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How do we manage waste sustainably?
Living more sustainable lifestyles means
reducing how much we consume and reusing
our items where possible. When these are not
feasible, recycling comes in, helping us to turn
waste into resources.
Singapore has had some success, recycling
60% of its waste since 2012 by focusing on
individual waste streams. This has led to a
nearly 100% recycling rate for Construction
and Demolition (C&D) waste, ferrous and nonferrous
PUTTING C&D WASTE BACK INTO BUILDINGS
C&D waste is generated during the
construction, demolition and renovation of
To help demolition contractors plan their
demolition procedures to maximise C&D
waste recycling, the Demolition Protocol
was implemented by the Building and
Construction Authority (BCA).
Under the Demolition Protocol, reusable and
non-reusable parts of a building have to be
identified, then separately dismantled and
removed. Reusable parts include piping and
wiring, which are placed in separate bins and
sent to a recycling facility. Non-reusable parts
that contaminate the concrete debris, such as
ceiling boards and tiles, are discarded. Only
when the building has been stripped to its
bare frame can demolition start.
This protocol has led to the development of
several new materials, like recycled concrete
aggregate (RCA), which is made up of more
than 70% demolition waste, reclaimed
from waste concrete made with natural
RCA Process. Photo: Samwoh Corporation Pte Ltd
Recycling 99% of ferrous and non-ferrous
metals in Singapore is no mean feat, made
possible only with novel processes that can
detect even a speck of material.
At a metal recovery facility located at Tuas
Marine Transfer Station, 90% of the ferrous
metals and more than three quarters of
the non-ferrous metals are recovered from
incineration bottom ash (IBA) using special
magnets, micro-grain eddy current separators
and multi-stage sieving techniques.
The facility, built on a 1.4 ha plot, is capable of
processing up to 1,800 tonnes of IBA a day.
It has been in operation since July 2015 by
REMEX Minerals Singapore Pte Ltd (REMEX).
Incineration bottom ash (IBA) is processed at the REMEX metal recovery facility to recover ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Photo: REMEX
ENCOURAGING HOUSEHOLDS TO RECYCLE RIGHT
But we can do more in the area of household
recycling. In 2018, only 22% of Singapore’s
domestic waste was recycled, much lower
than the 74% recycling rate for non-domestic
The infrastructure is already in place. The
National Recycling Programme (NRP) was introduced under the Public Waste Collection
(PWC) scheme in 2001, originally providing
fortnightly door-to-door collection of
recyclables in recycling bags.
However, this form of collection posed
several issues – households did not like
keeping their recyclables for two weeks, new
recycling bags left outside the doors of flats
during delivery were stolen, and recyclables
were pilfered from the bags. In addition,
collection was labour-intensive.
This led to the enhancement of the NRP with
the provision of recycling bins in housing
estates. The recycling bins overcame
the earlier issues, providing residents the
convenience of depositing their recyclables
at any time. The number of recycling bins
gradually grew from one every five Housing
& Development Board (HDB) blocks to one
per block, and the frequency of collection
increased to at least three times a week.
Landed households were each provided with
a recycling bin, emptied once a week along
with weekly garden waste collection for
This enhanced NRP also complemented
other modes of recycling such as the sale
of recyclables to the karang guni for a small
price, cash-for-trash collection stations, and
recyclables collection at community events.
While the recyclables collected under the
NRP has increased between 2013 and 2018 (77,000 kg/day to 119,000 kg/day),
approximately 40% of what is thrown into the
blue recycling bins are contaminants. This
refers to items that cannot be recycled (e.g.
toys, clothes and shoes) or contaminated
recyclables (e.g. by remnants of food or
To tackle this high contamination rate, the
next phase for household recycling will focus
on improving Singaporeans’ knowledge
about our commingled recycling system and
MSE and the NEA embarked on a
#RecycleRight campaign in 2019, as part
of the Year Towards Zero Waste.
The key messages of the #RecycleRight campaign are:
- Only place the right recyclables into the blue bins, not general waste – follow the labels on the blue bins on what can be put inside
- Make sure recyclables are free from food and liquids
- No need to sort recyclables to be deposited into the blue bins – they will be sorted centrally before being recycled
- Clothes, shoes and stuffed toys are not recyclable. Donate them if they are in good condition
To support this messaging, the NEA has
redesigned the labels on the blue recycling
bins to make information clearer on what
can and cannot be deposited in the bins. The
replacement of the labels is expected to be
completed by mid-2020.
New blue recycling bin label helps residents #RecycleRight
We also recognise that it is important to
make recycling convenient and to make it a
habit in order to boost household recycling.
Surveys conducted by MSE and the NEA
in 2018 found that 60% of households
recycle regularly at home. Finding recycling
convenient and developing a habit of recycling
were factors that encouraged them to recycle.
Therefore, since August 2019, the NEA has
been in partnership with IKEA Singapore to
provide residents of Build-to-Order flats in new
HDB precincts with a free household recycling
bin. This bin, redeemable via a voucher at
IKEA Singapore stores, will make it easier for
residents to recycle in their own home.
As we move beyond household recycling to
encourage further conversion of waste into
resources, we will be turning to legislative
or economic measures. As recycling grows,
we will need the recycling industry to
grow in tandem. Hence, we are supporting
the development of the industry through
the Environmental Services Industry
Transformation Map. All these efforts will be
supported by research and development and
our crucial 3P partners.
Together, these will help close the loop on
more waste streams as we adopt a circular
Recycling receptacle for new HDB homeowners
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In Jesus the Mediator, William L. Brownsberger offers an account of the human psychology assumed by the Second Person of the Trinity in light of its salvific significance. Instead of focusing directly on classical understandings of how salvation is accomplished, this book draws attention to the Person and human nature that soteriology must presuppose. The book follows a classical psychological taxonomy (intellect, will, sensitive appetites) of human nature, presupposing a traditional articulation of the hypostatic union as background for this reflection.
The book begins by considering Christ's human intellect. The distinct, but complementary, perspectives of Maurice Blondel and St. Thomas are combined to argue in favor of a Christological maximalism regarding the extent of Jesus' human knowledge from the character of his saving mission. This is followed by a two-part reflection on the gulf between finite and infinite being that is bridged by the mediator. In this vein, one chapter
focuses on Christ's active mediatorship in voluntary action, while another approaches the integration of the finite and Infinite in his personal constitution. The final chapter treats Jesus' anger as suggestive of the role that his emotional life plays in salvation.
Brownsberger supports the main theses of St. Thomas's Christology, while also providing key insights from the philosophical tradition of the past two centuries and from the Christological debates of the 1940s - 1960s. Many of the discoveries of the latter became obsolete in the post-conciliar shift in theological emphases before they could be developed and applied. By means of such insights, the author seeks to draw the identity of Jesus Christ into a tight, organic unity with his redemptive mission of mediation.
"Brownsberger discusses a full range of issues, including the extent of Christ's human knowledge, his possession of the beatific vision, Christ's human emotions, and the secondary being (esse secondarium) of Christ. He offers a fresh viewpoint on these issues by looking at them from a soteriological perspective, addressing questions of Christ's human intellect, will, and passions in light of his mediatorial work. Recommended."~Choice
"This book emphasizes the intimate connection between Christ’s self-consciousness and his role as savior or mediator of salvation. Brownsberger displays a thorough understanding of the scriptural and theological issues connected with the self-consciousness of Christ, and provides a helpful overview of many important theologians of the twentieth century who treated this subtle and delicate matter."~Robert Fastiggi, Professor of Systematic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
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Mike Cross, author of Freedom from Conscience - Melanie's Journey discusses psychopaths and their relation to politics, society and personal relationships. Mike, a former Oregonian now a resident of Stockholm, teaches psychology and international finance. We begin the first hour commenting on the Nordic model of government and society. Mike talks about how conformity within a society is an ideal system for the psychopath. We'll also discuss how a "reverse Freud" is used to overthrow tradition and create revolution. Then, we'll discuss repression within a society, which creates a sort of schizophrenia. Later, Mike tells us about the psychopath within government. He compares the politician's psychopathy to arrested development.
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Cell-Based Treatments to Fight Diseases with Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD
Cell and Developmental Biology is a field that's integral to finding new therapies for a wide variety of diseases. At Feinberg, Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, a vascular biologist, leads the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology as chair. In this episode, talks about her research and the future of cell-based treatments for diseases.
“I am really very passionate about blood vessels. They are tubes that permeate our body, but they impact both healing as well as they can accelerate or really make certain steps in disease progression worse. So, by manipulating blood vessels we can impact either the healing process or accelerate or even eliminate certain diseases.”
Iruela-Arispe, now an internationally recognized vascular biologist, says her interest in the field of cell biology, and specifically in endothelial cells, began as a graduate student. Since that time has published more than 200 papers and now leads Feinberg’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
Topics covered in this show:
- Iruela-Arispe says through understanding cell biology many advancements have been made in treating human diseases, particularly in cancer.
- Endothelial cells, which line the inner side of all blood vessels, have been of particular interest to Iruela-Arispe. They have unique qualities that allow them to form new vasculature and permeate new structures. They are now being used in the area of regeneration biology, creating new organs or organoids to we can replenish damaged tissue.
- In her department there are several bioprinting/organoid projects taking place using brain organoids and intestinal organoids with blood vessels so that allow them to grow, expand and better imitate or mimic normal organs.
- Iruela-Arispe's lab is involved in several collaborations, including on one with the Department of Pharmacology, to manipulate cells through pharmacological means. Another with the Department of Neurology in vascular dementia and how to improve the vascularization of the brain in cases such as Alzheimer's disease.
- She details findings from her lab published in two recent papers. One in Nature Cardiovascular Research in which her team discovered a new cell type, a macrophage whose function of is to eliminate those clots in blood vessels. Its function was not previously understood, and this discovery could have significant consequences to understanding disease and understanding how disturbance of one particular cell type can trigger consequences that are system wide.
- She was also the co-author of a study published in Nature that details a comprehensive map of human haematopoietic stem cell ontogeny could provide benefits to millions of people that are affected by blood diseases or blood cancers or even perhaps even regeneration of blood.
- Iruela-Arispe details what it was like to take on her role as chair just as the COVID-19 pandemic began and how she plans to build a top cell and developmental biology department in the next 5 to ten years.
- Recent publication in Nature: Mapping human haematopoietic stem cells from haemogenic endothelium to birth
- Recent publication in Nature Cardiovascular Research on new type of macrophage: Aortic intimal resident macrophages are essential for maintenance of the non-thrombogenic intravascular state
- Editorial by Iruela-Arispe published in Current Opinion in Hematology: New technological developments and their impact in vascular research
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Recorded on April 20, 2022.
Erin Spain, MS [00:00:10] This is Breakthroughs. A podcast from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. I'm Erin Spain, host of the show. Cell and Developmental Biology is a field that's integral to finding new therapies for a wide variety of diseases. Here at Feinberg, Dr. Lusia Iruela-Arispe, a vascular biologist, leads the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology as chair. She joins me today to talk about her research and the future of cell-based treatments for diseases. Welcome to the show.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:00:45] Hi, Erin. Thank you for having me.
Erin Spain, MS [00:00:47] Well, tell me about cell biology and the ways that the field has grown in recent years to impact clinical practice and therapies for sick patients.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:00:57] Well, cell biology is an amazing discipline, is one that really encompasses or is part of many other issues like biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics. Everything is within cell biology. And so that's why I am so passionate about this particular area. And it has really grown tremendously, I think, in particular how it impacts cancer biology. If you think about all the chemotherapeutic drugs that we have today, they are mostly affecting sort of skeleton elements and the process of cell division in cancer cells. So it has been through understanding cell biology that we have made so many advancements, particularly in cancer, but not only exclusively in that area.
Erin Spain, MS [00:01:41] Tell me about some of the human diseases that you're trying to improve through work in your lab.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:01:46] A laboratory is a vascular biology laboratory. I really very passionate about blood vessels. They are tubes that permeate our body, but in reality they impact both healing as well as they can accelerate or really make certain steps in disease progression worse. So by manipulating blood vessels, we can impact either the healing process or accelerate or even eliminate certain diseases. So it is really the route by which inflammatory cells, traffic. So everything they release to inflammation has to do with enabling inflammatory cells to leave the bloodstream and access the organs in general and affect disease. So by regulating that process, we can definitely control inflammation, but we can also control the trafficking of, let's say, cancer cells to prevent metastasis.
Erin Spain, MS [00:02:40] How did you first become interested in blood vessels and studying the vascular system at this molecular level?
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:02:46] I remember this vividly. I was a graduate student and I was hearing about the cell type endothelial cells, which are the cells that are present in all our blood vessels. They lined the inner side of all blood vessels, and this cells normally will just be responsible for transporting molecules and nutrients from the blood into our tissues and vice versa. So they act as a transporter, if you will, and they will allow cells to pass through. And one way to the other. But the neat thing is that they can also completely change and undergo a rapid process of proliferation to form new blood vessels. So they have this plasticity that is very unique to, I think, endothelial cells in which they can be fully differentiated or become as active as an embryonic cell just with a change of a dime just by having a growth factor activated them. I think that you can actually utilize them in obviously to form new vasculature and permeate new structures. So we are now in the area of regeneration, regeneration biology, and by creating new organs or organoids, we can replenish damaged tissue. We can definitely impact disease in a very positive way. But this organoids require vasculature. And so the other thing that you can do with the cells is you can enable them to integrate with other cell types, to permeate structures and provide nutrients and oxygen. So you can essentially 3D print them, you can manipulate them, and you can integrate them with other cell types to generate new tissues.
Erin Spain, MS [00:04:28] That brings me to this idea of bioprinting. This is an emerging area of study which uses biological materials to create these tissue like structures that imitate natural tissue. How involved are you with this research right now?
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:04:41] We definitely do plenty bioprinting. In fact, we have quite a few in the laboratory. So what we're doing is trying to integrate again, organoids brain organoids intestinal organoids and make them permeate a bowl with blood vessels so that they can grow. Expand. And better imitate, mimic normal organs. So that has been a fun project.
Erin Spain, MS [00:05:05] You are able to work with so many different departments here at Feinberg and both on the clinical side and basic science. Tell me about some of these partnerships and some of the diseases that you're able to work on.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:05:16] There are several collaborations that we have going on. I mean, one with the Department of Pharmacology, Al George's Department. Being able to manipulate through pharmacological means, the function of any cell type is one of the basis of how to control disease in how to control health. So one of the areas that Al works a lot with is channels, ion channels, which control essentially flow of ions as well as a lot of properties of the cells in general. We have been collaborating with them very actively to understand how manipulation of those channels can actually improve vascular health. That's one example. We also collaborate with the problem neurology quite heavily. That has been also very interesting and fruitful and it takes us into the area of vascular dementia and how to improve the vascularization of the brain and what goes wrong when in cases of Alzheimer's and other situations that compromises the vasculature as well.
Erin Spain, MS [00:06:17] Tell me about this idea of cell-based therapies. What is happening right now and how close are we to having more cell based therapies available to patients?
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:06:26] The area that initiated this in a big way is hematology. So transplantation of bone marrow to replace bone marrow of patients that have mutations that lead to leukemia has been transformative. And this is something that for for blood is a lot easier because we have a way of delivering in these cells. Once we understood what was needed. They are professional. They know where to go and how to expand, and they're able to colonize in a way that substitutes disease for healthy bone marrow. So I think that we learn a lot from our process. And this idea now of how to use new cells to substitute for for all cells has taken over now because most cells are not circulating and they don't have the same properties of hematopoietic cells. It's become a little challenging and that's why the development of Organoids has been so interesting to biologists and developmental biologists and so biologists. And I think that that is going to be probably the future of regenerative medicine.
Erin Spain, MS [00:07:37] Tell me about your recent article in Nature Cardiovascular Research. Your team discovered a new cell type that was not previously understood. Tell me about this exciting finding.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:07:48] So this is a new type of macrophage, which is professional, should say inflammatory, but also more like a cleaner, cell type that lives in the endothelium. So I mentioned to you, right, that the endothelium is this layer that is responsible for covering the inner surface of all the blood vessels. Normally that area only is comprised of endothelial cells, but we found through the study that was recently published that there's a new type of macrophage that is present in interwoven intertwines with this endothelial cells in areas of oscillatory flow. So let me take back this a little bit. So because some vessels are twisted and turn when blood goes through them, it creates turbulence and creates disturbed flow. So think again about pipes. And when pipes divide, what happens to the flow? It turns out in those areas of turbulent flow, there is accumulation of thrombin which results in clots. And so the function of this macrophage that we discover is to eliminate those clots. And that's very important because when we experimentally deleted them, when we remove them from these areas of turbulent flow, the vessels get clogged. So they get full of fibrin and they have intravascular thrombosis, which is obviously very problematic. That was a very exciting manuscript, an exciting paper, because it told us many things about the endothelium. And also it showed that we need to have this professional cells in areas of turbulent flow to avoid clause from being formed.
Erin Spain, MS [00:09:31] Why is this finding so timely?
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:09:33] Yeah, I mean, I think the reason why that was timely and so, so interesting is because of COVID. So there is this concept and this idea that one of the consequences of COVID 19 is to have problems with blood vessels, and that is why the long COVID is affecting so many systems. So this macrophages are affected, then intravascular thrombosis is a lot more frequent and. If you have intravascular thrombosis in small vessels in particular, you can have clogs and ischemia. So this is an ongoing investigation, obviously, and something that we are expanding significantly, but it can have very significant consequences to understanding disease and understanding how disturbance of one particular cell type can trigger consequences that are system wide.
Erin Spain, MS [00:10:25] So what is the reaction been like from the scientific community to this finding?
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:10:29] It was quite interesting. Obviously, the way that we perceive those reactions that right now is through Twitter is interesting to see. Right as essentially the pulse of what the impact of a discovery like this has been in. It was very active. We had a lot of very positive feedback. But it's a process and one discovery is discovered is only important if we communicate them to others and others walk them further. So this is going to be a process that I'm looking for, watching and continuing to participate, obviously.
Erin Spain, MS [00:11:01] You also collaborated on an article in Nature with a former colleague of yours from UCLA that expands our understanding of how blood cells and endothelial cells cross-talk. Share those results with me.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:11:15] So as you mentioned, I'm a coauthor. You require the effort of multiple laboratories. And the senior author is my very dear friend, Hannah Mikkola. She is at Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA. And what Hannah has been very interested in knowing is is how actually how to improve the generation of hematopoietic stem cells, in vitro. But for that, we needed to go in vivo. So as we learn and in fact, many years ago we published this hematopoietic cells come from endothelial cells, and so they bud off endothelial cells during development. So my contributions were to provide this understanding of endothelial cell biology and understand how they actually bud off from endothelial cells and learn the molecular intricacies of this crosstalk between endothelial cells and hematopoietic cells are bad enough. And what Hannah did is took this for and essentially she identified the key molecular drivers that can inform how we can better do this in vitro so that we can use in vitro systems to develop to form hematopoietic stem cells and use them for transplantation.
Erin Spain, MS [00:12:29] This is sort of like step one. So what comes next?
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:12:33] Yeah. So with this information that she just obtained in communicated to the community, she is now developing new systems, in vitro to do just that. So it is incredibly challenging because again, the beginning requires this cross-talk between two very different cell types and cell types that are at a different stage. Right, than what we normally use. So she needs to take them back to that time, that embryonic time take them back, meaning molecularly by disturbing them in vitro and recapitulate or mimic that genetic time, that differentiation time, so that we can actually provide benefits to millions of people that are affected by blood diseases or blood cancers or even perhaps even regeneration of blood.
Erin Spain, MS [00:13:24] You actually took on your role as chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology not too much before the pandemic started. But tell me about your role as chair and some of your goals for the department and what you've been able to accomplish so far.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:13:39] That's a big passion of mine. I mean, trying to shape a department like cell and developmental biology at Northwestern is a privilege. And I'm very, very excited about what the future awaits. So when I took on the department, you're absolutely right was like months before the pandemic. And so obviously a lot of our plans were curtailed by what followed. But nonetheless, the vision was articulated very clearly to all the members of the department, and it was shaped further by them as well. So I had the opportunity to discuss with them how I view the direction of the department in the next ten years and the pandemic. Allow us to have a more extensive conversation as to what are the directions and the path that we should go. And essentially we all agree that what we want is to build a department that is going to be the top department in the nation in the next 5 to 10 years. So the question is, where is the discipline going to be in 5 to 10 years? What are the challenges that we are going to encounter and where are we going as scientists in this area? So answering that question is kind of you need to have a little glass ball and understand where are the key directions. And I think that is. Very, very obvious that computer modeling quantification, math and integration with physics as well as biology is going to partake a very important role in the advancement and development of this discipline. So we want to hire people that can walk both walks. They feel comfortable with the idea of using modeling to develop hypotheses and then pass those hypotheses in what we call a wet lab in the laboratory with petri dishes and peppermints. So we want real biologists, but those that are also able to expand, understand and if not embrace, like, for example, a dinosaur like myself. I'm not a computer scientist, but I definitely appreciate respect and I would love to collaborate with those who have those abilities to further our disciplines. So we are trying to identify raw talent that is able to embrace this vision and that hopefully has those elements already built in and incorporate them into the department. So I think that despite the pandemic, we have been able to actually move things forward in the same path as we intended originally.
Erin Spain, MS [00:16:19] Thank you so much, Dr. Luisa Iruela-Arispe, for coming on the show, telling us about some of your recent discoveries and how you are leading your department. We really appreciate it.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD [00:16:30] Thank you, Erin. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Erin Spain, MS [00:16:43] Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts and rate and reviews. Also for medical professionals, this episode of Breakthroughs is available for CME Credit. Go to our Web site. Feinberg.Northwestern.edu and search CME.
Continuing Medical Education Credit
Physicians who listen to this podcast may claim continuing medical education credit after listening to an episode of this program.
Academic/Research, Multiple specialties
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify the research interests and initiatives of Feinberg faculty.
- Discuss new updates in clinical and translational research.
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Luise Iruela-Arispe, PhD, has nothing to disclose. Course director, Robert Rosa, MD, has nothing to disclose. Planning committee member, Erin Spain, has nothing to disclose. Feinberg School of Medicine's CME Leadership and Staff have nothing to disclose: Clara J. Schroedl, MD, Medical Director of CME, Sheryl Corey, Manager of CME, Allison McCollum, Senior Program Coordinator, Katie Daley, Senior Program Coordinator, Michael John Rooney, RSS Senior Coordinator, and Rhea Alexis Banks, Administrative Assistant 2.
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Staging a Home
- As report by NAR that REALTORS® who typically represent the buyer, surveyed that 49 percent report most buyers are effected by home staging as they see themselves living in the property that they are viewing and another 47 percent reported buyers where somewhat effected by home staging.
- Among sellers’ agents 34 percent stage all homes, 13 percent stage difficult homes to sell, and four percent stage only high price bracket. Homes that are vacant can be challenging to convey the properties potential. As staging brings out the best in the property.
- Thirty-two percent of buyers’ agents believe staged homes increases the dollar value buyers are willing to offer by one percent to five percent.
Which room should be staged?
- Living Room
- Master Bedrooms
- Bath Rooms
Why does staging work?
- Staging the home can create a focal point, compliments the feature of the home and allow for better traffic flow.
- 10% of buyers can visualize the potential without staging.
Home buyers search online for homes and want a digital presence
Another point of view
- It does take time to stage.
- Creates problems when you are still living in the home
- Over staging the property that prevent buyers imaginations..
Does your home measure up?
- Making a home clean, bright and clutter free is taking the extra step from a buyer being distracted and indicating that you don’t have enough space as it appears very dysfunctional. You want to transform the home so that the buyer sees values and that it will generate a greater opportunity for the seller to get the right price.
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Razib Khan One-stop-shopping for all of my content November 28, Filed under: It was one of the cities where a form of Tocharian was spoken. This enigmatic Indo-European language family is extinct and known from only a few examples in this region of the world the different forms of Tocharian seem to have been mutually unintelligible, suggesting a long history in this region of the world for these languages. But Tocharian was not the only Indo-European language group that was represented in the Tarmin.
Incompatibilism may occupy any of the nine positions except 58 or 3which last corresponds to soft determinism. Position 1 Homosexuality choice vs genetics essay hard determinism, and position 2 is libertarianism.
The position 1 of hard determinism adds to the table the contention that D implies FW is untrue, and the position 2 of libertarianism adds the contention that FW implies D is untrue. Position 9 may be called hard incompatibilism if one interprets?
Compatibilism itself may occupy any of the nine positions, that is, there is no logical contradiction between determinism and free will, and either or both may be true or false in principle.
However, the most common meaning attached to compatibilism is that some form of determinism is true and yet we have some form of free will, position 3. Alex Rosenberg makes an extrapolation of physical determinism as inferred on the macroscopic scale by the behaviour of a set of dominoes to neural activity in the brain where; "If the brain is nothing but a complex physical object whose states are as much governed by physical laws as any other physical object, then what goes on in our heads is as fixed and determined by prior events as what goes on when one domino topples another in a long row of them.
Hard determinism A simplified taxonomy of philosophical positions regarding free will and determinism. Determinism can be divided into causal, logical and theological determinism.
Although hard determinism generally refers to nomological determinism see causal determinism belowit can include all forms of determinism that necessitate the future in its entirety.
Causal determinism The idea that everything is Homosexuality choice vs genetics essay by prior conditions, making it impossible for anything else to happen.
Such determinism is sometimes illustrated by the thought experiment of Laplace's demon. Imagine an entity that knows all facts about the past and the present, and knows all natural laws that govern the universe. If the laws of nature were determinate, then such an entity would be able to use this knowledge to foresee the future, down to the smallest detail.
The problem of free will, in this context, is the problem of how choices can be free, given that what one does in the future is already determined as true or false in the present. Other forms of determinism are more relevant to compatibilism, such as biological determinismthe idea that all behaviors, beliefs, and desires are fixed by our genetic endowment and our biochemical makeup, the latter of which is affected by both genes and environment, cultural determinism and psychological determinism.
Suggestions have been made that hard determinism need not maintain strict determinism, where something near to, like that informally known as adequate determinismis perhaps more relevant.
Red circles represent mental states; blue circles represent physical states; arrows describe causal interaction. Metaphysical libertarianism is one philosophical view point under that of incompatibilism. Libertarianism holds onto a concept of free will that requires that the agent be able to take more than one possible course of action under a given set of circumstances.
Accounts of libertarianism subdivide into non-physical theories and physical or naturalistic theories.
Non-physical theories hold that the events in the brain that lead to the performance of actions do not have an entirely physical explanation, which requires that the world is not closed under physics.
This includes interactionist dualismwhich claims that some non-physical mindwill, or soul overrides physical causality. Physical determinism implies there is only one possible future and is therefore not compatible with libertarian free will.
They either rely upon a world that is not causally closed, or physical indeterminism. It has been suggested, however, that such acting cannot be said to exercise control over anything in particular.
According to non-causal accounts, the causation by the agent cannot be analysed in terms of causation by mental states or events, including desire, belief, intention of something in particular, but rather is considered a matter of spontaneity and creativity. The "actish feel" of some intentional actions do not "constitute that event's activeness, or the agent's exercise of active control", rather they "might be brought about by direct stimulation of someone's brain, in the absence of any relevant desire or intention on the part of that person".
Some non-causal explanations involve invoking panpsychismthe theory that a quality of mind is associated with all particles, and pervades the entire universe, in both animate and inanimate entities.
Event-causal theories[ edit ] Event-causal accounts of incompatibilist free will typically rely upon physicalist models of mind like those of the compatibilistyet they presuppose physical indeterminism, in which certain indeterministic events are said to be caused by the agent.
A number of event-causal accounts of free will have been created, referenced here as deliberative indeterminism, centred accounts, and efforts of will theory. Ordinary randomness is appealed to as supplying the "elbow room" that libertarians believe necessary. A first common objection to event-causal accounts is that the indeterminism could be destructive and could therefore diminish control by the agent rather than provide it related to the problem of origination.
A second common objection to these models is that it is questionable whether such indeterminism could add any value to deliberation over that which is already present in a deterministic world. Deliberative indeterminism asserts that the indeterminism is confined to an earlier stage in the decision process.
The selection process is deterministic, although it may be based on earlier preferences established by the same process. Centred accounts propose that for any given decision between two possibilities, the strength of reason will be considered for each option, yet there is still a probability the weaker candidate will be chosen.
Efforts of will theory is related to the role of will power in decision making. Models of volition have been constructed in which it is seen as a particular kind of complex, high-level process with an element of physical indeterminism.
Although at the time quantum mechanics and physical indeterminism was only in the initial stages of acceptance, in his book Miracles: A preliminary study C.
Lewis stated the logical possibility that if the physical world were proved indeterministic this would provide an entry point to describe an action of a non-physical entity on physical reality.
These events might affect brain activity, and could seemingly allow incompatibilist free will if the apparent indeterminacy of some mental processes for instance, subjective perceptions of control in conscious volition map to the underlying indeterminacy of the physical construct.
This relationship, however, requires a causative role over probabilities that is questionable, and it is far from established that brain activity responsible for human action can be affected by such events.Today during an otherwise terrible lecture on ADHD I realized something important we get sort of backwards.
There’s this stereotype that the Left believes that human characteristics are socially determined, and therefore mutable.
This article is a general timeline of psychology.A more general description of the development of the subject of psychology can be found in the History of psychology article. Related information can be found in the Timeline of psychiatry article. A more specific review of important events in the development of psychotherapy can be found in the Timeline of psychotherapy article.
Below I mentioned the preprint, Genomic analysis of dingoes identifies genomic regions under reversible selection during domestication and feralization.I do think that readers will be quite interested in reading it, and it’s not too technical. As the authors note, the dingo is interesting because of the longest lasting “feral” lineage that is known.
There are some truths that I strive to preach, for lack of a better word, in today's information-culture wars propagated in our corrupt mainstream media.
Homosexuality – Nature VS Nurture Essay Sample. However, most articles that claim homosexuality as a choice come without scientific research or reason. Article talks about the genetics of homosexuality and goes on to state the possibility of parenting as seen in some public figures.
A refute he normally gets is: if gay couples cannot. Free Homosexuality papers, essays, and research papers. Homosexuality Is Not A Choice - "My own experience taught me much about 'choice ' in sexual orientation.
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(1) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Abstract: A repeating coal-bed sequence in the central Appalachian Basin
Thirteen southern West Virginia coal beds were investigated to determine coal-bed methane source rock/reservoir character. Beds were divided into their component sedimentary parts or benches by identifying bounding surfaces within beds. Paleo-peat mire morphology at the bench level was determined using both three-dimensional shape analysis and petrographic indices. Planar and raised paleo-peat mire benches were identified. Macroscopic coal composition was compared to mire type. Gas and splint coals have the highest fracture/cleat density. All gas coal and some splint coal benches were derived from raised mires. Within splint coals of the same rank fracture/cleat spacing was much closer in raised mire benches. A repeating sequence was identified within beds. This sequence generally consists of 1) planar mire formation with evolution to raised mire status, 2) bounding surface formation, and 3) planar mire formation with subsequent bed termination. A succession through time related to the raised mire formation also was identified. It indicates optimum conditions for raised mire and source rock/reservoir development occurred during late Westphalian A to early Westphalian B time. In addition, raised mire area long axis orientation trends are present. Prior to extensive mining in this basin there was an optimum stratigraphic range and orientation trend to target for coal-bed methane exploration and development. The observed coal-bed sequence and succession suggests that in other basins, particularly marine-influenced foreland basins, similar target situations exist.
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Grade 10 Nepali Book: Preface
To make education purposeful, practical, contemporary and employment-oriented, the work of developing and revising the curriculum, textbooks have been continued at different times. By inculcating in the students a sense of nation, national unity and democratic culture, they can contribute to the building of an ethical, disciplined and self-reliant, creative, thoughtful and inclusive society. It is necessary to develop. It is necessary to instil in them a sense of protection and promotion of art and beauty, human values, ideals and features. To help in building an egalitarian society, it is necessary to inculcate in them a sense of belonging to different castes, genders, disabilities, languages, religions, cultures and regions, and to develop responsible behaviour conscious of human rights and social values. Based on the Secondary Education Curriculum (Class 9-10), 2071, this textbook has been prepared by incorporating the suggestions of various commissions on education, seminars involving various people related to education including teachers, students and parents and the findings of interactions and feedback received in various schools. Mr Baburam Poudel, Executive Director of the Center, Pvt. Dr. Kedar Prasad Sharma, Pvt. Dr Ramnath Ojha, Pvt. Ramesh Bhattarai, Chandrakant Bhusal, Dr Gita Kharel, Madhu Prasad Timilsina, Siddhi Bahadur Maharjan and other dignitaries have made special contributions. The subject matter of this textbook is edited by Rajni Dhimal and language edited by Chinakumari Niraula, illustrated by Kuldeep Jung Bahadur Gurung, layout design by Bhavana Sharma.
The Curriculum Development Center would like to thank all those involved in the development and revision of the textbook. Textbooks are considered an important tool for teaching and learning. This is expected to help students achieve the target competencies through the curriculum. Every effort has been made to make this textbook as activity-oriented and interesting as possible. Since the teachers, students, parents, intellectuals and all the readers have an important role to play in further refining the textbook, the Curriculum Development Center cordially requests constructive suggestions of all concerned.
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South Dakota is not a no-fault state as far as auto insurance is concerned. It is a tort state, which means that one driver will be found responsible for the accident and will be on the hook for paying medical bills and lost wages, as well as the cost of repairs to the other driver’s vehicle. State law requires vehicle owners to purchase bodily injury and property damage liability coverage.
The bodily injury and property damage liability insurance protects the occupants of the other vehicle when a car accident occurs. It pays for their damages, as well as repair costs.
Drivers in South Dakota are also required to buy uninsured motorist coverage. This portion of the car insurance policy pays out if the at-fault driver doesn’t have insurance or the damages were caused by a hit and run driver.
Comprehensive and collision coverage are not required in South Dakota, but it may be a good idea to buy it anyway. Collision coverage pays for the cost of repairing a driver’s own vehicle following an accident. Collision insurance pays out when the damage is caused by events like fire, vandalism, hail or flooding. It also pays a settlement if a car is stolen.
If the car is financed, the lender may require the car owner to protect it by investing in collision and comprehensive insurance coverage. That way, the lender’s interests are protected until the loan is paid off.
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Choosing a plumber
Protect your health and property when having plumbing work done
Hiring a licensed, bonded and insured plumber can help protect homeowners from non-complying work, costly errors, accidents, physical injury and improper plumbing installations. These potential problems can lead to property damage and adverse health effects to building occupants.
All individual plumbers in Minnesota must be licensed or registered with our agency. Businesses that contract with consumers to provide plumbing services must have a plumbing contractor license. Licensed plumbing contractors carry a surety bond and liability insurance.
A Minnesota plumbing license demonstrates that the plumber has years of practical, hands-on training, and a proven knowledge of plumbing codes, materials and approved construction methods. All plumbers' licenses must be renewed biannually and should be carried at all times on a work site. Check a plumber's license here.
All plumbing work statewide must comply with the current Minnesota Plumbing Code.
What training and education does a licensed Minnesota plumber have?
Registered unlicensed plumber — The registered unlicensed plumber is the starting position for aspiring plumbers. Registered unlicensed plumbers must register with us and work under the direct supervision of a licensed journeyworker or master plumber. After four years and at least 7,000 hours of practical work experience, an apprentice is eligible to take an exam for a journeyworker license.
Certified pipelayer — A certified pipelayer is an individual who has completed pipe-laying training in an approved program, and has a certificate to show record of the training. This certificate, or pipelayer's card, may be carried by an individual in lieu of a plumber license to work on water service pipes, building drain/sanitary sewer pipes and storm sewer pipes within the property lines of a facility or residence, but not inside buildings. This does not qualify a person to work on interior plumbing.
Restricted journeyworker plumber — A restricted journeyworker plumber was required to document at least two years of practical plumbing experience prior to Oct. 1, 2008. A restricted journeyworker plumber must work under the direction of a master plumber or a restricted master plumber. A restricted journeyworker may work without on-site supervision only in cities with a population of less then 5,000.
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Journeyworker plumber — Apprentices who pass the exam can become licensed journeyworker plumbers. Journeyworker plumbers must work under the direction of a master plumber in any city with a population over 5,000. A licensed journeyworker is considered knowledgeable and may work without on-site supervision.
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The Plumbing Board is responsible for adopting the Minnesota Plumbing Code and any amendments.
Enforcement of plumbing codes
We may take action against a plumber who does non-complying work. Possible actions against plumbers include invocation of the bond to correct non-complying work, fines and suspension or revocation or a license (Minn. Statutes, Section 144.989 to 144.993).
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Sending your little one to pre-school. What you can do.
Every little one is a star and we all want our little stars to shine bright. It is the time of year when we send out our stars to gather some sparkle into the real world via a pre-school. A good preschool helps make the later journey easier. What can you do as a parent to help. Falak, who started a school after she discovered her calling to nurture little stars, shares some tips here.
Anxiety, fear, excitement, apprehensions, and there are so many more feelings a child and their parent/s go through when they start a new school. Calming down an anxious 2-year-old who has entered an unfamiliar environment, is not an easy job. The more you push them, the more they will resist.
The word ‘Ayelet’ is a Hebrew word, which means ‘Brightest Morning Star’; it defines our goal to create a bright, rich, stimulating school environment for children, which will stay with them for life.
I have just started a Montessori House of Children in Bangalore, and I’m looking forward to welcoming these unsure little ones in our environment. I have faced a lot of cries, whining, shouting, resistance, etc. as an educator for more than 8 years now, I always tell parents, leave them and go, they will be fine.
And 75% of the time, the child does calm down when parents have gone. There are those crucial 25% children who need weeks and even months to settle down completely.
There are a lot of things that parents can do, and make this transition a little less stressful. First few days are always a little difficult, and separation anxiety is common for the child and parent alike. Here are a few things that work:
Before the school starts:
- Speak to the child positively about starting school, books help, immensely.
- You might be anxious, but don’t let the child know you’re nervous. For your child to be positive, you need to help her/him.
- Become familiar with the new school. At Ayelet Montessori, we do plan to have an important familiarization hour, where a new child, before they officially start the school, come in a prepared environment for 45 minutes to an hour. This is scheduled at a time when other children aren’t in the school. The parents accompany the child, but just as silent spectators. If your preschool offers something on these lines, make sure, you don’t miss this.
- If you have chosen a Montessori school, ensure you allow the child to be independent at home as well, for as far as possible.
- Try to limit screen time, as a lot of screen time makes the attention span of the child limited. He/she will take longer to adjust to school, especially most Montessori schools, where they aren’t allowed any screen time.
Cheerful Goodbyes: Sounds easy, right? Well, the reality is a little different. When you reach those school gates, you will know what I’m talking about. It is best that someone, the child is less attached to, drops the child off at the gate. Most schools allow a parent in to sit for a day or two with the child, but, believe me, that’s more for the parent, than for the child to get comfortable.
When you drop him/her off, go down to the child’s level, say, “Goodbye, have fun! I will see you soon.” Get up with a quick hug or kiss. Leave… even if the child resists. Most 2-year-olds stop crying in a little while.
Schedule: Young children love routines, make sure, they get a good night sleep and wake up at least an hour before they leave for school. Consistency makes goodbyes easier, if they are used to seeing only one parent in the morning, try to keep it like that.
Trust the Montessori adult or the teacher: You have chosen the school after a lot of research, trust the school to take care of your child. In an authentic Montessori environment specially, a trained adult has gone through a rigorous Montessori training, s/he is willing to treat your child with respect.
Pick your child up on time: It is important that children learn through consistent experience that each goodbye, as hard as it may be, is followed by a happy return. Don’t get late, that will make the child more nervous in the initial days of school.
Accept the way your child feels: If your child expresses his/her concern, appreciate that and say something like, “I know, you feel sad when Appa leaves you, but you will soon start enjoying your school. We will come to pick you up, and then you can have some more fun.”
Do not stand outside the school gate for the entire time: I did that, and I stopped when I knew this made the experience worse for me. Instead, call the school to check once or twice.
A Montessori school works best when parents collaborate with the school for the benefit of the child.
Note - Ayelet aims at fostering a community of children, educators and families, to support the optimum development of the child for life. Located in a beautiful little space, in MICO Layout, BTM, Bengaluru, Ayelet follows pure Montessori approach. At Ayelet Montessori, each child is treated as a unique individual, it is your perfect little Montessori around the Corner.
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What is Hypnagogia?
We all know that there are two primary states of consciousness: wakefulness and sleep. But did you that there is also an in-between state? This state is called Hypnagogia, a word that derives from the Greek words “hypnos” (sleep) and “agogos” (leading), meaning the state that leads into sleep.
Have you ever had a nap and experienced a strange trance-like state in which images, colors, sounds, even dream-like stories play out in your mind? Have you ever found yourself falling asleep and seeing a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes fleet in and out of your mind … or strange things like horses turning into helicopters? These experiences are hypnagogia in action and it’s likely that you experience hypnagogia multiple times a week, or even every day before you fall asleep!
So how can this unusual limbo state contribute to our self-understanding and spiritual growth? In this article, I’ll explain how.
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Types of Hypnagogia
Depending on whether you are primarily a visual (image-oriented), auditory (sound-oriented), or kinesthetic (physically-oriented) person (you can take a test here), your hypnogogic experience will vary.
Here are common ways hypnagogia is experienced:
- Images – e.g. monochromatic or colorful, static or moving, flat or three-dimensional – usually the images are fleeting but sometimes they form entire dream-like scenes
- Sounds – may be loud or quiet and involve hearing music, voices, snatches of conversation, rain, wind, white noise, repetitive words, having one’s name called, etc.
- Repetitive actions – known as the “Tetris effect,” when a person has spent a long time doing something repetitive (such as working, playing chess, exercising, reading) they may find themselves doing the same thing as they fall into the hypnagogic state
- Physical sensations – tastes, scents, textures, and sensations of coldness and heat may be experienced during hypnagogia, as well as feelings of floating, falling, leaving one’s body or having one’s body change shape
- Mental processes – at the edge of sleep thoughts begin to take a fluid and free-associative quality in which they morph and evolve in unusual, abstract, and innovative ways, uninfluenced by the ego
- Sleep paralysis – the temporary inability to move may, in some occurrences, accompany hypnagogia, however while this state may be alarming, it is harmless
It is also possible (and common) to experience multiple forms of hypnagogia. For example, you might visually enter a memory from the day that transforms before your eyes into an array of physical sensations and sounds. The combinations are limitless.
Spiritual Oneiromancy, Dali, and Dream Yoga
Throughout history, there have been many writers, artists, and philosophers who have used hypnagogia as a way of triggering new ideas, insights, and even inventions.
Artist Salvador Dali, writer Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), and inventor Thomas Edison are some of the most notable historical figures who have used hypnagogia to stimulate saucy new ideas. Both Dali and Edison, for example, used very similar techniques of sitting down with objects in their hands (a key for Dali and brass balls for Edison) and waking up once the object fell and hit the floor. This sudden awakening allowed them to quickly jolt out of their hypnagogic slumber and write down the thoughts and images that had been dancing through their minds.
In Tibetan Buddhism, hypnagogic states are used as a way of practicing “dream yoga.” Dream yoga is a form of spiritual practice that is based on the premise that dream-like states can be used to train the mind to enhance spiritual awareness. This self-discipline can contribute to the experience of enlightenment or self-realization.
In the modern age, there’s a niche of people who refer to themselves as Oneiromancers; or individuals who use dreams as a form of divination. The word Oneiromancy comes from the Greek ‘oneiros’ (dream) and ‘manteia’ (prophecy). Such people commonly use and interpret dreams as a way of prophesying the future.
Even psychologists such as Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud have taken an intense interest in dreams and their potential meanings. Jung was notorious for his fascination with dreams and their connection with the unconscious mind since childhood.
I can’t personally vouch for the divination aspect of dreams (as in ‘oneiromancy,’ although I have had prophetic dreams). Furthermore, I believe that predicting the future is useless and a major distraction unless it is accompanied with work grounded in the present moment. That is why my approach to dreams and hypnagogia specifically is targeted towards psychological growth. Without understanding yourself, meeting your shadow self, uncovering and dealing with old traumas and wounds, and integrating what you find, you won’t get very far. All of the dream work in the world will be just that: a bunch of fantasy.
How to Use Hypnagogia to Explore Your Unconscious Mind
Hypnagogia is the shortest path for communication from our subconscious — Sirley Marques Bonham, physicist
In the secular world, hypnagogia is often used as a way of stimulating creativity. But I propose, similar to the Tibetan Buddhists and their ‘Dream Yoga’ and Carl Jung and his technique of ‘Active Imagination,’ that hypnagogia can be used for deep psychological discovery as well.
By seeking to find patterns, interpreting the images that arise, and coming in contact with the fragmented aspects of yourself, hypnagogia is a powerful form of self-exploration, and one with the potential of uniting you with your Soul’s Wholeness and ultimate purpose.
The unconscious mind is the part of our brain that contains everything we have buried away and forgotten: memories, defense mechanisms, wounds, ancestral traumas, archetypal forces or ‘sub-personalities’ – you name it.
In the trance-like state of hypnagogia we are able to observe our unconscious mind and its contents as it begins to bubble to the surface.
If you want to learn a simple and effective way of using hypnagogia to explore your unconscious, practice the one below:
1. Set an intention – ‘Prime’ your mind and get it ready before you go to sleep or have an afternoon nap. You can do this by constantly thinking about what it is you want to explore about 20-30 minutes before you go to rest. For example, your intention might be to find out why you struggle to have self-control around certain people, what mental belief is blocking your happiness, what your Shadow wants to tell you, or anything that is to do with you as a person. I find that it helps to be very clear about my intention and summarize it into a sentence. You can even write this sentence on a piece of paper if it helps. For example, your summarized intention might be “I want to understand why I always attract the wrong partners,” “I want to discover how to strengthen my social boundaries,” “I want to find out why I feel so unhappy and lost,” etc. Meditating on your intention is also a powerful way of priming your mind beforehand.
2. Find something to record your experience – Before you enter hypnagogia, find a notebook, journal, sketch pad, or voice activated recorder (there are mobile apps for that), and place it next to your bed/sofa/chair.
3. Set a gentle alarm – It takes on average about 10 to 20 minutes to fall asleep. So take a moment to consider how long it takes you on average to fall asleep. Do you go under quickly? In this case you might like to set the alarm on your phone or clock to 10 minutes. If you take a long time to fall asleep, experiment with setting your alarm to 20 minutes. With experience, and assessment of how tired you are beforehand, you’ll be able to skillfully adjust the alarm to the perfect amount of time that you need.
4. Take a nap – Remember, your intention isn’t to fall asleep, (although if that happens, don’t worry, it can take practice!). Lie down on your bed, sofa, or whatever is comfortable, and relax. Let your body and mind drift off into a soft and hazy stupor. Completely unwind and let yourself be still.
5. Observe your mind – It is not always possible to clearly observe your mind, particularly when your consciousness is fading, which is why this step takes practice. You can use the sensation of your breath or chest rising and falling to help anchor yourself to awareness as you notice what is going on.
6. Time to record! – Bzzzz! At some point your alarm will go off. (Hopefully you set a gentle alarm, because loud obnoxious alarms can really be, well, alarming.) Once you’ve woken up, record what you have heard, seen, felt, or experienced. Do this quickly so that you don’t forget.
7. Interpretation – Reflect on what you have written, drawn or recorded. What are the first thoughts or feelings that pop into your mind? If you experience a strong physical/emotional ‘aha!’ reaction, you have found the right interpretation. Does your interpretation inspire, excite, or shock you? If so, it is probably correctly interpreted. According to Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson, the best way to tell if you have interpreted dream imagery correctly is by the level of energy behind it. In other words, if your interpretation feels flat, dull, or lifeless, it is likely wrong. But if it feels alive and thrilling, you’ve likely found your answer.
Also, remember that hypnagogic imagery can be very abstract or very straight-forward – it is quite unpredictable. Sometimes it takes a while to interpret what you have experienced. Sometimes the material of your mind won’t be relevant to your question or intention. Keep practicing. Often images, words, sounds, and sensations may feel completely unrelated to your question. But when you revisit them a few days later, something may ‘click’ and you might suddenly discover how pertinent and symbolic they are.
8. Meditate on your discovery – After you have interpreted your hypnagogic content, sit and reflect on it. Meditate on its implications, lessons, and advice. I encourage you to journal about your experiences with hypnagogia as it will deepen your capacity to learn and grow from the practice. Learn more about how to journal.
Hypnagogia is a trippy, fascinating, kaleidoscopic world full of endless potential and possibility. Best of all, it provides an easy gateway to your unconscious mind. By taking advantage of this fleeting state of mind, you have the opportunity and ability to solve problems, gain guidance, and experience more inner peace and Wholeness.
Have you experimented with hypnagogic imagery before? Please share any tips or insights you have below!
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Culture is the set of rules, expectations and forces which shape individual behaviour in your organisation. Culture is very hard to see/observe from the inside, because you're surrounded by the signs and practices every day. However, there is no bigger force in an organisation than its culture.
Culture is also subject to scale - teams will have a culture created by the individuals in it, a section or department will have a culture, and an organisation can, overall, be seen as having a culture. As such, culture is created by groups of people, but is also shaped by the systems which surround them.
Anyone who thinks that culture change is simple and linear is dangerously over-simplifying. The process requires consultation, honesty, goodwill, a willingness to accept hard truths, and the ability to challenge and change behaviours, both individually and in teams.
To do culture work successfully, you need 'people' people. That's us. We bring organisational experience, psychology, communications, and a genuine like for people and the great things that they can do together. We also bring the analytical capacity to tell if initiatives are working - data science, outcomes measurement and statistics.
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During the summit at Pycon, we have said that it would be a better strategy not to include within Distutils os-specific tools for various reasons (and also to remove existing ones) :
- it's better for them to have their own release cycles - it's hard for me, as distutils maintainer, to maintain and make evolve os-specific tools. People that are specialists on those OS will do a better job.
Now the problems to reach that goal are:
- some people are reluctant not to have everything included in the stdlib (I am not). I don't think we can all agree on this, and since Guido have encouraged this strategy during the summit, I guess I'm more inclined to follow it nevertheless.
- we need to detect for each existing command (rpm, etc) a project that can take over, prior to remove it from Distutils when appliable .
Now, for debian, since it's not included in distutils, the question is : what is the most used/advanced project ? sdteb ?
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The Canon William of Newburgh was a priest and historian who gained much respect. He lived during the reign of Richard I in the thirteenth century. He introduced the tale of the Berwick Vampire to folklore. This was around the time when the plague devastated vast areas of the country. Obviously, the northern counties such as Northumberland were no exception and suffered terrible hardship because of it.
Canon William’s story is about a rich merchant who was a victim of the plague. But the merchant was also a religious and thoughtful man. It was only after his death that the villagers of Berwick discovered that the man had lead a corrupt, sinful life. So they refused his burial taking place on consecrated land. Soon after his funeral, some unexplainable and terrible incidents took place in Berwick.
The merchant had begun to rise from his grave in search of human flesh and blood amongst the villagers. The demented demon would bolt through the streets looking for victims shouting “until my body is burnt, you folk of Berwick shall have no peace”! Behind the Vampire a pack of howling dogs followed, their loud baying keeping the villagers awake.
The villagers had to end the horror of the Berwick Vampire so they had a somewhat productive meeting. They selected ten young farmhands to exhume the merchant’s grave and dismember the body. Then they were to burn the remains and finally rid themselves of the forces of evil. However, they may have totally destroyed the Berwick Vampire, but tragedy still came to the village. This is because after the destruction of the vampire, the plague returned to Berwick.
This nasty disease killed half the population which was usual after the disease resurfaced. Moreover, villagers claimed as they buried their dead that something was still not quite right. Indeed, they could still hear the sound of baying hounds as they lay the diseased bodies to rest. Not only that but they also claimed they could still hear the fearful screams of the Vampire. So, the question is whether there was two vampires or did the Berwick Vampire just not go away?
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Occupational Health is concerned with the impact of health on work and vice versa. We discuss the key approaches and broad principles in matching an individual’s medical background with the environment and making sensible decisions about whether they should participate with a focus on diving, military deployments, offshore oil and gas and expeditions.
- Why preparation is the key to success!
- Mapping the individual and their condition to the environment.
- The key components of the ‘dive medical’, the role of respiratory and ENT problems
- The unique challenges of a remote maritime environment.
- A patient with a history of anaphylaxis to peanuts – can they be safely deployed to a remote oil rig that is over a day's travel from definitive care?
- Doing a risk assessment - who is at risk and why - what can you do about it?
- Proactive and reactive components of a risk assessment.
- The issue of non-disclosure on health questionnaires. Helping the organisation asking the right questions in the first place!
- The role of occupational medicine in protecting the individual AND the organisation (in that order).
- Being able to back yourself when you feel exposed in your decision making and manage risk and uncertainty.
- An approach to pre-existing mental health problems
- Taking a positive approach: Screening people in rather than screening them out.
- Why the UK military believe it’s important to join well, train well, live well, work well and leave well.
- Identifying and managing the return and transition to an individual's normal home environment after a long deployment.
Guest Bio: Dr Kent Haworth
MB ChB MSc BMedSci (Hons) FFOM MRCGP DTM&H DAvMed DRCOG DFFP
Consultant Occupational Medicine Physician
Kent studied medicine at St. Andrews and Manchester Universities graduating in 1992. While at university he joined the British military and spent many happy, professionally rewarding years in uniform in the British Army and Royal Navy, travelling extensively and practising medicine in wide range of physical environments.
Initially trained in general practice, he then commenced higher specialist training in occupational medicine gaining approval as a consultant in 2010. Thereafter followed a variety of clinical and policy/strategy development roles before hanging up his uniform for the last time in 2018. For his final assignment he led the department responsible for occupational medicine aspects of Army recruitment. On leaving the military he entered independent practice in the City of London before moving to Saudi Arabia in 2019. He returned to the UK in 2021 and is based in the South East of England.
Kent was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians in 2017. He is passionate about occupational medicine and its application to maximum benefit in real-world working environments.
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Prof. Harvey Newman (CALTECH)
The main objective of the VINCI project is to enable data intensive applications to efficiently use and coordinate shared, hybrid network resources, to improve the performance and throughput of global-scale grid systems, such as those used in high energy physics. VINCI uses a set of agent-based services implemented in the MonALISA framework to enable the efficient use of network resources, coordinated with computing and storage resources. VINCI is an integrated network service system that provides client authentication and authorization, discovery of services and the topology of connections, workflow scheduling, global optimization and monitoring. The distributed agent system provides dynamically, on demand, end to end optical (or layer two VLAN) connections in less than one second independent of the location and the number of optical switches involved. It monitors and supervises all the created connections and is able to automatically generate an alternative path in case of connectivity errors. The alternative path is set up rapidly enough to avoid a TCP timeout, and thus to allow the transfer to continue uninterrupted. Dedicated agents are used to monitor the client systems and to detect hardware and software configuration. They can perform end to end performance measurements and if necessary to configure the systems. We are developing agents able to interact with GMPLS and CIENA’s G.ASON network control plane protocols and to integrate this functionality into the network services provided by the VINCI framework.
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NEW YORK — The COVID-19 pandemic has apparently given a whole new meaning to the term business casual. With millions now working from home, a full two-thirds of remote American employees can’t remember the last time they wore pants.
A total of 2,000 remote working Americans were surveyed for this research, and 80% said that they spend nine-to-five in their underwear, pajamas, or comfy clothes nowadays. Another 70% much prefer working remotely to commuting everyday.
The survey, which was commissioned by Mattress Firm, asked respondents about how they’re adapting to remote employment, and for many, old habits seem to die hard. For example, despite not having to commute at all, 44% have still been “late” for work.
One would assume that working from home would lead to a drop in productivity, but the survey’s results actually indicate the opposite. A full 70% said they’ve been more productive since lockdowns began and they started working from home.
Meanwhile, 59% have taken advantage of their home-work situation and sneaked in a mid-day nap while on the clock, with the average adult napping for four hours per week. Most of those nappers (52%) said their afternoon siestas made them realize they need a new bed.
Many Americans aren’t just sleeping in bed either; 57% said they usually work from their bed now for about four hours per day.
“Our bed tends to be a place of comfort and familiarity, especially during times of uncertainty or anxiety, so it’s completely understandable to want to work from bed,” says Dr. Sujay Kansagra, sleep health consultant for Mattress Firm. “But it’s important to remember your bedroom should be your sleep sanctuary and should be kept separate from your workspace.”
It goes without saying at this point that anxiety among Americans is at an all time high. So, how are respondents dealing with that stress? Exercise (55%) was the top answer to that question, followed by watching TV or movies (51%), meditating (42%), sleeping more (39%), and cooking (36%). Other popular anxiety relievers listed by participants were reading (36%), eating (36%), video games (34%), talking to friends (34%), and hobbies (32%).
Regarding keeping in touch with friends and family, 63% of respondents said they’ve used a video chatting app to catch up with loved ones. In fact, 23% even said they use such video applications five times per week.
One of the biggest lockdown annoyances has been the shutdown of barber shops and hair salons. Well, one in three respondents have given themselves a haircut while self-isolating.
The survey was conducted by OnePoll.
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Families of Germanwings crash victims attend a memorial service in south-eastern France, to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy.
Relatives have criticised the father of the co-pilot for choosing the date to raise doubts over whether his son was responsible fro the crash which killed all 150 on board.
Guenter Lubitz, defended the timing, saying:
“We didn’t choose today to hurt the other victims’ families. We chose today because we think that today people will listen to us and hear that our son wasn’t depressed at the time of the crash.”
German prosecutors concluded that Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the jet, saying he was suffering from a mental disorder that led to suicidal thoughts but had concealed his illness from the airline.
Speaking to the media for the first time since the crash, Lubitz believes the investigation is incomplete, though the prosecutors say there is no reason to reopen the files, stating there is not sufficient evidence of any other cause.
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U.S. steel tariffs are losing effect: Metals strategist
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the new North American Free Trade Agreement with U.S. President Donald Trump and outgoing Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto on Nov. 30, he added one caveat on the milestone day.
“Make no mistake, we will stand up for our workers and fight for their families and their communities,” Trudeau said at the time. “And Donald, it's all the more reason why we need to keep working to remove the tariffs on steel and aluminum between our countries."
Yet, two months after signing the trade deal, the tariffs – 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminum – that were imposed under the guise of national security concerns remain in place against Canada, with no end in sight. Earlier this week, Trump even touted the tariffs’ impact on the steel industry in a tweet, calling it “a big win” for the U.S.
But not everyone agrees.
The tariffs, and Canada’s dollar-for-dollar countermeasures, have created unintended consequences and headaches for businesses on both sides of the border, prompting corporate and government leaders to press the U.S. government to remove them.
“Given the assurance by [Trump] that if there was an agreement on NAFTA, that the tariffs would come off … we should be strongly making the case that these come off -- and now. This is unfinished business that needs to be dealt with,” said Perrin Beatty, president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in a phone interview with BNN Bloomberg.
Even for U.S. steel and aluminum makers, the initial boost that the tariffs provided for the industry have had a short shelf life – a common fallout of government-imposed tariffs, according to Christopher Plummer, president and managing director at Pennsylvania-based consulting firm Metals Strategies Inc.
Plummer noted that the average price for hot-rolled steel sheet, a bellwether for the industry, rose sharply from its average price of US$687 a ton in January 2018, to about US$833 a ton in March when the tariffs were officially enacted. After peaking at an average of US$912 a ton in July, prices have steadily fallen and stood at US$663 a ton as of Friday morning.
“In other words, we’re now worse off – at least, in the steel pricing environment – than we were back in January, three months before these tariffs were imposed,” Plummer told BNN Bloomberg in a television interview Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Canadian steel and aluminum producers have not only weathered the storm, but performed better amid the tariffs and improvements in cost efficiencies, according to Plummer. Like their U.S. counterparts, Canadian steel manufacturers also reaped the benefits of the immediate increase of steel prices, Plummer said.
“Companies are benefitting…. from higher steel prices that have been generated by these tariffs,” Plummer said. “And Canada, almost being a pretty much monolithic market in terms of pricing with the U.S., benefits unlike anywhere else in the world.”
Still, for Canadian consumers, the tariffs’ impact on sticker prices could just be starting to appear. Grocery chain Metro Inc., for example, said earlier this week that it has accepted price increases from some soft drink suppliers because aluminum tariffs have made cans more expensive. In addition, appliance makers have passed down higher prices to Canadians as a result of the tariffs, according to Mark Agnew, senior director of international policy with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
And it could get worse, Agnew said, when more data is released for the end of 2018 and early 2019.
“That’s when we’ll see things register a bit more. Right now, people are locked into contracts or obligations, so we haven’t necessarily seen the shifts take place yet,” Agnew said in a phone interview.
For now, there are no guarantees on when, or if, the Trump administration will eliminate the metals tariffs on Canada and Mexico; but some say that the ratification of the new trade deal could be a bargaining chip to pressure the White House into finally removing the so-called Section 232 levies on its North American counterparts.
Indeed, Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, on Wednesday urged the White House to lift the tariffs before Congress begins considering legislation to implement the new trade deal.
“There’s ongoing conversation taking place in Congress that [the Trump administration] will have a difficult time passing the new trade agreement if tariffs continue, and on Canada in particular,” said Bruce Heyman, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, in a phone interview.
“It is a point of concern that has been raised. People want this reversed if they’re going to support USMCA (U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement).”
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WHAT’S UP WITH GENDER-NEUTRAL BIBLES?
Many Christians are concerned about gender neutral Bibles. What exactly are they and are they spiritually dangerous?
Here’s the big question: If the original language, of a particular passage, is meant to include all people (men, women, children, etc.) should not the new translation reflect this if at all possible? For example, William Tyndale published the first English New Testament in 1526. In Matthew 5:9 he rendered the text to say, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God”—even though the underlying Greek word is υἱοί (huioi), meaning “sons.” The reason Tyndale went this route was to communicate that it is not only sons who are blessed if they are peacemakers, but daughters can also benefit from this, as can mothers and fathers.
The King James Version renders the Hebrew word בן ben (son) and it’s plural בֵּנִים (banim) as “son” or “sons” over 2,800 times and as “child” or “children” over 1,500 times. The reason goes back to the issue of what did the original text intend to communicate? This is what the so-called “gender-neutral” issue is all about. Should a male pronoun in the original Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek automatically be translated as a male pronoun in a modern translation? My answer: maybe.
Over the past thirty years, almost every English version produced has adopted a gender-neutral approach. This is in line with translating words according to their original context.
One of my favorite examples is Psalm 1:1. The 1984 NIV renders it, “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked.” The NLT renders it, “Oh the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked.” Are both accurate translations? I believe so, but I believe that the NLT is more faithful to the original meaning. That is anyone, regardless of age or gender, is blessed if they shun wicked companions. The NIV’s use of man is grammatically correct (the original Hebrew word איש means “man”). But, is man the best way to translate it into English? If English is indeed changing into a more gender-specific language, than perhaps not. It’s safe to say that when most Americans under the age of 30 hear the word man, they probably think male.
The new 2011 NIV is gender-neutral, but so is the 1984 NIV. Many scholars prefer the phrase gender-accurate. Even the newer, very conservative, ESV removed the word man and/or men over 650 times from its predecessor, the RSV. The King James is also gender accurate in many places (i.e., “Children of Israel” is actually “Sons of Israel” in the original Hebrew).
Gender-neutral means this: if the original language intended to include both sexes, then it’s ok to reflect this in the translation. If the original language did not intend to communicate this, then we must stick with gender specific language in our new translation. This simply reflects the realities of the changing state of the English language.
For further reading on this topic, I’d highly recommend two books: The Inclusive Language Debate, by D.A. Carson, and Translating the Bible for All It’s Worth, by Fee & Strauss. Both are excellent introductions, for lay people, to the complex issues surrounding translating the Bible.
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After decades of demurring, Finland appears ready to find shelter under NATO’s expansive defense umbrella. Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who met with her Swedish counterpart Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday, underscored the shift in thinking that many of us here have been feeling.
As the horrors of Russian aggression in Ukraine unfold each day, politicians and ordinary people here in Finland — a country which has long prided itself on its neutrality — have become more outspoken in expressing their support for joining NATO.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war has backfired
, at least in one respect: His attempt at making Ukraine — and other European countries on Russia’s doorstep — back away from the prospect of joining NATO has instead appeared to nudge some closer to the US-led military alliance.
Indeed, Putin’s war is redrawing the security and defense policy
of modern Europe, though perhaps not in the way he imagined. Entry into NATO by Finland and Sweden would be one of the biggest geopolitical shifts in Europe
since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Putin’s miscalculation has led us to where we are now — deep into negotiations about accelerating the timetable for Finland’s admission to the military pact. The question is no longer whether Finland will join NATO, but how quickly we can make it happen.
Nestled in northwestern Europe, with a population of some 5.5 million inhabitants, Finland is home to what are said to be the world’s happiest people
. We have a high per capita income
, stellar educational outcomes
and a vaunted health care system
. But our sense of contentment was shattered with Putin’s Ukraine invasion. Finland and Russia share a 1300-kilometer (830-mile) border.
As a small country with a Russian goliath for a neighbor, Finland has, out of necessity, always pursued very pragmatic politics. At the heart of Finnish Realpolitik
is the idea that, while decidedly a western democracy, we should not provoke Russia unnecessarily. But the atrocities in Ukraine have changed our minds.
Six months ago, only a quarter of Finns
were in favor of NATO membership. Despite our proximity to the Russian giant, people here historically have rejected membership
in NATO. We always felt we had all the security we needed. We trusted that dialogue and trade with Russia
would guarantee peace in Europe. And, while we were not NATO members, we had close cooperation
with the transatlantic alliance, even taking part in military maneuvers
from time to time.
A month ago, I couldn’t have imagined needing to stash away food supplies in case of a crisis, or preparing for possible Russian retaliation if Finland were to apply for NATO membership. Like so many others in my country, I felt that Europe’s balance of power was stable enough. As a practical matter, non-alignment has been at the heart of Finland’s foreign and security policy since the end of the Second World War.
But the Ukraine invasion has engendered a growing sense of foreboding among my compatriots. Support for joining NATO has jumped dramatically: Now 60%
of Finns want to join the alliance, according to recent polls.
“There is no other way to have security guarantees than under NATO’s deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by NATO’s Article 5
,” Marin said Wednesday, referring to the clause that states if one NATO member is attacked, all others in the 30-member alliance will rally to its defense.
So, what took us so long? Why didn’t Finns rush to join NATO before it got to the point of being a defense and foreign policy necessity? Finland’s past reluctance has been based, in part, on worries over losing the non-aligned status that has allowed us to play a mediating role in global conflicts.
Many Finns were fearful about becoming the easternmost military outpost of the West. While member nations view NATO as a defensive alliance, some countries see it as having offensive capabilities and aspirations. Certainly, Moscow does. Joining NATO always seemed to run the risk of poking the Russian bear.
Russia has already threatened severe economic and military consequences if Finland or Sweden apply for NATO membership. Moscow even threatened
on Thursday to introduce nuclear weapons to the Baltic region
if they join the alliance. Decision makers and the general public have to understand all the ways that Russia may try to strongarm us as we move toward. With a high degree of media literacy and being blessed with one of the world’s best education systems, Finns are less prone to falling victim to Russian disinformation.
During the period between making its formal application and actually being admitted into the alliance, Finland would not have the shield of NATO’s security guarantees. But we’re less worried about military aggression than the other ways Russia can make life difficult for us.
It’s possible Moscow will attempt to strike fear into our hearts by massing troops near the Finnish border. And experts tell us the moves to join NATO will make us more likely to be hit by a cyber-attack. We saw evidence of that this month, when government sites were hacked
just as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address via video to the Finnish parliament.
NATO membership would give lots of added value to Finland’s defense against Russia, but it is not the end all and be all. The primary responsibility for the protection of Finland will always lie with ourselves.
For a country of our size, Finland has a strong defense force, and our government is determined to make it even stronger. Earlier this month, the government allocated an additional 2.2 billion euros
($2.4 billion) for our national defense for the next four years — a direct response to the Russian attack on Ukraine.
People in this country still remember the Winter War of 1939
, when the Soviets thought they could easily invade Finland but were quickly driven back. It was a foreshadowing of the fight now being waged by brave Ukrainians against a more powerful Russian aggressor. Finland still faces a geopolitical balancing act, but it can’t allow itself to cower when confronted by the neighborhood bully. To do so would only invite aggression.
It has become clear that there are no limits to what Putin is willing to do to advance his geopolitical interests. In the end, it is Putin who has, in fact, made the case for joining NATO stronger than ever.
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Observation of a direct interaction between the influenza NS1 protein and RIG-I
The interaction is dependent on the strain of influenza from which NS1 is derived
Solved the structure of the NS1RBD from the 1918 Spanish influenza virus
Analysis of the solution structure reveals a functionally novel region of NS1
The influenza non-structural protein 1 (NS1) plays a critical role in antagonizing the innate immune response to infection. One interaction that facilitates this function is between NS1 and RIG-I, one of the main sensors of influenza virus infection. While NS1 and RIG-I are known to interact, it is currently unclear whether this interaction is direct or if it is mediated by other biomolecules. Here we demonstrate a direct, strain-dependent interaction between the NS1 RNA binding domain (NS1RBD) of the influenza A/Brevig Mission/1918 H1N1 (1918H1N1) virus and the second caspase activation and recruitment domain of RIG-I. Solving the solution structure of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD revealed features in a functionally novel region that may facilitate the observed interaction. The biophysical and structural data herein suggest a possible mechanism by which strain-specific differences in NS1 modulate influenza virulence.
The influenza virus is a serious public health concern causing seasonal epidemics and sporadic pandemics that result in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Every year, unique strains of the influenza virus cause seasonal outbreaks that result in more than 200,000 hospitalizations (
). The annual impact on public health is largely determined by each strain’s ability to be spread from one host to another, termed transmissibility, and its relative ability to cause disease, or virulence. The sporadic pandemics caused by the influenza virus provide clear illustrations of how these factors can affect the severity of a particular strain. For instance, the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic (1918H1N1) infected one-third of the world’s population and resulted in approximately 50–100 million deaths worldwide (
), illustrating both high transmissibility and virulence. In contrast, the 2009 H1N1 virus caused the Swine Flu influenza epidemic, which displayed high transmissibility and low virulence. While the interactions between viral and host proteins that underlie transmissibility have been extensively studied (
), our understanding of the strain-specific interactions that underlie virulence is limited. Influenza viruses encode multiple proteins that contribute to virulence, including the proteins associated with the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (
The non-structural protein 1 (NS1) is a 217–237 amino acid protein encoded by segment 8 of the influenza virus with an approximate weight of 26 kDa. NS1 is composed of two independently folding functional domains, the N-terminal RNA binding domain (NS1RBD) and the C-terminal effector domain (NS1ED). NS1 plays a critical role in modulating virulence by facilitating viral evasion of the host innate immune response (
). Each domain contributes to this function by antagonizing the type I interferon (IFN) response to viral infection via interactions with multiple host proteins. The NS1RBD, encoded by residues 1–73 of NS1, is an approximately 17-kDa obligate homodimer that adopts a novel six-helical RNA binding fold (
). One explanation for this observation is that a critical function of the NS1RBD is to sequester double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) from cellular machinery that induces the type I IFN expression upon detection of dsRNA in the cell. However, the relatively low affinity of the NS1RBD for dsRNA (
). These interactions are vital to inhibiting the induction of the type I IFN response, an essential component of the innate immune response to influenza infection. This inhibition of the innate immune response occurs at the origin of the RIG-I signaling pathway. It has been previously shown that the NS1:RIG-I complex is detected by co-immunoprecipitation (
); however, there is no clear evidence distinguishing the nature of the complex (i.e. whether the association is direct or mediated by other interactions). A more thorough understanding of this interaction is of particular importance due to the role of RIG-I as an innate sensor of RNA virus infection and activator of the type I IFN response (
RIG-I is composed of two N-terminal caspase activation and recruitment domains (CARDs), three helicase domains (Hel 1, Hel 2, and Hel 2i), and a regulatory C-terminal domain. It functions by binding to viral RNAs possessing a 5′ triphosphate group (
). The ubiquitinated CARDs of RIG-I then bind to the CARDs of the mitochondrial adaptor MAVS (mitochondrial antiviral signaling). This ultimately leads to the nuclear translocation of the transcription factors IRF3, AP-1 (c-Jun/ATF-2), and nuclear factor κB, which drive transcription of the type I IFN genes, thereby stimulating the innate antiviral response to influenza infection (
We demonstrate in this study that the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD interacts directly with the second CARD domain of RIG-I (CARD2) using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shift perturbation (CSP) analysis. At present, the interface at which this interaction was observed on the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD has no function attributed to it. The identification of a functionally novel region of the NS1RBD underscores the importance of our observations. Strikingly, no interaction was observed when the same conditions were tested for the NS1RBD derived from the influenza A/Udorn/1972 (H3N2) virus (Udorn). This observation suggests that the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 is dependent on the strain from which the NS1RBD is derived. Given the lack of sequence identity between the two NS1RBDs in the regions shown to interact with CARD2 and the number of chemical shifts observed, the solution structure of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD was solved to identify structural differences that may facilitate the strain-dependent interaction. Comparing the newly solved 1918H1N1 NS1RBD solution structure with the previously solved Udorn NS1RBD solution structure revealed several structural differences that may underlie the observed differences in the binding of RIG-I. These data suggest a direct, strain-dependent interaction between RIG-I and the NS1RBD, highlighting a potential structural explanation for the observed differences in virulence between strains of influenza.
The N-terminal domain of the NS1 protein (residues 1–73) encodes the independently folding NS1RBD, an obligate homodimer that exhibits a wide range of RNA binding activities (
). To investigate a possible direct interaction between RIG-I and 1918H1N1 NS1RBD, it was first necessary to determine whether the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD was amenable to NMR. The 1H-15N heteronuclear single-quantum coherence (HSQC) spectrum shows a dispersed single set of peaks that is indicative of a well-folded protein (Figure 1). Because the NS1RBD is a symmetric homodimer, only 72 amide resonances (excluding prolines) were expected and ultimately observed, in addition to amides from the side chains of glutamine and asparagine. These data indicate that the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD is amenable to NMR analysis.
The Second CARD Domain of RIG-I Binds Directly to the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD
RIG-I, one of the main sensors of influenza virus infection (
). CSP analysis was used to probe for a direct interaction between the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD and CARD2 of RIG-I. NMR chemical shifts are exquisitely sensitive to atomic chemical environments, making it possible to determine protein-ligand interaction sites by identifying residues whose chemical shifts are perturbed upon the addition of a ligand (
). For this analysis, 1H-15N HSQC spectra for the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD alone and in the presence of unlabeled CARD2 were collected. The first step in the analysis was to obtain resonance assignments for the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD in the unbound state. High-quality triple-resonance spectra allowed backbone resonance assignments to be obtained for 70 of the 72 (97%) possible assigned residues. Analysis of 13Cα chemical shifts (
) indicates that each monomer of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD is composed of an α1-turn-α2-turn-α3 structure, with the homodimer exhibiting the six-helical dimeric structure that is consistent with the previously solved Udorn NS1RBD solution structure (
Upon addition of unlabeled CARD2, CSPs were observed for multiple residues when compared with the reference 1H-15N HSQC spectra of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD alone (Figure 2A). Molar ratios above 1:1 resulted in precipitation of the protein sample. Therefore, a ratio of 1:1 was used in all CSP experiments as it gave the most robust chemical shifts. Normalized weighted average 1H and 15N shift differences were plotted as a function of residue position (Figure 2B). Statistical analysis of the weighted shift differences determined that several residues that exhibited significant perturbations were primarily localized in two regions, the α1 helix (residues 14–21) and the C-terminal α3 helix (residues 66–73), as determined by analysis of the 13Cα chemical shifts (
). The cutoff value used to determine statistically significant chemical shift differences was calculated using a previously published method that was determined to result in less than 4.5% false positives when discriminating between interacting and non-interacting residues (
). Remarkably, the residues of the NS1RBD for which CSPs were observed have no previous function attributed to them. To validate CSP analysis, 2D 15N HSQC nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) spectra were collected to further characterize the interaction between the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD and CARD2. We observed a significant decrease in the intensity of several cross-peaks in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD/CARD2 spectra when compared with the spectra of the free 1918H1N1 NS1RBD (Figure S1). This decrease in peak intensity or, in some cases, disappearance altogether is most likely due to increased relaxation caused by spin-diffusion contact with protons on CARD2. Using assignments obtained from our structure calculation, we determined that the weakened cross-peaks correlated with residues identified using CSP analysis of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD in the presence of CARD2.
In addition, we were able to obtain an estimate of the binding affinity using non-denaturing gel electrophoresis. Estimated Kd of 42.82 ± 11.47 μM and 97.31 ± 26.26 μM were obtained using the relative differences in density and mobility of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD band observed upon the addition of increasing concentrations of CARD2, respectively (Figure S2). Although Kd is not necessarily a reliable determinant of biological relevance, our measured Kd value is consistent with other interactions between viral and cellular proteins that are known to be biologically relevant (
). Based on these results, we conclude that there is a direct interaction between the NS1RBD derived from the 1918H1N1 influenza virus and the CARD2 of RIG-I at a functionally novel interface. Interfering with the proper function of CARD2 through this interaction could effectively abrogate the IFN-β response, thereby facilitating influenza’s circumvention of the host cell’s innate immune response (
). Further studies will be needed to fully understand the functional consequences of this interaction.
The Second CARD Domain of RIG-I Does Not Bind to the Udorn NS1RBD
It is becoming increasingly clear that many of the properties attributed to the NS1 protein are strain dependent. These properties include, but are not limited to, intracellular localization, virulence, post-translational modification, and evasion of the innate immune response (
). We therefore sought to determine whether the observed interaction between the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD and CARD2 is dependent on the strain of influenza from which the NS1RBD is derived. The Udorn strain was chosen due to the availability of a high-resolution solution structure (
), making comparison of any differences more efficient, as well as the use of this strain in numerous studies of influenza infection. As with the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD, it was first necessary to express and purify the NS1RBD derived from the Udorn strain of influenza. Once a high-quality 1H-15N HSQC spectrum was recorded (data not shown), high-quality three-dimensional (3D) spectra allowed us to obtain resonance assignments for 71 of the 72 (99%) of the possible residues. It was determined, using 13Cα chemical shift analysis (
), that the expressed and purified Udorn NS1RBD possessed the same secondary structure observed in the previously solved solution structure.
We performed similar 1H-15N HSQC-based CSP experiments to determine whether the Udorn NS1RBD interacts directly with CARD2. For these experiments, 1H-15N HSQC spectra were collected for the Udorn NS1RBD in the unbound state and in the presence of unlabeled CARD2. An overlay of the unbound Udorn NS1RBD spectra and the Udorn NS1RBD/CARD2 spectra revealed that upon addition of CARD2, no residues in the Udorn NS1RBD appeared to be perturbed (Figure 3). To ensure the absence of significant CSPs, normalized weighted average 1H and 15N shift differences were plotted on a per-residue basis. No significant perturbations were observed that were greater than the resolution of the 1H-15N HSQC spectra recorded (data not shown). The lack of significant perturbations demonstrates that there is no discernible interaction between the Udorn NS1RBD and CARD2, confirming that the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 is strain dependent.
Solution Structure of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD
Sequence alignment of the 1918H1N1 and Udorn NS1RBD identified changes in the α3 helix (Figure 4) as well as residues observed to be involved in the interaction with CARD2 (R21Q and R67K). The solution structure of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD was solved and compared with the previously solved structure of the Udorn NS1RBD to elucidate a possible structural explanation for the strain-specific interaction observed. An assortment of 2D and 3D NMR experiments, including measurements of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), were used to solve the solution structure. The agreement of the structures with experimental RDCs is shown in Table S1 and the structures’ statistical quality indicators are given in Table S2. The similar values of the R factors between measured and calculated 1DNH and 1DCαHα RDCs of the monomeric subunits and the dimeric state in both alignment media confirmed that the two mainly rigid monomeric backbone structures are accurately oriented relative to one another in the homodimer (data not shown). The magnitude and rhombicity of the alignment tensors and the RDC agreement with the NMR structures are listed in Table S1.
Consistent with the Udorn NS1RBD structure and the 13Cα analysis above, the structure of 1918H1N1 NS1RBD is a homodimer that adopts a six-helix antiparallel bundle (Figure 5A). As previously noted, there are several differences in amino acid sequence when comparing the 1918H1N1 and Udorn NS1RBDs (Figure 5B). Mapping the observed CSPs on to the solved 1918H1N1 NS1RBD structure revealed that the residues involved in the interaction were localized to a small portion of the α1 helix and a much larger portion of the α3 helix (Figure 6). This structure map illustrates that the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD/CARD2 interaction occurs via a novel binding interface that is localized to the surface opposite to that of the RNA binding interface.
Insight into the Structural Basis for the Strain-Specific Interaction between the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD and RIG-I
Given our data regarding CARD2 binding, we sought to determine which structural features may account for the observed strain specificity of this interaction by analyzing the α3 and α3′ helices of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBDs to compare their relative backbone and side-chain spatial orientations. Examination of the individual structures revealed that the orientation of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD α3 and α3′ helices is altered when compared with that of the Udorn NS1RBD. Alignment of the structural model ensembles reveals significant variation in the spatial arrangement of the α3 and α3′ helices when comparing the two strains (Figure 7A). Further analysis of the α3 and α3′ helices revealed two potential salt bridges that are present in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD but absent in the Udorn NS1RBD. The potential salt bridges are between Glu66:Lys70 and Arg21′:Glu72 of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD (Figure 7B). The absence of these potential salt bridges in the Udorn NS1RBD appears to be due to a single residue change from Arg21 in the 1918H1N1 strain compared with Gln21 in the Udorn strain. It is therefore likely that the Arg21′:Glu72 salt bridge is necessary for the formation of the salt bridge between Glu66 and Lys70. The potential salt bridges alter the relative positions of the α3 and α3′ helices in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD that are involved in the interaction with CARD2, providing a potential structural explanation for the strain-specific nature of this interaction. Analysis of the 13C NOESY spectra offers two lines of evidence that support the presence of the Arg21′:Glu72 salt bridge. First, an NOE peak is observed from the perspective of Arg21 Hδ3 to Glu 2 Hβ2 and from the perspective of Glu72 Hβ2 to Arg21 Hδ3 (data not shown), indicating that these two atoms are in close proximity. Second, the overall position of Glu72 in the lowest-energy structure parallels Leu69. NOEs are present from the perspective of Glu72 Hα, Hβ2, Hβ3, and Hγ2 to the Leu69 Hα (data not shown). If the orientation was different (e.g. Glu72 pointing away from Arg21), these observed NOEs between Leu69 and Glu72 would not be visible. Taken together, the presence of the NOE peaks are highly suggestive of the presence of a salt bridge between Arg21′ and Glu72.
We expressed and purified a mutant 1918H1N1 NS1RBD that incorporated a Gln at position 21 as is found in the 1972H3N2 Udorn strain to validate the hypothesized functional role of Arg21. CSP analysis was then performed using the R21Q mutant protein upon addition of CARD2. As seen in Figure 8, there are no significant perturbations observed when comparing the 1H-15N HSQC spectra of the mutant in the presence of CARD2 with the reference spectra. However, minute perturbations were observed for residues previously shown to be involved in the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2. This indicates that the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 may not be completely abrogated by the R21Q mutation, but severely inhibited. Furthermore, we expressed and purified a mutant Udorn NS1RBD that incorporated an Arg at position 21 to determine whether CARD2 binding could be rescued by mutating Gln21 to Arg in the NS1RBD derived from the Udorn strain of influenza. CSP analysis indicated that there is no discernible interaction between the Udorn Q21R mutant and CARD2 (Figure S3). In conclusion, the 1918H1N1 R21Q and Udorn Q21R mutant data indicate that the presence of an Arg at position 21 is necessary, but not sufficient to facilitate the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD.
Quantitative Analysis Reveals Statistically Significant Differences in the Relative Positions of the α3 and α3′ Helices
Although the differences in the surface models are apparent, we sought to quantitatively analyze the variation of the spatial arrangements between the two strains by extracting the atomic coordinate information for each atom of the lowest-energy structure for the 1918H1N1 and Udorn NS1RBD. Using these data, the intramolecular distances were determined between homologous atoms in the 1918H1N1 and Udorn α3 and α3′ helices (Ile54 to Ser73). Measurements were only made between residues conserved between both strains (Figure 9A) to ensure that these data were not biased by differences in side-chain lengths between the strains. Several different measurements were made to ensure that none of them were biased to any particular set of atoms. These measurements include Cα atoms only, backbone atoms, side-chain atoms, and all atoms. Each measurement revealed that the average intramolecular distance between the α3 and α3′ helices were significantly greater for 1918H1N1 when compared with the Udorn strain. As illustrated in Figure 9, the average differences were calculated to be 2.1 Å for Cα atoms (p = 0.0483), 1.9 Å for backbone atoms (p < 0.0001), 1.6 Å for side-chain atoms (p < 0.0001), and 1.8 Å for all atoms in the α3 and α3′ helices (p < 0.0001). It should be noted that because the measurements took into account the entire α3 and α3′ helices and not the subset of residues on the helices that undergo CSP, the average distances calculated are a conservative estimate. For example, if only the residues that undergo CSP are used in the calculation of intramolecular Cα distances, the average distance increases from 2.1 to 3.8 Å. These data support the view that the potential salt bridge in the 1918H1N1 strain may facilitate the interaction with CARD2 by altering the relative positions of the α3 and α3′ helices when compared with the Udorn strain.
To accompany these data, RDC analysis was used to further confirm structural differences between the two strains. RDC measurements provide information about the orientation of the bond vector of interest relative to the external magnetic field. By comparing observed RDC measurements for the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD to back-calculated RDCs using the previously solved Udorn NS1RBD solution structure, it can be determined whether there are any bond vector orientations that significantly deviate between the two structures (data not shown). When fitting the 1DNH/1DCαHα and 1DCαHα RDC measurements made using a 5% C12E5 polyethylene glycol/hexanol mixture (0.96 surfactant/alcohol molar ratio) (
) as alignment media, the root-mean-square deviations (RMSDs) were calculated as 4.0 and 2.5 Hz, respectively. To ensure a robust comparison, only differences between experimental and structure-derived RDCs of twice the RMSD (95% confidence interval) were used to identify differences between the backbone structures. The RDCs back-calculated from the Udorn strain that are significantly different (using this criterion) from those measured for the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD solution structure correspond to Asp2, Ser3, His17, Gln25, Leu69, Lys70, Glu71, and Glu72. This observation supports the hypothesis that the potential salt bridge between Arg21′ and Glu72 in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD alters the orientation of the α3 and α3′ helices when compared with the Udorn strain, and that this deviation may play a role in the strain specificity of the CARD2 interaction. Furthermore, the structural difference observed in His17 between the two structures may indicate a role in the interaction. This idea is supported by the magnitude of the observed CSP of His17 upon addition of CARD2 (Figure 2B) and the prominent role that histidine residues are known to play in protein-protein interactions (
). Mutating His17 to an Ala resulted in abrogation of the interaction with CARD2, although this mutation may have destabilized the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD, resulting in a partially unfolded protein (Figure S4) and making it difficult to draw any robust conclusions from the data.
Here, we report a novel binding surface that may facilitate a strain-dependent interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 of RIG-I. Although we observed a direct interaction between the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD and CARD2 using NMR CSP analysis, no discernible interaction was observed when assessing the NS1RBD derived from the Udorn strain of influenza. Analysis of the solution structure revealed the presence of two potential salt bridges between Glu66:Lys70 and Arg21′:Glu72 of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD. The previously solved structure of the Udorn NS1RBD did not possess either of these potential salt bridges, possibly due to a single point mutation at position 21 (Arg21 for 1918H1N1 and Gln21 for Udorn). Additional analysis of the variation in the intramolecular distances between the α3 and α3′ helices indicated that the deviation between the two strains was statistically significant. RDC analysis using the previously solved Udorn NS1RBD solution structure confirmed structural deviations in the α3 and α3′ helices between the two strains for residues involved in and adjacent to the potential salt bridge (Leu69 to Glu72) in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD. Taken together, these data suggest that the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 is strain specific and may be facilitated by the novel potential salt bridge observed in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD structure. Indeed, mutating the Arg at position 21 in the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD to a Gln resulted in abrogation of the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2, further illustrating the selectivity of this interaction.
Genetic analysis of the region shown to interact with CARD2 reveals evolutionarily conserved residues that may play a role in suppression of the innate immune response. Of particular interest to our study are positions that may form the salt bridge between Arg21′ and Glu 72 of the 1918H1N1 NS1RBD that stabilize the α3 and α3′ helices. While Glu72 is conserved among all influenza viruses, it was determined that ∼69% of influenza viruses encode an Arg at position 21, with Gln and Leu being found at position 21 in ∼20% and ∼11% of all influenza viruses, respectively (Figure 10). This conservation may have biological implications in the form of suppression of the IFN-β response. Indeed, a study in 2010 looked at which strains blocked IFN-β and IRF3 induction (
). Of the strains that were unable to block IFN-β and IRF3 induction, only 10% contained an Arg at position 21. In contrast, 60% of strains containing an Arg at position at 21 were able to block IFN-β and IRF3 induction (
). These data suggest that while an Arg at position 21 is not required for NS1 to inhibit IFN-β induction, the presence of Arg21 may augment this function of NS1. One of our hypotheses presented in the paper is that other domains of RIG-I interact with NS1 and that the interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 further stabilizes the NS1/RIG-I complex. This hypothesis is supported by the data suggesting that Arg21 enhances the inhibition of IFN-β induction but is not required. However, the lack of data regarding specific interactions between NS1 and RIG-I prevent us from drawing any robust conclusions regarding prediction of the interaction from amino acid sequences. An additional caveat that may prevent predictions from amino acid sequences alone is the presence of compensatory mutations that modulate suppression of IFN-β induction. It has been shown that although NS1 inhibits the innate immune response, the precise mechanism by which it achieves this suppression is strain specific and involves various pathways.
As indicated previously, studies have shown that RIG-I exhibits an interaction with NS1 that is critical for abrogating the innate immune response and may augment influenza virulence. However, no study conducted to date has ruled out or confirmed a direct interaction between the influenza NS1 and RIG-I. Our observation of a direct interaction between two domains of these proteins allows for a more thorough understanding of the molecular interactions that may modulate virulence. Our data support and expand on previous work that has demonstrated the importance and presence of the interaction for the PR8 strain of influenza (A/Puerto Rico/1934) by revealing a molecular interaction that may be critical for the interaction between NS1 and RIG-I. This interaction may abrogate RIG-I function in a number of ways. One possible scenario is that the NS1RBD masks Lys172 of CARD2 and prevents its ubiquitination by TRIM25 (
), thereby inhibiting the signal cascade that leads to expression of type I IFN, a necessary component of the innate immune response. Another possibility is that interaction between the NS1RBD and CARD2 may prevent the structural rearrangement of RIG-I necessary for activating the downstream elements that induce the innate immune response. While the scope of the current study pertains exclusively to the interaction between CARD2 and the NS1RBD, the presence of direct interactions between other domains of RIG-I and either the NS1RBD or NS1ED derived from additional strains of influenza cannot be ruled out. For example, the interaction between CARD2 and the NS1RBD may stabilize a larger complex involving NS1, RIG-I, and other biomolecules, which in turn allows efficient abrogation of the innate immune response. Furthermore, the presence or absence of this stabilization may modulate each strain’s capability to abrogate the type I IFN response, which may ultimately provide a more thorough understanding of the virulence potential of a particular strain. Ongoing studies are currently under way to further characterize and understand the interaction between NS1 and RIG-I at the molecular level.
Strain-dependent functions of NS1 and their potential impact on virulence is pertinent to interpreting and understanding the data presented. The concept of modulating influenza virulence via strain-dependent interactions involving NS1 and host cellular proteins has been previously documented. Specifically, the interaction between the NS1ED and the 30-kDa subunit of the cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor (CPSF30) (
). The NS1ED/CPSF30 interaction has been established as a virulence determinant for multiple strains of influenza. Thus, the NS1ED/CPSF30 interaction marks an example of NS1 function that is not only strain dependent but is also capable of modulating virulence. Our results provide further support for the presence of strain-specific interactions with host proteins that have the potential to modulate influenza virulence.
Cloning, Protein Expression, and Purification
The RNA binding domains of the 1918H1N1 and Udorn influenza non-structural protein 1 (NS1) gene were subcloned into a 6xHis-SMT3 fusion T7 expression vector (pE-SUMO; Life Sensors) using primers designed to amplify residues 1–73 of the full-length plasmids of 1918H1N1 and Udorn influenza NS1 (Biomatik). For the second caspase activation and recruitment domain (CARD2) of the retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I), primers designed to amplify to residues 90–188 of the full-length plasmid of the RIG-I protein (Biomatik) were used to subclone CARD2 into the 6xHis-SMT3 fusion T7 expression vector (pE-SUMO; Life Sensors). For the 1918H1N1 and Udorn NS1RBD samples, expression plasmids were transformed into DE3 Star BL21 Escherichia coli cells and grown in minimal media supplemented with 15NH4Cl and/or D-glucose (U-13C6-99%) depending on the desired labeling scheme. The NS1RBDs were induced at an OD600 of 0.6 with 1 mM isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) for 24 hr at 25°C while CARD2 was induced at an OD600 of 0.6 with 0.1 mM IPTG for 18 hr at 18°C. Typical yields were 18 mg/l and 20 mg/l with >95% purity, as verified by SDS-PAGE (data not shown), for the NS1RBDs and CARD2, respectively.
NMR experiments were carried out at 25°C using Bruker Avance III spectrometers equipped with TCI cryoprobes operating at 600- and 850-MHz 1H frequencies. All NMR data were processed using NMRPipe (
) compiled on Linux workstations. Backbone 1H, 13C, and 15N resonances were assigned using standard triple-resonance assignment experiments. Side-chain resonance assignments were obtained by manual analysis of 3D HCCH-TOCSY, HCCH-COSY, HNHA, and HCC(CO)NH experiments. Aromatic resonances were assigned using the 2D [1H-1H] COSY, 2D [1H-1H] TOCSY, and 2D [1H-1H] NOESY experiments with samples solvated in 100% D2O.
Residual Dipolar Coupling
All isotropic NMR data were acquired at 25°C on a 300-μl sample at pH 6.0 containing 1.0 mM [U-15N; U-13C]-RBD, 300 mM ammonium acetate, 2.2 mM EDTA, 0.15% NaN3 in 93% H2O, and 7% D2O. Similar samples of 0.3 or 0.6 mM [U-15N; U-13C]-RBD, supplemented with 5% C12E5 polyethylene glycol (Fluka)/hexanol mixture (0.96 surfactant/alcohol molar ratio) (
) and 3D HCA(CO)N antiphase 1H-coupled in the 13Cα dimension spectra, respectively.
The Cyana program with automatic NOE assignments was used to produce initial folds. Subsequently these were refined in XPLOR-NIH with radius of gyration and RDC constraints. The final deposited structures were additionally refined in the new implicit solvation potential (EEFx) of XPLOR-NIH (
). NOE peak intensities in 3D NOESY spectra were automatically assigned using Cyana and converted for XPLOR-NIH into a continuous distribution of 1,133 approximate interproton distance restraints, with a uniform 40% distance error applied to take into account spin diffusion. All monomeric constraints were symmetrically duplicated for dimer refinement. The Cyana upper limit distance restraints were scaled (by a factor of 0.82) so that the converted XPLOR-NIH NOE distance restraints reached a 6.3 Å maximum (including a 40% error to account for spin diffusion). The Cyana dimeric model was obtained using approximately 20 intersubunit manual NOE assignments. We noted a major structural distortion in the Cyana-generated caboxyl terminal helix (α3/α3′), which was bent at the middle by about 60°. The XPLOR-NIH RDC refined structures show a straight C-terminal helix.
Structure calculations and refinement made use of the torsion angle molecular dynamics and the internal variable dynamics modules of XPLOR-NIH (
) to ensure preservation of the correct peptide geometry when applying RDC and distance constraints simultaneously. The X-PLOR non-crystallographic symmetry potential term was included to maintain identical structure of the monomeric subunits. PyMol (Delano Scientific) and VMD-XPLOR (
) were used to analyze the structures. Neither the final set of calculated structures nor the subset of lowest-energy structures (i.e. 20 out of 100) that were selected for further solvation refinement showed any consistent (i.e. in more than 17% of the calculated structures) NOE violations larger than 0.5 Å.
Chemical Shift Perturbation
Interactions between the NS1RBD (1918H1N1 and Udorn) and CARD2 of RIG-I were assessed using 1H-15N HSQC-based CSP experiments. For these experiments, we collected 1H-15N HSQC spectra from the NS1RBD of interest in the unbound state and in the presence of CARD2. When comparing the two spectra, the changes in chemical shift resonances were calculated using the weighted combination of chemical shifts given by:
The cutoff value used to determine statistically significant chemical shift differences was calculated using a previously published method. This method was determined to result in less than 4.5% false positives when discriminating between interacting and non-interacting residues (
). These experiments were performed in CSP buffer (150 mM ammonium acetate, 2.2 mM EDTA, and 0.15% sodium azide [pH 6.0]).
Quantitative Analysis of Structural Deviation
To assess structural variation, we used the lowest-energy structures for the 1918H1N1 and the Udorn (PDB: 1NS1) NS1RBD solution structures. Coordinates for each atom were extracted from each solution structure and used for obtaining distance information. Atomic intramolecular distances between the α3 and α3′ helices (Ile54 to Ser73) were measured using the following equation:
The mean average intramolecular for each strain was calculated. When assessing intramolecular differences between the α3 and α3′ helices, only residues conserved between the two strains were considered to avoid biasing any data by varying lengths of side chains. The resultant data were analyzed using Student’s t test, and all data are represented as the mean ± SEM.
A.S.J. and C.M.P. designed the research; A.S.J., G.C., and C.M.P. performed the research; A.S.J., A.B.K., G.C., C.C.C., and C.M.P. analyzed the data; A.S.J., A.B.K., and C.M.P. wrote the paper.
We thank Ronald Shin (UAB) and Charles Schwieters (Division of Computational BioScience of the Center for Information Technology, NIH) for their technical assistance. We also thank Anthony B. Law and Paul J. Sapienza for helpful discussions. The Bruker 850 MHz and 600 MHz magnets used herein were funded by NCI Grant 1P30 CA-13148 and NCRR Grant 1S10 RR022994-01A1. This work was funded by American Cancer Society Grant IRG-60-001-53 (C.M.P.) and NIH P41GM103399 (G.C. and C.C.C.).
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Have you ever been outside under a full moon on a completely clear night? You don’t even need a flashlight, it’s so bright! Now imagine that same moonlit night over a landscape of white snow. It’s almost unearthly! Its a phenomenon I have only experienced a few times, but its fantastic effect cause me to wait and watch for it….year after year.
Here in West Virginia, it’s very rare to have snow hang around long enough for there to be a chance for coinciding with the small window of 2 or 3 days when the moon is at it’s fullest. Then, when there is snow, it has to be a perfectly clear night. And that can be rare in West Virginia during the winter.
So, that’s why I was so excited when it snowed right after dark yesterday. The moon was at 96% illumination and there was a good chance that the sky might clear up before morning. I went to bed with the shades lifted from my window so I could tell at any time during the night if the clouds had passed.
Well, my alarm went off at 5:30am and sure enough, it looked as though it was day outside. I looked at the temperature. 17 degrees. Later, I found out that it actually dipped to 12 before sunrise. I bundled up and headed outside with my camera and tripod. But looking up in the sky, I realized that perhaps I had missed my chance. Clouds were moving in quickly.
I only saw two patches of clear sky this morning. But those two patches were worth getting up early for. I don’t feel I got any necessarily spectacular moonlit images, but it was certainly worth the effort for the fun of trying. I nearly froze to death, but if it weren’t for exciting adventures like this, I would probably die anyway of boredom in my office.
If you’re the kind of person who would enjoy this type of experience, I suggest you consider attending the CAPTURE Quebec workshop! February in Quebec. Could it get any more exhilarating than that? Feet of snow. Average temperatures never exceed freezing. February 26 to March 1. Mark it on your calendar! Crazy photographers do crazy things to achieve crazy cool images!
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/What are the SDGs?
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are part of a breakthrough global agreement called the 2030 Agenda, adopted by the United Nations on September 25, 2015.
Their purpose? Transform the world.
The SDGs are UNIVERSAL. They apply to every nation, every sector, every business, and every profession– including design, architecture, and city planning.
The SDGs are about INTEGRATION. They demand a new emphasis on a systemic approach that does not sacrifice environmental and social considerations to economic gain, but rather seeks for true synergies and solutions that benefit people, nature, and prosperity.
The SDGs are about TRANSFORMATION. They challenge us to rethink the way we live, to rebuild all the systems that are degrading ecological and human health — and to make our world sustainable.
What do the SDGs have to do with design?
The SDGs challenge us to reimagine the way we live and bring to life the design elements of a new, sustainable world.
They cover nearly every aspect of our future — for our planet, and for humankind. They concern all people, all countries, and all parts of society. There are 17 in total, and they amount to nothing less than a complete transformation of global civilization.
Design, architecture and city planning play a critical role in the creation of a sustainable world.
The lifespan of the SDGs lasts until the year 2030. But the ideas, solutions, buildings, and things created by designers, architects, and creative professionals like you will last far longer than any deadline. They will continue to impact and transform our world, its systems, and people for years and generations to come.
That’s why the role you play is so critically important. The design decisions you make have the power to not only help us achieve these goals, but lead us into the sustainable future far beyond them.
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Section 2. Respect for Civil Liberties, Including:
a. Freedom of Expression, Including for the Press
The constitution and law provide for freedom of expression, including for the press, and the government generally respected this right. An independent press, an effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combined to promote freedom of expression, including for the press.
Freedom of Expression: The law prohibits “threatening or insulting anyone, or inciting hatred or repression of or contempt for anyone because of his or her: (a) skin color or national or ethnic origin; (b) religion or life stance; (c) sexual orientation or lifestyle; or (d) disability.” Violators are subject to a fine or imprisonment for not more than three years.
Press and Media, Including Online Media: Independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. The prohibitions against hate speech applied also to the print and broadcast media, the publication of books, and online newspapers and journals.
The government did not restrict or disrupt access to the internet or censor online content, and there were no credible reports that the government monitored private online communications without appropriate legal authority.
Academic Freedom and Cultural Events
There were no government restrictions on academic freedom or cultural events.
b. Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and Association
The constitution and law provide for the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, and the government generally respected these rights.
c. Freedom of Religion
See the Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Report at https://www.state.gov/religiousfreedomreport/.
d. Freedom of Movement
The law provides for freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation, and the government generally respected these rights.
f. Protection of Refugees
Access to Asylum: The law provides for the granting of asylum or refugee status, and the government has established a system for providing protection to refugees. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) such as NOAS and Amnesty International criticized the government for issuing instructions to immigration authorities that more strictly interpreted immigration and asylum regulations as a means of restricting access to asylum without changing the underlying legislation. NOAS cited examples of the government’s redefining the level of civil safety in Somalia in order to withdraw or deny asylum to applicants by claiming it was “safe to return to Somalia.”
In one example in June, immigration authorities revoked the refugee status of a single mother of Afghan descent and her three children who had fled from Iran. Immigration authorities attempted to return them to Afghanistan even though none of the three children was born in Afghanistan and had never visited. The basis for the revocation was a claim by the government that it was safe for the family to return to Afghanistan. In the course of her detention, although the mother lapsed into unconsciousness, she was still placed on an airplane with the three children. Upon arrival in Istanbul, the mother, who had not regained consciousness, had to be returned to Norway for medical reasons. The minor children remained in Istanbul pending their deportation to Afghanistan. The Afghan government ultimately refused to accept them, forcing Norwegian officials to accept the children back after 10 days. Under these circumstances and due to the efforts of several NGO’s, the children were allowed to remain in the country pending an appeal of their immigration status.
Safe Country of Origin/Transit: The country is party to the EU’s Dublin III regulation, which allows the government to transfer asylum seekers to the European country determined to be responsible under the regulation for adjudicating the case.
Freedom of Movement: The law permits detention of migrants to establish their identity or to deport them if authorities deem it likely the persons would evade an order to leave. The detention is limited and subject to judicial review.
Employment: Regulations allow asylum seekers who reside in integration facilities to obtain employment while their applications are under review. Eligible asylum seekers must fulfill certain criteria, including possession of valid documentation proving identity, a finding following an asylum interview that the individual will likely receive asylum, and participation in government-defined “integration” programs that assist asylum seekers in adapting to Norwegian society by the use of educational resources such as language or job training.
Durable Solutions: The government offered resettlement for refugees in cooperation with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The government’s Directorate of Immigration had several programs to settle refugees permanently in the country.
Through the International Organization for Migration and other government partners, the government assisted the return of unsuccessful asylum seekers to their countries of origin through voluntary programs that offered financial and logistical support for repatriation. Identity documents issued by either the Norwegian or the returnee’s government are required in order to use this program. The government continued routinely to offer migrants cash support in addition to airfare to encourage persons with rejected asylum claims to leave the country voluntarily.
Individuals granted refugee status may apply for citizenship when they meet the legal requirements, which include a minimum length of residence of seven of the previous 10 years, completion of an integration course on Norwegian society and pass a language test.
The government continued to provide welfare and support for refugees living in the country as part of the government’s Integration Goals administered by the Ministry of Children and Families. In order to facilitate the transition of immigrants into productive members of society, certain categories of immigrants, including refugees, are eligible for programs designed to provide Norwegian language instruction, job training, job placement, access to schools and universities, and basic instruction for living in Norwegian society. Refugees and asylum applicants have access to welfare benefits for short-term or long-term housing and medical care, and are provided direct access to, or financial support for, necessities such as food, clothing, basic entertainment, and public transportation. Children are eligible to attend public schools and preschools as if they were citizens, and there are programs for children who have recently arrived and need language assistance prior to entering the regular education system.
In 2018 parliament passed legislation to allow dual citizenship. The new law will come into effect as of 2020, and thereafter eligibility for citizenship will no longer be contingent on renouncing one’s prior citizenship.
Temporary Protection: Through the end of August, the government provided temporary humanitarian protection to 48 individuals who may not qualify as refugees. The permits for temporary protection may be renewed and can become permanent. The government provided temporary protection to fewer than 10 unaccompanied minors, who were granted residence permits in the country until the age of 18. NOAS and the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council claimed that the government’s policy is not to renew temporary protection for these minors when they turn 18 so they may be deported, even though the circumstances that led to their humanitarian protection remain unchanged.
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Kids4Community, a San Diego-based nonprofit founded by 15-year-old Kenan Pala in 2015, announced that it recently assembled 600 hygiene kits and 400 sack lunches to donate to the Interfaith Community Services of San Diego.
The mission of the organization is to help kids help the community by actively engaging them in volunteer work. Just last year alone, Pala’s nonprofit contributed to people in need by assembling more than 5,000 hygiene kits through various events. They made 2,500 care packages for victims of hurricanes, assembled over 3,000 brown bag lunches to be distributed to homeless shelters, and served food to more than 600 homeless people.
Approximately 200 kids and their parents volunteered at a Kids4community event to help San Diego’s homeless population.
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Politics, intrigues of 41 items and the CBN
At the outset of the naira’s decline and recession, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) unveiled a list of 41 items restricted from accessing foreign exchange at the official interbank market. The move and motive behind the action have been queried by operators even as the apex bank justified its actions. Two years after, the debacle remains unresolved. FEMI ADEKOYA writes.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on May 3, 2015 excluded importers of 41 goods and services from accessing foreign exchange at the Nigerian foreign exchange markets, in order to encourage local production of these items.
The action according to the CBN, was taken as part of efforts to sustain foreign exchange market stability and ensure the efficient utilisation of foreign exchange as well as aid derivation of optimum benefit from goods and services imported into the country.
The apex bank’s policy on the management of the foreign exchange market however, has been seriously criticised following the decision to place under restrictions, certain categories of imports into the country.
Most of the criticisms are anchored on the traditional support for open economies and trade liberalisation, as well as, the need for devaluation rather than monetary policies that cannot be sustained.
However, according to the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) nomenclature for list of non-prohibited items, every single item of import in the country has a Harmonised System (HS) Code, some of which the apex bank failed to identify when it placed restrictions on the 41 items, therefore affecting activities of some local manufacturers.
For these manufacturers, many of the raw materials required for their production activities were inadvertently included in the broad groups of the initial list before a recent review last month.
The Hard Choice Versus Scapegoat
For some operators, however, when there are only bad options to choose from, you take the best bad option that offers the best chance of success, not anyone that looks good or the easiest way out, considering the need to address the depletion of reserves amidst dwindling oil revenues.
The questions asked by many operators remain, ‘what options are available?’ and ‘what criteria should guide their deployment and implementation in order to ensure financial stability, predictability, growth and employment generation?’
To some of them, a mix of fiscal and monetary policies will address the challenges, while others seek commitments from government on its diversification agenda.
To the CBN, however, using the instrument of monetary policy to restrict access to foreign exchange, in a bid to boost declining reserves remains a viable option.
An assessment of the level of FX Reserves adequacy to safeguard financial stability in the country is estimated to hover between $44billion and $66billion; and the current FX Reserves of $30.3 billion ($37billion as at November 2014) are 15 per cent below this level.
Maintaining its stance on its forex policy, the CBN at the outset, sought understanding from members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS), explaining that there is a yawning gap in the demand-supply chain of the nation’s foreign exchange earnings, therefore necessitating an adjustment on the demand side by reducing the pressure from importers of finished goods into the country.
Specifically, the CBN while describing the intense pressure it has had to cope with in defending the naira between January and May 2015, stated that $575 million was expended on wheat importation, $375 million on fish and $349 million on electrical and electronic appliances and components.
Citing the dislocations in the system, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), noted that many of the products on the list of the 41 products are intermediate goods, which are critical inputs for many manufacturing firms, as well as, other critical sectors of the economy.
“It however appears as if the formulation of the policy has suffered from CBN’s limited understanding of the manufacturing process of many of the sectors affected by this policy. Many of the restricted items are irreplaceable raw materials in the manufacturing process of many industries, and this policy will cause significant damage to the Nigerian manufacturing sector and economy. We affirm that while there are several items on the list, which any patriotic Nigerian will not object to, there are many others that will harm the manufacturing sector,” the LCCI had stated.
In identifying the HS codes of the restricted items, President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Dr. Frank Jacobs, noted that about 680 HS codes were identified following the breakdown and classification of the 41 restricted items by the CBN from the official forex window into HS codes.
Of the 680 HS codes, Jacobs explained that 95 HS codes are raw materials used in the course of production in factories and they are presently restricted from access to forex market.
While the CBN might have made a pronouncement unveiling its resolve to give priority to some of the HS classified products, manufacturers believe the order of priority needs to be addressed urgently, as there are outstanding requests to meet local production needs.
“We have appealed to the CBN to remove those items from the list and if that had been done, we would have been shouting for joy because the rest of the 585 items will be to the benefit of the country because if those items are not imported; it will be better for the economy,” he had said.
According to the LCCI, the unintended consequences of the CBN’s approach to the management of foreign exchange market had resulted in major disruptions, dislocations and panic among many investors in the economy because of its multidimensional and far reaching implications, with the naira plummeting to as low as N525 against the dollar in the parallel market.
FOR manufacturers/operators in the iron rods, cold rolled sheets, wire rods, reinforcing bars, polypropylene granules, glass and glass ware, textiles, plastic and rubber products, as well as tomato value chain sectors, the policy has put several investments at risk with implications for job losses, quality of loan assets in the banking system, and the welfare of citizens.
For instance, value-chain operators in the tomato paste industry have continued to warn of the potential collapse of the N19 billion tomato paste manufacturing industry before the end of second quarter of 2017, if the decision is not reviewed.
According to the operators, the value of imported tomato paste in the country used to be about $170 million before the CBN ban on the 41 items, out of which imported triple concentrate used as raw material by the packers accounts for around $50 million.
It would be recalled that an indigenous local tomato paste manufacturer, Erisco Foods Limited, rescinded its threat to shut down and relocate its $150 million plant abroad following interventions by the Federal Government and development of a tomato policy.
Spokesman of the Union of Tomato Paste Manufacturers in Nigeria, Nnamdi Nnodebe, hinted that the tomato processing industry is in dire straits as unavailability of tomato paste triple concentrate for the industry is grinding production to a halt.
The local packing industry, according to him, can also form the hub for exports to hinterland countries, as there are adequate local capacities to more than cater to the domestic requirement. Using the ECOWAS benefits, this can be a huge foreign exchange earner for the country today, and in the near future. Through the growth of the tomato industry Nigeria can compete with China instead of buying the finished goods from them.
He urged the Federal Government to review its policy on triple concentrate tomato paste importation in a bid to boost the implementation of the backward integration agenda, noting that the recent increase of import tariff on triple concentrate tomato paste will not motivate packaging companies that are planning, or already involved in backward integration exercise.
With a loss of $800 million in 2015, due to what he described as technical devaluation by the CBN, Managing Director of Coleman Wires and Cables, George Onafowokan, noted that his company having staked about N11 billion on expansion within the last four years, is currently facing a huge challenge that may affect its productivity and workforce.
“The CBN’s policy should have excluded raw materials through proper definition and identification of HS codes of some restricted items. We have staked at least N11 billion on expansions in the last four years. The loans we have taken within that period had to be restructured to cater for devaluation and changing interest rates. With this forex restriction, it seems the CBN is asking local firms like ours to shut down.
“Exporting from Nigeria is a very difficult task due to a lot of factors and circumstantial policies. The manufacturing sector needs an intervention from the CBN to address the gaps created by the policy,” he said.
The inability of many telecommunications industry operators to access foreign exchange to procure key equipment from abroad is threatening their operations and survival as many of them now plan to leave the country if the situation continues.
Chief Executive Officer of Spectranet, David Venn, said the restriction of access to forex and other challenges such as multiple layers of taxes, and exorbitant cost of right of way is killing the telecommunications industry in the country.
“The implication of this is that we find it difficult to import equipment into the country and that means capacities will remain the way they are as growth will be stagnated, while subscribers will be at the receiving end,” he said.
Venn noted that the CBN policy has made it impossible for operators to get dollars to pay for equipment needed for their daily routine and expansion and this development is not god for the economy.
He lamented that the policy has made nonsense of their planning, especially for businessmen that depend on imported equipment such as Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) to offer high quality services to customers in the country.
In his view, the President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Olusola Teniola, said multiple FOREX windows create uncertainty for service providers in the country.
Teniola said the cost of capital involved in setting up a full-fledged telecommunications outfit is very high as interest rates in the country are typically double digits and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) relies on a guaranteed Return On Investment (ROI).
“The current FOREX window mechanism structure needs to be unified with a smaller spread to encourage investors to fund capital intensive CAPEX programmes,” he stated.
To the Managing Director of Vodacom Business Nigeria, Lanre Kolade, things appear stagnant in the sector because of some policies, including forex, stressing that the economy was biting hard on all the operators.
The Way Forward
The CBN on Wednesday May 17th released a 36-item list of materials that are essential for manufacturing purposes, that the apex bank considered ‘valid for foreign exchange,’ without actually reversing the ban on the 41 broad items.
This is believed to be an aftermath of increasing pressure from manufacturers, who through their various associations, and at various occasions, have continued to press for a relaxation on the restricted items.
According to Director General of the LCCI, Muda Yusuf, though the restriction of 41 items from access to interbank forex market added to the plight of some manufacturing firms, segments of the manufacturing sector that had substantial backward integration capabilities had a very good leverage during the review period.
He noted that such firms became more competitive and more sustainable and profitable.
Other operators noted that the new circular while lessening black market FX demand for raw materials, could lead to an increase in official demand for forex by manufacturers, a move the apex bank has made commitment to address.
Already, 20 out of the 34 sub-sectors surveyed under the apex bank’s monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report for May recorded expansion with many of them taking advantage of the forex availability to improve their inventories for production.
The report stated: “The manufacturing PMI stood at 52.5 index points in May 2017, indicating expansion in the manufacturing sector for the second consecutive month. Ten of the 16 sub-sectors reported growth in the review month in the following order: primary metal; petroleum and coal products; plastics and rubber products; paper products; electrical equipment; appliances and components; textile, apparel, leather and footwear; cement; food, beverage and tobacco products and chemical and pharmaceutical products. The remaining six sub-sectors declined in this order: transportation equipment; non-metallic mineral products; fabricated metal products; printing and related support activities; furniture and related products and computer and electronic products.
“The composite PMI for the non-manufacturing sector grew to 52.7 in May 2017 after 16 consecutive months of contraction. Of the 18 non-manufacturing sub-sectors, 10 recorded growth, while the remaining eight sub-sectors recorded contraction.
“The production level index for the manufacturing sector expanded for the third consecutive month in May 2017. The index at 58.7 points indicated an increase in production at a faster rate, when compared to the 58.5 points in the previous month. Fifteen manufacturing sub-sectors recorded increase in production level during the review month in the following order: primary metal; electrical equipment; petroleum and coal products; cement; chemical and pharmaceutical products; plastics and rubber products; computer and electronic products; food, beverage and tobacco products; textile, apparel, leather and footwear; appliances and components; paper products; non-metallic mineral products; furniture and related products; printing and related support activities and fabricated metal products, while the transportation equipment sub-sector recorded decline in production,” it added.
To address some lingering issues in the sector, Yusuf said: “We need to build capacity of investors in the value-chain for backward integration to be successful. Except for the big manufacturers with huge capacity, it could be too much for industrialists to embark on the process with little or no support. Government needs to embark on a holistic and integrated approach as some of the raw materials are not easy to get as it is being described.”
According to Dr. Ayo Teriba of Economic Associates: “A situation where Nigeria remains cyclically dependent on global economic swings, remaining especially vulnerable to a protracted decline in global prices of crops and oil; is structurally weak with forward linkages from crops to manufacturing/industry, weakened by energy supply and transport failures; and its domestic trade is boosted by high crops income, but held back by high logistics costs is not sustainable.”
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Indian Head Massage improves circulation in the head, enhances the five senses, improves memory, eases mental and emotional stress and promotes clear thinking. It is highly recommended for headaches, migraines, insomnia, tinnitus and vertigo, and depression.
Its high success rate with stress-related disorders is resulting in more doctors taking an interest in the technique. A few professors of medicine have studied head massage with Dr Badat. It is also becoming increasingly popular among dentists wanting to ease the discomfort of conventional dental treatments. Big corporations are finding it a useful tool in the ongoing battle to improve productivity and absenteeism. In the workplace it is generally done as a dry-scalp technique.
Perhaps one of the most significant modern applications is to address the harmful effects of cell phone radiation. Advanced practitioners study phrenology, an ancient science interpreting the shape of the skull and the bulges and dents on the head in much the same way as reflexologists and iridologists interpret the feet and eyes.
A PARALLEL WITH REFLEXOLOGY
Anne Combrinck, an Ayurvedic Health Care Advisor and Remedial Yoga Teacher, had this to tell us.
When it is properly done, Indian Head Massage is in fact a massage of the entire body. As in foot reflexology, the body’s organs and glands are represented on the head, ears and face. There are many important acupressure points on the head. The entire nervous system is calmed when its centre, the head, is massaged.
The application of nourishing oils to the head helps to both calm and strengthen the brain and nervous system. Oil massaged into the head is absorbed by the hair roots, which connect to the nerve fibres that lead to the brain. Oil strengthens the hair and removes dryness, which is responsible for brittle hair, premature balding, and many scalp disorders. Head massage during the first 6 to 9 months is excellent for an infant’s brain and eyesight. Indian Head Massage is very relaxing and usually includes the face, ears, neck and shoulders, as well as the scalp. It helps to relieve tension and associated headaches.
TENSION AND HEADACHES
Linzi Mons is an accredited tutor of ChampissageTM, a trademarked sequence of massage movements, and gives us her perspective.
In our modern society, stress, poor eating habits, pollution, and lack of exercise and fresh air all contribute to a variety of ailments settling on the head and shoulders. Indian Head and Shoulder Massage is an exceptionally effective and accessible technique that can be practised anywhere. It is not necessary to use oils unless specifically requested or indicated. In or out of the workplace you can relax, allowing a therapist half an hour to iron out all the tension brought about by a fast-paced lifestyle.
Four out of five people suffer from headaches, occasionally or on a daily basis. Apart from environmental factors such as artificial lighting and air-conditioning, headaches have multiple causes. Seasonal allergies, sinusitis, eye strain, poor posture and aching jaws from clenching or grinding teeth all contribute.
Head and shoulder massage eases the nodules that accumulate in the neck and shoulders through long hours spent in front of a computer or driving. Massaging the scalp improves the circulation, increasing the flow of oxygen to the head and dissipating accumulated toxins that contribute to headaches. A relaxing facial massage assists in clearing the sinuses. The growth and lustre of the hair improves. One is left feeling refreshed, as if after a short nap.
There are few contraindications. Degenerative spinal disorders such as osteoporosis and arthritic conditions would require gentle treatment. However, there is no age limit. It is advisable to moderate pressure to suit each individual. Recommended intervals between treatments should be between 5 and 10 days, to allow the body to rid itself of toxins liberated by the treatment.
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The current disabled elevator was renamed barrier-free. One is the word disabled, and the other is that many ordinary people sometimes have to take the elevator, such as people carrying luggage up and down the elevator. The installation of barrier-free elevator should consider first aid function, fire function and barrier-free passing function. So what’s the difference between a barrier-free elevator and an ordinary elevator?
The difference between barrier-free elevator and ordinary elevator
Barrier-free elevators are elevators that are accessible and usable for wheelchair users, visually impaired people or stretcher beds. A voice station is provided to facilitate deaf-mutes. There are buttons with Braille, which can help the person in a wheelchair can push on to. Three-side handrails are provided for the convenience of persons with disabilities to hold, and wheelchairs are not allowed to move. The rear wall half mirror is provided for the wheelchair to exit.
Take the elevator pay attention to below four points.
- See if there is a “stop for maintenance” sign. When arriving at the elevator, the passenger should see if there is a “stop and repair” sign in front of the elevator.
- Check the safety sign. When taking elevator, want to check whether there is the safety check mark that quality technology supervises a branch to send to check first inside elevator, check whether be in effective period, both have ability to safeguard safety at the same time.
- Look for overloads. The overloading of the elevator can easily cause safety accidents. When the overloading of the elevator is reported to the police, the elevator should exit actively and wait for the next ride.
- Check whether the operation is normal. After the elevator stops, passengers should observe whether the floor of the elevator car is level with the floor when entering or leaving the elevator. If the floor is uneven, it indicates the fault of the elevator and should inform the elevator user in time.
Take the elevator do not allow to do below four points
- Don’t push against the elevator door. When the door is closing, don’t force your way into the elevator to stop it from closing, so as not to cause unnecessary damage.
- Don’t press the emergency button casually. The emergency button is set to deal with unexpected situations. When the elevator is running normally, do not press the emergency button to avoid unnecessary trouble.
- Do not open the door when elevator is under operation. When taking the elevator, if the door is not closed to operate, it means that the elevator has a fault and passengers outside the elevator do not enter the ride; Passengers who are already in the elevator should not jump out of the elevator during operation to avoid unnecessary injury. They should stay in the elevator and ask for help through the alarm device.
- Do not take the elevator in case of fire. In case of fire, passengers are not allowed to use the elevator for escape. They should choose the staircase exit for escape.
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A New South Wales Parliamentary inquiry has found the state has the power to legislate for same-sex marriage, but has stopped short of recommending whether to do so.
The inquiry's report, released today, also says it is unpredictable whether same-sex marriage laws would survive a High Court challenge, making change at the Commonwealth level the best option.
The members of the Upper House Social Issues Committee considered more than 7,500 submissions and listened to evidence from numerous lawyers and academics.
The committee's chairman, Nationals MP Niall Blair, says none of the constitutional law experts the inquiry heard from could give a solid guarantee that state-based laws would hold up in court.
"The drafting and some of the items in that legislation would ultimately have the final bearing on whether that would survive a constitutional challenge, should it actually be determined that it is in conflict with the marriage act," he said.
He says the committee deliberately chose not to suggest what action the Parliament should take.
"One of the things that was also important from the committee was not to try and go into an area of debate, whether the state should or shouldn't legislate in relation to same-sex marriage," Mr Blair said.
"That's something that's better left for the Parliament to discuss."
A cross-party working group that's been drafting a bill it plans to introduce to the Upper House has described the inquiry's findings as a "momentous step forward".
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Acromegaly Market Report gives readers a thorough assessment of key market drivers, restraints, prospects, opportunities, restraints, current trends, and technological and industrial breakthroughs that will influence market growth. The detailed market research, industry sector growth and development, and new product introductions covered in this report on the Acromegaly Market are of great assistance to the important new commercial players joining the market.
This Acromegaly Market report research conducts a careful market evaluation and provides a professional analysis of the industry taking into account market development, present market circumstances, and forecasts for the future. The market driving factors, market overview, industry volume, and market share are also highlighted in this Acromegaly Market report analysis.
Regions Covered in the Report-
The United States
EU5 (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom)
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Acromegaly: An Overview
Acromegaly is a hormonal disorder that results from the availability of excessive growth hormone (GH) in the body, which is produced by the pituitary gland (a small gland in the brain). In acromegaly, the pituitary produces an immoderate amount of GH, which is resulted from benign or noncancerous tumors on the pituitary. These benign tumors are called Adenomas.
Key highlights of the Acromegaly Market Report
As per the DelveInsight’s estimate, the total number of prevalent cases of acromegaly in 2017 were found to be 61,022 in the 7MM.
As per DelveInsight’s analysis, 57,971 acromegaly cases originated from pituitary adenomas and 3,051 from benign tumors at other sites in 2017.
According to DelveInsight’s analysis, majority of the cases of Acromegaly is originated with adenomas at Pituitary gland and rest are because of benign tumor at other sites.
Acromegaly Epidemiology Insights
Acromegaly is a very rare disorder caused, in most cases, by a tumor of the pituitary gland that produces too much growth hormone (GH). Nearly all pituitary tumors, including those that cause acromegaly, are benign, and not malignant. However, they can become quite large and expand beyond the normal confines of the pituitary gland.
Acromegaly Epidemiology Segmentation in the 7MM
Total Prevalent Population
Origin-based Prevalent Population
Diagnosed Cases Based on Type
Acromegaly Treatment Market
The current treatment method for Acromegaly is focused on preventing the tumor compression of surrounding tissues by excising the diseases causing areas, and on reducing GH and IGF-1 levels to normal. Although, the primary treatment method for Acromegaly is transsphenoidal surgery, although all the patients are not eligible for surgery. Patients diagnosed with microadenomas and those with macroadenomas not close to other key structures in the brain, such as the nerves supplying the eyes or nearby blood vessels, are recommended for surgery. The cure rate of surgery is about 80% for microadenomas and 40‒50% for macroadenomas.
Acromegaly Market Insights
As per the literature reviews by Lim et al., titled “The role of combination medical therapy in the treatment of acromegaly,” pegvisomant and SSA combination has demonstrated good biochemical control in the majority of patients, and may allow individual drug dosage reductions, but patients require close monitoring for liver enzyme elevations. The combination of cabergoline, to SSA is relatively well tolerated and most likely to be effective in patients with very mild IGF-1 elevations. It was also found that the combination of pegvisomant and cabergoline may be useful in a select group of patients with mild IGF-1 elevations, particularly in the setting of intolerance to SSA or when the cost of SSA-Peg therapy is prohibitive.
The emerging therapies for the treatment of Acromegaly includes Octreotide capsules (Chiasma Pharma), Veldoreotide (Strongbridge Biopharma), CAM2029 (Camurus), CRN00808 (Crinetics Pharmaceuticals), IONIS-GHR-LRx (Ionis Pharmaceuticals), ATL1103 (Antisense Therapeutics), and MTD201 (Midatech). Octreotide capsules have been granted orphan designation in the US and the European Union for the potential treatment of Acromegaly.
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Table of Content
1. Key Insights
2. Executive Summary
3. Competitive Intelligence Analysis for Acromegaly
4. Acromegaly Market Overview at a Glance
5. Acromegaly Disease Background and Overview
6. Patient Journey
7. Acromegaly Epidemiology and Patient Population
8. Treatment Algorithm, Current Treatment, and Medical Practices
9. Acromegaly Unmet Needs
10. Key Endpoints of Acromegaly Treatment
11. Acromegaly Marketed Products
12. Acromegaly Emerging Therapies
13. Acromegaly Seven Major Market Analysis
14. Attribute analysis
15. 7MM: Acromegaly Market Outlook
16. Access and Reimbursement Overview of Acromegaly
17. KOL Views
18. Acromegaly Market Drivers
19. Acromegaly Market Barriers
21. DelveInsight Capabilities
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Acromegaly Market Report Highlights
In the coming years, the Acromegaly (MMA) market is set to change due to the rising awareness of the disease, and incremental healthcare spending across the world; which would expand the size of the market to enable the drug manufacturers to penetrate more into the market
The companies and academics are working to assess challenges and seek opportunities that could influence Acromegaly (MMA) R&D. The therapies under development are focused on novel approaches to treat/improve the disease condition
Major players are involved in developing therapies for Acromegaly (MMA). The launch of emerging therapies will significantly impact the Acromegaly (MMA) market
A better understanding of disease pathogenesis will also contribute to the development of novel therapeutics for Acromegaly (MMA)
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Social Representation, Objectification and Anchoring: a Rhetorical Analysis, by Michael Billig, published in Social Behaviour, Volume 3, Number 1, pages 1-16, (March 1988).
[SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: An International Journal of Applied Social Psychology, published by John Wiley of Chichester. At this time, Billig sat on the editorial board.]
SEARCHLIES, from a column, TROUBLESHOOTING SPECIAL REPORT, published in Vanguard, September 1988, issue 22, pages 10-11.
More about Gable’s connections with pervert Harry Bidney.
Festivals of the oppressed, by David Edgar, published in Race & Class, Volume XXIX, Number 4, Spring 1988, pages 61-76.
The British New Right’s “Enemy Within”: ‘The Antiracists’, by Gill Seidel, published in Discourse and Discrimination, Edited by Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson and Teun A. van Dijk, published by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, (1988). 269 pages. Index.
Seidel’s contribution, Chapter 5, is pages 131-43. This woman is clearly off her trolley, at least as far as racism is concerned. This is an incredibly vituperative essay directed at the Salisbury Review and the academics around it.
The notion of ‘prejudice’: Some rhetorical and ideological aspects, by Michael Billig, published in TEXT: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, special issue “discourse, racism and ideology”, published by Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Volume 8-1/2, (1988), pages 91-110.
As might be expected from a poseur like Billig, this dissertation is a load of vacuous twaddle.
Page 109 lists another Billig effort, We condemn Apartheid, BUT...A discursive analysis of the European Parliament debate on sanctions, published in Sociological Review, (July 1986).
I found a quarterly journal called Sociological Review, but could find no July 1986 issue.
Verbal strategies of the collaborators: A discursive analysis of the July 1986 European Parliamentary debate on South African sanctions, by Gill Seidel, published in TEXT: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, special issue “discourse, racism and ideology”, published by Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Volume 8-1/2, (1988), pages 111-27.
Common-places of the British Royal Family: A rhetorical analysis of plain and argumentative sense, by Michael Billig, published in TEXT: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, published by Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, Volume 8-3, (1988), pages 191-217.
THE OTHER FACE OF TERROR: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network, by Ray Hill with Andrew Bell, published by Grafton Books, London, (1988). 315 pages Index. Illustrated.
One for the fiction shelves, an error-prone, lie-ridden book. See also the film of the same name, critiques by Larry O’Hara, and, most of all, Liars Ought To Have Good Memories... by Yours Truly, which deconstructs Hill’s fairy story in minute detail. Having said that, the reader is invited to study the scans linked below.
This is a scan from the Preface of Hill’s book, page 8: every word is true, he says. Now check out the scans below and decide how much credence you can give this claim.
On page 28, Hill relates how he entered the far right; in 1968 he attended a meeting of the Anti-Immigration Society in Leicester, which held its first public meeting on May 8. This claim is substantiated by contemporaneous press reports. But by the end of the book he forgets himself, and claims on page 265 to have known personally the fanatically anti-Jewish wife of Colin Jordan from her days in the National Socialist Movement.
By 1968, the National Socialist Movement no longer existed; following her role in the 1960s synagogue arsons, Mrs Jordan fled to her native France, where she was gaoled. She was released in February 1967, and later returned to Britain where she was arrested on August 7, charged, remanded in custody, and gaoled on January 17, 1968 for eighteen months. So, clearly, Hill did not know her at all, and had obviously never even met her!
Fraudulent what, Ray? On page 32 of his lie-ridden “autobiography”, Hill refers to a book written by the British Nazi leader Colin Jordan called Fraudulent Conspiracy, which he says was what lured him into the nether reaches of far right politics, and on the following page he says this book blamed the financial system and Britain’s problems on “the Jews”. Jordan’s book is actually called Fraudulent Conversion, and is subtitled The Myth Of Moscow’s Change Of Heart, and, as it implies, does not concern itself with Jewish influence in Britain (real or imagined) but in the then Soviet Union.
Page 39: Hill’s account of his assault on a café owner (who just happened to be Jewish, of course). Ten years later, when he stood trial for this unprovoked attack after jumping bail in South Africa, the Jewish Chronicle described it in somewhat different terms. Which account do you believe?
Click here for scans and critique from pages 58-9.
On page 60, Hill says that in South Africa “a couple of Jewish chaps” were “extremely kind” to his family. Read: they gave me money. But what did you do for them, Ray?
This is what Hill really thinks of blacks: sub-humans.
On page 211 Hill gives an account of an alleged attack on innocent people by “Nazis” in Paris, who supposedly beat them up because they appeared to be Jewish. The reader is invited to compare this account with the version published by the uncritical News Of The World in March 1984, which differs significantly. My colleague Mark Taha and I investigated this alleged incident, and as far as we were able to ascertain, it never happened, and again, the reader is referred to Liars Ought To Have Good Memories for a full, and irrefutable deconstruction.
This shockingly candid admission (from page 261) shows Hill attempting to incite a “Fascist” to commit or at least to consider committing an act of mass murder like the Bologna Station bombing of August 2, 1980, which resulted in 85 deaths.
Page 270: “Boom”, says Hill, advocating violence, terror and mass murder yet again. This was not a joke, nor the actions of a mole, but those of an agent provocateur.
THE OTHER FACE OF SEARCHLIGHT, a review of The Other Face of Terror, published in National Front News, page 4, issue 108, undated but certainly 1988.
Reprinted from the anarchist newspaper, Black Flag, No 181, 25/4/88.
Rhetorical and Historical Aspects of Attitudes: the case of the British Monarchy, by Michael Billig, published in PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1988, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1, pages 83-103.
Divided we kill, by Glyn Ford, published in New Statesman & Society, February 19, 1988, pages 32-3.
But did they? Uncritical review of Hill’s lie-ridden book. “...Hill proved most helpful to Searchlight as an agent provocateur.” A candid admission.
Where The Hardline Is Right, by David Edgar, published in Marxism Today, February 1988, pages 30-1.
Rhetoric of the Conspiracy Theory: Arguments in National Front Propaganda, by Michael Billig, pages 23-34, Patterns of Prejudice, Summer 1988, Volume 22, Number 2.
A Conspiracy of Hatemongers: Front Fight Back!, published in National Front News, issue 117, page 1, undated, c1988.
An article on Jewish-born Hitler fan Andrew Benjamin. Apparently it’s another example of Nazi-Zionist collaboration.
Confessions of a nazi mole, a review of The Other Face of Terror by “Playwright David Edgar” published in Searchlight, February 1988, issue 152, pages 10-1.
Totally uncritical of course. Page 11, “...Hill’s book contains its fair share of humour...” too true, but not in the sense that this shabbez goy means. A sickening article.
War cries on London’s streets, by Roger Sabin, published in the HIGHLIGHTS column in the Illustrated London News, March 1988, page 20.
Searchlight gets a mention in connection with the persecution of old men claimed to be “war criminals”.
SEARCHLIGHT ADOPTS McCARTHYISM, unsigned article published in Black Flag, March 21, 1988, issue No 188, page 9. (Based on photocopy).
Anyone who is au fait with the unjaundiced facts about the much maligned U.S. Senator will realise just how great an insult this is.
County man cleared of indecency, published in the Lincolnshire Echo, Saturday, March 26, 1988, page 5.
Refers to a court case involving Ray Hill - who is not named. (See also WELL, IF IT ISN’T...!:, Spearhead, July 1988, and Liars Ought To Have Good Memories, pages 78-80).
FOCUS ON THE MERCHANTS OF HATE: Plot to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival, by John Symes, published in the London freesheet Nine to Five, March 28, 1988, pages 34-5.
Uncritical article/review of Hill’s fictitious account of life in the “Nazi underground”. “...they have rejected the ballot box.” This rubbish could have been written by Gable himself. Perhaps it was?
NEO-NAZIS IN THE STANDS, by Glyn Ford MEP Greater Manchester East, published in Fire FIGHTER the journal of the Fire Brigades’ Union, May 1988, Volume 16, No 5., pages 16-7.
“Now, the evidence that has been systematically gathered by researchers like Searchlight magazine has been confirmed from another source...” calls for the banning of the sale of fascist literature and emblems at football grounds. Only at football grounds? Threatens another Heysel.
THE NATURE OF THE RIGHT: A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF ORDER PATTERNS, Edited by Gill Seidel, published by John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, (June 1988). 185 pages. No index.
At the time, Seidel was Lecturer in French and discourse analysis in the University of Bradford. This book is a collection of essays.
Seidel contributed ‘Nation’ and ‘family’ in the British media reporting of the ‘Falklands conflict’, with Renate Günther, pages 115-27.
[BBIP, 1992 - published simultaneously in hardback and paperback; paperback not seen by compiler].
WELL, IF IT ISN’T...!: An old acquaintance turns up again in Lincolnshire, published in Spearhead, July 1988, issue 223, pages 14 & 20.
Unsigned article, probably written by Tyndall. Interesting report of a court case in which Hill attempted to smear a Jewish businessman as a child molester. Although the man in question, a Mr George Lewis, was a convicted sex offender, the jury acquitted him rather than convict him on the word of Ray Hill. Doubtless justice was done. [See also Liars Ought To Have Good Memories, pages 78-80].
The inside story, by Paul Holborow, published in Socialist Worker, August 27, 1988, page 11.
A review of The Other Face Of Terror. One has the impression that the comrades weren’t particularly impressed with this book. There is no mention here of the mythical Notting Hill bomb plot.
Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking, (various contributors including Michael Billig), published by Sage Publications, London, (September 1988).
A very special relationship, by Gill Seidel, published in NEW STATESMAN SOCIETY, (sic), October 7, 1988, pages 21-2.
Seidel had apparently spent some time in Uganda. Nice work if you can get it. This is a report she published about AIDS in Africa on her return.
On The Race Track, by David Edgar, published in Marxism Today, November 1988, pages 28-9, 31 & 33.
An article on race.
EDGAR - LEFT ALONE, by Mark Lawson, published in the Independent Magazine, November 26, 1988, pages 46-8.
Inside The Front.
This was advertised in issue 161, (November 1988) of Searchlight, (page 5). It was said to be due for publication the following January. Presumably this was the same publication as From Ballots To Bombs: The Inside Story of the National Front’s Political Soldiers
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BACKGROUND: Growth cones at the tips of growing axons move along predetermined pathways to establish synaptic connections between neurons and their distant targets. To establish their orientation, growth cones continuously sample for, and respond to, guidance information provided by cell surfaces and the extracellular matrix. To identify specific guidance cues, growth cones have sensor molecules on their surface, which are expressed differentially during the temporospatial progress of axon outgrowth, at levels that depend on the pattern of neural activity. However, it has not been elucidated whether a change in gene expression can indeed change the molecular composition and, hence, the function of the sensor apparatus of growth cones.
RESULTS: We have constructed adenoviral gene transfer vectors of the chicken growth cone sensor molecules axonin-1 and Ng-CAM. Using these vectors, we initiated the expression of axonin-1 and Ng-CAM in rat dorsal root ganglia explants during ongoing neurite outgrowth. Using specific surface immunodetection at varying time points after infection, we found that axonin-1 and Ng-CAM are transported directly to the growth cone and inserted exclusively in the growth cone membrane and not in the axolemma of the axon shaft. Furthermore, we found that axonin-1 and Ng-CAM do not diffuse retrogradely, suggesting that the sensor molecules are integrated into multimolecular complexes in the growth cone.
CONCLUSIONS: During axon outgrowth, the pathway sensor apparatus of the growth cone is continuously updated by newly synthesized sensor molecules that originate directly from the transcription/translation machinery. Changes in the expression of sensor molecules may have a direct impact, therefore, on the exploratory function of the growth cone.
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Vail Daily column: School calendars always contentious
With the possible exception of whether or not to call a snow day, there is perhaps no issue which presents itself in more of a “lose-lose” dynamic than anything to do with the school-year calendar.
Our school district takes a number of steps to mitigate and contain the inevitable conflict that arises with something as seemingly innocuous as setting the school calendar. This includes issuing multiple years of school calendars at once, so that the distraction of setting the calendar must only come every few years instead of an annual conflict.
We also create a calendar committee with a broad range of perspectives and charge them with gathering input from the community in crafting a recommendation. This helps make sure we have representation from several different viewpoints on the calendar and that the last and loudest group to be heard does not overly sway the ultimate decision.
We also try and take into account contextual issues that drive the calendar. In our case, school construction, testing windows, and the balance of time in school and time off for families and staff is taken into account.
Finally, we also look at professional development time for our teachers and how we can create time and space for our educators and other staff to learn while disrupting learning time with students as little as possible.
Even after all this, we must acknowledge that it is impossible to please everyone.
Working on the school calendar is an exercise in trade-offs. When you make one decision, it creates a trade-off somewhere else to maintain our school year of 171 student contact days.
Families love the idea of starting after Labor Day, to create more time for vacations in the dreamy days of summer. Families also love the ideas of having a week to travel for Thanksgiving, two weeks for the holidays … and (please) can we sprinkle in a fall break in October, Martin Luther King Day and Presidents Day off and one (or preferably two) spring breaks. And, please toss in Veterans Day off while you’re at it.
The problem is that all these decisions together cause school to run until almost July, an idea everyone also hates.
I’ve heard it said that this group or that group “has an agenda” when it comes to setting the school calendar. What I have learned is that everyone with an interest in schools “has an agenda” when it comes to the calendar.
In our district alone, we have the after-Labor-Day agenda, the before-Memorial-Day agenda, the construction timeline agenda, the professional learning agenda, the high school athletics agenda, the two-week holiday-break agenda, the equal-semester agenda, the state-testing agenda, the advanced placement-testing agenda and the family-travel agenda. I am certain I have left some agenda out, as well!
So, where are we currently on the issue of school calendars for Eagle County?
The Board of Education has approved the calendar for 2017-18. It includes a mid-August start, a one-day October break, a full week off at Thanksgiving, two weeks off for the holidays, two spring breaks (late February and late April), and the last day of school coming May 31, before the Memorial Day weekend.
Basically, it repeats the calendar we operated on for the 2016-17 school year, but adjusts where the holiday break falls versus the current school-year calendar.
For the 2018-19 school year (the year after next), the district’s calendar committee is bringing forward yet another calendar for the board to consider and approve at the April 26 meeting.
This calendar is driven heavily by the large amount of construction work happening in the district in the summer of 2018. With the 2017-18 school calendar dismissing before Memorial Day, the proposed 2018-19 calendar starts school after Labor Day, giving our construction crews an additional two weeks to complete projects during that summer of 2018.
This will create some consternation for those involved in fall high school athletics and those concerned about days to prepare for advanced placement and other testing windows. These concerns are real and valid. As such, the calendar committee will not recommend multiple years of this after-Labor-Day start because the driving force behind it (the construction work) will not be present in future years. By planning only through 2018-19, we can re-assess calendars for future years.
I do realize that if the Board decides to approve the recommended calendar, then this will not make everyone happy. However, what I have learned in my years of interacting with the question of school calendars is that it is impossible to make everyone happy. Instead, you have to make reasoned decisions, understand the trade-offs and then take your lumps.
And then, in a few years, you get to do it all over again.
Jason Glass is the superintendent of Eagle County Schools.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court ruled that a Roman Catholic priest cannot use the secrecy of confession as a defense when it convicted a clergyman in Bruges on Monday of failing to seek help for a man who went on to commit suicide.
Alexander Stroobandt was contacted by a man who was battling depression. The priest exchanged several phone calls and text messages with the man, whom he knew. But the man went on to kill himself by piping engine exhaust fumes into his car.
The man’s wife subsequently heard of the contact with the priest and lodged a complaint with prosecutors, whose view was that everyone, without exception, had to help in an emergency.
In concurring, the court handed Stroobandt a suspended one month jail term and ordered him to pay the widow a symbolic euro in damages. His lawyer Jan Leysen said he planned to appeal, arguing that the secrecy of confession was indeed absolute.
Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Alison Williams
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Two decades on from her death, the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, still lingers. This Summer, thousands of people will leave tributes to her at the Pont de l'Alma in Paris, near the spot where the princess was badly injured in a car crash leading to her passing just hours later. Flowers and photos lie 'round the famous torch, which has become a memorial to the much-loved royal who died in the French capital on Aug. 31, 1997.
Diana spent her last day in Paris, flying in from Sardinia with Dodi Al Fayed on Aug. 30. The couple had been holidaying on the French and Italian Riviera aboard his father's yacht, the Jonikal, their every move followed by photographers. They headed to the Ritz Hotel, located on the central Place Vendome and also owned by Dodi's father, Mohammed al Fayed. By the time they settled into a late dinner, the famous hotel was surrounded by crowds and press. Just after midnight, with a decoy car diverting photographers at the front of the Ritz, they got into a black Mercedes Benz S280 waiting for them at the back to travel to another Fayed property in Paris.
The deputy head of security at the Ritz, Henri Paul, was at the wheel as the car left the Rue Cambon and crossed the Place de la Concorde. Photographers were already following as the vehicle headed along the Cours la Reine, running alongside the Seine, and continued along the embankment. The car was speeding as it entered the Pont de l'Alma tunnel where, within seconds, it had collided with the 13th pillar. Henri and Dodi were killed instantly.
The princess was still conscious, and the ambulance called to take her to hospital traveled slowly through the French capital to allow doctors to treat her. It stopped for several minutes in front of the Jardin des Plantes for medics to treat the princess. Soon afterward, they arrived at the Pitié-Salpetrière Hospital on the Ile de France, where the full extent of Diana's injuries was discovered. Diana had suffered a large tear to the superior pulmonary vein where it entered her heart. She was pronounced dead at the hospital just after 4 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 31.
Her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquadale, traveled to Paris with Prince Charles to accompany Diana's body home. Even as they landed at RAF Northolt, floral tributes were being left at Diana's home at Kensington Palace. The princess's coffin was taken to London and the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, where her sons, William and Harry, said their last farewells before her funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6. Diana's hearse was showered with flowers as thousands lined her funeral route. Her last journey ended at her family home, Althorp House, where she was buried on a small island. Her grave is private and only accessible to family, but public tributes continue to pile up in Paris at the place her story came to an end.
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Health Coverage for Individuals Unlawfully Present
This move has drawn the most attention, as the budget bill expands Medicaid coverage to illegally present adults aged 19-26. California will pay the full share of this Medicaid spending, as the federal government will not subsidize health coverage for foreign citizens illegally present in the United States.
Sad as it may sound, expanding coverage to “only” some law-breaking foreigners represented a compromise. Liberal lawmakers originally wanted to expand Medicaid to all illegal residents, at a cost of $3.4 billion. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom objected to the price tag, so lawmakers agreed to fund benefits solely for the 19-26 population, and delayed its implementation until January 1, 2020.
As to those who disagree with this move, one can study the words of none other than Hillary Clinton. In 1993, she testified before Congress in opposition to giving illegal residents full health benefits, because “illegal aliens” were coming to the United States for health care even then:
We do not think the comprehensive health care benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country. We know now that too many people come in for medical care, as it is. We certainly don’t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have.
If Clinton’s words don’t sound compelling enough, consider one way that California may finance these new benefits: By reinstating Obamacare’s individual mandate. To put it another way, people who obey the law (i.e., the mandate) will fund free health coverage for people who by definition have broken the law by coming to, or remaining in, the United States unlawfully.
Read more here.
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The Journey to Ezido Lake: A Story about Empathy
Ngozi is a rich girl who lives in a fine home outside the village and wants for nothing and has never known hard work or trouble. Ngozi has lived her life in privilege, never knowing that other girls her age live very different lives. Ngozi craves adventure.
Azuka lives in a tiny hut in the poor village. She works hard every day at her chores to help her family. One of Azuka’s daily chores is taking a dangerous early morning journey to the Ezido lake for water for the family’s food for the day. Azuka carries with her a calabash and rag.
As the girls travel along they learn more about each other. Ngozi, who originally thought that Azuka’s life was glamorous and filled with adventure, learns that Azuka’s life is actually filled with hard work and severe consequences. Ngozi also learns that
her own life is filled with privilege and good fortune.
The Biafran Conscriptors: Memoirs of the Nigerian-biafran Civil War 1967-1970
Having grown up during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Dr. Anselm Chibuike Anyoha gives a realistic view of what children had to endure during these tough times. Seen through the eyes of a child, it shows how children perceive issues differently than adults. Not only does this historical fiction story show the point of view of children, but it also shows the point of view from the enemy, the Conscriptors. This dramatic retelling of a real historical event shows the different ways people can be affected by wars.
How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living
When the weight started to add up and his overall health declined, however, he realized something needed to change. His doctor wanted him to take pills, but that was just going to cover up a problem—not fix it.
While he had previously enjoyed fast food, refined cereal, soda, and other goodies, he cut those out of his diet and retooled his lifestyle. Now, he takes responsibility for what he eats. In this handbook for healthy living, he shares how to
• equip yourself with credible information about food;
• discover truths about your own body that can help you lose weight;
• appreciate the dynamics between weight maintenance and physical fitness; and
• understand the relationship between obesity and diseases such as hypertension.
By researching nutrition, resisting the food industry’s ploys to win his taste buds, and relying on willpower, Anyoha lost thirty pounds—and he’s kept it off for more than two years. You can match and beat his results by taking control of your health.
The Legendary Grasshopper: The One Who Led the Child into the Thorns
Ejike (4 year old boy), and family: Mother, Father, 7 year old sister, and three younger sistersThey are in the kitchen, and Mother is making Ejike pound the beans using a wooden bowl and pestle. Upset, Ejike wandered off. He opened the wooden door that led into a small cassava Farm–he would rather use his time to look for grasshoppers instead of pounding bean seeds in a wooden bowl. Foreword from daughter, Amy: History is made daily, but we rely on our parents and their parents to pass down culture, giving history its meaning. Think back to the wisdom that we’ve all shunned from our relatives in ignorance or pride, our displeasure in calling on holidays, and attending obligatory events. In each moment, a story vanishes forever. Ancient ties we willingly sever out of loyalty to our present lives and lack of curiosity and interpersonal interest. Memories of our own pasts’ can make us nostalgic or lament the unchangeable. Memories of another give us the power to see into the future, avoid mistakes, heartache, and danger. We ignored stories from our parents when we deemed ourselves antonymous, and dreamed we were invincible. As adults, we can only hope their stories serve us for our future children. Contrary to the cycle, we hope they will listen early and learn quickly.
Automated Man: Thought Inheritance and the Cycle of Existence
Automated man, Thought inheritance and the Cycle of Existence asks the age old questions: Where did we come from? How and when did the universe begin? How much human behavior is instinctual and how much is learned? Dr. Anselm Anyoha lays out a compelling new concept, combining theology and science, on how man fits into nature, the universe, evolution, and the course of time. He describes how nature recycles itself in nine distinct chapters which include topics such as:
- The ‘cycle of existence”. There is no beginning and no end.
- The cyclical nature of major human elements.
- Inherited looks and behavior from parent to child.
- Discussion of how the human body, despite its complexity, is a product of a single cell.
- The brain, the glands, and the biological underpinning of the human autonomic system.
What is the chemical imbalance that may cause people to lose their minds?
How all this fits into the spiritual notions that most people adhere to.
Automated Man, Thought Inheritance, and the Cycle of Existence is an important and enjoyable book for anyone who is interested in how nature applies the same physical laws throughout the universe. Dr. Anyoha’s concept combines scientific laws, evolution theory, and facets of spontaneity to describe a universe that never began and will never end.
Let The Dead Man Walk: patients blues, doctors delusions
The book is about a physician who was bent on inventing a device that would make people come back to life when they die. But in the heat of the medical moment in New York City he got distracted. But nothing could stop him on his journey for his medical destiny.
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Where is the Synaptics control panel?
Typically, you will find the dedicated Synaptics tab in the Mouse settings right next to the Hardware tab.
How do I download Synaptics drivers?
1) Go to Synaptics Resources Center. 2) Scroll down, you should then see the TouchPad Driver Support under Drivers pane. 3) Find Windows 10, then click Download. 4) Un-zip the downloaded zip file to find and install the driver for your Synaptics touchpad.
How do I enable Synaptics driver?
To get started, right-click the Synaptics or ELAN touchpad device under the “Mice and other pointing devices” category in Device Manager, and then select the “Update driver” command. Click the “Browse my computer for driver software” option.
How do I enable Synaptics touchpad in Windows 10?
When the Control Panel opens, go to the Mouse section. Now navigate to Device Settings tab. Select your touchpad from the list and click on the Settings button. Now locate the Tapping section and make sure that you disable Double tap to enable or disable touchpad option.
What is 12c HID device?
The HID I²C driver enables devices and system manufacturers to reduce the total number of drivers they have to develop to support common device types like keyboards, touchpads, touch screens, sensors, and so on. The HID I²C driver is available on all client SKUs of Windows and is included in WinPE.
How do I start my Synaptics touchpad?
If the option is not available on the Mouse Properties window, click Settings to open the Synaptics Control Panel. On the Click tab, uncheck Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad. Click Apply, and then click OK.
Where can I find Synaptics driver?
Open Device Manager. Scroll down and expand Mice and other pointing devices > Synaptics Touchpad. Right-click on Synaptics Touchpad and select Properties. Select the Driver tab.
Do I need Synaptics touchpad enhancements on startup?
PSA 2: You can turn off synaptics enhancements for better battery life (Precision Touchpad enabled models only) HP switched some of their laptops over to precison touchpad drivers, which means that the synaptics drivers aren’t necessary to be running (primarily their touchpad enhancements).
How do I use Synaptics touchpad driver?
35.41 (or later).
- Open Device Manager.
- Scroll down and expand Mice and other pointing devices > Synaptics Touchpad.
- Right-click on Synaptics Touchpad and select Properties.
- Select the Driver tab.
- Confirm the Synaptics driver is 19.5. 35.41 (or later). Synaptics Touchpad in Device Manager.
How do you fix I2C?
Option 1: Update your I2C HID Device driver automatically (Recommended) If you don’t have the time, patience or computer skills to update the I2C HID Device driver manually, you can do it automatically with Driver Easy. Driver Easy will automatically recognize your system and find the correct drivers for it.
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Native to middle America, tobacco is now widespread across the world and its leaves that are dried, carefully selected and subsequently processed, constitute the raw material which forms the basis for the production of our blends.
Tobacco cultivation requires passion, dedication and commitment. It all starts inside large greenhouses where the tiny tobacco seeds are planted. Once the fledgling tobacco plant shoots its first leaves, it is moved outside into the fields, where it grows up to 3 metres tall in some cases.
Harvest time varies according to the type of tobacco and several methods are used during the curing phase. Virginia tobacco is cured by the heat generated inside the piping that runs across the rooms where the tobacco leaves are stored; Burley tobacco undergoes an open-air curing process, sheltered from direct sunlight; the smoke generated by fire boxes placed underneath the leaves lies at the heart of the curing process used for dark-fired Kentucky tobacco; the small leaves of Oriental tobacco are instead spread out in the sun like clothes hung out to dry.
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Last Updated on 5. April 2022 by Petra Himmel
The Augusta gold standard no longer works
For decades, the gold standard in course maintenance had a name: Augusta National. Blades of grass lined up in the deepest green. Fairways, cross-mowed several times in such a way that blades of grass protrude against the direction of play. A playground of exclusivity, almost unreal to look at with the blooming azaleas, the deep blue water, not a leaf of foliage on the ground.
The Masters picture is not suitable for reality
The only thing is: The gold standard is no longer up to date, but above all, it is no longer suitable as a model for thousands upon thousands of golf courses that are struggling with other problems. High diesel prices, water limits, ban on pesticides. And: The call for sustainable major events in sport is vast. Climate neutrality is becoming the dominant topic.
The United States Golf Association has signed the “ United Nations Sports for Climate Action Initiative ”, but there are still no indications of sustainability measures for the implementation of the US Open this year. Augusta National pushed aside this week’s request about sustainability efforts of the tournament unanswered. As always, when there are questions that are a little uncomfortable. After all, at the Players Championship, a panel discussion was held in the clubhouse on the subject of “ Championing Change ” with scientists specializing in oceanography and biology. There are no communicated projects for the PGA Championship in Oak Hill, Oklahoma in May. Only the Open in St. Andrews continues to work with the R&A on avoiding plastic and reducing fossil fuels.
In short: Unlike in football , for example, where the topic of CO₂ neutrality is now a big topic, the organizers of major tournaments in golf are largely not up to date. The opportunity to familiarize millions of spectators and golf fans with a topic that will accompany golf in the future is gone. To give just one example, the SubAir system beneath Augusta National greens, which keeps the ground at the perfect temperature, has amazed golfers since its introduction. Should Augusta National convert its energy budget completely to regenerative energies, this would cause a sensation in the international golf scene and find imitators.
Augusta National has historically always been a trendsetter
On the other hand: With the US Masters, the Augusta National Golf Club has always been the pioneer in terms of technology in golf, regardless of whether it’s about scoring, TV broadcasts or WiFi in the press centre. The tournament, which often looks so traditional and slightly outdated on the outside, is, in fact a perfectly data-driven machine. So trends and progress are in good hands here.
And so the hope remains that the Augusta National Golf Club will announce out of nowhere in April 2023 that the tournament has become climate neutral. At no time another shopping centre on Washington Road was bought over the winter, scrapped and the parking lot equipped with solar panels. Suddenly there are heat pumps between the bushes in front of the clubhouse and next to the Mercedes fleet for the players in the parking lot there is a vehicle with containers that compacts the garbage. The green plastic cups have been replaced with glass cups, and alongside the Drive Chip and Putt program, Augusta National has installed the Green Masters initiative. The president of the club with the best carbon footprint in the USA will also receive a unique green jacket.
All completely disturbed ideas? Maybe. But the view of the deep green fairways of the Augusta National Golf Club has always inspired dreams of a better world of golf. Only the dreams have changed.
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I get a commission when you purchase through them. Vital Commands 25% Log into regional & remote graphical and text mode consoles Look for files Assess and compare the basic file system functions and alternatives Compare and control file material Use input-output redirection (e. g (Linux Online Training). >, >>,, 2 >) Analyze a text utilizing fundamental routine expressions Archive, backup, compress, unload, and uncompress files Produce, erase, copy, and move files and directory sites Create and handle tough and soft links List, set, and alter standard file authorizations Check out, and usage system documentation Manage access to the root account Operation of Running Systems 20% Boot, reboot, and shut down a system safely Boot or change system into different operating modes Set up, configure and troubleshoot bootloaders Identify and manage procedures Find and examine system log files Schedule tasks to run at a set date and time Validate completion of arranged jobs Update software application to supply necessary performance and security Verify the integrity and availability of resources Verify the integrity and schedule of key processes Change kernel runtime parameters, consistent and non-persistent Usage scripting to automate system upkeep jobs Manage the startup process and services (In Services Configuration) List and identify SELinux/App, Armor file and process contexts Manage Software application Identify the part of a Linux circulation that a file comes from Amazon link (affiliate) User and Group Management 10% Create, erase, and modify regional user accounts Create, erase, and modify regional groups and group memberships Manage system-wide environment profiles Manage template user environment Configure user resource limits Manage user advantages Configure PAM Networking 12% Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically Configure network services to begin automatically at boot Implement package filtering Start, stop and check the status of network services Statically path IP traffic Integrate time utilizing other network peers Service Setup 20% Set up a caching DNS server Keep a DNS zone Configure email aliases Configure SSH servers and customers Restrict access to the HTTP proxy server Configure an IMAP and IMAPS service Question and customize the habits of system services at numerous operating modes Configure an HTTP server Configure HTTP server log files Configure a database server Restrict access to a websites Manage and configure containers Manage and set up Virtual Makers Storage Management 13% List, create, erase, and modify physical storage partitions Manage and configure LVM storage Develop and configure encrypted storage Configure systems to install file systems at or throughout boot Configure and manage swap area Produce and handle RAID devices Configure systems to install file systems as needed Develop, manage and detect advanced file system consents Set up user and group disk quotas for filesystems Develop and configure file systems. Aws linux academy review. This brings us to the end of the LFCS Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator study guide. Aws linux academy review.
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Today’s technology records depth from land to deep waters accurately and efficiently.
More than 90% of the world’s trade is carried by sea, according to the International Maritime Organization. Therefore, accurate and up-to-date charts of coastal waters for ship navigation are vital for world commerce. The current expansion of the Panama Canal, which will double its capacity and allow larger ships to transit, is further increasing the need for depth data—as ports compete for the ability to accommodate the new “Panamax” ships being built to take advantage of the canal’s enhanced dimensions.
Population growth in coastal areas and sea level rise due to climate change are driving the need for bathymetric data for planning and emergency management. The advent of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has accelerated the ongoing effort to miniaturize bathymetric sensors by reducing their size, weight, and power (SWAP) requirements. These factors, in addition to technological advances in the sensors’ hardware and software, are bringing new tools to the ancient science of bathymetry.
For centuries, mariners recorded water depth using nothing more than a lead line of sufficient length, a compass, a sextant, and a rudimentary nautical chart. This was such a time-consuming process, however, that they could only perform it for a tiny percentage of the world’s oceans and coastlines. Today’s technology makes the process not only more accurate, but vastly more efficient as well.
In deep waters, depth data is collected using huge multi-beam echo sounders that operate at very low frequencies. As the depth decreases, smaller devices are used that operate at higher frequencies and, therefore, higher resolution. However, very close to shore, the efficiency of these devices drops dramatically, as the cone of their sound signal is cut off by the slope of the shelf. This is where airborne lidar sensors become a much more efficient means of collecting depth data.
Teledyne, a U.S. manufacturer, builds devices needed to measure water depth, from the deepest ocean trenches all the way to shore and onto land, and writes software to process the data. A conversation with them about their products provides an overview of the unique challenges and some new solutions using bathymetry.
Deep WaterEquipment: 12 KHz multi-beam systems
In the deepest waters, hydrographers use multi-beam systems that operate at a frequency of about 12 KHz, typically measure about 10 meters by 10 meters in a cross or T configuration, and weigh a few tons, says Douglas Lockhart, chief hydrographer for Teledyne RD Instruments, one of Teledyne’s divisions. They can reach even the bottom of the deepest trenches in a single pass.
However, the beam’s acoustic footprint will be large by the time it reaches the bottom, so the returns will be at low resolution. “The beam may start out as half a degree or even a quarter of a degree,” Lockhart points out, “but by the time it goes, say, 11 kilometers it is going to be insonifying [flooding with sound waves] an area the size of a football stadium when it hits the sea floor.”
It is relatively easy to use a single-beam echo sounder to bounce sound off of something and get a fairly accurate value, as consumer-grade sounders do, Lockhart explains. “It gets harder when you have the multi-beams and you start spraying sound all over the place because the boat is moving and you are trying to correct for all that motion. For charting, you have to apply motion and position and a tidal datum and a sound velocity correction.”
Another way to measure the depth of the deepest waters is by using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Some manufacturers are now making AUVs with a 6,000-meter range, enabling them to measure the shape of the ocean floor with great accuracy, while using pressure sensors to know their own depth in the water.
“I’ve been on some deep dives,” Lockhart recalls, “and pretty much all you have to tell your depth is a gauge that looks a bit like a clock.
It will have a dial for PSI and another one for depth. Forget all the nonsense; you are within ten feet or so of that depth. For a lot of work, that is enough.”
Simply adding the AUV’s depth in the water and its distance from the ocean floor will yield the depth of the water in that location. However, when extreme accuracy is required, hydrographers will also take into account the barometric pressure of the air above the surface of the water, the density of the water (which changes with its salinity), and even the local gravity.
Intermediate DepthsEquipment: 50 KHz – 70 KHz multi-beam systems
In shallower waters, the 12 KHz systems are replaced by systems that operate somewhere between 50 KHz and 70 KHz, says Lockhart. “They will work for you from, say, 3,000 meters to fairly shallow waters. You can get pretty good-looking data in 100 meters or less.” As the depth continues to decrease, the frequency of the devices continues to increase—to 100 KHz, then 200 KHz, and eventually to 450 KHz or 500 KHz, for very high-resolution mapping.
“The higher frequencies are going to extinguish pretty quickly, so you are not going to be able to map out past 50 meters or 100 meters very efficiently with them,” says Lockhart. “With all of these systems, if you go out too deep the swath gets narrower and narrower, until they are acting like single-beam echo sounders if it gets really deep.”
Equipment: Airborne lidar systems using green lasers
Single-beam and multi-beam sonars are efficient for depths greater than about 25 meters. “When you come in shallow, you start becoming less and less efficient, because the swath width is a function of water depth,” Lockhart explains. “At some point, there is a cross over, where airborne green laser lidar systems become more efficient to operate. Where land survey methods end, on the beach coming down, and ocean survey methods end—where the breaking waves are and it is really shallow—there’s a ‘white stripe’ of data that is pretty hard to get. That is where the airborne lidars can fill in. In many cases, they are the most efficient solution to survey in that area. In some cases, they are the only solution, due to safety and for other reasons.”
The high frequency sensors used in shallow waters are much smaller than their deep-water counterparts. “We make one that is about the size of a toaster,” says Lockhart.
CoastlineEquipment: Airborne lidar
When performing airborne lidar surveys of coastlines, the aircraft’s course and the width of the sensor’s swath depend on the area being surveyed and the target data density. For an aircraft flying at about 400 meters, for example, the sensor swath will be on the order of 100 meters.
“Depending on the shape of the coastline, the surveyors will set up their survey pattern to be as efficient as possible,” says Lockhart. “If they are just trying to fill in an area that is linear along the coastline, they will be flying parallel to the shore and then out to a distance where they either get down as deep as they can view with lidar, or they cover over the data from a multi-beam.”
Many variables can come into play with airborne lidar. For example, the exact details of the flight pattern may depend on the position of the sun, as surveyors try to give their laser the best chance they can given the time of day.
Water and Land
Teledyne manufactures two sensors that can be used to map both water depth and land elevation along coastlines: the Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) system, launched in 2012, and the much smaller and less expensive Titan, to be released this month at the Intergeo conference and trade show in Berlin.
The CZMIL “is an innovative airborne 3D environmental coastal mapping system that combines active and passive sensors with the complete workflow, providing seamless information from land to shallow water to deep waters up to 80 meters,” says Max Elbaz, the president of Optech Inc., a company owned by Teledyne. It can also capture depth information from turbid waters and muddy bottoms.
The CZMIL comprises three different devices. It has a lidar sensor that combines a green laser, which penetrates the water, and an infrared laser, which does not penetrate the water and returns the elevation of the land, each with its own separate receiver. It also has an RGB digital camera and a hyperspectral camera.
“We have combined everything into a true co-registered sensor fusion,” Elbaz says. “We also developed the full workflow, to capture simultaneously all the information from all of these different types of sensors and then process it all at the same time. It is called HydroFusion.”
The Titan has two to three wavelengths, depending on the user’s preferred configuration, explains Michael Sitar, Optech’s business manager for airborne survey products. “It will allow us to do some shallow water depth mapping but also maintain the high accuracy associated with conventional surveying on land.”
Additionally, the new sensor will maintain the same sampling rates for all the different wavelengths, thereby yielding the same resolution. “So, your point density is similar, irrespective of what wavelength you choose,” says Sitar. “As you move inland, you will probably switch to a 1-micron-only sensor for topo mapping, and we would expect to have the same resolution as that of our coastal sensors.”
“There is a class of sensors that have mapping capability both on land and in shallow water depth and have a price point that is far below that associated with the larger, more powerful bathymetric sensors that AHAB and Optech have fielded in the past,” says Sitar. “They are more associated with shallow water surveys, because they don’t have that stronger laser power.”
Optech has been a leader in lidar and imaging on land for 40 years. For working with hydrography, their Orion platform “is a single scanner compact sensor,” Sitar explains. “That platform is really about integration with peripheral products, so it is for creating multi-sensor configurations.”
When to Switch
When hydrographers switch from one device to another depends largely on the application and on the slope of the continental shelf. “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) only needs to provide up to 1,000 meters offshore,” Elbaz points out, “so they use a combination of airborne lidar and sonar systems. At depths above about 25 meters, some agencies will use multi-beam sonar; at depths below 25 meters, you need to use an airborne lidar system, for two reasons: efficiency of collection and hazards.”
Covering the Whole Range
All the depths, from the deepest trenches all the way to shore, can be adequately measured with, at most, four sensors, some of them multi-frequency systems, according to Lockhart. Teledyne manufactures all of these different types of sensors. In addition to single-beam and multi-beam echo sounders, some of which have a 3D capability, it makes the motion reference units that measure the motion of vessels and sound velocity probes. The company’s Reson division also writes a full software suite called PDM that performs full-motion correction, plotting, charting, and dredging sections.
Optech pioneered airborne bathymetric sensors, according to Elbaz. “Since the early 1980s, we built sensors for the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the Swedish Defense Research Agency, and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),” he recalls. “In the 1990s, we introduced the Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar Survey (SHOALS) system, then a couple of major improvements to it. Everything culminated with the introduction of the CZMIL topo-bathymetric system to the USACE and the U.S. Navy. USACE wanted to seamlessly capture topographic and bathymetric data for its National Coastal Mapping Program, which is chartered to map from 500 meters inland to 1,000 meters offshore.”
“Optech is really now both a lidar company and a camera company,” Sitar points out. We are positioning our products as complementing technologies for enhanced information extraction. So, very often the sensors we design now are really integrated sensors, with both passive and active imaging capabilities.”
Teledyne, which is a publicly-traded corporation, took a 51% ownership position with Optech a couple of years ago. “Teledyne has technology and systems that are very complementary to Optech’s airborne lidar systems,” says Elbaz. “That is the reason they acquired Optech. For mapping coastal areas, we now have the capability to seamlessly merge information from airborne lidar with information from sonar systems. Then you have very seamless information from land, to shallow water, to deep water. Our airborne system is used now for nautical charting. The industry has accepted that airborne lidar systems provide excellent accuracy and precision and in some instances are as good as, or even better than, sonar data.”
Applications and Drivers
“Most of the work that is done in deep water is either research and geology-based or for cable surveying,” points out Lockhart. “All the optical cables that wrap around Earth now are surveyed-in with deep water systems. The oil industry uses deep water systems as part of their exploration tools.
“As you come in shallower, you start seeing applications for habitat studies,” he continues. “Where are the fish living and what is happening to their habitat? That is kind of a blend of geology and biology. Then, as you come in even shallower, you start seeing work done for infrastructures—ports and harbors—and for navigation. Once you get to 30 meters and shallower, navigation and dredging become the largest drivers for everything. Most of the survey work in coastal areas has a navigational aspect to it.”
In addition to technological advances, a few key concerns are driving the development of bathymetric sensors. One is the under-keel clearance of large ships. The expansion of the Panama Canal has changed what’s called “Panamax,” the size of the biggest ship that can fit through the canal. Marine and port authorities want to make their shipping channels deep enough to accommodate the new Panamax ships, but not any bigger than they have to—especially on the East Coast of the United States where some of the channels have hard rock bottoms, unlike the mud bottoms on the West Coast. Under-keel clearances can be as little as 20 centimeters or even 10 centimeters. The stakes are very high because when a cargo ship can load additional cargo that will sink it, say, another 10 centimeters in the water, the difference in dollars can be huge.
With regards to shallow water bathymetry, one driver is the need to measure depths in turbid waters near urban areas, which represent about 80% of the world’s coastal areas. “More than 40% of the world’s population and 75% of all urban centers are in or near the coastal environment,” says Elbaz. “Until now, with airborne systems, you could only capture information from very clear water.”
The other driver in shallow water is the need to understand near-shore habitats, which is critical for management decisions, disaster planning, monitoring environmental impacts, and the challenges from growing populations and rising sea levels.
Beyond bathymetric surveys of ocean depths and topographic surveys of land elevation lies the opportunity to measure and model dynamic phenomena, such as waves and their impact on the surrounding environment. “There hasn’t been a lot of research on modeling waveform movement using lidar techniques,” says Sitar. “It’s an area that we are exploring.”
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In 1946 Bobby Robinson opened his record store Bobby’s Happy House on 125th street in Harlem becoming the first black owned business on the famous Harlem street. The music business legend died yesterday at the age of 93.
Five years after opening the shop he expanded into the music recording business working with hundreds of artists from Gladys Knight and the Pips to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
In the late 1970s, Robinson became one of the first label owners to record rap music, cutting artists like Doug E. Fresh and Spoonie Gee.
Robinson eventually had to move the shop around the corner in the late 1990s, and he closed for good on Jan. 21, 2008, when his new landlord decided to raze the building for a development.
“I’ve seen 125th St. at its best and worst,” Robinson said in late 2007. “And I’ll tell you, there’s no more exciting place in the world.”
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London, 8 September 2020 — Global energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus has launched new price assessments for renewable diesel in Europe.
As countries seek to transition away from fossil fuels, hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is becoming increasingly popular as a renewable alternative to traditional petroleum diesel. It can be blended into the existing petroleum diesel pool and is an important part of meeting the requirements set by the EU Renewable Energy Directive legislation to increase the share of renewables in the transport fuel pool by 2030.
The new Argus prices for northwest Europe cover three different groups of feedstocks: food and feed crops; used cooking oil/palm oil mill effluent; and tallow. These price assessments are published weekly in the Argus Biofuels report, with real-time market pricing available directly on Argus’ price discovery platform, Argus Open Markets (AOM).
Argus Media chairman and chief executive Adrian Binks said: “We have worked with the industry to develop these new prices, which will help shed light on this increasingly important part of the transport fuel pool”.
About Argus Media
Argus is an independent media organisation with more than 1,000 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 25 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences.
Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes.
Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by employee shareholders, global growth equity firm General Atlantic and Hg, the specialist software and technology services investor.
ARGUS, the ARGUS logo, ARGUS MEDIA, ARGUS DIRECT, ARGUS OPEN MARKETS, AOM, FMB, DEWITT, JIM JORDAN & ASSOCIATES, JJ&A, FUNDALYTICS, METAL-PAGES, METALPRICES.COM, INTEGER, Argus publication titles and Argus index names are trademarks of Argus Media Limited.
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• Not showing up to events they used to enjoy
• Giving away items they value
• Texting, calling, visiting less often
• Being less present and engaged in conversation
• Sleeping more, even during the daytime, or being restless and having trouble sleeping
• Eating less and losing weight, or eating excessively and putting on weight
Men who are reluctant to seek help tend to bear the burden all alone. Everyone needs support from others at certain times in their lives.
Men who were raised with the idea that showing any sign of emotion is a “weakness” are more likely to hide their emotions, which can become overwhelming and may lead them to a point of crisis.
Men who are socially isolated may feel less comfortable reaching out for help, because they don’t have loved ones close by. They may also have less people to ask for help and fewer people to notice that they are struggling and reach out to offer help to them. Men as a group are more likely than women to lose relationships over time, often because they prioritize career and financial success over relationships.
Men who are more likely to reach out to someone when they’re struggling can find support more easily and can better cope with negative circumstances than those who do not.
Men who have embraced their emotions and the importance of sharing them with others are better able to cope, as they are more likely to deal with their emotions before they become overwhelming.
Relationships provide a safety net when men are thinking about suicide, because those people are there to offer help and to be asked for help.
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Many people who want to become entrepreneurs, are wondering how to organize their business? After all, you just need to solve so many tasks that you can go around your head.
First, do not try to solve everything at once. To organize your business from scratch, you need to do everything step by step.
Secondly, do not complicate the process of organizing your business. Strive for simplicity, but also accuracy in business.
We bring to your attention the following simple 6 steps on the way to launching your company.
How to organize your business: where to start?
Image credit: PourquoiPas
# 1 Write a one-page business plan
One of the secrets of success in entrepreneurship is simplicity. If you want to organize your small business, why do you need a long multi-page business plan, compiled according to the highest standards? This will take away from you a lot of time and energy, which could be directed to a more efficient channel.
Focus on making a simple and understandable business plan for yourself. Try to briefly outline the following points in it.
Define your vision. What will be the end result of your business? To properly organize your business, it is important to have a clear idea of what will ultimately happen.
Define your mission. In other words, why your company will exist in this world?
Label your goals. They must be consistent with the vision and mission.
Describe your business strategy. This implies what methods and means you will achieve your goals.
If you still want to compile a detailed document, we recommend that you read the article about compiling the business plan of the enterprise.
# 2 Calculate your personal budget and business budget
To organize your business, you will need finance, even if it is with minimal investment. Strive to reduce all expenses to a minimum, since the first time of profit may not be at all.
Think about how many months you can afford to do business without profit? This is important, because many start-ups are too optimistic to rely on the fastest possible break-even point.
Calculate how much money you have enough to cover the current life needs? Do you have enough financial strength?
# 3 Think about all your friends
Communications play an extremely important role. Refresh in the memory of all of your friends who might be useful. Perhaps, it is necessary to establish long-forgotten communications in advance – even before the launch of the business.
Think, which of your friends and acquaintances could help you with advice, acquaintance, experience?
# 4 Solve the issue with financing
Where to get money for business is one of the most difficult issues for the vast majority of start-up entrepreneurs. But it is not an absolutely insoluble problem. As the history of business shows, persistent businessmen sought ways to organize their business.
# 5 Test your business idea!
To effectively organize your business, it is important to be confident in the relevance of your business concept. Will people buy from you what you are going to offer?
Try to find out this even before you register an enterprise. Explore the soil, communicate with potential consumers, find out their attitude to the prospective price.
Thus, before organizing your business, it is important to think in advance about such moments as the existence of a demanded business idea, money for its implementation and connections.
We wish you success!
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Hey, welcome! Facing the following issues? if yes, don’t worry! in this article we will discuss what is initiative skills. sure this will solve your problems.
- Don’t know what is exactly ‘Initiative skill means.
- Don’t know exactly the problems that will arise, due to lack Initiative skills.
- Don’t know the best tips that help for improving initiative skills.
- don’t know the benefits of Initiative skills.
And in this article, I’d like to solve these three issues. So I have divided the whole content into the following segments:
- Definition of ‘Initiative skills.
- The problems that will arise, due to lack Initiative skills.
- The best tips that help for improving initiative skills.
- The benefits of Initiative skills.
Hey, welcome! Hope you are doing well. In this article, we will discuss the exact meaning of ‘ Initiative skill, what are the problems a normal student is suffering from, and what might be the benefits of being better initiative skills.
Are you ready for this!? Great! Let’s start!
Before coming to the definition, Have you ever wondered why only a few people become successful in their passion, Why do few people show their improvement in their job career? Why are few students so active in their school careers? Why do few children work in their interests? And others don’t?
Here is the reason.
Those who are unable to do this just because they are afraid of taking just one step, which changes their whole life.
I suggest don’t do that, take the initiative.
Now, this is the time to know what is the meaning of Taking Initiative.
Definition of initiative skills
Taking Initiative means the ability to do work without being told what to do.
Initiative skills are the ability of someone to see something that needs to be done and deciding to do it out of your own free will without someone else telling you to do it.
Taking initiative means going the extra mile or going above and beyond your normal job responsibilities to make things happen.
When you take initiative, you are responsible for your decision-making process and proactively get things done.
Taking initiative means taking responsibility for your life.
Hope you will understand the true meaning of taking initiative.
Now I think it is very important for us to be aware of the problems that arise due to the lack of knowledge in initiative skills.
Problems arise due to lack of initiative skills
1. Can not find ‘true interest’
Take initiative means, take action. Who does not take action to anything, how can they find out their interest zone?
2. Don’t aware of ‘true potential’
We are giving tests to know our potential in which area we are good at. And for that, we attempt and take initiative for that work. Who don’t involve several fields and don’t take initiative. Literally, they can not find their true potential where they can exist.
3. Missing opportunity
We gain opportunity when we truly find that possibility. And this is possible when we take action and involve ourselves in those situations. Otherwise, we miss opportunities.
4. Can not overcome the obstacle
A true initiator has the confidence to take initiative. They don’t know how to fix problems but they have the confidence to tackle problems and overcome obstacles. On the other hand, those who don’t have the courage to take initiative, can not overcome obstacles.
5. Don’t aware of what is wrong and right
It’s obvious that if we are aware of everything and are acquainted with every situation and thing. We easily understand which is wrong or right and which works or not. But those who don’t take initiative don’t know about this.
6. Don’t build a flexible mindset
A flexible mindset builds when we adopt new situations and modify ourselves according to those situations. If we are afraid to take initiative and face challenges then it’s hard to build a flexible mindset.
7. Feeling guilty for not taking initiative in past
Somehow you have experienced that some students want to start something new and interesting whether it is related to their passion, like creating a youtube channel, making content, or participating in any program or event. But they couldn’t start because of a lack of initiative skills. And after that, they are guilty of this. But I can not start. It’s a common thing that happens to many students.
8. Can not build leadership mindset
A leadership mindset means taking ownership and responsibilities. And when we take initiative and do the activities we already prepared our mindset to take responsibility and ownership. But if we don’t take initiative then we don’t take responsibility and we can not build a leadership mindset.
Hope you realize the problem that happens if someone doesn’t improve initiative skill.
So now I am going to show you some basic tips that help you to become initiative skill.
Are you curious to know about that! Let’s go!
Tips that help you to become initiative skills.
1. Set your daily goals
This is the initial step for improving initiative skills. This is natural, if I have no goal then I have not taken any action. So set your small goal and achieve that.
2. Always keep a positive attitude
It is most important to maintain a positive outlook for improving initiative skills. We don’t guarantee that everything will always be fine. And happen according to our mood.
So When you face a difficult situation, take some time to learn everything you can about the issue. Understanding the problem, taking time to analyze. Think in different ways. This should help you approach the problem from a balanced and positive perspective.
3. Be prepared for opportunities
We know life very well. Life does not knock on our door and say that here is the opportunity. This is our responsibility to be prepared for opportunities and challenges. In this situation, you need to be prepared to successfully approach them.
4. Seeking more responsibilities
Seeking more responsibilities can help you for good exploration. First, do a job well which comes under your responsibilities. Then identify areas where you can contribute over and above your normal tasks.
5. Try to be a problem solver
Don’t be afraid to face problems and challenges. Believe me, problems give us a new perspective of experience that is full of interesting and learning moments of our life.
6. Tackle problems without being asked
These tips take initiative. Taking initiative means doing work without anyone telling you to do it. When you take your initiative and don’t worry about the fear of failure. This will give a chance that you give your best to work to be done. If you succeed, that’s well and good. And if you do not succeed, then you will learn well from that failure. One thing you must remember, failure is not the destination.
Hope that these basic tips will surely help you to become technology literate.
If you are interested to know more about it: how to develop technology literacy skills, then click below
How to develop technology literacy skills?
Now we will know the tremendous output of initiative skills’ and perhaps you have realized how initiative matters a lot for you. The following are some of the key benefits of being well initiative skills.
Some benefits of taking Initiative
1. Chance to Know your passion
Finding out your passion and working on this is the greatest job you can do in the world from my perspective. But unfortunately, some youths are not aware of their passion. They suffer and are frustrated in their later career.
Here is the benefit of taking initiative is, you will get a better chance to know yourselves. When you take initiative in small activities whether it is sports, dance, comedy, learning new skills, etc. You will get a better chance to know yourself. You discover your ability, explore interests and know better about knowing passion.
This is the first benefit of taking an initiative. On the other hand, those who do not take initiative, don’t get a chance to know themselves.
2. Build self-confidence
Taking initiative is taking a risk. Why am I saying this? I will explain. Suppose you don’t know how to solve a math problem. If you have a lack of initiative skills. Then you suddenly quiet. But if you have the confidence to solve the problem then you do whatever needs to be done. Right?
It can help to build confidence to face challenges, solving the problem which needs to be solved.
3. Discover your capabilities
Having initiative skills promotes the discovery of your all capabilities. It is the only way to express your potential. When you take initiative, it helps to enhance your thinking capability to solve the problem. For better results, you have to think creatively. In this way, you explore your all capabilities. Also, it enhances your critical thinking. Information literacy as well as providing solving skills.
It is the only way you’re going to learn every step of your journey and your power. Once you start discovering your capabilities, you’ll want to keep going.
4. Create opportunities
The initiative creates opportunities to know yourself better and what is going on around you. It allows you to test yourself in every situation whether bad or good.
You will see, some students hide themselves to show their expertise. They worry about how others will think of themselves. But the students who have taken initiative open their path to show their aptitude, have opportunities to show their role, also tried to stand when no one was there. They show interest in taking part in every activity like sports, science webinars, project presentations, debate competitions, etc. They are just trying to explore all the possibilities. Usually, teachers are also impressed with this type of student who is taking initiative.
5. Overcome Obstacles
Life is full of experimentation. It’s up to you whether you are interested to be a part of it or not. If we are talking about the school journey, many obstacles appear like as a class monitor you have responsibilities to take care of class. Also, we take examples of science exhibitions.
In this case, Initiative directs your attention toward a challenging goal and helps us overcome obstacles. It gives strength and builds self-belief. you get life experience which prepares you for a future career.
6. Know about good or worse
Acquiring initiative skills helps you to know the difference between good or worse. When you take initiative, you will know which initiative works better or not. Which is appropriate for further use or not. You have her basic experience of life. And improve the judgmental capability to figure out the difference between them.
Lastly but not at least, we can say
Hope you have a better understanding of what exactly initiative skill is. This article was just for a basic understanding. Now for a better understanding of how this skill matters a lot for you, you should visit our next articles. There you can now realize the essence of this skill-set and also come to know how to build this skill-set in the most possible way. So stay tuned with Chatshala. Wish you a Good Time!
Hope you understand exactly what initiative skills are. Also, you have got some ideas about how to improve this skill.
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Why does initiative skill matter a lot?
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French meat processing company Spanghero knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef, the French government has said.
Spanghero's licence is being suspended while an inquiry continues, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said.
The firm has denied the allegations, saying it only ever dealt in meat it believed to be beef.
A widening scandal over mislabelled horsemeat has affected at least 12 European countries.
In the UK, three people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud in connection with the sale of horsemeat.
Two suspects were detained at a meat processing plant near Aberystwyth in Wales, and a third was arrested at an abattoir in West Yorkshire.
The French government believes that the sale of horsemeat labelled as beef went on for six months and involved about 750 tonnes of meat.
Spanghero imported meat from Romania and sold it on to another company, Comigel, which made frozen ready meals at its factory in Luxembourg.
French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said the meat had left Romania clearly and correctly labelled as horse. It was afterwards that it was relabelled as beef.
"From the investigation, it would seem that the first agent or actor in this network who stamped 'beef' on horsemeat from Romania was Spanghero," Mr Hamon said.
There was "no reason to doubt the good faith" of the Romanian abattoir that originally provided the meat, Mr Hamon added.
The investigation says some blame may rest with Comigel, which made the ready meals sold around Europe.
Staff there should have noticed anomalies in the paperwork, and realised from the smell and look of the meat once it was defrosted that it was not beef, Mr Hamon said.
Spanghero has strongly denied wrongdoing.
"Spanghero confirms having placed an order for beef, having been led to believe it received beef, and having sold back what it thought was beef, properly labelled as such, in line with European and French regulations," the company said in a statement.
The latest country to be hit by the crisis is Germany, where some supermarket chains have removed frozen lasagne from sale after traces of horsemeat were detected.
The widening scandal has raised questions about the complexity of the food industry's supply chains across Europe.
The UK has asked the European investigative agency Europol to co-ordinate a Continent-wide investigation into an alleged international conspiracy to pass horsemeat off as beef.
On Wednesday the EU urged member states to conduct random DNA tests for horsemeat in beef products from 1 March.
EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg said the programme of random tests should report after 30 days, but testing should continue for three months.
Mr Borg was speaking after a meeting in Brussels with agriculture ministers from affected countries.
He said member states should also test for the presence of the veterinary medicine phenylbutazone - known as "bute".
The painkiller is used to treat horses - particularly racehorses - but is considered potentially harmful to humans.
On Thursday, Britain's Food Standard Agency - the FSA - said tests eight horses that were killed in the UK had tested positive for bute, and six may have entered the food chain in France.
But England's chief medical officer said the highest level detected posed "very little risk to human health".
The prime minister's spokesman said the UK was working closely with the French authorities to track the carcasses.
French food producer makes order
Comigel HQ in Metz, north-east France, asks its subsidiary, Tavola in Luxembourg, to make food products - including beef lasagne for Findus.
Factory orders meat
The Tavola factory orders the meat from Spanghero in the south of France.
Spanghero contacts a subcontractor in Cyprus to source the meat.
Subcontractor enlists trader
The Cypriot subcontractor in turn contacts a trader in the Netherlands.
Trader orders from Romania
The trader in the Netherlands places an order for meat with abattoirs in Romania.
Abattoirs send meat to France
The meat from the abattoirs travels to Spanghero in France. However, Romania rejects claims that it was responsible for wrongly describing the horsemeat from its abattoirs as beef. Horsemeat is always labelled as such, they say. The Romanian authorities claim records show orders had been for horse carcass - easily distinguishable from beef.
Meat used to make products
Spanghero sends the meat to the Comigel subsidiary’s factory in Luxembourg before the finished products are supplied to Findus and retailers across Europe, including the UK. The president of Comigel says the company was unaware the meat was coming from abroad.
Horsemeat found in Ireland and UK
Tests by Irish authorities have found equine DNA in beefburgers made by firms in the Irish Republic and the UK. Traces of horsemeat have also been found in stored meat at another plant in Ireland and one in Northern Ireland. In mainland Britain, police and officials probing alleged horsemeat mislabelling have carried out raids at a slaughterhouse in West Yorkshire and a meat firm near Aberystwyth. Three men were later arrested on suspicion of offences under the Fraud Act..
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The US Environmental Protection Agency periodically updates methods laboratories can use for protecting the quality of the nation's drinking water. The Safe Drinking Water Act office of the EPA published its list of Alternate Test Protocols (ATP) in the Federal Register in July 2016. The list includes NECi Superior Enzymes' enzyme-based nitrate test method. NECi/SE, a small biotechnology firm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, applies biotechnology to develop safer methods for measuring the pollutants in our environment.
Nitrate is one of only sixteen inorganic ions on the EPA's Primary Contaminants list. Excess nitrate in potable water is dangerous for infants and harmful to people and livestock. The EPA is careful to allow methods that are proven to give accurate answers when public health is at stake. NECi/SE's new test is the first enzyme-based method permitted for measurement of any primary contaminant.
"We are proud to be revolutionaries in advancing new methods for the protection of environmental health and safety," says Ellen Campbell, the company's CEO.
NECi/SE's co-founder and chief scientist, Dr. WH Campbell, emeritus professor at Michigan Technological University, has a career in protein biotechnology spanning 40 years. Biotechnology makes it possible to change enzymes from delicate laboratory curiosities into commercial products.
NECi/SE's methods are based on enzymes, the proteins that make living systems run smoothly. Enzymes carry out complex chemical reactions in gentle conditions. Enzymes have incredible potential as analytical tools.
Enzymes can replace hazardous materials in legacy test methods. In addition to its unsurpassed accuracy and sensitivity, NECi/SE's new nitrate test method is safer for the lab technician and dramatically reduces hazardous waste.
The current ATP is specific for lab "robots" termed Discrete Analyzers. NECi/SE has formats for many applications, including simplified, user-friendly test kits. Coupled with the company's new handheld photometer, test kit users can view, track, and store data on Android devices. The lab method has been validated by the US Geological Survey and by ASTM International. Full approval for Clean Water Act compliance monitoring is anticipated for early 2017.
NECi Superior Enzymes was founded in 1993 to move biotechnology out of the university into the world of analytical chemistry, the science that keeps our water, air, and food clean and safe. We thank the Small Business Innovation Research programs of the USDA, NIH, and NSF for support.
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Warrior awareness was the theme and the introduction of today’s classes by sensei and he displayed many small weapons (kusari, nekote, and other shuriken) and asked us to be aware of these kinds of weapons, and to learn how to use them in order to know how to defend ourselves against them. Hidden weapons are very common in today’s street fights so we should develop our awareness in that respect.
To summarize this day of hard training (the floor was concrete), I would quote one sentence he repeated a few times during the training: “this is not about power, this is about control”.
Too often in martial arts, emphasis is put on physical power instead of the control (space, mind and body). Controlling the opponent means controlling his body and his brain (jin) and his environment: chi (floor), ten (weather or light conditions). Without controlling the outside, the above, or the behind of the attacker a winning action can bring defeat. This is why the bujinkan arts are more interested in controlling Uke than showing strength or force that are often mistaken for power.
On a ryôte dori type of technique sensei once again used the wave like movements of his shoulders and his body to control his attacker. This type of movement is done nearly without moving. By solely moving the shoulders up and down and turning around Uke at a very close distance uke is defeated. This shoulder movement would be effective in a very confined environment like a hole or on the battlefield.
Like he did yesterday he played again with the concept of kûkan no kyûsho. But Kû which is not only emptiness is encompassing all things within, and kû is the leading path to “zero”.
Sensei often speaks about becoming “zero”. This state can only be achieved once kû is understood and integrated in our body. He asked us to find the kûkan no naka no nagare (空間の中の流れ) because within this kûkan exists a flow that is kû and which is allowing us to transcend the form and to move naturally.
This is achieved by finding the kûkan no teko (空間の梃), the leverage or the various leverages (teko) to use to open Uke and to defeat him. By using these teko (familiar concept studied in the kukishin ryû), or their opposite known as “teko gyaku” (梃逆) we unveil all possibilities naturally and submit the opponent without using any strength. Our body if relaxed allows the natural movement to appear and to be used without any thinking process or any preconceived motion. I admit that I find it hard to put that into practice in my taijutsu but this is the goal to achieve.
He illustrated that by biting into the flesh of his opponent (hand, forearm, tit) and Tim’s reactions were quite self expressing.
From there we moved to some shime waza (締め技). A short reminder here, shimeru (shime) applies not only to the chokes but to any kind of constrictive action on the body. The basic hon jime and gyaku jime were demonstrated with the whole body (karada) and were sometimes completed by hits to the face or crushing actions to the throat and the body.
Sensei insisted also that we should use the whole body when applying those chokes, “karada no shime” he explained, while choking his opponent by moving around him. Footwork is the key element in the success of these movements. By moving the elgs you off balance Uke and cerate opeinings for the chokes or the hits.
What I understood today was that chokes are:
b) done with the whole body (and not only the arms);
c) can be completed by fists attacks.
Pain by sôke is a good teacher!
He was also changing his grip from one choking waza to another using pushing (oshi -押し) movements of the choking hand. Depending on the opening he was pushing or pressuring Uke’s upper body (not only the throat) with his pinky used as a blade to cut the flesh; with the heel of the palm to crush Uke’s Jûjiro or with the tip of the fingers to dig into the face or the neck. This ability to change the way to hold the opponent became obvious when he added a hidden knife and pulled it of his sleeve so that it was appearing like by magic in his hand. This metsubushi action (目潰し) was done while already applying the choke.
He warned us to learn these “bad guys” techniques in order to survive a real fight. The bujinkan, he said, is not teaching “bad guys” techniques but is teaching these things to be able to react correctly in a life threatening situation.
To avoid defeat, learn the ways of your enemy.
The way he was revealing the tantô hidden in his sleeve was very interesting. He was not pulling it out of the sleeve instead he was levelling his shoulder so that the weapon would pop out by itself. The karada was pulling the weapon not the hand. This is also how we should learn to draw the sword as in the nuki gata (drawing the sword) the blade is expelled from the scabbard by the body action not with the hand. This is quite different from regular and traditional sword practice.
Leaving the weapons we went back to unarmed combat and from the original ryôte dori technique we learnt how to use the pressure of the thumb and the pinky to dig into Uke’s skull, face, eyes, ears, etc. We did also a few nasty pinching techniques combined with striking hits to the chest.
In a limited space the “gan shi nankotsu” system finds here a logical application. Space being limited, the movements do not have the same momentum and pain is not coming from a distance but at very short range. Once again he insisted on finding the “kûkan no kyûsho” of the situation.
We did many techniques today around these principles and sensei said that this was a very important training for the jûgodan. No strength is used in these techniques, there is no power at all as Sôke is controlling Uke only with micro movements and mega pains. Pain without injury is the best way to calm down a dangerous situation.
On a side note, Sôke insisted that we should pay attention to avoid injuries and of the importance of being aware of our environment (reminder).
This apparently effortless full control he has at all time of his opponent(s) is always amazing to watch and to think that tomorrow he will be turning eighty is even more surprising. Sensei is not using any strength but he keeps full control of anyone attacking him.
This is why the bujinkan martial art is “not about power, (but) about control”.
Be aware and live happy!
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Saiga Antelope © P. Romanow
Bonn, 27 October 2021 - Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, and Uzbekistan agreed on new joint conservation measures to conserve the Saiga Antelope under the United Nations’ Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). For the next five years, the international Work Programme for the Saiga Antelope will provide a new framework to conserve and sustainably use the species throughout its migratory range.
The new Work Programme was agreed at the Fourth Meeting of the Signatory States to the CMS Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope (Saiga MOU) held online on 28 - 29 of September 2021.
The agreed Work Programme considers different approaches to Saiga conservation depending on the individual status of the species in the four range states. While the population is dwindling in Uzbekistan, it has increased tenfold in Kazakhstan since 2015. In both Mongolia and Russia populations are increasing but still remain low.
CMS Executive Secretary Amy Fraenkel said: “The adoption of the new Work Programme by the four Saiga Range States underscores the importance of transboundary conservation. The seasonal migrations of the Saiga Antelope show why ecological connectivity - the unimpeded movement of wild species - is so vital.”
The Meeting also endorsed the report “Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope: Perspectives and Prospects”, prepared by the Saiga Conservation Alliance with the financial support of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) on behalf of the CMS Secretariat, in close consultations with all Range States.
The most recent population counts have shown an increase in Saiga numbers in three Range States, and especially in Kazakhstan, where the total population of Saigas has increased from about 83,000 in 2015 to 842,000 in 2021.
The conservation efforts of the Range States, scientific institutions, and NGOs facilitated by the CMS and CITES Secretariats have played a significant role in this positive dynamic. Range States and NGOs reported on current conservation programmes, including anti-poaching efforts that were stepped up in recent years.
Yet, threats to Saigas, such as wildlife disease, poaching, human-wildlife conflict and barriers to migration persist and can have devastating effects, especially in smaller populations. Over the next five years, Governments will continue to address these threats.
Saiga Antelopes rely on their ability to migrate over large distances to avoid unfavorable weather conditions and are prone to mass die-off events. In 2015 about 200,000 Saiga antelopes perished due to a combination of disease and extreme weather events.
The meeting was organized by the CMS Secretariat and hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
Mr Sergey Anoprienko, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation and Chair of the meeting, said: “Conservation and sustainable use of the Saiga Antelope is an important issue for Russia, considering that the species is included in the Russian Red book. Thanks to the conservation efforts undertaken by the Russian Federation, the number of the Pre-Caspian Saiga population in Russia increased from 3,500 in 2015 to currently 10,000 animals.”
Notes for Editors:
Medium-Term International Work Programme for the Saiga Antelope (2021 - 2025) [EN, RU]: https://www.cms.int/saiga/en/document/medium-term-international-work-programme-saiga-antelope-2021-2025
Report on The sustainable Use of Saiga Antelopes: Perspectives and Prospects [EN, RU]: https://www.cms.int/saiga/en/publication/sustainable-use-saiga-antelopes-perspectives-and-prospects
About the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
An environmental treaty of the United Nations, the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) provides a global platform for the conservation and sustainable use of migratory animals and their habitats. This unique treaty brings governments and wildlife experts together to address the conservation needs of terrestrial, aquatic, and avian migratory species and their habitats around the world. Since the Convention's entry into force in 1979, its membership has grown steadily to include 132 Parties from Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
About the CMS Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope (Saiga MOU)
The CMS Saiga MOU is the only international instrument for the conservation of the Critically Endangered Saiga antelope. The MOU is a legally non-binding international instrument, which has been in force since 2006 and has been signed by all five Range States – Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The MOU aims to achieve and maintain a favourable conservation status for saigas based on the best available scientific information and taking into account the socio-economic value of saigas for the people of various countries.
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Veronika Lenarz, Senior Public Information Assistant, [email protected]
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University of Guelph + STEM Camp
Supporting STEM learning and STEM initiatives in our Ontario community and beyond is important to us at STEM Camp, so when the Child Development Research Unit (CDRU) at the University of Guelph reached out to us to help them with their research we were excited to support them!
STEM Camp’s role is to inform and invite families in our STEM Camp community to participate in the various research opportunities that are currently underway or about to begin at U of Guelph. Read on to learn more about what critical research is happening, and how you and your family could be a part of it!
The Goal of the Child Development Research Unit (CDRU) at the University of Guelph
While the goal of each specific study varies, in general, the CDRU conducts research to identify the best ways to promote children’s safety. Currently, they have a number of studies that they are recruiting participants for. Some studies are conducted locally (and require participants to be in the Guelph area), while others are looking for participants from all over Canada! Following are details for each study.
Injury Prevention Research
As injuries are the leading cause of preventable deaths for children, the CDRU is conducting injury prevention research with families with children of various ages to reduce risk and promote safety, including:
2 – 4 year old children and their mothers: The CDRU is looking to speak with mothers of young children and learn more about their home-safety efforts and the kinds of hazards their young ones get into when at home.
5 – 6 year old children and their families: The CDRU has a program that teaches young ones about playing on playgrounds called ‘Cool 2 Be Safe’ – a fun and engaging playground safety program that children enjoy participating in. They are also doing research with this age group to identify the safest types of containers so children cannot access poisons.
7 – 9 year olds and their families: The program for this age uses virtual reality (very cool!) to teach children how to judge traffic and cross streets safely, called the ‘Safe Ped’ Training Program. Additionally, another project uses a fun indoor obstacle course aimed at understanding some of the risky things children do during play and when they are very excited.
Participants for the injury prevention research projects should be located in the Guelph area, as these are done in-person either at the University of Guelph, at a location in the Guelph area, or in the home. Depending on which injury prevention study you are participating in, the time commitment varies between a single, 1 hour session, to three, 2 hour sessions. In all cases, appointments happen at your convenience (appointments are available during the day, evenings and weekends).
Those who participate in the study will receive gift cards valued between $5 and $40, depending on which study you participated in.
For this study, the CDRU is recruiting adolescent skateboarders who have been injured while skating within the last year, for a research project on skateboarding and mental health. The aim of this research is to learn more about the relationship between skateboarding injuries and mental health in order to better support the psychological wellbeing of skaters, and to encourage skateboarding safety. Participation in this study involves a brief (45 minutes maximum) online survey that asks questions about how skateboarding influences mental health outcomes after injury, both positive (for example, the things skaters love and value about the sport), and potentially negative or challenging (for example, feelings of sadness or anxiety after getting hurt) as they recover from injuries.
To participate in this study, children must currently be living in Canada, be between the ages of 14 and 17 years, and have experienced a medically attended injury (that is, they needed to see a doctor, physiotherapist, etc.) when skateboarding within the last year.
Everyone who fills out the online survey will be entered into a draw to win XXXXXXX.
Safety Rule Negotiation Study
This online study investigates how pre-teens and teenagers negotiate safety rules with their parents as they are developing more independence, as well as looking at how parents negotiate these rules for their children within their own marital relationship. This study involves an interview, some questionnaires and some fun negotiation activities.
To participate in this study, families must be living in Ontario, children must be 11, 12, 15 or 16 years old, and both parents must be living in the same home. The study is completed entirely online, and the total time commitment is approximately 1.5 hours over XXXX sessions.
Parents will receive a $20 gift card and the child will also receive a $20 gift card for participating.
Benefits of Participating
In addition to gift cards received for participating in the various studies, additional benefits include:
- Parents will receive a newsletter outlining the results of the study after the results have been analyzed and published.
- Families will be helping the CDRU and others gain a greater understanding of parenting practices and child risk taking.
- Families will be helping identify the best ways to promote child safety.
- A fun experience! CDRU studies are highly engaging, and children have fun participating in the wide range of activities offered.
How to Participate
Interested families can contact the research team by telephone at 519-824-4120 x55033, or email email@example.com . Visit cdru.uoguelph.ca or read their newsletter outlining past findings for more information.
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Indian Winter Clothes?
- 1 How should I dress for winter in India?
- 2 Which clothing is wear during winter?
- 3 How do Indian clothes keep us warm in winter?
- 4 What should I wear with Kurti in winter?
- 5 How do you style in the winter?
- 6 What are the festivals in winter season?
- 7 Is it OK to wear shorts in India?
- 8 How do you style a winter party?
- 9 When should I start wearing winter clothes?
- 10 How should I dress for 20 degrees?
- 11 What should you wear in 5 degree weather?
- 12 Why do black clothes make you hotter?
- 13 Why do Woollen clothes keep us warmer in winter than cotton clothes?
- 14 Why do we wear Woollen clothes in winter class 7?
How should I dress for winter in India?
6 Fab Ways To Style Your Indian Clothes In Winter!
- Wear a cropped sweater.
- Pick the right fabric.
- Leather jacket fusion.
- Show some love to traditional jackets.
- Wear a Bandhgala jacket with jeans.
- Wear a warm shawl with an Anarkali.
Which clothing is wear during winter?
Winter clothes are especially outerwear like coats, jackets, hats, scarves and gloves or mittens, earmuffs, but also warm underwear like long underwear, union suits and socks.
How do Indian clothes keep us warm in winter?
Cotton clothes are thin and do not have space in which air can be trapped. Woollen clothes keep us warm during winter because wool is a poor conductor of heat and it has air trapped in between the fibres.
What should I wear with Kurti in winter?
Create a trendy look by layering your kurti with a short denim or a biker jacket and tag your denims beneath. Finish off with a pair of juttis or mules. Your mom’s age old trench coat can definitely be a saviour this winter. Pair this flowy outerwear with your favourite kurta and buckle it up with a waist belt.
How do you style in the winter?
Create a fresh, sophisticated winter outfit you can wear to work or out on dates. Layer a long pastel coat over cropped ankle jeans that show off your favorite ankle boots. Wear with a perfect blow-out and a chic clutch purse. Get tips on how to wear cropped jeans in every season.
What are the festivals in winter season?
Winter season brings in many multi-coloured festivals celebrated all across India. The popular ones are Magh Bihu Festival, Lohri Festival, Camel Festival Bikaner and Kutch Rann Mahotsav.
Is it OK to wear shorts in India?
Yes, you can wear shorts, although most Indian men stop wearing shorts in their mid-teens. Most places are familiar with Western styles and in tourist areas or big cities, they might wear them as well. You can NOT wear shorts in many temples or ashrams though.
How do you style a winter party?
Start with a pair of leather pants, throw on a simple shirt, and top it all of with a faux-fur jacket. Pair your favorite leather skirt with a simple turtleneck sweater. Accessorize with pearls for some added elegance. A maxi slip dress is bound to be your go-to come winter party season.
When should I start wearing winter clothes?
A poll was taken and 27.33 percent they would start wearing their winter coat at 32 degrees to 39 degrees Fahrenheit. 26 percent said they’d start wearing it at 41 to 48 degrees Fahrenheit.
How should I dress for 20 degrees?
20 – 25 CELSIUS DEGREE MATERIALS: cotton, jersey, denim. In short, light or mixed fabrics for a variable time. KEY PIECES: if the weather is not so good, wear a denim jacket or a trench; if it is sunny, a cardigan or a maxi scarf is better.
What should you wear in 5 degree weather?
For Temperatures Between 0°C and 5°C Degrees For extra warmth, we recommend wearing your thermal underwear beneath to keep you extra toasty. Give your parkas or biker jackets a miss and replace them with thicker and warmer options like a puffer coat, wrap-style overcoat, or even a down jacket.
Why do black clothes make you hotter?
The outer layer of fabric does get hotter because the black color absorbs more heat. And that heat doesn’t get transmitted to the skin because of the thick fabric. But thin black clothing transmits that heat to the skin, making a person hotter.
Why do Woollen clothes keep us warmer in winter than cotton clothes?
Solution: (a) we wear woolen clothes in winter because woolen clothes have fine pores filled with air. Wool and air are both conductors of heat and thus keeps the body warm.
Why do we wear Woollen clothes in winter class 7?
As wool is a very good insulator and a poor conductor of heat, woolen clothes keep the body warm and protect it from the cold winds. Also, the air trapped between the woolen fibers prevents the flow of heat from the body to the cold surroundings. Thus dark, thick, woolen garments are suitable during winter.
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Variscite is a powerful heart activation stone, helping to release judgement and allowing disparate people and views to be united. It is used to enhance higher brain functions such as learning, logic and reasoning and to help in finding self acceptance.
What are the healing properties of Variscite?
Variscite Metaphysical Properties Variscite is believed to help brain-related functions, improving intellect and logic. Not only that, but variscite is said to calm the brain by relieving stress and anxiety. According to metaphysical beliefs, variscite is believed to enhance joy felt by the wearer.
Is Variscite harder than Turquoise?
Variscite cabochons typically have an appearance that is very similar to turquoise, but they usually have a more greenish color. … Variscite has a Mohs hardness of only 3.5 to 5, and because of that it is very easily abraded if used in a ring or a bracelet.
Is Variscite the same as Turquoise?
May it always protect you and bring you joy! Variscite is a mineral closely related to turquoise mineralogically speaking, a hydrous aluminum phosphate with the distinct difference of containing no copper. Copper gives turquoise its characteristic blue color.
What is Variscite stone?
Variscite is a hydrated aluminium phosphate mineral that is often confused with Turquoise. It’s a rare stone that forms in varying shades of green. … Variscite is also known as Utahlite because it is usually found in Utah in the USA.
Is Variscite a crystal?
Science & Origin of Variscite Variscite, also known as Utahlite, is a very rare hydrated aluminum phosphate mineral that crystallizes in the form of masses and crusts. Rarely does it occur in crystal form, but when it does it is seen in an octahedral shape.
What is variscite in Chinese?
Variscite, Chinese name: Variscite is a relatively rare type of phosphate mineral. High quality specimens are used as gemstones and for carvings. Variscite is colored by traces of chromium. Lapis Lazuli, Chinese name:
What does Moonstone symbolize?
Moonstone is a lovely stone that boasts many healing powers. The meaning of moonstones has its roots in history. Moonstone signifies balance, relaxation, feminine energy, love, and fertility. Wear moonstone as jewelry to keep your life stress-free and balanced.
What is the meaning of rose quartz?
Rose quartz is known as a healing crystal and the stone of unconditional love. It’s believed by some to emit strong vibrations of love, which are thought to: support emotional and relationship healing. inspire compassion. boost feelings of peace and calm.
What is the weakest gem?
The Mohs Scale of Hardness
|4||Fluorite [Example: A knife will scratch it]|
|3||Calcite [Example: A copper coin will scratch it]|
|1||Talc [Example: A fingernail will scratch it]|
What can scratch a diamond?
There is nothing that can scratch a diamond except another diamond. A mineral like talc, on the other hand, is a 1 on the scale. You could scratch it with any hard material, even your fingernail. Natural talc is one of the softest minerals in the world.
What is the weakest birthstone?
Opals are the softest of all the birthstones.
How do you identify Variscite?
Variscite can often be distinguished by its splintery fracture, brittle tenacity and its striking colors and patterns. Variscite is usually greener than turquoise. In addition, gemologists can also easily identify variscite from turquoise by the presence of copper; turquoise contains copper, whereas variscite does not.
Is Variscite a Jasper?
Not actually a Jasper at all, Impression jasper is Variscite with chromium and vanadium impurities producing the green colors associated with natural Variscite with traces of iron adding a red or violet coloration.
Where is Variscite stone found?
Variscite occurs in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Congo (Kinshasa), and Australia and in commercially important quantities near Fairfield, Utah, U.S. It also occurs with apatite on islands where phosphatic solutions from guano (seafowl excrement) have altered aluminous igneous rocks.
What is Poseidon Variscite?
Poseidon Mine Variscite. The Poseidon Mine is located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. We operate this mine with our friends and fellow turquoise miners, Tony and Emily Otteson. This mine produces incredible spiderweb nuggets, some up to a full hand size! The largest gem web nugget to date weighs almost 300 grams!!
What is Australian Variscite?
Australian Gemstones – Variscite Variscite is a hydrated aluminium phosphate mineral (AlPO42H2O). … Variscite often contains white veins of the calcium aluminium phosphate mineral crandallite. Variscite is most often used as a semi-precious stone, and is popular for cabochons, jewellery, carvings and ornamental use.
What is Shattuckite stone?
Shattuckite Products Shattuckite is a stone of intuition, mediumship, and psychic abilities. This copper silicate offers up clarity of the mind, heart, and throat, creating an ever strong connection that allows one speak the highest truths.
What is turquoise on the Mohs scale?
Turquoise ranks 5 to 6 on the Mohs scale and its toughness is generally Fair to Good. Turquoise is generally stable to light, but high heat can cause discoloration and surface damage.
What are the benefits of wearing garnet?
Garnet changes energy from your surroundings into a beneficial state. It is used for reducing toxins, blood purification, calming effects, and soothing negative feelings. Wearing jewelry made from it will bring balance to your life, boost confidence, bring love, abundance, wealth, and success.
Is tourmaline a crystal?
Tourmaline is a six-member ring cyclosilicate having a trigonal crystal system. It occurs as long, slender to thick prismatic and columnar crystals that are usually triangular in cross-section, often with curved striated faces. … All hemimorphic crystals are piezoelectric, and are often pyroelectric as well.
What does Howlite look like?
At source, Howlite is usually found in irregular shaped nodules that look a bit like the head of a cauliflower. … Howlite has a white marble-like appearance with threaded gray, black or brown veins running through it. Some forms of Howlite are just pure white however.
Who should not wear moonstone?
Since Moon is incompatible with the planets Rahu and Ketu, the moon stone and pearl should not be worn along with hessonite or cat’s eye.
What happens if moonstone gets wet?
Moonstone has a hardness of 6-6.5 out of 10 on the Mohs scale. … This value is, of course, more than 5, but leaving the stone in water for a long time is not recommended. Water can permanently damage the stone.
Can moonstone be bad luck?
Moonstone is an excellent good luck charm. The stone has its greatest power on Monday. Moonstone is given as a traditional wedding gift for the thirteenth year, as it purifies the energy of the number 13. This stone brings good luck and love to its owner.
Where do I put rose quartz?
Place natural, rough or raw pieces of rose quartz in the south-west direction in the bedroomthis direction is ideal as it represents romance, love and marriage. Place two pieces of rose quartz in the south-west section of your bedroom to invite happy energies which will help stabilise and grow the existing bond.
How do you recharge a crystal?
Read on to learn about some of the most common clearing methods, how to align a crystal with your intention, and more.
- Running water. Share on Pinterest. …
- Salt water. Share on Pinterest. …
- Brown rice. Share on Pinterest. …
- Natural light. Share on Pinterest. …
- Sage. Share on Pinterest. …
- Sound. …
- Using a larger stone. …
- Using smaller stones.
What finger should I wear rose quartz ring?
Middle finger: The best stones to wear on the active hand for personal grounding and balance are moonstone and rose quartz.
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The Trust in February last year began an exercise to clean the pension’s payroll of ghost names in collaboration with the banks, which monitored dormant accounts over time and terminated those it deemed ghost pensioners.
Ghana's social security saves $8 million (GH¢43 million) after clearing pension payroll
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) says it saved $8 million (GH¢43 million) as of April this year, after deleting over 6,300 ghost pensioners from its payroll.
The Director-General of SSNIT, Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang, made the revelation while speaking at an educational forum organised by SSNIT in collaboration with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to discuss social security issues, particularly on pensions and benefit computations.
It was aimed at promoting knowledge of the SSNIT Scheme, empowering organised labour as peer educators for the Trust and demystifying controversial issues surrounding the computation of benefits to contributors.
According to Dr Ofori-Tenkorang, cleaning the pensions' payroll formed part of the prudent internal and external management and cost-saving practices aimed at building a robust, self-sustaining Scheme.
He stressed on the fact that sustainability of the scheme is very essential, and urged all institutions to ensure that the Trust runs efficiently and effectively.
He said the external actuarial valuation suggested that the contribution rate necessary to pay benefits over the next 50 years and to accumulate assets representing three years of total expenditure is around 19.2%, adding that, “there are no myths surrounding benefits computation," and that pensions are direct reflections of salaries from which contributions are paid, saying: “With the SSNIT Pension Scheme, what you put in is what you get out.”
SSNIT has a total of 1,551,718 active contributors as of March 2019, and 205,094 pensioners on its payroll with the highest paid pensioner receiving GH¢55,899.57 a month, while the minimum pension paid is GH¢300.00.
Last year, the Trust spent GH¢2.5 billion on benefits payments.
GH¢230 million is being spent on funding pensions payment to over 200,000 pensioners monthly.
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'Otto' (ii) was the German occupation of Austria (12/13 March 1938).
Adolf Hitler had long wished to unify Austria, the land of his birth, with Germany, and had aided the Austrian Nazis agitating for just such an event. However, when the Austrian chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg, announced on 9 March 1938 that there would be a plebiscite, on terms unfavourable to the Austrian Nazi party, Hitler saw that he must use military might to force the issue and summoned General Ludwig Beck, the army chief-of-staff, and Generalmajor Erich von Manstein, the deputy chief-of-staff, to urge rapid preparations for a push from southern Germany to Vienna, drawing on some of the planning for 'Otto' (i), by 12 March. Both Beck and von Manstein argued that the only available formations, General Eugen Ritter von Schobert’s VII Corps and General Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Weichs’s XIII Corps, together with Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel’s 2nd Panzerdivision, were not ready for such an operation, but then improvised the undertaking in just five hours so that the operation orders could be issued during the afternoon of 10 March.
Hitler then forced the replacement of von Schuschnigg by Dr Arthur Seyss-Inquardt, the Austrian Nazi leader, on 11 March with the threat of an invasion unless the plebiscite was cancelled, but next proceeded with the extemporised invasion on 12 March despite the protests of Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch, the commander-in-chief of the German army, and of Generalleutnant Max von Viebahn, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht’s director of operations. Both of these officers were unhappy with the nature of German policy, and also feared external intervention should Austria be invaded.
In the event, the invasion was undertaken without encountering any armed opposition, and the British and French refused to do anything but protest, so Seyss-Inquardt was able to declare the Anschluss (annexation) on 13 March, whereupon Austria became the Ostmark of the Greater German Reich.
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How to Deal With Stress?
What is stress?
The human body is made up of many sentiments and with every emotion, it has a specific feel that can root many changes. Those changes could be physical and mental too. Stress is one of them a state of exhaustion. Sometimes you are familiar with the causes and other times you feel dull and down for no reason.
“Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.”
- Paulo Coelho
We live in an era where stress can come from anywhere, it can be any personal reason like a relationship, family, or issues from the workplace. And sometimes it can arouse from any trivial thing, something you would probably not think directly but indirectly it is upsetting you and causing you severe stress. The risk of dropping health and major diseases like heart attack and nervous breakdown is snowballing day by day due to stress.
SYMPTOMS OF STRESS:
Sometimes it is hard to recognize and other times you can see your friends dealing with consecutive stressing life. Stress not only disturbs mental health but also collapse the physical health at the same time.
Some of the basic symptoms are:
1- SLEEP DEPRIVATION
If you are finding hard to catch up on your sleep. Then, the odds of stress are more. It illustrates that you’re taking something really seriously that is not letting you sleep. So, if you are facing this problem you should consult a doctor as soon as possible or talk to someone who’s close to your heart to share your personal.
Sharing personal problems gives a sense of relief.
Persistent headaches are one of the most visible symptoms of stress. If you are the one who’s suffering from stress the first thing you will face is an intense headache. Take the medicine prescribed by the doctors in this situation.
3- WEIGHT LOSS
Weight loss is one of the clearest symptoms of stress. You will notice the difference in your body and weight. Stress can be really contagious for your health.
4- LOST APPETITE
You will not feel like eating anything and your food intake will start decreasing drastically. The relentless feeling of nausea and sickness is one of the basic signs of stress.
You will feel tired and exhausted every time without even any clear reason. A deep feeling of not getting up from your bed and lying all day long.
TIPS TO COPE WITH STRESS:
In this article, we will be discussing how we can cope with stress and here we have the most amazing tips that you can implement in your daily life to deal with stress. And enjoy a stress-free life.
1- WAKE UP EARLY
Set this habit anything can go well if you are an early riser. It gives a feeling that you have started your day a little early which automatically gives you a fruitful vibe. It will eventually put you in a peaceful state. In the beginning, it can be hard for you to set a routine like this but once you start observing the positive changes in your behaviour you will know the worth of waking up early.
2- EXERCISE DAILY
This is one of the finest tips that you can opt. Always spare some time for yoga or go for a run. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have plenty of time for this. It helps you to improve your health also considering the fact that a healthy body leads a healthy mind.
3- DO NOT SKIP MEALS
Take a proper diet and try to eat healthy avoid junk food as much as you can. Do not skip your major meals like breakfast, and dinner you can take a light snack during lunch time but make sure to fill your stomach with nutrients and proteins. Eat healthy and on time.
4- GRATITUDE JOURNAL
Make a list of things that you feel grateful about. It will help you to stay inspired and more thankful for what you have. This is the best way to practice happiness that comes from small things. It really helps you to stay calm and motivated.
5- DO NOT OVERTHINK
Beat the inner monster that keeps you awake whole night and forces you to think about the stuff that is unnecessary. Focus on today, don’t make stories in your head even if you think that you have this feeling try to divert your mind by doing anything that suits you.
6- POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Keep a positive attitude towards everything. Especially, when something is disturbing you. Letting go is the best solution in this scenario. Surround yourself with positive people and positive vibes.
7- PICK HOBBIES
If you’re one of those people who doesn’t have any specific hobbies then select anything that can occupy your mind when you’re feeling low. Book reading is one of the best practices that you can adopt.
It is always better to consult a doctor. But, try to reach for some small help first. Stress, anxiety and depression these things are increasing really fast in our society. And there is no damage in asking for a help. Consider the fact that if you’re not sick. It normal! And reaching out for any sort of help can make major changes in your life. Try to use the tips mentioned above for a stress-free life.
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Hello Inventors! Welcome back to the Embedded101 course.
In the last lesson we learned about Embedded Software which is considered to be “The Brain of Embedded Systems“, and in this lesson, we will learn about “Embedded Hardware” which can be thought of as “The Body of Embedded Systems“
This lesson will focus on answering the following questions
- What are the main hardware parts of an embedded system? and
- What skills do we need to develop embedded hardware?
As usual, for the visual learners among you, here is the lesson in the form of a video.
Alright, let’s begin the lesson by taking a look at the main parts of Embedded Hardware
Building Blocks of Embedded Hardware
An Embedded system typically consists of the following parts
- Microcontroller: that can be thought of as “The heart of embedded hardware“
- Input devices: that can be thought of as “The eyes and ears“
- Output devices: that can be thought of as “The arms and legs“
- PCB: that can be thought of as “The body“
Electrical and Electronic components: can be considered as everything else!
We will see each of these parts with some analogies so that you can understand everything better!
Let us start with the 1st part, the Microcontroller!
Microcontroller: The Heart of Embedded Systems
Microcontrollers are considered to be the heart of the embedded system. They contain
- the RAM: to hold variables and constants
- Flash: to hold your code
- the processor cores: to execute the code
Since this is such an important component, we have an entire lesson coming up in this course on microcontrollers, we will learn more when the time comes!
Let us next have a look at the input devices.
Input devices can be broadly classified into two types
- The Sensors and
- Everything Else!!
Sensors can be considered as the eyes and ears of an embedded system.
Sensors “senses” various signals in the environment and gives that information as input to our embedded system.
The following are some examples of sensors
- temperature sensor
- pressure sensor
- light sensor
- ultrasonic sensor
- humidity sensor
- magnetometer or compass, etc
The presence of a given sensor in an embedded system is highly dependent on the application, since the hardware is custom–built for the given application there is no use having sensors that we don’t need!
Everything Else a.k.a the “Non-Sensor Inputs”
Sensors are not the only input to the embedded system as inputs can also come from the end-user.
For example, a “button-press” event is also technically an input, and data coming in through antennas or through wired means from external devices can also be considered as inputs!
Coming back to our analogy of comparing humans to embedded systems, our skins can be considered analogous to buttons!
Next, let us look at some output devices!
Actuators can be considered as the “arms and legs” of an embedded system.
Actuators take instructions from the software and transform them into movement.
For example, a motor can rotate forward or backward depending on the instructions given to it by us via software, which in turn will make the embedded system move forward or backward in the environment.
Actuators are largely found in industrial, robotics, and automotive applications.
Another example of output devices can be the speakers, through which you can play some sound when needed!
So I guess we can call them the voice of embedded systems!
Unlike humans, our embedded devices are also capable of producing lights in the form of
- LCD screens and
- LED lights
Next, let us have a look at the electrical and electronic components that come as a part of embedded systems.
Electrical and Electronic components
Connections between the microcontroller, sensors, and actuators can require some passive components like resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
You will also see some active electronic components like transistors and diodes in a typical embedded system. All these components will look alike from a distance as shown in the right half of the picture below. These small black rectangular parts are also known as Surface-Mount components.
The next item on our list is the Printed Circuit Board, a.k.a the PCB.
Printed Circuit Boards
Printed Circuit Boards can be considered as the body which connects all the above-mentioned components together.
Simple PCBs are usually very easy to design, you should be able to get started with just 10 to 20 hours of training and then you can start producing your own PCBs!
PCB design is beyond the scope of this course, but we will probably make an introductory course on PCB design in the future if we get enough demand from our users and once we reach 100K subscribers on our YouTube channel!
Some say PCB design is an art! There are specialists that design high-performance PCB boards with multiple layers to achieve smaller sizes at the same time keeping the product functionality intact.
There are lots of external factors that can affect the performance of PCBs like temperature, Electromagnetic Interference, etc. The job of PCB designers is to find solutions to these problems and design PCBs that give high performance.
Now that we have seen the building blocks of Embedded Hardware, the next obvious question is “What are the skills we need to develop Embedded Hardware?”
Skills Needed to Develop Embedded Hardware
An Embedded Hardware Engineer must have good knowledge about
- Fundamentals in Electronics
- Reading datasheets and Schematics
- Circuit design and analysis
- Microcontroller architectures
- Circuit debugging
- PCB designing
- Electrical engineering
- J-TAG for production and testing
- use of tools like Multimeters, Spectroscopes, Oscilloscopes and
- Soldering skills
These are just the basics, depending on the product being designed other skills like radio engineering can also be needed.
For beginners and hobbyists we don’t need to learn everything in the above list before we can start our journey, we can always use development boards to build our projects, which will be the topic for the next couple of lessons!
If you wish to take up embedded engineering as your career, you need to make a choice between hardware and software. Then focus on one of those and develop your career in that!
If you are looking for some good books to get started learning about the hardware side of embedded systems, I recommend taking a look at our recommended study materials.
With that, I will end this lesson. I hope you got a good overview of Embedded Hardware!
Feel free to share this course with your friends and colleagues!
Keep inventing and keep exploring!
I will see you in the next lesson!
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‘Provocative, clear-sighted, richly textured and wonderfully readable, this is the indispensable biography of Churchill for the post-Brexit 2020s’ DAVID KYNASTON’Stimulating, erudite and above all entertaining’ ROBERT HARRISIn A.J.P.
Taylor’s words, Churchill was ‘the saviour of his country’ when he became prime minister in 1940.
Yet he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambition would cloud his political judgement.
While Churchill’s Shadow gives due credit to the achievements, it also reveals some spectacular failures; indeed, it appears that for every Finest Hour there were many more Gallipolis. But this book goes beyond the reappraisal of a life and a career: it reveals that Churchill has cast a complex shadow over post-war British history and contemporary politics – from the ‘Churchillian stance’ of Tony Blair taking the country to war in Iraq to the delusion of a special relationship with the United States to the fateful belief in British exceptionalism: that the nation can once again stand alone in Europe. Geoffrey Wheatcroft takes a radically different approach to other biographies and studies of Churchill, zooming in on crucial moments in his life that help us understand the man in his many contradictions.
Churchill’s Shadow both tells the story of his extraordinary life and the equally fascinating one of his legacy, focusing on how Churchill was viewed by contemporaries and those who came after.
As we struggle to work out who we are as a nation, how our complex legacies of war and empire shape our past and our present, we do that in the long shadow of Churchill.
He set about writing his own myth during his lifetime and it is a myth – with all the delusions and hangovers myths bring – in whose grip we have been living in ever since.
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You have probably heard of friends, family or colleagues who have had BOTOX® injections. BOTOX® is just one of three wrinkle modulators available in the United States. Here, we will review what you need to know about these wrinkle modulators and how they help you maintain a more youthful appearance.
Brands available in the USA:
WHAT IT IS:
Wrinkle modulators are neurotoxins called botulinum toxin type A (BOTOX®, Dysport®, Xeomin®). It is a natural substance made of purified protein that temporarily suspends the muscle movements, which eases and smooths creases in your face.
People often get confused about what areas that wrinkle modulators can be used on the face, thinking that the toxin can smooth out any wrinkle. To clear this up, we will first discuss the most common wrinkles on the face.
- Worry lines: or surprise lines are horizontal creases on the forehead which are prominent when you raise your eyebrows
- Frown lines: often called “11 lines” are vertical lines between the eyebrows and are prominent when you frown.
- Crow’s feet: tiny lines which start from the outside angle of each eye and go towards your temple in a fan-like fashion, similar to the shape of a bird’s foot. They are prominent when you squint.
- Smile lines: lines that extend from the edges of the nose to the angles of the mouth, also known as nasolabial folds.
- Marionette lines: vertical lines that angle down from the corner of your mouth towards the chin.
- Smoker lines: fine vertical lines around the lip. These are prominent when you pucker your lips.
- Bunny line: crease at the bridge of your nose, visible when you smile or squint.
Wrinkle smoothing by neurotoxins happens as a result of the muscle relaxing, but it has no direct effect on the skin. When facial muscles are active, they pull on the skin in different directions making wrinkles. By injecting certain muscles, we can prevent or minimize certain motions. This diminishes the constant motion stress on the skin, causing wrinkles and lines in the skin to disappear. This happens faster in well-hydrated and elastic skin of younger individuals, but requires more time the older you are. When lines are static, meaning they are visible even when you relax your face, neurotoxins alone will not be able to smooth the line. Addition of micro needling, laser rejuvenation, and/or fillers are needed to complement the neurotoxin treatment.
Areas with most success from treatment with wrinkle modulators:
- Worry lines
- Frown lines
- Crow’s feet
- Bunny lines
Areas with some success from treatment with wrinkle modulators:
- Smoker lines, though these are better treated with dermal fillers
Areas that do not respond to wrinkle modulators:
- Smile Lines
- Marionette lines
- Sagging or lax skin
- Hollow areas in the face
- Tear trough deformities
These problem areas can be improved with the use of dermal fillers, micro needling, medical grade peels, and/or laser rejuvenation therapy.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Typically, the treatment takes about 15 minutes and there is no downtime, which we know is beneficial for our busy and active patients. There may be some bruising around the injection sites, but most people can return to their daily activities immediately.
Wrinkle modulators typically take effect 2-10 days following treatment.
Women who work out frequently may need more frequent treatments.
AFTER YOUR TREATMENT:
Do not touch or manipulate the treated area for 3 hours following the treatment. It is okay to do facial exercises, like smiling and frowning, to help the neuro-toxin disperse in the muscle. Do not lie down for four hours after your treatment. Laying down can cause the neuro-toxin to track down into the orbit of the eyes, potentially causing a droopy eye. Do not perform activities involving heavy lifting, straining, or vigorous exercise for 6 hours after treatment.
Follow this link to view the pre and post treatment information and to review the consent form. FORMS
Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.org with any questions you have.
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Safeguarding awareness for all Mid Devon taxi drivers
Mid Devon District Council continues to support taxi drivers with safeguarding through its popular awareness course.
Since its launch in 2017 ninety percent of Mid Devon’s taxi drivers have now undertaken safeguarding awareness sessions, organised by the Council’s licensing and community safety team.
The course is funded by the Community Safety Partnership and run by Karen Anderson, a former Devon and Cornwall Police officer with the public protection department. The course has been well received by drivers and now makes up a mandatory condition of becoming a licensed taxi driver in Mid Devon.
Mid Devon District Council’s specialist lead for licensing, Tom Keating, said:
“We have a duty to ensure both our licensed drivers and their customers are protected as much as possible. Unwittingly these drivers may become aware of a serious safeguarding issue through their line of work and we want them to be alert to this and ensure they know what to when they do have a concern. Our drivers have been very receptive to the training so far and we are grateful to them for showing this commitment.”
Cllr Derek Coren, Chair of the Licensing and Regulatory Committee at Mid Devon District Council, said:
“Through their work taxi drivers are very much a part of the community. This training is about providing drivers with the information they may need to identify and report safeguarding concerns. The message is simple, if you see something, say something. We believe that by doing this, drivers can play an important role in the safeguarding process”.
The course content includes:
- Awareness of the different forms of exploitation including human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and modern slavery
- Understanding what safeguarding is and your responsibilities
- Recognising signs of exploitation and abuse
- Knowing who to contact if you suspect a safeguarding issue
From 28 June this year completion of the course will be mandatory for all existing licence holders and new drivers will be required to complete the training within the first 12 months of the job.
Further details can be found at Licensing.
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Apart from humans, our planet is home to a gazillion other species. It nurtures a myriad species of flora and fauna. The beauty of this planet lies not just in the seamless blue oceans, snow-capped mountains but also in the mesmerizing beauty of flowers and plants and the majestic presence of our co-inhabitants, the animals,birds and insects.
The inception of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks prove to be a smart step towards the nurturing of all the other life forms and also towards maintaining the ecological balance and safeguarding mankind. These national parks are the most raw and natural "form of being" for the animals and also provide them protection from illegal hunting, poaching among several other heinous crimes against wildlife.
Uttar Pradesh, not just hosts "one of the seven wonders of the world" but also caters to the one of most beautiful creations of God, wildlife. Several national parks,wildlife sanctuaries, bird sanctuaries make way not just for ecological but also economical well-being for the state. Tourism in these areas provides a major impetus to the growth in the state.
Katernia ghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Dudhwa National Park, Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary, Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary, Kachhua Sanctuary, Kaimoor Sanctuary,are all home to species like- Blackbuck, Chital,Chinkara,Blue Bull,Wild Cat,Swamp deer,Gangetic Dolphins,Gharials,Tigers,Hispid deer,Bengal Florican,long-billed vultures,Barking deer,leopards among the likes of several others.
National parks around the state promise different experiences for nature, and wildlife lovers.It's a unique opportunity of being so close to the nuances of nature.The surroundings make much of a difference because the same animal in a zoo to a national park will bring along an absolutely different set of emotions and experiences.
The harm mankind inflicted on the planet that we selfishly call "Home", did some little good on the way towards relentless development and growth in the form of wildlife sanctuaries and parks.Providing natural habitat to these animals along with a certain level of security and protection. This way, there is a path that moves towards sustainable development, growth and keeps in mind the well-being of our fellow inhabitants. Although, there is a long long way ahead of us. A way in which these animals are not ill-treated,abused for material gains or hunted for pleasure.
The onus is not just on the authorities but rather on each and every individual that calls this planet, it's home. However, big or small the contribution is, steps such as- judicious use of natural resources, kind behavior towards animals, and encouraging the planting of our green friends is something every child and adult should be a part of.
Also read: Add This Eco-Tourism Spot In Lucknow To Your Travel List
National Parks Of UP: A Step Towards A Balanced Ecology
by Naina Bajpai | September 30, 2021, 21:18 IST
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Hair-based discrimination: As a youngster, Harold Pope Jr. was teased so badly when his mother braided cornrows in his hair that he went home from school one day. “I can remember going to school and being treated unfairly; I was the only Black student at my school,” said Pope, now a state senator. On Thursday, the Albuquerque Democrat championed a bill that prohibits discipline, discrimination or disparate treatment in New Mexico schools based on a student’s hair or cultural headdress — a measure unanimously approved by the Senate.
The bill states no local school board shall allow for the imposition of discipline, discrimination or disparate treatment against a student based on the student’s race or culture or because of the student’s use of protective hairstyles or cultural headdresses. “If we’re going to truly have a New Mexico for all, we must have protections in place that respect all New Mexicans,” said Pope, adding Senate Bill 80 was a “big deal” for him because the issue personally affected him.
Civil rights bill: The earliest the Senate will consider a proposal to create a New Mexico Civil Rights Act is Saturday. That’s when Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, who is the Senate sponsor of House Bill 4, will return to the floor. The news came after Sen. Bill Sharer, R-Farmington, asked for the measure to be referred to the Senate Finance Committee for consideration — a request Senate Republicans have made before, arguing the financial implications of the bill on state government need to be vetted by the committee. Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, asked Sharer to hold off on the motion until Cervantes returns to the chamber “just out of respect to him” and also to allow Cervantes to argue the motion.
“Can we just keep it off the calendar until this debate has been completed with the sponsor?” Sharer asked. Wirth said the bill would appear on the calendar. “But here’s the thing,” Wirth added, “I will assure you right now, we’re not going to hear it until the sponsor, the Senate sponsor, is back.”
Helping rural communities: Sen. Crystal Diamond, R-Elephant Butte, said it’s all about ensuring “the voice of rural New Mexico still has a voice.” Toward that end she co-sponsored, with Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill, D-Silver City, Senate Bill 193, which would direct the state Department of Finance and Administration to hire a rural equity ombudsman. That official would work on rural issues of concern and provide help, planning assistance, advocacy efforts and complaint resolution, among other tasks. The ombudsman would make annual reports to the governor and the Legislature on the ombudsman’s activities, complaints received and resolved and other problems and issues related to rural communities. Members of the House, Local Government, Land Grant and Cultural Affairs Committee unanimously passed the measure, saying such an effort is long overdue. The Senate unanimously supported the bill earlier this week. It now goes to the floor of the House for consideration.
Quote of the day: “I appreciate the desire to support Make-A-Wish Foundation, but my wish is that we don’t have any more specialty plate bills.” — Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, arguing against a bill that would allow a special license plate to support Make-A-Wish New Mexico. The measure, sponsored by Sen. David Gallegos, R-Eunice, passed the Senate on a 26-10 vote. It was Gallegos’ first to pass through the chamber.
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During the Design Academy LAB assignment I got to experiment with a
long-lasting fascination. As a kid I used to collect beetles instead of the more common stamps or “poëzie-plaatjes”.
What I found most enticing as a kid, were the iridescent, rainbow colors of a beetle. The way it would shift in color, when you would move the insect carefully.
This resulted in a material study into the colors and textures of beetles. The science behind the beauty of their carapaces.
Through this method of working through exploring, a 3D surface application was created to mimic the fascinating colors of these little creatures I so adored when I was a kid.
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La Scala is one of the most important opera theatres in the globe, where many of the most famous operas were premiered. It now stages concerts, recitals and cultural events as well as ballet and opera.
La Scala Theatre takes its name from Santa Maria della Scala, a church built in 1381 that occupied the same site. The theatre as it now stands was designed by the great neoclassical architect, Giuseppe Piemarini. It was inaugurated in 1778 with an opera by Antonio Salieri and has since premiered some of the great works of Verdi, Bellini and Puccini.
La Scala has an enormous stage, a seating capacity of 2,015 in its grandiose auditorium and arguably some of the best acoustics of any opera house in the world. From the early 1800s, the theatre also included ballet in its repertoire of artistic performances.
There is a theatrical museum and library attached to the opera house which provides a taste of the opulent world of the theatre and an in-depth look at La Scala's opera though the ages, as well as a general overview of Italian theatrical history. From the museum, it is possible to stand in boxes 13, 15 and 18 to gain a glimpse of the splendid auditorium.
- "We visited La Scala as part of a tour so it was excellent to have a guide who could talk about history and show us the important things. There was a rehearsal in the opera house which we were able to listen to for a short while which was great. You can visit at our own pace without a tour too." - Trip Advisor
- "Beautiful interior, helpful and nice stuff. I arrived 15 mins prior to the show and got a really nice upgrade (got a box to myself with a separate cloakroom). The performance took my breath away." - Trip Advisor
- "We were lucky enough after touring the building and seeing all the lovely portraits and other artifacts to be able to watch a "rehearsal". I feel honored to have been there." - Trip Advisor
When to come
The museum is open every day from 09:00 to 17:30 (last entrance at 17:00). Closed on 25 & 26 December, 7 & 31 December in the afternoon, 1 January, Easter Sunday, 1 May and 15 August.
How to get passes
You can book tickets for La Scala performances online.
Tickets for the museum cost €7. Reduced to €5 for groups, over 65s and students. Reduced to €3 for schools. Free for under 12s and disabled. The audioguide costs €7.
- Piazza della Scala
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By Sadiq Al-Mahdi
The Jewish issue is a European product, anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon and Zionism is a European Jewish reaction against the persecution of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis. The promise of a Hebrew homeland in Palestine is the outcome of European conflicts and wars; and the holocaust is a hellfire lit by European ideological stupidity.
The decision in 1948 to recognize the state of 'Israel' was an international step strongly endorsed by the USA and Europe. These are the aspects of the atrocities and genocide inflicted upon the Palestinian people who were not involved in any way whatsoever in the Nazi massacres of the Jews; yet they have been forced to pay a high price for something they did not do, and to ironically undergo the very same suffering endured by the Jews in Europe under the despicable Nazi legacy.
This most explosive conflict in the Arab East is a product from outside. And the international [American and European] community is to blame fully, politically and morally, for the catastrophe stemming from it.
In the circumstances of the Cold War (1948-1989), Israel became a strategic ally of the Western camp and in the aftermath of 9/11 Israel's role as a major American ally in the so-called 'war on terror' was again made crucial, this war strangely grouping together haphazard violence and liberation movements.
The peace project endorsed by the Madrid Conference in 1991 was not based on the recognition by the world of its responsibility for the manufacture of the crisis, but rather came as a result of the allies' victory in the second Gulf war and as a necessity to please the West's Arab allies, something more like a public relations gesture. That is why the conference was not seriously and strictly followed up but rather remained just a surreal slogan.
Yes, there were Palestinian/Israeli negotiations in Oslo, with a commitment to the achievement of the Madrid targets of a comprehensive peace, which resulted in an agreement that led to the establishment of a transitional Palestinian 'skimmed' Authority in Gaza and Jericho in May 1994. However, a large number of Palestinians were against the Oslo Accords and a considerable number of Israelis announced their intention to eradicate them.
Yasser Arafat succeeded in preserving the PLO's status but he was however considered by the Israeli interlocutor as an equivocator, humiliated in his West Bank compound and then assassinated by the very same interlocutor. The PLO elected Mahmud Abbas as his successor and under his leadership, the movement fully engaged in the peace process, and [indeed] in the process of making concessions only to convince the Israeli side of the Palestinians' genuine commitment to peace.
Meanwhile, the following facts became glaringly evident:
First: there has been a continuous shift in Israeli policy making towards to the extreme right. So much so that the man who never really believed in the two- state solution or in the withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan, who never accepted the 1992 Madrid Agreement or the 1994 Oslo accords, this man, Ariel Sharon, was elected Prime Minister in February 2001. And today the two individuals who hold the most extremist attitude vis-a-vis Palestinians and Arabs, denying them their historic rights, these individuals, Netanyahu and Lieberman, have been elected to top positions of policy making in Israel.
Second: the Road Map project endorsed by the broader international community as a public relations exercise in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and then discussed during two summits in Sharm Al-Sheikh and Aqaba, was not taken seriously enough to be implemented on the ground. While the Road Map was sponsored by four partners: the USA, the European Union, Russia and the UN, the two summits took place under the auspices of the USA alone.
While the Road Map provided a view on a comprehensive peace, the summits excluded both Syria and Lebanon.
While the key factor in laying the ground for negotiations was the announcement of and commitment to a ceasefire, Israel and the USA continue to label Palestinian resistance factions as terrorist groups. Can an agreement on a ceasefire to be achieved without these factions [that are part and parcel of any possible ceasefire deal] taking part?
The Israeli side attached 14 reservations to the Road Map, which made it void of any meaning or essence.
Third: while the peace talks were underway there was a coalition between Israel and the USA, which the George W Bush administration (2000-2008) reinforced more than any previous US administration. Israel's relentless settlement expansion throughout Bush's terms continued in flagrant contradiction of Israel's explicit commitment to end all settlement activity. It then launched attacks on innocent civilians in the Qana massacre, invaded Lebanon and destroyed Gaza, thereby confirming its lack of interest in the peace process and affirming its determination to unilaterally impose its will.
It has now become clear that the security excuse which Israel keeps reiterating with any new offensive it launches in the region does not and cannot justify the savage killing of innocents and the scale of destruction. Israel demands the total crackdown on resistance as a condition for any 'resumption' of the peace process; the truth is, however, that:
In all similar peace accords throughout history, resistance could only stop within the framework of a political agreement.
Also historically, Israel has never released prisoners nor has it withdrawn its forces, and altered a decision unless in the context of a prisoner swap deal or within the framework of a confrontation with the resistance, as did occur in Lebanon and Gaza.
The newly elected US president Barack Obama promised change and a departure from his predecessor's policies. That raised people's hopes on his administration. However, he appointed among his team a large number of those who belong to the old school of thought while seeking to confront the Congress where the Zionist lobby has the upper hand. This setback will continue unless the USA is convinced that it cannot continue to support and tolerate Israel's aggression against the Palestinians and still enjoy the friendship of the Arabs.
The lurch toward the extreme right in Israel and its heavy reliance on the US alliance has for the 17 years of the peace process allowed Israel to consolidate its position and systematically violate the Palestinians' rights. It has annexed 45 per cent of the West Bank lands and expanded its colonial settlements therein; the judaisation of Al-Quds has been relentless and Al-Aqsa mosque has been under continuous threat; the construction of the racist separation wall has been under underway and all these constitute aggressive illegal procedures that make the establishment of a Palestinian state an impossible dream.
The failure of President Abbas who pinned all his hopes on the peace process and walked out of it empty-handed is the very incarnation of the failure of a leader naively indulging in pursuit of a chimera. The correct position is now for him to step down and confirm that he will not run for re-election, announce to the world the death of the peace process that has achieved nothing other than the consolidation of Israel's belligerence and expansionist intentions and, at the same time, torn apart the Palestinians. He has an obligation to tell all those who seek to deceive us about the peace chimera that he is not at all bothered to totally and decisively break with the Israeli 'negotiator'.
All Palestinian resistance factions are also required to cooperate so as to rebuild the Palestinian national project, to unite under the umbrella of the PLO and fully support the struggle and resistance which includes enhancing the roles Palestinians can play both inside and outside their occupied homeland, a stance that should be fully adopted and supported by the Arab and Islamic world as well as all those who believe in the sanctity of human rights and the freedom of peoples.
The true Arab solidarity stance should adopt a soft-force strategy by:
- Ending all kinds of relations with Israel as long as it occupies Arab land.
- Providing support for the Palestine cause by mobilizing public opinion worldwide, a considerably motivated force that proved to be effective and managed to speak up for the oppressed people during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, of Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008, a force that was the product of various interacting factors:
1. Since the end of the Cold War many human rights organisations have sprung up and the revolution in communications has made it possible for hundreds of satellite channels and radio stations to provide live broadcast of events around the world.
2. A long list of mechanisms has made aggressive parties around the world accountable for their behaviour and their violations of human rights such as the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Convention on Genocide of December 1948 and the International Criminal Court; national and local courts have been enabled in most countries to pursue criminals in any place and any time, regardless of who they are or where they come from, and bring them to justice.
3. The UN's Human Rights Council passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone fact finding mission report, which constitutes a window of opportunity for Palestinians and Arabs to apply the mechanisms of international humanitarian laws to prosecute war criminals and make it clear that Israelis war criminals, who committed genocide or crimes against humanity are not above the law.
4. There are signs/constituents of an extremely powerful and genuine lobby inside the USA and Europe; they should be mobilized for this decisive battle.
5. Any ideological or sectarian polarization in the region should be contained for the supreme interests of the people.
6. The defence capability of all Arab states should be strengthened so that Israel realizes its crimes against the Palestinians and Arabs can no longer pass unnoticed or unaccounted for and that it is now time for it to pay a heavy price for all the atrocities it has inflicted on innocent men, women and children.
*Sadiq Al-Mahdi is a former prime minister of Sudan
Translated by Monjia Abdallah Abidi
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.
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One of the biggest arguments for a public school system is that it ensures a homogeneous educational environment for our voters. But there is no test for voting, so even totally stupid people, who flunked third grade over and over again, can still vote. Which means our political system is primarily set up so non-elected groups (the Electoral College and our higher courts) can override the stupidity that emerges from voters.
I don’t even know why we talk about the US as a democracy, because we are a very, very limited democracy. Ancient Greece is the closet thing we’ve seen to a pure democracy, and it only worked because the voters were so homogeneous. Diversity makes pure democracy impossible.
So public school does not actually create the educated and homogeneous electorate necessary for a democracy.
Then what does it provide? Class mobility?
America used to have a fluid class system. There was so much land that you could pick up and move somewhere where you could get land for yourself, and increase your status. But now there is no land. Or, there is land that’s free, but it’s in really awful places that have terrible Internet and no McDonald’s and people don’t want to live there.
So, it would be great if the public school system could ensure class mobility, but that’s not the case either. And we don’t have any evidence that we could ever fix that. Our nation is too diverse for us to actually use education to create a level playing field. There is nothing we can do to get non-Asian kids to test as high as Asian kids do.
The only path to social mobility is via the family. Schools have nothing to do with it. Which begs the question, why do we spend so much money on public school?
If we stopped with public education we’d have to start answering some tough questions:
1. Who will take care of children? Right now we do not value childcare so no one wants to do it.
2. Who will show poor kids a path out of poverty? The best way is to get their parents out of poverty. We have good data on how to do that. Jobs. But we don’t create jobs because we don’t want to be a welfare state. So we say. But I’d argue that public education is just another version of the welfare state. It’s just misusing the money. Then you can have the real discussion we should have been having all along.
3. What should we do with the middle class? Should we let the middle class dissolve into the just-above-poverty sector, or should we redistribute money from the rich to solidify a true middle class? That’s the real question: should we use public-school funding to create a three-class system or a two-class system?
These are not questions so easily answered. But the question of do you need public school in order to have democracy? That’s an easy answer: no.
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Question ref. S6W-03871
Asked by: Paul McLennan, East Lothian, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: 21 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to strengthen policy on ancient woodland and veteran tree protection in National Planning Framework 4.
Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 15 November 2021
Our draft National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) sets out how our approach to planning and development will help to achieve a net zero, sustainable Scotland by 2045. This includes draft planning policy on Trees, Woodland and Forestry, which states that development proposals should not be supported where they would result in; any loss of ancient woodlands, ancient and veteran trees, or adverse impact on their ecological condition.
Views are currently being invited on the draft NPF4 alongside parliamentary scrutiny, following which we anticipate producing a final version for approval and adoption around summer 2022.
The draft NPF4 is available to view on the Scottish Government website at: Scotland 2045 - fourth National Planning Framework: draft - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
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Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Verb nobble has 4 senses
- victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
--1 is one way to cheat, rip off, chisel
They nobble him of all his money
- pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift - make off with belongings of others
--2 is one way to steal
They nobble the goods
- kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch - take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
--3 is one way to seize
Somebody ----s somebody
- nobble - disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"
--4 is one way to disable, disenable, incapacitate
Somebody ----s something
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Absinthe is an anise-flavored spirit that was originally 136 proof and made with grande wormwood. It is typically made by distilling neutral grain spirits with herbs, predominately anise, florence fennel and grande wormwood. Other herbs such as angelica root, coriander, dittany leaves, hyssop, juniper, nutmeg, melissa, star anise, sweet flag, and veronica are also used.
The color of the distillate is clear and is often bottled this way in a style known as Blanche or la Bleue or as a bright green. The coloring is added, either through the chlorophyll from steeping herbs like hyssop, melissa and petite wormwood in the liquor or adding artificial coloring. Other absinthes are available in red or blue hues.
Absinthe in History
This potent liqueur was outlawed in many countries for years following multiple instances of harmful effects and even deaths of its drinkers, most of which were due to over indulgence of the green spirit. Since the 95 year absinthe ban was lifted in the United States in 2007, many brands have been released with lower thujone levels. During the bans homemade absinthe kits became popular, however this can be dangerous. For instance too much wormwood or the use of wormwood extract can be poisonous.
There have been a number of famous absinthe drinkers throughout time, most notably among artists and other creatives in the 19th century. Pablo Picasso, Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Rimbaud, Ernest Hemingway, and Oscar Wilde made this list and absinthe is often found or has influenced their work. Possibly the best known absinthe imbiber was Vincent Van Gogh, who drank it for years (presumably addicted to it), painted still lifes of absinthe, and some believe he was under its influence when he cut off his ear.
- Absinthe brands range in alcohol content, though you will rarely find one below 90 proof. Most absinthe falls in the 90-148 proof (45-74% ABV) range.
- Abisante, Anisette, Pernod and Herbsaint are often used to replace absinthe in cocktail recipes.
- Absinthe is commonly classified as a liqueur, however it does not contain any sugar and is actually a liquor.
- Absinthe is also known as absinth and the 'green fairy.'
- National Absinthe Day is March 5.
Since the shift of legality regarding absinthe we have seen many brands become available throughout the world. These are just a few:
It is not recommended to drink absinthe straight because of its potency and pungent taste. Consider it fair warning that if you do take a straight shot of absinthe, you may not taste anything else for a day or two.
A better way to drink absinthe is to use the preparation often called the absinthe ritual. It is a far more gentile option that involves water, a sugar cube and specially designed spoons and glasses.
There are many great absinthe cocktails available. When mixing with absinthe it is important to remember that the anise is a strong flavor and it is recommended to measure its portion according to the recipe. Also, be sure to properly clean any bar tools that have contained absinthe as the flavor and smell can remain for quite some time and taint other, non-absinthe drinks.
- Absinthe Cocktail
- Brazilian Sangria
- Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
- Corpse Reviver #2
- Early Autumn
- Irish Tea Party
- Lady Liberty
- Mile High Manhattan
- Monkey Gland
- Morning Glory
- Night Cap
- Obituary Cocktail
- Wolf Bite
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When using Quickmap, you may get the following error:
Could not open database Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=Q:\qmap\data\QMapData.mdb;Persist Security Info=False You do not have the necessary permissions to use the…
Your system may be blocking access to the Microsoft Access 2000 database if its located on the network. The easiest fix is to replace QMapData.mdb with a Microsoft Access 97 database.
❗ Important: If you have added your own data to this database, or are not sure if you have added data to it, then contact us for help.
If the problem is a permissions issue for the user, the solution is to change the permissions:
- Right click on folder i.e. Q:\QMap\data
- Click on Properties then Security then click Edit
- Tick ON “Modify” and OK
- Then go to Advanced Settings and click Change Permissions. Check that it says “Modify” in the Access of Users.
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There is a growing body of evidence linking exposure to EMF radiation with impairment of your body’s immune system, including immunosuppression and autoimmunity. One recent study has demonstrated a very real link between exposure to EMF and autoimmune disease. Even more significantly, the study, published in the journal Immunology Research, also showed that EMF shielding reduces or eliminates autoimmune disease linked to EMF exposure.
First, it’s important to recognize the difference between natural electromagnetic radiation and EMF emitted from electronics and devices. Everyday we receive natural radiation from the elements around us such as thunderstorms and cosmic radiation from space. The difference is that these natural sources emit vastly less, and exponentially lowered powered electromagnetic radiation than that which comes from human-made sources, making them weaker and generally safe for us.
In contrast, human-made sources of EMF include cell phones, television, WiFi signals and other devices. EMF radiation from electronics interacts with the human body on a cellular level. This is because the human body also has its own electromagnetic field. Our blood, nervous and lymphatic systems all use electromagnetic signals as a means of communication throughout our entire body, for all of its basic and complex functions.
BPE, also known as biophotonic emissions, is a type of electromagnetic energy that is crucial to the proper functioning of our cellular metabolism. This energy is also responsible for powering our nervous and immune systems. It is how various parts of our body are able to communicate instantly. BPE is one of the many of the critical bodily functions harmed by exposure to human made EMF radiation.
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Many of the current public health laws only address the short term health risks of being exposed to these dangerous frequencies. Even so, a large and growing body of peer-reviewed science finds that exposure to these frequencies have a negative impact on our physical and mental health. And that this risk grows, in a dose-response relationship, with the duration of exposure.
EMF and Autoimmune Disease
One review found that two thirds of studies about EMF and autoimmune disease show that “chronic exposure to electromagnetic radiation, at levels found in the environment, may particularly affect the immune, nervous, cardiovascular and reproductive systems.”
Surprisingly, some studies and researchers still insist that there is no harm detected from these low frequency waves. This, in part, could be due to the fact that there is often a gap or a lag between the time a person was exposed to the dangerous levels of EMF and the manifestation of its symptoms.
Electromagnetic radiation at extremely low frequencies (so-called ELF) also provokes a stress response within the cells in the body. This can lead to chronic stress issues and eventually autoimmune responses. A person may also develop increased inflammation within the body after being exposed.
In short, a significant body of peer-reviewed scientific research demonstrates that exposure to EMF radiation can cause autoimmune disease in humans.
EMF Shielding Can Help
With all the evidence demonstrating the harmful effects of prolonged exposure to EMF, it’s good to know about proven ways to protect yourself when you cannot avoid coming in contact with them.
In recent studies, patients were asked to wear EMF shielding clothing consisting of a specialized combination of silver coated polyester threads and bamboo fibers. These materials were known to partially block out some of the electromagnetic radiation.
Many of the patients in this study were those suffering from autoimmune disorders such as Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis and Celiac Disease. Incredibly, 90% of the patients reported a “definite, strong” change or reduction in their symptoms.
In short, this study shows that EMF shielding reduces the incidence and degree of autoimmune disease that can result from exposure to electromagnetic radiation.
Shield Your Body
There are high quality products today that are also highly effective at shielding much of the harmful radiation that we are exposed to on a daily basis. Products like the ones we make here at SYB. Our products are tested and proven to be effective at blocking EMF radiation, to help prevent the dangerous effects these waves can have on our physical and mental health.
Shielding and protecting yourself while using electronic devices is crucial to maintaining an optimal state of health. We are constantly exposed to high levels of EMF on a regular basis even when we are not personally using any electronics or devices. This is because we are continuously being bombarded with Wi-Fi and cell phone signals of those around us.
Wearing protective clothing or using shielding pouches to slip our phones in while on us, minimizes the chances of developing autoimmune disorders and other health issues, by greatly reducing the amount of EMF that reaches the body.
With the rise of technology and devices that we are inviting into our lives, we’ve seen a correspondingly drastic rise in chronic illnesses and diseases. The overuse of technology and poor physical and mental wellbeing go hand in hand. Technology is a wonderful tool, but it should be used with extreme caution and care. These tools that should be used to help us, can also be the same ones that hurt or hinder us.
The same modern science that gives us the powerful electrical and wireless technology that we all enjoy — and that drives the global economy — also gives us an increasingly detailed knowledge about the health risks caused by this technology.
Fortunately, you can start to take control over your EMF exposure by making certain changes to your behavior to reduce your personal health risks. Simple changes, like not carrying your phone in your pocket, or sleeping next to it.
Beyond that, the advance of modern technology has also helped us create powerful shielding products and solutions, to give you even more protection from the harmful effects of EMF. Unless we’re all willing to go back to the stone age, exposure to human-made EMF is here to stay. But there are safer ways to use it, and products that can help. So, take action, and shield your body!
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Botanical:Citrus bergamia Risso & Poit
Extraction Method: Cold expression of the pericarp or leaves
Origin: Asia, Italy, France
Description: Bergmot is extracted from a fruit similar to but smaller than the orange. It grows on a petit sized tree with oval shaped leaves that are smooth to the touch. The tree flowers two times a year, both in the spring and in late summer..
Color: The fruit is actually orange but the oil is clear with a yellowish-green tint.
Historical Uses: Typical historical uses for Bergamot include fever reduction, digestive aid, and perspiration inducer. In an aromatherapy sense Bergamot is said to build confidence and uplift the spirits. It has also been said to help relieve depression and anxiety. Additionally, Bergamot works well as a room deodorizer.
History: Bergamot is said to have first made its appearance in 1750 in the vicinity of Reggio Calabria. The individual attributed to its finding is Nicola Parisi. It was not until 1844 that the process of extraction was industrialized. Today extraction is conducted through an abrasion process a far cry from when it was extracted by hand many, many years ago.
Mixes With:Cypress, Lavender, Jasmine, Geranium, Neroli, Roman Chamomile, and Coriander.
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As political pictures become more prominent and strategic (given such trends as the rise of stand-alone media slideshows and the use of Flickr as a “spin” tool), the photo caption become that much more crucial in providing context — or not.
As a classic example of “caption assassination,” check out this example from yesterday’s New York Daily News.
Not only do they take the White House’s own photo and use it against Obama, but the caption, especially when combined with the headline and the lede, while not lying, absolutely misleads on at least three of the five W’s.
The “what,” for example, is not ambiguous. Obama is delivering a birthday cupcake to the White House press room. The “when” is not ambiguous, either, and it’s not yesterday. Rather, the photo is a year old. And the “why” is not the occasion of a sad, loner President, isolated on his birthday, left to serve himself up a meager excuse for a proper birthday cake. The context, instead, is that Obama and reporter Helen Thomas share a birthday, and the President, in a thoughtful gesture and enjoying a good surprise, has decided to personally delivers the goods down the hall to the press room, the depressed, “this is what I deserve for a birthday?” expression simply illustrating the need to keep the cupcakes in balance and the candle lit.
That’s all the story there is to the photo, as opposed to the agenda of the Daily News, which is more intent on keeping Obama’s naysayers lit.
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There are a number of very early objects, going back to the 3rd and 2nd millennia bc, from both Palamari and the Kastro area. A couple of these pieces show, through a common pattern of design, trading connections with Troy during this early period: the double-chalice (no. 893), which is a type of object known much later to Homer; and the grey, pointed vase (no. 754) in Case 1. There is a fine, late Bronze Age vase decorated with a shallow, high-prowed ship (no. 77) in Case 2, which gives a fascinating glimpse of the craft that may have populated the seas in Mycenaean times. From the Geometric period are jewellery, stone artefacts, a number of very fine vases and a variety of other household items (braziers, etc.) in pottery. Especially worthy of note is the circular * ritual object (also of the Geometric period), found in a grave in the Magazia area, which comprises eight ducks in a circle, with two snakeswinding over them and devouring a dove. In combining symbols of the air (birds) and of the darkest earth (serpents) into an integrated arrangement of striking design, the piece shows the imaginative richness of this early world. Many designs from this period imitate woven, basket-work (no. 172, case 7). On other objects the perfect geometric forms are accomplished with the aid of a compass-pair, or by pin-and string drawing: some of the pots (e.g. no. 214, case 4) still bear the pin-hole made at the centre of the concentric de signs. The beautiful jewellery contained in the last cases is mostly of the late Geometric and early Archaic periods— the 8th and 7th centuries bc: there is a very fine round gold ornament (no. 1025, case 9), which has four swastika de signs (sun symbols) embossed in it—three face clockwise, one anti-clockwise; and a rare 8th century * diadem in electrum, beautifully embossed with designs of warriors and shields, found in an aristocratic grave at Chorapha, to the north of the Kastro hill. The small sculpture display from Classical times includes a sensitively carved fragment of a 5th century bc grave stele: unusually, it has been re carved in Roman times with a funeral banquet scene on its reverse side.
The corner room of the museum is dedicated to a reconstruction of the interior of a Skyriot town house (see pp. 105–107). Here the small seating-furniture is intricately carved, and the boulmes screen has motifs with cockerels and the double-headed eagle of Byzantium. Some exquisite embroideries and textiles are also exhibited. Below Plateia Brooke, 30m beyond and to the north, the street ends in a terrace above the impressive semicircular remains of the ‘Palaiopyrgos’, or northern bastion of the late Classical enceinte of the acropolis. Between the two, to the east, is the Manos Faltaits Museum (open daily March–Nov 9–2, 6–8) whose rich variety of displays should not be missed.
This is a private collection dedicated both to Skyrian traditions and artefacts, and to the life, family and paintings of Manos Faltai―ts. The family was one of the island’s wealthiest, and the unusual name is a ‘Russian-isation’, adopted by the painter’s great-grandfather who worked and traded at the time in Odessa, of the family’s Greek name. The lower store-rooms of this spacious house are an exhibition area for many of the artist’s paintings. Manos Faltai―ts had a number of whimsical stylistic qualities in common with Marc Cha gall, but there are strong Byzantine overtones in his work; he mainly uses a Fauvist colour-range. The upper part of the house exhibits furniture, textiles (some exquisite nuptial embroideries, composed of designs with ancient symbolism), costumes, implements and wood-work, which are well presented and explained: they illustrate how the particularity of Skyrian workmanship arises from a very particular synthesis of Ottoman, Venetian and Byzantine influences. There are examples of decorated Skyrian pottery—amongst them the jugs which were left unglazed to allow water inside to remain cooler, and which were placed in baskets of thyme so as to impart a fresh odour to the water. The most memo rable exhibit is perhaps the extraordinary goat-costume, used in the pre-Lenten festivities and dances on Skyros: this example weighs nearly 60kg.
SKYRIAN CARNIVAL GOAT DANCE
How ancient the Goat Dance may be and how much it has changed in form with time is difficult to establish, but it is a striking example of how ancient pagan practices have survived intact in isolated corners of the Greek world such as Skyros. In Antiquity the is land was famed for its goats which are mentioned by Pindar (early 5th century bc), by Strabo (1st century bc) and by the philosopher-gourmand, Athenaeus of Naucratis (2nd century ad). The Goat Dance celebrates the importance that both goat and goatherd have always had on the island: a goatherd with large flocks possessed considerable wealth and a very particular status in society. During the carnival period the young men of the island dress in an all-covering costume of goat-skin hung with bells, and with a goat-head mask, and participate in a noisy dance along with other allegorical figures, such as young men who are dressed—as Achilles had been, in the court of Lycomedes—in women’s clothing. The goat figure is called the ‘geros’, from the Greek word for strong and sturdy—an attribute the young men need to posses, given that the costume can weigh as much as 60kg. On the last day of the festivities they remove the costume and dance once again, freed of its terrible weight: the symbolic significance of this gesture is appropriate to the last day of carnival, when the encumbrance of earthly needs should be set aside for the period of Lenten penitence.
Skyros Island is part of the Sporades Island Group, Greece.
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There’s a quick blurb in ScienceNOW about a study showing that great ape tots laugh when tickled–hey, just like us! And for all the cuteoverload-lovers (Dana), the story also has footage of an orangutan being tickled.
In the study, researchers tickled baby apes and recorded their responses. The acoustics of the laughs were then compared to humans-being-tickled laughs. The results indicate that tickle-induced laughter in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans is homologous, that is it has the same evolutionary origin. [A siamang (essentially a large gibbon) was also included in the study, and while its response to tickling was similar to the orangutans’, it somehow did not display full-fledged laughter]. Nevertheless, the quite vocal human laugh is distinct from the apes’ laugh. Quite probably the difference in vocalization is related to the fact that humans speak and apes don’t.
In the ScienceNOW states that the study “challenges the notion that exhaled and voiced laughter are ‘a uniquely human trait'” (me quoting the commentary, which quotes the lead author of the study). I immediately cringe when I hear/read the phrase “challenge(s) the notion,” or often, “widely-held notion.” How trite. But I do think it is an interesting study (not like the one wherein they fed cooked foods to great apes…). For starters, researchers can begin to look into why exactly the acoustic patterns differ between humans and apes.
But more importantly, it opens the issue of why humans and animals laugh when tickled. Being tickled is an interesting feeling, because even though it makes you laugh, it also makes you uncomfortable and vulnerable–no one when tickled exclaims, “yes, keep tickling me!” (I’ve even heard urban legends of people wetting themselves when tickled). Unless tickle-laughter is a secondary result of selection on other things, I would imagine that the phenomenon evolved because of its value in social interactions–interactions which the study suggests are as old as the great apes.
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photo: Urban Outfitters
Without the reward of a post-week, poolside margarita, stress can really compound. Especially as September is just as important as a new year, and there’s a lot going on. Add these ten little tricks to your daily schedule to stay stress-free, year round.
#1 Morning Rituals
Mornings set the tone for the day. Brew tea, set an intention or move through a quick morning workout. Getting into a daily wake-up routine primes you for the day, making it easier to combat stressful situations.
#2 Start Work Right
Before you start your work day create a to-do list of everything you want to accomplish. Visualizing achievable goals helps focus and relax your mind, the perfect way to keep stress away.
Drinking caffeine can increase your body’s production of cortisol, a stress hormone. Top off your regular coffee with decaf, slowly increasing the ratio of decaf to regular.
#4 Mid-Day Move
Dance break anyone? Put on some music and dance around, take a walk, or simply take the stairs! Moving your body pumps up your endorphins, which has serious stress-busting powers.
#5 Learn To Say “No”
Work stress comes from accepting too many projects. Learn your limits and how to honestly communicate them with your peers and superiors.
#6 Space Out
Daydreaming is the mind’s equivalent to a vacation in Bora Bora. Set a timer for five minutes and let yourself drift.
#7 Give Yourself A Mini Hand Massage
Take a break from typing and rub your thumb in a circular motion on the opposite hand’s palm. Use a drop of lavender, a calming essential oil, to make the massage even more relaxing. You can also do this with your ear lobe, a little massage seems to instantly relieve stress. It’s nice.
#8 Notice When Stress Is Coming
We all experience stress differently, learn what triggers you and take a moment to relax before each situation. It’s best to catch stressful situations early, says anxiety expert and clinical psychologist Tamar Chansky. “Once stress escalates, it becomes tougher to let it go.” So tell yourself you know it’s coming and be prepared to deal with it.
#9 Leave Work At Work
Before leaving for the day revisit your to-do list, cross off all your accomplishments, and make a new list for tomorrow. Feeling prepared can help keep off any stress and allow you leave work at work.
Written by Molly Shephard
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If you’re a fan of hot Cheetos, you may have been wondering if they contain pork. That’s because some say the orange powdery cheese-flavored snack tastes like bacon. So does that mean that Frito-Lay is hiding pork in their recipe? Unfortunately, the answer is an indirect yes.
While Frito-Lay does not add pork to their hot Cheetos recipe, the seasoning contains pork derivatives. According to the company’s website, the ingredients in the seasoning include: “whey, milk, dehydrated cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), maltodextrin, salt, monosodium glutamate, torula yeast, buttermilk solids, romano cheese (part-skim cow’s milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey protein concentrate, natural flavors, yellow 6, yellow 5.”
So while there is no pork in the hot Cheetos recipe, there are pork derivatives. Let’s take a closer look at some of the seasoning ingredients.
- It is common to use whey protein in cheese making. A pork product is also capable of producing it.
- Milk is a common ingredient in many processed foods. It can come from cows, pigs, or other animals.
- The process of dehydrating cheddar cheese involves removing the water from it. It often contains pork enzymes.
- Maltodextrin is a starch that is often made from wheat, but it is also possible to make it from pork.
- Buttermilk solids are the solid remains of buttermilk after removing the liquid. They often contain pork fat.
If you are avoiding pork for religious or dietary reasons, you may want to avoid hot Cheetos. Otherwise, enjoy them in moderation! So while there is no pork in hot Cheetos, pork derivatives are used in the seasoning.
So, what is hot Cheetos?
Well, it is a type of corn chip that is flavored with chili pepper and other spices. It is made by the Frito-Lay company, a PepsiCo subsidiary.
Hot Cheetos are a corn chip/puffed snack coated in bright red chili pepper seasoning. They were first introduced in the early 1970s and have since become a popular snack food, especially among kids and teens.
One great quality of the cheese puff is also its greatest danger: it’s highly addictive. The ability to melt in your mouth while also packing a powerful flavor punch keeps people coming back for more. Some people even dubbed it the “gateway drug” to more complex snacks.
It is called vanishing caloric density food.
What is that? This food triggers the release of hormones that tell your brain you are full before eating enough calories actually to be considered full. This means you can eat many of these chips without feeling full or satisfied.
The chili peppers used in the seasoning of Hot Cheetos may be responsible for the vanishing caloric density phenomenon. Chili peppers are known to contain a chemical called capsaicin. This chemical is what gives chili peppers their spicy flavor.
Capsaicin is also known to increase thermogenesis, producing body heat. This increased heat production can lead to an increase in metabolism and a decrease in appetite.
So, while the jury is still out on whether or not Hot Cheetos are actually good for you, there is no denying that they are addictive and delicious snack food. If you’re looking for a new snack, you should give Hot Cheetos a try. Just be warned, they are addicting!
Why hot Cheetos are so addicting?
The answer lies in the seasoning. Hot Cheetos are coated in a bright red chili pepper seasoning made up of various spices, including capsaicin, with the crunchy and salty texture of the corn chip. Capsaicin is the chemical in chili peppers that gives them their spicy flavor.
There’s an article in New York Times magazine, and food scientist Steven Witherly describes Cheetos like this: “When you crunch into a Cheeto, it feels like there’s nothing there, and then all of the sudden this kind of light, flaky texture just kind of melts in your mouth.”
This deception isn’t accidental.
Snack food companies extensively research what textures and flavor profiles will be the most addictive to their customers. The foods they design trick your mind into believing they are healthy and light when they really aren’t. Foods that bewitch your tastebud receptors tell your brain that it’s okay to keep eating even when you’re full. And it’s not just Cheetos. Doritos, Fritos, Ruffles, Lay’s potato chips, and Goldfish crackers are all engineered to hit the same bliss point.
As part of their efforts to reach this “bliss point,” food scientists pay close attention to “sensory-specific satiety.” In lay terms, sensory-specific satiety is feeling full after eating a certain food. But it’s not just a matter of feeling physically full — it’s a complex combination of flavors, textures, and smells that overwhelm the brain’s ability to track how much it has eaten.
Another ingredient contributing to Cheeto’s addictive quality is monosodium glutamate, or MSG. MSG is a flavor enhancer shown to increase appetite and make food more addictive. Processed foods, especially those aimed at pleasing the palate, tend to contain this ingredient.
What does this have to do with pork?
Well, pork is sometimes used as a flavoring agent in processed foods. It’s often used in conjunction with MSG to create a particularly savory flavor that can be addictive. So while Cheetos may not contain pork, the flavoring agents used in them may have pork as an ingredient.
While pork is not an ingredient in Cheetos, the company that makes them, Frito-Lay, does use pork fat in some of its other products. Cheetos, however, don’t use pork fat.
One of the key flavor molecules in pork is called iso-alpha-acids. Molecular structures of this type are also present in hops used to make beer. And iso-alpha-acids are also one of the vital flavor molecules in Cheetos.
What are iso-alpha acids?
Iso-alpha-acids are a class of chemicals that are found in hops and beer. Pork fat also contains them. Cheetos has these molecules as one of their key flavor molecules. They’re responsible for the “savory” flavor of Cheetos.
In some processed foods, iso-alpha-acids serve as preservatives. They’re added to food to prevent bacteria from growing. And they’re also used in some cosmetics and cleaning products.
So, does this mean that hot Cheetos have pork?
While pork is not an ingredient in Cheetos, the company that makes them, Frito-Lay, does use pork fat in some of its other products.
So if you’re wondering whether Cheetos have pork in them, the answer is: yes, indirectly. The flavor molecules in Cheetos are derived from pork. But there is no pork (or other meat) in the Cheetos. The Cheetos recipe does not contain pork fat. There is no pork on the ingredients list, so you can rest assured that hot Cheetos are a pork-free snack.
Some people may be concerned that the chili pepper used in the seasoning may be of pork origin.
The chili pepper used in hot Cheetos is most likely of the ancho variety. This chili pepper is typically made from dried, smoked poblano peppers. And while poblano peppers can come from pigs, they are not necessarily pork origin.
Many snacks rely on the simple premise of baked and dried wheat or corn. Spices and flavorings play a crucial role in enhancing the taste. In the case of hot Cheetos, the chili pepper seasoning gives them their distinctive flavor. This spice also makes hot Cheetos red and stains your fingers when you eat them.
Let’s take a look at the hot Cheetos ingredients:
WHEAT FLOUR, CORN MEAL, VEGETABLE OIL (SUNFLOWER, CANOLA, AND/OR CORN), SALT, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: WHEY, BUTTERMILK, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, Cheddar CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), SUGAR, YEAST, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, CULTURED DEXTROSE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, ONION POWDER, TORULA YEAST, MALIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SODIUM DIACETATE, SPICES, Lactic ACID, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, Red 40 LAKE, Whey PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BLUE 1 LAKE, NONFAT MILK, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CREAM, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, MONOCLEARN GUM, DISODIUM INOSINATE, AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE.
Wheat flour and corn meal are listed first on the ingredient list; these are the two main ingredients in hot Cheetos. The next ingredient is vegetable oil, used to fry the Cheetos. After that, there is salt, whey, buttermilk, and monosodium glutamate. These ingredients are all common in processed snacks.
When you say pork in Cheetos, what does it mean?
In this context, pork refers to the meat of a pig. So when people say that hot Cheetos taste like bacon, they’re referring to the fact that both hot Cheetos and bacon have a savory, smoky flavor.
So, where did this concept come about that hot Cheetos have pork?
- One theory is that the orange powdery cheese-flavored snack does taste like bacon. But since there is no pork in hot Cheetos, this flavor must come from something else.
- Some say the chili pepper seasoning could give hot Cheetos their distinct flavor.
- Others believe that the natural oils in the corn chips may be responsible for the bacon-like taste.
Whatever the reason, one thing is for sure – hot Cheetos are delicious!
Why are enzymes used to produce food products?
Enzymes are used in the food industry because they can improve many products’ taste, texture, and shelf life. For instance, enzymes help the cheese to taste better by adding flavor.
Several factors contribute to the use of enzymes in the production of food products.
- Enzymes are helpful because they catalyze reactions that would otherwise be very slow or impossible to occur. For example, enzymes can turn complex carbohydrates into simpler sugars, which the body can then use for energy.
- Also, enzymes can produce flavor compounds not ordinarily present in food. For example, enzymes can be used to make cheese flavoring. You can also use them to tenderize meat or reduce food cooking time.
- In some cases, enzymes assist in the preservation of food. For example, they can stop fruits and vegetables from turning brown.
- It is also possible to produce alcoholic beverages with enzymes, such as beer and wine. Enzymes are used to convert the sugars in the food into alcohol.
Some people may be concerned about the use of animal enzymes in food products. And while it is true that porcine enzymes are derived from animals, they are present in minimal amounts and are not considered harmful.
Where does enzyme come from?
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions in the body. All body parts contain enzymes, including the digestive system, muscles, and liver.
Food contains enzymes as well. The production of some food products, such as cheese and beer, requires the use of enzymes.
Detergents and cleaning products also contain enzymes. Enzymes are used in these products to help break down stains and dirt.
As a result, enzymes can come from a variety of sources. It is common to find enzymes in the body, food, and cleaning products.
What is the addictive chemical in Cheetos?
There is no definitive answer to this question as the recipe for Cheetos is a closely guarded secret. However, the general consensus is that Cheetos’ combination of fat, salt, and sugar makes them addictive.
Additionally, the fact that Cheetos are fried and extruded gives them a unique texture that is hard to resist. Whatever the exact ingredients may be, there is no doubt that Cheetos are one of the most addictive snack foods on the market.
Why is it hard to stop eating Hot Cheetos?
There is no specific addictive chemical in Cheetos, but rather a combination of factors that make them difficult to resist. The high fat and sodium content makes them very tasty and hard to put down, while the crunchy texture provides a satisfying feeling. Additionally, the chili pepper seasoning gives Hot Cheetos a unique flavor that can be addictive. Not everyone experiences the same level of addiction to Hot Cheetos, and some people may be able to eat them in moderation without any issues.
So, what’s in a Cheeto that gives it that melt-in-your-mouth texture?
Part of it is the way the cornmeal is processed. Cheetos are made with something called “extruded cornmeal,” which is high in fat and low in water. This makes the Cheetos puff up more when they’re fried and melt in your mouth more easily.
How do they make these crunchy corn puff snacks?
All Cheetos varieties start with cornmeal mixed with water and cooking oil. The dough is then extruded through a die, which gives it the signature Cheetos shape. After extrusion, the Cheetos are fried and then coated in various flavorings.
The corn puffs are coated in a mixture of chili peppers, sugar, salt, and other spices for hot Cheetos. This combination gives hot Cheetos their characteristic red color and spicy flavor. The coated corn puffs are then fried until they’re crispy and ready to eat.
What are some of the health concerns with eating hot Cheetos?
Because they are fried and coated in a thick layer of seasoning, hot Cheetos are not the healthiest snack food. Additionally, chili pepper seasoning can cause irritation and indigestion in some people.
Why is that? Chili peppers contain a compound called capsaicin, responsible for the “hot” sensation you feel when eating them. This compound can irritate the gastrointestinal tract, leading to indigestion, heartburn, and other digestive issues. Eating hot Cheetos in moderation is essential, and drinking plenty of water while eating them.
If you’re looking for a healthier alternative to hot Cheetos, several brands now offer baked or oven-fried versions of the snack. These versions have less fat and calories but still have the same cheesy, spicy flavor you crave.
What’s the nutritional value of hot Cheetos?
Hot Cheetos are not exactly healthy food, but they’re not the worst thing you could eat. A one-ounce serving of hot Cheetos (about 28 pieces) contains 150 calories, 10 grams of fat, and 19 grams of carbohydrates. Hot Cheetos also includes vitamins and minerals, including iron and vitamin C.
However, hot Cheetos are high in sodium and saturated fat, so you should eat them in moderation.
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These are some lucrative business ideas for the digital age that will help you become an entrepreneur if you don’t know where to start.
This article was translated using AI technology from the Spanish edition. This process may cause errors. Entrepreneur contributors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed.
The growth of virtual marketing is continuing. People are looking to start their own businesses turn to the internet to sell their products or services. These are some lucrative business ideas you can use in the virtual world to help you join this growing group of entrepreneurs.
- Online sales
This is an option if you have many items you wish to get rid of but are in good condition. There are many ways to sell your handicrafts, foods, and desserts. You may also be able to make money selling your products. You could also resell products from other companies as it is more accessible for people who cannot access them.
- Consulting in legal matters
You are one of those people who is a law expert and always have a lawyer on hand when you have legal questions. Why not make use of this knowledge? You can create a website or blog and share your expertise through consultation.
If you have a degree related to your field, you may also be able to offer your advice, such as your services as independent legal counsel.
It is essential to provide truthful, up-to-date information. This will help you build trust and credibility, which are fundamental elements that will make your service credible.
This form of entrepreneurship is growing in popularity all over the globe. Many people are becoming influencers on social media, making vast amounts of cash. Many people do great business by recording and editing videos before uploading them to Instagram or TikTok.
This job is for you if you are charismatic and desire to share your knowledge, such as tutorials or talk about your personal life.
- Writing Agency
Use your writing strengths to your advantage. Text is the core of any social network. Its quality can influence your success. You can offer professional writing services online for different segments, such as opinion articles or newspaper articles.
While we have only listed four lucrative internet business ideas, there are many more with greater or equal opportunities. You must remember that success depends on your ability to build your business the way you want and with the effort it takes. Do your research before you make a decision. Once you get started, don’t lose heart. You should always be moving forward.
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What is insulin?
Insulin is a naturally occurring hormone made by your pancreas that helps your body use sugar for energy. If your pancreas doesn’t work as it should, it may not make or release the insulin you need to control your blood sugars, resulting in diabetes.
Diabetes is a condition in which your body doesn’t make enough insulin or your body doesn’t use insulin correctly.
What does insulin do?
Insulin moves glucose from your blood into cells all over your body. Glucose comes from both food and your body’s own natural release of stored glucose. Think of insulin as the “key” that opens the “doors” of the cells in your body. Once insulin opens your cell doors, glucose can leave your bloodstream and move into your cells where you use it for energy. Without enough insulin, glucose can’t get into your cells and instead builds up in your blood (hyperglycemia).
Many conditions can affect your body’s ability to produce and release insulin. They include:
- Gestational diabetes, which is diabetes that begins during pregnancy.
- Prediabetes, when your body is resistant to insulin (can’t use insulin as it should), but blood sugar levels aren’t high enough for a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
- Type 1 diabetes, when your pancreas doesn’t make insulin or doesn’t make enough to control blood sugar.
- Type 2 diabetes, when your pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin, or your body can’t use the insulin as it should.
- Metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance syndrome), a group of risk factors (including insulin resistance) that increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Insulin resistance means that the cells in your body can’t use glucose from your blood as energy.
How do you take insulin?
Your healthcare provider may prescribe insulin to lower your blood glucose and keep you healthy. We refer to the insulin available now as human insulin because it's made to act just like the insulin that’s naturally produced.
You can take insulin in a variety of ways based on your needs and lifestyle. Your healthcare team will work with you to determine which is best for you. You may:
- Give yourself a shot using an insulin pen or a vial and syringe.
- Receive doses through an insulin pump. The pump attaches to your body with a small catheter under your skin and delivers the insulin.
- Inhale it as a powder.
What are the different types of injectable human insulin?
Most types of insulin are injectable, either through a needle, pen or pump. There are many different types of injectable insulin. Your provider will work with you to prescribe the right type for you and adjust the dosage if your needs change. They will give you detailed instructions for giving yourself an insulin injection. A diabetes educator can help teach you how to take your insulin and guide you through the process.
Some types of insulin start to work quickly and wear off after a few hours. Providers call these types bolus or mealtime insulin because you may take them before a meal. Other types take longer to reach your bloodstream and work for as long as a day or two. Providers call these types basal or background insulin. Your provider may also prescribe a combination of basal and bolus called premixed insulin.
The main types are:
- Rapid-acting insulin: This kind of insulin begins to work within five to 20 minutes and keeps working for three to five hours. It peaks (is most effective) about an hour or two after you inject it. Types of rapid-acting insulin include insulin glulisine. Inhaled insulin is also considered rapid-acting and you should take it before meals.
- Regular insulin (or short-acting insulin): These kinds of insulin include Novolin R® and Humulin R®. They begin working about 30 to 45 minutes after injection and wear off after about five to eight hours. Regular insulin peaks about two to four hours after injection.
- Intermediate-acting insulin: This type begins working in about two hours and is most effective between four and 12 hours after injection. It wears off in 14 to 24 hours. Types include isophane insulin (NPH).
- Long-lasting insulin: It takes about an hour for this type of insulin to reach your bloodstream and start working. It peaks between three and 14 hours after injection. It lasts up to a day. Types include insulin glargine.
- Ultra long-acting insulin: Reaching the bloodstream in about six hours, this type of insulin has the same level of effectiveness for several hours (it does not peak). It can last up to two days. Types include insulin degludec.
What are the side effects of human insulin?
Some possible side effects of insulin include:
- Lumps, pits, swelling, redness or itching at the injection site.
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
- Weight gain.
A note from Cleveland Clinic
Insulin is an essential hormone that helps you stay healthy and keeps your body working like it should. If your body isn’t able to make enough insulin, your provider can prescribe human-made insulin as a diabetes treatment. Follow your provider’s instructions carefully when giving yourself insulin. Call your provider or seek medical help right away if you have serious side effects from insulin. To stay healthy and lower your risk of insulin-related health problems, eat right, maintain a healthy weight and exercise regularly.
Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy
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Michael Phelps Essay.
“I deliberately set very high goals for myself…why not? No limits” (Phelps 14). Michael Phelps is a name that will always be associated with the word swimming. He made the sport well-known by his eight medal wins at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and is the most decorated Olympian in the world. He had been swimming since he was seven years old, and competed at only fifteen years old in his first Olympic Games. Michael Phelps has affected the world for good by bringing honor to the United States, elevating the sport of swimming, and proving there are no limits.
Michael Phelps had brought honor to the United States. For example, “[Phelps]American swimmer, who was the most-decorated athlete in Olympic history with 22 medals, which included a record 18 gold. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he became the first athlete to win eight gold medals at a single Olympics” (Britannica. com). This is a straightforward list of Michael Phelps major accomplishments. Those records were personal achievements, but at the same time America’s records.
Phelps said after winning the 400-meter free relay, “We had set a world record, really. The Stars and Stripes. The American men. Us” (Phelps 1).
The relay team from America had won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Everyone watching the Olympics was able to see the number one by United States of America on the scoreboard which brought honor to our country. After Phelps eighth gold medal win Lezak and Phelps expressed, “[Jason Lezak] we’re part of history… [Michael Phelps] we were honored after the race to be able to carry around an American flag that had flown in Iraq…” (Phelps 217-218). They had the honor to carry our American flag after winning the 400m medley relay in 2008 Beijing Olympics, and after Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal.
The medley relay had always been won by America, and Phelps and his teammates helped keep that winning streak. In the end, Michael Phelps will always be remembered as the American swimmer who made history. Michael Phelps accomplished his dream to elevate the sport of swimming. For example, “Phelps transformed swimming, inspiring a generation at home and abroad, by building an audacious program out of grit, guts, and a burning desire to make swimming cool for children all over the world. ‘I wanted to change the sport and take it to another level,’ Phelps said” (New York Times).
Michael Phelps had stated multiple times that his biggest dream is to take swimming to another level so people will talk, think, and look forward to watching swimming. It was inevitable that people would watch the 2012 London Olympics after history was made in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Michael Phelps said, “My main goal was to raise the sport of swimming…I’d heard they had made an announcement at Yankee Stadium when I’d won the 100 fly.
The St. Louis Cardinals had held up their team bus back to the hotel in Cincinnati so the players and coaches could watch us win the medley… he goal that I have and I’m working on is in progress…I think it’s really starting to get more of an awareness for the sport in the United States” (Phelps 221). Other major athletes had respect for our team at the Olympics by watching them swim. Michael Phelps felt his goal to expand swimming onto a larger scale in America was on its way.
“Clearly more people were interested in swimming than ever before; USA swimming saw an eleven percent jump in the number of people joining in 2009 over 2008, and said the growth was because of the “awe-inspiring performances” of the U. S. team at Beijing Olympics” (Phelps 237). Michael Phelps biggest dream and goal was proven to be attainable by the new number of swimmers. He had helped the growth of new swimmers by leaving a mark on swimming since he won the highest amount of medals ever in a single Olympic. Michael Phelps accomplishments have made swimming stand out which increased the number of children aspiring to be involved with the sport. Michael Phelps has proven there are no limits.
For example, “In Spring 2001, Phelps set the world record in the 200 meter butterfly, becoming the youngest male swimmer in history (at 15 years and 9 months) to ever set a world swimming record” (Bio. com). His records reveal that Phelps had much potential even at young age. He had also proved there are no age limits to excel at what you love. “So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done…There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes.
But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits. Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real…the will to succeed-it’s everything. That’s why, on the pool deck in Beijing in the summer of 2008, there were sometimes no words, only screams” (Phelps 6). Situations or people may stand in the way, but with your own will there are no limits. He proved this true by pushing past doubters and training with great effort which resulted in him earning eight Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Never, I said, let anyone tell you that anything is impossible. There were people who said no way anyone could win eight medals…when people say that, I want to prove them wrong. I was able to prove them wrong this year” (Phelps 227). When people doubted Michael Phelps it only made him want to persevere further. He believed people put limits should never put limits on your goals because you can surprise the world like when he won his eighth gold medal. Michael Phelps did not doubt himself, had determination, and proved there are no limits.
Given these points, Michael Phelps’ accomplishments had affected the world for good. He has brought many gold medals to the United States, helped more people become more involved with swimming, and proved that the sky’s the limit when it came to goals. Through the Michael Phelps Foundation, for example, hopefully he has inspired a swimmer to reach for nine gold medals. Phelps biggest dream was to involve more people in swimming, and as the years progress the numbers are growing and the swimming world has been setting new records.
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Mrs. Raccoon must help Chester to understand what it means when his friend, Skiddil Squirrel, does not return to school after having an accident. To ease his sadness at the loss of his friend, she teaches Chester how to keep the time he spent with his friend fresh in his thoughts by creating a memory.
I was asked to write a story for children about losing a loved one several decades ago by a rabbi. He wanted something on a child’s level that he could leave with families in this difficult time. It proved to be a difficult book to write, as every religion has a different belief surrounding the death of a community member. The common link is the gathering of the community after the death of a member to remember who this person was to them. I finally chose not to write about death, but to write about remembering a loved one who has passed away. Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories has thus far received rave reviews, and has been the subject of many grateful emails I’ve received to date. The loss of a loved one is a difficult topic to address, especially with children. I hope this helps.
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BACKGROUND: Tumor heterogeneity has been recognized in many cancer types for decades. However, the significance of tumor heterogeneity on disease course and clinical outcome in bladder cancer is of more recent interest to researchers and clinicians. This is especially true as morphologic and molecular heterogeneity has the potential to confound accurate diagnosis, efficient prognostication, and subsequent clinical management. While this is true, it is not always clear what laboratory models are available or suitable for the study of these important clinical phenomena. OBJECTIVE: To review in vitro and in vivo laboratory models for the study of morphologic and molecular tumor heterogeneity in bladder cancer. METHODS: We undertook a review of PubMed with a focus on identifying suitable models for the study of tumor heterogeneity in bladder cancer. RESULTS: We provide a review of common in vivo (genetically engineered mice and patient-derived xenografts) and in vitro (established cell lines and organoid systems) models and discuss their utility in the study of morphologic and molecular tumor heterogeneity in bladder cancer. CONCLUSION: Genetically engineered mouse models and patient-derived xenografts provide complementary approaches for the study of tumor heterogeneity in bladder cancer. In addition, cell culture-based systems provide a system amenable to genetic manipulation and mechanistic studies, while organoid systems bridge the gap between in vivo and in vitro systems. However, the availability of models to study molecular heterogeneity is limited, partly because of a relative lack of molecular characterization of available models. In summary, while models for the study of specific subsets of morphologic heterogeneity are available, more models are required for studies of molecular heterogeneity. This shortcoming could be partially addressed by more comprehensively characterizing currently available model systems. In addition, each system/approach has advantages and disadvantages, and care should be taken when selecting a given model.
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Not too long ago I wrote a post about feelings and mantras – that I don’t think every feeling has to be ignored for the sake of feeling happy. I also said that I do believe in mantras and in affirmations. And I do.
For instance, the other day, I was upstairs attending to a few things while my children played downstairs, quietly. A little too quietly. So that when I came down stairs I expected something, and something is what I got.
The two, 6 and 8, had taken Costo, bulk-sized, paper towel rolls, about seven of them, and proceeded to make “roads” down stairs in the kitchen and living room. As well as, by the time they finished, “mountains.”
When I say there were paper towels everywhere, I mean no exaggeration. There were paper towels every where. And this was before summer break had even begun.
I find I use mantras a lot in the presence of my children, and even more during the summer.
I subscribe to a book I read a long time ago called Mommy Mantras. I love the author’s use of mantras and I relate so much to what she says about motherhood. This book is a great resource for any mom starting, and even the seasoned mother, who needs to just take a breath now and again and say something to get her through the tough times.
Like I said, I believe mantras do have their place! I like to use them once I am there (in a situation) as a reminder that this too shall pass. I can remind myself who I am, and what I stand for. Not that I always succeed, but I can try.
I also love a good mantra in meditation. A chant. It keeps the mind focused.
I take a yoga class where we do chanting, mostly in Sanskrit. Here is an example of a Sanskrit chant that opens the yoga class.
Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo
Literally means: to call upon the creative energy of the universe, the divine, to transform light into dark
Ong – the energy of the active creative element in the universe
Namo – to call upon
Guru — that which transforms dark (gu) into light (ru)
Dev – that which resides in the etheric or divine realm
When we chant this before yoga, we are asking that the creative energy enter our practice and transform dark into light, for us.
To some, it seems strange, but after practicing the use of chants I see how it connects us. The voice during a chant becomes one – it is unity at its finest.
I also believe in affirmations. When the tape in my head tells me I’m not good enough, I can always pull out an affirmation and solidify my place in this universe as a child of God. I belong here, I have a purpose and I am numero uno with someone, even if that someone is just me and my Maker. (I know my mom and dad think I’m pretty cool too, just in case I need human validation.)
I love Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life, Emmitt Fox, The Power of Constructive Thinking, and abundance books that call upon positive thinking and affirming words to bring about what I want in my life. I have plenty of books about affirmation and I love every one of them.
I believe whole-heartedly in prayer, meditation, affirmations, and mantras as a way to a more overall positive life and a way to have well-being in what can be a hard road called Life.
I also believe we are not here to just be happy. That was the purpose in the post about feelings. Someone said that they thought I was angry when I wrote that post, but I wasn’t. I just think we get a tad caught up in happiness and ignore that we are meant to have feelings, but we are not meant to dwell on those feelings.
When we dwell, the feelings have become habit. And habits are meant to be broken. Sometimes I think people try to talk themselves out of those habits. It is my opinion that words will lift us up and talking does a lot, but a physical smile can literally change the chemistry of the brain (even a fake one). Laughter has been a known cure for cancer.
I do suppose just talking can be a good starting point. But, I think in the talking and the doing true happiness is ours for the taking.
P.S. I think I should say something about depression. I do not believe all depression is a habit. Depression is real, and I know personally. I am on medication for it. Today, I am also taking music therapy, yoga, exercising, going to church, and doing more for the depression than I did when I first got on the meds.
I now want off, but I am having a hard time getting off. I notice that I become weepy and have thoughts that are not my own, no matter how much I tell myself they are not mine. I get scared of myself when I become that person.
It’s a hard call. I think when I got on the meds it was what I knew. Now that I know better would I do things differently? Probably. But, I have already made my decision based on what I knew at the time. I think, based on my history and where I was, I wish I would have had the same resources I now have in my life. I wish I would have known how to combat my chemistry with more natural methods. But I didn’t.
I trust that anything which has happened to me and any decisions I made about medication for depression were for the greater good. My goal is to use natural methods to get off of the meds, and I am doing it. But it’s not overnight. It takes time. And I’m willing to use what I have available to me today.
This is a personal decision, one that I believe each person has to make on his or her own, but it’s good to know there are methods out there besides medication if you are dealing with mild to moderate depression.
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Have you ever looked at the Internet's seedy underbelly?
I'm not talking about the scammers, the porn peddlers, the file sharers, email spammers and political party operatives. They're just part of the landscape, we see them all the time, most of us know how to handle them.
No, this time I'm talking about the sheer volume of completely, utterly useless robot-generated crap that sits around, doing nothing at all except to make it harder to find what you're looking for.
Let me elaborate a bit. When you're trying to find something recent and/or popular, it's almost certain you'll find it in the first page or two of results from Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Ixquick, Yandex or any other major search engine. And when you're trying to find something in the scientific literature – where everything, no matter how small, could become important and people are obsessive about properly cataloguing historical publications – you'll likely find that the paper from 1898 that you need has been scanned and catalogued for immediate download; at the very least, you'll be quickly directed to a library that has (or can get) it.
A great deal of work, though, is now simply lost to the world after a few years. For example, I've spent more than a few hours over several months trying to track down a handful of publications from the late '90s and early 2000s, all of which were influential and widely known in their time. None of them are scientific literature, so they're not in those databases; all have been abandoned by their publishers, with no scans or back stock available. There's evidence that copies of some of them occasionally show up on eBay, but sending hundreds of dollars to extremely questionable eBay sellers isn't much more appealing than driving down to the one library in some middle-of-nowhere American state that has the hard copy in their catalogue.
Usually, when a potentially significant publication is in danger of disappearing, someone – somewhere – has scanned a copy and shared a PDF of it. But all that comes up on the big search engines is the same ten bad opinion pieces from major magazines about the book, never the book itself; the specialized search engines (torrent trackers, etc.) only offer page after page of random, spambot-generated gibberish. If there's a nugget of gold in there, it's lost beneath four thousand pages of Usenet spam and a hundred gigabytes of fake torrents.
Someone must be drawing some benefit from all this crap that's cluttering up the 'Net, making it nearly impossible to find anything that isn't in this week's top 100. Are they just filling the junk pages with pay-per-click advertising, trusting that the ad networks are too stupid or lazy to catch on? Are they being paid by malware distributors to pad everything they can get their hands on with download links for "your_search_term.zip.exe"?
Whatever the economic motivation, I'm getting a bit concerned about the risk this sort of thing poses to our cultural heritage. Literature is being generated faster than any library can keep up; librarians must therefore implicitly assume that the Internet will take care of the lower-priority stuff that they can't afford to catalogue and archive. Perhaps that's true for many of today's new releases. There's an enormous backlog of older material, though, that never got scanned; there's also undoubtedly a lot of stuff that simply gets lost in the noise after a few years, never to be seen again.
If it is this difficult to track down a handful of relatively well known, influential publications from just fifteen years ago, I can only imagine how difficult it will be for a geographer, anthropologist or sociologist of the 2050s or 2100s to understand the cultures of our current age. They'll have to spend orders of magnitude more time training an AI to separate out "news footage of key events" from "my phone camera was on by accident in my pocket and I youtubed it anyway" clips than they'll spend actually figuring out why our society became what it is.
Do I have a solution? Not really; not a workable one, and not one that I can implement. But perhaps I can at least inspire a few publishers (or "pirates", if necessary) to ensure that genuinely valuable literature gets preserved in a form that can be searched and shared without too much hassle.
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“Going public” via a course of generally recognized as an initial public providing means that part of the business will be owned by members of the common public. This requires the group as a definite entity, to disclose info to the common public, and adhering to a tighter set of laws and procedures. Where two or more people own a business together however have failed to arrange a more specialized form of car, they are going to be treated as a general partnership. The phrases of a partnership are partly governed by a partnership settlement if one is created, and partly by the regulation of the jurisdiction the place the partnership is situated. No paperwork or filing is essential to create a partnership, and without an agreement, the relationships and legal rights of the companions might be completely ruled by the legislation of the jurisdiction the place the partnership is located. A single person who owns and runs a business is often known as a sole proprietor, whether that particular person owns it directly or by way of a formally organized entity.
Business Prime members get access to extra tools and options to simplify buying, streamline procurement, and assist cut back costs. Verizon Small Business Essentials helps your small business get began quickly and simply. Filled with webinars, articles, videos, and graphics that cowl the newest news and business tendencies to fit Business News just about each level of your business’ improvement. You make probably the most of each minute and try to study from every expertise. Deposit merchandise offered by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Member FDIC. Use these eight tips to handle business money flow more successfully.
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The SEC is now analyzing communications between Digital World and Trump Media, the former disclosed in a filing earlier this month. Securities regulators are in search of to determine whether the companies might have violated rules forbidding SPACs from planning a take care of an acquisition target before asserting it publicly, the New York Times has reported. Shanghai-based Arc Capital, an investment firm that has been the goal of probes by securities regulators, is at the center of the deal to take Trump’s media enterprise public. An assurance that a product or service will perform to a certain standard. Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey — monthly information on employment, hours, and earnings by business and geographic space. Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics — this launch consists of updates for the private sector as an entire and for agency measurement lessons.
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A searing portrayal of the reality of the battles fought by the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace, as seen through the eyes of a common soldier (The Tanner). This stunning play shows the brutality of war and the heavy costs paid by the ordinary men and their families who choose to follow the leaders, nobles and clan chiefs into combat – in these instances, to win back their freedom from the oppressive forces of a foreign monarch. The macabre twist that ends the play speaks to the vengeance wrought by those who lose so much.
‘The Tanner’ has received multiple 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and been performed at historic sites in Scotland and England. Notably, the play has been vetted by Historic Scotland (the government office that oversees all historical monuments and events), as well as The School of History at the University of Edinburgh, and has been declared historically accurate.
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Owning a BMW is a privilege, as you well know if you’re fortunate enough to have one sitting in your driveway. Engine care and maintenance are critical to preserving the integrity of your BMW, but sometimes issues can still occur despite our best efforts. BMWs are known for performing consistently well throughout their lifetime, but not without following the appropriate maintenance schedule, anticipating problems, and acting preventively. These tips can help save you from costly BMW repair.
With the help of a BMW specialist, this process is made a lot easier. One issue that BMW drivers tend to encounter now and then is engine overheating. During the warmer months of the year, it is particularly important to pay attention to the health of your BMW’s engine cooling system. Experiencing engine overheating is not a fun endeavor for any driver, let alone someone who expects excellence and high-quality performance. If you’ve ever dealt with engine overheating, it can often be costly and inconvenient to address properly; but when you know what to expect in terms of the common causes of overheating, you can try to prevent them.
Cooling systems in BMW’s are very complex and have a lot of parts that rely on each other, so when one thing goes wrong, it can cause a ripple effect throughout the whole system. Here are some common issues that can cause your system to fail and lead to an entire system repair:
Your BMW’s engine requires coolant to regulate the temperature of the engine. During warmer seasons of the year, your engine must work harder to keep the engine temperature at the appropriate level. Especially under these conditions, it can be detrimental to spring a coolant leak. Air forces its way inside the system, creating a pocket of air that prevents coolant flow. Inadequate coolant flow or coolant leaks are one of the number one reasons for engine overheating; without coolant, the engine can’t maintain its optimal temperature.
As mentioned before, when coolant cannot properly flow through your BMW’s engine it cannot help maintain the temperature. A clogged cooling system is usually due to one of a few causes: a malfunctioning thermostat, debris, or natural buildup. A contaminated cooling system will eventually be unable to circulate the coolant properly, resulting in an overheating engine.
Believe it or not, different cars require different types of coolant. Furthermore, depending on the environmental conditions you live in, you’ll need a specific type of coolant. It’s important to be sure you’re using the right type of coolant for your BMW’s engine. Otherwise, it won’t be the proper viscosity for your car’s specific engine, and you might run into overheating issues. You can usually find this information in your owner’s manual, or you can contact the manufacturer directly. BMW makes its own brand of coolant as well, which you might consider buying.
The water pump is a critical component of the cooling system. The pump is what helps continue the adequate circulation of coolant; when it begins to wear out and must be replaced, it’s important to follow through as soon as possible—otherwise, you’ll most certainly encounter consistent overheating.
Preventing your BMW’s engine from overheating takes regular, ongoing maintenance and care. Following the recommended maintenance plan for your BMW can help ensure that the vital parts of your BMW’s engine and other components remain in excellent working condition. Checking coolant levels, making sure you don’t spot any leaks, and following through with routine maintenance tasks can significantly reduce the chances of your engine overheating.
Enlisting the help of a BMW specialist is a critical step in caring for your car. BMWs are uniquely engineered and therefore require personalized care. To prevent issues like engine overheating, it’s important to know what parts on a BMW tend to have natural deficits and how to intervene before symptoms occur.
The BMW specialists here at Steve’s Imports are proud to serve BMW drivers in the communities near Portland. To keep your BMW’s engine from overheating, please contact us to schedule an overall inspection of your engine and cooling system. Your safety is important to us, and BMW cars are our passion—let us put our expertise to good use!
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UAVLAS has developed an ultra-high precision autonomous landing system for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), designed to solve the bottlenecks in last-mile drone delivery. The system consists of a suite of sensors and software that provides a direct connection between the drone and its landing site, providing safe and accurate landing on charging stations and mailboxes even in strong winds, darkness and fog, or GPS-denied environments.
The system hardware includes a ground transmitter embedded in the landing platform, and a lightweight plug-and-play onboard receiver for the drone. The software provides compatibility with leading autopilots. The transmitter creates a virtual grid of positions above itself, allowing the receiver to determine its position in relation to the landing platform. No additional sensors or data from the drone’s inertial system are required for the onboard unit to determine the distance to the landing site, and movement changes do not depend on the inclination and speed of the aircraft, allowing stable operation even in strong gusts of wind.
The system’s low power consumption – less than 0.3 W for the onboard module and 1.1 W for the ground module – make it ideal for SWaP-conscious drone platforms in applications such as delivery, security and surveillance.
Yury Kapacheuski, CEO of UAVLAS, commented: “At UAVLAS we have created a robust and reliable solution for precision landing on any desired site with maximum accuracy, for security, delivery, and inspection applications. Our ultra-high precision landing system is compatible with a wide range of drones. It offers the ability to autonomously land or hover a drone over a visual target for delivery, docking station, warehouse or asset inspection, even in GPS-denied environments.”
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Lawn Meadow is the perfect blend of wildflowers, lawn seed and seed sowing granules to create a small patch of wild meadow in your lawn. It will also encourage bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden. The carefully selected varieties offer natural protection against pests such as Aphids, whilst others are self seeding for birds to eat. Whatsmore, it is also natural and child and pet friendly too.
Why use Lawn Meadow?
What wildflowers and grasses does Lawn Meadow contain?
Red Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
Flowers between June-September. A great source of pollen for attracting bees.
Perennial Flax (Linum perenne)
Flowers in June. Once this flower goes to a seed head it becomes a great source of food for birds.
Pot Marigold (Calendula officinalis)
Flowers in June. Offers natural protection against aphids but will also attract pollinators such as hoverflies and lacewings.
Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x Superbum)
Flowers between June – October. Great source of pollen and nectar for attracting bees and butterflies.
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Flowers between May – August. Attracts ladybirds due to its flat-topped flower and pollen content. Ladybirds are natural predators for aphids.
- Borage (Borago officinalis)
- Scarlet Flax Seeds (Linum grandiflorum rubrum)
- Paterson’s Curse (Echium plantagineum)
- Corncockle (Agrostemma githago milas + Wild Type)
- Cornflower (Centaurea ʻBlue Boyʼ + Wild Type)
- Alyssum (Lobularia maritima benthamii)
and grasses ideal for a lawn meadow in your garden
How to use Lawn Meadow?
WHEN TO USE
- For Summer flowering sow from March to May and for Spring flowering (following year) sow from August to October.
- For best results apply to bare soil for better seed-soil contact. Ideal for use after scarification.
- Do not apply when the soil is dry, during freezing conditions or when frost is expected
HOW TO USE
- This pack treats 40m2 which is equal to four car parking spaces. 1 parking space = 2 x 5 metres = 10m2
- Remove any large stones and weeds.
- Dig over bare soil and level out or scarify existing lawn until bare soils areas can be seen.
- If soil is really dry, water 24 hours before sowing the seeds.
- Shake the pack and rotate at least three times before use to mix the contents.
- Scatter the seed mix at a rate of 70g/m2 or for denser flowers scatter at a rate of 140g/m2. One handful is approximately 35g. To ensure even coverage, sow in a cross wise pattern.
- Once scattered, lightly rake to incorporate seeds into the soil surface.
- Water daily, gently at first to avoid washing away the seeds. Preferably in the evening until seedlings appear, then as required depending on weather conditions.
- Lawn Meadow does not require frequent mowing. Instead, only cut at the end of the season (September/October).
- Cut to soil level when dry conditions allow, and leave clippings on top of the cut area for 7-10 days. This will allow any seeds to fall back down onto the soil, ready to grow next year.
WHAT TO EXPECT
- After two weeks, first green shoots should appear.
- Seedlings will develop into young plants after four weeks.
- After 8-12 weeks first flowers will start to appear.
- Results may vary depending on rainfall, temperature and date of sowing (above timescale based on spring sowing).
- Wildflowers will flower between April and October.
- Flower heights will range from 20-90cm.
Children and pets can use the lawn after application. It is good practice to wash hands and skin after use. It is also always a good idea to store product away from children and pets in a dry, frost-free place.
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Business Unity South Africa President Sipho Pityana has called for "cool heads and pragmatism" in any changes that may follow a committee of Parliament’s decision to adopt a report that calls for amending the Constitution to specifically allow land expropriation without compensation.
Pityana, in a media statement, warned that the land issue ran the risk of being reduced to ideological wrangling that could polarise South African society ahead of a national election.
"South Africa must confront its past, which continues to stalk it through the land question. We call for cool heads and pragmatism, and an approach that does not undermine SA Inc’s economic fundamentals," he said.
Pityana said BUSA endorsed the need to undo South Africa’s unjust land ownership and distribution patterns, pledging the formation’s support in addressing historical economic imbalances.
"We have just emerged from a trying period of political uncertainty that manifested in economic stagnation. As we confront the land question, BUSA calls for a unifying approach that will inspire confidence and solve the land question constructively," said Pityana.
He said the business formation believed land should be addressed conclusively "in a fair, just, equitable and transparent manner".
The business body said property rights and land ownership were fundamental requirements that will help to ensure South Africa addresses its societal structural imbalances.
"However, BUSA notes that the issue is not confined to Section 25 of the Constitution – it is about how the entire edifice of the land reform programme has been a resounding disappointment to those intended to benefit from it," said BUSA in the statement.
Reaction to the resolution has been mixed thus far. On Thursday Agri SA said the resolution to adopt the report would damage the economy and deter investment, while the Banking Association of SA said property rights must be protected.
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The Connecticut General Assembly has approved legislation prohibiting discrimination based on hairstyles that are historically associated with race.
HB 6515, known as the Crown Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair), passed the state Senate unanimously March 1 after gaining House passage the previous week.
Gov. Ned Lamont indicated he will sign the bill, which amends the state’s discrimination prevention statutes to define race as a protected class "being inclusive of ethnic traits historically associated with race, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles."
Under HB 6515, "'Protective hairstyles' includes, but is not limited to, wigs, headwraps, and hairstyles such as individual braids, cornrows, locs, twists, Bantu knots, afros, and afro puffs."
Emergency certification and House and Senate passage followed a lengthy public hearing where a number of women testified about their experiences with being discriminated against in the workplace due to their hairstyles.
Many recalled being told their chosen hairstyles made them look less professional.
Once enacted, the statute will immediately allow workplace discrimination claims based on hairstyles to be brought before the CHRO.
California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, and Colorado all have similar laws.
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An EPA report released last year found that 35% of the United States food supply gets wasted. This results in the annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 42 coal-fired power plants, not counting the emissions after the food is landfilled. There are two main ways to cut food waste: food rescue (for example, delivering restaurant leftovers to homeless shelters instead of tossing them in the trash) and prevention (buying less or using up the food that’s in your fridge before it becomes waste).
While some environmental issues simply need to be tackled at the systemic level (an impassioned individual cannot suddenly roll out an electric bus fleet for their city all on their own), food waste is one that we can tackle at home: We all play a role in creating the problem. While a lot of waste happens before food ever reaches us, a 2020 study found that the average American household wastes 31.9% of its food each year. That’s the amount we can control.
What can you do to eliminate food waste?
Tip #1: Set a goal for cutting food waste. Several of these steps have to do with using psychology to help you reduce food waste. It’s important to start by making a mindset shift and setting a clear goal that you can stick to. You’ll be less likely to waste food if every time you’re tempted to slip into a wasteful, old habit you remind yourself of your goal.
Tip #2: Purchase less food. The best way to prevent food waste is to purchase only what you need. There are a couple approaches, and you need to know which one works for you.
Option 1: Make a meal plan. Whether you’re cooking for just yourself or for your whole family, it helps to know what you’re going to cook in a given week before you head to the grocery store. And instead of having something different for each meal, you can make it easy on yourself by cooking large quantities of food at a time. If you know you’re going to have salads for lunch, tacos for a couple dinners, a stir fry for a couple dinners, and grandma’s pot roast recipe this weekend, you’ll know exactly what you need to get at the grocery store and you’ll make sure to use up all the ingredients over the course of a week. Try the EPA’s tips to help you get started. This is great for busy professionals or students, parents or anyone else who doesn’t have a lot of time or energy to cook every day.
Option 2: Shop European style – every day. My partner cannot fathom predicting what he’s going to eat a full week in advance, so while I make a meal plan for our breakfasts and lunches, he pops out to the grocery store to get the ingredients we need for dinner most nights. This is great for those of us not raising kids or taking care of other family members, who are prone to cravings or get bored with a meal plan, who have some more time in the evening, or just really enjoy cooking each night. It’s also probably not an option for anyone not living in an urban center, with several grocery stores within walking distance.
Tip #3: Use the food you have. Once the food is in your house, make it a priority to use it. Here’s how:
Food prep. The biggest barrier to using up the food you have is typically time – if you get to the end of a long work day and you’re hungry for dinner but haven’t prepared anything, you might be tempted to get takeout. In the meantime, the food in your fridge gets a little less fresh. Save your wallet and your food by putting in some time to prep key ingredients or entire meals at the start of the week.
Organize your kitchen to make it easier for you to use up your food. I like to have fruit visible in my kitchen so I remember to grab an apple or clementine when I want a snack, rather than reaching for a non-perishable (and perhaps less healthy) item in my pantry. Another key organizational tip is to use the first-in-first-out (FIFO) method when putting food away in your fridge. Put the freshest, most recent purchases toward the back, and bring the older purchases to the front. This will help you prioritize eating the older items before they go bad.
Mix things up. Make swaps in your recipes to use what you have instead of buying more ingredients. My favorite swap? When I found out I was allergic to celery, I needed to find an alternative source of crunch in my favorite recipes. I always have carrots in my fridge, so I tossed them in my chickpea salad and ended up liking it better. You can do the same thing with most recipes out there. And if you can’t figure out a swap, just search “replacement for [ingredient]” and you’ll find lots of ideas online.
Use every part of your food. Too often we dispose of perfectly good parts of our food – stems, seeds, bones, etc – simply because we don’t know how to use those parts. FoodPrint has tons of ideas to help you get started saving your scraps from produce. And here’s a simple bone broth recipe to make your chicken dinner go further.
Saturdays are for stir fries, stews, salads, and smoothies. Every week, I inevitably end up with some ingredients that I didn’t get around to using. The easiest way to use them up without getting super inventive or buying more ingredients is to create a stir fry, stew, salad, or smoothie. Pretty much any fresh ingredient you have can be used up in one of these dishes.
Tip #4: Make your food last. If you’re eating a diverse diet and trying complicated dishes, you may not be able to use every single thing you buy at the grocery store in a given week, and that’s fine. Or if you live far from a grocery store or simply don’t have time to shop every week, you don’t need to settle for eating packaged, highly processed food. You just need to know how to make your food last a little longer to avoid waste.
Know how to store different foods to preserve freshness. The New York Times created a helpful chart detailing how to store some of the most common types of produce. Printing it off and sticking it on your fridge might help you keep track. The EPA has also put out its own helpful guide. And if you encounter a food item you’re not sure about, a quick internet search should fix that.
Know how to read labels. “Sell by,” “best by” and “use by” dates on labels are unnecessarily confusing. Bottomline: these dates don’t all mean that your food is unsafe to eat. Until this system gets better, here’s a guide to help you understand what these labels mean so you can avoid throwing out food that’s perfectly safe. The FoodKeeper app can also help you figure out how long food is safe to eat.
Know how to use up food that’s past its prime. Lots of food can still be used in creative ways even if the old you would have tossed it. Wilted kale or spinach might not be great for a salad, but it’s still perfectly good for any cooked dish or smoothie. Chop up stale bread and roast it to make croutons, or grind it down further into breadcrumbs instead of buying breadcrumbs at the store.
Freeze things you’re not going to use all at once. If you live alone and can never get through a loaf of bread on your own in a week, separate out what you’re going to use, and stick the rest of the loaf in the freezer. Soups and other foods that can be made in bulk also freeze well so you can easily reheat them for a quick meal later without committing to eating the same thing all week.
Tip #5: Share your food. If you have food that’s nearing the end of its edible life, invite a friend over for dinner, or throw all of your leftover veggies into one big stew and share it with your neighbor. If you’re going out of town and a friend is going to be house sitting, encourage them to help themselves to the food in your fridge rather than tossing it before you leave. Just make sure you’re not replacing your food waste with theirs – this only works if it saves them a trip to the store.
Finally, compost what you can. Even when we’re being conscious about food waste, we’re not perfect. And some food scraps are just that: inedible scraps. That’s where compost comes in. A 2019 PIRG Education Fund report found that composting all organic waste -- including food scraps and yard trimmings -- could eliminate nearly one-third of all materials sent to U.S. landfills and trash incinerators. That’s a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that could be eliminated by properly composting food scraps.
From kitchen worm bins, backyard tumblers, curbside compost pickup to drop-off spots, there are many ways to compost. Every community has something different, and you’ll need to do a little research to find what yours has to offer and what works best for you. If your community does not offer curbside compost pickup (which would work just like trash and recycling pickup), search for private haulers, community gardens, farmers markets or grocery co-ops in the area that accept compost drop-offs. If you can’t find any options like this or would prefer to do it all on your own, check out the resources below for how-tos.
Food waste & composting resources:
Love Food Hate Waste - A UK-based consumer education project that provides helpful tips for storing food so it lasts longer, a handy tool for calculating appropriate portion sizes and more
Save the Food - A tool from our friends at the Natural Resources Defense Council that has a lot of the same info as Love Food Hate Waste, plus a calculator to demonstrate how much money food waste is costing your household
How to kitchen compost - If you don’t have a yard or are concerned about attracting critters, here’s how you can set up a compost system in your kitchen
How to backyard compost - Background info and a cheat sheet to help you get started
FindACompost.com - Find where you can drop off food scraps or other materials for compost
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What does ERP mean in purchasing?
Definition of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Enterprise resource planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance, and supply chain operations.
What do ERP systems do?
ERP is an acronym that stands for enterprise resource planning (ERP). It’s a business process management software that manages and integrates a company’s financials, supply chain, operations, commerce, reporting, manufacturing, and human resource activities.
What is ERP flow?
An ERP workflow is a logical blueprint that describes how ERP applications manage business processes. An ERP workflow: Provides real-time visibility of operations. Gives business leaders a quick view of their global supply chain. Helps identify challenges and opportunities, enabling you to make faster business …
Which is an ERP advantage?
ERP increases efficiency and productivity by helping users navigate complex processes, preventing data re-entry, and improving functions such as production, order completion and delivery. Streamlined, efficient processes throughout.
Where are ERP used?
ERP is commonly used by companies working within the supply chain to help keep track of all the moving parts of manufacturing and distribution. However, ERP can be utilized by a number of different industries including those in healthcare, nonprofit groups, construction and hospitality.
What are ERP examples?
3 Real Examples of Large Companies Using ERP
- Amazon. Amazon uses an ERP software called Systems Analysis and Program Development (SAP).
- Starbucks. Starbucks uses Oracle ERP – a cloud-based software solution used to automate back-office processes and day-to-day business activities.
What does ERP stand for in enterprise resource planning?
What Is ERP? ERP stands for enterprise resource planning, but what does ERP mean? The simplest way to define ERP is to think about all the core processes needed to run a company: finance, manufacturing, HR, supply chain, services, procurement, and others. At its most basic level, ERP integrates these processes into a single system.
What are ERP systems for the restaurant industry?
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a process used by companies to manage and integrate the important parts of their businesses. Many ERP software applications exist to help companies implement resource planning by integrating all of the processes it needs to run a company with a single system.
Why was ERP introduced in the 1990’s?
Near the end of the 1990’s, ERP was introduced. ERP transformed the technology sector by serving a broader range of industries and by combining MRP II, human resources, project accounting, and end-user reporting. In the short span of the 21st century, faster internet speeds and new development tools have again revolutionized ERP suites.
What do you need to know about ERP systems?
What is ERP System and how can these solutions manage organizations day-to-day business activities, such as accounting, finance, procurement, project management, supply chain, and manufacturing. ERP systems are designed around a single, defined data structure (schema) that typically has a common database.
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Organization organizing is a crucial aspect of virtually any corporation. This serves as the trail map to accomplishment. Devoid of it, companies quite often are unsuccessful within their try to obtain certain set goals available globe. A well-formulated strategy will aid to complete various goals in the end.
Typically, organization planning is employed to find money and increase venture capital or perhaps funds coming from several buyers. The goals, a business could have been various nonetheless typically consist of improvement, building fresh facilities, or perhaps getting new ways to enhance sales. Buyers usually present capital therefore. To be able to protected the capital required to meet up with these desired goals, a small business often needs to put up a pitch to potential buyers that outlines their very own plans to get achieving the create goals.
Giving answers to queries regarding the viability for the business’s prepare sometimes helps potential traders. Commonly, business strategies contain a number of economical cases that illustrate the way the business may obtain their create goals on the provided time period. A business capacity to make the mandatory cash flow is normally evaluated by experts in a swot analysis. Swot examination is based upon the principle of source and demand; it examines the present supply of funds to the long term requires of customers. An excellent swot research can reveal whether an organization gets the means to satisfy it is create goals or perhaps will be needing outdoor financing to complete the task.
If the organization has accomplished task management which is considering looking for capital raising, a swot research can easily become accomplished. To be able to finished this kind of research, nevertheless , particular details must be submitted for the loan provider. One of these information can be described as information of the business enterprise itself, such as services and products it includes. This information must also distinguish any kind of potential financial obligations. Additionally, it is essential to put up documents that talks about the managing group. This kind of proof may be as the bios or perhaps organization overviews, or perhaps it could be as an entire strategy design template.
Conditions business plan template can be a significant aid for that wide range of organization organizing procedures. These design templates enable interested people inside the expense discipline to quickly get the data they must evaluate financial commitment options. The web templates are likewise incredibly useful for individuals in product sales, advertising, or perhaps businesses who all are new to business www.tweenietots2.co.uk preparing and have tiny experience of the approaches and equipment that are used in the act.
Many businesses make the error of assuming that since they are well-understood and knowledgeable about the concepts of business organizing, they cannot need to set a backup plan. When experience and knowledge are necessary, particularly if it comes to complicated matters such as those that matter the money of endeavors, there are actually certain hazards interested in commencing difficult projects with no backup prepare. Because a business does not have a approach, failing may end result. Although zero organization is certainly immune system to inability, it is wiser to consider a contingency programs for important projects also to establish a culture of regular, well-planned, long-term desired goals that you can work toward. The provider’s success is determined by it.
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A GoodNews exclusive.
Nowadays, one could observe a trend of younger and more globalised generations of Malaysian youth becoming more socially aware. This has come to a point of sparking conversations our usually-conservative what more “typical Asian” community would not bring up. One of those would be on emotions and vulnerability.
Enter ‘But Honestly’, an online community on Instagram (@buthonestly._) founded recently by two young Malaysians, school teacher Ting Shi Qi, 24, and financial analyst Sarah Wong, 25. Working together with them is Psychology student Davin Ngu, 22.
“All three of us grew up together and were privileged enough to grow up in an environment where vulnerability was encouraged,” they shared in a story on Instagram. “However, we found not many of our friends grew up in an environment like this.”
“So we set forth to create a product: a card game to facilitate such conversations and to create a safe space for people to open up. The card game is not here yet though, so for now, we thought we’d start the conversation here on Instagram.”
Although initially the page started as a means of gaining followers and hype around the project, it now has become something more. “We realised things kind of developed where people are actually being very open, honest, and supportive of what we’re doing,” shared Sarah. “I think that was when we decided to create a community of people who were willing to share very personal stuff with us.”
“We’re really encouraged that we have gotten a lot of good responses, people are really engaging and very honest with us about their struggles and how they feel,” Shi Qi added.
The idea for a card game started around Christmas last year, after Shi Qi’s initial attempt to host her own online store selling phone cases. However after almost two months, she did not have the passion for her product and felt like something else was missing.
After Sarah got to know of a similar and popular card game ‘We’re Not Really Strangers’ by a friend, and having conversations with Shi Qi around topics such as growing up in Malaysia, relationship with their parents, and having conservative parents, the duo thought it would be a cool game to bring into a Malaysian context.
So the duo got to work and recruited Davin to help with research and game development. “He studies Psychology which is quite cool because he gives us that psychological insight,” Sarah mused. “He’s a final year student right now in HELP university.”
They also had Emilyn Gan, 24, whom they met through a mutual friend, onboard to help with But Honestly’s visual design.
When asked about how different But Honestly is going to be from We’re Not Really Strangers, Shi Qi shared, “We decided on a more lighthearted approach, so our card game is mainly designed for bigger groups.”
“The idea is for groups of friends to normalise this idea of vulnerability and talk about things that we don’t usually bring up, and these question prompts would be the catalyst for this kind of conversation.”
Adding to that, Sarah also shared on how it is about trying to build empathy, getting to know people in a deeper and more meaningful way, and just to understand what is actually going on in their lives.
“Because sometimes we can be friends with people for years but we don’t actually know what’s going on, and I think that people do long and crave for that kind of connection,” said Sarah.
Some of But Honestly’s future plans post-release would include an online version of the game, expansion packs, and even bilingual packs such as English/Malay or English/Chinese that can be played by people from different cultural backgrounds.
All of this has been birthed out of the need and importance of emotional health among Malaysians.
“I’m a teacher right now, and I see so many youths suffer emotionally because they cannot handle their emotions,” shared Shi Qi. “All the crazy stresses of studying and working hard can really kill your mind, so we need to learn how to take care of our mental and emotional health.”
“So often we go through the motions of life, we’re so busy (that) we don’t even have time to process what we’re feeling,” Sarah adds. “Sometimes you could even be having symptoms of stress or depression but you don’t actually know it because you’re so used to it.”
The card game co-founders also shared their heart for Malaysians. “I just want to encourage youth in Malaysia or Malaysians in general to find that group of people, that community that you can trust,” said Sarah. “Your emotions are valid,” said Shi Qi. “I think that is something we don’t emphasise a lot on and we have learnt to be very dismissive of our own as well as other people’s emotions.”
At the time of writing, the But Honestly card game is at its prototype stage and has yet to be printed and released. Once it is released, you can expect a pack of cards to go for around RM50 to RM100, similar to local card games ‘The Malaysian Dream’ and ‘The Lepak Game’. Their Kickstarter campaign is anticipated to launch at the beginning of August 2021.
Be sure to follow their Instagram page for more updates on this project!
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