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BILIARY atresia (BA) is a hepatic condition in which bile ducts within and surrounding the liver are abnormally narrow, impeded, or missing, and is the most common cause of liver transplantation in children. Due to the disruption of bile flow and its accumulation in the liver, nutrient absorption is affected, and cirrhosis normally occurs within the first months of the child’s life. BA’s genetic underpinnings were previously unknown; however, a nationwide collaboration of scientists from the USA has now identified the first genetic defect linked to the condition.
‘‘Having the first plausible gene for BA is arguably one of the biggest findings in the field for decades,’’ explains senior author Saul J. Karpen, Emory School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The results of 15 years of planning, paediatric liver specialists gathered a suitable number of patients for genetic analyses and were able to deduce that an estimated 10% of BA cases are associated with another congenital condition called heterotaxy, i.e., left-right mispositioning of organs. The researchers dubbed their finding biliary atresia with splenic malformation (BASM).
Using whole genome sequencing, 2,016 genes associated with organ development, cilia, and cellular organelles involved in embryonic patterning were genotyped in 67 children with BASM. Five of these patients were revealed to have deleterious, homozygous mutations in PKD1L1, with three others having heterozygous mutations. Additionally, PKD1L1 mutations have been linked to other pathologies such as congenital heart disease and heterotaxy.
More work is required to determine whether PKD1L1 mutations are drivers of BA, especially considering the large percentage of BASM-negative patients. However, such association studies are a promising sign for future efforts to elucidate this mysterious disease.
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Purslane Wild Crafted
GENUS: Portulaca SPECIES: oleracea
Heritage Status: New Zealand
Bio-Region of Origin: Hawkes Bay
Number of Seeds: 200
Description: A wild weed of areas with light soils and bare places. Purslane needs heat and bare soil basically, it is a coloniser that covers the ground. The fleshy leaves are tender and delicious and high in Omega 3 oils. It self seeds happily in the right conditions.
Planting Instructions: Scatter sow onto seed tray and do not cover with soil. Prick out when first leaves apear, at 2.5 cm diagonal spacings transplant into garden at 20 cm diagonal spacing, when leaves touch.
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Queensland Rail is currently trialing a system that allows users to access Wi-Fi on its trains, but it looks as though sites featuring games or game content are actively being blocked.
‘Games’ are currently being classified alongside ‘Criminal Activity’, ‘Hacking’, ‘Intolerance and hate’, ‘Personals and Dating’ and multiple others as content that cannot be viewed using Queensland Rail’s Wi-Fi service.
Speaking to a Queensland Rail representative, banning games is all part of an attempt to keep any content viewed on Wi-Fi “g-rated”.
“With content we have to make sure everything is g-rated,” explained the representative, “even websites like Facebook and Youtube can’t be viewed. Anything that we feel has a lot of unregulated content has to be removed.”
If this is the case, we asked how it was possible for Queensland Rail to allow any sites to be viewable using its Wi-Fi service. Almost every website on the planet features some amount of unregulated content.
“Information sites are allowed,” explained the spokesperson. “You can search with Google, and Wikipedia is okay, that’s some of the sites I’ve used.
Apparently games are no exception; Queensland Rail is actively blocking a number of sites. Most news sites for example, even reputable sites such as CNN can’t be viewed using its Wi-Fi.
There are currently no plans to remove these blocks.
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One of the most nutritious foods you can eat are eggs. They contain large amounts of healthy fats, protein and important vitamins. They are also low in calories, each having about 78 calories. The egg is high in nutrients, especially the yolks. A three egg meal contains about 234 calories and with a generous portion of vegetables you have a nutritious meal of about 300 calories. Of course, if you fry the eggs, you must add about 50 calories for each teaspoon of fat used.
Eggs are filling mainly because of their high protein content. High protein foods are known to be more satisfying and filling than those low in protein thus reducing the appetite and contributing to a feeling of fullness. It has been shown that an egg meal even produces fullness and reduces food intake for later meals. This is compared to meals with less protein but the same number of calories.
The Satiety Index is a scale that determines how well foods help you feel full and reduce later calorie intake. Eggs rank high in this scale.
High protein diets reduce cravings and those tormenting thoughts of food and reduce the need for late night binging or snacking.
All the essential amino acids are contained in eggs and in the correct ratios for maintenance and metabolism. You can increase your metabolism by 80-100 calories per day by consuming a high protein diet. This is because of the thermic effect which is the amount of calories used in the process of digesting, absorbing and storing your food. Thus, it takes more energy just to digest proteins than it does to digest fats or carbohydrates. So, it goes without saying that eggs, because they are high in protein, help you burn more calories.
It has been shown in studies that eating eggs for breakfast adds to a feeling of fullness and causes one to eat fewer calories over the next 36 hours in women and over the next 24 hours in men. People who ate eggs for breakfast felt more full. It has been shown that men ate 270-470 fewer calories at lunch and dinner after having eggs for breakfast.
Furthermore eggs are relatively inexpensive and easy to prepare, making it easy to add them to your daily diet. They are also available almost anywhere.
Eggs contain choline which promotes normal cell activity and liver function. It aids in the transportation of nutrients throughout the body. Choline also is important in the development of baby’s memory.
You are probably wondering why I haven’t mentioned cholesterol. There are recent recommendations from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and American Diabetes Association that no longer limit the intake of eggs or cholesterol. In fact, eggs are promoted as a part of a heart healthy by such organizations as Health Canada, the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation the Australian Heart Foundation and the Irish Heart Foundation.
So, it seems, eggs can be the “go to” food for hungry dieters. They are not only cheap they are easy to prepare. Keep a few hardboiled eggs handy in the refrigerator for snacks.
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The fortunes of food and energy billionaires have grown by $453bn over the past two years, owing to soaring energy and commodity prices during the pandemic and Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, a report by Oxfam has revealed. The development charity said spiraling global food prices had helped create “62 new food billionaires” in just 24 months.
PUBLISHED ONJul 2022
Oxfam called for the introduction of permanent wealth taxes to “rein in extreme wealth and monopoly power”. It said an annual wealth tax starting at 2% for millionaires, and rising to 5% for billionaires, could generate $2.5tn a year. That would be enough, said Oxfam, “to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty.
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How to view your device’s data
Your device transmits data readings over an Internet of Things Network to the IQnexus Platform which then processes and displays this data in an easy to interpret format.
Data can be viewed in two ways. The first is Stats; a graphical view where you can visually interpret the data change. The second is logs; a time sorted list where you can see each data point in detail.
To enter data viewing, navigate to your device and select Stats/Logs from the Actions menu to the right of the device.
Remember to click Save, to save your plotting settings for next time!
The stats data view is great for visualising trends in the data over time.
The graph is easily scaled to view over a period of one hour to a whole year or enter a custom range all from the view bar at the top of the graph.
Drag and select an area on the graph to zoom in on this area.
View settings menu
Changes the graph type. Can be a Line, Area or Bar graph
Filters the data values displayed. Green values will be displayed.
Choose to display the raw value near each data point and whether to have multiple axes. Multiple axes are very useful when data is in a very different scale and makes the smaller values easier to view.
An easy way to see more detail and additional data points is to select a data point on the graph. This shows the exact data value and time of recording as well as a list view of near by readings below. This data can also be downloaded in CSV format.
Logs are useful when you want to see all the available data as well as network information. Each time data is received, a new entry is added to the logs page, showing the data in each field as well as other information like signal strength, location and time stamp. The log is always ordered with the latest data at the top.
25 points are displayed per page by default, starting with the latest received data. This is easily changed by simply setting the desired range you wish to view with the choose date range option.
The download data button, will download a CSV file of the currently displayed data. Only data logs that are displayed at the time will be downloaded. If you wish to download and display more data, you will need to define a date range and tick show all results next to the search button. Once again, click on download data to download the new data set.
This area shows the location of the device. If the device has a GPS module, then this location will be updated, otherwise it will remain at a set position which is defined when initialising the device.
The strength and quality of the signal at the time of transmission can be seen here.
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With its ruling on June 24th, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, dismantling the constitutional right to abortion that has stood for nearly 50 years. Roe is overturned at a time when 26 states are poised to ban abortion which will leave 36 million people who can become pregnant without access to care in their home state.
Residents of the District of Columbia face a unique peril. With no voting representation in Congress and a legal framework requiring that laws passed in the district pass a Congressional review, conservative lawmakers — who do not represent Washingtonians who are overwhelming prochoice — may try to enact federal laws specifically to deny DC residents access to abortion care.
Despite the Court’s failure to defend this fundamental freedom, abortion is still legal in DC, Maryland, and Virginia and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC is committed to providing care to all who come to us in need.
As the oldest and largest provider of reproductive health services in the area, with health centers in DC and Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in Maryland, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC (PPMW) knows that personal medical decisions about people’s sexual and reproductive health should be made by patients, and patients alone. Politicians and judges should never be making personal medical decisions about other people’s bodies.
Generations before us have fought tirelessly to gain and protect the rights we have today. Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC will not back down. We will fight to make sure that everyone in our region has the power to control their own bodies, lives, and futures. We will continue to provide abortion to our patients and we will continue to work with local elected officials to to protect and expand access to safe, legal abortion here in the DMV, no matter what.
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Will expand drug donation programmes and provide US$785m to support r&d efforts
Thirteen pharmaceutical companies, along with governments and other global health organisations, have unveiled a ‘coordinated push’ to accelerate progress toward eliminating or controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the end of the decade.
The companies, along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other groups, have pledged to work together in the ‘largest coordinated effort to date’ to combat NTDs.
The plan, announced at the Royal College of Physicians in London, will see the expansion of existing drug donation programmes and provide more than US$785m to support r&d efforts.
With new and existing pledges companies will donate an average of 1.4 billion treatments each year, according to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The new commitments will close the funding gap to eradicate Guinea worm disease and make progress toward the elimination of lymphatic filariasis, blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness and leprosy, and control of soil-transmitted helminthes, schistosomiasis, river blindness, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Bill Gates said: ‘This innovative approach must serve as a model for solving other global development challenges and will help millions of people build self-sufficiency and overcome the need for aid.’
The Gates Foundation announced a five-year, US$363 million commitment to support NTD product and operational research.
Speaking on behalf of the 13 pharmaceutical companies involved, Sir Andrew Witty, ceo of GlaxoSmithKline, said: ‘Many companies and organisations have worked for decades to fight these horrific diseases. But no one company or organisation can do it alone. Today, we pledge to work hand-in-hand to revolutionise the way we fight these diseases now and in the future.’
To guide the effort against NTDs, the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week unveiled a new strategy, Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases – A roadmap for implementation, that sets targets for what can be achieved by the end of the decade.
‘The efforts of WHO, researchers, partners, and the contributions of industry have changed the face of NTDs. These ancient diseases are now being brought to their knees with stunning speed,’ said Dr Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO. ‘With the boost to this momentum being made today, I am confident almost all of these diseases can be eliminated or controlled by the end of this decade.’
The following list outlines the pledges made by the pharma companies:
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PSA: Your Sheets & Pillows Are Probably Moldy. Here's What To Do About It
You've heard the statistic: We spend approximately one-third of our lives in bed. And while we're there, we're breathing deeply with our faces shoved against our pillows, sheets, and mattresses.
All that moisture, heat, and darkness in our sleep space create the perfect environment for mold to grow. I know, scary! But as a functional medicine physician and mold expert, I've found that there are a few swaps and care tips that can increase your odds of a clean, rejuvenating night's sleep that supports instead of sabotages your health. Here are my top tips for choosing the right materials for your bedroom and maintaining them so they don't attract mold.
First, look to your mattress and mattress pad.
To start, when you shop for your next mattress, look for one made with organic materials and without flame retardants. (Here are a few nontoxic mattresses that fit the bill for any budget.) I see flame retardants such as triphenyl phosphate show up in toxicity testing with my patients: These chemicals may accumulate in the body over time and have been associated with human health concerns.
Then, cover the first layer of your mattress with a full-zip encasement mattress cover (this one is my favorite) to keep mold toxins from attaching to airborne particles and building up in your mattress over time. Look for a hypoallergenic mattress cover that zips completely around the mattress to encase it, and make sure it only contains natural (ideally organic) materials. No plastic linings if you can help it!
Next up, your mattress pad: You increase the detoxification process at night, and toxins coming through your skin are also going into the mattress. Organic cotton mattress pads placed on top of the zipped cover encasement absorbs these toxins coming out of your body and will be easier to remove and wash than the zippered cover.
Wash the pad once a week to once a month, depending on how much you sweat at night.
Next up, sheets and blankets.
Beyond providing warmth, sheets and blankets are the next layer of protection for your mattress. Toxins from your perspiration, along with shed skin cells and hair, dirt and oils, are penetrating them nightly!
I recommend washing your sheets a couple of times a week using a natural detergent without fragrances or fabric softeners.
Finally, think about the pillows.
I recommend pillows made from organic, natural materials, not foam. Early evidence shows that the chemicals used in these foam products are getting into the human body and may be causing harmful medical conditions.
I actually do not recommend washing pillows, as they rarely get completely dry, and that moisture can encourage mold growth. Instead, invest in an organic cotton zippered cover and wash that as often as your sheets. Pillows themselves then should be replaced every 12 to 18 months.
Bonus: Keep your bedroom's air quality in check.
Moisture may be great for our skin, but in our home environment it's not our friend. We already give off a great deal of moisture just by breathing and perspiring at night, and in humid climates this moisture can settle in between your mattress and box spring, resulting in surprising mold growth. Keep the humidity in your bedroom to less than 55 percent, ideally less than 50 percent. Depending upon your situation, you may need to invest in a large 50- to 70-pint dehumidifier to get down to this target zone.
This air you are breathing in so deeply and regularly at night should also be clean and pure, so I recommend keeping a HEPA air filter in your bedroom.
If you want to measure the results of your air-quality improvements, I love the Foobot monitor. Once you plug this small device in at home, the accompanying app will show you air-quality measurements like VOCs, fine particles, carbon dioxide, and humidity in real time.
You're probably eager to change out all of these materials at once right about now, but if you are on a budget, prioritize your pillows, pillow covers, and mattress pad first.
Ann Shippy, M.D., is on a mission to help create extraordinary wellness by using cutting-edge science, testing, and the latest genetic research to find and treat root causes—and not just the symptoms—of illness. As a former IBM engineer, Dr. Shippy became frustrated that traditional medicine couldn’t find answers to her own health ailments, so she left a decade in engineering to adapt her skill set to the world of medicine.
She attended the University of Texas Medical School and has a thriving practice in Austin, Texas. She is board certified in internal medicine and certified in functional medicine. Creating custom blueprints and real-world health solutions for those suffering from any combination of physical, environmental, genetic, and individualized health concerns, she insists on using science and personalized attention to treat the patient in totality—and not just bandage symptoms. She is on a tireless mission to help create a world of wellness… "because every life matters." She is the author of two books, Shippy Paleo Essentials and Mold Toxicity Workbook: Assess Your Environment & Create a Recovery Plan.
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In an act of bravery and selflessness the likes of which this world has never seen, local 22-year-old Carolyn Wilson has become vegetarian because she is honestly just really afraid to cook meat.
Can someone say ‘voice of a generation’?
“We all have to do our part for the planet, so from now on I will only eat veggies and legumes,” Carolyn told reporters. “Because undercooking those probably won’t kill me. Right?”
Probably not, you green-thumb goddess!
The UN estimates that meat consumption accounts for 14% of all man-made greenhouse gases, and Carolyn estimates that she’s asked her mom, “Do I need to wash this beef?” up to 25 times in the past year alone.
In an act the press is calling “equivalent to the time Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to avoid flight-related carbon emissions,” Wilson did not cook any chicken this week because she’s afraid of salmonella.
“Or does that come from salmon?” she asked our team. “Better avoid both to be safe.”
Carolyn’s climate activism doesn’t stop there. She has also refused to buy a personal car (because she doesn’t know how to drive) and won’t take international flights (because she cannot afford them.)
“When our home is in crisis, I pledge to answer the call,” Wilson told a crowd of adoring fans. “But yeah, if any of you have some leftover lamb that you’ve, like, already cooked but haven’t eaten, my door is open.”
When asked what she would tell younger climate activists who hope to one day be as altruistic as her, Carolyn chuckled softly.
“It’s not an easy road, but remember that a better future is possible, a future where you’ll never have to guess how long pork needs to be in the oven until it’s safe for consumption.”
Are you guys crying? Because we’re crying!
At press time, Carolyn was seen very stoned walking into a Dominos to order a meat-lovers pizza. Treat yourself, hero!
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However, Be Aware
You must make sure to always verify your edits are published and viewable by the public. The site includes revision moderation status which allow you to make edits that are not published. Options are “Draft” and “Needs Review.” This allows you to work on content over time or with other people before making it “live.”
Also, the Cache is a tool that puts things in “memory” so that the site loads faster. It can complicate publishing when you can’t see the changes you’re making. We have some tricks to work around it.
It might also be helpful to know how to delete or unpublish content.
that you will see in instructions on the create and edit forms of the Drupal Content Management System and for content writing and organizing tips see our general COFA Web Instruction site.
Tips to Improve the content you publish
The following fields and content types are common on our Drupal websites. They’re designed to add value so we want to encourage you to use them:
- Sidebars: Don’t forget to be a concierge for your visitors and cross-promote and provide added value when possible using the sidebar functionality.
- Summary: Used for Google search results and on list views such as the News or Events landing pages. We highly recommend always writing Search Engine Optimized, keyword rich summaries for every page.
- Small Display: The idea of the small display fields is to make the content on your website respond with a better layout and practical content for small devices. Unfortunately, the Short Title and Short Summary fields may be available but they may not be displaying. This is something the team is still working on.
- Schedulable content: a couple content types allow publish and un-publish dates so you can plan in advance and not have to wake up Saturday morning to update the website.
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These Vampire cookies look super creepy, taste absolutely delicious and are surprisingly easy to make. You won’t be able to resist sinking your teeth into one of these treats!
Reasons to love these Vampire cookies
- They’re fun and easy to bake.
The one-bowl cookie dough recipe couldn’t be easier, the only tricky part is patiently waiting for the dough to chill! Or, to speed things up you can use shop-bought cookies instead. Decorating and assembling the Vampire Cookies is great fun and perfect for getting the little ones involved. I mean who doesn’t love bright red icing and squishy marshmallows!
- They look super spooky.
Your friends and family will definitely be impressed by these Vampire Cookies, they are a real show-stopper Halloween bake. Don’t worry about making them too neat, the more the red icing (aka Vampire blood) oozing out, the better!
- They are a 10/10 on taste.
A Halloween bake has to taste as good as it looks, and these Vampire Cookies will not disappoint. The cookies have a soft and chewy texture and are flavoured with vanilla extract and milk chocolate chips.
What ingredients do I need?
For each Vampire Cookie you will need:
- For the lips: a cookie sliced in half. Either bake your own or use shop-bought cookies to speed things up.
- For the blood: red icing (this is just icing sugar mixed with water and red food colouring to make a thick paste)
- For the teeth: white mini-marshmallows
- For the fangs: a Milkybar button chopped in half
How do I make Vampire cookies?
This is the fun part and only takes a few minutes:
- Cut the cookie in half. Use a sharp knife to cut the cookie down the middle and create two halves.
- Spread red icing on top. Using a spoon to spread the icing on top of each cookie half.
- Add the teeth. Arrange the mini marshmallows around the edge of one cookie half.
- Sandwich together. Place the cookie half without marshmallows on top of the other. The icing will help hold the marshmallows in place.
- Add the fangs. Cut a Milkybar button in half to create two fangs. Push them into the icing, leaving roughly 4 marshmallows between each fang.
Here are step-by-step photos to help:
Equipment & ingredients used for this recipe
For the chocolate chip cookies (remember you can use shop-bought cookies instead)
- 150 g Unsalted butter
- 100 g White caster sugar
- 150 g Light brown sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 medium Whole egg at room temperature
- 1 medium Egg yolk at room temperature
- 280 g Self-raising flour
- 0.5 tsp Salt
- 100 g Milk chocolate chips optional
For the decoration
- 250-350g Icing sugar
- 1 tbsp Water
- Red food colouring
- White mini marshmallows
- 1 small bag Milkybar buttons
Start by making the cookie dough
- Place the unsalted butter in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 20-30 seconds until the butter has melted.
- Add the two sugars, vanilla extract, whole egg and egg yolk into the melted butter and mix together until fully combined.
- Now fold in the flour and salt. The mixture will come together to form a cookie dough.
- Add the chocolate chips and fold into the dough.
- Cover the bowl with clingfilm and refrigerate overnight, or for at least 4 hours.
Bake the cookies
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan oven) and line 2 large, flat baking trays with greaseproof paper.
- Take the cookie dough out of the fridge and leave to soften at room temperature for 15 minutes.
- Scoop up a heaped tablespoon of cookie dough and use your hands to roll it into a ball. Place on the baking tray and do not flatten. Repeat this step until all the cookie dough has been used up. Remember to leave roughly 8-10cm between each ball so they have enough room to spread out.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. The cookies should be golden on the outside but the middle still pale and soft. Don't worry if the middle still looks under-baked, this is how they are meant to be and the cookies will carry on baking as they cool down.
- Leave on the baking tray for 15 minutes to cool down and firm up.
Time to decorate!
- Mix together the icing sugar with 1 tablespoon of water to make a thick but spreadable icing. If the icing is too thick add a drop of water at a time until you reach the right consistency.
- Now add a few drops of food colouring and stir together until the icing turns bright red.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the cookies down the middle so you have two halves. Spread the red icing on top of each cookie half.
- Place the marshmallows around the edge of one cookie half.
- Sandwich the cookies together, gently pressing down so the icing oozes out.
- Chop the Milkybar buttons in half to make the fangs. Stick them into the icing leaving roughly 4 marshmallows between each fang.
- Place the cookies in the fridge for 10 minutes to set the icing.
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Women should be told the sex of the foetus when they are scanned during pregnancy, a senior, retired obstetrician has said.
Prof Wendy Savage told the Mail on Sunday that withholding the information because of fears over sex-selective abortions was "outrageous".
Some hospitals have a policy not to reveal the sex, but Professor Savage said it was a woman's right to know.
She also said it was a "woman's right to decide" when to ask for an abortion.
Speaking after MPs voted to introduce a bill to repeal an 1861 law criminalising abortion this week, she told the Mail on Sunday: "It's her body and her foetus, so she should have that information.
Parents who want to find out the sex of their foetus can usually do so in a mid-term scan at about 20 weeks but some hospitals have a policy of not telling, according to the NHS Choices website.
Some hospitals say they are too short-staffed to establish the sex and there have been concerns that the scans can sometimes be inaccurate.
But experts have also claimed that the policies may be intended to prevent the risk of selective abortions.
"She is the one taking the risks.
"If a woman does not want to have a foetus who is one sex or the other, forcing her is not going to be good for the eventual child, and it's not going to be good for (the mother's) mental health," she added.
Professor Savage, 81, a retired obstetrician and gynaecologist and a member of the British Medical Association's (BMA's) ethics committee, was speaking to the paper in a personal capacity.
Under the 1967 Abortion Act in England, Scotland and Wales, a pregnancy can be aborted before 24 weeks if two doctors approve it.
The law does not apply in Northern Ireland, where abortion legislation is based on the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
The majority of abortions in England Scotland and Wales take place before 24 weeks, and are allowed in exceptional circumstances after that time.
More than 90% take place at 13 weeks or earlier, according to the BMA.
Prof Savage added: "The foetus is a potential human life at that stage (in the womb); it is not an actual human life... I think you've got to concentrate on the (rights of the) woman."
Prof Savage said in her long career she had "only a couple of cases" of being asked to approve an abortion past 24 weeks.
"It's not something women tend to do," she said.
"This is another myth propagated by the anti-abortion lobby, like women wanting sex selection."
She also advocated making abortion pills, for early termination, available over the internet, without it being mandatory to consult an expert.
MPs last week voted in favour of progressing the Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill.
It would remove criminal sanctions over abortion for women and doctors in England and Wales.
'Sanctity of life'
A spokesman for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said although the comments came in a personal capacity they were in the context of the "BMA's exploration of further abortion liberalisation".
And, he said, in light of a recent Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists event presenting widespread abortion "as a matter for celebration".
"Such views have nothing to do with medicine, the care of mothers or concern for the sanctity of life," he added.
A BMA spokesperson said it supported the current law on abortion, adding: "Though we recognise the diversity of opinion amongst membership, we advise members to act within the boundaries of the law and their own conscience.
"Given the range of views on this subject, patients must be entitled to impartial and objective medical advice and treatment."
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When I was a little girl, Easter was an exciting time for me: a new dress, some new shoes, an Easter basket full of goodies, and a beautiful Easter service at church where all of us would celebrate the joy of the Resurrection.
My mother’s amazing Easter drama had been performed for a week, and moved many to tears and heart opening experiences. Even as a young child, I remember wondering how men could have been so full of hatred to hang someone on a cross. “It must have hurt so bad,” I tearily confided in my mother. And she would reply, “Yes, DD, that’s why it’s so important to love people. Love doesn’t let hate take over.” In my young mind, I reasoned that that is why there was so much celebration going on at Easter: we were all trying to experience the love.
As I grew up, and was confronted by my own experiences of hatred, I tried to remember my mother’s words: Love doesn’t let the hatred take over. Sometimes it was easy to hold on to that principle. Sometimes it seemed impossible. But that guidance always brought me back to my heart…even if it took years.
Now I am teaching that simple legacy of love to others. I am celebrating us all living the resurrection of the Self: rising up in Love. We are rolling away the stones that have kept us entombed, and joining in the psalms of Hallelujah!! It’s a simple story really, that story of Love. That’s just all there Is.
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As you know, everyone has to deal with bad breath—but do you know why? While bad breath can be caused by a few problems, such as smoking, dry mouth, or some medications, it’s typically caused by germs from food particles left in your mouth.
If you are worried about your breath, you may grab for a mint of for mouthwash. Unfortunately, these solutions are often temporary. In fact, sometimes they can also be completely ineffective. For example, some foods, such as garlic or onions can travel through your bloodstream and into your lungs. If this happens to you, you’ll have bad breath whenever you exhale.
Fortunately, while garlic and onions will cause bad breath, other foods can actually help your smile. For example, crunchy foods can help you overcome bad breath. This is because the chewing motion produces saliva, which carries extra food particles away. Similarly, dairy products will negate acids that cause bad breath. Try a piece of cheese or unsweetened yogurt to fight off bad breath. Gum can have a similar effect, though we recommend chewing sugar-free gum. Also, cinnamon gum may do a better job at reducing bad breath than mint-flavored gum.
There are also a few beverages that could help your breath. For example, compounds in black tea will hold stop bacteria from growing. However, tea can also leave a strong odor in your mouth, so be careful with how much you drink. Similarly, drinking water can carry away the particles and acids that cause bad breath.
If you are interested in learning more, please feel free to contact Isle Smile at 305-293-1660 today. Dr. Dr. Pape, Marquez, Ramjit, Petruk and, our team are eager to hear from you.
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Blindtype Concept (5 out of 5)
Blindtype is a great concept, aiming to change text input on the iPhone. Many users of the iPhone are aware that the default “auto-correction” of the iPhone can be tedious. Some users never experience any issues but others find that typing without having your eyes fixed on the iPhone screen is an impossible task.
Blindtype replaces the default iPhone keyboard with an identical keyboard. Almost identical, the new keyboard works in the same fashion as the old keyboard and even looks the same for the most part. The difference is that the new keyboard is incredibly tolerant to typing mistakes and is supposed to be able to always type exactly what you meant to say.
Blindtype is creating results by designing a new auto-correction algorithm. You may be familiar with prior algorithms such as T-9 predictive input and the standard iPhone algorithm you are already using. If Blindtype works as advertised, it would not only provide a new way to type but far surpass the existing auto-correction methods on the market.
Blindtype Functionality (4 out of 5)
Blindtype is not in the iTunes AppStore at this time and is currently awaiting the approval of Apple. Many people are skeptical about whether this type of application will be approved. There is also not currently an official release available on Cydia therefore a test build was obtained and used for the purposes of this review.
Blindtype integrates directly into the existing iPhone keyboard. There is also an option to use a nearly transparent keyboard layout which works the same as the classic layout without blocking the screen. In practice Blindtype performed very well after an initial warm-up phase. Blindtype, just like any other auto-correction needs to learn about your typing style before it can properly function. Out of the box Blindtype only performed marginally better than the default iPhone auto-correction.
Blindtype was able to recognize misspelled words with a few letters different. Similar words were not auto-corrected by the iPhone’s default auto-correction. Anything beyond a few letters mis-typed and Blindtype began to fail at auto-correction. After several hours of normal usage Blindtype began to function much, much better. While no official tests were conducted in a scientific matter (due to limitations of the iPhone), the results were astounding.
Mis-spelling similar words using both Blindtype and the default iPhone auto-correction proved that Blindtype has a considerably higher tolerance level. Several words such as “extremely” were recognized by Blindtype when they only had the first and last letter correct. Using Blindtype it was not only possible to type without looking at the iPhone screen but it was possible to type legible, clear sentences without paying attention to the iPhone at all.
Blindtype Conclusion (5 out of 5)
Overall Blindtype had spectacular test results. Capable of recovering both minor errors and huge errors, Blindtype almost always was able to properly write the intended sentence.
Like most auto-correct software Blindtype does have to learn your style. Blindtype quickly picked up on my typing style and was able to perform as promised within a few hours. The transparent keyboard is another handy feature which saves precious iPhone screen real estate while enabling all the wonderful features of Blindtype.
The final version of Blindtype will likely be much better than the test build used for this review. Should Blindtype ever make its way to the AppStore this review will be updated based upon the new version. Either way, as it currently stands: Blindtype is an excellent alternative to traditional auto-correction on the iPhone and far surpasses what little competition it has.
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A two or three day trip up the West Coast from Cape Town makes for great birding for waterbirds and fynbos birds, including several South African endemic species. Some of the hot-spots are listed below, although additional sites along the coast are also worth stopping at.
Dolphin Beach Pans
These two pans are near Cape Town and provide good sightings of common water birds. The open water supports ducks and gulls and terns. Other common waterbird species include Glossy Ibis, Greater Flamingo, Common Greenshank and Black-winged Stilt. When the water levels are lower, more waders may be present. In early summer weavers and warblers breed in the reeds. In summer a variety of aerial foragers visit, like Barn Swallow, White-throated Swallow, Greater Striped-Swallow, Brown-throated Martin, Little Swift and Alpine Swift. Special birds that have been recorded include African Jacana and Palm Swift.
Koeberg Nature Reserve
Koeberg Nature Reserve is about 40km north of Cape Town. This tract of coastal strandveld has specials like Cape Spurfowl, Cape Bulbul, Karoo Prinia, Grey-backed Cisticola, Karoo Scrub-robin, Cape Robin-chat, Bokmakerie, and Cape Bunting. Several canary species occur – Cape, Yellow, White-throated and Brimstone Canary.
To see birds here, one can visit the area around the visitor’s centre (for Rock Kestrel and other species) or walk along one of two trails.
Tienie Versfeld Nature Reserve
Tienie Versfeld Nature Reserve is a small island of grassland, fynbos and seasonally inundated wetland, surrounded by the cereal crop farms and pastures. The best time to visit is spring (August and September) when one can see spring flowers and displaying birds.
Common grassland species are Red-capped, Large-billed Lark, African Pipit, Cape Longclaw, and Capped Wheatear. Cloud Cisticola is abundant and best found by listening for its distinctive call.
West Coast National Park
The West Coast National Park is well known for its waders and other birds. While driving in the park one may see raptors like Rock Kestrel, Black Kite, and the special Black Harrier quartering over the fynbos. Karoo Scrub-Robin and other fynbos birds like White-throated Canary may be seen too.
Abrahamskraal hide overlooks a waterhole that attracts waterbirds like Spoonbill, Sacred Ibis, ducks, and others. Black Crake, Purple Swamphen, and other species skulk in the reeds. Namaqua Dove, Yellow Canary, Cape Bunting and other species come to drink. Cape Weavers breed in the reeds in spring.
Around the Geelbek Restaurant Cape Weavers breed in the gum trees and may be seen year round. Pearl-breasted Swallows may be seen here too. The line of gum trees between the restaurant and hide attract a variety of birds.
There are 3 lagoon hides: 2 at Geelbek, and one at Seeberg. Common waders in summer includ many Curlew Sandpipers, Little Stints, Ringed Plovers, Whimbrel, and Turnstone. Resident waders include Three-banded Plover, Kittlitz’s Plover, and Chestnut-banded Plover.
[South of the WCN Park, one can also visit Rooi Pan and Yzerfontein].
Velddrif and Lower Berg River
Near the mouth of the Berg River one can see thousands of Cape Cormorants flying inland to roost in the evening, and out to sea to forage in the morning. Also Kelp and Hartlaub’s Gulls, Swift Terns, and in summer Common and Sandwich Terns, may be seen here. A really great place to observe birds while having drinks or meals at the riverside restaurant. Black-crowned Night Heron and Pied Kingfishers are also regular.
At the Riviera wetland (mudflats near the Rivieria Hotel) one may seen Caspian Tern, Little Egret, a wide variety of waders and other birds. Further upstream one can access the river at De Plaat.
On the south side of the Berg River one can visit several sites – farms Kuifkopvisvanger, Kliphoek and Langrietvlei. These provide good bush birding as well as water birds including specials like phalaropes.
Lamberts Bay and Bird Island
A variety of sites can be visited on the way to Lamberts Bay, including Rocher Pan
The main birding attraction is the spectacular breeding colony of Cape Gannets, easily reached on Bird Island by a bridge. Lamberts Bay also has waterbirds and other fynbos birds at Jakkalsvlei and surrounds.
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A guest blog by Samantha Hall-Saladino
Stacy Botsford grew up in Gloversville in the 19th century. In a November 16, 1939 letter published in the Morning Herald, Botsford wrote from his home in California, remembering his young days in Gloversville: “I stopped to watch the construction of the Kasson Opera House, there was Hick Kasson wearing his blue cape, and with the wrong end of his cigar protruding from his lips as usual. He did not smoke or chew, but he was never without his cigar.”
Alexander “Hick” Kasson was born in Broadalbin in 1829 and relocated to Gloversville in the 1850s. He was in the glove business with his brother Harvey during the Civil War, but retired after peace was declared. In 1874, Hick’s brother Oscar died, leaving him with a large fortune. Wealthy and without a full time job to occupy his time, Hick turned his attention toward the city he called home.
Kasson was generous with his wealth, giving Gloversville its first sewer pipe – laid under contract by him – supported a number of civic bands (which he referred to as “my babies”), and was largely responsible for the first telegraph line in the city at his own personal expense.
Kasson helped to establish a hose company and served as a deputy sheriff for a time. One particular incident on February 8, 1882, saw Kasson punched in the face while breaking up a fight at the circus. Kasson responded by hitting the offender with his billy club, then tumbling with him to the ground. By all accounts, Hick Kasson was a larger than life character with no shortage of love for his adopted home city. An article in the Morning Herald published in 1930, nearly forty years after his death, recalled: “. . . any way that he could see to help the village he loved as his own he was always ‘Johnny on the Spot.’”
For all his wonderful achievements, however, that of which he was most proud was the Memorial Hall. Named in memory of Kasson’s late brother Austin, and constructed in 1881 at 26-40 N. Main Street, the behemoth of a building was built in the Second Empire Style. This architectural design originated in Paris, which of course made it the height of fashion in the US even 30 years after it first. A notable feature of Second Empire, which is visible still today on the building, is the mansard roof, a four-sided roof with a shallow or flat top and gambrel windows. The building still stands out as unique among the buildings lining N. Main.
Memorial Hall’s first floor had space for businesses as well as a post office, but it was the opera house upstairs that was the real show-stopper. The beautiful space included fabulous hand-painted details on the ceiling and boasted the most modern advancements in fire. The opera house had exits in every direction, allowing the removal of the crowd within 3-8 minutes and distributing the flow of people in various directions to avoid a jam at the doors.
An article about the topic read: “Not only the public have been considered, but Mr. Kasson contends that the life of an actor is just as precious.”
The opera house brought a variety of acts and contemporary celebrities to Gloversville, including John Phillip Sousa, Boxing Hall of Famer “Gentleman” Jim Corbett – who picked up acting after his boxing career and incorporated this talent into his performances as much as possible – and Evelyn Nesbit. Those who don’t recognize Nesbit’s name might know her face; she was idealized as the “Gibson Girl” by artist Charles Dana Gibson, and famously married to millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, who shot and killed prominent architect Stanford White at the packed rooftop theater at Madison Square Garden. Burlesque was also a common attraction, with groups like Renz-Stanley and Sam T. Jack’s Creole Blondes taking the stage.
Not only did the opera house bring culture, but it served as a convenient meeting place for the community and often hosted political events. In 1896, retiring Congressman Sloat Fassett appeared there, along with Congressional nominee and another of Gloversville’s favorite sons, Lucius Littauer. Accompanying them was the NYC Police Commissioner. Attendees couldn’t know that in three years, they would elect this man Governor, and then he would enter the White House as William McKinley’s Vice-President before being sworn in after McKinley’s assassination and then winning his own four-year term. (Do you know who it is yet? Theodore Roosevelt. Remember that for Jeopardy!) Patsy Suydam, a local author and artist, wrote and published a beautiful book about the Kasson Opera House, which I highly recommend you check out. In it, she writes that “the first six rows at the Opera House were reserved for ‘the ladies’ when Theodore Roosevelt spoke there . . . Women, lacking suffrage, did not often attend political rallies but because Roosevelt was a war hero and a Republican, ladies were allowed.”
Hick Kasson died suddenly in 1892. His will laid out his desires for the Memorial Hall, that it be “maintained in a manner to be a credit to the city, an honor to him whose name it bears, and that no intoxicating liquors shall ever be permitted to be sold on the premises.” In 1905, the opera house was renamed the Family Theater. Vaudeville performances took the place of operas and plays. The Glove Theater was constructed next door in 1913 and it wasn’t long before film became the popular entertainment of the day. The Glove was purchased in 1920 by J. Meyer and Louis Schine, brothers whose theater and hotel chains spanned the country. They acquired Memorial Hall and converted the opera house to three floors of offices, as well as a private screening room.
In an article in the Morning Herald published March 15, 1930, George H. Burch wrote: “Memorial Hall / Its Glory Fades / March of Progress / AJ Kasson’s Pride / Old Days and New / Famous Players / In Old Hall / All Now Changed.” Burch wasn’t pleased with the state of things: “Then came the day of the movies. The old hall degenerated into the Family Theater and into cheap vaudeville and pictures. Then the Schines sold their other theaters, the Glove and the Hippodrome, to the Fox interests. Now the old hall is converted into offices, said to be the finest in the city. But ‘Hick’ Kasson would turn over in his grave, just the same, if he could but know of it.”
And so time marches on.
Today, the building is known as Schine Memorial Hall in a nod to the building’s long history. Some highly motivated and admirably dedicated citizens have a plan for this true gem. The building received a new roof and paint, and repairs were made to the interior and exterior of the first floor. I would say that Kasson’s legacy is still going strong here. The building houses a number of businesses, arts and cultural interests, and a fabulous gallery on the top floor. The screening room is still there, by the way. I need to give a big shout-out to Ron and Trina Zimmerman for indulging my historian’s curiosity and not only showing me the screening room, but letting me climb up into the attic and see the painted ceilings of the original opera house and the old posters that plaster the walls. It’s really, really cool.
In fact, I’m sitting here typing this at a little table in Mohawk Harvest, having enjoyed a bagel and sipping on a coffee blend called “Sacandaga” from a locally-made ceramic mug. I’m facing the large windows looking out on to Main Street, every so often watching the traffic and studying the facades of the buildings across the way. It’s cozy here, warmly lit and dry while the rain drizzles down outside. Someone was talking about snow earlier, and I’m thinking now about how excited I am for the upcoming tree lighting. The creaky floor, the sound of the steamer, the chatter of other customers, and the muffled noises from the kitchen at the back of the building are a pleasant soundtrack.
The Schine Memorial Hall website, schineongloversville.com (go check it out) reads: “The members of our LLC have purchased the building because we are committed to preserving a historic building and wish to enhance the vitality of downtown Gloversville through the sustainable stewardship of this beautiful building.” These are the goals we should all strive to achieve. Honor the history. Look toward the future.
I believe in Gloversville because I believe in the people who live here. I believe that working together and focusing on the positive is the key to continuing the great improvements that have already been made. Just take a walk downtown and look up.
About the Author:
Samantha Hall-Saladino is the Executive Director of the Fulton County Historical Society in Gloversville, NY and the Fulton County Historian. She is a life-long resident of the Glove Cities. Though she spends much of her time tangled up in the past, Samantha can also be found on stage in her local community theatre and cuddling her dog Dixie, drinking too much coffee with her nose in a book.
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The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to God’s Word, so the beginning of love for the brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them. [People] forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking.
From Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Aha” Moments of Hospitality
by Stephanie Fritz
Luke 19:5-7 and Luke 10:25-27
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
This past week I attended the annual event of the Association of Presbyterian Christian Educators. Around 700 educators, pastors, youth workers and volunteers gather each year in different locations around the country and around a timely theme. This year in Louisville, Kentucky we looked at the theme of Boundless Hospitality. We struggled with hospitality beyond the act of welcoming people into our homes and churches. How did Jesus really see hospitality? How do we know? Here are a few of my “aha” moments throughout the week from our various teachers and preachers.
How do we really use language to welcome people into our church?
What if the message of the church of Jesus Christ was ‘welcome home’? The reality I hope we speak into being is welcome home, come on in, we have been waiting for you for so long. Our language doesn’t just describe our reality, it creates it. — Rodger Nishioka speaking on the Language of Welcome.
What if Jesus was actually calling us to something more than welcoming others into our homes and places of worship?
Hospitality isn’t having a host and a guest. It is about creating a new family. All this time we’ve been inviting people to leave their homes and come to church and all the while Jesus’ instructions were just the opposite. He showed hospitality by going into people’s homes. Jesus was doing something so radical, disruptive and uncivilized because he was going into the home of someone who was hated in the community to say, I see you and I love you. When you have people over to your house, you have all the power. When you go to someone else’s house, you have NO POWER. Jesus empty’s himself of power to show hospitality — Rev. Sandra Vanopstal
Jesus also tells us to reach out beyond who we are comfortable with. We have to teach this in our churches if we are to be followers of Christ.
In the Good Samaritan text our neighbor is redefined as anyone you come into contact with. Jesus changes and transitions the whole understanding of neighbor. I am convinced that Christian education is important because we have deficit issues with regard to who is and how to love our neighbors. We need subversive Christian education to teach us what it is to love our neighbor again. — J Herbert Nelson, Stated Clerk of the PC(USA)
Sandra Vanopstal tells us that true hospitality is being yourself and inviting others to do the same. How are you practicing hospitality in this way? Be present this week with others that you encounter. Redefine who your neighbor is.
(from Alison Harrington and Teresa Waggener)
We are migrants on a journey of faith
Our souls are blistered and calloused from life’s rocky path
Like our ancestor Abraham we are strangers in a strange land
So let us journey with those who walk for we are all limping towards a world of compassion and justice.
Let us journey with those who walk and God will surely walk with us.
Come, the road is long but we shall strengthen each other
And God will guide us home.
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Police In The US Killed At Least 164 Black People In The First 8 Months Of 2020
CBS News listed out the names of the 164 people killed by police from January to August.
September 11, 2020 at 9:02 pm
Nearly 170 Black people were killed by the police from January to August, according to a CBS News analysis of data from Mapping Police Violence and The Washington Post.
In a slideshow, the national news outlet explained that the information is compiled using both verified and reported cases but may not include all police shootings.
The compilation notes that at least one Black person has been killed by the police every week from January 1 to August 31.
At the time of the report, only two states, Vermont and Rhode Island, did not have any recorded or reported Black deaths due to police actions.
Of the 164 Black people killed by police, there are a number of unnamed victims in the list and dozens of people who only had brief local news stories written about their deaths.
The startlingly high number of deaths should remind us all of how often these killings happen and the lack of awareness around their stories.
A few of the names, however, stood out because of the protests that came after their killings or because of the outsized media coverage following their deaths.
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Food supplement with B vitamins
- B vitamins are involved in the most important metabolic processes
- All the important B vitamins in one capsule
- other than folate, other vitamins in B group have important role in fertility, they can improve quality of egg cell and prevent ovulatory infertility in women and in men they can improve sperm quality
German quality product.
All B vitamins at once – vitamin B complex
Our vitamin B complex contains all eight B vitamins: B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), B7 (biotin) , B9 (folic acid) and B12 (cyanocobalamin). All B vitamins are water-soluble vitamins and have the advantage over fat-soluble vitamins that they cannot normally be overdosed – overdosed vitamins are simply excreted via the kidneys with the urine.
The functions of the B vitamins are closely related. Most of them perform important tasks in cell metabolism and energy production. Some of them are particularly important for this – without the essential coenzymes B1, B2, B3 and B5, catabolic energy production is not possible and a lack of these vitamins can lead to serious health problems.
Vitamins B1 and B6 are needed to release energy from the carbohydrates stored in the muscles, B3 and B12 play an important role in the normal functioning of the nervous system, B5 and B9 are of great importance for mental and cognitive performance and vitamin B2 supports the red blood cells and iron metabolism.
Consume 1 capsule daily with sufficient liquid.
The recommended daily dose should not be exceeded. Dietary supplements are no substitute for a balanced and varied diet and a healthy lifestyle. Keep out of reach of small children. Keep the can tightly closed after use. Store in a cool, dry place, not over 25 degrees.
Maltodextrin, nicotinamide, coating agents: hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (vegetable capsule shell), calcium D-pantothenate, orange fruit powder, cyanocobalamin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, D-biotin
Free of gluten, free of lactose, without artificial flavors, without genetic engineering.
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|Niacin||51.5 mg||322 %|
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|Folic acid||600 μg||300 %|
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* Percentage of the nutrient reference values according to Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011.
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Students in my EDT180 class spent some time yesterday writing short stories. Super short stories, trying to tell a complete story in just 55 words! As it turns this (55 Fiction) is actually a thing – as a simple google search will reveal.
Seeing my students engage in this task reminded me that I had, a bunch of years ago, written a few such stories myself. But finding them wasn’t easy. Files and documents have fallen through the cracks as I switched jobs and computers over the years. It took a while, but I managed to dig them out. Enjoy.
In the beginning was nothingness.
And then there was light. Designing a world, seeking order from chaos. Form and meaning intertwined. Traveling from alpha to omega.
At the end, he looked at what he had brought about, (in exactly in 55 words, no more no less) and he was pleased.
And then he rested.
Note: A self-referential piece on the act of writing 55 fiction.
Declaration of Independence
They argued late into the night, as they often did. Seemingly pointless ruminations on the meaning of life. What was the point of it all? At daybreak, suddenly someone wrote down the magic words. They were silent because they knew this was it. In hushed voices they read: “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Note: A fictionalized account of the drafting of the declaration of Independence.
A Twist in Time
The end: He lived happily ever after.
The middle: Pain. A metallic taste. And always, the screaming in the head.
The beginning: “Are these the books you give your students?” The judge asked, his voice shaking with anger. The verdict, guilty of subverting children’s minds, was no surprise. Neither was the punishment: Permanent cognitive reformatting.
Note: An upside-down narrative, in which the story starts with the ending; moves through the middle and ends with the beginning.
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RSIC-1-LOW PROFILE SOUND ISOLATION CLIP
Low Profile Resilient Sound Isolation Clip
RSIC-1-Low Profile Resilient Sound Isolation Clip
The RSIC-1-Low Profile resilient sound clip is used on a ceiling or wall to recess the furring channel into the cavity and reduce the overall profile of the RSIC acoustical isolation system to as little as ½″.
The RSIC-1-Low Profile is mounted to the side of a joist or stud. The furring channel is parallel to the framing on a wall or ceiling. The RSIC-1-Low-Profile Clip can be fastened to either a vertical stud, the joist, or the top plate of a wall to create a secure connection for the furring channel.
The RSIC-Low Profile resilient sound clip is designed for use with the RSIC-1 clip that is too large, and a low profile design is desired. For example: A basement ceiling with an existing low ceiling would lose 1-5/8″ with the standard RSIC-1 clip. The RSIC-Low Profile ceiling design has a profile as low as ½″.
RSIC-1 Low Profile clip with an up facing ‘L’ bracket attaches to the side of the joist allowing the RSIC clip to be recessed into the joist cavity. The furring channel is run parallel to the joist with only ½″ of the channel extending below the button of the joist.
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When no one makes decisions, nothing gets done. Having a strong voice, or a set of unified voices is key for setting and achieving goals.
The foundation you put into place is key to your success. Build a group that you would be proud to join if it already existed. What do you want to gain from the group? This is a pivotal time for your group, so step up, or support someone who is willing to step up.
“Who’s going to do all this work?”
There are many structures that you can adopt and while each is dependent on the willingness of your membership to step up, ultimately its on your shoulders to get this going. Yep, the fact that you care enough to read this means that it’s on your responsibility.
I know that can be a heavy burden and it’s tempting to ease the weight by making this a democratic endeavor from the start, but before you can vote on anything, someone has to rase the banner for people to gather around. That’s you.
Odds are good that you’ll find some volunteers early in the process – people who have ideas and want to share their passion for this idea. Great! Help is good, but you need to ensure that the help follows through. That may come off as dismissive, but it’s not. We all have the best of intentions, but this modern age keeps us busy, so we prioritize how we spend our time and energy shifting our priorities.
So, how do you balance the need for resources with the reality of priorities different than yours? There are a few of ways: go it alone, create a formal division of labor or form an informal coterie of people that you can rely on. Each has benefits which we’ll cover in upcoming posts, but its important to realize that you may well adopt each of these at different points and that’s fine. It’s not a progression, it’s a set of tools that help you do what it takes to be successful.
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And now for something completely different: exosuits and their impact on gender integration in the military. Lauren Fish of the Center for New American Security shared her thoughts in a tweetstorm Thursday. Some excerpts: “For over 100 years, recommended weight carried was ~1/3 of body weight. British and German interwar research argued for those limits. Early 2000s U.S. military research does as well (consistently ~50 lbs). For reference, the average male Marine weighs ~170 lbs., and females: ~130 lbs. That calculates out to 56 and 43 lbs. Since the mid-20th century, weight carried has exploded. These weights exceeded 80 to 100 lbs. or more in the last 15 years of war.”
Read the full article at Defense One.
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It is a known fact that most weight-losing methods are expensive. Gym membership fees, equipment costs, instructional video tapes, as well as special ingredients for one’s diet are but some of the expenditures of a person aspiring to lose weight.
Studies show, however, that one does not need to spend as much in going to gyms and doing special exercises to lose weight. For example, did you know that everyday house cleaning chores can actually burns calories? Here are some of the tasks usually taken for granted, but can actually serve as the key to that gorgeous, fit body.
Gardening – Put your grubbiest outfit and dig that dirt! Working on your garden for 30 minutes will burn a whopping 140 calories. No wonder Martha Stewart is thin.
Washing dishes – Among the most abhorred chores, washing the dishes prove to be worthy after all. Doing it for 15 minutes will burn 33 calories. Well, will you look at that?
Grocery shopping – Having a migraine over skyrocketing costs of grocery items? Don’t worry. Pushing that cart and reaching over those shelves for an hour burns 210 calories. Now that’s a value-added shopping experience.
House cleaning – Here’s a new thought for those who just hate cleaning up your crib’s mess. House cleaning for a couple of hours actually burns 421 calories. Spread this out to all moms and every house will be spotless in no time!
Doing laundry – Washing out those dirty linens proves to be more beneficial than what you think – it burns 124 calories an hour! Who’s up for a laundry business, then?
Ironing – Why don’t you go two for two? After doing laundry, iron those dry clothes for an hour and burn 132 calories! Tell your teens this amazing fact and don’t be surprised if they volunteer to take the ironing duty out of your hands.
There are a lot more chores that prove to be calorie-burners. The trick of this slimming trade is carry out the activity for a longer time and you will burn more calories.
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Publications & Newsletters
Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Aug. 8, 2022
In the news: CDC relaxes COVID recommendations, salt substitutes appear to lower BP, monkeypox vaccine supply, post-COVID symptoms in children and more.
Monkeypox resource center
The World Health Organization has declared the global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Stay informed with the latest updates from the AMA.
AMA aims to increase screenings for HIV, STIs, hepatitis, tuberculosis
Six community health centers selected to pilot new screening toolkit.
COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) resource center for physicians
The AMA is closely monitoring COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) developments. Learn more with the AMA's COVID-19 resource center.
What is monkeypox?
More cases of monkeypox are being reported in the United States. Learn more with the AMA about monkeypox symptoms, testing, treatment and more.
Jynneos, Tpoxx & federal services for long COVID with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH
The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See video updates discussing monkeypox vaccines and treatment as well as support for long-haul COVID.
Fall outlook on COVID-19 vaccines, variants, monkeypox
Should patients wait till fall to get a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster dose? Will monkeypox become a pandemic? Learn with AMA member Peter Hotez, MD, PhD.
Advancing public health
The AMA leads the charge on public health. Our members are the frontline of patient care, expanding access to care for underserved patients and developing key prevention strategies.
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Part of ViacomCBS’ #AloneTogether PSA campaign.
The Ad Council says it’s working with the White House, the CDC, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and media companies to show public service ads across major media platforms that discuss social distancing, personal hygiene and mental health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ad Council is a nonprofit that makes and distributes public service announcements, including campaigns such as “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk” and “Smokey Bear,” and has distributed information during times of crisis including the period after Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina.
The idea is to use the nation’s largest media companies and digital platforms to get out consistent messaging across television, radio, social media, out-of-home and digital media. All of the new ads direct audiences to www.coronavirus.gov and appear during time or space that’s donated by the media.
NBCUniversal will be displaying digital videos and social graphics in Spanish and English “to inform high-risk populations about the steps they can take to protect themselves and the public about how they can help stop of the spread of coronavirus,” the Ad Council said. Those messages, developed through a partnership between the Ad Council and the White House, will begin Tuesday.
National broadcast PSAs featuring the Surgeon General will also describe how Americans can protect themselves and those who are at risk. Those will be distributed to stations later this week, the Ad Council said.
Ad Age reported last week that President Donald Trump had requested to meet with top broadcast TV executives and the Ad Council to discuss COVID-19 on Monday.
Other creative pieces were developed by the Ad Council working with media companies and platforms, such as a campaign from ViacomCBS about the importance of social distancing, called “#AloneTogether.” The campaign was led by MTV and ViacomCBS’ Entertainment & Youth Brands and will extend to all ViacomCBS platforms, the company said.
The campaign will include selfie videos and takeovers from music and celebrity talent across the company’s portfolio showing them at home. The company said a focus on mental health will be a major part of the campaign, “underscoring that social distancing does not mean social isolation.”
ViacomCBS said it’s also developing a toolkit of creative assets so #AloneTogether messaging can be used by other media companies.
The Ad Council said Walt Disney Television and ABC are working on messaging for parents and families to be distributed across their channels and platforms. Disney didn’t immediately respond to a request for details on what the assets would look like or when those would start appearing.
Additionally, The Atlantic’s internal creative studio is developing digital creative to point to relevant information, while iHeartMedia will “support messaging around social distancing and high-risk populations, among other important COVID-19-related topics, across their network of stations,” the Ad Council said.
Disclosure: NBCUniversal is the parent company of NBC and CNBC.
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Old Jerusalem And New Jerusalem
QUESTION: Why the Nostalgia for old Jerusalem that controversial city?
Answer: (from the Swift ministry and my understanding) We must go back in history one more time and look at the beginning of this old city, and its effect on our race and see why this feeling, and see how the situation has developed as of today.
Since you now know that the Adamic race, God’s Kingdom has been established in earth, starting with Adam and Eve. We then trace those people as they came out of the high Tarim Basin in Asia under the leadership of the sons of Seth, the son of Adam and Eve, as they moved in their patterns of migration. From the old records we find they were called Manu, meaning tall white ones, Aryans from the ‘spiritual mountains’. We find that these people believed in, and worshiped the ONE GOD, YAHWEH (Genesis 4:26). They told the world as they migrated that their God would in time come to earth to redeem them. They spoke of the fall of their parents under the influence of the Dragon (Satan) Kingdom. (Genesis 3:15) Always as they paused to worship they set up an altar and were thus reminding their people of that promise of Redemption, when the Saviour, that Perfect Lamb, would be the final sacrifice.
As these children of the Kingdom moved in their migrations they colonized, they established their language, their culture, and their faith. The old books tell us that these Adamites in their generations were ‘The Treasure’, out of the cave where in Adam and Eve dwelt after coming out of the Garden of Eden.
They were a Peace loving people willing to help the World Order into which they had come to live however they also learned that at times they would have to fight to survive as they moved in their paths of Destiny. Where ever they paused they introduced the process of agriculture, but that was one of the blessings they brought into the world. (Genesis 2:25) Prior to this there had not been ‘a man to till the ground.’
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Famine has been conventionally associated with Africa, and portrayed visually through stereotypes. As in recent media coverage of the crisis in East Africa, photographs of starving children with fly-blown faces, removed from their context, remain common.
MA course leader Dr Dave Clark, working as a multimedia journalist for China Daily, set out this summer to do something different. Focusing on the larger issue of food insecurity in Asia, he photographed, filmed and produced a six-part video series to provide a more complex story. Shooting in Nepal, Bangladesh and China, Clark explored the impact of population growth, urban growth, changing tastes and biotechnology. You can see all of the videos (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) on his Vimeo site.
This video series saw Clark put into practice many of the questions he had research in his PhD thesis, Representing the Majority World. Uppermost in his mind was the desire to avoid traditional famine imagery, even though – as in the photograph above – circumstances in Nepal offered him the chance to easily replicate the stereotypes.
Working with local journalists to find how food insecurity manifested itself in daily life, Clark has presented a rich account of food insecurity. Although he believes this series is far from perfect, Clark has nonetheless shown how different stories are possible.
Photo: Dolpa, Nepal, April 2011. Copyright Dave Clark.
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. -Deuteronomy 6:4-9
We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. -Psalm 78:4
And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. -Joshua 24:15
One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts. -Psalm 145:4
Quotes concerning domestic devotions and family worship:
If, therefore, there be any spark in you of love to God, be not content that any of yours should be ignorant of him whom you so much admire, or any haters of him whom you so much love. If there be any compassion to the souls of them who are under your care, if any regard of your being found faithful in the day of Christ, if any respect to future generations, labor to sow these seeds of knowledge, which may grow up in after-times.
-To the Christian Reader, Especially Heads of Families, Westminster Standards
It is highly honorable to family-worship, as a spiritual service, that it languishes and goes into decay in times when error and worldliness make inroads in the church.
-James W. Alexander
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.
Not only Scripture, but reason and experience point to the necessity for family worship.
We must have a special eye upon families, to see that they are well ordered. The welfare and glory of both the Church and the State, depend much on family government and duty. If we suffer the neglect of this, we shall undo all. Therefore, if you desire reformation, do all you can to promote family religion.
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
As touching the spiritual state of his family; he ought to be very diligent and circumspect, doing his utmost endeavour both to increase faith where it is begun, and to begin it where it is not. Wherefore, to this end, he ought diligently and frequently to lay before his household such things of God, out of his word, as are suitable for each particular.
Thy children have souls, and they must be begotten of God as well as of thee, or they perish. And know also, that unless thou be very circumspect in thy behavior to and before them, they may perish through thee: the thoughts of which should provoke thee, both to instruct, and also to correct them.
But some will perhaps say, At what time ought we thus to think of God and approach Him together? I answer, whenever you choose, at the most convenient hour, when you will be least disturbed by your other business. This is generally in the evening; perhaps it were better, on account of the fatigue of the day, that it should be in the morning; and best of all both morning and evening. When you have eaten your morning meal, or even while you are eating it, could you not spend that time which is usually spent either in saying nothing or in talking of trifles, in reading a few words which would raise your thoughts to God, or in hearing them read? I am about to begin the day by the first function of the animal being; but wilt not thou, O my spiritual and immortal soul, do anything or receive anything now? I am about to feed my body with that which God has created; but do thou, O my soul, awake and receive thy food from the Creator! O God! Thou art my portion forever! O God! Thou art my God; early will I seek thee! What a blessing, my brethren, will such a beginning bring down upon the whole day, and what a happy disposition of mind it will give you!
-J.H. Merle D’Aubigne
But do you say, “This is so strange a thing?” What, my brethren! Is it not more strange that a family professing to be Christian, professing to have a firm hope for eternity, should advance toward that eternity without giving any sign of that hope, without any preparation, without any conversation, perhaps, alas! without any thought concerning it? Ah! this is very strange! Do you say, “This is a thing of very little repute or glory, and to which a certain degree of shame is attached?” And who, then, is the greatest: that father who, in former and happier days, was the high priest of God in his own house, and who increased his paternal authority and gave it a divine unction by kneeling down with his children before his Father and the Father of them all; or that worldly man in our days, whose mind is engaged only in vain pursuits, who forgets his eternal destiny and that of his children, and in whose house God is not? O what a shame is this!
-J.H. Merle D’Aubigne
How can you hope to meet with those whom you love near Christ in heaven, unless with them you seek Christ on earth? How shall you assemble as a family there, if you have not as a family attended to heavenly things here below? But as to the Christian family which shall have been united in Jesus, it will, without doubt, meet around the throne of the glory of Him whom it will have loved without having seen.
But, my brethren, if the love of God be in your hearts, and if you feel that, being bought with a price, you ought to glorify God in your bodies and spirits, which are his, where do you love to glorify him rather than in your families and in your houses? You love to unite with your brethren in worshipping him publicly in the church; you love to pour out your souls before him in your closets. Is it only in the presence of that being with whom God has connected you for life and before your children, that you can not think of God? Is it, then, only, that you have no blessings to ascribe? Is it, then, only, that you have no mercies and protection to implore? You can speak of everything when with them; your conversation is upon a thousand different matters; but your tongue and your heart can not find room for one word about God! You will not look up as a family to him who is the true Father of your family; you will not converse with your wife and your children about that Being who will one day, perhaps, be the only husband of your wife, the only Father of your children!
Parents! if your children do not meet with a spirit of piety in your houses, if, on the contrary, your pride consists in surrounding them with external gifts, introducing them into worldly society, indulging all their whims, letting them follow their own course, you will see them grow vain, proud, idle, disobedient, impudent, and extravagant! They will treat you with contempt; and the more your hearts are wrapped up in them, the less they will think of you. This is seen but too often to be the case; but ask yourselves if you are not responsible for their bad habits and practices; and your conscience will reply that you are; that you are now eating the bread of bitterness which you have prepared for yourself. May you learn thereby how great has been your sin against God in neglecting the means which were in your power for influencing their hearts; and may others take warning from your misfortune, and bring up their children in the Lord! Nothing is more effectual in doing this than an example of domestic piety.
They are not merely to be taught out of some elementary book that they must love God, but you must show them God is loved. If they observe that no worship is paid to that God of whom they hear, the very best instruction will prove useless; but by means of Family Worship, these young plants will grow “like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither.”
-J.H. Merle D’Aubigne
Consider family religion not merely as a duty imposed by authority, but as your greatest privilege granted by divine grace.
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove in effectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.
Husbands duty to wives – In seeking her spiritual welfare; her conversion, if unconverted, and her spiritual peace, comfort, and edification, she being an heir with him of the grace of life; by joining with her in all religions exercises; in family worship, in reading, in prayer, in praise, in Christian conference and conversation; by instructing her in everything relating to doctrine, duty, and church discipline; in answer to questions she may and has a right to ask him at home (1 Cor. 14:35).
Parents duty to children – It is proper to instruct them in the necessity of faith in God and in Christ, and of the use of prayer; and to lay before them the sinfulness of sin, and show them what an evil thing it is, and what are the sad effects of it; to teach them their miserable estate by nature, and the way of recovery and salvation by Christ; and to learn them from childhood to read and know the holy scriptures, according to their capacity; and by these to be “admonished” of sin, and of their duty, to fear God, and keep his commandments; which may be meant by the “admonition of the Lord”; and the proper opportunity should be taken to instil these things into their minds.
Masters of families, who preside in the other affairs of the house, must go before their households in the things of God. They must be as prophets, priests, and kings in their own families; and as such they must keep up family-doctrine, family-worship, and family-discipline: then is there a church in the house, and this is the family religion I am persuading you to. You must read the scriptures to your families, in a solemn manner, requiring their attendance on your reading, and their attention to it: and inquiring sometimes whether they understand what you read. Those masters of families who make conscience of doing this daily, morning and evening, reckoning it part of that which the duty of every day requires, — I am sure they have comfort and satisfaction in so doing, and find it contributes much to their own improvement in Christian knowledge, and the edification of those that dwell under their shadow;
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts… A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you.
Brethren, you are ordained of God to rule your own houses in his true fear, and according to his word. Within your houses, I say, in some cases, you are bishops and kings; your wife, children, servants, and family are your bishopric and charge. Of you it shall be required how carefully and diligently you have instructed them in God’s true knowledge, how you have studied to plant virtue in them, and [to] repress vice. And therefore I say, you must make them partakers in reading, exhorting, and in making common prayers, which I would in every house were used once a day at least. But above all things, dear brethren, study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.
A family is the seminary of Church and State; and if children be not well principled there, all miscarrieth: a fault in the first concoction is not mended in the second; if youth be bred ill in the family, they prove ill in Church and Commonwealth; there is the first making or marring, and the presage of their future lives to be thence taken, Prov. xx. 11.
A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering.
-J. M. Mason
The chief thing to be attended to is, that [family worship] may be a spiritual service; and the great evil to be dreaded and guarded against in the exercise of every duty that returns frequently upon us, is formality. If a stated course of [it] is kept up as constantly in its season as the striking of the clock, in time it may come to be almost as mechanically performed, unless we are continually looking to the Lord to keep our hearts alive.
I think, with you, that it is very expedient and proper that reading a portion of the Word of God should be ordinarily a part of our family worship; so likewise to sing a hymn or psalm, or part of one, at discretion; provided there are some people in the family who have enough of a musical ear and voice to conduct the singing in a tolerable manner: otherwise, perhaps, it may be better omitted. If you read and sing, as well as pray, care should be taken that the combined services do not run into an inconvenient length.
Happy is that family where the worship of God is constantly and conscientiously maintained. Such houses are temples in which the Lord dwells, and castles garrisoned by a Divine power. I do not say, that, by honoring God in your house, you will wholly escape a share in the trials incident to the present uncertain state of things. A measure of such trials will be necessary for the exercise and manifestation of your graces; to give you a more convincing proof of the truth and sweetness of the promises made to a time of affliction; to mortify the body of sin; and to wean you more effectually from the world. But this I will confidently say, that the Lord will both honor and comfort those who thus honor Him. Seasons will occur in which you shall know, and probably your neighbors shall be constrained to take notice, that He has not bid you seek Him in vain. If you meet with troubles, they shall be accompanied by supports, and followed by deliverance; and you shall upon many occasions experience, that God is your protector, preserving you and yours from the evils by which you will see others suffering around you.
On the other hand, we may observe what fearful threatenings are pronounced against those who disregard this duty. We wonder how many of our readers have seriously pondered those awe-inspiring words “Pour out Thy fury upon the heathen that know Thee not, and upon the families that call not on Thy name” (Jer. 10:25)! How unspeakably solemn to find that prayerless families are here coupled with the heathen that know not the Lord. Yet need that surprise us? Why there are many heathen families who unite together in worshiping their false gods. And do not they put thousands of professing Christians to shame? Observe too that Jer. 10:25 recorded a fearful imprecation upon both classes alike: “Pour out Thy fury upon …” How loudly should these words speak to us. It is not enough that we pray as private individuals in our closets; we are required to honor God in our families as well. At least twice each day—in the morning and in the evening—the whole household should be gathered together to bow before the Lord—parents and children, master and servant — to confess their sins, to give thanks for God’s mercies, to seek His help and blessing. Nothing must be allowed to interfere with this duty: all other domestic arrangements are to bend to it. The head of the house is the one to lead the devotions, but if he be absent, or seriously ill, or an unbeliever, then the wife should take his place. Under no circumstances should family worship be omitted. If we would enjoy the blessing of God upon our family then let its members gather together daily for praise and prayer. “Them that honour Me I will honour” is His promise.
All our domestic comforts and temporal mercies, issue from the loving-kindness of the Lord. The least we can do in return, is to gratefully acknowledge together, His goodness to us as a family. Excuses against the discharge of this sacred duty-are idle and worthless! Of what avail will it be when we render an account to God for the stewardship of our families-to say that we had no time available? The more pressing are our temporal duties-the greater our need of seeking divine help. Nor may any Christian plead that he is not qualified for such a work-gifts and talents are developed by use-and not by neglect.
Family worship should be conducted reverently, earnestly and simply. It is then, that the little ones will receive their first impressions, and form their initial conceptions of the Lord God. Great care needs to be taken, lest a false idea of the Divine Character be given to them.
The advantages and blessings of family worship are incalculable. First, family worship will prevent much sin. Daily prayer in the home, is a blessed means of grace for allying those unhappy passions to which our common nature is subject. It awes the soul, conveys a sense of God’s majesty and authority, sets solemn truths before the mind. How can those who neglect the worship of God in their families-look for peace and comfort therein?
Personal piety in the home is the most influential means, under God, of conveying piety to the little ones. Children are largely creatures of imitation, loving to copy what they see in others.
Finally, family prayer gains for us the presence and blessing of the Lord. There is a promise of His presence which is peculiarly applicable to this duty, “Where two or three are gathered together in My name-I am there among them” (Matthew 18:20). Many have found in family worship, that help and communion with God-which they sought for with less effect in private prayer.
Because the Christian is not his own, but bought with a price, he is to aim at glorifying God in every relation of life. No matter what station he occupies, or wherever he be, he is to serve as a witness for Christ. Next to the church of God, his own home should be the sphere of his most manifest devotedness unto Him. All its arrangements should bear the stamp of his heavenly calling. All its affairs should be so ordered that everyone entering it should feel “God is here!”
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
Family Worship increases the spirit of reverence for God and His Word. Children copy their parents’ spirit and example. If parents begin the day by invoking God’s blessing, by consecrating the early hour to His service, they show their estimate of the value of worship. If business, society, wealth, and pleasure are deferred for worship, the youth feels that the claims of Deity are above all other claims. Parents thus show that they can do nothing rightly without the divine blessing, and that Divine approval is far more precious than the approval of men. God’s Book is honored. The Bible is for every day, and for the morning hour of every day. If to the parent it is more precious than gold and sweeter also than the honey and the honey comb, will not the child learn to value a volume so honored and treasured?
I agree with Matthew Henry when he says, “They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.”
We deeply want a revival of domestic religion. The Christian family was the bulwark of godliness in the days of the Puritans; but in these evil times hundreds of families of so-called Christians have no family Worship, no restraint upon growing sons, and no wholesome instruction or discipline. How can we hope to see the kingdom of our Lord advance when His own disciples do not teach His gospel to their own children? Oh, Christian men and women, be thorough in what you do and know and teach! Let your families be trained in the fear of God and be yourselves “holiness unto the Lord”; so shall you stand like a rock amid the surging waves of error and ungodliness which rage around us.
First, let us begin by emphatically declaring it is parents (fathers in particular) and not the church who are given the primary responsibility for calling the next generation to hope in God. The church serves a supplementary role, reinforcing the biblical nurture that is occurring in the home. It is not the job of “professionals” at the church to rear the children of believers in the faith.
Brethren, I wish it were more common, I wish it were universal, with all [Christians] to have family prayer. We sometimes hear of children of Christian parents who do not grow up in the fear of God, and we are asked how it is that they turn out so badly. In many, very many cases, I fear there is such a neglect of family worship that it’s not probable that the children are at all impressed by any piety supposed to be possessed by their parents.
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.
Would then the present generation have their posterity be true lovers and honorers of God; masters and parents must take Solomon’s good advice, and train up and catechize their respective households in the way wherein they should go. I am aware but of one objection, that can, with any show of reason, be urged against what has been advanced; which is, that such a procedure as this will take up too much time, and hinder families too long from their worldly business. But it is much to be questioned, whether persons that start such an objection, are not of the same hypocritical spirit as the traitor Judas, who had indignation against devout Mary, for being so profuse of her ointment, in anointing our blessed Lord, and asked why it might not be sold for two hundred pence, and given to the poor. For has God given us so much time to work for ourselves, and shall we not allow some small pittance of it, morning and evening, to be devoted to his more immediate worship and service? Have not people read, that it is God who gives men power to get wealth, and therefore that the best way to prosper in the world, is to secure his favor? And has not our blessed Lord himself promised, that if we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all outward necessaries shall be added unto us?
And first, for secret worship, it is most necessary, that every one apart, and by themselves, be given to prayer and meditation, the unspeakable benefit whereof is best known to them who are most exercised there in; this being the mean whereby, in a special way, communion with God is entertained, and right preparation for all other duties obtained: and therefore it becometh not only pastors, within their several charges, to press persons of all sorts to perform this duty morning and evening, and at other occasions; but also it is incumbent to the head of every family to have a care, that both themselves, and all within their charge, be daily diligent herein.
The ordinary duties comprehended under the exercise of piety which should be in families, when they are convened to that effect, are these: First, Prayer and praises performed with a special reference, as well to the publick condition of the kirk of God and this kingdom, as to the present case of the family, and every member thereof. Next, Reading of the scriptures, with catechising in a plain way, that the understandings of the simpler may be the better enabled to profit under the publick ordinances, and they made more capable to understand the scriptures when they are read; together with godly conferences tending to the edification of all the members in the most holy faith: as also, admonition and rebuke, upon just reasons, from those who have authority in the family.
The head of the family is to take care that none of the family withdraw himself from any part of family-worship: and, seeing the ordinary performance of all the parts of family-worship belongeth properly to the head of the family, the minister is to stir up such as are lazy, and train up such as are weak, to a fitness to these exercises;
-The Directory for Family-Worship, Westminster Standards
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Poultry production involves the husbandry of poultry birds. It involves a series of activities of rearing birds like chicken, turkey, quail, guinea fowl, and ducks for the purpose of meat, egg or sale. These varying level of production differs in terms of cost of production, stock size, labour intensity, method of production, equipment used and market size. The equipment variation is our concern in this article. Ranging from plastic to automatic feeders, the choice of poultry farming equipment depends on the size of bird stock and it is imperative to use the right poultry farming equipment for the right size of birds.
Things Every Beginner Should Know About Poultry Equipment
Poultry equipment are tools or instruments that are used for purposes like hatching, brooding, housing, feeding, cleaning, and maintaining good conditions in poultry farms. Basically, small farm owners require manual equipment that will effectively fulfil their purpose but at the commercial level of production, the huge amount of birds will require more sophisticated equipment and labour with technical-know how to power them. Depending on the level of your production, there is a variety of equipment to select from.
Criteria For Selecting Poultry Farming Equipment
- Type of Birds: The breed and needs of birds are different and hence, the type of equipment you would use to rear them will be different from one another.
- Area of Specialization: Another factor to consider before buying poultry equipment is your area of poultry production as the poultry business has a wide value chain. There is meat production and packaging, poultry feed production as well as egg production, all under poultry farming. Your role along the value chain will determine your choice of equipment.
- Space: When buying poultry equipment, the size of your poultry farm in terms of birds is a requisite factor.
- Price Comparison: Yet another important thing to take note of is the price. There are lots of things to be bought and saving a couple of naira on some items will reduce the total expenses.
- Technical Know-How: The technical know-how requirement of your choice of equipment is important. Who and how it would be operated should be decided before purchase.
- Technology: Technology is also very important when buying poultry equipment. As you already know, technology is always evolving. Therefore, you must conduct your research carefully to be sure that you are buying technology-effective poultry equipment.
Common Poultry Farming Equipment and Their Uses
Incubators are devices used for ensuring the safe and productive hatching of eggs. An incubator is a machine used to simulate avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them. It takes 21 days to hatch a chicken egg. There are varying types of incubators in terms of sizes, the possible number of eggs, and the method of operation.
A brooder is a heated structure that provides warmth for chicks. Research has shown that chicks that are subjected to cold temperatures have impaired immune and digestive systems. As a result, cold-stressed chicks have reduced growth and increased susceptibility to diseases. It is imperative to provide heat for the chick. There are brooders that regulate heat and ensure optimum temperature.
The type of cage is dependent on factors like the system of production (open system or deep litre system do not require cages.) and the type of bird (layers are more suitable for battery cages). Cages are structured with either wood or iron rods and they come in various sizes and structures.
- Broiler Battery Cages: The broiler battery cages are semi-automatic models designed for clean and convenient brooding within limited land spaces. They come with all the required water accessories and adjoining parts. The cages are suitable for all kinds of poultry chicks as well as mature birds in an all-in-all-out intensive management system.
- Layer Battery Cage: This system for layers is a type of intensive poultry housing system in which chickens are kept in compartment units. This system is called the battery cage system because it involves the arrangement of similarly-looking cages in rows and columns. What differentiates the layers’ battery cage from most other cages is that its floors slope from back to front. The reason for this is so that eggs can roll from the back to the front of the cage for easy collection.
For ease of transportation, there are enclosed boxes that are called “transport crates”. They are useful for the purpose of transferring birds from one place to another especially from hatcheries to farms.
Feeders and Drinkers
The regular supply of feed and water to birds is a very important factor that determines their level of production. The system of production also affects the type of feeding and drinking equipment a farmer will go for. There are various types of feeders and drinkers, some are hangable while some are automatic.
- Poultry Feeders are containers from which poultry birds feed. They hold the feed of the chickens and provide a secure environment for them to eat without wastage.
- Nipple Drinkers are designed to assist and provide the poultry birds with clean drinking water. This type of drinker is a three-in-one drinker consisting of the nipple, clip, and drip cup. They can be used for broilers, breeders, and layers.
- Bell Drinkers are used in supplying water sufficiently to poultry birds groomed with the deep litter system- from day-old chicks to matured chickens.
8. Vaccination Equipment
There is equipment that is used to administer vaccines and drugs to farm birds. Intravenous injectors are very common in poultry farms.
9. Debeaking Machine
Debeaking is a term in poultry that refers to the act of reducing the length of a bird’s beak, especially layers and turkey for several reasons. It is also called beak trimming or beak conditioning. There are two types of debeaking equipment, the infrared debeaking machine and the hot blade debeaking machine.
10. Poultry Processing Equipment
Processing equipment comes to play in the packaging value chain in poultry production. There is equipment that is useful for the purpose of slaughtering, defeathering and packaging matured poultry birds in an efficient way.
11. Egg Crates
Egg crates are peculiar to layers and they are useful for the purpose of transferring and storing eggs from poultry.
A major key to a successful poultry business is the use of appropriate equipment. It is important to get your poultry farming equipment from trusted vendors and also ensure they are in good working condition.
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They expect their software development teams to deliver applications that take advantage of the latest innovations. Whether a student chooses the business or science track, he or she will be qualified to apply for high-paying jobs directly after earning a bachelor’s degree. From web design to mobile game development, the career paths open to software developers include choices for a wide range of interests and personality types. System i Concepts will provide an overview of the i5 Operating System functions and capabilities.
Not having to interview and chase down an expert developer was an excellent time-saver and made everyone feel more comfortable with our choice to switch platforms to utilize a more robust language. Matthew has over 15 years of experience in database management and software development, with a strong focus on full-stack web applications. He specializes in Django and Vue.js with expertise deploying to both server and serverless environments on AWS.
For instance, they might seek to solve a problem they themselves have encountered and look to make the world a better place. Having clear, big-picture goals makes individuals inspiring and magnetic. We needed some short-term work in Scala, and Toptal found us a great developer within 24 hours. This simply would not have been possible via any other platform. Despite accelerating demand for coders, Toptal prides itself on almost Ivy League-level vetting. We’re emailing you the app fee waiver code and other information about getting your degree from WGU.
It’s not only banks and credit unions, but any type of company that works with financial systems, programs, and/or software. While education is important to employers, being able to code is more important, and many developers fail the basic coding tests they take during their job interviews. Before applying for a position, it’s important to be ready to pass one of these tests, which typically cover topics such as programming languages and algorithm analysis.
Requirements And Skills
Compared to the overall job market, which grows at 4 percent per year, software engineering is one of the fastest-growing fields in the economy. With advanced education, developers can specialize in a particular area to increase their employment opportunities and earning potential. Undergraduate computer science programs usually offer a business track and a science track for students interested in one or the other career path.
- Based on 2,743 responses, the job of Software Developer has received a job satisfaction rating of 3.76 out of 5.
- Companies that are maybe pre-seed startups or seed-stage/Series A startups will have lower salaries.
- Computer science students should understand the duties of a software developer before embarking on a four-year degree program.
- The best architectures, designs, and requirements emerge from self-organizing teams.
- (e.g., Security Technical Implementation Guides , cybersecurity best practices on cisecurity.org).
In turn, employers have been forced to consolidate and restructure significant aspects of their infrastructure to emphasize remote working. The time required to become a software engineer will vary based on your desired academic route. For example, a typical college education, such as a degree in computer science, takes around four years to complete and spreads instruction out across seasonal semesters. The pursuit of a degree is a slow but thorough process, and graduation stands as a notable achievement. This is usually one of the hardest things to do in the software engineering world. One reason is because there’s no way to predict how long something will take you in real time.
Applying For Jobs
They can also collaborate with other design specialists or programmers to ensure effective products. Some companies make a distinction between software developers and programmers. In these workplaces, developers take a leading role in designing and engineering applications while programmers offer support with their coding skills. A lead developer must understand concepts such as programming patterns, discrete mathematics, formal logic and recursive and loop-based algorithm implementation. According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of conferred computer and information sciences degrees grew by 50.7% between 2012 and 2017. However, the wide variety of career paths available in the tech field can make it difficult to narrow down employment options post-graduation.
Junior software developers are entry-level employees and receive close supervision. Mid-level and senior software developers operate with more autonomy. What they have in common is demand, which helps drive salaries.
A lot of times it can be a frustrating process debugging, testing, and rewriting to improve efficiency. However, the first time you navigate to the webpage or fire up the desktop application or download your app from the app store, that sense of accomplishment you feel at that moment makes it all worth it. Our Undergraduate Certificate in Software Design is centered around Tech-Empowered Learning, designed to help students get hands-on experience to help them on their academic journey.
Key Hard Skills
The basics are front-end, which is more like web development or what you see on your computer screen. Back-end is more like servers and algorithms and things that you don’t see as a user but that help power the front-end. And then there are people who are full-stack, who do both of those things. From there, I was like, I’m going to just interview and see where it goes. You do a phone screen interview, which is usually just one or two questions with one person.
Must be a full-stack developer and understand concepts of software engineering. Make sure your technical questions are as relevant to the position as possible. For example, if seeking a data scientist , it is best to not ask questions about the technical aspects of pointers and C++. Even though such questions might offer an indirect assessment of a candidate’s technical knowledge, they are more likely to screen for the wrong qualities. In addition, elite candidates may wonder why you are asking interview questions that have little relevance to the job position and if you understand what the work entails.
Software developers need a background in programming, and should plan to continue learning new developments in computer languages and tools… Job growth projections for software developers are even more optimistic than those for web development roles. According to the BLS, employment of general software developers is expected to expand by 21% between 2018 and 2028. As such, it’s important to consider your post-graduation career path carefully and take courses that will support your long-term goals. Many software developers work for software publishers and computer system design companies manufacturing firms, and in finance and insurance businesses. Software developers usually have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, math, or a related field.
Job Outlook For Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, And Testers
Once you figure out what kind of How to hire a Software Developer you want to be, you can assess the gap between your current skill set and the skill set you’ll need for the role. If a question or detail can be easily looked up or has no bearing on actual software development, it’s best not to use it to screen candidates. Justin is a technical professional with a passion for learning and 15+ years of experience leading teams to build enterprise-grade distributed applications that solve real-world problems.
After that, you find out if you got the job or not, and then you go into negotiations. I remember there was some Twitter thread recently where a lot of senior engineers were tweeting the things that they still have to look up. And it just helped a lot with my own imposter syndrome, knowing that these people who I admire a lot because they’re really great engineers are also looking up very simple things. A lot of mid-size and smaller companies base their interview models off of those large tech companies.
The Impact Of The Best Software Developers
Be sure to ask prospective employers to describe the chain of command or structure of the IT/software development department or division. Software developers must analyze the software requirements given to them and determine how to build specific functions of the system. They should possess a mastery of at least one front-end or back-end programming language and be familiar with agile development practices and test-driven development. Although writing code is not their primary responsibility, developers must have a strong background in computer programming. Throughout their career, developers must keep up to date on new tools and computer languages. Through the software development process, software engineers test, fix, and maintain software.
How To Hire A Great Software Developer
Everyone is different, and everyone starts at a different level, which is great news because it means there are various paths you can take to reach the same destination. …while selecting the questions that are relevant to the candidate’s desired position. This allows a great understanding of your candidate’s technical acumen. Because you are experienced with this problem, you will be able to assess the quality of the candidates’ solutions and determine who is legitimately knowledgeable and skilled. Within days, we’ll introduce you to the right software developer for your project.
Software Developer Job Description Template
In addition, 80% of tech hiring managers in the U.S. report employing developers with coding boot camp experience, and 99.8% of these managers state they would hire another such applicant. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook states that software developers typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field. It’s generally agreed that earning a college degree prepares people seeking to enter the profession by giving them a solid foundation in data structures, algorithm design, and other essential topics.
But usually, it starts with looking through what I have to do for the day. My team specifically uses Jira as a ticketing system, and we have sprints. An entry-level Software Developer with less than 1 year experience can expect to earn an average total compensation of $64,562 based on 2,019 salaries. An early career Software Developer with 1-4 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $71,548 based on 10,577 salaries.
Tools have always opened new horizons for human civilization- from the sharpened stones of hunter-gatherers, to today’s computers and software. These IT professionals lead the process for the entire team it takes to create new software. Developers start by learning what users’ needs are, then they design and test software to meet those needs.
Consider popular languages such as Ruby, Scala, and TypeScript, and learn more about programming languages as you explore your options. Hard skills encompass the specific abilities necessary to excel in a particular job. Graphic designers need artistic abilities, surgeons need great hand-eye coordination, and software developers need a strong command of major programming languages, such as those listed below.
She worked at Slack at the time that I was interning there, and I had known of her before that. And now she has transitioned into management and is the Chief Technology Officer for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. I had the opportunity to speak with her a few years ago about her work and about how she approaches her work. She also writes a lot online to give you more insight into how she’s thinking.
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IRA one-rollover-per-year rule You generally cannot make more than one rollover from the same IRA within a 1-year period. You also cannot make a rollover during this 1-year period from the IRA to which the distribution was rolled over.16-Aug-2021
- The IRS does not place a limit on the number of rollovers you can have per year across all of your IRAs or other retirement accounts. For example, if you have five IRAs, you could do one rollover from each account during the year.
- 1 Is there a limit on direct rollovers?
- 2 Is there a limit to 401k rollovers?
- 3 How often can I rollover an IRA?
- 4 How many times a year can you do a 60-day rollover?
- 5 What happens if I miss the 60-day rollover?
- 6 Can you do multiple rollovers in a year?
- 7 What is the best company to rollover 401k?
- 8 Can I transfer my 401k to my bank?
- 9 What are the disadvantages of rolling over a 401k to an IRA?
- 10 What is the 60-day rule for IRA?
- 11 What is the difference between a transfer and a rollover?
- 12 What is the difference between a direct rollover and a 60-day rollover?
- 13 How is a 60 day rollover reported?
- 14 How do you count the 60 days in a 60 day rollover?
- 15 Can I borrow money from my IRA without penalty?
Is there a limit on direct rollovers?
Direct transfers avoid the rule. Instead of receiving a distribution from your IRA and rolling it over in 60 days, with a transfer your IRA funds move directly from one IRA trustee to another. There are no limits on how many transfers you can do. The pesky once-per-year rollover rule never applies to transfers!
Is there a limit to 401k rollovers?
Yes, but the amount of your contribution can’t exceed the amount of income you earned that year (or that your spouse earned, if you’re not working anymore). You’re also subject to annual Roth IRA limits ($6,000 for the 2020 tax year and $6,000 for the 2021 tax year.
How often can I rollover an IRA?
You can only perform one rollover from an IRA each year because you must wait at least 12 months between rollovers. This means that if you only have one IRA, you can only do one rollover per year. If you have multiple IRAs, you can do multiple rollovers per year.
How many times a year can you do a 60-day rollover?
Since the beginning of 2015, an individual can only do one 60 – day IRA rollover in a 12-month period, per IRS Announcement 2014-32 (issued Nov. 10, 2014). The rule now applies to all of a client’s IRAs in aggregate, rather than to each IRA separately (which had been the IRS position for many years ).
What happens if I miss the 60-day rollover?
If you miss the 60 – day deadline, the taxable portion of the distribution — the amount attributable to deductible contributions and account earnings — is generally taxed. You may also owe the 10% early distribution penalty if you’re under age 59½.
Can you do multiple rollovers in a year?
More In Retirement Plans Beginning in 2015, you can make only one rollover from an IRA to another (or the same) IRA in any 12-month period, regardless of the number of IRAs you own (Announcement 2014-15 and Announcement 2014-32).
What is the best company to rollover 401k?
Overview: Top online brokers for a 401(k ) rollover in March 2021 TD Ameritrade. TD Ameritrade is a great broker if you’re an active trader and looking for professional-level tools to help you invest better. E-Trade. Fidelity Investments. Charles Schwab. Interactive Brokers. Merrill Edge. Vanguard. 4 дня назад
Can I transfer my 401k to my bank?
Moving money from a conventional tax-deferred retirement account into a Bank On Yourself policy is a common method people use to fund a policy. It’s not technically a “ rollover,” since you can only do that from one 401(k ) or IRA to another.
What are the disadvantages of rolling over a 401k to an IRA?
Below are the reasons why. Stable value funds are not available. IRA advisors may not be fiduciaries. Performance differentials are substantial. IRA rollover = higher fees. Average 401(k ) balance limits options. Objective investment advice options are few. IRA rollover balances are too small to meet minimums.
What is the 60-day rule for IRA?
60 – day rollover – If a distribution from an IRA or a retirement plan is paid directly to you, you can deposit all or a portion of it in an IRA or a retirement plan within 60 days.
What is the difference between a transfer and a rollover?
The difference between an IRA transfer and a rollover is that a transfer occurs between retirement accounts of the same type, while a rollover occurs between two different types of retirement accounts. If you move money from your 401(k) plan to an IRA, that’s a rollover.
What is the difference between a direct rollover and a 60-day rollover?
A 60 – day rollover is the process of moving your retirement savings from a qualified plan, typically a 401(k), into an IRA. A direct rollover occurs when your account assets are transferred directly from one IRA custodian to another. Transfer requests are initiated by your new custodian.
How is a 60 day rollover reported?
You can generally rollover an IRA to another IRA without tax penalty. To indicate that your returned distribution is technically a tax-free rollover, write the word ” rollover ” next to the taxable amount on your 1040. If you don’t report your distribution as a rollover, the IRS may consider it a taxable distribution.
How do you count the 60 days in a 60 day rollover?
60 – Day IRA Rollovers – How to Count The 60 Days You can put the funds in your bank account, spend them, invest them, do anything you want with them (within reason of course). Then, within 60 days, you can put all or part of the distributed amount back into your IRA or Roth IRA.
Can I borrow money from my IRA without penalty?
With IRA’s, “ borrowing ” or taking a short term loan on your IRA is not allowed. You are allowed to withdraw money with a 60 day grace period to put the money back; it’s considered to be a 60 day rollover.
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Violence Research in Northeast and Southeast Asia: Main Themes and Directions
AbstractThe study analyses research on violence in the Northeast and Southeast Asia with respect to four types: political, urban, domestic and youth violence, highlighting current research themes, tendencies and gaps in violence research on and in the region, and identifying needs for further research. Commonalities and differences between countries and subregions are examined, along with a treatment of the colonial experience that influenced political violence in postcolonial countries.
Focus: Violence and Violence Research in the Global South
Copyright (c) 2015 International Journal of Conflict and Violence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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GCSE continues to be the national educational benchmark for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Departments choose whether GCSEs or IGCEs offer the best preparation for their pupils. We offer a wide selection of subject options, please see below for further details.
For pupils joining us from overseas in Year 11, we offer the One Year GCSE also known as the Pre-IB.
Choosing your subjects
Most pupils take up to ten subjects. The core GCSE subjects at Gresham’s consist of English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, all three Sciences and a Modern Foreign Language. Pupils will have the choice of studying three separate GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry and Physics or a double award in Combined Science. We would envisage that those wanting to go onto a Sixth Form programme involving
a Science subject would take separate Sciences. The taking of Combined Science does not preclude any pupil from continuing in any Science through to A Level or the IB Diploma Programme or degree level, assuming a sufficiently high grade is achieved.
Pupils study the core subjects and then choose a further three subjects, or four if they have selected Combined Science. Occasionally, this may be reduced with the agreement of parents and the Deputy Head (Academic).
The core GCSE subjects at Gresham’s are:
- English Language
- English Literature
- All three Sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) or Combined Science (a double award)
- One Modern Foreign Language (French, Spanish, German, Mandarin or Japanese).
All pupils will then make the choice of 4 optional subjects in preference order. Depending on whether the pupil chooses to take three individual Sciences or the double award in Combined Science, these will be 3 choices and a reserve, or 4 choices.
- Computer Science
- English as a Second Language
- Graphic Communication
- Physical Education
- Religious Studies
- Three Dimensional Design
- Another Modern Foreign Language (French, Spanish, German, Mandarin or Japanese).
Find out more about the GCSE programme offered at Gresham’s in our GCSE Prospectus.
One Year GCSE Course (Pre-IB)
This one year course in Year 11 offers pupils the chance to study seven or eight subjects and is excellent preparation for the IB Diploma or A levels.
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Comedy legend John Cleese, best known for his many roles in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, will be making a formal complaint about the “deception, dishonesty and tone” of a recent interview he did with BBC World News’ Karishma Vaswani.
Cleese is currently working on an upcoming documentary series that is set to explore the effects of cancel culture on comedy. With this project in mind, BBC World News reporter Karishma Vaswani asked the comedian what exactly is it that interests him about the particularly shameful practice.
“Well, it’s a relatively new phenomenon, and of course it affects comedians because a lot of us do jokes that the cancel culture people…woke people don’t think are right, or don’t think are correct, ” Cleese asserted. “So, I’ve been asked to do the program, and so I’ve been exploring and I’ve been reading quite a lot of books, and trying to understand what it’s all about. But it’s quite a complex matter, and it seems to be boiling down to the fact that…I think some people are rather overprotective.”
“I mean, we all want parents to be protective, but we don’t want them to be overprotective because that raises children who are no, perhaps, very well going to adapt to the real world,” the Monty Python star elaborated.
The comedian further explained, “I think it’s very important that things should go wrong and that minor bad things should happen, because that helps people to learn to become a little bit tougher when they go out into the world, which is not a terribly friendly place a lot of the time,” before concluding, “And if we overprotect them, then I think that doesn’t work very well.”
It was at this point that the BBC reporter attempted to counter Cleese’s clearly-educated opinion on the phenomenon.
“But John, you know, some would say that what you’re suggesting is that it’s an,” uttered Vaswani before Cleese interrupted her asking, “Why do you say ‘but’? Wouldn’t you like to just explore what I’m saying here?”
Vaswani then proceeded to lecture the comedian, stating that his views on cancel culture may be “old-fashioned” and suggesting that Cleese is not “taking into consideration the feelings of people who have been hurt” by comments the reporter deemed hurtful.
“For instance, in Britain, where racist behaviour was couched as a bit of banter…is that acceptable in your view as a joke?” the reporter asked the Fawlty Towers star, to which he replied, “I think it’s a very poor question.”
Further pressed by the reporter to answer her question, Cleese then asserted, “Well, it’s hard because it’s so scattered, and it has so many different ideas in it, and I don’t know which place to start with to answer it.”
“What I’ve said is, the important thing is that people are protected to the right degree, not only overprotected or not under-protected,” he declared. “So the question becomes, ‘what is the right degree?’ Now, practitioners of cognitive behavioural therapy — which is a very successful therapy, which is used a lot to treat depression and anxiety in young people — say that the woke ideas are pretty much the opposite of what they use to make people less depressed.”
“Now, it doesn’t matter whether that’s old-fashioned or new-fashioned or even from the early 12th century,” he added. “That is a very interesting idea, and needs to be explored without using these emotional terms like ‘people being hurt’ and all these kinds of things.”
As the interview went on, the BBC World News reporter returned to the topic of cancel culture once again, this time asking Cleese to give his thoughts on the controversy surrounding fellow comedian Dave Chappelle – a line of questioning which did not sit well with the Monty Python star.
“John I want to ask you about your thoughts on another comedian. I don’t know if you know this American comedian Dave Chappelle, who faced a huge backlash…” Vaswani asked Cleese before he abruptly interrupted her.
“We’re back on cancel culture here,” the actor retorted. “I thought we were going to be talking about shows and comedy but I’m not interested in doing this interview anymore, so I’ll leave you now. Bye-bye.”
In the wake of the incident detailed above, Cleese took to social media to explain the situation before the mainstream media misinterpreted what really prompted him to walk out of the interview.
“I just did an interview BBC World Asia,” wrote Cleese at the start of a lengthy thread on Twitter. “It was to talk about the shows I’m doing in Singapore and Bangkok. Instead, the interviewer, whose name was, I think, Karishma, started by asking me questions about Cancel Culture. I replied courteously and in full.”
Cleese elaborated, “…I explained that if parents were over protective, it did not prepare children well when they entered the real and often not-very-nice world. She then asked a disjointed question, clearly trying to portray me as old-fashioned, uncaring and basically harmful.”
“I pointed out ..that her question was a poor one, since it contained so many very different points l answered one,” the comedian further explained. “Many Cognitive Behavioural Therapists who are successful in helping young people with Anxiety and Depression, feel that Woke principles are almost the opposite of theirs..”
Cleese declared that Vaswani “totally ignored this,” explaining, “At this point pointed out that I had been told than the interview was to be about my shows in Singapore and Bangkok, and I asked if we could now talk about that.”
“She then asked why I was doing shows in Asia when the pandemic was causing such problems…apparently blaming me for making he situation worse,” Cleese continued. “I explained that the omicron variant had surfaced only three weeks ago, and that tours are arranged rather more than three weeks ahead.”
“She then asked me about Dave Chappelle,” the comedian added. “So I removed my headphones, saying that this was not the interview I had agreed to. So I am formally complaining to the BBC about the deception, dishonesty and tone of this interview.”
“Karishma had no interest in a discussion with me,” Cleese concluded, adding that “She wanted only the role of prosecutor,” and suggesting that “The BBC needs to train her again.”
Unlike in the US, the filing of a complaint in the UK is a more formal and bureaucratic process which – particularly when applied to complaints filed against government services such as the BBC – legally requires the infringing institution to formally respond to the complaintant and either “acknowledge where things could have been done better, and tell you what will be done to avoid the same thing happening again” or explain why they will not “uphold your complain”.
Addressing mainstream media’s potential coverage of the incident, Cleese wrote, “The media will no doubt report that I ‘stormed out.’ I didn’t. Nor did I lose my temper. But I was depressed that this kind of presenter-ego crap is so prevalent now.”
However, the BBC has since responded to Cleese’s accusations, stating that the interview was “fair and appropriate,” and declaring that “our presenter is an excellent and experienced journalist who conducted the interview entirely within our editorial guidelines.”
This wouldn’t even be Cleese’s first run-in with the BBC. In 2020, the legendary comedian took issue with the broadcaster when they took down and episode of Fawlty Towers, a series co-created by Cleese, because it contained “racial slurs.”
“I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour,” wrote the Fawlty Towers star at the time, adding, “One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.”
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Winner £10,000 prize
St Andrew’s, South Warnborough, Hampshire
With its knapped flint walls and wooden bell tower, St Andrew’s is a charming example of a modest Hampshire church. The difficulties it faced in 2000 were typical of rural parish churches in the 21st century: poor lighting, cramped pews, cluttered space and no facilities to enable the building to be used for more than regular Sunday worship. Not only have these difficulties been overcome in an exemplary fashion, but the whole community has been involved in the transformation of the church.
The work has focused on a reordering of the interior. Pews were removed from the chancel so that the rest could be spaced out and made more comfortable. The area beneath the bell tower has been opened up and furnished with chairs. These changes have increased the seating capacity of the church from 125 to 170. The once-gloomy interior has been transformed by a new and flexible lighting system. In addition, the installation of skylights in the south aisle and the removal of trees in the churchyard admit more natural light.
With a fully functioning hall already in the village, it was felt that the best way the church could serve the needs of the community was to provide a meeting place and additional space for events. A Heritage Room has therefore been created in the south aisle by the installation of glass partitions and solid removable screens between the dividing pillars.
These can be closed to form a separate room, or opened up to enlarge the church, but the judges agreed this screen was heavier than was strictly necessary and that—when closed—it blocked much of the hard-won natural light flooding in from the south aisle. Basic kitchen facilities have been installed in the south-west corner of the aisle and a disabled loo housed behind this in a discreet wooden extension at the back of the building. One of the unexpected highlights of the reordering has to be the creation of an intimate chapel from unused space in the east end of the south aisle. The building committee that undertook the work was made up of members of the parochial church council and the wider community.
Local craftsmen were employed, and storage containers and extra manpower were provided at important junctures by the men and women based at RAF Odiham. A substantial slice of the labour was undertaken by a local volunteer group, the South Warnborough Gentlemen’s Working Club. This includes individuals both from within and outside the church-going community, and their energies saved an estimated £35,000. The judges unanimously agreed that this was an outstanding project that has involved the whole community, ensuring the future of their church as a focus for village life.
St James the Great,
Some parishes may be intimidated by the financial commitment and logistics necessary to undertake substantial alterations to their churches. If so, St James the Great shows how such a transformation can be undertaken in stages, with physical changes following a transformation in attitude.
In this case, the funds weren’t immediately available to carry out alterations such as the addition of a loo, basic kitchen facilities, good lighting and efficient heating. Instead, the village community embarked on a five-year trial to see whether—and in what ways—its church could be used for events outside the liturgical remit. This is a highly commendable process, which allows for a true understanding of the building’s strengths and needs. It also gives time for the practical process of fundraising and—crucially—the development of properly considered designs.
To undertake the trial, an appeal was launched for a new set of chairs (the pews had been removed in the early 20th century). Many of the chairs were individually sponsored by members of the community or friends of the church. The choice of woven-reed upholstery for the chairs—rather than monochrome material covers—was particularly commended by the judges as sympathetic to the interior.
The community has also illustrated its concern for the historic furnishings of the building by restoring a fine 18th-century example of the royal arms. The final location of the restored arms is still under discussion.
Over the five-year trial period, the villagers of Aslackby have proved that their centrally located church is a natural hub for village life. The building is used on a regular basis for concerts, family activity days, talks and a highly successful film club, all of which are attended by significant numbers of visitors from the surrounding area, as well as by the villagers themselves, and by both worshippers and non-worshippers. To make these events possible, the facilities of houses near the church have been made available. With their period of research over and the wider community now firmly involved in the use of the church, the necessary physical alterations are now under final review.
What the judges said after visiting the churches
Sir Roy Strong
This year, there was an encouraging and noticeable shift from parishes thinking tentatively about change to definitely wanting it. Moreover, all had recovered from hesitancy about secular use, finding that it in no way impaired the sanctity of the building for worship. What emerged also was the importance of the church as a focus for communities in remote areas of the country, where there was literally nothing else within easy access. However, this tide for change also had its slough of despond. The negativity of many preservation authorities sometimes engendered a fear about legal obstacles to change. This led communities to compromise on what they wanted in favour of what they could get through the planning process. Some professionals involved in projects —notably architects—might have been more dynamic in realising the visions of the congregations they were serving.
Rev Nigel Done, rector of Norton St Philip, Somerset, the 2008 winner
Behind the inspiring stories of churches hosting suppers, dances, concerts and pantomimes, of coffee brewing at the back and children buzzing in the churchyard, I found a familiar nervousness about opening up these special places to new activities. Could such deeds destroy the very spirituality of the buildings? The problem is that the spirituality of a church is a careful praxis of place, people, purpose and prayer. In each of the churches we visited, I found something of the inspiring energy that comes from these things weaving together well. Congregations had different starting points, but all had taken an honest and careful look at the place they had inherited, and considered whether the common purpose of the community could still be served by it. Most significantly, they had allowed their hearts to be moved to reach out in love (sometimes well beyond their own community), and action was underpinned by the quiet confidence of a calling God has placed within them. In the case of our winners, prayer and contemplation is leading to appropriate and well-considered action.
Sue Clifford, Common Ground
Why are churchyards developed as havens for wildlife only when they cease to serve as burial places? Would you not rather lie, vital or dust, among butterflies, bees, bats and birds than plastic flowers? Bravo to the shortlisted St Bega’s for a whole graveyard—long-grassed, flowery, full of whispering grasshoppers—with a porch to be a summer home for swallows. It’s easy to place boards to catch droppings and muslin drapes to stop ingress of birds into the church itself. The advance of culture asks that we live well together, the circle of nature demands it.
Fred Hohler, former master of the Mercers’ Company
Lighten our darkness—a cry as true today as in 1662. Wherever pews gave way to chairs and open space, wherever skylights and plain glass let daylight flood into unencumbered nave and chancel, there the spiritual space sang out its beauty and availability—to all. So obvious, yet so unexpected. As unexpected as the aisle converted to create an intimate chapel. Our judging vicar beamed. He would accept the parish just for this; somewhere to sit down, light a candle and talk in seclusion with a parishioner. Another church reborn.
Ptolemy Dean, architect
Adding to the architecture of an ancient church requires sensitivity and skill, but also a great deal of flair and courage. The starting point must be to analyse what is most important about the building and what qualities give the greatest pleasure. At the same time, there might also be a recognition that improvement could be made, to reveal aspects of the existing building presently concealed, or to introduce new qualities previously unimagined. It is a difficult path to tread and only very rarely achieved, but, at South Warnborough, the vision that lay behind the reopening of the timber tower, the reworking of a 19th-century screen and improvements to the levels of lighting all struck a chord even if, admittedly, some of the new joinery lacked the panache of the old.
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Vicky Nandgaye, Manoj Meshram
Prelude: Central Theme and Cast of the Movie
Recently a Marathi movie ‘Jayanti’ was released on the big screen in Maharashtra. Jayanti is a Marathi word denoting birth anniversary. Here it discusses the birth anniversary of Ambedkar. Santosh Narwade is the director and writer of the movie. The followers of Phule-Shahu-Ambedkar ideology are promoting this movie through WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other channels. Even the producers or the well-off people from the community are asking their family and peers to watch it and whenever possible they are distributing free tickets of the show.
Unlike other mainstream Marathi dramas, the movie emphasises on dialect and tone (considered as Ghati language) used in the Nagpur district of Maharashtra. Language assertion is beautifully shown. As an insider, we can relate to the feelings of language discrimination or humiliation that the character/s face in the rest of Maharashtra especially in the Western part. Hence, the movie is a subtle slap on the faces of people who engage in language politics.
The movie centres on two case studies – the story of Santosh and the social movement against the brutal murder of Rekha. Santosh (Ruturaj Wankhede) is an OBC person from a slum area employed as a Karyakarta of local MLA Mr Gondane (Kishor Kadam). There are no objectives in his life. He loves Pallavi Ramteke (Teetiksha Tawade) who belongs to a Scheduled Caste. She studies social work, regularly comes to tuition classes conducted by Mr Mali sir (Milind Shinde), a staunch follower of Shahu-Phule-Ambedkar ideology and fighting to construct a night school in the basti. Mali believes that instead of erecting statues of social reformers and wasting money on celebrations of birth anniversaries, education should be spread among the poor.
Santosh does not know the whereabouts of Pallavi. In a scene, his friend tell him about her caste, which Santosh does not believe him. It projects in-depth stereotypes and prejudice prevalent in the society where a Dalit should not look fair. Even in most of the dramas, Dalits appear as dark and dusky. This movie counters such baseless stereotypes.
In another case, a tribal woman Rekha from the neighbourhood works as domestic help in the house of an upper-caste businessperson Mr Kukreja (Amar Upadhyay). Kukreja rapes and murders her. Later, he tries to settle the case with the aid of Gondane. Gondane involves Santosh to look into the matter where he manipulates Rekha’s husband by offering lakhs of rupees. Santosh calls himself a great follower (Mavla) of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Indian ruler of the sixteenth century. For the sake of friendship, he allies with his Dalit friends in celebration of Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. However, his mother (Anjali Joglekar) is shown as an orthodox woman who often hates Dalits.
Celebration of Jayanti: A Turning Point in the Life of Santosh
In a scene of celebration of Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, loud music is played by youngsters. Mali objects to this, asking them to stop it, as the students get disturbed in their studies for university exams. Santosh and others get drunk and are not ready to stop it. He sees Pallavi there and expresses his feelings to her before the crowd. She, a studious and brave girl, is annoyed by his behaviour and asks him and others about the contribution of Shivaji Maharaj and Dr Ambedkar to society. She shouts at him and accuses him of being a pawn of Gondane who supported the murderer of Rekha.This incident compels him to understand the politics of Kukreja and Gondane. Consequently, he goes to Kukreja to seek revenge for Rekha’s brutal murder where the police arrest him. Meanwhile, Mali sir advises Santosh’s family to not take stress about his bail and let him realise his mistakes. Mali is an excellent character who firmly believes in the power of Dalit-Bahujan literature that holds the energy to change the world. Here, he stood by Santosh with the objective to bring positive changes in him.
Therefore, Mali requests a police officer to provide him with a Marathi newspaper in prison irrespective of whether he reads it. This is the beginning of the movie which takes audiences to a different world. Two stories are simultaneously running in the movie, one is the gradual transformation in the life of Santosh and the other one is the struggle of people seeking justice for Rekha. The director has shown Santosh’s journey from an annoying young lad to a true follower of the ideology of Shahu-Phule-Ambedkar cleverly. In Indian society, caste is the root of various socio-economic, educational and political concerns of the oppressed community. Thus, the annihilation of caste and the fight for a just society are the cause of the Dalit-Bahujan movement in India. In this context, the mainstream entertainment industry invariably neglects the subjects pertinent to real issues of the lower strata.
A drama like Jayanti is a film produced with the help of Ambedkarite people and that perhaps gives a scope for critics on the script. The idea of bringing the strength of Dalit-Bahujan literature on the big screen was never possible for upper-caste producers and directors in India. Jayanti displays the roaring story of a man who reads literature and leads the path for the cause of unity, justice, and self-dignity, high living and high aims. The movie impresses the audience with dialogues, music, script, direction, acting, casting, cinematography, and almost in every minor aspect. It illustrates the understandings and vision of the stakeholders in the project. They beautifully used the medium of mass communication to bring consciousness among people belonging to the deprived communities conveying the message that they have to pursue education as a weapon and only that can lead to a path of liberation of mind and empower them. The energy of young minds should be channelized in the appropriate direction. They must be imparted with the necessary skills to shape their career in spite of the unfavourable atmosphere. For us, Jayanti is a great contribution to the larger Dalit-Adivasi-Muslim-Bahujan movement.
Loopholes in the Project
Whereas our only concern over the project is that the representation of the tribal community is reduced to the status of the victim of a high profile upper-caste man. Why are tribal women subject to victimisation? In social dramas, no character is portrayed from the tribal community who represents their agency. Adequate representation of tribes should be shown in the movie if it deals with oppressed unity. From the Ambedkarite lens, the movement may voice the interests of all the oppressed communities. However, at the same time, it observes silence on agency and adequate representation of some community. The name of the movie is Jayanti but the screen time is too short for the project.
The project resonates with the one-way interpretation of the celebration of Ambedkar’s birth anniversary for which some followers receive criticism in the society. By taking these critics positively, the movie engages with the reading of Bahujan literature which helps in removing false consciousness. One can roar once you comprehend the existing literature with appropriate understanding. A well-read person can counter the injustice perpetuated in society. It further creates the discourse of unity and collective consciousness among the masses to become successful in life. Earning a decent living can also enable one to “payback to society” in order to address injustice, open educational, and employment opportunities for people.
The movie excellently showcases readings of original writings and true history with an appropriate lens to ignite the spark in the youth. It further provides the energy to fight for equality, liberty, fraternity, and social justice in a true sense. Understanding of Shahu-Phule-Ambedkar’s work through their biographies and writings is imperative to counter arguments of the caste dominated culture of non-Dalit families to remove the false beliefs they hold.
This movie is built around some followers who think Jayanti is meant for dancing and drinking. It hides the other section of followers who engage in different awareness programs on the premises of Deekshabhoomi (monument of Navayana Buddhism in Nagpur), run libraries and Buddha Viharas etc. The latter might not be the subject of the movie, however, we strongly recommend that in the upcoming project, the positive image of Jayanti should be highlighted by the team. Overall, the project has been shaped well. It should be watched and screened in Bahujan neighbourhoods. A comprehensive discussion should be held followed by the screenings.
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Invite butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden with this easy DIY plantable seed paper tutorial. Plantable seed paper is the perfect diy garden project for any time of year.
Use this tutorial to make sustainable cards and stationary with plantable seed paper.
Make butterfly garden seed bombs for just a few dollars to give as a DIY gift or to plant in your own garden. In the spring and summer your garden will be filled with beautiful butterflies.
FRUGAL TIP : Stock up on annual wildflower seed packages for 4/$1.00 to add to my garden at the dollar store of all places for a large batch of seed paper.
Go ahead and make this fun butterfly garden seed bombs in the winter as a way to look forward to coming spring season.
Does Seed Paper really grow?
Seed paper is literally paper with seeds in it. When this paper is placed on top of soil and watered, it will germinate and begin sprouting seedlings. Eventually the paper will decompose and leave the seedlings to grow.
Seed paper is used for invitations, stationary, decorative wraps for handmade items like soap as well as birthday cards, valentines, or other crafts with a flower, green or eco friendly theme.
Companies like Botanical Paperworks sell all sorts of seed paper products if you’re searching for larger projects like wedding stationary.
For inspiration and a shortcut if you are short on time, take a look at Etsy and see what creative sellers are offering in terms of wedding invitations and other stationary.
As a crafter and gardener this is when my two favourite hobbies combine. Making plantable seed paper is a fun activity to do with children, and in anticipation for a spring garden on short dark winter days.
To make sure that your seeded paper works, follow our step by step tutorial and tips to create your very own seed paper.
The Best Seeds for Seed Paper
When creating your own plantable seed paper go with annual flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds to a garden space.
Some examples are cosmos, zinnias, alyssum, petunias, lantana, pansies or daises.
It’s a good idea to choose seeds that are small. Flower seeds, a wildflower mix or herbs and vegetables work.
Carrot seeds are commonly planted with paper as they take longer to germinate.
In this tutorial you’ll see I went with common sunflower seeds.
Sunflower seeds probably aren’t the best choice as the seeds and shell pods don’t lay flat and make for a less smooth paper.
I went with the seeds that we had on hand, and that my toddlers could easily handle at the time. So sunflower seeds it was!
WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE SEED PAPER
To make your seed paper there are a few things you’re going to need. Start by gathering recycled paper such as newspaper, egg cartons, computer paper, tissue paper and paper grocery bags.
You’ll need towels and a cookie sheet for drying.
A blender to create your pulp (you can also shred paper thinly if you don’t have a blender)
A sponge to soak up the excess water.
PLANTABLE PAPER RECIPE AND TUTORIAL
STEP ONE: GATHER AND TEAR PAPER
Gather recyclable paper to make your seed paper, Egg cartons are easy and accessible. They have very minimal ink and are great for the garden bed. Tear about 5 egg cartons into tiny bits. The smaller the bits the better.
STEP TWO: PLACE RECYCLED PAPER IN LARGE POT
It’s easiest to place the egg cartons in the blender until half full and then add warm water to the top of the blender. Blend into a smooth pulp.
I for some reason don’t have a blender, so I used my immersion blender I use for everything and it worked just as well. Plus the kids like to do “hand over hand” when I blend.
STEP THREE: BLEND INTO A SMOOTH PULP
Hit the blend button and watch the egg cartons turn into a beautiful smooth pulp.
STEP FOUR: STIR IN SEED
Gather your seed packages and stir them in. I added 4 seed packages for 5 egg cartons. I could have easily added more seeds.
STEP FIVE: STRAIN WATER FROM PAPER
Strain the pulp using a colander with small fine holes. If the holes are too large, the seeds will strain with the water. We want the seeds to stay with the pulp.
STEP SIX: MAKE PAPER
On a parchment lined cookie sheet spread the pulp, flatten it using your hands, a spatula or a rolling pin.
If your pulp is fine enough you can cut out shapes with cookie cutters. Why not cut cute little hearts to make into valentines or for wedding favors.
If your pulp is chunky, go ahead and throw the pulp into a lined muffin tin and make seed bombs instead.
STEP SEVEN: DRY
Place your cookie sheets in a dehydrator or leave in a warm room to dry. I placed ours in front of our wood stove during the winter. In the summer it’s easy to allow the paper to dry in the sun on a hot day.
Use your sponge to press the pulp flat and thin and pull out excess water for the best results.
STEP EIGHT: PLANT PLANTABLE PAPER
Follow the seed instructions on the back of the package to plant.
I highly suggest planting the seeds around a vegetable garden to increase pollination of plants. Use our no til garden method for best results.
Go ahead and make seed paper to plant in your garden or give as a gift this year. They make great Mothers Day Cards, wedding and shower invitations, and once placed in water they begin to grow.
If you’re planning on using your seed paper as a gift, make sure to write the planting instructions on a slip of paper to add.
Homemade seed paper cards are a unique yet frugal gift that will keep on giving for years to come. It’s also a sustainable paper product that would otherwise end up in the landfill.
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State adds 5,247 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, vaccinates 21,155 more Ohioans
Another 5,247 Ohioans tested positive for the coronavirus as of Sunday, bringing the statewide case total to 826,754.
Sunday's cases were lower than the three-week average of 7,439 new cases reported per day, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
But, newly reported cases, deaths and hospitalizations often lag during the weekend, making Sunday's figures less of an indication of a broader trajectory of the virus in Ohio.
Ohio's seven-day average positive COVID-19 test rate fell to 11% on Friday, the most recent day for which data is available, according to the state. More than 8.4 million COVID-19 tests have been administered across the state.
An additional 65 virus deaths were reported Sunday, which is less than the three-week average of 81 new deaths reported per day. So far, the virus has killed 10,200 Ohioans since the pandemic began in mid-March, state data shows.
Around 93% of virus-related deaths have occurred in people age 60 or older.
By Sunday, another 141 Ohioans were hospitalized with COVID-19, which is less than the three-week average of 305 new hospitalizations reported per day. As of Sunday, 3,686 Ohioans remained hospitalized, including 946 in intensive care units and 622 on ventilators, according to the state.
On Sunday, 435,177 Ohioans, 3.72% of the population, received at last their first dose of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine. That amounts to an increase of 21,155 vaccinations reported since Saturday, according to the state.
The hardest hit Ohio counties continue to be the most populous.
Franklin County has reported the most cases, with 97,493 and the third-most deaths at 705 as of Sunday, according to the state. Cuyahoga County has reported the second-highest number of cases so far at 82,178 and the most deaths with 1,012.
Summit County has reported the second most deaths with 726 and the fourth most cases at 41,700. Hamilton County has reported the third-highest number of cases at 61,350 and the fifth most deaths with 439, state data shows.
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Royal Society president Venki Ramakrishnan urged everyone to wear facemasks as the “new normal” until the coronavirus disappears, comparing the refusal to do so with antisocial behaviors like driving without seatbelts or drunk.
No one should leave their home without a face covering in their possession, and they should be worn “particularly indoors in enclosed public spaces” where social distancing is difficult, Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and head of the UK scientific academy, said on Tuesday.
It used to be quite normal to have quite a few drinks and drive home, and it also used to be normal to drive without seatbelts. Today both of those would be considered antisocial, and not wearing face coverings in public should be regarded in the same way.
Ramakrishnan described face masks as “another item of clothing that is part of the new normal” and should be worn because it’s “the right thing to do.”
Wearing masks would lower the chances of virus resurgence and the need for future lockdowns, Ramakrishnan argued, adding that this would protect everyone from National Health Service staff to one’s grandparents.
Protecting the NHS was the pretext for the original lockdown in the UK, as experts pointed to models showing intensive care wards getting overwhelmed by dying Covid-19 patients otherwise.
The UK is way behind many countries in terms of wearing masks and clear policies and guidelines about mask wearing for the public,” Ramakrishnan added, pointing to their widespread adoption in Italy, Spain and France. He blamed inadequate messaging by the government, noting that “If guidance is inconsistent people will follow their own preferences.”
He did not address the fact that the government’s credibility in the matter may have been chipped by the discovery that the author of the lockdown model, Imperial College Professor Neil Ferguson, had stepped down in May after the media revealed he had violated quarantine to meet with his married lover, possibly infecting her family with Covid-19 in the process.
While governments around the world are now mandating face masks as a way of coping with the coronavirus, in the early days of the pandemic nearly everyone – including the World Health Organization – insisted they were either useless or harmful. As it later turned out, that was intended to suppress civilian demand to ensure there were enough in stock for medical workers.
Another credibility hit came from the disparate treatment of mass gatherings. Protests against the lockdowns were deemed unacceptable and dangerous to public health, even when demonstrators wore masks and practiced social distancing, while mass gatherings focused on demands for racial justice – lacking either and often devolving into violence – were praised as right and proper.
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Continued Significant Effect of Physical Training as Treatment for Overuse Injury: 8- to 12-Year Outcome of a Randomized Clinical Trial
Holmich P, Nyvold P, Larsen K. Am J Sports Med. 2011 39:2447. Epub 2011 Aug 3.
Physical therapy is a very common and effective treatment for musculoskeletal disorders; however, very little is known about the long-term effects of these treatments. The purpose of this follow-up trial was to revisit the original subjects of a randomized controlled trial studying the impact of a training program on adductor-related groin pain and test whether the effects were still statistically significant 8 to 12 years later. In the original study, 59 participants were randomized to receive either active treatment which involved strength training of the adductor, abdominal, and low back muscles combined with coordination and balance exercises, or passive treatment which involved manual therapy, electrotherapy and stretching. Of those subjects in the original study, 23 (79%) of those in the active-treatment group had an excellent outcome versus 4 (13%) of those in the passive-treatment group (p=0.001). The outcomes were assessed by the following criteria: (1) no pain at palpation of the adductor tendon and insertion points and no groin pain during resisted adduction, (2) no groin pain during or after athletic activity in the same sport and (3) return to the same sport and at the same level without groin pain. If all 3 measures were met, the result was labeled excellent; if 2 measures were met, the result was labeled good, if 1 measure was met the result was labeled fair and if no measures were met, the result was poor. Forty-seven (80%) of the original 59 subjects agreed to participate in the follow up study which consisted of a questionnaire based on a personal interview with a physician blinded to the original treatment group and an examination by the same physician using the identical protocol to the one used in the original study. During the follow-up period, most of the athletes had reduced their athletic level; however, this did not differ between the 2 treatment groups. Using similar outcome criteria as the original trial, the follow-up trial demonstrated 12 (50%) of athletes in the active-treatment group had an excellent result compared with 5 (22%) of the passive-treatment group (p=0.047). The association was even stronger in the subgroup of soccer players tested where 11 (55%) of athletes in the active-treatment group had an excellent result compared with 3 (16%) in the passive-treatment group.
This is an exciting study, because it suggests that an active training program can be used both as a treatment for acute pain and as a prevention strategy for future groin pain in athletes. However, given the long follow up period, there are many potential confounding factors when considering the authors’ conclusions. It is difficult, if not impossible, to compare return to sport at the same level following an acute injury versus after 8 to 12 years. The authors try to accommodate this by requiring return to sport in the follow-up study at the same or one level below the original level. This study implies that an active training program can make a difference in the long run, but it is unclear why this would be the case. The authors do not assess whether the athletes in the active treatment group continued any of the exercises shown to them during the training session in the years to follow as is commonly recommended after “graduation” from a physical therapy program. It is also unclear whether or not any of the athletes had recurrence of their groin symptoms during the follow-up period that may have resolved by the time the data were assessed. In general, though, this study suggests that a supervised core program and muscle-specific strengthening can have a beneficial impact on the treatment of chronic, overuse injuries both in present athletic endeavors and perhaps in the future as well. In your experience, can the proper rehabilitation program prevent future groin pain recurrences?
Written by: Hallie Labrador, MD and Peter C. Vitanzo, MD
Reviewed by: Stephen Thomas
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[This is from January 2021, but is still very relevant and important. Jan]
The Data Integrity Group, a group of data scientists, has been dissecting publicly available data on the presidential election in multiple states. Most recently, in Pennsylvania, they found over 432,000 votes were removed from President Donald Trump in at least 15 counties.
Time-series election data shows Trump’s votes decreasing in various counties at many time points, instead of increasing. In an election, as you count votes, you typically only see vote increments, not decrements—unless some error occurred that needs to be assessed.
The group also testified before the Georgia Senate that more than 30,000 votes were removed from President Trump in Georgia.
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North Dakotans plan expedition to celebrate Lincoln’s Norway tie
In the darkest days of World War II, their country occupied by Nazi Germany, Norwegians gathered in silent protest each July 4 around a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Oslo.
By Chuch Haga – GrandForksHerald.com
The large bust had been given to the people of Norway by the people of North Dakota in 1914 to mark the centennial of Norway’s adoption of a democratic constitution modeled partly on the U.S. Constitution.
“Thousands of Norwegians would gather around the statue, their heads bowed in silence and prayer,” said Rick Collin, communication and education director of the North Dakota Historical Society and coordinator of the state’s Lincoln Bicentennial observances. “Typically, the Germans forbade any public gatherings or demonstrations, but they did not halt this annual event.”
Lincoln was a ready symbol of liberty and love of country, Collin said. And in the difficult early days of the Civil War, he had turned his sights to how the reunified country might grow once the war was won — signing into law the Homestead Act of 1862, which enabled thousands of Norwegians to take up land in Dakota Territory.
This summer, 200 years since Lincoln’s birth, another expedition of North Dakotans will gather at the statue to celebrate the historic ties. Sponsored by North Dakota Horizons magazine, UND’s Nordic Initiative and Brekke Travel of Grand Forks, the commemorative tour will include visits to Sarpsborg, Grand Forks’ sister city in Norway, and the Western Norway Emigration Center near Bergen, where a prairie church from Brampton, N.D., has been reconstructed as a memorial to the emigrants and their faith.
The schedule also includes a reception at the American Embassy in Oslo, an Independence Day celebration by the Lincoln statue and a visit to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum in Hamar, which includes a settler’s cabin donated by the people of Kindred, N.D. “The history of our connection is so interesting, and we’re trying with this to reconnect,” Char Brekke said.
A distinct people
Gov. Louis B. Hanna led the first delegation, which included Grand Forks Herald founder and editor, George B. Winship, and immigrant Walsh County homesteaders Haakon and Elise Skjerven. The Skjervens’ son, William, carried the U.S. flag during July 4 ceremonies by the bust in Oslo’s Frogner Park.
“Among the distinct people who have come to North Dakota from Europe, there are nearly a third of the state’s residents who came directly from Norway or are the children of Norwegian parents,” Hanna said at the dedication. “They built the towns and during the years they have done their share in building and making North Dakota an outstanding state.”
According to a translation of contemporary Norwegian newspaper accounts, Hanna noted that during the American Civil War, a Union regiment from Wisconsin, “comprised exclusively of Scandinavians and mostly Norwegians, has one of the most honorable records of any regiment … that took part in the war.”
Gov. Hanna’s idea
In a time before junkets became common, Hanna was away for six weeks — skipping the 1914 primary election, where he was re-nominated. After Norway, he and the others also visited Sweden, Denmark and — just weeks before the outbreak of World War I — Germany and England, hoping to promote immigration to North Dakota.
Hanna, a native of Pennsylvania, had visited the battlefield at Gettysburg in 1913, Collin said. “He saw a bust of Lincoln there, and he knew that people in North Dakota and Norway would see in Lincoln a symbol of equality, independence and equal opportunity.”
At the governor’s suggestion, the Legislature had appropriated money to commission the bust of Lincoln by Valley City, N.D., sculptor Paul Fjelde, who was just 21 at the time. (A replica sculpture stands on the grounds outside the Traill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, N.D.)
Thousands of people joined in the dedication in Frogner Park, and many thousands more jammed streets outside the Storting, Norway’s parliament, to help the Americans celebrate their Independence Day.
Estimates at the time put the number of Norwegian-Americans visiting their homeland that July at 20,000.
The turnout at this year’s festivities won’t be in that neighborhood, but Brekke said it will include David Skjerven, grandson of the 1914 flag bearer, who as a child growing up in Park River, N.D., heard stories of that event from his grandfather. A grandson of sculptor Fjelde also plans to attend, as does former Vice President Walter Mondale, Brekke said.
Reach Haga at 701-780-1101 or send e-mail to email@example.com.
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Designated by the California Air Resources Board, carbon offset credits qualify as environmental processes scientifically proven to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases.
The board has four carbon offset categories: forestry management, tree planting in urban areas, capture and destruction of methane emissions from livestock manure, and destruction of coolant gases. Whereas the first two directly suck carbon out of the atmosphere, the latter two eliminate existing greenhouse gases.
Legally establishing these categories takes time. The forestry project alone took a decade to make scientific sense within the framework of carbon credits, said board spokesman Stanley Young.
Otters currently do not fit into any of these categories. And Wilmers, an assistant professor in UCSC’s Environmental Studies Department, acknowledges that getting them in the game would be difficult.
“Literally trying to do that in the future would take a lot of work,” he said.
But officials involved in evaluating offset programs for the board say the idea is not entirely out of the question. The board, eventually, intends to expand its list. A wetland management category, for example, is among the most promising potential additions — and has been in the works for several years.
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Top-miracle data files demonstrate that brand new National Defense Institution is dramatically expanding being able to secretly deceive with the hosts toward a size size by using automatic expertise one to slow down the amount of person supervision in the process.
Top-wonders data reveal that the newest National Safeguards Agency are substantially growing its ability to privately deceive with the hosts to the a bulk size that with automated expertise one to reduce the level of human supervision in the process.
The fresh new classified documents – considering in past times of the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – contain the facts about groundbreaking security tech the fresh service has continued to develop so you’re able to infect possibly millions of machines in the world having trojan “implants.” The clandestine effort allows the newest NSA to split into the directed servers and also to siphon aside analysis off overseas Web sites and phone communities.
The newest stealth infrastructure one to helps the fresh hacking services works throughout the agency’s head office during the Fort Meade, Maryland, and out of eavesdropping angles in the uk and you may Japan. GCHQ, british intelligence company, seemingly have starred an integral role in assisting to cultivate the latest implants strategy.
In many cases the brand new NSA features masqueraded because the an artificial Myspace server, using the social network webpages since the a launching mat so you can contaminate an effective target’s computer and you can exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In others, it has distributed spam emails laced with the trojan, which will be customized so you’re able to covertly list tunes off an excellent pc’s microphone and take snapshots using its sexcam. New hacking options have also enabled this new NSA so you’re able to discharge cyberattacks by the corrupting and you will interrupting file packages otherwise denying use of other sites.
The fresh implants getting implemented was basically immediately following kepted for many hundred hard-to-arrived at purpose, whose interaction cannot feel monitored by way of conventional wiretaps. However the data assessed Norfolk live escort reviews by Intercept inform you how the NSA possess aggressively expidited the hacking attempts previously ten years from the computerizing some techniques in earlier times managed of the individuals. The automated program – codenamed Wind mill – was designed to “allow the most recent implant circle so you can scale to large-size (countless implants) by simply making a network one really does automated handle implants from the communities in the place of personally.”
Inside the a top-wonders speech, old med an element of the stealth system called the “Expert System,” that is made to efforts “such as the mind.” The system takes care of brand new programs and procedures of one’s implants and you will “decides” what units they must top extract investigation from infected servers.
Mikko Hypponen, an expert when you look at the trojan which functions as master lookup administrator at the fresh Finnish shelter business F-Safe, calls the new revelations “distressing.” The fresh new NSA’s monitoring techniques, he alerts, you may inadvertently feel undermining the safety of your own Sites.
“Once they deploy malware towards the systems,” Hypponen claims, “it potentially would the fresh new vulnerabilities during these possibilities, causing them to more susceptible having episodes because of the third parties.”
Hypponen thinks that governing bodies you’ll perhaps justify using trojan when you look at the a great small number of focused cases up against enemies. However, an incredible number of virus implants getting implemented because of the NSA once the part of an automated techniques, he says, would be “out of control.”
“That would not at all feel proportionate,” Hypponen says. “It would not possibly be directed and you will called. It sounds such as for example general illness and you will general monitoring.”
The NSA rejected to answer questions relating to their implementation of implants, pointing to another presidential rules directive announced from the President Obama. “Due to the fact president made clear toward 17 January,” the latest agency told you within the a statement, “signals cleverness would be amassed only where there can be a foreign cleverness otherwise counterintelligence goal to support national and department missions, and never for any other motives.”
“Purchasing the net”
Brand new NSA first started rapidly increasing the hacking jobs an effective , predicated on wonders internal facts, the fresh service is actually handling a small community away from simply a hundred so you can 150 implants. But over the second 5 to 9 ages, since an elite tool named Designed Supply Functions (TAO) hired the brand new hackers and you will created the malware devices, exactly how many implants soared so you can thousands.
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Air Conditioner Tips – Tips For Cooling Down Your Private Home
Protecting the inside of your house cool, with the usage of air conditioner suggestions is less complicated than you think. You might imagine that preserving cool within the summer is a breeze, however you would be shocked how many people battle with this process in summer time time. Summer means hotter weather and the next humidity stage, which may mean a struggle for folks trying to take care of a cool and snug living environment.
In the case of conserving the inside of your private home cool, you can find air conditioner tips in many various locations. Should you visit any local flea markets or rummage by your local free articles for ideas, chances are high you’ll be able to find some helpful ideas and details about how to maintain your property cool in the course of the summer time months. These tips can make it easier to save cash by keeping your private home cooler than regular and preventing you from spending additional money on an air conditioner.
There are tons of air conditioner tips on the market, so how do you choose what tricks to observe? Here are a couple of tips to bear in mind when making an attempt to maintain a comfortable and cooler atmosphere:
It’s a good suggestion to provide your self ample time to scrub. Attempting to wash the inside of your own home too soon can make a multitude that can’t be wiped up without correct preparation. Ready till later to clean is usually the most effective plan of action when trying to keep the inside of your home cool.
Give all areas of your private home that need cleaning, reminiscent of draperies, walls, basements, and so forth., a radical washing. This course of will get rid of any excess dust or water which will have gotten into the realm, making it simpler to clean up afterward.
Additionally, make certain to wash and sanitize any windows that you’ve got. The interior of your own home ought to all the time be saved clean and sanitized. If your windows are actually soiled, your air conditioner may not work as well.
Air conditioner suggestions do not cease there, though. Making your private home as heat as attainable can even help to stop your house from feeling too cold. Along with preserving the realm nice and cool, doing this may also assist to forestall colds and different illnesses.
Try using a blanket or sheet that covers up many of the furnishings that you use in your house. This will help to keep the air cooler, as a result of it could limit the amount of heat that’s entering your property.
There are other air conditioner ideas, as nicely. There are loads of various choices for keeping your property cool, so you’ll find some that may work finest for your home.
Air conditioner tips aren’t difficult to implement, however they actually do take a bit of labor. Understand that when you really need to maintain your home comfy, the above tips must be carried out, and then you will have a better probability of success.
Keep in mind that if you’re actually severe about making an attempt to maintain your home cool throughout the summer season, you will get some air conditioner suggestions and take some necessary steps to maintain the home snug. The following tips can work, and they don’t must be very expensive or troublesome to implement.
Do not forget that if you wish to cool down your home through the summer, there are many air conditioner tips that you may try. However remember that it may be too much simpler to keep your property cool in the course of the summer season months than it can be through the winter.
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Friday April 26 2013; Palestinian medical sources in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported that dozens of local resident, Israeli and international protesters have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after the army attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlements in the village.This week’s protest was also held in solidarity with Palestinian detainees held by Israel and facing ongoing violations and aggression.
Local sources reported that the army fired gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets and concussion grenades, and sprayed the nonviolent protesters with waste-water mixed with chemicals as soon as they arrived at the Abu Lemon Natural Reserve.
Several trees were also burnt by Israeli fire while the protesters rushed to put the fire off in order to save the Palestinian trees and olive orchards.
It is worth mentioning that Israeli peace activists and a delegation of the French Palestinian Friendship Society, participated in the protest.
The nonviolent protesters raised Palestinian flags and started their protest by marching from the center of the village while chanting slogans calling for Palestinian national unity and the liberation of all Palestinian detainees held by Israel.
The nonviolent protesters also raised Palestinian and French flags and the global peace sign on the Annexation Wall, and carried posters stating, among other things, “Resistance Will Continue Until Victory”.
Abdullah Abu Rahma, Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in, reported that the issue of Palestinian detainees is a very important cause, and that this protest comes to express solidarity with them amidst ongoing and escalating Israeli violations against them.
Abu Rahma informed the visiting French delegation on the history of the nonviolent resistance against the Wall and settlements, and the successes made due ongoing determination and steadfastness despite Israeli aggression and the army’s use of excessive force against the protesters.
He also called on more international participation and support of the leading nonviolent resistance in Palestine.
The visiting French delegation expressed solidarity with the ongoing nonviolent struggle, and saluted the creative nonviolent resistance model in Bil’in.
It is worth mentioning that dozens of injuries have been reported in different parts of the occupied West Bank after the army attacked the weekly nonviolent protests.
Medical sources reported that dozes of protesters have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation in the Al-Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem, after the army attacked its weekly protest.
Dozens of injuries have also been reported in Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah, when the arm used excessive force against the nonviolent protesters.
Injuries have also been reported in Silwad town, near Ramallah, after the army attacked nonviolent protesters. At least four were hit by rubber-coated metal bullets, while dozens of residents have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation.
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I do worry about whether we will get through this century without severe setbacks. I think there are two different classes of risk we need to worry about. The first is the category which we are imposing collectively because there are more of us on this planet, a growing population, and each of us is more demanding of energy and resources. There are now nearly seven-and-a-half billion people on the planet; there will be nine billion by mid-century. We’re not sure what will happen after that; it could go up even more. But also, we’ll all be more demanding in terms of energy and resources. And of course, we hope that the developing world will close the gap with more fortunate countries like ours, and that will, of course, increase the pressure on energy and resources. So there’s a risk that this is going to lead to despoliation of the environment — climate change; it could have severe long-term effects — and to disruption of ecologies, leading to mass extinctions. And of course, those will be irreversible degradations of our environment. So we will not be leaving an environment for future generations as good as the one we inherited. So that’s a serious concern, our collective effects.
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Marcel Gehrung has been 3D printing protective visors from his living room.
COVID-19 is delaying cancer research and treatment. We catch up with some of the cancer researchers who are using their expertise, experience and equipment to help tackle COVID-19 and get cancer services back on track.
The shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS workers has been a headline issue in the UK.
Standard PPE kit includes an apron, gloves, a surgical mask and eye protection, which is vital to the safety of those working at the front line of the coronavirus crisis and they people they’re looking after. Without it, they’re at a higher risk of catching COVID-19.
Alongside widespread COVID-19 testing, PPE is essential to protect healthcare workers and ensure cancer care can continue during the pandemic.
It’s in exceptional times like these that people across the country have been motivated to respond, doing everything from sewing scrubs and facemasks at home to donate to the NHS to volunteering to deliver medicines or food to people at risk.
We spoke to two of our scientists who are doing their bit to help COVID-19 efforts – using their expertise in 3D printing to help provide essential PPE to health workers around the country.
Steve Bagley, Manchester: ‘I wondered how I could help’
Steve Bagley is a cancer scientist from our Manchester Institute. He normally works with microscopes and X-ray machinery to analyse cancer cells, but became increasingly aware of the lack of PPE for our frontline staff. “I saw that there was a need for more protective equipment for those working in the NHS, so I wondered how I could help.”
While the Institute’s labs at Alderley Park have been temporarily closed for research, Bagley has been tasked with the job of looking after and maintaining the specialist lab equipment, including a 3D printer.
“I’m very familiar with the 3D printer, as it’s a piece of kit we use regularly to create parts for microscopes and other lab equipment,” says Bagley. “And it occurred to me that I could use this to create plastic headbands for protective face masks.”
Once Bagley had worked out a template, with correct dimensions for the headbands, he began a mini production line, printing the plastic headbands in the lab.
So far, Bagley has produced over 200 protective face masks for frontline healthcare staff. The PPE will be distributed to hospitals across the North West, including The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.
“I really wanted to do something to support all those who are working so hard on the frontline in the battle against Covid-19. And the sooner we beat this virus, the sooner we can return to beating cancer.”
Marcel Gehrung, Cambridge:
“There is this very public discussion about the lack of personal protective equipment for different health care professionals in the NHS,” says Marcel Gehrung, a PhD student at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, investigating machine learning applications in healthcare, with a focus on medical imaging. Whilst completing his PhD in Cambridge, Gehrung co-founded Cyted, a new diagnostics company that uses artificial intelligence to detect cancers earlier.
And it was this work that drew him into the discussions around PPE.
The company has been involved with the commercialisation of the Cytosponge – a ‘sponge-on-a-string’ test that can detect oesophageal cancer earlier. Cytosponge was developed to help pick up Barrett’s oesophagus, a condition that can develop into oesophageal cancer, but plans were adapted in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak.
“We were contacted by a lot of trusts saying they don’t have endoscopy capacity anymore, and their waiting lists for people who are being referred for endoscopy are getting very long,” Gehrung explains. To help mitigate this reduction in endoscopies the Cytosponge – the test used to diagnose oesophageal conditions, such as Barrett’s oesophagus and cancer – has been piloted in Addenbrooke’s hospital as an emergency response.
His involvement in rolling out the Cytosponge test has given him a real insight into the needs of healthcare workers.
Gehrung and his team were asked about sourcing protective equipment by the nurses running the Cytosponge testing facility at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge. The Cytosponge test requires nurses to retrieve the device from the patient’s stomach, which sometimes involves coughing as it passes the throat, “so it is very important for the healthcare staff to have face shields”.
After a couple of days of thinking about where they could source face masks, Gehrung took matters into his own hands. “I started talking to our Institute Director and Director of Operations and said that we could actually use the Institute’s printers to make more visors.”
Gehrung transported the equipment, which wasn’t being used at the time, from the Institute to his home in Cambridge, and is now producing visors using multiple 3D printers in his living room.
“So far we just have produced them on demand,” says Gehrung, “we had this domino reaction happening where people would say ‘oh yeah I need another two and I have a few colleagues who are trying to source them as well’”.
Although it’s hard to say exactly, Gehrung estimates he’s made between 150–250 protective visors.
Gehrung notes the importance of thinking beyond the area you’re working in to find solutions to tricky situations. “If someone talks about academia and science, they tell you it’s about vertical depth, and having maximum understanding of a topic, but breadth is very helpful for this situation, as it helps you think outside of the box.”
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What is the worst way of starting an investment? Jumping in because of peer pressure, FOMO or without conducting proper due diligence. This has always been a thumb rule of various seasoned investors out there. However, its importance has just grown multifold in the cryptoverse. Why? Because it is an unregulated, decentralized territory. This means if something were to happen to your funds, there was very little you could do about it. Sad but true. This is the flipside of the general narrative around removing the middlemen from your financial transactions completely. While everything seems to be in place and Blockchain technology has stood against the test of time, every now and then we hear about some incident which leaves thousands of unknowing retail investors bankrupt. So today, with an intention to level up our crypto game, we are going to discuss top crypto scams you should be aware of.
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Consumer Sentinel, from October 2020 through March 31, 2021, reports of crypto-related scams skyrocketed to nearly 7,000 people reporting losses of more than $80 million. These figures reflect a 12-fold increase in the number of reports compared to the same period a year ago and a nearly 1,000% rise in reported losses.
We would go ahead and mention that it is easier to execute a scam in crypto than in other industries. This is because the hype often overshadows the rationality in this space currently. Secondly, as we mentioned that you do not have anyone’s back. You are pretty much on your own. Which makes it extremely important to develop a knack to catch these scams before putting in your hard earned money somewhere.
Types of Crypto Scams:
Crypto scams can be broadly divided into two types. These are essentially the ways these scammers try to dupe you.
In the first method, scammers will try to gain access to your digital wallet like Metamask using some sort of manipulative trick. If you want to experience this, go to Twitter right now and make a random tweet about Metamask. Almost immediately, you would get a comment on your tweet saying that the person is from Metamask support and you need to fill a form for the team to help you out. The form would have a column that asks for your 12 word key phrase.
In the second method, scammers will try to ask you to transfer money to their wallet using different means. Since crypto transactions are irreversible, they have a fair chance of running away unharmed after scamming you.
Let us explore specific scams in this industry now.
A. Blackmail or Extortion Scams:
A few weeks ago, one of our writers got an email in his inbox that said, the account has been compromised. The hacker claimed that he has had access to the contacts, emails, browser history and webcam of the victim. Due to that, he now possesses some intimate moments which were captured through the camera.
The threat revolves around leaking those images and the browser history if the attacker is not paid $500 worth of Bitcoin at a given address. We personally checked the address on the blockchain explorer and the attacker had managed to siphon off $458 worth of BTC from someone.
B. Imposter and Giveaway Scams:
This is yet another famous type of scam plaguing the crypto industry. In this kind, scammers impersonate a famous celebrity and tries to share across a message wherein they are conducting a giveaway. But in order to be fair and legit (and to avoid bots) in terms of giveaway, they would only send some free crypto (usually a large amount) to the people who send an X amount to them first.
And no surprises for guesses that once you send them money, it is gone for good. This method gains extreme traction as every now and then these scammers manage to hack the accounts of famous celebrities.
Don’t believe us? Here is the scam that happened early last year.
Even if these scammers are not able to hack into the actual accounts of these celebrities’, they try their best to replicate each aspect of their profile so that an unwitting eye falls for it.
C. Phishing Scams:
This is something that has been borrowed from web 2. Phishing has always been the most common form of scam attacks. The scam starts with creating a web page with a URL similar to the original website of a popular Crypto application. The contents of the web page are also mimicked to ensure that user falls for it.
Finally, you are asked to put in your sensitive information like ID/Password/Wallet key phrase. Once you do that, it is stored in the background and hackers can now access all the crypto in that wallet.
Here is list of websites released by Binance (world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange) to flag off websites that are trying to look like Binance.
D. Cloud Mining:
If you have not done your research and do not understand how cryptocurrency and Blockchain works, it is rather easy to fall prey to these kinds of scams. This scam is very common on social media platforms like Instagram and Telegram.
Attacker will reach out to you and try to begin a conversation. Once you start showing some interest, they would present you a business opportunity where you stand a chance to make decent returns each day. How, you ask? Well, it is through something called ‘Cloud Mining‘. If you have not done your homework so far, let us tell you that this is completely made up. Cloud mining does exist but you can assume that those platforms would never reach out to you. Especially through Instagram or Telegram.
Anyway, the scam involves asking you to pay an upfront deposit which will be used to open up your account with them. Once account is opened, you can start earning your mining rewards. The modus operandi involves asking you to login to their account and then loading their wallet with the ‘registration fee‘.
Obviously, once you make the payment, everything vanishes in a trice. Yes, including the agent who was in touch with you.
E. Rug Pulls:
With enormous growth of Decentralized Finance, a new age scam is emerging out of the blue. And it has been only gaining momentum since. One of the most common attacks in DeFi is called Rug Pull. As the name suggests, it is when project owners abandon the project and run away with the investor’s money.
There are three types of Rug Pulls prevalent in the market:
E.1: Sucking Liquidity
Before we understand what is meant by sucking liquidity, a quick overview of how Automatic Market Makers work.
Once you create a token, the entire supply is in your wallet. You could send it to anyone but it’s still not available for trading on public platforms and exchanges like Uniswap, Pancakeswap.
For enabling that trading, you need to provide liquidity in certain pairs. That means that developer takes the token he developed (which has no value initially) and supplies it along with a valuable token like ETH, USDT, BNB etc. in equal proportion.
That means if I supply a liquidity of 1000 coins for 20 USDT, each of the coin would be priced at $0.02.
Now when someone comes along with USDT and tries to exchange it with the newly minted token, price of the token will keep on increasing. This also means the quantity of token present in the pool (1000) is constantly decreasing and the quantity of the valuable token like USDT (20) is constantly increasing.
It’s pretty simple from here on. Once the pool has sufficient valuable currency, you simply withdraw the liquidity. Not only you can take the entire quota of valuable tokens, but others won’t be able to trade using this pool anymore. Bummer!
E.2: Selling Stake:
If you convince the masses about the value your project has, they are going to buy it. And guess what are they paying in order to buy? Yup. Valuable currencies like ETH, USDT etc.
At this point, you could slowly sell your own holdings of your worthless token and accumulate more and more value. Easy right? That’s why you need to do a thorough DYOR.
E.3: The Code Scam:
‘Code is the law‘ in cryptoverse. Everything is being governed by self executing smart contracts. While it is a perfect solution in the ideal world, what about the flipside?
One could also program the crypto token in a way that no one can sell it. They could only purchase it and when they come back on a DEX to sell it, they just can’t.
Source code for all major tokens is available in open source. But general unsuspecting people can’t understand that.
So What Can I Do About It?
Learning is your best friend in Cryptoverse. DYOR is not just an abbreviation, but a way of life when you are working in cryptoverse. Got questions?
Let me know in the comments section below. If this article adds value to your life, please consider sharing it with your friends using the links below.
Until next time..
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Article Source: Top Crypto Scams
Author: Raghav Dudeja
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Gaston County Schools District Calendar: Gaston County Schools District is a public school district located in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. It is the 10th best school district in Charlotte Area, North Carolina, United States. There are a total of 58 schools in the school district which includes 31 Elementary Schools, 14 Middle Schools, and 13 High Schools. The Gaston County Schools District is consists of a total of 31,427 students and teachers in a ratio of 16:1. This school district starts from grade P-K to grade K-12. Also, there are approx 63.7% of students in the school district get free or reduced lunch services. The teachers of this school district focus mainly on the academics of the school rather than on something else. The teachers of the school district help you to choose a good career for your better future.
Gaston County Schools District Calendar 2021
This is the Gaston County Schools District Calendars 2021 in PDF format and also in the image form. you can download this calendar in any format in what you like to. These school district calendars also include the main holidays inside them. With the help of this school district calendar, you can easily have a look at the upcoming holidays of the school.
Gaston County Schools District, North Carolina Calendar Holidays 2021
Here is the Gaston County Schools District calendars are given here for free in colorful PDFs format. You may download this calendar in your system and check out the holidays anytime whenever you need to. This is a great source of checking out the holidays of the school district. Along with this, you are getting other school district calendars too of the U.S. here like Pasadena Unified School District Calendar 2021, Meridian School District Calendar 2021, Murrieta Valley Unified School District Calendar 2021, Santa Barbara Unified School District Calendar 2021, Ithaca City School District Calendar 2021, etc. These are only some of the school district calendars on our website. Except these, you will find more such school calendars there for free and also with the holidays mentioned inside it. Get more updates of the school district ahead in the article.
Gaston County Schools District Proposed Calendar 2021-2022
Month and Date
|August 10, 2021||First Day of School|
|November 25 – 26, 2021||Thanksgiving Break – School Closed|
|December 22, 2021 – January 4, 2022||Christmas Break|
|April 13 – 19, 2022||Spring Break|
|May 20, 2022||Last Day of School|
This is the Gaston County Schools District Holiday Table of the year 2021-22 in PDF format. Holidays like Thanksgiving Break, Christmas Break, Spring Break, etc. are the school district holidays that help students and parents to recognize the upcoming holidays of the school district. This is an important table for knowing the holidays of the school district. In this way, you may also get the other school district holidays also of the other schools of U.S.
Gaston County Schools District Corona Virus Update
The latest update of the Gaston County Schools District is that the board of education has approved plan A, according to which there will be in-person learning for the students of middle and high school students from April 12, 2021. The in-person learning will be there for 4 days a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday) and the rest days there will be remote learning due to maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of the school district in the time of this pandemic. Students who are engaged in the virtual academy are instructed to follow the rules where there will be 4 days of class from the virtual basis of learning rather than having in-person learning so as to decrease the cases of the Coronavirus.
Gaston County Schools District Jobs
Gaston County Schools have great employees working in their school district. They all so talented that they get the positions as per their talent and efficient work. They also get different job opportunities as per their experience. Here is a list of some jobs for the employees of the school district like Student Affairs Specialist, EC Teacher Assitant, Principal, Interpreter, Custodian, Summer Camp Coordinator, Language Arts Teacher, Athletic Director, Teacher Assistant, etc. are the school district jobs they are getting this time.
Gaston County Schools District Pay Scale
There is no average salary of the employees working in the Gaston County Schools District. All the teachers and the other staff working in the school district are getting a good pay scale as per their jobs. Each employee has a different job position and the salary they are getting is also different from each other. Like here is the examples of some jobs with their payscales are like High School Teacher gets a $43k – $88k estimated salary, Band Teacher gets a $32k – $74k estimated salary, Fuel Truck Driver gets a $19k – $47k estimated salary, etc. are some of the jobs.
Gaston County Schools District Phone Number
We have provided you the Official Phone Number of the Gaston County Schools District i.e. (704) 866-6111 on which you can call anytime during working hours of the school district. All the parents have a right to ask the school administration about the school activities going on right now. They may also check out the information through the official website of the school district which is https://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/ on which you may visit and take out the required details about the school district.
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bachelor of interior architecture
Chiaroscuro is a hybrid slow retail and restaurant solution set within the 1936 State Heritage listed, former AMP Building at 21 King William Street, Adelaide.
Chiaroscuro began with a want to challenge norms, instill consideration, and encourage education of how both fast and slow ideologies sit within our current culture.
Chiaroscuro is not about the absolute. It’s not about showing perfectly how a slow food restaurant would look next to a slow retail space. It’s not about being completely perfect in these values.
However, it’s a spectrum; a spectrum of fast and slow, of positive and negative and maybe good and bad. Chiaroscuro is a spectrum of reality, a reflection of real life and portrays how fast and slow ideologies sit within our culture, as imperfect as they are. We all fluctuate, and Chiaroscuro is beautiful reflection of this fluctuating journey; this journey to be either fast one day or slow the next, you can shop fast, or eat slow with family and friends, you can sit and rest or walk quickly through the space.
There are three main original design concepts that formulate Chiaroscuro; a strong idea of journey, ‘Fabric and Fold’ an original spatial design concept into the exploration of the similarities between clothing and an interior, and polarity challenging balance and tension of new and existing fabric.
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ENVIRONMENT MAPPING AND URGENT LANDING PLANNING FOR LOW-ALTITUDE UAS OPERATIONS
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are expected to proliferate in low-altitude airspace and will require flight near buildings and over people. Robust urgent landing capabilities including landing site selection are critical for safety. However, conventional fixed-wing emergency landing sites such as open fields and empty roadways are rare in and around cities. Our work uniquely considers a city’s many unoccupied flat rooftops as possible nearby landing sites. We propose novel methods to identify flat rooftop buildings, isolate their flat surfaces, and find touchdown points that maximize distance to obstacles. We model flat rooftop surfaces as polygons that capture their boundaries and obstructions. We process satellite images, airborne LiDAR point clouds, and map building outlines to generate rooftop maps with a multi-stage machine learning pipeline. We propose a computational geometry method (Polylidar3D) that reliably extracts flat rooftop surfaces from archived data sources. We model risk as an innovative combination of landing site and path risk metrics and conduct a multi-objective Pareto front analysis for sUAS urgent landing in cities. A high-fidelity simulated city is constructed in the Unreal game engine with a statistically-accurate representation of rooftop obstacles. Fusion of Polylidar3D and RGBD semantic segmentation output shows improved intersection-over-union (IOU) accuracy in landing site identification compared to using LiDAR data only.
Time: September 22nd 5:30-6:30 pm
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New York State aims to procure 800MW of offshore wind power by 2019
The state of New York has announced a scheme to procure approximately 800MW of offshore wind power by 2019.
The plan will support the state’s target to own 2.4GW of new offshore wind energy, enough to power 1.2mn homes, by 2030.
New York State also aims to source 50% of its total electricity from renewable power generation by the same deadline, the state’s governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, noted.
The 800MW of power, to be sourced by next year, will be procured through a solicitation that was issued at the end of 2017.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will procure renewable energy certificated from awarded facilities, with the awards to be announced by the second quarter of 2019.
The Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Certificates will be sold to utilities and other firms.
“This action represents another major step toward establishing a clean energy future that is secure, reliable and cost-effective,” Governor Cuomo stated.
“Robust offshore wind development is not only critical to meeting our clean energy and carbon reduction goals, this investment has the potential to create thousands of jobs and fuel a $6 billion (£4.6bn) industry for New York as it combats climate change.”
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You’re dreaming of a pool — all that wonderful water and fun — and a place for your guests to relax. Pools are complex and can be challenging to build, but your solution could be an above-ground option. Let’s take a look at what goes into building an above-ground pool and whether this addition is right for your outdoor space. Here’s what you need to know.
In-ground pools may be the outdoor idea, but they’re much more expensive and take longer to install. Repairs for an in-ground pool can be more extensive, as well, running into the thousands of dollars if you have an issue.
An above-ground pool is faster to install and makes repairs much simpler because you’re able to access the pool more easily when it’s not in-ground. Plus, the materials aren’t as expensive, and the installation is more straightforward.
The short answer is yes! Many above-ground pools are designed to do just that. They provide all the materials you need to build and situate the pool, and they work whether you use a simple ladder or build a deck around them.
You’ll need to consider:
- Your pool size — Above-ground pools come in a variety of sizes. Choosing the size will depend on your commitment to provide upkeep and the space you have.
- Permits and zoning restrictions — Neighborhoods will most likely require a permit for pools over a certain size and have restrictions for where to place them.
- Pool materials and framing — Above-ground pools have rigid sides or metal framing with soft sides. Your choice will be based on budget, size, and permit restrictions.
- Terrain — You’ll need a flat surface to place your pool or you’ll need to spend more time and money creating one.
Once you’ve made your decision, chosen your location, and gotten the required permits, you can begin your installation.
If the above-ground pool kits aren’t for you, there are other options. You can choose large canisters or cisterns to install instead of a traditional above-ground pool. Shipping containers and even dumpsters could all transform into a place to create some pool magic.
Natural pools comprised of liners, stone, and gravel are also possible. These natural pools use landscape tools, including aquatic plants to help ensure that your pool environment is clean and swimmable.
The price range for an above-ground pool can cost as little as under $1,000 to several thousand dollars depending on your materials and preparations. If you already have the container and a level piece of ground, it may not be a huge budget requirement. If you’re using materials you must purchase and need to prep the space, this can add to your cost. If you don’t have the right outlet on your home, an electrician fee is also part of the installation cost.
Luckily, there are ways to make your own above-ground pool without breaking the bank, but you may have to get creative about your materials and be flexible in your placement. Do your research and consider all your options first.
Above-ground pools require a base material to prolong the life of the pool and ensure safe installation. There are a few options you can choose:
- Mason sand — This sand can be tamped down to create a hard, solid layer that prevents the pool from shifting or sagging. It’s easy to obtain and simple to lay.
- Stone dust — Stone dust is another tough layer that prevents a pool from shifting or sagging, but it will require an underlayment to prevent small stone pieces from wearing away the pool floor over time.
Armor Guard or rolled foam are the two most common choices for underlayment whether you choose mason sand or stone dust. These additions will make the bottom more comfortable for your feet and help prevent injury if you hit the bottom a little too hard.
You’ll need literally tons of material to put under an above-ground pool, so this is a task for a truck. For example, a 12-foot-round pool will need one ton of either material to provide a suitable flooring to keep your pool safe over time.
You’ll also need a base material to help protect the bottom of your pool. Once the pool is on top of the mason sand or stone dust, use landscaping rocks to help deter moisture and create a rust-resistant layer that helps the exterior dry quickly.
Deciding to build an above-ground pool yourself isn’t tough. Once you’ve done your research and gotten the correct materials, you’ll follow the instructions to create a safe and fun place for your family and guests to gather all summer long.
Take the time to level your pool and create a moisture barrier so that you can enjoy your pool as long as possible. Do your research and you’ll have a DIY above-ground swimming pool you can enjoy year after year.
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Farmers in some African countries are moving into new territories located on the elephant's natural migration routes, causing friction between man and beast -- sometimes with deadly consequences.
Exploring solutions, environmental researcher Lucy King has implemented her doctoral research, using bees as a deterrent to elephants who have in the past destroyed crops and agricultural equipment.
King's solution, the beehive fence, combines real and dummy beehives full of African honey bees. Triggered by a simple wire fence the hives are disturbed, swinging and releasing irate bees upon elephants.
Twelve to 15 hives can protect an area between 1.5 and 2 acres -- the size of the sustenance farms King is targeting.
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With fires engulfing the small Northern California town of Paradise, residents had to evacuate, and quick. But Tracy Grant and boyfriend Josh Fox of nearby Oroville, Calif. wanted to help. So this couple "adopted" a 93-year-old veteran after California wildfires destroyed his home... and at least a little bit of my faith in humanity is restored.
As CNN originally reported, with the story then appearing on Oregon's KPTV Fox 12 news site, 93-year-old World War II veteran Lee Brundige managed to escape with his life by driving himself away as the Camp Fire approached his Northern California home.
Brundige ended up at a parking lot where Grant, who lives 11 miles from the scene of the devastation, was passing out hamburgers in an attempt to help out and accepted a meal, CNN added. But when Grant pressed to be of further assistance, as Inside Edition reported, the veteran insisted on spending the night in his car.
"I didn't like leaving him there, but he's very independent," Grant, 43, explained to CNN. "So I made sure he had blankets and a pillow [and] I stayed with him until about midnight." But when the smoke spread further south the following day and the local sheriff evacuated the area where Brundige's vehicle was parked, Grant couldn't help but get further involved with the self-sufficient senior. "[I] gave him no choice but to come with me," she told the news outlet.
"When I first met him, I knew he was special," Grant, a shop owner, told SFGate.com, a website affiliated with the San Francisco Chronicle. "He was the only person in this parking lot who was by himself with no one else with him. I made it my mission to keep my eye on him. When the rangers came, I went up to him and said, 'You're coming with me.'"
Grant took Brudige back to the place she shares with Fox and pets including dogs Axle and Cash, and called her boyfriend to alert him to the situation, SFGate noted, including the fact that poor Brundige had no fresh change of clothes with him. "I just want to warn you, there's a man in your recliner wearing your robe," Grant told Fox, as SFGate reported. "And he's the cutest little 93-year-old you've met."
The news site noted that Fox then jumped into action by stopping to pick up clothes for Brundige on his way home from work in Sacramento before arriving home and finding that his new guest shares his passion for World War II history. "They hit it off when Lee said he was the littlest guy in his unit so they made him be the tail gunner over the South Pacific," Grant told SFGate.
Grant and Fox have helped the veteran connect with a grown son, should he wish to live with family, CNN reported. If not, however, the pay-it-forward-believing couple is happy to host Brundige as long as he would like to stay. "I thought if that were my grandpa, where would I want him to be," Grant added to SFGate. "We told him this could be his forever home, but that is totally up to him."
Paradise will need a ton of help in rebuilding, and tons of people ranging from first responders to celebrities like Guy Fieri have been on the ground to volunteer. It seems like this is one case in which the tragedy of a natural disaster has brought out the best in people, and it makes my day to hear a story like this one.
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Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2004. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2.
Thallus: immersed, only a small part superficial, extensive, continuous, thin (100-150 µm); usually without dark prothalline line surface: +smooth, pale gray goniocysts: absent soralia: very numerous, brown to dark gray or indigo, or yellow-gray to blue-gray or brown, or eroding and creamy white, sometimes erumpent, mostly discrete, parallel to the grain of the wood, +round to narrowly elliptical (or +lobed), 0.2-1 x 0.2-0.4(-0.8) mm, +flat, somewhat constricted at the base soredia: farinose, 19-30 µm in diam., with brown pigment which is unchanged in K, inspersed; photobiont: algal cells few except in the soralia, 8-10 µm in diam. Apothecia: absent to very numerous, constricted at the base, +round or deformed (to short ellipsoid or lirelliform), with rounded ends, straight or +c- or s-shaped, sometimes several confluent, 0.2-1 x 0.15-0.4 mm disc: pale brown to red-brown or dark brown, brownish black when wet, +plane (to concave), epruinose margin: narrow, dark brown, epruinose, forming +erect and somewhat raised 'lips' exciple: reddish brown, at the base and laterally 15-20 µm thick epihymenium: pale brown, granular, 15-20 µm thick hymenium: pale yellow, not inspersed, I+ deep blue, c. 60 µm high; paraphyses: filiform, simple, little-conglutinate, with clavate tips; hypothecium: hyaline, 60 µm thick asci: clavate, thin-walled, 50-55 x 10-12 µm, 8-spored, with +obliquely uniseriate spores ascospores: hyaline or a few old spores becoming gray-brown, simple, ellipsoid to ovoid, 8-12(-16.5) x (3-)4-6(-7.5) µm Pycnidia: usually present, inconspicuous; wall: gray-brown conidia: filiform, curved, 15-20 µm long Spot tests: thallus K-, C-, KC-, P-; soralia usually K+ citron yellow to orange, P+ orange Secondary metabolites: stictic acid, usually with other members of the complex, including norstictic acid; atranorin has also been reported; there may be several chemical races (see Brodo 1976, p. 403). Substrate and ecology: on conifer wood and stumps, including driftwood, in maritime to high montane sites, mostly on decaying trunks near the ground in humid situations; in Douglas fir, pine-fir, and spruce-fir forests World distribution: Holarctic in the Northern Hemisphere, centered in the boreal zone and the oroboreal belt in Europe and North America Sonoran distribution: eastern Arizona at 2830-2990 m and southern California at 400 m. Notes: Xylographa vitiligo is distinguished from other species of the genus, with which it is frequently intermixed, by its soralia, which are generally larger, more discrete, and paler than patches of goniocysts, and react K+ yellow to orange, P+ orange. While the apothecia and soralia are usually short and ±round and irregularly oriented, with superficial, dark farinose soredia and pale discs, in some material from our region the apothecia are somewhat darker and more elongated (resembling those of X. parallela). When sterile X. vitiligo may be confused with various sorediate species in other genera, from which it may be distinguished by the reactions of the soralia, which contain stictic or norstictic acids. Xylographa vitiligo as delimited here is rather variable, and may consist of more than one taxon.
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CEDARWOOD (Cedrus atlantica): Assists respiratory infection or congestion, chronic bronchitis, coughs, rheumatism and arthritis pain, lymphatic stimulant, aid arterial regeneration, boils, wound healing and the nervous system. In India, it is used effectively to cure ulcers, skin diseases, repel mosquitoes, oily skin (scalp and hair), acne, fungus, dandruff, urinary infections, simple water retention and the nervous system.
Scripture: Used by cohen/priests (Leviticus 14:4, 6, 9, 51-51).
Descriptor: Anti-inflammatory, anti-lipic, sedative and antispasmodic
Certified Organic: USA/Canada Or Morocco
Found In: CoHeN and HaDaSsaH.
CAUTION: Use Caution during Pregnancy.
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Only a few individuals suffering from an addiction to alcohol are able to stop on their own, without external intervention. Alcohol rehab facilities can provide these kind of people with the professional help they really need.
People who have alcohol addiction is safer in a place like alcohol rehabilitation facilities. In overcoming the psychological and the physiological aspects of alcohol addiction, these rehab centers provide a very caring environment. The process of treating alcohol addiction includes detoxification and counseling, and most of the time, the support of fellow recovering addicts who are enrolled in the program as well.
What Happens During an Alcohol Rehabilitation Treatment?
Patients who have a minimal thoughts on what occurs while on alcohol rehabilitation program are inclined to do well in the program due to the reason that they are more more comfortable when they enter the facility, therefore able to hit the ground running as far as their recovery is concerned.
Below are some information that will help you prepare for an alcohol rehabilitation program. The different part of every rehabilitation process is being summarized here in order to help you. These things will apply in one way or another even though every rehabilitation program has its uniqueness.
• The Process of Consultation and Diagnosis – the admissions process is the first step in entering an alcohol rehab facility. This is where a warm and friendly admissions staff of the facility asks questions about the individual’s background and says, in full detail, how the rehabilitation program will go. At the same time, it is also in this stage where the individual is free to ask questions about the program and what they are about to put their self into.
• The Process of Detox – the moment the individual is accepted in the program, he or she is then prepared for detox. Before any individual can start getting the care as part of the alcohol rehabilitation program, he or she needs to go through detox first. Alcohol detox – at times known as drying out – is the phase where patients are freed from all of the harmful alcohol toxins in their body. It is in this stage of the program where uncomfortable (and sometimes painful) withdrawal symptoms happen. With this reason, there is always a medical or a counseling professional in the team that will help the individual make it through.
• Counseling – this process plays a potent role in all recovery program, and oftentimes, it is dubbed as the heart and the soul of the whole rehabilitation process. In counseling, recovering addicts work with counselors and their peers in order to cut to the heart of their problem and learn from each other techniques for staying sober. Alcoholism is a psychological addiction as much as it is a physical one, and through counseling, the patient will be able to address this aspect of the illness.
• The Process of Aftercare – the moment the patient leaves the alcohol rehabilitation center, he or she is still likely to face challenges in terms of maintaining their sobriety. Everyday, there will be distractions and temptations. That is the reason why aftercare programs such as 12-step meetings, follow-up counseling and sober living help the patient make the full transition back into his or her daily life as smooth as possible.
• The Process of Health Related Programs – the good health of the recovering addict is as essential as anything that they will get during rehab. That is why, most alcohol rehab programs include exercise, yoga, meditation, or nutritional counseling as a part of the recovery plan. When you enhance the body, the mind will follow is the idea behind these programs.
Alcohol rehab create a safer place for people who are addicted to alcohol
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10 Most Common Social Media Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
We often hear people say that social media marketing doesn’t work anymore. But is it really so? There are tons of examples that will prove them wrong. If you are not getting success, it only means that you are not doing it in the right way.
In fact, social media still has the potential to build you the brand community, get you better customer engagement, and skyrocket ROI in your business.
Today you can find the whole world on social media, and that gives you tremendous opportunity to get exposure for your brand. That is the reason why so many companies put their time, money, and efforts to enhance their brand reach on social media. But to attain success, they need to avoid committing some most common social media marketing mistakes.
Being a social media marketer, you may have a few questions in your mind.
- Why do your social media marketing activities fail and not get you the desired conversions in your business?
- Why do some Facebook and Twitter pages are very popular compared to others?
- Why are your competitors doing much better than you in social media marketing?
In case you are also facing similar issues, then it means that you are making mistakes in your social media marketing strategies.
Don’t worry. Everybody makes mistakes, but eventually, you need to learn from those mistakes and improve yourself to avoid repeating them again.
So, here we are showing you some most common social media marketing mistakes that marketers often do.
1# Dismissing The Thought That Social Media Is Ineffective:
First, you need to remove the thoughts from your mind that social media won’t work for your industry. There is some common misconception between marketers that social media isn’t their cup of tea. And only tech-savvy and young creators can be successful on social media. But that’s not true.
Nowadays, people from all demographics are active on social media. People from different age groups are creating their content on social media channels, and they are able to enhance their reach with the audience. In fact, if you see Facebook, more than 60% of senior-aged people are active on Facebook.
Similarly, on Twitter, most of the audiences are around the mid-age category 30–49 years. So, there are different age groups of people to target on social media platforms. While the success of your social media marketing mainly depends on the planning and strategy. Without a proper plan, you can’t be able to accomplish the desired results from your social media marketing efforts.
2# Not Having Any Social Media Marketing Strategy:
Most of the emerging brands and creators often face failures on social media. And the reason behind that is because they didn’t make their approach with a solid social media marketing strategy. That is not only the case with you, but many companies are also trying their best to seek attention on social media. And with so much competition, you need to come up with an effective strategy, which perfectly suits your brand.
Otherwise, after making a super launch on social media, your social media page would become barren without effective content, and your followers will leave you. In the end, your social media presence would decline to make it a flop show.
To create a good social media marketing strategy, you need to keep four things in your mind.
- Marketing Objective
- Target audience demographics
- Tactics to enhance your social media reach
- A smart investment to save time and efforts
Seriously saying social media might take a lot of time and effort before giving any result. So we would suggest you create a long term plan and stick to it till the end. Set the goals that you are expecting to achieve and target the audience who takes an interest in your business.
Try to enhance your reach with audiences to gain more and more followers on social media. Doing all these things would take your time, money, and effort. While you can also utilize a smart social media management tool like Socinator using which you can automate social media activities to save your time and efforts.
3# Tracking The Wrong KPIs:
Measuring the key performance indicators of social media marketing is very important, but many times marketers fall into the trap of vanity metrics. Usually, marketers check their follower’s counts on social media. While they don’t give much attention to the clicks and conversions that they are getting on social media.
Ultimately they won’t be able to grasp how social media is having an impact on their business. It’s good that you are keeping track of your followers on social media. But you should also make sure to measure the impact of social media marketing efforts on your business.
If it is helping you to gain more sales conversions for your business, then it is good to continue. Otherwise, you have to make some changes in your marketing strategy so that you can bring more clicks and conversion form your social media campaigns.
4# Not Dealing With Negative Feedbacks:
Most of the brands make this mistake, and they try to avoid dealing with negative feedback on social media. Everyone fears that negative feedback will spoil their brand’s reputation. It is true, but instead of ignoring such comments, you can thank them for noticing the problem and try to provide them with the best solution.
Eventually, you will find a positive change in the behavior of your audience. People who weren’t happy with your products or services earlier would change their views about your brand. And they would start to like your brand by giving a positive review on social media.
And to achieve that, you need to satisfy the needs of your users. If you could win their trust, and it would help you to attract more and more conversions for your business.
5# Thinking All Social Media Are Same:
That is where most of the marketers make mistakes, thinking that all social media platforms work the same. They create a single content and post it on all social media platforms.
All social media platforms are quite different. They have different algorithms, strengths, and features. And not only that on different social media platforms, but you will also find audiences with different age groups, gender, behavior, and interests. So you can’t be sure that your content is targeting the right audience to get better social media engagement for your brand.
For example, on Facebook, you have a wide range of audiences where you can post and share your stuff easily. Whereas if you check Pinterest, most of the audiences are female.
So, while publishing your content on different social media platforms, you should consider all these factors and optimize your content according to the platform. That would help you to get a better response from your audience on social media platforms.
6# Not Engaging With Followers/Customers:
How much are you engaging with your audiences on social media? If you are not, then it’s one of the social media marketing mistakes that you are committing. When a brand replies to the comments of their audience, it would help them to increase their engagement. The more you respond to your audience, the more will be your audience engagement. And it would also increase the chances of getting more clicks and conversions to your social media campaign.
7# Targeting The Wrong Audience:
Social media can help you to connect with people that fit the buyer persona, which you want to target. However, most of the social media marketers can’t be able to find their target audience. And that’s the reason why they get disappointed after making so many efforts on social media.
The best way to find and reach out to your target audience is by analyzing the audience that your competitors are targeting on social media. Even if you are facing trouble finding the right audience to target your social media campaigns, don’t worry. There are powerful ad analytic tools available in the market like PowerAdSpy, using which you can do a thorough study to check the social marketing performance of your competitors.
You can learn about their target audience while it will also help you to check the engagement and conversions on their posts. It would also help you to search for the contents that are popular in the trend so that you can also implement the same in your social media marketing strategy. And it might help you to drive more traffic and sales conversions to your business.
8# Not Being Regular With Posting:
So now you are doing all the things right. But even then what can be the reason that your posts aren’t getting many views and likes. And the reason behind that may be because you are not being consistent with posting on social media.
Once you have started getting followers, you would be getting more audience engagement. However, that engagement would eventually go down if you won’t be regular with publishing your content on social media.
In case you won’t have enough time to manage your social media posting activities, then you can also invest in social media automation tools like Socinator. It would help you to automate posting and other social media activities so that you can save your time and efforts to deliver more amazing posts to your audience.
9# Making It All About You Only:
Initially, talking about yourself might help you to catch the audience’s attention. But as time passes by, you would feel that audiences are losing their interest in your content.
Many brands make the same mistake on social media, and they only publish content about their events, their new product launch, their products, etc. However, most of the people don’t care about all such things unless and until it would benefit them in some or other way.
To grab the attention of the audience, you need to tell them what they want to hear. The content should be according to the interest of your target audience.
So make sure that your content strategy is not all about you only while it’s about the audience you want to target.
10# Not Having A Social Media Policy:
To be a successful brand on social media platforms, you have to be careful about not crossing the borderline that could result in public embarrassment. If you are not managing all social activities by yourself, please make sure that your social media marketing team is following all the policy-related guidelines showing what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable.
For example, content that promotes racist thoughts, offensive and aggressive stuff shouldn’t be allowed. And make sure that your marketing team is also following the policy and adhere to it.
Here is the takeaway- in social media marketing, there are many things that you need to do to accomplish great success for your brand. It’s all about how you target your approach to reach the goal in the end. If your approach is right, you are going to claim success.
So, to all social media marketers, I would suggest them to make their goals clear and strategize their marketing efforts so that it could bring more value to their customers.
Hope you really like this article and gain some useful information from it. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!
Originally published at https://rocketlink.io on July 21, 2020.
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Thoughts on Translating Poetry
In the current issue (January, 2015) of The Sun magazine, Leath Tonino interviews David Hinton on translating ancient Chinese poetry. There’s much to learn here, about philosophy and wisdom as well as poetry and translation, but I was struck by a couple particulars.
One was the idea of the “I” in ancient Chinese poetry and how there isn’t one. A separate speaker who is an “I” is left out, and the original poems are images and phrases, the witness/poet being understood as part of the larger whole taking place in a sort of eternal now.
Another was the aspect of persona in the act of translating. As interviewer Tonino puts it, “As a translator, you say you’ve found a way to speak in the voice of ancient China’s sage-masters while also letting them speak through you.” This struck me as being very similar to acting. As an actor, I try to use everything at hand, everything in me and everything in the script, to let the character speak through me.
Hinton pursues this further and also explains that, in addition to no “I,” there are “no verb tenses in classical Chinese,” and “no punctuation.” He says he’s got “to reinvent the poems in my own language, in my own voice.”
I was surprised, then, and yet delighted to find the “I” in the translations, after all! (As well as tense and punctuation!) “I live here in a village house…” begins a poem by T’ao Ch’ien, called “Drinking Wine.” Indeed, finding the “I” (and the wine!) allowed me to connect, to be transported to China and to a far-off time. As the reader, I disappeared and became the speaker of the poem, witnessing river and mountain, arranging flowers, aging, and anticipating death. And here, as reader, I was also directly addressed:
How do you grow old living with failure and disgrace?
Stay close to the cascading creek: cold, shimmering.
Look at the precision of punctuation (not present in the original poem) in this translation by Hinton of Wang An-Shih.
All these things fascinate me about translation. Hinton says scholars don’t always like what he does, often preferring word-for-word translations, but, for me, these poems came alive on the pages of The Sun.
–Kathleen Kirk, EIL Poetry Editor
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The small Central American country launches one bitcoin valley develop the region and promote the introduction of cryptocurrencies. Businesses in the city of Santa Lucia, Honduras, are now accepting payments in BTC. The country wants to become a neighbor of El Salvador cryptocenter in the region.
Honduras aims to become a global crypto hub
Honduras, a Central American country and neighbor of El Salvador, launched “Bitcoin Valley” project in the city of Santa Lucia, in the countryside, for example attract cryptocurrency investors from around the world. Many businesses in the city now accept payments in Bitcoin, according to a Reuters report.
FROM “Bitcoin Valley”Honduras wants to enter the booming world of cryptocurrencies. The latest announcement from the Central American nation came nearly 10 months after neighboring El Salvador officially adopted BTC as legal tender. El Salvador also holds millions of dollars worth of BTC.
To keep up with its neighbor El Salvador, Honduras has launched a “Bitcoin Valley”. The city is located 20 minutes from its capital Tegucigalpa.. The Central American country wants to encourage the use of bitcoin and promises to create and launch 60 companies. Introduce cryptocurrency for your products and services.
Bitcoin Valley Lanzamiento @ Blockchain504 @coincaex @UTHEDU pic.twitter.com/36cTLeB2ao
– Blockchain Honduras (@ Blockchain504) July 28, 2022
Cesar Andino, head of several small travel companies in Santa Lucia, told the local newspaper La Prensa that he is betting. a lot about the use of cryptocurrency:
In Santa Lucia, we will all participate in this project. We put everything there. The adoption of Bitcoin will allow us to open another market and attract more customers. We have to globalize. We cannot rule out technology and be left behind when other countries are already doing it.
Even if this is so far basically a publicity stuntIt has recently become clear that developing countries such as El Salvador and Honduras Significant potential for the use of cryptographic assetsespecially if local currencies are inherently unstableSimon Peters, Market Analyst at eToro, commented.
In the footsteps of the Salvadoran neighbor
Do you remember El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender. in September 2021. President Naib Bukele sees wealth as a way to develop and strengthen the financial inclusion of his people. Therefore, the country is betting big on the king of cryptocurrencies.
El Salvador survived it A leap in tourism of about 30% after the adoption of BTC as legal tender in the country. However, the country is facing some problems after the recent drop in the price of BTC. The country will currently have around 2,301 BTC for which it would pay $ 105.6 million. At the current price, that would be only $ 52 million, then Decrease about 50% of their BTC reserves.
This introduction of Bitcoin is also frowned upon by international organizations and by you in particular. The IMF says the country has gone too far. If the International Monetary Fund recognizes that cryptocurrencies can lead to greater access to financial services, it thinks so. The country should not have been legal tender in bitcoin.
The object explains:
The use of Bitcoin poses significant risks to financial stability, financial integrity and consumer protection. ” [du Salvador] Limit the scope of the bitcoin law by removing the legal status of bitcoins.
Despite his objections, the Salvador project remains unchanged, and Tweet from President Naib Bukele The description of new bitcoin purchases in the country continues to thrive on social media.
Salvador just bought a dip! 🇸🇻
500 coins at an average price of $ 30,744 in USD 🥳 # Bitcoin
– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbule) May 9, 2022
Therefore, El Salvador continues to believe in the future of bitcoin and has many projects, such as mining bitcoin using the energy of volcanoes. The next few years will tell us if this strategy is successful to a small Central American country and its neighbor Honduras.
To stay up to date on current market conditions, read our latest article here.
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For all the opportunity breakfast provides, there’s also a threat: Consumers are skipping breakfast more due to busy lifestyles.
Overall, consumers report they are eating breakfast at home 3.5 days per week, away from home 1.2 days per week, and are skipping it altogether 2.3 days per week.
Sixty-two percent of consumers report skipping breakfast at least once during the week, while 39% say they skip the morning meal at least once on the weekend.
What’s the reason for skipping weekend breakfasts? The No. 1 response is they are simply “not hungry in the morning,” followed by “just drink a beverage instead,” “waited too long to eat” and “don’t have time.”
Retailers and suppliers should meet these breakfast skippers halfway with a snackable morning item as well as a bevy of beverage options.
Source: 2017 Technomic Breakfast Consumer Trend Report
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In 2003, during the Kumbh Mela in Nasik 39 pilgrims were killed and 59 injured. In 2005 there was a stampede among a large number of Hindu worshippers on their way to to the Mandhara Devi shrine near Mumbai and 258 people were killed. This stampede is a big problem in Saudi Arabia too and in Janurary last year 345 pilgrims were killed as pilgrims rushed to complete the stoning ritual. To prevent this from happening again, the Saudis have enforced certain rules for crowd control which can be used by us as well.
A Saudi team recently returned from a crowd management workshop in Munich where they learned how to apply German experience in managing the tens of thousands of soccer fans during the last World Cup to the crowds of pilgrims at Jamrat. “We’ll apply what we have learned from Germany at Jamarat during this Haj season,” said Dr. Fadhil Othman of the Haj Research Institute, who participated in the workshop. The Saudi team watched how the Germans controlled large crowds of soccer fans rushing to an area of television screens to watch World Cup matches.
Police stopped people going to the area when 75 percent capacity was reached. They also made sure that there was adequate space in between people to move around freely without any pushing or pulling. “Another important thing we learned is that pilgrims should move in one direction and nobody should be allowed to move in the opposite direction,” he said while speaking about Jamrat crowd control strategy. [Advanced Strategy Adopted for Jamarat Crowd Control]
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It is in southwestern Oneida County, New York, and south of Rome City, established as Town of Verona from the Town of Westmoreland. It had been part of the extensive territory covered by the Iroquois League. It was first settled in by European Americans in 1792 during the American Revolutionary War. In 1993, the Oneida Nation had opened to the public a casino and bingo hall which was further developed in 1997 as a full-scale resort known as Turning Stone Resort & Casino.
Verona is part of the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School District. Students in grades Pre-K through 6 attend John D. George Elementary School, located on Main Street in the village of Verona. The main campus of Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School and Middle School is located on New York State Route 31 in Verona, and serves students in grades 7-12.
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Barkhausen noise analysis: Master sample procedure
Since Barkhausen noise analysis is a comparative method, users need to determine acceptable measurement values for their products with the master sample procedure.
June 20, 2022
How to detect grinding burn on crankshafts with Barkhausen noise analysis
Crankshafts are one of the most common parts that can be analyzed with the Barkhausen noise method.
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2022 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanic
The SEM Annual Conference and Exposition focuses on all areas of research and applications pertaining to experimental mechanics, and has evolved to encompass the latest technologies supporting optical methods; additive & advanced manufacturing; dynamic behavior of materials; biological systems; micro-and nano mechanics; fatigue and fracture; composite and multifunctional materials; residual stress; inverse problem methodologies; thermomechanics; and time dependent materials.
Date: Jun 13 - Jun 16, 2022
Location: Omni William Penn Hotel
City: Pittsburgh, PA
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How to detect grinding burn on camshafts with Barkhausen noise analysis
Camshafts are one of the most common parts that can be analyzed with Barkhausen noise.
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Nordic Residual Stress Group meeting and workshop
In this two day event we will focus on understanding and handling residual stresses in metallic components.
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Location: Teknologisk Institut
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Fast residual stress determination by means of two-dimensional X-ray diffraction using the sin2ψ-method
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How to detect grinding burn on gears with Barkhausen noise analysis
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As mentioned in Part 1, I’ve been taking a lot of photos of birds.
100% Crop series is just at it sounds. Each photo shows a bird cropped from a larger photo. Most of the crops will be 100%, but not all.
I was going to include this in the previous post but decided it merited its own post. What is a Mississippi Kite, you ask?
For photos at 100% crop (the above photo isn’t), if your browser window is set to full screen, and if your screen is large enough, when you click on the photo, it will fill the screen. If your cursor shows as a circle with a ‘plus’ sign, it means your screen resolution is smaller than the photo, in which case, you can click on the photo to further zoom in to 100% resolution.
Again, you won’t see the above at 100% size unless you go to SmugMug and zoom in.
Anyway, I was sitting watching birds when I noticed a speck in the sky. Normally, I can tell what it is by the way it flies (various birds) or soars (raptors or vultures). This one looked odd.
Of course, in SmugMug, you can view the first photo at full resolution and you can see the bird a tad larger . . .
. . . . I wasn’t happy with either the processing or size of the 100% crop, so I ran the photo through Topaz GigaPixel and doubled the resolution . . .
While I could recognize the bird from the original photo, I can now better see it’s eating on the wing. If I had to guess, a field mouse.
Unlucky mouse, that is, because I live outside of the breeding range of the bird, but apparently close enough for it to wander over (about 60 miles or so, I’d guess). Of course, with environmental conditions changing, those maps will all probably adjust.
Regardless, I snapped a bunch of photos as it soared. Some are closer than others and some are better than others, and some I did not share at all. Unless stated otherwise, the following are crops of the 2X-enlargement versions.
Wait . . . before I continue, let me again show the difference between as-shot, 100% of as-shot, and 100% of 2X-enlargement.
I can’t tell if it’s still eating on the wing or cleaning its talon.
All these photos and a few more are in their own SmugMug gallery HERE.
Readers will get tired of this, but here’s another trio of original, 100% crop, and 100% crop of the 2X version (click any of them and you’ll get the full-size version of each; if the cursor shows a (+) symbol, you can click again to zoom in).
OK, one last time. I’m not claiming these are fantastic photos but given the size of the original (I estimate the bird was at least a half-mile away) and the fact I can enlarge it as much as I did (I didn’t try more) is pretty good. Sure, no fine details, but fine enough.
The rest are all crops of the 2X versions of original photos. Some are larger than others because it was soaring in circles, so sometimes it’s closer.
Overall, I think the whole AI Suite offered by Topaz is well worth what I paid for it. I bought the individual programs as they each came out, and now pay $100/year to keep all of them current, and while some might find it expensive, it’s these kinds of instances that — for me — make it worth the cost.
I worked out how to do a slideshow of just these photos. SmugMug allows me to create ‘collections’ galleries (virtual copies of the photos), and, because they work like galleries, I can do a slideshow of them . . .
That’s it. This post has ended . . . except for the stuff below.
Note: if you are not reading this blog post at DisperserTracks.com, know that it’s copied without permission, and likely is being used by someone with nefarious intentions, like attracting you to a malware-infested website. Could be they also torture small mammals.
Note 2: it’s perfectly OK to share a link that points back here.
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The phrase "warts and all" entered the language forever, but the artist ordered by Oliver Cromwell to paint the knobbly truth has almost been forgotten – something gallery owner Philip Mould hopes a new exhibition, the first in 40 years devoted to the work of Samuel Cooper, will correct.
"Cooper was a marvel – warts and all was his USP, an almost clinical portrayal of Homo sapiens, the great topographer of the human face, and yet to many people the name means nothing," Mould said.
Cooper was regarded as the best portrait painter of his day, but only worked in miniatures. The Cromwell is best known from a full-size version painted by Peter Lely, where the wart appears as a mere smudge over the Lord Protector's right eyebrow. The face in Cooper's original, in watercolour on vellum, is the size of a 50p piece but miraculously detailed – from the bald patch, creased forehead and roughened cheeks to the jowly five o'clock shadow.
Cooper had painted an earlier portrait of Cromwell soon after he came to power, in which he appears almost Botoxed, the face longer and more conventionally noble. When Cromwell came to his London studio – Cooper demanded that his clients, even royalty, come for an extraordinary eight sittings – he gave the famous order for less flattery and more accuracy.
"It is the best painted wart in English art, if not the only painted wart in English art," Bendor Grosvenor, head of research at the gallery, said. "When you see it close up in high definition the top is all white and flaky, absolutely repulsive."
When Cromwell died his son came to the studio to buy the sketch: Cooper's usual price was £20, but he demanded and got £100. It stayed in Cromwell's family until the 19th century when it was bought by the Duke of Buccleuch, whose descendant has loaned it to the exhibition. Other loans have come from aristocratic private collections, museums, and the Queen.
During Cromwell's reign Cooper painted both leading royalists and parliamentarians, and as soon as Charles II came to power, he too headed for the studio – the artist kept the magnificent sketch from life, like the Cromwell, so he could turn out copies on demand.
Mould and Grosvenor both have form as art detectives, regularly turning up works believed long since lost or destroyed. This time they have identified a youthful man in a very good brown coat, from the V&A collection, as a Cooper self-portrait, and a deceptively meek woman in a plain white cap and gown from a country-house collection – wrongly identified on the 19th century gold frame as a Restoration beauty, Mrs Middleton – as the king's outrageous mistress Nell Gwynn. Her gown is a nursing jacket, suggesting it was painted just after she had a son by Charles. She is said to have called "come here, you little bastard" to the boy in front of the horrified king. When Nell asked what else she could call him, the King promptly made the toddler Duke of St Albans.
In 1672 a contemporary diarist noted the death of Cooper and called him "the most famous Limner of the World". Now, outside art experts, his name is hardly remembered. Grosvenor believes the problem is the nature of miniatures: fragile, hard to display, almost impossible even with modern technology to photograph. "When you see the miniatures in museums they're almost always covered with a cloth which you're invited to lift – but nobody does," Grovenor said. "It would be nice if this time people remember his name, not just the wart."
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The matrix exponential operator has applications in numerous domains, ranging from time integration of Ordinary Differential Equations or network analysis to various simulation problems (like power grids or nuclear reactions
) or machine learning. In graph signal processing, it appears in the diffusion process of a graph signal – an analog on graphs of Gaussian low-pass filtering.
Given a graph and its combinatorial Laplacian matrix , let
be a signal on this graph (a vector containing a value at each node), thediffusion of in is defined by the equation with . It admits a closed-form solution involving the heat kernel , which features the matrix exponential.
Applying the exponential of a matrix to a vector can be achieved by computing the matrix to compute then the matrix-vector product . However, this becomes quickly computationally prohibitive in high dimension, as storing and computing , as well as the matrix-vector product , have cost at least quadratic in . Moreover, multiscale graph representations such as graph wavelets , graph-based machine learning methods , rely on graph diffusion at different scales, thus implying applications of the matrix exponential of various multiples of the graph Laplacian.
To speedup such repeated computations one can use a well-known technique based on approximations of the (scalar) exponential function using Chebyshev polynomials. We build on the fact that polynomial approximations can significantly reduce the computational burden of approximating with good precision when where is sparse positive semi-definite (PSD); this is often the case when is the Laplacian of a graph when each node is connected to a limited number of neighbors. The principle is to approximate the exponential as a low-degree polynomial in , . Several methods exist, some requiring the explicit computation of coefficients associated with a particular choice of polynomial basis, others, including Krylov-based techniques, not requiring explicit evaluation of the coefficients but relying on an iterative determination of the polynomial approximation on the subspace spanned by .
Our contribution is twofold. First, we devise a new bound on the approximation error of truncated Chebyshev expansions of the exponential, that improves upon existing works [10, 11, 12]. This avoids unnecessary computations by determining a small truncation order to achieve a prescribed error. Second, we propose to compute at different scales faster, by reusing the calculations of the action of Chebyshev polynomials on and combining them with adapted coefficients for each scale . This is particularly efficient for multiscale problems with arbitrary values of , unlike which is limited to linear spacing.
The rest of this document is organized as follows. In Section II we describe univariate function approximation with Chebyshev polynomials, and detail the approximation of scaled univariate exponential functions with new bounds on the coefficients (Corollary II.2). This is used in Section III to approximate matrix exponentials with controlled complexity and controlled error (Lemma III.1), leading to our new error bounds (17), (18), (19). Section IV is dedicated to an experimental validation, with a comparison to the state-of-the-art bounds of , and an illustration on multiscale diffusion.
Ii Chebyshev approximation of the exponential
The Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind are characterized by the identity . They can be computed as , and using the following recurrence relation:
The Chebyshev series decomposition of a function is: , where the Chebyshev coefficients are:
Truncating this series yields an approximation of . For theoretical aspects of the approximation by Chebyshev polynomials (and other polynomial basis) we refer the reader to .
Ii-a Chebyshev series of the exponential
We focus on approximating the univariate transfer function , which will be useful to obtain low-degree polynomial approximations of the matrix exponential
for positive semi-definite matrices whose largest eigenvalue satisfies(see Section III).
Using a change of variable:
and the Chebyshev series of yields:
This leads to the following expression for :
where for any : .
Ii-B Chebyshev coefficients of the exponential operator
with the modified Bessel function of the first kind and the exponentially scaled modified Bessel function of the first kind.
The following lemma applied to yields another expression of the coefficients (3), which will be used to bound the error of the truncated Chebyshev expansion.
Lemma II.1 (, Equation 2.91).
Let be a function expressed as an infinite power series and assume that this series is uniformly convergent on . Then, we can express the Chebyshev coefficients of by:
Consider , . The coefficients of its Chebyshev expansion satisfy:
Moreover we have:
Denoting , we expand into a power series:
Using Lemma II.1, we obtain for each :
For any integers we have and hence
Iii Approximation of the matrix exponential
The extension of a univariate function to symmetric matrices exploits the eigen-decomposition , where , to define the action of as . When for some integer k, this yields , hence the definition matches with the intuition when is polynomial or analytic.
The exponential of a matrix could be computed by taking the exponential of the eigenvalues, but diagonalizing the matrix would be computationally prohibitive. However computing a matrix such as is rarely required, as one rather needs to compute its action on a given vector. This enables faster methods, notably using polynomial approximations: given a square symmetric matrix and a univariate function , a suitable univariate polynomial is used to approximate with . Such a polynomial can depend on both and . When the function admits a Taylor expansion, a natural choice for is a truncated version of the Taylor series . Other polynomial bases can be used, such as the Padé polynomials, or in our case, the Chebyshev polynomials [11, 16] (see for a survey), leading to approximation errors that decay exponentially with the polynomial order .
Iii-a Chebyshev approximation of the matrix exponential
Consider any PSD matrix of largest eigenvalue (adaptations to matrices with arbitrary largest eigenvalue will be discussed in the experimental section). To approximate the action of , where , we use the matrix polynomial where is the polynomial obtained by truncating the series (4). The truncation order offers a compromise between computational speed and numerical accuracy. The recurrence relations (1) on Chebyshev polynomials yields recurrence relations to compute . Given a polynomial order , computing requires matrix-vector products for the polynomials, and Bessel function evaluations for the coefficients. This cost is dominated by the matrix-vector products, which can be very efficient if is a sparse matrix.
Iii-B Generic bounds on relative approximation errors
Denote the polynomial obtained by truncation at order of the Chebyshev expansion (4). For a given input vector , one can measure a relative error as:
Expressing and in an orthonormal eigenbasis of yields a worst-case relative error:
with the eigenvalues of and .
Consider , as in Section II-A, and a PSD matrix with largest eigenvalue . Consider as above where . With we have
Denote . For we have:
and hence for (10) yields:
Since on (recall that ), we obtain using Corollary II.2:
While (11) is the error of approximation of , relative to the input energy , an alternative is to measure this error w.r.t. the output energy :
Since we have . Using Lemma III.1 we obtain for and any :
Iii-C Specific bounds on relative approximation errors
As the bounds (17)-(18) are worst-case estimates, they may be improved for a specific input signal by taking into account its properties. To illustrate this, let us focus on graph diffusion where is a graph Laplacian, assuming that . Since is the inner product between and the unit constant vector
, which is an eigenvector of the graph Laplacianassociated to the zero eigenvalue , we have . For this leads to the bound:
This bound improves upon (18) if , i.e. when
Considering a graph with Laplacian , the diffusion of a graph signal at scale is obtained by computing . In general, the largest eigenvalue of is not necessarily (except for example if is a so-called normalized graph Laplacian, instead of a combinatorial graph Laplacian). To handle this case with the polynomial approximations studied in the previous section, we first observe that where and . Using Equation (20) with scale allows to select which of the two bounds (18) or (19) is the sharpest. The selected bound is then used to find a polynomial order that satisfies a given precision criterion. Then, we can use the recurrence relations (2) to compute the action of the polynomials on , and combine them with the coefficients given by (5).
Iv-a Bound tightness
Our new bounds accuracy can be illustrated by plotting the minimum truncated order required to achieve a given precision. The new bounds can be compared to the tightest bound we could find in the literature :
where , and:
with and . This bound can be made independent of by using the same procedure as that of used to establish (18):
An experiment was performed over 25 values of ranging from to , 100 samplings of Erdos-Reyni graphs of size , with connection probability (which yields ), and coupled with a random signal with entries drawn i.i.d. from a centered standard normal distribution. For each set of experiment parameters, for each bound, generically noted , the minimum order ensuring was computed, as well as the oracle minimum degree guaranteeing MSE . The median values over graph generations are plotted on Fig 1 against
, with errorbars using quartiles.
We observe that our new bounds (blue) follow more closely the true minimum (black) achieving the targeted precision, up to , thus saving computations over the one of (red). Also of interest is the fact that the bounds (19)-(21) specific to the input signal are much tighter than their respective generic counterparts (18)-(23).
Iv-B Acceleration of multiscale diffusion
When diffusing at multiple scales , it is worth noting that computations can be factorized. The order can be computed only once (using the largest ), as well as . Eventually, the coefficients can be evaluated for all values to generate the needed linear combinations of , . In order to illustrate this speeding-up phenomenon, our method is compared to scipy.sparse.linalg.expm_multiply, from the standard SciPy Python package, which uses a Taylor approximation combined with a squaring-and-scaling method. See for details.
For a first experiment, we take the Standford bunny , a graph built from a rabbit ceramic scanning (2503 nodes and 65.490 edges, with ). For the signal, we choose a Dirac located at a random node. We compute repeatedly the diffusion from 2 to 20 scales sampled in . Our method is set with a target error . When the values are linearly spaced, both methods can make use of their respective multiscale acceleration. In this context, our method is about twice faster than Scipy’s; indeed, it takes 0.36 s plus 6.1 s per scale, while Scipy’s takes 0.74 s plus 2.4 s per scale.
On the other hand, when the values are uniformly sampled at random, SciPy cannot make use of its multiscale acceleration. Indeed, its computation cost increases linearly with the number of ’s, with an average cost of 0.39 s per scale. Whereas, the additional cost for repeating our method for each new is negligible (0.0094 s on average) compared to the necessary time to initialize once and for all, the (0.30 s).
The trend observed here holds for larger graphs as well. We run a similar experiment on the ogbn-arxiv graph from the OGB datasets . We take uniformly sampled scales in (following recommendations of ), and set our method for . We observe an average computation time of 504 s per scale (i.e. 1 hr and 24 min for 10 scales) for Scipy’s method, and 87 s plus 50 s per scale for our method (i.e. around 9 min for 10 scales). If we impose a value , comparable to the floating point precision achieved by Scipy, the necessary polynomial order only increases by 6%, which does not jeopardise the computational gain of our method. This behavior gives insight into the advantage of using our fast approximation for addressing the multiscale diffusion on very large graphs.
All experiments are in Python using NumPy and SciPy. They ran on a Intel-Core i5-5300U CPU with 2.30GHz processor and 15.5 GiB RAM on a Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon.
Our contribution is twofold: first, using the now classical Chebyshev approximation of the exponential function, we significantly improved the state of the art theoretical bound used to determine the minimum polynomial order needed for an expected approximation error. Second, in the specific case of the heat diffusion kernel applied to a graph structure, we capitalized on the polynomial properties of the Chebyshev coefficients to factorize the calculus of the diffusion operator, reducing thus drastically its computational cost when applied for several values of the diffusion time.
The first contribution is particularly important when dealing with the exponential of extremely large matrices, not necessarily coding for a particular graph. As our new theoretical bound guarantees the same approximation precision for a polynomial order downsized by up to one order of magnitude, the computational gain is considerable when modeling the action of operators on large mesh grids, as it can be the case, for instance, in finite element calculus.
Our second input is directly related to our initial motivation in that was to identify the best diffusion time in an optimal transport context. Thanks to our accelerated algorithm, we can afford to repeatedly compute the so-called Diffused Wasserstein distance to find the optimal domain adaptation between graphs’ measures.
The authors wish to thank Nicolas Brisebarre for discussions that helped sharpening some bounds, as well as Hakim Hadj-Djilani for discussions on python implementations.
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Angelo State's Planetarium to present new astronomy show
The Angelo State University Planetarium will present a series of public viewings of the new astronomy show “2017 Eclipse Across America” on Thursday, Aug. 17.
The free viewings will begin at 6 p.m. in the Vincent Nursing-Physical Science Building, 2333 Vanderventer Ave.
Due to the popularity of the show, a new viewing will start every hour on the hour until all attendees have been accommodated, and attendees are encouraged to show up early to avoid long wait times.
The viewings are being presented as a preview event for the upcoming solar eclipse on Aug. 21.
The astronomy show was created by the Jenks Planetarium in Jenks, Okla., and is narrated by four students from the Jenks Public School District. It is designed to provide all the information needed to prepare to view the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, as well as entertain with ancient eclipse lore that has been handed down through the ages.
There is no admission fee, but donations will be accepted and any money received will go toward future ASU Planetarium shows.
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Alongside the slew of 90-inch TVs, Sharp also used this year's IFA to show off something a little less glamorous. Its IGZO technology (that's indium gallium zinc oxide, kids) was developed in conjunction with the Semiconductor Energy Laboratory. According to Sharp, the displays "have a significantly higher translucency [compared to traditional LCD TFT displays]. This improvement means that smaller or fewer LEDs are needed for the backlighting." The result is less power consumption for high-res displays and higher sensitivity on touchscreens, with far less noise to contend with.
The company plans to create three panel sizes to start: 10-inch (2560 x 1600), seven-inch (1280 x 800) and 32-inch (3840 x 2160). Sharp was also demoing a prototype seven-inch tablet (which you can see in the gallery below) alongside the displays. The representative we spoke with wouldn't reveal anything about specific products the company plans to produce using the technology, but did tell us that we can expect to see some IGZO products in 2013. Check out an explanatory video after the break.%Gallery-163988%
Fascinating brilliance due to new displays
Unrivalled touch-sensitivity from an ultra-low power screen technology that delivers a brilliant picture; this is why IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) technology which Sharp will show during IFA 2012 is causing such a stir. "IGZO is a real quantum leap in display technology. The technology can be used for, among others, mobile terminal devices such as smart phones, for which the demands on screen resolution are constantly increasing, but also in TVs", explains Alberico Lissoni, Vice President Consumer Electronics at Sharp Europe. Compared to traditional LCD TFT displays, IGZO products have a significantly higher translucency. This improvement means that smaller or fewer LEDs are needed for the backlighting. These new displays are not only smaller, they also have a much less power consumption
Both Sharp and SEL have agreed to accelerate the developments concerning useful life and production costs to meet the substantial demand in the market. Lissoni continues, "Sharp will be introducing LCD displays with the new IGZO technology worldwide. We are only at the start of this new development and we strongly believe IGZO has a huge potential."
Sharp announced that it will be producing three panel varieties with IGZO technology: a 10-inch LCD panel with 2560 x 1600 pixels, a 7-inch panel with 1280 x 800 pixels and a 32-inch panel with 3840 x 2160 pixels. At the same time Sharp is working on possible future uses and is researching other areas of application.
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Railroads reached Asheville in 1880 (from Salisbury) and in 1886 (from Spartanburg). The city soon gained popularity as a tourist and health resort, but the two-mile trip from the train depot to downtown remained a difficult one for visitors and citizens alike. The journey required climbing hills that were a 10.5 percent grade, too steep for horsecar operation.
E. D. Davidson of Long Island, New York, who had financed a horsecar system in Halifax, Canada, visited Asheville in 1888 to explore opportunities. The city soon authorized a charter for an electric railway that would include lines from Public Square (now Pack Square) to various sections of the city, including the depot that served the Western North Carolina Railroad. Davidson agreed to build the system in collaboration with Frank Sprague, builder of the Richmond streetcar system. John Barnard helped supervise construction and became the company’s general manager.
The line to the depot opened on February 1, 1889. From the Public Square, the line extended down South Main Street (present Biltmore Avenue) and Southside Avenue, and then was routed onto Depot Street (west of present-day McDowell Street) to the depot, located on flat land in the railroad yard.
A number of railway companies organized and built streetcar lines to emerging neighborhoods and outlying areas, including the Sulphur Springs resort and Biltmore Village. By 1907 Asheville led the state by carrying three million streetcar passengers, compared to Charlotte and Wilmington with two million each. By 1915 the street railway reached its maximum size, operating forty-three rail cars on eighteen miles of track, including one to the newly opened Grove Park Inn and the surrounding upscale neighborhood. Thomas Wolfe described the city's streetcars in his short story "The Lost Boy": "The streetcars ground into the square from every portion of the compass and halted briefly like wound toys in their old familiar quarterly-hour formula."
Following Asheville in establishing electric streetcar service were Winston (July 1890), Charlotte (May 1891), Raleigh (Sept. 1891) and Wilmington (1892). In 1900 most of Asheville’s railways were consolidated into the Asheville Electric Company, renamed Asheville Power and Light Company in 1912. In 1926 the company was sold to Raleigh-based Carolina Power and Light Company. The electric streetcar system in Asheville ceased operation in 1934, supplanted by buses.
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Written by Livio Costa-Júnior, IGA Country Representative for Brazil and Professor of Parasitology at the Federal University of Maranhão
The Northeast Region of Brazil has 90% of the 10 million goats present in the country (Figure 1). The Northeast is characterized by an area of 981,821 km² of a semi-arid interior and 3,317 km of coastline, where it has the highest human population density and a large consumer market for products from this semi-arid region. Consumption occurs in specialized restaurants and bars in all areas of the Northeast region with several typical dishes.
Additionally, the Northeast has 11.6 million sheep that are frequently raised together with goats on the same farm. Often the owners, who are predominantly small and medium-sized producers, have no knowledge of the particularities of each species. The challenges in the production of goats in Brazil include: 1) feed management and 2) sanitary management, mainly for gastrointestinal nematodes.
It is difficult to produce large areas of forages in Northeast Brazil because this region has a low rainfall index. Nevertheless, a high diversity of native shrubs with elevated protein concentrations for goat production grow in that region. The ability of the goat to adapt to dry seasons, compared to other animal species, is the likely cause for the high concentration of goats in this semi-arid region. Nevertheless, several farmers believe that native shrubs are not sufficient for the maintenance of the animals. For this reason, native shrubs are frequently deforested for the planting of exotic grasses, which are easier to handle but show adaptation difficulties and easy degradation. Increasing goat production in this semi-arid area also faces the challenge of handling the various shrub species, which are phenologically and grazing capacity specific, which makes this diverse environment really difficult to understand and manage. In the last 20 years, several researchers have addressed the problem and the ability of native shrubs to feed ruminants, including goats. This has been demonstrated but due to the great flora diversity, studies for several plant species and their management are still lacking.
Feed and herd health management are directly influenced by the climate, mainly by the amount of rainfall. The inconsistency of rains from year-to-year and the climatic changes that have occurred, make sanitary management difficult. Problems with feed management are frequent in years with hydric deficit (Figure 2). However, high infection rate and high mortality of goats with gastrointestinal nematodes, are verified in years with abundant rainfall. This is the main disease of Brazilian goats, occasionally up to 40% mortality of the herd in a single rainy season. Another factor of great importance is that the farmers use the same anthelmintic dosage to treat sheep and goats, resulting in under-dosing goats and selecting for gastrointestinal nematodes resistance to the various anthelmintic compounds available in the Brazilian market. Additionally, reduction of worm refugia due to the intense period of drought is another factor to fast worm resistance selection.
Brazil and more specifically the Brazilian Northeast show an extraordinary capacity for goat production, with an expansive herd and the upstream consumer market. Nonetheless, the challenges in animal production, mainly in feed management and in the control of gastrointestinal nematodes, should be considered priorities to increase goat production in the country.
The International Goat Association promotes goat research and development for the benefit of humankind, to alleviate poverty, to promote prosperity and to improve the quality of life.
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Health & Safety in a Retail Environment
This CPD certified online session has been created by expert trainers to improve performance and effectiveness for those working in the retail environment. It is part of the wider "Retail Skills Academy" programme (see below) and can also be used as a "stand alone" module for training for this specific topic. The course uses engaging, interactive e-learning which is delivered at a brisk pace; ensuring that the full session can be completed in 20 to 25 minutes.
All of the courses in this range are interactive to keep your attention and are a mixture of presenter led training, online presentations, quizzes and exercises. And at the end of each session there’s a 1-page cheat sheet to walk you through exactly what you should do when it’s time to implement the training back in the workplace – after all, that’s when the real work starts!
Are you safe at work?
Every year people are needlessly injured, and even killed, in retail locations. Most of these injuries could have been prevented through adequate preparation.
This session shares the best practices for establishing and maintaining a healthy and safe environment for you and your customers.
You will learn:
- Why a safer environment is good for business
- How to determine what needs to be done to make your environment safe
- What to do if a robbery occurs
- And much more…
Retail Skills Academy:
This course forms part of the "Retail Skills Academy", an online training programme consisting of 18 online training sessions from MTD Training that you can take from the comfort of your own desktop, mobile or tablet. The main purpose of the Retail Skills Academy is to provide a firm foundation of the key skills required in a modern retail setting.
To achieve the Academy certificate, you must complete all 18 sessions (within a 12 week period) and request/complete the end of programme assessment which consists of 30 multiple choice questions.
All 18 courses are available individually and also as a "complete" Retail Skills Academy package (which represents best value for those wishing to complete the full programme).
The sessions are practical and interactive. We don’t believe in long, lecture like online training. Instead, this programme will get you engaged from the outset.
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Astronomers and astrobiologists at NASA called on Thursday for a new “alliance of both practitioners and innovators” in the search for extraterrestrial life, according to the Verge.
While significant progress in the search for extraterrestrial life has been made, the research community “has neglected to form an alliance of practitioners and innovators,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
As Dr. Grunsfeld explained, everyone has been pursuing their own goals — the “clear alcove of science is towards extraterrestrial life,” and not “being sure you’re doing the right thing in an alliance of different fields.”
Over a six-year period beginning in 2002, scientists found the Huygens probe and a roughly 30-mile-wide alien moon from Saturn called Enceladus. The discovery, which was first reported by The New York Times in January 2011, suggests that two of the most distant bodies in the solar system contain liquid water. Two more planets were found in the habitable zone — a region where water may be able to exist. Additionally, the first clues on how to detect organic life emerged.
During the same period, an international team of more than 800 scientists explored another site, the southwest Antarctic Shelf, and had discovered an abundance of plankton and phytoplankton, organisms that might be capable of supporting life.
“This initiative was a direct outgrowth of what we were doing in Antarctica,” Dr. Grunsfeld said. “Huge discoveries of life using a synthetic analogue of observation and a model.”
Dr. Grunsfeld and the other speakers suggested that NASA’s opening of the archives for scientists that had previously worked on the Huygens probe might lead to a number of new discoveries. However, there were no new announcements during the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, at which the project was unveiled.
For its part, NASA appeared to have more pressing priorities. “Thanks for making this announcement,” it tweeted alongside a video (included in the video at the bottom of this article). “This is the first of what will be many announcements, but it’s not time for celebration.”
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Katana in Shirasaya, with Koshirae. (NBTHK Hozon paper)
Signature : Tanba Kami Yoshimichi
(We divide 4 sections for each sword as Saijyo saku, Jyojyo saku Jyo saku and regular saku
This Tanba Kami Yoshimichi belongs to Jyo Saku ranking.)
The blade was polished
Habaki : Gold Single Foiled Habaki
Blade length : 53.3 cm or 20.98 inches.
Sori : 1.3 cm or 0.51 inches.
Mekugi : 1
Width at the hamachi : 3.02 cm or 1.18 inches.
Width at the Kissaki : 2.3 cm or 0.90 inches.
Kasane : 0.71 cm or 0.27 inches.
Era : Edo Period Enpo period
Shape : It is wide and thick healthy wakizashi. Hamachi is also strong work.
Jitetsu : Koitame hada well grained. It is healthy wakizashi and the ahmachi is nice style.
Hamon : Nie Deki. It is typical Tanba kami Yoshimichi Sudareba hamon work.
The boshi is round hakikake style.
Special feature : Tanba kami Yoshimichi has divided to Osaka and Kyoto.
It is known in general that Osaka Tanba made perfect Sudareba work than Kyoto.
Osaka Tanba second generation and third generation is quite hard to distinguish but from how the character is written it could be second generation sign.
However, such perfect Sudareba hamon is made more by third generation.
It is typiccal Sudareba in impeccable style.
It is surprising to see how skill full the smith was. It is flawless healthy wakizashi.
Tsuba : Mokko shape iron tsuba with tiger and bamboo engraved and inlaid with gold.
Fuchikashira : Shakudo nanakoji plate with tiger and bamboo design engraved and inlaid with gold.
Saya : Black Inro Kizami saya.
Menuki : Shishi design engraved in solid gold inlay or gold color.
NBTHK Hozon paper
Aoi Art estimation paper : whole Oshigata.
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Report to Parliament on the Government of Canada’s Official Development Assistance 2017-2018
Message from the Minister
As the minister of international development, I am pleased to present the 2017-2018 Report to Parliament on the Government of Canada’s Official Development Assistance.
Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy was launched in June 2017 and has helped position Canada as a global leader in promoting sustainable development through a gender-equality lens. It seeks to eradicate poverty and build a more peaceful, more inclusive and more prosperous world. Based on overwhelming evidence, Canada recognizes that promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls is the most effective approach to achieve this goal. The policy and its goals demonstrate Canada’s strong commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, which jointly aim to eradicate poverty by 2030.
Canada invested $5.37 billion in official development assistance (ODA)
Canada delivered its ODA in partnership with more than 270 Canadian civil-society organizations
Canada’s investment of $852 million in humanitarian assistance helped to save or improve the lives of over 91 million people in a 64 countries, and responded to 22 natural disasters.
- Global Affairs Canada: $4,143.8 million
- Department of Finance Canada: $536.4 million
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: $462.9 million
- International Development Research Centre: $148.7 million
- Other departments and agencies: $75.6 million
90% of Global Affairs Canada’s bilateral international development assistance investments either targeted or integrated gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy makes gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls the core driver for all of Canada’s development assistance efforts. The policy also establishes this as a stand-alone action area. It focuses on specific multi-sectoral issues required to build the foundation for gender equality and achieve progress across all other areas.
Results around the world
In 2017-2018, Canada provided ODA to over 130 countries, both through multilateral and bilateral mechanisms, and by working with Canadian, international and local partners.
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How to Improve E-learning: Math can be tricky, even when you’re in an actual classroom with someone standing in front of you to guide you through the process.
E-learning, or learning through digital means, can only make it more difficult, especially when you aren’t sure what apps and tools are best to help you learn and get math help online and which ones aren’t worth your time or money.
This guide will help you find the best math apps and tools to improve your e-learning experience.
How to improve the E-learning experience in general?
Online learning has come a long way since early 2000 when it was first used by just seven percent of students at postsecondary institutions. Now, online learning is used by 73 percent of students, according to Education Dive.
These days, many courses aren’t centered around textbooks; instead, they are entirely built from webinars and learning platforms like EdX or Moodle. Given that math problems can be abstract, it’s no surprise that these apps have become extremely popular among students who often struggle with more traditional methods of math help.
Here are some ways math apps can improve your e-learning experience: This format makes it easy for teachers to upload videos and handouts, so you don’t need to worry about getting access to an external website.
A number of them offer real-time video chat so you can communicate with other students taking the same course, you might also get an answer faster than you would on Google.
Many websites offer interactive quizzes and practice tests to help you prepare for final exams and any other assessments you may need to take throughout your degree program.
Many math websites provide clear explanations on how they solve different math problems, including step-by-step instructions if needed. Math help can work alongside traditional teaching methods, such as math tutors or computer software programs.
Best Apps and Tools for E-learning
Here are the best apps and tools:
#1. Math Master: Math help
When it comes to math, nothing is more powerful than a good tool. Whether you need help with equation solving or want to perfect your graphing skills, Math Master will have you covered. As a bonus, Math Master supports touch screen devices, which can be used on smartphones and tablets. If you’re looking for math help, Math Master should be one of your first stops.
It’s also great for parents struggling to help their kids through math homework.
- Easy-to-use menus.
- It is simple for students at all levels to complete complex equations or create precise drawings of graphs.
- It’s fast and helps ensure you get every question right.
#2. Google Sheets
You’ve probably experienced your fair share of math problems as a student. Your parents probably spent hours trying to help you learn how to do them in your head or on paper, but if you need help now that you’re an adult, consider using Google Sheets.
Not only is it straightforward to use, but Google Sheets is also one of those tools that everyone can benefit from. And you don’t have to be a business major to see why that makes it valuable. Plenty of resources available online will teach you everything you need to know about using Google Sheets effectively, including getting started guides and tutorials; search Google Sheets plus whatever topic interests you.
- You can even create or edit spreadsheets right from a browser (no software installation required).
- Whether managing your budget or working through math homework problems with a buddy on another continent, there are countless uses for Google Sheets.
- it’s free.
This site allows students to solve math problems via an online interface that supports LaTeX math notation. If you want to be able to solve equations on your iPad or iPhone, you’ll need Calcbot. This iOS app supports multiple languages, works with English (U.S., U.K., Australian), French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish translations, and solves equations from RPN mode up through Wolfram Alpha.
The basic version is free, but you’ll have to pay if you want all of its features. The pro version adds more features like graphing capabilities, integration with other apps like Evernote, Apple Mail, and Safari, and advanced equation editing tools.
- It also integrates with Google Drive and Dropbox to easily store your files.
- CoCalc is excellent because it doesn’t just create an equation; it creates a hyperlink directly to your PDF or image file, making the distribution of your work a snap.
#4. Desmos Graphing Calculator
We all know how annoying math homework can be. No matter how hard you work at it, you still have to pay someone to solve it. And that’s where apps like Desmos come in handy. The simple calculator lets students play around with complex equations, turning them into colorful charts that are easy to interpret later on. Just plug in your math problem and watch as it comes to life right before your eyes.
You’ll never look back after using Desmos. It’s one of those math apps teachers always want their students to use, so they won’t need much convincing if you’re planning on bringing it into class. Once your teacher sees how cool Desmos is, they might even let you show off some more by solving problems out loud or letting others take a turn
- This app is excellent for anyone who needs math help themselves.
- No homework will ever be an issue again when Desmos is there with a solution.
#5. Plugger Algebra Calculations
Plugger is a website that generates your algebra homework solutions with simple definitions. It can also solve other math classes such as pre-calculus, trigonometry, statistics, and calculus. Not only will they solve your math homework problems, but they’ll also help teach you algebra rules and how to use them in real-life applications through its easy tutorial videos. Their learning experience is mobile-friendly so that you can learn anywhere.
- This app takes out all of the work in generating algebraic equations because it provides all of those right there on its dashboard.
- Plugger is great if you want to find out how to do your homework, but even better if you want to increase your math skill set.
Study sessions are a great way to go over concepts you’re struggling with in e-learning, but when you need quick homework help, it can be hard to find. Fortunately, there are plenty of math apps out there that can get you through.
A good start is by looking at fractionation, which helps students work fractions problems step by step. Any fraction calculator will walk users through fractions one part at a time for example, starting with a third and adding another third over three steps:
- Multiply 3 x 3 to get 9.
- Subtract from 9 to get 6.
- Add 1/3 (as shown below).
Fractionation is an excellent tool for helping students who need extra help in understanding fractions.
- As is often true with math, practice makes perfect.
- So, once you’ve got your answers, try again on different numbers until you feel confident moving forward.
#7. Slide Rule
One of the first apps on our list is an excellent tool for any math student—kids or adults. Slide Rule (iOS, Android) offers quick calculations that save time, and it’s fun to use too. This is another one of those cases where your voice shines through in an area you are passionate about.
Your writing feels natural and relatable, especially if you are familiar with using slide rules. We think adding examples would strengthen your argument further, as well as expanding on how kids might benefit from using them in school versus how adults might use them at work since these groups may have different needs/interests when using such an app/tool.
- The app includes squares, triangles, circles, and lines—all of which can be manipulated to find specific answers.
- It’s fast, easy to learn, and makes math more interesting—even during homework help.
- Plus, it’s free.
These apps will take your math skills to a whole new level. They are a great way to prepare for online classes or sharpen general math skills. Whether you’re looking for math help just to sharpen up basic arithmetic or advanced calculus, these tools can help you develop valuable problem-solving and critical thinking skills that can be applied to many areas of life.
Whether it’s figuring out how much change you should get back from a purchase at the store or what percent of an amount is left over after subtracting another amount from it, these apps can be used in almost any situation where numbers are involved. So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to put on your learning cap and start mastering math with these excellent e-learning tools.
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“I’m telling you the truth: if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed [a very small seed], you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Yeshua/Jesus, in Luke 17:20, The Kingdom New Testament, a Contemporary Translation
(Preface: Please note that the following is not a discussion about institutionalized, formal, organized religion, but about the universality of religious thinking.)
At its most basic level, faith is trust. Faith is deciding to trust that something is true because you trust the source of the information, or the results of the observations and experiments that provide the evidence for whatever you are accepting as truth.
In the first part of this series, we observed that everyone, no matter their stance regarding God and religion, lives by faith. The popular mind, propagandized by secular persuasion about science not being a faith-based enterprise, has largely relegated faith to the realm of spirituality and personal relationships while not admitting or understanding science’s utter dependence on trusting that the road to truth is via the empirical scientific method .
Scientists and scholars of all stripes, from antiquity to the present, have always operated as much by faith as any fervent religious believer. The honest and forthright ones know it and acknowledge it. Science and engineering are as much faith-based as spiritual and relational activities are. They believe that their faith is in “the facts” derived by the more or less application of the scientific method. But it is really far more in the trust that “the method” will provide the necessary facts, the evidence that there trust is not misplaced, even when the facts are not actually there – at least not just yet.
The etymological meaning of “religion” is “the thing or system which ties or holds things together” – Latin religio: re = once more, legio= to bind, to tie – ergo, to rebind, to tie together. Some people hold things together by reaching out to God or gods or a supernatural side of things. They put their trust in the existence of such a side of reality, a side which is normally invisible and insensible – not normally evident to our physical senses. Some people decide that without such sensory evidence they can only put their trust in what they can perceive via their senses, without recourse to any form of supernatural existence. There is an assumption that there cannot be any “real” evidence for an incorporeal side to reality. In both cases, these are equally “religious” decisions and positions which direct the living of life. They are both fundamental positions about the nature of reality and what can be trusted. In short, they are equally faith-based positions. And, despite the declarations of the dominant Western paradigm that the spiritual side cannot be trusted any more to determine truth, the proponents of that worldview are every bit as religious and faith-motivated as the believers in a God and a “super”-natural element of reality. (“Super” just means above and beyond – again from Latin.)
It is the old story of who gets to decide the meaning of words and inject, indeed impose, their meaning and worldview on the culture and the popular mind. The secular Enlightenment campaign which began in the mid-18th Century with the agenda to take control of the West’s social and cultural narrative has thoroughly taken over almost all of the West’s knowledge and education establishment, and thus has been diligently redefining the meaning of words to even further push “religious” faith to the fringes. There the gullible theists can be ignored and even ridiculed with impunity – and sometimes even sanctioned when they offend the new sensibilities too greatly.
But, whether labelled as religious or not, everything we do in life is based on faith, on trust, on conviction that we know enough truth to be assured that we are taking the right path to find meaning and make some sense of a reality which just keeps exponentially expanding in complexity. We operate on faith in even the most mundane activities. We just don’t think about it. If I’m a God-believer, I trust that He/She will continue to will the universe (and me) to exist and keep operating in an orderly way. If I’m a thorough atheist, I still trust that whatever forces and serendipitous circumstances produced this fantastic and totally improbable outcome of marvelous existence that we experience will keep on rolling along for another 50 billion years or so. In both cases, experience says these are reasonable, even scientific conclusions.
The great malaise of our time is rooted at least to some degree in the oft-professed conviction that everybody can invent their own reality and that all choices are equal in value. Why then are we not all equally happily creating and living in our own private Gardens of Eden? Why is there so much outside interference in arriving in our personally constructed versions of Paradise?
The answer is shockingly simple and obvious, but most unwelcome and barely mentionable in our present intellectual, spiritual, and social whirlpool of “You can’t tell me my version of truth is not as good as yours.” Science fiction and fantasy and quantum multiverse theory aside, there are not infinite realities out there. As far as we can know and experience, there is but the one within which we live and move and have our being. I can fantasize all I want tonight, and even dream wild dreams, but tomorrow I will wake (God-willing) to continue in the same life and reality I know today.
I betray my own “religion” – not just my public “religion” (as in the Latin sense of what helps tie things together for me), but my personal religion – in the simple everyday things and attitudes I manifest as I do normal things more than in any of the high-falutin’ philosophies, ideologies, or theologies I may spout. Atheists and agnostics and sceptics are as equally faith-driven as any disciple of Yeshua, Moses, Muhammad, or Buddha. Paradoxically, we all live our faith both publicly and privately. What I say and do in public is one side of my life and may or may not be consistent with my private faith. Frequently, we are prone to profess some things for public consumption while privately holding divergent and even quite contradictory views in our heart of hearts. Will the real Mr./Mrs./Ms. Smith please stand up? How can I tell what I really believe?
Jesus gave some pithy principles for discerning the mountains of bovine excrement we are being fed and feeding ourselves in the great denigration of “Religion” and faith: “Nobody can serve two masters. Otherwise, they will either hate the first and love the second, or be devoted to the first and despise the second. You can’t serve both God and wealth.” (Gospel of Matthew, 6:24) Bob Dylan once wrote and sang it as, “You’re gonna serve somebody.” Jesus added, “By their fruits you will know/recognize them” – i.e., what people do says a lot more about who they are and what they really trust in than their affirmations and declarations, both in public and in private.
Our malaise is the disconnect created by the evidence that “it just ain’t so” that we can and must discover our own special version of truth. We are told over and over that we can “actualize” and discover our true selves and thus reach our full potential to “be all that we can be” and arrive, ipso-facto, in our own personal “kingdom of god” (with me as that god/goddess) here and now. We are all entitled to everything. It is a matter of faith.
It is also all patently impossible. “Wishing just don’t make it so.” Instead, we have created a Frankenstein monster which is beginning to destroy its creators.
The need for faith has never been greater, but the proposition that we can choose any sort of goal and ambition to aim at and any vehicle to achieve them has never been so flagrantly false. All choices are not equal, all belief systems are not valid – at least not in terms of outcome or synchrony with the way things really are. You are entitled to choose just about any road, but you are not entitled to force everyone else to accept such choices as beneficial to the general commonwealth, or even consistent with the evidence of history and science. Just because I have the ability and may want to make fantastic choices that fly in the face of being “normal” and “healthy” in any common sense does not entitle me to impose such choices on everyone else as having to accept those choices as normal and healthy.
In most cases your private world is not my business. But when it begins to exert harm around you which brings suffering and destruction to others, it is no longer merely private.
Your faith matters. What you choose to trust in matters. The thing you put at the top of that pyramid of values and beliefs is in fact your god. If that is your success, status, prestige, power, wealth, and pleasure, you are your own god. This comes out even more forcefully when you insist on redefining even human and general nature to conform to your personal system of faith and belief. That is indeed a claim to divine power.
Will this sustain you when you stand at, or lie on your last bed, on the edge of the great divide? At that moment, just about everyone starkly realizes that the personally formed god you have believed in, the personal version of faith you have trusted, is about to die as it meets the One Who Is in the Great Beyond.
The West is in moral, spiritual, and a deepening social and cultural crisis. As the world’s global cultural engine over the last two hundred years, it has dragged the whole world into the maelstrom of its Mr. Toad Wild Ride which shows no end in sight.
“Te morituri salutant!” said the gladiators as they stood before the Emperor in the arenas of ancient Rome. At the end of the battle will the One Emperor’s thumb be up or down?
TO BE CONTINUED
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This educational toy Learn English Spelling - A simple spelling guide on how to improve your spelling. speak English well, you need vocabulary, a nice accent, and good grammar. The good news is that although many English words have irregular spellings For example, a typical first grader's spellings of common words might change over a of these common morphemes in their expanding speaking vocabulary.). Proloquo2Go does not have a phonetic keyboard, and this is why. Spelling is how we problem solve how to represent a word with letters. It is how our students Jul 15, 2018 If you carry one around as you practice the English language, you can write down the spelling AND pronunciation of any new word you find.
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So these words have the same number of sounds and letters. This makes the pronunciation easier: one letter = one sound. When counting letters and sounds, are all English words like this? No! Most English words are not like this. This makes English pronunciation difficult. Let’s talk more about English sounds and spelling. 4.
Swedish Words with spelling Flashcards Quizlet
That way I don’t add in the words that I think should be there. Our list of 200 third grade spelling words will keep your students busy! Teachers and parents alike can use these words for oral and written practice, for spelling games and worksheets. This list of 3rd grade spelling words is just a launching point.
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S is 19th, P is 16th, E is 5th, A is 1st, K is 11th, Letter of Alphabet series. Wordmaker is a website which tells you how many words you can make out of any given word in english. we have tried our best to include every possible word combination of a given word.
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2020-12-02 · To speak in a British accent, try listening to British music and British radio stations to pick up on the way common words are pronounced.
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Here is a compilation of 25 iPad Apps for Learning Spelling For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. Wordbook English Dictionary & Thesaurus – professionally recorded pronunciation for
Tom couldn't speak a word of French when he first arrived in France. almost every task, not unlike the way email tries to finish spelling a word for users today.
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When humans speak … Download free loops and audio samples: VOCALS and SPOKEN WORD/Speak and Spell/. You must loginor registerto download samples. Sample Library9.4 GB. Browse All Sounds. 100% of these … 2018-11-14 Spelling word lists are a key part of spelling word list practice.
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verb (used without object), spoke or (Archaic) spake [speyk]; /speɪk/; spo·ken or (Archaic) spoke; speak·ing.
Be alert for homonyms and homophones. The vocabulary of the Speak & Spell learning aid is divided into four levels "SPELL" or "SAY IT" activities are played, Speak & Spell chooses ten words randomly from the level selected. Level A above angel answer guess half pint pull three to calf does earth iron learn nine says six ski two view warm echo extra five ocean once one sure swap talk 2019-06-19 Chances are you’ll meet locals who can speak English. But you’ll be surprised how much a few Spanish words can improve your experience!
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Introduction Alfred Kärcher – inventor and entrepreneur
Alfred Kärcher, like Robert Bosch, Gottlieb Daimler and Graf Zeppelin, was one of the inventors and entrepreneurs that Württemberg produced in such great number since the beginning of the industrial era. With the utmost commitment, he dedicated himself to bringing his ideas to fruition. In 1924, the then 23-year-old completed his studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart and worked first of all at his father’s agency, which he developed into an engineer’s office. In 1935 he founded his own company in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart so that he could produce and market his own products in the field of heating technology. Alfred Kärcher designed and built the “Kärcher salt bath furnace”, among other products, for tempering steel and light metal in industry according to his own patent.
In 1939, the family-owned company relocated to Winnenden, where it still has its headquarters. By this time the company was also producing heating devices for aircraft engines and cabin heating systems. Following the Second World War, the company turned its attention to products for urgent, everyday use: round stoves, small cookers, handcarts and trailers for tractors.
Move into Cleaning Technology
Alfred Kärcher made his breakthrough into the cleaning technology industry in 1950 with the development of the first European hot water high-pressure cleaner (the DS 350 steam jet). The design of the water heater proved to be so pioneering that it still forms the basis of all burners today.
Like so many, Alfred Kärcher did not live to see the global success of his innovation. When he died on 17 September 1959 at the age of 58, his wife Irene took over the management of the company and steered its fortunes for three decades. Today their children Johannes Kärcher and Susanne Zimmermann von Siefart are in charge of the family-owned company in its second generation.
In 1962, Kärcher founded its first foreign subsidiary in France, followed by Austria and Switzerland. Internationalisation continued apace. In 1975, Kärcher opened a factory in Brazil; 10 years later, the company had founded 16 sales companies in North America, Africa, Australia and elsewhere. By 2016, Kärcher is represented by subsidiaries in 60 countries and generating 85% of its sales abroad. With 40,000 customer service points in over 190 countries, Kärcher provides comprehensive support to its customers all over the world.
Growth Through Innovation
After a phase of diversification, Kärcher turned its attention to high-pressure cleaning in 1974. During this period, the colour of the machines was changed from blue to the now world-famous Kärcher yellow. In 1980, the company expanded its product range to cover basic cleaning requirements, initially in the areas of transport and buildings. Step by step, the range was expanded with the addition of wet and dry vacuum cleaners, sweeper vacuums and scrubber driers, vehicle washing bays, steam cleaners, cleaning agents and drinking water and wastewater treatment systems.
Among the milestones in Kärcher’s history was the introduction in 1984 of the HD 555 profi, the first portable high-pressure cleaner, and the subsequent expansion into the consumer market. In 1993, this range was expanded to include indoor products and Kärcher has since added steam cleaners and vacuum cleaners for private households to its range. The RoboCleaner RC 3000 was launched in 2003 as the world’s first fully automatic robotic vacuum cleaner. In 2007, Kärcher moved into the completely new sector of gardening, which includes pumps for watering, water removal and service water supply in households, as well as an extensive range of accessories.
In 1986, Kärcher launched its pioneering roller brush technology for scrubber driers in the professional range. Thanks to the development of a new rotary nozzle (dirt blaster) in 1995, the cleaning effect of the high-pressure cleaner was almost doubled. The dust intake of commercial wet and dry vacuum cleaners was continuously improved, and in 2007 the innovative Tact filter cleaning system was launched. New procedures were also developed in the course of worldwide cleaning projects: the 284 travertine columns on St Peter’s Square in Rome were restored using a specially developed spray process over a total area of 25,000 m². Since 2009, Kärcher has been selling ultra-high pressure cleaners, which, at up to 2,500 bar pressure, not only clean but restore facades and strip concrete. In the same year, a multipurpose municipal sweeper was released onto the market and new target groups were gained with the launch of water dispensers.
Kärcher Becomes a Global Market Leader
Innovation has been and continues to be the most important growth factor. In 2011 alone, Kärcher launched over 100 new products. The global market leader in cleaning technology will continue to be characterised by its ingenuity, top performance and innovative problem solving.
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In 2022, the Estonian Open Air Museum is celebrating its 65th anniversary. The biggest open-air museum in Estonia, which lies on 70 hectares on the territory of the former Rocca al Mare summer estate in Tallinn, was established on 22 May 1957. It is dedicated to the research of the architectural heritage and living conditions of Estonian country people. By now, 80 buildings from the 18th–20th centuries have been transferred to the museum, most of which are located in 14 farmyards. The newest development of the museum is a block of flats from the Soviet period which introduces rural life in 1967, 1978, 1993, and 2019.
As this house has generated discussions about the necessity of displaying the recent history and/or difficult topics in an open-air museum, the Estonian Open Air Museum is organizing a conference “Recent history and its untold stories in open-air museums” on 19-21 October 2022
to exchange corresponding experiences with fellow museums in the Association of European Open Air Museums as well as colleagues in Estonia.
The conference begins with an optional study excursion introducing the architectural heritage of the Soviet period in rural areas (on pre-booking). During the two days of the main conference, you will be given the opportunity to listen to different topical presentations and take part in peer-to-peer learning, explore the Estonian Open Air Museum, and get acquainted with the new Kolkhoz apartment building. You can also take part in the museum’s 65th jubilee party, meet colleagues, and find new contacts. Lunches, coffee breaks, and dinner on 20 October are included in the conference fee.
Conference language: EnglishProgramme
Registration is open until 20 September 2022. Continue to registration form
Conference fee 70€ (for students 35€, without dinner on October 20).
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Conference e-mail: email@example.com
We hope to welcome you to the Estonian Open Air Museum this autumn!
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Iranian warplanes fired at an unarmed U.S. drone in international airspace as a warning last week but did not hit the aircraft, the Pentagon said on Thursday, disclosing details of an unprecedented incident that triggered a formal warning to Tehran through diplomatic channels.
The November 1 intercept was the first time Tehran had fired at an unmanned American aircraft, in a stark reminder of how tensions between the United States and Iran could escalate quickly into violence.
If Iran had hit the drone, as the Pentagon believes it was trying to do, it could have forced American retaliation – with the potential consequences that entails.
According to the timeline provided by the Pentagon, two Iranian SU-25 “Frogfoot” aircraft intercepted the American drone at about 4:50 a.m. EST (0850 GMT) as it conducted a routine, but classified, surveillance mission over Gulf waters about 16 nautical miles off the Iranian coast.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said the aircraft fired multiple rounds at the Predator drone and followed it for at least several miles as it moved farther away from Iranian airspace.
“We believe that they fired at least twice and made at least two passes,” he said.
International airspace begins after 12 nautical miles and Little said the drone at no point entered Iranian airspace. Last year, a crashed CIA drone was recovered inside Iran.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was quickly notified of the incident, as were members of Congress and the White House, Little added. The United States also sent Iran a warning through diplomatic channels, saying it would defend its military assets and would keep sending aircraft on such surveillance operations.
“There is absolutely no precedence for this,” Little said. “This is the first time that a (drone) has been fired upon to our knowledge by Iranian aircraft.”
Many questions about the incident remain, including why Iranian warplanes could not manage – if they wanted – to shoot down an unarmed drone, which lacks advanced capabilities to outmaneuver them.
Asked whether the Iranian aircraft were simply firing warning shots, Little said: “Our working assumption is that they fired to take it down. You’ll have to ask the Iranians why they engaged in this action.”
There was no immediate comment by Iranian officials.
President Barack Obama has resisted calls from inside the United States and Israel for military action against Iran, focusing instead on crushing rounds of sanctions, which were tightened again on Thursday.
The United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s communications minister and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance for jamming international satellite broadcasts to Iran and censoring and closing newspapers and detaining journalists.
The sanctions are part of broader efforts to isolate Tehran, which denies U.S. accusations that it seeks to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of its civilian atomic program.
In an effort to drive Iran to compromise, the United States and the European Union have gone for the jugular – Iran’s oil exports – over the past year.
The United States and Israel, which regards a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to its existence, have also hinted at the possibility of military strikes on Iran as a last resort.
Obama has said the United States will “do what we must” to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and has repeatedly said that all options are on the table – code for the possibility of using force.
Reuters contributed to this news.
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You can install a plugin in WordPress in a number of ways. The easiest method to install a plugin is to use the WordPress Admin Dashboard which allows you to install plugins automatically.
1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.
2. Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over “Plugins” and click on “Add New”.
3. In the Search Plugin box, fill up the domain of the plugin you wish to install, such as Jetpack, and press enter.
4. The available plugins matching the keyword Jetpack will appear. Click on the Install button which appears next to the plugins name.
5. The installation can take a few minutes. Once it is complete, it will display the Activate option. Click on it to activate your newly installed plugin.
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Friends of Chimbote firmly support our founders Father Jack and Sister Peggy's conviction that education is the primary factor in which the poor may overcome their desperate circumstances. However, we also recognize that basic human needs must first be met so that children may study without lethargy stemming from malnutrition, illness caused by inadequate access to healthcare, or lack of sleep due to no bed or home. They also need a place in which to study, funds for school supplies and uniforms, as well as other basic necessities. To respond to these needs and to ultimately transform the lives of the poor of Chimbote through education, Friends of Chimbote supports four primary areas of competency.
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July 26, 2018
A Wisconsin mother broke a catch-and-release state record set last year by her daughter.
Catching state records has been like daughter, like mother for one Wisconsin family.
A year after her daughter, Erika, broke the catch-and-release state record for pumpkinseed, Brenda Carter accomplished the same feat with a 9-inch pumpkinseed, beating her daughter's record by a quarter-inch.
Mother and daughter were fishing on Lake Noquebay in Marinette County on July 4 when the fish bit. It was the same lake where Ericka caught her record. The two were fishing together during both record catches.
"That record was not something that was a goal for me. Erika goes to UW-Stevens Point for fisheries and she was very excited to have set the record," Brenda Carter said in a Wisconsin DNR report on 2018 records.
"My daughter says [her mom setting the new fish record] gives her a goal to shoot for. It could be by the end of the summer. We hope to catch a bigger one someday!"
Fisheries biologist Karl Sheidegger, who coordinates the state records program says there's been a stinger full of records set so far in 2018, partly due to new live-release categories and growth of alternative-method fishing.
Other state records set so far:
2018 Live Release records (catch-and-release)
White Bass: Todd Meerdink of Waupaca, 18 1/2 inches, Sunset Lake, Waupaca County, Feb. 10. This was the second time the white bass live release record has been broken over the past year.
Bluegill: Michael Esche of Cudahy, 11 inches, Mississippi River, Crawford County, Feb. 28. The fish bettered the existing record by a half-inch.
Rainbow Trout: Scott Erickson of Burlington, 23 1/2 inches, private pond, Racine County, March 31.
Green Sunfish: Alex Gerucisi, 8 1/2 inches, urban pond, Waukesha County, May 24.
2018 By Weight records (hook and line)
Creek Chub: Gregory Banbenek of Duluth, Minn., 11 3/4 inches, 3/4 pounds, Aminicon Lake, Douglas County, Jan. 1. The fish bettered the existing record by a little over 2 ounces.
Spotted Sucker: Stanley Von Ruden of Norwalk, 20 1/2 inches, 4 pounds, 10.2 ounces, Lake Onlaska, La Crosse County, Feb. 22. This is the initial record for the species.
Tiger Trout: Scott Erickson of Burlington, 16 inches, 2 pounds, 1 ounce, private pond, Racine County, May 9. The fish bettered the previous record by a little over a quarter of a pound.
2018 By Weight records (alternate method)
White Sucker: Brandon Smith of Elkhorn, 24 1/2 inches, 6 pounds, 15.8 ounces, Delavan Lakein Walworth County, March 15. It shattered the record by nearly two pounds.
White Sucker: Ross Lubner of Campbellsport, 24 1/2 inches, 7 pounds, 6.7 ounces, Pine Lake, Waukesha County, April 21. Smith's record last only about five weeks.
Longnose Sucker: Shawn Schmidt of Denmark, 21 1/4 inches, 3 pounds, 9.9 ounces, Lake Michigan, Door County, April 29. This is the initial record for the species.
Spotted Sucker: Dale Fahrni, 22 inches, 5 pounds, 6.7 ounces, Wisconsin River, Richland County, April 21. He broke his own record set three years ago by about a half-pound.
Shortnose Gar: Brian Thompson of Newburg, Mo., 35 5/8 inches, 5 pounds, 1 ounce, Lake Butte des Morts, Winnebago County, May 27.
Longnose Gar: Jason Behrens of Arcadia, 56 1/8 inch, 19 pounds, 5.4 ounces, Mississippi River, Trempealeau County, May 24. The fish broke the current record by almost a pound.
To see more state fish records and to learn what to do if you think you've caught a record fish, go to dnr.wi.gov and search "record fish."
Stories about records
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Spinal Manipulative Therapy
Spinal manipulative therapy
Spinal manipulative therapies are those that are used on the human skeleton, particularly the spinal area, to relieve muscular or skeletal pain , relieve tension, improve the mobility of joints and, in the case of the oriental therapies, to "unblock energy channels." The idea behind spinal manipulation is that when the vertebrae are subluxated (misaligned), the resulting pressure on nerves can have negative effects on organ system function and general health, in addition to impeding proper joint motion.
Forms of manipulative therapy have been used for thousand of years in Asia. The nineteenth century, however, saw the introduction of many new forms of manipulative therapy in the West. The best known and most widely used of these approaches are osteopathy and chiropractic . Most areas and societies have some tradition of manipulation or massage and osseous adjustments.
Osteopathy and chiropractic in particular have been used to relieve spinal pain and immobility. Both of these therapies can be used in cases of a "slipped disk," and are also used after accidents or surgery to restore mobility. Osteopathy and chiropractic can treat problems of the bones, muscles, joints, or ligaments. They have been used in the treatment of headaches of nervous origin, and even osteoarthritis . Athletes and dancers commonly seek osteopathic or chiropractic treatment for sports or occupational injuries to restore function.
A common practice among the spinal manipulative therapies is that the therapist will generally work on patients while they are lying on a special treatment couch adjusted to the height of the practitioner. The therapies vary from light touching to fairly vigorous manipulation.
The cost of treatment across the various disciplines varies a great deal according to the practitioner's level of qualification, the area of competence, and other factors.
Osteopathy was founded by an American doctor, Andrew Taylor Still . He applied his engineering study and detailed knowledge of human anatomy to the treatment of the human body. He deduced that since misalignment of the skeleton could cause illness, manipulation could theoretically restore good health. The manipulative techniques that Still recommended are commonly referred to as Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT). OMT is a form of noninvasive, "hands-on" care used for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to reduce pain and restore motion, as well as help the body heal itself. OMT may be used to facilitate the movement of body fluids and normal tissue functioning, and release painful joints or dysfunctional areas. These therapies take different forms depending on patient needs. In addition to OMT, Dr. Still emphasized the importance that a nutritious diet and overall physical fitness play in maintaining good health. Osteopathy is now widely accepted by the allopathic medical profession, to the extent that they often refer patients to an osteopath. In fact, as of 2002, osteopaths were the fastest growing segment of the total population of physicians and surgeons in the United States.
Chiropractic was developed by a "magnetic healer," Daniel David Palmer, who founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic. This therapy aims to treat pain and other disorders caused by misalignment of the skeleton with manipulation. Upon consultation with a chiropractor, the patient will be asked for a detailed medical history. The chiropractor may take a set of x rays to obtain a more accurate picture of the condition of the patient's spine. The consultant will decide what form the treatment should take, and treatment will begin on a subsequent visit.
Conditions that may benefit from manipulative treatment:
- whiplash injuries
- immobility of the spine due to arthritis
- strain injuries
- immobility due to previous injuries
- muscular problems
- poor posture
- partial paralysis due to stroke
- cerebral palsy
Generally, no special preparation is required prior to treatment with the various kinds of spinal manipulative therapy, but some practitioners insist on x rays before treatment.
The licensing credentials of spinal manipulation practitioners should always be checked. They should also be given any information regarding the health of the patient that may be relevant to treatment.
In the presence of serious spinal problems, damage could result if the practitioner is not properly qualified. A registered practitioner should always be consulted, and should be made aware of all relevant patient information.
Research & general acceptance
Osteopathy and chiropractic are now well accepted as options for the treatment of back pain and many types of sports injuries. The field of sports medicine has found particular benefit in osteopathic practitioners because of their emphasis on the musculoskeletal system, manipulation, diet, exercise , and fitness. Many professional sports team physicians, Olympic physicians, and personal sports medicine physicians are doctors of osteopathy (DOs).
Training & certification
Fully qualified osteopaths undergo four years of post-collegiate training in a college of osteopathy. They must pass state licensing examinations, and are entitled to use MRO (Member of the Register of Osteopaths) after their name. A DO is one of only two types of qualified physician in the United States, the other being an MD (allopathic physician). DOs are qualified to practice surgery, prescribe medications, and offer the same health care services that their allopathic counterparts are. The chief difference between the two groups of physicians is that MDs are more likely to enter specialized branches of medicine, while most DOs enter primary care practice.
Many aspects of traditional osteopathic philosophy, such as advice about diet and smoking , have entered mainstream medicine to the point that the lines between DOs and MDs are blurring. In addition, the dedication of osteopaths to holistic medicine and primary care has been a great benefit to rural areas of the United States that are often understaffed by mainstream practitioners.
Chiropractors are required to take two years of college with a relevant biological curriculum, and four years of resident study that must include supervised clinical experience. A further two years of practical or clinical studies is required, which must include diagnosis and disease treatment.
The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) and its Commission on Accreditation is an autonomous national organization recognized by the United States Department of Education as the authority on the quality of training offered by colleges of chiropractic.
Shealy, Norman C. Alternative Medicine, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Natural Healing. Boston, MA: Element Books, 1996.
"Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment May Benefit Patients." Health & Medicine Week (October 8, 2001).
Shepard, Scott. "Health Philosophies on Common Ground." Cincinnati Business Courier 18 (November 9, 2001): 38.
American College of Chiropractic Consultants (ACCC). 28 E. Jackson Bldg., 10th Fl., Suite 1020 Chicago, IL 60604. <http://www.accc-chiro.com>.
American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine. 3500 DePauw Boulevard, Suite 1080, Indianapolis, IN 46268-1136.
The General Council and Register of Osteopaths. 56 London Street, Reading, Berkshire RG1 4SQ, United Kingdom.
Rebecca J. Frey, PhD
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Over the years, I have come to view “spring coning” of conifers as having all of the same wonderful and ephemeral aspects of spring flowering (of flowering plants). There is temporal order among genera (larches first, pines last) and within genera (Siberian larch first); there is wonderful variety among taxa in size, shape, and color; there are also subtle differences between individuals of the same taxon.
In the last two weeks I have pursued the young (future) seed cones of the twenty-five species of spruce (Picea) that call the Arnold Arboretum home. For me, these are the conifer equivalent of magnolias—showstoppers at peak color on a sunny day. Even the quiet fortitude of the Norway spruce breaks stride and puts on a dazzling show of yellows, pinks and deep crimson reds (Picea abies ‘Acrocana’; 475-36*B; upper right). Picea jezoensis (Yeddo spruce; 502-77*B; bottom right) in the dwarf conifer collection is always worth a pilgrimage. It is a tossup between the Koyama spruce (Picea koyamae; 15821*B; left) and the Lijiang spruce (Picea likiangensis) for deepest blood red.
If you would like to see more spruces in full spring cone, head to my Flickr site. Here you will find cones from Picea abies (Norway spruce, Europe) to Picea wilsonii (Wilson spruce; central China), the endangered Picea chihuahuana (Chihuahua spruce, Mexico), and a host of others on full display.
If you crave more Arnold Arboretum plants, follow my Instagram account where I will post one image every day until things seem a bit more normal.
William (Ned) Friedman
Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Director of the Arnold Arboretum
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What does it really take to make new infrastructure technology real? Steve Hawkins from Fletcher, Watercare’s Richard McIntosh and Mark Thomas of Nextspace discuss the evolution of digital twin technology and its application to critical infrastructure. They explore how innovation is sparked, progressed and adopted, where the pitfalls and hurdles to widespread adoption lie, and how digital twins can help achieve more habitable, sustainable infrastructure projects.
The panel was moderated by Assoc. Prof. Maibritt Pedersen Zari, and introduced by Professor Charles Walker.
Watch right to the end to catch a great Q & A session after the panel. We ran short on time to get all the questions answered, so asked those afterward and have included them below the video.
When do you see this technology scaling? I believe the biggest barrier is cost. We are in the process of implementing a digital twin from our construction BIM model, but the biggest barrier for the business wide roll-out is cost. What do you think are the biggest 'use cases'?
Answer – Mark Thomas
Actually we don’t see scale necessarily as a large cost concern but there are a number of possible areas of concern.
Storage and processing power is cloud based and of course very scalable.
Localised rendering or visualisation scaling is handled through LOD systems.
The cost of visualization of a digital twin for many people can be almost nil but it depends on the vendor you are working with.
We would encourage you to come talk to us about how to cost effectively scale your digital twin as we suspect there may be many aspects to consider in answering such a question.
Simplest use case is data handover and asset management with quick and clear access to any and all data related to the management and optimal use of an asset. But there are many use cases and ROI estimates that can be found on the web.
Answer – Steve Hawkins
I don’t believe it costs extra! Indeed I think it saves cost. Just need to get the appropriate sharing of the cost. Certainly if the client is paying for the digital twin, it will save over the design, construction, operation, maintenance and deconstruction phases. Fletcher believe it is worth doing even if only for the design and construction phases.
Answer – Richard McIntosh
I agree with Steve – I think we need to view this from a value rather than a cost lens. There is a huge value potential for digital twins during design, delivery and operation/maintenance which will far outstrip the costs we invest in the model build.
With respect to technology and the 3 Waters reforms, are there opportunities for standardisation and cost saving, O&M optimisation etc?
Answer – Richard McIntosh
The short answer is yes. It becomes easier to collaborate and the challenges that the new entities will face will be similar in scale and complexity. I think the standardization and optimization is an absolute must to deliver value to communities and customers across New Zealand.
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CIMA: What you need to know
Considering a career in management accounting? You should study CIMA…
Whether you’ve been thinking about accountancy courses for a while, or you’re just looking to put your passion for maths to good use, a CIMA qualification could be the perfect way to kick-start your career.
Not sure what your options are? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know:
What is CIMA?
CIMA stands for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
It’s the world’s largest professional body of Management Accountants, and has over 227,000 members in 179 countries worldwide.
Their mission is to help people succeed in accounting, in both the public and private sectors, and CIMA works with leading employers to help train Financial Managers and Accountants across the UK.
What CIMA qualifications are available?
There are two main CIMA qualifications: the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting (entry-level), and the CIMA Professional Qualification (advanced).
There are some new qualifications, specifically tailored towards Islamic finance and Russian businesses, but these are not considered part of their core certifications.
Apprenticeship qualifications (CIMA Higher Level Higher Apprenticeship in Management Accounting) are also available.
Here’s a quick rundown of the two main CIMA certifications and CIMA levels:
CIMA Certificate Level 1
CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting – A standalone qualification that teaches all the fundamentals of management and financial accounting, as well as covering skills such as preparing financial reports, forecasting performance and data analysis.
Entry requirements: There are no formal entry requirements, making it the perfect first step for anyone looking to become accountancy qualified.
CIMA Levels 2, 3 and 4
CIMA Professional Qualification – Split into three pillars and three different levels, this advanced qualification will help teach and validate skills in areas ranging from risk management and financial strategy, right through to management accounting.
Entry requirements: You don’t necessarily need the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting to get started, although you will need a foundation in business or accounting studies (e.g. a Master’s in accounting or proof of membership with another leading accounting body)
Why should I study CIMA?
CIMA are the industry-standard when it comes to management accounting, and CIMA qualifications are respected throughout the financial industry – especially if you want to progress into chartered accountancy.
As a result, a number of employers may consider CIMA membership as a prerequisite to securing a position within their organisation.
Additionally, as a globally-recognised accountancy body, CIMA qualifications open doors all over the world.
Companies ranging from Barclays, Nestle, Deloitte, Unilever and more train their staff with CIMA, and their certifications continue to set standards for Management Accountants worldwide.
How much can I earn once CIMA qualified?
This will vary depending on location, level of certification, previous experience and job title.
However, as a rough guide, those with the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting will generally be earning somewhere in the region of £28,000 for an entry-level position (as a Graduate Management Accountant, for example).
On top of this, CIMA students currently in employment can expect a bonus of around £1200 while they’re still studying, and roughly £6,000 once fully qualified.
CIMA qualified finance professionals earn an average of £60,000, including bonuses.
What CIMA study methods are there?
The majority of course providers offering CIMA qualifications provide flexible study options, allowing you to fit work around your schedule.
How long will it take to study CIMA?
This will depend on which qualification you’re studying, as well as the course provider.
As a general guideline, it should take around one year to complete the CIMA Certificate, while the CIMA professional qualification may take up to four, depending on how much time you can dedicate to studying.
Advantages of becoming CIMA qualified
Some advantages of becoming CIMA qualified include:
- A validation for your skills in management accounting
- Higher salaries and bigger bonuses than industry averages
- Global recognition
- Being in-demand for some of the world’s leading employers
- The chance to become a member of the world’s largest organisation of Management Accountants
Ready to start studying? View all CIMA courses now
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Tiger Coronavirus Symptoms Cats
Cats and the coronavirus.
Tiger coronavirus symptoms cats. The cats displayed some symptoms of coronavirus including a dry cough and loss of appetite but are said to be doing well under veterinary care. Department of Agriculture announced Sunday afternoon. A tiger is slightly sick with coronavirus.
Nadia a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo that the zoo said on April 5 2020 has tested positive for. A tiger in New York city has become the first animal on the planet to display symptoms after testing positive for the novel coronavirus according to a news release from the Wildlife Conservation. What Does A Sick Tiger Mean For Your Cat.
The diagnosis of the tiger named Nadia. Six other tigers also showed symptoms of a dry cough. The outbreak is believed to have originated with a member of staff at the zoo who was not showing symptoms of the virus.
The zoos other big cats including cheetahs snow leopards a clouded leopard an Amur leopard a puma and a serval have not shown symptoms according to the release. According to the CDC the following signs may indicate that your cat has contracted COVID-19. More tigers and lions test positive at US zoo.
Should we have our cats and dogs tested for COVID-19. Over half of Zoo Atlantas 20 gorillas are showing symptoms of the virus including 60-year-old Ozzie. The Malayan tiger named Nadia had developed a dry cough along with six other tigers at the Bronx Zoo and all are expected to.
Common Questions from Pet Owners About the New Coronavirus 1. It is unclear if the others will be tested. All the tigers showing symptoms were housed in the zoos Tiger Mountain area.
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“Having made known unto us the mystery of His will…” Ephesians 1:9a
The will of God in times past was hidden in many types and shadows, but now God has declared to us the “mystery of His will.” Let us see what Paul is speaking of by asking a few questions concerning the will of God:
1. What is the object of the will of God?
The will of God has one purpose, and that is for His own Glory.
The scripture says in Proverbs 16:4, “The LORD hath made all things for Himself . . .”. So we see that He has willed that all things for His own glory. All things in nature, providence, and grace are willed by God for His own glory. Even the evil works of men are ordained by God, but He is not chargeable of them. God allows or suffers men to do what they want to do by nature; which is to sin. Yet men are not as evil as they can be because of the restraining hand of God (Gen 50:20; Acts 4:27-28; Ps 76:10).
2. What is the nature of the will of God?
a. God’s will is Eternal and Immutable. That is the will was from all eternity, and therefore it cannot be changed or thwarted (Psalms 115:3; Acts 15:18; Malachi 3:6).
b. God’s will is Powerful/Effectual. When we will something, we are bound by the limit of time and circumstance, but God’s will shall always come to pass because He has all power to accomplish it (1 Sa 14:24-27).
c. God’s will is Sovereign. The will of God was not conceived based on anyone, or any action of the creature, but by God’s own Sovereign Free Will (Eph 1:9; Dan 4:35).
3. What is the manifestation of God’s will?
The mysterious will of God that was hidden in types and shadows is now manifest in His Sovereign Election. God chose some of Adam’s fallen race to manifest His Sovereign Mercy to unworthy objects (Eph 1:4; Ex 33:18-19). His glory is manifest in the redemption of those elect by Jesus Christ (Eph 1:5-7). The glory of God’s will is manifest in the gathering of those elect by the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:10-12; Isa 43:6). Therefore if God has elected us, redeemed us, and called us to life and faith in Christ, is there anything that will separate us from His love? Praise God, nothing shall keep us from Him (Romans 8:33-39; Isa 14:27).
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Buying land can be seen as a stagnant investment by few. However, if you compare investing in land with other investments that you want to make, you will know that investing in land is one of the best decisions you will make in your life.
Buying land as an investment requires a deep understanding of the growth potential of the place you buy in. Buying land next to a highway will be excellent. However, are you buying land in a saturated market? Or are you buying land in a growing market? Many of us may know the I-635 and I-75 highway flyovers under construction. In the same way, when you buy land, you should see the proposals of growth for highways and infrastructure projects. Study the trends in business growth and migration. Taxation policy for businesses may be something you want to observe.
Land is an excellent investment. Not only does it ensure security, it also ensures growth. Land maximizes utility and has a greater return on investment (ROI) than stocks or a Certificate of Deposit (CD). Should you want to build a house on your land, you can do so. You can sell it to a developer should there be an increase in demand for the property due to mobility of workforce or people into the area. Let us take the Dallas – Fort Worth, Texas real estate area. The DFW, Texas real estate market has Dallas homes for sale that have excellent amenities and the land in the Dallas – Fort Worth, Texas real estate area is valuable considering the growth potential of the metroplex. The development of highways, infrastructure projects and increasing connectivity of the local transportation has increased the value of land in the metroplex.
Let us examine investment in land by looking at a few other investment options. If you buy a Certificate of Deposit, the return on investment can be lower than the inflation rate. So, you may be basically losing money by investing in a Certificate of Deposit. It may be better to pay more money to your land payment and ensure that it applies to the principal. Now, regarding investing in stocks, there are very few stocks that perform exceedingly well. Many stocks underperform or don’t give the return on investment that one hopes for. Unless you invest in a startup with excellent growth potential, it is unlikely to have a return on investment that is more than the return on investment on a land investment.
If you consider the ratio of land/person, the ratio shows that the land per person is reducing every day. Population growth in the last century outgrew the population growth in the century preceding it. Land is limited in supply. So, land is valuable and ensures a better return on your investment. Even if the land loses value, you will have the land and slowly the land will regain its value. Land is a safe investment. With all the reasons listed above, buying land is an excellent investment.Immobilienmakler Heidelberg Makler Heidelberg
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Fruit Must Be Produced: Being Good Is Not Enough
26 Jan 2017
We have this tendency to think of good as things like helping the poor, and yes, this is good, but, this is not the same as producing fruit. For what good is it when we have made the poor comfortable here, only to spend eternity in discomfort. This is why, or partly why, our works are meaningless. Our good works apart from Jesus are meaningless. Only when our works are the result of our faith in Christ do they become fruitful. If we, the branches, are not connected to the Vine, we are a dried up thing and cannot produce fruit. We produce fruit when we bring people to eternal comfort.Share on:
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