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Are you planning to study in Australia? The first step to do so is to choose the course you would like to pursue there. There are a plethora of courses to choose from, which may confuse you
It is a dream come true for many students to receive scholarships to study abroad. While applying for a course to study abroad, one thing that comes to mind is the total course cost and scholarship amount provided.
Australia is recognised as one of the world’s most renowned leading education providers. Numerous international students are choosing to study in Australia because of the future prospects it offers.
Studying in Australia is a great way to expand your education and improve your career opportunities. Australia is known for its world-class education and diverse cultural heritage
tudents choosing to study abroad for further study for an undergraduate or a master's degree can be a hard decision. While some may already have a general idea of the course they want to choose, selecting the correct course from the wide range of options can still be challenging.
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The health system of Tanzania has a hierarchical structure. The dispensaries are working on the base. It is intended that a dispensary should care for about 10,000 inhabitants. A dispensary may have different supporting organizations: state, church or private.To get an official registration of a dispensary there are certain criteria to fulfill.
Already before entering into the partnership in 1985 Uuwo had a small primary care center owned by the church parish. Over time, the center developed to an official recognized and registered Dispensary. By now there are 2 clinical officers, a midwife, a laboratory technician and 3 nurses. They ensure a basic supply of common diseases, such as respiratory diseases, malaria, AIDS, diabetes and hypertension. The Dispensary is equipped to provide normal midwifery and the women can stay there stationary after birth. Also regular checkups of pregnant women and of newborns are conducted in the dispensary. The Dispensary includes a laboratory and a pharmacy. Power is supplied during power shortage through a permanent emergency generator.
Associated to the Dispensary is a modern mortuary with a cooling chamber, which is in use since of 2005. The mortuary is highly used also by neighbor parishes. The building of the Dispensary and mortuary were supported by donations from Heikendorf and BINGO! Project funding.
The association Kieler Ärzte für Afrika (KÄfA) „Kiel´s Doctors for Africa“ was founded in 2007. A partnership between the Uuwo Dispensary and the Park Hospital in Kiel was contracted. From this time KÄfA took over the medical advice and financial support of salaries and medical equipment. The Dispensary is not only for the population an indispensable institution, but also for the boarding schools, Upendo School in Kirimeni and Samaritan School for disabled children in Uuwo, as well as for the orphans, who get a kind of insurance coupons for medical treatment.
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I’m a meat-eater and have never entertained going vegetarian/vegan. My passion level on the subject is pretty low, it’s just my curiosity that’s high. Unlike me, some are quite fervent on the subject however, so be wary of that if you intend to discuss the subject with those who have chosen to avoid animal byproducts. You may be in for a very heated debate.
While I do have a love for animals, especially my pets, and I understand (and largely agree with) all the arguments against the less-than-ethical treatment of animals, knowing that there are many natural meat-eaters in this world lends me to the conclusion that animals eating others is simply the natural order of things. So those are my biases in advance, and you should be fairly made aware of them.
I would also like to point out that ALL decisions about your health and diet should involve consulting your physician (MD) and/or a registered dietitian (RD). I’m neither of those things. Do NOT consider my advice, or any other internet celebrity who isn’t an authority on the subject (aka The Food Babe, David Wolf, et al.) as a credible source.
I’m merely a skeptic providing food for thought, not giving any dietary advice above consulting your doctor or dietitian.
Unlike the aforementioned celebs, I will at least cite reputable sources where possible. All of them are chocked full of great information. They’re not just there for reference, I encourage you to read them individually. I’ve even reached out to a few registered dietitians as well, to be sure I don’t steer you down the wrong path (as you’ll see later).
On to the show…
To start, let’s break down veganism vs. vegetarianism. The short answer is that vegetarians don’t eat meat. Vegans take that one step further, and don’t consume anything that comes from animals, such as meat, dairy, eggs, and other such animal-derived consumables. For the long answer, click this article from Authority Nutrition.
There are two basic types of reasons for choosing to drop foods from the animal kingdom—opinion-based and factual. Only factual claims could be fairly subjected to criticism.
For instance, if you don’t want to be part of exploiting animals in any way, that’s a matter of opinion. While others can potentially find flaws in your reasoning, the bottom line is that opinions, by definition, are not right or wrong. So if that’s your only motivation, no one should be trying to argue you’re right or wrong, only that they agree or disagree.
The other reason one might do so, is for health reasons. That is a matter of fact, not opinion, and therefore is subject to scrutiny. No one has a right to their own facts, nor do facts care what someone believes. The best way to come to know them, is via the scientific method. So this is why I stress above that someone trained in evidence-based science like an MD or RD should be consulted. It is your life, after all…so to you, it’s kinda a big deal.
Controlled studies are difficult on the subject, you have to rely on the subjects not only to stick to their respective diets, but if done properly, the study would take decades to test for longevity between the two groups, and other factors like changes in exercise and lifestyle, changes in diet within the framework of omnivorosity and herbovosity can all change the outcome and skew the data in such a study.
That being said, I was able to find this study from Oxford, which studied vegetarians against omnivores. As you can probably imagine, it’s complicated, for reasons I’ll get into in a bit. I’ll let you read it and come to your own conclusions, I’m not qualified to do so myself. (I keep pointing this out, not to demean myself, but so you don’t take advice from others who aren’t qualified either.)
So what started me down this path of inquiry? I had an exchange with a friend who is vegan, and she had suggested that dairy was not a natural food source for humans—I’ve heard this multiple times since. Me being the slightly sarcastic skeptic that I am, decided to share the response I gave her recently on Twitter for a laugh or two.
While I was of course being a little cheeky in my response, this brings me to my first point. There are a lot of clearly false claims out there that simple skepticism on your part can debunk—no biology degree required. Question everything, especially when your health is at stake. So let’s get to this claim.
Milk – It Does a Body Good?
All mammals are born eating milk. Mammals have mammary glands which supply…you guessed it…milk! And yes, I said eating—milk is technically a food, as much as it is a drink.
Since our prehistoric ancestors didn’t have access to baby food or applesauce, it should make sense that milk was pretty much the only thing a toothless fecal factory can consume and get all the nutrients it needed. So, voila! We are in fact meant to eat dairy; or more to the point, the nutrients contained in dairy.
While it’s important to note that milk does vary slightly from animal to animal based on their needs (cow’s milk isn’t evolved for humans, for instance), there’s certainly no evidence it’s toxic in any scientific definition of the word. Click here for a good breakdown of the nutritional content of many animal milks from the University of Illinois. You’ll notice that it’s largely the same contents, just in varying amounts. This make sense, because we’re all mammals, and on the evolutionary tree, we’re all one big branch stemming from one common base, which means our needs are pretty similar as well.
As we grow older, and our teeth come in, we don’t need milk—we never technically did. We just need nutrients that milk provides, which many other chewable food sources also contain. Your body doesn’t care where protein, glucose (sugar), sodium chloride (salt), calcium, and other essential vitamins and nutrients come from, it just needs them wherever you can get them. So if one is to argue you need milk as you grow older and are able to consume a more normal diet, that’s also pretty false, despite what the National Dairy Council tells you. Milk does however have a good, natural combination of carbs, fat, and protein which is why it’s been deemed a great beverage for post-exercise recovery.
Harvard has a phenomenal write-up on milk, including it’s effects on osteoporosis, one of many dubious claims about it. As you can probably imagine, as with most things, there are pros and cons—be skeptical of anyone telling you anything is all good or bad.
There’s a saying in biology “everything is a poison, what matters is the dose.” Bear that in mind, because many false arguments come from a zero-tolerance perspective (the idea that consuming any amount is dangerous), which is rarely if ever true. How much of something you consume is almost always equally important to what you actually consume. You can die from drinking too much water, while there is an acceptable amount of substances like mercury you can safely consume without incident. This is important for all those who think glyphosate and other potentially harmful chemicals used in food crops should learn before they assume what they’re eating is dangerous. The levels you get them in with a normal diet, make them almost entirely innocuous.
Since I’m a lover of science, and my interest level was getting high, I tweeted the following to two RDs I know from Twitter. Huge thanks to Amanda Kruse RD, CD (@Amanda_Kruse) for editing this post, and thanks to RD David from Science Based Nutrition (@SciBasedNutr), and Cara Harbstreet RD (@StreetSmartRD) for furthering the discussion on Twitter. I encourage you to follow them and join in the discussion.
One of the arguments against eschewing meat, is that we evolved to eat it. It’s true humans have been eating meat for the entirety of our 200,000ish years on Earth. To argue we aren’t evolved to eat meat is clearly illogical. Veganism/Vegetarianism are fairly new concepts to our species.
A very good short introduction to going meatless from the Cleveland Clinic shows what precautions one should take if going vegan/vegetarian to get nutrients they’ll be missing from a normal diet containing meat. If special caution needs to be taken if you ween yourself off of meat, this itself is a pretty strong argument that we are meant to be omnivorous. But if choosing this route, here’s a separate article from Cleveland Clinic (thanks Twitter RDs) outlining what you should consider—it can be a very good alternative for some if done right.
On the flip side, this article from Harriet Hall from Science Based Medicine is a pretty good account of the many pitfalls one might experience by going vegan. It’s a science-based review of a book from a woman who went vegan, only to realize she was experiencing health issues as a result.
But, as the articles from Cleveland Clinic point out, with some careful planning, you can easily substitute those missing nutrients with plant-based options. In doing so, you can fashion a diet that may in fact be even healthier. So while the evolution argument is compelling on the face of it, the fact remains that you can go meatless and be healthier for it. Take care though; if you think you’re not the type to stick to a carefully planned diet, veganism may not be for you.
So why would we be meat-eaters in the first place?
Evolution is the ability for a species to adapt to its environment. So they will thrive in locations that contain a rich supply of foods and nutrients those species need. If that species can eat just about anything, then that species has a greater chance of living on. So being omnivorous gave mankind the best chance of survival as we migrated all around the globe.
Mankind is also the one species (there may be others, but I’m not aware of them) that took evolution to a whole new level by customizing their environment to suit them. We build fires and air conditioning units. We farm and build shelter, too. All of these things make it possible for us to inhabit every continent on the planet. Take that, other species!
This ability to adapt our environment to suit us, changed the face of evolution in a meaningful way. It also brings us full circle to veganism, because it allowed us to do things like go vegan/vegetarian if we choose to, thanks to the knowledge of how we can modify our diet to supplement what we’ll miss from meat.
Because this issue is quite contentious, there are a lot of bad arguments out there from people who simply want you to see their side, and through confirmation bias, have come to their conclusions one way or the other—insisting their way is the only way to be.
Anecdotes – “I went vegan, and I feel great. So will you!”
As the BBC’s Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki often says…
So why should you ignore your vegan friend who swears by their diet? Because they are not a controlled study.
Imagine your friend does go vegan for health reasons. Many meat eaters eat fried meats like deep-fried chicken nuggets, and other friend foods like french fries. Maybe they’re feeling bad, and a doctor tells them to eat healthier and exercise.
So instead of entering into a controlled study, they start exercising, and go vegan, as well as other such “healthy” lifestyle changes.
Six months later, they feel great. But why do they feel great? We know that exercise makes you feel better, as long as you don’t overdo it. So maybe going vegan did nothing, and you’re just feeling better because of the exercise.
Also, maybe while going vegetarian, you also cut out those other fried foods as well, so you’re not only going vegetarian, you’re eating healthier in general. It’s quite possible that had you done all that, but instead switched your meat consumption to fish, chicken, bison, and other healthier low-fat meats, you’d be even better. How would you know? You didn’t control for all those variables. Instead, you went through a life change, and introduced a myriad of variables where you really can’t determine which, if any were effective.
So while your friend might mean well, this is a great example as to why scientists don’t consider anecdotes as evidence.
What is healthiest?
Another concern you should have, is when people claim one diet is healthier than the other.
The word healthy is incredibly ambiguous—how would you define it? It could mean not being obese or malnourished, disease free, heart-healthy, mobile, longevity of life, clear of mind with no dementia…the list is pretty endless as to how you could define it. (I refer you to the Oxford study above now, which broke down the areas that were better and worse). So for someone to claim one is healthier than the other as a blanket statement, is already a walk down the path of hyperbole and flawed logic.
Because of nearly entire lack of fat, if obesity is your concern, a vegan/vegetarian diet is almost certainly the better option than eating high-fat meats. But again, lean meats like chicken, fish, bison, etc., could achieve the same goal.
Why do I point this out? Because again, this is exactly why you should consult your doctor, or a registered dietitian. They will know better than anyone, how to determine your needs, and then guide you down the best path to achieve them.
Whether you choose to go herbivorous or carnivorous, there are healthy and unhealthy paths you can go down with either. Ignore anecdotal evidence, ignore hyperbolic claims that indicate one is clearly “healthier” than the other, ignore your well-intentioned friends who are eminently unqualified, and the myriad of internet celebrities selling you whatever they want to believe, too. With most things in life, there are pros and cons; anyone telling you there isn’t, is someone you probably shouldn’t listen to.
You can go vegan and be healthier. You can remain omnivorous and with small changes, still be healthier. While we did evolve to eat meat, at the end of the day, it doesn’t appear it’s necessary. The short answer seems to be, that the opinion reason is the only one that’s a firm reason to ditch meat. You can achieve most any health goals without going vegan by…say it with me…consulting your doctor or registered dietitian. | <urn:uuid:871aa21d-9c25-42a3-b919-fbe52209b3a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://logicallibertarian.com/tag/vegetarianism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957301 | 3,256 | 1.710938 | 2 |
PPACMAN will hold 4 wellness programs from January through April.
The mission of PPACMAN is to optimize the clinical care of patients with psoriatic disease through multidisciplinary collaboration, education and innovative research.
A collaborative approach to treatment by a combined team of rheumatology and dermatology clinicians allows for a unique blend of expertise and provides the opportunity for comprehensive care for the PsA patient.
One of the common themes we have been encountering in psoriatic disease management, and particularly in PsA, is that often a prescription for a therapy is not enough. Many of the symptoms of PsA are often multifactorial and several lifestyle factors contribute to both symptoms and impacts of the disease and may impact response to therapy.
Patients are now asking such questions as: What should a person with arthritis be eating? What do you think about the purported benefits of turmeric?
Wellness approaches are not part of the training of rheumatologists nor dermatologists. Now is the time to incorporate wellness strategies into the practice. The goals of this series are to inform providers of the opportunities to incorporate wellness strategies.
Registrationis now open.
Please join us and earn FREE CME!
Feel free to share this event with your colleagues.
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Politics isn’t just about Democrat vs. Republican.
Political decisions are predominantly values-based, especially among undecided voters, voters considering a change in political party allegiance, or voters that don’t have a strong tradition of voting one way or another.
That’s why AAX wanted to look into the nuances of the values that ad filterers, the 95% of users that choose to run an ad blocker but have also consented to see ads.
We took a look at some of the altruistic values that ad filterers hold. It’s an interesting split: more than half of ad filterers are concerned about helping others and helping the environment, and less than half are concerned with feeling accepted and contributing to their immediate community.
The question was phrased in terms of importance: which of the following things are important to you. The possible categories?
• Contributing to my community
• Feeling accepted by others
• Helping others before myself
• Helping the environment
The last two categories saw positive response rates of 56.1% and 54.5%, respectively. The first two sections? 46% and 37.6%.
Is Altruism Politicized?
And, although finding these altruistic values important doesn’t necessarily correlate with voting either Democrat or Republican, there is a link between several of these stated values and an overall pattern of party allegiance.
For example, as stated by Pew Research, “trust in climate scientists is low among Republicans; considerably higher among liberal Democrats.” Belief in climate change is similarly politically charged: only 15% of conservative and 34% of moderate Republicans believe that “Earth is warming due to human activity,” whereas 63% of moderate Democrats and 79% of liberal Democrats believe the same. (Source)
Altruism, it seems, runs the gamut, from being seemingly universal and unconnected to any particular political party or affiliation to being deeply politicized and particularly attached to allegiance to either Democrats or Republicans.
AAX is devoted to knowing everything there is to know about ad filterers. In one previous study we looked into what makes this demographic unique, another study examined their purchasing habits, and our most recent study dug deep into ad filterer motivation: the reasons ad filterers avoid advertisements, and how and why those reasons change.
Our passion for all things ad filterer is why we’ve turned our attention to an issue that’s capturing everyone’s attention: ad filterers’ political profiles. We’ve looked through the fascinating findings over at the GlobalWebIndex (GWI) to compile a new study—American Ad Blocking Users’ Political Profile—available for free download in May 2022.
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Photo left shows SPWA Board Member and locally renowned birding expert and enthusiast Sally Avery giving a presentation at the 2015 Annual Board Meeting. Sally has led numerous tours for Mass Audubon and has a local and statewide following.
The list below is of 90 reported species sighted and/or heard.
American Black Duck
American Tree Sparrow
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Long-tailed Duck (formerly Oldsquaw)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
(Updated November 2004 by Nancy Kramer, Hull)
Field Notes: additional specie sitings.
October 2002: Greater Yellowlegs and Northern Gannet.
November 2002: Common Loon, Horned Grebe, Lesser Scaup, Black Scoter, Purple Sandpiper, American Tree Sparrow.
June 2003: Least Tern, Willow Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Red-eyed Vireo, Cedar Waxwing
November 2003: Palm Warbler.
March, April, May 2004: A Glossy Ibis was spotted, by Nancy Kramer, on 5/11 feeding for over 3 hours near Straits Pond and a pair of Glossy Ibis was sighted in the Weir River Estuary area.
Nancy also spotted a White-crowned Sparrow in May. Sally Avery recorded the earliest sighting of an egret, (a Snowy or possibly a Little Egret) on 3/13, feeding in the Pond, and a Long-tailed Duck (formerly named Oldsquaw), Osprey and Turkey Vultures were spotted mid-April, by Sally Avery.
Marge McNamara, and several others, reported Kingfishers, numerous Cormorants and gulls, 8 Mute Swans, Great Blue Heron, many Tree Swallows, Bufflehead and Mergansers feeding on Straits Pond, mid-March, early April.
The highest reported number of mute swans observed on Straits Pond in 2004 was 88.
November 2004: added Red-necked Grebe. We saw a few Mute Swans, Canada Geese, American Black Ducks, Mallards, Hooded Mergansers, Red-breasted Mergansers, Buffleheads and Ruddy Ducks feeding and swimming.
Land birds were scarce but we did see some Rock Doves, (recently renamed Rock Pigeon), Mourning Doves, Downy Woodpecker, Black-capped Chickadees, White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, Northern Mockingbird, many European Starlings, House Finch, American Goldfinch, and many House Sparrows.
At Gunrock and Black Rock ocean areas, we used Sally’s birding telescope to spot Red-throated Loon, Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe, Great Cormorant, Common Eider, White-winged Scoter, Black Scoter, Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, and Great Black-backed Gulls. Bufflehead and Mergansers were also spotted in ocean areas. | <urn:uuid:dd013753-3158-4c93-bd06-4b4cd1ae9446> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://straitspond.org/birds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.877002 | 1,074 | 2.203125 | 2 |
What is a soliloquy, and who is Julius Caesar? Explore soliloquies with this lesson that gets your kids up and moving! Learners line up, facing each other. Then they read the soliloquy (one side reads one line, and the other side reads the following line). Then break the class into small discussion groups. | <urn:uuid:5f7b6f5e-dc81-4fe4-9d42-5d4b541179c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/unlocking-soliloquies-and-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942141 | 72 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Here are some devotional material ideas for individuals or families:
Tracing Glory: The Christmas Story Through the Bible by Sarah Rice
Good for families with younger children through elementary school. Includes questions at the end of each day and key scripture passages.
Why Christmas? by Barbara Reaoch
Good for families with younger children. Includes scripture passage, questions, and a song for each day.
Come Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional by Paul David Tripp
Good for individuals or families. Includes scripture passage suggestions and recommended discussion points for parents and children.
Good News of Great Joy: 25 Devotional Readings for Advent by John Piper
Good for individuals or families. Scripture passage and short devotional for each day. Can be downloaded for free at desiringgod.org | <urn:uuid:2b21def9-2390-42a0-ba0f-f51043c0a0c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universityreformedchurch.org/advent-is-coming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.879507 | 163 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Coronavirus Wastewater Surveillance Study Receives $4.7M NIH Grant
A team of infectious disease experts and engineers at Columbia University have received a $4.7 million grant from the NIH to investigate the use of urban wastewater as a cost-effective and rapid means to detect new outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2.
The project is led by Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Kartik Chandran, PhD, professor of environmental engineering in the School of Engineering.
One of the painful lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was the nation’s inability to determine the location and prevalence of the virus quickly and accurately. Testing of individuals provided some data, but the process was slow, incomplete, and piecemeal and the data were typically 7-10 days behind the actual spread of the virus.
Wastewater surveillance, by contrast, would enable population-level monitoring, would allow for earlier detection of acute outbreaks, and would overcome hurdles to individual testing such as stigma and lack of access.
The term “domestic wastewater” refers to human urine and feces and other bodily streams in combination with water that has been used for washing, flushing, bathing or cooking— essentially anything that flows down the toilet or sink. In this project, Uhlemann and Chandran will test wastewater from the dormitories, classrooms, laboratories, and medical facilities of Columbia University.
Though wastewater testing has great promise, the best methods and protocols and the most effective ways to utilize the data are still being developed. This study will answer the following critical questions: How do the levels and diversity of the virus in wastewater from a single building or an entire campus correlate to the prevalence of coronavirus in the population encompassed by the testing? What are the most accurate water testing technologies? And how can the data be made available and interpreted in real time?
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George K. MacKenzie(DD-S36) was launched 13 May 1943 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss Donna MacKenzie, daughter, and commissioned 13 July 1945, Comdr. Alvin W. Slayden in command.
After shakedown off Cuba, MacKenzie returned to Boston 15 September 1945 and subsequently participated in the Navy Day celebrations 27 October at Savannah, Ga. She served with the Operational Development Force at Norfolk, her home port, and conducted training exercises and escort duties along the Atlantic seaboard until sailing 5 January 1948 on a goodwill tour to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
MacKenzie returned to Norfolk 9 February after these duties as a "steel gray diplomat" and continued peacetime operations, highlighted by a Midshipman cruise June to July 1948 to Portugal, Italy, North Africa, and Cuba. In October 1948 the destroyer sailed for the Near East, where she supported the United Nations Palestine Patrol and the allied occupation of Trieste, returning to Newport for Christmas.
After overhaul at Boston until April 1949, George K. MacKenzie continued peacetime training on the eastern seaboard, and made a "Med" cruise from January to May 1950. When the uneasy truce in the Far East was shattered by the North Korean aggression, George K. MacKenzie was transferred to the Pacific. She arrived Pearl Harbor 1 July 1950 to prepare for wartime service.
During her first tour in Korea, 26 July 1950 to 30 January 1951, she screened attack carriers during strikes on North Korean targeted and provided close support for advancing Allied armies. After a repair period at San Diego 15 February to 17 July 1951, she returned to perform the same vital screening and support duties until April 1952.
George K. MacKenzie provided antisubmarine screening and fired several important bombardment missions at Wonsan Harbor, 16 to 17 January and again 23 February to 21 March 1953 in support of United Nations forces. She lent effective fire support to troops in the vicinity of Suwon Dan 15-19 April 1953 in company with Los Angeles and demolished sections of the enemy's railroad along the eastern coast of Korea in May.
Homeported in San Diego and Long Beach, Calif., she completed a total of nine tours of duty in the Far East, including training exercises and duty with the Taiwan patrol between 1953 and 1959.
George K. MacKenzie's homeport was changed to Yokosuka, Japan, 15 February 1960 as she continued her peacetime training duties, visiting Hong Kong, the Philippines and other Far Eastern ports, including those in Japan. In 1961 George K. MacKenzie sailed from Subic Bay, P.I. 23 March to rendezvous with carriers Midway and Lexington in the South China Sea to act during the Laos crisis as a powerful on-the-spot force, if needed. Fortunately, the crisis passed; and after further operations George K. MacKenzie put in at her new home port of New York 11 December 1962. She entered Brooklyn Navy Yard for modernization, returning to sea in October 1963. George K. Mackenzie then made preparations to return to her new homeport of Long Beach, Calif., where she arrived 28 January 1964 to prepare for extended duty in the Far East. She left the West Coast 26 May and reached Yokosuka, Japan, 13 June to begin over 2 years of continuous service in Oriental waters operating alternately in Japanese waters and off Vietnam fighting to repel Communist aggression. She specialized in screening aircraft carriers and shelling Communist positions ashore. The battle-tested destroyer returned to Long Beach 3 August 1966 for a major overhaul to prepare for future action. In mid-1967 she was again in the Far East aiding in the struggle to save Southeast Asia. On 29 July she was screening Forrestal (CVA-59) when fire broke out on the carrier's flight deck. After helping to put out the flames, she escorted the stricken flattop to Subic Bay for repairs.George K. MacKenzie was awarded six battle stars for Korean service. | <urn:uuid:dc519382-fbf0-4c0c-9f1e-48ee0aae5acf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd836txt.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96103 | 895 | 1.617188 | 2 |
A member of Thailand’s Medical Council has advised the Thai population to avoid sexual contact with foreigners to prevent the spread of monkeypox. He even warned that there could be deaths among people with other serious health problems if they became infected. This is despite the fact that the disease cannot be transmitted through sexual contact.
While information available online describes monkeypox spreading through close skin-to-skin contact with infected individuals, such as through sex or contamination with items such as bedding, towels or clothing, the NSW government health department in Australia has previously disclosed to the public.
The concerned councilor, Amon Leelarasami, said Thais can become infected with the virus through secretion from blisters on the body.
Most cases worldwide so far have been among gay and bisexual men according to aidsmap.com, while the World Health Organization has warned that men who have sex with men are currently the group most at risk for infection.
The director of the World Health Organization, Mr. Tedros Ghebreyesus has since proclaimed that such men should consider limiting their sexual partners to reduce risk and contain the spread.
He called on authorities and governments to fight stigma in comments to CNBC last week, but Amon’s statements are unlikely to do that.
Amon later said he was not sure whether monkeypox would become endemic in Thailand. The Thai government itself, according to their online page, contains no warning about limiting sexual contact with foreigners.
But Amon was clearly concerned. He said the disease could spiral out of control if it spreads in monkeys, rabbits and rats.
And there could even be deaths if human patients have underlying conditions such as cancer or immune deficiency problems, he warned in comments to the English media. He said people who develop a fever, blisters and a red rash should get a monkey pox test immediately and isolate for three weeks.
He also called on hotel operators to clean rooms in accordance with international standards to contain the spread.
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A black and white photograph showing four men working together to load sections of a specimen out of the breaks and into a wooden horse-drawn wagon. The men are loading the specimen onto a wagon using a triplex pulley system. The triplex is set up around the wagon. The triplex consists of three wooden poles 12' to 15' high, lashed together at the top with the base of each pole on the ground straddling the wagon. The men use a pulley system attached to the triplex to load rocks into the wagon. The men wear narrow-brimmed hats, long pants, and long-sleeved shirts. They stand along a ridge. A bucket and other tools are on the ground nearby. A dark horse covered with a blanket stands at the front of the wagon, and a light-colored horse stands just behind it. A third horse (dark) wanders nearby just below the ridge. According to the book written by Charles H. Sternberg - "Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada" - the specimen they are working with is the carnivore discovered by Charlie (Charles M.) Sternberg.
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Sternberg, George Fryer 1883-1969, "012-01: Men Using Tripod and Triplex Block to Haul Rock" (1913). George Sternberg Album #2 - Early Canadian Views. 36.
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Panel Discussion - The State of Cyber Security in Philadelphia
We are seeing growing threats and attacks in regard to cybersecurity – against government, schools, industry, critical infrastructure. The number of security incidents climbs each year, along with the cost to respond and remediate these incidents. Is there sufficient awareness of the problem - do we have sufficient cyberliteracy? Are we making enough progress? Is there enough talent in the pipeline to keep our region safe?
Come hear from our panel of Philadelphia experts in this fast-moving and hugely important space!
The panelists for our discussion include:
Tom Schiavinato, Director of Network and Security Operations at Comcast
Donna Ross, CISO at Radian
Thomas Heverin, Principal Cyber Security Engineer at PGFM Solutions and Adjunct Faculty at Drexel
Colbert Zhu, Computer Science student at Drexel and club president of the CyberDragons
The discussion will be moderated by Brad Bowers (AVP Security Services – Radian and an organizer of BSides Philly)
This event is organized by PCEA which is the Philadelphia Cybersecurity Education Alliance. PCEA is a non-profit that is all about elevating the visibility of cyber in Philly, and about building connections in tech-education-government. Our goals are to get more people interested in and ready for the field of cybersecurity, and to connect people with opportunities.
We will also have representatives from local startup Privakey at the event. Privakey is a digital identity and authentication company focused on improving the customer experience and eliminating the hassles and insecurities of passwords. Their solutions give users one simple and consistent way to assert their identities and provide consent across all channels. Privakey offers a licensed technology that companies can embed into their own apps or a new, free cloud service for companies that operate lower volume services.
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X5 RECOVERY PROCEDURE
Things you will need:
-PC running some kind of TFTP server.
-new firmware image to be loaded onto the X5. You can get this from Digi's web site.
-DB-9 female to DB-9 female serial crossover cable (null modem cable).
-ethernet cable and/or switch to connect PC and X5.
-jumper wire (or some way of connecting pins on the X5 circut board).
---Make sure X5 is powered off.
---Remove screws on X5 plate. See picture below for details.
--- jumper pins 3 & 4 on the MFG 4 pin header. See picture above.
---connect a serial cable to the serial line of the X5 and have it listen at 9600 baud.
--- power up X5
--- you will see a ‘Diagnostic Tests’ menu. Choose option 't' (->TFTP related choices.).
--- you will now see the 'TFTP Related Options' Menu. Choose option '2' (Enter TFTP settings)
--- Enter the following:
TFTP filename: name of the firmware image file
IP address: of the X5, pick one
network mask: needs to be the same as your PCs
network gateway: IP address of PC
TFTP server: IP address of PC
--- Make sure you're TFTP server is running and that the firmware image file downloaded from the digi site is located in it's (TFTP server) directory.
--- From the 'TFTP Related Options', Press '3' (Get file from TFTP server).
--- Assuming the file successfully downloaded to the X5, press 'Esc'. That will bring you back to the 'Diagnostic Tests' menu.
--- Press option '4' (Put TFTP'd OS file into flash.). Wait for it to complete.
--- Remove jumper and power cycle the unit. It should now have the new firmware image programmed into it.
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April 24, 2018
Some folks say the largemouth bass, with its hard-hitting, high-jumping fighting style, is our finest sport fish. Others believe it's the colorful, acrobatic trout, the good-things-come-in-small-packages bluegill, the scrappy crappie, good-eating walleye or numerous other game fishes, each of which holds a special attraction for its own group of fans.
For millions of anglers, however, Mr. Whiskers, the catfish, is the undisputed monarch of all pole-benders.
There are good reasons folks love catfish, chief among them the fact that cats always seem hungry and eager to bite. Everyone can catch them - young anglers and old, skilled and unskilled. And fun catching it is. A muscular catfish will do its best to throw a hook, and that bull-doggish ferocity puts smiles on the faces of all anglers.
Catfish are widespread, abundant in many waters, grow very large and are quite delicious, too. And your fellow catfishing enthusiasts won't frown while you're cleaning small fish for the table. For most catfish anglers, eating the catch is part of the joy of fishing.
If you want to increase the odds you'll hook and land more catfish (and who doesn't?) it's important to realize that while catfishing isn't a complicated sport, neither should it be oversimplified. You can't just plop down in a lawn chair by the water's edge, make a cast and expect to catch cats.
Instead, you should study the habits of your quarry and learn how to present the right bait, in the right place, at the right time, to entice the fish you hope to catch, whether it's an eating-size channel cat for the dinner table or a trophy-class blue or flathead that will test your tackle and determination.
With that in mind, we offer the following 10 tips that can help you be more successful the next time you go catfishing.
1. Use the Right Bait
Catfish exceeding 10 pounds primarily eat fish, so when targeting heavyweights, you'll be more successful if you use fish baits. Some, like minnows and goldfish, can be purchased at bait shops. Others are collected using hook and line, bait traps, cast nets or specialty products like sabiki rigs (check local regulations first).
Oily baitfish such as shad, herring and suckers are tops. Others to try include carp, chubs, goldeyes and sunfish. Use live fish for big flatheads; they rarely eat anything else. Jumbo blues and channels will eat fish alive or dead, including cut-baits prepared by slicing fresh baitfish into chunks or fillets. Be sure, however, the baits are freshly caught. Fresh is best.
Unlike heavyweight cats, which rarely eat anything but fish, eating-size whisker fish weighing just a few pounds aren't finicky about food. Among the best baits are night crawlers, minnows and crayfish, which you can buy at bait shops or collect yourself.
Commercial and homemade 'stinkbaits ' also work great on small catfish. The sporting goods departments of discount stores often carry a variety in the form of dough baits, dip baits, sponge baits and tube baits. Because stinkbaits are soft, you might need specialty items to fish with them, including catfish 'worms ' (ribbed, soft-plastic lures used for fishing dip bait), sponge hooks or spring-wound dough-bait treble hooks.
Having trouble obtaining bait? Don't fret. Head for the nearest grocery. Fresh chicken liver is one of the best catfish baits. For trophy blue cats, try Hormel Spam. A chunk of this spicy canned meat caught a former 116-pound world record. Jumbo channel cats love cheap hot dogs. Other supermarket items that work include shrimp, squid and cheese and even unusual items such as dog food, grapes, raisins and soap! Yes, they really work.
2. Leave Hook Points Exposed
Many catfish fans get frustrated when they can't hook fish that bite. It's a common complaint, but there's a simple solution: Fish with the barb of your hook exposed.
You may be one of the many anglers who have been told the hook must be hidden or catfish will avoid the bait. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Catfish aren't smart enough to know what a hook is, and if you bury your hook in bait, especially the barbed end, the hook will have to penetrate through your bait before it can penetrate the mouth of a catfish. This results is a lot of missed fish.
When fishing baitfish, push the hook once through the lips, back, or narrow part of the tail, and leave the point exposed. When fishing crayfish or pieces of cut fish, run the hook through once; leave the sharp point bare. Do likewise with worms and nightcrawlers. Thread the hook through two or three times, but don't hide the point. Fishing chicken livers or blood bait? Wrap them in a square of cheesecloth, pull the four corners together, then thread the hook through the corners, leaving the point uncovered.
Exposed hooks mean more rigs lost to snags. But a few lost hooks and baits are a small investment for the extra cats you'll catch.
3. Fish Year-Round
For reasons that are hard to understand, many people believe the hot summer months serve up the best catfishing. Certainly, if we use the right tactics, summer can be a highly productive season. But to catch more cats, you shouldn't ignore the great fishing opportunities also available in spring, fall and winter.
Consider the fact that anglers who regularly catch trophy blue cats often do so by fishing deep ledges and holes in winter. One might think that icy-cold water would shut down feeding activity in these cold-blooded creatures, but such is not the case. Blue cats continue feeding actively even when the water temperature is near freezing. These cats bite well regardless of the season.
Flathead catfish differ in their habits. Most become inactive when the water temperature drops below 45 degrees. But these normally sedentary fish roam and feed ravenously during high water periods in spring, and again in autumn when they're gorging to put on pounds prior to entering the period of winter torpor.
Channel cats bite in spring, summer, fall and winter. Ice fishermen often catch them.
What's the worst time to fish? During the period in summer when catfish are spawning. Egg-laying females and nest-guarding males enter cavities then and may not feed at all. If you're fishing during this time, you may find it much more difficult to entice a bite from any of the three major species.
4. Understand Weather Effects
Catfish don't feed 24/7, year-round. No fish does. Sometimes you can't catch fish simply because they aren't biting. And nothing has a more intense effect on catfish feeding activity than rapidly changing weather. The bite may get dramatically better, or worse, depending on conditions.
For example, during periods of stormy weather, catfish anglers often get frustrated trying to figure out the best fishing patterns. One day, catfish may seem ravenous; the next, they have lockjaw. This pattern won't always hold true, but as a general rule, the best fishing is right before a storm when atmospheric pressure begins to drop. Catfish often quit feeding the day or two before a front appears and seem insatiable when it arrives. Feeding activity peaks as the front approaches and remains at a high level until it passes through. On the day after the storm has passed, fishing success is usually off considerably, but a day or two later, the cats will be back to normal feeding patterns.
To enjoy the best catfishing, you should be ready to hit the water when there's a combination of a falling barometer reading and a south to east wind, indicators of a weather change ahead.
5. Channel Your Efforts
Some of the best lake and pond structures for catfishing are creek and river channels meandering across the bottom, like those visible in this photo of a lake that's been drawn down. Most such structures must be located using sonar, but catfishing on channels and channel edges can dramatically improve your catfish catch year-round.
The main channel in a lake or pond acts like a major highway, leading catfish from one part of the impoundment to another. Intersecting creek arms and smaller channels act as secondary roads leading fish toward shoreline areas.
Catfish also hold in deep water that falls off into the channel. Look for fish near a feature on the ledge distinguishing it from surrounding areas: a brushpile, a point on the drop-off, an adjacent hump, a pocket cutting into the bank.
Some cats relate to the upper edge of channels, but big cats prefer deeper water near the lower edge if there's plenty of well-oxygenated water. Big catfish also like the outside turns of channel bends, locations near channel junctions and deep channel edges near dams.
Tightlining with baitfish is the best method for taking catfish on channel drops. During the day, anchor in the shallowest water near the drop-off and cast to deeper water. At night, catfish move into shallows to feed. Then you should anchor in deep water and cast to the shallows.
You also can work your rig directly beneath the boat, keeping your line perpendicular to your rod tip. Fishing this way increases sensitivity to strikes. Vary depth by moving up and down the drop-off, using a trolling motor, wind or current to drift along the channel.
6. Sit, Wait, Hook and Catch
Still-fishing for catfish is a sit-and-wait game. You present your bait on or near the bottom, then wait for a catfish to find it. You can still-fish from the bank, as most catfish anglers do, or from a stationary boat.
When still-fishing from shore, it's important to set up where action will be best. The area just below a river dam provides some of the best channel cat action, especially if you can cast to the slack-water areas between open gates. Many bank fishermen set up below tributaries, or at the junction of two rivers. Fishing near fallen trees at the head of a deep pool on an outside bend of the river also can lead to good catches.
When still-fishing from a boat, carry two anchors to position your craft sideways in good holes. This way your rods are spread out to cover more water and avoid tangles. Try to pinpoint prime catfishing areas such as channel edges and humps, then narrow your fishing zones down to a few best spots: a stump field near the channel edge, for example, or a large snag along a riprapped bank. Position your boat for best access to the structure you've chosen, then cast your bait to that spot and wait for a bite.
7. Try Drift-Fishing
Drift-fishing is an active approach that helps you help the cats find your bait. You can drift-fish in a boat or drift-fish your bait below a bobber.
When in a boat, use a drift rig comprised of a bottom-bouncer sinker placed on the line above a barrel swivel to which is attached a 2- to 3-foot leader with a 4/0 hook on the end. A small bobber added on the leader just above the hook floats the bait above the bottom so catfish can see it. Drift with the wind or using a trolling motor, moving back and forth over areas with catfish-attracting structure.
When wading or bank fishing on a river, you can drift your bait beneath a bobber. This allows the bait to move naturally downstream, responding to the current. Use a slip-bobber on the line above your baited hook, and as the rig drifts, guide it alongside catfish-holding structure and cover. Keep a tight line at all times, and release line as the bait moves downsteam. Drift by one side of a hole, then down the other and finally right down the middle. If possible, shift sides of the river now and then to present baits in every likely spot as you move.
Keep your rod tip high when drifting a bobber rig. This keeps most of the line off the water, resulting in better rig control and hook sets.
8. Get in a Groove
Tailwaters below big-river dams are among the very best catfishing hotspots. Big tailwater catfish favor churning, well-oxygenated water where baitfish are readily available, but to conserve energy, they seek slack-water holding spots within these areas. The 'grooves ' of slower-moving water between open gates or running turbines offer just these conditions.
When gates or turbines are discharging water, the fastest flow is in the center of the discharge, and the slowest water is on the outer edges of the flow. The surface water all appears to be moving at the same speed to the casual observer, but actually, the area of water between two discharges — the groove — is slower-moving water where cats usually hold. Fishing in these grooves is more productive than fishing in the main part of the current.
If the cats quit biting in one groove, reposition your boat in a similar location and try again. Water flow through a dam increases or decreases as power requirements or water levels demand. So even though water runs continuously, the flow of water released may change two or three times daily. When the flow changes, cats often move and search out more slack water in which to feed.
Don't overlook other prime tailwater fishing areas. Deep scour holes at the end of rock wing dikes, the downstream side of underwater boulders, narrow chutes skirting islands, shoreline riprap, tributary mouths and lockwall edges are all first-rate catfishing spots.
9. Try Fishing the Morning Shift
In muddy or discolored waters, you can catch catfish night and day, around the clock. When fishing clear waters, however, you may see a significant drop in feeding activity on clear days when the sun is high in the sky. Catfish move to the security of deeper, darker waters then and are more difficult to find and catch.
If you can fish at night on these clear waters, you'll probably catch many more catfish. But finding time for night fishing when you're working a job during the day shift isn't always feasible. When that's the case, try fishing during the hours around daybreak. On many waters, catfish activity peaks just as the sun rises. If you fish at dawn, your catch rate could soar.
Some sunrise anglers believe catfish are filling their bellies before sunshine drives them back to dark hideaways. Others think the increased light around daybreak gives clear-water cats an added visual advantage. The catfish's heightened senses of taste and smell help it find prey at night; when the sun rises, sight feeding kicks in, too, increasing the chance a catfish will find your bait.
The early bite usually starts at dawn and lasts an hour or two. Feeding activity typically tapers off by the third hour after sunrise. If you can slip away to your favorite catfish hole during the peak of this early-morning activity, you should almost certainly hook and land more fish.
10. Be a Mobile Angler
One of the biggest mistakes you can make is sitting in one spot for hours soaking a bait and waiting for a bite that never comes. You should certainly allow enough time for catfish's senses to detect your bait and help the fish find it. But when catfish are actively feeding, that should happen within 10 to 30 minutes tops. If it doesn't, it's time to move.
Start by casting your bait to a new spot. If you're fishing a river, stay in the same place but try casting farther upstream. If you're on a pond or lake, try varying the depth at which your bait is presented. Fish deeper or shallower, allowing a few minutes at each locale for catfish to find your offering.
If there's still no bite, you may have to move to another spot entirely. Motor to another area where there's a different type of cover or structure that should attract catfish and try fishing there. Or, if you're bank fishing, walk to another locale that looks good and set up again. If catfish are biting, you'll soon find a productive fishing spot and the fun will begin.
About the Author
With a resume listing more than 3,800 magazine, newspaper and website articles about fishing, hunting, wildlife and conservation, Keith "Catfish" Sutton of Alexander, Ark., has established a reputation as one of the country's best-known outdoor writers. In 2012, he was enshrined in the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Communicator. The 12 books he's written are available through his website. | <urn:uuid:69562d35-96fe-42d8-9221-db2b0119bc98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gameandfishmag.com/editorial/10-best-tips-catfishing/193529 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943681 | 3,610 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Speaking as both someone who has used student response systems whilst at University and is now working for a company delivering a student engagement app, I have been able to see the clear benefits as to how this technology can positively impact students, lecturers and educational institutions.
I studied at the University of Southampton and have a clear recollection of the lectures I enjoyed and the exams I did well in. It was no coincidence that the modules that my fellow students and I achieved great results in were the ones that were highly engaging, helped me to understand and retain knowledge and that used student engagement technology like Vevox to make the lecture an enjoyable and memorable experience.
Student success is driven by teaching staff working hard to ensure that learning takes place and students have a responsibility too, to turn up and put in the work. Success comes more naturally in the classroom when students enjoy their chosen field of study, feel connected to their studies and feel motivated to learn in lectures/seminars and start to see their hard work pay off in an effort to pursue their chosen career paths. Here are 3 ways a student response system (SRS) can help to achieve this.
1. Boost Student Engagement
An SRS can help a lecturer engage a class of students and make the lecture an interactive experience. Using active learning methods with SRS features such as live polling and Q&A helps to engage your students by giving them a chance to voice their opinions and actively participate in the lecture. The most interesting lectures spark discussion and encourage feedback from students. Empowering your students through engagement and active learning increases success as students discover that the more they contribute the more they will get out of the lecture. Fight restlessness and waning attention spans by creating a more dynamic lecture that has breakout sessions with live polls and other interactive learning methods to keep students engaged and remain on track to succeed.
2. Increase Knowledge Retention
Using an SRS like Vevox for running quizzes or assessments through live polling helps not only to grab students’ attention but also helps them to gain knowledge instantly through active learning, therefore also increasing overall knowledge retention. Through identifying their own knowledge gaps students can clearly see what areas they need to spend more time on for revision. I remember just how impactful this teaching method was during my time at University. There is no better way to reinforce learning than by taking the occasional pop quiz. Live polling allows teachers to do this in the moment to great advantage for everyone.
3. Crowdsourcing Ideas
Allowing your students to share ideas or views in a group creates a collaborative learning environment which helps individuals to critically think about the topic at hand and to consider all sides of an argument. Critical thinking is essential in developing, investigating and presenting a thesis in a research project, something that is embedded into University courses, especially when preparing for dissertation or research project assessments.
A student response system that offers a discussion platform is a great way to create these peer to peer conversations, increase a shared learning community and maximise student participation. This way students can learn from other people views and experiences, as well as question common ideologies. Platforms like Vevox also offer students a way to 'like' and show support of other’s ideas, a quick and effective way to see clearly the most popular ideas in the lecture theatre.
SRS technology is the future of interactive learning experiences in lectures. With University rankings being so competitive, SRS technology can help to give University’s an edge through boosting student success.
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The initiative, carried out on behalf of the Trans-NIH Pharmacogenomics Working Group, specifically aims to collect views on research approaches, from discovery-based efforts to validation and applied studies, in order to accelerate the translation of pharmacogenomics knowledge into the clinical practice setting. Pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics are increasingly gaining prominence within the research community as scientists begin to unravel little by little just how much of an effect an individual's genetic make up has on the efficacy of a drug. The two fields are technically different but the two terms are used interchangeably. Pharmacogenomics refers to the general study of all of the many different genes that determine drug behaviour while pharmacogenetics refers to the study of inherited differences (variation) in drug metabolism and response. As well as the scientific community, pharmaceutical companies, federal agencies, and other parties are also invited to send over 'transformative ideas and approaches,' about how to address the difficulties facing these branches of medical science. "Collectively, we want to identify ways in which NIH can effectively and efficiently address these barriers," said the NIH. "The best ideas will have great potential to dramatically affect how biomedical research is conducted over the next decade, yet will be concrete and achievable tasks." A 1998 study of hospitalised patients published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that in 1994, adverse drug reactions accounted for more than 2.2m serious cases and over 100,000 deaths, making adverse drug reactions (ADRs) one of the leading causes of hospitalisation and death in the U.S. Currently, there is no simple way to determine whether people will respond well, badly, or not at all to a medication; therefore, pharmaceutical companies are limited to developing drugs using a "one size fits all" system. Pharmacogenomics/genetics allows for the development of drugs to which the "average" patient will respond. But, as the statistics reveal, one size does not fit all, sometimes with devastating results. Nowadays the use of sequence gene chips combined with modern ultra-high-throughput technologies is the best way to identify a person's genetic make up. However genetic tests using gene chips can diagnose a very limited range of conditions, analysing just 1.5 per cent of the genome that, to date, includes the genes known to be important in disease. It is hoped that views and opinions collected as a result of this initiative could take current research into new directions, with the possibility of expanding these genetic tests to identify other parts of the human genome. Examples of the type of ideas NIH is seeking include those that would address challenges that "no other entity is likely to be able to successfully conduct," those that will generate publicly accessible knowledge, and those that clearly benefit public health. A formal Request for Information appears in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Suggestions are to be sent to the NIGMS website by April 30. | <urn:uuid:299ac7ca-b012-45a2-969f-d632759d4531> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2008/04/09/NIH-launches-initiative-to-seek-views-on-pharmacogenomics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945597 | 586 | 3 | 3 |
“The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment.”
- Maria Montessori
Widely recognised as one of the pioneers in the development of early childhood education, Dr. Maria Montessori was actually the first woman physician in Italy. Her Methods revolutionised the education system, as they were based entirely on scientific research and observation.
Maria Montessori was specialised in paediatrics at a time when it was still a new field of study. She found it ironic that she became well known for her work in education, since she was not one for the traditional jobs available to women in her time – working with children, homemaking, or the convent.
She emphasised that the teacher observe the child to truly understand how to teach. The child’s educational needs were always placed in the centre of the curriculum, which naturally invited criticism in her time. Sustaining great resistance she set up her first school, called House of Children in Rome, and began her Method in this way. Surprised at its explosive success, she was then allowed to teach students in the Montessori Method in a larger number of places. | <urn:uuid:62b9ca8c-0d93-4ecf-83d1-52efd61ebc61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://aimmontessori.co.in/about-maria-montessori | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.99035 | 239 | 3.5 | 4 |
The state house had approved the bill establishing Pend Oreille County on February 10, 1911. Only six representatives voted against the bill. On February 20, 1911, the bill passed the state senate. Representative Simeon J. Appleman (b. 1877), of Newport, and State Senator Albert W. Anderson (b. 1871), of Addy, had sponsored the legislation. The new county measured 67 miles north to south, and an average 22 miles west to east.
In the decade prior to Pend Oreille County's formation, population in that part of what was still Stevens County had increased five-fold, from roughly 1,200 to 5,900. Newport was the largest town, with rail service via the Great Northern Railroad and a port on the Pend Oreille River. Area residents, led by Newport Miner publisher Fred L. Wolf (1877-1957) and Ione attorney Fred Trumbull (1880-1955), petitioned the state legislature for county designation.
The Olympia Record described Wolf and Trumbull's arrival in Olympia on January 15, 1911, to lobby for the bill:
"Fred Wolf, editor of the Newport Miner, and Fred Trumbull of Ione, arrived in the city yesterday to work for the passage of a bill which will divide Stevens into two parts, the line running along the summit of the Kalispel mounts, which form a natural barrier between the Pend Oreille and the Columpia [sic] valleys.
"Mr. Wolf, who is chairman of an executive committee composed of members of commercial clubs in the towns of the Pend Oreille valley, has with him a petition signed by 1,500 voters of his district asking for county division. ... The chief reason for county division ... is that it takes three days to reach Colville, the county seat, to transact a days' business and return to the towns in the lower Pend Oreille country and four days to make the trip from the upper towns of the valley" (January 16, 1911, p. 6).
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Growing Sweet Autumn Clematis
Relish this fragrant climber, but keep its aggressive nature in check.
Just when you thought there wasn’t much excitement left in the garden as summer gives way to fall comes a nice surprise filled with knockout beauty and fragrance. Sweet autumn clematis (Clematis paniculata, Clematis terniflora) is one of the late-blooming clematis vines that features not only flowers different from most clematis, but also an unusually heady scent.
Small, pure white flowers emerge in August and September and by fall, become a silvery mass of fluffy seed heads. A prolific grower as well as bloomer, it can “take over” if left unchecked, so sweet autumn clematis is considered somewhat invasive by many. But when properly maintained, the vine can be a well-behaved asset to the garden at a time of year when pretty much everything else has stopped blooming.
This deciduous vine, hardy to zone 4, has small light green leaves when new growth emerges in spring. As temperatures rise, it rapidly puts out rampant growth, reaching 30 feet, which makes it an ideal choice for covering fences and sheds. A twining vine, it loves a support it can latch on to, such as chain link. Sweet autumn clematis blooms on new wood, and by mid-summer tiny buds begin to emerge.
Most varieties of clematis will tolerate part shade, but this one seems to thrive on it. Like other clematis, it prefers well-drained soil and “cool feet,” so keep soil at its base mulched or shaded by annuals or other plants. All clematis are heavy feeders; give them a low-nitrogen fertilizer, such as 5-10-10, in spring. Despite its reputation as a tough guy, sweet autumn is susceptible to fungi which can cause the vine to suddenly wilt and turn brown without much warning. Prune out dead growth and disinfect pruners with a bleach solution.
As temperatures begin to drop in late summer and early fall, fragrant plants seem to resume center stage for one last performance before winter returns, and this is when sweet autumn clematis steals the show. Its showy, creamy white blooms are particularly sweet in early morning and late evening, sometimes lasting until the first frost.
Once the show’s over, it’s time to get a grip on this aggressive guy. Prune it hard—some suggest to as little as 12 inches from the ground—so that you’ll stay ahead of its game come next spring! | <urn:uuid:87708f69-8aec-4219-bd09-586ae66ce960> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/flowers-and-plants/groundcover-and-vines/growing-sweet-autumn-clematis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939157 | 554 | 2.375 | 2 |
Educational systems in developing countries are under the influence of factors which have critical effects on curriculum evaluation and interpretation of its effects. A model for curriculum evaluation was developed, in the present study, to evaluate the effectiveness of a new biology curriculum implemented in 1974 in the Iranian system of education. The target population were 14-15 year-old students and their teachers at the first year of the secondary education in four state capital cities and 43 schools. The teachers had previously been to an in-service course. The curriculum material consisted only of a single textbook for students. The model for curriculum evaluation was a summative model. It was developed in two stages: (1) pilot study stage, to investigate problem areas and develop the instruments; and (2) fieldwork or experimental stage to evaluate the innovation. The model emphasised the use of both experimental and illuminative evaluation strategies to evaluate the intrinsic and extrinsic criteria. The results obtained from the application of the above model suggested that most of the curriculum objectives were attainable if the textbook could be taught completely. In reality students and their teachers had reached a compromise about what should be taught and what should be learnt. The results from 45 criterion-referenced ecology test items showed that a selective number of concepts and principles were taught in each individual school. However, the high marks obtained by students in the teachers' examination proved that they were fulfilling the official cut-off score (12 out of 20). The above model, although used to evaluate the biology curriculum, seems to have a universal application for evaluating other subjects. It can be used for curriculum evaluation in any developing country that has similar characteristics to those in Iran.
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Often called “the silent killer,” Carbon monoxide is an invisible and odorless gas that is produced when burning any fuel, such as gasoline, propane, natural gas, oil, wood, and charcoal. Carbon monoxide exposure causes poisoning and illness by decreasing the amount of oxygen present in a person’s body.
Ten people have been hospitalized in the last three days due to carbon monoxide levels in the Marion County. On Sunday, February 9th, 2014 an industrial accident at a Marcellus Shale pump station owned by Momentum M3 Appalachia Gas Gathering, LLC, on Toothman Run Road in the Grant Town area off Paw Paw Road near Rivesville, WV sent 7 people to the hospital.
According to Fairview Volunteer Fire Department fire chief Steve Gillespie, workplace safety negligence was the cause. Workers were operating gasoline motor in a tent without proper ventilation. “There was a big tent with no ventilation and no fans,” Gillespie said. The tent contained two gas welders, two generators, and a couple of large and small turbo heaters. “That raised the CO levels,” he said. “The heaters have been running a week to bring the temperature up inside the tent to above 80 degrees.”
These workers would be well-advised to seek legal counsel in addition to filing Worker’s Compensation claims. If their injuries were of a serious nature, they may be eligible for additional compensation beyond the Worker’s Compensation since there is a good chance of proving deliberate intent — that their employer negligently placed them in a situation where they experienced physical harm.
Carbon Monoxide Exposure in a Marion County Home
An additional sad CO poisoning situation occurred on Tuesday, February 11, which caused three family members to be transported to area hospitals following a carbon monoxide leak in a Marion County home on Darby Street at approximately 3:45 a.m. Emergency dispatchers were initially called to the home for a report of chest pain.
CO poisoning can often be mistaken for other illnesses, such as the flu. The most common symptoms include headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and confusion. In severe cases, the person may lose consciousness or die. Often, other people in the place of business or household will exhibit similar symptoms.
Upon arrival, responders realized two more people were showing symptoms of high carbon monoxide levels, and emergency crews did in fact find carbon monoxide levels to be extremely high in the home. Two of the people in the home were transported to UPMC in Pittsburgh, and one other person was transported to Ruby Memorial Hospital.
Protecting Your Family from Toxic Exposure from Carbon Monoxide
To decrease the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning in your home, install CO detectors outside every bedroom. Install the detectors at least 15 feet from a source of CO to eliminate nuisance alarms. Hardwire detectors if possible, and check every six months.
Do not heat your home or camper with your stove top or use a camp stove, grill, or generator inside your home or camper. Do not leave a car or motorcycle running in your garage even if the garage door is open. Have your fireplace, stove, and furnace checked regularly by a professional.
Sometimes carbon monoxide poisoning is caused in part by the negligence of a landlord, repair technician, or faulty piece of equipment. Landlords and professional service technicians are held to the highest standards of accountability for the safety of those they serve.
If CO poisoning is detected in your home or business, vacate the area immediately and seek emergency help. Avoid re-entry until the fire department deems it safe.
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Ursula misses Crighton. He had invited her to dinner the night before the war was declared only to announce that they should end things—though they had still gone to bed together. The next day, a siren sounded, and when they left the hotel and got the all-clear, they said goodbye. Ursula now resolves to “live out the war as a nun.”
Atkinson writes different timelines for Ursula based on three different configurations of her potential love life—with Ralph, with Crighton, and alone. It is notable, however, that none of these three options leads to any change in Ursula’s death, thus demonstrating how the war is not easily escapable. | <urn:uuid:5872d99b-e1ab-4e6e-b07a-61af5b1a05f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.litcharts.com/lit/life-after-life/a-lovely-day-tomorrow-iii-september-1940 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977373 | 153 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Similarly, What business should I study for fashion?
The following is a complete list of the study units available in our Bachelor of Fashion Business program: An examination of the creative industries. Textiles and Materials are two types of materials. Consumer Behaviour is a term that is used to describe how people behave when they The Creative Industry’s Communication. Fundamentals of Fashion and Cultural History Fashion Management Principles Accounting and Product Management The creation of a brand.
Also, it is asked, How can I get rich in fashion?
There are just six stages to making a lot of money in the fashion industry: Starting a clothes brand is not a good idea. Get out of the rat race of Exhausted Employees. Become a Successful Freelancer in the Fashion Industry. Provide a specialized or specialty service. Set a reasonable price. Pitch yourself with confidence.
Secondly, Can I be a fashion entrepreneur?
The function of a fashion designer varies per firm, however as an entrepreneur, a fashion designer need a diverse set of abilities. He must strike a balance between two elements: creativity and commercial acumen, as well as art and commerce.
Also, What is the job of a fashion entrepreneur?
Fashion entrepreneurs aim to provide experience in retail, production, money, and marketing to the fashion industry.
People also ask, How do I get a career in fashion?
How to Start a Career in the Fashion Industry Look for an internship in the fashion industry. An internship is the greatest place to start. In little ponds, big fish. Be active on the internet. Keep track of the talents you’ve acquired. Make a list of all the jobs you’d want to do in the fashion industry. Don’t be hesitant to ask questions. Continue to go forward. Take control of the situation.
Related Questions and Answers
How long is a fashion course?
How Long Does It Take to Become a Fashion Designer? A two-year associate degree in fashion design takes two years to finish, whereas a four-year bachelor’s degree takes four years. You’ll need two more years to get a master’s degree in the discipline. At FIT, you may get an associate degree in fashion design in only two years.
How many years does it take to study fashion?
Fashion degrees at the bachelor’s level (BA) typically take three to four years, while master’s degrees last one to two years.
Does fashion pay well?
Wages below this level are considered anomalies. The 75th percentile is $1,107 for 12% of employment What are the Top 10 Highest Paying Cities in California for Fashion Jobs? City Berkeley Salary: $56,840 per year $4,737 per month $1,093 per week $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
What is the fashion industry called?
The clothing business, also known as the apparel industry, garment industry, or fashion industry, started in homes all over the globe millennia ago.
Can a fashion designer be called an entrepreneur?
It’s important to realize that fashion design and entrepreneurship are two distinct areas. A successful entrepreneur may or may not be a flawless fashion designer. You should study to strengthen your communication abilities in order to establish your own design firm.
How do you introduce a fashion designer?
A fashion designer is someone who has an impact on everyone, not just people or those who just purchase garments because they are costly and they have the money to do so. A fashion designer is someone who creates the designs and concepts for the garments that we, the customers, will wear tomorrow.
How can I work for Vogue?
A degree in journalism, English, or creative writing would be perfect for becoming a writer or editor. If you want to be a photographer, you need have a degree in photography or another creative form. If you want to work at Vogue, it’s also a plus if you have a degree in a fashion-related profession. Obtain experience.
Is fashion business a good degree?
Yes, to put it simply. It is both time and money well spent. Consider that the problem here is figuring out what your expectations are. Fashion business schools provide fantastic prospects, but you must really consider enrolling in one for the correct reasons.
What qualifications do you need for fashion?
Qualifications. Fashion design is a very competitive field, and you’ll normally require a bachelor’s degree, HND, or foundation degree in a topic that combines technical and creative abilities.
Who is the owner of Gucci?
How much money do you need to start a fashion business?
Launch expenses vary considerably amongst clothing lines, but in general, a small clothing line will need a minimum of $500 to get started, a medium-sized brand would require between $1,000 and $5,000 in startup expenditures, and a big line will require between $25,000 and $50,000 in startup costs.
Do fashion designers make a lot of money?
In 2020, the median pay for fashion designers was $75,810. That year, the top 25 percent earned $101,700, while the bottom 25 percent earned $54,470.
Who is the mother of fashion?
Lanvin was born in the month of January in the city of Paris. Her career in fashion started when she was 13 years old, when she began working for a milliner. She finally worked as a milliner’s apprentice and founded her own shop at the age of 22. With the birth of her daughter in 1897, the designer’s whole world transformed.
What is the difference between fashion and fashion design?
Fashion Designer vs. Fashion Stylist – What’s the Difference? Fashion refers to the current style of clothing or conduct in a certain period and area. Fashion is often linked to social views, culture, and tradition. Fashion design is the art of using design to improve the aesthetics of clothing and accessories.
What are 4 main types of fashion designers?
Apparel designers are one sort of fashion designer. Apparel designers work with clients to create a variety of apparel goods. Haute couture is a term used to describe a style of clothing These designers usually work with more well-known and wealthy clients. Ready-to-wear. Market for the general public. Footwear. Accessory. Sportwear. Evening attire.
What is the study of fashion called?
The art of applying design, aesthetics, garment construction, and natural beauty to clothes and its accessories is known as fashion design. Culture and diverse trends have impacted it, and it has changed through time and location.
Is fashion school Expensive?
Tuition, fees, and materials for fashion design schools typically range from $4,000 to $28,000 a year, with expenses rising for non-residents attending a state institution.
What should I know before going to fashion school?
To distinguish yourself distinct at fashion design school, follow these five helpful hints: Consider your portfolio before making decisions. Keep up with the latest trends. Begin sewing. Improve your technological abilities. Speak with graduates of fashion design schools.
Do you need to go to college to work in fashion?
While a degree isn’t required to be a fashion designer, having one may help you in a variety of ways. You won’t notice one of the most obvious until you start looking for work.
What can I do if I love fashion?
Buyer. 18 Cool Jobs for Fashion Lovers. Fashion buyers are in charge of keeping the sales floor supplied with items that are likely to sell. Designer of costumes. Assist with design. Assistant to the Editor. Journalist for the fashion industry. Publicist for the fashion industry. Model is in good shape. I’m a hairstylist.
The “how to be an entrepreneur in fashion industry” is a question that has been asked many times before. To become a businesswoman in the fashion industry, you must have a certain amount of knowledge and experience.
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Amel Association International, an independent non-sectarian Lebanese NGO has been granted US$ 1.1 million by the emirate of Sharjah, in recognition of its outstanding efforts in protecting human rights, and providing education, child protection and livelihood opportunities to those affected by the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975.
The grant was offered to the Lebanese NGO during the Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support (SIARA). It aims to significantly bolster the efforts of the non-profit organisation, which has been working tirelessly since 1979 to provide emergency as well as rehabilitation assistance to those in need. Last year, the organisation’s beneficiaries exceeded 100,000, including 50,000 women and children.
SIARA was launched by The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), a Sharjah-based global humanitarian organisation in collaboration with UNHCR in 2017, to highlight individuals or organisations who implement pioneering and influential initiatives that have had a positive and tangible impact on refugees within Asia and the MENA region.
The award was instituted under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Wife of His Highness, TBHF Chairperson and UNHCR’s Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children, who continue to champion philanthropic efforts by individuals and organisations around the world.
In recent years, Amel has shown exceptional leadership in offering humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Lebanon, and has expanded its operations to several countries including France, Switzerland and USA.
Amel’s founder Dr. Kamel Mohanna, received his fourth Nobel Peace Prize nomination this year.
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Is the Post Office Open on Easter 2020?
Not long ago, the post office was completely closed on Sundays. Now, that isn’t the case. Thanks to a deal with Amazon, many United States Postal Service (USPS) locations deliver Amazon packages on Sundays. For many, this leads to a degree of confusion. If USPS is hitting the road on Sundays for deliveries, does that mean the post office is open on Easter? What about on other Sundays? If you aren’t sure whether USPS is operating on Easter, here’s what you need to know.
Is the Post Office Open on Easter?
No, the post office isn’t open on Easter. In fact, USPS locations usually aren’t open to customers on any Sunday, even if they support Sunday deliveries. While you can get to unlocked, self-service areas within a post office building, you can’t get help from an employee on Sundays.
But, since self-service options may be available, you can still get some mail moving on Easter Sunday. You might be able to get postage from machines, for example. Then, you can place outgoing items in the appropriate drop boxes. While they won’t get sorted until Monday, it still lets you complete an important step.
If you need assistance from an employee, you’ll need to head to the post office on another day. Here’s a look at how the post office operates near the Easter holiday:
- Good Friday, April 10 – Post offices follow regular business hours
- Easter Saturday, April 11 – Post offices with Saturday hours will follow their usual schedule
- Easter Monday, April 13 – Post offices follow regular business hours
Will There Be Easter Sunday Deliveries?
For regular mail, don’t expect to see any delivered on Easter. Even in areas with Sunday delivery, that only applies to specific packages and not regular mail.
If you’re wondering whether you might see a USPS package delivery on Easter Sunday, the answer is a resounding maybe. Easter isn’t technically a federal holiday. Since most government agencies shut down on holidays, making Easter an official holiday wouldn’t usually be necessary. Most people would have the day off anyway.
However, since USPS offers Sunday deliveries, it’s possible you could get a package on Easter. This is, albeit, a bit rare. Usually, you have to be in an area with a lot of parcel traffic for this to possibly occur. Many people aren’t in a zone where that would be the case. While it can happen, it’s best not to count on it. If you need something by Easter, order with enough time for it to arrive before Sunday.
Are FedEx or UPS Open on Easter?
By and large, no, neither FedEx nor UPS are open on Easter. UPS usually doesn’t operate on Sundays, aside from specialty services like UPS Express Critical (which is available on Easter).
As for FedEx, the company did start offering residential delivery every day of the week, beginning in January 2020, including no additional costs for Sunday deliveries. However, the company does recognize the Easter holiday, and only offers FedEx Custom Critical deliveries and FedEx Trade Networks services on Easter, as a result.
Post Office Holidays 2020
The USPS holiday schedule is based on the one set by the government. Here is a list of the 2020 official federal holidays:
- New Year’s Day – Wednesday, January 1
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Monday, January 20
- President’s Day (Washington’s Birthday) – Monday, February 17
- Memorial Day – Monday, May 25
- Independence Day (Observed) – Friday, July 3
- Labor Day – Monday, September 7
- Columbus Day – Monday, October 12
- Veterans Day – Wednesday, November 11
- Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November 26
- Christmas Day – Friday, December 25
Are Post Office Locations Open on Sundays?
Even if your region gets Sunday deliveries, post office employees don’t assist customers on that day. Operations are limited to specific kinds of package deliveries, so you cannot get assistance from the customer service counter.
Post Office Hours of Operation
Most post office locations follow similar hours of operation. Typically, Monday through Friday, they open at 8:00 am or 8:30 am and close at 5:00 pm or 6:00 pm. There are some locations that have longer hours, but they are fairly rare.
Saturday hours are a bit hit and miss. Not every location opens on Saturdays, so you’ll want to check at your post office in advance if you might need assistance from an employee. You can get details about each post office’s hours of operation on the USPS website.
Do you wish the post office was open on Easter? How about open on Sundays in general? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Handcrafted product in Berber Village.
All stages of the pottery-making process are performed by women.
The clay is usually extracted from wadi beds, and is then cut into blocks, crushed, purified and soaked in water, before being kneaded and shaped. Once fired, the pots are then decorated with two-tone geometrical patterns reminiscent of traditional tattoos and Berber weaving. The knowledge and skills relating to the craft of handmade pottery are passed down through traditional and informal education, in communities where daughters are encouraged to learn this art of firing alongside going to school.
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God is sovereign. One of the definitions of sovereign is a supreme ruler who acts independent of outside interference. John 10:10 declares that we have an enemy, the devil, who comes to steal, kill, and destroy everything good in our lives; however, Jesus has come to give us abundant life.
This is His sovereign rule – to give abundant life, regardless of the enemy’s interference. Through the finished work of the cross, Jesus literally destroyed the power of sin and death. His resurrection power destroyed every work of the devil and then came to live in us, giving us the authority to enforce that defeat. All sickness and disease are from the pit of hell; and Jesus paid the price for us to walk in Devine health – in our souls and physical bodies. This was an intentional, sovereign act of God. He broke the curse of sin so whoever believes in, and surrenders to the Lordship of Jesus can be healed and live whole.
To say God is glorified in our sickness is to undermine His sovereignty and belittle the finished work of the cross. It is ALWAYS the sovereign will of God to see us healed from all sickness and disease. When we experience anything that contradicts this, we cannot allow ourselves to resort to even the suggestion that God has somehow changed His mind or made an exception. By His stripes we WERE HEALED – He shed His blood to seal this forever. (1 Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53:5). | <urn:uuid:23e097fe-e9f9-42b0-95cb-2e3e2db2bb8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myfaith.tv/daily-devotions/healing-is-gods-sovereign-will/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949436 | 300 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Emergency Vehicle Operator (EVO) Training Overview
The Baltimore County Fire-Rescue Academy, in conjunction with career station personnel, conduct training and certification for personnel to drive fire apparatus. In order to drive large departmental apparatus (engines, trucks, or specialized equipment), a candidate must first hold a valid, state-issued driver's license. Candidates who do not possess the appropriate license to operate the appropriate class of apparatus may complete the Emergency Vehicle Operator process. This certification will allow a candidate to drive emergency apparatus only in the class(es) specified.
Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Joseph Wiggins coordinates the Fire Department's Driving Program.
Getting Started - Process Road Map
I Want To...
- Become licensed to drive departmental apparatus
- Complete the In-Station Engine Turn-In Process Option
- Complete the In-Station Truck Turn-In Process Option
- Apply for the EVDO Driver Academy (Application Period Spring and Fall)
Driver's License Requirements
Operators need either a Class "A" or Class "B" Maryland Driver's License or an EVO Card issued by the Baltimore County Fire Department. A Class "A" license will permit the operator to drive all departmental apparatus. A Class "B" license will permit the operator to drive most units, but not ladder trucks or USAR 17.
Operators with a valid out-of-state Class "A" or Class "B" license do not need any other license to drive that class of vehicle for the Baltimore County Fire Department. They will need to complete the EVO Testing Process and be issued an EVO Card by the Baltimore County Fire Department if they will be operating an apparatus of a different class than their license permits.
Training Material for Apparatus
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One of CELL’s core founding beliefs is that public interest environmental litigation plays a key role in Canadian society. At CELL, we educate the next generation of public interest environmental litigators by immersing students in these critically important and real-life cases, allowing students to work alongside seasoned lawyers fighting for the public interest. As we nurture the environmental defenders of tomorrow, we are also supporting environmental defenders of the present.
The youth-led climate lawsuit, La Rose v. Her Majesty The Queen, is a prime example of CELL’s unique model of experiential learning, which attracts the best and brightest students from law schools across Canada and beyond. In this nationally important case, fifteen young Canadians from seven Canadian provinces and the Northwest Territories and from diverse backgrounds are suing the Government of Canada for its contribution to climate change. Not only is this case environmentally significant, it is legally significant for the potential development of the law around the rights guaranteed under sections 7 and 15 of the Charter and around the public trust doctrine. These young Canadians are represented by the law firms Arvay Finlay LLP and Tollefson Law Corporation, and are supported by the David Suzuki Foundation and Our Children’s Trust.
CELL is a proud educational partner in the La Rose case. Using this lawsuit as a vehicle for experiential learning, students enrolled in CELL’s educational program gain hands-on experience in developing and running complex public interest cases and develop competencies and skills relevant to public interest legal practice. CELL students have the opportunity to work closely with and supporting the legal team representing the young plaintiffs, which has included working with the lawyers to draft the Statement of Claim and prepare for argument in court. In turn, these students gained first-hand experience in conducting complex, public interest litigation. CELL students will continue to play a crucial role in bringing this case ultimately to trial.
In the Q & A that follows, three of our students explain their interest in environmental litigation and CELL’s program and provide their own reflections on their experience with CELL and the La Rose case. Larissa Parker is currently a third-year law student at McGill University. Victoria Kacer is currently in her second year of law school at the University of Victoria. Finally, Will Andrews is in his third year of studying law at Oxford University (UK).
Q: How did you become interested in environmental litigation?
Larissa: Before law school, I completed a Master’s degree at Oxford on the cultural and social impacts of climate change on Indigenous people. I got the chance to speak with actors in small island communities in the Pacific, as well as communities in the Arctic, and was deeply moved by their stories and experiences associated with climate change and how it was impacting their relationships to their land and themselves. This work eventually drove me to get more involved in activism and advocacy at home. Around this time, I noticed that climate litigation was increasingly being used as a tool to hold governments accountable for climate-related rights violations. I really see it as a powerful tool that challenges powerful actors and incentive structures head on, while simultaneously increasing awareness about the rights and harm at issue.
Victoria: For as long as I can remember, I have been passionate about environmental protection. While my background is in environmental science and policy, I was initially motivated to pursue a career in environmental law through my experiences advocating for natural heritage preservation at my alma mater. The school’s administration had approved the construction of a twin-pad arena on a portion of a provincially significant wetland. I was involved with a student-run organization focused on local sustainability at the time and we began a campaign to persuade the administration to select another site or cancel the project altogether. The proposed site was ultimately relocated because a biology student determined that the Jefferson Salamander (a listed species under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act) called the wetland home. While I still strongly believe in the importance of activism and grassroots movements, this experience highlighted the ways in which existing legislative frameworks can be used to effect positive change and inspired me to pursue a career as an environmental lawyer.
Will: Growing up in Vancouver, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to follow and attend a wealth of interesting environmental cases first-hand. I was drawn in particular to the litigation surrounding the Site-C hydroelectric dam project, and the injunctions and judicial review proceedings brought by various First Nations groups across the Province. That exposure, set against a backdrop of a childhood spent outdoors and courses in Environmental Science, was a large part of what prompted me to apply to study law at the undergraduate level at Oxford. Studying law, and specifically Environmental Law, at university has only affirmed my interest in a career in environmental litigation.
Q: How did you find out about CELL and how long have you been a part of CELL’s program?
Larissa: I have been supporting research on climate litigation for two years now, under Professor Sébastien Jodoin in the Law, Governance and Society Lab at McGill. I focus on climate litigation as a tool to protect the rights of minority groups (and particularly, youth), as well as the rights of future generations. Through this work, I have followed Canadian and international cases extensively and heard about CELL along the way, as an opportunity to support one of them! I have been involved since March 2020.
Victoria: I took Criminal Law with Professor Tollefson last year. As soon as I learned about CELL and Professor Tollefson’s involvement with the La Rose case, I knew I had to get involved. I was lucky enough to participate in CELL during my first year of law school – an essential experience that helped keep me motivated to power through my introductory courses by reminding me why I came to law school in the first place – and I have been involved ever since.
Will: I was introduced to CELL by Joe Arvay, Q.C., lead counsel in the La Rose litigation, in July 2019. I was a part of CELL’s program for the summer of 2019 and then joined again in January 2020 for the spring, summer and fall terms.
Q: What aspects of the La Rose litigation have you been exposed to through the CELL program?
Larissa: This past summer, I was immensely lucky to get the opportunity to support the legal team in their response to the government’s motion to strike. As a group, we explored various legal issues in climate litigation. Eventually, students were able to apply what we learned to a specific piece of the motion to strike. I was able to deep dive into the climate change-related Charter claims. Eventually, I was also able to discuss these ideas with the lawyers involved in the case. This was tons of fun and a wonderful learning experience. And, just a few months later, we were able to follow along in the hearing and eventually, read the judge’s decision. This was truly a full circle opportunity for me – thank you CELL!
Victoria: As I initially got involved with CELL shortly after the Statement of Claim was filed, I have been able to work with the legal team throughout the entire motion to strike process. In addition to attending collaborative weekly discussions focusing on various aspects of the plaintiffs’ arguments and workshops focused on written and oral advocacy skills. I have been fortunate enough to be invited “behind-the-scenes,” sitting in on, and occasionally participating in, strategy meetings with the entire legal team. The most rewarding experience I have had with CELL has been assisting the team with legal research to support the plaintiffs’ arguments in response to Canada’s motion to strike. While it was intimidating at first, it was an amazing practical learning experience which allowed me to build upon the legal research skills and constitutional law knowledge I had developed in first year and apply them to a climate justice case with real meaning for real people. It was kind of a dream come true for a nerdy first year law student passionate about environmental justice!
Will: I was fortunate to join CELL in July 2019 when the La Rose litigation was still in its early stages. As a result, my first work project at CELL was on a preliminary memo regarding the public trust doctrine in the Statement of Claim. Fast forwarding then to February 2020, in light of Canada’s preliminary motions, I was asked to look into the jurisprudence around the legal standard and approach to be applied on a motion to strike, as well as the ramifications of that approach for the La Rose litigation. Most recently, this summer I had the pleasure of working alongside CELL students in preparing a draft response to Canada’s motion to strike. Throughout the drafting process we continued group discussions in weekly CELL seminars and had the further opportunity to attend legal team calls discussing tactics and next steps in the litigation process. As an exciting finish to the summer’s work, I was incredibly fortunate to attend the hearing of the motion to strike in September as Professor Tollefson’s junior, before Justice Manson in the Federal Court. It was fantastic to hear the arguments made in court after witnessing and being involved in the work that went into preparation. Sitting at the counsel table and discussing points as they arose with Professor Tollefson made it all the more special. As a final note, I was inspired to see the response of the plaintiffs on a call following the hearing – they had been following the hearing via Zoom, were very engaged and seemed excited at the prospect of their claim being heard in court.
Q: How has the CELL program helped you develop your skills in litigation? How do you think you will apply the skills that you’ve learned through CELL to your legal career going forward?
Larissa: I think ultimately, the program does two things. First, it exposes students to innovative legal arguments that ground climate litigation cases and helps them tease out the strengths and weaknesses of each claim, at every turn. Second, students have the opportunity to apply these skills to an ongoing case and apply lessons learned to a real case. It’s a lesson in thoughtful and creative litigation. I’ve gained a more nuanced understanding of various legal arguments and the rationale for different strategies. I’ve also learned about litigation’s ability to push the boundaries of the law, which to me, is what public interest litigation is all about. This appreciation for creativity and nuance will definitely stick with me in the future.
Victoria: While the legal knowledge and skills I have developed in law school have provided me with a strong foundation, the opportunity to continually apply them to, arguably, one of the most important cases of our time has been invaluable and I know that I will be a better litigator for it. I have learned so much from CELL, but I think the most valuable aspect of the program has been the opportunity to strengthen my critical thinking skills and learn to think like a litigator. CELL instructors always situate our discussions within the La Rose litigation and the broader context of environmental law and demonstrate how we should be thinking strategically while developing legal arguments. Being involved in such a novel a complex case has deepened my understanding of the work that goes into developing the legal arguments and strategies that eventually lead to the judgments we focus on in class. Working with CELL has also allowed me to develop a more holistic perspective. CELL instructors always prioritize student learning and skills development – I couldn’t ask for better mentors and teachers as I begin my journey in the field of public interest environmental law.
Will: The strength of the CELL program, in my view, is its ability to expose students like me to nearly every stage of the litigation process – seminars, guest lectures, legal research projects, counsel meetings, legal submissions, courtroom advocacy to name a few. CELL instructors work hard to provide the class with interesting reading lists and engaging seminars, but more importantly have given the students countless opportunities to apply that reading to practical effect in the La Rose case. As a result, the CELL program has complimented my academic work by allowing me to put substantive principles to work in drafting legal memos and submissions. Working with CELL has also presented me with a unique opportunity to develop my research and written advocacy skills in a collaborative professional environment. Seminars, counsel meetings and strategic planning at the hearing have required dynamic problem solving and developed my teamwork skills in the litigation context. The program has made me acutely aware of the effort required to litigate claims such as La Rose and underscored the importance of effective cooperation.
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Health center Alibunar when it was firstly formed in 1964, and until nowadays was always improving its medical labour forces and equipment. At the beginning it had only 77 workers and a few working stations in the municipality and suffered from a lack of medical equipment. Today Health centre Alibunar has a working station in every town in the municipality Alibunar equiped with adequate medical equipment and medical personel.
Health center Alibunar today a total of 121 workers, mainly doctors and nurses.
Health center Alibunar has passed through a process of acreditation and gained the needed certificate which is granted by the Agency for acreditation of medical institutions.
Mision and vision
High quality services on primary medical level. Increasing the level of medical state of population, especially putting accent on vulnerable population.
Primary medical care
Specialised medical – consultative praxes
Clinic biochemic laboratory
In the terms of Healtcare law every patient has the right to choose it’s own doctor. If you haven’t choosed you doctor, please do so.
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U.S. coronavirus infections and hospitalizations are continuing to rise, even as COVID-19 continues to claim more than 1,000 lives per day. Cases among children are up 32% from two weeks ago, representing about a quarter of all U.S. infections.
On Monday, top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called on everyone 5 and older to get vaccinated, warning the Thanksgiving holiday could trigger a dangerous winter surge unless people take measures now to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the White House said Monday 95% of federal employees have met a vaccine mandate covering 3.5 million U.S. government workers. And the CDC added Germany and Denmark to a list of high-risk destinations amid a massive surge of COVID cases across most of Europe. | <urn:uuid:58e57a41-9f8b-45e7-805f-560540658476> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/23/headlines/us_covid_19_cases_surge_ahead_of_thanksgiving_holiday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942221 | 164 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Northeast Ohio Resettlement Agencies Prepare For Influx Of Afghan Refugees
Many Northeast Ohio agencies are preparing to provide aid as refugees flee Afghanistan. The Taliban has taken control of the capital, Kabul, following the United States government’s withdrawl of armed forces in recent months.
The events unfolding in Kabul are a tragedy, said Global Cleveland President Joe Cimperman. He’s heard from members of the local Afghan community who are concerned about the safety of family and loved ones overseas, he said.
Many Clevelanders have reached out to offer support, housing and other resources to people in need, Cimperman said.
“We’re just praying for people in Afghanistan, that they can get out,” he said, “and then hoping once they come to the United States that they can make Cleveland their home.”
The city of Cleveland has a long history of providing a home for refugees following war and famine, Cimperman said. The infrastructure needed to support Afghan resettlement is available, he said.
“We certainly have the room. We have the capacity to hire people,” he said. “We have schools that would be more than ready to receive, if there were any kids that were coming with the family.”
The federal government will determine how and when refugees are brought into the U.S., Cimperman said. That could be through a refugee program or military installation that focuses on getting people to safety and sorts out visas and citizenship later, he said.
Many aid groups were already preparing for more refugees to enter the country under the Biden administration's new immigration policies, said Refugee Response Executive Director Patrick Kearns. Some Afghan refugees are arriving this week, and resettlement agencies will likely see more over the next two to three months, he said.
“The numbers are not going to be unexpected or change to anything we weren’t planning on before,” Kearns said. “It might mean more of a quicker movement starting earlier.”
Resettlement agencies are currently focused on assisting U.S. citizens and residents who were visiting Afghanistan and now need to get home, Kearns said, as well as helping any settled refugees trying to connect with their families overseas.
“Communication is going to be a critical component for them,” Kearns said. “Having secure communications so they’re able to stay in contact with family members, that they’re able to start processing the onerous paperwork that it takes for family reunification.”
New arrivals are coming from a difficult and challenging situation, Kearns said, and will need support both from the Afghan community and with mental health as they adjust.
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When: 5 May
Where: In maternity units and through virtual events across the globe
Theme: 100 years of progress
On Thursday 5 May midwives across the world will be celebrating International Day of the Midwife 2022. This time of celebration will reflect on progress in midwifery over the past 100 years. We hope that midwives, maternity support workers and student midwives across the globe celebrate in unison.
Over the past two years, midwives, maternity support workers and student midwives have met extraordinary circumstances and risked their lives to provide excellent care to women and their families. Now is the time to not only celebrate how they’ve been there for our communities throughout the pandemic, but to show up for them in calls to the Government to put money where it counts and invest in maternity.
We will be sharing as much as we can to spread the empowering solidarity of midwives across the nation.
Here are some additional resources you may find useful:
Please email your organiser with the details of your event including date and if you'd like an RCM member to attend if the event is virtual.
Use #IDM2022 across social media
Download your eye catching bunting available here as a print ready PDF. This file contains three bunting designs to decorate your surroundings.
Please note these files are available to download and print only. Hard copies are not available for order
We have created this easy guide for members with some ideas for your IDM celebrations.
Safe Care starts with Self Care
IDM will soon be upon us on 5 May and we were thoughtful of how we all look after each other and ourselves and build habits that sustain us when we are challenged. We often put ourselves last when prioritising what needs doing but we know and evidence shows us that self-care is essential for safe care. We have therefore some thoughts on how we’d like to celebrate not only the day with you but the month of May.
The RCM Scotland team plan to mark the month of May with Safe Care starts with Self Care. We all know that if we look after ourselves first and foremost, we’re in a much better position and mindset to look after others. However, we know that not many of us put ourselves first. To take the first step in looking after ourselves and each other, we are planning a series of short 15-20min sessions on how others have made that first step to self-care. So far we have a session on Mindfulness, Outdoor Bootcamp and Wild Swimming! These sessions will take place throughout the month of May and will be bookable on the RCM website shortly.
Please share with us how you look after yourself, send over a photo for us to share on social media. This can be you sitting with a cuppa, reading a book, taking the dog for a walk, the list is endless.
On the 5 May, we’d like to encourage everyone to take part in some small acts of random kindness and share with us what you’ve done and how it made you feel. Send us photos to share on social media, or post them and tag us in!
If your Branch has held a virtual event to celebrate International Day of the Midwife send your pictures/videos and a short paragraph about your celebration/event along with the name of your branch to [email protected] and use the hashtag #IDM2022 across your social media platforms
Every year since 1992 on 5 May the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) leads a day of global recognition and celebration of the work of midwives which is observed by more than 50 nations and co-ordinated by the ICM in partnership with its member organisations.
Find out more via the ICM here.
VIDM Conference - 4 May: Click here for more information on the Virtual International Day of the Midwife (VIDM) Conference celebrations
If you are an RCM Activist/member please order your IDM2022 gift (reusable coffee cup) to be shared amongst members in your branch via StoreFront. Orders are capped at 20 per branch. We actively encourage you access your branch funds to purchase additional merchandise to supplement your IDM packs
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Press release | 25 February 2019
GCCA Statement on Guardian ‘Concrete Week’ launch
Concrete is vital for a future sustainable world.
The Guardian’s ‘Concrete Week’ is a great opportunity to look at a range of important issues associated with concrete, and it is right to examine some of the important challenges the world faces. However, inadequately covering the significant work already underway by the sector, as well as underplaying concrete’s critical benefits, gives an incomplete picture.
Concrete is the world’s most used man-made material for a reason – it is locally sourced, resilient, durable, fire safe, and fundamental for infrastructure, clean water and vital structures for the clean energy of tomorrow.
We at GGCA are fully committed to continuing to take climate action and to move towards a sustainable future.
We recognise there are challenges in cement and concrete production and have been working hard over many years to find solutions. There are some important innovations already underway and by collaborating with partners in the built environment we can make an important contribution to reducing global emissions. We are fully committed to continuing to take climate action and to move towards a sustainable future.
Concrete’s contribution to society over its whole life should always be considered. It has many important benefits such as its ability to reabsorb CO2 from the atmosphere, as well as its thermal mass properties which means that it can reduce the energy needs of buildings.
We are working across the full value chain, including with engineers and architects to maximise its benefits, whilst addressing the essential standards that the world expects. Good design of buildings and structures will be important now and in the future.
Only putting across one side of the debate is narrow and fails to address the realities of the needs of a significantly growing global population and increasing urbanisation. Safe homes and buildings, clean water and resilient infrastructure will be needed in the future world – all of which concrete can provide. | <urn:uuid:2b21b10d-a2d8-41b8-ae71-e09954ea8caa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gccassociation.org/news/gcca-statement-on-guardian-concrete-week-launch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960342 | 403 | 2.15625 | 2 |
In Connecticut, there are a few ways to properly dispose of paint cans. One way is to take the cans to a household hazardous waste (HHW) collection site. These sites are usually operated by the local government or a private company. To find a HHW collection site near you, visit CT.gov and search for “household hazardous waste.” The other way to dispose of paint cans is to recycle them. Most towns in Connecticut have recycling programs that accept paint cans.
How To Dispose Of Paint Cans In Ct
In Connecticut, there are specific regulations for the disposal of paint cans. Residents are not allowed to dispose of them in the regular trash, as the paint can contaminate the landfill and create environmental hazards. There are a few approved methods for getting rid of paint cans: -Bring the cans to a household hazardous waste collection event. -Leave the cans at the curb on your regular trash day and call your local municipality to inquire about special arrangements for hazardous waste disposal.
Some tools that are needed for this project include a hammer, screwdriver, pliers, and a tin can opener. It is also helpful to have a recycling bin nearby to place the paint cans in when they are opened.
- Pour the paint out into a safe container
- Make sure to get all of the paint out of the can
- If there is any paint left in the
- Carefully remove the lid from the paint can
-Call your local municipality to inquire about hazardous waste disposal days and regulations -You can also check with local hardware stores or paint suppliers for information on how to dispose of paint cans safely -Some municipalities have special recycling programs for paint cans. If this is the case, you can usually take them to a designated drop-off point
Frequently Asked Questions
What Can You Do With Old Paint In Ct?
You can recycle old paint in Connecticut at certain facilities.
Where Can I Dispose Of Paint Cans Near Me?
Many home improvement stores and paint retailers accept used paint cans. Alternatively, many municipalities have household hazardous waste disposal days or locations where residents can take their hazardous waste for proper disposal.
What Can I Do With Old Paint Near Me?
If you have old paint near you, there are a few things you can do with it. You can dispose of it at a hazardous waste facility, donate it to a local charity or use it to paint another surface.
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“Page-Roberts has revealed a patented design concept for an electric vehicle with world beating efficiency, releasing the potential for 30% greater range for an equivalent battery size.
Until now, EV manufacturers have been drawn towards placing the batteries under the floor as a convenient way to package sufficient battery energy for an acceptable range. The drawbacks of this are the added height, added weight, body structural complexities, along with an often-extended wheelbase.
The Page-Roberts innovation positions the battery between the front row seats and a second row of rear-facing seats. This arrangement is far more compact than standard electric vehicle designs on the market and offers the exciting potential for a lower, more aerodynamic vehicle with a standard wheelbase. The resulting vehicle will be lighter, more streamlined and up to 30% more efficient. As a consequence, it offers the potential for either an extended range or to use a smaller battery to achieve a similar range. The reduced scale also means manufacturing costs are up to 36% lower.
Page-Roberts CEO, Freddy Page-Roberts said: “the skateboard arrangement has become the mainstay of most EVs. But this results in taller vehicles with increased aerodynamic losses and energy consumption (especially at motorway speeds), extra structure required to protect against impact, and a longer wheelbase to account for the battery. The increased size and weight dramatically inhibit range. By simply moving the location of the battery pack, we have come up with a much more efficient solution.”
The Page-Roberts design is particularly suited to small EVs, for which there is a very strong demand, despite most manufacturers focusing their attention on larger SUV. The absence of batteries under the floor also offers great design freedom, with the potential to produce lower height designs, giving a unique solution for sleek and sporty 4 seat vehicles.
Mark Simon, CTO, said: “challenges around battery cost and energy density along with range and charging infrastructure continue to stall progress with EVs, despite both car brands and tech leaders racing to put their stamp on the market. Our design concept reduces costs, increases efficiency, enhances agility, and offers design freedom. The efficiency translates to less time charging from either longer range or smaller batteries, so pressure on charging points – another key pain point for the industry – will also be reduced.”” | <urn:uuid:c7eb4d88-0657-42c6-828d-3ab7f4fe9022> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jpralves.net/post/2021/06/10/page-roberts-reveals-ev-design-concept-capable-of-30-longer-range.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945881 | 472 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Our legs pain due to bone infection,decrease in bone density, over work, etc., bone density start decreasing at the age of 30, but age is now not the factor. varicose veins is one of the major problem, which everyone is suffering now and then. Around 30% of adults are suffering from varicose veins, of which the starting age is just 30 years. But what is this varicose veins?
Our heart pumps blood in arteries to veins and veins again pumps back through valves to arteries. When small valve gets damaged and does not pump back, there form the varicose veins. It appears swollen in blue or dark purple color, swollen and enlarged. Varicose veins are mostly seen in legs, because our body weight pressurizes on legs, as we constantly stand and sit and the lower part is affected the most. These are very painful and often lead to surgery. we can see heaviness, laziness, burning sensation, throbbing, itching in the legs. (Read: remedies for cellulite)
Why the blood in veins appears blue?
The blood in the vein pool and pump in the opposite direction with deoxygenated blood in it, that’s why it appears in blue or purple color.
What are the factors that lead to varicose veins?
Age factors a lot. The blood pump function in the heart from arteries to veins and returning back does not happen that effectively, and hence forms varicose veins in the legs and lower part of the body. (Read: How to remove Wrinkles)
The extra weight gain pressurizes on the legs, the blood in the vein pool and does not flow upward towards the heart, thus forming varicose in the veins. (Read: How to lose weight fast)
The blood in the body increases, but blood flow from legs to pelvis decreases. Uterus exerts pressure on the legs and forms varicose veins. (Read: Foods to avoid in Pregnancy)
Standing for a long time: standing for long time, does not allow blood flow back to heart and thus forms varicose veins
Home remedies for varicose veins:
Exercises and workouts: Exercises dissolves fat, increases blood circulation which in turn easily pushes the pool in the vein and thus remove varicose veins. Doing exercises regularly specially concentrating on the lower part of the body, will sort the problem Exercises like swimming, cycling, brisk walking, yoga, stretches, leg lifts, calf raises, will help to release the varicose veins.
Massage your legs:
Gentle massage on the legs will help to flow the blood circulation in the legs. It makes the twisted, enlarged and bulging veins straight and helps for easy blood flow
- Coconut oil or olive oil: few drops
- Essential oil: few drops
How to apply?
- Take few drops of coconut or olive oil
- Mix it with essential oil
- Gently massage on the legs in the upward strokes
- Do not directly massage on the affected area
- By massaging, on legs, it improves the blood circulation and removes the varicose veins
Wearing the fitted compression stockings, will help to a larger extent. The pressure builds up on the veins, pushes the blood to flow back to the heart, decreases the enlargement and gains back the elasticity in blood vessels.
Seek doctors advice, for stockings, as to how to wear and when to wear. It removes the blood clot and reduces the stagnation of blood in veins.
Apple cider vinegar :
We all know that ACV is known for blood circulation. It also removes the deoxygenated blood from the veins, pushing the blood to pump back towards heart . The swelling and heaviness in the legs also decreases. (Read: How to remove skin tags)
- ACV: little amount
How to apply?
- Take some undiluted ACV
- Rub on the affected area and keep it overnight
- Next day morning wash off
Do this every day and the results can be seen clearly
Cypress oil :
Cypress oil is known for increasing blood circulation. By constantly rubbing on the affected areas twice a day the result will be seen.
- Cypress oil : few drops
- Essential oil : few drops
How to apply?
- Take few drops of cypress oil
- Dilute it with essential oil like tea tree oil, lavender or peppermint oil
- Rub on the affected area twice a day
- The results can be seen within few months
Note : Cypress oil may sometimes result in swelling or muscle aches. If it is diluted with essential oil, then the result will be seen.
The capsicin present in cayenne contains, blood thinning, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, which removes the blood clots, increases blood flow in the body. The vitamin C and flavonoids present protect the walls of blood vessels, increases collagen production and also makes them elastic.
- Cayenne powder: 1 tsp
- Warm water: 1 glass
How to take?
- Take 1 glass of warm water
- Add 1 tsp of cayenne powder and stir well
- Now drink
Do this for 1-2 months twice a day.
Witch hazel :
It contains Gallic acid and essential oils which reduces the itching, swollen and enlarged veins. It also contains anti-inflammatory properties, which regains elasticity in the blood vessels.
- witch hazel: 10-20 drops
- Warm water : tub of
How to apply?
- Take warm water in tub
- Pour 10-20 drops in water
- Clean your legs and soak your legs for 15 min
- Again wash your legs and pat dry
- Take a cloth and soak in the water
- Squeeze the extra water
- Wrap the cloth on the affected area for 15 min
Butcher’s broom :
Butcher’s broom is the one, which is used for treatment of varicose veins. It constricts blood vessels from constricts, removes swelling, increases blood circulation and itching. This is a herb which contains herb called Ruscogenin(RUS), reduces inflammation, while constricting blood from veins and pooling
How to apply?
- Take 100 mg of butcher’s broom capsules extracted from the seeds and plants daily for 3 times
- These are available at any generic stores
Bottom line :
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We’re lucky to live on a planet where it’s predictably warmer in the summer and colder in the winter in many regions, at least within a certain range. On Kepler-413b, it’s a world where you’d have to check the forecast more frequently, because its axis swings by a wild 30 degrees every 11 years. On Earth, by comparison, it takes 26,000 years to tilt by a somewhat lesser amount (23.5 degrees).
The exoplanet, which is 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, orbits two dwarf stars — an orange one and a red one — every 66 days. While it would be fun to imagine a weather forecast on this planet, in reality it’s likely too hot for life (it’s close to its parent stars) and also huge, at 65 Earth-masses or a “super-Neptune.”
What’s even weirder is how hard it was to characterize the planet. Normally, astronomers spot these worlds either by watching them go across the face of their parent star(s), or by the gravitational wobbles they induce in those stars. The orbit, however, is tilted 2.5 degrees to the stars, which makes the transits far more unpredictable. It took several years of Kepler space telescope data to find a pattern.
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“What we see in the Kepler data over 1,500 days is three transits in the first 180 days (one transit every 66 days), then we had 800 days with no transits at all,” stated Veselin Kostov, the principal investigator on the observation. “After that, we saw five more transits in a row,” added Kostov, who works both with the the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
It will be an astounding six years until the next transit happens in 2020, partly because of that wobble and partly because the stars have small diameters and aren’t exactly “edge-on” to our view from Earth. As for why this planet is behaving the way it does, no one is sure. Maybe other planets are messing with the orbit, or a third star is doing the same thing.
The next major question, the astronomers added, is if there are other planets out there like this that we just can’t see because of the gap between transit periods.
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With the rapid development of economic construction and the continuous expansion of roads, the demand for LED municipal street lamps is growing. Nowadays, traditional street lamps have been gradually replaced by LED municipal street lamps. The difference between traditional street lamps and led municipal street lamps lies in the difference of street lamp caps. Generally, led municipal street lamps are led municipal street lamps. In addition to energy conservation and environmental protection, what other advantages does this lamp have?
Led municipal street lamp
1. Eye protection
Led municipal street lamps adopt LED constant current operation, which is to directly convert AC to DC, effectively reduce LED light failure, start quickly, without flicker, and protect eyes.
2. No mosquito trouble
Led municipal street lamps will not produce ultraviolet, infrared and other radiation, and there will be no mosquitoes around the lamp source. They do not contain harmful substances such as mercury and have less heat.
3. Less fever
Led municipal street lamps will not generate a lot of heat energy like traditional lamps, but will convert all electric energy into light energy, which will not cause a waste of energy.
4. No noise
Led municipal street lamps will not produce noise, which is the best choice for the occasions where precision electronic instruments are used.
5. Environmental protection lamp
Unlike traditional fluorescent lamps, led municipal street lamps contain a large amount of mercury vapor, which will volatilize into the atmosphere if broken. The LED lamp does not use mercury at all, and the LED municipal street lamp products do not contain lead, which plays a role in protecting the environment.
6. Firm and firm
Led municipal street lamp body Kunming smart street lamp uses epoxy resin instead of traditional glass, which is more solid and reliable. Even if it hits the floor, the LED will not be easily damaged, so it can be used safely.
Led municipal street lamp manufacturer
7. Good versatility
Led municipal street lamps have the same appearance and size as traditional fluorescent lamps, and can replace traditional lamps.
8. Voltage adjustable
Led municipal street lamps can be lit within a certain range of voltage, while traditional fluorescent lamps are lit by the high voltage released by the rectifier, so they cannot be lit when the voltage is reduced.
9. Power saving and long service life
The power consumption of LED municipal street lamps is less than one third of that of traditional fluorescent lamps, and the service life is 10 times longer than that of traditional fluorescent lamps. The brightness of LED municipal street lamps is basically the same as that of traditional fluorescent lamps. The normal service life is more than 30000 hours, and the power saving is more than 70%. It can be used for a long time without replacement, reducing labor costs, and is more suitable for occasions that are difficult to replace.
Led municipal street lamp has strong adaptability and the advantage of rich colors. It can be used to make lamps that touch various luminous colors.
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ZURICH, August 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
Kuros Biosurgery AG, a biotechnology company focused on the
development of novel biomaterials and bioactive-biomaterial
combination products for trauma, wound and spinal indications,
announced today that it has completed patient recruitment in a
clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of KUR-023,
its novel dural sealant product candidate. Kuros intends that this
trial will support CE Marking of KUR023.
KUR-023 is a synthetic hydrogel-based sealant that utilises
Kuros’ synthetic technology. The product candidate is
administered as a spray with the aim of ensuring water-tight
closure of incisions or tearsthrough the dura mater. It is
intended to be used as an adjunct to normal closure techniques such
The trial is a European, single arm, multi-center study in which
41 patients have been treated. The primary endpoint refers to the
prevention of intraoperative leakage with secondary endpoints
related to safety and further effectiveness assessment.
KUR-023 is delivered from a double barrelled syringe with a
mixing spray tip. The product candidate is delivered as a spray
which then arrives on the dura as a liquid, conforms to the
surface, and quickly polymerises. The applied gel is expected
to adhere strongly to the dural surface and be able to withstand
cerebral pressures in excess of those experienced in a patient.
The gel is designed to be easy to apply, to swell minimally
(addresses a common problem with hydrogels), to dissolve over a
period of a few months and not to interfere with the natural
Kuros’ synthetic technology is based on technology originally
developed by Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell. The technology uses a
cross-linking chemistry which is highly specific, does not generate
any heat and is an addition reaction, meaning that no chemicals are
released during the polymerisation process.
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Responsible animal tourism in Thailand
Uncontrollable tears were streaming down my face as I watched the baby elephant wail from the beating. Torn from its mother, locked in a tiny cage, chained, bludgeoned, and stabbed repeatedly with nails fastened to the end of sticks, this tiny innocent creature was going through the traditional phajaan ritual. The phajaan (also fittingly referred to as “the Crush”) is a three-day torture technique that’s used to break the spirit of the animal, thus making it submit to its human caretaker or “mahout” in preparation for a life in the animal tourism industry.
While it might seem like a scene out of a horror movie, this heartbreaking event is something that almost every elephant we encounter has experienced. Elephants in the circus, trekking elephants, and street-begging elephants have all gone through the Crush. These elephants go on to live the rest of their lives performing for humans, in constant fear of the sharp bull hook that digs into their sensitive ears and legs. This is just one example of how the wrong kind of animal tourism can be horrible for the animals themselves.
We saw our most recent trip to Thailand as a chance to interact with animals without extorting them. Thus, after extensive research and advice from well-informed friends, we decided to visit Save Elephant Foundation’s Elephant Nature Park (ENP) in Chiang Mai (Thailand’s second largest city behind Bangkok).
Here, after spending the morning at the park, we were watched the horrific video of the Crush. And here, we vowed never to support anything but responsible animal tourism again.
Founded by Lek Chailert in 1995, ENP rescues elephants that have been broken by the tourism industry. It also saves elephants from the illegal logging industry. ENP is a sanctuary in every essence of the word. Most of the elephants at ENP come from an abusive past and still bear the mental, emotional, and physical scars of their history. Here, there are no chains, no bull hooks, and no abuse.
A yellow flower in the ear replaces where the bull hook used to go
With more than 35 rescued elephants at the park, the animals form small family groups. These herds roam freely throughout the park, although they are monitored by humans. The animals do not perform tricks, paint, or give rides. Instead, park goers interact with these elephants by essentially catering to them. It’s refreshing to see the tables turned.
Our day at the park started with an 8 a.m. pick-up at our hotel. On the hour-long drive to ENP, we watched a video about the park that introduced us to Chailert’s selfless work and a few of her rescued elephants. I was thrilled when our guide informed us we would have the opportunities to feed, bathe, and walk among the elephants about which we had learned in the video.
Viewfinder Tip: Spend time investigating animal tourism outfitters before you support them to make sure they treat the animals responsibly.
Park entry included an elephant feeding, a tour (with introductions to various elephant family groups), a filling vegetarian lunch, and participation in elephant bathing time. On the day we visited, we also were lucky enough to see Chailert interact with her elephant babies.
This last experience was a highlight for us. Chailert personally walked us around the park and introduced us to a number of her saved elephants. The massive creatures playfully took off her hat and gently pushed her in the direction they wanted her to go. At one point, she sat down in the middle of a family of six and began singing, “You are my sunshine.” I still get chills reminiscing how the animals crowded around her so lovingly.
Another highlight of the day (aside from bathing the elephants; I mean, WHO DOES THAT?) was watching little Navaan, one of the park’s resident babies, frolic around. I cried when I realized that he’ll never have to experience the terrible Crush. At ENP, he and all of the other elephants will be safe, forever.
We urge all travelers and animal lovers to remain vigilant when it comes to animal tourism. Make sure you conduct thorough research on the outfitters you visit so you don’t end up supporting an organization that profits off harming the very animals we love.
As a registered Thai non-profit organization, ENP earmarks all visitor fees go to support feeding, housing, sustaining, and rescuing elephants. If you want to help this beautiful foundation, be sure to stop by the next time you’re in Thailand or head to the organization’s donation page.
In what ways do you practice responsible tourism?
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All this is a far cry from its origins in 1844, when it was founded by Samuel Pearson as a building and engineering company, S. Pearson & Son. Its heyday started in 1890, when Weetman Pearson (Samuel’s grandson) moved the company to London and expanded it substantially, including by building such prestigious projects as the Blackwall Tunnel and docks at Southampton and Milford Haven.
The company started to diversify in 1919, but initially into banking (Lazard Brothers). Its first steps into the newspaper publishing business came in 1921, when it acquired several newspapers based in London and the South East of England that later went to form the Westminster Press group. At one time or another the WP group included such prominent regional titles as the Brighton-based Argus, the Harrow Observer series and the Watford Observer.
In 1957 it acquired its most important newspaper, the Financial Times, taking the decision from the outset to preserve the paper’s editorial independence to avoid any taint of conflict of interest with its merchant banking activities. It also bought a 50% share in The Economist.
However, towards the end of the 1960s Pearson’s publishing interests expanded from newspapers into books; it acquired educational publisher Longman in 1968 and Penguin in 1970.
Pearson sold Westminster Press to Newsquest in 1996. Since then their newspaper publishing activities have been focused solely on the FT and on expanding that title worldwide, including the launch of FT Deutschland in 1999. (Pearson’s website boasts that FT Deutschland was the country’s first new national newspaper for 40 years. But that’s a less surprising achievement than it sounds; Germany’s press has traditionally been dominated by regional newspapers that are sold outside their home region, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.) | <urn:uuid:cad5a902-08ef-410d-af88-aa17622fe031> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/publishers/pearson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962708 | 387 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Coming off October 4th’s Monday 6
of tips/tricks using Gmail addresses, I thought I’d share another handy email feature, although the audience is probably smaller.
It’s called Hide My Email.
- Are on iOS 15+ AND
- Pay anything for additional iCloud storage (now called iCloud+ because the world is out of good naming ideas)
Then, you are eligible to use Hide My Email
. From Apple
Hide My Email lets you create unique, random email addresses to use with apps, websites, and more so your personal email can stay private.
Hide My Email is a service that lets you keep your personal email address private whether you’re creating a new account with an app, signing up for a newsletter online, or sending an email to someone you don’t know well.
If you’re looking to sign up for something, but you think it could be a bit sketchy, OR you just don’t want them having your email address, Hide My Email is for you.
Finding it is a little kludgy:
- Open Settings on your device
- Click your name on the very top where it says: Apple ID, iCloud, Media & Purchases.
- Click iCloud
- Click Hide My Email
- Click Create New Address
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While the oldest sibling is usually known for following rules, doing well in school, and taking care of the younger ones, that doesn't mean you're automatically a goody-two-shoes ray of sunshine everyone assumes you to be. In fact, being the oldest can bring you a ton of independence, and that tendency to overachieve — or to achieve first — isn’t limited to perfect grades.
In honor of National Siblings Day, here are five reasons being the oldest sibling is the best.
You’re statistically the smartest.
On average, oldest children have the highest test scores and GPAs of their siblings, but no one really knows why. Popular theories include: the oldest gets more attention since they have alone time with parents before the others are born, and having to teach younger siblings can have the effect of extra studying. Another possible explanation? Parents just get lazier as they have more kids.
You’re the most documented.
As the first child, you’re the most amazing thing your parents have ever seen in their entire lives, even if they’ve been to Paris or seen a baby elephant before. It’s no surprise, then, that they can seriously monitor you for the first months/years/maybe your entire life. Every breath you take, every move you make, they’ll be snapping it. And while we’d love to blame paparazzi parents on modern technology and the ever-looming presence of Facebook, your parents' baby books are probably proof that parents adorably obsessing over every single thing their first babies do is nothing new.
You're more likely to become president.
Nearly half of all U.S. presidents were firstborns and the other half are middle-born, which means the odds of you beating your youngest sibling to the Oval Office are pretty in your favor. But before you start practicing your inauguration speech, keepin mind Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Herbert Hoover were all middle children.
And if the White House doesn’t work out, you can always settle for CEO.
Birth order apparently determines a lot of our career choices, and oldest children are much more likely to become CEOs or hold other high-powered positions, like a role in senior management, or being Oprah. The reason? Assertive personalities, self-motivated habits, and an admiration for authority seem to work in their favor when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder.
You’re likely pretty nurturing, even if you don’t realize it.
The eldest usually ends up caring for their younger siblings in some way, whether it’s babysitting, or just guiding them through life. The effects of being the one in charge can make you a much more responsible and caring person than your younger siblings. Being a role model without having to take on authority or punishment means you’re able to acknowledge when someone’s slipped up without having to bring them down a few notches, which is definitely a great trait to have, in and outside the family. | <urn:uuid:ebc2eb4c-6edc-41aa-8415-7529ebb83db1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teenvogue.com/story/national-siblings-day-oldest-child | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967636 | 638 | 2.125 | 2 |
Disruption in Chlorine Production Caused by Ida, High Price Rise Expected in the US
- 31-Aug-2021 6:00 PM
- Journalist: Patricia Jose Perez
Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a powerful category 4 storm which has caused outages in various plants located in the Gulf Coast which is the major hub for Chlorine manufacturing.
Chlorine which was already experiencing supply shortages due to the deep freeze in February which led to several facilities going offline for weeks. Now with widespread plant outages in Louisiana might increase the prices further.
Westlake chemical shut down two of its Chlorine manufacturing facilities. Formosa plastics also closed a plant in Baton Rouge.
With the price rise in the Chlorine, the prices for Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) are also expected to rise. PVC is a key building and construction polymeric material which is used to manufacture pipes and other construction related products.
Chlorine is a product of the chlorAlkali process and the demand for chlorine has been rising at a healthy rate due to increase in the demand of water treatment, and PVC. The global demand for chlorine stood at around 100 million tonnes in 2020 which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 3.5% in the coming years.
As per ChemAnalyst, “the prices for Chlorine are expected to rise further in the medium term with the markets already facing short supply which are further disrupted by the outages caused by Ida hurricane. The price rise for Chlorine in the US might also cause price rise in the Asian and European Markets.” | <urn:uuid:8b26390e-f5fb-4c71-ad64-f28cc31fefc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chemanalyst.com/NewsAndDeals/NewsDetails/disruption-in-chlorine-production-caused-by-ida-high-price-rise-expected-in-the-us-7702 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966021 | 340 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The concept for the tower arrived when Blackpool Mayor John Bickerstaffe commissioned the design of a new landmark for the city following he visited the Fantastic Paris Exhibition in 1889 and was amazed by the Eiffel Tower. When he returned to Blackpool he established up a committee of businessmen in order to raise the funds to build a comparable design in the town.
Although they had their differences over politics, Edwin and John did not appear to have a professional rivalry. Each experienced set up themselves as actors in their personal right. Theater critics inevitably compared their performances and picked their favorites. In November 1864, Edwin, John, and a 3rd brother, Junius Jr. appeared together in a manufacturing of Shakespeare’s Julius Caeser at the Schmidinger Theatre in New York Metropolis. The packed house and the critics loved the performances.
The Eric Morecambe statue is 1 of the town’s most famous landmarks. It was create by graham Ibbeson and depicts 1 of the town’s most well-known sons. Another popular landmark is the Victoria Pavilion which has been partly renovated. This pavilion also goes by the title of Morecambe winter gardens. Originally it held a grand theater, swimming baths, ball room and restaurant although these days none of these are operational.
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In 1863, Edwin Booth’s spouse Mary died. They experienced only been married 3 many years and had 1 daughter in that time. Edwin was devastated, but rather of turning to alcohol to cope, he gave up drinking permanently. Also in 1863 or 1864, (the precise date is unidentified), when Edwin was boarding a train in Jersey City, New Jersey , he observed a young man fall into the area between the train vehicle and the station system as the train started to transfer. Edwin rapidly grabbed him by the collar and pulled him to safety. The young guy was President Lincoln’s son Robert, who acknowledged the well-known actor and thanked him.
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Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in Italy, is a history in itself.
My dad visited it few years ago. He and his colleagues had to go some place in Venice, where they had a business meeting with another party.So they had booked a tour guide and a canoe ride from a tour agency which provides canoe tours on the Grand Canal.
He and two of colleagues were waiting for the tour guide to come, so that they could embark on the journey.
As they were waiting near the blue canoe (as they were told that their canoe would be blue in colour), they saw that there was a a scooter parked in between the stairs and near the canoe.A minute later the tour guide came.
On seeing them looking at the scooter he said-“Some boys keep jumping inside the canoe and make it dirty, so I have parked my scooter in between. Come on gentlemen, let’s start the ride.”
The moment they all got inside the canoe, a police man’s whistle was heard-“whee, whee” and the policeman came and stood right beside the scooter and started noting the scooter registration number.
The tour guide said to my dad-“Un momento”, and he left the boat.
By good luck that policeman turned out to be the brother -in-law of the tour guide and he was initially surprised that some one would park his scooter so near to the water way and to alert the owner of the scooter he was blowing his whistle.
Their conversation was as follows-
The cop-” Ciao, Peter, isn’t this your scooter?”
The tour guide (Peter)- ” Yes, Simone,you know that already.”
The Cop ( Simone)-“I was about to make a note in my diary,then I realized that the scooter was yours,as I recognized the scooter number. ”
Scratching his head he continued-“Isn’t this the one which Serena gave you for your last birthday?”
Simone-“How come you dare to leave this scooter parked over here and go for a canoe ride?”
Peter-“It is my job.”
Simone-“It is your job, to leave this beauty on the sidewalk of the water way and go for a canoeing ride”?
Peter-“Don’t patronize me”.
Simone-“I am patronizing you? My little sister Serena, brought this scooter for you with all her life savings and you leave it here like this?”
Peter-“Simone, don’t waste my time. I have got a job to do.”
Simone-“I have got a job to do as well.I will tell Serena about this and I will see to it,that she confiscates this scooter from you.”
Peter-“Have you gone mad? You insane person!”
By this time a crowd had gathered around them.
Simone-:”What did you call me? Who do you think you are?”
Peter-“Who do you think you are?”
Simone-“I am an Italian police officer who is walking the beat.”
Peter-“Then, go and walk your stupid beat.”
Simone-“I have had enough. For illegally parking this scooter, near the stairway, you are hereby fined one hundred and fifty euros.”
Saying so, he made out a ticket and handed it over to his brother-in-law.
Peter-“I am your brother-in-law. How can you do this to me?”.
Simone-“At this juncture, I don’t recognize you as anybody but a civilian, who has committed a traffic cum parking offense.”
Peter-“I don’t believe this nonsense. Here goes your traffic ticket”, saying so he simply, tore the ticket into pieces.”
Simone-“That would be another two hundred euros, since,I have to issue you another ticket.” Saying so, he issued another ticket , handed it over to Peter and while putting his pen back, inside his pocket, he said-“Oh, don’t bother, I will make sure that Serena hears about this and if she doesn’t confiscate your scooter, I swear to God, I will change my name. I know my sister very well.She won’t like you at all, when I will inform her about your misdoings.Now goodbye”.
Now Peter had started crying. He was howling and shaking his fists towards the sky.
He had completely forgotten about my father and his colleagues and Simone came and spoke to my dad and he said that he would speak with the tourism agency to provide them with a new tour guide and he was sorry for the inconvenience, but the traffic law is a law after all to be followed. So, he called up the agency and arranged for a new tour guide and by the time the new tour guide came, Peter was still crying and looking very crestfallen. Simone had left by then and Peter was sitting on his scooter gloomily. Then a new tour guide came and he went to speak to Peter, but Peter wouldn’t speak with him and asked him to get lost.One of my dad’s colleagues knew Italian, so he told the new tour guide in details about what had happened.The new guide told Peter-“don’t worry, I will take the ride.”The meeting which was supposed to take place between dad and his colleagues with another party got cancelled and the other party said that they would arrange the meeting another time, so luckily my dad and his colleagues got to tour the canal, in a beautiful blue canoe and when they came back after completing the ride, they found Peter still there. His wife Serena who was now there to take the scooter back home.Apparently, Simone had told her the whole episode and she had immediately gone and collected the ticket from her husband and had promptly paid the fines. She was asking her husband to resume his work and not to worry.She said that, she wouldn’t confiscate the scooter from him and off she went with her scooter.
Peter saw dad and his group, and he said-“I am sorry, for behaving like a child.I don’t like my brother-in-law at all, but he is a piece of real work.But my wife is very kind and merciful.She paid the fine from her monthly savings and now I know that she loves me a lot. I hope that my brother-in-law changes his name, because my lovely Serena has said that she wouldn’t confiscate the scooter from me.” He chuckled and got inside the canoe and suddenly Simone appeared there-“Well, well, Serena has paid the fines. Good for you having such a wife who pays for her husband’s utter disregard for traffic laws.”
Peter-“Don’t disturb me.I am on duty.”
Simone-“Well I am off duty now and I won’t change my name “. Saying so Simone took off.
Peter to my my dad and his colleagues-“See, I told you, he is a real piece of work.I knew it, that he wouldn’t change his name.Thank you to all for cooperating with me.”
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Christ in Majesty, 1863
Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898)
* Quatrefoil design of Christ with raised right hand, holding sun in hand.
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The Lineage Holders, Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen, had not in the past felt it to be one of the Lineage’s highest priorities to establish a permanent physical home for the Aro Lineage. They felt that it was more important that people established their practice and their sense of themselves as tantrikas in the world, and used their limited funds to further other worthwile projects – such as the creation of tantric art like appliqués, the purchase of practice equipment, thangkas and statues, the creation of gTérbum and bone ornaments, and the establishment of Aro Books.
However in 2005 this view changed. During a visit to their root Teachers, Künzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel, in Nepal in 2005, Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen were given the following instruction:
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Amateur Astronomers Are Invited
Come see the dark skies at Catalina State Park on Feb. 21
January 15, 2015
If you have a sense of curiosity about those twinkling lights in the night sky, come to Catalina State Park for the next Star Party. As news evolves everyday from the many probes into our universe, everyone seems to be more fascinated about night skies including details like the rings around Saturn and tracking down glittering galaxies.
A galaxy can be only 2½ million light-years away and you can see it with the naked eye. Now imagine what you can see with the 10 big telescopes that these astronomers will have at Catalina State Park. Telescopes can get you to those ghostly nebulae, star clusters, the moon's cratered landscapes, and Venus' crescent phases, but a good pair of binoculars can help you do that, too.
It's A Star Party!
Catalina State Park will host a Star Party on Saturday, Feb. 21 from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The evening starts with with an event introduction by Jim O'Connor with excerpts from his book, Native American Night Sky Stories, which features creation stories from the Tohono O'odham Nation and Navajo people.
After the introduction, see planets, stars, comets, galaxies, and much more through Astronomers telescopes.
The event is supported by the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association. Astronomers will be onsite to answer questions and discuss the elements of the night sky as darkness descends. Visitors should meet at the main trailhead parking lot.
When the night sky arrives, astronomers will volunteer their expertise and telescopes for visitors to view an assortment of night sky attractions including star clusters, galaxies and nebulae. Visitors should bring water, snacks, a red light (to protect everyone's night vision), sweater or jacket.
For More Information
Catalina State Park's Entrance Fee is $7 per vehicle (up to four adults). Primitive to full hookup camping sites are available at a fee of $15 to $30 depending on the type of camping site needed. Catalina State Park is located on State Highway 77 (Oracle Road) at mile marker 81, just nine miles north of Tucson and six miles north of Ina Road.
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20th Oct 2021
As we age, our brains undergo slight cognitive decline. Here are some easy ways to support healthy brain function.
As we get older, our brains age with us, growing or sometimes shrinking depending on what stage of life we are currently in.
In fact, according to a study in the British Medical Journal, our brain volume decreases five per cent per decade after we turn 40 years old and may decline even more rapidly after the age of 70.
This cognitive decline is due to a number of physical factors, says The National Institute on Ageing. These changes include a decrease in neuron communication, a decrease in blood flow and an increase in inflammation.
These factors then result in a change to our thinking patterns. We may become slower to find words and recall names, have more problems with multitasking and experience mild decreases in the ability to pay attention.
And while these brain changes are a completely normal part of the ageing process, there are ways that we can help maintain healthy brain function and help slow the decline of our memory.
1. Mental Stimulation
Like a muscle, our brains must be exercised to maintain mental fitness. As they say, ‘use it or lose it’. When we engage in activities that stimulate our minds, it helps form new connections between nerve cells and may even help generate new brain cells, according to Harvard Health. This new growth is called ‘neural plasticity’ and helps us build up a functional reserve to protect against future brain cell loss.
These stimulating activities include anything that requires mental effort and/or manual dexterity, from reading, word puzzles and math problems to drawing, painting, jigsaw puzzles and crafts.
2. Balanced diet
While good nutrition is important to our overall health, it is specifically vital when it comes to maintaining optimum brain health. A well balanced diet can help to provide your body with the nutrients it needs to run efficiently, helping keep a clear and focused mind.
According to a recent study in Harvard Health, a Mediterranean diet has been especially linked to healthy brain function. Those who regularly ate fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, unsaturated oils (like olive oil) and plant sources of proteins were less likely to develop signs of cognitive impairment.
3. Daily supplements
In addition to a healthy diet, supplements can be a great way to ensure your brain is getting the nutrients it needs.
To support cognitive function, we love One Nutrition Ashwagandha. Made from the Indian herb it’s named for, this Irish brand contains organic and vegan KSM-66® Ashwagandha root extract (600mg per two capsules) — the highest concentration full spectrum Ashwagandha on the market. One Nutrition Ashwagandha also contains the added benefits of magnesium and zinc, providing support for cognitive function and protection from oxidative stress.*
It’s designed to support:
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4. Regular exercise
Physical exercise is just as important as mental exercise. According to the Mayo Clinic, studies show that people who are physically active are less likely to experience a decline in their mental function. This is because exercise increases blood flow to the brain and may even counter some of the natural reduction in brain connections that occur during ageing.
According to the Mayo Clinic, we should aim to exercise several times per week for 30 to 60 minutes. This can be any moderate aerobic activity that increases your heart rate, like walking, swimming or sport.
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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Global time and date of event 22/03/20 / 2020-03-22 13:31:52 / March 22, 2020 @ 1:31 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:31:52 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.1856 East, latitude 5.118 North, depth = 44.13 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70008e20. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008e20. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.13 km (27 miles).
Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malapatan, Sapu Padidu, Maasin. Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maasin (c. 5 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
Did you feel the quake?
Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 44 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines.
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May, the fifth month of the year, but one of seven months with 31 days
May, spring in the northern hemisphere, but autumn in the southern hemisphere – making May and November as seasonal equivalents
May, with no other month beginning or ending on the same day of the week as May
The month May was named for Maia, a Roman goddess
Late May, being the official start of the summer vacation season in the US and Canada
May, with its symbols
- Birthstone: emerald
- Birth flower: Lily of the Valley signifying sweetness, humility, and return to happiness
- Zodiac: Taurus (until May 21) and Gemini (May 22 and into June)
- Called Egg Moon, Grass Moon, and Hare Moon
- Full Moon May 4th 3:43 UTC
- New Moon May 18th 4:13 UTC
May, with national celebrations in Armenia, Canada, Eritrea, Japan, Mexico, Norway, United States, and the UK
May, with many countries celebrating May Day & Mother’s Day, plus Europe celebrating victory over the Nazis in World War II
May embraces Asian American & Pacific Islander heritage, chip your pets, creative beginning, Haitian heritage, audits, Mediterranean diets, Jewish-American heritage, guide dogs, meditation, military appreciation, moving, preservation, older Americans, personal history, preparing tomorrow’s parents, Social Security education, South Asian heritage, date your mate, and recommitment.
May increases awareness in ALS, APS, arthritis, asthma & allergies, medical orphans, brain tumors, celiac, cystic fibrosis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, fibromyalgia, Huntington’s disease, homeschooling, lupus, melanoma & skin cancer, hepatitis, neurofibromatosis, preventing osteoporosis, physiotherapy, Prader-Willi Syndrome, pet cancer, toddler immunization, chemical injury, Tay-Sachs & Canavan diseases, Tourettes Syndrome, borderline personality disorder, high blood pressure, Lyme disease, stroke, preeclampsia, and ultraviolet rays & skin cancer.
May celebrates wetlands, clean air, community living, drums, Freedom Shrine, gifts from the garden, golf, Victorian women, Latino books, barbeque, bikes, eggs, hamburger, inventors,
pets, photos, salads, salsa (the food), strawberries, asparagus, beef, chocolate custard, and drinking water.
May promotes global civility, better hearing & speech, building safety, ecodriving, family wellness, gardening for wildlife, getting caught reading, global health & fitness, food drives for homeless animals, heal the children, healthy vision, Oregon wines, business image improvement, motorcycle safety, foster care, good car keeping, mental health, physical fitness & sports, service dog eye examinations, water safety, Finger Lakes wines, youth traffic safety, revising your work schedule, spiritual literacy, women’s health care, reacting, and respect for chickens.
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Broken foot facts
- The bones in the foot may be broken in many ways including direct blows, crush injuries, falls and overuse or stress.
- Initial treatment may include RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation). Rest may include the use of crutches to limit weight bearing.
- X-rays often help make the diagnosis but bone scan or computerized tomography (CT scan) may be needed to help visualize the injury.
- Treatment of foot fractures depend upon which bone is broken but many fractures are treated with a compression dressing, a stiff- soled shoe, and weight bearing as tolerated.
- Some foot fractures require surgery to repair the damage.
- Complications of foot fractures include non-union at the fracture site, arthritis if a joint is involved, and infection if the skin is broken.
What is the structure of the foot?
The foot is designed to withstand the considerable forces placed on it by walking, running, and jumping. There are 26 bones of the foot, connected by joints and supported by thickened ligaments to absorb the impact of movement. As well, the joints of the foot are acted upon by muscles and tendons that allow flexing and extending to permit walking and running to occur.
The bony anatomy can be described as follows:
- The talus articulates with the tibia (shin bone) to form the ankle joint.
- The calcaneus or the heel bone is attached by ligaments to the tibia to provide stability to the ankle joint.
- The midfoot consists of the navicular, the cuboid, and the three cuneiform bones. The midfoot is where inversion and supination of the foot occurs. These motions allow the sole of the foot to turn inwards and upwards.
- The five metatarsal bones are connected to each toe.
- The toe bones are called phalanges (single = phalanx) with the great toe having two and the other four toes having three each. These bones are named based upon their relationship to the body: proximal, middle and distal. Proximal means closest to the center of the body while distal is furthest from the center.
- The arch of the foot is maintained by the plantar fascia, a thick fibrous band of tissue that runs from the calcaneus to the metatarsal, preventing the bones of the foot from flattening.
- There are places in the foot where two bones meet to form a joint. Each joint has its own set of structures that help maintain stability.
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- Within EWJI’s working group strategy, one of the active groups is the one dedicated to the environment.
EWJI dedicates an important part of its efforts to its working group strategy, which allows the sharing of knowledge and experiences, as well as fostering the creation of ties between professionals in the profession.
One of the groups currently active is the Environment one, coordinated by Mr. Helmut Burger, from REPROTEX.
The purpose of the working group Environment is to compile the rules and recommendation related with environmental matters which can be of interest for the water jetting sector. It is also part of the scope of this group the preparation of reference documents/guidelines with the basics of water management, recycling and decontamination.
Following these documents, this EWJI working group will also organize free webinars to share the findings or collect feedback.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D Eisenhower
I just love that quote from President Eisenhower, and I agree! Farming does look pretty easy when you are an “armchair farmer”. We live in a country where less than 2 percent of our population works in production agriculture. This has created a disconnect for most consumers. For most of us, a simple trip to the grocery store provides us with everything we need. Most of us have no reason or need to question our abundant, affordable and safe food supply.
However, this disconnect is having repercussions. For some consumers, agriculture has turned into a negative. They think farmers and ranchers are hiding from the consumers for various reasons. They think we do horrible things to our land and animals just to get rich. And instead of seeking farmers and ranchers out, to learn from us, or ask us questions – they just accuse, attack and harass us.
I do my best to “open my barn door”, that is I attempt to let my friends know, if they have questions about agriculture I am here for them. I offer tours of my Ranch, introductions to other farmers and ranchers, I’ll even find you (what I consider) relevant and good research about an ag topic. I absolutely love it when I have friends that take advantage of my resources.
My outreach becomes a problem for me, at times. Agriculture is more than a passion for me. It’s my life. I eat, breathe, sleep and live ag. The best way I can explain it to people is it is like a very devout religion. My family has been agriculture for as long as I can trace it back (I made it back to the 1500’s). I have always lived on a ranch. I have always worked in production ag. My formal education is in agriculture. My first memories are of agriculture. I will probably die on a ranch. To say ag is personal to me, is a slight understatement.
When I hear someone say “we should have our farmers backs” I usually love it! But more and more this sentiment comes from “armchair farmers” – people whose ag knowledge came from books, movies and youtube videos. And while I appreciate the sentiment, these people often have no clue what they are talking about. To them, ag is simple. Ag is black and white, good guy versus bad. They’ve never farmed, ranched or really ever spoken to a commercial farmer or rancher.
Often these armchair farmers insinuate real farmers and ranchers are dumb. That farmers and ranchers need urban people to “have our backs” simply because they think stereotypes from the media are true – that we are “simple folk” Yes, there are those of us (farmers and ranchers) that are not worldly or tech savvy, but I guarantee if you sit down and ask them about their crops or animals they can teach you more than any TV show or article. My Dad is the perfect example of that. He can’t really operate a computer, he’s been out of the country once, he didn’t go to college, but that man has a beautiful, healthy, productive, happy cow herd and would blow any non-aggie’s mind with his knowledge.
These armchair farmers tend to discredit my opinion (an opinion of a real rancher that produces the food you buy) because I don’t say what they think I should. I don’t believe organic is our savior (all type of ag has its place), I don’t believe Monsanto is the devil out to destroy me, I don’t believe “modern ag” is evil. Having an armchair farmer “educate” me about my industry is like having someone not of my religion educate me about how I should practice my faith.
I’m all about different opinions. I’ve learned a lot from people who don’t agree with me. It’s actually one of my favorite methods to learn – hell I went to law school (I dropped out – but it was my choice – I didn’t flunk out!)! Everyone is entitled to an opinion, which is what makes this country great. But at some point I have to draw a line, for my sanity. When a city person starts talking at me, “educating” me about agriculture, lecturing me on how I should run my ranch – I shut down and walk away. I’m not going to apologize for that. It’s one thing to have an educated conversation or discussion about my way of life with someone that has knowledge or experience that can contribute information, or has genuine questions. But it’s a totally different animal when someone with no ag education, experience or understanding acts like I am simple, country folk that needs to be protected from myself.
If you really want to “have our backs”, listen to us, talk to us – not at us. Ask us about our ag practices and why we choose those methods over others. Don’t put words in our mouths, or infer we are dumb. Don’t push for more legislation for us, more hoops for us to jump through to produce our food and fiber. Realize that our opinions about agriculture were formed from hands on experience, education, hard work and sometimes generations of family before us, – not the media, youtube and or food writers. | <urn:uuid:a3297da5-6633-4192-92d0-52243c638cb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thebeefjar.com/2012/01/13/armchair-farmers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961511 | 1,163 | 1.664063 | 2 |
|Use:||Photo ionization detectors (PIDs) are used to detect aromatic hydrocarbons (a PID can detect most VOCs with a carbon range of 6 (such as benzene) to 10 (such as naphthalene)).|
The PID is comprised of an ultraviolet lamp that emits photons (a quantum unit of light energy) which are absorbed by the analyte in an ionization chamber. Ions (atoms or molecules that have gained or lost electrons and thus have a net positive or negative charge) produced during this process are collected by electrodes. The current generated provides a measure of the analyte concentration.
PIDs are commonly used as detectors in portable gas chromatographs (which separate the specific analyte types). Because only a small fraction of the analyte molecules are actually ionized, this method is considered nondestructive allowing it to be used in conjunction with another detector to confirm analysis results. This is easily accomplished by connecting the exhaust port of the PID to a flame-ionization detector (FID) or electron capture detector. In addition, PIDs are available in portable hand-held models.
1. Non-Halogenated VOCs
3. Some Halogenated VOCs
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|Selectivity:||Technique measures the contaminant indirectly.|
|Susceptibility to Interference:||High.|
|Detection Limits :||10-100 ppm (soil); 0.5-10 ppm (water).|
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ASTM Standards/EPA Methods:
No applicable ASTM standards or EPA methods are cited for this technology.
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A Soft-Spoken But Fierce Defender Of Maryland’s Forests
Bonnie Bick is an unassuming person. She’s a 72-year-old former flower child and pre-school teacher with a soft voice, who has little money and few possessions, but loves walking in the woods near her small brick house in southern Maryland.
But among land conservationists, she is a hero – a fierce and tenacious fighter who outlasted developers and the political establishment in Charles County to stop a highway project – the Cross County Connector, which would have fed sprawling subdivisions. The project has now turned into a proposal for a much greener bike path surrounded by trees.
“It’s a very exciting end for that terrible, long ordeal – fighting the Cross County Connector,” Bick reflected. “It was like a miracle to stop it.”
Over three decades of unpaid and often unrecognized behind-the-scenes work, Bick took on development projects that many people thought were unstoppable -- but it was the gentle, patient, tenacious Bonnie Bick who proved unstoppable. The result: She quietly helped to save thousands of acres of green space in a state increasingly consumed by cul-de-sacs and strip malls.
U.S. Representative Donna Edwards, a Democrat who has known Bick for 18 years, said that she deserves a lot of credit not only for pushing back against sprawl, but also for fighting for healthy urban areas served by public transportation. In addition, Bick has welcomed minorities into a conservation movement that is often very white, Edwards said.
“Bonnie is a different kind of environmentalist, because not only does she believe in preserving the environment, but she believes in making sure that vulnerable communities are protected as well,” Edwards said. “Not all environmentalists take that tactic, and that’s why her work was so important and deep in not only in southern Maryland, but also around the Oxon Hill / Fort Washington area.”
Bick said she is driven by a philosophy of building up cities, so that rural areas can remain rural. But she also believes in protecting wildlands for other forms of life.
“I’m a big supporter of the protection of biodiversity, and large properties that haven’t been disturbed are usually very biodiverse,” Bick said. “I am a great believer in thinking globally and acting locally. If we could just get a lot of people motivated to protect the most valuable resources in their area, that would be a good thing for everyone.”
Bick worked with allies to protect almost 1,000 acres of threatened property near Mattawoman Creek, one of the most fertile fish breeding grounds in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. And, back in the 1990s, she helped to lead a grueling but eventually successful multi-war war to stop a 4,600 home subdivision, office complex and golf course proposed the banks of the Potomac River.
“Not only would Chapman’s Landing have destroyed the quality of life for the people in the area, but it would have also changed the nature of the lower Potomac,” Bick said. “Because Chapman’s Landing would have put a city – a new city – right on the river. It was just a terrible threat.”
In the end, Bick and allies convinced then-Governor Parris Glendening to halt the project and instead create Chapman State Park and Chapman Forest.
“She’s pretty unusual in that she can work at all levels. She will knock on doors, and she will also call on governors,” said Jim Long, a physicist and co-founder of Friends of Mattawoman Creek. “She’s fearless in approaching the upper echelons of government, and yet she is still very warm in working at a grass-roots level. And she has vision. Before anyone else, she recognizes when there is an opportunity or a problem.”
Devoting a lifetime to fighting against the suburban development complex –without a salary or institutional support– has been emotionally grueling work that has required personal sacrifice.
“Bonnie is a minimalist,” said Edwards. “She doesn’t believe in accumulating lots of things. And she’s not materialistic, at all. So I think in her personal life she has minimized her needs, and that actually has liberated her when it comes to volunteering and doing community work for nothing.”
It hasn’t been easy. Bick has been threatened with lawsuits. And once, 12 years ago, after she angered local officials in Prince George’s County by fighting a condo and retail project called National Harbor, the local officials threatened to use eminent domain to seize and demolish her home in Oxon Hill to build a stormwater pond.
“It was a terrible situation to be in, because I really loved that house,” Bick recalled, explaining that she had grown up in the home and that her father had designed it.
Many saw the condemnation threat as an attempt to intimidate Bick. It didn’t work. Bick kept fighting, and kept her home.
In 2006, Bick nearly died in a car accident driving away from a land preservation press conference.
“I had nine roken ribs and my lungs collapsed,” Bick said. “And my pelvis was broken in six places and my sacrum was broken and my bladder was smashed and ripped up and my liver was lacerated. I was put into an induced coma.”
After she woke up in her bed at Washington Hospital Center, Bick continued to meet with her fellow activists on ways to protect their beloved Mattawoman Creek, which was threatened with the highway project and subdivisions.
One of those who met with her in the hospital was fellow conservation volunteer Linda Redding.
“There are thousands of acres that have been saved because of Bonnie’s efforts,” Redding said. “And I think the take-home message is that one person can make a difference. A lot of people say ‘I can’t make a difference. It doesn’t matter.’ But that’s wrong. Bonnie proved that one person can really make a difference.”
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Flooded Texas Chemical Plants Raise Concerns About Toxic Emissions
On Sunday morning, as soon as she woke, Jessica Hulsey peeked outside her home in Houston's East End to see the impact of Hurricane Harvey. But it wasn't the rising water that surprised her.
"As soon as I opened the door, the smell hit my nose," she says.
At first she thought she may have left the gas can for her lawnmower out, because she says the smell was kind of like gasoline. But she hadn't. And, as it turns out, her neighbors say they smelled it, too.
"I was just asking myself, 'I wonder where this strong smell is coming from,'" she says.
Now she thinks she knows. The city of Houston is home to around 450 petrochemical plants, making it one of the biggest oil refining hubs in the world. Concern is growing that damage to some of these plants is polluting the air, and may threaten the water.
In Baytown, Texas, the storm damaged the roof of a large ExxonMobil refinery, which began emitting toxic chemicals.
"They have a limited amount of crew at the location because they want to minimize any safety concerns with their employees," Lettie Brysch, a public information officer for the city of Baytown, said on Tuesday.
A Chevron facility also flooded. And in the town of Crosby, Texas, floods knocked out power to the Arkema SA organic peroxide plant. Then the backup generators were flooded. That led to what the company calls a "serious" situation, because if the chemicals aren't properly refrigerated, they might explode. Tuesday, the company evacuated its employees, and nearby residents were also ordered to leave the area.
"It's not just that we have refineries or petrochemical facilities or boutique chemical plants ... we have everything," says Elena Craft, a toxicologist with the Environmental Defense Fund.
Local industry says it's doing everything it can to minimize any emissions caused by the storm. Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell and Petrobras are among those who shut down refineries as Harvey swept in, bringing down oil production in the Gulf of Mexico by nearly 20 percent.
But the EDF's Craft says the very act of shutting these plants down, and then re-starting them, actually produces pollution.
"An analogy would be like the cold start of a car. Where if you turn it off and then turn it back on," she says. "At least the older engines, it would take a while for the engines to heat up to the appropriate temperature to actually burn off some of the pollution."
The EDF and other groups are keeping track of regulatory filings petrochemical companies are required to make with the Texas Commission on Environment Quality. Right now, the groups estimate about a million pounds of toxic chemicals — many of them carcinogenic — will be released around Houston just as a result of the storm and floods.
"How many pounds of benzene or butadiene would you like to be exposed to?" Craft asks. "None!"
She says much of that pollution won't be released until after the waters recede and the factories and refineries get back online.
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Autotune emerged initially in 1997, as a means for correcting off-key vocals in studio recordings. In the ensuing years since then, it has become a staple of modern pop and alternative music, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Traditionalists are understandably vocal in their unadulterated disdain for the tool; it’s hard to argue with the notion that a professional singer really should not require any alteration to their recorded vocals. Or their live vocals, for that matter. Regularly though, autotune is used to make an almost robotic effect on vocals, as a desired portion of the finished product.
While working with Cher on the song “Believe” in 1998, producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling discovered that if they set Auto-Tune on its most aggressive setting, so that it corrected the pitch at the exact moment it received the signal, the result was an unsettlingly robotic tone.
Personally, I can see both sides of the argument. Autotuned music can sound positively awful, but on the other hand, when used in moderation as a means to heighten the overall experience of a particular song, it can work brilliantly. In light of all that, here are 5 of the worst examples of autotune in music vs. 5 of the best.
Thanks to Edel for the idea of this article.
The 5 Worst Uses of Autotune:
05. Cher – Believe
Okay, so Cher’s 1998 single is largely credited with introducing autotune to the world, being the first known song to use the aforementioned aggresive setting to attain that somewhat robotic sound, but still. This song is incredibly catchy, and the absolute personification of an earworm, but it’s also incredibly annoying. The autotune effect in the track may be relatively conservative, especially compared to a lot of other uses of the tool these days, but it still makes an already irritating song even more annoying.
04. Rebecca Black – Friday
To be honest, I almost didn’t include this one, because of the overwhelming negative reaction it has already gained since it was unleashed upon the world. Rebecca Black was only 13 at the time, so she really should’ve been cut some slack. Her mother was, as Adam Buxton eloquently put it, “Justifiably furious” with some of the bile that presented itself online. Nevertheless, it is pretty dreadful, and still deserves its place on this list.
03. Akon – I’m So Paid
Aside from Akon’s 2003 (s)hit Lonely, I’ll admit I’m relatively unfamiliar with his work. This song doesn’t inspire me to investigate any further though. The autotune on the song makes his already terrible, nasally voice even more irritating. An absolutely awful, dreadful piece of detritus.
02. Eiffel 65 – Blue
1990’s Eurodance is a largely woeful genre to begin with, with this song being one of the prime examples of why it’s best left exactly where it started – in the past. With the lyrics equivalent to that of a drunken 10 year old, once again the autotuned vocals deprecate an already bad song to a positively terrible one.
01. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
This may be hard to believe but Black Eyed Peas were once a genuinely great hip-hop group. At some point though, they decided to sell the fuck out, and since 2003, they’ve had a plethora of insanely terrible singles polluting the airwaves of commercial radio, and alienating any fans they had earned in their initial years as a group. This is the worst offender among these said singles, and possibly one of the most infuriatingly awful pop songs of all time. The lyrics seem to come from someone who looked up the term “Pop Single” in a guide for idiots on the subject, and applied the most pathetically basic notions of chart music and lyrics in the tracks composition. The horrendous auto-tune makes the song even more fake and synthetic than the lyrics had already ensured it would be. I still vividly remember the very first time I heard this piece of shit in a club in Dublin city centre, and I still die a little inside every time I’m forced to endure it.
The 5 Best Uses of Autotune:
05. Daft Punk – One More Time
For Daft Punk’s sophomore album Discovery, they opted to go for a more melodic approach to their work compared to their debut album Homework. Romanthony’s vocals are heavily autotuned, but Daft Punk manage to get away with it, given the overall robotic overtones on the song and indeed on the album as a whole. It’s far from being their best work, but it’s still very much a fine example of an exemplary use of autotune.
04. Sufjan Stevens – Impossible Soul
Not only can Sufjan Stevens sing without the use of autotune, he actually possesses one of the most incredibly beautiful voices in modern music today. During the epic 25 minute closing track on his Age of Adz album, he opts for autotune at around the 10 minute mark. Luckily, it doesn’t feel out of place; the whole record is laden with synths and keyboards. In fact, several digital, somewhat futuristic flourishes scattered throughout the LP. This all comes to an alarmingly gargantuan conclusion on Impossible Soul.
03. Super Furry Animals – Juxtapozed With U
If there’s one band that can make autotune work to their advantage, it’s psychedelic legends Super Furry Animals. The autotune is used only on the verses and much like Sufjan Stevens’ aforementioned track, its use only serves to make for a more futuristic sounding work. It also results in the chorus sounding that much more emotional and heartfelt after the robotic sounding verses.
02. Hot Chip – I Feel Better
One of Hot Chip’s finest singles, the autotuned vocals during the verses of I Feel Better serve to elevate rather than condemn the song, much like the previously mentioned Super Furry Animals track. Similar to a lot of Daft Punk’s work, the robotic vocals actually manage to add more humanity and emotion to an already gorgeous song.
01. Kanye West – Runaway
I have previously mentioned an aversion to quite a bit of Kanye West’s autotuned music, but Runaway is one major exception. It’s taken from his best album, and it’s arguably the best song on the LP overall. The outro lasts for around 3 minutes and consists of distorted, autotuned vocals, accompanied by a string section and a one-note piano melody. Somehow, miraculously, the outro never outstays its welcome. In fact, it actually manages to be one of the most emotionally charged, satisfying portions of an already magnificent album. | <urn:uuid:d1559a74-433d-4b18-870c-f2dce34190e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hamburgersnheroin.com/autotune-the-case-for-vs-the-case-against-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955999 | 1,469 | 1.875 | 2 |
Human Behavior Understanding and Interaction with the World
CMTech research group UPF
CMTech is a research group belonging to the Information and Comunication Technologies Department (DTIC or ICT Department) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (located in Barcelona). Its research is focussed on Computer Vision & Human-Computer Interaction to address human behavior understanding and interaction with the world, designing and analysing different cues related with human non-verbal communication. The Full-Body Interaction Laboratory (FuBIntLab) within the group focuses its research on how body, space and socialization can have an impact on HCI. | <urn:uuid:c2f05cfe-ba5a-4394-a36a-af11e288c2e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upf.edu/web/cmtech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.855719 | 131 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Is your shin hurting while you are walking? Running or playing sports? In today’s blog post, I’m going to explain to you why you are having shin pain and what you can do about it.
Shin pain also known commonly as shin splint. Shin splints are caused by repetitive stress on the shin-bone and the connective tissues that attach your muscles to the bone.
Shin Splint generally happened:
- to new runners as your body is not used to the stress you are putting on your leg muscles
- also, commonly happens to runners who are returning from a break from running, and generally happens when they increase their mileage too quickly
Signs & Symptoms:
- shin splints include an aching, throbbing or tenderness along the inside of the shin (although it can also radiate to the outside) about halfway down or all along the shin, from the ankle to the knee
- pain of shin splints is most severe at the start of the run, but often goes away during a run once the muscles are loosened up
- at first, the pain might stop when you stop exercising. Eventually, however, the pain can be continuous and might progress to a stress reaction or stress fracture
In this blog, I’m going to share with you some tips and exercises on what you can start doing today to help fix this problem.
Keeping in mind, these exercises are of general nature and do not take your injuries/history into considerations. In order to fully rehab your discomfort you will still need to continue to progress to harder and more functional strengthening exercises that are specifically tailored for you, in order to feel pain free while working.
Here at Capital Physiotherapy, our physiotherapists are the experts in helping you to fix your issues as well as all the discomfort that comes with it!
We can help you lead a healthier and pain-free lifestyle.
Our physiotherapist will be able to give a full assessment on you and come out with individualised advice/ treatment plan that is tailored for your particular needs.
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The International Maritime Organization’s working group on greenhouse gas emissions meets in London in mid-November to discuss proposals to reduce GHG emissions from shipping. BIMCO hopes its latest proposal can satisfy different sides of the debate.
The shipping association suggests limits on power, which are based on average speed, to help curb emissions in the short term.
BIMCO is calling for the global regulation of vessels’ power to curb greenhouse gas emissions and also appease supporters of speed regulations.
The world’s largest shipping association has tabled a proposal to the International Maritime Organization ahead of a working group meeting in London next month to assess several proposals geared towards short-term reductions of ship emissions.
BIMCO proposes introducing ship power limits based on average operational speeds for different types of vessels.
It specifically suggests the power limit would depend on the performance of an average ship under real weather conditions built in the decade prior to Energy Efficiency Design Index regulation coming into force in 2013 and sailing at an agreed average operational speed.
That average operational speed is in turn based on the average trading speeds of each ship type over the past three years.
“Aiming a regulatory measure at ship’s efficiency would be desirable as it is enforceable and provides for a goal-based approach,” BIMCO said.
Regulators should also consider factoring in the carbon content of the fuel used by the ship, it said.
“The proposed concept would have the benefit of capturing the emissions reductions already achieved since 2008 by slower steaming while maintaining the present competitive playing field between ships,” BIMCO said.
The IMO working group does not make final decisions on regulations and its conclusions help progress work on emissions policy. The IMO’s ultimate environmental authority meets next April.
Mandatory speed limits are a highly contentious measure. Proponents argue that it is the best option the industry has to immediately roll back emissions, while opponents claim it will be very difficult to enforce and will encourage owners to keep more inefficient ships for longer periods at sea.
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Although conventional talk therapy has benefits, more people with limb loss discover life-changing benefits from life coaching. And today, there are life coaches specifically trained to help you live your best life post-limb loss.
Don’t get me wrong. Traditional therapy is still effective in helping you address various challenges, including anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and substance abuse. In a nutshell, therapy focuses on diagnosing what’s wrong with you and then fixing it.
In comparison, life coaching acknowledges that everyone’s broken on some level. From there, life coaches help you work with what you’ve got, guide you where you want to go, and, most importantly, teach you how to thrive.
Coaching is oriented toward problem-solving and goal-setting. It’s designed to help you achieve an objective, resolve a conflict, or make a targeted change. Like a sports coach, a life coach can help with accountability, focus, persistence, and motivation.
While the features of life coaching and talk therapy may overlap, the latter offers certain benefits to people with limb loss. If you’re a new amputee struggling with life post-surgery, you might want to explore this option.
Fortunately, there are already several trained amputee life coaches. We’ve listed a few of them below.
Adria Twyman is a triple amputee (both legs and left hand). She started coaching after struggling to move forward with limb loss. Also known as Robo Barbie, Twyman also works with the families and caregivers of amputees, providing counseling to encourage positive thinking and promote healthy adaption to limb loss.
Kelliana Cole first became a life coach because she wanted to help women feel confident in their future. Cole offers a six-week group coaching course called Confidence Academy. Although the program isn’t explicitly designed for amputees, it covers issues that people with limb loss typically find challenging, such as body image, fear of failure, self-doubt, and dealing with society’s unrealistic standards. The ongoing Confidence Academy batch, via Zoom, started on July 7 and ends on August 18, 2022. You can also sign up for one-on-one life coaching.
As a clinical psychologist, Kevin Kappler has spent years helping people cope with panic disorders and post-traumatic stress. When he lost his limb ten years ago, Kappler faced various challenges. Now he knows the psychological difficulties people face after losing a limb first-hand. Kappler also completed his post-doctoral work at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, treating veterans who returned with limb loss and trauma.
Kappler offers free initial consultations. If you decide to work with him, you can expect a flexible, individualized plan that fits your budget and mental health needs.
Lindsay Boudreau is a trained clinical social worker. She became active as a peer visitor and support-group member after she lost her right leg below the knee in her late 20s. Boudreau’s coaching program features practical tools to help you make the mental and physical adjustments with limb loss while building a new action plan to get you moving forward again.
Tracy Metzger is a military veteran of 25 years and has been living with limb loss for four years. She believes ignoring pain, especially emotional pain, doesn’t help anyone. But being vulnerable and embracing how you feel will help you feel more courageous and worthy. Metzger is gifted at promoting physical fitness among amputees who lack the motivation to begin or feel so out of shape that they don’t know where to start. If you’ve been meaning to jump-start your fitness regimen, Metzger might be able to help.
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From “Assessment Overview of One Laptop per Child Projects”, an evaluation of One Laptop Per Child deployments: “Figure 1 : The current global distribution of XO laptops across the world.”
From the community created and curated http://olpcmap.net :
I was invited to attend the summit because of my experience in organizing community events like the Grassroots Uses of Technology Conference. Bottoms-up, participatory and community-centric planning is not a core competency of OLPC (to put it gently), and I was asked to advise on how to better recognize, support and grow the existing—but poorly-connected—communities that are part of the broader OLPC ecosystem. This meant more prosaic things like making sure every session has a volunteer notetaker, but then that’s the kind of thing that helps build a participatory community. Just look at everyone who has added themselves to the map.
But not to rip on that report either, since it verifies a lot of anecdotes about the impact of OLPC deployments:
Teachers in Ethiopia praised the ease in which they were able to adapt the XO to their existing curricula and its complimentary nature to their lesson plans. They noted that the introduction of the XO forced them to outline a daily schedule and their class objectives each morning, facilitating more effective planning and a more productive day in school. Teachers in the Solomon Islands repeatedly mention how the XO helps them to record children’s activities, monitor their progress, and track their assignments. In Haiti, most teachers noted in their interviews that it was much easier to edit their students’ work on the XO laptop and as such they were able to spend more time working one-on-one with students and less time lecturing.
Increased specialized attention, motivation and enthusiasm for learning, and confidence in children’s futures as a result of skills and knowledge building are huge components in building child confidence and drastically improving attendance, thereby decreasing dropout rates in the long-run, and producing a more well-educated society. Similar overwhelmingly positive statements about child confidence and the feelings of being “special” and worthwhile as a result of the introduction of laptops into the community for the children are found in reports from Alabama in the United States all the way to remote indigenous communities in Western Australia. | <urn:uuid:3d47f07e-3c49-4227-aee2-a0666139d3d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://island94.org/2010/11/A-difference-of-a-map.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968724 | 483 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Dr Stanley Tang is a researcher, ornithologist and science teacher at Glenaeon School in Middle Cove. He has been carrying out a formal, licensed survey of birds with his students in North Arm Reserve, investigating the dynamic of local bird populations.
At this online talk, he will be sharing what he has discovered and the value of fauna survey.
Numbers are limited so booking is essential. One ticket per person. Registrations for this event will open on August 9.
A fun bushwalk adventure for your little ones.
A fun bushwalk adventure for little ones.
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The US is scrambling to rapidly increase its supply of a vaccine used against monkeypox as the rate of cases rises.
Today, the White House announced new measures to bring the outbreak under control.
One plan is to try "dose-sparing" — sharing one dose among five people. Experts say there's no evidence it works yet.
"There should be no reason why we can't stay ahead of this," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said during a phone call announcing the emergency on Thursday afternoon.
There is no special vaccine for monkeypox, and no tailored treatment, but there is some evidence that both the vaccines and the treatments available to fight against smallpox — which is a viral relative of monkeypox — can work well in the current outbreak. (A widely-cited study of about 200 people in Zaire from the mid-1980s suggests smallpox vaccination may be about 85% protective against monkeypox infections.)
However, supply of the Jynneos vaccine, which is the only currently licensed vaccine for smallpox in the US, is highly strained, and only one Danish manufacturer, named Bavarian Nordic, makes the vaccine.
On Thursday, FDA commissioner Dr. Robert Califf floated the idea of "dose-sparing" to combat the vaccine supply bottleneck.
"The goal has always been to vaccinate as many people as possible," he said.
Experts are divided over whether 1 vaccine can work for 5 people
Dose-sparing for monkeypox would allow clinicians to vaccinate five times as many people with the same amount of vaccine. By administering a 20% dose into the upper layer of the skin, a provider creates "a pocket where the vaccine goes," Califf said.
But almost all other vaccines we get today are injected into the muscle (as a COVID-19 vaccine is), or into the fatty layer just above the muscle, in a subcutaneous injection (this is how Jynneos is being administered for the time being).
Intradermal injections are far less common, and require a different angle of approach and technique.
Califf said he is confident that administering the shot into the epidermis will trigger a robust immune response against monkeypox, and that healthcare professionals nationwide are capable of doing this, since the technique is near identical to a PPD skin test for tuberculosis.
Dr. Kavita Patel, a primary care physician, said on Twitter that injecting in this way "might trigger a more efficient immune response," and it is a strategy that is used already for some rabies and tuberculosis vaccines, but it's also possible it "could result in less efficacy."
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are hoping to answer the question with a new study, but it won't be finished until November or December, at the earliest, as Stat reported on Thursday.
"If there is evidence for the effectiveness of that, then that would be a strategy to stretch available vaccines," David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, told Insider.
Still, he said, men who have sex with men "deserve" to have "the best regimen of vaccine possible."
"Shortages are just not acceptable," he added. "Anything less than full effectiveness of vaccine doses treats gay and bi men and MSM [men who have sex with men] as second class citizens."
Mia de Graaf contributed reporting.
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Islands and Resorts in Raja Ampat is a series of four adjacent island chains and is located in the west part of the bird’s Head (Vogelkoop) of Papua Island. Administratively, this cluster is located under the regency of Raja Ampat, West Papua province.
The archipelago is now the destination of divers interested in the beauty of the underwater landscape. The four island clusters are named after the four largest islands, namely Waigeo Island, Misool Island, Salawati Island, and Batanta Island.
Origins and History of Raja Ampat Islands
The origin of the name of Raja Ampat according to the myth of local people came from a woman who found seven eggs. The four grains were hatched into four princes who parted and each became the ruling king in Waigeo, Salawati, eastern Misool and western Misool. Meanwhile, the other three eggs become ghosts, a woman, and a stone.
In the course of history, the territory of Raja Ampat has long been inhabited by the nobility and implemented the customary system of Maluku. In this system, the Society of human beings. Each village is led by a king. Since the founding of five Muslim sultanates in Maluku, Raja Ampat became part of the claim from Tidore Sultanate. After Tidore Sultanate from the Netherlands, the Raja Ampat Islands became part of the claim of the Dutch East Indies. People of Raja Ampat islands are generally traditional fishermen residing in small kampongs that are located far apart and different islands.
They are a friendly community that accepts guests from outside, especially if we bring souvenirs for them in the form of betel nut or sweets. This item becomes a kind of ‘ Indian peace Pipe ‘ in Raja Ampat. The event chatting with the betel nut is also called “Para-Pinang” often take turns each other throwing mob, local term for funny stories. They are Muslims and Christians and often in one family or clan there are members who embraced one of the two religions. This makes the people of Raja Ampat continue to be in harmony despite different beliefs.
Wealth of natural resources of Raja Ampat Island
Raja Ampat Islands is a potential place to be used as a tourist attraction, especially diving tours. The waters of Raja Ampat islands According to various sources, is one of the 10 best waters for diving sites around the world. In fact, it may also be recognized as the number one for the completeness of underwater flora and fauna at this time. Dr John Veron, an experienced reef expert from Australia, for example, in a site he revealed, the Raja Ampat Islands located at the westernmost tip of Papua Island, about 50 miles northwest of Sorong, has the best coral area in Indonesia. About 450 species of corals have been identified for two weeks of research in the area.
The expert team of Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Oceanographic Institute (LON) of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) had made a quick assessment of 2001 and 2002. As a result, they noted in this water there are more than 540 types of hard corals (75% of the world’s total species), more than 1,000 types of coral fishes, 700 types of mollusks, and the highest record for gonodactyloid stomatopod crustaceans. This makes 75% of the world’s coral species in Raja Ampat. None of the places with the same area have a number of coral species this much.
There are some areas of coral reefs that still very good condition with a percentage of the closure of live corals up to 90%, namely in the Dampier Strait (Strait between Waigeo Island and Batanta Island), Kofiau Islands, southeast Misool and Wayag Islands. The type of the coral reefs of Raja Ampat are generally reef edges with steep ramps. But it is also found the atoll type and burnt or taka type. In some places like in Kampung Saondarek, when the lowest tides, can be witnessed the expanse of coral reefs without diving and with its own adaptations, the corals can still live despite being in the open air and exposed to sunlight Direct.
The unique species that can be found on the dive are some of the horses of Dwarf, wobbegong, and Manta rays. Also there are endemic fish Raja Ampat, namely Eviota King, that is a kind of gobbie fish. At Manta Point located in Arborek Dampier Strait, you can dive with some tame Manta rays such as when you dive in Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan. If you dive in Cape Kri or Chicken Reef, you can be surrounded by thousands of fish. Sometimes the tuna group, giant trevallies and snappers.
But that is stressful if we are surrounded by a collection of Barracuda, although in fact it is relatively harmless (which is dangerous if we meet the solitary barakuda or alone). Reef sharks are also often seen, and if you are lucky you can also see turtles being silent eating sponge or swimming around you. In some places such as in Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo are also seen Dugong or mermaid. Due to its many islands and narrow strait, most of the dive sites at certain times have a strong current. It is also possible to do drift dives, diving while following the strong currents with very clear water while breaking through the fish group.
Prehistoric Relics and history Raja Ampat
In a cluster area Misool found prehistoric relics in the form of a stamp that is described on the wall of the rock. Uniquely, these handprints are very close to the sea level and are not in the cave. According to estimates, the age of these handprints was about 50,000 years old and became part of the directive series of human propagation from the western part of the archipelago to Papua and Melanesia. The remnants of World War II shipwrecks can be found in several dive sites, such as the Wai Island.
Access to Raja Ampat Islands
Visiting this archipelago is not very difficult although it is time consuming and cost is quite large. We can use the airline from Jakarta or Bali to Sorong via Makassar or Ambon and Manado for approximately 6 hours flight. From Sorong, a pretty big city with a fairly complete facilities. To explore Raja Ampat There are two choices, take a tour with a pinisi boat or stay in the resort of Raja Ampat Dive Lodge.
Although most tourists who come to Raja Ampat nowadays are divers, this location is also interesting for non-diver tourists because it also has beautiful white sandy beaches, fascinating karst islands and Uniquely endemic flora such as red Bird-of-paradise, the Cendrawasih Wilson, Maleo Waigeo, various parrots and parrot, the Cuscus Waigeo, and various types of orchids.
Amazing 10 Beautiful tourist destinations in Raja Ampat
1.Explore Beauty – Misool
In Misool, you hit Raja Ampat. Yes, your journey and adventure in eastern Indonesia can begin. Dive into each of the aquatic niches of one of Raja Ampat’s four large islands and discover not only extraordinary but also special views. It’s hard to describe one of Raja Ampat’s most popular tourist destinations, so you should head straight to the place!
2.Beautiful lagoon in an extraordinary place – Star Lagoon
Yes, there is a star-shaped lagoon in Raja Ampat, precisely on the island of Pianemo. The view of the coral reef alone illustrates how beautiful this place is. But to clarify what the underwater panoramas are in Star Lagoon, why not dive directly into. Guaranteed not to be disappointed!
3.Iconic Natural Monument – Stone Pencil
The imposing reef, and alone in the middle of Kabui Bay, has become its own icon. I was so famous that Stone Pencil has always been a destination of choice for photos. You can’t miss this place when you go on holiday to Raja Ampat!
4.Raja Ampat Icon – Wayag
Wayag is also one of Raja Ampat’s icons. The green-clad coral stripes in the middle of a blue sea with extraordinary panoramic views make Raja Ampat such a vast world. It’s not hard to get memorable moments at Wayag. Posing with a fantastic décor has become a necessity.
5.Tourist village and dive location – Arborek Village
If you want to meet local residents while enjoying a magnificent panorama, definitely visit arborek Island. Almost all its citizens have hospitality and a broad smile, ready to welcome with open arms all those who visit their village. A warning to those of you who want to visit the village of Arborek: don’t get robbed, because the citizens are sincere. So sweet!
6.White sand island – Raised sand
The incredible nature of Raja Ampat is added to the special miracle, the sand appears. This place was eventually transformed into a sandy island, located near Mansuar Island. Like other sandy islands, the island of one of Raja Ampat’s most popular tourist destinations will display its white sand if the seawater recedes. It’s a good time to go berselfie and set foot before the island disappears washed away by seawater at high tide.
7. Local Wisdom and Joyful Sincerity – Sauwandarek Tourist Village
Another Raja Ampat tourist village that you can visit – the village of Sauwandarek. The local wisdom shown by its citizens probably makes you lazy to go home. In addition, around the village of Sauwandarek, there are a variety of entertainment places to enjoy the coral reefs typical of Raja Ampat. Even in dermaganya, underwater landscapes are very special.
8. See Cenderawasih – Sawinggrai Village first hand
Well, for those of you who want to see native Papuan animals, Cenderawasih birds, in their natural habitat, go directly to the village of Sawinggrai. But you have to be ready to get up early and prepare pants and shoes and not be noisy to be lucky while watching this bird of paradise.
Even if you can’t see this bird, don’t be disappointed, as there are many fun things you can find in Sawinggrai. Not only the natural panorama, but also the kindness of its citizens.
9. Have fun enjoying the panorama of Raja Ampat – Pianemo
Do you just want to enjoy the natural landscape of Raja Ampat from a height, Pianemo is the right place for that. Groups of corals and blue sea can be seen from a height.
Because of the potential offered, many also call Pianemo as a Mini Wayag.
10. Refreshing air conditioning – Batanta waterfalls
Batanta Waterfall is another surprise to Raja Ampat. This waterfall is also proof that the natural beauty of Raja Ampat is not achieved solely on the side of the sea. Not only offers fantastic views of the waterfall, the feel and freshness of the water are also special. Batanta Waterfall can also be an air conditioner after a day of soaking in salt water. | <urn:uuid:9ad4e01d-93b9-45fb-8bfc-cbd6a9b2793c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://majalahka.com/islands-tourism-and-resorts-in-raja-ampat-papua/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936805 | 2,449 | 1.867188 | 2 |
On the heels of the Justice Department’s settlement agreement forcing Los Angeles County jails to adopt a number of reforms aimed at improving conditions for inmates, a new report by Dignity and Power Now [PDF] explores the horrifying human rights abuses endured by black female inmates in the county.
The report, entitled “Breaking the Silence,” features the testimonies of seven formerly incarcerated women and two former psychiatric workers from the county, and covers experiences from the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF), Twin Towers Correctional Facility and the California Institute for Women.
At the intersection of black and female
Black women are over-represented in Los Angeles’ jails. The report points out the example of CRDF, where black female inmates make up 31% of the jail population, even though they only represent 9.9% of all women in Los Angeles County. The rate at which black women are incarcerated is also increasing, and female inmates suffer from mental illness at a higher rate than men, placing this population at heightened risk for abuse and an increased need of care and treatment.
The stereotypes applied to black women by jail staff (and society at large) directly contributed to their corrosive environment. The report explains that since the time of chattel slavery, black women have been stereotyped as masculine, hyper-aggressive and dangerous. They have been labeled bad mothers and sexual deviants that are dishonest and immoral. These racist stereotypes live on today and thrive in LA County jails, enabling their abuse by devaluing their lives. The women interviewed in the report stated they faced a barrage of verbal and physical assaults based on their mental health status, race and gender.
One inmate interviewed for the report named Catherine described being placed on 24-hour lockdown and denied access to the day room for weeks at a time because guards said she and other black inmates were “too ghetto.” It’s important to note that this does not just mean the women were denied recreation; it means they were also deprived access to the telephones, out-of-cell meals and showers. White and Asian female inmates, on the other hand, were kept on a separate floor and given regular access to the day room.
Black women in LA County jails said their access to medication and medical professionals was routinely denied, restricted and/or abused. They were forced to live in squalid and humiliating conditions, in cells with feces smeared on the walls, clogged toilets and unwashed clothes. They were not even provided with basic menstrual supplies, and in some cases were forced to bleed on themselves while stripped naked and locked in solitary confinement. Others were subject to invasive and unnecessary procedures at the whim of jail staff.
If black female inmates attempted to get the attention of guards through the emergency button in their cells, the buttons were deactivated and they were placed on 24-hour lockdown. In one case, a pregnant woman began experiencing premature contractions due to lead contamination of the jail’s water supply. Her cellmate attempted to notify authorities but the emergency button had been turned off. They had to scream for help until someone came. Elsewhere in the report, a black woman who was eight months pregnant was slammed into a door and then into the floor, where she was beaten savagely by jail staff.
Pregnant and mentally ill black women had it perhaps worst of all, the former finding themselves shackled and beaten, the latter placed in solitary for extended periods of time. Such conditions put these women at heightened risk of mental anguish and distress, as well as suicide.
Nina was 47 when she spent seven harrowing months in LA County Jails. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and depression prior to her incarceration. She attempted suicide after being denied medical treatment for weeks in an attempt to “silence the voices in her head.” She rushed past a medic who came to take her blood pressure, jumping off the 2nd floor of her cell block. She survived, but her injuries and the mental anguish did not earn her any sympathy from those supposedly charged with protecting her.
During her time as an inmate in CRDF, Nina told Dignity and Power Now that she spent weeks confined to her cell for all but thirty minutes a day. She was not given toothpaste or soap and rarely had access to the showers. She suffered serious verbal abuse on the basis of her race and mental health status. After she attempted suicide, she was placed on suicide watch and chained to her bed for two weeks in the hospital. There, staff forced her to urinate in a bedpan in front of male guards and bathed her only once in the span of two weeks. Trapped in her own filth, locked to her bed, Nina was so humiliated she stopped eating.
Her abuse continued after she was transferred to Twin Towers Correctional Facility. No doctors, medical or mental health professionals were permitted to see her. Such restricted access to medication and clinical staff was widespread. Dignity and Power Now spoke to health workers who described ‘traumatizing’ conditions in which mentally ill women were only allowed to see clinicians for ten minutes every six weeks. In some cases, they were only able to see a clinician once in six months. Inadequate staffing levels forced some clinicians to care for 40-70 inmates at one time, and without legitimate oversight measures in place, many slipped through the cracks.
The report states that jail officials fed Nina generic pain killers and anti-anxiety medication in an effort to subdue her and end her complaints of mistreatment. Other inmates described scenes where women were so heavily medicated that they walked around like zombies. Others were under-medicated and suffered visibly from their ailments. Some were incorrectly diagnosed with more illness than they really had, and were improperly prescribed medication as such.
Jail officials placed Nina in a cell where the lights remained on at all times. She required a wheelchair to get around, but the jail only had one for all the inmates to share. This resulted in her missing two court dates and being forced to crawl on her hand and knees, through her filthy jail cell, to reach the toilet. They permitted her leave her cell for only one hour a day. Today, she suffers from a permanent limp and mental anguish from her time behind bars.
Violations and reforms
The report rightfully notes that the treatment of black women in LA County Jails constitutes legal and human rights violations on multiple levels, violating laws on a local, domestic and international scale. There appears to be some movement to remedy the abuses at these facilities with the announcement of the Justice Department’s settlement agreement.
Under the terms of the settlement [PDF], LA County jails must increase training for staff, especially with regard to suicide prevention and providing accurate intake screening for mental and physical health needs. It calls for strengthened medical records and reporting and the greater use of mental health referrals in an attempt to get inmates greater access to clinicians. The settlement also requires increased staffing and updated housing and living quarters, as well as increased property privileges for inmates. There are provisions for specialized ‘mental health housing’ units and access to psychotropic medication to be administered in the appropriate dosages. There are also requirements for greater controls on the use of physical restraints and a refined Use of Force policy.
This is a promising start, but there are some areas where there will still be a need for safeguards, specifically for women in the county’s jails. Aside from providing for basic needs like reproductive healthcare, Dignity and Power Now recommends county jails start to collect “disaggregated, comprehensive, publicly accessible data on LA County detainees’ race, gender and mental health status.” They also recommended that the county pass a “Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents so that parents and their children are better prepared to reunite.”
In the end, though, these are all bandaids on a much larger national jail crisis that Dignity and Power Now addresses directly in their report. They call for a halt to jail construction, “especially construction that occurs at the expense of community-based mental health care services.” They also demand a general phasing-out of incarceration, redirecting funds to community programming. | <urn:uuid:7e1ecac9-fab7-4b9e-a871-bccf15e738e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shadowproof.com/2015/08/13/black-women-with-mental-illness-suffer-horrific-abuses-in-la-county-jails/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976773 | 1,682 | 2.1875 | 2 |
With high-quality reproductions available and the Google Art Project making great works accessible to everyone, what is it that still brings the crowds into art museums? Why do collectors spend thousands or even millions on original artworks? In a paper recently published in Topics in Cognitive Science, researchers from the School of Management, Yale University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business show that this seems to be because people tend to feel that the artwork somehow magically contains some of the essence of the artist.
The researchers wanted to explore three factors that could affect a person's attachment to an artwork - contagion (direct connection with the artist), creativity, and personal attachment. To accomplish this an online study was conducted in which 303 adults were told different stories about a painting, entitled "Dawn." To measure the influence of contagion, participants were told either that the artist "spent several weeks physically painting it with his own hands" or that "he gave instructions to one of his assistants who then painted it." To manipulate creativity participants were told that the artist "put a lot of thought into designing this painting" or that "the original design for this painting was actually created by a different artist." To control for personal attachment, study participants were told that the artist "considered it to be one of his finest achievements" or that "he was hired by a hotel to create it as a decoration for the lobby and he considered it to be ‘sell out' piece." Then all the participants were asked to read this paragraph:
"The painting was stored in a gallery in New York. However, the gallerists realized that it was damaged by mold. So they hired a different artist, who lives in Chicago, to create an identical copy. When it was completed, the duplicate painting was identical in every way. Sure enough, the mold spread and the painting in New York was destroyed. Only the painting in Chicago remained."
Then the study participants were asked to rate, on a scale of 0 to 100 whether the remaining painting was Dawn (0) or was not Dawn (100). There was also a text block where they could explain their judgment. The results showed that the dimension that had the most influence on whether the remaining painting was seen as authentic was contagion. Participants were more likely to agree that the duplicate was not the same painting when the original painting had been painted by the artist himself.
In previous studies it had been shown that people tend to think that when the original is destroyed, a molecule-for-molecule copy of a person is not the same individual, while a molecule-for-molecule copy of a hammer is the same as the original. So, although artworks are generally inanimate, people tend to view them more like a person than an object, somehow believing that the essence or soul of the artist is contained in the artwork. This is evident by comments made by participants such as, "It is a copy, not the original which (the artist) poured his heart and soul into."
So, why do crowds of people hover around the Mona Lisa in the Louvre? It's likely that many of them feel as though they are reaching back in time and connecting with Da Vinci's soul.
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Online Startup School
A web-based and self-learning program that helps you undertake your entrepreneurial journey in the clean energy sector.
Whether you are a student, clean energy enthusiast, or entrepreneur, joining the Online Startup School enables you to understand the application of Nexus Business Model Canvas. Register yourself to have a fundamental understanding of the clean energy sector and re-define your business model.
CONNEX Energy Meet Up
An outreach platform to educate, excite and energize local stakeholders on clean energy and climate innovations.
Through Connex Energy Meet Up, New Energy Nexus Indonesia engages with local stakeholders to exchange information, current development, and real-life examples on the roles and importance of clean energy startups in creating positive economic and environmental impact.
[RE]CHARGE SERIES: Pitch & Ideation Bootcamp
2-day deep-dive Bootcamp on startup-building exercise focusing on customer discovery, market research, team building and more. [RE]Charge Series serves as a platform to identify potential startups to join New Energy Nexus’s incubation and acceleration programs.
New Energy Nexus Indonesia Hackathon aims to spark innovations that help Indonesia’s energy transition. We believe that innovative clean energy solutions in Indonesia can help us meet our energy needs, develop economic opportunities
and create jobs
[RE]SPARK Renewable Energy Festival
an event that brings together startups, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, government and private organizations, as well as communities to exchange ideas, develop innovations, and grow the clean energy ecosystem in Indonesia
New Energy Nexus held the [RE]Spark Renewable Energy Festival 2022 with:
- 1100+ Participants
- 4 Main Events
- 4 Sponsors
- 10+ Community Partners
- 50+ Clean Energy and Climate Tech Startups
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Authors: Aspire a Pathway to Mental Health
Event: 2005 TheMHS Awards
Type of resource: TheMHS Awards
Award state: VIC
Award level: Winner
Award category: Recovery Program or Service
Abstract: Aspire a Pathway to Mental Health (Aspire) is a Psychiatric Disability Rehabilitation and Support service (PDRS) that has provided services in south west Victoria for over 9 years. During that time it has grown significantly showing leadership in the region and state. Aspire has refined service delivery and tailored services to local needs, making use of consumer ownership throughout. It has striven for excellence and has added a number of innovations to improve services. It has shown leadership by running a biennial conference for PDRS services, and is the lead agency amongst a number of NGO’s that have formed an alliance called Community Southwest. The Rehabilitation and Support service provides 75% of the services delivered by Aspire. Alongside the program is Sage Hill Carers Service and a substantial Health Promotion and Education program. Description of Facility/Organisation: Aspire was founded by a group of concerned community members, including consumers, carers and mental health professionals in 1989. The service was funded in 1996 and opened offices in Warrnambool, Hamilton, Portland and Camperdown, also merging in 1996 with Sage Hill Carers Service, which is funded under the Mutual Support and Self Help funding stream. In 2000 Aspire achieved recurrent funding of more than $1 Million, which since that time has increased to $1.3 Million. The agency employs 26 staff, or 17 EFT. Throughout the year Aspire supports more than 220 consumers, 150 carers, and reaches over 2,500 people in health promotion programs. 20% of consumers move on through the service per annum. Aspire has also attracted funds from a plethora of non recurrent sources for a range of programs, many of which are a part of the Health Promotion and Education (HP&E) program. Aspire recognised that HP&E was an effective adjunct to support and rehabilitation services and has found that there is a strong alignment of Health Promotion and Rehabilitative theory. This finding is at the core of Aspire’s success and is a fundamental issue that we wish to present in this Award submission, however we also wish to present the agency as a strong performer in a number of fields as a well rounded and effective model for rural PDRS services. | <urn:uuid:6b50ed18-56f4-4311-a6cb-a127f4a7e409> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themhs.org/resource/aspire-a-pathway-to-mental-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965063 | 509 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Bonds Of Love
Five Children On The Western Front by Kate Saunders is a charming children’s historical tale. It follows on from E. Nesbit’s Five Children And It written a century earlier. This novel is set from 1914 onwards and two more children have been born into the original family. It is every bit as delightful and retains the same enchanting quality as the original.
The reader witnesses the love, care and compassion the family members have for each other. The Psammead is a charming but grumpy sand fairy who has a loving bond with the children. The adventures they have are charming.
The Psammead has always been rather selfish and full of himself. His powers are diminished until he learns to repent. We follow his journey through the war years as he softens and learns valuable lessons along the way.Continue reading | <urn:uuid:e2169e60-2735-4a86-ab8c-b1c3d7e8da1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.christianbookaholic.com/tag/kate-saunders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975898 | 176 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Web development is in the middle of a transformational period. Customers are finally beginning to perform the majority of their online browsing on mobile devices and are quickly shifting from traditional written searches to voice searches.
This article will help executives and project managers in the web development industry prepare for upcoming changes in web development and SEO over the next several years.
AI is no longer a science fiction trope. The revolutionary technology is finally beginning to come into its own. It is impacting the quality of care that medical patients receive, transforming data analysis and business analytics, and making futuristic technologies like self-driving cars a reality.
In addition, AI is also transforming the internet search and web development industry. Google, along with other search engines, is using AI to improve the quality of their search results.
The company launched its AI initiative in 2015 with RankBrain. Google uses a combination of traditional machine learning and deep neural networks to create an AI search bot that can learn from past search results and click-through rates to improve its capabilities.
Marketers and web developers that rely on SEO to drive traffic to their website will need to turn their attention from keyword-heavy websites to producing high-quality, long-form content that provides useful information and resonates with readers. This will only become more important as Google’s AI makes keywords less important over the next several years, opening the door for the rest of the search engines to follow.
Another major trend impacting the entire web development industry is Google’s new focus on producing featured snippets in their search results. In the past, Google simply took a search term and returned the top 10 website results on the first search result page.
Today, Google often takes key bits of information, or snippets, from the most popular websites and includes this information in the search results above the most popular websites. This means that customers do not have to click links to gather basic information.
While this change has been very useful for customers, it has reduced internet traffic for websites since customers no longer need to load a webpage to get that basic data.
Businesses can improve their chances of landing a spot as a featured snippet by producing high-quality content that is clearly organized. However, there is little that companies can do to replace those click-throughs so overall website traffic will likely continue to fall.
Over the past decade, customers have started using mobile devices to access the internet at increasingly high levels–with research finding that an estimated 58% of website visits are completed on a mobile device today.
In addition, a total of 56% of search engine queries are completed on a smartphone.
In addition, Google now penalizes companies that include email-list popups on their homepage, an annoying feature that customers have long complained about.
Businesses should pay special attention to their mobile layout and should consider using progressive web apps (PWAs) to automatically optimize their mobile sites for Google.
Voice Search Results
Since the release of Siri in 2011, mobile search has become more and more important. Today, that voice recognition market is worth an incredible $600 million. Experts also predict that more than 50% of all searches will be performed by voice by 2020.
Businesses can optimize their websites for voice search and prepare for this new reality by changing the way they look at keywords. Traditionally, customers who search Google using their keyboard will create stilted, computer-like phrases as their search terms.
However, customers who use voice search tend to speak in the type of regular, everyday language that they use to communicate with friends. Companies can improve their voice search results by transitioning to more casual keywords and speech on their websites.
Data privacy continues to be one of the most important priorities for businesses of all sizes and in all industries. Research has found that cybersecurity is the number one “external concern” for American CEOs.
Its importance will only increase over the next several years as recent cybersecurity trends continue to develop. The number of these data breaches is increasing every year and the cost to global businesses will only increase as well. In fact, the total cost of cyberattacks is expected to exceed $6 trillion by 2021.
Internal investments in cybersecurity have risen by 141% from 2010 to 2018 and this trend will likely accelerate over the next decade. This is a major reason why global investments in information security are expected to top $124 billion in 2019.
The rise of 5G wireless networks and the associated internet of things will also increase the risk of cybersecurity attacks because of the massive number of devices expected to come online over the next decade.
In the future, technical experts may look at 2020 as a banner year. Google’s use of featured snippets and PWAs are already changing change the format and style of websites. On the other hand, mobile traffic and voice search results are finally overtaking their predecessors as the two main ways that people access information.
Cutting-edge AI is also being used to improve the quality of search results, produce faster results, and better connect customers with the services they need. Finally, data privacy will continue to be one of the most important concerns for business leaders and web development managers alike. | <urn:uuid:d77cb03b-7904-4a08-b70b-21833b6156b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.simpliowebstudio.com/category/developers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949991 | 1,230 | 1.976563 | 2 |
When you first become the parents of a new pet, there are lots of different things to consider. Preventative care is one of the most important aspects of looking after your pet and is essential if she is to enjoy a long, active and healthy life.
We are pleased to be able to offer a comprehensive range of preventative pet care services here at our veterinary clinic in Castle Rock, CO.
Preventative pet care usually encompasses a range of different services, although it is important to note that exactly what will be included in your pet’s preventative care program will depend on her individual circumstances. Typically, you can expect to be offered the following for your pet:
There is a great deal that you can tell about the health and wellbeing of your pet just by conducting a physical examination. This assessment, which goes from nose to tail, looks at a number of different factors, including:
Her vital observations, such as her heart rate, oxygen levels, and core temperature.
The condition of her coat and skin.
An assessment of the physical condition of her body, including checking for any unusual lumps and/or bumps or markings.
A check of her ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and teeth.
Assessing her limbs, ability to stand and move around.
If there is anything unusual discovered in your pet’s physical examination, it may be recommended for her to undergo further testing which could include a blood test, urinalysis, fecal testing etc which will give our team further vital information about the health of your precious pet.
Vaccinations are a key component of any preventative pet care program since they are the only way to help your pet avoid many of the infectious and potentially deadly diseases that could pose a risk to her health. This includes diseases such as rabies, parvovirus, feline panleukopenia or myxomatosis. Vaccinations are usually given on a strict schedule when your pet is young and then your pet’s immunity is then boosted by subsequently planned top-ups. Our veterinary team will be able to tailor a vaccination schedule specifically to your pet.
It isn’t just airborne or contact-based diseases that you need to worry about. Some parasites, which live on or in your pet’s body, also carry infectious diseases as well as creating other health problems for your furry pal. These include fleas, ticks, and worms. In the case of heartworms, which are a type of internal worm that lives inside the blood vessels of your pet’s heart and lunch, failing to protect your pet could cause irreversible damage to her health and even death.
There are lots of different type of preventative available, ranging from spot-on and topical treatments to collars, oral medications, and even some injections. Our preventative care experts will help you to find the most suitable parasite preventative for your pet and explain the importance of sticking to a strict schedule of administration so that there is no point during which your pet is left vulnerable.
Contrary to popular belief, spaying/neutering your pet doesn’t just prevent unwanted pregnancy, although this is definitely a good reason for getting your pet done. After all, there are countless unwanted animals living in temporary accommodation across the country, and many more euthanized each year because there aren’t the resources to keep caring for them. However, spaying/neutering your pet will also prevent her from contracting certain health problems when she is older. For example, spaying a female can help prevent uterine infections, breast, and ovarian cancer. Meanwhile, neutering a male can prevent testicular cancer.
For this reason, we recommend that all pets are spayed/neutered as early as possible as this maximizes the health benefits that they will reap.
These represent just some of the ways in which our experienced veterinary team can support the health and happiness of your pet. Contact us today to find out more about preventative pet care, or to schedule an appointment at our offices in Castle Rock, CO. | <urn:uuid:04686f41-1ef4-4a2f-b299-e928bf35ada3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.brekkevet.com/services/importance-of-preventative-pet-care.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957419 | 837 | 2.3125 | 2 |
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY BCOM 1ST YEAR: Median, Mean and Mode. Features of Good Average. All previous year questions.
Question: What do you mean by Arithmetic Mean? Differentiate between Simple and Weighted Arithmetic Mean. When is the usage of median is considered more appropriate than mean?
ARITHMETIC MEAN: Arithmetic Mean or the mean is the number which is obtained by dividing the values of all the items of the series and dividing the total by number of items.
Arithmetic Mean is denoted by x̄. It can be represented by the following formula:
Mean= x̄ =
Mean= Sum of value of items/ Total number of items.
Arithmetic Mean can be of two types:
Simple Arithmetic Mean: In simple arithmetic mean, all items of a series are given equal importance.
Weighted Arithmetic Mean: Under Weighted Arithmetic Mean, different items of the series are assignment weights according to their relative importance.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIMPLE AND WEIGHTED ARITHMETIC MEAN
|BASIS OF DIFFERENCE||SIMPLE ARITHMETIC MEAN||WEIGHTED ARITHMETIC MEAN|
|MEANING||Simple average is the average of a set of values calculated with each value being assigned equal importance or weightage.||Weighted average is the average of a set of values calculated by giving weightage to the relative importance of each value.|
|FORMULA NUMERATOR||In simple average calculation, the numerator of the formula is the sum total of all the values in the set.||In weighted average calculation, the numerator of the formula is the sum total of – the values in the set multiplied by the weightage assigned to each value.|
|FORMULA DENOMINATOR||In simple average calculation, the denominator of the formula is the total number of values in the set.||In weighted average calculation, the denominator of the formula is the sum total of all the weights assigned to the values in the set.|
|WEIGHTS ASSIGNED||In simple average calculation, weights are not assigned to each value.||In weighted average calculation, weights are assigned to each value in relation to their specific importance/relevance.|
|USEFUL WHEN||Simple average calculation is useful in simpler data analysis when all values are equally important. It is more relevant in simple mathematical analysis.||Weighted average calculation finds more relevance in accounting and financial calculations such as – weighted average cost of inventory, weighted average cost of capital.|
|INDICATION OF||Simple average is an indication of arithmetical mean or centre point of the set of values.||Weighted average on the other hand does not necessarily indicate this. It would be more tilted towards the values which have been assigned a greater weight in the set.|
|EASE OF CALCULATION||Simple average is easier to calculate.||Weighted average is more complex to calculate than simple average.|
|ACCURACY||Simple average is a less accurate method of average calculation especially in more complex sets of data.||Weighted average considers the relative importance of all values and thus is a more accurate representation of the average of a set.|
CASES WHEN USAGE OF MEDIAN IS CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE THAN MEAN
Median is a positional measure. It is the middle value of the series. It is the value that divides the series into two equal parts. Thus, the values less than and more than median will be equal. It is denoted by M.
Median should be preferred over Mean in the following cases:
- In case of data containing the extreme values, median should be applied rather than the mean. It is so because median is not affected by the value of extreme items in the series and mean get affected a lot by the extreme items. This happens because in case of mean we take the value of item but in median we only consider the number of items not the values of the item.
2. Median should be used where the distribution of data values is skewed.
3. Median should be used where the data is to presented using the graph. This is so because median can be calculated by using Less than ogives and More than ogives graph but arithmetic mean cannot be calculated by using the graphic method.
4. Median is preferred over mean to those areas where direct quantitative measurement is not possible. It is not possible to measure intelligence directly. But it is possible to arrange the group of persons in ascending or descending order of intelligence to locate who is the most intelligent person.
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Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are defined in the Texas Education Code, Section 51.451 as “teaching, learning, or research resources that are in the public domain or that have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use, adaptation, and redistribution by any person. The term may include full course curricula, course materials, modules, textbooks, media, assessments, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques, whether digital or otherwise, used to support access to knowledge.”
DigiTex facilitates the creation, adoption, and use of Open Educational Resources across Texas through such services as research, professional development and training, and events. OER has the capacity to contribute to cost savings for students and support learning outcomes, while also helping Texas to meet the goals outlined in its higher education strategic plan, Building a Talent Strong Texas.
Professional Development & Training
Texas Learn OER
We are pleased to announce the launch of Texas Learn OER, a set of openly licensed modules for faculty, staff, and administrators. We contracted with Carrie Gits, Head Librarian and Library Services OER Team Leader at Austin Community College, to adapt for a wider audience modules she created for ACC as a part of her capstone project for the 2018-19 SPARC Open Education Leadership Program. Texas Learn OER includes information on understanding OER; open licensing, including Creative Commons; finding and evaluating OER; accessibility; adapting, creating, and sharing OER; and OER policy and practice in Texas.
DigiTex offers webinars and other professional development opportunities to support faculty, staff, and administrators working in OER policy and practice. Our current series is entitled Hot Topics in Texas Digital Higher Education.
For past webinars, please view the slides below. Click each slide to access the recording.
With over 1,100 registrants, the inaugural Open Texas Conference was a great success! The conference was held virtually on March 11 & 12, 2021, and was co-organized by the Texas Digital Library, the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and co-hosted by the University of Houston-Downtown and Houston Community College. Attendees from all over Texas and beyond had the opportunity to network with other OER advocates and explore some of the great work that their colleagues are doing with OER. The program included a stirring keynote address by Dr. DeRionne Pollard, President of Montgomery College in Maryland, as well as an eye-opening and heartfelt student panel.
Recordings of the sessions are available on the Open Texas YouTube channel. We hope you’ll check them out!
Don’t forget to save the date for the next Open Texas event, a fully virtual conference occurring on September 21 – 23, 2022. Registration is now open. If you have questions about the Open Texas conference, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.org. We hope to see you there!
In 2019, DigiTex began partnering with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to conduct a biennial survey on OER programs, policies, and practices at postsecondary institutions across the state. The second survey, conducted in 2021, informed our most recent report, Advancing an Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources. With 111 colleges and universities responding, analyses of the survey data — and a comparison to data from Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Higher Education (2019) — reveal an ever-expanding OER landscape in Texas and help inform future statewide activities to support Open Education.
Featured as a part of Open Education Week 2022, OERigin Stories: Pathways to the Open Movement explores the history of six women of color working in the Open Education movement. Ursula Pike, DigiTex Associate Director, created the project as part of SPARC’s Open Education Leadership Program.
OER in Texas
Why Use OER?
Our newest case study in the series Best Practices in Texas Digital Higher Education, “Creating and Adopting Open Educational Resources at Colleges and Universities Across the State,” showcases three excellent examples of OER usage across the state of Texas. As you seek to promote and adopt OER at your own institution, we hope that you will find this resource useful.
Organizations, Repositories, & Initiatives
Although not an exhaustive list, the following organizations, repositories, and initiatives provide further information about OER creation, adoption, and use, as well as open licensing.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources ♦ Creative Commons ♦ MERLOT ♦ OER Commons ♦ OER Knowledge Cloud ♦ Open Education Global ♦ Open Textbook Library ♦ OpenStax ♦ Skills Commons ♦ STARLINK
Texas-Specific OER Information & Repository
- State Legislation on OER in Higher Education: SPARC OER State Policy Tracker
- Texas Digital Library’s Getting Started with OER: Free Webinar Series
- Texas Toolkit for OER Course Markings (a living guide)
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Hypersonic missiles will be deployed across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, not as “niche” weapons but as a broad new capability, according to DoD’s two top officials charged with managing department wide development efforts.
“It’s not going to be one or two hypersonic weapons,” Mark Lewis, director of modernization at DoD’s Research and Engineering office headed by Mike Griffin, told reporters here today. “Hypersonics isn’t a single thing. It’s a range of capabilities. It’s intermediate range. It’s long range. It’s things coming off of ships. It’s things coming off of trucks. It’s things coming off the wings of airplanes and out of bomb bays.”
Lewis said the Pentagon’s focus this year on hypersonic weapons — weapons that can fly faster than Mach 5 — will be on transitioning from science and technology development work to prototype weapons that can be used in the field by all of the services.
Hypersonic weapons, and the technologies to counter them, are one of 11 cross-cutting modernization priorities that Lewis is managing. The Army, Navy, Air Force and DARPA all have at least one, if not more, efforts to build hypersonic missile capabilities. The Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency (both of which fall under Griffin’s oversight) are working on technologies to detect and target enemy hypersonic missiles.
“I don’t know of any other part of the modernization portfolio where I see such close coordination between the services and the agencies,” said Lewis.
For example, DARPA’s Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapons Concept (HAWC) — an air-breathing cruise missile — is first going transition to the Air Force, said Mike White, Lewis’s assistant director for hypersonics. “But we’re also looking at some other configurations that have a broader range of capabilities.” Indeed, Sydney reported way back in 2018 that DARPA has been hoping to interest the Navy in the concept as well. | <urn:uuid:6b46e075-d77b-4072-8140-844472aa4f56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://defconwarningsystem.com/2020/03/06/hypersonic-missiles-plethora-of-boost-glide-cruise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92368 | 457 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Happy Birthday On A Ukulele. How to play happy birthday as an easy chord solo form for the ukulele.give your loved ones the gift of a serenade 🙂 purchase a detailed pdf of this les. The chord arrangement shown above is the author's own work as an interpretation of the song, along with related interactive content.
April 24, 2016 the uke guy unknown artist comments off on happy birthday to you ukulele chords. Easy version / tab for melody and chord accompaniment / lyrics with chords. Tabbed version of happy birthday to you.
Happy G7 Birthday To C You.
Tabbed version of happy birthday to you. Last edit 3 hours ago. Follow along to play happy birthday on the ukulele in both the keys of c and g.
Happy Birthday To [G] You.
Learn the ukulele chords for “happy birthday” with the easy lyric sheet below. How to play happy birthday as an easy chord solo form for the ukulele.give your loved ones the gift of a serenade 🙂 purchase a detailed pdf of this les. Birthday ukulele by the beatles.
These Are Chords You Will Play A Lot When.
We have an official happy birthday tab made by ug professional guitarists.check out the tab ». Ukulele melody tuffuke œœ happy 2 2 2 2 g 3 d7 213 c 2 1. I’ll be (i’ll be) your gift (your gift) give you something good to celebrate.
C7 F Happy Birthday Dear [Name] G7 C Happy Birthday To You!
Included below are two keys so you can play the one that fits your voice the best. Improve your fretting and picking hand coordination with these drills and stretches. Thankfully, the ukulele happy birthday chords are fairly easy to play for a beginning ukulele student.
Happy C Birthday To G7 You.
Yeah d d7 d d7 they say it's your birthday a a7 a a7 we're gonna have a good time e e7 e e7 i'm glad it's your birthday a a7 happy birthday to you. The chords in the song are c major, g major, and f major. Since no rendition of “happy birthday” is complete without the lyrics, he also shows you where each note falls in the song so you can strum and sing. | <urn:uuid:ac32c82c-ac6a-44f1-a9a7-d0b86aa5aab3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pinoyko.info/happy-birthday-on-a-ukulele/2022/08/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.89531 | 511 | 1.65625 | 2 |
He was Fanta’s teacher and he still teaches in the same school and lives in the same village. Fanta, who had to abandon her dream of being a midwife, has to see him in the community as she walks through the village with the son he rejected.
“In some communities in Senegal, this kind of “relationship” between a teacher and a female student is normalized, it’s seen as something that is inevitable when male teachers are around adolescent girls,” said Human Rights Watch researcher Elin Martinez.
A new report, “It’s Not Normal,” looks at sexual exploitation, harassment, and abuse of girls in secondary schools in Senegal, and how girls’ complaints about teachers trying to coerce them into sex sometimes fall on deaf ears.
In many of these cases, what the teacher does amounts to a sexual offense under Senegalese Law because a child is involved. It’s also completely unethical. But the abusers rarely face consequences.
When he learned she was pregnant, her father kicked her out of the house.
Fanta really thought she was in a relationship with the teacher who then abandoned her after she became pregnant.
Teachers having “relationships” with their child students “isn’t often seen as abuse, but that is absolutely what it is,’” said Elin.
Elin learned of Fanta’s story from a volunteer health worker and decided to speak to her. The health worker helps adolescent girls and boys get health services they need, including HIV tests and advice about sexually transmitted infections. He had followed Fanta’s case closely, but he lost touch with her when she became pregnant. Fanta moved to Ziguinchor, a large city in southern Senegal, in an attempt to escape her village for a big town where no one would know her.
Eventually, the health worker tracked down Fanta, and encouraged her to return home. Fanta’s family accepted her back and tried once again to get the teacher to admit that he had made Fanta pregnant, but he still refused. The school principal would not even talk to Fanta once he heard she was pregnant.
In Senegal, cases such as Fanta’s are sometimes settled privately, in what is commonly known as “maslaha,” with the men at least agreeing to pay a stipend, give the child their surname, and in some cases agreeing to marry the girl. That is a problem in itself in a country with persistently high rates of child marriage and violence against women and girls. In Fanta’s case, the man refused to accept any responsibility at all.
“In many communities, it’s more about not bringing shame on the family than protecting the girls,” Elin said.
To meet Fanta, Elin traveled the long, bumpy and dusty road to the village, over an hour away from the town of Sédhiou, in southern Senegal. When they came to her family’s compound, Fanta’s now 6-year-old son ran around playing while Fanta told her story.
Sitting in the shadows cast by the sprawling branches of a large tree in her family’s front yard, she told Elin about the “relationship,’ and the shame and humiliation she felt when she realized she was pregnant.
Even though other teachers and her friends knew about it, no one said anything or supported her. In many places, teenagers’ sexuality is still a taboo topic, so the girls who are the victims of the abuse also bear the brunt of social stigma.
“Taboos and stigma really affect the conversation and bring silence,” Elin said. “Other girls speak very negatively about the girls who enter these ‘relationships’ with teachers, or those who are sexually exploited or harassed – they think girls do this to get good grades and to be the best in class.”
Some school principals don’t take girls’ sexual harassment claims seriously, or punish the teachers. Some teachers try to manipulate the situation, sometimes even threatening to give girls bad grades if they don’t have sex with them. Other times, they offer to pay a girl’s school fees or give them money for food.
In another case, Elin met Aïssatou, a secondary school student, who complained to her principal that a teacher was marking her grades down because she refused to have sex with him. The teacher eventually admitted this and stopped harassing her, but beyond reprimanding him for his behavior, the principal did nothing to address the teacher’s abuse of his position of authority over the girls. He carried on teaching at the school.
Aïssatou said that later, he got a different child pregnant. And he was certainly not the only teacher who had sexual relations with a student at the school.
Fanta married a man from another village a few years after she had her son, and Fanta’s husband agreed to give the boy his name, meaning that the child is more accepted socially. But, she told Elin, every time she saw her former teacher walking through the village she relived her pain. While he hasn’t had to stop teaching in the school, Fanta had to drop out to look after her baby. Her family tried to support her to go back, but Fanta was discouraged after spending a long time away.
While she was pregnant, Fanta got confidential advice from the health worker, who works at the Adolescent Health Center in Sédhiou, but regularly travels to villages in the region to do important outreach work with teenagers. The center itself receives very little funding to provide basics services, and most workers are entirely voluntary.
He helped Fanta as far as he could, especially listening to her and accompanying her during her pregnancy, and when she had to deal with the social isolation she endured afterward. Limited funding from the government, however, means that many of the adolescent health service centers in this part of Senegal have very limited resources. They lack the qualified personnel to provide direct services, and instead focus on offering referrals.
Within their limitations, they focus on providing vital information for adolescents, and filling in the enormous information gap. Abortion is illegal in Senegal, so the centers try to provide information about contraception, and protection from HIV and pregnancy, but girls are often told in school that if they use contraception now, they will fail to get pregnant once they are married.
Local health centers might be closer to the girls, but staff there can refuse to provide information about birth control or sexual health to teenagers they don’t think should be sexually active.
“Children don’t know if what they are saying is private, or who will judge them, so they’d rather just not ask for help,” Elin said. “As a teenager, it is difficult to suffer sexual exploitation, and then be constantly told that you are to blame, and that everything you’ve done is wrong and shameful.”
Girls like Fanta are in an impossible situation. If they try to get contraception, they are judged by their community. If they get pregnant, they can be shunned and forced to drop out of school.
“[People] knew about it, but they said nothing,” Fanta told Elin. “I felt ashamed in class.”
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WWT Slimbridge An immature LITTLE GULL feeding over South lake from 2:50pm. (Jon Mercer). The SPOONBILL seen around the grounds today, three second-summer Mediterranean Gulls and a drake GARGANEY on South Lake, a Willow Warbler singing along the Holden Walkway and the Dark-bellied Brent Goose on the Dumbles late morning and two Little Ringed Plovers. (Richard Tyler/Neil Duggan/MK). Little Gull pic by Jon. Spoonbill pics by Mike.
Med Gull pics by Richard (1st) and Neil (2nd).
Cleeve Hill Early morning a pair of flighty RING OUZELS in the quarries above the Sheepwash valley. (MK). Later a male REDSTART, two TREE PIPITS, two Wheatears and two Golden Plovers over. (Les Ditchburn). Four Short-eared Owls flushed at the top of the Sheepwash valley at 11am landed towards the golf course. (Jon Mercer/Hugh Manistre/Dawn Hebron). Also today another Wheatear, a pair of Stonechats and a Red Kite. (Steve Brown).
Forest of Dean A very early Pied Flycatcher at Lower hide, Nagshead today, equals the earliest record for Glos. (RSPB Gloucestershire). A TREE PIPIT, a Willow Warbler and 12 Sand Martins at Woorgreens and another two TREE PIPITS and two Willow Warblers at Crabtree Hill. (Lewis Thomson). In Russell’s Inclosure two Willow Warblers, three Blackcaps, many Chiffchaffs and two Woodcocks. (Arron Roberts). A Willow Warbler singing and feeding all morning in the garden at Milkwall. (Ivan Proctor). A Goshawk over the house in Cinderford again heading W towards Crabtree Hill. (Owen Follis).
Cotswold Water Park West At Shorncote Reedbed on Pit 85b birds included a Red Kite, four Chiffchaff, three Little Egrets, two Ravens, three Swallows, seven Cetti’s Warblers, a Water Rail calling, a Kingfisher, 20 Tufted Ducks, six Cormorants, three Reed Buntings and 15 Goldfinches. On Pit 85a two Little Egrets, seven Gadwalls, eight Shovelers, five Skylarks, a Kingfisher and three Cetti’s Warblers. (John Fletcher).
Saul On the river a summer plumaged Bar-tailed Godwit, a Grey Plover, seven Ringed Plovers, three Dunlins and 75+ Curlews. (Mark Dowie).
Frampton A YELLOW WAGTAIL on Court field with Pied Wagtails, four Swallows, 150+ Sand Martins and five CATTLE EGRETS, a GREAT WHITE EGRET and 18 Little Egrets in the roost. (Nick Goatman).
Leckhampton A pair of vocal Kestrels near Leckhampton Church this evening. (Chris Furley). | <urn:uuid:6826cbf0-5ce0-4bde-841d-20eb20ebc224> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theglosterbirder.co.uk/2017/03/31/friday-31st-march-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.833541 | 665 | 1.75 | 2 |
Low-cost Blooming Bamboo home built to withstand floods
Vietnamese architectural firm H&P Architects has produced a new prototype dwelling constructed from bamboo. Dubbed Blooming Bamboo, the house is built to withstand heavy flooding, and is eventually intended to be mass-produced and sold as an affordable and attractive home.
The Blooming Bamboo prototype measures 44 sq m (473 sq ft), is placed on stilts, and is built around a central frame constructed from bamboo. This frame can be further adapted to suit the needs of each owner, using locally-sourced materials which include bamboo, fiberboard, and coconut leaves.
The ground floor features a living room, bedroom, bathroom, WC, and kitchen, while an additional multi-function upper floor is accessible via ladder. An area is set aside for plants and animal breeding, and the home sports both indoor and outdoor terraces.
Blooming Bamboo's facade allows ample natural light and ventilation, and the property also includes rainwater collection facilities with integrated filtration system. Besides a house, the building could also be used as a small community center, medical center, or educational facility.
Blooming Bamboo is rated as able to withstand floods of up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in depth, but work is underway to increase this to 3 m (10 ft).
H&P Architects reports that Blooming Bamboo can be built by future owners within 25 days, and the homes are expected to be produced at a cost of US$2,500. | <urn:uuid:43146535-3618-497d-9947-ca60a42c7c1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newatlas.com/blooming-bamboo-hp-architects/29225/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957287 | 311 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Do you know about hemp-derived THC? Although hemp and marijuana are both classified as Cannabis Sativa L plants, they are cultivated to serve different purposes. Hemp is known for producing things like CBD, paper, and other materials. While marijuana is known for producing THC, hemp-derived THC has been getting a lot more popular, and here’s why.
What is Hemp Derived THC?
Hemp-derived THC is an extract made from the hemp plant instead of the marijuana plant. The hemp plant is bred to produce high amounts of CBD and low amounts of THC. However, the THC that both the marijuana plant and hemp plant can make tends to produce the same effects. In other words, the THC from both plants can get you high.
While the plants may look and smell the same they are different when it comes to their legalization. Hemp-derived cannabinoids like CBD, Delta 8 THC, and Delta 10 THC were made possible under the Farm Bill. While Marijuana is yet to be made legal on the Federal level. Here is a breakdown of popular hemp-derived THC.
DELTA 8 THC
This cannabinoid is extracted from the hemp plant. Although it’s a form of THC it has less than 0.03% Delta 9 THC. This is important to note because Delta 9 THC is considered Marijuana and Delta 8 THC is not.
DELTA 10 THC
Another cannabinoid that is fairly new to the hemp industry is Delta 10 THC. Just like Delta 8, this is a form of THC with less than 0.03% of THC.
HEMP DERIVED THC WILL GET YOU HIGH
One important takeaway from both Delta 8 and Delta 10 is that they are both psychoactive; this means that they will get you high. However, it’s not the same high as Delta 9 THC. This is because Marijuana is cultivated to produce top-shelf Delta 9 products; while hemp is cultivated to produce top-shelf CBD products.
This doesn’t mean that Delta 8 or Delta 10 are not top-shelf – it just means that they’re less potent than marijuana. However, they can still get you very high if you take in huge amounts. This is because they’re concentrated extracts derived from the hemp plant instead of
Related Article: How Potent is Delta 8 THC?
The Difference Between Hemp and Marijuana
As stated earlier – hemp and marijuana are both classified as Cannabis Sativa L plants.; they both look and smell the same. However, the biggest difference is the amount of THC that both plants produce. Also, the type of products that both plants produce are different as well.
Both plants are able to produce Delta 8, Delta 9, and Delta 10 THC. However, restrictions prohibit Delta 9 THC from being sold across state lines. This means that marijuana (Delta 9) is only available within state lines that allow the use and sale of it; while Delta 8 and Delta 10 are available to be sold across state lines.
Therefore, Delta 8 and Delta 10 are not as potent as marijuana, but it’s able to be sold across state lines. This means that if your state allows Delta 8 and Delta 10 products you wouldn’t need any special license to purchase them.
Related Article: The Difference Between Hemp and Marijuana
Hemp-derived THC are products like Delta 8 and Delta 10. They are psychoactive which means they can get you high; but, they have less than 0.03% of Delta 9 THC (Marijuana). Therefore, Delta Extrax products are a form of THC that is hemp-derived – not from Marijuana. The biggest difference between hemp-derived and Marijuana is the type of product each plant produces. Marijuana produces Delta 9 THC while hemp produces Delta 8 THC and Delta 10 THC. | <urn:uuid:3e7e9eec-824c-443e-b7a4-ddf4d1b374a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.deltaextrax.com/learn-about-hemp-derived-thc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961521 | 782 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Description: Rectangular shape; cavetto-moulded edging; central abstract arrangement in low relief of a horizontally positioned oval surrounded by four separated spandrels forming a rectangular shape over all; at each side, on a raised rectangular field, a stylised bud or cone of helical form, within a calyx above a semi-circular base, one mirroring the other. A deep plankline is evident half way up the left plant.
Notes: An excrescence on the right side may have been caused by iron being poured from a ladle disturbing the casting sand. There are no parallels for this fireback design. The central abstract arrangement may be associated with a formal plan of a garden parterre, the stylised plants continuing that theme.
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Do you ever need a little kick in the behind or a congratulatory pat on the back in order to stay focused on your weight-loss goals? If so, you're in luck. The weight-loss bandwagon has grown into a caravan filled with tools, services and support groups. These sites will provide you with plenty of—often free!—motivation, support and innovative tools to keep you moving.
Just try and resist this site's unique approach: They actually pay you to lose weight and stay healthy! Fill out a commitment contract and the site will pay you $100 to get your BMI (body mass index) below 25—if it's greater than 30—this year. The site and services are free, unless you choose to "SuperSize" your commitment by paying $300 to get paid $1,000 for losing weight this year. How do they do it? The money comes from corporate sponsors who want you to get in shape. Besides fattening your wallet (and slimming you down), HealthyWage provides wellness tools, a support network and encourages healthy, doctor-monitored weight loss.
This free online community sets you up with a total support system. Like a social networking site, Weight Loss Buddy starts you off with a profile page and helps you meet like-minded buddies to share photos, blogs and motivation with. Friends can send "Booster Notes" to keep you on track with your dieting goals. With plenty of helpful extras, like a calorie counter, diet tracker, recipes and an online food journal, this website won't let you get discouraged from meeting your get-healthy goals.
Ever stood in front of the mirror wishing that your problem areas would magically disappear? WeightView.com will do just that: Upload a photo, and for $9.99 the application will transform your image to reflect what you'll look like at your goal weight. Post it on your fridge, stash it in your wallet or use it as your profile picture for the online community (which includes an expert-advised blog), to keep you motivated and moving toward becoming the person in the picture.
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On Wednesday, the Lincoln Parish Library Board in Ruston, Louisiana, voted ‘yes’ to keep contested books on its shelves. This decision came on the heels of recent community complaints about the books. This is one of several recent attempts at identity censorship across the country in the past few years.
The issue of contested books began mid-November when the Library Director and members from the Board of Control received multiple complaints from members of the community about certain books held in the children’s section.
The letters all contained identical language, which lends itself to the idea that an outside group organized the letter campaign. The letters asked that all “LGBTQ items” be removed on the grounds that “these items are unacceptable for viewing by children without their parents’ consent and input.” The letter included a passage claiming the books do not “reflect the values of our community.” Responding to pressure from the board, the Library Director removed the books from the shelves and moved them to the hold shelf, only accessible by request from an adult.
Among the books swept up in the complaint were books featured in the American Library Association’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books list and several graphic novel adaptations of the Wings of Fire book series. The books targeted all included LGBTQ+ people or characters; one book was targeted for briefly mentioning families with two moms.
This move is an attempt at identity censorship, denying access to the books in the library based on the identity of the people and characters portrayed. A ban like this could open a floodgate of censorship on previously challenged graphic novels like Drama, Lumberjanes, Tea Dragon Society, The Prince and the Dressmaker, and others. The library policy states
“The Lincoln Parish Library regards censorship as a purely individual matter and holds that while anyone is free to personally reject materials that they may consider offensive, one cannot exercise this right of censorship to restrict the freedom of others,” the policy reads. “Only parents and guardians have the right and responsibility to guide and direct the reading, listening, and viewing choices of their own minor children.”
The ALA’s Library Bill of Rights contains supporting policies including
Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
It is a breach of the First Amendment to deny access to the books and a breach of policy to deny access based on ‘doctrinal disapproval’ and ‘age.’ Stigmatizing a person’s identity and not allowing access to stories about specific members of our community can cause tremendous harm.
As one resident remarked at the open board meeting,
“As a gay man, as somebody who grew up with depression and anger having to deal with this, having LGBTQ books on the shelf will bring positivity to the children who are struggling.”
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outline notes are to be downloaded from:
complete review fo US regents.
best overall practice site
Good practice tests for US history by Historic Era
A general multiple choice practice test of 297 questions. Not organized by historic era however.
AP Sample Tests .
More NY Regent's practice exams, (for NY state history exam).
Very detailed practice exams by historic era
These are practice exams linked to The American Pageant text (Bailey) that you will find helpful in preparing for unit multiple choice tests as well as the AP exam itself.
This is the starting place for A.P. teachers. It contains advice, lesson plans, reviews, news, the online store, and exam questions with responses since 1999.
An excellent student resource with countless quiz questions, thousands of document links, sample DBQs, and test reviews..
A site with study guides, links to documents and other APUSH web sites, and a detailed set of lecture notes (available for a fee).
An excellent website for history teachers with links to primary sources, interactive activities, online articles, teaching suggestions, etc. Highly recommended..
Wiki site with notes for every chapter of American Pageant.
These notes are nice and concise.
American Pageant Textbook Site
This is the book publisher's website and it contains lots of useful resources for the student including practice tests, primary sources, flashcards and lectures.
The American Pageant Audiobook
Audio reading of The American Pageant, textbook for students of AP US History. An accompaniment to the text. All the chapters are here!
LecturePoint: U.S. History
The textbook's lecture series.
APUSH - An online course
This is a very good online AP U.S. History course with audio. It would be a great supplement to reading the book.
Important terms from each chapter of American Pageant.
Go here to find everything you wanted to know about AP courses tests.
This is a valuable history resource for teachers and students alike. You can find reviews, quizzes, slide shows and much more.
Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class
Great teacher site with lots of good material and links, including links to APUSH podcasts.
Good AP teacher site with quizzes and reviews, etc.
The History Shack
Another good teacher site.
Interactive multiple choice questions/vocabulary definitions
flashcards…choose history and then locate appropriate topic
variety of resources
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1. They are pretty big.
Elephants are the largest mammals on land. Asian elephants average from 8.9 ft and African elephants average from 11 ft according to National Geographic.
2. They like to hug.
I mean who wouldn’t want from that cute little fellow.
3. They recognize themselves when in front of mirrors.
4. They feel sad about the death of their own.
Elephants live in intense social groups where if something happens to another they get really upset. They are known for investigating the deaths of their loved ones and performing funeral rituals.
5. They use their feet not only for walking but for listening.
6. They care about the environment.
7. They have long memories.
Elephants have great memory of remembering faces and events that occurred in the wild. In one instance two elephants rejoiced at seeing each other again after one was brought to the zoo.
8. Yes they can swim.
9. They are pretty much feminists.
The head of an elephant herd is the oldest female elephant of the herd aka matriarchal societies.
10. They have no natural predators.
Elephants don’t have predators but they do have beware because lions like to prey on younger and weaker elephants.
11. They like to show affection towards each other.
They are researchers who say that elephants like use their trunk to show affection and comfort to other elephants.
12. They are sadly on the endangered species list.
They are on the endangered species list thanks to is humans. Humans have been hunting them down for ivory. There is an estimate of at about 600,000 elephants left and just recently the African elephant population has gone down 30 percent.
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What it means to be a St Catherine's girl
She's a girl we know well.
The core values of St Catherine's are
These are the values we aim to instil in every St Catherine's girl. Using positive psychology we develop each girl's character strengths building her resilience and wellbeing. We hear a lot about wellbeing these days, but what does it really mean? At St Catherine's it means your daughter can rebound from adversity, use perseverance when challenged and have optimism for the future. We focus on building four key areas: positive emotion, a resilient mindset, academic tenacity, and strong relationships.
St Catherine's uses the VIA character strengths as the basis of our positive psychology program and believe that by focusing on our strengths, rather than weaknesses, students will flourish. We start building her character strengths from Kindergarten and continue all the way through to the final years of senior school. We hope the skills she develops will help her lead a fulfilled and purposeful life.
Your daughter will join a mentor group as soon as she starts in the senior school. In these small, house-based groups, she will be with girls her own age and a teacher. They meet twice a week and, after discussion, skill building or perhaps a reflection or positive psychology-based exercise, the girls share their experiences and their insights with their group. It is solid peer support.
The wellbeing program also looks at financial literacy, goal setting, philosophical thinking and service throughout the year. It has time for students to meet in a big sister/little sister program that develops cross age mentoring and authentic relationships.
Once a fortnight the mentor groups will join forces and meet as a year group with their year mentor. The year mentors are experienced teachers recognised for their leadership skills and their ability to connect with the girls. Every second week the girls will meet as a House group and bond over school events.
If you have a concern about your daughter, her year mentor would be the first person to contact at school. Or, you may want to pass on some feedback? Again the year mentor is the person to contact.
Where do I fit in?
Your daughter's mentor group will become a significant part of her school life at St Catherine' s. Our wellbeing program is a vital part of our approach to learning and the program is delivered through these groups. She will feel she belongs to her group which is sometimes a nice change from her circle of friends. Then, she will develop a stronger connection to her larger year group and then to her even larger house group. It's the way we work at St Catherine's and your daughter's sense of belonging is central to that.
School is sometimes hard going. Teenage girls are coping with so many changes as their brains and bodies grow. Sometimes it's hard to see how it all fits together – study, friends, family, outside interests and pursuits, so we have a dedicated counsellor to help your daughter should she need it. | <urn:uuid:ddae030e-7735-4406-a04b-3aaaa015b938> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stcatherines.nsw.edu.au/SeniorSchool/Pages/Student%20wellbeing.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970126 | 632 | 2.359375 | 2 |
ACTB is CRICOS registered and welcomes students from all over the world.
Australia has a special system of health cover for international students called Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC). You will need to buy OSHC before you come to Australia to cover you from when you arrive. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship requires you to maintain OSHC for the duration of your time on a student visa in Australia.
You can arrange to pay for your OSHC through ACTB or you can purchase OSHC online by visiting the OSHC insurers’ websites. You retain the right to choose your own OSHC provider. ACTB does not recommend any specific provider and encourages you to arrange your own OSHC. If you request ACTB to arrange OSHC, please note that we use BUPA for your OSHC cover.
Your OSHC will help you pay for any medical or hospital care you may need while you’re studying in Australia, and it will contribute towards the cost of most prescription medicines, and an ambulance in an emergency.
OSHC does not cover dental, optical or physiotherapy. If you want to be covered for these treatments you will need to buy additional private health insurance, such as: | <urn:uuid:32ae8df4-c30e-43bf-8756-a947be8bca18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.actb.com.au/overseas-student-health-cover/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928871 | 246 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Race After Technology Part 1
Please read the Introduction to Race After Technology. There is a lot there, so please take some time to consider the following questions in your reflection:
- Dr. Benjamin quotes James Baldwin: "History is literally present in all that we do." How does history affect "new" companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google? Can you give specific examples?
- dr. Benjamin writes, "Even just deciding what problem needs solving requires a host of judgements." When you think of major tech companies today, what types of problems are they trying to solve? Are these the problems you consider important? What problem would you want to solve if you could create a tech company?
- Dr. Benjamin critiques the extreme tailoring and personalization present in many applications, including education. What are Dr. Benjamin's concerns? Do you agree with her? What are potential benefits/costs to personalization, especially in education?
- Dr. Benjamin talks positively about "racial dragging." How do you feel about this response to racist behavior?
- How can technology make it appear that our society is less racist than it is?
- Dr. Benjamin argues that race is a form of technology. In what ways is race similar to or different from other technologies?
- Has technology increased the power/resources/influence that you have, or limited your power/resources/influence?
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2014 Theses Doctoral
Honor Thy Father and Mother: Defining and Solving the Problem of Old Age in the United States, 1945-1961
In the twentieth century, Americans got old. The average lifespan grew from forty-eight to seventy-eight years of age and new policy questions and ethical challenges accompanied this demographic transition. How should old age be defined? Who would care for the nation's elders? What should older Americans give back to their communities and what should they expect from their government? Where would the infirm elderly live? Where would they die? This project returns to the middle of the twentieth century when experts within universities, foundations, social welfare organizations, and the federal government took on these questions and sought lasting solutions to the mounting problem of old age. More specifically, Honor Thy Father and Mother investigates how "old age" came to be defined as a social problem worthy of federal attention in the 1950s and how that federal attention shaped a national discussion on the nature and needs of the elderly.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, the definition and problems of old age were in flux. Scientists, social workers, policy makers, doctors, and religious leaders challenged the viability of chronology as a medical and political marker of old age and questioned the wisdom of seeking longevity over a purposeful and dignified end. Their perspectives, while present in scientific, medical, and political discourse, did not translate into broad, well-funded federal programs. In their stead, the government threw its financial and administrative weight behind what I call the Medical Security Solution: initiatives such as bio-medical research and Medicare, which sought to cure the diseases of old age and relieve financial insecurity by covering the health care costs of social security recipients.
Honor Thy Father and Mother explores how the Medical Security Solution captured the attention of policy makers, activists for the aged, and senior citizens in the middle of the twentieth century and what ideas were lost in this process. This project offers a needed history of the assumptions that continue to frame, and limit, public discussions on care for the elderly.
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- Blackmar, Elizabeth S.
- Ph.D., Columbia University
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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” – Confucius
How often do we find ourselves in a situation where we give the impression that we know more than we do? Or maybe you’re in a group, you’re interested in learning, but paralyzed by the fear of sounding foolish for asking a “dumb question.” We see this in the golf coaching world all too frequently. Because there can be so many potential answers to the same question, golfers tend to become reluctant to ask the most obvious question – Why? Why does the golf club have to be swung a certain way, or why should I (or shouldn’t I) sway or slide in my golf swing? You see, golf appears to be easy. The ball isn’t moving, the club is light and easy to move, practically everyone is physically capable of playing. This, however, obscures the fact that golf is simplistically hard!
My advice to amateur golfers, well, any golfer for that matter, is to ask why a teacher or coach’s philosophy is what it is. Ask as many why questions as possible. It will only help you develop faster. The sooner you understand and know why something is happening, the more efficiently you can work to improve the current state of your game. The best coaches understand the why scenarios, with real data, information that is not based in opinion. While it is true that there are subjective elements to golf, one’s score is entirely objective, it is in most cases black or white (at least for those who do not use an eraser!). Your score is either good or bad on any given day, how you produce the score is another matter entirely! Golf has so many variables, some not in our control, others we control to a point, and there are some you have complete control over. Do you know which is which? Why not? This is my point. Many of you will take a golf lesson assuming it is the “fix” needed to play better. Hmmm, not true. It is part of it, but not the complete why. This is where asking the question why comes in handy. If my goal is to get the ball in the hole with the least amount of strokes possible, I should understand as many of those variables keeping me from accomplishing that goal. Knowing how to control the golf ball is a key element of scoring, but then there is how do you control the golf ball? How about when it is in the rough, sand, or from any other kind of lie you may find on the course? Why does the club react a certain way when swinging it fast vs. slow, why is it tough to control the ball when my body is not stable during the motion of my swing?
Golf is hard enough even when you have solid knowledge of the game, swing mechanics and the variables! Your best chance for improvement does not come from watching YouTube videos or reading Golf Digest or golf instructional magazines. Your best chance for improvement comes from knowing your why, seek to learn, not to fix! When you employ this growth mindset, improvement happens faster, and they stick! You will no longer feel as though you need to bounce from week to week seeking out a fix. Rather, you’ll have confidence that you are working on the right things for You!
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TORONTO, March 14, 2016 /CNW/ - If you are planning to enjoy the outdoors over March break, please remind your family and friends to stay clear of the areas near our dams and generating stations.
"March Break is a great time to head outside however, waterways near hydro generating stations are not places for recreation. Take some time to make your family and friends aware of the dangers near hydro generating facilities," says Mike Martelli, OPG's President, Renewable Generation and Power Marketing.
Water levels and flows near hydro stations can change quickly as stations and dams respond to changing conditions. In areas where ice continues to form, it too can be dangerous as the fluctuating water levels can make ice thin and weak. Look for fences, buoys, booms and barriers that are in place to mark hazardous locations. Warning signs notify the public of dangerous places to avoid. Stay clear of these unsafe areas, and respect the signs and barriers that are in place for your protection.
"At OPG, safety is always our priority," adds Martelli. "When near our generating facilities, please remember to stay clear, stay safe."
OPG safely operates 65 hydroelectric stations and 240 dams on waterways across Ontario, from Kenora to Cornwall.
For more information about water safety and educational resources for kids, visit opg.com/watersafety.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
No people who are ignorant can be truly free.
I haven't failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that don't work.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
no people can be both ignorant and free.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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The Glucotrust Pdf
The health and wellness market is growing, with lots of business producing their own supplements. There are lots of items for blood glucose support that boost your blood sugar level degrees. Today, we will discuss one such product called GlucoTrust, which is becoming The Glucotrust Pdf an increasing number of preferred.
GlucoTrust is a blood glucose support supplement that has tons of nutritional advantages. It promotes & sustains healthy and balanced blood sugar degrees that provide correct blood circulation, deep rest, and also reduce food yearnings.
GlucoTrust has natural active ingredients, which will be quickly discussed later on in this write-up. Besides that, you will additionally understand just how GlucoTrust functions, its benefits, as well as where you can purchase one on your own. The company also uses discount rates which you may additionally be thrilled around.
Just How Does Glucotrust Work?
GlucoTrust is an all-natural supplement that enhances your health and wellness by promoting healthy sugar in your blood. Considering that blood sugar is the main resource of power, having a shortage in blood sugar level can cause illness as well as other health concerns. In a similar way, excessive blood sugar level can likewise cause problems like diabetic issues. The Glucotrust Pdf Because of this, we require to figure out the equilibrium in our blood sugar degree so that we can function our everyday routine with no problems.
Now allow us have a look at exactly how GlucoTrust functions. GlucoTrust uses different natural compounds as its active ingredients. These components are Gymnema, biotin, manganese, chromium, cinnamon oil, zinc, as well as glycyrrhizic acid. These active ingredients can assist you maintain your blood sugar level degree in your body. It is essential to recognize the working of GlucoTrust so that you can evaluate your own well-being with the help of such products.
The first way GlucoTrust functions is by raising the production of insulin in your body. By lowering the insulin resistance, your blood sugar level will certainly break down and be changed right into power a lot more effectively. Blood cells will soak up more blood sugar level, and also it will certainly not go directly into your bloodstream. Similarly, the 2nd method the GlucoTrust components job is by avoiding the failure of carbs.
Carbohydrates malfunction takes place in the small intestines with the help of enzymes. These enzymes are referred to as pancreatic amylase, and also they break down sugar and also carbs. Consequently, the development of sugar takes place. Afterwards, glucose can be absorbed back into the blood stream. Nonetheless, GlucoTrust, with its components, stops that from occurring.
GlucoTrust enables what insulin does to blood glucose in blood sugar assistance supplements. Having a healthy blood glucose level is necessary to keeping a healthy and balanced way of life. On top of that, it affects mostly all elements of our life, as well as not caring for what we take in can cause harmful levels of blood sugar level and diabetes mellitus. This is why manufacturers of GlucoTrust use all-natural ingredients to offer the most enhanced effects when eating GlucoTrust.
Biotin is likewise called vitamin B7, as well as it aids in transforming blood sugar level right into energy with the help of metabolic responses in the cell. In addition, biotin also metabolizes fats, healthy proteins, and also carbohydrates more successfully. Not just exists an appropriate capability of metabolization with biotin, however there are also various other advantages such as healthy skins, nails, as well as hair. Above all, it handles symptoms of diabetes which is its neurological sign. Some research studies additionally show that lack of biotin in expecting ladies can result in health and wellness problems in their developing babies.
Manganese existing in GlucoTrust enhances the manufacturing of insulin hormonal agents to promote more power. Simply put, manganese stimulates insulin production to ensure that it can transform blood glucose right into power. With manganese, there won’t be any launch of fatty acids, which can result in ketoacidosis. Afterwards, study also shows that manganese is also in charge of promoting healthy cognitive and also nervous system function.
Gymnema Sylvestre is a conventional Indian ayurvedic medication that is a natural essence of a leafed creeping plant. This natural active ingredient has remained in use for over a century for ayurvedic medical functions. The Glucotrust Pdf Gymnema Sylvestre has the effect of promoting healthy and balanced blood glucose as well as decreasing the desires for junk food. Advertising healthy and balanced blood sugar level is the main cure for having an imbalance in blood sugar level levels. Therefore, lots of diabetic clients take tabletsor blood sugar support supplements which contain Gymnema Sylvestre.
Diabetic people have chromium deficiency which eliminates their ability to keep their blood sugar level. With reduced chromium, you can have low blood sugar degrees, which can create numerous health-related problems. You can have problems with your metabolic rate and the ability to refute fat. This is why GlucoTrust consists of chromium to raise your blood sugar level to optimum degree and boost your metabolism.
Licorice is just one of one of the most essential components in all blood sugar assistance supplements. You will certainly see this component in all supplements for dealing with blood sugar levels. This active ingredient is effective and has been proven lot of times with scientific studies. Its core worths come from advertising healthy and balanced blood sugar in diabetic clients.
Licorice is not a modern-day medical compound. In fact, it has actually offered a conventional medical function for hundreds of years. It was promoted as a natural treatment and used for centuries in Chinese, middle eastern countries, and also in Greek medication. Today, it is utilized in numerous supplements, including GlucoTrust. It reduces your cravings, promotes lean muscular tissues, burns fatty acids, maintains blood glucose and general well-being.
Juniper Berries are ancient berries that were discovered in the burial place of Pharaoh. It is one more terrific component that promotes healthy blood sugar. Professional athletes initially utilized juniper berries to enhance their stamina, toughness, and general efficiency. With developments in medication, specialists have actually discovered that juniper berries are anti-oxidants that aid with inflammation and resistance. Consequently, it all come down to having a healthy blood sugar degree.
According to the GlucoTrust producer, each capsule inside the bottle of GlucoTrust has a mix of these active ingredients plus 8 other natural substances. Furthermore, the perfect mix of these natural mixtures aids in managing the natural hormonal agents in your body and boosts the biochemicals that improve your total wellness.
Zinc enhances your overall wellness by reinforcing your body immune system. You will certainly have the ability to take care of allergic reactions, cold, dripping nose, and so on. In addition, it additionally helps in the manufacturing of hormonal agents. GlucoTrust additionally has zinc with all its benefits, as well as individuals who eat this supplement will get even more insulin hormones that are suitable for blood sugar level.
Who Should Use GlucoTrust?
It is suitable to have a healthy blood sugar level to preserve power, focus, better skin, maintain weight, as well as other health benefits. Nonetheless, not every person can accomplish this, which is why supplements like GlucoTrust have actually arised. There are many kinds of people who ought to make use of GlucoTrust, and also it will drastically improve their quality of life.
Insulin assists the motion of sugar to your blood cells, as well as it is crucial for your body since receiving sugar in the blood cells offers power. People who have a higher degree of blood glucose in their bodies have issues with their insulin hormonal agents. This can also cause diabetes mellitus, as well as it typically comes to be an extreme clinical problem if not handled in a timely manner.
If you do not have adequate insulin as well as face high blood sugar level degrees, you require GlucoTrust. GlucoTrust helps maintain blood sugar level degrees by providing the proper quantity of insulin.
Like high blood glucose is a problem, reduced blood sugar level degree is also not good. You require to have a minimum of 70 mg/dL of glucose level to do at a maximum rate. Having anything less than 70 mg/dL of sugar degree is a problem known as hypoglycemia. Similarly, a sugar degree of 200mg/dL 2 hours after having a meal is additionally hypoglycemia The Glucotrust Pdf. In any case, there is something incorrect with your insulin, and you should start taking GlucoTrust to improve your health.
Hypoglycemia can trigger various health issue, consisting of unconsciousness. Not having a proper diet, eating much less, and missing clinical tablets if you have diabetics issues can likewise create hypoglycemia.
So if you are somebody that fails to remember to take their diabetic person tablets or is consuming less than normal, you should consider making use of GlucoTrust. Consuming GlucoTrust will certainly advertise healthy blood flow, reduce yearnings for sugar, and also offer top quality sleep.
Where to Purchase GlucoTrust?
GlucoTrust is specifically offered only on their main website. So far, there is nothing else market online or offline where GlucoTrust is offered. On the website, there are 3 packages that offer GlucoTrust. There is one bottle, three container, and also six-bottle plans which customers can directly purchase from the website.
The prices of GlucoTrust will drop if you buy a six-bottle package. It is a great bundle for individuals who have a favorable experience with GlucoTrust, and currently they wish to use it for the long term. In addition, GlucoTrust supplies free shipping besides one container bundle, and also you can obtain the item delivered throughout the USA.
Each bottle of GlucoTrust features 30 capsules which are enough for a 30-day supply. Taking one pill a day is the recommended dosage that ought to be complied with by consumers.
GlucoTrust has a 180-day money-back assurance plan which has to do with 6 months. Because period, if you do not see outcomes, then GlucoTrust will happily refund your cash. You can ask for a refund by speaking to the client support personnel of the company. After that, the firm will process your reimbursement request within a day The Glucotrust Pdf.
GlucoTrust is priced at $69 per bottle, although the price goes down significantly when ordering 3 or six bottles simultaneously.
You can solely get GlucoTrust through GetGlucoTrust.com, where it’s priced at the following rates:
- 1 Container: $69 + $9 Delivery
- 3 Bottles: $177 + Free US Delivery
- 6 Bottles: $294 + Free US Shipping
Each container consists of a 30 day supply of GlucoTrust (30 pills). The maker suggests taking one pill prior to bed every night to support blood sugar level over night.
GlucoTrust is a blood glucose assistance supplement which contains a blend of 15 components connected to blood glucose and also cardio health.
By taking one pill of GlucoTrust prior to bed every night, you can supposedly appreciate effective blood glucose support benefits. Secret active ingredients include chromium, gymnema sylvestre, zinc, and also biotin, to name a few.
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