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About the HTF
The Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund was established in 2005 thanks to the efforts of PACDC and other advocates. From 2006 – 2019, it has assisted over 47,000 households in addressing a range of housing needs from the production of new affordable units, home repair and adaptive modifications for the persons with disabilities, and programs designed to prevent and end homelessness.
Intended to generate local revenue, the HTF has been a vital source of funding to offset steep federal and state cuts to housing programs. Programs supported by the HTF have been critical to Philadelphia’s low-and moderate- income residents, but the need has far outpaced available resources with waiting lists measured in years or closed entirely. Community leaders from across our city joined together starting in 2015 in calling to Double the Housing Trust Fund.
Whether it’s a single mother worried about the health of her children due to a deteriorating home, a veteran struggling with addiction who needs an opportunity to get back on their feet, a
frail senior who needs a modification to be able to remain in their home, or a family on the brink of homelessness, they can’t wait for a safe, affordable home any longer.
To learn more about the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund, read the Ten Year Anniversary Report by clicking the image below and review more recent reports at the Philadelphia Department of Housing and Community Development website.
PACDC testifies on FY21 Budget to protect Housing Trust Fund dollars: https://pacdc.org/pacdc-testifies-before-city-council-on-the-fy21-budget-year-46-consolidated-plan-and-year-45-consolidated-plan-amendments/
Another $20 million is approved in FY20 for the Housing Trust Fund: https://pacdc.org/victory-fy20-city-budget-boosts-housing-trust-fund-another-20m/
The Kenney Administration and City Council announce how new Housing Trust Fund dollars will be spent: https://pacdc.org/kenney-council-proposal-new-housing-trust-fund-dollars/
City Council approves a package of bills that will boost funding to the Housing Trust Fund as an alternative to the Construction Impact Tax: https://pacdc.org/council-committee-approves-housing-trust-fund-bills/ | <urn:uuid:5e1300d0-d198-4c49-b13c-ecc9e6dfe662> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pacdc.org/policy/double-the-htf/about-the-htf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923924 | 503 | 1.875 | 2 |
The aim of this exercise is to deploy the Festival Search Engine application on Docker containers. Each module of the application will be deployed on a specific container: mongo, backend and frontend.
We will use the docker-compose command of Docker to deploy the FSE application.
The zipped file provided at the end of this page contains:
- two folders, backend and frontend, which contain the Dockerfile of the two corresponding modules.
- a yaml file: fse-compose.yaml which describes the workflow (how the three modules are "linked": port, IP addresses) and the virtual network infrastructure on which the application is deployed.
The yaml file is used by docker-compose to deploy the application.
Structure of the Yaml file
The first section - services section - describes the three containers (services): mongo, backend and frontend modules:
This container relies on the last version of the mongo image (Docker repository).
"expose" informs Docker that the container listens on the specified network ports at runtime. "expose" does not make the ports of the container accessible to the host.
In other words, "expose" opens the port in the container, making it accessible by other containers.
The second service describes the backend module:
When deployed, this container will have the private address: 10.5.0.6 and will listen on port 3000.
The third service describes the frontend module:
The "ports" option establishes a link between a container port and a host port, making the container port accessible from the host.
"command" provides the arguments to pass to the Docker ENTRYPOINT command (see Dockerfile file)
The last section of the fse-compose.yaml file (networks section) describes the virtual network on top of which the three containers will be deployed:
- subnet: 10.5.0.0/16
To deploy the application, type : docker-compose -f fse-compose.yml up
To access the FSE application, type: http://localhost:8080
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How SC Media and Technologies is changing the game
Digital marketing is the use of the Internet to reach consumers. Digital marketing is a broad field, including attracting customers via email, content marketing, search platforms, social media, and more.
SC Media and Technologies which was founded on 17 July 2020 is helping customers build their online presence. The company looks on to overall growth which includes, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. The company also helps artists to reach a greater audience by featuring them in big publications.
Here is how Social Media Marketing helps
YouTube marketing can be an intimidating tool for brands. YouTube allows marketers to present unique content that’s easy for viewers to consume and share.
By using different platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, people can promote themselves.
Music promotions on Spotify, Soundcloud, and all the music stores can make the artists reach their audience organically.
The brand promotion aims at stimulating demand for a product. A promotion strategy persuades customers to engage more with the brand to increase its sales and market share. An important element of the marketing mix designed to inform, remind and influence the customers.
Google AdWords is a marketplace where companies pay to have their website ranked right with the top organic search results, based on keywords. The basic gist is, you select to promote your brand based on keywords.
A powerful social media presence will be a powerful weapon for your career. So read, learn, think and create as much as you can. The more you create, the easier this game will get. If you are looking for a way to boost your online presence, then your best choice is to use Social Consult where you get boost your online presence across ALL social media platforms for the cheapest prices. | <urn:uuid:64461331-be30-4e08-a386-b44f493d9bad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ustimesnow.com/how-sc-media-and-technologies-is-changing-the-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933216 | 361 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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$267 Million to Upgrade Math and Science Education
May 29, 2009
The Ministry of Education will launch a SR 1 billion ($267 million) project to upgrade math and science syllabi in the Kingdom’s schools, Al-Watan newspaper reported today.
The new math and science curricula will be introduced in the first and fourth standards of primary schools and the first standard of intermediary schools beginning next academic year. The new curriculam will be introduced in secondary schools the following year.
Muhammad Asiri, secretary-general of the project, said in order to successfully implement the project, classroom teachers and education supervisors need to be trained in modern teaching techniques. Asiri said 4,000 teachers have already been trained and about 550 education supervisors are undergoing training in the new teaching methods, Al-Watan reported.
Asiri said the project is expected to be completed in three years. | <urn:uuid:32342e22-1208-4ed6-9856-277a8f219a05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saudiembassy.net/news/267-million-upgrade-math-and-science-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952698 | 182 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The pandemic has decimated the TV schedules, scattering soap operas, Olympic Games and major dramas to the four winds. And yet, Channel 4 and Channel 5 keep unearthing endless archaeology documentaries about ancient Egypt. By the autumn, the BBC and ITV will be rotating repeats of Dad’s Army and Vera, but Channel 4 and Channel 5 will be thrilling us with “Tutankhamun: Was He British?” and “The Valley of the Kings: Maybe We Missed a Bit”. What is it that our fourth and fifth TV channels are hoping to find out there in the desert? Viewers, presumably.
The Hunt for Cleopatra’s Tomb (Channel 5) wasn’t hoping to find Cleopatra’s tomb, but rather clues to where, maybe, she might, perhaps, have been laid to rest. For decades, Egyptologists have assumed that the pharaoh would have been interred in her home city of Alexandria, but the great fire of the Library of Alexandria and the tsunami of AD365 obliterated the evidence. Dr Kathleen Martinez, however, had a different idea, and has been excavating a temple complex outside Alexandria, Taposiris Magna, for the past 14 years.
Televised archaeology is, by its very nature, hardly pulse-racing. However, this documentary, fronted by Dr Glenn Godenho of the University of Liverpool, had a rare money-shot – it captured the moment Martinez opened a catacomb at Taposiris Magna, which had not seen the light of day in more than 2,000 years. “You have to come down and see this wonder,” said Martinez to Godenho, tipping her hat to Howard Carter. Inside lay a pair of desiccated figures, which stretched the definition of wonder a little, though it confirmed there were significant people buried on the site, and therefore…
Well, therefore not much, at this moment. There was a lighthouse on the site which Martinez believed “could” be a funerary temple, “although she can’t be sure”, and, while “other Egyptologists have their doubts”, Martinez thinks Cleopatra “may” have visited. Talking heads were wheeled out to remind us that Cleopatra was an educated leader, not Elizabeth Taylor in a plunging neckline, and we were treated to several lingering shows of Cleo’s computerised, smirking head floating over the desert, though it wasn’t entirely obvious why. Martinez is clearly doing important work out there, but maybe the cameras should leave her and her colleagues alone for a bit. | <urn:uuid:371f9159-faf9-4e02-957f-7821a76123e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2020/07/16/hunt-cleopatras-tomb-review-will-free-tvs-ancient-egyptian-curse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966894 | 559 | 2.0625 | 2 |
There are many alternative sources of energy. Solar energy, hydro electric and wind energy are three of the most common options. Wind energy may be one of the most promising resources to explore.
What is a Wind Turbine?
A wind turbine is essentially a wind mill much like you’d see on far ms or in Holland. However, instead of being attached to a mill to grind grain into flour, the turbine is attached to a generator. The result is energy. How much energy? Well it depends on the size of the blades and the wind speed.
Wind turbines can be used on a large scale to produce energy for a city. The turbines generally have two or three blades or rotors. On sunny, windy days they can produce several megawatts. The energy can also be stored for non windy days. On a smaller scale, for home use, a wind turbine can produce about 100 kilowatts. They work well to compliment a solar electric power system.
How a Wind Turbine Works
The sun is what heats the earth. This heating and cooling creates wind. In a way, wind energy is also solar energy. When wind is created it has force. It has energy. If you’ve ever stood outside on a very windy day you know that this energy is quite powerful.
A wind turbine captures this energy and turns it into electricity. The wind turns the blades or rotors. The rotors are attached to a rod. When the rotors turn the rod turns as well. The rod is then attached to a gear. In an old fashioned wind mill that gear connects to a heavy gear at the bottom of the mill. It turns as the teeth of the gear rotate and it grinds the grain. In a wind turbine the gear is attached to a smaller gear and a generator. As this gear spins it creates electricity.
The generator creates electricity by using a magnetic rotor inside the generator. As the rotor spins around the core it electromagnetic induction and generates an electrical current.
Environmentally Sound Energy Source
As you can see, there’s no byproduct of wind energy. The energy is either used or stored. There is no byproduct of the energy. The only downside to wind energy is that if the wind doesn’t blow at least 10 MPH then little to no energy is created. Additionally, the generator can be quite expensive.
If you’re looking to include wind energy for your home you may want to investigate the costs and lifespan of a typical generator. Over the life of a good generator you’ll definitely make your money back. And you can rest well knowing you’re using one of the cleanest and most environmentally friendly energy sources available. | <urn:uuid:5410cddf-6e50-408e-9951-7629e310c04a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://treeliving.com/how-wind-turbines-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931756 | 557 | 3.53125 | 4 |
It was a humbling experience for the joint DSG and GMU teams to meet with and listen to Major General Muniruzzaman from Bangladesh on his country’s tragic history with terror groups. These kinds of interchanges help keep us grounded to the real impact of terrorism beyond mere data and numbers. Many of the issues that Bangladesh faces in its instances of terrorism have parallels with challenges that we face here in the United States. However, Bangladesh has many unique challenges that it must overcome.
It is shocking to think that Bangladesh could lose up to 20 % of its land mass due to climate change which would displace 10’s of millions of people. This, combined with the massive migration of displaced Rohingya’s in the state’s north from Burma, will provide a massive population that is ripe for radicalization. | <urn:uuid:a790627d-1769-4bfc-bc7a-c9d401193fcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adamblackwell.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/general-muniruzzaman-speaks-on-terrorism-at-gmu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968835 | 169 | 2.03125 | 2 |
On occasions I ask people, “What song or piece would you like to be able to play on the piano?” Whether it’s a pupil I have been teaching for a while, a brand new starter or even someone who has never had a music lesson in their life, they almost always have an answer. Most people have apparently thought about it before! But when it comes to helping them reach their goal, their answers can be quite challenging…
Sometimes it might be a well-known (possibly classical) piece that is far beyond their skill level. If so, I have check to see if there is a published simplified arrangement. If not, I consider producing a more accessible version for them myself. Whilst I regularly use my Sibelius software to produce and develop printed scores, this can be very time-consuming, depending on the complexity of the original.
On the other hand, a lot of my pupils (particularly the teenagers) answer with the name of a modern song and artist or band. I’m not much of a BBC Radio One listener, so I often have to tell them I’ve never even heard of the song or possibly the artist either!
This is where the Internet comes in very handy. A quick search on YouTube will get almost always get me to a video of their song. This is generally enough for me to assess whether I can make them a simple enough arrangement. Other websites also offer lyrics and chords to help me on my way.
Often all people want is to be able to play the tune or the introduction to a song. Sometimes they just want to vamp the chords to sing along to. But even if they want a full arrangement, I can often oblige. Unfortunately some songs, often featuring rappers, have very little melody, making them rather unsuitable for a piano arrangement. So I try to find a better song by the same artist and offer that instead.
I don’t charge any extra for sourcing music for my pupils: I feel it is part of being their teacher. Besides, I enjoy doing it and it also widens my musical horizons (though not always in directions I would choose!)
What about you? If you’re a music teacher, how much effort would you put in to find music requested by your pupils? Or if you’re a pupil or thinking of learning, how much work would you expect your teacher to do for you between lessons if there was a song you liked? I’d love to know – please add a comment! | <urn:uuid:2226824d-55c6-4dfd-bf7d-b8ce428e005e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://davidhendramusic.com/other-stuff/you-want-to-learn-to-play-what-youtube-to-the-rescue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972337 | 528 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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Exactly one year ago, a cloud of grief descended on the Nigerian nation as the news of Dana Air Flight 992 spread like wildfire. The Media and Social Networks buzzed with updates on the event and the identifying the victims of the crash even before the official flight manifest was released. It was one of the worst air disasters recorded in the Nigerian aviation history.
Grief poured out like rainfall as people who knew them posted pictures of whole families perishing in the ill-fated aircraft on social network sites like Facebook.
One year later, the airline that owned the aircraft is back in operation and it is business as usual but for those who lost loved ones, which includes me; we can only take comfort in the one who comforts those who grieve. Knowledge of scripture helps us as Christians to find strength and comfort in God. God did not immunise anyone of us from grief and trouble. This is why Jesus Himself pronounced those words at the sermon of the mount, 'Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted' (Matthew 5:4)
No doubt, on the anniversary of this incident, many of us will grieve afresh as if the event just happened. The worst thing about plane crashes is that some people end up grieving for multiple losses at once. Imagine a father who lost his children or a mother who lost her husband and children or worse still, grandparents who lost not only their child but grandchildren as well.
In our grief however, God has promised that He will provide comfort and rest for our souls. No doubt, many would ask the question, 'Why did he allow the plane to crash? Could he not have protected the Christians on board? Why did He not spare the children?' I have no answers to these questions but I know one thing, God knows what it feels like to grieve.
Imagine God's grief when man chose death in Garden of Eden by disobeying Him. Imagine His grief when He had to give up His only begotten son to die for the sins of many. Can you imagine a father watching his son being humiliated, tortured and finally out to death and he could not so much as lift a hand to help him? God is no stranger to grief; He knows exactly how you feel at this time.
In spite of the pain of losing a loved one however, as Christians, we rejoice in the hope that we have in His promise; that one day, He will wipe all our tears away and there will be no more crying or pain. What a day to look forward to!
Before that day however, we will continue to find comfort and rest in the Lord. The fact is that we live in a transient world. Babies are born everyday and people die every day. We pray that we all live to a ripe old age but the reality is that death can come calling any time. People often attribute the death of a young person to a curse or sin but that is not necessarily so. Death is a stark reality and event that everyone must be ready for, as we have no control over it. However as long as we are here on earth, God promised that He would watch over us and protect us. When He however allows events like this to happen, we can trust that He allowed it for a purpose that we may not be able to explain or understand.
As I thought back to this incident, I saw a verse of scripture that I believe is speaking to everyone grieving now, “Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand” (Isaiah 41:10)
Grief is a part of human existence. No one goes through life without going through the process; some may go through it more times than others; however, the grieving process helps us understand frailty of man and the eternal omniscience of God. For us as Christians however, we rejoice in the hope that after our journey here on earth, we have a promise and title deed to an eternal home with God. This is the reason why we do not grieve like others who do not have that hope. It is also the reason why we are able to comfort others when they are going through the grieving process.
“Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
Steve Popoola is the editor of Biblepraise Newsletter and the founder of the Biblepraise Fellowship Online at http://www.biblepraise.org. He lives in Kent, United Kingdom, where he works as an IT Professional. He currently serves as a Worship Leader as well as Home Group Leader in his local church and on occasion, speaks at invited events. He is the founder of the Biblepraise Fellowship Online Ministry and Moderator/Editor of the Biblepraise Newsletter. He can be reached through His email address, email@example.com | <urn:uuid:647cb6e3-1bc0-4cba-94dc-03b2272d3965> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biblepraise.org/comfort-in-grief | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973115 | 1,072 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Assessment and Transition Further Reading
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Bradbury, A. (2014) Learning, assessment and equality in Early Childhood Education (ECE) settings in England, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 22:3, 347-354.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) has been a site of intense policy intervention over the last decade. The extent and nature of assessment by teachers at the end of the Reception year and the reporting of the results of this assessment to the government is unusual internationally. National results from this assessment, the EYFS Profile, show continued and significant disparities in attainment by children’s socio-economic status, gender and ethnic group. Bradbury argues that the use of assessment to judge schools and teachers has implications for its operation in the classroom, as teachers feel under pressure to assess children in particular ways, and there is great potential for low expectations of some pupils to result in low attainment, which can set the child on a trajectory of educational failure.
Clarke, M. M. (2015) The language of young children on entry to school as measured by baseline assessments. Why ignore the evidence from research? Education Journal, 244, 5th October 2015, 11-16.
Professor Margaret Clark has spent a lifetime working in education, her particular research interests in early years and early years literacy. This article provides a brief outline of selected research findings, which should provide insights for contemporary policy on the assessment of young children’s language, in particular the effect of the context and the adult on young children’s score in the new, proposed baseline assessment. In each study, not only the sample, but also any groups excluded need to be considered. Other aspects in assessment of young children by tests that should provoke disquiet are identified One of the worrying findings is that none of the three studies by Tough, Wells or Tizard and Hughes had any children whose home language was other than English. In our multicultural / multilingual society it must surely be of some considerable concern that all children are only assessed in the English language.
O’Farrelly, C. and Hennessy, E. (2014) Watching transitions unfold: a mixed-method study of transitions within early childhood care and education settings, Early Years, 34:4, 329-347.
Unlike the transitions children make between settings, those they undertake between age groups within early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings are seldom studied. Accordingly, this exploratory study followed seven pre- school children (three boys and four girls) as they moved to new rooms in five ECCE settings. The findings showed that all boys and one girl demonstrated increased anxiety behaviours following transitions. This gender difference was mirrored in parental reports of negative affect and aggression in sons, but independence and assertiveness amongst daughters. Families also reported shifts in children’s identity from expert to novice and a sense of becoming ‘big’. Interviews highlighted the challenges and opportunities underlying transitions, and parents provided a rich overview of the factors they believed support and hinder transitions, emphasising the importance of strong home-centre connections. These exploratory findings suggest that internal ECCE transitions may be unique junctures in children’s ECCE experiences.
Carr, M. (2001) Assessment in Early Childhood Settings: Learning Stories. London: Sage Publications.
Carr’s work has widely influenced the use of ‘learning stories / diaries / learning journals’ in this country. The author asks: ‘How can we assess and track children’s learning in the early years in a way that includes learning dispositions and avoids the pitfalls of over-formal methods, whilst being helpful for practitioners, interesting for families, and supportive for learners? The book describes a way of assessment that stays close to the children’s real experiences and provides an alternative to mechanistic and fragmented approaches, showing how practitioners can assess what really matters. The author also argues that unless we find ways to assess complex outcomes in early childhood they will be excluded from the teaching and the learning. Simple and low level outcomes and goals will take their place. However, as Fleer (2015) emphasises, whilst learning stories represent a significant shift for assessment, they largely continue to focus on individuals.
Siraj-Blatchford, I., Kingston, D. and Melhuish, E. (2015) Assessing Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Sustained shared thinking and emotional well-being SSTEW scale for 2-5 year-olds provision. London: Institute of Education Press (IOE Press).
A new study from Iram Siraj-Blatchford, the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale is designed to consider some of the intentional and relational pedagogical strategies strongly associated with child outcomes. It considers practice that supports children aged between 2 and 5 years of age in developing skills in sustained shared thinking and emotional well-being as well as developing strong relationships, effective communication and aspects of self-regulation. It is designed to be used for research, self-evaluation and improvement, audit and regulation. Using the SSTEW Scale alongside other environment scales (including ECERS-E, ECERS-R or ITERS-R) gives users a more complete picture of what high-quality early childhood education and care can look like. It is aspirational in that it considers high quality pedagogy and practice. It can be used by researchers, heads of centres, managers, teaching staff and practitioners, as well as advisory staff and in professional development.
Fleer, M. (2002) Sociocultural Assessment in Early Years Education—myth or reality? International Journal of Early Years Education, 10(2), 105-120.
Socio-cultural theory (based on Vygotsky and his followers) is widely accepted in early childhood education. In this paper Professor Fleer of Australia, draws on socio-culturalism, relating it to assessment, including the work of Margaret Carr and Barbara Rogoff. She argues that assessment is still situated within a Piagetian framework that focuses instead on studying an individual’s ‘possession or acquisition of a capacity or a bit of knowledge’ . In contrast, in a socio-cultural perspective of assessment ‘the focus is on people’s active changes of understanding and involvement in dynamic activities in which they participate… (Rogoff, 1998: 690). Fleer admits that ‘One of the greatest challenges facing educationalists in using a sociocultural perspective for assessment is the current testing regime advocated in many English-speaking countries around the world, including New Zealand, Australia and the UK. This is an interesting paper that is likely to challenge thinking.
Guy Roberts-Holmes (2015) The ‘datafication’ of early years pedagogy: ‘if the teaching is good, the data should be good and if there’s bad teaching, there is bad data’, Journal of Education Policy, 30:3, 302-315.
This English article argues that early years high-stakes national assessments act as a ‘meta-policy’, ‘steering’ early years pedagogy ‘from a distance’ and have the power to challenge, disrupt and constrain early years teachers’ deeply held child- centred pedagogical values. Roberts-Holmes argues that the current narrowing of early years assessment, along with increased inspection and surveillance, operates as a policy technology leading to an intensification of ‘school readiness’ pressures upon the earliest stage of education. The paper suggests that this has encouraged a functional ‘datafication’ of early years pedagogy so that early years teachers’ work is increasingly constrained by performativity demands to produce ‘appropriate’ data that results in more formal schooling. This data ‘delivery chain’ may well start earlier and become stronger from September 2016 when the English Government plans to impose a Baseline Check on four-year-old children in Reception class.
Vogler, P., Crivello, G. and Woodhead, M. (2008) Early childhood transitions research: A review of concepts, theory, and practice. Working Paper 48. The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Transitions are now recognised as central to young children’s experiences and well-being, as well as a powerful integrative framework for research. The findings of this review point to the value of widening perspectives on transitions in order to inform integrated and contextualised child- focused policy and programming. By linking concepts, theories and practice, this review offers an accessible resource that is intended to have wide appeal for both researchers and practitioners concerned with early childhood transitions.
Bradbury, A. (2014) Early childhood assessment: observation, teacher ‘knowledge’ and the production of attainment data in early years settings. Comparative Education, 50:3, 322-33.
This paper examines the peculiarity of the English assessment system, the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, noting that whereas other regions of the UK have no statutory assessments of children in this age group, its use in England is an unusual case. Analysing data from two ethnographic case studies of classrooms of four- and five-year-old children, the author concludes with a number of observations of the efficacy of such assessment that impact on teachers, pedagogy and children. Set against the government’s preference for numerical data and the planned introduction of ‘baseline’ assessment, this results in ‘a reduced curriculum through ‘teaching to the test… [and] practices of ‘cynical compliance’ with regulations.
Whalley, M. Arnold, C. Lawrence, P. and Peerless, S. (2012) The voices of their childhood: families and early years’ practitioners developing emancipatory methodologies through a tracer study, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 20:4, 519-535.
At Pen Green Children’s Centre, Research projects emerged out of the daily challenges experienced by nursery staff, parents and children, and all staff were encouraged to see themselves as practitioner researchers. This research involved two groups of young people of 11-20 years of age who had attended Pen Green as young children, shared their stories, providing new insights into the child’s voice, and transforming understanding of a child’s world.
Basford, J. and Bath, C. (2014) Playing the assessment game: an English early childhood education perspective. Early Years: An International Research Journal, 34:2.
This paper highlights the latest English early childhood assessment policies, which often give contradictory messages to practitioners, outlining key challenges for practitioners and pointing the way to issues that could enable practitioners to develop greater confidence when playing the assessment game.
We are building a bank of resources to support your early years research project. Links to suggested further reading in each of the key research hubs can be found below. Or contact us and let us know how we can make this website more relevant to you and your practice.
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Energy solutions to improve lives
The advantages of beneficial electrification
What is beneficial electrification?
This idea of “beneficial electrification,” also referred to as “strategic electrification,” means that innovations in energy technology are creating new ways to use electricity instead of on-site fossil fuels such as propane, natural gas and fuel oil.
How using electricity can save you money plus benefit the environment
As electric utilities shift to more options that include renewable energy sources and make existing generation technologies cleaner, electricity uses less fossil fuel per kilowatt-hour of energy produced.
In addition to the utility industry, environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recognize the value of this concept. Sheryl Carter, Co-Director, NRDC Energy Program, commented that, “Beneficial electrification will continue to play a big role in accelerating this transition in an effective and economic way, to the benefit of consumers, energy resilience and the environment."
Electric appliances can become greener over time
As a practical matter, beneficial electrification means that electric appliances, like your water heater, clothes dryer and oven have the potential to become greener over time. When your electric co-op takes advantage of advances in technology and the market at the generation point, it means those efficiencies are inherently passed along to you, the co-op member.
Large appliances have a typical lifespan of 15 to 20 years. As a result, when the electrical grid transitions to cleaner renewables, your appliances become greener. In other words, the high-efficiency electric oven you have today could be powered by renewable sources three years from now. This would not be the case with gas appliances. With these appliances, you are essentially locked into the technology for the next 15 to 20 years. With electrical appliances, you can benefit as your co-op transitions to more renewable options in the future.
Small steps save energy and benefit the environment
For members looking for more environmentally-friendly energy options, choosing electric appliances over those powered by fossil fuels is an easy solution. Electrifying the following appliances can help to reduce greenhouse gases and positively impact the environment:
Additionally, using electric appliances and equipment could result in lower costs to members and emissions reductions. A great example of strategic electrification would be an electric water heater, powered by wind, solar or some other kind of renewable power source. Examples like this help to reduce carbon emissions, save coop members money and increase the efficiency of the electrical grid.
Electric co-ops across the country are generating more of their energy using renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal. As a result, the electricity they produce is becoming greener over time.
Your cooperative is striving to take advantage of these advances in technology as they become available, which will allow them to leverage the new found flexibility of the electrical grid. This flexibility should allow each one of them to deliver safe, reliable and affordable power to your community.
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Learning Objectives: This quiz is designed to test students’ ability to identify and distinguish different types of social economy organizations.
(a) You are to identify the organizational type of the 15 organizations listed below, according to the scheme developed by Quarter, Mook and Armstrong.
You need to indicate whether the organizations are part of the social economy and, if so, what sector of the social economy they are in and what specific type of social economy organization they are.
If you think that an organization is not part of the social economy then, again, you need to explain why and you need to indicate what type of (non-social economy) organization you think it is.
You need to provide a rationale (based on criteria) for your classification of the organizations. You should provide as much (relevant) detail about the organizations as you can.
The 15 organizations listed below.
1. Canadian Museum of Human Rights
2.Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company
3. British Columbia Teachers Federation
4. Haida Gwaii Community Futures
5. Osoyoos Indian Band
6. Ethnicity Catering (Calgary)
7. Fourth Pig Construction
8. University Children’s Learning Centre, UBCO
9. River Select Fisheries
10.Kelowna Women’s Shelter Thrift Store
11. SARCAN Recycling
12. Amnesty International
13. Meals on Wheels
14. VanCity Community Foundation
15. Eastside Movement for Business & Economic Renewal Society (EMBERS) | <urn:uuid:9bc9b4b1-7931-4f53-b75b-9d14eb42576c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smart2write.com/blog/social-economy-classification/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.888805 | 336 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Eighty-eight women have yet to receive their medical files from CervicalCheck, it has been confirmed.
Figures released by the National Screening Service to Fianna Fáil TD Michael McGrath show 204 women have made requests seeking their medical records. However, only 116 of the files have been handed over.
Mr McGrath said this was “extraordinary” after the promises given by the Government.
The Fianna Fáil TD called on Minister for Health Simon Harris to intervene to ensure the women could access their files immediately.
The controversy came to light after Limerick woman Vicky Phelan, who has cervical cancer, settled a High Court case for €2.5 million against another US lab, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, a sister lab of MedLab, in April.
Ms Phelan sued when she discovered last year that a 2014 audit, carried out after she was diagnosed with cancer, revealed an incorrect smear test result in 2011 missing early signs of her illness.
Since the settlement, it emerged 209 women diagnosed with cervical cancer had their cases reviewed, including 18 women who died.
The number of those affected has the potential to increase as a further 46 cases are being audited.
Mr Harris and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have insisted there should be no barrier to women accessing their medical files.
However, many have reported difficulties in securing the information from the organisation.
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KYC, or Know Your Customer, is a process during which you verify the identities of your customers and assess their suitability, as well as the potential risk of illegal intentions towards the business relationship between you. The term is also used to refer to banking and anti-money laundering laws that regulate these activities. KYC processes are also used by companies of all shapes and sizes to ensure that prospective customers, agents, consultants or distributors have proper attitude towards fraud and bribes. Detailed due diligence information is something banks, insurers, export creditors and other financial institutions are increasingly demanding.
With the advent of the digital age and the spread of peer-to-peer services, mobile banking and various types of cryptocurrencies, the methods of laundering money from criminal activities have changed. Illegal funds are sent to online brokers specialized in this field, who carry them through various legal financial ecosystems and then use them in further criminal or terrorist activities. Money laundries use the largest e-commerce platforms due to their biggest advantages: online payment systems, the ease of use and global reach.
Not so long ago it was revealed that in order to launder funds, criminals and their partners used fake bookings through Airbnb. The perpetrators used stolen credit cards to book rooms through this platform and pay for their "stay" online, turning illegal income into documented earnings. A similar system has recently been discovered that illegal income using fraudulent transactions in Uber is laundered. A similar method has been discovered recently and it involves laundering illegal income via Uber through fraudulent transactions. Here brokers use stolen credit cards to book "spectre courses" using cars registered as partners. The ease with which these services can be exploited, coupled with the simultaneous difficulty of detecting such a practice, makes these methods rapidly become popular.
Money laundering through online platforms is attractive because it's simple, fast and cheap, and has global range. By using this method, you don't need to create a fake company or identity, and you don't need to keep up appearances of legality. For this reason, this phenomenon is rapidly growing in scale. It is estimated that global retail trade in e-commerce will increase by 2.2 billion dollars a year, providing criminals with greater opportunities to hide illegal transactions among a vast number of authentic ones. In addition, the increase in the number of cryptocurrencies and the development of alternative payment platforms raises legitimate concerns that "legalizing dirty income" will be even more difficult to track down.
The purpose of KYC is to prevent banks or financial institutions from being exploited by criminal elements for money laundering. Related procedures also allow them to better understand their clients and their financial transactions. This helps them manage the risks properly. Today, not only banks, but also various Internet companies can implement KYC procedures. Their policies are usually based on the following key elements:
• Customer acceptance policy
• Customer identification procedures
• Transaction monitoring
• Risk management
Although the KYC program ensures the safety of both parties, such procedures also carry some risks. For example, this delays the onboarding process for customers since they need to ensure they are compliant with the requirements and provide additional information. The latter might prove troublesome, since some of the customers might oppose that, even though they have nothing to hide. Sometimes account owners might repeatedly receive requests for the same information over and over again, but for different departments in the exact same institution. All this causes financial institutions to lose customers. In addition, KYC program's cost are very high – sometimes too high for some of the institutions or companies.
The development of IT solutions to support KYC, AML and compliance processes is moving towards their further digitalization. As far as onboarding is concerned, we are talking solutions such as AI-based face and emotion recognition or searching the Web for negative press. These new tools are to make KYC procedures more cost-effective, accurate and customer-friendly. | <urn:uuid:b4b2a10f-bef6-4979-b210-5ffc6d4aa138> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.zen.com/blog-posts/kyc-as-an-anti-fraud-measure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961634 | 783 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The benefits of custom with the ease of off-the-shelf
Configure custom workflows with trackable stages that can be delegated to teams. Designated users can model new workflows with a point-and-click interface.Learn More
Structure permissions based on business criteria. For example, define access to data types based on a user’s role, team, function, or other user characteristic. You can also configure permissions to limit the data accessible by external collaborators.
Custom entity types and relationships
Model any entity in Benchling, from patient samples, to plasmids, to reagents. Require specific entity types to link to other entity types; for example, require that every expression plasmid have a link to the antibody that it expresses. Add and interlink new entities just as easily.Learn more
In modeling any entity, you can specify any data you want to track about that entity. For example, track the purity of each lot of antibodies. You can also assign specific units to custom fields, or configure fields as dropdowns, multi-select picklists, and other structures. Fields can also be configured to automatically compute based on linked metadata. | <urn:uuid:9270ae4e-97d8-494a-a147-bfc1e6f79d87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.benchling.com/configuration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.869827 | 253 | 1.632813 | 2 |
“Moon Walk “ by: Matthew Ryan The era of the1960s started with the torch being passed to a youthful and hopeful generation of Americans. The decade would start with the lofty aspirations of landing a man on the moon’s surface and safely returning him to the earth, thus the birth of the Apollo space mission. The ensuing years would unfold with upheaval and unforeseen tragedies. The assassinations of our president, a hero of the civil rights movement, and an aspiring presidential candidate, all cut down pursuing freedom and equality. That year 1968, seemed to be the culmination of brewing unrest across the country. My family was also experiencing its own fragmentation; our home just outside of sleepy Bridgehampton was in turmoil. I was one of four children; we were all still attending grade school. My mother, desperate to hold the family unit together, decided to rent our modest Hampton house and set out for a trial relocation to Florida. The day arrived for us to make our way down Brick Kiln Road for maybe the last time. It was gray that October morning; my mother loaded the car, packing it with necessities for the move. She returned to lock the front door. Trying to hold back the tears she clenched the keys into her palm. As she pulled out of the driveway snowflakes began falling. Gusts of wind along with the flurries bore an ominous sign of days ahead. It was also during that month that month of October, 1968, that I became aware of the Apollo space mission. For the next few months my family lived on a small island near Cocoa Beach. Once there we settled in a new subdivision on Merritt Island. This was an especially interesting location, being just across the Banana River from Cape Kennedy. That year was the peak of the Apollo space program, which was the epicenter for engineering a manned flight to the moon. So many afternoons my younger brother and I fished the river and watched in anticipation, as the test flights for a moon landing were happening in our back yard. We lived at the end of a cul-de-sac and our house was on the water, giving us an unobstructed view of the Kennedy Space Center launch site. Our neighbors also gathered: mostly fathers with their sons, and a few of the girls also watched with some interest. I was 10 and my brother was just eight as we watched with delight, listening to the countdown on a neighbor’s transistor radio. We counted along with the others in the crowd. The ground rumbled under our feet; wakes of water moved rapidly along the river. Then there was a roar of the engines, and a blast of flames flashed over the watery horizon. Our eyes traced the flash toward the sky; the space ship rose directly over our heads just like the rockets we had seen in the movies. This time we were witnessing a piece of history in the making. My brother and I jumped in the air, filled with boyish delight at the spectacle. Then, as I turned to the crowd, I felt a sense of loss and a bit of shame. Looking around, I saw all the other children were sharing this moment in history with their dads, being held up to the sky and tutored on the science behind the rocket launching. These were the test flights for the space mission to land the first man on the moon, but for my brother and me there was no dad to share the wonder of a space flight. A man landing on the moon: the notion of this was in-bred boy’s fantasy, from comic book stories to the dreams of our victorious heroes. But for us our father was unavailable, unconscious for any practical definition of fatherhood. He was always out with his buddies at the bar, or already ossified passed out somewhere. We stood, mouths open, watching these tests of human determination and ingenuity triumphing over the elements and challenges of space exploration. There would be no male figure by our sides; we were out of place as fatherless sons again and again. Somehow my brother and I got along, shamed at times, lost and alone. We would never have those father-and-son memories, not even for a few moments. The divorce was easily predictable to others and finalized within the coming months. After that I didn’t have to give any excuses to anyone why my father was absent from occasions; he was now just gone. The months passed quickly. Things didn’t work out in Florida so mother took her brood back to our home in the Hamptons hamlet. I guess to keep things somewhat normal, questions about the divorce were never directly addressed. The bustling summer season then in full swing was also a distraction for our family. The Fourth of July was always exciting for children. Next it was the buzz of anticipation everywhere as the launch of Apollo 11, “D-Day” for the moon mission, was rapidly approaching. Our family like others had our black- and-white televisions on and we waited for the countdown to begin. On this typically steamy afternoon of July 20,1969, history was being made; for the first time a man would land on the moon. A billion people were watching this happen thousands of mile above the earth. There in the sky beyond our atmosphere in the darkness of outer space a man, a human in a space suit, would walk on the surface of the moon. I grew up as all young boys, looking up into the night sky and dreaming about the mysterious mound in the sky. It was constantly morphing, sometimes even disappearing or changing color, almost making it a magic place. I remember thinking about the harvest moon: it seemed to me an eerie conversion, yellowish almost sickly in nature. I mused wildly with questions about the moon; could it somehow be alive? Thoughts of danger raced within my young imagination. I think that all boys were curious and held a respectful fear of the mysterious changing mass above. I wished I had a dad to talk to. I did get scared sometimes, especially after watching a horror movie with a werewolf howling at the moon before stalking a night’s prey. Once again, I watched history in the making. On that day the entire civilized world watched the planting of the American flag on the moon, and hear that famous quote noted around the globe: “One step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” (Thank you Neil Armstrong.) Ironically, almost a decade later, on another steamy still night in July, the chapter for this father and son would come to a close. 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There is a cottage industry that exists in consulting and coaching Corporate America in speech and presentation skills. There is some information out there on the preparation of presentation materials, but virtually no information on preparing for the best live and recorded presentation. There is a certain give and take with considerations to the live audience versus the DVD or web viewers, and it is helpful to know how to maximize the quality for both.
PowerPoint (and other presentation materials)
If designing your own PowerPoint presentation, try to use dark backgrounds like blue with white letters. White or light backgrounds create a great deal of contrast between the relatively low light level on the presenter and the brightness of the screen. Blue makes a nice background that also compliments skin tone and makes it look warmer.
It is best to be able to secure either a rear screen or be able to position the laptop and projector close enough to the screen that the presenter is never standing in the projection. It is best to stand between the projector and the audience and definitely to be closer to the audience, if possible, than the screen. You can refer to the slide without having to physically touch it. A laser pointer can be effective when there is a lot of information up there, but most of the time, the audience can follow the information on the simpler slides. It is more pleasing to have the presenter looking forward at the audience instead of looking back at the screen. It is much easier to get a good video with the presenter downstage with the slide behind and slightly above him. It makes it easier to light also.
Many presentation consultants coach that a lot of movement gives the presenter and the audience a sense of energy and helps the presenter “stay in the flow.” This technique may need to be modified for a video/DVD presentation. Constant pacing back and forth makes it difficult for the camera to follow; resulting in either a wide shot or a constant panning that will make the viewer sick. Come to think of, constant pacing can sometimes make the live audience sick also. Try to use your arms and body to express yourself without moving out of a five by five area, for the most part. There are times when moving through the audience or making a dramatic move from one end to the other is effective, but not if it is done throughout the presentation. Use this energy instead in your vocal and gesture expression.
This is one of the classic trade-off issues between the live audience and video cameras. Low lighting is often aesthetically pleasing for presentation materials and the comfort of the audience and presenter. However, even good cameras need some light and the more light, the less grainy. Positioning the presenter as described above makes it possible to put one diffused spot-type light on the presenter without spilling on the screen. This light will likely be positioned somewhat to the side and as far back out of the way as possible. Some room lighting on the audience would be desirable. Fluorescent lighting should be avoided if possible.
Best to wear a colored shirt, such as blue. Avoid solid white, thin stripes or a big contrast between a dark suit and light shirt, if possible. Most men’s suits make it very easy to apply a lapel mic and make it as inconspicuous as a tie tack. Women’s suits are also easy, but a dress or jacketless shirt that has no collar or neckline is a little more difficult to deal with. Since there is usually not a lot of time to mic a presenter, it is recommended to wear a suit jacket if possible.
Finally, it is necessary to mic any presenter. Often the presenter will already have a microphone in order to be heard over a house AV sound system. The video camera person then has the option of taking an audio cable out of the house sound system, providing he can position himself close enough to the system or has enough cable and set-up time to be further away. Speaking of set-up time, the camera operator will need a few extra minutes to test the house sound coming into his camera, which is best done prior to the audience entering the room. The sound may come through distorted or be incompatible with the camera. This is why I usually opt for putting my own wireless mic on the presenter, even if he/she is already wearing one. The best option would be to use both sources, just in case, but this is not always feasible. If and only if the entire presentation will take place from a podium, a second mic (wireless or hard-wired can be secured to the podium. The general audio of the audience will be picked up by the presenter’s mic and possible a secondary ambient mic. Additional considerations exist for Q&A.
There is often structured and unstructured Q&A and it is difficult to anticipate everything that may happen and record all this audio. A handheld mic could be run around the room or a boom mic operator could go crazy trying to cover it all, but usually it is very cumbersome for the presenter to manage this. We suggest the presenter always try to repeat the questions for the benefit of the viewers and the live audience.
Setting-up and testing just one camera, one wireless mic and one light, takes at least a half hour, preferably one hour to be safe, if possible. The cameraperson needs to add time on top of this to make sure he/she can park and get into the facility in a timely fashion. For more than two presenters, most cameras have two inputs, a separate audio/mixer package would be needed and set-up time would be doubled. It is best for the presenter or meeting planner and the camera operator to either be familiar with the location or get a good description of the facility by asking all of these questions. | <urn:uuid:8a17da81-f675-4d9d-90fb-c4e7ae53aa5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.channel3.com/interview-presentation-recording-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94802 | 1,189 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Incorporating salads in your diet is considered to be very beneficial for health Romaine lettuce is considered be one of the best salad ingredients which is associated with a host of health benefits ranging from stimulating fat loss, lowering cholesterol levels and improving muscle strength. This article provides information about the health benefits and the nutritive value of Romaine lettuce and why it should be included in your routine diet.
Romaine lettuce is considered to have several health benefits, which is largely attributed to its nutritive value. Some of the interesting facts about romaine lettuce nutritive value include,
- One cup of romaine lettuce comprises of one gram protein, two grams of carbohydrates and provides for 4% of the daily dietary requirement for fiber.
- In addition, one serving of romaine lettuce supplies with 82% of the daily dietary requirement of Vitamin A, about 60% of daily requirement Vitamin K and about 16-19% of dietary requirement of Vitamin C and folate.
- In addition, romaine lettuce also provides for 2-3% of daily dietary requirement for minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc and iron.
Calories In Romaine Lettuce
One cup of romaine lettuce provides 2 grams of carbohydrates, which is equivalent to 8 calories of energy. This low calorie content of this salad makes it one of the best choices to lose weight. While being low in calorie count this salad is loaded with a host of other nutrients which add profound value to overall health and the weight loss process.
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Most of the health benefits associated with the regular consumption of romaine lettuce depends upon the nutrients supplied by it. Some of the key health benefits of regular consumption of romaine lettuce include the following,
- Beta-carotene and Vitamin C supports a healthy heart as they prevent oxidation of cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis and thereby reduce risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. Folic acid also plays a crucial role in preventing blood clotting and keeps the blood vessels healthy and reduces risk of stroke and cardiac infarction.
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Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot” (Mark 13:1–2, NIV).
The high point of the Jewish calendar was the Passover. It was, for the Jews, one of the holiest times of the year.
However, while Jesus encouraged and prepared his disciples for the things that are to happen, the religious leaders were engaged in a very different kind of activity.
This passage presents us with a very strange contradiction. On the one hand, it is almost the holiest time of the Jewish year, in which the festival of the Passover is observed, which represents salvation and life. On the other hand, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, who are responsible for being the spiritual leaders of the people in this observance, plotted to kill the Son of God.
What this passage is highlighting is the evil and self-delusional nature of religious hypocrisy. In the end, the plans of the chief priests and the teachers of the law came to nothing. They ended up arresting Jesus on the eve of the Passover, and murdering him during the Passover itself. And in the end, Jesus returned from the grave anyway.
These religious leaders who thought that they were so carefully manipulating everything eventually lost it all in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
There is a vital lesson here for us. The chief priests and the teachers of the law ended up in this situation of gross hypocrisy because they were intent in protecting their own interests first.
If we claim to be followers of Jesus, then we have to put Jesus first in every aspect of our lives, otherwise we will slide, even unknowingly, into hypocrisy, and even into murdering the Son of God.
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Answer: The same Bible verse also says in Christ there is neither male nor female, yet most people don't claim that it abolishes human sex. The existence of human males and females is biological reality just as existence of various nations and ethnic groups. The verse deals with spiritual, not biological reality. Anyone can come to Christ if he chooses. Further on, there is a story in Genesis about Tower of Babel:
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
According to the Bible, it was God's will that mankind stays divided.
Claim: The Tower of Babel was in OT. NT has a story of Pentecost. It means that national borders are wrong and should be abolished and all nations should be united in one.
Answer: Read the passage from the Acts describing Pentecost:
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
The apostles were speaking in different languages so that believers from many nations could understand their message. Languages weren't abolished and neither national distinctions. National divisions will persist in eternity:
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
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Beans are a great plant for beginning gardeners to grow, as they are very easy to plant, maintain, and harvest. Beans have the added value of being highly nutritious, giving you all the more reason to add them to your garden. Whether you decide on shell or snap, bush or pole beans, the process is easy and you'll be reaping the benefits of your harvest come fall.
Part 1 of 4:Choosing Your Beans
1Learn the two different types of beans. In general, there are two overall types of beans: shell beans and snap beans. Both types can grow in either the pole- or bush-style, but the pods of the beans are what make them unique. Shell beans are primarily removed from their pod to be eaten, and are consumed fresh or dried to save for later. Snap beans are eaten inside their pod, and are only eaten fresh (not dried for later use). You can grow multiple styles of these beans directly adjacent to one another, because bean plants are self-pollinating and won’t cross-contaminate each other.
2Consider growing a pole-bean variety. Pole beans are a type of beans that are vining and must be supported with a trellis or pole. Pole beans grow an average of 5- to 6-feet tall, and can grow either shell or snap bean. Pole beans generally thrive in cooler summer temperatures, as low as 50 °F (10 °C) in the summer. In the US, they thrive in the northern states.
- You can use whatever support system (trellis, pole, fence, arbor, etc.) that you want for pole beans.
3Consider growing a bush-bean variety. Bush beans are a type of beans that grow in off a bush, and do not need a trellis or pole for support. Generally, bush beans grow best in warm environments with summer temperatures reaching above 100 °F (38 °C). In the US, they thrive in the Southern states. Bush beans should be planted in large rows, requiring much more space than pole beans.
- A variety of bush beans called ‘half-runners’ is a bush/pole hybrid, and may require some support or placement near a fence for stabilization. X Research source
Part 2 of 4:Preparing for Planting
1Choose your garden plot. Beans are flexible plants, able to grow in both sun and shade. When possible, choose a garden plot in most or partial sunlight. Because pole beans grow primarily upwards, you need only a small space for them. Bush beans grow outwards, meaning that they require much more space; choose a plot 2–3 feet (0.6–0.9 m) wide and as long as you desire (for the total number of beans you wish to plant).
2Know when to plant. Beans should be planted after the last frost has passed, typically in the spring months of March and April. Planting too early in the season will cause the seeds to freeze and die, while planting too late may not give them enough time to mature for a harvest in the fall. Check with your local agricultural extension to find out the best planting time for your area.
3Know how to plant. Beans are one of the few plants that should not be started as seedlings indoors or transplanted into your garden. This is because they have a delicate root structure that is easily damaged, and may not survive the transfer. As a result, you should sow your seeds directly into the ground come spring. X Research source
4Prepare your soil. Beans grow best in soil with good drainage and lots of nutrients. To prepare your soil, mix in a garden compost and gardening topsoil into your garden plot. Use a hoe to till the soil thoroughly and break apart any clay-like chunks. Incorporating the compost into the soil will help to provide plenty of nutrients to help the beans grow.
- Beans are nitrogen fixing, meaning they can pull nitrogen from the air and add fertility to the soil. They do this in symbiosis with bacteria. If you have not previously grown beans on your plot, consider adding a bacterial inoculant. You can dust your seeds with it, or add some to each hole when planting. X Research source
5Set up your trellis. If you’re planting pole beans, you will need to put your trellis in the ground prior to planting the beans. Place the trellis, stake, or pole in the exact area you plan to plant. As the beans grow, they will naturally wind themselves around the structure for support. Dig a hole deep enough to stabilize the trellis/pole, should there be bad weather or heavy winds.
Part 3 of 4:Planting Your Beans
1Dig a hole. Pole beans should be planted so that there is one seed per hole, and each seed is at least 3 inches (7.6 cm) away from the next. Bush beans should be planted so that there is one seed per hole, and each seed is at least 2 inches (5.1 cm) away from the next. The hole should be 1-inch deep. X Research source
- Remember that bush beans need more space in between plants than pole bean as pole beans grow vertically.
2Place the seeds. Carefully put one seed in each hole you’ve dug; it may be tempting to put multiple seeds at once, but this will cause the seedlings to compete for space and nutrients as they grow, and possibly result in the death of the plant. Cover up each seed with 1–2 inches (2.5–5.1 cm) of your garden soil.
3Water your seeds regularly. Immediately after planting, give your seeds plenty of water to aid in their germination. After planting, you should continue to water the seeds once every 2-3 days, so that the soil is always moist. Avoid over watering though, as too much water (leaving puddles or pools on the topsoil) will cause the seeds to rot.
4Put down a layer of mulch after the seeds sprout. Mulch is an incredibly helpful tool for new gardeners. Made from trees, leaves, or straw, mulch is a layer of shredded plant limbs you place over the topsoil in your garden. This blocks out weeds and traps in moisture, two good things for new plants. Spread a layer of mulch 1-inch thick over your garden soil after your seeds have grown several inches tall.
5Fertilize your garden every four weeks. Fertilizer adds nutrients to garden soil, helping increase the growth of your beans and the overall harvest. Fertilizers are made of a combination of three primary ingredients: nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Beans naturally produce a lot of nitrogen, meaning that you should look for a fertilizer that has low nitrogen content (such as a 5-20-20 mixture). Ask your local nursery worker with help on choosing a fertilizer for your beans, if you have questions. X Research source
- Do not add nitrogen fertilizer to the soil if you added a nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The bacteria will help the plants make their own.
Part 4 of 4:Harvesting Your Beans
1Pick bean pods before the shapes of the beans show through. If you want to eat your beans fresh, you should pick your beans when the pods are large and full. The pods should not yet show the shape of the beans, because by that stage they have begun to dry out. Harvest the pods by snapping them off at the top; don’t tear them, as this can damage the plant and prevent new pods from sprouting.
- If you harvest at the right time, your bean plants could continue to produce new pods for several weeks.
2Dry your beans on the plant. If you want to dry your shell beans for later use, the process is easy: leave your beans on the plant until they are completely dry. This process usually takes 1-2 months after having reached peak ripeness. You can tell when the beans are totally dry and ready for storage, as they will rattle inside the pods. X Research source
3Freeze beans for later use. Fresh beans can be frozen and used later, if you don’t want them fresh but don’t want to dry them. Simply place them in an airtight container and put them in your freezer. They will remain good for 6-9 months after initially being placed in the freezer; thaw them by letting them rise to room temperature.
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Tie pole beans to their trellis with garden twine as soon as they are tall enough to reach the trellis. Guide them up the trellis in the direction you want them to go.
- ↑ http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/beans/growing-beans-pole-or-bush-article10325.html
- ↑ http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/growing-beans-zmaz09jjzraw.aspx#axzz33Qpygs8I
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To grow a bean plant, you'll need a plot of soil and some trellis to support your plants. First, dig holes in the soil about 3 inches deep. You’ll also need to put up a trellis, which the bean plant will climb up as it grows. Place a seed in each hole and cover it with about 2 inches of soil. Water them once every 2-3 days immediately after planting so the soil is always damp. After the beans sprout, put down a layer of mulch to give them extra nutrients. Every 4 weeks, add fertilizer to the soil, which will boost your crop. For tips on how to know when to harvest your beans, keep reading! | <urn:uuid:e3f844b3-9828-40de-bc80-5464fdf3e5fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wikihow.com/Grow-a-Bean-Plant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931974 | 2,554 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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#IMMOOC Blog Post #4b: Next Steps for the Kindergarten Music Program
Today my kindergarten students performed in a spring music program for their parents in the music room. I didn't prepare a program of songs and activities ahead of time. Instead, I sat on the floor with the kids and asked them, "What are some activities we have done in the music room that you would like to share with your parents?" From there we voted on the activities and created a program together. I created a slideshow for each class so I could remember what each group wanted to share. I also added the targets to the slideshow for each song or activity.
The program was well received. I was really proud of my students. Still, I know there is more work to do. So, what are the next steps? What am I STILL doing for the kids that I need to let go? I asked the assistant superintendent in my district if she would be willing to watch the program with a critical eye and help me answer that very question. Afterwards she had some great advice. She loved that the students created the entire program and she heard me speak of the learning but wondered if I could let my students voice their own learning in the program.
Absolutely. This will be my next step. So, what could that look like?
I could select a few students to stand up and say something they learned before each activity.
I could ask the students a few weeks beforehand what they learned, chart their answers and place those in the slideshow. A student could stand up and share some of the things the class learned at the program.
I could set up in our recording studio a Flipgrid that asks students to share what they learned from a music activity. These videos could be embedded in our slideshow to share with parents.
I could ask if any students were willing to share what they learned DURING the spring program.
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3 Simple Ways to Improve Web Accessibility
The importance of a fantastic user experience (UX) is becoming more apparent all the time, with potential customers quickly shying away from online experiences that are not just not cutting it. But even if a website has a killer user experience, it may not be optimized for those with disabilities and/or those who rely on screen readers.
Creating a website that is fully accessible to those with disabilities may not be the first thing on your mind when starting up a new business. However, web accessibility is becoming increasingly important to businesses, developers, and of course, those with disabilities. In this article, we take a look at 3 simple ways to improve web accessibility for those who require accessible design.
Choose Your Colors Carefully
Did you know that web accessibility starts with something as simple as choosing your colors? It’s important to keep in mind when designing your website that there are various degrees of blindness, and that includes color blindness. Someone who is color blind may be able to access the majority of your website just fine until they come across two non-contrasting colors.
DreamHost.com tells us more on how you can make your website more accessible by simply paying attention to the colors used:
“We often talk about color blindness as if it’s a, no pun intended, black-and-white issue. However, it’s more of a spectrum since different people perceive colors in unique ways (remember The Dress)? As such, you need to make sure the colors you select on your site contrast well to ensure that everyone can distinguish between various elements on the page. The most pressing issue is making sure text stands out against the background. Ideally, you should set a dark color against a light one, making sure that they don’t bleed into each other.”
Include Succinct, Descriptive Image Alt Text
The purpose of alt text is to describe images to visitors who are unable to see them. While alt-text partially exists for browsers that block images, it is heavily relied upon for those who require screen readers.
Jazmine Betz of Learning Hub explains why website developers need to pay extra attention to alt text for those who use screen readers, are visually impaired, or cannot see images for a variety of other reasons:
“Alt text is often forgotten when images are added to web pages. After all, most people only use alt text when searching for images in a search engine or conducting a reverse image search. But for people using screen readers, alt text is all they have to rely on to learn about a displayed image. Users can get confused if an image’s alt text isn’t changed or isn’t necessarily representative of what the image depicts. This is especially harmful if the image is critical to understanding the webpage.”
Avoid Abbreviations and Spelling Mistakes
We must stress, avoiding abbreviations and spelling mistakes is important whether or not you are looking to improve web accessibility! However, a simple spelling mistake can completely throw off someone who relies solely on a screen reader to receive information, with abbreviations being just as confusing.
Content Marketing Institute tells us what you can do when you’re writing your content to make it more accessible:
“Proofreading is important no matter who – or what – will read your content. But accurate spelling and grammar are especially important for screen readers. Misspellings can cause screen readers to mispronounce a word. You also should take steps to avoid screen readers pronouncing acronyms as words – think “mlah” for MLA, the abbreviation for Modern Language Association. Among the better options: Eliminate abbreviations, use periods between the letters (M.L.A.) or spell out the words at first mention followed by its acronym (Modern Language Association [MLA]).”
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University of St Andrews researchers Dr Erica van de Waal and Professor Andrew Whiten and Christèle Borgeaud of the University of Neuchâtel have just published in the journal Science about the ability of vervet monkeys to conform to local feeding traditions.
In Living Links and Budongo Trail here in Edinburgh Zoo we do multiple studies on culture and how our primates can learn from each other, however doing this in the wild can be far more challenging, a challenge that Erica, Andy and Christèle overcame with a beautifully precise and effective experiment.
Like many species, vervet monkey infants learn a lot about life from watching their mothers, especially in instances of food choice. In this study four groups of vervet monkeys (total of 109 monkeys) in the Mawana private game reserve in South Africa were introduced to two different colours of corn.
Two groups were trained to eat pink corn and two groups were trained to eat the blue. This training phase was accomplished by making the ‘unpreferred’ food colour choice taste bitter by using aloe extracts from local plants. Approximately 4-6 months after the initial training, the corn was reintroduced to the groups with neither of the coloured corn being treated, thus making both palatable options.
Interesting the monkeys remembered which was their preferred colour choice and infants that had not seen coloured corn before only ate the same colour corn as their mothers did. In fact some of the infants sat the box of the unpreferred coloured corn to eat the ‘right’ colour, says Andy Whiten.
Not only do infant vervet monkeys adopt the ‘right’ colour corn from watching their mothers, males that emigrate to new groups will conform to eat the same colour corn as their new community. For example Groot was part of a group that was trained to eat the blue corn, as all male vervets that reach sexual maturity do he left his group to find another to be part of. When he arrived he saw that they were eating the pink corn, after a brief amount of time watching them he then joined in to eat the pink corn too.
By changing his preconceived ideas on what is appropriate to eat Groot could benefit from the new groups’ local knowledge. Professor Whiten said “It may make sense in nature, where the knowledge of the locals is often the best guide to what are the optimal behaviours in their environment”, thus the “when-in-Rome” mentality makes sense.
There was one exception in the study, a male named Lekker emigrated and immediately became the dominant male of new troop and he did not adopt their feeding preferences. This then created more questions. Did he not take on their traditions because he was dominant and felt no need to adopt the social conformity, or was he just stubbornly set in his ways? Will his new group then conform to what he eats? Since this only happened in one case, more research is required to gain further insight into social status and conformity in vervet monkeys.
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|Capital city||City of Wright|
|Largest city||City of Wright|
|- Archon||Joseph Marx|
|Established||19 September 2015|
|Area claimed||10.812 sq. mi.|
|Time zone||Eastern: UTC-5/-4|
|*Amero is the intended currency. US Dollar used in practice.|
The Commonwealth of Greene is a micronational state within the North American Confederation. Greene is the 2nd largest (by area), the most populous, and the most densely populated of the Confederation's states. The state's capital and largest city is the City of Wright.
The state takes its name from the county that originally was a part of the U.S. state of Ohio, which itself was named after General Nathanael Greene, an officer in the American Revolutionary War. The state, originally an independent micronation in its own right, was one of the initial member states to join the North American Confederation on 28 November 2010.
The government of the Commonwealth is a Direct Democracy led by Archon Joseph Marx who also holds the position of Prime Minister of the North American Confederation.
The Commonwealth currently has a total area of 10.812 square miles, the only major waterways being the Little Beaver Creek in the Village of Greenedge and Big Walnut Creek, which forms the eastern border of North Amfield Township.
Almost the entirety of the state is suburban, with only sparse forests and parks throughout.
The climate of Greene is a humid continental climate. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold. Precipitation in Greene is moderate year-round. Severe weather is not uncommon in the state as it lies in Tornado Alley.
Townships and Cities
The Commonwealth is divided into four townships. The City of Wright is the largest and most populace of townships and acts as the state capital and residence of the Hall of the Archon. The second-most populated is the Amfield Township, which is divided further into a North Amfield and South Amfield. The Village of Greenedge is the southernmost township and holds a large portion of the economic power of the region. Finally, the Highland Township is the smallest and least populated, possessing only a single citizen.
United States Rule
On 1 March 1803, Ohio was admitted as a state into the United States of America under then-President Thomas Jefferson. Greene County, which would later become the Commonwealth of Greene, was organized on 24 March 1803.
Ohio's central position within the growing U.S. and its population gave it an important place during the American Civil War. The Ohio River was a vital artery for troop and supply movements, as were Ohio's numerous railroads. Overall, Ohio contributed more soldiers per capita than any other state in the Union.
United American Kingdom
The United American Kingdom was started on 31 May 2008. Joseph Marx gathered a group of his friends together and founded the United American Kingdom, declaring himself King Joseph I of the UAK.
While mostly declared for fun and taking up only the size of his neighborhood, as the nation developed, it began to necessitate a new identity as it entered the larger micronational world. To facilitate this, the kingdom was reorganized into the Ohio River Republic on 22 June 2008.
Ohio River Republic
Upon its reorganization, the Republic still retained much of the same government system, with the then King Joseph I still acting as an absolute monarch.
Almost immediately, the inactivity of the republic's citizens and its overall joking appearance started to stagnate the young nation and force it to collapse after only a few months. King Joseph I sought to once again reform it.
To assist in the reformation and reorganization of the Republic, Joseph created the Universal Rights of Man, a moral code created to limit the power of the monarchy which became the cornerstone of the new Empire by allowing King Joseph I to declare the establishment of a Moralistic Absolute Monarchy.
On 28 Aug 2008, the Ohio Empire was declared, the entirety of Ohio was claimed, and King Joseph I changed his name to Emperor Malum I. The Emperor worked diligently to establish the Empire as a powerful micronational force. Numerous alliances and mutual recognitions were established and the Empire even became a founding member of the original Grand Unified Micronational.
The Empire became a primary combatant in the Siple War and founded the Micronational War on Terror. Overall, the Emperor held the nation in a state of near-perpetual pacifism, becoming a symbol of micronational peace. During the New European Civil War, this pacifism was broken by an invasion of Ohio by Rebel forces. Though eventually driven out, this event had a massive impact on the nation and the Emperor's philosophy, as well as strengthening ties between the two empires of Ohio and New Europe.
Around late 2009, an old problem had once again begun to rear its head. Inactivity was rampant through the nation and the 16 year old Emperor was having difficulty maintaining his realm. In addition, the Emperor, who was a longtime proponent of libertarianism had grown to despise his royal titles. A solution came in the form of the North American Confederation.
The North American Confederation and the Rise of the Republic
On 28 November 2010, Wilhelm von Hartmann-Peters of New Europe unified the nations of New Europe, Eniarku and the Ohio Empire into the North American Confederation. With the absorption into the Confederation, the Empire was officially declared as the Republic of Ohio, though the Confederation collapsed before the Emperor could legally renounce his titles.
The Republic went through very little progress as 2010 turned into 2011 and when both the Lethler Incident and Micras Issue occurred, which collapsed the first North Amercan Confederation, it spelled the end of the Republic for nearly four years.
Reconstruction and Commonwealth
In May 2015, Emperor William I contacted the former Emperor of Ohio and began the process of reconstructing the North American Confederation. Joseph Marx became the new Prime Minister of a provisional government and with the signing of the Unification Agreement, which passed the title of Emperor of Ohio (Now Prince of Ohio) onto the Imperial heir of the Confederation, and the Land Claims Act of 2015, which formally transformed the Republic of Ohio, into the Commonwealth of Greene, establishing a provisional government within the state and shrinking its borders to only a single county.
According to the monthly national census, last taken on 1 June 2016, there were 9 people residing in the state. The population density was 0.83 inhabitants per square mile. The racial demographics of the Commonwealth was 100% White, of primarily German and Irish heritage.
The median age of the Commonwealth is 18.9.8 years. 55.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24. In addition, 22.2% were between the ages of 25 and 54, while 22.2% were below the age of 18. The gender makeup of the state is roughly 55.6% male and 44.4% female.
The Commonwealth of Greene has not established a state language, though English is the most widely spoken. Interestingly, every citizen can speak more than one language.
Freedom of Religion is protected within the Commonwealth of Greene. Even with this, the population of the state is a majority Roman Catholic and Agnostic/Atheism, both with 40% of the total populations declaring themselves as such. The remaining 20% prescribe to New Age religious practices.
Due to a long period of political and social upheaval, the Commonwealth currently has no known statistics in regards to GDP and other economic statistics. While unemployment is 0%, the Amero lack of value makes taxation impossible.
Law and Government
The Commonwealth is a Direct Democracy. The Head of State is referred to as the Archon, who is popularly elected by the citizens of the Commonwealth. The current acting Archon is Joseph Marx, who also acts as the Prime Minister of the North American Confederation. Until the establishment of a formal constitutional document, the government is provisional.
The Universal Rights of Man
These moral codes were created during the Ohio Empire period to limit the power of the monarchy and to protect the citizens of the Empire from future emperors. These codes were above even the emperor and set the basis for equal balance power between the Emperor and the Citizens. The Rights were eventually abolished as official law by the Unification Agreement of 2015.
1. These rights are eternal and cannot be taken by any citizen of the state including the Emperor.
2. If any right is wished to be added by a majority of the citizens it will be turned into a new moral code.
3.The citizens have the right to individuality. This includes free religion, speech, assembly, and press.
4. No citizen may be held without a charge for more than 24 hours.
5. No Emperor may ever establish a death penalty.
6. No citizen shall be denied rights on the account of age, sex, religion, or race.
7. The citizens have the obligation to remove an emperor from power if he tries to deny any one of the rights included above.
8. A person convicted of a crime cannot be sent twice for the same crime. Also, all convicted must stand trial by a jury. The jury shall include the Emperor as well as a citizen chosen by a lottery.
Flag of the Commonwealth
The Flag of the Commonwealth is based very heavily upon the flag of Ohio which is the U.S. state from which the Commonwealth declared its independence. Like the Ohioan flag, the Commonwealth banner is swallowtail design. This shape and the general design is meant to honor the U.S. state from which the Commonwealth of Greene resided.
The alternating black and green bands are meant to represent the five forms the Ohioan nation has taken in its history. The black bands represent the monarchies,with the top and bottom representing the United American Kingdom and the Ohio River Republic respectively while the middle represents the Ohio Empire. The green bands represent the democratic nations like the short-lived Republic of Ohio that was declared alongside the 1st Confederation and the current Commonwealth.
The blue triangle on the left-hand side and the design within are once again derived from the flag of Ohio. However, the color of the triangle is a lighter NAC Blue to call homage to the flag of the North American Confederation. The image within the white circle is part of the Great Seal of the Commonwealth, currently under development. The four cardnial stars represent the four original citizens which formed the UAK, while the remaining eight stand for the eight Universal Rights of Man, which formed such a crucial part of the nation's history. | <urn:uuid:9a4d3f73-72b2-4c4e-b98e-ee6d455f3649> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Greene | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961816 | 2,273 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Between jabs at Donald Trump during her speech at AIPAC on Monday, Hillary Clinton wondered “what’s taking us so long here in America” to elect a female president.
Clinton said, “We marvel that such a bastion of liberty exists in a region so plagued by intolerance. We see the vigorous, even raucous debate in Israeli politics and feel right at home. And of course, some of us remember a woman, Golda Meir, leading Israel’s government decades ago and wonder what’s taking us so long here in America.”
The former first lady, senator, and secretary of state then laughed to herself.
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Wagner in Venice
Wagner in Venice. Richard Wagner the famous German composer; visited the city six times, between 1858 and his death in 1883.
Driven by a desire for seclusion, peace and quiet and an escape from the burdens of day-to-day life; Richard Wagner made Venice, his oasis for inspiration.
His final and most significant stay was in September of 1882, when he and Cosima, his second wife and family, over-wintered in Venice. He rented the entire mezzanine floor of the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, on the Grand Canal, where he later died.
Venice is associated with Tristan und Isolde, part of which Wagner wrote there, and with Parsifal; his final opera.
The Wagner Museum opened at the palace in February 1995, in what is now the Venice Casino. Its holdings constitute the largest private collection dedicated to Wagner, outside of Bayreuth.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883)
German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor
Photo: R.W. in 1871, by Franz Hanfstaengl
“Life in the big city has become completely unbearable for me, mainly because of the din of carriages that infuriates me. Now everyone knows that Venice is the calmest city, I mean the quietest city in the world and that is why I have decided it is absolutely the place for me”.
Wagner writing in a letter to his father-in-law, Franz Liszt; before arriving in Venice, on the first of his six stays in August 1858.
- SHORT BIOGRAPHY
- THE WAGNER MUSEUM (MUSEO WAGNER)
- PALAZZO LOREDAN VENDRAMIN CALERGI (Introduction / Architecture / History of Occupation)
- MUSICAL APPRECIATION
Wagner in Venice. SHORT BIOGRAPHY
- Richard Wagner was a German composer best known for his operas, primarily the monumental four-opera cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen”.
- He was born Wilhelm Richard Wagner on May 22, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany. He was the ninth child in the family of Carl Wagner, a police clerk. Richard was only six months old when his father died, and he was brought up by his mother Johanna and stepfather Ludwig Geyer, an actor and playwright. Young Wagner studied piano from the age of 7 and soon developed the ability to play by ear and improvise. At age 15, he wrote piano transcriptions of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “9th Symphony” and orchestral overtures. He studied at the University of Leipzig and also took composition and conducting lessons, with the cantor of St. Thomas in Leipzig.
- Wagner’s early operas did not meet with success, leaving him in serious financial difficulties. From 1836-1839, he was a music director in Riga Opera; where his wife, Minna Planer, was a singer and her extramarital escapades were the talk of the town. The Wagner’s amassed such significant debts, that they had to escape from creditors and fled Riga. They spent 1840 and 1841 in London and Paris, where Richard worked as an arranger for other composers.
- Giacomo Meyerbeer promoted Wagner’s third opera, “Rienzi”, to performance by the Dresden Court Theatre; where the opera was staged to considerable acclaim. In 1842, the Wagner’s moved to Dresden and lived there for six years. Eventually, Richard was appointed the Royal Saxon Court Conductor. At that time he completed and staged “Der fliegende Hollander” (aka “The Flying Dutchman”) and “Tannhauser“.
- Wagner was exposed to many conflicting political influences, ranging from Marxism and liberalism on the left, to German nationalism on the right and to the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin. After the revolution of 1848-49, Wagner fled from Germany to Paris, then to Zurich and found himself penniless, unemployed and depressed (he had also suffered from a severe skin infection for many years). At that time, Wagner was unable to compose or perform music and he expressed himself in writing essays: “The Art-Work of the Future“, describing “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or “total artwork”; uniting opera, ballet, visual arts and stagecraft.
- Wagner’s four “Ring” operas gradually evolved and he completed the libretto by 1852. Another year of suffering went by, until he began composing “Das Rheingold” (“The Rhine Gold”) in November 1853, following it with “Die Walkure” (“The Valkyrie”) in 1854. In 1856, he began work on “Siegfried“, but put the unfinished opera aside and focused on his new idea: “Tristan und Isolde” (“Tristan and Isolde”), which was composed between 1857 and 1859. In 1861, Germany ended the political ban on Wagner and in 1862, he ended his troubled marriage to Minna.
- “Tristan and Isolde” was initially accepted for production in Vienna. The opera had over 70 rehearsals between 1861 and 1864, but remained unperformed and gained a reputation for being unplayable. The young Bavarian King Ludwig II, an admirer of Wagner’s operas since his childhood; had settled the composer’s debts and financed his opera productions. Finally “Tristan and Isolde” was produced in Munich and premiered under the baton of Hans von Bulow, in June 1865. It was the first Wagner premiere in 15 years.
- Cosima von Bulow, the wife of the conductor, Hans von Bulow and the eldest daughter of pianist/composer Franz Liszt; had an indiscreet affair with Wagner and their illegitimate daughter Isolde, was born in 1865. The affair scandalised Munich and Wagner fell into disfavour among members of the court; who were jealous of his friendship with the king. Ludwig was pressured to ask Wagner to leave Munich. However, from 1866 to 1872 the king placed Wagner and his family at Tribshen villa on Lake Lucern in Switzerland. There, Richard married Cosime in August 1870. The inspired composer created one of his most beloved works, the “Siegfried Idyll” for 15 players, written as a gift to Cosima and premiered on Christmas day, 1870.
- In 1872, Wagner moved to Bayreuth with a plan that his “Ring” cycle was to be performed in a new, specially designed opera house. King Ludwig supported the composer with another large grant in 1874, and the Wagner’s bought “Villa Wahnfried” and made it their permanent home in Bayreuth. In August 1876, the new opera “Festspielhaus” opened with the premiere of “The Ring” and has been the site of the Bayreuth Festival ever since.
- Richard Wagner, died of a heart attack on February 13, 1883, while wintering in Venice. He was laid to rest, in the garden of his “Villa Wahnfried” in Bayreuth.
The Wagner Museum (Museo Wagner)
Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi – Cannaregio 2040
Tel: 041 5297111 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
Vaporetto stop: San Marcuola or less than 10 minutes’ walk east from Santa Lucia Railway Station
On February 13th 1995, the rooms on the mezzanine floor, where Wagner died; were entrusted by the local authorities, to the “Associazione Richard Wagner di Venezia”.
The area was turned into a museum and opened to the public, in eternal memory of the composer and his love for Venice.
Since 2003, adjacent rooms were added to the museum to house the “Josef Lienhart collection”; a donation including rare documents, posters, scores, signed letters, paintings, records, lithographs and various other heirlooms.
This is now the largest private collection, dedicated to the great German composer outside Bayreuth.
Driven by a desire for seclusion, peace and quiet and an escape from the burdens of day-to-day life; Richard Wagner made Venice, his oasis for inspiration.
Writing in a letter to his father-in-law, Franz Liszt, before arriving in Venice on the first of his six stays in August 1858, he stated: “Life in the big city has become completely unbearable for me, mainly because of the din of carriages that infuriates me. Now everyone knows that Venice is the calmest city, I mean the quietest city in the world and that is why I have decided it is absolutely the place for me”.
In April 1882, Wagner had on his return from Palermo, having completed the Parsifal score for the second edition of the Bayreuth Festival, scheduled for the summer of 1882. Wagner rented from Count Bardi, who was often out of town; the entire mezzanine floor of the Ca’ Vendramin Calergi.
The composer arrived on September 16 1882 and spent his last winter here in the city with his wife Cosima Liszt, four children Daniela von Bülow (adopted daughter of composer Hans von Bülow), Isolde, Eva and Siegfried Wagner and household servants. (photo left)
Wagner died of a heart attack in the palace, on the afternoon of 13 February 1883, aged 69. He had a history of angina.
After a funerary gondola, bore Wagner’s remains over the Grand Canal; his body was taken to Germany; where it was buried in the garden of the “Villa Wahnfried”, in Bayreuth.
A memorial plaque on a brick wall adjacent to the building, is inscribed with a tribute by novelist and poet Gabriele d’Annunzio that reads: “In questo palagio / l’ultimo spiro di Riccardo Wagner / odono le anime perpetuarsi come la marea / che lambe i marmiI”.
The Associazione Richard Wagner di Venezia, operates the museum; as well as the “Richard Wagner European Study and Research Center” (Centro Europeo di Studi e Ricerche Richard Wagner). It also holds exhibitions, conferences and concerts and publishes scholarly papers; that promote the life and works of Wagner.
The International Association of Wagner Societies, also holds a symposium called “Wagner Days in Venice” (Giornate Wagneriane a Venezia); at the palace each autumn.
Part of the Casino di Venezia, visit this incredible house with all the composer’s memories.
Wagner in Venice. Ca’ Loredan Vendramin Calergi
Introduction. Ca’ Loredan Vendramin Calergi, is a 15th century palace on the Grand Canal, in the district of Cannaregio
It was commissioned by the patrician “Loredan” dynasty, namely Andrea Loredan and paid for by Doge Leonardo Loredan; with construction starting in 1481.
The architecturally distinguished building, was the home of many prominent people through history; as well as the place where composer Richard Wagner died.
It houses the Venice Casino (Casinò di Venezia) and the Wagner Museum (Museo Wagner).
Architecture. The spacious Renaissance-style palace, stands three stories high with direct water access to the Grand Canal and was designed in the late 15th century by Mauro Codussi; architect of Chiesa di San Zaccaria and other noteworthy churches and private residences in Venice.
Construction began in 1481 and was finished after his death by the Lombardo family; who completed it in 1509. The period it took to complete is considered short, based on the construction technology available at that time.
The beauty and balance of the building’s facade are exceptional. Classically inspired columns divide each level facing the canal. Two pairs of tall French doors, divided by a single column topped by arches and a trefoil window; rest above the doors on the piano nobile and upper levels.
Opulent paintings, sculptures, and architectural details originally filled the building’s interior. Baroque master, Mattia Bortoloni, decorated the ceilings of many rooms. The palace is locally known by the nickname “Non Nobis Domine” (“Not unto us, O Lord”); engraved in the stone under a ground-floor window.
History of Occupation. Andrea Loredan, a connoisseur of the fine arts, commissioned the palace, which was paid for by Doge Leonardo Loredan.
In 1581, the Loredan family suffered financial difficulties and sold it for 50,000 ducats to Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg; who took loans to afford it and to host sumptuous dinners for the Venetian nobility.
Left: Portrait of the Vendramin Family (1543–47), painting by Titian.
However, the duke kept it for only two years before selling it to Guglielmo I Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, who then sold it to Vittore Calergi, a Venetian noble from Heraklion, on the island of Crete.
Calergi, greatly expanded the building in 1614, with a large addition by architect Vincenzo Scamozzi called the “White Wing“; which included windows overlooking a garden courtyard. The addition was demolished in 1659 and rebuilt the following year.
In 1739, the palace was inherited through marriage by the Vendramins, a powerful patrician family of merchants, bankers, religious leaders and politicians; who owned it for more than a century.
In 1844, Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess of Berry and her second husband, Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, Duke della Grazia; purchased Ca’ Vendramin Calergi, from the last member of the Vendramin family line.
In the turmoil of the Risorgimento, they were forced to sell the palace to Marie-Caroline’s grandson, Enrico, Count de’ Bardi and many of its fine works of art were auctioned in Paris. Count de’ Bardi and his wife, Infanta Adelgundes and the related Dukes of Grazia; maintained the home and hosted many famous names of the day. (Note: Risorgimento – 19th century movement for Italian unification that culminated in the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.)
In 1937, the last of the Grazia nobles, Count Lucchesi-Palli, sold it to Giuseppe Volpi, Count of Misurata; who remodelled the living quarters and turned it into a “Centre for Electromagnetic and Electrical Phenomena”.
The City Council of Venice purchased the palazzo in 1946.
Since 1959, it has been home to the celebrated Venice Casino (Casinò di Venezia) and from 1995, the Wagner Museum (Museo Wagner).
Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works.
Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer; Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art). He sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts; with music subsidiary to drama. His concepts were announced, in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (The Ring of the Nibelung).
His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration and the elaborate use of leitmotifs – musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements.
His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde, is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
Wagner had his own opera house built, the “Bayreuth Festspielhaus”, which embodied many novel design features. It was here that the Ring and Parsifal, received their premieres and where his most important stage works; continue to be performed in an annual festival, run by his descendants.
His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera, were to change again and he reintroduced some traditional forms, into his last few stage works; including “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg).
Until his final years, Wagner’s life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment in recent decades, especially where they are said to express antisemitic sentiments.
The effect of his ideas, can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; their influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre.
“Wagner and Venice” by John W. Barker
University of Rochester Press – 456 Pages
Explores Wagner’s lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works – and his death – for that great city and its mystique.
Richard Wagner had a longstanding love affair with the city of Venice. His sudden death there in 1883 also initiated a process through which Wagner and his reputation were integrated into Venice’s own cumulative cultural image.
In Wagner and Venice, John Barker examines the connections between the great composer and the great city. The author traces patterns of Wagner’s visits to Venice during his lifetime, considers what the city came to mean to Wagner, and investigates the details surrounding his death. Barker also examines how Venice viewed Wagner, by analyzing the landmark presentation of Wagner’s Ring cycle two months after the composer’s death, and by considering Venice’s subsequent extensive Wagner celebrations and commemorations.
Throughout the volume, biographical detail from new and previously unavailable sources provides readers with a fresh interpretation of this seminal figure.Those already familiar with Wagner’s life will find new information about, and insights into, the man and his career, while simultaneously discovering a neglected corner of Italian and Venetian cultural history.
John W. Barker is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Medieval (including Venetian) History. He is also a passionate music lover and record collector, and an active music critic and journalist.
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First with Kids: Safety in the kitchen
Recently parents have been cooking up lots of questions about children and kitchen safety. Since children and parents spend a good deal of time in the kitchen, it’s no surprise that it is one of the most common sites for a household injury.
If you want a recipe for keeping your child safe when you’re working in the kitchen, let me provide a few ingredients.
First, keep your children a safe distance from hot liquids. Or better yet, place hot liquids at the center of the table or the back of the stove. A hot drink at around 140 degrees can cause a burn in five seconds. At 160 degrees, a spill can burn a person in one second.
Try not to use tablecloths where there are toddlers or they could pull on them and down will come a hot liquid. Keep pot handles turned in so pots cannot be pulled off or knocked off the stove. Parents don’t forget that you too are at risk, so pull up those long sleeves and don’t reach across the stove when it is on to prevent your clothing from catching fire.
It’s also good to keep appliance cords away from counter edges and unplugged so children do not pull on them, potentially bringing an appliance, or the hot food or liquid inside the appliance, down on them.
Keep your knives, forks, cleaning supplies, medications and matches locked away from smaller children at all time. Even refrigerator magnets can be a choking hazard, so keep those out of reach too.
A great idea is to create a “NO ZONE” in front of your stove that is marked with yellow or red tape so that children don’t enter that area.
The best bet is to keep your children out of the kitchen when you are cooking to truly ensure their safety. But if you need to keep them in the kitchen, then consider creating a drawer for them that contains some plastic containers and toy cooking materials that they can play with when they want to “cook” and do it safely.
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Niacinamide and Niacin are two different forms of Vitamin B3. Niacinamide does not cause a Niacin flush.Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) is a form of Niacin, a water soluble B-Vitamin. It is a derivative of Niacin that does not cause the ‘flush’ normally associated with taking high doses of Niacin. Niacinamide is readily converted into the bioactive forms of Niacin, NAD+, NADH, NADP, and NADPH, which are vital cofactors in cellular energy production and are critical for the maintenance of DNA stability.
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This year's theme is "Everyone Loves Quitters."
And now, there are more ways than ever to quit - 7 drugs have government approval.
But while medication is important, adding in counseling dramatically raises the chances for success.
In fact, the best way to quit is a combination of medication and counseling.
We know, it is not easy. The average smoker tries quitting 3 to 5 times before he or she stops. But it's worth the effort.
Thomas Glynn, of the American Cancer Society, says, "Never give up, because it's going to add 10 years to your life. It's going to save you a lot of money and it's going to enable you to play with your children and grandchildren."
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The net worth of New Zealand households was $1.5 trillion at March 2017, up from $886 billion at March 2007, Stats NZ said on Monday.
The rise in value of property assets was the main contributor to the overall increase in the net worth of households.
From March 2007, property assets owned by households rose $316 billion. Of this, 85% was due to price rises in property assets, nearly all occurring from March 2012. From 2007 to 2012, there was little net change in the valuation of household property assets, a period dominated by the effects of the global financial crisis.
“Household financial assets and non-financial assets grew at similar rates from 2007 to 2017,” national accounts senior manager Susan Hollows said. “Non-financial assets continue to comprise about 54 percent of total household assets.”
The pension fund sector, which includes KiwiSaver (established in 2007), is where many households place money for their retirement. Pension funds invest money in deposits, debt securities, shares, and investment fund shares. Growth in these assets belonging to pension funds has been strong since March 2012, and at March 2017 were $51 billion (204 percent) higher than at March 2007. Of this rise, about 88 percent was from net contributions to funds, and the remainder from changes in the market price of investments and other changes.
Most lending by banks is in the form of loans to households, businesses, and others. The growth of bank loan lending slowed in 2017, to 6 % compared with 9% growth in 2016.
Banks fund their lending by raising funds in the form of deposits, debt securities, and loans. From 2007, the greatest growth in funding was in the form of deposits, up 92% at March 2017. However, in 2017 deposit growth slowed. This partly reflects households making fewer additional deposits in banks, from $14 billion in 2016 to $11 billion in 2017. With lower deposit growth, banks borrowed more in the form of debt securities in 2017 than they did in 2016.
“These statistics reflect New Zealand’s economy up to March 2017 and show the longer-term trends and structural features of the economy’s assets and liabilities,” Hollows said.
Stats NZ is developing an equivalent quarterly series to improve timeliness. These quarterly accounts are scheduled to be released in 2020.
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One other one to asserted that it’s influenced by the relationships ended
Their come asserted that ladies explore social network more guys. Guys fool around with social networking mainly for company objectives and matchmaking if you are female have fun with social network to keep touching members of the family and you may family members, for activities, to own sharing objectives via images or running a blog as well as for degree so you’re able to see things about their some welfare. With regards to the Pew browse center ladies fool around with social network a great deal more than simply men. Therefore I asked four people and you can four female an identical six questions for the social networking from inside the relationship to see the variations in reaction. So they were the newest six inquiries:
- Shortly after a break up would you slashed the links with this people for the social networking sites?
- Might you snoop on your significant other people’s fb or instagram or some other public website?
- Can you listings pictures otherwise statuses in regards to you companion when you’re in argument into the public internet sites?
- What factors done by their companion into the social media sites, can you maybe not tolerate?
- Do you think social media works well on the dating?
- You think it’s important to publish their matchmaking on the internet?
They thought that when they not any longer for the a relationship along with you they will not comprehend the need your on the social network once the that just encourage him or her of the early in the day relationship
A number of the efficiency was indeed equivalent even though some were a bit different. Basically they were the fresh new responses in the men and women.
- Immediately following a breakup could you reduce the links with this person on social media sites?
Three out of the five males asserted that they cut ties using their ex boyfriend . You to asserted that they don’t brain having them into social network. It is really not fundamentally which they communicate with her or him but they will not notice it as difficulty BHM dating only consumer reports having him or her towards the Fb otherwise instagram.
The fresh girls yet not, greater part of them asserted that it cut all the ties simply because they constantly viewing your ex lover on the web will not enhance the processes of getting more her or him.
Greater part of the brand new people mentioned that they don’t snoop as much since their girlfriends manage however they do it occasionally. If they notice its spouse is too amicable having a person or if perhaps he could be suspecting things then they do snoop.
The latest ladies yet not, asserted that they actually do they usually once the a lot of them enjoys trouble thinking the extreme anyone else and you can thinking their female family.
The males said that they are doing blog post particular form out-of reputation or photo on facebook when they’re inside an enthusiastic disagreement employing companion however constantly, it’s dependent on the trouble.
The latest women along with said they actually do it although not very hardly just like the they feel you to definitely dating will likely be in line with the members of the partnership alone and never for the personal seeing.
All of the guys told you they do not tolerate whenever the wife should be to amicable that have other child otherwise flirting that have some other man. And most of the mentioned that they don’t instance when their tall most other posts revealing photo on the internet.
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Aripiprazole blocks acute self-administration of cocaine and is not self-administered in mice
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RATIONALE: The novel antipsychotic aripiprazole in use for treatment of schizophrenia is a partial agonist at dopamine D(2) receptors with actions at a variety of other receptors as well. Cocaine is believed to exert an important part of its rewarding effect by increasing extracellular levels of dopamine that subsequently act at dopamine D(2) receptors. OBJECTIVES: As a partial agonist, aripiprazole may antagonize effects at D(2) receptors and we accordingly tested whether aripiprazole could antagonize self-administration of cocaine. Because D(2)-like receptor agonists are self-administered, a D(2) receptor partial agonist like aripiprazole might itself be reinforcing. Thus, we also assessed whether mice would acquire self-administration of aripiprazole. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A single session, mouse self-administration procedure was used. RESULTS: Oral pretreatment with aripiprazole dose-dependently decreased cocaine self-administration under a fixed ratio 1 schedule at the peak cocaine dose (0.03 mg/kg/infusion), reaching significance at 0.2 and 0.4 mg/kg of aripiprazole. Using 0.4 mg/kg, aripiprazole decreased rates of cocaine self-administration without shifting the peak of the dose-response function. There was no effect of aripiprazole per se, suggesting that its inhibitory action was due to effects on cocaine self-administration rather than non-specific motor effects. Aripiprazole was not found to be self-administered in the tested dose range (0.0003-0.3 mg/kg/infusion). The three highest doses (0.03, 0.1, and 0.3 mg/kg/infusion) even caused significant decreases in nose-poking activity, possibly due to extrapyramidal side effects. CONCLUSIONS: These data are consistent with a potential role for aripiprazole in treatment of cocaine addiction without abuse potential per se.
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In the 2010s, the national unemployment rate dropped from a high of 9.9 percent to its current rate of just 3.5 percent. The economy expanded each and every year. Wages picked up for high-income workers as soon as the Great Recession ended, and picked up for lower-income workers in the second half of the decade. Americans’ confidence in the economy hit its highest point since 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst. The headline economic numbers looked good, if not great.
But beyond the headline economic numbers, a multifarious and strangely invisible economic crisis metastasized: Let’s call it the Great Affordability Crisis. This crisis involved not just what families earned but the other half of the ledger, too—how they spent their earnings. In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry by landlords, hospital administrators, university bursars, and child-care centers. For millions, a roaring economy felt precarious or downright terrible.
Viewing the economy through a cost-of-living paradigm helps explain why roughly two in five American adults would struggle to come up with $400 in an emergency so many years after the Great Recession ended. It helps explain why one in five adults is unable to pay the current month’s bills in full. It demonstrates why a surprise furnace-repair bill, parking ticket, court fee, or medical expense remains ruinous for so many American families, despite all the wealth this country has generated. Fully one in three households is classified as “financially fragile.”
Along with the rise of inequality, the slowdown in productivity growth, and the shrinking of the middle class, the spiralling cost of living has become a central facet of American economic life. It is a crisis amenable to policy solutions at the state, local, and federal levels—with all of the 2020 candidates, President Donald Trump included, teasing or pushing sweeping solutions for the problem. But absent those solutions, it looks certain to get worse for the foreseeable future—leaving households fragile, exacerbating the country’s inequality, slowing down growth, smothering productivity, and putting families’ dreams of security out of reach.
The price of housing represents the most acute part of this crisis. In metro areas such as the Bay Area, Seattle, and Boston, severe supply shortages have led to soaring prices—millions of low- and middle-income families are no longer able to purchase centrally located homes. The median asking price for a single-family home in San Francisco has reached $1.6 million; even with today’s low interest rates, that would require a monthly mortgage payment of roughly $6,000, assuming that a family puts down the standard 20 percent. In Manhattan, listings for sale now ask an average of nearly $1,800 per square foot.
The housing cost crises in the Bay Area and New York might be the country’s most obscene. But the problem is national, driven by a combination of stagnant wages, restrictive building codes, and underinvestment in construction, among other trends. Home prices are rising faster than wages in roughly 80 percent of American metro regions. In 2018, housing affordability declined in every one of the 160-some urban areas analyzed by the National Association of Realtors, save for Decatur, Illinois. Rising prices and housing shortages are squeezing families in Reno, Minneapolis, and Phoenix.
The problem now even extends to rural areas, where income growth has lagged in the post-recession period. A recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts found “sizable” increases in the number of households spending half or more of their income on housing in rural counties across the country. The housing crisis is hitting Bertie County, North Carolina, and Irion County, Texas, too.*
One central effect of the housing-cost crisis has been to turn the United States into a country of renters. The homeownership rate has fallen from a peak of nearly 70 percent in the mid-aughts to under 65 percent today; the numbers are more acute for Millennials, whose homeownership rate is 8 percentage points lower than that of their parents at the same age. Unable to buy, roughly 3.5 million younger families have kept renting—delaying the Millennial and Gen X cohorts’ wealth accumulation, thus consigning them to worse net-worth trajectories for the rest of their lives. And renting, for many families, is not affordable, either: Nearly half of renters are facing uncomfortable monthly bills, and the cost of renting has risen faster than renters’ incomes for a full 20 years now.
The cost-of-living crisis extends beyond housing. Health-care costs are exorbitant, too: Americans pay roughly twice as much for insurance and medical services as do citizens of other wealthy countries, but they don’t have better outcomes. In the post-recession period, premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs in general just kept rising, eating away at families’ budgets, casting millions into debt, and consigning millions more to bankruptcy.
The “cost burden” of health coverage climbed through the 2010s; just from 2010 to 2016, family private-insurance premiums jumped 28 percent to $17,710, while median household incomes rose less than 20 percent. That meant less take-home pay for workers. Deductibles—what a family has to fork over before insurance kicks in—also soared. From 2010 to 2016, the share of employees in health plans with a deductible jumped from 78 percent to 85 percent. And the average annual deductible went from less than $2,000 to more than $3,000.
The country’s insurance premiums and out-of-pocket health-cost burdens are just very, very high—including for people with publicly subsidized or public coverage. The average person on Medicare spends $5,460 on health care beyond what they pay for insurance every year. The average person with Medicaid forks over nearly half that. No wonder two in three bankruptcies are related to medical issues, and nearly 140 million American adults report “medical financial hardship” each and every year.
Next up is student-loan debt, a trillion-dollar stone placed on young adults’ backs. Or, to be more accurate, the $1.4 trillion stone, up 6 percent year over year and 116 percent in a decade; student-loan debt is now a bigger burden for households than car loans or credit-card debt. Half of students now take on loans of one kind or another to try for a higher-ed degree, and outstanding debts typically total $20,000 to $25,000, requiring monthly payments of $200 to $300—though of course many students owe much more. Now nearly 50 million adults are stuck working off their educational debt loads, including one in three adults in their 20s, erasing the college wealth premium for younger Americans and eroding the college earnings premium.
Finally, child care. Spending on daycare, nannies, and other direct-care services for kids has increased by 2,000 percent in the past four decades, and families now commonly spend $15,000 to $26,000 a year to have someone watch their kid. Such care is grossly unaffordable for low-income parents in metro areas across the country, causing many people to drop out of the labor force. But one in four American mothers returns to work within two weeks of giving birth, so heavy are the other cost burdens of living in this country. The whole system is broken.
The federal government has set as a benchmark that low-income families should not spend more than 7 percent of their income on child care. But child care is generally the single biggest line item on young families’ budgets, bigger even than rent or mortgage payments: Putting a kid in daycare costs 18 percent of annual income in California; home-based options equal 14 percent of family income in Nebraska; having an infant in professional care in the District of Columbia costs more than most poor families earn.
It all adds up, and it all subtracts from families’ well-being. The price tags for tuition and fees at colleges and universities have risen twice as fast as wages, if not more, in recent years. Rental costs are outpacing wage gains by a percentage point or more a year. Health-care costs have grown twice as fast as workers’ wages. And child-care costs have exploded. These cost pressures are particularly acute on young Americans who have seen worse employment prospects and smaller raises than their older counterparts.
The effects are wide-ranging. High costs are preventing workers from moving to high-productivity cities, thus smothering the country’s economic vibrancy and putting a drag on its GDP; economists have estimated that GDP would be as much as 10 percent bigger if more workers could afford to live in places like San Jose and Boston. High costs are forcing families to delay getting married and to have fewer children, and putting the dream of owning a home out of reach.
What is perhaps most frustrating is that the Great Affordability Crisis is amenable to policy solutions—ones most other rich countries adopted decades ago. In other developed economies, child care, early education, and higher education are public goods, and do not require high-interest-rate debts or endless scrambling by exhausted young parents to procure. Other wealthy countries have public-health systems that cover everybody at far lower cost, whether through socialized or private models. And numerous proposals would transform residential construction in this country, including one that just failed in California’s legislature.
But the Great Affordability Crisis hides in plain sight, obvious to households but unmentioned in the country’s headline economic numbers. It persists even as President Donald Trump rightly praises the country’s growth, low unemployment rate, and rising household incomes. And though there are many nationwide policies that could end the crisis, they all seem unlikely to pass through the country’s broken Congress; the brightest glimmer of hope lies in housing and health-care policy by individual states. But it is still a dim glimmer. This crisis looks sure to stay with us for the coming decade, whatever recessions or expansions it may hold. | <urn:uuid:c96ec15c-c2c0-491d-875c-ce8e2eec9be9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/02/great-affordability-crisis-breaking-america | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958251 | 2,123 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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Background Substantial evidence links exposure to moderate or high doses of ionising radiation, particularly inchildhood, with increased risk of leukaemia. The association of leukaemia with exposure to low-dose (<100 mSv)radiation is less certain, although this is the dose range most relevant to the general population. We aimed to estimatethe risk of leukaemia associated with low-dose radiation exposure in childhood (age <21 years).Methods In this analysis of historical cohort studies, we pooled eligible cohorts reported up to June 30, 2014. Weevaluated leukaemia and myeloid malignancy outcomes in these cohorts with the relevant InternationalClassification of Diseases and International Classification of Diseases for Oncology definitions. The cohortsincluded had not been treated for malignant disease, had reported at least five cases of the relevant haematopoieticneoplasms, and estimated individual active bone marrow (ABM) doses. We restricted analysis to individuals whowere younger than 21 years at first irradiation who had mean cumulative ABM doses of less than 100 mSv.Dose-response models were fitted by use of Poisson regression. The data were received in fully anonymised formby the statistical analyst.Findings We identified nine eligible cohorts from Canada, France, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the USA, including262 573 people who had been exposed to less than 100 mSv enrolled between June 4, 1915, and Dec 31, 2004. Meanfollow-up was 19·63 years (SD 17·75) and mean cumulative ABM dose was 19·6 mSv (SD 22·7). 154 myeloidmalignancies were identified (which included 79 acute myeloid leukaemias, eight myelodysplastic syndromes, and36 chronic myeloid leukaemias, in addition to other unspecified myeloid malignancies) and 40 acute lymphoblasticleukaemias, with 221 leukaemias (including otherwise unclassified leukaemias but excluding chronic lymphocyticleukaemia) identified overall. The fitted relative risks at 100 mSv were 3·09 (95% CI 1·41–5·92; ptrend=0·008) foracute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes combined, 2·56 (1·09–5·06; ptrend=0·033) foracute myeloid leukaemia, and 5·66 (1·35–19·71; ptrend=0·023) for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. There was noclear dose-response for chronic myeloid leukaemia, which had a relative risk at 100 mSv of 0·36 (0·00–2·36;ptrend=0·394). There were few indications of between-cohort heterogeneity or departure from linearity. For acutemyeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes combined and for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the doseresponsesremained significant for doses of less than 50 mSv. Excess absolute risks at 100 mSv were in the rangeof 0·1–0·4 cases or deaths per 10 000 person-years.Interpretation The risks of acute myeloid leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia were significantly increasedafter cumulative doses of ionising radiation of less than 100 mSv in childhood or adolescence, with an excess risk alsoapparent for cumulative radiation doses of less than 50 mSv for some endpoints. These findings support an increasedrisk of leukaemia associated with low-dose exposure to radiation and imply that the current system of radiologicalprotection is prudent and not overly protective.
Author(s): Little MP, Wakeford R, Borrego D, French B, Zablotska L, Adams JM, Allodji R, deVathaire F, Lee C, Brenner AV, Miller JS, Campbell D, Pearce MS, Doody MM, Holmberg E, Lundell M, Sadetzki S, Linet MS, BerringtondeGonzalez A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: The Lancet Haematology
Print publication date: 01/08/2018
Online publication date: 17/07/2018
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 17/07/2018
ISSN (electronic): 2352-3026
Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group
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“Paid in arrears” might seem a complicated accounting term for you, but it’s pretty straightforward? Let’s explore what does it mean, its pros and cons and how does it affect the payroll calculation?
Read this blog till the end to get all the answers and more.
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What is Paid in Arrears?
Commonly paid in arrears are used for two purposes: billing and paying.
- Payment in arrears refers to the process of billing a service provider after providing goods or services. It shows that payment is going to be made at the end of a certain period, rather than in advance. Besides, arrears payroll also works like this.
- Arrears also refer to the fact that your business is behind the payments. It means you have crossed your deadline. When you pay in arrears, you have to pay it along with your previous payment, with each subsequent payment.
Understanding these concepts is imperative to apply them effectively as per your business needs.
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Why do Businesses pay in arrears?
Commonly, small businesses pay their employees and service providers in arrears. Making the payments at the end of a pay period helps businesses manage cash flow and secure financing by getting money from the debtors and generating more sales. In this way, it allows them to meet their immediate needs by paying for the services or goods in the future.
In addition, paying in arrears makes it easy to run or calculate payroll, especially when you have provided a commission or tip for your employees. Paying your employees after getting their services gives you sufficient time to work out:
- Regular or overtime working hours
- Gained tips
- Earning on commissions or sales
- PTO taken
You work them out into your employees’ paychecks while paying in arrears.
Payroll in arrears means to pay employees for the work they’ve already performed in the previous weeks. Conversely, current pay means that your payroll department will work out the estimated number of days and hours you worked and process the payments accordingly. These payments are usually given during the pay period or after the end of it.
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Pros and Cons of Paying in Arrears
If you’re willing to implement an arrears payroll, you must consider its pros and cons before its implementation. By knowing its pros and cons, you can figure out if it’s a right fit for your business or not.
- Paying employees in arrears is easy and efficient than the current payment method.
- It provides sufficient time for reporting or calculating state tax withholdings, payroll taxes, and benefits deductions.
However, you need to know that the working hours of the employees vary week to week. Therefore it is better to inform them that you have used the arrears payment method for their paychecks.
Along with the above benefits, you might come across some complications.
- The delay of the payments can create problems to interact with other vendors.
- For late payment, the vendor might charge a fee or a high interest rate.
- A late payment schedule may require adjustments on the part of the employees and customers.
However, you can avoid these downsides of arrears by consistent interaction with your vendors, employees and customers.
Tips for Paying in Arrears
Being a small business owner, dealing with the arrears pay may be a daunting task, whether it’s what you owe or expect. Here are some tips for helping the process of being paid in arrears. Consider the following to make the process of being paid in arrears easy and convenient:
- Audit your accounts payable regularly to be up to date.
- Keep a look at the businesses that pay you – a company having a large sum of arrears could mean that you’re not going to get the payments anymore.
- If one of your clients or business has gone too far in arrears, you need to stop your business arrangement with it temporarily until it became current to be on the safe side.
In conclusion, we can say that if your employees, clients or customers are paid in arrears, it’d not be a good sign for your business as it means that you’re behind your bills. As a consequence, your vendor can charge late fees or higher interest. Furthermore, the clients can also shorten the duration to pay in the future, and sometimes many companies or individuals may refuse to do business with you. Hopefully, this blog clears up all your ambiguities about paying in arrears.
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- In 2016 the mid-year population estimate (based on Lower Super Output Areas, LSOAs) for England was 55.3 million, of which 9.4 million (17.0 per cent) lived in rural areas and 45.9 million (83.0 per cent) lived in urban areas.
- The population in rural areas has a higher proportion of older people compared with urban areas. Just over 45 per cent of those living in rural areas are aged below 45 years, compared with almost 60 per cent in urban areas, and overall there are proportionately fewer younger people living in settlements in a sparse area.
- Approximately 60 per cent of the population living in rural village and dispersed in a sparse setting are aged 45 years and over.
- Both rural and urban areas have seen an increase in overall population between 2011 and 2016. Rural has increased by 2.6 per cent and urban by 4.4 per cent.
- The population aged 65 and over increased by 37 per cent in predominantly rural areas between 2001 and 2015, compared with 17 per cent in predominantly urban
- Predominantly rural areas have seen an increase of 7 per cent in infants (0-4 year olds) compared with a 22 per cent increase in predominantly urban
- In 2017, median workplace-based earnings in predominantly urban areas (excluding London) were £22,900 while predominantly rural areas were slightly lower at £21,400.
- The highest rate of home workers was found in rural hamlets and dispersed areas, at 34 per cent, compared with 13 per cent in urban areas. Overall rural areas had a higher rate of home working compared with urban areas.
- In Wales, three quarters of community exhibitors are societies or community cinemas, with multi-arts providers making up the remainder (including a small proportion of film festival screenings).
- Almost half of the screenings take place in community halls and almost a third in mixed-use venues. A variety of spaces, from schools to commercial cinemas make up the remainder.
- 66% of community exhibitors use DVD or Blu-ray projection systems. 27% use digital projection, mostly in mixed-use venues.
- 78% of community exhibitors offer a mix of specialised and mainstream programming.
- A fifth of community screen programmes are dedicated to specialised film. Only two offer mostly mainstream films.
- UK -wide, there is a significant number of community cinemas lacking public transport access.
- The Scottish Government 2014 Scottish Household Survey (12) confirmed that cinema going is the most popular form of cultural attendance in Scotland, with over half of the respondents viewing a film over a twelve-month period.
- 16% of the rural population is aged under 14. The England average is 17%.
- In urban areas 21% of the population is aged 15 to 29 years, but in rural areas this falls to 15%.
Rural Community Film Exhibition in Wales, Bigger Picture Research
Mapping Film Exhibition in Scotland A report for Creative Scotland
Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)
Cinema for All help communities screen films. They are the national support and development organisation for community-led cinema: community cinemas, film clubs and societies.
Community Screen Forum represents organisations that promote, support and enable community screen experiences in under-serviced areas of the United Kingdom.
Rural Media Company is a Hereford-based production company and charity producing award-winning films and digital arts projects.
Live & Local Rural and Community Touring Scheme supports a network of volunteer organisations who bring their communities together to enjoy performance and film at their local village hall, church or school.
Action with Communities in Rural England is the national voice for the 38 rural community councils who make up the country’s largest rural network.
Campaign to Protect Rural England work to protect, promote and enhance our towns and countryside to make them better places to live, work and enjoy, and to ensure the countryside is protected for now and future generations.
Scottish Rural Parliament aim to become a powerful voice for the diverse people and communities of rural Scotland, particularly those not already represented by other interests, to assure that policy and decision-making meets the needs of rural Scotland.
Scottish Rural Action is a grassroots-led, non-profit organisation. We seek to ensure that decision-makers understand the needs and strengths of rural communities in Scotland, and that policy does not disadvantage rural communities.
Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has worked to safeguard the quality and diversity of all Welsh landscapes and seascapes.
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10. Written through Jacob, a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, and send through Brachus, the king's courier out of the region of Gennesaret.
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F, b. 1725, d. 1790
Annie was born in 1725. Annie married Increase Mather, son of Nathaniel Mather and Ruth (?), in 1743 in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.1 Annie departed this life in 1790 in Minisink Town, Orange County, New York. She was buried at Westown, Orange County, New York, in the Loree Burying Ground.
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Watch Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? For your journal entry, you will explore aspects of your personal experience and/or beliefs regarding significant public policies and what you have learned in your readings. As you reflect, please address the following questions:
- What are the major current healthcare issues and policies (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – 2010)?
- How do you feel about the new health care policy?
- What, if anything, has changed or is changing, and how does it affect you personally?
- What were your thoughts prior to this week’s readings?
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The provincial chair of Ontario paramedics represented by CUPE met today with representatives of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (TOPS), at the Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site, a satellite program of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. CUPE Ontario medics recently made a $7,500 donation to support the vital work of TOPS.
“The nurses and harm reduction workers who staff the Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site are saving lives every day,” said Jason Fraser, chair of the CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario (CACO). “I wanted to hear from them firsthand about their approach to overdose prevention. Paramedics’ lifesaving work is on a continuum of care that includes the type of work done at Moss Park every day. They have been ahead of the curve on policy and advocacy at every turn, and CUPE paramedics are very proud to support them.”
TOPS is composed of drug users and their allies, as well as harm reduction and healthcare workers. They came together in the face of the mounting overdose deaths in their communities, and opened the first supervised consumption facility in Ontario in a tent in Moss Park in August 2017. The volunteers of TOPS continued to operate that facility seven days per week for the next 11 months. Ultimately, the Moss Park site was properly funded and taken over as a satellite of South Riverdale Community Health Centre. Their ground-breaking work paved the way for 19 more sites to open across Ontario.
“Because of government inaction, people who use drugs have been left on their own to respond to overdoses and save each other’s lives for far too long. This crisis has made first responders out of many of us who never initially trained for it, and the support and solidarity from CUPE paramedics means so much to us. We are excited to continue working with them, and to learn from and support each other’s work. Building these relationships is needed if we ever hope to see an end to these preventable deaths that have affected so many of us,” said Zoe Dodd, co-coordinator at the Moss Park OPS, and a member of both TOPS and CUPE. | <urn:uuid:0445bfb0-7813-4a98-9830-dfa60ef62cda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cupe.ca/cupe-paramedics-support-toronto-overdose-prevention-society | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971367 | 449 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Q: What is an Institute?
A: Institute courses allow students to elevate their educational experience. While conferences and webinars offer one-hour introductions or overviews of a topic, institute courses provide comprehensive instruction in a curriculum-based format from top genealogy educators and experts. In this setting, students get the opportunity to dive deeper into a topic, interact with faculty in a smaller classroom environment, and gain practical experience.
Q: What is SLIG?
A: The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is the premier educational program of the Utah Genealogical Association. SLIG offers in-depth intermediate to advanced level courses on genealogical topics through three yearly programs: Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, SLIG Virtual Academy for Professionals, and SLIG Virtual. SLIG’s programs also incorporate social and networking opportunities, special events or workshops, and easy access to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City during in-person programs.
Q: Can you tell me more about SLIG’s programs?
A: Each of SLIG’s three programs has unique topics and features that make it a rewarding educational experience. Look at this brief overview of what each program has to offer:
- Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - held in Salt Lake City every January, SLIG's main program offers courses on record groups, ethnicities and locations, methodology, and DNA, with networking opportunities and access to the Family History Library.
- SLIG Virtual Academy for Professionals - held virtually following SLIG, this program offers education for current or aspiring professionals on topics such as business or project management, forensics, writing, and public speaking. The courses are offered virtually over several weeks, allowing time to practice skills, participate in hands-on learning experiences, and network with other professionals.
- SLIG Virtual - held each fall, this virtual format offers courses over several weeks, allowing time to practice skills and participate in hands-on learning experiences. Courses cover various topics and include specialty courses explicitly developed for SLIG Virtual, like the Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum and the Intermediate Foundations course. SLIG’s virtual experience is also enhanced by opportunities to participate in online groups, chats, and virtual networking events.
Q: When will complete program information be posted?
A: SLIG announces courses for the following year’s programs at our annual SLIG Banquet in January. Shortly following the announcement, SLIG updates information on the website with new course titles, coordinator names, and brief descriptions. Full course information, including faculty lists, pre-requisites, detailed course schedules, and other information, are added to the website by June. This information assists students in deciding on the best course for them to attend before registration.
Q: What should I expect at registration?
A: SLIG Virtual registration will open on May 14, 2022 at 12:00 pm MDT. SLIG and Virtual Academy registration will be on July 16, 2022. SLIG will open for registration at 10:00 am MDT, followed by Academy at 2:00 pm MDT.
Registration is important to attend on time as many courses can fill quickly. We encourage you to create a registration account prior to registration day at registration.ugagenealogy.org. Creating your account ahead of time saves you valuable time when registering. As part of the account creation process you will add in your personal and contact information, agree to SLIG’s policies, and provide important personal information such as dietary needs and disabilities to help us make your SLIG experience better. After creating your account, you are ready to register for a specific program.
During program registration, you will be asked to select your course and choose additional program options. Payment is required within 14 days. Registration utilizes a simple and easy-to-follow form with clear instructions to help you complete all of the needed information.
If you have any questions before or during registration, our registrar is available via email here.
Q: What is SLIG's cancellation policy?
A: SLIG has very detailed registration and cancellation policies. You can read the full policy and learn about cancellation deadlines for each specific program here.
Q: What do I do if the course I wanted is full?
A: Because SLIG is such a premier opportunity, some courses can fill quickly. If the course you want to take fills while you are completing your form, you will be automatically added to the course waitlist. If the course is full before you register you can add yourself to any course waitlist from the registration home page at registration.ugagenealogy.org. Just log in and select ‘Waitlist Add/Drop’ from the menu of options on the left-hand side of the screen.
SLIG has so many excellent courses that it is unlikely you will only have one you want to attend. We encourage you to still enroll in another course, even if you join a waitlist. If a seat becomes available, you can choose to switch courses.
Q: Are there scholarship opportunities at SLIG?
A: Yes. There are multiple scholarship opportunities available to assist you in attending SLIG. There are currently five SLIG-specific scholarships: UGA Jimmy B. Parker Scholarship, Laura G. Prescott Scholarship, MyHeritage Chris Darrington Scholarship, SLIG First-Time Institute Attendee Scholarship, and SLIG Intermediate Foundations Scholarship. All SLIG-specific scholarship applications are due by May 1, 2022. Additionally, several other organizations provide scholarships that can apply to SLIG. You can view more information and apply here.
Q: Do members of the Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) receive a tuition discount?
A: Yes. Each UGA member gets a discount on all SLIG programs. Discounts are applied automatically during registration. Use of the same email for your UGA membership and UGA-SLIG registration account is required. Discount amounts vary based on the budget of a particular program and range from $25 to $50 per course.
Q: How do I become a UGA member?
A: You can view UGA membership options and sign up online here: https://ugagenealogy.org/onlineJoin.php. If you have questions, please contact email@example.com.
Q: How can I stay up to date with the latest information on SLIG?
A: SLIG offers many ways to keep up to date on our programs and news. You can:
- Follow the SLIG blog here.
- Sign up for SLIG e-News here.
- Follow our Facebook page here.
- Follow us on Twitter here.
Other common questions may be answered on other areas of the website. Travel, special events, and programs specific details are updated throughout the year.
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Evaluation of Board of Directors in Public Enterprises of Kosovo
Public Enterprises (PE) in Kosovo were incorporated in December 2005 and corporate governance (CG) was adopted for the first time. CG is a new concept in Kosovo and is currently under the process of development and improvement. PE's in Kosovo are owned 100% by the government. CG in PE poses a significant challenge in many economies because of its complex nature. The purpose of this research is to shed some light on the conditions that are needed for ensuring the effectiveness of the Board of Directors (BD) of PE. Composition of the Board of PE plays a key role in the CG. Strengthening of BD to exercise effective monitoring is a difficult challenge for PE. PE's in Kosovo are characterized by a lack of law enforcement and political interference from the central bodies of government. The basic hypothesis is that non-professional boards that are influenced by political interference have a negative impact upon the performance of the PE. Methodology: This research was conducted using primary data (surveys and interviews) and secondary data (annual reports, financial statements, regulatory reports and PMUPE). The results of the research will identify priorities of the reforms that lead toward improvement of CG and economic performance.
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FOBO, or Fear of Better Options, is the opposite of FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out. Experts say these forms of human behavior are actually a phenomenon called satisficing and maximizing. But while the ‘maximizers’ look into every choice available to them, the satisfices are more than happy with choices that are just good enough. Here are some subtle signs you’re suffering from FOBO:
Here Are 12 Subtle Signs You’re Suffering from Fear Of Better Options
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
1. You prefer staying in your comfort zone.
You like to keep your routines the way they are because of their familiarity. You’re so used to doing things a certain way that any disruption easily upsets you. You don’t attempt to change things up in your schedules and activities, even within reason, because you worry that stepping out of your comfort zone might only cause problems and inconveniences. While a comfort zone keeps things steady, it can also inhibit your growth and productivity. Harvard experts recommend making baby steps and setting mini goals outside your comfort zone to slowly conquer your FOBO.
2. You make safe choices.
You don’t attempt to think outside the box. Instead, you make safe choices and stick to your plans because you generally know the outcome. Sometimes, however, you need to take risks and go off the books with your choices in order to succeed or gain better opportunities. Unfortunately, for someone suffering from FOBO, taking a risk seems like the end of everything, not an option for something better.
3. You like having control.
Your obsession with control is almost to the point of perfection. Additionally, you feel like you need this rhythm or you lose the semblance of order in your life. But in reality, many things can go wrong in your life, over which you have no control. You can’t learn important life skills like flexibility and resilience if you cling too tightly to control.
4. You are afraid to fail.
Society has set the standard for why so many people see failure as a shameful thing. Those who suffer from FOBO are too wrapped up in making sure this doesn’t happen to them. But failure can be a character-building experience. In fact, the most inspiring stories of success come from those who have failed more than once in their life. Before Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, JK Rowling, and Oprah Winfrey became billionaires, they experienced failures like rejection and bankruptcy. Hitting rock bottom taught and motivated them to get back on their feet and seek better options for themselves.
5. You have so many excuses when it comes to taking chances.
According to a study published in the journal Motivation and Emotion, making excuses is apparently a defense mechanism. Someone with FOBO would rather avoid facing the possibility of failure than entertain the idea of success, so she makes up excuses. This is like a glass half-empty, half-full situation that also reflects on a person’s fear of failure.
6. You doubt yourself.
You don’t attempt to look for better options because you doubt yourself. Because you lack the confidence to manage bigger and challenging things, you don’t dip your feet in the water when opportunities come knocking. You get overwhelmed by just imagining the tasks you’re expected to accomplish, so you pass up on the chance to try out for that higher post at work, despite the perks and benefits.
7. You don’t voice your opinions and ideas.
You might have something substantial and positive to say about a matter that could affect your place of work or community, but you’d rather keep your opinion and ideas to yourself. You don’t like to rock the boat or deal with the consequences of sharing your thoughts, even if it’s actually better than what others have shared.
8. You don’t believe in following your passion.
What’s holding you back from getting better options? Could it be that you don’t believe you can make something out of your passion? Perhaps you consider practicality as the mark of success. For example, you pick a corporate job for the security rather than braving auditions to become a music artist. What would happen if you choose to follow your passion instead?
9. You stay at a job you hate.
You’re stressed, exhausted, and unhappy professionally. But even if you have enough money for a two-week vacation in Greece, you can’t enjoy the fruits of your labor because of the work demands. People who suffer from FOBO wake up feeling heavy as they drag themselves to work every morning. However, they refuse to quit and look for something better because the current job they have sufficiently pays the bills.
10. You put up with a bad relationship.
Does being miserable with someone seem more romantic than being single? For someone with FOBO, the answer to this is a resounding yes. They would rather put up with a person who hurts them than to be alone. They don’t realize time invested in a bad relationship is essentially time wasted. If you leave your bad relationship and stay single for a while, then you could pour more positive energy into improving yourself. When you improve yourself, you can attract the right person in your life and receive the love you deserve.
11. You feel guilty breaking off toxic friendships.
You know that one toxic friend you can’t seem to turn down or say no to, even if she’s bringing so much negativity in your life? If you have FOBO, you won’t turn your back on this person because of the guilt. Perhaps you were raised on the idea that real friends should be loyal to each other. But the reality is, people can outgrow each other. According to experts from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), holding on to toxic friendships is not only bad for your sanity, but it can physically make you ill with heart diseases, cancer, or diabetes.
12. You procrastinate because you don’t like making decisions.
You put off looking for a better job, breaking off a bad romance, enlisting at the gym, or moving to a good neighborhood because not deciding on something is a lot easier than searching, weighing options, and committing to change. But then, you lose a lot of precious time and opportunities to get your life on track. If you continue to delay, before you know it, you’ve spent most of your life regretting the things you didn’t do.
Despite positive thinking, FOBO can be paralyzing when you should be making full commitments in order to make something of your life. If you’re in this tough spot, it might be time to pause and take a long hard look inwards. Figure out what happiness and success mean for you, then start making plans and crafting your goals from this point. | <urn:uuid:e8872892-e057-4396-a6f2-80998141a7c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.powerofpositivity.com/youre-suffering-fear-of-better-options/?amp&nonamp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946466 | 1,494 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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I recall that it was in New York in 1980, when I was Bhutan’s permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations that Dale Djerassi1 interviewed me for the 1982 PBS documentary, Bhutan- A Strange Survival. One of the questions put forward was: Who is a Bhutanese?
Situation around the world
I was confronting this question for the first time. The question was rather strange as the answer otherwise seemed obvious, at least to me. But then, some could ask such a question to try and obtain a deeper insight into a country’s people, background, and laws relating to citizenship. How would Dale Djerassi respond to the question: Who is an American? Was there a distinction between a United States citizen and an American2 ? Usually the law of the land makes it clear as to who qualifies as a citizen. But then again, it dawned on me that countries do have issues in giving recognition to certain categories of inhabitants, not counting illegal immigrants issues that are not possible to simply ignore. At one point African Americans in the United States were not considered full citizens, but after generations of slavery they were emancipated and given legal recognition both as fellow human beings and citizens. But the African origin peoples had been in America, although as slaves, for centuries almost as long as their European counterparts. So their descendants prima facie qualified as “sons and daughters of the soil” as much as the Whites. Despite their birth in the same country it took a long time for them to be given full legal citizenship. It was only in 1965 that under the US Voting Rights Act that the African Americans were given the opportunity to exercise their citizenship rights. However, the African Americans, even in the 21st century, still feel a strong sense of discrimination, as in practice, as they say that they are discriminated against in subtle and complex ways3 . The so-called “Native Indians” were the original inhabitants of the Americas and they would be the first “real” or aboriginal Americans. Their legal status as citizens in politically and militarily white-dominated United States took a long time to be legally recognised, but they were more “American” than the latter day White settlers by all accounts .
When considering a question like who is a Bhutanese, American, Canadian, an Indian, or any other nationality, it is necessary to understand by briefly examining the issue of the larger perspective that different countries have, and the practices prevalent on citizenship matters. For instance, in today’s context one cannot say one is a Bhutanese if one is not legally recognised as such.
In various other countries there are situations where persons are recognised as citizens by the prevailing laws of the land, and others who are in every other way born inhabitants of the land but laws, or the government policies at a particular point in time, do not give them recognition as full citizens. This could be due to race, religion, or sometimes language or economic and social reasons not palatable to the ruling elite and their lawmakers. This was so in the case of the erstwhile apartheid South Africa, German South-West Africa (Namibia) and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). In the mid-twentieth century, the world witnessed the Holocaust the wiping out of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Germany simply because of their race and religion. Nearer home, and in the present times, we hear about the Muslim Rohingyas from the Rakhine state in Myanmar, who, by some accounts, are said to be immigrants from Bangladesh. The Rohingyas are ethnically different from the majority Buddhists in Myanmar, and have no political clout. The current government has not given them recognition as citizens despite international pressure.
There are many examples around the world where inhabitants who, by all counts, should be regarded as full citizens are not recognised as such, and instead given an alien or inferior status.
Things have, however, been changing around the world. We know that 20th century history has taught rulers of nations hard and important lessons in statecraft. One of these critical lessons relates to the preemptive acceptance and accommodation of diverse groups in a country, and the recognition that all inhabitants should be given the same rights and duties as stakeholders in the country of their birth. The national dilemma on citizenship needs to be sorted out by rulers before further trouble brews in their states.
Though not exactly pertaining to citizenship, presently we see this taking place under India’s “Modi sarkar” or Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which is making every effort to be inclusive despite its proclaimed Hindu religious leanings. In governance it is necessary to understand simple human psychology. The moment the status of citizens is put in doubt, and the equal acceptability of the different types of persons in a country are questioned, the character of that society undergoes a change, sometimes in a dramatically adverse way. We have seen this happen all over the world in the United States, largely because of the differences arising from the colour of one’s skin; the Sunni-Shia divide in Iraq, the Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East, and earlier, the persecution of the Jews in Europe. Closer home, we have seen the consequences of the Hindu-Muslim divide on the Indian subcontinent first encouraged by the divide and rule policy of colonial Britain; and in several other versions in other parts of the world.
To avoid a chaotic national state of affairs from emerging, equal opportunities in a country’s economy, polity and governance structures for all citizens is an absolute necessity that States should approve, consciously promote and implement. Otherwise, their inhabitants will be working at cross-purposes, and their loyalties to their own country will get diluted. This can result in the disruption of social harmony, undermining of national peace and stability, and worse still, in the growth of terrorism and violence. Once such a situation is allowed to evolve, wittingly or unwittingly, it is difficult and time-consuming to reverse it, and insecurity could become the order of the day.
However, it is heartening to know that internationally, despite the great hurdles still present, we are moving towards “many nationalities, one humanity,” in a world that is becoming irreversibly more interdependent, integrated and globalised. While preservation of culture and tradition is acceptable, closed societies, exclusive ethnic groups attempting to keep the rest out, and walls erected by religions may not be feasible any more. The United Nations, at least in principle, has been working for the last 60 years towards such a “one world, one humanity” objective. The United States, western European countries, and secular India and Singapore in Asia, have achieved many legal successes in this regard, and the thinking of their peoples is also undergoing change in support of eliminating all forms of discrimination both in their countries and regions.
The Bhutanese situation
It is in this context that the Bhutanese monarchy, with its attributes of the Buddhist and universal human values of kindness, compassion, tolerance and generosity, has found solutions to overcome differences amongst the people relating to ethnicity, culture, religion and religious sects, way of life and languages. Bhutan was not without its problems and misunderstandings, but solutions based on human values were effectively found to the issues that arose in 1989-1990 in the south, and the east5 .
As history informs us6 , Bhutan too is largely a land of immigrants. The vast majority of people in the western part of the country seem to have originated in the Tibetan region. Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594-1651 CE), the founder of Druk-yul, that is, political Bhutan with recognised physical boundaries, and his followers, came from Ralung in Tibet to Bhutan in the year 1616. They formed the country’s first “national” government. Other supporters in the country were those belonging to the Drukpa sect brought in centuries earlier by Phajo Drukgom Zhigpo7 . It could also be said that many of the inhabitants in the central and eastern enclaves of Bhutan have their origins in Tibet, though some sources refer to their coming from the Indo (Assam)-Burma region as well8 . Several prominent eastern families trace their ancestry to the exiled ninth century prince Tsangma from Tibet’s royal family, or to prominent religious figures in the Tibetan area. So much so that we could safely say that the inhabitants in the traditional northern half of the country had strong ethnic links and origins to various regions of Tibet, and the largely differing mongoloid features, some fair and tall, some with sharp features, some dark and short, can also be attributed to IndoBurmese affiliations. Studies carried out on ethnicity, spoken languages and dialects, show religious links to especially the original places of the Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Kagyupa and Bon traditions demonstrating nexuses to the Tibetan region. Then you have the Southern Bhutanese or Lhotshampas who are a mixture of both varying mongoloid and South Asian peoples, but all of Nepali origin, and whose settlements were sanctioned to create a buffer in the border region against the intrusions of British India.
Bhutanese political culture, system of governance and dominance by the followers of the Drukpa sect was largely the result of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal having founded the Drukpa Kagyupa state in Bhutan. Hence, in the traditional interpretation “Drukpa” meant the follower of the Drukpa religious sect, including those outside Bhutan like in Ralung and Ladakh, and did not connote citizenship9 . If you followed the Nyingma sect you were Nyingmapa and usually the main (tsawai) lama would be of Tibetan origin like Dudjom Rinpoche, Gyalwang Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche or Dodrupchhen Rinpoche. Similarly there was the Gelugpa, and hence the follower of the Dalai Lama’s sect. The term “Drukpa” therefore would have excluded followers of other sects like Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Gelugpa and Monpas resident in the Bhutanese area. Then later, with the establishment of a modern state under the Wangchuck dynasty since 1907, and in the political context, “Drukpa” came to mean a citizen of Druk-yul or Bhutan, irrespective of religious and ethnic affiliations.
From a legal point of view, the first 1958 Citizenship Act came to include the Southern Bhutanese of Nepali origin. However, the third Druk Gyalpo had already established an exclusive administration for this part of the country since 195310. The government had recognised the legality of the settlements decades earlier through grants of land, levying of “dhuri” or residential house taxes, construction of Hindu temples, and educational facilities. Before the 1958 Act, there does not seem to have been a specific legal instrument defining who exactly was a citizen of Bhutan. There were no central registration procedures or records till much later in the 1970s when trained personnel became available, and computers were introduced to handle large amounts of data more reliably. Only the records of births and deaths, if at all maintained by villages prior to the Act, could have been considered applicable. For sure, written documentation to track the authenticity of the inhabitants had been maintained in Southern Bhutan until the commissioner system was abolished in the 1970s. These records later proved helpful in the identification of citizens versus those who had entered the country without specific official sanction. Then there was the subsequent Bhutan Citizenship Act 1985 which provided a legal definition of citizenship.
The objectives of Bhutan’s development philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH), and especially its historic 2008 Constitution granted by the fourth King and pursued actively by the present Monarch, are clear manifestations of pursuing peace, progress and development with human values. Internationally this was glaringly recognised when Bhutan was placed 16th out of 162 countries in the 2014 Global Peace Index. This is an objective international assessment and Bhutan is now ranked above countries like the Netherlands, Germany and Singapore.
On the issue of citizenship, and who is a Canadian, I was impressed with the deep insight of Adrienne Clarkson11 at the CBC Massey Lecture series in Vancouver, Canada, on 28 October 2014. She referred to and praised Bhutan’s GNH philosophy and the values embodied in the four tenets of GNH12 towards peaceful and cooperative existence in society that is in harmony with nature. Everyone involved in governance and law-making should listen to this enlightening lecture titled Gross National Happiness.13
Bhutanese attribute the kingdom’s success of achieving unity, peace and progress, while actively preserving the country’s valued traditions, to the principled and steadfast role of the Wangchuck dynasty.
When the 2008 Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan came into being it embodied the citizenship provisions of the earlier Acts. Article 6 of the Constitution is titled “Citizenship,” and who is a citizen is outlined there.
The Constitution provides for three categories of citizenship. First, “natural born citizens” are offspring of parents where both are citizens14. Second, “citizens by registration” are those who had been domiciled in Bhutan as of 31 December 1958 by showing registration in the official records of the government. This latter category was mainly applicable to Southern Bhutanese, though by implication their children would subsequently be “natural born citizens” if both parents were citizens. Third, “citizens by naturalisation” are those who have applied for, and were granted, naturalisation. Naturalisation requires applicants to have resided in Bhutan for at least 15 years with official permission; have no record of imprisonment for criminal offences within the country or outside; can speak and write Dzongkha; have a good knowledge of the culture, customs, traditions and history of Bhutan; and have no record of having spoken or acted against the tsa-wa-sum. They must also renounce the citizenship, if any, of a foreign State on being conferred Bhutanese citizenship; and take an Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution. The grant of citizenship by naturalisation takes effect by a Royal Kasho of the King.
The Constitution prohibits dual citizenship. If citizens of Bhutan acquire another citizenship, their Bhutanese citizenship is terminated. The power to regulate matters on citizenship is vested with the National Assembly, subject to the Citizenship Acts.
Finally, what would one say would be an acceptable answer to the question: Who is a Bhutanese? In my opinion it would be politically and otherwise correct not to imply that being Bhutanese is related to ethnicity, religion, or even to categorisation amongst citizens. Once qualified as a Bhutanese citizen as per the laws of the land, there is only one type of Bhutanese as recognised by the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, a democratic constitution where all citizens are equal with the same rights and duties, as bequeathed to the people of Bhutan by the Kings. Except for merit and qualifications, subtly or otherwise, differences amongst citizens should not be made in any official recruitment and promotions, or neither should differences amongst citizens be emphasised or given recognition legally or socially. We must recall the words of His Majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, at the 15 July 2011 convocation ceremony of the Royal University of Bhutan:
“Our main priorities are the peace, prosperity, security and sovereignty of Bhutan. Towards these goals, we must all work together in first safeguarding our strong foundation of unity and harmony. In our small society, divisions and cleavages can manifest themselves in very destructive ways. We have seen this in other larger countries and the great price they have had to pay. Ngalop, Sharchop, Lhotshampa, Christians, Hindu, Buddhist, me against you, us against them some people might resort to such useless and irrelevant classifications in their work and dealings with each other. In today’s world, it is more important that we worry about haves and have-nots economic disparity.”
What has been argued in this article only expounds on what His Majesty said so succinctly and explicitly.
The Bhutanese people in future It is my prediction that Bhutan will not permit any sizeable immigration or grant of citizenship to large numbers in the future. It should be noted that substantive migrations into Bhutan for purposes of permanent settlements after the Lhotshampas established the buffer in the south, have not taken place for more than half a century, except for grant of few individual citizenships through Royal Kashos, mostly to foreign spouses. This means that those currently registered as citizens, whichever part of the country they may be from, or whatever ethnic, linguistic or religious group they may belong to, will form the core of this kingdom’s citizens. With foreign marriage regulations being stringent, the Bhutanese will tend to marry each other rather than foreigners. This should enhance integration, and the process is likely to be rapid in view of the small population facilitated by all forms of connectivity, increased urbanisation and mixed rural settlements. On its part the state and government must continue to emphasise their policies that forge a single nation through greater understanding and unity. Integration must be emphasised and, among other things, through the promotion of Dzongkha as the single national language, the gho and kira as the national dress, ensuring the proliferation of the traditions and culture of Drukpa Kagyupa that gives Bhutanese their unique character, but at the same time respecting the prominent regional cultural and social traditions, as well as the individual preference for religion. Such a forward-looking policy promoted by Bhutan’s monarchs will enhance unity and bring Bhutanese closer to each other as one nation, one people. The democratic government that will make every citizen proud to be a Bhutanese will be the successful government achieving the goals of GNH.
So, who is a Bhutanese?
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, the question of who is a Bhutanese had been addressed to me about four decades earlier in 1980 in New York. At that time I responded to Dale Djerassi: “A Bhutanese is one who is recognised as per the laws of the Kingdom of Bhutan.” With the explanations and views that I have expressed above, I reiterate the same again. This definition is also within the context of the great aspiration of the fifth Druk Gyalpo when this was announced to the graduates in the royal address:
“Whether you are from the east or west, or the south, we must build a single national identity.”
References1 Founding trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California. Also serves on the board of directors of the San Francisco Film Society.
2 Here I refer to American as a US citizen. However, “American” also seems to be politically charged. A South (Latin) American once told me that the US uses “American” to refer only to US citizens, and call their country the “United States of America.” But in fact, this gentleman told me, all those from North and South America are Americans, but not necessarily from the US!
3 See: racism.org. Accessed on November 1, 2014.
4 US Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans in 1924.
5 The problem in the southern part of the country related to illegal immigration and landholdings. In the east, the problem was the result of religious activities of foreign personalities.
6 See Lho-yi Chos-jung (translation: The emergence of religious sects in the southern country), and also see: A Brief Historical Background of the Religious Institutions of Bhutan, by Dasho Rigdzin Dorje, Buddhist Himalaya: A Journal of Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods, Vol. III No. I & II (1990-1991)
7 Phajo Drukgom Zhigpo established the Drukpa religious sect that originated in Ralung, Tibet, in the Bhutanese area. He was born to father Dawa Zangpo and mother Pelmo Kyid at a place called Babchu Trashigang in the eastern region of Tibet, i.e., in the Kham province, in the year 1184 CE.
8 See: http://www.kingdomofbhutan.com/kingdom/kingdom_.html as accessed on November 3, 2014
9 This interpretation still holds good for followers of the sect outside Bhutan such as Ralung in Tibet, and Ladakh, as well as followers of the Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche in India who are not necessarily from Bhutan.
10 Rahul, Ram. The Himalaya Borderland. Page 11. (Vikas Publications, Delhi-6, 1970)
11 Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian of Chinese origin who served as the 26th Governor General of Canada.
12 These tenets are: Generosity, ethics, tolerance and perseverance according to Adrienne Clarkson.
14 When the second category is “citizenship by registration” it implies that “natural born citizens” need not register, and written records may have been practically non-existent. This was the case earlier, but in today’s system in Bhutan, births have to be properly registered with the local administration otherwise later on it proves difficult to obtain Citizenship Identity Cards.
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Personal Insurance; A safety Net For High Net Worth People
There are many benefits to having been blessed with wealth. You may have a vacation home, boat, plane, or get to travel the world. But individuals with high net worth have increased risks that need to be managed. Personal insurance policies created for high net worth individuals can have much higher limits than average policies, providing the adequate coverage high net worth individuals need for more expensive homes and automobiles, as well as valuable collections, yachts and aviation.
Many “standard” personal insurance policies have limitations that create the need for a different personal insurance approach.
Personal Insurance Risks For High Net Worth Individuals
- Foreign travel
- Expensive art or gun collections
- Expensive jewelry
- Private aviation
- A greater amount of cash in the home
- Expensive or custom vehicles
- Watercraft that are not covered under a normal policy
- Hired staff
- Custom homes with unique or one of a kind construction
- Homes in foreign countries
- Involvement in charities that create new risks
- Custom furniture or other personal items
- Imported fixtures
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We are indoors a lot. In fact, the EPA has found the majority of people spend 90% of their lives indoors a building, where air quality can be 2–5 times poorer than outside.
Bad indoor air quality can have an adverse impact on your well-being. That’s why it’s important to identify the signs of poor air quality in your house, what leads to it and how to fix it.
If you’re looking for ways to tell if your Cottonwood home’s air quality is bad, our team of heating and cooling pros at Connolly Electric & Mechanical can help. We’ll review the troubles you’re having and provide plans to make your home’s air cleaner.
What Causes Indoor Air Pollution?
When you picture pollution, you generally think of smog. But ordinary items in your residence can make pollution by the gases or particles they leak into the air.
These origins include:
- Carbon monoxide
- Cleaning, personal care and hobby products
- Combustion appliances, like a furnace or stove that uses gas
- Dust, animal dander and pollen
- Excessive moisture
- HVAC equipment
- Recently placed flooring or carpeting
- Secondhand smoke
- Man-made building materials, like furniture made from pressed wood
Indoor air pollution can be intensified by not enough ventilation in your house, as well as hot temperatures and humidity. Modern homes are firmly sealed for energy savings, which is a plus for your heating and cooling costs but not so great when you have to have additional fresh air in your home.
Can Poor Indoor Air Quality Make You Sick?
Because people are affected differently by indoor air pollutants, you might have symptoms now or later on. Your symptoms could alleviate when you leave your residence but worsen when you return.
Some of the most regular immediate issues involve:
- Scratchy eyes, nose or throat
If someone in your home deals with allergies or asthma, their symptoms might be worse.
Repeated or prolonged exposure may lead to respiratory diseases, heart disease or even cancer, the EPA warns.
Other Signs of Low Indoor Air Quality and How to Improve It
Your residence will also signal that its air isn’t as clean as it could be.
- Your residence is very dusty, notably near the vents. It’s common for your house to get dusty during the week, but a lot of dust around your air registers should be troubling. There are other particles within dust, like dust mites, pollen and pet dander, that can impact your health, especially if you have allergies or asthma. A premium air filter or whole-home air filtration system can help cut down on dust and other aggravating pollutants.
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- Your home’s air appears too dry or too wet. We recommend keeping your house’s humidity levels around 30–40% for optimal comfort. If your home isn’t humid enough during cold temperatures, your skin and throat might feel scratchy. You might also experience colds and other respiratory illnesses more regularly. If your home is too humid during the summer, you might have higher mold and mildew growth, both of which are harmful to your health. You can fight these issues with a whole-home humidifier or dehumidifier, which partners your home comfort unit to provide balanced humidity throughout your home.
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The lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of treatment options for clinically localised prostate cancer continues to impact on clinical decision-making. Two such options are radical prostatectomy (RP) and watchful waiting (WW). WW involves providing no initial treatment and monitoring the patient with the intention of providing palliative treatment if there is evidence of disease progression.
To compare the beneficial and harmful effects of RP versus WW for the treatment of localised prostate cancer.
MEDLINE, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, ISI Science Citation Index, DARE and LILACS were searched through 30 July 2010.
Randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials comparing the effects of RP versus WW for clinically localised prostate cancer.
Data collection and analysis
Data extraction and quality assessment were carried out independently by two authors.
Two trials met the inclusion criteria. Both trials commenced prior to the widespread availability of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening; hence the results may not be applicable to men with PSA-detected disease.
One trial (N = 142), conducted in the US, was judged to be of poor quality. All cause (overall) mortality was not significantly different between RP and WW groups after fifteen years of follow up (Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.9 (95% Confidence Interval (CI) 0.56 to 1.43).
The second trial (N = 695), conducted in Scandinavia, was judged to be of good quality. After 12 years of follow up, the trial results were compatible with a beneficial effect of RP on the risks of overall mortality, prostate cancer mortality and distant metastases compared with WW but the precise magnitude of the effect is uncertain as indicated by the width of the confidence intervals for all estimates (risk difference (RD) -7.1% (95% CI - 14.7 to 0.5); RD -5.4% (95% CI -11.1 to 0.2); RD-6.7% (95% CI -13.2 to -0.2), respectively).
Compared to WW, RP increased the absolute risks of erectile dysfunction (RD 35% (95% CI 25 to 45)) and urinary leakage (RD 27% (95% CI 17 to 37)). These estimates must be interpreted cautiously as they are derived from data obtained from a self-administered questionnaire survey of a sample of the trial participants (N = 326), no baseline quality of life data were obtained and nerve-sparing surgery was not routinely performed on trial participants undergoing RP.
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Ontario's Human Rights Code is a provincial law that gives everybody equal rights and opportunities without discrimination in specific social areas such as jobs, housing, services, facilities, and contracts or agreements.
The Code's goal is to prevent discrimination and harassment because of race, sex, disability, age and more. All other Ontario laws must agree with the Code. To find out how you can get justice for a breach of human rights, contact a qualified human rights professional.
The Ontario Human Rights Code provides protection from discrimination in five (5) main areas of our lives. It states that every person has a right to freedom from discrimination in the following areas, known as social areas:
- Services, goods and facilities
- Membership in vocational associations and trade unions
When you receive goods or services or use facilities, you have the right to be free from discrimination. This is applicable in most areas where you conduct business on a daily routine including governmental - municipal and provincial, public and private places, including stores, schools, and recreational facilities. If you have been discriminated against, you can contact Paragon Legal Services.
International law states that Canada must work towards making sure everyone has access to adequate and affordable housing. Everyone is entitled to equal housing without discrimination based on age, race, disability, sex and social or economic status.
In Ontario, this law applies to both tenants and landlords. This right also includes whether you are renting, buying or selling. For assistance as either a landlord or tenant, you should consult with a qualified legal professional.
Discrimination rights, however, does not apply if you are sharing housing with the owner or the owner's family. It also does not include residences which are male or female only accommodation.
Contracts are legal agreements which can be done verbally or in writing. Persons with any legal capacity can enter into a contract on equal terms without discrimination and should cover all steps including the offer, price, and a place for signatories and witnesses. Different contracts will be drafted to cover each party's specific terms and conditions.
Generally most human rights claims are generated from the workplace. Every person has the right to fair and equal treatment without discrimination or harassment. This covers employees, independent contractors and volunteers.
Applications against human rights can be filed against employers, contractors, boards of directors and even unions. It is the duty of both the unions and the employers to ensure the workplace is free of harassment and discrimination.
Persons with disabilities should be provided with the equipment which will allow them to perform their tasks like any other employee.
Equal treatment during your employ covers recruitment, interviews, training, transfers, promotions, apprenticeship and even dismissals or layoffs. Rates of pay include overtime, shift work, hours of work, holidays and benefits.
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China, which has recently signed many new regulations on social media, has created controversy with some of these regulations. Earlier those under the age of 16to broadcast live on it, just in the past weeks. those under the age of 18China, which prevented it from donating to live broadcasts, came up with a new decision today.
The Chinese government has featured a prominent rule in the list of new rules it has released for influencers and publishers this week. Government, influencers on social media banned from speaking on matters of law, medicine, and finance . The new rule, as usual, divided people.
Professionalism will be sought in those who want to talk about these issues:
According to the Chinese state media outlet Xinhua, the new rules will require broadcasters to maintain the right tone in political orientation and public communication, and to actively incorporate core socialist values. The professionalism of those who want to talk about the prohibited topics above. will have to prove it with documents.
The new rules ban the use of deepfakes and content depicting an ‘extravagant lifestyle’, as well as banning talking about topics like the ones above. Moreover, it was clearly stated that the new rules apply not only to content producers, but also to any version of artificial intelligence that publishes news. So China’s internet cops, apart from individuals It can also impose sanctions on artificial intelligence.
- So what do you think about China’s new rules? Do you think similar rules should be applied in our country? Let’s discuss in the comments section. | <urn:uuid:518b52ab-9adf-415b-9174-a7f6050c2a44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abouttechnology.net/example-of-social-media-influencers-ban-from-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965022 | 320 | 1.898438 | 2 |
1.Ideal gas has no definite volume while real gas has definite volume.
2.Ideal gas has no mass whereas real gas has mass.
3.Collision of ideal gas particles is elastic while non-elastic for real gas.
4.No energy involved during collision of particles in ideal gas. Collision of particles in real gas has attracting energy.
5.Pressure is high in ideal gas compared to real gas.
6.Ideal gas follows the equation PV=nRT. Real gas follows the equation (P + a/V2) (V – b) = nRT. | <urn:uuid:8d3ce107-6312-4685-8681-8cc654810a41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://able2know.org/topic/51326-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.916552 | 133 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Optimization of ionic liquid pretreatment of mixed softwood by response surface methodology and reutilization of ionic liquid from hydrolysate
We investigated the feasibility of producing bioethanol from mixed softwood pretreated with the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([Bmim]Ac). The optimal pretreatment conditions were determined by response surface methodology to be 100°C for 15 h, and the fermentable sugar yield was estimated to be 92.5%. Efficient pretreatment of softwood was maintained even after reutilizing [Bmim]Ac up to four times. Through the enzymatic saccharification and subsequent fermentation, bioethanol was produced with 0.42 g/g of yield and 0.24 g/L/h of productivity, which clearly suggests that efficient and economical bioethanol production can be achieved by optimizing pretreatment processes and reutilizing ionic liquid.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR WEBSITES (AND BEYOND)
“Graphic Design for Websites” is a workshop placing an emphasis on the basic elements and principles of graphic design in relationship to front end web design aesthetics. Students will be exposed to various examples and applications for wordpress based websites (on the CUNY academic commons and beyond). The workshop will also introduce and apply a myriad of Open Education Resources on design, techniques and software. Hands on exercises will be explored. Bring your lap top.
This week I had the honor of creating and presenting a workshop for the CUNY Graduate Center Students in the Digital Initiatives program. As per the workshops description above, we had a blast and covered quite a bit of information! This workshop was designed for students who have limited or no access to Adobe products and software. Have a look!
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GARDEN MYSTERY BAG has 6-8 objects, all garden-related, in an enticing closed, drawstring bag for the child to open, then discover, inspect and name the contents. This is an appealing language exercise for a young child. Here objects are a garden glove, trowel, plant pot, seed packet, watering can, sun hat, and a box containing a garden animal – a frog this time. Objects vary according to availability but will be similar to examples shown. The bags are hand-decorated with needlework and are thus individual, however, a crocheted flower will decorate the exterior of each garden bag. Handles are on every bag for easy hanging or carrying. | <urn:uuid:25ac5928-9040-4b4a-85b1-4c13a984d1d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.montessorimaterials.com.au/product/garden-mystery-bag/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919481 | 149 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Please read the article below and then answer the 5 questions and identify which question you are answering.
James is an expert in the software development field and he currently works for a small high security computer lab in Portland Oregon, where software and data systems are manufactured and tested regularly. He has been working in his department for 15 years. James works endless nights going through software codes to test the newest and most up to date technology. He is a true pioneer when it comes to innovative ideas. Few people recognize and give him credit for his work, especially his supervisor. His work requires him to work long hours and his innovation are not rewarded with an increase of pay. The corporation that James works for is so high profile it requires each employee to have a common access card, due to the high security clearance needed to operate the software systems. These cards are handed in at the end of each person’s shift even going including being being physically checked by security upon entering or leaving the department.
James was one of the few people in the company who was invited to attend a software convention in Silicon Valley, California where he was to showcase the company’s latest coding project against competing companies. Due to James’s impressive production his small company won the competition with James getting little to no credit despite show casing it and showing spectators how to operate the seamless design. However, James’s talents caught the eye of many bigger name companies which could use his talents. James’s company however wanted to keep all of James’s coding under wraps.
Having caught the eye of many of the competing firms that were at the convention in Silicon Valley, James began to be solicited for new opportunities to come and work for the competition. They offered him a higher pay including bonuses, and though James was loyal to his company he was feeling underappreciated and he felt that it was time for him to move on to bigger and better things. James did some reaching out to the other firms providing them a portfolio of his course work sending them his own beta samples which was his work product and originally intended for his company’s future projects. He was used his personal email while his company common access card was in his work computer. James didn’t want to alert his company of anything definitive until a new job was set in stone. After several weeks of active communication and negotiations with the other software companies, James abruptly stopped receiving emails from these companies. For about a week he was sending out emails with no responses and he was getting extremely worried.
Then on a Monday morning he was told that his common access card had been revoked, and wasn’t allowed in by security. He was then escorted to the main building by security but not to his department, he was brought to a small room with the Secret Service waiting for him. James was then interrogated for hours in regard to the communication between him and the other software firms with all of his emails exposed. James was accused of intellectual property theft and due to the specific security nature of his work produce, espionage. James was arrested and fired from his job. James arrest was announced in The Oregonian newspaper the next day.
Q#1: From an ethical standpoint do you think that his company was wrong for reporting him directly to the Secret Service (and thus destroying him professionally) when in reality he was just looking for a better job?
Q#2: How do you think James should have gone about looking for a new job with other companies?
Q#3: Do you think James’s penalty was too severe?
Q#4: What mistakes did James’ boss and company make? How can they prevent an occurrence like this from happening again?
Q#5: You are James’ manager and a Christian, how should you deal with a situation like James’ in the way Christ would?
Use the following textbooks as a reference however additional references are welcomed.
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier (New York: Norton, 2015).
Fire Doesn’t Innovate: The Executive’s Practical Guide to Thriving in the Face of Evolving Cyber Risks by Kip Boyle (Austin, Texas: Lioncrest Publishing, 2018).
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INDICATOR-COMPROMISE -- Snort detected a system behavior that suggests the system has been affected by malware. That behavior is known as an Indicator of Compromise (IOC). The symptoms could be a wide range of behaviors, from a suspicious file name to an unusual use of a utility. Symptoms do not guarantee an infection; your network configuration may not be affected by malware, but showing indicators as a result of a normal function. In this case, attackers may be attempting to gain privileges and access other systems, spread influence, and make calls and commands with elevated access. The context of the traffic is important to determine intrusion; traffic from an administration utility performing commands on a user's computer is likely not a compromise, but a user laptop accessing a webserver may indicate intrusion.
INDICATOR-COMPROMISE Suspicious .win dns query
This rule looks for any dns query ending in a .win TLD
What To Look For
This rule alerts on dns queries to .win domains, which are commonly used to try and spoof legitimate websites and trick users into thinking they are the original sites.
Attacks/Scans seen in the wild
No known false positives
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By Michael Erman and Ankur Banerjee
(Reuters) – The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which U.S. President Donald Trump says he has been taking and has urged others to use, was tied to an increased risk of death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a large study published on Friday showed.
In the study https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140673620311806 that looked at more than 96,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, those treated with hydroxychloroquine or the related chloroquine had higher risk of death and heart rhythm problems than patients who were not given the medicines.
The study, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed no benefit for coronavirus patients taking the drugs.
Demand for the decades-old hydroxychloroquine has surged as Trump repeatedly promoted its use against the coronavirus, urging people to try it. “What have you got to lose?” he asked.
Trump said this week he has been taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventative medicine despite a lack of scientific evidence.
The Lancet study authors suggested that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine should not be used to treat COVID-19 outside of clinical trials until studies confirm their safety and efficacy in such patients.
There is a frantic search for drugs to treat COVID-19 at the same time that multiple research teams pursue a safe and effective vaccine to combat a pathogen that has killed more than 335,000 people worldwide and sickened millions more.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed healthcare providers to use the drugs for COVID-19 through an emergency-use authorization, but has not approved them to treat it.
Dr. Mandeep Mehra, one of the study’s authors, said the research shows that the FDA should withdraw that authorization.
“That will help move this towards more, stronger evidence because it will then force the use of these drugs only in the setting of control trials,” Mehra said in an interview. “That would be an extremely wise decision.”
The FDA has said that, for safety reasons, hydroxychloroquine should be used only for hospitalized COVID-19 patients or those in clinical trials. The drug has been tied to dangerous heart rhythm problems.
The Lancet study looked at data from 671 hospitals where 14,888 patients were given either hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, with or without an antibiotic, and 81,144 patients were not given such treatments.
Both drugs have shown evidence of effectiveness against the coronavirus in a laboratory setting, but studies in patients had proven inconclusive. Several small studies in Europe and China spurred interest in using hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19, but were criticized for lacking scientific rigor.
Several more recent studies have not shown the drug to be an effective COVID-19 treatment. Last week, two studies published in the medical journal BMJ showed that patients given hydroxychloroquine did not improve significantly over those who were not.
Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis as well as malaria.
Hospitalized patients tend to have a more severe version of COVID-19. Some proponents of the drugs for COVID-19 argue that they may need to be administered at an earlier stage to be effective.
There are ongoing randomized, controlled clinical trials to study the drug’s effectiveness in preventing infection by the coronavirus as well as treating mild to moderate COVID-19. Some of those may yield results within weeks.
(Reporting by Ankur Banerjee and Manas Mishra in Bengaluru and Michael Erman in New York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Bill Berkrot, Jonathan Oatis and Will Dunham) | <urn:uuid:57418bc5-03e9-46b2-bf9b-fa07b62a1a04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physiciansweekly.com/drug-touted-by-trump/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956115 | 824 | 1.851563 | 2 |
"The Windhover" is a sonnet written in 1887 by the English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, dedicated to "Christ our Lord." In the poem, the speaker recounts the awe-inspiring sight of a kestrel (a.k.a, a "windhover") soaring through the air in search of prey. The speaker is deeply moved by the bird's aerial skill—its ability to both hover in stillness and swoop down with speed—and sees the bird as an expression of the beauty and majesty of God's creation. The poem's octet (the first eight lines) concentrates primarily on the bird, while the sestet—the second and final section of the poem—discusses the creature in a wider religious context. The speaker ultimately stresses that such beauty is in fact "no wonder," because all of God's creation is divinely beautiful. | <urn:uuid:53b2b095-c85b-4f65-be78-6ae2bc7d4ce7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/gerard-manley-hopkins/the-windhover | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948414 | 193 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Belgium Photo Gallery
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Belgium is a country in central Europe famed for its medieval towns. This small state is divided between the French speaking South and the Dutch speaking North at Waterloo, the town where Napoleon famously lost the war. Bruges is one of the most visited cities in Europe with canals adding the the picturesque views of the impeccably preserved historic town. Antwerp is famed for being a diamond cutting center and Brussels, the capital, home of countless Belgian chocolate shops. | <urn:uuid:0b353fc6-75b4-4ca7-87b8-0b55ab06e46b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neoluminance.com/gallery/belgium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949303 | 108 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Journal: Ear And Hearing, Volume 24, Issue 1, Feb 2003
OBJECTIVE The primary purpose of this study was to determine the distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) and noise response characteristics in a large sample of older adults. Another purpose was to evaluate how specific absolute DPOAE levels or DPOAE/Noise ratios differentiated hearing status in these individuals.
DESIGN A cross-sectional design was utilized for this study. As a part of the Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study (EHLS), DPOAEs were measured in 937 of the 3,429 participants aged 48 to 92 yr. The DPOAE and noise response characteristics were evaluated at 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 Hz. Absolute DPOAE level and DPOAE/Noise ratios were measured in the participants. The DPOAE data were compared with individual pure-tone frequencies (1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 Hz) in the participants to investigate how DPOAE responses differentiated ears with normal hearing from impaired ears. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and accuracies were calculated for various absolute DPOAE levels and DPOAE/Noise ratios.
RESULTS Due to the considerable overlap between DPOAE responses and the noise levels at 1,000 Hz, this frequency was not used for any analyses. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated for various DPOAE responses. Sensitivity and specificity varied by frequency for absolute DPOAE levels and DPOAE/Noise ratios. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analyses were used to determine which DPOAE responses differentiated normal hearing from hearing loss. The ROC analyses demonstrated that -6 dB SPL at 2,000 Hz, -14 dB SPL at 4,000 Hz, and -22 dB SPL at 8,000 Hz and a +9 dB DPOAE/Noise ratio at each of these frequencies yielded the highest discrimination.
CONCLUSIONS Sensitivity and specificity varied by DPOAE response characteristics and frequency. The decision as to which DPOAE response criterion used should be based on careful consideration of objectives and the possible consequences of misdiagnosis. The results of this study support the use of DPOAEs as a clinical measure for older adults. | <urn:uuid:f29eca54-bc74-4065-b767-58c3aeafec99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ophth.wisc.edu/blog/2003/02/01/distortion-product-otoacoustic-emission-response-characteristics-in-older-adults/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954467 | 474 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Every 220 volt electric heater can be prone to damage, malfunctioning, and cause fires when not used properly. Hence, it is always important to practice proper usage of an electric heater to ensure efficient and safe heating. Using your 220 volt electric heater more efficiently may help reduce your heating bills, too. Take a look at these tips to help run your electric heater more efficiently: Continue reading “Using Your 220 Volt Electric Heater More Efficiently”
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- Set the correct temperature – Keep your refrigerator running between 37 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The freezer must be at zero degrees.
Now is a good time to shop for a new coffee maker. There are 220 volt coffee makers that come with different features to make serving your favorite brew easier and more enjoyable. It can be handy to have a 220 volt coffee maker, too, especially if you are planning to move to a country that uses 200 volts or simply like the special features that may not be available in some 110-volt versions. Here are some of the new features that are present in some of the best 220 volt coffee makers: | <urn:uuid:7cb053de-fe05-4a0e-a18c-514e5d813d2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blog.samstores.com/2016/02/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932081 | 629 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Definition of convergent evolution
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Convergent evolution definition
What is convergent evolution? Convergent evolution is a concept in evolutionary biology that refers to the kind of evolution wherein, for instance, a pair of phylogenetically independent organisms evolve anatomically different structure, trait, or morphological feature that has the same function. The word “analogous” is used to describe such structures of two evolutionary unrelated species and yet they have similar or corresponding functions. Analogous structures do not share the same embryonic origin and they differ anatomically. Thus, they do not denote a common ancestral origin.
Synonym: convergence. Compare: divergent evolution; parallel evolution.
Convergence, homoplasy, and reversal
The acquisition of similar traits by unrelated species as a result of an evolutionary process and not by inheritance from a common ancestor is referred to as homoplasy (also called homoplasty). The species develop such morphological similarities through time despite the differences in phylogenetic origins. One possible cause is that they have been exposed to the same environmental factors and then responding to them through similar adaptive mechanisms. Convergent evolution and parallel evolution can lead to homoplasy. Evolutionary reversal is another related concept. It occurs when a trait shared with the previous ancestor is lost in newer species only to return later in some species. (Ref.1)
Convergent evolution examples
An example of convergent evolution is the wings of the birds, insects, and bats. Their wings may not have the same anatomic composition and features but their wings that serve for one purpose, which is flight. These animals came from different ancestral lines but they eventually evolved wings that they use to travel through the air.
Another example is the eyes of vertebrates, cephalopods, cubozoan jellyfish, and arthropods. These animals evolved separately but they evolved eyes as organs for vision. The organs for smell of unrelated species are also analogous structures. For example, the smelling organs of the terrestrial coconut crab are similar in function to the sensilla of insects. Their organs are capable of detecting smells in the air.
The shells of brachiopods resemble those of distantly related bivalve mollusks. Marine animals (such as ichthyosaurs, fish, and dolphins) have a streamlined body plan that helps them swim more efficiently in seas and oceans. The Antarctic toothfish and the Arctic cod are capable of withstanding extremely low temperature because they possess a gene that encodes for a protein coupled with sugar to form an “antifreeze” biological compound. The gene responsible for the production of antifreeze glycoproteins is believed to have originated from an ancient gene that formerly had a role in digestion. (Ref.2)
Fruitafossor (Late Jurassic termite-eating extinct mammal) resembles the anteaters and pangolins. They have features (e.g. long sticky tongues) that enable myrmecophagy (feeding on ants or termites). Skeletal features indicate that they are not related.
Mimicry is one of the defense strategies not uncommon among animals. There are two forms of mimicry, i.e. Mullerian vs Batesian. Mullerian mimicry is one in which the animals seem to “copy” each other morphologically. In Batesian mimicry, a not-so-harmful animal mimics a harmful animal. An example of mimicry is the black and yellow sand lizard (Heliobolus lugubris) that mimics a ground beetle Anthia sp. The latter is considered as unpalatable by its predators because it sprays formic acid as its defense. The lizard, which is not toxic and does not have such a defense mechanism, mimics the beetle to deceive its predators.
Convergent evolution is seen not just in the animal kingdom. It is also seen in plants. Analogous structures, such as prickles, thorns, and spines, evolve as a plant adaptation against excessive herbivory.
Convergent vs parallel evolution
Convergent evolution and parallel evolution are similar in a way that both result in the evolution of unrelated species with similar structures. However, in parallel evolution, this occurs when the species live in the same environment. They tend to evolve parallel to each other in the same environment or current situation. In convergent evolution, the species do not live in the same environment although they may be exposed to similar environmental pressures that led them into developing similar adaptive strategies. Parallel evolution is displayed by the North American cactus and the African euphorbia from two different plant families. Both of them live in hot arid habitats and to adapt both of them evolved thicker stems and sharp quills.
Convergent vs.divergent evolution
When an evolutionary process results in species diverging rather than converging through time it is called divergent evolution. Species from a common lineage eventually diverged from its ancestor. As it evolves structure with a novel function, it became more and more dissimilar from its ancestors. Darwin finches, for instance, define such an evolution. While some finches evolved claw-like beaks, other finches evolved thin, longer beaks that are better suited in poking into holes in the ground and extract the grubs. Another example is the evolution of bat forelimbs. Bat has the same anatomic forelimb features as that of other mammals, i.e. the forelimb being made up of radius and ulna. However, the bat forelimbs eventually acquired wing membranes (patagia) that enabled bats to “fly” (glide). Such structures with novel functions yet from the same embryonic (developmental) origin are described as homologous (as opposed to the analogous structures in convergent evolution). Possible causes of divergent evolution are migration, interbreeding, and exposure to new environmental pressures. Going back again to Darwin’s finches as an example, the species migrated to new habitats and over time, they evolved to become more fit to their environment by natural selection. This is called adaptive radiation. (Ref.3)
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The release of diplomatic documents by WikiLeaks last year has given people more insight into how the US government works according to Suelette Dreyfus.
Dreyfus is the author of Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, the 1997 book that featured the exploits of Mendax — the hacker handle of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.
Dreyfus told this week's Q&A show that people in the US now understand how their government worked behind "closed mahogany doors." She said that WikiLeaks has also shown that governments don't always act in the interests of their own people. "In that sense, it's a true whistle blower," Dreyfus said.
According to Dreyfus, WikiLeaks said the regulators of democracy have "failed" people and WikiLeaks, together with the media, was the last safeguard.
"I would say that the US is at a crisis point because it has become a surveillance state and the [National Security Agency] is intercepting 1.7 billion emails and telephone calls," Dreyfus said.
"People don't have the privacy they had 10 years ago. The reason that WikiLeaks has resonated with the population is because people are saying that the regulators of democracy have failed us and you do have corporate collapses because the regulators have failed us."
She also said that she was sad to see the US entering a period of decline with the second financial down turn. "That's a bad thing for the world."
Australian human rights advocate, Hanifa Deen, backed Dreyfus and said WikiLeaks was right to release Australian documents too.
"We are not good at political education in Australia so to lift the veil and see what is the reason behind decisions demystifies the whole process. We need to wake up and realise that this goes on and it's not in a diplomatic sphere," she said.
Former Coalition Senator ,Nick Minchin, disagreed with the rest of the panel and said it was "dreadful" that WikiLeaks exposed those diplomatic cables because diplomacy was how countries avoid war.
"For nations to remain at peace requires artful diplomacy," he said.
"If ambassadors and foreign embassy officials can't honestly report back to their governments on what is happening on the ground in those countries, which they now can't do because of the fear that the things they write will be exposed in the public arena, I think that will set back the course for diplomacy and I think that is bad for world peace," Minchin said.
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There’s absolutely nothing rather like a 20-minute sweat session in a sauna. You really feel much more relaxed as well as rested after you’re done, as well as the heat aids relieve aching muscle mass as well as boosts your general wellness and also health best far infrared sauna infrared sauna reviews weight loss.
But if the heats of a standard sauna are simply way too much for you to deal with, an infrared sauna might supply the benefits of a sauna without the extreme warm.
What is an infrared sauna?
Unlike a typical sauna, infrared saunas do not heat the air around you. Rather, they utilize infrared lights (that use electromagnetic radiation) to heat your body straight.
” These saunas make use of infrared panels instead of standard warm to conveniently pass through human cells, heating up your body before warming up the air,” explains physical therapist, Vivian Eisenstadt, MAPT, CPT, MASP.
An infrared sauna can operate at a lower temperature (generally in between 120 ˚F and also 140 ˚F) than a traditional sauna, which is typically in between 150 ˚F as well as 180 ˚F.
Suppliers claim that in an infrared sauna, just concerning 20 percent of the warmth mosts likely to heat up the air and also the various other 80 percent directly warms your body.
Fans of infrared saunas state the warmth penetrates a lot more deeply than heated air. This allows you to experience a much more intense sweat at a lower temperature.
Eisenstadt claims this setting is a lot more tolerable, which permits you to remain in the sauna much longer while boosting your core body temperature level by two to three levels.
What are the expected advantages of using an infrared sauna?
The intended benefits of using an infrared sauna resemble those experienced with a standard sauna. These consist of:
- much better rest
- weight management
- relief from aching muscular tissues
- relief from joint pain such as joint inflammation
- clear and also tighter skin
- aid for individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome
Individuals have been utilizing saunas for centuries for all kind of health and wellness problems. While there are a number of research studies and also research on traditional saunas, there aren’t as lots of research studies that look especially at infrared saunas:
A little 10-person studyTrusted Resource discovered that people with chronic fatigue syndrome benefited from making use of an infrared sauna as part of an overall therapy.
An additional 10-person studyTrusted Resource located that infrared saunas assisted lower muscular tissue pain and rise recovery from strength-training sessions.
According to one testimonial, numerous researches have actually located that infrared light therapy saunas may help reduce blood pressure.
The absence of strong proof and wide-spread research studies concerning the feasible benefits of infrared saunas leaves the consumer (you) to arrange with the claims made by the business who provide this service.
Similarly, there are no records of adverse impacts thus far, past the cautions regarding any kind of sauna experience. These include the possibilities of overheating, drying out, and also interference with drug, in addition to the prospective threats for those that are expectant, have cardiovascular disease, or are intoxicated of drugs or alcohol, to name a few.
The bright side: Even if your sweat session does not do every one of things it claims to do, at least it still feels great. And also, it adds to your total health and wellness and also wellness by aiding you loosen up, relaxing rigid or tight muscles, minimizing joint discomfort, and providing you some much required time to yourself.
Just how do you use an infrared sauna?
Lots of people will certainly do infrared sauna therapies at a gym, medical spa, or physician’s workplace, while others will acquire as well as construct one in their residence. If you make a decision to give an infrared sauna a try, it is very important to understand that they don’t included global guidelines.
There are standards you can comply with, yet inevitably, just how you pick to use an infrared sauna is up to you. Right here are some pointers to obtain you started.
Consume water. Make sure you’re hydrated prior to entering into an infrared sauna. Consume a glass of water prior to your session. You can also bring water into the sauna, specifically if you’re sensitive to higher heats up.
Pick the temperature level. The ordinary temperature level for an infrared sauna varieties from 100 ˚F to 150 ˚F, with newbies starting out at the lower end as well as even more knowledgeable individuals at the greater end. If this is your very first time, begin with 100 ˚F. You may want to remain at this temperature for a couple of sessions. You can constantly enhance the temperature level each session until you get to 150 ˚F.
Length of time. For novice individuals, begin with 10 to 15 minutes. You can include time each session up until you get to the suggested time of 20 to half an hour. Saunas come with a timer, so ensure to establish it. You do not wish to remain in there also long and risk becoming dried out.
Garments. How you gown is your option. Some individuals will certainly wear bathing suits, while others prefer to enter naked.
What you can do while in the sauna. Relax, review, practice meditation, pay attention to music, or browse through with close friends. Just don’t go to sleep.
After the session is over. When your session is done, it’s recommended that you take your time as well as let your body cool down. When cooled down, do not hesitate to shower or bath. Just ensure you are consuming alcohol lots of water.
Number of sessions per week. The majority of centers that offer infrared sauna treatments suggest using the sauna 3 to four days each week. If you are healthy and balanced as well as endure the four days, you can make use of the sauna daily.
What should you recognize before you try an infrared sauna?
There are a few points you ought to know prior to indulging in your very first session.
Stay clear of utilizing an infrared sauna if you have actually been drinking alcohol.
If you feel ill or have a fever, it’s ideal to wait to make use of the sauna up until you’re feeling far better.
Utilizing an infrared sauna will cause you to sweat a lot, so you might really feel lightheaded when you stand up. If this takes place, make sure you stand up gradually and also take a seat once you leave the sauna. Consume alcohol water promptly after completing your session as well as wait for your body to cool off before doing anything else.
In extreme cases, some individuals might experience getting too hot (heat stroke and also warmth exhaustion) or dehydration.
If you have any health conditions such as high blood pressure, heart issues, or are under healthcare, get cleared by your medical professional before your very first session. Although infrared saunas have actually been discovered to be relatively secure, you don’t want to take any opportunities when it pertains to your health and safety. | <urn:uuid:8c36411c-5236-47a8-ad53-d81ab8bae167> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.celtic100k.com/best-far-infrared-sauna-infrared-sauna-reviews-weight-loss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945438 | 1,546 | 1.554688 | 2 |
My natural hair is my favorite part of all my African American features, and it provides me the bliss I need to combat daily bigotry.
“Going natural” is a way for people of African descent to reconnect with their roots and embrace their kinky hair texture. The natural hair journey consists of ceasing to modify yourself to fit the white criteria of society and gaining confidence and empowerment through the melanin you were born with.
I was born into a world that denies me basic human rights because of my Blackness. However, as I got older, I decided my greatness would no longer be limited because of others’ perceptions of my brown skin. My Black life is a book that others refuse to read because the content makes them uncomfortable, yet I still receive unacceptable treatment.
It is important to recognize that natural hair in the Black community historically sustains a negative stereotype, and straight hair is still valued over kinky hair today, because of anti-blackness.
It is also important to recognize that natural, afro-centric hair texture should not be advertised as an easy target for objectification. Validation and acceptance are not required to proceed with your journey. No one can define parts of you they do not experience or understand.
Natural hair has absorbed various interpretations over decades, all of which has introduced new perspectives. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans were forced to adhere to white expectations, including white hairstyles. Straight hair that resembled white people’s was the only socially acceptable look. But in reality, these societal white standards of beauty haven’t changed.
Let me be the first to say, straightening Black hair is not an easy, nor timely, activity. In fact, it is quite painful and damaging. Black hair typically isn’t naturally straight, which requires applying harmful chemicals, also known as a perm, which damages hair in the long run. Black people are forced to put themselves through this difficult process just to look “normal.”
To this day, natural hair still receives backlash as the Black community is consistently discriminated against and demoralized. This happens not only in social situations, but also in professional environments as well. Even in 2018, the standard workplace etiquette is that only “straight and kept” hair is acceptable.
If a white woman curls her straight hair, it is considered stylish. As opposed to a Black woman embracing her natural curls, which is considered unprofessional.
Individuals with kinky or curly hair experience bias or stereotype in the workplace, according to a 2016 study by the Perception Institute. The coils that lie upon my head should not cost me equal opportunities or my paycheck.
It wasn’t until the Civil Rights Movement that the Afro restored cultural identity and took a societal stance. For the first time, natural hair took a major political standpoint that fought for equal rights for the African American community.
This coincided with the Black is Beautiful movement that blew up in the 1960s, rebutting white standards that created an internalized belief that being Black and being beautiful are not synonymous. This movement empowered a positive perception of African Americans, shedding light on Black beauty and aesthetics such as hair, skin and fashion.
Many famous African American icons echoed the Black is Beautiful message. Soul Train, a popular television series from the early 2000s, especially conveyed that Black people can and will be comfortable in their beautiful skin with or without permission.
The African American community today still has to fight to prove themselves. This is intolerable because we are beautiful and unique. Instead of being appreciated and acknowledged, our culture is constantly stolen and showcased as a “trend.” Most situations of cultural appropriation go unrecognized and unaddressed everyday. Celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Miley Cyrus are prime examples of ripping off Black culture and style.
To be Black is to walk through a world that believes it knows what it’s like to be you. They don’t. But they use their assumptions to judge you anyway. To be Black is to conform to others’ restraints and be expected to say nothing.
If you had to hold back the words the average African American person does, it would taste bitter on your lips as it tries to escape. The Black is Beautiful movement is important because it fights the same battle we fight today, and it verifies why the natural hair journey is so personally effective.
Within the last 10 years, natural hair has become less of a statement to society and more of a statement to ourselves. Hair care industries are flourishing, as well as the health, happiness and confidence of the Black community. Natural hair maintains the same goals and aspirations as the Black is Beautiful Movement, but shifted to be less political and more about personal empowerment.
The natural hair journey stimulates self-love and I fully support it. It is time to let our people stand tall and proud with the crown that is their natural hair.
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Ivan the Terrible was the first “tsar of all Russia”, says Greg Jenner on Radio 4’s You’re Dead to Me podcast, featuring historian Peter Frankopan and comedian Olga Koch. Born in 1530, he was an orphan at eight and was crowned tsar aged 16. As a teenager, he liked to throw dogs and cats off tall buildings, and beat up peasants. He was a boy “in need of an Xbox”. Over the course of his reign, from 1547 to 1584, he expanded Russia’s borders and brought it under centralised control, making numerous enemies in the process.
Having nearly died himself in 1553, he lost his first wife, Anastasia Romanova, a few years later. She’s thought to have been poisoned; her death left him haunted by paranoia. He went on to have six or seven more wives and formed a black-robed militia called the Oprichnina, armed with brooms “to sweep away injustice”. With their help he killed his enemies in “gruesome and horrifying” ways. He sewed one archbishop into a bear suit to be set upon by wild dogs, and scalded a treasury minister with boiling water so his “skin peeled off like an eel”. He even killed one of his sons. But Frankopan points out that in a world where violence is “ubiquitous”, killing on this scale was often seen as necessary to maintain political control, rather than as a sign of insanity.
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Our 26th President is widely considered the most famous, and arguably the most impactful, conservationist to occupy the White House. Theodore Roosevelt’s administration backed the landmark 1906 Antiquities Act, and Teddy used it to great effect. He played a significant role in the creation of 150 national forests, 5 national parks, 51 Federal bird preserves, and 18 national monuments. Roosevelt helped preserve approximately 230 million acres among the parks and federal lands he promoted.
Rechristened Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1933, the Neocostin Nacotchtank called it “Analostan” and it bore the name Mason’s Island from the family whose ferry and then plantation occupied the site from 1717 until 1833. The island served as a training ground for US Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. James Madison escaped the British advance on Washington in August 1814 by crossing the Potomac at Mason’s Ferry.
For all who love the parks, Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy is one we cherish. A novel concept at the time, Roosevelt so eloquently expressed that it is the nation’s duty to protect our most sacred public lands and wild places for the generations to come.
Theodore Roosevelt Island lies across a side channel of the Potomac from the Virginia shoreline.
The memorial plaza is the centerpiece of the island.
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I am glad to report that I have conducted first Telugu wiki academy
conducted on 6 Oct 2009 at Chirala engineering college, chirala, a
small coastal town in Prakasam district Andhra Pradesh, with kind
cooperation from the college authorities.
About 120 third and final year engineering students participated in
the three hour session in which about 1.5 hours were spent on hands on
practice with telugu typing and changes to the articles in telugu
wikipedia. Lab facility with about 60 computers and 2 MB internet
pipe was very helpful in making this event a success. There were
minor technical glitches like wikipedia limiting access to only 6
accounts from the IP proxy. which need to be addressed for doing
events like this in future.
As Andhra pradesh has over 600 such engineering colleges, doing one
such event in each college can give a boost to promoting Telugu
More on this on my blog http://teluginux.blogspot.com
in a week's time.
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You probably shampoo your hair each time you take a shower and some of you will use a conditioner too. But like most average guys, you probably haven’t given much thought on how to properly take care of your hair. Well, here we have expert tips with clear and simple explanations from Philip Kingsley’s Trichologist, Anabel Kingsley.
How often a man should shampoo his hair
Shampoo daily if possible – but don’t leave more than two days between shampoos. Your scalp is skin – it’s living tissue that sweats, produces oil and sheds dead skin cells. As such, it should be given similar care to the skin on your face. You also take your hair and scalp to the same places you take your face and they get just as dirty. Scalp health is key to healthy hair growth, so frequent shampooing is also important if you want to optimise your hair growth potential. If you have a flaky, itchy scalp it’s essential to shampoo daily with an antimicrobial shampoo. Just like if you had any skin condition, like acne or eczema, targeted topical products must be applied daily to the scalp to effectively combat an issue. I recommend our Flaky/Itchy Scalp Shampoo, which was originally formulated for Sir Laurence Olivier and smells like fresh green apples.
The best way to shampoo hair
Shampooing is really about cleansing the scalp, so make sure to give your scalp a firm, yet gentle, massage. I recommend working shampoo into your scalp for approximately 60 seconds and then rinse well. This helps to ensure you’re effectively removing sweat, sebum (oils) and dead skin cells. There is no need to scrub your hair – any suds that run through them will be enough. Choose a shampoo based on your hair texture. For instance, if you have fine hair choose a protein-rich shampoo that adds body. Using a shampoo that is too heavy for your hair type can weigh it down.
Don’t’ forget conditioner
You should use conditioner after every shampoo. Conditioner soothes the hair cuticle, which adds shine and increases manageability. Only apply conditioner to your mid-lengths and ends. This is where moisture is needed the most. Applying conditioner to your roots can weigh them down. Rinse well. If you have an allergy or sensitivity to an ingredient you may need to avoid certain ingredients. Choose a conditioner formulated for your hair texture. For men with fine hair, I recommend our Body Building Conditioner.
Take note of your diet
A healthy, balanced diet is essential to hair growth. Being non-essential tissue, our hair is the last part of us to receive nutrients we intake and the first to be withheld from when our diet is lacking.
One of the most important nutrients for hair health, and the production of strong and robust strands, is protein – the substance hair is made of. To ensure your hair is receiving an adequate supply of protein, add at least a palm sized portion of protein to your breakfast and lunch. Great options are eggs, fish, lean meat, poultry, low fat cottage cheese and quinoa. Complex carbohydrates are also essential as they provide energy to form hair cells, which are in fact the second fastest growing cells the body produces. Add a helping of brown rice, pasta, couscous or whole wheat toast to your breakfast and lunch. If you exercise, make sure to refuel your body post-workout. If your body is deprived of energy, your hair will be first to feel the effects. Again, this is because hair is non-essential to physiological health – albeit it it’s very important to psychological wellbeing. If you have a tendency to get a flaky/itchy scalp, be aware that full fat dairy products, as well as white wine, champagne and very spicy sugary foods can flare it up. Trigger foods aren’t the same for everyone, but these are the most common. I suggest working out what yours are by process of elimination.
Watch your tuna intake. Containing high levels of mercury, excessive consumption of tuna, or any mercury-rich fish, can be detrimental to health – and anything that effects general health can impact your hair. High mercury levels are quite common in the men I consult to in our London Clinic. Hydrate. Like any skin, the scalp can become dry if you are dehydrated. Ferritin, a stored iron, helps the body to produce hair cell protein and as such it’s a hair essential. To help maintain ferritin levels, eat iron-rich foods at least twice a week. The best sources are red meat such as steak and liver. If you are iron or ferritin deficient, take an iron supplement. I recommend our Tricho Complex Nutritional Supplement, which also contains Vitamin C (helps with iron absorption) and L-lysine (aids in iron storage). If your scalp is itchy, flaky or irritated, it can be helpful to take a nutritional supplement containing Omega 3’s, Vitamin D, as well as anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory ingredients such as Vitamin E and Co-enzyme Q10. I recommend our Root Complex Nutritional Supplement which has been formulated specifically to promote optimal scalp health. It is the first delivery system of its kind with an inner capsule of dry actives contained within an outer capsule of oil. | <urn:uuid:ce398003-b58f-4297-99b4-1d6e52ef1a48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://retroworldnews.com/the-proper-way-to-use-shampoo-and-conditioner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946926 | 1,125 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Lidl olive oil cuts due to oil residues at the Test extremely bad
Olive oil has for years been an integral part of almost every kitchen. Öko-Test has currently tested 20 olive oils and the Lidl olive oil has fared particularly badly. A further eight olive oils were not much better. Of the total 20 Oils, only two were able to convince.
The complete test results published by Öko-Test-of-date.
Lidl sold for years, the olive oil, as its own product
The “Primadonna Extra Virgin olive oil“ promises with the addition of “native extra“ high quality for the little money loot and sold for years by Lidl. In the current Test, the Oil has one of the worst places.
Primadonna extra Virgin olive oil by drops Extra in the Test
The Primadonna Extra Virgin olive oil from Lidl is one of the products in the olive oil Test that strikes a particularly negative impact. The taste and the fragrance of the Oil are inharmonious, and also the olive oil is considerably encumbered with problematic mineral oil compounds.
Of a consumption of the Lidl olive oil is not recommended
The Oil has been cut off because of the heavy Petroleum residues with insufficient in the Test. A consumption is strongly discouraged. However, a further eight olive oils have achieved only a deficient or Insufficient.
Disharmonic taste and smell were strikingly
The experts who tasted all the oils, rated the Lidl olive oil with the harmony note is 4.4. This means, there is „rather unharmonisch“. The best Oil in the Test section here with „very gut“ . In the case of four olive oils, the experts pointed out false notes. As a result, the Oils tasted rancid, or eaten, and had not in grade „natively extra“ may be sold.
Serious mineral Oil residues in Lidl olive oil found
The Primadonna Extra Virgin olive oil is loaded from Lidl considerably with mineral oil residues. A laboratory found to have relatively high amounts of saturated hydrocarbons, MOSH and/or POSH. MOSH of the body is deposited in the liver, lymph nodes, spleen, and adipose tissue. What this means for the function of the organs affected, is still unclear. POSH is currently being researched.
In addition, Oil is also aromatic mineral Oil hydrocarbons (MOAH) were in Lidl-detectable. Under the MOAH can be carcinogenic and mutagenic substances. Industry, consumer advocates and politicians agree that this group of substances in foods. In the Test MOAH were detected in 10 out of 20 olive oils.
Lidl has stopped the sale of the olive oil Batch
Lidl has stopped the sale of the Primadonna olive oil with the Batch L0248E. A sensory investigation have confirmed compliance with the specified olive oil profile. Lidl provided a private opinion to your affected Oil. In the report, it has been demonstrated in the case of an olive oil from the same Batch as the Eco-Test no MOAH. In addition, Lidl is determined according to its opinion a harmony value of 4.0 and, thus, other than in the Öko-Test.
Öko-Test comes to the conclusion that out of 20 tested oils, only two can be recommended. In addition to swabs in taste and smell, especially the significant petroleum discoveries have been criticised, because every second, olive oil is particularly contaminated strikingly stalls with mineral Oil.
Digression: What to look for in olive oil?
All nutrition and health claims must comply with the statutory rules. The label “cholesterol-free” or “rich in linoleic acid,” has the result, that burning need to value and nutritional values are according to certain specifications given.
The words “cold pressed” means that the pressure has been held below 27 degrees Celcius.
Dark glass bottles of olive oil and its nutrients protect much better against Oxidation by light. Glass bottles or metal containers plastic bottles – often marketers directly from the small directly in vacation countries – are preferable.
Finally, the indications “Protected Geographical growing area, or Protected area of origin, are” evidence of a secure origin.
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The way teams work together is evolving, in many ways for the better. To prevent times of change from causing uncertainty, leaders have to learn new ways to keep motivation and morale steady. High morale leads to higher commitment, retention, and buy-in from employees. It also means each team member is functioning at their best and most creative.
Many of these tips are anchored in themes we already know, like time management, avoiding burnout, and self care. Here are some of the most impactful lessons leaders have to share.
Build trust through transparency.
Policies and best practices are changing fast. When you need to make an adjustment for the greater good of the business, make sure the team understands what is expected of them and why. In uncertain times, when information is lacking or constantly changing, people fill in the gaps with their own imaginations. Communication and transparency build trust and security.
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Virtual meetings help people feel connected, but too many can be exhausting and have a negative effect on productivity. Make sure only people who need to be in a meeting are required to be there, and keep the meeting focused on a specific project or issue. Encourage people who feel like they aren’t being heard to speak up in a chat feature or to follow up with you personally.
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When times are extra stressful, it’s easy to sink into working all day without taking a break, but this quickly leads to burnout. Designate times in the morning, lunch time, and in the afternoon for everyone to get away from their computer or workstation to move and stretch, have a snack, listen to music, go outside, or do whatever makes them feel calm and happy, especially during the “afternoon trough”. Don’t just call break time, because half of the time this will lead to checking email or doing something that doesn’t recharge the mind.
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Along with intentional breaks should be daily periods of deep work, when each person is focused for 20-30 minutes on one, high-value task with zero distractions. Close email and messenger apps, be unavailable for meetings and phone calls, turn off notifications of all kinds, and dig into accomplishing one important thing. Taking a short, intentional break after this time is over will leave each team member with a real sense of accomplishment and calm.
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When disruptions cause the workplace to go remote, team members who are also parents or caregivers may need flexibility. Periods of deep work and rest, and even meetings, may have to happen at different times of the day for different people.
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Set an example. When you ask your team members to do all of these things, you should be doing them yourself, too. You also need to make sure you get enough sleep. In the Harvard Business Review, professor of management at the University of Washington, Christopher Barnes, emphasizes that sufficient sleep is non-negotiable for creativity, productivity, and overall health. The deficits of sleep deprivation spread those around you, “Leaders who discount the value of sleep can negatively impact not just emotions but also behaviors on their teams.”
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To keep the vigor of the tree in good and excellent condition tree trimming and tree trimming and pruning is required. Pruning and trimming regulates the growth process and aids to retain its natural appearance also. With the help of tree trimming and pruning all the dead branches of the trees are removed. In case you are planning to do the trimming or pruning by yourself then it is a bad idea. Incorrect trimming can damage to your trees. | <urn:uuid:f61f19b0-a50e-4322-a6e4-409a57a74fd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.a2zbookmarks.com/toronto-tree-trimming-and-pruning-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937182 | 96 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Camille Fiess is a native of St. Louis who grew up recycling.
It comes as “second nature,” she says.
So when she moved to Chicago in 2017, she wanted to make sure she understood how Chicago’s recycling program worked so her recycled goods didn’t end up in the landfill.
So she reached out to Curious City with a question:
What are the recycling rules in Chicago?
To answer Camille’s question, Curious City spoke with Waste Management staff and city officials to put together five tips for how to make sure you’re recycling correctly. You can check them out in the video below:
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Camille Fiess does background checks for a living and so, as you might guess, she likes to ask a lot of questions. When Curious City took her out on a ride-along with Waste Management and city officials, she fired off multiple questions about how the system worked and even advised them on how they could do it better.
One of Camille’s suggestions was to stop relying on postcards to educate residents on the do’s and don’ts of recycling.
“Think about maybe putting ads on the CTA,” she advised. “That’s where people my age get a lot of information.”
Camille says she was surprised by what she heard during the ride-along.
“I learned that you can recycle pizza boxes,” she says. “And so instead of taking my roommates’ pizza boxes out of the recycling and putting them in the trash, I can keep them in there.”
Although she says she took away a lot of eye opening new tips from the tour, Camille was disappointed by the answer to her original question about whether her rule-breaking neighbor could sabotage her communal recycling bin with non-recyclable items.
“I learned that if my neighbor puts in contaminated goods mix in with goods that are not contamed from me, depending on the level of contamination, that will be deemed trash and not recycling,” she says. “So I did get an answer but I don’t necessarily like it. That being said, I can try to recycle elsewhere and I am going to try to find other ways to recycle, like drop off centers.”
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A reader writes:
I've been reporting on oil and gas in Alaska for about three years. Your post about the Alaska natural gas pipeline is a bit misleading.
First, the bill Gov. Parnell signed concerns a completely different pipeline than the one Palin promoted and is still promoting. It's for a pipeline entirely within the state Alaska, to supply gas solely to Alaskans. To oversimplify, it's needed because the gas fields around Anchorage are in decline. The Palin project is a much longer and larger pipeline to supply gas to people in Canada and the Lower 48.
Second, to write "The current governor is scrambling to get the project on track" is not a fair assessment of what's happening. The big pipeline is out of his hands at this point. There are two consortiums pursuing nearly identical pipeline projects. Both plan to hold separate "open seasons" later this year, where they will seek commitments from natural gas producers that want to ship gas on the proposed lines.
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The plant protection of tomorrow is based on the research of today. The development of new formulations in plant protection and in the field of biocides requires extensive knowledge of the market standards for these new products.
Before we get started with developing the formulation, we work together with product management to create a profile of requirements for the new product and work strategically to fulfil these requirements. This begins with the selection of a suitable formulation type that takes the physical and chemical properties of the active substances into account, and continues all the way to the special requirements specified by the customers and the market.
Depending on the scope of application, pesticides need to feature various physical properties. To comply with the wishes of our customers and the industry, we develop different types:
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In the microbiological lab, we work on the development of biological pesticides based on systemic resistance-inducing and entomopathogenic fungi and their spores (Beauveria and Trichoderma genera).
In cooperation with university research institutes throughout Europe, we search for new biogenic principles that can be applied in the form of sustainable, user-friendly and safe products.
In addition, Kwizda Agro also has a patent for the production of crystalline formulations for special areas of use such as termite control.
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The use of incentive programs has increased in the past few years. The idea is to reward groups or departments that do not have any safety accidents. The thought is that people work safer when they know there is a reward, and therefore, there are no accidents to report.
In fact, what may be happening is that employees do not report injuries. This means employees are not getting the necessary treatment for their injuries. Often, the other employees in the group will discourage the injured employee from reporting. Employees end up watching each other. The employer then does not have any accidents to report on its injury and illness forms (OSHA 200 logs).
Non-reporting hides the hazards for the time being, but the hazards are still there. Eventually another employee may be hurt. Also, minor injuries often predict more serious accidents. Reporting an injury calls attention to the hazard. It allows the health and safety professional to evaluate the circumstances and to put corrective measures in place to avoid future accidents.
Incentive programs, which include trinkets, lottos and bingos, that are being used in private industry are not common in the federal government. However, behavior-based safety programs are gaining popularity. More government health and safety programs may include these programs in the future.
Behavior-based safety programs are based on the idea that positive reinforcement leads to change. It usually does, but some programs use incentives and rewards as positive reinforcement--which they are not. These programs are also based on the notion that positive reinforcement works in the safety area. They involve someone "observing" the worker to see if there is an unsafe behavior. The observer then gives the worker feedback, either suggesting ways to correct an unsafe act, or giving praise as positive reinforcement.
Behavior-based safety programs tend to put the burden on the employee to change her health and safety behavior and not on the employer to change the work environment. Employee behavior and attitude toward safety are important, but the job should be engineered to remove or reduce the hazard. Of course, as employees you play an important role in injury prevention. Your responsibilities include following safe work practices, observing rules and regulations, and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment.
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Since a group called the Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education formed earlier this year to address the current crisis facing Toronto parents who can’t afford Jewish education for their children, the initiative has been gaining momentum.
Mordechai Ben-Dat, former editor of The CJN and one of six founding members of the think-tank established to frame the issue of affordable Jewish education as the most important priority for the community, said the entire community must become part of the solution.
Since the group was founded last spring, about 40 people, half of whom are young parents in their mid-20s to mid-30s, have volunteered to work toward a solution.
Ben-Dat said there have been monthly meetings at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue that are meant to educate the community about the Jewish education crisis.
“At the second monthly meeting, we learned that there is a lot of misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between [UJA Federation of Greater Toronto] and funding,” Ben-Dat said.
They responded by inviting Daniel Held, executive director of the federation’s Julia and Henry Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education in Toronto, to speak on how much federation spends on education funding and its role in the day school system.
“We’re independent of federation, but we’re not competing with federation. We’re all striving toward the same faint light at the end of the tunnel,” Ben-Dat said.
The group has established four subcommittees: one that focuses on funding, one that explores legal and political options as they relate to the funding of private education, a marketing subcommittee, and another that will plan an upcoming symposium early next year.
Sara Dobner, a senior policy adviser with the Ontario government and a founding member of the group, said one of the marketing strategies is to provide rabbis with talking points about the initiative in hopes that they will speak about it from the pulpit.
“There is a crisis and this is what drives the whole thing. Tuition has increased by, I think, 60 per cent in a 10-year period, while income has increased by 10 per cent only during the same period. There is a crisis and a question of sustainability and affordability for most of the members of the community,” Dobner said.
According to a fact sheet from the group, tuition for Jewish day school education in Toronto is about $15,000 a year for elementary school and $26,500 for high school.
Federation currently allocates 23 per cent of its $53-million annual allocations to Jewish education, most of which is designated for tuition subsidies. Although it’s the highest share allocated to Jewish education of any Jewish community in North America, it only accounts for 10 per cent of the schools’ operational costs.
Zac Kaye, former executive director of Hillel of Greater Toronto, said he has met with countless Jewish couples who feel helpless about the current situation. “Anyone you talk to, particularly the younger families that have seen what we’re doing – even ones with very young children, who are not yet really in the system – they are terrified that they won’t be able to afford it,” Kaye said.
But Rabbi Jay Kelman, an educator, accountant and CJN columnist, said despite the hurdles, there’s a solution to the crisis and the community should not lose hope. “There are many ideas that can be used to make it affordable for everybody. That is our core goal, and we really believe it 100 per cent – that this is a solvable problem and that people should still have hope,” he said.
“The more of us that work together, the more we’ll solve the problem. I think part of it is really to raise awareness to the leadership – I don’t always think it is front and centre. I think a lot of the leadership feels that it is not solvable and therefore they feel like there is nothing they can do.”
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increase trade balance and environmental conservation, Indonesia's government
has declared their renewable energy (RE) commitment. Several efforts to achieve
carbon neutrality have been tried such as increasing energy efficiency, EV,
coal co-firing, and also deploying biogas. The development of biogas processing
and purification technology has opened up new opportunities in maximizing its
utilisation. Biomethane with its multi beneficials, is one of the biggest
technologies that is within reach and as solution in reducing emission. In
acknowledgement of all of the points stipulated above, Resilience Development
Initiative (RDI) held The DiBiCoo Local Workshop Series #2 with the topic
of "Accelerating Bio-Methane Utilization in Indonesia: Lesson Learned from
European Countries", on May, 7th 2021 via Zoom Platform. By involving biogas
industry players in Indonesia, especially in the field of biogas processing,
this workshop aimed to discuss how DiBiCoo can contribute to the acceleration
of Biomethane utilization in Indonesia.
This event discussed the development of biogas processing and purification technology which has opened up new opportunities in maximizing its utilization through biomethane with its multi-beneficial, is one of the biggest technologies that are within reach and as a solution in reducing emission. This event invited few experts in this field such as Andriah Feby Misna which a Director of Renewable Energy from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Harmen Dekker as the Director of the European Biogas Association (EBA), and Alexey Mozgovoy as a Business Development Manager International Biomethane at PlanET Biogastechnik. This event also was supported by few discussants namely Windri Aji Brata as an Energy and Sustainability Specialist at PT SMART Tbk and Discussant: Franz Kirchmeyr from Kompost & Biogas Verband Osterreich (AKBOE). Andriah Feby Misna brought the prospect and challenges of biomethane in Indonesia. From the technical side, bio-methane in Indonesia still has not been commercialized widely. Indonesia needs some assessments and pilot projects to make sure what kind of business is necessary to develop, including the price and the cost. Windri Aji Brata added that Bio-methane from palm-oil is supposed to be competitive with fossil fuels (LPG/diesel fuel), especially in rural/remote areas in terms of accessibility and lower price. So, the challenges lie in the utilization and how to find markets to absorb the produced bio-methane.
Coming from a European perspective in Biomethane utilization, Harmen Dekker has made it clear that biogas is unique as it is at the heart of green development. Biogas tackles a lot of the problems at the same time and not other renewable energy could do that. Don't focus on the specific technology like bio-LNG, focus on the production of biogas first, and distribution channel is the next issue. It is just a matter of timing. With specific case of Germany, Alexey Mozgovoy concluded that the growth of biomethane plants installment depends very much on the incentives given by the government. Not only highlighting the biomethane production and biomethane plant installment but also how to bring the bio-methane to the consumers. It won't be an easy task for Indonesia's government, but he did believe it is achievable with the amount of biowastes available. Linking back to the terms of biomethane as a form of biogas upgrading, Franz Kirchmeyr added that in Europe, the term upgrading is to apply the biomethane and feed it to the gas-grid connection while in other countries it is more about the purification. Upgrading biogas has huge variations in the application techniques and so many countries need to have to be clear & aware about the situation they faced in maximizing their biomethane potential according to what they need. | <urn:uuid:4a67af33-096b-4edf-aec7-3a567cee65f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rdi.or.id/news/post/2021/fe5c56ea54894808bb77766a737bd959/impressive-effort-from-rdi-in-accelerating-bio-methane-utilisation-in-indonesia-by-learning-from-european-countries%7D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94539 | 855 | 2.40625 | 2 |
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) performed after programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) or programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) monoclonal antibody (mAB) treatment seems feasible for patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma with good progression-free survival (PFS), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, held from Dec. 7 to 10 in Orlando, Florida.
Reid W. Merryman, M.D., from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues pooled data for 150 patients who underwent alloHSCT after receiving a PD-1 or PD-L1 mAB (nivolumab, pembrolizumab, or avelumab), following receipt of a median of four previous lines of therapy.
The researchers found that the two-year overall survival (OS) and PFS were 79 and 65 percent, respectively. The two-year cumulative incidence rates of relapse and nonrelapse mortality were 21 and 14 percent, respectively. Twenty-seven patients died: 24 due to nonrelapse mortality and three due to disease. There was no association for receipt of more than 10 doses of anti-PD-(L)1 mAB or undergoing alloHSCT ≤80 days after last dose of PD-(L)1 mAB with PFS or OS. Recipients of posttransplant cyclophosphamide had a lower two-year cumulative incidence of chronic graft-versus-host-disease and relapse as well as superior two-year PFS.
“Our results indicate that treatment with a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor in advance of a donor stem cell transplant is safe and can provide good outcomes for these patients,” Merryman said in a statement.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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This year’s summer reading list, at first sight, introduces two opposing concepts. One is building habits one per cent at a time so they can withstand our tendency to return our behaviour to square one (Atomic Habits). The other is actually complementary. It literally promotes doing nothing (Do Nothing) to reintroduce meaning into our lives.
Picking up on the expanding void, we teleport our readers to a spaceship in a planetary system far away and confront them with a mesmerizing story of a science teacher who suffers from amnesia before eventually setting off to save humanity (Project Hail Mary). Bill Gates loves intelligent fiction, and so do we.
We suggest you end your summer break with a power-dose of investing legend Ray Dalio (Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order). Its concepts and explanations go far beyond shining at the next cocktail party.
The team at Tramondo wishes you a relaxing summer break.
Watch author James Clear give an 8-minute summary talk on the key concepts of the book.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Wait. Hear us out. We feel the same about self-help books, even if they are #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers like this one. Most can make you happy, wealthy, or whatever the goal might be, If you are their author. And then there is Atomic Habits. A fascinating book that builds on the premise that one needs to change habits to change oneself permanently. The magic of this book is that it leads you scientifically through the crucial stages of noticing, wanting, doing and liking.
Clear introduces a simple system that builds on these stages but focuses on the compound interest of self-improving only 1 per cent a time while not giving away a single pip. Exactly. The investment types among us who embrace absolute returns and active risk management will see parallels with this concept. However, unlike books about finance, Clear’s book manages to distil complex topics into simple behaviours that are easily applicable to our daily routines.
One of those who has been doing this successfully – as in keeping an insane 2-minute-54 per-km pace for a whole 42 km – is Eliud Kipchoge. This generational marathon champion credits Atomic Habits for helping him develop small habits, consistency, timekeeping, self-discipline, good planning, and preparation. So here’s the challenge: How about we all meet at Eliud’s legendary Kaptagat training grounds in the Kenyan Highlands next year at this time?
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Not another self-help book, but rather a thoughtful manifesto for the purposeful void, this book is not the opposite of the one above. On the contrary, it is complementary and deeply philosophical. Fear not. It will not let us feel intellectually inadequate like the works of Immanuel Kant or, worse, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Instead, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee attacks the mechanisms that lead us to fill every moment of our lives with something “useful” or “productive”. Headly revisits history, neuroscience, social science, and even palaeontology to examine how we ended up equating hard work with happiness and idleness with the opposite.
Do Nothing is a refreshing antidote to our constant quest to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance as we measure time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning. Hadlee leads us to question our raising the bar higher and higher with activities we secretly loathe instead of naturally embracing what we do well. In that sense, Do Nothing builds an unexpected bridge to Gary Vaynerchuk, a US entrepreneur, author, speaker, and colourful internet personality. While Gary Vee, as his fans call him, seems to be the pure antithesis of this book with his 18 hour-workdays, he also embraces the idea that one should focus on becoming excellent at what one is already good at. And not waste time on becoming merely average by improving one’s weaknesses.
And in case there is no way that you will embrace doing purely nothing: How about combining the concept of this book with the one above by first identifying the passions and talents and getting rid of everything else — and then developing those areas one per cent at a time?
Project Hail Mary
What’s with this science fiction thing, you might ask. We already featured Artemis by the famed author of The Martian in last year’s Summer Reading List. While it is true there is one died-in-the-wool science fiction fan in our team, the reason to include this book has more to do with our readers’ enthusiastic reception of Artemis. And with the fact that Bill Gates took the time to review Hail Mary on his blog. Hold that thought.
Many readers think that Project Hail Mary might be Andy Weir’s best so far. As with his previous novels, if you like the science in science fiction, this one is for you. Weir amazes with his attention to detail as he develops the plot of Ryland Grace. Grace, a high school science teacher, wakes up alone with no memory of how he got onto a spaceship in a different star system.
Vastly different in terms of aspirations and outcome than some other well-known plot featuring a science teacher (Breaking Bad comes to mind), Project Hail Mary pushes our protagonist to work together with an alien to save the world.
Watch author Ray Dalio give an iconic presentation about the key concepts of the book.
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail
The final book of this Summer Reading List traditionally leads us back to business. This time, we feature no other than legendary investor Ray Dalio, who founded Bridgewater Associates more than 50 years ago. Anyone unfamiliar with his investment concepts (risk parity, alpha overlay, and All-Weather) should not be allowed anywhere near client money.
Ray Dalio is known for his quest for radical truth and honesty. According to him, this is the base for every good decision. All meetings at Bridgewater were recorded and available to watch for anyone in the firm. There used to be highly polished corporate films on Bridgewater’s website that showed employees crying during their interviews with the filmmaker. Some try to square the fact that Ray is self-effacing with the accusation of him effectively being a corporate cult leader. Most know him for his #1 New York Times bestsellers such as Principles: Life and Work and Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises.
His latest one, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, takes us on a journey across centuries and Empires such as the Dutch, the British and the American. First, Dalio illustrates the big cyle and the ever-repeating government and central bank actions and their respective political and social implications. Next, he observes the rise of China and uncovers the timeless and universal forces behind these tectonic shifts. Finally, Dalio offers practical ideas that help us position ourselves for the future.
If you already took our previous book recommendation to heart, you might prefer this video. It also features Ray Dalio’s iconic voice and intonation.
For everyone else, we highly recommend taking the physical book to wherever your summer break leads you. So may you consider the traces of sand and saltwater worthy battle scars as you revisit the book later this year in front of a cosy fireplace.
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Rhode Island on Monday became the first state to file a climate lawsuit to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for contributing to climate change.
The lawsuit names 21 defendants, including ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell. According to a press release issued by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, the lawsuit argues that the companies "[c]reated, contributed to, and assisted in creating conditions" that "constitute a public nuisance" in the state; "failed to adequately warn customers, consumers, regulators, and the general public to the known and foreseeable risks"; and caused sea-level rise.
"Rhode Island is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate changes that is now on our doorstep with sea level rise and an increase in severe weather patterns," Kilmartin said in a statement.
The lawsuit contends that, not only have the companies known for nearly 50 years that greenhouse gas pollution from their fossil fuel products affects the climate, but they have also known that the impacts "could be catastrophic and that only a narrow window existed to take action before the consequences would be irreversible." The companies, the lawsuit argues, "engaged in a coordinated, multi-front effort to conceal and deny their own knowledge of those threats," while discrediting scientific evidence and otherwise fomenting doubt about the impacts of their pollution.
Kilmartin added that the companies' actions have had "a significant and detrimental impact on our infrastructure, economy, public health, and our eco-systems."
The filing of the lawsuit in Rhode Island comes one week after a federal judge threw out a similar suit filed by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against fossil fuel companies. The cities argued that the companies should be held financially responsible for climate change impacts caused by fossil fuels, but the judge dismissed the suit on the grounds that the legislative and executive branches, not the courts, should resolve such issues. | <urn:uuid:1d1f58f2-16e0-4226-a13f-3b262dce689e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://psmag.com/environment/rhode-island-sues-oil-companies-over-their-contributions-to-climate-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963687 | 380 | 2.671875 | 3 |
A couple of thoughts on the article and the topic:
The article wasn’t meant to be a rant of ‘how bad things are’. I don’t know if readers (if any) got that impression. It started off as a review of the digital scenario in India and the reliance on mass media activities – even to promote online properties. A case in point would be the Yahoo! campaign currently splashed all over traditional media. While Gang of Girls could afford it, I am not sure if all brands can. Save for some niche categories which can afford to capture a substantial portion of their audience online, most of the categories which use traditional media to create awareness do resort to the same media to promote their online property. Did you know that Nestle India has a downloadable mobile app that gives you tips on recipes and wellness? When it’s promoted through TV and print ads, it will be known to many.
Another issue about digital campaigns in India is one of talent. Many of the youngsters who come into the industry drool over the juicy 5-ad TV campaign and the potential visibility. Doubt if they react the same way to a social media or online campaign. Maybe it will change over time – it takes one campaign in the digital space to get global recognition and one superstar to be born. Their will be others who’d want to emulate them. The old Kapil Dev, Imran Khan story. And institutions like MICA and Xaviers will perhaps include Digital Media (if they don’t already) in their curriculum.
On CNBC’s Storyboard the other day, there was a discussion on the same topic and one of the panelists said that most online creatives in India don’t use the power of the medium – interactivity – very well. They are usually print ads placed online. I wouldn’t agree with it totally but such a phenomenon exists. It is perhaps because of guys who think traditional media working on this specialist medium? Or the mass media guys having an upper hand? In an era of specialist digital agencies, that is ironic.
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The CrowHouse Homepage. In Its Battle With Apple, Epic Did What No Brand Should Ever Do. You have to admit, Epic's battle against Apple's App Store started off looking, well, epic.
The PR campaign, which included an in-game Mega Drop, a parody video of Apple's famous 1984 ad, and a series of tweets followed by a lawsuit against the iPhone maker, as well as Google. The campaign was all very well-produced and coordinated to make a point. That point was that Epic was on the side of developers everywhere in fighting against the raging corporate machine that Apple has become. The gaming company was also on the side of its users, offering them a less-expensive way to buy the virtual currency used for in-game purchases by avoiding Apple's payment system altogether. Except, Epic isn't the right developer to make this case.
Also, Epic isn't the champion of developers. Epic would be happy to help other developers out by allowing them to put their games in its store. Warsash Superyacht Academy. Legally Binding Electronic Signatures - HelloSign. Untitled. 1.
It’s never as good as you think it will be. “One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,” says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has studied the relationship between money and happiness for more than two decades. He adds, “We buy things to make us happy, and we succeed. Matt Mullenweg wordpress interview process. Instagram star Gal Meets Glam has sold $35 million of fashion products.
The influencer marketing industry is projected to be worth up to $15 billion by 2022, and social-media stars are increasingly leveraging their presence online to create consumer products to sell directly to their followers.
Take the fashion/lifestyle blogger and Instagram influencer, Julia Engel, for instance. Engel, who goes by Gal Meets Glam online, began playing around with the idea of creating a product back in 2013. She studied why people came to her page by looking at affiliate link data: what her followers were clicking on, shopping for, and at what price points, she said. The No. 1 item she would sell through affiliate links year-round was dresses, she said. Noncompete Agreement Form. If your business resides in a state that supports Noncompete Agreements, they can be a useful tool to help you protect your business.
Often employers include one in the hiring paperwork. They can also be used to restrict business partners or clients from directly competing with your business or sharing proprietary information. Noncompete Agreements can be tailored to your specific business needs, but most cover three basic areas: DurationHow long the agreement lasts. Usually, the terms are six months to a few years. GeographyIf the business is local, you may define a specific area that is restricted. ScopeThis part of the agreement should be specific to stand up in court. America’s future of work. Mark Cuban: If I were to start a business today, here's what it'd be. Tech titan Mark Cuban listens to entrepreneurs’ countless business ideas thanks to his starring role as a judge on ABC’s “Shark Tank.”
But Cuban recently revealed what areas of technology he’d focus on if he were to launch a business today. “If I were going to start a business today, I’d build it around Alexa and Google Home,” he told Recode’s Peter Kafka at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Form - Create a Free NDA Form. Common NDA questions How long does a Non-Disclosure Agreement last?
The duration of keeping information confidential is usually specified within the NDA. Generally, the time period is limited to as long as the confidential information is considered useful. Can I customize the Non-Disclosure Agreement template? The glue of the internet. This Entrepreneur Had a $43 Million Business Idea. Mike McKenna owes a great debt to Steve Jobs--but not for the reasons you'd think.
As the CEO of Diamond Assets, McKenna spends his days running a company that buys and refurbishes outdated Apple equipment, mostly from schools. His company, based in Milton, Wisconsin, then sells the equipment through various distributors in the U.S. McKenna also used to work at Apple. In early 2014, the then-26-year-old got a job with the tech giant as an account executive, working remotely in Wisconsin. His responsibilities included selling products to schools in the state looking to upgrade their equipment. There, he discovered that many of his customers had limited options to dispose of their old devices. Observations In Action. Online Degree Programs. LinkedIn Just Announced the 50 Top Companies for 2019 (Is Your Company on the List?) LinkedIn looks at billions of actions taken by its members around the world to uncover the companies that are attracting the most attention from jobseekers and then hanging onto that talent.
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This video says about itself:
5 June 2017
(Inside Science) — With their sharp, stony skeletons and stinger-laden flesh, corals are well protected against most potential predators. Tubelip wrasses are one of the few fish to overcome these defenses, and now, scientists have discovered how they do it. The secret is in the lips.
Unlike their thin-lipped relatives, tubelip wrasses have big, fleshy lips that protrude in front of their teeth. These lips appear smooth to the naked eye. But in a study published today in Current Biology, scientists examined them for the first time under an electron microscope, and saw they are actually covered in parallel flaps like the gills of a mushroom. The lips produce huge amounts of mucus, and can close to form a sort of straw.
High-speed videos revealed what the strange lips are for.
“[T]ubelip wrasses feed using short sharp ‘kisses’ to suck mucus and occasionally tissue off the coral surface,” the authors write. The kisses make a smacking sound the researchers describe as “tuk.”
According to the researchers, the lip mucus probably serves a double purpose, forming a seal on the coral’s surface while shielding the fish from stinging barbs known as nematocysts. Thus protected, the fish are free to suck out coral’s nutritious goo.
With specialized lips, these fish dine on razor-sharp, stinging corals
June 5, 2017
Summary: More than 6,000 fish species that live on coral reefs, but only 128 are known to feed on corals. Now, researchers have discovered how at least one species of coral-feeding fish does it. They ‘kiss’ the flesh and mucus off the coral skeleton using protective, self-lubricating lips.
Of all the things an animal could eat, corals are arguably one of the toughest, thanks to their thin, mucus-covered flesh packed with venomous stinging cells spread over a razor-sharp skeleton. Perhaps that explains why of the more than 6,000 fish species that live on the reef, only 128 are known to feed on corals. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on June 5 have discovered how at least one species of coral-feeding fish does it. They “kiss” the flesh and mucus off the coral skeleton using protective, self-lubricating lips.
“The lips are like the gills of a mushroom but covered in slime,” says David Bellwood of James Cook University in Australia. “It is like having a running nose but having running lips instead.”
The researchers suggest that the mucus may facilitate suction while offering protection from corals’ stinging nematocysts.
Bellwood and the study’s first author, Víctor Huertas, recognized that the problem when eating corals would come as lips touched the surface. They wanted to find out exactly what was happening in that process. They used a scanning electron microscope to get extremely high-quality images that could capture the specialized lips of tubelip wrasses (Labropsis australis) in unprecedented detail.
Those images revealed remarkable differences between the lips of the tubelip wrasse and another wrasse species that doesn’t feed on corals. Wrasses that don’t eat corals have lips that are thin and smooth, with teeth that protrude slightly. By comparison, tubelip wrasses have lips that are fleshy and stick out, forming a tube when the mouth is closed that covers all the teeth.
The most prominent characteristic of the tubelip wrasse’s lips, they found, are numerous thin membranes arranged outward from the center like the gills of a mushroom. The mouth surface of tubelip wrasses also includes many folds loaded with highly productive mucus-secreting glands. In other words, their lips drip with slime.
High-speed video images of feeding tubelip wrasses showed that they briefly place their lips in contact with the coral prior to delivering a powerful suck. Rather than grabbing onto coral, they appear to seal the mouth over a small area, presumably to increase suction-feeding efficiency, the researchers report. The new evidence suggests the tubelip wrasses and their mucus-laden lips survive by feeding primarily on coral mucus. The findings open up a whole new way of looking at the nature of feeding in fishes, the researchers say.
“One always assumes that fishes feed using their teeth, but, like us, the lips can be an essential tool,” Bellwood says. “Imagine feeding without lips or cheeks; the same applies to fishes.”
On their quest to learn how the wrasses cope with the challenge of reef feeding, the researchers say the next step is to discover the “magic of the mucus.”
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‘Even when it’s painful, tell the truth’: It’s high time for business to meet higher ethical standards
When I reach professor Jill Atkins by Zoom in late March, she is still working from home in the mountains of Wales, some 160 miles from Sheffield University School of Management, where she holds a department chair. Behind her, on a narrow bookcase, are all five editions of the seminal textbook she coauthored, Corporate Governance and Accountability—the first of which grew out of her lecture notes in 2001 and the most recent of which was published in October. There, on that cramped bookshelf, is a timeline of sorts, revealing how the mandate of business accountability has changed over the past two decades. “The biggest difference,” says Atkins, “is that a corporation’s social responsibility, and indeed its ethics, are no longer considered a separate realm from traditional corporate governance functions.”
As far as society is concerned—as far as a company’s customers, employees, and even investors are concerned—how a company behaves in the world is now as important as what it sells or produces. “Auditing at the board level has shifted completely over the last 20 years to include more environmental and social issues,” says Atkins. “And what may be one of the most fascinating things we’ve now got is institutional investors all over the world who are pushing companies toward greater accountability—not just in financial issues, but in issues such as employee treatment, diversity, and climate change.”
Accountability. It’s one of those rare things like newborn puppies and afternoons in the park that are unlikely to find many detractors. Who, but a relative handful of anarchists and performance artists, doesn’t think people should be responsible for their actions? But corporate accountability—particularly when it comes to social policies and politically fraught issues—can be tricky to measure, let alone devise appropriate parameters for. It’s hard to set a growth target for ethical behavior. And yet more and more of us are demanding just that of the companies we work for, buy from, and invest in.
The complexity, and increasing urgency of this challenge, drew us to devote a special issue to the subject of corporate accountability. In the twisting and wonderful stories that follow, we’ve examined everything from who’s responsible for America’s staggering health care bill to the cost of lying in an election; from a loss of faith within one of the mightiest fast-food franchise families to the seemingly impossible quest for humanely produced chocolate. How “green” is green investing? Can Facebook really fight hate speech and misinformation? Will unions rein in big tech—and if not, will Europe’s formidable antitrust czar? We’ve tried to answer them all.
Still, at the risk of giving away their surprise endings, there is a common strand that weaves through and binds these tales. It’s trust, says Harvard Business School professor Bill George, a legendary former CEO of Medtronic and author of the bestselling leadership book True North. George, who teaches a course for chief executives, offers them one critical piece of advice: “Tell the truth. Even when it’s painful, tell the truth: ‘We had a quality problem with one of our products. This is the consequence. Here’s what we’re doing to fix it.’ ”
For some abject lessons, the professor fires out a slew of catastrophes wherein obfuscation, rather than candor, ruled the corporate response: Boeing, with its 737 Max engine failures; Wells Fargo, with its phony bank accounts; BP, with its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Plus: See our extraordinary graphic of corporate misdeeds). “You think that any consumer feels like any of these companies told them the truth?” he asks. “Forget about your PR department. No more spin. Just tell us what’s going on.
“Trust,” says George, “is the coin of the realm.” We couldn’t agree more.
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On 27-31 March the Riga Early Music Centre in cooperation with the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music /JVLMA/ is organizing early music training course focusing on Baroque music interpretation.
Academic level musicians are being invited to expand their knowledge of baroque music interpretation and performance. Instruments will be provided by Riga Early Music Centre.
The course will be held by experienced musicians and JVLMA teaching staff - Māris Kupčs, Rinalds Kandalincevs, Ansis Bētiņš, Laura Šarova, Gertruda Jerjomenko un Guna Ezermale.
Location: Bauskas Castle, Latvia
Course fee: 280 EUR
For registration and inquiries: info(abols)earlymusic.lv
*Early Birds receive 10% discount on course fee, apply by 1st of March!
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Common Spelling Errors
It is important to be familiar with common spelling errors to avoid them in your own writing.
Recognize common spelling errors
- It is important to be familiar with spelling errors that writers frequently make so you can avoid them in your own writing.
- Knowing why these mistakes occur will help you write with better awareness.
- Word-processing programs usually have a spell-checker, but you should still carefully check for correct changes in your words. This is because automatic spell-checkers may not always understand the context of a word.
- phonetics: The study of the physical sounds of human speech (phones) and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, as well as their representation by written symbols.
- typo: A spelling error.
- homophone: A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat.
The Importance of Spelling
Misspelling a word might seem like a minor mistake, but it can reflect very poorly on a writer. It suggests one of two things: either the writer does not care enough about his work to proofread it, or he does not know his topic well enough to properly spell words related to it. Either way, spelling errors will make a reader less likely to trust a writer’s authority.
The best way to ensure that a paper has no spelling errors is to look for them during the proofreading stage of the writing process. Being familiar with the most common errors will help you find (and fix) them during the writing and proofreading stage.
Sometimes, a writer just doesn’t know how to spell the word she wants to use. This may be because the word is technical jargon or comes from a language other than her own. Other times, it may be a proper name that she has not encountered before. Anytime you want to use a word but are unsure of how to spell it, do not guess. Instead, check a dictionary or other reference work to find its proper spelling.
Common Spelling Errors
Phonetics is a field that studies the sounds of a language. However, English phonetics can be tricky: In English, the pronunciation of a word does not always relate to the way it is spelled. This can make spelling a challenge. Here are some common phonetic irregularities:
- A word can sound like it could be spelled multiple ways. For example: “concede” and “conceed” are the same phonetically, but only “concede” is the proper spelling.
- A word has silent letters that the writer may forget to include. You cannot hear the “a” in “realize,” but you need it to spell the word correctly.
- A word has double letters that the writer may forget to include. “Accommodate,” for example, is frequently misspelled as “acommodate” or “accomodate.”
- The writer may use double letters when they are not needed. The word “amend” has only one “m,” but it is commonly misspelled with two.
Sometimes, words just aren’t spelled the way they sound. “Right,” for example, does not resemble its phonetic spelling whatsoever. Try to become familiar with words that have unusual or non-phonetic spellings so you can be on the lookout for them in your writing. But again, the best way to avoid these misspellings is to consult a dictionary whenever you’re unsure of the correct spelling.
“Bread” and “bred” sound the same, but they are spelled differently, and they mean completely different things. Two words with different meanings but the same pronunciation are homophones. If you don’t know which homophone is the right one to use, look both up in the dictionary to see which meaning (and spelling) you want. Common homophones include:
- right, rite, wright, and write
- read (most tenses of the verb) and reed
- read (past, past participle) and red
- rose (flower) and rose (past tense of rise)
- carat, caret, and carrot
- to, two, and too
- there, their, and they’re
- its and it’s
Some spelling errors are caused by the writer accidentally typing the wrong thing. Common typos include:
- Omitting letters from a word (typing “brthday” instead of “birthday,” for example)
- Adding extra letters (typing “birthdayy”)
- Transposing two letters in a word (typing “brithday”)
- Spacing words improperly (such as “myb irthday” instead of “my birthday”)
Being aware of these common mistakes when writing will help you avoid spelling errors.
Capital letters are used to make certain words stand out.
Identify words that must be capitalized
- Three situations in which a capital letter should always be used are at the start of sentences, proper nouns, and for the pronoun “I.”
- Names and nicknames, languages, geographical names, religions, days of the week, months, holidays, and some organizations are considered proper nouns.
- In titled works (such as books, articles, or artwork) the majority of the words are capitalized.
- capitalization: Writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (upper-case letter) and the remaining letters in lower case.
- proper noun: A word denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, idea, or other individual entity.
Capital letters identify proper names, people and their languages, geographical names, and certain government agencies. Different style manuals have different rules for capitalization, so it’s important to have a style guide on hand while you write in case you have a question about capitalization. There are manuals for MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, and other styles.
However, there are general rules for capitalization which apply to all writing.
Starting a Sentence
Always capitalize the very first word of a sentence, no matter what it is.
- Experienced cooks usually enjoy experimenting with food.
The Pronoun “I”
Always capitalize the first-person singular pronoun “I.”
- Sometimes, I wish I could cook with them.
Directly quoted speech is capitalized if it is a full sentence.
- The head chef said to me, “Anyone can become a good cook if they are willing to learn.”
Names or nicknames, people, languages, geographical names, religions, days of the week, months, holidays, and some organizations are considered proper nouns. Proper nouns should always be capitalized.
Names and Nicknames
A name or nickname should always be capitalized. This includes brand names.
- John Paul II
- Cindy Parker
- Buffalo Bill
- Scotch tape
People and Languages
Names referring to a person’s culture should be capitalized. Languages are also capitalized.
- African Americans
The names of cities, states, countries, continents, and other specific geographic locations are capitalized.
- Arctic Circle
- New York
Government agencies, institutions, and companies capitalize their names.
- Ford Motor Company
- International Red Cross
- Internal Revenue Service
- University of South Carolina
Days, Months, and Holidays
Days of the week, months, and holidays are always capitalized. However, seasons (fall, spring, summer, and winter) are not capitalized.
- Independence Day
Religions and their adherents, holy books, holy days, and words referencing religious figures are capitalized.
- Christianity and Christian
- Hinduism and Hindu
- Islam and Muslim
- Judaism and Jew
- Bible, Koran, Talmud, Book of Mormon
- Easter, Ramadan, Yom Kippur
- God, Allah, Buddha
In titled works (such as books, articles, or artwork) the majority of the words are capitalized. A few exceptions are a, an, the, and, but, or, nor, for, so, and yet. These words are only capitalized if they come at the beginning of the title. This can vary based on style, so be sure to check your manual for specifics.
- The Scarlet Letter
- From Here to Eternity
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
Abbreviations and Acronyms
An abbreviation is the shortened form of a word or phrase.
Use abbreviations appropriately in an academic context
- There are rules that explain how a writer may shorten a long word or phrase into an abbreviation or acronym.
- Following abbreviation and acronym rules ensures that the reader always understands what these abbreviations mean.
- Phrases like “lol” or “brb” are considered inappropriate for formal papers.
- abbreviation: A shortened form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole.
- acronym: Abbreviations formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) or parts of words (as in Benelux and Ameslan).
An abbreviation is the shortened form of a word or phrase. Most abbreviations are formed from a letter or group of letters taken from the original word. In an academic paper, abbreviations are rarely used to stand in for major concepts or terms. Instead, they are usually shortened forms of commonly used but relatively minor words, such as “km” for “kilometer” or “Dr.” for “doctor.” Most are common enough that a writer does not need to provide the reader with an expanded definition. If an abbreviation is not particularly well-known, consider whether you should use it or use the longer (but easier to understand) word.
Style Conventions for Abbreviations
Style guides may differ somewhat on how to punctuate abbreviations. Listed below are the most common guidelines, which cover most of the scenarios for using abbreviations. However, this is not a completely comprehensive list. If told to use a specific style manual, such as MLA or Turabian, be sure to check what it says about specific usage rules. And whatever style you decide to use, remember to be consistent with how you use and punctuate abbreviations.
Abbreviations should be capitalized just like their expanded forms would be. If the original word or phrase is capitalized, then you should capitalize the abbreviation. If the original is lower case, then the abbreviation should be too. Abbreviations usually end with a period, particularly if they were formed by dropping the end of a word (the major exception being the use of acronyms). When a sentence ends with an abbreviation, use only one period for both the abbreviation and the sentence.
- She lives in N.Y. (New York is abbreviated as “N.Y.” In this example, it comes at the end of the sentence but there is only one period.)
- He got a ticket for going 70 mph when the speed limit was 55. (Miles per hour is abbreviated “mph.” Note that it is not capitalized.)
- The CIA is depicted in many action movies as highly secretive. (CIA is always capitalized because Central Intelligence Agency is always capitalized.)
Acronyms are abbreviations that form another word. Laser is so frequently used as a word that few people know it is an acronym. Laser stands for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” Scuba is also an acronym standing for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.” Although this was the foundation for acronyms, they do not always form another word. More often than not, acronyms are formed from the initial components of a series of words. These components are usually individual letters, but some may use the first syllables of words. The main purpose of acronyms is to act as shorthand for longer terms, particularly those a writer wants to reference frequently. In the right circumstances, acronyms can make these terms more manageable for the writer to use and for the reader to understand.
Using Acronyms in Academic Writing
While acronyms can be very useful, only some of them are considered appropriate for use in scholarly writing. In general, acronyms can be used to stand in for job titles (such as CEO), statistical categories (such as RBI) or the names of companies and organizations (such as FBI). Other instances may arise depending on the type of paper you are writing—a scientific essay, for example, might have acronyms for the names of chemical compounds or scientific terms. In most cases, you will be able to judge whether or not an acronym is appropriate based on the context of what you are writing. The only category of acronym that you should never use is slang, especially terms derived from texting. Phrases like “lol” and “brb” may be fine in casual conversation, but would make a writer seem unprofessional in a serious paper. For all acronyms you choose to use, making sure that the reader knows what they mean is essential. The first time you use any acronym, make sure to use its expanded form first. For example:
- Jonathan recently joined the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is known for fighting for the National Minimum Drinking Age Act.
- The Family Research Council (FRC) was founded in 1981.
Once the abbreviation has been identified, as shown in these examples, you can use the abbreviated version in the rest of your document.
Style Conventions for Acronyms
Most acronyms are written in all-uppercase with no punctuation between letters. This differs from abbreviations, which are normally written with periods in order to note the deleted parts of words. A small number of acronyms use slashes to show an ellipsis, as in “w/o” for “without.” Spaces are not used between the different letters of acronyms. Apostrophes are generally not used to pluralize abbreviations. They are, however, used to form possessives.
Sometimes it is appropriate to write numbers as numerals; other times they should be spelled out.
List the rules for using numbers in different kinds of writing
- In academic writing, numbers that can be expressed in one or two words should be spelled out.
- Numbers that are more than two words long should be written as numerals.
- The proper usage of numbers in technical writing varies considerably.
- numeral: A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
Style rules for inserting numbers into text vary considerably. Whether numbers should be written out (e.g. two, two hundred) or written as numerals (e.g. 2, 200) depends on what kind of writing is being done.
Numbers as Words
In strictly academic writing, numbers of one or two words should be spelled out with letters. For example:
- Anthony was able to bike five miles in less than an hour.
Notice that 5 is written out as “five” because it is one word.
- Maria bought five bananas, two bunches of grapes, and six oranges for her fruit salad. She needed twenty-one servings for the luncheon.
Notice that each number is written out, including 21, because all of them are one or two words.
Numbers as Numerals
Numbers that are more than two words long should be written as numerals. For example: “Our vacation to North Carolina ended up being 728 miles, as a round trip.” Or, in the case of years: “Tony was born in the fall of 1966.”
Also, the following numbers are written as numerals:
- Dates: December 7, 1941, 32 BC, AD 1066
- Addresses: 119 Lakewood Lane, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Percentages: 45 percent or 45%
- Fractions and decimals: 1/3 and 0.25
- Scores: 20 to 13 or 15–18
- Statistics: average age 25
- Surveys: 2 out of 5
- Exact amounts of money: $861.34 or $0.67
- Divisions of books: volume 6 or chapter 5
- Divisions of plays: act 2, scene 4
- Time of day: 12:00 AM or 4:35 PM
In technical writing (i.e., research writing or other writing that includes measurements or statistics), the proper usage of numbers varies substantially. Typical rules to follow in technical writing include:
- Technical quantities of any amount are expressed in numerals (3 feet, 12 grams, et cetera).
- Nontechnical quantities of fewer than 10 are expressed in words (three people, six whales).
- Nontechnical quantities of 10 or more are expressed in numerals (300 people, 12 whales).
- Approximations are written out as letters (approximately ten thousand people).
- Decimals are expressed in numerals (3.14).
- Decimals of less than one are usually preceded by zero (0.146); however, this may vary depending on the style you are asked to write in.
- Fractions are written out, unless they are linked to technical units (two-thirds of the members, 3 1/2 hp).
- Page numbers and the titles of figures and tables are expressed in numerals.
- Back-to-back numbers are written using both words and numerals (six 3-inch screws).
There are many special cases for writing numbers. A number at the beginning of a sentence should be spelled out as words. Within a sentence, the same unit of measurement should be expressed consistently in either numerals or words. In general, months should not be expressed in terms of numbers.
Writers use italics to emphasise certain words such as titles, scientific words, and foreign words.
Identify situations in which italics should be used
- Italics are a typeface feature designed to make words stand out. There are general rules to using italics properly.
- Titles of textbooks, fiction or nonfiction books, newspapers, magazines, academic journals, films, epic poems, plays, operas, musical albums, television shows, movies, works of art, and the names of legal cases should all be italicized.
- Italics can also be used to emphasize certain words.
- Italics should always be used with scientific terms, algebraic equations, and foreign-language words.
- italics: A typeface style that is used to add emphasis to words.
Italics are letters that slant slightly to the right. When using a word processor (like Microsoft Word) italicized words generally look like this:
This sentence is in italics.
Italics should be used consistently in your writing. In general, italics are used to identify the title of a major publication (such as a book, newspaper, or magazine), for emphasis, for scientific or technical words, and for foreign words.
The titles of major literary works should be italicized. This includes textbooks, fiction or nonfiction books, newspapers, magazines, academic journals, films, epic poems, plays, operas, musical albums, television shows, movies, works of art, and the names of legal cases.
- My favorite book is July’s People by Nadine Gordimer.
- I read The New York Times to keep up with the political debates.
- I have every Taylor Swift album except Today Was a Fairytale.
- The 1976 version of the movie Carrie was much scarier than the newer version.
- Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are my two favorite epic poems.
- The Scream by Edvard Munch is a well-known painting.
Keep in mind that smaller published works, such as an individual article from a newspaper/magazine/journal, or a single poem, should be set in quotation marks. For example:
- The magazine Southern Living published an interesting article on traveling in the U.S. called “The South’s Best Roadside Attractions” in the November, 2015 edition.
When you need to emphasize a word you can use italics to make it stand out. Sometimes, emphasizing certain words gives the sentence a sarcastic tone. It can also emphasize a fact as true. Let’s review some examples.
- She only wants to make 100% on every test.
- If they are offended, then that’s their problem.
- These are the files we need.
Scientific or Technical Terms
Italics are often used in scientific and mathematical writing. Algebraic equations are usually italicized. The scientific (Latin) names of species are also italicized. Here are some examples.
- Slope is found by calculating y=mx+b.
- Several more Homo sapiens fossils were discovered recently.
- The scientific name for the house sparrow is Passer domesticus.
Words in foreign languages should also be italicized. Here are a couple of examples.
- In an interview, Julia Alvarez once said, “What I can’t push as successfully out of sight are my own immigrant childhood fears of having a gringa stepmother with foreign tastes in our house.”
- I was at the coffee shop when a man approached me and said, “Como esta?” like he knew me, but I don’t speak Spanish.
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It is sometime difficult to have an overview of the different principles and practices that are grouped under the Agile banner. In his blog post, Jerome Kehrli has tried the challenging exercise of classifying Agile principles and practices using the periodic table of chemical elements as an inspiration.
Jerome Kehrli has taken the principles and practices of XP, Scrum, Lean Startup, DevOps and others. He has then classified them using different perspective: their domain (architecture, software engineering, etc.), their level of maturity or complexity and if they are related more to the organization or the engineering. Around 60 principles and practices are placed according to these criteria. Each of these principles and practices is then explained in detail.
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