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His real name was Daniel Charles Dietrich. Born of Pennsylvania Dutch stock in Indiana on January 25, 1847, he grew up near Plymouth, Kansas.
Exactly where the tintype of him was made is not known, but it was almost certainly before he arrived in New Mexico late in 1877 after (as one source suggests) escaping from a Fort Smith, Arkansas, jail. Family tradition says he fought in the Lincoln County War on the McSween side (which might account for his friendship with Billy the Kid). Wounded during the final five-day July battle, he carried the bullet in his crippled arm for the rest of his life. Later, having taken over the abandoned ranch of cattle king John Chisum at Bosque Grande on the Pecos River, he made it a welcoming safe house for men on the wrong side of the law— including the Kid.
After gold was discovered at White Oaks in 1880, Dan and his younger brothers Sam and Moses opened a livery stable there in partnership with Harvey West, formerly Charlie Rath’s storekeeper serving the buffalo hunters at Fort Griffin and Mobeetie in Texas, who introduced the Dedrick brothers to the business of distributing counterfeit $100 bills. When complaints about the forgeries reached Washington, Secret Service agent Azariah Wild was sent to investigate. He reported the existence of a gang of outlaws, among them the Dedricks and “William Antrom [sic],” soon to be better known as Billy the Kid. He claimed they were involved in making counterfeit money, also known as “shoving the queer,” as well as wholesale cattle and horse theft. Law enforcement in Lincoln County was virtually nonexistent—perhaps because, Wild hinted, Sheriff George Kimbrell was in on the action.
At the end of the year, Pat Garrett became sheriff, turning the heat on the criminal fraternity in general and Billy the Kid in particular. Sometime during that same period, an itinerant photographer took the Kid’s photograph—a Bon-Ton ferrotype—at Fort Sumner, only one copy of which has survived to the present day—the one Billy gave to Dan Dedrick. It may well have been a goodbye gift, because in November, under indictment for larceny, Dan skinned out with his brothers and Harvey West. In 1882, after a short stay in Socorro County, he settled in the Trinity Mountains of northern California, turning his hand to mining. He got lucky in 1890 and a small town—Dedrick—grew around his Chloride mine. After another strike south of Weaverville, Dan and wife Antoni built a home on Indian Creek, where they were later joined by their nephew Frank L. Upham, who would raise his own family there.
Seven or eight years before his death in 1938, Dan gave the tintype of the Kid and another of himself, along with some later photos, to Frank. In 1947, Frank gave them all to his sister-in-law Elizabeth, who, for nearly 40 years, kept the Kid image in a cedarwood box, unaware of its unique value. Loaned to the Lincoln County Heritage Trust in the mid-1980s, it was reclaimed by the family years later. It has not been seen since—until now. Both the Dan Dedrick and the Billy the Kid tintypes will be sold together in the Upham auction lot at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction this June. | <urn:uuid:dd2484fb-310c-4eb1-80b8-c1055ca7c8e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://truewestmagazine.com/article/so-who-was-dan-dedrick/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.983106 | 715 | 2.171875 | 2 |
JULIUSSON, Per Vilhelm Hilding. Stockholm 18.7.1916 — Vallentuna 29.10.1977. Swedish Priest, Missionary, and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Parents estate owner Carl J. and Anna Eriksson. Educated in Stockholm, worked as a teacher. From 1937 renewed studies at Stockholm (M.A. 1941) and Uppsala (M.Theol. 1944), ordained priest 1944. Worked as Lutheran missionary in Madhya Pradesh in 1946-58. Then in ecclesiastic offices: 1959-61 adjunkt in Bromma and from 1961 komminister in Västerled, finally Minister in Vallentuna. Now started studies of Comparative Religion at Stockholm (under Åke Hultkrantz), Ph.D. 1974. Married 1943 with Kerstin Asplund, 4 daughters, 1 son.
Publications: diss. The Gonds and their Religion. 248 p. Stockholm Studies in Comp. Rel. 11. Stockh. 1974.
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The project aims to improve the preparedness of civil protection professionals and volunteers acting at the Romanian–Hungarian border area through strengthened coordinated action and capacity building and through developing a cross-border informational system that enhances its coordinated reaction capacity.
The objectives are:
- Developing cross-border civil protection cooperation and interoperability by creating a locally coordinated cross-border group of 7 institutions and organizations that will exchange information and develop common intervention procedures in the context of 2 workshops and 3 roundtables, during 11 months.
- Supporting capacity building in emergency preparedness for at least 15 institutions and organizations from Hungary and Romania, in the target area (including local volunteer groups) that will participate at 5 training sessions and 4 small scale exercises during 11 months of the project implementation.
- Developing a cross-border informational system by planning and creating a Local Resource Database and Communication System (LoRDaCS) for dynamic adjustment of response capacity in case of disasters.
Asociaţia Multisalva Satu Mare (MULTISALVA)
Pădurea Noroieni Street no. 65, Satu Mare City,
Satu Mare County,
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- Inspectoratul pentru Situaţii de Urgenţă “Someş” al judeţului Satu Mare (“Someş” Inspectorate for Emergency Situations Satu Mare) (RO)
- Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Katasztrófavédelmi Igazgatóság (Disaster Management Directorate of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County) (H)
- Societatea Naţională de Cruce Roşie din România, Filiala Satu Mare (Romanian Red Cross National Society, Satu Mare Subsidiary) (RO)
- Magyar Vöröskereszt Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Szerevete (Hungarian Red Cross - Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Organization) (H)
- Asociaţia Organizaţia Caritas a Diecezei Satu Mare (Association Caritas Organization of Satu Mare’s Diocese) (RO)
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Craniosynostosis (craniostenosis) is a condition that affects the skull development of a fetus or newborn. One or more of the connections (sutures) between plates in a fetus's or baby's skull close too soon, and the bony plates of the skull fuse too early.
As a result of early fusion of the plates, the affected area of the skull does not expand normally with the growing brain, causing a misshapen head. In severe cases, usually when craniosynostosis affects more than one suture, pressure builds on the brain and may cause long-term complications. This is rare.
Some babies have craniosynostosis because they inherited certain genetic traits from one or both parents. Other causes are not fully understood.
An irregularly shaped head is the most noticeable feature of craniosynostosis, and it is usually noticed at birth or shortly after birth. Imaging tests (such as a skull X-ray or CT scan) may be done to confirm a diagnosis.
Craniosynostosis is treated with surgery to allow the skull to return to its normal shape, grow normally, and prevent further complications. In general, no lasting disfigurement occurs, especially when surgery is done early.
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No matter how closely you follow marketing articles and news, location-based marketing and its applications usually bring lots of not-so-clear technical concepts and open questions. Things get even more confusing when we talk about beacons. Read on, to discover the most common myths about this exciting technology.
Myth º1: Beacons send messages and offers
Contrary to popular belief, beacons do not deliver messages, offers or any content at all. A beacon is a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) hardware device that broadcasts a signal that smartphone can listen when users opt-in within a specific mobile app. When the smartphone enters a beacon range (usually up to tens of meters), it wakes up and notifies the listening app. Think of it like the beacon simply broadcasting, “I’m beacon 17” over and over again.
Technically speaking, each beacon that conforms to Apple iBeacon™ specification, emits a binary-encoded data frame that includes Universal Identifier (UUID), Major and Minor numbers. This schema is designed to ensure that each app detects only beacons that belong to a specific organization and place, while ignoring the rest.
Now, if a user has a beacon-enabled app and opted-in for location services, the app will detect the beacon signal and eventually trigger an associated action (if any). The action and its content depends completely on the app - whether it is a local push notification, fullscreen creativity or nothing at all - and its intelligence to deliver valuable information to the user.
Click here to learn How to use beacons to engage mobile users
Myth º2: Beacon-triggered messaging is intrusive to customers
Just the opposite. Proximity-based marketing is the first technology that brings to marketers the opportunity to deliver truly relevant content ‘at the right time, at the right place’. To start with, users give permission to your app which means they are interested in receiving your messages. Second proximity-based services take into account user’s context: both time and place. Beacons accuracy guarantee the latter one - the app actually ‘knows where the user is’ at a specific instant. Third and final comes from learning users behavior in-app and on your website and figuring out what might be interesting for them.
So if your digital marketing strategy combines these aspects, you will deliver amazing user experiences and bring true value to your mobile customers. Obviously, triggering welcome message each time a user enters your store, won’t do.
Myth º3: Beacons can collect information about users without permission
In opposite to passive tracking devices such as video cameras that capture user images, Wifi or Bluetooth scanners that collect MAC addresses sent from users’ smartphones (no app required), beacons are not receiving any information about users at all.
However, only when users install beacon-enabled app, enable Bluetooth and opt-in for location services on their device, the app is then able to learn about places the user visits and actions he performs within the app. Moreover the app does not need to know user’s name, ID, email address or phone number so the user identity is protected. Therefore, in the case of beacons, users have full control on their privacy by granting or rejecting permissions to a particular app.
Myth º4: Beacons are insecure
Beacon technology comes with some limited risks such as device spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks. Despite the fact each beacon comes with a unique identifier, they can be copied and do not serve as a security mechanism. Anyone equipped with a BLE discovery app is able to discover beacon identifiers easily.
However, this doesn’t make beacon technology insecure, but indicates the security concerns that must be addressed in industrial-strength deployments.
There are enterprise-grade proximity platforms that come with security models that address these common risks. For example, one measure is the deployment of non-iBeacon compliant, proprietary firmware in beacon devices that incorporate identifier scrambling or so called rotation schemes. Each beacon keeps shifting and encrypting its identifiers and only apps enabled with secure-key schema are able to decode its signals.
Myth º5: Adopting beacon technology is a hard task for app developers
Well, it depends. If your developers plan to develop beacon and content delivery framework for iOS and Android from scratch, integrate it into your app, then build a backend cloud platform to manage, analyze and distribute the data and content, then yes, it’s a hard task.
However, with MOCA you can proximity-enable your app the same day, have your location-based marketing campaigns up and running and see ROI analytics in real time.
MOCA brings to the market the most sophisticated turnkey platform with plug-and-play approach suitable for both small and enterprise-grade apps. So, excuse us, but it is not hard task anymore.
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The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume 13... South Carolina Historical Society
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Learn Truth About Mindfulness in The Next Five Minutes By Reading This Now.
First things first. Â Mindfulness, in many cases, is not the hype you’re seeing lately all over the media. Â It’s not some quick-fix solution to all of life’s problems. Â While it’s scientifically proven to have beneficial effects, it’s not like a fad diet or magic pill that you take once and change your life forever.
It’s war. Â Plain and simple.
Like the movie the Matrix, we all exist in a created reality.  That reality is created by many factors both inside and outside of our control.  It’s not some conspiracy, it just is.
Mindfulness is one tool that we can use to wake up from this false reality. We think we know who we are, until we don’t. Â The truth is that until we begin to see through the haze, we have only hints to who we truly are.
Practicing mindfulness can burn off the fog we live in and show us our real selves. Â Our core. Â Our birthright.
The Fantasy of Mindfulness
I love these sites that talk about mindfulness and give you step by step instructions on how to practice mindfulness, like you’re putting together a Heurgenflafferfarfegnugen from IKEA…
First, you watch your breathing, then you watch your thoughts, then you repeat some mantra to yourself, then you love yourself, then you be grateful for everything. Then you pet a puppy and kiss a baby…
Wow…Â life changing… really…
When we are all in the craziness of this lost world, how are we supposed to just stop and all of a sudden use techniques that we’ve read about on the internet in some lovey-dovey site with pictures of flowers… and that squiggly symbol thingy, and get all “mindful”?
Like it’s something we can just tap into like Neo in the Matrix? You know, he plugs that thing into the back of his head, then all of a sudden he’s like, “Whoa… I know Napoleon is at a water park…” wait… scratch that… wrong Keanu movie…
The Reality of Mindfulness
Practicing mindfulness is war. Your mind and the world around and inside you is the battlefield. There is no wishy-washy let’s all hold hands, play bongos, and ruin a perfectly good social movement about it. There’s no “special little flower that you are” stuff about it either. It’s war. It’s difficult, and it requires weapons that we are not born knowing how to use.
We are not taught how to do this in school. We are not taught about it on the playground. We are certainly NOT taught it in church or temple. Save a few lucky people, our parents are just as clueless as we are and some have damaged us beyond belief, so nope, not there. We don’t learn it on TV, unless you believe reality shows and the rest of the mind-numbing crap is enlightened.
Society is clueless, so we don’t learn it there. We don’t learn it in our groundhog day jobs, although there’s a clue in that one for ya. Songs and art contain it, but good luck finding it among the auto-tuned fluff out there.
There’s a specific set of weapons that we use. Yeah, I said weapons. This is war, remember? If you want roses and puppies, that will come later. They are there, I promise. You’ll see them, along side the garbage, and you’ll be better equipped to appreciate that stuff for the beauty it is instead of using it to make yourself feel better, or as an escape as you might now.
Fighting this war is not done in a hard and violent way, but it’s both active and passive. Active in that it takes energy to practice. Passive in that it is mostly about letting go, which is also active in it’s own way.
This war has hardened me, but not in a cynical way or hostile way. Precicely the opposite. It’s made me less apt to just accept all the frilly fluff out there and made me focus on the core of it all. Yes, there’s a core. It’s in all of us.
Want to know why?
Because at the core we’re all the same. We are millions of expressions of the same thing. We are just way too screwed up to see it right now. I blame Bush…no…wait…Obama…no, the Koch…wait…that other side… yeah… that’s it…
How Do We Fight The War Inside Ourselves?
There’s a constant war raging inside us. Our perceptions are battling the truth every second of every day. We are not even aware that it’s happening, but it is. We don’t see the truth in things because there is so much junk between our senses and minds that by the time the data gets processed by our brains, it’s gone through so much garbage that it’s all distorted.
Like a game of telephone…
You tell someone that “Vernon is going to kill Johnny’s brother at the Savoy Theater tonight”, then they tell someone else, but, because they are a different person, they tell it a bit differently. By the time it gets to the end, it’s completely different and the last person gets to hear a drunken version of “What the Fox Says”.
That’s our operation right now.
That’s how we go through life. That’s a main reason that the world is so damn stupid right now. We are all lying to ourselves day in and day out without knowing it. Heck, it’s been like this for MILLENNIA, but we just get to see it all now because we have YouTube and Twitter, and Vine, and Instagram, and the ever-present Facebook.
So How Does This Relate to Mindfulness?
will give you the weapons and the training that you need to fight this war. If you go to any random site out there and just follow their “how to” stuff, you’re going into battle naked and unarmed, unless it’s either really good or your are very perceptive.
You may have done this already. Maybe you have had luck. If so, awesome. Congrats. Most will be frustrated after realizing you might need way more than a few “how to’s”. Â Practicing mindfulness is not a tutorial, it’s a lifestyle.
The Aim of Practicing Mindfulness and This Site
Use this site to learn how to practice mindfulness. Start at the beginning. It starts with learning relaxation techniques.  You calm your body. Then it moves on to how to quiet the mind. This is important to help you cut through the clutter of your thoughts. If you can’t quiet the mind (it’s not like silencing, but more like accepting the flow), you’ve lost the battle. If you lose these battles, you lose the war.  The mind never really blanks out, but we bring order to chaos, remember this.
The next section is about mindfulness exercises. These are exercises that you can use to get your mind to focus on your feelings and the present moment. Â They are useful for a variety of different reasons, and can be used in conjunction with meditation to get present, which is useful as a technique, but not the end goal of mindfulness.
Then move on to guided meditations. Â This is a good way to go without access to a teacher.
Of course, you could just jump around, but that’s up to you. I’ve given you a map, tools, and some training. See what you can accomplish.
This site is meant to go in order. Follow this order and learn to practice mindfulness and meditation. After going through this, you should have a solid foundation.
Here’s the order to go in:
1. Relaxation Techniques – You need to relax first. Everything is easier this way.
2. Quiet the Mind – Our minds never “really” shut up. This hinders us from experiencing the moment. Learning to quiet the mind is very important for experiencing deep meditation.  (Our minds never really “blank out”, but we bring order to the chaos.)
3. Mindfulness Exercises – Learn to get into the present moment. Life is better this way. This paves the road to deep meditation.
4. Guided Meditation – nothing helps like a good, solid guide. This can jump start your progress.  (Many can’t get access to an enlightened master, so this is our next best choice, at least in the beginning.)
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Websters 1812 Definition
JEALOUS, a. jel'us.
Suspicious; apprehensive of rivalship; uneasy through fear that another has withdrawn or may withdraw from one the affections of a person he loves, or enjoy some good which he desires to obtain; followed by of, and applied both to the object of love and to the rival. We say, a young man is jealous of the woman he loves, or jealous of his rival. A man is jealous of his wife,and the wife of her husband.
First and Last Occurences and Bible Definition
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Exo_20:5)
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (2Co_11:2)
Not all the time, but normally, a term derives meaning and context for which it is used throughout the bible, from its first occurrence. As such, the first occurrence and last occurrence of each testament will be viewed to give a possible and concise definition.
The first use occurs in the old testament at the giving of the ten commandments (Exo_20:5). Here, the word is used to describe a feeling that the Lord has regarding our attention and devotion to him as the one true God. He desires all of our love and when man turns to other "graven images" jealousy is the result. (Deu_6:5; Deu_30:10; Pro_3:5-6; Mar_12:30; Mar_12:33; Luk_10:27).
The last occurrence of this term occurs in 2Co_11:2, where Paul is urging the church of Corinth to grow in their faith 2Co_10:4-6, looking beyond the fleshly outward appearance and toward the inward appearance of man. Paul here exhibits the same jealousy as the Lord for their faith, that they be not turned aside but follow the Lord Jesus Christ. The church here is to remain undefiled by other gods or the commandments of men. Paul is showing his concern that they will be tempted of the devil 2Co_11:3.
To further check this principle of first and last, let us now look at the last occurence in the old testament and the first occurence in the new testament just to ensure that this definition holds true. These verses are Zec_8:2 and Rom_10:19. First, the Lord is found speaking to Zechariah, stating his jealousy (zealous love) for Israel mingled with his wrath for their playing the harlot with false gods and turning away from his commandments. The chapter shows a vindication of Israel and a restoring of a remnant of Jews at some later date. Rom_10:19 shows the jealousy of the Lord, in that "All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." (Rom_10:21) The Lord loves Israel very much... After all, they are his people. It is because of their disobedience however that salvation came unto the Gentiles Rom_11:11 to provoke Israel to jealousy, that they might worship the Lord again.
With all of this information, a possible definition of jealousy is the sensation that the Lord has when people go after other gods, breaking his commandment, placing higher value on other things, above the Lord in their life. God is jealous in his love toward us and of our love toward him, but jealousy here is a descriptor of how much the Lord loves us, it is not a type of love.
All Occurences (43 verses 54 hits)
Exo_20:5; Exo_34:14; Num_5:14; Num_5:15; Num_5:18; Num_5:25; Num_5:29; Num_5:30; Num_25:11; Deu_4:24; Deu_5:9; Deu_6:15; Deu_29:20; Deu_32:16; Deu_32:21; Jos_24:19; 1Ki_14:22; 1Ki_19:10; 1Ki_19:14; Psa_78:58; Psa_79:5; Pro_6:34; Son_8:6; Isa_42:13; Eze_8:3; Eze_8:5; Eze_16:38; Eze_16:42; Eze_23:25; Eze_36:5-6; Eze_38:19; Eze_39:25; Joe_2:18; Nah_1:2; Zep_1:18; Zep_3:8; Zec_1:14; Zec_8:2; Rom_10:19; Rom_11:11; 1Co_10:22; 2Co_11:2;
We start the main study carrying the definition learned from above and seeking to prove it through scripture. This definition of jealousy could be simply stated as a feeling, caused when an object of ones love or affection is in the possession or attention of a rival. Let us now look at three categories of jealousy in scripture. First the Jealousy of the Lord, followed by the jealousy of man, and last the old testament jealousy offering.
Jealousy of God:
- Ten Commandments - Exo_20:5; Deu_5:9
- God's Warnings and Examples - Exo_34:12-16; Num_25:11; Deu_4:24; Deu_6:13-15; Deu_29:14-20; Deu_32:16-22; Jos_24:19-24
- Lord Provoked - 1Ki_14:22-24; Psa_78:58-61; Eze_8:2-6; 1Co_10:19-22
- Lord In Jealousy - Psa_79:2-5; Isa_42:13; Eze_16:35-43; Eze_23:22-25; Eze 36:5-6; Eze 38:19-20; Eze_39:24-26; Joel 2:18; Nah 1:2; Zep_1:18; Zep 3:8; Zec 1:14
The jealousy of the Lord has so many instances that I had to group them again. There seems to be a pattern however, as first the commandment was given, then warnings and examples provided. After this, as neither the command or the warning is heeded, the Lord is provoked and does things many things in jealousy.
I am sure Israel was warned many more times against serving other gods as well as doing "that which is right in their own eyes", but jealousy is only mentioned in six of these warnings. The last of which, shows Israel as a people taking vow to serve the Lord only, with wiwitnessoth of themselves and and Joshua (Ok, the Lord saw too). By the way, an example of what would happen if Israel turned away from serving the Lord was also given to the people when they turned to other gods in Num_25:2. The Lord's jealous wrath was only stayed by Aaron's sons Num_25:11.
It is interesting that after these warnings, a couple of examples of the consequences of disobedience in following after other gods (Num_25:1-11 and Deu_32:16-32), and an oath made by the people, that the Lord seems only to be provoked to wrath through jealousy from this point forward. This jealousy only seems to come up as a result of people turning their heart away from him and towards other gods/idols.
Also, we must take note that the Lord's jealousy is also described as fire, eight times out of this terms mentions in the bible. (Deu_4:24; Psa_79:5; Son_8:6; Eze_23:25; Eze_36:5; Eze_38:19; Zep_1:18; Zep_3:8) Brings a significant meaning to Heb_12:29 stating that "God is a consuming fire" and to the fact that the Lord will soon judge the world with fire.
Jealousy of Man:
- Elijah - 1Ki_19:9-12; 1Ki_19:13-16;
- Others - Pro_6:34-35; Son_8:6; Deu_32:16-22
This section will review the jealousy of man. It is in these verses that we find out some truths about this term, "For jealousy is the rage of a man" Pro_6:34 and "jealousy is cruel as the grave" Son_8:6.
You will see Deuteronomy 32:16-22 noted here again. The Lord seems intent to provide us an example/experience of the sensation he has when we turn from him to commit whoredoms with other gods (Not necessarily other religions/faiths, but can be money, authority, power, greed, or other vanities). The only example where "jealousy" of a man is found, outside of the offering below, is by Elijah while he is hiding in the cave.
Elijah says something kind of interesting here, "I, even I only am left". That sounds a lot like Job_1:15-22 where he was in the process of loosing all he had doesn't it? In this passage, Elijah is the only prophet of God remaining. He has been jealous of Israel for the Lord, as he has watched them 1Ki_19:10 go against the Lord (Probably for other gods when looking at what they were doing).
- Suspected adultery of woman (bitter water) - Num_5:11-31
This offering was by the command of God to Moses. It's intent was to uncover the supposed adultery of a man's wife. The description of the conditions show a woman who is cheating and has not been caught. The husband however does suspect something, bringing a feeling of jealousy over him. (Num_5:13-14)
The interesting part of this, is that the husband has to provide the offering for the feeling he has toward his wife. A possible answer for this is that she may be innocent and the feeling unmerited. The obvious answer would be that they "twain shall be one flesh" (Mat_19:5). The purpose of the offering is to bring any iniquity to remembrance. If the woman has had an affair she will have a curse set on her, but before the trial comes, the man's wife is required to affirm or accept the curse twice, saying "Amen, amen". (Num_5:23)
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Ten weeks into massive street protests in Sudan, anger at the three-decade-old regime of President Omar al-Bashir has begun to spread well beyond Khartoum. Unsure of support from the army (supposedly his powerbase), Bashir has unleashed counter-terrorist paramilitaries against the demonstrators. Though the 75-year-old Bashir continues to resist calls for his resignation, he is unlikely to continue his iron-hand rule of Sudan for much longer. With religious extremists active in Sudan and continuing insurgencies throughout the country, there is a strong possibility the nation might experience a rapid deterioration in security following a regime collapse, one which would quickly have regional consequences.
While al-Bashir might survive the latest protests through brute repression, he has experienced ill-health in recent years and is facing opposition even amongst his base against running for re-election in 2020. The circumstances raise the question of whether terrorism and counter-terrorism will develop in new or novel ways in a post-Bashir Sudan.
Foreign debt, economic mismanagement, inflation, and shortages of foreign currency have plagued Sudan since the separation of South Sudan in 2011 and the consequent loss of the enormous oil revenues supplied by wells in the south. Protesters have connected this economic deterioration with the authoritarianism of the regime in their calls for immediate change. The growing death toll on the streets of several Sudanese cities reflects how serious the regime takes these protests—popular uprisings supported by elements of the army succeeded in deposing Sudanese regimes in 1964 and 1985.
The Governing Military-Islamist Alliance
Sudan’s rather unique military-Islamist regime is the result of Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood (the Ikhwan) seeking firepower and muscle to enable them to overthrow the elected but ineffectual government of Sadiq al-Mahdi and establish an Islamic regime in 1989. Finding little support for this project amongst the military’s senior staff, Brotherhood leader Dr. Hassan al-Turabi (1932-2016) turned to more junior officers, especially Omar al-Bashir, who would leap from Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) major to Sudanese president overnight as the figurehead of the coup.
One of the major grievances of Sudan’s highly diverse population is the nation’s political domination since independence by members of three Nile-dwelling Arab tribes from North Sudan—the Danagla, the Sha’iqiya and the Ja’alin (al-Bashir is a Ja’ali).
The Islamist movement that propelled al-Bashir to power split in 1999, with its leading member, al-Turabi, leaving to form the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP). Other Islamists remained with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), which has seemed more dedicated to preserving the regime than promoting an Islamic social transformation in Sudan. The NCP is currently preoccupied with internal rifts.
The NCP is supported by the Sudan Islamic Movement (SIM), which is intended to provide ideological guidance. In the midst of the economic crisis, SIM leader al-Zubayr Muhammad al-Hassan praised the regime for creating a “much better economic situation” and drastically lowering poverty rates. In reality, the country has been propped up in recent years with heavy financial assistance from the Gulf States. Few Sudanese could agree with al-Zubayr’s perception, but many would agree with his observation that opportunities had been created for “a number of Islamists” (Radio Dabanga, August 28, 2018).
Mosques have become gathering points for protesters, particularly after Friday sermons denouncing the “tyranny and corruption” of the regime. As a result, various mosques have been stormed by security forces firing tear gas, including the Hijra mosque in Wad Nubawi (Omdurman), home of the powerful Ansar Sufi movement led by two-time Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi (Radio Dabanga, February 17).
A Partner in Counter-Terrorism?
Khartoum has enjoyed quiet U.S. support as a counter-terrorism partner despite the regime’s Islamist base. To reward Sudan for cooperation on the counter-terrorism file and progress on several other issues, U.S. President Barack Obama lifted a long-standing American trade embargo in one of the last acts of his presidency. Sudan, however, has remained a designated state sponsor of terrorism since 1993 and is still subject to certain sanctions as a result.
Sudanese Foreign Minister al-Dardiri Muhammad Ahmad visited Washington in November 2018, where he claimed to have convinced Trump administration officials that Sudan has made major progress on human rights and counter-terrorism issues. However, some of al-Dardiri’s remarks were somewhat disconcerting, such as when he insisted Osama bin Laden had “nothing to do with terrorism” during his presence in Sudan. Al-Dardiri claimed Bin Laden was only occupied with developing an airport with his construction team (VOA, November 1, 2018). Al-Dardiri also pointed out that Khartoum understood the world is no longer unipolar. China, Russia and Turkey were all ready to step up with aid and debt write-offs without regard to Sudan’s status as a state sponsor of terrorism (Foreign Policy, November 8, 2018).
Islamic Extremism in Modern Sudan
The Bashir regime has had an ambiguous relationship with extremist groups inside Sudan, partly as a result of the ebb and flow of Islamist influence within the government. In 1991, Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan al-Turabi persuaded the regime to host Osama bin Laden and his followers until they were expelled in 1996 when they came to be identified as an internal threat. The sporadic emergence of other Sudanese extremist groups in some cases came to be recognized as little more than paper claims for the deeds of others.
A group called “al-Qaeda in Sudan and Africa” claimed responsibility for the July 2006 kidnapping and beheading of Muhammad Taha Muhammad Ahmad, the Islamist editor of Khartoum’s al-Wifaq newspaper, for “dishonoring the Prophet.” Authorities instead hanged nine members of the Fur ethnic group for the offense, despite claims by the suspects that they had been tortured into confessions. Their motive was alleged to be revenge for Muhammad Taha’s articles claiming that well-documented reports of mass rape by government security forces in Darfur were nothing more than consensual sex (Sudan Tribune, April 14, 2009; Sudan Tribune, April 16, 2009).
In 2008, gunmen belonging to the small Ansar al-Tawhid (Supporters of Monotheism) group murdered USAID employee John Granville and his Sudanese driver in the streets of Khartoum. The attack on Granville came only one day after then U.S. President George Bush signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, a bill drafted in response to Khartoum’s alleged genocide in Darfur. Suspicions of official sanction for the attack were reinforced when four members of the group made a video-taped escape from North Khartoum’s Kober Prison in 2010 while awaiting execution. It was the first escape from the colonial-era prison. Suspicions were revived when two men convicted of orchestrating the escape from outside were given early presidential pardons (Sudan Tribune, August 15, 2015; Radio Dabanga, April 7, 2016). The attack was also claimed by an apparently imaginary group called “al-Qaeda in the Land of the Two Niles,” but ultimately none of the suspects were charged with membership in a terrorist group (Al-Sharq al-Awsat, October 12, 2008).
One of the escapees in the Granville case was ‘Abd al-Ra’uf Abu Zayid Muhammad, the son of the leader of Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiya, the largest Salafist group in Sudan. Sudanese Salafism is primarily of the quietest type with minimal political involvement, consistent with Salafist beliefs in the legitimacy of political leadership in Muslim nations, which can only be challenged in extreme circumstances such as the repudiation of Islam. However, there exists a strong rivalry with Sufism, the deeply rooted and dominant form of Islamic worship in Sudan, as well as between different Salafist groups. Ansar al-Sunna became engaged in a doctrinal dispute with the Salafist Takfir wa’l-Hijra (Renunciation and Exile) movement in the 1990s, leading to a series of three attacks on Ansar al-Sunna mosques that left a total of 54 people dead (see Terrorism Focus, February 6, 2009).
In December 2012, Sudanese security forces fought an eight-hour gun battle with Salafi-Jihadists at their training camp in Dinder National Park in Sinnar Province (east Sudan). The group was composed largely of university students from Khartoum but was not associated with al-Qaeda, according to authorities (Akhir Lahza [Khartoum], December 4, 2012).
In 2015, it was learned that medical students, primarily dual-citizens from the UK, Canada and the United States, were being recruited from Khartoum’s University of Medical Science and Technology to serve in Islamic State medical facilities in Syria (Guardian, March 4, 2017). At the time, a prominent Khartoum imam, Muhammad ‘Ali al-Jazouli, was advocating for the Islamic State and encouraging Muslims to kill “infidel” women and children. The imam was jailed for eight months and then quickly re-arrested after it became apparent his beliefs had not changed (Radio Dabanga, July 1, 2015).
The following year, Sudan’s Interior Minister admitted there were as many as 140 Sudanese Islamic State members (mostly operating abroad in Syria, Iraq and Libya), adding that they did not present a threat to Sudan (Assayha.net, July 14, 2016). The actual number could be significantly higher.
Is Intervention by the Sudan Armed Forces Possible?
Opposition calls for the army to step in and depose al-Bashir have had little apparent resonance so far. After repeated purges, the officer corps of the SAF is largely Islamist and has little interest in enabling regime change for any other party. With the exception of a few members of al-Bashir’s inner circle, the SAF appears to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the street demonstrations, offering little in the way of open support or opposition to al-Bashir. The most likely scenario for an early exit by the president could involve transferring power to the army in preparation for new elections. Al-Bashir has hinted he would have no objection to handing over power to “a person wearing Khaki” (a military man) but has otherwise held to a defiant course, maintaining that the protesters were only hired mercenaries and heretics (Sudan Tribune, January 9; Arab News, January 21).
Soon after reports emerged of military officers joining protests in three Sudanese cities, SAF command released a statement confirming that it “stood behind the nation’s leadership” (Anadolu Agency, December 24, 2018). National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS—Jiha’az al-Amn al-Watani wa’l-Mukhabarat) chief Saleh Gosh and the SAF’s chief of general staff, Kamal ‘Abd al-Maruf, publicly proclaimed the army’s full support for al-Bashir, with the latter dismissively insisting the army would never hand over the country to “homeless” protesters (Sudan Tribune, January 30; Sudan Tribune, February 10).
The regular army has had little direct involvement in repressing the street protests, which are dealt with largely by elements of the pro-Bashir police, the NISS and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF—Quwat al-Da’m al-Seri), the latter a poorly disciplined paramilitary composed mostly of Darfur Arabs. Some are veterans of the notorious Janjaweed. The president’s security institutions have used all the tools of a repressive state to control and suppress Islamist extremists (or even manipulate them when desired), but unleashing the “counter-terrorist” RSF against unarmed civilians will not be viewed favorably by most Sudanese.
The NISS is a pervasive and pernicious presence in Sudanese society, enjoying broad immunity from prosecution while deploying their extensive powers of arrest, censorship, property seizure, and even indefinite detention and abuse in so-called “ghost houses” that exist outside the judicial system. Of late, the NISS has been receiving training from Russian mercenaries (see EDM, February 6).
The director of the NISS is Saleh Gosh, a Sha’iqiya Arab and top intelligence figure who was retrieved from the political wilderness to provide unflinching support to the regime. Gosh, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was the regime’s point man with Bin Laden during his time in Sudan, later became close to the CIA during his first tenure as NISS chief, supplying important information about al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups. As Gosh revealed in 2005 during the regime’s brutal suppression of the revolt in Darfur: “We have a strong partnership with the CIA. The information we have provided has been very useful to the United States” (al-Arabiya, February 12, 2018).
Gosh had a major role in purging the regime of al-Turabi’s supporters in 1999 but lost his job a decade later when his rivalry with presidential advisor Nafi al-Nafi began to weaken the regime. In November 2012, NISS agents arrested Gosh and several senior Islamist officers of the SAF—including the popular General Muhammad Wad Ibrahim ‘Abd al-Jalil, former commander of the presidential guard—on suspicion of preparing a coup d’état. Gosh was released several months later due to a lack of evidence but remained uncritical of the regime. He was rewarded in February 2018 when al-Bashir re-appointed him as NISS director (Fanack.com, March 28, 2018). Gosh has since cleansed the NISS of those not completely loyal to al-Bashir, even though Gosh himself remains a potential presidential successor.
Another possible Islamist successor is ‘Ali Osman Muhammad Taha (Sha’iqiya), a civilian who was once Hassan al-Turabi’s chief lieutenant in the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood. Taha re-aligned himself behind al-Bashir and the NCP after the 1999 Islamist split. Sudan’s Foreign Minister in the turbulent 1990s, Taha was appointed first vice-president in 1998, a post that he held twice until his final dismissal by al-Bashir in 2013. Since then, there has been a trend away from civilian Islamists in the nation’s top posts toward the appointment of Islamist-inclined senior army officers. Taha remains highly influential in Sudan’s Islamist movement, though his international reputation was damaged by his central involvement in the regime’s ethnic cleansing of Darfur (Fanack.com, November 30, 2016). Opposition members have accused Taha’s Islamist supporters (the “unregulated brigades” he warned protesters about) of assault on demonstrators and the use of live-fire (al-Sharq al-Awsat, January 21).
Most of Sudan’s budget is dedicated to its endless internal conflicts, with over 70 percent of spending allocated to defense and security matters (Radio Dabanga, August 28, 2018). In effect, the regime devotes nearly all its resources to defending itself from internal opposition.
The SAF is engaged in the expensive repression of long-standing rebellions on three fronts: Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile State. The four leading rebel movements, grouped as the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), renewed their unilateral ceasefire for a further three months on February 9 (Sudan Tribune, February 10). Though somewhat exhausted from years of campaigning, these groups are still capable of confronting government security forces and may be using Khartoum’s focus on the protests to replenish and rebuild. Despite the viciousness with which these conflicts are fought, Sudan’s rebel movements continue to eschew urban terrorism in favor of more “conventional” guerrilla tactics.
On December 28, 2018, the Sudanese government claimed to have captured armed members of Darfur’s Sudan Liberation Movement of Abdel-Wahid al-Nur (SLM/A-AW rebel) group in the North Khartoum suburb of al-Droushab, over 500 miles from the group’s normal operational zone in the Jabal Marra region of Darfur. Security forces broadcast footage of young detainees confessing their intention to kill protesters, destroy property, and attack public institutions. The SLM/A-AW refuted the charges, calling them “blatantly fabricated allegations” while insisting the movement’s operations were confined to Jabal Marra (Sudan Tribune, December 30, 2018).
Sudanese insularity and widely based self-perception as leaders rather than followers in the development of political Islam (dating back to the anti-imperialist Mahdist movement of the late 19th century) has helped to inhibit the local growth of foreign-based extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. Nonetheless, Sudan’s economic crisis will not suddenly cease if al-Bashir steps down, leaving a moderate possibility that foreign terrorist groups may try to exploit political instability to establish a presence in Sudan.
Islamists may find it hard to find space within a new post-Bashir regime, much as was the case when the Islamist-influenced President and former general Ja’afar Nimeiri was overthrown in 1985. Closely tied to al-Bashir, there is a good chance the NCP could collapse soon after a change in the presidency, leaving room for new actors and the traditional parties to explore after years of exclusion from power. Convinced of their religious duty, Islamists have turned to violence elsewhere after being ejected from power. Certain Islamist factions will thus remain a danger to the emergence of a more secular government, but a descent into urban terrorism remains unlikely, due in large part to the broader population’s revulsion for the targeting of innocents. The carefully-planned coup, the lightning raid, and the protracted defense of rough terrain are all more acceptable methods of armed struggle in Sudan, though the growth of terrorism in neighboring countries means new strategies of violence are never far away.
Shortly before his death, former Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan al-Turabi made a terrible prediction for the future of Sudan: “The revolution, if there is any, will not be like [the earlier uprisings]. The whole Sudan now is armed, though any violence will quickly spread across the whole country, and the situation will be worse than Somalia, Iraq, because we are from different tribes, and types” (Sudan Tribune, July 7, 2015). So far, the uprising has had more of a unifying effect, but the potential remains for a general security breakdown with daunting prospects for regional security.
See: Andrew McGregor, “Sudanese Regime Begins to Unravel After Coup Reports and Rumors of Military Ties to Iran,” AIS Special Report, January 7, 2013, https://www.aberfoylesecurity.com/?p=141
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I often have conversations about missional communities, and the most asked question I receive is “what’s different about a missional community?”. I wanted to provide some distinctions from other forms small groups have often taken in this series:
- Missional Community vs. Bible Study
- Missional Community vs. Community Group
- Missional Community vs. Small Group
In my last post, I talked about the difference between a missional community and a bible study. Here, I want to address the difference between a missional community and a community group or fellowship group.
One of the greatest felt needs of attenders in many churches is “community”. We talk about the value of it, tell people they need it, and provide lots of ways for people to engage it. As I have engaged in connecting a lot of people, mostly what they are after is finding friendships that will spur them towards Christ.
That desire is good and godly…I want the same thing!
The danger in the church aiming for “community” though, is that it typically becomes the destination. Once relationships have been established and the need for friends has been met, that’s the way a community group stays. Community groups love to spend time together and have rich friendships, and the concept of “doing life” together is easy and appealing.
But these kinds groups often struggle because they lack the imperative of mission. They meet and live life in community but do not engage in missionary activity. Once more appealing friendships or changes in life circumstances occur, a community group often dies out.
Community on this side of heaven isn’t primarily about us though. It’s about God’s glory being displayed to the world! Jesus clearly explains that the purpose of Christian unity and community is so that the world would know God the Father sent Jesus to this earth in John 17:21-24.
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Ever heard of a town or village where all its inhabitants were not birthed there?
How about a village where pregnant women have to be rushed out when about entering labor because an age-old tradition bars birthing in the town?
How about a town where there is no cemetery because burials are outlawed?
Well, in Ghana’s Mafi-Dove community in the Central Tongu district of the Volta Region, located along the Accra- Aflao road, lies such fate for inhabitants.
Comprising largely peasant farmers, Kwame Tsiditse Gbenua, a community elder informed BBC that the founding ancestor who discovered the land while on a hunting expedition was instructed by a voice from the sky that the land was holy.
Thus, while it could be inhabited, there ought to be no birthing, rearing of domestic animals nor burials on it.
With the custom in place, pregnant women have to walk long distances or be transported to other villages to deliver their babies.
At the moment, the younger women in the village want the law scrapped to enable them to deliver their babies in the community without the associated hustle of having to be rushed to a neighboring town just to avoid violating the taboo and offending the gods.
A female resident of the community, Hannah Kosinah, has appealed to the Togbui or chief of the town to abolish the custom, noting that other towns with similar rules have scrapped theirs to reflect modern contingencies.
Thanks to the curious taboo, no domestic animal can be spotted in Dove except for birds in the sky.
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Hints for Child's Play
by Stephen Granade
These are hints for my game Child's Play. The hints are
white-on-white text, so you'll need to highlight them with your mouse
to read them. The hints are divided by game chapters.
Also, I do not promise that all of the questions pertain to the
Help! I'm smothered in darkness!
- Have you tried examining the darkness?
- What about taking the darkness?
- Nothing seems to be helping.
- Fortunately the darkness will go away if you wait for four
- Alternatively, you can cry and make it go away faster.
The mom keeps wanting me to pull up. What should I do?
- You should do as she says.
- PULL UP ON FOOTSTOOL
How do I get my favorite toy?
- Have you tried taking it while you're on the ground?
- Have you tried taking it while you're pulled up on the footstool?
- When you're on the ground, you're too low, and when you're
pulled up, you're not stable enough to hold on and grab the toy at the
- Did you notice what happened with the footstool when you
pulled up on it?
- The footstool is unstable and rocks a lot.
- Maybe you could use that to your advantage to knock the toy off.
- PUSH FOOTSTOOL
How do I get out of this ring of pillows?
- Have you tried climbing the pillows?
- What about taking the pillows?
- Have you looked closely at the pillows?
- It looks like your toy Alfadog is in the middle of the pillows.
- Maybe if you moved Alfadog there would be a hole you could
- Alfadog's too tightly wedged for you to move him yourself.
- Have you looked closely at Alfadog?
- He has a switch on him.
- Try flipping that switch.
- Tah dah!
How do I get to keep my toy?
- Have you tried eating your toy instead of taking it?
- Have you tried leaving without your toy?
- There's no way you can keep your toy at this point.
Mom took my toy! Where did she put it?
- Did you see what the mom asked Marion at the beginning of
- "Can I put this toy in Zoe's backpack for now?"
- So you need to find Zoe's backpack.
- Even if you're not in the same room as the backpack, you
can see where it is if you type X BACKPACK.
How do I get to the backpack?
- As long as Parry's rocking, you can't reach the backpack.
- Have you tried putting something under the rocker to stop it?
- Since it's a glider rocker, I guess that doesn't work.
- You know, Parry would probably be a lot more careful about
rocking if he was dealing with a baby as well.
- Maybe if you pulled up on the rocker, Parry would stop
- Hey, it worked! Except for the part where Parry picked you
up so you can't reach the backpack.
- The next question and set of hints may help you out now.
How do I get Parry to pick someone up?
- The same way you get him to pick you up: get the baby to
pull up on the rocker.
- It's a shame you don't have speech down yet and can order
other babies around.
- Have you seen any babies that are particularly susceptible
to following people around?
- Have you found Watson and Jemison yet?
- Did you notice what happened when Jemison saw Watson take
the rattly car?
- I bet he'd be interested in anything you had as well.
- Find something you can take and show it to Jemison.
- Once Jemison is watching the thing you showed him, go back
to the rocker and pull up.
- You'll need to chew on whatever Jemison is interested in so
you can pull up.
- Jemison should pull up on the rocking chair so that, when
Parry is done rocking you, Parry will then pick up Jemison.
Help! Jemison isn't interested in being held!
- Did you notice how he wants to follow whatever toy you
showed him or that he saw you pick up?
- If you leave Parry's lap still holding that toy, he'll want
to be back down on the ground next to you.
- If, however, you were to leave the toy in Parry's lap...
- While you're being held by Parry, drop the toy.
How do I get the onesie out of the backpack?
- Have you tried pulling it?
- Have you tried pulling it again?
- It looks like it's going to take an adult to get the onesie
Marion has the backpack. What do I do about that?
- Have you tried pulling up on Marion?
- I guess that won't work.
- You know, if Marion had to deal with something more urgent
than the backpack, she might set the backpack down or hand it off to
- Have you ever seen Marion have to get up to deal with
- Have you seen Cassie yet?
- She starts out in the southeast corner of the room.
- After you see her, she'll head for Zoe.
- Did you notice what happens between her and Zoe?
- Cassie tried to give her the squishy ball, and Zoe went
nuts. Marion had to separate the two of them.
- Try giving something to Zoe or taking something from her
while Marion has the backpack.
Parry has my favorite toy!
- Maybe you should go get it from him.
- Pull up on Parry and then get the toy.
Where's my toy now?
- The game tells you where right at the beginning of Chapter
- It's a brief mention, so don't feel bad if you missed it.
- Your toy is in a cabinet behind the loveseat.
- Go to the north end of the loveseat, then go west and south.
How do I open the cabinet?
- Have you tried opening it?
- First of all, Zoe gets in your way and won't let you open
- Second of all, the baby lock at the top keeps you from
- You'll have to take care of both problems to open the
How do I stop Zoe from getting in my way when I try to open the cabinet?
- You'll need an accomplice to help you.
- The idea is that you'll get another baby to distract Zoe
while you open the cabinet.
- Are there any of your playmates that you can manipulate?
- Like, say, Jemison?
- He's awfully interested in those velcro jangly balls.
- Try taking them from him.
- Success! Now he's following you.
- But now he gets in your way when you try to open the cabinet.
- You need to transfer his attention from you to Zoe.
- Really it's the velcro jangly balls that he's interested in.
- If Zoe had the balls instead, Jemison would get in her way.
- Put the balls on Zoe.
How do I take care of the baby lock in the cabinet?
- Have you figured out how to keep Zoe from getting in your
way? If not, work on that problem first.
- Have you figured out what the deal is with the paper that
you can see in Couch at the West? If not, work on that problem next.
- Do you know why the cabinet rocking is important? If not,
look into that.
- Have you taken care of Parry's tumbler? That's the next
thing to do.
- Once you've dealt with all of the above, go to the cabinet
and OPEN CABINET.
What's the deal with the paper in Couch at the West?
- Have you tried to get it?
- You can't quite reach it -- the footstool is in the way.
- You need to get past the footstool.
- It's a shame your shoulders are too wide when you're crawling.
- Babies have other ways of getting around.
- Did you see the first thing Cassie did back in Chapter 1?
- She was pulled up on the couch and then cruised along it.
- If you did the same thing, I bet you'd be thin enough to
fit behind the footstool.
- Pull up on the couch, then go west.
- Now you can take the paper.
- Did you notice what happened when you took it?
- Two things. One, Parry took his tumbler from off of the cabinet.
- Two, the cabinet is now unsteady and tends to rock.
Does it matter that the cabinet rocks?
- Have you tried opening the cabinet again?
- Have you tried opening the cabinet again when Zoe is
distracted and can't oppose you?
- Did you notice how the paper coaster fell off of the
cabinet and bounced off of the baby lock?
- If it had been heavier, you'd have opened the cabinet.
- You need to get something heavy on the cabinet.
- The best candidate is something that was up there already.
- Something like Parry's heavy tumbler.
Parry won't let me mess with his tumbler!
- That's not really a question.
- You need to distract him.
- Again, this is a job for Some Other Baby.
- Have you noticed what Cassie is doing?
- She keeps climbing up and down the short plastic block.
- What do you think would happen if she had other blocks to
- Push the medium and tall plastic blocks into the same room
- When Cassie climbs on the tallest block, she'll jump from
it and hurt herself, bringing Cassie and Parry running.
- That leaves Parry's tumbler unguarded!
What do I do with Parry's tumbler?
- Are you able to touch his tumbler yet? If not, see the
- You need to do something to his tumbler that will make him
put it back up on the
- You can't push it over.
- You can drink from it, getting it all nasty.
- Alternatively, you can put something in it.
- Once you've done one of those two things, Parry will come
back and put his tumbler on the cabinet.
Where's my toy now?
- The game tells you right after you get your picture taken.
- The mom put it in the bookcase in the northeast corner of
I can't pick up anything! Help me get this stupid squid costume
off of me.
- You aren't coordinated enough to take it off.
- Neither are any of your playmates.
- That leaves one of the parents to take it off for you.
- You'll have to convince them that it needs to come off.
- Do you know one reason why babies' clothes get changed?
- Becca gave a hint while everyone was getting their picture taken.
- Babies clothes get changed when they spit up on them.
- It's not enough that you spit up, though. You'll need to
show a parent that you've gotten your costume dirty.
- SPIT UP. PULL UP ON a parent.
The toy's too high! How do I reach it?
- If you'll watch her, Zoe's trying one approach.
- She's pushing the three stepped blocks next to the bookcase.
- Sadly, that still doesn't get you high enough.
- There's another item that can get you very high.
- It's the swing.
- First, you'll need to figure out how to get the swing into
the room with the bookcase.
- Second, you'll need to figure out how to turn the swing up
to hi speed.
- Third, you'll need to figure out how to get in the swing.
Can I move the swing into another room?
- Yes, but not by pushing it. It's too heavy.
- Did you notice where the swing starts out?
- It's right in front of the TV.
- If someone wanted to watch TV, they'd have to move the
swing to do so.
- Have you seen anything that can be used to turn on a TV?
- Like a remote control?
- X REMOTE will show you where the remote is.
- It's a shame you can't use it. Who can?
- Parents can.
- Get the remote and then give it to a parent.
How do I make the swing go higher?
- At its default setting, the swing doesn't go very high.
- Have you examined the swing?
- It has a speed switch that controls how high it goes.
- The description mentions that, when the switch is turned to
hi, the swing goes very high indeed.
- The switch itself is far off of the ground.
- There are two ways to get to the switch.
- One, you can climb up the tallest plastic block and reach
the speed switch.
- Two, you can get a poosh stick from Watson.
- As far as the second approach goes, you'll need to find
Watson and experiment with the brix blox bucket.
- If you push the bucket over, brix will spill out, along
with an instruction booklet.
- Once the booklet is open, if you turn the pages a few
times, you'll see a diagram for building a poosh stick -- a long
stick suitable for pushing things around with.
- Watson will then build it for you. You can take it and push
the speed switch with it.
How do I get in the swing?
- Do you remember why the swing got hauled out in the first
place, back in Chapter 2?
- Watson was crying and Parry put him in it to calm him down.
- Have you tried crying?
- Have you tried crying several times?
- CRY. CRY. CRY. CRY.
The toy's too high! How do I reach it? (Part 2)
- Before you read any more hints from this question, make sure
you've done everything listed in the first question like this above.
- Once you're in the swing and the swing is by the bookcase
and the swing's speed switch is on hi, you still can't
quite reach the toy.
- Did you try getting it anyway?
- Did you then wait to get back out of the swing?
- A turn or two after you try to get it, Parry will come by
and knock the toy lower for you.
- Now you can get the toy.
How do I open the playpen?
- Have you tried pushing the top oval of the
- The top oval is way up there, so you'll need to get higher
to do so.
- Climb the plastic blocks and push up on the oval.
- It's going to take both you and Zoe to open the
playpen. Fortunately, she's ready to help you out.
- Unfortunately, Zoe climbs up on the tall plastic blocks.
You'll have to find some other way to reach the top oval.
- You need a way of extending your reach.
- Have you looked around Watson?
- There's this bucket of Brix Blox, a generic clone of Lego blocks.
- You know, you can build things with blox.
- Things like very long sticks.
- First you need to get the blox out of the bucket.
- Notice how the bucket is wider at the top than at the bottom?
- Try pushing the bucket.
- More than just blox comes out of the bucket. You also get
an instruction booklet.
- Try opening the booklet and turning the pages.
- It'll show you how to build a helicopter, a nuclear
reactor...and a poosh stick.
- A poosh stick is what the parents call a push stick. It's a
long stick for pushing things, hint, hint.
- Unfortunately, you aren't really into building things out
- Fortunately, Watson is!
- If you wait a couple of turns, Watson will build the poosh
stick for you.
- Once you have the poosh stick, go to the Middle of the
Living Room, where the other half of your playpen is.
- Push the top oval with the poosh stick.
- If you haven't pushed the top oval before, you'll need to
do it again once Zoe gets the idea and climbs the plastic blocks.
Zoe has my toy!
- Calm down. There's no need to be a big baby about it.
- Sorry, I've been waiting all hint file to say that.
- Anyway. The problem is that, every time you try to take the
toy from her, she scurries away.
- You need a way to slow her down.
- Did you notice what Parry started eating right after Zoe
got your toy?
- He's eating Cheerios.
- Remember what happened when Parry spilled some Cheerios
when everyone was eating at the table?
- Every baby was instantly attracted to the Cheerios.
- You need to spill those Cheerios.
- They're up on the loveseat next to Parry, so you can't
- But I bet your trusty poosh stick can.
- HIT CUP WITH STICK.
- Once all of the babies have come to the Cheerios, go find
Zoe and try to take your toy.
- She'll instinctively run towards the Cheerios.
- Once you and she are in the same room as the Cheerios,
you'll be able to take your favorite toy.
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Last year was the world's hottest year on record - even without an El Nino boost. And seven of Australia's ten warmest years have occurred since 2005 . We need to act quickly to limit our greenhouse emissions and reduce the disastrous effects of climate change.
And this year we have an opportunity to do just that. Victoria will set its first legally binding, Emission Reduction Target (ERT). Victoria will set six interim targets between now and reaching the final target of 0% by 2050, and this is the first legally binding one [see Table 1].
Ambitious targets are essential in driving the transition away from coal to renewable energy. Thanks to the Climate Change Act 2017 each target has to be more ambitious than the last to ensure a downward trend to the final target of 0% by 2050. This means this first target is really important. The more ambitious it is, the more ambitious each target that follows will have to be.
We now have an opportunity to influence our state's first Emissions Reduction Targets for 2025 and 2030.
Our government lucked out - the current target, a reduction of 15 to 20 percent – has already been met because of the closure of the Hazelwood coal power station last year. But the Government can’t continue relying on privately-owned companies closing power-station to cut greenhouse emissions. Our Government must take bold initiatives to get this state to net 0% emissions to safeguard the future health and prosperity of Victorian communities. Most importantly, the Latrobe Valley community deserves a plan for a transition away from coal that ensures they have long-term job security and a thriving community.
Polling issued by Friends of the Earth in 2016 showed a large majority, 70 percent of respondents, want the Victorian government to commit to major reductions in our state’s greenhouse pollution .
We acknowledge the Andrews government’s actions so far on climate change. They’ve set the Victorian Renewable Energy Target, strengthened the Climate Change Act & legislated a permanent ban on Unconventional Gas. But they can’t stop now. The lack of Federal Government leadership means that states must ramp up measures to rapidly reduce greenhouse pollution and transition our economy away from our current reliance on coal.
In the heat of the election year, the state Liberals are talking nothing on climate policy - do they even have one? Meanwhile, they loudly call for new coal power stations and extensions for coal licenses. They are in opposition now, but could be in power within a year. We need both parties if we want to be a leader in climate action and protect Victoria from the impacts of climate change.
There’s no more time to defer strong climate action. We want the Andrews government to continue to prove its climate credentials and make Victoria’s ERT significantly ambitious than the national targets. We have the technology, we just need the political will, and for that we need you.
We encourage supporters and community members to make a submission to the Independent Expert Panel today. You can make a detailed submission here.
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Maria Livia Alga was born in Palermo, in Sicily. She studied sexual difference in the anthropology of the classical world and in contemporary social movements.
She co-founded the research group Laboratorio Saperi situati at the University of Verona www.laboratoriosaperisituati.com. She participates in the daily life of the
intercultural center for women Casa di Ramia, Municipality of Verona.
Among her publications are: "Etnografia terrona de sujetos excentricos", Bellaterra 2018
and "Allargare il cerchio. Pratiche per una comune umanità" Progedit, 2020.
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Diet tips for a winter pregnancy by Mrs. Edwina Raj
Being pregnant in winter is definitely better compared to summer as the cooler weather balances your naturally high internal temperature. It reduces the increased sweating during the third trimester. Although, winter is also associated with flu, common cold, infections, chills, etc.
Diet for Pregnancy during winter needs to be taken special care of. Your food intake is responsible for boosting your immunity. You must also keep yourself well hydrated and prevent your skin from becoming dry.
Here are some healthy eating tips to keep you and your growing foetus safe during winter:
- Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables to ensure a robust immunity.
- Amla, or Indian gooseberry, is one of the richest sources of vitamin C. Add it to chutneys or drink it as amla juice, or you have it as sweet amla murabba. Vitamin C helps your body fight infection, and acts as an antioxidant, protecting cells from damage.
- Drink kesar (saffron-few strands) milk which is also an antioxidant to help in improving your immune system.
- To keep your skin hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids. Keep a bottle of water handy and sip water regularly. It is important to stay hydrated even if you don't feel thirsty.
by Mrs. Edwina Raj , Nutritionist.
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If you want to send files that are financial, legal, business-related, or medical-related, or confidential, or for any other reason, electronically, you obviously want to protect them from hackers, hence you should use Watchdox.
The Best Watchdox Review for Your Business
A secure Watchdox is a system that maintains access control to information processed in it in such a way that only the appropriate authorized users or processes acting on their behalf are able to read, write, create and delete information.
Watchdox represents the highest class of security, requiring verification of protection means, is built on the proof of compliance of the software with its specifications using special methods, but this proof (very expensive, time-consuming, and practically impracticable for real operating systems) does not confirm the adequacy of the implementation of the security policy.
It is in order to eliminate the incorrectness of some provisions of the Watchdox, which has arisen in connection with the change in the hardware platform, to adapt them to modern conditions and to make them adequate to the needs of software developers and users, and a huge work has been done to develop the provisions of this standard. As a result, a number of documents accompanying Watchdox have emerged, many of which have become its integral part. A range of specific issues on ensuring the security of computer networks and database management systems are reflected in separate documents published by the US National Center for Computer Security in the form of additions.
The overall assessment of the Watchdox system security level consists of the functional capacity of protective equipment and the level of adequacy of their implementation. Most of the security requirements are the same as those in the Orange Book.
Criteria for Information Technology Security with Watchdox
Watchdox is a specific hardware/software configuration built with well-defined goals and functioning in a known environment. A product is a hardware and software “package” that you can buy and, at your discretion, integrate into a particular system.
Thus, from the point of view of information security, the main difference between a system and a product is that the system has a specific environment, which can be defined and studied in any detail, and the product must be designed for use in different conditions. System security threats are very specific and real. You can only speculate about threats to the product. The developer can specify conditions suitable for the operation of the product; it is up to the buyer to enforce these conditions.
The criteria address the following watchdox review information security objectives:
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For practical reasons, it is important to ensure the uniformity of criteria for evaluating products and systems – to facilitate and reduce the cost of evaluating a system composed of previously certified products. In this regard, a single term is introduced for systems and products – the object of assessment. Where appropriate, reservations are made as to which requirements are specific to systems and which are specific to products. In order to meet the confidentiality, integrity, and operability requirements, it is necessary to implement an appropriate set of security functions such as identification and authentication, access control, disaster recovery, etc. In order for a means of protection to be considered effective, a certain degree of confidence in the correctness of their choice and reliable operation is required. | <urn:uuid:56244a6f-a1e7-4fdd-9520-8d0816745e80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vdrworld.info/watchdox-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953218 | 708 | 1.648438 | 2 |
by jumping in a pool
Michael phelps haha
Michael Phelps began swimming at age 7 at the North Baltimore Swimming Club.
beacuase of the influence of his sisters
No he did swimming only from the start.
his two sisters
Michael Phelps' first Olympics was the 2004 Games in Athens where he won 6 gold medals and 2 bronze medals.
Michael Phelps started to swim from the age of seven onwards. It was partially because of the urging of his sisters and partially as an outlet for his great energy.
NBAC (North Baltimore Aquatic Club)
He doesnt somebody threaten to kill him.
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This set of reports present in-depth information on national laws and regulations affecting philanthropy in nine countries around the world. The reports serve as practical guides for the philanthropic sector and other stakeholders in the nonprofit world. Each report was written by a local expert in partnership with ICNL. The series was made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
“In our work, we often hear that there is a lack of clear, concise information available to help philanthropists understand the legal environment for giving in particular countries,” said Catherine Shea, ICNL’s vice president of programs. “Our goal with the Philanthropy Law Reports is to fill that gap.” | <urn:uuid:84d974df-7815-4fee-967d-b2ced58e9d8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/philanthropy-law-reports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957864 | 145 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In the April 20 edition of the SJ-R, there was an article “Lamenting those lives unlived,” which referred the Columbine High School attack 20 years ago. It expressed the loss of 15 lives lost that day, and usually unnoticed holes in the fabric of today.
“Would one of them have discovered a cure for cancer? Become an NBA star? Traveled the world and learned from its people? Raised a family, paid a mortgage, shopped for groceries on the weekend, coached a youth sports team? Made the world better, smarter, kinder?”
One lost life is enormous and can’t be measured. Now consider that since 1973, we as a nation are responsible for more than 60 million abortions. Each child held untold possibilities and deserved a chance for life. | <urn:uuid:12cb6f1a-311d-4962-994e-8ef38967472f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sj-r.com/story/opinion/letters/2019/04/23/lives-unlived/5370008007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956897 | 184 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Human is the most prolific at the age of 17 to 25 years. Fertility peak is usually around twenty. In the first month of sexual life, the possibility of conception is one to three, then this option is quickly starting to fall for one to twenty. Possibility of getting pregnant is about 20 to 25 percent each month.
In the developed world every third human has a problems with fertility and the doctors can not find the cause of infertility in up to one third of cases treated.
Healthy couple around twenty may wait up to two years before a woman becomes pregnant. Doctors, based on statistics, saying that young couples should not worry and couples up to 30 years should seek professional help after two years of unprotected sex life. One out of ten couples conceive a child after a year of sexual life and 95 percent in the latter two years.
Above 30 years
Older couples over thirty years, however, should seek medical advice after a year, as testing and treatment may take several years and the chances of getting pregnant decreases.
Causes of infertility
While the men are still denying and from infertility, or the inability blame woman, often their sperm is the cause that they can not conceive a child. The number of sperm in healthy men in recent years have decreased substantially. Results are sperms of lower quality, the ability to have much lower movement speed or abnormal shape. For women, infertility is caused by a problem with ovulation, damaged ovaries and endometriosis, in which part of the inner lining of the uterus come into different parts of the body, such as the pelvic cavity.
When and how is the best to try to get pregnant?
Women are fertile during the ovulation, it is when the mature egg is released from the ovary. This egg is viable only 12 to 24 hours after ovulation. Therefore, the correct timing of intercourse is important, which is the first condition of success. Although, sperm survive in a woman's body about four days, but short lifetime of the egg decreases the chances for a success. In addition to traditional methods, such as measuring temperature, mucus and calendar methods are now available different ovulation tests that are very reliable. Sexual intercourse is preferable every other day because sperm takes about two days from ejaculation to reaching the original level, which is about 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen discharge. Hot shower or bath before intercourse is not suitable for a men because it weakens sperm. A woman after intercourse should remain for at least half an hour lying on back.
Good health of women and men not only increase the chance of conceiving a child, but also gives him the best foundation to life. The basis of the proper lifestyle is proper nutrition of both partners. It is recommended to reduce the intake of red meat, milk, milk products and instead of those include in the diet more fish, legumes, grains and nuts. Fresh fruit and vegetables, olive oil and whole grains should become part of the daily diet. Emphasis should be placed on avoiding particularly conserved, colored and other chemically processed foods. Body weight of future parents has considerable influence on fertility. Overweight is worse in men, because excess fat causes overheating of the testicles, which is detrimental to sperm motility. For women, both extremes are unsuitable, such as obesity and extreme thinness. Walks in the countryside, abandoning smoking, limiting alcohol and caffeine to a minimum is the best foundation for a healthy child. During the planning of conception it is also important to create balanced mental and physical well-being, reduce stress factors, or weaken them and indulge in active relaxation exercise or relax with a good massage. You should exclude difficult and endurance components in your exercises. As for the massage, you will need to focus primarily on the area of the chest and neck and relax stiff muscles in the shoulders. Massage of pelvic or lumbar spine is not appropriate, because it may cause reflex release of the fertilized egg, which is of course undesirable if you try to get pregnant.
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Retirement is one of the most critical phases of life, one most people would eventually pass through, and our experience in this phase of life is primarily based on how well it is prepared for.
The higher the financial stability of the aging population, the lesser the burden on the nation's economy. This is so because those with better savings have better health care options and generally lead better lives, thanks to a higher purchasing power.
More people have become enlightened about investment options that promise to take care of their retirement, delayed gratification is being practiced by more and more people as awareness grows about retirement and investments.
As with many things, investments are equally fraught with risk although the severity varies from portfolio to portfolio.
Questions have been raised over and over again about the best investment for retirement and very consistently Gold has always come up and for good reason.
Gold has proven to be a source of steady and stable growth compared to the more volatile stock market. This is the reason why many retirement investment companies are turning to Gold.
This post will be answering the question of Why Gold Is Valuable and go on to list the Best Gold IRA Companies. These are Gold IRA (Investment Retirement Accounts) companies that are tested and trusted and have consistently provided customer satisfaction without faltering.
Why is Gold Valuable?
Gold is an asset with various intrinsic qualities that make it unique and necessary for investors to hold in their portfolios. If the modern paper-money economy were to collapse, gold may not have immediate use but as panic sets in and people fight for their basic needs—it will eventually.
Gold is the logical choice for this exchange. If disaster strikes, such that paper money and the system that supports it no longer exists, we will revert to gold. Arguably, gold is one of the only substances on earth with all of the qualities for the job, including sustainability.
Bottom line, the metal is abundant enough to create coins but rare enough so that not everyone can produce them. Gold doesn't corrode, providing a sustainable store of value, and humans are physically and emotionally drawn to it. Societies and economies have placed value on gold, thus perpetuating its worth.
What is a Gold IRA Company?
A gold IRA company is a company specialized in self-directed individual retirement accounts designed to hold precious metals.
A gold IRA allows pre-tax contributions, and the investment earnings can then accumulate tax-deferred. The contribution and income limits are the same. But unlike a traditional IRA, which typically holds paper assets such as stocks, bonds, funds, ETFs, and cash equivalents, a gold IRA is set up strictly to hold physical gold or other approved metals.
A gold IRA company's role is to facilitate setting up the IRA and purchasing the gold coins or bullion. The investor must still find a custodian and a secure depository for their gold.
Having given a brief introduction into the investment world of gold, you need to know the Best Gold IRA Companies, if you are also looking to turn to a more sustainable store of value, Gold.
The 3 Best Gold IRA Companies
Gold IRAs cater to investors who want to diversify their wealth as they save for retirement. Precious metals like silver and gold, platinum and palladium are considered hedges against inflation and stock market volatility. These qualities tend to attract more attention during times of geopolitical uncertainty and gold IRAs allow you to hold physical gold in an individual retirement account.
After much research into Gold IRA Companies, here are our top 3 Best Gold IRA Companies.
Augusta Precious Metals - Best Overall Choice & Most Trusted
#1 Augusta Precious Metals - Best Overall Choice & Most Trusted
Augusta Precious Metals is one of the top gold and silver IRA companies in the precious metals IRA industry. They have a stellar reputation and great customer service. Augusta Precious Metals is a Gold IRA Provider with Deep Experience & Dedicated Service. It also offers physical gold and silver at competitive prices.
Augusta Precious Metals was built in 2012 by CEO Isaac Nuriani. Its primary office is located at 5830 East 2nd Street, Casper, WY, United States. The prime purpose of Augusta is to help retirement savers protect their investments by adding gold, silver, or other precious metals. It provides personalized services to ensure that every client decides on the right option and plan. All paperwork is handled by an account specialist assigned to you, making your investing experience stress-free.
Augusta Priceless Metals is recognized for providing clients with the finest silver and gold pension investments available. It also helps customers to protect their assets by allowing them to diversify their profiles. Once you’ve established an account with Augusta, you’ll be entitled to first-rate assistance as long as you stick with them. If you have questions regarding certain items or want more details on your retirement funds, their experienced team is ready to help.
What Augusta Precious Metals Offer
Meet Your Agent
Your personal assistant and guide to gold and silver.
Our team of professionals reveals economic info not easy to find elsewhere.
We do 95% of the paperwork with you – simple and straightforward.
Gold & silver portfolio-building assistance from Augusta’s product professionals.
No-stress, official phone confirmation to finalize your order.
Augusta Precious Metal Fees
Rest assured, Augusta has done its due diligence on behalf of customers to find the best secured private depository in the United States. This company works with a reputable depository, the Delaware Depository.
Unless you have a specific preference, the company will usually recommend that you use their preferred storage facility which is in Delaware. There are other depository options in California, Idaho, North Dakota, Nevada, Massachusetts, Ontario, Utah, New York, and Ohio, as well as several in Delaware. There is some contradictory information on the company website about depository options so it’s best to talk it over with your advisor.
Your precious metals are safely stored in a highly secure non-government depository storage facility. They are legally documented and inaccessible by the facility’s creditors, far away from financial and political centers.
$1 billion all-risk insurance through London underwriters
Exchange-approved depository for CME & ICE
IRS compliant (IRC - 408n) depository for IRA assets
Bullion fully allocated and held off balance sheet
Augusta Precious Metals Services
Augusta offers a variety of precious metals IRA options, all of which are designed to help clients find a way to avoid the risks of inflation or even just diversify their portfolio. Buyers are required to have a minimum of $50k in savings for their retirement accounts before starting with Augusta, like 401ks or traditional IRAs.
A gold IRA isn’t the same as a regular IRA, which is why Augusta Precious Metals designed a straightforward way of onboarding clients for the purchase of precious metals.
Conclusion on Augusta Precious Metals
Augusta Precious Metals is a highly rated, reputable company which can assist you setting up self-directed IRAs and send out IRS-approved silver and gold to depositories.
Those who have more than $100,000 in savings also get access to a free webinar tailored to them. Augusta donates some of its net proceeds to charity, namely K9s for Warriors.
If you’re looking to diversify your investments with gold and silver, then Augusta Precious Metals is a great choice.
#2 Birch Gold - Precious Metals IRA Specialists
Since 2003 and with over 13,000 customers, Birch Gold group has become a leading dealer of physical precious metals in the United States. Their dynamic team of former wealth managers, financial advisors, and commodity brokers continue to help customers diversify their portfolios with gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.
With your retirement at stake, you want to be confident in the financial services companies that you work with—including whom you choose for purchasing physical precious metals. Birch Gold Group has distinguished themselves in the management of Gold as a portfolio for retirement investments.
Birch Gold Group proudly maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, an AAA rating from the Business Consumer Alliance, and numerous other 5-star ratings on top review websites, including Consumer Affairs and GoldDealerReviews.com.
Birch has a dedicated team of professionals with decades of combined experience, including past positions with Citigroup, Dun & Bradstreet, and IBM. This expertise, combined with the customer care process, will make your purchase or IRA set up feel smooth and simple.
Finding a company to help out with a conventional IRA is easy. But when it comes to Precious Metals IRAs, finding a reliable specialist is not as easy as it may seem. It’s especially difficult to find one with the knowledge you need to feel comfortable moving an IRA or 401(k) to an IRA backed by gold and silver. This is where Birch Gold group comes in with a proven record of being precious metals IRA specialists.
Why choose Birch Gold Group? - Here’s what they offer
All the services provided by this group revolves around their 3 core values:
Dedication to 1-on-1 care
Birch Gold Group aims to educate their customers on the unique benefits of investing in precious metals. They do this by walking customers through various types of precious metals that suit their personal retirement goals, including the potential rewards and risks associated with each.
Diversifying your portfolio minimizes your risk when markets get volatile. But who you choose to help you do that is key. Trust is earned and Birch says customers can count on them to help diversify their investment portfolio.
Purchasing Precious Metals in Birch
Below is a list of fees for the custodian and depository that most customers of Birch Gold Group use.
Account Set Up Fee: $50
Wire Transfer Fee: $30
Management Fees: $100
Storage Options in Birch Gold Group
Birch Gold group also ensures that your precious metals are placed in an appropriate facility—the depository, chosen by you. The 2 depository options popular with customers are:
The Delaware Depository
Customers opting to store their precious metals with the Delaware Depository can pick between two facilities, one located in Wilmington, Delaware and the other in Seal Beach, California. Both locations are rigorously fortified using cutting edge security.
Brink’s is an industry leader in a wide range of secure logistics at the global scale, with over one thousand facilities worldwide.
Hedge Against The Dollar
Protect From Stock Market Volatility
Safeguard From Geopolitical Instability
Conclusion on Birch Gold Group
So if You need to put your savings into the hands of an experienced and well-respected dealer in gold, silver and other precious metals, Birch Gold Group has a working and trusted platform reputable enough to be named among the Best Gold IRA Companies. Reviews from TrustPilot suggest that they are a proven industry leader in your corner, someone who can show you how precious metal investments can protect your lifestyle and retirement—even when the economy gets shaky.
#3 Regal Assets - Precious Metals and Crypto Investing
Based in Burbank, California, Regal Assets has long been considered one of the market's top gold and silver IRA vendors. Since its founding in 2009, Regal Assets has done an excellent job of living up to this reputation. In 2010, the company landed a rare “A+” rating with the Better Business Bureau, an achievement they've maintained ever since.
Overall, Regal Assets boasts a very impressive resume when it comes to user reviews. For a company that has been around for as long as it has, to have only received 6 complaints across the BCA, BBB, and Complaint Board is an incredible achievement. Not to mention that each complaint has been amicably resolved via a full or partial refund.
Unlike some companies involved in the gold IRA space, Regal Assets is a growth company that has shown considerable development since its launch. For instance, Regal Assets was recently made a member of the exclusive Forbes Finance Council and has been nominated an Inc. 500 member in recent years.
Regal Assets also have a longevity advantage. With well over a decade in business and minimal complaints to its name, Regal Assets has made a name for itself as one of the most reputable and trustworthy firms in the industry. This says a lot, given that the vast majority of companies in the precious metals investing sector fold within their first few years of operation.
How to Invest With Regal Assets in Precious Metal
One of the key benefits of investing with Regal Assets is that they streamline the investment experience so that it's largely a no-touch process. After requesting a free kit, a Regal Assets customer representative will contact you via phone or email to discuss whether you feel ready to open a gold IRA. Once agreed, Regal Assets will walk you through the process from end to end.
Any Regal Assets IRA is effectively a self-directed IRA in which you can invest any number of IRA-approved assets. However, Regal Assets representatives and custodians specifically work with you to invest in precious metals and cryptocurrencies.
Regal Assets Prices and Fees
Like most gold IRA companies, Regal Assets doesn't list its fees and pricing structure on its website. For pricing data, you have to call their customer hotline and speak to an agent. If you want the most accurate and up-to-date info on Regal Assets fees, you can give them a call at 1-877-962-1133 or register for a free startup kit.
As of Q1 2022, Regal Assets' pricing structure is as follows:
$100 annual administration fee (waived for first year)
$150 annual segregated storage fee (waived for first year)
$10,000 minimum purchase amount
$0 initial setup fee
$0 storage and maintenance fees (non-IRA accounts)
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Health centers provide high quality primary and preventive care to diverse populations in special and vulnerable populations in underserved communities. Health centers also provide a host of enabling services – non-clinical services that aim to increase access to health care and improve population health outcomes. The ability to track and evaluate these services is an important tool for health centers to demonstrate their value in addressing patients’ social determinants of health; of equal importance is the ability to make this data actionable in order to address patients’ barriers to access.
The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, Health Outreach Partners, MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council partnered for a second iteration of this webinar to explore strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services (ES).
- To highlight the enabling services (ES) workforce as key drivers in assessing and addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH).
- To demonstrate the overall value and impact of ES.
- To conceptualize the use of data to support value-based care.
- To provide an overview of relevant data collection tools used for assessing and addressing the needs of special and vulnerable populations at health centers.
- Beleny Reese, MPH, Project Manager, Health Outreach Partners (HOP)
- Brett Poe, Research Associate, National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC)
- Hansel Ibarra, MPH, Program Director, MHP Salud
- Sakura Miyazaki, MPA, Program Manager, Training and Technical Assistance, AAPCHO
Health center staff from clinical & non-clinical perspectives and from all levels of leadership; Primary Care Associations; and Health Center Controlled Networks. Other key stakeholders include government institutions and payers who work with health centers on policy and payment. | <urn:uuid:28072fd0-ebb8-45a4-acd4-eb8f2c0d0f6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aapcho.org/understanding-and-applying-sdoh-screening-data-to-address-barriers-to-health-webinar-july-2021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.890718 | 400 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The findings of the TNS Demoscopia poll commissioned by the Shark Alliance, which was released on 03.06.09, states that although 96% of those polled said that they did not eat shark, 76.4% were not aware that "cazón" and "marrajo" come from sharks and nearly 33% said that they consumed these products.
The results of the poll were released in conjunction with a new report from SUBMON, titled Spain: A driving force in shark fishing around the world, that documents serious fishery problems including mislabeling sharks at market.
The Shark Alliance and SUBMON believe that as a top shark fishing nation, Spain has responsibility to evolve from an obstacle to a leader in shark conservation.
Specifically, among other things, SUBMON and the Shark Alliance are urging Spain to:
- Limit shark catches to scientifically advised and/or precautionary levels;
- Eliminate excess fleet capacity;
- Prevent take of particularly vulnerable or endangered shark species;
- Ensure accurate reporting and traceability of shark trade by species and product; an
- Educate fishermen and sellers as to shark species identification and restrictions.
For more than a decade, Spain has been one of the top five world powers with respect to the fishing and marketing of sharks. Spain's fishing fleets, employing various gears, span the globe, taking sharks as targeted and incidental catch.
Approximately 50% of the EU catch of "sharks" (all cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays and chimaeras) is taken by Spain.
Spain ranks fourth in the world for catch of "sharks" (sharks, rays & chimaeras), reporting nearly 60,000 tonnes (t) taken in 2007. Hundreds of Spanish vessels fish for sharks in oceans all over the world.
Spain is a leading player in the import and export of shark products, including shark fins to Asia (used in the Chinese delicacy, shark fin soup). In 2005, Spain was second only to Taiwan (Province of China) in shark exports and ranked among China and South Korea for shark imports.
Spain is notorious for inaccurate and late reporting of shark catches. In 2007, Spain reported 58,159t of shark landings to its national fisheries authorities, but only 46,187t of shark landings to the global authority (Food & Agricultural Organization/FAO).
Spain is one of only four EU countries to issue special permits that allow fishermen to remove shark fins at sea through a derogation of the EU ban on shark "finning" (slicing off a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea). Although shark bodies must be retained under these permits, fin removal creates loopholes and enforcement challenges. Spain has issued the largest number of these permits (164 in 2006), enough to allow nearly two-thirds of its longline fleet to derogate from the EU regulation that bans shark fin removal at sea.
Spanish vessels with these permits reported landing 1,613t of shark fins in 2007 - more than thirteen times the amount reported in 2006 for all Spanish vessels - while total shark product landings for these vessels remained stable (21,324t in 2006, 19,486t in 2007). | <urn:uuid:5568ca11-5e08-48fc-8dfc-b15d07352de7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2009/06/05/facts-presented-by-shark-alliance-and-submon-in-conjunction-with-release-of-spanish-shark | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95221 | 658 | 2.46875 | 2 |
GEM3 is an NSF EPSCoR research program seeking to understand how genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity affect species response to environmental change, shaping both population response and adaptive capacity. Two focal taxa will be under study: one aquatic (redband trout) and one terrestrial (sagebrush). These taxa are integral to ecosystems in the American West, and are central to land-use management decisions that drive the economy of the region.
GEM3 is funded by EPSCoR, a program designed to fulfill the mandate of the NSF to promote scientific progress nationwide. EPSCoR's RII Track-1 awards provide up to $20 million over 5 years to support improvements to physical and cyber infrastructure and to develop human capital in research areas selected by Idaho's EPSCoR steering committee as having the best potential to improve future R&D competitiveness of the State.
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South Dakota and Wyoming are now winding down the 2012 HRW harvest and with the exception of some irrigated acres will wrap up early next week. Both states are still averaging over 61.5 pounds per bushel and both are averaging well over 12% protein. South Dakota is averaging over 2.7 mm kernel size and over 32 grams thousand kernel weight.
Montana started HRW harvest this week in the northeast, southeast and southern parts of the state. Very early reports show very good test weights, averaging 61.5 pounds per bushel, 40-45 bushel per acre yields and an average of 11.5% protein with a range of 9% – 13%.
With a large portion of the mill, dough and bake testing done on the Texas and Oklahoma samples we are now getting a better picture of the effect early development and highly variable protein as it relates to functionality. While average protein in the two states was relatively high (12.5%) there were also wide ranges in protein (9% – 17%) being reported by individual elevators as wheat was being delivered. The extreme stresses the crop endured in these two states is revealed by the initial data indicating low P values, L values and W values (indicative of weak dough strength). Poor farinograph dough stability also supports this view. This magnifies the importance of testing results from other Gulf tributary states.
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Many modern macro finance models imply that excess returns on arbitrary assets are predictable via the price-dividend ratio and the variance risk premium of the aggregate stock market. We propose a simple empirical test for the ability of such a model to explain the cross-section of expected returns by sorting stocks based on the sensitivity of expected returns to these quantities. Models with only one uncertainty-related state variable, like the habit model or the long-run risks model, cannot pass this test. However, even extensions with more state variables mostly fail. We derive conditions under which models would be able to produce expected return patterns in line with the data and discuss various examples.
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The Village of Wellington is pleased to announce the improvement of our outdoor warning siren system. The improvements were made in conjunction with the Village of Wellington, Wellington Fire District, South Lorain County Ambulance and Lorain County 911. The improvements should restore the confidence of our residents in our warning system by insuring that no accidental warning sirens occur in the future. The system utilizes four warning sirens, located strategically throughout the community. Each siren is equipped to function even through a power failure, either by generator backup or battery backup.
The system consists of three newer warning sirens and also utilizes the previously existing siren located at the Town Hall. The sirens will provide two distinct warning tones / activation patterns to distinguish between differing emergency situations. In the event of a severe weather event, such as a tornado, the “attack” signal or classic “air raid” alert tone will be broadcast. The sirens will sound an alternating on/off pattern for three minutes – this indicates approaching severe weather. In such a situation, citizens are advised to seek shelter immediately, implement their weather emergency plan and access local or regional media for updates. The sirens will not sound an all-clear signal when the dangerous weather has passed. Therefore, citizens are advised to continue monitoring local and regional media to monitor the storm’s location and intensity.
In the event of a non-weather related emergency, the sirens will utilize a continuous alert tone. This non-stop siren tone indicates that citizens should shelter in place, access local or regional media for detailed information regarding the situation and await further instructions.
In the event of siren system activation, citizens should not call 911 or attempt to contact the Wellington Police Department, Wellington Fire Department or Wellington EMS, unless you are in need of immediate emergency assistance. Furthermore, residents are reminded that the sirens are outdoor warning sirens and are not necessarily designed to be heard indoors.
All of Lorain County is a subscriber to the Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) and that system will also be used to communicate emergency information in conjunction with the warning siren system. If you have not subscribed to the service you may do so at this web address: Lorain County Emergency Alert Registration.
If you are unable to connect to sign up for WENS or need assistance, please contact Wellington Police, Fire or EMS for assistance.
The sirens will be tested every first Saturday of the month at 12 p.m. Testing will begin with the annual statewide tornado drill in March and then will occur every first Saturday through October. In the case of inclement weather on the first Saturday on a month, the siren will not sound so as not to cause undue concern to residents. | <urn:uuid:ec288f99-1ef8-49b8-b58a-38dd05a388e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.villageofwellington.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=188 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9234 | 556 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Leptospirosis is a febrile worldwide zoonosis. Routine diagnosis of leptospiral infection is based on demonstration of specific antibodies with serological tests. Performance of the reference serological test, the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), requires significant expertise. The aim of our study was to find out if leptospiral infection can be proven with simple, rapid, commercially available immunochromatographic Leptocheck test in order to introduce it for the first level diagnosis in emergency cases with less specialized laboratory staff.
In all, 590 serum samples of patients with clinical manifestations suggestive of leptospirosis were collected and tested with MAT and Leptocheck test. For confirmation of the results some other diagnostic methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Leptospira isolation were performed.
Results of both serological tests were consistent in 576/590 (97.63 %) cases but Leptocheck gave more positive results in comparison to MAT (36 and 12, respectively) at first patient’s testing. Following up the patient, MAT became positive in majority of Leptocheck positive patients at first visit. Leptospiral DNA was detected in nine blood and six urine samples belonging to thirteen different patients while only two samples were culture positive.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
- Franz Matscher, La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, hier, aujourd’hui et demain, au lendemain de son cinquantième anniversaire – Regards d’un ancien juge de la Cour
- Alec Stone Sweet, Sur la constitutionnalisation de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme : cinquante ans après son installation, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme conçue comme une Cour constitutionnelle
- Roger Magloire Koussetogue Koude, Pertinence et défauts de pertinence des récusations de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme
- Laurence Potvin-Solis, La liaison entre le principe de non-discrimination et les libertés et droits fondamentaux des personnes dans les jurisprudences européennes
- Céline Romainville, Contentieux irakien et extraterritorialité : de la nécessité de dépasser Bankovic
- Aurélien Antoine, Responsabilité de l’Etat et déportation des Juifs. Réflexions à partir de l’avis d’Assemblée du Conseil d’Etat de France
- Nicolas Bernard, Le droit au logement dans la Charte sociale révisée : à propos de la condamnation de la France par le Comité européen des droits sociaux
- Gauthier de Beco, L’expulsion des étrangers mineurs délinquants : une lueur de clarté dans la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme
- Baptiste Nicaud, La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme face à la caricature de presse
- Jo-Anne Wemmers, Where Do They Belong? Giving Victims a Place in the Criminal Justice Process
- Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani, The Responsibility of Accomplices in the Case-Law of the Ad Hoc Tribunals
- Mark Wasef, Procedural Rules in International Litigation: Admissibility of Transcript of Interview of Accused Against Co-accused
- Riccardo Montana, Prosecutors and the Definition of the Crime Problem in Italy: Balancing the Impact of Moral Panics
- Robert Badinter, Avant-propos
- Rosalyn Higgins, Message d’hommage
- Mohammed Bedjaoui, L’égalité des États dans le procès international, un mythe?
- Oliver Corten, Réflexions sur l’applicabilité de l’uti possidetis dans un conflit sécessionniste: le cas du Kosovo
- Yves Daudet, L’attentat terroriste contre Rafik Hariri et la création du Tribunal spécial pour le Liban
- Eric David, Le différend insulaire Malaisie/Singapour
- Mathias Forteau, Le juge CIRDI envisagé du point de vue de son office: juge interne, juge international, ou l’un et l’autre à la fois?
- Philippe Gautier, Mesures conservatoires, préjudice irréparable et protection de l’environnement
- Marcelo G. Kohen, L’uti possidetis iuris et les espaces maritimes
- Pierre Lambert, L’avocat devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme
- Elihu Lauterpacht, The Role of the International Judge
- Alain Pellet, Remarques sur l’(in)efficacité de la Cour internationale de justice et d’autres jurictions internationales
- Jean Salmon, Les immunités diplomatiques dans la tourmente
- Nico Schrijver, The status of the precautionary principle in international law and its application and interpretation in international litigation
- Malcolm N. Shaw, Settling Territorial Disputes
- Jean-Marc Sorel, Les premiers pas des Juridictions Internationales: Maladresse, péché de jeunesse ou affirmation?
- Jean-Marc Thouvenin, Les décisions du Conseil de sécurité en procès
- Christian Tomuschat, Le Tribunal administratif de la Banque africaine de développement
- Tullio Treves, Les mesures conservatoires au Tribunal du droit de la mer et à la Cour internationale de justice: contribution au dialogue entre cours et tribunaux internationaux
- Rüdiger Wolfrum, The Delimitation of the Outer Continental Shelf: Procedural Considerations
Thursday, November 26, 2009
The collapse of the Doha Round hangs heavily over an already troubled world economy. Some have concluded that this failure is simply the result of a lack of political will and a pre-occupation with issues such as terrorism. But as Kent Jones reveals in The Doha Blues, the World Trade Organization needs serious structural changes, not just political backbone. He shows for instance that the WTO--now with 153 members--has become increasingly unwieldy in terms of concluding trade agreements and he suggests that countries organize around specific platform positions, a strategy that would make the "holy grail" of consensus once again possible. Jones also argues for financial support for poorer countries so that they can participate effectively in negotiations and he contends that the principle of the "single undertaking" (that "there is no agreement until everything is agreed") has become a serious and perhaps crippling constraint, and must be modified. Jones is a leading authority on trade policy and his book illuminates the real stumbling blocks to trade liberalization and highlights the way around them.
The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights. Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.
The Editorial Committee of Japanese Yearbook of International Law (JYIL) invites “Articles or Notes” or “Book Reviews.”
JYIL welcomes the submission of articles and notes (within 5000 to 15000 words, not including footnotes) that address public and private international law, comparative law, or Japanese domestic law having international implications. Book Reviews should be around 750 to 1500 words on works on public or private international law, comparative law, or Japanese domestic law. All articles, notes and book reviews are peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
The Japanese Yearbook of International Law is a renewed academic journal (Vol. 51, 2008) in continuity with Japanese Annual of International Law (JAIL) first published in 1958. While maintaining the 50 year tradition of JAIL, JYIL will consist of the following sections: articles and notes on both general and Japan-related issues, digests pertaining to current Japanese practices in international law, digests relating to major judicial decisions by Japanese courts in the fields of international law, and book reviews, as well as related documents including recent treaties and legislations.
Although submissions are accepted on an occasional basis, the deadline of submissions for the current year issue will be the end of January, and submissions received after that date will be considered as submissions for subsequent issues. JYIL is to be published in February.
For further information, please visit our HP or contact the Editorial Committee (below).
Professor of International Law
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Tokyo
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Iraq war rekindled debate - a debate now further inflamed in discussions of Iran and North Korea - about the legal use of force to disarm an adversary state believed to pose a threat of catastrophic attack, including with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Colliding with this debate is the stark fact that intelligence about hostile states’ WMD capabilities is and will remain limited and uncertain. This Article examines the following question: How should international legal rules on the use of force handle this intelligence gap? In answering that question, this Article advances two arguments. First, it argues that amid such intelligence uncertainty, a “reasonable necessity” approach to international self-defense doctrine, based on objective standards, is superior to the two main competing schools of thought: the “traditional view,” which holds strictly that only the U.N. Security Council may authorize legal force against WMD proliferates absent an imminent and specific threat of attack, and the “unilateralist” school, which holds that states retain a broader right of preemptive self-defense. Second, it argues that a reasonable necessity approach - and its reliance on objective standards - helps focus analysis on key evidentiary issues that have so far eluded serious study in scholarship on the legal use of force and that are relevant to ongoing debates about alleged WMD proliferation by Iran, North Korea and other states.
Under international law, official-capacity suits brought against a foreign state’s officers are treated as suits against the state itself and thus as subject to the state’s immunity, even in suits alleging human rights abuses. This immunity regime differs from the immunity regime that applies in the United States in suits brought against state and federal officials for violations of federal law. Despite the federal government’s sovereign immunity and the immunity of state governments under Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence, courts often allow suits against federal and state officers for their official actions. This essay attempts to explain why the immunity rules differ between the two regimes. We begin by showing that the differential treatment of foreign and domestic officer suits has deep roots in British and American common law. We then show that Congress has not acted to alter this common law backdrop, and we explain the significance of this fact. Finally, we discuss functional reasons for the long-time differential treatment of suits against domestic and foreign officials.
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Job Title: Lectureship in Law
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Live Date: 03-Nov-2009
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Law: Lectureship in Law
Applications are invited for a Lectureship (UE08) in the School of Law from candidates with research interests in either or both of international commercial arbitration and international trade law. Applications would also be welcome from candidates with an interest in international investment law. Candidates may have either a private law or public international law background. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching programme, particularly at post graduate level, and to undertake post graduate supervision. He or she will contribute to the development of new initiatives in teaching, research, and continuing professional development ("cpd"), including those which will connect the School of Law with others in the College of Humanities and Social Science. Applications from individuals with demonstrable experience and achievement in their specialist area, as reflected in a growing personal research portfolio, will be particularly welcome. In addition, applicants are invited to explore how their research interests complement the existing strengths of the School of Law in cognate areas such as commercial law, EU law and international law.
The position is available from 1st February 2010. Appointment will be on an open-ended basis.
Salary Scale: £36,532 - £43,622
Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts: 22 January 2010
The 4th Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law will take place in Cambridge, England on 2-4 September 2010, with the overarching theme International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal. The conference will be hosted by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and full details, including information on the programme, accommodation and travel will be available on this website.
The main conference programme will include two Plenary Sessions, eight Fora and twelve Agorae. Speakers have been invited for the plenary sessions and the Fora; Agora speakers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted in response to this call for papers.
A number of Interest Group Sessions will be held prior to the main conference. Some Interest Groups will issue their own calls for papers, details of which will be announced separately on this website.
The working languages of the Conference are English and French.
The purpose of the Agorae is to share cutting-edge research in specific areas of international law, to stimulate debate and to foster contacts between the participants. Papers presented in individual Agorae may focus on any aspect of the particular branch of international law stipulated by the Agora title but a connection to both the Agora theme and the overall conference theme must be evident. Three or four papers will be selected per Agora. Papers may be presented in English or French.
The twelve Agorae are:
Senior and junior scholars (including PhD Candidates) are invited to respond to this call for papers. Scholars from any part of the world and of any nationality are eligible to apply. All papers presented in the Agorae will be selected through a competitive process from abstracts received in response to this call for papers. Only one abstract per author will be considered. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words in length and must be submitted using the online submission procedure (see below).
The following criteria will be used to aid the selection of papers:
quality of the research
originality of the work
links to the conference and agora theme
geographical representation of the speakers
Papers delivered at the conference must be unpublished, in an advanced stage of completion and ready to be included in the conference proceedings.
Agora speakers will have their conference registration fee waived if they are ESIL members. (Enquiries regarding ESIL membership should be made to ESIL directly - visit http://www.esil-sedi.eu/english/membership.html for more information).
A limited number of bursaries will be available for Agora speakers to cover the cost of accommodation in Cripp's Court, Selwyn College and to make a contribution towards travelling expenses. Priority will be given to graduate students of European universities who are unable to obtain support through other means and to scholars from Eastern and Central Europe for whom financial support is a sine qua non to participate.
Those wishing to apply for one of the bursaries must ensure they complete the relevant section of the online submission form, where a statement in support of the bursary of no more than 150 words will need to be made. In addition to this statement, PhD Candidates wishing to apply for a bursary must arrange for a letter of recommendation to be sent by their Supervisor to the Conference Administrator at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, 5 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BL, UK to arrive no later than the submission deadline.
Unfortunately, the conference organisers are not in a position to provide travel and accommodation support to all selected Agora speakers.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 22 January 2010;
Successful authors will be informed by 22 March 2010;
The deadline for the submission of Papers from accepted abstracts is 5 July 2010;
Papers are presented at the ESIL Conference, 2-4 September 2010;
The deadline for the submission of final papers to be included in the conference proceedings is 4 October 2010.
Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts MUST be submitted using the online submission form available on this website. Abstracts must be no more than 500 words in length and only one abstract per author will be permitted. Abstracts sent by email will not be considered. Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered.
Authors wishing to respond to this call for papers should have the following information ready before starting the online submission process:
(1) contact and institution details, including full postal address and telephone number;
(2) email address;
(3) if applying for a bursary, the text of a supporting statement;
(4) the title and text of the abstract being submitted;
(5) a paragraph on the context in which the research is being conducted and how it fits with the conference themes;
(6) curriculum vitae and publications details.
Please note that the online submission form does not allow files to be uploaded. Information is collected by text input (typing or copy & paste) and menu selection only.
On submission of an abstract, authors should receive an email confirming receipt of their submission and a summary of the text of their application. Authors whose papers are selected for the conference will be notified no later than 22 March 2010.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 22 JANUARY 2010 at MIDNIGHT
- Helen V. Milner, Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics: Research Frontiers
- Randall W. Stone, Institutions, Power, and Interdependence
- Michael J. Gilligan, The Transaction Costs Approach to International Institutions
- Ronald B. Mitchell, The Influence of International Institutions: Institutional Design, Compliance, Effectiveness, and Endogeneity
- V. Page Fortna & Lisa L. Martin, Peacekeepers as Signals: The Demand for International Peacekeeping in Civil Wars
- Beth A. Simmons, Women and International Institutions: The Effects of the Women's Convention on Female Education
- Layna Mosley, Private Governance for the Public Good? Exploring Private Sector Participation in Global Financial Regulation
- Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Power, Interdependence, and Domestic Politics in International Environmental Cooperation
- Vinod K. Aggarwal, The Dynamics of Trade Liberalization
- Jonathan D. Aronson, International Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World
- Timothy J. McKeown, The Big Influence of Big Allies: Transgovernmental Relations as a Tool of Statecraft
- J. Ann Tickner, On Taking Religious Worldviews Seriously
- Andrew Moravcsik, Robert Keohane: Political Theorist
Lecture: Lavranos on "Revisiting Article 307 EC Treaty. The Untouchable Core of Fundamental European Constitutional Law Values and Principles"
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
This work analyses fairness and equity dimensions of the climate regime. A central issue in international law and policy is how countries of the world should allocate the burden of addressing global climate change. With the link between human activities and climate change clearly established, and the first impacts of climate change being felt, there is a renewed sense of urgency in addressing the problem. Based on an overview of science and the development of the climate regime to date, this book seeks to identify the elements of a working consensus on fairness principles that could be used to solve the hitherto intractable problem of assigning responsibility for combating climate change. The book demonstrates how an analysis of fairness dimensions of climate change – grounded in practical developments and illustrated with reference to the latest developments – can add value to our understanding of current developments and future options for international climate law and policy.
The opening and expansion of global markets has created and exacerbated resource curses, the phenomenon in which natural resource abundance creates governance problems. Yet international legal scholarship has been slow to recognize the relationship between freer trade and the financing of internal conflicts. While legal academics have long debated law’s role in addressing conflict generally, few have systematically addressed the intersection of trade regulation and prevention or abatement of internal conflict.
This article looks closely at a recent regulatory effort to address the global trade in so-called blood diamonds which are a particularly destructive example of a resource curse. As many are seeking an appropriate model for resource curses generally, I develop a case study of blood diamonds and the Kimberley Process, an international commodity tracking regime. This article investigates both the scope of the Kimberley Process’s regulatory reach as well as the mechanisms by which those regulations are promulgated and enforced. This article focuses on the unique coalition of NGOs, corporations, and states and the unusual international arrangement upon which they agreed. Evidence from the evolution of that institution suggests that although designers may indeed seek to maximize their own interests - the legalization elements of that international institution such as the obligations the regime creates, the precision with which those obligations are defined, and the possible delegation of interpretive and enforcement efforts determine whether an institution can regulate effectively and when it may move beyond the designers’ original interests. In accumulating and assessing this evidence, this article contends that although skeptics may correctly identify the Kimberley Process’s initial alignment with state and corporate interests, this lightly legalized regime provides an opportunity for substantial progress on human rights. Although the Kimberley Process might appear as an attempt to whitewash state and corporate abuses, over time, the institution can, though need not necessarily, evolve over time to address both the rebel induced and state inflicted human rights violations related to the diamond trade. In so doing, this article acknowledges the importance and potential stickiness of initial design choices and that institutional evolution in favor of issue expansion and greater enforcement is merely feasible rather than inevitable. Thus, this article demonstrates some of the possibilities and limitations of looking to the Kimberley Process as a model for resource curses, and more generally for other areas in which NGOs seek to align state, corporate, and human rights interests.
- David H. Anderson, Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea Case (Romania v. Ukraine)
- Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Administration of Justice in the World Trade Organization: Did the WTO Appellate Body Commit 'Grave Injustice'?
- Tobias Lock, The ECJ and the ECtHR: The Future Relationship between the Two European Courts
- Derek O'Brien & Sonia Morano-Foadi, The Caribbean Court of Justice and Legal Integration within CARICOM: Some Lessons from the European Community
- Sylvia Ntube Ngane, Witnesses before the International Criminal Court
- Daniel Müller & Affef Ben Mansour, Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice
Taken together, two cases before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) — Commission v. Austria and Commission v. Sweden, both decided March 3, 2009 — allowed the Court to review the compatibility of pre-accession bilateral investment treaties (BITs), concluded by member states of the European Community (EC) before their accession to the European Union, with Article 307 of the Treaty Establishing the European Community (EC Treaty). While the EC Treaty does not describe in great detail the relationship between EC law and international law, Article 307(2) is an exception in that it provides that “[t]o the extent that such agreements [like BITs] are not compatible with the [EC Treaty], the Member State or States concerned shall take all appropriate steps to eliminate the incompatibilities established.” In these two decisions, the ECJ clarified the following issues: (1) What is the relationship between pre-accession treaties with subsequent EC law obligations? (2) When does an “incompatibility” within the meaning of Article 307 arise? (3) What are the obligations of the EC member states to eliminate such incompatibilities? For (1), the ECJ confirmed that, while pre-accession treaties remain in principle unaffected by subsequent EC law obligations, any incompatibilities between pre-accession treaties and EC law obligations must be eliminated in favor of EC law. For (2), the ECJ elucidated a new concept of “hypothetical incompatibility,” meaning that even a perceived — but not yet materialized — conflict between pre-accession treaties and EC law obligations is sufficient to constitute a violation of Article 307. And for (3), the ECJ confirmed, in line with its previous jurisprudence, that the obligation of EC member states to eliminate any incompatibility ultimately requires the denouncement of the pre-accession treaty, if re-negotiation or adjustment of the pre-accession treaty fails or is impossible. In both cases, the Court concluded that Austria and Sweden violated their obligations arising out of Article 307 by failing to eliminate the incompatibility between their pre-accession BITs and EC law.
- David Sloss, Introduction
- Sean D. Murphy, Does international law obligate states to open their national courts to persons for the invocation of treaty norms that protect or benefit persons?
- Donald R. Rothwell, Australia
- Gib Van Ert, Canada
- Xue Hanqin & Jin Qian, China
- Andreas Paulus, Germany
- Nihal Jayawickrama, India
- David Kretzmer, Israel
- Andre Nollkaemper, Netherlands
- Lech Garlicki, Małgorzata Masternak-Kubiak, & Krzysztof Wójtowicz, Poland
- William E. Butler, Russia
- John Dugard, South Africa
- Anthony Aust, United Kingdom
- David Sloss, United States
- Michael P. Van Alstine, The role of domestic courts in treaty enforcement: summary and conclusions
Monday, November 23, 2009
Karton: Party Autonomy and Choice of Law: Is International Arbitration Leading the Way or Marching to the Beat of its Own Drummer?
National courts have restricted party autonomy in choice of law in a variety of ways. In international arbitration, on the other hand, the march of party autonomy has been unhindered. National courts have abetted this process in the international arbitration context, even as they have maintained restrictions on party autonomy in choice of law within their own legal systems. This phenomenon, combined with the gradual loosening of restrictions on party autonomy in national legal systems, has led some to claim that international arbitration is leading the nations of the world into a global choice of law regime in which party autonomy reigns. Such triumphalists look forward to the day when party autonomy is as unrestricted in national courts as it is in arbitration.
This article argues that such a day is unlikely to arrive. The different pressures and interests that shape national court litigation on the one hand, and international arbitration on the other, are likely to generate different levels of support for party autonomy in choice of law. As a result, regardless of whether more party autonomy in choice of law is preferable in all contexts, or whether it ought to have a wider scope in arbitration than in litigation, arbitrators are likely to maintain greater deference to party autonomy than will national legislatures or courts.
- Brian C. Rathbun, It takes all types: social psychology, trust, and the international relations paradigm in our minds
- Cecelia Lynch, A neo-Weberian approach to religion in international politics
- Beate Jahn, Liberal internationalism: from ideology to empirical theory – and back again
Since 2001, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ (IFRC) “International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL)” Programme has been engaged in targeted research and consultations on the legal issues in disaster management, with a particular focus on international disaster relief. We have found that law can play a critical role in the success or failure of the efforts of communities, governments and the humanitarian community to reduce disaster risks and provide effective relief and recovery. Yet, although natural disasters have affected an average of nearly 200 million persons per year for the last twenty years, we have found remarkably little international or comparative legal scholarship on this issue.
This Working Paper Series is designed to encourage and promote critical scholarship in this area, from legal academics, students and practitioners.
Scope and methodology
The Working Paper Series will accept original papers related to law and legal issues in the management of natural disasters, with a preference for comparative analysis involving the laws of more than one country and/or international issues. Selection decisions will be made by the IDRL Programme at its sole discretion and without peer review.
Papers should be no more (and may certainly be less) than 20 pages in length (Times New Roman, 12 point, single-spaced). They may be written in English, French or Spanish and should be submitted in Microsoft Word format.
Papers accepted as part of the Working Paper Series will be “published” on the IFRC’s website (www.ifrc.org/idrl) and disseminated electronically to the IFRC’s networks of interested organizations and persons. There is no monetary compensation offered to Working Paper Series authors. Authors may re-publish papers used in this series elsewhere, so long as indication is made to their prior publication in the series.
Authors may employ any of the most commonly used legal citation styles.
To submit a draft or for further information, please contact us at: email@example.com.
Kelsall: Culture under Cross-Examination: International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone
The international community created the Special Court for Sierra Leone to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for crimes committed during the country’s devastating civil war. Tim Kelsall examines some of the challenges posed by the fact that the Court operated in a largely unfamiliar culture, in which the way local people thought about rights, agency and truth-telling sometimes differed radically from the way international lawyers think about these things. By applying an anthro-political perspective to the trials, he unveils a variety of ethical, epistemological, jurisprudential and procedural problems, arguing that although touted as a promising hybrid, the Court failed in crucial ways to adapt to the local culture concerned. Culture matters, and international justice requires a more dialogical, multicultural approach.
More and more legal scholars are turning to constitutional law to make sense of the growth of transnational and international legal orders. They often employ constitutional terminology loosely, in a bewildering variety of ways, with little effort to clarify their analytical frameworks or acknowledge the normative presuppositions embedded in their analysis. The potential of constitutional analysis as an instrument of critique of transnational legal orders is frequently lost in methodological confusion and normative controversy. An effort at clarification is necessary. We propose a functional approach to supraconstitutional analysis that applies across issue areas, accommodates variation in kinds and degrees of supraconstitutionalization, recognizes its simultaneously domestic and transnational character, and reflects its uneven incidence and impacts. We apply this framework to NAFTA to consider whether and how it superimposes a supraconstitutional legal order on member states' domestic constitutional orders. We show that the main thrust of this contemporary supraconstitutional project is to restructure state and international political forms to promote market efficiency and discipline, enable free capital movement, confer privileged rights of citizenship and representation on corporate capital, insulate key aspects of the economy from state interference, and constrain democratic decision-making.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
International environmental law is often closer to home than we know, affecting the food we eat, the products we buy, and even the air we breathe. Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a government negotiator, consultant, and academic, Daniel Bodansky brings a real-world perspective on the processes by which international environmental law develops, and influences the behavior of state and non-state actors.
In self-contained chapters that offer a clear guide to a complex field, Bodansky answers fundamental questions about how international environmental law works. What role can law play in addressing global environmental challenges such as climate change, ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity? How do environmental problems come onto the international agenda? What are the obstacles to international cooperation, and what can international environmental law do to address them? How do international rules develop? How are they put into practice and what makes them effective? | <urn:uuid:2a69aa6d-5524-4e63-8b52-e1258f089442> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ilreports.blogspot.com/2009_11_22_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.877062 | 6,794 | 1.578125 | 2 |
In the 1978 movie "Oshikkhito" directed by Azizur Rahman, starring Abdur Razzak and Anjana Sultana, one of the songs, "Dhaka Shahar Aisha", speaks of the actor's surprise and elation at what she witnesses in the capital.
The lyrics of the song revolve around the red and blue lights, which turn on without the use of oil in this "strange city" and water bursting from the ground (read fountains), instead of the sky.
A few of the segments in the song were shot on the Farmgate Footover Bridge, a then gleaming sign of a country growing in power.
The Farmgate footover bridge was built in the 70s and then renovated sometime in the 90s. It attracted thousands of people on both occasions.
What happened on Sunday at the Padma Bridge, where hundreds of thousands of people began to walk on the bridge, is something that has happened throughout history in different times.
While some may ridicule the idea of walking on the bridge, let's not forget that till this day millions travel to different countries to see the massive infrastructures, including bridges, over there.
A good comparison is the Golden Gate Bridge in USA's San Francisco, built in 1937. A number of parallels can be drawn between that and our own Padma Bridge.
Like how the Padma Bridge was made with mostly our funds, the Golden Gate Bridge also eschewed federal funds.
While the Padma Bridge took eight years to build, the Golden Gate Bridge took four. Although, it wasn't mired in political controversies or a pandemic which caused delays.
The first vehicle to go across both bridges were motorcycles. On the opening day of San Francisco's bridge, called the "Pedestrian Day", 200,000 people walked on the bridge.
The same happened in Bangladesh, although there was no official declaration.
The Golden Gate, over the years, often had people trying to climb it. In 1985, two guys climbed the top of the bridge and hung a 49ers banner.
The two were left off with a $35 trespassing tickets, which would now cost $10,000 and a year in jail.
Although Padma Bridge doesn't have its first climber yet, it does have its first nut and bolt thief, something the Golden Gate can't boast about.
And those urinating? It's a problem San Francisco has faced and devised a solution for that we too can borrow.
San Francisco city officials in 2015 began implementing "pee-proof" paint around the city to combat the persistent problem of public urination.
If an offender tried to urinate on a wall coated with the super hydrophobic paint, the urine, instead of running down the wall, would spray back at the person relieving himself, potentially hitting his clothes or shoes.
As the fines didn't work, these more drastic measures had to be taken.
Would surely work for Bangladesh, wouldn't it?
Massive infrastructures attract all kinds of people. It won't be too far off the mark to suggest the government relaxed some rules only to generate more hype: thousands of people on the bridge, long queues of bikes and cars, etc.
It did play up to what was being promoted: the Padma Bridge was perhaps the greatest gift of this government's reigns.
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Many people have a manger scene or crèche at home to depict the birth of Jesus Christ.
St. Francis of Assisi is said to have created the first manger scene for Christmas Eve of 1223.
Offering a special blessing for your manger scene at home is a wonderful family tradition that can be passed down to future generations.
A good time to offer the blessing is on the Vigil of Christmas (Christmas Eve) but any time is fine. Here’s how:
The reader then says: “The Gospel of the Lord.”
Response: “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.”
The leader then prays:
“God of every nation and people,
from the very beginning of creation
you have made manifest your love:
when our need for a Savior was great
you sent your Son to be born of the Virgin Mary.
To our lives he brings joy and peace,
justice, mercy, and love.
bless all who look upon this manger;
may it remind us of the humble birth of Jesus,
and raise our thoughts to him,
who is God-with-us and Savior of all,
and who lives and reigns forever and ever.”
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La Catedral de la Costa
The first church in town, for which the status of parish church was requested in 1560, was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of sailors and children, and to Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals and farmers. It used to be on the grounds where the Parish Church of Sant Nicolau (built on the 18th century) stands today and was built as well over an older smaller chapel dedicated to St Anthony. In 1565, a new chapel opened, dedicated to the saints Justa and Rufina, patron saints of pottery, one of the most important local crafts. Its master builder was Joan Soler, author of the parish church of Sant Cebrià de Vallalta too. That same architect devised in 1567 the Chapel of the Rosary, of Marian devotion, that became important in Malgrat because it was dedicated the figure of Our Lady of the Rosary after the victory at the Battle of Lepanto(1571), in which the people from the town had participated. Finally, in 1606, sculptor Claudi Perret was commissioned the altarpiece. He was a master from Burgundy that had great importance in the sculpture market in Catalonia in the early 17th century.
The story of the present church began in 1761, when the architect from Barcelona Francesc Trilles was chosen by people from Malgrat to handle its design. The church as we know it today was finished in 1783. The overall design is functional, sleek and austere, typical of the architectural trend of the period, marked by the first impacts of Neoclassical and anti-Baroque culture. During the Civil War (1936-1939), the church was sacked and burned, and some objects of high value (two monstrances, a cross and the organ) disappeared. Later, in the forties, the church was restored.
The church has a Latin cross floor plan, with a central nave and two side naves, separated by thick pillars and a dome on the crossing. Due to the considerable size of its nave, it is called the Cathedral of the Coast. The central nave is covered by a barrel vault with lunettes and the side naves by groin vault. The weight of the vaults rests on the perimeter walls reinforced with buttresses.
The eighteenth-century neoclassical façade features an undulated cornice and a large doorway of classical lines with a Baroque style niche that hosts the image of Saint Nicholas of Bari and a rose window that illuminates the interior of the nave. Note the portal and the cladding on the central parts in white-gray marble. To the left of the facade, there is a solid octagonal bell tower, also raised in the eighteenth century, which remains unfinished.
In the centre, there is an image of the patron Saint Nicholas, to the right the image of Saint John and to the left the image of his brother Paul. The latter two are the most recent images, from 1885, and were sculpted when the altar was restored and the church was painted.
Chapel of Sorrows
It is located on the right side of the high altar. The Virgin was placed in a niche in order to be taken to the street in the procession. In 1888, a small Gothic altar with the image of the Holy Christ of Agony was attached to the right wall. Beside it is the image of the Virgin Mary Mourning.
Altar of St. Peter the Apostle
It has great proportions; it might have been the old high altar and so seems to reveal its tabernacle, lifted as if it was a picture. It is Plateresque and the image of Saint Peter is located in the centre. To the right, Saint Michael’s image and to the left Saint Anthony the Abbot’s. In the second dwelling, the apostle Paul is venerated.
Altar of St. Joseph
In the 19th century, it replaced the altar of Saints Justa and Rufina (their bodies are kept in a glass urn). The image of St. Joseph is a precious sculpture gifted by Garriga family in 1883. On the right side, there is the image of Mother of Fairest Love and on the left, the Saint Teresa of Jesus’.
At the centre of the second dwelling, there are images of St. Sixtus and St. Tou (or Hou, from Theobald) martyrs from the fourth century. On the right, you can see the image ofthe guardian angel and on the left, Saint Justina’s.
Altar of St. Lucy
The altar contains the image of the saint, on the right Saint Philomena is venerated and on the left Saint Susanna is.
Altar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
In the centre, there is an image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. On the right,there is an image of Saint Narcissus (Bishop of Girona) and on the left, a St. Francis of Assisi one. Baroque styled, it was restored in 1912 by the painter Xavier Garriga and a painting about the Souls in Purgatory, the work of masters and Pahissa and Casanovas, was placed there.
Altar of Ecce Homo
Of Catalan style, it was built in 1819. In addition to the image of Jesus being presented to the crowd from the balcony of Pilate’s house, the image of Saint Marià is venerated in this chapel.
Altar de Saint Isidore
Baroque style. Note the Solomonic columns and the delicate decorative work. The image of Saint Isidore is placed in the centre, on the right, there is an image of St. Joseph and on the left, an image of Saint Dominic of Osma. In the centre of the second room St. Anthony of Padua is worshipped. His image is surrounded by small altarpieces depicting episodes of his life.
The bell tower
From the 18th century, it remains unfinished. Only the bells were covered, despite having chiselled stones for attaining the whole. There are four bells: the first and biggest one is from 1816 and was patronised by Mr Mercader; the second one, also from 1816 was cast by Mr Anton Raurell from the Catalan city of Vic; and the third and fourth ones were cast in 1795 by Mr Damià Ventura.
Altar of the Rosary
Baroque styled, it is from the early 17th century. On the right of Our Lady of the Rosary there is an image of Saint Elmo, and on the left, Saint Pontius’. In the upper chamber, there is an image of St. Catherine.
Chapel of the Holy Christ
Enabled as Blessed Sacrament chapel, its altar was restored in 1871. The ancient image of the Holy Christ is venerated in this chapel, along with one of Saint John the Evangelist and one of Blessed Virgin Mary. The image of Christ seems to be from the early 17th century. In the south wall panels, there is a Gothic altar of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus dating from 1890 attached.
On the right column there is a Gothic altar of the Immaculate Conception and on the left column, another Gothic altar of St. Louis Gonzaga. Both altars are the work of Josep Laboria Lafarga.
The pulpit sounding board of the gospel side bears the image of St. John the Evangelist, although erroneously carries the banner of Saint John the Baptist. The lectern sounding board located on the epistle side, is an emblem of belief, a blindfolded image holding a chalice and the Host.
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When you put in for a job, you are _____ .
a. an applicant
b. a customer
c. a claimant
Used To, Be Used To, Get Used To Present Perfect TenseAbstract vs. Concrete Noun PhraseHow often - long - much - manyComparativesPast and Present ContinuousTenses and PronounsGrammar - Verb Forms
Other quiz: Some vs. Any
I’m going to buy __ apples.
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This is the first in a three-part story, each showing a different way of applying veneer to a substrate. When veneering wood, it is important to remember a couple of things. First, and foremost, veneer always needs to be counterbalanced, meaning, ALWAYS apply veneer to both sides of the substrate. When glue is applied between two surfaces, it shrinks, or contracts when it dries. This contraction pulls the surface in tension and cups it. To balance this out, the exact procedure should be done to both sides, balancing out the tension created by the glue drying. Taken from experience, I cannot emphasize this enough!
Second, it is important to get an even bond between the veneer and substrate. Take your time applying adhesive, making sure each surface is evenly covered. While each coat doesn’t need to be thick, it should be nice and even. Lastly, while we all have busy shops, it is a good idea to control dust when veneering. Wayward dust has a way of finding its way into the glue. Not only does this affect the quality of the bond, but if the dust is large enough a bump can telegraph through to the surface, making sanding and finishing a nightmare. This is particularly true with table-tops, when viewed under raking light. Again, trust me on this one!
The quickest way to veneer a surface with wood, plastic laminate or phenolic or paper backed veneer is to use contact cement. This is a great solution if you rarely intend to veneer, as it requires little set-up, few tools and is relatively low-tech. It doesn’t require clamping, but rather, pressure in the form of a J-Roller or shop-made burnishing tool. It is also ideal for large, full-sheet sized veneering jobs, where even clamping pressure across a large surface is difficult to achieve. The downsides are it is expensive, is a bit messy if you aren’t careful, and requires learning the nuances of a new adhesive. It is also rather unforgiving if you misplace the veneer, as the contact cement bonds the two surfaces immediately and can rip the veneer if you try to adjust it once the surfaces come in contact with each other. Oh, and one last thing: it has a strong odor. You need to work in a well-ventilated area and away from any ignition sources.Make a burnishing tool out of waste plywood or MDF. You will use this to apply pressure to the surface of the veneer to work out air bubbles and force the bond of the veneer. It is simple a 10″ board about 4″ wide, with two “handles” glued and screwed. Round over the bottom leading edge so it doesn’t tear the veneer.
Lay the two surfaces to be bonded on a table next to each other. Pour the contact cement onto the two surfaces, taking care to not drip on the table. Set the contact cement somewhere safe so you don’t knock it over, (again, from experience!).
Roll a layer of contact cement onto each surface using a small trim roller. Wait for it to become tacky, about 20 minutes. The goal is to have each surface tacky and glossy but not wet. Each substrate and veneer differs in porosity, so every material needs to be treated differently. For this project, I am bonding phenolic-backed maple to MDF. The phenolic is not very porous, but the MDF can be very porous. I anticipate applying one more coat to the MDF than the phenolic veneer.
As you pull out the dowels, rub the veneer with your custom burnisher. The instructions on the can may recommend a J-Roller, however I find this tool to be an expensive and less effective for the job. If you see a bubble, use the burnisher to force the bubble out the side or end. I vigorously burnish the surface in every direction to ensure a good bond.
Remember, you are only halfway done! Flip the piece over onto a clean piece of cardboard or rosin paper, and repeat. The second piece of veneer counterbalances the adhesive on the other side and helps keep the panel flat.
In the end, using contact cement is only one option for veneering. It is a quick method requiring little or no preparation, and minimum investment in tools. It is ideal for infrequent and larger projects. In the next weeks, look for part two of this story, where I use cauls, clamps and woodworking glue to apply veneer to a substrate.
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Continuity and Change in Senegalese Party Politics
Lessons from the 2012 elections
Senegal's 2012 presidential and legislative elections reaffirmed the country's longstanding reputation as one of Africa's most stable democracies. The elections also represented a critical juncture for the country's party system, demonstrated by the use of new campaign techniques as well as the gradual exit from the political scene of an older generation of elites. At the same time, this article argues, the elections revealed continuing weaknesses within the party system, including low levels of institutionalization and the limited ability of the opposition to mobilize key constituencies, such as underemployed urban youth. These trends are demonstrated through disaggregated election data that show a high degree of electoral volatility and party de-alignment as well as low levels of voter turnout. Thus, while Senegal has now achieved the two rounds of party turnover often deemed to be an important indicator of democratic consolidation, the elections also revealed that a vibrant, pluralistic party system can nonetheless fail to engage citizens over time. | <urn:uuid:af0e3fd9-681d-4d89-8790-bdf2e7fa0c31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/continuity-and-change-senegalese-party-politics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960238 | 211 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Stronger emphasis on faith in new theory of change and development
SMC’s theory of change and development is a policy that describes the core of our work for a better world. It is used as a common basis for cooperation with our member organisations and in the office’s ongoing work. It is also an important starting point for dialogue with Sida and the Foreign Ministry. Here Petter Jakobsson, our theological advisor, talks about the work to update this policy and what conversations we hope it will lead to.
Our theory of change and development explain why we work as we do and what drives us. It also highlights how we distinguish ourselves from other development actors through the special knowledge that we have about religion and faith in particular.
Bilingualism between faith and human rights
Such added value is SMC’s ability to bridge between the world of faith and the world on development with a focus on sustainable development and human rights. We call it bilingualism. Some of our member organisations emphasize faith and Christian identity more strongly, while others talk more about human rights as a driving force for their work. Therefore, it has been a genuine challenge to be theologically pointed – not too much and not too little – when working with these texts.
Mission – a joint mission
The word mission, meaning a mission, is a keyword. Within SMC’s network, we will need to talk a lot about how we define mission in the coming years. It’s not just about the part of the work of our member organisations that emphasises testimony, church building, and evangelisation. Because we believe that all our member organisations participate in God’s mission. It is also part of God’s mission when people create the conditions for dignified life, when we support people’s fight for their rights, when we fight for children and women’s rights, because these are things that God has instructed us to do, because we believe that it is God’s will.
Someone might call it a watering down of the concept of mission. But on the contrary, we see it as a way of inviting the language of faith into everything we do.
Civil society – a prerequisite for sustainable development
The focus of our theory of change is on how SMC Faith in Development can strengthen civil society. With over thirty member organisations, we ourselves are a platform for civil society. We believe that a rich and dynamic civil society creates the best conditions for the good processes we want to see in a society: democracy, accountability, development and freedom. It is for this that we can convey resources, both in terms of money and learning. Our theory of change describes how we can support processes of awareness raising, mobilisation, action and reflection that in turn contribute to sustainable societies and dignity for our fellow human beings.
Faith as inspiration and power source
When we updated the policy, we wanted to clarify the importance of faith as an inspiration and power source. We believe that the Christian faith, and other beliefs, can strengthen leadership, community, development and hope in the work for a better world. We believe that our bilingualism can help increase religious literacy among those we work with.
SMC’s theory of change and development is not a “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” with answers to all questions, including the one about the meaning of life. But they are a starting point for conversations about the knots that we often encounter in our work. We look forward to continued conversations in our network, such as about:
- Theology and human rights – what about in practice and when there is a conflict between these two thought systems?
- How can we understand civil society’s relationship with those in power?
- How do we view the individual versus the collective as an actor for change?
- What do the words god’s kingdom, prophetic voice and holistic mission mean?
- How do we best strengthen the community that exists in the diversity of the SMC’s network of member organisations?
Want to know more?
More information about our thematic areas can be found at our Learning Center.
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Each year, more retirees decide to forego using a financial adviser or large investment firm and attempt to manage their retirement savings themselves. This trend reflects a distrust of financial agents and an increased sense that to do something ‘right’ requires one to do it themselves. This do-it-yourself mentality can initially be liberating, but it is important essential to understand the various factors involved in such a move.
Consider the following:
Money management is a life-long process and you likely have some knowledge from experience. However, investing on a day-to-day basis and managing both your retirement savings and income stream is complex. The learning curve is steep. Ask yourself if educating yourself and spending the time ‘in the trenches’ is how you want to spend your retirement.
If you are single, you have carte blanche with your money. However, as a partner in a couple, you must share the process of savings and investment. Do not embark on a ‘do-it-yourself’ investment plan if your partner is not willing to be involved. The risks for misunderstandings and financial miscues are too great.
Day-to-day involvement with financial markets and products produces stress and anxiety. Your investments will certainly have their ups and downs. Keeping a steady hand on the big picture requires strong emotional preparedness. Ask yourself if you have the demeanor to handle market volatility. Remember, the services of an advisor alleviates much of the stress and limits the emotional aspect of investing.
Fees, Taxes, & Estate Planning
Doing the investment and income stream planning on your own requires diligent consideration of taxes, fees, and long-term estate issues. Paying an advisor a fee for such services can be a huge relief. Consider how to best use advisors to get what you need at the best price, and free your retirement time up to enjoy yourself and time with your family.
Your retirement is a time to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. This does not mean to pay no attention to your savings or income stream strategies. You may want to manage the whole process on a day-to-day basis, but be sure to carefully review the above issues and think how you want to spend your time. Using an advisor or investment company has many advantages as well. Seek out the appropriate help, set your price, and free up your time to spend with family and friends.
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Government of Canada Supports Hockey Project Aimed at Promoting Healthy Weights for Men
It’s time for a gut-check.
Introducing “Hockey Fans in Training” (Hockey FIT) – a free 12 week, off-ice healthy lifestyle program for male hockey fans aged 35-65 looking to make changes to their lifestyle.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including regular physical activity and healthy eating, plays an important role in the well-being and quality of life of Canadians and helps prevent chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. Excess weight is a top risk factor for developing chronic diseases and significantly compromises the health of Canadians.
In Canada, men (particularly those who are middle-aged) are almost 35% more likely than women to be overweight or obese.
Expanding the Program
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has invested up to $2.5 million over three and a half years to help expand Western University’s Hockey Fans in Training (Hockey FIT) program across the country. This program aims to motivate Canadian adult males to eat healthier foods and become more physically active by incorporating participants’ passion for hockey into the initiative.
Hockey FIT has recently moved to Western Canada after successfully launching in 16 communities across Ontario. In your community, Hockey FIT has partnered with the Medicine Hat Tigers and the YMCA of Medicine Hat to implement and deliver the program.
The program curriculum includes an education component focusing on healthy eating and the importance of physical activity, as well as an exercise component, involving aerobic, strength and flexibility exercises. Connecting to participants’ passion for hockey, the program incorporates activities like stick handling drills to promote being active and includes the opportunity to go behind the scenes at the team’s home rink.
A Pillar of Healthy Living
“The Government of Canada knows that physical activity is a pillar of healthy living. That’s why we are committed to supporting and encouraging initiatives like the Hockey FIT program that get Canadians moving and keep them active through physical activity and sport.
This program is encouraging men across Canada to take their love of hockey and turn it into an opportunity to improve their health by moving more and eating healthier foods.”
The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor
Minister of Health.
Using Competition for Health Promotion
“Men are under-represented in health promotion programs and visit their doctor less than women; this may be associated with worsening health indicators in men compared to women in Canada.
Our research suggests that men associate physical activity with sport and athleticism and prefer health promotion programs that incorporate competition in the company of other men.
Given Canada’s love of hockey and that junior hockey in large and small communities across the country is often a rallying point, Hockey Fans in Training will engage men who are fans of their favourite junior hockey team to participate in adopting a healthy lifestyle and improve their health.
Our partnerships cut across public and private sectors to provide a range of innovative tools and technologies to support long term health change in Canadian men, which we believe will positively impact their families too.”
Dr. Robert Petrella
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
If you’re a male hockey fan between 35-65 looking to make changes for a better, healthier lifestyle sign up for Hockey Fans in Training Today! Visit www.hockeyfansintraining.org. | <urn:uuid:7efd04a9-51e9-48c5-a23b-afd7589ba5bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.937praisefm.com/8184/local-connections/government-of-canada-supports-hockey-project-aimed-at-promoting-healthy-weights-for-men/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94706 | 713 | 2.203125 | 2 |
RoboPad is an application that makes controlling your PrintBots via an Android device easy and fun. Using the bluetooth module of “Mi Primer Kit de Robótica” or the ZUM BT-328 board with bluetooth integrated, you can operate your PrintBot remotely via your mobile or tablet.
Follow these simple steps for using RoboPad++:
1. Download the RoboPad++ application for your mobile or tablet from Google Play by clicking on the image:
2. Load the corresponding program on your robot by connecting the brain board to your computer via USB: press this button to download the programs. Remember the program corresponding to the board that you have and the type of PrintBot (Renacuajo, Beetle or Evolution).
The file includes a version in .ino format so that it can be opened via the Arduino IDE, and another version that can be opened using bitbloq. If you don´t know how to use bitbloq or how to load a program on your board, follow the first steps with your PrintBot guide.
If you are using the PrintBot Beetle, make sure you calibrate the pincers before using RoboPad. Press here to see how to calibrate it.
3. Open the application and the select the robot that you will be using:
When you press on an icon, it will show you how to connect all the vitamins (a special term used to refer the non-printed components):
4. Connect everything up, connect the bluetooth and… it´s play time!
NB: If you are launching the bluetooth module for the first time, try using password 1234.
You can easily adjust the position of the movements by pressing them or by dropping them into the bin to the delete. You can delete the entire sequence of movements or save it for later.
EXTRA! EXTRA! New PrintBot on RoboPad!
You can now control the new PrintBot Evolution remotely, which includes the new “obstacle-dodging” feature with sounds and entertaining movements. To enable it to detect obstacles, simply press on the third orange button at the bottom of the RoboPad screen. | <urn:uuid:c22a4f58-93fc-4c6c-9cf5-5fc96e4fbe2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://diwo.bq.com/en/robopad-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.855887 | 461 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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act, as in the judgment of the said chancellor may be necessary to pay and discharge the assessments, taxes and expenses imposed, assessed or levied on the said premises ; and also for the purpose of defraying any expenses that may necessarily be incurred in regulating and levelling any part of their several proportions of the said real estate, adjoining any of the streets or avenues interseeting the same.
II. And be it further enacted, That no sale shall be made by Bond to be virtue of this act until the party for whose benefit such sale shall gives before be intended, shall cause a bond to be executed, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the chancellor, in such sum as the chán. cellor shall direct, conditioned for the true and faithful application of the monies arising from such sale, according to the intent and meaning of this act; which bond shall be filed in the office of the register, or assistant register of the court of chanorry, for the use of the persons hereafter respectively interested in the said real estate, by virtue of the said last will and testament of the said Petrus Stuyvesant.
CH AP. LXVII.
AN ACT altering the time of holding the October Terin of the
Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in Putnam county.
Passed March 7, 1820. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, re- Term when presented in Senate and Assembly, That the October term of the held. court of common pleas and general sessions of the peace in and for Putnam county, shall hereafter be held on the second Tuesday in October in each year, instead of the third Tuesday in October.
AN ACT to prevent the destruction of Fish in the towns of Ancram and Taghhanick, in the county of Columbia.
Passed March 7, 1820. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reDams, nets. presented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall not be lawful for &c. prohibitany person or persons at any time before the first day of May, strearas, which will be in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, four, to erect any dam or dams, set any nets, seines or fikes, or make a weir or other obstructions in the streams, creeks, or outlets of ponds, in the towns of Ancram and Taghkanicks in the county of Columbia, whereby the fish may be diverted or preveuted from passing their usual course in said streams, creeks, or outlets ; and any person offending herein, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, by the overseers of the poor of the town in which the
be comunitted, in an action of debt, before any court having cognizance thereof; the one half of which forfeiture when recovered, shall be paid to the informer, and the other half to the said overseers of the poor, for the use of the poor of their town.
AN ACT for the protection of the Sult Meadows, in the town of
Passed March 7, 1820. Fences and I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, reditches au presented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the pass
ing of this act, it shall be lawful for the owners and possessors of
cut ditches, or both, as may be thought most useful, around such Road, &c. to part of said' meadows as now is, or may hereafter become necessabe kept in ry to guard against horses, cattle, sheep or swine, and to keep in repair.
repair the private road, the swinging gates, the fences and bridges
on the south side of, and near the said Slote creek. Meetingshow 1). And be it further enucted, That it shall be lawful for any beld. one or more of the proprietors of said meadows to call a meeting
of said proprietors and possessors of said meadows, by giving ten days notice of such merțing, in an advertisement to be sigoed by such person or persons who may call such meeting, and putting up the same in six conspicuous places, three in said town of Orange, and three in the town of Harrington, in the state of New-Jersey, whịch advertisement shall express the time and place of such meeting, and the object of the same, and which meeting shall be held in the said towu of Orange, which owners or possessors, or such as shall assemble in pursuance of such notice, shall
when met, proceed to elect, by a plurality of votes, five persons, Managers to being owners of some part of said tract, inanagers, to cause in be
, and their made and kept iņ repair, the roads and bridges, and also the fenduty
ces or ditches, necessary to enclose said tract, and for the purpose of making assessments herein after mentioned, and superintending the expenditure of all the monies to be received and paid for the purposes aforesaid, and to superintend and manage generally the
interest of said owners or possessors of said meadows ; which said mections managers so elected, shall continue in office until the first Mouday keld. them to be of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, when a new
election shall take place; and so on the first Monday in April, in each year afterwards, at such place as shall be agreed upon by a majority of said persons assembled at a previous annual ineeting : and said persons thus chosen managers shall continue in office until others are chosen,
III. And be it further enacted, That the persons so elected as aforesaid managers, shall by virtue of this act, be authorised to assessment to make an estimate of the part of the tract benefitted by such enclosure, shall ascertain the number of acres as accurately as they can, which each individual owns or possesses therein, and which may, in their opinion be benefitted by such enclosure, which estimate when inade, shall be by the said managers fairly entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, in which book shall be entered the names of the persons, from time to tiine elected to superintend the proceedings as aforesaid ; and all assessments shall be made according to the first assessinent; until the same is altered by a majority of the owners and possessors of said tract, assembled in regular meeting.
IV. And be it further enacted, That as soon as any assessment Duty of man: is made, and the sum which each individual has to pay is ascer- mand same, tained, it shall be the duty of said inanagers to demand from each individual, his or her proportion, either personally, or by leaving a statement thereof at his or her dwelling house ; and on failure of payınent thereof for thirty days after such demand or notice, it shall be lawful for such managers to sue for, and recover the same, and to sue in their own' names, from each individual so assessed and notified, therefor. together with the costs of prosecution, before any court of competent jurisdiction in said county of Rockland.
V. And be it further enacted; That the managers shall annu- Managers to ally account to the owners for all monies which have come to their account annum
ally and how hands as aforesaid, and shall pay over the balance remaiuing in their hands to their successors, together with the book directed to be kept by thein, immediately on their going out of office, under the penalty of fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by their successors, with costs of suit, and to be applied by them, when recovered, to the purposes conteinplated by this act.
VI. And be it further enacted, That if any horses, cattle, sheep Cattle, &c. or swine shall be found running at large, in any part of the tract when & how enclosed as sforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for any owner dedo or possessor of any part of said tract, to take and drive the same to any public pound, in the town of Orange, and shall as soon as may be, make an affidavit, stating that the same were taken ruus ning at large on said tract; and in such affidavit, shall give a description of the annimal so taken and impounded, which affidavit shall be left with the pound keeper when the same are empounded, and the person empounding shall be entitled to receive for
every head so empounded, the sum of one dollar, to be collected by the pound master from the owner, or from the sale of the beasts so empounded, and which shall be the annount of the damages to be paid on such occasion ; aud the pound master is directed to receive such Dutyof pound beasts, and proceed in the same manner as is directed in and by master, and the twenty-first section of the act relative to the duties and privileges of towns; and he shall be entitled to the same fees, and subject to the same penalties for the neglect of duty, as are given io and by said act.
VII. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons Driving çatshall drive or let in any horses, cattle, sheep or swine, within the the said track said tract, after it shall have been enclosed as aforesaid, with an declared a
trespuss. intent to run at large therein, such person er persons shall be sub
to be erapous
ject to an action of trespass, to be brought in the name of the Subject to
managers aforesaid, and be liable to pay treble damages, to be astreble dama- sessed by a jury, in any court having cognizance of the same, to
gether with the costs of prosecution.
VIII. And be it further enacted, That the damages and penalcovered how ties recovered by virtue of this act, shall be appropriated and apappropriated.
plied, from time to time, towards making and repairing the roads and bridges, and also, the fences and ditches, deemed necessary to enclose said tract,
12 additional thorised.
A cession of part of a
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “an act to incorporate the village of Utica," passed April 7, 1817.
Passed March 7, 1820. I. BE it enacted by the People of the Stute of New York, firemen au- represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be
lawful for the board of trustees of the village of Utica, to appoint
be lawful for the board of trustees of said village, for, and on behalf of mpike, au- the freeholders and inhabitants of said village, to receive from the
president and directors of the Seneca turnpike company, a cession or grant of so much of the Seneca turnpike road as lies within the bounds of said village, or any portion of the same, within the limits of said village ; the evidence of such cession or grant fsball be in writing, under the seal of the said turnpike company, and signed by the president thereof, and recorded in a book of records of deeds, in the office of the clerk of the county of Oneida, and that from and after the time of recording the evidence of the said cession or grant, the said turnpike company shall be discharged from all further responsibility and expense in keeping in repair said road so granted, and that the same shall from thence forward be considered a public highway of said village.
To be recorded.
AN ACT further to amend an act entitled "an act for giving relief in cases of Insolvency," and also, to amend an act, entitled an act to abolish imprisonment for debt, in certain cases.'
Passed March 7, 1820. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, before any represented in Senate and Assembly, That the oath mentioned judge.
in the fifth section of the act, entitled “an act for giving relief in cases of insolvency," passed April 12th, 1813, and the oath
mentioned in the second section of the act, entitled "an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,” passed April 7th, 1819, and the proof of the residence of any person applying for the benefit of either of the said acts, may, in cases where such application is made by a debtor, either in actual confinement, or confoed to the limits, be taken before any judge of the court of commion pleas, of the county in which the person so applying shall reside, any thing in the act hereby annended to the contrary notwithstanding
AN ACT concerning certain highways in the town of Kings
Passed March 7, 1820. WHEREAS, the proprietors of the said township of Kingsbu- Preamble. ry, at the time they laid out the town plot, (so called) into lots, did reserve certain portions of their lands, for roads or streets, for the benefit of the several owners of the said lots, which said reservations are designated on the map and survey of said town, which map and survey are on file in the secretary's office : And whereas, the commissioners of highways of said town, did, on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight, pursuant to the statute in such case provided, cause such streets or roads to be ascertained, surveyed and recorded, and order the same to be opened accordingly: And whereas, the roads and streets thus distinguished by said commissioners, have not been opened and worked within the period prescribed by the twenty-third section of the act, entitled “ an act to regulate highways :" Therefore,
BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the doings of the commissioners of highways, within and for the town of Kingsbury, &rmed. on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight, in relation to the roads by them ascertained and directed to be opened, in the town plot, (so called,) within said township of Kingsbury, be held valid and in full force, any limitation thereof to the contrary notwithstanding ; and that the individuals interested in having the said roads opened, agreeable to the true intent and meaning thereof, may proceed to open and work the same as public roads or bighway,
pre ceedings CCR
AN ACT authorising George M'Clure to continue or rebuild a dam now ereeted across the Conhocton river.
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WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS OF THE LCLS
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, January
I. Lindau and J. Arthur, principal organizers
Free electron lasers are now being designed which
will operate at wavelengths down to about 1 Å. These machines, which
rely on high-energy electron accelerator technology, are often referred
to as the fourth generation in the development of sources of synchrotron
radiation. Due to the physics of the high-gain, single-pass FEL process,
the radiation produced will have unique properties. In particular:
These source properties so exceed those of any existing
x-ray source that predicting the applications of an x-ray FEL is not an
easy task. Several workshops over the last 8 years have addressed this
issue [1-4] and many possible applications have been discussed, but as
yet there is no clear consensus as to which will be most scientifically
rewarding. This latest workshop was convened to provide an opportunity
for participants to study in depth the applications of the proposed LCLS
free electron laser x-ray source in several scientific fields. A design
study has been carried out for this source , providing detailed calculations
of the expected characteristics of the FEL radiation and the experimental
environment. The fields chosen for examination at this workshop were closely
related, inviting cross-fertilization of ideas. The goal of the workshop
was to help clarify the most exciting applications of the LCLS, and the
necessary scientific development path toward realizing these applications.
The FEL peak intensity and peak brightness will be many
orders of magnitude higher than can be produced by any other source.
The pulse length will be less than 1 picosecond, orders
of magnitude shorter than can be achieved with any other bright source
such as a synchrotron.
The FEL radiation will be highly coherent, with a degeneracy
parameter (photons/coherence volume) equal to 109 or more. No
other source can produce hard x-radiation with a degeneracy parameter significantly
greater than 1.
More than ?? participants attended, from ?? countries.
The workshop structure included invited plenary talks on the state of the
art of several relevant x-ray techniques, tutorial talks on the LCLS and
its radiation, and working group sessions focused around four characteristics
of the LCLS radiation: its high peak power, high spatial coherence, high
degeneracy, and very short pulse length. These working groups each produced
a report at the end of the workshop.
A strong effort was made throughout the workshop
to use realistic, conservative source parameters. Members of the LCLS design
study team participated in all of the working group sections, giving a
very productive, close interaction between applications scientists and
Included in this online version of the proceedings
are the four working group reports.
WORKING GROUP REPORTS
J. Arthur, G. Materlik, and H. Winick, eds., Workshop
on Scientific Applications of Coherent X-Rays, SLAC Report 437 (1994).
J.-L. Laclare, ed., 4th Generation Light
Sources, ESRF (1996).
J. Schneider, ed., X-Ray Free Electron Laser Applications,
M. Knotek, J. Arthur, F. Dylla, and E. Johnson, eds.,
Workshop on Scientific Opportunities for Fourth Generation Light Sources,
LCLS Design Study Report, SLAC Report 521 (1998).
[available online at http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcld/design_report/e-toc.html]
Subpicosecond Time-resolved X-ray Measurements
Spectroscopy and Holography
Non-Linear X-Ray Optical
High Field Physics and
Nonlinear Quantum Electrodynamics
with the LCLS
Workshop Agenda Workshop
Overview LCLS Home Page
Owner: J. Arthur
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All 60 seats of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
31 seats needed for a majority
The 2022 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election is currently taking place as of 5 May 2022. Due to boundary changes, all 60 councillors will be elected at the same time. The election will take place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom.
In the previous council election in 2021, Labour maintained its control of the council, holding 45 seats after the election. The Conservatives formed the main opposition with nine seats, with the Liberal Democrats on four counillors and three independent councillors.
The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Rochdale was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority was created in 2011 and began electing the mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former Greater Manchester metropolitan county.
Since its formation, Rochdale has variously been under Labour control, Liberal Democrat control, Conservative control and no overall control. Councillors have predominantly been elected from the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party, with some independent councillors also serving. The council has had an overall Labour majority since the 2011. In the most recent election in 2021, Labour won sixteen seats with 49.4% of the vote, the Conservatives won three seats with 31.5% of the vote and the Liberal Democrats won one with 12.3% of the vote.
Two councillors for the West Heywood ward, Jacqui Beswich and Alan McCarthy, had been originally elected as Labour candidates. They left the Labour Party in 2019 to sit as an independent councillor and a Brexit Party councillor. In June 2021 they both joined the Conservative Party.
Bury council underwent boundary changes ahead of this election. The Local Government Boundary Commission for England determined that the council should continue to elect 60 councillors and designed new election boundaries to reflect population change. The new boundaries include twenty three-member wards.
The council generally elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. However, due to a boundary review, all sixty councillors will be elected at the same time. The election will take place by multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by three councillors. Electors will be able to vote for up to three candidates, and the three candidates with the most votes in each ward will be elected.
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Rochdale aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.
Bernard Wynne, Peter Shore and Simon Footitt established the Middleton Independents Party to contest the election. They said that Middleton was sidelined in favour of Rochdale, and advocated regenerating the town centre and supporting local businesses. In a meeting, they said that if their candidates meant more Conservatives got elected, it "would not be a bad thing". Their application for electoral registration as a party was submitted after the Electoral Commission's deadline.
|After 2021 election||Before 2022 election|
|Liberal Democrats||3||Liberal Democrats||3|
|Liberal Democrats||Judith Jones||313|
|Freedom Alliance||Laura Grabowska||142|
|Liberal Democrats||Siobhane Cunnane||406|
|Liberal Democrats||Peter Diestler||380|
|Liberal Democrats||Zarah Kauser||269|
|Liberal Democrats||Beverley Heyworth||401|
|Liberal Democrats||Sarah Kisa-Smith||294|
|Liberal Democrats||Sajid Hashmi||236|
|Liberal Democrats||Mohammed Sheraz||1,499|
|Liberal Democrats||Zulfiqar Ali||1,306|
|Liberal Democrats||Zaheer Abbas||1,280|
|Middleton Independents Party||Paul Beswick||1,300|
|Middleton Independents Party||Dylan Williams||1,257|
|Middleton Independents Party||Bernard Wynne||1,245|
|Liberal Democrats||Mark Alcock||563|
|Liberal Democrats||Shin Ingram||446|
|Liberal Democrats||Safina Kauser||365|
|Middleton Independents Party||Matthew Glaysher||447|
|Middleton Independents Party||Caitlin O'Mara||433|
|Middleton Independents Party||Gavin Vitler||424|
|Liberal Democrats||Sharon Taylor||355|
|Liberal Democrats||Barrie Nicholson||251|
|Liberal Democrats||Chariss Peacock||197|
|Liberal Democrats||Kate Clegg||434|
|Liberal Democrats||Mohammed Zaman||1,192|
|Liberal Democrats||Salina Javid||1,182|
|Liberal Democrats||Hassan Ali||1,107|
|Liberal Democrats||Irene Davidson||1,942|
|Liberal Democrats||Andy Kelly||1,903|
|Liberal Democrats||David Bamford||1,660|
|Liberal Democrats||Stephanie Robertson||568|
|Liberal Democrats||Anne Colgan||482|
|Liberal Democrats||Colette Duszczyk||433|
|Liberal Democrats||Jennifer Kelly||368|
|Liberal Democrats||Iain Donaldson||325|
|Liberal Democrats||Richard Eden-Maughan||280|
|Middleton Independents Party||Peter Allonby||1,140|
|Middleton Independents Party||Lee Wolf||1,059|
|Middleton Independents Party||Keely O'Mara||1,059|
|Liberal Democrats||Latafat Hussain||812|
|Liberal Democrats||Eleanor Kelly||798|
|Liberal Democrats||Dean Larder||695|
|Middleton Independents Party||Adam Cornett||1,350|
|Middleton Independents Party||Emma Hezelgrave-Whitworth||1,046|
|Middleton Independents Party||Jo Hezelgrave-Whitworth||959|
|Liberal Democrats||Rabina Asghar||1,053|
|Liberal Democrats||John Swarbrick||743|
|Liberal Democrats||Hammas Majid||678|
|No Description||Carl Faulkner||431|
|Liberal Democrats||Vickie Mason||275|
|Middleton Independents Party||Joan Aspinall||656|
|Middleton Independents Party||Peter Shore||587|
|Middleton Independents Party||Simon Footitt||549|
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The Bar Council of Bhutan is being constituted for the first time. Although the first Jabmi Act was enacted by the Parliament in 2003, it could not be implemented as envisioned for some time. To suit the changing needs and circumstances in the field of law and practices, the Act was amended in 2016.
The main functions of the Bar Council (Jabmi Tshogdey) according to Section 9 of the Jabmi (Amendment) Act 2016, among many are to: encourage and promote integrity, efficiency and responsibility of the private practicing lawyers; determine cases of misconduct against private practicing lawyers; promote legal education; provide pro bono legal aid to indigent person; and conduct selection examination for, and maintain a role of private practicing lawyers.
These functions aim to strengthen and promote the legal services in the private sector through a regulated Bar Association whose members are the private practicing lawyers.
Section 3 of the Jabmi (Amendment) Act 2016 states that the Bar Council shall consist of the following seven members which are Attorney General as ex officio member, two retired Justices of the Supreme Court or High Court nominated by the National Judicial Commission, three members elected from amongst private practicing lawyers and an Independent representative.
Accordingly, the members of the Bar Council are former Supreme Court Justice Dasho Rinzin Gyeltshen and High Court Justice Sithar Namgye nominated by the National Judicial Commission, while Mr. Cheda of M/s UC Associates, Bhutan Law Office, Mr. Jamyang Sherab of M/s Garuda Legal Services and Mr. Ugyen Dorji of M/s UD & Partners were elected by the private practicing lawyers. Attorney General is an ex-officio member of the Bar Council.
The Independent Representative is to be a person of high repute. In accordance with Section 3 of the Jabmi (Amendment) Act 2016, the six members of the Bar Council invited Her Royal Highness Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuk to be the Independent Representative to the Bar Council and HRH graciously consented to the request.
As mandated by the Act, nominees from the Bar Council members filed their votes for the election of the President and the six members present, unanimously elected the Independent Representative, HRH Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuck as the maiden President of the Bar Council in December 2016. Dasho Rinzin Gyeltshen has been elected as the Vice President of the Council to assist the President. | <urn:uuid:67284020-8fd9-43d4-ae4d-3a43ca5db993> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebhutanese.bt/bar-council-established-with-hrh-ashi-sonam-dechan-wangchuck-as-president/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969498 | 504 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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This global declaration, presented and adopted at its valedictory session held on the 30th June 2022 C-OP, brought forward the diverse historical claims and testimonies uniting the ocean people for the first time on a global platform asserting their historical traditional customary rights over the ocean. It showcased the diversity within the ocean people as we participated and shared our . . .
Conference of the Ocean People
A Public Online Event 26, 28 & 30June 2022
Oceans are fundamental to life on our planet. It is a delicate ecology that includes not only the resources of the ocean but the people who have been living with it historically, traditionally engaging with it as their way of life. The ancestral knowledge and culture of these people contribute to the development of this ‘way of life’, sourcing their identity that is inherent and indivisible in nature, prospering into an oceaning civilization. This identity goes beyond categorising the oceanic people as fishers only (which might be their source of livelihood), but rather as the custodians of the ocean, historically and collectively belonging to the ecology, asserting collective sovereignty over the ocean (no individuals can own the ecology). While the policy discourse agreed the river valley and cultivation-based civilization to be mainstream, the concept of “food for survival” became dominant over other civilizations. This alienated other ecology-based civilizations like the ocean civilization.
The commitment of nation states towards sustainable development of the ocean has been largely through the ‘blue growth’ initiatives to extract and exploit resources of the ocean for the nation’s prosperity by devising the Sustainable Development Goal 14 (conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development). This understanding of the ocean economy has excluded the ocean people out of their nation’s growth model. The life below the ocean gained primacy for the sake of the economy, over the lives above the water, consisting of the oceanic people.
The oceanic communities have been living historically in harmony within the ocean ecology, whereby their ways of life incorporate the custody of the ocean, through traditional and sustainable systems of capture/ wild fishing. The corporate mindset, on the other hand, has narrowed the ocean ecology down to natural capital, as grounding spaces for production, economy, market and development, whereby the ownership of the oceanic resources are sought to be transferred from the hands of the people who have historically lived on the coast, to the private entities.
This approach of ‘exploration, expansion and exploitation’ is explicit in the upcoming United Nations Ocean Conference 2022 (27 June – 1 July, 2022). It does not come as a surprise that the UNOC is organised by international corporations that seek to extract resources from the ocean along with elite conservationist groups – who view the ocean as the source of petrodollars, and the ocean people as encroachers on this ambition. In addition, the revised draft political declaration failed drastically to address the Voluntary Guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (VGSSF) in the context of food security and poverty eradication. This amounts to a war on the occupation of ocean people across the world.
By organising the Conference of the Ocean Peoples, we take on the responsibility to assert our historical and customary rights to secure the sovereignty of the oceans and protect the coastal land for our future generations.
We are the Ocean, We are the People!
The 7th General Assembly of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP GA-7) jointly hosted by WFFP and the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) in New Delhi, India in 2017 gave the clarion call “We Are the Ocean, We Are the People”. The New Delhi Declaration condemned the application of false mitigation solutions such as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Blue Carbon Initiatives, which often lead to land, water and ocean grabbing. It also vehemently opposed the justification of resource grabbing framed as ‘Sustainable Development’, ‘Blue Growth’ or the ‘beautification’ of our ocean, land and water territories. However, our voices have not been heeded to by the governments and policy-makers.
In 2021, the WFFP and NFF jointly hosted an International Conference on ‘Impacts of Blue Economy: Response of the Affected Peoples’, with the Indian Ocean people (Five WFFP Countries – Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Thailand). The verdicts of the tribunal juries unearthed the scale of havoc unleashed in the name of the Blue Economy, for the first time in living history. It also unconditionally exposed Blue Economy as ‘Blue Myth’. The testimonies expressed the angst of the communities who have been made vulnerable to capital and climate by the Blue Economy projects, dispossessing the fisher people including coastal poor from their traditional homelands. The statement affirmed that small-scale fishers remain excluded from decisions affecting our lives and territories. When we protest, we are increasingly met with militarised state repression. When we exercise our traditional practices and human rights, we are pushed back by the greed of capitalist development projects. Gender inequality is exacerbated under the blue development paradigm, while the climate crisis is deepening. However, nation states have been systematically and rapidly moving ahead with their ocean grabbing scheme while ingraining the blue development paradigm into the mainstream national development agenda. This is particularly so in the small island developing states and the least developing coastal countries.
Unfortunately, even in the post COVID National Economic Recovery Framework, exploitation of the oceans has been prioritised, using the Blue Economy projects. The nation states are making “Blue Deal”, an ocean-based trade arrangement, to ease blue businesses for this national economic recovery, with oceans as frontiers. They are being synchronised with the satellite-based Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) for oceans, Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for coastal shore lands and ecosystem based Marine Conservation Sites, in order to ‘scientifically and sustainably’ harness the potential of the ocean economy, by indulging in ocean grabbing. Even the democratically elected nation states are acting as “rentier states”, leasing out the ocean ecology for the augmentation of capital for corporations. The global corporations are not only exploiting our customary commons/resources, but also annihilating our sovereign rights over and identities from the ocean. The recent process to change the World Fisheries Day to World Fisheries and Aquaculture Day is one among the many manifestations of the historical injustice on the ocean people.
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Conference of the Ocean Peoples (C-OP)
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That sentiment was never more true than in Harper Lee’s seminal 1960 novel.
In the struggle for civil rights and racial equality, Lee’s masterpiece is arguably one of the most important works of the 20th century.
President Obama described it as ‘an unforgettable tale of courage and conviction and doing what was right, no matter what the cost.’
But what makes it so rapier sharp is that it is revealed through the experiences of childhood.
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At its heart, this is a human drama of justice, racial discrimination, and hatred.
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The book translated perfectly into an Oscar winning film starring Gregory Peck but converting it into a stage play was always more challenging - especially if the sense of childhood innocence and the author’s descriptive poetry were to remain central.
Which is why Christopher Sergel’s adaptation is such a triumph.
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The cast begin by reading lines from an eclectic mix of old editions as some literary group might do when studying the work.
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The simplicity of the plot is perfectly retained - and it is this honest approach which ensures that the play delivers such a powerful punch.
There are some superb performances, from the three children and Zackary Momoh as Tom Robinson.
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Author Yakovleva Galina To read 29 min Published on 2022-01-14 Updated on 2022-01-14 Hello, dear readers of RichPro.ru! Today we will talk about correcting your credit history, namely, how to correct your credit history and whether it is possible to improve (restore) your CI if it is damaged.
After reading this article from beginning to end, you will also learn:
- what are the causes of bad credit history;
- how long credit history is kept in BKI;
- how to clean up your credit history and is it possible to clean it up in Russia;
- which MFIs are better to contact to improve your CI.
At the end of the article, we traditionally answer the most popular questions on the topic under consideration.
The presented publication will be useful not only for those whose credit history is already damaged, but also for those who simply apply for loans regularly. So let's go!
About how you can fix and improve (restore) your credit history, is it possible to clear it completely, what ways to fix your credit history exist – read in our issue
1. What is the importance of the borrower's credit history??
In the process of making a decision on the possibility of issuing a loan to a client, the bank first of all evaluates its solvency. The key indicator here is credit history.
Damaged reputation, dishonest fulfillment of financial obligations in the process of servicing previous loans can become a serious obstacle to obtaining loans in the future.
Important to know! Each appeal to a financial institution must be entered in credit dossier. Even if a loan is denied, information about the application is reflected in the credit history.
In order to have a higher chance of receiving funds for consumer purposes, car loans and mortgages↑, you need a positive credit history. Even with a competent business idea and a quality project, credit organizations will refuse to finance if the borrower had problems with fulfilling loan obligations in the past.
The relationship of the borrower with banks in Russia is regulated by federal law “About credit histories”. It is this act that determines the grounds for working with data on the reputation of the borrower. Thanks to the adoption of this law, the risk of creditors has been significantly reduced, and the protection of customers by the state has improved.
Some customers who know for sure that their credit history is damaged are interested in when it will “reset”. In fact, the answer to this question is likely to upset unscrupulous borrowers.
The credit bureau keeps performance records for 15 years from the date the data was last changed .
Only when 15 has passed since the violationyears, information about them will be canceled. Therefore, if there were recent delays, the probability of a positive decision on loan applications is minimal.
Information about the borrower's reputation is stored in the credit bureau (abbreviated as BKI). It is a commercial organization, the purpose of which was to provide information services for the formation, storage and processing of data, as well as the provision of reports on them upon request.
To find out which bureau stores information about a particular borrower, you need to know the code of the subject of the credit history. We talked about it in detail in one of our articles.
Main causes of bad credit history
2. Why credit history can become bad – 5 main reasons
In fact, maintaining an impeccable credit history is not so difficult. It is enough to conscientiously fulfill the credit obligations assumed, to prevent deliberate distortion of information about yourself. If you follow these simple rules, you will be able not to spoil your reputation.
Meanwhile, there are 5 main reasons that most often spoil the credit history of borrowers.
Reason 1. Late or incomplete payments
In the process of issuing a loan, the borrower and the bank sign a loan agreement, an integral part of which is a schedule making payments.
It is important to strictly adhere to this document, make payments in accordance with the term and amount indicated in it. Do not forget that even a few days of delay and underpayment of only a few rubles will negatively affect your credit history.
Reason 2. Late receipt of funds in the bank
Many Banks offer several different payment methods. When using each of them, you should consider the terms of enrollment. It is important to remember that the moment of payment is considered to be exactly the moment the funds are received on the credit account, and not sent.
If the money is deposited on the date indicated in the schedule, and the crediting period is several days, this fact will also be be considered an infringement and negatively affect reputation.
Reason 3. Human factor
Sometimes a credit history can be damaged due to the mistakes of a bank employee or the client himself. It is enough to make a mistake in the name of the borrower, the amount of payment or the term to spoil the reputation. That is why you should carefully check the documents you sign.
Moreover, experts recommend checking your credit history annually (especially since you can do this 1 once a year is free). We wrote about how to find out your credit history for free by last name via the Internet in a previous article.
Reason 4. Fraud
Facts of fraud are quite common in the credit sector. Its impact on credit history should also not be discounted.
For example: There are cases when fraudsters illegally obtained a loan using the passport of a citizen. Naturally, they did not make payments on it. As a result, the passport holder's credit history was damaged by this fact.
Reason 5. Technical failure
The possibility of technical errors cannot be ruled out. When paying, failure in the terminal and software may occur. As a result, the payment will not be received or will not be received on time.
Even if an investigation is carried out and it is proved that the client is not to blame for the violation of the payment deadlines, information about him may already be sent to the CBI. In order to prevent such facts from affecting your credit history, it is important to check it periodically.
Despite the fact that information in a credit history is stored for a long time, you should not think that all violations have the same influence. Quite naturally, the delay in 1a day on a 10-year loan can't compare to being completely defaulted after a few months.
Not everyone gets on the credit bureau's list due to late deadlines loan payments. Sometimes the “penalty” never took loans at all or paid them on time.
The fact is that persistent non-payment of utilities, as well as taxes, can also adversely affect credit history. It turns out that the reputation is affected by the fulfillment of absolutely all financial obligations, and not just credit ones.
3. Is it possible to clear (clear) the credit history ✂?
It is not possible to remove any information from the credit history, and even more so completely clear the information about the borrower. All data stored in the BKI catalogs are under serious multi-stage protection.
Only a small number of responsible employees have access to information. Moreover, each action they perform is recorded in the system. According to Russian law, information about the borrower is stored in the BKI for 15 years from the date of its last change.
It should be understood that that any changes are made onlyat the request of the client and with his written consent. Financial institutions are not entitled to independently request information from a credit history, as well as submit requests to change it without the appropriate consent of the borrower.
Based on the foregoing, it can be concluded that any organizations that claim to be able to remove negative information from credit history, in fact they are common scammers.
Some companies, having secured the official consent of the client, request information about his credit history from the bureau. After receiving the report, they carefully study it in search of loopholes to increase the rating of the borrower. Naturally, this process is lengthy. Moreover, such companies do not work for free. Therefore, the client will have to pay a considerable amount for cleaning the credit history and other similar services.
4. How to correct errors in your credit history ✍ – measures to correct inaccuracies
Step-by-step instructions for correcting an error in a credit history
A credit history can be damaged not only in case of poor performance of one's financial obligations. The information may contain inaccuracies that distort it.
Most often, errors can be attributed to one of the following types:
If errors are found in the credit report, you should immediately send a notification to the CBIabout it. At the same time, it is important to attach to it copies of documents and certificates that confirm the fact of errors in the data. Such copies must be notarized before sending.
It is legally established that BKI employees have the right to consider the received notification within 1 month. In cases where it is necessary , the bank that sent the disputed information to the bureau may be involved in the verification.
When the investigation is completed, an official response will be sent to the borrower. If the client is not satisfied with the conclusion received, he has the right to go to court to resolve his issue.
When deciding to correct a credit history, it is it is important to remember that only the information that has appeared can be changed in the borrower's file is erroneous. There is no point in trying to erase negative data that is true. Time for this activity will be wasted.
Proven ways how you can improve your credit history if you don't get loans
5. How to improve a credit history if it is damaged – TOP 6 ways to improve a bad CI?
If a client constantly receives refusals when applying for a loan, financial institutions may have doubts about his solvency. Most often they are associated with problems in credit history.
However, you should not think that if your reputation is damaged, you will never be able to get a profitable loan again. In fact, there are several ways that work to help fix your credit history.
Method 1. Use a special program to improve credit history
Today, there are a lot of borrowers with a damaged credit history. In the struggle for each client, financial institutions develop specialized programs to improve reputation. After passing it, the client can count on a profitable loan offer.
For example: Program Loan Doctor from Sovcombank. The essence of the method is the sequential execution of several loans with a gradual increase in amounts. At the end of the program, if successfully completed, the borrower can expect to receive the best loan at the average interest rate on the market.
Method 2. Get a credit card
One of the easiest and least expensive ways to fix credit history is credit card processing. In this case, you should choose banks that are the least demanding of potential customers. We wrote about where credit cards are issued by passport with an instant online decision in one of our articles.
Scheme for correcting a credit history using a credit card
The easiest way to get a credit card is in a financial institution that services a salary card, is actively attracting customers or actively promoting a new loan product.
But keep in mind, that in order to improve your reputation, you will have to regularly spend funds from the credit card limit, replenishing it in a timely manner. After a while, you can count on an increase in the credit limit.
When choosing from several credit card programs, you should pay attention to the following parameters:
- Grace Period, its presence and duration. In case of non-cash spending of funds and their return within the grace period, no interest will be accrued. In some cases, a grace period is also provided for cash withdrawals;
- Issue cost, as well as annual maintenance;
- Rate – the lower↓ the interest rate, the lower↓ the overpayment on the issued credit card;
- Various discounts. Is there any bonuses on the card, cashback.
When replenishing the card, it is important to carefully consider the rules for calculating the deadline for depositing funds. Because they can vary from bank to bank, it is not uncommon for customers to deposit money after the grace period ends and not understand why they were charged interest.
If banks refuse to issue a card immediately for a large amount, you should agree to a small credit limit. If you constantly maintain activity – regularly pay with a card and replenish it in a timely manner, you can count on increasing the ↑ limit over time.
Method 3. Take a loan from a microfinance organization
Another fairly effective way to fix credit history is getting loans from microfinance organizations. Such financial companies lend small sums of money for a short period of time.
You can get a microloan directly on the Internet by crediting to a bank card. If you apply for it several times and return it in a timely manner, you can count on correcting your credit history.
A serious disadvantage of microloans is a high↑ level of overpayment. In this case, the rate is usually indicated daily, so many customers think that the percentage is quite small. In fact, if you convert the rate into an annual one, you get an overpayment of several hundred percent.
It is important to assess your financial capabilities even before receiving a microloan.Often after a month you have to return 2 times more than what was received.
When you are not sure that you will be able to repay the debt with interest on time, it is better not to draw up. If there are problems with payments, the credit reputation can be further damaged.
When using microloans, it is best to borrow small amounts for a period of a few days. Successive repayment of several such loans leads to the replenishment of the credit history with positive information. As a result, you can count on more favorable offers for traditional loans. For information on how and where to get a loan with a bad credit history without income statements, read the article at the link.
However, using the described method, you should keep in mind that early repayment microfinance organizations is considered as a disadvantage. It is also necessary to take into account that information is sent to the BKI on monthly or 1once every 2 weeks.
Method 4. Buy goods in installments
One of the most affordable ways to improve your credit history is buying in installments. This option is best for those who plan to purchase a fairly expensive product.
It does not matter which product to buy. By issuing commodity credit or installment planit is important to pay them on time. This will help to significantly increase⇑ the likelihood of a positive decision on applications submitted to the bank in the future.
A good alternative to the 2th named schemes can be a installment card. Such proposals have been actively promoted recently by many banks. In order for such a product to help correct your credit history, it is important to carefully analyze your financial capabilities and not violate the deadlines for making payments.
Method 5. Go to court
As we have already said, the borrower himself is far from always to blame for problems with a credit reputation. In some cases, the information contained in the report may be erroneous.
If inaccuracies are found, first of all, you should contact the creditor through whose fault they were made. If corrections are denied, the matter will have to be dealt with by the credit bureau and the court.
Changing the information in the credit history on the basis of a court decision in most cases is carried out when errors occur for the following reasons:
- software and technical failures during the processing of the borrower's payment;
- fraudulent actions;
- errors of the employees of the credit institution responsible for the transfer of data to the CBI.
Before the start of the trial, a pre-trial settlement procedure is mandatory with the involvement of credit bureaus.
Method 6. Make a deposit at the bank
To inspire confidence in the lender, you can make a bank deposit. Of course, this option requires a certain amount of money. Ideally, the deposit should be regularly replenished.
Often, banks offer their customers who have a deposit to get a loan on fairly favorable terms.
Even if there are no serious savings, you can find a deposit with the possibility of replenishment and partial withdrawal throughout the entire period. Having drawn up such an agreement, it will remain to pay part of the salary to the account. If necessary, funds can be withdrawn without problems.
All the methods described above allow you to change your credit history for the better. However, do not expect instant results. Improving your credit history is always a long and painstaking job.
Correction of credit history with the help of microloans in 3 stages
6. How to restore credit history with a loan – a step-by-step instruction?
When deciding to correct a credit history, first of all, you need to choose a partner company that will help you do this. To avoid problems when choosing microloans, we recommend using the instructions below.
Stage 1. Selecting a microfinance organization (MFI)
Before proceeding to apply for a microloan, you should read the information about companies to issue it. At the same time, it is necessary to study the reputation of the MFI, as well as find out which CBIs it works with.
To assess the rating of a microfinance organization, it is necessary to pay attention to the following indicators:
- term of operation in the Russian financial market;
- presence of branches in various cities throughout the country;
- studying customer reviews.
Experts do not recommend applying for a loan in the first company that comes across, even if it seems that the conditions in it are ideal.
It is best to analyze the conditions of at least 3 MFIs and draw a conclusion based on the following criteria:
Step 2. Submitting a loan application
When a microfinance institution has been selected, it remains to apply request. For this purpose, you can visit the office of the company. It is important to take your civil passport with you, as well as a second identity document.
However, it is much more convenient to apply online. Today, most MFIs have this opportunity. Documentation usually requires about 30 minutes.
Specialists never tire of reminding borrowers that before signing the contract, it must be carefully read from beginning to end.
At the same time, it is important to check that there are no indications that in case of non-payment of the debt, the borrower will have to transfer his property to the creditor. You should also make sure that the rate for servicing the loan matches the offer.
penalties are of great importance when applying for a loan. Therefore, information about them must be carefully studied, paying attention to the terms of accrual and the amount of sanctions.
When the terms of the contract are verified, it remains to sign the agreement and receive a repayment schedule. It is important to clarify in advance which methods of depositing funds can be used and choose the best options.
Payments can be made in 2 ways:
Stage 3. Receiving and returning money
Experts recommend using non-cash methods to receive funds – to a bank card, e-wallet, money transfer. When using these options, the borrower retains documentary evidence of the amount received.
When the funds are received, it is important to dispose of them wisely. In this case, the terms of return established by the contract should be taken into account. If no financial receipts are planned by the specified date, it is worth keeping the received amount for the possibility of making a payment.
? It is important to remember that violation of the return conditions can further aggravate the situation with a damaged credit history. Therefore, it is necessary to comply with the deadlines for making payments. During the payment process, you should take care of saving the documents confirming the deposit of funds.
7. TOP 3 MFIs to fix your credit history?
It will take a lot of time to independently study and compare the conditions for loans of several MFIs. To make this task easier, let's look at TOP 3 companies that have a quality reputation and are distinguished by favorable conditions.
Company Ezaem offers to issue the first loan absolutely free of charge. When re-lending, interest begins to accrue.
In terms of the annual rate, for the use of funds for for 15 days, you will have to pay more than 700%. If you take out a loan for 30 days, the rate will be set at about 600% per annum.
Borrowers can choose how to receive funds under approved applications.
Money can be received in many ways:
- to a bank account or card;
- Qiwi wallet;
- Contact money transfer.
Payments can be made in cash, by bank card, as well as by postal or bank transfer. For the purpose of preliminary study of the terms of the agreement, the agreement can be downloaded on the MFI website. Detailed lending rates are also posted here.
On the first loan MoneyMan gives a discount – 50%. When receiving a loan in the amount of 10,000 rubles, the rate is set at the level of 1.85% per day.
You can receive money on a bank card or account, in cash, through money transfer systems. Payments are made through payment terminals, by transfer from a bank card or account.
Do not be afraid that the MFI in question provides for an extended package of documents. In addition to the contract, you will have to sign agreement and obligations.
E-cabbage also offers various promotions to new customers. To date, there is a condition that there is no interest on the first loan.
E-cabbage for loans sets the following rates:
- during the first 12 days – 2.1% for each day;
- 1.7% for each subsequent day.
Please note that there is no calculator on the MFI website for calculating loan parameters. Therefore, more detailed information about the amount of the overpayment can only be obtained in your personal account after registration.
You can receive money, as well as pay a loan, using bank cards, electronic wallets or cash. The MFO claims that information on absolutely all loans is transferred to BKI.
For greater clarity, all lending parameters in the considered MFOs are summarized in a table.
Table: “TOP-3 microfinance institutions and lending conditions in them”
IFI Special Loan Conditions Rate
How to receive funds Repayment methods Ezaem First loan without interest For a period of 15 days – more than 700% per annum
For 30 days – 600% To a bank account or card, Qiwi wallet, via Contact Cash, bank card, postal or bank transfer MoneyMan 50% discount for new customers 1.85% per day To a bank card or account, in cash, via money transfer systems Via payment terminals, transfer from a bank card or account E-cabbage The first loan is issued without interest For the first 12 days – 2.1% each day, 1.7% each thereafter day To a bank card, e-wallet or cash Via a bank card, e-wallet or cash
The table contains offers* of verified financial institutions that provide correction of credit history with online microloans.
*For up-to-date information on the conditions for obtaining loans, see the official websites of MFIs.
8. How to fix a credit history if they don’t give loans – 6 useful tips?
In fact, not so long ago, many banks issued loans to absolutely everyone without checking solvency, only upon providing a passport.
However, as of the beginning of 2017, the overdue debt of Russians to banking organizations exceeded 2 trillion rubles.
At the same time, statistics show that more than 50% borrowers take out new loans to pay off existing ones.
As a result, many borrowers found themselves in a situation where, when applying, they hear refusal everywhere. Lenders no longer believe that they are able to fulfill their obligations.
But the situation can be corrected. To do this, you must clearly follow the tips below.
Real advice on how to restore credit history if banks do not give loans
Advice 1. Pay off your debt
Experts are sure that the most worthy and at the same time reliable way to restore creditworthiness is to pay off existing debt, with to achieve this, you will have to take several steps:
Step 1. Submit a request to the central catalog of credit histories to find out which credit bureaus have data about you.
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Communication Design Certificate
This program offers the foundational skills, concepts, and practices needed for designers to work successfully in interdisciplinary settings and teams.
Since a picture speaks a thousand words, companies and brands rely on visual design to quickly and clearly communicate values and personality, in order to connect with customers. To stand out and be noticed, effective graphic design is essential. The Communication Design certificate will provide the foundational skills to use industry-standard software for the production of a wide array of graphical communication needs.
What You’ll Learn
Students who successfully complete the certificate will be able to demonstrate the ability to judge, adapt and incorporate historical and/or contemporary influences and perspectives in their creative and intellectual processes. They’ll be able to demonstrate deliberate and effective communication through an informed and influential visual and verbal language unique to the communication and interactive design industry. Students will also develop skills in the creation of a design that is an effective union of concept, medium, and craft.
- Earn 13.5 credits that can be applied to a Bachelor’s degree at PCA&D or beyond
- Tap into college learning resources and advisors
- Software from Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft, and Google professional tools
- Build your network and exposure through campus events and career opportunities
- Join the PCA&D alumni network
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 2.9% employment growth for graphic designers between 2020 and 2030. In that period, an estimated 7,300 jobs should open up.
Required Classes – Online
GI 205 Typography I
Fall 2022, Aug 22 – Dec 2 | Mondays 12:30pm – 3pm
Typography is an essential element that can significantly affect the quality of a final project. Students will initially work manually with letterforms to gain a craft-based aesthetic knowledge of typography and eventually move toward a digital application of type and typographic design. Projects will stress the importance of appropriate type usage while addressing issues of craft, readability, message, and style. The software Adobe InDesign and Illustrator will also be explored.
GI 217 Digital Technology I
Fall 2022, Aug 22 – Dec 2 | Fridays 9am – 11:30am or Fridays 12:30pm – 3pm
Students will learn how to use the computer as a production tool. The software of the Adobe Creative Suite, including but not limited to InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, will be taught to address current industry standards and requirements. Utility programs, prepress and web issues, and file preparation and management skills will also be addressed.
GD 206 Typography II
Typography II deals with type as a “volume” and in multi-page productions such as newsletters, magazines, and annual reports. Projects will stress the importance of grids, style sheets, master pages, etc. while exploring the nuances of the software Adobe InDesign.
GI 218 Digital Technology II
In this follow-up course to Digital Technology, I will offer a deeper exploration into the Adobe Creative Suite.
GI 201 Visual Communication
An entry-level, concept-based studio stressing creative problem-solving. Throughout the course, students will be challenged to create artwork that is an effective union of concept, medium, and craft while addressing theoretical and practical applications. Emphasis will be placed on developing the best concept for each assignment and then learning the process which takes an idea through a linear progression of refinements to a finished piece.
GD 311 Design Studio I
This course focuses on identity and brand development — the varied uses of the mark and brand — showing the power that visual communication components must achieve. Emphasis is placed on strong, and influential solutions and techniques of approach. Projects range from personal branding (mark, stationery system, and résumé), to corporate logo design and brand collateral, including collateral literature design and other peripheral materials.
Graphic designers are needed in every industry. Manufacturing, packaging, healthcare, corporate visual identity, marketing & advertising, and publication are just a few of the places where this certificate will help you advance or get a foot in the door, for entry-level design jobs such as visual designer, production designer, digital designer, designer, and agency/studio designer.
Who Should Enroll
The program is designed for a wide range of individuals. Creativity is one of the most important skills for communication design. If you also have good communication skills and a basic appreciation for typography, branding, and delivery of information in a format that is appealing to the intended audience. College experience is not a prerequisite for this program, but a fondness for working with data and visual design is essential. High school and college graduates, veterans, professionals, and entrepreneurs will be among the students who bring their diverse perspectives to the program.
$1,157 per credit hour
All classes in this certificate are 3 credits except where noted. A total of 13.5 credit hours are required. Credits to be billed per course.
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Measuring the impact of protecting biodiversity: A practical tool
Could nations stop having to make a choice between economic growth and biodiversity protection? Dr Kelvin Peh, a former researcher supported by AXA for his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, is developing a Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) to answer this question positively, through an article from The Conversation.
Researchers, public officials and NGOs often ask, “Can we put a price on forests?”. The question may sound absurd or even cynical, but as an expert in environmental-conservation practices, I believe that measuring biodiversity value could help us better preserve it. Evaluating the “price” of a forest, a lake or a hill for a village, a city or even a country would ensure better conservation practices.
This is why we developed the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA). The project is designed to support global environmental governance by allowing local NGOs to quantify – arguably for the first time ever – the real economic impact or advantages of maintaining an ecosystem for biodiversity conservation.
Thousands of local NGOs, agencies, government bodies or even private citizens can use the tool to measure the impact of environment conservation and help protect the environment. The data collected would improve the information available and could help produce better public policies. At the very least, public authorities could not deny or minimise the importance of protecting biodiversity.
The simple toolkit will present a convincing economic case – backed up by real figures – to make the argument that it is actually in the national interest to preserve biodiversity.
Assessing the benefits of protecting biodiversity
As recently as a decade ago, environmental NGOs – and especially those in the developing world – faced immense challenges in their efforts to persuade governments that there are direct and distinct advantages in protecting nature and safeguarding its benefits (also termed ecosystem services or nature’s contributions to people).
Of course, grassroots organisations could call upon and draw inspiration from the “ecosystem approach” – a framework for understanding the nexus between people and their environment. It was endorsed by the Convention of Biological Diversity adopted in 2000 to illustrate – albeit often in abstract terms – the value of nature and the importance of safeguarding healthy and resilient natural environments.
However, NGOs still lacked a yardstick, a “ready reckoner”, that would allow them to account for these benefits in monetary and non-monetary ways. For instance, clean water could also be measured using non-monetary metric such as “number of sick days avoided” to demonstrate a wetland’s contribution to economic, health and social well-being for the community.
The challenges of creating such a yardstick were substantial. First, there were conceptual hurdles: understanding ecosystem services is a relatively technical task, and failing to grasp its diverse implications could make any assessment of the benefits a daunting task. Many practitioners also did not know then that different ecosystem services do not always overlap. For example, a biodiversity hotspot may not provide significant carbon storage and sequestration.
Thus, important trade-offs between ecosystem services delivery and biodiversity conservation objectives were often neither acknowledged nor identified, and therefore not dealt with in a transparent manner.
The challenge of communicating about nature
Technical challenges also prevented many practitioners from using the environmental-benefits argument to support their advocacy efforts. They often lacked the required information about the benefits provided, or information that could have helped to communicate the “value of nature” to decision-makers and regulators. For example, they would not know how to identify which environmental benefits might be affected by land-use management decisions.
A lack of knowledge on how to collect field data – required to measure ecosystem services – was a serious impediment, as was the need for technical skills (such as modelling and mastery of geographic information systems for detailed mapping of different types of land use) that are deemed necessary for assessments of environment benefits.
Back then, the ecosystem service was deemed a difficult concept to understand, so there was no universally applicable guidance available on how to measure such a concept or foster collaboration among government, conservation practitioners, scientists, landowners, businesses and local users of natural resources (collectively known as stakeholders) to improve equity in benefits and costs sharing.
There was also the communication aspect: practitioners did not know how to link their findings to policy, explain uncertainty and variables, or present the ecosystem services arguments in a coherent and easily-digestible manner.
Helping conservation effort
For all these reasons, our team (partners currently from BirdLife International, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Tropical Biology Association, UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring centre, the University of Cambridge, the University of Southampton and Anglia Ruskin University) started the TESSA project in 2010 with the aim of developing a practical suite of benefits assessment tools for supporting ongoing conservation efforts.
We have developed an interactive PDF manual that contains modules to walk users step-by-step through a practical assessment of a wide range of ecosystem services:
- global climate regulation (including carbon storage and greenhouse gas fluxes)
- water-related services (flood protection, water provision, water-quality improvement)
- nature-based recreation and tourism
- wild goods (food, fibre, energy, etc.)
- cultivated goods (crops, livestock, fish, timber)
- coastal protection services
- pollination services
- cultural ecosystem services (i.e., the interactions between people and nature in an environmental space).
These modules provide clear, accessible protocols on how to collect data with stakeholders and worked examples on how to analyse them. The tool also emphasises the importance of conducting the same assessment for the most likely alternative state of the site, e.g. after restoration, so that the net consequences of land use change in terms of costs and benefits can be calculated.
Making the case for wetlands
An example of how TESSA can assist in land-use decision-making: the UK National Trust used TESSA to calculate that each hectare of Wicken Fen is worth US$200 more per year as wetland than as farmland (see the figure below), providing evidence for supporting the Wicken Fen Vision Project – the creation of a 5,300 hectare (13,100 acre) restored wetland in Cambridgeshire.
Such comparative frameworks help to elucidate any trade-offs between benefits on which policy-makers may be called upon to arbitrate. TESSA also provides practical guidance on how to communicate the results – including the inherent uncertainties – to a broader public.
Thanks to this tool, users can provide critical information on the most important locations for biodiversity and ecosystem services, and thus demonstrate that the protection of wildlife is not separable from or comes at the expense of economic growth and prosperity.
This directly refutes the oft-repeated argument that poorer nations somehow have to make a binary choice between economic growth and biodiversity protection. By offering a valuation mechanism for conservation, one can show that protection of wildlife can go hand in hand with economic development. TESSA data can also inspire the implementation of a country’s ecotourism policy, given that many of the natural areas can be a magnet for ecotourism.
Spread TESSA to help our environment
The project has already been adopted by several international government bodies, including the Policy Support Portal of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It is also recommended in a recent report from the IUCN-World Commission on Protected Area report as an important tool for valuing ecosystem services in protected areas, key biodiversity areas and natural World Heritage Sites.
Since 2014, an extensive network of conservation practitioners in Africa and Asia has been trained to use TESSA, thereby establishing a unique community of regional users to support biodiversity conservation. According to our records, NGOs have applied TESSA globally in at least 96 protected and unprotected areas in 26 countries to highlight the nature’s economic and cultural contributions.
To be sure, this is merely a dent in the global conservation challenge. The task now is to improve TESSA’s adoption by the private sector where it could enable businesses to demonstrate that operations can both respect environmental standards and promote respect for conservation. Ultimately, there are no better incentives for governments than the proposition that it is possible to both protect the environment, and pursue economic growth policies. | <urn:uuid:70084a26-7ec3-4bc2-92a2-22f40ce0dc1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.axa-im.com/measuring-impact-protecting-biodiversity-practical-tool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929899 | 1,732 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Following the announcement that it will be upping the monetary rewards given to security researchers that responsibly disclose Chromium vulnerabilities, Google has announced that it will also increase the prizes given out to successful participants of its Pwnium competition.
The first Pwnium was held earlier this year at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, and has ended with researchers Sergey Glazunov and 17-year-old “PinkiePie” earning $60,000 each for exploits that that allowed them to break out of Chrome’s sandbox and execute code on the targeted computer.
The next edition – named Pwnium 2 – is set to be held in October at the Hack In The Box 10 year anniversary conference in Malaysia, and this time Google will be sponsoring up to $2 million worth of rewards.
Researchers coming up with “full Chrome exploits” (using only bugs in Chrome) will be awarded $60,000, and “partial Chrome exploits” (at least one bug in Chrome + other bugs) will be worth $50,000. “Non-Chrome exploits” using bugs in software such as Flash, Windows or drivers are priced at $40,000.
This time around even researchers that present incomplete exploits (not reliable, or an incomplete exploit chain) will be rewarded – the amount will be decided by a reward panel. “For Pwnium 2, we want to reward people who get ‘part way’ as we could definitely learn from this work,” Chris Evans, Google Software Engineer explained.
According to him, Google decided to compress the reward levels closer together because their ultimate goal is to “make the web safer by any means”, and that includes rewarding vulnerabilities outside of their immediate control.
Researchers thinking of participating have nearly two months for getting ready, and the rules they are as follows:
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In life, it is important to manage your time. Most people do not understand how good time management works, but they can begin working on it. Get started by reading the valuable collection of tips below.
Utilize a timer efficiently. If you can’t seem to focus, use a timer and allocate yourself whatever amount of time that is available. Keep increasing the time until you are up to the amount of time that you want to be able to concentrate for.
If you’re always running late or behind, try being more aware of deadlines. If you let deadlines slip, soon other obligations suffer as all your energy is devoted to one issue past the deadline. If you remain on track with time and deadlines, you won’t neglect or rush to finish anything.
Treat your time as the precious resource that it is. Consider each task and the time it will take to complete it, then establish a deadline in which to complete it. This can help you improve your time management. You can use surprise spare time to get caught up on the things that you may have fallen behind on.
Check your schedule over in the morning. Starting the day knowing just what to do or expect, can help you better your chances of reaching a goal. Make sure you aren’t overbooked that day.
If you’re not really good at time management, you have to start planning days in advance. You can create a list of items to get done as the day ends. When you do this, your mind will be at ease and it helps you face each day.
The right tips are all you need to do well. You can get your life better organized by managing your time better. When you need to get your time management under control, these tips will be helpful to you.
“Time management” is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter – not harder – so that you get more done in less time, even when time is tight and pressures are high. Learn More with these tips.
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The Oliver Sacks case study that inspired "At First Sight" tells the story of a man who has grown accustomed to blindness, and then is offered an operation that will restore sight. The moment when the bandages are removed all but cries out to be filmed. But to have sight suddenly thrust upon you can be a dismaying experience. Babies take months or years to develop mind-eye-hand coordination; here is an adult blind person expected to unlearn everything he knows and learn it again, differently.
The most striking moment in "At First Sight" is when the hero is able to see for the first time since he was 3. "This isn't right," he says, frightened by the rush of images. "There's something wrong. This can't be seeing!" And then, desperately, "Give me something in my hands," so that he can associate a familiar touch with an unfamiliar sight.
If the movie had trusted the fascination of this scene, it might have really gone somewhere. Unfortunately, its moments of fascination and its good performances are mired in the morass of romance and melodrama that surrounds it. A blind man can see, and still he's trapped in a formulaic studio plot.
The buried inspiration for this film, I suspect, is not so much the article by Oliver Sacks as "Awakenings" (1990), a much better movie based on another report by Sacks. Both films have similar arcs: A handicapped person is freed of the condition that traps him, is able to live a more normal life for a time, and then faces the possibility that the bars will slam shut again. "Charly" (1968), about a retarded man who gains and then loses super intelligence, is the classic prototype.
In "Awakenings," Robert De Niro plays a man locked inside a rare form of sleeping sickness. Under treatment by a brilliant doctor (Robin Williams), the disease goes into remission, and the man, who had not been able to speak or move for years, regains normal abilities. He even falls a little in love. Then the regression begins. In "At First Sight," Val Kilmer plays Virgil, a blind man who meets and falls in love with a woman (Mira Sorvino). She steers him to a doctor (Bruce Davison) whose surgical techniques may be able to restore his sight.
The woman, Amy, is a New York architect. She's left an unhappy relationship: "For the last five years I have lived with a man with the emotional content of a soap dish." She goes to a resort town on vacation and sees a man skating all by himself on a forest pond. Later, she hires a massage therapist, who turns out to be the same person, a blind man named Virgil (Kilmer). The moment he touches her, she knows he is not a soap dish. She cries as the tension drains from her.
Virgil knows his way everywhere in town, knows how many steps to take, is friendly with everybody. He is protected by a possessive older sister named Jennie (Kelly McGillis), who sees Amy as a threat: "We're very happy here, Amy. Virgil has everything he needs." But Amy and Virgil take walks, and talk, and make love, and soon Virgil wants to move to New York City, where Amy knows a doctor who may be able to reverse his condition.
The movie is best when it pays close attention to the details of blindness and realities of the relationship. When the two of them take shelter from the rain, he is able to sense the space around him by the sound of the rain outside. His dialogue is sweetly ironic; when they meet for a second time, he says, "I was describing you to my dog, and how well you smelled." All of this is just right, and Kilmer and Sorvino establish a convincing, intimate rapport--a private world in which they communicate easily. But the conventions of studio movies require false melodrama to be injected at every possible juncture, and so the movie manufactures a phony and unconvincing breakup, and throws in Virgil's long-lost father, whose presence is profoundly unnecessary for any reason other than to motivate scenes of soap opera psychology.
The closing credits tell us the movie is based on the true story of "Shirl and Barbara Jennings, now living in Atlanta." My guess is that their story inspired the scenes that feel authentic, and that countless other movies inspired the rest. Certainly the material would speak for itself, if the screenplay would let it: Every single plot point is carefully recited and explained in the dialogue, lest we miss the significance. Seeing a movie like this, you wonder why the director, Irwin Winkler, didn't have more faith in the intelligence of his audience. The material deserves more than a disease-of-the-week docudrama simplicity.
Footnote: For a contrast to the simplified melodrama of "At First Sight," see "Hilary and Jackie," which examines relationships and handicaps in a more challenging and adult way.
Mira Sorvino as Amy Benic
Steven Weber as Duncan Allanbrook
Val Kilmer as Virgil Adamson
Nathan Lane as Phil Webster
Ken Howard as Virgil's Father
Bruce Davison as Dr. Charles Aaron
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Other archive material relating to Philip de László in the National Portrait Gallery
De László commissioned the photographer Paul Laib (1869-1958) to photograph his finished portraits before they left his studio. The Gallery holds 19 folio-sized albums containing prints of photographs taken by Laib between 1900 and1937.
The photographs are arranged chronologically within albums with some overlap of years between albums.
The earliest album is annotated at the front by the artist: 'Record of my works, 1916' and many of the photographs are identified in the artist's hand with sitter name and date of work.
Laib's original negatives and record sheets are held by the Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Gallery holds a photocopied set of record sheets for Laib's photographs of portraits painted by de László, arranged alphabetically by sitter name. Each entry contains the photographer's negative number for that portrait and a copy of his photograph. Cross-references to de László's sitter book have been added in a later hand.
The Gallery holds photocopies of Philip de László's sitters' books for the years 1899 - 1937 made from the originals in the possession of Damon de Laszlo, 1981, and now held at The British Library, Department of Manuscripts (Document Numbers: 45. 095 and 45. 096).
The originals comprise 2 volumes (volume 1 for 1899-1915 and volume 2 for 1916-1937) and contain the signatures of visitors to the artist's studio.
The Heinz Archive and Library holds seven boxes of images (including illustrations cut from auction catalogues, photographs, including copy prints of the photographs taken by Paul Laib, and other reproductions) of portraits by Philip de László.
These images are arranged in separate sequences for portraits of men and women and dated and undated works.
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Pancreatitis is a condition that most people associate with heavy drinking. But the causes are more widespread. Nearly two-thirds of the pancreatitis cases in the US may be caused by using certain prescription medications, including antibiotics, blood pressure drugs and antidepressants...or by having other conditions, especially gallstones...high triglycerides (a type of blood fat)...infection (such as mumps, herpes or food poisoning)...or autoimmune disease (such as lupus or Sjögren's syndrome). Trauma that damages the pancreas also can lead to pancreatitis.
Why this is important: Pancreatitis is not only painful but also associated with an increased risk for pancreatic cancer. Even if you don't have pancreatitis now, you still want to do everything you can to avoid the condition. Fortunately, if you do develop pancreatitis, the simple steps described in this article will help prevent attacks...
What Is Pancreatitis?
Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas, a gland that plays a crucial role in the digestive process. Located behind the stomach, the pancreas secretes enzymes that combine with bile, produced in the liver, to digest food. The pancreas also releases hormones that help regulate glucose derived from food.
The Danger Of Inflammation
When the pancreas gets inflamed, digestive enzymes that normally travel from the pancreas to the small intestine get trapped. These enzymes, which are potent enough to digest food in the stomach, start "digesting the pancreas itself.
Result: Tissue damage and intense pain. With treatment, attacks due to acute pancreatitis usually subside within about one week. However, about 20% of patients who suffer acute pancreatitis go on to develop chronic pancreatitis, in which lingering inflammation may cause extensive damage and scarring.
Most patients with acute pancreatitis experience sharp pains in the upper-left part of the abdomen, and the pain may extend all the way to the back. The pain, which usually is accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, may be mild initially but almost always gets more severe over a period of hours.
With chronic pancreatitis, flare-ups can be mild. But you'll probably lose weight, get occasional indigestion and have pale or clay-colored stools—all due to impaired digestion from a reduced supply of pancreatic enzymes.
Getting The Right Care
The pain of acute pancreatitis is very intense, So you will probably need to be hospitalized during an attack. Your doctor will give you medications for pain and probably administer IV fluids to keep you hydrated. Because the pain worsens after eating, people often stop eating and drinking during a pancreatitis attack.
Your doctor will then focus on what's causing the pancreatitis. For example, you may need surgery to remove gallstones or the gallbladder. Gallstones can cause reflux of bile into the pancreas, producing inflammation. Other treatments might include antibiotics that don't damage the pancreas to treat infection... or treating an alcohol addiction.
The conditions that cause pancreatitis are easily diagnosed with blood tests, stool tests to check for proper digestion/absorption of nutrients and/or imaging tests, such as ultrasound or a CT or MRI scan, to detect pancreatic inflammation, gallstones and blockages.
The Next Step
Doctors routinely review medications in people who have been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. In some cases, discontinuing a "problem" medication (see box) will eliminate the risk for future flare-ups. Lifestyle changes and other self-care measures can help you reduce discomfort and prevent future attacks. Steps to follow…
- Use the right painkiller. Ibuprofen (Motrin) and aspirin are among the best choices. Do not take acetaminophen (Tylenol). People with pancreatitis are at greater risk for liver damage, which can occur in anyone who takes acetaminophen.
- Don't drink. You'll want to avoid alcohol if you've been diagnosed with pancreatitis. It can trigger flare-ups even if the initial inflammation wasn't caused by alcohol.
- Limit dietary fat. It's harder for the body to digest fat than the carbohydrates and protein in foods such as legumes, fresh vegetables and whole grains. In addition to fast food and most desserts, foods that are relatively high in fat include meats, eggs and whole-fat dairy products.
- Eat frequent, small meals. Large meals stress the pancreas. I advise patients with pancreatitis to eat six or eight times a day instead of the traditional three daily meals.
- Try supplemental enzymes. They seem to ease symptoms in some patients with acute or chronic pancreatitis. Products such as Nature's Life Pancreatin or Pancreatic Enzyme Formula haven't been proven to help, but they're worth a try if you're having trouble with digestion and/ or abdominal pain.
- Get a lipid test. For reasons that aren't dear, some pancreatitis cases are caused by very high triglycerides (above 1,000 mg/dL in a blood test).
Drugs That Can Harm Your Pancreas
The following are among the frequently prescribed drugs that may trigger pancreatitis..."
- Antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro). azithromycin (Zmax) and demeclocycline (Declomycin).
- Antidepressants such as escitalopram (Lexapro) and bupropion (Wellbutrin).
- Blood pressure drugs such as enalapril (Vasotec), amlodipine (Norvasc) and metolazone (Zaroxolyn).
- Cholesterol drugs such as atorvastatin (Lipitor) and gemfibrozil (Lopid). .Heartburn drugs such as omeprazole (Prilosec) and cimetidine (Tagamet).
To check other drugs, go to the FDA Website, www.fda.gov/drugs.
*Do not discontinue any drug without consulting your doctor.
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Volume 46, Number 2, November-December 2012
|Page(s)||291 - 315|
|Published online||12 October 2011|
A finite element method for stiffened plates
Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y
Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
1428 Buenos Aires,
2 CI2MA, Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Chile. email@example.com
3 Escuela de Obras Civiles, Universidad Andres Bello, Autopista Concepción, Talcahuano 7100, Concepción, Chile. firstname.lastname@example.org
The aim of this paper is to analyze a low order finite element method for a stiffened plate. The plate is modeled by Reissner-Mindlin equations and the stiffener by Timoshenko beams equations. The resulting problem is shown to be well posed. In the case of concentric stiffeners it decouples into two problems, one for the in-plane plate deformation and the other for the bending of the plate. The analysis and discretization of the first one is straightforward. The second one is shown to have a solution bounded above and below independently of the thickness of the plate. A discretization based on DL3 finite elements combined with ad-hoc elements for the stiffener is proposed. Optimal order error estimates are proved for displacements, rotations and shear stresses for the plate and the stiffener. Numerical tests are reported in order to assess the performance of the method. These numerical computations demonstrate that the error estimates are independent of the thickness, providing a numerical evidence that the method is locking-free.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65N30 / 74K10 / 74K20
Key words: Stiffened plates / Reissner-Mindlin model / Timoshenko beam / finite elements / error estimates / locking
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The Key to Being a Successful Salesperson is Deceptively Simple
"What makes a salesperson successful?"
This simple-but-vexing question has been asked millions of times by thousands of sales leaders for more than a hundred years. Millions of salespeople also ponder this question as they search for ways to boost their own performance.
So after all of our prolonged questioning, what do we collectively believe is the most probable answer? Motivation? Selling skills? Personality traits? Innate abilities? Experience? All of the above?
Actually, none of the above, according to three leading researchers into the field of salesperson performance. In fact, all of those traits in sum account for less than 17 percent of a salesperson's success.
According to a paper recently published by Arun Sharma from the University of Miami, Michael Levy from Babson College, and Heiner Evanschitzky from the University of Muenster, the real reason why salespeople succeed is deceptively simple…yet it accounts for a whopping 50% of the variation in salesperson performance.
What is it, then, that actually does make a salesperson successful? Answer: The very best outperform the rest because they truly and deeply understand their customers.
What the Best Salespeople Know
To reach this insight, Sharma, Levy, and Evanschitzky surveyed 225 salespeople in 2006, asking them a series of questions about their customers. First, the salespeople were asked to describe the types of customers with whom they interacted. They were then asked to describe in detail the characteristics of the customers they most and least often encountered. Finally, they were asked about the specific sales strategies they used with each customer type.
When correlated with the salespeople's actual performance, the differences in their knowledge of their customers emerged as the primary characteristic of superior sales performance. More specifically, the researchers uncovered five key areas where the best salespeople excelled.
First, the top salespeople were able to provide much richer descriptions of each type of customer. They gave better identifying characteristics, provided more detailed information, and had a better understanding of each customer's unique needs. Basically, the best salespeople knew more about their customers than their lower-performing colleagues.
Second, the better salespeople tended to categorize their customers based on the latter's buying needs, rather than categorizing them with more superficial identifiers like the customer's appearance or demographics. So in addition to their ability to more fully describe their customers, the best salespeople also gave descriptions largely derived from their customer's perspective—not their own. The best salespeople did not just know more about their customers, they knew them better.
Third, the more effective salespeople were better at "abstraction" than their lower-performing peers. That is, they were able to look at several different customer interactions, identify common behaviors or traits, and apply those observations to similar types of customers. The less effective salespeople tended to live within each distinct interaction, not noting the larger patterns that helped the top sellers better understand their customers.
Fourth, the top salespeople had a greater number of discrete selling steps in their own sales processes. Where a low performer may have executed only a few selling tasks during each sale, the high performers saw the need for many more activities to successfully close the deal. One can infer the extra selling steps were in response to the actual buying needs of their customers. Because they put forth a better selling effort, more prospects chose to buy.
Finally, and perhaps most disturbingly, the best salespeople had abandoned a greater amount of their previous sales training than their less successful peers. They had developed their own approaches to selling more closely aligned with their customers' needs. In contrast, the less successful salespeople were dutifully doing more of what they had been instructed to do, but they were getting less in return. The best sellers were not only attentive, but also adaptive.
In the end, the best salespeople were simply more responsive to their customers' needs. They knew more about them, their knowledge was more relevant, and they tailored their approaches accordingly. It is no surprise that they outperformed their peers who knew less, were more superficial, and used a one-size-fits-all approach. The real question then is no longer "What makes a salesperson successful?" The new real question is, "How do we make a salesperson more knowledgeable about their customers?"
What Sales Leaders Can Do
The implications of this research for sales managers are somewhat obvious, but extremely meaningful nonetheless. As Sharma, Levy, and Evanschitzky point out in their paper, the training agenda for most sales forces needs to be fundamentally reconsidered. Training designed to build product knowledge, technical expertise, and process compliance needs to be replaced—or at least supplemented—with training meant to develop the sales force's understanding of different types of customers. This training could potentially take two forms, which are not mutually exclusive.
First, the training could be built around a company's existing marketing strategy, if it is well developed and trusted. This would involve teaching salespeople about the company's target customer segments, their unique business needs, their buying processes, the buying process participants, and the relevant value propositions.
A second and perhaps more valuable approach would be to teach salespeople how to identify different customer types and their associated buying needs. This would involve training salespeople to identify and integrate customer information for themselves as they encounter it in the field. Either approach would serve the purpose of focusing the salespeople's attention on the differences between customers, and the importance of understanding and attending to their needs.
A final implication of this research is the imperative to improve the hiring process. Rather than structuring selection activities to validate past performance or ensure traditional sales competencies, the selection process should be designed to uncover a candidate's proclivity to categorize and characterize their current customers across the dimensions discussed above. Whether or not the candidate's current customers and yours are exactly the same, you can assess their ability and propensity to identify and understand customer types.
In many ways, this research confirms what was already known: Salespeople must understand their customers in order to excel. But the research is priceless because 1. it reveals the magnitude of the impact customer knowledge has on performance; 2. it puts a fine point on the knowledge needed to succeed; and 3. it provides practical guidance for sales leaders to transform their sales forces.
All that's left now is for sales professionals to bring this research to life.
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This section is from the book "A History And Description Of The Modern Dogs Of Great Britain And Ireland. (Sporting Division)", by Rawdon Briggs Lee. Also available from Amazon: A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland: Sporting Division.
"There have been hounds in considerable numbers that could boast of temporary reputations, but they have not secured lasting fame; and I should be inclined to limit what might be called the standard favourites to a dozen since the days of the Osbaldeston Furrier. Others may be inclined to differ from my selections, but they will catch my meaning if they will trace recent pedigrees to their sources, and will regard such hounds as are seen at the Peterborough show. It is seen that during years of breeding there has been no loss of size and bone, to begin with - no loss of quality, as shown in clean necks and shoulders, and general carriage; and, if looks can be taken for anything, there can have been no loss in pace, or in such qualities of shape that suggest power and stamina. Hunting men of various countries can decide whether foxhounds are not as good or better than they have ever been; but a very strong feature in maintaining the qualities and characteristics of the foxhound has been the system of keeping several celebrated foxhounds in view when going in for high breeding. Mr. Parry, so long associated with the Puckeridge, had two hounds called Pilgrim and Rummager, both entered in 1840, and the latter was a great-grandson of the famous Furrier, whilst Pilgrim was descended from another celebrity known as the Belvoir Topper. With this couple of hounds Mr. Parry stamped his pack, as they were always kept in view, as it were, and before Mr. Parry left off hound-keeping his kennel had a very high reputation for blood. Of late years whole packs have been established from the Belvoir Senator, and others have been benefited in a similar degree, through holding to the Burton Dorimont line, the Drake Duster, the Wynnstay Royal, the Grove Furrier, or the Berkeley Castle Cromwell.
"To come to the notable twelve that have been, and may still be, esteemed as 'landmarks' of hound breeding, I should, of course, name the Osbaldeston Furrier, a Belvoir-bred hound, as he came in a draft from the ducal kennels, and was by their Saladin out of their Fallacy, and thence going back to Mr. Meynell's hounds of 1790. It has been stated that Furrier was not so much a perfect working hound as a hard runner, as he was inclined to be jealous and impatient on a cold scent; but he was the leading hound in every fast thing, and he never did wrong when holding that important post of honour. He was the sire of Ranter, and to that hound Mr. Foljambe was principally indebted for the Furrier blood, as his Herald and Harbinger, entered in 1835, were by Ranter. Herald was the sire of Wildair, sire of Wild Boy, sire of Modish, the dam of The Grove Guider. Harbinger and Herald appear several times in Barrister's pedigree, as, for instance, he was by Rambler, son of Roister, son of Captive, a daughter of Herald's; and the dam of Rambler again was Dorothy, her dam Dowager, by Songster, a son of Sybil by the Osbaldeston Ranter. The sire of Roister again was Render, son of Riot, by Ranter, and it is therefore not difficult to trace several lines of Furrier in the Grove Barrister, a hound well in the memory of all breeders of the present day. The Fitzwilliam claim a line to Furrier, chiefly through Hardwick, a hound entered in the Milton kennels in 1843, by Mr. Drake's Hector out of Goldfinch, her dam Frenzy, by Fatal, son of Ferryman, son of Furrier. Hardwick was the sire of Handmaid, the dam of Hardwick of 1851, and the latter sire in turn of Hercules and Harbinger. There was another double Furrier cross in the Fitzwilliams, as their Hero and Hotspur were by the second Hardwick out of Ransom, by Mr. Foljambe's Roister.
"Another famous line from Furrier, and through the same kennels as the above, is traced to the Burton Dorimont, a hound spoken of in Lord Henry Bentinck's diary as a thoroughly good foxhound. He was got by Roderick by Mr. Foljambe's Roister, named above as out of a Herald bitch. There was a double cross of this sort in Dorimont, as his dam Daffodil was out of Dairymaid by Driver, son of Harbinger, brother to Herald, and a third cross to Furrier might even be traced through the Belvoir Chaser. There is Dorimont blood in the Fitzwilliam kennel, as Dagmar and Daphne were by him; and their Selim of 1869 was out of Dagmar, and Selim is the sire of Balmy, Bloomer, Remedy, and others on the Milton benches, that have been bred from. Dorimont is largely represented also in the Oakley kennels, and, if I am not much mistaken, Sailor, a sire of note at the present time, from Lord Portsmouth's kennels, traces directly to him. At any rate, I know there was a good deal of the blood in Mr. Lane-Fox's kennel through a hound called Damper; and very few kennels, I expect, are without the strain. Dorimont was a branch from Furrier, but I should accept him as one of the corner stones of the stud book amongst my twelve selections.
"The Drake Duster is another not to be forgotten by anyone who has ever thought of breeding hounds. He was entered in 1844 by the late Mr. Drake, so long associated with the Bicester, and he was got by Bachelor out of Destitute, the former running into Mr. Warde's sort, and the latter to the Belvoir. The last named famous kennel got many good returns of their own blood from Duster, as Siren, the dam of Singer, was a daughter of his, and Singer was the sire of Senator. The most important line of the day is therefore due in a measure to the Drake Duster, as it can well be said that every kennel in England has gone in more or less for the Senator strain, and if there was anything to complain about, it was a fear that too much of it might be infused into some channels by way of in-breeding.
However, the oldest huntsmen, the late Jack Morgan amongst others, have assured me that for dash and drive there has been nothing like them, and it was a characteristic with all hounds straining from the Belvoir Singer that they were veritable tyrants on the line of a sinking fox, and savages at a death. There was a hound in Lord Poltimore's called Woldsman, by Comus, out of a bitch nearly sister in blood to Siren, and he had to be coupled up as soon as possible at a kill, as he was not particular about mouthing another hound in his fury; and two sons of his, afterwards with the Bicester, and their descendants again, were just like him. Another great descendant from the Drake Duster was the Belvoir Guider, a son of the former, out of Gamesome, by General. To Guider must be credited the foundation of Lord Portsmouth's pack, as his Lincoln and a host of valuable bitches, bred from in due course, gave to the Eggesford pack its high reputation. Guider also left his mark with the Bramham Moor and Sir Watkin Wynn's; but his stock has not been so widely distributed as the Senator's. Senator was entered in 1862, and, like Duster, he was out of a bitch called Destitute, the dam also of Render, and she was by Sir Richard Sutton's Dryden, by Lord Henry Bentinck's Contest. Besides the field qualities noticed above as belonging to the Senators, all are very beautiful hounds that strain from that line. Very perfect necks and shoulders I have ascribed to them, and they are invariably full of quality, whilst their colours are, as a rule, perfection - the Belvoir tan, and hare-pied hue blended. | <urn:uuid:da50d87c-a58f-4339-8c95-d9c7f9d832ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chestofbooks.com/animals/dogs/Sporting/The-Foxhound-Part-9.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985681 | 1,841 | 2.671875 | 3 |
With access to miles of coastline, rivers and forests, the Port Angeles area offers plenty of outdoor play opportunities. For many of us, Port Los Angeles is the gateway to the Pacific Northwest, one of the most beautiful places in the United States. It is a city often described as "the people" on trips abroad, and it is home to a large number of people from all walks of life.
If you prefer to drive, you can have a professional nature guide pick you up at your destination, or you can choose to hike to see the whales or take a guide for a day trip to one of the many parks and trails in the city. If hiking or biking along the spit of Ediz Hook is not your thing, other Port Los Angeles guides offer a variety of Port Angeles activities. If you want to see the world's largest and most famous whale tops, you can also explore the EdIZ Hook Spits and ride a bike.
If you're not planning on visiting Dungeness Spit or First Beach in La Push, Ediz Hook is a must - see because it exposes you to marine life, especially seals. Explore EdIZ Hook Spits west of Port Los Angeles, just south of the city limits, at the intersection of Edizo Hook Rd.
Port Angeles has a long, narrow, glacial moraine called Ediz Hook, which extends for almost three kilometers north - eastward - across the Strait of Hormuz. Also to the north are the San Juan Islands, and to connect them all, you have to drive through the streets. From Port Los Angeles, it is a short walk that starts at the intersection of Edizo Hook Rd. And First Beach in La Push, south of the city limits.
Port Angeles is also home to the Olympic National Park, which covers most of the Olympic Mountains. Port Townsend, Washington is a small town in the US state of Washington, north of Port Angeles. In this series, we compile a list of 5 races that feature the best races in Washington State and the top 10 races around the world.
It is one of the most popular races in the USA and the second largest race in the state of Washington, just behind the Seattle - Tacoma Marathon.
The asphalt access to Hurricane Ridge starts at Race Street in Port Angeles and for 20 miles you can see Olympus and get to Ediz Hook from the Gateway Transit Center. You can go cycling or expand your activities by car by taking advantage of one of the many public bike paths in the area, such as the Redwood Trail. You can also take a bus or bike ride from the Gateway Transit Center or the Port of Los Angeles. For the more than 20 miles, the bike path can be used on the east side of Hurricane Ridge, which can be accessed from Edmonton Hook, and again from the Gateway Transit Center in Port Angeles, south of Race Street.
From Olympia, take Exit 103, Highway 101 Exit, and follow it to Olympia and drive to the Hood Canal, where you will be on H Highway 104 to Hway 104, which will take you to Port Angeles. Due to the distance you travel to and from Port Los Angeles, it is advisable to spend at least one night in the city and half a day exploring and having fun, and then take a ferry to Ediz Hook or the Gateway Transit Center to spend one or two nights in the accommodation.
The neighboring Sequim is easily accessible, and the Olympic Coast Discovery Center offers many activities in and around Port Angeles. Located at Port Los Angeles International Airport, just a few miles from the Gateway Transit Center, it offers a variety of activities for those who want to return to PortLos Angeles for a day or two after their trip.
Look at the many Klallam villages that line Port Angeles Harbor when they became homeless in their homeland. It is located in the village of E'nis, east of the harbour at the mouth of Ennis Creek (the name "Ennis" is an Anglican pronunciation of "e'nis"). This redesigned Port Los Angeles attraction features a variety of cultural and historical artifacts related to the history and heritage of its inhabitants. This local newspaper is the Port Angeles Evening News, which was founded in 1916 as the first newspaper in North America and the oldest in Washington state.
Brinnon is located in the village of Brinnon, east of Port Angeles harbor at the mouth of Ennis Creek. The Port of Los Angeles, located to the west of the city, is a forgotten city of rugged and unspoiled nature, meaning that it takes its name from the rough, unspoiled nature of its surroundings. It is also near the town of E'nis, west of El Dorado Creek and on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. | <urn:uuid:372a5fed-69d4-4d93-8dcd-5ef2d048489f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helloportangeles.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958794 | 964 | 1.554688 | 2 |
By John Greenfield
Every time I take the Pink Line to Pilsen and gaze out the window at the United Center, I’m struck by the apparent stupidity of train service that goes right past Chicago’s largest sports and music arena, but doesn’t stop there. The nearest existing stations, the Blue Line’s Illinois Medical District stop to the south, and the Pink and Green lines’ Ashland-Lake stop to the northeast, are both roughly twelve-minute walks to the stadium, long enough to discourage train use. But a new Pink station near Madison and Paulina would be a four-minute hop, skip and jump to the front doors.
As it is, the land use around the arena encourages driving to Bulls, Blackhawks and Bruce Springsteen events. While Wrigley Field, next door to the Addison Red stop, is surrounded by bars and restaurants where fans can spend money after games, the House That Jordan Built sits in a vast moat of parking lots.
Streetsblog USA, the national wing of the transportation news site network I write for, took notice and included the United Center in its annual Parking Madness bracket, a competition between asphalt atrocities. The stadium made it to the Final Four before being defeated by a parking crater in Jacksonville, Florida. In fairness, the Bulls are currently building a $25 million practice facility on one of the lots east of the arena, and they’ve proposed building a $95 million entertainment complex nearby.
The funny thing is, there used to be a train stop near Madison/Paulina that served the arena’s predecessor, Chicago Stadium. According to the history site Chicago-L.org, the station was established in 1895 as part of the northwest branch of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated.
The Madison stop closed in 1951 when the northwest line was rerouted to the current Blue Line route. The old station house was eventually converted to a hotdog stand, and it was demolished in the 1990s. In 2006, this stretch of track, known as the Paulina Connector, was activated again when the CTA created the Pink Line. However, spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis told me the agency has no plans to rebuild the Madison stop.
The United Center management didn’t respond to my request for a comment on the Madison Pink stop concept, but when I checked in with the Active Transportation Alliance, they were all over the idea. “It seems like such an obvious location,” says spokesman Ted Villaire. “The goal should be to reduce the number of car trips to a facility like the United Center. A convenient train station would encourage more people to leave their car at home.”
Local alderman Walter Burnett would also like to see a new station built near the Madhouse on Madison, but his preference would be for a Green Line stop at Damen and Lake, a seven-minute walk from the entrance, according to his assistant Reginald Stewart. That would also be useful for residents and people who work in the Kinzie industrial corridor, while the area around Madison/Paulina is sparsely populated.
Along with the Damen station, Burnett wants a new Green Line station at Western, which would fill in the conspicuous 1.5-mile gap between Ashland-Lake and the California Green stop. Stewart says the ward has been lobbying the CTA on this issue for a few years, but funding is in short supply. The Green Line’s classy Morgan station, which opened in 2012, cost $38 million; the transit agency estimates a comparable station would cost $42 million nowadays.
Steve DeBretto, executive director of the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago, which promotes economic development in the Kinzie corridor, says his group has been pushing for the Damen stop for more than a decade. Along with Burnett, DeBretto co-chaired the West Side think tank for the city’s Reconnecting Neighborhoods urban planning initiative in the late aughts. That study found there was only enough demand to justify one new station near the United Center, and Damen would get more ridership, but in the future, the new Pink station could be viable too.
DeBretto says the Damen-Lake stop is a no-brainer. It would be right by the Fulton-Carroll Center, the ICNC’s small business incubator, which houses everything from carpentry workshops to a brandy distillery. “Out of 14,000 jobs in the corridor, 500 of them are under that roof, a stone’s throw from where we’d like to see the new El station,” he says. A new apartment building is opening across the street, and nearby employers like Standard Equipment, which maintains city street sweepers and garbage trucks, Schawk!, a commercial photographer, Goose Island Brewing and Intelligentsia Coffee Roasters, would also benefit.
The industrial council followed up with the CTA about Damen-Lake three weeks ago, DeBretto says. “We let them know it’s still a priority for us, and we’re willing to advocate for federal funding. We also think it would be a wise use of tax-increment-financing dollars.”
With interest in the neighborhood growing, DeBretto says the CTA needs to strike while the iron is hot. “The time to build the right kind of infrastructure is now,” he says. “If we’re able to build an El stop sooner than later, that will influence the kind of development we get, so that it’s transit-oriented, rather than car-oriented.” A new station that would encourage residents, workers and sports fans alike to take the train instead of driving would certainly be a slam-dunk. | <urn:uuid:fa5c6fc2-8c98-4928-b5c2-4d2e8a95cc8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newcity.com/2014/04/15/checkerboard-city-training-for-the-big-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962296 | 1,210 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The vacuum collector for the hydraulic system of a fire truck – this is one of the new test developments in 3D printing. The part was created using an industrial F420 printer, which you can see in the 3DBGPRINT office.
The collector is in the form of a prototype, but the purpose is to check whether there is a place for 3D printing in internal combustion engines. The development of the industry marks a strong pace and many models applicable in different fields, thanks to the exceptional accuracy of the 3D print are made identical to the real model.
The first check shows that printing a vacuum collector on a 3D printer is cheaper and faster than waiting for it to be produced. Casting a part takes a long time, while the printing of the collector itself takes about 10 days. It is made in three parts, its dimensions are 600 x 500 x 600 mm, and the materials used are ABS + HIPS.
The printer itself has interchangeable modules that allow customization, depending on your needs. You can print any part you need.
The collector, although a prototype, is still installed in a specific vehicle. The tests prove the good ergonomics, ie the functionality and durability of the prototype. This is another clear sign that 3D printing has a place in the making of engines. | <urn:uuid:9769a5ad-f10f-4579-b832-714c72ef5579> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://3dbgprint.studio/outdoor-work-a-designers-checklist-for-every-ux-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938933 | 272 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Investing is an important part of ensuring that you have financial security in the future. But that is only if you know how to invest in a smart way. A lot of people have lost money because they did not make wise investment decisions. This does not have to happen to you. Read this article for some sound investment advice.
When you invest in real estate, you may want to make sure you’re in an area that you really can live in. You don’t want to get real estate just to find out that you don’t like the area because then you’re going to have to own that property and won’t get much use out of it until you can sell it.
Keep an accountant on speed dial. You can be aware of tax laws and current taxation; however, there are many variables to keep in mind. A good accountant, that understands and keeps abreast of tax laws, can be an invaluable asset. Your success with investing can be made or broken by your approach to taxes.
If you purchase a property and need to make repairs, be wary of any contractors who ask for money in advance. You should not have to pay before the work is done, and if you do, you run the risk of getting ripped off. At the very least, never pay the full amount ahead of time.
Investing in real estate requires you to understand the neighborhood that it sits in. Location is essential as it pertains to investing, and you also need to know zoning laws. Talk to neighbors to get a better feel of if it will be worth it.
Location truly is the most important factor when buying real estate. A bad house in a good neighborhood is almost always a better investment than a good house in a bad neighborhood. Be sure to consider the location and if there is work in the area you wish to purchase a house.
The best real estate investment you can make is purchasing and renting out one bedroom condos. Most people that are in the market for a rental property are single may they be young singles, divorced middle-agers or older widowed people. It is not only the easiest property to rent, but also the simplest to manage.
Practice good bookkeeping. It can be all too easy to overlook your books, especially if you are just getting started. There are many things you must worry about. It is vital that you have good bookkeeping skills. This will reduce the stress that you face during the process.
Always consider the market if you are looking to buy property to turn around and resell it. It can be risky to invest in a market that is flooded with available properties. You don’t want to be stuck with something that you have to sell at little or no profit. Understand that you may have to wait to get the best price so make sure you can do that.
When you take the time to learn how to invest wisely, you can realize great returns. The main thing to remember is to look for sound investments and minimize your risk. Investing is not gambling. You cannot go into blindly and just hope for the best. Continue to learn and apply good investment strategies, and you will see your rewards. | <urn:uuid:e8bc8d79-970c-47b4-b969-0ed3630adccb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mybusinessmanager.us/business/investing-101-everything-you-need-to-know.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971389 | 654 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Taxes are calculated in three different areas in the checkout process:
- On the ShoppingCart page if a customer chooses to have the system estimate shipping and taxes based on an arbitrary address and whatever is in the cart at that point.
- On any page that shows the ShoppingCart or Order Summary
- Finally, when the Order is created during final processing.
Key classes and files
- VM_global_library.vm - Contains the Velocity macro #displayCartSummary which writes the shipping and taxes cost to the viewCart.vm and deliveryOptions.vm screens.
- CheckoutServiceImpl - Contains tax calculation service methods which are called by the ShoppingCartAjaxController.
- ShoppingCartImpl - Contains tax calculation methods.
- OrderTaxValue - Represents tax information for a completed order.
How it works
When taxes are required by the checkout process, whether by the UI or by the Order creation process, the CheckoutService tax calculation methods are called.
These methods will set the shopping cart's TaxJurisdiction based on the shipping address (if any of the shopping cart items can be shipped) or the billing address (if the cart items are digital goods that do not require shipping). The CheckoutService will then delegate to the shopping cart, asking it to calculate the tax and before-tax prices.
For more information on Tax Jurisdictions and Tax Categories, see the Tax Categories section in the Commerce Manager User Guide. | <urn:uuid:6a6e6a97-7d05-4e65-9447-abc99b6a3664> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://documentation.elasticpath.com/commerce-legacy/ce-developer/6.15.0/Platform-Components/Core-Engine/Checkout-process/Tax-calculation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.899479 | 349 | 1.789063 | 2 |
In this study we evaluated the level of HIV RNA in plasma and HIV DNA in peripheral blood cells. Sixteen antiretroviral-experienced HIV patients with severe immune suppression were included in the study. After the first month, 56.2% of the patients showed undetectable levels of HIV RNA, this percentage remaining stable after I year (53.3%). At enrollment, 7 patients (43.7%) with a low CD4+T cell count (mean 22 per mm3 versus 73) showed HIV DNA levels below the limit of detection (5 copies/105) in lymphocytes. They all subsequently had increased HIV DNA that became detectable between the first and the third month of therapy, associated with an increase of the CD4+T cell count (mean 22 to 95/mm3); in 4 of these patients this increase was transitory, becoming undetectable again after one year. In 7 out of the 8 patients with detectable HIV DNA at enrollment, the HIV DNA level decreased over time. Seven out of 15 patients at I year (46.7%) showed both undetectable levels of HIV RNA in plasma and HIV DNA in lymphocytes (p3) and a higher increase (306 versus 177/mm3) after 1 year. PCR-based dilution assay carried out at I year showed that all patients had a consistent amount of HIV DNA positive- CD4+T lymphocytes and macrophages, with higher values in these last cells. The data indicate that a durable reservoir of virus is still present in both lymphocytes and monocytes, even after long-lasting HAART treatment.
|Number of pages||7|
|Journal||Journal of Chemotherapy|
|Publication status||Published - 2001|
- CD4+ T cells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pharmacology (medical)
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A hydrocele repair is a surgical procedure performed to address a hydrocele, a buildup of fluid in the testicle. Hydroceles can occur congenitally in children, and they can also emerge in adult men, in which case the fluid may be associated with a herniation, inflammation, or underlying disease processes. Sometimes, girls are born with hydroceles due to abnormalities which occur during development.
This procedure is usually performed by a urologist with the assistance of an anesthesiologist, and may be done on an outpatient basis. Depending on the patient's age and condition, a hydrocele repair may be done under local, regional, or general anesthesia. The procedure starts with an incision to drain the hydrocele and pull the surrounding sac out of the testicle. The sac may be removed or replaced, depending on the case, and then stitches are placed.
In children, a hydrocele sometimes goes away independently. Surgery will be recommended if it is causing discomfort or if there are concerns that the hydrocele may be part of a more serious congenital anomaly. In men, hydroceles need to be repaired because they cannot be resolved on their own. If a hydrocele becomes recurrent, it can be a sign that a hernia or another underlying process is happening and also needs to be addressed.
Also known as a hydrocelectomy, a hydrocele repair is a relatively simple procedure, but it does carry some risks. Patients can react adversely to anesthesia, and if placed under a general anesthesia, there is a risk that the lungs will be compromised. The patient can also develop an infection, especially if the surgical site is not treated carefully during home care. The hydrocele can also recur after the surgery. Rarely, complications from this surgery to correct swelling in the testes can include impairment of reproductive function, although this risk can be greatly reduced by using an experienced and competent surgeon.
If a hydrocele repair is recommended for a child, parents are often advised to talk about the procedure with the child before hand, so that he or she knows what to expect. The surgical team may be willing to have the parent sit with the patient while anesthesia is induced so that the child sees a familiar face and feels comfortable, and may make arrangements to have a parent on hand in the recovery room as soon as the patient wakes up. Parents may also find that their children are less worried about the hydrocele repair procedure when they meet the members of the surgical team beforehand and have a chance to ask questions. | <urn:uuid:d6618bcf-4678-4d11-9532-6250e6bc9eca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wisegeek.net/what-is-a-hydrocele-repair.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963858 | 511 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Discrimination in health care was institutionalized in Independence, Missouri on July 30, 1965 when President Johnson signed the Social Safety Amendments of 1965 into law, producing two moral frameworks for public financing of healthcare”. The YWCA, bingo parlor, retiree’s community center, hospital, and grocery retailers all are utilized by health educators. The Inexpensive Care Act reduces what most folks will pay for health care by capping out of pocket expenditures and requiring all preventative care to be completely covered and without price to the individual. In reply to BlissNow Thnaks for dropping by.I too add lemon juice with water and have this before breakfast. Weight Loss: Daily in the morning one half hour just before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. What is getting carried out in every residence health agency is not becoming produced up to make the field employees lives miserable. My daughters researched a meals list that I am sticking to. I have an idea they could have looked at this page, so several thanks.
Bioflavonoids are very healthful when it comes to elasticity of blood vessels and capillaries, but also for fighting allergies, inflammations and even cancer. In 2014, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in collaboration with HHS’ Workplace for Civil Rights (OCR) released a downloadable safety danger assessment (SRA) tool to assist guide practices through the assessment process. This is an chance to discover these public health communication opportunities from the viewpoint of sufferers, providers, and the public surrounding assisted reproductive technologies. Frequent refined dietary sugars in our food supply lack minerals and vitamins and are known as empty calories for this cause. By providing a quantity of private alternatives to German citizens, thus growing selection, the statutory health insurance coverage method allows citizens to pick an insurance coverage strategy that very best serves their coverage wants.
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Often check with your medical doctor or pharmacist for all meals and drug interactions that might effect on your all round health. Even with statistical proof mounting as to the feasible adverse health impacts of a diet program rich in Soy based products more and much more companies are jumping onto the soy band wagon. You can also ensure that elderly cats get enough fluids by feeding wet or canned food mixed with a bit of drinking water. Very educational and complete with cautious suggestions, I was pondering Soya is the ultimate in food. The study, coordinated by Mass Basic Hospital and Health Leads, could be intuitive. | <urn:uuid:61bbfabf-dc33-4f67-b7f9-3d0b520276c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ssanimation.com/health-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949742 | 756 | 1.65625 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gotten the same troubling questions from worried world leaders, ones that he never thought he would hear.
“Is America going to be all right?” they ask. “What about democracy in America?”
While Biden has tried
to offer America’s allies assurances, he has only occasionally emphasized the gravity of the threat to democracy from the Jan.
6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the repeated lie from the man he defeated, Donald Trump, that the 2020 election was stolen. And he’s not discussed the very real concerns about
a growing collection of insurrection sympathizers installed in local election posts and changes by Republicans to election laws in several states.
Now, as the anniversary of that deadly day nears, the Democratic president is being urged to reorder priorities and use the powers of his office to push voting rights legislation that its adherents say could be the only effective way to counter the rapidly emerging threats to the democratic process.
The tension in Biden’s approach reflects his balancing of the urgent needs of Americans to make progress on the highly visible issues of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy and the less visible, but equally vital, issue of preserving trust in elections and government.
The president plans to deliver a speech on Jan.
6 focused on sustaining democracy — voting rights won’t be part of the remarks but will be the topic of another speech soon, White House aides said. In his recent commencement address at South Carolina State University, Biden’s tone on the need for voting rights legislation took on added urgency.
“I’ve never seen anything like the unrelenting assault on the right to vote. Never,” Biden said, adding, “This new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion, it’s un-American, it’s undemocratic, and sadly, it is unprecedented since Reconstruction.”
And the world is taking notice. Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, also has said that the riot at the Capitol has altered the view many countries have of the United States.
“Jan. 6 has had a material impact on the view of the United States from the rest of the world, I believe from allies and adversaries alike,” Sullivan said recently at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Allies look at it with concern and worry about the future of American democracy. Adversaries look at it, you know, more sort of rubbing their hands together and thinking, How do we take advantage of this in one way or another?”
In contrast, Republicans in numerous states are promoting efforts to influence future elections by installing sympathetic leaders in local election posts and backing for elective office some of those who participated in the insurrection. White House officials insist Biden’s relative reticence should not be interpreted as complacency with the growing movement to rewrite history surrounding the Jan. 6 riot. Rather, they say, the president believes the most effective way to combat Trump, election denialism and domestic extremism is to prove to the rest of the country — and to the world — that government can work. | <urn:uuid:b5c71fd7-da41-498f-a915-91c46785f2e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.breezecourier.com/2022/01/03/biden-pushed-to-speak-out-more-as-us-democracy-concerns-grow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955852 | 656 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Championing the Cause of Adolescent Health and Nutrition in Bangladesh
By Anthony Consigli
Originally published by Um So Planeta in Portuguese: Link
Dipty Chowdhury is an extraordinary teenager. She has achieved a lot at a tender age of eighteen, from driving local movements on adolescent nutrition, to representing adolescent voices in international fora.
Act4Food Act4Change supportAct4Food Act4Change supporter Anthony Consigli sat with Dipty, who is one of the youth leaders of the Act4Food Act4Change global youth movement on food systems transformation, to discuss her motivation and to share her message with other young people.
Anthony: Dipty, tell us about yourself and your work.
Dipty: I am Dipty. I am 18 years old, and I am from Bangladesh. I got into this work [promoting adolescent health and nutrition] when I was 13 years old. When I started, I worked for SKNF, a network of adolescents working to prevent child marriage and support nutrition, adolescent rights, reproductive health, and gender equality in Bangladesh. We started by making several clubs in secondary schools across Bangladesh. Under our network, we established nearly 1,000 clubs as a space for adolescents to talk about their health, nutrition, and rights. In 2016, there was a competition involving 5,000 leaders of that network, and I came in first. From there, I started working nationally and then globally.
In 2018, I got involved in the GAIN Bangladesh campaign BKBT (Eat Well, Live Well), led by adolescents who pledged to eat well and live well. I was a youth leader in that campaign which accomplished gathering one million pledges from young people around Bangladesh to eat healthier for healthier lives, in a record time. Since then, I have worked with many organizations, including UNFSS Action Track 1 in 2020, as a youth leader. Together with other youth leaders in the UNFSS, we created a campaign globally about transforming food systems. We want youth involvement in transforming food systems, giving them the platform for policymakers to hear them. In May 2021, we launched the Act4Food Act4Change campaign with youth leaders from different countries. Now, I work on that campaign as a core group leader.
A: What is your favorite subject at school?
D: My favorite subject is Civics. In this subject, I learn about how laws and policies are made, and how our country has become free through liberation. From my studies in Civics, I have learned that youth have done a lot throughout history. In many turning points in history, youth have been the main strength; youth have come forward to take their roles and change the times. However, there is no stage in policy making suitable for the youth; policymakers cannot hear their voices. In our system, there is no scope to listen to the youth. When I read about civics, I wonder why this happens. It inspires me to make space in policymaking for youth to be heard and change the system so that everyone’s voice is heard, especially the youth.
A: You recently wrote a book about healthy living for adolescents. What motivated you to do that?
D: I noticed that there are very few books about adolescents. Even the few books that we have are written by adults who are well past that stage of life and do not fully understand adolescents. As an adolescent girl, I thought that I could fill that gap by writing for my peers about what was going on, what we needed, and what we should do. I have written about the importance of nutrition and good mental health and preventing child marriage and suicide. It will be very effective for them because it is easy for them to understand, and it will motivate them because it comes from someone who is from their age group. I put all of my emotions into the book, and since I am one myself, other adolescents can relate to it. I wrote it as a way of saying, “This is how I feel. Do you feel this way too?” It is very powerful, as it gives them the motivation to act. Now, adolescents have a book that I did not have when I was looking for it.
A: You were very active in the BKBT campaign and then in launching Act4Food Act4Change. Why is it so important for you to have your voice heard?
D: Youth is the most critical part of one’s life, and it is the most prominent force of the population in the world. If we don’t make them aware, it is not possible to imagine a healthy future. Youth that are mentally and physically strong are essential to a beautiful future. Developing a strong population begins with the youth at the roots. Only after that can we expect a better future. The decisions that are taken today affect youth the most. What happens today will cause youth to either suffer the most or be the greatest beneficiaries. That is why you must hear about what they want and think about their present situation and future. Shutting down youth for years and then finally listening to them when they are adults leads to too much responsibility and a lack of solid decision-making. Leadership is a practice, and we should give youth a chance at an early age to practice leadership to have good leaders in the future.
A: What are your thoughts on climate change and its link with food and nutrition in Bangladesh?
D: I am very worried. It feels like a tsunami coming for us, but we can do nothing from our side. As a youth, I cannot do anything alone. However, if we work together, we can be a force for change. It should start from me, from you, and our families. We should be thinking big. COP26 recently took place, and our scientific experts and policymakers came together. This is important, but as individuals, we can start small – with our families and friends. There is a close link between climate change and our food systems. When considering climate change, the economy, and other factors, changing our food systems is so complex. It is a challenging, long process. While food is vital to our health, so is the climate. We must not only think in the short term. We cannot destroy our planet for only two days of betterment. Ensuring nutrition and safe food systems is essential, but we must also think of the climate because there are no food systems without a healthy environment. While our health is important, so is our world’s. If our world is not well, we cannot do well. That is why we must do everything we can.
A: What do you wish more young people in your community were aware of?
D: In my community, one-fifth are adolescents, and half are youth. I don’t believe that youth are ready to be a part of the policymaking process because they were deprived of these rights for a long time. We should give them time so that they are prepared about their leadership and their voice. I want policymakers to hear me. I want them to ask me, “What do you want? What problems are you facing? What do you want to happen in a few years to solve these problems?” This is how we engage the youth.
I am from a middle-class family in a very small village in Bangladesh, a developing country. I want to say to all the youths and activists that it is possible to work and make a difference if you have dreams and determination. Although it is not always possible to make a significant change in the world, you can start with your families and friends. Changing yourself and the society around you will contribute to the shift of the global system and situation. As a girl, I know that women and girls can do everything. We are all human beings that can make change, and we have the responsibility to do so. Take that responsibility and do your duties. Do your part. Even the smallest actions will contribute to enormous success. | <urn:uuid:fce48f74-0948-4e00-8ccb-749d53264625> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://actions4food.org/en/championing-the-cause-of-adolescent-health-and-nutrition-in-bangladesh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977204 | 1,633 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Georgian Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Natiya Turnava, announced that Georgia and Armenia have reopened the railway transportation, which was interrupted due to the coronavirus epidemic, and that the first train will depart from Yerevan to go to Batumi on June 15.
According to the news in Sputniknews; "Georgia Economy and Sustainable Development Minister Natiya Turnava, who made a statement to the press after the government's session, said that Georgia and Armenia reopened the railway transportation that was interrupted by the new type of coronavirus (Kovid-19) epidemic, and that the first train from Yerevan to Batumi was scheduled for 15 June. He also said he would get up.
Turnava said, “I want to say that the railway communication between Armenia and Georgia has started again. On June 15, the first train will depart from Yerevan via Tbilisi to Batumi. This means that tourists from our allied neighboring state can come to Georgia, our Black Sea resorts, our capital, other tourist destinations,” he said.
Passenger trains between the two countries have not been operating since March 2020. In a statement made by the Georgian Railways administration to the Russian press, it was stated that the resumption date of the Yerevan-Tbilisi-Yerevan train, which was suspended due to the epidemic, is not yet certain.
As of June 1, Georgia opened its road borders with its nearest neighbors, which have remained closed since March last year. Persons from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey who have completed the full course of vaccination will be able to enter Georgia by presenting a negative PCR test at the border.
Persons who cannot present the document confirming their vaccination upon entry into Georgia will be able to cross the border by presenting the negative PCR test certificate made at the latest 72 hours in advance and undertake the obligation to retest within 3 days.
As of February 1, the ban on scheduled flights in Georgia has been lifted. | <urn:uuid:bcfd8f4b-ff73-44a2-a2b0-bb69b0665703> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.raillynews.com/2021/06/gurcistan-ermenistan-demiryolu-ulasimi-yeniden-aciyor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978942 | 414 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Hseng Tai Lintner and Maxime Lefebvre
Sampling Pixel Pigments, (2017)
The project interrogates post-digital representation, materialism and form through an investigation of data as substance using the sampling of the already-made. Through the employment of iterative photographic scanning as well as data and image processing as an alternative means of generating geometry, the project breaks away from both direct and computational euclidean modelling logic. Exploring this paradigmatic shift away from the monolithicity of conventional linear design and production protocols demands a speculatory study of new modes of vision and extrapolating data. The project establishes a non-hierarchical looping workflow that navigates between the physical and the digital through the deployment of new techniques for seeing, revealing, interpreting, and compositing as devices for design. These techniques enable us to intervene in the selection and conversion of data in the sampling process, allowing for alternative methods for reconstructing objects that are not concerned with fidelity. In place of any notions of translation, the project adheres to our contemporary culture of appropriation, copying and reproduction and exploits the discrepancies and gaps in the sampling process. It is a process that adopts the dirty, noisy, incomplete and imperfect in the application of techniques, composition and aesthetics.
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Happiness is a state of generalized well-being associated with feelings of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction.
What is Happiness?
Philosophers, clergy, mental health professionals, and numerous others have debated the meaning of happiness for generations, and happiness is a highly subjective concept. While happiness is sometimes used interchangeably with joy, pleasure, or glee to denote a fleeting emotion, happiness is more typically used to refer to long-term feelings of well-being and satisfaction. Happiness does not necessarily mean freedom from suffering, stress, or negative emotions. Instead, happiness indicates overall satisfaction and a tendency to view one’s life as good, meaningful, and fulfilled. Some criteria common to many definitions of happiness include:
- Feeling satisfied with the direction one’s life is going
- Holding oneself in high regard and being forgiving of your mistakes and shortcomings
- Finding satisfaction in simple pleasures and in relationships
- Having several areas of fulfillment in life
- Having an optimistic disposition and tending to see the glass as half full
- Viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth
- Taking responsibility for one’s own satisfaction rather than allowing emotions to be manipulated by outside forces.
The Science of Happiness
Researchers are increasingly interested in the science of happiness, particularly with the advent of positive psychology—a field of psychology that focuses on happiness, well-being, and drawing upon people’s strengths. There is some evidence that people may be born with a happiness “set point” that affects their reactions to life circumstances. However, therapy, changing habits, and reframing thoughts can all help alter this happiness set point and enable people to be happier.
Most research indicates that happiness is not dependent upon material possessions or even on success. Several studies have shown that, after people have enough money to cover basic needs, money no longer affects happiness. Similarly, highly successful or respected people are not necessarily happier than others; happiness seems to be the combination of personality traits such as optimism and happiness-increasing habits such as spending time with loved ones.
Tips for Cultivating Happiness
- Have a sense of purpose. Having goals and pursuing them with purpose is one of the key ways to increase happiness. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi proposes that a state of happiness and contentment is best achieved by immersing oneself in challenging experiences and inhabiting a state of “flow.” Channeling mental attention into challenging activities can be more rewarding than leisure activities such as watching TV or surfing the Internet.
- Maintain healthy relationships. Human beings are wired for connection. Having strong interpersonal relationships with positive people is an important factor for maintaining emotional and mental well-being. Also, recognizing when certain relationships are having a negative impact on one’s well-being, and taking steps to correct it, can greatly improve feelings of happiness.
- Live in the present moment. Spending too much time ruminating on the past or focusing on the future can contribute to anxiety and general dissatisfaction. Mindfulness teachings encourage people to focus on the here and now in order to savor the richness of human experience.
- Practice gratitude. Being grateful, even for small things, can help to significantly boost mood. Many people practice gratitude by repeating thankfulness mantras, keeping a gratitude journal, or expressing gratitude toward others on a daily basis.
- Get support when you need it. If you are feeling overwhelmed, melancholy, excessively stressed, or bogged down by other difficult emotions on an ongoing basis, it may be necessary to reach out for help. For people coping with a mental health condition such as depression, it can be especially difficult to experience feelings of happiness. Help may come in the form of support groups, trained mental health clinicians, doctors, and/or your own social network.
- Klein, S. (2006). The science of happiness: How our brains make us happy–and what we can do to get happier. New York, NY: Marlowe.
- Luscombe, B. (2010, September 6). Do we need $75,000 a year to be happy? Time. Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019628,00.htm
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MackieOctober 21st, 2018 at 6:17 AM
very helpful, thank you
RussDecember 16th, 2018 at 12:07 PM
Positive psychology and dealing with grief, are all tasks that we must face at a number of times in our lives. Positive psychology may be helpful towards those in grief.
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Harry Winston Inc. the world renowned American luxury jeweller announced on December 15, 2021, that they would not purchase any gemstones originating from Myanmar, amidst severe critcism of the country’s ethical standards, just days before the non-profit organisation Global Witness released a damning report, alleging widespread human rights abuses in the southeast Asian nation also known as Burma.
A military junta took over Myanmar in February, prompting the US to place sanctions on its key gemstone companies. The country is best known for its jade and rubies, which the industry considers to be some of the best in the world.
Global Witness, an international NGO established in 1993, with offices in London and Washington DC, is dedicated towards breaking the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption and human rights abuses worldwide. The organisation was the pioneer in seeing the link between natural resources, conflict and corruption and had for over 25 years investigated and exposed environmental and human rights abuses in the oil, gas, mining and timber sectors and tracked ill-gotten money and influence through the global financial and political system.
On the current situation in Myanmar, ruled by a military junta, Global Wirness says the Junta’s decision to hold an international gems emporium demonstrates the urgent need for tougher international measures, including import bans and sanctions, to ensure conflict resources are not turned into a financial lifeline for the cash-strapped regime.
“The very fact that the junta is hosting an international gems fair in the midst of the country’s widespread economic and political turmoil shows its desperation to secure internationally-traded currency,” said Hanna Hindström, Senior Campaigner for Myanmar at Global Witness. “These funds will assist the military to prop up its illegitimate regime and finance the purchase of weapons used to violently oppress the country’s population.”
Harry Winston, a jeweler of the swatch group did not buy gemstones directly from Myanmar, but previously sourced them using “trusted and verified” suppliers, who had certified that their Burmese rubies and jade were imported during a period without international sanctions. As a precaution, the company took extra measures to verify the importation dates and the origin documentation was checked to make sure that everything complied with the rules.
However, consolidating their ongoing commitment to responsible and ethical sourcing, the House of Harry Winston announced recently, that their company will no longer source gemstones from its suppliers that have Burmese origin, regardless of their importation dates.
Subsequently, Global Witness announced that Harry Winston’s recent policy change was indeed a welcome move, worthy of emulation by other players in the gem and jewelry sector.
In an investigation published by Global Witness recently, Harry Winston was one of several luxury brands singled out as sellers of rubies that fuel “brutal conflict and human-rights abuses” in Myanmar. Graff, Bulgari and Sotheby’s were among others the organisation claimed were also dealing with these stones.
Global Witness further claimed that Myanmar’s gemstone trade is a “corrupt military racket” run by Min Aung Hlaing, the general who led the takeover of the country earlier this year. The Army, Global Witness claimed, has brought the gem trade under its control to tighten its grip in power and bankroll atrocities, including the February 2021 Coup led by them.
According to Global Witness, mining in the countrey is illegal following the expiration of the last license in 2020. However, since the coup, informal miners have filled the void, with soldiers “extorting payments for the right to dig for rubies and other gemstones.
Clare Hammond, Senior Myanmar Campaigner at Global Witness said, “There is no such thing as an ethically sourced Burmese ruby. These gemstones are sold as symbols of human connection and affection, yet the supply chain is steeped in corruption and horrific human-rights abuses.” According to Global Witness, the military is also holding gemstone fairs for “unscrupulous” buyers.
Based on official data, Global Witness estimates that Myanmar’s colored-gemstone industry was worth an average of US$ 346-368 million per annum, at full production between 2014 and 2017. However, the organization believes these figures are conservative and the real total could be as much as five times more.
The other renowned jeweler singled out by Global Witness as dealing in Myanmar rubies, UK-based Graff had told Rappaport News that they do not source gemstones directly from Myanmar but obtained them from trusted third party suppliers after regularly seeking and receiving assurances from them as to their source of supply within the country.
Another renowned jeweler Tiffany & Co. has stated in their website, that their company has not purchased any gemstones from Myanmar since the year 2003, when the US banned imports of products from that country.
According to Senior Myanmar Campaigner Clare Hammond, “It is almost impossible to oversee the supply chain of a Myanmar ruby. And until they know that they are being sourced responsibly, they must stop selling Myanmar rubies. The fact that a handful of brands have already acted leaves the others with no excuse not to follow suit.”
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How to implement the idea: vending business
Business on vending machines is passive earnings, at which you lose the cost of employee salaries and practically do not pay for rent. Finding out how to turn a dream into reality.
Vending business (Vending machine) is a business built on the work of vending machines, that is, stand-alone machines that serve to sell various goods. Initially, these were snacks and drinks, in the future, many companies added to the list of goods sold and other products, such as various electronic gadgets, chargers and even lottery tickets.
In general, the types and groups of vending machines are vast. They can be divided into two main groups: devices that trade in certain goods (from beverages and snacks to covers from cell phones and contact lenses) and devices that provide services (from paying for mobile communication to paying for parking spaces). It is almost impossible to list what vending machines are selling now – these are hundreds and thousands of products and services.
What are the main advantages of vending business? First of all, the real financial advantages of the vending business are based on saving semi-fixed costs – mainly saving on salaries and deductions from the salaries of the staff and savings on renting retail space. Secondly, you become the head of your own business and can plan your time and manage your earnings. Thirdly, you help people who can receive goods in the place where they did not exist before.
So, if you have shown interest in the vending business, first of all you need to understand its advantages as compared to investing in another business. One of the arguments “for” is that in the world the volume of the vending business already exceeds $ 42 billion and its growth rates are really high.
But the personal goals that you set for yourself are also important, as the investment strategy you choose will depend on them. For example, personal goal might be to get more free time. Then your investment strategy can not include the purchase of several dozen vending machines, and their independent maintenance – you simply do not have enough time to service such a number of devices. If your goal is financial well-being and passive income, then your business model still needs to include personnel costs. And, of course, you must take into account the amount that you have to invest.
How to implement the idea: vending business
Where to install vending machines
The next important point in building a vending business is the choice of location for the installation of automatic machines. In fact, this is one of the key points of business success in vending machines. Considering the location for each device, it is necessary to consider not only the permeability, but also the need to obtain this service for customers in this particular place. For example, a vending machine that sells snacks, installed next to a large grocery retailer, will be completely ineffective. As the apparatus, selling, for example, coffee. Visitors move away from the box office with their hands full of purchases and it is physically inconvenient for them to approach your phone even over a cup of tea or coffee.
On the other hand, a device that sells healthy foods and drinks, for example, offering fresh juice, would be quite appropriate near the fitness center, especially if the fitness center does not have its own bar.
So location, location and location again! Let’s look in detail at the factors that will provide you with the best rates of profitability. First, the main thing. Vending business is successful in places with good pedestrian traffic. The most simple examples are an office center, a higher education institution or a school.
Suppose you chose the location of the machine. Now you need to establish contact with the owner of this room or territory, and he needs to ask the right questions. Here is a sample list of things to ask:
What is approximately night and day traffic at a given point? Pay attention to the night traffic, since it is at this time the consumer is the most difficult to get the goods.
What will be the cost of renting retail space and connecting to the power grid? And if you put one, or three, or five machines?
How secure is this point, are there video cameras and will additional security be provided?
Try to find owners of vending companies that have already established their points in this place or similar. Of course, the owners will reluctantly make contact with a potential competitor, but if you succeed, a positive response to this location is a guarantee of success for your business.
What to sell in the vending machine
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Search from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them. 34:16
Isaiah 34-35, Summary: Isaiah continues his description of history’s end with his characteristic alternating of images of terrifying judgments and exultant joy. First, the prophet addresses the nations, announcing God’s anger (34:1-2). Terrible slaughter awaits all their armies, for God has a day of vengeance in store for those who have troubled his people (vv.3-8). Isaiah focuses on Edom and describes what awaits this hostile people as illustrative of the fate of all nations (vv. 9-16). Yet the final conflict which brings destruction on pagan peoples means the restoration of Israel’s hopes (35:1-2). God comes with vengeance, but to save His own (vv. 3-4). In glowing terms Isaiah describes the joy that will soar in the hearts of God’s people as His presence works its marvelous transformation of the land and its people. In that day the redeemed, and only the redeemed, will enter Zion singing, filled at last with joy and gladness (vv. 5-10).
Key verse. 35:4: God destroys in order to save.
Personal application. Take no revenge, but expect God to uphold your cause.
Destruction of Enemy Armies; 34:1-17 The armies of the nations will be totally destroyed and God’s people regathered.
34 1 Come near, you nations, to hear; And heed, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, The world and all things that come forth from it. 2 For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations, And His fury against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to the slaughter. 3 Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree. 5 “For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment. 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness.” 8 For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 Its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone; Its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, Nettles and brambles in its fortresses; It shall be a habitation of jackals, A courtyard for ostriches. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; Also the night creature shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest. 15 There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs And hatch, and gather them under her shadow; There also shall the hawks be gathered, Every one with her mate. 16 “Search from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them. 17 He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.” | <urn:uuid:a3279716-3736-429e-859e-7e323e944c9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.morninghope.com/isaiah-34-the-lords-wrath-upon-the-nations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944971 | 959 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Updated July 5
We met students from Kansas, Colorado, South Carolina, Ohio and beyond. Students who were graduating from traditional public schools, private schools and parochial schools. Some were headed to the Ivy League, others to community college, one to the military. But no matter where they were going, these students all shared a similar drive and determination to push themselves in their studies and future career goals.
These grads represent a mere fraction of the 74 million kids in America for whom a quality education is a right and necessity — and their accomplishments below speak for themselves. Without further delay, we’re thrilled to introduce you to our Class of 2016:
CALIFORNIA – Lorena Ortega-Guerrero, Holy Names High School
When Oakland’s Lorena Ortega-Guerrero starts Yale University this fall, she is looking forward to breaking out of her comfort zone. “I grew up in the Bay Area and I’ve spent the majority of my life with other Latinos,” she tells The 74, “so I’m excited to push my comfort zone and get perspectives from people who have lived very different lives from myself.”
While Yale is quickly approaching, just two years ago, the 18-year-old graduate of Holy Names High School wasn’t sure she’d be able to attend college. Ortega-Guerrero’s parents, who were in the country illegally at the time, were facing deportation.
Ortega-Guerrero knew that if they left, she’d go with them to be able to stay with her family.
Luckily, an immigration lawyer was able to stop the deportation and keep her parents in the U.S., now legally.
Growing up in Oakland, education was always a priority for Ortega-Guerrero’s family. “I’ve lived behind Oakland High School my entire life and I knew it wasn’t the life I wanted” Ortega-Guerrero says. “We always pushed and strived to get whatever help we could to go to private school.”
With the help of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, Ortega-Guerrero was connected to the BASIC Fund, a privately funded organization that allocates partial tuition funds to allow students to go to the private school of their choice.
Ortega-Guerrero’s parents enrolled her and her younger sister in a number of extracurriculars, including karate for self-defense, music lessons, and swimming.
“[My extracurriculars] were expensive, and people always asked my parents, why they were wasting their money on these classes,” she says, but the loaded schedule taught her discipline which she could then apply to her studies. “I’m so grateful to my parents because discipline and time management has been something I’ve known since I was a kid.”
Ortega-Guerrero says she pushes herself academically to show appreciation to her parents, for all they have sacrificed on her behalf. Her father is a handyman and her mother a house cleaner, so for Ortega-Guerrero, presenting her parents with a flawless transcript is her way “to pay them back. To show them their sacrifices are worth it.”
The sacrifices paid off.
Now, despite her family’s previous legal struggles, college isn’t just an option, it’s a reality. And after college? Giving back and helping others is on the agenda. “I want to do something I’m passionate about,” she says, noting that it might include a career as a civil rights lawyer, inspired by the immigration attorney who kept her family together and in the United States years ago, and her dream of higher education alive.
KANSAS – Kylee Bishop, Ottowa High School
ARIZONA – “AK” Akarachi Obinwanne Alilonu, Brophy College Preparatory
VIRGINIA – Shanae Witherspoon, Bryant Alternative High School
COLORADO: Aislinn Vences, STRIVE Prep – SMART Academy
“For me, soccer isn’t just about having skill, though I like being out on the field and running around,” she told The 74. “But it’s really also about reading the field, seeing where a play starts, where it can go, and that’s helped me handle situations off the field as well.”
So when it came to picking a college to attend, Vences surveyed the field and weighed her options, before ultimately settling on Vassar College, a liberal arts school in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she received a partial scholarship.
“I was accepted to other colleges, but I picked Vassar because of the opportunities it offered me,” she said, pointing specifically to her dream of studying science. Vences also hopes to join the women’s soccer team at Vassar as a walk-on.
Vences is a graduate of STRIVE Preparatory Schools in Denver, Colorado, a charter network whose motto is “Where revolutionary education is commonplace and attending college is expected.”
And pursuing education and pushing boundaries is a familiar feeling for Vences, especially as she hones in on her interest in STEM.
“The fact that there aren’t that many women in the sciences motivates me to want to go into it more,” she said. “I want my little cousins and my community to look up to me and say ‘Oh, she’s in an area that’s male dominated and she’s fine, so I can do it too. We have to be an example so more women can go into science than there are today.”
Vences will be the first in her family to pursue higher education. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, where her father never finished middle school, and her mother didn’t finish high school. As the first to not only graduate high school, but also go on to college, Vences hopes she is setting a good example for her three younger siblings.
“I want them to know they can go to college if they set their minds to it,” she said. “College isn’t just for some people who can afford it. If they really want it, they can do it.”
SOUTH CAROLINA – Kenton Kelley, R.B. Stall High School
WASHINGTON – Kahealani Candido, Mt. Tahoma High School
ILLINOIS – Stephani Lopez, Phoenix Military Academy
PENNSYLVANIA – Frank Lopez, Louis E. Dieruff High School
For 18-year-old Frank Lopez, graduating high school was not a given.
Just a few years ago, it wasn’t even on his radar. After the deaths of his grandfather and his father, Lopez, who goes by Frankie, started to slack in school, saying the loss of his two male role models was a “huge hit.”
“I became less and less motivated to go to school,” he told The 74, “and then I dropped out.”
Which is how in the middle of what should have been his sophomore year, Lopez found himself working in a meatpacking plant for pig legs.
“I had to chop pig legs open,” he said, “chop them open and take the bone out, and then another leg would come in about five seconds. It was the same thing, over and over, just chopping.”
The monotony of the job gave him plenty of time to think about his future.
“I realized I had to make a decision,” he recalled. “Should I stay in a job where I would probably get injured, or should I go back to school, get my diploma and get a better job?”
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He re-enrolled at Louis E. Dieruff High School in economically distressed Allentown, Pennsylvania with the help of Jon Fenner, program manager for Communities in Schools, a nonprofit that works with schools to keep students in class and on the graduation path.
“If I had called Jon even a week or two later, I wouldn’t be graduating,” Lopez said. “I made a big decision just in time.”
It was the right decision, and one he took seriously.
“The Frankie I was before wasn’t that nice,” he observed. “Once I got back to school I was like, ‘O.K., Frankie needs to ask this question, Frankie needs to pay attention, Frankie needs to graduate.’”
Lopez attributes this change in perspective to his girlfriend, Giselle Cruz, who he says was the one who got him back into the classroom.
“When I was working, she was always telling me to go back to school, pressuring me to. She was a big supporter of me and getting me motivated.”
Congrats to Frank Lopez, graduate of the Class of the 2016. Good luck in the Army.
OHIO – Daniel Gonzalez, John Hay School of Science and Medicine
DELAWARE – Monica Collins, William Penn High School
ARIZONA – Sebastian Olea, Phoenix Country Day School
TEXAS – Miesha Bey, Plano East Senior High School
NEW YORK – Emely Camilo Cuello, St. Raymond Academy
Growing up in Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic, 18-year-old Emely Cuello quickly learned that the surest way to get access to even the most basic services (health care, etc.) was to have connections.
She did, and she knows she was lucky. “My parents had friends who worked at the hospital so when we were sick we could get the help we needed,” she told The 74. Others, though, were not so lucky: “One time I saw a kid choking on something stuck in his throat, and nobody at the hospital was doing anything. It wasn’t fair.”
The injustice of this system made a lasting impression on her, and she’s been determined to become a “voice for the voiceless” ever since.
Cuello arrived in New York City in 2009, committed to her schooling and is now graduating from St. Raymond Academy in the Bronx, which she attended through Student Sponsor Partners, a New York City-based high school scholarship and mentoring program.
This fall she will attend nearby Fordham University where she hopes to initially study social work as an undergraduate, and then ultimately go on to law school and become a lawyer to achieve her dream of helping others find justice.
She says she’ll be the first in her family to attend college. Her parents didn’t have the opportunity to go to college, and she was raised learning that for her to do well in life, she needed to focus on her education.
“That is something I have known since I can remember,” she recalls, “so my graduating and going to college is amazing for my family.”
Cuello has always been seen as a leader in her family — and a protector to those less able than she. “I’m both the youngest and the oldest sibling,” she says. Her brother is older than she is, but has Down Syndrome, and Cuello sees herself as his advocate and protector.
“My mom would tell me that he may be older but I’m his big sister and have to protect him,” she says “I took care of him while my parents worked, and it’s helped me develop a sense of responsibility for the people around me.”
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Jessicah Ebiringa, Banneker High School
NEW YORK – Victor Gautreaux, Cardinal Hayes High School
CALIFORNIA – Jesus Serna, Animo College Preparatory Academy
TEXAS – Hector Garcia, South San Antonio High School
CALIFORNIA– Stephanie Martinez, Alliance Susan & Eric Smidt Technology High School
Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Martinez is looking to make a difference. Hoping to study either political science or Chicano/Chicana studies when she enters the University of California, Los Angeles this fall, Martinez knows firsthand the importance of political activism.
As president of her school’s Junior States of America (JSA) club, the Los Angeles senior wanted to use the club for more than just debates and conventions, and instead help her surrounding communities. Through Martinez’s leadership at Alliance Susan and Eric Smidt Technology High School, the JSA club has partnered with City Council members Gilbert Cedillo from District 1, Marqueece Harris-Dawson from District 8, and Curren Price from District 9 to help the council members with projects and campaigns around the city.
With Harris-Dawson they launched a 311 MyLA App campaign to promote street cleaning. The club spread out across South Los Angeles to test the app and report different street graffiti and trash that needed attending to.
“Community activism is important because it’s where you live and where you came from,” Martinez told The 74. “People complain about their communities and say ‘Oh, there aren’t enough resources,’ or ‘Oh, there’s a lot of crime.’ But if you don’t give back how will you see change?”
Martinez grew up in the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood and describes her childhood experiences as eye-opening, citing gang activity, police raids, and crime as the norm. Naturally, her mother was extremely protective, and Martinez says she still regularly walks her to the bus stop.
Martinez’s parents hail from Guadalajara, Mexico and didn’t pursue education beyond elementary school. But they wanted a different path for their daughter.
“I struggled with English when I was younger because it’s not my first language,” Martinez recalls, “But my mom would sit with me with a dictionary in one hand and my homework in another to try to help me. She knew I was the future.”
And when it comes to the future, Martinez says she can see herself maybe becoming a lawyer, thinking often about how Latinos are represented in government.
But until then, she’ll continue to give back to her community, while striving for change.
WASHINGTON – Fabienne Brutus, Federal Way High School
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The author, Tim Hornbaker, is quite good about giving tidbits into the life of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Baseball fans know all about his scandal at the end of his career. What we didn’t know is the upbringing in the South for Jackson and his effort to stay out of the mills that have had a lock on the family for generations. He does that through baseball.
Joe Jackson played baseball as a youngster among older kids and adults his entire life in the southern region of the United States. He felt at home doing that. Then a problem exists as baseball exec Connie Mack learns of his skills and gets him to come to Philadelphia to play major league baseball for good money. The unforeseen problem is Jackson is not in the south anymore and he is away from his girlfriend and family. He doesn’t last long and leaves the team. This gives Mack a sour taste on Jackson which will cause issues later on.
Eventually, Shoeless Joe will grow up a bit and can play baseball outside of his comfort zone. He sees it as a ticket to make money that has never been seen in his family. Jackson is, and always has been, a hitter. In the major leagues, he makes friends and one of those is his bitter batting rival, Ty Cobb.
It is through his relationship with Cobb that keeps him going. The two friends are always fighting for the batting average title and Cobb almost always comes out on top. Other baseball players are testing Jackson’s fortitude by heckling about his earlier days of running away from the game and going home.
The book goes into depth about the Black Sox Scandal and how it could or maybe didn’t really happen. Jackson’s has his detractors and his endorsers on this topic. Hornbaker gives us a lesson on the details that really come close to letting Shoeless Joe Jackson off the hook in a major scandal to baseball and his place in Cooperstown.
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How does rifling twist rate affect velocity and/or accuracy? Part 13
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier
This is the summary report in this series. I’ll give you my thoughts on how this test went, and I expect you to comment, as well.
Three barrels were used in this test. One was the factory barrel that comes with the .22-caliber AirForce Talon SS. It’s a 12-inch Lothar Walther barrel that has a choke of about a half-thousandth inch reduction in the bore diameter for the final 2 inches of length. That makes all the pellets of uniform size as they leave the muzzle, and it may potentially stop any in-bore wobble. This barrel has the standard airgun twist rate of 1-turn-in-16-inches of bore travel, written as 1:16″.
The other 2 barrels were made by Dennis Quackenbush. Neither barrel is choked. One is a 1:12″ twist; the other is a 1:22″ twist. They’re also about 12-inches long and are held in the gun by AirForce Talon SS barrel bushings. Several comments have suggested that because these barrels are different than the Lothar Walther barrel, this test is somehow not fair. But the results of all the shooting prove otherwise. Sure, there are variations from barrel to barrel, depending on the power used and which pellet was shot. But the results are so close between all 3 barrels that whatever differences there might be are overridden by the similarities. In other words, I’m suggesting that if Lothar Walther had made all 3 barrels, there would be similar differences.
The 3 barrels used in the test. Factory barrel in the middle.
I believe the twist rates are what drive the results. We weren’t searching for the most accurate barrel in this test. We were looking for behavior changes as conditions were changed. And we got that.
The first thing that was tested was velocity. Both pellets — the 14.3-grain Crosman Premiers and the 15.9-grain JSB Exact Jumbo were shot from all 3 barrels at each of 3 predetermined power settings. These settings were marked on the gun so they were kept constant throughout the test.
The power settings were the power indicator screw all the way to the left (the lowest setting), and the power screw centered on each mark (settings 6 and 10).
I reviewed the velocity for you in Part 8. Here’s a summary of that report.
In all cases, the velocity increased the most between power setting zero and setting 6. The velocity increase from setting 6 to setting 10 was always smaller than the increase from setting zero to setting 6, and that’s irrespective of the twist rate or which pellet was shot.
What you’re seeing here is the slowing down of the rate of velocity increase as the air flow increases. That’ll become clear in a moment when I discuss the rifle’s maximum velocity potential.
As the twist rate slowed (1:22″ is slower than 1:12″), the velocity increased at most power settings with most pellets. There was one instance with the 1:22″ barrel when the JSB Exact pellet actually went 2 f.p.s. slower at setting 10 than at setting 6; but with all other barrels and pellets, there was always a velocity increase as the power setting went higher.
Focusing on the 1:22″ barrel for a moment, we see that the velocity increases between setting 6 and setting 10 were not as great as they were in either the factory (1:16″) barrel or the 1:12″ barrel. This suggests what we have suspected all along — that the twist rate of the barrel does slow down the pellet as it gets tighter. And we can see from this test that the phenomenon is most apparent at the lower power settings. At the higher power settings, the differences seem to shrink, indicating that the influence of the power setting is overriding the influence of the twist rate. I believe this is an important finding, and it sets up the next observation, which is that the top velocity of the gun was fairly close for all 3 barrels, regardless of the twist rate. The type of pellet made more difference to the top velocity than the barrel twist rate did.
It should be obvious from these results that the Talon SS powerplant has upper limits that cannot be exceeded by forcing more compressed air through the barrel. This illustrates the relationship between barrel length and velocity in a pneumatic airgun.
A second thing I found interesting is that power setting 6 is very close in performance to power setting 10. In the case of the 1:22″ twist barrel, it’s remarkably close…but it’s close for all three barrels. A prudent airgunner might consider this when setting the power wheel adjustment on his Talon SS, knowing that a lower setting uses less air, yet gives velocity that isn’t that much slower.
A third thing is that the velocity performance of the 1:22″ barrel is so good at power setting 6 that it makes power setting 10 useless. Take that thought just a little farther, and you’ll see that all power settings above setting 10 are pretty much a waste of air in a Talon SS with a 12-inch barrel, regardless of which pellet you use.
Next, I tested all 3 barrels with both pellets shot at all 3 power levels at 10 meters (11 yards) and 25 yards. Following that, I tested all 3 barrels and both pellets, again, at 50 yards, only I didn’t use the zero power setting. This was where my eyes were opened regarding the effects of twist rate.
I analyzed the accuracy in 2 different reports. One (Part 9) was the 10-meter and 25-yard accuracy and the other (Part 12) was the 50-yard accuracy, alone. Now, with the table above we can combine these results and analyze all the accuracy data together.
The first observation I’ll make is that at 10 meters, I got 10-shot groups that ranged from as small as 0.092 inches to as large as 0.578 inches. The factory barrel gave the best results with the JSB pellet; but with the Premier, it was the 1:22-inch twist that did the best. Curiously, that pellet and twist rate didn’t seem to change that much as the power was increased (at 10 meters). With all other barrels and pellets, the group size did change a lot as the power changed.
It’s too simple to say the factory barrel with the 1:16-inch twist rate is the best; but of the 3 twist rates in this test, it certainly is the most flexible across the board. However, you’ll notice that the 1:12-inch twist barrel did shoot the best single group (with JSB Exact pellets) at 50 yards. That group is so close to the Crosman Premier group shot by the 1:16-inch barrel that I can’t call a clear winner — BUT — here is what I CAN say. The Quackenbush 1:12-inch twist barrel is certainly capable of shooting 50-yard groups at least as tight as those shot by the Lother Walther barrel; and in my mind, that puts the barrel-equivalency question to rest.
Another observation is that the 1:22-inch twist barrel was just as good at 10 meters as the other 2 barrels, in general, but look at how the groups opened at 50 yards! That says something very strong about the relationship of the twist rate to accuracy. And it also brings up a second observation.
Premier pellets and JSB pellets performed differently throughout this test. Just look at the 50-yard results for Premiers and JSBs with the 1:12-inch twist barrel, and you’ll see what I mean. This is one more bit of evidence that barrels have preferences for certain pellets.
This will be my final remark in this series of reports, and it does not come from the data collected in this test but from the 5-part test of the Diana model 25 smoothbore. In that test, we saw that the smoothbore was able to place 10 JSB Exact RS pellets into a group measuring 0.337 inches at 10 meters. However, at 25 yards, the same pellet loaded the same way made a group that measured 3.168 inches. That difference tells us clearly that spin and not aerodynamic drag is the main key to pellet accuracy. I think we now see that twist rates do matter a lot, and the standard rate is the best all-around rate for now.
At 10 meters, 10 JSB Exact RS pellets made this 0.337-inch group.
At 25 yards, the same JWB-Exact-RS pellets, seated to the same depth, made this 3.168-inch group. They are clearly not accurate after 10 meters.
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What is Aneurysm?
An aneurysm is a ballooned artery, a type of arterial disease. An artery is an elastic blood vessel that transports blood away from the heart. The aorta is the largest artery in the body, running from your heart through the centre of your chest and abdomen, distributing blood to all parts of the body. Aneurysms can occur anywhere along the aorta, but when they develop in the upper part of the aorta, they are called thoracic aortic aneurysms. Rarely, an aneurysm develops in between the upper and lower parts of your aorta called a thoracic abdominal aneurysm. The most common aneurysm occurs at the lower part of the aorta. An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a weakened and protruding found in the lower part of the aorta. As the aorta is the body’s primary provider of blood, an abdominal aortic aneurysm bursting and bleeding can be life threatening.
Most small and slow-growing abdominal aortic aneurysms do not rupture. However large, fast-growing abdominal aortic aneurysms may enlarge to more than 1.5 times of its normal diameter and rupture. Depending on the size and speed at which the aortic aneurysm is growing, medical procedures may differ from careful monitoring to emergency surgical procedure. When an abdominal aortic aneurysm is diagnosed, the doctor will closely examine it so that surgical treatment can be done if it is required.
What causes Aneurysm?
Patients with a family history, hypertension and high cholesterol and those beyond the age of 65 have a higher risk of developing this condition. Although the exact cause of abdominal aortic aneurysms is unknown, a number of factors may increase your risk, including:
Symptoms of Aneurysm
Aneurysms develop slowly over many years and often have no symptoms. If an aneurysm grows quickly, ruptures, or blood leaks along the wall of the artery (aortic dissection), symptoms may develop suddenly.
The symptoms of rupture include:
Diagnosis of Aneurysm
The doctor will examine your abdomen. The examination also will include an evaluation of pulses in your legs. The doctor may find:
Should I seek treatment for Aneurysm?
Treatment for aneurysm depends on individual cases.
Small aneurysm of less than 4cm.
Medium aneurysm measuring between 4 and 5.5 cm.
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You are preparing for board meeting, but you can’t get into your reporting application. You log off the computer and then log back in – no good. You call the helpdesk and hear what you never want to: “The application is offline due to a potential cyber attack.”
Keeping organization data safe from hackers is a real concern for compliance professionals. When asked what keeps them up at night, most would say it is the fear of finding one of the IT systems or applications was hacked. The nightmare may be recurring for compliance professionals who work in health care where personal, protected health information (PHI) data is stored in electronic health record applications.
To optimize cyber protection and minimize cyber events, it is recommended that compliance departments partner with their organization’s information technology (IT) and risk management departments. A good place to start collaborating is to write and implement an organization-wide cybersecurity plan (CSP) based on each discipline’s input, this way input is included from each discipline leading to a more robust plan
As required under HIPAA and HITECH, Compliance and IT professionals generally focus on how to prevent both privacy and security breaches respectively, so the CSP should include prevention steps from both of those aspects. While risk management includes prevention, risk also focuses on loss mitigation and minimizing impact to the organization’s reputation after a cyber event has occurred.
And the CSP must include ongoing staff education. While there are many commercially available tools or applications which provide cyber protection against email hackers, phishers, malware, spyware, and viruses, these tools are only as good as the end users working on the organization’s computers. Of course, the CSP should include appropriate fire walls and penetration testing by an outside vendor to assess the organizations privacy and security vulnerabilities; however, the best prevention is education for staff so they can identify emails which may contain malware, spyware or viruses.
Ongoing education should occur with staff at all levels of the organization. Education should include internal IT generated phishing emails with remediation for those who “take the bait” and click on the bad links. It should also include cross-departmental table-top exercises where cybersecurity related scenarios are presented and discussed to ensure familiarity with the CSP and to identify and improve upon weaknesses in the plan, staff education, or the applications used.
- Schedule a one-hour call with your insurance broker to review your cyber liability insurance policy and reporting requirements in the event of a privacy or security breach.
- Ensure you are current with not only federal, but state security and privacy laws.
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The Richmond Museum of History is a little known jewel and the most significant local history museum in the East Bay. The museum is housed in a Carnegie Library built in 1910 that boasts a permanent exhibit gallery and also the Seaver Gallery, a space for temporary exhibits and special events. The Museum draws from their extensive permanent collection of historically significant objects and documents to stage exhibits and host educational programs for the benefit of the public. The Richmond Museum of History has had a presence in the Iron Triangle for sixty years and we are proud to be cornerstone of the community.
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EXHIBITION ARCHIVE (2015 thru 2017)
12/19/2016 @ 4:00 pm - 12/20/2016 @ 3:59 pm PST
Accessories, Accessories, Accessories!?August 7, 2016 – December 23, 2016
Accessories, Accessories, Accessories! will showcase the Museum?s extensive collection of fashion accessories from throughout the 20th Century. Carefully selected artifacts such as hats, shoes, and jewelry worn by working class men and women of Richmond will be displayed for the enjoyment and education of the public. Photographs showing people wearing similar accessories will be displayed and provide historical context for the artifacts.
? ? ?? ? ? The museum will host a free?reception on?Sunday?August 7 to open the new?exhibit?Accessories, Accessories, Accessories!?August 7th is also Richmond Day commemorating the incorporation of the city in 1905, so join us and celebrate Richmond! The theme of the reception?is Bouquets, Big Hats, and Bow Ties, so everyone is invited to dress to impress and wear their best accessories. Enjoy fresh cut flower arrangements from local florists in the permanent exhibit and stroll through?the museum’s?Historical Monument & Rose Garden, which will be in full bloom! Don?t miss the group photograph to be taken on the Museum steps at 2:00PM to mark the occasion.
The Seaver Gallery has hosted temporary exhibits on a variety of Richmond related subjects including Dorothea Lange photos (2011), the Richmond Refinery (Fall 2012), local Semi-Pro baseball (Spring 2013), the restoration of the SS Red Oak Victory (Fall 2013), Volunteerism aboard the Red Oak Victory (Winter 2014), modern art Quilts based on the WWII Home Front experience (summer 2014), and the Richmond Fire Department (Fall 2014).
Richmond & the Legacy of the Black Panther Party (January 23 – ?March 19, 2016)
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense became active in North Richmond soon after the founding of the party. In April 1967, the shooting of a young man by Contra Costa County Sheriff Department drew the Black Panther Party to demonstrations in Richmond for the next several years. The exhibit will tell the story of the Black Panther Party in Richmond using newspapers and photographs.
Music: A Reflection of Richmond (July through September 2015)
The exhibit presents visual survey of music through time in Richmond from the Native American period, through the Blues Clubs in North Richmond, to the free music festivals of today. The show includes artifacts such as musical instruments, sheet music, accessories from orchestra, ephemera from musical events at the WWII shipyards, newspaper clipping and photographs from the museum and personal family collections.
Richmond Day at Panama Pacific International Exposition (July through Dec 2015)
Celebrate the centennial of the PPIE with a mini exhibit of expo related artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection. The show features artifacts such as postcards, souvenir books, ribbons, textiles and a medal made by Shreve & Company commemorating Richmond Day on August 7, 1915.
Shrimping on the Bay: A View from Richmond (March 21 – May 21, 2015)
On March 21, 2015 a new temporary exhibit will open celebrating the Chinese shrimping villages on the San Francisco Bay with a focus on the shrimp camps in Richmond. The exhibit will use a combination of photographs, archaeological collections, oral history and family recollections to tell the story of the Chinese shrimpers in Richmond. The show will include artifacts related to historic shrimp camps on the Richmond Bayfront that were recovered from an archaeological excavation that took place in 2008 and have never before been on display to the public. The exhibit will be open until Sunday May 24, 2015 and is free with general museum admission. Museum admission is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors/students, kids under 12 are free with paying adult and members are always free.
In conjunction with the exhibit, Mr. Calvin Fong will speak at 2 PM on Saturday April 11, 2015 about his father?s experience owning the Fong Wan Shrimp Camp business in Richmond during the 1930s-1940s. Fong Wan was a Chinese immigrant and successful entrepreneur in Oakland who established a shrimp camp and shop in Richmond. Calvin Fong has devoted considerable time and energy researching his father?s business and his research reveals an interesting picture of Chinese shrimping in Richmond. The program is free with general museum admission. Click here to view Herb Lore (1936) by Fong Wan on the internet archive.
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Trichoderma harzianum 857 is an Effective Destructor of Cellulose-Containing Raw Materials
- Jakhongir Alimov
National University of Uzbekistan
Faculty of Biology
Microbiology and Biotechnology Department
Almazar district, University Street 4, 100174
E-Mail: [email protected]
Received: May 11, 2020; Accepted: May 18, 2020; Published: May 30, 2020
Citation: Alimov J, Abdusamatov S, Shurigin V, et al. Trichoderma harzianum 857 is an Effective Destructor of Cellulose-Containing Raw Materials. Indian J Environ Sci. 2020;16(3):113.
The purpose of research was to assess the possibility of using Trichoderma harzianum 857, isolated from the soil of Uzbekistan, as a source of cellulolytic enzymes for processing of cellulose-containing substrates. It was established that the fungus Trichoderma harzianum 857, due to the synthesis of extracellular cellulolytic enzymes, can be used for hydrolysis of cellulose-containing substrates (wheat straw). The conditions for pretreatment of the cellulose-containing substrate (temperature 100°C, pressure 1 atm., time 1.5 h) were selected to increase the efficiency of its enzymatic cleavage. It was shown that adding ground green part of amaranth to a composition of cellulose-containing substrates contributes to the enrichment of the final product with protein, vitamins and trace elements, which makes it possible to use it as a high-protein product.
Cellulose; Enzyme straw; Wheat; Amaranth; Trichoderma harzianum
Due to the ability to synthesize and secrete a complex of cellulolytic enzymes: endo-1,4-β-glucanase; exo-1,4-β-glucanase (cellobiohydrolase or 1,4-β-D-glucoside glycoside hydrolase) and cellobiose β-glucosidase, fungi of the Trichoderma genus are widely used in many biotechnological processes associated with the processing of cellulose-containing materials. These fungi are very technological, undemanding to the substrate, and resistant to environmental effects [1-4].
A characteristic feature of the fungi of the genus Trichoderma is the synthesis of extracellular cellulases. In the process of their development, these fungi accumulate a large number of proteins in the nutrient medium. Due to these properties, some strains play a leading role among industrial producers of cellulolytic enzymes, which is explained by at least two reasons: firstly, their high secretory capacity, and secondly, the diversity of the composition of the synthesized enzyme complex. The composition of cellulase complexes of various microorganisms includes 4 different types of enzymes: endoglucanases, exoglucanases, cellobiohydrolases, and cellobiases. Depending on the source (i.e. producer) of the cellulase complex, each of these types of enzymes may contain multiple molecular forms of the enzyme, differing in a specific activity, stability, the strength of adsorption on the surface of an insoluble substrate, substrate specificity, degree of inhibition by hydrolysis products, etc. .
Exoglucanases or cellobiohydrolases (1,4-β-glucan cellobiohydrolases), which cleave cellobiose from the end of the polysaccharide chain, usually have high activity towards crystalline cellulose. Trichoderma reesei synthesizes two molecular forms of cellobiohydrolase: the first form (CBHI), attacks the cellulose chain from its non-reducing end, while the second one, endoglucanases catalyze the cellulose cleavage reaction in the middle, producing new ends of the chains for impact cellobiohydrolase . Due to studies conducted in recent years, a detailed understanding of the basic laws of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose has been achieved, while the practical implementation of the process of enzymatic production of glucose from cellulose-containing materials is still not well understood .
The objective of our study was to assess the possibility of using Trichoderma harzianum 857, isolated from the soil of Uzbekistan, as a source of cellulolytic enzymes for the processing of cellulose-containing substrates. The strain was deposited into Collection of industrially Trichoderma important microorganisms of the Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan under the number 857.
Materials and Methods
Study of morphological properties of Trichoderma harzianum 857
As the object for cellulolytic enzymes the fungi Trichoderma harzianum 857, isolated from the soil of Uzbekistan was used. The strain was deposited into the collection of industrially important microorganisms of the Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan under the number 857. To study morphological properties of harzianum 857 it was cultivated on a Chapek-Doks nutrient medium and wort-agar.
The treatment of cellulose-containing substrates with enzymes of Trichoderma harzianum 857
As a source of cellulolytic enzymes, a culture fluid of 4-5 daily fungi or an aqueous extract from superficially grown Trichoderma harzianum 857 were used. The ground green part of amaranth and wheat straw was used as a substrate.
For the enzymatic treatment of cellulose-containing substrates, the culture fluid or aqueous extract from the surface-grown Trichoderma harzianum 857 was standardized as 10 units of cellulolytic activity per 1 gram of the processed substrate. For deep cultivation, the modified medium described by Mandels M was used, which included a cellulose-containing substrate (chopped amaranth straw) as a carbon source, instead of 2% sucrose and (NH4)2SO4 as a nitrogen source, instead of NH4)2HPO4 . In this method of cultivation, the fungal mycelium was separated from the culture fluid by centrifugation at 3000 rpm for 15 minutes, and in the case of surface cultivation, at the end of the fermentation time, either the entire nutrient medium mixture with the grown fungi or the aqueous extract of this mixture was used, obtained by pressing while respecting the rule: 10 units of cellulolytic activity per 1 g of the processed substrate.
When developing modes of solid-phase fermentation of cellulose-containing substrates, previously prepared above-ground parts of amaranth and winter wheat straw were used as raw materials.
The seed was the mycelium of a 5-day culture of the Trichoderma harzianum 857 grown on Chapek-Dox agar medium at a temperature of 28°C-32°C, as well as the mineral medium described by Mandels M with a filter paper disk as the sole carbon source and cellulose agar.
A suspension of Trichoderma harzianum 857 culture medium was used as an inoculum obtained by cultivating it in a nutrient medium, the main part of which consisted of ground green part of amaranth and wheat bran. The cellulolytic activity of the inoculum was 25 μ/ml-27 μ/ml. Cultivation was carried out in conical flasks with a volume of 1-l (laboratory experiments) and on special cells measuring 30 cm × 40 cm in a sterile substrate with a substrate moisture of 10%, the height of the substrate layer did not exceed 50 mm-55 mm on a medium consisting of wheat bran (50%) and ground green part of amaranth or straw (50%) with a moist mineral medium described by Mandels M (semi-industrial experiments). The initial pH value was 4.7-4.9.
Enzymatic processing materials were secondary crop waste-biomass of the aerial part of the amaranth plant and winter wheat straw, dried to a residual moisture content of 6%-7% and ground to a particle size of 1.5 mm-2.0 mm. Isolation and study of the properties of the culture were performed using standard techniques . Enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose-containing substrates was carried out in the following mode: 10 ml of tap water was added to 1 g of the substrate (ground green part of amaranth or winter wheat straw) and heated to 100°C, boiled for 5 min. After cooling to room temperature, the culture fluid of the Trichoderma harzianum 857 was added to a mixture at the rate of 10 units of enzyme per 1 g of substrate. Stirred with a stirrer at speed of 150 rpm and a temperature of 32°C-35°C. The initial pH value was 4.7-4.9. The destruction efficiency was evaluated by the accumulation of reducing substances. The method is based on the recovery of copper ions (Cu+2) from an alkaline solution of Muller to copper hemi oxide (Cu2O) with reducing substances by adding an excess amount of iodine solution and titrating its excess with sodium thiosulfate solution . Another method is based on the quantitative determination of reducing sugars resulting from the hydrolysis of cellulose under the action of cellulolytic complex enzymes . Per unit of cellulolytic activity (1 μ CLA) was taken the amount of enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of cellulose with the formation of 1 μmol of reducing sugars (in terms of glucose) for 1 hour at a temperature of 32°C at pH of 4.7. The content of reducing sugars, formed because of the enzymatic reaction, as determined by the colorimetric method using potassium ferrocyanide (red blood salt, potassium hexacyanoferrate) and was calculated according to the calibration curve constructed for glucose. The measurement range of the monitored indicator was 0.5-25.0 units CLA. To prepare standard glucose solutions, a basic standard solution was initially prepared with a glucose concentration of 1 μmol/cm3 (180 μg/cm3). A sample of anhydrous glucose (90 mg), taken to the nearest 0.2 mg, was introduced into a volumetric flask with a capacity of 500 cm3, dissolved (30 cm3-50 cm3), made up to volume with distilled water and mixed. From the basic standard glucose solution, a series of dilutions were prepared in accordance with TABLE 1.
|The volume of a standard solution* with molar (mass) glucose concentration, µmol/ cm3||Volume of buffer solution, cm3||The concentration of glucose in dilution|
|Mass, µg/cm3||Molar, mol/cm3|
*standard glucose solutions were prepared on the day of construction the calibration curve with three parallel weights
Table 1: Standard dilutions of glucose.
To construct the calibration graph, 2 cm3 of standard glucose solution and 6 cm3 of potassium hexcyanoferrate solution were added to a series of tubes. The tubes were placed into a boiling water bath for 10 minutes, then taken out and cooled to room temperature. The optical density of the colored solutions was measured at a wavelength of 400 nm-440 nm and an absorbing layer thickness of 10 mm against distilled water.
Based on obtained results, a calibration curve was plotted for the dependence of the absorbance values on the glucose concentration (μmol/cm3). The molar concentration of glucose μmol/cm3 was laid off along the axis of abscissas, and the optical densities in OD units were plotted along the ordinate axis. The graph has an inverse linear relationship. The working area of the calibration curve was in the range from 0.3 μmol/cm3 to 0.6 μmol/cm3 of glucose, which corresponds to the absorption in units of optical density from 0.50 to 0.65 units OP. To build each point of the calibration curve, the arithmetic average value of the optical density of three parallel measurements was calculated. The working solution of the enzyme was prepared by dilution in distilled water so that when determining the activity, the optical densities of the test and control solutions were within the working area of the calibration curve.
The results were analyzed with ANOVA using SPSS-22 statistical software (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Results and Discussion
Morphology of Trichoderma harzianum 857
Trichoderma harzianum 857 strain formed fast-growing colonies on the Chapek-Doks medium and wort agar. Mycelium of the fungus was colorless, septate, and prostrate. On the 4th-5th day of growth, the turfs with conidiophores appeared the cushion-shaped at first white, with a time of yellow or dark green color. Butyles (9 μ-12 μ) were arranged in whorls of 3 or more. On every fialida conidia were formed, glued in the head. Conidia of fungi were round, smooth, small (3 μ-5 μ), pale green in transmitted light, and dark in daylight.
Chemical composition of the amaranth and wheat straw
The aerial part of both amaranth and grain crops is a cellulose-containing material, which is of low nutritional value and consists mainly of polysaccharides TABLE 2 . The characteristic feature of the chemical composition and limited nutritional value of these materials is a high content of cellulose and fiber, and very small amount of protein and fat, poverty with minerals, and lack of vitamins. Also, the straw of grain crops in its pure form is poorly eaten by animals, and its components are poorly digested.
|Wheat straw||Amaranth phytomass|
|Cellulose||41.52 ± 0.40||29.2 ± 0.07|
|Hemicellulose||23.23 ± 0.13||18.2 ± 0.12|
|Lignin||21.37 ± 0.81||21.4 ± 0.62|
|Crude fiber||34.02 ± 0.84||24.0 ± 0.05|
|Crude protein||4.52 ± 0.09||28.0 ± 0.3|
|Fat||1.46 ± 0.17||3.5 ± 0.004|
|Ash||4.14 ± 0.04||10.01 ± 0.04|
Table 2: The chemical composition of wheat straw and the aerial part of amaranth .
The nutritional components of straw are enclosed in a strong lignin-cellulose complex, poorly destroyed in the gastrointestinal tract of animals. Wheat straw fiber consists of 35%-45% cellulose, 14%-22% lignin, 20%-30% pentosans, and 3%-5% silicon salts. The higher the content in fiber straw, the lower its nutritional value. However, wheat straw is a promising cellulosic raw material, a potential food product. The development of optimal conditions for the bioconversion of this type of raw material can contribute to the production of several valuable products TABLE 2 .
Unlike wheat, green mass and amaranth grain without pretreatment can be widely used as a food and for technical purposes, because it is superior to many traditional crops in protein, vitamins, biologically active substances, and fats content TABLE
3. As it is shown in TABLE 3, the productivity, protein yield, and lysine content of amaranth in terms of hectares are much higher as compared with many traditional crops. In the field conditions, the yield of amaranth green mass reaches 80 t/ha, and on average for Uzbekistan, it can be estimated at 40 t/ha-45 t/ha. The seed yield reaches 5 t/ha, but due to the extended ripening period and the lack of special harvesting equipment, the economic yield is 1.5 t/ha-2.0 t/ha. From 50 tons of amaranth yield, up to 2.0 tons of high-lysine protein can be obtained, whereas, in wheat and barley, this indicator is 0.05 tons TABLE 3.
|Plants||Productivity, t/ha||Protein content||Lysine content, kg/ha|
|Winter wheat||5.0 ± 0.012||11.0 ± 0.3||500 ± 12||18.0 ± 0.02|
|Spring barley||2.0 ± 0.011||11.5 ± 0.3||510 ± 12||18.0 ± 0.02|
|Rape||2.2 ± 0.012||20.0 ± 0.3||440 ± 11||26.0 ± 0.02|
|Peas||2.0 ± 0.011||24.0 ± 0.4||440 ± 12||29.0 ± 0.02|
|Sunflower||2.3 ± 0.012||18.0 ± 0.3||414 ± 10||15.0 ± 0.02|
|Soy||1.5 ± 0.012||40.0 ± 0.4||650 ± 12||33.0 ± 0.03|
|Alfalfa (dry weight of phytomass)||10.0 ± 0.01||20.0 ± 0.3||2000 ± 13||82.0 ± 0.05|
|Amaranth (dry weight of phytomass)||15.0 ± 0.12||20.0 ± 0.3||3000 ± 13||180.0 ± 0.06|
Table 3: Comparative characteristics of the most important agricultural plants.
Talking about the chemical composition of amaranth, it is necessary to note the high plasticity of the plant, which causes large discrepancies depending on the agro technological conditions of cultivation, variety, climate, age of plants at the time of harvest . It should also be noted that the chemical composition of amaranth is studied primarily from nutritional value, therefore, the protein content, its amino acid composition, the content of certain vitamins and minerals were studied in detail . Other classes of plant substances in amaranth, such as cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin were studied very poorly or were not studied at all. The available literature data convincingly show that an amaranth phytomass can be used in fodder production without additional processing.
Amaranth protein is characterized by a high content of essential amino acids. In 1 kg of amaranth dry matter, the vegetative mass contains 7.1 g-7.15 g of lysine, and in maize just 2.8 g, i.e. 2.4 times less. In a green mass of amaranth in terms of absolutely dry weight: crude protein: 15.6%-16.75% (in leaves up to 30%), fat: 2.4%-2.8%; cellulose: 16%-21.7%; Calcium: 2.1%-2.6%; phosphorus: 0.2%-0.21%; carotene: 160 mg-200 mg . For comparison, the green mass of corn in the phase of milky-waxy ripeness of grain contains 7.5%-8.0% protein, which is 2 times less than in amaranth. Amaranth grain contains 15%-17.8% of protein, 5%-7% of fat, 3.2%-6.4% of fiber, 3.0%-4.1% of ash.
The protein of amaranth is among the best proteins of plant origin and surpasses soy protein in quality . For the ratio of amino acids, amaranth protein is approaching the ideal protein. If we estimate the ideal protein (close to the egg) as 100 points, then casein milk protein would get 72 points, soyabean: 68, barley: 62, wheat: 58, corn: 44, and amaranth: 75 points.
The enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose
The main attention was focused on the study of cellulose-containing raw materials, particularly wheat straw. At the same time, amaranth was used to enrich the final product with protein, amino acids, lipids, and trace elements (TABLES 2 and 3). It is known that the hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose can be carried out in two ways: chemical and enzymatic, the most promising of which is the latter. Moreover, the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose is an environmentally friendly technology based on the processes and mechanisms of the conversion of substances by cellulolytic enzymes .
The enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and its derivatives involves a complex of cellulases consisting of different types of carbohydrases: endo-1,4-β-glucanase, exo-1,4-β-glucanase (1,4-β-glucan cellobiohydrolase or 1,4-β-D-glycoside glycol hydrolase) and cellobiase (β-glucosidase or β-D-glucosidoglucidrolase) . The general scheme of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose is shown in FIG. 1.
Figure 1. The general scheme of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose: S: source substrate; Gn: cellooligosaccharides (a product of the statistical hydrolysis of cellulose); G2: cellobiose; G: glucose.
Depending on the physical state of the original substrate, G can be either partially destructed insoluble cellulose with a relatively low degree of polymerization compared to the initial insoluble substrate, or a set of substituted cellodextrins (upon hydrolysis of soluble cellulose derivatives, for example, CM-cellulose).
The effectiveness of the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose-containing substrates was greatly influenced by the preliminary testing of the latter . Native wheat straw consists of rigidly bonded fibers oriented in space, without longitudinal and transverse tears. Such strength of the straw is due to twisted elementary fibers protecting the straw from any impact. During heat treatment, the spatial orientation of the fibers was disturbed depending on the temperature, pressure, and time of incubation. Thus longitudinal and transverse breaks of the cellulose fibers appeared. For example, heat treatment at a temperature of 121°C, a pressure of 1 atm., for 1.5 hours caused fiber loosening, destruction of the lignin layer and longitudinal ruptures occurred, which lead to a change in the chemical composition of straw TABLE 4.
|Sample||Mass fraction of lignin,%||Mass fraction of fiber,%|
|Original wheat straw||21.37 ± 0.81||34.02 ± 0.84|
|Wheat straw after heat treatment at t-100°С; p-1.0 atm. τ-1.5 hours||17.9 ± 0.13||33.52 ± 0.78|
|Wheat straw after heat treatment at t-120°С; p-2.0 atm. τ-15 min||14.3 ± 0.17||31.14 ± 0.81|
Table 4: Changes in the chemical composition of wheat straw during heat treatment.
Thus, when processing wheat straw at a temperature of 100°C,p=1 atm. and the incubation time is 1.5 hours, the amount of lignin and fiber in the composition of the straw decreased, which made it more accessible to the action of microorganisms and justified the expediency of using the subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw.
To enrich partially hydrolyzed wheat straw with microbial proteins, we used the method of deep heterophase fermentation. It is known that the fungi of the genus Trichoderma are a source of cellulolytic enzymes and their biomass contains a big number of proteins. Trichoderma harzianum 857, chosen as a producer for wheat straw bioconversion, grew well during deep heterophase fermentation and synthesized a complex of cellulolytic enzymes on the medium containing ground wheat straw, after its preliminary heat treatment at 100°C, p-1 atm. within 1.5 hours. A sporicomicellar suspension of Trichoderma harzianum 857 was used as a seed material. Temperature, pH, and time of incubation were used as the main controlled factors regulating the growth and development of Fermentation regimes the producer. with different values of the above parameters were investigated. The effectiveness of the regime was determined by the accumulation of reducing sugars in the ferment lysate, as well as by the accumulation of protein.
It was experimentally established that the yield of reducing substances depends on the cultivation temperature, the pH of the fermentation medium, and the time of fermentation. At a temperature of 30°C-35°C and a pH of 4.5-4.7, the maximum yield of reducing substances was observed after 96 hours of fermentation FIG. 2 and 3. By this time, the protein content in the fermentation medium reached its maximum FIG 4.
Figure 2. The dependence of the yield of reducing substances on fermentation time and medium temperature.
Figure 3. The dependence of the yield of reducing substances on fermentation time and pH of the medium.
It was established that Trichoderma harzianum 857, due to the synthesis of extracellular cellulolytic enzymes, can be used for the hydrolysis of cellulose-containing substrates (wheat straw). The conditions for pretreatment of the cellulose-containing substrate (100°C, at 1 atm. for 1.5 hours) were selected to increase the efficiency of enzymatic cleavage. It was shown that adding amaranth green mass to the composition of cellulose-containing substrates contributes to the enrichment of the final product with protein, vitamins, and trace elements, which makes it possible to use as a high-protein product.
The author of this study is thankful to Research Institute for Fundamental Sciences, University of Tabriz, Iran for supporting of this work.
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During my Honours research evaluating the factors determing bird diversity in remnants of Buloke woodland, I became aware of the limitations of fixed-effort, area-based methods to estimate bird diversity. I used 200 x 50 m transects to estimate the number of birds occurring in a woodlands, but would regularly see or hear species outside of the transect boundaries, both during the survey but also while walking to and from the transect area. During analysis, it became clear that the estimates I was using (based on 12 surveys per patch) were not accurate reflections of who was actually living there; and so began the search for a better approach…
For one aspect of my PhD research, I studied fragments of humind pine-oak forest in the highlands of southern Mexico. The 17 forests I studied ranged in size from 2 hectares up to almost 160,000 hectares so, as well as minimizing the number of detected but ignored species, the method would need to be scalable (by 6 orders of magnitude–no easy task!).
Around this time, my PhD advisor Town Peterson was working with stopping rules and species accumulation curves in biodiversity inventories, so I trialled the use of a results-based stopping rule: “stop sampling only after two consecutive samples in which a total of one or zero new species was added” see Watson 2002 pdf for further details on my Oaxaca study.
This work was related to relatively low bird diversities in relatively small patches—how well would it work in a large, diverse site? To find out, I conducted an exhaustive 32 6 hour bird surveys of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, generating a series of predictions about the numbers of species present but missed, then testing those predictions with a further 200 hours of surveys. This work is described here pdf and is explained in an associated podcast.
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Piezoelectric ceramics are materials that generate electrical charge in response to applied mechanical stress, or vice versa. This coupling between electrical and mechanical signals makes them an enabling technology for a wide range of devices and products applied in various sectors of modern society. The applications range from widespread consumer products such as mobile phones and toys to sophisticated scientific instruments, such as actuators for atomic force microscopy.
In OXIPATH, we will focus on the development of lead-free piezoelectric oxides, to replace the current standard material PbZr1-xTixO3 (PZT) which contains hazardous lead. Making lead-free materials with comparable properties is especially important for medical devices, food-related applications, and disposable electronics.
BCZT thin films and nanofibres
One of the most promising lead-free piezoelectric materials is Ba0.85Ca0.15Zr0.10Ti0.90O3 (BCZT). Much research is devoted to optimizing the properties of KNN and related materials, mostly on bulk materials made by traditional powder-based ceramic methods. In Oxipath, SINTEF will prepare BCZT as thin films and as nanofibers.
High-temperature sputtering of BCZT
One of the objectives in Oxipath is to develop high temperature sputtering deposition procedures for BCZT thin films onto electroded Si wafers, with a piezoelectric coefficient d33 of at least 100 pm/V. SINTEF recently got a new Polyteknik Flextura deposition cluster system. The first lead-free piezoelectric thin films has been prepared and further optimization and characterization is on-going.
Some applications of piezoelectric oxides require larger-area and flexible devices, for instance for energy harvesting from wearable devices or anti-fouling membranes for water treatment. SINTEF will demonstrate such model devices using piezoelectric nanofibers produced by electrospinning. Fibres of BCZT has been prepared, and we are currently working on assembling the device and characterizing the output.
What SINTEF can offer
For more information about SINTEF's competence on piezoelectric materials and devices:
- Lead-free piezoelectric materials
For more information and other projects related to piezoelectric oxides:
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In recent years, Bali has become of the most popular holidaying destinations in Indonesia. Depending on where you go in Bali, it can be an eye-opening cultural adventure, where dining out has been a recent development. Local dishes have a blend of homemade food and also an essence of Balinese cuisine. The local dishes are easily found in Warungs (Local Bali Food Shops) which are so delicious that you’ll just love them!
14 Local Food items you Must Try out in Bali
1. Babi Guling
Bali’s most famed dish is Suckling pig. Babi Guling, the marinated rotisserie pig famous in Bali is marinated in the spicy paste of turmeric, galangal, chilli, ginger, garlic, shallot, and more that is roasted over burning coffee wood. It is usually served with rice, pork sausage, sayur urap, along with the crunchiest meat- that is cooked with perfection. Combinations of lemongrass, salam leaves, black pepper and other herbs are also used to make the dish, tastier. A must-try if you want the real Balinese spices crispy porky fatty goodness.
It is a Bali dish created from a crunchy, tender mixture of vegetables, grated coconut meat, and minced meat, mixed with various herbs and spices. As called by the Balinese people, it is also known as meat salad. Not for the faint-hearted, for this dish includes fresh blood to strengthen the flavour that makes it one of the most consumed Balinese dishes. Served on top of a banana leaf, Lawar is immediately served for it cannot be kept for too long, this dish is usually accompanied by Babi Guling. There are mainly two types of Lawar, red and white.
3. Bebek Betutu
Bebek Betutu is probably the most iconic and unique dish Bali provides. It is a ceremonial dish that takes a long time to get prepared so one has to order it in advance. Local ducks are rubbed with tamarind puree and stuffed with veggies along with traditional spices wrapped with banana leaves or areca palm leaf smoked with the embers of rice husks for about 24 hours. Infused with spices, this menu set is also accompanied by 2 types of sambal so you can balance to your liking. It is a rich, juicy, succulent feast with all meat easily separated from bones.
4. Spring rolls
Who doesn’t love crunchy spring rolls? The spring rolls that are found in Bali are quite different from the normal spring rolls. They are crispy deep-fried snacks filled with delicious stuffings, including meat and minced chicken filled with mixed vegetables and traditional spices. Spring rolls are a popular Asian snack that is eaten before meals. It is usually served with chilli sauce or peanut sauce. In order to make it spicier, one can add schezwan sauce. It can be found at any snack store in Bali very easily. So yummy, you’ll definitely want to have more!
Satay is one of the most consumed local dishes by the visitors, also known as ‘kebabs.’ Satay is actually more diverse than what people think. Satay is prepared by cutting either meat or chicken or goat or beef or pork, cut into thin slices and marinated with spices like chilli, turmeric, ginger and other traditional herbs. The meat is then skewered over wooden sticks or grilled over charcoal sticks. Satay can be served with various sauces, one of the best being the peanut mixed with soy. One should definitely try this if they like kebabs that are loaded with spices.
6. Bubur Sumsum
Also known as Coconut rice porridge, this dish is for people who have a sweet tooth. Eaten usually as a dessert, it can also be served during breakfast or as a snack too. The ingredients are white and black glutinous rice and coconut milk along with pandan leaves. The rice flour and coconut milk are cooked until thickened and then chilled. The Bubur itself is a little bit salty, complemented by the sweetness of Gula Jawa. Well, this dish teaches us that not all desserts are supposed to be sweet, some can be salty too. The best part is that it is very easy to make.
7. Kopi Luwak
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world. It has a strong aroma of nuts and chocolates, a rich and “heavy” taste, a dense, aromatic texture. Also known as civet coffee, it tastes really fresh and slightly smoother than usual coffee, due to the fermentation process, it also tastes a little bitter. The best part? It comes with several health benefits and no wonder why this is the most expensive coffee in Bali but is also a must-try.
It is a traditional Balinese salad made with blanched vegetables, grated coconut, and a chilli-spiked dressing. Many tourists will find that Balinese cuisine is dominated by meat like pork and chicken. But when it comes to vegetables, Balinese people can make some mouth-watering dishes. It consists of various vegetables and legumes like beans, sprouts, cabbage, spinach and cassava leaves which are either steamed or raw. It is eaten as a side dish to the main course. It is a vegetarian-friendly dish loaded with flavours and nutrients.
9. Tahu Tempe
It is one of the ‘must-haves’ on the menus of Bali and originally originated in Indonesia. It is naturally made by culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. Fermented soybean, long beans, and spices are simmered in an aromatic coconut-based gravy to perfection, this is so delicious when served along with steamed rice. A protein-rich, dietary fibre and a vitamin-rich vegetarian dish that is cooked in various sweet seasoned spices which have quite different forms, it has amazing textural qualities along with an earthy flavour.
10. Bubur Mengguh
A porridge or you could say a culinary porridge that is supposed to be compulsorily served at all the indigenous ceremonies, is made of rice, coconut milk, and various spices. It is served with shredded chicken, sprinkled with sedri leaves, chicken broth, crackers and fried onions. The porridge is topped with a liquid mixture made of spices, roasted peanuts and celery. Warm, freshly cooked Bubur Mengguh is a perfect dish for breakfast on a rainy day. The flavour is complete, savoury and somewhat spicy combined with crispy veggies.
Well, do you know what the Balinese called their round pancakes? They call it Laklak. A traditional Balinese dessert made out of rice flour, it comes in two colours- white and green. Pandan leaves are added to the dough to make it look green and also gives a fresh aroma to the cake. When it is ready, shredded coconut and palm sugar are added as a topping which gives it a sweet and delicious taste. They’re usually cooked in the pan during breakfast, and served hot and fresh. Why would you not try some green pancakes when in Bali?
12. Pisang Goreng
Nothing is sweeter than a combination of bananas and flour. Bali has a wide variety of bananas from the small, sweet varieties to the large ones that look like a weapon. Bananas are cut into slices and little pieces, then it is mixed into the dough. After the bananas are battered, they are deep-fried in ample palm oil. The street vendors will usually sell them with toppings if asked by the customer, for e.g- some vendors even add cinnamon or vanilla extract. They’re best-served piping hot that just melt in your mouth and will taste amazing with a bowl of ice cream alongside.
A traditional and signature Balinese drink – it is basically a green jelly drink made from the leaves of a plant that are brought from China, put in fresh coconut milk mixed with palm sugar and topped with some ice cubes. The leaves are squeezed until foamy and thick and then filtered carefully. It is a veritable pot of sweetness that has three layers- green colour due to jelly, a second caramel honey-hue coloured layer due to coconut milk, and golden brown at the bottom due to brown sugar. Soothing mint leaves are added for garnishing.
Balinese people have a secret drink that they consume to balance their bodies. Loloh is a kind of drink made of leaves like cem-cem, betel, jatropha, dadap and ingredients like honey or young coconut, cinnamon, palm sugar, and coconut water. Balinese usually drink this for treating health ailments and is known for therapeutic benefits. Though it is a herbal drink, these ingredients when combined together are also tasty. Local shops serve this drink at a cheap rate and is usually a drink that is consumed after a meal which helps to digest the food. | <urn:uuid:42cfb35a-b63e-4a27-bb8c-ad00163b6643> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bitemeup.com/local-food-items-you-must-try-out-in-bali/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965432 | 1,913 | 1.585938 | 2 |
5 Best Probiotics for Bad Breath
Published February 24, 2022
Waking up in the morning with bad breath is quite normal. But when that foul odor doesn’t go away even after you’ve brushed, flossed, and gargled half a bottle of mouthwash, then it’s a different story.
According to studies, halitosis or bad breath is one of the world’s most common oral health issues. About 1 in 4 people suffer from it on a regular basis. And it’s estimated that about 50% of the world’s adult population suffers from a chronic case of bad breath.
The worst thing about having a bad breath is that it eats away at your confidence. When you notice people covering their nose or holding their breath while talking to you, it just makes you wish the ground would open up and swallow you alive.
Recently, however, many people have been turning to probiotics to get rid of bad breath. But do dental probiotics really work? Can they help you get rid of bad breath permanently?
To answer your questions, we created this guide on how to find the best probiotics for bad breath.
Bacteria and Bad Breath
There are a lot of factors that can cause bad breath. For example, some people have bad breath because of digestive health issues, while others are simply due to poor oral hygiene.
But in most cases, your bad breath has something to do with bacteria. Though not always in the way you would expect.
It’s not really a secret that our mouth has bacteria. It’s the reason why we’re constantly reminded to brush our teeth and floss. Otherwise, we’d get plaque, rotten teeth, and, yes, bad breath.
But there’s one more underlying cause of bad breath that has to do with bacteria. More specifically, the imbalance of the bacterial population in our microbiome.
Wait, microbiome? Bacterial population? What is that?
Not many people know this, but our body is home to trillions of both good and bad bacteria. This bacterial population is what we call our microbiome.
Studies show that a healthy person also has a healthy balance of good and bad bacteria in their microbiome. It also suggests that dysbiosis or an imbalance in your microbiome can cause various health concerns.
Though most of these bacterial populations are found in our guts, some can be found in other parts of the body too. And yes, that includes your mouth.
It’s estimated that there are over 700 different strains of bacteria in your oral microbiome. Each plays a different role in helping your mouth function properly. Some help breaks down food and promotes better digestion, while others protect your teeth and gums.
But among all those strains are also harmful ones. They’re the type of bacteria that makes you sick. And when there’s an imbalance in your oral microbiome, these harmful bacteria tend to proliferate.
Studies also show that certain bacteria strains give off gas and volatile sulfur compounds that smell like rotten eggs. So the more of these bacteria crowding your oral cavities, the more gas they’ll give off and the stinkier your breath will be.
How Probiotics Can Help With Bad Breath
Also known as the “good bacteria,” probiotics are microorganisms beneficial to your body. They are naturally present in our body, but we can also get them from our foods.
When there’s an imbalance in your microbiome, the harmful bacteria tend to take over and decimate the good ones. Probiotics work by repopulating your body with good bacteria. This, in turn, helps restore the healthy balance of bacteria in your microbiome.
A healthy balance of bacteria in your oral microbiome will not only prevent the proliferation of harmful bacteria. It can also help prevent oral diseases that are the usual culprits of bad breath.
For halitosis caused by gut problems like acid reflux and GERD, there are also probiotic strains that work best for gut health. They repopulate your gut with good bacteria to restore balance to your microbiota (gut microbiome). A balanced microbiota, in turn, can help your gut function better, which leads to better digestion and fewer digestive health issues.
Best Probiotics for Bad Breath
Foods are some of the best sources of probiotics. But if you’re trying to get rid of a medical condition like halitosis, it’s much faster to take a probiotic supplement. Aside from having concentrated amounts of probiotic bacteria, supplements can also be formulated to target a specific health condition.
With that, here are the best probiotics for bad breath:
Formulated with BLIS K12 and Bl-04 probiotic strains, Bionaze is made especially for chronic sinus, ear, nose, throat, and mouth issues.
BLIS K12 is a specific strain of bacteria called Streptococcus Salivarius. It’s commonly found in the throat and mouth of healthy people. In one study, 23 people with chronic bad breath undertook a regimen of mouthwash and lozenges with BLIS K12. After a week, researchers recorded a reduction in the stinky sulfuric gases emitted by harmful bacteria in the mouth. They concluded that BLIS K12 helps suppress the growth of a type of black-pigmented bacteria that is often linked with halitosis.
Bionaze also comes in lozenge form. This makes it easier for the good bacteria to colonize your oral cavities and get rid of the bad breath-causing ones.
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2. Restore Oral Probiotics
A blend of 11 probiotic strains from the Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium family, Restore’s Oral Probiotics is another great probiotic supplement for oral and dental health issues.
The Lactobacillus species is the go-to probiotics for the prevention and treatment of halitosis. Bifidobacterium, on the other hand, works in the gut and helps with intestinal disorders that cause bad breath. In short, this probiotic supplement works on both oral and gut health issues that are giving you that foul-smelling breath.
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3. Replenish the Good Dental Probiotics
This chewable probiotic has 3 billion colony-forming units of Lactobacillus and S. salivarius strains. Though it’s labeled as a dental probiotic, its formulation works for many oral health issues too including halitosis. It’s especially helpful if your bad breath is caused by rotting teeth, plaque, or gum diseases like gingivitis and periodontitis.
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4. Oral Complete Dental Probiotics
Aside from replenishing the good bacteria in your mouth, this probiotic supplement also claims to neutralize the acid in your mouth preventing plaques and strengthening teeth enamel. It also has Bifidobacterium strains that help strengthen your gut barrier and prevent halitosis-inducing gastrointestinal diseases.
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5. Hyperbiotics Pro-Dental Oral Probiotics
Another highly-recommended dental probiotic, Hyperbiotics Pro-Dental Oral Probiotics boasts a proprietary blend of four Lactobacillus strains. It also contains chelated zinc that helps strengthen your teeth and improve your sense of taste and smell.
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Other Probiotic Sources
Aside from supplements, you can also get your dose of probiotics from eating foods like:
- sourdough bread
The probiotics you’ll get in these foods, however, may not be as concentrated as what you’d get in supplements. Besides, each of these foods contains many different types of strains that aren’t really targeted for a specific health concern. But before taking any probiotic supplement, it’s always a good idea to consult your doctor first.
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Breast tissue changes throughout the month in adult women. Some changes are normal, but some may require a physician’s attention. It is important that you know the signs and symptoms of breast cancer. When it is discovered early, you have more treatment options and a better chance for long-term survival. In fact, when breast cancer is diagnosed and treated in its early stages, the five-year survival rate is 95 percent.
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The science of “Acupressure”
Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to press key points on the surface of the skin to stimulate the body’s natural self-curative abilities. When these points are pressed, they release muscular tension and promote the circulation of blood and the body’s life force to aid healing. Acupuncture and acupressure use the same points, but acupuncture employs needles, while acupressure uses the gentle but firm pressure of hands and feet.
Using acupressure is a great way to balance the body and maintain good health. The healing touch of acupressure reduces tension, increases circulation, and enables the body to deeply relax. By relieving stress, acupressure reduces blood pressure and strengthens resistance to disease while promoting a feeling of overall wellness. At Guo Chinese Medical Center all of our massage treatments are combined with acupressure for a more complete healing experience.
Here are some of the benefits of massage therapy
- Improves circulation
- Reduces blood pressure
- Relieves muscle tension
- Stimulates the immune system
- Relieves chronic pain
- Improves range of motion
- Improves focus and concentration
- Calms the mind
- Creates a relaxed state of alertness
- Relieves stress
- Reduces anxiety levels
Here is an example of some massage techniques that we combine with acupressure
The benefit of many techniques is that therapists can better address the many conditions of their patients.
- Swedish massage – uses a system of long gliding strokes, kneading and friction (rubbing) techniques on the top layers of muscle to promote relaxation.
- Neuromuscular therapy – applies finger pressure to “trigger points” (painful, irritated areas in muscle) in order to break the cycle of spasm or pain
- Sports massage (Deep Tissue) – is a vigorous massage of the muscles being used in athletic activity.
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The relaunched ChFC designation builds on a foundation of core financial planning education by adding applied lessons on topical issues such as client divorces, retirement income planning and behavioral finance. A module on how to provide quality guidance for families with special needs children has been added to the designation program, the firm explains, along with a module on societal issues impacting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
“Families and financial situations are more diverse and complex than ever, and there is clearly no one formula for financial advisers to follow when providing guidance,” explains Craig Lemoine, chartered financial consultant program director at The American College.
The ChFC designation requires nine college-level courses, with seven of the courses focused on fundamental financial planning curriculum and two new required courses titled “Applications in Financial Planning I” and “Applications in Financial Planning II.”
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With April fast approaching, this is the right time you start preparing your children to send them back to school. Gone are those days when glitter pens, sparkly notebooks and chunky backpacks enhanced their interest. Nowadays, a new school year is almost a nightmare for the majority of children. It brings a feeling of stress and anxiety, irrespective of their age. If you want to minimise the level of tension and agitation when getting your student ready to go back to school, there are a few tips you can follow.
4 Useful Tips To Help Your Children Get Back To School
Decide A Fixed Bedtime
Though kids go to bed late during summer, their bedtime should be fixed. It will become easier for them to adjust their sleeping schedule once their school starts. It is the responsibility of the parents to choose a school bedtime and start following it at least a week before their school starts. If you feel that a sudden change in their night will disrupt their sleeping pattern, work on it slowly. A sudden change in their bedtime might become a shock for them on their first day of school.
Make A Homework Routine
Children should know that they have to complete their homework on time before their school starts. Not only do you have to create a homework routine but also choose a silent electronic-free space where children can complete their assignments peacefully. They should also be given some time every day when they can indulge in academic activities like reading, writing or flashcards. This will make transition to real homework easier.
Choose A Place To Keep Their School Items
If you don’t want your house to become a mess once their school starts, make sure you choose a specific place where your children can keep their school items. This will prevent them from dropping their backpacks, shoes, lunchboxes and jackets at random places once they are back from school. They won’t also have to waste their time running and looking for the school items they need every morning.
Buy Some New Items
Just enrolling your child in the best school isn’t sufficient, there are a few things you have to buy before their new school year starts. Sort the old clothing and check which dress still fits. Few items you should definitely have in the wardrobe are socks, pants, t-shirts and shoes. Though buying a few new things won’t punch a hole in your pocket, they will help in reducing your child’s stress level. Donate the clothes which don’t fit instead of throwing them away.
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The Atlantikwall Museum Noordwijk consists of a series of bunkers from the Second World War.
This allows you to form a picture of life in the bunkers during the war and the way in which the European coast was turned into a fortress by the Germans.
At 250 meters from the Bosweg, on the Verlengde Bosweg 1, lies on the cycle path in the Noordwijk battery, consisting of a fire control bunker, artillery bunkers, ammunition bunkers and residential bunkers connected by a tunnel system.
Volunteers have worked hard in recent years to make it possible to open up different bunkers and the corridors to the public.
In 2019 our museum received about 8.400 visitors. When will you come ?
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The need to sterilize lab equipment and utensils is growing. Although most common in healthcare, animal research, and medical treatment facilities, needs are increasing in a variety of lab settings. Frequently used and potentially hazardous sterilizing agents include formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, and ethylene oxide. All have been in use for decades. More than 40 years ago, in 1977, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) estimated 75,000 workers nationwide were potentially exposed, with more than 10,000 sterilizers in use.1 Ethylene oxide and formaldehyde are both classified as human carcinogens. Further, ethylene oxide is very explosive. The Safety Guys have written about both of these previously. Therefore, this article will focus more on glutaraldehyde as its use gains in need and acceptance.
Glutaraldehyde is used for sterilization in many medical, dental, and veterinary surgical facilities because it is efficient and performs at cool or room temperatures compared with autoclaving or steam sterilization. Glutaraldehyde- based chemical agents are used to disinfect medical equipment that cannot be subjected to extreme heat. Examples include lensed devices used in surgery, endoscopy, and respiratory therapy. Trade names of glutaraldehydebased products include, but are not limited to, Cidex, Sonacide, Sporicidin, Hospex, and Omnicide.
The average surgical or research facility most likely uses the small-countertop, self-contained sterilizing cabinets or tubs. All glutaraldehyde use should entail careful installation, rigorous maintenance, and employee protections.
Let’s begin with some definitions.2 Here are the definitions of the different terms used when discussing sterilization:
Sterilant: Physical or chemical agent(s) or process that completely eliminates or destroys all forms of life, particularly microorganisms.
Disinfectant: An agent that destroys pathogens by physical or chemical means. (Disinfection processes do not ensure the same margin of safety associated with sterilization processes and can vary in their extent of microorganism elimination.)
High-Level Disinfection: A process utilizing a sterilant under less than sterilizing conditions. The process kills all forms of microbial life except for large numbers of bacterial spores.
Typical disinfection activities can range from simple room-temperature soaking to fully automated processing of lensed instruments, such as endoscopes. Potential exposures are discussed below.
Hazard Recognition—Notable Properties
Glutaraldehyde, at room temperature, is a pungent, colorless, oily liquid. It is a strong irritant, and the most serious adverse health effect is occupational asthma. Usually used as an aqueous solution, if left uncontrolled, exposure to the vapors is possible. Health effects may be immediate or delayed, with latent periods of a few weeks to several years reported.
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Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have an occupational permissible exposure limit, NIOSH has established a recommended exposure limit of only 0.2 ppm for a regular eight-hour work shift. And the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists currently recommends a threshold limit value of 0.05 ppm as a ceiling (the highest allowed exposure at any time during the work shift).
Exposures to glutaraldehyde as a high-level disinfectant occur primarily during the following activities:
- Activating and pouring glutaraldehyde solution into or out of a cleaning container system (e.g., soaking basin in manual disinfecting operations and reservoir in automated processors).
- Opening the cleaning container system to immerse instruments to be disinfected
- Agitating glutaraldehyde solution
- Handling of soaked instruments
- Removing instruments from the container system
- Rinsing the channels of instruments containing residual glutaraldehyde solution
- Flushing out instrument parts with a syringe
- Drying instrument interiors with compressed air
- Disposing of “spent” glutaraldehyde solutions to the sanitary sewer
- Performing maintenance procedures, such as filter or hose changes on automated processors that have not been prerinsed with water.2
Hazard Evaluation—Are Exposures Present?
Occupational use of glutaraldehyde should involve performing initial monitoring in each area where it is used to accurately determine the airborne concentrations to which employees might be exposed. The most appropriate method is to conduct initial personal exposure monitoring on representative employees directly involved in handling and using glutaraldehyde.
Before conducting initial monitoring, it is good practice to check the room or area for proper ventilation and exhaust. For general ventilation, make sure the room is on dedicated single-pass air without recirculation. Ensure the area is balanced slightly negative to adjacent spaces. Check that the supply flow is adequate and volumes are as designed.
Also examine the disinfection/sterilizer equipment thoroughly. Is the sterilizer exhausted properly according to the manufacturer’s recommendations? Is the exhaust working? How are glutaraldehyde solutions handled? Are associated containers, hoses, and transfer vessels inspected and leak-checked regularly?
After the equipment is checked and the facility ventilation is verified, ensure all employees using the system have proper training. Observe the technician’s performance of a complete disinfection/sterilization cycle. Pay special attention when equipment is unloaded. How are the sterilized materials handled? It is best to get all these things in order before spending money on expensive monitoring.
Hazard Control—Preventing Overexposure
First, we must use good engineering controls and comprehensive training and work practices to prevent potential exposures. Measure supply and exhaust flows and conduct a ventilation test and balance. Ensure equipment is properly installed and exhausted and that there are no leaks. Check for leaks from the sterilizing equipment and supply lines (if so equipped).
One task that we have observed that presents a good chance for uncontrolled release and exposures is during the drying of sterilized materials. With sampling, we have found significant vapor levels can remain after removal from the sterilizer. We would recommend transferring materials to a hood or other exhausted enclosure for a short period to allow vapor control during further handling.
Additional assistance is available from the EPA,3 NIOSH, and OSHA websites. The key to working with hazardous materials is first, recognize the hazards, second, follow up with evaluation of the potential exposures, and finally, design and implement proper controls. Where glutaraldehyde is used, we must ensure proper and sufficient facility supply and exhaust, safe material handling, and routine safety check procedures. Finally, conduct periodic monitoring of air concentrations for personnel and the engineering systems.
1. Special Occupational Hazard Review with Control Recommendations: Use of Ethylene Oxide as a Sterilant in Medical Facilities. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Atlanta, GA. 1977. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic-2/00074545.html
2. Safe Use of Glutaraldehyde in Health Care. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Washington, D.C. 2006. https://www.osha.gov/Publications/glutaraldehyde.pdf
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International desk, April 18: International desk, April 18: North Korea says it has test-fired a new type of “tactical guided weapon”.A report, carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), gave few details but said the weapon came fitted with a “powerful warhead”.
This would be the first public weapons test since talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump ended without agreement.
North Korea made a similar claim last year in what observers saw as an attempt to apply pressure on the US.
Last week, Mr Kim said Mr Trump needed to have the “right attitude” for talks to continue after the summit between the two broke up in February.
According to KCNA, the test was overseen by Mr Kim himself.
The weapon has a “peculiar mode of guiding flight”, KCNA reported, adding that the test was “conducted in various modes of firing at different targets”.
Mr Kim said the development was “of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power of the People’s Army”.
No other details were given, including if it was a type of missile. But the word tactical implies that it is a short-range weapon rather than the long-range ballistic missiles seen as a threat to the US.
A second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi in February failed to make any progress toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Sanctions against the North over its nuclear and missiles programs remain in place.
Kim Dong-yub, a military expert at Kyungnam University’s Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, said the description that the test was “conducted in various modes of firing at different targets” likely meant that it could be launched from the ground, sea and air.
“It’s highly likely that it’s a short-range cruise missile that can be transformed into a surface, an air-to-surface, an air-to-ship, a ship-to-ship, as well as a surface-to-surface cruise missile,” Kim Dong-yub said.
Kim Jong Un also oversaw the test of an unidentified tactical weapon in November that could protect North Korea like a “steel wall”, according to state media. It was not clear whether it was the same weapon tested this week.
Experts said in November it was part of Kim’s initiative to shift the mainstay of the North’s conventional military power from a nearly 1.3 million-strong army to high-tech weapons.
Kim Jong Un said in April 2018 North Korea would stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) because Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities had been “verified”.
Satellite images at North Korea’s main nuclear site last week showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.
The country claims to have developed a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a long-range missile, as well as ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the mainland US.
North Korea analyst Ankit Panda noted that the latest announcement followed fresh US-South Korean military exercises, describing the reported test as “tit-for-tat”.
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