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Part of Wyoming Untrapped's mission is informing the public of the hazards of Wyoming’s inhumane wildlife trapping practices. WU wrote this issue overview in 2014 as a way of conveying those hazards and providing insight into the realities of trapping in Wyoming. Visit our news section for updates on the issues outlined here.
History & Practice of Trapping
Humans have trapped animals for food, fur and other uses since before recorded history. In Wyoming, the fur trade is believed to have begun as early as the 1740s, when French fur trader Pierre de la Verendrye began trading with Native Americans in the Big Horn Mountains.
According to the Wyoming State Historical Society records, Francois Antoine Larocque traded for furs in the Powder River area in 1805.1 But it wasn’t until after 1806, when the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Coast, that trading accelerated in Wyoming. The expedition reported that beaver and their prized pelts were plentiful in the Mountain West, and the stream of explorers seeking their fortunes followed.
Two members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, John Colter and George Drouillard, traded with Native Americans for fur in Wyoming as employees of the St. Louis-based Manuel Lisa fur company. While uncertainty remains, Colter is believed to have trapped in the Cody area, along the Shoshone River and into parts of present-day Yellowstone National Park.
Fur Trade Expands
As popularity and demand for fashionable beaver fur hats increased in Europe, prices increased as well. In turn, more fur-trading companies emerged. John Jacob Astor created the Pacific Fur Company in 1810, and others entered the scene as well. Employees of Astor’s company traveled overland west, toward the mouth of the Columbia River. They crossed Wyoming and traveled over the Wind River Mountains at South Pass. From there, the contingent spotted the Tetons and the Snake River, which they followed to the Columbia River and the Pacific Coast.
Steel trap mass-produced
Until 1810, most fur was acquired from Native Americans, who traded with Europeans for guns and other goods. In the early 1820s, European explorers began their own trapping, when steel leg-hold traps began to be mass produced and widely available.
Between 1820 and 1840, smaller fur companies engaged in the trade, and competition intensified. Trading posts, or forts such as Fort Bonneville on the Upper Green River near Daniel, Wyoming, were built. During this time, annual rendezvous, or trading fairs, began as well. Various alliances between Native American tribes and European traders developed, and battles between these alliances and individual tribes sometimes occurred.
Collapse of an industry
By 1840, tastes in fashion had changed from beaver fur hats to silk. Demand dramatically decreased. Simultaneously, the beaver population was collapsing. Other furs less expensive than beaver began to be used for felting. It became increasingly difficult to make a living in the beaver trapping and trading industry.
Bison and Wolves
During the 1850s and 1860s, demand for beaver fur also shifted to that of bison, deer, elk and wolf. Ubiquitous on the landscape, wolves benefitted from the thousands of bison slaughtered, feeding on the remains left once the animals were skinned. Between 1860 and 1885, wolf pelts became increasingly valuable. The preferred method to kill wolves at that time was not traps, but poison. “Wolfers” would kill and skin a bison and lace the remains with strychnine, and leave the bait. They would return a day or two later and collect pelts.
Fate of the Wolf Sealed
Once bison were nearly wiped out through the 1870s and into the early 1880s, settlers turned to big game animals for a source of meat. Entering the 1890s, settlers had hunted most big game species to numbers that today would qualify them to be listed as endangered species. With much of their prey species disappearing, wolves naturally turned to an increasingly plentiful food source: cattle. As big game disappeared, cattle ranchers from other states like Nebraska and Texas began moving operations to Montana and Wyoming. These critical events — decline of big game and increasing abundance of cattle —determined the fate of the wolf. It became the enemy to both hunters seeking the same prey and ranchers protecting their property. The era of aggressive wolf and coyote trapping began then and persists today.
Wyoming Trapping Today
Most Wyoming folks today have at least a vague sense of the state’s trapping history. Many, however, assume that the practice has largely disappeared. That, of course, is not true. Tens of thousands of furbearing animals and predators are trapped every year in Wyoming alone. Hundreds of thousands are trapped throughout the United States. Except for some restrictions in some areas for marten and beaver, there are no limits on how many furbearing animals can be harvested during the season.
For the state’s 2012-2013 trapping season, The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) recorded 12,296 furbearing animals harvested. Muskrat led the way with 4,837 killed. For beaver, the number was 2,700. The total for bobcat was 1,800, while marten accounted for 1,237 of the total harvest.
Annual harvest reports are based on surveys that furbearer trappers and hunters are asked to voluntarily complete. The surveys are mailed to all who were issued licenses. The return rate for the 2012-2013 season was 27 percent. WGFD extrapolates total harvest numbers based on the completed surveys.
The WGFD counts only furbearer animals harvested. They include badger, beaver, bobcat, marten, mink, muskrat, or weasel.
Bobcat are not counted using the voluntary survey method. Instead, trappers and hunters have been required since 1990 to present pelts for inspection and tagging. The requirement is rooted in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Because bobcat look similar to some protected species, such as the Canada Lynx, wildlife managers want to ensure no protected species are being killed. For the 2012 season, 1,651 bobcats were trapped, and 209 shot.
Besides the Canada Lynx, other protected species in Wyoming include black‐footed ferret, fisher, otter, pika and wolverine.
Predators not counted
In 2010, WGFD stopped including predators in the total harvest count. Counting predators in the previous year, 2009, the total harvest was 33,035.
Animals classified as predators include coyote, jackrabbit, porcupine, raccoon, red fox, wolf, skunk or stray cat. They can be trapped any time, anywhere, in unlimited numbers. Predators fall under the jurisdiction of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture.
“Non-target” animals trapped
The total number of furbearers and predators trapped and killed each year does not include the “non-target” animals inadvertently trapped, including domestic pets. Trappers are not required to report non-target animals trapped, whether they are killed, injured or safely set free. Trappers are required only to report game and protected animals trapped and killed or injured seriously enough to cause death. Game and Fish, however, does not keep records on those incidents.
Some national studies have estimated that as many as two non-target animals are trapped for every one targeted animal. If that estimate is used as a guide, the total number of target and non-target animals trapped each year in Wyoming could approach 100,000, including predators. If only one non-target animal is trapped for every targeted animal, the annual total of trapped animals would be more than 66,000.
While many non-target animals are released unharmed from leg-hold traps, not all are. At least one study found that as many as 50 percent of all animals trapped would sustain cut skin injuries or worse. Injuries worsen the longer the animal remains in the trap. Trappers are not allowed to simply kill a non-target animal, unless it could pose a real threat to the trapper if release was attempted.
Issued licenses dramatically increase
Between 2000 and 2010, the number of furbearer licenses issued in Wyoming increased by 42 percent. That number increased from 1,084 to 1,880. Between 2008 and 2011, the number of licenses stabilized at around 1,900, fluctuating up or down no more than 68. From 2010 to 2012, however, the number increased by 28 percent to 2,636. The dramatic increase in only two years likely was due to a pelt prices hitting a 30-year high.
For a relatively small monetary investment, a bobcat trapper can enjoy a good return. Annual licenses to trap furbearing animals and sell pelts in Wyoming costs $96. A trapper can sell a premium bobcat pelt in good condition and properly processed for as much as $800 at 2014 prices.
The WGFD does not limit the number, type or size of traps set by each license holder. Drawing on trapper surveys returned to the WGFD, officials estimated 15,440 steel spring-loaded traps were set and another 7,150 snares used during the 2012-2013 season. The total number of traps, therefore, was 22,590, not including predator traps.
Trapping seasons, traps and regulations
WGFD regulates trapping seasons, quotas and the practice of trapping as explained below and in the WGFD regulations brochure.
Trapping seasons for most furbearing animals is October 1 through April 30. Seasons for bobcat and marten are Oct. 1 through March 1. There are no seasons for predators such as coyote and fox. Wolves are considered predators, and can be trapped in most of the state most of the time, except for the 15 percent of the state in the northwest identified as the trophy-hunting zone. Wolves also cannot be trapped in an area south of Jackson from Oct. 15 through the end of February.
A conibear trap.
Diagram of a snare.
Leghold trap. Photo by Andy Barron.
Types of traps
- Leg-hold traps: Probably the most well known, this is the steel-jaw trap, triggered when an animal steps on the steel plate in the center. The jaws snap shut on the animal’s leg or foot. The trap is tethered by a cable or chain to an anchor buried in the ground. The animal is attracted to the trap area by nearby bait, often urine or other attractant. The bait is placed in a hole and strategically positioned so that the animal will step into the trap when it investigates the bait. There are many different sizes and styles of leg-hold traps. Trappers are required to check these traps at least every 72 hours in Wyoming.
- Snares: Snares are simple, inexpensive cable devices that typically are suspended along a trail known to be used by the target animal Wyoming regulations require the device to have a breakaway component that will break and release when 295 pounds of pressure is applied. The intent is to allow game such as deer or elk to escape the snare. Trappers will often use visual attractants such as a shiny disc hanging near the snare to draw the animal in. Depending on when a snare is set, a trapper may have up to 13 days between check times.
- Conibear or quick–kill traps: Also referred to as body-gripping traps, these are powerful and intended to instantly kill animals, often clamping on the head. Like snares, check times for these devices could be up to 13 days.
- Live traps: Cages of various sizes designed to entice the animal inside, where it will trip a mechanism that will close the trap and capture it alive.
The use of game meat or parts of a game animal to bait a trap is prohibited. No exposed carcass or part of an animal weighing more than five pounds can be within 30 feet of a trap.
All traps used to trap furbearing or predatory animals in Wyoming must be marked or tagged with the owner’s name and address or ID number issued by the Department of Game and Fish.
Wildlife caught in any trap is considered to be the property of the trapper. It is illegal to release an animal from a trap owned by another person. It is illegal to tamper with or spring a trap owned by another person.
Disposition of trapped wildlife
Trappers are required to immediately kill or release targeted animals caught in a trap, unless the trapper is licensed to capture and keep furbearing animals. All non-target animals must be released. Game and protected species caught and seriously injured or killed must be reported to the Department of Game and Fish. Trappers have no legal responsibility for a trapped domestic animal, whether it is a dog or livestock.
Trapping setbacks and closed areas
Trapping is allowed on most public lands in the state. Trappers cannot place traps within 30 feet of the edge of a designated road. These restrictions do not apply to two-track roads that aren’t officially numbered or to hiking trails. Examples of closed areas are Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park and the National Elk Refuge. Some other wildlife refuges throughout the state, such as Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, may allow limited trapping by special permit, primarily for beaver. Some areas such as Cache Creek in Jackson are closed to beaver trapping. The Rawhide Wildlife Management Area northwest of Torrington is closed to all trapping October 1 through February 15. WGFD owns the land, and decided to close it to trapping during that time after a bird hunter’s dog was killed in a trap.
Buying and selling pelts
Trappers who plan to buy or sell pelts of furbearing animals must obtain a fur dealer’s license from the state.
The use of an aircraft, motor vehicle or snowmobile to harass or pursue wildlife is prohibited, except for predators. The use of artificial light to hunt wildlife, except predators, also is prohibited.
Wyoming Untrapped Recommendations for Change
Among the 50 states in the nation, Wyoming gets a D+ grade from a 2012 Born Free USA survey of state trapping regulations.8 This is only one indication that Wyoming’s trapping regulations are antiquated and in serious need of reform.
Despite claims by trapping associations and individuals that trapping is a “highly regulated” activity, that simply is not true. Regulations vary widely from state to state, and Wyoming’s are some of the most relaxed.
Trapping is a practice that kills thousands of furbearing animals in Wyoming every year. Trapping also kills and injures thousands of “non target” animals, including domestic pets. Some studies indicate that twice as many non-target to target animals are killed.
For the 2012-2013 season, Wyoming issued 2,636 trapping licenses, a 28 percent increase from the 2010-2011 season of 1,880 licenses. The surge was likely due to strong demand for fashion fur from China and Russia, which has driven pelt prices to a 30-year high. The number of licenses issued between 2000 and 2013 more than doubled, from 1,084 to 2,636. More traps and trappers will mean more problems associated with the practice.
Despite this increasing number, it represents a small percentage of the state’s population of nearly 600,000. Compared to the millions of tourists who visit the state each year, the number is miniscule. This tiny group threatens the safety of all people and pets that use our public lands.
Trappers can place traps almost anywhere on public lands, including in the middle of a hiking trail. While fur trapping is restricted to the winter season, trapping for predators such as coyote and fox can occur year round and requires no license. The public will never be safe on public lands until trapping is reformed.
The most commonly used trap is the leg-hold, steel-jaw trap. Because of the injuries it causes, this trap has been declared inhumane by the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Animal Hospital Association. This trap has been banned or severely restricted in 80 countries and eight U.S. states.9
The body-gripping, quick-kill Conibear trap has been banned in five states. While it is intended to kill quickly, it does not. Born Free USA research found that approximately 40 percent of animals caught in a Conibear trap die slow, painful deaths due to crushed abdomens, heads or other body parts.10
Snares are inexpensive, simple and also do not instantly kill animals caught. They are intended to strangle animals. Small animals usually strangle within five to 10 minutes. Larger animals, however, can suffer for days before dying. Twelve states have banned snares.
Short of an outright ban on traps on public land, we believe the need for reform is obvious and urgent.
Regulatory changes needed
Area Closures and setbacks
Areas that are heavily used by hikers, bikers, skiers and other recreationists, especially those where many dogs enjoy running free, should be closed to trapping or setbacks increased. As the practice of trapping increases with market demand for furs, so also will the hazards posed to children, adults and pets. Areas used for bird hunting with dogs also should be closed to trapping. Many bird dogs have been killed in the large Conibear traps. Public lands should be enjoyed by all, and not just by the few who exploit them for their own gain.
An alternative to complete closure of an area could be increased setbacks from roads and the creation of setbacks along heavily used trails. Currently, trappers cannot place snares or conibears within 30 feet of the edge of a designated road. Legholds are an exception. No restrictions apply to trails.
We will work with authorities at the federal and state level, as well as with groups and individuals to identify areas and advocate for their closure. We will follow the example of those in other states who have successfully increased setbacks or closed areas to trapping. In Montana, several groups have succeeded in increasing setbacks in popular areas by as much as 500 feet. They are in the process of identifying more areas for expanded setbacks. We have been in touch with these groups so that we can learn and apply their strategies here in Wyoming.
Where areas cannot be closed or setbacks increased, numerous warning signs should be posted. The US Forest Service has cooperated in placing temporary laminated warning signs at trailheads during the winter trapping season. We recommend permanent signs, since predator trapping can occur year round. We also recommend more signs, perhaps on smaller posts along popular routes, to ensure that if the trailhead sign is missed, others will not be.
Signs like this one could be placed more visibly near trailheads and campgrounds.
Traps like this one can be placed very close to roads, and right along trails in Wyoming.
Trap check times
Trappers in Wyoming are required to check their leg-hold traps at least every 72 hours. Currently, 26 states require a 24-hour trap check period. Western states with this regulation include California, Colorado, Arizona, Washington and New Mexico.
Researchers and trappers themselves recognize that early-morning trap checks every 24 hours significantly reduce injury and suffering to target and non-target animals. We believe the state of Wyoming should acknowledge in its regulations the best practices recommended by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. That organization recommends 24-hour check times.
For quick-kill Conibear traps and snares, the check time period could be as long as 13 days, depending on which day of the week the trap or snare is set. This regulation provides too much latitude and flexibility to assure a reasonable measure of well being for animals. We believe the check time period should be changed to no more than 72 hours, or ideally 24 hours.
Require safer practices
Some states require that the quick-kill Conibear traps be elevated from the ground by at least five feet to prevent dog trapping. In Michigan, a group of people is pushing for trapping methods that would better ensure safety for dogs. The group has recommended that Conibear traps be placed in a rectangular wooded box and attached to a post or tree at least five feet off the ground.
Furbearing animals targeted with this trap, such as martens, can climb the tree or post and enter the box from above.
To protect dogs, some states also require raccoon traps that allow the animal to reach into a tube for bait, and in the process pull a lever attached to the bait, springing the trap. Such a trap can only be triggered by a pulling motion a dog is incapable of.
Another ground trap specification that can keep dogs safe is to limit the box size containing the Conibear trap, making it difficult for most dogs to enter with their snout. Additionally, the trap can be recessed in the box at least 12 inches, placing it largely out of reach for most average size dogs.
Require complete reporting
Currently, trappers are not required to report the amount of animals they trap, whether it is a target or non-target species. They are only required to report if a game animal or protected species is trapped and injured to an extent that it will die or did die. While this reporting is required, WGFD does not maintain records on such incidents.
WGFD mails a questionnaire to licensed trappers, and asks them to voluntarily complete and return it. The latest return rate was 27 percent. From those completed forms, WGFD extrapolates the total harvest for all furbearing animals, except predators. WGFD stopped counting predators in 2009.
Fifteen states require such reporting.
Mandatory reporting of trap numbers and locations to WGFD would allow wardens to check to see if trappers are checking their traps as often as required. Otherwise, wardens randomly check areas historically trapped and believed to be prime habitat.
Trappers also should be required to report all animals trapped, whether target or non-target, and to indicate the condition of non-target animals when released. Trappers also should be responsible for contacting the owners of any dogs trapped and found, if possible, or contact the local Game and Fish office. Only one state, Wisconsin, currently requires reporting non-target animals trapped.
To conduct sound wildlife management practices, all species hunted and trapped should be counted. The state should return to the inclusion of predators along with furbearing animals. Wolf kills by trapping or other means must be reported, according to state law.
Require permits for all trapping
Since trapping and killing or releasing wildlife comes with responsibility, we recommend a license be required to trap any animal, including predators. Requiring licenses for all trapping would allow monitoring and result in increased accountability. Predator trapping results in the trapping of non-target species and should be reported.
Trappers should be responsible for any harm caused to people or domestic animals, whether it is livestock or pets. Requiring trappers to be responsible for harm will provide incentive for them to set traps in areas less accessible to people and pets.
Set Quotas for Bobcats
Bobcats are highly sought after animals by trappers because of the high price of their pelts. With prices remaining high, they will be hunted and trapped more heavily and the population will be put at risk. Wyoming has no quotas on bobcat. Eight other states have bans. Wyoming should determine a sound way to measure the population and set quotas accordingly.
People other than trappers use wildlife. Photographers, wildlife tour guides, outdoor recreationists, and many others make up non-consumptive wildlife users.
Non-consumptive Alternatives for Balanced Management
Recent surveys and studies indicate that the number of Wyoming residents and visitors who watch wildlife outnumber and outspend those who hunt and trap wildlife.
In its 2011 survey report, the US Fish and Wildlife Service counted 140,000 resident and non-resident hunters in Wyoming. Another 1,948 held trapping licenses, according to state reports. In contrast, the same survey found that 518,000 residents and visitors engaged in wildlife watching.
The survey indicated that wildlife watchers contributed $350.2 million to Wyoming’s economy; hunters contributed $288.7 million. Trappers added another $18 million.
Hunter numbers flat
Annual surveys indicate that the number of hunters in Wyoming and many other states in recent years has remained relatively flat. Meanwhile, the number of people who watch wildlife has been steadily increasing each year as the tourism economy grows at about 5 percent per year.
This trend eventually will require the WGFD to rethink how it is funded and by whom. Approximately 80 percent of the department’s annual budget of approximately $70 million is funded through hunting and fishing license fees. Much of the remainder is funded through a federal tax on guns, ammunition and fishing gear. But as WGFD operating costs climb, the Wyoming Legislature has refused to allow an increase in license fees. In 2013, the department had to cut its budget by 6.5 percent, or $4.6 million.
Manage for all stakeholders
Wildlife managers in Wyoming and many Western states have prioritized management practices to favor the hunters who fund them.
The number of predators that prey on elk, deer and other species sought by hunters are therefore managed to low levels because hunters believe they compete for the same prey. Wildlife managers also allow open seasons on predators, not to control populations, but for sport. Non-consumptive users like wildlife watchers and conservationists contend that this approach is not necessary and not based on sound science. In short, they believe management is driven by irrational fears and politics.
Non-consumptive users of public resources, however, have no mechanism for financially contributing as hunters do, despite their higher ranking in economic contributions to the state’s economy.
The biggest contributor to Wyoming’s economy is by far the energy sector. Wyoming contains a wealth of oil, natural gas and other valuable deposits such as coal, trona and uranium. For 2012, the industry contributed approximately $10 billion to the state’s economy.
Trailing far behind after energy was the government sector at $4.3 billion. Tourism followed closely at $3.2 billion. Agriculture added $1 billion per year. Livestock accounted for about $800 million of the agriculture sector of the economy.
Parks benefit Wyoming
Wyoming is blessed with seven national parks and monuments. A 2012 visitor survey conducted by the National Park Service’s Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Office found that visitors to Wyoming’s parks spent $721 million in surrounding communities. Most of the millions of park visitors do not come during hunting seasons, so we can safely assume they do not hunt during their visit.
Tourism industry and hunting contribution
Park spending is part of the state’s $3.2 billion tourism economy for 2012, according to the Wyoming Office of Tourism. The total includes a contribution from resident and visitor hunters of $288.7 million and another $463.8 million from anglers, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service survey. Combined, hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers accounted for $1.1 billion of the state’s $3.2 billion tourism economy.
In reviewing the numbers, wildlife watchers outnumber hunters and trappers three to one, and they outspend them by about 18 percent.
Given the growing size of their contribution to the state’s economy, coupled with the WGFD budget crisis, non-consumptive users believe the time is ripe to identify alternative funding and diversify the WGFD budget and management practices.
A variety of schemes have been discussed and some proposed, but no one solution has gained serious traction so far in Wyoming. Past attempts to diversify the way Wyoming Game and Fish is funded has met with stiff resistance. Since 1938, when the Wyoming Legislature shifted most funding for Game and Fish to license fees, the department has controlled its destiny and catered to those who fund it.
In a December 2012 Wyofile article on the WGFD budget crisis, reporter Geoffrey O’Gara noted that most Wyoming outfitters supported the department’s proposed license fee hikes that the Legislature ultimately rejected. That’s because any alternative funding would threaten the influence they have over management.
“When it comes to license fees and herd objectives, we call the shots,” one outfitter said in the story. “Our (out of state) clients are used to paying over $1,000 for a license. I support what they’re doing. Their cost of business goes up like everybody else’s does.”
A large percentage of the license fee increase would have been borne by nonresident hunters.
Despite their differences, a broad coalition of conservation and sportsmen groups united to urge the Legislature to approve the fee hikes as an investment in the state’s economy.
During the 2014 session of the Wyoming Legislature, lawmakers approved a stopgap funding measure for WGFD. The bill, Senate File 45, will provide $2 million to WGFD for grizzly bear management, once the federal government turns it over to the states. The bill also is aimed at paying the $4.7 cost of health care benefits for department employees.
Ironically, hunters and outfitters, as well as conservationists, are wary of funding WGFD from the state’s general fund, because it introduces politics into the equation.
“There’s always that fear” that they will dictate, Wyoming Wildlife Federation Executive Director Steve Kilpatrick recently told the Casper Star-Tribune. “And that’s why the current structure, which was established in 1938, is to keep it as autonomous as possible.”
Conservationists worry that politicians holding the purse strings for wildlife management will take a hard line on predator management, for example, to appease ranching constituencies.
Supporting this worry was a recent Wyoming Stockgrowers Association resolution that supported general fund support for grizzly bear management.
“We feel that clearly that shouldn’t be on the backs of sportsmen,” Association Executive Director Jim Magagna told Wyofile in 2013.
Finding a revenue source not subject to control by hunters or vulnerable to political manipulation will be challenging for Wyoming.
Many ideas have been discussed, but only one recently was proposed as a bill in the Wyoming Legislature by Rep. David Blevins of Powell. It proposed creation of an “awards card program.” The card would be sold through the State Parks and Cultural Resources web site. The cost was not specified in the bill, but Blevins said a price of $10 to $20 had been discussed. He said it was intended to raise $500,000 per year.
Those holding the card would enjoy discounts from merchants who agreed to participate, according to the bill. The bill proposed allocating 45 percent of funds to the WGFD; another 45 percent would be dedicated to state parks capital projects. State parks also would be given 10 percent of the revenue to administer the program.
The bill passed the Wyoming House, but was pulled for further study. It will be introduced again in the 2015 session of the legislature.
Some states such as Missouri, Arkansas, Minnesota and Iowa, levy a sales tax for the specific purpose of partially funding wildlife management and habitat preservation. Each state is different, and a detailed analysis of each is beyond the scope of this paper. A thumbnail sketch of one state, however, could shed some light on how alternative funding for resource management works.
In 2008, Minnesota voters approved a 3/8 percent sales tax to establish its Legacy Fund. Each year the state raises approximately $300 million for this conservation and recreation fund.
The Legacy Fund is divided into four sub funds: Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, Clean Water, and Art and Cultural Heritage. The state’s Department of Natural Resources receives 40 percent of the Legacy Fund total and spends it through each of the four programs.
This particular fund is aimed primarily at preserving wild lands through land purchases or conservation easements, maintaining or cleaning up waterways and ensuring hunting and fishing habitat remain protected.
At least one national organization, Wildlife Forever, which purports to advocate for all wildlife, believes the Legacy Fund delivers big benefits.
“This is the next wave for secure funding for conservation,” said Doug Grann, president and CEO of Wildlife Forever, in an email to WU. “I always wondered why other states are so slow to emulate success.”
In addition to his efforts in Minnesota, Grann was involved in initiatives to add sales tax for conservation in Arkansas and Missouri. He currently is involved in similar efforts in North Dakota.
One of the issues that arises in discussions about using a Minnesota approach for Wyoming is our state’s small population size and how much revenue it can generate.
Minnesota has a population of 5.4 million as of 2010, the last US Census count. Wyoming’s population is 576,000. For 2013, Wyoming generated $946 million in sales tax. One half of one percent of that total would generate $4.7 million, which potentially could be used for a range of conservation programs.
The Wyoming Legislature, however, has been reluctant to levy any new taxes. Wyoming Untrapped will need to further investigate to determine whether this could be a viable option to raise non-consumptive revenue for conservation purposes.
Other states have used various ways to raise money for specific purposes. Specialty license plates are used in Montana, for example, for a variety of organizations to which funds directly flow. The conservation organization Vital Ground had a plate made. It costs vehicle owners $35, $20 of which goes directly to the organization. Last year, the plate raised $71,000, minus costs, for Vital Ground in Montana.
The University of Wyoming had a plate made, and since 2008 has raised $600,000 for scholarships. Such a plate requires approval of the Legislature. Lawmakers have refused to approve any new plates in recent years. The reason is because Wyoming has a small population with a limited number of people buying license plates. Additional plates would spread thin that limited revenue stream, resulting in marginal benefits to organizations after costs are covered.
With some exceptions, hunters and anglers who buy licenses in Wyoming also must buy a $12 conservation stamp. Stamp sales raise approximately $1 million a year, and are used for conservation programs. Programs offering the voluntary purchase of conservation stamps in other states have met with limited success, according to a Wyofile article.
Tax recreational equipment
The idea of taxing the recreational equipment goods used by non-consumptive users is an idea discussed by many through the years. The tax could be similar to the federal Pittman-Robertson 11 percent tax levied on consumptive sporting goods like rifles, ammunition and fishing gear. That federal revenue is returned to the states based on the level of hunter and angler participation in each state. Last year, Wyoming Game and Fish received $13.6 million from the tax.
Those who have discussed a tax on recreational goods suggest that items as simple as birdseed can be taxed. Sleeping bags and spotting scopes could be taxed as well. The revenue could go to WGFD or to a separate fund aimed at wildlife and habitat conservation.
The Wyoming Legislature approved the creation of a state lottery in 2013, and tickets will go on sale in June 2014. While some states earmark a portion of lottery revenue for conservation purposes, Wyoming does not. The first $6 million in revenue raised from the lottery will be distributed to towns and counties according to sales tax distribution formulas. Revenue generated after that will go into the state Permanent Land Fund’s Common School Account.
Many other ideas have been investigated, as reported in a December 2012 Wyofile story:
Conversations with outfitters, hunters, legislators, conservationists, and wildlife managers produced a number of suggestions, none of which seemed bulletproof: license plate sales (not nearly enough revenue), a lodging tax (targeting bird watching tourists and the like), a portion of fuel taxes (competing with the Highway Department), a piece of abundant mineral severance taxes (the state’s cash cow, but only so many teats), a higher subscription price on the publication “Wyoming Wildlife” (that might pay for one truck’s annual fuel bill) and voluntary purchases of conservation stamps by non-hunters (ah, volunteerism – hasn’t solved the problem in Idaho).
Governor Matt Mead has assembled a special task force to address the Wyoming Game and Fish budget crisis. They will be tasked with proposing solutions for a broader funding approach for Game and Fish. The task force is expected to convene soon.
1 Jim Hardee, Fur Trade in Wyoming, Wyoming State Historical Society, http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/fur-trade-wyoming
2 Hank Fischer, Wolf Wars, 2003, p. 13-18
3 WGFD, Annual Report of Small Game, Upland Game, Waterfoul, Furbearer, Wild turkey & Falconry Harvest, 2012
4 The Wildlife Society, Traps, Trapping and Furbearer Management: A Review, 1990.
5 Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Annual Reports, 2003-2013, http://wgfd.wyo.gov/wtest/WGFD-1000485.aspx
6 Billings Gazzette, Demand for fur has market at 30-year high, trappers say, Dec. 25, 2013
7 Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, Furbearing Animal Hunting or Trapping Seasons, through July 31, 2014
8 Born Free USA, State Trapping Report Card, 2012 http://www.bornfreeusa.org/a10_trapping_reportcard.ph
9 Born Free USA, Exposing the Myths: The Truth About Trapping http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?p=53&more=1
10 Animal Protection Institute, Cull of the Wild, 2004
11 WGFD, Annual Report, 2013, p. xv. http://wgfd.wyo.gov/wtest/Departments/WGFD/pdfs/WGFDANNUALREPORT_20130005237.pdf
12 WGFD, Game and Fish Seeks Feedback on Budget Cuts, July, 2013 http://wgfd.wyo.gov/web2011/NEWS-1001546.aspx
13 Wyoming Department of Administration and Information, Gross Domestic Product for Wyoming, 2012, https://www.google.com/#q=wyoming+economic+analysis+division
14 National Park Service, National Park Spending Effects, 2012, http://www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/docs/NPSVSE2012_final_nrss.pdf
15 Wyoming Office of Tourism, Wyoming Travel Impacts, 2012 http://www.wyomingofficeoftourism.gov/research-and-reports/annual-reports/
16 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wild-Associated Recreation, 2011 http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/fhw11-wy.pdf
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(CN) - A coalition of fishing interests challenged the emergency closure of East Coast black sea bass fishing, saying the species is no longer overfished and there is no "emergency." United Boatmen, The Recreational Fishing Alliance and 10 charter boat owners and bait companies say the 6-month federal closure was based on a faulty survey of anglers.
Record rainfall made this a bad year for fishing black sea bass, and the emergency closure will devastate the fishing community from North Carolina to Maine, the plaintiffs claim in New Jersey Federal Court.
Black sea bass stocks have been characterized as overfished since the first federal black sea bass management plan in 1996, but the plaintiffs say that in 2008 the stocks exceeded rebuilding benchmarks, largely due to "sacrifices by fishermen."
Plaintiffs say recreational black sea bass fishing nets $1.3 million for the State of New Jersey alone. And although the rule applies only to federal offshore waters, that's where black sea bass are during the winter.
A "much criticized" angler survey forms the basis of the closure decision, though it was never intended to be used for that purpose, the fishermen claim.
They say the rule violates the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Act and other laws because it provides no alternatives, didn't follow the rule-making process and failed to assess all impacts. The National Marine Fisheries Service allegedly implemented the closure despite a fishery commission vote against it.
The fishing groups, represented by Raymond Bogan of Sinn, Fitzsimmons, Cantoli, Bogan & West in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., seek declaratory and injunctive relief.
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How new teachers fare at a troubled school
Donna Foote spent a year at troubled Locke High School in Watts observing and documenting the workaday struggles of four new teachers.
In her recently published book, “Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach For America,” Foote delves into the lives of the teachers she met and reveals much about the high school.
Locke is in transition: The Los Angeles Unified School District turned it over last month to Green Dot Public Schools, a charter operator that plans to break Locke up into eight smaller campuses to boost student performance.
The teachers Foote chronicled during the 2005-06 school year were hired through Teach For America, a national group that places recent college graduates in urban schools and requires them to teach for at least two years. In the L.A. region, Locke had more teachers from the group than any other school. The teachers Foote followed -- Phillip Gedeon, Hrag Hamalian, Taylor Rifkin and Rachelle Snyder -- have remained in education; only one, Gedeon, had expected teaching to be his career.
Here is an interview with Foote, a former correspondent for Newsweek who lives in Manhattan Beach, on the eve of Locke’s transformation.
You say that resources weren’t a problem at Locke; rather, the school has “no culture of achievement.” What did you mean by that?
For the last 20 years, the school has been flat-lining. . . . It’s a very large school situated in a very bad neighborhood. Unstable gang and crime problems. Unstable families, a large immigrant population, many of whom are not conversant in English. A whole culture of poverty that leads to a lack of a culture of achievement.
How can that be reversed?
There are models out there in schools in equally bad neighborhoods that can exploit the natural gifts these kids have. The Green Dot model is one. I think smaller is better, but for my money the most important ingredient is the quality of teaching. A disproportionate number of lower-achieving teachers tend to end up at places like Locke. Having said that, you and I know there are a lot of great, dedicated teachers there. There’s just not enough of them. . . . I absolutely did not meet a single kid who didn’t want to learn.
How about parents? Did you sense they are too busy with their own working lives to get involved?
The school really hasn’t made an effort to reach out to them. It didn’t happen. I found this really interesting: Whenever some of the teachers had real problems and called a parent, inevitably the parent would say this was the first time they’d ever heard from a teacher and things would turn around. . . . What I saw is that if you really reach out to them, of course they want their kids to achieve.
You had such great access to the teachers and students. You wrote about their lives, personally and professionally. Did you even attend the field trips that you wrote about?
Yes, I went on the trip to Catalina. What really sticks with me is this: There were four or five adults and 20 kids. There was no bus, so the adults drove the kids home and to the boat. I had four boys in my car Friday afternoon. They asked if we could stop at a McDonald’s. We get in the drive-through lane and I say it’s too long. I said, “Let’s park and go inside.” They said: “We can’t.” They looked a little sheepish. They had on blue. It was Bloods [gang] territory. It kind of broke my heart. Their lives are so circumscribed: They can’t go to McDonald’s without fearing for their lives.
What’s happening to the four teachers that you followed? Are they staying in education?
Yes, they are all still in education. . . . I have to say one of the things I took from my experience is what an amazing generation this is, so smart, so driven. . . . I feel very lucky to have met them and shared this journey.
How did you decide to write about Teach For America?
I had been watching Teach For America since the beginning. I began keeping clips, but I never thought I had a good peg. My niece had done it. In the spring of 2005, I saw a little press release that said 12% of the graduating class at Yale had applied for TFA and 11% at Harvard and Princeton. . . . It struck me how interesting to see how we educate our most impoverished through the eyes of our most privileged.
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But what really got [Gedeon] that week was the realization that, at Locke, he really was considered one of the best teachers. That was crazy! If I’m one of the best, what does that say about everyone else? He knew his kids were learning and achieving. But he was a first-year teacher; he had so much more to learn. He was only doing what should be the norm for every teacher: setting high expectations, holding his kids accountable, and working his butt off. There was nothing amazing about it. It should have been standard operating procedure.
[Taylor Rifkin] felt so good about what she was doing that she would have taught at Locke High School without pay. This is the biggest accomplishment I’ve ever had -- maybe the biggest I ever will have.
These kids had so much anger. Their short fuses freaked Taylor out. Even the girls were explosive -- even the ones you didn’t think had it in them sometimes erupted. Through her tears, Taylor made some decisions. The next unit she taught would be about race.
Several kids were primary school readers. The rest were not much farther ahead. The kids had biology textbooks, but they were stacked along the walls; no one could read them.
There were no systems in place at Locke. Teachers hoarded supplies, and books that had been ordered and paid for were never distributed . . . and the school counselors didn’t have functioning computers. There was a budget, estimated to be around 20 million dollars, but nobody ever saw it. . . . The adults at Locke were failing the kids. | <urn:uuid:5cce8730-29c2-410a-9bda-a394ed6faf69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-03-me-lockebook3-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.987227 | 1,339 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Arsenic (As) is a poisonous metalloid that is persistent in many soils and aquifers worldwide. This element has a high affinity for iron (Fe) and sulfur (S) minerals, and in anoxic environments As is thought to be mobilised through the oxidation and reduction of these minerals, where bacterial metabolisms are directly involved. In these conditions some bacteria derive energy from arsenate [As(V)] respiration, releasing arsenite [As(III)], the more toxic and mobile As oxyanion; other bacteria catalyse the reverse reaction, where As(III) is used as an electron donor and oxidised to the least mobile As(V). Electron microscopy and metagenomics-proteomics are the tools conventionally used to study these systems, however, they are limited to spatially correlate metabolically active microorganisms. Thus, the bacterial mechanisms of As and Fe oxidation/reduction remain poorly understood. In this project, model As and Fe reducing/oxidising bacteria were analysed using nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) for the first time. These techniques were selected due to their high spatial resolution, high sensitivity and accurate isotope ratio analysis, where stable isotope probing was used to image metabolically active bacteria using NanoSIMS. The model As(V) and Fe(III)-reducing bacteria, Geobacter sulfurreducens and Shewanella sp. strain ANA-3, were assessed in order to evaluate As mobilisation from sorbed As(V) on an Fe(III)-oxyhydroxide mineral. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and NanoSIMS allowed the inference of the predominant extracellular electron transport (EET) mechanisms, where G. sulfurreducens requires direct cell-mineral contact, in contrast to S. ANA-3 that uses flavins as electron shuttles. Additionally, a multistep As mobilisation mechanism was proposed for S. ANA-3. ToF-SIMS was further used for the identification of key molecules involved in the EET process in S. ANA-3, although single cells could not be imaged and biomarkers, for instance from flavins, were scarcely detected. Furthermore, two recently isolated denitrifying As(III) and Fe(II)-oxidising bacteria, Acidovorax sp. strain ST3 and Paracoccus sp. strain QY30, were studied as well as their biomineral products. In these systems high concentrations of As(III) were removed via the formation of Fe(III) precipitates, and quantitatively analysed using transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (S/TEM-EDS) complementary to NanoSIMS, SEM and X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD). Periplasmic encrustation and cell surface coating with Fe minerals were also identified. Moreover, single cells of both As-Fe reducing/oxidising systems were depth-profiled in NanoSIMS, where the subcellular As and Fe spatial distributions were imaged and modelled in 3D. This multi-technique approach successfully analysed active As and Fe respiring bacteria at the nanoscale, and NanoSIMS could rapidly become an established imaging tool used in Geomicrobiology and diverse redox systems. | <urn:uuid:bbcd7e39-2991-447d-8189-79495f3444af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/exploring-the-metalmicrobe-interface-using-advanced-mass-spectrometry-techniques(1e9dbe79-7310-4f5b-9f05-be5d3c8f1254).html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937701 | 714 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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The world depends more and more on lithium-ion batteries — today's ultimate rechargeable energy store. Some of the world’s most innovative companies are finding new and better ways to extend and mobilize our power grid through the high energy density of lithium. Can we find better and more sustainable ways to extract and process the raw materials needed for this clean energy revolution? We believe the answer is a resounding YES.
We look around the world and see a lithium mining industry that is struggling to bring new production on line. Strong demand and rising lithium prices will drive new development, but what will new lithium mines look like? Our future customers are in the news almost daily for shattering paradigms and painting a picture of a “Super Future”. We believe the next generation of producers of the raw materials critical for the clean energy revolution must participate in this innovation.
The products of the new clean energy economy must not only perform better; they must also perform more sustainability. As a lithium developer, we must address the crucial environmental and social questions around resource extraction, and then use all available solutions to maximize the benefit of our resources while minimizing the impact on people and the environment.
At our Clayton Valley Project in Nevada and on every project that we consider, the Pure Energy team will not be constrained by historical precedent. The Company is currently evaluating non-evaporation based lithium brine processing in Nevada, and our thinking may be equally far “outside the box” on our next project.
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Sound is an integral part of pretty much any video, but getting it right can seem like quite an undertaking. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be that hard to make your video sound great – and in the following guide, I’ll show you how you get it done.
We’ll go a bit more in-depth on the individual components that make up the soundscape of your video a little later in the guide – but let’s start out with some basic tips for making your video sound great:
My six tips when it comes to sound and music in videos
When I’m doing and editing sound for video, here are my rules of thumb:
1. Don’t clutter your mix:
Whenever there’s dialogue or narration, keep the music low enough so that the voices can be clearly heard. If you’re using sound effects, be sure to balance things so the music and effects are not competing for the same space in your mix. If there are parts of your video without sound effects or voice-over, you can take the music up a notch.
In general, if you feel your mix is becoming cluttered, narrow things down: Think about what’s essential to a given scene – perhaps it’s the dialogue, perhaps it’s the ambient sound or some sound effect. Make sure that the sounds in question are allowed to stand out, and weed out less relevant sounds. Be sure to compare your mix to other videos to hear if you’ve got the balance right.
2. Be creative in your editing:
If you’re finding that several sound elements are clashing in your mix, you’ll of course want to adjust the levels to get the balance right as described above. But it’s also worth seeing if moving voices or sound effects around a bit – or editing the music differently – can sort out the problem. For example: Having the sound of a massive explosion and dialogue going at the same time, and expecting both to stand out, won’t work – move things around ever so slightly, so that each element gets its own space in time.
3. Think about the flow:
When you’re using music in your video, you’re getting a lot handed to you when it comes to the flow, so always think in the rhythm of the music when you’re editing. And in general, proper sound editing is crucial to getting the right flow in your video – and trying to combine two music tracks without careful editing, not tweaking transitions, or using large number of different tracks in a short time span will break the spell for your audience.
So be sure to make your soundscape follow what’s happening in your visuals, create subtle transitions and keep things simple.
4. Don’t distract the viewer (unless it’s on purpose):
Music with vocals/lyrics is something that stands out in the soundscape of your video, so use it wisely. Keep your viewer focused with instrumental tracks whenever you want your visuals or story to take center stage, and use melodic content sparingly. If you have sequences with montage-like content, this is an area where you can bring in the more melodic stuff, or vocal tracks, to great effect – if it fits with your overall presentation.
5. Use the power of silence:
Music is a powerful tool in your sonic toolbox, but cramming wall-to-wall music into your video can easily lead to listener fatigue. And that way music will lose its magic. Using it sparingly, deliberately, as a story-telling and driving tool to ensure you’re making the most of what it has to offer.
6. Take a step back and bring in fresh ears: When you’ve worked on a video for a while, it’s incredibly easy to grow accustomed to the way your project sounds. The bad news is that some sound elements might be way off or incorrectly balanced. That’s when you need to take a break, go for a walk, stop for the day or do something else totally unrelated to your project for a while. After you’ve given your ears a bit of a rest, it becomes far easier to hear what’s really happening in your soundscape and mix. Oh, and taking notes when your ears are fresh is a great idea.
Also ask others for input on the sound side of your project too. In my experience as a composer, letting others listen to my unfinished work allows me to take a mental step back from the project and imagine what they think about it. This often makes me aware of details I didn’t notice when I was busy working on the music – so it’s really helpful in getting some perspective on what works and what doesn’t.
Why not give it a shot and see if it works for you too?
Now, let’s look a little deeper into the individual sound components that make up the soundscape of most videos: Music, sound design and voices. First up is the music:
Chances are you’ll be using music in your video, as it’s a brilliant tool for setting the tone, shaping your story and gluing different parts of your video together. But how do you find the right music?
Setting the direction
First off, you’ll want to find out what works for your specific project. Perhaps you already have a track in mind – if you do, try playing it along with your video to see if it really works as well as you imagined. Sometimes you’ll be surprised how different a piece of music works when used with the actual video.
Keep your eyes and ears open on how others use music in their videos – their choice in music and editing might be just the spark that sets you off in the right direction.
A shortcut to finding the right music can be to use temp tracks – details here
Finding the actual music
Once you’ve decided on the direction you want for your music, it’s time to start finding it.
But first, a warning: Don’t just use any MP3 or album track you come across – if you do, you might wreck your entire project! Why?
Because without a proper license for the music you’re using, you’ll likely end up seeing your entire project being removed from sites such as Youtube and Vimeo – and you might even get sued by record labels, composers or other right’s holders.
And if you’re doing a project for a client, they won’t exactly be over the moon if the work you’ve done for them lands them in hot water. It might not happen right off the bat – but it’s a risk not worth taking.
So when you’re using music with your video, it’s absolutely VITAL that you have a license in place to do so. And just owning an album or an MP3 does not give you the right to use it in your video, unfortunately.
Luckily, it’s not hard to find music that you can safely use for your project. Here are some of the ways you can do it:
* Bring in a composer: If you have the budget, bringing a good composer on board will give your project exactly the sound you’re after. The music will be tailor-made to your specific project, it will be yours exclusively – and the process of working with another creative can be very inspiring and give your entire project a boost.
I’d argue that if you find the right composer, it’s the approach that makes your project sound its very best.
* License an existing track: If you’ve fallen in love with a particular track for your project from a signed artist, why not find out what it’s going to cost you to license it? Give the artist’s record label a call or fire off an email, outline how and where you’re looking to use the track and they’ll often be happy to provide a quote. Just be prepared that it might cost you a lot.
But hey, you’ll never know till you’ve tried, so if you find a particular track critical to your video, give it a go and find out what it’ll take to get the music in your project.
* Use royalty-free music: If your budget is limited, or you’re short on time, royalty-free music can be a cheap shortcut for getting music in your video. Royalty-free music is licensed on a per-project basis, and is often quite cheap.
You’ll often find the same tracks being used over and over again in different projects, as composers make their money on having as many people as possible licensing their work. You can find royalty-free music on a myriad of sites online – but make sure to read the licensing terms on the sites to know what you’re allowed to do with the given track.
Bonus tip – a clever way of finding the right music:
Here’s one approach that many people often don’t think about – and it’s a solution that can work wonders for your project if you’re looking for music, and your budget is limited. So what is it?
License existing music from a composer – with customizations.
Composers often keep a catalogue of tracks handy that they’ve created in their spare time, for projects that never got off the ground and similar. So if you’ve found a composer whose work you really like, but you don’t have the budget for custom compositions, be sure to ask if they have something in their private library which could be useful.
The great advantage here is that, since the composer most likely has the original music project at hand, it’s easy for him or her to tweak the music so it fits exactly with your project. You just won’t get that with off-the-shelf music.
How to use music in your video
There are many different ways of using music in your videos – and a lot of it comes down to gut-feeling, experience and personal preference.
Music Editor Chris Ledesma shares his insights
And even though your video may very different from a Simpson’s episode, there are still valuable tips to be picked up.
At the end of this guide, I’m also share my tips on some of the most important things to look out for when it comes to using music in your videos.
If your video needs voices – say, for voice-over, character voices or dubbing – finding out exactly how to go about it can be a little daunting. Let’s simplify it a bit:
1. It all starts with your script
A great voice-over starts with a great script, and when it comes to voice-over, there are a few things you want to focus on.
a. Write the way you speak. There’s often a major difference between how you write and how you speak, and people often far more informal when speaking. And – depending on your subject matter, of course – you’ll want that informal tone to come across in your script writing as well to make your script flow, so have it in mind while writing.
b. Avoid complex sentences. If you go for long, complex sentences, your audience might get lost halfway through as there’ll be visuals and other sounds competing for their focus too. Keep your sentences simpler than you perhaps normally do in writing, and keep the lengths down so as not to lose your audience.
c. Try it out. Read your text aloud to get a feel for it – and record it and play it back to yourself to hear if it works. If not, rewrite. You can also add a dummy voice recording to your video to find out if the flow is right.
For more tips on writing scripts for voice-over, check out edge studio’s guide here. And if your project will be in several languages, be sure to read my guide on preparing your script for localization too.
Finding the voices
The best way to key in on the right voice – and determine if you’ve found the right voice talents for the job – is to listen to their demos. And if you got a hunch you’ve found the right voice for your project, but can’t quite tell from the demos, many talents will read a snippet of your script on request to help you decide.
We’ve selected demos from some of the best voice talents around – hear them in the box on the right. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for, let us know and we’ll be glad to help you out.
If you need character voices or dubbing, you’ll want to work with voice talents who can act. It’s not a given that all talents can act – some are simply great at narrating with their signature sound, but have limited to no acting abilities.
If you have someone help you find the talents for your project, let them know you need people who can act.
“Should I do my own voice-over to save some money?”
So if you’ve got a great voice, if you know how to use it, and you have the right recording and editing equipment, give it a go (but be sure to check out Randy Coppinger’s ten tips for vocal recording) – if not, bring in the cavalry (AKA an experienced voice actor and recording studio) to make sure your message is delivered in a professional manner.
Voice-over is a specialist skill – and, thankfully, there are a lot of talented voice actors to pick from. They’ve got the vocal chords, the gear and the experience to deliver great vocal performances.
Recording and processing
When you’ve found your preferred actor, it’s time to get the voices recorded. Let your studio know the details on the sort of performance you’re looking for, and add notes to the script if specific lines need to be read in a certain way. You can choose to get the full, raw recordings, but often times it pays to get an edited version from your studio.
Sound editing tools
One of our favorite tools when it comes to sound editing is Sony Vegas Pro. It’s a multi-track editor that allows for some in-depth editing of both music, sound effects and voices – and allows you to view and work with your visuals at the same time. If you’re looking for free alternatives, Reaper is worth checking out.
You can completely reshape the aural environment of your project through sound design – so it’s powerful stuff.
But how does this work for your video project?
If you’re working with recorded footage, you’ll already have a soundscape in place from your recordings.
But whether this is is the soundscape you’re going for is another matter – and this is where sound design comes in. By removing or adding sound elements or layers, emphasizing or reducing certain aspects, you can dramatically change how the sound is perceived in your video. You can also completely replace the natural sounds with the soundscape you’re after.
Sound design is all about shaping the soundscape so it fits with your story, your setting and the mood you’re looking to convey
Sound design doesn’t have to be a radical reworking on your sonic environment – it’s all about shaping the soundscape so it fits with your story, your setting and the mood you’re looking to convey.
Do it yourself, or bring in a sound designer?
If you want to add simple sound effects to your video, or replace the ambience sounds of a given scene, you can often do it yourself. You can find sound effects on many different sites online, and recently, a host of new libraries have emerged from independent sound designers. You’ll find a comprehensive overview here.
Peter Albrectsen gives a masterclass on sound design for documentaries
If you’re feeling adventurous, you can also create sound effects yourself – and in fact, we run the largest DIY sound effect list available anywhere. Check out our Guide to Sound Effects.
When it comes to more complex things such as fundamentally altering the soundscape of your video, designing custom sounds for characters, objects, or places in your video, bringing in an experienced sound designer can be extremely helpful.
How to find a great sound designer
He’s worked as a sound designer on a huge number of projects and he’s an excellent resource to have on your team. Reach David here.
Letting your sound designer know what you’re after
1. Set the stage
Give your sound designer a general description of your environment, and explain what’s happening in specific scenes, what the tone and mood is.
2. What stands out?
Are there particular things in the scene you want to bring out or tone down? Do you want to focus your viewer’s attention towards (or away from) certain things, events or actions?
3. Provide references and visuals
If you have any examples of the soundscape you’re looking for, let your sound designer know. And be sure to provide visuals for your sound designer to work from – even if they’re just rough edits, pre-renders or animatics. It could also simply be character drawings, storyboard images – or anything else you feel would help key your sound designer in on the world you’re looking to create in your video project.
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We’re the wealthiest country — our kids shouldn’t go to school hungry
Nearly half of America’s children live in low-income and poor families, and the majority of public school students qualify for free breakfast and lunch programs. Nearly 30 million children — more than the population of Texas — benefit from the National School Lunch Program.
In low-income households, it’s often food that gets sacrificed to pay rent, utilities, and health bills. Parents or older siblings will go without so the youngest can eat. Or cheap non-nutritious food may be the only affordable option.
School lunch programs, linked to household income and eligibility to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (known as SNAP, or food stamps), have been critical for feeding kids. And the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act, which enjoyed bipartisan support when it passed in 2010, has made school lunches healthier by reducing sodium and saturated fats, and adding whole grains.
However, the Trump administration began a rollback of the nutrition standards in the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act over a year ago. And now, as part of a proposed new rule that would knock 3 million struggling families off SNAP, over half a million children would lose access to the free and reduced lunch program.
There’s virtually no debate that kids need nutritious food to stay healthy and learn at school. Numerous and broad studies have shown that school meal programs reduce obesity, poor health and food insecurity.
So one might wonder why politicians would want to literally take healthy food out of the mouths of hungry school children. Great question.
The rollback of nutrition standards, for starters, appears to be a naked giveaway to the dairy industry, which complained that their profits were affected when school meals started cutting back on saturated fat.
For the school lunch cuts, the Trump administration is using the phony justification that SNAP is rife with fraud. In reality, advocates say SNAP has the most rigorous standards of any federal program. Less than 1 percent of SNAP spending is estimated to be fraudulent — likely much lower than the Pentagon, which can’t pass an audit, yet whose far bigger budget Trump keeps increasing.
This proposed rule change seems a barely veiled attempt to take more money from effective safety net programs for those in need — while no expense is spared to ensure the extremely wealthy get tax breaks.
Since the proposed rule change has been opened for the mandatory 60-day public comment period, over 4,000 people have weighed in strongly opposed.
“If you are human, please continue to feed other humans,” writes Houston, Texas resident Kaura Webb. Former school teacher Barbara McCarty from Palm Desert California says, “Do NOT diminish this vital program for OUR families in need. As a former school teacher and mother, I know personally how important nutrition is for young minds to grow.”
Seventy mayors also sent a letter to the Trump administration chastising it for this proposed change.
They point out that “this far reaching executive action will escalate food insecurity and hunger for an estimated 3.1 million individuals — including children, seniors, and people with disabilities.” It will also “put children’s health and development at risk” and “harm our economy by reducing the amount of SNAP dollars available to spur regional and local economic activity.”
As children head back to school this year, at the very least they deserve access to hot and nutritious meals. It’s a moral imperative. There should be no other choice in the wealthiest country in the world.
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World Mental Health Day is ahead of us. What are the websites related to psychology and psychiatry on the drum? About disease, not health! Instead of reading about how to take care of yourself, how to support yourself and others during crises, I worked my way through some sad and pessimistic articles. Again, I remembered the statistics on how many people have mental disorders and why tolerance is so important. Diseases and disorders can hit any of us.
Today I would like to focus on what this day is about. On mental health. Do you also think that you got them as a gift and you don’t have to take care of them? Or have you found that YOU will never have a mental problem? Before I start proving to you that the line between health and disease can be really small, please take a look at these few tricks. Today I have 5 ways for you to take care of your mental health. Think of them as habits that are good to start implementing. In addition to peace of mind, you can additionally support your pursuit of happiness. It would be good to just enjoy life. Regardless of the moment, circumstances and difficulties. These tips will help keep your mental health in good shape. If you are currently struggling with the difficulties and beginnings of depression – definitely go to a therapeutic center, e.g. https://gia.miami, where they will choose the appropriate treatment.
5 ways to take care of your mental health
1. Talk about feelings
A mentally healthy person is aware – he knows what is going on inside him, he is aware of what he is going through, and often he knows immediately what triggers his emotions. You look at such a healthy person and you are sure that he allows himself a moment of reflection. Wonders. And then she says about her feelings:
I love you.
I feel lost.
I’m very happy.
I feel bad.
How often do you talk about your feelings? Now consider how easy it is for you to show love (to your partner, child, mother, grandmother) – you talk about it directly, show affection with gestures or you cannot express what you feel at all.
Are you ashamed
Think of fear, anxiety, dissatisfaction, doubt – how do you cope with expressing these emotions? How do you feel the moment you admit weakness or imperfection?
Start talking about the heart instead of the understanding. Instead of the words “I think …” use “I feel that …”. Check what it’s like – to communicate using the language of emotions. Talking about feelings is uplifting, allows you to tighten your bonds with people and is a chance to get to know yourself. Allow yourself to do it – at most someone will think that you feel something!
Exercise: Take a piece of paper and a pen and write down all the emotions you remember about the past week. Remember what you felt – call it. Was it regret? Embarrassment? Fear? Start by recording your feelings, then think about some ways you could tell a loved one about them.
Purpose of the exercise: The key to expressing your emotions is becoming aware of them. Observe the feelings within you, write it down, analyze it.
2. Set targets large and small in front of you
A life without purpose is difficult – so if we know it, why not make it easier for ourselves? Setting long-term goals for yourself (e.g. for 5 years), places your life within a certain framework – you define yourself as a parent (because you want to spend the next years taking care of children), a student (because you start a new scientific chapter and want to fulfill yourself in it) or runner (because you’ve found that you want to live from one marathon to the next). You build your sense of security, you know your reference point – it is thanks to these long-term goals that you can effectively and sensibly set these smaller goals for yourself. Exactly – smaller-scale goals (for a year, half-year, quarter) allow you to catch the moments, but also to achieve long-term goals. If you know that you want to move to Miami in 5 years, you work for 5 years. Nothing will just happen.
Make sure that your goals are created based on the SMART method.
Exercise: On a piece of paper, write down 30 goals (small and large) that you would like to achieve by the end of the year. Think about making your dreams come true, but also about emotional development, working on passions, overcoming your own limitations. Consider what milestones you can take towards realizing your great plans in life. You have to start sometime, right? Once you have determined what you dream about, plan it out. Dedicate each month, week, maybe even a day to a goal and act.
4. Maintain real contacts with people
Yes, this entire internet world is full of challenges. Especially in their relational aspect. Notice how many relationships are based on Facebook / Instagram contacts. Focusing on such contacts builds a sense of loneliness (sometimes unconscious), makes people addicted to the Internet and can generate stress. I am not persuading you to give up using the Internet (oh no, let’s use what we have at our fingertips), but I encourage you to make real contacts with people – meetings, phone calls or joint organization of something important. There are many options and the result is quite important. Real, strong ties with others are great for your self-esteem, improve your quality of life, and create a sense of belonging that has a great impact on your well-being.
Of course – you can be the type of person who doesn’t need hundreds of friends and meetings with someone every day. All right. However, this does not change the fact that I would like to encourage you to transform the maximum number of virtual acquaintances into more real ones, requiring personal contact.
Exercise: take care of your relationships and challenge yourself: meet 5 people who are important to you in the coming week. Yes, it is difficult, a week is only 7 days long. But why not try it? Let’s assume that such meetings are to be as real as possible (phone or face-to-face conversation), shorter or longer as you like. Plan to have dinner at your house, meet someone on the way to work, take someone for a walk (instead of going alone).
5. Do something fun – regularly.
Imagine if someone tells you a joke and you react in a certain way: you don’t understand, you don’t laugh, maybe even find it embarrassing – to laugh at something like that. Oh, looks like someone hasn’t played here for a long time. Take it easy, start doing something fun, open yourself up to laughter, joy, spontaneity and break up with sadness and a boring face. Excitement, cheerfulness and a tendency to laugh at nonsense is what can greatly relax you after a tense day. React to stress with the opposite – loosely.
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Recipe Roundup: Sandwich Day
November third is National Sandwich Day, and to mark the occasion we’ve compiled 30 of our most popular sandwich recipes to help you celebrate your appreciation of subs, clubs, toasties, and sarnies. This roundup highlights traditional sandwich fillings and flavour combinations, in addition to inspired pairings and new twists on old classics. You’ll also discover some of our most indispensable sandwich-making tips, including ideas for condiments, bread options, and how to perfectly scramble eggs to use as a sandwich filling.
For those who love a classic sandwich combination with an inspired twist, these reinvented recipes are sure to make mouths water. The easiest way to transform an ordinary sandwich into more exciting fare is by switching up the condiments, thinking outside the box and trying ingredients like chutney, spicy honey, hot sauce, pickles, grainy mustard, and fresh herbs. To make a flavourful sauce, combine reduced calorie mayo or Greek yogurt (or a combination of the two) with pesto, horseradish, citrus zest or finely diced chipotle peppers in adobo sauce.
In terms of nutritional value and sheer versatility, there’s no better sandwich filling than the humble egg. Scrambled eggs are the perfect vehicle for ingredients such as watercress, tarragon, chervil, hot sauce, salsa, chopped olives, and pesto; in most cases they can be stirred into the beaten eggs before you add them to the pan. For the creamiest scrambled eggs, remove the pan from the heat when they still look wet (but not runny), and let the residual heat continue to cook the eggs until set.
Give these always eggs-cellent recipes a try:
The comfort food of the sandwich world, hot sandwiches can be as simple as a grilled cheese or as entrée-worthy as chicken parmesan tucked between two pieces of bread. Making food for a crowd? Keep each sandwich warm in a low oven on a baking sheet as you assemble each serving, adding lettuce or other delicate ingredients immediately before eating.
Heat things up by giving these hot sandwich recipes a try:
Salad sandwiches are given a healthy makeover in the following recipes, making use of reduced calorie mayo and Greek yogurt in place of full-fat mayo. Flavourful add-ins, such as pesto, curry powder and hot sauce, breathe new life into old favourites in need of an update. Bringing a salad sandwich to work for lunch? Pack the salad filling separately and assemble right before eating, either with bread or wrapped in crisp iceberg lettuce. | <urn:uuid:509861a1-cc88-4fcc-8978-c4fed70e76d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weightwatchers.com/ca/en/article/recipe-roundup-sandwich-day | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.902927 | 557 | 1.5 | 2 |
By Henric Sundlof • 02 March 2020 • 19:00
CONTAMINATION SCARE: Eroski and Condis stores have withdrawn the bottled water from their shelves
The online supermarket Ocado reports that customers have been buying “particularly large orders”, and “panic-buying” has been reported, most likely as a result of the fear of a crisis following the coronavirus outbreak. Thirty-six cases of the disease have been recorded so far in the UK.
When the virus broke out in Italy, supermarkets reported that people were stocking up on supplies, in case they would need it, as well as hand sanitizers and antibacterial cleaning supplies. The same thing may be happening in the UK right now.
People are stocking up on bottled water, Pot Noodles, Pet Food, Alcohol and bin-liners. Some supermarkets have begun to ration hand disinfectant gels as supermarkets run out of supply, and prices skyrocket online.
Ocado advises customers to place orders further in advance and warns about delivery delays due to an “exceptionally high demand”.
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In this lesson, Cameron discusses how outdoor weather conditions can impact the conditions INSIDE your grow, and how to adjust for optimal environmental conditions.
Now we’re going to be talking about weather procedures.
Weather affects the entire harvest process. And so what’s going on outside in terms of whether it’s going to affect what’s going inside during the harvest, including the drying time, the curing time, etc. And so being up to speed and up to date with what’s going on with the weather and what to expect with the weather will affect the way that you treat your harvest.
And remember that weather changes from quarter to quarter and may even change hour to hour and so being up to speed on what the weather is in your area will help you achieve a superior product.
So, weather is going to affect every aspect of your production process and certainly this is true of the harvest side. Really the harvest manager is going to want to always be abreast of what the current weather situation is like.
And ultimately it’s going to take documentation of your seasonal changes so that the facility can get into a process and know how to react in the winter when it might be shorter days and colder and wetter and in the summer where there’s longer days and hotter. And all of this is going to be mitigated or controlled through temperature and humidity settings within each stage of the harvest process.
Certainly apart from maintaining a functioning and cash flow positive facility is to have a standardised product look and feel. And you want to maintain that consistency summer, winter, spring, fall and so being able to adapt and adjust to what’s going on outside is really incumbent upon the harvest manager to undertake.
Thanks for learning about weather. Please stay tuned for the next course.
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Fall is an ideal time to plant trees and shrubs
There are still a number of damaged trees and shrubs remaining in landscapes that were affected by the winter storm, and now that we are transitioning into fall it’s a good time of year to replace them. Arizona ash trees were the most widely affected shade tree, and the Texas Forest Service recommends removal if 25% or less of the canopy leafed out. If there is 50% or more of the canopy, it may be worth the wait to see how the tree does next year. Limbs of shrubs that have remained brown all summer will not green up and should be pruned back to living green growth at the base, or removed and replaced.
Fall is ideal for planting trees and shrubs because it gives the plants time to grow new roots and get established before the stress of summer comes. Trees and shrubs are the most permanent plants of the landscape, so take time to carefully choose and plan what to plant – then use good design principles to place in the right location, and best planting techniques to get a successful result. Plant large shade trees at 45-degree angles off the front corners of the home, so they frame the home and highlight it – not in front of the home to block it and/or visually chop it in half. Choose dwarf shrubs for the front of the home that grow to the appropriate size at their mature age, so that regular shearing/pruning is not necessary.
Planting depth is very important for woody plants – don’t dig the holes deeper than the rootball. Large, heavy trees can even be planted a couple inches above-grade to allow for settling. Don’t stake trees unless absolutely necessary; trees develop strength when moving in the wind. Staking can slow down that process. Finish off after planting with a three- to four-inch deep layer of wood mulch. Research has shown that mulch can help woody plants grow bigger, faster – it helps keep weed competition at bay, moderates soil temperature, prevent evaporation, etc. Always water new plants in immediately after planting, and hand water for the first few weeks – don’t rely on automatic irrigation until they begin to establish.
To learn more about tree planting and care, and other landscape design and maintenance topics, join us for the upcoming Earth-Kind Landscape School Seminar Series that will be held Wednesday nights from September 15 through October 13. For details and to sign up, visit https://tomgreen.agrilife.org/ or call the Extension Office at 325-659-6522.
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It’s often a bad practice to take a single verse of scripture out of full context and make too much of it. But sometimes particular lines are so very comforting and hopeful, and so fully consonant with the rest of God’s teachings, that taking them out of their immediate context does no harm.
From Paul’s letter to Timothy, the beginning of which is one of the readings from this week’s Revised Common Lectionary, such a line invites our attention.
“God did not give us a spirit of cowardice,” Paul wrote, “but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.”
Note the interesting, and slightly unusual, juxtaposition of concepts here.
One can easily see how a “spirit of power” might be seen as being somewhat contrary to “a spirit of cowardice.” And one might contrast cowardice with courage, of course, or with, perhaps, fortitude or even endurance. But where do “love” and “self-discipline” come in? They are wonderful attributes, of course, but they seem to belong to a realm unrelated to courage or cowardice. One might contrast love with hate, of course, or self-discipline with indulgence. But why does Paul include these particular ideas in the same thought, as if they are attributes naturally opposed to each other?
Paul was a careful wordsmith. His epistles all show not just that he chose words carefully, but that he used them with remarkable eloquence and insight. So, what was he doing here?
The answer, perhaps, is that cowardice in matters spiritual is of a different quality than cowardice (or its natural opposite, courage) in the rest of life. When it comes to faith, what is cowardly is not a failure to face a physical challenge, or a refusal to stand firm against a misguided crowd. Instead, faith calls us to love the unlovable – to love even when we are angry, even when we are hurt, even when we are embittered.
Likewise, faith calls us to do the right thing even when tempted by something wrong; to be sober (literally and figuratively) when it would be easy to indulge; to keep negative emotions in check even when every part of our nature yells out that we should, well, yell out in anguish or despair.
To find the inner strength to love when we don’t want to, to show discipline when things feel out of control, is indeed to exhibit a courage that is the exact spiritual opposite of moral cowardice. The juxtaposition is quite carefully chosen: Paul is telling us to call on our inmost resources – to act with courage, not moral cowardice – in order to practice the radical love, and tremendous self-control, to which God calls us.
One might ask, though, to what end Paul asks us to do these things. A few verses later, Paul explains [with my emphases added]:
[God] saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, but it has now been revealed to us through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
God’s grace is far greater a gift, in degree, than any degree of discomfort or loss we might endure by finding the courage to show love and self-discipline at difficult times. The abolishment of death, replaced with life eternal, is far more a reward than the troubles of life are a burden.
To not accept God’s daunting grace, to not live in it with self-discipline and love, is indeed a form of cowardice. But we can be better than that. We absolutely can, if we have the courage of our faith, do as Paul instructs at the end of this reading: “Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.” It is treasure indeed, if we only have the courage to accept it.
Quin Hillyer is a veteran conservative columnist. He has an undergraduate degree in Theology from Georgetown University and has served for years in various forms of ecumenical lay leadership. | <urn:uuid:8ff00622-385c-4d49-8175-9c3bee260908> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pjmedia.com/faith/quin-hillyer/2016/10/01/why-love-is-an-answer-to-cowardice-n95042 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959385 | 904 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Document Type : Original Article
Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Clinical Research Development Centre, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Introduction: The repair of the cartilage continues to be a big challenge. Autologous cartilage is the gold standard, but enough sources are not available. The development of stem cells, biomaterials, and bioactive factors has led to cartilage tissue engineering becoming a promising strategy for the regeneration of cartilage defects. In this study, the effect of Transforming Growth Factor Beta 3 (TGF-β3) and Pomegranate Seed Extract (PSE), as chondrogenesis inducers, were evaluated.
Materials and Methods: Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells (ADSCs) were seeded in alginate scaffolds and cultivated for two weeks in chondrogenic media. Finally, the MTT assay was used to test the effect of TGF-β3 and PSE on the survival of differentiated cells. The mRNA levels of the cartilage-specific markers such as SRY-box9 (SOX9), Collagen type II (COLII), Collagen type X (COLX), and Aggrecan (ACAN) were determined by RT-PCR. Also, CD markers were evaluated by flow cytometry.
Results: Using both natural PSE and chemical TGFβ3 inducers simultaneously, had the best results in chondrogenesis by increasing the expression of the SOX9, COLII, and ACAN genes. Furthermore, the flow cytometry analysis indicated that the expression of CD14 marker of differentiated cells significantly increased, although the expression of CD44 marker decreased two weeks post differentiation.
Conclusions: PSE is a suitable inducer and its combined use with TGF-β3 can improve the efficiency of the chondrogenic potential of ADSCs. Our results suggest that PSE may have the potential to be used in tissue engineering as a replacement for TGF-β3. | <urn:uuid:21f23783-d743-4857-93a0-19ddf7be814f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.biotechrep.ir/article_146182.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932139 | 490 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The record of U.S. intelligence regarding the Russo-Ukrainian War has been abysmal. First, there are indications that we were surprised by Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” launch in February. And once the war began, the consensus was that the Russians would be able to execute a coup de main, the rapid seizure of Kyiv and the installation of a pro-Russian government. This is what the Soviets did in Afghanistan in 1978.
But apparently, U.S. intelligence failed to identify serious deficiencies in the Russian army. These included: the inability of the Russians to execute modern, combined-arms warfare, which integrates air power, cyber resources, battlefield intelligence, armor, artillery and UAVs; catastrophic failures in command and control and logistics; and the all-important but unquantifiable moral factors, e.g. poor morale, the absence of unit cohesion, and lack of trust between superiors and subordinates. Those deficiencies, coupled with a spirited Ukrainian defense, led to initial Russian failure
The Russian failure to execute the coup de main against Kyiv and continuing problems as the Russians redeployed units to Eastern Ukraine soon gave way to a “Ukrainian victory narrative” holding that with more support from NATO Ukraine could prevail and even that a weakened Putin might be ousted, leading to a cessation of hostilities on terms favorable to Ukraine.
But U.S. intelligence apparently missed another possibility: that Russia would revert to its traditional “way of war” based on mass and attrition. This is how the Soviets prevailed over the German Ostheer, the Army of the East, in World War II. During the first six months of the war the Ostheer inflicted what seemed to be irrecoverable losses (killed, missing in action, POWs) on the Red Army in excess of 3 million men. It is estimated that more than a quarter of all Soviet troops killed in World War II died in 1941. Another 1.5 million were wounded or became sick. This means that of the 5.5 million men who made up the Red Army at the start of the war some 80 percent had become casualties by the end of 1941, a loss rate far in excess of any army in military history.
But the vast manpower of the Soviet Union made the Red Army a hydra-headed monster: Despite the massive losses of the summer, the Red Army totaled 6.9 million by September 1941, and by the end of the year it had grown to 8 million.
Of course, today’s Russian army is only a shadow of the Red Army, and Russia’s demographic problems limit a reprise of the Russian manpower feat in World War II, but the resilience of the Russian people should never be discounted. The fact is that Russia has chosen to fight a war of attrition, pounding Ukraine into submission, employing its traditional arm of decision: artillery. It is estimated that Russia possesses somewhere between a 15:1 to 40:1 advantage in artillery, and Ukraine is rapidly running out of its Soviet-era artillery ammunition.
Reports indicate that Russian artillery has pulverized Ukrainian forces in Donbass, causing massive casualties. The situation in Ukraine is reminiscent of the Russian destruction of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya in 1994-1995. As in Ukraine, the Russians were stymied in their assault, suffering high casualties. They responded with a massive bombardment of the city, reducing it to rubble. Should the Russians resort to long range bombardment of Ukrainian cities, Ukraine’s NATO-provided anti-tank weapons would make little difference.
It’s not pretty, but it appears to be effective. There is an old adage, attributed to both Lenin and Stalin, that “quantity has a quality all its own.” It seems to be the case that after blundering around and taking losses for a few weeks, the Russians have remembered how to wage an old-fashioned, World War II-style war of attrition based on a preponderance of artillery. As one European military commentator observed, “it’s been so long since anyone fought a conventional war that they had to remember how to do it.”
What’s next? What is the likely endgame? That depends on which side is more resilient. And it is clear that any “victory,” however defined, will be Pyrrhic. The best possible outcome at this point would seem to be a negotiated settlement along the lines of the Minsk agreements of 2014-2015, according to which Russia would control Donbass and Luhansk and Ukraine would pledge not join NATO.
Will Zelenskyy agree to give up Ukrainian territory to end the war? Such an outcome may not be just, but as Thucydides reminds us, “questions of justice arise only in the case of equals. As for the rest, the strong do what they will. The weak suffer what they must.” | <urn:uuid:8eaebf07-238f-42c1-9080-0138bc58d701> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/24/ukraine-and-the-russian-way-of-war-redux/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960409 | 1,020 | 2.25 | 2 |
LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENTS
2022: CLAIRE WYART
Claire Wyart, a research director at the Paris Brain Institute, studies genetics, physiology, and behavior to understand how sensory stimuli are integrated by the spinal cord during development and locomotion. Wyart and her lab have made pioneering strides in neuromodulation—neuronal therapy that can regulate nervous tissue function—the study of spinal cord curvature in relation to cerebrospinal fluid, and treatment of spinal cord trauma. She uses zebrafish to unravel the mechanisms that ensure long-term neurological homeostasis.
Feng Zhang, from MIT, Harvard, the McGovern Institute, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a leader in the genetic biology field, developing CRISPR tools with the potential to diagnose and treat disease. He and his team created these molecular tools with the goal of better understanding various disorders, especially those affecting the nervous system. Additionally, Zhang has championed the open sharing of his technologies, accelerating research around the globe.
Marie Manceau, from the Collège de France, and her team have used an innovative process to study the evolution of animal patterns in nature by using the plumage of birds and other vertebrae. Often diving down to the molecular level, Manceau has established a vast and unique network of collaborations with breeders, hobbyists, zoos, and local and distant governments, as well as creating a breeding facility at the Collège de France. She continues to play a large role in the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
Jay Shendure, University of Washington, is a pioneer and leader in genomics who has developed new technologies that make DNA sequencing faster, cheaper, and more valuable—work that is transforming genetics and medicine. Shendure’s innovations began with his doctorate in 2005 when he co-developed one of the first methods for massively parallel or next-generation DNA sequencing.
Yohanns Bellaïche, CNRS Research Director, Deputy Director of the genetic and developmental biology unit of the Institut Curie was the recipient of the award in 2018. Bellaïche is recognized for his work on the genetic and mechanical regulation that underlies tissue proliferation, homeostasis and repair in physiological and pathological conditions (using sophisticated imaging, genetics, large-scale molecular approaches, and computational analyses) including the mechanisms of local and long-range mechano-sensing during cytokinesis that remodel the dividing cell adherens junction.
PARDIS CHRISTINE SABETI
For her groundbreaking contributions to genetics and global health, including development of new methods to study evolutionary selection in humans and viruses, creation of new collaborative models for combating emerging diseases across disciplinary and national borders, and leadership of global efforts to increase data sharing in pandemics including Ebola and Lassa Fever.
For his work in Structural Biology (by X-ray diffraction and cryo-electron microscopy methods) on the regulation of gene expression at both the transcriptional level (structures of the nuclear receptors to retinoic acid and vitamin D) and the protein translation level (initiation and termination complexes, and the structure of the human ribosome).
For her work probing the molecular basis of how adaptation to novel selective pressures establishes and sustains diversity during evolution. Her tour-de-force transdisciplinary studies have illuminated a fundamental mechanism by which complex behaviors can evolve through multiple genetic changes each affecting distinct behavioral modules.
MICHAEL S. BROWN & JOSEPH L. GOLDSTEIN
The original recipients of the Richard Lounsbery Award, Brown and Goldstein conducted significant research concerning cholesterol biosynthesis. For their work, both won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 1985. Brown and Goldstein also diligently collaborated with Richard Lounsbery's wife, Vera, to establish the Award and elevate its importance to today's levels.
2014 | FRÉDÉRIC SAUDOU For his major contributions to the understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms causing Huntington’s disease. His findings represent a seminal discovery in the understanding of Huntington’s disease and an important step towards a future therapeutic strategy.
2013 | KARL DEISSEROTH For his seminal work in the field of optogenetics, in which insertion of a single bacterial protein into a neuron allows the cell to be controlled with light. Optogenetics has been successfully utilized in landmark studies of human diseases, most noticeably Parkinson's Disease.
2012 | OLIVIER POURQUIÉ For his work in embryonic patterning in vertebrates and particularly in the genetic and developmental mechanisms that control segmentation.
2011 | BONNIE L. BASSLER For her pioneering discoveries of the universal use of chemical communication among bacteria and the elucidation of structural and regulatory mechanisms controlling bacterial assemblies.
2010 | GÉRARD KARSENTY For his work on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the formation and the remodeling of bone.
2009 | CORNELIA I BARGMANN For her extraordinarily inventive and successful use of molecular and classical genetics to probe the individual nerve cell basis of behavior in C. elegans.
2008 | JEAN-LAURENT CASANOVA For his contributions to the understanding the genetic basis of the predisposition to viral and bacterial diseases of childhood, which have important clinical implications for the diagnostic and management of infectious diseases.
2007 | XIAODONG WANG For his pioneering biochemical studies on apoptosis, which have elucidated a molecular pathway leading into and out of the mitochondrion and to the nucleus.
2006 | CATHERINE DULAC For her major contributions in the perception and behavioral translation of pheromones in mammals.
2005 | JOHN KURIYAN For his critical role in revealing the structural mechanisms underlying processivity in DNA replication and the regulation of tyrosine kinases and their interacting target proteins.
2004 | BRIGITTE KIEFFER For her pioneering work on the molecular neurobiology of opioid-controlled behaviors, the results of which have very important implications for the treatment of pain, drug abuse, and emotional disorders.
2003 | CAROL W GREIDER For her pioneering biochemical and genetic studies of telomerase, the enzyme that maintains the ends of chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. *Carol Greider received the Nobel Prize in 2009.
2002 | DENIS LE BIHAN For his work on the invention and development of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of brain diffusion and perfusion. The method he developed permits in vivo mapping of nerve fiber bundles and has multiple applications in both medical pathology and cognitive science fields.
2001 | ELAINE FUCHS For her fundamental insights into structure and function of cytoskeletal proteins and the relation of these proteins to human genetic diseases.
2000 | MIROSLAV RADMAN For his contribution to the discovery of the molecular mechanisms implicated in the replication and repair of DNA, in particular, the discovery of a key enzyme of the DNA repair mechanism.
1999 | ELLIOT M MEYEROWITZ For his pioneering contributions to the molecular genetics of plant architecture, which have practical implications for agriculture.
1998 | PASCALE COSSART For her fundamental discoveries in microbiology dealing with mechanisms of bacterial entry and intracellular host motility.
1997 | JAMES E ROTHMAN For his dissection of the biochemical mechanisms by which proteins are transferred from one cellular compartment to another and to the outside world. These mechanisms are important in neurotransmission, tissue biogenesis, and hormonal secretion.
1996 | DANIEL LOUVARD & JACQUES POUYSSÉGUR For their contributions to the study of the regulation of cell division and differentiation.
1995 | DOUGLAS A MELTON For showing how cells and tissues differentiate during vertebrate development through studies on localized mRNAs in eggs and the genes that induce mesoderm and neural tissue.
1994 | JEAN-LOUIS MANDEL For his work in human genetics and in particular for his discovery of the mutation of fragile X. This new type of mutation has now been found at the origin of the diseases.
1993 | STANLEY B. PRUSINER & BERT VOGELSTEIN For their distinct and exciting discoveries about the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative and malignant diseases. This award is given as a celebration of the power of modern molecular medicine. *Stanley Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in 1997.
1992 | PHILIPPE ASCHER & HENRI KORN For their discoveries of the mechanisms of synaptic transmission. Philippe Asher furthered knowledge regarding the properties of glutamate receptors which play an important role in trials, and Henri Korn brought to light the elementary liberation of neurotransmitter in quanta form in the central nervous system of vertebrates.
1991 | MARC W. KIRSCHNER For elucidating key steps in the cell cycle, chromosome movement, cell cycle timing, nucleus breakdown and reformation, and microtubule control of cell polarity and mitosis.
1991 | HAROLD M. WEINTRAUB For elucidating a molecular mechanism by which a single regulatory gene can lead to a program of cell differentiation.
1990 | JEAN ROSA For his contributions, which have opened a new road in the control of oxygen transport in the blood and the treatment of the first worldwide genetic plague, drepanocytosis.
1989 | RICHARD AXEL For his discoveries elucidating gene structure in animal cells. *Richard Axel received the Nobel Prize in 2004.
1988 | FRANÇOIS CUZIN For his original contributions in the elucidation of the mechanisms involved in malignant cell transformation, in particular, demonstration of the necessary contribution of two oncogenes.
1987 | ALFRED G. GILMAN & MARTIN RODBELL For their discoveries regarding the proteins and mechanisms that mediate cellular responses to the binding of ligands to cell surface receptors. *Both Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell received the Nobel Prize in 1994.
1986 | ANDRÉ CAPRON & JACQUES GLOWINSKI For their fundamental work, which has contributed to the treatment of parasitic and neurological diseases.
1985 | MARTIN GELLERT & THOMAS MANIATIS For their seminal contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of DNA, which were essential and fundamental to the development of recombinant DNA techniques.
1984 | MAXIME SCHWARTZ For his genetic and biochemical analysis of the maltose system of E.Coli, which paved the way for the solution of a series of fundamental problems in molecular biology.
1983 | GÜNTER BLOBEL For his work in uncovering the molecular interactions that control the traffic of newly synthesized proteins in eukaryotic cells, for his incisive experiments, and for the beauty of the findings by which he established these interactions. *Günter Blobel received the Nobel Prize in 1999.
1982 | PIERRE CHAMBON & JEAN-PIERRE CHANGEUX For their work on fundamental structures of genetic material and of the nervous system.
1981 | PHILIP LEDER For his series of notable contributions in molecular genetics, which help to explain the means by which genetic information is organized and used to direct the synthesis of specific cell products.
1980 | FRANÇOIS MOREL For his work on the physiology of the kidney.
1979 | MICHAEL S. BROWN & JOSEPH L. GOLDSTEIN For their work in cholesterol biosynthesis. | <urn:uuid:8b8f5729-3e50-4155-883f-721d199b8935> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rlounsbery.org/lounsberyawardrecipients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.915835 | 2,470 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Privacy enhanced networks (“darknets”) are notoriously difficult to search with traditional approaches. For a start, crawlers will not work, because most material is not actually public. Furthermore, you actually don’t want to send your queries to a centralized search engine, anyhow — there is a reason, why net2o is a peer to peer network. This means you want a non–traditional search engine, anyhow.
So how is search in net2o going to be implemented?
Indexing local data is easy. Your local data is available to you, and you can create a keyword,document key–value–list without problems. Too frequent terms are not stored (stopwords), and multiple search terms are a self join of the database query. Local search is the starting point of a peer 2 peer search; it relies on humans crawling the net instead of robots. When everybody is participating in global search, this local search as a start is good. It has a number of advantages:
- The “crawler” sees the same thing as a normal user — SEOs can't provide misleading, different content to crawlers
- People do rank stuff they see, by clicking on likes and resharing. Providing dislikes allows to rank down, too.
- People can add tags when they reshare, making a search more specific
- Hashtags can improve searching by highlighting which terms are supposed to be important and relevant
- Dictionary based approaches can identify relevant search terms automatically: If a word occurs with a significantly much higher frequency than usual, it is likely a relevant term, if it occurs in a title or subtitle, it is likely more relevant. Dictionary based analysis should map variants (inflections, spelling mistakes) to the same stem (e.g. “searching”, “search”, and “seach”) are the same search term).
Local search is the only search that is possible for closed communication.
Global decentralized search
Only publically available (unrestricted) data is supposed to be globally searchable. A peer to peer network however does not guarantee that first privately posted stuff remains private — this depends on the cooperation of your peers, or if they decide to leak your message. For material that is intented to be publically visible, there needs to be a p2p method to spread search results. The indexing is done by local search index, usually by the author himself (only in the leak case not). The indexing extracts relevant search terms (by looking at hash tags and dictionary based automatic search terms). Once indexed, the document anchor is submitted to the search term servers responsible for the relevant terms, together with a short list of who has this document.
Search engines like Google already have algorithms that distribute the load within a large data center. The concept can be used for a decentralized search: First stage is an index of responsibility. So if you search, you ask the index who carries the list of search results for that term. To reduce load of individual carriers of search result lists, frequently used terms can be combined with secondary terms, e.g. “forth” and “program[ming]” can be combined to be responsible for searching for that programming language, while “back and forth” can be combined for that common phrase.
After getting responsible nodes from the index, you ask one of them with secondary search terms to deliver the self join of that list. By doing so, you can now announce responsibility for that particular combination of search results, and offer that if other people ask for it. This allows to scale frequent searches, because the more often people search for a term, the more copies of a search result list are around.
There’s still a privacy problem that you should not attach search queries to your permanent ID. However, there is a severe problem with complete anonymity for asking (e.g. using hash(search term) as secret key), because that allows spammers to capture a search term. It is necessary to tie reputations to answer search queries. The good thing is that the original search query list can be signed by the responsible node, and cache nodes only hand out that signature, so cache nodes can use throw-away one-time IDs.
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According to Emergen Research, the global face mask market size was USD 76.72 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach a significantly smaller size of USD 58.17 billion in 2028 and register a decreasing CAGR of 5.2% during the forecast period, 2021-2028. Rising air pollution across the globe, increasing incidence of infectious diseases, and implementation of government mandates to wear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic are some key factors expected to drive global Face Mask market growth.
A face mask is a protective covering worn to cover the face and prevent individuals from breathing bad air or from inhaling and spreading germs. These masks are widely used in the healthcare and medical sector to protect healthcare professionals from acquiring hospital infections. There has been a significant increase in the demand for reusable and disposable face masks due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 infection.
Factors such as rising incidence of acute respiratory infections, chronic lung cancer, and chronic pulmonary diseases due to deteriorating air levels, high demand for surgical masks and respirators in health centers, and increasing usage of social media platforms to promote the use of masks during coronavirus outbreak, and growing elderly population are expected to drive global market revenue growth during the forecast period.
In addition, the rising number of surgical procedures owing to the high prevalence of road accidents, and sports injuries, increasing sales of face masks through online platforms, and growing awareness about the importance of face masks among the public are other factors expected to fuel the market growth during the forecast period. However, increasing environmental concerns due to improper masks disposable and plastic pollution caused due to the plastic used in disposable face masks, and rising skin issues and allergies by the constant use of masks, especially during the coronavirus outbreak are some key factors that can limit the adoption of certain types of face masks and hamper market revenue growth to a certain extent going ahead.
COVID-19 Impact Analysis
- Social distancing and restrictions severely disrupted businesses and operations
- Lockdowns caused disruptions in transportation and logistics
- Impacted manufacturing activities and mining operations globally
- took a toll on the economy of various countries revenue-contributingCaused sudden and drastic downturn in economic activity
- Disrupted agriculture, fisheries, dairy, and other sectors
- Caused loss of employment and financial crisis
- Supply impacts were further compounded owing to reduced disposable income
- Emergence of variants continues to cause concerns and impact normal routines
Reusable Segment To Register Rapid Revenue Growth:
The reusable segment is expected to register rapid revenue growth between 2021 and 2028. Revenue growth can be attributed to increasing awareness about the harmful effects of dust, pollution, and smoke, high demand for reusable face masks due to the shortage of disposable face masks during the COVID-19 outbreak, and availability of a broad array of reusable face masks on online platforms at affordable rates. There has been a steady inclination toward reusable masks as people are becoming aware of the increasing environmental concerns caused due to disposable mask material.
Hospitals and Clinics Segment to Account for Largest Revenue Share:
The hospitals and clinics segment is expected to account for the largest revenue share during the forecast period. Factors such as increasing number of hospital admissions, rapidly spreading coronavirus, rising incidence of infectious and lifestyle-associated diseases, high risk of inhalation of infectious germs in hospitals and clinics, and rising number of surgeries are expected to drive revenue growth of the segment over the forecast period.
Asia Pacific To Register In Robust Revenue CAGR:
Asia Pacific is expected to register robust revenue CAGR over the forecast period attributable to the rapidly increasing regional population, rising prevalence of infectious respiratory diseases, high usage of surgical face masks in hospitals and clinics, and growing demand for disposable face masks amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Other factors such as deteriorating air quality levels, growing geriatric population, and rising disposable income are expected to fuel Asia Pacific market growth during the forecast period. China, India, and Japan are some major revenue-contributing countries in this region.
Major Companies in the Market Include:
- Alpha Pro Tech Ltd.
- Cardinal Health Inc.
- The 3M Company
- Ambu A/S
- Cantel Medical Corporation
- Medline Industries Inc.
- Honeywell International Inc.
- Owens & Minor Inc.
- Uvex Group
For this report, Emergen Research has segmented the global face mask market based on product type, material type, usability, end use, and region:
Product Type Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
- Surgical Masks
Material Type Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
Usability Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
End Use Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
- Hospitals & Clinics
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers
- Research Institutes
Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
- North America
- the U.S.
- the U.K.
- Rest of Europe
- the Asia Pacific
- South Korea
- Rest of APAC
- Latin America
- Rest of LATAM
- Middle East & Africa
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
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Hands on with Visual Studio for Mac
Visual Studio for Mac was released just under two months ago at Build 2017, and already we’ve seen tremendous growth in .NET developers working on the Mac. Visual Studio for Mac enables you to build native apps for macOS, native mobile apps for iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Android, using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms; and web sites and services using ASP.NET Core. You can also use Unity to build cross-platform 3D games.
To help new Visual Studio for Mac developers get started, we’ve created some hands-on labs to walk through some of its exciting new features. The first two labs are available today, for Unity game development and connecting to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and we’re planning to release 4 more in the coming weeks.
Lab 1: Building Games with Unity in Visual Studio for Mac
The first hands-on lab demonstrates how to build and debug Unity game projects. It guides you through 4 tasks:
- Setting up a basic Unity project
- Working with a 3D game scene
- Debugging the game script
- Exploring additional features that support game development.
Follow these instructions to download and install Unity, then use it with Visual Studio for Mac to script and debug a 3D game scene.
Lab 2: Targeting IoT Devices in Visual Studio for Mac
Our second lab shows you how to create apps that run on an IoT device – such as the popular Raspberry Pi – from Visual Studio for Mac. It guides you through 3 tasks:
- Setting up your Raspberry Pi
- Creating the IoT project
- Extending your IoT app with Xamarin components to add additional features.
This functionality is currently in preview, but we’ll make sure to update the lab if any changes will be necessary when we ship it in a stable release.
Download Visual Studio for Mac today, and visit our labs repo on GitHub to give game development a try or connect to an IoT device. With the Community Edition it is easy and free to get started. Keep an eye on this blog for more labs that demonstrate all the other great features of Visual Studio for Mac.
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A recent review highlights contributions in process research and development and manufacturing using the principles of green chemistry.
An important tool for advancing green chemistry in pharmaceutical applications is sharing information on its use. Members of the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (ACS GCISPR) recently provided a review of research from this field (1). The ACS GCIPR, which consists of several major pharmaceutical companies and suppliers, encourages the innovation and integration of green chemistry and green engineering in the pharmaceutical industry. The group reviewed 14 areas in assessing contributions in the applications of green chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry.
Measuring the pharmaceutical industry
Given the complexity of the molecules that are used as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and the resulting complexity in the synthesis and purification needed to produce a given API, the pharmaceutical industry as a whole ranks low compared with other chemical sectors in its green practices. A widely used and established green metric is the E factor, developed by Roger Sheldon, professor emeritus at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, which evaluates the "greenness” of a manufacturing route by its process efficiency. The E factor is simply the mass ratio of waste to desired product. A higher E factor means more waste and a more negative environmental impact. The pharmaceutical industry as a whole has a high E factor compared with other industrial chemical manufacturing segments. The E factor for bulk chemicals ranges from 1–5, and for fine chemicals, 5-50, but for the pharmaceuticals, the E factor ranges from 25-100 (2).
To improve the environmental profile of chemical processes, a widely used roadmap for green chemistry is encompassed in the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry (3, 4). These principles identify strategies for meeting goals of sustainability. These approaches include: waste reduction in chemical synthesis; using raw materials and feedstocks from renewable sources; employing catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents, to minimize waste and increase process efficiency; avoiding chemical derivatives by not using blocking or protecting groups or temporary modifications if possible; maximizing atom economy; replacing or reducing solvents; increasing energy efficiency of chemical reactions by running them at ambient temperature and pressure when possible; using in-process or real-time monitoring to reduce or eliminate byproduct formation; and other process safety and environmental considerations.
In its review, the ACS GCIPR reviewed work in the following areas: solvent reduction or replacement; amide formation; oxidations; asymmetric hydrogenations; carbon-hydrogen activation; fluorination; biocatalysis; alcohol activation for nucleophilic displacement; Friedel-Crafts chemistry; chemistry in water; continuous processing and process intensifcation; and supercritical fluid chromatography separations (1). Some highlights of their review are provided below.
Pfizer (New York) recently published its solvent-selection guide that the company uses in its medicinal-chemistry efforts. The solvents are evaluated using nine factors in several areas, which include worker-safety, process-safety, environmental, and regulatory assessments (1, 5). GlaxoSmithKline (GSK London) developed a tool to assist in the selection of the greenest solvent that is compatible with the reagents and reaction conditions used (1). GSK’s Eco-Design Toolkit provides bench-level chemists and engineers green-chemistry information and tools for process research and development and manufacturing (6). The toolkit has five modules: a green chemistry and technology guide; a materials guide to solvents and bases with related environmental, health, and safety data; a fast life-cycle assessment for synthetic chemistry that streamlines evaluations of the environmental life cycle and measures green metrics, including mass efficiency; a green packaging guide; and a guide that identifies legislation phasing out hazardous substances (6).
An important development relating to amide formation was reported from the process development group of AstraZeneca (London) regarding the utility of imidazole hydrochloride to speed up reactions by evaluating its applications for several aniline derivatives and heteroarenes (1, 7). N,N ′-carbonyldiimidazole (CDI) is a commonly used reagent for coupling carboxylic acids with aliphatic or aromatic amines to form amides. Woodman et al., however, point out that slow reaction rates between aromatic amines and the CDI intermediates have limited the scope of the reaction in the pharmaceutical and fine-chemicals industries. The group’s work showed that the rate of CDI-mediated amidation to be significantly enhanced upon introduction of imidazole hydrochloride as a proton source for acid catalysis (1, 7).
Asymmetric hydrogenation is an important reaction in pharmaceutical synthesis as many bioactive molecules are chiral compounds and strategies to produce a single enantiomer in high optical purity are valued. The ACS GCIPR review article reported that more than 150 articles relating to asymmetric hydrogenation were published in 2008, with the majority of articles relating to the modification of the catalyst and ligands (1). An important development that may lead to improving reaction conditions for asymmetric hydrogenation was the use of an iron-catalyst system for asymmetric hydrogenation at 50 °C and asymmetric transfer hydrogenation at room temperature that offered transfer hydrogenation activity similar to that of ruthenium-based catalysts (1, 8).
In the area of biocatalysis, researchers at Merck & Co. (Whitehouse Station, NJ) reported the pilot-scale asymmetric synthesis of 4,4-dimethoxytetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-ol with a ketone reductase and in situ cofactor recycling using glucose dehydrogenase in high yield and enantiomeric excess (1,9).
1. I. Andrews et al., “Green Chemistry Articles of Interest to the Pharmaceutical Industry,” Org. Process Res. Dev. 13 (3), pp 397–408 (2009).
2. R. Sheldon, I. Arends, and U. Hanefield, Green Chemistry and Catalysis (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2007), p 3.
3. EPA, “An Introduction to the Concept of Green Chemistry” (Washington, DC), available at epa.gov/gcc/pubs/principles.html, accessed Aug. 17, 2009.
4. P. Anastas and J. Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, New York, 1998).
5. Kim Alfonsi et al., “Green Chemistry Tools to Influence a Medicinal Chemistry and Research Chemistry Based Organization,” Green Chem. 10 (1) , 31–36 (2008).
6. P. Van Arnum, “Going Green in Pharmaceuticals,” Pharm. Technol. 33 (2), 44–46 (2009).
7. E. Woodman et al., “ N,N ′-Carbonyldiimidazole-Mediated Amide Coupling: Significant Rate Enhancement Achieved by Acid Catalysis with Imidazole HCl,” Org. Process Res. Dev. 13 (1), 106–113 (2009).
8. C. Sui-Seng, “Highly Efficient Catalyst Systems Using Iron Complexes with a Tetradentate PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds,” Agnew. Chem. Int. Ed.47 (5), 940–943 (2008).
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It can be easy to condemn others. People, governments and churches make mistakes. We don't take enough time to properly evaluate a situation, or we fail to ask the right questions, and before we know it, we have made a decision that is shortsighted, even foolish. When, moreover, governments and churches do this, they get attacked. We like having scapegoats.
Gratefully, God does not look to blame us. Rather, God keeps looking for reasons to love and forgive us. As John reminds us, God did not send the Christ into the world to condemn us, but to save us. What else could God do to demonstrate his love? St Paul says it this way:
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:6-8)God saves us, not because of our good works or desire for God's love, but because God is God. There is no other explanation. God sees past our sins, focuses on our goodness, and challenges us to do the same.
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We’re Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Bailey Blair, Youth Leadership in Kansas Program Associate, at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR). CCSR was awarded a grant last year by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide technical assistance and research services to leadership groups for youth with a mental illness diagnosis and their parents. Our first task was to better understand these groups, so we conducted focus groups with each site, asking questions about the nature of the groups and roles of the youth. Their qualitative responses and our observations indicated that while they highly value their groups, the adults tend to be in charge and youth perform tasks like choosing food, picking up trash, etc.
So our question was: How could we honor what the members love about their groups but also move them toward best practices for positive youth development/leadership (e.g., Eccles and Gootman, 2002)? Our approach was to gently present “what is” in their own words alongside “what could be” as a way to respect the members’ voices but also offer ideas for enhanced experiences.
- Instead of just giving the leadership groups a written report, we displayed a Wordle™ graphic, which contained all of their qualitative responses, during a gathering of all groups. This was an engaging method that showed them the results “in their own words” without inserting our thoughts.
- We then displayed a model of meaningful youth participation and asked them to compare it to the Wordle™ visuals. This spurred a very energetic and insightful discussion among youth and adults.
- Next, we gave them an opportunity to incorporate their ideas into a visual representation of their vision or aspirations for the groups as a whole.
- Finally, we’re following up with technical assistance and written guidelines on options to further incorporate true youth leadership in their groups.
- By presenting the qualitative data juxtaposed with the ideal model, the groups had an “A-ha!” moment that was totally theirs. They were not left feeling like they had done something wrong and were even able to laugh at the discrepancies. This appeared to be a moment of genuine empowerment.
- Highlighting the discrepancy between “what is” and “what could be” wasn’t enough. It was essential to make sure they had concrete ideas about how to move toward their self-determined vision.
Figure 1. Wordle graphic for responses to: “What are youth in charge of in this group”
Figure 2. Ladder of youth voice
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The Metropolitan's production of John Adams' Nixon in China opened February 2. Here is the Unbiased Opinionator's account. The Opera Tattler may write about the February 12 performance.
* Notes *
Once derided as a "CNN Opera," an opera taking its theme from contemporary news flashes, and thus lacking in substance, "Nixon in China" has achieved a permanent place in the standard operatic repertory. Often incorrectly described as a "minimalist" opera, the score has many moments of intense lyricism and almost Wagnerian sweep.
The Met's production is a virtual duplication of the 1987 Houston world premiere. Set design, including the famous arrival of "The Spirit of '76" (as the Nixon administration christened Air Force One), direction by Peter Sellars, Mark Morris' splendid Act II choreography, costumes and blocking were identical to the world premiere, and held up very well in the cavernous Met auditorium. James Maddelena, who created the part of Nixon in the first production of the opera, sang Nixon in the Met production. A bright red curtain was substituted for the Met's usual gold brocade.
The composer himself conducted. He was greeted by loud applause and clearly had the propulsive, complex score under tight control.
This was clearly a big event, preceded by large media build-up and attended by President Nixon's daughter, Patricia, her husband Edward Cox and their son. I am happy to report that the evening exceeded the expectations which the hype preceding an event of this high profile often creates.
As in other operas with an historical backdrop, Verdi's Don Carlo, and Masked Ball for instance, the opera probes the thoughts and emotions of principal players in an important moment in history. In this case it was President Nixon's path-breaking trip to China in 1972, the first attempt at creating politic and military détente with the "Middle Kingdom" after a prolonged and geo-politically dangerous lack of contact.
The opera succeeds in capturing the essence of President Nixon, who was clearly aware of the enormous media attention the trip received. His opening aria, with its propulsive repetition of the words "History" and "News," shows Nixon the politician, eager for favorable publicity before his bid for reelection. His final duet with Pat, with his reminiscences about his experiences in World War II, shows the human, vulnerable aspect of this complex human being, much maligned at the time of his resignation and now in the process of rehabilitation and recognition for his accomplishments as a statesman and as President.
The role of First Lady Pat Nixon is the emotional and musical epicenter of the evening. She is portrayed highly sympathetically and her great aria: "This is Prophetic!" was beautifully sung by soprano Janis Kelly. Her closing lines "Bless this Union...May it Remain Inviolate" was intensely moving. One audience member broke out in enthusiastic solo applause, and one wondered if it were for the music, or for the plea that the nation remain unshattered by political division, a sentiment clearly relevant to the American political scene today.
Henry Kissinger fared poorly. He was cast as a stiff buffoon, and acts the part of the randy landlord (a complete departure from the historical reality of the occasion) in Madame Mao's ballet The Red Detachment of Women (brilliantly choreographed by Mark Morris and executed with astonishing energy and precision by the Met corps de ballet), which was performed for the Nixons and their entourage. Richard Paul Fink made the most of the role.
James Maddalena's performance was that of a singer whose best days are clearly behind him. He had evident vocal problems, especially in his first scene, and sang with overly darkened diction and a hooty, wobbly vocal quality. The principals in most of the opera were heavily amplified, and the amplification did not serve Mr. Maddalena well, with his audible cracking and throat-clearing. Although he acted the part well, capturing some of Nixon's physical stiffness, his dramatic achievement could not compensate for his inadequate vocalism.
Robert Brubaker presented an astonishingly well-sung Mao, which is written in an impossibly high range, and he captured the decrepitude of the aged yet iron-willed leader very effectively. Another stand-out was Russell Braun's performance as Chou En Lai, to which he brought nuanced and expressive singing. Chou En Lai in historical fact was an exceptionally cultivated and politically savvy leader. Denied treatment for bladder cancer by Mao's malignant wife Chiang Ch'ing (sung with great virtuosity by soprano Kathleen Kim), his final rumination ("How much of what we did was good?) was extremely effective and the capacity Met audience held its breath momentarily before delivering a thundering ovation.
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You will have the challenge of predicting if businesses will thrive of fail. This requires diligent review of company data and other industry figures. Proper research is the surest way to limit the risks of making an investment.
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Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is the retrograde passage of urine from the bladder into the upper urinary tract.
●VUR is divided into two categories based on the underlying pathogenesis:
•Primary VUR, the most common form of reflux, is due to incompetent or inadequate closure of the ureterovesical junction (UVJ) that contains a segment of the ureter within the bladder wall (intravesical ureter).
•Secondary VUR is a result of abnormally high voiding pressure in the bladder that results in failure of the closure of the UVJ during bladder contraction.
●Primary VUR occurs in approximately 1 percent of newborns. However, there is a significant rate of spontaneous resolution with growth, especially for patients with low-grade reflux (Grades I and II).
•Prenatally as antenatal hydronephrosis on prenatal ultrasound.
•Postnatally typically after an initial febrile illness or UTI, or, less commonly, after family screening of an index case.
●The diagnosis of VUR is based upon the demonstration of reflux of urine from the bladder to the upper urinary tract by either contrast voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) or radionuclide cystogram (RNC).
●In our practice, the following diagnostic approaches are used:
•Prenatal presentation – An initial postnatal renal ultrasound is performed in all patients who present with prenatal hydronephrosis. A VCUG is performed in infants with persistent postnatal abnormal ultrasound findings or who develop a urinary tract infection (UTI).
•Postnatal presentation – VCUG is obtained in children after a first febrile or symptomatic UTI if they are not toilet trained, have an anomaly on renal ultrasound, have hypertension or poor growth, or a have combination of temperature ≥39°C (102.2°F) and a pathogen other than Escherichia coli. Other factors to consider are family preference and evaluation of compliance regarding medical care after discussion with the family.
●VCUG is the imaging test of choice to diagnose the presence and establish the degree of VUR. The severity of VUR is dependent upon the degree of retrograde filling and dilation of the renal collecting system. Established grading systems based upon VCUG findings are used to measure the severity of VUR.
●Children with VUR are at risk for recurrent febrile or symptomatic UTIs, especially those with more severe VUR.
●Loss of renal parenchyma is a common finding in patients with VUR. It may lead to decreased renal function, and in some affected individuals with severe bilateral involvement to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Reduction in renal parenchyma is caused by the following mechanisms:
•Acquired scarring is caused by renal parenchymal infection, which can occur in those with any grade of reflux, but is more common in those with higher VUR grades (III to V).
•Congenital renal hypodysplasia.
●We suggest the following evaluation be performed in all children with VUR :
•Medical evaluation including measurements of height, weight, and blood pressure, and identifying any patient with symptoms indicative of voiding dysfunction.
•Serum creatinine if there is bilateral involvement or in a patient with a solitary kidney.
•Renal imaging with renal ultrasound and in selected patients, dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) renal scan.
•We suggest initial selective screening for VUR in younger siblings or offspring of the index case.
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Becoming an Architect in the UK
12 April 2017
From the tallest office building to the homes we live in, architects play a major role in shaping the world around us. Working on a variety of interesting projects, they have the opportunity to create something truly lasting, and it is no surprise that many students dream of this exciting and rewarding career.
Architecture requires a unique mix of both creative and technical skills, as well as a lot of practical knowledge about things like building codes, property development costs, and planning laws. In order to learn everything they need to know, students in the UK must spend many years studying and gaining practical experience before becoming fully qualified.
Read on to find out more about what boarding school students interested in pursuing architecture careers can expect.
Finding the Right Architecture Degree for British Boarding School Students
To become an architect in the UK, the first step is to complete an undergraduate BA (Bachelor of Arts) degree in the subject. Architecture degrees can take either three or four years, and need to be certified by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Fortunately, a number of British universities offer these programmes, so students at UK boarding schools have plenty of options. At CATS, dedicated higher education advisors also provide expert guidance throughout the process, helping students to find the right universities and prepare their applications and portfolios.
Architecture Students Complete Work Experience and Postgraduate Study
Once architecture students complete their degree, they need to spend 12 months gaining practical experience. This usually involves either working directly under the supervision of a qualified architect or in another area of the construction sector.
Students record their experience on the Professional Experience Development Record (PEDR) website, and are monitored by a Professional Studies Advisor from the university where they completed their degree.
Young architects need to spend time gaining practical experience
Next, students need to enrol in a postgraduate programme. This can be a diploma, a B.Arch (Bachelor of Architecture) or M. Arch (Master of Architecture) degree. These programmes offer more advanced training than a BA degree, and will usually take around two years to complete. Postgraduate architecture courses often include opportunities to study abroad, or explore specialised subject areas such as sustainable architecture.
Once again, dedicated advisors at boarding schools like CATS can provide valuable guidance for students in this area, helping them to develop a long-term plan for where they might like to study at postgraduate level.
Becoming an Architect: The Final Steps for British Boarding School Students
To be fully recognised by the RIBA, aspiring architects must then complete another 12 months of work experience, and one final qualification known as the Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice in Architecture (ADPPA).
This is an online course which includes a comprehensive three day final exam, and also requires students to submit a CV, self evaluation, a case study, and PEDR logs of their work experience. While it is a rigorous process, successful candidates will be invited to become members of the RIBA, and finally be recognised as a fully qualified architect.
While becoming an architect is a long and challenging process, attending a top quality British boarding school is a great place to start.
At CATS, for example, aspiring architects have the opportunity to participate in a range of academic and extracurricular activities that will help them prepare for their future career, including life drawing clubs, work placements, and even trips to famous architectural cities like Paris, Florence, and Barcelona. After all, architecture is all about planning, so why not start today?
CATS students explore famous architectural cities like Florence
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- 1 Which is the best Indian biryani?
- 2 How many types of Indian biryani are there?
- 3 What is the famous food of biryani?
- 4 What is bejawada biryani?
- 5 Is biryani Pakistani or Indian?
- 6 Which type of biryani is best?
- 7 Is biryani healthy or unhealthy?
- 8 Which biryani is spicy?
- 9 Who is the father of biryani?
- 10 Who made biryani first?
- 11 Is a biryani hot?
- 12 What is masakali chicken biryani?
- 13 Why is Vijayawada called bezawada?
- 14 What is temper chicken biryani?
Which is the best Indian biryani?
10 Best Biryani Places in India
- Lucknow. Originating from the Awadhi cuisine, Lucknow prepares its biryani’s meat and rice separately.
- Hyderabad. Another gem of the biryanis is the famous Hyderabadi biryani originated from the kitchens of the Nizams of Hyderabad.
How many types of Indian biryani are there?
15 Types Of Biryani You Have To Try In India. India is known for its rich and diverse culinary traditions, but one of its most iconic foods is enjoyed throughout the country. Almost every region in India has its own version of the biryani, and there are over 26 types of biryani in India.
What is the famous food of biryani?
The crown dish of Hyderabadi Cuisine, Hyderabadi biryani developed under the rule of Asaf Jah I, who was first appointed as the governor of Deccan by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. It is made with basmati rice, spices and goat meat. Popular variations use chicken instead of goat meat.
What is bejawada biryani?
Unless the Hyderabadi Dum Biriyani. As this is a fried chicken biriyani, you gonna fry the chicken pieces first and then prepare the masala. The assembling is much similar how you did for the hyderbadi Dum Biriyani.
Is biryani Pakistani or Indian?
Biriyani has its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent and is popular beyond the region. The word “biryani” comes from the Persian word “birian” which means “fried before cooking.” This South Asian mixed rice dish has its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.
Which type of biryani is best?
Ranking The Top 10 Biryanis In India: A Foodies Ultimate Guide
- Kampuri Biryani.
- Ambur Biryani.
- Goan Fish Biryani.
- Kashmiri Biryani.
- Bombay Biryani.
- Sindhi Biryani.
- Thalassery biryani.
- Lucknow / Awadhi Biryani.
Is biryani healthy or unhealthy?
While biryani is known to be a high calorie-rich diet with each serving having an average of 500 calories, the ghee, vanaspati and red meat used in their preparation lead to NAFLD.
Which biryani is spicy?
Hyderabadi biryani is usually meaty and spicy and has a good color of zaffran. Lucknowi biryani, on the other hand, is smooth and its meat is marinated in yoghurt and herbs.
Who is the father of biryani?
While there are multiple theories about how biryani made its way to India, it is generally accepted that it originated in West Asia. One legend has it that the Turk-Mongol conqueror, Timur, brought the precursor to the biryani with him when he arrived at the frontiers of India in 1398.
Who made biryani first?
Many historians believe that biryani originated from Persia and was brought to India by the Mughals. Biryani was further developed in the Mughal royal kitchen. the Mughal soldiers looked undernourished. In order to provide a balanced diet to the soldiers, she asked the chefs to prepare dish with meat and rice.
Is a biryani hot?
The Biryani is classed as a medium on the heat scale and has more of a tomato-based taste rather than a creamy texture. Often used as a vegetarian alternative, the meat in a Biryani can be replaced with either seafood or simply grilled vegetables.
What is masakali chicken biryani?
Boneless Chicken Masakali (Spicy) pieces cooked with basmati rice, flavored with saffron and aromatic.
Why is Vijayawada called bezawada?
A tale behind its acquiring the name Bezawada is that Goddess Krishnaveni (River Krishna) requested Arjuna to make a passage for her to merge into the Bay of Bengal. Hence, Arjuna made a bejjam (hole) through the mountains and the place came to be known as Bejjamwada which later changed to Bezawada.
What is temper chicken biryani?
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Without intending to do so, the parent has just reinforced the child's aggressive behavior. "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency." In addition to the failure to achieve one's goals, strain may result when people take something one values or present one with noxious or negative stimuli. One reason for this is that some juveniles have more to lose by engaging in deviance. One theory dedicated to studying social/environment factors is the Chicago School Theory. Messerschmidt, James W. Masculinities and Crime. Unlike strain and social learning theorists, control theorists take crime for granted. While strain may result from the failure to achieve a variety of goals, Agnew and others In this connection, they may adopt a tough demeanor, respond to even minor shows of disrespect with violence, and occasionally assault and rob others in an effort to establish a tough reputation. Sociologists, however, are coming to recognize that it is not possible to explain crime solely in terms of the immediate social environment. Ross Matsueda discusses the reasons why individuals may be informally labeled This change partly reflects the fact that women have become much more likely to work outside the home and people have become more likely to seek entertainment outside the home. As a consequence, their beliefs do not restrain them from engaging in crime. Differential reinforcement of crime. According to social learning theory, juveniles learn to engage in crime in the same way they learn to engage in conforming behavior: through association with or exposure to others. For example, suppose one's friends have been calling her a coward because she refuses to use drugs with them. Much recent theoretical work, however, has also focused on the larger social environment, especially the community and the total society. Bandura, Albert. Finally, labeled individuals may eventually come to view themselves as criminals and act in accord with this self-concept. Abused females frequently run away, but they have difficulty surviving on the street. The Making of a Criminal Social and Environmental theory of crime causation. As a consequence, they are less likely to intervene in neighborhood affairs—like monitoring the behavior of neighborhood residents and sanctioning crime. The rapid increase in female-headed families in recent decades, in fact, has been used to explain the increase in rates of female property crime. And they often do not know their neighbors well, since people frequently move into and out of the community. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. Individuals may teach others to engage in crime through the reinforcements and punishments they provide for behavior. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Cohen, Lawrence E.; and Felson, Marcus. As a result, institutions like the family, school, and political system are less able to effectively socialize individuals against crime and sanction deviant behavior. Data in this area are somewhat mixed, but recent studies suggest that males, young people, and possibly lower-class people are more likely to hold beliefs favorable to violence. Causes of Delinquency. Third, some people hold certain general values that are conducive to crime. They learn to engage in crime, primarily through their association with others. Strain theories view crime as resulting from the anger people experience over their inability to achieve legitimate social and economic success. Further, money is necessary to buy many of the things we want, including the necessities of life and luxury items. Level of direct control usually emerges as an important cause of crime in most studies. In negative reinforcement, the behavior results in the removal of something bad—a punisher is removed or avoided. These people believe that crime is generally wrong, but that some criminal acts are justifiable or even desirable in certain conditions. Feminist theories focus on gender differences in power as a source of They then focus on the factors that push or entice people into committing criminal acts. Certain theorists also claim that some of the traits characterizing low self-control have biological as well as social causes. Low social control, in turn, increases the likelihood of association with delinquent peers, which promotes the social learning of crime. . To further understand the relationship between these structures and crime, we shall divide them and discuss them separately. Further, sociologists are coming to recognize that they need to take account of the factors considered in biological, psychological, and other theories of crime. 100–101). And they are devoting more attention to the situations in which people find themselves, which affect whether predisposed individuals will engage in crime. Social and Environmental theories of crime causation argue that a person’s environment and social groups influence their behaviour. Noneconomic institutions must accommodate themselves to the demands of the economy (e.g., parents neglect their children because of the demands of work). : Rowman and Littlefield, 1993. Self-control is indexed by several personality traits. Data indicate that the people one associates with have a large impact on whether or not one engages in crime, and that this impact is partly explained by the effect these people have on one's beliefs regarding crime, the reinforcements and punishments one receives, and the models one is exposed to. These juveniles have what has been called a high "stake in conformity," and they do not want to jeopardize that stake by engaging in deviance. Control theories describe the major types of social control or the major restraints to crime. Money is perhaps the central goal in the United States. The reason is that they are high in internal control. In positive reinforcement, the behavior results in something good—some positive consequence. Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, and Robert Sampson and John Laub have extended Hirschi's theory in important ways. Crime is often defined as "conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, of the federal government, or of a local jurisdiction, for whi…, Introduction This entry focuses on the three major sociological theories of crime and delinquency: strain, social learning, and control theories. For example, individuals are more likely to imitate others' behavior if they observe them receive reinforcement for their acts. : Harvard University Press, 1993. For example, the parents of aggressive children often deliberately encourage and reinforce aggressive behavior outside the home. Some individuals, however, learn beliefs that are favorable to crime and they are more likely to engage in crime as a result. Internal control. As a consequence, they are devoting more attention to the larger social environment, which affects the immediate social environment. Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationCrime and Criminal LawCrime Causation: Sociological Theories - Strain Theory, Social Learning Theory, Control Theory, Labeling Theory, Social Disorganization Theory, Critical Theories, Copyright © 2020 Web Solutions LLC. The individual's drug use has been negatively reinforced. Refer to each style’s convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. Gresham Sykes and David Matza have listed some of the more common justifications used for crime. Braithwaite, John. First, some people generally approve of certain minor forms of crime, like certain forms of consensual sexual behavior, gambling, "soft" drug use, and—for adolescents—alcohol use, truancy, and curfew violation. This is partly a consequence of their limited resources and lower attachment to the community. It is argued that crime is most likely when motivated offenders come together with attractive targets in the absence of capable guardians. A General Theory of Crime. American Sociological Review 3 (1938): 672–682. Finally, direct control involves effectively sanctioning crime when it occurs. There is a focus on elements within locations which can influence the likelihood of crime, including lighting conditions, state of buildings, pathways, car parking areas, etc. These theories address two issues: why are males more involved in most forms of crime than females, and why do females engage in crime. Most individuals, of course, are taught that crime is bad or wrong. Shaw and McKay’s (1931) study “Juvenile Delinquency in Urban Areas.” In this study Shaw and McKay examined areas which had high rates of crime and acts of delinquency, they found a correlation … American Journal of Sociology 97 (1992): 1577–1611. Data indicate that the people one associates with have a large impact on whether or not one engages in crime, and that this impact is partly explained by the effect these people have on one's beliefs regarding crime, the reinforcements and punishments one receives, and the models one is exposed to. For example, Cohen and Felson point to a major change in routine activities since World War II: people are more likely to spend time away from home. All of the theories that are described explain crime in terms of the social environment, including the family, school, peer group, workplace, community, and society. criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychologic…, Crimes committed by persons of respectability have drawn the attention of societies throughout history. Critical theories also try to explain group differences in crime rates in terms of the larger social environment; some focus on class differences, some on gender differences, and some on societal differences in crime. Braithwaite calls this process "reintegrative shaming." Some females, of course, do engage in crime. Some of the most common sociological theories of crime causation are the social structure theory and social conflict theory (Per-Olof H Wikström, 2018). Patterson, Gerald R.; Reid, John B.; and Dishion, Thomas J. Antisocial Boys. 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Adrienne farms with her husband’s family on a fourth generation corn and soybean farm. They have a small herd of beef cattle, and a small herd of children (two young daughters, with a baby boy on the way).
With a Master’s degree and certification in Counseling, Adrienne works off the farm as a Behavioral Health Consultant, partnering with agriculture organizations to combat farmer suicide and provide education on ag wellness. She presents workshops throughout the country, writes a wellness column for Illinois Farm Bureau, and has appeared on state and national media as an ag mental health expert. Using her Twitter profile, @SowHopeGrowHope, she shares mental health tips and resources, and advocates for healthy minds and empowered farmers. ________________________________________________________________
Wouldn’t it be amazing if each day had the perfect amount of sun and rain for our crops to grow?
Of course, that’s not reality. One day we get a refreshing rainfall, when other days our soybeans are nearly drowned. Some days our corn thrives under a warm sun, while other days the bitter cold stunts their growth. But despite the ups and downs of the growing season, resilient crops seem to challenge adverse conditions and spring back into shape.
And so do resilient farmers.
Resilience isn’t about never experiencing pain or never making mistakes. It’s not about eliminating stress, or always being optimistic. In fact, resilience is really the opposite; it’s about acknowledging that life doesn’t always go the way you want or expect it to, and finding ways to spring back no matter what. A resilient farmer isn’t one who makes every good decision or brushes off every ounce of negativity, he/she’s one who gives him/herself permission to have moments of worry, pressure, or frustration, but also knows how to stay in control and eventually get right back to work.
It’s normal to get angry when your equipment breaks down, or when you find your cattle on the wrong side of the fence. It’s ok to be worried when the economic outlook isn’t ideal, and it’s fine to get down when the weather isn’t cooperating. If you need to be upset, or you need some alone time to think, or you need a break, do it! Allowing yourself to feel and think is how we process stress. But give yourself some limits to stay in control, and figure out what works to help you spring back.
In farming, we talk a lot about being tough, brave, ambitious, and determined. It’s an industry that requires grit, and the rewards of such hard work can be very fulfilling. But it’s important that we don’t mistake being “tough” or “brave” for ignoring conflicts and emotions. Being ambitious and determined means pushing hard, but not so hard that you don’t know when it’s time to slow down. To be resilient farmers, we need to confront and acknowledge our stress, and we need to be responsible enough to set realistic limits and expectations for ourselves and each other. Because the longer we dig ourselves into a hole, the harder it is to spring back out.
Challenging our stereotypes and expectations begins with leadership that isn’t afraid to speak out. American Farm Bureau Federation recognizes how demanding farming can be, and the stresses and mental health struggles that farmers face as a result. Through their partnership with Farm Credit and National Farmers Union, they released a training program called “Rural Resilience,” which helps identify farm stressors, warning signs of crisis, effective communication strategies, and appropriate resources for farm families in need of support. Whether you are experiencing personal stress or you just want to be better prepared to help others through a crisis, all Farm Bureau members are encouraged to participate. You can access the training at https://www.canr.msu.edu/managing_farm_stress/rural-resiliency-online-course-afbf, or contact your county Farm Bureau for more information.
What will you do this season to spring back after stressful moments? Maybe you’ll take a quick walk to cool off instead of yelling at a family member. Maybe you’ll prioritize getting a decent amount of sleep to feel less irritable. Perhaps you’ll talk out your concerns as they happen instead of bottling things up (and exploding later), or you might try setting a time limit for your worries. Add daily gratitude, challenge your negative thoughts, or focus on what you can control instead of dwelling on what you can’t. Whatever your situation, know what sets you off, and be purposeful about your plan to spring back. And instead of planting defeat, root yourself in resilience. | <urn:uuid:ea94277c-2866-465a-8314-1b734600aaec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://montcofb.com/spring-back-with-resilience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931237 | 1,010 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Enugu State Ministry of Health says 300,000 children between ages of zero and five years would be immunised in the ongoing statewide special polio immunisation.
Dr Ifeanyi Agujiobi, the Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Health, disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Enugu.
Agujiobi said that the five-day exercise, which began on July 27, would be taken to all nook and crannies, even to the remotest farm settlements in the state.
He noted that the ministry and its partners were targeting five to 10 per cent of the 4.9 million population of the state, who are under five years.
He said that the exercise would cover all children under five in the state irrespective of whether they were indigenes or not, assuring “we are not leaving any child behind in the state.’’
The permanent secretary said that the polio immunisation was free-of-charge.
He, however, appealed to mothers, fathers, caregivers and older ones at home to assist health officials to reach every child within the neighbourhood.
“However, we have sent enough trained health officials and their aides to go house-to-house, worship centres/churches, market squares and city centres to administer these oral polio vaccines on the infants,’’ he said.
According to him, the state government wants to ensure that it maintains the free-polio-status of the state as the ministry and the partners pursue the exercise with all seriousness it deserves.
“The last time we had a reported case of polio in the state was 13 years ago, precisely in 2006.
“Since then, the state had maintained a free-polio-status record through comprehensive and intensive routine polio immunisation,’’ he said.
Agujiobi noted that the exercise had a success target of meeting at least 90 per cent of the total 300,000 children under five in the state.
Newsmen observed that health officials from the ministry visited most churches, during Sunday services within Enugu metropolis to administer the oral polio vaccines on children.
It would be recalled that the last case of polio in Nigeria was recorded on Aug. 21, 2016.
Newsmen also report that the country would get the “International Polio-free Certification’’ on Aug. 21, having maintained polio-free status for three years. | <urn:uuid:79f3fb22-7d59-42e9-8f5e-fd1e19278f87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.xtra.net/news/nigeria/polio-immunisation-enugu-government-targets-300000-children | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972756 | 502 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
Tranlated by: Gavin Flood and Charles Martin
Reviewed by Sarah Newell
Imagine you are on the precipice of a great battle. You are an ancient warrior lined up with your faction facing the opposing army. As each side prepares for battle you realize what a great loss this will be for both armies. With two sides of a great family facing each other cousins will fight cousins, uncles will slay uncles, and neighbors will maim neighbors.
This is the point at which we enter the ancient Hindu scripture The Bhagavad Gita. In the epic poem, we meet the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna, posing as the warrior’s charioteer. Through their conversation Krishna teaches us about universal themes such as life and death, war and peace, and virtue and sacrifice. Seen as a spiritual text, the reader learns how right action supersedes all, and the act of doing while relinquishing all attachment to the outcome is the path to enlightenment. The Bhagavad Gita has inspired, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxely.
A weighty yet beautifully translated work, I highly suggest anyone on a spiritual quest to read The Bhagavad Gita.
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Country diary: Avian flu is devastating the seabirds of the Northern Isles
Birsay, Orkney: This catastrophe has global significance - at this time of year, Scotland hosts 46% of the world's northern gannetsWalking the Orkney shoreline, usually such a peaceful and calming activity, has been more disturbing of late. Along the strand, a succession of small bedraggled forms lie prone - victims of the avian flu ripping through the seabird populations of the Northern Isles and up the east coast of Britain.Crossing over to the Brough of Birsay, the tidal island, via a narrow causeway, I stumble across the first gannet. Its long, streamlined body is immediately recognisable: spectre white, misted with gold at its crown. Its eyes, staring blindly, have that piercing, icy quality of a husky's, while its beak is the palest powder blue lined in black, as if designed with a felt-tip pen. Continue reading...
Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/25/country-diary-avian-flu-is-devastating-the-seabirds-of-the-northern-isles
Zdroj: The Guardian
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The Nation's Bounty: The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho by Opland, J ed
Publisher: Wits University Press 2007
For nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu, the first and only female poet to produce a substantial body of work in isiXhosa. Apart from what is revealed in these writings, very little is known about her life. She explodes on the scene with her swaggering, urgent, confrontational woman’s poetry on 23 October 1920, sends poems to the newspaper regularly throughout the three years from 1924 to 1926, withdraws for two years until two final poems appear in December 1928 and January 1929, then disappears into the shrouding silence she first burst from. Nothing more is heard from her, but the poetry she left immediately claims for her the status of one of the greatest literary artists ever to write in isiXhosa, an anguished voice of an urban woman confronting male dominance, ineffective leadership, black apathy, white malice and indifference, economic exploitation and a tragic history of nineteenth-century territorial and cultural dispossession. | <urn:uuid:5f5bb6e9-e730-4ab1-8206-e389124f47c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pentzbooks.co.za/products/the-nations-bounty-the-xhosa-poetry-of-nontsizi-mgqwetho-by-opland-j-ed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937528 | 268 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Capacity crowd turn out to learn about trauma informed care in Timaru
6 July 2021
This is reposted from Stuff
Keiller MacDuff 17:46, Jul 06 2021
Presenters and organisers of the Trauma-informed Care National Training Day. From left Mekenna Cipres, Mirror Services; Anah Aikman, South Canterbury DHB; Dr Bronwyn Dunnachie, Werry Workforce Whāraurau; Dr Moana Eruera, Oranga Tamariki; Michelle Baughan, Mirror Services and Associate Professor Nicola Atwool of Otago University.)
Close to 200 people packed the auditorium at the inaugural Trauma-informed Care National Training Day in Timaru on Tuesday.
Anah Aikman, (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Wairere) learning advisor for the South Canterbury District Health Board’s Mental Health and Addiction learning hub, said the response to the event had been amazing, reaching capacity within just days of advertising.
Another of the organisers, Dr Bronwyn Dunnachie of Werry Workforce Whāraurau, said they could probably have filled the room again given the demand for the free event, which was open to people working with tamariki and whānau from across the country.
Dunnachie said the event was deliberately cross-sectorial and cross-services, and was attended by educators, medical personnel, social workers, corrections officers and many more.
Aikman said trauma informed care is “about looking at people and what’s happened to them and how that influences what’s going on for them now”.
“It’s about basic values like manaaki (respect).”
Aikman said a trauma-informed approach is not just for doctors and teachers, but for the entire community.
“We have to change the way we deal with people, the way we help people through trauma.”
“It’s up to us as practitioners, employers and everyday people to be non-judgemental, and to give people opportunities to share.”
Asked if the over-stretched health, education and social services sectors can afford to take a holistic approach, Aikman said the alternative was far more expensive.
“If we don’t address this it’s only going to magnify, and the costs are going to become even more disproportionate.”
Aikman and Dunnachie both acknowledged there is a lot of work to do in the area of trauma awareness and the provision of trauma informed care, but were quick to point out how much better the understanding of mechanisms and impact of trauma had become in recent years.
A large crowd packed the auditorium at the Life Church to take part in the first Trauma-informed Care National Training Day. From left, Dr Bronwyn Dunnachie, Werry Workforce Whāraurau; Anah Aikman, South Canterbury DHB; Dr Moana Eruera, Oranga Tamariki and Assoc. Prof Nicola Atwool, Otago University.)
Aikman said part of the recent spike of interest around trauma informed care may have been prompted by the experience of the pandemic, which “mobilised people to think in different ways around what we really need to be well”.
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If you’re following the saga of statues moving around Boston, you know that the city moved Robert Burns and his collie, Luath, for the second time. On October 30, they are returned from their spot in Winthrop Square to their original location in the Back Bay Fens.
Such a Deal
Unveiled in 1920, the statue by Henry Hudson Kitson originally stood on a grassy slope overlooking the Muddy River near the Westland Avenue entrance to the Fens. It had a good home there until—get this—a real-estate developer wanted Robbie and Luath moved to Winthrop Square. In a tribute to the power of developers in Boston, the city quietly relocated the statue without benefit of any public hearings. You can read the sad story in this Boston Globe article on the return of Robbie Burns to the Fens.
But wait, there’s more. As I said in last week’s post, Boston’s statues seem to peregrinate around the city with surprising frequency. Size and weight present no object.
The Partisans in the Seaport
Like The Naked Guy, this statue, officially called “The Partisans,” also has a nickname: The Starving Horses. If you lived in Boston in the seventies and eighties, you couldn’t miss it.
This line of five emaciated men holding lances and mounted on equally scrawny horses plodded along the Charles Street side of Boston Common near the corner of Beacon Street.
I never listed The Partisans as one of Boston’s Missing because I knew where it had gone: to the Seaport District. The city first placed it on MBTA property near the Convention Center on Summer Street and next to the World Trade Center T Station. Since then, it has been moved to ground level in the center median where D Street intersects Congress. No small feat considering that it weighs 8,000 pounds.
Honoring Freedom Fighters
Polish-born artist Andrzej Pitynski created the cast-aluminum sculpture in 1979, after immigrating to the U.S. Mr. Pitynski was born in 1947 to Polish parents who really were partisans.
One can understand the sculptor’s fierce resistance to Poland’s many oppressors when you learn that the Communists shot Mr. Pitynski’s grandmother and captured, imprisoned, and tortured his father.
When Mr. Pitynski obtained an American visa and emigrated from Poland, he said:
“As I stepped on to that American plane on October 3, 1974, I looked back and smiled to myself. I knew that I would never return to that Poland, to those Communist bastards. And for the first time in my life, I felt really free.”
A Tribute to the Freedom Fighters
A bronze plaque on The Partisans reads:
“This sculpture depicts Polish underground fighters who battled the German and Soviet forces during World War II and later the Communist regime of Poland.”
“The Partisans” thus provides a symbolic representation of the Polish freedom fighters who resisted the German occupation of Poland during the Nazi era and beyond. I sometimes see flowers and wreaths placed at the horses’ feet or around the neck of the lead horse to honor the sacrifices of freedom fighters everywhere.
The Statue Moves to the Seaport
Sent to Boston in 1983 on a short-term loan, the work was originally sited in the Boston Common. It never really fit there, however, because its modern style was inconsistent with the architecture of its surroundings as well as the history of the Shawmut Peninsula.
The foundation that owns the sculpture loaned it to Boston for six months but then never reclaimed it. “The Partisans,” now as homeless as its subjects, remained on display at the foot of the Boston Common until 2006, when the city placed it in storage,
That same year, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority extended the loan agreement and provided the statue with a new home. “The Partisans” fits better with the Seaport’s modern style and it is more consistent with the tall contemporary buildings around it.
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Fungus is a microscopic organism that lives on plants and other organic matter. Some fungi are beneficial to plants, but others can cause serious damage. The most common fungus affecting knockout roses is powdery mildew. Powdery mildew appears as white or grayish-brown spots on the leaves and stems of the plant. It can also appear as a white powdery coating on the flowers if left untreated for too long.
Knockout roses are one of the most popular rose varieties, with their beautiful blooms and low maintenance. However, they can be susceptible to various diseases and pests that can affect the health and appearance of your plants. If you’re looking for an effective way to control these issues and keep them away from your knockout roses, then fungicide is an excellent option. Fungicides use natural ingredients like sulfur or copper to help prevent diseases from spreading through your garden by killing off any harmful pathogens that may exist there. They work by preventing spores from germinating into a full-blown infection as well as stopping new ones from forming if present on the leaves or buds of your flowers.
Why Use Fungicide For Knockout Roses
Fungicides are used to treat diseases in plants. They are also used to prevent diseases in plants.
To get the most out of your fungicide, you need to know when plants are most susceptible to diseases and what conditions lead to fungal growth. You need a fungicide that treats the disease you have and/or prevents future growth of it on your plant(s).
If you don’t use a fungicide as part of your routine maintenance plan, then be sure you buy one that will help remedy any fungal issues as soon as they occur.
When To Use Fungicide For Knockout Roses
- When the plants are growing. Fungicide will help protect your roses from infection in all stages of development.
- Before flowers appear on your knockout rose bush, this is when fungal spores can infect the plant.
- After flowers have bloomed on your knockout rose bush and before petals fall off. Once the flower petals have fallen off of Knockout roses, you should no longer apply fungicides to keep your plant healthy because they will not be effective at this point in time. If you want to ensure that all fungal spores are killed in order to prevent future infections, then a dormant spray should be applied during dormancy (December through March). If you notice any signs of disease or fungus growth on Knockout roses in late summer or early fall, then it’s best practice to apply an active ingredient such as Mancozeb according to label recommendations right away so that any potential problems can be prevented before winter comes around.
How Fungicide For Knockout Roses Works
Fungicide is a type of chemical that kills or prevents fungal growth. It can be used to treat certain diseases, such as powdery mildew, rust, and black spot.
Fungicides are available in a variety of forms for different applications. Not all fungicides work the same way; some work by attacking the fungus itself while others prevent spores from forming on your plant’s leaves, flowers, and stems. Some fungicides also help prevent other types of plant diseases. In addition to being used as an anti-fungal agent, some fungicides are also effective at preventing insects from damaging plants while they’re trying to get rid of any existing fungi or bacteria in their system (or vice versa).
How To Apply Fungicide For Knockout Roses
- Use a garden sprayer to apply the fungicide to the leaves and stems of the roses, following the instructions on the label.
- If necessary, reapply after 10-14 days if rain is forecasted within that time frame or if you notice new infections appearing on previously treated plants.
- Avoid watering during this time period as it can wash away fungicide that has been applied and compromise its effectiveness in protecting against disease.
How Often To Apply Fungicide For Knockout Roses
You should apply the fungicide to your Knockout rose every year. Fungicides won’t protect your plants from fungal diseases if they’re not applied at the right time of year. Apply in spring after the last frost, but before the first leaf appears on your plant. This is because applying a fungicide when leaves are just emerging will burn them instead of protecting them.
Dosage Of Application
- How much to apply: 1 to 2 ounces of fungicide per gallon of water.
- How often to apply: Once during the growing season, or twice if you prefer.
- How to apply: Dilute the fungicide in a spray bottle and spray both sides of your plant thoroughly, especially under leaves and around the base. For best results, wait at least 24 hours before applying again, even if the problem does not appear to have cleared up completely yet.
- When should I re-apply? If there is a more resistant strain of leaf spot fungus present on your roses that requires stronger treatment than what’s offered by this product then skip this step entirely (and instead use another product). If not then reapply every 6 weeks until conditions improve or until all signs of infection have disappeared; whichever comes first.
Effects Of Fungicide For Knockout Roses
The best fungicide for Knockout roses is an essential part of a healthy garden. With this product, you can prevent fungal diseases from destroying your plant’s leaves and flowers. Not only that, but it also controls insects such as aphids and spider mites, preventing them from eating away at the leaves.
If you’d like to know more about what makes this product so effective against so many different types of fungus, continue reading below.
Best Fungicide For Knockout Roses
If you’re looking for the best fungicide for knockout roses, there’s one product that stands out from all others: Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide. This is a great choice for both uses on your knockout roses and as a preventative measure against fungal diseases that can affect them. It has been shown to be effective in preventing diseases like powdery mildew, rust, blackspot fungus, and fusarium wilt in knockouts and other plants alike.
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide
The active ingredients in Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide are copper sulfate and copper oxide. Copper sulfate is a fungicide that has been used for decades to control fungal diseases in both ornamental and agricultural plants. It works by interfering with the photosynthesis process of plant pathogens, preventing them from growing, reproducing, or spreading disease to other plants. The copper ions are absorbed through leaves, stems, roots, or buds of the plant and then move throughout its tissues until they reach the areas where fungal spores have been detected. Once there they bind to proteins within these organisms causing cell death by lysis (breakdown). This prevents further damage caused by fungal infections within your plant’s tissues which helps reduce dieback while also allowing it to recover faster than if left untreated.
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide is a liquid fungicide that prevents and controls fungal diseases in plants. It contains copper hydroxide, which is an active ingredient that helps protect your roses from various fungal diseases.
Copper-based products are often used when treating fungus on plants because they can help prevent the growth of some types of fungus. However, these products must be used carefully because they can also kill beneficial organisms such as earthworms and microorganisms in your soil. In addition to using this product on your knockouts every 2 weeks for 8 weeks during the growing season, make sure you keep your garden soil moist at all times by watering regularly (not letting it dry out between waterings).
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide is a fungicide that is used to control powdery mildew, rust, and other fungal diseases. It is a systemic fungicide that is used to control powdery mildew, rust, and other fungal diseases. It has a very long residual and can be used on roses as well as many other plants including apples, pears, peaches, and cherry trees.
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide Features:
- Controls Powdery Mildew on Ornamental Plants & Trees
- Controls Rust Diseases In Ornamental Plants & Trees
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide
Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide is a broad-spectrum fungicide that is effective against a wide range of diseases. It is a systemic fungicide that provides long-lasting protection against a wide range of diseases. The product controls many different types of fungi, such as anthracnose, black spot, rust, and powdery mildew. The active ingredient in this product is copper sulfate which has been shown to be very effective for knocking out roses to control in the garden.
There is no question that the best fungicide for Knockout roses is Bonide 811 Copper 4E Fungicide. It has the highest concentration of copper and will last longer than any other product on the market. It also contains other ingredients like neem oil to help keep insects away from your flowers as well as an insecticidal soap that will kill any pests that try to eat them off at night time when they’re sleeping under leaves or hiding somewhere else nearby. The best part about this product is how easy it makes applying it to your plants; just spray them once every two weeks. | <urn:uuid:0b28ac3c-a187-4d68-ac3e-b1559a2ae58b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://justagric.com/best-fungicide-for-knockout-roses-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940687 | 2,012 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Which direction should drawing room be?
– Your living room should always be in the East or in the North direction. However if you a have a south-facing house, then your living room can be in South East corner. North direction although is the more beneficial direction for a living room.
What should be the direction of bedroom according to Vastu?
Direction of bedroom, according to Vastu. The master bedroom should ideally be located in the south-west corner of the home, as it is linked with good health, longevity and prosperity. North-west is also a good option and suits the guest bedroom or your children’s bedroom best.
Which Colour is best for drawing room as per vastu?
Vastu-Approved Living Room Colours
- Brown for a grounded feeling (Wood element) Brown has become a popular choice in Vastu in recent years.
- Green for healing (Wood element)
- White for relaxation (Metal element)
- Blue for tranquility (Water element)
- Muted pink for warmth (Fire element)
- Orange for optimism (Fire element)
Which direction should a TV face?
Ideally, the TV should be installed in the southeast corner of the living room. The north east or the south west directions are best avoided when it comes to placing your TV in the social space in the house so that the positive energies in the room are not blocked.
Which Colour is good for bedroom as per Vastu?
1. Light Red or Pink. This shade represents warmth and love — elements that every home can benefit from. If you are married or in a relationship, pink or light red is the ideal master bedroom colour as per Vastu, as it not only deepens your bond with your partner but also helps keep conflicts at bay.
Which side facing house is bad?
Most homebuyers prefer East-facing houses as that direction is associated with good luck and prosperity. South-facing homes are generally considered inauspicious and get the bad rap many times due to the belief that Lord Yama, the God of Death, lives in the dakshina or South direction.
Which Colour is lucky for home?
Yellow: Sunny, Nourishing, Happy (Fire or Earth Element) The feng shui color of sunlight, cheerful and uplifting yellow will always brighten any home or office. Yellow color also creates cozy, welcoming feng shui energy in your kitchen, living room or children’s rooms.
Which wall is best for TV?
In the living room Ideally, the TV should be installed in the southeast corner of the living room. The north east or the south west directions are best avoided when it comes to placing your TV in the social space in the house so that the positive energies in the room are not blocked.
Which is the best Vastu for drawing room?
Vastu for drawing room is a methodical knowledge bestowed upon us by our seers. The principles laid down by this system can be cleverly incorporated in creating and designing beautiful modern-day living rooms which can make our lives healthier and more meaningful.
What do you need to know about Vastu Shastra?
Vastu Shastra has guidelines for every room in your home – the direction of the rooms, colours that can be used, ways to correct defects, if any, etc. In this article, we look at how to make your bath and wash space Vastu-compliant.
Which is the best zone in Vastu for worship?
1. Pooja Room / Room for Worship : – North East corner is governed by Eeshwar; Pooja room should be built in this corner. This corner should not be used for bed room, kitchen or any other room, and no other articles should be placed in the pooja room. Cleanliness must be maintained around it. One should sit facing north or east while worshipping.
Where does the Vastu drain in a bathroom?
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Urban, M. J. (1992). "Auditory subliminal stimulation: A re-examination." Perceptual & Motor Skills 74(2): 515-541.
Provides a review of methodological difficulties in the production of commercial subliminal audio tapes and comments and reliable methods of masking.
Urban, M. (1993). "Auditory subliminal stimulation: Methods." Perceptual & Motor Skills 76(3, Pt 2): 1103-1106.
A standard method for creating subliminal audio tapes is proposed.
Brigitte Valind and Lars Valind studied the effects of subliminal stimulation on homographs.
For this experiment, a picture was flashed on a screen at a subliminal exposure time.
This picture was related to 1 of the 2 meanings of a homograph, which was presented immediately after the picture, but at supraliminal exposure time.
The subliminal stimulus was shown to have an effect on verbal associations to the homograph, but not on latency.
This effect was evident only for homographs, where in a pilot study the subject's association could be traced equally often to 1 or the other of the 2 meanings of the homograph.
Van den Hout, M., N. Tenney, et al. (1995). "Responding to subliminal threat cues is related to trait anxiety and emotional vulnerability: A successful replication of Macleod and Hagan (1992)." Behaviour Research & Therapy 33(4): 451-454.
Replicated the findings of C. Macleod and R. Hagan demonstrating the correlation between threat relevant interference and trait anxiety. Researchers used the Stroop (MST) to investigate the relationship between subliminal threat cues and selective attention.
Van Selst, M. and P. M. Merikle (1993). "Perception below the objective threshold?" Consciousness & Cognition: an International Journal 2(3): 194-203.
Researchers conducted three studies to test the findings of M. Snodgrass et al suggesting that words are perceived even when forced -choice analysis fails to indicate so. Subjects were divided into groups. One group was allowed to say whatever "popped" into their heads. Results for the "popped" group revealed preference for one of the two task strategies used in the study deviated significantly more than chance.
VandenBoogert, C. (1984). A study of Potentials Unlimited subliminal persuasion self-hypnosis tapes. Grand Rapids, MI: Potentials Unlimited.
Carol VandenBoogert surveyed 600 Potentials Unlimited subliminal tape users.
It was found that success tended to increase after listening to subliminal tapes for more than 15 days, with many individuals needing longer exposure.
A consistent pattern of listening was not important.
She reported that subliminal tape users are able to carry on with their regular business without needing to follow a particular frequency or playing pattern.
Varga, M.P. (1974). An experimental study of aspects of the psychoanalytic theory of elation. New York University. Dissertation Abstracts International, 34 (8-B), pp 4062-4063.
Michael Varga performed this experiment in order to investigate experimentally the psychodynamics of elation.
The subjects all showed mood instability with both depressive and hypomanic trends.
The subjects were divided into four groups, and received one of following four subliminal presentations of various pictorial and verbal stimuli,
The subjects were primed prior to the presentation of the stimuli.
1) a picture of a person about to stab an older woman, the aggression stimulus,
2) a picture of a child crying over a coffin in which a woman is laid out, with the caption "I have lost mommy", the loss stimulus,
3) a picture of a woman nursing a baby, with the caption "mommy feeds me", the "oral-gratification" stimulus, and
4) either of two pictures of people standing side by side, with the caption "people are walking", the control stimulus.
The results supported the hypothesis that the arousal of aggressive drive derivatives may lead to depression since there was a highly significant drop in hypomania, and a significant rise in mood depression for subjects receiving the aggression stimulus.
a) the subliminal presentation of the oral gratification stimulus would reinforce images related to hypomanic denial, resulting in a hypomanic mood state, whereas
b) the presentation of the aggression and the loss stimuli would each results in a depressive mood state, the first through arousal of threatening depressive drive derivatives which would be turned innards resulting in depression, and the second through reinforcing depressive images and fantasies.
Vilenskaya, L. (1985). Firewalking and beyond. PSI Research, San Francisco, CA. PSI Research, 4 (2), pp 89-109. San Francisco, CA.
Larissa Vilenskaya reports observations of the Fear into Power:
The Firewalker Experience seminar in San Francisco.
The use of neurolinguistic programming techniques and Eriksonian embedded (subliminal) commands by the leader is described.
Vitiello, M. V., A. S. Carlin, et al. (1989). "The effect of subliminal oedipal and competitive stimulation on dart throwing: Another miss." Journal of Abnormal Psychology 98(1): 54-56.
Results of this study failed to show an improvement in motor skills
due to the presentation of SPA.
Voight, R.A. (1982). Stress reactivity of cardiorespiratory fit and unfit individuals after progressive neuromuscular relaxation training. University of Maryland. Dissertation Abstracts International, 43 (07-A), p. 2278.
Robert Voight used both neuromuscular relaxation training and
subliminal audio tapes to prepare fit and unfit subjects for response
It was found that the degree of fitness did not influence the effect of relaxation training, and that stress response was not related to level of cardiorespiratory fitness.
Vokey, J.R. & Read, J.D. (1985). Subliminal messages: Between the devil and the media. University of Lethbridge, Canada. American Psychologist, 40 (11), pp 1231-1239. ISSN: 0003 066X.
John Vokey and Don Read examined the controversial public issue
of subliminal messages in advertising and popular music.
The subjects completed a wide variety of tasks to determine whether any evidence exists that such messages affect behavior.
The results revealed no evidence to support such a claim.
It is suggested that the apparent presence of backward messages in popular music is more a function of active construction on the art of the perceiver than of the existence of the messages themselves.
Voronin, L. G., P. P. Novikov, et al. (1984). "Formation and development of temporary connections with participation of perceived and nonperceived sound stimuli." Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'Nosti 34(5): 855-860.
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Healthy quinoa salad. What This Healthy Quinoa Salad Is Made Of. Adding fresh veggies and fruit to the diet are essential to healthy living. Luckily, Kroger's abundance of organic and sustainably produced fruits and vegetables.
It's vegan and gluten free, too! Find healthy, delicious quinoa salad recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell. In this easy tomato salad recipe, we add a healthy kick of protein and fiber in the form of quinoa. You can cook Healthy quinoa salad using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Healthy quinoa salad
- You need of olive oil (for dressing).
- You need of Apple cider vinegar (for dressing).
- It’s of garlic (for dressing).
- Prepare of lemon juiced (for dressing).
- It’s of 0% Greek yogurt (for dressing).
- It’s of quinoa (uncooked).
- Prepare of red bell pepper.
- Prepare of yellow bell pepper.
- Prepare of halved grape tomatoes.
- It’s of green olives.
- Prepare of chopped parsley.
- You need of fresh dill.
- You need of Salt and pepper.
- It’s of Top with pumpkin seeds (optional).
This search takes into account your taste preferences. It's no secret that we adore quinoa on this site. And luckily, so does my whole family; we eat it in our house all the time. Hearty, super-healthy quinoa is spectacularly versatile.
Healthy quinoa salad step by step
- Measure out 1cup of quinoa and follow the cooking instruction on the package..
- Combine olive oil, vinegar, garlic, lemon juice, and Greek yogurt in a medium sized bowl and whisk until combined. Salt and pepper to taste..
- Once the quinoa has finished cooking, allow to cool completely before proceeding..
- Dice both bell peppers, halve the tomatoes and remove the pits from the olives if necessary. You may also roughly chop the parsley and dill at this time..
- Once the quinoa has cooled, transfer it to a large mixing bowl. Add the herbs, vegetables and dressing and stir the salad until all of the ingredients combined..
- Be sure to taste the salad before serving to be sure it is seasoned to your liking. If you are satisfied both the taste, you may either top it with the pumpkin seeds and serve it immediately or you may store it and eat it later. Enjoy!.
Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah)—a tiny little seed with an ancient history—packs a big nutritional punch: It's. This Healthy Quinoa Salad is packed with colorful vegetables and tossed in an easy peasy whisk-and-pour Mediterranean dressing. I cannot WAIT for y'all to try this superfood salad! Healthy Quinoa Salad. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. This Mediterranean Quinoa Salad recipe is SO healthy and delicious! | <urn:uuid:997afd2f-1d46-4124-ac5a-1c35c4c7bf2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://caitlinmarceau.com/2452-easiest-way-to-prepare-delicious-healthy-quinoa-salad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.866772 | 635 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Updated: Jun 6, 2020
John Boyega, star of the final Star Wars trilogy and Pacific Rim 2 was out in force in London on Wednesday. Joining those protesting the unjust death of George Floyd. Watching the video below you can see that he is angry, saddened, and ready for a change.
During his powerful speech he states "Every black person in here remembers when another person reminded you that you are black. . .I need you to understand how painful this shit is. How painful it is to be remined everyday that your race means nothing..."
The video is definitely worth watching. There are things that need to change...and it's time to hold the ones in power accountable. The entire world has come together in a way like we've never seen before. Under the single roof of justice for all.
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New research has revealed that entrepreneurship is on the rise, and especially so amongst Black Americans.
Black Entrepreneurship on the Rise
The multi-year Venture Forward study initiated by GoDaddy aimed to measure the local economic impact of online microbusinesses, described as small businesses that often originate as side hustles and typically have less than 10 employees. The researchers discovered that 2.8 million more United States-based microbusinesses were started in 2020 than in 2019, with 26% of those started by Black business owners.
Growth of Black Entrepreneurship
That 26% of all new business start-ups in 2020 is an 11% increase on the number of new Black-owned business start-ups from the previous year. The study also found that Black women’s activity in the microbusiness space contributes massively to the overall rise in Black entrepreneurship. Of all the Black-owned microbusinesses started in 2021, 73.5% were started by Black women, which is a 16.8% increase on the 2020 number.
The most popular sectors for new Black microbusinesses include retail, transport logistics and personal care services, as well as arts and entertainment.
The study also showed that Black microbusiness owners were more likely to view their business as a side hustle, with 46% of Black entrepreneurs describing their business as such. Only 33% of non-Black entrepreneurs considered their business a side hustle, with 50% considering it their full time job. Comparatively, only 41% of Black entrepreneurs considered their microbusiness as a full-time job.
Data ‘Instrumental’ in Understanding Business Policy
The co-founder and president of the Small Business Advocacy Council in Chicago, Elliot Richardson, described how the Venture Forward study’s data could help: “We should be allocating funds to ensure the survival of microbusinesses that started during the pandemic, so they have a chance to scale up. Data is absolutely instrumental in understanding what sort of policies are going to help microbusinesses.
“It’s a chance to re-imagine our economy and grow new businesses and new types of participation.”
Venture Forward Assisting Policy Makers
The Venture Forward research team believe that uncovering this data related to Black entrepreneurship will ultimately assist policy makers in creating more inclusive economies.
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Praying that Catholics would understand and act on "the inseparable bond" between love of God…
Pope: Lent is a time to reflect on God’s love, not ‘useless sermons’
ROME (CNS) — Ashes not only symbolize humanity’s frail mortality but are also a reminder of God’s infinite love of people, whom he created from dust, Pope Francis said.
While men and women are just “dust in the universe” compared to the galaxies and space, “we are thus a dust that is precious, destined for eternal life” with God, the pope said Feb. 26, celebrating Mass and distributing ashes at the beginning of Lent.
“For Lent is not a time for useless sermons, but for recognizing that our lowly ashes are loved by God,” he said. “It is a time of grace, a time for letting God gaze upon us with love and in this way change our lives. We were put in this world to go from ashes to life.”
After a brief prayer at the Benedictine’s Monastery of St. Anselm, Pope Francis walked in the traditional Ash Wednesday procession to the nearby Dominican-run Basilica of Santa Sabina, on Rome’s Aventine Hill, for the Mass.
The pope received ashes on his head from 95-year-old Cardinal Jozef Tomko, titular cardinal of the basilica, and distributed ashes to the cardinals present, as well as to Benedictines from St. Anselm, Dominicans from Santa Sabina and some laypeople.
In his homily, the pope said that the placing of ashes on the forehead is a reminder that although humanity is merely dust in the earth, it can also become something wondrous “if we allow ourselves to be shaped by the hands of God.”
“More often than not, though, especially at times of difficulty and loneliness, we only see our dust. But the Lord encourages us: In his eyes, our littleness is of infinite value. So, let us take heart: We were born to be loved; we were born to be children of God,” he said.
Christians are called to avoid “the fleeting realities of this world,” which ultimately turn to dust, and instead embrace the life that God wishes to give them, he said.
If a person lives to earn money or seek pleasure, prestige or promotions, he or she is “simply staring at dust,” the pope said.
“That is not why we have been put in this world,” he said. “We are worth so much more. We live for so much more, for we are meant to make God’s dream a reality and to love.”
Ashes are also a reminder of the “dust of death” brought on by war and of “lives reduced to ashes,” including the lives of those who are unwelcomed, the poor and “the abandoned elderly.”
“We continue to destroy ourselves, to return to ashes and dust,” the pope said. “Even in the church, the house of God, we have let so much dust collect, the dust of worldliness.”
The fire of God’s love, he added, is often extinguished by the “ashes of hypocrisy,” especially in Christians who do acts of charity, prayer or fasting “only to be recognized, to look good, to satisfy our ego.”
“How often do we profess to be Christians, yet in our hearts readily yield to passions that enslave us. How often do we preach one thing and practice another. How many times do we make ourselves look good on the outside while nursing grudges within. How much duplicity do we have in our hearts. All this is dust that besmirches, ashes that extinguish the fire of love,” the pope said.
Lent, he said, “is a time of healing” and through contemplating the cross and the sacrament of penance, Christians can encounter God’s forgiving love, which “consumes the ashes of our sin.”
“The embrace of the Father in confession renews us from inside and purifies our heart,” Pope Francis said. “Let us allow ourselves to be loved, so that we can give love in return. Let us allow ourselves to stand up and walk toward Easter. Then we will experience the joy of discovering how God raises us up from our ashes.” | <urn:uuid:df58f08a-cbc9-4e41-9b22-dcf4932da1bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.osvnews.com/2020/02/26/pope-lent-is-a-time-to-reflect-on-gods-love-not-useless-sermons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963929 | 974 | 2.328125 | 2 |
By Patrick Konrad Last updated: 10. August 2021
When a friend (or relative) has had a baby, you naturally want to give the young parents a gift. The first thing that comes to mind are clothes or toys for the baby. The problem with this is that in the first few weeks after the birth, so much of it accumulates that the parents hardly know what to do with it.
An alternative that always goes down well are cash gifts. They do have a reputation for only being considered when you can’t think of anything "right", but firstly you can’t say that across the board, and secondly, young families have extraordinary expenses that they are grateful for any assistance with.
How much money to give?
How much this support should be, you can not say in general, because it depends on how close you are to the parents. So this is a decision everyone has to make for themselves, unless it is a collective gift. When several parties pool, as is common in the office or sports club, a smaller amount from each party is usually enough, which is determined in advance. Taken together, all these small sums add up to a not inconsiderable total amount, which in any case helps the family receiving the gift a great deal.
Packing cash creatively
The simplest and most popular form of monetary gift is cash. But just handing it over in an envelope is actually a bit unimaginative, there are numerous ways to make the money a very special present with the help of a creative wrapping.
Packed in balloons cash becomes a real eye-catcher. To do this, simply roll the bills and put them in the balloons before inflating them. The ideal is not to just blow them up, but to use helium to make them rise up and be handed over as a kind of "floating bouquet".
It doesn’t have to be the packaging; the gift itself can be presented decoratively in many different ways, too. After all, banknotes can be shaped into almost any form with a little skill – butterflies and little ships are just two of countless options. A money gift that goes particularly well with the theme of birth is described in this video:
In the bucket
A fun way to wrap it is to change the money into coins as small as possible (1 + 2 euros) and "bury" it in a bucket of sand. Once the treasure is completely sifted out, the bucket can continue to be used as a toy – killing two birds with one stone.
Give a gift of gold
Of course, a monetary gift for a birth does not necessarily have to be in cash. Another popular option is to invest the desired amount in gold and give it to the child as a gift. Instead of gold funds or other securities, physical gold is recommended here. On the one hand it has a higher stability of value, on the other hand it simply makes a better gift.
The important thing here is not to buy blindly from any random vendor. After all, you want to give away the purest gold possible, and you don’t want to get ripped off when you buy it either. So if you decide to buy physical gold, you should buy it from a certified dealer like feingoldhandel.de or comparable suppliers.
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“Epidemiology of Surgically Managed Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence” (1997), by Ambre L. Olsen, Virginia J. Smith, John O. Bergstrom, Joyce C. Colling, and Amanda L. Clark
In 1997, physicians and researchers Ambre Olsen, Virginia Smith, John Bergstrom, Joyce Colling, and Amanda Clark published, “Epidemiology of Surgically Managed Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence,” in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. In their article, the authors retrospectively analyzed data from patients who underwent surgery for pelvic organ prolapse or urinary incontinence two years prior in 1995. Often due to a weakening of or damage to their pelvic muscles, women with pelvic organ prolapse can experience a descent of pelvic organs into the lower pelvis and vagina.
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by historian of science Alice Domurat Dreger, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. In the book, Dreger describes how many doctors and scientists treated human hermaphrodites from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. She states that during this time period, many physicians and scientists struggled to determine the nature sex, and to support a classification of sex as male or female, many physicians and scientists resorted to viewing a person's gonads for identification of his or her sex.
“The Standardization of Terminology of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction” (1996), Richard C. Bump, Anders Mattiasson, Kari Bø, Linda P. Brubaker, John O.L. DeLancey, Peter Klarskov, Bob L. Shull, Anthony R.B. Smith
In 1996, a team of researchers associated with the International Continence Society published “The Standardization of Terminology of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction” in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Pelvic organ prolapse is characterized by the descent of the pelvic organs into the lower portion of the pelvis and is often caused by a weakening of the muscles and ligaments that normally hold the organs in place.
“The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women’s Lives: A Critical Narrative Review” (2013), by Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning
In “The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women’s Lives: A Critical Narrative Review,” hereafter “Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis,” authors Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning review the extent at which endometriosis results in a negative quality of life for affected women. | <urn:uuid:0f5b8011-9d59-43e9-b78f-5a995549735e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://embryo.asu.edu/search?text=Edward%20Donnall%20Thomas&%3Bamp%3Bf%5B0%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A18&%3Bamp%3Bpage=2&%3Bf%5B0%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A6914&f%5B0%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A92&f%5B1%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A310 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.865073 | 655 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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EVENT DEFAULT MPM FOR APACHE 2.4: Based on the worker MPM. Multiple processes, many threads per process, threads handle requests. Used for even lower memory consumption and higher performance over worker MPM. No longer requires Apache to couple and maintain a specific thread to a specific KeepAlive connection unlike the worker MPM.The zip file contains folder "WebDeveloper", copy this folder to C:\ (or to the root of any drive). Forming C:\WebDeveloper. Run file C:\WebDeveloper\WebDeveloper.exe, click the "Run Installation Tasks" button, when the process is finished, the Apache and MySQL Services should have already started and you should be able to create and run websites. | <urn:uuid:d955fc11-91cf-412f-81d8-5cbcaca8d616> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://npz.dandaeurope.de/apache-mpm-event-tuning.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.883756 | 157 | 1.703125 | 2 |
I want you to think about the first thing that comes to mind when I mention fire protection. I can almost guarantee that for most people a red fire extinguisher pops up in their mind. There is a good chance that window glass was not at the forefront of your mind. Many people also tend to focus on fire safety doors but in reality both fire rated windows and doors are a must when it comes to fire prevention.
Although fire rated glass has been an integral part of fire safety, in buildings, for a long time most people know very little about it. It is important to be aware of window systems to ensure the correct product is installed and approved. Installing the correct products will lower the risk and prevent the spread of fire.
As the name suggests this is glass that provides a high level of protection from the threat of a fire. Insulated fire windows help to prevent the spread of fire. This glass has to pass the Australian Standards and also adhere to the Building Code of Australia.
Although fire rated glass may look similar to standard glass its fire resistance level is much higher. Having a fire window protection system in place plays a vital role in restricting the area of fire damage that a building receives.
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but Macedonia can’t keep its current name and please Greece.
Still, the fix may be relatively simple. The addition of one word—North—may make all the difference in resolving a 27-year diplomatic dispute, and there may soon be a nation called North Macedonia.
The neighboring nations Greece and Macedonia have been debating Macedonia’s chosen name since 1991, when the small country that was once part of the former Yugoslavia adopted the name. Greece objects because it has its own region called Macedonia. It also takes offense because it argues that its northern neighbor’s name indicates its greater territorial ambitions. Macedonia, for its part, will agree to the name change if Greece will stop blocking its efforts to join NATO and the European Union.
In 1995, the two countries came to an interim agreement brokered by the UN. Macedonia came to be known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or FYROM. Today (June 12), leaders from both nations said a final agreement may well have been reached.
Re-birth of a nation: The Republic of North Macedonia
The new name, Republic of North Macedonia—Severna Makedonija in Macedonian—should resolve the conflict once and for all. According to the BBC, Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev, speaking live on TV in Macedonia, said, “There is no way back.”
Don’t break out the champagne just yet. First the Macedonian parliament and people have to vote on the proposed new name. And the Greek parliament has to agree that this is an acceptable resolution. Macedonia will also have to change its constitution, according to Zaev.
He reportedly proposed four options to settle the long-standing dispute, including Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Upper Macedonia, Republic of Vardar Macedonia and Republic of Macedonia. Last month, at an EU summit in Bulgaria, Zaev and Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras discussed a resolution, and the two spoke twice on the phone this week before announcing the deal. They got kudos from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who tweeted his pleasure over the “historic agreement.”
The history behind the dispute
Greece was peeved by Macedonia’s choice of name for historic reasons. In the 4th Century BC, the Macedonian Empire ruled by Alexander the Great included what is now modern Greece. The Greeks argue that modern Macedonia is actually part of Hellenic culture. But the new deal will also emphasize the fact that Macedonians to the north speak a Slavic language and don’t have a linguistic kinship with the Macedonians of Greece.
The BBC reports that many Greeks are resistant to a deal that includes the name Macedonia at all. Earlier this month protestors descended on 25 cities to oppose an agreement. Similarly, in February, protests in Athens and Thessaloniki prompted renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis to proclaim, “Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.”
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Join us for a free renewable energy webinar by the AANZ B Corp Climate Collective with Jonathan Prendergast from the Business Renewables Centre Australia.
About the event:
Did you know that the use and generation of electricity is Australia’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions? Even in New Zealand, where renewable energy sources provide most of the electricity, the energy sector accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector. This is driving and accelerating climate change at an alarming rate. Making the switch to renewable energy is critical to reducing emissions and combatting climate change. This hour-long webinar, hosted by the B Corp Climate Collective and Jonathan Prendergast, the technical director at the Business Renewables Centre Australia, will explore ways that your business can achieve 100% renewable energy targets through renewable energy retailers and/or Power Purchase Agreements (PPA).
What can you expect?
Join our B Corp Community as we explore energy options for electricity buyers big and small, including: how to choose an energy retailer that works for you, understand what a PPA is and how you can use them, and how to balance effort and impact in your renewable energy procurement strategy. Not only is it better for the planet, but there are many benefits for your business, including cost savings, reliability, and resilience.
Have some burning questions about making the switch to renewables? After the presentation, a question and answer segment will close out the workshop, offering a unique opportunity to get answers from energy expert
About your guest speaker:
Jonathan is a clean energy project and procurement advisor and manager, with 12 years’ experience in development of innovative projects and contract structures. Jonathan has achieved several Australian first innovative energy projects, including development of Australia’s first District Heating system, District Cooling Customer agreement and offsite solar PPA. Jonathan has worked on many corporate renewable energy PPAs over the last 5 years performing advisory, procurement management and energy market analyst roles. | <urn:uuid:97680558-d1bd-4dd1-bf96-8d7bac8af449> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bcorpcommunity.com/t/switching-to-renewable-energy-a-free-webinar-by-the-aanz-b-corp-climate-collective/1844 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920151 | 415 | 2.125 | 2 |
Tinnitus (pronounced tin-NY-tus or TIN-u-tus) is not a disease. It is a symptom that something is wrong in the auditory system, which includes the ear, the auditory nerve that connects the inner ear to the brain, and the parts of the brain that process sound. Something as simple as a piece of earwax blocking the ear canal can cause tinnitus. But it can also be the result of a number of health conditions, such as:
Dr. Ben Wedro practices emergency medicine at Gundersen Clinic, a regional trauma center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His background includes undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Alberta, a Family Practice internship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Vitamin Supplements. Vitamin supplements, like Lipo-Flavonoid Plus, contain the vitamins that some studies have shown to be beneficial to inner ear health. These include Vitamin C, B-1, B-2, B-6, B-12, zinc, niacin and calcium. And while I am a proponent of vitamins, I advise my patients to take a regular OTC multivitamin that costs $15, versus Lipo-Flavonoid Plus, which has the same ingredients, but costs up to $90 for the same number of pills, just because it’s packaged and marketed to people that suffer from tinnitus.
Subjective tinnitus is the most frequent type of tinnitus. It can have many possible causes, but most commonly it results from hearing loss. When the tinnitus is caused by disorders of the inner ear or auditory nerve it is called otic (from the Greek word for ear). These otological or neurological conditions include those triggered by infections or drugs. A frequent cause is noise exposure that damages hair cells in the inner ear.
Cochlear implants are sometimes used in people who have tinnitus along with severe hearing loss. A cochlear implant bypasses the damaged portion of the inner ear and sends electrical signals that directly stimulate the auditory nerve. The device brings in outside sounds that help mask tinnitus and stimulate change in the neural circuits. Read the NIDCD fact sheet Cochlear Implants for more information.
^ Langguth B, Goodey R, Azevedo A, et al. (2007). "Consensus for tinnitus patient assessment and treatment outcome measurement: Tinnitus Research Initiative meeting, Regensburg, July 2006". Tinnitus: Pathophysiology and Treatment. Progress in Brain Research. 166. pp. 525–36. doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(07)66050-6. ISBN 978-0444531674. PMC 4283806. PMID 17956816.
But it’s still a significant improvement. And Kilgard says he and others are working to make the treatment even more effective. He suspects this type of therapy is not too far off from being available to patients outside of research studies. “It’s in the late stages of development,” he says. “It could be available to the public in as little as a year or two.”
While tinnitus is as varied as its causes, it can be grouped into two categories: tonal and non-tonal. Tonal tinnitus is more common and describes the perception of a near-continuous sound or overlapping sounds with a well-defined frequency (e.g., whistling, ringing, buzzing). Non-tonal forms of tinnitus include humming, clicking, crackling, and rumbling.
Most people who seek medical help for tinnitus experience it as subjective, constant sound like constant ringing in the ears or a buzzing sound in the ear, and most have some degree of hearing loss. Things that cause hearing loss (and tinnitus) include loud noise, medications that damage the nerves in the ear (ototoxic drugs), impacted earwax, middle ear problems (such as infections and vascular tumors), and aging. Tinnitus can also be a symptom of Meniere's disease, a disorder of the balance mechanism in the inner ear.
Tinnitus is commonly thought of as a symptom of adulthood, and is often overlooked in children. Children with hearing loss have a high incidence of tinnitus, even though they do not express the condition or its effect on their lives. Children do not generally report tinnitus spontaneously and their complaints may not be taken seriously. Among those children who do complain of tinnitus, there is an increased likelihood of associated otological or neurological pathology such as migraine, juvenile Meniere’s disease or chronic suppurative otitis media. Its reported prevalence varies from 12% to 36% in children with normal hearing thresholds and up to 66% in children with a hearing loss and approximately 3–10% of children have been reported to be troubled by tinnitus.
A large, 2014 study of almost 14,000 people found obstructive sleep apnea was linked to significantly higher rates of hearing impairment and hearing loss. Scientists think one reason for this is changes to blood flow to the ear that result in inflammation. (We know that sleep apnea causes changes to circulation and weakens blood flow to some areas of the body, including the brain.) A related factor? People with sleep apnea are at greater risk for high blood pressure, and high blood pressure can exacerbate hearing loss, according to research.
To answer your question about NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine), I’ve seen little evidence suggesting that is effective for tinnitus. Instead – though the research is very limited – multiple anecdotal reports describe success with the herb ginkgo biloba. Try taking two tablets of standardized extract of ginkgo three times a day with meals (no more than a total dose of 240 mg a day). Ginkgo may work by increasing blood circulation to the head and neck. Give it at least a two-month trial. You might also explore cranial therapy, a gentle manipulative technique performed by osteopathic physicians. This approach seems to take the pressure or irritation off the auditory nerves. If high blood pressure is responsible for your tinnitus, try to get that under control through diet, exercise, and weight loss or medication if necessary.
Loud noise exposure: Being exposed to occupational loud noise on a regular basis from heavy equipment, chain saws or firearms is a common cause of tinnitus. However, even if you don’t work in a noisy environment, you can still suffer the effects of noise exposure by listening to loud music through headphones, attending live music performances frequently and engaging in noisy hobbies. | <urn:uuid:522d0a92-7447-477d-804c-59de9be01a46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://banishtinnitus.net/reddit-tinnitus-cure-reviews-tinnitus-cure-yoga.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935943 | 1,412 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Unstoppable: The Greatest Depression and the Reverse Wealth Effect
June 10, 2020
We are entering The Greatest Depression because there is no exit.
I've endeavored to explain why The Greatest Depression is unstoppable in recent posts:
The Covid-19 Dominoes Fall: The World Is Insolvent March 16, 2020
What's Collapsing Can't Be Saved: Our Fraudulent Economy April 22, 2020
Why Assets Will Crash May 4, 2020
Consumer Spending Will Not Rebound--Here's Why May 18, 2020
This Is How Systems Collapse May 30, 2020
I'll try to summarize all this as simply as possible:
1. The global economy's cost structure has been fatally distorted by central bank policies of inflating asset bubbles and reducing interest rates to near-zero.
2. Earnings from labor have stagnated or eroded since the era of globalization / financialization took off around 2000.
3. Everything costs too much, i.e. is no longer affordable from earnings alone, so the only way to maintain the current costly lifestyle is to borrow money and use it to pay current expenses. This is true for every sector: household, corporate and government.
4. As a result, everyone now needs every dollar of income just to pay their expenses, including interest and principal on their rising debts. There is no slack (buffers) in the system at all.
5. This can be visualized as a row of dominoes. Once the first domino falls, every domino will be toppled.
For example: a worker is laid off and can no longer afford to go to a favorite restaurant. The restaurant's expenses are so high it can't survive on reduced customer traffic, so it closes. The commercial landlord's expenses are so high that he can't afford to lower rents, but since no business can afford high rents, the space is empty and the landlord goes bust. The bank holding the mortgage then has to absorb a staggering loss because the property is no longer worth much because a building without tenants is just a money-pit of expenses and no income.
The once-valuable restaurant business is now worth zero. The once-valuable commercial property is also worth zero because the owner must continue to pay property taxes, local fees and maintenance even if there are no tenants.
The dominoes falling trigger a reverse wealth effect, a topic Gordon Long and I discuss in a new podcast A Reverse Wealth Effect? (41:52). This is important because the wealth effect--the psychological state of euphoria created when one's assets steadily rise in value-- has been a core driver of consumption since the Federal Reserve transformed the economy into a Bubble-Based Economy in the late 1990s.
When we feel wealthier because our assets are rising, we're increasingly likely to tap that newfound wealth by borrowing money to fulfill our desires for inessential goods and services. Since the Fed has suppressed interest rates, the cost of borrowing against one's house or buying a new car seemed remarkably affordable, especially compared to the big increases in wealth generated by rising assets.
Unfortunately, while the wealth effect can reverse, debts have to be paid regardless. Debt payments are forever while the wealth effect is fleeting.
The current mass delusion is that the Fed can bail everyone out with cost-free cash. But we have to keep in mind what the Fed can't do:
1. It can't reverse the unprecedented wealth inequality its policies have pushed to the point of civil breakdown.
2. It can't make people take on the risks and heartaches of starting new businesses.
3. It can't force employers to hire more employees.
4. It can't make unprofitable businesses profitable.
5. It can't force people to buy assets at prices that no longer make financial sense.
6. It can't make insolvent businesses and local governments solvent.
7. It can't force people who now realize their priority is to save money to spend their cash, even if the Fed forces negative interest rates so it costs money to have savings.
8. It can't lower the unaffordable cost structure of the entire economy.
9. It can't de-link all the financial dependencies in the financial system that make it so vulnerable to the first domino falling.
10. It can't stop people from selling their assets.
In summary, it can't stop the reverse wealth effect. We are entering The Greatest Depression because there is no exit. Either the phantom wealth of asset bubbles completely vanishes, or the phantom purchasing power of fiat currency vanishes. Both paths lead to the same destination: systemic collapse.
A Reverse Wealth Effect? (41:52)
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What is your happiness index? What makes you happy? Really really happy!!
You could answer this question by saying – A lot of money in my bank makes me happy!! Or a great relationship, a house, another job, another vacation etc etc. makes me happy.
There is no problem in seeing all the above things as a source of our happiness. But, with all of these, you are giving too much power to the external factors.
Often, we see people, who have all the materialistic things but still they are not happy and some people who don’t have big houses and big cars, but are still happy.
The purpose of this life is joy and only joy. It is the bliss you feel which comes through joyful living.
Have you noticed, the house or the new car, doesn’t give you the same rush of happiness and fulfillment after a while? It lasts for a few weeks or for a few months.
No matter what you achieve in life, it can only be felt when you are happy from within.
There is an old story which explains the life of a musk deer. -“All his life, a musk deer keeps roaming in search of a fragrance which he thinks is coming from somewhere outside of him. And he runs, runs and runs. But little does he know that it is coming from within him. ”
The happiness is like that fragrance which is within the musk deer which it doesn’t know and keeps chasing that wonderful scent all his life. All it must do is to -Stop, and see within.
I believe all these examples are being given to us intentionally by nature to make us understand the real essence of happiness lies within us.
Let’s try a few ways to increase our happiness index:
1. Don’t mix disappointment with your happiness. Disappointment is the time when something you expected, is not received. You should figure out that this is just a partial phase and this feeling should not control my happiness. Don’t mix the two. See the disappointment as an experience and move on.
2. Speak these 5 magic words aloud: The magic 5 words whenever you are in inner-conflict are “I want to feel good”. As soon as these words will vibrate in the environment, you would immediately notice the shift in the way you would feel. Keep repeating it until you find a reason to feel good.
3. Release ‘Unhappy’ moments as a learning experience: The so-called unhappy moments are there to make us learn something about life. Learn the lesson and let it go. Follow what Dr. Wayne Dyer, best-selling author and a spiritual teacher, often says -“Let go and Let God.”. The early we learn the lesson, and release the feeling, the better it is. Prolonged thought of the ‘unhappy’ moments will only lead to further dissatisfaction in life.
4. Ask yourself about ‘how are you feeling’: The whole day, we ask everyone how they are feeling? Try asking this question to yourself. If the answer is anything but ‘Very Good’, shift your focus to the things in life you are grateful for. Keep thinking till you get the answer ‘I am feeling very good’. Gratitude and love are the 2 things that can do miracles.
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WHERE: Annex, Level C, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 80 58th St, Brooklyn, NY 11220
WHEN: Open to the public Saturdays and Sundays, 12–6 pm. Also open to classes by appointment.
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents Adelita Husni Bey’s These Conditions, an exhibition and pedagogical film set at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. As the culmination of Husni Bey’s research as a 2020–2022 Vera List Center Fellow into the current pandemic and its aftermath from a larger, historical and artistic framework, this project includes the artist’s first site-specific and most ambitious pedagogical environment.
The exhibition takes cues from historical pandemic protocols, such as recent government guidelines that define necessary workers, the sixteenth-century Epidemiologìa Sive Tractatus de Peste for the containment of the plague in Alghero/Sardinia, and mutual aid protocols employed at the height of the AIDS crisis. These Conditions hosts a group of individuals who have had to work in person during the pandemic to reflect on their experience and develop characters, scenes, and performative sketches that express the relationship between pandemics and social change. Through a weekly workshop held over the course of two months, a core group of participants is led sequentially through three distinct spaces in an ad hoc structure: an empty room with the sonic features of a hospital, a waiting room, and a domestic space. A hybrid between a pedagogical space and a film set, the structure is altered and activated through the workshop’s discursive and movement-based activities.
Using techniques borrowed from autodrama, radical theater methodologies, and political education, the workshop explores how historical pandemics are often followed by periods of unrest that catalyze drastic changes, such as the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in England, the gravedigger rebellion in Italy in 1631, and the current wave of strikes across the United States. Within the pedagogical film set, a selection of films and posters from DIVA TV and ACT UP showcases the artistic and activist responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis. The Annex at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, which was built during the 1918 Flu Pandemic as a military supply base and is today a major manufacturing hub as well as a COVID testing and vaccination site, serves as the pedagogical set’s entry point into both current and historical pandemics. Drawing poetic resonances between these events and spaces, the exhibition evokes historical insurrections to express their relationship to the ongoing social transformations resulting from our present conditions. Part of the workshop will be recorded and edited into a short experimental film, which will premiere at the Vera List Center at The New School in fall 2022 before entering the collection of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin, Italy) where it will be presented as a film installation.
Two works developed last year are also on view: On Necessary Work (2021) and Cronaca del Tempo Ripetuto (A chronicle of histories repeating, 2021). Over six weeks in the spring of 2021, Husni Bey led a group of Danish and US unionized nurses through an online film workshop centered around their experience of worsening labor conditions, masked and mythologized as a sacrifice, during the pandemic. The nurses were asked to film their workplaces, their scrubs and work gear, and to arrange and balance objects significant to them, following specific protocols intended to develop conversations. The resulting film, On Necessary Work, was entirely shot on Zoom. Through the healthcare workers’ perspectives, it highlights their role in sustaining life within a system of crushing exploitation and how they find resolve in their organizing efforts and in each other.
Cronaca del Tempo Ripetuto (A chronicle of histories repeating, 2021), is a 5.1 Dolby surround sound piece, developed between May and June 2021 through a workshop with OCRA (Chamber Orchestra of Radicondoli, Tuscany), a self-run collective of young musicians without a conductor. The workshop, grounded in the work of composer Pauline Oliveros and sound art collective Ultra-red, alternated instrument-based improvisational exercises with reflections on the experience of the pandemic and the role of sound. The group recorded live “sound-maps” of their town as well as images drawn from archival research on the plague, such as children playing on rooftops after access to the streets was barred. Rabèl, a local theater company, voiced contemporary lockdown protocols, which the groups were subjected to, and local plague protocols dating from 1631.
The public study group On Necessary Work accompanies the exhibition. It focuses on the concept of “necessary work” as it undergirds and normalizes capitalist production in crisis, following a Marxist feminist understanding of reproductive labor, and is presented in partnership with the Victorian College of the Arts at The University of Melbourne. School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom, part of the public program held within the pedagogical environment—and seminar ten of the Vera List Center’s As for Protocols series—is convened on March 14 with Video School, a roving pedagogical platform.
Additional public programs will be announced.
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Conserving energy in the home is good for the environment and your pocketbook. Since most families spend considerable time and money operating a clothes washer and dryer, it makes sense to focus your conservation efforts in the laundry room. For maximum energy efficiency, it's important to have the right sized washing machine. Typically, private use washers range in size from 1.6 to 5.8 cubic feet. If you normally run a small load in a large washing machine, downgrading to a smaller unit can improve your energy efficiency. Regardless of the size of your washer, running a full load each time you use it is most economical.
Look for the Energy Star Label
Energy Star, an Environmental Protection Agency program, exists to promote the use of energy-efficient products. Wash machines with the Energy Star label use up to 65 percent less water and up to 40 percent less energy than similar units. Additionally, Energy Star wash machines remove more water from clothes so you save money and energy when you operate your clothes dryer.
Select the Right Water Temperature
Washing your clothes in cold or warm water gets them just as clean as hot water most of the time. Clothes that have stubborn ground-in or oily stains are one exception to this. Another way to cut down on the use and expense associated with hot water is by keeping your water heater set to 120 degrees. This is effective at reducing energy use and expenses even when you do choose to wash your clothes with hot water.
Simple Dryer Tips
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Open-access, online, rapid taxonomy
Australian Journal of
Why do we need an online platform for the rapid publication of new Australian taxa?
Australian Journal of Taxonomy is published by Taxonomy Australia, which has a mission to advocate and support the taxonomic documentation of Australia's rich biodiversity, and to help find ways to accelerate the discovery and naming of all remaining species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms.
At the current rate of species discovery and documentation, using traditional journals and traditional taxonomic practice, it is estimated that it will take four centuries to fully document Australia's biota.
That's too slow - and we're keen to see it done in a generation.
One part of the solution is to support more efficient publication of new species and other taxa. Australian Journal of Taxonomy does just that, and is optimised for the rapid publication of concise, adequate, and effective descriptions of new species, with minimum fuss.
Australian Journal of Taxonomy is targeted at small, straightforward taxonomic and nomenclatural papers, including descriptions of single species, miscellany papers, and small revisions. These papers are often hard to publish in traditional journals, resulting in many species that could be straightforwardly published remaining unpublished and undocumented.
If you need to publish a full, detailed revision of a large taxonomic group, it will probably be better to use a traditional journal. If, however, you have new Australian taxa to publish, or need to publish other nomenclatural acts outside the context of a full revision, consider authoring a paper for rapid publication in Australian Journal of Taxonomy. | <urn:uuid:4bb1af67-e036-4901-9962-15e374d913de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/why | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.924741 | 335 | 2.171875 | 2 |
DURHAM, N.C. -- The federal Food and Drug Administration’s full approval Monday of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has raised hopes for a marked, swift increase in vaccinated citizens.
Former FDA commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan, who now directs the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, spoke to reporters about the approval and its ramifications in a virtual briefing Monday afternoon.
Watch the briefing on YouTube.
Here are excerpts:
On whether full approval will motivate those still hesitant to get the vaccine
“I do think it will make a difference. Maybe not a large number of people running out and getting a vaccine today. At this point we’ve got a little bit over 70 percent of Americans who are eligible for the vaccine have gotten at least one dose. That’s about 87 million Americans who are eligible who haven’t. Out of those, according to some recent surveys, about 30 percent say the full approval of the Pfizer vaccine would make a difference in their decisions.”
“For anybody who does have doubts, this should help overcome it. We really aren’t seeing anything fundamentally new in the announcement today about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. We know it’s very effective. We know there are rare, temporary side effects but that the benefits do seem to clearly outweigh the risks.”
“I do think we now have very clear evidence that some of the misinformation out there – like the vaccine can cause fertility issues or can cause COVID or things like that – are just not there in the data. On the other hand, the effectiveness is.”
“The other place it will make a difference is in the actions of a number of businesses, schools, universities, maybe entertainment venues, state and local governments, that may take this event and probably move forward with requiring vaccines in settings where people have to be together and there’s a high risk of transmission.”
“Those things are going to bump up our vaccination numbers.”
On benefits of full approval
“The most important thing is the fact that full approval can reassure everyone that even though we’re in the midst of a pandemic, and it seems like things were happening quickly, the FDA is applying all of its gold standard regulatory approaches … everything it does in normal circumstances when we’re not in a pandemic.”
“You’ll see there were no corners cut. They were very diligent in all of this.”
On whether full approval could have come earlier
“On the one hand, we are in the midst of a pandemic so we want to go as quickly as possible. On the other hand, because people are viewing this as a gold standard, using the review approaches and requirements that apply under normal circumstances … FDA needed to be really careful not to do anything that after the fact could be viewed as cutting corners and undermining the confidence that was intended by the full approval process.”
On what has been learned about the vaccines so far
“We’ve learned, very importantly, that the basic findings from the beginning, about the effectiveness of the vaccines and the safety of the vaccines, has held up. Particularly for the Pfizer vaccine, with the full approval the estimated effectiveness was 91 percent in preventing infection and very high effectiveness in preventing hospitalization. That’s slightly lower than numbers that went into the emergency use authorization back in December. I think you can attribute that to a bit longer follow up and the fact that we’re dealing with some more challenging variants now. It’s really good news that the effectiveness data is holding up.”
“On the safety side, the trials of tens of thousands of people found no evidence of serious long-term side effects.”
On vaccine mandates stemming from the full FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine
“I expect we’ll see more. It’s important to know that under U.S. law, for emergency use of a vaccine, companies, universities, other institutions already had quite broad authority if there was good reason from the standpoint of the safety of their workplace to require vaccination. Now, in that, there has to be an out for people who have medical reasons not to be vaccinated and religious reasons not to be vaccinated. That’s going to carry over now to the full approval situation. Companies who could do it before, I think they’re going to be more confident now and I think they’ll get more acceptance from their workers.”
On the impact of FDA approval on air travel regulations and restrictions
“The challenge we have now is that our COVID rates across the country are so high, and COVID rates in many other countries are also high and in some places rising. We know that people can have breakthrough cases with vaccines.”
“For purposes of air travel safety, quarantining and things like that, you really want to make sure people have negative tests so they’re not in a position where they can transmit the viruses.”
“I expect those testing requirements are going to stick around until we see COVID rates come down. Right now we’re still at very high rates in the United States.”
On whether full approval and vaccine mandates could lead to government-prompted vaccine passports
“The Biden administration has been pretty clear all along they do not see a federal role in requiring or administering a vaccine passport system. That said we have seen a number of state and local governments impose something like vaccine requirements for indoor dining, indoor sports events, indoor entertainment events. I expect to see more of that happening. I also expect to see more of that happening in the private sector.”
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Dr. Mark McClellan is a physician and economist who directs the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, where he works on strategies and policy reforms to improve health care. He was commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. McClellan serves on the boards of Johnson & Johnson and Cigna (each company is involved in aspects of the COVID-19 response).
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Vodafone joins consortium to test 4G and 5G drones, ready UK skies for robot deliveries
Vodafone has joined a UK drone-testing consortium as network provider to develop tools and processes to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly safely in the same airspace as manned aircraft.
Vodafone will provide 4G and 5G connectivity to the National Beyond Visual Line of Sight Experimentation Corridor (NBEC) consortium, which includes Cranfield University, Blue Bear Research and Thales. The consortium aims to create an ‘experimentation corridor’, a controlled strip of airspace between Blue Bear’s facility in Oakley, in Bedford, and Cranfield University.
The first test flights took place at Cranfield Airport in February.
The NBEC flight corridor will be used to demonstrate how 4G and 5G can be used to identify and track the location of drones in real time, and ensure autonomous ‘beyond visual line of sight’ (BVLOS) flights are safe. Regulators will rule to ensure drones are constantly monitored when flying BVLOS, and enforce no-fly zones around sensitive buildings, including schools, hospitals, prisons, government buildings and chemical plants.
Mobile connectivity will complement satellite-based GPS location systems, which are good for location estimates but are open to jamming and compromise. Drone-based mobile connectivity would provide a secondary feed of location-based information, enabling a more robust and trusted picture of the drone’s location. Such capabilities will be key to the air traffic management systems required to allow the routine and safe flying of commercial drones in the future, said Vodafone.
Anne Sheehan, director of Vodafone’s business unit in the UK, said: “Drones offer exciting opportunities for the future that will benefit society and the economy. However, we need to make sure they are used safely and responsibly. We are delighted to bring our mobile connectivity expertise to the NBEC consortium so that drone technology can be further tested and developed.”
Professor Iain Gray, director of aerospace at Cranfield University, said: “The addition of Vodafone will be a significant boost to our capabilities as we develop NBEC. Upon completion, NBEC will be a national asset that will help unlock the potential of a modernised UK airspace.”
Ian Williams-Wynn, managing director of Blue Bear, said: “The creation of NBEC allows new technologies to be integrated and tested together to accelerate leading edge research and create a blueprint for UK drone activities. Expanding the consortium will increase NBEC’s capability, and accelerate the expansion of NBEC to become the place to test drones in the UK”.
European businesses are considering using drones for tasks including rapid delivery of small, high-value payloads like medical supplies, the monitoring of critical assets such as energy pipelines, and rescue missions in hazardous conditions.
Vodafone quoted figures from PwC in its press note that claim drone use for deliveries will contribute £42 billion to UK GDP by 2030, and deliver £16 billion in annual cost savings, compared with traditional methods. Drones will also create 600,000 jobs, the research predicts. The European Union estimates regulated drone services could contribute in excess of €15 billion annually to the European economy by 2050, with over 100,000 new jobs created.
In November last year, Vodafone completed the first live tests in Europe of a full cellular system for both short and long-range vehicular communications, as well as for monitoring and managing multiple UAVs in the same air space.
Vodafone’s trial of mobile connected drone technology, in Germany and Spain, was part of the European Aviation Safety Agency’s U-Space programme. Its Radio Positioning System (RPS) uses a 4G modem and SIM attached to a drone, enabling a self-learning artificial intelligence system to calculate the position of the drone. The system will be able to indicate if a drone has veered off an agreed flight path, helping to safeguard aircraft, civilians, sensitive facilities and other drones.
The trial demonstrated that existing 4G networks, which are optimised for ground-based users, could simultaneously be used to monitor drone flights at up to 120 metres above ground level. This confirmed that RPS could be used as a back-up to GPS location, which is easier to disable or spoof than mobile technology supported by secure SIM cards. Conventional radar does not work with small devices like drones. | <urn:uuid:fd80f98b-ec1e-45ae-a704-012c398c5d4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20190307/channels/news/vodafone-joins-drone-consortium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925163 | 938 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The St. Louis region and Missouri experienced a major battle against the Omicron variant during the recent months of December and January. The virus was definitely winning in many of those weeks and days. We experienced a significant increase in persons testing positive, in hospitalizations and in deaths from the virus. Hospitals were full, waits in the emergency room lasted hours and even days. Hospital staff were stressed, staff worked lots of over-time and hospitals were yet short-staffed. Hospitals cancelled and postponed surgeries, both elective and non-elective.
At the peak, in January, forty (40) percent of everyone who tested, tested positive for the virus. It was thought that positive rates were actually higher because many persons that were positive, did not go in for testing. Their symptoms were milder, so they choose to not go in for testing or they were asymptomatic and did not know they were positive.
People were encouraged to stay home if they did not need to go out in hopes of not spreading the virus more during this peak in January.
Omicron virus numbers are currently going down. There are fewer persons testing positive and the hospitalization numbers are decreasing. Hospital staff are beginning to exhale slightly.
The Omicron is waning. However, COVID-19 is still here and will be for the rest of 2022 and beyond.
New variants have been discovered and will soon replace Omicron. It is thought that the new variant could be more contagious and more deadly.
Safety must be practiced. Caution should not be thrown to the wind.
As of the second week of February, here are some statistics on the vaccination rates in Missouri. Only 54.7 percent of Missourians are fully vaccinated. That means that if you are fully vaccinated, that almost half of the people you may come in contact with may not be vaccinated.
In St. Louis County, 62.2 percent of people are fully vaccinated. If you are vaccinated, that means almost 4 out of 10 of the people you may come in contact with may not be vaccinated.
In Kansas City, 57.8 percent of people are fully vaccinated. If you are fully vaccinated that means more than 4 out 10 of the people you may come in contact with may not be vaccinated.
Many of the same persons that are not wearing mask, are not vaccinated. These vaccination gaps should encourage all Missourians to wear masks.
There are several counties in Missouri where the rate of fully vaccinated persons is just over 25 percent. There are several more counties where the fully vaccinated rate is hovering around 30 percent.
Lower vaccination rates in Missouri and a reluctance to wear masks will continue to drive virus numbers in future months in Missouri, Kansas City, and the St. Louis region.
During this last Omicron wave, we saw more break-through infections of persons who had been fully vaccinated. Many of these persons had “lighter” symptoms and were not hospitalized. Eighty (80) percent of those hospitalized during the Omicron wave were the non-vaccinated.
Here are StaffLink’s ten (10) tips to protect seniors and caregivers from being exposed to the virus:
- If fully vaccinated, get your booster in a timely fashion. The booster is recommended after 6 months from your last shot. As of the beginning of 2022 only 20 percent of the US population have received a booster. A friend of mine, a senior, has received her second booster. Read below about second boosters.
- If not vaccinated, talk to your physician immediately about if there are medical concerns with you being vaccinated. If not, get vaccinated.
- Order your free in-home test from the US government. You are limited to 4 free test per address. I have ordered and have received mine! Testing is still a very important part of preventing the spread of the virus. Vaccinated or not vaccinated, if you are told that you have been exposed to a “positive” person, get tested! You don’t want to be an unsuspecting carrier and expose others.
- Vaccinated and non-vaccinated wear mask when indoors and it is a good idea to wear one when outdoors and when interacting with other persons and the public.
- Vaccinated and non-vaccinated persons (family members, professional caregivers, etc.,) interacting with seniors should always wear mask.
- If out in public, social distance from persons that are not wearing a mask, even if outdoors. You can talk to them, but they should not be standing right up in your face. Ask them to step back from you-I have definitely done so since this pandemic began! Remember the virus enters and infects primarily via a person’s mouth, nose, and eyes. If you are wearing a mask, social distancing protects your eyes when talking and interacting with an unmasked person.
- March is still relatively cold in Missouri. April will be arriving soon. If dining out, eat outdoors whenever possible. I have done so and asked for a heater to be moved near our table.
- Choose activities or events that are outdoors as much as possible. Bonfires, walking outdoors, etc. As I stated, April will be here soon and warmer weather with it. Outdoor activities will become easier and more comfortable.
- Limit your time in public spaces for a few more weeks. Movie theaters, concerts, stores, etc. Remember there are many new shopping options, such as shipping, curb-side delivery or in-person home delivery.
- Participate in on-line educational, social, and religious events if appropriate and while they are being offered in abundance.
Stay safe, spend time outdoors, mask up, get vaccinated, get your booster, and protect yourself and others! Let’s trample this pandemic!
There are several new locations county residents can pick up free COVID-19 test kits this week. Click here for more information.
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Consumer Group Warns Not to Use Orlistat Weight Loss Drugs
The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen indicates in the latest issue of their newsletter “Worst Pills, Best Pills” that people should not use the weight loss medication orlistat, which is sold as a Xenical and Alli, due to the minimal benefits provided by the drug compared to the risk of liver damage and other serious side effects.
In the July issue of its Worst Pills Best Pills newsletter, Public Citizen said orlistat-based drugs have a laundry list of negative side effects in return for weight loss that it categorized as “meager.” Xenical is a prescription weight loss drug containing the active ingredient orlistat, and Alli is a lower-dose over-the-counter version of the medication.
Orlistat side effects have been linked a potenital risk of liver damage, pancreatitis and pre-cancerous lesions of the colon.
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In May, the FDA issued a drug safety communication about possible liver problems with Alli and Xenical, indicating that the agency had received at least 13 reports of severe liver injury among users. In two of the cases, the patient died, and three required liver transplants. All but one of the reports came from Xenical users.
Xenical (orlistat 120mg) is a prescription medication that was approved by the FDA in 1999. The lower dose Alli (orlistat 60mg) is an over-the-counter weight-loss drug that was approved in 2007. Both drugs are marketed by GlaxoSmithKline, PLC, though Xenical is manufactured by Roche.
The medications are intended for use together with a reduced-calorie diet. They work by preventing the absorption of fats, thereby reducing caloric intake. In 2008, Xenical generated sales of $30 million and Alli generated sales of $131 million during its first full year on the market.
Public Citizen, a non-profit consumer protection organization, points out that it previously testified against approval of the drug in 1997, and again in 2006 when drug makers were pushing for over-the-counter approval. It has also previously petitioned the FDA for an Xenical and Alli recall to be issued.
“Public Citizen has been concerned about orlistat and opposed to its approval from the very beginning,” the group said in its newsletter. “Orlistat was approved without scientific evidence showing that there is a health benefit for those who use it. In other words, there is no evidence that orlistat, or any diet drug, will reduce risk of premature death or illness associated with long-term obesity and inactivity.”
The FDA has previously noted that an estimated 40 million individuals have used the medications, and only one of the reports of liver problems were found in the United States, involving a user of Alli. The remaining 12 cases occurred outside the United States, and involved liver problems with Xenical. The agency indicates that there has been no direct causal relationship established between the two orlistat-based drugs and liver injury.
The primary known side effects of Alli and Xenical include oily and loose stools, fecal incontinence, frequent or urgent bowel movements and flatulence, which tend to be most severe when the treatment is started and may decrease with time.
The FDA has required that new label warnings be placed on the drugs, alerting users to the potential risk of liver injury. The new label changes will warn of rare cases of severe liver injury, and indicate that healthcare professionals and consumers should watch for symptoms of liver injury, including:
- Itching yellow eyes or skin
- Dark urine
- Light-colored stools
- Loss of appetite
Individual consumers have been urged to stop using the drugs and contact their healthcare professional if they develop symptoms of liver damage from the orlistat drugs Xenical or Alli.
MargaritaOctober 24, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I took Alli for about 2 to 3 years and I had the simptoms but I ignored them. I started to feel worse with nausea, apetite wide swings, bad digestions, diziness and problems with my before nice blood pressure. Now my liver is swollen. I tried to call Alli but it was extremely difficult to get a person to answer. Alli corporation has a web page but they do not disclose the serious side effects thi[Show More]I took Alli for about 2 to 3 years and I had the simptoms but I ignored them. I started to feel worse with nausea, apetite wide swings, bad digestions, diziness and problems with my before nice blood pressure. Now my liver is swollen. I tried to call Alli but it was extremely difficult to get a person to answer. Alli corporation has a web page but they do not disclose the serious side effects this ALLI = XENICAL drug has on a womans body.Nor I think they disclosed this on their many open promotions activities in the US an in New York. It still is offered in special price of $49 to $59 dollars packs but no disclosure on the Wallgreens flyer about the bad consequenses that the users have.
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Are your periods irregular? Is the hair on your head thinning or are you growing hair in abnormal places, such as your chin? You may have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which is a hormonal disorder that can affect your fertility. The experienced team at Contemporary Women’s Care, with offices in Winter Park and Lake Nona, Florida, can determine if your symptoms are due to PCOS and help you manage the disease and improve your overall health. Call one of the offices or request an appointment online.
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A mathematical analysis of the kinetics of viral inactivation /
A virus-in-water study of finished water from six communities /
Acquisition of Antibodies to Various Coxsackie and Echo Viruses and Hepatitis A Virus in Agricultural Communal Settlements in Israel.
Adsorption of Enteroviruses to Soil Cores and Their Subsequent Elution by Artificial Rainwater.
Application of PCR technologies for virus detection in groundwater /
Chlorination to Prevent and Control Waterborne Diseases.
Coliphages as Indicators of Enteroviruses.
Comparison of Geostatistical Methods for Estimating Virus Inactivation Rates in Ground Water.
Destruction of Enteric Bacteria and Viruses during Two-Phase Digestion.
Detecting Viruses in Water.
Detection and inactivation of enteric viruses in wastewater /
Detection of enteric viruses in East Tennessee public ground water systems /
Detection of Environmental Viruses in Sludge: Enhancement of Enterovirus Plaque Assay Titers with 5-Iodo-2'-Deoxyuridine and Comparison to Adenovirus and Coliphage Titers (Journal Version).
Determination of minimal infectious dose of an enterovirus in drinking water /
Determination of Minimal Infectious Dose of an Enterovirus in Drinking Water.
Development of Methods to Measure Virus Inactivation in Fresh Waters.
Effect of Chlorination on Human Enteric Viruses in Partially Treated Water from the Potomac River Estuary.
Effect of Environmental Variables on Enteric Virus Survival in Surface Freshwaters.
Effect of particulates on disinfection of enteroviruses in water by chloramines /
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Effects of Water Quality on Microporous Filter Methods for Enteric Virus Concentration.
Enteric virus removal in wastewater treatment lagoon systems /
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Enteroviruses in Sludge: Multiyear Experience with Four Wastewater Treatment Plants.
Epidemiologic studies of virus transmission in swimming waters /
Evaluation of Microbiological Aerosols Associated with the Application of Wastewater to Land: Pleasanton, California.
Evaluation of Mixed Cell Types and 5-Iodo-2'-Deoxyuridine Treatment upon Plaque Assay Titers of Human Enteric Viruses (Journal Version).
Evaluation of the Tentative Standard Method for Enteric Virus Concentration and Detection.
Evaluation of the Tentative Standard Method for Enteric Virus Concentration from Large Volumes of Tap Water.
Experience of Sanitary-Virological Sewage Tests.
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Human viruses in sediments, sludges, and soils
Human viruses in the aquatic environment : a status report with emphasis on the EPA research program : report to Congress /
Immune Response and Prevalence of Antibody to Norwalk Enteritis Virus as Determined by Radioimmunoassay.
Improved Method for Recovery of Enteric Viruses from Wastewater Sludges.
Inactivation of Hepatitis A Virus and Model Viruses in Water by Free Chlorine and Monochloramine.
Inactivation of Naturally Occurring Enteroviruses.
Infectivity and pathogenicity of enteroviruses ingested with drinking water /
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Letters For The Elderly - Community School Project
Letters For The Elderly
To tackle loneliness & isolation within our communities, here at Home Instead Sheffield & Barnsley, we became inspired after Loneliness Awareness Week; a campaign run by the Marmalade Trust. Our idea was to create a project to tackle loneliness and isolation in our local Sheffield & Barnsley communities by contacting local primary schools, one local to each of our three offices, to propose the project of writing a letter, card or draw a portrait for our wonderful clients.
The response we have received has been fantastic, from teachers, our staff & children...Louisa, a teacher from one of the local schools wrote:
"We have had a lovely morning writing letters & drawing portraits for Home Instead’s project, thank you for the opportunity, the children loved it!"
We are very appreciative to all three schools that have participated in the community project, and we would love to work with more local schools again, following the Summer half term.
Collaboratively, we can work together to end loneliness in our elder community.
Our best wishes,
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What is the vein finder device and how does it work?
Locating veins in patients is not easy, even for healthcare professionals. Some of us have prominent veins which are easy to locate, but most of us have veins that are hard to see. It is harder to find the veins of Children, elderly, and people with dark–colored skin.
The vein finder device shines infrared light on the skin and causes the veins to become much more visible to the naked eye. Many healthcare professionals believe the device can promote improvements in best practices to drive better patient outcomes.
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- Place the device against the skin perpendicular to the direction of the vein
- Move it forwards and backwards until a vein is located
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1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into chunks of a similar size. Put them into a pan of cold, salted water and bring to the boil. Cook for about 15 or 20 minutes, until they are tender.
2. Wash, peel and chop the spring onions into pieces, keeping the green parts aside for garnish. In a separate pan, melt the butter then turn off the heat. Place the spring onions in it to warm and add salt to taste.
3. Drain the potatoes in a colander and steam dry them by placing a clean tea towel over them to absorb the excess moisture.
4. Pour the milk into the potato pan and boil it. Turn off the heat, add the potatoes to the milk and mash them well together until really smooth. Add a good grinding of black pepper. Add the spring onions and any butter left in the pan and fluff it all together.
5. Serve steaming hot in a serving dish, garnished with the green part of the spring onions sliced very thinly.
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Over the years, the digital currency has gone through plenty of wild price swings.
However, in recent months the price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency has risen to well over $20,000 and it seems the price will go on marching high.
The question then is: what is causing this growth?
There are numerous reasons behind the rise of cryptocurrency and the popular Bitcoin’s value, and we will tackle them below.
Adoption as a Payment Method
The recent announcement by PayPal that they will accept Bitcoin transactions on their platform as a payment method has brought about an incredible rise in Bitcoin’s price. The adoption as a form of payment starts in the US, and they plan to adopt it worldwide. The online payment system opens up numerous doors because it has many active users who can now use the currency in their transactions. Paypal boasts of more than 350 million merchants.
Additionally, PayPal also owns another payment app known as Venmo. Venmo is widely popular, and it has around 40 million users who can now access various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Aside from the new players in crypto, several other applications allow buying, selling, and holding cryptocurrency. Among the most popular are CashApp and square that enable cryptocurrency, thus significantly increasing the audience to Bitcoin.
The limited supply of Bitcoin is a significant attraction, and currently, it’s only 21 million. Bitcoin has a process called halving, which has a significant impact on Bitcoin’s price because it helps increase the scarcity of Bitcoin.
The mechanism cuts down on the Bitcoin released to miners as a reward for mining by half every four years. The design means that it’s capped at that amount, and there will be no increase or decrease in the number of Bitcoins. The reduced number of Bitcoin increases scarcity leading to a rise in demand and a surge in the price.
Over the recent past, some major financial institutions have warmed up to cryptocurrency and, more so, Bitcoin. According to the experts at Money Morning, “….cryptocurrency could be replacing gold in the digital economy.”
Such companies include MicroStrategy, a business analytics company that bought Bitcoin worth $425 million in cash. The payments Company Square followed suit shortly after and purchased $50 million worth of Bitcoin. More people have taken up the trend as they invest in cryptocurrency as a safe haven.
Hedge Against Rising Inflation
With the world being in the middle of a pandemic, the economy is in distress as governments throw in trillions of money to cushion and salvage their economy and ward off any economic calamity. This has led to the global financial crisis, where inflation is growing at an alarming rate. Many people are now shying away from using money and taking up shelter in buying assets that are likely to maintain or appreciate their value. Such scarce and less volatile assets are known as a safe haven. They include precious metals and the most recent addition being the cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency is wooing over numerous investors because they are seen as a safe investment in the long run. Anyone with a smartphone or computer can take up investing in cryptocurrency.
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Make Labor Easier by Giving Birth in Water
Some hospital maternity suites and birth centers have jacuzzi-sized labor tubs to help women giving birth in water. If the hospital of your choice does not offer one, ask for it. This is just one more way in which women can influence how birth business is done. An alternative is to rent one; check with local midwives or childbirth organizations for information.
The tub should be large enough to bring out the mermaid in you – at least 5.5 feet wide. It’s not only giving birth in water that eases the discomforts of labor; it’s the freedom to move that gives you the greatest benefit.
Make Yourself Comfortable
Have the water at bath-water temperature, which is usually around your body temperature. Try lounging on your back or side, or kneeling forward on all fours so that the water covers your uterus, at least up to your nipple line.
Enter the tub when the intensity of your contractions tells you that you need some relief. For most women the best time to take the plunge is between 5 and 8 centimeters dilatation, when active labor is in full swing.
You may also find giving birth in water especially comforting during transition – the most intense stage of labor. The freestyle movements of mother help baby to find the path of least resistance (and least pain). Lying in a labor tub can also be used to accelerate a slow labor.
The splashing of the water on your nipples can trigger the release of contraction-stimulating hormones. And giving birth in water is very effective in easing a fast-and-heavy labor, where the contractions threaten to overwhelm you.
When to Get Out of the Tub
If your labor stalls while you are comfortably floating in the water, get out and walk or squat on land to get your labor going again; re-enter the tub once labor gets going. Be sure to enter and exit the water between contractions and with assistance, so you don’t slip.
When you feel the urge to push, it’s time to get dry. (Babies have been born into the water when there was suddenly no time to exit or because a mother was so comfortable she could not bring herself to leave the water. Babies do just fine, as long as they are lifted up out of the water and placed in mother’s arms without delay. Baby simply goes from water to water and doesn’t take a breath until his face meets the air.)
It’s Safe to Stay in the Water
Unless your birth attendant advises you otherwise, giving birth in water is safe even after your membranes have ruptured. That’s when contractions usually get more intense and you really need the relief of water. Maternity centers with much experience with women giving birth in water report no increased rate of infection in women using water after their membranes have ruptured, as long as the mothers are in active labor and proper infection control hygiene is followed.
It is rarely necessary to leave the water for routine tests. If you need an I. V., a heparin-lock can be used in the veins of your hand, covered with a waterproof plastic bag, and sealed with a rubber band.
If intermittent fetal monitoring is necessary, let it be done on a part of your abdomen that you can lift above the water; place a plastic bag over the handheld monitor if you aren’t using monitors designed for underwater use.
If You Can’t Find a Labor Tub
If your hospital or birth center does not offer a labor tub or you’re unable to rent one, at least try sitting in a regular tub or taking a shower. A jet of warm water is often especially effective in easing back labor. Don’t expect all the pain of labor to float away into the water.
Yet our personal experience and that of other women has shown that giving birth in water is one of the most wonderful labor saving devices available.
Water Labor makes Giving Birth Easier
Remember your high school physics, place an object in water and the force of buoyancy equal to its weight lifts it up. To simplify Archimedes’ principle, let’s put it this way; water labor gives a mother giving birth a lift.
Buoyancy feels like weightlessness. With less weight to support and less muscle tension, your body feels less pain and saves energy for where it is needed – your hardworking uterus.
1. Water Relieves
Muscles that weigh less get less tired and hurt less. Also, the counter pressure of water can ease the pain of sore muscles, especially during back labor. When you fill your nervous system with pleasant sensations there is less room for unpleasant ones.
Being in water is like a continuous body massage, stimulating all the touch receptors in the skin. It would take thousands of gentle fingertips to touch as many skin receptors as the water does when you soak in a nice warm bath.
2. Water Relaxes
Immersing most of your body in a warm tub soothes your mind and body, reduces stress hormones and allows your body’s natural relaxing and pain-relieving hormones to take over.
3. Water Releases
Changing positions and going with the flow of labor are the most important natural pain relievers and labor enhancers a woman can use. Water labor lets this happen more naturally and easily. Many women laboring on terra firma describe feeling rooted to one spot, afraid to move at all, lest it hurt more.
A woman in water labor is free to float with her body supported until she finds the position that best eases her discomfort. Being in water also seems to free her mind, so she can tap into her deepest instincts and let tension float away.
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The training is aimed at project managers and process managers who want to use the lean management method to optimize business processes and establish a continuous improvement process (CIP).
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Putting online learning into learning psycological education.
Digitisation is currently taking place and a wide range of offerings for digitised learning solutions can be found. But where's the difference between them?
Research in learning psychology is looking for answers to the questions: What should a state-of-the art elearning look like, to offer a learning the best learning experience possible?
Some key findings can already be shared:
The Maxpert Academy is set-up accoring to these findings and offers state-of-the-art learning formats. It combines the fulfilment of learning theoretical requirements with modern media to a digital worlf of learning, that goes far beyond communicating course content!
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The classic block brings back the old editing features of WordPress' classic editor, also known as TinyMCE.
The only available options are the ones you see in the editing toolbar. There are no additional options; not even an additional CSS class.
You should probably only use the classic block as a last resort. Instead, try to learn how to use the other Gutenberg blocks. In the future, the classic block could be deprecated.
Convert to Blocks
When you're ready to use the new Gutenberg blocks, you can convert your classic text into blocks.
Use the three-dot menu to the right of the classic block, and choose "convert to blocks."
WordPress will automatically figure out what type of content is within your classic block, and convert it to the appropriate Gutenberg block (paragraph, list, table, heading, etc.)
Edit as HTML
Another thing you can do with the classic block is edit your content in HTML. Use the three-dot menu and choose "Edit as HTML."
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Photography is a hobby that virtually everyone, old and young can enjoy. Taking pictures and capturing moments out in nature allows you to return to those places over and over. Capturing memories that last forever is what photography is all about. This article will give you some great ideas for taking photographs when you are out exploring in the wilderness.
A good tip you can use when shooting photographs is to practice using digital techniques. With the right techniques, you can make your photos look like classic works of art. There are many software programs on the market today that can alter photographs in many different ways. Adobe Photoshop is the premier program, but there are many others. With image editing software, transforming your photograph into a painting is sometimes as easy as applying a simple filter or mask.
Set up some basic programs for your DSLR camera. By setting some of the basic values ahead of time, you don’t have to mess with them in the event that you want to get a shot in, in a short amount of time. Instead, you just press the button and start shooting.
One of the things that you can do when you are taking pictures is to lean on something to achieve better balance. The more balance that you have, the less movement the camera will make, which can improve the sharpness of your shots. Maintain your balance if you desire optimal photographs.
Many people think bright sun makes for great photographic conditions. But, direct sunlight actually ruins many would-be great shots. Too much sunlight causes pronounced shadows and glare, differences in saturation in different parts of the photo, and can make it hard for human subjects to keep their eyes open. If you can, only shoot outdoors in the early hours of the morning or during late evening hours.
Many photographers pay attention to the background of a landscape shot and neglect the foreground, but the foreground is what the viewer will see. Focusing first and foremost on the foreground of a landscape shot will help you to produce a more striking photograph with greater depth.
When shooting landscapes, remember the rule of thirds which is to keep one-third or two-thirds of the image as the sky or the foreground. This will give the photo more depth and a more dramatic look. This is an easy tip for beginners to follow but will make a huge difference in the appearance of the photos.
Make use of negative space in your composition. Negative space is the area in your photos that does not contain your subject. Used correctly, large amounts of negative space can create interesting photographs. You also need to consider the effects of negative space when framing a photograph to get the best results.
Photography is a fun hobby that virtually anyone can do. No matter your age, it is easy to take photographs. Taking pictures while you are out exploring nature is a great idea to help remind you of the unique and beautiful things you encountered. Apply the tips from this article, and you will be sure to be taking memorable nature photographs in no time. For more information on click here: http://www.cheaptraveldeals.us | <urn:uuid:8918c4aa-2ace-4f1c-8eca-eaf29604cb84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.travelandadventure.us/photography/tips-and-advice-any-photographer-can-use.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937667 | 621 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Ireland has a very vibrant culture. It is the home of Celtic art and mythology, which are still revered and studied to this day; it is also a stronghold of Christianity with the Church exerting strong influence over its politics and society. With such a strong undercurrent of religion and philosophy, myth and legend, it is no wonder that the country has a unique artistic tradition—which is showcased in the Chester Beatty Library in County Dublin. The Library has two permanent exhibitions: 'Sacred Traditions' and 'Artistic Traditions'. The 'Sacred Traditions' Gallery displays important sacred texts, illuminated manuscripts and miniature paintings representative of the world’s great religions and belief systems. The biggest collections are from Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, but there are smaller displays on Confucianism, Daoism, Sikhism and Jainism. One of the key features of the collection is the Biblical Papyri, an impressive collection of Qur'an manuscripts and scrolls and books of Buddhist thought. The Library also has audio-visual programmes on Rites of Passage of many faiths, the different kinds of prayer, and photos and explanations of various pilgrimages. The 'Artistic Traditions' gallery holds art works rendered on paper; the techniques of print-making, binding and paper-making; and the art of miniature painting. It is complemented with a collection of rare books and decorative arts, some of them from East Asia. The Chester Beatty library is an example of the excellent historical and cultural sites that are often neglected by commercial tours. To visit the library (and other sites like it) it is important to hire a car. Hiring a car gives you the freedom and flexibility to visit both major tourist destinations and small but equally significant sites such as this. To arrange a driving vacation through Ireland, you can rent a car at the many car hire agencies located within airports or major cities. Car hire agencies can also help you customize your tour, providing maps of the regions and a list of attractions in the area. You can also ask your car hire agency for a list of inns and hotels where you can rest between car travels, or use as a base for exploring the county.
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Highlighting of quorum sensing lux genes and their expression in the hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata ectosymbiontic community. Possible use as biogeographic markers
|Author(s)||Le Bloa Simon1, 2, 3, Durand Lucile1, Cueff-Gauchard Valerie1, 2, 3, Le Bars Josiane1, 2, 3, Taupin Laure4, Marteau Charlotte4, Bazire Alexis4, Cambon-Bonavita Marie-Anne1, 2, 3|
|Affiliation(s)||1 : IFREMER, Lab Microbiol Environm Extremes, UMR Ifremer CNRS UBO 6197, Ctr Bretagne,REM EEP LM2E, Plouzane, France.
2 : Univ Brest, Lab Microbiol Environm Extremes, UMR Ifremer CNRS UBO 6197, Technopole Iroise,4 Pl Nicolas Copernic, Plouzane, France.
3 : CNRS, Lab Microbiol Environm Extremes, UMR Ifremer CNRS UBO 6197, Technopole Iroise,4 Pl Nicolas Copernic, Plouzane, France.
4 : Univ Bretagne Sud, EA 3884, LBCM, Rue St Maude, Lorient, France.
|Source||Plos One (1932-6203) (Public Library Science), 2017-03 , Vol. 12 , N. 3 , P. e0174338 (1-19)|
|WOS© Times Cited||6|
Rimicaris exoculata is a caridean shrimp that dominates the fauna at several hydrothermal vent sites of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It has two distinct and stable microbial communities. One of these epibiontic bacterial communities is located in the shrimp gut and has a distribution and role that are poorly understood. The second colonizes its enlarged gill chamber and is involved in host nutrition. It is eliminated after each molt, and has colonization processes reminiscent of those of a biofilm. The presence and expression of genes usually involved in quorum sensing (QS) were then studied. At four sites, Rainbow, TAG, Snake Pit and Logatchev, two lux genes were identified in the R. exoculata epibiontic community at different shrimp molt stages and life stages. RT-PCR experiments highlighted lux gene expression activity at TAG, Snake Pit and Rainbow vent sites. Their potential QS activity and their possible roles in epibiont colonization processes are discussed. Moreover, phylogenetic analysis has shown the presence of three clades for luxS (Epsilonproteobacteria) and four clades for luxR (Gammaproteobacteria) genes, each clade being restricted to a single site. These genes are more divergent than the 16S rRNA one. They could therefore be used as biogeographical genetic markers. | <urn:uuid:bb7c8546-89ea-49a9-95a6-3552501192c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00377/48841/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.80524 | 687 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The rooms through which you wander when visiting the museum were once lived in by Anton Günther von Holstein. Von Holstein was governor of Brabant from 1733 until his death in 1744, and the Stadspaleis in 's-Hertogenbosch was his home. After his death, in 1768, the palace was given a makeover. Architect Pieter de Swart had the famous classicist façade added and also, it was thought, remodelled all the rooms behind it.
THE SAME LAYOUT
During recent restoration work, however, interior walls were found that pre-date the 1768 refurbishment. Former museum director Charles de Mooij did more research and discovered that all the rooms between the present-day front and rear façades have pretty much the same layout as in 1744. Odd, don't you think?
OLD FLOOR PLANS AND INVENTORIES
How did De Mooij find this out? By perusing old floor plans and the inventory of Van Holstein's estate. When a person died, a room-by-room record, or inventory, was made of the furniture, tableware, linen, kitchen equipment and so on they had left behind. As the person who did the drawings literally walked from room to room, inventories are very logical and accurate records.
JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS
What did the documents reveal? Many of the rooms on the inventory can be precisely pinpointed on the floor plans following the refurbishment - which means that the interior of the city palace was left untouched during the renovation work in 1768! Thanks to the inventory, we also now know that the museum's Salons occupy rooms that were also used for gatherings in the past. One of them served as a dining room, with all the chairs and tables ranged along the walls, to be set out correctly by the staff when a dinner was held. The layout of the city palace is still recognizable in the museum's main building. So, as well as the collection it houses, the museum building itself provides an insight into 's-Hertogenbosch' rich past. And we are very proud of it!
STATE CHAMBER: THEN AND NOW
Long ago, the State Chamber was the chapel of the Jesuit monastery. In Von Holstein's days, the huge room stood empty. The inventory simply states: ‘copper, but poor quality sconces (candlesticks) on the walls.’ Although the chamber was mentioned as a ballroom at other times, it is highly unlikely that any grand events were held there in the years prior to 1744. There simply was not enough light.
Fortunately, the State Chamber was renovated several times after 1744, so beautifully and to such a high standard that the reception room has become the jewel in the museum's crown. The impressive stained glass windows, glittering chandeliers, sidewalls adorned with ornamental wood, recesses with golden statues and the original wood ceiling all combine to make the chamber imposing and utterly unique.
ROYAL BLUE FABRIC WALLPAPER
No wonder that, for two centuries, it was a favoured meeting place for the Provincial Council of North Brabant. To give the chamber a modern yet stately twist, designer Kiki van Eijk (Tegelen, 1978) designed the royal blue fabric wallpaper, woven in the Textile Lab of the Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg. During the renovation in 2013, improvements were made to the interior and the technology, without detracting from the chamber's history. The result: a unique and prestigious reception room that doubles as a modern auditorium. We look forward to welcoming you! | <urn:uuid:3720c4ec-4015-4973-b7e5-83118de4cc63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hetnoordbrabantsmuseum.nl/en/visit/exhibitions/2020/01/het-bossche-gouvernementspaleis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974966 | 771 | 2.8125 | 3 |
A Hong Kong designer Toby Ng made a series of illustration based on world population and turn it into a postcards called “If the World Were A Village of 100 People”. If the world were a village of 100 people, how would the composition be? In 20 classifications, each illustrated by vibrant, distintive graphics, the spread of population is more than dull numbers on paper. Look at the world we’re living in from different perspective.
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So you’ve decided to migrate to a self hosted WordPress blog. Congratulations! It’s an exciting step. After you’ve exported all of your posts and pages to a file using the WordPress inbuilt exporter, it’s time to upload it to your new hosting account. You go to the “Dashboard ->Tools ->Import”, select WordPress as the import option only to be suddenly informed that your import file is too large!
If you’ve been blogging for a long time, your file size could easily be greater than the tiny limits that most default WordPress implementations have. It could be 8 MB, 10 MB, or 20 MB. The actual number will vary from installation to installation. What is certain is that it will almost always be too small for any large blog. So if you don’t want to split up the file into tinier pieces, here’s how to increase the maximum upload size in WordPress so that you can upload everything in one go.
On my particular shared hosting account with Bluehost, The default maximum upload file size is 10 MB. You can see in the screenshot below that this limit is enforced in the WordPress importer itself.
The file size allowed by PHP depends on the environment in which WordPress is running. In particular, it all rests on the simple php.ini file residing in the root directory of your website. Mind you, this is not the WordPress directory per se even though the two may be the same in certain installations. If your blog is in a subfolder for example, there will be no php.ini file residing in it. Search for a folder that says something like public_html instead. That is likely to be the root directory of your hosting account.
Copy this file to your desktop and also make a backup of it in case something goes wrong. This is an extremely important file and we can’t afford to mess things up. Open the downloaded php.ini in a textbased editor like Notepad++ instead of a vanilla one like Notepad. If you do the latter, you won’t be able to make out head or tail of what’s happening since it won’t render any new lines or other structure gaps.
There are two parameters that we need to change. Many tips and tutorials on the Internet will only mention one of them. This might vary from installation to installation, but here are the two that I had to modify in order to get the upload file size up to 64 MB from 10 MB.
In my default php.ini, they were both set to 10M as shown below.
Replace “10” with “64” instead.
Make sure you don’t create any other modifications. Now simply upload the modified php.ini file to overwrite the existing one (once again, make sure you have a backup!)
Kill the Existing PHP Processes
Now that we have a new configuration, we have to restart the server in order to let the changes take effect. The exact way to do this will depend on your hosting environment. With Bluehost working with cPanel, i was able to go to the “processes” icon and kill the running PHP processes one by one. Don’t worry! They’ll restart automatically when necessary.
You might want to make sure that the changes have indeed taken effect using the phpinfo() command. I’ll write a tutorial later on describing exactly how to do this.
Now head over to the WordPress importer once again. As shown in the screenshot below, the new upload limit has been created.
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Dr. BC's Curtice papers
Me excavating a Diplodocus sacral (hip) complex. Shortly after this photo was taken I realized I had not only discovered the hip but also a large section of the tail, nearly the entire hind limb, and a number of the back bones. I spent two field seasons excavating this specimen and nearly 2 years preparing it for study. It is available housed in the collections of the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah.
I study sauropod dinosaurs, the longest, tallest, and heaviest creatures that ever walked the earth. Below are selected academic papers as well in some popular literature I was mentioned in.
(all links open in a new tab)
The paper "slaying" Ultrasaurus
A paper describing baby sauropod dinosaurs
A paper on the location of a historically significant Alamosaurus locale
World's Longest Dinosaur
Dr. BC publishes information on Supersaurus, the world's longest dinosaur!
Popular Literature where Dr. Curtice has appeared
Discover Magazine Top 100 Science stories in 1996
The story of eliminating Ultrasaurus appeared in a Dinosaur Discoveries article
My work on Seismosaurus in the news
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Plans for the comprehensive restoration of the Grade I Listed Maison Dieu in Dover have taken another major step forward with a funding commitment of £130,000 from The Wolfson Foundation.
The restoration project includes essential conservation work to the internationally significant medieval and neo-gothic interiors of the Maison Dieu, creating a new visitor entrance to the Connaught Hall, improving access throughout the building, and making the building more sustainable by bringing redundant spaces back into commercial use.
The Maison Dieu can trace its history back to the 13th century when it was founded as a medieval hospital and used by pilgrims journeying from continental Europe to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket. It saw subsequent use as a naval victualling yard and was extensively remodelled in the 19th century by the prominent Victorian architects Ambrose Poynter and William Burges. The works included the development of civic offices, a court room and gaol, and a concert hall. The building is a very rare example of William Burges’ civic work and an important landmark in the Gothic revival style.
The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity that supports and promotes excellence in the fields of science, health, education, and the arts and humanities. Since it was established in 1955, over £900 million (£1.9 billion in real terms) has been awarded to more than 11,000 projects throughout the UK, all on the basis of expert review.
Paul Ramsbottom, Chief Executive of the Wolfson Foundation said: “Maison Dieu plays a pivotal part in the life of those living and working in central Dover, and reflects the rich history of this important town. We are pleased to support the interpretation work for such a fascinating building.”
Cllr Trevor Bartlett, Leader of Dover District Council, said: “We’re delighted to be working with The Wolfson Foundation on this exciting project to secure the future of the Maison Dieu as one of Dover’s most significant historic buildings.
“Restoring the Maison Dieu at the centre of community and cultural life in Dover is a key part of our strategy to support the wider regeneration of Dover town centre.”
Dover District Council is currently completing a second round application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for £4.7 million that will be submitted in June 2020.
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The End of Radio, There’s No God, and Vessel are all simple-looking sculptures that use basic sound technologies to create a sense of expectation that is undermined by unpredictability. This precarious dynamic is also applied in The Loudest Sound In The Room Experienced Very Quietly (2015).
Made of a soundproof aquarium that houses a microphone, a public address amplifier, and a speaker cone, The Loudest Sound is a communication ecosystem that inflicts its own instability and self-destruction. The installation’s microphone is pointed directly towards a speaker. These components are separated by an amplifier. Together the configuration creates an endless feedback loop that results in a tone that registers at 120 decibels. The sound – which at such a high volume can produce nosebleeds, panic attacks, and hypertension – is measured by a decibel meter positioned within the acrylic case that continually indicates a level above its maximum threshold. Despite the evident ear-piercing noise of the composition, the sealed container only allows a small amount of sound to escape, manifesting as a barely audible high-pitched ringing for the listener. The intensity of the sound is all but entirely dampened by the chamber in which it is contained. This installation enacts a process of futility, wavering between potential and impotence, at the interstice of noise and silence. Basanta conceptualizes this work as a “communication system disrupted and turned against itself” (Basanta 2015).
Artist Nikita Gale employs a similar conceptual mapping in her works associating the repression of sound with subjugation. Within her visual arts practice she subverts common materials, including microphone stands, audio cables, soundproofing foam, and unplugged instruments. Recent exhibitions include DESCENT (2018) and EASY LISTENING (2019), and works like PROPOSAL: SOFT SURROUND SYSTEM(2018) and INTERCEPTOR(2019) include silenced soundmaking technologies that represent the systems that sanction public expression (Lee 2018). Gale is overarchingly concerned with power, protest, and control, as signified by the use of crowd control barriers and concrete, which she interweaves with communication technologies in several of her installations.
Basanta’s series of custom-made earplugs, entitled Plugs (the most important thing) (2016) is perhaps his most extreme response to an over-saturated media soundscape and scaffolds of sonic power. The piece consists of 1200 earplugs displayed in the gallery, each engraved with the phrase “listen to yourself’. Viewers are invited to select a pair, escape the exhibition space entirely and disengage from all external sound sources. Guided by a set of instructions, gallery visitors are led on an internal soundwalk and are prompted to listen especially to the sounds emanating from within the body rather than from external sources. Plugs offers respite from the modern world, facilitating a contemplative, quiet opportunity to tune out. It draws on the practice of soundwalks pioneered by R. Murray Schafer, whose World Soundscape Project originated at Simon Fraser University, where Basanta was trained as a composer.
This evolution of Basanta’s practice demonstrates an ongoing and nuanced investigation of sonic power and the tools through which it can be both resisted and imposed. His various sound-based sculptures and the other works to which they have been compared, exemplify that the aesthetics of noise and silence exist within a spectrum of acoustic strategies that can produce a multitude of effects. As gestures they are at once provocative, incomprehensible, arresting, confrontational, and a mode of critique for the influential power of sound. | <urn:uuid:3d78575c-1029-4760-8875-e34c122b457e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/978605/978622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936674 | 746 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo is an independent public institution and its primary objective is to promote and maintain a sound financial system and an efficient payment system
The senior delegation of the Republic of Kosovo, led by the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo, Mr. Fehmi Mehmeti is attending regular annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which are being held in Washington, USA from 14 -20 October.
On this occasion, Governor Mehmeti will meet with senior management of the IMF, World Bank, U.S. Treasury.
Also, during the regular annual meetings, Governor Mehmeti will also meet with the leaders of our constituency in the IMF, and as well will participate in discussions that will take place within these meetings.
Annual meetings organized by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development , parliamentarians, private sector leaders, representatives from civil society organizations and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the global economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic development and aid effectiveness.
During these meetings will be discussed for developments in the global economy and financial system in the world.
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what is pickleball?
The game started during the summer of 1965 in Washington, at the home of Joel Pritchard. He and two of his friends, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum, returned from golf and found their families bored one Saturday afternoon. They attempted to set up badminton, but no one could find the shuttlecock. They improvised with a perforated plastic ball, lowered the badminton net, and fabricated paddles of plywood from a nearby shed. The rest is history as they say…
McCallum made the first paddles that were specifically for pickleball and in 1972, he incorporated ‘Pickle-Ball Inc.’ Some sources claim that the name “Pickleball” was derived from that of the Pritchard’s family dog, Pickles, or from the term “pickle boat”. According to Joan Pritchard, Joel Pritchard’s wife, “The name of the game became Pickle Ball after I said it reminded me of the Pickle Boat where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats. Somehow the idea the name came from our dog Pickles was attached to the naming of the game, but Pickles wasn’t on the scene for two more years. The dog was named for the game, but stories about the name’s origin were funnier thinking the game was named for the dog.”
We are delighted to announce that Troy Hargreaves from FitSportsWA has joined North Shore and the new Tennis and Pickleball Coach as of Monday, 11th July. Please pop in and say hello – more news from Troy coming soon. In the meantime, you can contact Troy on 0421 482 973 or direct your enquiries to him at [email protected].
Pickleball was established at the North Shore Country Club in 2018, and we have ‘Play and Learn’ sessions at various times of the week for beginners, or those not confident enough to play ‘social’ plus a ‘Dynamic Doubles’ competitive session for intermediate or advanced players that are led by the head coach. We have 2 further ‘social’ sessions for established players.
Listen here if you want to learn more about the game.
Want to come along and give it a go? All equipment is provided – everyone is welcome.
If you are interested and want to know more about our sessions please call Troy Hargreaves on 0421 482 973 or register your interest at [email protected]
We have 6 pickleball courts available with up to 24 players on court at any one time. Play is situated on the upper courts. Doubles partners are selected centrally to ensure players have the opportunity to play others whilst also trying to ensure a well matched and fun game every 15 minutes. To view the full calendar of Pickleball, Tennis and other Health and Well-being sessions, click here.
Pickleball Term 3 commences Monday, 25 July 2022
‘Pickleball Play & Learn’
Tuesday 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am – 10.30am
Saturday 8.30am – 10.00am
$12.00 per session
Suitable for beginners new to the game or intermediates not yet confident to participate in ‘Pickleball Social’
‘Pickleball Dynamic Doubles’
Saturday 11.00am – 1.00pm
Suitable for established players who are intermediate or advanced. Players are paired via a round robin.
$8.00 per session
Tuesday 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Sunday 9.00am – 11.00am
Full Members FREE
Social Members / Guests $8.00
Suitable for established players or players that have graduated from ‘Pickleball Play & Learn’
pickleball at nscc
following our success at the 2022 WA pickleball state championships...
Congratulations to the North Shore Knights team in winning the division one play off final by beating Blue Gum at Sacred Heart on 9TH March 2022 and becoming champions of the first Perth pennants league. A great team effort throughout the season from all the players – Oliver Dobson, Louise Dobson, ArIana Armson, Carrol Bryan, Glenn Robertson, Craig Cobern , Cindy Meintjes and Steve Armson (captain).
A huge thank you to the organiser Ben Hocking from Pickleball Perth and all the other teams that participated.
WE ARE AMAZING
WE DID IT AGAIN!
Congratulations to the Homeless Warriors for winning the Division 2 pickleball pennants final against the North Shore Dinkers at Sacred Heart on 16th March 2022.
A great team effort throughout the season by players of the North Shore Dinkers :- Beth Butler, Kylie Marchant, Melinda Leenman, Len Collier , John Pollard and Darryl Minas (captain).
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Argentina and Mexico will together manufacture AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, with plans to produce enough of the shot to cover most of Latin America.Under the deal, Argentina’s mAbxience laboratory will produce the active ingredient for the shot, and packaging will take place in Mexico. The agreement covers the manufacturing of at least 150 million doses and perhaps as many as 250 million, enough for every Latin American outside of Brazil.The latest agreement follows reports that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro earmarked 1.9 billion reais, or about $350 million, to buy and later produce the AstraZeneca vaccine in his country. It also continues a string of deals AstraZeneca has signed to help supply its vaccine to countries across the globe.
Like other companies with vaccine hopefuls, AstraZeneca is rushing to line up supply deals with countries around the world before obtaining proof that its shot can prevent coronavirus infections or COVID-19. The hope is that these moves can help inoculation campaigns begin immediately once a vaccine succeeds in clinical trials and is approved.
The latest deals are especially critical for Latin America, which has been hard hit by waves of coronavirus infections. In Brazil, 3.2 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 104,000 have died, numbers that represent a health crisis second only to the U.S. in severity.
Brazil’s agreement calls for an initial 100 million doses, enough to vaccinate about half the country, Reuters reported. When the supply runs out, Brazil will then produce the vaccine on a local level.
The country has already become a magnet for clinical trials; AstraZeneca and Oxford in June announced Brazil as the site of the first Phase 3 study of a coronavirus vaccine candidate in Latin America. Brazil is also one of the countries included in a large-scale trial being run by partners BioNTech and Pfizer.
Argentina expects its deal to offer priority access to the vaccine, should it prove successful. Under an agreement with AstraZeneca and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s foundation, the vaccine should cost three to four dollars a dose, Argentinian President Alberto Fernández said. Argentina estimated it could become available in the first half of next year.
With late-stage trials underway in the U.K., Brazil and South Africa, AstraZeneca’s shot is one of the furthest along in clinical development. Officials recently signaled on a conference call that those studies may be enough to support regulatory clearance, rather than waiting for the results from another large trial expected to soon begin in the U.S.
The company has pledged not to make a profit on it during the pandemic and has secured enough manufacturing capacity for more than 2 billion doses globally. The U.S. in May contracted for least 300 million of those doses.
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With the Easter season upon us, many Ukrainians are preparing for the holiday, and putting together their Easter basket…
But where do the baskets
Many families have a basket passed down through generations, tucked away and brought out each year for Easter. But before the years of mass production, when you could buy a basket in the supermarket or home ware store, baskets were carefully hand made.
If you visit the Kosiv Bazar at Easter time, you’ll see many baskets for sale.
Ask a vendor where they come from, and they’ll say “Iza”.
Iza baskets you say?
Not they’re not saying “Easter”, they’re telling you a name – the village of Iza.
The villagers of Iza in Transcarpathia region have been weaving baskets for many generations. They create baskets and many other goods out of withe.
The first written references to the village of Iza date from as far back as 1387! And the village has been known as the center of basket weaving since the 19th century.
The first known master craftsman of basket weaving was Ivan Kashko. He taught his sons the craft, and they began to sell all kinds of products from the vine. Over time, this became the main craft of all the residents of Iza.
Their process begin in the summer – all the villagers plant withe in their vegetable gardens, then on the “Feast of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God” or “Pokrov” in the fall, the entire village harvests the withe.
After the vine is harvested, it is processed – cut, boiled, cleaned, dried, and dyed. Then, the weaving begins. Locals weave baskets of different shapes and sizes, but also weave chairs, cabinets, chairs, tables, plates, coasters and much more.
Nowadays, the streets of Iza look like an open-air museum: most locals exhibit their wares along the road and on their fences. Almost every household is involved in weaving baskets.
In the middle of the village, there is an improvised sales center – a small bazaar. Tourists can buy local crafts here, and artisans can buy raw materials for their work. If you can’t get to Iza, you can buy their baskets at other big markets in Western Ukraine, or even on the internet!
Everyone can become a craftsman in Iza. The residents learned to weave from childhood here.
This wonderful sense of community is prevalent here in Iza. Despite the fact that the whole village is engaged in the same craft, there is no competition among the locals. Local people live as a community: they share experiences with each other, help and share their own secrets. They learn from each other’s skills, share weaving techniques, and stories about how weaving appeared in Iza.
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The most used platform for groomers is Instagram, according to an NSPCC report based on police data.
Grooming is defined by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) as the act of building an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for the purpose of sexual abuse or exploitation. The NSPCC report found that grooming cases involves one major social media platform or another in 70 percent of cases where the method is revealed by police, with Instagram being the most popular.
The NSPCC found that Instagram was used in 32 percent of those instances, Facebook in 23 percent, and Snapchat in 14 percent, citing data obtained from police under Freedom of Information laws. The data shows that the use of Instagram as a tool for grooming has seen a 200 percent increase from 2017 to 2018 (over a period of approximately 18 months).
Sexual communication with a child has been a criminal offence since 2017, in the period since then more than 5000 instances have been recorded, the NSPCC found. The data also shows that girls aged 12 to 15 were most likely to be targeted by groomers.
"These figures are overwhelming evidence that keeping children safe cannot be left to social networks."
"Keeping young people safe on our platforms is our top priority and child exploitation of any kind is not allowed," a spokesperson for Facebook and Instagram said in a statement emailed to Mashable. "We use advanced technology and work closely with the police and CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command) to aggressively fight this type of content and protect young people.”
Facebook and Instagram also said that it removes 99.2 percent of content relating to child exploitation or nudity before it's reported, and that it works hard to block users searching for known child exploitative terms.
NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said in a statement that politicians must step in to help combat grooming, since platforms are still failing to protect its youngest users, after "10 years of failed self-regulation."
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Got a student loan forgiveness? How the Federal Civil Service Program Works
Some cheerful professionals are sharing their joy on social media after discovering that a federal program has erased his student debt.
A Kentucky doctor on Twitter said he reapplied for the public service loan forgiveness program after working a decade at a nonprofit and recently received a notice that his loans in medical school had been cancelled.
“In shock,” wrote Dr. Lee Dossett.
Dossett took advantage of a program that originally failed to deliver on its promise to provide student debt relief to thousands of government officials, including teachers, police officers and firefighters.
The administration of President Joe Biden overhauled the civil service loan cancellation program in October. For years, thousands of borrowers had applied for forgiveness under the program, but almost all were rejected by the federal government.
Department data now shows approximately 70,000 borrowers qualified for nearly $5 billion in aid since October.
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The overhaul was designed to allow borrowers to fix errors and count the payments they were trying to make towards the program, as well as consolidate loans or get the right repayment plan to qualify. It is expected to shorten the time over which more than 550,000 borrowers – those who have already consolidated their loans – are required to make payments to qualify for the discount, the government said.
If you have student loans and are wondering if your job qualifies, here are the steps you can take to consider getting relief.
What is Public Service Debt Forgiveness? How was he born?
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program was launched in 2007 with the aim of guiding more college graduates into public service. As long as they made 10 years of payments on their federal student loans, the program promised to wipe out the rest.
The program, however, proved anything but forgiving.
Before the October changes, only 16,000 borrowers had had their debt canceled or cancelled, according to the Ministry of Education. About 1.3 million people are trying to get their debts canceled through the program.
One of the most problematic parts of civil service loan forgiveness: Many borrowers had the wrong type of loan and didn’t realize they weren’t eligible for relief.
When the loan forgiveness program was first introduced, many of the loans offered by the federal government were Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL), or loans made by private entities but insured by the federal government.
The government stopped offering these loans in 2010 and now relies on direct loans – the kind eligible for forgiveness. The Ministry of Education said around 60% of borrowers with an approved employer hold FFEL loans.
Who is eligible for student loan forgiveness?
The government previously limited eligibility for the Civil Service Loan Forgiveness Program to certain types of federal student loans and specific repayment plans.
However, through October 2022, borrowers who have made 10 years of payments while working in eligible employment – such as federal, state or local government positions, a non-profit organization or the US military – will now be eligible for loan relief no matter what. type of federal loan or repayment plan they have.
Previous loan payments that were previously ineligible will now count, bringing some borrowers closer to forgiveness, also known as “release” from your loan. This should especially help borrowers with federal home education loans.
Among other changes, the department will allow service members to count active duty time toward 10 years, even if they pause their payments during that time.
How do I know if my past or current employer is eligible for the PSLF?
Use this help tool from the Federal Student Aid website to check if you work for an eligible employer: https://studentaid.gov/pslf/
It provides information on employers who meet the requirements of the Civil Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
How can I check which federal loans I have?
If borrowers are unsure of the type of loan they have, they can ask their loan officer for this information or they can check the federal government’s website for financial assistance, according to Betsy Mayotte, president of the Institute. student loan advisers.
If you are unsure what type of federal loans you have, you can see which loans by logging into your account at StudentAid.gov, go to the My Help page and scroll down to the Loan Breakdown section.
If I am eligible, what steps should I follow?
The changes to the Loan Forgiveness Program will take place in two parts.
The agency will first relax some of the rules that had prevented eligible borrowers from paying their loans, via a limited waiver. The government, for example, will allow payments on one of a person’s loans to count toward the total number required for forgiveness.
The civil service loan forgiveness waiver will be available to borrowers who have direct loans, federal home education loans and Perkins loans.
Parent PLUS Loans are not eligible under the Limited Waiver.
The ministry said it will automatically credit borrowers who already have direct loans and have proven they work in an eligible field. Others who did not enroll in the program or have ineligible federal loans will need to apply for forgiveness, which may require them to consolidate their loans. Borrowers will have until October 2022 to apply.
To learn more about credit consolidation, go to StudentAid.gov/Manage-Loans/Consolidation.
The Department of Education also plans to review all denied civil service loan forgiveness applications and provide federal employees with automatic credit for the forgiveness.
Other changes will happen more slowly via regulations established by “regulation”, a long and complicated bureaucratic back and forth between government and other stakeholders.
For more information, visit StudentAid.gov/PSLFWaiver.
How do you receive credit for past payments under the new rules?
For a limited time, borrowers can get credit for past payments made on loans that would otherwise not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
There are two requirements for receiving additional qualifying payments: full-time employment and loan consolidation.
For example, you must have worked full-time for an eligible employer when previous payments were made, according to Federal Student Aid.
Some part-time workers may qualify under certain circumstances. Suppose you hold more than one qualifying part-time job at the same time. You would be considered full-time if you worked an average of at least 30 hours per week.
It can take several months for a borrower’s account information to reflect the new payment count, according to Federal Student Aid.
Until when can I get credit for payments?
To be on the safe side, you can only receive credit for payments made after October 1, 2007, as that is when the Civil Service Loan Forgiveness Program began.
For any period during which you may receive additional qualifying payments, you must file a claim. Public service loan forgiveness and temporary expanded PSLF certification and application.
Who may need to consolidate their loans?
If you have Federal Family Education Loans Program loans, Federal Perkins Loans, or other types of Federal Student Loans that are not direct loans, you must group them in the direct loan program by Oct. 31, 2022, according to Federal Student Aid.
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The IRS Fresh Start Program is a program designed to help taxpayers who owe back taxes. One of the less publicized features of this program is Currently Non-Collectible Status (CNC).
The status of CNC is given to taxpayers who have been found unable to pay their outstanding tax debts by the government. The IRS collection process is temporarily halted when an account is labeled as CNC, which means no harassing letters, intimidating phone calls, or threatening levies will be sent.
Currently Not Collectible
If the IRS determines that you are unable to pay any portion of your tax debt, your account may be marked as Currently Not Collectible, delaying collection until your financial situation improves. The fact that your debt is Currently Not Collectible does not mean it will go away; it just means the IRS has assessed that you cannot afford to pay it at this time.
You are still obligated to file tax returns and keep records of any income earned during this period, but your debt cannot be collected until the IRS deems it currently collectible again. Additionally, interest continues to accrue on your existing outstanding balance at a rate determined by law.
In order to be Currently Not Collectible, you must first show complete and total inability to make any payment on your debt at all–and there are some qualifications in place for this as well: You must not earn any money during the period of your CNC, and you must not have any assets or other sources of income that can be used to pay back the debt.
IRS Fresh Start Program
The Currently Not Collectible status also happens to be one of the four major components in the IRS Fresh Start Program. There are many programs that are offered in order to solve your tax-related issues in some sort of way. But there is a new and improved relief program that consolidates many major relief programs into a one-size-fits-all assistance program; The IRS Fresh Start Program.
This program is designed to relieve not only the IRS, but also your back taxes. It does this by making sure you are filing accurately and gives up-front payment options solutions for those who can’t afford their tax debt payments. This relief program utilizes four of the major tax resolution strategies into one consolidated program!
How Simple Is Qualifying?
Considering that the Fresh Start Program is a federal program, you would think meeting the qualifications may be very difficult, but really, it’s a lot simpler and quicker than you think. Take the following steps in order to find out if you are eligible in as little as 3 minutes.
- Fill out some basic information about yourself and your back taxes here.
- Have a representative reach out to you to discuss your eligibility.
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Is there anything we can do?
In the aftermath of the massacre in Orlando, Florida last weekend so many well-intentioned folks are not only appalled by the tragedy that unfolded there, but they want to know what can be done for similar victims? Throughout this country many of us ordinary citizens are truly grieving for those innocent victims and their families.
As has been stated by some, for every victim there are scores of family, relatives, friends, co-workers and neighbors, who share the pain imposed by a single gunman.
While many of us have been encouraged and elated by the swift action of many local Orlando agencies such as police and fire departments, medical, military and others, we, at a safe distance from that horrific scene, puzzle over what steps we can take to prevent such barbaric acts in the future and in our own communities.
At a time like this, it is most encouraging to note that the Atlanta area and our country are not without important resources who will surely be anxious to describe their important programs and services to our local communities.
One such organization serving the Rockdale, Newton and neighboring counties is “Out in the Country”. This group is a private, non-profit, support group for the LGBT community, family members, loved ones and friends.
It may be that some parents, siblings and concerned relatives and friends of the Orlando victims are privately reviewing their relationship with those young folks. They may be asking themselves why they were not more understanding of their gay son/daughter. They may regret now what they didn’t do then. Instead of years of denial, perhaps some parent may be thinking, “How hard would it have been for me to put my arm around Ken’s shoulder an assure him of my unconditional love? Why did I refuse to invite him to many pleasurable experiences because I was embarrassed by how he may act or what he might say? I love him so deeply and now he has been taken out of my life.
There is something we can do now, and if not now, then when? Perhaps there is a gay friend or relative in your life who would love to hear some positive, supportive message from you. He or she may be wondering if that will ever happen.
Show them that love now; please don’t wait in this time of national grief and uncertain future.
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In the United States, on an average, majority of individuals have a felony on their criminal record. The mark of a felony has many negative repercussions on a person’s life, and one of the biggest challenges for them is landing a job.
In the past, this specific group of people have been suffered and discriminated against when it comes to employment. Hiring felons is always a tricky subject for employers.
In this article, you will see the negative side effects of a felony conviction. Some of the questions might be running through your mind:
Why the employment and earnings of felons so low?
What barriers do they face in gaining employment to live independently?
To what extent are these barriers based on their characteristics and attitude?
Are there policies that are likely to reduce these barriers, and improve employment?
We will review these issues right away.
The Difficulties of Rejoining Society after a Felony Conviction
Generally, a person with criminal background suffers a lot after a felony conviction. The bitter truth is that once an individual has been convicted, incarcerated, after the release, they are not free to rejoin society; in fact, they face several issues in the community.
The sad reality is that there are overwhelming barriers to those who have criminal backgrounds when it comes to employment & getting homes.
- Getting a Job Is Hard for them
- No Place to Live
- Limited Educational Options
- An Inability to Vote
Tips for Felons Looking for a Job
- Do research
- Apply for a necessary license (like Occupational License)
- Be honest in the application process
- Consider going back to school
- Apply to many positions
- Have a positive attitude
What is it?
It is a credential that the government state requires a worker to hold in certain occupations. Aspiring workers must have educational certificates, training, testing, and other requirements to practice in a licensed profession.
Occupational licenses are mandatory to set professional standards and ensure safety and quality of work at the same time.
You should be aware that violation of the terms of the license, in any case, can result in legal action. For felons, occupational licensing can create hurdles for the certain work zone.
Barriers to Success among felons in the Labor Market
What are the factors that limit employment and earnings among felons?
Several factors operate on the supply side of the labor market – through the attitude, characteristics, and behavior of the individuals. Depending upon that, they can operate on the supply side and demand side.
Let’s discuss them in detail:
Felons have a variety of characteristics that greatly limit their employability and earning capacities. These include:
- Limited education and cognitive skills
- Limited work experience
The barriers faced by felons because of their limited skills, poor health, and race or area of residence often reflect a mismatch on the demand side of the labor market. These include:
- Barriers generated by employers
- Those explicitly related to their status
Let’s have a look at the Hiring Process for Felons
Time has changed as compared to earlier. Employers are now willing to consider candidates with criminal histories if they have good references. In addition to this, a solid performance record and supplementary training certificates help a lot represent your positive side.
Several states like Arizona, California, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, and New York also offer rehabilitation certificates to the needy.
Many big companies including Google, Goodwill, Hilton Hotels, Amazon Warehouse, Starbucks, and Dollar Tree have hired people with criminal records previously and are open to hiring them.
The Bottom Line
So, this was all about the hurdles that an individual has to face after a felony conviction. Apart from employment barriers, they find difficulty in educational opportunities; have no house to live in, and even unable to vote.
Hopefully, by the end of this article, you have got all the answers to your queries. Remember some policies have been definitely initiated towards the welfare of felons.
If you want to change your life, be open to learning the basic soft skills and hard skills that’ll help you out find a suitable job.
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This half term, we are focusing on Seaside Holidays. We are continuing to look at the similarities and differences of Seaside holidays now and in the past. The children so are enjoying sharing their own experiences of the seaside.
The children have became Travel agents within the provision and are enjoying lots of other activities. Please put pictures on Tapestry of your child on holiday so that we can continue to share these.
Creating a beach
The children all did a fantastic job at colour mixing to make their perfect colour for the sky. We then used yellow for the sand before putting sand over the top. We created our sea by collaging, we discussed how we can tear and then glue the paper to create waves.
Alfie on Holiday
Alfie on Holiday has been a lovely book to support the children's learning on the different activities that can be done whilst at the seaside.
Lucy and Tom at the Seaside
Clem and Crab
The children have loved the story 'Clem and Crab', they have made fantastic contributions and predictions as to how the beach became clean. We have discussed protecting our environment and wildlife by thinking about what we can to help, no matter how small.
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch
Our new theme for our last half term is 'What is it like in other countries?'. We are focusing on the stories 'Handa's Surprise', 'Baby goes to Market' and 'Off to Market' in Literacy and also using these to support our comparisons of the Uk and Africa.
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This blog post was written by Marina, a Veterinary Medicine PhD student at the Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Karula in South Estonia. Photo: Marina
I was told that I will be doing my field work in the bear’s butt
Every language has a unique way of saying „in the middle of nowhere“, and in my case, the Estonian expression is perfectly fitting. I drive through the picturesque hills of Southern Estonia, storks flying by, a fox stopping to let me pass before she crosses the road, the birch trees stretching their naked branches into the blue sunny sky. There are so many lakes that when villages have names that include “saar”, I can actually believe that they are like islands in this watery landscape ("saar" means "island" in Estonian).
When the asphalt turns into gravel, I know I’m on the right road. Google Maps is no longer a big help, because the house I am headed to has no address. It is the house in the village where the Kuks family lives, that’s enough information. I know that I have to pass the modern house on the right; that the road should take another turn after the big lake... and then I have arrived. I am in the middle of Karula National Park. It’s one of those remote places in Estonia where the next neighbor lives a kilometer or two away, and reaching the nearest store takes a twenty minute drive. It’s “karu perses” – “in the bear’s butt”, which, as the National Park also contains the word “bear”, couldn’t describe it better.
I am glad that I chose a car with four-wheel-drive, and although there are days where I will run around in a t-shirt and with bare feet, it’s still April for most of my time here, and in Estonia this means that I’m also glad that I still have my winter tires, because on some days it snows.
Sheep on the farm in South Estonia. Photo: Marina
Countryside houses are never finished - there is always something to build
So this is where I will be living and working for about a month, taking blood samples from sheep that I am studying for my veterinary PhD research. As this is a one and a half hour drive away from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and I need to take samples every day for a month, the farmers offered me a place to stay. It’s a classic Estonian house in the countryside: vegetables from their own garden, honey from the neighbor’s bees, homemade jam from berries collected in the nearby forest, tea from herbs collected in the fields, meat from their own animals, eggs from the chickens in the backyard.
The house does have a bathroom with indoor plumbing, as we are used to in Western countries, but the outhouse next to the stable is still in use, too. Of course there is a sauna next to the pond. The internet here is as good as in the city.
One additional child
There are always lots of people, because the door is never locked: five children (four of them homeschooled), the neighbor’s kids joining them to play, and family friends just showing up without asking, because they know that farmers are always home, but never have time. So as I arrive, they tell me to just get food from the fridge when I’m hungry. The mother says: “üks laps juures” (just "one additional child") – they don’t mind feeding me as well. There is a giant pot of different "puder" (porridge) every morning, except on Sunday, because on Sundays, Estonians eat pancakes. I guess "puder" can also roughly be translated to "mush", because it also is used in the word for mushed potatoes ("kartulipuder").
Munapuder – scrambled eggs
Mannapuder – semolina porridge or pudding
Kaerapuder (also just called puder) – regular porridge made from oats
Riisipuder – rice porridge
Tatrapuder – buckwheat porridge (although in my opinion this is just boiled buckwheat with butter and salt)
In Estonia, famous people are just regular people.
Some of the friends hanging around here are actually famous Estonian musicians, because in Estonia, famous people are just regular people. So it happens that on one particular day, as there are 20 people, but only 14 chairs, I got a place at the dinner table, but Kristiina Ehin (click the link if you have not heard of her) did not.
The best job in the world
After my delicious breakfast, and a short Estonian lesson from the 9-year-old, who in turn got help from me with his English exercises, I slip on my work overalls and steel-cap rubber boots and head over to the barn with the farmer and her 15-year-old daughter. I heavily rely on people to help me. I have marked the sheep of my study with animal spray paint, and the children enjoy catching these lambs with me. Then, somebody has to hold them tight so I can draw blood. I have brought all the lab equipment that I need, and they gave me a space to set up my laboratory, so I can centrifuge the blood samples, put the blood serum into separate containers and freeze everything.
The dog is called Mari and she likes to jump in people's arms. Photo: Marina
Right now, this feels like the best job in the world – I have been adopted into a fun and kind and extremely caring family. I help feed the sheep in turn for them helping me with the sampling, and I spend all day between newborn lambs. What a cute sight! And the noise of all the bleating! When I’m done for the day, I turn my face towards the sun (if it’s not raining, snowing, or hailing – you never know in an Estonian spring), go hiking in the National Park and play with the many dogs. There are three Border Collies to herd the sheep, five guard dogs who constantly live with the herd to protect them from wolves (who are a very real threat in Karula), and one big dog who looks like a polar bear, but has failed as a guard dog and now happily lives with the chicken, feeling like a chicken queen. There are also ducks, geese, and of course cats, one of whom fell in love with a chicken.
Improving all sorts of skills
My Estonian is improving a lot, and so are my mom-skills – when the actual mother has to spend the night in the barn to help with lambing (i.e. give assistance to the sheep who have trouble giving birth), then I get to be the one screaming “Kas kõik hambad on pestud?” (my not so perfect version of “Has everyone brushed their teeth?”), ask the youngest one where the hell he left his jacket this time, or answer all his “Why?” questions, and clean the kitchen.
The lambs were weighed on a kitchen scale in a bucket, to keep them still. Photo: Marina
I made new friends and am invited to go nurmenukk-picking with them once they are blossoming (cowslip flowers make a delicious tea that helps against cough). And of course I am now an expert in drawing blood from sheep and have learned a lot about sheep (the parasites they get; that these sheep are also bred for buyers in Uzbekistan, who care more about their looks than character traits, for example; or that food is more important to them than their own children and so they may just forget that they are standing on one of their lambs while they are eating; that they are afraid of the dark so you have to keep a night light on in the stable; and that as a herd, they move beautifully and like water when you know how to do it). I also spent a lot of time with sheep, sorting them, bringing mothers and children together, feeding them at 9 in the evening, and again and again searching for and running after those who are part of my study.
Marina and a sheep. Somewhere in Bear's Bottom. Photo: Marina
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Any member of your family could be affected by a medical emergency. As a result, you require a health insurance plan that covers all of your family members so that the policy will come to your financial aid if anyone becomes ill.
India has multiple family health insurance plans, each with its benefits. However, exercising extreme caution would help when purchasing a family health insurance plan. Before finalizing the plan, you must consider several factors. This helps ensure that the plan is comprehensive and that your family is adequately covered.
To secure your current health needs and those you are likely to require at various stages of your life. Here’s a 5-step guide to determining the best health insurance plan for you and your family:
1. Make a list of the health insurance plans that you find suitable
In India, there are numerous health insurance companies. The vast majority of insurers provide excellent health insurance plans. So, primarily, decide on the type of health insurance policy you want to purchase and the appropriate sum required to cover your and your family’s healthcare needs. Make a list of all the suitable family health insurance plans available from various health insurance providers that you are interested in. Once you have compiled a list of India’s best health insurance plans, consider which mode you prefer to purchase the health plan. You can purchase them either online or offline.
2. Compare various types of health insurance policies
Different health insurance companies provide a variety of impressive features, making it challenging to select the best policy. As a result, comparing different health insurance plans remains a promising idea. A systematic method for comparing top health insurance policies is helpful so that you can choose the most appropriate and convenient plan. The cost of a health insurance plan is one of the most important factors to consider when purchasing one. So consider that as well. Make comparisons like the insurer’s network hospitals, add-ons that can be included, etc.
3. Make a comparison of network hospitals between different insurers
To provide cashless health insurance, each health insurance company partners with many hospitals. If you are admitted to any network hospital, you will not be required to pay any out-of-pocket expenses. If the healthcare provider is not part of the network, you must pay the hospital and the insurance provider will reimburse you later. So, ensure that the health insurance plan you purchase has a good network of hospitals and compare it to other plans for this benefit.
4. Compare the advantages of different plans
To narrow down your options even further, look at the summary of advantages and see which plans cover a broader range of services. Check to see if your preferred plan includes coverage for a loyalty bonus, a premium waiver, unlimited restoration for unrelated illnesses, a cumulative bonus booster, and rewards for leading a healthy lifestyle, among other things. Check to see if your health insurance plan and its benefits are appropriate for you and your family when purchasing family health insurance plans. Family Health Insurance Plans by Care Health Insurance offers benefits of Ayush treatment, ambulance cover, domiciliary hospitalization, day care treatment, etc.
5. Evaluate the Limits and Sub-Limits
A few health insurance plans have room rent sub-limits, particularly for lower sums insured. If there is a sub-limit, the overall coverage is reduced. If you choose a room with a higher rent than the permitted sub-limit, your inpatient claim will be reduced proportionately. On the other hand, plans with no sub-limits are generally more expensive. Similarly, some cover benefits may be subject to limitations.
6. Compare the out-of-pocket costs of various plans.
Out-of-pocket expenses are medical care costs that are not covered by your health insurance plan. Examples of out-of-pocket expenses include reimbursement, copayments, deductibles, and all expenses incurred for services not covered by your plan.
The point of purchasing health insurance is to avoid paying any money during hospitalization or a medical emergency. Many insurance policies exclude many costs. So you must understand what is covered and what you must pay out of pocket during hospitalization.
Medical expenses do put a strain on your finances. It deviates from one’s financial objectives. This is because medical inflation has increased, and treatments are becoming increasingly expensive. It is frequently stated to be around 15% per year.
Family health insurance plans are required to cover such costs. Health insurance plans cover medical expenses incurred during hospitalization. As a result, they provide you with much-needed financial assistance in a medical emergency while protecting your savings.
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