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We’re proud to be known as Alaska’s longest-operating and largest residential vocational school—and pleased to share that GILA is celebrating our 25th anniversary this 2022/23 school year!
GILA has become the school of choice for Alaskan high school students seeking a unique educational opportunity to prepare for a career or post-secondary school advancement. As a fully accredited school, GILA offers Alaska teens the chance to gain industry-standard experience, skills, and certifications within popular career pathways: drone aviation, applied mechanics, construction trades, health science, media and information technology.
Galena Interior Learning Academy’s residential campus is located in Galena, Alaska, in the heart of the Interior on the mighty Yukon River. Positioned on and around the former Galena Air Force Base and adjacent to the airstrip, just north of the river and northwest of town, GILA is surrounded by wilderness.
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Qi Gong is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is practiced by millions of people around the world today. The goal is to maintain body and mind health and thus lead a long, happy life. This is done with a combination of traditional movements, breathing methods and the power of imagination. Everyone can start learning Qi Gong regardless of age, previous knowledge or constitution - ideally today!
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Canada well placed to meet world’s growing energy demands
Jock FinlaysonGeneral Sustainability Energy Manufacturing Oil & Gas clean energy Climate change energy fossil fuels gas GHG greenhouse gas emissions manufacturing oil renewables
Ranks as a responsible supplier compared to most other major oil and gas exporting nations.
When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, conflict typically ensues. So it is with the world-wide effort to come to grips with the unprecedented challenges posed by climate change.
While most countries – minus Donald Trump’s America – have notionally signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of working towards holding the global temperature rise to a maximum of two degrees centigrade, few are on track to slash their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions sufficiently to meet the target. Indeed, world-wide emissions are still increasing – climbing by 1.8% in 2018, driven by growing energy use and ongoing economic development in China, India and many other emerging market economies.
Even as concerns mount over the effects of a warming climate, the world remains overwhelmingly dependent on GHG-producing fossil fuels. True, a transition to “clean” energy – i.e., energy that doesn’t generate GHGs – is underway, but the pace is slow and the adoption of less carbon-intensive energy is largely restricted to the electricity sector. Stupendous amounts of energy are needed for heating and cooling, transportation, and to support many industrial processes – all served by ubiquitous fossil fuels. In 2018, heating and cooling accounted for more than half of overall global energy use, and transportation for almost one-third. While there is welcome progress in shifting away from fossil fuels to produce electricity, this is less true for the other components of energy demand; electricity is not a substitute for many of these uses.
A glance at recent projections for energy production and consumption highlights the central role of fossil fuels in meeting the world’s voracious energy needs. For example, according to BP’s 2019 baseline energy outlook:
- Global primary energy demand will increase by one-third to 2040, mainly from economic growth and rising living standards in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. While “energy intensity” – the amount of energy used per dollar of economic activity – is expected to decline, total energy consumption still increases.
- Energy used in buildings (heating and cooling) and industry represents about three-quarters of the jump in cumulative energy use to 2040, according to BP’s baseline forecast.
- The transition to a lower-carbon energy mix continues, led by growing demand for natural gas and renewables. The share of primary energy demand met by coal and oil falls. However, in overall terms fossil fuels still provide a large majority of the world’s energy, even in 2040.
- Global reliance on oil and demand for liquid fuels remains strong in the transport sector, albeit edging lower thanks to more energy-efficient vehicles and incremental market penetration by electric vehicles. But even in 2040, oil is projected to supply 85% of the energy required to move cars, trucks, trains, ships and aircraft.
- Production and trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) is set to increase sharply in the next two decades. This underscores the opportunity for Western Canada to become a significant LNG producer and exporter given the region’s abundant reserves of natural gas.
What are the implications of the evolving global energy landscape for Canada? Our country is endowed with an enviable mix of energy riches, including the world’s third largest oil reserves. Energy plays an outsized role in Canada’s economy, amounting to 10 per cent of GDP and supplying 20 to 25 per cent of all merchandise exports. Canada is the fourth biggest global producer of natural gas and oil. In the electricity sector, Canada boasts among the highest shares of carbon-free generation (more than two-thirds) among all advanced economies – we have done more than most countries to reduce the GHG footprint of electricity.
As an oil and gas producer, Canada has well-respected environmental standards and rigorous project approval processes. Indeed, compared to most other major oil and gas exporting nations – including Russia, Venezuela, Angola, and various Middle Eastern petro-states – Canada clearly ranks as a responsible supplier. Even as efforts continue to tamp down GHG emissions and reduce the carbon intensity of energy use, a fast-growing world will continue to demand energy. Canada is well-placed to help meet it.
This article was written by Jock Finlayson, executive vice-president, and Denise Mullen, director of environment and sustainability, with the Business Council of British Columbia.
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A practical guide to autoimmune liver diseases through pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management
In Autoimmune Liver Disease Management and Clinical Practice, practitioners will learn about the current state of autoimmune liver disease and how to focus on their diagnosis and treatment. The four-part book begins with a thorough investigation of current immunological thinking as it relates to the autoimmunity of the liver. It also covers the four major hepatic autoimmune liver diseases in both adults and children, their management and the role of liver transplantation, and learned approaches to patient management and empowerment.
Expert authors in the field have come together to provide a thorough examination of autoimmune liver disease to help support clinicians assisting patients. The text provides an in-depth look at topics including:
● The four major hepatic autoimmune liver diseases, their diagnosis, and potential disease management
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With breadth, depth and current-day relevance, Autoimmune Liver Disease sheds light on recent developments in management of liver disease for practitioners, nurses, and health care professionals.
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Do you want a career that enables you to help pupils master skills that are vital to their success, not just during their education, but for life? If so training to teach maths on our PGCE in Secondary Mathematics is the course for you.
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How do I find my CD drive in Ubuntu? Once you mount a CD/DVD,you can find it in /media/DISC_NAME . If you insert a CD or DVD, it should be automatically detected and will appear as a removable media drive in the nautilus file browser, otherwise it will be hidden.
How do I run a CD ROM in Ubuntu?
- Insert the CD or DVD in the drive and enter the following command: mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom. where /cdrom represents the mount point of the CD or DVD.
- Log out.
Does Ubuntu support CD? CD/DVD drives need to be mounted to work in Ubuntu (same for hard drives and mice). You can do this from Terminal (typing commands) or using Disk Utility (point and click). To get it you can open the Unity Dash (it’s the button with the Ubuntu logo on the upper left), and type Disk Utility.
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You might have a neighbor not realizing that their outdoor lights trespass onto your property, creating annoying glare and perhaps disturbing sleep cycles. It can be quite frustrating, but there are some suggested ways for how this can be handled.
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Second, if after reviewing the suggestions from IDA you decide that a letter is the best approach, here is a link to a letter that is more specific to Fountain Hills: FH Neighbor Sample Letter. Our experience is that quite often when the neighbor is made aware of the situation, they’ll do what they can to remedy the offending light.
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When interviewing for larger companies, a programming language is not the most important factor for a Software Engineer position in Japan. Instead, your computer science fundamentals, such as your understanding of algorithms & data structures like stacks, binary trees, and arrays, are more important.
For smaller companies, programming languages may be more important as they may lack the necessary training to educate new joiners or may want to hire someone who can quickly ramp up. Even for larger companies, it can help your profile if you understand to know the language the company uses. As such, it can be helpful to understand which languages are in demand.
A survey by Nikkei-xTech on popular languages
A survey by Nikkei shows that the most popular languages are as follows:
From our experience as technical recruiters, we agree largely with the survey results done by Nikkei, but Nikkei focuses mainly on Japanese companies. As technical recruiters that specialize in Gaishikei companies, below are our ranking of popular programming languages in Japan for foreign internet/SaaS companies:
Languages that pay well from BizReach:
BizReach is one of the most popular mid-career job board in Japan, with the majority of both Gaishikei and Nikkei internet/SaaS companies using the service. The below shows which average salaries and the # of jobs for different programming languages.
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- How to run MRP run for single material?
- What does MRP stand for?
- What are the MRP parameters required for MRP?
- What is an MRP controller number?
- How to run MRP for a group of materials?
- What is MRP planning run in SAP?
- What are the levels of MRP planning?
- How do I run MRP in Visual Studio?
- What does MRP stand for in manufacturing resources?
- What does MRP mean in gaming?
- What is the difference between ERP and MRP?
- What is closed-loop MRP?
- What are the MRP parameters required for Material Requirement Planning?
- What do you need to know about MRP?
- What are the planning control parameters in SAP MRP?
- What is MRP run in SAP pp?
- What is an MRP controller?
- How to configure SAP MRP controllers using SAP Reference IMG?
- How to set up MRP for single item?
- How to add MRP controller in APO?
How to run MRP run for single material?
MRP Run for single material. Step 1) In Transaction MD02, we will run MRP for a single material. Input the material code for which you want to run MRP. Enter your manufacturing Plant code for which you want to take MRP run. Enter Processing key as NETCH ( Net change in total horizon)
What does MRP stand for?
The SAP MRP (Material Requirement Planning) is used to procure or produce the required material quantities on time for in-house purpose or for fulfilling customer demands. In manufacturing, the function of MRP is to guarantee material availability on time.
What are the MRP parameters required for MRP?
MRP Planning Parameters MRP parameters are required for MRP run in terms of considering the requirements (PIR) in planning horizon, scheduling parameters and about the usage of BOM and routing data.
What is an MRP controller number?
The MRP controller is a person or a group of persons responsible for monitoring material availability. You can use the number entered here, for example, to select the planning results per MRP conroller. Every material that is relevant to the planning run must be assigned an MRP controller number in the material master record.
How to run MRP for a group of materials?
MRP for a group of materials ( example: based on MRP controller or MRP type or Procurement type) can be planned by using the user exit M61X0001 in MD01. 3. There is no standard SAP transaction available to run MRP based on Product group.
What is MRP planning run in SAP?
During MRP process all levels of the bill of material are planned. SAP MRP Planning run can be executed at plant level or MRP area level. This planning run can be executed for a single material or a material group. Planning run can be total planning for a plant, single-item single level planning, or multi-level single item planning.
What are the levels of MRP planning?
During MRP process all levels of the bill of material are planned. SAP MRP Planning run can be executed at plant level or MRP area level. This planning run can be executed for a single material or a material group.
How do I run MRP in Visual Studio?
From VISUAL’s Material Planning Window, select Material Requirement Planning from the FILE menu In the following window, you have several options to choose from that will affect how MRP will execute and plan your supply orders. On the left, you have the options on WHERE you want to run MRP …
On the other hand, because ERP software contains much greater functionality than MRP, there is an equally strong argument for the second claim: MRP is indeed only a part of enterprise resource planning software. Why do companies that make products need an MRP system?
What is closed-loop MRP?
What are the MRP parameters required for Material Requirement Planning?
MRP parameters are required to run material requirement planning to meet PIR, and to use routing information. NetChange − In this run system, consider those material which has undergone some changes from the previous MRP run.
What do you need to know about MRP?
Planning Data: Restraints and directions, such as labor, machine standards, testing, techniques, and commands, are required to use the MRP system. Bills of Materials: The system requires detailed accounts of materials and components used to make each of the products. After inputting all the data throughout the system, it can be run in a business.
What are the planning control parameters in SAP MRP?
When you run the planning in SAP through the various available transaction codes, the selection screen gives you an option for selecting values for the following parameters. The selection screen shown below is a typical transaction code to run MRP. The Planning control parameters would be the same in all the SAP MRP Run Transaction codes.
What is MRP run in SAP pp?
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Phones with cameras that let you see through walls, paper or clothing? An iPhone with a case made of “liquid metal” and — wait, what’s an “in-cell” touchscreen?
I Can See-Phone You!
Let’s start with smartphones packing cameras capable of what we used to call “X-ray vision,” which researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas claim could be just around the corner. The whole “see through stuff” part is old news, of course: Cameras that detect infrared radiation can “see” through cotton-based clothing, for instance, and have been around for years. But imagine the technology bettered, miniaturized and manufactured cheaply enough to make it usable in everyday phones, where, as the L.A. Times notes, it could be put to work helping detect skin cancer and locating unseen cracks in objects or studs in walls.
For starters, the UT Dallas researchers figured out how to tap a narrow, little-used region of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwave, known as “terahertz” radiation. Terahertz waves pass through just about everything save water and metal, including paper, wood, plastic and — because it’s the nervous question on everyone’s mind when talk of plausible, portable X-ray vision pops up — clothing, too.
“The combination of CMOS and terahertz means you could put this chip and receiver on the back of a cellphone, turning it into a device carried in your pocket that can see through objects,” said Dr. Kenneth O, Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair and TxACE director. Cool! (And kind of spooky…)
How do you pack a cutting-edge terahertz detection system into something as small as a smartphone and keep it inexpensive? By designing a complementary imaging processor using CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) technology. The result: A chip that can detect terahertz radiation, small enough to fit in a phone and cheap enough for mere mortals to afford.
Won’t this technology basically empower a newer, scarier generation of peeping Toms? “The major concern for this technology is privacy, so we’ve made it that you need to place the imaging device very close to the object you are looking at,” Dr. O told the Times. “We are talking about a distance of 10 centimeters, so it would be very difficult for someone to sneak up on you and…you know.”
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iPhone 5 Even Thinner than Rumored?
Rumormonger DigiTimes says Apple’s next iPhone will probably use what’s called “in-cell” touch panel technology when (okay, if) it rolls off the assembly lines this summer or early fall. What the heck does “in-cell” refer to? The position of the touch sensors in the panel itself. In “on-cell” setups, used in current smartphones, the touch sensors reside on top of the color filters — in “in-cell” configurations, they’re actually inside the color filters. That translates to even thinner touchscreens.
The DT rumor is supported by a Focus Taiwan report, which cites David Hsieh, the president of display market researcher DisplaySearch, as claiming Apple plans to trade Taiwan-based suppliers for Japanese panel makers (notably Sharp and Toshiba) when it starts manufacturing its next-generation iPhone. The reason: Japan currently has the edge on “in-cell” tech, explains Hsieh.
“Of course, Taiwanese panel makers are also developing this technology, but Japanese suppliers still run faster,” said Hsieh at a display-related conference in Taiwan.
“This Thing Can Imitate Anything It Touches?”
The term “liquidmetal” probably conjures visuals like Robert Patrick’s T-1000 commandeering a helicopter, head-butting the windshield and pouring like a worm made of mercury into the cockpit. Obviously the next iPhone won’t do that, but as my colleague Doug Aamoth wrote in August 2010, liquid metal — an alloy that’s stronger than titanium — is already used in flash drives, MP3 players, jewelry, medical devices, industrial machinery, space projects and luxury phones like those made by Vertu. What’s more, Apple’s reportedly had an exclusive deal with the company responsible for the material since 2010.
That deal may be near fruition: Korea IT News claims Apple’s next iPhone will finally integrate the sci-fi-sounding material, giving the next-gen smartphone an uncommonly smooth, liquid-like shell while bolstering its durability. Whether Apple and its partners can make the whole thing work and keep costs low enough is another matter — speculation in 2010 was that liquidmetal might never make it into consumer products given its high manufacturing costs. But if anyone stands a chance of striking a reasonable deal given iPhone sales and economies of scale, it’s probably the folks at Cupertino.
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Idiographic research methods can provide rich information regarding the process of change in specific treatments. Objective: Adopting an idiographic, exploratory approach, this study examined (a) temporal patterns of 3 transdiagnostic change constructs (mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal, and emotion avoidance), (b) the relationships between these constructs and depression and anxiety symptom severity over time, and (c) changes in these constructs in relation to the introduction of specific transdiagnostic intervention strategies in a single case. Method: The case was a 64-year-old, White, female patient with principal major depressive disorder and secondary generalized anxiety disorder being treated with the Unified Protocol (UP). Univariate and multivariate time series analyses were applied to symptom and change construct data. Results: (a) Clinically significant decreases in depression and anxiety from baseline to posttreatment were observed, as well as clinically significant increases in mindfulness and reappraisal; (b) changes in mindfulness were associated with changes in depression and anxiety, and changes in mindfulness temporally preceded changes in depression and anxiety; (c) changes in reappraisal were associated with changes in depression, and changes in reappraisal temporally preceded changes in depression; (d) the UP module designed to increase present-focused emotion awareness exerted the strongest influence on mindfulness ratings, although other modules had an impact; (e) reappraisal ratings were most strongly influenced by the emotion monitoring and functional analysis module, although subsequent modules continued to have a measureable impact. Conclusions: Although specific to this case, these results begin to elucidate important processes of change in transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy for principal depression with comorbid anxiety.
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- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Idiographic case analysis
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Or CINNEROTH, a town on the west shore of the sea of Galilee, Nu 34:11; De 3:17; Jos 11:2; 19:35; 1Ki 15:20. It was a "fenced city" of Naphtali, and gave its name to the lake on which it stood. Tiberias is supposed by Jerome to have afterwards occupied its site.
lyre, the singular form of the word (De 3:17; Jos 19:35), which is also used in the plural form, Chinneroth, the name of a fenced city which stood near the shore of the lake of Galilee, a little to the south of Tiberias. The town seems to have given its name to a district, as appears from 1Ki 15:20, where the plural form of the word is used.
The Sea of Chinnereth (Nu 34:11; Jos 13:27), or of Chinneroth (Jos 12:3), was the "lake of Gennesaret" or "sea of Tiberias" (De 3:17; Jos 11:2). Chinnereth was probably an ancient Canaanitish name adopted by the Israelites into their language.
A city (De 3:17; Jos 11:2 [in latter spelt Chinneroth] Jos 19:35) which gave its name to the Sea of Chinnereth (Nu 34:11; Jos 12:3; 13:27), the OT designation of the Sea of Galilee. The site of the town is uncertain, but it follows Rakkath (probably Tiberias), and may have been in the plain of Gennesaret (cf. 1Ki 15:20). | <urn:uuid:894cf70a-bbd5-465f-bb4e-0710f54c2137> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/references/Chinnereth/type/juliasmith | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957111 | 382 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Three volumes in one! A prestige treatment of Inoue’s epic samurai series with bonus content, color pages, storyboard samples and more!Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior-philosopher, Musashi authored A Book of Five Rings, a classic treatise in the canon of world philosophy and military strategy. But the path to enlightenment is an endless journey, and to get there through violent means–by way of the sword–makes mere survival an even greater challenge.Invincible Under the SunAt seventeen years of age, Miyamoto Musashi–still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō–was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword.In the aftermath of the epic Battle of Sekigahara, Takezō finds himself a fugitive survivor on the losing side of the war. Takezō’s vicious nature has made him an outcast even in his own village, and he is hunted down like an animal. At this crucial crossroads in Takezō’s life, an eccentric monk and a childhood friend are the only ones who can help him find his way.
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One of the problems that designers of portable equipment face is generating a regulated voltage that is between the charged and discharged voltage of a battery pack. As an example, when generating a 3.3V output from a 3-cell battery pack, the regulator input voltage changes from about 4.5V at full charge to about 2.7V when discharged. At full charge, the regulator must step down the input voltage, and when the battery voltage drops below 3.3V, the regulator must step up the voltage. The same problem occurs when a 5V output is required from a four-cell input voltage that varies from about 3.6V to 6V. Ordinarily, a flyback or SEPIC configuration is required to solve this problem.
The LTC1515 switched capacitor DC/DC converter, can provide this buck-boost function for load currents up to 50mA with only three external capacitors. The circuit shown in Figure 1 will provide a regulated 3.3V output from a three-cell input or a 5V output from a four-cell input. Connecting the 5/3 pin to VIN will program the output to 5V, whereas grounding the 5/3 pin programs the output to 3.3V.
The absence of bulky magnetics provides another benefit: this circuit requires only 0.07 square inches of board space in those applications where components can be mounted on both sides of the board. The addition of R1 provides a power-on-reset flag that goes high 200ms after the output reaches 93.5% of its programmed value. The SHDN pin allows the output to be turned on or off with a 3V logic signal. | <urn:uuid:46f362b0-d99d-4b7b-b517-8ba2472be315> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.analog.com/jp/technical-articles/battery-powered-buck-boost-converter-requires-no-magnetics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.868846 | 342 | 3.25 | 3 |
This article was originally published by the Associated Press.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to much more than achieving racial equality. That goal, he said again and again, was inseparable from alleviating poverty and stopping war. And he reiterated this theme after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago this week.
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war, that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality,” he said in his Nobel acceptance speech.
“Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace.”
Half a century later, it’s obvious that enormous progress has been made toward overcoming racial discrimination — that King was right in his vision about race. Yet widespread poverty remains, in America and beyond, and bombs still fall as brutal wars rage on.
Was King naive? Was his full vision simply unobtainable — do free markets require poor people to function, and will war always assert itself as a defining human habit?
Is King’s Nobel vision relevant five decades later?
Absolutely, insist some who study King’s life and philosophy. They say his racial proclamations and strategies, so controversial back then but now part of the American cultural canon, can and should apply to today’s stubborn issues of poverty and war.
“I don’t think his vision has ever been more relevant,” says Paul Chappell, a West Point graduate who served in Iraq and now teaches and writes books about peace. “The problem is, people don’t realize how prophetic King was.”
Chappell, the Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, which seeks a world without nuclear weapons, says a close examination of King’s life and work shows he predicted today’s protests over income inequality and trillions of war dollars drained from America’s budgets.
“He realized that American military intervention is not only harmful to people around the world, it’s also harmful to the American people,” Chappell says.
The peace prize for King, then just 35 years old, honored a Southern preacher whose philosophy, courage and oratory galvanized the civil rights movement, on whose behalf he said he accepted it. It gave a unique international recognition to the movement’s accomplishments at a pivotal time.
The prize was announced on October 14, 1964, against a backdrop of the Civil Rights Act, whose passage earlier that year finally granted black Americans full citizenship. But it also came as the nation approached all-out war in Vietnam. King accepted the award in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, and the following day delivered the traditional Nobel lecture.
In his remarks, King returned to a lifelong theme of describing a world where love and compassion could conquer poverty and conflict. His strategies were based on nonviolence — “the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression,” as he said in his speech.
“The foundation of such a method is love,” he said.
“The Nobel speeches really are neglected gems of how long-term progress against these evils requires a great commitment of mind and spirit and cooperation all rolled into one,” says the historian Taylor Branch, author of the definitive trilogy “America in the King Years.”
“I don’t think he’s naïve,” Branch says. “I think he’s saying, if there’s hope, it’s through nonviolent cooperation and really applying it with courage and all your heart and your mind against the evils that still plague the world.”
Branch says that even though dozens of countries are at war today, levels of global violence and large-scale casualties have been declining since the mid-20th century. By that measure, there has been progress toward King’s dream of peace.
King used his Nobel lecture to expand on the connections between racism, poverty and war.
“Each of these problems, while appearing to be separate and isolated, is inextricably bound to the other,” he said.
Using nonviolence to achieve racial progress, King said, meant people “have taken suffering upon themselves instead of inflicting it on others . It has meant that we do not want to instill fear in others or into the society of which we are a part.”
That society is far bigger than America, King stated. It is the human family.
“We have inherited a big house, a great ‘world house’ in which in which we have to live together — black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated in ideas, culture, and interests who, because we can never again live without each other, must learn, somehow, in this one big world, to live with each other,” King lectured.
“This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men.”
Some say love has nothing to do with it. “War is embedded in our very nature,” the influential scholar Edward O. Wilson wrote in his book “The Social Conquest of Earth,” which argues that humans have developed, biologically, a tendency to fight. Others argue that some income inequality is inevitable, since people have different capabilities.
Yet there is the question of degree. Clayborne Carson, a history professor and director of Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, says King had focused on the triple threat of racism, poverty and war since the earliest parts of his career.
“You couldn’t solve one without solving the others,” Carson says in describing King’s view.
In that context, today’s struggle against enduring poverty and war may reflect a resistance to King’s holistic approach: We followed King’s lead to push back racism, but haven’t yet tried to apply his methods of love and shared suffering to poverty and war.
“If the distribution of wealth in America was less unequal, we wouldn’t see as many of these manifestations of racial conflict,” Carson says.
The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown over the last 40 years, according to a February 2014 report by the liberal Economic Policy Institute. And the poverty rate, 15 percent in 2012, the most recent year available, hasn’t improved much since 1964, when it stood at 19 percent.
King said in Oslo: “It is obvious that if man is to redeem his spiritual and moral ‘lag,’ he must go all out to bridge the social and economic gulf between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ of the world. Poverty is one of the most urgent items on the agenda of modern life.”
Carson provided another example of King’s strategies being ignored: the idea that “if we just fight against these terrorists, terrorism will go away. One of the things King said is that the United States is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. We don’t see that in ourselves, we (think we) use violence for good.”
Chappell, the soldier turned peacemaker, said King was ahead of his time in calling for solving international problems without war, because there are often no military solutions available today.
“In purely military terms, look at Russia. There is no military option for us, because they have nuclear weapons,” Chappell said. “With ISIS, you have people from Britain and Turkey and probably the United States who want to join ISIS. It’s an ideology. How do you deal with this problem in a conventional military way?” ISIS is another name for the terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State.
Observed King in his lecture: “Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”
“Violence ends up defeating itself,” he said.
These were King’s thoughts 50 years ago as he sought to heal a nation fraught with centuries-old racial barriers and to safeguard a world with growing stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
Today, as society continues to realize King’s racial dreams, perhaps there is still prophecy to be fulfilled in his Nobel talks.
“Is it possible that the road he and his people have charted may bring a ray of hope to other parts of the world, a hope that conflicts between races, nations, and political systems can be solved, not by fire and sword, but in a spirit of true brotherly love?” Gunnar John, chairman of the Nobel committee, asked when giving King the peace prize.
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Animals are a common interest among children. Whether they’re in love with cats of all shapes and sizes or fascinated by the destructive power of a shark’s jaws, children can learn a lot through having an interest in creatures. In utilizing the numerous animal-related community-based learning resources available locally, families can support children of all ages in learning about everything from biological classification to compassion. Summer opens up these opportunities and is the perfect time to seek out animal demonstrations, visit the zoo, or learn about biology through volunteering at a shelter.
Community-based educational opportunity available for all ages as fish lifts and ladders showcase a broad species of fish and the environmental challenges they face. Critical thinking is an essential by-product as children view the efforts made to maintain a river’s natural flow at the Turners Falls Fish Ladder and the Robert E. Barrett Fishway in Holyoke. | <urn:uuid:cbb6548f-fdda-41ce-ab54-ac7b0f7c8784> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hilltownfamilies.org/tag/ichthyology/?v=ae551853b692 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934324 | 183 | 3.328125 | 3 |
What is insolvency?
Insolvency is when a company’s liabilities exceed its assets and it is not able to pay its debts when they are due.
In South Africa, it is a legal requirement that a company’s assets exceed its liabilities. If this is no longer the case in your company and it is not able to pay its debts when they are due, you have the option to liquidate or apply for business rescue. This allows the company to avoid hostile creditors and for the liquidation to be seen by the public as a company choice and not a result of being petitioned through the courts.
A company may apply for liquidation before notifying its creditors. The Board of Directors or Shareholders signs a special resolution that expresses their unequivocal consent to liquidate the company. Voluntary liquidation may be done through the CIPC or the High Courts of South Africa which will appoint a liquidator who sells the assets of the business and deposits the proceeds into an estate bank account. Greyvensteins business lawyers handle business insolvency and restructuring and advise you on practical, legal and financial advice throughout the winding-up process.
When a natural person declares bankruptcy, the courts diminish their legal capacity through the process of appointing a trustee to take control of the insolvent person’s estate. The trustee liquidates the estate, pays administrative costs and then pays the respective creditors. Sequestration separates the person from their estate and the terms of the voluntary sequestration Court Order prevent creditors from claiming any money from you. The trustee handles all the creditors according to the Insolvency laws of South Africa.
Contact Greyvensteins Incorporated if you need legal and practical advice through the voluntary sequestration process. Voluntary sequestration will give you relief from overwhelming creditor action. However, your assets remain in the insolvent estate, you cannot be a director of a company, the sequestration is listed on credit bureaus and you will not be creditworthy. You will also be excluded from professions such as estate agency and accountancy. These limitations last until your financial rehabilitation is completed.
Speak to an attorney about how you can navigate life throughout this time of diminished legal capacity. Greyvensteins Incorporated is here to assist, we have offices in Gqeberha, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
A life of limited commercial participation can be very challenging. When insolvent, everything you work for vests in the insolvent estate from which your debts are paid. It may be that all the proven creditor claims against the estate are fulfilled, however, as long as you are not legally rehabilitated, you will still operate under diminished legal capacity. Contact a lawyer Contact Gyrevensteins Incorporated in Gqeberha, Cape Town and Johannesburg to advise you whether you qualify for Insolvency Rehabilitation, how to start the process and how to protect new assets acquired after the initial sequestration. | <urn:uuid:d16b3282-2d42-46e3-a0ad-92ee6a233e09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greyvensteins.co.za/services/business/insolvency | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948902 | 623 | 1.773438 | 2 |
This is new hope in the fight against breast cancer (the deadliest in women). In the United Kingdom, a terminally ill patient recovered from the disease thanks to an experimental treatment.
As the saying goes, as long as there is life there is hope, and this healing is proof of that. In November 2017, Jasmin David, 51 years old and mother of two, was diagnosed with severe form of breast cancer† A few months later, a second blow fell: his disease had spread to the lungs, to the rib cage and to the lymph nodes. His vital prognosis is then engaged and the doctors give him only one year to live.
Jasmin David continues chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions and undergoes a mastectomy that will allow her to limit the spread of her disease. Finally, the hunter decides to do a test as a last resort experimental treatment for two years† This is a Phase 1 clinical trial being conducted at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at Christie’s Hospital in Manchester.
What does this treatment consist of? According to the media the independent, it is an experimental oral drug combined with an injection every three weeks of atezolizumab, an immunotherapy drug. And against all odds, in June 2021, scanners follow, Jasmin David learns that her cancer is completely gone†
“Two and a half years ago I thought it was the end, she remembers. Now I feel like I’ve been reborn.†
Jasmine David at the independent
Christie Hospital is known as one of the largest cancer treatment centers in Europe. The doctors who practice there are constantly testing new drugs and new therapies on patients with various diseases. Objective ? Give hope back to these terminally ill people.
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Grub Control in Olive Branch
The white grub is an immature (larval) form of a Japanese beetle. Grubs live in the soil and feed on plant roots, so you may not be aware of them until you see damage. The Grub Prevention Program from Lawn Doctor of DeSoto County reduces the population of grubs before they cause damage to your beautiful green lawn.
Lawn Doctor’s Grub Prevention Program can benefit your lawn by providing long, residual protection against subsurface insects – effectively, economically, and with no offensive odor. Symptoms of grub damage include a gradual thinning of your lawn despite adequate watering, and scattered irregular dead patches that feel spongy underfoot and can be pulled up or rolled back easily.
Lawn Doctor of DeSoto County will apply a Curative and Preventative Grub Control application to
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Program the ESP8266/ESP32 in Arduino, then enhance, store, and and visualize IoT data with AWS Serverless design flows
What you'll learn
- Basic IoT Serverless design patterns on AWS
- AWS IoT workflows, rules, and actions with AWS IoT Core
- Programming the ESP8266 and the ESP32 with the free Arduino IDE
- AWS serverless design patterns
- Gain experience with AWS serverless services such as Lambda, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and IoT Analytics
- Become familiar with device to cloud communication
- Learn how to host static websites on AWS s3 and set bucket permissions and CORS
- Basic Knowledge of AWS cloud services
- Fundamental knowledge of the Internet of Things ( IoT)
- Ability to configure and run a basic Arduino Sketch on the ESP8266 or ESP32
- Ability to create a free tier AWS account, create a root/super user, and navigate between AWS services
This course is a hands-on introduction to device to cloud communication using Amazon’s AWS serverless design flow. This course is meant as a basic, non-production level, introduction to both device to cloud communications, and how to the manipulate IoT data on AWS using the serverless model.
In the course we focuses on a serverless design flow utilizing simple IoT data generated data by either the ESP8266 12-E or ESP32 embedded development boards using WiFi. The course will cover how to program the devices, send the IoT data wirelessly to AWS through the AWS IoT Core MQTT broker, and then demonstrate how to store and visualize the IoT data utilizing various serverless services and design flows on AWS. We will be using the AWS website to navigate services, and not the "Serverless" framework.
The purchase of a $5 ESP8266 12-E, or $10 ESP32, is recommended for the course, but is not absolutely necessary as we can ‘fake’ incoming IoT JSON data from AWS IoT Core on the MQTT broker.
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Many people dream of becoming an entrepreneur – having their own shop to sell clothes, shoes, bags and other stuff. It is a good business which can be a stable source of income. However, not many can afford the big capital required to start a store. Budget is indeed a big factor but what if we tell you that there’s a way to fulfill this dream without having to spend too much money to start with? The answer to this is the internet. You can start your shopping business online without needing big money as capital. We will share some tips on how to start a shopping business online.
- Come up with a winning business plan – of course you need a plan before you start your business. What are you planning to sell on your website? Do you want to sell shoes, bags, clothes and apparels or do you plan to offer other goods like baked goods or probably handmade jewelries other products? It is important to know what you will offer.
- Choose a remarkable domain name – your website is going to be your virtual shop thus you need to come up with a name that can be remembered by users immediately. It is best if they can easily name your site when someone asks them where they purchased what they purchased on your site.
- Choose reliable hosting site – It is important that your site is always up and running especially during peak hours wherein many people are browsing and potentially shopping. You should make sure to choose a web hosting site that has good reputation of having zero to low down time and with easy to contact support team.
- Have an SSL certificate – SSL certificate allows safe connection between your site and users’ browser. This gives confidence to users that their details are safe on your website.
- Design a layout that is easy to navigation – you should ensure that visitors can easily navigate your site. For example, you should immediately show them options where they should go or what they should click from homepage to go to this page or that page. Online users do not want complicated websites.
- Provide various payment options – it is also good practice to provide various payment options like Visa, MasterCard, direct bank transfer or 3rd party payment options like PayPal, Neteller, Skrill and others. This makes things a lot easier for customers.
- Publish a thorough and easy to follow step-by-step guidelines – another thing to remember is to come up with an easy step by step guide for new users on your site. You should have a guide that they can use so they know how to register, place order, pay and so on and so forth.
- Provide a customer hotline or support email or chat – lastly, you should provide a support contact details that users can contact in case they have questions or enquiries.
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Book 5: Chapter 18
Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 5: Chapter 18: Verses 33-39
Even though You possess a numberless (endless) variety of names, forms and shapes, yet a (specified) number of categories, (say, twenty-four) has been assumed in You by seers (like the divine Kapila). The knowledge of Truth by means of which this number (plurality) is set aside is no other than You, the embodiment of true wisdom. Hail to You !" In the land of the northern Kurus (the subdivision of the terrestrial world known by this name) the Lord presiding over sacrifices dwells (is worshipped) in the form of the divine Boar. Alongwith the Kurus (the denizens of this subdivision) this Goddess Earth (that serves as our abode) adores Him through an incessant flow of unfaltering devotion and repeats the following supremely esoteric prayer: "Hail to the divine Boar, denoted by the mystical syllable OM, truly known (only) through the Mantras (sacred texts of the Vedas), the Deity presiding over sacrifices both without and with a sacrificial post, (nay,) whose (divine) Body is constituted of the (varieties of) great sacrifices ! (vide III. xiii. 38) ! Hail to the Supreme Person I! Hail to You who (in the form of a sacrificer) are pure of actions, and who manifest Yourself (in the form of sacrifices) only in the (last) three Yugas."
"Even as those well-versed in rituals churn out the fire hidden in pieces of (sacrificial) wood with the help of the fire-producing wooden stick, so the wise, keen to perceive Your reality, obscured by (attachment to) actions and their fruits, try to discover it (as the all-pervading self) in the discipline of their body and senses etc., (which are products of matter) with the help of (their) discriminating mind (reason). Hail to You who reveal Yourself through this process (of chastening the body and senses). By them whose intellect has become capable of keen discernment through reflection as well as through (the practice of) the (eight) limbs of Yoga (Yama, Niyama and so on). You, the Supreme Self, are truly and directly perceived alongwith (as distinguished from) the attributes of Maya (Prakrti), viz., the gross elements, the organs of action, the senses of perception, the all-powerful Kala (the Time-Spirit) and the doer (the ego). Hail to You as such and hail to You, whose form is not the creation of Maya (Prakrti) ! Even as a piece of iron moves due to (the very presence of) a loadstone, turning its face towards the latter, Your Maya carries on through the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas) the creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe-sought after (by You for the evolution of the Jivas) though not desired (by You for Your own sake)---Yourself remaining a mere looker-on. Hail to You, the Witness of (all that is evolved from) the (three) Gunas as well as of the Karmas (of the various Jivas) ! I bow to that omnipotent Lord who, having assumed the form of the divine Boar, the Cause of the universe, and placing me on the end of Your tusk, emerged, through the entire depth of the Deluge water, from its very bottom, sporting like an elephant after crushing to death in an encounter the demon (Hiranyaksa) who stood (before Him) as a rival elephant."
Thus ends the eighteenth discourse entitled "A description of the terrestrial world" in Book Five of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita..
- The Lord Himself declares in the Bhagavadgita that the performance of sacrifices and the practice of charity and austerities are conducive to purity--- (XVIII 5)
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Professional children’s author and illustrator Erica C. Jones has found a very promising and effective way to empower children to be critical thinkers, analytical people, and competitive in a healthy manner – through colorful and well-illustrated stories courtesy of her company Ready Set Bet early educational books. Apart from using it as a tool to educate and empower young children, she also wishes to make it an opportunity to shed light on pressing issues that bewilder society today, such as senseless crimes that put people at unnecessary risk.
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When you consider opening a first-time or additional credit card there are lots of things to consider. Your current credit score, the APR rate, interest charges, penalty fees and the rewards or benefits that the credit card company is offering you.
While all of these things are important, in fact critical, to choosing the right credit card for you, don’t forget one of the most important things you use your credit card for is shopping.
The following guide will walk you through common shopping styles and help you pick the right set of rewards and guidelines for you when choosing a card.
Are you a brand loyalist?
If you find yourself always buying the same brand jeans, shopping at the same set of stores or traveling on the same airline – you may want to look into the store credit card that the outlet you go to most offers. Usually store credit cards offer a large upfront discount when you sign up and then grant you annual perks like additional coupons at the store you frequent. It may also come with free upgrades or free shipping. This is a good option for a second or a third credit card. It’s rare that restaurants and other places take store credit cards.
Are you a bargain hunter?
If you choose your OJ by which is 2 cents cheaper instead of taste, if you are constantly cutting coupons or seeking out the best deal then you are most likely a bargain hunter. The best kind of credit card for this shopper type is one of the major card carriers or banks. A card that lets you shop at a variety of places and earn cash back on your bill or get discounts at a variety of stores. Remember just because you are saving money – you are still spending it. Don’t forget to pay your balance each month or all of those savings will turn into money you owe the credit card company. Some rewards cards even restrict discounts for cardholders that don’t pay their bills on time.
Are you a saver?
Do you always pay your bill on time? Do you only use your credit card in case of emergencies? If you are not using your credit card regularly you want to make sure that your card does not charge you any fees for not using it. Look for a card that rewards shoppers for paying the full balance on time. You will also want to check how long a card can go unused before you need to reactivate it.
Are you a social shopper?
Do you like telling your friends about what you buy and sharing coupons? Several major credit card companies, including America Express, have begun using social programs to reward their cardholders with special discounts to share. Consider signing up for a card that will let you interact on Facebook or Twitter in order to earn reward points. If it is something that comes naturally to you, you might as well earn reward points while you do it. | <urn:uuid:eacb6e3d-cbf6-4eb0-a053-995ac3f64618> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.credit-land.com/research/guides/cardholder-benefits/guide-to-choosing-a-credit-card-based-on-your-shopping-style-1423.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959103 | 597 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Basic Elements of Music
The elements of music can be broken down into three general categories: rhythm, harmony, and melody. Each of these categories has a number of subcategories which I will define below. I have also added some recorded audio examples. Just click to load them as you go.
As a general category, rhythm refers to all the time-based aspects of music. Let’s examine the common elements of rhythm and how it relates to bass playing…
Beat refers to the underlying pulse of the music. Most music has a steady, recurring beat to it. When you listen to music, you might be inclined to tap your foot to the beat.
One of your biggest responsibilities as a bass player is to maintain the consistent pulse of the music, or help keep the beat.
Here's an example of the bass and drums creating a steady beat:
Meter refers to how the pulse, or beat, of the music is divided and counted. Commonly, music is divided into repeated groups of 4 beats counted 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4…and so on. Many other meters are possible. It’s possible to count in 3, 5, 12, or any other number of beats. Some meters are more common than others.
As a bassist, your basslines will help define the meter of the music. Defining where beat 1 occurs helps people to feel the meter. Often several musicians as a group do this, but you should be able to define the meter all on your own.
Without a reference, you can't tell what the meter is:
By punctuating or defining beat 1 every 4 beats, you create a pulse in "4":
By punctuating or defining beat 1 every 3 beats, you create a pulse in "3":
Tempo refers to the pace of the music, or how fast or slow the beat of the music is.
Bass players, as well as all of the other musicians, maintain the tempo by not speeding up or slowing down the music as it is played.
A slow tempo:
A fast tempo:
Rhythm, in a specific sense, refers to when and for how long individual musical events occur. A musical event could be all sorts of things – a single note, a group of notes, a percussive sound like a drum, or even silence. Rhythm is about when to start and stop these musical events. The when of a musical event is called attack. The how long of a musical event is called duration.
There are many different rhythms and combinations of rhythms. Rhythms have different names, such as half note, quarter note, and eighth note, which indicate their duration. This will be explained in later lessons.
A large part of playing the bass revolves around rhythm, and will be a lot of what you study and practice.
A simple rhythm may sound like:
A more complex rhythm on a similar idea may sound like:
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Deanna Jarvis, the 19-year-old first-year student on our cover, says she knows the University of Guelph is the right place for her. She’s just not sure why. Maybe it’s the gold and red leaves that litter the campus in the fall. She could never live in a concrete jungle, she says. Perhaps it’s that Guelph offers a rare major (adult development, families and wellbeing) that will teach her how to help people. “I just like to listen to friends and help them,” she says. Or maybe it’s that Guelph is a big enough school to keep famous playwrights like Judith Thompson on staff. Jarvis, a parttime actor, is a huge Thompson fan. Whatever the reason, Guelph just seems to fit.
Parents, students, university presidents and even education marketers are trying to nail down exactly what makes a school fit. Traditionally, school size and city size were the shorthand for determining where a particular student should go. Big schools offer more cultural opportunities; tiny schools offer more personal interaction, or so the theory goes. Those rules still apply, but sociologist James Côté, of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., has found another predictor for what he calls the “goodness of fit.” His research found students do best when their inner motivations match what the environment has to offer.
Tom Traves, president of Dalhousie University, agrees that students should look inward to determine the best school for them. “For some students it will be a small, intimate, collegial environment,” says Traves. “For other students, their personalities will be sufficiently expansive and their strength of purpose and needs will be such that going to a small environment will be too much like an extension of high school.”
Côté would agree, but says university officials are not the only people to ask. “You’ll have to do the digging yourself,” he says. Some “universities don’t want to alienate prospective students who aren’t the right fit,” he explains. “Because they’re funded by tuition and the number of bums in seats.”
Assuming they’re not going to university because of parental pressure, most students have one of three motivations, according to Côté: the “personal and intellectual” motivation, the “career and materialism” motivation, or the “humanitarian” motivation.
For the student whose goal is to develop personally and intellectually, a small liberalarts oriented school is best, he says. “A good liberal arts education really requires smaller class sizes, so you can have seminars and contact with faculty,” he explains. “You’ll also be required to do more public speaking and writing. A large school simply can’t do this.” St. Francis Xavier in Antigonish, N.S., and Quest University in Squamish, B.C., are examples of schools where students seeking personal and intellectual growth will find it, he says.
Large, reputable schools like McGill and the University of Toronto fit students who are personally and intellectually motivated, says Côté, but be sure “you’re outgoing or able to work on your own.” Students who choose the school primarily for its reputation, says Côté, need to remember that “they may never see any of the profs that make those schools famous.”
The second type of student, the “careeristmaterialist,” is someone who wants a degree mainly for the job and prestige. “The careeristmaterialist might fit at schools that are vocationally oriented,” says Côté. “We’re going that direction at Western,” he says, giving the example of the increasing popularity of degrees like the bachelor of management and organizational studies over the traditional broad B.A.
The third (and more rare) motivation to study is altruism. Côté offers King’s University College (a Western affiliate) as a good fit for the “humanitarianism-motivated” student, because of its social justice focus.
Ken Steele, an education marketing expert, agrees with Côté that universities themselves are unlikely to help you determine fit. Most universities are still trying to be “everything to everyone,” he says. However, he has seen a few encouraging examples of schools that are marketing with “goodness of fit” in mind. “Acadia [in Wolfville, N.S.] actually says it’s not for everyone,” explains Steele. “They want students to know they’re coming to a small town and that’s going to be a shock for some of them.”
William Barker, president of the University of King’s College in Halifax (an even smaller school than Acadia), suggests visiting as many schools as possible, sitting in on lectures, and staying overnight with a friend.
That’s advice Côté wants parents to hear. He says more parents should encourage their offspring to explore far and wide; too often they encourage offspring to choose the closest school to home in order to save money. “You may save a lot financially in the short run, but you will have lost in the long run,” he says. If a person fails at university because it’s the wrong fit, they risk losing millions of dollars in lifetime earnings, he explains—and it’s not a cheap investment. “If parents were forking out this kind of money in the stock market or real estate, they’d look at it much more carefully,” says Côté.
Of course, not everyone can afford to fly around the country to research each school. That’s why Maclean’s asked successful students from four schools exactly what makes their university the right fit for them. Their answers prove just how important it is for future students to ask themselves who they are and why they want a degree. Why? Just ask Côté. “If you don’t develop goals of what you want to get out of university, you potentially squander the most transformative experience of your life.”
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Big School, big city: University of Toronto
Emily Kellogg is in her last year of a book and media arts and philosophy double degree. She’s from Pebble Beach, Calif.
Why did you choose U of T?
“I’m one of those people who always dreamt of living in New York,” says Kellogg, explaining that she enjoys the fact that eastern cities have four seasons, unlike California. “I chose
U of T because I wanted to be at a big school in a major city in the East and I couldn’t afford to go to NYU.”
Was it the right choice?
“I knew I’d made the right decision at my first Nuit Blanche,” says the arts editor of U of T’s student newspaper, the Varsity. “Seeing art everywhere and having the city vibrating at 4 a.m. was so exciting.” Kellogg also loves being able to walk to literary, music and art events right after class. “I can walk to Queen Street and go art-gallery hopping or I can go to the Horseshoe and see an amazing band for $8. Plus, all the big bands come here. I really enjoyed the Arcade Fire concert on the island this summer.”
What are the drawbacks of a big school?
“When you’re in a class of 500 people, professors don’t care. They don’t have time to care. Unless you’re a keener and go to office hours, you’re probably not even going to meet your professors. A lot of my friends from first year dropped out.”
Was it hard to meet people?
“U of T is separated into groups. If you’re an arts student you might never meet any engineers, or vice versa. The scenes are based on your program and are very set.” But, “despite how big U of T can be, you don’t seem to meet anyone who isn’t already friends with two of your friends on Facebook.”
What about course variety?
“Last year I took “Special Topics in Translation Theory,” which looks at what’s lost in changing something from, say, Russian to English. I don’t know if I’d find that course at a smaller school.”
Describe the atmosphere.
“I feel like here, I live my life first and then I’m also taking classes. At another school, it’s like, when you’re in school, you’re in school. You’re in the university bubble.”
Has it helped you plan your career?
“You’re meeting people who are actually doing the things you want to do,” says Kellogg, noting that some of her writerly friends have already seen their work in national publications. “I want to go on to publishing and I can do it here with the connections I’ve made while at U of T. I don’t have to move.”
Big school, small city: University of Saskatchewan
Ishmael Napoleon Daro is a fourth-year political science student. Originally from Afghanistan, he grew up in Saskatoon
Why did you choose Saskatchewan?
“Basically, geography. I have a safety net with family around and friends.”
What’s campus like?
“The U of S is one of the better-looking campuses we have in Canada,” says Daro. “The buildings all have a stone finish that gives them the same sort of look. Even when they build a new building, they’ll still have the stonework done to make the whole campus look consistent. It’s beautiful.”
How are the people?
“It’s mostly local people. You do get a lot of Albertans from Calgary, Edmonton or some of the smaller towns, but it does feel like a very Saskatchewan university.” However, he doesn’t mind being surrounded by prairie folk. “I don’t imagine that people in other cities are so freakish or terribly interesting that I’m missing out.”
How’s the music scene in Saskatoon?
“Pretty vibrant, considering the size of the city. We do get to see a lot of great bands,” says the indie radio DJ. “But occasionally, I see a band’s concert schedule and they’ll have a date in Winnipeg and a date in Calgary. That’s frustrating.”
Is there a university bubble?
“Once you’re on campus, you might eat on campus, go to the gym on campus, plus your classes, and the groups you’re involved with, are on campus,” says Daro. He can’t always
escape his fellow students at home either. “I live on Broadway, which is still very much a student-dominated neighbourhood. So I go from school to home and even if I go to a restaurant, it’s all students. It leads to feeling isolated from the larger city.”
How is course selection?
“I always manage to find interesting classes here,” says Daro. “One that stands out for me is the philosophy of sexuality class, which looked at the works of major philosophers through what they think about sex, rather than freedom or democracy,” says Daro. “Here’s an example. Kant talked about categorical imperative. Sexually, he’d say you could never just use someone for their utilitarian value. Every sexual encounter would have to be for pure reasons, rather than for selfish reasons.”
Small school, small city: University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George B.C.
Shelby Petersen is a fourth-year political science student from Prince George, B.C. She edits the school paper.
What’s Prince George like?
“A lot of people coming to UNBC are from smaller towns of, like, 1,000. You get some of that city feeling, but also the community feel.”
Is there stuff to do?
“It’s small, but Prince George has got lots of local venues and independent bands,” says the music fan. “Dan Mangan was here recently. We also have Coldsnap, a winter music festival. I saw Joel Plaskett last year. It was awesome.”
How are your professors?
“Everyone in my program is on a first-name basis with professors. My American politics professor invited us all to join him at the campus pub to watch the American mid-term election results roll in. Plus, you have the same teachers throughout the degree. You get to know them, which is good for reference letters.”
Ever wish you were in a bigger city?
“Only in terms of shopping. We’ve just got a lot of strip malls and they don’t have clothes targeted at younger, hipper students.” Petersen stocks up when she travels. “The last time I went to Edmonton I went straight to H&M and Forever 21.”
What’s housing like off campus?
“On 15th Avenue, there are about 50 apartment buildings. They’re inexpensive but well-kept. I live in a two-bedroom and we pay only pay $720 [$310 each] per month. That’s the going rate here!”
What’s special about small schools?
“The community takes care of each other. There was a really large Halloween party and I thought I couldn’t go because I didn’t get a ticket in time,” says Petersen. “But then a friend asked another friend and I randomly got a ticket from a stranger.”
Small school, small town: St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish N.S.
Sean McEvoy is a first-year business administration student from Quispamsis, N.B. He plans to be a lawyer.
Why did you choose a school in a small town?
“I grew up in a town about the same size as Antigonish,” says McEvoy. “I like the familiarity of knowing where everything is. When I first visited here, I noticed everybody smiles at you. I’ve heard stories about Halifax and the crime rate, but there have never been any major issues with crime in Antigonish, so I feel really safe here.”
What’s the small campus like?
“I can get anywhere in 10 minutes or less. You can walk everywhere. I’ve woken up 10 minutes before class and I still managed to get there in time.”
Is there anything to do after class?
“We’ve got two bars, one on campus and one downtown. We’ve got a lot of clubs and societies within St. FX. There’s also a movie theatre
How do you get home from the bar?
“I’m 18. But there are taxis. The student union also has a service where they’ll pick you up at the bar and they’ll drive you back home or to residence.”
Will you be prepared if you ever have to live in the big city?
“I want to go into law afterwards. Dal [Dalhousie in Halifax] is probably the closest law school. I have a lot of friends who go there, so they can prepare me for what a big city is like.”
How’s the relationship with the locals?
“I didn’t realize how much the town revolves around the school until I got here. At homecoming you see the whole town get decked out in St. FX stuff. The big deal here coming up is X-ring.” X-ring is when the graduates get their St. FX rings and the whole town celebrates, he explains. “Walking around town, you see countdown signs that say, ‘30 days till X-ring’ and stuff like that. The town really supports the school.”
What’s Antigonish like?
“There are just two main streets, but it’s bigger than my hometown,” he says. “My town has just a variety store. Here, there’s a Wal- Mart, a mall, a movie theatre.”
What was your biggest surprise?
“On our first day, our president, Dr. [Sean] Riley, spent time with every student. He came down to me and shook my hand. He wanted to know where I’m from. He wanted to know about my town, what my interests are, what I plan to do with my degree. The dean also got to know my name and made some recommendations for courses and wished me luck on the first day. Then, later in the week, we all had meetings with him in small groups of maybe 10 and he asked everyone, ‘What are you trying to do with your career?’ I feel like I’m an actual person here, not a number.” | <urn:uuid:17ed3266-2333-497c-9cc6-149add730ce3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/where-do-i-belong-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965772 | 3,781 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The Austrian Beef Cattle Breeders Association was founded in 1995.
Our primary tasks are:
- Representation of beef cattle breeders at a national and international level
- Breeding programs of following breeds: Angus, Aubrac, Blonde d’Aquitaine, Charolais, Dexter, Fleckvieh-Simmental, Galloway, Highland Cattle, Limousin, Piedmontese, Salers, Wagyu and Dwarf Zebu
- Coordination among the regional breeding organizations
- Organization of the National beef cattle show
8 regional breeding organizations are members of Fleischrinder Austria. Those organizations are responsible for the support of the breeders (e.g. evaluation of bulls and cows, herd-book keeping).
6 breeding clubs are associated members of Fleischrinder Austria.
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The Eastern Gray Squirrel is the most common squirrel that is seen from coast to coast report NJ pest control professionals. They have two breeding seasons per year, from December through February and again from May through June. Their litters can range in size depending on the time of year that they are born.
Squirrels are very successful and adaptable creatures. They are known to travel for miles looking for a good source of food. Once discovered, they will build a new nesting site. Preferring to build their nest high among the treetops, when none are available, squirrels will look for the next highest location to live in…an attic.
Squirrels can enter your attic looking for a place to nest at any time of the year. Because of the sharp claws they are able to work their way into small breaches that may go unnoticed by a homeowner. Squirrels enter attics through tiny gaps in vents, holes in roofs, soffits that are in disrepair, and the eaves of homes.
Homeowners who notice strange noises in the attic or scampering across their ceiling may have an uninvited guest in their attic. Once one squirrel enters a home, it does not take long for others to join in the fun. Squirrels will use the attic as a storage hub for their winter stockpile of nuts and berries. Other creatures like skunks, opossums, mice, and rats, as well as insect pests, are also attracted to their food and will come in droves if discovered.
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Squirrels are cute, but they are not the brightest critter in your backyard. In fact, a squirrel’s brain is about the size of a walnut. New Jersey pest control professionals find that squirrels are quite territorial. They tend to distinctly mark their territory by urinating, chewing holes, and leaving chew marks for other squirrels to see.
Many New Jersey residents have found that do-it-yourself methods that attempt to keep squirrels out of their home was completely futile. Adding additional boarding to locations where squirrels have already gained entry will not keep squirrels out. Their strong teeth and nimble climbing ability allows them to be able to slip in and out of any type of location with the greatest of ease.
You don’t need to worry about squirrels that are rambling through your yard, but you do need to take notice of aggressive “marking” signs that occur on or near your home. These signs are an indication that a squirrel will soon be calling your home…theirs! Here’s what to look for…
• On the roof…look for roof shingles that are stained with urine.
• In trees near the home…Look for chew marks left on trees.
• Anywhere on the interior or exterior of the home: Look for chew marks on electrical wiring. This can be a very dangerous situation due to potential fire risks!
Like many other types of rodents, squirrels are always working to keep their front incisors in tip-top shape so they will not hesitate to chew on any substance to sharpen their ever- growing teeth.
A New Jersey pest control professional will be able to find the best solution to rid your home of pesky squirrels. Call Stern Environmental Group for expert services in New Jersey and New York. We specialize in humane squirrel removal services.
Squirrels are cleaver critters. They are fun outdoors as they romp around and scurry up a tree but the problem comes when they decide that your home would make a suitable home for their family.
Squirrels are well-known for their ability to gain access to attic areas of homes. Because of their small size, ability to climb with ease, and graceful agility, squirrels are a difficult pest to keep outdoors. Despite their fear of humans and pets, squirrels are perfectly happy living in the attic of your home! Attics provide the perfect shelter area for squirrels and plenty of space for a female squirrel that is looking for a place to raise a young family.
Squirrels often gain access to the attic via the roof. Depending on the type of roof you have, squirrels may chew or claw their way into the attic area. Squirrels are excellent jumpers. You can help prevent squirrels from gaining access to the roof by keeping tree branches trimmed back at least eight feet from the roof. Squirrels also gain access to the attic via the attic venting units. To keep squirrels out, it is important to cover any attic holes with heavy gage wire screen. Be sure to attach the screening on all corners as well as in the middle section so that squirrels cannot shimmy their way in between.
Squirrels that have made an attic their home will cause serious and costly damage to New Jersey homeowners report NJ pest control experts. Squirrel feces and urine carry bacteria that are dangerous to humans, so it must be carefully removed from the premises. Squirrel fecal matter is an open invitation to other squirrels to enter the attic as well. Like other rodents, squirrels constantly gnaw on a variety of substances to ground down their oversized teeth. This constant gnawing has resulted in electrical wires being chewed and exposed, and at times, serious fires have erupted.
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Personally, I think that squirrels are cute. They frolic through the yard without a care in the world. I found a baby squirrel that was lost or abandoned by its mother a few years back. That baby was soft as silk and sweet as can be. A short time of rehabilitation and it was ready to live in the wild once again.
Here’s an interesting fact…the Eastern Gray Squirrel is listed as one of the Top 100 Invasive Species in the world by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG). How can a critter that looks so sweet be considered “invasive” you might ask?…probably for a variety of reasons!
The Eastern Gray Squirrel has been successfully thriving from coast to coast in all types of environments in Northern America report New Jersey pest control professionals.
Because of their ability to multiply and expand their horizons, and the damage that they cause to crops, landscaping, as well as all types of structures, the Eastern Gray Squirrel is feared in some parts of Canada. About 100 years ago, the Eastern Gray Squirrel was introduced from the United States to Stanley Park in Vancouver Park in Vancouver, BC. Since then, the squirrels have spread throughout the region, and entomologists and wildlife professionals are concerned about the impact that the squirrels have already caused as well as what they will cause over time.
The problem with squirrels is that they are one of the most destructive pests once they enter into your home. NJ pest control professionals report that once squirrels make their way indoors and make a nesting site, they are unlikely to leave on their own. Sealing up entryways while the squirrels are out searching for food each day may help, but squirrels have strong claws and teeth that enable them to rip and chew their way through many types of material. Because of their constant need to file down their continually growing teeth, squirrels constantly gnaw on items. Squirrels have been known to cause electrical wire damage which has caused fires in homes and businesses.
If your home becomes infested by squirrels it is time to call a New York or New Jersey pest control professional. Stern Environmental Group has experience with humanly capturing wild animals from homes and businesses in New York and New Jersey.
When squirrels invade your attic or any other place in your home, you have a major problem on your hands say New Jersey pest control professionals. Squirrels may look cute and cuddly with their fluffy tails, pointy nose, and long eyelashes, but in reality, they are a troublesome pest once they decide that your home is good enough to be their home.
Preventing a squirrel invasion in our New Jersey home can be a difficult task. Squirrels are cleaver critters that use low lying branches from trees to gain access to the roof. Once on the roof, squirrels will often gain access to the attic by entering through a breach in the attic vent area. They have even been known to use their strong claws or teeth to break attic vents to gain access. Squirrels, being the nimble creatures that they are, can easily travel along the gutters and swing their body around under the eve of a home and slip inside under the soffits. Once they have gained access to your home, that’s when the real trouble begins.
Squirrels choose human habitats for the same reasons that people do…food sources, water, and shelter from the weather. Once they find a suitable location, they will not leave on their own accord. In fact, squirrels will continue to return to their nesting location year after year once the nesting site has been established.
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As a trainer, I often get this question from my clients with children. Is it ok to bring my puppy to the soccer game? When he’s there all he does is jump on people and try to nip them and it’s hard to manage. Should I just keep bringing him until he grows out of it?
Before considering bringing your pup to a social event, here are some things to think about:
- Make sure your dog has the right temperament for a kids’ event. This includes being super social with people (and possibly other dogs), tolerant to loud noises and shouts, tolerant to appropriate & inappropriate petting (kids are often the worst offenders of this), and no history of aggression.
- Make sure your dog is ready for a kids’ sporting event. Bringing a puppy or an adult dog new to your home to a very public event can be quite overwhelming. Wait until you really know your dog well (often at least six months) before expecting nice behavior in public.
- Train them to behave without the distractions
For Wilson (pictured), his family would like to take him to games so we worked on a “go to bed” cue on empty bleachers. We will build up to working him at an actual game, but for now we have to get the desired behavior (go to bed and sit or lie down) without distractions present.
We also worked on his default behavior for when I sit on a bench / bleachers is for him to sit as well.
It sounds simple, but if you want good behavior in public, you have to train in public. Find an empty field and start training!
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Differential – Front and Rear
The differential is a gearbox located between the drive wheels on your vehicle. Most four-wheel drive vehicles have both a front and rear differential. Differentials work with your transmission to deliver power from your engine to the axle that turns your wheels.
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Lubricating fluid inside the differential transfers heat away from the gears, helping to preserve the life and performance of your differential. Over time though, operating temperatures and wear can cause the fluid to break down. When the fluid breaks down, becomes contaminated or leaks occur, the gears inside may not work smoothly because of increased friction and heat. If the gears start to grind, continued driving can cause costly repairs.
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The differential also makes turning possible. The outside wheels of your vehicle must rotate faster than the inside wheels when turning. Using a series of gears, the differential allows each side to turn at different speeds, enabling better vehicle control.
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Warning: possible triggering content. This post deals with suicide.
We lost two high profile individuals by suicide in the last couple weeks. But there are thousands of people who will die by suicide today who we won’t hear about on TV. Those people mattered too. There are millions more who are suffering from the pain of mental illness in silence.
I was struck by something a colleague said to me, “we’re talking publicly about mental illness now, but we still don’t know how to help”. It’s true. We are talking about mental illness more; suicide even. But many of us, including me, are still sometimes unsure about how best to help a person in distress, or a person in pain who doesn’t want help. I don’t want to offer trite advice to them. I sometimes don’t want to say “it’ll get better” – that seems so vapid and ineffectual.
When I was suicidal, I could barely hear what people were saying to me. Literally, it’s like my brain couldn’t untangle the meaning of their words. And I was SO uncomfortable in my own skin. But frankly, most times it did help when someone told me it would get better or at least it would pass. Just having someone present, and willing to sit with me made a difference. Because eventually it did get better. Eventually it did pass.
Before I go further, I want to add many people, particularly families, do everything they can to help their loved one. Parents, siblings, relatives and friends reach out in every possible way. Sometimes it’s enough. Sometimes, tragically, it’s not. That’s the reality. And the result is tragedy for everyone involved. If you’ve experienced that, I don’t have the words to adequately express my feelings. ‘I’m so sorry’ seems empty, but it’s all I have. This post is not meant as a panacea or about saying you should have done more. Not. At. All.
It’s meant to offer some resources and perhaps some guidance for those unsure what to do or for those in pain.
If you are suffering:
Know this: YOU matter. If you feel like no one cares, NOT true. I care. I don’t care what your mind is telling you. Please reach out. Please talk to someone.
If you don’t have people to speak to or you don’t want to call people you know, call a distress line. That’s what I did. There were times when I couldn’t stomach the idea of admitting how I felt to someone who knew me. So I called our local crisis line where I could remain anonymous. It helped. It did. Click here for crisis line numbers.
If you can’t bear the thought of talking with a person please look at http://unsuicide.wikispaces.com for online suicide prevention help.
If you are suicidal:
If you think someone you know might be suffering:
Please reach out to them – even if you don’t know what to say or how to say it. When I was in pain it was so difficult to share how desperate I was feeling. You might save a life. Ask. Tell them you care. Talk to them. Call them.
My fellow Psychology Today blogger Deb Serani offers excellent suggestions in this Psych Central blog interview on Psych Central about how to be there for someone in emotional pain.
Please also visit my website for a downloadable Mental Health Resource e-guide.
This post from Dr. Sandra Hamilton offers further tips.
When I was struggling, my friend Kerry would have me over for a bowl of borscht soup with fat dollops of sour cream. We’d just sit there, slurping soup. We munched on these heavenly white doughy buns and had deceptively uneventful conversations. But having him there, willing to be with me while I felt like I was in a dark hole gave me reason to hang on until the shadows passed.
His presence helped me feel connected to Life and to be honest, to Love. That was more important than anything he said or did. Don’t underestimate the power of your presence.
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You have to understand what happens when a pointer is created. When created and not explicitly initialized (case 2: FILE *file_out; ), the pointer is created, the memory space is allocated, but most importantly, the memory's contents will be whatever garbage data was there when the pointer was created! This means that if there's a way that the pointer can be used before it is explicitly assigned to a file (or whatever data type it is)in later code, it contains garbage data that the program will treat as an address at runtime. This can lead to a seg fault (best case), or will access some memory within the program's memory space that is not valid and may possibly corrupt some data with no indication that anything went wrong (worst case). In other words, the behavior is unpredictable.
If, however, a pointer is set to null when created (case 1), the system will explicitly see that it is null and will not access a random memory location based on the garbage data in the pointer's physical memory. That's why it's best practice to assign a pointer to NULL or to an active memory location immediately upon creation.
It's also best practice to initialize the pointer immediately upon creation. For example,
FILE *file_out = fopen("myfile.txt","r");
The bottom line: One should always initialize a pointer when it's created, either with NULL or a valid memory address or function call like fopen() or malloc().
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This is an advance preview from New Perspectives on China’s Relations with the World: National, Transnational and International (forthcoming ).. On China’s map of the world, the space least charted is the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It lies the farthest from Beijing and the acquaintance of one with the other was historically limited. Latin American scholars have a long history of applying political economy frameworks to analyze our natural resource industries. Most of this work has focused on how oil and mining have shaped power relations in the region. But until now, few books have tackled the soybean boom and its interplay with civil society in South : Juan Nagel.
In an increasingly globalized world, inequality is an issue of rising concern, especially in Latin America, home to many of the world's most unequal societies. This new book, co-published by the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue, describes the links between recent growth trends, changing patterns of inequality, and rising cynicism . Although income inequality has fallen in recent years, Latin America remains the most unequal region in the world. In the richest 10% of people in Latin America had amassed 71% of the region’s wealth. If this trend continues, according to Oxfam’s calculations, in just six years’ time the richest 1% in the region will have accumulated.
Export what Castro learned in Bogotá: in Latin America, revolutionary violence produces not a radical form of democracy but the only possible form of democracy. The lesson of violence immediately reflected upon the United States, where, for many, the foundational revolution had erected the enforcement of property rights and its corollary. Introduction: The Political Economy of Crony Capitalism S ince the Asian economic collapse of scholars and policy-makers have grown increasingly interested in the phenomenon of crony capitalism. Indeed, much of the surprisingly rapid meltdown of the East Asian economies is often attributed to widespread cro-nyism.
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Santiso's account of this emerging transformation describes Latin America at a crossroads. Beginning inelections in Brazil, Mexico, and elsewhere may signal whether Latin America will decisively choose the political economy of the possible over the political economy of the by: He is the author of Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (MIT Press, ).
Reviews This book is a refreshing look at Latin America and will be encouraging to those who fear those countries are turning too for to the left, or for anyone who wishes to see how the land of magical.
Santiso's Political Economy of the Possible is a refreshing and insightful book, a must-read for academic experts and policy makers interested in understanding the development trajectory of 3/5. Get this from a library. Latin America's political economy of the possible: beyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers.
[Javier Santiso] -- "Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political. Despite all the handwringing over faltering reforms and resurgent radicalism in Latin America, the real story in the region may be considerably more hopeful.
A new breed of policymaker, focused on modest ends and committed to pragmatic means, has largely replaced the grandiose right- and left-wing ideologues of old. Latin America as a region has multiple nation-states, with varying levels of economic complexity. The Latin American economy is an export-based economy consisting of individual countries in the geographical regions of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
The socioeconomic patterns of what is now called Latin America were set in the colonial era when. So, in a nutshell, can you tell us how the world’s political economy does actually work.
Well, it doesn’t work according to the textbooks. If you look at economic textbooks, the whole world is meant to work according to the logic of differential calculus; there are these reciprocal relationships – one side goes up and one side goes down.
Admired, followed, criticized, denounced, and rediscovered, “The Development of Underdevelopment” deserves a place among the key documents of postwar radical political economy. More than fifty years on, its ideas still illuminate aspects of recent struggles and shortcomings among left-of-center governments in Latin America.
I am a Latin America focused political analyst and writer. I split my time between New York City and Mexico City. My book, Searching For Modern Mexico, was published in Author: Nathaniel Parish Flannery. Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America is a book of essays that explore the important question of how, when and why institutions — the rules and regulations that permit and bound economic behavior — matter in the process of economic growth and development.
There is widespread agreement among social scientists that. Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French are predominantly is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America in categorizing the New term comes from the fact that the predominant languages of the countries originated with the Countries: Latin (lingua latīna, IPA: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European was originally spoken in the area around Rome, known as Latium.
Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in Italy, and subsequently throughout the western Roman has contributed many words to the Ethnicity: Latins. Latin America's industrialization was kick-started by an endogenous process of economic development, the roots of which were found in the growth of the so-called export economy.
Over time, governments played larger roles in the process of industrial by: In the book, Galeano analyzes the history of the Americas as a whole, from the time period of the European settlement of the New World to contemporary Latin America, describing the effects of European and later United States economic exploitation and political dominance over the region.
The Library Journal review stated, "Well written and passionately stated, this is an Author: Eduardo Galeano. As a kid, I always enjoyed reading sci-fi – reading about other cultures, new places, and the technological innovations that made getting to these worlds possible. When I started studying Latin America, though, I started wondering what critic.
The Quality of Democracies in Latin America Current political discourse in a market economy and society. Social changes condition institutional development. There is no question that the position of women expected to continue with a mix of possible outcomes.
In this essay, l examine Cesar Chavez’s thoughts on the effects of Mexican immigration on the United States. I argue that neo-nativist authors are wrong in thinking that a growing Latino population will develop into a distinct political bloc that will destabilize the nation.
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism Fernwood Publishing and Zed Books, reviewed by Richard Fidler. Latin America was the first region targeted by the neoliberal phase of capitalism, and it suffered some of its worst consequences.
Rather, it is possible to describe some elements that help to understand the political and social dynamics of the country. From the seventies and then in the eighties, a profound modernizing process was initiated that included opening the economy and competition, freeing prices, reducing the size of the public sector, and designing a political.
'This path-breaking book is a must-read that will reshape the discussion of Latin American politics and social policy more generally.
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National Centre for Reflective Practice
Reflective practice is defined as the ability to reflect on one’s actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning.
MB3 is the perfect place to do just that. It’s calm and peaceful: a safe space to participate in workshops, events and experiences; to talk through difficulties in your professional life; to allow yourself to play and try new skills.
The environment at MB3, together with our expertise, will allow you and your team to slow down and be yourselves and to leave with extra tools and skills to take back to your everyday environments.
Reflect, Experience and Act (REA’s)
These are bespoke 2 day experiential training for those working within a reflective and therapeutic environment. This training allows you to be with your teams to work specifically to create greater team awareness and performance in relation to multi-disciplinary work.
Our ‘Reflect, Experience, Act’ training timetable offers you the opportunity for reflection on your work and role in your own ‘facilitated’ temporary learning community.
For more information please get in touch by emailing [email protected].
The Living Learning Experience (LLE) & Therapeutic Environments Practitioners Course (TCEPT)
MB3 is the ideal place for learning & professional development. It is the perfect environment for a safe and enjoyable experience that you can fully immerse yourself in. We hold many courses here however our main two courses are our LLE & TCEPT course.
The LLE is a 2 day intensive experiential residential experience. During this experience participants explore working closely with others and learn how to use relationships effectively in clinical practice. Join us at our stunning MB3 site in Toddington, Gloucestershire as you learn about the power of group process in a safe and enjoyable way. Find out more here.
TCEPT is a unique training opportunity for practitioners of all levels in NHS, Criminal Justice Systems, Education & Care sectors. It has been developed by leaders in the field of enabling and therapeutic environments. This training is flexible and can be completed in 1 – 3 years. Find out more here.
The heart of the charity’s practice expertise is The Mulberry Bush School in Standlake, Oxfordshire.
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The Mulberry Bush is committed to research in therapeutic residential and foster care.
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Self-talk is what psychologists refer to as the continual mental dialog you have with yourself. It can serve many purposes. It helps to release stress, evaluate potential threats, solve problems, make decisions, form objective judgments, generate positive emotions and behaviors, and construct and reinforce realistic self-beliefs. Simply stated, sometimes talking to yourself (either silently or out loud) can help you work things out.
“The most influential and frequent voice you hear is your inner-voice. It can work in your favor or against you, depending on what you listen to and act upon.” –Maddy Malhotra
Unfortunately, for many people, their self-talk is fueled by the internal voice of a brutal critic or what psychologist Eugene Sagan calls the pathological critic – the negative inner voice that attacks and judges you. It might sound like your own voice or your mother, father or other influential person in your life. It’s a voice you are so familiar with that you hardly even notice or question it, and consequently find it to be very believable. It sounds completely true when the voice says how inadequate, weak, stupid or unlucky you are.
You can tell your pathological critic is in control when you…
– frequently blame yourself when things go wrong.
– overly emphasize what you “should” or “shouldn’t” do.
– compare yourself to others.
– worry and dwell on “what if” questions.
– set impossible standards for yourself.
– are quick to strongly defend or shut down when given negative feedback.
– frequently criticize others.
– are quick to judge others’ actions as offensive.
– engage in approval-seeking behaviors.
– dwell on your failures and weaknesses.
– call yourself names such as “ugly”, “stupid”, “failure”, and “selfish”.
– believe you can mind-read and are convinced that others find you boring or disgusting.
Unfortunately, being exposed to a daily dose of these and many other destructive messages will severely erode your joy and confidence.
Remember, however, that not every negative “voice” comes from a pathological critic. Negative self-evaluations can be very useful, especially when we think, say, and do things that reflect a lack of integrity, self-control, effort, conscientiousness or consideration. We all need to have an internal monitoring and feedback system (conscience) to help us keep our lives and relationships headed in a healthy direction. The key is to make sure your system is as healthy, impartial and realistic as possible. A pathological critic is one-sided – it only serves to condemn, feed self-doubt, and punish.
How do you silence negative self-talk?
When you have realized that what you’re hearing is not a legitimate matter of conscience, stop and think about what the “voice” is saying to you. Take the time to identify what thoughts or experiences are triggering the harsh criticism and reframe them in the context of reality. We all fail, make mistakes, and lose sometimes. But failing doesn’t make you a permanent failure. Losing isn’t a life sentence – hopefully it is a motivation to prepare better and try again.
Many people have grown up with families that never knew how to express value or appreciation. You may have grown up hearing criticism that was never balanced with praise or encouragement. That is a difficult challenge to overcome, but you can refute negative voices with positive truth. You are a one-of-a-kind package of talents, abilities, strengths and weaknesses. You aren’t good at everything, but you are good at something. Find that “something” and work hard to do it well.
Here’s a key principle: The degree to which your self-talk is realistic, positive, and balanced is the degree to which it will help you build and maintain a healthy self-esteem. Your self-esteem will affect your relationships, attitude and success.
When the pathological critic tries to bring you down, don’t listen. Keep your mind and heart open to the reality of truth, which is saying, “You are valuable!”
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Mergers and Acquisitions
2022 Curriculum CFA Program Level II Corporate Finance
Mergers and AcquisitionsDownload the full reading (PDF)
Available to members
Companies enter into corporate restructuring activities such as mergers and acquisitions for a variety of reasons. Many companies use mergers as a means to achieve growth or gain operational efficiencies. Others seek to acquire unique capabilities or resources, increase market power, or diversify their businesses. In all cases, it is important for both equity and fixed income analysts to understand the motives for mergers and their financial and operational consequences.
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activities involve a variety of complexities and risks. Analysts should assess these factors, including the expected value arising from a proposed business combination relative to deal price, in addition to the likelihood that the combination will take place and the intended results will be achieved. They should also consider actions taken by other shareholders, regulators, market participants, and competitors, in addition to transaction specifics, given the potential impact of all these factors on deal completion and valuation.
Analysts should be able to answer questions such as: Does the proposed transaction make economic sense and align with management’s stated business strategy? How is the transaction being financed, and how will this financing approach affect company financials? How likely is the deal to take place, and what are associated risks? In the case of a hostile bid, does the target company have options to successfully fend off the unwanted bid? What is the anticipated impact for shareholders? Bondholders?
On 5 December 2018, shareholders of Takeda Pharmaceutical, a 237-year-old company and Japan’s largest pharmaceutical firm, approved the acquisition of Shire, a UK-listed, Irish-headquartered drug maker of similar size with an operational base in the United States. Announced in May 2018, the US$62 billion deal was aimed at transforming Takeda into a top 10 global pharmaceutical company with a sizable US footprint. It was the largest deal announced worldwide for 2018.
The deal was also the largest international acquisition ever attempted by a Japanese company. Takeda’s offer consisted of shares and cash. It also involved a US$30 billion increase in balance sheet debt. Takeda’s CEO undertook a nine-month-long campaign to secure the deal. The deal was confirmed in December 2018 with 88% Takeda shareholder approval, despite significant resistance from some Takeda shareholders, including the original Takeda family, who were concerned about the additional risk created by the acquisition.
|September 2016||Takeda’s “Vision 2025” business plan envisions sustaining growth year over year.|
|28 March 2018||Takeda says “considering making an approach to Shire.”|
|6 April||Takeda, Pfizer, and Amgen viewed as likely bidders for Shire.|
|29 March 2018||Takeda initial offer: £44/share, with £16 in cash.|
|11 April||Takeda second offer: £45.5/share, £16.75 cash.|
|13 April||Takeda third offer: £46.5/share, £17.75 cash.|
|14 April||Shire’s board announces it unanimously rejects third offer.|
|20 April||Takeda fourth offer: £47/share, £21 cash.|
|24 April||Takeda fifth offer: £49/share, £21.75 cash.|
|8 May 2018||Shire accepts fifth offer of £49/share, £21.75 cash, valuing deal at US$62 billion.|
|14 May||Takeda announces asset disposals to help fund the acquisition.|
|10 July||US Federal Trade Commission grants regulatory approval for Shire deal.|
|14 September||Chinese regulator approves Shire deal.|
|18 October||Japanese regulator approves Shire deal.|
|20 November||EU regulator approves Shire deal.|
|20 November||Proxy advisors Glass, Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services recommend deal.|
|May–November 2018||Takeda minority shareholders (including Takeda family) lobby against proposed deal, citing increased risk and loss of Japanese “roots.”|
|5 December 2018||Takeda shareholders vote to approve deal.|
|7 January 2019||Takeda CEO announces integration “well underway.”|
|8 January 2019||Deal closes.|
|14 May 2019||CEO announces 43% increase in original cost synergies anticipated from acquisition.|
|December 2019||Takeda’s core earnings margin expected to reach 25%, with long-term earnings margin forecast for 35%, up from an earnings margin of 22% in 2018.|
|March 2020||Takeda sales expected to rise 57% year over year.|
|Projection for 2023||Divestments of US$10 billion expected to stabilize balance sheet, with the expansion of five key businesses including in neuroscience and in treatments for cancer and rare diseases.|
Takeda’s motivations for the deal included the potential for sustainable earnings growth believed to be available through Shire’s products and markets. Takeda was at that time projecting declining profitability from existing products and limited growth in the Japanese market. Additionally, synergies through new product development, earnings diversification, and cost savings were anticipated from the deal. Despite positive expectations, in the nine months between Takeda’s announcement in March 2018 and the time the deal closed, Takeda’s share price dropped 26% while Shire’s rose 33%.
Following increasing offers in value by Takeda, a series of regulatory approvals post–Shire acceptance, and announcements of a divestments program to help fund the acquisition, the deal finally closed in January 2019. By May 2019, Takeda’s management was reporting significant cost savings and projecting major improvements to core earnings margins in the years ahead.
This reading will discuss many of the issues involved in M&A deals, such as form of payment in a merger, legal and contractual issues, and the necessity for regulatory approval. Most importantly, this reading aims to equip you with basic tools and a framework for analyzing such deals. In subsequent sections, we will discuss basic types of M&A, underlying motives, transaction characteristics, governing regulations, and how to evaluate a target company and a proposed merger.
The member should be able to:
classify merger and acquisition (M&A) activities based on forms of integration and relatedness of business activities;
explain common motivations behind M&A activity;
explain bootstrapping of EPS and calculate a company’s post-merger EPS;
explain, based on industry life cycles, the relation between merger motivations and types of mergers;
contrast merger transaction characteristics by form of acquisition, method of payment, and attitude of target management;
distinguish among pre-offer and post-offer takeover defense mechanisms;
compare the discounted cash flow, comparable company, and comparable transaction analyses for valuing a target company, including the advantages and disadvantages of each;
evaluate a takeover bid and its effects on the target shareholders versus the acquirer shareholders;
explain how price and payment method affect the distribution of risks and benefits in M&A transactions;
describe characteristics of M&A transactions that create value;
distinguish among equity carve-outs, spin-offs, split-offs, and liquidation;
explain common reasons for restructuring.
Mergers and acquisitions are complex transactions. The process often involves not only the acquiring and target companies but also a variety of other stakeholders, including competition law regulatory agencies. To fully evaluate a merger, analysts must ask two fundamental questions: First, will the transaction create value; and second, does the acquisition price outweigh the potential benefit? This reading has made the following important points.
An acquisition is the purchase of some portion of one company by another. A merger represents the absorption of one company by another such that only one entity survives following the transaction.
Mergers can be categorized by the form of integration. In a statutory merger, one company is merged into another; in a subsidiary merger, the target becomes a subsidiary of the acquirer; and in a consolidation, both the acquirer and target become part of a newly formed company.
Horizontal mergers occur among peer companies engaged in the same kind of business. Vertical mergers occur among companies along a given value chain. Conglomerates are formed by companies in unrelated businesses.
Merger activity tends to be concentrated in industries undergoing changes, such as deregulation or technological advancement.
The motives for M&A activity include synergy, growth, market power, the acquisition of unique capabilities and resources, diversification, increased earnings, management’s personal incentives, tax considerations, and the possibilities of uncovering hidden value. Cross-border motivations may involve technology transfer, product differentiation, government policy, and the opportunities to serve existing clients abroad.
A merger transaction may take the form of a stock purchase (when the acquirer gives the target company’s shareholders some combination of cash or securities in exchange for shares of the target company’s stock) or an asset purchase (when the acquirer purchases the target company’s assets and payment is made directly to the target company). The decision of which approach to take will affect other aspects of the transaction, such as how approval is obtained, which laws apply, how the liabilities are treated, and how the shareholders and the company are taxed.
The method of payment for a merger can be cash, securities, or a mixed offering with some of both. The exchange ratio in a stock or mixed offering determines the number of shares that stockholders in the target company will receive in exchange for each of their shares in the target company.
Hostile transactions are those opposed by target managers, whereas friendly transactions are endorsed by the target company’s managers. There are a variety of both pre- and post-offer defenses a target can use to ward off an unwanted takeover bid.
Examples of pre-offer defense mechanisms include poison pills and puts, incorporation in a jurisdiction with restrictive takeover laws, staggered boards of directors, restricted voting rights, supermajority voting provisions, fair price amendments, and golden parachutes.
Examples of post-offer defenses include the “just say no” defense, litigation, greenmail, share repurchases, leveraged recapitalization, “crown jewel” defense, Pac-Man® defense, or finding a white knight or a white squire.
Competition law prohibits mergers and acquisitions that impede competition.
Three major tools for valuing a target company are discounted cash flow analysis (which involves discounting free cash flows estimated with pro forma financial statements), comparable company analysis (which estimates a company’s intrinsic value based on relative valuation metrics for similar companies), and comparable transaction analysis (which derives valuation from details of recent takeover transactions for comparable companies).
In a merger bid, the gain to target shareholders is measured as the control premium, which equals the price paid for the target company in excess of its value. The acquirer gains equal the value of any synergies created by the merger minus the premium paid to target shareholders. Together, the bid and the method of payment determine the distribution of risks and returns among acquirer and target shareholders with regard to realization of synergies as well as correct estimation of the target company’s value.
The empirical evidence suggests that merger transactions create value for target company shareholders. Acquirers, in contrast, tend to accrue value in the years following a merger. This finding suggests that synergies are often overestimated or difficult to achieve.
When a company decides to sell, liquidate, or spin off a division or a subsidiary, it is referred to as a divestiture. Companies may divest assets for a variety of reasons, including a change in strategic focus, poor fit of the asset within the corporation, reverse synergy, or cash flow needs.
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The event, organised by Regional Pro-Vice-Provost (Africa & Middle East) Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu and the Global Engagement Office, brought together key academics from UCL working on Africa-relevant research with a view to fostering interdisciplinary work.
A series of lectures focused on healthcare, infrastructure and social questions relevant to a number of African countries. Highlights included:
- Deenan Pillay, Director of the Africa Centre for Population Health, presenting his vision to build the world’s leading global human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis research centre
- How healthcare budgets may be prioritised to achieve the best outcomes for their HIV patients, demonstrated by Jolene Skordis-Worrall of the Institute for Global Health
- Using data from the iSense programme, presented by Rachel McKendry of the London Centre for Nanotechnology, to improve disease diagnosis in rural South African communities
- Yacob Mulugetta of the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) describing innovative methods of bringing energy to households
- Richard Taylor of the Geography department presenting work on improving rural access to water supplies
- Governance issues being highlighted by Michael Walls of the Development Planning Unit, who outlined the electoral challenges facing Somaliland
- Kamna Patel defining the notion of inclusive citizenship; a concept that focuses on the most disadvantaged individuals in any society
- Hélène Neveu Kringelbach giving an insightful presentation on the use of dance as a form of protest
- Details of funding streams available for work in the region from Carlos Huggins of UCL Consultancy.
Attendees networked during a poster session and photographic exhibition that showcased research projects across the university.
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You must be knowing that wisdom teeth are also known as the third molars, the last teeth that grow in your jaw. They are located towards the end of your upper and lower gums, at the back of your mouth. People generally have four wisdom teeth, but you could also have zero. But if your wisdom tooth gets stuck under your gums or does not find enough space to break through the gum – it might be considered as impacted wisdom teeth.
Unfortunately, impacted wisdom teeth are more prone to infection, tooth decay, disease, and other dental problems. In most cases, these teeth appear in late adolescence or early adulthood, more precisely between 17 and 25 years. Wisdom teeth are also referred to as your third set of molars. Do not be surprised; these teeth can vary from zero to four.
When your third molar has grown normally, it becomes a functional element of your oral cavity. On the contrary, there are cases when the eruption is not seamless, and your tooth might become impacted. Read on to know about impacted wisdom teeth and how dentists treat such teeth.
What are Impacted Wisdom Teeth?
The human mouth has 28 teeth, and there is not enough room for all the 32 teeth to include the four wisdom teeth. So if your wisdom teeth do come through, they might cause crowding, infections, swelling, and ear pain.
Due to the change in the jaw structure over the years, the human wisdom teeth do not have sufficient room to grow correctly. They are known as impacted wisdom teeth as they do not fully erupt into the mouth.
Because of lack of space, these teeth can grow in the wrong direction. Some might be seen to come out sideways, at an incorrect angle, or only partially. These scenarios can badly affect your nearby teeth. They may be painful and can also damage the other teeth in the jaw.
Even if no apparent damage occurs, as discussed above, your teeth can become more susceptible to infection and disease. If it remains just under the gum, known as tissue impacted, bacteria can start collecting in the area. This in the long run will give rise to infection.
However, for many, the wisdom teeth will grow and settle down. There is no need for extraction as long as you practice good oral hygiene.
You might need wisdom teeth removal if:
- There is pressure, pain, swelling, and discomfort.
- If it is clear that the teeth will not have room to grow or that they will cause damage to adjacent teeth
- The teeth are partially erupted and decayed. It makes them harder to reach for cleaning.
Symptoms: Impacted Wisdom Teeth
Depending on how your teeth grow, impacted wisdom teeth can have:
- Mesioangular impaction: The tooth is angled towards the front of the mouth.
- Vertical impaction: The tooth does not break through the gum line.
- Distoangular impaction: It is angled towards the back of your mouth.
- Horizontal impaction: It is angled sideways at a full 90 degrees. The tooth will grow into the roots of the molar next to it.
Therefore, your impacted wisdom tooth can cause a range of problems and complications. The overcrowding and pressure on nearby teeth can lead to the general crowding in your mouth. As a result, you might need orthodontic treatments to straighten your crooked teeth.
In another scenario, your wisdom tooth might grow into a sac in the jawbone. This sac is filled with fluid that often crests a cyst. The cyst can be harmful as it damages your jawbone and the nearby teeth and nerves.
The second molar tooth, located next to your wisdom tooth, is often prone to infection if something pushes against it. Even if your impacted teeth have no symptoms, there are chances it may damage other teeth.
An oral infection could lead to bad breath, toothache, earache, headache, and a strange taste in your mouth. In addition, impacted teeth can lead to the swollen jaw, swollen gums, bleeding gums, and other dental complications.
Tips to Relieve Symptoms
To relieve symptoms, you can try the following:
- Use painkillers, and try swallowing them.
- Use a salt water mouthwash. Try warm water with a teaspoon of salt in it, several times a day. This is very effective in reducing inflammation and soreness.
- You can try using an antibacterial mouthwash.
If your pain continues, seek medical attention at the earliest and talk to your dentist.
Common Problems with Impacted Wisdom Teeth
1 Pain – It is the most common symptom. Wisdom tooth pain occurs in most impacted tooth situations. When wisdom teeth start growing waywardly, they often touch your neighboring teeth and their roots. Pain symptoms might spread to the gums around your tooth, which might begin to hurt. You can feel the pain even as far as the jaw.
2 Cleaning Issues and Increased Risk of Infections – Impacted teeth can create problems even before you notice them. Wisdom teeth, due to their position, are harder to clean. Reaching the back of your mouth with a toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss is very difficult.
Moreover, food often gets stuck between your crowded teeth. Bacteria and microbes from this trapped food could cause an infection or a tooth cavity. It could also lead to specific types of conditions like periodontitis and pericoronitis.
3 Increased Risk of Tooth Decay and Cysts – Your teeth at the back will not get cleaned properly. Reasons could be due to improper brushing or due to an unseen bacterial infection. With all these conditions, your teeth will enter the stage of tooth decay.
4 Damage to Nearby Teeth – As you have learned wisdom teeth tend to grow at all different angles. Some might grow straight, causing no issues. Others grow normally, but instead, they grow at an angle or even fully sideways. If your teeth grow crooked, it might cause multiple damages to your mouth. Complications might arise when they push out into the roots of your neighboring healthy teeth. If such a condition happens, you need to visit your dentist or seek professional help.
Impacted Wisdom Teeth vs. Erupted Wisdom Teeth
When your wisdom tooth cuts through the gum and shows up, it is termed an erupted wisdom tooth. At that stage, your teeth have emerged from the gum. The erupted tooth may grow ideally in its position, or it could develop crooked.
When referring to an erupted wisdom tooth, you should note that the tooth has shown on the surface of the skin. It does not matter whether your teeth are correctly placed or not. If your tooth does not emerge properly, it might increase your chances of getting an infection.
On the other hand, when the teeth do not emerge as there is insufficient space, then it is called impacted teeth. Although wisdom teeth develop in most individuals, only a very few of them experience perfect wisdom teeth.
Impacted wisdom teeth, in simple terms, mean that something is inhibiting the emergence of the teeth. The tooth may be caught in your jaw, beneath your gums, or develop wrongly.
Impacted Wisdom Teeth Removal and Treatment
If you already have impacted wisdom teeth that cause symptoms or problems, your dentist is the right person to decide whether to remove them or not. If your wisdom tooth is painful or troublesome; or causing damage to other teeth or the jaw bone, it needs to be taken out. The angle at which your tooth erupts and the extent to which it might push other teeth will decide whether extraction is required. Surgery to remove your wisdom teeth is generally an outpatient procedure. You can go home the same day.
Your oral surgeon or dentist will perform the operation, which is known as wisdom tooth extraction. During the procedure, your doctor might use anesthetic drugs to induce anesthesia like:
- Local anesthesia numbs only your mouth area.
- Sedation anesthesia relax you and blocks the pain.
- General anesthesia makes you fall asleep so that you do not feel anything during the treatment.
Your dentist will make a small incision in your gums and take out the problematic bone before removing the tooth. They will then close the incision with stitches and pack the area with gauze. The entire surgery would only take around 60 minutes.
In a scenario when your teeth are fully impacted and buried deep within your gums or jawbones, it might be more challenging for your surgeon to remove them surgically.
Impacted Wisdom Teeth Extraction – Post Surgery Care
Most individuals can get back to their normal activities a few days after extraction surgery. It usually takes around six weeks for your mouth to heal completely. You should not try to open your mouth for about a week. So try surviving on soft foods.
After surgery, you might experience some bruising, pain, swelling, and bleeding. Your doctor will give you specific instructions for managing your pain and discomfort. It could include taking pain medications and using cold compresses.
Some patients also develop a painful dry socket. This scenario occurs when the blood clot that was supposed to form after surgery does not form properly. A dry socket is a commonly occurring complication following tooth extractions. The condition exposes your bones and nerves to bacteria which might become painful.
The pain can gradually worsen until you might start to feel it in the other places of your face. Dry sockets often lead to a bad taste in your mouth.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's Arab minority and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have raised $10 million in less than a month to build homes for Syrian refugees, according to activists behind the campaign.
"The idea was to collect 100 heaters for 100 houses. Then we found out that people are helping and we have lots of stuff," Ibrahim Khalil, 33, a social activist from the city of Nazareth in northern Israel, said.
For the past six years, Palestinians have been donating food and other essentials to Syrian refugees in the Idlib region bordering Turkey through a non-profit group called Merciful Souls.
But the volume of donations this winter season was unprecedented, the head of the organisation, Raed Badr, said. He believes videos that circulated on social media of children suffering from cold in the snow motivated people to open their pockets.
"One day, I hope they will move us into a home because the rain is drowning our tents," 11-year-old Nada, an orphaned girl living with her grandmother, said in one video.
The plan is to build around 3,000 housing units, Badr said. Construction will also include clinics and schools, based on a model published on the organization's website.
Khalil said organisers hope construction of the homes will be completed in six to eight months.
A call for contributions went viral on social media with the Arabic hashtag "houses instead of tents".
The images of displaced families resonated with Palestinians because they had suffered as refugees living in tents for years, said Khalil, after they were forced from their homes or fled in the war that surrounded Israel's creation in 1948.
The civil war in Syria, which spiralled out of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule in 2011, caused the world's biggest refugee crisis. The war has killed an estimated half a million people and displaced several million more.
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LANDLORD AND TENANT: VITAL SERVICES
In Ontario, the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 requires every landlord to provide adequate and suitable vital services to each of the landlord’s rental units. The monthly rent that residential tenants pay to their landlord can include all utilities or part of them, for instance, hydro. Section 21 of the Residential Tenancies Act confirms that a landlord shall not at any time during a tenant’s occupancy of a rental unit withhold the reasonable supply of any vital service that it is the Landlord’s obligation to supply under the tenancy agreement.
The vital services are the following:
- heat (from September 1st to June 15th: during this period, the minimum temperature is 20oC, however, some local municipal standards may be higher)
- fuel (such as natural gas or oil)
- hot or cold water
A landlord cannot interfere with vital services
A landlord cannot shut off or deliberately interfere with the supply of vital services, or care service, or food that the landlord must provide under a tenancy agreement. However, the landlord is allowed to shut-off services temporarily if this is necessary for maintenance or to make repairs. The landlord is not allowed to cut vital services as a result of non-payment of rent.
If a landlord provides any vital service to a tenant, the landlord cannot withhold the reasonable supply of it. This rule applies even if the tenant’s rent is overdue, or the tenant has caused damage to the property.
If a rental agreement says a tenant must arrange for the supply of one or more of these services (for example, the tenant pays for electricity to a hydro company directly), the landlord cannot deliberately interfere with the supply of those services.
If the supply of a vital service to a rental unit is cut-off because the landlord failed to pay their bills, the landlord will be considered to have withheld the supply of that service. However, if the supply of a vital service is cut-off because the tenant failed to pay their own utility bill, the tenant cannot claim that the landlord withheld a vital service.
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By Eric Christensen, Chief Payments Officer for Digital River
How does BNPL impact consumer health and wealth building activities?
As inflation worries persist, BNPL is becoming a tool for some shoppers to try to fit higher prices into already stretched budgets. It’s not sustainable as a long-term strategy for navigating higher prices, but it could ease the financial pinch in the short term.
For consumers, BNPL could, in some cases, affect their credit score if the provider does more than a soft look up of the consumer’s credit history. Credit bureaus are adding the option to report BNPL financing to track utilization and payment history. In some cases, shoppers can request their repayment history to be shared, which is useful if they are trying to build a credit history. This is particularly useful for younger shoppers who could consider this a way to support larger loan requests in the future, such as an auto loan or even a mortgage.
BNPL is another tool to manage the budget. Generally, consumers are drawn to BNPL as a way to avoid paying interest on an item they might ordinarily use their credit card for. In that context, consumers are saving money, provided they pay their installments on time.
What will the availability of BNPL services in small retail shops like Butchers and Greengrocers mean for their business?
BNPL is popular with merchants as they are made whole quickly, and don’t take on the risk of non-payment. Research is showing that BNPL can increase conversion rates for merchants and increase average order values for online merchants. Groceries are a necessity that people will continue to buy, regardless of whether there is a BNPL option or not. Large grocery chains are already offering BNPL/financing to help stretch family budgets. Education is important in this context because BNPL is still a loan that must be repaid.
How do you think the availability of BNPL in pubs and bars will impact consumers’ financial wellbeing?
It is a financial tool, just as credit cards are a financial tool. BNPL is more or less a reboot of the old layaway programs your parents and grandparents used – with the major difference being you get your purchase now, rather than waiting to pick it up when it’s all paid off.
As with any financial tool involving debt, consumers need to keep track of their overall debt load. Responsible companies and merchants should ensure they are educating consumers about what BNPL is and what it is not. Ultimately, consumers make their own decisions, including whether to take on debt. Consumers already can put their bar tab on a credit card. If they decide to do the same with a BNPL option, they are obligated to account for it in their budget and pay it off, just as they would their credit card.
What happens when consumers default on their BNPL payments?
Consumers could face late payment charges, they might find their BNPL account frozen, and they could also be subject to debt collection. This could have an impact on their credit score. Still, the BNPL space is competitive. Some fintech companies are hoping to attract shoppers by not charging late fees at all, while others are allowing buyers some leeway to move the repayment date to mitigate negative credit payment tracking. That’s great for shoppers, but consumers should always consider BNPL as a debt obligation that should be taken seriously.
Is it possible to abuse BNPL systems?
Fraud is happening for all types of financing. Merchants using BNPL are protected in that fintech absorbs fraud for merchants if all policies are followed. Right now, governments are most concerned about making sure consumers are protected, and some of that is being driven by banks that are losing out on business now going to BNPL providers.
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With interest levels sitting at record lows, this does not look like the most useful time to be hawking high-interest loans. But Kenneth Rees begs to vary. Rees operates Elevate Credit, a fast-growing online finance business in Fort Worth that is utilizing Big Data to issue short-term loans to cash-strapped customers with credit ratings so low they can’t get bank cards.
And that’s lot more folks than you may think. Even though the alleged subprime credit market was once a niche, it is now going mainstream. Rees estimates there are 160 million Us citizens looking for non-prime credit, and their choices have actually narrowed as regulators have actually forced banks to cool off from all of these clients and states cracked straight straight down on payday advances.
He calls this America’s Middle that is new Class. “We genuinely believe that monetary stresses in the American that is average are than they ever have already been,” Rees says. “Half of People in the us are in possession of no cost cost savings, so they’re paycheck that is living paycheck. That is basically unique of the problem twenty years ago.”
Based on Experian, the typical credit rating in america is 669—well underneath the 700 regarded as a standard for snagging the interest rates that are best.
And Texas ranks nearby the base among states for credit ratings, with on average about 650.
“The biggest misconception is the fact that whenever you’re serving non-prime clients, you may be somehow serving odd damaged people. This is certainly actually maybe not the situation,” Rees states. “This is a traditional customer that has faced economic stresses and desires to boost their economic wellness.”
Due to the Web, business owners can more find these customers easily. Elevate Credit is regarded as lots of largely“fintech that is unregulated companies utilizing cutting-edge technology to crunch information from credit records to social networking footprints into automatic underwriting models.
Supported with capital raising from Sequoia Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures in Silicon Valley, Elevate is advertising services and products with catchy names: increase, an installment loan as much as $5,000, and Elastic, a line that is personal of. Interest levels of these non-prime services and products can achieve since high as 176 per cent. The truth is, that’s just half the price of a typical pay day loan, and Elevate states it could fall as little as 36 per cent if their client regularly makes re payments.
In North Richland Hills, Jet Capital is blazing a comparable course with small enterprises. Jet is targeting mom-and-pops with product product product sales which range from $500,000 to $5 million, providing vendor payday loans averaging $25,000, for a normal charge of $8,000 to $10,000. a cousin business, Balance Credit in Irving, is making short-term installment loans with prices in Texas noted on its internet site from 390 to 611 per cent.
Regulators took notice. In March, the customer Financial Protection Bureau announced so it intends to police “online market financing,” encouraging borrowers who encounter dilemmas to submit complaints. And also this springtime the bureau had been anticipated to issue regulations that payday loans Illinois are new short-term loans, looking to place restrictions on pay day loans and force loan providers to make sure that consumers have actually the ability to spend the amount of money back.
Rees is accustomed adjusting up to a moving landscape that is legal. While operating Think Finance, which established Elevate
Rees went as far as to become listed on with Indian tribes to provide loans, utilizing their sovereign resistance to dodge predatory financing guidelines being enacted by states. The alleged scheme that is“rent-a-tribe the main topic of a federal lawsuit filed by their state of Pennsylvania.
At Elevate, Rees thinks an approach that is transparent products and no add-on charges will “fit well as to what the CFPB is searching to accomplish.”
Therefore what’s next? Just last year, Elevate Credit filed papers because of the Securities and Exchange Commission to get public in early 2016. The IPO had been postponed in January amidst a razor-sharp market downturn, but Rees still hopes to record their stocks in the nyc Stock Exchange in 2010. There’s nothing more traditional than that. | <urn:uuid:fd9f6dab-82bb-4a0b-9896-5d6a9bd7b096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.villalberto.it/online-finance-companies-are-luring-cash-strapped-15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963186 | 989 | 1.617188 | 2 |
American-Grown Pistachio Consumption Increases Globally
Trends in healthier eating habits bode well for US-based pistachio farmers
FRESNO, CA – July 25, 2018 – American-grown pistachio consumption numbers are up globally. According to a report released today by California State University, Fresno (CSUF) Department of Agricultural Business, Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, pistachio consumption has increased substantially in international markets between 2015 and 2017.
The trend is welcomed by nutrition experts who tout the virtues of pistachios for their health properties. According to nutrition expert Mike Roussell, Ph.D., “Pistachios are the perfect addition to any eating plan for health-minded individuals as they offer a number of health benefits which result from their strong nutritional values, key amino acids, healthy fats, minerals like magnesium, and dietary fiber.”
The United States remains the largest producer of pistachios in the world with approximately 99 percent grown in California, where climate and precision agricultural practices produce high quality nuts. Paired with the fact that approximately 70 percent of pistachios grown in the U.S. are exported, this data shows how popular the nut is worldwide. This increase in demand is likely due to global health trends and a growing body of scientific research that ties pistachios to a wide range of benefits, including weight management, blood sugar control and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.
“We’re finding that not only is overall consumption of U.S. pistachios increasing, but consumers are also broadening their consumption timeframe,” said American Pistachio Growers (APG) Vice President of Global Marketing Judy Hirigoyen. “While nuts have traditionally been consumed during winter months and holidays, we’re seeing increases during spring and summer months as consumers learn about the health attributes pistachios have for athletic individuals and weight management.”
For this study, trends were reviewed in China, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom – seven nations considered to be primary trade partners for U.S. pistachios. Additionally, the study includes India as an important emerging market. For the report, CSUF researchers used data for total pounds of pistachios traded across borders accessed from the Global Trade Atlas (GTA).
U.S. Increases Consumption and Share of Market Globally
Germany has no in-country pistachio production, but has seen 84.2 percent growth in consumption over a three-year period. The U.S. share of market in 2017 was 45.4 percent, up 16.1 percent since 2015.
Spain has new plantings of pistachios, most of which will come into production within the next two to three years. There has been a consumption increase of 29.8 percent since 2015. U.S. share of market in 2017 was 31.7 percent, an increase of 31.6 percent since 2015.
Italy produces the Bronte pistachio, prized for its dark green color. Consumption of in-shell pistachios over the past three years has risen 41.2 percent. U.S. share of market in 2017 was 31 percent, an increase of 41.2 percent over 2015.
France produces no pistachios, and has seen a 20.1 percent consumption increase over the past three years. U.S. share of market in 2017 was 42.6 percent, which is 1.7 percent lower than 2015 share, although overall volume for U.S. product is up.
United Kingdom produces no pistachios. Since 2015, there has been a 34.4 percent decline in overall pistachio consumption. However, the U.S. gained 219.6 percent share of market in 2017, with a share of 68.6 percent, thus more than doubling consumption of American pistachios.
South Korea has no pistachio production. There has been a 47.2 percent increase of pistachio consumption since 2015. The U.S. has maintained nearly 100 percent share of market in South Korea.
India’s pistachio market is dominated by Iran and other middle eastern countries, which have conducted pistachio trade with India for hundreds of years. However, the U.S. pistachio industry has seen its market share grow 146.7 percent over the past year. Overall consumption of the nut has increased by 49.6 percent over the past three years.
China has nominal pistachio production and is, by far, the largest consuming nation of pistachios. There has been an increase of 182.4 percent in consumption over the past three years. The U.S. share of the market totaled 96.6 percent in 2017, a 74 percent increase over three years.
Healthy Snacking Trends Go Global
The market for healthy snacking alternatives is on the rise as more consumers demand snack choices that will help them maintain their active lifestyles. A rise in awareness about healthy snacking habits along with consumers’ desire for grab-and-go options is further propelling this segment’s growth.
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A critic, novelist, and biographer, Albert L. Murray (May 12, 1916 — August 18, 2013) was born in Nokomis, Alabama in 1916. He attended the Tuskegee Institute in the early 1940s, and after a year of graduate studies at NYU, he divided his time between teaching at Tuskegee and serving in the air force. His writing career began in earnest in 1962, when he retired from the military.
He is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, memoirs, and essay collections, among them The Omni-Americanshis first book originally published in 1977), South to a Very Old Place, Train Whistle Guitar, The Spyglass Tree, and The Seven League Boots. He is also a critic and visual artist, as well as a lifelong friend of and collaborator with artistic luminaries such as Ralph Ellison,Duke Ellington, and Romare Bearden. As such, his life and work are testaments to the centrality of southern and African American aesthetics in American art. Murray is widely viewed as a figure who, through his art and criticism, transforms the “fakelore” of white culture into a new folklore that illustrates the centrality of the blues and jazz idioms and reveals the black vernacular as what is most distinct about American art. He is the cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis.
Murray passed away, at home, in his sleep, on August 18th, 2013. He was 97.
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The 'research team' is the formal structure by which students join with faculty members to develop research skills. Emphasis is placed on implementing research projects, writing skills, data collection and analysis and preparation of findings for professional presentation and or publication. Additionally, the team structure facilitates students in developing and carrying out various projects.
Each student is assigned to a Clinical Research Team which is administered by a member of the clinical faculty. Students may also participate on other departmental faculty members research team as time and interest allow. Clinical Research Teams meet regularly (usually weekly) to organize and coordinate projects. Academic credit for participation is applied to meet the program's "Research Clinical Psychology" requirement.
Dr. Houlihan’s Clinical Research Team
- Behavioral interventions in persons with dementia.
- Behavioral approaches to determining police responses in routine and critical situations.
- Command type preference and outcomes.
- Investigating the impact of verbal communication styles in police work.
- Interventions, treatments and policy regarding the wellbeing and treatment of autistic individuals.
- International applications of behavioral training techniques.
- Interventions and strategies for treating anxiety disorders.
Dr. Buchanan's Clinical Research Team
Focus: Aging and mental health with an emphasis on dementia care.
- Development and evaluation of memory enhancement procedures for persons with dementia.
- Investigating the impact of caregiver verbal communication styles on the behavior of persons with dementia.
- Evaluating non-pharmacological, restraint-free interventions for managing behavior problems in person with dementia.
- Studying the utility of stimulus preference assessment.
- Understanding relational aggression (bullying) in senior living communities.
- Understanding age-related microaggressions and how they affect older adults.
Dr. Sprankle's Clinical Research Team
Focus: Sexuality, stigma, and Satanism
- Understanding the impact of stigma on marginalized sexual communities.
- Examining therapist biases against those with stigmatized identities.
- Studying the relationships between Satanism, stigma, and mental health.
Dr. Aguirre's Clinical Research Team
Focus: Using behavior analysis to teach various skills for children and young adults.
- Design and evaluate procedures o teach language, social, and academic repertoires for people with and without autism and other related disabilities.
- Evaluate procedures that promote emergent or derived relational responding.
- Design and evaluate procedures to examine private events (i.e., thinking and problem solving strategies).
- Understanding rules and their effects on behavior.
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When I travel, which is somewhat frequently, I often have a house sitter to care for my cat and dogs when they are not traveling with me. I have several different people to call upon depending on when I am traveling and which of my animals will need to be cared for. One of the other duties I ask of my house sitters, besides checking the mail, is to water the various plants in my greenhouse.
Now, I don’t claim to have a green thumb but I am much better at keeping my plants alive than I was in the past. I have herbs, vegetables, and flowers growing together in my greenhouse. Lately, though, my plants have been larger and healthier than ever. In looking for the source, as I haven’t changed my routines, I concluded that it was because I was traveling. Someone besides me was giving my plants the attention that they needed, perhaps even more than I normally would when I am there. This experience is what I would like to term the Greenhouse Effect.
A greenhouse prevents heat from escaping and traps the energy within the space to help plants thrive in a warm, moist environment year round. My greenhouse can be the best, most efficient in the world, but because the environment is controlled, someone still needs to water and care for the plants or they will not thrive. Despite the fact that I care for my plants regularly, when someone else cares for them I see more growth and production than when I water them myself. My “greenhouse effect” is the resulting prosperity that my plants have when my greenhouse is in the care of someone who has time to attend to them.
Of course, we can attribute this phenomenon to the fact that because I am gone for a few days I notice the growth more than when I see the plants every day. But there is no denying that the number and size of my tomatoes increase overall when I am not the one watering them.
If I’m honest with myself, green thumb or no, I tend to water only when the leaves start to droop, which is to say not as often as I should due to a hectic schedule. When I am away, the house sitters water them per my instructions as often as the plants need, and the watered plants are happier plants.
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This greenhouse effect for my plants is similar to what happens when I leave my clients in the care of my team while I travel. I can usually continue to correspond with my clients on the fly when I’m out of town, but for emergencies where my remote access may not be the best, I keep my team up to speed and let them be a point of contact. My clients can be taken care of on time, not just when I am able to get to them.
Do my clients need me specifically to help them all the time or would my team actually do a better job of watering my client-plants in my absence than I do? Just because I can be connected in a pinch, do I need to be? The uncertainty of whether or not I will be able to respond to my clients’ needs when I am not at the office can be defused by the knowledge that my team is able to connect with them more easily and service them as well as I would. Perhaps my team can give the clients more TLC because they know how hard I have worked to earn my clients’ respect and they will want to be recognized upon my return for a job well done.
Either way, expanding your client base through involving your staff will generate additional synergy and energy, just like the greenhouse. Offering your colleague or subordinate a chance to work together with your client will present everyone new opportunities for growth by helping you identify areas of improvement for everyone — including yourself. | <urn:uuid:8dc1e618-71f9-48b3-a7f1-4071711ead62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ere.net/the-greenhouse-effect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973457 | 775 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Reading Zone: Stop That Dog - Core Book
Core Reading Book 6 - Senior Infants
Book 6 of 6 graded reading books for infants centred around the lives of Kitty, Max and Finn the dog.
- Complete story in each book
- Key words are the same as those used in Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1
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During the 2017-18 financial year, the total CSR expenditure in the country was Rs.7,536.30 crore.
This is a 47% increase from 2014-15, when the Amendment was first enacted. Specifically, education has consistently been among the most favoured sectors that companies have invested in, with the year 2018 seeing INR 2202 crore being spent on this sector alone. Since 2014, almost INR 8,000 crore has been spent on this sector.
CSR projects implemented in the Education space can be broadly categorised with respect to the following activities:
However, despite educational initiatives taking up a majority stake in terms of CSR expenditure, whether the desired impact is being made is arguable. One of the issues on the ground has been a gap in the monitoring and maintenance of projects. For instance, Impact Assessment studies of CSR projects by SoulAce have found that although school buildings and toilet facilities have been constructed, the lack of upkeep/maintenance may impair the functionality of such infrastructure with the passage of time. While technology-based interventions have also taken place, equipping a school with smart classes, donating computers or facilitating tablet-based learning can achieve full impact only when teachers are adequately trained for such technologies. Awarding scholarships to meritorious students, while successful in some areas, has not seen the same success elsewhere. It is thus eminently clear that to achieve a larger impact with the same level of investment, a more holistic approach can be taken with an eye on the long-term sustainability of these projects.
The state of education in the country as such is far from desirable. ASER Reports have consistently warned of poor learning outcomes.
Educational interventions undertaken by corporates are certainly welcome in such a landscape. For instance, the Satya Bharti School Program run by the Bharti Foundation is one of the most successful educational initiatives in the country. 249 primary Schools and 5 senior secondary schools are run in Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Over 45,600 underprivileged children are provided with quality education by these schools and over 1,650 teachers have been employed. The program focuses on the girl child (49% of the students are girls) and the weaker sections of society.
Another successful initiative is Project Nanhi Kali, established in 2005 and managed by the K. C. Mahindra Education Trust. It ensures 10 years of quality education to girl children from economically disadvantaged families. Their focus is on providing holistic support to students, including post-school academic support (to ensure grade-specific competency), materials support (in terms of uniforms, kits etc.) and importantly, community support (by engaging with parents and other members of the community, sensitising them to gender equality and ensuring the girls do not drop out of school).
CSR has the potential to become an even bigger change agent for education in the country. Some of the most successful projects such as the ones outlined above can be the beacons which guide the planning and implementation of other interventions. For corporates which might prefer doing their CSR activities in and around their own factory locations spread across the country, the take-homes from successful initiatives elsewhere can be kept in mind while working with the government schools in their own areas.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Don’t let your Friends Design your Website.
Everybody can make a website in these days, your friends, your nephew and even your child that is in high school. Yo can save some Money here But this isn’t always right, specially if it’s your company or business website.
Building a web page can be a fantastic idea to promote your business on the Net. But if you make it wrong the first time, it will be very hard and frustrating to get a good ranking, traffic and sales because the website it wasn’t designed and optimized properly for search engines.
Google and other search engines determine how websites and pages rank in their search results based on different factors that most people don’t know. A Search Engine is a program that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the websites where the keywords were found. By example, if you make a search “jumpers los angeles“, the search engine will return all websites that are optimized for that keyword/phrase.
SEO is a technique with different tactics that helps to optimize a website for specific keywords that had been previously identify for a niche market. In Latino Graphics we apply Best SEO practices and use main Search Engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask & AOL) to drive visitors who are searching for the services / products you offer, and the most important, we can measure your success. | <urn:uuid:8b50d449-1b5f-40a6-a8c7-26f460ae563c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.latinographics.com/seo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.918089 | 298 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The renewable energy transition brings with it a variety of megatrends for investors to capitalize on, but not all of the related exchange traded funds are adequately levered to the possibilities attached to this transition.
Investors seeking nimble, robust positioning for renewable energy megatrends may find the Goldman Sachs Future Planet Equity ETF (GSFP ) to be an attractive idea. In a landscape dominated by index-based strategies, GSFP stands out as an actively managed alternative. That’s a point for market participants to ponder because the renewable energy transition often moves at a rapid pace that passive funds don’t always keep up with.
Consider the point about corporate-level adoption of various environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. The “E” is often easiest to implement, and boards are under pressure from shareholders to reduce carbon emissions — a theme GSFP is tethered to.
“Globally, companies are under pressure from their shareholders, employees and consumers to engage ethically from an ESG perspective,” noted Luke Barrs, Goldman Sachs head of client portfolio management. “We believe those that are not, will need to change fast. The tech sector is a good example of one area leading the charge – many of the Big Tech names already use renewables for powering their servers. Companies will be key in driving innovation and creating new products and services to help deliver positive environmental change.”
Another megatrend that GSFP has the flexibility to provide exposure to is consumer demand for clean energy products. That’s a relevant point in favor of GSFP because like corporations, consumers can move more swiftly than governments to embrace renewable energy concepts and products.
“We believe this is the greatest catalyst for change among the three drivers we’ve outlined. People are becoming a lot more aware of their carbon footprint and they want to act to reduce it,” added Barrs. “Take the plant-based protein sector as an example, and the exponential growth it has experienced over the last few years. People have realised the negative impact the agricultural sector has on the environment, particularly from an emissions perspective, and they want to play their part in combatting this.”
While government spending is important and a credible catalyst for investors to consider regarding assets such as GSFP, the potential potency of corporations and consumers also highlights allure with GSFP, confirming utility in its status as an active fund.
“In our role as active managers, we see particular opportunities in companies driving innovation across clean energy, resource efficiency, sustainable consumption, the circular economy and water sustainability. We believe that the shared ambition of governments, corporates and consumers mean that companies exposed to these themes provide a compelling long-term investment opportunity,” concluded Barrs.
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Leaders from district cohorts in our partner states want to learn how to implement personalized, competency-based learning in different ways to see what works for their communities – whether that’s from expert leaders, other states’ cohorts or KnowledgeWorks.
KnowledgeWorks needed to know if we and our partners were on the right path and what we could do better. So we partnered with Research For Action to conduct a cross-state analysis of the implementation of personalized, competency-based learning. From State Commitment to District Implementation: Approaches and Strategies for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning documents and analyzes how personalized, competency-based learning is taking hold in these states and the initial cohort of school districts implementing the work.
Based on the data collection and the analysis presented in the report, here are five recommendations for district leaders in the field:
- Set clear goals for the work.
Just as clear goals are critical at the state level, they are also essential to district implementation. District respondents identified the lack of a shared set of short-term results and long-term impacts for the effort, as well as indicators to measure progress, as challenges in moving the work forward. District design teams should develop their goals for the work at the outset and revisit those goals regularly to determine their progress and continuously improve the work.
- Develop district policy and practice that supports the work and removes barriers.
Study districts recognized that they needed to build systems in which personalized, competency-based learning could be implemented. District systems change in areas such as teacher evaluation is essential to ensure alignment between local policy and classroom instruction.
- Allow time for teacher orientation and implementation.
Personalized, competency-based learning is an ambitious approach to education that changes the roles of both teachers and students in the classroom. That level of implementation reform requires time for teachers to prepare for instruction on a weekly basis, and over the long-term through ongoing professional development, implementation, and continuous improvement.
- Provide opportunities for classroom observations and reflections.
Observations were consistently identified as an effective way to build teacher capacity, whether in the district or outside. Allowing for peer reflection afterwards is also essential to help teachers process what they saw and clarify what they learned and can take back to their own classroom.
- Offer both human and material resources to provide ongoing support.
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Kerala Tour Packages
Kerala Tour Packages
TripKerala, the “God’s Own Country” is one of the coolest places in South India. The land offers plenty of nature, waterways, pleasant beaches, beautiful backwaters, charming slopes, rich culture and heritage, craftsmanship, and more. Located in the tropical Malabar Coast of India, Kerala is well known for its palm-lined serene beaches, mesmerizing backwaters, the incredible western ghats, and the soothing climate. Kerala destinations is one of the most visited tourist places in India. Alleppey and Munnar are the two best options in Kerala for your trip to be an everlasting memory. Alleppey is also known as Alappuzha is the paradise for peace seekers. Placid backwaters, traditional villages, and a cruise down the lakes in a houseboat with delicious Kerala cuisine will make your trip the best in Alleppey.
5 Interesting facts about Kerala Trip
1) GODS OWN COUNTRY – Kerala is known as God’s Own Country for its scenic beauty, culture, and wonderful etiquette.
2) Land of Elephants – The number of captive elephants in Kerala is more than that of any other state in India. Kerala is known to be the land of elephants after the land of coconut.
3) Richest temple in the world – The Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram the state capital is the wealthiest institution of worship on the globe.
For many years, India has been fascinated by Kerala’s Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, which is steeped in mystery and terror. The innermost concealed room is thought to be guarded by two huge Cobras. Worse, myth has it that anybody who unlocks the vault will be met with disaster.
4) Sadhya – Sadhya means banquet in Kerala. There are about 28-30 dishes on average served in a sadhya and it is a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Sadhya is traditionally served on a banana leaf in Kerala Trip. The leaf’s broader side lays on the right. The salt comes first, On the top half of the banana leaf, twelve to thirteen dry or semi-dry dishes are served. Rice and lentils, sambar, and curry go in the bottom half. If any of the curries are lacking in flavor, season them with salt to taste.
World’s best family holiday destination – Lonely planet in its 2016 edition listed Kerala as one of the finest destinations for Kerala family holidays tour Packages.
Kerala Tour Packages
Dazzle Kerala Tour Package
- 4Nights, 5Days
- 12,499/per person
Romantic Kerala Tour Package
- 6Nights, 7Days
- 17,499/per person
Must-Visit Tourist Spots in Kerala
The backwaters of Alleppey
Alleppey known as Alappuzha is the paradise for peace seekers. Placid backwaters, lush green traditional villages, and a cruise down the lakes in a houseboat with delicious Kerala cuisine will make your trip to the fullest. The houseboats found in Alappuzha’s backwaters are renovated versions of traditional Kettuvallams. Kettuvallam is a Malayalam term in which ‘Kettu’ means house and ‘Vallom’ means boat.
How to reach Alleppey – Nearest Airport is Cochin International Airport which is located 75 km from Alleppey. The airport connects all major cities of India.
Where to stay – Houseboats are available with all facilities starting from 6,500 INR/night for a luxurious stay in the backwaters of Alleppey. Hotels are available within the range of 3000-7000 INR / night and local stays are also available there in Alleppey for budget trips.
The commercial capital of the state, Kochi also known as the Queen of the Arabian Sea, has welcomed ships from Asian and European countries to her harbour since the 14th century. Kochi the blend of multi-cultures is a perfect location for every kind of happy soul. From busy towns to serene villages, it has everything to surprise a wanderlust. The Chinese fishing net, Mattanchery palace, a “kathakali “night, and an ayurvedic treatment are the must-try cochin things.
How to reach Kochi – Cochin International Airport is just 29 km away from the prime locations in Kochi. Direct flights are available to all major cities.
Where to stay – There are many hotels to stay in Kochi for its vibrant, boutique experience. Hotels like Kondai Lip Backwater Heritage Resort are best for enjoying the tranquil backwaters of Kochi.
Blessed with low and flinty hills, tranquil woods, and tea plantations, Munnar is the perfect place for that pacifist in you. Being the resort for the British raj elite, Munnar still holds its pride. Elephant Ride at Carmelagiri Elephant Park, Pothamed viewpoint, luxurious stay in a resort having hot tea in the cold-foggy weather cannot be missed by a true wanderlust.
How to reach there – There are state-run and private buses to Munnar from major cities of Kerala and Tamilnadu. You can get a cab to Munnar from Cochin International Airport which is 110 km away.
Stay – There are a lot of budget-friendly and luxurious resorts in Kerala Tour Packages Munnar starting from 3000 INR / night to enjoy your stay. Local homestays are also available with delicious Kerala cuisine.
The palm-backed beaches of Kovalam are one of the best beaches in Kerala and most visited too. Kovalam is the best getaway for one who is looking for all the beauty of a beach with energizing ayurvedic healing.
How to reach Kovalam beach – Trivandrum railway station and Airport is just 20 km away from Kovalam. Taxis, cabs, auto-rickshaws, etc will be available at every corner of the city.
Top 10 things to do in Kovalam
Vizhinjam Marine Aquarium
Apart from Munnar another hill station embellishing Kerala’s natural aesthetics is the mesmerizing Wayanad. Along with the perfect cool weather, Wayanad has got mind-blowing waterfalls, caves, lakes, and dams making it the perfect location for a chill Kerala tour packages vacation. Road drive to Wayanad will be the best that it can offer you, spotted dears, monkeys, and majestic Bisons will welcome you on your way to Wayanad, home for the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary.
How to reach Wayanad – Calicut International Airport is the closest Airport to Wayanad which is at 87 km and the closest railway station is Nilambur which is 54 km away. There is a direct bus service to Wayanad from all major cities in Kerala.
Must visit places and activities in Wayanad
Banasura Sagar Dam
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Trust Stamp, a government contractor that develops facial recognition and surveillance tools for agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, left the personal information of several dozen people unsecured on a breached database, Insider has learned. This information included names, birthdays, home addresses, and driver’s license data.
An anonymous tipster who said they were a security researcher contacted Insider and disclosed the breach. Insider confirmed the authenticity of the data with the people named in the data leak. Trust Stamp then confirmed the security vulnerability and breach to Insider.
LOL. “Trust Stamp.” Nice job there with both the name and the security practices. Trust Stamp says this isn’t really a problem because most of the exposed data was clearly fake and just used for training. But alongside fake people like “Heidi Sample,” real people’s data was exposed, as was verified by both Business Insider and the security researcher who forwarded the tip.
That sort of service is apparently worth $7.2 million in federal tax dollars. It’s one thing to have a poorly secured testing environment. It’s quite another to have a poorly secured testing environment that apparently includes real-world data for reasons that have gone completely unexplained by Trust Stamp.
Another question that has gone unanswered by Trust Stamp is where this real-world data came from. The company was hired to assist ICE in monitoring immigrants processed at border crossings. But the real-world data exposed (and verified by BI and researchers) did not come from the expected source of Trust Stamp data.
None of the several dozen people whose names were included in the data leak were migrants who had been processed at the US southern border. Of the people Insider was able to reach by phone, none were familiar with Trust Stamp or any of its services.
So, where did this data come from? Did Trust Stamp just upload information it had gathered via other customers (an SEC filing lists a potential “39 commercial opportunities”) into its dummy testing database, neglecting to inform ICE that the test environment contained plenty of real-world data? And if it was using actual US persons’ info to pad its test database, why didn’t it do more to ensure the test environment was sufficiently safeguarded against leaks/breaches?
We still have no answers. Trust Stamp only says it is aware of the problem and has rectified it. It has yet to explain where this data originated and why it was included in the demo environment it crafted for ICE. Maybe Congress might want to start asking a few questions about this breach and pass along the same set of questions to other private contractors who may be playing fast and loose with personal data they’ve collected.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long made its own case for abolishment. Before ICE earned its current reputation as a fake-school running, report-altering, rogue agency interested in ejecting as many non-white people from America as possible, ICE ran interference for entrenched industries.
That was supposedly the “customs” part of its enforcement efforts. Once Donald Trump took office, ICE was given permission to take the gloves off its immigration enforcement efforts. Galvanized by rhetoric that portrayed any brown person as inherently dangerous (and propelled by the enthusiasm of a failed casino owner who has filed for bankruptcy multiple times), ICE went all in on punishing people who didn’t seem white enough to be allowed to live in this country.
What kind of monster has ICE become? A recent report — sourced from hundreds of public records gathered by several rights organizations — says ICE’s surveillance dragnet is almost unimaginably large. And it definitely surpasses anything its supposed first level of oversight (that’s your Congressional reps, folks!) believes ICE is engaged in.
ICE has scanned the driver’s license photos of 1 in 3 adults.
ICE has access to the driver’s license data of 3 in 4 adults.
ICE tracks the movements of drivers in cities home to 3 in 4 adults.
ICE could locate 3 in 4 adults through their utility records.
So. Why does an agency mainly focused on non-Americans have access to so many records pertaining to actual Americans? Well… because it can. For several reasons.
The Third Party Doctrine eliminates the expectation of privacy needed to create a warrant requirement. State and local partnerships with federal agencies allow agencies like ICE to trawl local law enforcement databases. Advancements in tech have increased the number of inputs ICE can access, as well as the productivity of the devices adding those inputs. And hardly anyone in power seems to be interested in directly overseeing ICE, much less pushing back against its dragnet expansion.
Since its formation in 2003, ICE has desired more data and less oversight. Thanks to this combination of contributing factors, it is now sitting dead center in this perfect storm.
After 9/11, ICE paired those programs with much broader initiatives, tapping vast databases held by private data brokers as well as state and local bureaucracies historically uninvolved with law enforcement. Through those initiatives, ICE now uses information streams that are far more expansive and updated far more frequently, including Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) records and utility customer information, as well as call records, child welfare records, credit headers, employment records, geolocation information, health care records, housing records and social media posts.
Since 2003, ICE has spent $2.8 billion on surveillance and data collection. The ROI has been tremendous. Leveraging law enforcement partnerships and private contractors has turned ICE into a surveillance entity on par with the NSA — and all without attracting too much attention from its Congressional oversight.
ICE trawls drivers license databases because some states allow immigrants to get licenses before they become citizens. This doesn’t mean every immigrant targeted is here illegally. Driving is essential in America, and immigrants (undocumented or not) need to get to work, buy groceries, visit relatives/friends… all of this requires the driver to possess a valid license. This may be an easy way to find immigrants subject to removal but it also gives ICE agents the ability to surf DMV databases for other reasons, including their own personal amusement.
Some immigrants may not trust the government. But they still need the basics of life, like electricity and running water. ICE is all over this as well. Not only does it harvest records from private utility companies, it leverages the capabilities of other private companies to make sense of this data, as well as make the agency one step further removed from both the process and accountability. This free ride to utility records may be (belatedly) coming to an end thanks to the efforts of Senator Ron Wyden, but for years it was just another way ICE was able to access records belonging to millions of actual Americans.
So, how does ICE end up running a massive surveillance apparatus that has mostly flown under the radar? Well, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The reasons listed above — the tech explosion, the support of multiple presidents, the lack of meaningful oversight, the resourcefulness and drive of the agency itself — all contributed to the erection of this massive dragnet.
But it also happens in a vacuum. This one is created by a nearly complete lack of oversight, something that’s likely prompted by ICE’s directives. When an agency is tasked with removing non-Americans, it’s easy to ignore its means and methods since it’s only dealing with people we (both as constituents and representatives) deem are not worthy of the rights the federal government can barely be persuaded to recognize when dealing with natural born citizens.
Most congressional leaders did not learn about ICE face recognition scans of DMV photos until The Washington Post ran an exposé on the practice, reporting on records obtained by the Center on Privacy & Technology. […] ICE’s surveillance initiatives have regularly flown under Congress’ radar. While a few political leaders have pressed ICE in oversight letters and used appropriations riders to end the most aggressive of ICE’s actions, to date there has not been one full congressional hearing or Government Accountability Office (GAO) report focused on ICE surveillance.
The report ends with several recommendations. At the top of the list is the request that Congress actually get back into the oversight business. It also recommends most state-level oversight to ensure local law enforcement agencies aren’t ignoring state laws to provide ICE with access to government databases or private companies’ records. And it says ICE should not be allowed to use utility company records for the purpose of seeking out people to deport.
Thanks to the release of this report, Congressional members will no longer be able to pretend they’re unaware of ICE’s massive surveillance dragnet. This will hopefully prompt fast and direct action that limits what ICE has access to and what it is allowed to do to carry out its deportation efforts. The fact that a majority of US citizens are subject to the same surveillance should hopefully tip the scale towards swift Congressional action.
When the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was established in 1934, it could not have possibly foreseen the exponential growth in records the move to electronic communications would create.
Perpetually short on funding, oversight, or (seemingly) interest in fulfilling its duties, the NARA has been forced to allow agencies to write their own rules on retention — something that further limits the power of taxpayers to understand what federal agencies are doing with their tax dollars or provide a comprehensive view of these agencies’ activities.
But the NARA hasn’t completely abdicated its duties in the face of this unprecedented wave of records. It is now asking tough questions of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — an agency that recently suggested it should be able to destroy misconduct records because it would lighten the load on the overloaded archival agency. Since NARA had already given ICE the option to treat misconduct records as “temporary,” CBP assumed it would be granted the same deference.
Now, CBP and NARA are interacting again. Only this time, it’s NARA demanding CBP do more to retain records, rather than less. As Ben Goggins and Louise Matsakis report for NBC News, CBP officers and employees are using ephemeral messaging services to conduct government business — something that has the potential to thwart accountability efforts, NARA’s archival obligations, and undermine public trust in border security efforts.
In October, Laurence Brewer, the chief records officer of the National Archives and Records Administration, told officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection he was worried about how the agency was using an app called Wickr. The Amazon-owned encrypted messaging platform is known for its ability to automatically delete messages.
Brewer, who is responsible for ensuring that government officials handle records correctly, wrote in a letter that he was “concerned about agencywide deployment of a messaging application that has this functionality without appropriate policies and procedures governing its use.”
The letter [PDF], sent late last year, also mentions the use of WhatsApp, which also allows timed destruction of messages. The only response from the agency so far has been in response to litigation recently filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Tammy T. Melvin, a spokesperson for CBP, said the agency could not comment on pending litigation. “The distribution/use of Wickr is currently under review,” she said in an email. Since 2019, she said, the agency has only used the app in “several small-scale pilots.”
Whatever the alleged limitations of the Wickr rollout, the CBP has yet to provide any details to CREW in response to its FOIA request. CBP has ignored request for information on the agency’s Wickr use since last September, approximately one month before the National Archives began asking some of the same questions.
It’s not that government agents and officials shouldn’t have access to secure messaging services. It’s that these need to be deployed with firm rules in place that minimize destruction of communications the government is obligated to turn over to the public. And it certainly shouldn’t be left up to government employees’ discretion which communications should be saved and which should be automatically deleted just because the platform provides them that option. The government exists to serve the public, not the other way around.
ICE has never really cared about the people it detains and processes for removal. It cared even less when President Trump made it clear he believed anyone less white and privileged than he is deserved to be excluded from the “American dream.”
Trump claimed he wanted the “worst of the worst” removed to make America “safer.” Then he decided he just wanted any non-white foreigners removed, stoking the flames of xenophobia by claiming people illegally in this country were more dangerous than lifelong residents, despite a mountain of evidence indicating the opposite.
It’s 2022 and there’s a new president in office. Things have not improved. An investigation [PDF] of the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico shows ICE still believes it’s in the business of handling livestock, rather than actual human beings.
One problem? Way more detainees than government employees capable of handling them. Understaffing isn’t acceptable, especially when there are supposed national security issues on the line. ICE (and its private prison partner CoreCivic) have had plenty of time to fix this. Neither party has.
The ICE contract for Torrance requires specific staffing levels for the safety and security of detainees. At designated staffing levels the facility should have 245 full-time staff. At the time of our inspection, Torrance was at 54 percent of required staffing, with 133 full-time employees. Torrance has 112 staffing vacancies, with the majority (94 positions) in the area of security.
ICE issued a Contract Discrepancy Report in December 2020 related to medical staffing shortages, but the report also indicated that staffing issues extended beyond medical vacancies. ICE warned the facility that the Contract Discrepancy Report may be expanded to include other staffing areas that are currently showing critical shortages. [Torrance] is not at 95% staffing levels across the board and a comprehensive plan needs to be developed to meet these shortages. Nevertheless, Torrance continues to remain severely understaffed over 1 year later, requiring current staff to work a minimum of six overtime shifts per month to help bridge the gap.
ICE’s contractor can’t fill these vacancies, despite offering subsidized housing and other incentives for employees who would most likely be required to drive an hour from the nearest major city (Albuquerque). Rather than find ways to limit the facility’s intake of detainees to keep the limited staff from being further stretched, CoreCivic and ICE decided to start skimping on the necessities of life.
Torrance houses ICE detainees in 8 of their 11 housing units. We reviewed all 157 cells in the 8 housing units holding detainees and found 83 detainee cells (roughly 53 percent) with plumbing issues, including toilets and sinks that were inoperable, clogged, or continuously cycling water…
In addition, we encountered mold and water leaks throughout the facility… These issues exacerbate unsanitary conditions and can lead to slips and falls by detainees or facility staff. Further, it could also lead to health issues for both detainees and staff breathing in the mold. Work orders showed that most problems we observed during our inspection went unresolved for 12 or more days.
Then there are the security problems. Supervision is nearly nonexistent. Sight lines from control rooms to holding cells are obstructed. Blind spots are numerous. Much of the job is handed over to unmonitored cameras which can only provide evidence of something that has already happened, rather than allow staffers to address problems as they arise or head off escalations. Detainee control was also apparently achieved with the use of electronic door systems, according to ICE, an assertion that means nothing when supposedly “locked” doors were left ajar.
The Inspector General’s recommendation is harsh but fair:
We recommend the immediate relocation of all detainees from the facility unless and until the facility ensures adequate staffing and appropriate living conditions.
ICE (and, presumably CoreCivic, which gets paid more the more detainees it houses) disagrees with this recommendation. Its lengthy response contains plenty of literally incredible assertions and accusations that the DHS IG staged photos to misrepresent the condition of the facility.
As for the former (the disagreement with the assessment,) it’s par for the course for an agency that routinely fails to live up to even its own internal standards. As for the accusations the Office of the Inspector General falsified information… whoo, boy. It certainly would help ICE to be any other agency than ICE, which has been the target of plenty of confirmed abuse allegations over the years.
The response, penned by acting ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser, opens with a literally unbelievable claim:
ICE is fiercely committed to ensuring that noncitizens residing in its custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments, and under appropriate conditions of confinement.
More seriously, ICE accuses the IG of staging the photo of a detainee obtaining drinking water from a floor mop sink as part of the evidence that regular sinks are not working properly. In response to the IG noting that hot water handles are broken (and have apparently not been repaired), ICE insists hot water would have run out of the only operable taps (the cold water ones) if investigators had simply waited longer.
The draft report at p. 4 states that some faucets did not produce hot water. In fact, during the inspection ICE informed the OIG inspector that, like many faucets, the hot water takes some time to arrive in a faucet that starts cold. The inspector, however, declined to run the tap to determine if that was true.
Please. The complaint in the OIG report refers to taps where the hot water tap handle had been broken off. No amount of running cold water would turn it hot. And the photo being complained about by ICE shows a broken handle, not a sink with two working handles no inspector could be persuaded to run until hot.
Rebuttals work better when you’re credible, ICE. Good luck talking your way out of yet another completely unsurprising report that the agency treats “noncitizens” like subhumans. ICE is an agency with an alarming tendency to go rogue. This report shows why the new administration needs to rein it in, reform it, and make it better before another leader of the free world takes the helm and starts fucking things up again.
ICE wants data and doesn’t care how it gets it. Its recently-elevated pursuit of all things not considered naturally American has increased its demands for information on… well, everybody. It works with private sector data brokers and data analysts to hoover up location info — something not strictly limited to movements at or near borders. Nor is it limited to the non-Americans ICE believes should be tracked, captured, and ejected.
ICE has also gathered information collected by American utility companies, which includes customers’ names, addresses, cards/accounts used to pay bills, and usage records. This was also accomplished via a private party: the CLEAR database run by Thomson Reuters. ICE paid $21 million a year for access. It no longer has that access, thanks to pressure applied by Senator Ron Wyden.
ICE has shut down another data collection because Wyden started asking questions. And this collection may very well have been illegal. Using only self-issued administrative subpoenas, ICE was able to obtain millions of financial records from two money transfer companies, Western Union and Maxitransfers Corporation.
Beginning in 2019, HSI [Homeland Security Investigations — a division of ICE] sent eight administrative subpoenas to these financial services companies asking that they turn over all records for money transfers over $500 to or from California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. Each administrative subpoena sought records for six-months at a time. In response, Western Union and Maxi provided 6.2 million financial records, including personal information such as names and addresses, to HSI. All of the information was entered into a database called Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), which is run by a non-profit and facilitates law enforcement access to bulk financial data for 5 years.
Once again, Wyden’s pressure has resulted in a change.
According to Sen. Wyden, HSI terminated the program in January 2022 after his office contacted HSI about it.
But that’s not good enough for Wyden. His letter [PDF] wants more answers from ICE, leveraging its hasty abandonment of the program against it. It’s an illegal collection, as the EFF explains:
[T]his kind of bulk surveillance is illegal. By statute, these administrative subpoenas must seek records “relevant” to an agency investigation. Simply put, there is no way these broad requests for bulk records would turn up only documents “relevant” to specific investigations; instead it put everyone who transferred money, including U.S. persons, under surveillance.
From Wyden’s letter:
[T]he fact that HSI employees in Phoenix, AZ continued to send out these highly problematic |bulk summonses, every six months, without oversight by HSI and DHS headquarters indicates a weakness in the central supervision of this surveillance tool. Moreover, the fact that just one request fora briefing from a Senate office prompted HSI to immediately halt the flow of data suggests that the internal oversight system within DHS and HSI failed.
This is far from the only problematic aspect of this program. For one thing, the program ran for years prior to ICE’s adoption of the questionable bulk surveillance. An agreement between Western Union and the Arizona Attorney General in 2010 over money laundering allegations opened up this firehose, providing millions of transaction records from 2010 to 2019 — all of which could be accessed by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies without any judicial approval.
According to HSI, this agreement expired in 2019. That’s when ICE took over, demanding the same production for the next two years. In 2021, ICE expanded these demands to include Maxitransfers. Those actions resulted in ICE obtaining more than 6 million financial records — something it managed to accomplish using only eight self-issued subpoenas. This is classic bulk surveillance, Wyden points out. There’s no way all six million records were “relevant” to HSI investigations.
His letter points out HSI’s February 2022 testimony resulted in members of its Congressional oversight hearing about the long-running program for the first time. And ICE’s internal oversight was bypassed as well, according to HSI’s own statements.
While HSI told my staff that the Special Agent in Charge of HSI Phoenix spoke to the HSI Assistant Director of Investigative Programs and with an attorney in the field office before issuing the first summons, no one sought legal guidance from HST or DHS headquarters and HSI never wrote or published a Privacy Impact Assessment analyzing this program. Indeed, HSI officials acknowledged that they only alerted DHS privacy officials after my office contacted HS to request a briefing about the program in January 2022.
Wyden says he’s all for engaging in legitimate law enforcement activity to stop money laundering and drug trafficking. But this ain’t it. This is an illegitimate and illegal bulk collection that was hidden from ICE’s multiple levels of oversight. It also allowed ICE to keep doing the sort of things that have many calling for it to be abolished… like disproportionately targeting minorities, low-income families, and immigrants who often utilize services like these because traditional banking options aren’t available.
If ICE wants to fight money laundering and stymie drug cartels, it needs to do better. And it needs to play by the rules.
Instead of squandering resources collecting millions of transactions from people merely because they live or transact with individuals in a handful of Southwestern states or have relatives in Mexico, HSI and other agencies should focus their resources on individuals actually suspected of breaking the law.
Hastily killing the illegal program isn’t going to stop Wyden from demanding answers. While it’s great the program is now dead, the flipside is that there’s likely another, equally-problematic program still in operation. It just hasn’t been uncovered yet.
Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations say they have been kicked out of joint drug operations, shunned by local police departments and heckled at campus career fairs. Their parent agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, carries a stigma that is undermining their investigative work across the country, the agents said in an internal report.
The agents say they face a backlash in liberal “sanctuary” jurisdictions where authorities strictly limit contact with ICE but also in some Republican-led states where politicians are vocal in their support for the agency. And the toll on HSI agents is “getting worse,” according to the report that was prepared by a working group of agents formed by HSI to consider changes to the agency’s place within the Department of Homeland Security.
But now it’s clear that working with ICE means not actually getting any work done. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents have informed the DHS Secretary that partnering with ICE has all sorts of negative side effects. Agents are complaining about threats to their personal safety, crime victims being unwilling to engage with investigators due to ICE presence, and harming relationships with local law enforcement. ICE is a drain on resources due to its horrendous reputation. Here’s how the HSI agents put it in their letter to DHS officials:
“HSI’s affiliation with ICE significantly impedes investigations and HSI’s ability to fulfill its mission.”
Unfortunately, it appears this is unlikely to result in HSI decoupling from ICE. It would take an act of Congress to do so, and support for this sort of division is far from universal. The other solution is just as unlikely to happen: the rehabilitation of ICE’s image.
ICE has done a lot of damage to its reputation due to its willingness to become the embodiment of xenophobic presidential directives and policies. It could rein itself in, but any rehabilitation could easily be undone by the next president to take office. Most people never truly believed someone like Trump could ever be elected, but millions of Americans proved us wrong in 2016. All bets are off.
ICE’s response to the assertions in this letter is less than helpful. The agency, through a spokesperson, says nothing but uses a lot of words to deliver its nonexistent message:
In a statement, ICE spokeswoman Paige Hughes said the agency “relies on close working relationships with its state, local, and international partners,” but she did not elaborate on the details of the report. She added: “ICE refrains from discussing deliberations publicly with its partners to maintain operational security and in recognition of the sensitive nature of many of our activities.”
Congress may not be willing to bless a HSI-ICE divorce. But it’s clear from this letter that federal agencies forced to partner with ICE are being held back by ICE’s negative reputation. And ICE can’t blame anyone else for being so toxic its federal partners want nothing to do with it. It may have received questionable directives from the former president, but it was under no obligation to carry these out with as much enthusiasm and zeal as it did.
Plenty of federal agencies are capable of barely meeting the minimal requirements of Congressional and presidential mandates. ICE could have slow-walked its “toss out the brown people” directives until power changed hands. Instead, it showed itself to be an enthusiastic participant in bigoted policies, making it clear the 2016 regime change had simply allowed it to be the thuggish enforcer of immigration law it had always wanted to be.
Following protests over killings by law enforcement officers, the Department of Justice decided it might be a good idea to equip more police officers with body cameras. In May 2015, it announced the federal government would be spending $75 million over the next three years to purchase body cameras for local law enforcement agencies.
The DOJ saw the potential for body cameras to produce more accountability, lower the chances of deadly interactions, and rebuild some trust with the communities officers served. That’s presumably why it opted out of this push for body camera adoption. Five months after it announced the body cam grant program, DOJ reps told local law enforcement that use of body cameras wasn’t allowed when partnering with federal law enforcement. Either the cameras stayed home or the local cops did. No exceptions.
It wasn’t until five years later that the DOJ finally decided it was ok for federal agents to work with local law enforcement officers sporting body cameras, perhaps realizing the cameras simply weren’t going to go away. After all, it had encouraged adoption of the tech with three years of federal funding. But this still meant federal officers were going about their work unobserved, which still seemed problematic given all the advantages the DOJ said these cameras created when it started handing out federal cash in 2015.
It took another year before the DOJ finally decided federal officers should get with the body camera program. Six years after it invested in nationwide distribution of body cameras, federal officers are finally going to start wearing them. The ATF was the first to perform a test run of the cameras. Now, the DHS is following suit.
Agents with an investigative unit of the Department of Homeland Security will wear body cameras for the first time as part of a six-month pilot program that will focus on the costs and benefits of using the technology in federal law enforcement, officials said Tuesday.
The cameras will be used during the test by 55 members of the SWAT-like special response teams at Homeland Security Investigations in Houston, Newark, New Jersey, and New York, an official told reporters.
That’s the first wave of adoption for the DHS, albeit not one that guarantees permanent adoption. The second wave will rope in one of the federal government’s most controversial agencies.
The senior ICE official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity to provide details on the program before the announcement, said the agency expects later to expand the pilot to include officers who conduct immigration enforcement arrests.
Fortunately, this rollout is accompanied by something that often goes missing when the federal government deploys new tech: privacy impact assessments and written policies. In this case, there’s both. The DHS has issued a Privacy Impact Assessment [PDF] that contains the guidelines for camera use by officers. This one directly addresses the ICE pilot program.
The rules laid down are actually pretty solid, which is somewhat surprising given the federal government’s reluctance to adopt the tech and ICE’s roguelike reputation.
ICE personnel must record Pilot enforcement activities at the start of the activity, or, if not practicable, as soon as safely possible thereafter. Once a Body Worn Camera is activated, ICE personnel should only deactivate the Body Worn Camera when their participation or involvement in the enforcement activity has concluded. If ICE personnel fail to activate their Body Worn Camera, or if the recording is interrupted, they must provide a statement detailing the reason why they failed to activate the Body Worn Camera or why the recording was interrupted.
ICE personnel will verbally notify (i.e., provide notice to) individuals that they are being recorded if (or as soon as) it is operationally feasible. This notice should not be construed as a requirement for ICE to obtain consent from the subjects being recorded. The Body Worn Camera will be placed on a visible location on ICE personnel’s outerwear (e.g., on vest or helmet) so that individuals can see the Body Worn Camera.
ICE personnel are prohibited from intentionally making Body Worn Camera recordings in places or areas where cameras generally are not allowed or permissible (e.g., locker rooms, dressing rooms, medical facilities, restrooms, in facilities where recording is prohibited) unless related to an enforcement activity.
ICE personnel should not record encounters with undercover officers, confidential informants, and cooperating defendants.
ICE personnel should not record in a manner that would infringe on activity protected by the First Amendment (e.g., lawful protests).
Body Worn Cameras will not be used during undercover operations or in situations in which it would pose a risk to officer or public safety.
Body Worn Camera recordings will not be used for any facial recognition activities.
All recordings collected during this pilot period will be saved. Anything of evidentiary value will be sorted out. Recordings can (at least theoretically) be obtained with FOIA requests.
Of some concern is the directive forbidding the recording of First Amendment activities. On one hand, you don’t want federal agents to engage in surveillance of protected activities. On the other hand, you don’t want any interactions between federal officers and protesters to go unrecorded. So, this will have to be refined. It would seem that the rule ordering the recording of all “enforcement activities” would supersede the rule forbidding the recording of First Amendment activities when officers interact with protesters. But it will probably be months or years before the public knows how ICE officers have chosen to interpret these rules.
Still, it’s a good set of ground rules. And it gets a little better. ICE officers are expected to record any questioning of individuals (whether in custody or not), as well as any brief detentions or frisks of individuals they encounter. It’s also mandatory for all warrant service and searches incident to an arrest.
Better late than never. And a far better set of rules than was expected, given both the federal government’s resistance to early adoption and ICE’s general unwillingness to welcome examination of its enforcement efforts. Hopefully, the rollout will continue with similar rules in place for other federal agencies. While body cameras aren’t a panacea for law enforcement misconduct, they’re far better than having nothing but an officer’s word for what went down.
Another one of ICE’s (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) data spigots has been shut off. Don’t cry too many tears for poor old ICE. It still has plenty of options. It’s still hoovering up location data from app developers who either don’t know or don’t care that this data is buyable through data brokers. It also still has plenty of privileges, thanks to laws and judicial decisions that say most constitutional rights are null and void within 100 miles of our nation’s ports of entry (borders, coasts, and — making this far more concerning — any domestic airport offering international flights).
Plenty of data can still be had (and plenty of brokers willing to sell it), but ICE has just lost access to one source of data it uses to track down immigrants: utility bill information gathered, packaged, and sold to government agencies by third parties like Equifax and Reuters.
Equifax gathers this information ostensibly to assess the creditworthiness of United States residents. (It also leaks this information on occasion.) Thomson Reuters uses the same information (called “utility header data”) in its CLEAR database, which contains “billions of data points” and “leverages cutting-edge public records technology.” Its potent combination of bulk data and profit-seeking is sold to whoever wants access, which includes US law enforcement agencies.
A nationwide group of utility companies that provided sensitive data from millions of Americans’ cable, phone and power bills to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other government agencies has agreed to end the practice in response to concerns the information was being misused to track the general public.
Wyden’s pressure on the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE) prompted change. The NCTUE told Equifax to stop selling this data. This means the data no longer flows to Reuters’ CLEAR database, which means agencies like ICE no longer have access to it.
But Reuters isn’t the only player in the data market. There are plenty of third parties purchasing data and selling it to government agencies and other third parties. That’s why Wyden is now demanding the Consumer Finance Protection Board start doing its job and start regulating the sale of Americans’ data.
Wyden, a longtime critic of government surveillance, called on the CFPB to further rein in a data-broker industry that he said had spun “out of control” due in part to “vague and undefined regulations.” He urged the agency to aggressively investigate how data gathered for commercial purposes was ending up in the hands of law enforcement without court approval or oversight.
“Selling personal information that people provide to sign up for power, water and other necessities of life, and giving them no choice in the matter, is an egregious abuse of consumers’ privacy,” Wyden wrote. “The personal privacy of hundreds of millions of people should not depend upon the goodwill of corporations worried about negative headlines.”
Currently, it’s third parties on top of third parties, buying data from wherever it can be purchased and repackaging it for sale to others. This has led to consumers being misled about everything, from the data being collected to how the data is being used. Boilerplate about sales or licensing to third parties doesn’t make it clear information collected to open and maintain necessities of life (like utility services) will ultimately be part of “billions of data points” accessible without a warrant by law enforcement.
As of right now, the data Wyden is concerned about is bought and sold in a gray market — one not directly affected by regulation. That’s what Wyden hopes to change.
The sale of credit payment histories and related data is closely regulated under federal law. But government agencies can access credit header data because the regulations do not clearly outline how the revealing information can be used. Wyden urged CFPB to clarify the law and investigate how the data is sold.
Government agencies and data brokers have long preyed on the disconnect between public perception and the far uglier reality of data harvesting. Customers and consumers understand utility companies need to collect information to provide service and collect payment. They may also make the small logical leap that payment histories will be forwarded to companies that assess credit ratings. What they almost never assume is that all this data — which includes names, addresses, social security numbers, and plenty of contact info — can be accessed at will by US law enforcement agencies.
Many data fire hoses are still in operation. But this move slows one form of data to a drip — one that travels to Equifax but goes no further. It’s a start, but as Sen. Wyden clearly realizes, there’s a long way to go before Americans can trust the entities that collect data from us.
A few years ago, tech companies stood up to the US government, issuing statements objecting to immigration policies instituted by the Trump Administration and, in some cases, threatening to pull contracts with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the CBP (Customs and Border Protection).
It wasn’t much of a stand, however. And whatever statements were issued by companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon were mainly prompted by hundreds of employees who wished to work for companies that didn’t aid and abet in civil liberties violations, and ongoing mistreatment of immigrants and their families.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have repeatedly used a common tactic to sidestep public scrutiny and work with US immigration agencies, despite employee backlash and some company policies against doing such work.
This tactic, in which the companies use third parties or act as subcontractors to sell their technology, has helped these tech giants quietly secure dozens of cloud contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, Insider has found.
The products provided range from innocuous bundling of office software to analytics and APIs that are integral parts of surveillance systems. The use of third party resellers keeps these companies’ names from appearing in federal contracts, as well as allows them to sidestep internal protests and internal policies. Google, for instance, assured irate employees it would not assist the federal government with border surveillance. But use of third party contractors allows it to bypass the promises it made.
So much for taking a stand:
From 2015 to 2021, Amazon used third parties to sell its cloud services at least 16 times to ICE and CBP. Google used third parties to sell various cloud and professional tools at least 28 times to these agencies. Microsoft used third parties to sell its cloud services and software more than 200 times to immigration agencies from 2002 to 2021, in addition to selling to ICE and CBP directly more than 100 times.
Having briefly implied the status quo of selling to ICE and CBP was unacceptable, these companies quietly maintained the status quo by selling products via companies with far less-recognizable names like Panamerica Computers, Inc., Four Points Technology, LLC, and Systems Engineering Solutions.
And, while this reselling may not have been happening directly under these companies’ noses, it’s unlikely they were completely unaware the middlemen were securing contracts with these agencies to do the sorts of things company officials claimed they would no longer do. At best, there was an indifferent blindness. Contracts were signed with these companies and paper trails should have alerted them that their third-party partners were delivering tech to federal agencies. Employees spoken to by Haskins confirmed it’s all but impossible to remain unaware of what third party partners are doing with tech and software because of this.
These companies haven’t denied their indirect involvement in CBP and ICE border surveillance activities. But they also haven’t denied any knowledge of this use of their products. “No comment” across the board.
The surveillance business is still booming, and ICE wants more of it. It has $300 million to spend on a new system it calls RAVEn (Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment) — one that will allow it to mine hundreds of thousands of documents for data in order to find people who aren’t authorized to work in the United States. All three companies are likely to get a piece of that $300 million, at least indirectly.
People who attended the April industry-day event told Insider that companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft would probably use intermediaries rather than bid on the contracts directly.
Google “typically will not pursue as a prime on non-cloud opportunities because of the potential conflicts of interest with ALL the other companies they work with,” a person who attended the industry day told Insider. “Google will only sub and they will be non-exclusive.”
“AWS, MSFT and Google typically sell through their reseller partners,” another person who attended the industry day told Insider.
Showing solidarity with employees doesn’t mean much if you’re willing to let intermediaries do the dirty work for you. The end result is identical. The only difference is it keeps Amazon’s, Google’s, and Microsoft’s names out of the news whenever a new form of pervasive surveillance starts making the wrong kind of headlines.
Under president Donald Trump, ICE went from barely tolerable to fascist stormtroopery, doing anything in its power to kick people out of the country. Trump claimed he was just trying to make the nation safer by ridding us of the “worst of the worst.” His vague directives lit a fire under the worst ICE employees, giving them free rein to forcibly eject as many people as possible, even if those people were not the “worst,” nor even trending towards that direction.
ICE struggled to find (figuratively [but also maybe literally?]) boatloads of hardened criminals to send packing, so it decided quantity was preferable to quality. To cite just one example of ICE’s enthusiasm for ejecting even the best and brightest (along with everyone else), the agency set up and ran a fake college solely for the purpose of booting people trying to do nothing more than continue their education and satisfy the requirements of their student visas.
A court case currently being reviewed by the Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court appears to show ICE engaging in retaliation against protected speech in order to remove (check reports) a man who has lived in this country illegally, but definitely gainfully, for nearly two decades. Joel Rose has this report for NPR:
Activist Claudio Rojas says he was deported to his homeland, Argentina, for appearing in a film that criticized U.S. immigration authorities.
Rojas is one of the stars of The Infiltrators. He was invited to introduce the movie at the Miami Film Festival in 2019. Instead, Rojas was detained at a routine check-in with Immigration and Customs and Enforcement.
A few weeks later, he was deported.
Here’s a description of the film — one based partially on fact — via the Sundance Institute. The film took home two Sundance Film Festival awards at the 2019 ceremony.
Without warning, Claudio Rojas is detained by ICE officials outside his Florida home. He is transferred to the Broward Transitional Center, a detention facility used as a holding space for imminent deportations. Terrified of never seeing him again, Claudio’s family contacts the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA), a group of activist Dreamers known for stopping deportations. Believing that no one is free as long as one is in detention, NIYA enlists Marco Saavedra to self-deport with the hopes of gaining access to the detention center and impeding Claudio’s expulsion. Once inside, Marco discovers a complex for-profit institution housing hundreds of multinational immigrants, all imprisoned without trial.
In real life — like in the film — Rojas was released and headed back to his family. He was one of the lucky ones. The for-profit detention facility (along with its ICE overseers) did everything it could to keep detainees away from their legal representation prior to their almost inevitable expulsion from the country.
Rojas’ appearance in this film appears to have provoked ICE into removing him from the United States, sending him far away from the family he raised here. Need a second opinion on the optics of this ICE maneuver? Here’s the opening of Matt Fagerholm’s review of the film for Roger Ebert’s site.
A month after Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera’s “The Infiltrators” garnered two prizes at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, one of its subjects, immigrant rights activist Claudio Rojas, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during what was supposed to be a routine appointment. His subsequent deportation to Argentina, severing him from his family in the states, appears to have been a clear retaliation for Rojas’ attempts chronicled in this documentary to undermine Florida’s Broward Transitional Center, a for-profit institution that specializes in detaining immigrants without a trial or court-appointed lawyer.
Rojas challenged his removal, citing its retaliatory aspects. The district court refused to consider his request, considering everything about it moot because ICE had already sent him back to Argentina. Since he was here illegally, the court said ICE had the legal justification to kick him out, even though it had never pulled the trigger on this option until after he appeared in a film critical of ICE and its detention facilities.
What he’s heard from one of three-judge panel handling his case is promising.
[T]he Supreme Court’s ruling in the AADC case left the door open for a future deportation case that is so “outrageous,” as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, that it would cross the line.
And appeals court Judge Robin Rosenbaum asked during the hearing whether the Rojas case fits that description.
“There’s possibly an outrageous First Amendment scenario where it could be a problem,” Rosenbaum said. “It seems to me the situation couldn’t be much more outrageous than what we have here.”
While challenging removals is less likely to end in a government loss than cases involving qualified immunity, there’s still hope that this decision — and ICE’s apparently retaliatory actions — will result in Rojas having his removal reversed.
To resolve the present controversy, we need not rule out the possibility of a rare case in which the alleged basis of discrimination is so outrageous that the foregoing considerations can be overcome.
However, the rest of the concluding paragraph says this:
Whether or not there be such exceptions, the general rule certainly applies here. When an alien’s continuing presence in this country is in violation of the immigration laws, the Government does not offend the Constitution by deporting him for the additional reason that it believes him to be a member of an organization that supports terrorist activity.
It’s a long shot but it’s worth taking. If nothing else, further courtroom examination of ICE’s activities is likely to expose its selective enforcement of immigration laws — something it did plenty of under Trump, targeting the easiest-to-remove persons rather than the “worst of the worst” one of our worst presidents claimed immigration officers would prioritize. | <urn:uuid:a025d0c0-3a01-4587-bdcd-8444d1d2751b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techdirt.com/tag/ice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959644 | 10,283 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The patriarch of a famous artistic Renaissance family, Pieter Bruegel, born c. 1525, is frequently considered the best of his brood. Bruegel changed the spelling of his name from Brueghel to Bruegel, unlike the other artists in his family, but his work is unmistakable and his legendary masterpieces are among the most famous paintings in the world.
Believed to be born in the area of the Netherlands, Bruegel lived in a time and place that brewed with tension between Catholic and Protestant factions. Indeed, war would break out in 1557 toward the end of the artist’s life in the area of Flanders where he worked as a master painter in Antwerp, but during his life there was considerable religious turmoil. Yet, despite the religious and mythic subjects he painted, art historians have not conclusively assigned him to a religious faction. Little is known of his personal life except that he married the daughter of a fellow painter and had two sons, Pieter and Jan, who would also paint and father children who would continue the Brueghel artistic dynasty (Bruegel’s children returned the H to their name).
Historians believe Bruegel left his border home in Holland to live in Flanders which was becoming very prosperous. After living for years in Antwerp, the artist moved to Brussels in 1563. He also spent time studying in Rome. To put the artist’s life in context, he was born during the prime of Michelangelo and only a short while after Martin Luther’s challenge to the Catholic Church. These two influences would show their effects in the Bruegel’s work. If Michelangelo represents the Italianate Renaissance influence, then it must be owned that Bruegel’s earlier work reflects all the grandeur of such an influence. Consider the Tower of Babel paintings, works that are charged with religious symbolic meaning, yet in a singularly Bruegel style.
But Bruegel’s later work became less stylized and more simple, a style more in keeping with the north where Protestantism was growing. The Blind Leading the Blind is a keen example of the artist’s evolution to a simpler depiction. Bruegel used art to tell a story, often a parable, or to make a point—sometimes a point of protest and sometimes simply to render sixteenth-century life with sharp detail. While Bruegel is naturally treasured for his mastery of the form, he is revered for the humor, albeit dark humor, he sometimes infused in paintings like The Fight between Carnival and Lent.
Some of Bruegel’s work is social commentary like the famed Fall of Icarus where a mythical figure splashes into the bay—a seemingly grand event—but town life appears to continue in its ordinary day paying no mind. Bruegel’s extraordinary body of work is the stuff of legend in any case. Earning himself the nickname “Bruegel the Peasant,” the artist is also much known for his peasant paintings like The Peasant Wedding of 1568. Bruegel died in September 1569. Art Historians have authenticated forty-five Bruegel paintings, most of which reside in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. | <urn:uuid:bd7a25ba-fd39-425b-b97a-4aff05e8cb19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.arthistory.net/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977941 | 678 | 3.3125 | 3 |
According to the Association of British Insurers, one in four of us don’t even take out travel insurance whilst going abroad even though the cost of some overseas medical treatments can be more than the price of the average UK house.
Although many travellers assume to be covered by the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) it’ll only cover you for certain treatments in the European Economic Area which means your travel insurance is as essential as ever to avoid paying out the big bucks.
Buying insurance isn’t just a straightforward exercise either though which often deters many travellers. The are hundreds of options out there and the small print can be confusing and unclear, deterring many travellers from buying cover so make sure you know what you’re buying.
“Our latest research has found some surprising travel insurance exclusions that could catch you out on holiday,” warns Which? Travel Editor, Rory Boland.
“Companies that are burying tricky and restrictive terms in documents aren’t playing fair. If customers don’t feel they’re getting a clear and transparent deal they should vote with their feet and go elsewhere. Insurers should be making their policies easier to understand.”
So read the small print and consider these questions before buying insurance that could actually leave you owing a fortune.
You must declare any pre existing medical conditions
Pre-existing medical conditions must be declared prior to buying your insurance otherwise this could invalidate your claim.
Common conditions like Asthma or High Blood Pressure for example must be noted prior to the trip. Be honest about your medical history otherwise your past might give your future a serious financial fright.
Lost luggage might not be covered
The last thing you want when travelling is lost luggage but the situation can be made a whole lot worse if you’ve got the wrong insurance.
Many policies only cover theft or accidental loss by the airline but if you seem partly responsible from carelessness then you might not get if you’ve left your luggage in the hotel and it’s not locked up then some insurers might not compensate.
Your suitcase needs to be padlocked
Insurers like to know you’ve at least attempted to keep your valuables safe and that means having your suitcase padlocked.
Not all insurers have the same policy though so check with yours to confirm what is accepted as adequate protection.
An activity holiday requires specialist cover
If you’re hitting the slopes or the surfboard, declare it. If you’re injured during a sporting activity like skiing but haven’t bought the right insurance to cover it then it’s unlikely you’ll be covered.
We’re a nation of extreme sports lovers but every sporting activity raises the chances of an injury and if you’re injured and also not wearing a helmet for example then you might also not be covered.
You won’t be covered if you’re drunk
You don’t need to be going on a club 18 to 30 holiday to be caught out by alcohol. In fact most insurers won’t cover any alcohol (or drug) related incidents.
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It’s not something many of us have to think about very often, but you might still be interested to learn that there’s a growing movement against one-way streets in major cities all over the country. Originally built in dense urban centers as a method of ostensibly speeding up traffic flow by consolidating it in a single direction per road, traffic engineers and urban planning types are no longer so sure they help at all — but don’t get me wrong, the issue is far from settled.
Critics claim that one-way streets might actually harm downtown livability by complicating routes, blocking easy access to businesses, and tripping up inexperienced drivers — and to be absolutely fair, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t pulled a few U-turns of Shame shortly after hanging a left in the wrong direction somewhere around Ninth Street.
Keeping this in mind, it’s interesting to hear that the city plans to convert sections of two one-way streets in downtown Austin to accommodate two-way traffic, with work starting later this summer: East Fifth Street between Brazos Street and I-35; and Colorado Street between Cesar Chavez and Ninth Streets. Here’s a map to give you a better idea of the area:
Have you ever accidentally gone the wrong way on one of these streets? Probably.
One-way streets were originally introduced downtown in the 1970s, with the debate over their utility seemingly showing up around the same time.
Since then, a few of the original streets have seen conversion back to two-way traffic — for example, it’s easy to forget that a large downtown section of Cesar Chavez was one-way headed east until a conversion in 2008, and five blocks of Brazos Street between Sixth and Cesar Chavez Streets converted for two-way traffic in 2015.
The Colorado Street conversion particularly seems like a no-brainer with the emergence of the intersecting 2nd Street District, but we’ll be interested to see how the East Fifth Street changes impact the surrounding area. The city has also described Seventh and Eighth Streets as good candidates for a potential conversion sometime in the future, and two-way Fifth and Colorado Streets might be a sign that the ball’s already rolling.
The city will host open house meetings regarding the conversions on July 19th for East Fifth Street, and July 26th for Colorado Street. The description claims the purpose of the meetings is to “discuss the project and respond to any questions and concerns,” but it seems like our planners have already made up their minds. | <urn:uuid:8b116510-50b4-4019-9690-dc4b1698f7bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://austin.towers.net/one-way-out-fifth-and-colorado-streets-downtown-converting-for-two-way-traffic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964524 | 532 | 2.15625 | 2 |
|Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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|Outline of Final Research Achievements
While the phytohormone ethylene is known to play a crucial role in petal senescence in some plant species, little is known about the regulation of ethylene-independent petal senescence. In Japanese morning glory cv. Violet, an ethylene-independent flower, the abundance of microRNA156 (miR156) increased in senescing petals. We analyzed a role of potential target genes of miR156, SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE (SPL) homologs, in petal senescence. The results suggest that the SPL genes are not involved in the regulation of petal senescence; however, the SPL genes may play a role in the regulation of flowering. | <urn:uuid:157b06ff-e4ce-4cfd-adf6-4b9fedb40070> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25850026/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.840015 | 302 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Our family really enjoys bowling! Scott and I went bowling on our first date. We would go often with another couple while we were dating. It is now something we enjoy doing with our kids and their friends!
Interesting facts about bowling:
- Burns 100 Calories per hour
- It Builds Muscles – 134 muscles are exhausted in a 4 step approach
- It is a weight bearing sport – Builds strong bones!
- Sustains hand & eye coordination
- 3 games = 1 mile of walking
- Promotes family bonding! FUN for all ages!!
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What is Catholicism? And where is the Catholic Church headed in the third millennium? These two questions provide the structure for Thomas Rausch's Catholicism in the Third Millennium. Here Rausch combines a faithful presentation of the tradition with a critical theological reflection and interpretation of where the Church is today and where it might be moving.
Catholicism in the Third Millennium offers an appreciation of the forces and movements that have shaped, and continue to influence, the ongoing change and development of Roman Catholicism. Chief among these is the influence of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) in reshaping Catholicism.
This revised edition includes updated text from Rausch's Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium particularly the final chapter on "The Unfinished Agenda" of Vatican II. Each chapter concludes with focus questions developed by Catherine E. Clifford of St. Paul's University, Ottawa. This experience of guided reading provides readers with a broad survey of Roman Catholic faith and practice in its contemporary context.
For readers who wish to compare particular passages of this volume with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, an outline is provided in an appendix, with references to the appropriate sections of the Catechism. A second appendix offers a glossary of terms used in the book, while a third appendix lists a number of basic works for further investigation of Catholic faith and life.
Chapters are "The Church and the Council," "Faith and the Believing Community," "A Visible Church," "A Living Tradition," "Sacraments and Christian nitiation," "Christian Life and Discipleship," "Sin, Forgiveness, and Healing," "Sexual Morality and Social Justice," "Prayer and Spirituality," "The Fullness of Christian Hope," and "The Unfinished Agenda." Includes Appendix I: Outlook of Book, with References to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Appendix II: Glossary of Terms, and Appendix III: Basic Reference Works on Catholicism. An Index of Names, and an Index of Subjects are also included.
Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, PhD, is professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, Reconciling Faith and Reason, and editor of the bestselling The College Student's Introduction to Theology published by Liturgical Press.
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At the end of July last year the Editorial Council of Let’s Talk agreed that an issue on “peace with justice” would be timely and fruitful. We asked: How is the church involved in peace/justice issues at various levels? Has there been a “sea change” in the Lutheran approach to social ministry? We recognized the need to define “justice” from biblical and theological perspectives so as to distinguish the church’s ministry from a political party’s social program. Possible authors were suggested. Susanne Havlic and Brian Halverson agreed to serve as issue editors and to begin contacting authors and gathering material.
It was evident from the beginning that we were not of the same mind regarding the implications of the new “do justice” language being used by Lutherans. In her introduction Susanne Havlic mentions our struggle to say what justice means in our world. The observant reader will see this reflected in the issue if she or he reads Satterlee/Madden, Schwick, and Senn, preferably in that order. There is a theological divide, with implications for how we act, between Senn’s column and the first two articles. We are always pleased when such differences are expressed so well on our pages because the same differences surely exist among the people of the synod. Our job is to raise them up in a responsible way. In our search for unity as the people of God in this place we must have dialogue, together with prayer, leading to discernment.
As the issue evolved, the terrible events of September 11 demanded a place at our discussion table. In the outpouring of words that followed those events, the issue editors located two articles—one by Gilbert Meilaender, the other by Leon Spencer—which spoke especially well to the concerns for justice that we wanted to express. The respective publishers generously allowed us to reprint them. Meilaender reminds us of the need for coherent language in our talk of justice, a need the Editorial Council had already felt. He says, “…unless and until Christians can bring their talk of ‘reconciliation’ and ‘forgiveness’ into some coherent relation with the equally theological language of ‘justice,’ that theological talk will be largely idle.” Spencer speaks of evil, of doing justice and preserving unity in the face of evil, and of the context in which both good and evil happen.
Brian Halverson and Nicholas Zook review two important and timely books to round out the issue.
Every issue of Let’s Talk has a story of point and counterpoint. Now in the planning stage is an issue on liturgical norms and another on the CWA-mandated studies of ELCA policy and practice related to human sexuality. We give you this peek into our meeting room to remind you that you have a standing invitation to join our discussions (which are really your discussions) with your letters and other written responses for our pages. Our addresses, postal and electronic, are in every issue.
Tell your lay leaders about Let’s Talk—we’re on the web. Many of our articles are good grist for adult forums.
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Here is a piece from another of those endless articles on “The Passion of the Christ.” I always know that seeing the words “Jesus Scholars” will have something in it especially dumb.
“He has a long-haired Jesus…Jesus didn’t have long hair,” said physical anthropologist Joe Zias, who has studied hundreds of skeletons found in archaeological digs in Jerusalem. “Jewish men back in antiquity did not have long hair.”
“The Jewish texts ridiculed long hair as something Roman or Greek,” said New York University’s Lawrence Schiffman.
Along with extensive writings from the period, experts also point to a frieze on Rome’s Arch of Titus, erected after Jerusalem was captured in AD 70 to celebrate the victory, which shows Jewish men with short hair taken into captivity.
Erroneous depictions of Jesus in Western art have often misled film makers in their portrayal of Jesus, experts said.
Lets see, you just watched a movie that from most accounts is a gripping visual portrayal of the last hours of Christ and you walk away complaining about the hair styles? Right off the bat I can think of good reason why a frieze might have shown Jewish men with short hair. That can be the sign of a slave and not making them equal with their capture. From what I have read previously I think the actual practice of Jewish men at that time was to wear their hair in a pony tail. The earliest images of Christ like the Pantocrator show this and if the Shroud of Turin is indeed Jesus’ burial cloth then this also showed Jesus having a pony tail. But I am not going to wig out on this subject and will get to the root of the matter. It truly does not matter what his length of hair or style of it was, though I guarantee that the God-man did not have a mullet. He died for our sins he did not have his hair dyed for our sins. | <urn:uuid:9fc1baeb-60c5-447e-a9a2-11c3fa22dfb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/2004/02/hair-itics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973243 | 409 | 2.421875 | 2 |
For above Ground Tank Replacement
For most residential and some commercial applications, a tank size from 320 gal to 500 gal would be used. Tanks in this size range must be a minimum of 10 ft away from any permanent structure, 10 ft away from any ignition source (power meters, transformers, pool heaters, etc.), 10 ft from property lines, 25 ft from fire pits or other open flames, 25 ft from other fuel tanks (gasoline, diesel, heating oil, etc.), and can not be placed near septic systems, or under overhead power lines.
For Gas Inlet Placement
In most applications, two LP gas regulators are required. One is on the tank, and the other attaches directly to the gas inlet (commonly referred to as a stub). This gas inlet should not be within 3 ft of an above-ground window, or 5 ft of a window below the stub. We also ask that the stub is not more than 48 inches above the ground, and no less than 18 inches above ground. It also needs to be away from power meters, air conditioning units, appliance air intakes, and other sources of ignition. If placement to these guidelines is not possible, there are other alternatives, such as running a vent tube off of the regulator. However, this is not a preferred method. Please let us know before your set date, if these requirements can not be met.
A 500 gal propane tank weighs almost 1000 pounds empty. The Service Tech will need to be able to drive a crane truck close to where you want the tank. We can not cross septic systems, or shallow tile pipe due to the weight of this vehicle. Doing so can cause severe damage to your septic and/or drainage systems. This vehicle needs an area that is unobstructed to at least 10 feet high and wide, without excessively steep grades to safely maneuver into the tank setting position.
The service tech will also need to cut a trench about 4 inches wide, and 12 to 18 inches deep from the tank location, to the gas inlet on the structure. All underground utility lines, and drainage tiles that could be damaged by the trenching machine should be marked. These lines can be marked by your utility company, or by contacting OUPS (Ohio Utilities Protection Service) At 1-800-362-2764. You can also go to their web site by clicking here. If you’re not sure where would be the best place to set your tank, just give us a call.
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A Tyneside doctor could be struck off - for allegedly 'throwing a cup'.
Dr Richard Fielding is a Consultant Nephrologist who helps treat patients suffering from chronic kidney disease.
But the experienced doctor faces being hauled to a misconduct hearing after he was cautioned by police.
ChronicleLive understands it relates to an alleged incident in which a cup struck someone, which sparked an investigation by the General Medical Council.
That lead to a referral to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Hearing (MPTS) which will decide if Dr Fielding is fit to practise.
His employer, the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said it would be "inappropriate to comment".
It also wouldn't reveal if Dr Fielding had been suspended following the caution.
A Northumbria Police spokesperson said: "On June 11, 2018 officers responded to a report of concern for welfare.
"A 48-year-old man was spoken to and given a caution for common assault."
The MPTS website states he accepted the caution following a nine-day police investigation.
The watchdog will now investigate the claims at a three-day tribunal in Manchester starting on October 8.
The trust's website states Dr Fielding is the clinical lead at the Peritoneal Dialysis Clinic which "specialises in the renal replacement therapy peritoneal dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease".
That treatment offers frail patients the chance to be treated at home.
If Dr Fielding's ability to practice is found to be impaired, he could face a raft of disposals. They include erasure from the medical register.
The General Medical Council's register states Dr Fielding graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1993, and gained full registration a year later.
He joined the specialists register in 2007.
A GMC spokesperson added: "We are not able to discuss individual investigations.
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We deserve to know the truth about Russia’s role in electing Donald Trump as president. As I watch and read the news, national attention remains focused on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s influence over the 2016 election. We already know Russia meddled in the 2016 election. If we now discover members of the Trump campaign also interfered with the election — a question only an investigation can confirm or deny — then the foundational principle of our democracy, the right to vote, loses its integrity.
I was taught as a child that our president, our country are held to a higher standard — fair, independent, socially responsible and constitutionally accountable. If special counsel Mueller gets fired (and Trump believes he has the right to do so), the action will erode the constitutional rule of law that governs the United States. How will we explain that action to students? To people registering to vote? To people who want to become American citizens? Firing the special counsel will immeasurably damage our country and its regard in the world. | <urn:uuid:87fa9224-503f-444e-95ae-577c59389838> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Letter-Mueller-probe-matters-12879163.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953416 | 213 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Healthy Snacks For Low Blood Sugar – Exactly How to Control Blood Sugar to Quit Diabetes
To control blood sugar naturally, cut out carbs from your diet regimen. However, don’t totally remove them from your diet plan. Starchy foods might be tasty, but they can likewise cause a high blood sugar degree. Along with restricting carbohydrates, you ought to likewise avoid sugary drinks. These are the most awful sort of carbohydrates for your body. They can trigger insulin resistance, so prevent them as much as possible. By removing sugar from your diet, you can regulate your blood sugar normally.
Eating a balanced diet is another good way to regulate blood sugar level naturally. You need to eat foods that support your body’s natural processes and keep your blood glucose levels in the range you want. By getting rid of processed and also unhealthy food, you can avoid unnecessary sugar as well as other chemicals discovered in processed food. You must also stay clear of starchy foods in your diet plan. Those that contain high degrees of carbs might cause you to have higher blood sugar. It is best to restrict these foods if you are a diabetic person.
Another method to regulate blood sugar normally is to cut carbohydrates. You need to consume fruits and vegetables, which are abundant in fiber and healthy and balanced fats. These foods are likewise nutrient-rich and also will certainly help you control your blood sugar levels. They are likewise great for your health and wellness. You need to not starve yourself. Always consume a balanced diet that consists of the correct amount of carbohydrates. It will make your blood sugar level degrees much more stable.
This will make sure that your blood sugar remains secure. By consuming the appropriate foods, you can balance your blood sugar naturally. If you’re not obtaining adequate sleep, you might be storing too much sugar in your body.
Not only will this cause their blood sugar to climb also high, however it will also impair their body’s all-natural functions. As an outcome, an individual with diabetes need to stay clear of eating foods that have high amounts of carbohydrates.
Advantages of a Natural Blood Sugar Level Supplement
An All-natural Blood glucose Supplement can aid you control your blood sugar levels. It can contain ingredients like cinnamon remove, amino, as well as l-taurine acids. Many reliable supplements will use dosages backed by medical researches. Besides these, many of these supplements are tasteless as well as unsmelling, so it is easy to take them on the move. A natural blood glucose supplement can aid you reduce weight and also improve your health. Below are some advantages of an all-natural blood glucose supplement.
An excellent blood glucose supplement has the right ingredients, but it is supplied at the incorrect dosage. Some producers hide weak dosages by not divulging the precise amounts of their components. The best ones have solid does that resemble the ones made use of in clinical research studies and clinical trials. They’re made by certified physicians. Read this write-up if you’re fretted about the side impacts of some all-natural blood sugar supplements. If a supplement is best for you, this will certainly aid you determine.
An All-natural Blood Sugar Level Supplement is an excellent option for diabetics. It contains essential active ingredients that can boost metabolic wellness. The components trigger power centers in the body and also advertise a healthy and balanced metabolic rate. This supplement is also safe and also efficient for diabetics who are on medication or need to manage their healthy snacks for low blood sugar levels. If you’re unsure about which natural blood sugar level supplement to pick, see to it to consult your medical professional first. When you’re dealing with diabetes, it’s crucial to have the best kind of assistance.
The primary purpose of a blood sugar assistance supplement is to maintain blood glucose levels. Instead, it needs to help you manage your blood sugar levels by maintaining them. If you’re concerned about your blood sugar degrees, you should take into consideration a natural blood sugar supplement.
If you’re looking for a natural blood sugar supplement, you need to constantly consult your medical professional initially. The only method to make sure that you’re getting the ideal therapy is to prevent taking diabetes mellitus drugs and also supplements that communicate with them. The most effective supplements will be FDA-approved and also contain no artificial ingredients. They ought to not change your existing medicine. You ought to seek advice from with your doctor about a natural blood sugar supplement if you’re presently taking insulin.
An all-natural blood sugar supplement can be a good selection for diabetic issues patients. They can aid you control your blood sugar degrees normally and can likewise enhance your metabolic process.
It is necessary to note that you need to never ever quit taking your medicine because of a blood sugar level supplement. Even if it’s secure for you to take it, you must still proceed taking your routine diabetic issues medications. You may end up with a greater healthy snacks for low blood sugar than you ‘d such as. The best all-natural blood glucose supplement will certainly not interfere with your drugs. Simply remember to adhere to the directions. This is a fantastic selection for people with diabetes.
Unlike man-made drugs, a natural blood glucose supplement can aid you preserve your blood glucose degrees naturally. It’s not advised for diabetics, yet it’s secure to take a natural blood sugar level supplement if you’re already diabetic person. Moreover, all-natural blood sugar level supplements may boost your danger of developing diabetes. In spite of these dangers, it is very important to examine the label of the supplement you pick. You should never take supplements without consulting your physician.
The best all-natural blood sugar supplement need to be made with 19 high-grade active ingredients. The active ingredients in this item are proven to assist you stabilize your blood sugar.
Checking your blood sugar levels routinely is the first step in regulating your blood sugar. An All-natural Blood Sugar Supplement can aid you manage your blood sugar levels. The major function of a blood sugar assistance supplement is to maintain blood glucose degrees. If you’re worried regarding your blood glucose degrees, you need to consider a natural blood sugar supplement.
Unlike fabricated pharmaceuticals, a natural blood sugar supplement can assist you keep your blood sugar levels normally.
Control Blood Sugar Normally With Glucofort
If used routinely, Glucofort may even assist reverse type 2 diabetes mellitus. Glucofort is delivered directly to the consumer. Glucofort has actually verified to be a powerful supplement for controling blood sugar degrees.
Glucofort jobs by eliminating toxins that cause diabetes mellitus.
This supplement is designed to help you eliminate toxins from your body as well as stabilize your blood sugar levels. The pills are simple to take and also ought to be taken once daily. You can take them anytime, even on an empty belly. You need to not exceed the advised dosage. Keep the bottle in an amazing, dry area as well as far from children. Glucofort comes in a container with 30 pills.
It additionally enhances the immune system by purging out contaminants, reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as enhancing energy levels. It assists control blood sugar degrees as well as shields your body from the effects of diabetes-related neuropathy.
Glucofort targets a specific particle in your body that layers sugar. The unused glucose accumulates in your body, impacting the functioning of all your natural body organs. By removing this particle, you can boost sugar metabolism. Glucofort can turn around diabetes mellitus and also improve blood glucose degrees naturally. Besides promoting healthy healthy snacks for low blood sugar degrees, Glucofort additionally gets rid of toxins that trigger diabetic issues.
Glucofort works by eliminating ceramides, which push fat cells into the blood stream. This toxins require vital organs to clog, which makes it harder for the pancreatic to generate insulin as well as redistribute sugar to various other body components. Along with decreasing the quantity of glucose in your blood, Glucofort provides essential nutrients to your system. Along with enhancing your diabetes mellitus, it advertises cardio health.
Glucofort needs to be taken by adults over 18 years old with food, and also must not be raised beyond the suggested dosage. This will certainly help you determine if Glucofort is ideal for you.
It protects against fat cells from traveling through the blood stream.
Glucofort is a dietary supplement that assists the body damage down fat cells and activate its very own reversing mechanism. High blood sugar levels are a big trouble due to the fact that they make it challenging for the body to use glucose, converting it to fat.
You recognize exactly how harmful the buildup of fat can be if you’re a diabetic person. Not just can it harm your vital organs, however it can likewise bring about cardiovascular diseases and cardiac arrest. Thankfully, Glucofort functions to avoid fat cells from traveling via the blood stream as well as keep blood sugar levels within a normal array. It does this by flushing out the fats called Ceramides.
Glucofort jobs by destroying the ceramides in your bloodstream, which are in charge of pushing fat cells through the blood stream. Ceramides are foreign invaders that block vital organs and prevent the pancreas from creating insulin, the hormonal agent that rearranges glucose throughout the body. By preventing the manufacturing of ceramides, Glucofort avoids fat cells from traveling via the bloodstream, which can turn around the effects of diabetic issues.
The exclusive formula in Glucofort includes 11 all-natural ingredients that have anti-hyperglycemic, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory buildings. It additionally avoids foreign invaders from the body and decreases blood glucose degrees. Regardless of its all-natural components, several of the business’s elements are derived from typical practices. There are some suspicious ones.
If you’re not pleased with the item, you can return it for a refund within 60 days of purchase. As soon as you have actually been approved, Glucofort will certainly provide a reimbursement for you.
It enhances insulin level of sensitivity
The initial component in Control Blood sugar level Naturally with GlucoforT is a details molecule called Ceramides. Ceramides are created in the body in an adverse responses loophole. They force fat cells to explode into the blood stream, where the released harmful fat obstructions arteries and asphyxiates interior body organs. Ceramides additionally inhibit insulin manufacturing and also purge them from the body. No diet plan or drug can eliminate these substances.
Cayenne Pepper is understood to lower blood sugar as well as improve insulin sensitivity. It is likewise recognized to reduce cholesterol and triglycerides.
Glucofort is an all-natural supplement that assists in the processing of ceramides. It additionally assists boost the performance of the pancreas by minimizing fat around it. It is as well as has natural components made in an FDA-registered production facility. It is likewise manufactured under GMP-certified conditions, which makes sure the safety of its active ingredients. Its formula likewise boosts insulin level of sensitivity, an important consider the management of blood sugar level.
The brand-new formula is known to improve insulin sensitivity as well as glucose metabolism, which is necessary in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus Lowering the excess body fat around essential body organs, Glucofort also boosts insulin sensitivity, which helps the body control blood sugar degrees and also avoids other diseases. Those that experience diabetes mellitus can currently live a healthy and balanced lifestyle without having to make any kind of radical way of living adjustments.
It might reverse kind 2 diabetes mellitus.
Glucofort is a supplement that declares to help control blood sugar level degrees naturally. The supplement has cinnamon, which is recognized to aid enhance blood glucose levels by motivating cells to utilize sugar as opposed to kept fat. It likewise consists of L-taurine, a substance that aids to increase insulin manufacturing and broaden capillary. This combination of components has been revealed to turn around numerous symptoms of diabetic issues and may reverse kind 2 diabetes mellitus.
The secret to Glucofort hinges on the reality that it works without requiring significant way of life modifications. It is really challenging for lots of people to maintain a healthy way of living and also couple of individuals are able to squeeze in sufficient exercise. What if you could manage blood sugar normally without having to make significant changes? Glucofort is a supplement that aids maintain a healthy healthy snacks for low blood sugar as well as general body wellness without any major way of living modifications.
The dietary supplement is secure for adults and also appropriate for both ladies and also males. Pregnant females and breastfeeding mothers must stay clear of taking it. It must be kept in an amazing completely dry place and also away from light and water. You must only take one tablet computer a day, as well as it is a good idea to consult with your medical professional if you are under any kind of medication. Along with minimizing your danger of diabetes mellitus, Glucofort can likewise help you increase power degrees and also combat neurosis.
Glucofort works by targeting the root creates of Type 2 diabetes by improving sugar metabolism. It aids individuals lose excess body fat around their important organs and promotes a healthy neighborhood.
Some individuals with Type 2 diabetics issues are overweight as well as need to undertake bariatric surgical treatment to decrease the dimension of their bellies. These treatments work in reducing blood glucose degrees, yet are not a remedy for the disease. Some people likewise struggle with other way of living aspects. These aspects will affect your chances of turning around diabetes. As well as Glucofort may be one of the best methods to manage blood sugar normally.
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1. Multidisciplinary global project
As filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier and photographer Edward Burtynsky issued an environmental wake-up call, it was revelatory to see documentary film and art photography working together so powerfully in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch and the two accompanying exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada.
2-3. Retro pieces of animation
In creating Isle of Dogs, easily the most inventive animated film of the year, director Wes Anderson was inspired by the stop-motion films of his childhood, using fluffy puppets to play winsome dogs and wax dolls to represent their less-attractive human masters. Mary Poppins Returns also looked successfully backward. It pays tribute to the pioneering mix of live action and animation in the original 1964 Mary Poppins with a sequence where the live actors enter a dance hall filled with cartoon animals. To contemporary eyes, they look startlingly flat, like drawings come to life.
4-6. Wicked performances
In The Favourite, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone play off each other deliciously in the roles of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and her poor relation Abigail Masham, two courtiers fighting for control of the 18th-century Queen Anne. Caught between them, Olivia Colman’s Anne is magnificently petulant and childlike – in between flashes of cunning and pathos.
7-10. ‘Foreign’ films
Categories can be misleading. The most impressive film I saw in 2018 was a title released the year before that arrived belatedly in Toronto: Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot, an Israeli drama about a family whose son dies doing his military service, uses a stylish blend of surreal form and courageous content to symbolize a country trapped in trauma.
And the term foreign film is an odd one in Canada – all U.S. films are foreign, after all, while French-language films from Quebec are domestic. Anyway, Australia is very far away and Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, a tale of outback justice set amidst English settlers and aboriginal labourers, is a searing post-colonial classic.
Add Transit to the list of 2018 highlights: Christian Petzold’s German-and-French-language drama cunningly transports a story of Second World War refugees to a place that looks like contemporary France.
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The Representation of the people (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1956
Act No. 88 of 1956
[28th December, 1956.]
An Act to provide for the removal of disqualifications for membership of, and voting at elections to, Parliament and State Legislatures, and for certain miscellaneous matters in connection with such elections.
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Rabbi Rami Pavolotzky
This week we read Parashat Naso, which happens to be the longest parasha of the Torah. This is partly due to the fact that parashat Naso also contains the longest chapter of the whole Torah. Indeed, Numbers chapter 7 is 89 verses long!
What do we find in the longest chapter of the Torah? This chapter tells us that on the day when Moses had finished setting up the Tabernacle and sanctified and anointed it, the heads of the tribes (the nesiim, the “chieftains of Israel”) brought offerings before God. These offerings included money, animals, flour, incense, gold, and silver.
Each head of their tribe brought an identical offering to the others. Surprisingly, the Torah tells in detail the offering brought by each one of the twelve leaders, even when each offering was identical to the previous one! Since we know that it is not the way of the Torah to include unnecessary, redundant words, why did the Torah tell in detail each offering? Why not just describe one of them and then simply say that the rest of the heads of the tribes brought exactly the same offering?
The sages explain that no head of the tribe imitated the other ones. Even when each one brought the same offering as the others; each one was unique to the person who brought it. Each one had a different intention and put a different meaning in his offering.
We can learn many lessons from this rather simple interpretation by the rabbis. One important lesson is that, although sometimes we tend to look at a group of people as being identical, that impression is usually wrong. When we know people better and deeper, we are able to understand how each one is different and unique.
We are likely to terribly misjudge people if we judge them only by their appearance or by other external signs, without knowing them or appreciating how different and unique everyone really is.
The brutal death of George Floyd by law enforcement last week, reminded everybody how the American people still, sadly, struggles with racism and discrimination. Racism is still embedded within American law enforcement and its justice system, seen in social inequality and in many other social fields, sometimes in explicit ways, sometimes in more subtle ways. The horrific events of this past week opened the eyes of millions of people for whom racism was not easy to see or admit. For many, this is the time to fight racism and put an end to it.
Fighting racism is an enterprise that requires multiple efforts on many different levels. One skill we must certainly develop is the lesson from this week’s parasha. We must stop seeing entire groups of people as if they were all the same. We must stop judging people only by the way they look or by “the offerings they bring.” We need to greatly improve our ability to know and judge people beyond their appearance, social status, or any other external sign. We need to engage in social dialogue not only with those who are “like us,” but also with those who are not like us. We need to discover that every human being, independently of what racial or religious group he/she belongs to, is unique and different. Even when it is hard for many of us to see it, we all bring unique gifts to this world, that must be respected and appreciated.
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I’m certain I wasn’t alone when I felt the collective air escaping from people’s hopes on December 8th, last year. That date saw The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, reverse Brendan Dassey’s granted petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and with that, disbelief ensued.
Ten-weeks past, and Dassey’s appeal to The Supreme Court is in waiting. Being the final recourse for relief, ten-weeks more, could still find the public waiting*. Understandably so. Steven Drizin, Dassey’s co-counsel, and Clinical Professor of Law at Northwestern Prtizker School of Law, reassured the public that Dassey’s fight for justice remains strong.
*Since the publication of this article, Steven Drizin has indicated that, “We expect to file a brief within a matter of days, not weeks, and then it will be revealed who has been added to the Dassey team.”
Whilst SCOTUS accepting to hear Dassey’s appeal is against the odds, his case has clearly polarised opinion amongst judges. With 8 federal judges evenly split as to whether Dassey’s confession was voluntary, and public opinion— not only in the US, but from all around the world— crying out for Dassey’s conviction to be vacated, hope remains.
A question being asked more and more often is, how can the public be pro-active, and help elicit change? While Dassey shot into the public-eye via the hit docu-series, Making a Murderer, cases liken to his remain less exposed. Whether public opinion influences decisions made by the courts is debatable, but an educated public not only leads to understanding, but also makes rise to important debate. With educated debate, change can occur.
Much has been written on the Reid Technique— used on Dassey during his interrogation—and it’s propensity for extracting confessions, some of which false. Studies into interrogation techniques by Law and Human Behaviour, a bimonthly journal, dedicated to discussing ‘issues arising from the relationships between human behaviour and the law, the legal system, and the legal process’ indicated that 91% of officers ‘receive informal, “on the job” interrogation training.’ Included in the study, were findings suggesting, ‘ that police interrogate youth in the same manner as adults’ as ‘usage patterns were identical for adult and juvenile suspects.’
Although these findings relate to Dassey directly—he was 16 at the time of his interrogations— highlighting issues with Reid purely on age, could fall short on addressing the underlying issue. One person’s 16 could easily equate to another’s 25 in terms of mentality. Dassey’s IQ was also often brought before the judges of varying courts, but again, these are just numbers used to measure. I know many people, who if subjected to an interrogation akin to that of Dassey’s, who would quite possibly have assumed the same fate. Are they juveniles? Are they of low IQ? No, on neither account. The fundamental problem is Reid as a whole.
Does there need to be a demarcation as to when a juvenile becomes an adult for purposes of law? Sure, and I accept that, yet the reality is that people are different. Persons of interest need to be seen as individuals and susceptibility to false confessions should not be measured by numbers.
Of course, techniques used for questioning potential suspects are important— so what are the alternatives?
PEACE, standing for: Preparation & Planning, Engage and Explain, Account, Closure and Evaluate is one such alternative. The PEACE method utilises more of an interview style rather than that of an interrogation. At its heart, PEACE concludes that the truth can be gleaned more reliably by engaging the interviewee in a more relaxed and less accusational manner. Intimidation can often lead to suspects telling the interviewer what they want to hear, as a defence-mechanism to alleviating the confrontation. Juveniles and those with learning difficulties have been shown to be more susceptible, but nobody is immune to fear. Some deal with it better than others, but in relation to innocence or guilt, the comparisons don’t marry.
Like PEACE, the Defence Barrier Removal system also focuses on building a rapport with the suspect. By creating a non-threatening atmosphere, DBR claims to be a ‘highly effective method of getting a suspect to tell the truth.’ Unlike PEACE, DBR is already used in several states of the US.
Just knowing these techniques are used in countries such as Britain and Canada (PEACE) and the US(DBR) to great effect, still doesn’t help the likes of Dassey and others convicted by confessions via the Reid Technique. For the current, and future generations to benefit this needs to change, and this is where the public can help. Rejecting the Reid Technique, and promoting other methods can be done by contacting your local legislators. You can find who represents you by going here. Write to them, and let them know how you feel. The more that your local representatives realise that— not only are you are unhappy, but you are also educated in these techniques— the more likely change can occur. By all means, spread the word on social media, but please get in contact with the relevant authorities.
Whatever techniques are used however, confessions being corroborated by further evidence is essential. When the punishment for conviction can be life-in-prison, or even death in certain states in the US, relying on only one form of evidence can easily lead to wrongful convictions. While certain judges at the 7th Circuit proffer that Dassey’s confession alluded to details that could only be known to Teresa Halbach’s murderer, the sheer lack of any further evidence is conspicuous by its absence.
Facts and Figures
Police-induced false confessions are among the leading causes of wrongful convictions.
Since the late 1980s, six studies alone have documented approximately 250 interrogation-induced false confessions.
In Bedau and Radelet’s 1987 study, false confessions were the third leading cause of wrongful conviction; In Warden’s 2003 study they were the single leading cause.
Police-induced false confessions appear to occur primarily in the more serious cases, especially homicides and other high-profile felonies.
More than 80 percent of the 125 false confessions documented by Professors Steve Drizin and Richard Leo occurred in homicide cases.
False confessions make for the leading cause of wrongful convictions in homicide cases.
More than two-thirds of the DNA-cleared homicide cases documented by the Innocence Project were caused by false confessions.
There have been 317 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States.
Exonerations have been won in 38 states; since 2000, there have been 250 exonerations.
In about 30% of DNA exoneration cases, innocent defendants made incriminating statements, delivered outright confessions or pled guilty.
18 of the 258 people exonerated through DNA served time on death row.
The average length of time served by exonerates is 13.5 years.
The average age of exonerees at the time of their wrongful convictions is 27.
92% of false confessors are men.
The most common bases for exoneration were the real perpetrator was identifed (74%) or that new scientiific evidence was discovered (46%).
63% of false confessors were under the age of 25, and 32% were under 18; yet of all persons arrested for murder and rape, only 8 and 16%, respectively, are juveniles.
22% were mentally retarded and 10% had a diagnosed mental illness.
Multiple false confessions to the same crime were obtained in 30% of the cases, wherein one false confession was used to prompt others.
2009 brought 22 new cases of DNA exonerations of people wrongly convicted. The overall total is 258, and the Innocence Project reports that roughly 25% had given false confessions.
Among a total of 340 exonerations of all kinds documented between 1989 and 2003, 15 percent involved false confessions.
Of the 24 exonerations in New York State, 13 have been based upon false confession. Two-thirds of murder convictions overturned by DNA evidence turned out to have been based on false confessions.
Over 850 jurisdictions nationwide, including the states of Alaska, Minnesota and Illinois, regularly record police interrogations.
According to a report by the Northwestern University School of Law, after speaking with hundreds of police jurisdictions, the researchers found that “virtually every officer with whom we spoke, having given custodial recordings a try, was enthusiastically in favor of the practice.”
Sixty-eight percent indicated that they believed a suspect would confess falsely “not very often” (40 percent) or “almost never” (28 percent). This quantifies the perception of trial attorneys who report that the vast majority of potential jurors insist that it is not possible for someone to confess to a crime he did not commit.
There have been 43 wrongful confessions in New York State: New York outpaces almost every other state in the number of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing.
In the last seven years, there has been a particularly high number of DNA exonerations in New York State. Since 2000, 17 wrongfully convicted people in New York have been exonerated with DNA evidence; seven of the 17 were wrongfully convicted of murder.
In 10 of New York’s 26 DNA exonerations, the actual perpetrator was later identified.
In nine of those 10 cases, the actual perpetrators of crimes for which innocent people were wrongfully convicted went on to commit additional crimes while an innocent person was in prison. According to law enforcement reports, five murders, seven rapes, two serious assaults and one robbery at gunpoint were committed by the actual perpetrators of crimes for which innocent people were committed – and each of those crimes was committed after the wrongful arrest or conviction, so they could have been prevented if wrongful convictions had not happened.
Eyewitness misidentification played a role in 13 of the 23 wrongful convictions in New York that were overturned with DNA testing.
In 11 of the 26 cases in New York, innocent people falsely confessed or admitted to crimes that DNA later proved they did not commit.
Limited or unreliable forensic science played a role in 10 of the 23 wrongful convictions in New York that were overturned through DNA evidence. In nine of those ten cases, the actual perpetrators of crimes for which innocent people were wrongfully convicted went to commit additional crimes while an innocent person was in prison. According to law enforcement reports, five murders, seven rapes, two serious assaults and one robbery at gunpoint were committed by the actual perpetrators of crimes for which innocent people were committed – and each of those crimes was committed after the wrongful arrest or conviction, so they could have been prevented if wrongful convictions had not happened.
—Facts & Figures courtesy of falseconfessions.org Correct as of 2014—
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Itthambhuta, Itthaṃbhūta, Ittham-bhuta: 10 definitions
Itthambhuta means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Pali-English dictionarySource: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary
itthaṃbhūta : (adj.) being thus; of this kind.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionarySource: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary
itthambhūta (इत्थंभूत).—ad S (ittham Thus, bhūta Past, been.) As it happened; exactly as it occurred or existed--telling, narrating. itthambhūtakathana-nivēdana-varṇana- pratipādana-vicāra-prakāra &c.Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English
itthambhūta (इत्थंभूत).—ad As it happened exactly as it occurred.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionarySource: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary
1) so circumstanced, being in this state, being thus; °आख्याने (ākhyāne) P.I.4.9; Meghadūta 96; Kumārasambhava 6.26; Ś.3.5; कथ- मित्थंभूता (katha- mitthaṃbhūtā) M.5, K.146.
2) true or faithful (as a story).
Itthambhūta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ittham and bhūta (भूत).Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
(-taḥ-tā-taṃ) Become thus or in such manner. E. ittham and bhūta become.Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Itthaṃbhūta (इत्थंभूत).—[adjective] being thus, so qualified, of this kind.Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1) Itthambhūta (इत्थम्भूत):—[=ittham-bhūta] [from ittham] mfn. become thus, being thus or in such manner
2) [v.s. ...] so circumstanced, [Pāṇini; Śakuntalā; Meghadūta etc.]Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Itthambhūta (इत्थम्भूत):—[(taḥ-tā-taṃ) a.] Become so.
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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How is this supposed to work, if there are no problems? When I open a simple C file and press Apple-R, it says something about not being able to build with XCode. Is there some way to just build and run more simply?
BTW, I did just download the latest C bundle and Support folder from the SVN. (And yes, it does say that my support folder is in /Library/Application \ Support/...) Thanks.
On Oct 8, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Marc Feldesman wrote:
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It returns an empty line.
Sorry that should have been:
ruby -e 'puts File.exists?(ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"] + "/lib/tm/ executor.rb")'
If TM_SUPPORT_PATH is pointing correctly to your svn checkout of the Support directory, and that checkout is also up to date, this will return true.
I've got 30 years of programming experience. If I'm having this much trouble after following the directions in 5.7 and especially 5.7.4 to the letter, how do less experienced people deal with these problems?
Why doesn't Textmate simply set these preferences out of the box and run without this much fiddling. AquaEmacs works without anything special. SlickEdit works without anything special. XCode works out of the box. Why is TextMate so fiddly?
TextMate also works out of the box, but you've elected to install prerelease code via svn. Most people do not encounter these problems because they just use the bundles that are shipped with TextMate.
I might not have bought it if it didn't compile C or C++ code out of the box. It is advertised as a programmer's editor. I haven't found many programmer's editor that don't do the basic things a programmer's editor do, such as compile code with basic tools. The instructions made it appear pretty easy to update and adding the new C bundle was trivial. Only after pouring through the list here did I discover that the Support directory needed to be updated, and even after following the directions exactly, you now tell me that an essential subfolder isn't there. How would I know that? I mean, I'm grateful for your help, but this shouldn't really be so difficult to track down the source of an install error and a path/ directory error.
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The United States pushed Russia closer to the brink of a historic debt default on Wednesday by not extending its licence to pay bondholders, as Washington ramps up pressure on the country following its invasion of Ukraine.
The US Treasury Department said on its website late on Tuesday it would not extend the licence, set to expire at 12:01 am ET (0401 GMT) on Wednesday, which allowed Russia to make interest and maturity payments on its sovereign debt to US persons, reports Reuters.
That waiver has allowed Russia to keep up government debt payments, but its expiry now appears to make default inevitable - the country's first major one on international sovereign bonds in more than a century.
Almost $2 billion worth of payments on Russian international bonds fall due before year-end.
Western sanctions imposed after the Kremlin's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, and countermeasures from Moscow, have complicated the movement of money across borders, yet Russia has made a conscious effort to keep paying bondholders.
"If the bondholders don't get their money when the money is due, factoring in any grace periods that apply, Russia will be in default on a sovereign debt," said Jay Auslander, a partner at law firm Wilk Auslander. "With the waiver gone, there seems to be no way for bondholders to get paid."
While the licence only applies to US persons, its lapse will make it challenging for Russia to pay other holders given the integral part US institutions play in the global financial system and the complexity of such payment processes.
On Friday, Russia had rushed forward payments on two international bonds - one denominated in euros and one in dollars - a week before the due date.
But its dash to get the money into creditors' bank accounts ahead of the waiver's expiry might not have left enough time for what is often a multi-day and complex payment process.
One Asia-based bondholder said the payment had not arrived in the firm's account by Wednesday.
Russia has a 30-day grace period on the two payments.
The country's $40 billion of international bonds have come under the spotlight in recent weeks as debate raged over whether or not to extend the licence.
Deputy US Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo previously said the payments syphoned funds away from Moscow's Ukraine war effort and were a "sign of success" for US sanctions policy.
But Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week said Washington was unlikely to extend the licence. read more
Unlike in most default situations, Moscow is not short of money. Debt repayment dues pale in comparison to oil and gas export earnings - in April alone, soaring energy prices enabled Russia to reap $28 billion in revenues.
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Association football, also known as football or simply football, is an inter-level team sport usually played between two sides of eleven players. It’s played by more than 250 million people in more than 200 nations and dependencies, making it the most popular game in the world. It can be played in any part of the world where a large number of people who speak the same language can be found, although typically it’s played in what’s called a’reteve’. This means that football can only be played between people who speak the same language, though other sports such as rugby and baseball also use this criterion.
There are a lot of similarities between rugby and football. Both involve playing a ball within a certain area with a goal post, with the two sides vying for the ball and trying to score. The difference lies in the way the game is played. Whereas in rugby, the play goes through a number of phases before a goal can be scored, in football each phase gets shorter and quicker.
To play the game, a team of players needs to line up behind their goalie, who sits in the middle of the penalty box. From this box, the players kick the ball forward, attempting to hit it into the goal. The object of the game is not to kick the ball as hard as possible; instead, the object is to strike the ball into the opposing team’s goal using either a foot or a head touch. If a player hits the ball with a head touch, a penalty is awarded, and the opposing team receives one point for the foul. However, if a foot blow hits the ball and it is not touched by a head touch, no foul is given.
As mentioned, the game is played at a relatively slow pace, with only about seven minutes per quarter. This, in combination with the fact that there are only seven players on each team, means that the actual game length is considerably shorter than in tennis, or baseball. To add to the drama of the game, a penalty is assessed when a player deliberately grounds out the ball, thus disqualifying his team from the game. This is referred to as “the kick” in soccer, and is considered a foul by many.
Despite the short length of most soccer games, many people enjoy watching the sport. Most people who do watch the sport watch it in a professional league, such as the English Premier League. While this is a highly competitive league, it is considered a fun sport to follow because goals come often and the game is exciting to watch. Because of its high standards of play and the large number of fans that attend matches, the EPL regularly attracts the top players from around the world. In addition, compared to other major sports, such as baseball and basketball, the EPL allows a variety of players from different nationalities and cultures to participate.
The different codes for football also present special challenges to the football fans. Soccer rules football is different from football rules in other countries, which can be confusing for the casual soccer fan. The North American Soccer League, or the MLS, the American division of the English premiership football league, requires players to wear uniforms made by approved manufacturers. The rules of this league are not nearly as strict as those found in different codes, but the competition is fierce among American football aficionados. | <urn:uuid:cf16742f-8d58-44d5-8e01-7a472dac5fc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://barklund.org/the-different-codes-of-soccer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979013 | 683 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Secondary stability, also known as reserve stability, is a boat or ship's ability to right itself at large angles of heel (lateral tilt), as opposed to primary or initial stability, the boat's tendency to stay laterally upright when tilted to low (<10°) angles.
A greater lateral width (beam (nautical), beam) and more initial stability decrease the secondary stability- once tilted more than a certain angle the boat is conversely harder to restore to its stable upright position.
Other types of ship stability
* Primary stability
* Tertiary stability: For kayak rolling, tertiary stability, or the stability of an upside-down kayak, is also important (lower tertiary stability makes rolling up easier)
* Ship stability
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In elements we aim to ensure that children not only have a wonderful time in nature but that they learn something about it as well. By doing practical activity, we cover several learning objectives. This is the beauty of practical education – it is economical, and the observer/participant gets to directly experience the learning.
Here are a few core ideas we organise around.
- It is always seasonal and based on the land around us. This is to bring a sense of rhythm and wonder to the sessions – and a deep appreciation of the miracle of our planet. We also attempt to make the experience as genuine as possible. For instance, we will use real binoculars, real knives, real experiments which are meaningful and have a true outcome.
- It is environmentally friendly. We will always try to ensure that we draw from the resources around us. Repurposing items which we have, making sure that we bring as few items which do not biodegrade e.g glitter.
- There will always be a balance between art and science. Our activities will seamlessly weave between history, literature, art, science and technology. e.g. making oak gall which the monks did for their medieval manuscripts
- Story telling not story reading is a must. As trained storytellers we ensure that there is a time, a moment for the children to stop, reflect and listen to stories which are told, keeping the oral traditions alive.
- We give back. We always try to incorporate something the children can do for the land e.g. clearing ivy, counting frogs, etc
- Playing is hard work. Taking calculated risks are necessary. Reading the sessions, if the children need to explore and play, we will work that in as well. We also ensure that the children get a chance to experience a thrilling sense of the outdoors. All within the bounds of safety, of course.
Our commitment to the environment is also seen even in the servers we have used which are run off renewable energy. Everything makes a difference, no matter how small and working we children we know this is 100% true.
If you think you may be interested in what we have to offer whether it is a series of sessions, homeschooling outings or birthday parties do get in touch with us.
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Many are embarrassed when they try to dance. Starting out with no dance experience can often feel uncomfortable being around the wrong people, and as a result, most people don't want to dance at all.
Hitting the head took a long time, and dancing was abandoned for generations. With the huge popularity of TV dance shows and video games in recent times, gaining some dancing skills is more important than ever.For more online dance classes you can search Top best dancers at https://bechuzi.com/chuzi/amit-rokade-a-dance-pioneer-of-dance-challenge-app-chu .
The first thing you need to understand is that no move looks so bad. If the person is laughed at, it's usually because the inexperienced dance moves seem solid. In fact, a lot of people don't know what they're doing, but it still makes them stand out by dancing.
Absolute beginners just have to start moving into the rhythm and get creative with it. There are many simple dance routines that one can start with, but the main goal is to perfect them all as you go along.
Looking in the mirror or an image with a camera phone will help you figure out what the dance moves look like before showing them off to others. Even if it doesn't follow, a routine conversion that goes better than blinking looks a lot better to the viewer.
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Huge new aquarium to form centerpiece of Miami's Museum of Science
An impressive engineering operation has been carried out to create the centerpiece of the new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami. Created in one continuous concrete pour that took 24 hours and 49 minutes, the 500,000 gal (1,900,000 l) Gulf Stream Tank aquarium will be home to a number of deep sea species which visitors will be able to view from both top and bottom.
The creation of the cone-shaped Gulf Stream Tank, which forms part of a larger aquarium, is one part of the Miami Science Museum redevelopment as it becomes the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. The new museum has been designed by Grimshaw Architects.
As well as being able to look down into the open surface of the tank that is 100 ft (30 m) in diameter, visitors to the completed venue will be able to look up into it through an oculus that is 30 ft diameter. The oculus is reminiscent of the dome at New York's Fulton Center, which is also designed by Grimshaw.
To ensure the integrity of the tank once complete, the concrete had to be poured continuously. It took 120 truckloads to transport the 1,200 cu yd (920,000 l) of concrete required to form the structure. Crews then worked to spread the concrete over the 9,000 sq ft (836 sq m) surface area of the tank.
The tank walls vary between 28-in (71 cm) and 56-in (142 cm) of thickness and the structure also includes 370 tons (336 tonnes) of epoxy coated steel reinforcement and 700 high-strength post tensioning cables to prevent it from cracking.
Once completed, the Gulf Stream Tank will house hammerhead sharks, tuna, sea turtles and other deep sea species. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is due to open in 2016.
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8th Language Arts Scope and Sequence
What can we learn from the experiences of others?
How can Democracy be expressed through an individual's voice?
Build writing skills through daily journals, short stories, poetry, research projects, and five paragraph essays
Annotate texts and use textual evidence in support of ideas
Study and apply classical roots to build vocabulary
Social Action presentations
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Gino Bogoni was born on 7th July 1921, the last of six children (Ferruccio, Angelina, Edvige, Alberto, Elvira and Rina, his half-sister from his father's second marriage), born to Luigi and Augusta Rachele Lonardi in Verona, Via Lombroso. He had an unhappy childhood due to the premature death of his mother and the presence of a stepmother, and a difficult adolescence. However, he had a precocious interest in and openness to art, such that when he met Franco Egidio Girelli, Director of the Accademia Cignaroli in Verona, in 1934, the latter convinced Bogoni's parents to let him attend classes.
At the age of 13, Bogoni was already both the master's favourite and his assistant. He assisted in works of greater and greater importance: "At the Academy, I went to very few lessons because I spent all my time in the workshop" (diary, p. 205 - 206). He continues: "I stood out in all fields, not to mention handicraft work, because I could always find a new approach. Two days a week I was entrusted with teaching in the casting room...".
These years of apprenticeship and hard work to satisfy the demands of his family culminated in two episodes: running away from home at the age of just 17 and winning the first prize at the Agonali dell'Arte in 1938. One of the last works for Girelli was a bass-relief measuring 220cm by 700cm for the Exhibition of Minerals in Rome, which he completed with Giuseppe Fontana. After receiving his diploma in Sculpture in 1939, he continued to attend the Accademia until June 1941, when he was called to arms. Soon after, he was attached to the 231st Motorised 3rd Rapid Division and sent to Russia where he had the numerous adventures copiously related in his diary and where he remained until spring 1943 when he returned to Italy on foot and alone.
On April 22, 1944, he married Lina whom he had met very briefly before leaving for the Russian Campaign. They had two sons, Giancarlo and Franco. After 8th September, Bogoni joined the partisans and went underground, remaining with them until the end of the war, moving in and around the outskirts of Verona.
The Russian Campaign and the hard months in the passive armed resistance movement reduced him to a shred, resulting in a nervous breakdown whose effects stayed with him from the end of the war until 1951.
To make a living he taught and accepted various types of restoration work, and then in 1947 he was invited by the Veronese sculptor Nereo Costantini to make 29 negative casts of the panels on the bronze doors of San Zeno Basilica in Verona, work which extended over a period of six months.
He worked from 5am in the morning until 11pm at night, producing one negative a day. First he made them for a few friends and then later for a wider and more discriminating public. These negatives and those of the folk statues in Lessinia were to be his daily bread until the 1970s. In 1949 Marcello Mascherini invited Bogoni to work with him in the decoration of the transatlantic liner Conte Biancamano. Then after a 9-year break, he started working with Mascherini again in 1958 and they became close friends.
Between his teaching commitments and restoration work, he managed to cast some sculptures in plaster which he exhibited publicly for the first time since his appearance at the Agonali, at the "Fiftieth National Biennale of Art" at the Fine Arts Society in Verona from 20th May to 24th June, 1951, room n°5, together with Emilio Greco, Dino Paolini, and Germana Duina. Bogoni exhibited Bull and Chicken, two golden plaster sculptures.He took part in all the editions of the Verona Biennale, including the last one in 1967 and won the 55th edition in 1961 with Bovine. In 1953, two years after recovering from the nervous breakdown that had afflicted him after the war, he began the uphill struggle against ill health which, apart from an interval between 1965 and 1968, plagued him for the rest of his life.
1955 saw the unveiling of the War Memorial to the Fallen of San Michele Extra, Verona.From 1955 to 1969, he took part in the "Triveneto Art Exhibition", in Padua. From 1955 to 1977 either upon invitation or as a competitor, he participated in the "International Biennale of Small Bronzes" in Padua, winning the first prize in 1973 with his sculpture Lotus 146. In 1962, with the painters Degani, Martinelli, and Bragantini and the sculptor Novello Finotti, he exhibited 14 pieces at the "First Open Air Exhibition" in the courtyard which was soon to house the Galleria Ferrari. Another important exhibition was the collective exhibition at the Galleria Ghelfi with Costantini, Ferrari, Finotti, Fontana and Maria Trevisani. In the same year 1962 he received his second important public commission: the War Memorial to the Fallen of Santa Lucia, Verona.
In 1965 he created Shadows and The Great Wheels and exhibited them both competitively at the IX Rome Quadriennale (he would return for the 10th edition in 1972/73). The following year, on invitation, he exhibited three large sculptures at the XXXIII Venice International Biennale.In 1967 he was invited to the exhibition "Man and Space" at the "V International Science Fiction Film Festival" in Trieste.In November 1968 he spent one month in the USA. On his return he had to be admitted to hospital with a bladder tumour, an illness that continued over several years. In 1968 he took up graphic work.
In 1969 he had his first important one-man show at the Galleria dello Scudo in Verona. He would return again with Women in 1978.In 1970 Virgilio Boccardi made a documentary film about his work that was transmitted by RAI, (the Italian State Television Broadcasting Company).
In 1970 he taught sculpture at the "International Sommerakademie Fur Bildende Kunst" in Saltzburg, Austria. In the same year he held courses in sculpture in Belgium at the Academies of Art of Lieges, Brussels, Anvers, Verviers and Hasselt.
In 1978 he took part in the "International Sculpture Exhibition at Ca' Zenobia of Sommacampagna", in Verona, with two large Women (he would also participate in the 1984 and 1989 editions). In 1982 he executed the large sculpture Macro-Microcosmos for the 50th Anniversary of Glaxo in Italy.In 1985 he was invited to the Italian Exhibition of Contemporary Graphic Art (Disegno e Grafica Contemporanea Italiana) in Tokyo. In the 1970s and 1980s he did not travel but instead produced new sculptures: Lotus in 1972/73, Women in 1976 and a mounted model for a Basilica Door presented to Pope John Paul II in 1980. He created Metamorphosis in the same year, Helianthus in 1982-83 and Mutations in 1985-89.
Working right up until the last, he produced the large sculpture Fruit-Object-Sculpture, in 1990.
Despite all the difficulties he encountered, Bogoni always continued to work intensively: he exhibited at some 200 collective and one-man exhibitions, overcoming suffering through the sheer force of his will power.
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Family gatherings will feel more complete when all family members, without anyone being left behind. Gather to spend quality time together. Corner sofas are the mainstay of furniture usage to accommodate the needs of seating at events like this.
Besides having the maximum seating capacity, the corner sofa design that forms an elbow makes it flexible to be placed in the room. Corner sofas can follow a variety of room shapes and sizes. Whether it’s a symmetrical or asymmetrical room or a large or small room.
In its arrangement, a corner sofa can be set according to its name – in the corner against the wall. On one side of the room to form a section, or between two rooms that have different functions. What is the arrangement of a family room with a corner sofa like, consider the following 5 ideas!
Corner sofas in the living room with an open partition
In this half-open-designed family room, a white corner sofa manages to maximize the space available in the partition area. Even though the design is very minimalist and plain, the variety of cushion motifs and the wood texture that surrounds it makes this corner sofa appear dynamic.
The placement of the corner sofa in the semi-open living room interior provides more freedom of view. Certainly, a relaxed atmosphere is easier to wake up, without losing the intimate impression that is actually needed.
Corner sofas in the center of the room
Laying a corner sofa like this is suitable to apply to a house or apartment that has an open layout layout concept. Especially in homes that are build according to developer standards. By it means where the living room, dining room and kitchen are made together in one room.
The corner sofa that is in the middle of the room serves to separate areas that have different functions. In this living room, for example, the corner sofa acts as a room divider that divides the living room with the dining room and kitchen. It is because of this function that the corner sofa is also as a sectional sofa.
Corner sofa fills two opposite walls
What about the family room which is directly bordered by two walls? Placing a corner sofa in the character of a room like this is actually a solution to maximize the function of its limited space.
Instead of placing two different sofas, just use a corner sofa that is the same length as the two opposite walls. So that the visuals of the room avoid a full impression, install a vertical wall decoration like this unique art work.
Sofa arrangement in the room’s corner
As the name implies, a corner sofa has the usage to fill the void in the living room corner. If the empty corner is not too big, choose a corner sofa model in the form of a bench or long chair.
This corner sofa model is usually attach to a casual impression. That is why, complete the empty corner function by adding a dining table and chairs. As a result, this empty corner in the family room can also be used as a dining room. This is also suitable for coffee and snacking at leisure time.
Corner sofa for asymmetrical room
Furniture arrangement will be difficult to apply in a room that has an asymmetrical shape. It takes a little wisdom in the selection and placement of furniture to be able to process the room properly.
Like the use of a corner sofa with velvet material that divides two different areas in this asymmetrical family room. With the placement of a corner sofa like this one side of the room that is not symmetrical is possible to use as a mini library. The existence of ornamental potted plants also provides its own freshness between two different areas.
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By arranging a corner sofa like the six examples above, not only can you feel the comfort, but the warmth of the conversation in the family room can also be a memorable memory for every family member. Good luck! | <urn:uuid:ac68884c-c75c-4317-8b78-45c45a297062> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dizzyhome.com/2019/04/11/40-rumored-buzz-on-multi-seater-very-corner-sofas-exposed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934842 | 874 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Key cross-border transport megaprojects in the EU are progressing more slowly than expected.
Six of the eight multibillion infrastructures audited and their access lines are unlikely to be operating at full capacity by 2030 as initially planned, according to a new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). This will further postpone the completion of the core transEuropean network (TEN-T).
In 2013, the EU Member States agreed to have the core TEN-T network ready by 2030. A key feature of the network is cross-border transport projects, which aim to improve connections between national networks along European corridors.
The auditors examined whether the construction of large-scale motorways, railways and waterways with cross-border impact on the EU core transport network was well planned and efficiently implemented. They checked eight EU-funded megaprojects worth a total of €54 billion (including €7.5 billion from the EU), linking transport networks of 13 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Baltics, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain.
Construction was significantly delayed on all the megaprojects examined (average delay 11 years), jeopardising the effective functioning of five out of nine multinational corridors. The main reason for these poor results was that projects were often poorly coordinated between countries. Member States have their own investment priorities and planning procedures, and do not always support cross-border projects or investment in transnational corridors to the same degree. Nor does project implementation always progress at the same speed on each side of the border. So far, the Commission has not made use of the limited legal tools at its disposal to enforce the priorities agreed at EU level in Member States that fail to keep pace.
“Timely establishment of the core TEN-T corridors is critical to the achievement of EU policy goals, supporting growth and jobs and tackling climate change,” said Oskar Herics, the ECA Member responsible for the report. “Additional efforts should be made to speed up the finalisation of many of the EU’s flagship transport megaprojects. Because these projects are essential to achieve a better connectivity across Europe and to deliver the network effects on time.”
Over time, the costs of the eight megaprojects have increased by more than €17 billion (47 %), often due to changes in project design and scope, as well as due to inefficient implementation. The largest increase was in the Canal Seine Nord Europe project (part of the Seine-Scheldt link), whose costs nearly tripled. In Romania, meanwhile, the auditors observed that one new stretch of the A1 motorway was unused and two sections were wrongly connected. This led to an ineffective use and waste of money.
The auditors also identified weaknesses in Member States’ cost-benefit analyses of these multibillion-euro investments: traffic forecasts were potentially overoptimistic and some projects may not be economically viable. This is particularly true of the Rail Baltica line and the rail section of the Fehmarn Belt fixed link with far too few passengers. The auditors also noted that the Commission did not assess the construction specifications independently based on potential passenger and freight traffic flows before awarding EU funding.
The Commission’s supervision of network completion by the Member States is distant and needs to be strengthened. The Commission has no specific department for providing Member States with expert support in steering such large projects, and lacks an overview of the progress made. Nevertheless, the Commission recently took a step towards closer, more effective supervision and progress monitoring by defining project deliverables in the “implementing decisions” | <urn:uuid:17dc99e6-e761-4476-8b76-99831a4e77f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haptic.ro/speed-up-cross-border-megaprojects-to-optimise-transport-across-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96106 | 760 | 2.25 | 2 |
BroodMinder believes that by performing simple, uniform measurements on thousands of hives, the beekeeping community will gain insights into hive distress and as a community, we will develop interventions to improve outcomes.
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The whole day was dark and grey. I went to the Prater - Vienna's well known entertainment park - to capture some colour for the beginning of spring...
The day began to fade and I still hadn't found what I was looking for. - Until I came to this place at the 'Volksprater' which reminded me about my understanding of this WWP event:
Many different people all over the world contributing to this event - just as many "glowing hearts" shining all together as one, to bring some light and colour to our world!
Well i tried to capture it...
The history of the Prater goes back to the year 1162, its first documentary mention. The Prater is named after its first owner - a noble family called "de Prato". Afterwards it was in the possession of different monasteries and municipalities, before Maximilian II made it into a hunting ground for the Emperors of Habsburg in 1560.
In 1766 Emperor Joseph II opened the Prater to all inhabitants of Vienna. Soon it became a very popular recreation area and it was just a question of time until the first entertainment facilities appeared (roundabouts, lunch conditions...).
The Prater remained untouched for a long time. In the 60's of the 19th century the first bigger amendments were made: The world exhibition 1873 reduced the untouched nature to a large extent. More and more buildings cut the recovery area. 1895 the entertainment area "Venice in Vienna" was established and in 1897 the well known ferris wheel was built in it's center.
In 1938 the Prater became the property of the town of Vienna.
In the Second World War the Prater area was destroyed by numerous bomb hits as well as by the building of protecting constructions. Nearly every tree was damaged by bomb fragments.
The majority of the Prater entertainment constructions became a victim of a fire in April 1945. After 1945 the Prater was rebuilt again by private initiatives.
Nowadays the Prater is one of the well known attractions in Vienna.
Jump to a panorama of the Prater's main landmark, the big Ferris wheel
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In recent months Toronto has seen an explosion in the death rate of people who are homeless. It’s like a slaughter and the term social murder surely applies to the conditions causing these early and often violent deaths.
At the monthly Homeless Memorial on December 14, 34 names of people who died homeless were added to the makeshift memorial outside of the Church of the Holy Trinity in downtown Toronto. Of those 34 names – 19 people died inside city shelters in the month of October.
A Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN) media release for the December memorial describes the situation as unconscionable injustice and states:
“This recent spike in deaths comes on the heels of an already horrific year. Shelter residents’ deaths are 78 per cent higher in the first eight months of 2021 over 2019. This injustice disproportionately impacts Indigenous and Black people in Toronto. Sixty-three per cent of all unhoused people in Toronto are BIPOC. The number of people in Toronto that die of an overdose who don’t have housing keeps rising. In 2019 the number of people who died of an overdose was 10, in 2020 it was 46. As a result of sky-high rents, gentrification, lack of RGI housing and an overflowing shelter system thousands of people suffer and many die. Toronto is still in the midst of a global pandemic. Shelter outbreaks are ongoing. Many services are still suspended, and indoor space isn’t accessible for hundreds who live in encampments.”
If there was a report this month of the death of 34 teachers, construction workers, children in daycare, taxi drivers, or dare I say politicians – wouldn’t we be disgusted and alarmed and demand action?
Toronto is the epicentre of the homelessness disaster and housing crisis across the country. These deaths are happening in your communities too, probably just on a different scale, yet the numbers will still be shocking. Do you hear about them?
I was shocked to learn that in London, Ontario homeless community coalition members were reluctant to report on their high death rate — approximately one death per week this year.
While physical homeless memorials have sprung up across the country, there is not the matched mobilization to not just mourn but organize, as the saying goes.
Certainly, provincial coroners’ offices and municipal governments have for the most part ignored the tragic loss of life that has gone on for decades. Except for the British Columbia Coroners’ office and Toronto Public Health’s homeless death tracking system, attention to homeless deaths has come only after demands and protest for an inquest. Even then inquest recommendations are rarely, if ever, implemented. A jury recommendation from the 1986 Ontario inquest into the death of Drina Joubert, who froze to death in the back of a truck in downtown Toronto said: “The Coroner must keep statistics on all deaths that relate to homeless and unemployment.”
To this day that has not taken place.
Today SHJN demands that Toronto City Council must immediately strike a task force charged with taking all reasonable steps to reduce such deaths but also take measures to ensure safe shelter, an expansion of housing allowances, harm reduction measures and to stop encampment evictions.
Don Weitz, a long-time activist, regularly performed and updated his famous rant Nameless-Homeless at the Toronto Homeless Memorial. Here is an excerpt to honour his recent passing:
NAMELESS-HOMELESS (a revised rant-in-progress)
This rant is dedicated to the thousands of homeless and sexually assaulted women, trans people, missing and murdered aboriginal women across Canada. By Don Weitz
I see you I hear you
on george & gerrard
I see you I hear you
in and out of satan house
barred from the schoolhouse
another homeless shelter the city wants to shut down
save the schoolhouse-save the schoolhouse
where are the women’s shelters
safe havens for thousands of women
courageous survivors of sexist and racist assault
survivors of unspeakable
homelessness, poverty and rape
I see you I hear you
women, alone and lonely
beaten, assaulted in dark alleyways
at sherbourne and dundas, downtown east,
all over this fucking stolen land
in calgary, regina, winnipeg, halifax, toronto, vancouver
where 1000 aboriginal sisters are
still missing or dead from
the genocidal colonialism
of don’t-give-a-shit stephen harper
and the sexist-and-racist canadian state
where are the safe women’s shelters
the 24/7 crisis centres
damn all city councils …
i see you I hear you
in Hamilton home of big steel
i see you I hear you in Ottawa
bastion of bigotry, hypocrisy, official lies
i see you I hear you in Sudbury
where union brothers and sisters reach out to us
i see you I hear
in winnipeg where First Nations brothers
are arrested-and-jailed-shot at
for drinking, driving, marching
with dreams and visions of a First Nations general strike
I hear you I see you in
alberta where polluted tar sands
threaten your land, health and lives
i see you i hear you
freezing your ass off at 40 below
i see you I hear you in
vancouver’s downtown east side
Rest in power to all.
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Low-oxygen tents could help diabetes patients lose weight in their sleep
Diabetes patients will sleep in low-oxygen tents set up in their own homes under a new trial aimed at promoting weight loss.
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth began the study to see if restricting oxygen during sleep — called hypoxia — helps people to burn calories.
Previous studies have suggested that hypoxia can suppress appetite, improve control of blood sugar and burn more calories.
Volunteers who take part in the new trial are being given a high-tech tent to sleep in for two ten-day periods. During one of the periods oxygen levels inside the tent will be set to 15 per cent, similar to levels for passengers on an aeroplane or at high altitude. For the remainder of the trial, oxygen levels inside the | <urn:uuid:e1d2eede-57ee-49ee-9b35-d2323df1e7e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/low-oxygen-tents-could-help-diabetes-patients-lose-weight-in-their-sleep-n9hlcv9l0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937884 | 167 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Who was Confucius, and What Did Confucius Say?
Confucius has been the subject of controversy for over two and a half millennia. He has been venerated as the perfect sage, China’s “uncrowned king,” who always did and said exactly the right thing in each situation. However, even in his own lifetime, he was the subject of controversy, accused by some of the hypocrisy, mindless traditionalism, or impractical idealism. The controversy has continued into the 20th century. During the Cultural Revolution, radicals angrily dismissed Confucius as a “decadent feudal reactionary.” Today, though, the Chinese government proudly funds “Confucius Institutes” in other countries.
So who was Confucius really?
In this lecture, we will examine the social context and the life experiences that made Confucius who he was. This presentation will provide students with a deeper appreciation of one of the seminal figures of world history, as well as a better sense for how he has influenced and continues to shape Chinese culture. We’ll then explore several major themes that are evident in the thought of Confucius himself, and every later thinker who proudly bears the label “Confucian.” Students will gain from this course a deeper appreciation of one of the seminal figures of world history, as well as a better sense for how he has influenced and continues to shape, Chinese culture.
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Faith based Enlightenment means the “finding and comprehension of a fundamental this means.” Is likewise used often in the Western strict situation, although the concept is normally accustomed to express the Age of Illuminated Soul. relevant internet site signifies the conclusion of faith based enlightenment inside the individual spirit, which can be an interior state that occurs in your lifestyle and is associated with very own flexibility and mental stability.
The word can be used in numerous Buddhist terminology to consult the procedure of awakening or internal enlightenment, and is particularly generally applied interchangeably with samadhi, which is actually a condition of do-it-yourself-awareness in which the unique will become devoid of the has a bearing on of the outer planet. janm kundali https://trustedteller.com/janam-kundali includes a broader meaning to reveal a situation of consciousness, which goes beyond private boundaries and produces a breeding ground that encourages do it yourself-progress.
While in the Traditional western perspective, the definition of is usually utilised to refer to your psychic waking that results from personal development and growth. Inside a psychic situation, enlightenment often involves the experience of enlightenment inside a non secular placing for instance a meditation area. You’ll find it encompasses the comprehending and acknowledgement of what is exposed with the peoples religious ordeals.
It is important to note that enlightenment is subjective and centered by using an individuals view, perception, thoughts and imagination. Just one individuals enlightenment encounter differs from an individual’s enlightenment experience, dependent automatically exceptional frame of mind and inner thoughts. Having said that, the everyday features that define enlightenment are knowledge of this home and feelings of burden with the choices one makes. Those who obtain psychic enlightenment achieve this by letting their brains for being distinct, along with their particular person beliefs and principles to become stronger.
When you are thinking your religious enlightenment, there are numerous tips you will want to take into account. Initial, of most, you need to see how considerably you will be from the target you need to achieve. It will help identify the detail of your faith based journey. As well, you must figure out how you determine your psychic process, so as to discover the measures that you must carry.
Many people define strict enlightenment being a “period” that takes spot during a period of time. For example, a strict waking in a kid is the result of your child learning to acknowledge by themselves along with the outer entire world. Another person might specify non secular enlightenment as something that comes about for time, maybe a quest into larger mindset.
Faith based enlightenment can take a variety of types. Lots of people use psychic enlightenment to spell out a more deeply condition of attention they’ve already seasoned, even though other people put it to use to be a criteria in their faith based advancement. While in the last option circumstance, spiritual enlightenment will likely be equated with the whole process of spotting and opening your deepest faith based likely.
At any rate, non secular enlightenment is actually a approach, that needs letting go of fears and questions, recognizing the constraints that will always be existing in your own life and achieving an improved recognition, although letting your mind to become more available and happy with all-natural unfolding of your own psychic trend. There isn’t any “one-size-fits-all” solution to spiritual enlightenment. Every person ordeals psychic enlightenment in their own distinctive way, although the practice can be related. Whatever the case, strict enlightenment involves investment, persistance and also to generally be reached.
When spiritual enlightenment takes place, the consumer will become alert that they are the masters on their own fortune. When my kundali https://trustedteller.com/janam-kundali has stalled, you will find normally certain things that took place. Primary, you may have allow yourself to believe in tips and ideas that aren’t harmoniously with your very own faith based progress. Next, you have allowed the external earth to master your inside personal.
Your mind is your brow. It is to visit get instruction, feelings and data, and also to master innovative skills and methods to grow mentally. Should you be enabling the mind and body expertise moderate your strict development, it is very likely that you’re not on track. The easiest way to guideline your head is to allow it relaxation in contentment and quietude on the divine. inside you.
That way, you are able to collect suggestions and creativity without having to be instantly involved in the actions, and you are therefore also accountable for your views and methods. You might be practising scenario of indirect spiritualism, is not consistent with your intrinsic do it yourself as well as the route that you’ll be presently on, whilst if you are allowing for the external planet to control your internal home, your not in a condition of meditating. Should you be allowing your head to tutorial and regulate your movements, you are on the right track. | <urn:uuid:3017b081-4f1b-4b50-b07c-2d3119ac620b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://letsdoitblog.online/whats-religious-enlightenment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946117 | 1,010 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China.
This title has now been extensively revised by Marc Ferro, a well respected historian, and presents the different narratives that constitute the histories of countries as diverse as India, Iran, Trinidad and the United States makes for fascinating reading in their own right. What makes this book so valuable, though, is what these narratives tell us about the societies which create them – how much is history distorted in order to condition the minds of those who are taught it?
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As the United States rounds the corner into the new decade, the economy continues to churn. But even though the domestic markets are performing well, the global markets are being affected by political turmoil, potential pandemic, and varying delays and stoppages in the supply chains of some of the worlds largest companies. For this reason, the Federal Reserve has shifted into a wait-and-see approach after cutting rates three times in 2019.
Last year, the Federal Reserve vowed to stand firm on their rates barring a major economic change; in their meeting on Wednesday, it became apparent that they had done exactly that. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell maintained the institution’s rates in the 1.5%-1.75% range, a historically low number. On the topic of global markets in a frenzied world, he said;
“Uncertainties about the outlook remain, including those posed by the new coronavirus. There is likely to be some disruption to activity in China and globally.”
The Wuhan coronavirus, currently crippling the Chinese infrastructure and spurring panic worldwide, is disrupting many manufacturing industries in China. With nearly 80% of the manufacturing workforce either shut down or slowed by the spread of the virus, many international companies that rely on China for parts and labor have been affected by the troubles abroad.
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Thirsty for Strong Instructional Practice?
Do you notice the energy and motivation your students bring to class discussions and activities wane when it’s time for them to write an assignment? Do you get bored reading the same thing from student to student and even semester to semester? Using an assignment menu can reinvigorate both you and your students.
Take a SIP of this: Assignment Menus Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy*
Providing a menu of assignments for students to choose from allows them to pursue their learning in ways that interests them and highlight their skills. The result is an increase in motivation, students spending more time on assignments, and a sense that they are respected by their professor, among other things. One way to create a menu of assignments is to divide tasks based on the level of thinking they require. Bloom’s Taxonomy provides a framework for organizing learner skills and abilities along a continuum from lower to higher level thinking.
To create an assignment menu based on Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Begin by determining your instructional objective(s). What tasks will support their ability to meet your goals for their learning?
Identify a few tasks that will allow the students to engage with the content based on levels of cognitive processes from lower order thinking skills to higher order thinking skills. The graphic below can help. Here are some examples:
Knowledge: recalling information
- List the concepts
- Match the concepts with their descriptions
- Create a quiz on the concepts, with an answer sheet
Comprehension: understanding concepts
- Describe the concepts
- Find clip art or other images that represent each of the concepts
- Give examples of each of the concepts
Application: using concepts in a new context
- Create a plan for the possible implementation of a concept
- Apply the concept and describe the outcome
- Identify the possible costs and benefits of applying the concept
Analysis: tease apart the various elements of a concept
- Make a table illustrating the similarities and differences of each concept
- Simplify each concept into its most basic elements
- Describe the most important features of each concept
Synthesis: assemble the parts of the concept in a new way, integrating new information
- Create a model using the concepts
- Blend two concepts to form a new one
- Design a real-world application for the concept
Evaluation: determine and justify opinions on the concept
- Debate the effectiveness of the application of the concept
- Defend the use of the concept with support
- Evaluate the costs and benefits of the application of the concept
There are a couple of ways you can use an assignment menu. First, you can assign a certain number of points to each task and allow students to select their assignments requiring that their choices add up to a predetermined number of points. Tasks that require higher level thinking are worth more points than lower level thinking. Tasks requiring more time should be worth more than those requiring less time.
Alternatively, you can have students choose one task from each level of thinking, so that everyone begins the exploration of a concept at the knowledge and comprehension levels and then works their way up to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
This process can be daunting, so it is reasonable to begin by identifying possible options and adding to them over the course of several semesters. Alternatively, you can use just a few of the learning levels as appropriate for the content. Often, students will come to you with their own suggestions. You can add these suggestions to your list of possible tasks so the options in your list will grow each semester.
Still Thirsty? Take another SIP of Assignment Menus Based on Thinking Skills
Iowa State Center for Excellence for Learning and Teaching has a super interactive media tool on applying Bloom’s Taxonomy in assignment design.
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching: Bloom’s Taxonomy has a super explanation of the taxonomy.
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Integrative Dry Needling
Integrative Dry Needling is a modern, safe and effective form of therapy for the treatment of a wide variety of muscular& soft tissue (tendon, ligament, fascia) pain, and nerve conditions (neuritis, neuralgia). It is a proven therapeutic modality to help treat and normalize soft tissue dysfunction, which would include: muscles, tendons, sensitized nerve tissue, and scar tissue formation (post-surgical, repetitive, or from trauma). This form of treatment helps to restore physiological balance or homeostasis to help support biological self-healing and tissue repair. Dry needling can help to improve ranges of motion, joint biomechanics, and to reduce pain, inflammation, and to promote muscular and soft tissue healing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Integrative Dry Needling is based on neuro-anatomy and modern scientific study of the muscular, skeletal, and human nervous systems. During treatment, a very fine, solid filament needle is inserted through the skin and into the areas that are considered relevant to each person’s condition. The needles have the effect of: reducing local and systemic pain, reducing muscular trigger points and tension, reducing and normalizing inflammation, promoting local circulation, supporting overall healing and healing of soft tissue injuries.
Common Conditions involving pain and dysfunction:
- Neck (whiplash, arthritis)
- Middle and lower back pain (muscular, injuries, arthritis)
- Shoulder (tendinitis, bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, impingement)
- Elbow (tennis, golfer’s tendinitis), bursitis, arthritis
- Wrist/ hand pain (tendinitis, some carpal tunnel conditions)
- Knee and Hip (tendinitis, bursitis)
- Leg pains (nerve/sciatic, tendinitis, muscular)
- Ankle & foot problems (Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis)
- Headaches (tension, migraine)
- Neuralgias (trigeminal, sciatic)
- Post-surgical pain & dysfunction
- Pain & dysfunction from injuries and accidents
- Muscular pain & Sports Injuries
Yes, we only use new, sterile, disposable needles for each treatment session.
No. We strive to make each treatment as painless and comfortable as possible. Some patients experience no sensation at all and others might experience a dull ache or feelings of light pressure during parts of the treatment. Dry Needling treatments are never actually painful and are well tolerated when performed by a well trained and experienced practitioner. Actually, many patients report feeling very relaxed during or after dry needling treatments. Dr Ensweiler will make every effort to make your experience comfortable and therapeutic.
This can vary, however, the average treatment session is 20-40 minutes. Treatment is given in comfortable, supported positions that allow for rest, healing, and relaxation.
This will vary, however, many patients report feeling more relaxed, refreshed, and with less pain & discomfort. Some individuals may experience mild soreness or aching for up to 24 hours after the treatment. This is a normal response and is a normal part of the body’s repair and healing process. Mild, non-tender bruising might be present afterwards, however, this can vary and is not very common.
There are many variables that come into play here – age, general health status & physical condition, the nature of the injury or illness, and how long symptoms and problems have been present. A specific number of treatments can be recommended as a therapeutic trial once a patient’s health status is determined through consultation, evaluation, etc. and this is always done on an individual and personalized basis. An agreed upon treatment plan is always an important part of Dry Needling therapy.
Dry Needling treatments can be effective in the short-term and can also have a long-term accumulative effect to alleviate or reduce chronic pain patterns and to support general health and well-being. Each patient’s response to treatment can vary and these issues are always discussed during treatment.
Can I receive Dry Needling treatments if I am taking medications or receiving other types of treatment?
Generally speaking, yes. Dry needling treatments are generally safe if you are taking medications, even blood thinners, and can often reduce the need for prescription or OTC medications. These treatments are also compatible with and complementary to various types of therapies: massage, manual myofascial, chiropractic adjustments/manipulation, and exercise therapy.
This can also vary for each individual. Positive effects of pain reduction, increased ranges of motion, reduced inflammation, and accelerated healing can be seen in both the short and long-term.
Yes, there are complementary healing modalities that might be utilized in a treatment in addition to the needles. These are designed to support healing, circulation, and pain relief and might include: electrical stimulation, cold laser therapy, infrared heat, and pulsed magnetic field therapy.
Due to the normalizing and stabilizing effects that some people receive from Dry Needling treatments, yes, they can be used for general health & well-being and to maintain a healthy muscular and nervous system. Some patients find booster or maintenance treatments to be an important part of their overall health prevention and maintenance program, along with a healthy diet, exercise, nutritional/herbal supplements, and adequate sleep.
Most health insurance plans currently do not currently cover Dry Needling treatments, however, plans do vary in scope of coverage. Some policies do cover acupuncture therapy (which is a very similar treatment modality) and Dr Ensweiler is also a licensed acupuncturist in WI. We strive to offer the highest quality treatments at very affordable rates and treatments are cost effective for most people.
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Thermal performance of a mine refuge chamber with human body heat sources under ventilation
This paper investigated the dynamic coupling heat transfer characteristics of rock and air in a Mine Refuge Chamber (MRC) under ventilation. In the current work, a comprehensive fifty-person MRC model combining human-body heat sources and ventilation is established, the proposed model is validated against available experimental data with deviation less than 4%. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the influence of several control parameters such as heating rate, ventilation and wall area in a MRC through using numerical simulation. Results indicated that: (i) the heat transfer process in a MRC will reach a stage of air temperature slow increase (ATSI) in less than 0.5 h. The air temperature rises linearly with the square root of time during the ATSI stage; (ii) for a MRC built in a sandstone seam with an initial rock temperature of less than 27 °C, the average air temperature will not exceed 35 °C in 96 h when the ventilation volume rate is 0.3 m 3/min per person; (iii) the rate of temperature rise in MRC is proportional to the rate of heat generation, but it is inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity, density and thermal capacity of the rock, as well as the ventilation volume rate and the wall area; (iv) an empirical correlation for the MRC average air temperature is developed while the supply air temperature equals to the initial rock temperature. | <urn:uuid:1cc836c8-bf56-4e4b-a924-0af263793149> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/21627 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.884387 | 348 | 2.234375 | 2 |
MGA’s confrontation with Pir Mehr Ali Shah started in roughly 1899. Pir Mehr Ali Shah had a book vs. MGA published in May of 1899. It was printed at the Mustafa’i Press, Lahore in Ramadan 1317 A.H. Maulawi Nur-ud-Din read a few pages of this book on February 17th, 1900, and wrote a letter to Pir Mihr Ali Shah the next day. It was written in this book that if any one wanted to say anything about this book he must refer to authentic commentaries such as Ibni Jarir and Ibni Kathir and also to the true Hadith or he must base his arguments upon the Holy Quran, which should be acceptable to the great and learned people who are masters of language and rhetorics (page 8). Though the book is written in Urdu, yet the writer has occasionally employed Arabic also to show his learning. So, Maulawi Nur-ud-Din asked the Pir eleven questions in his letter (see Dard). But this book, “Shams ul Hidaya” wasn’t totally written by Pir Mehr Ali Shah, in fact, one of the disciples of the Pir wrote much of, and this was admitted to by the Pir himself. Maulavi Muhammad Ghazi had actually written the book, as Noorudin asked for references, the Pir told Noorudin that he should ask Maulavi Muhammad Ghazi.
April 24th, 1900
Maulawi Abdul Karim wrote a response in the Al-Hakam, dated April 24th, 1900, and pressed Mihr Ali Shah in vain for an answer to the eleven questions put to him (see Dard).
July 9th 1900
Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan reminded Mihr Ali Shah and also challenged him to
hold a debate with him about the life or death of Jesusas, the subject of Mihr Ali Shah’s book (see Dard).
On July 20th, 1900
MGA issued an announcement in which he invited Mihr Ali Shah to a contest. On page 81, Mihr Ali Shah had insinuated that MGA did not know the Quran, so he suggested that a meeting be held at Lahore and forty verses of the Quran should be selected by casting lots. MGA and Mihr Ali Shah should then pray that God might enable the truthful of the two to write in fluent Arabic a commentary of the verses in that very meeting with the help of the Holy Spirit. The commentary should be not less than 43 pages. The parties should have no book with them, nor should there be any assistant. Seven hours should be given for this purpose. The parties should then sign the papers which would be read out to three learned men selected by Mihr Ali Shah. They should neither be the followers of MGA nor of Mihr Ali Shah. These three men should then give their decision under oath as to which of the papers was superior in language as well as in commentary. MGA also said he was prepared to entrust the decision to his enemies like Maulawi Muhammad Husain, Maulawi Abdul Jabbar Ghaznavi and Professor Maulawi Abdullah. This Ishtihar was signed by 20 men as witnesses (see Dard). MGA gave Pir Mehr Ali Shah a deadline of August 22nd to respond.
July 23rd, 1900
MGA issued an Urdu leaflet (Arba‘in No. 1) on July 23rd, 1900. He declared that it was not a Mubahala nor was it meant to be a dreadful prophecy for any opponent. He also announced that he would go on publishing leaflets until the limit of 40 was reached or until an opponent came out in good faith in the field of contest (see Dard).
August 25th, 1900
Pir Mehr Ali Shah arrived in Lahore for his contest with MGA, however, MGA was a no-show.
December 7, 1900
MGA invited Pir Mehar ‘Ali Shah to write a quality and in ornate Arabic language, a
commentary on surah al-Fatihah within 70 days. He further elaborated both have 70 days beginning from December 15, 1900. Therefore, MGA wrote an exhaustive commentary in
high flown Arabic on surah al-Fatihah which appeared under the title of I‘jazul-Masih on February 23, 1901.
February 23, 1901
“I’jazul-Masih is published.
Pir Mehr Ali Shah responds with Saif-e-Chishtiya’i, in this book, he makes fun of some of the Arabic phrases used in I‘jazul-Masih and alleged that some of the material is plagiarized and
further alleged that the Revelations of the Promised Messiah are no more than confused dreams. The Pir also made an allegation that the Promised Messiahas had been plagiarizing
8 Shamsul Hidaya HQ
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