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At times signs appear along roadways urging us to slow down, reduce speed, drive with caution and keep your eyes fixed on the road ahead. For me this is a fitting description of the season of Lent.
Fasting invites us to empty ourselves of something in the hopes that the emptiness we create will be filled with Jesus. We know He is with us and among us … but it is another thing to experience His presence!
For Lent, sometimes we give up things we enjoy – certain meals, foods and activities – to empty ourselves. But fasting can also include committing to do things. For example, caring for the needs of the poor and providing for the needs of the homeless can also be ways to fast.
How are you and your family observing Lent this year? Are you trying to make more room in your life for a more intense relationship with Jesus? If so, how? Let us know in the comment space below. Let’s inspire and motivate one another!
I pray you and your family will be able to slow down a bit during this Lenten season to experience the richness of our faith. God bless you.
Father Leo Polselli, C.S.C. is Chaplain at the Father Peyton Center in Easton, MA. Before coming to Holy Cross Family Ministries he served as a teacher and a parish priest. He also served for six years as a General Assistant of the Congregation in Rome, Italy. Originally from Fall River, MA, Father Leo grew up with eight siblings. Gifted with several languages, he is able to serve the Brazilian, Cape Verdean, Portuguese, Spanish and Haitian communities. When he's not greeting everyone who comes to the Father Peyton Center, you can find him regularly reading newspapers! | <urn:uuid:9c20e759-9668-4e82-841d-cd2cf55fcc27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.familyrosary.org/family-reflection-video-its-lent.-slow-down | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966511 | 357 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Can gardening relieve stress?
As an entrepreneur, I have really long and mostly unpredictable days. It can be stressful to always be on the move and not have any form of relaxation. We all need coping mechanisms to remain functional. I never used to have any time to exercise or do anything that would help me relax. Well, I never made the time, until I discovered gardening.
I took a conscious decision to start being more mindful of my mental health. So, I tried my hand at gardening. The effect was tremendous. Regardless of how late I got home, I made time to water my plants. I cannot explain the joy I felt when I saw my plants growing. To start from a tiny seedling to something I can harvest and eat, from my very own garden was more fulfilling than I’d imagined.
I always say that ingredients inspire me to cook. Looking at fresh spinach or green peppers, chilies and beans, I immediately start conceptualising a dish that I’m going to cook. This is how I also started cooking a lot more just for fun, using ingredients from my own garden. My plants were organic and looked picture perfect. How could i not be inspired? I now had two activities that helped me unwind, gardening and cooking.
I enjoyed gardening so much, my social media was suddenly littered with pictures of my crops and my bountiful harvests. I even started selling the little mobile gardens to my friends. I’m a scientist by training so trying out different methods to ensure the health of my plants was also an adventure I relished. I had found a semblance of peace in my crazy world. The World Economic Forum posted a video where experts say that having plants in your garden can be as effective as mindfulness sessions to reduce stress.
Researchers observed people in households that previously had no plants. After the addition of plants to their gardens, they observed that stress in those people was reduced by 6% which is similar to long-term impacts of eight weekly mindfulness sessions. Forty percent of the participants said they felt more relaxed. Okay, enough of the numbers, what I’m trying to say is that the impact my little garden had on my wellbeing was not just in my imagination. It really can be a great pick-me-up.
Enter COVID-19…My business (an online grocery store called Washesha) was all of a sudden popular. We were doing deliveries from 7am until 11pm, it had been a while since our service was that popular with households (by design). It was a crazy time after our president decided we were going to enter a national state of disaster and go into alert level 5. We weren’t able to keep up with the demand. As counterintuitive as it sounds, our online store operations had to be paused. All of a sudden, I had less to do, I didn’t know how to be productive and motivated after deciding to pause operations.
I had neglected my garden and focused solely on business after the shutdown. When my business slowed down, I couldn’t salvage my garden, I simply didn’t have the will. My once lush garden was now barren and was a reflection of how I felt inside. I was barren of ideas, I lacked motivation and the will to continue with business related activities. The stress was piling up again and I had no outlet to reduce the negative stress that was hounding me. My blog title is overly simplistic, I couldn’t garden away ALL my stress.
I struggled to get out of bed for months, every morning was a battle. I felt like such a failure for not being able to continue at full capacity with my company. Once again, I wished that I hadn’t left my steady job and decided to become a full-time entrepreneur. The self-doubt became a constant companion. I stopped working on my other business ventures. It was a struggle for me to start pursuing my other ideas again.
The reason I could get out of my funk is that in addition to gardening, I have a support system of family and friends that encourage me and help me to keep positive. This village of mine was there for me when I couldn’t turn to gardening or cooking to relax and destress. They reminded me of what I had accomplished and reinforced the fact that I wasn’t a failure. Support systems are just as important as activities that reduce stress. I am now reviving my garden and celebrating that small feat.
I also have a slight spring to my step, and I’m looking forward to seeing my new garden blossom. It’s not suprising that my garden was a deadpan representation of my emotional bedlam. As professionals and entrepreneurs, we face so many obstacles in our careers and sometimes, it just takes a bit of a push to get us back on track. I hope to always have the resilience of my mint plant that survived more than five months of neglect and still managed to look this good.
I’ll be posting pictures of the progress of my new garden so stay tuned. For now, I sip on a good old G&T garnished with my survivalist mint. | <urn:uuid:b2707ae6-b46f-4f6f-89a5-782953d52eed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kutlwanoah.medium.com/can-gardening-relieve-stress-3de3f04e4e91?source=user_profile---------5---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981609 | 1,066 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Monday Morning Motivation – Success
(Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially)
Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement — along with a good cup of coffee! — to start the day.
Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.
One of my favorite quotes is from Earl Nighingale:
- Success Is The Gradual Realization of A Worthy Ideal
The two key words here are “gradual” and “worthy”.
It is quite romantic to dream of becoming an overnight success. The reality is that the vast majority of overnight successes honed their crafts over weeks, months and years. I would go so far as to argue that success realized quickly is rarely success that is maintainable.
Similarly, success without alignment to those things that are important to you, is also rarely maintainable. That is why so many people who reach the top of the proverbial mountain they are climbing realize that they are not happy. They figure out that they climbed the wrong mountain!
With the above in mind, the question for you today is:
- Does your current path REALLY lead you to where you want to go; and, do you have the conviction to stay on that path for the next twenty years?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning and I wish you all the best for the week.
Blog posts from this past week:
- Investing in 12 Pictures – Focusing on What You Can Control
- Book Summary – The Lean Start Up
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Learn basic vocal skills necessary for a beginning vocalist. Students will begin to develop stage presence and the confidence needed to perform in front of an audience. The class will culminate with a performance.
Thursday and Friday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm
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'D.E.E.- veloping Starz': (Ages 9 - 12)
This class is for the more experienced young vocalist. Students will begin to learn how to: breath from the diaphragm, utilize vocal projection, extend their range and other vocal techniques. Positive feed-back from the instructor and class-mates will help eliminate stage fright. The class will culminate with a performance.
'D.E.E.- fining Idols': (Ages 13 - 17)
This class is the 3rd of its prerequisites and should fine-tune and refine vocal techniques typical of the experienced singer. Students should have achieved a solid understanding of diaphragmic breathing and other complex vocal techniques. The class will also have an opportunity to participate in some fundamental part-singing, and sight-singing. The class will culminate with a performance.
Specialty Vocal / Musical Groups
The 'Jr. SCV SHOWSTOPPERS' (Ages 7 to 14 - or selected according to their individual ability level)
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A 'Brand' new group - featuring 'triple-threat' (gifted in singing, dance & theatre) exceptionally talented boys and girls; The show group will perform for charity events, special city-wide and studio/network-affilliated functions.
The 'Sr. SCV SHOWSTOPPERS' (Ages 25 and up selected according to their individual ability level)
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This is the 'Adult' or 'Parent' version of the 'SCV Showstoppers' - another 'Brand' new group - featuring men and women (gifted as vocalists & musicians, with a theatrical-inclination) an exceptional group of adults. The show group will perform for community and charity events, special city-wide and studio/network-affilliated functions.
The 'DEE-vas' (Ages 12 to 14 - or selected according to their individual ability level)
[Now auditioning for a very select group of girls who will perform city-wide charity and special events - as well as - studio / network-affiliated special functions.]
The group will perform solos intertwined with themed group numbers sung in 3 & 4-part harmony; Auditions will require the ability to both sing and dance fairly well; (music styles include pop, Broadway, country, jazz, etc.). In addition, they perform as 'Carolers' for special events during the holidays. Dance and movement routines will align with their varied repertoire of songs.
The 'DEE-va-ettes' (Ages 7 to 9 - or selected according to their individual ability level)
[Now auditioning for a very select group of girls who will perform city-wide charity and special events - as well as - studio / network-affiliated special functions.] The group will sing solos intertwined with themed group numbers - in 2 & 3-part harmony; (music styles include pop, Broadway, country, etc.) The girls are also taught dance and movement routines which highlight their songs.
A ‘Hip-Hop’ Group [Boys will learn to sing in 2, 3 & 4-part harmony-similar to groups such as 'Jonas Brothers', 'In Sync' & 'The Backstreet Boys'. They will also be learn hip-hop steps and routines to compliment their songs.]
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Plant Diversity ›› 2004, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (01): 1-3.
• Articles •
SHEN YunGuang,WANG ZhongLang,GUAN KaiYun,ZHAO YuTang
First,Iris subdichotoma Y.T.Zhao was put in SubgenPardanthopsis (Hance) Baker in 1985 as its appearance is similar to Idichotoma Pall.,and then it was moved into SubgenCrossiris Spach by Dong et al.in 1999,when a clear crested appendage on outer perianth was noticed from other materials.But we prefer to regard it as a member of SubgenNepalensis (Dykes) Lawr.by reasons of possessing slender residues of withered leaves at its base,short rhizome,scape arising beyond basic leaves,blooming habit,sculpture of pollens.In addition,a white flower form of Isubdichotoma was found in wild.
Iris subdichotoma；Flower morphology；Taxonomic position
SHEN YunGuang,WANG ZhongLang,GUAN KaiYun,ZHAO YuTang. Study on the Taxonomic Position of Iris subdichotoma and a New Form[J]. Plant Diversity, 2004, 26(01): 1-3.
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Zodiac Signs Moons
In August of 2007, astronomers located a gigantic hole in the universe. This empty space, stretching nearly a billion light-years across, is devoid of any matter such as galaxies, stars, and gas, and neither does it contain the strange and mysterious dark matter, which can be detected but not seen. The large void in the Constellation Eridanus appears to be improbable given current cosmological models. A radical and controversial theory proposes that it is a "universe-in-mass black hole"
Receive the Boon of Darkness, As you would the Boon of Light, Hold no preference for either, Make ally with None. Suspend endless opinion and judgement, Allow the recognition that you are neither, Let the transparent Womb-Eye See, The totality of spectrum, Oscillate spontaneously, In the unfathomable glass-mansion, Of the vastness of Being - Annu Tara
I enjoy this work because of the extreme contrasts given. One major contrast is the color, from bright vibrant yellow hair to a dark night sky with the woman's body disappearing into it. Another contrast is the objects, from a woman's hair and body disappearing into the void of space. I think these contrasts are strong and work well for the art work | <urn:uuid:72245a1b-9ea8-42af-be60-3c110f23ce6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ru.pinterest.com/rubysreadings/moon-signs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.867707 | 392 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Readers of the southern Swedish newspaper reacted strongly to reports that police in helicopters were secretly taking photographs of potential young criminals.
The Swedish Police Force now intends to investigate the legality of its own methods.
During the autumn police in Skåne established a special command unit in reaction to a spate of robberies conducted by young moped riders and their passengers. According to the head of the robbery commission, Willy Persson, moped-related crime has recently taken on epidemic proportions.
The special unit consisted of a police helicopter, six motorbikes and four plain clothes officers. All moped riders and passengers had their photos taken and were subsequently added to a register of potential thieves.
“Taking photographs is a tried and trusted method that we use for investigations. I don’t see anything wrong with it,” Willy Persson, who led the operation, told Sydsvenskan.
The regional public prosecution office will decide whether Persson is correct in assuming that it is acceptable for police to treat youths in such a manner for the sole reason that there are two of them travelling on the same moped.
Last week’s operation resulted in the arrest of two 13-year-olds, who were stopped while attempting to make off on their moped after robbing another youth. Willy Persson wants more action taken to put a stop to moped-related crime.
“We have to put our foot down and get total commitment for the next four years. Not just a year at a time. There are 25 of us on the robbery commission. It’s like pissing in the Mississippi. It is naive to believe that we will achieve any major changes,” said Persson. | <urn:uuid:0644d7cb-9e9e-44bf-93f1-d36351f91c8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelocal.se/20061108/5448/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971574 | 353 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announced Friday that the third-largest undeveloped tract of land in Charleston County is under permanent protection through a conservation easement that supports agricultural, forestry and recreational use.
The Willtown tract, 2,101 acres of undeveloped land, contributes to a 29-mile contiguous corridor of natural habitats for wildlife. The easement will keep the property under private ownership by TNC, promoting conservation and limiting its future development.
“Willtown is a very large property, but the impact of its protection is even larger,” TNC executive director Dale Threatt-Taylor said in a press release. “The forested land will help filter and clean the water that drains from Willtown into the Edisto River and eventually the ecologically rich St. Helena Sound. And, keeping that forest working, as the conservation easement allows, will support local jobs and South Carolina’s timber industry.”
The Willtown tract fits between a federal refuge and private land, contributing to 30 years and 300,000 acres of land protection momentum, according to the press release from TNC.
“It fits like a puzzle piece between the National Wildlife Refuge and other protected lands,” Steward Terra Communications principal Jennifer Howard told City Paper.
The Willtown tract shares more than a mile of its border with the Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto river basin, commonly called the ACE Basin, one of the largest undeveloped wetland ecosystems on the Atlantic Coast.
“The ACE Basin is ground zero for migrating birds and wading birds,” Charleston County Greenbelt Program executive director Cathy Ruff said in the press release. “This network of protected lands in Charleston and neighboring counties is what keeps our rural areas authentic and maintains the character of Charleston County. It’s an invaluable stopover point for migrating birds and hugely important for all kinds of plants and wildlife.”
The Willtown tract was given high priority by the South Carolina Conservation Bank and the Charleston Greenbelt Grant Program. Additional funding was provided by TNC and the Ace Basin Task Force, and the remaining easement value was donated by the landowner.
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When innovation knocks, what do you do: let it in or shut the door?
I can almost hear our VPNCity developers shouting COUNT US IN!!
Being forever-curious and creative geeks, we at VPNCity are always open to innovation. There’s no better innovation in the VPN industry right now, than the ability to combine high-speed connection and top-notch security.
Today VPNCity is delighted to announce the release of a new VPNCity integration – WireGuard – yet another advanced cybersecurity solution.
What is WireGuard VPN?
WireGuard is a new VPN protocol that brings major changes to the VPN industry.
Modern, extremely fast, and insanely precise in its architecture, WireGuard uses state-of-the-art cryptography and is backed by thorough research. With this combination, it overshadows the current leading protocols – OpenVPN and IPSec. WireGuard consists of only 4,000 lines of code, making it easy to deploy, audit, and find bugs. To compare: OpenVPN runs on 400,000 lines of code, meaning that WireGuard would make up only 1% of the massive OpenVPN’s architecture.
What are advantages of WireGuard?
The emergence of WireGuard, a new VPN tunneling protocol, seems like a breath of fresh air in the industry, so let’s go over some key features together.
- ChaCha20 for symmetric encryption, authenticated with Poly1305
- Curve25519 for ECDH (Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman, a key agreement protocol for establishing a shared secret over an insecure channel)
- BLAKE2s for hashing and keyed hashing
- SipHash24 for hashtable keys
- HKDF for key derivation
You can learn more about WireGuard’s modern cryptography on their official website.
Simple and minimal code base
WireGuard undeniably stands out in terms of its code base, which is currently no longer than 4,000 lines.
This is in sharp contrast to OpenVPN or OpenSSL, which combined consist of over 600,000 lines. IPSec is also bulky at around 400,000 total lines with XFRM and StrongSwan together.
What are the advantages of a smaller code base?
- Easier to audit, and therefore easier to find vulnerabilities, which helps keep WireGuard secure
- Smaller attack surface in comparison to OpenVPN and IPSec
- Better performance
Speed can be a limiting factor of VPNs – for various different reasons. WireGuard is designed to establish connections and handshakes faster, and significantly improve the overall performance.
All in all, WireGuard protocol aims to outperform other protocols in terms of:
- Longer battery life with phones and tablets
- Faster connection and reconnection (faster handshake)
Cross-platform ease of use
WireGuard works across following platforms:
WireGuard Mac OS
However, whilst WireGuard offers many exciting advantages, it currently comes with some noteworthy drawbacks.
It is important to note that WireGuard is still under heavy development, and not yet recommended for general use.
Nonetheless, WireGuard might still be ideal for some users, depending on their threat model and specific needs.
So if you’re one of the curious ones and want to test it yourself, you can!
We have now released our WireGuard integration with VPNCity.
All users now have the ability to fire up a WireGuard VPN with VPNCity by clicking on the WireGuard tab inside your control panel.
To install and use WireGuard VPN click here or follow these steps:
- Head over to My Account
- Enable WireGuard on your account (click enable!)
- Choose one of the many Cities that offer Wireguard
- Either Scan the QR code direct in the Wireguard App or download and load the configuration
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In conjunction with Sarcoma Awareness month, which is commemorated annually in July, we aim to raise awareness of what is known to be the cancer people have forgotten. The fact that there is little understanding about sarcomas and the efforts to encourage fact-finding and medication development is more difficult due to a lack of awareness and comprehension.
Let’s read more on sarcoma cancer so we can have a better understanding of what we are raising our awareness for.
What is sarcoma cancer?
Sarcoma is a type of cancer that can occur in several spots in your body. Sarcoma is the common term for a wide group of cancers that occurs in the bones and in the soft-connected tissues.
Soft tissue sarcoma develops in the tissues that connect, support, and cover other body structures which include muscle, fat, blood vessels, tendons, nerves and the lining of the joints.
Sarcomas are a rare disease. International incidence rates are estimated to range between 1.8 and 5.0 cases per 100 000 per year for soft-tissue sarcomas and between 0.03 and 0.3 cases per 100 000 per year for bone sarcomas.
Mans, D., Lall, A. B., Macnack, V., Van Tholl, J., Zandveld, E., & Vrede, M. (2014, March). Incidence, and Gender, Age and Ethnic Distribution of Sarcomas. Retrieved July 14, 2022, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655658/
Who is affected by sarcoma?
Sarcoma can occur in both children and adults. In general, soft tissue sarcoma happens more frequently in adults. For bone sarcoma diagnoses, it occurs more often in children, teens, and adults above 65 years old.
What causes sarcoma?
Sarcomas develop when immature bone or soft tissues made changes to their DNA, which leads to forming cancer cells that grow disorderly. They might in the end, form a tumor or mass that invades healthy tissues that are closed to them.
When you leave it untreated, it can move through your bloodstream or lymphatic system from the starting location where it first formed to other organs (metastasis). Metastasized cancer is known to be difficult to treat.
As with other forms of cancer, researchers do not know what causes a healthy cell to change into sarcoma.
What are the risk factors associated with sarcoma?
Some factors might increase your risk of developing sarcoma. These includes:
Exposure to chemicals
Exposure to arsenic and some other chemicals used for plastic manufacturing (vinyl chloride monomer), herbicides (phenoxyacetic acid) and wood preservatives like chlorophenols.
Exposed to high doses of radiation from past cancer treatments.
Lymphedema is the build-up of fluid in soft body tissues when the lymph system is damaged or blocked which results to long-term swelling in your arms or legs.
Certain diseases and chromosome mutations can be inherited like Gardner syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau disease, Werner syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, Gorlin syndrome, retinoblastoma, La-Fraumeni syndrome, and also neurofibromatosis type-1.
What are the symptoms of sarcoma?
Soft tissue sarcomas are difficult to notice as they can form anywhere in your body but some sarcomas may not cause noticeable signs in the early stages.
For some sarcomas, you may experience a painless lump under your skin, while some others do not pain you until they grow big enough to put pressure on an organ.
Other sarcomas can also cause a long period of bone pain or swelling in your arms or legs that can aggravate at night. These changes may put a limit on your physical movement.
- A new limp that may or may not hurt
- Experience extreme pain in your arm, leg, abdomen, or pelvis
- Limited range of motion of your arm or leg
- Back pain
- Unexplainable weight loss
Sarcoma shares the same signs and symptoms with other conditions or diseases. Your doctor or healthcare provider can assist to determine whether your symptoms are correlating with sarcoma or other diseases.
How is sarcoma diagnosed?
Your doctor or healthcare provider will start with a thorough medical history and physical examination. You may need to go through special tests like a biopsy to obtain a tissue sample to diagnose the exact type of sarcoma you have conditioned.
The following tests may be used when making a diagnosis:
X-ray uses a small amount of radiation to take images of the bones and soft tissues in your body.
Computed tomography (CT) scan
A CT scan is a method to diagnose by using computers to combine many x-ray images into cross-sectional views of your insides.
Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)
An MRI, large magnets, radio waves, and a computer are used to generate clear images of your insides. MRI can also create more detailed pictures of your body if an x-ray shows something unusual.
The bone scan is a method of diagnosis where your healthcare provider will inject a small amount of radioactive material into your body to identify any bone disorders like bone sarcoma.
A PET scan uses a designated glucose tracer that holds on to cells by using high levels of glucose, like cancer cells. PET scan allows you to see which parts of the body that has unusually high amounts of glucose levels, suspecting a tumor.
A biopsy is a method of diagnosis where your health provider removes a piece of tissue from your tumor and has it tested in a lab. A pathologist will analyze the tissue under a microscope to see detect a sarcoma.
This method helps your provider to understand what kind of sarcoma you are conditioned for and which treatments are suitable.
What are the stages of sarcoma?
The purpose of cancer staging is to have a better understanding of how severe a sarcoma is and what treatments are the most effective. A doctor or health provider classifies most sarcoma cases based on the TNM classification system:
T – Describe the size and location of the primary tumor
N – Describes whether cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes
M – Describes whether cancer has metastasized (spread to other organs)
Your doctor or healthcare provider might determine what grade (G) your cancer is. The grading system provides information based on the appearance of the cancer cells including how much they resemble regular cells.
Technically, the more normal the cancer cells look, the better you are with your prognosis. They use this information to put a grading to your sarcoma. They assign a number from 1 to 4 to grade your stage.
The higher the number, the more cancerous your condition is, which has grown locally or spread across your body. Different types of sarcoma come with different staging criteria.
How is sarcoma treated?
Sarcoma is treated differently, depending on what type you are diagnosed with, where it is located in your body, how fully developed it is, and whether or not it has spread across your body or is metastasized.
Through surgery, it takes the tumor out of your body. Typically in most cases of osteosarcoma, the doctor can remove only the cancer cells, and you won’t need to be amputated.
This method of treatment can shrink the tumor before surgery or kill the remaining cancer cells after surgery. This could be the primary treatment if surgery is not suitable for your condition.
Medication can also be used to treat sarcoma instead of proceeding with surgery. Chemo is commonly the first treatment to be suggested when cancer has spread.
There are newer treatments introduced that use medications or man-made versions of antibodies from the immune system to stop the cancer cells from growing while unharming the normal cells.
What is the survival rate of sarcoma?
Most people who are diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma are treated by only surgery but if the tumor is low-grade, it means that is not likely to spread across the body. Higher stages of sarcomas are difficult to treat successfully.
The survival rate for osteosarcoma is between 60% and 75% if the cancer has not yet spread outside of the area it is formed. It is possible to be cured if all of the cancer can be removed successfully through surgery.
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The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) told a Parliamentary committee looking into the beef industry that slaughter capacity is tight.
It also said small and medium-sized packers have trouble competing with the efficiencies of the largest packers. They also have more difficulty meeting regulatory standards.
Eastern Canada was tight on slaughter capacity even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCA said, with utilization at 90 per cent since 2017.
Last year packing plants were at full capacity of 12,550 cattle per week.. The year before, a 13,250 capacity was used 98 percent.
“This resulted in longer feeding periods, increased costs and lower prices for producers,” the CCA said.
“This capacity shortage has been particularly acute during the fall and winter months where producers are experiencing delivery and processing delays and a negative price spread to other regions,” CCA said.
Closure at Cargill’s Guelph facility in December because of COVID-19 resulted in an estimated backlog of 10,000-15,000 head of cattle during the two-week period.
The set-aside program put in place by the federal government during the pandemic helped bring “stability to the market” but a backlog of 10,000 to 15,000 head of cattle remains, according to the CCA.
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Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish refugee from Poland, coined the word genocide in 1944 to describe what was happening in German‐occupied Europe. Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1944)
In 1948, the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention, which requires governments to “undertake to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.”
- Article 1 The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
- Article 2 In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
International Accountability for Crime Against Humanity
After holocaust, Prosecution of top Nazi leaders at Nuremberg established the principle that individual officials could be held responsible for “crimes against humanity” and for implementation of policies that violated international law
Tribunals created by the United Nations Security Council are trying government officials for crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda,
What are the Crime Against Humanity ?
“Crimes against humanity” include any of the following acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
} deportation or forcible transfer of population;
} rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy,
enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of
} persecution against an identifiable group on political, racial,
national, ethnic, cultural, religious or gender grounds;
} enforced disappearance of persons;
} the crime of apartheid;
} other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing
great suffering or serious bodily or mental injury.
International Protection of Human Rights
Before the Holocaust, international efforts to oppose human rights abuses were limited to other country territory.
As a result of holocaust, the recognition that the protection of human rights is an international concern expanded dramatically with the 1948 adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
When the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany became apparent after the war, the consensus within the world community was that the United Nations Charter did not sufficiently define the rights to which it referred. A universal declaration that specified the rights of individuals was necessary to give effect to the Charter’s provisions on human rights.
Protections for Refugees
} During the Nazi era, Jews fleeing the Germans and their collaborators often found that entry to other countries, including the United States, was barred.
} Later in 1951, under the United Nation Refugee Convention, governments promised not to return refugees to places where their life or freedom would be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Reconciliation Between Christian and Jews
The Nazis exploited centuries of negative Christian teachings about Jews and Judaism to foment hatred and promote their own racist, anti‐Semitic policies
Mainstream Christian churches—Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox—failed as institutions to protest or systematically oppose Nazi persecution of Jews.
In 2000 during a historic visit to Jerusalem, Pope John Paul II expressed sorrow for “the hatred, acts of persecution, and displays of anti‐Semitism directed against Jews by Christians at any time and in any place.”
Idea of a Jewish Homeland
During the rule of Nazis in Germany, most Jews who sought to escape Nazi persecution were trapped in German‐occupied Europe because virtually no nation was willing to admit large numbers of Jews, even on a temporary basis.
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What We Do Online & On-the-Ground
This WGC community of practice provides many forms of dialogue, information sharing and learning. As in any community, the strength and power of Women’s Global Connection comes from the contributions of the participants. We welcome you to become a member of the community. We encourage on-line interaction that is respectful and appreciative of diversity in thought and expression through these portals.
A space to share stories and strategies of working for personal, social, economic and political change in our local communities.
Facilitated discussions among co-learners and teams engaged in a learning, leadership or research projects.
Ongoing collection of our community memory and tools for research.
2007 was a time of rapid development in our field programs in Zambia and Tanzania. In Mongu, Zambia, we held the Teacher Training Institute, four weeks of training with 30 under-prepared teachers, and began the on-line mentoring program with 8 of them, which is progressing far better than we had ever expected as they work with beginning teachers. WGC has the first staff member in Mongu, who coordinates this program. Additionally, we have four Zambian partners collaborating with us in this program.
With our support, Masupa Nzila Women’s Cooperative held the first Women’s Economic Conference in Mongu, Zambia for over 100 women, bringing a new visibility to women in the region.. One of our volunteers, Tere Dresner spearheaded the start of a revolving loan fund for the Masupa Nzila Cooperative with a seed grant.
In Tanzania, the Bukoba Women’s Empowerment Association jumped into a whole new level of development, opening an office and hiring their first staff person. The soy and nutrition program, incubated through WGC, is going strong. BUWEA has strengthened their commercial farming project, which allows them to connect with 150 women in 27 cooperatives in surrounding villages. They are connected in local networks with government agencies and are developing their reputation as an empowerment agent for women.
Hekima Secondary School in Bukoba has achieved the ranking of 6th in their zone of over 200 schools. They are fast becoming a school of choice in their area for girls, while surviving on very minimal resources. They attribute a great deal of their success to the technology infrastructure and teacher training that WGC has helped them secure.
The Reach-Out Africa immersion trips were a great success. Throughout the year, 21 individual trips occurred to Africa, 2/3 of them were financed by the volunteers, themselves. The Educational Forum we held in September at UIW, where 17 of our volunteers gave testimony to their learning, was demonstrated evidence of the power of these experiences for personal and professional growth. | <urn:uuid:01c76348-4ca7-4d56-92e1-8d7f0f26ee76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womensglobalconnection.org/about-us/what-we-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967207 | 591 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Dogs can be very nervous in new and unfamiliar places or situations. We use acepromazine to help treat certain types of dog anxiety or destructive behaviors. In this article, we will learn more about acepromazine for dogs: dosage, reviews, and side effects.
Acepromazine dose for dogs
The typical dose of acepromazine for dogs is 0.25 to 1 mg per pound of body weight.
|Dog’s weight (lbs)||Acepromazine dosage (tablet)|
|10 pounds||1/2 tablet of 10 mg|
|20 pounds||1 tablet of 10 mg|
|30 pounds||1 and 1/2 tablets of 10 mg|
|40 pounds||1 tablet of 25 mg|
|60 pounds||1 and 1/2 tablets of 25 mg|
|80 pounds||2 tablets of 25 mg|
NOTE: It is best to follow the dosing instructions given by your veterinarian. If you are uncertain about how much acepromazine to give, contact your veterinarian or pharmacist for help in determining the correct dose for your pet.
Acepromazine for dogs reviews
Acepromazine is the most common tranquilizer used in veterinary medicine. It is used to treat anxiety and behavioral issues in dogs. Acepromazine works by blocking the action of dopamine, a natural chemical in the brain that helps control movement and sensation.
Side effects of acepromazine for dogs include sedation, depression, incoordination, low blood pressure, and slower heart rate or breathing.
Acepromazine has been known to cause liver damage in some dogs, so it should not be administered if your dog has liver problems. It should not be given to pregnant or lactating animals or those with heart disease.
It would be very difficult to overdose a dog on acepromazine because of its relatively low toxicity. However, it is possible that an overdose could cause side effects such as slow breathing rate, low blood pressure, and heart rate.
The occurrence of acute overdose with acepromazine seems rare, but there are reports in the medical literature of dogs receiving up to 100 mg per pound without severe toxicity or death.
Pet owners say that acepromazine for dogs can be used to help reduce anxiety and stress in dogs. It is also used to treat nervousness and fearfulness in dogs, as well as aggression problems caused by environmental changes.
“I have been using Acepromazine on my dog for a few years now and I have tried others in the past. I started using this one when our vet recommended it because it has no significant side effects at all. My dog was having some restless leg syndrome so I thought that this might help her get some rest. It has worked wonders for us and we will continue to use it from now on.”
“This is the best sedative medication for dogs. It is not addictive and has no side effects. I have been using it on my dogs for over 3 years and have never had any problems with it.”
“I have a 9-year-old black lab and she has a lot of anxiety. She will go into hiding if she doesn’t know where you are or what you’re doing. I have tried everything from calming pills to acupuncture. I’ve tried other methods for anxiety but nothing has worked as well as this medication. It’s also been amazing for her behavior at home, she no longer wants to chew on anything or jump on people (which used to happen constantly).”
How long does it take for acepromazine to wear off in dogs?
It can take up to 8 hours for acepromazine to wear off after it has been administered. Always consult your veterinarian before giving this sedative to your dog or cat.
Tramadol and acepromazine together for dogs?
You can give your dog trazodone and acepromazine together but it is recommended to consult your veterinarian about this. Many people choose to give their dogs a combination of both medications in order to get the best results from their treatment.
If you want to give your dog both these drugs, it is best to avoid giving them at the same time and wait for a few hours after one drug has been administered before giving the other.
Conclusion of dosing dogs with Acepromazine
Acepromazine is a sedative drug that can be used for dogs to calm them down and help them relax. It’s sometimes given to dogs who are suffering from anxiety or panic attacks. Acepromazine also may be used to control aggression in dogs who are not responding to behavior training.
Acepromazine is available as a tablet, injection, or suspension. Acepromazine can be given as an injection or orally. The dose varies depending on the weight of the dog being treated, but it can range from 0.25 mg to 1 mg per pound of body weight.
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Our Electroformed Standard and Micro Gold Mesh is certified 99.9% pure. Pure soft gold is the most malleable and ductile metal, and is used as a conductor of heat and electricity. Gold resists corrosion, and is often used to coat other metals to protect them from oxidation, or to offer reflectivity. As a result of these and other properties, there are many uses for Electroformed Gold Mesh.
Whether you are looking for a pure gold mesh, a custom part, or one that is nickel or copper with a coating of gold, we will work with you to manufacture the best product for your application.
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- Consistent and Accurate – Our additive manufacturing process provides repeatable aperture dimensions for the most accurate filtration capability. Complex designs can be reproduced with near exactness.
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Have you ever noticed how shockingly painful a paper cut can be? Very often curse words emanate as pain emerges. How is it these sorts of experiences can be so painful, yet the moment professional surfer Bethany Hamilton lost her arm to a 14-foot tiger shark she described feeling no pain at all? How is that even possible? How can an individual lose an entire appendage and not be in agonising pain?
One thing is for certain, pain is decidedly complex. Yet, what the literature helps us to distinguish is that pain relies on context, and our nervous system is constantly evaluating its environment for anything that it perceives as being potentially threatening. And when pain ultimately emerges, it’s an experience that is impossible to ignore.
Consider this: if your appendix becomes inflamed, would it not be advantageous (as a species) to have an innate system that recognises the imminent threat of an inflamed organ and to then correspondingly produce an output of pain? You better believe it. In these instances, pain acts as a conduit for communication that, if left ignored, could have disastrous consequences.
If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything is a nail. And if the only lens you look through is anatomical, then everything is either tight, weak, overactive or underactive. A health and wellness professional who denounces a ‘tight muscle’ or an ‘overly pronated subtalar joint’ as being the sole culprit behind an individual’s pain experience has performed an incomplete analysis.
Multiple variables, expanding beyond the optics of biomechanical and connective tissue principles, must be considered. The story of Bethany serves as a reminder that tissue damage can indeed occur without the onset of pain. In the end, understanding a client’s pain experience requires a diverse and multifaceted outlook.
A unified framework – a biopsychosocial approach
Introduced in 1977 by George Engel, the biopsychosocial model is a comprehensive and unified framework integrating a full spectrum of biological, psychological and sociocultural perspectives. Its central premise asserts that health and wellness are inextricably intertwined with biological, psychological and social factors. It’s a multilayered, multi-systems perspective which helps conceptualise why ‘stuff’ hurts.
And when we consider an individual’s pain experience, a vast matrix of biological, psychological and social ingredients is in play. For instance, think about the long-distance runner whose knee pain (bio) has become so severe they can no longer go for their after-run coffee and conversation (psychosocial) with their running group.
Fears regarding movement, of pain worsening or not going away, or fear of not being part of a peer group all heighten levels of psychological distress and social anxiety. In other words, when pain persists, the areas in life which hold the most meaning for an individual become negatively impacted by chronic pain.
The biopsychosocial model – tailored for all shapes and sizes
There’s no denying the complexities involved in working with people in chronic pain. Serving clients who experience chronic pain is much like being a tailor. A tailor considers multiple dimensions into their analysis and thought process.
Diversification is personified and driven by the uniqueness of each individual. A tailor’s objective is clear: to enter the client’s world and uncover their specific and subjective needs. The same objective holds true for health and fitness professionals. If you can enter your client’s world and understand their unique biopsychosocial needs, then you’ll have accomplished something truly special in your client’s eyes.
Admittedly, viewing pain through a biopsychosocial lens is not an easy process at first; in fact, it’s an effort-full endeavour. Just the thought of stepping outside our comfort zone can sometimes prevent us from even having the courage to get started.
But, when your commitment is to serve, the scale with which your influence can reach expands immensely. And viewing chronic pain through a three-dimensional, biopsychosocial perspective can help refine your ability to create lasting and positive reverberations for your clients.
And when challenges in your learning curve arise (which they will), remember that even amidst the waves of uncertainty, you’re interacting with another human being and not a mechanistic instrument. So be kind, be empathetic and, as often as possible, seek to understand an individual’s story from a three-dimensional perspective.
How about learning more in our ongoing education ‘Pain-Free Movement Specialist‘ with Kevin Murray and Anthony Carey?
Kevin Murray MA, CCC, CAFS holds a Master’s in counselling psychology and is the founder of Movement Masterminds, director of education for Function First, creator of the Yellow Brick Road and co-creator of the Pain-Free Movement Specialist certification. Kevin has featured in publications including Fitness Informer magazine, the American Council on Exercise, the National Post and the Vancouver Sun. In 2012, he was the inaugural recipient of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology’s (CSEP) Certified Personal Trainer of the Year Award. | <urn:uuid:7fbe52df-2591-453f-ad27-8ff2faa45aa1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fitpro.com/blog/client-chronic-pain-biopsychosocial-perspective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929787 | 1,088 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The Ohio State University Health Plan is here to help you improve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The Weight Management resources will help you develop a long term lifestyle to improve your overall health, well-being and quality of life by maintaining a healthy weight through diet, exercise and mindful intentions.
What you need to know
Through the OSU Health Plan Weight Management resources, you will learn what weight management is, gain an overview of how to calculate your body mass index, learn how and why it is important to maintain a healthy weight and have the ability to connect with the Health Plan Wellness Team.
BMI Weight Management Overview
In this self-guided weight management BMI overview you will learn what a healthy body mass index is and how to calculate your own. General nutrition guidelines and optimal portion sizes are outlined to assist you in reaching and maintaining your ideal healthy weight. Next, you will be introduced to the recommend exercise guidelines and learn about the benefits of engaging in routine cardio, strength and flexibility training. Finally, you will learn about hydration, sleep and mindfulness and be able to create your own smart goals to support your journey to achieving your own healthy lifestyle.
Resources to get started
Additional content and resources includes printable materials to track caloric intake, create a customized schedule to jump start your healthy routine and a SMART Goal outline to begin the intentional process of thinking about and writing out goals you wish to achieve.
- Daily Fuel Log. This will help you track your daily caloric intake to allow you to understand your calorie consumption and make the necessary adjustments to help you reach your goals.
- Time Finder. Fill in your daily schedule to see where you have an extra block of time. This will help you create a customized schedule to jump start your healthy routine.
- Creating a SMART Goal. This outline will help you create and set meaningful goals. The act of writing out your goals will assist you in setting clear intentions and give you a road map to help guide you toward success.
- Meditation Apps. Check out the most recent list of apps available to download.
Additional supporting handouts from accredited sources outlining multiple areas of wellness.
- ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Nutrition
- ACLM Adult Plate (Plant Based)
- ACLM Lifestyle Activity
- ACLM Lifestyle Stress Reduction
- ACLM Lifestyle Sleep Health
- ACLM Take Time For Self Care
- How to Start Health Restoration
Online Educational Programs
A variety of educational videos are available to guide your weight management goals. Search by topic on the Classes and Events page for videos related to healthy eating, active living, weight management, and more.
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The lives of healthy and sick people are structured according to a variety of conceptual matrices. One of these matrixes consists of philosophical, spiritual, and religious convictions, being this especially relevant in the process of the end of life. The objective of the study is to understand the meaning that individuals at the end of life and the relatives of such individuals award spiritual and/or religious beliefs through an examination of caregiver narratives. Multicentric study was developed that used a qualitative design and a phenomenological approach. The study was conducted in the autonomous community of Andalusia, specifically in the provinces of Almeria, Malaga, Seville, Granada, and Huelva. The selection method was purposive sampling. Caregivers who had lost a relative in a period between 2 months and 2 years previously and who were not in a process of pathological grieving were selected for inclusion in the study. The method involved five discussion groups and 41 in-depth interviews, with a total of 87 participants. A change of paradigms is necessary in which, among other elements, the focus of palliative care is centered on the ability to address these spiritual needs, and healthcare professionals are trained to assist in the provision of such care. Another important consideration is the inequality of spiritual supported provided by clergy from various religions. At least in the cultural context of the research, Catholic chaplains were the only institutional figures whose presence was assumed necessary by health organizations. However, the cultural and/or religious diversity in the autonomous community in which the study was conducted is increasingly broad and complex. It appears necessary to incorporate a variety of clergies in health units so that all patients may find support, whether in terms of companionship or celebration. | <urn:uuid:87c5ef12-8680-4273-820a-9fc81a33e7df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wels.open.ac.uk/research-project/caren/node/6136 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970299 | 349 | 1.765625 | 2 |
How we see it
Title IX training builds a safer campus, but only if it’s comprehensive and engaging.
A new population on campus now knows how to appropriately report and respond to instances of sexual assault or harassment: members of fraternities and sororities. They have been trained so they have the knowledge and resources needed to react to instances of sexual assault or harassment — a worthy goal.
But the training itself may have fallen short.
It’s great that administrators chose to make Title IX training mandatory for these students. But this training needs to be more engaging to actually make the hoped-for impact.
Jana Lynn Patterson, dean of Student Health and Wellness, requested that all members of the fraternity and sorority community train in Title IX policies so they are able to support each other and assist in reporting in case of any incidents, Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) Dan Faill said in an email.
Members of FSL were trained through an online Moodle course that allowed students to complete the training at their convenience. But it came at the cost of the training’s educational impact.
In the course, students took quizzes based on informational slides to demonstrate their understanding of Title IX policies. To pass the course, students had to answer all questions on all nine topics — a total of 30 questions — correctly. Students could take the quizzes an unlimited number of times until they got all questions correct.
Giving students unlimited attempts reduced any risk or challenge involved. Students didn’t even have to read the information to pass — they could guess on the quiz, look at the correct answers to the questions they got wrong and take it again until they got it right. Yes, students were forced to look over the information as they read the quiz questions, but the chances that they retained all — or any — of that knowledge is low.
According to a slide in one of the presentations that make up the course, the Title IX training program is designed to provide definitions of terms associated with Title IX violations, among other things.
Everyone — students, administrators, professors, staff and anyone else on campus — should understand what Title IX means and how it needs to be applied, and requiring members of FSL to take the training course is a step in that direction.
But great ideas do nothing when they’re poorly implemented. If the university is going to require FSL members to take the training, they need to put enough funds, planning and effort into it to make it as impactful and helpful as it’s meant to be. If the university is going to prioritize Title IX training for everyone in the FSL community, then it needs to take it seriously and do better than an online course.
Require everyone to attend training sessions in person, or build a more challenging online course. Offer optional sessions for people who want to learn more. If this is going to be a priority, treat it as one. Let’s make a commitment to put the time and energy necessary into making Title IX the protective law it’s meant to be. | <urn:uuid:34517f44-0af8-48bc-879e-5a3060df35ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.elonnewsnetwork.com/article/2015/10/title-ix-training | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961967 | 637 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Governor Inslee announced several climate-related proposals for the 2022 legislative session, including offering rebates on electric vehicles to qualified buyers.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Governor Jay Inslee is proposing a plan to provide rebates for new and used electric vehicles, in addition to the sales tax exemption that currently exists for such vehicles in the State.
Under the proposal, rebates of up to $7,500 would be available for new electric sedans under $55,000 and under $80,000 for new vans, sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks. The rebate drops to $5,000 for used vehicles, and a $1,000 rebate would be offered for zero-emission motorcycles and e-bikes.
People would be eligible for refunds if they earned less than $250,000 per year or less than $500,000 per year for co-filing households.
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Low-income drivers, meaning people with incomes below $61,000, would be eligible for an additional $5,000 rebate on the purchase of a new or used electric vehicle.
Inslee’s $626 million budget proposal also includes other clean transportation investments, such as “cleaner fuel ferries,” statewide electric vehicle charging infrastructure, clean bus technology and improvements to public transport, cycling and pedestrian infrastructure.
Inslee’s proposal also aims to increase the clean energy workforce and extend energy performance standards for existing buildings. He said strengthening energy codes for new buildings will help the state reduce annual emissions by more than 6 million metric tons, which will help meet the state’s 2030 emissions goal.
“We’ve made good progress in our state, but it’s not enough, and we need to do more. Now is the time to act boldly and quickly – to protect the planet and grow our economy with clean energy jobs,” Inslee said. | <urn:uuid:dec0f0f4-4446-4efb-ae8a-501bf36d1b28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jusprimaenoctis.net/inslee-unveils-climate-proposals-ahead-of-budget-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950962 | 415 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless Potter, a hopelessly inept dentist who heads west to seek his fortune. Meanwhile, buxom female outlaw Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is engaged in undercover work on behalf of the government, in the hopes of earning a pardon for her past crimes. Jane is on the lookout for notorious gun-runner Robert Armstrong. To put up an innocent front, Jane marries the befuddled Potter, then keeps the criminals at bay by convincing everyone that Potter is a rootin'-tootin' gunslinger (actually, it's Jane who's been doing all the shooting). Armstrong, who has been selling guns to the Indians, arranges for Jane to be captured by the scalp-hungry tribesmen, but Potter comes to the rescue. Somewhere along the way, Bob Hope and Jane Russell get to sing the Oscar-winning Jay Livingston/Ray Evans tune "Buttons and Bows". There are many hilarious moments in The Paleface, but screenwriter Frank Tashlin felt that director Norman Z. McLeod failed to get the full comic value out of his material. To prove his point, Tashlin directed the side-splitting sequel, Son of Paleface (1952), which once more teamed Hope and Russell.
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When it comes to Jazz music I become immersed in a culture that is deep rooted in history. The genre is able to draw inspiration from different styles of music through improvisation becoming a familiar common ground for contemporary jazz listeners.
“I Love You” is a song by singer Kea Michaels who among many artists go for the original vocal excursion of reaching a range that is more fluid and natural. Kea Michaels with her single comes close to being a very humbling experience in the modern music scene falling shy of holding much appeal for her fans.
The musician is very composed making her good at being more present and in clear view of her audience. While most audiophiles would expect to be awed by diverse elements in the mix it comes down to whether the singer is apt in incorporating traditional styles of composition.
Through her own means Kea Michaels fascinates us with an illusion of referencing something that is coherent with a slow and sentimental version of a romantic musical. The musician looks promising to reach high levels of creativity. This calls for her to dig deeper beneath the surface and employ an imaginative tinge.
One artist that comes to mind is Ella Fitzgerald who did commendable projects that enabled her to establish a platform for her to become a force to reckon with in jazz music. Ella Fitzgerald had unforgettable and yet simple melodies that balanced her own gifted vocals that were irresistable to the human ear.
Ella Fitzgerald made impeccable music that transcended generations able to cement her place in popular culture. Over the course of her work Ella Fitzgerald made it her sole responsibility of being profoundly classy. Coming out with amazing records such as “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” and “Cry Me A River“, you can clearly hear the way her voice breaks, doing so with precision.
I come to understand that Kea Michaels is a talented singer creating a material that is sensible in reflecting a performance that is fully alive and within a new sense of expression. If Kea Michaels wants to appear alongside great musicians who put out unrivaled discographies, it is instrumental for her to support her creativity with deep emotional writing that is vivid in contrast. I would like to hear new music from the artist that would offer a magnetic experience. | <urn:uuid:1194283d-af44-4f16-b65c-ad84a3da1999> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pumpitupmagazine.com/i-love-you-by-kea-michaels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971308 | 461 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Remittances made up 2% of the Colombia’s GDP in 2019 and they play an important part in helping Colombians living abroad to support their communities back home.
2020 was predicted to be a record year for international money transfer, but the Covid-19 pandemic changed everything.
According to the Pew Research Centre, year-on-year money transfer fell sharply in April and May directly due to Covid-19. However, compared to the equivalent months in 2019, the period between June and September has actually seen an increase in money transfer to Colombia, as many of those living overseas are doing everything they can to provide financial support.
How do you send money home?As well as this increase in remittance, less people are choosing to send money via banks. They are no longer the number one choice for ex-pat Colombians [ Eastern Eye].
Instead, people that want to transfer money are relying on fast, efficient and cost-effective remittance companies like Small World more and more.
So why are banks being replaced as the most popular way to send money to Colombia? What can the alternative offer you?
Should you choose Small World, or a bank?
Many people still choose to transfer money internationally through banks. But there are several reasons that explain why banks are no longer the most popular choice for sending money to Colombia. These include:
- Cheaper options: Banks are often more expensive. In terms of both exchange rates and transfer fees, they often provide less value for money than money transfer platforms.
- More efficient: Companies like Small World offer a range of fast and efficient online services. And with more people choosing to send money to Colombia online we are a preferred option.
- Your recipient can be unbanked. With Small World your beneficiary can be unbanked when you send money.
- Customer service: Our local branches and agents are able to provide additional support for your friends and family in Colombia if they have any questions.
- Your first digital transfer with us is also transfer-fee free. This can saving you even more money (especially if that first transfer is for a large amount).
- Experience. As an experienced and regulated company we handle over 1m transactions every month. Our 15m customers trust us. Small World is here to make money transfer work for you.
What are the best ways to send money to Colombia?
Bank Deposit:Colombian Pesos can be transferred online, through the Small World app, via a branch or over the phone with one of our call center operators. You can send money directly to a Colombian bank account in minutes.
Mobile Wallet:The digital equivalent of a physical wallet, a mobile wallet is able to receive digital payments. This blog on the Small World website explains more.
Cash Pick-Up:For those who don’t have a bank account or prefer to pick-up cash, Small World has over 2,500 pick-up locations in Colombia where cash can be collected in person.
The different ways to send money to Colombia:
1. Cash Pick-Up
2. Bank Deposit
3. Mobile Wallet
4. Airtime Top-up
And remember, your first online transaction is fee-FREE.
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Visit Thailand: Exploring the City of Bangkok
When people think of traveling to Southeast Asia, the one country that probably pops to mind is Thailand. Thailand is one of the most popular countries in Asia, drawing visitors from all over the world, daily. The weather, the people, the sites, and even the many islands that you can explore can give you an experience that is specific to the Thai culture you may have heard about or been wanting to experience. With all the cities that are available in Thailand, Bangkok is probably the most well known.
Bangkok populates more than eight million people and its population is booming with new people and tourists coming, daily. Located in the southern region of Thailand, there is lively activity that brings excitement to every moment here. You will notice that Bangkok has many elaborate shrines and busy street life. When you come to this city, be prepared for the warm weather, as well. It can get a bit hot with the humidity. Yet, what is there to exactly see in Bangkok?
When you come to this city, be prepared to get out your walking shoes. There are many things to see. The most popular shrines and temples to see start with Wat Arun. This temple sits riverside and also holds a beautiful shrine. This is one of the most popular sites for spirituality and for visitation in Bangkok. There is also the Wat Phra Kaew. This site has a sacred shrine that holds the Buddha highly and you will find many devoted people coming here for renewed hope. This is also a popular site that contains Thai culture of religious tradition. Wat Pho is another site that holds deep structure, shrines, and a religious area for temple visitors. With its large popularity, you may want to come here early or make sure you have enough time at this temple.
There are other sites of religious background that you can visit in Bangkok. You may have heard of the golden Buddha. This is a beautifully crafted statue that is said to hold a deep representation of the Buddha’s wisdom. Every temple and shrine in Thailand has religious roots that dive deep into the history of past tradition and they are waiting for you to visit. You may notice they can get crowded with visitors as well as religious followers, so make sure to be respectful when you go to visit. Beyond the temples, make sure to check out the Grand Palace. This palace was built in 1782 and is the official royal residence in this town and it sits in the heart of Bangkok.
If you head on over to Thailand, make sure to check out Bangkok. This city is filled with deep culture that represents what Thailand values. Every temple, palace, and street is filled with some exciting adventure and it should not be missed out on.
Visit Thailand: Bangkok Activities
When you go to Bangkok, you may become overwhelmed with the amount of activities that are available. In fact, you may want to even schedule your days and time in this city based on what you want to see. There are many areas for tourist sighting, food, exploration, and even relaxation. Yet, where exactly should you go in Thailand and what is there to see beyond the amazing temples and palaces?
Starting with Khaosan Road, you can explore the street life of Thailand. This street is quite short, but has amazing nightlife and is popular with backpackers. You can get good food, beer, and an amazing time on this street. It is known by many tourists and locals. Yaowarat Road is another area that is popular in Bangkok. This area is in Chinatown and is known for artery. In fact, if your in the area of Chinatown, it is suggested to explore. There are many different shopping areas to see and you can get amazing deals in this cultural haven. If you want to go further with shopping, there are many malls in Bangkok to explore that are quite intense with every store you can think of, known and unknown. There are places like Central world and the MBK Center. Most of these malls are near each other, so bring your walking shoes or you can use public transportation. Bangkok also has many markets for shopping to explore, from night ones to day ones. It is suggested to see if they are occurring when you are in town and check the times as well.
If you want to experience nature while you are in Bangkok, there are a few parks you can check out. Lumphini Park offers a nature area for relaxation and exploration. There is even a lake that you can enjoy. You may also want to look at King Rama XI Park, which has areas for relaxation, jogging, and beautiful nature. Although Bangkok is a busy city, it is also one that should be used in enjoyment. In fact, something that Thailand is very much known for is massages. After the long days of walking around and visiting sites, it is highly recommended to get a foot massage or if you are feeling extravagant, a full body massage. If any country knows how to do this, it would be this one and massages are extremely cheap here.
When you are in a city like Thailand, you want to get everything you can out of this country and finding the hidden spots for shopping, relaxation, and tourist sighting will make it all worth it.
Visit Thailand: The City of Chiang Mai
When you head to a place like Thailand, you will notice that there are many places to explore. From the large cities to the small ones and to everything in between, there is something about this country that is filled with culture that radiates. Beyond Bangkok, Chiang Mai is the other large city that is extremely popular to visit and it is located in the Northern region of Thailand. This city was founded in 1296 and was the capital of the Lanna Kingdom until 1558. Yet, what is the city of Chiang Mai now?
Chiang Mai now holds the past religious Old City of Chiang Mai in reserve. When you visit this city, you will see the remaining moats, walls, and religious roots that remain from the old times that this city held. The cultural passion of Lanna Kingdom is still held high, today. If you want to explore the religious aspects of Thailand, you will want to head up to Chiang Mai. This city has many Buddhist temples that are quite elaborate and historically rooted. Yet, when you are in Chiang Mai, what is there to see?
Starting with the many elaborate temples, you will want to go and explore Wat Phra Singh. This Buddhist temple is restored from the 14th century and is a well-known religious temple. There is also Wat Chedi Luang, which is a temple that is known for its ruined chedi. You may see many Thai people coming to this sight, daily, and you will also feel the religious roots that remain alive through this country. Finally, you will want to go and visit Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. This site is a sacred temple to many Thai people and holds the storied white elephant. These are just a few of the amazing sites in this grand city and it is recommended to explore more, if you have the time. Yet, what else is there besides the temples of Chiang Mai?
Many people head up to Northern Thailand to spend time with the beautiful creatures that reside up past Chiang Mai. The Elephant Nature Park can give you an extraordinary experience within the rescue center in Thailand through tours, interactions, and feeding these amazing animals. If you have time and a chance to visit this place, it is recommended as it is a highlight of this country that most come to see. There are also many night markets, shops, and restaurants to explore on the outskirts of this city. Every place you go to in Chiang Mai will give you an experience you will not forget. If you want to really experience the culture of this country, you may also want to hop on a Red Truck or a tuk-tuk when you are traveling around.
Chiang Mai has many sites to explore and takes you into the deep culture of what Thailand is all about. The people are friendly, the restaurants and shops are amazing, and the experience you will recieve is monumental. If you can make the journey up to this Northern region of Thailand, it is highly suggested. It may be the most popular city within this country.
Visit Thailand: The City of Krabi
When people travel to the beautiful country of Thailand, they may have a long list of activities they want to take part in. Most times, people want to see the beautiful and large cities that Thailand is known for, experience the delicious food, and of course, head on over to the beauteous islands that exist in this country. Yet, before people drop large amounts of money to hop on a ferry that travels over to the many islands that exist in Thailand, people will spend part of their vacation in the city of Krabi.
Krabi is located more Southern than most cities in Thailand, and has many beautiful attractions for its visitors. This west coast city is surrounded by high cliffs and beautiful rocks on the amazing coast. You will find lush mangrove forests, beautiful waters, and an opportunity to head out on a longtail boat to the many islands that surround Krabi. You can go for the day, for a few, or even just for a couple of hours. Krabi has many places for accomodation, food, and exploration. You may find that many tourists will come and spend time here, take ferries and travel out from this location, and they will, also, spend the time enjoying the sea.
When you are in Krabi, a common day time activity is snorkeling, shopping, and relaxing in the sun. A few islands that people hop on over to for the day are the spots at Railay Beach and the Phi Phi Islands. Railay Beach is extremely popular because there are clear waters, a relaxing atmosphere, and is a great spot for rock climbing. Once you are over at this beach, you will see many advertisements for rock climbing as well as rock climbers hanging off of the many limestone cliffs. If you want to stay on Railay beach, there is that option as well. Yet, most poeple do not do this because of the price compared to what Krabi offers. Thailand, as most know, is known to be relatively cheap.
Back in Krabi, you will find food of all cultures, people of all types, and adventures of all kinds. There are advertisements up and down the streets of this town for tourists and locals. You will, also, have availablility to draw out money, if you need to. Krabi is a small town in Thailand, but it has everything you need. If you get a chance to visit this region, it is highly suggested. It will keep you close to the mainland of Thailand, but will, also, let you adventure out and explore the oceans of Thailand.
Visiting Thailand: The City of Chiang Rai
Thailand has many large cities from the southern end to the northern end. If you get a chance to visit them all, you will become quite the expert in Thai culture. In fact, every city in Thailand has its own specific atmosphere for each province. When you head up to the Northern region of Thailand, you may be thinking you are going to just visit Chiang Mai; yet, if you keep going, you will hit Chiang Rai. Chiang Rai is the largest city in the Northern region of Thailand.
This city sits at 1,280 feet high in elevation and populates up to 70,000 people. It was founded in 1262 as the capital of the Mengrai Dynasty and you may even notice during your visit the resemblance to the Lanna identity, even though times have changed in this region. There are visitors that come to this area of Thailand throughout the year, despite the raises in heat and humidity. The province of this city, which is Chiang Rai, sits quite close to the borders of Laos and Myanmar. Here in Chiang Rai, you will find many glorious sites that visitors and tourists come to see.
Starting with the elephant sanctuary, most will travel up from Chiang Mai to see the beautiful creatures for a day or a few. You can volunteer at the elephant sanctuary or you can just take a day trip to explore. Secondly, people come to this region of Thailand to see the Wat Rong Khun temple. This temple is quite popular in Thailand and people will spend time in this city just to visit this site. This temple is all white and today is more known as an art exhibit over a religious temple. It is absolutely beautiful.
Chiang Rai does have entertainment, nightlife, and great restaurants. You will also be able to find a hotel to stay at while you are in this city. You can find luxury hotels along the water. Yet, it is important to know that this city is calmer than most areas of Thailand and diversity is not huge here. If you get a chance to come to this city, you may also want to check out the Night Bazaar, the Jazz Festival, or the Saturday Walking Street. If you want to explore the river banks, you can hire a longtail boat to take you out on the Mae Kok so you may slow down and enjoy the riverbanks.
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Build an imaginary world in your mind, hanging in space. Spin it around a bit; kick the tires. Now change one thing about that world. Throw a bug of your choice into the machine. What if the oceans reclaim your coastal cities? What if you can’t support life? What if the life you bear can’t support you?
Ponder the answer, and you’ll create what the critic Robert Scholes has called “radical discontinuity,” the cognitive dissonance that allows science fiction to explore the most pressing concerns of its age. For our age – the Anthropocene, the proposed geologic epoch defined by human impact – the discontinuities are clear. The question is not if we will change the planet but when, and how existing changes will render it unrecognizable.
The stories we tell ourselves can help us understand, and maybe even adapt, to this new world. But the dour dystopias and escapist fantasies of our current science fiction diet just won’t do. We need something new: a form of science fiction that tackles the radical changes of our pressing and strange reality. We need an Anthropocene fiction.
The mechanics of science fiction function at every level, from granular observations of everyday life to speculations on the cosmos, all while maintaining the human thread; it may be the only genre capable of such monumental shifts in scale. And the Anthropocene requires scale: a geologic period with no end in sight, it will affect our lives and those of our distant descendants.
It can be difficult to conceive of something so enormous through facts alone. But the right fiction can be a mirror, a map and a crystal ball, helping us to see ourselves in the world, negotiate our way out of disaster and imagine how we might live differently.
When today’s sci-fi blockbusters address ecological issues, they tend toward the dystopian. Mad Max: Fury Road is an unflinching portrait of the world after water; the frozen tundra of Snowpiercer is the consequence of a failed climate-control experiment; even Godzilla rises from a warming sea. But purely apocalyptic stories don’t help us reckon with reality’s slower, but equally devastating, emergencies – forests that vanish acre by acre, sea levels that rise a few millimeters each year, demand for consumer goods that gradually leeches the planet’s resources.
Sci-fi has always mirrored the time of its writing. The themes of Star Trek – race relations, Cold War fears, American imperialism – were rooted in the politics of the 1960s. And when the modern environmental movement began in the early 1970s, a generation of sci-fi writers authored its myths. Some were hopeful. In Ernest Callenbach’s seminal 1975 novel Ecotopia, the Pacific Northwest runs happily on green energy and liberal cannabis use. Others issued warnings. In Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! – adapted into the film Soylent Green – the global population is sardined in overcrowded cities, living hand-to-mouth on scarce resources. Such myths formed the poles of the movement’s worldview, expressing its highest ideals and deepest fears.
In recent years the term climate fiction, or cli-fi, has emerged to refer to works dealing explicitly with climate change. Margaret Atwood has championed the term, which has since been applied broadly, and even retroactively, to writers like JG Ballard and Jules Verne. Cli-fi, with an emphasis on global warming and its attendant anxieties, goes some of the way toward the ideal of Anthropocene fiction, but it’s too narrow a designation. Even the books most often cited as examples of cli-fi – Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Windup Girl, Atwood’s Oryx and Crake – address issues beyond climate change. They envision futures dictated by human recklessness: as Atwood said this year in an interview with Slate, it’s not climate change; it’s “the everything change.”
The Anthropocene is everything change. Our impact on this planet began with agriculture, and it will take many forms before our reign ends, whether by emigration or disaster. As any science fiction writer knows, the future is full of strangeness: could artificial intelligence have an ecological impact? What are the toxicological effect of nanoparticles? And when we upload our minds to computer servers – or leave earth to journey further afield in space – will we take the Anthropocene with us?
In his book Molecular Red, the critical theorist McKenzie Wark writes that science fiction can be read as a form of theory, a “realism of the possible,” helping us think through the world as it is and as it may be. By virtue of its geologic timespan, global impact and sheer complexity, the Anthropocene suggests scenarios transcending basic dystopia or simple narrative. Science fiction for this epoch should address not just heat waves and tsunamis but the ends of civilization, memory and archives as well as the immense global negotiations and networks that human survival will require.
The point is that Anthropocene fiction isn’t just science fiction; nor is it just climate fiction. It’s both those things and more. It is all the stories we should tell our children: near-future tales of ecological systems, collapse, responsibility and possibility along with visions of long-term cohabitation with our own environment. The point is to show them not just how the story ends but how we might get through the middle – while we still have a shot at changing it. | <urn:uuid:13d89835-4ad2-4aa0-af1b-85cf178da2c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/20/climate-change-science-fiction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92604 | 1,173 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Answer the 5th question plus 1 more from questions 1–4. Then reply to 1 classmate’s thread.
- Before Sarah quit her job as a carpenter, she was earning $35,000 per year. She rented a building for $12,000 per year and opened a cabinet shop. She spends $148,000 per year for labor, materials, utilities, and advertising.
- How much revenue will the business have to earn in order to break even in terms of business profit?
- How much revenue will the business have to earn in order to break even in economic terms?
- Suppose that Sarah buys the building. Now how much will the business have to earn in order to break even in economic terms?
- What might be the objective of a museum? Of a firm? Do they have the same objective? Why or why not?
- What is the difference between unethical and unlawful behavior? Please provide examples for both behaviors in your discussion.
- In your opinion, how much time should a consumer spend on shopping (searching) for lower prices (you may want to apply the marginal analysis)?
- According to Milton Friedman, “Business has only one social responsibility – to make profits (as long as it stays within the legal and moral rules of the game established by society). Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.” Explain why you agree or disagree with such a statement.
- Milton Friedman was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1976.
- “Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others” (Philippians 2:4, NIV).
- Target’s community giving: “Target has a long-standing tradition of strengthening families and communities through innovative programs and partnerships. Since 1946, we have contributed 5 percent of our annual income to support families and communities, and today we remain one of very few companies that maintain this level of sustained giving. Target gives more than $3 million each week to the communities in which we do business. Our giving is directed both by Target and by the Target Foundation, each with specific areas of focus and commitment” (Target Corporate Responsibility Report 2007, p. 3).
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Wireless and Automated Systems
The installation of automated systems can help a lot with saving power. We can configure your heating and cooling systems to detect the weather outdoors and moderate the energy utilised accordingly. This can help save a lot of electricity while still keeping the temperature in your building very comfortable. We also install smart lighting solutions that can automatically switch on or off depending on the occupancy, planned schedules, daylight sensing, and weather conditions. Such installations are especially useful in rooms and hallways that don’t require light constantly. In addition to these services, for open spaces that are difficult to wire, we can install wireless solutions that work with sensors.
Whether you require an evaluation of your existing energy systems or are looking for new installations, call us for an obligation-free quote. Our expert technicians at Prompt Plumbing & Electrical will provide you with the most superior workmanship.
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Textile designer Madeline Weinrib has long been captivated by the works of 20th-century Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies, who mixed sand, dirt, and crushed marble with glue to devise his rough-hewn riffs on ancient sand paintings. So it's no surprise that her recent apprenticeship at the studio of a Venezuelan sand artist left her flush with inspiration, leading to the creation of a new series of fabrics and floor coverings that capture a similar primal essence.
The standout pieces of the Sand collection are a cast of shaggy wool-and-silk kilims that maintain Weinrib’s hallmark graphic sensibilities but are not bound by the straight line. Hand-knotted in Nepal in a palette of beiges, browns, and black, the floor coverings showcase the mark of the humans that made them. When laid on the ground, the rugs do rather resemble drawings in the sand.
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Built in 1898, the Arcadia Round Barn is one of America’s most unique landmarks nestled in the heart of Arcadia, Oklahoma, along historic Route 66. The Arcadia Round Barn is the only wooden round barn in Oklahoma and was listed in the National Register of Historical Places in 1977. Currently, the two-story structure houses the Arcadia Historical and Preservation Society as well as agricultural exhibits and a gift shop for visitors to enjoy. The barn’s upstairs loft serves as an event space and has been used for concerts, parties, weddings, fundraisers, meetings and more.
This film-friendly location has welcomed a number of projects over the years including Elizabethtown (2005), Bringing Up Bobby (2011), and Great Plains (2016) while most recently functioning off-screen for staging purposes on the untitled Tom McCarthy project starring Matt Damon, which filmed in Arcadia.
While some features of the Arcadia Round Barn, including the first floor gift shop, are not currently open to the public due to COVID-19 statewide health and safety guidelines, the venue will host some of its live music events, which are open to the public, beginning May 16, and continue to virtually engage audiences by streaming these concerts online, including its weekly Saturday Morning Music Sessions from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Round Barn events will adhere and enforce strict social distancing and have virus precautions in place with most activity taking place on-site in the outdoor Elm Tree Picnic area.
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Pembroke Murals Action 2004
“The Timber Raft”
Wouldn't it be neat to have a free-standing mural? That was said in 1997 during a brain storming session to chart our long and short term goals. Now Pembroke has a free-standing mural with three-dimensional components as a grand entrance to our beautiful waterfront. The Murals Committee could not have accomplished "The Timber Raft" without the contribution of knowledge, skill and time of many local professionals and without the financial support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The City of Pembroke, past and present Councils, were our Partners in this exciting project. All Partners names are engraved on the commemorative boulder.
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For residents, you only saw us in action from April 27 to June 28. In actual fact these two months of installation were the culmination of two years of meetings and planning. We relied on our many Partners’ expertise as we wound our way through: power source and lights; angle of structure to withstand high winds; angle of the painted image as it would relate to the real timbers and rocks in the berm; planting of full grown pines to protect against wind and at the same time enhance the mural. These were but a very few of the challenges before us. The Ontario Trillium Foundation asked us to track the volunteer hours: we submitted upwards of 1200 hours. It was a great deal more as our Partners gave more than their contracts. There were at least seventy people who physically worked on site that includes: the Algonquin College Forestry Technician students who constructed the square pine timber to match the painted timbers; the Landscape Team who spread topsoil, mulch, river rock and planted shrubs. Pierre Hardy, Mural Artist, worked many extra hours with the Committee as the angle of the painted timbers coming out of the chute was quite difficult to plan. We had a critical path to follow and through their commitment we were ready for July 1st Celebrations. [Canada Day]
Maintenance and Repair
Maintenance and repair are a primary concern. It is important that we keep Pembroke’s largest tourist attraction in very good condition. This season, we repaired “Pembroke’s Swallows” and “The Great Fire of 1918”. General maintenance was applied to: “Champlain Trail”, “Thomas Pink 1841-1925”, “Pembroke Hydro”, “Pansy Patch Park”, “The Hockey Players”, and “Spring Harvest – an Artist’s Sketchbook”. The only mural that requires some repair is “The Ice House”: this will be completed in 2005. The Committee is very appreciative of the donation of labour by Ernie Fougere Painting to clear coat murals these past two years.
The francophone community in Canada is gearing up to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s explorations through this and other regions in 2015. Pembroke Heritage Murals is included in tour information packages of Destination Nord and coach tour companies: the project is known as Circuit Champlain We have one trained francophone guide in place and are in need of at least one other French speaking person who would be interested in conducting Step-On Tours. These guides conduct tours on a coach. We offer this service for a fee with an honorarium to the guide. We also offer Armchair Tours, which are suitable for welcome receptions or as an activity for conferences.
Memberships and Promotion
We formally became a member of the Global Mural Arts and Cultural Tourism Association earlier this year, which we all know is very reasonable with its one-time payment of $100. This is the international network of mural communities with a web site among other services.
Mapping the Murals of Canada is a project of Mural Routes in Scarborough [since 2000] and we maintain this membership for $50 a year. Visit www.muralroutes.com
The Renfrew County Museums Network has produced an attractive Guide that features all fourteen museums in the County and Pembroke Heritage Murals. Together, we hope to develop greater awareness of this historic region that we are privileged to live in. The booklet is free: please pick one up and visit your community museums next season.
In March of 2003, Pembroke Heritage Murals asked the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan if they would be interested in working with us to develop a First Nation mural. Since then we have met several times and are pleased to announce that this mural concept is moving forward. The site will be the east wall of the Champlain Trail Museum: the size is planned at 12 feet by 88 feet long. The concept is to illustrate community life of the Algonquin First Nation before European contact. We are now at the budget and mural design stage of planning.
There are other mural ideas being discussed. The challenge for the Murals Committee is locating new murals. It is much more difficult now with twenty-nine murals, than it was with ten.
On behalf of the Pembroke Heritage Murals Committee, I would like to thank our numerous partners and supporters during 2004.
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By Euro Weekly News Media • 19 February 2015 • 5:00
AMERICA: Believes it has the edge on modern Russia.
OTTO Von Bismarck Germany’s Iron Chancellor, who unified Germany in the 20th Century: “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.” What about before a war, sir?
There seems to be a belief that in terms of the unthinkable NATO America has the edge on modern Russia. This is self-delusion on a par with the ‘home by Christmas’ canard spouted at the outbreak of the Great War.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) was ostensibly created in 1949 to thwart Soviet ambitions. This marketing arm of America’s vast arms industry takes the gold medal at starting conflicts, in defiance of inter-national law. It is remarkably inept at ending them.
Stephen Lendman, 80-year-old Research Associate for the Centre of Research on Globalisation: “I was never scared through the Cold War. I am scared now. America won’t drop its idea of waging a full size war in the region.” Ukraine is Europe’s biggest country. He speaks for many.
If America gets its eagerly sought for conflict with Russia, the battlefields do not stop at the end of your urbanisation.
You read about the Western Front: in the next war you are the Western Front. The casualty rate will be far worse and irrecoverable.
America hopes to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, Pole, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian. Dream on. The days of fighting trade wars on the soil of proxy states are over. America’s industrial heartlands, what is left of them, are firmly fixed in the cross-hairs of modern Russia’s formidable means of response. Not my opinion; I researched the beliefs of a wide range of experts on modern warfare.
NATO is a busted flush. In 1990, Germany’s hippie-army, with US military hardware, had a total of 38,300 formidable weapons, plus the back-up of the British Army of Occupation. It’s gone. Next year the last British soldier goes home too.
As in 1939, Germany’s army is now significantly smaller than is Turkey’s or Poland’s. With or without Germany, a war with Russian cannot be won. It is conceded that the Baltic States would be occupied in 24-hours. Brussels concedes that the Bloc’s (NATO) response will be enough for only two categories of missions. Limited participation in a humanitarian operation and operations (frontier customs) to enforce an embargo; Sleep well.
NATO is a paper tiger capable of little more than doing what a sniper’s bullet can do more cost effectively, but less profitably when it comes to regime change.
To bring NATO up to strength would require a drop of 20/25 per cent in European living standards. The performance of NATO’s fighter jets is an embarrassment, as is its means of submarine warfare; it is way behind that of modern Russia.
We have not heard the term MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) since the end of the Cold War. Today, if America’s war lobby wins, as did Britain’s in 1939, we can all kiss our backsides goodbye.
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I thought I was familiar with the story of Archer Alexander, the slave that portrays the gratitude the African Americans felt for President Abraham Lincoln. On the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. erected in 1876, Alexander is the image of the enslaved. After writing about the history of St. Charles County in Missouri for well over thirty years, I had encountered him several times, and had included his story in museum exhibits, shared his story on O’Fallon Missouri’s public media channel in a documentary on him, and written several blogs about him. I thought I knew his story.
In 1885, William Greenleaf Eliot, the grandfather of poet T.S. Eliot had published THE STORY OF ARCHER ALEXANDER FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM March 30, 1863, which is what Dr. Henry Louis Gates would call a “slave narrative”. Eliot, the founder of Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, and a young minister who had brought the Unitarian Church to St. Louis in 1834, simply refers to himself as “A member of the Western Sanitary Commission in St. Louis, MO”. The small narrative of the life of Archer was published in Boston by Cupples, Upham and Company with the help of his closest friends, James Yeatman and Jesse Benton Fremont. Fremont, who was the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, a Senator for the State of Missouri for its’ first 30 years. I wondered why the date of March 30, 1863.
It would not be until a year long journey of discovery that I would understand. In October of 2018, fellow Bellefontaine Cemetery researcher Jim Guenzel, shared Charlotte Carroll’s article in Sports Illustrated that revealed the recent DNA discovery that Muhammed Ali was the great-great-great grandson of Alexander. After I shared that exciting news on several social media platforms, I received a cryptic text asking me “do you know where Archer Alexander is buried?” by Ali’s third cousin Keith Winstead. I thought I did. After all, Eliot’s book told us – or so we thought.
Eliot states “His funeral, at which I officiated, took place from the African Methodist Church on Lucas Avenue, and was largely attended. He was decently buried in the Centenary Burial Ground near Clayton Court House, followed to his last resting-place by many friends. A part of the expenses of his long sickness, and all the funeral charges, were defrayed from the funds of the Western Sanitary Commission.” However, Archer, is actually buried with his second wife Julia, in St. Peters Cemetery in Normandy, on Lucas and Hunt Road, listed as Archey Allexander, Age 74 on 12/8/1880 in the Public lot #1. This new evidence would lead us to question why. Why had changes to the story been made?
Archey, was born in 1806, in Lexington, Virginia, and brought to Missouri by James H. Alexander in a caravan led by William Massilon Campbell in 1829. By 1843, he had become the property of a Union man Richard H. Pitman, in Dardenne Township of St. Charles County. Eliot writes “In the month of February 1863, he learned that a party of men had sawed the timbers of a bridge in that neighborhood, over which some companies of Union troops were to pass, with view to their destruction. At night he walked five miles to the house of a well-known Union man, through whom the intelligence and warning were conveyed to the Union troops, who repaired the bridge before crossing it.”
Pitman was apparently aware that it was his slave that had pointed the finger. Archey would flee for his life, to avoid a lynching, leaving his wife Louisa and their youngest children behind. Using the ‘underground railroad’ he made his way to a ‘station’ a German butcher, near Beaumont Street ran. There he would be rescued by the wife of Eliot, Abigail Adams Cranch, a niece of the former President John Adams and namesake of his wife, who Archey deemed an “angel”.
Eliot would immediately seek an order of protection for the slave, and contact Pitman asking him to name a price so that he could purchase Archey. Eliot would use his close family friend Barton Bates, the oldest son of Edward Bates who was Lincoln’s attorney general, also a friend and related by marriage to Pitman as intermediary for the transaction. After Pitman returned an answer to Eliot at his home, by sending slave catchers to attack and kidnap Archey, who nearly succeeded in selling him “south”, Eliot took matters into his own hands. On the date of March 30, 1863 William Greenleaf Eliot would pen his own letter to Pitman, informing him that his efforts were unsuccessful and that he would do everything he could to see Archer Alexander free!
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Haunted by ghosts: Prevalence, predictors and outcomes of spirit possession experiences among former child soldiers and war-affected civilians in Northern Uganda
Type of Spiritual Experience
A description of the experience
Social Science & Medicine Volume 75, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 548–554 Haunted by ghosts: Prevalence, predictors and outcomes of spirit possession experiences among former child soldiers and war-affected civilians in Northern Uganda
Frank Neunera, , , Anett Pfeifferb, Elisabeth Schauer-Kaiserb, Michael Odenwaldc, Thomas Elbertc, Verena Ertla
a Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Postbox 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
b Vivo Uganda, Gulu, Uganda
c University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Available online 21 April 2012
Phenomena of spirit possession have been documented in many cultures. Some authors have argued that spirit possession is a type of psychopathology, and should be included as a category in diagnostic manuals of mental disorders. However, there are hardly any quantitative studies that report the prevalence of spirit possession on a population level and that provide evidence for its validity as a psychopathological entity.
In an epidemiological study that was carried out in 2007 and 2008 with N = 1113 youths and young adults aged between 12 and 25 years in war-affected regions of Northern Uganda we examined the prevalence, predictors and outcomes of cen, a local variant of spirit possession.
Randomly selected participants were interviewed using a scale of cen, measures of psychopathology (PTSD and depression) as well as indicators of functional outcome on different levels, including suicide risk, daily activities, perceived discrimination, physical complaints and aggression.
We found that cen was more common among former child soldiers then among subjects without a history of abduction. Cen was related to extreme levels of traumatic events and uniquely predicted functional outcome even when the effects of PTSD and depression were controlled for.
Our findings show that a long-lasting war that is accompanied by the proliferation of spiritual and magical beliefs and propaganda can lead to high levels of harmful spirit possession. In addition, we provide evidence for the incremental validity of spirit possession as a trauma-related psychological disorder in this context.
► Cross-sectional survey on spirit possession and mental health with adolescents and young adults in war-affected Northern Uganda. ► Spirit possession is a common phenomenon among former child soldiers but also widespread among other war-affected adolescents and young adults. ► High levels of spirit possession can be viewed as psychopathology as it correlates with dysfunction in various domains.
- Spirit possession;
- Child soldiers;
- Mental health
The source of the experienceAfrican tribal
Concepts, symbols and science items
Activities and commonsteps
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Tinnitus is the ringing noise in your ears, and you probably hear it when there is no other sound present. While it can be annoying, it is a fairly common condition and currently affects up to 15% of people. You can experience it in one or both ears. It has been described as ringing, pulsing, buzzing, or whooshing sounds, which can vary from person to person.
Often, tinnitus is not serious, but sometimes it can be a sign of more serious medical attention. If you have questions on whether or not it is cause for concern, contact your primary care services provider. Tinnitus can be broken down into two types, pulsatile and non-pulsatile.
The most common form of tinnitus is non-pulsatile, but it is much more difficult to find the direct cause. Most likely, it is a side effect of hearing loss, but those with normal hearing may have it. Sometimes, this type of tinnitus originates within the brain, meaning there may be a brain condition occurring that may result in hearing loss or poor balance.
Pulsatile tinnitus is the type that sounds like a heartbeat in your ear. Symptoms include a pulsing sensation in the head and being able to hear your own heartbeat. This is caused by normal or abnormal blood flow within the blood vessels near the ear. If you are experiencing this tinnitus, contact your physician immediately. There could be something that requires medical attention going on.
Most cases of tinnitus are not serious, but if you have the following symptoms, it may be time to visit NeighborMD, MSO services, to see if there is an underlying condition to blame.
Symptoms present in one ear only
If your tinnitus is disrupting your daily life
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JEOL developed the JEM-ARM300F, a 300 kV atomic resolution transmission electron microscope featuring JEOL's own aberration correctors as an enhanced model of the JEM-ARM200F.
Nicknamed GRAND ARM, the JEM-ARM300F, incorporates JEOL's propriety dodecapole correctors, successfully increasing the resolution level to 63 pm (STEM resolution).
The GRAND ARM can be configured for ultra high resolution imaging or analytical applications for high sensitivity and in-situ analysis according to the user's needs.
The system is primarily intended for public and private research institutes and semiconductor manufacturers.
Maximum 300 kV
TEM lattice resolution
0.05 nm (with spherical aberration corrector
0.063 nm (spherical aberration corrector
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Metaverse Explained: What Role Do NFTs Play in This Space?
Metaverse and Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are the trendiest new technologies with enormous business potential. Blockchain has played a critical role in revolutionizing business in many ways over the years. It has steered the world into a future of possibilities with the new Internet and new direction. Today, there are a wealth of opportunities for savvy entrepreneurs, businesses, and consumers to generate revenue through fun and interactive methods.
As things are going mainstream with NFTs and Metaverse, it makes sense not to stay behind in the new world. With many businesses still trying to figure out the craze, let’s start with the basic introduction.
Metaverse & NFT Explained
Metaverse represents a digital 3D world, based on a theoretical concept that allows your entry through a Virtual reality headset. The virtual world functions like your real world, where you get a body (avatar) to customize as you want and home to fill in stuff. You perform activities like interacting with others, playing games, and doing everything you practically execute in your daily life.
NFTs are non-fungible tokens that are 100% unique and offer a certificate of ownership that exists on the blockchain. When a digital file (an image, video, or GIF) is minted, an NFT is created. Its authenticity is generated by cryptocurrency with its 100% uniqueness and can be sold to other buyers in mostly Ethereum crypto. Birthing of NFTs has been a blessing because digital arts and assets have this prolonged threat of being stolen or copied.
As every discussion nowadays is directed towards the gentle mixing of NFT and Metaverse, it is safe to say NFT will shape the future of Metaverse. NFT can spark the change for a new Metaverse world while also creating potential opportunities for investors, gamers, and enterprises.
What is the Future of Metaverse?
Metaverse might be hinged with many apprehensions because of its reasonably new appearance. But it is no more a science fiction concept. People are not merely using it for playing games but running their brands. It is the future because the advantages it is ready to usher are unimaginative.
1. It transforms the work culture
- Metaverse serves as a dovetail into the virtual world. It simplifies the practice of working where employees will no longer be cooped up in their cubicles.
- It will amplify the transition of remote working by building a centralized digital network.
- It offers no commuting hassles, no more expensive business trips, and cuts off professional appearances to the office.
2. E-commerce gets a boon
The e-commerce world is ready to step into a significant transition in the coming years with the arrival of Metaverse. Giants like Walmart are racing with this idea and ready to venture into the world of Metaverse by minting their own crypto and NFTs.
3. Gaming Unfolds A New Direction
Metaverse originated from gaming and is set to usher in a gigantic shift in the online gaming world. Many gaming enterprises like Epic, Funcom, Linden Lab, and Sky Mavis have previously launched avatar-based online gaming. And with Metaverse, they are prepared to explore it in detail.
4. Real Estate Will Flourish
Virtual real estate may sound like an imaginary concept a few years back, but today it is very much existing. Virtual real estate is booming, where a patch of virtual land was even sold for $2.4 million worth of crypto. Companies like Decentraland and The Sandbox are driving a new change by offering aspiring buyers a virtual space to purchase and sell lands, estates, and properties. If you want an example of that Metaverse is no longer in its nascent stage, then know how far the Real estate in Metaverse has traveled.
Technologies That Contribute to Metaverse Architecture
The existence of the Metaverse rests upon a complex virtual environment with several layers of operations. The hardware, software, and infrastructure play a salient role in its functioning.
Infrastructure — Wifi, GPU, cloud, and 5G.
Software — Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Edge computing, mobile applications, etc.
Hardware — VR headsets, AR glasses, and mobile devices for connectivity.
For Creators — Designing tools, digital assets, and e-commerce assistance.
Note: The Metaverse technology is built in an immersive 3D atmosphere that automatically demands high computing power for impeccable results. It accounts for an array of factors. Therefore, companies should determine everything before taking a headstart in this space.
Roles of NFTs in Metaverse
Metaverse and NFTs are rapidly getting the moment in the blockchain space. They are even considered synonymous because of the unparalleled growth in blockchain gaming. But these are two different concepts that have all the capabilities to co-exist and change the world for the better.
The coexistence of NFT and Metaverse is not new. For example, in a 2019 NFT.NYC event, an NFT-based token was used as an entry ticket. Although no one exclusively called it a Metaverse event, it implied the coexistence of NFTs and Metaverse.
There are also grounds for confusion between the co-use of Metaverse and NFTs. NFTs require transitions that occur through web browsers, and Metaverse is VR-based. But, many enterprises have found creative ways to use NFTs and Metaverse together, despite the disparity in both concepts. So, where is the course of intersection between both? Let’s discover:
1. Virtual Marketplaces Exists Differently
The concoction of VR and NFT marketplaces can serve many industries. VR with apps like VR chat is already thriving, and there seems to be a ground of possibilities for NFTs where sellers can offer the links in the VR space or mint NFTs in the VR landscape.
A brand like Nike has acknowledged the massive shift in the space and gave birth to its own “Nikeland” and has taken due action for making product NFTs. It seems like a start and the intersection of two viral concepts.
2. Art Gets A New Road
VR has a direct link to see art. The modeling of VR enables you to inspect every detail in the art and frame from every possible angle. This concept differs from the one in marketplaces where the prices are set beforehand with almost a similar set of pieces.
The need is vast too. Many museums intend to place their NFT art in Metaverses such as Cryptovexels. With VR blending in NFT, this could change how art galleries function.
3. Towards a Transparent Economy
Metaverse is ready to take things up a notch. It is accessible to more real-world assets through the synchronization of gaming models with blockchain. It also opens doors for Individual users and enterprises who can now represent their virtual assets in a decentralized world. The key outcome of NFTs on Metaverse has to be crafting a road strengthened on a fair and transparent economy.
The play-to-earn gaming models trigger the growth of NFT Metaverse interplay. These gaming models provide a fair gameplay environment where players own assets entirely. It facilities NFTs to have more opportunities in the Metaverse space, and its role is likely to become more prominent.
Blockchain is fundamental to offering transparency and immutability, and the role of NFT in Metaverse signifies that. As a result, you can experience a completely safe and open economy in this space by supporting NFTs.
4. Rise of A New Community
Another gift of Metaverse and NFT collaboration would be to see the change in identity and social experiences for the users. Users can vouch for their opinions, express their interests, and leverage community building. The rise of a new community will bestow interactions of like-minded NFT owners, harness a solid community, and collaborate on content goals.
The NFT avatars are a fine example of this trend. NFT avatars represent a player’s authentic self and imaginative one. It allows players to use their NFT teams to switch between places in the Metaverse sphere. It fosters safe, complete, and flexible ownership of tokens for building virtual identities with the extension of real-life identities.
NFT avatars also enable users to pocket in virtual memberships to broaden their experiences in the virtual and real worlds.
Final Words: Implementation of NFT in the Metaverse
As you know, Metaverse is still a fresh concept, and not many companies have successfully unlocked the potential of building solutions implementing NFTs. However, the numerous benefits of the NFT Metaverse combination depict a new internet.
The future seems bright with the blend of uniqueness brought by NFTs and nearly the ‘everything is possible’ digital world by Metaverse. NFTs will amp up the existence of Metaverse as its building blocks and together open up immense opportunities. The list is endless, where Metaverse madness can touch new avenues. It is the start of a future of change where humans will utilize this technology as quickly as the Internet.
Hopefully, now you know the underlying concepts between Metaverse and NFTs and how their coexistence will shape the world. Embrace the breakthrough in these fields and understand the market is headed towards a significant transition.
But before that happens, you should get onboarded yourself with Blockchain consultancy and development to gear up for the new world. At Reveation Labs, we have adopted various services like Full Stack Blockchain Consultation, GameFi, Tokenomics, and Metaverse to offer incredible assistance. We have not only helped businesses with the advancements in these areas but looking for upgrades in the VR world as an organization.
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BOOZING gives you cancer, and now scientists think they know why.
The breakthrough explains why car exhausts, smoke, furniture and shampoo also pose a risk.
Exposure to these items has been linked with the disease but the reasons remained unclear.
Now University of Cambridge boffins say a class of chemical known as aldehydes is to blame.
Our body makes aldehyde in small quantities.
But it is increasingly found in our environment, in exhausts, smoke, furniture and cosmetics.
The body also breaks down the alcohol we drink into acetaldehyde, which is one such chemical.
Researchers found aldehydes disrupt the way our body repairs faults in DNA.
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The body has two copies of the BRCA2 gene, which produce a protein that helps repair DNA damage.
This damage – caused when cells divide – can develop into cancer if it is not repaired.
The new study found aldehydes trigger a decline of BRCA2 protein in cells, which weakens their ability to heal.
Acetaldehyde is ordinarily broken down in the body but over 500million people inherit a faulty gene named ALDH2 that prevents this from happening.
Aldehyde accumulation in such people could increase their risk of cancer by degrading BRCA2 – regardless of whether they inherit a faulty copy of BRCA2 too.
Chemicals to which we are increasingly exposed in our day-to-day lives may increase the risk of diseases like cancerProfessor Ashok Venkitaraman
Study leader Professor Ashok Venkitaraman said: “Our study shows how chemicals to which we are increasingly exposed in our day-to-day lives may increase the risk of diseases like cancer.
“It also helps to explain why ‘the faults in our stars’ – namely the faulty genes we are born with – could make some people particularly sensitive to the cancer-causing effects of these chemicals.
“An important implication of our work is that it may be aldehyde exposure that triggers cancer susceptibility in people who inherit one faulty copy of the BRCA2 gene.
“This may help us in future to prevent or treat cancer in such people.”
The findings are published in the journal Cell.
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By Mark Ruthenberg, Advantage Tech Inc. and TransCanada FoundLocally Inc. Many folks misunderstand LinkedIn and…
It’s time for the government to update Section 19 of the Tax Act. Section 19 of the Income Tax Act impacts Deduction for Advertising in Periodicals and Broadcasters, and limits tax deductibility for advertising expenditures when not using Canadian publishers or broadcast media. This section was designed to level the playing field back in 1965 (with a minor tweak in 2000) and does not reflect – or include any reference to – online publications or broadcasters.
This sector started out being called “New Media” until it encompassed all media that are distributed digitally. With new tools like blogs and content management, as well as evolution of new media formats and technologies that enable many innovative forms of digital broadcasting and publishing to be done online. Even traditional media have added digital media to the ways they connect with their viewers and readers. No longer in its embryonic phase, online publishers and broadcasters are becoming an important part of the Canadian media and cultuarl landscape. It’s time that all Canadian media are given the same tax treatment.
First of all I want to give a few quick credits to those that got me started on this approach: Sara Blue [http://pwc-compass.chaordix.com/profile/18], a director of industry group Digital Alberta[http://Digital Alberta.com] who got me involved with Price Waterhouse Coopers’ Digital Compass project [http://pwc-compass.chaordix.com/] (which got 102 participants, offering 30 ideas) and in particular Allan Sawyer [http://pwc-compass.chaordix.com/profile/164] who proposed “Implement temporary advertising tax credits to stimulate Canadian-based on-line video distribution”.
My first reaction was to not limit it to just video ads, but then realized there was a broader issue and a much more elegant solution: Instead of creating a bureaucracy doling out money, why not add ONE SENTENCE to the Income Tax Actwhich becomes self-enforcing (since every tax accountant already knows how the existing rules apply), increases Canadian employment, jobs, and only has an adverse impact on those not paying taxes in Canada!
If Nothing Gets Done….
With the threatened viability–if not disappearance–of small town & small city broadcasters and newspapers, often the only voice of a community remaining are online media. But even they need some help to ensure continued viability if we do not wish to blend into the “51st State” because of American entities dominating the online media.
We also estimate the annual loss of Canadian tax revenues in 2010 is estimated to be 300 million dollars, based on an advertising outflow of about $100 million per month. This revenue loss affects 20,000 jobs in the industry (at $5,000 per month)
It seems the government continues to treat online media as an industry in its infancy, not in the mainstream.
The government satisfies itself with providing Telefilm funding (of $14.3 million annually for the Canada New Media Fund) to help startups and new projects, which does not address commercial viability once completed. This funding for new projects, increases the number of competitors in the marketplace, making the survival of each even more difficult. (Additionally, this funding is concentrated in Quebec, with half of funding designated for Quebec or French language projects, leaving the rest of the country under-served, and after Toronto and Vancouver get the lion’s share of the remainder, not much is left for digital projects for the rest of the country.) This makes it more challenging for digital content developers who must compete with even-better funded American content.)
Revenue Models for Online Publishers & Broadcasters
Helping with revenues is clearly trickier for government, since even a massive bureaucracy would be ill-equipped to “pick favourites”. There are four business models for digital content that have so far stood the test of time:
- Subscriptions – its worked for magazines, and may be profitable if where there is either high-value content or the website has a broad audience
- Licence fees – this works for games, iPhone apps and software. This collects money up-front, but provides little ongoing revenue stability
- E-commerce or Referrals – if a website sells a range of products it makes money based on the volume of products sold, and works well when projects need to be bought regularly (like clothing) or are high-value/high-margin. Some website publishers earn referral fees on Cost-per Transaction (CPT) basis from links to e-commerce sites
- Advertising – the content is accessed freely, but is supported by advertising by businesses trying to reach the audience attracted by the quality & depth of content. Advertising may be in the form of banner (display) ads, video ads, or text ads like Google’s AdWords (as well as others like MSN/Bing and Yahoo) and be paid for on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions), or CPC (cost per click) basis.
Most online publishers and broadcasters have found advertising to be strongest, option, with some add-on opportunities from licence fees or referrals.
As traditional media is under greater economic threat, and greater risk of losing viability, how come online media are not given any level of support and/or protection when they are under even greater competitive pressures from very large American online publishers & websites. Online media are fast becoming Canada’s media “voice”, and able to provide news, information, and opinion on a local scale, with both a lower cost and a faster publication turnaround than traditional media cannot match. Yet online media is under even greater cross-border competition in the online world, threatening the ongoing financial viability of this important local voice.
The government appears to focus on incubation, providing seed money and is doing nothing to shore up revenue opportunities.
About Section 19 of the Income Tax Act
Section 19 is the part of the Income Tax Act that describes the conditions under which a Canadian advertiser may deduct from taxable income the expenses related to advertising in a periodical or a newspaper, and was passed into law in 1965, to protect Canadian magazines from unfair competition from Time Magazine and Sports Illustrated magazines, and to protect near-border Canadian television stations and radio stations from unfair competition from American broadcasters (Toronto-Buffalo, Vancouver-Seattle are the obvious cases) selling ads to Canadian businesses targetting Canadian consumers.
You can deduct expenses for advertising, including ads in Canadian newspapers and on Canadian television and radio stations, as well as any finder’s fee.
You cannot deduct expenses for advertising directed mainly to a Canadian market when you advertise with a foreign broadcaster.
Recent changes to Section 19
In 2000, following a 1997 decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO), Section 19 was amended to remove the nationality of a magazine nor its place of publication will be the criteria upon which an advertiser’s ability to claim expenses, but based it on the percentage of original content.
However, certain restrictions apply to the amount of the expense you can deduct for advertising in a periodical. If your advertising is directed to a Canadian market and the original editorial content in the issue is
- 80% or more of the total non-advertising content in the issue, deduct 100% of the expense; or
- less than 80% of the total non-advertising content in the issue, deduct 50% of the expense.
Threats to Advertising Revenues for Online Publishers & Broadcasters
There are a number of web publishers that are (or until recently, were) viable from website advertising. Current market conditions are dropping the price of online ads because of the HUGE economies of scale that US publishers have. These rates are dropped further on a CPM basis because many of the newer Web 2.0 site have high traffic and page views but really low click-throughs. (When’s the last time you clicked on a n ad on Facebook?) The combined effect is the average rates that Canadian websites can charge is dropping, while at the same time their share of totals pages viewed and advertising units is dropping.
We have recently surveyed Canada’s top ad networks (May 2010). There are about a dozen ad networks that sell online display/banner advertising for publishers to advertisers, but their Canadian offices are largely focused on selling ads on their larger US websites rather than on publishers focused on or based in Canada (especially those ad networks based in the US, with just a Toronto sales office).
As well, there are now several thousand interactive agencies and SEO companies that specialize is selling exposure to Canadian consumers to Canadian businesses on US websites. I don’t think that they don’t have an interest in supporting any Canadian publishers, but they are not given the option to support Canadian websites.
Any ad dollars on ad networks and placed on US-owned websites is tax revenue lost to the Canadian government and businesses opportunities taken from Canadian entrepreneurs. The government does not collect taxes directly, does not collect non-resident tax withholdings (which presumably should be deducted by advertisers at source), nor collects any taxes from employment created in Canada by growing websites.
Put online publishers & broadcasters on an equal footing
The advertising industry is rapidly shifting to online advertising: (according to Deloitte’s 2010 Technology Predictions) As advertisers recognize consumers are spending less time with traditional media and more time online, they will shift their ad dollars. Newspapers will suffer most (and they thought they have suffered enough!). See the chart from Silicon Alley Insider athttp://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-time-spent-vs-ad-spend-2010-1. They are forecasting a 50% growth in online ad-spend this year, and in the next few years online advertising may account for half of all ad spending. This will also have a significant impact on how ad agencies operate and staff.
Only by recognizing the emergence of online media as a mature sector, can the government not only offset any loss of tax revenue from the shrinking traditional media sectors of television, radio, newspapers, and magazines, but ensure that digital media publishers and broadcasters are viable and sustainable and continue to provide a voice for communities and audiences across Canada.
Updating Section 19 would be easy to implement:.
Some online ad networks will have to feature more Canadian properties and acknowledge that some ads on US websites may not be tax-deductible, and add one field to their traffic/billing reports, so each advertisers tax preparer or accountant can account for online advertising.
Cross-border websites like Google (with their AdSense/AdWords advertising network) and Facebook would add a checkbox following the geo-targetting option on their sign-up page to ask, ”if targeting Canadians, do you wish to run your ad on only Canadian websites, for full tax deductability under Section 19 of the Income Tax Act?”
The economic impact….
By changing the Income Tax Act, we provide support for thousands of small websites across Canada, with no additional bureaucracy or administration. It would increase Canadian employment in an important sector (and increase tax collection revenues), simply by stemming a flood of money leaving Canada untaxed.
Accountants across Canada (and their clients) are already familiar with Section 19 since it has been in force for the past 45 year. It would also afford traditional media companies the same protection for their increasingly important online media that their print and broadcast media already have, improving their sustainability.
This has a significant impact on the revenues and employment of a wide range of Canadian on line publishers, with little impact on Canadian advertisers (since it is mostly paid for on a click-through or “success” basis).
Multinationals Have an Unfair Tax Advantage
While home-grown Canadian media companies pay taxes on all their Canadian income, and are also subject to the CRTC rules on Canadian Content (among other things), Multinationals are are neither taxes nor regulated in the same way. Their ad revenues (for companies like Google and Facebook) and subscription revenues (for companies like Netflix), their services revenues (for companies like Amazon’s AWS, Google, and Microsoft) are largely tax-free by corporate maneuvering and transfers through various global tax-shelters while tiny Canadian competitors are paying full taxes on their full income, stifling their growth.
Step 1: Multinationals, as soon as they book revenue, move the funds to Ireland, where all Intellectual Property income is tax-free (artists, musicians, writers, and movie companies have been doing this for decades), here they recognize the bulk of the income and pay the zero tax on it.
Step 2: Multinationals then move the now tax-free income to Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos (or one of a host of other countries) where their holding companies manage their global cash flow for their own advantage.
Step 3: the money is then loaned back to the US head office tax-free, so Canada loses out as well as the American government.
This is the reason why France and Britain are looking at a mere 3% tax on gross revenues in their countries on companies like Google and Facebook, because 3% is a pittance but better than nothing.
Canada should consider the same thing: FIRSTLY a tax preference by Canadian Businesses to help Canadian media companies, as outlined here and SECONDLY, a tax on the gross ad revenues paid by media companies, to capture at least some of the money spent by Canadians before being shipped off to various tax shelters
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Preparing for College Physics
by David Murdock
Publisher: TTU 2002
Number of pages: 64
In this booklet I've tried to pick out the bits of your math courses that you will really need to get through your first courses in physics and chemistry. In addition, I give some directions on how to use an inexpensive scientific calculator.
Download or read it online for free here:
by Leonard E. Dickson - John Wiley & Sons
The theory of equations develops anew and in greater detail various fundamental ideas of calculus for the simple case of polynomials. It affords a useful supplement to differential calculus whether taken subsequently or simultaneously.
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This work reviews four fundamental operations with integers and fractions, the practical use of percentage, the applications of proportion, the elements of mensuration, the use of the formula and the equation, the finding of roots, and trigonometry.
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The Chinese-made Android TV box branded as a OTT TV Box 4K has been described as having a “risk of electric shock due to poor quality design and construction” by consumer and trade campaigner Electrical Safety First.
The boxes are sold in a black cardboard box and come with a power supply (AC adapter) marked ANU-050250A.
Anyone having bought one of these devices is advised to stop using it immediately.
Electrical Safety First recommends that anyone who discovers they have an electrical item that has been recalled should stop using it until it has been checked by the manufacturer.
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By Nora Westgeest
“I notice what people wear a lot”, tells David Douw, science student, as we are sitting in the Elliott Mensa, surrounded by various people in their conforming outfits. One wears a fancier shirt, tucked into a pair of belted pants, whereas the other, exhausted by his workload for the day, has resorted to a pair of sweats and a t-shirt. Although fashion might not be immediately linked to an academic sphere like our own, many of us have diverse or compatible thoughts on the topic. For this reason, I undertook the task of interviewing five students at UCR, and asked each what fashion meant to them.
“I want to show how I feel through my outfit”, says Martyna Malysiak, an art history and philosophy student. To the five interviewees, fashion undoubtedly means a way of expressing themselves, be that in relation to their mood, character, background, or setting. Even passively, argues David, we “ingest that information”. Talking about his style, he reveals: “my fashion is my lack of fashion”. Regarding his casual Western style, consisting of boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, he tells me: “even though I think I am buying something simply because it is practical or nice, I actually buy it because I want to be seen as this average Joe. My clothing choices tell something about me”.
Others too refer to the language-like properties of fashion. Meta Huijsmans, history and philosophy student, talks about how she has a lot of styles and dresses accordingly for each situation. “Whenever I have a presentation, I try to wear a cute and girly dress so people perceive me as innocent and will forgive the mistakes I might make in my presentation. Whenever I want people to think I’m into good, old music, I wear a band t-shirt” and “my leather jacket portrays a cool, fearless, slightly distant Meta”. She wonders if this actually works, but the fact remains that we are influenced by our surroundings more than we may be inclined to think. “When I spend time with my friends, I have the feeling that at a certain moment we all start wearing the same thing”, mentions Martyna. “We’re in the same mood, we hang out together and in the end, we will all wear black.” A mutual influence lives between Martyna and her friends.
Inspiration from our friends, but also inspiration from strangers, is brought up in the interviews: “it is an interaction of being inspired and inspiring others”, says Eva Langerak, art history and antiquity student. “I appreciate it if someone dresses nicely. And sometimes someone wears a piece or a combination that I’ve never thought of, but that actually appeals to me. I take their idea and then apply it to myself and my own clothes”. Naomi de Vries, biology and art and design student – chosen ‘best dressed’ by the UCR community – points to a possible vicious circle in this continuous influencing: “on the one hand, we become influenced by the people around us, but on the other we have these people that influence us specifically because they are like us in one way or another”.
Naomi also points to the impact of social media, as something that tells us “what to look like, what we should wear and what ‘beautiful’ is”. It is the insiders that dictate the notions of fashionableness in this circuit: clients, bookers, models, but also Instagram stars, fashion bloggers, or YouTubers – “anyone with a platform and a respectable audience reach” (1). As follows, anyone with access to the technology of today is subject to influences in fashion, whether actively or subconsciously. But is this in equal measure for men too?
When I asked the interviewees their thought about the tendency to call women more susceptible to these influences, namely social media, most of the interviewees were critical. “It is a stereotypical way of representing women”, says David. “When I grew up watching TV, it was always the girls who were interested in looks and went off to the shopping malls and it was the guys who would not be interested in the looks and would mess in the dirt or something. It was not manly to be into fashion”, he recalls. It could certainly be argued that these stereotypes are engrained in our culture. “We see it in fashion branding and department stores” responds Eva, “the women’s collections are more elaborate, which is not really a 21st Century thought”.
Some think that there is a certain level of equality present in men and women with regards to influence. Martyna tells me she has a lot of guy friends who also talk about fashion: “guys nowadays want to be trendy and feel good about their outfit too”. Naomi believes in an equal influence, but she also thinks there are more stimuli for women, which might cause them to appear more influenced. “I think it has more to do with a person’s confidence and identity forming”, Meta adds. “And guys struggle with this too”.
Even though we do not often consider fashion in an academic sense, a lot of interesting issues emerge when we do start to talk about it. Issues include the role of gender, of fashion influencers in a digital era, of a collective unconscious, of fashion archetypes, and so on. Fashion is a means of self-expression, but with further exploration, it can evidently mean much more.
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One way of reducing the fuel consumption and emissions of combustion engines is to increase the efficiency of the internal combustion engine by using low-viscosity engine oils. While viscosities of 0W30 and 0W20 are currently used for modern engines, oils with significantly lower viscosity classes are already being tested in the development and pre-development departments. However, it becomes evident that the proportion of mixed friction at the engine plain bearings increases disproportionately. The thrust washer KS R535L1 and, in particular its polymer coating, help to compensate for these mixed-friction drawbacks.
As a bridge technology on the way to electromobility, partially electrified and thus hybridized vehicles will significantly increase their market share in the coming years. Depending on the region, vehicle segment and customer requirements, micro, mild, full or plug-in hybrid powertrains will be used. The various hybridization stages are achieved by a modular system, analogous to the vehicle platforms. The essential modifications are made to the auxiliary units, for example a mild hybridization is usually achieved by the replacement of the alternator with a belt-starter generator. The basic engine and thus the installation space for the axial bearings of the crankshaft remain unchanged, which is why the engine manufacturers require a correspondingly new axial bearing solution that is suitable for these start/stop loads. Conventionally, the axial bearing of the crankshaft is designed as a loose thrust washer manufactured from a steel-aluminum-tin composite. With KS R21, KS Gleitlager offers an axial bearing solution that has proven itself millions of times over.
To cope with the increasing start/stop load in micro and mild hybrid engines, KS Gleitlager introduced four years ago the thrust washer KS R535, which uses a steel-aluminum composite containing silicon.
Polymer coating with high solid lubricant content
The new polymer-coated thrust washer KS R535L1, debuting at this year's IAA, is based on precisely this more wear-resistant composite, but is also provided with a polymer coating after part manufacture. The L1 coating consists of a polyamide solid lubricant composite applied by transfer pressure. Only the running surfaces are coated with the composite, colored gray-black as a result of the high solid lubricant content.
Wear reduction and mixed friction stability
Compared to the standard steel-aluminum composite thrust washers, the start-stop test with KS R535L1 shows a significant reduction in wear with an increasing number of start-stop cycles. In addition, the mixed friction test on the thrust washer test bench reveals the improved emergency running properties of the L1 polymer coating. The high solid lubricant content reduces friction, smoothes the torque curve and ultimately leads to a significantly longer emergency running time.
Engine testing in various hybrid drive trains with 48V belt-starter generator systems (RSG), integrated starter-generator systems (ISG) and low-viscosity engine oils also confirms the high wear resistance and robustness of the KS R535L1 thrust washers.
The polymer coating process was chosen so as to allow a high degree of freedom in the design of the thrust washer. KS R535L1 is available either as a loose thrust washer or as a mounted collar bearing. KS Gleitlager thus offers its customers for all stages of hybridization state-of-the-art axial bearing solutions which can be flexibly adapted to the available installation space within the engine and design requirements.
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Rheinmetall Automotive AG is the parent company of Rheinmetall’s Automotive sector. As a global first-tier supplier to the automotive industry, Rheinmetall Automotive thanks to its vast capabilities commands foremost positions in the product and component segments air supply, emission control and pumps as well as in the development, manufacture and aftermarket supply of pistons, engine blocks, and plain bearings.
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A new health weapon in county’s armory
Published 7:00 am Wednesday, February 12, 2014
The opening statement on the Heart Disease & Stroke page on the Mississippi Department of Health’s web site is disheartening:
“Cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke, is the leading cause of death in Mississippi, accounting for over a third of all deaths in the state. Mississippi’s CVD mortality rate remains the highest in the nation.”
That’s a good summary of all the information that follows on the web site, including facts such as Mississippi ranks near the top in the nation for obesity and diabetes, contributing factors to cardiovascular disease, and ranks 44th in the percentage of adults who smoke, another contributing factor to cardiovascular disease.
The Miss. Dept. of Health, in ranking the counties for heart disease, with 1 being the worst and 82 being the best, ranked Pearl River County as 60th. These rankings are a year or two old because it takes a while to collect and analyze the data, but they change little from year to year.
Here in Pearl River County we now have a new weapon to battle cardiovascular disease. The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation has awarded Manna Ministries a grant of nearly $153,000 to battle the disease in Pearl River County and surrounding Mississippi counties and Louisiana parishes.
However, as one of the speakers at the announcement put it, “It’s all in the person and what they want to receive from something like this.”
Another speaker reminded us, “Most of us consider life our greatest gift … (but) if we don’t have a healthy heart, that gift is meaningless.”
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Everybody has the right to have clear, blemish-free skin. That’s why figuring out how to get clear skin is of top priority, especially for those who experience breakouts regularly. And it’s not just acne, dark spots and discoloration can be caused by sun damage or with age and they hinder your skin’s clarity as well. So if you want truly clear skin sans blemishes, follow these essential skincare tips.
Always wash your face first thing in the morning with a hydrating face wash. This will remove impurities and also wash away your night skincare products so that your skin is fresh and clean. Use a toner after cleansing as this step will help remove dead skin cells that may have been left behind after cleansing. Apply a serum to your face so that it helps clear up acne causing bacteria, heal existing acne, and correct uneven skin tone. The best serums for clear skin to use in the day are ones with niacinamide (sensitive, dry, combination skin) or salicylic acid (oily, acne prone skin). Follow it up with a gel-based moisturiser that has natural ingredients to keep your skin hydrated and healthy. Do not skip sunscreen. Apply SPF after using moisturiser daily without fail as this helps keep your skin safe from dark spots and discolouration. Use a body lotion with Vitamin C on the rest of your skin to keep it moisturised and clear of blemishes and discolouration.
One of the best tips on how to get clear skin is to follow a night time skincare routine. Wash your face with a cleanser and then use a face scrub at least twice a week at night to double cleanse your skin. Swipe a toner on your skin and then apply a retinol serum to tackle acne scars, dark spots, fine lines, discolouration, and to improve overall skin texture. Gently apply an eye cream around your eyes as this helps keep your eye area nourished and thoroughly hydrated so that dark circles are prevented. Finally, slather on a night cream which will help soothe and repair your skin while you sleep.
Keeping your skin clean will help it stay clear of blemishes. Wash your face once in the morning and once in the evening for best results. Use a hydrating cleanser with natural ingredients so that your skin is soothed and the pH is balanced correctly.
Once or twice a week, use a scrub or a chemical exfoliator. This will help unclog pores, remove dead skin cells, and draw out deep rooted impurities. This practice will help keep your skin clear of blackheads, whiteheads, pimples, and dullness.
Alcohol based toners will excessively dry out your skin and damage your skin’s barrier. It may give you instant freshness and control oil at the moment but after some time your skin will produce excess oil to compensate for the dryness. Since alcohol damages the skin barrier, it will also make you more susceptible to breakouts. It is best to avoid these toners at all costs.
Serums provide targeted action and help heal troublesome skin concerns like acne. Serums will also help correct overall skin concerns and make sure your pores are purified and nourished too. The best serums for clear skin contain niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, salicylic acid, or alpha arbutin.
If you have a pimple and want to get rid of it ASAP, clean your skin with a face wash and then stick on a pimple patch immediately. Pimple patches are made out of hydrocolloid bandages and they suck out the gunk from the pimple within 6 to 8 hours, eventually making the pimple disappear.
Staying hydrated internally is important too. Drinking loads of water will help keep your skin clear and hydrated. Drink at least 2 litres of water daily to have naturally clear skin.
Sometimes tiny hair follicles on your face can cause your pores to get clogged with oil and dirt and that eventually results in breakouts. So, once a month use a facial razor to remove peach fuzz from your face. Wash your face after shaving and apply Aloe Vera gel to soothe the area.
Avoid touching your pimples or picking them. This will cause the pimple to break and spread. If the pimple is too painful, it is best to see a dermatologist to get an extraction or an injection to reduce the swelling.
Avoiding sunscreen will make your skin age faster and also make your skin prone to breakouts. Use a non comedogenic sunscreen during the day whether you are indoors or outdoors. This will prevent dark spots and discolouration and also help keep your skin safe from inflammation.
Retinol is a great active ingredient to get overall clear skin. But you cannot use it during the day as it can make your skin photosensitive in the sun. Use it in serum or cream form at night if you want to clear and prevent acne, banish dark spots, correct uneven skin tone, lighten dark circles, face wrinkles, and improve overall skin texture.
There are a few tips to keep in mind when figuring out how to get clear skin for different skin types. Read on.
Oily skin needs to be exfoliated a lot more often than any other skin type in order to keep it clear. Twice or thrice a week is ideal. Also, salicylic acid serums work best on oily skin types over any other skin type.
Always use nourishing cleansers and toners when dealing with blemishes or discolouration on dry skin. Opting for a lactic acid serum daily will help clear up acne and correct uneven skin tone.
Combination skin can be tricky but here’s a simple guide. Use CTM products meant for oily skin in the hot and rainy months and products meant for dry skin in the winter months. A niacinamide serum will soothe acne and balance both dry and oily patches on your face to keep your skin clear and healthy.
You can see an improvement in your skin in 5 days. If you use a pimple patch on your fresh breakouts that can take about 1 day to go. Dark spots and discolouration will take longer to fade.
Clean pores and well balanced pH levels keeps your skin clear. Wearing moisturiser protects your skin from pollutants from entering your pores while maintaining your skin's hydration levels. Sunscreen prevents dark spots, discolouration and also inflammation.
This comprehensive guide on how to get clear skin will help you achieve your skincare goals and ensure you enjoy healthy glowing skin always.
Can’t go to the salon to get a clean up done? Don’t worry. This essential guide will show you how to do a proper face clean up in the comfort of your home.
Want clear skin but you’re tired of trying out different OTC products? Put your faith in these DIY skincare face packs that will help you get clear skin quickly.
You can’t just be satisfied with using moisturiser to hydrate your skin. Your body needs lots of water so that your skin can appear hydrated and stay clear from within. Here are all the skincare benefits of drinking ample amounts of water daily.
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Behind every parent with a child going through a school assessment is a story. It’s never a cut-and-dry process—never a simple request with an instant “assessment granted” response. There is always more that transpires along the path to getting a child evaluated.
The Story Behind the Assessment
I remember the first time someone told me something “wasn’t quite right” with my child. A preschool teacher pulled me aside at pick-up one day and mentioned some things she had noticed about my son. Loud noises bothered him. He was breaking crayons. He hugged the other kids too hard. These observations continued. Every night one of the teachers rattled off a laundry list of “offenses” for the day, causing anxiety for my son and me. I used to dread picking him up—it was stressful, and I wanted nothing more than to hug him and get him home where he could break as many crayons as he wanted to and not feel threatened.
I was offended and angry when a woman told me she thought my son could have Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). How dare she suggest something abnormal about my kid. I confided in a couple of friends, sharing my commentary about the nerve she had to approach me as she did. However, my curiosity had been piqued. After a quick google search of SPD and an Amazon Prime Delivery Day later, The Out-of-Sync Child arrived at my home. We found ourselves at our first assessment for SPD soon after–our first school assessment didn’t come for a few more years.
We had assessments for SPD, OT, and ADHD more than once before kindergarten. Watching my son go through an evaluation was always a bit unnerving. I often paced around. If available, I’d watch through the observation windows, wondering. I wondered how he was doing. I wondered if he was okay and how he felt. I wondered if I’d done something wrong. It was agonizing.
The first school assessment he had was a long time coming. I had requested a complete evaluation for a year and a half, and by that time things had gotten pretty rough in the classroom. I remember reviewing a form that was passed to me, simply asking for a signature— seemingly to grant permission for the testing to start. I felt uneasy signing it and asked for a few days to consult with my advocate to go over all of the different areas of testing.
In addition to not fully understanding the different components of the assessment plan, I wasn’t present for any part of the testing that occurred in school. This was a blind spot I disliked. Other parents have said they felt the same way—one even stating they wished all sessions had been recorded. As parents and caregivers,we want to be included; the assessment process had many of us feeling the opposite.
Instinctively, we often head online to gather information, which can quell the need to know more. But it can also be confusing. For example, the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), an organization whose mission is to make learning disabilities universally understood, points out the evaluation process and requirements are not universal at all. Fortunately, LDA has links to each state’s local chapter, which can provide parents and caregivers with resources and support in their region.
Although each state’s procedures may be different, for the most part, the same areas are tested, like intelligence, academics, behavior etc. Below are the Seven Basic Areas for Assessment as found in the SELPA (Special Education Local Plan Area—local to California) Assessment & Prior Written Notice.
Language/Speech Communication Development
Perceptual Motor Development
When I received the assessment results, I was confused. I didn’t understand how to put everything together. The pages seemed endless, and by that point my nerves were shot. The only thing I understood and was able to focus on were the words that said my son qualified for support and accommodations, which upon reading caused sadness, anger, relief, and joy to flood over me. I felt sad to know he’d been struggling more than I was aware of, and angry at the school for pushing my concerns aside for so long. I was relieved knowing I had been right about him requiring more support for his needs, which did not come packaged in a one-size-fits-all desk. And I was happy, so happy, knowing he would finally receive his education in a way that best served him.
I started to go over the evaluation with my advocate, who acted as my translator, walking me through the verbiage, definitions, scores, and the different tests used (I later found The Arc Minnesota provides a comprehensive list of definitions). She prepared me for what to expect at the IEP the following day and what accommodations we did and didn’t want.
The Path Forward
Now, several years later, I am confronted with emotions anew—mainly fear and anxiety. My son is thriving, and it’s time for a triennial evaluation, but there’s a bit of a catch-22 involved with starting this complete re-assessment. What if he’s doing too well? I fret thinking about losing his current school placement. I wasn’t the only parent who felt this way either—I found myself in a support group joking with other parents about the desire for our children to have a meltdown—to show they still need their current level of support.
Although I’m anxious waiting for the evaluation results, this time around, I feel more supported and confident that he will continue to learn in the way that best suits him. The past few years have helped me embrace my child’s learning differences. My child is different: he is unique and he thinks and learns differently, and that is worth celebrating. So as we wrap up our triennial evaluation, I bought a cake to do just that.
If you think your child may need an evaluation, (or are waiting on an assessment, and aren’t sure where to begin), I hope the links provided in this article can help you better understand the process, decode the paperwork, request an evaluation, and even direct you to support groups.
About the Author
Kendra Demler is a single mom and parent writer living in the Bay Area. Her personal experiences have given her a talent for candidly retelling the good, the bad, and sometimes cringe-worthy adventures in neurodivergent and high-needs parenting. Raising her son as a solo parent has driven her passion for using her voice to spread awareness, increase acceptance, and provide support and resources for families of neurodivergent children.
One of the most commonly unnoticed and, thus, undiagnosed diagnoses is Dysgraphia, a diagnosis involving the impairment (physically and cognitively) with written expression. Here we explore the definition of this diagnosis, the symptoms one can look out for, and how it is treated.
So what exactly is Dysgraphia?
A recent study conducted by The National Center for Biotechnology Information stated the prevalence of dysgraphia is, “between 10% and 30% of children experience difficulty in writing.” According to the Learning Disabilities Association of America, “Dysgraphia is a learning disability which involves impaired ability to produce legible and automatic letter writing and often numeral writing, the latter of which may interfere with math. Dysgraphia is rooted in difficulty with storing and automatically retrieving letters and numerals.” Like several other learning differences, dysgraphia can stand alone or can go hand in hand with one or more learning disabilities. Common morbidity presents itself in learners who are diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia and executive dysfunction, just to name a few.
What symptoms are paired with Dysgraphia?
One of the first signs that a learner is struggling with writing is noticeable in their actions. They might refuse to write their name on a worksheet, crumple their papers up or even avoid writing tasks by creating excuses (frequent bathroom breaks, anyone?) In essence, learners with dysgraphia have unclear, irregular, or inconsistent handwriting, often with different slants, shapes, a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as a combination of cursive and print styles. They also tend to write or copy things slowly.
Caregivers or educators may notice symptoms when a child first begins writing assignments in school. Some key signs of dysgraphia to watch for include:
Cramped or improper grip, which may lead to a sore hand/fingers
Difficulty spacing things out on paper or within margins (poor spatial planning)
Varying shades of writing (i.e. darker letters or small tears in their paper due to tight grips/force when writing)
Frequent erasing and/or scratching out
Difficulty organizing their written work
Inconsistency in letter and word formation and spacing
Poor spelling, including unfinished words or missing words or letters
Unusual wrist, body, or paper position while writing
What methods are used to treat Dysgraphia?
“Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is very important because a skill can be improved by practice.”
Robert Stacy McCain, American Journalist
Oftentimes, a combination of personalized Occupational Therapy and Educational Therapy strategies are needed for learners to strengthen the underlying cognitive and motor skills that correlate closely to writing with independence. Occupational Therapists, for example, can address the fine and gross motor skills that are responsible for serving as a foundation for formation, spacing and endurance, while Educational Therapists can provide systematic support to the organization, planning, thought process and the like that goes into fluent written expression. In all honesty, writing and the layers of complexity that it involves may never be easy for dysgraphic learners, but, with the guidance and help of certain specialists, learners can apply differentiated techniques that work best for them so that they are not limited by their challenges.
Understood has created a fantastic list of methods one can use in order to develop dysgraphic learners’ writing skills as well in their blog, 8 Expert Tips on Helping Your Child with Dysgraphia. Assistive technology is also one of the most widely accepted accommodations for learners who struggle with the symptoms of dysgraphia. Potential solutions include, but are not limited to:
Utilize pencil grips and hand strengthening toys (such as stress balls) to encourage a healthy, proper grip.
Provide extra time to take notes and copy material.
Give the learner access to peer or teacher notes to remove the variable of notetaking altogether.
Allow the learner to use an audio recorder or a laptop in class.
Provide paper with larger spaced, different-colored or raised lines to help form letters in the right space.
Allow the use of graph paper (or lined paper to be used sideways) to help line up math problems.
Encourage learners to type and utilize keyboarding when possible/appropriate.
It is better to catch writing challenges early in order to alleviate unnecessary struggles. If you notice your learner struggling with any of the aspects within the writing process, please do not hesitate to reach out to your support ecosystem (educators, Learnfully Specialists, OTs, other caregivers, etc.) because they very well could qualify for a dysgraphia diagnosis or at least get access to techniques that will make their writing lives easier. Silencing one’s voice by not allowing them to communicate in written form can be detrimental to their self-esteem and their ability to express themselves in general. So, please join our mission to empower neurodiversity and seek support if your learner is facing written expression hardships.
Originally posted on LinkedIn.
This week marks one of the best holidays of the year: Thanksgiving. One of my favorite family traditions is to go around the table and say what we are thankful for.
Last year, like so many families, we had a scaled-down celebration. I remember that it was harder to find things to be thankful for as we headed into the first long Covid winter. The pandemic, after all, has done a number on all of us. And it’s been especially difficult for neurodivergent kids and their families. Neurodivergent learners rely heavily on routines; these past 20 months have been entirely unfamiliar. It’s caused tremendous disruption to these learners and their caregivers.
And yet, more than 20 months in, there are many silver linings that emerged out of the pandemic. Even in these difficult times, there are reasons for neurodivergent parents to be grateful.
A Newfound Acknowledgement
For far too long, those who learn differently have been overlooked brushed aside, or altogether ignored. Many curriculums at best, did not cater to them. At worst, these curricula forced them to conform to the ways others learn.
That changed a great deal during the pandemic. With 21% of American adults facing their own mental issues during the pandemic, mental health got much more deserved attention for children as well. Rather than only prioritizing outcomes: many schools and educators are looking beyond grades. They are focused on nurturing the entire child, supporting their enrichment, and prioritizing a child’s strengths and interests. Many schools, districts, and states have launched initiatives that focus on mental health and social and emotional learning (SEL).
For example, Chicago Public schools announced a $24 million plan to invest in mental health and trauma support programs for students and staff. Public schools in Miami hired 45 mental health coordinators, while also providing mental health awareness and SEL training to staff. Pew reports that the state of Maryland created a mental health response team to “address the needs of students who have experienced trauma during the pandemic and are stressed beyond their ability to cope.” This team is dispatched to schools and districts that are dealing with these issues.
While many of us are back to a more ‘normal’ school routine that is predominantly in-person, the last year and a half has created space for conversations about mental health. And hopefully, it ensures that mental health is a key part of curriculums going forward.
Availability of Resources Online
In the past, learning online or remotely was viewed as ineffective. If there’s anything we learned during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that technology empowers us to do things we never thought possible: and that includes getting an education via video conferencing. Online learning is not perfect, of course, but it provides access to more resources than ever.
As a result of the move to digital learning environments, students have had greater opportunities to get specialized instruction. Students can meet with educational specialists all the way across the country via Zoom. They can talk with an educator who specializes in teaching the ways that best fit their learning style. Students can get more tailored attention when it works with their schedule. The flexibility and personalized attention break down significant barriers for neurodivergent learners.
At the same time, technology has empowered parents to connect and share information like never before. Even during the pandemic, I felt more connected than ever before to fellow parents. That is thanks to many more parents who used online forums to connect. I’ve found numerous resources that have been invaluable to my son, thanks to other parents who have come online during this time and connected with me. More than anything, it’s made all of us feel less alone.
It’s been a trying period for everyone, but teachers have been hit especially hard by the impact of the pandemic. Even before Covid-19 struck, an average of 36% of teachers were likely to quit their jobs in any given year. 77% of teachers are working more today than they were a year ago, and the top two reasons for driving teachers to quit their jobs are high stress and insufficient pay.
There are so many phenomenal educators that go unappreciated, underpaid, and overworked. I’m taking steps this year to ensure they feel valued and know the impact they have on my child. The parents in my community are offering additional volunteer hours, while I’ve heard of other parents providing classroom care packages to show gratitude to educators.
Teachers are truly superheroes: one study found that the average teacher works 400 hours of overtime every year. The National Education Association found that they spend an average of $459 on teaching materials annually – out of their own pocket. This comes even as the average teacher salary is at least 3.1% lower than the rest of U.S. jobs.
Teachers need and deserve much better. How parents, our schools, and society overall can better support them is a much larger conversation – one for a separate article. But I am endlessly grateful for the critical work they do every day for our children.
We’ve moved forward in many ways over the past 20 months. We’ve still, unfortunately, got a long way to go. But we would have a much longer, more arduous journey if it weren’t for the many silver linings that have come out of this pandemic. As a parent of a neurodiverse learner, that’s what I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving.
According to an April study of 1500 participants, understood.org found that in the remote learning environment, “nearly three-quarters (72%) of parents have become aware of or noticed their children may have learning challenges or differences.” The pandemic only punctuated the point that parents and educators appreciate insight into their learners’ underlying abilities in order to help differentiate levels of support. In order to uncover a learner’s present levels and wholehearted capabilities, parents and educators must seek inventories, screenings and evaluations administered by professionals in the field. There are very few affordable and accessible resources available that are able to provide pinpointed information into the inner workings of learners’ processing skills and aptitude abilities in areas such as literacy, math, executive functioning and cognition. Then, provide clearly defined recommendations, resources, and referrals to match the learners’ diverse needs. Once you uncover both how your learner is performing and what their overall potential is, you can streamline a plan to expedite progress and strengthen feelings of success. So let’s get started!
The Learnfully screening is truly like no other – we are able to discover an accurate appraisal of your learner’s skill set through two online evaluative sessions. To optimize learner engagement, we establish a strong rapport between learner and educational specialist before proceeding with the screening. Each screening is individualized in nature, yet standardized in administration. Depending on your learner’s needs and struggles, we are able to create a screening to specifically measure, then address, your learner’s current abilities in order to heighten cognizance of your learner’s entire profile. This way, you can understand how your learner learns best, what personality and instructional style works best to maximize engagement and what multisensory, evidence-based programs will develop, strengthen and apply the underlying sensory-cognitive areas of challenge. Areas that our screening explores are:
Reading/Literacy – phonological processing, phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, sight words, reading fluency, comprehension and written expression
Math – computation, conceptualization, problem solving and word problem skills
Cognition – areas such as processing speed, verbal/visual memory and the like
Executive Functioning – each of the eight levels are measured
Traditional vs. Whole-child Screening Comparison
Traditional Classroom Assessment
Tina does not know how to write her ABCs, so she scribbles during class. This feedback leads to frustrated parents who think that their child is lazy in the classroom. This is because Tina is perfectly capable of writing her ABCs at home. This only increases Tina’s anxiety levels at school which makes her performance worse.
Learnfully’s Whole-Child Screening
Tina is a fluent reader and knows her ABC’s; however, she has undiagnosed auditory processing issues which makes it hard for her to consume auditory instructions. The parents now know that Tina is perfectly capable of completing her tasks when the instructions are written down, versus when delivered auditorily.
In traditional settings conclusions are solely based on the performance, as a result the root cause of the issue is missed and can go unnoticed. This turns into a lost opportunity to find effective intervention that helps them unlock their potential. In this case, just merely changing how the instructions are delivered would have solved the issue for everyone, reduced anxiety and increased confidence which helps Tina’s overall performance in and out of the classroom!
Screening Review & Consultation
The discussion following the screening administration paints a vibrantly clear picture about your learner as a whole. The findings shed light on interests, strengths, areas of need/challenge, differentiated recommendations (programming and short/long term goals) as well as the importance of proactive collaborative efforts with your learner’s ecosystem. We are able to gauge academic, cognitive and social-emotional skills in order to delineate a personalized learning plan that will help your learner not only reach, but realize their strong learning potential. In the screening report itself, we are able to report on the following components:
Relevant background information
Learner strengths and interests
Areas of challenge
Learner Impact (in and out of the classroom)
So now that you have the screening results and recommendations in hand, what’s next? Learnfully Educational Specialists will help secure a plan that will place your learner on the path to confidence and success. We will take care of finding the best fit Educational Specialist in terms of interests, certifications and personality so that you and your learner can start seeing and feeling progress right away! Also, we pride ourselves on proactive communication with the learner’s ecosystem – parents, educators, outside specialists – so we will make sure to maintain collaborative efforts with anyone on your learner’s team in order to provide insight and maintain consistency across all environments. Lastly, if we find that your learner is in need of supplemental support such as speech therapy or comprehensive psychological assessments, for example, we can provide you with the resources and referrals your family needs!
As a part of LD Awareness Month, we are spotlighting important aspects of the journey for neurodivergent learners and caregivers. In a previous blog, The Learner Support Ecosystem and Why it’s Important to Have One, we detailed the common roles within the learner’s support ecosystem. In this blog, let’s take a look at the role of the speech therapist. For this, we interviewed Heather Hamilton, a Licensed Speech Language Pathologist.
About Heather Hamilton
Heather Hamilton, M.S., CCC-SLP is the founder of TALK Speech & Language Therapy, LLC in Atlanta, Ga. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Syracuse University in the field of Speech-Language Pathology. Heather has over 25 years of experience from her time working in Educational, Medical, and Private settings across the United States. With a focus on continuing education and the most current, research-based practices, TALK is an international clinic that sees clients of all ages to focus on communication needs related to speech and language disorders, literacy, and corporate speech challenges.
What is Speech and Language Therapy?
Speech-Language Therapy is so multifaceted! In our clinic, our clients range in age from 1-year to 67-years of age and no two client profiles are exactly the same. At its core, Speech-Language Therapy is individualized treatment that helps an individual meet their full communication potential in order to confidently share and receive information from others through spoken, written, gesture-based, or picture-based language forms. Some children learn language from the exposure they receive in their environments, and some children require direct Speech-Language Intervention to help them master new skills.
Can you help our community with some common terminology?
Receptive Language is the ability to comprehend language at varying levels of complexity. To assess comprehension of language we look at an individual’s ability to show comprehension. For example, we might show a child three toys, hold out our hands, and say CAR. If they point to or grab the car, we know they understood. However, language complexity increases quickly. If you ask a child to, “Point to the car that is not blue,” it requires that they understand the noun CAR, the adjective BLUE, the verb POINT, the negative NOT, and understand the order of the words presented.
Expressive Language involves the ability to utilize specific words (vocabulary/semantics) in the correct combination and form (syntax and morphology). Children are using single words by 1-year and then by 3 to 4 years a child is expected to have a vocabulary of 800 to 1700 words, and be 90% to 100% intelligible during long conversations that utilize compound and complex sentences of 4 to 5 ½ words in length.
Some children and adults are nonverbal and do not communicate with spoken language. When this is the case, Assistive Technology (Augmentative and Alternative Communication or AAC) is utilized to help individuals communicate their thoughts. Low-tech forms of AAC are things like picture symbols, communication boards or writing with a pen and paper. Examples of high-tech forms of AAC include the use of iPads, computers, or devices that generate speech for a user.
Pragmatic Language is the ability to use language in socially appropriate ways across various settings.
Articulation refers to the ability to spontaneously say speech sounds correctly. Some children struggle with the production of only one or two sounds and would be diagnosed with an articulation disorder. Others have difficulty being understood (intelligibility) because they are not able to say many sounds correctly. This might be diagnosed as a Phonological Disorder as they have consistent error patterns. ChildhoodApraxiaofSpeech (CAS) is a motor coordination problem that prevents an individual’s oral structures (i.e., lips, tongue, teeth, jaw) from executing the motor planning steps that the brain tells them to. This results in inconsistent error patterns that can change each time a word is produced. It is important for parents to know that Childhood Apraxia of Speech is different from adult apraxia that results from a stroke or a traumatic brain injury.
Other elements of spoken communication that might be addressed in therapy include VoiceDisorders and Stuttering.
Our caregivers would appreciate an understanding of a list of symptoms that may otherwise go unnoticed. What should they look out for in their learners?
Parents and caregivers need to trust their instincts! So often families know that something is not right, but they listen to a pediatrician, family member, or friend and do not seek a professional’s opinion. If you sense that something is not developing as it should, reach out to a professional to get their recommendations. Getting intervention early can make a difference in long-term outcomes.
A few questions parents and caregivers can ask themselves to see if consultation with an SLP might be of benefit:
Do I feel like something is not quite right with how my child is engaging, speaking, or using language? If so, call a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) and ask for a phone consultation. Reputable practices will offer a complimentary call.
Have I been told by a friend or teacher that my child should see an SLP? If so, there is no harm in seeking out additional information about your child’s communication skill development.
Is my child struggling to follow directions independently without gestures or help?
If your child is 2 years of age, can they name some pictures, use simple pronouns (I, me, you) and verbs, and say some routine phrases?
If your child is 2 ½ years of age can they use 150-350 words, ask simple questions and add some simple modifiers to nouns (e.g. big truck)?
If your child is 3 years old can they carry on a meaningful conversation, describe actions seen in books and repeat some rhymes?
Are you noticing that your child says several words incorrectly not because of a speech sound error pattern, but because they seem to have learned the word incorrectly (for example, they say Pucause of Because)? Perceptual errors can be a sign of an underlying phonological processing deficit that suggests a child would benefit from structured phonological awareness training.
Does my child seem frustrated when trying to communicate? Frustration at any age can be a sign of an underlying communication problem.
What services do you and your therapists provide?
TALK Speech & Language Therapy, LLC provides both in-person and Teletherapy intervention in the areas of speech sound disorders, expressive language, receptive language, pragmatic language & social communication, literacy, written language, voice therapy, and fluency (stuttering). We have the pleasure of seeing an international population and specialize in working with bilingual and multilingual families. Additionally, TALK provides Corporate Speech Therapy services to help clients target accent reduction, cultural communication differences, pragmatic language, and effective communication strategies in the workplace.
Are there any final thoughts you wish to share?
Parents and caregivers should know that speech sound disorders are not just about saying speech sounds correctly. From the time they are toddlers, children are developing the PhonologicalAwareness skills that will allow them to be successful readers and spellers. Remediation of speech sound production errors, along with structured phonological awareness intervention, can prevent literacy issues down the road.
Finally, everyone should know that Speech-Language Therapy is not just for children. Our practice works with clients of all ages. In recent years more and more adults have sought intervention after gaining a greater understanding of their child’s challenges and recognizing the same struggles have always been an issue for them as well. It is never too late to reach out to a Speech-Language Pathologist for a consultation.
As a part of LD Awareness Month, we are spotlighting important aspects of the journey for neurodivergent learners and caregivers. In a previous blog, The Learner Support Ecosystem and Why it’s Important to Have One, we detailed the common roles within the learner’s support ecosystem. In this blog, we’re digging into psychological assessments. For this, we interviewed Dr. Ilana Jurkowitz, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, who often administers these assessments and can offer insights into the overall goals and importance of this process.
About Dr Ilana Jurkowitz
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a specialty in pediatric psychodiagnostic assessment. In my private practice, I focus on providing comprehensive psychodiagnostic evaluations for children and adolescents to better identify their cognitive and academic profiles and create a plan to help them reach their potential. I am also an adjunct professor at Alliant International University in the Ph.D. Clinical Psychology graduate program where I teach psychodiagnostic assessment to doctoral candidates and train them in specific test instruments and data interpretation. I completed my postdoctoral training at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center in their Psychoeducational and Diagnostic Testing Program and received extensive training in cognitive, academic, attentional, and psychological testing. I work closely with families, schools, and other professionals in supporting children and improving their learning experiences.
What does a Comprehensive Psychodiagnostic Evaluation entail?
A comprehensive psychodiagnostic evaluation typically includes a parent interview, administration of several tests that measure various areas of cognitive, academic, and psychological functioning, a classroom observation (if possible), and feedback sessions with the family. The tests administered evaluate various areas of functioning, including cognition, verbal processing, non-verbal processing, memory, processing speed, attention and concentration, executive functioning, academics, and emotional experience. Tasks include things like puzzles, word games, drawings, and storytelling. Test administration lasts anywhere from 7-10 hours total, typically divided into shorter 1-3 hours sessions. Parents walk away from the assessment process with a final report and specific recommendations for how to best support their child.
Are psycho-educational assessment referrals cause for concern?
Absolutely not! A referral for an evaluation just means that a student may not be learning in the way expected. The information gathered from an assessment will help teachers instruct the child and help the child apply specific strategies to the learning process. Completing an evaluation should never be about finding out what is “wrong,” but rather about finding out what is “right.” Evaluations will identify specific strengths, which will empower the child and help them approach tasks and learning in a way that works for their brain. An assessment could benefit every child!
Can you help our community with some common terminology?
Specific Learning Disability: This is a diagnostic category in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) that describes specific weaknesses in the areas of reading, writing, or mathematics. Diagnoses are issued if the child is performing below the expected level, as determined by formal testing. The expected level is determined by IQ testing.
IQ: Intelligence Quotient. This is a numerical representation of a person’s cognitive ability. IQ is comprised of several areas of functioning including, verbal ability, visual-spatial ability, fluid reasoning (i.e. problem-solving ability), working memory, and processing speed. These combined areas make up a person’s IQ.
Comprehensive Testing: Comprehensive Testing means that the tests administered would measure many areas of functioning. This is different from just a psycho-educational assessment, which would look at basic cognitive abilities (i.e. IQ) and academic performance only. A comprehensive evaluation takes a deeper look at the way a child thinks and processes information, which helps to formulate specific recommendations and tailor classroom instruction.
Our caregivers would appreciate an understanding of sneaky symptoms of learning differences that may otherwise go unnoticed. What should they look out for in their learners?
Anytime a child seems to be avoiding a specific academic task, teachers and caregivers should wonder whether the difficulty of the task is what is getting in the way. A hasty and careless approach to tasks may also indicate difficulty with that subject area. The length of time it takes to complete homework may also be indicative of a learning difficulty. Students should not be spending hours completing their homework every night!
How do caregivers learn their child needs an assessment?
Typically, a teacher or school administrator will recommend an assessment based on their in-class observations. This conversation may begin with an initial conversation about areas of concern or weakness observed in the classroom. Caregivers may also notice that certain academic tasks are more difficult for their child to complete and wonder whether it is a function of a learning weakness. Referrals may also come from a child’s individual therapist, should they be in therapy. There may be questions that the therapist can’t answer and test data can help clarify how a child processes the world. An evaluation can also help guide therapists in their treatment and provide a type of manual for how the child sees the world.
What services are typically recommended if a learner qualifies for an official diagnosis?
Services may include educational therapy, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, speech, and language therapy.
What are a few key tips for caregivers to keep in mind while their learner undergoes psychological evaluations?
It is important not to think about the evaluation process as a test, but rather as a journey of understanding how a child’s brain works and their strengths. Kids shouldn’t feel like they need to “score high” or get the answers right because many of the tasks are intended to be difficult or beyond the child’s capacity. The goal is to encourage the child to do the best they can and not feel like they are getting a grade.
Any final thoughts you wish to offer to our shared audience?
The evaluation process should be empowering for both the child and parents and seen as a positive experience. Weaknesses can be reframed as areas of growth and the evaluation process can give kids the tools to understand how they learn and know how to approach specific tasks. Diagnoses can also be discussed in terms of a common language and not as a way to identify what is wrong. A diagnosis by itself does not tell the child’s story and should only be used as a way to classify some of the areas of difficulty. It will never answer all the questions, and the same diagnosis could look very different in two different kids.
IEPs can be complex and overwhelming, especially when it is your family’s first time experiencing the process. When your learner is struggling to access the content and curriculum in the classroom, they, too, are feeling the layers of stress and feelings of uncertainty. The IEP was created to support learners achieve academic and social-emotional goals as every learner deserves to realize and reach their full potential. Here, we provide an overview of IEPs while fully acknowledging that additional research might be needed for one to fully understand the procedure, follow through, and develop the mindset needed before, during and after an IEP meeting.
What is the purpose of an IEP?
The overall goals of an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) are to set reasonable learning goals for a learner, and to state the services that the school district will provide for the child.
What is in an IEP?
Each IEP must contain specific information, as listed within IDEA, our nation’s special education law. This includes but is not limited to:
the learner’s present levels of academic achievement and functional performance, describing how the learner is currently doing and how the learner’s diagnosed disability affects his or her involvement and progress in the general curriculum
annual goals for the learner, meaning what caregivers and the school team think he or she can reasonably accomplish in a year
the special education and related services to be provided to the learner by the school district, including supplementary aids and services and changes to the program or supports for school personnel
how much of the school day the learner will be educated separately from neurotypical learners or not participate in extracurricular or other nonacademic activities such as lunch or clubs
how (and if) the learner is to participate in state and district-wide assessments, including what modifications to tests the learner requires
when services and modifications will begin, how often they will be provided, where they will be provided, and how long they will last
how school personnel will measure the learner’s progress toward the annual goals.
Who attends IEPs?
An IEP involves all of the relevant parties in the learner’s educational environment including the caregivers, classroom teacher(s), school psychologist evaluator, relative service providers (speech pathologists, counselor, occupational therapist, learning specialist) and a school administrator as a representative of the school district.
What is the timing of IEPs?
Once an educator or a caregiver requests a psycho-educational assessment, the district typically has 90 days to complete said testing. An IEP meeting must be held within 30 calendar days after it is determined, through a full and individual evaluation, that a learner has one of the disabilities listed in IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and needs special education or related services. A learner’s IEP must also be reviewed at least annually thereafter to determine whether the annual goals are being achieved and must be revised as appropriate and tested triannually if the learner remains in need of an IEP.
How do I follow up?
Your short and long term follow-up steps can depend on the nature and results of the IEP meeting itself. Although we are not advocates, we have participated in many IEPs when caregivers do not sign the documented goals (based on the above) in order to spend time at home digesting the information line by line to make sure they are in full agreement with the proposed services and corresponding timelines. If, after review, you feel comfortable signing off- great! If not, you can certainly follow up, preferably in written form via email, with a list of outstanding questions. It is important to note, however, that the district is not permitted to initiate services until the IEP document is signed by all parties. Once signed, as a caregiver, it is critical to keep the dates of services and applicable goals in mind and follow up if you do not observe progress firsthand. Occasionally, subsequent meetings are required to discuss progress or the lack thereof.
Again, we know that IEPs are intricate, so a good place to start digging deeper into the ins and outs of IEPs is through wrightslaw.com. They provide both an index and a roadmap to IEPs- both extremely useful tools to utilize as resources. As always, if you would like to consult with one of our experienced Educational Specialists, we are more than happy to help however we can. Ultimately, we wish you and your learner success in future IEP meetings and hope that learners are able to achieve their goals in order to build confidence and independence.
We understand how intimidating and/or stressful any meeting concerning your child can be. Here, we hope to reduce your angst by providing a brief overview of what to expect in a 504 Plan Meeting specifically and welcome any and all questions that you may still have following the reading of this article.
What is a 504 Meeting?
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (commonly referred to as Section 504) is a federal law designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. Those programs include public school districts, institutions of higher education, and other state and local education agencies. To qualify under Section 504, a student must have a disability and that disability must limit a major life function. The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments of 2008 (ADA) broadened the definition of disability in the ADA as well as in Section 504. The 504 Plan is a plan developed to ensure that a child who has a disability identified under the law and is attending an elementary or secondary educational institution receives accommodations that will ensure their academic success and access to the learning environment.
Each 504 Meeting includes the following participants:
The learner (dependent on age/maturity)
Each member of the 504 Meeting Committee typically provides insight into the learner’s strengths, areas of need, and accommodations (present or future) throughout.
How is it different from a SST? IEP?
We realize how confusing all of the acronyms can be, so fear not – we are here to help!
The SST, Student Study Team, is usually less formal than a 504 or IEP meeting and does involve documentation, but the information discussed is not upheld by the law. So, teachers will delineate recommendations and an action plan within this meeting and will follow through as best they can without repercussions if they are unable to reach a level of compliance. A 504, on the other hand, is a legal document that delineates accommodations and modifications upheld by the law.
The IEP, Individualized Education Program, involves the IDEA (The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act). We will dive deeper into IEP’s next week but generally speaking, the IDEA is less involved in 504s than they are in IEPs. Because of this–and the overarching purpose of 504 meetings–the school does not require measurable growth or specific goals with 504s like it does with IEPs.
How do I best prepare for a 504 as a caregiver?
Prior to the meeting, it is important to do your homework! Prepare a list for the following aspects of your learner’s profile: relevant background information, strengths/interests, areas of challenge, potential solutions for said challenges. If your learner is old enough and/or self-aware, it’s always a good idea to ask them the same questions that you will need to report to during the 504 Meeting. You know how to speak with your child best, of course, just be sure to stress that the purpose of the meeting is to best support their learning needs by providing strategies to help them access their full potential. Your learner should be part of the process one way or another. Sometimes, learners are asked to join the meeting and, therefore, would need to have a discussion with you prior to the meeting anyways. Feel free to review understood.org’s tips about 504s Meetings or having a productive meeting as well!
What happens during and after the 504 Meeting?
During the meeting, bring your notes, work samples, and writing utensils or your device to add to your previously delineated thoughts. Try to maintain a positive outlook before, throughout and after the meeting. Educators typically have your learner’s best interest at heart and want to see he/she/they succeed. Sometimes that means your child needs a little support to realize and reach their goals which is why we adults need to come together to make it happen!
At the conclusion of the team meeting, the facilitator will ask you to sign the notes that they took during the meeting (in person or electronically if you met virtually) and provide you with a copy. Within the notes, they will list the areas that you prepared, relevant accommodations/modifications that they will have tried or will put into place and the next steps which could include a follow-up meeting after a specific number of weeks. Please be sure to read over the team’s takeaways prior to signing the form itself since it is a legal document. Ultimately, all the present parties will also sign the document to substantiate agreement and accountability.
We wish you all of the best in your learner’s 504 Plan Meeting and know that, with the right understanding, preparation, mindset and follow through, your learner will see and feel more successful in their personal learning trajectory and within their school environment!
Welcome to our first of three blogs in our School Meeting Series! Here we will dig into the in’s and out’s of SST meetings so that you, as caregivers or as teachers, are able to maximize your time together throughout.
What is a SST meeting anyway?
SST is an acronym for Student Study Team. The initial SST meeting is typically the first time you have met to discuss a particular concern outside of a parent-teacher conference. Sometimes SST meetings are held in place of a conference because the teacher would like to involve the whole team in the discussion which could run longer than the average time allotted for a caregiver teacher conference. Someone takes notes throughout the meeting so that everyone has endless access to the discussion points.
What is the format of SST meetings?
SST meetings usually last 30-45 minutes (sometimes longer) and include a learner’s caregivers, teachers, and at least one school representative such as the Counselor, Learning Specialist, Program Director, and/or administrator. If your child has received any specialized services in or out of the school environment, other providers are welcomed to attend as well. The SST facilitator starts by collecting or recapping any relevant background information, then moves into strengths and areas that are going well this school year. After each team member has the chance to share, then the facilitator will move into opportunities for growth or challenges the learner is presently facing. After the discussion, the team will provide an overview as to the action plan which includes potential accommodations, modifications, layers of support, and the like. At the conclusion of the meeting, the facilitator will determine the next point of communication whether it be a follow-up SST meeting, the upcoming caregiver-teacher conference, or something of the sort. If a follow-up SST meeting is needed, they are generally held six to eight weeks after the first meeting to allow enough time for the team to gauge how the learner is responding to the documented plan of action.
Is an SST meeting cause for concern?
An SST meeting is usually not a reason to feel anxious or worried, but we are all human! This is especially true for the first meeting, although I realize it is hard to avoid feelings of angst when entering a team meeting about an area in which your learner is struggling. SST meetings are intended to remain positive and dynamic. Envision them like Think Tanks for your learner to access their full potential with the assistance of their support village!
What if the SST goals are not met?
If the suggestions/ideas do not work well for your learner, then I strongly suggest welcoming a follow-up meeting to further explore reasons as to why your learner might not feel successful or confident within particular areas. Some schools are limited by what they can offer internally, so your learner might require external support to meet the aforementioned goals, which is ok. We all have skills that are in need of development, so why not seek outside support somehow, someway? It is better that you model a growth mindset and positive outlook when your learner starts the path towards independence.
In Conclusion…If you have been asked to attend an SST meeting it simply means the teacher has noticed your learner struggling in a specific area. The educator and their team want to see your child succeed. An SST meeting is an excellent opportunity to create a positive communication link between caregivers and the school, so try to attend the meeting with a good outlook. The school wants to help. Be willing to listen to their ideas and be honest with your own concerns. When working together, clear answers, help for your learner, and a more joyful learning experience will surely follow. For more information on SST meetings, check out one of our favorite resources – understood.org.
Here we are, the school year is underway for most of us and we are approaching the months ahead with as much positivity and hopefulness that we can conjure. As caregivers, we had the opportunity to establish a relationship with our children’s teachers and school teams online last year but at the same time, we had to navigate the layers of pandemic protocols, distance learning, and so much more. Now that we can confidently say that pandemic learning is not going anywhere and we will, most likely, have most of our teacher meetings online this year as a result, we need to further explore ways in which we can connect with our learners’ teams virtually. That way, we are able to maximize opportunities for building rapport and strengthening connectivity in this new normal. Let’s dig into four simple ways that you can nurture a relationship virtually with your child’s team this school year and beyond.
Do Your Homework
Follow these steps to preparing for virtual teacher meetings and interactions this school year:
Review assignments, grades and any progress reports ahead of time.
Before the conference takes place, find an opportunity to sit with your child as he/she does homework in each subject.
Understand their strengths and thought process first-hand.
Delineate questions that come to mind throughout each of the above.
List a few talking points so that you feel more comfortable initiating or maintaining the conversation.
Half of the battle when it comes to almost anything in our life that we perceive as an obstacle is to show up! We spend a good deal of time online and, thus, should try to find ways to engage with our learners’ teams in the same way. One of the first ways to do this is to introduce yourself to your child’s teacher or specialist via email to let them know how excited you are to collaborate with them this year. They can reply when it is convenient to do so and will appreciate the notion. Next, look out for sign-up invites to teacher meetings such as Back to School/Curriculum Nights, Progress Checks, Parent-Teacher Conferences, and the like. Once you officially sign up for a time that works well, show up! I know, I know, it is much easier to NOT go because it is not as noticeable in larger group settings or your life is a juggling act like mine. But showing up sends a strong message to the teacher that being present and involved is important to you and your family as a whole.
Following up shows your learners’ team that you are committed to supporting them and your child as best you can. During the introductory point of contact, ask your child’s teacher how he/she prefers to communicate (email, note, phone calls, etc.). At the conclusion of any discussion, meeting, or Parent-Teacher Conference, remember to ask what the next formal point of contact will be so that you can ensure there will be one. And, of course, gestures of gratitude go a long way as well – thank you emails, handwritten notes, homemade teacher gifts – small tokens of your appreciation can make a huge difference throughout the school year.
Connect Outside of Meetings
This step is not as easy as it once was, let’s be honest. Most schools are not allowing parents onsite, let alone taking field trips. That said, you can still practice finding chances to connect with your children’s teaching team outside of parent meetings. If you happen to be one of the lucky ones who can step foot on campus, maintain consistent, open communication by chatting briefly at drop off and/or pick up. Hey, if your child’s teacher works the car line- perfect! Essentially, it is key to find/think of ways to remain involved like volunteering as a parent helper outside of the classroom doing things such as preparing materials (online or to drop off) for class or scheduling future virtual field trips. Every step you take in an effort to volunteer makes life easier for your child’s teacher so that he/she can spend more time with the learners they love!
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After an accident, your pain and injuries might be leading you through a tough recovery, but that recovery will be even more difficult without a reliable vehicle. Car repairs may be your top priority, which means repairs or replacement are on the horizon. The insurance jargon and bureaucracy and be a nightmare. Understanding the lingo and steps towards revitalizing your vehicle will help you move forward to focus on issues that are more important.
If your vehicle was damaged, with the right insurance available, the policy should provide coverage for repairs or replacement. In the broadest sense, if your vehicle is worth $15,000 and has $5,000 in damages, it is likely your car will be repaired. If your vehicle is worth $5,000 and requires $10,000 in repairs to restore to usable condition, then the insurance company is likely to consider your car a total loss and will refuse to repair the vehicle.
A total loss often means that the parts and labor necessary to repair your vehicle exceeds the value of your vehicle. In many cases, insurance companies will even total out your car if the necessary repairs exceed a certain percentage of your car’s fair market value. This “total loss formula” is based on the repair expense, the vehicle’s salvage value, and the actual cash value from prior to the crash.
It’s up to you whether you keep your vehicle. In the event the insurer totals your vehicle, you can keep the salvage and pay for the repairs yourself. In that case, the insurance company may provide you a check for the difference between the actual cash value of the car and the remaining salvage value. You can use those funds to fix your car if you so choose. Alternatively, you can give the vehicle to the insurer, who will then give you the funds equivalent to the salvage as well.
Yes! Though, insurance companies are stubborn and often unwilling to budge from their decision. The best way to remove the total loss tag from your car is to show evidence that your vehicle is worth more than their estimated value. If they believe your car is worth $10,000 just based on the year, make and model, but they failed to include low mileage, customization, or other value boosters, you may have the opportunity to change some minds. If you are able to show documentation to support your claim, point out inaccuracies in their reports, or negotiate well, insurance companies may alter their position.
Even if the insurance company doesn’t change its mind, if you are able to establish a higher actual cash value of the vehicle, you’re only doing yourself a favor. Again, when the car is totaled, the insurer will write you a check for the actual cash value of the vehicle. If you can prove that the value is higher than their estimate, they will give you more cash.
Sometimes having an attorney can make a difference, but a lawyer is no guaranteed win. Attorneys know the ins and outs of what insurance companies are looking for in their evaluations. Often, your counselor might review their reports and find inaccuracies that you missed – maybe a salvaged titled comparison or comps that just don’t match your precious ride. Alternatively, having an attorney on board might provide you just the leverage you need to get your way. The law offices of Magnuson Lowell, P.S. are revving in the background waiting to help you with your car insurance questions. Call today for a free case evaluation. | <urn:uuid:1e9314a0-7198-44e9-b958-f58baaead94c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.magnusonlowell.com/blog.asp?blogid=305 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954659 | 707 | 1.75 | 2 |
Non-classical class I genes are no longer clearly distinguished from classical ones in mammals, and they are found also in fishes, frogs and chickens. They contribute to immune responses against pathogens. Given the number and diversity of class Ib products, their various tissue distribution patterns, and the wide range of peptides they bind, new functions are to be expected.
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Johannesburg - Transforming the agriculture sector requires a commitment to doing the hard work in laying the foundation before reaping the rewards, said Gloria Serobe, pioneering founder and executive director of Wiphold, whose ground-breaking farming initiative has already changed the lives of many.
Acknowledged as a leader in South African business, Serobe speaks with passion - and pride - about the transformative effect of a long-standing partnership in the sector that has evolved into an inspiring role model for transformation in the Eastern Cape.
As a money expert committed to doing good, Nedbank has walked this journey with Wiphold in two of the poorest rural areas in the country.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a set of interventions to cushion the impact of the novel coronavirus epidemic on the country’s already ailing economy. This as the newly announced measure to combat the spread of COVID 19 threatens to deepen the country’s technical economic recession.
He says that government will provide a seed capital of R150 million towards the Fund, which is also open to contributions from businesses, organisations and individuals.
Ramaphosa says Rupert and Oppenheimer families have each donated R1 billion to assist small businesses and their employees affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The President says “This will be the first phase of the economic response and further measures are under consideration and will be deployed as needed.”
“The Fund will focus efforts to combat the spread of the virus, help us to track the spread, care for those who are ill and support those whose lives are disrupted,” adds the President.
The Fund will be chaired by Ms Gloria Serobe and the deputy Chairperson Mr Adrian Enthoven. It will be administered by a reputable team of people, drawn from financial institutions, accounting firms and government.
Contributions can be made on the fund’s website www.solidarityfund.co.za
Ramaphosa declared a national shutdown on Monday evening against the coronavirus pandemic as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa rises to 402.
WIPHOLD, South Africa’s premier black-women owned investment and operating company, is pleased to announce its investment in a key strategic grain storage business along with AFGRI Group Holdings, STANLIB Infrastructure Investments and the Land Bank.
This follows AFGRI’S decision to create the vehicle, AFGRI Grain Silo Company Proprietary Limited (‘’AFGRI Grain Silo Company’’), with the objective of expanding AFGRI’s current storage capacity of some 4,7 million tons to six million tons in the near future. The vehicle’s aim is to enable the growth of grain storage capacity in South Africa and on the continent and to strengthen food security in the region. It will initially own storage facilities with a total value of R3.6 billion at inception. WIPHOLD’s shareholding in the company is 25%.
WIPHOLD’s founders Louisa Mojela and Gloria Serobe explain that the investment fits squarely within WIPHOLD’s decision in 2014 to begin exploring opportunities in the agricultural sector.
“This decision was motivated by two key drivers -- firstly, a positive in-house view on the growth and investment prospects of the sector and the key role it can play in enhancing South Africa’s economic prospects; and secondly that the agricultural sector is key to addressing many of South Africa’s transformational challenges. Agriculture can, with the right interventions, play a significant role in addressing poverty, inequality and food security,” said Mojela.
It was with this pivotal role in mind that in 2014, WIPHOLD initiated a maize and soya bean operation on 2 365 hectares of communal land in the Mnquma and Mbashe districts of rural Eastern Cape. The operation is a partnership between 2 229 communal landowners from 33 villages and WIPHOLD.
“Our investment in the AFGRI Grain Silo Company sees WIPHOLD broadening its focus along the agricultural value chain to include not only primary production but also grain management, both of which are critical to ensuring food security in South Africa,” said Serobe.
Mojela adds: “We are particularly excited to be partnering with such reputable institutions as AFGRI, STANLIB and the Land Bank. We focus on partnering with the best and AFGRI is a market leader with impeccable management. We are therefore also very happy that AFGRI will manage the storage facilities on behalf of AFGRI Silo Company.”
“We strongly believe that the agricultural sector can play a significant role in turning South Africa around and are passionate about participating actively in the sector to help make this a reality,” said Serobe.
Johannesburg - The low-key announcement by Tennis SA (TSA) about its new sponsorship deal with Wiphold barely caused a ripple in a sporting week dominated by Ashwin Willemse dropping the mike at the SuperSport studios and AB de Villiers retiring.
Forget that Wiphold is a black female-owned, multi billion-rand investment company, the fact that the sponsorship is specifically aimed at financially assisting TSA’s efforts to improve elite performance in women’s tennis should have caught the eye.
It is rare that commercial partnerships in South African sport cater specifically for women – usually the women’s aspect of a sponsorship is the back end of the main deal. But the way the TSA and Wiphold sponsorship is structured is pretty comprehensive.
TSA’s website said the deal aims to look after “a travelling squad of six to eight female players in the Under-16 age group, who will play in selected junior International Tennis Federation events in Africa; [hold] an annual Next Gen camp and tournament of up to 32 of the country’s emerging young female players; and [fund] a high-performance squad of eight to 10 female players that will act as a feeder to the Fed Cup team”.
TSA chief executive Richard Glover said: “The significance of the sponsorship is that it’s very much a female-specific sponsorship and there are not many of those in South Africa.
WIPHOLD is pleased to announce that is now a significant and credible shareholder of reference in Sasfin Holdings Limited (Sasfin), holding 25.1% of Sasfin’s shares in issue.
WIPHOLD founders Louisa Mojela and Gloria Serobe said that financial services had always been a key focus for WIPHOLD. The sector is a cornerstone of any economy and critical to realising WIPHOLD’s vision of the economic empowerment of black women.
WIPHOLD has concluded a Black Economic Empowerment transaction with insurance procurement services provider Bluespec Holdings that results in the company taking a 25.1% stake in the Group.
Bluespec is a holding company, comprised of many specialist businesses, who collectively aim to transform the vehicle repair and recovery industry, in order to enable customers to deliver more effective and efficient propositions to their clients. Their divisions which include, First Group; Renew It Group and Auction Nation among others offer emergency motor incident management; autobody repair services; and salvage operations.
When a financially sound business strategy leads to broad, ground-level socioeconomic impact, particularly in one of South Africa’s most historically disenfranchised regions, the results are nothing short of remarkable.
The Centane and Mbashe Agricultural Initiative focuses on the development of a model for the profitable and sustainable farming of communally owned land. Since its inception in 2012, the initiative has cultivated more than 2 000 hectares of land across 34 villages in Eastern Cape, and distributed more than R18 million to participating community shareholders through fees and dividends.
One of South Africa's leading female entrepreneurs has urged black businesses to protect the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEBEE) policy from fronting practices and use it to attract more investment into the country.
Gloria Serobe, executive director of Women's Investment Portfolio Holdings Limited (Wiphold) and chief executive of Wipcapital, said she was embarrassed that the Department of Trade and Industry had to create the office of the ombudsman to prevent fronting practices.
Accolades continue to pour in for Rio Olympic Games 800 metres champion Caster Semenya.
The Women's Investment Portfolio Holdings Company, WIPHOLD, hosted Semenya and her wife at a luncheon, thanking her for her contribution in raising the profile of South African women.
When Semenya walked into the offices of WIPHOLD, she said she felt at home, liberated and at a place where she has never felt judged.
South Africa’s cement market is set for even fiercer competition with the entrance of the Jidong Development Group, one of the largest enterprises in China’s building materials industry and one of the world’s top five cement groups.
A R1.8 billion greenfields pure cement plant with a capacity of more than 1 million tons a year is to be built at an established limestone deposit near Northam in Limpopo. It will be well placed to serve the major cement demand centres of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Rustenburg and Brits.
OLD MUTUAL empowerment partners Wiphold and Brimstone have committed to remain shareholders at the insurer after the maturity of their black economic empowerment (BEE) deal.
Nedbank, Old Mutual and Wiphold will invest almost R100m to fund rural women in the agricultural sector. Brimstone, Nedbank and Old Mutual will provide R100m more with which to fund entrepreneurs.
Wiphold founder Gloria Serobe said they would continue to be involved as the advantage of partnering with a financial services sector company such as Old Mutual was to have exposure to life assurance, short-term insurance and banking "at the same time".
Wiphold has also remained an investor at Nedbank.
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Mitre Peak (Māori Rahotu) is an iconic mountain in the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the most photographed peaks in the country. The distinctive shape of the peak in southern New Zealand gives the mountain its name, after the mitre headwear of Christian bishops. It was named by Captain John Lort Stokes of the HMS Acheron. The Māori name for the peak is Rahotu. | <urn:uuid:335beec5-abdf-447f-97b8-1bdedb825212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.canyousendmeapostcard.com/new-zealand-90/a-postcard-from-new-zealand-faustine-1563.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942341 | 96 | 2.265625 | 2 |
How are surf competitions judged? You may wonder how competitions are scored, and why the surf competitions can be called off due to lack of waves. This article will explain how SURF competitions are judged. The judges score each wave on a scale of 0 to 10 with the competition deciding whether it will go on or not. The competition is based on the skills and judgment of a panel of five judges.
Surf competitions are judged on two-wave totals. Each wave is scored by a panel of judges, usually five, using a scale of 0 to 10. A perfect score is a 10 and a surfer can't place higher than fourth. Judges are subjective, but they look for innovative moves and a commitment to maximizing the potential of the waves.
Heats are early portions of a surf competition. There are two to four competitors per heat. They report to the ocean at the same time and compete in the same waves. Each wave is scored on a scale from 0 to 10. The heats will go on for 20 to 30 minutes. The best surfers will progress to the Finals. Surf competitions are judged on a scale of 0 to 10.
Despite the recent outbreak of COVID-19, surfing events in Hawaii have been cancelled for the past two weeks. This has forced DBEDT Director Mike McCartney to cancel all surf meets, including the Roxy Pro Biarritz. In the interim, the contest will be held in nearby Hossegor during September/October. In addition, participants will have a better chance of earning the 2013 ASP Women's World Title and requalifying for the 2014 season.
The Portuguese round of the world surfing championship was canceled last night due to lack of waves. The World Surfing League (WSL) will make a decision about whether the Meo Rip Curl Pro will resume on 23 October at 8am local time. Meanwhile, the elite world surfing championship continued in Peniche on Sunday. However, Gabriel Medina was eliminated from the competition after controversial interference against fellow countryman Caio Ibelli.
Surf competitions are scored by comparing the waves that each surfer catches with the wave set by the judges. They score each wave from 0 to 10 and add the best two scores together. When a surfer receives a 20 for two waves, it means that he caught two perfect waves. There is no set amount for how many waves to surf in a heat, but the best two waves will be added to determine the winner.
In the early stages of a surfing competition, competitors compete in heats. Heats are usually comprised of two to six competitors. Heats are short, with each surfer surfing for 20 to 40 minutes. The competitors must catch the best waves to advance to the next round. The two who get the highest score move on to the next round. The top two competitors will try to keep up with the other competitors to make it to the finals.
There's no denying it: surf competitions are a dice-game. Sometimes the best surfer doesn't win, and sometimes the best wave takes an unlucky surfer. Either way, it's all about competition and skill. In this article we'll take a look at some of the important aspects of surfer ranking in surfing competitions. Read on to learn more.
In surfing, the waves and the wind are the most important factor in the competition. Surfers need to be able to predict whether the waves will be good enough to make it through the competition. With nine days to choose the right spot, good conditions should last about four days. Depending on where the competition is being held, there may be four days of bad weather and a five-day window to choose the best wave. In each competition, up to two surfers from each country are able to qualify.
How are surf competitions judged and what do the judges look for? Judges are trained to observe the key elements of the surf wave, and pay close attention to each surfer's performance. They must also be impartial; they cannot confer scores while a surfer is surfing. It is beneficial to read some articles on surf forecasts, and be familiar with common mistakes to avoid before a competition.
How are surf competitions judged and how are the results decided? Each event is comprised of heats and rounds. During each heat, surfers compete to catch the two highest-scoring waves. Each wave is judged on a scale of one to ten by a panel of five judges. The highest and lowest waves are disqualified, and the surfer is awarded a total score of twenty points for that heat. | <urn:uuid:0b8e606d-070e-4720-9ad4-afdf4e5419e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cheapsurfgear.com/blogs/info/how-are-surf-competitions-judged | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969956 | 926 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Here just a short notice if somebody doesn't know it yet. If you have a false information in a data record you can fix this manually either in a PSA or (A)DSO. Just select the desired entry and click Display (F7).
Now click in the menu bar, write /h and click Enter. You now see in the status bar "Debugging switched on". When you now click Enter again an ABAP Session will be opened.
Click on the variable code and change it with the pensil to your needs. In my case I used EDIT. Click Enter and than Continue (F8).
Now I change the material numer to 1113 and save the entry. Here is the result.
In normal case every one should know how this can be done, so it is just a little documation ;)
You can change every SAP table so beware what you are doing.
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13 Sep 15. FRONTEX, the EU’s external borders agency, has revealed that it will receive a 54 per cent budget hike in 2016. The announcement was made by the executive director of FRONTEX on 16 September. During the meeting, officials from FRONTEX also discussed the increasing need to combat illegal trafficking.
The issue of border policing is controversial in Europe as countries and agencies are still finding effective ways to manage the problem. An analysis of some of the developments over the past year suggest that the crisis and related pressures on European countries are leading to increased funding for agencies involved in migrant interdiction, surveillance, and border protection.
It appears that the growing migrant crisis is leading to a shift in the defence industry as well. Peter Wezeman, a senior researcher from SIPRI was quoted in the media as saying, “the current refugee crisis may offer a chance for defence firms to capitalize on an expanding market in border control and surveillance”. Military technology – like satellites, sensors, and drones – is being repurposed to meet rising demands for border and maritime security.
The types of industrial involved in providing various solutions for this crisis are wide-ranging; it includes specialized equipment providers (SMEs primarily) to large prime contractors (like Thales, Finmeccanica, Sagem, Airbus, BAE Systems, among others). Some of the key technological priorities in recent times have been in biometric detection systems at borders, thermal imaging devices, patrol boats, and remotely-piloted aircraft systems (RPAS). The use of RPAS for coastal surveillance is expected to increase, as the industry is likely to benefit from the fact that these operations circumvent EU laws prohibiting unarmed drones from flying in civilian airspace. A look back at 2014 provides some examples of this trend: for example, the European Commission was reported to be developing UAVs in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries and Austrian company Diamond Airborne Sensing.
Involvement of European Navies
European navies are increasingly committing assets for surveillance operations in the Mediterranean. Most recently, the UK announced that it would deploy a Type-23 frigate (HMS Richmond) carrying one Lynx helicopter and a Scan Eagle surveillance drone. The deployment supports the EUNAVFOR MED which currently includes naval vessels of Germany and Italy.
The EUNAVFOR MED was launched in mid-2015 with a mandate of 12 months. It was launched with a shared cost of about EUR12 million to support the deployment of a number of military assets including warships, helicopters, submarines, reconnaissance aircraft, and unmanned systems.
The EUNAVFOR MED countries and navies can make use of integrated maritime solutions provided by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).
The EMSA has also been increasing its capability to provide maritime awareness to member countries. It facilitates integrated maritime operations by allowing member countries to use its integrated vessel reporting position information, such as: terrestrial and satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS), Long Range Identification & Tracking (LRIT), Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), as well as national vessel position data such as coastal radar, patrol assets, and leisure craft.
Related Funding streams
The June 2015 draft budget of the European Commission proposed to reinforce the resource levels of key agencies – such as FRONTEX, European Asylum Support Office (EASO), and EUROPOL, as well as EUROJUST – to meet their additional needs due to migration challenges.
The draft budget provided additional funding for ongoing Triton and Poseidon Operations, strengthened emergency assistance to frontline Member States, funding for an EU-wide resettlement scheme, and reinforces agencies such as FRONTEX and EASO.
- EUR833 million was allocated for 2016 for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF) – the two main sources of funding
- EUR9.5 billion (representing an increase of 28.5 per cent) was directed toward supporting the EU’s capacity to respond to external crises – such as those in Ukraine and Syria – and to provide humanitarian help to
those in need.
- The funding for the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) will be reinforced to EUR2.1 billion (representing an increase of 34 per cent).
FRONTEX has assessed that there is a requirement for improved capabilities for detection,
interdiction, surveillance, and rescue. Its annual risk analysis report 2015 revealed that detections of illegal border crossing reached a new height in 2014 with more than 280,000 detections; most of these were reported as part of search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean area.
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The Bank of North Dakota administers both the:
- PACE Fund helps communities expand their economic base by assisting Primary Sector businesses that make an investment or create jobs in their community. The borrower must be a primary sector business as defined by NDCC 1-01-49 and certified by the North Dakota Department of Commerce. A primary sector business is an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership or association which through the employment of knowledge or labor adds value to a product, process or service that results in the creation of new wealth.
- Flex PACE Program allows communities the ability to provide assistance to businesses that do not meet the primary sector definition of PACE. In addition to this program, specific Flex PACE options have been developed for child care facilities and affordable housing projects. No job creation is required for any Flex PACE Program options. | <urn:uuid:99041dd0-cc55-424b-82dd-22fad46dc9ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://econdev.mckenziecounty.net/grants-incentives/pace-flex-pace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943635 | 171 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In the future, should we ever bore of our jetpacks and decide to come back down to earth, sit at the hovertable and eat our 3D-printed bacon and eggs, we'll need something to sit on. With today's open design tools, it seems the future of furniture is already upon us (or are we upon it?). When you combine 3D software with digital fabrication equipment like CNC mills and laser cutters, you're just a few mouse clicks and the push of a button away from your own quasi-futuristic space furniture. That's the theory, anyway. This week I've been experimenting with creating my own open source chairs and there's a little more to it than just hitting Ctrl+P.
I've been using a simple free software program called SketchChair which avoids some of the usual complications of computer aided design (CAD).
3D CAD software is often expensive, and difficult for beginners – there can be quite a learning curve just to make a simple mock-up. When trying to make a physical object like a chair there's even more to think about – how much weight can your design handle? How about joining your parts together – do you know your dovetail from your dado? What materials and construction techniques will you use? Will you mill it from solid wood, or slot it together from lasercut 2D sections?
Even once you've designed a 3D model with all this in mind, you need to communicate this design to your fabrication machine in a way it understands – with the right settings and file formats. Then comes prototyping, testing and adjustment. And I'm assuming you're doing all this work without anything to sit on.
One way to reduce this confusion is to use a simplified, very specialized tool which can be as basic or as in-depth as the user requires. SketchChair, for example, has one main function: it allows you to design a chair in 3 dimensions, and have it ready to be cut out in minutes. But allow plenty more time for tinkering…
You draw your chair in profile, and the software instantly adapts it with perpendicular slats, turning your quick doodle into a digital blueprint of pieces which can be cut from a flat sheet and slotted together in a 3D form.
It solves many of the usual CAD issues simply by making decisions for the user. You can go deeper and fiddle with details and settings, but the standard settings allow the user to focus on their design without getting stuck on joints and angle calculations.
One unexpected problem I had wasn't a software issue – it was inspiration. Most people don't spend their lives fretting about the angle of a chair's back – sometimes you don't know what you want until you see it in front of you, in context. I'm no chair expert, and once I started drawing, I realised that my 'original ideas' were all just sad copies of the Panton or Barcelona chair….
It took a day or two, but I got there in the end – making a chair with SketchChair is indeed much faster than learning joinery and manufacturing by hand, but it's not quite instant.
First of all, it's beta software – it's still buggy and best left to the intrepid, or at least, the very patient. It takes time to explore and understand the scope of what can and can't be achieved.
To make a physical model you can test out your prototype with cardboard and scissors, but a full-size wooden version is trickier. I don't have a laser cutter or CNC mill, so the choice is either sending the design files to a manufacturing service like Ponoko or Shapeways (takes a few weeks) or hunting down someone in your local area who can make the chair for you. Depending on where you are, it might take a while to find someone – try 100k Garages or a FabLab – but you'll meet a friendly local and it should be done in an afternoon.
I found a CNC guru down at Open Design City, my local makerspace. We still haven't found time to cut the chair out, but hopefully I'll be sitting on my very own SketchChair in a week or two. I guess that's one of the issues with dealing with people rather than factories – they still have to eat, work and sleep. Once I figure out how to upload my design to the SketchChair design library, it'll be available for anyone to download, adapt or improve, under an open source license.
At this stage SketchChair users can only 'like' a design in the online library, but in the future I can see something more akin to the Thingiverse model, which is an online repository of designs, mostly for 3D printing.
Thingiverse has an active community of users posting designs under open licenses, commenting, rating, reviewing and offering suggestions, and has grown into a supportive digital fabrication community. When people remix designs, they link back to the original. The site serves as inspiration, a place to learn, and a channel for feedback.
As you browse a repository of designs you also begin to understand the capabilities of a manufacturing technique and just what can be achieved – in SketchChair's case, the bowls and tables created with the software show you a much broader range of possibilities than the name implies.
IKEA's not going to be toppled any time soon, but if personal design and digital fabrication is going to become a bigger part our lives, it's online communities like Thingiverse and specialized tools like SketchChair which will enable beginners to get the most out of their ideas. I think we'll see many more examples in the coming years – SketchChair is a great start, but why not SketchHouse? SketchBike? SketchShoe? | <urn:uuid:827e8e42-48ee-4337-aa53-10a002aaf68f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shareable.net/siri-print-me-a-chair/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959248 | 1,185 | 2.640625 | 3 |
If your home improvements include a kitchen makeover, why not include the color blue in your design or decoration? Blue is one of the most dominant colors in nature, while it gets limited use in the home, especially the kitchen. Blue has a calming effect on humans and can spark creativity, both of which are good in this important room.
The Many Shades of Blue
Some people like the palest blues imaginable, while others like the deep, dark, rich blues associated with royalty and formality. Aside from any associations with history, culture, or preferences, design professionals advise that people use light blues in small spaces and dark hues in larger spaces.
Where to Use Blue
The most common occurrence in nature of blue is the sky, and you can replicate it as the ceiling color. Let your imagination guide you as to whether you want the ceiling to be monochromatic or include some of the colors and features of the actual sky. The beauty of using paint to bring blue in is that it’s inexpensive for home improvements and only as permanent as you’d like it to be.
Consider using a bank of blue cabinet doors as an accent wall or scale it back by using the color just for the pantry or a built-in desk. It’s also possible to use blue as a wainscoting color for the walls in a kitchen nook.
Blue occurs in stone and masonry flooring and countertop materials in varying degrees, which might make it attractive on your floors or counters. Minus that kind of coverage, consider blue for the backsplash behind the sink or stove or run small blue tiles as an outline around an otherwise solid-color floor.
Put It on the Appliances
Some manufacturers give you color options for dishwashers, refrigerators and kitchen vent fans . Use this to your advantage and allow the larger appliances in the room set the tone. You can also find blue blenders, toasters and mixers to use as accents on the counters.
Blue as Bits and Pieces
Kitchen linens are another way to introduce blue as a dominant or incidental color. Hot pads, kitchen towels, placemats rugs and curtains are all available in blue solids, prints and plaids. If there’s room on the walls, bring in blue as pictures or frames. Consider using blue vases or planters for a kitchen herb garden.
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Whether you’re simply celebrating with your immediate family or welcoming the whole crew, craving traditional flavors or looking to try something new, cooking turkey for the first or 400th time, we’ve got you covered with Thanksgiving 101.
The National Turkey Federation has created Thanksgiving 101 as a comprehensive guide to prepare the holiday turkey no matter how you’re celebrating. We hope you’ll find these timeless tools helpful as you set the Thanksgiving table.
Tackling an entire turkey may seem intimidating, but with a little bit of planning, it’s a pretty straight
forward endeavor. Our Whole Turkey Cooking Guide has everything you’ll need to get up to speed.
Certainly can’t blame you if you’re looking to double down on Thanksgiving flavor the day after and create the most epic leftover sandwich the world has ever seen. But, if you’re looking for something a little different, we’ve got a number of recipes that truly transform your leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
Thanksgiving celebrations may look a little different for many families. At the same time, some may opt to resume traditional Thanksgiving gatherings. That’s why we’re here to help you make the most of our favorite holiday! Whether you’re [staying] home for the holidays, taking your celebration virtual or adapting the gathering for out-of-doors or a smaller crowd, the health and safety of your friends and family are top priorities. Click here for the CDC’s 2021 recommendations on how to enjoy Thanksgiving activities and take steps to keep your loved ones healthy.
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The state of the global climate and the effects its warming will have on daily living has been a topic of discussion spanning decades. Moreover, recent discourse only demonstrates how crucial it now is to mitigate and reverse- as much as possible- the damage we have done to our environment. That is why there are numerous calls for everyone in the world to start paying closer attention to their carbon footprint.
What Is A Carbon Footprint?
A carbon footprint measures the greenhouse gasses an individual’s or corporation’s activities release into the atmosphere. Numerous factors affect the ‘size’ of your carbon footprint. Most of them relate to your lifestyle and seemingly mundane choices you make throughout an ordinary day.
Why Does Calculating Your Carbon Footprint Matter?
Calculating your carbon footprint is an awareness exercise. It helps you identify and keep track of your home’s energy spending with the intention to make changes needed to live a more eco-conscious lifestyle.
What Factors Affect Your Carbon Footprint?
Several aspects of daily living affect your carbon footprint. Your awareness of them also helps you keep track by providing a tool to calculate your footprint. These factors include:
Your eating habits- how much meat do you consume? How often do you go to restaurants? Do you source your food locally? How much is your food waste?
Your energy consumption.
Another thing to consider is your lifestyle- how often do you travel? Is it mostly by road or by air? What are your vehicle’s emissions ratings? Have you established a home recycling plan? Do you use available recycling facilities when away from home? How often do you purchase new appliances, furniture or clothes?
When you become more aware of your carbon footprint, you can also find ways to make it smaller. This notion then brings us to the question you may be having in mind: how do I calculate my carbon footprint?
Read on for some answers.
Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
The primary advantage of increased consciousness is that calculating your carbon footprint is easy. So you don’t have to worry about utilising complex or forgotten math skills and poring over reams of paper to do so. Instead, you only have to complete a questionnaire containing targeted questions.
There are various versions of this questionnaire, and you will find it on numerous websites. While the wording varies, the questions all follow a deductive theme. Here, you may respond to queries that probe the factors affecting your carbon footprint. An algorithm then uses your responses to calculate and present results for your energy report.
Additionally, different resources offer differing report levels. Therefore, you can use the WWF carbon footprint calculator for a general report. This questionnaire is easy to fill thus more basic.
Alternatively, for a more detailed report, the Carbon Neutral footprint calculator will give you more insight on your household energy usage based on several categories like electricity and gas consumption as well as waste generation.
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
Once you get an insight into your carbon footprint, don’t leave it at that. Instead, take steps toward reducing it, including more conscious energy consumption using alternative sources, reducing household waste, and opting for walking, cycling or public transport instead of private cars.
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The Royal Academy of Arts, London’s iconic artistic and cultural institution since 1768, has released radical new design plans to commemorate its upcoming 250th anniversary. Internationally renowned architect Sir David Chipperfield has taken the lead in the redevelopment project, with the aim of celebrating the building’s original architecture while revitalizing the site for greater public accessibility.
For the first time, the Royal Academy’s Burlington House and Burlington Gardens will be connected through a link bridge, and new public spaces will be developed in both buildings, including exhibition areas to showcase contemporary art, the Royal Academy’s legendary collection, and recent work by Academy members. A double-height, 260-seat theater will be erected in Burlington Gardens to provide a venue for lectures, debates, and concerts. The Clore Learning Center on the ground floor of Burlington Gardens will be used for public programs, while new studios and a courtyard will expand the work spaces for students of the Royal Academy. A dedicated gallery space in Burlington House will show student work.
The Royal Academy’s historic collections will be displayed in several dedicated spaces and curated by artist and Royal Academy president Christopher Le Brun as well as other members, including sculptor Richard Deacon and architect Spencer de Grey.
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The History of Hoi An, Vietnam
Smithsonian Study Leader Mark McLeod is an expert on Vietnamese history since 1802, so Smithsonian Education Manager Sadie McVicker took the opportunity to get his thoughts on Hội-an, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Q. Hội-an is a World Heritage Site, essentially a living museum of what was one of the most active Southeast Asian seaports of the 15th-19th centuries. Can you tell us something of the long history of its rise to that preeminence? And why it fell out of favor over 200 years ago?
A. In addition to the advantages presented by the port itself, the Thu-bồn River system, which has its origins in the Annamite Range and drains into the South China Sea (which Vietnamese call the Biển Đông or Eastern Sea, not wanting to concede China’s ownership of it), forms one of Vietnam’s largest river basins, which served to link local, regional, and international trade. Furthermore, the surrounding area, roughly comprising the area of modern Quảng-nam province, in addition to natural products such as cinnamon and ginseng, was an artisanal producer of textiles and ceramics, which attracted foreign traders, Asian as well as European.
Evidence from shipwrecks demonstrates that Việt and other Asian ceramics, shipped from Hội-an, traveled at least as far West as Egypt! It is no wonder that 18th-Century Chinese and Japanese merchants considered Hội-an Asia’s premier trading destination. However, trade declined from the late 1700s with the Tây-sơn Rebellion and the resulting conflicts that were not settled until the founding of the Nguyễn Dynasty in 1802. After that, for political as well as practical reasons (the mouth of the Thu-bồn River silted up, blocking access to larger ships), the focus of trade shifted southward to Đà-nẵng. This trend has continued to the present, as Đà-nẵng is now Vietnam’s third largest port, after the ports of Hồ Chí Minh City and Hải-phòng, whereas Hội-an now survives primarily as a tourist attraction, thanks to the well-preserved architectural structures, museums, and crafting traditions, the value and interest of which have earned it the status of United Nations World Heritage Site. Indeed, Hội-an is one of the most successful examples of preservation of an area of cultural and historical value in contemporary Vietnam. One measure of their success in this regard is the fact that modern filmmakers desiring an unspoiled or colonial-era setting often film at Hội-an. For example, many of the urban scenes of the 2007 Vietnamese-American historical epic The Rebel (directed by Charlie Nguyễn) was shot in Hội-an rather than Hà-nội.
All of this makes the city a treat for travelers, who can visit museums and architectural attractions by day and enjoy tea by the river in the evening, watching the sun go down behind these beautiful buildings. Among the sites of interest, I enjoy the Chùa Cầu, literally the “Bridge Pagoda,” but usually called the “Japanese Bridge,” which was founded by 17th-Century Japanese traders. It is a “covered bridge” of lacquered wood, very solidly built and well restored over the years. Although it is called a pagoda, it was not devoted to Buddhist worship, but rather to local animistic spirits, with the two entrances being guarded by statues of monkeys and dogs.
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What is an interview guide?
An interview guide is simply a list of the high level topics that you plan on covering in the interview with the high level questions that you want to answer under each topic. We usually limit the guide to one page so that it’s easy to refer to and to make sure that we’re not getting too low level.
What are 3 things you look for in an ideal job?
12 Factors to Look For in a Job Other than a Paycheck
- 1) It makes a positive difference.
- 2) You enjoy your co-workers.
- 3) You feel appreciated and valued.
- 4) You are trusted.
- 5) It is something you love to do.
- 6) It fits your personality.
- 7) It challenges you to grow.
- 8) The company’s values align with yours.
What are the 10 most common interview answers?
Answers to 10 most common job interview questions
- What are your weaknesses?
- Why should we hire you?
- Why do you want to work here?
- What are your goals?
- Why did you leave (or why are you leaving) your job?
- When were you most satisfied in your job?
- What can you do for us that other candidates can’t?
- What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?
How do you describe your strengths?
Some examples of strengths you might mention include:
What do you see yourself in 5 years answer?
Example answer: Over the next few years, I want to explore and develop skills in project management. In five years, I want to have gained experience in leading projects for major clients. I will be looking for opportunities to expand my responsibilities within this role to work towards my goal.
What are your 3 ideal job qualities?
- Ideal Job Must Have #1 – Great Growth opportunity.
- Ideal Job Must Have #2 – Adequate Salary.
- Ideal Job Must have #3 – A Great Boss.
- Ideal Job Must Have #4 – Great Job Duties.
- Ideal Job Must Have #5 – Great Working Environment.
How do you deal with conflict?
How to Handle Conflict in the Workplace
- Talk with the other person.
- Focus on behavior and events, not on personalities.
- Listen carefully.
- Identify points of agreement and disagreement.
- Prioritize the areas of conflict.
- Develop a plan to work on each conflict.
- Follow through on your plan.
- Build on your success.
How do you handle stress interview?
A big part of handling stress is preparation. Be sure to research the company in advance and practice answering common interview questions. The more you practice, the more comfortable you’ll feel in the interview. You can also reduce stress by avoiding negative thinking (“I won’t get this job”).
Why are you interested in this position best answer?
Example: “I’m interested in this job because I can see that, in this role, my skills could help solve this problem within your company. I also see an opportunity for me to learn and grow these skills, so we both would benefit personally, professionally, and financially.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years for freshers?
“I look forward to learn new skills and improve my knowledge to advance my career. In five years from now, I see myself as a knowledgeable professional having an in-depth knowledge of the company and the industry.”
What is your ideal job?
“I would describe the ideal job as a job that makes the most of my qualifications and abilities, and gives me a chance to constantly challenge myself. I look for a stable job with quality supervision, a positive work culture at a successful company that will encourage me to work at my best.”
What are the components of an interview guide?
What elements should an interview guide cover? An interview guide should include a section on the interview invitation, setting the stage, welcoming the candidate, the questions to be asked, candidate questions, the end of the interview, and candidate scoring.
How do you write an interview guide?
Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Interview Questions Write down the larger research questions of the study. Outline the broad areas of knowledge that are relevant to answering these questions. 2. Develop questions within each of these major areas, shaping them to fit particular kinds of respondents.
What is your salary expectation sample answer?
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Why are you a good fit for this job?
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When you happen to feel you is likely to be struggling with despair, it will likely be vital for you to get relevant therapy from a Mental Nicely being Skilled. Sometimes events, if you end up experiencing despair, it’s difficult for you to take action to help your self. Listed below are some ways you’ll be able to handle despair. Mom and father who develop concern relating to their pupil’s struggles with check scores and faculty accomplishment ought to look at the usefulness of NLP for check nervousness. These methods have been demonstrated to be very worthwhile for nearly all of good youthful faculty college students who’ve this problem. In addition, loving dad and mother can utilize NLP and reminiscence recall instruments to assist their kids prepare further effectively to launch their careers. Being acutely aware of them, what prompts them or what’s true in that thought that doesn’t allow us to sleep are a few of the tips that could be put into observe.
This is without doubt one of the essential points to remember for those who want to know easy methods to handle a bipolar particular particular person. In case you feel like the individual appears good proper this second, say so and say it often. Dreams allow us to play out painful or puzzling emotions or experiences in a secure place. Desires additionally allow us to course of info or occasions that could be painful or complicated in an atmosphere that’s directly emotionally real nonetheless bodily unreal. Indigestion leads to irritability, impatience, nervousness, fatigue, insomnia and melancholy. Causes of indigestion embrace extreme foods and consuming an extreme quantity of, too late, too quick, when emotionally upset and improper combos. For those with Saturn natally towards any of the personal planets, there’s extra of an inclination to mission out unfavourable Saturnian qualities akin to repression, oppression, or judgment onto others or onto Life itself because the perennial opponent.
What are Annulment Kinds ? Emotional Regulation is learning learn to normalize the depth of habits The first lesson is to grasp the features of emotions: (1) to validate our private perceptions and interpretations of occasions, and (2) to affect or administration the behaviors of others. Understanding these features is the 1st step in studying to determine the obstacles to altering conduct Rising mindfulness with out judging or controlling emotion is the important thing proper right here. Attempting to chop off or shut down emotion leads to ruminating regarding the painful state of affairs. Studying to go through an emotion – not round it – is the important thing. Whenever you may need a understanding deep inside which you may tolerate a painful or distressing emotion without producing a harmful action, then you definitely is perhaps on the street to emotional regulation. We’ll first talk about how one can improve your reminiscence and avoid making mental errors repeatedly.
Richard A. Singer is an award profitable creator, educated psychotherapist, and most significantly a seeker of fact. He repeatedly searches for wisdom to use in his life, along with serving to other human beings of their invaluable journey. He has studied japanese psychology, buddhist healing, and non-violence at the doctoral degree; as well as, he has spent years dedicated to the research of knowledge recorded throughout historical past. He seeks to impart this info to the world by his writing. His major objective is to profit humanity in any approach attainable. Richard states that “My books is not going to be only for studying, they’re meant to be lived.” Richard resides within the Cayman Islands together together with his wife Debbie and his twin sons, Matthew and Alexander. Things akin to adopting a nutritious diet, brining further movement into each day, getting satisfactory sleep, and not smoking are all vital components of reversing intimate dysfunction.
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We no longer use CDs and DVDs on Windows 11/10 computers, but it’s still one of the simpler and better storage devices out there. DVD, which is short for Digital Versatile Disc, stores your data in binary format which is then converted back to its original form using a conversion algorithm. DVD is a writable disc, so you can copy files to it for storage, this is called Burn DVD.
How to Burn DVD on Windows 11 PC
Did you know that you can easily burn DVDs using your Windows PC? It doesn’t take long to burn a DVD using your computer, let’s see how. Remember that you can burn a CD or DVD only if your laptop or desktop has a DVD drive. Please also note that not all CDs and DVDs are writable, there are 6 different types of DVDs and each has its own characteristics.
- DVD- DVD media, this versatile digital disc is much like a CD where you can only read data. You cannot burn any data to DVD media.
- DVD + R – This DVD is recordable which means you can burn any of your data to this DVD but it will be stored permanently here. You cannot delete this data and you cannot overwrite it.
- DVD + RW – This disc is erasable. You can erase one data from DVD + RW and burn another data. You can erase it and then record it again several times.
Burn DVD with File Explorer
You can easily rip DVD using File Explorer on your Windows PC.
- Insert a black DVD into the DVD drive.
- Open File Explorer and locate the files you want to burn to this disk or say, burn to disk.
- If you are copying multiple files, select them all using the Shift key on your keyboard.
- Right click and click Show more options.
- Go to Send To and select the DVD drive.
- This will open a new popup asking for the title of the disc and how you want your computer to burn that disc – using a USB flash drive or DVD player.
- Go to the option you find best and click Next.
- This will open File Explorer again with a notification, “The files are ready to be written to disk.”
- Drag and drop the files you want to copy.
- Go to the Drive Tools option in the main bar and click Finish Burning.
- You will again see a popup asking you the recording speed and disc title. Fill in the options and click Next.
Burn DVD to Windows PC with Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is another way to burn your DVDs. Windows Media Player can burn audio CDs, data CDs, and DVDs. To open Windows Media Player on your Windows 11 PC, open the search box and type WMP, and you’ll see the app. Click Open.
Read: Where is Windows Media Player in Windows 11/10?
- Once Windows Media Player is open, click Burn Tab placed in the upper right corner.
- Don’t forget to insert a black CD into your DVD drive first.
- Click the small arrow next to it and select options from the list – Audio CD, Data CD, or DVD.
- Here, you can also select if you want to tweak Automatically eject after burning.
- Drag and drop the files you want to copy into the right panel and click the Start Copy button.
If you select the option Eject disc after burningOnce you have finished burning, the disc will be ejected automatically, which means that once all the files have been copied to the disc.
Read: The burner was not found, make sure the burner is installed correctly
Does Windows 11 have built-in DVD burning software?
Yes, Windows 11 has a built-in DVD burner tool like the other versions. You will need a supported disc to burn to your computer. You can burn a DVD via File Explorer or using Windows Media Player.
Read: Error ejecting DVD RW drive on Windows 11/10
Can I burn a DVD with VLC Media Player?
Yes, you can burn DVD with VLC Media Player but the program is not able to convert video files to DVD format. You will need to use some third party software for the same.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said July 14 that the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) Board of Trustees will on July 20 consider advancing the development of the nation’s largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Long Island.
“I strongly encourage the Trustees to once again demonstrate New York’s leadership on climate change and help achieve the state’s ambitious goal of supplying 50 percent of our electricity from renewable energy by 2030,” Cuomo said. “Investing in New York’s clean energy economy strengthens our communities by providing access to clean, affordable power and good quality green jobs. Next week marks another opportunity for this state to lead the nation in creating a stronger, more resilient energy system and protecting the environment for future generations.”
The Sierra Club said in a July 14 statement that this 90-MW, 15-turbine offshore wind farm would be located off the coast of Montauk, at the eastern end of Long Island. Deepwater Wind would spearhead the project, which is estimated to be three times larger than the Block Island wind farm project slated to begin operation off the shores of Rhode Island later this year.
For over five years, local, state and national organizations along with communities up and down Long Island in partnership with labor, municipal leaders and businesses have been actively engaged in pushing LIPA to embrace offshore wind power, the club said. The project will produce enough energy to power about 50,000 Long Island homes by 2022.
The Long Island Power Authority is expected to formally approve the project at next week’s board meeting. LIPA and Deepwater Wind are expected to finalize all financial plans for the project by 2017.
I“We applaud Governor Cuomo and the Long Island Power Authority for today’s historic announcement to move forward with New York’s first offshore wind project,” said Lisa Dix New York Senior Representative for the Sierra Club. “This announcement is the first step toward a bold long term, large scale offshore wind program for New York and catapults New York to the forefront of America’s clean energy economy.”
“Our transition from fossil fuels to renewables has just took a giant leap forward with this historic decision,” Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director, Citizens Campaign for the Environment said. “This is game changer, a legacy that all New Yorkers will be proud of. By tackling climate change head on New York is proving to be a global leader.”
“Today marks major progress in New York’s pursuit of offshore wind power, the state’s golden opportunity to create thousands of jobs while helping meet the Governor’s 50 percent renewable energy goal,” said Catherine Bowes, Senior Manager at the National Wildlife Federation. “We applaud Governor Cuomo and LIPA for this bold leadership to advance the clean, offshore wind power needed to protect our communities and wildlife from the dangers of climate change.”
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The portable sealing machine is one of the most important fabrication of engineers of 20th century, the achievements led to sweet relieve for Agriculturist, industrialist, marketers etc. for this purpose, the production of Agricultural and industrials, goods which need appropriate attention for packaging and storage has been on the increase.
Previously, the packaging system has done by the use of paper, clothing material, etc. These methods are either given way to cellophane packaging system.
Different types of packaging system emerged owing to the facts of invention of which the most commonly used is the cellophane packaging and sealing.
It has the following advantages:
Low cost of production, high resistance to acid attacks, inertness, corrosion etc.
Polyethylene is used in packaging goods like ice cream, umbrellas, exercise books, pure water, beverages, weavon, packet shirts, bread, biscuits etc. the following properties polyethylene possessed are the reasons for its varieties of purpose that is to say how cost of production, inertness, resistance to acid, and corrosion water.
The use of polythene cannot be overemphasized. Most of food packaging for hygienic. The technology of cellophane permits raw materials of textile industries to be carried with sealed polyethylene the finished products are either marketed or exported with polyethylene packaging. Most utensils are packaged with polyethylene. Special polyethylene materials have been invented of recent that have shock absorber which gives protection to the breakable material. Since this packaging came up, there had been a safer conveyance of glass and ceramics materials, especially for transportation and exportation of finished goods.
Also, it is in packaging most of electronic gadgets which includes; computers, amplifiers, calculators, radio and T.V sets etc. for safety purposes. It will be needless talking about polyethylene. Without talking about the machines used in sealing generally. Some of the machines used in the industries include cellophane sealing machine used in sealing polyethylene materials, pneumatic, electrical sealing machine handled by electrical heater and needle point action and hand sealing.
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Does Vitamin D Enhance Your Immune System?
The Benefits of Vitamin D and Immune SupportVitamin D is a great supplement to boost overall health and wellbeing. It can play an integral role in skin health, energy, and depression. Vitamin D can contribute to skin cell growth, repair and metabolism. It optimizes the skin’s immune system and can help destroy free radicals that can cause premature aging. Research has found that Vitamin D deficiency was almost 5 times more common in adults with mental health issues that includes anxiety and depression. In addition to mental health, Vitamin D deficiency can also play a part in energy. People with Vitamin D deficiency tend to experience more fatigue and tiredness. “After being diagnosed with a Vitamin D deficiency during my annual physical I started taking FitFormula’s Vitamin D3 Spray. I have noticed an increase in energy, a decrease in overall anxiety, and an increase in overall wellbeing. I had no idea what I was missing out on!” - Carly, Washington D.C.
Should I take Vitamin D for Immune Support?Yes, in addition to Vitamin C, Vitamin D is a great option for those of us who are looking to boost our immune system. Vitamin D tempers damaging inflammatory response of some white blood cells and boost immune cells’ production of microbe fighting proteins. Research has also shown taking Vitamin D can boost your immune system to fight off respiratory infections. It could be especially beneficial to take Vitamin D during cold/flu season as we are not spending much time outside thus limiting our own body’s Vitamin D production.
What is the best way to take Vitamin D?
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 3/31/2015, pg. A4)
The Tech Files column misspelled the last name of the chief scientist at Facebook’s Oculus unit, Michael
If you believe the folks at Facebook, virtual reality is about to become the next big thing.
The technology has progressed enough to start to blur the lines between what’s virtual and what’s real. Virtual reality will only get better, Facebook officials said, thanks to ever-improving processors, interest from big companies and, of course, Facebook’s own investment last year in Oculus, the developer of a much-talked-about virtual reality headset.
“Sooner or later you will want to be a part of it,” Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, said in a keynote address Thursday at the company’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.
But even someone as optimistic about virtual reality as Abrash acknowledges that there are still a lot of pesky details to figure out.
Abrash and his company’s enthusiasm aside, it’s those niggling details that will determine whether virtual reality will ever become a widely used, mainstream technology — and based on what I’ve seen so far, I have serious doubts that will happen.
After testing the latest demo version of Facebook’s Oculus headset in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, I can tell you that the experience it delivers is good enough to trick the brain into believing the virtual is real.
In my demo, I stood on the ledge of a virtual building and almost got vertigo. And I had to stop myself from flinching as virtual bullets were fired in my direction. The images looked real and the system was able to display them without any nausea-inducing lag.
A demo shown during the keynote speeches indicated that the virtual experience Oculus can deliver is only improving. It showed a small spaceship launching from a larger ship from the perspective of the pilot. As the virtual pilot, a user could look up or down, left or right to see the different controls in the cockpit or the virtual environment outside.
In the near future, Facebook plans to incorporate into its home page the ability to display videos that give viewers a 360-degree view of a scene; as a video is rolling, viewers will be able to pan left or right to see what’s around them.
Farther out, the company wants to give users the ability to share moments — such as a child’s first bike ride — with friends and family in a format that makes them feel as if they were there.
But the company has a long way to go before it can truly offer those kinds of experiences. And it has a whole host of obstacles to overcome.
Some are practical. Facebook has yet to say when it will actually start selling the Oculus Rift headset to consumers, how much it will cost, exactly what equipment consumers will need to be able to use it and what they’ll be able to do with it.
Meanwhile, some of the answers Facebook and Oculus have already provided are likely to limit demand for it. Consumers will be able to use it only in conjunction with a gaming PC or other computer with a high-end graphics processor. So, if you were hoping to play an Xbox or PlayStation game on it, you’re out of luck.
The cost of the high-end computer and the Oculus headset together will be at least $1,000, putting it out of the price range of many consumers. And at least at first, the Oculus device will be connected by wire to the PC, limiting where and how people will be able to use it.
There are other problems. Right now, you can’t touch or smell or taste anything in the virtual environments that Oculus creates. It also lacks the ability to sense or display what users are doing with their hands or bodies. As good as the visual effects are in Oculus, those shortcomings can break the illusion it creates.
Even Facebook’s new spherical videos aren’t a sure thing. While they looked cool, few consumers have the cameras that can be used to create them, and few commercial videos have been shot using them.
More broadly, it’s not clear outside of gaming how much time people will want to spend in virtual worlds, no matter how realistic they may seem, particularly if they have to wear a bulky, expensive, tethered headset.
As much as Facebook might envision Oculus as a social networking tool, headsets by their nature serve as barriers between users and the real world around them. I’m not sure why someone would want to wear a headset to virtually watch a movie with friends, something Facebook is touting, when they could watch the same movie in real life with their friends right beside them on the couch or in the theater.
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Oman is one of the Oman city. It is located at the longitude of 58.527655 and latitude of 23.597655. Cairo is a Egypt city located at the longitude of 31.237655 and latitude of 30.047655 . The total distance between Oman and Cairo is 2794 KM (kilometers) and 294.63 meters. The mile based measurement distance is 1736.3 miles
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Many dentists develop pain and injuries affecting the spine, muscles, ligaments and nerves in the neck, back and limbs. These musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are often the direct result of the poor work posture.
Given the long hours spent working in a seated position, the decision to purchase an ergonomically superior patient chair such as the A-dec 500 and matching A-dec 500 dentist’s and assistant’s stools is a wise investment for the life of your practice.
When seated, the hips should be above the knees to tilt the pelvis forward which helps create an ‘S’-shaped spine. Sitting with your legs parallel to the floor causes the hips to rotate back which is likely to create an unhealthy ‘C’-shaped spinal curve, putting pressure on the spine.
When adjusted correctly, the new A-dec 500 dentist’s stool puts the operator’s hips in the correct position. Optional armrests provide addition support to the lower arms while working in the oral cavity and a completely redesigned seat section has performance zones to properly support the operator in comfort without restricting blood flow to the thighs like conventional stools.
In the case of the assistant, who is seated higher and therefore has to lean forward, a torso support arm is required, together with a foot support ring, like that fitted to the A-dec assistant’s stool, to alleviate back strain.
Often, poor patient chair design prevents dentists working in an ideal position, causing the operator to hunch over the patient, especially if the chair has a thick backrest or if it cannot be positioned low or high enough. Other problems exist with chairs that aren’t ambidextrous.
The A-dec 300, 400 and 500 patient chairs have a large range of vertical motion and ultra-thin flexible backrests. This enables dentists to position the oral cavity closer to the body, creating angles of access for optimum working positions.
Because of their pressure-mapped contoured backrest, these premium model A-dec chairs also offer superior patient comfort including shoulder and elbow support – especially important during longer procedures. The A-dec 500 armrests also pivot forward so you can work without obstruction.
A-dec’s award-winning A-dec 500 LED with its bright ‘daylight’ balanced light temperature and unique ‘cure safe’ mode for working with composites, contributes to an ergonomic working environment. And because it’s an LED there’s no heat from the lamps like conventional lights.
The broad spread of light and innovative ‘stadium effect’ overlapping multi LED light output minimizes shadowing and the softly feathered light pattern reduces eye fatigue.
The A-dec LED surgery light has a three-axis pivot arm with additional 540 degrees horizontal rotation, making positioning of the dental light fluid and comfortable using only one hand.
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Alexandria, VA – Since September 2020, Browne Academy, a private school in Alexandria, has held in-person classes five days a week on campus. It was a major undertaking for the teachers and staff, and their efforts have been nothing short of extraordinary. As the academy educators quickly adapted to new health protocols, they discovered how to effectively present their curriculum, improve communications among themselves, and improve their curriculum coordination.
Due to the pandemic, special courses like music and art at Browne are given over two weeks to lower health risks for students and teachers alike. The abbreviated time frame for each course encouraged the teachers to collaborate with their peers and innovatively offer fun, engaging classes. They accomplished this by integrating the arts throughout their curriculum, spanning multiple subjects taught within the campus.
Music specialist Lucia Schaefer described the integration as “a fluid combination of what students are doing in classes such as music and art, and what they are doing in more standard classes, like math and science.”
Schaefer explained the catalyst for the integration was the online sessions. At the start of the lockdown, she had more opportunities to pop into online sessions her fellow teachers were conducting. This, in turn, allowed her to discuss the curriculum and line up music lessons to correspond with the history or math being taught.
“That’s how it started, and it went so well at the beginning of the year that it had kind of this snowball effect where core classroom teachers started coming to the art and music teachers asking, “Hey, this is coming up in our class soon, is there any natural connection to it?” said Schaefer.
An example of this was Schaefer’s unit on line dancing. She and the school’s math teachers planned lessons to take place when students learned about angles and rotation. Schaefer described how she incorporated math into her course by using math vocabulary and having students compose line dances on the coordinate plane, thereby increasing students’ understanding of both musical composition and mathematics.
“If there’s a natural and logical connection, and nothing is forced, we try to line our units up to match with each other,” Schaefer added.
Polly Beam, a visual arts specialist, said, “By integrating the arts into the standard classes, the excitement that many students have for their special courses spills into the history and science classes. Students can make connections that they didn’t before.
“I’ve gotten to know my colleagues a lot better, and I feel like it’s easier to work as a team because we see each other more often,” Beam added. “It’s been neat to see people come to us with ideas. This has been such a difficult year for teachers everywhere. I feel that in some ways, this year pushed many of us to take risks we would otherwise have taken a lot more time to try. And if we could handle it through these rough times, I’m sure this integration will only be stronger in the future.”
Likewise, students have enjoyed their expanded courses. Sam B., a fifth-grade student, said it was really fun to mix his classes and discussed how it affected his dedication to getting his work done.
“It’s very rewarding,” he said, “because when we combine multiple classes, we have much bigger assignments that count as grades toward multiple classes. They are much larger and long-term, but once you finish one of these assignments, you’re able to look back at it and see both all the work that you accomplished and also how the courses all connect to each other.”
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3 flagpoles stand in entrance of Boston’s town corridor. The town rejected an outdoor team’s request to fly a Christian flag on certainly one of them. (Equipment Leong by way of Shutterstock)
When it hears oral argument on Tuesday in Shurtleff v. Town of Boston, the Superb Courtroom will go back to the function of faith in public areas. The query involves the court docket in a very powerful unfastened speech case coming up from Boston’s observe of permitting out of doors teams to fly their flags on one of the most 3 flagpoles in entrance of town corridor. A gaggle that was once denied permission to fly a “Christian flag” there contends that town’s coverage unconstitutionally silences unpopular speech, whilst town counters that it wishes the power to come to a decision what messages it conveys in the course of the flags that fly on its flagpoles.
The town typically flies the similar 3 flags at the flagpoles: the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on one flagpole, the Massachusetts flag on the second one flagpole, and its personal flag at the 3rd. Infrequently, alternatively, town will grant a request to change out some other flag for its personal. Over the last 12 years, it has flown the flag of alternative international locations (together with China and Cuba), in addition to flags for teams akin to Boston Delight (an LGBTQ team) and the Nationwide Juneteenth Observance Basis.
The case prior to the court docket on Tuesday arose in 2017, when Harold Shurtleff carried out to fly a “Christian flag,” bearing a go, at the 3rd flagpole in reference to an tournament that he sought after to carry at the plaza in entrance of town corridor. The flag represents Camp Charter, the gang that he based that seeks “to fortify figuring out of the rustic’s Judeo-Christian ethical heritage.” The town denied Shurtleff’s preliminary request, and it didn’t reply to a 2d request.
Shurtleff sued town in federal court docket, arguing that town’s rejection of his request violated Camp Charter’s proper to unfastened speech and the Charter’s established order clause, which bars town each from favoring one faith on the expense of some other and from who prefer faith over nonreligion. A federal district court docket dominated for town, and the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals upheld that ruling. It reasoned that flying different teams’ flags at the town’s flagpole amounted to speech by means of town, which permits it to select which flags it desires to fly with out being matter to discrimination claims. The court docket of appeals dominated that town’s rejection of Shurtleff’s request additionally didn’t violate the established order clause. Shurtleff got here to the Superb Courtroom in June 2021, asking the justices to weigh in, which they agreed to do.
In his transient at the deserves, Shurtleff contends that for the reason that town has spread out the flagpoles for personal flag raisings, the flagpoles aren’t speech by means of town however as a substitute a “public discussion board,” the place the govt can’t impose restrictions in response to the speaker’s standpoint. Restrictions in response to the content material of the speech in a public discussion board, Shurtleff provides, should cross essentially the most stringent constitutional take a look at, referred to as strict scrutiny.
When town rejected Shurtleff’s request to boost Camp Charter’s flag most effective as it was once known as a “Christian” flag, he argues, it discriminated in opposition to Shurtleff and Camp Charter in response to their standpoint and in response to the content material in their speech. The town can not excuse its exclusion of the flag at the floor that it was once seeking to keep away from violating the established order clause, he observes. The established order clause, he stresses, most effective prohibits authorities speech endorsing faith, now not non-public speech. And the personal flags at the town’s flagpoles can’t be (opposite to the first Circuit’s ruling) authorities speech, he suggests: The town didn’t assessment any of the 284 different non-public flags that have been raised at the 3rd flagpole, a lot much less workout the type of direct and efficient keep an eye on over the flags and the messages that they communicate that may cause them to authorities speech.
The town’s program could also be now not stored by means of its requirement that non-public teams in need of to fly their very own flags practice for permission and obtain approval, thereby – within the town’s view – changing the flags into authorities speech. “Accepting the Town’s rationale,” Shurtleff cautions the justices, “would hugely increase and sanction unhealthy sides of the government-speech doctrine,” permitting the govt to stifle unpopular speech.
The Biden management filed a “buddy of the court docket” transient wherein it has the same opinion with Shurtleff that Boston’s “flag-raising program isn’t authorities speech, however as a substitute a discussion board for personal speech.” Alternatively, it urges the justices to “reaffirm that the First Modification offers the Town and different governments considerable latitude to craft expressive techniques — together with techniques involving contributions from non-public events — with out relinquishing their proper to keep an eye on the message or exclude different non-public audio system.”
The town disputes the concept that its flagpoles are a public discussion board. As an alternative, it contends, the flagpoles are a spot for it to put across its personal messages, and the general public would indubitably see them as such. The town most effective every now and then permits different teams to fly their flags at the 3rd flagpole as a part of its community-building efforts, and town maintains that this system isn’t the type of “unfastened for all” open to any individual that Shurtleff depicts.
Since the flags flying at the town’s poles are town’s speech, town concludes, it will decline Shurtleff’s request to fly the Camp Charter flag. Since then, it tells the justices, it has ended the flag-raising program in order that it does now not need to put across messages which can be opposite to its personal rules. It’s, town emphasizes, “severely vital that governments retain the best and talent to talk on behalf in their constituents and take positions and privilege positive viewpoints when doing so.”
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Reflections on 1 Corinthians 2:1–5
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1–5
The power of Paul’s words lies in the divine logic of the gospel, not merely in the word-order of his sentences. What, then, is the logic of 1 Corinthians 2:1–5?
It’s that the message of the gospel is God-centered (“I proclaimed to you the testimony about God” v.1) and Christ-dominated (“nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (v.2).
This gospel requires its heralds to be experientially united to Christ in the outworking of his death (“weakness,” “fear,” “trembling” v.3). For, as Paul elsewhere explains more fully, new life works in others when “death is at work in us” (2 Cor. 4: 10–12; cf. Phil. 3:10–12; Col.1:24).
This in turn implies that our style of preaching must also be marked by crucifixion to the ways of the world, rejecting modes of communicating the message that do not harmonise with its cruciform content (“not . . . with eloquence or human wisdom . . . not with wise and persuasive words” vv.1, 4).
It also leads to this result: the faith of those who respond is not produced by the preacher’s natural gifts (if so, it may easily dissipate in his absence or through his failure). It clearly depends on the Spirit’s power.
Paul’s words in part reflect his distinctive calling and circumstances. Nevertheless, their implications are profoundly challenging for preachers today. Here are four:
- Dying in the pulpit is a sine qua non of new life in the pew. Of course, some aspects of preaching get “easier.” But not the “dying.” That will continue until you are dead. I sometimes wish that everyone in the congregation could preach just once, in order to experience “pulpit dying.” It would surely lead to more fervent prayer for the ministry and ministers of the Word!
- Paul does not eschew an eloquence created by Christ and the gospel. After all, 1 Corinthians 2:1–5 is itself a powerfully eloquent paragraph. But his Christ-eloquence arises from his monumental grasp of the gospel and its implications. It is not the eloquence of someone who communicates the impression he has mastered the text and loves the position of preacher. No, it springs from being mastered by the text and the fire of pastoral love it ignites for those to whom he ministers.
- There cannot simultaneously be a demonstration of the Spirit’s power and of my powers—whether of intellect, or of speech, or of personality. To this extent James Denney’s oft-cited words remain true: “No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save.”
- Paul’s words provide three significant litmus tests for my preaching:
- To what extent does my congregation sense that my preaching is dominantly “about God” (v.1)?
- To what extent does my congregation feel “he is determined to know nothing while with us except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (v.2)?
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Protect the freedom and rights of Virginia families
Under the legal legislative process, attempts to impose a ban on legitimate counseling practices in Virginia failed in 2016 and 2018. The legislative process involved debate and input by our duly elected state representatives who then voted for or against the misguided bills.
Unfortunately, unelected and biased state regulators are going forward with a sweeping proposal to ban the counseling, which would infringe upon the fundamental right of parents to care for their children and would violate their freedom of speech and free exercise of religion; arguably violations under Virginia law.
Because the General Assembly has not adopted the governor's extreme and misguided views, ban proponents and regulators appointed by the governor are seeking to impose prohibitions through regulation. These regulators are attempting to bypass the General Assembly altogether, which has the effect of diluting and ignoring the voice of Virginia's citizens and their elected representatives.
Please take into account that...
Parents are closest to their child’s challenges; they are in the best position to make healthcare decisions involving the well-being of their child.
Under Virginia law, parents have the fundamental right to make decisions regarding the upbringing, education, and care of their children; not the state, and certainly not by unelected regulators.
Some young people may have attractions they desire to change or moderate. Others may simply desire guidance from a counselor to live a chaste life. In either instance, all counseling options should be available for families to use based on their particular needs.
The proposed ban would deny families the freedom to seek counseling aligned with their faith.
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Chestree berry tea has been well-known to several civilizations since the days of old. The Native Americans used wild cherry bark tea made from the inner bark to relieve labour pains lung problems and diarrhoea. Meanwhile Chinese physicians prescribed the tea for coughs.
The cherry tree is officially known as prunus serotina. It is a tree that reaches up to 30 meters tall. It has oblong or ovate leaves and small white flowers growing in lateral racemes. It has rough bark and has a spherical dark purple fruit that ripens during the late summer and autumn.
Wild cherry bark is the part that is made into tea. The bark has the following active constituents: Acetylcholine HCN kaempferol p-coumaric acid prunasin quercetin scopoletin and tannins. Much of the healing activity of wild cherry bark is said to be associated with scopoletin.
Do not give Chestree berry tea to children under age two nursing mothers and pregnant women. Do not drink more than three cups of wild cherry bark tea a day. Wild cherry leaves bark and fruit pits contain hydrocyanic acid which can be harmful when taken long term and in large amounts. Among the health benefits attributed to Chestree berry tea include:
- Chestree berry Tea may help fight cough bronchitis pertussis and other problems in the respiratory system. It is largely considered an expectorant and a cleaner of the air passages.
- Chestree berry Tea may help lower blood sugar.
- Chestree berry Tea may help relax the muscles.
- Chestree berry Tea may help fight bacteria and fungus.
- Chestree berry Tea may help calm the uterus.
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Should ultra groups with a history of violence be banned from attending soccer games?
Ultras are soccer fans defined by their extreme dedication to their team, sometimes to the point of violence. Such fan groups often engage in activities such as setting off flares and displaying banners, with the intention of intimidating opponents. Recently, violence caused by ultras has been increasing; a Russian politician sarcastically suggested making hooliganism a spectator sport . Other incidents include: attacks on two Arab teenagers by members of the Boulogne Boys, who chanted racist slogans ; violence at the England-Russia match in the Euros, involving French and Russian ultras ; suspension of all team sports in Greece following a pre-organized fight between five hundred fans , and many others.
Today, soccer is the biggest sport in the world. Over three billion people tuned in to watch the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , and the Barclay’s Premier League is one of the highest-grossing sports divisions in the world—the 2016/17 season is projected to earn more than thirteen billion dollars in broadcast revenue . In the Premier League, soccer games are events that anyone, from businessmen to families to labourers, can attend safely.
However, this was not always the case. Only thirty years ago, being a soccer fan wasn’t exactly something to be proud of. Soccer-related violence ran rampant; in England, a single matchday might have seen over a hundred arrests made, and large-scale fights were a common sight. For some, the fighting was just as, if not more, important than the actual game.
The turning point was a riot at a European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus. Thirty-nine people were killed and a further eighty-one were injured after Liverpool supporters charged opposition fans. The violence compelled UEFA, the European governing body for soccer, to indefinitely ban English clubs from competing in European tournaments.
After this, measures were taken to “clean up” the game. Perhaps the most important were stadium bans for soccer-related violence, which could last anywhere from months to years . These acted as a serious deterrent for fans who participated in this sort of behaviour. Ultras may have shrugged aside jail sentences, even seen them as badges of honour, but not being able to see their club for years was another prospect entirely.
As can be seen today, these policies have been mostly successful. Incidents of fan violence in England are extremely low, and soccer matches have become something anyone can safely attend. However, in times of peace, it is easy to forget the reasoning behind old rules. For younger supporters, who have only been exposed to matches shown on television for billions of dollars, where a single fan making it onto the field or a flare going off in the stands is a remarkable event, it can seem draconian to ban someone for one mistake. Maybe they believe that these sorts of fans add an element of excitement or passion to the game, an element lost when the rowdiest of supporters are pacified. But history has shown us the consequences of lax regulation, and we would do well not to repeat our mistakes. If sacrificing the atmosphere of a stadium is what it takes to ensure the safety of its spectators, then so be it. After all, it’s called the beautiful game, not the bloody one.
There’s a reason fans are called “the twelfth man.” From Anfield’s Kopites to Dortmund’s Yellow Wall, passionate supporters bring an atmosphere to soccer unrivalled by any other sport. Imagine tens of thousands of people, chanting at the top of their lungs, waving flags with the team colours—who could remain unmoved by that? A strong fanbase can turn mediocre teams into world-beaters and rattle even the iciest opposition.
At the core of the support behind many teams are groups of die-hard fans, the ultras. Mostly single young men, these are the fans who attend every game, leading the chants and creating the massive tifo displays which adorn the home stands. Without their presence, the atmosphere at many games would be greatly subdued, resembling a library more than an actual soccer match.
Sometimes, the passion of these fans spills over into violence. While soccer-based violence is never acceptable, it is important to treat ultra fans, like all others, as individuals. Those who actually take part in the violence should be brought to justice, but it would be unfair to punish the rest of the group. For many ultras, soccer is more of a religion than a mere hobby. To deny these supporters their greatest love, over violence which they may well be uninvolved in, is truly a cruel and unusual punishment.
In fact, as much as the focus tends to be on soccer-related violence, there are many cases of ultras pushing for positive change in the community. In the 2013 Turkey protests, fans of three rival clubs—Besiktas, Galatasaray, and Fenerbahce—came together to protect protesters from police violence . An ultra group belonging to Brazilian team Corinthians had a significant role in introducing democracy to the club, a powerful political statement against the military dictatorship which ruled Brazil at the time .
Even when violence occurs, it is often rooted in some greater societal conflict, largely independent of soccer. Egyptian ultras played a critical role in the 2011 uprising against Mubarak ; Italian soccer fans were often involved in various left- and right-wing clashes in the “Years of Lead,” an era of political turmoil in the 1970s . While this should not excuse the perpetrators, banning ultras does not help address the fundamental cause of this violence. Soccer fans may make for convenient scapegoats, but there are far greater issues which underlie most incidents of soccer-related violence.
In an age when most of a club’s revenue comes from marketing and television deals, when billionaires can purchase teams without an inkling of their history or traditions, when bandwagoner fans are becoming increasingly common—the ultra fan is the last remaining example of the vital passion and pride which so many teams are in danger of forgetting. Soccer needs ultras now, more than ever before. | <urn:uuid:57d11dca-33d5-41ed-8d7b-fba92cfbffde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thereckoner.ca/debate-column-soccer-hooliganism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961823 | 1,364 | 2.515625 | 3 |
It is very important to obtain Medical Insurance when you travel anywhere in the world. Medical Insurance provides you with peace of mind while travelling. In Canada, whether you are immigrating, travelling on a Work Visa, or just visiting as a tourist, it is very important to obtain Medical Insurance. Visitors and tourists have access to medical and dental care in Canada. However, they do not qualify for free health care. If you experience any kind of medical issues when you are not insured, your medical bills could be very high.
Visitors to Canada Coverage
When you are visiting Canada, you should obtain a good Medical Insurance Plan to cover the following:
- Emergency Return Home
- Prescription Medication
- Emergency Hospital and Medical
- Emergency Transportation
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Accidental Dental
- Dental Emergency
- Out of Pocket Expenses
- Return of Deceased
- Transportation of Relative or Friend
The dollar amount of coverage will depend on the level of plan your purchase.
Pre-Existing Medical Conditions
Be sure to know all the facts surrounding pre-existing Medical conditions, as most insurance companies have many restrictions. Most times, travellers over the age of 80 are not covered for any pre-existing medical conditions.
What Should I Look For When Shopping for Medical Insurance While Visiting Canada?
Always shop around and obtain quotes for travel medical insurance in your home country. Also, it is a good idea to check with your employer’s Human Resources Department to see what type of coverage, if any, you may already have when travelling to Canada. Some banks and private insurance policies may also have travel provisions for coverage, as well. Things to consider when shopping for your Medical Insurance Policy:
- Deductible – choose the amount that you would have to pay out of your pocket before the insurance company will pay any expenses. Normally the higher the deductible amount is, the lower your insurance premium will be.
- Read The Policy – make sure your travel policy covers amounts that Canada would charge for medical and dental services as they may be higher than your home country.
- Exclusions – ensure you read the “exclusions” very carefully so you are fully aware of what may not be covered.
- High-Risk Activities – as most standard medical insurance coverage plans do not cover high-risk activities like high-risk sports, kayaking, windsurfing, zip-lining, paragliding, scuba diving, mountain climbing, white water rafting, bungee jumping, skydiving and other high-risk activities you will need to purchase extra coverage if you plan on partaking in any of these events.
How Does Medical Insurance Work When Visiting Canada
As a visitor to Canada, you are free to see any doctor or hospital providing you pay for the services. Should the need arise to see a physician while visiting Canada, if possible, it is wise to make an appointment ahead of time.
Have the right documentation
Ensure you bring identification, a credit card, debit card or cash, and your travel medical care policy with you. For proper coverage, you will need to obtain it from the medical facility you have visited important information.
The invoice form must include the date, name of the medical facility, the medical treatment you received, any prescribed medication, the doctor’s name and signature, the fee you paid, and a copy for your own records.
Normally for small fees, you would pay at the time of your visit. Once you return to your home country, you can submit the bill for reimbursement. For extensive medical care, you must contact your insurance company as soon as possible so they can authorize and take care of the fees for you.
What are Some of the Reasons I May Have to See a Doctor While Visiting Canada?
Anything can happen when you are travelling away from home that may lead you to seek medical attention. Some things that can happen are:
- Bladder Infection
- Severe allergic reactions to insect bites and stings
- A toothache
- A slip or fall
- A twisted or broken bone
- Travel sickness
- Sinus infection
- High blood pressure
- Heart attack
- Car/Bus accident
And many other health concerns or accidents.
Direct Billing For Medical and Dental Services
Some insurance companies offer direct billing services. This means that medical or dental providers can directly bill the insurance company if the service provider offers this service.
Some Benefits Offered for Medical Insurance Companies
Every insurance company is different; that is why it is so important to do your homework on Travel Medical insurance prior to buying a policy.
You need to know the company can be reached 24/7 in case of an emergency.
Some companies offer a case management worker, that will monitor the medical attention you require in the case of an emergency 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Many insurance companies have multiple listings of hospitals and medical centres they can refer you to for medical attention.
Super Visa Requirements in Canada
A parent or grandparent of residents of Canada can apply for a Super Visa. A Super Visa allows parents and grandparents to make multiple trips to Canada to visit their children and grandchildren for up to 2 years per visit in Canada.
The Super Visa is valid for 10 years. It is basically a temporary resident permit. Super Visa applicants must provide and meet certain requirements.
- When applying for a Super Visa in Canada, you must provide proof that you have private medical insurance.
- This private medical insurance must be valid for 1 year from the time you specify,
- It must be issued by a Canadian Insurance Company.
- It must have a minimum coverage of $100,000 and up to $300,000 of coverage if you are under the age of 65,
- Coverage involved must be hospitalization, medical care and repatriation,
- It must be valid for each trip to Canada and must be able to provide a customs officer with a copy of the policy for review.
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Our super-charged discussion on using more relevant terminology to describe global services delivery took on another twist yesterday, when the WSJ published yet another piece about how the outsourcing market is "taking a hit", citing TPI’s large-deal data for 3Q08. This follows on from another recent article from the same journalist, who appears determined to announce the demise of "outsourcing" to the world.
My colleague Dana Stiffler lends her weight to the argument:
in that quarter was the lowest in six years, a disturbing factoid indeed. If you stick to the old-school definitions of outsourcing, it’s easy to understand why headlines like these are so prevalent these days. They’re alarming, and we’re drawn to them. But the demise of large, traditional outsourcing contracts is a trend that’s been underway for years. Stories like the Journal’s – and broad-brush analyst research on outsourcing for that matter — makes coverage of these markets suspect, in good times and in bad. Are we all even talking about the same thing?
"Well, no. The headline refers to a contract size and type that is in decline. And other points in the piece were spot-on: less project spending, more delays in big-ticket decisions. But the article does not mention that this has been counterbalanced by sustained interest in expanding IT support relationships. Broader resource pressures, particularly around ERP, continue to force spending in the mid-market. I guess there’s not much of a headline in the fact that the third-party business and IT services market continues to grow, albeit more slowly, or that global delivery of services is now a structural requirement in companies’ global operations, and that there’s no escaping it. Problem is, none of this fits tidily under a traditional “outsourcing” heading. It’s time for the “O” word to go."
Well said Dana. The "O" terminology is clearly misunderstood in many circles. As Dana points out, "global delivery of services is now a structural requirement". The politically-charged issues surrounding the offshoring of US-jobs is clouding the real issue regarding what businesses need to do to be effective competitively on a global level. Businesses need to take advantage of global talent and resources to be competitive, and should not be penalized in this vein. The challenge for the incoming Obama administration is to create incentives for US businesses to deploy US staff, and not penalize a global services strategy. That means the US needs to be more competitive within a global context – something Detroit's automakers might need to focus on if they want to find a way out of their current predicament.
Update: Peter Allen clarifies TPI data:
Dana and Phil … seeing as how that article formed a conclusion based on data published almost three months ago, and covering one Quarter in the year, one might have hoped for a bit more journalistic thoroughness.
Yes, Q3's contract awards were the softest in quite some time. Dramatically soft.
But, Q4 picked up quite nicely. Like most Q4's tend to do. In fact, while the numbers aren't completely tallied, I am estimating that 2008's full-year record of TCV awarded will surpass that of 2007. (To wit: while Q3 yielded only around $14B in TCV, the month of October alone surpassed $15B!)
Many of us have tried for some time to differentiate between "true outsourcing" (mine: defined services, delivered at defined prices, at defined levels of service quality) and "effort-based contracting" or similar forms of wage-arbitrage staff augmentation. Alas, the broader market is still confused between these two.
I think that 2009 will see continued expansion in the use of "true outsourcing" while the appetite for arbitrage-driven staffing models will suffer. This latter slice of the market is what gave rise to much of the India-based provider community.
Some will have the wherewithal to taste the lemonade, while many others might just find themselves sucking on the lemons of a rapidly changing market.
Bring on 2009!
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Reflection and lived experience as a family doctor have led me beyond wellbeing to the concept of vitality. Looking back to embrace the Eastern wisdom of the TaoTeChing and timeless truths of philosophy. Looking forward at new understandings from Western science of optimal health, wellbeing and vitality. From the West, the term vitality emanates from the Roman word ‘vita’ or life. It implies a feeling of aliveness and alertness, closely correlated with happiness and wellbeing. From the East, the Indian notion of Prana, the Chinese concept of Chi and the Japanese idea of Ki, all refer to vitality as a life force that flows through all living things. ‘Live with Vitality’ uses latest evidence from medical science, along with insights from psychology and philosophy to support what Dr. Mark Rowe calls the ‘golden rule of self- care’. To live with vitality is to have positive emotional energy, radiant physical health, a resilient mind, with a powerful sense of purpose and meaning. Understanding that the various elements of your vitality are deeply interconnected. Live with Vitality is an opportunity to press the pause button and become more present, with a heightened sense of awareness and clarity. By embracing ‘learning by doing’ ‘Live with Vitality’ supports you to make practical positive changes that stick, and become more of an active participant in your own wellbeing rather than a passive consumer of healthcare.
Lifestyle Medicine is defined as an evidence-based ‘lifestyle first’ approach to prevention and treatment of chronic disease. According to the World Health Organisation, two-thirds of all disease worldwide will soon be the result of lifestyle choices. Currently the leading causes of death in the United States are lifestyle related : poor diet, lack of exercise, obesity, tobacco use and overconsumption of alcohol. There exists a tsunami of largely lifestyle related chronic health conditions from diabetes to coronary heart disease and countless others as well as an epidemic of anxiety and mental health conditions. Furthermore, while modern medicine in the right place at the right time is invaluable, the simple truth is that ‘pill-only’ solutions will take us only so far and will not stem the tide.
The World Health Organisation put it well many years ago when they said that health is a state of complete physical, mental and relational wellbeing, not simply the absense of disease. Your physical health, psychological fitness, emotional wellbeing and relationships are all interconnected to your sense of purpose and the environments you spend your time in.
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‘You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.’
In recent times the world as we know it has changed. Covid-19 has not only brought change but a sense of loss – of normality, of diminished human connection, of the little things. In its wake, fear, additional stress and feelings of anxiety for many. Whether due to working from home (parenting from work), or from life in general. Learn about the neurobiology of the stress response. How stress can be good and boost performance, while excess stress that exceeds a tipping point of coping can have negative consequences for your health and wellbeing impacting decision making, resilience and increasing burnout. That negative stress is caused less by external events and more by your interpretation of them. The key is to focus on what you can control, to embrace and recharge from stress rather than trying to eradicate it.
In the current climate everyone is feeling extra stressed as a normal part of the ‘fight or flight’ response amidst the Covid 19 pandemic. Furthermore, feelings of fear can become self-fulfilling as it can weaken the immune system. By choosing to embrace stress, you become more effective at seeing the setbacks, struggles and so-called failures that life brings for everyone as opportunities to grow and learn something useful; to ultimately become stronger. Supporting your letting go, moving on to healthy coping and psychological growth. Appreciating that you need a certain amount of stress in your life to move forward and perform at your best. To embrace stress through resilience and restorative recharge rather than simply trying to eradicate it (which is neither possible nor necessary).
Only one in five people is thriving and living life fully at their best with more people than ever searching for a sense of real purpose and meaning. Perhaps the performance pressures of modern life and always-on environment of relentless distraction play their part.
The result – a tsunami of negative stress and the rise of burnout as an occupational phenomenon (World Health Organisation May 2019).
Burnout has just broken new ground in being officially recognised by the World Health Organisation for the first time. Initially known as a ‘state of vital exhaustion’ they have now reclassified burnout as an ‘occupational syndrome.’
WHO Burnout definition
‘A syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.’
It is characterized by three dimensions:
Burnout refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life. Moreover burnout is increasingly recognised as a modern day epidemic; recent Gallup Poll (US) research highlighting that 44% of workers experience burnout sometimes while 23% report feeling it often or always.
While all sources of excess stress can have a negative impact, burnout is work related and results from long-standing negative stress that hasn’t been managed effectively either by the individual and/or by the organisation. Of course, burnout can be exacerbated by poor lifestyle habits. Particular personality types including the type A, overachieving perfectionist are most at risk. In the medical and healthcare community, those professionals who are more caring and empathic are most vulnerable. Caring is wearing!
Everyone can have stressful times at work and in their career. Nothing is plain sailing. Life brings challenges to each and everyone of us. I’m sure you’ve had a bad day or two when you felt overly stressed and under-appreciated, with everything possible seeming to go wrong. Me too! It’s part and parcel of life.
Burnout is different. Burnout is where bad days become the new norm with prominent feelings of being overwhelmed, disengaged, cynical, emotionally flat and exhausted.
An analogy I like to use is that of a wet sponge. With burnout the sponge is progressively squeezed drier and drier, until there is not a drop of effort left to give. Burnout drains the individual of resilience and depletes their reserves in terms of emotions, mind, body and relationships.
The bottom line – if you are starting to feel emotionally depleted and physically exhausted from your work, detached, disillusioned and cynical, then you may well be on the path to burnout.
This is why self-care strategies to build real resilience while buffering leaders and individuals from burnout are increasingly important.
‘Blue Zones’ are so named after the blue circles that researchers drew on the map to first identify them. These areas are home to some of the healthiest and longest living people on the planet.
In fact, people living in these areas have a three hundred percent higher chance of living a full active engaged life to age ninety or beyond. Furthermore, they have much lower rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Location of Blue Zones
These ‘blue zones’ include the Greek island of Icaria, Sardinia, Okinawa (an island off Japan), Loma Linda in California and Costa Rica.
In Icaria, residents have almost no dementia, fifty per cent less heart disease and reduced cancer rates and live on average eight years longer compared to the USA. The mountainous areas of Sardinia are home to more male centenarians (over one hundred years old) than anywhere else in the world.
The little island of Okinawa off the coast of Japan has approximately 740 centenarians out of a population of 1.4 million, with the majority of them being women. Family first values and a strong sense of community feature prominently in Okinawa.
While they may be scattered across the globe, you don’t need to emigrate to benefit from blue zone living.
Dr Mark Rowe will share his own research into this Blue Zone Lifestyle. You can begin today to implement some of these health boosting habits that support health, vitality and longevity
Learn lifestyle habits to cultivate more of a ‘blue zone’ philosophy wherever you are living.
Learn how time spent in nature can enable you to recharge from stress, think more clearly and creatively, shift perspective, and inspire new patterns. Boost mood, memory, and connection to the world around you with a stronger sense of self.
Learn about the new science of forest bathing, how a multisensorial immersion in nature can boost your physical health and be so positive for your overall vitality.
In recent years the epigenome has been discovered, the master controller that sits on top of your DNA. It can be switched on or off like a light switch or up and down like a thermostat. What we are now learning is that only about twenty percent of your DNA and genetic expression is fixed and that how your genes express themselves to a large degree is determined by the epigenome which in turn is influenced by your lifestyle choices and behaviours. I see epigenetics in action every day in my surgery as a doctor, when I meet people who not only look much younger than their actual age but are fitter, sharper with more vitality.
I believe you have two separate ages. Firstly, your age based on your date of birth known as chronological age and no one can change that. Secondly there is your biological age which is the ‘miles on your clock’, largely determined by your lifestyle habits. The bottom line is that your genes alone do not determine your destiny. Lifestyle factors, healthy habits and the environments you spend your time in really do matter. Everyday lifestyle choices have repercussions right down to the genetic level.
With Dr Mark Rowe, learn about the epigenome and how you can support a more healthy expression of your genetic potential.
The next meal you eat, the next mile you walk, the quality of your sleep tonight and the degree to which you are able to recharge from stress are all modifying your body in an endless flow of change, regulating which genes get turned on or off, up or down, in turn influencing every aspect of your health, wellbeing and overall vitality.
From the sense of who they really are to the ability to express their unique strengths and talents, many people are feeling lost.
Many people have lost touch with their values. Many people are searching for purpose. I call it soul sickness, a silent epidemic, so prevalent nowadays.
Learn the causes of soul sickness and the ways it can manifest.
Develop clarity around what really matters. Transform your view of stress, as you move to being and radiate real authenticity.
Learn how to close the gap between what you do and who you are, between knowledge and wisdom, ego and higher self.
Appreciate how you can nurture your mind, heart and spirit back to soul health and vitality.
Are you hard on yourself when things go wrong? Do you criticise yourself with negative self-talk? Do you neglect to take really good care of yourself? If you’re like most people, then the answer is yes you do (at least sometimes). Unfortunately, self-care is often one of the first things to fall by the wayside in times of stress. People stop taking good care of themselves at a time when they need self-care more than ever to build resilience, and recharge from stress. Learn to become an active participant in your own wellbeing rather than simply a passive consumer of healthcare. Learn why self-care is a gift to you and everyone that matters in your life. It is so important to remember to recharge, to build your own personal wellbeing buffer that encompasses physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects. I believe in prescribing a strategy of self-care (I call it radical self-care) because it really is that important.
Just think for a minute. How many people in your network do you know that are really thriving and living lives that are happy, purposeful and fulfilling? If it’s 3 in 10 or more, then chances are you’re lucky enough to be in the company of a particularly positive group of people…….. Truth is Research shows only about twenty percent of people are flourishing in life or close to their optimal potential, while the rest of us are plodding along in the middle somewhere or even worse languishing at the bottom.
Let Dr Mark Rowe explain why and more importantly how you can thrive!
The good news is that you can learn simple happiness-boosting habits which not only feel good but can have a big impact on your health and sense of wellbeing. And make you more successful by whatever way you want to define success – whether it’s by the quality of your relationships, career achievements and accomplishments, your creativity, energy or your health.
Learn about the science of gratitude, how plugging into the heart-brain connection can become a powerful antidote to negative stress and toxic destructive emotions. Appreciate how it is simply not possible to feel negative, resentful and grateful at the same time. Learn how a gratitude practice can strengthen your mindset and relationships, boost happiness and fulfilment and even improve your physical health (with positive effects on immunity, blood pressure and sleep).
Empowering Yourself to Make Healthier Choices During Stressful Moments.
Learn the impact of chronic stress on the neurobiology of the brain, how being stressed burns brain energy. As a result, your willpower muscle becomes depleted, decision-making impaired and impulse control reduced with the tendency to avoid healthy choices.
Learn how we are all creatures of habit, and the role of habit in our choices.
Appreciate how the principles of mindful presence can enable you to make healthier choices that support your wellbeing and vitality.
So many people are searching for meaning and purpose. More people than ever want to join the dots in their lives, to connect :
How to make a difference and a real contribution.
With Dr Mark Rowe learn how purpose is not something you pursue or accidentally come across. Purpose is something that ensues from exploring the essence of who you are. An inner journey to reconnect with who you really are. Purpose comes from your values, your inner strengths, from what makes your heart sing. Your purpose is always there, waiting for you to rediscover it.
Just as Picasso once said, I too believe that the meaning of life is to find your gift and the purpose of life is to give your gift away. You build purpose into your own life.
You build it out of your past, out of your experiences, out of your values, out of your own talents and abilities, out of your community, out of the people and causes you care about. These are the raw ingredients of purpose. Only you can put them together in an authentic manner that is your own life. In the words of the renowned psychiatrist and existential philosopher, Viktor Frankl, you are constantly being questioned by life.
Only you can answer for your own life.
‘If there’s no enemy within, then the enemy outside can do you no harm.’ African Proverb
An active ego is part of being ambitious, creative and entrepreneurial. Enabling you to become successful, provide for your family, leave a legacy and be remembered; all good things.
But the downside of ego is what I call the untamed ego. No matter where you are in your life right now and no matter who you are, this untamed ego is your biggest potential enemy, right inside of you.
Discover how the untamed ego can show up in your thinking, from expectancy to entitlement and why nothing fails like success.
Recognise behaviour patterns attributable to the untamed ego from addiction to ‘chronic not-enoughness’.
Learn strategies to tame your ego, from self-renewal and self-care to mindful presence and active appreciation – to keep you on a path to more sustainable success.
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Shifting biodiversity baselines with 3D Visual modelling of ecosystems
Ecologists have been making mathematical models from the 60s and 70s onwards, as soon as computers became sufficiently powerful to provide reasonable computing times. The models dealt with species interactions, food web dynamics, to name just a few topics. Nowadays, with the computing power that is available with the latest technology, we can make models that detail species interactions and ecosystem processes over many square kilometers, providing a detailed 2D picture of how an ecosystem develops.
Since about the year 2000, computers have become sufficiently powerful to depict ecosystems in 3D, recreating natural landscapes for use in movies (for instance in Lord of the Rings) or in computer games. So far, this technique has mostly been applied to the entertainment industry. With Visual Modelling, we want to use 3D computer-graphics to visualize modelled ecosystems, so that model predictions become better understandable to the general audience, and with this can help scientists, managers and policy makers to outline their plans to the laymen.
In this MSc project, you will make a visual model of an ecosystem for use in a context of nature conservation or natural education. Starting with an (existing) spatial model of an ecosystem, you will develop a pipeline to the (free) 3D modelling software Blender. First you will implement the model in the programming language Python, then you will set up a pipeline (again in Python) that translates the model output to a data form that is usable for Blender, adding non-scientific data and human infrastructure (dykes, paths, etc.) when needed. In Blender, the process of importing is similarly automated using Python scripts that sets up the 3D virtual world, allowing the rendering of images, video material or 3D panorama’s. Finally the output needs to be presented in a useful way, for instance by integrating the videos with standard footage to make a youtube movie, or within a 3D panoramic website.
Examples of this can be found on youtube:
Example of a 3D paranoramic website (in development):
As outlined above, an MSc project in Visual Modelling starts with implementing a model in a programming language, either a new model or an existing one. Hence, experience (or a large interest) in modelling is a requirement. Developing the pipeline and implementing the visualization involves again a lot of programming. Hence, an MSc project in Visual Modelling will entail a lot of programming in Python. A minimal duration of the MSc project of (close to) 6 months is required.
Making a 3D visualization is something that is a study on its own. It involves making a 3D object consisting of a mesh, on which a texture is placed to create a surface that looks like something. To take the first steps in making a 3D visualization in an environmental setting, there is a very good course on Udemy:
In 1-2 weeks (non-stop) time, you will be able to make a basic ecosystem in Blender.
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The lost summers of Newport : a novel / Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White.
- ISBN: 9780063040748
- ISBN: 0063040743
- Physical Description: 391 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow,
- Copyright: ©2022
"Historical fiction novel set in Newport, Rhode Island across multiple decades, from bestselling author trio"-- Provided by publisher.
A novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.
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In this paper some issues of the transition process from air- to oxy-combustion were investigated. Advantages of flexible combustion were described. Flexible combustion tests carried out at four European plants and five plants outside Europe of different scales of process and test parameters were presented. An analysis of the transition time from air to oxy-combustion of different laboratory and pilot scale processes was carried out. The “first-order + dead time” approach was used as a model to describe transition process. Transitional periods between combustion modes and characteristic parameters of the process were determined. The transition time depends not only on the facility’s capacity but also it is impacted by specific operational parameters.
Eriksson T., Sippu O., Hotta A., Fan Z., Ruiz J.A., Sacristán A.S.B., Jubitero J. M., Ballesteros J. C., Shah M., Prosser N., Haley J., Giudici R., 2009. Development of Flexi-Burn TM CFB technology aiming at fully integrated CCS demonstration. PowerGen Europe 2009. Cologne, Germany, May 26-28 2009.
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Event management is the application of project management principles to the planning and execution of small or large-scale events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. You can do this activity easily using a web-based event management system. It entails researching the brand, determining its target demographic, developing the event idea, and organizing the technical components before the event’s debut.
You may have heard of an online event management system if you are an event planner. However, this idea may appear a little hazy if you are a beginner. Here is a concise definition of an integrated event management system.
Table of Content
- What is an Event Management System?
- How to Choose the Right Event Management System
- Event Management System Recommendation in Singapore
What is an Event Management System?
An Event Management System (EMS) assists event organizers in planning, executing, and reporting on events, thereby ensuring their business’s success. In essence, EMS is a SaaS application that enables companies to manage their event activities from start to finish, assuming there is an end. This platform consists of an online back-office and a user interface for attendees, commonly a mobile app.
How to Choose the Right Event Management System
After learning what an EMS is, you may be interested in learning how to choose the correct system to ensure the success of your event.
Verify the support team’s reliability
Consider the following situation: It’s the evening before your event, and you’ve got an important inquiry. Now, it’s critical to know who to call immediately-even on a Friday at 10 p.m. Certain EMS vendors only have one or two employees. If such is the case, service capacity is frequently restricted, making a suitable substitute rare due to illness, vacation, or a high workload.
Always ensure to manage all data in your EMS
Conference organizers might utilize a different program for registering participants than they do for managing paper submissions. Perhaps the third piece of software exists for mailings, while a spreadsheet program handles time schedules. However, many conference organizers quickly regret their decision with this.
Whether you’re working with writers, attendees, reviewers, or email receivers, your work revolves around the same people in the end, because the majority of authors and reviewers are also attendees. If you’re using four different types of EMS for four various activities, you’ll almost certainly have to modify the same information four times. Therefore, implementing a full-featured event management software is the best choice.
Define your requirements for the EMS early on
Do you have complicated cancellation terms, carefully constructed offers, or a particular abstract review procedure? Try to develop them as soon as possible and reach an arrangement with relevant providers. This helps you and your team to be aware of any outstanding issues. Then you may start looking for event management solutions that are as close to your specifications as feasible.
Consider whether the EMS should operate in-house or as an external service (SaaS/ASP)
While the distinction between SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and ASP (Application Service Provider) is relatively significant, the two models are frequently confused because they are both “hosted”. However, there is a huge difference as you are about to discover. ASP is typically used to provide clients with computer-based services via a network. Meanwhile, SaaS–as a software delivery model–establishes a platform on which applications and associated data are centrally stored in the cloud. Users may instantly access the product via a web browser.
Event Management System Recommendation in Singapore
We’ve compiled the four best EMS choices for you based on some of the tips mentioned above.
HashMicro provides an event management solution that helps teams to plan and execute events successfully and with the fewest possible errors. You may improve the efficiency of your event preparation by utilizing our cloud-based event management system. The program centralizes all event-related functions, from registration to budget administration.
- Event Registration Portal: Individuals can register for the event via the system, complete all registration stages, and receive real-time status updates.
- Attendance Management: Set the number of attendees, automatically generate ID badges with barcode integration, and monitor participants’ confirmation and presence.
- Ticketing Management: Create various ticket types and prices, correctly set and manage seating reservations, and pause sales when a venue is fully booked.
- Notification Reminder: Send automatic notifications to participants regarding the registration period, participation status, and event countdown.
- Event Budgeting: Easily manage event budgets, trace all transactions, control margins, and estimate revenue.
- Comprehensive Reporting: Automatically generate holistic event reports with various graphs and diagrams from planning to execution.
Cvent provides software-as-a-service solutions for in-person and virtual events, including online registration, on-site participation, venue selection, event applications, email marketing, and web surveys. They can optimize the whole event marketing and management value chain and have facilitated the management of millions of meetings and events for clients worldwide. Cvent solutions leverage the power of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events to maximize their impact.
Canapii offers event management solutions for in-person, hybrid, and virtual events. They provide 24-hour customer assistance to help their customers to impress their audiences at every step of the process by staying ahead of the innovation curve. They can take care of conferences, board meetings, webinars, hybrid events, interactive podcasts, press briefings, online training, and workshops.
Eventnook provides EO with a cost-effective event management system that enables them to arrange and manage their events online quickly. We simplify, streamline, and dynamically manage events. Professional event planners and marketers, as well as event managers and organizers.
Event Management System is essential for event organizers. However, selecting the appropriate system is not easy. Consider the following: test the reliability of the support team, always handle all data in your EMS, specify your expectations early on, and choose between SaaS and ASP systems.
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We are constantly looking for ways to conserve water throughout our operations. The amount of water we used on-site and the wastewater treated off-site as a result of our utility monitored operations for Fiscal 2020* was as follows:
As of Fiscal 2020, our water conservation efforts have reduced the amount of water used by our LZB Branded Manufacturing operations by more than 25,000,000 gallons compared with 2007 usage.
We have sourcing policies and processes in place (see Wood Sourcing Policy here) to help ensure we comply with the legal sourcing requirements of the Lacey Act and eliminate illegal logging activities. Over 74% of our wood is from sustainable plantation-grown renewable rubber-wood, 50% of which comes from acceptable plantation resources.* We also use many other wood- and fiber-based materials made with recycled or recovered paper.
La-Z-Boy is continually working with our wood suppliers to ensure best practices in forest management are maintained. Almost 90% of our domestic wood suppliers are members of the National Hardwood Lumbers Association (NHLA), Kentucky Forest Industry Association (KFIA), and other wood sustainability organizations.
The total weight of wood fiber purchased for Fiscal 2020 was approximately 60,825 metric tons. This includes engineered wood, lumber/hardwoods and panel board.
*Acceptable plantation woods means that the plantation was not established through the conversion of natural forest in the last 25 years.
La-Z-Boy received a HIGH SCORE on the 2021 Wood Furniture Scorecard. This is an initiative of National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC), to show the progress in sustainability initiatives implemented by various furniture companies. La-Z-Boy is dedicated to continuing our sustainability efforts by creating a more sustainable supply chain, offering products that are safe and environmentally-friendly and reducing our carbon emissions across the organization. | <urn:uuid:b513ea93-17dc-4541-8b9a-998a12376ded> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://trannyladyboy.com/natural-resources.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95161 | 385 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Top Android App Development Tools that You Should Know About in 2021
As per Statista, over 3.48 million mobile apps are available in the Android Play Store, and it is pretty higher than that of the iOS apps, which is 2.22 million. In fact, not only the mobile applications but the number of Android devices around the globe is also expanding at a faster pace. That’s the reason business owners hire an Android app development company for developing Android applications to promote their brands and services.
According to some predictions, Android apps will be dominating 48 per cent of the mobile app development space in the future. This article will help you learn and understand the top-most Android app development tools to build highly responsive and engaging applications for your business. So, let’s get started with these tools and their benefits.
Best Tools for Designing Streamline and Interactive Android Applications
When talking about Android app development, Android Studio has managed to make its position on top of the list. It is an interactive application development environment that offers advanced tools and software to create top-quality complex applications. Developed in 2013 by Google, it has received immense fame from developers all over the globe.
- Android Studio consists of an insightful code reader and manager that helps compose better programs, code examination and faster app development.
- It offers Android Emulator to start your application quickly and smoothly.
- With this tool, you get several robust testing tools to examine your application for bugs and errors.
- You also get Cloud and Firebase connectivity with Android Studio.
The Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager is one of the best Android app building and testing tools to simulate your Android devices on your PC. With this, you can examine your app on different devices and check for the Android API levels without having a mobile device. Moreover, you can imitate other smartphone features like incoming text messages and phone calls with this emulator, specify the device’s location, access the Google Play Store, and much more.
- With its Quick Boot feature, you can continue with your Android Emulator meeting in less than six seconds. This feature is absent in many of the app development tools. However, in AVD Manager, you can access it with no difficulty.
- AVD Manager is compatible with almost all the APIs that you want to incorporate into your application.
- It tests the application’s performance and interfaces and ensures no dropped outlines (jank) due to an application bug.
It is one of the primary Android app development tools used for developing and designing a massive number of Android applications. It provides an interactive IDE to write, enhance and test codebases for creating mobile applications. No matter which language (Java, Kotlin or C#) you use to build an application, you need an SDK to get it run on your device.
- Android SDK provides you access to almost all the essential elements of APIs that help achieve top-class working Android apps.
- Unlike other Android app development tools, you can download the maps of nearly 190 nations available in more than 60 dialects while using Android SDK, even in low-network areas.
- It consists of ADB (Android Debug Bridge) that helps you link the emulator with the application and run them while testing the modules.
- It is an adaptable and versatile software that enables you to customize your application the way you always wanted your application to be.
- Eclipse supports automatic error reporting. With this feature, you can directly report blunders to the Eclipse committers and send them to eclipse.org to get them fixed.
- The Eclipse code debugger helps coders troubleshoot the codes’ issues by implementing it bit by bit. It helps in examining the programs in detail to get clean and error-free codes.
- It is an easy-to-learn tool, and you can easily connect with the new things associated with it.
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by Emma Watkins
President Donald Trump recently invoked a provision of the Defense Production Act to ensure the timely delivery of rare earth materials to the nation’s industrial base. Having made the determination rare earths are “essential to national defense,” Trump authorized a wave of potential investment in the industry.
Although rare earths are not actually “rare” in aggregate quantity, they are difficult to produce without a vast mining and processing system since they are not typically found in quantities that make it economical to pursue them.
Rare earth minerals are used in items ranging from everyday computer hard drives to military aircraft engines. They comprise only a small percentage of the raw ingredients for these items, but they are required for key components.
Over the past few decades, China has invested considerably in its rare earths industry and now supplies approximately 80% of the world’s rare earth metals. Moreover, the U.S. defense industrial base relies heavily on China’s rare earth reserves and uses them for military production. This has raised concerns over depending on a competitor nation for a material so vital to our defense.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has tried to exploit China’s dominant position in the rare earths market by threatening to cut off rare earths exports to the U.S. as part of the trade war. His visit to a facility at China’s epicenter for rare earths, in conjunction with numerous Chinese state-owned media reports, suggested Xi sees rare earths as fair game in the trade war.
Trump has signaled he is not willing to wait out the short-term consequences of an export cut-off. Instead, he has initiated a provision in the Defense Production Act to stimulate domestic mining and processing of rare earth materials.
Under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act, the president must determine that a “domestic industrial base shortfall” exists for a particular good, meaning “United States industry cannot reasonably be expected to provide the capability” within the needed timetable. This is what Trump did in his recent presidential determination.
Trump ignited a multitude of subsequent actions that now can be taken by the Department of Defense to establish and secure the domestic capability to supply rare earths. He can order the direct purchase of rare earth materials for use by the defense industry and supply equipment for both government and private companies to increase their capability to produce rare earths. Should the project exceed a $50 million threshold, Congress would have to approve.
It is unclear exactly how the Department of Defense plans to move forward in expanding the domestic industrial base for rare earths. But in light of a recent Commerce Department report on securing critical minerals, this move does not necessarily come as a surprise. Rather, it may be seen as just another move in the U.S.-China trade war.
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Research is an essential part of any development in all fields. Every new item in nature or modification of any activities or item can come up only through research.
Through this concept, YASH KRISHI (NGO) is working in the field of agriculture and waste management apart from social work, and helping the children and ladies in skill development. Few fields in which this organization is working are given below in short:
First, two methods are very well known to everyone. Ngo has tried to develop another technology as a Bio decomposer for bio-degradable waste as Activator Plus. In short, it is given here.
‘Yash Activator Plus”- a microbial consortium has been developed by Yash Krishi – which is highly effective in composting press-mud, flowers, and other biodegradable material collected from rivers/temples, use in STPs, etc. The process of Bio-degradable waste converted into manure is given in the following pictures.
Few views of our Research laboratory
- C & D waste (construction and demolition waste) also called Malwa:
Such waste can be used in making bricks or blocks after converting them to aggregate. Then, using such waste to make concrete for making bricks for building construction or blocks for making roadside shoulders or parking lots, etc. The process is shown in the picture below.
2. Polythene waste: A typical waste dump is shown below. There are many types of polythene or similar products which are used as packing material. Also more common is single-use plastic. Few types of polythene and single-use plastic are normally thrown out or lying on the roadside and go as municipal waste. These plastics are non-decomposable. A typical use of such polythene has been tried by YASH KRISHI… as
Several National Seminars and conferences have been organized to combine the research efforts of different investigators. Name of some of them are given below. They include National Seminar on “Biotechnology for human & social Welfare”, “Environment protection through Organic farming” etc. A brief list of seminars organized is given below:
Based on the research done in NGO or in coloration with other organization, several articles have been published in various Generals, conferences and other places. The name of some of these articles are:
Facilitating Masters and Ph D. students in carrying out research activities at SHUATS (an agricultural University in Allahabad) in collaboration with NGO.
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NUTRITIOUSLY HEALTHY HAIR + ANECDOTES:
A healthy hair follicle (singular) grows about one centimeter per month and continues to grow for two to six years. This is called the anagen or growth phase. Ninety percent of the hairs on your head are in this phase. The other ten percent are in the catagen, or transition phase. These hairs hang around for a few weeks before the follicle shrinks and the hair is shed. The follicle then goes through a Telogen, or resting phrase before the cycle starts anew. Hopefully if all goes well.
As we all know, for some people, their hairs tend to get stuck in this resting phrase for the rest of their adult life. This loss of hair is known as alopecia, or baldness.
THE HAIR LOSS FACTS:
Too much washing will not lead to hair loss.
It is perfectly normal to lose around 50 to 100 hairs from your head per day.
Hats do not make you “go bald”, neither do wigs for that matter.
Brushing your hair a 100 times may help improve blood circulation to your follicles.
MAIN HAIR LOSS CAUSES:
Genetics is one of the biggest causes of hair loss. Hormonal imbalance is said to be the biggest factor in genetic hair loss. In men: the male hormone androgen binds with an enzyme in the hair follicle, creating DHT, which keeps the follicle from restarting the growth phase.
The female hormone, estrogen, can also cause hair loss and many women can suffer significant hair loss when using birth control pill.
Androgen alopecia, or male pattern baldness, affects 70 percent of all men sometime in their life. Women also are known to suffer from pattern baldness, but in a much smaller percentage.
Many women also suffer from often short term hair loss after giving birth. This is caused by the caused by the hormonal changes occurring within the body of the new mother.
Stress can cause a lot of bodily problems, hair loss being one of them. While hair loss caused by stress is only temporary, it can be the trigger for the onset of permanent, genetically based hair loss.
An unhealthy diet can also cause hair loss, especially a diet that is high in saturated fat and lacking in hair friendly vitamins and minerals. A healthy hair follicle needs thins like iron, zinc, protein, and vitamin B6 in order to stay healthy.
Drinking too much coffee, tea or alcohol, or eating too many processed, fried, spicy, greasy or sour foods can reduce the amount of nutrients that a hair follicle is getting.
Certain drugs, medication, or treatments like chemotherapy can cause hair loss. These are usually temporary and your hair grows back once you stop taking the drugs or getting the treatment.
Some fungal infections like ringworm or the STD: Treponema pallidum can cause hair loss. Dandruff, however, does not.
Hair loss could be a symptom of an underlying disease such as diabetes, or lupus.
Getting old is another way to suffer from hair loss. Losing hair is a side effect of the ageing process.
NATURAL HAIR LOSS TREATMENTS:
Treating hair loss is dependent upon the cause. Simply switching medications, or ending treatments can treat a lot of hair loss cases. Diagnosing and treating the ailment can cure hair loss caused by infection or disease. Time and patience will usually take care of hair loss caused by stress or giving birth and switching birth control pills might help woman suffering hair loss caused by hormonal imbalance. Genetic hair loss however, is a little bit harder of a problem to tackle
Here are some possible treatments for genetically based hair loss:
1.) Proper diet and exercise will help keep your hormones in check and stave off androgen alopecia.
2.) Choosing a hair stylist might help you hide your thinning hair or consider having hair transplants, a wigs or even inventive weaving methods.
Healthy Hair Tips:
1.) Lemon juice, gently rubbed on and then left in for 15-20 minutes will give super clean, dandruff free hair. A clean scalp is essential for healthy looking hair.
2.) Get you daily dose of calcium from your foods. Sesame seeds, figs, Kale, Asparagus, and Salmon are high in calcium. Take a whole food source of calcium supplement as many calcium supplements from chalk, shells, and rocks have been linked to instant heart attacks and strokes in women.
3.) A shampoo made from equal parts alma juice and lime juice as said to stimulate hair growth and prevent loss. Alma is also said to help with graying hair as well as promote thick, luxurious black hair.
4.) Use only natural thickening shampoos and avoid harsh weather as much as possible.
5.) Polysaturated (sunflower) oils and foods rich in vitamin B (brown rice, bananas) will help with dry hair.
6.) Use natural hair conditioners like Henna and Mehendi.
HAIR DIAGNOSIS VIA SYMPTOMS:
- Your hair knows and can tell you what is wrong in your body.
- If you have excessive hair loss, check your thyroid gland. Also, make sure that you get enough vitamins and minerals.
- If your hair is fragile, check your bowels.
- If your hair grows very slowly, your nervous system is very weak.
- If you started getting gray hair fast, check your heart and pancreas. Another reason could be a hormonal dysfunction.
- If you get a few grey strands of hair, it could be a genetic defect – dysfunction of hair nerve.
- The reasons for getting grey hair at a young age are high acidity, getting a lot of salt with foods, diabetes, stress, constant fatigue, lack of enzymes, disorder of sex functions and poor blood circulation in your heart
- A cause of getting half of your hair or all of your hair grey is severe stress or shock.
- If your hair is very brittle, you have not been getting optimal nutrition for a long time.
- If a woman gets bald spots on her temples, it could be early climax, dysmenorrheal and hormonal dysfunction.
- If you had light hair and it started getting dark fast, check your liver and gall bladder.
- If your hair got dark only on the roots, it could be a head skin disease.
- The cause of baldness could be rheumatism or gout.
- If you got round bald spots, you have serious anemia.
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How Long Can Rabbits Survive Without Food
Survival is available in so many tastes, it’s simple to get perplexed. Desert, Wildlife, Water; each uses a variety of survival skills and also suggestions. You desire a survival publication that fits your survival demands and that is what you prepare to help you uncover. In an attempt not to bewilder you, have noted (once again in no certain order) seven survival books which, essentially, is what you want. How Long Can Rabbits Survive Without Food
How Long Can Rabbits Survive Without Food
Survival in Times of Dry Spell by Jay Lexton. Jay Lexton is a survival professional, currently surviving a watercraft off the west coast of Oregon, where Mother Nature frequently throws extreme climate events. Drenched woodland locations and also river rapids offer several of the most life-threatening circumstances. Via a distinct design of composing, Jay Lexton offers visitors with the insight and also prep work needed to survive in these possibly terrible situations. How Long Can Rabbits Survive Without Food
Readiness – A Prepper’s Guide by Ed Monfort. This survival guide supplies a step by step format of what to do in case of a catastrophe or emergency situation. Especially, guide goes over just how to become a prepared individual, implying that you have emergency supplies and also equipment stashed away currently, that you are aware of what is going on in your area as well as how to respond should a catastrophe take place. The writer also reviews what you should do if you have neighbors or good friends that are survival experts as well as can provide assistance, what your household ought to do if they should be trapped or taken hostage, and also lastly, exactly how you can stay clear of calamity through preparation. This prepper’s overview is a good read for anyone that values their safety and security and well being. How Long Can Rabbits Survive Without Food
Disaster Preparedness – Survival Skills, Techniques as well as Strategies by Jack Canfield. This survival guide supplies details relating to exactly how to take care of different survival circumstances. It consists of directions for handling emergency situations, food storage techniques, developing a survival package, and developing a disaster plan. The abilities consisted of focus on food storage space, water filtration, building a residence, emergency devices, and also emergency treatment skills. This is a beneficial overview for any person preparing for a natural catastrophe situation. How Long Can Rabbits Survive Without Food
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The Department of Defense Survival Guide is a superb survival book. This guide gives strategies on how to endure in case of catastrophe, which are mostly common all-natural calamities. This survival publication likewise shows you survival skills, which will aid you survive.
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Leadership Initiative is one of the most important attribute that distinguishes them from perpetual followers. Leaders don't wait for the future to come, they create it. They don't wait for others to do what they know they should do.
Vision is a picture of what you want to accomplish, yet the attitude of initiative makes the difference between a plan and actual result. In other words, vision is a desire, while leadership initiative gets it accomplished.
Description of Initiative;
Initiative is a catalyst.
Initiative is taking action.
Initiative springs from self-motivation.
Initiators are self-starters who don't need outside urging to do something
Initiators make specific decisions to begin things.
1) Leadership Initiative is the key to accomplishment
There are numerous inventors, composers and leaders who initiated works out of their imagination that otherwise would have remained a mere potential. As you develop the attitudes of leadership, consider what ideas and desires you want to bring to reality and how taking initiative would be the catalyst for their manifestation
2) Leadership Initiative is the power of momentum
Things don't get started, progress, or get back on track once they have stalled unless someone takes action to set them on the right course again. A leader helps his followers or employees keep their momentum. a leaders initiative attitude helps him to become his own coach so that he maintains his momentum in pursuit of his lives purpose.
3) Initiative is the manifestation of decision.
Nothing can be accomplished unless a decision has been made concerning it. Effective leadership involves a number of decisions and choices, which can lead many people to resist and forsake procrastination. Initiative enables us to make choices that help us to move forward in our goals.
4) Initiative is the key to pleasing leadership
Leaders are pleased to see an initiative attitude in their employees. When a leader is indecisive or a follower continually has to be told what to do, it is not only draining on those affected, but it is also inefficient. Leadership growth comes as a result of enthusiastically embracing and moving forward in our purposes.
5) Initiative is the manifestation of the spirit of confidence and faith
We often hesitate to take initiative because we are afraid of responsibility. When we exhibit the attitude of initiative, it shows that we are operating in faith and the confidence that God will see through as we pursue the purposes that he has for us.
6) Initiative is the spirit of creativity
Inventors have the habit of doing multiple experiments. They keep trying until something works in a similar way. A willingness to keep starting and trying things as we pursue our purposes sparks the spirit of creativity and yields good results for those who delight in trying one more thing.
7) Initiative is the key to obedience
When we know that we are supposed to do something that is when we should begin to do it. Holding back until we feel like it or the circumstances are better is not conducive to the practice of doing what we need to do at the time that need to do it in order to accomplish our goals.
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This necklace is named after Harriet Tubman; the resilient and fearless woman who guided over 300 slaves to freedom using the Underground Railway. Harriet used the North star and constellations to find her way, making this necklace a perfect representation of her courage.
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If you’re a teacher, you plan a lesson, and you think it should work, but you never really know if it will fly until it flies. There are no guarantees. At least, I haven’t found them.
But yesterday’s lesson on initialisms was a smashing success with my teen girls. I wrote initialisms like LOL, FHI, TMI, IMHO on the board, asked if they’ve seen it and where, and explained how we use it. We also discussed terms like “ego surfing” and the “five-second rule” and then keyboard pictures of frowns, smiles, and hearts.
These girls are at school all day, and they come here because their parents want them to learn English so I hate to do anything that looks like school work with books because they really don’t want to do it and then it’s no fun for any of us and we leave feeling like we endured something. (An English teacher should be able to do better than that run-on sentence but there you are.) Fun has to be a component of the lesson, because if it’s a miserable time, they won’t learn anything except that studying English is hard and boring.
I wanted to cheer when the girls asked for paper to write what the initialisms mean. They NEVER ask to write. They would rather talk all the time, and they do well at that, but write? Never. So we wrote on our papers and laughed about using LOL as a spoken word vs. written and I explained what XXOO means when your mom writes it on a note. Then we took turns answering questions like:
What shortcuts do you use in your own language?
Do you think initialisms should be included in dictionaries?
Have you heard of the five-second rule before? Do you agree with it?
Do you think older people are confused by initialisms?
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The shortest, simplest version of the story could be written this way: Trump badly miscalculated by causing the shutdown. Two important airline unions called for a strike. The President backed down.
On MLK Day, Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants, said:
“Almost a million workers are locked out or being forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. What is the Labor Movement waiting for? ... We can do this. Together. Si se puede. Every gender, race, culture, and creed. The American Labor Movement. We have the power.”
What I've just related is a simple, factual account of last week. But as any reading of history will tell you, the plain documentary record never gives the whole story. Context is king.
This is how history works. “The real war will never get in the books,” Walt Whitman wrote of the Civil War. And it's true. So much of what makes a moment historic is found in the context.
For instance: take FDR's First Hundred Days. Legendary right? You can Wikipedia up a list of the legislation passed. Thirteen major bills, and countless small changes. But if that's all you learn—the names of laws—you wouldn't get a real sense of what those words meant; how they embodied the hopes progressives had been championing for decades; how the first three months of the New Deal turned America upside down. How those laws reversed a century-and-a-half of cruel economic doctrine. How the American conservative movement, for the rest of the 20th century, existed to fight back against those Hundred Days. If you simply attended to the details, the rest would be lost. You'd know the name of every tree and miss the forest.
And that's what happened here. To quote the title of Joseph Heller's forgotten novel, “Something Happened.” We all felt it. The sundowning of the shutdown ended with a whimper, but it felt like a bang. The rest of the political world, including the press (who should have known better) rushed to give all credit to Pelosi. Eric Levitz, of New York magazine, saw correctly:
For five weeks, congressional Republicans had withheld paychecks from hundreds of thousands of civil servants, prevented cancer patients from accessing much-needed medical care, jeopardized food stamp recipients' access to basic nutrition, undermined public health, devastated Native American communities, and sabotaged America's (supposedly sacred) border security — because doing so was slightly more convenient for Mitch McConnell than the alternative. But on Friday, that changed — because the men and women who control America's air traffic and attend to its airline passengers made it change. After weeks of unpaid labor, America's (already underfunded and understaffed) air traffic controllers finally brought the shutdown home, calling out sick in numbers large enough to grind airports across the Eastern seaboard to a halt. .... The Flight Attendant Union struck a sharper note. “Do we have your attention now Leader McConnell?” the union asked in its statement. “The shutdown must end immediately.”
A closer study reveals that Pelosi, like Schumer, was merely obeying the revved-up mandate of the Democratic base. Had it been left up to the leadership, I believe they would have caved a week into the shutdown. But the base wouldn't let them. All the credit should go, then, to two groups. First, the unions of America. In the age of Trump, the labor movement is rediscovering its strength. The earlier strikes in West Virginia, Arizona, and Oklahoma prove my point.
The unions won the shutdown. Second, the mobilized Dem base—fervent, rabidly progressive, and uncompromising. The same base that elected AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and a dozen other honest-to-God agents of change to the Congress; the same base that is pushing corporate Dems out of the party; the same base that will deny the Clinton machine another go at the nomination.
American media spends too much attention on the MAGA movement and Trump's dwindling, aging, prosperous base. The far-right white nationalism of the modern GOP is an eye-catching story. But in their rush to normalize the forces of Trump, the media missed a far more important narrative: the emergence of an empowered, growing, government-toppling left.
The rise of this movement goes beyond merely electoral politics. The resurgent populist left can be seen in the hundreds of Indivisible chapters that have sprouted up across America, in the record numbers of women running for, and winning, office. It can be seen in the progressive politicization of American millennials. The conservative movement began losing the young during the age of Bush, and have continued to shed them in ungodly numbers under Trump.
Most of all, we can see the rise of the American left in the fierce, unstoppable return of militant labor. It's a necessary counterbalance in this grotesque era of gilded wealth.
Historians keep reminding me that the agitation in the heartland is an echo of how the conservative resurgence happened in the '70s. Forty years ago, the Democrats had control of every branch of government. They looked set to reign forever. But a conservative upheaval happened at the margins: a tax revolt in California, busing protests, rallies against the Equal Rights Amendment, and soon liberalism was on the defensive.
In this last election, Orange County, the home-base of modern conservatism, went blue. Miracles and wonders abounded.
The shutdown didn't have to happen, but the president did it anyway, for the same reason he's pushed anything in his presidency: ego and cluelessness. What the Court Packing Plan was to Franklin Roosevelt, the Shutdown Defeat will be Trump: the moment that power began to run back to Congress. The shutdown affected 800,000 federal workers across America. It put a lie to most of the claims Trump made about himself and his presidency. It showed his incompetence at dealmaking—as if we needed any more proof.
And there was no reason for it, besides the Orangeman's fool pride. What is Trump's harvest from those 35 days? Agitated workers, an activated opposition, and a pissed-off Republican base.
Trump has given progressivism a generous gift. Without the president's bungling, the unions would not have been able to display such obvious power. Or the right cue. Prior to the strike, a number of pundits and commentators wondered: Why weren't airline-related unions striking? As Matt Christman discussed on Chapo Trap House, striking was the ideal response, and the logical one. The TSA workers weren't getting paid. Going for broke would scare the absolute hell out of the country.
Striking just made too much sense. The power was there, waiting to be picked up. Air travel cornerstones our society. It's the chokehold of an entire civilization, and political dynamite. Seizing control of the airports—shutting them down, effectively—means grabbing hold of the economic bloodflow of the country. Airports are all but designed to be political, social, and security chokepoints. They were used that way last week.
The historian and writer Corey Robin summed up the End of the Shutdown perfectly, and positioned it in the proper context. In a Facebook post, he wrote “It looks like my historical trifecta is now complete.”
The modern GOP launched its first successful salvo against the Democratic Party with charges that the Dems wanted “socialized medicine.” Trump's first major defeat came over his effort to repeal the ACA. The second successful salvo of the GOP against the Dems was the charge of “twenty years of treason” because of alleged ties between the Democrats and the Russians. (A version of that got repeated in the late 1970s over the Team B report.) The second source of Trump's weakness has been his ties to the Russians. And then a third, and final, GOP victory came in 1981, when Reagan destroyed the air traffic controllers' union. Well look at the two unions that brought Trump down now: air traffic controllers and flight attendants.
What's more, the strikes and Trump's defeat occurred during an unusually busy week for politics. It was as if fate had set up events to demonstrate the waning of American conservative power specifically, and the unraveling of the Washington consensus generally. Roger Stone's humiliating arrest was merely the most visible symbol. The waves of change were felt everywhere.
While the air unions were dictating policy to Trump, and the teachers' unions were winning in Los Angeles, the media giant BuzzFeed gutted a huge chunk of its hard-working staff. BuzzFeed's success, and its recently increased stature, is due largely to the untiring work done by its rank-and-file journalists. Incidentally, this was the same staff who'd been told by the company CEO that they didn't need a union.
I asked Doug Henwood, a contributing editor at The Nation, what he thought about the events of the week. He noted that the Trump cave-in showed “the power of the working class to shut shit down. The transportation and logistics sectors are so vulnerable. They could shut things down in a day or two.”
I asked him why this was happening now. There was a feeling in the air, I said: the fever breaking on the Trump Presidency, Ocasio-Cortez being elected, the shift in the Democratic base away from Clintonism. “Maybe it’s just a bill of forty years coming due,” I wrote. Trump’s election showed the old order had cracked, but so much had been going on under the surface. The air unions were the manifestation of something deeper.
“And since this was all spontaneous/wildcat Trump couldn’t fire them,” Henwood told me. “A lot of people have just fucking had it.” There hadn’t been anything like this in decades, he added.
Yes, it’s been a while, as the band Staind once said. But seeing the strange wonders of the past week was like watching a long-comatose body return to life. A jerk of the hand here, a twitch of the foot there. What’s the boundary between sleep and waking? Hard to say. The longest shutdown in American history ended. The culprit got called on his bullshit. And it wasn’t just the government that got restarted. The last part of January is when we begin to hope for the finish to a long cold. George R. R. Martin got it backwards: Winter is going. | <urn:uuid:94884381-9c7c-409c-aadc-b17dfad6f939> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://facebook.pastemagazine.com/politics/government-shutdown/the-unions-and-the-democratic-base-won-the-shutdow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968258 | 2,231 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The specific Daoist meditation known as Qi Gong, was brought to Australia through the Chinese Master Louis Chun Jie Liu. More information about this approach can be found on http://www.tcmqigong.com.au. Marise has been practicing Qi Gong for over 10 years and is a qualified practitioner. Her Qi Gong teacher and master is a direct student of Master Liu.
What is Qi Gong?
Qi Gong (also spelled Chi Kung) is a powerful system of healing and energy medicine from China. It is the art and science of using breathing techniques, gentle movement, and meditation to cleanse, strengthen, and circulate the life energy, otherwise known as Qi. Qi Gong practice leads to better health and vitality and a tranquil state of mind.
There are four main divisions of Qi Gong, depending on the goal of the practitioner – spiritual, medical, martial, and athletic. However, there is some overlap between the branches. Medical Qi Gong is a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Qi means: life energy and TCM says that the health of the body relies upon a smooth flow of Qi within the body. Disease is the result of poor Qi circulation. Balancing the flow of Qi allows the body to heal itself.
Gong means: work or hard task, and it is the task of learning how to control the flow of Qi through the body using breath, movement, and meditation. The WORK, or discipline that is being practiced eventually turns into an effortless way of being.
How old is Qi Gong?
The documented history of Qi Gong goes back approximately 2,500 years. However, Chinese archaeologists and historians have found references to Qi Gong-like techniques at least five thousand years old.
Is Qi Gong like Tai Chi?
Taiji Quan (Tai Chi) is a style or branch of Qi Gong. It is graceful, relaxed, slow, and fluid, like a slow- motion dance. Some Qi Gong methods exercise specific systems or parts of the body, such as the nervous system, endocrine system, heart and kidneys. Taiji Quan is a whole body, whole mind exercise. It treats health systemically, restoring the body to its original “program”, uncorrupted by stress, pollution, and disease. Qi Gong movement based techniques like Self – Healing in the Level One Series, tap into this wisdom.
Benefits of Qi Gong
Qi Gong has been used extensively in China as part of traditional Chinese medicine and is included in the curriculum of Chinese Universities. Throughout the world Qi Gong is now recognized as a form of complementary and alternative medicine, with positive effects on diverse ailments.
- cardiovascular benefits such as a lower resting heart rate, improved blood pressure, and improved cholesterol levels
- respiratory benefits such as a slower rate of breathing, and improvements in asthma and bronchitis
- a stronger immune system
- improved circulation and microcirculation
- improved blood flow to the brain
- lower incidence of stroke
- improved posture, balance, strength, endurance, and flexibility
- significant reduction in chronic pain
- decrease in stress levels and anxiety
- improvements in memory
- improved kidney function
- higher bone density
- destroys free radicals in the body
- improves digestion
- improves vision and hearing
Finding the technique for your current needs
Literally thousands of styles of Qi Gong exist – it is a matter of the student finding the appropriate teacher who can lead the student through the required approach. While there are many styles & levels all are based on similar principles: a relaxed, grounded posture; a straight, supple spine; breathing from the diaphragm; fluid movement without excess effort; and tranquil awareness.
An aim of Qi Gong is to obtain an understanding of one’s mind and body and the link between the two. Through both movement and sitting Qi Gong there is a focus on creating emptiness and stillness, allowing one to drop life’s stresses, clean out the unnecessary emotional belongings and attachments. This in turn can strengthen the inner peace required to help deal with daily stress and heal mental and physical sickness. Three levels exist to take students from beginners to Mastership. Level One consists of two moving techniques that address multiple systems of the body such as endocrine system, nervous system and major organs of the body and seven sitting techniques. The sitting techniques are taught one on one.
Level One Movement Techniques:
Self – Healing
A two – day work shop where the full 5 steps of the technique are taught. This technique transforms poor to average health into vibrant and robust wellness.
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Films that have something with LEGO have come since 1987 with Edward and Friends, not to mention the countless works of fans who saw in the toy an amateur option to honor their favorite movie characters – building elaborate sculptures and making movies. Even so, LEGO was seen by the general population as something childish, especially in relation to its themed toys, like Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean or superheroes. However, it was in this way that the first feature length film of the brand surprised: pleasing both adults and children.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in 2014, A LEGO adventure tells the story of a construction worker, Emmet, who was destined for a life greater than he had. Even though he seems happy with his routine and work, he ends up being part of an incredible fight between creativity and conformity, and is aided by funny characters like LEGO Batman and even one who looks like Lord of the Rings Gandalf. and live action, the film unfolds in the conflict between a son who wants to use the toy in a creative way and his father, played by Will Ferrell, who wants to build a model for use in his business. Such a formula, which shows the plot both from the child’s point of view and from the adult point of view, was enough to make the film go into history with one of the most successful animations of cinema.
And so pleased that at the beginning of 2017, one of his supporting characters won an adaptation of his own: the LEGO: Batman, directed by Chris McKay. Even leaving the mix between animation and live action, the film was still consistent with the universe created by the first. The LEGO Batman keeps his personality dark and funny, and many details remain the same. Most importantly, the superhero movie jokes, with special LEGO Superhero participation, continue to please children who understand the more infantile jokes, and adults who have the baggage to understand older references, such as jokes about series of the bat man of 1960, interpreted by Adam West, among others.
And when it seemed that LEGO would continue with its successes in the cinematographic world, Ninjago appears. The film is the first production entirely based on an existing LEGO toy. The first few minutes of the movie promise to please: it begins with a photograph resembling old Kung Fu movies and Jackie Chan is introduced as one of the characters supporting the live action world. However, after this little introduction, everything becomes a mess when the animation begins.
For starters, photography and production settings resemble action films, which at first may seem like a good idea. However, these frames are used at all times, even when the story is not exciting, and can leave the viewer tired. The jokes of the film are also unoriginal and appeal only to children. Even the mix of live action and animation appears banal and without some reason. Thus, Ninjago belongs to a universe very different from the first LEGO films, which before seemed to have found a way to please everyone. It’s a shame that Jackie Chan has not been used in a more exciting way.
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A few months back, a maintenance worker was in an old building in a Jerusalem cemetery and spotted an abandoned package in the structure. Naturally, the person called the cops, the Jerusalem Post reports. But once they determined the package wasn’t a bomb, they were confronted with a greater mystery: what in the world was the golden thing inside?
Almost a foot long and weighing about 19 pounds, the wand had knobs on either end and rings around its bulbous center. For months, the Israel Antiquities Authority puzzled over it. Was it old? Was it new? What was it?
Finally, this week, the government agency threw the question to the masses of Facebook. And in short order, the object was identified as a gilded Isis beamer—a New Age tool that’s sold by a German company. It comes in sizes large and small, and is meant to “strengthen the body’s own energy field” and also harmonize radiation or other energy fields. According to the company that makes it, about 25,000 have been sold.
It may not be an ancient treasure, but it’s valuable to someone. A large one of these things retails for more than $400.
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Did you know that cyberattacks are becoming increasingly common in the business industry? Not only large-scale companies but small businesses are also becoming targets of cybercriminals. According to a recent report, it was revealed that around 58% of small businesses became the victims of malware attacks.
One of the main reasons for the majority of data breaches occurring in companies is human error. Some employees unknowingly respond to malicious emails or simply fall victim to cyberattacks. While employees are an organization’s biggest asset, they can also become vulnerable to cyberattacks.
The only way to reduce this vulnerability is to educate and train employees on cybersecurity. You can also consider deploying a reliable and professional cell phone spy app on their devices to monitor their activities. However, if you still think they can put your company’s data at risk, you need to make sure they are following top cybersecurity tips.
Top Cybersecurity Tips for Employees to Follow
Below, we have outlined some of the top cybersecurity tips that all employees should practice and follow persistently. Let’s take a look at them.
Create Strong and Complex Passwords
Your company’s sensitive data can be at huge risk if one of your employees has set a weak password. A weak password has the potential to compromise the entire company’s confidential data including the list of the company’s partners, clients, and suppliers.
That’s why employees are recommended to create strong and complex passwords so nobody can guess them. They should create passwords that are longer and contain uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters. Avoid setting up passwords that include their details such as the name of their pet, name of their school, home address, etc.
Enable Multifactor Authentication
Enabling multifactor authentication to all the accounts being used in the workplace is just like putting up more barriers in the place so that it becomes more difficult for cyber hackers to access your company’s data. This is the basic idea behind multifactor authentication or MFA.
When you enable MFA, you create an additional defense layer that makes it almost impossible for cybercriminals to target employees’ devices, networks, and even databases. Every company’s priority should be standardizing MFA across all the company’s platforms including employees’ devices and accounts.
Identify Phishing Scams
All employees should learn to identify phishing scams. Phishing is an online scam where cybercriminals send an email that appears to be from an authentic company asking users to provide private and sensitive information. In case an employee is deceived, he/she could grant the hacker access to the company’s sensitive information.
This is the reason why it is important to educate and train your employees to identify a phishing scam and how to stay away from one. The employees should not open suspicious links that they receive in an email, they should never share sensitive details with someone they do not know, they should never trust an email that comes from a suspicious domain name. Also, if the email contains spelling or grammatical mistakes, they should know it’s not legit.
Be Careful with Software Downloads
All employees should be extremely cautious of the software downloads. They might think that certain software is safe as long as it is being downloaded from a reliable site or is coming from a trusted brand. In reality, these software downloads can pose several security risks. The internet is laden with fake and hoax software that can inject malware or other sorts of dangerous viruses into your computer system.
To prevent the risk coming from software downloads, it is better to limit downloads as much as possible. If downloading certain software is necessary, make sure you run them through antivirus programs. By doing this, you can ensure your employees are following and practicing the basic cybersecurity tips in the workplace.
Stay Away from Public Wi-Fi Networks
Businesses work in different ways now. Gone are the days when employees only used to work in the workplace. Some employees need to work from home or some need to stay on the road. That can require them to conduct meetings in public places such as cafes, airports, and restaurants. All these places offer free public Wi-Fi networks but are they really safe?
The truth is, public Wi-Fi networks are not safe at all. Malicious malware or other harmful viruses can easily be transferred from one device to the other if they are connected to the same network. Similarly, it is easier for hackers to access your sensitive information if connected to a public Wi-Fi network. Therefore, employees are suggested to not connect their devices to a public Wi-Fi network when they are having a business meeting in a public place.
Install Employee Monitoring Solution
Last but not least, you should install a third-party phone spy app on your employee’s device as it would act as an employee monitoring solution. With the help of monitoring software, you can keep a close eye on your employees’ activities and see what they are up to during office hours.
In case, they are misbehaving with someone, spending leisure time browsing entertainment websites and social media sites, or watching movies during office time, you can instantly know and decide what to do with them. | <urn:uuid:7bf80181-b55a-48e7-8820-0b60f1869d23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wamtimes.com/cybersecurity-tips-that-all-employees-should-follow-in-the-workplace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958466 | 1,069 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Global campaign against malaria also creates opportunities for South African township communities
In the run-up to World Malaria Day on April 25, 2012, the South African division of the global partnership, United Against Malaria (UAM), intensified fundraising efforts to purchase life-saving mosquito nets and reduce malaria deaths to zero.
Malaria threatens half the world’s population and claims 655,000 lives each year. 90% of those are in Africa, where a child dies from malaria every minute. Yet, malaria can be effectively prevented and treated, and in the last decade alone, global malaria deaths have been reduced by 38%.
Ending malaria deaths requires both public and corporate support. In this spirit, prominent South African retailer Cape Union Mart joined UAM and Relate, a South African not-for-profit that creates and sells beaded cause bracelets, to sell 50,000 UAM bracelets by World Malaria Day on 25 April. The UAM bracelets will be displayed in all Cape Union Mart and Old Khaki stores, with store personnel undergoing training to help promote both their sale and their cause.
The income generated from bracelet sales will be used to buy more life-saving mosquito nets and to create further opportunities for the Relate beaders.
To date, Relate’s United Against Malaria supporter bracelets have:
- Sold more than 500,000 bracelets, raising close to $500,000
- Purchased approximately 30,000 nets, which means 60,000 to 90,000 children now sleep safely at night
- Created sustainable earning mechanism for approximately 250 people, who are often supporting up to five others
- Connected over 500,000 people worldwide to each other around a common cause.
Cape Union Mart is also sponsoring Kingsley Holgate, probably Africa’s best known modern-day explorer and humanitarian, to return to South Africa for World Malaria Day. Kingsley will take time out from his current year-long Great African Rift Valley Expedition to share his passion for malaria prevention and education. Starting with TV interviews on South African stations and continuing with in-store promotions, the public will have an opportunity to meet Kingsley hear his tales of African adventures and humanitarian interventions. South African singer and superstar Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who is also a UAM champion, will join the WMD events.
UAM joined forces with Relate in 2010 to help raise awareness and curb the spread of malaria. While beating malaria, the bracelets are also beating poverty. Social entrepreneur and Relate co-founder, Lauren Gillis, says Relate bracelets “do more than act as a fundraising tool… they also create a connection with the frail hands of a vulnerable senior, or the eager hands of an unemployed young person who proudly created the bracelet. In the process they were also upskilled and received earnings.”
They developed a signature UAM supporters’ bracelet, which has become a globally recognised symbol of winning the fight against malaria.
Share your support for World Malaria Day by following United Against Malaria, Relate and Cape Union Mart on Facebook, and sharing news via Twitter by following @UAMalaria, @RelateBracelets and @CapeUnionMart .
About United Against Malaria
United Against Malaria is a partnership of football teams and heroes, celebrities, health and advocacy organisations, governments, corporations and individuals that aim to win the fight against malaria. Founding partners include Comic Relief, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Malaria No More, ONE, PATH, PSI (Population Services International), the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, the United Nations Foundation and the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria. www.UnitedAgainstMalaria.org
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Prime rents have fallen in the South West by almost 7 per cent in the last 12 months while 70 per cent of towns and cities in the South West have a retail vacancy rate of between 10 and 20 per cent.
These are among the findings of this year’s Midsummer Retail Report from global real estate advisor Colliers International, which tracks trends in the UK’s retail property sector.
The research says that with ongoing political and economic uncertainty and a change in business rate policy looking unlikely in the short term, increasing vacancy rates and falling rents look set to continue to be a feature of the retail environment in 2020.
It says that caution among landlords and developers means there has been very little new retail development so far this year. The major regional project ongoing in the sector is the 100,000 sq ft leisure extension to Drake Circus in Plymouth, which is set to open this autumn.
Hal Clarke, Associate Director in the Retail Agency team at Colliers International in the South West and Wales, said Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham and Exeter had all experienced rental decline in the last 12 months.
“Last year, we reported a -1.4 per cent fall in rents throughout the South West and this decline has accelerated in 2019 with a 6.9 per cent drop being recorded in the region, only slightly below the national average of 7.01 per cent,” he said.
“Due to the spate of CVAs and administrations, occupancy levels have been placed under severe pressure and the simple supply versus demand balance has resulted in rents falling.
“The retail warehousing market depicts a slightly more mixed picture. The top retail parks in the region are still popular with occupiers and have even recorded incremental rental growth in some instances this year. However at the other end of the spectrum, the gap is widening and parks that have struggled to maintain occupancy levels historically have poor prospects and may need to be repurposed sooner rather than later.”
Colliers International’s Midsummer Retail Report 2019 also highlights:
- the end of the “Golden Age” of online retailing – retailers are looking to reshape unsustainable business models amid concern about the environmental impact of delivering purchases made on the web – therefore a growing number of retailers are increasing their reliance on physical shops
- “shopping with a conscience” – landlords are increasingly exploring how to integrate “shopping with a cause” into their environments which resonates with trends in society
- the fact that many shops will never be shops again – Colliers International is involved in repurposing parts of shopping centres and large stores such as Debenhams and BHS for new uses, primarily residential, hotels and leisure
- Prime Zone A retail rents have fallen 5.26 per cent in central London in the last 12 months, the smallest drop of any region, compared to 12.85 per cent in Wales, the largest
Hal Clarke says: “Retail repurposing has begun in many towns and cities throughout the region as landlords come to terms with the hard truth that for some assets, there is no viable retail future.
“However, a buoyant gym market and the potential for further residential, student and hotel accommodation in many large towns and cities mean that this should be viewed as much as an opportunity as a problem. Looking ahead to 2020, it is essential that landlords are open minded to alternative uses if they are to extract value from their assets.”
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