider getting a conventional loan. You can put down as little as 3% of the purchase price with a credit score of at least 620, depending on certain factors.
There is an additional cost to your monthly payment in the form of private mortgage insurance (PMI) if you put less than 20% down. You, the borrower, are required to pay for this insurance policy in case you default or stop paying on the loan. But the good news is you can have this extra cost removed when you build up 20% equity in the home, unlike an FHA loan that will always include PMI.
You can later remove PMI by refinancing into a brand-new loan. You can also have PMI removed from your existing loan by paying down your loan enough that you have 20% in equity or through your property appreciating by 20%. You would need to pay for an appraisal to verify the higher property value, and then you can request that the lender remove the PMI from your monthly payment.
Tip: Equity is the dollar difference between how much your property is worth and how much you owe on it. For example, if your home is worth $200,000 and you owe $150,000, you have $50,000 in equity.
You can use conventional loans for a second home or investment property with up to 4 units, not just for a primary residence. Conventional loans can offer the choice of an ARM or a fixed interest rate loan. And some types of conventional loans can be used for “fixer upper” properties.
You can also get a larger loan amount, based on your qualifications of course, called a jumbo loan. (Loan size limits vary by county.)
If your credit is less than perfect, an FHA loan may be right for you. FHA loans may require as little as 3.5% of the purchase price as a down payment. You can get approved with a lower credit score than other types of loans, making it easier to qualify.
Interest rates for FHA loans are low, but closing costs are typically higher than other loan types. Closing costs include an up-front mortgage insurance premium of 1.75% of the loan amount, and that’s in addition to the monthly PMI payment. (That up-front premium is the one closing cost that can be rolled into the loan amount; other closing costs must be paid out of pocket.)
FHA loans ALWAYS have PMI. If your equity has increased enough that you don’t think you need to pay PMI anymore, you would need to refinance into another type of loan such as a conventional loan.
These loans are available because they are backed by the government. The government wants you to own a home–it’s good for our nation and economy. But there are certain rules that apply.
An important rule is that the property must be in good condition, for safety reasons. Properties that need more repairs may not qualify, so that is a problem if you want to buy a property that you could fix up.
And FHA loans can only be used for a primary residence, not an investment property. But you can use an FHA loan to buy a duplex, triplex or 4-plex, as long as you live there for at least one year. (And you can put down as little as 5% for one of these small multi-units.)
Tip: You’ll need a credit score of at least 580 to qualify for 3.5% down. You can still qualify with a minimum credit score of 500 (in addition to other factors), but you’ll need to put down 10% in cash at closing.
In some states and counties, first-time homebuyers with low to moderate income can qualify for grants. Please ask us to help you find grants for which you might qualify.
If you or your spouse have served in the military, congratulations, you may qualify for a VA loan! VA loans are often considered the best loans for homeowners. VA loans offer some of the lowest, fixed interest rates–lower than a conventional loan.
You can get a VA loan with $0 down! If your credit score is below 580, you will need to put 10% down (with a minimum credit score of 550).
VA loans do not have PMI. There is, however, a VA funding fee; the amount varies a bit depending on some factors, but it can be rolled into the loan amount. (Disabled veterans are exempt from the funding fee.) There are loan limits for VA loans, and they can only be used for a primary residence.
Tip: To prove you qualify for a VA loan, you’ll need to get a Certificate of Eligibility (COE) from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans will also need to provide DD Form 214. You can save some time later by requesting these forms early on.
Want to own more properties?
Each borrower may qualify for up to 10 total conventional and FHA loans. (A married couple can have 20 loans combined, 10 each in their own name if they can qualify.)
If you’re a real estate investor looking to buy more properties or commercial properties, or you’re self-employed or can’t meet the lending criteria for the loan types we have discussed, don’t worry. There’s another type of loan called a “nonQM,” or non-qualified mortgage, that can open up more options. We can help you with those, too.
Helping You Make the Right Choice
If you’re not 100% clear on the different loan types and which one is best for you, then you’re perfectly normal. That’s why we’re here! We are the loan experts and will guide you through all your options to help you feel confident you’re making the right choice. | <urn:uuid:12d9e44b-4c72-41d1-b9d2-041d129b3e54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lendinglighthouse.com/which-type-of-mortgage-should-i-get-to-buy-a-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96306 | 3,280 | 1.570313 | 2 |
If you are reading the JT then you are already part of a club even if you think, like me, that you would “not join a club that would have me as a member.”
There are many types of clubs one could join or just be considered part of. No, I am not talking about night clubs, swim clubs, shopping clubs, etc.
Why do we have clubs, join clubs or otherwise need clubs anyway? I guess the reality is we humans are a social species and we need to belong. Clubs allow us to share common ideas, values or activities. Sometimes people use groups to organize against another group or individual and these kinds of clubs represent the lowest common denominator of society.
I must say that the political position of the many different groups at either end of the spectrum of thought and philosophy is very discouraging to me and I think it may lead to people disconnecting from groups.
I certainly don’t want to be labeled as this or that simply because I belong to a group or because I agree with various positions a group might embrace. Think about how people push their agendas on those of us who are not part of their group. It happens in many political, social and academic groups with great regularity and I would ask you to stand up for yourself, think for yourself and be strong enough to defend your own thoughts, feelings and way of life.
Hate speech, attack ads, “fake news” and the many ways society tries to shape public opinion should suggest you pause and take stock of your beliefs, convictions and attitudes. Before we suggest Fox News is this or MSNBC is that, or that Donald Trump is this and Hillary Clinton is that, we should make sure we have done our part to really think about how we contribute to derech eretz and making the world a better place for us and our children.
I for one belong to the “Being Zayde” club and it is a wonderful club that I invite each one of you to join (whether you have grandchildren or not). Being Zayde reminds me of what is truly important in life. You can’t be a Zayde without truly offering love, respect and guidance to others.
Vito Simone is a Pikesville resident and member of Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah. | <urn:uuid:30917e4b-c427-4a1f-9f24-b98d145d0a79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishtimes.com/join-the-club/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967805 | 479 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The winning photograph of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021 contest is a testament to the power of conservation.
“This is a picture of hope, a glimpse of what the ocean can be like when we give it a chance.” So said the judges announcing the winner of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021 contest, which for the first time has been awarded to a photographer.
Renee Capozzola from California won the international award for ‘Shark Skylight’, an image of blacktip reef sharks sailing under seagulls in French Polynesia (main image above).
“French Polynesia strongly protects its sharks, it is my favorite place to photograph them,” said Capozzola. “I spent several afternoons photographing in the shallow waters at sunset, and finally I was rewarded with this scene: crystal clear water, a rich sunset, sharks and even birds.”
The chairman of the competition judges, Dr. Alexander Mustard MBE, said that “this is a photograph of hope, a glimpse of what the ocean can be like when we give it a chance, thriving with a spectacular life both below and below. above the surface. Not only did the photographer persevere until this serendipitous scene unfolded, but more importantly, Renee had the talent to capture this very moment. “
The UK-based contest also had a British Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021 category. Mark Kirkland from Glasgow won that for his photo of a frog sitting on a frog spawn in a city center pond near his home. (down).
A frog sits in a pond near the apartment buildings in Glasgow. Image: Mark Kirkland / UPY 2021
“This extraordinary image shows that even in Glasgow city center, world-class frogs and underwater photography can thrive,” said Mustard.
Among the other categories in the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition is one that celebrates animal behavior. Karim Iliya, also from the US, won the award and captured a stunning photograph of a marlin hunting smaller fish in Mexico (below).
Marlin hunting in Mexico. Image: Karim Iliya / UPY 2021
“The marlin is one of the fastest fish in the sea, a terrifying predator for a small fish in the great blue desert,” Iliya said. “I went to Mexico to document these feeding frenzy, but I was not expecting such a fast hunt, almost too fast for my brain to process. For a brief moment this scene played out before me and I had to trust all my instincts and practice underwater to take this photo. “
Below are some other photographs that caught the judges’ attention among the 4,500 entries.
Lead image: Renee Capozzola / UPY 2021 | <urn:uuid:335ae70d-b7a8-4e57-9d20-d74326bfac37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stufflovely.com/in-pictures-photography-competition-brings-ocean-conservation-into-focus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954309 | 585 | 1.703125 | 2 |
A Minimalistic Haven in Hyderabad
A young couple, approached Sarojini Dantapalli and Abhitej Velore of Design Experiment to conceptualise and execute the interiors of their apartment in Hyderabad. The clients wanted their house to reflect their lifestyle and assist them in the smooth transitioning from one phase of their life to another. “The brief for this 2,368-square-feet, three bedroom home was to have a flexible space where the clients could host socials and parties while also making place for a child in the future, and accommodating their respective families when they visit,” says Dantapalli. The brief also involved creating space for their golden retriever, Sasha. While Design Experiment largely handled the project, Mani Teja was responsible for visualisation and site handling. Modern minimal elements have always been a source of inspiration for the designers. “The entire space is broken down into a few textures or materials. The dominant background element is a plain matte white, working with a warm and exotic birch wood. The more private areas of the house have a concrete finished aesthetic. We worked with micro concrete from Ideal Work for the floors, and added custom textured finish on the walls,” explains Dantapalli. The material palette and the colours work programmatically, wherein the common spaces exude a tranquil, bright and warm vibe and the bedrooms emanate a more private, cocooned feel that most of us usually crave for at the end of a long day.
A Landscape-Responsive Home
Bengaluru-based architecture and design studio CollectiveProject gave form to an ambitious project—a tranquil holiday home right in the heart of the city. Set on the rocks overlooking the Durgam Cheruvu Lake, Hyderabad, the Lakehouse is a seemingly weightless structure of stone, wood, and glass. A rare sense of detachment from the urban surroundings is offered by the structure's rocky perch. The Lakehouse enjoys pristine views of the nature reserve across the lake on one side, and the distant city lights of HiTec City tech park on the other. “We were clear from the beginning that the design should be responsive to the terrain,” explains Eliza Higgins, a partner at CollectiveProject. “The natural landscape of the city is unique with massive granite rock formations that are slowly being destroyed by rapid urban development.” In the case of The Lakehouse property, a small portion of the site closest to the road had already been levelled—it is now a parking area and a guest bedroom zone. “It made sense for this to be our anchoring point, allowing for the rest of the site to be undisturbed and celebrated as a feature in the design.” However, the austerity of the material gives way to the clean, easy warmth of wood and white paint in the interiors. A glass passage, flanked by two courtyards on either sides (that are densely planted) leads from the solid teakwood front door into the wood-and-white living room. The windows are framed with wooden portals. The glass panels themselves slide open to give way to a deck that sits over the rocks. However, the austerity of the material gives way to the clean, easy warmth of wood and white paint in the interiors. The true achievement of the project lies in the fact that CollectiveProject chose to embrace its surroundings rather than attempt to reconstruct it. As a result, The Lakehouse is seamlessly immersed within the natural landscape, as a true retreat from urban life—a commendable achievement, considering the property is right in the heart of the city. | <urn:uuid:6400a13a-8860-44e7-9616-bc2c639070c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/hyderabad-sustainable-green-open-plan-homes-design-ideas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945267 | 747 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Nebraska Governor Signs Wind Industry Legislation
The NATA Voice, May 2010
Sets Sights for Further MET Tower Marking Requirements
On April 9, 2010, LB 1048, introduced by Neb. State Senator Chris Langemeier, passed on Final Reading 48-0-1. Its description is to “provide for approval and taxation of certain power generating facilities using wind as a fuel source.” Amendment 2159 was included and it provides for some met tower marking requirements as introduced last January.
Governor Dave Heineman enacted the bill with his signature on April 12. A summary of the bill has been provided in a public statement made by Senator Charlie Janssen of the 15th District. He stated, “LB 1048 was introduced by the Legislature's Natural Resources Committee to provide a venue for local farmers and power producers to have a venue from which to export power to markets outside the state of Nebraska. By having the ability to sell our wind power to out-of-state customers, the opportunities for private development can be expanded without Nebraska sacrificing its status as a public power state. LB 1048 will provide a vehicle where landowners and private developers can cover the costs to develop transmission lines for wind power export.”
LB 1048 provides for some limited met tower marking requirements. LB 1048, as passed, is available here. Page 7, Section 8, Paragraph (2)(a) and (2)(b), outline the marking of met towers as follows:
(2)(a) On or before January 1, 2013, all such equipment installed prior to the effective date of this act shall be either lighted, marked with balls at least twenty-one inches in diameter, painted, or modified in some other manner so it is recognizable in clear air during daylight hours from a distance of not less than two thousand feet. (b) All such equipment installed on or after the effective date of this act shall be either lighted or painted.
The Nebraska Aviation Trades Association (NATA) Board of Directors went on record to further enhance the met tower marking language by requesting further edits of Nebraska’s proposed language by adopting the recently passed (March 29, 2010)South Dakota legislation on met tower identification. Although LB 1048 passed without the incorporation of the South Dakota language, NATA did make a solid impression with key Senators.
When the bill was presented for its final reading, Senator Langemeier stated on the floor of the Legislature that further adjustments to the bill would be made. He stated that he will introduce legislation next session to adopt South Dakota’s met tower marking requirements. His announcement is very important and welcomed. Contacts have also been made with Senator Flood and his staff towards the same goal in preparation for the 2011 Session.
LB 1048 also requires the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics to develop and maintain an online, public database of met tower locations throughout the state. The online database will have two components. At the first level, there will be a list of counties. One can “click” on the name of a county and get a list of each met tower in that county. The information for each of the towers at this level will be 1) tower location coordinates and 2) tower height.
From the county list of towers, one has another link to get to the details for each tower. The details for each tower will include a copy of the met tower application permit, tower owner, tower contact information, height above terrain, nearest city, nearest airport. The Department of Aeronautics hopes to have the database initially online by June 1.
This information about the online met tower database is good news. It is all coming about because of NATA’s initial request at Aeronautics’ conference table last December and the association’s contacts with state senators. NATA thanks Department of Aeronautics Director Ronnie Mitchell, Senators Langemeier and Flood for their support to increase pilot safety and reduce aviation risks.
Now, during the unicameral legislature’s “off-season,” NATA is working with Senators Langemeier and Flood and their staffs to get South Dakota’s met tower marking requirements into Nebraska statute. NATA’s goal is to adopt the following met tower marking requirements from South Dakota.
- The top one-third of the meteorological tower shall be painted in equal, alternating bands of aviation orange and white, beginning with orange at the top of the tower and ending with orange at the bottom of the marked portion of the tower;
- Two marker balls shall be attached to and evenly spaced on each of the outside guy wires;
- The area surrounding each point where a guy wire is anchored to the ground shall have a contrasting appearance with any surrounding vegetation. If the adjacent land is grazed, the area surrounding the anchor point shall be fenced. For purposes of this section, the term, area surrounding the anchor point, means an area not less than sixty-four square feet whose outer boundary is at least four feet from the anchor point; and
- One or more seven-foot safety sleeves shall be placed at each anchor point and shall extend from the anchor point along each guy wire attached to the anchor point.
A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
NATA’s Board of Directors has been very active in this endeavor. The agricultural aviation industry in Nebraska will benefit greatly from LB 1048 and the proposed met tower marking enhancements in the 2011 Unicameral Session. | <urn:uuid:c607da63-3906-47a9-b8d8-d43f528b7c60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agaviation.org/nebraskamets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941662 | 1,133 | 1.65625 | 2 |
This paper summarizes a multi-state, multi-year study assessing the potential for local agriculture in northern New England. While largely rural, this region's agricultural sector differs greatly from the rest of the United States, and demand for locally produced food has been increasing. To assess this unique economic landscape, researchers and Cooperative Extension at the Universities of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont investigated four key areas: (1) local food capacities, (2) constraints to agricultural expansion, (3) consumer preferences for local and organic produce, and (4) the role of intermediaries as alternative local food outlets. The project included input from local farmers, Extension members, restaurants, and the general public. We present the four research areas in a sequential, overlapping fashion. The timing of our research was such that each step in the process informed the next and can be used as a template for assessing a region's potential for local agricultural production. | <urn:uuid:bc033c17-5234-4fea-9a0f-e74d0460448b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://core-cms.prod.aop.cambridge.org/core/search?filters%5BauthorTerms%5D=John%20Lemos&eventCode=SE-AU | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925374 | 185 | 2.125 | 2 |
Whenever I’ve had a side-job of computer repairs, the most common complaint I heard from people about their computers was: “it just runs slow!” Identifying the exact reason why varied in difficulty from case to case, but in the end it was always something like multiple anti-virus programs were installed and running in the background (sometimes actually attacking each other), too many start up items were enabled for the amount of installed RAM to handle, or some kind of malware had been introduced to the system. In most cases, rather simple problems such as these would have been the last guess of the computer’s owner if he had tried to solve the problem on his own, and his friends hadn’t given particularly good advice to solve the real problem, either. Through these experiences, I’ve come to realize that the worst problem PC users suffer from is actually that they simply aren’t well informed. If you ever run into an issue with your computer, you’ll find that more people are willing to criticize (or merely correct) your choice of brand than to actually identify the problem and help you through it. With all these conflicting opinions bouncing around, what’s a consumer to do? Look below for three myths about slow computers, and three truths to help prevent yours from becoming one of them.
Myth #1 – “I think I just need to get a Mac”
Unlike any other company I know of, Apple has mastered the art of duping its customers into buying middle-end hardware for the price of high-end hardware, all the while using clever terms and eloquent words to assure their buyers that they’re getting the best and most powerful computer out there...when the simple fact is, they’re not. However, I don’t know how many times the owner of a slow computer I’m being hired to fix has used a friend’s Mac computer and heard from him/her how wonderful it is and how it doesn’t get viruses and never slows down. Now I’d like to think I’m a reasonable person, and so whenever I hear someone seriously considering switching to Apple I ask what they want to do with their computer, what software they want to use, etc, and if a Mac actually does suit their needs, I will tell them so...while issuing a warning that they’ll face limitations at every turn and not be able to do anything else with their computer if they decide they want to in the future. But most of the time, the things they cite Macs as being so wonderful for (dual-core CPUs, for example) their slow computer already has! The only difference is that a Mac disallows you from making any computer-breaking changes while a PC offers you the freedom to do what you will--you just need to be careful. Again it comes down to how informed the user is: in the end, all but one of my clients decided to stick with their PC after being informed about what both sides offered and how to take care of the PC so it didn’t get bogged down again.
Myth #2 – “My friend at work said I probably need to defragment my hard drive”
Again we find ourselves with a myth born of bad information. While it is often true that the hard drive of the slow computer at hand needs to be defragmented, many people have found themselves frustrated with little to no speed boost after following this advice. The fact is, while defragmenting may increase stability and overall consistency of speed, it typically will not result in any noticeable speed increase. In some cases, the fragmented files are not vital to the system, and defragmenting them won’t improve system performance at all!
Myth #3 – “I made sure everything was updated on my--”
Yeah. Just stop right there. Very, very rarely will any sort of update improve performance. At all. In fact…well, just take a look at the 3 truths below.
Truth #1 – You’re better off without Windows Update
I know, that little red shield and warning bubble can be pretty intimidating, but don’t necessarily believe your computer when it claims that you’re putting yourself at severe security risk by disabling Windows Update. That’s right, disabling it. If not that, at least set it to “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them”…and then plan to ignore any updates it may find from then on. Why do I have such a negative attitude towards Windows Update? Simply put: because it has the potential to destroy your performance over night. Literally. And since these updates (which are by and large only to combat malware you’ll likely never encounter) typically come in little packages with completely generic names (seriously, who’s going to remember if they installed update KB32409 or not?) restoring your PC to its former speed is basically impossible without restoring to an earlier point in time (which may or may not work) or reinstalling the OS completely. You may not receive a speed decrease from every use of Windows Update, but if you let the program have its way with your PC, you will suffer from it sooner or later. Instead of installing smaller, potentially buggy updates bit by bit, I would highly recommend you stick to only installing new Service Packs from Microsoft’s Download Center. These downloads contain all the updates you will need in a format that is less likely to disrupt your system and is easier to roll back if you do experience issues. For the rest, you have Truth #2...
Truth #2 – Antivirus doesn’t have to be intrusive
For some reason, the average computer user has let ‘antivirus’ come to have the same connotation as ‘The TSA’. You hate dealing with ‘em, but in the name of security, you’ve got to. As such, I’ve watched in amazement as some people subject themselves to virtual inconveniences they would never submit to under any other name than that of King Security. Of course, the user is hardly the one to blame here…though I can imagine why some might feel that way, considering how their antivirus locks them out of nearly everything as if they were a virus themselves. But I digress: there is definitely a lack of quality antivirus software available on the PC market today. While many options do successfully block malware from infecting your computer, they also make your computer basically unusable, which is not a fair trade off if you ask me. A good antivirus application should a) not significantly decrease boot up speed, b) not significantly affect day to day system performance, c) operate as transparently as possible without annoying the user unnecessarily, and d) have as small a memory footprint as possible. For these reasons, I always recommend Panda Cloud Antivirus to people concerned about malware. As of right now, it is the only antivirus software I know of that lives up to that list, but hopefully as more people become aware that antivirus doesn’t have to be as much of a pain as the viruses it fights off, other companies will step up their game and follow suit.
Truth #3 – A deletion a day keeps the GeekSquad away...or something like that
If you’re like me (and just about everyone else I know), you probably will accumulate a lot of files and software that you’ll no longer need after a while. Leaving all this data to rot can take a serious toll on performance. Regularly look through Windows’ Add/Remove Software list and uninstall anything you no longer use, then look through your Program Files folder(s) and delete anything these uninstallations might have missed (this part is often ignored, but can be very important!), then go through your documents and clean them out as well. Remember that if you haven’t needed something for the past year or more, chances are you won’t need it again. If you feel otherwise, consider backing these documents up to a CD, DVD, or other storage device. I would recommend against any USB or other rewritable medium, but just do something to ease the pressure on your hard drive. Last but not least, set a goal for yourself to always keep a certain amount of memory free on your hard drive. If you stick with it, you’ll tend to be more judicious about what gets loaded on there in the first place, and you’ll tend to remember to clear off unused data more often as well, making it less of a job to do each time.
As you can see, all this is really not rocket science. The problem is misinformation, not complexity. Though there is certainly a lot more we could discuss on this topic, hopefully these tips will set you on the path to a smooth PC experience. It is quite possible to have one once you’ve learned how to see through all the myths out there. Know any other myths vs truths that you’ve found helpful, or aren’t sure if something you’ve heard is a myth? Let everyone know in the comments! | <urn:uuid:d2b7a6ef-48bf-4889-b918-4e76b933d610> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lucasc.me/post/myths-vs-truths-slow-pc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965164 | 1,914 | 1.585938 | 2 |
|Title:||An Intervention for Infants and Toddlers with Visual Impairment: Independence through the Mealtime Routines Model|
|Principal Investigator:||Ferrell, Kay||Awardee:||University of Northern Colorado|
|Program:||Early Intervention and Early Learning [Program Details]|
|Award Period:||3 years (7/1/2016-6/30/2019)||Award Amount:||$1,291,048|
|Type:||Development and Innovation||Award Number:||R324A160139|
Co-Principal Investigator: Jamie Erskine
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop an intervention that trains providers to work with families on positive mealtime routines for infants and toddlers with severe visual impairment. Mealtime routines encourage children to develop behaviors that foster independence, a critical skill for success in classroom settings. However, most infants and toddlers with visual impairment require assistance at mealtime due to their inability to observe and imitate mealtime skills and engage in positive social interactions through eye contact. To address this need, this study will develop a family-centered intervention, the Mealtime Routines for Visual Impairment (MRVI) Intervention, to support infants and toddlers with visual impairment in gaining independent mealtime skills.
Project Activities: The intervention will be developed and pilot tested iteratively through a series of studies. In Study 1, the research team will survey Early Interventionists and Teachers of Students with Visual Impairment — Early Intervention (TSVI-EI) providers to learn their current knowledge about independent mealtime skill development for infants with visual impairment. Across Studies 2–4, the team will develop the intervention, including a professional development training for TSVI-EI providers, and collect provider and family data to inform intervention refinement. Study 5, the pilot study, will use a small randomized controlled trial to investigate the promise of the MRVI Intervention for increasing family confidence and positive mealtime interactions and promoting a variety of child outcomes related to mealtime independence (e.g., age-appropriate mealtime behaviors and food selectivity).
Products: The product of this project will be a fully developed intervention to support positive mealtime skills in infants and toddlers with visual impairment, peer-reviewed publications, and presentations.
Setting: This research will take place in family homes and other natural environments of infants and toddlers with visual impairments across seven states — Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington.
Sample: There will be approximately 400–500 TSVI-EI providers and other Early Interventionists working with children with visual impairment across the country participating in the initial survey. For the next series of three studies, 12 TSVI-EI providers with 12 infants/toddlers and their families will participate. For the pilot study, a new group of 14 TSVI-EI provider/family pairs will participate. Participating infants must be diagnosed by a pediatric ophthalmologist as having a severe visual impairment.
Intervention: For the MRVI Intervention, TSVI-EI providers will use a family-centered approach for helping families with children with severe visual impairment during mealtime routines to develop the child's independent eating and other mealtime skills. The provider training will include face-to-face professional development, online learning resources, and possible distance coaching. Providers will use guided decision-making tools in partnership with parents (or other caregivers) to develop individualized family mealtime routines (e.g., making tactile adaptations, encouraging the use of utensils) that address measurable family and child outcomes.
Research Design and Methods: The intervention will be developed in a series of iterative steps. In Study 1, TSVI-EI providers and other Early Interventionists working with children with visual impairment will complete an online survey about their current knowledge of independent mealtime developmental skills. Data from this survey will be used to help develop the intervention. Studies 2 — 4 will be conducted with a sample of 12 TSVI-EI provider/family pairs across the three studies. Study 2 will include only the providers, focused on developing provider training using evidence-based professional development practices. They will be trained on the initial version of the intervention, and feedback during this phase will be used to make improvements. Study 3 will examine whether there is a substantial benefit of adding distance coaching after training, with half the providers assigned to receive online coaching and the other half assigned to receive no coaching as they work with their participating family. Feedback from this stage will guide revisions to the intervention as well as establish implementation fidelity guidelines for the pilot study. Study 4, conducted simultaneously with Study 3, will examine the preliminary outcomes for families receiving the MRVI Intervention from the 12 participating providers. Families will identify individualized goals and strategies, and change in family and child outcomes will be measured. For Study 5, the pilot study, researchers will conduct a small randomized controlled trial with a new sample of 14 TSVI-EI provider/family pairs to examine whether there is evidence of promise for family outcomes (i.e., parent-child interaction, parent confidence in working with child on mealtime skills) and child acquisition of independent mealtime skills (i.e., age-appropriate mealtime developmental skills, food selectivity, and behavioral responsiveness to family members during mealtime).
Control Condition: During the pilot study, the families in the control condition will receive their usual early intervention services for their visually impaired child.
Key Measures: Family and child outcome measures include the Nursing Child Assessments Feeding and Teaching scales, the Behavioral Pediatric Feeding Assessment, anthropometric measures to assess growth (e.g., length, weight), the Early Intervention Development Profile, the Ehrhardt Developmental Prehension Assessment (i.e., fine motor development), scales of parent confidence and efficacy, checklist of foods the child eats, samples of observed mealtime parent-child communications, and parent surveys. Usability for the provider will be measured through a researcher-developed survey, online mastery quizzes, and journals of their impressions. Feasibility and fidelity of implementation will be measured through monthly video recordings of provider sessions with families and of coaching sessions with providers.
Data Analytic Strategy: Survey and feasibility rating data will be examined through descriptive statistics and correlation matrices. Qualitative data (e.g., impression journals) will be analyzed for thematic content. Video recorded sessions for fidelity will be coded for practitioner behavior in the home and the parent's ability to implement the intervention in a routine setting, with chi-square analyses of expected and observed criteria. To analyze the child and family outcomes in the pilot study (parent report measures and observational scoring), the research team will use repeated measures analysis of variance. | <urn:uuid:04eee6c6-6534-48fa-83e5-77068a4c003a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=1858 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.912413 | 1,413 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Array Data Structure For Dummies
As software engineers, we have to face Data structure and algorithms one way or the other no matter how hard we try to avoid them. For beginners, this can be a very hard topic to grasp and wrap their heads around.
But don’t worry I got you covered. Today, I will explain Array Data Structure in the easiest way possible but before I do that let’s freshen up the basics.
What is an array?
An array is just a collection of items, stored in a contiguous memory location. Imagine a wardrobe where you have drawers in a continuous manner. Each drawer can be accessed with its key.
To access elements of an array is just like that. Every element in an array has an index or you can say a key. By using that index you can access the element that is stored in that place in the array.
Why do we need ADT?
Traditional arrays that come with the languages like C /C++ have limitations like:
1. No functionality for bounds checking.
2. No functionality to insert an element.
3. No functionality to delete an element.
So to overcome these limitations some really intelligent people come up with Array Data Structure. (ADT)
It not only solves the problems mentioned above but it is so customizable that we can have any functionality we want.
A user wants to enter 20 names and he using the traditional C array that you have provided. The size of the array that you have provided is 10.
Think for a moment that you don’t know exception handling. What will happen if the user goes beyond the limit.
Have you relied on the user that they will only use the storage space that you have provided and he/she doesn’t break your program? Let me tell an ugly truth — The users don’t care about your program, they are only trying to break it.
As a software engineer, it is our responsibility that our code must be robust. So how do we make our array robust that when someone tries to enter elements beyond the size limit it throws an OVERFLOW error?
Comes to our rescue ADT which unlike traditional array comes with the inbuilt functionality of bounds checking.
Just like no bounds checking, traditional C/C++ arrays do not come with the functionality of insertion/deletion. If you have an array of 5 and it is full. There is no place for a new element to be inserted.
So ADT does is it shifts the element where we wang to insert our element while simultaneously increasing the size of the array.
And the same process happens for deletion. Growing and shrinking in size is the beauty of ADT.
Data structure are a necessity and an eternal part of a software engineers life. Whether we despise them or love them they are helpful in so many situations that they become a life saver for us.
Thank You for reading and giving this article your precious time. | <urn:uuid:0493b543-59bc-4b0b-83e9-cff934eccb94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gautamkhatter.medium.com/array-data-structure-for-dummies-45ea01da9781?source=user_profile---------5---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.915274 | 626 | 3.65625 | 4 |
The Salmon of New York
New York State’s Salmon ( Niagara County) are some of the largest and most eagerly sought gamefish found in northeastern freshwater’s. Images of silvery leaping fish and singing reels quickly yielding line often come to mind when anglers recall, or anticipate, encounters with these fish.
A diverse group of fish, Salmon are found in a variety of settings ranging from the vastness of Lake Ontario to it’s many tributaries, including the Upper and Lower Niagara River. Lake Ontario Salmon Fishing with 1st Choice Charters can you give you access to all of these great Salmon fishing opportunities.
New York State’s Salmon can be separated into two groups: the native Atlantic Salmon and the introduced Pacific Salmon. While the two groups are difficult to tell apart, a look at the anal (bottom rear) fin can help. Atlantic Salmon have 12 or less fin rays in their anal fin, whereas the Pacific Salmon have 13 or more. The shape of the anal fin also distinguishes Atlantic Salmon from Pacific Salmon. In New York State, there is only one species of Atlantic Salmon (Atlantic), but four species of Pacific Salmon (Chinook, Coho, Pink and Kokanee).
The Atlantic Salmon is one of the most highly regarded sport fish in North America and Europe. Known to many as “the leaper,” Atlantics are noted for their spectacular fighting ability, which usually includes several jumps completely out of the water after being hooked by a lucky angler. In New York State, Atlantic Salmon spend their entire lives in freshwater and are usually called landlocked salmon.
Also called Chinook Salmon, King Salmon are the largest of the Pacific salmon. While specimens exceeding 100 pounds been taken on the Pacific coast, New York State’s record fish is a 47 pounder caught in Lake Ontario. Chinook Salmon have a limited distribution in New York State and are only found in lakes Erie and Ontario. Non-natives of New York State, Chinooks were first stocked into the Great Lakes in 1873. Although they were sporadically stocked throughout the years, it was not until about 20 years ago that they became abundant.
At that time, New York State aggressively stocked Chinooks into lakes Erie and Ontario to provide a sport fishery. Using the then tremendous population of alewives as a food source, Chinooks thrived and produced a spectacular sport fishery. Since there is not enough suitable spawning and nursery area to naturally produce enough fish, most of the salmon caught in New York State’s Great Lakes are hatchery-reared and stocked as fingerlings. The results have been spectacular for the last 40 years. Join me for this world class fishing!
Western New York Brown Trout
The brown trout has long been a popular game fish all over the world. Brought over from Europe in the 1880s, brown trout can be found in waters all across New York State. Brown trout are primarily found in streams, but also live in ponds and lakes. As the name implies, brown trout are brown in color with black and often red spots on the sides. However, in large bodies of water, fish tend to be silvery with scattered black spots, allowing them to be termed a “handsome fish”.
Brown trout are generally faster growing and longer lived than brook trout. In the Lower Niagara River and Lake Ontario, fish more than ten pounds are fairly common, while in streams they seldom grow larger than two pounds. Many anglers enjoy fishing for brown trout because they are relatively wary and a challenge to catch. Brown trout can withstand heavy fishing pressure better than other New York trout.
In streams, Brown Trout are durable and can withstand heavy fishing pressure better than many other New York trout species. The main reason for this is that brown trout are more active at night and can be hard to catch in the daytime. In streams, the biggest brown trout are caught after dark, or early morning especially during the summer months. In Lake Ontario, brown trout can be caught at any time of the day and usually reside deep at point where the thermocline meets the bottom in summer.
The New York State Brown Trout record stands at 33 pounds 2 ounces, caught in 1997 in Lake Ontario. Come join me! If you want to experience some great Lake Ontario Trout Fishing, I know many spots in the Niagara River and Lake Ontario that consistently hold large numbers of Brown Trout in the Fall and early Spring. I also know some great techniques for catching summer Brown Trout along the shores of Lake Ontario. | <urn:uuid:e5191294-c864-443b-8d1e-67f2fae3c919> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.1stchoicecharters.com/lake-ontario/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952357 | 936 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Lauryl Glucoside also referred to as Lauryl Glucose, is a surfactant of anionic type. It is mostly used as an emulsifier, conditioner, or foaming agent in cosmetic products. Lauryl Glucoside is recommended by dermatologists as well as it is one of the mildest and most skin-friendly cosmetic ingredients. Lauryl Glucoside can be used as both co-surfactant and base-surfactant in skin cleansers.
Lauryl glucoside assists in creating the viscosity of the final product. The foaming producing ability makes Lauryl Glucoside one of the cosmetic raw materials in many personal care applications as well. Lauryl Glucoside is biodegradable which means that does not pose any threat to the environment during and after use.
Lauryl Glucoside is an odorless liquid that can be light yellow or clear when it comes to appearance. Lauryl Glucoside is water-soluble and proves to be useful when blended alongside ionic formulas to enhance their emulsifying and foam depth. Vegans can use products containing Lauryl Glucoside as it does not comprise components that are derived from animals.
Lauryl Glucoside Benefits
- Skin-friendly: Lauryl Glucoside sounds like a chemical, it is obtained from coconut (oil) and sugar. Also, it does not contain any harsh substances that might be injurious to your skin. Lauryl Glucoside proves to be suitable for all skin types and can also be used by people who have sensitive skin.
- Conditions skin: Lauryl Glucoside is a mild surfactant that has excellent skin conditioning properties as well. Also, it allows water to combine with oils, dirt, and other impurities seamlessly so that you can wash them off easily.
- Foaming properties: Lauryl Glucoside is so mild that it can also be added to baby care products. Lauryl Glucoside's potential to form copious amounts of foam makes it one of the commonly used ingredients in bath gels, shampoos, and skin cleansers.
- No-side effects: Lauryl Glucoside does not have any side effects as well. Therefore, you can add products that contain Lauryl Glucoside to your daily beauty regimen.
- Alternative to Sulfates: Lauryl Glucoside can also prove to be a good alternative to sulfates to cosmetic formulations. Its low pH enables it to be stable and effective in formulations that contain salicylic acid.
- Lauryl Applications: You can use Lauryl glucoside in Face washes, shampoos, conditioners, body washes, baby care products, and other skincare, baby care, and personal care products.
How to Use Lauryl Glucoside?
You don’t need to change its composition in any form before adding to the formulas. Its recommended concentration level can vary between 1 and 25% as it depends on the kind of cleansing and foaming effects you are seeking from it. Also, remember that it is only formulated for external use.
|Raw Material Source:||Glucose (Sugar) & Coconut Oil|
|Manufacturing Process:||Firstly, Lauryl alcohol which is an essential fatty acid is obtained from sugar and coconut and Lauryl Glucoside is obtained from the alcohol.|
|IUPAC Name:||Dodecyl β-D-glucopyranoside|
|INCI Name:||Sodium Lauryl Glucose Carboxylate|
|Molecular Weight:||348.48 grams/mole|
|Boiling Point:||499 ±45.0 °C|
|Flash Point:||255.6±28.7 °C|
|PH Level:||5.5 to 6.5|
|Color:||Clear to yellowish|
|Grade Standard:||Technical Grade|
|Shelf Life:||24 months|
|Alternative Names:||Dodecyl glucoside, Lauryl polyglucoside|
CAUTION: Lauryl Glucoside is a Ethylene Oxide/Propylene Oxide free and is approved by TSCA as well. Therefore, you can use it in cosmetics without any issues. However, it proves to be more efficient when used at lower concentration levels.
Buy Lauryl Glucoside Online in USA at Low PricesVedaOils is the leading manufacturer, supplier, and exporter of Lauryl Glucoside, cosmetic raw materials, and other natural products in USA. We are providing premium-quality raw cosmetic ingredients like Lauryl Glucoside so that you can use them to enhance the appearance, properties, usefulness, and effectiveness of your end products. Buy Lauryl Glucoside cosmetic materials at cost-friendly prices so that you can purchase them in bulk. Order Lauryl Glucoside now and experience the magic of purity and quality!
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a Question? | <urn:uuid:5c41d10f-1b13-490b-a477-3793924499f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://us.vedaoils.com/collections/cosmetic-raw-materials/products/lauryl-glucoside | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.892 | 1,201 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Do you know applying essential oils neat on the skin can be harmful? I have come across cases of skin irritation, sensitization, redness or burning reaction happened as a result of undiluted use of essential oils. For those of you who have been using essential oils undiluted to date and you haven’t had a problem, I would like to remind you that doesn’t guarantee that you won’t develop sensitisation with repeated exposure. We recommend PROPER DILUTION.
1. Carrier oils, as the application medium for essential oils
Vegetable oils are cold pressed oils which blend with the essential oils to carry the essential oils through the skin and into the body. They are often referred to Carrier oils. The term carrier oil is derived from the purpose in carrying the essential oils onto the skin These are widely used as the application medium for essential oils.
2. Essential Fatty Acids are crucial for human body
All vegetables oils are composed of “fatty acids”, which are composed of two parts, one fatty and the other acid and so they are defined as lipids. Essential fatty acids are important in oxygen transfer, haemoglobin production, body recovery speed from fatigue and control of nutrients through cell membranes. The good news is, they are found in most carrier oils used in aromatherapy. Deficiency of Linoleic Acid results in the symptoms like loss of hair, miscarriage, liver and kidney degeneration, etc. On the other hand, deficiency of Alpha Linolenic Acid could results in dry skin, oedema, growth retardation, weakness, low metabolic rate, immune dysfunction, etc.
3. Start diluting today
Consider dilute your essential oils adequately with carrier oils prior to use on the skin. They are of the highest quality for aromatherapy use, having a simple/small molecular structure which makes it easy for the body to absorb. Not only does diluting essential oils with carrier oil have great benefits – it has money saving benefits, too.
4. Shan’s Recommendation: Apricot Kernel Oil
An ideal carrier oil for beginner to start with. Having very little scent characteristic of most carrier oils, Apricot Kernel Oil is ideal to be used for baby massage. Apricot Kernal Oil is very similar to Almond oil, in fact almost identical in terms of its properties, vitamin content and uses. It is a good source of mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated fatty acid like linoleic and oleic acid. Those with nut allergies who can’t use Sweet Almond Carrier Oil, can benefit from substituting it with Apricot Kernel Oil.It has a much finer consistency compared to Sweet Almond, making it an ideal oil for easy skin absorption. Kindly click in to know more about our Certified Organic Apricot Kernel Oil. | <urn:uuid:58534d87-e809-48b8-a740-7aac68545db0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://products.zenergy.com.my/aromatherapy-101-lets-learn-about-apricot-kernel-oil/?add-to-cart=2992 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949995 | 588 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Moon* ♓ Pisces
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 9 September 2016 at 11:49.
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1909".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2016 after 1 day on 16 September 2016 at 19:05.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 206 of Meeus index or 1159 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠112.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144.6°.
8 days after point of apogee on 6 September 2016 at 18:44 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2016 at 17:00 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 375 083 km (233 066 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 894 km (224 871 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 23:55 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 28 September 2016 at 22:06 in ♍ Virgo.
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
4 days since the previous standstill on 10 September 2016 at 22:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.451°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.475° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 September 2016 at 16:44 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 16 September 2016 at 19:05 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment. | <urn:uuid:42cabf88-3283-4cfc-811e-162f5af4bbde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lunaf.com/lunar-calendar/2016/09/15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914174 | 732 | 2.71875 | 3 |
After a Chinese millionaire paid $10,000 for a single glass of whisky which turned out to be fake, research by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) discovered that counterfeit goods are rampant in the rare whisky market—nearly 40% of high-dollar tipples were found to be inauthentic. Unfortunately, this problem doesn’t merely affect the luxury end of the sector —and the consequences of illicit drinks are often far more severe than a wasted $10,000.
After thousands of people around the world have died from drinking substandard goods, governments have had to warn drinkers of the dangers of counterfeit beverages, many of which contain toxic additives or industrial-strength alcohol. What’s more, the proliferation of cheap illicit booze also encourages substance abuse, fosters tax evasion and short-changes legitimate operators in the industry. Fortunately, a broad swath of innovations, from digital tax stamps to disposable sensors, show promise in cutting down on the epidemic of counterfeit beverages.
A global epidemic
The deadly consequences of fake alcohol can be observed all over the globe. Just last week, hundreds of local governments across England and Wales warned their citizens of the dangers of counterfeit booze containing isopropanol, methanol and ethyl acetate, which can cause dizziness, vomiting, anaesthesia and blindness. In particularly severe cases, such contaminants can even kill. The black market booze industry was recently blamed for the deaths of 21 men in Malaysia and almost 80 people in Indonesia.
Some regions are suffering particularly severely from the scourge of under-the-table beverages. In China, for example, it is estimated that around 30% of all alcohol is illicit. Given that the average Chinese person now consumes 7.5 litres of alcohol a year, even a conservative estimate would mean each Chinese citizen knocks back two litres of potentially lethal moonshine every year, with untold consequences for their health.
In Africa, the issue is even more endemic. Recent raids on illegal alcohol factories in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda demonstrate the ubiquity of counterfeit drinks in these nations. Uganda is particularly riddled with fake products: a whopping 94% of beer in the country is illicit, while only 37% of spirits are above-board. Overall, more than two-thirds of Ugandan alcohol is counterfeit, and Kampala’s porous borders with its neighbours mean that large quantities of dangerous liquor – often in cheap and convenient individual sachets (officially banned in Kenya over a decade ago and scheduled to be outlawed in Uganda next year) – still finds its way onto store shelves in both countries.
A crime with many victims
Aside from this human cost, the black market in alcohol is responsible for a host of other societal and economic problems. Cheap, unregulated booze, particularly the kind sold in individual sachets, is a major contributor to instances of alcohol abuse, exacerbating the serious drinking problems faced by many nations worldwide.
Then there’s the fiscal angle. A recent study by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) found that counterfeit wine and spirits cost the bloc’s economy a cumulative $3.1 billion every year—the UK alone suffers from $284 million in annual losses. But in emerging economies, corresponding deficits in domestic revenue can be cataclysmic. Kenyan authorities estimate the country misses out on $290 million each year due to fake booze, while Uganda could be losing up to $172 million.
It’s not just the national coffers who suffer, either. Legitimate manufacturers and sellers are undercut by their bootlegging competition, who have lower production costs and offer consumers lower prices by bypassing taxation. This runs the risk of squeezing compliant, taxpaying companies out of the market. In Kenya, for example, up to a staggering 40% of the national economy is currently controlled by illegal industries, manufacturing and selling everything from rice mixed with tar, to false spare parts for vital infrastructure, to the deadly counterfeit drinks.
Clamping down through technology
Facing experts’ predictions that by 2030 the market could be entirely dominated by illicit trade, Kenya has turned to cutting-edge technology for a solution: affixing latest-generation digital tax stamps to each bottle of wine, spirits or beer under its Excisable Goods Management System (EGMS). In addition to security features to prevent counterfeiting, the stamps contain detailed information about each legitimate product—from its manufacturer to the date it was released into the market. QR codes connected to a publicly-available app allow anyone, retailer or consumer, to verify the authenticity of a bottle.
The system has been so successful in Kenya that neighbouring Uganda has announced plans to introduce a similar scheme. While its implementation has temporarily been put on hold after pushback from beverage manufacturers concerned over shouldering increased production costs, the encouraging results in Kenya—domestic excise revenue on goods covered by the EGMS leapt by 43% after the digital stamps were introduced—suggest that Ugandan producers would reap a significant return on any investment.
Elsewhere, other space-age solutions are springing up, though most are still in the development stage. A sensor developed by scientists at Western Illinois University is capable of detecting counterfeit ingredients through the use of 36 colour-changing dyes—though this method necessarily involves opening the bottle to do so, making large-scale testing impractical. At the University of Manchester, meanwhile, researchers are testing a handheld device employing a technique referred to as spatially offset Raman spectroscopy to measure colour pigments in liquids and determine their composition without having to open the bottle. While both projects require further trials, they could eventually hold the key to stamping out the illicit liquor trade once and for all.
Urgent action imperative
Whether a digital tax stamp system that allows users to verify authenticity of a product at any stage of the supply chain or a futuristic gadget which analyses molecular composition of a liquid through innovative techniques, these innovations are sorely needed to address the pressing problem of counterfeit beverages. Without the practicable solution these technologies may provide, the costly consequences of illicit drinks will continue to claim lives and hamper economies. | <urn:uuid:1d197013-0e66-4c3d-b59f-9851430c6ca8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thewestsidestory.net/technologies-to-tackle-bootleg-booze/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940928 | 1,234 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Acts 28 Adventures in Malta Bible Mazes
Description: Featuring illustrations from Acts 28 this Kids Bible Maze is the perfect compliment to your upcoming Adventures in Malta lesson. Combining a little challenge with a lot of fun this Kids Bible activity will be a hit with your class!
More From This Lesson: Acts 28 Adventures in Malta Sunday School Lesson For Kids
The Acts 28 Adventures in Malta Sunday School Lesson is both inspiring and adventure packed! After their perilous shipwreck, Paul and the rest of passengers made their way ashore on the island of Malta. After being greeted by the local inhabitants, Paul decided to help build a fire. Unfortunately, Paul was bitten by a venomous snake while throwing sticks on the fire! As everyone watched to see what would happen, Paul used the opportunity to share the good news of God. Inside this kids Bible lesson you'll find an exciting resource bundle that includes a beautiful Bible video, teaching slideshow, fun activities, an interactive family devotional and volunteer-friendly curriculum. | <urn:uuid:3b6e1ee6-d50f-4965-9ab0-abf96c3bdafe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kids.sharefaith.com/assets/acts-28-adventures-in-malta-bible-mazes-245555 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923547 | 208 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Establishes a system of designating the sizes of infant's garments. Both the control dimensions on which the size designation system is based, and the method of indicating the size designation on a garment label, are laid down. Should be read in conjunction with ISO 3635.
Status : WithdrawnPublication date : 1977-11
Edition : 1Number of pages : 3
Technical Committee:Clothing sizing systems - size designation, size measurement methods and digital fittings | <urn:uuid:6c969ecb-2395-4def-aa6d-9165f22b198f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iso.org/standard/9082.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.809102 | 109 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Crawfish are a popular dish here in Louisiana, and many people like to boil them up at home to enjoy.
But what do you do if you have leftover crawfish? Can you freeze them so that you can enjoy them later on?
The answer is yes – you can freeze boiled crawfish in the shell! Just take care to follow the proper steps so that they stay safe to eat.
Can you freeze boiled crawfish in the shell?
Boiled crawfish are a staple of Cajun cuisine, and they can be enjoyed fresh or frozen. If you find yourself with a surplus of cooked crawfish, freezing them is a great way to preserve them for later.
Whole crawfish can be frozen in their shells, but it’s important to take measures to prevent freezer burn.
First, place the crawfish in freezer bags and seal them tightly. Then, freeze them as quickly as possible. frozen crawfish will keep for several months, but they are best enjoyed within the first month or two.
When you’re ready to enjoy them, simply thaw the crawfish in your refrigerator overnight and reheat them in boiling water for a few minutes.
Enjoy your delicious boiled crawfish, even if they’re not fresh out of the pot!
How long does cooked crawfish last in the freezer?
Most people don’t know how long cooked crawfish lasts in the freezer. The truth is, they can last for up to three months.
When you prepare and remove the crawfish by yourself, then place them into freezer bags that are about 3/4 full.
The addition of water to the meat could help reduce the risk of burning in the freezer, but it’s not necessary.
Keep the crawfish inside the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
Even though cooked crawfish will last in the freezer for a while, it’s always best to eat them as soon as possible.
This way, you’ll be able to enjoy their freshly caught flavor.
Can you freeze crawfish with the shell on?
Yes, the easiest method of freezing them is to freeze them whole in the shell.
Place the cooked crawfish in freezer bags made of heavy-duty and squeeze as much air as you can in the process of freezing.
Whole crawfish are more likely to lose their quality than tail meat that has been peeled and must be eaten within one month or two.
If properly done, freezing does not appreciably affect either the taste or texture of the meat. In fact, many feel that frozen whole crawfish are superior to fresh because they are more tender.
The only disadvantage to freezing them is that they are more difficult to peel. The key to successful freezing is to use a heavy-duty freezer bag that eliminates as much air as possible.
Do not overfill the bag, allowing space for expansion during freezing. Be sure to label and date the bag so you will know how long they have been frozen.
Frozen whole crawfish will keep for up to two months if properly stored.
How do you store a crawfish boil?
If you want to keep your crawfish boil fresh, it is important to properly store it.
Crawfish will last three to four days in the refrigerator, but it is important to refrigerate it within two hours of cooking.
The best way to store cooked crawfish is in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
This will help to keep the crawfish moist and prevent it from drying out.
When stored properly, your crawfish boil will be fresh and ready to enjoy for days to come.
How long can boiled crawfish stay in the refrigerator?
Freshly cooked crawfish are best enjoyed within a few hours of being boiled, but sometimes life gets in the way and you need to store them for later.
The most important thing to remember is that you need to keep them cool.
The best way to do this is to put them in airtight, sealed containers and then store them in the refrigerator.
This will help to prevent bacteria from growing and will keep the crawfish fresh for up to four days.
When you’re ready to enjoy them, simply reheat the crawfish in boiling water for a few minutes and they’ll be just as good as when they were first cooked.
Is it OK to freeze live crawfish?
At the end of crawfish season, many people find themselves with a surplus of live crawfish.
Rather than let them go to waste, freezing them is a great way to enjoy their deliciousness all year round.
While it may seem counterintuitive, freezing live crawfish is actually quite simple. First, boil them for a few hours to tenderize the meat.
Then, place them in a freezer-safe container and store them in the freezer. When you’re ready to enjoy them, simply thaw and reheat.
Whether you’re serving up a big batch of etouffee or just craving some boiled crawfish, freezing live crawfish is a great way to enjoy their satisfying flavor all year long.
What happens if you eat bad crawfish?
Crawfish are a delectable seafood often enjoyed by many, however, there is a certain level of risk that comes with consuming them.
It is essential that crawfish are consumed only for a brief period of time following their death, as they carry a form of Vibrio bacteria which lines their shells.
If not consumed quickly enough, the bacteria will multiply rapidly, making the seafood unsafe to eat.
While cooking the crawfish will kill the bacteria, it will not remove it completely from the shell.
As a result, those who consume bad crawfish are at risk of getting food poisoning.
While the experience may not be pleasant, it is usually not life-threatening.
However, those with weakened immune systems or other health conditions may be at greater risk for more serious complications.
To avoid any risks, it is best to only eat crawfish that have been properly cooked and prepared.
Do you thaw frozen crawfish before cooking?
The most common ways to cook frozen crawfish is to either boil or steam them.
If you choose to boil your frozen crawfish, it is important to first bring an ice-filled pot of water to a boil.
This will help to ensure that your crawfish are cooked evenly and avoid becoming hard and brittle.
You can also add seasonings and spices to the boiling water for additional flavor.
If you choose to steam your frozen crawfish, you will need to place them in a steamer basket over boiling water.
Again, it is important to avoid overcooking as this can result in tough and dry meat.
Seasonings can also be added to the boiling water for steaming. When cooked properly, frozen crawfish can be just as delicious as fresh catch.
How can you tell if crawfish is bad?
Bad crawfish will have a sour smell. If you can smell your catch before cooking it and it doesn’t have a fresh ocean smell, don’t eat it.
Once you’ve cooked the crawfish, avoid eating ones that are mushy or easily break apart.
These have likely gone bad. The crawfish’s color can also tell you if it’s still good to eat.
If the shell is black or blue, gag at the thought of eating it because this is an indication that the meat has become sour.
If the tail meat is white, then you’re in the clear! You can safely enjoy this seafood treat.
But if the meat is any other color than white, best to toss it. And finally, don’t forget to use your own good judgment!
If something just doesn’t look or smell right, don’t take a chance on getting sick – play it safe and ditch the crawfish.
Is it OK to boil dead crawfish?
Crawfish are a Louisiana delicacy, and there are many ways to prepare them.
One popular method is to boil them alive, but some people believe that it is better to only boil crawfish that are already dead.
The reasoning behind this is that the tails of crawfish that have been boiled alive will curl up, while the tails of those that were dead when they were boiled will remain straight.
However, there is no evidence to support this claim. In fact, boiling crawfish that are already dead can actually make them harder to eat, as the tail meat will be tougher.
Ultimately, it is entirely up to the individual whether they want to boil live or dead crawfish. Both methods will result in delicious seafood.
If you have leftover boiled crawfish, freezing them is a good way to store them.
Just be sure to freeze them quickly and seal the bags tightly so that they don’t spoil. | <urn:uuid:57933a3d-281f-46dc-bd84-dc1bfb771cc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://iforgotitswednesday.com/can-you-freeze-boiled-crawfish-in-the-shell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962798 | 1,851 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Office environments can be liken to a garden which may be planned and cultivated with intelligence or allowed to exist on a come what may basis. But whether planned with proper cultivation or left unattended it will bring forth. If no thoughtful purpose is put into it, useless weed seeds will fall therein and continue to produce their kind. Just as a gardener plans and cultivates the ground and keeping it free from weeds to produce the fruits and flowers of his desire, so can the space of the office be developed to produce the culture, productivity, effectiveness and warmth required, weeding out all the generators of time-wasting, non-productive and uninspired circumstances. By pursuing this endeavor a person sooner or later discovers that one can effectively control and enrich circumstances that produce fruits required by cultivating environments rather than trying to address the circumstances as results.
Environment and circumstances are one. The outer circumstance in any environment is always connected to ones inner state. Thoughts and emotion produce results of its kind. Likewise the inner state is almost always connected to the environment. The connection between circumstances and environment in the workplace is rarely connected in the mind of leaders. Often time’s leaders will address every other aspect in the workplace other than environment looking for changes in culture, productivity or higher profits.
Business environments both material and psychological are seldom planned. They are allowed to develop by their own order. The circumstances that come out of the workplace are seldom connected thereto. Every business is where they are because of the law of their being, the way of thinking that develops the character that has brought them there. Circumstances do not make the business but rather reveals itself to itself.
Office design should reflect the thoughts, ideals and character of the business. In the natural world people understand this clearly, everything produces according to its kind. Pigs produce pigs and fig trees produce figs. Nothing can come from a peach seed but a peach. With this in mind, not planning the office environment from the framework of sound business ideas and mindfulness is a recipe for whatever grows therein.
There are natural conditions in the workplace that affect the overall atmosphere and character of the business; be it geographical, ethnic, or generational etc. The Boomers may have different mindset than say the Gen Y’s. A Midwest mindset may be different than a New Yorker. Cultural differences between ethnic groups can provide natural environmental influences. Blending natural conditional behaviors and making them congruent with company ideals and philosophies is a start in the direction of environmental planning.
Global conditioning is another avenue that affects business environments. It is obvious the workplace and way we do business and the tools available that we use in the workplace is changing rapidly. Business as we knew it twenty to twenty-five years ago (or even a few short years ago) is almost foreign to workers today. Business as we know today has change from our back yard to become globalized. What happens in one part of the world affects residents in other countries. Technology tools are coming to market faster than thought. Today we have; smart phones, laptop computers, iPads, email, iPods and global positioning systems. Together with hardware products we have Cloud computing, streaming, Twitter, Facebook. Ideas and recourses are coming to market faster than ever before. Creativity and innovation is leading the market.
The thought patterns of business today need to be creative and innovative to stay in step with a technology based world. It is no longer an effective strategy to allow business to develop its own mindset. Companies today must be perennially creative, innovative and productivity minded. Without these core attributes it is difficult staying in step with a performance based world.
Purposeful intelligent environmental planning requires being mindful of the world around us and building an environment as a foundation to speak to these conditions. Every fiber of a company’s being from the way it looks, feels, speaks and performs must be planned with purpose and intelligence. Being that visual proponents is a key factor in establishing an affective environment. Office furniture can be a foundational consideration in achieving a results driven workplace.
The way a company looks and feels is part of the story it tells. Modern office furniture well done and placed in effective ways that inspire workers to want to come to work and participate in building a forward culture is the beginning of creating a great environment and control over circumstances. | <urn:uuid:a614e426-3300-46e7-8ac6-0e027a2b6cef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lookmore.club/effective-environments-on-circumstances/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951534 | 875 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The next step for you is to make sure that your website’s true goals are effectively tracked and monitored, as without this data you can hardly measure or report the progress of a SEO campaign. As we move on with the last part of the 2 blog series, we discuss on how to track down your goals by Google Analytics and measure success of your SEO campaigns.
Track down Goals using Google Analytics
Google Analytics tracks conversions in two ways:
- Ecommerce Tracking
If your ecommerce website allows customers to buy and pay online, your website’s payments related information is best measured by Ecommerce Tracking.
- Goal Tracking
In case you website’s goal is not related to online revenue and purchases, Goal Tracking is the suitable way as it measures every time a visitor completes an anticipated action.
You can track different actions as Goals in Google Analytics and can weight them according to the business conditions by assigning optional values for each. In a way, you can set up tracking of contact form completions and call tracking such that if you find phone calls to be more valuable to your business than contact form enquiries, you can assign a value of 1 to phone calls and 2 to contact form completions.
It is fairly easy to set up Goals in Google Analytics; plus, it gives a clear conversion data to measure your SEO’s success metric. On the other hand, Ecommerce Tracking is a bit more complicated to set up and is recommended to be done by an experienced web developer. To know more, read the official Google resource.
Measure SEO campaign success spot-on
All you need to know is the purpose of your website; and when you recognize the true objective of its existence and you track these goals using Google Analytics, you are on the right track to measure the progress of your SEO campaign and more efficiently evaluating its successes and failures.
An increase in Organic traffic is good only when it contributes to the fundamental objective of the website. And when you track organic traffic, you can measure its impact on your goals or revenue and check if that is improving. But point to note, Organic traffic alone is just a small part of the picture and is not the only traffic source resulting from a SEO campaign. You can even look for referral and social sources to find out the impact of the campaign. Success metrics such as conversions from organic traffic sources, referrals and social sources helps to measure SEO activities appropriately. In case, you have good backlinks and greater social engagements as an outcome of the campaign, you will definitely find this reflecting in your goals and revenue statistics for your website. | <urn:uuid:bc50641e-87d0-475c-8280-a45fe6268d68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.i95dev.com/boost-your-business-by-measuring-your-seo-activities-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935929 | 526 | 1.5 | 2 |
The past few years have been a roller coaster of global instability. While the pandemic is slowly dying down, the Russian-Ukrainian war is scaling up. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has started the largest war in Europe since World War II, and as a result, we are seeing disruptions across global markets affecting the price of food, energy, and other commodities.
It is no great secret that wars drive rapid change. But unlike many other previous wars, this one is taking a big toll on the global technology landscape. For large tech companies like Google, Apple, and Twitter, it has been a challenging few months trying to stay out of the Russia–Ukraine conflict and avoid violating sanctions. Many platforms like TikTok and Facebook have been banned from Russia, and with that, a lot of questions have arisen about the ongoing effects of the war on the world of technology and the Internet.
Ukraine is a global leader in IT — in 2020 the value of its tech industry exceeded US$5b, 20% above that of 2019. Highly respected around the world, Ukrainian software engineers have founded or co-founded large companies like PayPal, WhatsApp, Grammarly, and open-source coding platform GitLab. With little to no preparation for such an event, the ongoing impact could span decades, especially for technology personnel within Ukraine.
Tech companies responded rapidly to the war in a range of ways. Wix and Fiverr started to relocate employees from their offices in Ukraine before the Russian attack began. Other companies responded by paying full salaries to employees who joined the Ukrainian armed forces, or transferring bonuses ahead of time. Lemon.io set up a safe house in Western Ukraine to help protect employees who might need accommodation or operational assistance in the case of a loss of Internet and phone access. Internet access in Ukraine has already been badly harmed as a result of the Russian invasion, notably in the country’s southern and eastern regions, and Elon Musk’s Starlink has been providing emergency Internet access via its satellite network.
Within days of the invasion, large multinational tech companies implemented sanctions on Russia. Facebook and Google banned Russian state media from running ads or monetizing content, while Apple Pay suspended its service in Russia completely. With such sanctions put in place, tech companies are hoping to end the conflict sooner by fully isolating Russia from the world. In addition, successful international companies with a large Russian presence have gone into panic mode fearing the sanctions, and with emergency meetings in place, some have begun relocating their headquarters from Russia to Europe and the U.S.
For tech workers themselves, there seems to be an appetite for banding together and helping their countrymen, with some organizing donation drives and supporting their peers who join the armed forces. Global tech freelancing platforms have rallied to support both Ukrainian freelancers who are losing livelihoods, and provided ways for freelancers outside the Ukraine to help tech workers in the country.
As for individuals, some ways to lend a helping hand to Ukraine include expressing support on social media, amplifying initiatives, and verifying information before sharing controversial articles. | <urn:uuid:c052e64c-148f-4e0d-b19d-a8b68579ba0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ggateway.tech/how-the-war-in-ukraine-is-affecting-the-tech-landscape/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95533 | 624 | 2.46875 | 2 |
WWOHP has established collaborations with the following organizations, public schools, and colleges and universities to promote community involvement in the collection and preservation of women’s stories.
Repository of Collection
- Daedal Creations
- No Evil Project
- South High Community School
- Worcester Historical Museum
- Worcester Public Library
- Worcester Cultural Coalition
Special thanks to our generous funders for their role in making this project come to life.
- 2006 - Greater Worcester Community Foundation, mini-grant allowing for equipment purchases
- 2007 - Worcester Cultural Commision, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, to develop and facilitate Spanish Oral History Workshop
- Oral History Network of Ireland - Dr. Mary Muldowney | <urn:uuid:283badeb-abe6-4ab6-a07b-f71c30e98fee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wwohp.org/partners-funders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.882575 | 165 | 1.671875 | 2 |
How Do Taxpayers Respond to Tax Subsidy for Long-term Savings? Evidence from Thailand’s Tax Return Data
This paper uses a panel of personal income tax return data for the population of Thai tax filers to examine how individuals respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings. We utilize the 2013 tax reform that lowered the price subsidy for long-term savings in order to obtain causal identification. Our difference-in-difference analysis illustrates that there is a considerable heterogeneity in the individual responses to the subsidy cut—with middle-income taxpayers responding much more than their high-income counterparts. Among the middle-income group, we also find that the subsidy reduction has larger effects on decisions of smaller contributors. Our findings shed light on the heterogeneity of individual responses which are crucial for policymakers who consider an incremental change in the existing tax incentive scheme. | <urn:uuid:220794af-45ef-41da-87e3-c9f13e3f0fb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pier.or.th/dp/143/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.913067 | 173 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Bedford: Atmos Energy Leak Survey
Beginning August 5, Atmos Energy crews and contractors will be in the area performing safety surveys of the local natural gas distribution system using mobile leak detection units that measure and map methane plumes in the area. Mobile leak detection units are white SUVs with flashing lights and are labeled with an Atmos Energy logo or “Utility Contractor.” These units will be seen driving slowly in streets and alleyways at night, which ensures an accurate survey of the gas system.
As part of this routine maintenance, if a natural gas leak is discovered, crews will investigate and grade the leak. If a Grade 1 (hazardous leak) is found, immediate action will be taken to eliminate the hazard. Grade 2 and 3 leaks are monitored and scheduled for repair based on state and federal guidelines. City officials and first responders have been notified of this activity. | <urn:uuid:907f5c49-65b2-4c78-af63-f861c30ae15a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://northeastnews.org/2019/07/26/bedford-atmos-energy-leak-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.919046 | 182 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Many people think the value in art is talking about how much an art piece is worth. I had no idea that it meant something completely different. The element of value is really all about the lightness or darkness of a color; be it black or any other color. These printables teach about the element of value in art with awesome lessons that your child can practice on. There is a black and white version and a color version. These are really neat, and would go great in an art notebook.
You can download these free printables with easy instructions HERE.
Sarah is a wife, daughter of the King and Mama to 4 children (one who is a homeschool graduate)! She is a an eclectic, Charlotte Mason style homeschooler that has been homeschooling for almost 20 years.. She is still trying to find the balance between work and keeping a home and says she can only do it by the Grace of God, and Coffee! | <urn:uuid:30541cdd-9d0e-40d3-bc31-35650424f08b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://homeschoolgiveaways.com/2017/09/the-element-of-value-free-art-printables-for-your-home-or-classroom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976062 | 191 | 2.28125 | 2 |
To predict atmospheric conditions in an urban environment, the land surface processes must be accurately described through the use of detailed land use (LU) and land cover (LC) data. Use of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 25-category data, currently in the Fifth-generation Mesoscale Model (MM5), with the Noah land surface model (LSM) and MRF (medium-range forecast) planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes resulted in the over-prediction of daytime temperatures in the Houston downtown area due to the inaccurate representation as a completely impervious surface. This bias could be corrected with the addition of canopy water in the urban areas from the evapotranspiration effects of urban vegetation. A more fundamental approach would be to utilize an LULC dataset that represents land surface features accurately. The Texas Forest Service (TFS) LULC dataset established with the LANDSAT satellite imagery correctly represents the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (HGB) area as mixtures of urban, residential, grass, and forest LULC types. This paper describes how the Noah LSM and PBL schemes in the MM5 were modified to accommodate the TFS-LULC data. Comparisons with various meteorological measurements show that the MM5 simulation made with the high resolution LULC data improves the boundary layer mixing conditions and local wind patterns in the Houston Ship Channel, which is a critically important anthropogenic emission area affecting the HGB air pollution problems. In particular, when the synoptic flows are weak, the improved LULC data simulates the asymmetrically elongated Houston heat island convergence zone influencing the location of the afternoon Gulf of Mexico sea-breeze front and the Galveston Bay breeze flows. This paper is part I of a two-part study and focuses on the meteorological simulation. In part II, effects of using the different meteorological inputs on air quality simulations are discussed.
- Land surface model
- Land-sea breeze
- Satellite-derived land use land cover data | <urn:uuid:7e80b9c8-3a73-4f63-82c1-65efe3bc7486> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.ncu.edu.tw/en/publications/application-of-high-resolution-land-use-and-land-cover-data-for-a-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.889664 | 423 | 3.125 | 3 |
Here is a post on finding a second mode in the ENSO time series, in addition to the biennial forcing mode
The paper that the analysis aligns well with is
Kim, Kwang-Yul, James J O’Brien, and Albert I Barcilon. “The Principal Physical Modes of Variability over the Tropical Pacific.” Earth Interactions 7, no. 3 (2003): 1–32. --
After having read this paper, I was amazed that it only has 8 citations and those were mainly self-directed. Kim et al are one of the few papers where one finds references to the biennial periodicity of ENSO. | <urn:uuid:88b9257c-0381-4d3c-be52-03600012604b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.azimuthproject.org/plugin/viewcomment/12639 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.908003 | 197 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Turkmenbashi-Makhachkala ferry line, which will be launched in 2019, is a large-scale project for the region. The renewed route will not just connect two ports, but will become a transit point from which a full-fledged transport corridor to the Black sea will be built. Reports a specialized website korabel.ru.
According to the head of the trade mission of the Russian Federation in Turkmenistan Alexander Yelizarov, trade representatives of India and Iran have already conducted research on the export of goods of their producers on the Turkmenbashi-Makhachkala ferry line. Now the Russian side intends to involve more remote countries � Vietnam and the Republic of Korea-in the project.
Today, there are a number of specific companies interested in the emergence of a transport corridor that would connect the East with the West through the Caspian and Black seas, emphasizes Yelizarov. At the moment, they carry goods by ferry to Baku, and then through the territory of Dagestan fall into the middle lane of Russia, which is much more expensive.
According to estimates of the trade mission of the Russian Federation in Turkmenistan, in the medium term, the Turkmenbashi-Makhachkala ferry line will be able to receive 8 million tons of cargo per year. In the first stage, the transportation will be carried out in the range of 300-500 thousand tons of cargo per year, which will make the project payback and demonstrate its potential to carriers.
In the early 2000s, various factors hindered the operation of the Turkmenbashi-Makhachkala ferry service. After almost two decades, much has changed, including increased transport and transit potential of Turkmenistan, which in 2018 was opened in the region's largest international seaport of Turkmenbashi.
The total area of the sea Harbor, equipped according to international standards, is 1 million 385.5 thousand square meters with a pier length of 3.6 thousand meters. | <urn:uuid:e4dc147f-4ec0-4e2c-a21d-239dbb809f8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://turkmenistannewsgazette.com/the-turkmenbashi-makhachkala-ferry-line-will-become-part-of-a-major-east-west-transport-corridor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936405 | 423 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Ballistics of the cartridges are similar. 30-30 is advertised as 2200 with a 170 grain bullet and 2390 with a 150. This is with a 24-26 inch barrel. Drop about 100 fps for the more common carbines. The 32 Special is 2250 with a 170 grain bullet. The 35 is about 2100 with a 200 grain bullet but most factory loads deliver closer to about 1960-2000 out of the carbines. A reloader can hot rod the 32 Special out of a solid rifle to a higher muzzle velocity over a hot-rodded 30-30. Advantages get lost down range as the 30 cal has a higher sectional density. The 35, even with bullets like the Hornady LEs does not have very solid velocity retention.
The 32 Special when brought out was said to split the difference between the 30-30 and the 30 Government (30-40) Krag. A very small difference. It actually was closer as the original 30-30 loads were 165 grain at 1960 as compared to todays loads. The hotter 170 grain loads were more recent for the 30-30. Back then small differences were important.
When 35 Remington's were hard to get a couple of years ago, an individual was making cases out of 308's, but the rim is slightly different than a 308. As to the 8mm Mauser. The US took the 8mm Mauser case and lengthened it and necked it down to make the 30-03 then the 30-06. I have made cases for my old 8mm Mauser out of 30-06 brass with little problem. At one time I think the 35 had two different shell holders based on brand? Technically the 30-30 and 32 Special are based on the 38 basic case or the 38-55 which may be said to have evolved out of the Ballard. Winchester was big on manufacturing standardization so the 94 was made in 38-55, 32-40 (some say the 32 Special came about because of the 32-40 machining equipment on hand) the 30-30, 32 special and the 25-35, all which could technically made from the 38-55 case. The 35 Remington was deigned as a semi auto cartridge and was rimless to function better. There was also a 25, 30, and 32 Remington which duplicated the Winchester 94 cartridges in ballistics and would have been better for modern use but they died off. | <urn:uuid:0ed5fc46-9568-49d8-9b42-ad8a48946fe6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marlinowners.com/threads/30-30-32-35.543194/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97486 | 500 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Peter Kornbluh, Cuba scholar at the non-profit National Security Archive, objects to yesterday’s post criticizing the National Archives for its stance on secret JFK files.
“This criticism of NARA General Counsel, Gary Stern, seems a classic case of shooting the messenger–and in this case an ally for transparency on this issue,” Kornbluh writes.
Kornbluh is a friend whose scholarship on U.S.-Cuba policy is central to understanding JFK’s presidency. And I welcome Stern’s personal commitment to open government. Nonetheless, I think the public can reasonably expect the National Archives general counsel to act in a capacity greater than “messenger” for the CIA’s diktat.
Kornbluh is right that Stern deserves credit for pressing the issue with the Agency, and I should have mentioned that.
“Being responsive to concerns and pressures from right-to-know community, and to the excellent work of Jefferson Morley on this issue, more than two years ago NARA officials went to the CIA and formally requested that they come clean on these records for the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. The CIA refused. As the above column concedes, NARA does not have the power to force the CIA to comply–no other agency except the White House itself has that power–but can only ask. NARA did ask, and deserves credit for that initiative which puts the public onus on the CIA.”
Fair enough, but that doesn’t go far enough. Stern and the Archives could — and should — do more, even within the confines of Washington bureaucratic politics.
Why can’t the Archives respectfully acknowledge the CIA’s decision and respectfully state its recommendation that the CIA review and release these records as soon as possible?
It should not need stating (but evidently does) that the interests of the National Archives are not identical to those of the CIA. The Archives would lose nothing — and indeed would gain public respect — by asserting the importance of full disclosure in the JFK assassination records.
Archivist David Ferriero has asked the public to comment on priorities in declassification and the public responded, via the Transforming Classification blog and the Change.org online petition, with strong expressions of support for immediate JFK declassification.
That is the message which the National Archives should be the messenger for. | <urn:uuid:f55a7e2c-2e32-4e4c-83f2-ef6cffc1d493> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jfkfacts.org/in-defense-of-the-national-archives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929069 | 509 | 1.640625 | 2 |
|Nutrition Facts (per serving)|
|Amount per serving|
|% Daily Value*|
|Total Fat 0g||0%|
|Saturated Fat 0g||0%|
|Total Carbohydrate 17g||6%|
|Dietary Fiber 1g||4%|
|Total Sugars 14g|
|Vitamin C 3mg||14%|
|*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.|
This pomegranate jelly recipe requires a lot of fruit, but once you've made it, you'll agree it's fabulous and worth the expense.
If fresh pomegranates aren't available or too costly, you can substitute store-bought pomegranate juice to take a shortcut. Use 3 1/2 cups of juice with 1/4 cup water.
If time is an issue, you can buy pomegranate seeds, known as arils, already removed from the fruit although they tend to be expensive.
Place pomegranate seeds and 1/2 cup water in a heavy, nonreactive stockpot. Cover and cook for 10 minutes until seed sacs are tender to the touch.
Place a colander over a large bowl or pot. Line the colander with an ample double layer of cheesecloth. Pour in the pomegranate seeds and liquid. Tie up the ends of the cheesecloth into a pouch. Twist and squeeze the bag to extract all the juice (wear rubber gloves, so your hands do not get stained).
Discard the pouch of seeds. Measure pomegranate juice. You will need 4 cups (add water to make up any difference).
If using liquid pectin: Place pomegranate juice, lemon juice, and sugar in a large 10-quart nonreactive stockpot over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil. Add pectin and return to a rolling boil. Continue to boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
If using dry pectin: Place pomegranate juice, lemon juice, and pectin in a large 10-quart nonreactive stockpot over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil. Stir in sugar and return to a rolling boil. Continue to boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Fill hot, sterilized jars with the pomegranate jelly to within 1/4-inch of the rim. Wipe rims and screw on hot sterilized lids and rings.
Place jars on a rack in a large heavy stockpot and cover with boiling water. Heat to a simmer and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove jars and cool on a towel for 2 days before storing. | <urn:uuid:fec2d830-0e5e-4160-bf79-478012fa7e29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thespruceeats.com/pomegranate-jelly-recipe-1808100 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.866326 | 713 | 1.929688 | 2 |
3.5 million people assisted
USD 2.9 million cash-based transfers provided
USD 597 million (April - September 2022) net funding requirements
36,356 mt of food assistance distributed
- In March, WFP provided assistance to 3.5 million people, including those affected by drought and floods, internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, malnourished women and children. WFP also continued to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance in conflict-affected Northern Ethiopia.
In the Tigray Region, WFP delivered emergency food assistance to 60,231 people. WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to 188,308 (in Afar), and 161,332 (in Amhara), internally displaced persons (IDPs) and food insecure people in host communities in March.
In the Somali Region, WFP continued to provide food assistance to IDPs, and people affected by drought, but with reduced ration of cereal due to funding shortage. WFP assisted 1.55 million people with 20,298 mt of food and USD 1.8 million in cash-based transfers (CBT) during March.
In March, WFP provided treatment of moderate acute malnutrition and prevention of wasting to 544,651 children under five, as well as pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG) through distribution of 1,540 mt of specialized nutritious foods under targeted supplementary feeding (TSF) and blanket supplementary feeding (BSF) activities.
Support to Refugees
WFP supported 681,696 refugees with 7,574 mt of in-kind food assistance and USD 339,781 cash-based transfers (CBT) in 24 refugee camps across Ethiopia in March. Critical funding shortfalls resulted in refugees receiving only 60 percent rations.
Support to Refugees
- WFP supported 681,696 refugees with 7,574 mt of in-kind food assistance and USD 339,781 cash-based transfers (CBT) in 24 refugee camps across Ethiopia in March. Critical funding shortfalls resulted in refugees receiving only 60 percent rations.
- In March, WFP’s on-site school feeding activities reached 221,406 school children with 574 mt of food. WFP supported 48,265 children through its home-grown school feeding initiative using locally procured food commodities.
Fresh Food Vouchers (FFV)
The FFV Programme supports households with PLWG and children under the age of two to access fresh food and improve their dietary diversity. In March, WFP provided fresh food digital vouchers to 50,522 women and children in Amhara region.
To strengthen the livelihoods of communities, WFP supported over 5,650 people through its resilience building and livelihood activities. Under this initiative, activities included provision of fishery equipment to 132 fishery people and procurement of seed (maize, haricot bean/red beans) for 200 households in Gambella region ahead of the cropping season.
Climate Risk Management
- To mitigate risks posed by the desert locust invasion, flooding and other climate shocks, WFP conducted targeting of vulnerable smallholder farmers in Somali region. In March, 245 (72 female and 100 refugee) households were identified for the agricultural input support interventions.
WFP dispatched six convoys with 2.6 mt of relief commodities within the Afar region.
In Amhara region, WFP dispatched 7,109 mt of relief commodities throughout Amhara Region.
WFP continued to support the Bureau of Education with over 275 mt of school feeding commodities dispatched from Kombolcha, using WFP fleet trucks.
As part of WFP’s Service Provision, WFP provided 801 litres and 2040 litres of fuel to humanitarian partners in Gode and Assosa, respectively.
Accountability to Affected Populations
- In March, WFP recorded 577 cases from Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Gambella, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali and Tigray through the community feedback and response mechanisms of the toll-free helpline, helpdesk tools -logbook and a tally sheet and monitoring. The reported cases mainly focussed on distribution delays, ration cuts and inclusion errors - most cases have been fully closed.
Cross-border Assistance to South Sudan
- WFP Ethiopia continued to support WFP’s operations in South Sudan through river and road deliveries. Airdrop operations have been suspended from November to date due to operational challenges.
United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)
- In March, UNHAS transported 295 mt of humanitarian cargo and 704 passengers within Ethiopia. | <urn:uuid:4fd59a56-c79d-46b9-a3c0-0408a2b43c2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.reliefweb.int/report/3850763/ethiopia/wfp-ethiopia-country-brief-march-2022?lang=ru | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929297 | 996 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Many of you are pursuing cancer and don’t even know it. Cancer is not something that just happens due to a stroke of bad luck. It is very often what is on your plate that creates and feeds cancer growth. In this article, we talk about how cancer develops from certain foods we eat and the top 6 foods that feed cancer.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. and so common that 1 out of every 4 people are getting cancer. Until now, it has seemed to be a mystery why some people get cancer while others do not. In the last few years, researchers have found a mechanism in which certain foods create and feed cancer cells to grow into massive tumors.
How Cancer Develops
There is an inflammatory chemical in our body called prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). If the levels of this chemical are high enough for a long enough period of time, it transforms a normal, healthy cell into a cancer cell. PGE2 is produced from eating too much arachidonic acid. Many of you are eating foods that contain or convert to arachidonic acid once inside your body. Some of the worst culprits are fried foods, such as French fries, chips and other processed foods that are cooked or processed with bad vegetable oils (corn, cottonseed, peanut, sunflower, safflower).
Another ingredient in processed food and sweetened beverages that produces PGE2 and promotes cancer growth is sugar. Avoiding added sugar in your diet is imperative if you want to avoid cancer and most other diseases.
Cancer, like most diseases, is an inflammatory disease. Any foods you eat that cause systemic inflammation in your body will promote cancer growth! Sugar and vegetable oils are the worst offenders!
Other Foods That Cause Inflammation? (Printable Version)
The Foods and Food Ingredients That Feed Cancer
Fast Food. Most items on these menus are pro-inflammatory because they are are fried, contain grain (bread, tortillas, pasta), and meat from grain-fed animals (another source of arachidonic acid).
Processed Food and Junk Food. These also usually contain wheat flour (grain), sugar or high fructose corn syrup, and pro-inflammatory vegetable oils (corn, cottonseed, peanut, sunflower, safflower).
Sweets and Sugary Beverages. Soda, candy, cookies, baked goods, etc.
Sugar + Inflammation = Cancer
Trans Fat. Any food that lists “partially hydrogenated” oil on the ingredient label has trans fat. This is the most dangerous fat to consume.
Vegetable Oils. Here is a list of oils you should be avoiding.
Food Additives, Preservatives and Artificial Sweeteners. Here Are The Top 10 To Avoid
In part 2, we will discuss the most powerful “super foods” that fight cancer. | <urn:uuid:8e990780-2dbb-4a4f-adfc-59ee0d974460> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drryanhamm.com/are-you-eating-cancer-part-1-the-foods-that-feed-cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938257 | 596 | 3.015625 | 3 |
ACT health authorities have issued a measles alert after a recent traveller transited through the Canberra Airport while infectious.
The Qantas passenger was only in Canberra for 49 minutes but anyone who may have been in contact with the person on the plane or at the terminal is being warned to be alert to symptoms.
Acting Chief Health Officer Dr Kerryn Coleman said the person’s travel in and out of Canberra was on Thursday 21 March 2019 and included flight QF1543 from Brisbane to Canberra arriving at 8 am and flight QF809 from Canberra to Melbourne departing at 8:49 am.
“Anyone who was on the identified flights in and out of Canberra or in the Canberra Airport departure terminal between 8-10 am on that day, should be aware for signs and symptoms of measles between now and Tuesday 9 April 2019,” Dr Coleman said.
“Symptoms of measles may include fever, tiredness, runny nose, sore eyes and a cough, followed by a rash which appears two to seven days later.
“Anyone with symptoms of measles should seek medical advice, advising their health care provider before they arrive so that appropriate infection control precautions can be put in place to stop the spread of the infection.”
Dr Coleman said people generally developed symptoms seven to 18 days after being exposed to a person with infectious measles, with 10 days being more common. People were infectious from about four days before they developed a rash until four days after.
“Measles is a serious disease and is highly contagious among people who are not fully immunised,” Dr Coleman said.
She said the virus was spread from an infectious person during coughing and sneezing or through direct contact with secretions from the nose or mouth.
“Whenever measles is identified, it is a strong reminder that the best way to protect yourself and your family against measles is vaccination,” Dr Coleman said.
Two doses of Measles Mumps Rubella vaccine (MMR) were required for immunity against measles and were given to children in Australia at 12 and 18 months of age. However, the vaccine could be given at any age after nine months.
“Measles continues to circulate in many overseas countries, so people travelling should check their immune status before leaving home,” Dr Coleman said.
For further information about measles, visit the ACT Health website at: https://www.health.act.gov.au/sites/default/files/2018-09/Measles.pdf | <urn:uuid:e83bcde7-f6e4-4482-9b5c-f897f723ab6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://the-riotact.com/measles-alert-after-infectious-passenger-passes-though-canberra-airport/292762 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971593 | 515 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Sri Lanka has banned 11 Muslim organisations, including the ISIL (ISIS) group and al-Qaeda, a week before the second anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide bombings which killed 279 people.
Anyone linked to the groups – the other nine of which are local religious and social organisations – faces up to 20 years in jail, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in a gazette notification.
Before the anniversary, the country’s Roman Catholics had threatened to take to the streets over what they say is the government’s failure to act against those responsible for the attacks.
Some of the groups banned on Wednesday had previously been linked to the lead bomber.
The move, made under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, was “in furtherance of the efforts of the government of Sri Lanka made in good faith for the purpose of ensuring the continuance of peace within the country”, Rajapaksa said.
The seven Sri Lankans who attacked three churches and three hotels in April 2019 had pledged allegiance to the ISIL leader at the time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
However, investigators said they had found no evidence of their direct links to ISIL.
Two local groups said to be directly linked to the attacks were banned in 2019, but a presidential investigation into the bombings wanted similar Muslim groups outlawed too.
All seven bombers died and no other suspects have been charged.
The head of the Roman Catholic church in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, has demanded swift action not just against those responsible, but against the politicians and officials who failed to stop them.
The investigation found that then-President Maithripala Sirisena and his intelligence leaders were warned by India about the attacks 17 days before they were staged.
The United States has filed an action against three Sri Lankans over the bombings. Five US nationals were among 45 foreigners killed in the blasts.
The inquiry, whose report was released earlier this year, also recommended that Buddhist organisations accused of instigating intercommunal unrest before and after the bombings be banned, but none was named in Wednesday’s decree. | <urn:uuid:a457f92d-343b-421e-9817-0710d122cfff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/14/sri-lanka-bans-11-muslim-groups-ahead-of-attacks-anniversary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980215 | 432 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Take a moment to think of all the areas of your personal development and professional life you want to improve. Do you want to have a better relationship with your significant other? Learn how to manage your time? Stop stressing so much about things you think you can’t control?
There are easy ways to learn the skills necessary to improve your life in a variety of ways. Try taking an online course. Here are some examples of training courses you might find helpful in pursuing your personal development goals this year.
Do you know someone in your life who has a huge influence over everyone he or she meets on the street? This influence is a combination of different soft skills you will need to learn in order to develop yourself into a more charismatic, assertive and well respected individual. Thankfully, 7 Scientifically Proven Steps to Increase Your Influence is a free online course designed specifically to help you gain more influence over friends, co-workers and just about anyone.
There is no one specific group of people who can benefit from the things this course has to offer in terms of learning. This course is perfect for anyone who wants to improve a variety of areas in their life. You can use the knowledge you will gain from these lessons to improve your romantic relationships, advance your career, earn the respect of people you know as well as people you do not know, and so much more. There is no limit to the amount of things you will be able to accomplish with the amount of influence you will be able to have over the people you interact with after completing this course.
Are you good at focusing on one thing at a time? The answer is most likely “no” – and there are a lot of possible reasons for this. We have been wrongfully taught that multitasking is the best way to get more done in less time, but that is just not true. The more things you try to do at once, the more stressed you become. The more stressed you become, the more difficult you find it is to focus. And the cycle continues.
Replace Stress with Clarity and Focus Now: Mindfulness Blueprint will teach you, among other things, a variety of different techniques you can use to manage your stress and keep your physical and emotional reactions to it in check as you gain control of your stressors. Everyone experiences stress, but it is those who have a solid handle on it that become the most successful people around the world.
Let’s be honest: time management is one of the most important, yet one of the most difficult, skills to master when you are trying to better yourself. If you can’t manage your time, you have next to no hope of managing everything else in your life – meaning your relationships, work, even your own happiness will suffer.
One of the most important things Effective Time Management will teach you is about task management – rather, why managing your tasks is far more important to your productivity and satisfaction than time management. If you can manage your tasks, you can manage your time. You will not regret the time you will spend learning from this online course instructor.
Do you have a creative outlet? Most people do – but not everyone turns to it regularly for comfort and stability. Creativity comes in many forms. It can manifest in the form of writing, drawing, filmmaking and even dance or music. If you know being creative is what inspires you to be your best, but you rarely indulge in your own personal projects, you need to restructure your life to fit creativity into your routine – right now.
Everyone needs to leave room in their life for more creativity. Creative projects do not have to be good; they do not even need to be turned into something you want to sell or put on display for all to see. The point of creativity is to stimulate your mind and keep you motivated to succeed in all areas of your life.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the best selling author of the well known book Eat, Pray, Love, offers an hour long online course – rather, a creativity workshop in which you will have the chance to rediscover your creative passions and will find the motivation to work on that one thing you have been putting off all this time. Fear and doubt are nothing compared to the regret you will feel if you never get started – so take advantage of this course and give yourself a reason to stop procrastinating and get creative.
Do you constantly find yourself shrugging off negative self talk? Thinking things like, “I can’t do this” or “they were right when they said I wasn’t good enough” can be enough to stop you from ever achieving anything in your life or finding success anywhere down the road. It is time to change your perspective – and there’s a course out there that is meant to help you do just that.
Moving Past Defeating Thoughts is an online course designed for people like you in mind – people who constantly struggle with negativity and thoughts that continuously cast shadows along everything they come in contact with.
You will learn not only what defeating thoughts are, but you will also throughout the hour long course learn how to transform the way you think, and how you respond to the inner dialogue that always tries to bring you down. If you can change the way you think, you can essentially gain the power to change your entire life for the better. Taking this course is only the beginning. You do not want to miss out on all the techniques you will be able to apply to a much more positive, productive life. | <urn:uuid:662f26d1-8b1b-430e-8dc0-501e36a06213> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.selfthrive.com/personal-development-training-courses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965957 | 1,127 | 1.664063 | 2 |
BJP didn’t lose in LS elections of 2004.
Now, don’t laugh because I have an explanation for this.
Actually, it can neither be called as a victory nor a defeat, because scenario at that time was same as that of 1999, UPA projected itself as a winner but it all happened because of alliance.
Now see the percentage of vote gained by both the major parties.
- INC : 35.4% which was about 28.7% in previous election
BJP: 33.3% which was about 37.06% in the previous election.This analysis shows that there was not much change in the liking of voters in both the elections it is more or less same.So how did BJP lose?It is called as distribution of votes, suppose in three cities C1, C2 and C3 there are elections going to be held, 3 parties are contesting A,B and C and the total percentage of votes to win an election is 40% and total population is 100.If A gets- 36 , B- 30 and C- 34 votes in C1In C2, A – 50 B- 35 and C- 15 votesIn C3 A- 34 B – 36 and C- 30 votesNow if you collect all the data you will get vote shares as :A : 40% B: 33.66677% and C:26.333%But If B and C together formed a coalition govt in C1 and C3 they will be declared as a majority govt.In C2: these 50% of votes if utilised in some other cities then it could collectively made that party to win, so this surplus votes percenatge was not at all beneficial situation for A.This is what exactly happened to BJP, It has won many seats in a particular city where the min threshold for vote require to win was surpassed and there were surplus votes but in some places they had even less than min threshold votes required to win an election.
See there is not much difference in seats won between INC and BJP
Also, some negative campaigning against BJP and by the help of coalition of Leftist parties, congress formed a govt (because political parties who wanted to project themselves as seculars were not ready to join NDA alliance because of 2002).
This is what happens every time in politics.That is why politics is unpredictable.
P.S. Those who say that BJP lost due to Godhra don’t know that Modi became CM of Gujarat for 2nd time post godhra incident.
Thanks for the A2A Malhar J. Desai | <urn:uuid:c9e1046c-9066-4745-b5cd-d2705d5a7d6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://loganspace.com/quora/politics-why-did-congress-win-in-2004-elections-inspite-of-good-governance-by-the-vajpayee-government/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980062 | 540 | 2.28125 | 2 |
- Doctoral Candidate
- Columbia University
Across the arts and sciences, symbolic notation is essential for transcribing and disseminating technical information. Many symbolic notations that are still used today were first devised in western Europe during the early modern period. Algebra, music, chemistry, dance—whole fields of knowledge were quite literally being rewritten. This dissertation argues that the broad appeal of notations derived from the fact that they enabled powerful techniques of visual thinking. Early modern people routinely described notations as allowing them to “see” things that they had not previously recognized. However, because established methods of reasoning were predominantly verbal, symbolic notations and the visual thinking that they entailed necessarily challenged received ideas about how knowledge ought to be represented and discovered. In demonstrating how symbolic notations’ credibility was established, this project also argues that their increased use brought on an epistemological rupture that remains an underappreciated legacy of the scientific revolution. | <urn:uuid:30c13c3d-0af2-4a56-b329-0d08c582e061> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/sean-oneil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966258 | 201 | 2.8125 | 3 |
(A guest post from our sister website: Hernandez Center for Adjunctive Cancer Care)
You may have heard about intravenous vitamin C as a complementary cancer therapy. It’s a very effective approach for stimulating the immune system. And vitamin C is well-known to be toxic to cancer cells.
Thus, it’s no surprise that it’s the therapy we most commonly administer for our cancer patients.
But intravenous therapy is by no means just for cancer patients.
More than half of our IV patients come for various “cocktails” that help their bodies ward off infections and optimize their well-being. For example, we offer a number of individualized variations on the famous Myers Cocktail. (You can read about the Myers Cocktail HERE.)
We also offer IV cocktails that:
- Promote brain health
- Assist the liver in its efforts at detoxification
- Relieve symptoms of chronic fatigue
- Help reduce stress
- Bring rapid relief from sinusitis, colds, and flu
- Address immune system disorders
- Slow the progression of macular degeneration
- Reduce chronic pain and fibromyalgia
- And many other conditions.
For complete information, follow the link to our IV therapies website: http://www.IntravenousTherapies.com.
For discuss your needs, and to set up an appointment, please call the Hernandez Center: (650) 917-1121. | <urn:uuid:822f9b3b-bd51-4576-b67f-f118ad65d537> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthylife.pacificnaturopathic.com/2017/11/iv-nutrient-therapy-not-just-cancer-patients-anymore/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.896249 | 302 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.