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We’re driving more than we were able to do last year. Gas prices are creeping upward and thoughts return to saving fuel. I received an email advertising a gizmo that claims to make a revolutionary change in the way my car operates. Or rather someone else’s car. My 1991 Chevy is absolutely set in its habits. Plugged into the OBD port of a modern car, which is its electronic information window, the device promises to alter the fuel injection characteristics going to the engine. Great gasoline savings await the lucky user. Price as advertised was $40, but I saw identical devices online for as little as 5 bucks. Shouldn’t we be skeptical immediately? Car manufacturers are under government pressure to produce highly fuel-efficient cars with minimal emissions. Did you notice that on a new vehicle, the original set of tires is rarely as good as the second set you pick yourself? That’s because manufacturers choose low rolling resistance for fuel economy, while most of us prefer improved road grip.
A real lab test, seen on YouTube, quickly exposes that electronic miracle device as a gimmick. The one sent to the tester made a flashing display of LED lights when connected to a car computer. But its microchip wasn’t even wired to the port where it could communicate with the car. I find this comforting because the last thing I’d want is a car doing things its own way and interfering with driver control. But if it’s just $5, the busy light show may be useful for impressing a naive passenger.
Saving gas is possible. Even the methods Grandpa used in his 1965 Plymouth Barracuda are still good. Tire pressure is the most important. Check the little sticker inside the door frame, buy a good tire gauge and maybe even a home air compressor. The compressor will quickly turn out to be useful for a lot of other tasks, too. The gas savings from proper air pressure (it changes with the weather!) are supplemented by a clean air filter. That’s the one in a black enclosure somewhere on top of the engine. Spending $50 on a washable, re-usable one saves having to buy a new one every time. Finally, instead of trying to let an electronic gizmo demonstrate how to use the gas pedal more gently, one can learn this without any help as well. It’s money in the bank.
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You might have come across vegetable-tanned leather or chrome leather before, but did you know about latigo? This type of leather is made using both tanning methods and shares the characteristics of both. Let’s see how it’s made, what kind of products it’s used for and why you might consider latigo products for your next purchase.
What Is Latigo Leather?
Latigo is the Spanish word for “whip”. This material is made from a combination of tanning processes. Coming from the best of two worlds, it’s offers great durability while also being supple.
How Latigo Leather is Made
Latigo leather is most commonly made from cowhide. It is first chrome tanned, which involves soaking the hide in a solution of acidic salts and then drying it before further processing. Next it is vegetable tanned by soaking it in a series of vats with progressively higher concentrations of tanning solutions. After completing the tanning process, the hides are tumbled in large drums to absorb various oils and waxes. This makes them more pliable and supple, while retaining their strength.
This combination tanning process makes it unique among types of leather.
Latigo leather is both durable and pliable, making it suitable for rigorous activities and applications with rough usage. It is resistant to moisture and sweat, due to the high amounts of oil it is infused with during manufacture. As a result of this oil infusion, and the process of partial chrome tanning and partial vegetable tanning, latigo is more rigid than full chrome-tanned leather but less rigid than vegetable tanned leather. Due to the heavier weight and tanning process, latigo is more costly than most other cow leathers. It is not stretchy and goes from rigid to supple and soft in a short time.
Traditionally, latigo has been manufactured in burgundy color, but it is also available in black, shades of brown and red, as well as lighter colors. It ages well and develops a beautiful patina with time.
Products Latigo Leather Is Commonly Used For
Due to its qualities of strength, flexibility and durability, and ability to withstand moisture, latigo leather is used for products like riding tack, straps, belts, pet collars, leashes and cinches. It can also be used for boots and bags.
Advantages of Latigo Leather
The great strength and flexibility of latigo is derived from the tanning process and the absorption of oils during the finishing process. While heavier than other leathers, it is also more moisture resistant, resilient and gets softer with use.
Disadvantages of Latigo Leather
Once it is tanned and oiled, latigo is not suitable for stamping, tooling or patterning because the surface is too springy. It is also more expensive due to the more-involved tanning process, which requires more steps.
How to Care for Latigo Leather
Wet latigo leather can bleed color, leaving a mark on any skin or clothing it is in contact with. The best way to prevent this is to not let the leather get wet, and only use the latigo product after both the wearer’s skin and the product are dry. Alternatively, a water-resistant sealant can be used to prevent the bleeding upon contact with water. In addition, applying a small amount of conditioner containing beeswax will preserve the latigo leather’s surface and flexibility.
Latigo is similar to both vegetable-tanned leather and chrome-tanned leather, due to both processes being used in its manufacture. While-chrome tanned leather is also flexible and water resistant, it lacks the durability and strength of latigo. It cannot develop a patina like latigo can.
Vegetable-tanned leather is just as durable as latigo, and both leathers can develop patinas with time. Unlike latigo, vegetable-tanned leather is ideal for tool work and stamping. Both leathers are more costly than chrome-tanned leather due to the manufacturing process being more involved.
You should choose latigo for products requiring heavy use in in tough environments, such as dog collars and horse tack. Considering the limitations of the material for tooling, it is not suitable for some luxury items. In those cases, vegetable-tanned full-grain leather would be best.
Other Similar Leathers
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Outdoor Recreation is Worth $373 Billion to the GDP
A new government report shows that the outdoor recreation economy is 2 percent of the GDP—and growing.
In Washington, we know that outdoor recreation is a powerful economic driver. And a lot of that recreation is occurring on trails on public lands—72 percent of Washington residents use trails for their outdoor recreation. These trail users are buying gear, filling their gas tanks and grabbing a bite to eat in towns near trailheads.
The outdoor recreation economy contributed $373.7 billion to the GDP in 2016, according to a new report by Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. That means the outdoor recreation economy accounted for 2 percent of the GDP that year. Additionally, the outdoor recreation economy grew at 3.8 percent that year, while the overall economy grew 2.8 percent. This study supports the case for more investment in federal lands.
What's new? Why does it matter?
It is the first time the BEA has measured these numbers for the outdoor recreation economy. The study was prompted when President Obama signed the Outdoor Recreation Jobs and Economic Impact Act, directing the agency to measure the outdoor recreation economy like other industries.
The study is important, in part, because it showcases the value of outdoor recreation. It can help lawmakers and businesses make decisions to support that economy, such as funding the infrastructure to support public lands where people go to play. While previous reports have calculated the value of the outdoor recreation economy, this is the first such report by a federal agency—which means federal and local government can use it to help guide their decisions.
“Businesses need the right data to help them hire, invest and grow. The historical lack of detailed federal data regarding outdoor recreation activities has handicapped both the private and public sectors,” said U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
The BEA study shows that the outdoor recreation economy holds its own with other drivers of the economy. For example, mining and oil and gas extraction accounted for 1.4 percent of GDP in 2016 and has been declining in recent years.
The case for public lands funding
These new numbers strengthen the economic case for the value of properly funding and maintaining public lands. We hope this will renew investment in a chronically underfunded trail system.
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report describes how the Forest Service’s trail system, one of the primary ways people access federal lands, has an incredible backlog of trail maintenance needs. The GAO estimates the “trail maintenance backlog to be $314 million in fiscal year 2012, with an additional $210 million for annual maintenance, capital improvement, and operations.” National Parks face similar situations. Nationwide, the park service has 11.6 billion in deferred maintenance, including $398.9 million in Washington state.
WTA has long argued for appropriate investment in public lands. Jill Simmons, WTA's executive director, even testified before a U.S. Senate committee last year, advocating for proper funding.
The outdoor recreation economy is powerful part of the overall economy, and it is growing fast—faster than the economy as a whole. We hope this new study gives lawmakers the tools they need to make changes in how public lands are funded and to help the outdoor recreation economy continue to thrive.
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As Moses lifted up the bronze serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Man of Bronze be lifted up as a salve for an age of gritty, dark superhero flicks. Clark “Doc” Savage, Jr. is an unapologetically unironic pulp fiction superhero. Raised from birth to be the peak of human mental and physical achievement, Doc is a self-made supreme adventurer and ultimate male fantasy. He lives by his creed:
To go here and there, from one end of the world to the other, looking for excitement and adventure, striving to help those who needed help, punishing those who deserved it.
Despite all of their messianic symbolism, superheroes owe far more to Doc Savage than they do to Jesus Christ, Hercules, or Thor. Doc even has a Fortress of Solitude for goodness sake.
Creator Lester Dent summed up Doc in this way:
I took Sherlock Holmes with his deducing ability, Tarzan of the Apes with his towering physique and muscular ability, Craig Kennedy with his scientific knowledge, and Abraham Lincoln with his Christliness. Then I rolled ‘em all into one to get – Doc Savage.
When I say there is nothing ironic about Doc, I mean nothing. Unlike nearly every other superhero, Doc has no secret identity. There is no difference between his public persona and his inner man: he is bronze inside and out. He is so one-dimensional that reading his stories is as refreshing as it is amusing.
But it’s Doc’s friends and sidekicks – the Fabulous Five – that gives the story just enough dimension to avoid falling into flatland. Each of them is extremely gifted in one area of study, but still remain Doc’s lesser, even with their combined strengths:
Doc’s mental training had started with medicine and surgery. It had branched out to include all arts and sciences. Just as Doc could easily overpower the gorilla-like Monk in spite of his great strength, so did Doc know more about chemistry. And that applied to Renny, the engineer; Long Tom, the electrical wizard; Johnny, the geologist and archaeologist; and Ham, the lawyer.
Doc graciously allows his inferiors aid him on his investigations.
The first novel, Man of Bronze, is an origin story of sorts and has Doc uncovering the mystery of his father’s murder and battling savages in a forgotten Mayan Empire. The plot is standard adventure fare: lost kingdoms, fisticuffs, princesses, and shark fighting derring-do. Since I happen to quite enjoy standard adventure fare, this did not bother me in the least — not least because Man of Bronze was the trope maker in this regard.
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Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla and the City of Hoboken have announced the search for a qualified consultant to engage in an open public process for the design of the city’s newest resiliency park planned for 800 Monroe St.
“The city has taken an innovative approach to provide our residents with more quality open space that also serves the dual purpose of making our mile-square community more resilient to the effects of climate change,” said Mayor Bhalla. “I look forward to working with the community on creating a multi-faceted park for all residents to enjoy.”
The 1.43-acre property is envisioned as a world-class resiliency park and community space that will be integral to the neighborhood, mitigate rainfall flooding in western Hoboken, and connect the Green Circuit as detailed in the city’s Master Plan.
The selected consultant will work with the city, community stakeholders, and the public at large to create design alternatives for the site incorporating innovative active recreation, passive recreation, cultural amenities, landscapes, resiliency components, and urban design.
There will be multiple opportunities for public engagement and a project website for members of the public to stay informed throughout the design process. The park’s design will also complement the character of the existing neighborhood and the 7th & Jackson Resiliency Park, which the city opened in 2019, that can detain more than 470,000 gallons of stormwater runoff.
The city acquired the property, bounded by Monroe Street to the west, 8th Street to the south, Jackson Street to the east, and the residential building to the north, through a three-way land swap agreement with the Applied Parties earlier this fall.
Prior to the city’s execution of the agreement, the site was slated to be developed for multifamily residential use, and currently sits vacant.
The city opened its first resiliency park in 2017. The Southwest Resiliency Park manages nearly 200,000 gallons of storm water using underground detention and surface green infrastructure. Hoboken is currently designing a 1-acre expansion to Southwest Park, which will manage up to 600,000 gallons of storm water.
The city is currently constructing its largest resiliency park, the 6-acre Northwest Resiliency Park, which will manage 1 million gallons of stormwater in underground detention and up to 1 million gallons using surface green infrastructure.
Southwest and Northwest Parks are Rainfall Flood Mitigation projects identified in the Rebuild by Design Hudson River (“RBD-HR”) comprehensive water management strategy. The RBD-HR strategy includes hard infrastructure and soft landscape for coastal defense (Resist); policy recommendations, guidelines, and urban infrastructure to slow stormwater runoff (Delay); green and grey infrastructure improvements to allow for greater storage of excess rainwater (Store); and water pumps and alternative routes to support drainage (Discharge).
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By Lilly Bertone
Cannabis wasn’t always a taboo topic. Hemp, a variety of the cannabis sativa plant, has a rich history in the United States as a valuable and versatile crop. Hemp was booming as a “cash crop” because not only was it useful in a range of industries, but it was also very easy to grow.
The fiber from the plant had many uses, ranging from textiles and clothing to ship sails, rope, and paper. In fact, the Declaration of Independence was originally drafted on hemp paper!
Unfortunately, with the passing of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act that lumped all cannabis in the same group of regulated narcotics and the rise of inexpensive synthetic fibers in the 1950’s, hemp’s popularity took a sharp decline. It wasn’t until 2018 the United States removed hemp as a Schedule 1 substance.
Now, the plant is surging in popularity again for its many uses, especially the extraction of CBD for states that do not have any medical cannabis sales available.
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WEATHERWAX Family Tree and WEATHERWAX Genealogy Records
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2010 US Census data for WEATHERWAX
This surname is in the top 162,000 names in the US Census from 2010. (There must be at least 100 to make the list).
There are 1491 WEATHERWAX records listed in the 2010 US Census, and it is the Number 18511 ranked name. A WEATHERWAX makes up 0.51 of every 100k people in the population.
Other US Census data for WEATHERWAX
87.12% are White Alone (Non-Hispanic)
0.54% are Black Alone (Non-Hispanic Black or African American Alone)
3.69% are Hispanic or Latino origin
0.94% are Asian Alone (Non-Hispanic Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Alone)
4.56% are American Indian (Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native Alone)
3.15% Non-Hispanic Two or More Races
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A harrowing tale of survival on the shores of Isle Royale will be brought to the screen by local filmmaker Michelle Desrosier. During the winter of 1845-1846, Indigenous woman Angelique Mott and her husband were left for dead on a remote island off Isle Royale by copper miners. After her husband perished to hunger, Angelique managed to survive with small rations and survival prowess. Using James R. Stevens’ novella Angelique Abandoned, Desrosier is using the shores of Lake Superior to tell Angelique’s stunning story of persistence against natural, physical, and psychological odds.
Isle Royale is an island 72 km (45 mile) long, 14 km (9 mile) wide located in northwest Lake Superior, off the shores of Michigan. The Isle is the largest natural island in Lake Superior and surrounded by 450 smaller islands, which collectively make up Isle Royale National Park. Angelique and her husband were abandoned to the shore of one of these islands during the summer of 1845, and only Angelique managed to survive starvation and harsh natural elements until the spring of 1946. Angelique was only 17 when they were abandoned.
According to an article done by Emma Christensen at lakesuperiornews.com, Stevens first published his novella in 2009. After conducting interviews and research with Indigenous elders and artists, he wrote a fictionalized account of her story, basing it on accounts Angelique herself gave about her ordeal. The second edition of Angelique Abandoned features illustration by Cree Stevens, an Anishinabekwe (Ojibwe) and Cree artist located in Thunder Bay.
Desrosier adapted Angelique Abandoned into a screenplay. Her work won Best Screenplay at the 2015 Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards, and was awarded money from the inaugural CBC Breaking Barriers Film Fund. The film, titled Angelique’s Isle, is now in development by Thunderstone Pictures, co-produced by Circle Blue Films and supported by Telefilm Canada. A press release dated February 24th (retrieved from Lake Superior Art Gallery’s site) shows that the crew of Angelique’s Isle filmed winter scenes on the trails in and around Pumphouse Beach and Kevin’s Beach in Terrace Bay from March 1st-3rd. According to an article done by Christensen for The Walleye Magazine, filming will resume in Terrace Bay and at Fort William Historical Park this month.
As an Indigenous woman from Migisi Sahgaigan (Eagle Lake) First Nation, Desrosier felt particularly drawn to Angelique’s story and its parallels to issues Indigenous women face today. Desrosier tells Christensen that “There was something happening for me at the same time as listening, hearing and engaging in this process of murdered and missing Indigenous women. I also had this story of Angelique, and something was so compelling and it was holding on to me so strongly because I think she’s a reminder. She’s a reminder for me of how incredibly strong we are as women.”
The film is slated for a 2018 release date.
To find out more about Angelique’s Isle, visit Thunderstone Pictures.
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Finite element modeling
Using finite element modeling to study tissue deformations
The image above shows the impact of different dressings in protecting soft tissues from compression and shear at the end of Day 1 using FE modeling methodology. Mepilex® Border is the only dressing that can provide durable soft tissue protection from compression and shear throughout its wear time.
Used since the 1960s as a standardized engineering approach and recognized by the FDA in the field of medical devices, finite element (FE) modeling is a well-validated advanced computer simulation program that studies the impact of multiple forces on material stress and deformation. New literature supports FE modeling as a more clinically meaningful assessment of how a combination of extrinsic factors such as pressure, shear and friction together affect tissue deformations. This methodology is more clinically relevant than pressure distribution models that look at only one extrinsic factor in isolation, such as a steel ball on a hard surface.
- Used in pressure injury prevention to quantify internal strains and stresses in weight-bearing parts, including the heels and buttocks.
- Provides a realistic, anatomical representation of the human body with the ability to simulate the complex movement of multiple tissue layers, each with different strengths and flexibility.
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Babystep1: Your first boot sector
Your first boot sector.
The following code is the smallest possible example of booting code from a disk.
; boot.asm hang: jmp hang times 512-($-$$) db 0
The CPU starts in real mode and the BIOS loads this code at address 0000:7c00. "times 512-($-$$) db 0" is NASM's way of saying fill up 512 bytes with zeroes, and partcopy is going to expect that (200 in Hex = 512 in Decimal). Change it and partcopy will likely fail.
There is often a boot signature (0xAA55) at the end. Older versions of some BIOSes looked for this in order to identify a boot sector on a disk. It is evidently unnecessary nowadays, unless you're running the code on a legacy BIOS, or in QEMU. If it's needed, the last line would be replaced with (or some version of it):
; boot.asm hang: jmp hang times 510-($-$$) db 0 ; 2 bytes less now db 0x55 db 0xAA
Once you've booted, and the cursor is happily blinking on a blank screen, the disk's motor will turn off and you can now press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. This is because interrupts are still being generated.
Try clearing the interrupts flag:
;boot.asm cli hang: jmp hang times 510-($-$$) db 0 db 0x55 db 0xAA
You may notice that the motor doesn't turn off and you can't reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Removing the loop and merely padding out the sector with zeroes will usually cause the BIOS to throw an error on boot. On most machines, it will say "Operating System Not Found".
Creating disk image
The code is assembled in NASM and copied to floppy (outdated), disk or USB-sticks using partcopy, dd, or debug. Then you simply boot from that disk.
For a more detailed description, see the Bootable Disk page.
nasmw boot.asm -f bin -o boot.bin partcopy boot.bin 0 200 -f0 OR debug boot.bin -W 100 0 0 1 -Q
nasm boot.asm -f bin -o boot.bin dd if=boot.bin of=/dev/fd0
To write to a hard drive or USB-stick, use
nasm boot.asm -f bin -o boot.bin dd if=boot.bin of=/dev/sda
where replace "sda" with sdb, sdc etc. according to your configuration.
Running the binary in QEMU
If you don't have an old machine with floppy drive you can emulate one using QEMU (note "fda").
qemu-system-i386 -fda boot.bin
But it is advisable to forget about floppies altogether, and focus on USB-sticks instead. Also if you're afraid to test your code on your development machine (that would be wise), you can use QEMU (note "hda").
qemu-system-i386 -hda boot.bin
Use the QEMU monitor command to send Ctrl-Alt-Del to the VM:
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The process of buying LED signs, displays or lighting can be a complicated process. There are so many specifications, it can be very confusing when trying to compare one product to another. Here are some of the most common terms
- LED – An acronym that stands for Light Emitting Diode. Best described as a miniature light bulb smaller than the size of a dime. On average, these diodes have a life expectancy of 50,000 hours or 11.5 years of continuous use, thereby making them more economical than the standard incandescent light bulb.
- Candela – A unit of measurement of light intensity of light. An ordinary wax candle generates one candela. A typical LED bulb’s brightness is measured in millicandela or mcd, while a LED display’s brightness is measured in NIT.
- NIT – A measurement of luminance used primarily to indicate a LED display’s brightness. One NIT is equal to one candela per square meter (1cd/m2).
- Pixel – A single dot of light. A pixel can be composed of either a single LED or a cluster of LEDs. Pixel size can vary. A large pixel size will give you better fill with the electronic message center.
- Pitch – The distance from the center of a pixel to the center of the next pixel. Pitch influences the resolution of a LED display that shows images. A small pitch translate to higher resolution. A large pitch translates to larger text/character sizes.
- RGB – Red, Green, and Blue. These three colors combined can produce the full spectrum of color.
- Full Matrix – A full matrix display allows the user to combine the entire displayâs pixels to produce larger characters and graphics.
- NTSC – (National TV Standard Committee). A color TV standard that was developed in the U.S. Administered by the FCC, NTSC broadcasts 30 interlaced frames per second, which is 60 half frames per second. The NTSC signal is a composite of red, green and blue.
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9 Benefits of Taking Initiative
Initiative means action. Get yourself geared up and sit on your motorcycle. You and your bike look fantastic, you’re both ready to go and it looks like you mean business. But now you need initiative to move off. Put the key in the ignition, turn it on and hit the starter. While looking in the direction you want to go, shift into gear, release the clutch and apply the throttle. Off you go.
It’s the same in life. Initiative means taking just one step at a time. You have the power to do that. And that’s all you ever need to take. They don’t have to be big steps, just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
9 Benefits of Taking Initiative
- Control. While you can’t control everything that happens around you or to you, you can control how you respond. Better to be in a position where you’re free to make choices that align with your values and goals, rather than having decisions imposed on you.
- Achievement. As Roxie Malone said in “Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment, “You can sit back and let life go by, or you can get on it!”. Taking that step is the first step towards getting things done and reaching your goals.
- Confidence. Small successes set the stage for larger ones. Take note of your accomplishments. Success creates momentum and builds on itself.
- Proactivity. Recognizing potential danger and then taking action to avert it nips problems in the bud. You may have been down a road before and have knowledge about a hazard no one else is aware of. Speak up so others will have what they need to make an informed decision.
- Inspiration. You serve as a role model to others. Often, it just takes one person having the courage to take that step towards their goal, and others will do the same. Think of the possibilities if everyone was listening to their inner guide and marching towards their goals. Even if the steps are small, the potential for positive change is enormous.
- Self-Awareness. Taking initiative is taking a risk. But it’s the only way you’re going to learn about yourself and your personal power. Once you start discovering your capabilities, you’ll want to keep going.
- Creativity. Initiative creates opportunities and allows you to fuel your passion. Although you share the Road with others, no one else walks your steps. It’s up to you to recognize your gifts and share them with others.
- Mistakes. If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not stretching and growing. One of the reasons it’s wise for new riders to purchase used the first time is that they’re going to damage it or they’re going to choose something they’re not happy with. While you want to be making informed choices and not risking safety, you gather the best information available to make your decision. Mistakes are one of the greatest teaching tools.
- Fear Busting. You feel vulnerable when you take a step into the unknown. The greatest role of fear is to alert you to potential danger. The greatest trap is that you allow fear to prevent you from moving forward. Most fears are irrational and crop up when you’re trying something new and your ego is threatened by change. Take note of any real danger, acknowledge the irrational fear that is trying to protect you, thank it, park it and move on.
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As we enter December, most of us begin thinking about giving gifts to those we love. Although retail stores have bombarded us with holiday decorations since October, once December rolls around it’s time to get serious. Many of my clients consider gifts of cash to their adult children taking advantage of the annual exclusion allowed by the IRS. Once they reach a certain age, they begin to realize they are not likely to outlive their money and want to experience the joy of giving prior to death. Sometimes, the gifting is to grandchildren entering graduate school, or buying their first home. Other times, and adult child might be entering a different phase of life, such as new career, or starting a business. Regardless of the reason, cash gifting is a frequent topic of conversation with clients as we head into year’s end.
This article will address some of the common questions I get concerning cash gifting to adult children or grandchildren.
The IRS sets a limit called the annual exclusion amount that lets you gift a certain amount without having to worry about filing a gift tax return. For 2019 that amount is $15,000 per gift, to as many people as you like. So, you could give your two children $15,000 each, and your two grandchildren $15,000 each, for a total gift of $60,000 and no return would be due.
If you go over that amount, per person, then you would need to file a gift tax return. For example, say you give your granddaughter $5000 for a wedding gift, and then give her $15,000 when you make the annual gift. You have exceeded the $15,000 limit to her, so you would need to file a gift tax return for the $5000 in excess of the limit. However, unless you have exceeded your maximum lifetime gift amount of $11.4 million, you won’t pay a gift tax.
Yes, using the example above, you and your spouse could each gift $60,000 to the children and grandchildren. The gift tax exclusion is for each person, not a couple, and everyone has their own lifetime limit of $11.4 million before they have to pay a gift tax.
Although you would think the IRS and Medicaid would be on the same page, unfortunately, no. Any gifts made, without full consideration (getting something of equal value in return), is considered a penalizing gift under Medicaid rules, with a few exceptions.
No, only gifts made “with the intent to qualify for Medicaid” are penalized. If you give a child money to pay for medical expenses, or to help with a down payment on a home, only to get a diagnosis of dementia a few years later, it is easy to document that the gift was not made with an intent to qualify for Medicaid at the time of the gift. Some gifts, however, are allowable under Medicaid rules. For example, you can gift to your spouse or to a blind or disabled child without penalty. Regardless, its still a good idea to seek legal counsel if you are considering gifting and have a concern about Medicaid entering the picture within 5 years.
The VA also has a look back period for gifting. While Medicaid looks back 5 years for any penalizing transfers, the VA looks back 3. Unlike Medicaid, the VA only penalizes you if your gift would have reduced your assets to below the asset limit. For example, the VA asset limit is currently $127, 061. If you have $125,000 in assets and gift $30,000, under VA rules there is no penalty because you were already below the asset limit. Not so with Medicaid, and the $30,000 gift would still be a penalizing gift under the rules.
Ah, this one I get a lot. I advise my clients that if they want to gift but have worries, to consider gifting into an asset protection trust. This type of trust, properly drafted, would allow the assets to be gifted, but maintained during the lifetime of the giver (the grantor), with limitations on who can take withdraws prior to the death. Again, if considering gifting using an asset protection trust, seek out your elder law attorney to find out if this would work for you, and if you are comfortable giving up control of a portion of your assets while you’re alive.
No, your children won’t pay inheritance taxes, but if your estate exceeds the federal estate tax limit of $11.4 million, there will be an estate tax return to file. Any taxes due would be paid from your estate before distributions are made to your beneficiaries.
If you are considering making cash gifts to your family, it may be a good time to sit down with your elder law attorney and discuss options. Better to know now how gifting could affect you in the future should you need long term care and want to qualify for a state or federal benefit.
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The language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department (ED), according to a new study published in Nature Scientific Reports.
A team of researchers in part led by H. Andrew Schwartz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, along with Sharath Chandra Guntuku, PhD, a research scientist in Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health, compared patients’ Facebook posts to their medical records, which showed that a shift to more formal language and/or descriptions of physical pain, among other changes, reliably preceded hospital visits. The study provides more evidence that social media is often an unseen signal of medical distress and could be used to better understand the contexts in which patients seek care, such as during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
The study’s researchers recruited 2,915 patients at an urban hospital who consented to sharing their Facebook posts and electronic health records (EHRs). Of those patients, 419 had a recent emergency department (ED) visit, ranging from chest pain to pregnancy-related issues. Posts from as early as two-and-a-half months before the date of the patients’ ED visit were analyzed using a machine learning model that processed their language to find changes over time.
As patients got closer to their eventual ED visit, the researchers found that Facebook posts increasingly discussed family and health more. They also used more anxious, worrisome, and depressed language and less informal language such as “lol” “?” or swearing.
“The decrease in informal language seems to go hand-in-hand with an increase in anxiety-related language,” said Schwartz, who collaborated with the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health, part of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “While it is hard to say right now if this would be the same result across multiple social media platforms, people live a lot of their lives online and Facebook is that dominant platform right now.”
“The better we understand the context in which people are seeking care, the better they can be attended to,” said lead author Guntuku. “While this research is in a very early stage, it could potentially be used to both identify at-risk patients for immediate follow-up or facilitate more proactive messaging for patients reporting doubts about what to do before a specific procedure.” Guntuku and Schwartz designed and conducted the analyses along with Stony Brook University graduate student, Adarsh Kashyap, MS CS.
Ultimately, it was found that most patients underwent a significant change in language before they went to the ED. Before their visit, patients were less likely to post about leisure (not using words like “play,” “fun,” and “nap”) or use internet slang and informal language (such as using “u” instead of “you”).
When the researchers looked more closely at the context of some posts, they noticed there might be some clues to patients’ health behaviors related directly to their hospital visit. One post, for example, talked about the patient eating a cheeseburger and fries less than a month before they were admitted for chest pain related to having heart failure. Another patient confirmed that they were following directions from their care team, posting about fasting 24 hours before they had a scheduled surgery.
“How does life affect personal decisions to seek care? How does care affect life? These are the things I would hope that we could fully describe, how people’s everyday lives intermix with health care,” Schwartz added.
The study primarily looked at the change in language before a hospital visit, but a previous study involving Schwartz and the paper’s senior author, Raina Merchant, MD, the director of the Center for Digital Health, showed that a person’s depression could be predicted through the language of Facebook posts as far ahead as three months before official diagnosis.
Guntuku said that there is tremendous potential in user generated content (on Facebook, Twitter, and now on smartphones) to study the behaviors and mental states that lead to a healthcare visit. “Any research in this domain must give patient privacy and agency utmost priority and transparency about where, how and by whom these digital markers are being used to understand health is critical,” he added.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to bring up Donald Trump’s College problems, but the Clintons have their own College problems.
We covered a part of her lies in a previous article.
In a prior article, we showed just how much Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed to love Saul Alinsky’s ideas.
Briefly stated, Saul Alinsky did this, as noted by DiscoverTheNetworks.
Identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power Created a blueprint for revolution under the banner of “social change” Two of his most notable modern-day disciples are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of infiltration — coupled with a measure of confrontation — that have been central to revolutionary political movements in the United States in recent decades. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left.
In 1946 Alinsky wrote Reveille for Radicals, his first major book about the principles and tactics of “community organizing,” otherwise known as agitating for revolution. Twenty-five years later he authored Rules for Radicals, which expanded upon his earlier work. His writings, and the tactics outlined therein, have had a profound influence on all “social change” and “social justice” movements of recent decades.
Alinksy’s objective, which he clearly stated in Rules for Radicals, was to “present an arrangement of certain facts and general concepts of change, a step toward a science of revolution.”The Prince, he elaborated, “was written by Macchiavelli for the Haves on how to hold onto power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”
If radicals were to be in the vanguard of the movement to transfer power from the Haves to the Have-Nots, Alinsky’s first order of business was to define precisely what a radical was. He approached this task by first distinguishing between liberals and radicals. Alinsky had no patience for those he called the liberals of his day — people who were content to talk about the changes they wanted, but were unwilling to actively work for those changes. Rather, he favored “radicals” who were prepared to take bold, decisive action designed to transform society, even if that transformation could be achieved only slowly and incrementally. Wrote Alinsky:
“Liberals fear power or its application.… They talk glibly of people lifting themselves by their own bootstraps but fail to realize that nothing can be lifted except through power…. Radicals precipitate the social crisis by action — by using power…. Liberals protest; radicals rebel. Liberals become indignant; radicals become fighting mad and go into action. Liberals do not modify their personal lives[,] and what they give to a cause is a small part of their lives; radicals give themselves to the cause. Liberals give and take oral arguments; radicals give and take the hard, dirty, bitter way of life.”
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books), March 1972 edition, p. xxii. (Original publication was in 1971.)
Ibid., p.3.
J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958), p. 213.
Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books), 1989, p. 90. (Original publication was in 1946.)
Ibid., p.91.
Ibid., pp. 16-17.
Ibid., p. 26.
Ibid., p. 25.
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, p. 7.
Ibid., p. 3.
Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, pp. 21-22.
If you want to learn the deep connections between Hillary Clinton and Saul Alinsky, go here.
Given this brief description of Saul Alinsky, we now can move on to Hillary Clinton’s lies and understand why she believes in deception. If we take a look at Saul Alinsky’s ideas, they are very similar to those of Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton supports Alinsky’s 8-point plan, as does President Barack Obama. This ideology/program is shown below; once you read it, you will understand why Hillary lies.
“There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a ‘social’ state. The first is most important.
1) Healthcare – Control Healthcare and you control the people.”
This first level is seen today, and that, in and of itself, is scary, but Hillary Clinton wants just what is stated above.
“2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.”
This can also be seen today, as Obama has increased the poverty levels to numbers never seen before, Hillary wants to add to this already bad situation.
“3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.”
Today, this is clearly going on, and Hillary Clinton has already announced that she will raise taxes. That is part of her idol’s plan. and Clinton is making it part of the Democratic platform.
“4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.”
Here, we can see that Hillary’s plans are now exposed, and she has stated she wants Australian-style gun control, which is exactly what Saul Alinsky calls for. This is the one part of this 8-part plan that will be extremely hard to do unless people stay asleep and don’t wake up.
“5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives, (Food, Housing, and Income).”
This is strangely close to becoming a reality, since most of the Democratic voters are poor people being kept poor by the very people that beg them to vote for them.
“6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to-take control of what Children learn in school.”
Hillary Clinton stated, “I believe the primary role of the state is to teach, train, and raise the children. Parents have a secondary role.” In her book, It Takes a Village.
This is so very scary because Hillary Rodham Clinton takes Saul Alinsky at his word and makes a statement out of his plan. This is NOT what we want for our children.
“7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.”
This has, in fact, already happened under Obama and his ideology of the same vein. Under Hillary Clinton, religion may well be outlawed, since she supports what has already happened to religion in our nation. Even when Clinton “plays” to the religious of our nation, she supports the Alinsky approach when it comes to religion.
“8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.”
Hillary Clinton is working hard on this dividing the people, especially with her latest remark about the Trump supporters. Clinton also plays the very people she keeps poor, making them believe that she will help them when, in fact, she is doing all she can to make sure they stay poor. Take a look at the 8 principles of the Saul Alinsky plan and then look at Hillary Clinton’s ideas and you will quickly see the similarity of her ideas to these principles of destroying the United States and the Freedom we all cherish and love.
Hillary Clinton has lied in some form or another since her days with the Nixon impeachment hearings. We cannot show all of her lies, but we have shown what and why she lies, because if she told the truth about her real plans, no one would vote for her just to become poor and with no hopes of ever becoming well-off or even free. Hilary Clinton wants all those people she looks down upon to be her slaves. That is just what the Alinsky theory is all about, and it is very close to becoming real if WE THE PEOPLE give her the election. The Republicans freed slaves, but the Democrats want a different type of slavery today and it is no better than the first.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a LIAR and she never speaks the truth.
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If you’ve ever felt unsteady or anxious, you’ve probably wondered if there’s a way to ease those feelings. Perhaps you’ve Googled “how to calm your mind” or “how to relax” in the hopes of finding relief.
Or maybe you’ve experienced such a severe bout of anxiety that you’ve wondered if there was a way to prevent it from ever happening again. The answer, of course, is yes.
How Yoga can make you Feel Better Mentally?
Yoga can help ease anxiousness, which makes sense considering it involves breathing and physical poses that help you focus.
Helps Clear your Mind
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TOKYO :Urgent steps will be taken to ease pain caused by the surging cost of living in Japan, and to help the economy recover from the ill-effects of COVID, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said as he presented a supplementary budget to parliament.
Lawmakers began debating on Wednesday the proposed extra budget - worth 2.7 trillion yen ($21 billion) - to help households and small firms cope with high energy and food prices.
The government plans to spend 1.17 trillion yen of it on mitigating the effect of rising global oil prices. This will include subsidising gasoline wholesalers.
"Uncertainty about the outlook is rising, mainly because Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destabilised crude oil and commodity prices," Suzuki told the lower house of parliament.
"That could hamper the pace of economic recovery from the coronavirus."
The supplementary budget also includes 1.52 trillion yen for budget reserves that the government will be able to spend later as necessary.
Suzuki said he would encourage firms to smoothly pass on rising costs and raise wages to generate a virtuous cycle of growth that will help to ensure Japan's economy recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
The extra budget will be funded by bond sales, which could further strain a public debt that is already more than twice as large as annual economic output.
To prevent the huge debt from becoming unmanageable, Suzuki's fiscal advisory panel urged the government to stick to its aim of achieving a primary budget surplus, which excludes new bond sales and debt servicing, by the end of fiscal year in March 2026.
"As a trade deficit may take hold from now on, market confidence in the yen and the fiscal situation will be called into question more than ever," the panel said in its fiscal reform recommendations.
"If the primary balance target takes a step backward, the risk is large for Japan to lose market trust."
The finance ministry wants the government to include the balanced budget target in its mid-year policy roadmap, but there are divisions over the plan within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
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China and the U.S. made progress toward a much-anticipated trade deal in their latest meetings and will keep talking on the remaining issues, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
High-level U.S. and Chinese officials met in Washington over the past few days, hard on the heels of discussions in Beijing the previous week. Future talks will be conducted in “various ways,” Xinhua reported on Saturday, without providing details.
Chinese negotiators, led by Vice Premier Liu He, and their U.S. counterparts wrapped up the latest set of talks on Friday. They discussed the text of an agreement regarding technology transfers, intellectual property protections, non-tariff measures, services, agriculture, trade balance and enforcement, Xinhua said.
Xinhua said in a separate commentary on Friday that “the remaining issues are all hard nuts to crack.”
Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, said on Friday that negotiators plan to “be in touch” by phone next week. “There is no letup,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg TV.
The White House released a statement Friday evening saying that while progress had been made, “significant work remains, and the principals, deputy ministers, and delegation members will be in continuous contact to resolve outstanding issues.”
Trump, speaking to reporters on Friday, hailed the latest round of talks as a “big success” but said he didn’t want to predict whether a deal would be reached.
The president said before meeting Liu on Thursday in the Oval Office that the U.S. and China were close to an agreement, with an announcement possible in the next four to six weeks.
A month ago, Trump was touting the idea of a “signing summit” with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which aides suggested at the time could take place at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Now, there are no assurances. “If we have a deal, then we’ll have a summit,” the president said on Thursday.
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by Christian-Uwe Rogers-Neu, Track and Trace Expert, Movilitas
Vehicles are a feat of modern engineering and there are a lot of parts that go into building each one from the engine to tiny microchips. How do you go about tracking them?
Let’s start with the vehicle identification number (VIN) that was created in the 1950s to identify every automobile. This digit sequence is unique to each vehicle and provides quite a bit of information. This data helps businesses and owners in various ways from recall notices to repairs.
Source: Decode the VIN
However, there can be a lack of integration from the parts to the complete car to the eventual owner. These gaps make it difficult to track each component which reduces efficiency and profitability throughout the supply chain and product lifecycle. By adding a track and trace solution to the mix, you can achieve end-to-end traceability.
Capturing Data Inside and Outside of the Four Walls
An integrated MES and track and trace solution can support quality assurance across the automotive assembly process. The product history is captured at each stage as it moves through the line and finishing. For example, the tires are delivered from the supplier and installed on the car frame before its sent for finishing and a quality check. While it is traveling across the plant, we capture the multiple events, such as
- when it reached tire installation
- how long it took to finish
- where it is currently located, and
- when it arrived at the last stage before rolling off the line
Knowing precisely where each part is located inside the plant allows you to plan the assembly process more efficiently and identify improvement areas. Many of these factories use just-in-time and just-in-sequence practices to complete the work. Each serialized part that ends up in the car’s assembly is tightly bound to the VIN that allows us to check on certain parts and create multi-level hierarchies of components and subassemblies.
These multi-level hierarchies allow you to instantly trace back each piece and break up assemblies down to their camshaft or sparkplugs. This information allows you to know the status of each part at any time. This creates 100% transparency even across multiple plants in different countries that deliver various components for the same VIN.
A Modern Traceability Use Case: Battery Recall
Now, let’s assume we have a product recall claim. Because every part is uniquely identifiable, we can easily locate the affected component and dig even deeper to answer the questions such as:
- Which supplier did it come from?
- Where and when was it assembled?
- What parameters were used to assemble it (ex: torque values)?
We can now access the product history and quality reports. The detailed data and pictures provide clues to why the part failed. Furthermore, we can tell that only this part in this specific assembly in this specific car needs to be recalled.
A tailored approach protects your brand and checkbook from the effects of a broader notice issued by you and/or the government.
Battery Recall Case, Source: Movilitas
- The supply chain supervisor reviews the product genealogy of a specific battery and finds a quality issue
- Leveraging SAP Corporate Serialization with the MES (in this example, SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud (SAP DMC)), the supervisor can quickly identify the parts affected
- Additionally, track and trace data allows you to see the affected customer(s) and starts the notification process
The Importance of Traceability
These scenarios are real use cases from a leading automotive manufacturers. SAP Corporate Serialization enables these companies to track its uniquely identified objects, such as products and parts across the supply chain.
There are benefits to taking an integrated approach to traceability in discrete manufacturing. The seamless data capture between the MES, a track and trace solution, your ERP and other systems help:
- Reduce the risk of recalls and makes them easier
- Protects consumers from damaged or counterfeit products
- Improves inventory management
- Safeguards your brand
- Support lean manufacturing efforts (continuous improvement, value mapping, etc.)
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Germany to retain uniform power price zone
The German power market will not be split into two separate price zones, Germany’s council of federal state governments, the Bundesrat, has said in a press release. The council greenlighted a legal ordinance by the acting federal government that prevents a split between a northern German zone with lower power prices and a southern zone with higher power prices, the press release says. The amendment aims to ensure grid operators cannot split the country into several bidding zones or to introduce bottleneck management in grid-overload situations. Electricity is cheaper in northern Germany due to high volumes of wind power that cannot be transported to industrial centres in the south because of lack of transmission lines.
Find the Bundesrat’s resolution in German here.
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In this article, we are gonna learn about the use of toilet brushes. How can you keep your toilet brushes clean, and why are they dangerous?
The debate of “do you really need a toilet brush, has a mixed conclusion. Sometimes you will find them highly beneficial.
However, many experts believe that toilet brushes are not hygienic ways of cleaning your toilet.
For a final decision, have to consider some uses and dangerous effects of toilet brushes.
Do You Really Need a Toilet Brush?
We will talk about the usage of toilet brush, which one will give you a clear idea if really do we need it or not.
Uses of Toilet Brushes:
A typical toilet brush has a rounded shape, a hard bristle end, and a long handle. Firstly toilet brushes were made of wood and horse hairs and badgers. But nowadays, plastic is all around, and now you will find toilet brushes in plastic form.
For storage, you can use a holder or put it into a hidden tube for a more hygienic environment. Here are some uses of toilet brushes.
- With a toilet brush, you can clean the inside of your toilet. For complete cleaning of the toilet bowl, you can use a toilet cleaner or bleach with a toilet brush.
- You can clean the upper area of the toilet and area and the area around the bowl.
- Toilet brushes do proper scrubbing of your toilet bowl.
- They are used for removing any side mark from your loo.
- They can be used for the proper cleaning of your toilet bowl with any cleaner.
How to Clean a Toilet Brush?
According to hygiene expert Stephanie C by Expert Home Tips, it is hygienic to clean your toilet brush after every use. The reason is when you keep a dirty brush, the germ multiplication increases in its bristle. Here is the proper method for how to clean a toilet brush.
- Firstly, take a bucket and add boiling water to it.
- Now add a little quantity of bleach to hot water.
- Wear your hand rubber gloves.
- If you are doing procedures in any close area, try to open any window. The reason is in a close area; you can get eye irritation problems.
- Now put the toilet brush in the bucket and shae it slowly.
- After shaking, leave the brush in the bucket for about one hour.
- After one hour, take it out and wash it out with clean water.
- For cleaning the holder, use any disinfectant spray, wash the holder with hot water and rinse it off.
- After the cleaning of the holder, now store your toilet brush in the holder.
Why are Toilet Brushes Dangerous?
Many experts believed that toilet brushes are filthy, unhygienic, and messy. The reason for this belief has its own logic. For instance, you clean your toilet bowl with a toilet brush; you scrub your toilet brush again with all the residual stools.
On the other hand, you know your toilet brush bristles are made of plastic and in a round shape. In this way, there is a great chance that bacteria or any other harmful microorganism transfers to the bristles of your brush.
After that, when you store your toilet brush in the holder in wet condition, you provide a perfect environment for organisms to grow. So the bacteria go farther and spread all around, which is totally messy for a place used to get yourself hygienic.
Are there any other ways to clean a toilet bowl without a toilet brush?
Experts who believe that toilet brushes are unhygienic offer different methods to clean your toilet bowl without a toilet brush. There are two other methods for this.
- The first method is to wear your hand gloves and stick them into the bowl.
- The other method is to empty a can of cola all around your toilet bowl. Now leave it overnight, and flush it out in the morning.
This review offers a complete guide to whether you really need toilet brushes and some dangerous side of toilet brush uses. In conclusion, we can conclude things with the final words that toilet brushes are quick to clean your toilet bowl.
However, if you will not take care of your toilet brushes’ proper cleaning, then there is nothing filthy and messy other than a toilet brush. So it is necessary to clean and replace your toilet brush regularly for hygienic use them.
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It is no secret that the last 2 years have been incredibly challenging for families everywhere. As medical and mental health professionals in the field of child welfare, we are seeing an increasingly acute mental health crisis across the country, with young people being particularly affected. As we search for solutions for this crisis, we must also urgently identify its root causes.
Just this spring, the CDC released new data on U.S. adolescents that included many alarming findings about youth mental health and the scenarios that cause heightened anxiety for many children. According to the study, more than half of participating youth (55%) reported experiencing emotional abuse by a parent or other adult in the home, including being sworn at, insulted, or put down. Prior to the pandemic, self-reported rates of psychological maltreatment by a caregiver were still too high, but were much, much lower than what was reported this year (about 10% to 30% lifetime exposure).
While many professionals have pointed out that overall rates of child maltreatment declined during the pandemic, we suspect this is actually due to reduced opportunity for abuse to be observed and reported by doctors, teachers, third-party caregivers, and other mandated reporters. The CDC self-report data clearly tells a different story. This contrast highlights the importance of multiple perspectives when establishing prevalence rates of abuse and neglect.
These new data can be understood in the context of the increased stressors on parents and families that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The unprecedented exploding mental health crisis in the U.S. includes mental health crises among adolescents as well increased stressors for parents, teachers, and other caregivers.
Even before the global health crisis created by COVID-19, one of the risk factors for psychological maltreatment of children was parental and familial stress; these pressures tend to reduce patience, sensitive caregiving, and effective discipline strategies among caregivers. Needless to say, the pandemic has played a significant role in increasing parental stress in a number of ways, inducing intense fear of becoming ill and/or taking care of sick family members; decreasing access to socialization and exercise, which reduce stress; and losing one's job and/or having to juggle working from home, childcare, and children's virtual learning.
Regardless of whether we're still in the depths of the COVID crisis or moving toward endemicity, we need to create more supportive environments for parents, families, and children. The question then is how can we do a better job of supporting parents so they can support and promote their children's well-being regardless of their own stress? What can we do now to ensure that the next generation of teens is less likely to be psychologically harmed by their parents?
From a health profession perspective, there are several tactics available to help decrease instances of psychological maltreatment. The first set of tactics focuses on improving parenting. This primarily involves encouraging and supporting adoption of a positive parenting philosophy and practices. Through positive parenting, caregivers can focus more on respectful interactions, encouragement, and guidance through collaborative problem-solving to enhance children's cooperation and maintain a loving relationship with their child. This takes the emphasis away from harsh and punitive methods, which tend to increase conflict and discord in the parent-child relationship. We also believe that through promotion of positive parenting, we can change social norms around yelling, screaming, and harsh punishment -- shifting social parenting norms to kinder and more respectful tactics and empathic disciplinary strategies.
The second set of tactics relies on institutional change. We know that providing support for parents and caregivers will ultimately help create and sustain relationships that are healthier and safer for children. From a practical perspective, this means more affordable and accessible childcare -- and proactive planning for childcare in a pandemic scenario or other emergency. This also means more supportive spaces for parents to share feelings and learn how to cope with stress, such as parent support groups and parenting education resources. Much can also be done to enhance a variety of environments where parents and children spend time -- from waiting rooms to supermarkets to schools and the like -- to make them less stressful and more supportive of parents.
Lastly, educating parents about the different forms that psychological maltreatment can take will go a long way. Many parents may not even be familiar with the definition of psychological maltreatment or the six major subtypes -- spurning, terrorizing, isolating, exploiting/corrupting, denying emotional responsiveness, and failing to provide services. Therefore, parents may not be aware that their behavior falls into this category. While many people are familiar with the idea of verbal abuse, they may not understand that many other types of parenting could become psychological maltreatment if persistent or severe. Educating parents about the different psychological maltreatment types as well as the impact of their actions on their children at an early stage in parenting is an incredibly effective way to avoid abuse and maltreatment in the long-term.
Ultimately, the issue of psychological maltreatment among families is a matter of mental health. Psychological maltreatment may be a predominant driver of youth mental health challenges, but on the flip side, adult mental health challenges -- especially stress -- are likely the predominant driver of subsequent child maltreatment. If we create more supportive safe spaces for caregivers to learn and grow, and create institutional shifts in the systems that continue to present barriers for parents, we have a shot at effectively addressing the nationwide mental health crisis.
Amy Baker, PhD, is the research director at New York Foundling's Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection. Mel Schneiderman, PhD, is senior vice president and co-founder of New York Foundling's Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection, a national child protection center focusing on the primary prevention of child maltreatment. | <urn:uuid:0b430f3c-6879-4c50-a905-7ecc6eb42acb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/99813 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950688 | 1,153 | 2.625 | 3 |
If you own or manage a website, it is highly likely that users will access it using mobile devices. The volume of traffic that comes via mobile may vary depending on your industry or niche, but all websites have a percentage of visitors that use mobile. In fact, in many situations, the number of people accessing a particular site from a mobile device is greater than the number of users that accesses it from a desktop computer. This is why you have to get the user experience (UX) of your website right for mobile platforms. Here are some tips.
Design for Mobile
You need to have a specific strategy for mobile devices. This is because visitors using a mobile device to access your website act differently from visitors who use a desktop. Research from Google says, for example, that users are more goal-orientated when they are on a mobile.
There are also user interface (UI) considerations to think about when looking at the difference between how your site looks on desktop and mobile. These UI elements often have an impact on UX. For example, dividers might break up content well on a desktop device, but they just take up valuable space on mobile.
Think About the User
Every other part of the design process flows from this point, so you need to think about how users access your website:
· Where are they? Are they on a bus, in a car on the way to your shop, at home with a tablet, or somewhere else?
· What do they want to achieve? When they are on your website using a mobile device, what are they looking to get out of it? User goals could include reading an article, making a purchase, finding a telephone number, etc.
You then need to make the website fit in with those actions. For example, if the user's primary motivation for accessing your site is to find directions to your business location, make sure those directions are easy to find.
Make the Text Readable
You are providing a poor UX if the user has to pinch, zoom, tap, or do anything else in order to make the text large enough to read. So make the text big enough to read with simple font sizes.
Call to Action
A lot of thought is often put into the placement of calls to action on desktop websites. This is why they are usually positioned above the fold. All too often, however, this attention to detail is abandoned on a mobile site. The result is a call to action that only becomes visible if the user scrolls. So, put the call to action above the fold.
Menus and Search
Mobile users are now sophisticated enough to know that a set of three vertical dots or three horizontal lines means that there is a menu. It is therefore not necessary to get in the way of the user by spelling out the menu in full—if they want something from the menu, they will go there.
But make it easy to find anything on your site. One way to do that is to include a search facility as part of the menu.
This article shows that you have to think very differently when considering the user experience on your desktop site and the user experience on your mobile site. One of the easiest ways to get it right is to implement the ideas mentioned here and then test them. If you’ve got part of it wrong, change it and test again. | <urn:uuid:eccb46e2-ebcb-421b-abe8-e5237fb1fdd2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.freelancer.co.za/community/articles/how-to-improve-your-mobile-design-ux | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957212 | 682 | 2.046875 | 2 |
NHS Pharmacy First Scotland will allow community pharmacies to give people expert help for treating conditions such as sore throats, earache and cold sores, along with common clinical conditions such as urinary tract infections (UTI’s).
Re-engage provides vital, life-enhancing social connections for older people at a time in their lives when their social circles are diminishing.
Street Fit Scotland
Street fit Scotland is a not for profit Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation/Social Enterprise. Our programme provides a route back into the community, a way of re-integrating back into society supporting to become active citizens.
When to immunise
Different vaccines are given at different ages to protect you and your child. Find out when these vaccinations are offered, and when and where they'll be given.
Anticipatory care planning
If you have a long term health condition, making an anticipatory care plan can help you get back in control over what's important to you. Anticipatory care planning (ACP) means that health and care practitioners work with people and their carers to ensure that the right thing is done at the right time by the right person.
Falls risk screening
If you’ve fallen, or are at risk of falling, your GP or other health or social care professional may offer you a ‘home and person’ falls risk screen to identify ways to reduce your risk of further falls, and help you to continue to carry out activities that are important to you. In some situations your GP might refer you directly to a falls clinic (or other hospital clinic) for a medical assessment. This would usually be because you’ve: had a blackout, experienced dizziness, or other symptoms.
Care equipment and adapting your home
If you’re elderly, disabled or have a long term health condition and want help to live safely and independently in your home, using equipment, technology or making adaptations to your home may be a good option for you. This could include: getting equipment, like shower rails, adapting your home by installing a ramp or widening the doors, using everyday technology like computers or tablets to keep in touch with friends and family, or do your shopping online. Care Information Scotland can advise
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Over 60 + or have a Disability? Eligible for free bus travel
If you are over 60 or have a disability, you could be eligible for free bus travel to get around Scotland and your local area. You can access this via the National Entitlement Card, your pass to free bus travel in Scotland.
Friends against Scams
Friends Against Scams is a National Trading Standards Scams Team initiative, which aims to protect and prevent people from becoming victims of scams by empowering people to take a stand against scams. Scams cost the UK economy £5-£10 Billion a year 53% of people over 65 have been targeted by scams Only 5% of scams are reported Our statistics indicate that the average scam victim has lost over £3000.
0808 223 1133
Crossroads Caring Scotland is one of the country's leading voluntary sector providers of support for carers and their families. Established as a charity in Scotland in 1978, we provide support services across Scotland, helping people to live independently at home.
0141 226 3793
Care Information Scotland
If you look after someone, need care yourself or are planning your future care needs, you can get the information and advice you need here.
0800 011 3200
Telecare Self-Check Online Tool
This is an easy to use online tool that allows you to find helpful information on telecare services in your area that could help you live independently at home for longer. The tool asks 6 – 12 questions and will take about 5 minutes to complete. Once you have completed the tool you will be given useful information relating to your answers.
Experienced drivers are, in general, safer than those with less experience. But as we get older, our health and fitness, often including our eyesight, physical condition and reaction times, begins to decline. Age related conditions can also begin to affect our driving. Recognise whether and how your driving is changing and decide what you can do to cope with these changes and find help, such as medical advice, driving assessments and training and vehicle adaptations.
Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. Age UK believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.
0800 678 1602
The Silver Line
The Silver Line is the only free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
0800 4 70 80 90
Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering.
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Study: White Privilege Is Real
A study has proven what we already knew to be true — white privilege exists. Water is also wet.
From the New York Times:
As they describe in two working papers, Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters, economists at the University of Queensland, trained and assigned 29 young adult testers (from both genders and different ethnic groups) to board public buses in Brisbane and insert an empty fare card into the bus scanner. After the scanner made a loud sound informing the driver that the card did not have enough value, the testers said, “I do not have any money, but I need to get to” a station about 1.2 miles away. (The station varied according to where the testers boarded.)
With more than 1,500 observations, the study uncovered substantial, statistically significant race discrimination. Bus drivers were twice as willing to let white testers ride free as black testers (72 percent versus 36 percent of the time). Bus drivers showed some relative favoritism toward testers who shared their own race, but even black drivers still favored white testers over black testers (allowing free rides 83 percent versus 68 percent of the time).
The study also found that racial disparities persisted when the testers wore business attire or dressed in army uniforms. For example, testers wearing army uniforms were allowed to ride free 97 percent of the time if they were white, but only 77 percent of the time if they were black.
Read more at the New York Times
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HEPA filters could help keep make travelers feel safe when traveling. Is it going be enough to get people back out there again?
The number one priority these days for travel companies is making their customers feel safe. Since coronavirus is spread through particulates in the air, much of having that peace of mind comes down to knowing what you are breathing in is clean. Enter the HEPA filter.
Airlines, for one, say that HEPA filters can help keep air purified in the confined space of a jet cabin. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian on Tuesday touted HEPA filters during an earnings call saying they help pump “hospital-grade air quality on board” to help restore consumer confidence.
But what exactly is a HEPA filter?
HEPA stands for High Efficiency Particulate Air. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the “filter can theoretically remove at least 99.97 percent of dust, pollen, mold, bacteria, and any airborne particles with a size of 0.3 microns (µm).” This size of 0.3 microns is in reference to the worst case, as that size is the most penetrating. Particles that are larger or smaller in size will be trapped with higher efficiency.
According to ThomasNet.com, the top HEPA filter manufacturer is HDT Global, based in Solon, Ohio.
American Airlines too, said that the filters have been used on their entire mainline fleet, and most regional jets, since the late 1990s. JetBlue deploys them as well.
The filters are not just for airlines either. Norwegian Cruise Line is immediately implementing the filters on its entire fleet and hotels are also doing their best to implement better air systems.
Of course, nothing is a guarantee, and airlines, hotels and cruise companies need to tread lightly on claims they make about the effectiveness of filters. But HEPA filters may just become part of a traveler’s requirements before making plans, and spending money.
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- Research article
- Open Access
Chlamydial infection among patients attending STD and genitourinary clinics in Taiwan
BMC Public Health volume 7, Article number: 120 (2007)
The main objective of this study is to examine the epidemiology of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection amongst patients (473 men, 180 women) seen two hospitals in Taiwan.
Between July 2004 and June 2005, a total of 653 patients provided first-void urine samples for examination of CT using PCR assay.
The overall prevalence of CT infection was 18.4% (95% confidence interval [CI] 17.3–19.5). Prevalence for men and women were 16.7 % (95% CI 15.3–18.0%) and 22.8% (95% CI 17.5–28.1%), respectively. Age group-specific prevalence was 25.7% (95% CI 22.5–28.9%) in < 20 year olds, 23.5% (95% CI 20.3–26.7%) in 20–24 year olds, 22.3% (95% CI 18.9–25.7%) in 25–30 year olds, and 11.5% (95% CI 10.3–12.7%) in > 30 year olds. Independent risk factors for chlamydial infection included younger age (aged ≤ 30 years) (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.44; 95% CI 1.52–3.84; p < 0.001), inconsistent condom use (AOR = 2.01; 95% CI 1.32–3.06; p < 0.001), being symptomatic (dysuria, urethral discharge) at the time of testing (AOR = 1.84; 95% CI 1.21–2.80; p < 0.001), and having N. gonorrhoeae infection (AOR = 3.82; 95% CI 2.20–6.58; p < 0.001).
Genital chlamydial infection is an important sexually transmitted disease in Taiwan. Young Taiwanese persons attending a STD clinic should be screened for CT infection and counselled on condom use.
Young, sexually active people are at high risk for genital infection by Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) [1, 2]. It is estimated that 340 million new cases of common bacterial and protozoal sexually transmitted infections occur annually worldwide . An increase in sexually risky behaviour amongst young people and an associated subsequent increase in the prevalence of CT have been reported [4, 5]. Chlamydial infections can cause severe complications in untreated infected women such as pelvic inflammatory diseases (PID), ectopic pregnancy, tubal infertility and abdominal pain . Serious sequelae among men with untreated infection include urethritis, prostatitis, epididymitis and Reiter syndrome . Active CT infection is an important risk factor facilitating sexual transmission of HIV infection . Most women (> 50%) infected with CT remain symptom-free, and for men, the rate of asymptomatic chlamydia infection is higher than for symptomatic gonorrhea infection [8–10]. Early diagnosis and early treatment of affected individuals are the types of strategies necessary to prevent the development of sequelae and to reduce transmission . In Taiwan, although the incidence and prevalence of CT infection is rising , only limited information is available. The aim of this study was therefore to examine the epidemiology of genital chlamydia infection amongst patients attending STD and genitourinary clinics in Taiwan.
The pool of patients included all patients attending two outpatient clinics between July 2004 and June 2005; one group was investigated at the Taipei City STD Control Center clinic (northern Taiwan) and another group was studied at genitourinary outpatient clinic at a Kaohsiung primary care service (southern Taiwan).
Taipei and Kaohsiung are two large metropolitan areas in Taiwan. Only those patients who met the following criteria were included for study: aged> 17 years, sexually active (reported to have sexual intercourse in the last 60 days) provided a urine specimen and no antibiotic use in the preceding 15 days. Approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Taipei City STD Control Center. After signing an informed consent form, patients were given a self-administered questionnaire regarding limited demographic information, symptoms of urethritis (dysuria, urethral discharge) and condom use during the last intercourse.
A patient was classified as "symptomatic" if the patient reported having one of the symptoms (dysuria, urethral discharge) and as "non-symptomatic" if neither of these symptoms were reported.
Subsequently, a genital examination was performed by a doctor and blood samples were tested for Treponema pallidum and HIV antibodies. Each participant provided a first void urine specimen that was tested for CT, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Trichomonas vaginalis. Those individuals who had a positive result for the test were informed of this outcome by a personal telephone call, at which time a medical appointment was scheduled at the STD clinic for both the patient and partner(s).
HIV serodiagnosis and STD diagnosis
The Amplicor PCR test for Chlamydia trachomatis/Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PCR Roche Diagnostic Corp, Indianapolis, IN, USA) was performed on all individual samples according to the manufacturer's instructions for processing urine specimens . To diagnose T. vaginalis, wet-mount microscopy and culture in Whittington media (HiMedia Laboratories, Mumbai, India) were performed on urine specimens. The Amplicor positive urine samples were stored at -20°C for further analysis. The Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR; Spinreact, Girona, Spain) or the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) tests were used for syphilis screening , with confirmation by the T. Pallidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA; Gesellschaft fur Biochemica and Diagnostica, Wiesbaden, Germany) following the manufacturer's instructions. Sera positivity by both the RPR/VDRL test (at 1:8 dilution) and the TPHA test were considered to be indicative of active syphilis. For HIV detection, the double-ELISA test (Biosign kits, Princeton BioMeditech, Princeton, NJ, USA) and western blot assays (Genelabs Diagnostic, Redwood City, CA, USA) were performed.
For analysis, chlamydial infection was defined as a urine sample that was positive by the diagnostic Amplicor PCR test. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS software for Windows (version 10.0; SPSS). The prevalence of genital chlamydia infection was calculated with 95% confidence intervals. All variables were analyzed using the Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables. All variables that revealed significant results in the context of univariate analysis were subsequently entered stepwise into a multiple logistic regression analysis procedure, for which all measured effects were controlled for by means of controlling the influence of all other variables at the time of testing. Significance was defined by an alpha level of 0.05 or less.
Characteristics of all patients
During the period from July 2004 to June 2005, a total of 687 patients were eligible for the study. Among these, 653 (95.1%) patients met the inclusion criteria and were enrolled the study. The characteristics of the study population are indicated in Table 1. The age of study patients ranged from 17 to 50 years and the median age was 28 years. Seventy-two percent were males and 28% were females. The most-common age group was ≤ 30 years old (55%); 75% were single and 25% were married; the prevalence of CT among symptomatic patients was 23%; 49% were symptomatic at the time of testing (dysuria or discharge); 45% not always using condoms during sexual intercourse; 90% were heterosexual and 10.0% were homosexual/bisexual.
Of the 653 samples, the prevalences of C. trachomatis, N. gonorrhoeae, T. Pallidum, HIV, and T. Vaginalis infection were 18.4% (120/653), 11.2% (73/473), 5.7% (37/653), 1.2% (8/653) and 0.9% (6/653), respectively. No pathogens were identified in urine obtained from 72.3% of the study subjects.
Risk factors associated with chlamydial infection
Table 1 reveals the results of the univariate analysis and features potential risk factors for chlamydial infection. The overall prevalence of chlamydial infection was 18.4% (95% confidence interval [95% CI] 17.3–19.5%). Prevalence for men and women were 16.7 % (95% CI 15.3–18.0%) and 22.8% (95% CI 17.5–28.1%), respectively. Age group-specific prevalences was 25.7% (95% CI 22.5–28.9%) in < 20 year olds, 23.5% (95% CI 20.3–26.7%) in 20–24 year olds, 22.3% (95% CI 18.9–25.7%) in 25–30 year olds, and 11.5% (95% CI 10.3–12.7%) in > 30 year olds. The prevalence of CT infection among asymptomatic patients was 14.0% (95% CI 12.7–15.3%).
Patients that reported inconsistent condom use had a higher risk for chlamydial infection than patients that reported consistent condom use (P < 0.001). Patients that were symptomatic at the time of testing were more often CT positive than asymptomatic patients (P < 0.05). Patients with N. gonorrhoeae infections had higher prevalence of CT infection than those who did not (P < 0.001). There appeared to have been no significant difference with regard to the incidence of infection amongst gender, marital status, education level, and sexual orientation (Table 1).
From the logistic regression model, aged ≤ 30 years (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.44; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.52–3.84; P < 0.001), inconsistent condom use (AOR = 2.01; 95% CI = 1.32–3.06; P < 0.001), being symptomatic at the time of testing (dysuria, urethral discharge) (AOR = 1.84; 95% CI = 1.21–2.80; P < 0.001), and having N. gonorrhoeae infection (AOR = 3.82; 95% CI = 2.20–6.58) were significantly, independently and positively associated with the prevalence of chlamydial infection (Table 2).
Our study identified a relatively high prevalence of chlamydial infection (18.4% overall; range 17.3–19.5%) among patients attending an STD or genitourinary clinic in Taiwan. Risk factors found to be independently associated with chlamydial infection were young age (< 30 years old), inconsistent condom use during sexual intercourse, being symptomatic (dysuria, urethral discharge) at the time of testing, and having gonococcal infection.
Prevalence estimates for Chlamydia range widely between study populations in different settings. Healthcare settings have higher prevalence estimates than population-based studies . In the USA, the prevalence of C. trachomatis genital infections amongst sexually active young adults aged 16 to 20 years is 4–17% , whereas in the UK , the prevalence of C. trachomatis infection varies considerably amongst different sub-populations (range 5–13%). Our study' incidence of chlamydia infection in these settings was relatively high.
The findings in this report are subject to at least three limitations. Firstly, the study population was collected from a high risk group. They may not be truly representative of all people aged 17–50 years in Taiwan. Secondly, whilst our STD and urology clinics probably represent the experiences of other STD and urology clinics in the country, the data derived from these clinics may not appropriately reflect the sub-population of CT-infected Taiwanese patients presenting at other community clinics. Third, the methods for identify T. vaginalis are less than optimal. However, to our knowledge, it is the first study to be conducted among men and women in this part of the country.
Our study is consistent with those of a previous study which reported a strong association between chlamydia infection and youthful age. Chlamydia was most common among men aged 18–24 years, as others have noted [17, 18]. Our study found that men aged ≤ 30 were two to three times more likely to be infected with chlamydia than those aged > 30 years, even after adjusting for urethral symptoms and condom use at last instance of sexual intercourse; age should factor significantly into determining the most likely population of men to be infected with Chlamydia.
Consistent with the previous findings , we also found that combining patient self-report symptoms of infection and inconsistent condom use during sex in the past 60 days could identify patients more likely to be infected and could greatly enhance efforts to detect those men regardless of whether they seek care at an STD clinic. In clinical practice, people with symptoms of infection or a history of recent unprotected sex should receive diagnostic testing for Chlamydia. Our data raise the question of whether certain groups of men without symptoms should be routinely tested by virtue of their attendance in the STD clinic. Currently, there are no guidelines on how best to address men who are asymptomatic, much less for men with no symptoms of infection and who have no history of sexual contact with an infected person.
Unsafe sex puts a woman at risk of both sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy. In this study, patients reporting inconsistent condom use had a higher risk for chlamydial infection than those reporting consistent condom use (AOR = 2.01; 95% CI = 1.32–3.06). These results emphasise that consistent condom use could have a major impact, much as it did in other countries [19, 20].
Our study found that concurrent gonococcal infection was significantly associated with chlamydal infection; however, no significant association was found with other STDs (syphilis, trichomoniasis) or HIV infection. One possible explanation is the lower rate (1.2%) of HIV infection in our study population. Another possible explanation for the lack of association between chlamydial infection and other STDs is the high sensitivity of the employed diagnostic C. trachomatis PCR assay. This particular assay is capable of detecting infections with very low copy numbers of C. trachomatis. These infections would not have been detected by other microbiological assays .
Our study supports the validity of routine testing of all patients with genital symptoms of CT infection and patients who report unprotected sex, regardless of age. While the cost-effectiveness of such an approach requires further study, our study also supports consideration of routine screening among men < 30 years who attend an STD or genitourinary clinic. Our results highlight the notion that the prevention of sexually transmitted disease, including CT, should constitute an important public-health program for Taiwan.
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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/120/prepub
We are grateful to the staff of the Taipei City STD Control Center and Center for Disease Control, Taiwan for their assistance with data collection and interviewing of study participants.
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
KTC was the lead writer and coordinator of the manuscript, and worked on content development. SCC coordinated data analysis and wrote the background and methods. CCC, LHL and LHT contributed to laboratory work and wrote the results and discussion. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Shou-Chien Chen, Chien-Chou Chiang, Lan-Hui Li and Li-Hui Tang contributed equally to this work.
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Chen, KT., Chen, SC., Chiang, CC. et al. Chlamydial infection among patients attending STD and genitourinary clinics in Taiwan. BMC Public Health 7, 120 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-120
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European Countries are Offering Citizenship for Investment: 2018-19
The passport-via-investment market first came into existence in the 80’s, when the exotic islands of St Kitts & Nevis first decided to bring additional foreign investment into the country in return for passports.
Countries across the world copied the concept with their own schemes to provide foreign investors with residency visas or citizenship or Passports in exchange for funds or furthering the economy. Investment in real estate and property, or hiring locals are often key elements of the requirements.
The following EU member states are offering passport schemes widely known as Golden Visas:
The reports showed how some European countries are selling access to the Schengen visa-free travel area with “little scrutiny, transparency or due diligence”. which said such schemes allow persons deemed close to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his predecessor Boris Yeltsin as well as members of Angola’s ruling class to largely benefit.
“It is clear that due diligence procedures in some EU countries, such as Hungary and Portugal, have not been rigorous enough” spokesperson for Transparency International was quoted as saying. “Citizenship and residency are among the most valuable assets a country can offer an individual, but EU member states have not even been applying the same minimum checks that banks are supposed to apply to their high net-worth customers”.
Cyprus is not actually party to the Schengen area, and has repeatedly received disapproval for its citizenship-by-investment programme which allows investors to acquire Cypriot nationality with an investment of €2 million. The current scheme has been in place since 2014 and repeatedly revised, provided initially for a €5m investment. It also provides that applicants have a clean criminal record.
Portuguese MEP Ana Gomes described schemes as “absolutely perverse, immoral & increasingly alarming”. In 2014, the European Parliament criticised Golden Visas, singling out that of Malta which it described as an “outright sale” and asked the European Commission to issue recommendations to member states.
Programmes in all eight EU countries maintain secrecy around recipients of Golden Visas. The origins of beneficiaries’ wealth are not sufficiently scrutinised and the public lacks details of the investments and who ultimately benefits from them.
Montenegro, which is currently in negotiations to join the EU, has granted citizenship to a former Thai politician and another from Palestine who are both facing charges related to financial corruption and appropriation respectively.
The Hungarian case is particularly strange since profits from the Golden Visa programme do not appear to be benefiting the country, rather finding their way into unknown pockets via companies, all but one of which are housed in offshore tax havens that trade in Hungary’s Golden Visa shares.
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Russians own 16.5 trillion rubles ($214 billion) in crypto, according to government figures. Given the lack of clarity in the country’s crypto legislation, estimates are expected to be conservative.
Russians Hold 12% Of Global Crypto
Report from government estimates show that Russians own 16.5 trillion rubles ($214 billion) in cryptocurrencies.
According to Bloomberg, Russians own around 12% of all worldwide cryptocurrency holdings. According to two sources close to the Kremlin, the crypto holdings estimates were established by studying IP addresses of some of the country’s most prominent crypto exchange users, as well as a few other data points. The analysis of Russian nationals’ crypto holdings is being carried out in order to have a better understanding of the crypto market and to draft new rules.
Russians held roughly 5 trillion rubles worth of cryptocurrency in December 2021, according to TASS news services.
BTC/USD trades at $38k. Source: TradingView
The most recent estimate of crypto holdings is a significant increase over the statistics shared by Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the lower house’s financial markets committee, in December. Russians held 5 trillion rubles worth of cryptocurrency in December 2021, according to a report by the local news media, Tass.
The estimates comes as Russia tries to regulate the crypto sector. Over the last few days, there have been mixed reactions to the Central Bank attempt to ban crypto in the country, with former president, Dmitry Medvedev saying a ban will only cause more harm than good.
Putin Movesru To Regulate Crypto
The Russian Central Bank had recently placed a ban on cryptocurrency, but this has since changed. The Russian government has begun the process of putting together a plan for implementing cryptocurrency limitations.
The Central Bank thinks that cryptocurrencies should be governed by a regulatory and restricted framework, as outlined in this roadmap. This shift in approach came after Putin pushed on reaching an agreement on the issue.
He recognized that, while bitcoin involves some risk due to its volatility, cryptocurrency mining provides the country with a significant competitive advantage.
Because Russia has the advantage of being able to deliver inexpensive electricity, it remains the third-largest crypto mining nation.
Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian President, now serves as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council. Medvedev argues that a ban on Bitcoin and crypto could backfire, having the opposite of the intended effect.
The former Russian President is quoted as saying:
To be honest, when you try to ban something, this very often leads to the opposite result.
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Understanding why we remember22 October 2021
Our education portal, RSL Education, has plenty of free resources for teachers and parents to help teach young people the significance of Remembrance Day.
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month – we’ve all heard the phrase but what does it really mean?
Why is it poppies for Remembrance Day and rosemary for ANZAC Day?
And what does ‘the Armistice’ have to do with any of it?
George Santayana once said that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. However, as the ranks of our older veterans thin, and most Australians’ links to the ANZACs fade into history, the reason behind many of these traditions can be lost.
If you’re teaching your students about Remembrance Day (or if you’ve ever wondered about the answers to any of those questions yourself), RSL Education has a range of curriculum-based, age-appropriate resources to help you out.
- Learn more about how we commemorate Remembrance Day, including the origins of The Ode of Remembrance that is read at commemorative ceremonies
- Find out about the symbolism in the activities connected to Remembrance Day
- Discover why poppies are associated with Remembrance Day (and create your own poppy or poppy wreath)
- Plan your own commemorative ceremony to gain a fuller understanding of its significance
- Explore the hardships the ANZACs experienced, and how that forged the ANZAC spirit and tradition
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dom; and whosoever serves this cause, wheresoever he may be, in whatever land, is entitled, according to his works, to the gratitude of every true American bosom, of every true lover of mankind.
The resolution before us commends itself by simplicity and completeness. In this respect it seems preferable to that of the Senator from Illinois [Mr. SHIELDS] ; nor is it obnoxious to objections urged against that of the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. FOOTE]; and I do not see that it can give any just umbrage, in our diplomatic relations, even to the sensitive representative of the House of Austria. Though we have the high authority of the President, in his Message, for styling our guest “ Governor," – a title which seems to imply the de facto independence of Hungary, when it is known that our Government declined to acknowledge it, — the resolution avoids this difficulty, and speaks of him without title of any kind, — simply as a private citizen. As such, it offers him welcome to the capital and to the country
The Comity of Nations I respect. To the behests of the Law of Nations I profoundly bow. In our domestic affairs all acts are brought to the Constitution, as to a touchstone; so in our foreign affairs all acts are brought to the touchstone of the Law of Nations,—that supreme law, the world's collected will, which overarches the Grand Commonwealth of Christian States. What that forbids I forbear to do. But no text of this voluminous code, no commentary, no gloss, can be found, which forbids us to welcome any exile of Freedom.
Looking at this resolution in its various lights, as a carrying out of the act of the last Congress, as justly due to the exalted character of our guest, and as proper
in form and consistent with the Law of Nations, it seems impossible to avoid the conclusion in its favor. On its merits it would naturally be adopted. And here I might stop.
An appeal is made against the resolution on grounds which seem to me extraneous and irrelevant. There is an attempt to involve it with the critical question of intervention by our country in European affairs; and recent speeches in England and New York are adduced to show that such intervention is sought by our guest. It is sufficient to say, in reply to this suggestion, introduced by the Senator from Georgia [Mr. BERRIEN] with a skill which all might envy, and adopted by the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. MILLER], that no such intervention is promised or implied by the resolution. It does not appear on the face of the resolution; it is not in any way suggested by the resolution, directly or indirectly. It can be found only in the imagination, the anxieties, or the fears of Senators. It is a mere ghost, and not a reality. As such we may dismiss it. But I feel strongly on this point, and desire to go further. Here, again, I shall be brief ; for the occasion allows me to give conclusions only, and not details.
While thus warmly, with my heart in my hand, joining in this tribute, I wish to be understood as in no respect encouraging any idea of belligerent intervention in European affairs. Such a system would have in it no element of just self-defence, and would open vials of perplexities and ills which I trust our country will never be called to affront. I inculcate no frigid isolation. God forbid that we should ever close our ears to the cry of distress, or cease to swell with indignation at the steps of tyranny! In the wisdom of Washington we find
perpetual counsel. Like Washington, in his eloquent words to the Minister of the French Directory, I would offer sympathy and God-speed to all, in every land, who struggle for Human Rights; but, sternly as Washington on another occasion, against every pressure, against all popular appeals, against all solicitations, against all blandishments, I would uphold with steady hand the peaceful neutrality of the country. Could I now approach our mighty guest, I would say to him, with the respectful frankness of a friend : “Be content with the outgushing sympathy which you now inspire everywhere throughout this wide-spread land, and may it strengthen your soul ! Trust in God, in the inspiration of your cause, and in the Great Future, pregnant with freedom for all mankind. But respect our ideas, as we respect yours. Do not seek to reverse our traditional, established policy of peace. Do not, under the too plausible sophism of upholding non-intervention, provoke American intervention on distant European soil. Leave us to tread where Washington points the way.”
And yet, with these convictions, Mr. President, which I now most sincerely express, I trust the Senator from Georgia [Mr. BERRIEN] will pardon me when I say I cannot join in his proposed amendment,--and for this specific reason. To an act of courtesy and welcome it attaches a condition, which, however just as an independent proposition, is most ungracious in such connection. It is out of place, and everything out of place is to a certain extent offensive. If adopted, it would impair, if not destroy, the value of our act. A generous hospitality will not make terms or conditions with a guest; and such hospitality I trust Congress will tender to Louis Kossuth.
OUR COUNTRY ON THE SIDE OF FREEDOM,
WITHOUT BELLIGERENT INTERVENTION.
LETTER TO A PHILADELPHIA COMMITTEE, DECEMBER 23, 1851.
WHEN this letter was written, Kossuth was engaged in the effort to enlist our country in active measures for the liberation of Hungary.
WASHINGTON, December 23, 1851. EAR SIR, — It is not in my power to unite with
the citizens of Philadelphia in their banquet to Governor Kossuth. But though not present in person, my heart will be with them in every word of honor to that illustrious man, in every assurance of sympathy for his great cause, and in every practical effort to place our country openly on the side of Freedom.
Among citizens all violence is forbidden by the Municipal Law, which is enforced by no private arm, but by the sheriff, in the name of the Government, and under the sanctions of the magistrate. So, among the Nations, all violence, and especially all belligerent intervention, should be forbidden by International Law; and I trust the day is not far distant when this prohibition will be maintained by the Federation of Christian States, with an executive power too mighty for any contumacious resistance. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful servant,
TO THE COMMITTEE.
CLEMENCY TO POLITICAL OFFENDERS.
LETTER TO AN IRISH FESTIVAL AT WASHINGTON, JANUARY 22, 1852.
At the festival the following toast was given :
“Hon. Charles Sumner: In the Cradle of Liberty the cause of the exile will ever find a friend.”
The following letter was then read.
WASHINGTON, January 22, 1852. YENTLEMEN, - It is not in my power to unite in
your festal meeting this evening. But be assured I shall rejoice in every word of affection and honor for Ireland, and of sympathy with all her children, especially those patriots who have striven and suffered for the common good.
In answer to your express request, I beg leave to inclose a sentiment, which I trust may find a response at once from our own Government and from that of Great Britain. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful servant,
CHARLES SUMNER. JOHN T. TOWERS, Esq., Chairman, &c.
Clemency: A grace which it can never be otherwise than honorable to ask and honorable to grant.
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What Exactly Is Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine is really a branch of traditional medicine that draws on pharmacognosy, or the study of medicinal plants. Although this ancient practice has a extended history, it still lacks scientific evidence and regular dosages. For this reason, herbal medicine is not broadly used inside the Usa. Herbalists believe in utilizing only all-natural items, like plants, to treat ailments. The benefits of organic remedies are nicely documented in herbal books and in traditional medicine, and numerous practitioners use herbalism to supplement their diets. >>> Herbal Medicine Epilepsy – Access Expert Service Or Please Read On >>>
Nonetheless, contemporary medicine comes having a cost tag. Many folks can no longer afford to spend high fees for prescription drugs and are turning to herbal medicine as an option. The cost-effectiveness of herbal medicines has been evaluated within a systematic review, with outcomes showing that several natural wellness goods are a lot more efficient than pharmaceuticals in some circumstances. Herbal medicines are also much more cost-effective than numerous pharmaceutical drugs. If you are thinking about making use of herbal medicine, check together with your doctor to find out which herbal products are correct for you.
Herbal medicines come in numerous forms, which includes teas and tinctures. Herbal medicines are concentrated types of plant-based medicine, ranging from 1:5 to 1:10. A more concentrated type is known as a dry extract, that is sold in capsule, tablet, or lozenge. Herbal medicines will help you minimize pain, regulate blood sugar levels, and improve your well being. Because of this, it’s essential to seek a professional herbalist for any consultation.
Herbal Medicine For Obesity – Herbal Medicine Epilepsy
Although there are some reported risks of using herbal medicine for obesity, the security profile of these remedies is usually acceptable. Some studies have shown that specific herbs, including ephedra, have the capability to reduce the risk of obesity. These herbal supplements have already been employed for centuries and consist of ginger, ginseng, guarana, coconut oil, and dandelion root. >>> Herbal Medicine Epilepsy – Find Specialist Advise Or Continue Reading >>> There is certainly also no proof that any of those substances are addictive, and you will find no known unfavorable side effects.
Herbal remedies could be either raw or refined products which can be created from plant components. They are typically utilized for medical circumstances and ailments. Many herbal remedies for weight reduction are effective to get a variety of ailments, such as weight loss as well as the related medical conditions. Dandelions and alfalfa have traditionally been utilized to handle weight, but other herbs, including ginger, may have the identical helpful effects. Utilizing herbal medicines for obesity is usually a useful option for all those who have tried standard treatments for weight reduction, but need extra help.
The remedy plan for obesity may consist of altering eating habits and drinking purified water every day. Additionally to herbal remedies, someone could be prescribed nutritional supplements, such as zinc, B vitamins, and chromium. Furthermore, eating habits could be impacted by your emotional state and tension levels. Therefore, it’s important to recognize and treat any mood-related influences in your eating habits. Should you have excessive anxiety, it might be a sign of obesity.
Herbal Medicine For Cough
Coughing is actually a typical ailment. Frequently, it’s a sign of a number of other illnesses, so you might wish to consider making use of herbal medicine for cough. Ginger is definitely an herb utilized to treat coughs for centuries. The leaves are wealthy in compounds that relieve coughs by relaxing the muscle tissues in the throat and reducing inflammation. You can drink this tea by sprinkling it into warm water, or you are able to add honey to it and gargle. >>> Herbal Medicine Epilepsy – Buy Guru Advice Or Read On >>>
Honey consists of antibacterial and antiviral properties that will relieve coughing. It’s typically taken within a teaspoon every day or added to warm water. It’s essential to note that honey isn’t recommended for youngsters beneath 1 year of age because it could trigger botulism. Turmeric contains curcumin, a compound that might have antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties. It’s very best absorbed when combined with black pepper. Add turmeric and black pepper to orange juice or make a warm tea with it.
Though several over-the-counter medicines might help relieve coughing, they seldom produce constant advantages. Cough suppressants and cough syrups are examples of over-the-counter cough medicines. Herbal medicines, however, are usually component of hydrotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and numerous other kinds of alternative medicine. Even though they’re fairly new to the modern world, their use in different cultures dates back thousands of years. Some conditions, like acid reflux, can cause coughing to become chronic.
An additional herb for cough sufferers is marshmallow root. Its high mucilage content material is advantageous towards the throat. Its mucilage content material reduces coughs brought on by respiratory tract infections and typical colds. Consequently, marshmallow root syrup features a long history of becoming used as an herbal medicine for cough. You’ll be able to discover this herb in supermarkets and pharmacies across the nation, or acquire it on-line. >>> Herbal Medicine Epilepsy – Take Advantage Of Specialised Service Or Otherwise Read On >>> Just keep in mind to seek advice from your medical doctor just before utilizing herbal medicines, as we can not supply healthcare suggestions.
Herbal Medicine For Fever – Herbal Medicine Epilepsy
If you’re feeling below the climate, you may wish to think about herbal medicine for fever. There are many various choices available, and selecting the proper medicine will depend on the cause of the fever and what you need to treat it with. If you’re suffering from a viral illness, contemplate utilizing an antiviral herbal medicine, while in case your body is overly reactive to certain foods, you could need to consider an anti-allergic herb.
Herbs which have anti-inflammatory properties are great alternatives for people with fever. These herbs contain anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties and may be employed in location of drugs. You may also want to think about taking a kudzu root capsule, tablet, or liquid extract. Kudzu is extensively available in capsule, tablet, or liquid form on the internet. >>> Herbal Medicine Epilepsy – Benefit From Specialised Support Or Continue Reading >>> To utilize it, merely mix the kudzu root with lukewarm water or a glass of milk.
An additional herb that will decrease the symptoms of a viral fever is moringa. This plant is rich in antioxidants and antibacterial properties, as well as a 2014 study showed that its bark decreased fever in rabbits. Even though the bark contains high amounts of compounds that can have an effect on the liver, it needs to be consumed in moderation to reduce the likelihood of causing Stevens-Johnson syndrome. A dose of sage tea or decoction each day may also be beneficial.
Herbal Medicine For High Blood Pressure
1 in 3 folks inside the Usa suffers from high blood pressure. Often, the symptoms of high blood pressure are not noticeable, but if left untreated, hypertension can result in severe healthcare complications. While standard anti-hypertensive medications have several unwanted side effects, herbs may have much more beneficial effects. Hawthorn, for instance, has been employed as a heart illness remedy for centuries. It contains anti-inflammatory compounds and has been recognized to reduce blood pressure naturally.
Garlic is an additional herb that may lower your blood pressure. Its high content material of allicin, a compound that relaxes blood vessels, may assist with high blood pressure. Nevertheless, it shouldn’t be taken by pregnant females or these on blood thinners or sedatives. Another herbal medicine for high blood pressure is olive leaf. Olive leaves include polyphenols, which aid regulate blood pressure and can help stop the symptoms of hypotension. In addition, garlic contains anti-inflammatory properties and is really a excellent herb for any quantity of physical ailments. Garlic is definitely an outstanding all-natural medicine for high blood pressure and is also advantageous in relieving anxiety symptoms. A cup of olive leaf tea 3 to four times per day could be helpful for those with high blood pressure.
Cardamom is an additional herb with beneficial effects for the heart. It acts as a natural calcium channel blocker, which relaxes blood vessels. Likewise, cardamom is really a spice that includes antioxidants that will reduced blood pressure, enhance the flow of urine and minimize heat. Parsley, a favourite herb in several cultures, includes carotenoids and vitamin C, which could assist reduce blood pressure. >>> Herbal Medicine Epilepsy – Receive Professional Assist. | <urn:uuid:40801960-f333-4fb9-819c-5b6176cf0428> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.naturallyhealthymind.com/hm01/herbal-medicine-epilepsy-herbal-medicine-f-a-qs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934441 | 1,838 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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The democratic leadership style is a very open and collegial style of running a team. Ideas move easily amongst the group and are discussed acquiescently.
Encouraging people to share their ideas, and then synthesizing all the available information into the best possible decision.
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Res. No. 549
Resolution calling upon the Council of the City of New York to oppose the Congressional Resolution allowing President George W. Bush to unilaterally declare war against Iraq without the authority of the United Nations, or without evidence that the United States is in imminent danger due to actions by the government of Iraq.
By Council Member Perkins and Stewart
Whereas, At this fragile moment in our history, each misstep in our judgment has the potential of being magnified exponentially, and could bring with it the most devastating consequences imaginable, not just in the Middle East but to our own shores as well; and
Whereas, The resolution authorizing the President to make war and any ensuing actions that our Government might take must therefore be grounded in a solid and responsible understanding of the real consequences of such actions; and
Whereas, A preemptive attack without evidence of imminent danger to our country would shatter the rule of international law, and would clear the way for similar actions by other rival states such as China and Taiwan, and India and Pakistan, among others; and
Whereas, If we are to rally around to the cause of eradicating what many in Congress believe is a corrupt and highly volatile regime, and an equally dangerous dictator, we must first consider such intangibles as the risks to our troops, especially with the knowledge that Saddam Hussein has used chemical weapons in war and would most likely do so again; and
Whereas, We must gauge the level of support from countries in the Middle East and that of other U. S. allies; we must also gauge the potential for escalation of the war to draw in other countries in the region; and
Whereas, While the members of Congress struggle with the President's demand for open-ended authority to go to war, domestic issues of the greatest concerns are being ignored: the budget is in severe deficit and education programs to improve our public schools have not been funded; and
Whereas, As consumer confidence also wanes and the public's faith in our business leaders diminishes with each new revelation of financial impropriety, we must ask ourselves if this administration does indeed have a plan to defray the economic costs of the war, and if so how these costs will be shared by our allies; and
Whereas, If we are to commit ourselves to such a drastic course of action, one that will undoubtedly produce an unknown number of casualties for the young men and women of our nation, we must be certain that our actions are deemed absolutely necessary, and only after every other approach to solving this problem has been exhausted; and
Whereas, Before we commit ourselves to what will be a severe military campaign, one unlike any other we have ever fought, one that will tear at the seams of our national conscience, we must first demand that our President explain himself and present his reasons in the most emphatic, most intelligible and in the clearest of ways; and
Whereas, We should not be swayed by the President's use of allegory to defend and define his call to war — it is not, nor was it ever simply a question of good versus evil, or right versus wrong — these distinctions simplify, reduce and attempt to justify a course of action that is problematic at best, and by no means morally sound in judgment; and
Whereas, We are a nation with a keen moral conscience, with the ability to reason through even the most trying circumstances that history has created; as such we should be resolute and morally determined to not repeat the same mistakes our leaders have made in the past, mistakes that have cost thousands of lives and, if perpetuated in the President's unilateral declaration of war, will undoubtedly cost thousands more; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Council of the City of New York opposes the Congressional Resolution allowing President George W. Bush to unilaterally declare war against Iraq without the authority of the United Nations, or without evidence that the United States is in imminent danger due to actions by the government of Iraq. | <urn:uuid:55a0257e-d445-4009-ac84-4cb6e53c6b2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gothamgazette.com/open-government/1750-the-first-draft-of-city-councils-anti-war-resolution-submitted-october-22-2002 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953801 | 804 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Democratic Party has decided to make marriage equality an official plank of its campaign platform. A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee said earlier this week that the DNC’s drafting committee had voted to add the party’s official support for gay marriage. Delegates are expected to approve the platform during the fall Democratic convention in North Carolina.
LGBT organizations are thrilled with the Democratic Party’s vote.
“Like Americans from all walks of life, the Democratic Party has recognised that committed and loving gay and lesbian couples deserve the right to have their relationships respected as equal under the law,” said Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign. “I believe that one day very soon the platforms of both major parties will include similar language on this issue.”
“This is a historic move by the Democratic Party that places it squarely on the right side of history, alongside President Obama,” said Rick Jacobs, founder of the Courage Campaign. “For the first time, a major U.S. political party has embraced gay and lesbian people as full Americans.”
Of course, anti-gay organizations like the National Organization for Marriage also rang in on the decision, saying, “if the DNC gets its way, the marriage amendments adopted in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Nevada and elsewhere will be overturned. That makes the definition of marriage a key issue in these swing states, and we fully intend to make sure that people realize that the outcome of the election is a proxy for the survival of traditional marriage in our nation.”
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Why this might not seem so easy
Thanks to filmmakers such as Michael Haneke and Ulrich Seidl, we’ve come to expect from Austrian cinema a perverse delight in revealing the dark impulses underneath the veneer of civilised society. Viennese director and screenwriter Jessica Hausner certainly leans toward that tendency, but she is less interested in limit-transgressing provocation than in nudging audiences into a zone of radical uncertainty.
She has become one of the most inventive and surprising auteurs in Austria’s arthouse scene since first sparking attention at European festivals in the late 90s with her film-school short Flora (1995) and diploma film Inter-View (1999). It’s not so much what happens, but the impossibility of knowing with full confidence how to interpret it, that causes unease in her cinema. What is authentic essence and what merely social construction or self-deception when it comes to the nature of love or faith? With her, doubt reigns.
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Hausner’s are female-centred films of ideas and philosophical experimentation. They seek not to console but to shake normalised assumptions about the way the world works to the core. Their impeccable look is aided by her constant collaborators: cinematographer Martin Gschlacht (with whom, along with two others, she founded production company coop99), production designer Katharina Wöppermann and costume designer Tanja Hausner (her sister).
Any air of aloofness felt from the skepticism and cerebral rigour of Hausner’s films is offset by their deliciously irreverent wit, together with the sense of radical freedom that comes from their non-judgmental curiosity, aligned with outsiders.
The best place to start – Lourdes
Lourdes (2009), made in the French language, is perhaps Hausner’s most acclaimed feature. With it, she applies her obsession with plumbing authenticity to the practice of spiritual worship. Christine (Sylvie Testud), who has severe multiple sclerosis, is visiting Lourdes in the south of France, where Roman Catholics believe a teenager saw the Virgin Mary in the 19th century. She finds the town “touristy”, but she’s not particularly religious anyway, signing up for pilgrimages as a means to travel. The nun (Léa Seydoux) that has been assigned to care for her also seems less than devoted, and is distracted flirting with a male colleague. Nevertheless, Christine’s condition improves so markedly she can rise from her wheelchair and walk. Is this a miracle? It’s hard to be sure in this droll, understated mystery.
What to watch next
More arch than tragic, 2014’s Amour fou is based on the death of 19th-century German poet Heinrich von Kleist, who shot his lover and then himself. Suffering what he calls a “deep and incurable sadness”, Kleist (Christian Friedel) asks around for a woman willing to die with him. He convinces Henriette Vogel (Birte Schoeink), the demure wife of a government official, who is in the throes of a baffling illness. While Kleist’s bloated self-regard, fickleness and theatrical melancholy are lampooned, it is Henriette that remains the elusive question mark. Meticulous tableaux capture interiors inspired by Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer, in a film that denies any glamour to the notion of ‘mad love’, even while suggesting the phenomenon might just be real.
Hausner’s forays into psychological horror mine the genre’s suspense and creeping disquiet in service to her vision of an irreducibly inexplicable universe, in which strangeness makes incursions into the safety of familiarity, and nobody can ever be known fully. In Hotel (2004), Irene (Franziska Weisz) has taken a job as a desk clerk in a remote Alpine hotel, where her predecessor disappeared. A series of odd incidents oppress her with a sense of menace, amplified by her co-workers’ hostility. Touches of David Lynch can be felt in its nighttime highways, vanishings into pitch blackness that seem like images from a dream, and, not least, its disregard for logical resolution.
Little Joe (2019), which is shot in English, asks if there is any essential integrity to our emotions, beyond the purely transactional or chemical. Emily Beecham won best actress at Cannes for her role as Alice, an ambitious plant breeder at a high-tech lab facility, and single mother to Joe (Kit Connor). She breaks safety protocols to create a genetically modified plant that’s infertile and emits a scent to make those who nurture it happy. She’s beset by guilt upon detecting uncanny changes in her son, fearing it might be the pollen, or that she is too consumed by work to be what society considers a good mother. The cinematography is bold and pristine. Rows of blazing-red, exotic flowers stir in the austere greenhouse, signalling potent forces Alice may not be able to contain.
Where not to start
Shot on digital video with non-professionals, Hausner’s first feature Lovely Rita (2001) is more unpolished than her subsequent work, but its lo-fi rawness works to give its shock ending even more kick. Rita (Barbara Osika) is a listless, disaffected outcast among her Catholic school peers, with a rocky home life. Intent on gaining sexual experience, she makes awkward overtures to a younger male friend, before setting her sights on the bus driver in her small Austrian town. Bedroom-dancing and nightclub sequences soundtracked by Moby’s ‘Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?’ and Italian eurodance date the film to its era. This is Hausner not yet in full command of her highly idiosyncratic voice, but already in play is her wicked humour and will to entertain unconventional female rebellion.
The mid-length Toast (2006) might best be described as a filmic essay or conceptual installation. In a kitchen of cloying pastels, a blonde woman in an embossed tracksuit (Susanne Wuest) prepares and eats toast, over and over, with an array of toppings. She sporadically leaves the room (to vomit?). With each repetition, this simple domestic act becomes more compulsive, even as any projection of interiority is deflected. Her face blank, she fills herself up, but gives nothing away to the camera. This is Hausner’s realm of absurd, contextless uncertainty, as the security of everyday acts is punctured by the arrival – psychic haunting even – of transgressive anomaly. | <urn:uuid:1b0d6825-c381-4e06-ab4d-d308db768428> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-with-jessica-hausner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946449 | 1,456 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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All of life’s little messes that can’t be composted, recycled, or reused—into the trash cart!
Pepperoni-peppered pizza boxes, frosting-covered cake containers...anything that has food residue goes in the trash, not the recycling.
Paper that has a waxy coating—used in most frozen food boxes to protect against moisture—can’t be recycled, so toss it in the trash.
When you’ve had a snack attack, toss those cheese-dusted bags and packs into the blue cart.
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As long as they're not rechargeable, you can dump dead alkaline batteries into the trash, but not the recycling.
Regular incandescent light bulbs can go in your regular trash bin (please secure them safely so they don't fill your bin with shards of broken glass). For fluorescent bulb disposal, call Lane County Waste Management at 541-682-4120.
Worry not, you can toss those personal hygiene products into your normal trash.
These can't be recycled, so go ahead and put them in your trash cart.
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All non-alkaline batteries need special handling—including batteries for your laptop or other devices. To recycle button, rechargeable alkaline, ni-Cad, lithium, and silver oxide batteries, contact Lane County Waste Management at 541-682-4120 or check with battery and electronic stores.
Latex paint is considered hazardous waste and cannot go out in the regular trash. For disposal options, call Lane County Waste Management at 541-682-4120.
You might want to pitch that sagging mattress into the trash, but it's too big for normal pickup. Call our friendly trash team to schedule a bulk pickup and we'll get it off your hands.
Keep those sharps out of the trash, please. Oregon State law mandates proper storage and disposal of used sharps (including needles, lancets, and syringes). Store sharps in an approved biohazard container and contact Lane County Waste Management at 541-682-4120 for drop-off options or check with your local pharmacist or physician.
Propane tanks are hazardous waste, so we can’t pick them up. Contact Lane County Waste Management at 541-682-4120 to find out where you can drop off your tank.
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Whether they're tubes or CFCs, fluorescent bulbs have hazardous mercury inside, so keep them out of your trash. Call Lane County Waste Management at 541-682-4120 for disposal options or check with a local hardware store.
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Austrian electric car manufacturer Kreisel Electric unleashed its newest beast today: the EVEX 910e. This sleek retro-design is essentially a 1967 Porsche 910 converted into a fully electric, wickedly fast supercar. Going from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds and reaching a top speed of almost 190 mph, the car rivals Tesla’s Model S P100D.
The limited edition 910e is equipped with a state-of-the-art 2-speed automated transmission, which helps the car switch effortlessly between gear ratios, and a custom designed cooling system. It’s all powered by Kreisel’s crown jewel: a 53-kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery pack that thanks to the car’s lightweight design (it’s just 2,500 pounds) can last up to 217 miles before needing a charge. The total lifespan of the battery is almost 250,000 miles.
For comparison, the Tesla Model S P100D has a 100 kWh battery and can last for 380 miles in ludicrous mode (ridiculously fast). It also goes 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, and it’s even faster with a gutted interior. But its top speed is only 155 mph, as set by the manufacturer. It’s no doubt that these two would duke it out on the raceway, but the 910e would most likely surpass it on a straightaway.
Kreisel in-home charger can rapidly charge the car’s battery, and also regenerates unused energy back to the house.
Unlike the PS100D, however, the 910e is nowhere near affordable. This is the first commercially available car from Kreisel and being that it is converted from an already rare Porsche, it doesn’t come cheap. The price tag for this supercar is a staggering one million euros, or $1.06 million.
Kreisel was started in 2014 by three brothers out of a small workshop in Freistadt, Austria about 120 miles outside of Vienna. The company has mostly been focused on their batteries but, back in January 2017, they worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger to create another custom recreation.
Schwarzenegger had the team convert the Mercedes G 350 d into an electric powerhouse that can go from 0 to 60 in 5.6 seconds — three seconds faster than the original. Even still, no Kreisel design has been as impressive as the 910e, and it is definitely raising the bar for all future e-car design. | <urn:uuid:d35ba418-9eee-4c7e-81cc-0d0c4b4a00b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nc.inverse.com/article/30033-kreisel-porsche-inspired-electric-supercar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937626 | 521 | 1.875 | 2 |
Last week, while speaking at a Los Angeles town hall meeting, President Obama reaffirmed his “unequivocal support” for network neutrality. Network neutrality is the principle that phone and cable companies shouldn’t create an unequal Web—one with new Internet “slow lanes” for (almost all) websites and special fast lanes sold to billion-dollar giants like Facebook and Apple.
Network neutrality is also something that Obama’s controversial appointee to head the Federal Communications Commission—Tom Wheeler—proposed, in May, to end. That was when Wheeler issued one of American history’s more unpopular legal proposals, which would give cable and phone companies substantial room to discriminate among websites, cut exclusive deals, and to impose new tolls on sites. Since proposing to radically change the Internet status quo, Wheeler has been the target of two viral John Oliver features, has inspired almost 4 million comments to the FCC (a record) nearly unanimously opposed to his proposal, inspired grass-roots organizations and giant companies to unite in a display evoking Lex Luthor and Superman joining forces, and has received criticism for being a former cable lobbyist even by fellow Democrats running in competitive elections. Everyone’s guess for a future presidential candidate—Hillary Clinton—has reiterated her longtime support for network neutrality. And Obama is also distancing himself from the toxic proposal, including in his statement last week.
While many observers realized the obvious importance of last week’s comments—Obama disagrees with Wheeler’s proposal—few understood just how severe and clear the disagreement was. By presidential standards, it was an epic smack-down.
Obama distanced himself from his controversial chairman when he said:
[The FCC] came out with some preliminary rules that I think the Netroots and a lot of folks in favor of net neutrality were concerned with. My appointee, Tom Wheeler, knows my position. I can’t—now that he’s there, I can’t just call him up and tell him exactly what to do.
Notice the framing: Obama doesn’t for a second suggest that “the Netroots and lots of folks” were mistaken about Wheeler’s proposal. When he references a hypothetical phone call, it doesn’t sound like he wants to cheer Wheeler on. Instead, he effectively apologizes that he can’t tell Wheeler “exactly what to do.” Nonetheless, Obama sternly reiterated, without picking up the phone, that he and the White House “expect whatever final rules to emerge to make sure that we’re not creating two or three or four tiers of Internet.” Since that statement, the White House tweeted the answer and even emailed it to thousands of Americans who signed up for updates at Whitehouse.gov.
While Wheeler has tried to downplay disagreements with the president, the differences of opinion are real. Wheeler’s rhetoric has been confusing in general—leading famously to two directly contradictory headlines (in the New York Times and Washington Post, no less) the day his proposal was released. While Wheeler loudly claimed to oppose those same fast lanes and slow lanes, his actual legal proposal would in fact permit fast lanes and slow lanes—including exclusive deals between a cable company and a website. We shouldn’t let these rhetorical games fool us; the proof is in his actual proposal.
I know one of the things that people are most concerned about is paid prioritization, the notion that somehow some folks can pay a little more money and get better service, more exclusive access to customers through the Internet. That’s something I’m opposed. I was opposed to it when I ran. I continue to be opposed to it now.
Obama’s answer reflected eight years of support, dating back to a podcast in 2006, in which he criticized letting a “corporate duopoly” of phone and cable companies “act as gatekeepers,” “dictate the future of the Internet,” and create “high-speed lanes” and relegate the rest of us “to the slow lanes.”
In August, after Obama made a similar pro-network neutrality comment against Internet “differentiation,” a reporter asked Wheeler whether Obama was calling for a “ban on paid prioritization.” Wheeler had a different formulation than a ban: The FCC chairman opposed paid prioritization only if that prioritization “hurts consumers, hurts innovation, hurts competition, degrades service” (see minute 83:40 on). That is not the same thing as what Obama believes. Under Obama’s rule, a startup knows that its giant competitor can’t leave it in the slow lane. Under Wheeler’s rule, cable and phone companies can cut almost any deal they want, and the startup would have to hire lawyers and economists to fight the giant companies’ legal armies and prove to the FCC that their competitor’s deal “hurts consumers” and “competition.” It’s a world of difference, a default yes, not a default no.
To be clear, there are three disagreements. Obama is saying no to fast lanes. Wheeler’s proposal would say yes to them. Second, Obama is saying yes to clear, simple rules without loopholes, while Wheeler calls for confusing legal presumptions against some or all fast lanes and vague standards regarding consumers’ harm. In law, a bright-line ban and convoluted legal loopholes and presumptions mean different things or outcomes. Third, Obama opposes what he calls “more exclusive” deals—meaning he is definitely opposed to the purely exclusive deals Wheeler would permit.
If you’ve followed the network neutrality debate, you’ve noticed a lot of discussion of which legal authority the FCC should use to adopt its rule. That might sound tedious, but the FCC has lost two major network neutrality cases in the courts for pointing at the wrong basis of authority. In January, in the second of these cases, the judges upheld just about everything the FCC did—except for the authority it chose. So, for obvious reasons, the key question remaining would be authority.
If you pointed to the First Amendment for your right to bear arms, and the Second Amendment for freedom of speech, you would lose in court. The same way, the FCC has to point to the right legal basis to win in court. Here the FCC will point either to “Section 706” or “Title II.” The FCC has already pointed to Section 706 in two previous cases—despite the calls of law professors and consumer groups. It lost them both, as predicted.
Section 706 empowers the FCC to adopt rules to encourage a “virtuous circle” of investment and innovation in Internet networks; that’s good, except the court provided one exception. Under 706, the FCC cannot ban online discrimination or new, variable charges on websites—even if the ban promotes the virtuous circle. The January decision could not have been clearer: The FCC can rely on Title II and ban fast lanes and new tolls … or it can rely on Section 706 and therefore authorize “fast lane Internet service” (second to last page), tons of discrimination and new fees, and harm startups, nonprofits, and small businesses. Banning online discrimination and new tolls requires not 706 but Title II as the authority.
Wheeler is pretending that Section 706 can get the job done—mainly because phone and cable companies oppose Title II politically, for the obvious reason that they oppose network neutrality and have spent hundreds of millions fighting it over a decade. In response to Obama’s August statements, Wheeler said “anything that interferes with the virtuous cycle [of innovation] is something that can and should be prohibited” and, in his opinion, some prioritization “interferes with the virtuous circle.” What Wheeler doesn’t say is what the courts have already said: Anything “that interferes with the virtuous cycle” except discrimination and tolls can be prohibited under 706. Title II is needed to ban paid prioritization—which is what the president “expects” his chairman to do. Indeed, Obama’s White House staff updated their answer to We the People Petition—asking him to support Title II—with a video of Obama’s town hall comments.
Disclosure: The author is a lawyer who has advised startups and nonprofits on net neutrality issues.
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One of the best ways to beat the heat is with cold crisp juicy cucumbers. Loaded with vitamins and minerals, cucumber keeps you cool and hydrated, nourishes the hair and skin and helps flush out toxins – amongst other benefits! An ingredient this good can definitely be used in more ways than in a kachumber salad. We put together a whole menu – right from a cold cucumber soup to delicious starters to main course and even a cucumber dessert to show you the different avatars of this versatile ingredient!
Pickled Cucumber – This recipe is a fabulous one, it is simple and also gives you a perfect mix of flavours and textures once you eat it. Slightly sour, yet sweet, crunchy and soft – you can prepare these pickled cucumbers and store in your refrigerator for an accompaniment that is full of oomph!
Cucumber Yogurt Soup with Papad – A perfect soup for summers. Cucumber and yogurt blended in with light spices, fresh dill leaves and topped with crunchy roasted papads. It’s light on the stomach and is so tasty you can easily gulp down a few glasses. Alternatively you can try making cucumber mint shots which is much like a cold cucumber soup with added freshness from mint and fresh chives!
Cucumber and Arugula Pinwheel Sandwiches – Cucumber can be used in so many more ways than a boring chutney sandwich. The slight pungency from arugula and freshness from dill leaves and cucumber blend perfectly with the creamy mayo in these attractive sandwiches. Now you know what to serve at your next tea party or in your kid’s tiffin!
Raita – Cucumber is a traditional ingredient in a raita. Take yours a notch higher by making this yogurt delicacy with little dices of boiled potatoes and cucumbers – add in a bunch of toasted flaxseeds and a sprinkle of roasted cumin powder for an earthy crunch and aroma. Makes a great accompaniment to any meal – especially biryanis and pulaos!
Pan Seared Cucumber – Did you ever think you can make cucumber kababs? Well we tried it out and the taste totally blew our mind. Scooped out cucumbers filled with a cheesy potato mixture, marinated, cut into roundels and pan seared in olive oil. The light and juicy yet crunchy cucumber makes a great contrast to the creamy potato cheese filling. A must try!
Kakdi ki Sabzi – This simple sabzi is perfect for days when you don’t want to toil in the kitchen but still want to eat something tasty, interesting and quick. Simply heat oil in a pan, add in mustard seeds, urad dal, broken dried red chillies asafetida and curry leaves. Toss diced cucumber in this, garnish with fresh grated coconut! Eat it as a salad or as a fab accompaniment to curd rice and rotis.
Beetroot Kakdi Magaz Pulao – This recipe doesn’t use whole cucumber, but crunchy cucumber seeds add a whole new dimension to an already interesting beetroot pulao. Use store bought dried cucumber seeds which are filled with fibre and are also good to munch on between meals.
Cucumber with Chicken and Fresh Red Chillies – A quick spicy stir fry made using chicken mince and cucumbers. The thin sliced cucumbers beautifully soak up the juices of the stir fry. Add a few pieces of water chestnut for crunch and have with a bowlful of fried rice or noodles!
Cucumber Curry – This might not be a very popular recipe but it’s time it gets its due. A spicy luscious coconut cream curry made with soft juicy cucumbers and a crunch with peanuts. Have this with some steamed rice or with soft rotis for a light delicious meal!
Dhondas – Not a lot of people must’ve thought of making a cake with cucumber, but in the western Konkan region of India, dhondas is a popular dessert recipe. This steamed sweet cake gets its lovely grainy texture with semolina and grated cucumber and sweetness from jaggery. Dhondas has much healthier ingredients than most cakes do and it is also really light on the stomach – so enjoy a couple of pieces stress free. You can add a hint of citrus tang to this recipe by drizzling it with some lemon syrup just before serving!
Cucumber Mojito – Beat the summer heat with this refreshing drink. Make a pitcher full and store in your refrigerator. The flavours from the cucumber, mint and lemon will instantly energize you on a hot sunny afternoon. Turn this into a lip smacking cocktail by adding a dash of rum – for your next summer cocktail party!
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Emil Nolde was one of the most important exponents of Expressionism, and is consid ered one of the main precursors of modernism. His virtuoso handling of colour and the incomparable expressiveness of his paintings, watercolours, and Unpainted Pictures astound viewers again and again, and ensure that every exhibition of his work is a great success.
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Before the construction of the building, you need a large amount of preliminary work, among other things - to create a plan for future construction with all drawings and details. We are talking about designing the CM and CMD.
KM – metal structures
The first stage of the Drawings. Development of metal structures begins at the moment, both obtained from the client source documents. A job is created by the developer, enlisting the cooperation necessary specialists. Face, that is to collect all the required information, It is responsible for the correctness of this information. These figures encompass all the required specification, image of the main projections, and to the same scheme of dislocation of elements and structural joints.
QMD – design metal exploded
It is on the basis of the Cabinet is formed, said drawings mark.
working blueprints QMD – this is unified specification for the creation and subsequent assembly and installation of designs. Set concludes at himself material for markup, obrabatyvaniya, welding, process, used to, to ensure a certain level of quality, as well as for structures installation.
what Unlike DRAWINGS CM of KMD?
The main discrepancy, what metalwork drawings KM are in the first stages of development, but KMD development - a follow-up, the final phase.
The first phase - the creation of common metal plans, its main components. And on the second worked already more detail:circuit details, steel grade, which will be used etc..
But it should be noted, that recently engineers emphasize a very small difference among these species DRAWINGS.
Indestructible one factor: KM - is the basis for design drawings KMD.
Often, it does lead to a certain blurring of faces, insofar as, the better foundation created, the easier it is to create it give specific, clarification. However, differences exist. The difference between these structures to the same design and the accompanying documents.
Rules of registration of drawings and CM CMD brand by section
Documents issued in accordance with the Russian Federation, the existing regulations. The volume of documents have to be acceptable, since unnecessary increase only spend time professionals, and insufficient volume will lead to a decrease in the quality of all subsequent works on the construction.
Making the graphic part of the documentation (design and working), it should be clearly guided by the relevant national standards.
This section should be considered:
The greater the drawings, the more comfortable to carry them out, However, large drawings require special printing devices, Time to fold, especially when the designer is doing it yourself. Consequently, acceptable to choose A3 and A2 format. To perform the master plans are required, usually, A0, A1, A2.
When placing DRAWINGS required to apply lines embodiments, defined by state standards. The right to use their show planner and competence will enable the drawing to be a good user experience.
When the images are created on the same scale, respectively, the thickness of all the lines is required to be uniform.
- scale drawings.
Selection of the scale is carried out with respect to image complexity. Use the smallest possible embodiment, which will ensure the clarity of the drawings and possible with them copies.
A set of methodological documentation, which establishes the general technical requirements, priority for razrabatyvanie, accounting, preservation and application of the design documentation.
A set of standards, describes a system of interrelated requirements for registration, development and use of engineering documentation.
- fonts (according to the National Standards 2.304-68).
To depict the material, from which produce structure or its element, using conventional graphic symbol.
Material to draw a fine line graphic designation. Interval hatch within the boundaries of a single drawing always more interval at hatching, which is a metal.
- The dimensions in the drawings.
- slopes, inscriptions.
- incisions, section, kinds, sites.
Paragraphs 8 by 11 applied according to GOST 21.1101-2013.
- Symbols (Symbols sanitation devices made in accordance with GOST 2.786-70).
- floor plan drawing.
- Drawing of the building section (according to GOST 21.1101-2013).
- The drawing of the facade of the building.
Stamps are issued in accordance with current building regulations. This section contains the main drawing dies, their description and files already created drafted stamps.
STATEMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS
- Signature of the chief engineer of the project.
- List of working drawings.
- The list of specifications.
- List of the main sets of working drawings.
- List of used documentation.
- Specification fill openings of windows.
- List-departure stamps KMD.
- Document, determining the composition of the steel KMD.
- Data on building, are presented in table form (Floor number; number of rooms; their purpose, on the height and area information; other).
- List of interior decoration.
- list of flooring.
- List of construction fasteners.
Typically, design of steel takes place in 3 phase.
- At this stage the technical possibility to use for the future structure of different of types of constructions, that, interacting statically, withstand the load and provide strength, commensurate options planning decisions, different location of the main load-bearing structures, various types of steel, profiles, else. This stage is called the technical or the variant design.
- The second phase has a design mark CM (metal structures).
- it KMD development DRAWINGS. They should be so detailed and kept procedure for the development of drawings KMD designers, that in the workshops of the factory worker with no problems able to produce part of the future buildings, and component assembly installation wizard and facilities, applying the drawings, I was able to do his job. In most cases, workers blueprints are being created on factories at own design department for use in the workshops of this industrial enterprise, however, such work may be on the order. In this scenario, the organization, which will design drawings, It is obliged to take account of technology and equipment, present at the factory.
After the construction drawings are stored in the SMS enterprises and passport data are buildings or structures.
The composition of the project and working documents
documentation Package (Design and working) KM for creating a one or two step.
Everything is subject to the complexity of the structure of the future, and describes the contract and the RFP.
Project documentation consists of 2 parts: textual and graphical.
The first part includes data on approved technical and engineering solutions, the results of the calculation, argumentation solutions, references to normative documents.
The second comprises approved solutions in the form of drawings and diagrams.
Working documents, which is transmitted to the customer, consists of working drawings KM.
Composition section KM
According to the results of the collected materials to create a project KM, comprising:
- general information, described:
- Information about the load and impact, to calculate design;
- Information about a particular object;
- design designs diagram with information about the load and the impact with the required explanations (If you want to);
- sources of information on the existing rules for the design, terms of reference and documents, establishing standards and guidelines for rolled metal, as well as about the welds and fasteners;
- Description reciprocal adjacencies structural elements, performed during mounting;
- information about protecting structures from rust;
- requirements for the production and assembly;
- Symbols used and designations anchorages;
- other auxiliary data.
- Specification metal – list by varieties profiles, which is contains GUEST, brand steel and number profile by categories designs and on all future an object at whole.
- Registry data about section elements at addictions from acting at them efforts or constructive features.
- Scheme designs – are being created So, in order to position each element It was definitely definitely from considering geometry designed building. On schemes applied marking elements and typical knots, but also carried out their binding to already existing constructions, if a those are available.
- Nodes - all major components have to be exhaustively, thoroughly developed, do not forget to specify sectional node elements, their bindings, the number of bolts, etc..
Composition section KMD
- Title page. This section contains information about the client, designer and project name. On a sheet of stamps and signatures are put Attorneys persons. Since there are no clear rules of registration of title pages, their shape varies.
- Drawings of each component for all metal structures.
- Mounting-departure circuit elements labeled (parts, transported to the construction site).
- Data about the mounting compound.
- The drawings and diagrams fasteners, such as a bolt, rivet, other.
- Data about the mounting components and joints, types of connecting parts.
How is the cost of developing?
Price projection is due to a certain number of parameters, Consequently, is formed for each project separately. The cost depends on the following circumstances:
- co-weight steel structures, defined in Section KM;
- scope of the project;
- Date of completion;
- complexity of the project level;
- the availability of high-quality original documents;
- specific request of the customer, taken into account when designing.
What matters drawings KM development costs and CMD?
- The cost depends on the tonnage, ie. the cost of developing drawings KMD per ton metal structures. Current setting is convenient and customers, and developers.
- Price per hour engineer, spent on the project.
This option has gained popularity for foreign customers due to the fact, that he is familiar and comfortable for them.
- Unchanged documented cost of the whole project.
This calculation in comfort and style with a large number of similar projects or for small size design.
undoubtedly, each project is evaluated individually, but there are basic starting points for the facial features of different designs. The lower boundary of the price - a project with a large amount of design, top - small projects.
Drawings of metal structures: production time
The timeframe for drawing creation is fully subject to individual design, regular repetition of elements, uniformity components, Customer response to operational changes in coordination and oversights, deviations in the package of documents. Among other things, should take into account existing currently busy designers. Accurate and deadline for completion of work on the drawings KMD can be determined after a preliminary study of the drawings KM, which are provided by the client.
If you want to, the drawings may give and parts, what, First of all, will produce work, and secondly, the forced downtime reduced. Besides stipulated time interval issuing the first part and the amount of KMD further DRAWINGS.
Technology development KMD
- Any project created in the three-dimensional graphics, which will carefully consider every detail and dock project.
- Automatically generated by the program and specifications sheet.
- Information for machine tools with CNC in formats dxf and nc.
- Automatic numbering of all parts and assemblies.
Form the date set KMD
- PDF - a recognized format for the creation and printing of books, forms, documents in electronic form. Single Page: Drawing one is equal to one multi-page file, and: the whole project is given to the customer in a single file.
- DWG (on request).
- 3D - different perspectives (on request).
- other formats (on request).
The specificity of our work
All drawings are created by highly skilled specialists. Any item is created based on the requirements specification, drawn up together with the customer.
At the same time it takes into account many parameters:
- to national and international standards;
- client recommendation;
- built area;
- the specificity of operation in the future.
Experts use only licensed software.
- Big an experience at development drawings and CM CMD.
- Exist possibility by wish client gradually give away necessary documents.
- Presence at state great quantity qualified constructors.
- rules development drawings QMD and regulations execution drawings QMD absolutely fully counted experts studio «INSAJT».
Professional and accurate Development of the CM and CMD It allows to save time and optimize the final price.
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10. Record snowfall and early spring moisture were enough to increase risk from the beginning of the season.
9. We don’t have truly resistant varieties. Even varieties with higher tolerance to sclerotinia stem rot can benefit from a fungicide application with average yield potential and good moisture before, during and after flowering.
8. Fungicide is like crop insurance. It’s a risk management tool you use based on foreseen risk, not current evident damage.
7.Lower leaves in some areas are already showing sclerotinia infection.
6. The Prairies had 21 million acres of canola last year, and a lot of sclerotinia stem rot infection. Sclerotia load in soils is high, and each sclerotia body can produce 15 apothecia. That’s a lot of spores.
5. We have almost 20 million acres of canola this year. With the big crop last year, all acres are at risk this year. Sclerotinia is one disease where, with this many acres across the Prairies, it doesn’t really matter if you are on a 1 in 4 rotation — you’re still at risk.
4. Relative humidity. High humidity during and after flowering promotes higher infection, even if it doesn’t rain. Keep in mind that it’s humidity in the canopy that matters, and canopy humidity is often higher than in the air above.
3. Morning dew lingers, even on hot days. Take a walk in your canola fields mid morning. If you pants get wet from dew, this is enough moisture to advance the disease, even if afternoons are hot and dry. Risk is even greater if still wet in mid afternoon.
2. Yield potential this year is average to above average. With yield potential above 30 bu./ac., you are more likely to get an economic return from fungicide.
1. Moisture. Across the Prairies we had moist soils in the two weeks leading up to flowering. This promotes germination of the apothecia that shoot spores into the canopy at flowering. Average rainfall is enough for severe infection.
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The composition of the Dutch population is slowly changing due to the influx of migrants and children. The General Statistics Office affirmed the annual report on the integration of 2018. Statistics The Netherlands publishes the last state of immigration, migration and integration every two years.
In this year's edition, Dutch Statistics Researchers have been deepening in the development of the Dutch population. There is no anticipation about the future because it is difficult. Birth waves or sudden growth in immigration are predicted. We have seen, above all, the last three years.
Between January 2015 and January 1, 2018, the number of inhabitants with less than $ 26,000 was delayed. There were 306,000 inhabitants in the background of migration. The biggest innovation team in the last years was Syrian people.
Almost a quarter (23%) of January 1, 2018, Dutch populations had a migration background. Three years earlier it is a percentage point. Not more than half of these people were born in the Netherlands. Migrant children born in the Netherlands are mostly Moroccans, South American, Antillians, or Turkmen. They are called second generation.
Dutch-born children In 2017, about 14% are a second-generation child. "The whole group of second-generation children (up to 50 years old) is still relatively small in the Netherlands," according to the Statistics Netherlands. "There are less than 50,000 less than 50,000 parents whose parents do not have a western background, that is, 1.9% of Dutch origin according to the same age group."
Immigration from other Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian and Eastern European countries has significantly increased since entering into the European Union in these countries. The new EU member states still come from the Netherlands, but it is not working, the rest of the family continues to grow.
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The last time Rep. John Lewis (D.- Ga.) entered the dining room at Dooky Chase’s, the restaurant helmed by the late culinary icon Leah Chase, he walked in to applause.
The Georgia congressman and lauded civil rights leader was in New Orleans in mid-May to receive an honorary degree from Tulane University when he and his staff decided to stop into Dooky Chase’s for an evening meal.
Lewis’ party didn’t have a reservation, but the man doing security for the restaurant recognized the civil rights hero and allowed him and his staff to be seated.
“And the moment I walked in, I tell you, the place was full. Just packed,” Lewis told AL.com over the phone. “And the people cheered and cheered.”
After briefly seating Lewis and his team at a table in the dining room, restaurant staff escorted Lewis’ party to a more private room where the veteran politician could relax.
“We had this wonderful, beautiful meal,” Lewis said.
The civil rights icon indeed ate well that night. Cheery and good-natured, the Georgia Democrat and Alabama native spoke fondly of his repast.
“Well, I had catfish. I had fried catfish. But before getting the catfish, I had the regular. The gumbo. You cannot go there without eating it. I had a small cup. And then I got a second cup.”
Next, the congressman warmly recounted the vegetables, or as he likes to call them, “vegebles,” with a silent ‘t’: sweet potatoes, okra, and a small salad.
“I was pretty full, really,” Lewis said. “ I always try to stop by there when we go to New Orleans.”
Lewis had hoped to greet Chase during his visit, but the chef wasn’t in the restaurant that night.
“They told me (she) was ill and that she was at home. I’d really wanted to come by and say hello to her.”
Known as the “Queen of Creole Cuisine,” Leah Chase died on Saturday, June 1. She was 96.
Lewis has been a regular at Dooky Chase’s since the height of the civil rights movement in 1960s. The restaurant, which first opened in the 1940s as a bar room and sandwich shop in segregated New Orleans, would later morph into the only fine dining restaurant for black patrons in the city.
Chase, who was as much an activist as she was a restaurateur, fed the civil rights movement as freedom fighters gathered in the dining room to strategize over bowls of gumbo. A celebrated Green Book location, Dooky Chase’s was a guaranteed haven for civil rights leaders and thinkers when they came to dine in New Orleans, allowing them to gather over food and fellowship. With elegantly set tables, Leah Chase and her husband, Edgar Dooky Chase Jr., served activists such as the Freedom Riders with dignity and hospitality.
Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders, would never forget his first meal at the revered restaurant or the graciousness of the Chases.
“They were just so wonderful. And welcoming,” Lewis said. “I'd never had gumbo before, until I went there. The climate was just so warm. It was more than just the food, it was the surroundings. I was so impressed when I walked in. They recognized me and they were pleased that we would come by the restaurant and have a meal.”
Lewis spoke fondly of the dishes he enjoyed, recounting his favorites.
“The rice. Just the gumbo and rice all together. The bread. Everything.”
But his most cherished dish was one that reminded him of his hometown.
“It was not just the gumbo, but the sweet potatoes that I loved. I grew up in rural Alabama. We had a lot of sweet potatoes,” the Troy native said. “And then having baked sweet potatoes. It made my day.”
It is well documented that Dooky Chase’s nourished the stomachs of freedom fighters. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved Leah Chase’s ribs. James Baldwin loved her gumbo, and Nat King Cole, another Alabama icon, always wanted a four-minute egg.
Lewis says he can’t exactly remember what his fellow activists ate when they dined. But when remembering his meals at the Treme restaurant, some of his fondest memories go back to a plate of his beloved sweet potatoes.
“I know my colleague had some gumbo. I don’t know what else he had, because I was trying to concentrate on my own plate. And pay attention to my own food,” he said, laughing. “I don’t think we got any dessert. I think we let the sweet potatoes serve as the dessert.”
Leah Chase was also a devoted patron of the arts, and the restaurant was a beacon for black artists. With the walls of the dining room lined with paintings, drawings, and prints, Dooky Chase’s was the first gallery for black art in New Orleans-- a place for black artists to display their work during a time when their art wasn’t shown in the city’s galleries and museums.
During the ‘60s, Lewis says he was starting to become interested in African American art, and dining at Dooky Chase’s exposed him to a world of culture he wanted to explore.
“It (wasn’t) just the food. It was (also) waiting for the meal. I just took a look around at the walls. And it was all of this beautiful, colorful African American art. And it was very inspiring, very uplifting.”
Beyond Leah Chase’s signature Creole cuisine, what stood out the most to Lewis was Chase’s charm and inviting demeanor. She never seemed rushed, said Lewis, even at the restaurant’s busiest times.
“You felt at home in her presence. And she paid attention to you. She was not looking all around to see what was happening. She wanted to know-- ‘How are things going? What are y’all doing now?’ ” said Lewis. "She had a great sense of interest in talking about the early days when you came to New Orleans to visit and have a meal with different individuals from the civil rights movement.”
As the decades passed, Lewis would frequently return to Dooky Chase’s. When the restaurant flooded after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, destroying everything but the art on the walls, the Chases vowed to rebuild. After Leah Chase spent time in Birmingham, she returned to Louisiana where lived in a FEMA trailer before she and her husband reopened Dooky Chase’s two years later.
Lewis remembers visiting the restaurant after it reopened with leaders from the Faith & Politics Institute. Once again, the restaurant became a gathering spot for Lewis, as he and his fellow politicians met with the Chases and local elected officials in New Orleans.
Early this week, New Orleans residents celebrated Leah Chase’s legacy with a second line through the streets of Treme. To further preserve her legacy of activism and dedication to food and the arts, the president and CEO of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, has started a petition to rename New Orleans’ Lee Circle as “Leah Circle.”
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EthosEnergy: On a Mission to Make Energy Affordable, Available and Sustainable
The energy crisis has caused a wave of rising prices in economies across the globe. EthosEnergy helps companies and power plants reduce operating costs and decrease harmful emissions to the environment, supporting companies in the energy transition with the overarching goal of making energy available, reliable and sustainable for all.
EthosEnergy is among a number of companies leading technological changes in the energy industry.
Countries worldwide and leading organisations in the industry are not immune from the crisis, as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the awareness and willingness to deal with global environmental issues, there is almost no industrialised country that is not investing resources in developing alternative energy technologies. We’ve seen economies stop the use of coal, switch to gas, reduce carbon emissions, implement electric transportation, wind energy, solar energy, hydroelectric energy, geothermal energy and other alternatives.
EthosEnergy has been operating for more than 50 years in over 100 countries around the world, providing advanced services and customised solutions for power plants and energy producers, in the fields of electricity, gas, fuel, industry and aviation. EthosEnergy can find effective solutions to complex challenges for its customers, helping them align with the forefront of technological capabilities and advanced systems, reducing the total cost and benefiting from significant improvements in the life cycle of equipment.
According to Fabrizio Fabbri, executive vice-president of east hemisphere at EthosEnergy, “The transition to renewable energy, that will also influence price reductions, must begin today. From our experience with partners in the United States and Europe, this is not a change that occurs overnight, it is rather a long process that must be implemented transversally and in-depth in all sectors of the industry. And for that to happen, there must be cooperation between companies, trade bodies and organisations worldwide”.
The cost-saving potential of extending life on existing assets is huge
Within the energy industry, as equipment approaches the end of its lifecycle its efficiency decreases. The costs of operation and maintenance increase and the carbon footprint grows.
EthosEnergy believes and proves that there is an economic and environmental benefit in upgrading and reusing equipment over simply disposing of it and buying new. This is because the production of new equipment, such as turbines, compressors, etc, usually takes a considerable amount of time and produces a larger carbon footprint in the manufacturing process versus upgrading the existing asset.
EthosEnergy uses advanced technology worldwide to extend the life of industrial equipment and systems, increasing energy efficiency and flattening the greenhouse gas emissions curve. Some customers can upgrade existing equipment and get similar or even better output at much lower costs, instead of replacing most or all the equipment. Even companies that still use linear models, like oil & gas and fuel companies, can begin incorporating technological changes into their systems gradually today.
For example, in a project with a US customer, steam turbine blades were upgraded by the exclusive EthosEnergy life extension technology. The plant saved 60% in outage costs (when compared to replacing the above with a new product). This work was completed within a month, while ordering and manufacturing new blades would have taken a year and a half.
In another project at a chemical refinery using gas turbines, the customer sought to maximise performance and efficiency, and after the project was completed by EthosEnergy, electricity generation was increased by 70,000MW per year and CO₂ emissions were reduced by 27 tons, with efficiency contributing to burning less fuel for turbine propulsion and saving 465,000MMBtu.
“We have been able to bring a reduction in capital and operating expenditures among power plants and companies by improving and upgrading the performance capabilities of existing equipment and increasing equipment life cycle by over one hundred percent”, says Fabbri.
Overcoming the energy crisis depends on collaboration between business, governmental and academic organisations
The energy industry understands that it has a responsibility to find ways to improve energy production processes and address the challenges of the future. The outdated and uneconomical linear model of production-consumption-disposal is slowly giving way to innovative circular models, which emphasise the maximisation of equipment life cycle, reducing waste volume, reusing resources and by-products, prioritising renewable inputs, and more.
We are also witnessing a younger generation entering the business world and decision-makers circles, that prefer responsible investments managed in accordance with ESG criteria. In addition, when investors examine organisations and companies according to their carbon footprint and environmental protection criteria, the labour market and core company and organisation values change accordingly too.
At EthosEnergy, the ESG Programme has also been aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Programme – an action plan for all countries of the world to promote growth and prosperity while preserving the planet, adopted by all UN member states in 2015.
“We welcome the fact that environmental responsibility is growing and the demand for sustainable and green energy is rising in the business world and energy sector. In order to overcome the energy crisis, a correlation between business conduct, social impact and environmental responsibility is required”, Fabbri adds, “We have set ourselves the goal of investing in the development and implementation of technological processes, innovative types of energy and ways to make it accessible to our customers, and we will continue to support and guide customers throughout the process while keeping our commitment to becoming leaders in the field of sustainable energy”.
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If you are planning to leave South Africa or have already left South Africa, there are key financial factors to consider in order to minimize tax obligations. William Louw, South African Tax Director at Emigration Specialist Sable International talks to BizNews, about how to navigate South Africa’s delicate tax system. – Jackie Cameron
William Louw on the current tax scenarios he is currently seeing:
One of the common things I see is that a lot of South Africans have left without informing SARS of their changing tax status and that can have a ripple effect. We’re also finding that many more people are planning the tax exit, which means they can then plan what taxes to pay and make sure they have the cash they need. There are also quite a few South Africans coming back, who then have to decide what to do and how to value their assets coming back into the South African tax net.
On problems related to tax obligations when working abroad:
What you need to understand is that while you are a South African tax resident, you are paying taxes on your worldwide income. You are liable for capital gains tax on your worldwide assets. As a non-tax resident in South Africa, you are only liable for taxes on your income of South African origin and your assets of South African origin. There is a twofold change here – one being income streams and the other being capital assets subject to tax in South Africa.
Because SARS loses its tax rights on your assets the moment you change your tax status, SARS considers that you are selling your global assets from your own local to your foreign self, triggering capital gains before you leave. the South African tax net. This is usually the biggest risk for people who don’t plan properly.
Certain assets are specifically excluded because they are still considered a South African source or do not trigger a tax event. South African property, because it cannot leave South Africa, is still subject to South African tax. As such, it does not trigger any tax when you change your tax status. When you sell it at the end, then you will pay your taxes at that time.
When moving offshore:
You should get tax advice from both countries, to make sure you understand what happens when you enter tax jurisdiction and what happens when you exit tax jurisdiction. One of the key factors is that the South African capital gains tax works slightly differently than many other countries. In other countries, this is often a fixed rate that you pay based on the capital gain. However, in South Africa what happens is that part of the capital gain is added to your normal taxable income in that tax year.
If you don’t plan properly and leave towards the end of the South African tax year, then you will add your capital gains tax on top of any income you earned for the year. full – which could represent 11 months of salary. Then you pay a higher tax rate because in South Africa you go from 18% to a maximum of 45%. If you go at the start of a South African tax year, you usually have very little South African income, which means that when you add capital gains tax to that, you find that the Tax is much more acceptable and easier to manage, which means you don’t have as much of a cash flow problem.
You should also be aware that if you have to pay tax on the change in your tax status, that tax is often due before you actually change your tax status – which is a tax burden that you should plan for and be prepared to. pay immediately. . If you don’t pay it and then file your income tax return, SARS is allowed to charge penalties for late submission and late payment of taxes – which you don’t want to do.
When emigrating to retirement:
It can be just as complex. Another thing that needs to be tossed into the mix for someone like that is that they may have retirement pensions or the like in South Africa – which they have already converted into a living annuity. Once it is in a living annuity it should always be paid like that from South Africa. These living annuities are controlled, in large part, by a double taxation agreement – how countries can tax them. For the UK, if you receive an annuity from a South African source, you must exempt it from South African tax, as you are only supposed to pay tax in the UK.
Then in South Africa you have to apply for an exemption every year with SARS and you have to file a tax return every year with SARS. It takes extra work, even if you’ve been away from South Africa for 10 or 15 years – you could continue to do so for the rest of your life. If you have significant savings and planning like this, we recommend that you speak to a wealth management team like ours so they can plan what to do with it. One of the main things our wealth team could help you with is trying to convert your retirement annuity to a foreign currency base so that it is easier to monitor the security of your capital base rather than the volatility of the South African rand.
On the complicated scenarios facing South Africans:
One of the most complicated scenarios where the family unit begins to move. Often in South Africa it is difficult for a white man to find work, especially when he is older. The family doesn’t necessarily want to leave the country, which means if he goes abroad to earn an income his tax status might not have changed – even if he can spend a week or two in South Africa – because his family is still there.
He returns the funds, making it difficult for tax residency – and he’s likely to be a South African tax resident. If so, then he is sitting with a potential problem. The other problem that is often a problem for South Africans is when they are working on boats in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean, and they are on a private charter which is not rented by the owners. to third parties. Then that income stream is exempt from South Africa and everything is pulled into the South African tax net. Many of these people don’t like to hear this news.
* This podcast is proudly brought to you by Sable International.
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In The Wake of Hatred
I hatets fotspor
In this book Øyvind Strømmen looks at the modern hatred towards Muslims. With elements of reportage, and with an international approach, Strømmen asks where this hatred came from and why it came about.
We are introduced to “Jørgen”, who was involved in online debates and met Breivik after a political event in Oslo in December 2009. “Jørgen” says that he – looking back – feels that both his thoughts and the thoughts of others were characterized by a kind of gloomy darkness at that time in 2009. This negative message and hatred was regurgitated again and again, and repeated on different web sites. He now thinks it necessary to look at recent history to understand how this hate was able to blossom, and to explain the tragedy of the terror attacks on Oslo and Utøya on the 22nd July 2011.
With this as the foundation, the book takes us on several journeys. One of them goes to Luton, described by extreme right-wing websites as a kind of hell on Earth. Another goes to Bosnia, where the hatred towards Muslims resulted in the massacre in Srebrenica. This is also highlighted through the story of a suicide at Notre Dame and a story of a young man who ran amok in the streets of Antwerp.
The book also looks at the evolution of the so-called anti-jihad blogosphere, and discusses the English Defence League and how the so-called Eurabia way of thinking has spread.
This is the third book in a stand-alone trilogy Øyvind Strømmen has written in the wake of July 22nd. The two first books, The Dark Network (2012) and The Black Thread (2013) have been sold to Finland, France and Sweden.
Øyvind Strømmen (1980–) has for many years been following the internet exchanges between those who carry on the debate on the extreme right, and has established himself as one of the leading authorities on right wing extremism. In 2011 he was voted the “Freelancer of the year”. Strømmen is one of the few able to give us badly needed knowledge about this world in the wake of the terror attacs of July 22nd 2011.
Cappelen Damm 2014
“One of the best-informed Norwegian journalists when it comes to fascism and Muslim hatred in Europe. … I hatets fotspor is characterised by Øyvind Strømen’s great narrative and unique perspective. He starts with his own experiences and blends thorough research with interviews and reports in a form of prose which seems both reliable and built on a wide range of verifiable sources.”
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Return to: Barberton History Through Postcards
Fire Station No. 1
Opened in 1905, under Fire Chief J.M. Royston, Barberton’s first fire station (No. 1) still stands to this day at 520 Wooster Road West. Today it is occupied by Barberton Printcraft.
In 1905, the Barberton’s Fire Department consisted of the chief and five men. They also used a network of volunteers to assist on actual fires.
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Studying in a regional area is a fantastic opportunity for international students to experience Australia beyond busy major cities. But with coronavirus lockdowns restricting movement and impacting work and study options, you may be left feeling isolated and insecure.
We’ve put together a guide to the various resources available to anyone studying in a regional area and in need of support through this challenging time. For more information on national initiatives and state relief funds, click here. Students in capital cities can also click here to find out about emergency food relief initiatives.
If you’re in a regional area, check out some of the resources and initiatives available to you.
New South Wales
For international students studying throughout New South Wales, the NSW Government will be accepting applications for financial assistance in the coming weeks. The assistance will focus on students stranded in Australia due to COVID-19 and will include accommodation support, a 24/7 hotline for free advice on legal, medical, and mental health issues, and free subscriptions to multilingual student app, “My Legal Mate”.
The University of Newcastle has opened the COVID-19 Student Hardship Fund, which offers two types of financial relief to students. Find out more here.
The University of Newcastle and health insurer nib also recently partnered to supply 700 Health and Hygiene Packages, consisting of essential health items. These included hand sanitiser, hand wash, toothbrushes and toothpaste, multivitamins, feminine hygiene products and razors for men. The initiative also provides access to mental health resources, an essential aspect of supporting international students through this challenging time.
The University of Wollongong is offering a living expense grant of up to $1,500 for international students experiencing hardship.
The Little Pantry runs a food bank program every Thursday. There are a range of food packages available at very affordable prices, and fruit, vegetables and bread are included for free as an addition to your order. Click here for more information.
At TAFE NSW Bathurst, you can access a range of support services. Click here to find out more.
Not-for-profit organisation, Adra Community Food Pantry, is a great place to visit if you need food relief. Visit the Facebook page for details.
Wodonga Local Food Network has a comprehensive list of food relief options in the Albury-Wodonga region.
Wodonga TAFE provides free counselling to all of its students. Find out how to make an appointment here.
Southern Cross University has put together a guide to where you can seek support on a range of issues, including food relief, accommodation, crisis support and more. Click here for more information.
The Queensland Government is providing one-off grants of $500 to eligible international students who are studying at educational institutions that are not universities or TAFE Queensland. Find out more here.
The Gold Coast Student Hub is providing weekly food relief of grocery packs and frozen meals to international students through to July. Students are encouraged to book an appointment with the organisation’s counselling service for further information on local initiatives and tailored support through personal circumstances.
Study Gold Coast is another valuable resource for international students. The organisation offers one-on-one counselling sessions for those looking for personalised advice and mental health services, and can direct students to available support networks. These networks include tenancy support and food banks operating in the Gold Coast area.
Griffith University’s COVID-19 Student Support Bursary is available to students who have experienced significant financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The University is also running a program where students can loan computers for free.
Study Cairns is supporting international students by providing nutritious meals (available daily at the Cairns Student Hub and via drop-off for students at James Cook University and the Northern Beaches area) and setting up an initiative that connects international students with locals so they can practise their English.
James Cook University has put together a Student Success Support Package, which incorporates relief options across a range of areas including financial aid, academic support, and health and wellbeing. Find out more here.
International students studying at CQUniversity should contact firstname.lastname@example.org for information on food relief, learning resources and other types of support.
Applications for the University of Southern Queensland’s COVID-19 Student Financial Assistance Scheme are open until 7 July. Through the Scheme, you may be able to access payments to cover living expenses and provision of learning resources and technology.
USC is also offering a number of other support programs, including free online counselling, free online career counselling and academic assistance.
For international students studying throughout Victoria, applications are currently open for the International Student Emergency Relief Fund. The Victorian Government’s $45 million initiative aims to support international students who have suffered job and income loss due to COVID-19, and will be delivered in two streams based on your education provider. Information on eligibility for the fund can be found at studymelbourne.vic.gov.au.
Students studying at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus or at Bendigo TAFE can access a number of food relief initiatives. Click here to find an extensive list.
La Trobe University is also providing a number of wellbeing and learning support services. You can find out more on the La Trobe University website.
If you need mental health support, Bendigo TAFE provides free counselling to all of its students. Find out the contact details here.
The City of Ballarat is offering emergency food and personal care packages. You can find out more here.
Federation University also has a number of support options, which you can read about on their website.
For more information on support in the Ballarat community, including “Boredom Busters” and help for job seekers, click here.
If you’re looking for food relief in Geelong, Feed Geelong has put together an extensive list of places offering emergency food. View the list here.
Deakin University has launched a financial support scheme, which is available to its international students. Click here for more information and to apply.
Students studying at The Gordon TAFE can access free counselling, currently being conducted via email, phone and video. The counselling covers advice on managing financial hardship, too. Find more information here. The Gordon TAFE is also offering free career counselling to help with job applications, resumes, interview skills and more.
The South Australian Government is committed to supporting international students, including those studying in regional areas such as Mount Gambier. The $13.8 million International Student Support Package offered by the state government is intended for students enrolled in the state’s three public universities, University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia, plus a $500 emergency cash grant and $200 one-off payment for other international students who have been impacted by COVID-19.
The University of South Australia is supporting regional students through a Student Hardship Fund, specialised support contacts in regional study areas and technology loans for students studying remotely.
For students studying in other parts of South Australia, Flinders University and the University of Adelaide are offering respective support packages for all students, including cash payments, food relief through Foodbank, and IT support.
StudyPerth has set up StudyPerth Crisis Relief to cover four key aspects of COVID-19 support: food, shelter, rights and support, and health and wellbeing. The organisation encourages students to reach out for advice and further information, and to refer to their institutions’ support options before applying for StudyPerth Crisis Relief.
Visit the StudyPerth website for more information on support systems for students studying in WA, including food assistance, shelter assistance and a list of current job openings.
Curtin University, with campuses across Perth and Kalgoorlie, is offering international students access to a Financial and Housing Support Bursary (applications are open until 5 June) and emergency food relief.
Students studying at TAFE WA South Regional can access a range of services, including mental health and study skills support. Find out more here.
Edith Cowan University is supporting students through technology assistance, career support and access to ECU Support Grants. You can also learn more about the University’s support services by visiting the ECU website.
Last month, the Tasmanian Government unveiled a $3 million package to support around 26,000 temporary visa holders, including student visa holders. Pandemic Isolation Assistance Grants are available to students who can demonstrate financial hardship. More details can be found here.
City Mission has a range of support services on offer, including basic food packages and emergency relief, for students in Burnie and Launceston. Click here to learn more.
Students studying at any of TasTAFE’s regional locations may be able to provide online counselling, as well as other kinds of support. Find out more here.
The Find Help Tas website is also a fantastic resource detailing all of the support services on offer in the state.
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SCIENCE, SPIRIT, WORLD & BODY
What is ‘woo’? If you’re someone who’s always been skeptical or prides themselves on being science-minded, finding yourself drawn into the world of the ‘woo’ can feel unsettling and make you wonder if you’re losing your mind.
And yet, all over the world people who never thought they’d see the day are finding themselves drawn into the world of spirituality and ‘awakenings’.
In What the Woo, Katherine explores how science and spirituality can mix, especially in the realm of mind, body and health, where it can sometimes go wrong, what things like ‘channeling’ and ‘getting guidance’ mean and how we can hold on to our grasp of what’s really real as we explore our own ‘woo’ side. | <urn:uuid:1064c139-710d-41c3-8433-31d41667c6ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://miscellany.me.uk/podcast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.900765 | 196 | 1.734375 | 2 |
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Kent Hall had the perfect life. He fought in the Vietnam War and finished his military career as a sergeant.
“Living that Mr. All American life with three beautiful kids, a beautiful wife,” Hall said. I lived it rather well.
But after the war, he begins a new internal battle.
“I didn’t want to live anymore, and how do you explain that,” Hall said. “I could not.”
In the summer of 1980, Hall walked into a bank.
“I knew the banks had a policy of not attacking,” Hall said.
He thought that maybe if he tried to rob it, the police would kill him, and his wife and children might take his life insurance.
“I had a toy gun, I didn’t have a real gun. I’ve never owned a real gun in my life,” Hall said.
He robbed that bank, but he got away.
“They called me the jogging bandit because I never ran away, I just jogged and rushed to catch up, if you will,” Hall said.
Every month for two years, he robs a bank.
“I robbed another bank, robbed another bank, robbed another bank,” Hall said.
Until a cop risks his own life, tackles and arrests him, and his life is changed forever.
“When I was arrested, there was a police officer in Sylvania, Ohio who somehow broke protocol,” Hall said. “He shouldn’t have done that and he saved my life.”
Facing 50 years in prison, Kent entered a plea deal and spent six and a half years thinking.
“I sat in my bunk and wrote letters to different people and so on and started questioning God,” Hall said.
Until the answer came to him by writing on the wall.
“Through the tears, on the wall right next to me were three words,” Hall said. “God loves everyone.”
This is the day his life began to change.
“It was like an overwhelming peace,” Hall said. “It was like I knew it wasn’t me doing all that other stuff.”
Fourteen years ago, Hall was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress related to his time as a sergeant in the Vietnam War.
“Even though you’re so suicidal, there’s still that survival instinct,” Hall said.
Not only did he survive, he thrived.
“In 2014, I came back to Michigan and hosted the first PTSI, Post Traumatic Stress Injury, Awareness Day,” Hall said.
Since then, 46 states have changed the word trouble to hurt, and Hall has advocated for each of them with the nonprofit group Honor For All.
When he’s not advocating with Honor For All, you can find him policing the neighborhood, serving on Williamston City Council and the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission.
“He just has such a passion for the community he lives in,” Williamston Mayor Tammy Gilroy said. this.'”
Leaving a bit of himself in everything he does.
“Everyone he touches, he leaves a lasting mark,” Gilroy said. “It’s just who Kent is.”
Right now, Hall is working on starting a project called Honor For All Park in Williamston.
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Two famous brands that share a single brand name? Impossible, right? Surely, trademark law would prevent one company or product from stealing the brand name of another.
But it happens all the time. Two brands can easily use the same name when they’re using it for different goods and services, thereby reducing the likelihood of customer confusion. In other words, you probably wouldn’t confuse Dove (beauty products) and Dove Chocolate, since they sell in entirely different categories. Nor would you accidentally buy Domino magazine thinking it’s about pizza.
Note, however, that just because two brands in unrelated categories can share a name doesn’t mean it’s a good branding decision. Using the same name as a famous brand can negatively impact SEO, for example. There are also limits to the “different category” guideline—some names are considered so famous (e.g., Coca-Cola), that they can effectively prevent anyone from using them, even in an entirely unrelated class of goods and services. (In other words, you won’t be able to name your sock company “Coca-Cola socks.”)
Dove and Dove Chocolate are oft-shared examples of famous brands that share a brand name, but they’re not the only “brand twins.” Below, we’ve started a list of examples. Can you think of others we should add? If so, drop a note in the comments.
Examples of brands that share a brand name
|Apple||Apple (consumer electronics)
|Dove||Dove (beauty products)
Canon EOS (camera)
|Graco||Graco (fluid management products)
Graco (baby accessories)
|Morningstar||Morningstar (financial services)
MorningStar Farms (vegetarian foods)
|Pink||Thomas Pink Limited (AKA Pink Shirtmaker)
Pink (Victoria's Secret sub-brand)
United Van Lines
Note: The author of this post is not an attorney. This article about trademark law is for informational purposes only. It should not be construed as legal advice for any individual matter, nor does it create an attorney-client relationship between you and the author or publisher. For further questions, speak to a licensed attorney who is familiar with trademark law.
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How do you tell a four-year-old she has cancer?
What is the best way to explain the multitude of medical procedures she will undergo?
The prescription: Chemo Duck.
“We had no idea how to tell our daughter what was going on,” said Jonathon Swersey, dad to Belle. “We asked the doctor what he suggested. He said to show her what is going to happen on an inanimate object.”
“We were in the resource room and we saw him – a really cute duck. It was in the first week of diagnosis and we were trying to get used to our surroundings, the diagnosis and our own feelings. We went to take a look at him and he had a bandana and a tubbie,” recalls Jonathon.
“We knew this is what we needed to help Belle through this journey.”
Belle was born with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition characterized by changes in skin coloring (café-au-lait spots) and the growth of benign tumors along nerves in the skin, brain and other parts of the body. Some affected individuals also develop optic gliomas, tumors that grow along the nerve leading from the eye to the brain. The condition occurs in one in 4,000 people worldwide.
Belle is followed closely by a team of physicians. When she developed a tumor in her jaw that began to grow, doctors conducted several tests including a biopsy. It showed she had rhabdomyosarcoma – a cancer made up of cells that normally develop into skeletal muscles.
Her treatment regime calls for 54 weeks of chemotherapy plus surgery and/or radiation therapy, said her dad.
“Belle is incredibly self-aware and opinionated,” said Jonathon. “Chemo Duck really helped in the process of educating her.”
“She plays with him and it resonates with her. We talk about how the duck is feeling and she is able to relay how she is feeling as well. It is a great tool to talk to children about the disease and cancer treatments in an age appropriate way where you can still be candid and honest.”
Jonathon said Chemo Duck has also been very helpful in teaching their youngest daughter, Sadie, about how to interact with Belle (by not pulling her on her tubbies).
Belle is treated at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and frequently visits The Jimmy Clinic for treatments and check-ups. She recently sent a letter to the Chemo Duck creator to express their gratitude for the teaching tool.
In return, they received a surprising gift: a video from 13-year-old Gabe Sipos, who was diagnosed with rhabdomyoscaroma in 2002.
“She plays that video over and over,” said Jonathon. “Gabe’s message is very understandable for her and it helped us help her feel stronger and in control.”
Jonathon said the support they received from Chemo Duck has offered them hope.
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Observations on Genius
by Steve Allen
The answer to the riddle of genius remains elusive. When it is at last discovered it may prove to be closely related to another of psychology’s deepest mysteries, that of the idiot savants, those peculiar individuals who are mentally handicapped, with the exception of one aspect of creative behavior, at which they are superior. What both genius and the puzzling abilities of the idiot savants have in common is that such praiseworthy factors as hard work, practice and determination would appear to have nothing whatever to do with the matter.
Nor—and this is fascinating—does the unadorned factor of high intelligence account for genius. We all know people who are extremely intelligent and yet do not in any way distinguish themselves.
The puzzle is further complicated by the fact that intelligence itself is not one factor but may be manifested in a variety of forms. In my own case the manipulation of words, ideas and their inter-relationships comes easily; unfortunately I cannot say the same for mathematical symbols. As for the broad field of science itself, what may be called the philosophy of it intrigues me, but I have no gifts for the nuts-and-bolts aspects of such disciplines.
I am confident enough about one relevant insight to predict that when the mystery is finally resolved its location will be either solely or mostly in genetics. Thomas Edison is reported to have said that genius was one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. While that may have been true in his case, I doubt if it has universal application since I have the impression that for many true geniuses, their work comes easily.
This is at least consistent with the assumption of a genetic base for dramatically superior ability. If that hypothesis becomes established, it will have cleared up a bit of mystery but created a great deal more. With genius it seems we have truly entered a scientific Twilight Zone if it is indeed the case that some almost invisible blob of physical matter is literally responsible for Einstein’s ability to conceive of the theory of relativity, for the paintings of Leonardo, the symphonies of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, or dazzling proficiency in any of the arts.
It has long been self-evident that there is a physical basis for bodily features and characteristics. Whether one had brown or blue eyes, one skin color or another, long legs, large bones or a particular color of hair—all of this was recognized as traceable to physical factors, which we now know are genes. But in recent decades, remarkable discoveries have demonstrated that what might be called character traits, too, have a genetic basis. Within the last year a gene for the personality trait known as shyness has been discovered.
In contemplating the lives of those rare individuals who are so morally superior that they are considered saints, it has occurred to me that they might be better referred to as geniuses of virtue and that, moreover, the explanation for their moral good fortune might also lie in the accident of genetics.
Whatever the relevant realities, we may safely consider them astonishing. If any or much of this becomes established, interesting philosophical questions immediately follow. There is something rather sweet about being Jeffersonian and believing that on some level all human creatures are born equal. But it is clear, even to children, that not all of us are born equal physically. Since Americans particularly are not comfortable with the concept of class, we experience some discomfort in considering the possibility, or fact, that there are superior and inferior individuals.
When the inferiority is dramatic and undeniable, we respond charitably and generally treat the handicapped, of whatever sort, with at least a minimum degree of compassion, although it often requires the early work of solitary thinkers and doers to encourage us to such generosity of spirit.
The genius is, by definition, superior to the rest of us. We would like to think that by adjusting the environmental circumstances of all but the physically handicapped we could perhaps create geniuses by the proper sort of education. I believe this cannot happen, although God knows the formal process of education leaves a great deal to be desired.
Although it is reasonable to assume that there have always been individuals of genius, it was not until the 17th century that the word assumed its modern meaning. We can see in the first syllable of the word a clue to its original Roman meaning, which survives in such words as gene, genetics and genealogy. The fact that to the present day the term is still not susceptible to precise definition of the scientific sort is only one aspect of the ageless mystery of creativity itself. After centuries of attention by philosophers, theologians, psychologists and brain specialists, we still cannot explain why certain individuals can produce poems, plays, novels, stories, jokes, paintings, sculpture, music, or scientific theories when the great majority of the human race cannot. That even the still-revered philosophers of ancient times were at a loss in this regard becomes clear when we consider the two classical explanations for remarkable talent.
One attributes such work to beings called muses, but that is nonsense since there are no such things. They are a purely hypothetical conception. The other explanation, equally groundless, is that all creative works have God as their true father. Simply stepping over the ancient debate concerning the existence of God, and assuming, in fact, that there is a creator of the universe, it hardly seems fair to attribute to him all the poetry, music and literature in the world for the simple reason that most of it is dreadfully inferior. There is also, of course, the difficulty as to why God would trouble himself to add a helpful line or two to one of his creature’s poems while not exerting himself to save the lives of the millions who daily suffer in the most hideously painful and unjust ways—children dying in orphanage fires, nuns struck down by cancer, and other instances too depressing to long consider.
So we are back where we started and little the wiser for our search.
My own theory as regards the long-held beliefs about the origin of genius is that a combination of envy and the contempt said to result from long familiarity engendered the idea that the gifted individual himself could not possibly be responsible for his abilities. And indeed such puzzlement is understandable since it is perfectly possible for a person to be (a) a genius and (b) something of a disappointment in other regards. Some geniuses have appeared less than bright during their early years—Aquinas, Newton and Einstein being classic examples. Others have left a great deal to be desired morally. And Havelock Ellis, in Study of British Genius, observed that muscular incoordination, physical awkwardness and difficulties with speech were characteristic of both idiots and geniuses. | <urn:uuid:4ce25781-5360-4ee1-b26e-52c421fe0f01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/14-12-03/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967749 | 1,373 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Country diary: In a sea of green, this strange orchid has none
Great Shacklow Wood, Derbyshire: The bird's nest orchid is virtually colourless, but nevertheless is an extraordinary plantIsn't it strange how beech trees, which are the most beautiful lightest green in May, have a canopy so dark it can seem almost black by June. Here, on the slopes of the River Wye, the foliage immerses the wood in silence as much as shadow. Silence except for a virtuoso blackbird, whose solo is intensified by the background lull. And shadow, except for shafts of piercing light that break through whenever the treetops sway.Those wandering lenses of sunshine spotlight the ferns and the mosses on the woodland floor, or X-ray sections of the canopy so that, through binoculars, I can see the veining in every individual leaf. It is like seeing into the inner life of the wood. If the sun specks intensify a sense of intimacy with this place, then the organism that I've come to find lets me glimpse into the very secrets of its underworld. Continue reading...
Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/21/country-diary-in-a-sea-of-green-this-strange-orchid-has-none
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Changes to security and police presence on public transit could be in Portland’s future, judging by a survey TriMet is currently asking its riders to complete.
Last month, TriMet passed an annual budget that included $1.8 million for rethinking public safety on board the agency’s buses and trains. The move came shortly after Mayor Ted Wheeler, acting in his role as police commissioner, pledged to remove Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers from the regional Transit Division, which serves TriMet, by 2021. (Officers from other nearby police jurisdictions, such as the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Officer, will remain part of the Transit Division.)
Wheeler’s decision to remove PPB from the division came amid mass protests against police brutality and racial injustice—and TriMet has faced a fair amount of scrutiny in recent years for how its police officers, contracted security guards, and fare enforcement staffers make people of color feel unsafe.
In 2018, TriMet changed its fare enforcement protocol after a Multnomah County judge found that the agency’s random fare checks were unconstitutional. Last year, the agency beefed up its fare enforcement team and faced backlash for a short-lived advertising campaign that seemed to shame people who couldn’t pay for transit fare. A June report from the Portland City Auditor’s Independent Police Review found that the Transit Division didn't have adequate police accountability, because police officers on TriMet vehicles come from so many different police agencies with different procedures.
Now, TriMet is asking the public for feedback on how its police and security presence affects riders. A new TriMet public safety survey asks riders about what makes them feel safe or unsafe while using TriMet, and what changes the agency could make:
It also asks riders which solutions TriMet should explore for helping riders feel more safe. Those options include: a phone app for reporting incidents in real time; anti-racism, mental health, and de-escalation training for TriMet staff; a transparent reporting system from crime on transit; and rider advocates whose job it is to help riders. Another option is a pilot program for mobile health crisis teams that would respond to riders experiencing “behavioral, mental health, or quality of life issues”—rather than police officers or security guards. That option sounds similar to the Portland Street Response pilot, an alternative to policing that Portland City Council approved last year.
TriMet’s survey will be followed up with listening sessions and virtual town halls that begin next month, and the creation of a Transit Safety Advisory Committee that will submit recommendations to TriMet’s management team in October.
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The Benefits of Duck Ponds
Situated in picturesque rural Minnesota, A Maze’n Farmyard provides many attractions for a fun-filled family outing, from maze navigation to a giant slide. A Maze’n Farmyard also offers farm animal feeding and its newest attraction, a fish and duck pond.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has identified duck ponds as a type of wetland that is critical in enlarging the habitat of wildlife across the state. Even those wetlands that do not always contain standing water provide a vital home to a myriad of species. In addition to supporting ducks, ponds provide habitats to songbirds, wading birds, lizards, and amphibians.
Temporary and seasonal wetlands offer breeding spots for frogs, toads, salamanders, and aquatic turtles. Ponds that exist throughout the year often have fish populations that rely on amphibian eggs and larvae as food. The areas around ponds also offer homes to many plant species, including grasses and reeds, that encourage biological diversity and a healthy environment. | <urn:uuid:d9abe3e9-3f5a-4eed-92d7-6827d5eb298e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amazenfarmyard.medium.com/the-benefits-of-duck-ponds-d8bd304d4010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946777 | 212 | 2.546875 | 3 |
In consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, local medical officers of health and public health experts, the Ontario government is tightening public health measures. At the same time, in response to the second wave of COVID-19 and in preparation for the cold winter months, the government is taking action to reduce testing turnaround times while prioritizing those who are at the greatest risk.
The announcement was made by Premier Doug Ford, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Dr. David Williams, Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Dirk Huyer, Coordinator of the Provincial Outbreak Response, and Matthew Anderson, President and CEO of Ontario Health.
"The modeling we released this week demonstrates the absolute necessity to take action now to reverse current trends and protect our hospital capacity," said Premier Ford. "With the weather changing and more people moving indoors, the decision to introduce new restrictions on restaurants, gyms and other businesses was difficult. However, we will do whatever is necessary, acting on the advice of our public health experts, to turn the tide on this second wave and keep everyone safe."
New Measures for Testing
The government is taking additional steps to respond to the second wave of COVID-19 and prevent and stop the spread of the virus, while safely keeping schools and businesses open. These include:
- - Transitioning to appointment-based testing at Ontario assessment centres beginning Tuesday, October 6, 2020, providing certainty to patients as to when they can receive a test during the cold winter months and allowing assessment centres to conduct enhanced screening to ensure adherence to the guidelines released on September 24, 2020;
- - Beginning on Sunday, October 4, 2020, assessment centres will discontinue walk-in testing services, so the province's lab network can make significant progress in processing tests and to allow assessment centres the necessary time to reset, deep clean and ensure preparedness for the new appointment-based model;
- - Continuing mobile testing and pop-up testing centres to reach vulnerable populations and provide targeted testing for long-term care, congregate care, and other vulnerable populations;
- - Expanding the number of pharmacies where people with no symptoms within provincial testing guidance can get tested; and
- - Implementing updated testing guidance for children to help parents determine when it is most appropriate for students, children and their families to seek a test for COVID-19.
Ontario is also taking longer-term actions to increase the province's test processing capacity so people can get their results faster, including:
- - Increasing testing and processing capacity to 50,000 tests per day by mid-October and 68,000 tests per day by mid-November; and
- - Introducing new testing methods once they are approved by Health Canada, including point of care testing and antigen testing.
New Public Health Measures
As the number of new cases continues to rise, the province is taking decisive action to prevent and stop the spread of the virus and avoid future lockdowns. These new restrictions were adopted through the amended order O. Reg 364/20 (Rules for Areas in Stage 3 under the Reopening Ontario [A Flexible Response to COVID-19] Act, 2020). They include mandating the use of face coverings in all public indoor settings across the province, such as businesses, facilities and workplaces, with limited exemptions, including corrections and developmental services.
Targeted measures will also be implemented in Ottawa, Peel, and Toronto as a result of their higher than average rates of transmission. These include:
- - Setting an indoor capacity limit to restrict occupancy at restaurants, bars and other food and drink establishments (including nightclubs) to the number of patrons who can maintain a physical distance of at least two metres from every other patron, to a maximum of 100 patrons, permitting no more than six patrons per table, requiring operators to ensure patrons lining up or congregating outside of their establishment maintain physical distancing, and mandating that the name and contact information for each patron be collected;
- - Restricting group exercise classes at gyms and other fitness settings to 10 individuals, as well as restricting the total number of people allowed at these facilities to a maximum of 50; and
- - Setting a limit on the number of people allowed at meeting and event facilities, including banquet halls, to six people per table and 50 people per facility.
"With Ontario's recent alarming growth in the number of COVID-19 cases, our government is taking further action to help stop the spread of the virus and avoid future lockdowns," said Minister Elliott. "These are difficult, but necessary decisions that are being made to keep people safe, especially our seniors and vulnerable citizens. Everyone must follow the public health guidelines if we are going to stop the spread and contain the second wave."
This amended order will come into effect on Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 12:01 a.m.
In addition, the government is:
- - Extending the pause on any further reopening of businesses, facilities, and organizations for an additional 28 days, unless already permitted to open under O. Reg 364/20;
- - Pausing social circles and advising that all Ontarians allow close contact only with people living in their own household and maintain two metres physical distancing from everyone else. Individuals who live alone may consider having close contact with another household; and
- - Finalizing additional guidance for seniors (70 and over) on how to minimize their risk of acquiring COVID-19, including for upcoming annual gatherings such as Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day.
The Chief Medical Officer of Health and other public health experts continue to closely monitor the evolving situation across the province to advise if and when public health measures or restrictions should be adjusted or tightened.
It remains critically important for everyone to continue following public health advice, including everyday actions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as practising physical distancing with those outside your household; wearing a face covering when physical distancing is a challenge or where it is mandatory to do so; washing your hands frequently and thoroughly; and following gathering limits and rules.
For additional protection, the Ontario government is encouraging everyone to download the new COVID Alert app on their smart phone from the Apple and Google Play app stores.
- - All booked appointments at assessment centres that take appointments will continue as scheduled.
- - The Ontario government has developed a $2.8 billion COVID-19 fall preparedness plan, Keeping Ontarians Safe: Preparing for Future Waves of COVID-19, to ensure the province’s health care, long-term care and education systems are prepared for the immediate challenges of the fall, including a second wave of COVID-19 and the upcoming flu season.
- - With a recent increase in cases of COVID-19, it remains vital for the government to continue to protect vulnerable populations and for each Ontarian to follow public health advice.
- - As well, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Ontario government has extended orders currently in force under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 (ROA) to October 22, 2020. Orders in effect under the ROA will allow the government to maintain the flexibility it needs to address the ongoing and emerging risks as well as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- - On July 24, 2020, the ROA came into force to ensure important measures remained in place after the provincial declared emergency came to an end. Under the ROA, orders can be extended for up to 30 days at a time. The government will continue to review all orders continued under the ROA and will report on order extensions to the Select Committee on Emergency Management Oversight.
- - New Public Health Measures Implemented Provincewide to Keep Ontarians Safe
- - Ontario Limits the Size of Unmonitored and Private Social Gatherings across Entire Province
- - Get the facts from Public Health Ontario on how to protect yourself and others.
- - Visit Ontario's website to learn more about how the province continues to protect Ontarians from COVID-19.
- - For public inquiries call ServiceOntario, INFOline at 1-866-532-3161 (Toll-free in Ontario only).
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Negligis immeritis nocituram
Te maneant ipsum: precibus non linquar inultis,
that city:-30. Negligis, here=nihil curas ; ' have you no scruples at committing a sín (fraudem committere) which will bring injury on your descendants, though they are innocent of it?' -- 31. Fors et,
perhaps too:' fors=forsitan. -32. Vices superbae, 'terrible retri. bution. The gods will as proudly spurn your prayers as you slight mine. You may consider it of no consequence that your descendants are to suffer for your crime; but it may be that you yourself shall feel the punishment.-33. Precibus non linquar inultis, I shall not be left (linruar =relinquar), you will not leave me here unburied, without my prayers (your neglect of them) being revenged by the gods.'-35. The sense is this : the performance of this sacred duty will not detain you long. Throw three handfuls of earth upon my body, and then you may hasten on your way. Licebit curras =culte rere poteris.
This ode was written in the year 25 B. C., when Aelius Gallus,
prefect of Egypt, undertook, by the command of Augustus, an expedition into Arabia ; into the land of the Sabacans, as Horace says. They were the most renowned tribe of the Arabians, and received their name from the city of Saba. This expedition, which utterly failed, was joined by many young men, fond of war, from Rome. Among them was Iccius, a friend of Horace, who, up to this time, had occupied himself closely with the study of philosophy. To him the poem is addressed, and there runs through it a gentle strain of irony in regard to the new course upon which the youth, all unused to battles, had entered.
Icci, beatis nunc Arabum invides
1. Beatis gazis, 'the rich treasures.' Arabia was called felir, and was considered by the Romans, who received from or through it spices, frankincense, precious stones, and pearls, as very rich.
Non ante devictis Sabaeae
Nectis catenas. Quae tibi virginum
Doctus sagittas tendere Sericas
Cum tu coemptos undique nobiles
4. Regibus. Among the Arabians then, as now, each tribe had its chiefiain. Medo, used for Orientals generally; for Augustus did not intend that this expedition should be directed against the Parthians, to whom, properly, the name of Medes belonged. - 5. Quae virginum, quite quae virgo, -6. Sponso necato, “whose betroihed thou hast slain,' and whom thou hast thus made a captive.—7. Puer ex aula, 'a boy from the court of one of those kings. The kings of the East used to have high-born boys as their pages. One of these Iccius is to take prisoner ; and to make him wait, with his hair anointed, at table, ad cyathum, to pour out the wine into the cups. This was an office for which young and beautiful slaves were usually chosen. This boy is also, for the entertainment of the guests, to show his skill in archery, which he has learned in his Arabian home. For Sericus, like Medus above, is used for Orien. tal generally: -9. Sagittas tendere, properly, arcus tendere. - 11. Pronos is to be connected with arduis montibus, 'rushing down from lofty mountains. Relabi, like reverti in line 12, is 'to flow back, up again to the source.' 13. Cum tendis, when you, as soon as you,' &c. In prose, we should have had cum tendas. - 14. Panaetius, of Rhodes, was a Stoic philosopher, and a friend of the younger Scipio Africanus and Laelius. Domum, .school' = sectam.
15. Hiberis, Spanish ;' the Spanish iron being famed. - 16. Tendis = contendis.
An invocation of Venus to be gracious to Glycera, a female friend
Sperne dilectam Cypron et vocantis 1. Cnidus a town in Caria; Paphos, a town in Cyprus: both 5
Thure te multo Glycerae decoram
Fervidus tecum puer et solutis
famed for the worship of Venus. In the former was the admired statue of Venus by Praxiteles. - 3. Thure. In this, and flowers, the usual offerings to Venus consisted. Decoram in aedem, into the beautiful chamber, which, by thy presence, will be consecrated as a temple. This interpretation conjoins the two senses of aedes, apartment,' and 'temple.' - 5. Puer, Cupid, who is called fervi. dus, because he excites fervor, amor. Solutis-zonis. The Graces are always represented by poets and sculptors with their girdles loosened, and their robes flowing. 6. Properentque. As to this position of que, which properly belongs to Nymphae, see Zumpt,
358. — 8. Mercuriusque. He accompanies Venus, as being the god of lively and entertaining conversation. Compare Carm. i.
Augustus had conquered his rival Antony off the promontory of
Actium, near a teinple of Apollo. From gratitude, he built on a part of his palace-ground on the Palatine Hill a temple to this god, near which the first public library in Rome was established. The temple was dedicated in the year 28 B. C. To Apollo, as god of it, the poet in this ode addresses his modest requests.
Quid dedicatum poscit Apollinem
1. Dedicatum. Properly, only the statue of the god was consecrated; but the poet here uses ihe expression of the god himself.2. Novum-liquorem ; that is, new wine, not old, of which rich men made libations.—4. Sardiniae. This island, like Sicily, the province of Africa, and Egypt, was famed for its fertility in corn, and was one of the granaries of Rome and Italy.--5. Calabriae. No district of Italy had so much excellent pasture-land as the summer-burnt'
Armenta, non aurum aut ebur Indicum,
Premant Calena falce, quibus dedit
Dis carus ipsis, quippe ter et quat
Frui paratis et valido mihi,
(aestuosa) Calabria. – 6. Indicum. The ivory is called Indian, because part of it came from India. The rest came from Africa, from the countries above Egypt.--7. The sense is : I do not ask of thee lands in the most fertile district of Italy; namely, Campania. The Liris (now Garigliano) flows between Campania and Latium. - 8. As to mordet, compare Carm. i. 22, 8.-9. Calena falce. The neighbourhood of Cales, in Latium, was celebrated for its wine. See Carm. i. 20, 9. Hence: 'to prune the vine with the Calenian hook,' means 'to own a vineyard ai Cales. Instead of premant, we should expect the technical term putent. - 10. The sense is : Neither do I wish for much money, to live sumptuously and splendidly like a merchant. - 11. Exsiccet ebibat : cululli are a kind of large cups with handles, jugs. – 12. Syra reparata merce, 'gained in return for Syrian wares;' that is, for spices, incense, and other articles of traffic, which came from or through Syria and the East. These the merchant sells in Rome, and purchases with the money fine wines. -14. A equor Atlanticum. He sails along the Mediterranean as far as the Straits of Gades, where he sees the Atlantic.-17. The wishes of the poet are now stated. They are, first, peaceful enjoyment of his possessions (parata for the more common parta, 'ihat which has been gained'); secondly, good health; and lastly, an old age, in which his mind shall remain unimpaired, and which shall consequently not be burdensome (turpis) either to himself or others, and in which he shall still be able to cultivate poetry. Construe thus: precor, dones mihi frui (ut fruar) paratis et valido (that is, ut validus sim, ut valeam) el degere (ut degam) senectam cum integra mente nec turpem nec cithara carentem. Latoë, a Greek form, .son of Latona ;' that is, Apollo.
An ode calling upon his lyre and himself to sing or compose in
Latin such songs as once Alcaeus, a native of the island of Lesbos, had sung in the Greek language. The poem was written on some occasion when his friends were urging him to write and publish lyrics.
Poscimur. Si quid vacui sub umbra
Liberum et Musas Veneremque et illi
O decus Phoebi et dapibus supremi
1. Poscimur refers to the request of his friends: 'I am called upon;' namely, to write lyric poems. Vacui, scil. negotiis, 'in my hours of leisure.' — 2. Lusimus. The song of the poets is often compared to a game or play. Here Horace's object in using this word is to indicate thai he had composed merely light jocular poems. — 3. Latinum carmen. The poet fancies he has the very same lyre on which Alcaeus had discoursed most excellent music;' hence he calls upon it, as having previously sung. Greek strains, now to attempt a Latin song. 5. Modulate. tictple is here used passively, 'tuned, played,' though the verb is properly a deponent. --6. Ferox bello. Alcaeus was not merely a poet, but also a warrior, for he is said to have fought against the Athenians, and against Myrsilus and Pittacus, the tyrants of his native city.-7. Sive=vel si. Whether he was among arms-that is, actively engaged in war-or had returned to his home, an island, to which of course as here mentioned, he had to proceed by sea, he was always writing poetry:-10. Semper haerentem puerum; that is, Cupid, who, in Ode 30, line 5, is called fervidus puer.-11. Lycus was a youth whom Alcaeus admired for his beauty, and celebrated in his poetry.-14. Testudo, • lyre,' this instrument being originally made of the shell of a tortoise. See Carm. i. 10, 6. Horace ima. gines that the lyre is played at the banquets of the gods for their | <urn:uuid:7c52317a-187d-49af-bfaa-f8add1538f26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=3-QYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70&vq=%22futuri,+Difficilis,+querulus,+laudator+temporis+acti+Se+puero,+castigator+censorque+minorum.+Multa+ferunt+anni%22&dq=related:UOM39015066464473&lr=&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949153 | 2,568 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison who is the first black American to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is the first black American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
|1986||Wole Soyinka||First Black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature|
|1993||Toni Morrison||First Black woman to win a Nobel Prize|
Who won the first African Nobel Prize for Literature?
The first person from Africa to win a Nobel Prize was Max Theiler, a South African man who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951. Six years later, the famed absurdist philosopher and author Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986?
This year’s Nobel Prize in literature goes to an African writer, Wole Soyinka from Nigeria. Now in his early fifties, he has a large and richly varied literary production behind him and is in his prime as an author.
Who was the first African American female author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
|Notable works||The Bluest Eye (1970) Sula (1973) Song of Solomon (1977) Tar Baby (1981) Beloved (1987)|
|Notable awards||Presidential Medal of Freedom National Humanities Medal Nobel Prize in Literature Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|
|Spouse||Harold Morrison (1958–1964)|
Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993?
Toni Morrison is 62 years old, and was born in Lorain, Ohio, in the United States. Her works comprise novels and essays.
What ethnic group has won the most Nobel Prizes?
Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 900 individuals, of whom at least 20% were Jews.
Is it true that no South African has won a Nobel Prize in Literature?
Africans have received awards in five of the six Nobel prize categories: Peace, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Chemistry. Two African laureates, Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1978 and F.W. de Klerk of South Africa in 1993, were presidents of their countries at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
How much did Obama get for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Obama announced early that he would donate the full 10 million Swedish kronor (about US$1.4 million) monetary award to charity. The largest donations were given to the housing charity Fisher House Foundation who received $250,000, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund which received $200,000.
Is Chinua Achebe a Nobel Prize winner?
Prof Chinua Achebe was reported to have said “The Nobel Prize did not make one the Asiwaju of African Literature.” Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka says he was disappointed by a comment made by the late Prof Chinua Achebe after he (Soyinka) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Who is the first Nigeria Nobel Laureate?
Wole Soyinka, in full Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, (born July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria), Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Which Nigerian writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987?
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
|1989||Camilo José Cela||Spain|
Who was the first African American female author?
Toni Morrison, first African American female author to win Nobel Prize, is dead at 88. The famed African American writer wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon” among other acclaimed works.
What does Toni Morrison write about?
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As we ready ourselves to welcome the monsoon season, it’s time to equip your plants to deal with it as well. This is the time when your green companions can thrive, albeit with some important things to keep in mind.
From horticulturist Pallavi Acharya, who nurtures a lush home garden in her government quarters in Korba, Chhattisgarh, to YouTube channels like Lazy Gardener and Garden Up, here are some helpful tips from experts across the internet to help your plants flourish:
1. Clean the underside
During the rain, plants will receive more water than required. Thus, it is important that excess water is drained from the pot. Check the drainage holes and ensure they are not blocked. The water might not be easily drained if the soil is too sick, and you might have to consider repotting.
2. Fill the pot completely
While potting, add two parts of soil and one part of cow dung filling the whole pot. This will prevent water from clogging on the top. If the pot is partly filled, make sure the drainage is open to let extra water out.
3. Use fungicide
Fungus attacks are common during monsoon. To avoid these, use fungicide once every 10-15 days.
Neem oil is one of the most effective organic fungicides available. Spray it over the leaves.
4. Prune and trim
Monsoon is the best time to replant sapling or cuttings. You can prune and cut from the original plants and plant elsewhere. You should be able to see new leaves and shoots within a week. Trimming plants also helps faster and healthier growth.
5. Avoid over watering
Due to less sunlight and more rainfall, the soil will always be wet during the rainy season. Don’t add extra water, as it can lead to the decaying of plants.
6. Shift the pots occasionally
To avoid excess water from collecting on the ground or in the pots, shift your pots around occasionally. Also remember to loosen the soil frequently.
7. Ensure sunlight
It is hard to get sunlight during the rainy season. At least twice or thrice a week, move the plants — especially succulents and cacti — to sunnier spots. Check the leaves and stems of the plant every day for decaying.
8. Avoid direct rainfall
Even though rainwater is good for plants, make sure it does not fall directly into the soil. This will cause soil erosion and removal of fertile topsoil. It is advisable to keep a sheet over the plants.
9. Clean the plates
If plates are kept under the pots, clean them regularly. Do not allow water to collect, as this can encourage breeding of mosquitoes and other insects.
10. Try repotting
Monsoon is the ideal season for repotting of plants. Small plants can be shifted to bigger pots. The transfer becomes easy as the soil is wet most of the time.
Extra tips from the gardeners:
- At an interval of 15 days, mix one teaspoon of bone meal, neemkhali, and cow dung, and add the mix to the pot.
- Keep a check on the drainage holes in your pot, which can close or get clogged due to excess water. As a result, the soil in these holes can harden, which can lead to the rotting of the roots.
- Give support to the plant during strong winds or a storm. Otherwise, the stem can break easily.
- Try growing new plants and replanting existing ones during this season.
8 Tips to Save Plants & Grow in Rainy Season/ Monsoon | Monsoon tips for Home Gardeners, uploaded by Lazy Gardener on YouTube.
5 Unique Flowering Plants for Indian Summers and Monsoons to Buy, uploaded by Garden Up on YouTube.
Edited by Divya Sethu
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The illustration above shows the ECMs on the machine and the data links in which the ECMs communicate. The ECMs are as follows:
- Engine ECM (1)
- Transmission ECM (2)
- Implement ECM (3)
- Product Link ECM (5)
Communication between the ECMs is conducted over the data link circuits. The data link circuits are bidirectional, allowing the ECMs to send and receive information. The ECMs support two types of data links:
- Cat Data Link (CDL): The Cat Data Link is used to send system status information between ECMs and Cat ET.
- SAE J1939 (CAN A and CAN B): The SAE J1939 Data Links are used for high speed system operation and communication between ECM controls and the ECMs of other machine systems.
Note: In the event of a failure of the SAE J1939 Data Links, the Cat Data Link is used as a back-up for operational communication.
Other components on the machine use the data links for communication. The display module (6), cab switches (7), and relay driver module (8) communication with the other ECMs over the CAN A Data Link.
Several of the ECMs have the same part number. Each of these ECMs with the same part number are assigned a location code. This location code tells the ECM what functions will be performed. The location code is enabled by grounding pin 32 on the J1 connector. The location code is determined by the grounding of pins 26, 27, 28, or any combination of those pins on the J1 connector. The ECMs can be flashed with a file that is not correct for the location code.
Example: The Implement ECM flash file can be downloaded to the Transmission ECM. If the flash files do not match the location code, a diagnostic code will be activated. Also, the ECM will not respond correctly to inputs and output for the specific system.
Cab Electrical System:
This diagram of the Cab Electronic Control System shows the input components and output components of the Implement ECM. The Implement ECM (1) receives and sends information to/from the machine ECMs (2) - (5), Information Display (6), or Cat ET over the Cat Data Link (CDL) or Controller Area Network (CAN A or CAN B) Data Links (13).
The Implement ECM monitors the condition of the sensors and switches attached to the ECM through the machine wiring harness. The Implement ECM controls the output components, to respond to the inputs from switches, sensors, and machine ECMS.
Relay Driver Module:
This diagram of the Cab Electronic Control System shows the input components and output components of the Relay Driver Module.
The Relay Drive Module (1) receives and sends information to/from the Implement ECM (2) over the Controller Area Network (CAN A) Data Link (3).
The relay driver module receives input signals from the various sensors and switches on the machine and sends the signals to the Implement ECM via the CAN A Data Link. The Implement ECM processes the inputs and makes decisions based on the ECM software and other inputs. The decision is sent to the Relay Driver Module via the data link. The relay driver performs that function or commands other components to fulfill the command from the Implement ECM.
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Uso de plantas medicinais para tratamento der síndromes respiratórias e suas aplicações por povos indígenas na pandemia da Covid-19
Santos, Lívia Maria dos
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Ethnobotanical studies are important to contribute to conservation of biodiversity as well as the knowledge of traditional peoples, who interact constantly and deeply with other living beings, forming their own and unique relationships with nature. This work aimed to evaluate the use of medicinal plants to treat respiratory syndromes, especially by indigenous peoples. It also intented to make analysis fabout medicinal properties of the plants, the parts used and the forms of application as medicines The methodology was based on bibliographic research of data and information, both on the use of medicinal plants in the treatment of respiratory syndromes, especially by brazzilian indigenous peoples, as well as the impact of COVID-19 on these populations. In this study, the current pandemic moment was contextualized and highlighted how these people are combating the symptoms of COVID-19 with plants that have been known and used for some time. It was observed that there are groups of plants that are frequently used because they have important medicinal properties, as is the case of plants belonging to the Lamiaceae family. Both by the information conveyed by traditional media and, mainly, by alternative media, it is possible to verify that the Brazilian indigenous populations are using their traditional knowledge to treat symptoms associated with COVID-19 in order to mantain their resistance and resilience during the pandemic. Future research on this theme, aggregating and systematizing more data and information regarding the use of medicinal plants made by indigenous peoples during the pandemic, may collaborate in building a sustainable future based on a more ecocentric view of the relations between society and nature and subsidized by a scientific paradigm that favors a more systemic and open approach to dialogue between different human knowledge and practices.
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Medicus Mundi Profile
The Medicus Mundi network is a private non-profit organization which mission is to help ensuring the right to health. It was founded in Spain in 1963, while his legal representation in Bolivia began operations in 1989.
Medicus Mundi Bolivia, through the “Transformation of Public Health Systems through the Principles of Primary Health Care (PHC)” program, has improved coverage and equitable access to the health of Bolivian, Guatemalan and Peruvian populations. They have worked hand by hand with the Ministries of Health of each country, ensuring the right to health since the first care level to rural and indigenous communities, traditionally marginalized from public services.
To this end the organization works in the reorganization of the first care level through territorial zoning. Each zone counting with a local professional team; which provide a continuum care, through the development of three programs: individual, family and community. The strategy allows the approximation primary care units. In those are operationalized effectively and efficiently all national health programs’ priorities and standards, including health prevention and promotion actions.
The goal is to solve health problems and conditions historically neglected, while still responding to national health priorities. The intervention performance impact is above national standards and indicators, based on the results of the pilot zones; which have shown being qualitatively and quantitatively superior to other areas of their country.
The organization is open to general and organized civil societies’ participation; creating partnerships that promote an effective participation of developing communities in the dynamics of the social, political and development decisions affecting them. Also, emphasizing the mutual responsibility between the parties, promoting in this way a solidarity culture.
Given the difficulties of operation of the Epidemiological Surveillance Systems, poor culture of analysis and the lack of appropriate and valuable information, Medicus Mundi promotes health surveillance integrated in care activities and developed in primary care, backed by a digital system that provides opportune and good quality information.
Finally, regarding the gender and intercultural approaches, the program achieves its realization in its organizational level and program strategy; through tools and instruments for its implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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‘Christian Aid’ Week FIGHTS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
This year’s Christian Aid Week (10-16 May 2015 www.caweek.org), Britain’s longest running door-to-door fundraising week, is asking the British public to support women living in poverty around the world who are discriminated against from birth.
Discrimination against women is one of the greatest injustices of our time and the statistics speak for themselves. Globally, less than 20 per cent of landholders are women[i] and women do twice as much unpaid work as men[ii]. In many countries girls are treated like second-class citizens while boys are provided with opportunities for an education, work, food and even decision making at the expense of their sisters.
Almost as soon as girls are strong enough to walk many can spend hours fetching water and doing household chores. Often forced into early marriages, they can also face the dangers of giving birth before their young bodies are ready. Deprived of an education, later in life women have to rely on men for their financial security, with any hope of following their own dreams dashed, leaving them vulnerable to deprivation and violence.
This inequality, often exacerbated by harmful social norms, leaves millions of women at the mercy of violence and abuse, with one-in-three women across the world experiencing physical or sexual violence[iii]. Millions remain in the shadows, denied a say in the decisions that affect their lives.
Christian Aid believes this has to change – for the sake of everyone; for the sake of women, men, girls, boys, communities and societies warped by such an extreme imbalance of power.
In Ethiopia Christian Aid partner HUNDEE works with both women and men in poor rural communities to challenge violence against women and harmful traditional practices, such as child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), to bring about lasting change and ensure women can live in dignity and are treated with respect.
Despite a rise in the number of women holding seats in parliament and an increasing number of girls attending school, Ethiopia remains a patriarchal society and women rarely get the opportunity to influence decisions in their families and wider communities.
HUNDEE encourages men to get more involved with household tasks, including looking after their children, and consult their wives about the decisions that affect them.
They also provide the poorest women in pastoralist communities with livestock, raising their status within society, because when they have a cow they have a voice in community decision making, as well as a means to earn a living.
Loretta Minghella, Chief Executive of Christian Aid said: “We cannot end world poverty without addressing the fundamental issue of discrimination against women and girls. The unequal distribution of power and opportunities between the sexes is at the heart of poverty, and we are working with both men and women in communities around the world to bring about change. We are working with partners like HUNDEE to break down the barriers and root out the injustices that hold women back, and give them a chance to stand on their own two feet.”
You can help to change the lives of women in places like Ethiopia this Christian Aid Week by donating online at www.caweek.org calling 08080 006 006, or texting ‘GIVE’ to 78866 to give £5.
[ii] United Nations Research Institue for Social Development http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/F9FEC4EA774573E7C1257560003A96B2/$file/BudlenderREV.pdf
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This is to inform the general public that UBA Essay competition Foundation scheme 2020 has been announced.
Therefore, the UBA Essay competition Foundation scheme 2020 the Registration portal is opened for Senior secondary School students.
Meanwhile, the UBA Essay Scheme commencement is of the 2020 edition of its annual National Essay Competition in Nigeria, with a call for entries.
The essay will be organized by the National Essay Competition (NEC), which is a part of UBA Foundation’s education initiative.
The main aim at of this essay Competition is to promote the reading culture and encouraging healthy and intellectual competition amongst secondary school students in Nigeria and across Africa.
This year’s edition has been modified to ensure ease of access and increased participation of senior secondary school students from the comfort of their homes through the introduction of a digital submission portal.
UBA 2020 Foundation essay competition also increased its prize money for the 2020 edition. The first prize winner will get an educational grant of N2.5m, up from N2m in 2019.
The second and third prize winners will now receive N2m and N1.5m educational grants respectively, from N1.5m and N1m which were awarded in the previous year’s competition.
Application Deadline: October 2nd, 2020
Number of Scholarships: 3
Value of Awards: The first prize for the UBA National Essay Competition is a N2.5 million educational grant, while the second and third prizes are N2 million and N1.5 million in educational grants respectively.
United Bank for Africa National Essay Competition Eligibility:
Applicants must be a Secondary School Student, submit a handwritten essay, submit a passport photograph and finally, must submit a copy of a birth certificate, National ID or passport
United Bank for Africa National Essay Competition Selection Procedures
Entries received for the competition will be reviewed by a distinguished panel of judges made up of professors from reputable Nigerian Universities. Therefore, They will then shortlist 12 essays for further assessment.
Following this, a second round of competition will involve the 12 finalists who will write a second supervised essay from which three best essays will be selected as the overall winners from the 12 finalists emerged from the first round of the competition
United Bank for Africa National Essay Competition Application Process
Applicant must submit their completed contact information (Name, Age, School, Address of school, Telephone Number, Residential Address and Email Address).
Applicants must attach photocopies of their original birth certificates or international passport data page.
or Post to UBA Foundation
UBA House (15th Floor)
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A lovely review of “The Cosmic Tourist” the wonderful astronomy book published by Brian, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, two years ago this month (11 Oct 2012). Includes stunning pictures…
20 October 2014
REVIEW: The Cosmic Tourist: Visit the 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Destinations in the Universe
Open the pages of Cosmic Tourist and journey across the universe with 100 thrilling pit stops along the way.
Your itinerary starts with Planet Earth, makes stops on the moon, the sun, a comet, Mercury, resting spots through the asteroid belt, and many other cosmic sites until you end up 13,700,000,000 light years away at “Infinity and Beyond.”
Each stop offers spectacular photography and fascinating outer space facts that are written by the BBC’s “Sky at Night” astronomers Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott, and Brian May (who also happens to be the guitarist and founding member of Queen).
If you’ve often sat under the black twinkling canopy of the night sky and wondered…
– What is that mysterious glow on the night side of Venus? Or…
– Why is the Delta Cephei, which is 887 light years away from Earth, one of the most important stars in the sky?
– Or… What are those beautifully bright beaded interlocking rings that are floating 167,000 light-years away from us?
… then it’s time to buy your passenger ticket, er, this visually stunning book, which will captivate you with space travel for many moons to come.
Still avaiable: The Cosmic Tourist: Visit the 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Destinations
in the Universe
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The Basset Hound is a short legged breed of the hound family. Originating in France it was bred from the bloodhound to hunt rabbits. The name Basset is derived from the French word bas, meaning “low”, with the attenuating suffix -et, together meaning “rather low”.
In France, basset hounds rose to the height of popularity during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852-1870). In 1853, sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet exhibited bronze sculptures of Emperor Napoleon III’s basset hounds at the Paris Salon, and ten years later, the Basset Hound reached international fame at the Paris Dog Show. At that time there were two common Bassets, one with a rough coat (Basset Griffon) and a second with a smooth (Basset Français).
In 1866, Lord Galway imported a pair of Bassets to England, but it was not until 1874 that Basset Hounds were widely introduced. The Kennel Club accepted the breed in 1882 and the English Basset Hound Club was formed in 1884. The American Kennel Club first recognized Basset Hounds as a breed in 1885. In 1935, the Basset Hound Club of America was organized in the United States. The current American breed standard was adopted in 1964.
The Basset is a big dog on small legs designed to allow the dog to follow a scent close to the ground in thick brush and dig out the prey. The ears are long and velvet like, and the Basset has droopy brown eyes that are slightly sunken and loose skin around the face. Coat is short, hard, and shiny. Tail is slightly curved, and usually white tipped. Feet are large and heavy with tough pads.
Health and Personality
Bassets are generally very mild mannered, loyal, and gentle with children. They drool, shed constantly, and their ears and wrinkles require frequent cleaning to avoid infection or chronic disease that can be fatal. Their coat should be brushed regularly and shampooed only when needed. Their nails are difficult to cut, but must be done so frequently. Their eyes need to be wiped every day with a damp cloth because the area under the eyeball will collect dirt and become clogged with a mucus. They tend to be vocal and have a deep, resonating howl. Due to the short length of their legs and heavy long body, they cannot stay afloat in water and should not be allowed to swim.
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Unclaimed Funds are funds held by the court for an owner or recipient who is entitled to the money, but who has failed to claim ownership of it. Unclaimed funds may arise out of a variety of circumstances, such as: delivery of a payment may not be possible because of faulty or incomplete address information for the recipient, proceeds or uncashed dividend checks from bankruptcy cases, unclaimed seaman’s effects, dividends from stock certificates seized by federal agencies and criminal restitution or other fines may not have been claimed by the parties, agencies, next of kin, or other recipients entitled to them.
Local Bankruptcy Rule 3011-1, sets out the requirements for the deposit and the disposition of unclaimed funds. Click to view the Local Bankruptcy Rule.
A completed Form W-9 is recommended for the return of unclaimed funds, in accordance with Clerk policy. Below is the Form W-9 and instructions for completing:
- Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification
- Instructions for Completing Form W-9
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By Melissa C. Novo (El Toque)
HAVANA TIMES – The vulnerability of Cuban civil society and the unexpected protests of July 11, 2021 did not stop the civil movement the following day. Contrary to what could happen in similar situations, various initiatives have been launched – inside and outside the island – wanting to be useful in one way or another. Initiatives that initially focused entirely on discovering the whereabouts of detainees and missing persons.
What started as a list – which was first revealed by posts and reports on the DESAPARECIDOS#SOSCUBA Facebook page – written in an Excel sheet, which several women (in Cuba and abroad) used to compiling information – drawn from public complaints and direct communication with family and friends of protesters, who later became Justice 11J.
Today, Justice 11J is a working group on politically motivated arrests in Cuba. It was founded by Camila Rodriguez, Cynthia de la Cantera, Darcy Borrero, Eilyn Lombard, Ivette Leyva, Laritza Diversent, Kirenia Yalit Nuñez, Maria Matienzo and Salome Garcia.
The dimension and scope of the work of these women over the past year has been crucial, particularly in three fundamental aspects. First, by consistently reporting violations against protesters – from their arrest to every phase of their criminal trial. Secondly, by giving high visibility to the issue at the international level and by campaigning for the release of imprisoned minors. Finally, by providing support, following and helping the families of the demonstrators.
Thanks to Justice 11Jin the first hours after July 11, we already knew who some of the detainees and missing persons were, which gave a quantified – albeit approximate – idea and a human aspect to the crackdown unleashed by government forces against the president Cuban, Miguel Diaz -Canel, gave the order to fight.
Thanks to Justice 11J, there is an exhaustive statistical record – which has improved over the days; it is a document and an archive of a historical nature. Today, this registry not only allows you to consult the names of people who have been and are victims of the state sentence, but also other important variables when it comes to analyzing and studying what happened – age, province and place of imprisonment, gender, ethnicity, occupation, insurance, sentences, prison facilities and photos of the accused.
Thanks to Justice 11J, we now have an independent tool – free from government pressure or cover-ups – which, although under-reported, has revealed discrepancies in the official version. Discrepancies which, in some cases, have highlighted the selectivity of public information from institutions; while they showed the greatest dimension of punishment.
On July 18, 2021, seven days after the protests, the Cuban Conference of Religious Men and Women (CONCUR) announced a follow-up service for 11J detainees and their relatives. The service is structured around three components: advice for the presentation of habeas corpus documents, help in locating detainees and spiritual and psychological support.
Organizations such as the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights and Defenders of Prisoners also helped contribute and disseminate records of those detained and disappeared after 9J11. Additionally, Prisoners Defenders filed a complaint with the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, on July 14, 2021. The appeal succeeded in causing the UN to demand urgent information from the Cuban government to reveal the whereabouts of the protesters. incarcerated.
Students, professors and graduates of the University of Havana delivered a letter to the headquarters of the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) demanding the immediate release of the arrested students. The letter was addressed to the Minister of the MES, Jose Ramon Saborido, whom they asked to intervene immediately because it is a violation of student rights. The document also demanded that the MES take a public position on the events and follow the hearings of the students’ trial.
Meanwhile, students from the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication of the Art University (FAMCA) came out in support of the protest and against the call for violence and the campaign to smear the protests in the official media. The Department of Biology at the University of Havana also joined in similar complaints; such as the support and follow-up service for victims of gender-based violence YoSiTeCreo in Cuba.
Despite the dismantling of a project as well received as Archipelago – especially after the unexpected departure of its main organizer, Yunior Garcia Aguilera – the citizens’ platform has managed to establish itself as a solid movement. Although he will be remembered for their call for a peaceful popular march on November 15, 2021, the main objective of Archipelago struggle was to free 11J political prisoners.
Other initiatives have focused on fundraising, collecting medicine, food, clothes and shoes for prisoners and their families. These include Te Presto Mi Voz, led by Luciana Covin – a Cuban living in Europe and granddaughter of a political prisoner. The project existed before 11J and their goal was to find sponsors for Cuban prisoners, but after the social uprising they joined forces to send a weekly bag – including medicine – to protesters who needed it. On their Facebook page, they also follow court cases, share information about prisoners, as well as complaints from family and friends.
Some of the leading figures of Te Presto Mi Voz went ahead with another project called The Jaba de los Inocentes (The Bag of the Innocent); with the mission of also obtaining food from outside Cuba for the prisoners of the 11J.
The “Donde tu caes, yo te levanto” (Where you fall, I pick you up), by the San Isidro Movement, mobilized after 11J. Coordinated by activist and art historian Anamely Ramos, the project has focused its efforts on getting basic necessities to victims of repression during the protests, while also acting as an intermediary with organizations offering advice legal. They created an open whatsapp group, called MSI Boothto work on logistics.
Ayuda a los Valientes del 11J (Aid to the Brave of 11J) began in Santa Clara as an aid initiative to bring food to prisoners in prisons. On the other hand, the group Cuban Canadians for a Cuba Democratica joins the public complaints of prisoners and does a fasting relay to accompany the hunger strike led by Barbara Farrat Guillen, the mother of Jonathan Torres, who was released after almost a year in prison.
Many mothers of political prisoners have also raised their voices and united in their demand for justice for their children. They reported instances of abuse, due process violations and arbitrary convictions, both individually and as a group. These mothers sent a letter to President Miguel Diaz-Canel, which was delivered by Barbara Farrat and her husband to the Citizen’s Assistance Office of the Council of State. The letter had over 150 signatures.
Mothers who have publicly complained about the situation of their incarcerated children include Barbara Farrat, Yanaisy Curbelo (mother of Brandon David Becerra), Yudinela Castro (mother of Rowland Castillo), Elizabeth Leon (mother of Frandy Gonzalez Leon and Santiago Vazquez León ), Migdalia Gutierrez (Brusnelvis the mother of Adrian Cabrera), Maria Luisa Fleitas (the mother of Rolando Vazquez Fleitas). Andy Garcia’s family was also important, along with the powerful voices of fathers like Wilber Aguilar (Walner Luis Alguilar’s father) and wives like Lazara Roblebo (Jose Antonio Gonzalez’s wife) and Saily Nuñez (l wife of Maikel Puig Bergolla).
On the other hand, GuajiroBot is a Twitter bot created by Danilo El Cubano, in April 2022, which “provides information about Cuba and its struggle for freedom”. How does this initiative work and what does it consist of? If a user of this social network tweets “@guajirobot denuncia” (reports), a reply automatically appears including a photo of a political prisoner and his personal information. Activists use it to respond to President Diaz Canel’s tweets.
Other group actions – mobilized outside Cuba – and appeals from international organizations have also contributed to the campaign denouncing the excessive force used by the Cuban government against 11J protesters and calling for their release.
These include the joint statement made by over 300 art world figures – on December 8, 2021; European Parliament resolution condemning government repression – approved on September 16, 2021; the statement made by UN journalists to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on October 25, 2021; the call for the freedom of Cuban political prisoners at the United Nations Human Rights Office in November 2021; and the statement by Josep Borrell, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who urged Cuban leaders to release political prisoners.
While it is impossible to know which of these actions influenced the releases, few discharges and changes in sentences of the 11J protesters, and to what extent, it is true that they defied and pinpointed the government, and they always do. Protests and legitimate complaints in places like Cuba have become fundamental weapons against institutionalism that does not respect justice.
Civil society is a vital part of society. Voluntary associations are the backbone and they do not belong to the government. According to political scientist John Keane, voluntary associations aim “to maintain and redefine the boundaries between civil society and the state through two interdependent and simultaneous processes: the expansion of social equality and freedom, and the reorganization and the democratization of the state”.
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In the recent past, most commercial projects have preferred to use aluminum windows, which has made it become a popular product. Surprisingly, during century people have had an interest in using the same product for domestic aluminum window installation. These windows have different designs with good energy sufficiency in the past years, and now they have a good market competition with the PVCu competitors.
Here are some of the reasons as to why you should choose aluminum windows when constructing your home.
- They are strong windows.
This metal has a low density, and that makes it a good choice for window frames. This is achieved because, with a low frequency, you can perform a unique and slimline nature for window frames that are strong and sturdy. Windows made from this metal can withstand all weather conditions and survive both touches of frost and bright sun.
- Produces unlimited design options.
An alloy named alufolddirect is ideal in manufacturing bespoke windows with different shapes to fit your designed plan easily. This means that you, as the owner, you have the liberty to choose what design you need. Another advantage is that these windows will perfectly match with aluminum bifold doors. You can have shapes like triangular windows, unusual quadrilateral shapes, or even multi-level windows with pointed tops.
- Slim sightlines.
With this metal, you can achieve slim sightlines while maintaining the strength and sturdiness of the metal. This is important because your house gets an impressive view by deciding on what designs you want.
- Offers different glass options for your windows
Assuming that you bought these windows from an online seller, you can have your product delivered while they are glazed, or you can choose from a range of glass choices to bring about a new design. Different glass choices include obscured glass and colored glass. If you wish to have a low maintenance cost and high efficiency, you could choose self-cleaning or solar control properties.
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“I have by design not chosen to pen another purely historical treatise on flies, reels, and rods,” Woit explains in his preface. “There are many fine volumes available on these subjects. I have also not applied the most stringent journalistic standards to vet many of the stories that appear here. After all, how much fun would it be if your fellow fishermen questioned every detail of every fish tale? Fish are the only species known to continue growing after death.”
It was death, after all, that first inspired Woit to write this book. Live, in-person auctions, once the only way to find new memorabilia, were dying. Web-auctions were becoming the new norm. While they made it easier to explore the world’s antiques from your home office, Woit noticed a certain curatorial camaraderie being lost. Tackle and ephemera collectors worldwide were seeing each other less and less. What’s more, their collected knowledge and experience no longer had the same venue for sharing. Woit knew these wide-ranging wisdoms needed a new gathering place, one that could be passed from generation to generation, with or without the rise of future technology.
Fly Fishing Treasures is the result. Within its 348 pages is the largest photographic collection of antique and collectible flyfishing items in print. Included among the experts interviewed are Hoagy Carmichael, an expert bamboo fly rod maker; Raymond Humble, a master reel maker and retired Hardy reel manufacturer; John Knott, curator of the Flyfishers’ Club in London; and Ray Clemens, the curator of Ancient Books and Manuscripts at Yale’s Beinecke Museum of Rare Books and Manuscripts. There are 29 total experts interviewed over the course of the book, each of their collections documented with full spreads of color photographs and Woit’s informative, thoughtful text.
There is no other way to experience the preserved history and culture of flyfishing as presented to us in Fly Fishing Treasures. The book is a treasure in itself. Whether it is the luminescence of Paul Schmookler’s antique salmon flies paired next to butterfly wings, or the still-lush leather of Izaak Walton’s creel, this book’s unique and comprehensive overview of the sport’s incunabula (a word we learned because of this book!) is unparalleled. As we continue to venture forward in technology, both in and outside of flyfishing, taking this book along on our travels and fishing trips will remind us how we got there, and what keeps us going.
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Side Trips to Frontenac Provincial Park & Upper Canada Village
Frontenac Provincial Park (tel. 613/376-3489), near Sydenham, about 143km (89 miles) from Kingston and 72km (45 miles) from Ottawa, is a wilderness park with more than 182km (113 miles) of hiking trails exploring Moulton Gorge, the Arkon Lake bogs, and the Connor-Daly mine.
There are also terrific opportunities here to combine camping with water journeys; an adventure might include sea kayaking among the Thousand Islands, for instance, with equipment supplied by a local outfitter. Frontenac Outfitters (tel. 613/376-6220, or 800/250-3174 from Ontario) rents canoes, kayaks, paddles, life jackets, and car-top carriers for relatively modest fees, starting from C$25 per person per day. Both wooded and waterfront campsites are also available through the same outfitter, for C$25 per day (maximum of four campers per site). A program of guided tours through the region runs from about April to November.
About 50km (31 miles) east of Brockville along Route 2, just east of Morrisburg, is Upper Canada Village (tel. 800/437-2233 or 613/543-4328; www.uppercanadavillage.com). This is Ontario's effort to preserve its pre-Dominion past, and the sprawling riverfront museum village represents frontier life in the 1860s, with some 40 brick-and-stone structures and interiors that have been accurately restored using hand-forged nails and wooden pegs. They appear as if they could still serve their purpose today, and they're occupied by costumed bilingual docents who answer questions while performing the chores and crafts of the day -- sewing quilts, milling lumber, fashioning tin-ware, conducting church services, and the like. In the woolen mill, a waterwheel turns old machinery weaving wool into blankets; bellows wheeze and hammers clang against anvils in the blacksmith's shop; and the heady aroma of fresh bread drifts from a bake shop near the Willard's Hotel (which serves lunch and high tea, C$5.99-C$29.99). "True Canadian" draft horses draw both tour wagons and a barge. A good spot for history buffs and kids.
Admission to the village is C$20 adults, C$18 seniors, C$12 children 5 to 18, and C$3.95 children 2 to 4; families traveling together get a 10% discount. It's open daily 9:30am to 5pm from mid-May to early October.
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You can always have a Win-Win situation if you learn how to play checkers and win. This game has been predominantly played across the globe. Checkers is known as the mind game. This game is just like chess. The game rules implied are a bit easy to understand and it looks like we can easily ace it. However, it is quite the opposite. A lot of thoughtful moves have to be taken while playing. This is a board game that requires two players and twelve coins of various colors. Here, we’ll go through the fundamental guidelines for playing checkers. Let’s learn how many checkers in a checker game can play and how does the king move?
1. How to play Checkers and Win?
Understanding the concept is important when playing checkers. There are moves referred to as Captures. You must always become familiar with the rules concerning checkers as well as the importance of each one. Always focus on the board and the actions of the opponent. In this manner, the opponent is forced to make a move against his will. For the checkers, forced captures are essential moves. (See What is Mixed Martial Arts?)
2. Game Play Basics
The basic rules of how to play checkers and win are:
- Two people compete in a game of checkers.
- Both the players will have 12 Coins and place them on the dark-colored squares in front of them.
- A Black coin holder would start the game.
- Each piece of the coin will move diagonally.
- Single pieces will move only forward.
- Pieces that are non-capturing will move only one square.
- Try capturing a piece of your opponent i.e. your coin should bounce over the other person’s piece and land diagonally. When the piece of the opponent is captured, that is removed.
- Only one piece in a single jump or one or more jumps in a single turn.
- When your piece reaches the ultimate goal, it becomes a King and you win the game. (See What are Hat Tricks in Soccer?)
3. Some Tips to Win the Game
Some tips required on how to play checkers and win are:
- Focus on the Centre: Once you are familiar with the basic rules and design of the checkers, make sure to place your coins in the center however people place their coins at the edges. This also has a reason why the pieces in the edges cannot be captured. Depends on the strategy of the player. Pushing your checkers in the edges might also be a mistake. Always focus on the center coins and from a Pyramid Shape.
- Check the Moves: There could be some forced moves while you play the checkers game. The opponent will set you in a situation that will have a capture. You might jump your checkers without noticing them. Always keep an eye on the moves.
- Strengthen your strategy: Always be aware of the strategy and strike your opponent from your strong side. Try defending your weak side.
- Plan and Move: Learn the moves of your opponent first. Observe and take the time to make your next move.
- Block coins: If you start blocking the opponent’s coins, then there is a fair chance to win.
- Get your pieces at the edge: The final component is always strong and sits as the king. The player with the most checkers with kings wins. Your primary goal should always be to bring your checkers to the edge and create a King.
- Trade if Necessary: There can be a trade-in term of capture. One-pieces for two can be advantageous, but not always. Also, check out how to throw a Curveball?
4. How many Checkers in a Checker game?
The checkers game can only have two participants. It has white coins and black coins. On a single board, there are 64 Light and Dark squares.
5. How many Pieces in Checkers?
Each Player will have 12 pieces, so in total it will be 24 playing pieces. (See What Pokemon Cards are Worth Money?)
6. How do you set up Checkers?
There will be a board that will be placed with the light-colored square in the bottom right corner. As you already know, how many checkers in a checker game, the checkers for both players will be set up on dark-colored squares. Each player must have 12 checkers in their first three rows. (See How Long does the Super Bowl Last?)
7. How to play Checkers Rules?
Following rules to be followed if you are wondering how to play checkers and win.
- Only a single checker can move and jump forward.
- Both players can capture.
- The place on the other side of the checker must be open.
- Move your checker diagonally forward i.e. towards the opponent.
- If the squares near your checker are captured then your checker is blocked and you cannot move. (See How to Use a Hula Hoop?)
8. How does a King Move in Checkers?
Compared to the regular checker, a king can move in any direction. It can move diagonally forward or backward with each turn. It can also be moved multiple times when jumping and changing directions. As already told, the king must make all the jumps and moves that are available on a turn. King can also be captured. (See What is a Hockey Puck made of?)
9. How to play Chinese Checkers with 3 players?
So, how to play checkers and win if played with 2 to 6 players? The rules are as follows:
- Each player will control 1 to 3 sets of Marble.
- Players can start playing in the triangle facing the opposite person’s triangle.
- If 2 sets are used then every player will start with 2 sets of colored marbles on the opposite triangles.
10. How to play Checkers for Beginners?
The Checker game board has squares of 2 colors. The board size and the total number of squares depend on the type of checkers. However, it is played on a 64-square-built board. For beginners, how to play checkers and win would be a bit different, and there are certain simple rules that would make them easy to understand.
- A Rule book to familiarize yourself: The initial step to starting a checkers game is that you must be familiar with the rule. It could be tricky and complex, but it would become easy if you play your first game. You can play online checker games and also while you are alone.
- Remember some special moves: While you practice make sure you remember special moves. If you are a beginner, you must learn some good moves.
- A Strong back row: As a beginner at the checkers game always remembers to learn to have a strong back row. It is the basic rule that if the back row is strong then there are lesser chances for the coins to get captured. Not only the back rows must be focused, but also the center keeping in mind that the opponent can only attack in the corners.
- Learn to capture: If you are a beginner, then learn how to capture your opponent’s coin. You can also put some pieces in the group and can take over half of the board. The more you capture the board, the less chance of being jumped off.
- Deviate your Opponent: Deviate your enemy by splitting your coins into 6 on one side of the board and 6 on the other side. You can move the pieces from different sides at each turn carefully. You can also trick the opponent by capturing his sides with forced moves.
- Learn to trade: Trading a piece is a technique in checkers, however, if you think you are a step ahead and have more pieces on the board. Then you can trade a piece on the board.
- Learn to Block: As a beginner, it might be difficult for you to win on the first attempt, however, it is also equally important to learn how to block your opponent and win. Must read about the best football cards to invest in.
The game of checkers is also called Droughts. The checkers board game has some basic similarities to chess. However, there are certain basic rules that have to be followed. If you follow these rules then it could be easy to win the checkers game. Also, you cannot learn how to play checkers and win and how many checkers in a checker game just by reading things. You must also practice them while playing. (See How do you Play Lacrosse?) | <urn:uuid:7893b236-3c08-40a0-a646-cf7c37a78c90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.speeli.com/how-to-play-checkers-and-win/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959199 | 1,803 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Many children or friends want to know when they should look for extra support for their senior loved one. While the signs aging parents need help may be different for each individual, there are some fairly universal indicators.
7 Signs Aging Parents Need Help
1. Their House Looks Disheveled
If your loved one seems to care less about the cleanliness or tidiness of their house, they may not have the energy or range of motion needed for everyday chores.
2. They Aren’t Keeping up Their Appearance
Your loved one may wear the same clothes again and again. They may not have bathed or brushed their teeth. Signs of deteriorated self-care could mean a senior doesn’t feel safe bathing themselves or they’re feeling depressed.
3. Their Weight Is Fluctuating
A senior who doesn’t feel comfortable cooking for themselves may eat less or may default to eating less healthy food. A distinct change in diet can cause noticeable weight gain or loss.
4. They Become Less Responsible with Their Money
This sign won’t look the same for every senior. Some seniors may stop paying their bills or they may bounce checks. They could also give away money or valuables more often than is typical for them.
5. They Have Big Mood Swings
You may notice your loved one acting different than they usually do. Significant changes in behavior could be signs of underlying pain or discomfort, health concerns or depression.
6. They’ve Withdrawn from Social Activities
Decreased mobility can keep seniors at home and away from meaningful social connections. If your loved one is pulling back from volunteer jobs, book clubs or lunches with friends, they may need added support.
7. They’ve Become More Forgetful
We all have memory lapses from time to time, but if a senior is missing important appointments, forgetting to take their medications, or leaving the stove on, their health and home safety may suffer.
How to Find the Right Help
If you’ve noticed signs your aging parents need help, you still may be at a loss for how to proceed. First, talk with your senior loved one. It’s not uncommon for seniors to feel reluctant to accept or seek additional support. Express your concerns for their well-being and home safety, and listen with an open mind to their point of view. Include other important loved ones in the senior’s life in the conversation.
You (and your loved one, if they’re amenable), can start looking into support options without rushing into a decision. Your loved one may feel most comfortable with a caregiver coming to their residence. This can be a great intermediate step, but as the senior’s needs increase, you’ll likely have to look for more specialized caregivers or residential options with higher levels of care.
If you look into assisted living at a Life Care Community, your loved one can receive the care they need today to live as independently as possible, and they’ll have higher levels of care on-site if their needs change. With one move, the senior has a smart plan for present and future health care, as well as the vibrant lifestyle and social opportunities a community affords.
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Penny: Found Memories presents the story and history of the small industry community of Penny, BC. Penny is located approximately 130km east of Prince George along the Fraser River. The community developed as a result of two main industries present in the region: railway and forestry. Penny no longer thrives as a hub of industry however; the memories and rich history of this small community remain.
Come explore Penny: Found Memories to discover what a small industry community was like through the experiences of industry and the stories of Penny. Watch the video of how Penny Station was moved to Prince George, and listen to the voices of Penny residents as they reminisce on their time living in a small industry town. Discover the kids’ section with colouring sheets, a scavenger hunt and an operating semaphore.
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iz Truss has said she would rather help people struggling to make ends meet by cutting taxes than giving “handouts”.
The Tory leadership hopeful was asked if she would provide more support for rising fuel bills this winter if she becomes the next prime minister.
The foreign secretary told the Financial Times she would certainly “see what more can be done” but said she would do so “conservatively”.
Ms Truss rejected the idea of a “handout”, pledging instead to implement tax cuts.
He told the publication: “Of course, I will see what more can be done. But the way I will work is in a conservative way to reduce the tax burden, not give handouts.”
His comments come against a backdrop that is increasing by the day.
This week, energy consultancy Auxilione said the government’s price cap, which sets the bills of more than 20 million households in the UK, could rise to around £4,000 a year from January.
New analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also shows that nearly half (44%) of UK adults who pay their energy bills find it very or somewhat difficult to afford in the last two weeks of July. happened
The Bank of England warned on Thursday that Britain faces a two-year decline in household incomes, inflation will rise above 13 percent and the economy faces its longest recession since the financial crisis.
At the Tory leadership in Eastbourne, Sussex, on Friday evening, Ms Truss warned that the UK “must not drive itself into recession” and claimed the bank’s dire forecast was not inevitable.
So far, Ms Truss has promised to end “green levies” on energy bills, roll back increases in national insurance and cancel planned rises in corporation tax.
She told Tory members: “I know there are tough predictions but predictions are not destiny. And what we must not do is put ourselves into recession. We must keep taxes down.
“We can create a British version of Silicon Valley. We can create real opportunities.”
However, his rival Rishi Shankar argued that unless inflation was brought under control, there was “no hope” the Tories would win the next election.
In a thinly veiled take on his adversary, Mr Sink told Hastings that he was “particularly concerned about policies that risk making it (inflation) worse and longer”.
He also insisted that corporation tax was not the “right tax” to focus on, instead talking about the need to reform business taxes “on the things that make a difference”.
Mr Sink said: “I don’t want to stick to the failed policies of the past. That’s what people are suggesting. It hasn’t worked.”
On Friday night, the Foreign Secretary was backed by two Conservative former ministers, Nous Ghani and Dame Andrea Leadsom.
Ms Ghani told Tory MPs in Eastbourne that because of her role as vice-chair of the 1922 Committee for Backbench Conservative MPs, she could not support a candidate at this stage of the race.
Dame Andrea, who worked as Penny Mordant’s campaign manager and business secretary, wrote in the Telegraph that Ms Truss would ensure “every child is given the best start in life”.
As she later attends the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the Foreign Secretary is expected to set out a series of economic reforms that her campaign team claims will be “the right kind of investment”. will promote regional development by reviewing funding to supercharge
Some of the reforms include revising the leveling-up formula to fix underinvestment in regional infrastructure and creating low-tax, low-regulation “investment zones” or “full-fat freeports” on brownfield sites.
However, a spokesman for Mr Sink’s campaign accused Ms Truss’ team of “copying and pasting” policies the former chancellor had already put in place.
The spokesperson said: “Not only has Team Truss copied and pasted policies put in place by Rishi himself, they are also re-announcing two-year-old government policies.
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How data is stored, analyzed and processed is transforming businesses. According to MapR Technologies’ CEO John Schroeder, the industry is in the midst of the biggest change in enterprise computing in decades. Schroeder sees an acceleration in big data deployments, and has crystallized his view of market trends into these five major predictions for 2016.
1. Converged approaches become mainstream
For the last few decades, the accepted best practice has been to keep operational and analytic systems separate, in order to prevent analytic workloads from disrupting operational processing. HTAP (Hybrid Transaction / Analytical Processing) was coined in early 2014 by Gartner to describe a new generation of data platforms that can perform both online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) without requiring data duplication.
In 2016, we will see converged approaches become mainstream as leading companies reap the benefits of combining production workloads with analytics to adjust quickly to changing customer preferences, competitive pressures, and business conditions. This convergence speeds the “data to action” cycle for organizations and removes the time lag between analytics and business impact.
2. The pendulum swings from centralized to distributed
Tech cycles have swung back and forth from centralized to distributed workloads. Big data solutions initially focused on centralized data lakes that reduced data duplication, simplified management and supported a variety of applications including customer 360 analysis.
However, in 2016, large organizations will increasingly move to distributed processing for big data to address the challenges of managing multiple devices, multiple data centers, multiple global use cases and changing overseas data security rules (safe harbor). The continued growth of Internet of Things (IoT), cheap IoT sensors, fast networks, and edge processing will further dictate the deployment of distributed processing frameworks.
3. Storage (particularly flash) becomes an extremely abundant resource
Next-generation, software-based storage technology is enabling multi-temperature (fast and dense) solutions. Flash memory is a key technology that will enable new design for products in the consumer, computer and enterprise markets. Consumer demand for flash will continue to drive down its cost, and flash deployments in big data will begin to deploy.
The optimal solution will combine flash and disk to support both fast and dense configurations. In 2016, this new generation of software-based storage that enables multi-temperature solutions will proliferate so organizations will not have to choose between fast and dense—they will be able to get both.
4. “Shiny Object Syndrome” gives way to increased focus on fundamental value
In 2016, the market will focus much less on the latest and greatest “shiny object” software downloads, and more on proven technologies that provide fundamental business value. New community innovations will continue to garner attention, but in 2016, companies will increasingly recognize the attraction of software that results in business impact, rather than focusing on raw big data technologies.
5. Markets experience a flight to quality
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I had a great and stimulating conversation with my chiropractor today. That’s not unusual, it seems we normally do. Today however was greater than other times. I think it had to do with the topic. He’s not a church guy and has been clear on the fact that he’s not a Christian. However, he likes to discuss a wide range of subjects whenever I go in, topics such as politics, finances, family and even spirituality.
I’m praying that he will discover Jesus through all our ‘chats’. Today he asked me what my blog topic was about and so of course I told him it was about whether or not it is a sin to be depressed. He asked me if that’s a real question among Christians, and when I assured him that yes it was, he stopped what he was doing, looked at me for a moment, and then asked, “Isn’t that what faith is about”? He’s much closer to knowing Jesus than he knows.
So, is it a sin to be depressed? Does being depressed mean that somehow there is something wrong with our faith? Depression is somewhat of a charged issue among disciples of Jesus. Some flatly declare it to be a sin. The thinking is that depression reveals a lack of faith in God’s promises, or that God would never allow a Spirit filled – Spirit led believer to fall into a state of depression. Some will even say that it is God’s judgment on sinful behaviour, or the depressed individual has done something to invite spiritual oppression.
Some others will claim that that it’s just laziness, because – as the thinking goes – we know that God is good and loving and that we are secure in him, so what is there to be depressed about? We hear things like, “Stiff upper lip and get on with life.”or “Tough it out.”Not really helpful.
Then there are those who declare depression to be nothing more than a medical condition, a result of chemical imbalances in the brain. In other words, depression is really no more wrong than having the flu.
Several others (probably most Christians), aren’t really sure what this ugly beast of depression is. Faith seems somewhat related, but so do brain chemicals. Caught in all of this is the depressed Christian, left to feel guilty, defensive, confused, lost, or simply too depressed to even care what the church thinks. So, is it a sin to be depressed?
To begin to answer that question, I believe it is helpful and I’ll admit encouraging to know that there are many examples of biblical champions struggling with sadness, even to the point of depression. David wrote, “Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll – are they not in your record?” – Psalm 56:8.
David, a man after God’s own heart, did not gloss over his sadness; he expressed it to God. You’ll even find strong heroes of the faith such as Moses and Elijah, confess to God that they preferred to die rather than live in their current reality (Numbers 11:15; 1 Kings 19:3-5).
Interestingly, neither of these men were rebuked by God for their feelings; instead, they all were met with God’s love and provision. Even great church teachers and leaders of the past few centuries were known to suffer from depression, some for most of their lives. Men such as Charles Spurgeon and Martin Luther faced the dark depths of despair at various seasons of life and yet were used greatly by God to further the work of the church. It seems that the Bible isn’t shy about admitting that sadness and finding oneself in a deep funk is part of life, and it is not condemned.
I am not claiming that I am an expert in treating or diagnosing depression. In fact, I wish to emphasize that the purpose of this post today isn’t to definitively define anyone’s condition. I am not about to tell you if your’s or a loved one’s specific case is a result of something clinical, spiritual, physical or a combination of any of those. If you are struggling with depression, allow me encourage you to seek the council of a professional, a pastor who knows you or talk to a close friend. What I am attempting to do is biblically determine whether depression itself is a sin or not.
Truth is, the word depressed is a fairly loose term to begin with. It can refer to a diagnosable medical condition (clinical depression), but it can also refer to a temporary feeling of sadness or apathy or to a nebulous, lingering malaise.
For some people a chemical or hormonal imbalance triggers a depressed state. Having a medical condition is not a sin, however, what brings a person to that condition could berooted in sin. For instance, it is not wrong to have diabetes, but it is wrong to be a glutton (and the two are sometimes related).
Occasionally depression is situational, caused by adverse circumstances such as life changes, a spiritual crisis, etc. Our emotional response to those changes or crises can in turn trigger a chemical imbalance. Knowing that we humans are fearfully and wonderfully made, as the psalmist said in Psalm 139:14, it should come as no surprise then that our biology interacts with our emotions and vice-versa.
Once a person is depressed, the cycle of hormonal imbalance and negative emotions can be difficult to break. Whether the emotions cause the biology to change or the biology causes the emotions to change, the resulting symptoms are the same.
We live in a world of pain where tears of sadness are common. Even Jesus wept when his friend Lazarus died (John 11:35). I think it’s safe to say that there’s no need to always put on a happy face and pretend that things are okay when they are not.
But does that mean then that we are to submit to sadness or depression as the inevitable state? No, we don’t. Even when we’re sad or depressed, disciples are encouraged to see the greater reality of God’s plan. Yes, this world is fallen and often painful. It can be depressing. But God is far greater. He is at work, victoriously.
Moses and Elijah received God’s provision and experienced his refreshing care. Shortly after pouring out his sadness, David praised God. Jesus said, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”– John 16:33
Taking heart does not mean pasting on a smile or ignoring the feeling of emptiness that depression brings. It does not mean neglecting to treat depression through counseling or medication. It does not mean ignoring the relational hurts or the misperceptions that have led to depression (Satan’s lies, if we believe them, will lead us to despair). It does not mean denying the fact that depression could be a lifelong struggle.
What taking heart does mean is bringing all our pain to God. It does mean continuing to trust in him. It does mean believing that what he says about himself and about us is true, even when we don’t feel like it is. It does mean getting the help we need, battling depression rather than giving in to it. We acknowledge the depravity of the world, but we also acknowledge the sufficiency of God.
If you are depressed there are some things you can do to alleviate your anxiety. Make sure that you are staying in the Word, even when you don’t feel like it. Emotions can lead us astray, but God’s Word stands firm and unchanging. Maintain strong faith in God and hold even more tightly to him when you undergo trials and temptations. 1 Corinthians 10:13 tells us that God will never allow temptations into our lives that are too much for us to handle. Do not hide away from people and forsake the fellowshipping with other believers. God knows we need community for encouragement and to be loved on.
Is depression a sin? No, it is not, however know that we are still accountable for the response to the affliction, including getting the professional help that is needed. It is not a sin to be depressed, but it is a sin – and not especially helpful in overcoming a depressed state – to give up on God when we are depressed. “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God” – Psalm 43:5. | <urn:uuid:b91759ab-d124-4479-bad9-b7fc85d208a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesavagetheologian.com/category/suffering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966061 | 1,830 | 1.679688 | 2 |
WikiLeaders is an educational project that aims to memorize the legacy of the tunisian leaders who contributed in the process of building the modern Tunisia we all know now, in all fields : Medicine, politics, litterature, Technology, etc.
The project is divided into phases according to the fields our leaders innovated in. And in The project aims to engage tunisian university students to write and know about our human heritage. That’s why every phase will be conducted with a local partner : a university student’s organization, to facilitate the communication, co-organize the workshops and recruit the volunteers.
Phase1 : Leaders in Medicine
Local Partner : Associa-Med Tunis
Associa-Med Tunis is the main association of medical students in the Medicine school of Tunis. It was founded in 1985 and it has more than 1500 members who are medical students, interns and residents. The association works mainly on the student life in the school by organizing trainings to improve its members soft-skills, host local cultural and scientific events, and organize national and international meetings to introduce the tunisian medical students to the internaional medical community.
Emna Makhlouf (Local coordinator)
Youcef Henane User: Tahertli
List of leaders
- Media comapign and call for volunteers
- 1st workshop : Introduction to Wikimedia, Wikipedia and WikiCommons
The workshop was held in the 20th of March 2018 in the medicine school of Tunis.
- 2nd Workshop
Recap, what's left to be done The workshop was held in the 13th of March 2018 in the medicine school of Tunis | <urn:uuid:ba1582f9-f46a-4765-a816-3c0a3a32b6ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917572 | 380 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Arts and Entertainment, 1945-1968
Arts and entertainment in the two decades following World War II showed both continuity and change. Radio remained popular, but a new technology--television--also became vastly successful. Indeed, television would make significant changes in many aspects of life in the United States.
As professional athletes returned from serving in the armed forces, Americans went out in record numbers to watch them perform. Yet professional sports would soon be changed forever with the integration of African American and white athletes into the same competitions.
The musical theater continued to thrive, with several eminent classical musicians crossing over into popular music to compose musicals. Other musicians were creating a new form of music that became popular among young people--rock and roll. Despite the emergence of this new form of music in the 1950s, many people viewed that decade as a relatively uncreative one.
As the 1960s progressed, changes in society were reflected in changes in art and entertainment. Black authors wrote prolifically, often writing about the challenges of being African American in a society dominated by white racism. Feminist writers called for equality between the sexes. Other writers, musicians, and artists examined the effects of the "establishment" on society and protested the war in Vietnam.
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About Steytlerville Crafters
The Baviaans Municipality started a programme for the development of Arts and Crafts in the Greater Baviaans Area early in 2011.
The programme aimed to develop certain craft skills within the local community and simultaneously provide opportunities for income generation.
Steytlerville is known for its astonishing variety of semi-desert vegetation and with its bougainvillea-lined streets and horse-drawn carts, one of the best towns the Karoo has to offer.
In this quintessential slow-paced small town a group of dynamic local women, armed with tile nippers and cutters, pliers and glue are producing beautiful mosaic works ranging from crosses and hearts to vases and bowls and anything in between. In 2011 these women received basic training in mosaic, wire- and tin-work, jewellery making and bottle-cutting using basic tools and mostly recycled material.
As their skills developed they started focussing on mosaic products, but also continued making jewellery, blankets and creating works of art from wood. Today their products are sold from their working craft shop and at various venues, including the Baviaanskloof Craft Shop.
Steytlerville lies at the entrance to the eastern parts of the Baviaanskloof and showcases a host of architectural gems like quaint Edwardian- and Victorian-era houses with tin roofs and large street-facing verandas complete with broekie lace and stained glass windows.
In discussion with the Baviaans Municipality the Hannah Hayward Hall was acquired for them to continue their product development and to assess the viability of a sustainable craft shop in Steytlerville.
They are now in a position to support their own craft shop with stock as well as supply the Baviaanskloof Craft shop as well as the Polka Dot gift shop established in the Royal Hotel in Steytlerville.
A visit to the Steytlerville Craft shop is an absolute essential when visiting the town.
The shop is open every Monday, Thursday and Friday from 9h00 to 17h00.
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The story is an interesting work with lots of different genres and certain other supporting elements. It is not only the storyline that makes the story a popular one. Certain text features also add value to the text, like pictures, different text styles, etc. It assists the reader in relating and understanding the information provided. So today, we will learn what are text features and the types of text features. Also, this article will give you insight into how to teach text features? Continue reading.
1. What are Text Features?
Text features are the features of a writing piece that can be an article or story which aids it. These text features help enhance the readers’ understanding by providing supplementary tools or components. These components are tables, charts, graphs, different text styles, etc. (See What is Intricate Text in Grammarly?)
2. Why are Text Features Important?
The text features are important components that enhance the understanding of the reader. It also helps in the reader’s engagement in the piece of writing.
3. Describe Types of Text Features in Brief
There are three types of text features:
- Directional Features: It helps to provide directional knowledge and guidance to the readers.
- Supplementary Features: The supplementary features are those features that are additional components to engage readers.
- Visual Aid: These could include images or certain diagrams, which help to give a textual and visual effect together. (See What are the Types and Examples of Text to Text Connections?)
4. List 5 Text Features Examples
While learning what are text features, it is essential to know some examples. The five text features examples are:
- Table of Content: It is used to assemble the data into a systematic order. It also helps to bring out the comparison between two things.
- Bold Words: It is a type of text that helps highlight some main headings or important points so that the reader may not miss the point.
- Diagram: It is used for some pictorial representation of things that could explain a text.
- Glossary: These refer to the meanings of difficult words provided at the end of the text, which assists the reader in a better understanding.
- Pictures: Pictorial representation is very important for the engagement of the reader. Also, check out what is an example of Expository Text?
5. Non-Fiction Text Features and Text Structure
Non-fiction text features are the same as the story elements in fiction. It helps the reader to have a better understanding of the text.
- A map can be provided along with the text so the reader can locate the location.
- Tables or graphs can be added for the numerical data.
- Similarly, different font styles can help to highlight the main headings and important points.
Examples of non-fiction text features include a caption, comparison, glossary, and graphics. The text structure is how the author/writer arranges the information in the text. There are different types of text structure:
- Cause and effect,
- Compare and contrast,
- Time order/sequence, etc. (See Top 16 Hanukkah Spelling Variations)
6. Fiction Text Features and Text Structure
While knowing what are text features, you might wonder about its structure in writing. Fictional writings are mainly based on the imagination of the writer. The location or characters mentioned don’t have a real existence. These don’t require any graphs, tables, comparisons, etc., in most cases. A few examples of fiction text features are title, headings, table of content, and images. Fictional text structures have literary elements such as characters, plot, setting of the story, and problem and solution. (See I Fly By the Seat of My Pants Meaning)
7. How to teach Text Features for Fiction & Non-fiction Reading?
It is a lot of fun to know what are text features and to teach non-fiction text features. There are multiple ways of teaching a topic. One of the ways could be introducing the class to fiction and non-fiction text features. After introducing the concepts to the students, you can give them task cards for better understanding. Moreover, the teacher can play bingo with students for concept clarity. The fast finger method can also be counted in how to teach text features in the class. (See Why only 26 Alphabets in One Word: Ever Wondered?) | <urn:uuid:358b2af0-f8c1-4713-bf50-971d42ef00f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.speeli.com/what-are-text-features/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917663 | 923 | 3.953125 | 4 |
A new parking lot at the Cumberland Valley Rail-Trail trailhead is paved with the rich history of Shippensburg University, literally! When Shippensburg Station, a multi-use event space and home of the boxcar museum, needed materials to create a public parking area Shippensburg University provided an alternative to macadam.
When old residence halls were demolished to make way for Ship’s current suite-style halls, the grindings from the buildings didn’t go to a landfill. Instead, Ship saved them to be repurposed in future construction projects. Ship collaborated with Shippensburg Station and Dave’s of Chambersburg to haul and roll the grindings, creating a parking area giving visitors access to the trail, the boxcar and the campus. | <urn:uuid:70456bd1-e75f-4197-b735-55fc9aa9f3f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.ship.edu/2018/07/10/new-parking-lot-paved-with-shippensburg-university-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.911767 | 165 | 1.625 | 2 |
Japan, India To Sign Nuclear Cooperation Deal In November
1 October 2016
Japan and India are likely to sign a civil nuclear cooperation pact during a visit to Japan by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in mid-November, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday.
The governments of Asia's second-and third-largest economies are leaning toward holding a summit meeting between Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, the report said, citing unidentified diplomatic sources from both nations.
The two leaders last December reached a basic agreement for cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, but they stopped short of signing the agreement, citing outstanding technical and legal differences.
Japan, the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, has been demanding additional non-proliferation guarantees from India, which has a nuclear weapons program, before exporting nuclear reactors.
India and Japan have been negotiating the nuclear energy deal since Japan's ally, the United States, opened the way for nuclear commerce with India, which has shunned the global Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The two countries have reached a basic agreement during the working level negotiations that Japan would halt cooperation immediately if India conducted a nuclear test, the report added.
A final deal with Japan would benefit U.S. firms. India has already given land for nuclear plants to GE-Hitachi - which is an alliance between the U.S. and Japanese firms - and to Toshiba's Westinghouse Electric Company.
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On a quiet street in Pasadena, California, is a house where one of the world’s most famous pop songs was made. It’s owned by Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo, the duo behind “Despacito.” I’m sitting in their home studio to talk to them about one of the key techniques they use to make many of their hits: sampling.
Sampling started as a way to cut up an existing recording to use bits of that audio in a new way. It’s helped spawn entire genres of music and has been used to make hit records for decades. The catchy melody in Drake’s “Hotline Bling”? That’s a Timmy Thomas sample from 1972. Those horns from Beyoncé’s “Crazy In Love”? That’s a Chi-Lites sample, also from the ‘70s. Everyone from The Beastie Boys to Stevie Wonder to Oasis has used samples in their songs, and it’s still a common practice today.
Andrés and Mauricio hail from Colombia, and they’ve been making Latin-infused pop hits as a pair since 2015. “We’ve been obsessed with samples for a long time,” Mauricio tells me as he opens up the Ableton file for “Despacito” and points out all of the samples that go into a single song. Some samples are sounds they’ve purchased online, while others, like the metallic brush of a güira, are ones they’ve made themselves. “A lot of percussion that we have used [is from] real people that we recorded,” says Andrés.
A sample can be anything from a melody to a snippet of a drum beat, and as professionally recorded sounds become easier to access and software becomes cheaper, they’re increasingly routine as a part of the song-making process for bedroom and Top 40 producers alike. “I can hear something I love in a piece of media, and I can co-opt it and insert myself in that narrative or alter it even,” said musician Mark Ronson in his 2014 TED Talk on sampling. “In music, we take something that we love and we build on it.”
Sometimes, you can clearly hear a sampled work in a new song, but other times, artists chop up samples, process them, or add so many effects that the origin can be unrecognizable. The classic drum break in Lyn Collins’ 1972 single “Think About It” has been sampled in over 2,000 songs. It can be heard in an obvious way in Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “It Takes Two,” but it’s also hidden in Jaime XX’s “Gosh,” and many wouldn’t know it because of how the sounds have been warped.
There are a million reasons why someone might use samples in a track. Sometimes it helps hook people in if they hear something recognizable, like how Katy Perry’s “Swish Swish” begins with a classic Fat Boy Slim vocal. Or someone might not have access to an instrument they want to use in a track. Or a producer might simply get captivated by a sound and want to use it as a point of inspiration. Whatever the case, because of the burgeoning sample marketplace industry, musicians can now find almost any sound they need in a matter of seconds.
“You can come in and just browse what’s new, see what’s hot in the charts, or do an exact search for, ‘I need a flute in the key of B right now,’” says Steve Martocci, CEO of sample marketplace and music collaboration platform Splice. “What we watched was it just really evolved the way people think about creation and songwriting.” These marketplaces are becoming so popular, Martocci tells me, that on Splice alone, people listen to over 60 million samples each week.
The way people have grabbed samples has changed over time. Historically, a sample is audio taken from an existing recording, and the way that is done has evolved with tech. In the ‘40s, musique concrète artists modified and spliced recordings of natural sounds to create musical collages. In the ‘60s, Jamaican producers like King Tubby used mixing board techniques — like feedback loops and flanges — to remix reggae songs, creating a genre called dub. In the ‘70s, the first commercially available samplers popped up, including the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument), which let you edit sampled waveforms with a built-in light pen. Since then, samples have been lifted from vinyl, CDs, YouTube rips, and anywhere else sounds exist.
But sampling this way poses risk because, like most things in life, if you take something without permission, you can get in trouble. And that applies to music, too. While sampling was new and exciting for many years, the pressures to deal with copyright infringement started to appear by the early ‘90s. The line for what is considered stealing in music has never been clear-cut, and it continues to be a hotly debated topic both in and out of court. One of the most famous copyright infringement cases involves Vanilla Ice, who eventually settled for lifting the bass line in Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” to use in “Ice Ice Baby.”
“Back then, if you really wanted to clear something when you pulled it from a track, it could never get done,” Martocci says. “The normal process is people would try to extract it from the sound where they heard it and hope no one notices and release their track. And if they’re successful, get sued.”
Now, the term “sample” can also mean a new sound created specifically to be a sample. In recent years, there’s been a boom in online sample marketplaces like Splice and Sounds.com — places where producers can buy and sell recorded sounds that can be legally used in works, royalty-free. These sites court producers to create packs for their sites, like Diplo, WondaGurl, and Andrés and Mauricio. Then, users pay a subscription fee (average of $10 a month or less) to get credits that can be exchanged for samples.
Andrés and Mauricio have their own sample pack on Splice, with hundreds of sounds including reggaeton drum loops, salsa-inspired horns, and tropical pop-inspired synth plucks. I ask Andrés and Mauricio if any sounds from “Despacito” are in their Splice sample pack. There are, along with other sounds they’ve made and used in “Runaway,” their latest hit with Sebastián Yatra, Daddy Yankee, Natti Natasha, and the Jonas Brothers.
It’s pretty amazing that anyone can now legally buy some of the exact sounds used in Top 40 songs like “Despacito,” and for cheap. “That’s so fair,” says Andrés, “because when we were starting, a big producer that had a lot of success will always sound better than a small producer because they had money to buy all these expensive things. Now it’s fair. It’s just creativity. Who is the most creative person that can make the most interesting song? Because everybody can sound good.”
The pair has already heard some of their samples used by big acts. Billboard-charting boy band Why Don’t We used one of their guitar loops in recently released “Come To Brazil,” which has already racked up millions of streams across various platforms. “We’re so proud,” says Andrés. Mauricio grins and nods in agreement. “We feel super cool about it.”
Sample marketplaces are beneficial for musicians on both ends. They provide instant and legal access to millions of sounds, and they have also become a way for more established artists to make money. Producers like Andrés and Mauricio get paid an advance to make a sample pack for Splice, and they are paid again when someone downloads one of their sounds.
“We’re at this era where software is the primary instrument,” Martocci tells me. “You don’t need a huge record deal to break or get enough money to go into a studio.”
“They have access to the same things that we have, and everybody can do the same quality of music,” Andrés says. “And that, for me, is the world evolving and being a better place for art.”
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By Ayanna Robertson
via The Xavier Herald
Spoken word poet, playwright, author and TED Talk speaker, Chris James is bringing his one act/eight scene play, Dear Black People to the Ashe’ Center.
James is from Little Rock, Arkansas, but resides in Atlanta, Georgia. He found his love for the arts in college when he was introduced to the poetry community. He begin to pursue poetry as his career. It was then that he realized that he could turn his poems into stage plays. James put out his first stage play in 2013, and has been converting his passion into performances ever since.
Dear Black People addresses the stereotypes within Black Culture. It also talks about issues that members of the black community face on a daily basis such as: self-inflicted hurt, self-esteem issues, relationships, racism within the black community, hip hop music, poverty and what it means to be black.
James’ goal behind this play was to bring to light the things that African Americans do to themselves and each other. He wanted to begin to address these problems through laughter and humor, but by the end of each scene he wants to show the effects of one’s actions.
“All my bodies of work are about are about educating people, and talking about things that many people are afraid to talk about,” said James. “I want to have those neglected conversations and I’m very passionate about creating those narratives.”
James said that when people see his performances, he wants them to feel inspired to create change within their community. That is one of the reasons why James chose to have his play show at the Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center. He said that his vision, and the vision of the center coincide.
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The Indigenous World 2010
This yearbook contains a comprehensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and their human rights and provides an overview of the most important developments in international and regional processes during 2009. 72 indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists provide their insight and knowledge to the book with: - Region and country reports covering most of the indigenous world.
- Updated information on international and regional processes relating to indigenous peoples.
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Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 2, 2015
Encryption first added as a patch, key only removed when all backups are encrypted.
Make backups, they said. Then you won't have to worry about ransomware, they said.
Ransomware has quickly become one of the most frustrating kinds of cyber attack. We all know that our devices could suddenly die, and if this leads to a loss of data because we didn't backup regularly, then we only have ourselves to blame.
But things are different when files on a fully functional device are encrypted by a group of cybercrminals and the lack of a backup means we can only decrypt them by paying a few hundred dollars to the cybercriminals. That is why we hear so many sad stories of people affected by the likes of CryptoLocker, Cryptowall and CTB-Locker.
Researchers at Swiss security firm High-Tech Bridge have written about a new ransomware technique that targets businesses and that cannot simply be defeated by a proper backup policy.
Dubbed 'RansomWeb', the technique acts in two stages. In the first stage, the web application is 'patched' so that data is encrypted before it is stored in a database and decrypted when it is read from the database. When done well, this patch won't affect the functionality of the website.
In the second phase, the attacker removes the private encryption key from the web server and sends a note to the site owner, demanding a ransom. This phase usually takes place months after the first, by which time all the available backups will only contain encrypted data, which cannot be read without having access to the private key.
It is unclear how widespread RansomWeb is. High-Tech Bridge mentions at least two separate instances of the same kind of attack and there may be many more: businesses tend to be reluctant to report cybercrime. Speaking to Forbes, security consultant Brian Honan says he has worked with SMBs where ransomware was deployed in combination with the destruction of backups.
RansomWeb might not scale as well as normal ransomware, but given that many businesses use the same software for their web applications, and that vulnerabilities are regularly found in such software, it wouldn't be too difficult to target a fairly large number of businesses at once.
Making regular backups remains essential, but RansomWeb shows that backups are not enough: monitoring what happens on your server, and patching vulnerabilities as they are discovered, is just as important.
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The EU’s ‘carding scheme’ – which warns and potentially sanctions non-EU countries that fail to cooperate in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing – has decreased the prevalence of IUU fishing and prompted improved legislation, compliance and enforcement measures in several carded countries, a new report from the EU IUU Fishing Coalition has found. However, without strengthened transparency across global fisheries and greater participation, the ocean remains at continued risk of IUU fishing.
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing imperils the sustainability of the world’s fisheries; depletes fish populations; costs the global economy billions every year; skews scientific assessments; and deprives fishing communities of their livelihoods.
The carding scheme is a key component of the EU’s IUU Regulation. It allows the EU to initiate an informal dialogue with a non-EU country for failing to sufficiently act against IUU fishing and it can escalate to a formal warning (‘yellow card’) accompanied by a formal dialogue process. Subsequently, the EU may issue a ‘red card’ should a country fail to take appropriate action to address the shortcomings identified by the EU, or a ‘green card’ if the country successfully addressed the EU’s concerns. ‘Red-carded’ countries are prohibited from exporting fish to the EU and EU vessels cannot operate in their waters until the card is revoked.
The EU carding scheme, which has been in force since 2010, has led to real, tangible progress for improving fisheries governance in the four carded countries examined as case studies in a new report by the NGO group EU IUU Fishing Coalition, namely Belize, Guinea, Solomon Islands and Thailand. The scheme has empowered governments to challenge illicit operators that exploit national waters and threaten local economies and livelihoods. It has also helped to bring the issue of IUU fishing into mainstream discourse, generating pressure to act both within the carded countries and internationally.
Within a year of carding, large-scale improvements around fisheries governance had been initiated in all four case-study countries, the report shows. This includes widespread increases in resource allocation for monitoring, control and surveillance to ensure more ‘eyes on the sea.’ Such undertakings demonstrate a firm commitment from carded countries to tackle IUU fishing while increasing local employment opportunities. For example, following receiving a yellow card in December 2014, the number of fisheries officers in the Solomon Islands has doubled. In Thailand, there are now more than 4,000 officers working in fisheries monitoring and control following its receival of a yellow card in April 2019.
The report highlights that, though trade-based measures can be an effective means of improving fisheries governance, it is the dialogue, capacity building and technical support offered by the EU that is fundamental to the success of the carding scheme. Emphasis on these components has also empowered the countries examined in the report to both implement new and enforce existing national regulations. Some of the countries have become more assertive in sanctioning illegal and unreported fishing. In Belize, for instance, serious violations became subject to a fine of between US$50,000 to US$3 million and in Thailand, more than €3 million of fines were delivered for overseas fleet violations in 2018.
Finally, the report emphasises the need for ongoing dialogue and monitoring of both carded countries and those countries that have had cards revoked. The fight against IUU fishing requires long term commitment to legal and measurable change and does not stop when a card is lifted.
Ongoing endeavours to combat IUU fishing around the world are crucial. The EU IUU Fishing Coalition is advocating for a number of measures to increase transparency in global fisheries, including through improved publishing of vessels’ identities, activities, catch and ownership data. There is also a crucial need to identify new and additional resources to strengthen the European Commission’s capacity to enforce the carding scheme and maintain the EU’s leadership in fighting IUU fishing globally. Harmonious, impactful, and long-term measures such as the carding scheme, created through collaboration between governments, industry and NGOs, are the key to protecting our ocean and ending IUU fishing worldwide. | <urn:uuid:4a593012-c8ee-4519-b213-91c2e144c59b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iuuwatch.eu/2022/03/eu-scheme-to-tackle-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing-brings-positive-results-and-empowers-nations-new-report-finds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952203 | 871 | 2.4375 | 2 |
I'm not the world's greatest designer.
I enjoy drawing and illustration and I intend to get good at it over time (I have a long way to go—I estimate my current drawing age to be around nine years old).
I used to maintain the illusion that drawing and illustration was helping me become a better designer but perhaps it wasn't, or at least not to the level that I thought it was.
Drawing and art in general is about the artist. It's about the expression of their reaction to the world. Their pieces ask you to try and see or hear or feel things how they experience them.
It's a transient, rickety bridge that temporarily connects our little island of self to theirs; an invitation into their minds and imaginations, their own subjective experience of our shared objective reality.
Design, on the other hand, is about the user of that design. It is primarily functional. It can absolutely be beautiful and opinionated and thoughtful and approach art in terms of expression but if it's unusable then it necessarily fails as design.
It's about connecting the user to their world in a more meaningful, positive way. It's about making their life easier; making the necessities more enjoyable.
Art is expression, design is empathy.
I'm not a great designer because I spend too much on the former, and not enough on the latter. I think too much about the colours that I like and not about the colours that are right.
If something appears a little dull, my first instinct is to add an illustration in there, which pays no respect to the essence of the problem I'm trying to solve.
I think a good designer is able to inject their personality into their designs without overwhelming the objectives of that design. It's about getting to the core of what that thing is or does and finding ways that accentuate that core in harmony with it.
I believe that the biggest compliment you can pay a designer is "This! This is how <insert thing> should work!"
Not the mediocre, middling "I guess it does what I want" that makes up the bulk of the products and services we use, but the excitement that this thing gets you; that this object thinks like you think—that if you were going to create this thing, this is exactly how you would create it.
I think a great designer is able to do this to scale. It's easier to get a handful of like-minded people to love a design than it is to get hundreds, thousands or even millions.
As I continue to work on the design for Trail Wallet 2, I'm trying to hold these things in mind. I'm attempting to reach a higher standard; to make this thing less about me, and more about you.
Of course, this is not a fixed concept. Our tastes and desires and experiences naturally evolve. This is brilliant news for designers. There will never be a perfect design, just a perfect design for right now. ↩︎ | <urn:uuid:c5213932-c9df-4c55-b93f-43316d62c8a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voyagetravelapps.com/apps-are-not-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974504 | 613 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Headed to a Wintry State on Your Next Assignment? Get Ready for the Cold.
Climate varies across the United States. If you’re a fan of dry heat, Arizona is just right. Don’t mind humidity? Florida awaits! Want a good mix of all four seasons? New Hampshire is a lovely place to call home. But when it comes to winter weather, there’s no beating the Upper Midwest or Northern New England. When winter descends on these regions, it brings subzero temperatures, icy winds, heavy snows, and plenty of danger. It can be a rude awakening for travel nurses new to wintry weather.
Winter can get bad
In Northern cities, the winter season is full of inclement weather. Travel nurses need to prepare for harsh conditions, no matter what form they take:
- Snow. Blizzards and whiteout conditions can dump multiple feet of snow on cities overnight, leaving you digging yourself out the next morning. Getting caught on the road in a snowstorm is dangerous, too. It can be difficult to see and navigate slick road conditions.
- Ice. From freezing rain and sleet to melting snow re-freezing overnight, ice is a major hazard. Make sure you’re wearing appropriate footwear and tread carefully on slippery surfaces. If you’re renting a home, prepare to stock up on salt to keep your walkways and driveways safe.
- Cold. Even during the day, temperatures can easily drop into single digits or negative numbers. Factor in the wind chill, and it’s not uncommon for wintry temperatures to fall well into the negatives. At night, it can get even worse. Make sure you’re dressed for exposure — even if you don’t plan on being out long.
Sometimes, you’ll find yourself dealing with all three of these hazards. The key to making it through your wintry assignment is keeping apprised of the weather and prepared for every eventuality.
How to prepare for the winter season
If it’s your first time in a winter climate, or you’re more familiar with warmer locales, there are a few simple steps to safeguarding yourself against the worst of winter weather. Here’s how to stand tall against whatever the weather throws at you:
- Watch the weather. Check the forecast each night, or before each shift, to see what exactly winter has in store for you.
- Build out your wardrobe. Thick wool socks, an insulated jacket, long underwear, hats, gloves, and scarves should all be staples of your daily attire.
- Stock up on essentials. The last thing you want to do on your day off is risk frostbite. Plan to stock up on groceries and personal items for fewer trips outside.
- Keep your electronics charged. Most smartphones and other personal devices have lithium-ion batteries which can fail in the cold. Keep them charged and warm.
Wintry weather can throw a wrench into anyone’s schedule. As a travel nurse, you’ll likely find yourself being asked to cover for certain areas when coworkers can’t make it in. You might also find yourself with a vehicle that doesn’t start or a bus that doesn’t show up. Maintain an open line of communication with your supervisor, and make sure you know the policies regarding inclement weather conditions.
Winter can be beautiful
If you haven’t experienced a Midwestern or New England winter, you’re in for a treat. When the winds die down and the sun comes out, winter can be an especially beautiful time of year. Waking up when the city is silent, blanketed in a fresh layer of snow, is an experience you won’t soon forget. Try to keep the tranquility of winter in mind — especially in your first experience with subzero temperatures or blizzard conditions. | <urn:uuid:d6795431-fcb8-46fa-a10c-278c824b9aaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hpcnursing.com/index.php/nwblog/item/headed-to-a-wintry-state-on-your-next-assignment-get-ready-for-the-cold | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92266 | 809 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Much has been made of how digital technologies and mobile devices have resulted in shorter attention spans. That’s doubtless true—can you think of a time you made it through an article without at least one other thing vying for your attention? Technology has enabled the easy creation and distribution of all types of content, meaning that the options for our attention have risen dramatically.
Rather than being a recent development, this trend is just the latest in a decades-old progression from longer-form content across all channels to more accessible, bite-size pieces. Print publications have largely been supplanted by digital content; traditional broadcast programming has been replaced by shorter pieces on YouTube; the tyranny of over-the-air radio stations has given way to iTunes Radio, Pandora, and Spotify. And with these innovations, the traditional forms of storytelling and their distribution have also evolved.
But let’s take a step back and acknowledge that effective storytelling has always exploited the limitations and possibilities of available formats at the time as well as how people prefer to get their content. And great storytelling has always superseded formats: Shakespeare’s work has been adapted to suit different eras while retaining its essence. Keith Haring only needed a blank city wall. Often, storytellers can use the benefits and limitations of those formats to enhance the impact of their ideas.
Readers of this blog will know that our company is fond of its vinyl. When you play an LP, you quickly remember that when it was the preferred format for recorded music, the artists basically had a captive audience. Once you drop the needle on the first tune of a side, you’re along for the ride. So to excel, artists had to create, record, and sequence an album of around 45 minutes (more than that and the sound quality drops considerably) in a way that would pull the listener through.
Now I can say from experience that most albums have at least a little filler. The 1968 Sly and the Family Stone release Stand! has some of my favorite tunes of all time—“I Wanna Take You Higher,” “Stand!,” “Sing a Simple Song,” “Everyday People,” “You Can Make It if You Try.” Mixed amid those classics is a nearly 14-minute song called “Sex Machine” that is every bit as interminable as James Brown’s song by the same name is a perfectly distilled piece of funk. Why did Sly do it? Besides the fact that he was churning out a lot of product at the time and may have needed a respite, he likely also knew that most listeners aren’t going to get up and try to move the needle just to skip a song they don’t like. By contrast, think how easy it is to hit “skip” or “next” on your phone when a song comes up that you don’t love. And love is the new measurement for success. A mere “OK” or “pretty good” often warrants a pass since passing is so easy—since we know we have better options at our disposal.
Thought leadership has undergone a similar evolution. Fifteen years ago, the 3,000-word article, usually in a printed journal, reigned supreme as the vessel for a serious discussion of business issues, analytical rigor, and detailed examples. In the time before mass adoption of mobile devices, the only reason someone would put down their print journal was to pick up another print journal. But as times have changed, the emphasis has shifted to tantalizing headlines, shorter articles, and lots of visuals.
So what does it mean for companies trying to reach and engage their target audience with content? And how should they adjust their approach?
Longer-form content is still hugely important, but it—like the LP—is no longer enough to attract and keep an audience’s attention. In a world where executives have so many competing demands on their time, many won’t even think about dedicating themselves to a 3,000-word article—unless they can be absolutely sure that it contains valuable insights. We want every single word, like we want every single song on the album, to add value, or we’ll skip it and look for a piece that’s more to our liking or more to the point.
That’s why it’s important for companies to create multiple entry points in multiple formats to this more substantive content. But rather than seeing this development as the end of a more sophisticated era, companies would do well to embrace these opportunities. Now the paths to your ideas are limited only by your creativity in using different channels—from social media, multimedia (videos, podcasts, webinars), and shorter-from content (blogs) to more visual models of storytelling (infographics, online interactives)—to reach your target audience.
What’s more, these formats enable new types of storytelling that not only make more of an impact but also enable companies to track user behavior. And all of that helps content better support your overarching objectives, from reputation building to sales and business development.
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