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Cash Envelope Budget? What is it? And why you need it.
When it comes to financial fitness, a sound, practical budget is required no matter what your goals are.
Have you ever come to the end of the month and asked, “Where did all the money go?” The convenience of plastic has made it far too easy to make purchases that we might not make if we had to dip into our wallet and make a cash purchase.
That’s why we started using the cash envelope system inspired by Dave Ramsey.
Studies have shown that spending increases as the means to pay for an item becomes easier. In other words, credit cards have made buying easier, so we’re more likely to buy more stuff without thinking until the bill comes at the end of the month!
Likewise, new ‘pay with a wave’ credit cards will make it easier still and foster even more poor spending habits.
I’m a big believer in the notion that cash is king when it comes to paying for items. If you don’t have the cash, you can’t afford the item and shouldn’t buy it.
How to Set Up an Envelope Budget
Step 1: Tally up actual spending from the previous month
Gather up all your credit cards, bank statements, invoices, and receipts from the previous month.
Or link up all your credit cards, and banks to an app like Personal Capital and let them do the heavy lifting.
If you can get two or three months’ worth of information that is better but one month will do for now. From your statements, invoices and receipts take note of everything you spent money on (i.e. variable expenses only) during that period then add them up into four or five broad categories.
For example, you might add up all the times you bought gas for the month and put it into a category called “Transportation.” Any money spent on anything related to transportation goes into that category (this would include things like gas, motor oil, tune ups etc.) You might have another category for “Groceries”, every time you spend money at the grocery store it would be added to this category and so on.
This will be the basis of your envelope budget categories.
* Do NOT include fixed payments or expenses in this calculation. Expenses like your mortgage, car payments, utility bills etc should be left out of the budget.
Step 2: Draft and finalize your list of categories
Your envelope categories can be as broad or as narrow as you want, it’s up to you.
If you want many categories you can use the broad categories from step 1 and expand them until you’re satisfied you have the right number of categories for your envelopes; on the other hand you might be happy sticking with four or five broad categories for now, you can always add more categories later if you need to.
This is not an exact science, just do what feels right. dave ramsey envelope system
It’s better to keep it down to just a few categories, your budget will be far easier and less time consuming to manage than if you use a lot of categories (ten or more).
Step 3: Label and fund the envelopes
Now comes the fun part! Label your envelopes and fill them with the cash amounts you calculated in step 1. How often you get paid will dictate how much to put into the envelopes. For example, if you get paid bi-weekly then you will be funding your envelopes every two weeks. The cash in each envelope will have to last until your next pay period.
Step 4: Work the envelope system
With your envelope budget now complete, its time for the real test – putting it into practice. You should not expect the perfect budget on the first pass or even the second try. It will take a lot of trial and error before you finally find the right mix and develop the perfect envelope budget.
Here is one last point to remember as you work the envelope system:
Give it some time – As I mentioned previously, the envelope budgeting system is not perfect or exact but it will work if you give it a chance. It may take you several tries before you finally perfect your budget. the key is to just keep tweaking and changing it until you do get it right.
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Following the completion of your environmental engineering degree, a company in Coconino County specializing in wind energy recruited you to work for their firm. You’ve been with the company for the past four years. Part of your goals for joining the company was to get exposed to the different technology, businesses, and experts that help protect the environment. You’ve helped lead the development and maintenance of several projects across the states and in neighboring countries. You feel that you’ve accomplished enough in the renewable energy industry.
You’d like to tackle a new challenge, perhaps something that you could establish. You want to travel, and your work has taken you to many places in America and also abroad. You’ve been eying the concept of ecotourism as a field of interest and have wondered what it would take to start your ecotourism business.
Here are a few things you should know about ecotourism:
An Overview of Ecotourism
Europeans take something like a three-week-long vacation, usually in August, when it’s summer. They flock to southern Europe for the warm beaches of Spain, Italy, or Portugal. Alternatively, they hie off to some exotic location in Asia or Africa. This is not to single out the Europeans and their vacation patterns. It is to understand the impact that pattern has on the environment. Europeans took 1.2 billion trips in 2019. China is rising as the leading player in tourist travels. Chinese tourists accounted for some 140 million trips in 2018, which is a 13.5% rise compared to the previous year. With nearly 1.39 billion in population, what would be the projection like for the next five or ten years?
Imagine these numbers and then imagine all the plastic bottles and trash left on beaches, parks, and other main tourist attractions. Imagine the negative impact on the environment.
It’s about Environmental Sustainability and Also Fun
Ecotourism is about environmental sustainability. It’s about understanding every country’s natural environment and when and how to leave it be. Here are more things you should note when planning to start an ecotourism business:
- It should be a partnership. Sustainable tourism should prioritize creating a partnership with local communities while highlighting a location’s natural attractions. This means allowing locals to participate in educating tourists about what the community has to offer. It’s about making tourists understand how to appreciate natural attractions.
- Addressing your market. Since the concept began sometime in the 1990s, ecotourism has gained some traction from travelers worldwide and has been a contributing factor in the global tourism industry. But businesses operating the traditional practice of tourism are well-entrenched. Your marketing campaign should focus on groups and individuals who share your passion for the environment. The hope is that through them, you can create a ripple effect that would encourage travelers to abandon traditional tourism and shift to a more sustainable one.
- Don’t take away the fun. Your ecotourism business, for all its rightful and noble intentions, should still offer fun and excitement for your travelers. Let locals take part in orienting travelers about hiking in a forest. Zipline attractions managed and operated by local businesses not only provide excitement to tourist, but it also creates employment opportunities for locals.
- Develop your network. Any effort to save and protect the environment should be a multi-stakeholder endeavor. Work with local NGOs with expertise in influencing community action. Coordinate with local authorities for a broader campaign reach. Building this network creates a more sustainable business model.
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Failure. It can happen despite all efforts to make a difference in people’s lives. God calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and yet we can often hurt more than we help. Amanuel Sherifaw faced this dilemma. Through Lifewater International’s WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene education) trainings, he discovered the importance of engaging the community to traverse the minefield of deeply rooted cultural and behavioral norms.
Once himself a child of destitution in rural Hosanna, Ethiopia, Sherifaw persevered in his educational pursuits through all odds to serve the poorest of the poor as the sanitation field manager of Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus Development and Social Service Commission (DASSC). Armed with UNICEF’s and WHO’s statistics—good sanitation and preventative hygiene combined with clean water reduced diarrhea, the most prevalent killer, by up to 65 percent, whereas clean water alone achieved only a 15-40 percent reduction—he was on a mission to hand out as many latrine kits as possible.
The post-project results were terribly deflating. “We gave out more than 1,000 latrine slabs,” Sherifaw says. “When we went back, we found out that many people had broken up the slabs to get the metal.” Sanitation projects often end up this way. In some instances, project leaders returned to see latrines used as chicken coops or storage sheds. Or even worse, some were kept in pristine condition to display thankfulness. When asked why they never used it, beneficiaries stood shocked, unable to fathom defecating in a gift given to them.
At the onset of a joint project assignment in rural Hosanna with Lifewater, Sherifaw and his staff received trainings called Transformational Community Development and WASH Promotion. Light bulbs went on. “[When] I was working on a previous project in one kebele (community), we did not show them why good sanitation could save their lives,” Sherifaw says. “At that time, even I myself was not changed. We would pile information on them. Go! Go! Go! We just wanted to get it done.”
Understanding cultural and socioeconomic viewpoints and teaching the “why” of the changes Sherifaw’s staff was asking the community to embrace is vital to creating change. This requires an investment of time and fellowship, which Jesus Himself modeled. He lived amongst us listening, inquiring and fellowshiping with the people. He was interested in our transformation, a repositioning of our heart to embrace His vision of what He knew to be for our best interest.
When DASSC set out to determine the most appropriate WASH solutions for the 10 villages around Hosanna, the team created focus groups to gather information from the community members and the government health workers. “I like the focus groups,” Sherifaw says. “We give people a simple direction and then we follow them. We stay quiet and let them lead. One mother told me: ‘The educated ones always guide me, but you are following what I say. This is a new thing. Thank you.’” The focus groups gave incredible insight. The women in one village wanted a reliable source of clean water and a safe way to collect it, but did not want the water source too close. Socializing with one another on the walk to get water was a generations-old tradition to maintain bonds with other families. Another village believed latrines were haunted, largely because decades prior a passing NGO had poorly built one that collapsed on an occupant. Simply installing another one for them would have been futile.
Does this engagement strategy really work? In the joint project, Sherifaw and his team applied the principles learned during the trainings to engage the community. School directors and teachers began mobilizing student WASH clubs to educate students and their families, clean school compounds and construct school latrines and handwashing stations. Many schools painted WASH messages on their walls, such as, “Sanitation is life insurance.”
Because they know their students well, teachers tailored lessons to specific needs. For example, Zauditu, a teacher and WASH club coordinator at Hacmura Primary School, says: “I talk openly with the girls about sanitation, about their monthly periods. I teach them to wash and keep clean and tell them that [with the new latrines] there is no need to stay home during their menstruation. … I have seen them changed by what we teach.” A teacher at the Sundusa School says: “We are teaching one health session per week. It is not boring because there is drama and singing and everyone is participating. I think it is good because if you just say, ‘You have to do this,’ I don’t think they will do it.”
Together with project and government health promoters, kebele managers and other community leaders began efforts among local families. For the first two months of the project, between 10 to 20 households had volunteered themselves from each of the 10 communities to serve as “model households.” There was no financial incentive to do so as each had to pay for materials, build their own latrines and sacrifice time to learn and apply hygiene lessons. “First we simply observed their behavior, then we asked them about possible solutions to risky health practices we saw,” Sherifaw says. “Then we made sure they replaced risky behaviors with healthy ones. We observed the changes, addressed ongoing problems and then used the model households to inspire others to change.”
According to government surveys, the independent baseline survey and the final project evaluation, latrine coverage across the 10 rural communities around Hosanna rose from 61 percent to 97 percent, handwashing at crucial times rose from 26 percent to 98 percent. One kebele, Bobicho, achieved 100 percent latrine coverage and was declared by the Ethiopian government as the nation’s second “Open Defecation Free” community. Acute watery diarrhea in children under 5, which had been the second most fatal health risk to children, plummeted from 63 percent to 4 percent, dropping the disease completely out of the top 10.
When community members are able to teach each other the best methods, real change can take place.
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Background It is a controversial issue whether pancreas divisum (PD) induces pancreatitis. All previous studies have investigated this issue based on endoscopic procedures, which inevitably involve a selection bias.
Objectives To determine the unbiased prevalence rate of PD in a community population and to investigate the effect of PD on idiopathic pancreatitis using a non-invasive magnetic resonance (MR) technique.
Design Cross-sectional study.
Patients The study enrolled 504 subjects from the community who participated in the medical check-up programme and 46 patients with idiopathic pancreatitis (8 acute, 23 chronic, 15 recurrent) extracted from 70 122 consecutive MR studies performed at an academic tertiary care hospital.
Interventions All subjects underwent magnetic resonance (MR) scanning and medical examination.
Main outcome measures Statistical comparison between subjects from the community and patients with idiopathic pancreatitis was made for the rate of PD (and its subtypes: classical PD, PD with absent ventral duct, and incomplete PD), MR findings, and clinical features.
Results Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed PD as a significant factor that induces pancreatitis (OR 23.4; p<0.0001). The PD rate was significantly higher for all/chronic/recurrent idiopathic pancreatitis patients (35%/43%/33%; p<0.001 for all) than for subjects in the community group (2.6%), but was not higher for acute pancreatitis (13%; p=0.357). All PD subtypes were indicated to induce idiopathic pancreatitis but showed different associations with each onset type of pancreatitis.
Conclusions This is the first study to describe the prevalence of PD and PD subtypes in a community population and their association with idiopathic pancreatitis in vivo based on the findings of non-invasive MR and with minimal selection bias. It is concluded that PD should be considered a predisposing factor for chronic and recurrent pancreatitis.
- Acute pancreatitis
- chronic pancreatitis
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This paper presents and discusses the results obtained from a parametric study on the Baumgarte stabilization method for forward dynamics of constrained multibody systems. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the influence of the variables that affect the violation of constraints, chiefly the values of the Baumgarte parameters, the integration method, the time step and the quality of the initial conditions for the positions. In the sequel of this process the formulation of the rigid multibody systems is reviewed. The generalized Cartesian coordinates are selected as the variables to describe the bodies’ degrees of freedom. The formulation of the equations of motion uses the Newton-Euler approach that is augmented with the constraint equations that lead to a set of differential algebraic equations. Furthermore, the main issues related to the stabilization of the violation of constraints based on the Baumgarte approach are revised. Special attention is also given to some techniques that help in the selection process of the values of the Baumgarte parameters, namely those based on the Taylor’s series and Laplace transform technique. Finally, a slider crank mechanism with eccentricity is considered as an example of application in order to illustrated how the violation of constraints can be affected by different factors such as the Baumgarte parameters, integrator, time step and initial guesses.
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How to Clean Coffee Maker with Vinegar?
How to Clean Coffee Maker by using Vinegar?
Coffee makers form the basis of many homes. Every person needs a cup of coffee to get their morning started. However, after you've been using your coffee maker for long enough, the machine gets filthy and disgusting; that's when people want to buy new ones! There's a better method of cleaning your coffee maker using vinegar rather than replacing it. If you're interested in learning more, continue reading this blog post!
What proportion of vinegar to water is used to clean a coffee maker?
What are you looking for?
Utilize a paper towel, or a clean, dry cloth
A small bowl
What Do you Need to Do Step-by-Step?
Fill the coffee pot with equal parts water and vinegar. The machine will make the mix by turning it on. Switch off the machine and dispose of the solution.
Cleanse the inside of the carafe with a clean, dry cloth or towels. If you notice mineral deposits, sprinkle coarse salt in the inner pot. Pour one cup of water that is fresh into the reservoir. Follow that with two cups of white distillation vinegar.
Run an entire cycle, like usual, using just water and no ground coffee. To get the best results, throw away both brewing solutions after they have been completed.
Repeat the steps three times until all trace traces of residue have been removed from the system to ensure optimal flavor even after several usages without dealing. Ensure thoroughly rinse with fresh water before making your next coffee pot.
Store the vinegar mixture in an additional container for future use if desired rather than pouring it down the sink. The brew cycle should be run to remove any remaining vinegar in the reservoir.
Tips: It's important to remember that cleaning your coffee maker with the vinegar could take some time. Clean your coffee maker using a vinegar ratio of 50/50 mixture of tap water that is cold and white vinegar, either distilled or filtered after the brewing process has been completed. To achieve the best results, allow it to sit for a night and repeat the brewing process without pods or filter baskets inside the brewer. When making the next pot, rinse thoroughly. Ensure the coaster is under the carafe during this period to prevent drips from spilling onto counter surfaces as the gasket will be wet because of a solution used to wash out all the parts, including the metal holder. The holder was black and copper, the holder of the metal from which the coffee is released.
After that, your coffeemaker should look fresh and clean. If for whatever reason, the vinegar did not work to get rid of the stains on your machine, you can try an exclusive cleaner specifically designed for this purpose.
Cleaning Tips for Coffee Makers
Once you are ready, you can ensure that you fill your coffee maker with one-quarter inch of regular vinegar. After that, plug in and start the machine as usual. It will begin to make a brew using only vinegar (not coffee). Allow it to run its cycle until it finishes the brewing process into a cup. Now comes the cleaning part. Switch off the power to prevent everything from running/brewing for now; then unplug it! You don't need to remove any pieces yet, but you can use this time to get rid of any dust particles in the vicinity of specific areas. This includes drip trays, carafes, decanters, and more. Wash all the parts thoroughly with warm water if it is possible. If you aren't able to, use a damp cloth to wipe them clean until they're clean and free of any particles/residue.
Carefully remove the top portion of the cover on the coffee maker to scrub its insides. Be careful in this process. Use an old toothbrush with the addition of rubbing alcohol with water to scrub away residue inside where pieces attach with a gentle motion. Rinse thoroughly under warm running water again. Let all components, including the cover mechanism, completely dry before rebuilding.
Fill the machine with pure white vinegar, keeping out any coffee grounds. Reattach the top securely before plugging it into the machine to make one more vinegar cycle (not using any coffee or water). Once this process is complete, turn off the power source or breaker box and then unplug it AGAIN. Then, wash the unit under warm water to eliminate any remaining moisture. Shake out excess moisture by hand after washing the surfaces. Leave the cover off until completely dry inside, which could take up to 24 hours depending on the humidity in your area and so on.
Finally! It is now possible to reassemble the machine you cleaned up and not worry about any residue from the previous steps. Dry the air entirely If possible, you can use a clean lint-free cloth or paper towels to dry it thoroughly before starting the new brew cycle with fresh water only (no coffee ground). This is a crucial step! This step is crucial!
Make sure not to run any solution further through the system, including plain old tap water with no white vinegar, since particles or residues left behind could impact the future flavor results. Get rid of the first two batches of brewed solution and the carafe contents once per month for the best overall efficiency over time. Avoid mixing cleaner solutions in a row, as it could cause harm to your system.
You may not have the time to go through each step. Instead, flush water through your system after it has cooled entirely without coffee grounds or vinegar. This will eliminate any leftover flavors brewed before the previous one from affecting the next brew. However, this is not a 'deep' cleaning method, so beware!
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Covid-19 and the Business Owners Predicament: Business Rescue OR Liquidation
Whilst many looked forward to a prosperous 2020, South Africa experienced an unprecedented state implemented lock down in response to the worldwide Corona Virus pandemic. Businesses of all sizes were forced to cease trade or trade under different and limited conditions which has had a detrimental effect on their financial solvency. Notwithstanding the easing of lockdown regulations and the resumption of business, the lingering economic effects will be felt for years to come. Business owners are now faced with the tough decision as to how to survive financially. If the business is conducted through a company or a close corporation then Companies Act 71 of 2008 (the Act) provides two possible options.
- Business Rescue
The aim of business rescue proceedings is either the rehabilitation and saving of a financially distressed company or the winding down of the company in a manner more beneficial than formal liquidation. In the first scenario the Act allows for a business rescue practitioner to be appointed and for the development of a suitable rescue plan. The plan will normally allow for debts of the company to be compromised or reduced and/or to be paid over extended periods of time. The plan must be sanctioned on by 75% of independent creditors to be approved. The second scenario would be the controlled closure of the company but in a manner which allows for assets to be realized to the best advantage in the normal course and not in a forced sale situation such as in liquidations. Business rescue proceedings can be instituted voluntarily by the directors passing a resolution which is then registered with the Companies Intellectual Office or by way of an application to Court by an affected person described in the Act as either a director, employee, trade union or creditor. The main benefits of business rescue proceedings are:
- A moratorium or breathing space for the company by suspending legal proceedings thereby protecting the business assets from execution by creditors.
- Directors becoming subject to the authority of the business rescue practitioner.
- The business rescue practitioner having the power to terminate or suspend contractual obligations of the company.
- The business rescue practitioner is able to raise post commencement funding for the business.
The benefit of a successful business rescue is the saving of the business, the protection of assets and the retention of jobs. An unsuccessful business rescue is the converse, the failure of the company with the resultant loss in jobs and value.
Liquidation proceedings involve the complete closure of the business. A court appointed liquidator is tasked with the realization and sale of the assets with the proceeds to be divided amongst the creditors in accordance with their statutory rankings. Liquidation proceedings may be instituted voluntarily, at the instance of the shareholders by resolution or by a Court application instituted by the company or a creditor. The main benefits of liquidation are:
- The directors and shareholders are immediately divested of all rights over the company and its assets and a liquidator takes control and preserves the assets for the benefit of the body of creditors.
- All civil legal proceedings against the company are suspended.
- A structured and controlled process of empowering the liquidator to realize and sell the assets and to pay creditors.
- An interrogation into the affairs of the company to ensure that any improper or unlawful conduct by the directors or manager is exposed and monies are recovered.
It is imperative for a business owner to grasp the reality facing the business and to make an informed decision of what option to take. If the choice is business rescue, then fundamentally it must be a business capable of being saved and there must be a rescue plan that can be developed and be successful. It is always important, if a Bank is involved, to communicate early with the Bank and to make sure that the Bank understands why the process is being pursued and how this will ultimately benefit the Bank. This may also open the door to the Bank being agreeable to provide post commencement financing to the business which is often vitally necessary. If the decision is to be liquidation, then this must not be left to the last minute and no new credit should be accepted once it has become clear that the company is unable to repay the credit. In addition, assets should be collected and be ready to be handed over to the liquidator once appointed. The deciding question is whether the business has the potential to be rehabilitated and rescued, or whether it is an exercise of prolonging its inevitable failure. In most cases the business owner, with the inside knowledge of the business, is best placed to make this important decision. | <urn:uuid:2cb0b744-a897-46b7-866a-c57705edb8e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wylie.co.za/Articles/Read/38/Covid-19-and-the-Business-Owners-Predicament%3A-Business-Rescue-OR-Liquidation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950667 | 907 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Focus on digital transformation. By revolutionising IT consumption patterns, the Cloud has led to many changes within businesses in France and elsewhere. This is where the CIO comes in, helping to adapt this new technological model from a technical perspective.
As a pillar of the company’s digital environment, the role of the Chief Information Officer is one of the most affected by digital transformation in companies. This role continues to evolve from year to year, involving the creation of new models for management, work organisation, autonomy, trust, transversality, delegation, time optimisation, costs, and needs.
The CIO: Cloud solutions coordinator.
The CIO is increasingly involved in creating value for the company and its strategy. Far from the traditional management functions previously seen, the CIO’s former role as cost controller is now a thing of the past. With the advent of the Cloud, the CIO is now at the heart of innovation.
The Cloud is being adopted by a growing number of French companies.
In 2020, 89% of CIOs said that the digital transformation within their organisation had accelerated during the previous 12 months, and 58% believed it will continue to gain traction. Furthermore, most organisations have deployed business apps in this area. (see source)
But why are we talking about Cloud governance?
The Cloud makes it possible to:
- Better adapt your resources over time
- Collaborate in real time
- Work quickly, while passing on information efficiently
- Manage your time and work better
It is worth noting that many large accounts are moving to the Cloud. One example of this is Bouygues, which is offering more and more bespoke IaaS services and solutions for migrating to the Cloud.
Cloud governance: the priority for CIOs.
The Cloud is at the heart of the CIO’s new duties:
- Creating a stable information base shared by all employees
- Ensuring data security and confidentiality
- Creating an infrastructure that can quickly adapt to user needs
- Proposing sustainable and efficient solutions
As such, the CIO provides technical expertise and is a facilitator of company productivity.. They support the introduction of new software and applications, and above all help departments move towards these technologies in order to reap all the benefits of the Cloud, while also meeting the challenges of steering, collaboration, management, and communications.
More than ever, the CIO must listen to employees’ needs, relaying feedback and closely monitoring changes in their uses.
The Cloud Broker: a new role for CIOs.
Since many companies and groups subscribe to Cloud software, the CIO must develop a digital strategic vision to recommend the best solutions and liaise between the different departments and Cloud software providers. This is the definition of a Cloud Broker.
The role simultaneously involves serving the different departments and managing service providers. The CIO must be able to provide departments with the solution that best suits their needs and ensures good change management.
This is an entire ecosystem undergoing digital transformation. CIOs have been given greater levels of empowerment, and are now driving companies wishing to invest and innovate via cutting-edge tools.
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|The Dialogue between Sciences, Philosophy and Engineering. New Historical and Epistemological Insights|
Homage to Gottfried W. Leibniz 1646-1716
Raffaele Pisano, Michel Fichant, Paolo Bussotti and Agamenon R. E. Oliveira, eds. With a foreword by Eberhard Knobloch
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) has a prominent worldwide place in the history of scientific thought, from mathematics, logic, physics to the astronomy and engineering. In 2016, both his birth and death have been commemorated. Given both the influence by Leibniz on Western sciences & philosophies and his polyhedricity scientific activities, this special book chosen to focus on Leibniz’s scientific works. In particular, exploring Leibniz’s intellectual matrix and heritage within interdisciplinary fields, it presents contributions from leading experts on the subject and offers much-needed insights into the subject from scientific, historical, philosophical and nature of science perspectives. It also provides authoritative introductions to scholarly contributions, which are often dispersed in journals and books not easily accessible to every reader. Therefore, this volume also contains excellent chapters on topics which, generally speaking, have their place in any rounded science, history and philosophy. It provides an absorbing and significant reading for historians, philosophers and scientists alike.
Raffaele Pisano is full professor at the Lille University, France.
Michel Fichant is Emeritus professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Paolo Bussotti is senior lecturer–researcher at the Udine University, Italy.
Agamenon R. E. Oliveira is full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Eberhard Knobloch is Emeritus professor at the Berlin University of Technology, Germany.
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(This post is a part of the series “How to Bullet Journal”. Read the rest here: https://jineralknowledge.com/tag/howtobujo/?order=asc)
Now that we know the basic format of the Bullet Journal, it is time to organise it. Think of the bullet journal as a framework, where you can hang different types of modules to better organise your life.
First, use the first few pages of the notebook to set up a Key for your Bullets, then an Index. The index is simply a way to keep track of what content is on which pages. This can be used to keep track of date ranges, or collections.
Next, it is helpful to create a Future Log. This is a barebone view of things to come in the next six months. Make it simple and minimalistic so you can easily refer to it when you are filling in your Monthly Logs later.
The Monthly Log is a place where you can have an overview of the current month. This could be as simple as a list ranging from the first to the last day of the month, or a traditional calendar shape. Put important dates and events on the log so that you can remind yourself in your Weekly or Daily Log. This is a place where you can form a basic plan for the month.
The basic unit of the bullet journal is the Daily Log, but this can be organised in different ways.
Some people choose to use a minimalistic style where they simply write Daily Logs day-after-day until the month is over. This style is useful if you like to keep things very simple and like to quickly jot things down.
A more common form is using a Weekly Log to have set spaces for the Daily Log of each day in a week. This requires slightly more set-up, where you draw up a Spread for the Weekly Log. For example, you could divide the pages into seven large boxes. The benefit of this style is that you can plan up to a week in advance, so you can record your Events ahead of time and remind yourself. It also lets you get more creative as you can fill the empty spaces with other useful modules.
This is the barebone form of the bullet journal. Once you are ready to start, draw up a key, index, Future Log and a Monthly Log for this month. Then, write today’s date and start writing a Daily Log. You will find that it is awkward at the start, but the more you use your journal, the more you will find yourself figuring out exactly what the bullet journal means to you. Is it simply a planner, or a place to release your creative side?
In the last section, we look at Migration and Collections, to see how we sustain bullet journaling as a hobby, while making it unique and creative.
Examples from my Bullet Journal:
Future Log – Minimalistic style, dots represent month. This style allows you to keep adding to the log out of order. Colour coding is a helpful way to organise different kinds of events.
Index – First page is an index of collections, while the next page is an index of what page to turn to for each Monthly Log
Monthly Log – Calendar style, note the Habit Tracker on the side (to be discussed in the next section)
Weekly Log – Simple version, pre-divided sections but Daily Log is still the classic style
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March, rally preaches unity in Washington County
No matter the message, Saturday was about being heard and sharing a positive, collective voice in the community.
Roughly 125 people came together in Hagerstown's Public Square before marching along the city's Cultural Trail to City Park for an afternoon of music and remarks from participants at the band shell.
"Washington County is an amazing place to live, to work and to play, and people were looking for something where they could come together," said Carlos Mellott, a founding member of the Washington County People's Alliance, a new grassroots organization promoting global thinking and local action to improve communities.
The event was dubbed a rally and march for unity and civil rights, but many more interests were represented among those in attendance, including the environment, a cause close to the heart of Ellen McDaniel-Weissler, of LaVale, Md.
"I think it's amazing that Washington County has come up with an event like this," she said. "As soon as I knew that it was happening, I knew that I wanted to be a part of it."
Marchers chanted messages of equality and acceptance for all people, and carried signs displaying inclusive messages or speaking out about marginalized groups.
"We are so divided, not just in this country but in the world," McDaniel-Weissler said. "... And the only way you're ever going to reach consensus is for everyone to feel heard and acknowledged, and to feel that their opinion matters."
Locally, there are many different interests and concerns, but there wasn't an organization that brought them all together, Mellott said, prompting the creation of the People's Alliance.
"We really tried to unify everybody," he said. "... We felt like that was lacking in Washington County. We're real happy with the turnout."
Another aspect of concern for some, especially since coming to the forefront in Hagerstown last fall, is the issue of police relationships in communities.
Hagerstown police Capt. Paul Kifer was among those in attendance at the march, as well as Antoine Malone, an organizer of a protest against city police in September following an incident where a teen girl was pepper-sprayed by officers.
Kifer and Malone have grown close over the last few months, forging a relationship that focuses on bridging the gap between local youth and law enforcement.
"With these youth, you have to be able to relate to them," Malone said. "In the 2000s, it's different than the '80s and the '70s."
Kifer said he's proud of the Hagerstown and Washington County communities for holding peaceful rallies, and the police department will continue to provide a safe, respectful forum to do so.
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A LOCHMABEN resident who is against commercial tree planting has called for a different approach to forestry and woodland expansion in Scotland.
Minette MacDonald has complained to Forestry and Land Scotland and fellow organisations saying they are “destroying every single bit of hill ground, white grass and moorland to plant thousands of acres of conifers non-native trees”.
She believes their planting is “mono culture of the worst kind” and “virtually all the hill ground is gone”. Minette has also shared her concerns that wildlife is being decimated because of commercial planting.
Minette wrote in her letter: “Your disregard for ground nesting birds such as curlew, snipe, golden/silver plover, lapwing and I could go on, is mind blowing. Commercial planting is mono culture of the worst kind. Farmers are singled out as habitat destroyers but it seems to me that you are sailing under the security blanket of ‘lets plant trees to save the planet’.
“Your type of planting does anything but, you plough peat bogs releasing co2 into the atmosphere. You spray for pests and create a dead zone where nothing thrives. Come harvest time, most of the timber goes for pallets. When the entire forest is felled it’s a waste land.
“When are you going to realise that what you’re doing is as bad as felling a rain forest. I live in south west Scotland and virtually all the hill ground is gone. We have no waders nesting any more here. It’s time you face up and owned up to what you’re doing.
“It must weigh on your minds the destruction you are causing. Planting a certain percentage of natives – which you can hardly see – does not allow you to go under the radar. It’s about time the environmental finger was pointed at you.”
Minette – who sent her letter of complaint two weeks ago – has stressed she wants to draw attention to the region’s “diminishing” hill ground issues.
She added: “I want it to be brought into the public eye. They are destroying valuable natural nesting sites for wading birds. That is my point. When they plant, they create a dead zone and nothing lives under there. Everything is gone.
“The changes I want to see is for it to be more heavily regulated. They need big wild natural tracks of land between the trees and put more native trees in.
“Plant it with more thought to preserving white grass country. I can’t stop the planting but I want people to know it’s not acceptable in the greater scheme of things.”
A spokesman for Forestry and Land Scotland said: “That is not a description of modern forestry practice and is not one that we recognise.
“Sustainable forest management, peatland restoration, and habitat and species conservation are principle factors in our approach to land management.
“Sustainable forest management also has an absolutely fundamental role to play in mitigating the Climate Emergency, capturing carbon emissions and recycling them into usable products, making emissions work for us rather than against us.
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Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Patrick Mcgroarty, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nov. 12, 2008
BERLIN – An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
While researchers – and the doctors themselves – caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims two million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
Dr. Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.
“We waited every day for a bad reading,” Huetter said.
It has not come. Researchers at Berlin’s Charite hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clean.
However, Dr. Andrew Badley, director of the HIV and immunology research lab at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said those tests have probably not been extensive enough.
“A lot more scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say it’s not present,” Badley said.
This isn’t the first time marrow transplants have been attempted for treating AIDS or HIV infection. In 1999, an article in the journal Medical Hypotheses reviewed the results of 32 attempts reported between 1982 and 1996. In two cases, HIV was apparently eradicated, the review reported.
Huetter’s patient was under treatment at Charite for both AIDS and leukemia, which developed unrelated to HIV.
As Huetter – who is a hematologist, not an HIV specialist – prepared to treat the patient’s leukemia with a bone marrow transplant, he recalled that some people carry a genetic mutation that seems to make them resistant to HIV infection. If the mutation, called Delta 32, is inherited from both parents, it prevents HIV from attaching itself to cells by blocking CCR5, a receptor that acts as a kind of gateway.
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Mile High Festivals, event producers for Denver’s Juneteenth Music Festival, is launching a new community initiative focused on feeding one of Denver’s historic food deserts and fighting youth gun violence. In partnership with Park Hill Golf Course Reimagined, a joint venture between The Holleran Group and Westside Investment Partners, the goal is to take a small step towards moving the needle on the lifestyle inequities experienced by this community by bringing diverse and healthy dining options.
Each Thursday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Denver residents are invited to dine al fresco or pick up carry out from Denver’s largest weekly gathering of food trucks at the Park Hill Golf Course Clubhouse.
Each week, Mile High Festivals will work with community partners to host 15 kids from underserved communities for lunch or dinner. Additionally, 10% of sales from the weekly gathering of Food Trucks will benefit the Mending Roots Forest Project, which works to tackle the multiple social determinants of health-related to gun violence. | <urn:uuid:00b4db65-b18f-46a0-ace0-ce294da52cec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parkhillgolfcoursereimagined.info/mile-high-festivals-to-begin-hosting-community-food-truck-events-at-park-hill-golf-course/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.927425 | 221 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Lipases A and B from Candida antarctica (CALA, CALB), and those from Candida rugosa (CRL) and Rhizomucor miehei (RML) have been immobilized on octyl agarose beads under 16 different conditions. The activities of the biocatalysts versus different substrates were analyzed, as well as their thermal stabilities at pH 7.0. All CALB and CRL preparations showed very similar properties, except the CRL biocatalysts prepared at pH 9. Under these conditions the free enzyme was partially inactivated. Immobilized CALA showed some significant differences in activity depending on the immobilization conditions when using esters of mandelic acid as substrates (the activities of the different preparations differed by more than a 2-fold factor), while when using the other substrates the differences were minimal. However, immobilized RML enzyme greatly alters its activity depending on the immobilization conditions, reaching differences up to 4-5 fold in both activity and stability. It is remarkable that the effect of one immobilization variable depends on the substrates, and that there are strong interactions between the different immobilization variables. Thus, this immobilization method was very robust (producing almost identical functional biocatalysts independently from the immobilization conditions) using CRL or CALB, while the immobilization conditions must be carefully controlled using RML to have reproducible results..
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X
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Introduction to Java NIO with Examples
Java IO(Input/Output) is used to perform read and write operations. The java.io package contains all the classes required for input and output operation. Whereas, Java NIO (New IO) was introduced from JDK 4 to implement high-speed IO operations. It is an alternative to the standard IO API’s.
In this article, we will understand more about Java NIO.
Java NIO(New Input/Output) is high-performance networking and file handling API and structure which works as an alternative IO API for Java. It is introduced from JDK 4. Java NIO works as the second I/O system after standard Java IO with some added advanced features. It provides a different way of working with I/O than the standard IO. Like Java.io package which contains all the classes required for Java input and output operations, the java.nio package defines the buffer classes which are used throughout NIO APIs. We use Java NIO for the following two main reasons:
- Non-blocking IO operation: Java NIO performs non-blocking IO operations. This means that it reads the data whichever is ready. For instance, a thread can ask a channel to read the data from a buffer and the thread can go for other work during that period and continue again from the previous point where it has left. In the meantime, the reading operation is complete which increases the overall efficiency.
- Buffer oriented approach: Java NIO’s buffer oriented approach allows us to move forth and back in the buffer as we need. The data is read into a buffer and cached there. Whenever the data is required, it is further processed from the buffer.
The main working of the Java NIO package is based on some core components. They are:
- Buffers: Buffers are available in this package for the primitive data types. Java NIO is a buffer oriented package. It means that the data can be written/read to/from a buffer which further processed using a channel. Here, the buffers act as a container for the data as it holds the primitive data types and provides an overview of the other NIO packages. These buffers can be filled, drained, flipped, rewind, etc.
- Channels: Channels are the new primitive I/O abstraction. A channel is a bit like stream used for communicating with the outside world. From the channel, we can read the data into a buffer or write from a buffer. Java NIO performs the non-blocking IO operations and the channels are available for these IO operations. The connection to different entities is represented by various channels which are capable of performing non-blocking I/O operation. The channels work as a medium or a gateway. The following image illustrates the channel and buffer interaction:
- Selectors: Selectors are available for non-blocking I/O operations. A selector is an object which monitors multiple channels for the events. As Java NIO performs the non-blocking IO operations, selectors and the selection keys with selectable channels defines the multiplexed IO operations. So, in simple words, we can say that the selectors are used to select the channels which are ready for the I/O operation. The following image illustrates the selector handling the channels:
Java NIO provides a new I/O model based on channels, buffers and selectors. So, these modules are considered as the core of the API. The following table illustrates the list of Java.nio packages for an NIO system and why they are used:
|java.nio package||It provides the overview of the other NIO packages.Different types of buffers are encapsulated by this NIO system, which are used throughout the NIO API’s.|
|java.nio.channels package||It supports channels and selectors, which represent connections to entities which are essentially open the I/O connections and selects the channel ready for I/O.|
|java.nio.channels.spi package||It supports the service provider classes for java.io.channel package.|
|java.nio.file package||It provides the support for files.|
|java.nio.file.spi package||It supports the service provider classes for java.io.file package.|
|java.nio.file.attribute package||It provides the support for file attributes.|
|java.nio.charset package||It defines character sets and providing encoding and decoding operations for new algorithms.|
|java.nio.charset.spi package||It supports the service provider classes for java.nio.charset package.|
Why Java.nio.File, when Java.io.File is already present? It is a very common question that why we will move to Java.nio.File when Java.io.File is already present. There were a few things which were missing in the old Java.io.File and that led to the usage of the new Java.nio.File. The following are some of the things which were missing in the old package and the reasons why the new package is used:
- The old module provides limited support for the symbolic links.
- The old module provides limited support for file attributes and performance issues.
- The old module does not work consistently across all the platforms.
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26 Jul I found the tales of Cu Chullain to be fascinating and enjoyable to read, despite the way that his violence is glorified and revered. He is portrayed as the ultimate Irish hero, with Herculean strength and the reckless courage of Achilles, indeed like Her
I found the tales of Cu Chullain to be fascinating and enjoyable to read, despite the way that his violence is glorified and revered. He is portrayed as the ultimate Irish hero, with Herculean strength and the reckless courage of Achilles, indeed like Hercules and Achilles his name and reputation inspires fear in his enemies. It’s hard to believe so many of his courageous feats were accomplished while he was only a child, including impregnating the fierce Scottish warrior Aife.
In my opinion many of Cu Chullain’s endeavours can be defined as heroic, he rescues his friend, King Conchobor from the battle against Eogan Mac Durthact (Kinsella, 80), singlehandedly defends the woman, and men in pangs against the twenty seven marauders from Faichi with only sticks and stones (Kinsella, 81) and after killing the hound in self-defence at the feast of Conchobor, offers to stand in its place and protect Culann, which is how he came to be known as Cu Chullain, the hound of Culann(Kinsella, 83).
From an early age he displayed his strength and fearlessness, challenging three times fifty boys on the fields of Emain and defeating them with nothing but a shield made of sticks. This was presumably where he first experienced Riastrad or Warp-Spasm, a hulk like rage (Kinsella,77).
With so many incredible feats already accomplished he continues to seek fame and glory, perhaps out of Narcissism and no doubt fuelled by his Godlike strength. One day while the Druid Cathbad was teaching his students druid lore, he overhears Cathbad say, “If a warrior took up arms for the first time that day, their name would endure in Ireland as a word signifying great acts, and stories about him would last forever” (Kinsella,83-84). Upon hearing this he tricks Conchobor into giving him his weapons and thus fulfilling the druids prophecy, though Cathbad warns him that while he may achieve greatness, his life would be short, to which he replies ‘If I achieve fame I am content, though I only had one day on Earth.” (Kinsella, 85) While all of this behaviour could be described as narcissistic, I think it is rooted in his sense of servitude and desire to protect and honor his King and countrymen, perhaps he felt he alone could defeat all of their enemies.
He showed other acts of heroism too in my opinion, despite his great strength, speed and skill he also showed mercy at times. Once in surrendering to his exiled former foster father Fergus if he would agree to do the same at time of Cu Chullain’s choosing. He repeated this again with his foster brother Ferbaeth, whom was sent by Medb to meet Cu Chullain in battle. Cu Chullain begged him not to fight him, ultimately Ferbaeth chose to honor Medb’s request and forsake foster-brotherhood with Cu Chullain, leading to his death.(Kinsella, 128-130).
Ultimately, like so many mythological heroes before and after him , I think his pride and arrogance lead to his downfall. He had made so many enemies in his short life, who all conspired against him to relieve him of his spears, knowing this was the best and perhaps only way to kill him. Three times in a display of arrogance he gave up a spear by slaying one of Medb’s satirists (Kinsella, 126). Elsewhere, Cu Chullain lost some of strength after being forced to break his geas after being forced to choose between being inhospitable to a woman or eating dogs meat. In his last battle he spies Morrigan, whom had earlier prophesied about his early death, charging into battle he was poetically slain by his own spear.
Kinsella, Thomas. The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cuailnge. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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An example of framing is when a company releases a statement that sounds a lot better than what it actually is. Donald Shaw The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , introduced the theory in 1972. Examples and glosses: Examples should be numbered with Arabic numerals in parentheses, thus: 1. The concept of agenda setting was launched by McCombs and Shaw during the 1968 presidential election in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Public figures could no longer sue for libel, regardless of the bias of news media, without proof that the media had acted maliciously.
Two basis assumptions underlie most research on agenda-setting: 1 the press and the media do not reflect reality; they filter and shape it; 2 media concentration on a few issues and subjects leads the public to perceive those issues as more important than other issues. Lancendorfer; Ki Jung Lee Mar 2005. Many news organizations attempt to frame issues in a way that attempts to make them relevant to its audiences. Need for orientation is a combination of the individual's interest in the topic and uncertainty about the issue. However, the terms are frequently ill-defined: Berkowitz suggests, for example, applying the term agenda setting to situations regarding the effect of the media on the public and applying policy agenda building to situations that regard the perceptions of policymakers and how these perceptions are formed. For example, pro-life groups presented with an agenda that included a ban on fetal research; media attention spiked as the struggle between competing groups pro-life and pro-research played out in the media.
This way, the public agenda can form an understanding of the salience issues. These publications have a direct effect on local newspapers and television networks that are viewed on a less elite scale. Agenda building describes the ongoing process by which various groups attempt to transfer their interests to be the interests of public policymakers. There are many issues in our country that are just not relevant to people, because they do not affect us. Glasgow: Strathclyde Papers in Government and Politics no. According to Kim and Lee, agenda-building through the Internet take the following three steps: 1 Internet-mediated agenda-rippling: an anonymous netizen's opinion spreads to the important agenda in the Internet through online main rippling channels such as blogs, personal homepages, and the Internet bulletin boards.
Also, framing is when these interpretive cues correspond with or activate individuals' pre-existing cognitive schema Kim et al. Each of the objects on an agenda has a lot of attributes containing cognitive components such as information that describes characteristics of the object, and an affective component including tones positive, negative, neutral of the characteristics on agenda. By such reporting, the media thus have presented a frame through which the story is interpreted by audiences. Some may argue that Twitter is still being used as a place for people to follow celebrity news and the culture of Hollywood more than it is being used for important issues and world news. Within this process, the media a newspaper, book, television program, etc takes control of the information we see or hear. So the individual would be considerably likely to be influenced by the stories psychological aspect of theory.
Mass-media coverage in general and agenda-setting in particular also have a powerful impact on what individuals think that other people are thinking, and hence tend to allocate more importance to issues that have been extensively covered by mass media. While some theorize that the rise of social media will bring a downfall to journalists ability to set the agenda, there is considerable scholarship to counterbalance this form of thinking. Knowledge Application: The Knowledge System in Society, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1979 Hogwood, Brian W. Before that, there was a period in which Edison monopolized the industry. When the media alerts the public to an issue frequently through investigative reporting. McCombs and Shaw did a study based on the 1968 election and discovered the correlation between what news viewers watched and their perception of important events. In the past agenda setting was limited to general topics and it was geographically bound because travel was limited.
It captivated the country—and news outlets—for years. Furthermore, Ghanem 1997 demonstrated that the certain attributes agendas in the news with low psychological distance, drove compelling arguments for the salience of public agenda. Partisan media and modern censorship: media influence on Czech political partisanship and the media's creation of limits to public opposition and control of exercising power in the Czech Republic in the 1990s. However, when the focus is placed not only on policymakers' personal agendas, but also on the broader salient issues where media represent only one indicator of public sentiment, Berkowitz suggests talking about policy agenda-building. Rethinking hard and soft news production: From common ground to divergent paths. Concentration of ownership is often found in these industries. .
Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion Repr. As agenda-setting theory was being developed, scholars pointed out many attributes that describe the object. Elites, for example, generally have more power to influence the agenda. Toward a Merger of Gratifications and Agenda-Setting Research. The Emergence of American Political Issues: The Agenda-Setting Function of the Press. Research performed by Zucker in 1978 suggested that an issue is obtrusive if most members of the public have had direct contact with it, and less obtrusive if audience members have not had direct experience.
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In the language of the Mapuche Indians Conguillío means "Water with pine nuts". The National Park Conguillío is located about 80 km east of Temuco at about 1500m altitude. The Sendero de Chile, a long-distance hiking trail that runs through all the landscapes of Chile, was founded here. On a piece of this way we were on the way with the backpack on Trekking Tour through the impressive national park.
One of the wakes up over the park most active volcanoes in South America, the Llaima ("Veins of blood") with 3125m height. Warnings at the park entrances provide information and evacuation routes. In recent years, there have been outbreaks, dozens of tourists and rangers had to rescued in 2008 become.
In the northern part of the park is wild and green, a poorly penetrating rainforest Auracarien and southern beechIn the southern part is the stark contrast: huge lava fields, broken here and there by pioneer plants. Gentle life on wide ash surfaces. Around the volcano here runs a chain of so-called parasitic volcanoes, lower volcanic cones.
The little one Laguna Arco Iris has only existed since 1994, when a dam was built during an eruption and dammed the lake. It's not surprising that dinosaurs were shot here for television doks! A deep blue lagoon, dead trees stick out of it, and in the background lava fields and volcanic cones. Above all, there is still the smell of fire and burnt.
The national park is comparatively difficult to reach, long distances on the gravel road, which runs through the park, must be mastered. We were lucky and could ride a good deal on the bed of a pickup truck. At the entrance of the park is the ranger station, where you have to register, the car and the attached boat were neatly disinfected. At the campsite arrived welcomed us one of the most impressive panoramas: the lake, wild mountain sides, black volcanic ash, a dense rainforest, dead white trees, the great birds of prey (the "Peuco", A desert buzzard) serve as a landing pad. The village of Melipeuco, located on the southern edge of the park, is named after these birds and translates as "four Peucos".
Unfortunately, I had probably caught a cold on the flight and was quite battered, always struggling with slackness, shortness of breath and sweats. So we were denied an in-depth exploration of the imposing national park and we relied on smaller day trips, walks, campfire romance and much peace. Not only because of the nightly cold we crawled early in ours chubby warm sleeping bags and stayed a long time.
A good source for the details of the park, the landscape as well as the fauna and flora was "En Te", an Argentinean who currently works in the park and speaks very good German. In a relaxed mate-round we learned a lot about the country and the people, they fed us and took care of my cold. Thanks for that!
- The national park authority CONAF offers free maps of the national park at the ranger posts.
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Financial aid administrators have the authority, through Section 480(d)(7) of the Higher Education Act, to change a student’s status from dependent to independent in cases involving unusual circumstances. Nationwide, approximately 2% of undergraduate students become independent through such dependency overrides. An analysis of the 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) suggests that only 0.5% of undergraduate students (0.9% of undergraduate students under age 24 as of December 31 of the award year) are independent because of a dependency override.
The US Department of Education has given guidance regarding situations that do and do not qualify as unusual circumstances that merit a dependency override. In particular, the following circumstances do not merit a dependency override, either alone or in combination:
- Parents refuse to contribute to the student’s education;
- Parents are unwilling to provide information on the application or for verification;
- Parents do not claim the student as a dependent for income tax purposes;
- Student demonstrates total self-sufficiency.
Note that all of these circumstances are largely discretionary in nature. A student cannot become independent just because the parents are unwilling to help pay for the student’s college education. Although these circumstances are not sufficient for a dependency override, they do not preclude it. Sometimes there are additional circumstances that occur in conjunction with these circumstances that do merit a dependency override. These can include the following:
- an abusive family environment (e.g., sexual, physical, or mental abuse or other forms of domestic violence)
- abandonment by parents
- incarceration or institutionalization of both parents
- parents lacking the physical or mental capacity to raise the child
- parents whereabouts unknown or parents cannot be located
- parents hospitalized for an extended period
- an unsuitable household (e.g., child removed from the household and placed in foster care)
- married student’s spouse dies or student gets divorced
Abandonment is the failure of the parent to provide financial support or to communicate with the child for a long time, generally understood to be a year or more. In custody cases this is a prerequisite for a court to deem the child abandoned by the parent and to order the parent’s parental rights terminated. Abandonment can also refer to physical abandonment, where the child is left on a doorstep or delivered to a hospital. So there are two key elements to the definition of abandonment: (1) no contact for at least a year, and (2) no support for at least a year. (Note that if a parent abandons a child and later reenters the child’s life, the courts would be very slow to restore parental rights, if at all. So if a student has had no contact with a parent for most of the student’s life, recent attempts to reconcile do not prevent a dependency override on the grounds of abandonment.)
An abusive family environment is often difficult to detect, especially if the abuse is more emotional than physical. Signs of an abusive family environment include the following:
- Kicking children and/or a spouse out of the house.
- Violence, including physical abuse against the children or the spouse.
- Sexual abuse.
- Emotional abuse.
- Use of abusive language, including name-calling.
- Failure to properly clothe or feed the family.
- Attempts to commit suicide by one or more family members.
- One or more family members running away from home.
- Parents rejecting and ridiculing the child, controlling all outside contact with the child, keeping the child home from school for weeks or months, deliberate humiliation of the child in front of others.
- The child is abusive to others.
Emotional abuse is more difficult to spot, because there aren’t overt physical signs. Some of the subtle signs include:
- Child has difficulty in forming relationships with others or in bonding with others.
- Child is extremely shy and lacks self confidence.
- Child exhibits fatigue and listless.
- Child is routinely pessimistic.
- Self injury.
- Self-deprecating remarks.
- Reluctant to go home.
- Constantly seeking attention.
- Bullying and hostile to others.
- Ridicules others.
- Repeated truancy and tardiness.
- Grades not consistent with child’s academic ability.
- Engaging in self-abusive activities, including alcohol and drug abuse, gambling, prostitution, and criminal activities.
Occasionally a student will have been kicked out of the house upon reaching the age of majority. This is not uncommon when the student’s parents are divorced and the student has an estranged relationship with the stepparent and the non-custodial parent is unwilling or unable to take in the student. Although the student’s self sufficiency is insufficient grounds for a dependency override, the financial aid administrator may be able to make a case for a dependency override on the grounds of abandonment. So when a family asks for a dependency override and mentions only the four prohibited conditions, dig deeper, as there may be unusual circumstances that do merit a dependency override.
Dependency overrides occur in one direction, from dependent to independent. Because of the way section 480(d)(7) of the Higher Education Act is written, financial aid administrators may not change a student from independent to dependent. (They can, however, cancel a dependency override approved by a different school, as a professional judgment decision at one school is not binding at another.)
Note that a student who qualifies as independent under section 480(d) of the Higher Education Act does not need to be self sufficient. For example, a student who is 24 years old or married still counts as independent even if he lives at home with his parents. This is true even if the student is receiving more than half his support from his parents. (The only exception is for a student who is independent only because of a child. Such a student must provide more than half the support of the child and continue to do so throughout the award year in order to be independent. If the student is not providing more than half his own support, the student cannot count as providing more than half the child’s support.)
Similarly, a student is not required to be self-supporting for the financial aid administrator to perform a dependency override.
Cash support from people other than the student’s parents should be reported as untaxed income on Worksheet B. (Cash support includes amounts paid by other people for bills in the student’s name. If the bills are not in the student’s name, the student has no legal responsibility to pay the bills and so the payments represent in-kind support and not cash support. For example, rent payments do not count as cash support unless the student’s name appears on the lease. In-kind support is not reported on the FAFSA.) Financial aid administrators may use professional judgment to include financial support received from the student’s parents and in-kind support from the parents and other people as untaxed income on Worksheets A and B.
A student acting as a legal guardian or foster parent to a child is not independent, since the student is not considered the child’s parent.
Occasionally a financial aid administrator will encounter a student who is enrolling during the spring semester and who will be 24 years old during that semester, but was 23 years old as of December 31. Such a student is not automatically independent. It is inappropriate to perform a dependency override for such students absent of any other unusual circumstances, as section 480(d)(1) of the Higher Education Act is quite clear. It is likewise inappropriate to perform dependency overrides for students who are close to qualifying as independent, such as students born on January 1.
The old “Bright-Line Test” for self-sufficiency was repealed in 1992, in part because it was prone to manipulation and abuse. This test considered a student to be independent if the student was totally self-sufficient, had not been claimed as an exemption on an income tax return and demonstrated total non-parental resources of at least $4,000 per year for two calendar years preceding the award year. It is inappropriate to use this definition for dependency override decisions, as self-sufficiency is no longer sufficient grounds for a dependency override, per DCL GEN-03-07. | <urn:uuid:6ada4b29-7c81-4348-90f2-b13e31d89bca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://finaid.org/educators/pj/dependencyoverrides/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953716 | 1,736 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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A week ago today a fire spread through the Kya Sands Settlement in Johannesburg, destroying 500 shacks and leaving approximately 2,000 people homeless. Photojournalist Brett Field visited the site a couple of days later, once the rest of the press had packed up and left, and what he found was the true story of Africa that they had left behind. Here, Brett tells it in his words…
Kya Sands Informal Settlement Fire, South Africa – Photos & Text by Brett Field
Fire! 500 Shacks burned to the ground as a gambler continued to play cards forgetting she had lit her stove.
Kya Sands informal settlement was devastated when over 500 shacks were burnt to the ground. Many burnt while fire trucks were restrained on the outskirts due to the narrow ‘roads’ of the settlement which denied them access.
The newspapers were alive with this ‘hot’ news. Yet only two days later, before the last flames were extinguished, when I went to visit the settlement, the newspapers had already stopped reporting.
But they had missed the real story.
En route to the settlement I came across a woman in need of a lift. She was a resident who was a victim of the fire. While I drove her in she explained how it was the careless nature of a gambler that had cost her all her worldly possessions…of which she had had very little to begin with.
My first sight was this:
An image of smouldering ashes of what had been. The situation appeared to be one of despair.
Then a man appeared, walking across my lens. Carrying two logs and a saw. Heading into the affected area of the settlement.
I followed him and soon began to see that there was activity all around me.
Restoration had begun at a blistering pace. Everyone seemed to be helping each other. A true example of community.
The real story that the press had missed out on was the one of the people of the Kya Sands informal settlement. The people that got up in the morning after losing everything they had.
The people that got going on rebuilding their lives from the ground up…even though that was the smouldering sooty ground where they used to live.
The people that keep on smiling despite their hardships. The people of Africa.
Please click here to VIEW THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY BRETT FIELD and MORE PHOTOS OF KYA SANDS.
Brett Field is a Corporate Executive turned International Photographer, based in South Africa. He left a successful career as a marketing executive to follow his passion to be professional photographer. To this day he appreciates the privilege of doing a ‘job’ he loves. Marrying his wife Astrid was the #BestDayEver. Wedding photography allows him the freedom to spend more time with his wife and to work with people at their happiest. He thrives off the very real challenge of being creative, and enjoys “fearlessly pushing the boundaries of photography, which is an ever changing art form. As a Nikon Premium Professional I use only the best equipment available. This allows me to pioneer my unique approach.” Photography has taken Brett all over the world. From countless photojournalist assignments to weddings in South Africa, London, Paris & Malta. He has had the privilege of experiencing the sights, scenes & cultures of 45 Countries, across four Continents…and counting.
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- Thursday 30 Jun 2022, 09:00 - 11:45
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Multifunction Hall Room 11
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You can attend this event if you register (free of charge) to the World Urban Forum and then add the event to your calendar once you have registered.
The training session held on 30 June 2022 between 9.00-11.45 hours at the 11th edition of the World Urban Forum is based on three different case studies from various regions and contexts around the world. The selected small-scale community initiatives will get an opportunity to present their mission, ideas and challenges. Subsequently, the representatives of these initiatives and the participants will take part in a training under the guidance of three urban development and resilience experts.
About this training
This training session is based on three initiatives from different contexts worldwide. These small-scale cases of community initiatives are selected as the finalists of the IHS Alumni Impact Award and will be presented to the participants by the initiators themselves.
The participants will take part in a training under the guidance of three urban development experts: Alexander Jachnow, Indriany Lionggo and Tannya Pico. Each expert will cover one thematic area: socio-cultural resilience, environmental resilience and socio-economic resilience.
The training will consist of a theory and a practice section, which will enable participants to enhance their knowledge and skills while working towards an action plan for the selected initiatives. Three “mobile teams” of participants and experts will advise the initiatives for further development and sustainable growth.
In the theoretical part, participants will learn how to work towards resilience and sustainability via small-scale initiatives and how to develop solutions and make action plans. By discussing and analysing the different thematic aspects shared by the small-scale initiative representatives in a group setting, they will be able to identify the core issues faced by each initiative and come up with collaborative solutions and plans through peer learning.
What will you learn?
At the end of the training, participants will be able to understand the concepts of urban community initiatives and community resilience. The training session will create and nurture an environment to discuss and exchange experiences happening locally.
Participants will learn how to synthesise and utilise knowledge from one context and apply it to another while remaining aware of the varying circumstances and factors that might influence the result.
At the same time, the training will increase the participants' knowledge and capacity to assess socio-cultural, environmental, and socio-economic resilience, as well as the ability to systematise good practices and to recognise the impact of bottom-up initiatives on urban transformation and community resilience. Lastly, they will learn to showcase the positive externalities beyond their initial project, effectively leaving a larger impact in their communities and thus, having a larger impact on unforeseen areas and "leaving no one behind".
These three initiatives will be featured as case studies during the training.
GEARTH 4.0 Intelligent System - Esthela Maria Espinoza, Ecuador
The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent system (software) to generate, organize, keep, integrate and capitalize data, information, knowledge and experiences, to intervene in the production, use, transformation and management processes of bio-cultural spaces of neighbourhoods and communities.
Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU) - Lighthouse Program - Aditya Ajith, India
This project aims to build sustainable livelihoods for youth from marginalised, low-income communities towards an aspirational future through skill development. The DSEU Lighthouse offers high-quality, short-term vocational skilling courses and is a step towards solving the unemployment crisis in India.
É de Sol Composting (On-demand Composting Nonprofit Start-up) - Mariana Fiuza, Brazil
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Human monitoring of systems in which sensors provide data to automated decision support algorithms create interesting challenges for Human Factors. In this study we are interested in exploring whether people are able to detect two types of automation failure: when decisions do not fit the data presented to the operator, and when data from different information sources do not agree. For those students that performed at a level of ≥ 97% correct ('high performers), checking for both types of failure seemed easy. For those students that performed at a level of ≤ 95% correct ('low performers'), checking for erroneous recommendations seems straightforward, but checking for information agreement seemed to be omitted. One suggestion is that the non-experts expended more effort on checking recommendation and ignored the need to check congruence across displays. The implication is that the 'worth' of the displayed information for one task (decision check) outweighed its worth for the simpler task (congruence check) for the non-experts. | <urn:uuid:594734b5-bfe6-471b-9e70-ec92158138d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research.ibm.com/publications/missing-key-information-how-automation-failure-can-be-misinterpreted | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928152 | 194 | 1.75 | 2 |
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a plan to improve education in Utah and California Thursday, approving a plan intended to afford more flexibilities in the states’ programs.
“I am pleased to approve Utah and California’s plans, both of which comply with the requirements of the law,” Devos said, announcing the plan to consolidate state programs under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). “I look forward to seeing how these states utilize the flexibilities afforded in ESSA to rethink education and to improve outcomes for all students,” she said in a Thursday press release.
Signed by former President Barack Obama in 2015, ESSA “builds on key areas of progress in recent years, made possible by the efforts of educators, communities, parents, and students across the country,” according to the U.S. Department of Education. ESSA replaced the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act enacted in 2002.
ESSA is meant to give states increased flexibility in how they teach lessons. Under the Act, every state can craft plans that will best meet the needs of students in their state. (RELATED: Here’s How Much States Spend On Education And How Their Students Perform)
With Devos’ approval, Utah’s plan seeks to reduced the education gap in math and english for students between third and eighth grade. The program also aims to improve teacher preparation, licensing programs and performance measures.
“Utah’s plan provides strategies to engage school communities in continuous improvement on behalf of each student,” said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sydnee Dickson.
California’s plan will streamline how local education agencies and schools best meet student needs. The new plan comes after the state conducted extensive research to develop its educational reforms.
“California is a national leader in supporting students with extra needs, providing local control over spending, encouraging community participation in schools and releasing critical information on measures that indicate student success,” California State Board of Education president Michael Kirst said, according to the press release. “Our ESSA plan allows that work to continue,” Kirst added.
“California has an ambitious plan to give additional resources to students with the greatest needs as we prepare all students for college and 21st century careers,” State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson also said.
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Sanctuary Everywhere is the simple idea that everyday people can work together to keep each other safe. Sanctuary can mean taking someone into a congregation to protect them from deportation, but more broadly, it's about the community coming together to protect targeted communities from state violence—including immigrants, people of color, Muslims and other targeted religious groups, or LGBTQ people.
Join us to create safe, inclusive spaces; dismantle the school-to-prison-pipeline; and become more effective allies.
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Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is unlocking unconventional oil and gas resources and transforming our energy profile. Within the last decade, we have seen a steady uptick in domestic oil and gas production, a dramatic drop in American natural gas prices, and the retirement of old coal plants forced out of the market by more efficient gas-fired energy. We’ve seen oil and gas production in places where it never before existed, and a remarkable scale and intensity of development.
We often hear about the benefits of this energy “boom” – jobs created, reduction in air pollution, reduced dependence on foreign oil. Policy makers must also carefully consider and manage the potential serious risks posed by fracking to public health, the environment, and community character to minimize the potential for big problems down the road. Citizens have a role to play, to ask questions about the potential risks and to steer policy discussion towards solutions that are protective of human health and community welfare.
Influencing public policy on fracking
The first step is for citizens to become informed about what oil and gas development is proposed in or near their communities, and what that might means for their daily lives. Asking questions and expecting answers is one of the beauties of democracy.
More than this, there are opportunities for citizens to engage in the public policy process playing out at multiple levels of government—local, state, tribal and federal. For all the complications and imperfections of this process the take home message is that in a democratic society people have the opportunity to participate. Here are some suggestions of ways citizens can get involved in planning and decision-making; more ideas can be found in an informational toolkit on fracking recently released by UCS.
It may come as a surprise to some that local governments can have a major influence on the development of oil and gas resources within their jurisdiction. But local governments are broadly responsible for zoning and land-use planning, and control local infrastructure and services (e.g. roads, public water sources, and waste water treatment facilities). Local governments hear the complaints associated with oil and gas operations, and are often in the best position to mitigate the problems with measures such as traffic routing and setback rules. Arlington, Texas, for instance, has imposed setback requirements for wells and prohibited noisier oil and gas activities from taking place between 6 pm and 7 am.
In many towns, discussion of unconventional oil and gas development will rest with the city or town council and mayor, and town boards dealing with planning, public health, and public works. Almost all governmental meetings in the United States are public. Planning Board or town council meetings, then, provide an opportunity for citizens to ask questions (see the UCS community toolkit) and register their concerns with local elected officials. While every town may not issue oil and gas permits, there will be opportunities to review town zoning, waste disposal, and infrastructure plans and consider how these might attract, manage, or discourage development.
State law can affect the extent of authority a local government has over activities within its borders. For instance, the Pennsylvania Constitution gives broad powers to local governments. So when the state legislature passed a bill to prohibit local governments from regulating or banning fracking, several towns challenged this law on constitutional grounds. The case is before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court now.
In other cases, state officials advocate expanding local government powers; for instance, Michigan legislators are proposing to allow local governments to request a public hearing before a state permit can be issued for fracking in their jurisdiction. Here is another place that citizens can weigh in, to make sure local governments have a voice in when, where, how, and whether fracking occurs.
State government and fracking
The lead oil and gas regulators operate at the state level. Each state establishes its own process and set of statutory and regulatory controls. When an oil or gas operator applies for a permit to drill, some states require that the public be notified. Fewer states allow some or all members of the public to comment on the proposed permit. If your state doesn’t provide for this, ask why not!
The information available to the public accompanying each permit application will vary substantially depending on state regulations. State agencies also write operating requirements for oil and gas development, and submit these proposals for public comment. The agency issuing the permit or writing the rules will vary, depending on the structure of state government. For example, in Texas, the Railroad Commission and the Commission on Environmental Quality share responsibility issuing permits and monitoring regulatory requirements. In Pennsylvania, the responsibility falls to the Department of Environmental Protection. In California, permitting is overseen by the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources.
State agencies sometimes engage in analyses to assess the cumulative environmental impact of proposed oil and gas activity. New York is conducting a Generic Environmental Impact Statement, and has received more than 200,000 public comments in the process. An environmental impact statement not only analyzes the potential effects of proposed development, but considers alternatives that might have different or lesser impacts. The process of preparing an environmental impact statement allows for not only greater public information, but much more extensive public comment on the broader questions of when and how development should occur.
Beyond commenting on permit applications, proposed rules, and impact studies—and encouraging others to do the same—citizens can also ask questions of state officials during public hearings, or in writing. And, of course, they can contact their elected officials, to urge them to proactively address fracking issues and provide meaningful opportunities for the public to participate.
The federal government has the authority to regulate oil and gas development on federal lands, and on tribal lands in coordination with tribal governments. The federal government often plays a major backstop role on all lands to ensure the safety of drinking water (Safe Drinking Water Act), surface waters (Clean Water Act) and air quality (Clean Air Act) as well as thoughtful environmental planning (National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA). Unfortunately, the oil and gas industry enjoys effective exemptions from the requirements of these federal laws that apply to almost all other major development efforts.
Where it can act, the federal government must provide notice and opportunity for public comment on any rules it proposes. For instance, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed regulations for fracking underway on federal lands, and is now reviewing the 2.2 million comments it received. Notices for upcoming public comment periods or public hearings are posted on agency websites, and on regulations.gov.
As at the state level, when the federal government prepares an environmental assessment or impact statement, the public is able to obtain information on development alternatives and to comment on those alternatives. Last month, prompted by the two lawsuits charging that BLM’s failure to conduct environmental assessment violated the NEPA, BLM began work on an Environmental Impact Statement for oil and gas leasing on federal lands in Central California.
On issues related to the federal role in managing the risks of fracking, contact your members of Congress (both House and Senate). Members of Congress are responsive to constituent concerns, and all Members have district offices (or state offices for Senators) so you can travel a relatively short distance to speak to your Member or their staff in person.
It is too easy to say that government doesn’t work the way we want it to. There are plentiful opportunities to engage. In a democracy, when we don’t think something works right, it is our right and and our obligation to use our voice to make a change. | <urn:uuid:a40bc063-2f82-4d25-8651-c7cc769c0c1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.ucsusa.org/andrew-rosenberg/fracking-and-community-action-make-your-voice-heard-265/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946578 | 1,522 | 3.078125 | 3 |
For hundreds of thousands of American workers employed by Seattle-area companies, decisions made on corporate boards here now significantly influence their access to abortion.
After the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion, major Seattle employers announced they would provide abortion benefits, including reimbursement for abortion travel, often up to 100 miles from home person and gender-affirming care. Employers said they wanted to make sure their workers could access abortions, regardless of the law.
But their answers differ widely on what those benefits will look like and who will benefit from them.
Several companies declined to clarify whether abortion travel benefits will apply to part-time or contract workers. Starbucks said the benefit, which includes gender-affirming care, will be on the negotiating table with unionized stores. Other large employers in Seattle, which have a strong presence in states where abortion is illegal, have not offered travel allowances to their workers.
Issaquah-based Costco has not publicly announced plans to change its benefits in light of the reversal. He did not respond to requests for comment.
Similarly, Walmart, the largest employer in the United States, has not announced additional benefits. On Friday, a week after the reversal, Walmart chief executive Doug McMillon said the company was taking employee feedback and revising its policies.
“We will share details of our actions as soon as possible, recognizing that time is running out,” McMillion wrote in a memo to staffers on Friday.
Due to federal regulations, all company health insurance benefits must include abortion coverage if the mother’s life is in danger due to the pregnancy.
After the court ruling, major employers are divided on how far these benefits should be extended if the mother’s life is not in danger. Many offered travel compensation if the worker had to travel to access abortion services.
Among them were Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Alaska Airlines, Target and Nordstrom. They did not specify who these benefits apply to or whether there would be additional time off allowed for the trip.
Microsoft and Amazon declined to provide details. Like many companies, Amazon said in May it would offer travel reimbursement to employees who had to travel within 100 miles of their home for an abortion.
By their nature, employee benefits vary from company to company. Now, companies must consider the legal liabilities their new benefits may create, said Michelle Long, senior women’s health policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health care research organization. .
“Right now, there are so many more questions than there are answers,” Long said. “What legal implications does this have for the employer and what are the privacy concerns.”
After companies announced the new benefits, employees spoke up. Nearly 2,000 Amazon workers signed an open letter to the company saying the benefits of abortion were not enough.
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard employees have scheduled a release for July 21, saying they demand a focus on protecting workers “from external threats like the recent reversal of Roe v. Wade, and threats internal such as retaliation and harassment in the workplace,” the union said on Twitter.
While Google broadly offers compensation for abortion travel, it doesn’t include contract workers “who are the backbone of Google’s trillion-dollar empire,” according to the Alphabet Workers Union.
Nordstrom, Target and Alaska Airlines also wouldn’t say whether part-time or contract workers were eligible for abortion travel compensation.
T-Mobile and Starbucks said part-time workers are eligible for abortion travel compensation. Starbucks, however, clarified that its benefit will cover workers who work more than 20 hours per week. Rather than additional leave, the company said workers will have to use existing paid leave. The company also said it would include gender-affirming care as part of its new benefit.
“We were one of the first companies to offer comprehensive health benefits to eligible full-time and part-time partners – more than 30 years ago,” a Starbucks spokesperson said in an email. .
Starbucks added that it could not make any promises of benefit guarantees for unionized stores. He also said he would negotiate in good faith.
Sarah Pappin, who works at a unionized Starbucks store in downtown Seattle, said the new abortion and gender affirmation benefits won’t impact many baristas because the plan to Corporate health care is expensive and only a few can afford it.
Although legal and privacy issues can affect employee benefits, some companies may decide not to offer abortion benefits for ideological reasons, Long said. Other employers may review the legality of the benefits since, in some states, entities such as corporations can be sued for “aiding and abetting” an abortion.
“Some employers need to take the time to meet with their legal team to make sure they’re providing a benefit that they can’t be sued or held criminally responsible for,” Long said.
Boeing has announced sweeping travel health benefits for workers, trailing many of its Seattle peers. Boeing has a strong presence in states where abortion is no longer legal, such as Missouri.
Despite the company’s response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Long said there are still considerations employees should make. Among them, access to benefits in a way that does not follow both employers and workers, the presence of abortion clinics in the insurance network to prevent workers from paying out of pocket and the access to franchises since part of this sum must be paid out of pocket. The average deductible is $1,200, she said.
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The most recent Community Report of the U.S. Census (2010) indicated that 56% of Puerto Rico’s children live in poverty. However, the 2014 Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book reports that 83% of Puerto Rico’s children lived in “high poverty areas” as of 2012. That number is startlingly higher than the numbers for the states. Even Mississippi and New Mexico, the poorest states in the United States, show only 28% and 22% of their children in this position, respectively. (The District of Columbia, also not a state, shows up at 31%.)
What does it mean to live in a high poverty area, and how does that differ from living in poverty?
First, the official poverty level may not tell the whole story. The foundation explains that the national poverty level is outdated and may not capture the reality of modern life. In 1963, the poverty level was defined as three times the cost of basic food for a family. Now, the costs of housing, transportation, and childcare for working parents are much higher in relation to the price of the cheapest food. It is possible for a child to have enough to eat and yet still face some of the consequences of poverty.
High poverty areas, areas in which the majority of the residents are below the official poverty level, are more likely to have problems with crime and less likely to have the educational opportunities of more affluent neighborhoods. Access to health care and healthy foods may also be limited.
As Puerto Rico’s economy has declined since 2010, it is possible that the 56% U.S. Census childhood poverty rate from that year has inched toward the 83% “high poverty” level found in the Casey Foundation’s 2014 report.
What does this mean for Puerto Rico’s future?
- Claims that Puerto Rico can offer an educated workforce for new companies moving to the territory are less plausible when contrasted with the fact that most of the children in Puerto Rico live in poverty and are likely to lack educational and enrichment opportunities.
- Puerto Ricans are leaving their island for the mainland in record numbers, often in order to give their children a better chance for the future. As young people and families leave, the population of Puerto Rico is aging. The result will be a smaller workforce and fewer innovative new businesses.
- The children of Puerto Rico do not have the kind of safety net children have in the States, and may not have the same opportunities. Those who are living in poverty in Puerto Rico are less likely to have family tax credits, for example, which have been found to encourage investment in education on the mainland. It is possible that it is not only more common to live in poverty in Puerto Rico, but also more difficult to grow out of it.
Much of the discussion of Puerto Rico’s economic crisis has focused on Puerto Rico bonds, taxes, and possible strategies to reinvigorate the economy. Yet there are human costs of the current economic challenges, too, and, if left unresolved, these human costs can be expected to continue an unfortunate economic downward spiral as well. | <urn:uuid:b5922664-6cd7-419b-80c6-07916af134ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.puertoricoreport.com/many-puerto-ricos-children-live-poverty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962887 | 645 | 3.09375 | 3 |
- Encounters with locals
- Castle and fortress
- Place or Historical Monument
- Off the beaten track
I stayed in Urgench for two hours and it was too long!
By contrast, there are many buses leaving to Bustan in particular. There, I discovered half a dozen cities/castles/forts in ruins! (In the guides, they say there are 20 of them, but I only found 6.) I am a person who is really interested in history, so I really enjoyed these visits. Try to take advantage of a guided tour, because their explanations about the sites will only be the best.
The best known of the ruins, Ayaz Qala, is made up of three fortresses located up high in a mostly desert area, where you can see the lake's shores. Getting closer to it, the pools of saltwater succeed one another and make the atmosphere particularly arid. On returning to the fortress, you can always spend the night in a yurt camp, set up only for tourists. The welcome is still rather nice! | <urn:uuid:f0b5416a-1a15-4770-99fc-bd1032e941d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.evaneos.com/uzbekistan/holidays/places/816-urgench/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964964 | 220 | 1.585938 | 2 |
LCSR Seminar: Hongliang Ren “Collaborative Robotics with Continuum and Compliance”
Representing a major paradigm shift from open surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) assisted by robots and sensing is emerging by accessing the surgical targets via either keyholes or natural orifices. It is challenging to get delicate and safe manipulations due to the constraints imposed by the mode of robotic access, confined workspace, complicated surgical environments and the limited available technologies, particularly in terms of endoluminal curvilinear targeting and guidance. Addressing the aforementioned challenges and aiming at human-centered flexible robots, this talk will share our recent biorobotic researches in continuum mechanisms, compliance modulations, delicate sensing, collaborative human-robot interactions, mostly in the context of medical applications. The compliant continuum robotics with embodied intelligence allows us to bypass critical important intracranial or intracorporeal structures, to conform its shape to be compliant with curvy passages, and have direct access to the target sites under proper planning and navigation, thus significantly reducing invasiveness and trauma of surgery.
Hongliang Ren is currently an assistant professor and leading a research group on medical mechatronics in the Biomedical Engineering Department of National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an affiliated Principal Investigator for the Singapore Institute of Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute, and Advanced Robotics Center at National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr. Ren received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (Specialized in Biomedical Engineering) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2008. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Research Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University, Children’s Hospital Boston & Harvard Medical School, and Children’s National Medical Center, USA. His main areas of interest include Biorobotics & Intelligent Control, Medical Mechatronics, Computer-Integrated Surgery, and Multisensor Data Fusion in Surgical Robotics. Dr. Ren is IEEE Senior Member and currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering (T-ASE) and Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC). He is the recipient of NUS Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award 2018 & Interstellar Early Career Investigator Award 2018. | <urn:uuid:555f501e-5724-4896-b761-70527058828e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lcsr.jhu.edu/events/lcsr-seminar-hongliang-ren/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.913536 | 481 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Documentary follows the lives of recyclers in Oakland, California
Amir Soltani noticed people rummaging through the trash cans in West Oakland, California, when he moved there nine years ago. Every night, he heard the rattle of shopping cart wheels rumbling up and down the streets.
“People were just holding on to these shopping carts like little life rafts,” Soltani said. “Everything they had was in the shopping carts.”
Soltani, who moved to the U.S. from Iran in 1979, is a human rights and civil rights activist with a background in journalism. After meeting one of the rummagers, a partially paralyzed man named Jefferson, Soltani wanted to learn more about these people who collect recyclables and live out of shopping carts.
He hired a cameraman and started filming. With his co-director, Chihiro Wimbush, he started following the lives of three individuals: Landon Goodwin, a former minister who struggles with addiction; Jason Witt, an “Olympic titan” of recycling; and Hayok Kay, a Korean-American woman who was a former drummer.
Seven years later, the end product is the documentary “Dogtown Redemption.” It will air on PBS stations throughout the country starting May 17.
For those featured in the documentary, collecting recyclables from trash cans and redeeming them for cash is a profession, “their dignity,” said Soltani.
After visiting the recycling center, Soltani was amazed by the hard work of these recyclers who face many challenges ranging from mental health and physical disabilities to addictions.
“The stereotype that we have of the poor just didn’t apply to them,” Soltani said. “They were the working poor, and they were working a lot harder than many other people.”
The documentary took seven years to complete, which Soltani said gave the directors more freedom as they were able to get to know people personally.
“When you are just shooting over a year, you really don’t get that deep sense of connection and understanding about how people turn their lives around, or not,” Soltani explained.
By following the characters for seven years, Soltani saw how some lives changed and others didn’t; some people lived, and some didn’t.
Soltani compared making a documentary to “climbing a mountain that you haven’t climbed before.” Even with the right equipment, predicting milestones in the story is challenging.
“It’s about trusting in the story and trusting in the journey that it will take you, and listening to it,” he said.
Soltani also emphasized the importance of dedication because challenges inevitably come during the process, such as lack of funding or bad weather.
But despite the challenges, Soltani said, “the most rewarding part is that you discover how much grace there is in the universe.”
The “Dogtown Redemption” team will also be collaborating with a newspaper in California called Street Spirit, which reports on homeless issues, as part of an initiative. The team will be donating free copies of the documentary to over 100 homeless vendors. The homeless people who work with these vendors will be able to sell the DVDs for $10 each.
“It’s also a way of showing that there is a lot of room for social enterprise,” Soltani said.
With changes in the economy, he wonders what will happen to these “fragile and vulnerable” people. As an activist, he hopes to raise awareness surrounding these individuals’ situations and include them in conversations about the future.
Soltani also hopes the documentary will help viewers to not judge the poor so quickly and to understand their stories.
“Oftentimes, a part of our own humanity is lost when we judge them,” Soltani said. “I think sometimes it’s more powerful to relate to people, rather than judge them, and try to put oneself in their shoes and think about how their story connects to ours.”
For more information on the documentary, visit dogtownredemption.com.
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Level 1, 2, and 3 Assets (Valuation)
To assess fair (mark-to-market) value on securities carried on banks’ balance sheets for accounting purposes, especially during periods of stress, supervisors have differentiated between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 assets. Level 1 assets are those that are liquid and easy to value based on publicly quoted market prices. Level 2 assets are harder to value and can only partially be taken from quoted market prices but they can be reasonably extrapolated based on quoted market prices. Level 3 assets are difficult to value. Their value tends to be internal models-based as there is no observable market for them. | <urn:uuid:403ec3e3-f94d-43d5-befb-9a77baf914c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ondemand.euromoney.com/discover/glossary/level-1,-2,-and-3-assets-valuation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966871 | 132 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Welcome to INTERACT – International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic
INTERACT is an infrastructure project under the auspices of SCANNET, a circumarctic network of currently 89 terrestrial field bases in northern Europe, Russia, US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland as well as stations in northern alpine areas. INTERACT specifically seeks to build capacity for research and monitoring all over the Arctic, and is offering access to numerous research stations through the Transnational Access Program.
The project, which is funded by the EU, has a main objective to build capacity for identifying, understanding, predicting and responding to diverse environmental changes throughout the wide environmental and land-use envelopes of the Arctic. This is necessary because the Arctic is so vast and so sparsely populated that environmental observing capacity is limited compared to most other latitudes.
INTERACT is multidisciplinary: together, the stations in INTERACT host thousands of scientists from around the world who work on projects within the fields of glaciology, permafrost, climate, ecology, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling. The INTERACT stations also host and facilitate many international single-discipline networks and aid training by hosting summer schools.
Access to the Arctic, and northern alpine and forest areas
INTERACT station managers and researchers have established partnerships that are developing more efficient networks of sensors to measure changing environmental conditions and the partnerships are also making data storage and accessibility more efficient through a single portal. New communities of researchers are being offered access to terrestrial infrastructures while local stakeholders as well as major international organisations are involved in interactions with the infrastructures.
The trans-national access component is crucial to building capacity for research in the European Arctic and beyond. INTERACT is offering transnational access to 43 research stations located in the Arctic, and northern alpine and forest areas in the Europe, Russia and North-America. It is providing opportunities to researchers to work in the field in often harsh and remote locations that are generally difficult to access. In return, the input of new researchers has led to cross fertilisation, comparative measurements at different locations and new research directions at the individual infrastructures.
Join the network
If you wish to join the network as Observer Station INTERACT encourage you to apply to join. There are currently 39 observer stations and they are important parts of the network and new ones are welcome to apply to join INTERACT’s activities, meetings and workshops. You join by sending a request to the INTERACT coordinator.
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The majority of Kenyans are living on the edge as unemployment bites and the economy struggles to recover from the consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak.
There are difficulties associated with living in the capital of Kenya. The first is if your income is sufficient to cover your bills, feed your family, and still have money left over for savings.
Many Kenyans have complained about the hardships of making such a living in the nation’s capital, while others have turned down job prospects promising such pay in favor of a simple existence in the countryside.
Note: If you work nearby, the aforementioned rental pricing in these locations will benefit you. Living in a Ksh2,000 distant location and spending Ksh6,000 on commutes while making Ksh10,000 is not viable.
Just forty minutes from the CBD, Ruiru is situated in Kiambu County, part of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area. Due to the low cost of housing in the neighborhood, many Kenyans who work in Nairobi reside there.
Rent for single rooms in Ruiru starts at Ksh3,000, while the monthly rate for bedsitters is Ksh5,000.
It is advised for locals to get knowledgeable about bus fare patterns so they are aware of when prices are low and when they are hiked.
Kinoo is another reasonably priced residential suburb, located just over an hour from Nairobi’s central business district. Kikuyu Constituency is where it is situated.
A respectable mabati house can be purchased for as little as Ksh1,500. Block single rooms cost between Ksh3,500 and Ksh4,000 per month in the region. Bedsitters’ monthly pay begin at Ksh6,000.
Due to the extensive nearby farming activities, Kinoo is renowned for having inexpensive food.
Many Kenyans who work in Nairobi reside in Gachie in Kiambaa constituency, Kiambu county, notably around Red Hill Road.
Because of the Gachie Market, food in the neighborhood is inexpensive.
In the area, decent mabati homes cost about Ksh2,000. Single block rooms cost between Ksh3,000 and Ksh4,000. Bedsitters are available for Ksh5,500.
The Nairobi CBD is located 40 minutes away.
In Ruai, decent mabati homes cost about Ksh 2,500. Block single-room rentals start at Ksh 3,500, while Ksh 5,500 is the starting price for bedsitters.
Wangige offers some of the most affordable housing options in Nairobi and is situated in the Kabete Constituency, which is roughly 50 minutes from the city center.
While single rooms in blocks cost Ksh3,500, a quality mabati house may be acquired for as little as Ksh1,500. Bedsitters are available for Ksh6,000.
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Mixing further Both appeal and efficiency benefit from moderate-to-overpowering actions. According to the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, those who practised for 30 minutes at a time were amazed by 41% more by those with latent onset erectile dysfunction.The practise helps women, but not necessarily more.
It can not only assist you in living longer, but will also assist you in living longer.
It lets you live your life with more ease and can also help in strengthening your muscles, improving your heart’s stability and making you less prone to dealing with large social gatherings of aches and pains. It can similarly improve your mental and physical performance, boost your self-esteem, and build lasting connections. Consider five ways exercise can be to your advantage.
The body absorbs the burden. While some circles around the square aren’t enough to address the challenges of energy conservation, those who are certified experts recognise that there is a clear connection between regular fitness and a positive mental attitude. The high-speed movement causes the appearance of lifting point-of-view materials that reduce tension and boost motivation.
Furthermore, the cadenced muscular withdrawals that occur in a wide range of advancement may result in the release of serotonin organized in the cerebrum, which aids in the battle of unpleasant emotions.
Movement is real and a continuous moving structure that is present in the cerebrum that helps keep an eye on the activity in the brain. It can also boost lung function, which is a characteristic of people whose memory and mental clarity are maintained as they grow older. While a variety of activities aid in maintaining your brain’s ability to focus, different studies have shown that oxygen-rich growth specifically works to cut off mental acuity.
High-swaying is a resting technique that has three main advantages. It helps you sleep better and results in a higher energy level during the crucial sleep hours and less dispersed energy in the evening. It is clear that practising is the only method known for healthy adults to increase their sleep quality. I received Rest is crucial for your body’s ability to recover and heal.
It assists in maintaining flexibility and centrality. Regular exercise helps to reduce the typical decline in performance that can occur as you get older. By staying active, healthy adults maintain their hearts and lungs in good form and lead lives in a way that is comparable to the lives of the vast majority of teenagers.
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To enjoy all of the mentioned advantages, you must do no less than thirty minutes of moderate exercise over the duration of between five and seven days. In addition, to learn more about the benefits of exercising for growth, you can purchase Starting to Exercise, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School.
The pressure is reduced when you breathe through the head.
The reality is that all that is important, regardless of conscious thought or controlled breathing. The muscles that yoga creates lower the tension. Even if yoga isn’t your style, breathing exercises are useful for almost everyone else.
Rapid, shallow, and playful breathing is the normal way to respond to pushing. Normal breathing is long and slow, implying the release ofIt is possible to learn how to regulate your breathing so that you can replicate the process of removing the force. The result will be a reflection of the real world. This will allow you to ease into your relaxation.
Here’s the procedure by which breathing exercises for the lungs colossal lungs are performed:
From a general perspective, from a general perspective, you should press your stomach until your stomach is used to its fullest extent.
Breathe slowly and easily.
Repeat the entire sequence by rearranging the five steps in various ways while keeping your eyes on your breath and inhaling slowly and gradually.
Breathing is not difficult to learn. It’s possible to practise at any time and at any location. You can use massive breathing to reduce the effects of stress when it takes place. Test it at the beginning of the game, and then you’ll be able to utilise it only when you need it most. If you feel it is necessary to do it again, you can try repeating the process several times a day, even on the most challenging days.
Mental activities decrease pressure too.
Certifiable exercise is an excellent method of aiding the transfer of information via the brain’s frontal cortex. The mental exercises are useful, too. Sometimes, one chooses to tackle concerns through an uplifting group, which could involve a friend or a pastor, or even a plan of action or a psychotherapist.
It is feasible to do this without the assistance of anyone else, and by using the power of your own mind to reduce stress. The basic method of recording your snippets of knowledge and ideas could be a massive undertaking. The formal process of reflection has been helpful to many to lessen the strain and assist in forming a perspective.
Finally, you have to eliminate this stack of issues, and then you can try specific methods:
A striking depiction is a good evaluation.
The roughness is caused by the cortex of the frontal region and the body. Stress can increase the rate of your heartbeat and cause it to sound louder.However, thoughts can alter the physical symptoms of tension. Numerous studies conducted by Indian yoga instructors have proven that reflection may slow the heartbeat and also reduce blood pressure and the rate at which you breathe. Reduce the body’s consumption of blood, adrenaline, and oxygen, which may cause decay as well as alter the body’s temperature.
In spite of the fact that evaluation is an eastern absurd strategy, you do not have to be an innovator or alter your perspective in order to allow it to be effective for you. The fact is that the most effective guide to reflecting doesn’t come from the work of an Indian or a mystic, but rather a Harvard expert in the discipline that is Dr. Herbert Benson. Here’s an approach to the process that Dr. Benson has named the “loosening-up reaction.”
Pick a room that is free of obstacles and squares. A room that’s somewhat confused is best; it should be calm and tranquil. If you can, wait for 2 hours after having consumed food before making a decision and flush your bladder prior to starting.
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This unit deals with the period in which Egyptian culture underwent a number of cultural and religious transformations, between the arrival of Alexander the Great (332 B.C.) and the Arab conquest (640 A.D.). What can archaeology tell us about continuity and discontinuity in everyday life, especially when it comes to religion and popular beliefs?
Describe how Egypt functioned as a diverse multiethnic and multilingual society in this period
Explain the religious and social transformations that took place in Egypt in the wake of the arrival of Christianity and the centuries to follow, until the advent of Islam.
Identify the cultural seedbed (Pharaonic/Greek/Roman) in which Egyptian Christianity developed in Late Antiquity
Evaluate the interaction between cultural continuity and religious transformation
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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) says increasing national testing capacity for COVID-19 will enable understanding of its burden.
The Head of Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology Department, NCDC, Mrs. Elsie Ilori, made this known on Thursday in Abuja at a briefing by the Presidential Tasks Force on COVID-19.
Ilori noted that in the last 24 hours, Nigeria recorded 1,664 new confirmed cases.
“Last week, over 40,000 tests were done. This is more than 10 percent increase in the testing done the week before.
“Since the start of the outbreak, we have worked tirelessly to achieve this (increased testing) through the rapid expansion of laboratories and increased surveillance activities.
“This is enabling prompt detection of cases even at our points of entry,” she said.
She said that increase in confirmed cases remained a cause for concern.
“There is, therefore, a need for stricter adherence to none-pharmaceutical interventions such as proper use of face masks, frequent handwashing, and maintenance of physical distance of at least two meters.
“At NCDC, we continued our operations even throughout the Yuletide.
“Several colleagues spent the holiday away from their loved ones, strengthening the nation’s public health response to this pandemic,” she said.
Ilori said that the National Emergency Operations Centre had been working hard since the outbreak of the pandemic, supporting all states in their responses.
“With increasing healthcare workers’ infection across states, strategic actions have been employed in engaging and retraining focal persons in healthcare facilities to enhance Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices and prevent transmission.
“We want to remind our healthcare workers not to let their guards down but adhere to IPC measures to prevent being infected.
“In the last week, we concluded distribution of COVID-19 commodities to all states as well as primary health centers,” she said.
She added that NCDC had continued to support the National Youth Service Corps as it prepared for the orientation of the next batch of corp members.
“Following the success of the use of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) for screening in NYSC camps, there are plans to roll out RDTs to hospitals to enable testing for healthcare workers and patients in line with guidelines on the use of RDTs.
“We have intensified risk communication activities by engaging in media appearances, airing jingles, and disseminating preventive messages to the public,” she said.
Ilori said that data showed that the majority of recorded cases were people between the ages of 21 years and 50 years.
“This poses a high risk to the elderly and vulnerable among us who may suffer severe symptoms if infected.
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In my current essay I will give the analysis of the well-known movie – “The Notebook”. This film was directed by Nick Cassavetes in 2004. The plot of this cinematographic work is based on the Nicholas Sparks’ novel “The Notebook”. The starring are Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands and James Garner. The Notebook Essays for College Students | JGDB The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks and the Film directed by Nick Cassavetes Essay Sample Many successful novels have disappointed readers when they have been made into films. Likewise. novels that cipher has of all time heard of have become an highly popular movie. Essay Questions - CliffsNotes
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Roadmap for a smoother journey in the hands of Millennials
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WKRN) – Something you’ve probably witnessed while driving, speeders dangerously dodging cars. You can mumble to yourself about their actions and assume that you know what kind of person is behind the wheel.
But, before judging too harshly, a psychologist said that most of the stereotypes you assume are probably incorrect.
Dr Dennis McLeod of Vanderbilt University Medical Center further explained that the roadmap for a smoother commute may be in the hands of millennials.
âI always talk about this balance between safety and sanity. And a lot of us are really trying to figure that out, âDr McLeod said.
Millennials are the only age group that doesn’t seem ashamed in their search for that answer, he said.
People between the ages of 25 and 40 tend to integrate mental health as part of their overall well-being.
âI think they value themselves in a different way,â continued Dr. McLeod, âThey’re also not afraid to say, ‘Hey, I need a little help. “”
Help, he said to pump the brakes on the underlying issues that contribute to dangerous driving.
At first glance, aggressive driving can come across as a blatant disregard for life and maybe even an issue with anger management.
But he disagrees, “I don’t think so at all.”
Instead, Dr McLeod said, âWe all struggle with anger. The question is, how do we respond to this anger?
People are under more pressure than ever before in the face of circumstances beyond their control, which is why setting expectations more often than not accelerates anxiety.
âAs long as I hold on to that expectation, it will be a snap. It won’t be a snap,â he laughed.
Dr. McLeod wants more people to seek professional help to learn how to change their mind as easily as they change course.
âWe have to unlearn some of these bad habits,â he added.
Typically, the assault is rooted in something other than the ride. He suggested checking with yourself.
“Am I hungry today?” Am I tired because I haven’t rested? Has the job been extraordinarily difficult lately? or, you know, are the kids louder than usual? “
How we react to everyday stressors is not an inherent skill set.
News 2 explores the dangers of aggressive drivers and what the cops are doing about it in our special âAggressive Driversâ reports on air and on WKRN.com.
âI’m learning that very few of us get this information early on, right from the start. This is what anger is, this is what she feels. And that’s what you can do with it. And you have options, âsaid Dr. McLeod.
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So the whole question is how little could you live on comfortably if you had no rent or house payment (owned your home) no car payment, grew a garden? Add the idea that you could walk ride a bike or take the bus some or most of the time to work and shop. Could you save money? Be sure to count in power and insurance food you would buy as well as entertainment. Also allow for clothing hair cuts and medical. Would you be able to thrive on say $25 k or $30k per year? Oh don’t forget phone and Internet and cable TV. If you use them. Could you grow a significant amount of food in your backyard garden to take a bite (pun intended) out of your grocery bill?
My thinking is yes if the major costs in life are taken care of there is time and money for living a great and comfortable lifestyle. Living in the right community would be a key consideration in this life as it would foster it. Like minded people could share resources and help each other thrive regardless of the economy. Clothing, food, transportation and other things like tools and child care could be shared or bartered.
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There is nothing that says summer like baseball. Baseball, the summer sport of all ages, is a game that people flock to during the months of June, July and August. Sitting in the sun, eating a hot dog, drinking a beer, and watching the summer kids is a great way to spend an afternoon.
But it’s not just summer and baseball that go hand in hand; Through innings of the past, baseball and song have always gone together as well. Not only does almost every American know the words “Take me to the ball game,” but all kinds of music have been as much a part of the game as a box of cracker jack. Over the years, several songs have been written directly about baseball or about using baseball as a metaphor for life. The following is our list of the best baseball songs, the ones that belong to the top of the order.
The boys are back in town: This song may not have been written about baseball, or even baseball, but hearing that the boys are back in town makes many of us think they are back with their gloves and bat. A single by the band Thin Lizzy, this song dates back to 1976. Serving in more than one sports role, “The Boys Are Back in Town” is often played after football games in the Republic of Ireland. A song that almost everyone seems to know, made the list of Rolling rocks 500 best songs of all time.
Central field: This 1985 hit was one of the most popular songs John Fogerty released after leaving Creedence Clearwater Revival. “Centerfield” is a song purely about a man who really wants his coach to place him, because he’s ready to play. A song that pays tribute to the baseball greats of yesteryear: Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, as well as Chuck Berry and Ernest Thayer, a writer who wrote Casey at Bat, a poem about baseball, this song speaks of moments under Sun. and take a walk to the game. At more than two decades old, he still plays frequently in many major league stadiums.
The biggest: Kenny Rogers probably did not deliver this shot with the intention that it would play in arenas, cheering on the players as they took the field. Rather than being a sports song that says “we rock you,” “The Greatest” tells the story of a boy who plays baseball alone. He speaks to the little boy in every grown man, the boy who once dreamed of being a baseball star. This song is not only heartwarming and endearing, it also has one of the best endings of any song ever written.
Days of glory: Bruce Springstein’s 1985 success was one of the cornerstones of his Born in the USA album, an album that was ridiculously successful. A song that talks about an ex-athlete who is no longer at the top of his game, “Glory Days” is not intended to make us regret past moments; it is intended to remind us of them as they occur. Knowing that the “Glory Days” will pass us by makes us want to appreciate them more.
I’m here: Sports and folk music may not always sound like a dynamic duo, but in this case they are. “I’m Here” by John McCutcheon is a song he wrote for a 2001 Baseball Hall of Fame concert. Written from the point of view of a newly elected Cooperstown baseball player, “I’m Here” recognizes all that they are not. Here, the ones who never made it. Playing everything from catching to being picked last, from being a career minor league player to playing stickball on the street, the lyrics to this song are some of the best ever written. | <urn:uuid:4e64c04a-02a7-4f3c-aeaf-82ebc0f59a1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://athionns.com/best-baseball-songs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982716 | 787 | 1.664063 | 2 |
A new version of the NetSky e-mail worm has begun circulating through the Internet, antivirus software companies reported on Wednesday.
Like its predecessor NetsSky.B, which struck last week, the worm, known as Netsky.C, arrives via e-mail messages with familiar subject lines like “Question,” “Fwd: lol,” and “Re: hey.” Users launch the worm by clicking on attachments accompanying the messages.
“They’re keeping subject messages really simple, which entices users to click on the attachment,” said Steven Sundermeier, the vice-president of products and services with Medina, Ohio, security software vendor Central Command Inc. “You could see how that kind of piques users’ curiosity.”
Once launched, the worm then installs its own mail server on the user’s computer and begins sending infected e-mail using addresses it collects from the infected computer.
The worm also appears to target users of file sharing services, said Sundermeier. “If it finds any subdirectory that has the word “shar” in its name, it will drop a long list of enticing filenames in it, which are copies of itself,” he said. “That now makes it available through file sharing applications like Kazaa or instant messaging applications.”
These infected files have a variety of names, including “Adobe Photoshop 9 full.exe,” Microsoft Office 2003 Crack.exe” and “Dark Angels.pif,” Sundermeier said.
NetSky.C first appeared Tuesday night (U.S. Pacific time), said Patrick Hinojosa, the chief technology officer with Panda Software, Inc. in Glendale, Calif. By Wednesday morning, three per cent of the users of Panda’s on-line virus checking service were infected, he said. “Three per cent within one day is a pretty good clip, so this one looks like it’s spreading a little bit faster than NetSky.B,” he said.
The NetSky.C worm is very similar to its NetSky.B predecessor, but “B” uses different subject names, and searches for subdirectories with the word “sharing” instead of “shar,” Sundermeier said.
Another difference is that version C causes the user’s computer to beep when the infected file is launched. “It’s kind of a computerish type sound,” said Hinojosa. “That’s a sure sign when you get it.”
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Endure depressive mood in winter: active and cheerful in the winter
The sun hardly shines, the days get shorter and darker. For many people, winter time brings not only cloudy weather, but also a cloudy mood. In the darker months it is possible to get a "winter blues" or even a real depression. Fatigue, listlessness and depressed mood are typical depressive symptoms. Every fourth citizen in Germany suffers from these impairments in winter, feels sad and unmotivated. Consultation in the pharmacy can educate people who are prone to mood swings about treatment options or preventive measures. However, a correct depression definitely belongs in the hands of a doctor.
Winter blues or real depression?
In most cases, the symptoms of "winter blues", i.e. depressive mood, appear from the beginning of November.
Many people often feel tired and lacking drive in the colder seasons. An increased appetite for sweets, for example, is typical of a depressed mood in winter. The body uses sugar to try to get serotonin, the “happiness hormone”. At first glance, symptoms of a depressed mood resemble those of a real depression. The following symptoms are unmistakable signs that the "winter blues" has turned into a real depression: listlessness, loss of appetite, massive sleep disorders, the feeling of inner emptiness, difficulty concentrating and a depressed mood.
"In contrast to depressive mood, the symptoms appear more and more frequently with depression" explains Dr. Richard Klämbt, President of the Bremen Chamber of Pharmacists. "It is important to consult a specialist in the event of suspected depression in order to clarify the causes and treatment options."
Treatment of depressive mood
St. John's wort is used to treat depression. It is a herbal remedy that is used for both mild and moderate depression as well as depressive moods. St. John's wort increases the sensitivity of the skin to light, which is why patients should only enjoy the sun's rays in moderation and avoid the solarium. The medicinal plant is part of many finished medicinal products.
It is important to pay close attention to the dosage, as some products do not contain extracts and are therefore dosed much lower. However, a certain dosage is necessary to achieve a noticeable effect. Since self-treatment is associated with risks, it always makes sense to ask a doctor or pharmacist for advice. "Patients should also be patient and do not stop taking them too early, because the first effect only takes about two to four weeks," said President Richard Klämbt.
In mild cases of depressive mood, small changes can be made in everyday life. Daylight, for example, has a positive effect on mood. Even if it is cloudy, daylight boosts the release of serotonin. A 30-minute walk is enough. Sports activities also increase the production of happiness hormones. In addition, a healthy diet works against depressive moods and stress.
Tropical fruits such as oranges, bananas and mandarins contain many vitamins and therefore provide a lot of energy for the day. The lack of vitamin D can also be a reason for a depressed mood. For this reason, people who feel depressed should have their blood tests checked by their family doctor to check their vitamin D levels. "Anyone who feels depressed should get information about the treatment options in the pharmacy or from their family doctor," recommends Klämbt. "However, those with a real depression should definitely go to the doctor," he also emphasizes. Patience is the order of the day when depressed. Many people have already survived this disease - so hold on! | <urn:uuid:1b143a38-fe79-447c-8209-98356c2606c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ls.j2gmn.com/8834-prevent-depressive-mood-in-winter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951063 | 760 | 2.578125 | 3 |
6 March 2013
Shelling out more for your medication
You will now be paying more for your regular medication, with the Government announcing a 20p increase in the charge for prescriptions in England, bringing the cost up to £7.85.
It has previously been said that the current system is unfair and that the charges should be scrapped in England. People exempt from the charges currently are children under 16, income-related benefits claimants and pregnant women. In Wales free prescriptions were introduced in 2007, Northern Ireland in 2010 and Scotland in 2011.
The health minister Lord Howe said, “The government is investing more than £12.5bn of extra money in the NHS and we are on course to save £5bn over this financial year, all of which will be re-directed into front-line care. In England, around 90% of prescription items are dispensed free.”
The Government added that they have frozen the price of pre-payment certificates for a further year. This means those needing 14 or more prescriptions a year can have all the medication they need for about £2 per week.
Neal Patel, spokesperson for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said, “The news of the increase in prescription charges is deeply disappointing. Hitting patients in the pocket when they are already suffering from long-term health problems heaps unfairness on top of illness. We know
from speaking to patients of working age who pay for their prescriptions that that cost can be a major barrier to them getting the life-saving medicines they need. We are deeply concerned that some people have to make choices about their health based on their ability to pay.”
Joseph Clift, policy manager at the British Heart Foundation, said, “The growing financial burden of expensive prescription charges could not be ignored. People living with heart disease, or at risk of the disease, should be focusing on getting better and keeping well – not worrying about how they’re going to pay for their next vital prescription.” | <urn:uuid:ca69e8b4-9bda-4087-9ee9-7c7ac926cf53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hallmarkcarehomes.co.uk/2013/03/shelling-medication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971176 | 406 | 1.773438 | 2 |
For most Britons, "Russia" used to be Russia, but not Kazan, a beautiful and prosperous metropolis with a centuries-old history. Although it has established itself as a relatively established destination for tourists from all over the world with a population of over 2.5 million people, it has undergone an ambitious development in international tourism in recent years. The tour is accompanied by the Russian Ministry of Tourism and the Russian Ministry of Tourism (MTS).
Kazan became the capital of the Kazan khanate at the time of the collapse of the Golden Horde and regained its status as Russia's second largest city after Moscow.
The occupation of the city by the troops of Ivan the Terrible ended in 1552, but a little more than a hundred years later it was conquered by him and annexed to Russia. Kazan was founded as the capital of a new khanate under the rule of his grandson Ivan II. Ivan also annexed the Khanate of Astrakhan East, which was located further south and formed the entire Volga River (Russian) and gave Moscow a large part of its territory in the north-west of Russia and parts of Siberia.
The Russians rebuilt the Kremlin as a new fortress, and the construction of parapets and watchtowers was an important part of the reconstruction of Kazan as the capital of Russia under Ivan the Terrible. The Russian influence of this period is reflected in many of the features of this Kremlin, and there is also a world-famous branch of the St. Petersburg Hermitage in the area of Kazen and the Kremlin. In the aforementioned Kazan Kremlin, for example, there is the dome of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, which represents Russian Orthodox Christianity.
Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, located on the shores of the Black Sea in northeastern Russia. This dynamic and bustling hub is a testimony to the different eras that have shaped it over time. On the second floor there are some important buildings, such as the St. Petersburg Hermitage and the Russian Orthodox Cathedral. It is located in the city of Kazen, the second largest city in Russia, which is located in Tatarsstan.
The Kremlin remains an important compositional point in the city of Kazan, and the architectural monuments are perceived as an ensemble due to their stylistic diversity. The urban fabric of the Kazen Kremlin forms the central part of his city, where the citadel is the heart of the composition. As the oldest preserved Tatar fortress in Russia and one of the most important in Russia, it consists of historic buildings from the 16th to 19th centuries. The construction began under the Emperor Ivan the Great, and an architectural complex has been built around him until today.
The city is home to Kazan University, the second oldest Russian university founded in 1804, and the Russian Islamic University, founded in 1998.
It was founded in 1884 as a result of the Treaty of Kazan between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, under the leadership of Emperor Alexander II.
Kremlin, which means simply citadel in Russian, is a World Heritage Site and with its impressive five domes and six columns, it is the most visited tourist attraction in Russia. The Kremlin in Kazan has a decidedly Islamic character, as there is a mosque in the citadels. The majestic white walls of the Kremlin of Kazan are on the UNESCO World Heritage List and are one of the oldest preserved Tatar fortresses in the world. In 2000 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has been on the list ever since, along with the Kremlin of St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire.
Kazan is home to more than 115 nationalities, with Tatars and Russians making up a large part of the population. The population of the city consists of 50-51%, including Tatars, who speak only Russian and are the second largest city in Russia after St. Petersburg.
Tatars are a Turkish ethnic group living in Kazan, along with Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic groups. Tatars are the second largest ethnic minority in Russia after Russians and the third largest in the world, behind Turks and Russians. Since the 1990s Kazan has been branded as the third capital of Russia after Moscow and St Petersburg. It is the capital of the Russian Federation and an important economic and cultural center of the country.
Saiko3p / Getty Images Kazan is known in Russia for the quality of life of its citizens, due to the wide variety of green spaces in the city. The standard of living is also one of the highest of its kind in Russia and the world. As the third capital of Russia, there is a lot to see and do during your stay in KazaNan.
You can fly from Russia to Kazan like any Russian, or you can visit it while you are in Russia And can take a cruise on the Volga to the largest city on it, St. Petersburg. The flight time to KazaNan is 1 hour and 35 minutes, from St. Petersburg a little more than two hours. You can also get there by train, bus or plane from Moscow, Moscow or St. Petersburg, and from there you only have to get on a plane and fly. | <urn:uuid:b6d995ab-46ce-4019-9771-ef2a994c03d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hellokazan.com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970227 | 1,082 | 2.71875 | 3 |
A recent Popular Science report on the effects on wildlife of British Petroleum’s use of chemical dispersants to manage their Gulf Coast oil spill included an particularly upsetting description of “crabs that are dying from within… they are still alive, but you open them up and they smell like they’ve been dead for a week.” It’s a revolting thought. And in thinking about the history of Sega, I can’t help but wonder if you might experience the same thing by cracking open a 32X.
The mid-’90s were a tough time for gaming’s old guard. The tricks and tech that Nintendo and Sega had relied on for more than a decade were made obsolete almost overnight by the influx of hungry competitors and their super-machines capable of generating polygon-based 3D graphics. Nintendo chose to respond by rushing out a headset-based “portable” virtual reality system. Sega gave us a Genesis add-on that cost as much as the console itself.
Virtual Boy and 32X shared little in common besides an underlying sense of desperation. Both devices represented panicked stop-gap measures as their respective creators aimed to shore up their aging home consoles against increasingly impressive competition. Both did far more harm than good.
In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to name a home system or add-on that did more to undermine its creators’ good name than 32X did. The odd, mushroom-shaped device plugged into a Genesis, which already sat side-by-side with the Sega CD, taking up an entire two-socket power outlet. It provided moderate 3D capabilities—somewhat more impressive than those of Nintendo’s Super FX chip, though at considerably greater cost—better color depth, and almost no software of merit.
The 32X conveyed a confusing message to gamers. It arrived about a year before the Saturn, which was well-advertised and highly anticipated. Did Sega truly expect us to drop $250 on an upgrade to their existing console, then turn around a year later and spend another $400 in a machine that would make their previous investment moot? If 32X could churn out real 3D graphics, why even bother with a Saturn? You can even blame 32X on the death of certain Super NES games, particularly Star Fox 2: Nintendo canceled several FX2-powered 3D games to avoid detracting from the Nintendo 64’s debut. Surely Sega’s misstep with the 32X was the guiding example.
In truth, 32X was the product of a company that was rotting from within. Sega of the ’90s stood astride two corporate worlds: A resurgent America, and a fraught, post-Bubble Japan. Sega’s Japanese side had become the controlling force, but thanks to the success of the Genesis, America was where the company made its money. The 32X was the result of a fractious corporate culture that would resurface again and again throughout the (disappointingly brief) remainder of the company’s existence as a hardware maker.
If ever you could point to a single moment in the company’s history and say, “This is where it all went wrong,” 32X is that moment: Where they dropped the ball, fumbled the lead, and gouged fans with little regard for the long-term health of their customer base. Sega would do amazing things after the 32X, but they’d never again command the mindshare they enjoyed during the Genesis years. The stench of rot was unmistakeable.
Article by Jeremy Parish
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Christmas has gotten a certain vibe to it. You can definitely feel it right now. From childhood to this very moment, you’ve had something special for this last month of the year. What were the family traditions you grew up with? Share with us in the comments section.
In this post, we want to discuss two of our favorite holidays: Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although we are past Thanksgiving, we still want to talk about that beautiful period. Because Thanksgiving is something we should never stop doing.
Christmas is a period the year a lot of people look forward to. Some celebrate Christmas for the entire month of December. There will be awesome times to spend with family very soon and we are here to give you an inside tip on how to add spice to your celebration and make your party more memorable.
Originally a day for giving thanks and saying prayers for the harvest (and sumptuous food for the incoming year), Thanksgiving has evolved into a grand and popular holiday in North America. It is a day to give thanks and spend time with loved ones and share your culture, food, and appreciation with people from other cultures. How best could you color such a beautiful event? With music, of course. Share the beauty and pleasant sounds of mariachi music with your family and friends. Mariachi Alegre de Tucson has a very brilliant idea on how to add color to your party. Let us show you.
We also have one of the most popular holidays in the world. Whether you are a Christian, Catholic or not, the celebration of Christmas affects you in one way or the other. The white snow, the cold winter and Santa Claus’ ho-ho-ho laughter around the corners of streets give you that Christmas vibe you remember from your childhood. Christmas is also a time to exchange gifts and show your family and friends how much you appreciate them in your life. Here’s a tip to show appreciation differently this Christmas: Host a Christmas party and rock it with Mariachi music! Don’t worry, Mariachi Alegre de Tucson is made up of seasoned professional musicians who are more than experienced in playing 1000+ songs. Your Christmas party will not be dull.
The musical career of Mariachi Alegre de Tucson has seen over 40 Christmas and Thanksgiving celebrations. And do you know what? They are giving thanks too to the general public. There’s a big opportunity. Mariachi Alegre de Tucson Arizona is offering live music in Tucson this holiday for $225 per hour. Offer is available for holiday parties in Tucson, Arizona. Don’t pass this up and hurry now that we are not fully booked. Call (520) 981-3459 and book now. Happy holidays! | <urn:uuid:1d7e0dbe-1cb0-47e6-a6aa-b356b695b840> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mariachialegredetucsonaz.com/christmas-holiday-2017-is-here/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953519 | 561 | 1.585938 | 2 |
A masters refers to the completion of a graduate study program that prepares students to further their knowledge of a specific subject or advance their careers. The majority of masters are granted by state or public universities.
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“Land is a critical resource”. This is the headline of the IPCC Special Report, published 8 August 2019. And the pressure on land is growing. Sadly enough not an unexpected message, only one week after Earth Overshoot Day. Awareness is rising about how finite spaceship Earth’s resources are while at the same time we are experiencing the consequences.
Land as a critical resource suffers deeply from poor land management practices – especially under the impact of climate change, as the IPCC report states loud and clearly.
Radically changing design and beliefs of our current food production systems is crucial. Our current food production has been designed during the mid-20th century to fight hunger and feed the world. We are realizing that exactly the core ideas and concepts of this system are jeopardizing the world’s food supply in the future as this designed industrial system of food production accounts for 26% of the global ecological footprint.
Inherent to this system is the current belief that “producing cheap food is good”. This strong vested idea needs to be reassessed dramatically, starting in the Western world. The drive for cheap products facilitates the externalization of production costs. In other words, being price competitive by imposing costs to society at large has become the industry norm. Externalizing makes food cheap, but life is about more than low food prices.
Land is one of the three basic production factors, as identified in the classical economics of Smith and Ricardo. Apart from land prices we have forgotten to truly value this factor.
In modern times food security and natural resources are some of the main challenges as FAO, IFPRI and many studies recognize. And these resources are under threat, as the IPCC concludes. But IPCC also concludes (with high confidence) that “sustainable land management can contribute to reducing the negative impact of multiple stressors, including climate change, on ecosystems and societies”. Land is thus a critical part of the solution. Let’s also echo that message. And convert it into actions.
Land as solution strongly resonates with Soil & More Impact’s ‘raison d’etre’. Our firm combines and digitalizes Technical Assistance and Impact Assessments. This blog is in no way pretending that solutions are easy. Soil & More Impacts frequent interactions with clients burst that bubble long ago. But we do think that promising action is possible.
Our contribution to untying this Gordian knot is threefold:
1. Develop more sustainable agriculture systems
Agriculture in all aspects needs to perform better, must become less resources inefficient. A direction to change is e.g. towards regenerative agriculture. Stop overshooting, become more circular. This includes measures for soil health (build-up of soil organic matter, cover crops, conservation tillage, etc.). Sustainable agriculture will regenerate topsoils and agroecosystems, will create soils as carbon sinks. We see these ideas more and more adopted by some of our clients, and large- or medium sized companies as Danone, General Mills, and Dr. Bronner’s. Even certifications for regenerative agriculture are established as the ROC standard or have been launched recently as The Carbon Underground.
2. Internalization of external costs
This means developing a framework that all environmental (and social) costs which are currently not accounted for will become transparent. Markets fail as inputs or outputs are not properly priced. If no regulation is in place the one company with the least internalized costs wins. True Cost Accounting (TCA) helps to estimate all costs, also externalized. TCA turns upside down the crruent system of the cheapest, most polluting, wins. SMI did a study for IFOAM on how taxation of chemical fertilizers can be a policy intervention and leads to more proper priced inputs.
3. Call for YOUR action
You, consumer, citizen, website visitor, linkedin network friend: share mentioned reports, distribute this blog, scare your social circle (and comfort them hereafter), convince them to read, tell your employer, email policymakers, shout at the airport, vote, buy considered, change diet…ACT.
We are facing the paradox that the food production system was designed based on the belief that it would prevent food insecurity. It is biting its own tail. We need a new belief that collective action to transform the system is needed, again, to deliver food security. Land is a crucial resource in driving that transformation. | <urn:uuid:f3f08885-0e07-4337-988e-8bea3e787f76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.soilandmore.com/food-production-system-threatening-food-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940181 | 918 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Significant transformations have taken place in our understanding of evolution and development since the late nineteenth century, when the two seemed so closely related; at that time, the ideas of Charles Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, and other biologists played a prominent role in Freud’s creation of psychoanalysis. During the twentieth century, as biological research reached the molecular level, biological concepts of development and of evolution veered progressively further from each other and further away from psychoanalysis. Then most recently, in response to a flood of discoveries in the
last two decades, the long-separated fields of developmental and evolutionary biology have come ogether in the creation of a new field, informally referred to as “Evo–Devo.” In this paper, I trace these remarkable changes, and discuss how these recent advances have returned biological concepts to a closer alignment with psychoanalytic principles regarding the role of early experience in long-term developmental change and the importance of the role that early parent-infant interactions play in shaping our lives and those of our children. I have illustrated the changes in our thinking that have
taken place over the past half century by describing the different ways that I have thought about, puzzled over, and been enlightened by these changing concepts in the course of my psychobiological research on the roles of the mother-infant relationship in the development of a relatively simple model organism, the laboratory rat. | <urn:uuid:d2dc1afd-bb98-4834-8192-8d4cc649cb34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spiweb.it/la-ricerca/ricerca/hofer-m-a-2014-the-emerging-synthesis-of-development-and-evolution-a-new-biology-for-psychoanalysis-neuropsychoanalysis-16-1-3-22/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934919 | 298 | 2.171875 | 2 |
A non-traditional employee could mean a variety of things, but these individuals are typically the minority within the workplace and make up less than 25 percent of the workforce within a company. Most of the time, employers overlook or exclude these people from the recruitment process. This could include women, people of color, military affiliation, disabilities, and more.
Diversifying your workforce is crucial in driving inclusivity—plus, you may find employees that bring a ton of skills to the table that you would not have found elsewhere. Below you’ll find tips for where to seek out non-traditional individuals to hire.
Edit Job Requirements
The language you are using on your job requirements when you post a position could have an effect on who applies for the job. Include wording that is not intimidating in your job description and be more lenient on restrictions and requirements to pull in a larger pool of candidates. Give workers a glimpse into the workplace by describing your company and what you hope to gain from new candidates.
Promote Workplace Inclusivity
Non-traditional workers will not want to work in a hostile or non-inclusive environment. Highlight your inclusivity within the job description and your desire to diversify your staff. List the company values and morals, so people have a better understanding of what your business stands for.
Some barriers that you might have in place now are degree requirements. You may want to change this criteria because certain aspects could prevent a candidate from applying for your job. For example, the degree barrier can prevent you from hiring military veterans because they might not have had time to complete a higher education before or after becoming a service member.
Seek Out Organizations
Many of these individuals who are non-traditional employees are also a part of organizations and community groups. Reach out to these clubs to gather a potential pool of candidates for your company. Recruit these workers by speaking to students on campus or visiting programs that offer aid to non-traditional groups of people.
Don’t look in the obvious places for employees and workers; many individuals are qualified but cannot apply because of requirements, restrictions, and inclusivity issues. Not only will this open doors for non-traditional workers, but it could open doors for your company to bring in fresh ideas. Expand your candidate pool and adjust your strategy for recruiting non-traditional employees. | <urn:uuid:45721f25-bebe-4089-9ae6-e59c868a3c32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prettyprogressive.com/how-companies-can-recruit-non-traditional-employees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955162 | 484 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Sourcing goods from manufacturers is highly recommended due to their unbeatable factory-rate prices and services, among other advantages. However, it is not always a viable option due to issues like MOQ restrictions or difficulty accessing manufacturers.
On the bright side, wholesalers are often more accessible and tend to have more flexible supply terms. You may, therefore, have an easier time sourcing goods from them if you can not find a manufacturer that can accommodate your supply needs.
Not sure how to find wholesalers? Cozy up and read on. You will have all the tips you need on finding wholesalers by the end of this blog.
Let’s get right into it, shall we?
What Is a Wholesaler?
A wholesaler is a vendor that buys products from different manufacturers and sells them to retailers in bulk. They sell at friendly prices inclusive of markup to earn a profit.
In terms of product variety, different wholesalers offer different selections of goods. You may find wholesalers that:
- Sell one type of product e.g pens, fabrics, etc.
- Specialize in one niche such as cosmetics.
- Sell a wide variety of products from household goods to party supplies and more.
What Are the Functions of Wholesalers in the Supply Chain?
Wholesalers bridge the gap between manufacturers and consumers. They do so by:
Making Goods Easily Accessible
Manufacturers focus their efforts and capital on the production of goods. They thus rarely have enough resources to ensure that their products get to retailers and other consumers.
Moreover, factories are usually built on the outskirts of cities where they are closer to raw materials and have adequate space for their equipment.
Both of these circumstances can make it expensive and time-consuming for retailers to access manufacturers. So, having wholesalers spread out in more convenient locations makes it much easier for retailers to buy inventory.
Introducing Goods to Retailers
Wholesalers interact directly with manufacturers of different types of products. This enables them to learn about new products or improvements that a manufacturer may have made to a product.
Wholesalers later pass on this new information to retailers that buy goods from them. This can be done by suggesting new/trending goods or sharing updated product catalogs from manufacturers.
Providing Affordable Access to Goods
Manufacturers operate on a large scale. Subsequently, in most cases, you would have to buy goods from them in bulk to access factory-rate prices.
The challenge here is that sometimes manufacturers have high MOQs that small to medium retailers may not be able to afford.
Once again, wholesalers come to the rescue because they can buy from manufacturers in bulk and resell to retailers in smaller quantities. More importantly, wholesale prices remain affordable enough for most retailers.
Pros and Cons of Wholesalers
Like all business models, wholesalers have their benefits and downsides. Let’s explore a few of them for a balanced perspective.
- Easy access – Wholesalers make it possible for retailers to buy goods in more convenient locations. This saves retailers time and the difficulty of coordinating the transportation of goods from far-flung areas.
- Product variety – most wholesalers sell products from different manufacturers. You can thus buy different brands of goods and offer your customers a wider variety of products.
- Fair pricing – wholesale prices may not be as low as factory prices but they are affordable. Plus, it is fair for wholesalers to charge a little more than manufacturers because they incur multiple costs to make goods easily accessible to you.
- Flexible order quantities – wholesalers sell goods in bulk but their MOQs are often low. Some even have no MOQs and instead award discounts based on the quantity of goods that you buy. You are also free to buy as many products as you need.
- Perks of loyalty – wholesalers usually offer various perks to loyal long-term customers. The perks can range from free delivery to credit facilities or better discounts from one-off buyers may get.
- Limited suitability – buying goods from a wholesaler may only suit your needs while your business is making low to medium sales. It may be better to start sourcing directly from manufacturers when your sales get higher and you need to restock frequently and in bulk.
- No factory services – wholesalers buy products from manufacturers for resale. As such, they may not be an ideal supplier if you need services like custom labels or custom packaging.
Best Ways to Find Wholesale Suppliers
Finding a wholesale supplier may take a bit of time and some research. However, the good news is that there are many ways to do it and you will have plenty of options to choose from.
Here are some methods you can use to find the right wholesaler for your needs.
Use an Internet Search
Running an internet search using the right keywords can help you discover great wholesalers worth checking out. The trick is to make sure you use the right keywords so that you get relevant results.
For example, if you are looking for toys, you can use keywords such as ‘wholesale toy suppliers’. You can also switch this keyword up by adding details like a preferred location or product type to get more precise results.
So, if you want a Chinese wholesaler the keyword becomes ‘wholesale toy suppliers China‘. Alternatively, if you would like toys for a specific age, you can use a keyword like ‘wholesale infant toys supplier’.
It is important to mention that getting the names of potential wholesalers from a Google search is only the first step. You will need to go further and:
- Visit their websites or online profiles.
- Create a shortlist of suitable wholesalers based on your findings.
- Vet each wholesaler until you find the best of them all.
- You can run an internet search from anywhere in the world and discover local or international wholesalers.
- It is easy to adjust search terms to ensure that you get relevant results.
- You can not only find wholesalers on the internet but also look them up to learn more about their reputations.
- You can pair this method with other methods like in-person visits.
- Not all wholesalers listed on the internet have active websites or profiles that you can use to scrutinize them.
- It is difficult to truly ascertain the quality of goods or services that a wholesaler offers just based on what you see online.
- Internet scammers can con you by posing as genuine suppliers if you are not extremely careful.
Use Wholesaler Directories
Wholesaler directories are platforms that list different types of wholesalers. Examples include SaleHoo, Wholesale Central, Tundra, and many others.
The wholesalers are listed based on categories but you can also look up wholesalers based on the products that they sell or even based on location.
Some directories are free while others charge users a subscription fee to access their lists of suppliers. Either could benefit you but paid-access directories are often better because they curate their wholesaler listings and vet the suppliers that they list.
It is essential to understand how a wholesale directory works before you choose to use it. Pay attention to:
- The subscription fees (if any)
- The documents required for registration
- The type of wholesale suppliers listed on the platform and what regions they are from
- How long it will take before you can start connecting with suppliers on that platform
- It is easier to find wholesalers in directories because you do not have to sift through as many results as you would on an internet search.
- It is safer to find suppliers on directories that verify wholesalers before listing them; the odds of getting scammed are almost nil.
- You can find wholesalers in directories that you may not be able to find elsewhere.
- The subscription fees for some wholesale directories can be quite high thereby making such platforms inaccessible to startups.
- Using this approach may take some time because you first have to choose a wholesale directory before you can start to find a wholesale supplier.
Visit Online Marketplaces
Online marketplaces connect buyers and sellers through digital platforms. You can scroll through different products, choose what you want, and make a purchase directly or by contacting the supplier.
Alternatively, you can simply search for the products you want but set the search filter to display ‘suppliers’ that match your search term instead of product listings.
These marketplaces are divided into wholesale and retail varieties. So, in this case, it is advisable to visit wholesale online marketplaces like Alibaba, Yiwugo, or Made-in-China. It is also crucial that you:
- Pay attention to the ratings and reviews of potential suppliers before you engage them. Avoid wholesalers with poor reviews and ratings below 4 out of 5.
- Understand and follow the rules of the online marketplace. Acting against them can make it very hard to seek assistance if your wholesaler fails to deliver or delivers substandard products.
- Compare different wholesalers listed on the platform based on price, product quality, and general supply terms, before making your choice.
- Online marketplaces are freely accessible.
- Most online places have ratings and review systems that can help you evaluate wholesalers.
- Product categories and search filters make it easy to find different types of suppliers.
- Online marketplaces list thousands of suppliers and the options can be overwhelming.
- It can be difficult to differentiate wholesalers, trading companies, and factories listed on online marketplaces.
Attend Trade Fairs
Wholesalers pitch tents at local and international trade fairs to find new customers. So, attending such events may be a great opportunity to connect with different wholesalers.
Trade fairs are organized by manufacturers and wholesalers or economic organizations from different countries. China is a particularly apt example of this. It holds renowned trade fairs like the Canton Fair and the China International Furniture Fair each year.
So, whether you are looking for tech gadgets/appliances, fashion and apparel, medical, or hospitality products, all you have to do is find out when and where relevant trade fairs are being held and make plans to attend.
The main upside to this approach is that you get to interact with wholesalers directly. You can ask as many questions as you need to, request samples of their products, negotiate supply terms, and discuss delivery/shipping arrangements.
- You can verify wholesalers’ credentials on the spot and interrogate them to find out if they are a good fit for you.
- Wholesalers usually present samples at trade fairs for customers to evaluate.
- You can access and compare multiple wholesalers and thousands of goods by simply attending one trade fair.
- The cost of attending trade fairs that are far away can be prohibitive.
- Trade fairs are held at specific times of the year. It may not be practical to wait that long to find your supplier and kick off your business.
Hiring a Sourcing Company
A sourcing company is a group of professionals that understand supply chain logistics and can help you find the right wholesale supplier for your needs. The process works as follows:
- Create a brief or a product specification sheet outlining the products you are looking for.
- Find a reliable sourcing company and share your brief with them.
- The sourcing company vets different wholesalers on your behalf based on your instructions.
- The sourcing company presents to you a shortlist of top wholesalers to choose from.
- Pay the sourcing company for their services.
A sourcing company can further help you navigate the purchase process and provide after-sale services such as:
- Hiring a sourcing company allows you to delegate the tasking process of finding wholesalers to professionals.
- Sourcing companies have more staff and access to industry knowledge that enables them to do more in-depth due diligence.
- It may take a much shorter time for a professional sourcing company to find the right wholesalers than if you were to do it on your own.
- You can seek other essential services from a sourcing company beyond just finding wholesalers.
- Hiring a sourcing company comes at an extra cost.
- Vetting and choosing a sourcing company is a tasking process in itself.
Tips on Choosing the Right Wholesaler
At this point, you likely have a clear idea of what method you prefer when it comes to finding a wholesaler. So, let’s now focus our attention on how to choose the right supplier.
It is advisable to consider:
MOQ and Price
An ideal wholesaler should offer a minimum order quantity that is within your budget or sourcing needs. They should also offer progressive discounts where buying in larger quantities earns you higher discounts.
Aim for wholesalers that source products from top-rated manufacturers. Be sure to also ask them for samples especially before buying in bulk. This will enable you to ascertain the quality of the goods before spending your capital on them.
Running a business can be unpredictable. You may need to place urgent orders or orders larger than usual, from time to time.
In light of this, it is crucial to choose a wholesaler that has enough inventory or relationships with manufacturers that allow them to fulfill such orders.
A good wholesaler should be able to source and deliver your orders on time. Their services should also be properly streamlined such that you can get quick responses to queries and have your problems resolved on time.
Customers enjoy discovering new products that offer better solutions to their needs. As such, it is advisable to prioritize wholesalers that strive to keep their product listings up to date with fresh products.
FAQs about Wholesalers
Where Do Wholesalers Get Their Products?
Wholesalers mostly buy their products directly from manufacturers. It allows them to get the best prices and earn a healthy profit margin. They may even present their wholesale business registration licenses to access preferential prices from factories.
However, some manufacturers only sell their products through dedicated distributors. In such instances, a wholesaler may be forced to buy from the distributors.
What Is the Difference between a Wholesaler and a Distributor?
A wholesaler is an independent entrepreneur that buys goods from any manufacturer they like and resells them to retailers in bulk.
In contrast, a product distributor works in partnership with a particular manufacturer. They can be:
- Independent entrepreneurs that meet certain conditions set by a manufacturer to earn distribution rights.
- A subsidiary of the manufacturing company that is solely tasked with the distribution of the products made by the company.
In both cases, a distributor can only sell goods from a specific brand or manufacturer. They, nevertheless, sell at discounted prices set by the manufacturer and are thus the next best option to buying from the factory.
Can Anyone Buy from a Wholesaler?
This may vary from one wholesaler to another.
Some wholesalers have strict regulations and insist on only selling to retailers. They may even ask you to present business registration details so that they can verify that you are indeed a retailer.
On the other hand, some wholesalers are open to all customers as long as you can meet their MOQ terms.
Subsequently, it is important to find out a wholesaler’s terms and conditions as you do your due diligence.
Can a Wholesaler Sell to the Public?
It is legal for a wholesaler to sell to the public. However, most wholesalers can only make profits by selling in bulk. As such, they prefer to sell to retailers because they can buy in larger quantities.
Can You Trust Wholesale Websites?
Wholesale websites can be a very convenient way to source goods on a wholesale basis. Unfortunately, not all the wholesalers listed on wholesale websites are genuine. Alibaba, for example, is a highly regarded website but still suffers cases of scams occasionally.
Based on this, it is imperative to:
- Understand the terms and conditions of the website and the options you have for redress. Options like a fair returns policy, trade assurance, or a money-back guarantee are ideal.
- Perform extensive checks on every potential wholesaler to find out whether they honor orders and how they treat complaints from customers.
- Look up wholesalers to find out if they are legally registered businesses.
- Use secure payment methods such as escrow payments. If this is not possible and you have to make a T/T payment or pay via card, insist on paying in installments.
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May 20, 2014
Board of Trustees
St. Paul's School
Concord, NH 03301
Dear Members of the Board of Trustees,
As loyal alumni, student and parent members of the St Paul’s School community, we write to urge you to make a public commitment to the process of divesting the school’s endowment funds from fossil fuels while greenhouse gas emissions remain inadequately controlled, as well as adopting a strategy of investing in clean energy. We believe that the school’s mission, which has always defined itself in terms of its spiritual and moral values, demands this action.
SPS's founding fathers' fundamental insight was that the values we learn at SPS should and do echo in our lives. Thus, the SPS endowment’s portfolio is a statement of belief as well as the underpinning of the school’s fiscal health: it holds a mirror to the school's principles and reflects the society and future for which the school aims.
In the classroom SPS students learn that the mining and burning of fossil fuels at current rates is causing a rise in global temperature and sea levels, ocean acidification, receding glaciers and sea ice, and extreme weather, with the concomitant dangers of water shortages, mass extinctions, fires and floods and disproportionate impacts on the less fortunate. What message does it send when the school enjoys profits from investments in those same unsustainable activities? Indeed, one of SPS's most important values is stated just below the honor code on the school’s homepage: “St. Paul’s School teaches and practices the sacred duty of environmental responsibility.”
We believe that SPS's divestment process should be gradual and prudent, done so as to protect the school's core programs and commitments. Initially, divestment should target the most egregious fossil fuels and companies, such as fuels producing the most contamination per unit of energy, or companies misleading the public about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. We emphasize that we do not in any way judge those of us who are involved with the fossil fuel industry—we all participate to one degree or another in our energy economy.
We are under no illusion that divestment by SPS will solve the problem of the world's overreliance on fossil fuels. Nor do we believe reliance on fossil fuels will end very soon for most of us. But the divestment we are suggesting is an essential component of response to rapid climate change; one that we believe is required by the mission and values of SPS. Even symbolic acts can have an outsized political—and educational—impact. As of today, Stanford University and eleven other colleges and universities, dozens of foundations and churches, and many municipalities nationwide have already made the move to divest, levering their endowments and funds to make a statement about the importance of addressing climate change.
SPS also has an opportunity to help lead the way by redirecting its fossil fuel-related investments toward solutions to the environmental crises already upon us and that absent global intervention will become catastrophic for future generations. Renewable energy provides increasingly attractive investment opportunities and will over the long term dominate energy capital allocations. That is where SPS should be looking to reinvest.
SPS has a long tradition of its graduates making extraordinary contributions at some of history’s most pivotal moments. We are convinced that now is such a moment. It is time for St. Paul’s to make a statement regarding the clear and present danger of climate change and to join other academic, non-profit, governmental and religious institutions that have already committed to divestment. | <urn:uuid:65491d89-5d6e-4bf1-9450-8ebf885a52c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wick55.wixsite.com/divest-sps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948472 | 743 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Along with old-fashioned paper balloting, modern tech helping to make it far easier for voters to be heard at the ballot box
Historically, mid-term elections are a poor reflection on the world’s most powerful democracy. Turnout is typically tepid compared to a presidential election year. In fact, the 2014 midterms went down as one of the worst since WWII: Only 37% of eligible voters bothered to cast their ballots.
But this year’s midterms may break with precedent. Spurred on by the confluence of headline events – reports of past Russian interference, charges of potential campaign collusion, a contested Supreme Court confirmation – a far greater number of Americans are expected to cast their ballots on Nov. 6.
If you’re going to be one of them, the good news is that states are offering more options than ever for you to register and vote.
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Mans Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy Audiobooks Summary
Man’s Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl’s struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Through every waking moment of his ordeal, Frankl’s training as a psychiatrist lent him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. As a result of these experiences, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man’s primary motivational force is his search for meaning. Frankl’s assertion that “the will to meaning” is the basic motivation for human life has forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering.
Frankl’s riveting memoir was named one of the Ten Most Influential Books in America after a 1991 survey by the Library of Congress and Book of the Month Club. This revised and updated version includes a new postscript: “The Case for a Tragic Optimism”.
Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy Audio books Reviews
If you’re in pain, read this book. If you’re scared, read this book. If you are lost, read this book. If you are happy, read this book. If you have time, read this book. If you don’t have time, read this book. Read this book, read this book.
“We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
I read this book for the first time during my senior year in high school. The year prior, I had gone to Germany for spring break with some fellow classmates. During the trip, we spent a day visiting a former WWII concentration camp in Dachau. As one might expect, this visit had a profound effect on me. I had of course read and knew about the atrocities that occurred under the Nazi regime, but to actually see a camp in person is a deeply haunting and disturbing experience. Perhaps for this reason, Frankl’s book affected me even more deeply than it otherwise might have.
The book is divided into two parts. The first section recounts in vivid detail Frankl’s horrifying experiences as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Frankl, a former psychiatrist, also describes his observations of other prisoners and what he felt to be the main way in which people tried to cope with the insurmountable obstacles they faced. He found that those who could find meaning or purpose in their suffering were the ones who also seemed better able to find the strength to go on. As I recall, Frankl personally found his purpose in the hope of someday being able to see his wife again – a hope that was strong enough to get him through the daily horrors he faced.
The second half of this book is devoted to the therapy he developed based on the search for meaning, which he calls logotherapy. The basic premise is that those who can find meaning in their suffering are better able to cope with what would otherwise be a struggle too hard to bear. As one who majored in psychology, I found this section as fascinating as the first.
I have read this book at least three times now, and it is one of the few books I can say truly changed my life. I am ever grateful that I have the wisdom of this book to fall back upon when needed.
Several years ago, at a very young age (in my 20s), I became ill with a disease that left me bedridden and barely able to speak above a whisper. Now 36, I am still bedridden and fighting the same battle. It is Frankl’s reminder to find meaning and purpose in suffering (which I found in the love of my fiancé and my hope of recovery) that has helped me to get through each difficult day. As Frankl tells us, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
I highly recommend this book!!
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Man’s Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. According to Frankl, the way a prisoner imagined the future affected his longevity. The book intends to answer the question “How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?” Part One constitutes Frankl’s analysis of his experiences in the concentration camps, while Part Two introduces his ideas of meaning and his theory called logotherapy.
According to a survey conducted by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Library of Congress, Man’s Search for Meaning belongs to a list of “the ten most influential books in the United States.” At the time of the author’s death in 1997, the book had sold over 10 million copies and had been translated into 24 languages.
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From: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Join Parrish Collection artist and fine art photographer Jeremy Dennis, member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, for an evening-length program featuring a short documentary and conversation about an artist residency he founded and a postcard workshop to draw attention to the sacred land of the Shinnecock Hills.
In the documentary, Mas House, presented as part of the ALL ARTS ongoing initiative The First Twenty, Dennis discusses the building of Mas House & BIPOC Art Studio, an artist retreat and communal art space on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton. With the studio, Dennis aims to provide a safe space for free creativity and healing for BIPOC artists. The film explores the challenges he and his family met while renovating his grandmothers house and how he hopes the space will serve the community now and in the future.
During the second part of the evening, visitors are invited to participate in a workshop with the artist designing postcards advocating for a building moratorium in Shinnecock Hills. Dennis will share a brief background about Shinnecock Hills and its significance to the Shinnecock Nation, answer any questions, and show how to create postcards. Materials will be provided.
Friday, January 14 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Parrish Art Museum
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You have probably long known that getting a good night’s sleep is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. However, as you have gotten older and the responsibilities of family and job have taken your attention, you may have discounted just how important sleep is.
Americans value hard work, which for many translates into long hours at work or bringing work home. For some, with technology at our finger tips, there is no clear boundary between work and home! Sleep, while not under-rated is under prioritized by many; some see it as a luxury afforded to few. Some wear “burning the candle at both ends” like a badge of honor.
Consequences of Poor Sleep
If sleep is an issue for you, the consequences are frightening. Sleep deprivation effects range from poor concentration and memory to mood disorders like anxiety and depression; from inability to lose weight to high blood pressure and diabetes; from speeding up the aging process to early death! The bottom line is you may not be able to get the textbook 7-9 hours a night recommended to most adults, but making the sleep you get as restorative as possible will positively impact your quality of life today and the manifestation of your dreams for your future.
Understanding Your Symptoms
The first step to getting your sleep cycles back in gear is understanding what affects sleep in the first place. As they say “knowing is half the battle.” Make an appointment with your provider today if you suffer from sleep deprivation. You will discover what exactly is impacting your sleep and together you will come up with a plan to get your sleep back.
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On Trees: A Conversation With Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy
January 11 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and Orion Magazine present a second event in a series to celebrate Orion’s new anthology, Old Growth. “On Trees” will feature a conversation between Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy, three authors whose work embodies the language of trees. Wohlleben’s Hidden Life of Trees illuminates the discreet social network of forests; Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest finds history in the canopy; and Roy’s How I Became a Tree finds the shadows of branches throughout literature and philosophy. Together, they will discuss cultural constructs of forests and how disconnected those are from the growing reality of monoculture. Moderating the event is Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-author of Journey of the Universe and co-founder of Yale’s Forum on Religion and Ecology. | <urn:uuid:9b73cbf7-3968-4c2f-bed3-b56c180c3509> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.orionmagazine.org/event/on-trees-a-conversation-with-peter-wohlleben-jessica-j-lee-and-sumana-roy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.888732 | 224 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Fancy enjoying a wilderness wildlife experience 500 metres from your 5-star accommodation? Want to see marine mammals up close whilst standing on dry land sipping a coffee? Then Mount Maunganui is the winter destination for you!
Okay, maybe not quite wilderness, but the Bay of Plenty’s renowned summer party town is fast becoming a winter wildlife hotspot due to the recovery of fur seal populations in the area.
Visiting fur seals are expected to make a major ‘splash’ in coastal communities along the Bay of Plenty this winter, including in New Zealand’s fifth largest city, Tauranga, and further up the coast in Whakatane. Together with resident little blue penguins, New Zealand fur seals should be coming ashore to rest, having travelled from as far south as Dunedin.
Last year we witnessed spectacular shenanigans like this seal caught climbing onto paddle boats; an early morning visit to the Tauranga waterfront; neighbourly seals tapping on suburban patio windows; and of course the seal that went global after curling up on someone’s couch for the night.
Seals don’t always get good press; and it’s true that they smell, bite and carry diseases—so it’s important to keep your distance.
Some communities are also worried that seals will compete with us for seafood, although evidence suggests they feed mainly on anchovy and lantern fish, which aren’t so popular with humans.
On the plus side, seals are a sign of a healthy environment. Historically, they lived all around New Zealand, so it stands to reason that if we continue to look after our place they will return to more of our holiday spots in the future. Next stop, Takapuna Beach?
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INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LOWER MANHATTAN 2015
On the East River, waiting for the fireworks to begin.
Fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Sunset on July 4.
Hermione on the Hudson River, passing the Statue of Liberty.
Fireworks on the East River.
El Galeón, a replica of a 16th-century ship at the South Street Seaport, celebrates Ponce de Léon's arrival in Florida 500 years ago.
Hermione on the Hudson River, with a flotilla of smaller boats and fireboats.
Hermione docked at Pier 15 in the South Street Seaport.
This year, Independence Day celebrations in Lower Manhattan went on for days, starting on July 1 when Hermione, a replica of the frigate that transported the Marquis de Lafayette to the U.S. colonies in April 1780, docked at Pier 15 in the South Street Seaport. Lafayette, a well-connected and wealthy French aristocrat, brought much-needed French aid to the Colonial cause and served Gen. George Washington on the battlefield as well.
For its first day in town, Hermione was closed for private parties. Then it was open for tours, and on July 4, moved in stately fashion up the Hudson River accompanied by a flotilla of smaller boats and two fireboats.
The Marquis de Lafayette and Gen. Washington became devoted friends. Lafayette supported Washington during some of the most difficult years of the American Revolution, when disgruntled colleagues wanted to relieve Washington of his command. In the war's final battles at Yorktown in September and October 1781, a French fleet blockaded the harbor while Lafayette, in command of 400 men took Redoubt 9 after forces under Alexander Hamilton took Redoubt 10 in hand-to-hand combat. The British general Cornwallis surrendered on Oct. 19, 1781.
Hermione was joined at Pier 15 by El Galeón, a 170-foot wooden replica of a 16th-century sailing ship that was part of Spain's West Indies fleet. El Galeón is in the United States to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Léon's landing on the east coast of what is now Florida. El Galeón has been (and will be) hosting "Shipwrecked at the Seaport" parties that include an open bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, a DJ and dancing. The ship is also open for tours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with part of the proceeds going to benefit the South Street Seaport Museum and the New York Harbor School. El Galeón will be at the South Street Seaport through July 11.
On July 4, there were fireworks on the East River with dozens of boats gathered to watch. The deadly bullets of the American Revolution had been transmuted into a kaleidoscope of sparks that looked like fountains of light and bouquets of flowers.
— Terese Loeb Kreuzer
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Flight Lieutenant Harry Thomas James Anderson
Harry Anderson joined the Royal Air Force on a short-service commission in 1936, he went on to train at No.10 Flying Training School RAF Ternhill between September 1936 and April 1937.
On completion, as an Acting Pilot Officer, he was posted to No.23 Squadron at RAF Northolt on 25 April. However, it would appear he did not join the squadron as he returned to Canada via New York after departing Southampton on 21 April 1937. He was joined on his passage by Pilot Officer Alan E Thompson, both gave 10 FTS as their last UK address. He resigned his commission on 1 March 1938. With rising tensions in Europe, Pilot officer Anderson was recalled to the colours, he arrived back at Southampton on board the Aquitania on 5 September 1939.
No.253 (Hyderabad) Squadron reformed at Manston on 30 October 1939, planned as a convoy protection unit using Blenheims. However, by December, the squadron started receiving the Fairey Battle with fifteen on strength at the turn of the year.
Pilot Officer Harry Anderson was one of the original thirteen officers of the reformed unit, being almost immediately promoted to Acting Flying Officer. During the first half of January 1940, the squadron carried out “un-official co-operation in fighter tactics” with 79 Squadron. On the 15th, the squadron heard it was being recommended as a Hurricane unit, by the end of the month No.253 had one Hurricane to complement their fifteen Battles. Harry Anderson was obviously making a good impression with his seniors as he was promoted to Flight Lieutenant on 12 February, the promotion back-dated to 2 November 1939.
The squadron moved to RAF Northolt between 14 and 18 February and continued their re-equipment. The remaining Battles were used in interception exercises, this practise continued throughout March even as the squadron came up to a full establishment of Hurricanes. Training in their new mounts continued and on 27 April,No.253 became day and night operational; their Hurricanes were further improved by the fitting of variable pitch propellers and reflector gun-sights.
The beginning of May saw the squadron move to RAF Kenley, just before the German invasion of the west. As a result, on 16 May, aircraft and personnel from “B” Flight were detached to France to operate there. The remaining “A” Flight was then joined with a flight from No.111 Squadron to form a composite squadron. Their role was to fly to Poix each morning, operate from there during the day and return to Kenley at dusk. The same day Flight Lieutenant Anderson was launched, with his flight, to intercept a formation of eighteen German aircraft but no contact was made.
The following day, 18 May, Anderson’s flight was launched to intercept a formation of twenty German aircraft a mix of Do215s and Me.110s. In the ensuing combat, the pilots received credit for the confirmed downing of three Do.215s, unconfirmed claims for two Do.215s and a Me.110. Anderson was one of the pilots with an unconfirmed claim. Later that afternoon the other flight lost four aircraft and one pilot in an engagement with enemy aircraft. The next day, Anderson again took off with his flight – they were directed to attack Me.109s that had shot down a Lysander. As a result of the combat, one confirmed and one unconfirmed claim were made, however Flight Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Mackenzie were both shot down and killed.
Harry Thomas James Anderson had arrived in Britain as a young boy with his family in May 1920. He had been born on 19 September 1911 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; the son of Harry and Kate (nee Dales) Anderson. He was the youngest of three children, the eldest his sister Dorothy and brother Gregory. He had married Genevra L. Whitaker in October 1939, just before joining his squadron. After his death, Genevra left for Canada the following month on the “Duchess of Bedford” from Liverpool. Her home prior to departure had been Homefield House, Old Coulsdon.
Flight Lieutenant Harry Thomas James Anderson is buried in Lille Southern Cemetery, Plot 5, Row A, Grave 13.
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FOLLOWING UP ON ITS WORK IN PRIOR YEARS, the Massachusetts Department of Health Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management is again sponsoring a statewide campaign to “. . . encourage Massachusetts residents, families and communities to make plans and prepare for public health and medical emergencies, threats and disasters.
This year’s campaign will include TV spots with themes like:
♦ Build an emergency kit
♦ Create a family communication plan
♦ Plan for your medical needs
♦ Safe and well
♦ Include your pets in planning
As part of the 2016 program, the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management will be publishing a preparedness checklist and distributing the following materials:
♦ “Know Plan Prepare” brochures (both English and Spanish); and,
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Published by MBA Skool Team, Last Updated: September 10, 2015
What is Freudian Motivation Theory?
Sigmund Freud’s motivation theory explains how a consumer’s decisions to buy a product or not depends on their unconscious desires and motivators. Observing how the various aspects of a product can trigger emotional response from a consumer can help a marketer identify ways to lead a consumer towards making a purchase decision.
Freud believed that human psyche can be broadly divided into conscious and unconscious mind.
The Ego represents the conscious mind and is composed of perceptions, thoughts, memories and feelings. It gives a sense of identity and continuity to a personality.
The unconscious mind is the Id which includes all the instincts and psychic energies that existed since birth and it is biologically determined. Sometimes customer’s behaviours are driven by unconscious motives and they have difficulty in explaining why exactly have they bought a particular product. So market researchers can make use of certain techniques like the depth interview to understand the unconscious motives behind a purchase decision.
Superego represents the traditional ideas and morals of a society. It acts as a conscience and tries to curb the impulses that arise out of the Id. Also superego forces the ego to do things that are according to the morals of the society. People do not act on every impulse since there is a conscience that supresses certain thoughts. Market researchers can use models such as quick choice model to identify why an impulse to buy does not lead into action.
Hence, this concludes the definition of Freudian Motivation Theory along with its overview.
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Daily LIFT #349
Salvador Allende addresses the United Nations, December 1972 -- Daily LIFT #349
"The battle in defence of natural resources is but a part of the battle being waged by the countries of the Third World against underdevelopment. There is a very clear dialectical relationship: imperialism exists because underdevelopment exists; underdevelopment exists because imperialism exists...
This is the drama of underdevelopment and of the countries which have not stood up for their rights, which have not demanded respect for their rights and defended, through a vigorous collective action, the price of their raw materials and basic products and have not confronted the threats and aggressions by neo-imperialism.
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Believe it or not, this is probably the most stressful challenge on this list. New entrepreneurs are forced to make hundreds of decisions a day, from big, company-impacting decisions, to tiny, hour-affecting ones. Decision fatigue is a real phenomenon, and most new entrepreneurs will experience it if they aren’t prepared for the new level of stress. If you can work your way past these major obstacles, you’ll be well on your way to establishing yourself as an entrepreneur. That isn’t to say they won’t continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won’t arise to take their place, but you’ll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.
Remember that every decision you make will establish a precedent for future similar choices. In its infancy, this is the start of your employee’s policies and procedures that you will create as a series of decisions are made. Don’t be afraid to make a poor decision, we all do it, and your future employees will do it. Always do what is right, and analyze all the available information so that you can make an educated decision. Do your best, expect mistakes from others, and be the Me In TEAM decision maker that will lead you to success and prosperity! | <urn:uuid:6964a69f-ebd8-4568-85f3-79993a584df4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://me-inteam.com/2018/05/business-fear-decision-making/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938098 | 291 | 1.75 | 2 |
Shades Of Burgundy. A natural brunette is a. This color on rihanna is burgundy in its truest form—bright, bold, and equal parts red and violet.
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Here Are The Different Color Shades Of Burgundy.
Red burgundy hair color is usually achieved by mixing the two colors in different proportions, such as using more of the lighter tone for highlights or adding some black dye to give it a darker shade. You can go for burgundy base automotive paint colors with more red, brown, or purple shades. In the rgb color model burgundy color is composed of 50.2% red, 0% green and 12.5% blue.
Owners Of Burgundy Cars Value Uniqueness And Individuality.
A red burgundy hair color is a rich and dark red mixed with brownish burgundy tones. This hair colour has no significant consequences. The dark red shade is making waves in the beauty world, with 221,000 posts and counting on instagram.
Palette Shades Of Burgundy Color #800020 Hex Has 10 Hex, Rgb Codes Colors:
While the color burgundy can be a tricky hair color, remember that cool burgundy dyes will have lots of purple/red and will accentuate rosy, olive and beautiful dark skin. This take on the shade somehow feels soft and bold at the same time—and is so pretty. There are 463 shades of burgundy red for sale on etsy, and they cost $24.67 on average.
Burgundy Is A Shade Of Red, Which Means That Green Is The Opposite Color On The Color Wheel.
This color on rihanna is burgundy in its truest form—bright, bold, and equal parts red and violet. Lavender and burgundy are like best buddies in the coloring world. To add a little glam to your burgundy living room, hang a gold framed mirror above the sofa.
The Most Common Shades Of Burgundy Red Material Is Metal.
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Platelets are blood particles produced in the bone marrow that play an important role in the process of forming blood clots. Thrombocytosis (throm-boe-sie-TOE-sis) is a disorder in which your body produces too many platelets.
It's called reactive thrombocytosis or secondary thrombocytosis when the cause is an underlying condition, such as an infection.
Less commonly, when thrombocytosis has no apparent underlying condition as a cause, the disorder is called primary thrombocythemia or essential thrombocythemia. This is a blood and bone marrow disease.
Your doctor might detect thrombocytosis in a routine blood test result that shows a high platelet level. If your blood test indicates thrombocytosis, it's important to determine whether it's reactive thrombocytosis or essential thrombocythemia to know how to manage the condition.
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People with thrombocytosis often don't have signs or symptoms. Signs and symptoms of reactive thrombocytosis, if they do occur, relate to the underlying condition.
People with essential thrombocythemia might have signs and symptoms related to blood clots and bleeding, including:
- Dizziness or lightheadedness
- Chest pain
- Numbness or tingling of the hands and feet
When to see a doctor
Because thrombocytosis isn't likely to cause symptoms, you probably won't know you have it unless a routine blood test reveals a higher than normal number of platelets. If that occurs, your doctor will try to determine the reason.
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Bone marrow — spongy tissue inside your bones — contains stem cells that can become red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets. Platelets stick together, helping blood to form a clot that stops bleeding when you damage a blood vessel, such as when you cut yourself. Thrombocytosis occurs when your body produces too many platelets.
This is the more common type of thrombocytosis. It’s caused by an underlying medical problem, such as:
- Acute bleeding and blood loss
- Iron deficiency
- Removal of your spleen
- Hemolytic anemia — a type of anemia in which your body destroys red blood cells faster than it produces them, often due to certain blood diseases or autoimmune disorders
- Inflammatory disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis or inflammatory bowel disease
- Surgery or other type of trauma
The cause of this disorder is unclear but it often appears to be connected to mutations in a variety of genes. Your bone marrow produces too many of the cells that form platelets and these platelets are often abnormal. This poses a much higher risk of clotting or bleeding complications than does reactive thrombocytosis.
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The Book of Radiance: Tales from the Zohar
By R’ Yaakov Feldman
Sometimes it gets the better of you and you just need to know — to know what’s on the other side of the chasm that is the Afterlife, what the dead do day after day, what they know, and just what they have that we don’t.
Needless to say, few of us have the wherewithal to even ask the questions let alone expect answers, but some do. And while they may not see quite everything — or, if they do, they may not have a chance to report it back to the rest of us — nonetheless the Zohar offers the findings of one exalted soul who did cross over to the other side, the great R’ Chiyya (Zohar 1, 4a-b). And while his experience there was a unique one that doesn’t answer all of our questions, it does offer us a broader, rare view of Heaven.
Now, a number of people have ascended to Heaven in their lifetimes. We’re taught, in fact, that “nine entered the Garden of Eden when they were still alive, and they are: Enoch the son of Jared; Eliyahu the prophet (see below); Eliezer, Abraham’s servant; King Hiram of Zor; Ebed-melech the Cushite (see Jeremiah 38:7); Yabetz the son of R’ Yehudah HaNasi; Batyah the daughter of Pharaoh; Serech the daughter of Asher; and, according to others, also R’ Yehoshua ben Levi” (Derech Eretz Zuta, Ch. 1). But they never came back.
In fact, we’re told outright that the prophet Eliyahu ascended to Heaven by means of a whirlwind (2 Kings 2:11) and that he wrote a letter about his experiences there which he had presented to King Jehoram (see 2 Chronicles 21). But we aren’t given any of the details of his sojourn there.
There are others who’d seen Heaven in their lifetimes whose experiences were depicted to a degree. Yitzchak, our forefather, ascended to Heaven when he was bound to the altar and about to be slaughtered by his father, Avraham. We’re told that the angels accompanied him while he was in Heaven to the Yeshiva of Shem and Eber there where his father had studied, and that he stayed there for three days to study. He was then granted visions of the primordial Holy Temple that existed before the creation of the world, of his own descent from Adam as well as insights into Adam’s future descendents up to the End of Days (see Breishit Rabbah 56, Targum Yonatan to Genesis 22:19, and Pirkei d’Rebbe Eliezer 31).
Moshe ascended to Heaven also, we’re told, after having he’d reached the top of Mount Sinai to receive the Torah. He arrived at the River Rigyon with its terrible flames then, where angels of destruction set out to burn him to a crisp but were stopped by a Divine fiat. Moshe continued to advance further and further upward where other angels caught sight of him and complained about the mere mortal who had the nerve to be in their midst. But G-d interceded on His behalf again, and Moshe caught sight of Him in His Throne of Glory. Suddenly all the Hosts of Heaven shook in G-d’s presence because it was time for him to finally receive the Torah. G-d opened the seven firmaments and showed Moshe the Heavenly Sanctuary; then He opened the gates of the seven firmaments and transmitted His Torah to him, and Moshe then returned to earth (see Pesikta Rabbati 204, Shabbat 88b-89a, and Ma’ayan HaChochma).
And the Talmud records that R’ Yoseph, the son of R’ Yehoshua Ben Levi, had what we’d now term a “near-death experience” at a certain point, before quickly coming back to life. His father asked him what He’d seen there, on the other side, and R’ Yoseph said he saw “a topsy-turvy world, where those on top (while here, in this world) were on the bottom (while there, in Heaven) and vice versa” (Pesachim 50a). This speaks volumes about what matters and what doesn’t, what we’re to concentrate upon here in life, and what we’d do well to realize we shouldn’t be engaged in, but now isn’t the time to delve into all that.
But only the Zohar presents us with a full report on what one individual saw when he ascended Heavenward, on why he was catapulted back to earth, and on some of what he saw while he was there. Here’s what it says.
At a certain time R’ Chiyya, who played a major role throughout the Zohar and was R’ Shimon Bar Yochai’s youngest disciple, prostrated himself on the earth, kissed the dust and cried out, “Dust, dust how stiff-necked you are!” For he’d asked to draw close to his Master, R’ Shimon, who was already dead and buried, and he’d been denied that. So there seemed to be nothing else to do but appeal to the soil in which R’ Shimon lay buried.
R’ Chiyya went on reprimanding the soil for having dared to enclose R’ Shimon’s bones when he “suddenly fell into a reverie and said, ‘Dust, dust, don’t be so proud! … R’ Shimon will not be consumed by you!’” We’re then told that he “fasted for forty days in order to actually cross over into the world of the dead and meet with R’ Shimon”. But a voice appeared from the other side and declared that R’ Chiyya wasn’t fit to see him. “So he wept and fasted for another forty days”, the Zohar reports.
Know that sometimes the angels themselves can be moved, as they’re able to read the heart that implores them to do this or that, and they’re often fascinated by the depths and width of such hearts, since they know nothing of that themselves, so they accede now and again.
And so the Zohar goes on to say that the angels “showed him R’ Shimon and R’ Eleazar, his son, in a vision”. What were these two tzaddikim doing in Heaven? “They were discussing the interpretation of a certain term that R’ Yossi had used”, and we’re told that many thousands of souls were listening along.
There were a lot of other things going on there, as R’ Chiyya, reports: R’ Shimon and R’ Eleazar ascended up to the heavenly Yeshiva. R’ Shimon suddenly called out the following: “Let R’ Chiyya enter and see the degree to which the Holy One will restore the countenances of the tzaddikim in the world to come!” And suddenly the doors to Heaven were opened to him.
“How fortunate is one who comes here without shame” (which is to say, without sin), a voice called, “and how fortunate is he who stands upright in this world like a mighty pillar that bears all!”
So R’ Chiyya did indeed enter, and he discovered that all the tzaddikim there stood up for him, which embarrassed him deeply; so he went to sit at the feet of R’ Shimon, when a voice arose in the distance.
“Lower your eyes,” it commanded, “do not raise up your head, and do not look!” So R’ Chiyya followed orders when he suddenly “saw a light shining from afar” which mystified him. That same voice then came back, we’re told, and addressed R’ Chiyya (and us here on earth too, to be sure).
“Wake up!” it stormed. “For who among you has transformed darkness into light” as the mighty ones in the Garden Eden have done? “Who, among you has eagerly awaited the shining of the Light that will come about when the King calls upon the Gazelle (i.e., the Shechina)?” Anyone “who doesn’t eagerly await that each and every day in that world (i.e., while he’s yet alive) hasn’t a place here” in The Garden of Eden.
The Zohar then returns to what R’ Chiyya was seeing for himself there. “He saw many of his friends … elevated to the Heavenly Yeshiva” when he was then approached by the Archangel Metatron.
Among other things, the Archangel attested to the fact that “The King does indeed attend to the Gazelle (i.e., the Shechina) every day and recalls how She lies in the dust of the earth” while the exile still functions. “He kicks 390 heavens” in His frustration, if you will, “which then quake and tremble with fear because of Him. And He cries” because of our continued Exile.
His “tears, which are as hot as fire, cascade down into the Great Sea. And it’s in fact by the power of these tears that the one who governs the sea (i.e., the angelic Rahav), is sustained and kept alive. And he takes it upon himself to sanctify G-d’s name by swallowing all the waters of … creation. He then gathers them all to himself so that on the day when the nations of the world will assemble against the Holy Nation the waters would dry up as they cross over on dry land”.
Suddenly R’ Chiyya heard a voice call out: “Move aside, make room. The Moshiach is coming to the Yeshiva of R’ Shimon!” and he arrived there indeed, “crowned with heavenly diadems”. And then to the great chagrin of R’ Chiyya the Moshiach called out, “Who allowed a human being wearing the cloaks of that world in here?”
R’ Shimon revealed to the Moshiach that not just any human being was there, but that it was R’ Chiyya , whom he referred to as “the Shining Light of the Torah”. The Moshiach responded: very well “Let him and his sons be gathered up!” That is, let them die in fact, “and join your Academy!”
But R’ Shimon said to the Moshiach, “Give him some time!” to remain alive; he’ll get here after a while indeed. And so we’re told that “time was granted him” in fact. And R’ Chiyya came back.
© 2012 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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SAN SALVADOR, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Central American nations are eagerly ready to see if El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as parallel authorized tender cuts the associated fee of remittances, an necessary supply of revenue for tens of millions of individuals, the area’s growth bank stated.
President Nayib Bukele’s congressional allies have already permitted laws giving the cryptocurrency official forex standing alongside the U.S. greenback, a primary on the planet. The transfer takes impact in September.
Bukele has touted bitcoin adoption as a approach to facilitate remittance funds from Salvadorans dwelling overseas.
“Everyone is watching if it goes effectively for El Salvador and if, for instance, the associated fee of remittances drops considerably … different nations will in all probability search that benefit and undertake it,” Dante Mossi, the chief president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), advised Reuters.
Mossi known as the plan an “out of this world experiment” geared at rising monetary inclusion in a area the place many individuals lack entry to bank accounts or bank cards, and depend on cash despatched residence from relations dwelling within the United States.
CABEI, the regional growth bank, is giving El Salvador technical help on implementing the cryptocurrency, an necessary present of help because the World Bank declined to assist, citing environmental and transparency drawbacks. learn extra
Mossi stated the Central American nations that obtain essentially the most remittances are these probably to favor utilizing bitcoin and underscored that CABEI had a “fiduciary obligation” to help El Salvador in its request for assist.
“Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are the nations that may have essentially the most to achieve if the adoption of bitcoin lowered the associated fee of sending remittances,” stated Mossi.
CABEI participated in a latest assembly of the Central American Monetary Council, half of the Central American Integration System (SICA), the place members requested about El Salvador’s bitcoin plans and confirmed curiosity, he added.
The Central Bank of Honduras referred Reuters to a June 11 assertion which stated the bank doesn’t prohibit, supervise or assure the use of cryptocurrencies as strategies of cost within the nation.
The governments of Guatemala and Honduras didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Under 1% of the quantity of world crossborder remittances are presently in crypto, in accordance to Autonomous Research, however sooner or later crypto is anticipated to account for a bigger slice of the greater than $500 billion in for annual world remittances. learn extra
Bitcoin affords, in idea, a fast and low-cost approach to ship cash throughout borders with out counting on conventional channels.
CABEI’s head of investments Carlos Sanchez stated the bank’s technical help is targeted on serving to El Salvador design a authorized framework for the adoption of bitcoin and to be certain that strict worldwide cash laundering protocols are adhered to.
The help is supposed to assist El Salvador “navigate waters which have but to be explored,” stated Sanchez.
Reporting by Nelson Renteria and Anthony Esposito; Additional reporting by Orfa Mejia in Tegucigalpa; Editing by Sandra Maler
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Many of us think we’re doing well by our bodies by working out regularly. However, many of us are not exercising properly and in some cases are doing more harm than good. In other cases, our behaviour after our workouts is compromising all the hard work we just put in. Here are a few ways we may be sabotaging our exercise routine.
1. Too Many Exercises
The quest for that perfect body leaves many of us packing our workout with a variety of exercises designed to impact ever single muscle. In actual fact, most lifters would make more progress just by focusing on the basics than doing every chest exercise imaginable. Focus on 4-5 basic techniques.
2. Excessive Cardio
Performing cardio is absolutely essential if you want that perfect physique—but it’s easy to get carried away. Cardio burns calories, but calories build muscle, so adding size will be difficult if your body is fighting a constant calorie deficit. Additionally, going overboard on any type of training can interfere with your recovery and spike the stress hormone cortisol, which can interfere with muscle growth and fat burning.
3. Your Workout Is Too Easy
Some people go to the gym believing that they are automatically healthier just by stepping foot in the gym. You may be working out, but your body may not be doing much to actually get yourself in shape. If you’re not feeling the burn at the end of your 30-minute jog, you might want to consider stepping it up to a run.
4. You’re on Your Phone
This is becoming one of the most common mistakes people make while working out. Your selfie can wait. When your phone is a distraction, this cuts back on time you could be working out. Put your phone on airplane mode so you can still move to your playlist and not be distracted by your friends’ latest Snapchats.
5. You Have a Poor Diet
You can’t have a ripped body without eating well. In addition to exercising, diet is a key part of living a healthy lifestyle. Working out regularly while living on a fast food diet will not only leave you feeling unwell, but it will also compromise the full potential of your workout.
6. You’re Skipping Workouts
Exercise is only effective if you’re doing it regularly. Consistency is key. If your workouts are few and far between, your body is going to reflect that. Skipping workouts is one of the most likely ways for you to fall off your exercise plan. It’s so easy for one missed workout to turn into two, then three, then four.
7. You’re Trying to Copy Other People
If you’re working out with someone who is faster and stronger than you, it’s easy to compare yourself. Just because a workout is right for your friend, it doesn’t mean that it is the perfect fit for you. Try to focus on your personal exercise goals and perform exercises that will help you get there.
8. You Ignore Your Recovery
Recovery should be a crucial part of everyone’s training session and overlooking this is one of the biggest ways you’re sabotaging your workout. Our muscles need to have proper time to rest and repair. Taking 10 minutes after your training session to stretch will loosen up any stiffness and time to prevent injuries from occurring.
9. Poor Playlist
While this may seem trivial, having the right workout music can make the difference between an effective workout and a useless one. Listening to the right music can change your motivation level and encourage you to work harder. Before going to the gym, make sure you have the perfect playlist that you know will keep you going during your whole routine.
10. You’re Not Addressing Your Weaknesses
Sure bench pressing may be more rewarding or even more fun, but you still should be doing your squats! Doing some of the familiar workouts that we enjoy might be our default setting, but this might not actually be helping our fitness levels. Take a serious look at which movements you repeat and ask yourself why this is. Addressing your weaker spots is a great way to improve your body composition.
11. You’re not keeping time
Some of the most overlooked aspects of training are the speed of your lifts and the length of your rest periods. When you lift at certain speeds it allows you to properly complete the lift. This means that you’re keeping muscles under tension for a specific period of time which is critical to delivering the desired effect. Additionally, rest periods should be monitored. If you don’t give yourself enough time to rest, you could be sacrificing some strength. On the flipside, if you wait too long to start your next set, you might be compromising your workout’s metabolic effects.
12. Your technique is terrible
You know the saying “old habits die hard”? If you’ve developed some less-than-ideal workout habits, you’ll have to make an active effort to make sure you rectify these errors or else, at best, you aren’t getting any benefit out of your exercise. At worst, you might actually be making yourself vulnerable to injury—possibly even a permanent one.
13. You’re not fueling pre-workout
You may not be getting the most out of your workout if you’re not eating properly beforehand. Much in the same way a car needs gas to run, your body needs to be properly fuelled in the form of carbohydrates in order to feed your muscles and your brain. Carbs provide you with the amount of energy required to exercise harder and burn more calories in the process. Just be careful—there are some foods you shouldn’t make part of your pre-exercise workout. This means no trips through the drive-thru before hitting the gym!
14. You’re way too stressed
While working out can be a great way to relax, if you’re entering into your workout with too much stress, you might find yourself having a harder time achieving that desired six-pack. Many studies have shown a connection between the stress hormone cortisol and weight-gain, particularly in women. This means no matter how many calories you’re trying to lose, if you remain super stressed, you’re not likely going to achieve your desired weight.
15. Not Hydrating Before Your Workout
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In my previous post, Find Your Why, Repeat Your Why I’ve talked about life and motivation working like a roller coaster. That there are going to be up’s and down’s for everyone, and that recognizing this, and knowing how to work with this natural flow, can help you not only overcome the lows, but also to keep things in perspective.
Something I’ve found to be incredibly helpful, is understanding and applying the differences between standing still, jogging, and sprinting in anything that you do.
Standing still is exactly what it sounds like. It’s when we’re not moving at all, when we feel stuck, when we’re not making any progress towards our end goals. Standing still is quite possibly the worst place we can be.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water putrefies…
If you’re feeling stuck, and find that you’re standing still, one of the quickest way to get unstuck, is by taking the smallest step you can. A Little Victory can go a long way in getting you from standing still, to jogging, and once you start jogging you can turn your focus to keeping that pace.
Start by thinking of the smallest, littlest step you can take towards one of your goals. Have a goal to read more? Just open the book and read one sentence. Have a goal to exercise more? Just do one sit up. Any goal that you have, think of the smallest littlest bit of work you can do towards that goal, and do it. By taking this one small step, your suddenly, no longer standing still. Now if we can do this again the next day, and then again the next day… you’ll suddenly realize, you’re jogging.
Jogging through life is a solid baseline to making great progress towards your goals. Too often people try to work back-and-forth between standing still and sprinting. They’ll procrastinate working on their goals until they have a sudden burst of motivation. Then they’ll shift to sprinting until they gas themselves out and wind up standing still again. This goes back to the up-and-down, motivational roller coaster, that people ride.
One is always greater than zero. This mindset will help you keep ‘jogging’ towards your goals. 1 > 0
What we want to try and avoid is riding a roller coaster that has such steep inclines and declines. What we ultimately end up with is a lot of hard work on a sprint, only to lose most of that work while we’re standing still. Anytime we end up in the standing still scenario, our goals become farther and farther away. This is what makes jogging and little victories so important.
By getting into a good pace of jogging, and working towards our goals every day, we raise the bottom line of our effectiveness. Instead of taking a zero for a long period of time while we stand still, we’re getting a one, and one’s start to add up quick. Think about it, if you only even did the smallest amount of work towards a fitness goal, say one pushup a day. By the end of the year, you’ll have completed 365 pushups. If you’re not a person who normally works out, that’s most likely 365 more pushups than you did last year, and that’s pretty solid progress.
Knowing how to go from standing still to jogging is a must. Where I find I tend to struggle is recognizing when to go from jogging to sprinting and back down to jogging. What I’ve found to work the best over the course of my life is that if we can get ourselves to jog at a regular daily pace, we then just have to identify the right times to sprint.
Sprint ahead on your goal when the daily routine starts to become boring.
I’ve found two moments that have really stood out to me as great times to sprint. The first, when the jog has started to become mundane. When you usually start jogging, it’s new. Your body and mind are adapting to the new pace and the new way your day is unfolding, but after a while, your body adapts and what was once difficult, and interesting, has now become boring and repetitive. These are some of the best times to start sprinting.
In these cases, I use sprinting to provide some variety form the mundane and to push my regular routine a little bit farther. If I’m reading one page a day from my book, I might sprint and read for 30 minutes, and then adjust my “jog” to start reading two pages a day. This short sprint tends to recharge my mindset on what I’m working towards, reinvigorating me, and then I slow back down from the sprint, but at a higher level jog. This has been great for pushing forward when things get dull.
Sprint ahead on your goal when things start to “feel” right.
The other time I love to sprint on something I’m working towards is when the opportunity feels right. I say, “feels” because it’s not always something that you can really quantify. It’s more of that feeling of knowing everything is starting to line up, you’re feeling great, and deep down you just know, it’s time to sprint. As I’m writing this article, this is exactly the sprint I’m taking. I’ve been working on this article a little bit at a time, but today, for whatever reason, this piece really just felt right to sprint on, so here I am, typing away.
These types of sprints tend to be more about opportunity. They aren’t an attempt to push yourself farther or to try and overcome routine. These types of sprints fall more into the creative category. When you’re just, “feeling it” sort of sprint. These are important sprints to recognize and take advantage of, because they tend to come and go as they please and are not always aligned with our plans, however they can help us make great strides towards our goals. When ever you’re starting to feel, that little bit of extra motivation and you can see the pieces falling into place, it’s time to sprint!
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First published in 1570, Joachim Meyer's The Art of Combat is among the most important texts in the rich corpus of German martial arts treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Meyer is unique in offering full recommendations on how to train for various weapons forms. He divides his book into five parts by weapon types: longsword; dusack (a practice weapon analogous to a sabre); rapier; dagger; and staff weapons.
For each weapon, Meyer lays out the principles of its use and the vocabulary of techniques, and then describes a range of specific 'devices', attack combinations for use in combat. This rational approach, along with Meyer's famous and profuse woodcut illustrations, make this a crucial source for understanding the history and techniques of medieval and Renaissance martial arts.
In the first ever English translation of this important work, Jeffrey Forgeng has sought to improve accessibility of the text. His Introduction is the first substantial account to be published in English of the German Fechtbuch corpus, and the Glossary likewise is the first of its kind to be published in English.
Joachim Meyer was born in Basel in Switzerland in approximately 1537, possibly the son of Jacob Meyer, a stationer, and Anna Freund. He became a burgher of Strasbourg by marrying a widow in 1560, most likely during his apprenticeship as a cutler. He made a living as both a cutler and a professional fencer until 1570, in which year he published his Art of Combat – the book that made him famous. The making of this book, however, left him deeply indebted, and the search for potential buyers led him to leave Strasbourg and work as a Master-of-Arms at the court of the Duke of Schwerin. Unfortunately, he died shortly after his arrival, on 24 February 1571, at the age of just thirty-four, leaving the burden of his debt to his widow and brother-in-law.
Jeffrey L. Forgeng is curator of Arms and Armor and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum, and teaches as Adjunct Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Top 10 Ways to Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits By Reading this Article You Will be Able to Know.,
- What are cranberries?
- Fiber and Carbs
- Cranberries Nutrition
- Vitamins and Minerals
- Six health benefits of eating cranberries
- Top 10 Ways of Eating Cranberries
- Common Questions & Answers
- Did you know?
- Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits
Also, you will able to know,
What are cranberries?
Cranberries are related to heather and are associated with blueberries, bilberries, and lingonberries. The most commonly grown species is the North American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), but other varieties can be natural. People don’t eat raw cranberries very often because they have a very sharp and bitter taste. They are typically consumed as juice, which is usually sweetened and mixed with various fruit juices. Sauces, dried cranberries, powders, and extracts used in supplements are other cranberry-based total items. Cranberries are high in various healthy nutrients and plant compounds, protective against urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Fiber and Carbs
Cranberries are primarily made up of carbohydrates and fiber. Sucrose, glucose, and fructose are examples of natural sugars. Insoluble fibers such as pectin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, which can pass almost intact through your intestine, provide relaxation.
Cranberries are also high in soluble fiber. As a result, excessive cranberry consumption may cause digestive symptoms such as diarrhea. On the other hand, cranberry juice contains no fiber and is frequently diluted with other fruit juices — and sweetened with added sugar.
Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Cranberries Nutrition
Fresh cranberries are nearly 90% water; however, the relaxation is usually carbs and fiber.
The first vitamins found in 1 cup (100 grams) of raw, unsweetened cranberries are:
• Calories: 46.
• Water: 87%.
• Protein: 0.four grams.
• Carbs: 12.2 grams.
• Sugar: four grams.
• Fiber: four.6 grams.
• Fat: 0.1 grams.
Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Vitamins and Minerals
- Cranberries are an excellent source of many nutrients and minerals, particularly vitamin C.
- Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is one of the primary antioxidants found in cranberries. It is necessary for the defense of your skin, muscles, and bones.
- Manganese: It can be found in a variety of foods. Manganese is required for growth, metabolism, and the antioxidant system in your body.
- Vitamin E: A treasure trove of critical fat-soluble antioxidants.
- Vitamin K1: Also known as phylloquinone, diet K1 is essential for blood clotting.
- Copper: A trace element that is frequently deficient in the Western diet. Inadequate copper consumption may also be harmful to coronary heart health.
Six health benefits of eating cranberries
1. Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Cranberries are low in calories
Cranberries are extremely low in calories, with a cup containing only 50 calories, according to Sygo. In comparison, a medium-sized banana contains approximately 110 calories, and a cup of blueberries contains around 80 calories. As a result, cranberries are great for weight loss because they are high in nutrients and low in calories, according to Sygo.
2. Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Boost brainpower
According to Tufts University, cranberries’ antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds may also improve memory and coordination. So, if you want to live a brilliant life, you might need to snack on dried cranberries daily.
3. Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – The powerhouse of Antioxidants
Did you know that cranberries outperform all other fruits and vegetables in terms of disease-fighting antioxidants, including strawberries, raspberries, spinach, broccoli, and cherries? One cup of cranberries contains a total of 8,983 antioxidants.
4. Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Nourishes Skin
Cranberries nourish the pores and skin, making them more supple. For improved outcomes, combine a quarter-cup of honey with two tablespoons of dried cranberries and a quarter-cup of essential oil and apply it to your skin for 10 minutes.
5. Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Combats tooth decay
Proanthocyanidins found in cranberries, according to researchers at the Center of Oral Biology and the Eastman Department of Dentistry at the Medical Center of the University of Rochester, can also support oral health by preventing gum disease and microorganisms from binding to the teeth.
6. Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Boost immunity
Because cranberries are high in antioxidants and phytochemicals, they promote a healthy immune system and reduce the likelihood of becoming ill.
Top 10 Ways of Eating Cranberries
Cranberries are a great addition to a morning or afternoon smoothie. Cranberries are high in antioxidants and a good source of vitamin C. Not only that, but they’ll also add the best color to your smoothie. Consider this Cranberry Citrus Smoothie or this Cranberry Smoothie Bowl.
2. Cranberry Relish
Cranberry Relish is an easy-to-make, well-balanced sweet and tart condiment. It complements turkey well. Even if you don’t make it for your holiday table, save some for the next day because it’s far superior to leftover turkey sandwiches!
3. Cranberry apple pie
Toss a handful of fresh or dried cranberries into your favorite apple pie recipe before adding the top crust to surprise your taste buds. In a large mixing bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Toss in the apples and cranberries gently. Backside pastry should be used to line a 9-inch pie plate dot with butter after adding the filling. Roll the final pastry to the pie’s healthy apex.
Using a small apple cutter, cut vents in the bread. Seal and flute the edges after placing them over the filling Bake for 10 minutes at 425°. Reduce the heat to 350° and bake for another 50 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly.
4. Cranberry sauce
First and foremost, let us address this debate. It’s better to make your cranberry sauce! If you’ve never made it before, you’re probably surprised at how simple it is to make. All you need is sugar, orange juice, cinnamon, and water, in addition to fresh cranberries. Try out this creamy recipe.
If you need an EXTRA special cranberry sauce, try our Cherry-Cranberry Sauce recipe. It’s still peaceful, but it includes cherries and an extra pair of spices for even more excursion flavor.
5. Cranberry Cocktail
It isn’t easy to imagine a more lively cocktail for Christmas than one made with cranberries. Their opulent purple sedation gives them a festive and appealing appearance. Cran-Orange Gin Gin Mules are an excellent option. It’s adventure cheer in a glass!
6. Cranberry Butter
There are numerous recipes for Cranberry Butter available, and we haven’t found one that we don’t like! Serve Cranberry Butter on bagels or toast in the mornings in December for a festively delicious start.
7. Cocktail Garnish
Even if your cocktail does not include muddled cranberries, some fresh cranberries floating on a pinnacle could make an eye-catching garnish. For example, consider a glass of bubbly champagne with some cranberries floating on the crest.
On New Year’s Eve, we’d raise a glass to that! Combine your cranberry garnish with a fresh garnish, such as lime slices, rosemary sprigs, or mint leaves (depending on your cocktail), and you’ve got yourself the last Christmas cocktail. What about the kids? Fresh cranberries can be added to glowing apple juice or flavored glowing water.
8. Sugared Cranberries
Sugared cranberries are beautiful, tasty, and versatile. Unfortunately, many of those will need to be made up at some point during the vacation season! They are a devilishly precise deal to snack on or serve as a gleaming garnish on the pinnacle of baked goods. They look charming on the crest of a pumpkin pie.
9. Oatmeal added
We are huge fans of quick oats, so when we discovered this recipe that uses leftover (homemade) cranberry sauce to make Cranberry Oatmeal, we fell in love! As shown in this recipe, cranberries can also be added to slow-cooker oatmeal for a healthy, hearty breakfast.
10. Holiday décor
Cranberries are well-known for making a festive Christmas tree garland by stringing them with popcorn. However, cranberries can be used as excursion decor in a variety of ways. Spread cranberries across the base of several candles and add some greenery for a vibrant centerpiece.
Add cranberries to water-filled jars and surround them with floating candles or flowers. Fill a clean vase halfway with cranberries and place white roses or other white flora inside for a complex flower arrangement. Your inventiveness most simply constrains the options!
Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits – Common Questions & Answers
Can you eat raw cranberries?
Yes, raw cranberries are safe to eat, though you’ll probably want to include them in a recipe, such as a smoothie, sauce, or relish, rather than eating them raw, as their tangy flavor can be off-putting to some people.
What are cranberries good For?
Cranberries and cranberry juice are high in antioxidants and high in vitamin C. They’ve been linked to preventing UTIs in people who have them regularly, possibly lessening the impact of cancerous cells and improving heart health.
Does cranberry juice clean your kidneys?
The urinary tract benefits of cranberry juice do not necessarily extend to the kidneys, and there is no evidence that cranberries can clean the kidneys.
Can I drink cranberry juice?
Yes, choose a variety labeled “100% cranberry juice” with no added sugar. Many types contain sugar and flavoring, which detracts from their healthfulness. In addition, too much juice can cause stomach problems, so consult your doctor if you experience any side effects.
Did you know?
- Cranberries are one of only three North American native fruits (blueberries and Concord grapes).
- Only about 3% of the annual cranberry crop is sold fresh, with the remainder being canned and bottled.
- Cranberries are extremely healthy because they are low in calories, high in fiber, high in vitamin C, and high in cancer-fighting antioxidants.
- They CAN be eaten raw! Pulse them into a relish or blend them into a superfood smoothie.
- They freeze beautifully; place the bags in the freezer, and keep them until the next cranberry season.
- Fresh cranberries can be used for so much more than just sauce. Just scroll down and take a look!
Eat Cranberries with Health Benefits
Cranberries in various forms have been linked to multiple potential health benefits, ranging from preventing UTIs to maintaining cholesterol levels while promoting heart health. They are a festive addition to any holiday table and pair well with salads, baked goods, relishes, and sauces.
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Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
Susan Meissner (Adult Historical Fiction)
Unlike most women, Violet Mayfield didn’t move to Hollywood in hopes of being a star. At twenty-two, she made the trip from her home in Alabama because of the promise of a steady job in a studio secretarial pool. She also came to escape the expectations of her mother and father, as well as the sad memories of a life that would never be. Conversely, thirty-year old Audrey Duvall was looking for stardom. It was 1938 and the biggest news around Hollywood was the filming of Selznick International Studios’ blockbuster production of Gone with the Wind. Audrey, who was once on the cusp of stardom, is looking for her breakout chance. At the moment, all she’s looking for is a suitable roommate and this young woman from Alabama seems to be the right fit. Violet and Audrey’s friendship is set against the backdrop of the Golden Age of Hollywood—where dreams are made, stars are born, and all the world’s a stage. But as each of these two very different women search for their own sense of fulfillment and happiness, their friendship is constantly put at odds. Can their relationship endure their individual pursuits of happily ever after?
Historical fiction is my favorite genre and so I really enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look into the making of Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War-era epic Gone with the Wind. Meissner goes into detail about the film’s myriad obstacles and noteworthy events: the firing of the production’s first director, George Cukor; the clever solution of acquiring additional “extras” for the Confederate Wounded scene; the preparation for the burning of Atlanta sequence; and the excitement when the identity of the film’s leading lady was finally revealed. It’s a wonderful look into cinematic history and I thoroughly reveled in these references.
One of the major plot lines of the book was the tie-in between the past and the present through a prop from the Gone with the Wind movie: Scarlett’s over-the-top green velvet hat that went with her infamous drapery dress. Although an interesting premise, I felt that this connection didn’t really add anything to the storyline. For all the build-up behind this famed costume piece, I eventually viewed the emerald chapeau as more of a red herring. Admittedly, Meissner did use this device to directly draw a comparison between Scarlett O’Hara and Violet Mayfield who both are Southern women willing to do anything to anyone as long as it benefits their own self-interests. However, this correlation did not translate to an immediate “check” in the win box for me. The very reasons I didn’t like Gone with the Wind are the exact same reasons that I wasn’t able to fully connect with Stars Over Sunset Boulevard: a story based around a female protagonist that’s selfish, petty, ungrateful, and petulant and constantly plays the woe-is-me-card in order to rationalize her self-serving choices. By doing so, she manages to hurt those closest to her while depriving them the dignity and decency of making their own informed decisions. While Scarlett seems to pay the ultimate price for her arrogance, Violet seems to have gotten off pretty much scot free. To that, all I have to say is, “Fiddle-dee-dee”.
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With digital marketing, businesses can reach a wider audience more efficiently and at a lower cost than traditional marketing methods. Old way advertising channels like television, radio, and print are becoming less and less effective as people increasingly consume media online. Not only that, but online banner ads and other digital marketing tools offer businesses the ability to track their performance in real-time, so they can adjust their campaigns on the fly to get the best results. This level of flexibility and accountability is not possible with traditional marketing.
What’s more, digital marketing is more effective at generating leads and sales than traditional methods. A recent study by the Digital Marketing Association found that digital marketing leads have a 14.6% close rate, while leads generated through traditional methods have a close rate of just 1.7%. In other words, digital marketing is nearly nine times more effective at generating leads than conventional marketing techniques!
Digital marketing is needed for any business that wants to stay competitive in today’s marketplace, with its ability to reach a wider audience more quickly.
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Digital marketing is more engaging and interactive than traditional advertising methods. It allows businesses to connect with their customers on a more personal level, fostering relationships that can lead to increased sales, customer trust, and loyalty. Additionally, digital marketing is accessible to a broader audience than traditional marketing channels, making it an essential tool for businesses of all sizes. With digital marketing, businesses can reach a global audience with little to no upfront costs. Finally, digital marketing constantly evolves, allowing businesses to stay ahead of the curve and get their customers in new and innovative ways. In short, digital marketing is essential for companies that want to visit competitive and connect with their customers.
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In an increasingly digital world, businesses need to be able to reach their target audiences online. Social media, search engine optimization, and email marketing are just a few ways companies can use digital marketing to find and engage customers. While some companies may be able to get by with traditional marketing methods, others will find that digital marketing is essential to stay competitive. With so many people using the internet to find products and services, businesses that can effectively market themselves online will have a significant advantage over those that don’t. In addition, digital marketing can be very cost-effective, making it an excellent option for businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re just starting or you’ve been in business for years, investing in digital marketing can help you reach your goals. By putting money into digital marketing, businesses can reach a wider audience, save money on advertising, and get better results from their campaigns.
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The global Biologics Market valued at 324.78 Billion in 2020 and is expected to reach 749.62 Billion by 2028, at a CAGR of 10.80%. The study covers Biologics, a drug that contains living organisms or their specific components or by-products. Biologic medicines are usually injected into the patient’s body because of its large molecular size (200-1000x) and fragile molecular structure. Parts of organisms like their cells, tissues, recombinant proteins, genes, allergens, blood or blood components, and vaccines are used in biologic drugs. Biologics are used for the treatment of various diseases and conditions like anemia, cancer, and other autoimmune diseases. Biologics are changing the ways doctors treat common conditions that have plagued individuals for years. Biologics have various potential advantages as they can, theoretically, be customized to hit specific ‘gene targets’ in the human body.
The global biologics market is expected to be driven by factors such as growing capital investments by major market players, along with increasing support and initiatives by governments of various countries across the globe for development and implementation of biologics, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, and growing demand and preference for innovative drugs. Biologics are drugs processed through biological processes, and can be tailored to target specific area in the human body.
Biologics provide safer solutions in many areas of unmet medical demands, and their growth is expected to continue. Moreover, Biological products represent the cutting edge of technological innovation of technology and bio medical research and may offer the effective ways to treat diverse medical illness and ailments that presently have no other alternative treatment. Nevertheless, their high cost, patent cliff, a strict regulatory environment, and the emergence of alternative solutions, limited scope of treatment pose challenges. However, stringent government regulations and associated side effects such as gastrointestinal complications, change in blood pressure, chest pain, breathing problems, etc.
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List of Top Companies Profiled in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Market :
- Merck Co. Inc.
- AbbVie, Inc.
- AstraZeneca Plc.
- Amgen, Inc.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
- Novartis AG
- Pfizer Inc.
- Novo Nordisk A/S
Further key findings from the report suggest :
- Biologics market is growing at a CAGR of 13.0% in Asia Pacific followed by North America and Europe, with 11.8% and 11.6% CAGR, respectively. Rise in prevalence of cancer and other target diseases across the globe is the key factor to accelerate the market growth during forecast period across all regions.
- As of 2018, Monoclonal Antibodies segment dominates the market holding 39.0% of the global market since it is the primary medicine used for the treatment of cancer.
- On the basis of product type, Gene biologics are growing predominantly with a CAGR of 14.3% followed by vaccines and cellular biologics.
- On the basis of application, Cancer is expected to be the fastest growing market segment during forecast period 2019-2026 with a CAGR of 12.4%.The key factor responsible for the growth of the segment is predominant rise in cancer and geriatric population worldwide.
- Cancer application segment holds a market share of 42.2% followed by autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases holding 35.9% and 14.6% respectively.
- Asia Pacific is expected to account for the 21.4% of the global Biologics market due to the large prevalence of target diseases in countries like India and China.
- Stringent government regulations and associated side effects like gastrointestinal complications, change in blood pressure, chest pain, breathing problems etc. are the key challenges faced by the Biologics market players.
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For the purpose of this report, Reports and Data has segmented the Biologics market on the basis of product, application, end use and region:
Region analysis Covers:
- North America (U.S.A., Canada, Mexico)
- Europe (U.K., Italy, Germany, France, Rest of Europe)
- Asia Pacific (India, Japan, China, South Korea, Australia, Rest of APAC)
- Latin America (Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Rest of Latin America)
- Middle East Africa (Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., South Africa, Rest of MEA)
Product type Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2016-2026)
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Recombinant Hormones/Proteins
- Cellular Based Biologics
- Gene Based Biologics
Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2016-2026)
- Infectious Diseases
- Autoimmune diseases
End use Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2016-2026)
- Diagnostic Centers
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Wheelchair Fencing was introduced into the International Stoke Mandeville Games (ISMG) in 1954, when a demonstration was given by a paraplegic from the Spinal Unit at Rockwood, Cardiff, and his able-bodied instructor, Professor Reynolds. Dr. (later Sir) Ludwig Guttmann, himself a keen fencer in his student days at Heidelberg University, Germany, was very quick to recognize the potential for fencing as an addition to the sports practiced from a wheelchair.
There followed visits of Professor Reynolds to Stoke Mandeville, not only to carry out initial coaching of paraplegic patients, but in particular to initiate "Q" Hill, the Spinal Centre's redoubtable physical trainer seconded from the Army, into the art of coaching the sport. The International Stoke Mandeville Games in the following year (1955) launched sabre fencing as a competition within the Games Program of Events. The Challenge Sword for the winner was presented to the Welsh Fencing Team by Dr. (Sir) Roger Bannister, Guest of Honor at the Games.
The Competition took place on the outdoor netball pitch of the sports ground of Stoke Mandeville Hospital. In 1956, foil fencing competition was introduced to the Games for women fencers. At the meeting of Trainers at Stoke Mandeville in 1956, it was suggested that epee also be introduced as a third weapon. A demonstration of an electrical device made in Italy for scoring was given by the Italian representative, after which it was unanimously agreed that this weapon should also be introduced to the International Stoke Mandeville Games Wheelchair Fencing (ISMWSF) Program.
The Meeting of Trainers in 1962 records a great many amendments to the sport's technical rules and agreement that epee also be competed by women. Since 1965, foil competition for men has also been part of the Games Program. Since the Paralympic Games in Barcelona 1992, the growth of the sport in terms of participants and competitive opportunity at international level has more than doubled. The sport, with its uniqueness, is favorably impressing able-bodied fencers to create a single fencing community. This bond has been strengthened by the opportunities presented by Organizing Committees to create combined FIE/IWAS World Championship situations, such as the World Championships in Torino, ITA (2006) and the World Championships in Paris, FRA (2010).
The early fencers competed their sport from heavy brown wheelchairs issued by the Ministry of Pensions, known as travaux chairs. There was not much movement during bouts, but as the type of wheelchair became lighter and the fencers more agile in the sport, there was a need to try and stabilize the chairs. At this time it was a manual solution, with an individual crouching behind the fencer's chair and hanging onto the wheels.
As the sport developed, manufactured holding devices came into play. Italy led the field in innovation and these new devices were first used in the 1957 International Stoke Mandeville Games. Various types have been devised over the years; the object being to provide stability for the wheelchair and fencer at the same time as transportability.
In 1982, the ISMWSF gratefully accepted the gift of four sets of fencing frames from the Dutch Federation, which both stabilized the wheelchairs and fixed the distance between the fencers. In 1987, the Italians brought over another frame which was copied in England and formed the basis for the several versions that are still being used today. Minor adjustments included the consideration of lightness of equipment and the facility to more quickly accommodate fencers taking into account the important consideration of left and right-handed fencers.
Since 2008, USA Fencing has accepted the responsibilities for the wheelchair fencing programs, which had been handled previously by Wheelchair & Ambulatory Sports, USA and U.S. Paralympics. During the transition period, USA Fencing worked closely with U.S. Paralympics in a cooperative effort to develop world class wheelchair fencing athletes, as well as broadens the base of wheelchair fencing. U.S. fencers have distinguished themselves in World Cups, Americans Regional Championships. (Zonals), World Championships, and Paralympic Games since the program started for U.S. wheelchair athletes in the 1990s.
Men and women with disabilities that include, but are not limited to, amputation, spinal cord injury, and cerebral palsy, are eligible to compete in events including foil, epee and saber.
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There is an unexplored Brazilian asset, with enormous scalable economic potential, capable of becoming a strong economic, social and strategic agent, with the power to promote Brazilian culture abroad and still promote a great strategic advantage in the preservation of Brazilian indigenous tribes and, consequently, our threatened biomes - Cauim.
It is important to say that Cauim, a 100% fermented manioc beverage, is produced by indigenous people all over Brazilian territory, by the more than 305 remaining ethnic groups and probably by hundreds of others already extinct, millennia before the arrival of European colonists, as part of rituals that differentiate between native nations, belonging to ancient oral traditions, preserved by elders - this beverage and all its cultural / religious context should in no way be reduced to an element of commerce, that is not what we are talking about here.
I refer to a commercially produced drink, whose salivary amylase, used by indigenous villages, has been replaced by industrial processes, result of the work I have been doing, with a small group of people - a booze that I have been researching for over 10 years, which I have a patent, but still needs to be classified by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) and I propose to leave my rights open for the benefit of the Brazilian cause, in the same way that Santos=Dumont did, giving up the patent on his flighting devices, aiming at the prosperity and integration of the peoples all over the world, in an economic current that I call prospenomics.
Once an indigenous community accepts the project, this transformative agent has the power to bring the Brazilian people to toast together and raise the glasses of a rare champagne from the forest, to a fraternal and noble cause.
How do we know if this booze could be effective generator of prosperity?
I have been working in the international beverage market for over 20 years, I traveled the world promoting, learning ande teaching how to sell the most different categories of beverages, it was with this mindset that I started to become interested in Cauim.
I must say that at the beginning of my research I had great difficulty in producing a delicious quality beverage, but since 2016, together with my associate, Hildo Sena we've been promoting tastings and dinners in harmony with the new vintages and the result has been surprisingly good.
The quality of this beverage, as well as the most varied forms that it can present, has the potential to grow exponentially as they are accepted and improved by each accepting ethnicity, plus their idiosyncrasies.
CAUIM HAS THE POTENTIAL OF BEING A EQUALIZER OF FORCES IN A BATTLE WHICH THE ENVIRONMENT AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN LOOSING BADLY
We see that different ethnic groups in their villages have an increasing need to obtain monetary resources, whether through the reduction of game forest, loss of fertile territory or the degradation of the quality of rivers. The money they earn from selling handicrafts or from social benefits provided by government is often their only source of livelihood.
Alcoholic beverages have scalable potential returns.
In Brazil we face a harsh reality, the Amazon rainforest, the Pantanal, the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest and other Brazilian biomes are being decimated at an alarming rate, there are several forces that are acting freely and indiscriminately.
|In our experiments we achieved an outstanding sparkling Cauim! this drink could be considered as "champagne from the forest", due to its programmed shortage - the drink must be made in small quantities, to increase its rarity, to have a premium profile and price by design|
These antagonistic forces are composed of illegal miners, land grabbers, loggers, predatory farmers and invaders in general. They are motivated, violent agents and holders of financial resources, which allows them to play good lawyers, lobbyists, and to achieve corrupt means to perpetuate their actions.
Indigenous peoples are the ones most exposed to this nightmare, and are at risk of being decimated mercilessly, in a desperate battle and with almost no prospect of victories.
Usually, indigenous tribes opt for oral tradition only, without adopting a written records. With the disappearance of these ethnic groups, all and any cultural record of their existence shall certainly disappear with them.
AN INVALUABLE CULTURAL LOSS
The forest or the ethnic groups are not supposed to be protected by placing a dome over, the idea is to strengthen these preservation cells individually, through intellectual capacitation and monetary reinforcement. The external assistance provided by FUNAI, ICMBio, NGOs and other institutions are worthy of praise, but still insufficient in the current scenario, the ideal would be to have robust and efficient protection cells in all social spheres, without losing its essence - Cauim have the potential to fulfill this function perfectly.
|Two things must be very sophisticated in this project; the drink itself and the reverse logistics system - Adaptation to the PNRS. QR Code and other systems that allow 100% recycling of their packaging will be mandatory - the environmental impact on Kaûĩ afterwards should be as close to zero as possible.|
It is also very important to say that this project has no political bias, criticizing this government or previous governments - the prospenomic philosophy, the driving force behind this project, understands that we must entrust the solution of practical problems that affect harmonic coexistence of man with the environment, to science, not to politics.
3-WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
The beverage itself already exists and already meets the quality standards needed to enter the market, however, for the project to take off, reach full commercial viability and become sustainable we will need 3 stakeholder with the following profiles:
1-Indigenous Communities - In addition to being the protagonists who will hold the return from the sale of bottles, they will also be able to choose to expose elements of their own culture through consumption habits and trade-marketing actions;
2-Investors and philanthropists - In the case of philanthropist donors, they will be able to see the fruit of their donations multiply, due to the scalable profile of the project. As for investors, this risky project has the potential for growth just like other categories of beverages created since the 1980s:
- Energy Drinks emerged with Red Bull in 1987, has a market value of US $ 53.01 billion and estimated CAGR growth of 7.20%;
- RTD (Read to Drink) drinks like Smirnoff Ice, which appeared in the late 90s, have an estimated market for the year 2025 of bi $ 25.96, with an estimated growth of CAGR of around 4.5%;
These two categories of drinks were suggested as mere points of comparison. Cauim, as a classic historical drink, may have potential to be Brazil representative, as tequila represents Mexico and sake represents Japan, its real growth behavior is unknown.
3-Technical Professionals - With the Coronavirus pandemic, the number of unemployed people with technical skills increased dramatically. Once we have investment in production units, distribution logistics, sales, marketing, trade-marketing, etc. we will have new job opportunities, as well as promoting the training of the new generation, with sustainable projects;
4-PRODUCTION AND FEASIBILITY COSTS
As for raw material, the only mandatory prerequisite is that manioc or cassava, a basic raw material, should be produced in an indigenous village or tribe, with the roots planted in the middle of the forest, without trees being cut down, so that it is not characterized as monoculture. The production must be very small, in harmony with nature, without pesticides, so that its scarcity justifies a premium classification, as happens with beverages produced in the Champagne region;
The basic structure of a production unit is no different from the backyard micro breweries, quite common in recent years. For the production of 100 liters of Cauim, is required a cooking pot, a 100-liter vat and a chiller, estimated at approximately R$ 60,000.00;
Glass bottles should be very characteristic and returnable, reverse logistics will be mandatory in production plants.
At first, we will have a business structure in São Paulo BR, which may expand to other regions of Brazil - however, there is nothing to prevent the business from growing organically, in a different region, according to the dynamics and needs of the investor / ethnic groups adhering to the project.
AN IMPORTANT CURIOSITY!
It is important to say that I am Ominireligious, I believe in all the religions I'm exposed to, including Christian ones, as well as those of our native peoples. I encourage free religious practice and I am adamantly against catechism, as well as any other form of imposition of faith.
That said, I would like you to know that the first time I was successful with the saccharification and fermentation of manioc, was on a holiday of Our Lady, very important religious date in Brazil, with my experiences in my studio. After that, I coincidentally made great advances in the project on that same date in the following years, one of them at the Pernod Ricard of Rezende unit, in Rio de Janeiro, near the Our Lady of Aparecida Sanctuary.
I was stunned when I noticed that I published this post today, on October 12th, without having the prior intention, in that sense, I decided to add the prayer of the Virgin Mary in Tupi-Antigo, as translated by Father Anchieta, to celebrate the date:
graça resé tynysémbae,
nde irúnamo Jandé Jára rekóu;
imombeúkatúpyramo ereikó kuňã suí.
Imombe´úkatúp yrabé nde membyra, Jesús.
Sancta Maria Tupãsy, eTupãmongetá
oré iangaipábae resé, koyr irã,
oré jekyl oré rúmebéno.
May the Virgin Mother bless this project, which has a multicultural, fraternal, intelligent purpose and with the potential to reverse negative predictions, prolonging the human stay on this hermetic planet!
As for Cauim itself, nothing is written in stone, as it is an embryonic project with social good objectives, the most important thing is that it takes off and achieves its various prosperous goals.
If you are interested in making this project possible, please contact me, Luiz Pagano or my partner, Hildo Sena.
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Welcome to the Southern North Island Wood Council, providing a collective voice for the forestry sector in Taranaki, Whanganui, Manawatu, Wairarapa, Tararua and Wellington.
Wood Council members in this region:
Own or manage about 164,000 hectares of forest;
Are involved with 3 Regional Councils and 17 District or City Councils;
Employ about 1050 people in a range of jobs;
Produced about 1.7 million tonnes of logs in 2015;
Generated about $187 million worth of log sales revenue;
Underpin a further 2200 jobs in wood processing;
Have over 5500 stakeholders.
What we do
- Enable health & safety initiatives for members and support programmes and wellbeing in the sector.
- Provide a common focus that represents the view of its members and the industry as a whole.
- Take a proactive role in improving our regions perceptions of the forest industries.
- Have a role in influencing industry employment and quality training with a special focus on careers information for schools and school leavers.
- Ensure the industry adheres to best practice guidelines.
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If 2017 was a year when fundraising for decentralized protocols dominated headlines, 2018's emerging narrative is about empowering investors.
As CoinDesk previously reported, Politeia builds on Decred's existing approach of combining proof-0f-work and proof-of-stake consensus by attempting to turn over all governance decisions to those actively participating in the operation of its protocol at the time of any given decision.
Those who own Decred tokens (DCR) currently stake the coins in exchange for a chance to be chosen to verify blocks. (If they get chosen and do so, they get a payment from that block's token emission.) Once Politeia goes live, though, people waiting for their turn at block verification will also be able to vote on Politeia proposals (though there's no payment for that).
In a blog post shared with CoinDesk, Decred Project Lead Jake Yocom-Piatt confirmed the imminent launch, but he did so with a note of caution, writing:
In short, Politeia gives holders of the cryptocurrency a way to exercise control over every aspect of the project, meaning it puts the Decred treasury in their hands. That treasury currently holds DCR 570,000, valued at roughly $21 million.
The treasury is funded by a portion of new coins emitted with each block, so it's constantly growing.
As Decred users start making proposals for expenditures and the community begins voting them through, Yocom-Piatt is going to initially maintain a veto power over expenditures. He's told the community that he intends only to use these powers if a specific proposal puts the project itself or the legal entity that manages it into jeopardy.
His veto power will sunset in six to 12 months when control of the funds moves from Decred Holdings Group LLC, an organization he manages, to a smart contract.
"Once the smart contract replaces the corporate entity as the holder of the Treasury funds, there is no longer a legal entity to target with sanctions or other penalties that could result from certain stakeholder-backed actions," he told CoinDesk.
More than Money
But Politeia is not limited to financial decisions.
It also opens up decision-making around how the organization that supports Decred works, how its staff is managed and even the fundamental consensus model that Decred uses. For example, Yocom-Piatt will also announce plans to put forward a non-treasury proposal to the community.
Specifically, he intends to propose defining how potential contractors will be vetted before they can start doing work. The process is meant to insure new contractors can work well with existing ones.
At the same time, he notes that it is important that Decred never becomes a way for the protocol's whole community to micromanage its individual contributors, lest "we run the risk of turning staffing into a stakeholder popularity contest and driving voter apathy," Yocom-Piatt writes.
Beyond that, though, the fact that a proposal is forthcoming on the process for vetting contractors illustrates a larger point.
As Yocom-Piatt put it to CoinDesk:
Elsewhere in the announcement, the project sought to label the release as the start of a new era in the life of the young technology.
Yocom-Piatt compares Politeia to a hybrid of corporate governance and nation-state governance, but he exhorts his readers to avoid the pitfalls of either.
"Making good decisions requires a combination of understanding, intuition and long-term planning, and I hope to see stakeholders make decisions on this basis going forward. Bad decisions are often driven by ignorance, greed and short-term thinking, which we need to make an effort to avoid," he writes.
Collective decision-making is always difficult, and Yocom-Piatt's post delves into potential dangers, such as conflicts of interest, making permanent commitments to spend money that outlive their usefulness and even the temptation to turn authority over to elected officials.
Yocom-Piatt urges the community to keep the structure flat, roles loosely defined but expenditures tightly defined against milestones. As such, Decred's boosters, like Placeholder's Chris Burniske, look forward to a day when Politeia will be able to govern projects outside of the blockchain as well.
Others in the space are more cynical about the evolution blockchain governance so far. The creator of smart contracts, Nick Szabo, wrote in a famous tweet:
With this deployment, Yocom-Piatt predicts:
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Updated: 12 Oct, 2017
A big relief to online entrepreneurs who were shutting down their business because of GST complexities.
A small scale freelancer who was earning about 100,000 rupees per year can not hire a CA who will charge thousands of rupees to keep GST compliance.
Government amended certain rules to help startup level entrepreneurs.
- Exemption from GST registration if aggregate turnover is less than 20 Lakh per year (10L for special states)
- 20L exemption rule is application even for inter-state services (Adsense and Affiliate Marketing etc)
- Quarterly filing of GST returns
I waited for this rule till September but government pushed everyone to apply for GST. I was afraid of losing business from my clients who were asking me to provide GST number so that they can get GST expenses as input credit.
I applied for GST but you can avoid GST compliances if your annual income is below 20L.
GST is replacing the service tax that online entrepreneurs used to pay earlier in which there was an exception until the income hit the 10L annual revenue from service business.
Let me explain everything in the most simple way from my personal understanding. You can consult your CA for the legal taxation advice.
Services outside India
Export income is still exempted from the GST. Goods and Services provided to foreign clients is considered an export.
For example, if you are an affiliate marketer whose entire income comes from a foreign registered company, then you don’t have to collect GST. In most of the cases, export income comes through Paypal or wire transfer from the clients.
You still have apply for GST, like you have to file income tax returns even though you don’t fall under tax bracket.
You have to file GST returns for 0% GST. There would be two options
#1. Claiming refund on GST payments for export services
#2. Furnishing bond or Letter of Undertaking for export services.
You also have to maintain all the records of your business because the authorities can ask you for the details of your business anytime.
Services within India
But my dear friend, if you get any income from a company registered in India, then you have to worry about registering for GST as soon as possible.
The standard rate of GST is 18% for services provided online – like writing, designing, digital marketing and advertisements.
You have to collect GST from your clients and deposit to the Government.
There are 2 sub-components of GST
#1. Center GST – 9%
#2. State GST – 9%
In the online business world, it’s rarely a case that all of your clients are based in the state where your business is registered.
Most of the offline businesses (doctors, lawyers, architects, accountants, shops) may have all the clients in the same state, so there is one exemption for them.
Carry on reading till the end…
Exemptions for GST
You can become eligible for GST exemption upto 20L of annual turnover.
Following state registered businesses get the exemption upto annual revenue of 10L.
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Himachal Pradesh
Which professions are eligible for GST
Freelancers – If you are a freelance writer, designer, developer or digital marketer who are providing services of more than 20L annually.
Bloggers – You have to pay GST, if you are making online income through blogging. It can be a client for whom you provided sponsored article, income from advertisements or getting a commision as an affiliate.
Affiliate Marketers – If your income comes from any affiliate marketing network based in India (Vcommision, Mindtech, Optimise, Amazon.in, Flipkart) then you have to pay GST.
YouTubers – Same as bloggers, youtubers also have to register for GST. They have to collect GST from the Indian clients (if any), and income through Adsense is exempted.
Digital Marketers and Agencies – You also have to come under GST if your business is above 20L per year.
E-commerce – Anyone selling through online market places or their own e-commerce website. No exemption.
But for how long? You have to service clients worldwide to expand your business and you have to come under GST soon or later.
One Sweet Benefit of GST
You might have heard only the bad things about GST – high tax rate, uncertainty, enforcement and headaches for small business owners.
I came to know about one benefit of GST, read carefully.
You will get refund of GST amount that you pay to your suppliers and vendors.
In simple words, GST paid on your business expenses will come back to your pocket.
For example, if you spent Rs. 10,000 on Facebook Ads and paid Rs. 1800 as GST to Facebook, then you will get that money adjusted while filing the GST returns.
Similarly, GST charged by your freelancers, broadband/telephone company, office rent and similar… will come back to your account as GST credits in your final GST returns.
But you have to provide your GST number to these companies so that it can be tracked online.
Penalties for non-compliance
There are big penalties for non-compliance of GST rules.
At present the scenario looks like below but it may change at anytime.
- Non-registration : 25,000
- Late filing of GST return : Rs. 100 per day
- Non-tax payment or tax evasion : 10% to 100% of tax with minimum Rs. 10,000
There is one relaxation from the Government that they will not be strict for the initial two months of GST implementation – BusinessLine also reported No Penalty for wrong entry in GST procedure.
I am availing the bonus time period to become compliant for GST norms.
Application process to get a GST number
GST application process is totally online.
You can register for GST at URL – https://reg.gst.gov.in/registration/
You can start with filling up PAN number and the state where your business is registered.
If you are running a proprietor business then fill up your own name in Legal Name of Business column.
You will be allotted Temporary Reference Number and will be able to complete the application by login through OTP received on your mobile.
In the next screen, you can fill up your business name under the column ‘Trade Name’.
You have to submit the application within 15 days after you start the procedure. Be prepared to upload your documents for address/business proof.
You will get your GST number upon approval of your application. I heard that TRN number can be also be used as GST number till your application is approved.
GST Return Filing Schedule
If you have a GST Registration No. you are also required to file GST Returns every month. Even if your sale for the whole month was Rs. 0 – you still have to file GST Returns every month.
For example, for the August Business, you have to file the returns as mentioned below
- GSTR 1 – 10th Sept (Details of all sales made in the month)
- GSTR 2 – 15th Sept (Details of all business expenses made in the month)
- GSTR 3 – 20th Sept (Monthly Return and payment of tax)
It’s a WTF feeling that GST is giving us – but you don’t have any option other than filing 3 returns every month..
GST rules can still be changed. I will record the videos when I will file my GST returns and share with you.
I will keep you updated about the GST rules. -> (Bookmark this article & subscribe to the updates, I will update this article only rather than writing a new post every time)
I take help from my CA friend Karan Batra when in doubt – You can read his article on GST rules for reference.
Stay connected with the experts.
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Disbanding and decline
Major government restructuring in the late 1980s and early 1990s had an impact on soil investigations, especially because of the perceived duplication between different organisations. From 1987 the soil survey programme in the DSIR Soil Bureau was run down, and new soil maps and monographs were withheld from publication under a user-pays policy.
The break-up of the Ministry of Works (including the National Soils and Water Conservation Authority), Lands and Survey Department and NZ Forest Service led to many redundancies. Part of the remaining soil survey and conservation service moved to Crown research institutes that were formed in 1992, especially Landcare Research. But this has failed to resolve the fragmentation of soil science research, and funding continues to decline.
A long-term effect was a sharp decline in the number of postgraduate students of soil science, because of the perceived decline in job opportunities.
Soil surveying has expanded since the 1980s from mapping soils to include activities such as modelling the flow of nutrients through a landscape, identifying catchments prone to pollution, disposing of effluent, and sampling of contaminants such as cadmium and organochlorines.
The national carbon inventory began by collating all chemical data recorded in soil surveys from the 1960s to the 1980s, and now includes all data on carbon in New Zealand soils and vegetation.
The New Zealand Soil Classification
By the late 1970s the New Zealand genetic soil classification developed by Norman Taylor was outdated. Some soil classes were difficult to identify. A revised and updated version, the New Zealand Soil Classification, appeared in the 1980s, and is now widely used. It is based on orders, groups, subgroups and soil forms.
Do it yourself
A 1998 pilot project by AgResearch and Massey University staff looked at whether farmers could make their own soil maps. After a year of study, nine farmers from the Dannevirke area produced maps of their own properties. This meant they could understand soil variation on their own land, and improve farm management.
Revival in the south
A 1998–2001 survey of the soils of Southland (called Topoclimate South), initiated by the regional and district councils, aimed to find crops that might be grown in Southland. This involved monitoring the microclimate and producing soil maps, to make information easily available to farmers.
It spurred the Otago Regional Council into starting a similar project called growOTAGO, which produced a comprehensive set of soil maps. Much of the information is on the internet, and can be updated.
Soil maps in the 21st century
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Search Engines & Databases
Choosing a Search Engine
Helping You to Find it on the Web
Search engines evolved to help you locate information found within the millions and millions of websites, blogs, social media and other Internet resources.
Google Threatens Your Privacy and More
Google is the world's most popular search engine. In fact, Google has 4.3 billion users worldwide meaning the platform receives roughly 92.2% of all search traffic online.
Google became a very effective search engine, but that has come as a cost to your privacy. Google has become a monopoly, so powerful that no business can afford to ignore its influence.
More recently, some have begun to question Google's effectiveness, particularly with health and recipe searches. There seems to be more emphasis on sales than information.
Privacy-based Search Engines
Because search engines threaten your privacy, the information collected and how it is used needs to be as important a consideration as the accuracy of the data.
To be useful, the search results need to be both accurate and unbiased but if your privacy is compromised, you have paid too high a price.
Startpage is the world's most private search engine, offering you best-in-class search results without fear of having to surrender your search information or other personal data.
Make StartPage Default
I recommend making Startpage.com your default search engine. The methods vary by browser. There is a Firefox addon.
Learn more about Startpage on these YouTube videos:
- Startpage — the world's most private search engine (introduction).
- The dark secret of non-private search engines.
- Stop paying with your privacy.
It's actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results.
Almost all of the money search engines make (including Google) is based on the keywords you type in, without knowing anything about you, including your search history or the seemingly endless amounts of additional data points they have collected about registered and non-registered users alike.
In fact, search advertisers buy search ads by bidding on keywords, not people…. This keyword-based advertising is our primary business model.
— DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg
Microsoft Partnership Weakens DuckDuckGo
Apparently, Microsoft has a special deal with DuckDuckGo:
DuckDuckGo, the self-styled “internet privacy company” — which, for years, has built a brand around a claim of non-tracking web search and, more recently, launched its own ‘private’ browser with built-in tracker blocking — has found itself in hot water after a researcher found hidden limits on its tracking protection that create a carve-out for certain advertising data requests by its search syndication partner, Microsoft.
- DuckDuckGo Firefox Addon.
- What is the business model for DuckDuckGo?
- How DuckDuckGo makes money selling search, not privacy.
Our mission is to augment the browsing experience to make the web transparent, fast and private for everyone.
Ghostery Glow is a privacy-focused search engine that doesn't log your search history but does provide insights into the trackers you'll encounter on the web pages search results will send you to.
Ghostery Glow comes in both a paid version (ad-free) and a free version as well as built into the Ghostery Dawn browser.
Ads in a Privacy Browser?
Someone has to pay the bills and advertising is a transparent alternative to sneakily collecting personal data for resale.
Ghostery Glow's ads are in context with relevant search results and are NOT personalized.
Learn more about Ghostery Glow and the Ghostery series of privacy projects:
Other Search Engines
Databases & Indexes
Translation & Writing Tools
When looking for information you can use one of the following listings:
You might find it easier to simply search for the phone number in your favourite search engine.
Tracing Unwanted Calls
Unwanted calls have become a common nuisance.
- 800notes.com is a free reverse phone number lookup database.
- Telemarketing and unwanted calls — CRTC.
- Canada's National Do Not Call List | DNC exemptions.
- Canadian registered charities.
Phone calls from a “technical support” person saying that you have a problem with your computer are all SCAMS. There are many varieties of scams, all designed to steal from you. Just hang up. More…
It is better to hang up than risk having your identity stolen.
Social Media Scams
Be wary of personal approaches on social media like Facebook or Instagram, especially when they try to get you to do something uncharacteristic of your real friends.
- an account with no prior activity but contains photos and information stolen from a legitimate account;
- attempts at friendly conversation that appear stilted or probing for information your friends would already know;
- requests for help that appears urgent or requests for you to purchase gift cards then provide the redemption codes; and
- anything that makes you uncomfortable.
Don't accuse the person, but end the conversation quickly (e.g., “I have to go.”). Once offline, contact the person whose account you believe was hacked or duplicated via phone using a number you already have, then ask if they were trying to reach you.
In no case should you reconnect with the fake account. Block it, then inform the social media site of a potential fraud.
Watch for fees when using these services.
- Black Book Online the free (US) public records search site.
- WhoWhere people search and yellow pages search engine.
- Zaba Search free people search. Find People in the USA.
The rise in concerns about privacy are having an effect on what is available for free.
You want your searches to be effective.
The more precise your search, the more likely you'll find what you're looking for.
For example, when searching for cats, you could be searching for
- a particular breed of cats; or
- Cats (the 2019 film); or
- Cats (the 1981 stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber).
Try specifying “Cats the movie” or “Cats the musical” or “Persian cats” as search terms.
Avoid Malicious Searches
Sophos recommends these steps to avoid malicious search results:
- Stop. Think. Connect. Be wary of a perfect fit to your search criteria.
- Use an anti-virus with a built-in web filtering.
- Use an anti-virus with in-memory exploit protection features.
- Tell Windows to show file extensions.
Using Advanced Searches
Simple searches provide you with the quickest result, but advanced searches can provide more accurate results.
- You can use quotation marks to specify phrases (e.g., “time travel”).
- When you get more general results than you expected, you can narrow the search with advanced options or use a more specific search term (e.g., “Labrador retriever” instead of “dog”).
- You can specify images, video, news and other categories for your search results.
- Search results can be narrowed to a specific domain (e.g., Wikipedia.org) or a specific region or country.
Each search engine has information on how to refine your search.
Watch for Spelling Errors
Both the searcher and the site can misspell words, names and titles.
Variations can also be used by malicious sites to mislead you.
Search suggestions offer alternatives.
Organic or Artificial?
Organic search results are what people are really looking for when they enter specific search terms.
Google's reputation was built by providing accurate organic search results.
Ignore “Sponsored” Results
Sponsored results may be marked differently, but not always.
The link sponsors have paid the search engine for high positioning.
Overriding Organic Results
Sponsored results skew the search and seldom provides anything useful or trustworthy.
Most are designed to take you away from your intended search results.
Malware in Search Results
The first Google search result often leads to a virus. Why is only Google affected?
It's unacceptable that a handful of hackers can ever get Google to display malware in the top 10 results, much less the No. 1 result, on any type of search. Stop using Google.
— Brian Livingston
When searching for computer software and hardware information (especially drivers), choose only the original vendor where possible.
- Choose the manufacturer's site (e.g., HP or nVidia) from within the search results rather than any third-party listings (e.g., driverupdates.com).
- Ensure that you're seeing information specific to your computer's hardware and operating system or software version.
Windows Searches Not Private
Microsoft Windows 10 uses Bing for ALL searches, including those for your own files on your computer. This presents a serious privacy issue.
Unscrupulous software repositories have misleading “download” links that have nothing to do with the software you searched for. These point to malware or software containing PUPs.
Use Only Vendor-supplied Drivers
Unless drivers are provided by your computer's manufacturer and are designed for your specific hardware, they can corrupt your computer.
Your computer's vendor may provide update software designed for your computer. This is the only safe option.
Avoid Driver Update Software
Generic “driver update” software is not recommended.
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February 23, 2010 – FENAP, the Federation of European Numismatic Trade Associations, is in existence for 20 years now. Within this international framework, representatives of the different countries meet once or twice a year to discuss what individual problems occur and whether these problems might be fixed on an international level.
For several years, the World Money Fair in Berlin has been established as a magnificent rendezvous point. Here, the FENAP met again in 2010. Albert M. Beck, President of Honour of the World Money Fair, welcomed the representatives of nine European nations: Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and Spain. FENAP President Dr Hubert Lanz deplored the difficulties in convincing the colleagues in the numismatic trade especially in the new EU member states of the advantages associations have to offer when it comes to representing the interests of both dealers and collectors vis-à-vis governments. In many countries of the East there are no national associations of coin dealers whatsoever that can become FENAP members. That is regrettable since it would be crucially important everywhere to defend the right of collecting and trading coins more effectively. Even though the representatives of the present countries stated that the work of associations focused on different main areas, it nevertheless became apparent that almost all faced trade barriers. In Germany and Italy it revolves around the Protection of Cultural Property, in Spain and Great Britain it is more a problem of the new Law on Money Laundering compelling buyers to reveal not only their name and address but also to provide information about the origin of the money involved in buying, let us say, bullion coins. In Norway and Austria the focus is laid on combating counterfeiting.
The President of FENAP again noted that numerous states act in violation of art. 30 of the Treaty of Nice and, therefore, Lisbon as well (former art. 36 of the Treaty of Maastricht and Rome). There it is laid down that it is generally legal to issue prohibitions and restrictions in regard to import, export and goods in transit “on grounds of public morality (whatever that means, author’s note), public policy or public security; the protection of health and life of humans, animals or plants; the protection of national treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value; or the protection of industrial and commercial property.” There is, however, one clear limitation: “Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not, however, constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States.”
Meaning that if a good can be legally traded in Europe it must likewise be possible to import and export this good without restrictions within the EU.
Apart from that, the COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) no. 3911/92 of December 9th, 1992, on the export of cultural goods has adopted the following regulation: “However, without prejudice to paragraph 4, the Member State which is competent in accordance with the two indents in the first subparagraph may not require export licences for the cultural goods specified in the first and second indents of category A1 of the Annex where they are of limited archaeological or scientific interest, and provided that they are not the direct product of excavations, finds and archaeological sites within a Member State, and that their presence on the market is lawful.
The export licence may be refused, for the purposes of this Regulation, where the cultural goods in question are covered by legislation protecting national treasures of artistic, historical or archaeological value in the Member State concerned.”
Since most coins are not the product of excavations but come from old collections and clearly are of limited scientific interest, trading them is legal and the import and export should be not restricted. Unfortunately, there has been no precedent yet before the European Court of Justice. Should it be possible to unequivocally determine the legal position, FENAP would clearly support it.
The entire text of the Treaty of Lisbon is available at
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The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office was established in December 2017 by consolidating primarily the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, a majority of the Office of Health Affairs, as well as other DHS elements.
For current information related to CWMD, please visit the following:
DHSTogether put together a list of 'Things You Should Know' for Managers.
How to Answer Employees' Questions about the DHSTogether Training and/or Initiative
- For questions specifically about DHSTogether, direct interested employees to a dedicated email address: email@example.com.
- For issues related to access to, or functionality of, the training on your Leaning Management System (LMS), they will need to contact your component LMS Manager directly.
- For questions about stress management, worklife balance, and any other issues discussed in the training, they can contact your Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Program Manager or call the EAP directly. Visit DHSConnect (network access required) for more information on the Employee Assistance Program.
What to Do if You See an Employee Struggling with Stress and/or Worklife Issues
If these issues are affecting an employee's performance, you, as their supervisor, have the right and responsibility to address them immediately. If these issues are not affecting performance but you are concerned, use your best judgment as to the most effective approach, based on their personality and your relationship with them. Do not ignore warning signs simply because you are uncomfortable having this difficult conversation.
Steps you can take in either case include:
- Express concern. The training will guide you through a model called the "Buddy Check" that applies just as much in this case as it would in peer-to-peer interaction.
- Refer them to the EAP. Your EAP can help coach you on how to have that conversation; you can contact them directly for a management consultation.
- If you are a new supervisor/manager, your own supervisor may be able to offer advice and guidance.
- Maintain confidentiality as much as is possible. Earning the trust of your work group will help you become a great leader.
What to Do If an Employee Expresses Concern about a Co-Worker
If you have not observed any warning signs yourself, this can be a problematic scenario—but do not simply ignore these concerns.
- Ask for specific examples of problematic behavior. You may hear enough that you wish to act immediately, or you may prefer to wait and observe these behaviors yourself, in order to confirm before taking action.
- Emphasize the need for confidentiality.
- If the employee in question is your direct report you can talk to them. If not, you are encouraged to work with their supervisor.
How to Talk to an Employee about Your Concerns
- The DHSTogether training includes modules on the "Buddy Check" and ACT models that address how to have these conversations, whether you are worried about stress, or more seriously, about the potential for suicide.
- The EAP can help coach you about how to make effective referrals, as well as how to have a difficult conversation with a troubled employee. Find your component's EAP contact information. (network access required)
Getting in Touch with the EAP
- You can call your EAP directly to access services, or if you wish to find out more, you can talk to your component's EAP Program Manager. Learn more. (network access required)
Ensuring that Employees Get the Help They Need
- Except in cases where you believe that someone is a danger to themselves or others, it is up to each individual to seek the help they need.
- As a manager, you can make a referral to the EAP for an employee who seems to be troubled.
- As a leader, you can create a culture within your organization that encourages anyone who needs help to seek out the necessary support and assistance.
Responsibilities Towards a Troubled Employee
Once you notice, or someone else expresses their concern, that an employee may be struggling with stress, your responsibilities are to that employee and to your work group.
- Performance. As a supervisor/manager, it is your responsibility to hold employees accountable for their performance. If they are unable to meet performance goals, you should refer them to resources such as the EAP that can help them return to full effectiveness.
- Safety. If you are concerned that an employee may be a potential risk to themselves or anyone else, you need to take appropriate action. This training will help you understand how to address the risk and get your employee the help they need.
- Referral. You are not a counselor, and you cannot fix people. But you can and should refer them to appropriate resources. The DHSTogether training will help you understand how to talk to your employees about any issues they may be facing, and the resources available to them.
Employees Needing Additional Accessibility Assistance with the Training
- You or the employee can send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org with a request for assistance. Please include the best way to reach the employee.
- Your EAP is not only a counseling service—the Program can also coach you on how to make effective referrals, as well as how to have difficult conversations with your employees about personal issues that may be affecting their job performance. Find your component's EAP contact information. (network access required)
- Your component's EAP Program Manager can give you additional information about your EAP services, and can also assist if you are having any problems contacting the EAP or not receiving the support you need. Find your EAP Program Manager's contact information (network access required).
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Future of UAE mobility: Preparing infrastructure for next-gen vehicles
Dubai aims to transform 25 per cent of total transportation to autonomous mode by 2030.
Dubai - Autonomous mobility to create revenue of Dh22B as it will reduce transportation cost by 44%, saving Dh99M a year
Dubai has one of the most progressive autonomous vehicles strategy in place. It aims to transform 25 per cent of total transportation in Dubai to autonomous mode by 2030. Expectations are that autonomous mobility will create a revenue of Dh22 billion as it will reduce transportation cost by 44 per cent, saving Dh99 million a year and reduce environmental pollution by 12 per cent with a saving of up to Dh1.5 billion a year. The strategy aims to reduce accidents by 12 per cent, which is equivalent to Dh2 billion every year.
Self-driving cars have the potential in the future to reduce deaths and injuries from car crashes, particularly those that result from driver distraction. It will reduce traffic congestion which will result in a reduction of CO2 emissions as well. Even a small percentage of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road can reduce the total fuel consumption by up to 40 per cent. AVs could potentially supplement public transport and cut travel time for commuters. It will also reduce demands for street and lot parking.
But what are the challenges in getting there? Even though autonomous driving offers a solution for many current traffic issues we need to resolve a lot of uncertainties. Introducing CAVs on our roads, where they will first coexist with human-driven vehicles, will potentially result in many traffic issues. It is important to establish scenarios and prepare infrastructure for autonomous cars and connected vehicles (CAVs), focusing on creating transport modelling software. Industry, governments and research are pushing the use of CAVs in real traffic to their full potential where benefits include, removing driver error to increase safety, smoothing vehicle flow to reduce emissions and reducing congestion across our road networks. The use of traffic modelling and simulation can assist decision makers by quantifying the impact of increasing levels of CAVs, helping to identify what effect this will have on future transport infrastructure.
A case in point is the research project CoEXist funded by the Horizon 2020 framework programme of the European Commission. It focuses on the interaction between semi-automated and conventional vehicles in the transitional period to fully autonomous vehicle fleets. For 18 months our PTV colleagues worked closely together with project partners from Vedecom, Renault, TASS International and the University of Stuttgart. Microscopic simulation software PTV Vissim and the macroscopic modelling software PTV Visum were used for simulations. Field data was collected in a real traffic environment. Furthermore, the data and the car-following behaviour of the automated vehicles were analysed and the modelling software was made AV ready. Now the CoEXist team will tackle the automation-readiness of road infrastructure and authorities to increase the capacity of local authorities and other urban mobility stakeholders to get ready for the transition towards a shared road network.
We believe that virtual testbed simulations provide a clear vision on planning and facilitating the execution of autonomous vehicles by inserting the vehicles in simulations in millions of miles to understand its behaviour. It is possible to build entire road networks virtually, in which a self-driving car is surrounded by many other vehicles and pedestrians. It is important to test variations of different scenarios to prepare for the adoption of autonomous vehicles for our day-to-day commuting.
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