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CVS Health celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act passing and its longstanding culture of inclusion
Before the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, was passed in 1990, people with disabilities faced challenges in employment, transportation and other areas critical to their everyday lives. The ADA was enacted to prohibit discrimination based on disability across the United States. This month, CVS Health celebrates the 30th anniversary of ADA, and the company’s abiding work to create opportunities for meaningful employment for people with disabilities.
Fostering a culture of inclusion is a critical priority for CVS Health. The company has invested in its Workforce Initiatives and its highly successful Abilities in Abundance program, which breaks down the employment barriers people with disabilities face every day.
Over the last two decades, more than 55 Abilities in Abundance programs nationwide have helped thousands of people with disabilities find meaningful employment opportunities within CVS pharmacies and other CVS Health locations. In collaboration with the National Consortium of State-Operated Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centers, schools and non-profits, individuals with disabilities have the opportunity to work closely with trained staff to gain experience in customer service, in-store and pharmacy technician positions. Through the program, each participant receives classroom and hands-on training in mock pharmacies, which provides a holistic view of daily responsibilities.
Inclusion is deeply rooted in CVS Health’s purpose of helping people on their path to better health and continues to permeate the company’s innovation strategy. Recently, CVS Health launched Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the CVS Pharmacy app that can read a specific type of label for patients with visual impairments and those who cannot read standard print labels. Spoken Rx is the first in-app prescription reader application to be developed by a national retail pharmacy.
Additionally, 2020 was the fourth consecutive year that CVS Health earned a top score of 100 on the Disability Equality Index (DEI). The DEI, which launched in 2015 as a joint initiative between Diversity:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities, is recognized as the most extensive disability inclusion assessment tool designed and embraced by both business leaders and disability advocates.
David Casey, Vice President, Workforce Strategies & Chief Diversity Officer at CVS Health, had the opportunity to speak at this year’s Annual Disability:IN Conference to underscore CVS Health’s inclusive workplace culture and the comprehensive work the company does to support and recruit individuals with disabilities.
“I believe our diversified workforce is the cornerstone of our business, and for CVS Health to thrive, we need different worldviews, races and ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities and ages,” said Casey. “As we move forward into the next decade of our Abilities in Abundance program and beyond, we’re continually looking at other ways to break down employment barriers that individuals with disabilities continue to face.”
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Nearly a year ago, a reader named Stavros Koulis tipped me off to the work of Takis Zenetos. Zenetos was a Greek architect whose work seems clearly to belong in a list of avant-garde mid-to-late 20th century architects like Yona Friedman, Constant, and even Archigram, but who seems otherwise to have been overlooked.
The above project – visible in the next image – is for a hanging hotel, a combination of Tibetan palace, Anasazi cliff dwelling, and artificial geological formation.
[Image: The Hanging Hotel, strung onto a cliffside like a musical instrument, by Takis Zenetos].
But his most exciting project, I’d suggest (based on very little information, to be frank), is Cable City, an incredible 1961 design for a suspended city – what Zenetos called une ville suspendue.
The entire metropolis would be hung from cables, a kind of tensional extension of the earth’s surface.
[Image: The Cable City of Takis Zenetos].
To be honest, I’ve never read a word about this thing in English, so who knows what I’m getting right here; but the overall impetus behind the project seems to be something like counter-terrestriality: a city that would not only span, but even temporarily replace, the earth’s surface, forming a cobweb of urban settlement. An extremely local architectural offworld made of capsules, wired Archigramian hammocks, and other high-tech micro-environments.
But my own descriptions shouldn’t get in the way of Zenetos’s images.
[Images: The Cable City of Takis Zenetos].
After all, he even drew gullies choked with wind turbines – sustainable, if bird-murdering, power stations – decades ahead of his time.
[Images: A turbined gorge by Takis Zenetos].
I’d love to know more about Zenetos, if anyone reading BLDGBLOG has more information. “Takis Zenetos (1926-1978),” we read, “is the pre-eminent architect of Greek modernism, with a varied oeuvre (industrial buildings, schools, residences, objects, urban planning studies), and he is best known for the FIX building on Syngrou Avenue and the Lycabettus theatre.
“What is not widely known is that Zenetos was a visionary of the future electronic city and the digital age.”
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Mozambique’s Port of Maputo is among the industry’s leading innovators in Africa. By choosing to significantly invest in infrastructure, the port is meeting the needs of a vital transportation corridor that extends into the heart of South Africa. To promote regional trade and economic integration, USTDA helped the Port of Maputo strengthen its safety procedures and enhance operational efficiency by connecting it with innovative U.S. technologies that are transforming how employees are trained.
USTDA achieved this outcome through a 2015 reverse trade mission to the United States that introduced African port sector leaders to U.S. industry and American best practices, with the overall goal of modernizing regional ports, enhancing regional trade and further driving economic growth. USTDA’s delegates engaged with port operators, U.S government representatives and private sector technology providers in Washington, D.C., Miami and Houston.
The visit achieved quick results. Multiple U.S. companies won contracts, including Florida-based e-Tech Simulation, which exported five port equipment simulators that are providing specialized high-tech training for the Port of Maputo’s machine operators. These simulators are also helping to develop a more prepared workforce that will strengthen the port’s safety environment and bring new efficiencies to the loading and unloading of cargo.
Jairo Leiva, e-Tech Simulation’s President, emphasizes that “understanding how technology benefits an organization is difficult without the opportunity to expose the user to it. So, when USTDA invited us to participate in the Miami reverse trade mission for African port sector leaders, we jumped into the opportunity and requested if we could bring along a trailer with a state-of-the-art port equipment simulator on it. The organizers kindly accommodated us, and the reverse trade mission members were able to use the simulator and experience a technology that could help the ports and their countries to achieve their productivity and safety goals. This was a big step in securing a contract, for which we are very proud of participating in, and developing a long-term relationship with the Port of Maputo’s visionary and caring management team. None of this could have been successful without the USTDA’s support.”
USTDA’s Chief Operating Officer and Head of Agency Todd Abrajano summarized the success: “Mozambique is using American technology and American innovation to train its workers and make its key port safer and more efficient. This is exactly how USTDA’s varied toolkit and creative team builds the kinds of partnerships that have a transformative economic impact for our African partners.”
September 15, 2020
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Tibetans in Switzerland Observe First Death Anniversary of Former Political Prisoner Takna Jigme Sangpo
Geneva: Tibetan Community of Switzerland and Lichtenstein (TCSL) observed the first death anniversary of Tibet’s longest-serving political prisoner Takna Jigme Sangpo on Saturday, 2 October. A prayer service honouring the deceased was organised at the Tibet Institute Rikon.
Tibetans in Switzerland and Liechtenstein call on UNHRC to Account China for decades of oppression in Tibet
Geneva, 24th September 2021: Tibetans in Switzerland & Liechtenstein held a peace march on 24th September 2021 from the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights to the office of UN Human Rights Council paralleling the ongoing 48th UN Human Rights Council session.
Second General Meeting of Tibetan Language and Culture Schools convene in Switzerland & Liechtenstein
Zürich: 25th September 2021: The Tibetan Community of Switzerland & Liechtenstein convened the second general meeting of Tibetan language and culture schools on 25th September to discuss and review action plan that would motivate and integrate the younger generation to the Tibetan culture and identity. | <urn:uuid:a0dcf388-d209-4b28-8585-0777b88e180b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tibetswiss.ch/monthly-news?month=202110 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.90049 | 244 | 1.640625 | 2 |
We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America by Mary Whyte
Published October 2019
Available from the University of South Carolina Press.
We the people—these words embody the ethos of what it means to be an American citizen. As individuals we are a tapestry of colors and creeds; united we are a nation committed to preserving our hard-earned freedom. In this heart-stirring collection of watercolor portraits of military veterans—one from each of the fifty states—artist Mary Whyte captures this ethos as well as the dedication, responsibility, and courage it takes to fulfill that promise.
Those who raise their hands to serve may join for different reasons, but all—along with their families—make the extraordinary commitment to place the needs of the country before their own. Whyte gives us the opportunity to meet and to see some of them—to really see them. Whyte’s portrait of America includes individuals from many walks of life, some still active duty, and from every branch: women and men, old and young, and from a wide swath of ethnicities, befitting our glorious melting pot. From a mayor to an astronaut, from a teacher to a garbage collector, from a business entrepreneur to someone who is homeless, Whyte renders their unique and exceptional lives with great care and gentle brush strokes.
We the People is not only a tour across and through these vast United States, it is a tour through the heart and soul, the duty and the commitment of the people who protect not only our Constitution and our country but our very lives. We can only be deeply grateful, inspired, and humbled by all of them. | <urn:uuid:9f2695ae-feb0-47e8-b771-2e9ee75abf61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scwomenlead.net/wilread/we-the-people-portraits-of-veterans-in-america-by-mary-whyte/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957171 | 338 | 1.609375 | 2 |
King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway have marked the 100th anniversary of the Synagogue in Oslo.
They joined celebrations on November 25th 2021. The King and Crown Prince were received by Oslo’s mayor, Marianne Borgen, chairman Ronan Bahar, rabbi Joav Melchior and deputy chairman Anne Sender. Children from the Jewish kindergarten welcomed the Royals outside the synagogue. The government was represented by Minister Kjersti Toppe.
The celebration in the synagogue consisted of speeches and music including performances by the congregation’s children’s choir, and the keynote address was given by Chief Rabbi Michael Melchior. The King’s Prayer was read in both Norwegian and Hebrew. At the end of the ceremony, King Harald was presented with the first copy of the prayer book Siddur in Norwegian translation.
The synagogue was Norway’s first non-Christian house of worship when it was established in 1920. The anniversary was originally supposed to have been marked last year, but was postponed due to the pandemic. The 100th anniversary is a celebration of both those who built the synagogue, synagogue life and the entire Jewish community in Norway.
In 1892, Norwegian Jews decided to establish a congregation in Oslo – The Mosaic Faith Society. In the beginning, the congregation had services in rented premises, but eventually a fund was formed to finance a synagogue building. After a one-acre plot in the area called St. Hans-Haugen was donated in 1916, the building plans gained momentum and in 1920 the synagogue was completed and could be consecrated as Norway’s first non-Christian house of worship since the Viking Age.
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The likelihood that a child will survive a near-drowning without long-term damage is substantially greater if a bystander attempts a rescue, even if that person doesn’t perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to new research presented October 10 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2021 National Conference.
“The extent to which bystander rescue is associated with reduced odds of unfavorable drowning outcomes was surprising,” said lead investigator Rohit P. Shenoi, MD, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and attending physician at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
“While we do know that early rescue and resuscitation is helpful in preventing severe drowning injury, the degree of benefit from bystander rescue in all cases of pediatric drowning has not been described so far,” he told Medscape Medical News.
The fact that a bystander’s rescue attempt improves a child’s odds of a good outcome is not surprising on its own, but the magnitude of the finding really affirms the importance of bystander intervention, said Benjamin Hoffman, MD, professor of pediatrics at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and medical director of the Tom Sargent Safety Center at the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland.
“If an adult finds a child in the water, even if they don’t administer formal CPR, they’re going to be doing things” to try to help, Hoffman, who was not involved in this research but who specializes in child injury prevention, told Medscape Medical News. The act of intervening — whether it’s formal CPR or a CPR attempt or even just calling appropriate first responders — “likely impacts the duration of the submersion” and “clearly makes a difference.”
Drowning is the leading cause of death for children younger than 4 years, Hoffman noted, adding that the AAP recommends swimming lessons for children older than 1 year to reduce that risk.
In their cross-sectional study, Shenoi and his colleagues analyzed data on drownings and near-drownings in children and adolescents younger than 18 years using hospital, emergency medical services, and child fatality records from Harris County, Texas.
They identified 264 incidents from 2010 to 2013 in which the young person was submerged. Median age of the victims was 3.2 years, 60% were male, and 64% were Black, Hispanic, or Native American, and 78% occurred in a swimming pool.
Unfavorable outcomes — defined as death or severe impairment after hospital discharge — were experienced by 38 victims (14.4%) and were significantly associated with being submerged for longer than 5 minutes (P < .001).
The odds of an unfavorable outcome dropped by 80% if a bystander attempted a rescue, whether or not they performed CPR (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.2; P = .004). If the bystander performed CPR, the odds of an unfavorable outcome dropped by a similar amount, but the difference was not statistically significant (aOR, 0.22; P = .07).
However, previous research has shown a significant reduction in poor outcomes when CPR is administered to children who have been submerged, Hoffman explained.
The most important thing a bystander can do is simply get a submerged child out of the water. “Early rescue in drowning terminates what is initially a respiratory arrest from progressing to a full cardiopulmonary arrest with severe hypoxic brain injury and death,” Shenoi said.
“CPR is also very important, and rescue and resuscitation go hand in hand. We encourage all lay persons to be trained in CPR so that they can administer correct CPR techniques,” he added.
Both Shenoi and Hoffman emphasized the value of CPR training for adults, as the AAP recommends, and the importance of other precautions that reduce the risk of drowning.
“Drowning prevention should consist of multiple layers of prevention,” Shenoi said. These consist of “close, constant, and attentive supervision; isolation fencing for swimming pools; and water competency, including water-safety knowledge, basic swim skills, and the ability to recognize and respond to a swimmer in trouble, use of life jackets, and early bystander CPR.”
The relative importance of each of those layers depends on geography and circumstances, Hoffman said. Pools are the most common drowning sites in the United States overall, but they’re much more common in warmer states, such as California, Florida, and Texas, which have more pools. In contrast, drownings in Oregon are more likely to occur in rivers, so prevention is more about access to life jackets and increasing access to swim lessons.
The findings from this study drive home how important it is for physicians to provide anticipatory guidance to families on reducing the risk of drowning. Pediatricians should to convey to families the need for different layers of protection, he added.
“If your family spends a lot of time around water, whether open water or swimming pools, the more layers you can provide, the better off you’re going to be,” Hoffman said.
Shenoi echoed this sentiment.
“The take-home message is to be observant if you are entrusted with the care of a child around water,” Shenoi said. “If you notice the child to be drowning, either attempt rescue yourself if it is safe to do so or enlist the help of others to save the victim as soon as possible. However, the rescuer should not place himself or herself in danger when attempting rescue.”
The five steps in the “drowning chain of survival” — preventing drowning, recognizing distress, providing flotation, removing the victim from the water, and providing care and CPR as needed — are key to reducing drowning deaths and injury, Shenoi emphasized.
Shenoi has disclosed no relevant financial relationships . Hoffman is a paid consultant on child drowning prevention for the nonprofit Anonymous Philanthropy LLC.
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2021 National Conference. Presented October 10, 2021.
Tara Haelle is a Dallas-based science and medical journalist.
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If you own a home with a basement, the sad reality if you will probably have a flood at some point while you live there. It has been estimated that about 98% of all homes with basements will suffer some water damage at some point. In the United States, flooding is the number one disaster in homes. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) estimates at least $3 billion in claims for flood damage are filed every year. Even if you have had a company experienced in waterproofing basement, you may still have a flood. If that happens these are the things you need to do right away,
What to Do If Your Basement Floods:
- Put your safety first. Think about your safety when you go into the flooded area. Before you enter any area that has been flooded, make sure power to the home has been shut off. This may sound like its obvious but every year people are hurt by not checking to make sure all power to the home is off when they enter a building after a flood. If the power has been turned off by the power company, make sure you also shut everything off at the breaker. This prevents problems when the power company restores power to your areas.
- Take photos of the damage. When you go into your home and before you have begun to have any repairs done on repairing cracks in foundation walls or any kinds of repairs, you have to document the damage with photos. This should be done before and then again immediately after you dry out the areas impacted by the flood.
- Check for structural problems with your foundation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recommend that homeowners who have had a flood inspect the foundation for any cracks or obvious damage. If you suspect there are any problems with the sewer lines, you should contact your utility company.
- Dry out your home. You need to get as much water out as soon as you can. The ideal thing to do is clean out the water within 24 to 28 hours after your home floods. This is especially crucial to prevent mold from growing in your home. You will have to get rid of any carpets, furniture and bedding that is damaged in a flood. You might be able to salvage some but a lot will have to be thrown away. If you have had a service handle waterproofing basement, you may have less water than if you did not have that done.
- Inform your insurance carrier. This should happen as soon as possible. Many homeowner’s policies do not include floor insurance so if you are not sure about your coverage, you need to talk to your insurance company. If you are reading this and have not had a flood, you should check your policy right away. You do not have to live hear the water to have a flood. Basement cracks and leaks can lead to serious flooding in homes that are in landlocked states. They may give you a cheaper policy if you have done a waterproofing basement treatment.
- Are you in a disaster area? If your flood has been due to a natural disaster, you may be eligible for special funding to repair your home. Your insurance company can tell you if you qualify for any special funding for fixing the damage to your home.
- Have your home tested for mold. Mold is very dangerous. After your flood water has been cleaned up and as you deal with all of the repairs your home needs, make it a point to have your home tested for mold. You can then have a service come in and get rid of it before it makes anyone in your family sick.
There are some things you can do to protect your home from flooding. There are water proofing solutions for your home that include products and services for waterproofing basement. You should walk around your home periodically and check your foundation for signs of damage or cracks. Make sure you take care of any foundation repairs and foundation sealing if you can. | <urn:uuid:812012ba-7a3e-4018-b4c6-fd2404d3afbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://diyhomedecorideas.org/7-things-to-do-right-away-after-a-flood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973443 | 788 | 1.648438 | 2 |
In a misleading article by Associated Press that IOUs “stashed away” in an investment account in Parkersburg, West Virginia, were going to have to be sold to meet Social Security shortfalls, all the attention was on the location of the account instead of what was in it.
Analyzed here and elsewhere, Social Security is now suffering in the open as a result of unconstitutional and unsound financial assumptions starting in 1935. First of all, the gigantic welfare program, the largest government transfer program in the world, was sold to the American people during the Great Depression as an annuity guaranteed by the federal government. In fact, it still retains the early efforts to link Social Security to the insurance industry (which, at that time, still retained a high degree of public trust) by calling it the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, or FICA. However, a Supreme Court ruling in 1960 not only upheld the Constitutionality of a section of the original law that gave Congress the power to amend and revise the schedule of benefits, but denied that the act created an enforceable contract between participants and the United States government and that, consequently, payments from Social Security are not property rights and therefore are not guaranteed after all.
Secondly, the act was a government intervention into the private lives of those who had failed to provide sufficiently for themselves that was never envisioned by the founders.
Thirdly, despite the fact that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme on a massive scale, it’s faulty and misleading economic calculations were never exposed to the light of day since so many more taxpayers were paying into the scheme than those who were taking out. In the very beginning, there were nearly 40 taxpayers supporting the system for every one receiving benefits. As Social Security benefits were expanded over time and to include Medicare and prescription coverage, it became increasingly clear that the entire system was one day going to run out of money.
Last year’s Trustees Report Summary said, “The financial condition of the Social Security and Medicare programs remains challenging. Projected long term program costs are not sustainable…and deficits will [have to be] made up by redeeming trust fund assets.” Although there is a relatively small balance in the programs accounts, “growing annual deficits are projected to exhaust [them]” in less than seven years. In order to keep this program going, according to the Trustees, shortfalls “will continue to require general revenue financing and [additional taxes] that [will] grow substantially faster than the economy and beneficiar[ies]’ incomes over time.”
Medicare is in such poor shape, and has failed so much faster than its larger kin, that general tax revenues “will soon account for more than 45 percent of Medicare’s outlays.” In fact, “it is expected that about one quarter of Part B enrollees will be subject to unusually large premium increases in the next two years [just to keep the program going].”
In other words, the game is up. Hudson Institute noted that a previous report from Social Security had estimated that the programs wouldn’t “go negative” until at least 2019, but the Great Recession has so severely reduced tax revenues that $29 billion of that “nest egg” will have to be sold just to pay the beneficiaries this year. An advocate to keep Social Security and Medicare going, Mary Johnson with The Senior Citizens League, said, “This [beginning liquidation of reserves] is not just a wake-up call, this is it. We’re here. We are not going to be able to put it off any more.”
What is this “nest egg”, anyway? Locked away in the bottom drawer of a desk in a government building in Parkersburg is a three-ring binder containing special government bonds that are payable to the Social Security program. There are about $2.5 trillion of these bonds in this binder, representing a claim on the “full faith and credit of the United States of America.” In fact, according to Barbara Kennelly, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, “[Those bonds are just] as solid as what we owe China and Japan.”
In other words, the money is gone. It’s been spent by Congress, and in its place are pieces of paper representing more promises to pay. And the fact that they are “just as solid as what we owe” to China, Japan and others should give retirees or potential beneficiaries small comfort. As Gary North and Bill Clinton have said, perhaps the only time they ever agreed on anything, there are only three ways out of this mess: raise taxes, reduce benefits, or go private.
He points out that, at present, Social Security and Medicare account for 23 percent of the federal budget, and that nearly 80 percent of Americans pay more in Social Security taxes than they do income taxes. He also points out that “the program is unsustainable…the trust fund contains no actual assets…the bonds are simply a form of IOU…it says nothing about where the government will get the money to pay back those IOUs. “Overall,” he says, “the amount the [Social Security] system has promised beyond what it can actually pay now totals $17.5 trillion. Yes, that’s trillion with a T.”
And workers, as pointed out above, “have no ownership of their benefits.”
Tanner said the program could be fixed but it would take a doubling of the current payroll tax, or benefits would have to be cut by at least 25 percent. And, he said, raising taxes “will do nothing to fix the fundamental problems of ownership, inheritability and choice.” To say nothing of the programs’ inherent fraud and unconstitutionality.
The only workable solution, says Tanner, is to “allow younger workers to invest privately a portion of their Social Security taxes through personal accounts so as to take advantage of the higher returns earned through investment in real assets [which would] offset the reduction in government benefits that will be required to [keep the system solvent].”
Commenting on the “lost decade” of poor investment performance in stocks, he points out that if workers retiring today “had been allowed to start privately investing their taxes 40 years ago…they would still have more than Social Security promises. “Remember,” he added, “someone retiring today would have begun contributing to his or her retirement account 40 years ago, when the Dow was at less than 1,000.” According to a survey taken in 2009 by Sun Life Financial at the bottom of the market, 48 percent of Americans would opt out of Social Security even if doing so meant the loss of all future Social Security benefits. And among workers under age 30, the number wanting out of Social Security was an amazing 59 percent.
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Technology has impacted everyone in how we work, communicate, and solve problems. Government agencies such as legal and police departments are no strangers to it. However, with changing times, digital evidence is evolving, and old RMS systems cannot keep up with various digital files.
It becomes necessary to either enhance or replace prevailing legacy systems to efficiently manage audio, video and image evidence, reduce backlogs, and switch from handling files in various disparate physical locations such as CDs, hard drives, tapes, USBs etc.
As criminal cases pile up, investigators, officers, district and defense attorneys, paralegals, and analysts must equip themselves with the technology to manage and process large volumes of evidence which the RMS is not designed for.
What is the purpose of an RMS?
Record Management Systems, or RMS for short, are broadly used for compliance purposes that provide storage, retention, retrieval, and viewing of information, documents and files related to legal and police operations. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) via ISO 15489-1:2016 provides a framework for a comprehensive records management program.
For one, it is a requirement for many governmental agencies. As far as law enforcement operations are concerned, record management systems (RMS) are used to handle police incident and accident reports, warrants, arrests, case management, field interview reports, photo lineup, supplemental reports and more.
The benefit of using the RMS comes in the initial stages of the police investigations. It ensures that records of financial, historical, or legal value are adequately maintained and to discard non-essential records as per established guidelines.
Traditional records management systems are rigid in structure, with minimum changes between one case or report. To make greater use of current technology without spending any extra funds, police departments use it for handling and analyzing evidence. This is where the problem arises.
New Evidence Brings a New Set of Challenges
Whether dealing with records or evidence, personnel should understand that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. While RMS vendors are looking for opportunities to fill the gaps of customers and expand their services, managing evidence presents its challenges. As crimes are evolving, so too are the types of associated evidence.
RMS was built before video and image-based evidence became the norm in police investigations and criminal proceedings. While it may successfully manage text-based evidence, record management systems are not designed to process and analyze videos containing hours of footage. Videos can come from dashcams, body-worn cams, CCTV surveillance, drone cams, smartphones, and more with various formats which may require codecs to play them.
Adding to the police department’s plight are the FOIA requirements to redact and share videos to meet public disclosure requests in time. Further causing headaches from the lack of advanced RMS functions are the transcription requirements, leaving police users in a dilemma between spending more time on their investigations and engaging in administrative processes such as manually reviewing and typing transcriptions from hours of footage; that too with risks of human-prone errors.
Aside from manual hours spent, police departments also must budget for video storage, redaction, and transcription technology to complement their current RMS.
One instance is the NYPD charging a cable news channel $36,000 (or $120/hour) for 190 hours of footage requested through New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIA) to offset the operating costs of the police departments.
During court trials, juries expect attorneys like prosecutors and public defenders to present videos to them in every case. Hence, they must have the understanding to present them in court.
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Extracting video insights allows users to connect the dots and solve police investigations faster, rather than solely relying on RMS technology and missing out on crucial information not found in documents.
Poor evidence management practices, whether through the inability to retrieve the proper evidence at the right time or having evidence misplaced, can lead to disastrous consequences. In addition to evidence management policies, there should be an easy-to-use system with a trained staff that understands the system.
DEMS and RMS can go hand in hand and make processes more effective. Enhance user’s productivity by smartly organizing random files with machine-generated labels called auto tags, drastically cut review time by making redaction workflows seamless, and prepare transcriptions in a matter of minutes. You can monitor each user activity and system operations with the chain of custody and audit trail.
Video-based evidence management requires the training needed to present the proper evidence for court submissions because not all video evidence can be considered admissible in court.
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The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law
Volume 9, Issue 1, December 2006
B. U. Nwosu1
The lack of accountability on the part of elected officeholders in Nigeria is easily discountenanced by the incumbents. Their brazen alibi is that people’s votes did not bring them into office, so accountability to voters is irrelevant. Indeed, candidates who receive the most votes can be denied victory. Some literature traces this problem to the learning status of Nigerian democracy, which should mature with time. Yet a stronger current links the trend to the postcolonial character of the Nigerian state, which predisposes it to intervene in the economy. Ruling groups use state power to strengthen their weak material base. As a result, seeking access to state power becomes a contest without rules. The same overbearing postcolonial state renders civil society weak and unable to counter certain tendencies of the state.
The above explanations simply rationalize the docility of Nigerian civil society. Elections in the Southeastern part of Nigeria in 2003 and the lackluster role of civil society in them offer little basis to expect either the maturing of Nigerian democracy or a democratic transformation of the postcolonial state.
This article contends, by contrast, that civil society itself could create an environment conducive to true democracy, if it became a social force and participated in the electoral process to protect the popular mandate. The solution lies in stimulating civil society to rise beyond episodic activities and become a continuing force.
One way to simplify the understanding of civil society is to view it as those interactions above the individual and the family but beneath the state. By implication, then, we speak of civil society in the context of other variables, namely the family and the state. The space between the family and the state is the sphere of the civil society.
The character of interaction between the state and civil society defines the nature of the society. A state that overwhelms civil society is likely to be absolutist and repressive, whereas a civil society that overwhelms the state may tend toward creating anarchy. Striking a balance between the two categories becomes necessary.
Many aspects of the state in Nigeria are inconsistent with a liberal democratic form. The ruling class engages in corruption to strengthen its weak economic base. Public power offers the opportunity to steal state revenues. Consequently, the contest for state power becomes a desperate affair (see Ibeanu, 2005). Elections are massively rigged, and popular electoral mandate is absent. The state’s regulating framework is weak, with only limited capacity to protect people’s electoral mandate. Consequently, civil society, in terms of influencing politics and governance, is subordinated to the state.
Hegelian and Marxian theories envision different relationships between the state and civil society. Because electoral mandate impinges on the state, it is important to explore civil society’s permissible role at the level of epistemology. This is particularly so because of the importance of elections to democracy. Civil society is significantly affected by the government, whether it is a democratic and responsive one or a repressive and unaccountable one, so it is appropriate to examine civil society’s role in protecting the mandate of candidates favored by the public.
This article argues that the civil society in Southeastern Nigeria has limited engagement with the state, and that its weak role in protecting electoral mandates results from the character of the postcolonial state.
Civil Society, State, and Electoral Mandate Protection
A plethora of conceptions of civil society exist, most of which find shade under either Hegelian or Marxian notions. John Hall (cited in Kukah 1999:43) defines civil society as “an opposite of despotism, a space in which social groups could exist and move something which exemplified and would ensure softer and more tolerable conditions of existence.” Hall stresses civil society in terms of freedom from tyranny. But the conception could have been stronger if it placed civil society in the context of the relationship between society and public power. Once we speak in terms of public power or the state, we have a framework for the activities of civil society within which Hall could more appropriately speak of “more tolerable conditions of existence.”
Agnelli (in Helmich and Lemmers, 1998:12) designates civil society as “the meeting of autonomous subjects of the state and its institutions, united not only by values and cultures but also by the desire to act conjointly and to assume specific responsibilities in projects of general interest.” For Agnelli, civil society is made up of all voluntary associations, local community organizations, and cultural and research institutions, in addition to representative bodies of private enterprise and business sectors. This conception by implication gives civil society space to assume a wide range of roles, including engaging the state on issues of democracy and elections. Uniting out of desire to “act conjointly … in projects of general interest” is wide enough to accommodate electoral mandate protection.
Civil society, according to Larry Diamond (cited in Kukah 1999:44), is
the realm of organised social life that is voluntary, self-generating, self supporting, autonomous from the state and bound by legal order or set of shared rules…. It involves [people] acting collectively in a public sphere to express their interests, passions and ideas, exchange ideas, exchange information, achieve mutual goals, make demands on the state and hold state officials accountable. It is an intermediary entity standing between the private sphere and the state.
Diamond’s conception is comprehensive in terms of civil society’s social location as well as its frame of activities. He enriches his conception further by characterizing an organized civil society as follows (see Kukah 1999:45):
- a check against excesses of government;
- an accelerator of participation and skills of various segment of society;
- an alternative to political parties;
- a promoter of bargaining power of interest groups;
- a mitigator of fundamentalist extremists and maximalists and provider of alternatives for negotiation on a multifaceted society; and
- a field of leadership recruitment.
Although the above characterization covers organized civil society, in the sense of entities that may qualify as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) (see Racelis, 2000), it nevertheless captures relations within the sphere between the family and the state. Diamond’s notion clarifies roles that can engender democratic transformation. This proceeds from the dynamic characteristics he correctly assigns to civil society.
Our conceptual point of departure could be enriched by blending the Diamond thesis with the functions that Thijn and Bernard (1998) identify with civil society:
- countervailing power, increasing the accountability of the state;
- vehicle for participation by citizens;
- promoter of social cohesion;
- contributor to a sense of community;
- creator of learning and socialization;
- stimulator of plurality; and
- creator of social capacity.
Taken together, these ideas suggest that an optimal civil society exerts force throughout the political conjuncture.
To be sure, civil society does not compete with the state. Rather, it opposes excesses of the state – a veritable platform for demanding accountability. This, of course, means that a state’s undemocratic tendencies can be questioned by a civil society whose constituents are also subjects of the state. It follows that civil society can confer a mandate on managers of the state and guard that mandate.
This argument touches on the epistemological issues associated with Hegelian and Marxian notions of civil society and state. Put briefly, for Hegel, the state is superior to the civil society, while Marx sees the opposite.
In Hegelian theory, family and civil society are merely dialectic steps to a higher synthesis, the state, which is greater than its components (see Stumpf, 1977). Hegel contends that the relationship between the state and civil society is mutual, yet the state is superior and its authority absolute. In fact, the state creates civil society for its own ends, and civil society needs the state for intelligent supervision and moral significance (Sabine and Thorson, 1973). Hegel’s grant of superiority to the state derives from the origin and character he assigns it. He holds that “the state is divine will … which unfolds itself into actual configuration … and into the organisation of a world” (Friedrich, 1954:282). Given the theosophic nature of Hegelian theory of the state, civil society exists at the pleasure of the state and cannot challenge the state. Under this theory, an absolute and undemocratic state denies civil society the latitude of relevance; electoral issues, including mandate protection, are closed off.
The Hegelian state is inadequate for understanding contemporary civil society. Indeed, modern conceptions and theories of relations between civil society and the state largely diverge from Hegel’s (see Bayart, 1986; Lehning, 1998; Hadenius and Uggla, 1998; Breed, 1998).
Here as elsewhere, Marx stands Hegel on his head. Marx holds that “civil or bourgeois society is the basis of the state” (Tucker, 1978:16). Put differently, the character of the state reflects the character of the civil society. Insofar as civil society serves as the foundation of the state, civil society can establish the patterns of state organization. Accordingly, democratic norms, including the protection of electoral mandate, belong in the sphere of civil society.
Electoral mandate protection is tied to a seminal question raised by Jinadu (2005:24):
are the conditions that are precedent to and on the election date, including the administration of the electoral process, ones that ensure the ex ante indeterminacy of the election, in other words, is the electoral process generally fair and free?
Civil society in new democracies is challenged by the above question, given that a weak regulatory framework can sometimes subvert electoral mandate. A deficit in mandate protection generally creates a democracy deficit (cf. Jinadu, 2005). But it is important to stress the point made by Jinadu (2005:25) that “electoral mandate is bound up with a country’s constitutional and political history. It grows out of the struggle for the expansion of the democratic space in the country.” This brings us to the character of the state as determined by material and historical forces, which shapes its nature as a mediator in the society, including mediating whether citizens decide who governs the state.
The Nigerian State and Civil Society
It might be necessary to clarify, at least theoretically, whether it does “make sense to speak of civil society in Africa” (Sedogo, 1998:111).
From the Hegelian perspective, “Africa has no history.” It signifies an ahistorical and underdeveloped world, entirely enslaved to the natural mind (Sedogo, 1998:113). By implication, it lacks the “divine will” (state) that unfolds in historical moments, along with the civil society that the state creates. Here Hegel’s idea clashes with reality: the state actually exists in Africa.
Contrary to Hegel, Mamdani (2002:13) posits that “civil society exists as a fully formed construct in Africa as in Europe, and the driving force of democratization everywhere is the contention between the civil society and the state.” But civil society in Africa is not the creator of the state but “a creation of the colonial state” (Mamdani, 2002:19). This creation has not yet achieved a balance in its relationship with its creator.
The imbalance between state and civil society does indeed persist in contemporary African states, including Nigeria. The cause is the character of the postcolonial state.
The colonial state was conceived, nurtured, and sustained in violence (Kukah, 1998). It was absolutist, and either excluded politics altogether or viewed it in terms of administration (cf. Bayart, 1986). The civil society of the colonial state consisted of the few enfranchised colonists and settlers, with enfranchisement based on such factors as income, education, and urban residency. The 1922 Clifford’s constitution in Nigeria introduced the elective principle based on limited franchise, with qualification based on similar conditions. Peasants in the colonial state were not accorded these civic privileges (cf. Mamdani, 2002).
The civil society aimed to circumvent pressures that could create social instability. But some who were excluded from the political space occasionally challenged the colonial state. Particularly instructive was the women’s riot in 1929 at Aba in Southeastern Nigeria. This incident and other episodic eruptions of the peasantry suggest that the society suppressed a crucial category. To sustain its exploitative essence, the colonial state had to retain its absolutist and undemocratic character, leaving only limited participatory space for civil society.
The postcolonial state that emerged at independence retained the trappings of the colonial order. The end of colonialism brought about a change of government personnel without a reconstitution of the state. The postcolonial state in Nigeria thus circumscribes the participatory latitude of civil society, especially on critical issues of democracy and governance. As in the colonial order, the postcolonial order controls significant economic resources in the state. State power offers opportunity for embezzlement. A result is the common quest to personalize public power and make the state unduly coercive.
Personalizing state power brings about the client-patron relationship between state officials and their loyalists. Supporters of the current government are rewarded with perquisites such as contracts, gifts, and public appointments, whereas the opposition is hounded and punished. This trend has so deeply pervaded social consciousness that civil society virtually worships power. Various types of people’s organizations make solidarity visits to the government in power, no matter how it emerged. Such visits do not reflect goodwill or genuine support, but rather the political economy of corruption, in which genuine “civil society,” according to Kukah (1999), is “driven and choked by the thorns of the contradictions of the post colonial state.” Such an environment can hardly foster the sort of sustained civil society necessary for electoral mandate protection or democratic transformation; it can generate only episodic agitations that yield piecemeal and inconclusive ends. The buildup of civil society that ended military rule, for instance, fizzled with the inception of civil rule, instead of remaining as a vanguard of democratic transformation.
Civil Society and Elections in Southeastern Nigeria
The nature of elections in contemporary Southeastern Nigeria exemplifies a disturbingly pervasive trend in postcolonial Nigeria. Two terms summarize the trend: vote-rigging and “godfatherism.” Vote-rigging is no longer limited to the state and political parties. Political entrepreneurs now sponsor candidates for public offices so that they, the godfathers, will receive public funds as well as political influence. This is not unique. In such democracies as the Philippines and Mexico, political entrepreneurs try to buy votes of the poor. Ghana is accused of similar practices (Ojo, 2006).
Unassailable evidence proves vote-buying in the 1999 and 2003 general elections in Nigeria (Pamsha, 2006). The case of Southeastern Nigeria in the 2003 elections is particularly instructive. In Abia State, one of the five Southeastern States, Elder Imo, a man who ran on the platform of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), received a majority of the votes cast and was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission. However, a certificate of victory was given to Adolphus Wabara. Elder Imo was robbed of his public office, it was alleged, because the hierarchy of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had earlier chosen Adolphus Wabara as the next Senate President (Global Rights, 2005).
Similarly in Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige was declared the winner of the 2003 gubernatorial election, even though the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) received more votes. Indeed, President Obasanjo openly told Nigerians that Chris Uba, the purposed godfather of Anambra State politics, admitted to having rigged the 2003 election (Global Rights, 2005). Chris Uba himself declared, in a gathering of World Igbo Congress, that he rigged the 2003 elections in Anambra State (see Okonkwo, 2003). Further, the Senatorial victory of Ben Obi from Anambra State, stolen through political manipulations of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was recovered only through litigation.
In all the above occurrences, the political heat of the moment seemed to melt civil society. Apart from poll watching by the Justice, Development and Peace Commission of the Catholic Church and a few other groups, there was hardly any response from the civil society in the Southeast. Of course, the vibrancy of the media cannot be denied. But the shocking political events in the region seem a normal outgrowth of power worship. This contrasts sharply with the actions of civil society in the Philippines. Strong civil society brought down the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and the populist but corrupt government of Estrada (Kotte, 2001). Poll watching for mandate protection is also a part of civil society’s commitment to democracy in Philippines. Southeastern Nigeria’s vote rigging is not an isolated case. Other parts of the country suffer too. The problem is symptomatic of a strong coercive state that overwhelms the civil society.
Civil society in Nigeria is a victim of the state. This arises from civil society’s failure to reconstitute the coercive state in line with liberal democracy. Hence, the character of the state resembles that of its predecessor, the colonial state. The contradictions of the state suppress civil society and prevent the consolidation of democracy. Elections remain a farce, while protecting the electoral mandate is regarded with levity. Civil society in Southeastern Nigeria is too weak to perform its functions.
In spite of the experiences in the Southeast, a flicker of hope remains. The same 2003 elections that were rigged in parts of the Southeastern region could not be rigged in Kano State gubernatorial elections. A civil society coalition protected the mandate of Shekarau of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), despite the determination of the ruling PDP to return the incumbent Kwankwaso to power through rigging (Global Rights, 2005).
Civil society’s limited and weak engagement with the state in Nigeria could gradually be overcome by strengthening institutional civil society into a social force. The intelligentsia can commence proactive actions on matters of governance, including elections. This can open the space for other professional, community-based, and religious associations to turn proactive in protecting the electoral mandate, demanding accountability in governance, and, ultimately, transforming the nation into a true democracy.
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Category:Shelf:Science fiction literature
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This article describes a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a supervised online delivery of self-help plus (SH+), during the second wave of COVID-19 contagions in Northern Italy. The SH+ is a psychological intervention developed by the World Health Organization to increase a person's ability to deal with stress. In this trial, it was tested primarily as a tool to reduce anxiety and post-traumatic symptomatology in workers of residential nursing and care homes. In order to partial out non-specific effects of the intervention, the SH+ was compared to an equally supervised and structured alternative activity. Secondarily, in view of future emergencies, the potential of SH+ as a tool to reduce perceived stress, increase subjective well-being and foster individual resilience was explored. At post-intervention, the preregistered analysis revealed no difference in self-reported anxiety and/or post-traumatic symptomatology between the group receiving the SH+ and the group engaged in an alternative activity. Some specific and positive effects of the SH+ intervention were only found on self-reported intervention effectiveness and engagement in exploratory analyses. These findings raise the question whether the previously documented effectiveness of the SH+ on self-reported symptomatology and on the prevention of psychiatric conditions could be attributed mostly to non-specific rather than specific factors connected with participant enrolment in a psychological intervention. Indeed, the effects of the SH+ had been previously compared only to the effects of not being engaged in any alternative activity (often described in the literature as ‘treatment as usual’—or ‘enhanced treatment as usual’, when some relevant information is given to the control group as a one-off). Given the negative findings of this study, before the SH+ is implemented in clinical practice, further studies should be conducted to examine its short- and long-term beneficial effects, by means of randomized studies that employ alternative but similarly structured interventions as control conditions, aiming to minimize the confounding effect of non-specific factors.
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Riello, M., Purgato, M., Bove, C., Tedeschi, F., Mactaggart, D., Barbui, C. & Rusconi, E. 2021, 'Effectiveness of self-help plus (SH+) in reducing anxiety and post-traumatic symptomatology among care home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial', Royal Society Open Science, 8(11), article no: 210219. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210219 | <urn:uuid:fe184f84-59f0-451d-a63b-958130366628> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publichealthscotland.scot/repository/effectiveness-of-self-help-plus-shplus-in-reducing-anxiety-and-post-traumatic-symptomatology-among-care-home-workers-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-randomized-controlled-trial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939864 | 581 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Do you struggle to hear, and have difficulty communicating with family, friends, and colleagues? If you’ve been living with untreated hearing loss, you might not be too keen on seeking treatment. Like many Americans, you think struggling through a few conversations doesn’t seem too bad, and you don’t want to invest in hearing devices. But would you change your mind if you knew that those with untreated hearing loss incur high health care costs, and skipping the hearing aids could actually be costing you thousands of dollars?
Higher Health Care Costs
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been looking at how hearing loss affects health in a variety of ways. From reduced quality of life to higher rates of depression, those with hearing loss experience a lot of negative health outcomes. They’re more likely to suffer from heart disease, diabetes, rapid cognitive decline and even dementia.
Nicholas S. Reed, AuD, from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Bloomberg School, decided to look into health care costs, and along with researchers at the University of California uncovered some astonishing facts. After accessing the OptumLabs Data Warehouse, and studying 10 years of data from hundreds of thousands of patients who accessed health care in the United States, they noticed some extreme trends.
The Numbers Don’t Lie
They found that those living with untreated hearing loss generated 46% higher health care costs than their hearing peers, and paid $22,434 more over the course of ten years!
Examining the 10 years of data showed that those with hearing loss had 52 more outpatient visits than those who could hear clearly, and were 17% more likely to visit the emergency department. They were admitted to hospital 50% more often, and had a 44% higher risk of readmission.
Why Does Hearing Loss Cost More?
Hearing loss isn’t just about struggling to hear when your spouse is telling you a story, or when you join your friends for dinner. Hearing loss also affects your balance and your mobility, and those with hearing loss are more likely to experience trips, falls, or accidents. With difficulty hearing sounds in your daily life, minor accidents could lead to a visit to your medical provider. Studies from Johns Hopkins have also found a correlation between untreated hearing loss and an increased risk for dementia – in part, due to social isolation which comes from untreated hearing loss, which is a major risk factor for dementia.
Another reason for higher health care costs is poor patient-provider communication. If you struggle to hear in your daily life, think about how much harder it would be to talk to a doctor in a crowded hospital, with echoing hallways, beeping machines, and chatting nurses right outside the room. When you’re not able to communicate effectively with your doctor, they might not fully understand your symptoms, and you may not be receiving the best care. And even if your doctor is able to provide an accurate diagnosis, you won’t be able to follow a treatment plan you haven’t heard the instructions. You won’t be able to work with your doctor to create a health plan, or follow your discharge instructions, and you risk higher rates of readmission.
Training Doctors to Communicate
As part of a new initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Reed and others developed a pilot program to teach doctors to communicate more effectively with hard of hearing patients. They also improved the signs around the hospital, and even provided hearing amplification devices to patients. “Knowing that untreated hearing loss dramatically drives up health care utilization and costs,” says Reed, “will hopefully be a call to action among health systems and insurers to find ways to better serve these patients.”
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Remembering: Val Cushing
Remembering: Val Cushing
It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of beloved ceramics master and teacher Val Cushing on November 17, 2013. He was 82 years old.
Born in Rochester, New York, on January 28, 1931, Val Cushing received his BFA in 1952 from the School of Art & Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. After serving two years in the Army during the Korean War, he returned to Alfred and received his MFA in 1956. His full-time teaching career began that year at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. The following year he returned to Alfred where he taught pottery and technical courses concerning clays, glazes, and related subjects. He remained at Alfred until he retired in 1997, when he was designated professor emeritus.
Cushing was known for his devotion to the wheel-thrown, utilitarian vessel. His pitchers, bowls, and casseroles feature clean, simple lines in earthy colored glazes inspired by the landscapes that surrounded him at his home in Alfred Station, New York. During his career, Cushing’s meditative, yet functional, pots were included in more than 200 exhibitions, including numerous one-person shows. His work can be found in the collections of many public and private museums and galleries, including the Smithsonian, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Everson Museum of Art.
In addition to his studio work, Cushing devoted his life to teaching students both at Alfred and beyond at places such as Penland, Anderson Ranch, Peters Valley, Haystack, and abroad in countries including England, Norway, and Spain. He received honors for his role as a teacher from Alfred University, the State of New York, and from NCECA (The National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts) where he was a founding member and a past president. In 1987 he was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council. Additional awards included an artist grant from the National Endowment of the Arts; a Fulbright grant for teaching and research in Manchester, England, and an artist-in-residence grant at the Archie Bray Foundation and the University of Wolverhampton, England.
Until his death, Cushing worked full-time in his studio and continued exhibiting his work and conducting occasional lectures and workshops. He found the greatest joy in maintaining a creative life and spending time with his family, including his wife, Elsie, four children, and seven grandchildren.
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A unique selection of 30 hadith, with explanations written in language which is child-friendly and relatable to young minds. The lively design, illustrations and section on how they can use the wisdom in their lives, will build a new love for hadith in young hearts In sha Allah!
The language of hadith often goes over children's heads, leaving them uninterested, and unable to retain the information.
Alhamdulilah, not with this book!
The child-friendly explanations, lively design, illustration and section on how they can use the wisdom in their lives, will build a new love for hadith in young hearts In sha Allah! See for yourself in the samples below!
THIS BOOK IS REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY SHAYKH HAYTHAM TAMIM OF THE UTRUJJ FOUNDATION
All hadith are Sahih.
By the author of My Dad's Beard,
24 x 24 cm
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The Babysits Survival Guide
Do you want to become a babysitter? Or are you already a babysitter and looking for some inspiration or guidance to deal with any babysitting situation? The Babysits Survival Guide is a visual guidebook that is designed to help you along your babysitting journey, right from the very beginning. We want you to know all of the most important knowledge and most useful advice to help you along your way, from the babysitting basics, mini-guides to help you in any situation, and activities for any age group.
Continue reading to learn the babysitting basics, or download the full Babysits Survival Guide visual guidebook here so you always have some quick babysitting tips on your mobile or desktop.
The Babysits Survival Guide
It’s important to begin with the basics about babysitting and everything you need to know before starting your babysitting journey, including how to make the perfect resume and all of the babysitting essentials.
In the rest of the guidebook, there are several mini guides to provide you with guidance and how to’s to help you in any situation. These mini guides range from babysitting for the first time to babysitting multiple children. Here's an example:
Finally, the guidebook shows you many activities to use while babysitting. Whatever age group you are babysitting, it’s important to know activities that fit every situation to keep your little ones entertained and learning lots! The guidebook shows you many activities you can choose from, be it creative, cognitive, or physical. Here's an example:
But first, let’s begin with the basics!
Back to the basics
The babysitting basics include everything you need to know before you start your babysitting journey:
- Why babysitting is the best part-time job
- Ten types of babysitters
- The perfect babysitting resume
- First aid while babysitting
- The babysitting essentials
- Questions to ask parents before babysitting
- Mistakes to avoid when babysitting
- Babysitting remotely
- Babysitting as a teen
Babysitter jobs are one of the best part-time jobs, because you are in charge of when and how much you work. You also decided where, and who you work for. What job sounds better than that?
First of all, babysitting jobs are a great source of income as a part-time job, because you are able to decide your babysitting rate according to your experience level and certifications.
Secondly, babysitting allows you to gain valuable skills that you can use for the rest of your life, and they also look great on your resume!
Third, babysitting is a great part-time job because it is flexible! You get to decide when you work, so it’s the perfect side-job while in school or doing an internship.
Lastly, babysitting gives you the opportunity to let out your inner child and relive the best parts about childhood, like playing and learning. Most importantly, babysitting allows you to make a difference in the lives of children and their families. All of these reasons are why babysitting is one of the best and most rewarding part-time jobs!
1. The on-call babysitter
This option is great if you are flexible, and want to get as many opportunities as possible.
2. The permanent babysitter
The option of permanent sitting is great especially if you want to work only with one family, or wish to work as a live-in or live-out nanny.
3. The evening sitter
Babysitting in the evening is a great option if you work or study during the day.
4. The after school sitter
If you are available starting in the afternoons, then being an after school sitter is the perfect option for you.
5. The night sitter
The night sitter is for those who have a busy schedule during the day, those who work as nannies, or those who prefer to take care of children over-night.
6. The weekday sitter
Being a weekday sitter is great for those looking to work during the week and have the weekends off!
7. The wedding sitter
The wedding sitter is for those situations when somebody needs an extra helping hand during their big day.
8. The party sitter
Same goes for the party sitter, who is there to make sure parents have enough help while their child has a party, or if the parents are throwing a party!
9. The summer sitter
This option is great for those who have their summer’s off from school and are looking for the perfect summer job.
10. The remote sitter
Last but not least, there is the remote sitter. This is great for those who want to work from home. You can choose to do online tutoring or virtual babysitting.
1. The photo
Include a nice photo of yourself.
Explain why you enjoy working with children.
List past experiences are references.
Show your educational history and any certifications.
Include any languages, talents or hobbies
6. Hourly rate
Specify your asking rate or average rate
Show when you are available, be it weekends, weekdays, days or nights.
What is first aid for children?
First aid for children and babies is about knowing how to respond when a child may be physically injured.
Why is it important to know first aid for children?
In some cases, you need to respond differently when a baby or child is in hurt than you would with an adult.
As a babysitter, it's highly recommended to take a child and baby first aid course so the children are always safe.
1. Art supplies
Bringing arts and crafts supplies is a great way to keep the kids entertains and spark their creativity.
Games are also a great way to keep kids entertained and are great when babysitting multiple children.
3. First aid kit
Bringing a first aid kit or making sure the parents provide you with a first aid kit is very important when taking care of children of all ages.
Like the first aid kit, bringing your own phone or having access to the family's phone is very important in case of emergencies.
Ingredients for baking or cooking are a great way to not only get the kids involved in the process, but also allows you to cook or bake things that are familiar to you.
It’s very important that you get to know the children before babysitting. Here are some questions to ask the parents about the children:
- Personality, likes and dislikes?
- Favourite toys, activities, games?
- Daily routine?
It’s equally important to know everything about your job and responsibilities. Try asking questions about these topics to parents:
- Contact and emergency info?
- Daily, weekly or monthly schedule?
- House rules?
1. Being late
We all know why being late is a mistake to avoid, just don’t do it! Be on time to show that you are reliable.
2. Taking photos
Do not take any photos of the children or the house without the parents permission.
3. Using bad language
Never use bad language in front of children.
4. Overusing your phone
Only use your phone when necessary, such as in emergencies, or looking up recipes or DIYS.
5. Working while sick
When you’re sick, stay home to avoid getting the children or parents sick.
6. Breaking house rules
Breaking house rules is never a good idea. This only confuses the children, discredits the parents and is not overall not respectful.
7. Smoking cigarettes
Never smoke cigarettes in front of children, as it is bad for their health and also a bad influence on their habits as they grow older.
8. Drinking alcohol
The same goes for alcohol. It can also impair your judgement and puts you and the children at risk.
What is remote babysitting?
Remote babysitting is helping to entertain or look after a child using a video calling app.
How does it work?
Parents are still home in case there is an emergency or other situation that cannot be handled virtually.
Here are some activities you can do while babysitting remotely:
- Help children learn by reading with them
- Help children with homework or create your own lessons
- Set up DIYs to do together via video call
- Try games like Simon Says or activities like singing and dancing
1. Legal considerations:
You must be legally old enough to stay home alone.
2. Parental Approval:
If you are not yet legally an adult, you will need to get your parents’ permission.
3. Building experience:
There are plenty of ways to boost your resume, such as cooking or homework help.
4. Emergency preparedness:
Always ask for important info like allergies and medication, and emergency contacts and have a first aid kit on hand.
To see the rest of The Babysits Survival Guide, download the visual guidebook here to get important guides and how to’s about the most common babysitting situations, like picky eaters, babysitting multiple children, tantrums, homework help and more. In addition, you will find many activities based on age, activity type and weather conditions.
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Brazilian corporation JBS, the world's biggest meat processors, paid a US$11 million bitcoin ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia.
United Nations officials do not use WhatsApp to communicate because it's not supported as a secure mechanism, a UN spokesman said on Thursday, after UN experts accused Saudi Arabia of using the online communications platform to hack the phone of Amazon chief executive and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Microsoft said on Monday it obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights activists, researchers and others.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's cell phones were allegedly targeted by a group of hackers who are also accused of breaching the devices of the investigators in a massive corruption probe, the justice ministry said on Thursday.
Brazil's federal police arrested four people for allegedly hacking the phone of Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, a key member of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's Cabinet who had previously been a renowned anti-corruption judge.
Voting machines pose serious risks to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US states, carries a cybersecurity flaw that was reported over a decade ago, the hackers claim.
UK media are reporting the information includes credit card details, residential addresses and email details but the airline said the hackers had not accessed itineraries or passport details.
President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the US election, said that he knew “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, and that the information would be revealed “Tuesday or Wednesday.” He also underlined that no computer is safe and recommended sending important information the old fashion way, write it out and have it delivered by courier.
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This is a nice example of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K.’s 1840 first edition map of Asia. It covers the entire continent from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Pacific Ocean. Includes Turkey, Arabia, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, Russia, the Chinese Empire, Japan and parts of the East Indies.
In the early 19th century Asia was coming under increasingly imperial European sway. In India full British rule allowed England to attain naval and trade supremacy throughout the eastern Hemisphere. Using India as a springboard, the English traded wool and Indian cotton for Chinese tea and textiles. By the 1830s oversaturation of the Chinese market slackened Chinese demand for most British products. To make up for the trade deficit, British merchants introduced Indian opium to China. Addictive and cheap, Opium became Britain's most profitable and important crop in world markets, pouring into China faster than tea poured into Britain. Opium addiction and its attendant social ills reached such catastrophic levels that the Chinese government took action and destroyed British opium stores in Canton. As this threatened English commercial interests, the crown responded, sparking the Opium Wars of 1839-1842. The superior British forces took complete control of Canton, occupied Shanghai, and blockaded Chinese ports, forcing the Chinese to sign the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. This unequal treaty (the first of many between European powers and China) granted Britain extensive trading rights in China.
This map was part of A Series of Maps, Modern and Ancient, issued by subscription by the S.D.U.K. Each folder in the series would contain a set of two maps bound together. The map accompanying this folder, not included here, was of Australia. Original folder included the names of committee members of the ‘Society’, a list of maps already published, the folder number, which is this case was LXXXI, the contents and the printer and publication details. The folder at the time was priced at 1 shilling or 1 shilling 6 pence for maps colored. This map was engraved and printed by J. and C. Walker. Printed by William Clowes and Sons and published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in their Feb 17, 1840 subscriber’s edition folder.
The "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" (1826 - 1848) was a Whiggish organization founded in 1828 at the instigation of idealistic British lord Henry Peter Brougham. The admirable goal of the Society was to distribute useful information via a series of publications to the English working and middle classes. It promoted self-education and the egalitarian sharing of all knowledge. While closely tied to the London University and publishing houses on the order of Baldwin and Cradock, Chapman and Hall, and Charles Knight, the Society failed to achieve its many lofty goals in finally closed its doors in 1848. Most likely the failure of the Society resulted from its publications being too expensive for its intended lower to middle class markets and yet not large and fine enough to appeal to the aristocratic market. Nonetheless, it did manage to publish several extraordinary atlases of impressive detail and sophistication. Their most prominent atlas consisted of some 200 separately issued maps initially published by Baldwin and Cradock and sold by subscription from 1829 to 1844. Afterwards, the Society combined the maps into a single world atlas published under the Chapman and Hall imprint. In its day, this atlas was unprecedented in its quality, scope, and cost effectiveness. Today Society, or S.D.U.K. as it is commonly known, maps are among the most impressive examples of mid-19th century English mass market cartographic publishing available. The S.D.U.K. is especially known for its beautiful and accurately detailed city plans. Learn More...
John Walker, Alexander Walker and Charles Walker, known collectively as J & C Walker (fl. 1820-95), were engravers, draughtsmen and publishers working through the 19th century. They had several offices 47 Bernard St Russel Sq (from 1830 - 1836), 3 Burleigh St Strand (from 1837 to 1840), 9 Castle St Holborn (from 1841 to 1847) and 37 Castle St Holborn (from 1848 to 1875). The firm is best known for its work in conjunction with the maps issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or, as it is more commonly known, the S.D.U.K. However, they also engraved a large corpus of work for the British Admiralty , as well as issuing several important maps of India and multiple issues of the Royal Atlas. Learn More...
A Series of Maps, Modern and Ancient, Feb 17, 1840.
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (S.D.U.K.) Atlas was initially issued in parts over several years by Baldwin and Craddock to promote the society's mission of egalitarian self-education. The first S.D.U.K. began appearing in 1829 when the society contracted John Walker to produce the first proofs. The first S.D.U.K maps were produced serially by Baldwin and Craddock and issued in 2 map batches, priced at 2 shillings each. The series, originally anticipated to feature 50 maps, ultimately contained 200 and took over 14 years to produce. The initial production was completed in 1844 when the whole was issued in its first compiled atlas edition. Around 1842, following the 1837 bankruptcy of Baldwin and Craddock, publication of the atlas was taken over by the Society itself, who issued editions in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. Overburdened by the work of publishing, they then outsourced the publication to Chapman and Hall in 1842. Chapman and Hall produced editions in 1842, 1843, and 1844. Dissatisfied with the quality of Chapman and Hall printing, the Society turned to another publisher, Charles Knight, who issued editions under the auspices of the Society in 1844, 1845, and 1846. In 1846 Knight officially acquired the plates in his own right and reissued in revised editions until 1852, when he sold them to George Cox. Cox in turn sold them to Edward Stanford who published them from 1856 well into the 1860s. The S.D.U.K. Atlas is known for the quantity and quality of its maps. The S.D.U.K. published many maps of areas largely ignored by other publishers. The many city plans incorporated into the atlas are particularly admired and are the highlight of the S.D.U.K.'s long map publishing history. As a whole the S.D.U.K. Atlas was groundbreaking in terms of quality, scope, and being offer at a cost effective price point.
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Raging consumer demand for fast e-commerce services is putting pressure on traditional warehouse parcel sorting practices, driving increased demand for improved scanning technology to handle a flood of small, irregular shapes streaming down DC conveyors, according to a session at the ProMatDX trade show today.
The consequences of that trend can make serious impacts on DC operations, such as lost throughput, misrouted items, and damaged goods, said Don MacDavitt, an account executive with industrial sensor provider SICK AG.
“You have seen for years how shifting consumer buying habits and the need for efficiency in the sorting and shipping process have dramatically changed packaging methods,” MacDavitt said. “The new mix of package types passing through the DC challenges even the most advanced material handling system. Now, in addition to cardboard cartons, you see a wide variety of other things, like clear and translucent polybags, paper and plastic flats in various colors, and overstuffed envelopes.”
To keep up with the flood, companies need to choose scanners that can read matrix codes, optical character recognition (OCR), and hazardous material labeling, and then provide all that data to platforms that can apply analytics and trouble-shooting functionality to avoid trouble before it starts, he said.
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At Interchange Outer East we choose to recognise and pay respect to Australia’s First Nations people – Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders. We also choose to display three pride flags in order to send a message that at IOE, we strive to build a safe and welcoming environment for all. We do this through education, discussion, planning and policy. We welcome any opportunity to learn from diverse groups about how we can better support them within IOE and into the wider community.
FIRST NATIONS FLAGS
I’ve got a symbol that represents me and who I am, whether I live in Redfern or Adelaide or Perth. I’m proud of it.– Harold Thomas
Torres Straight Islander Flag
To many these flags may seem insignificant or merely a bright window covering, but for members of the LGBTQIA+ community these flags mean much more! You may hardly notice them, but having these flags displayed around organisations like IOE allows queer people to take a breath and let their guard down as they know they are entering a safe space.– Jesse Baker, IOE LGBTQIA+ Development Officer | <urn:uuid:e4db5747-482d-401c-b107-54a2718f7829> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ioe.org.au/what-do-they-mean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.913508 | 238 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Trees are an important part of the ecosystem, and deserve to be properly maintained and kept in good condition. When well catered for, trees enhance the curb appeal and value of your property. However, the reality is that a lot of people don’t take their tree’s health seriously until there is a looming danger or bad occurrence: trees overgrowing into power lines or causing damages in severe weather which can lead to power outages and the destruction of valuable property.
To prevent any of these ugly incidents from happening, you need to take proper care of your trees. One of the best ways to check whether your trees are in perfect condition or require help is using the services of an arborist.
Who Is An Arborist?
An arborist is a tree care expert that handles things surrounding the health and development of trees such as: growth, cultivation, diseases, de-compartmentalization of decay, pruning, stump removal, tree removal, and the various aspects of tree surgery.
How Can An Arborist Care For Your Trees?
Arborists offer a range of tree care services to keep your trees in good condition and help you maintain a safe and healthy environment. Below are a few of the services an arborist offers:
There are a lot of reasons why pruning your trees might be an ideal option for you. It could be as a result of dense overgrowth, sucker sprouts, aesthetics, safety or the containment of growing space. Regardless of what your reasons are, an arborist is the right person to call to handle your tree pruning. This is because they are in the best position to determine what type of pruning is needed for individual trees and the most appropriate way to approach the exercise.
Are some of your trees becoming too big and encroaching into your space? You want to call an arborist for help. They may recommend the removal of certain trees to keep things under control. An arborist has the skills and right equipment to remove a tree safely and efficiently.
When it comes to planting trees, that is something you don’t want to do without involving an arborist. This is because tree planting goes beyond just planting based on your intuition. Planting a tree in the right place is important for the tree’s longterm health.
Emergency Tree Care
When there is a natural disaster such as a wild storm or heavy wind, which can cause serious damage to trees, and by extension damage houses or power lines, you simply want to reach out to an arborist to handle the situation properly.
Local Arborist In Madison MS Offers Free Risk Assessment To Local Residents
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As we are upon the Christmas season, I took some time this week to re-watch a holiday classic: “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
The central theme of this film — “no man is a failure who has friends” — has deeply touched generations of viewers for over 70 years. For me, “It’s a Wonderful Life” has a special nostalgic feel of the era it represents. Released in 1947, it beautifully shows the strong bond of the loving, fictional town of Bedford Falls where people genuinely cared for one another.
Although the economic hardships of the Great Depression were depicted, this was a simpler time. News traveled through telegrams and newspapers, which would presently be considered a snail’s pace when compared with the constant updates we receive through our smartphones. Telephone conversations and in-person interactions were jovial, comforting and fulfilling.
One of my fashionable favorites of this period was that folks always seemed to be dressed in their Sunday best. Fedoras complemented men’s woolen, double-breasted suits, and women were stylishly modest with brightly colored hats and A-line skirts. Yet, even during the simplicity of this time when people seemed happier and more connected community-wise, discouragement and suicide — two tormenting social ills in our present culture — were constantly lurking. This depressive, emotional tag team antagonized one of Bedford Falls’ most respected residents, George Bailey.
I began seriously thinking about today’s George Baileys while reviewing “It’s a Wonderful Life” and reading about the drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths and suicides that have caused life expectancy in the U.S. to decline. A November study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that between 1959 and 2016, life expectancy “increased from 69.9 years to 78.9 years but declined for 3 consecutive years after 2014.” The data show that adults who are middle-aged comprise a significant number of fatal drug overdoses, which has increased a whopping 386.5% between 1999 and 2017.
The statistics are equally disturbing regarding suicide rates, with a 55.9% increase for people between the ages of 55 and 64. Young adults are also succumbing to grave life crises, according to the JAMA results. Alcohol-related deaths have increased by 157.6% from 1999 to 2017 for people ages 25 to 34. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta concluded that the JAMA report reflects “existential stress” and “deaths of despair.”
The personal difficulties of many represented in the JAMA study were probably similar to George Bailey’s struggles. Those of you who have seen the film remember that George became despondent when the dreams he had for his future began slipping away due to great sacrifices he made for his family. He put off college to send his younger brother to school, and his father’s death forced him to take over the family’s loan business and delay traveling abroad. Although George marries the woman he loves, he feels empty because he sees his friends becoming successful and wealthy. He almost ends his life when a costly mistake by his uncle nearly brings him to financial ruin. It takes the wisdom and wit of his guardian angel, Clarence, to show George that his life is meaningful.
One of the opening lines of “It’s a Wonderful Life” is extremely relevant regarding the “existential stress” of our times that Gupta mentioned. I’m going to paraphrase it: Don’t throw away God’s greatest gift, your life.
One scripture that comes to mind, though not referenced in the film, is Luke 12:15, where Jesus says, “Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Like many people today, George was evaluating himself on what others had and his lack of accomplishments compared to them. What George failed to realize was that he was rich in the things that have greater substance than money. He was rich in family relationships and an overflow of friends, and these people came to his rescue when he desperately needed them.
If you’re feeling downhearted as George was while Christmas celebrations are beginning, I want to assure you that your life is valuable to God. Like George, we all have had setbacks and disappointments, but God is not assessing us by the world’s standards of success, which lead to dejection. God wants us to entrust our lives to Him so that we can enjoy the abundant life, which is also quite wonderful, that Christ came to give us.
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Shortage of Young Talent in Germany Millennials in the Foundry Industry
In the midst of change, Generations Y and Z remain optimistic and have risen to the challenges of their time: Environmentally friendly production with rapid adoption in the economy is becoming the mandate of the next generation who is entering the workforce in the foundry industry.
Around one third of the 600 companies belonging to the Federal Association of the German Foundry Industry complain of a shortage of labor. The industry, which employs around 70,000 people, is finding it difficult to compete with other sectors of the economy when it comes to recruiting young talent.
Two people who should know why are Marvin Emde and Marius Kohlhepp: both won the EUROGUSS Talent Award last year, an award for Bachelor's and Master's graduates worldwide whose work has brought about innovations, improvements or new applications in die casting. Emde and Kohlhepp are the pioneers of a young generation who see their professional opportunity in the transformation of an industry that is steeped in tradition.
The foundry industry is struggling to recruit its young talent. Why is that?
Kohlhepp: Someone from outside the industry would not describe casting as an innovative topic. Self-driving cars, IT and machine learning are more likely to come to mind. This makes it difficult for the foundry industry to find young talent. In the future, the focus will clearly be on lightweight construction, especially for electric vehicles, and casting will play a major role there. However, this has not yet occured to the public.
Emde: I myself only came into closer contact with foundry technology through my Bachelor's thesis. The fact that it doesn't sound interesting at first glance is certainly due to the way the industry presents itself: smoking halls and large crucibles with liquid metal spraying through the air. But the technology behind it, be it materials science or process technology, is not recognizable immediateley.
Kohlhepp: We definitely need to change our image and this his is already being promoted. Die casting is modern and uses modern means. The challenges of the e-drive can attract young talent.
Emde: Once you are part of the industry yourself, the pictures are impressive. For all outsiders, it would certainly be more interesting to show modern parts and areas of application. Take Tesla for example, trying to cast an entire car body as one part certainly makes an impression.
What importance do you attach to Tesla and CEO Elon Musk within the industry?
Kohlhepp: Elon Musk is helping the industry become cooler and more desirable. Everyone has understood that we need to change our image. Lightweight construction and aluminum were big in the media ten years ago, but then had to give way to other trendier topics. Elon Musk has brought aluminum die casting back into the public eye. He has put the entire industry under competitive pressure and forced it to invest in the area again.
Emde: Everyone is talking about fewer castings that the shift to e-mobility will bring, and then Elon Musk comes along and casts an entire rear frame as one part. This shows new technologies and opens up promising new markets.
Kohlhepp: Elon Musk quickly realized that digitalization is a very good way to advertise. There is no advertising in the conventional sense, but the marketing works, among other things, through Elon Musk's self-dramatization. He quickly built up a large following via social media, and now he can't get rid of them. They click on what he posts, and they no longer care whether the windshield of the cyber truck breaks or the semi truck is delayed again.
Why can't the automotive industry in Germany create the same buzz?
Kohlhepp: In Germany, as long as something isn't patented or out on the market, it remeains highly confidential. Tesla sees things very differently. There are podcasters and Youtubers who are taken on a tour of the factory in Fremont, California, film/record everything and later publish it to the world. That's a completely different way of looking at things than the Germans. We very strictly protect internal processes and knowledge, even if they are patented!
Germany was a pioneer in the internal combustion engine. How do you perceive the shift to e-drives?
Kohlhepp: From what I hear from suppliers in my field, business is not bad. But if I had been supplying parts for the internal combustion engine for 40 years and now had to reorient myself, the mood would be different for me, too. I work in alloy development, I'm younger and I have no past in the industry. This gives me the simple advantage in my mindset that I don't carry any old burdens as I'm starting from scratch compared to the older generation.
What advice do you have for those who are not starting from scratch?
Kohlhepp: The change will definitely not be a downfall. Sales will not collapse and the foundry industry will continue to be in good shape in the future. Even those who are older in the industry should not forget that. But we have to think more in a future-oriented way. Which components will come into the picture tomorrow and what requirements must these components meet? There are already some approaches, for example, cases for electric motors with cast-in cooling channels. I see the challenges the industry is currently facing as an opportunity for my generation.
Emde: I see a problem with Germany as a business location. It would be difficult to find a balance between environmental protection and economic efficiency. But if we move forward decisively and manage to use modern methods and technologies to make the process environmentally friendly, with less electricity consumption for example, then we can export that to the world.
The largest share of CO2 emissions from aluminum comes from its production. Electrolysis requires an immense amount of electricity. But here too, there are approaches, especially with renewable energies, which would be difficult to implement in Germany. Other countries have some advantages. For example Norway uses hydropower for its aluminum electrolysis. This way, it is actually possible to procure almost-CO2-neutral primary aluminum. And in the United Emirates, a huge solar plant has been set up to supply electricity to a foundry right next door. This means that there are already approaches for using CO2-neutral primary aluminum when recycling is not possible.
Is there a difference in the importance attached to aluminum as a material at university and in industry?
Kohlhepp: Considering the order in which topics are dealt with in lectures, aluminum seems old at first. It is still used, but the "new and cool" materials are different. But the fact that a huge part of the industry is still dependent on traditional materials, and that there are still opportunities to improve them even after 80 years are not made clear. There would be an opportunity here to steer students in this direction.
Emde: The recyclability of aluminum, for example, is an advantage over many engineering plastics, which are difficult to recycle and are thus often lost for future use. This is whrere the use of aluminum can make a contribution to environmental protection.
Kohlhepp: The foundry industry has so many different areas: mold-side development, alloy development, process technology and more. There's something for every interest group in the industry, whether it's materials science, IT or electrical engineering. Decisive innovations can still be made here that can actually be used by the industry. For me, that was always a big plus. If I develop something groundbreaking in aluminum die casting, it will find application in the industry. With other popular topics, it's still about basic research, so it's not like that. In the foundry industry, you can still change things, and this is where the great motivation lies for young people.
What should change at universities and colleges?
Kohlhepp: It helps when companies cooperate directly with colleges or universities. I am currently working on my doctorate in a cooperation between a university and a company. That usually continues. A good cooperation is usually continued with new generations of students at a university. This also offers a great opportunity for development.
Emde: There are basic lectures everywhere. If practical examples are used to show which exciting technologies are used in the foundry industry, this would certainly help attract many young people to the industry. Companies should therefore make an effort to show which cutting-edge technology is used in their products. Offering attractive internships and excursions can be helpful for companies and universities so that students can quickly gain practical experience. This is the only way they can experience the technology first-hand and quickly get their bearings. People always imagine everyday working life differently than it ends up being. In most cases, it's worth taking a look over the fence.
After the successful premiere of the EUROGUSS Talent Award 2020, the best young talents in 2022, who have submitted their Bachelor's or Master's thesis that relates to an innovation, improvement or new applications in die casting along with its entire value chain, will be honored during EUROGUSS 2022. You can still submit your thesis here: https://www.euroguss.de/en/award. | <urn:uuid:0846105d-7536-4540-bcdc-3416b4e349cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spotlightmetal.com/millennials-in-the-foundry-industry-a-1073018/?cflt=rel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962298 | 1,908 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Learning Gujarati just got easier! (and more fun)
MODULE 1: Alphabet and Greetings
MODULE 2: Alphabet and Numbers
MODULE 3: Alphabet, Songs, and Activities
MODULE 4: Alphabet and Words
MODULE 5: Alphabet, Prayers and Activities
MODULE 6: Vocab / Phrases, Prayers, Songs, Riddles
MODULE 7: Vocab / Phrases, Tongue Twisters, Stories
We are so grateful you share our desire to learn Gujarati.
Did you know Gujarati is the 26th most-spoken language in the entire world!? You are about to become one of the 50 million people around the globe who speak this ancient language.
There are many reasons you can benefit from learning to be conversational in Gujarati. Our experience has shown these are the strongest motivators:
Have you moved outside of India? Perhaps you have had children and you desire that your young ones could be able to speak with family in India, maybe grandparents--even grandparents living with or near you.
Have you married into a Gujarati family? It might be nice, if this is not your native tongue to be able to communicate clearly with your new relatives. How impressed they will be!
• Need a Brush Up
Sometimes when we move into a new culture, the culture and language of our youth gently falls to the back burner until much is forgotten. Running through this Gujarati Essentials Course will bring the memories flooding back and you will be speaking quickly and clearly again before you know it.
Finding the Right Course for You
There are many avenues for learning Gujarati online these days. Count yourself in the right place! Our course will allow you to quickly and easily learn basic Gujarati by utilizing tried and tested learning methods which incorporate songs, prayers, riddles and tongue twisters along with lots of vocabulary to pump up your conversational abilities.
You begin by diving into the unique Gujarati alphabet, then master it by putting it to use through our Actions lessons at the end of each module. We give you the opportunity to take what you've learned out into the world and put it to use in a fun and very practical way.
Who is this course for? What ages?
This online course, developed for you to proceed at your own pace and level of interest, is the outcome of teaching it live for many years. In our live classes, we used this very same curriculum for children as young as 5 years old all the way through adulthood. The learning is made easy because each lesson is delivered using video (no reading required), then accompanied by downloadable worksheets, should you choose to do them.
It is our sincere hope you will come along with us on this journey. Because once you purchase this course, you own it and have access to it for a lifetime. So let's begin!
Here are the details about the curriculum...and all of it is included when you buy this package.
• All the letters of the alphabet, including consonants and vowels as well as conjoined letters that are unique to the Gujarati language
• Numbers 1 through 50
• Days of the Week
• Food Words, including Fruits, Vegetables, Grains and Spices
• Relationship Words
• Two Gujarati Stories
• A Gujarati Song
• Three Gujarati Prayers including a grace to say at meals
• and to make it fun....some Gujarati Tongue Twisters
• want some more fun? We've added some Gujarati Riddles
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Volailles de Houdan (Houdan poultry)
IGP Volailles de Houdan are poultry (chickens) carcasses of genus Gedlus. Sold fresh roped; slaughtered after 105 days. Breed Houdan: light poultry, fine skeleton, marbled five-digit feet, crested head, double comb, black plumage flecked with white. White skin.
District of Mantes: cantons of Montfort-l'Amaury and Rambouillet District of Dreux: cantons of Maintenon and Pacysur-Eure
Proof of origin
All links in the chain are recorded (hatcheries, feed manufacturers, farmers, slaughterhouses). Each batch of poultry is documented as follows: declaration that the birds have been placed by the farmer, delivery orders for day-old birds, declaration that the birds have left for the slaughterhouse and order for collection from the slaughterhouse, declaration concerning the labels used for the poultry after slaughter and declaration of downgraded birds. The labels are all numbered. Consistency checks on this information ensure that the product is traceable.
Breed used: Houdan. Reared outdoors. Fed a cereal based diet and slaughtered at not less than 105 days old.
The link with the geographical origin is based on: A reputation linked to the history of the Houdan breed. This very old French breed was at the height of its popularity from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century but it existed long before that time (13th-14th centuries). Many bibliographical references attest to this reputation, which was confirmed by the award of Red Label No 01-90 attesting the product's superior quality. A characteristic: The use of an ancient local breed (Houdan) well adapted to the region.
Gastronomy The IGP Volailles de Houdan can be conserved for a few days in the refrigerator, wrapped into the purchasing paper and stored in the coldest compartment. IGP Volailles de Houdan is used to prepare a lot of dishes with variable cooking methods depending on the cut chosen. It can be roasted, stuffed or not, or in slices roasted in oven. The fillets are tastey seasoned with curry sauce. The capon is a traditional Christmas dish, roasted in oven and served with chestnuts roasted in the cooking sauce. The tender fowl of IGP Volailles de Houdan is ideal for fricassees with egg- and lemon-based sauce accompanied by legumes.
Reference: The European Commission
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Designed especially for children ages 7 to 12, the My Place With Jesus online Bible guides cover the major themes of the Bible using simple questions and answers straight from the Bible. With puzzles and activities, children will gain a better understanding of the Bible in a fun and engaging way.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Birthday: Dec. 24
Education: Master of Business Administration(MBA)
Occupation: GM in automotive company
Please describe your vision of a world that works for everyone.
I don’t expect that unfair world to works equally for everyone. But everyone has endowed with a potential to convert the unfair world treatment to works to his/her side. The world accepts and treats you as the way you wanted to be accepted and treated. To create a world that works for everyone, every one of us should take responsibilities for the consequences of our actions and inactions. We should be aligned with nature to solve natural disasters and we should also get greed free leaders to use resources equally. If leaders discharges their responsibility to success of mankind, others will follow the same pattern, thus, the imperfect world will be converted to heaven on earth phenomena. These will make the world a better place for everyone.
What do you see as the most pressing problems facing the world today?
Number one pressing problem in the world is natural disaster. This includes tsunami, drought, flood, earthquake, land slid, wildfire and etc. These are some of example of natural disasters which we are daily watching them on TV screen and all other means of media. Some of us also face all or some of these problems daily. Most of these natural disasters have been created due to huge damage on the environment. The second most pressing problem is political disaster. The greedy nature of politicians and political system causes to breed manmade problems such as public uprising , terrorism, poverty partly, religious intolerance, ethnic/racial conflicts, injustice and so on. The third most pressing problem is financial crisis. The world financial and economics elites have contributed a lot to cause unparallel pain to citizen of the globe through inflation, unemployment, economical insecurity and banking turmoil. The last but not the least pressing problem of the world is disease and population growth. Disease such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, obesity due to junk food and lack of physical exercises, and communicable disease are being main health problem to every nation. Unprecedented world population growth is reason for scarcity of natural resources which leads to economical colony to underdeveloped nation as developing countries are running to scramble to get land and minerals in Africa and South East Asia.
How do you feel these problems could best be solved?
To reduce the risk of natural disaster, we have to lead and promote a green lifestyle. We need to use a product of green factories and green technologies. Above all, we need to invest on afforestations and planting of trees in urban area. We need to push hard to stop those who are engaged in damaging the environment knowingly or unknowingly. The world should say bold NO for political dictators and undemocratic political system to develop a system that provides equal opportunities and justice for every citizen in a country to lead democratic and peaceful life. A regulated economical and financial system has to be installed in each country which helps to control the development of artificial economy and financial system. Each government has to invest and encourage health and family planning education. UN has to take massive action to fight against communicable diseases across the planet earth.
The only place I have lived my whole life is in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. I was born and grown up in the same place. I had grown up in a kind of family who used to preach us, all my brothers and Sisters, to be scholars, doctors and to read books. One thing for sure they (our family) are succeeded that most of us loves to read. My first personal development book that I read while I was in mid high school was Dale Carnegie’s book translated and compiled to the local language from his different books. My life is not different from most of Ethiopian family. Went to elementary school, high school, university, got job or master degree and so on, this is a kind of similar ritual that every Ethiopian family insists their children to do so. I started working in international business firm and then trading companies for many years in different position. Now, I am a general manger for automotive business firm. I have worked my whole life for a profit making company. I worked as a volunteer for eight months besides my regular job. I have strong belief that I am going to establish a social enterprise that serves the society. The enterprise will be a product of my business knowledge and strong will to contribute to the society. The enterprise will provide opportunities for those who have got the potential and ability to transform their knowledge and dreams to reality to help themselves and the society at large, but, they don’t have access to finance, connections and ability to penetrate the market to prove their products and services. Thus, the ideal social enterprise will provide training on various areas to equip the social entrepreneurs with the knowledge that help them to run small and medium level enterprises and find means and solutions to get finance and market to promote their products and services. I would like also to be motivational and positive thinking guru. Most of us are prisoner of our fears and doubts and hence, we don’t live our life to the best of ourselves. I would like to motivate and preach my fellow citizen to unlock the shackle that hinders us to release our immense gift and potential to live our life in full. Poverty, drought and disease are our evil enemy since time memorial. I wish to see those problems are eradicated from my country. To convert our wishes to reality all of us should take our share of responsibility to fight those problems and to create abundant and free country that is convenient to live equally for all of us. I made BA degree from Addis Ababa University in Information science in 1997 and MBA from Sikkim Manipal University in 2009. Due to my job nature I travelled to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Djibouti, South Africa, Italy, German, India and South Korea. I have travelled a lot more different places in regions in my country. I love to watch movies, doing physical exercise, reading books, magazines and newspapers, and to have quality time to talk to myself. | <urn:uuid:d9048d3c-9ccc-4968-bf9c-b78ef0637ab8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://global-leadership.com/index.php/asrat-worku-profile/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957134 | 1,265 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Since the beginning of 2021, numerous regulations have been implemented in Dubai to increase investments from blockchain technology companies, making it one of the friendliest places to set up cryptocurrency Dubai trading agencies or blockchain technology businesses.
Though the UAE’s Central Bank considers cryptocurrency trading to be high-risk, but all parties engaged in the transaction follows UAE’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Laws. UAE’s organizations are strictly protecting data and providing cyber security to make it beneficial for the future of cryptocurrency.
There is a lot of potential for crypto acceptance and the right regulation, combined with investor awareness initiatives, will promote crypto asset adoption in the UAE. The cryptocurrency Dubai regulations are still in their early stages and additional modifications are predicted in the near kripto future.
Future of UAE: A Global Hub for Cryptocurrencies
The UAE is on track to become a global cryptocurrency hotspot, with a market capitalization of $1.4 trillion, up 86% year to year. With the government allowing free zones to perform crypto-related economic activities in the UAE, the popularity of digital assets has grown in Dubai.
The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has signed agreements with some of the UAE’s most prominent free zones, including DMCC, DAFZA, and DWTCA, to make it easier for crypto-related enterprises to obtain a license, establish themselves and operate in the country. It is a big step towards flourishing the beneficial future of cryptocurrency Dubai.
This is undoubtedly a vote of confidence in the country’s growing crypto businesses. This action by the SCA will boost Dubai’s status as a kripto future-ready center that is well-positioned to benefit from increased crypto use in the coming years, in addition to providing for more efficient crypto market regulation.
Future of New Crypto Technologies in UAE
The UAE has become a great attraction for crypto and blockchain investors. The SCA’s recent proposal to allow crypto asset trading within the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) is yet another positive step by the authorities in promoting and supporting the rapidly growing crypto space in the UAE.
This move will enable an explosion of growth and new ideas in the crypto area, since Dubai and Abu Dhabi have earned a global reputation as inventive cities. This initiative will also help to accelerate the benefits and innovations in the crypto space and make the future of cryptocurrency safe.
New crypto technologies like Defi and NFTs are starting to bring real-world benefits to their users. The adoption of digital assets will continue to rise as greater legislative clarity is reached in this sector, with the UAE and Bahrain adopting regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrency-related companies.
Dubai is ideally positioned to profit from the Middle East’s growing cryptocurrency Dubai sector, as its regulators push for blockchain-based technologies to be accepted. New crypto technologies will bring new, highly skilled professionals to the city. This will also result in more job creation and investment.
Future of Cryptocurrency Businesses in Dubai
To promote cryptographic and blockchain technology in Dubai, the DMCC Crypto Centre was established. It is home to over 100 crypto businesses, with 900 more applying for licenses. In the UAE, there are more than 400 crypto businesses operating right now.
To strengthen the digital economy, Dubai expects over 1,000 crypto businesses to be operating by 2022. Consumers and investors are attracted to digital assets as online payments gain traction and interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain is booming, especially in the UAE.
Between now and 2023, a growing number of institutional investors and wealth managers in the UAE intend to enhance their cryptocurrency exposure.
Future Blockchain Strategy in Dubai
Dubai has a long history of being a leader in digital innovation. The Dubai Blockchain Strategy aims to make Dubai the world’s first blockchain-powered metropolis. Government efficiency, industry creation and international leadership will be the three strategic pillars of the approach.
Digital Dubai’s objective is to become a global leader in the smart economy, fueling entrepreneurship and global competitiveness. The Dubai Blockchain plan will usher in economic opportunities for all sectors of the city and make Dubai’s status as a global technological leader empowering the future of cryptocurrency Dubai.
The Dubai Blockchain Strategy is the outcome of a partnership between the Digital Dubai Office and the Dubai kripto Future Foundation to consistently research and assess the latest technological solutions that show promise in delivering more seamless, safe, efficient and impactful city experiences.
The blockchain market is at a crucial stage, as businesses across markets and industries continue to boost their investment in the technology. For the first time, Dubai will be at the forefront of applying new technology to cities and sharing its findings with the rest of the world.
Crypto has been the best performing asset contributing to the success. In Dubai, UAE, there is a rising acceptance of crypto assets as a way to diversify and develop portfolios, thanks to a supportive regulatory framework in the works.
For crypto start-ups hoping to establish themselves in the UAE, the year 2021 has offered great opportunities. Crypto assets, like any investments, hold a number of risks as well as a significant potential for profit. It is reasonable to say that there is a bright future of cryptocurrency ahead in the UAE!
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Organisations need an external R&D department if they are to successfully identify, develop and integrate open source software, according to Linix Foundation Executive Jim Zemlin.
Speaking at the OpenStack Summit in Paris, Zemlin said that organisations need more software than they alone can write, and should find "faster and cheaper" ways to create software that allows them to "truly differentiate".
He said: "The top 10 tech companies in the world spend around 4 billion dollars on research and development, and that's largely internal spend, but what's interesting is that 80% of the code in their products comes from outside the organisation from projects like OpenStack.
"The question is: if you're getting most code from outside your organisation, how are you managing your external R&D?"
Zenlin added that organisations are moving from "a bit of open source usage at the edge of the network" to "strategic use" and need to learn new skills in order to collaborate on open source software projects.
He said: "It's important to understand how to pick the right projects and intellictual property frameworks, coding styles, and collecting and integrating that code into the organisation, improving it to make changes and then giving them back to the central project to create proudcts and services cycles both for companies and open source projects.
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(CNN) -- We're just three months into 2011 and it's been one blow after another for the travel industry -- not even considering blizzards and the soaring price of fuel.
A natural disaster in Japan and political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East are forcing many vacationers to cancel their plans or are understandably making them leery about booking new trips to troubled regions.
That, in turn, has travel companies scrambling to adjust to the new realities of travel advisories and fast-changing world conditions. For some, it means millions of dollars of lost revenue.
This week, two companies shared their projected losses from the crises.
Delta Air Lines is seeing a fairly significant drop in demand and bookings to Japan as the country struggles to cope with the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, said Ed Bastian, the carrier's president.
The airline is reducing its capacity in Japan by 15 to 20% through May by cutting the number of flights to Tokyo's Narita International Airport -- a Delta hub -- and suspending service at the city's Haneda Airport, Bastian said Tuesday at the J.P. Morgan Aviation Transportation and Defense Conference in New York.
The Tokyo market generates more than $2 billion a year for Delta, so the disruption may cost the company up to $400 million, Bastian said. The airline is monitoring the demand, however, and is ready to boost service as needed.
"We will not pull out of Tokyo," Bastian said.
'Resistance' from cruise passengers
Meanwhile, the political unrest in parts of North Africa and the Middle East -- including an uprising in Egypt, anti-government protests in Bahrain and a revolt in Tunisia -- is having an impact on cruises.
Carnival Corporation, which operates brands such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises, said there was a significant slowdown in demand for voyages to that part of the world.
More than 280 cruises had to be "reset" -- or given new itineraries -- and the company estimates this disruption to its business will result in about $44 million of lost revenue, said Howard Frank, Carnival's vice chairman and chief operating officer, during an earnings conference call on Tuesday.
"We pulled out of just all North African stops, in Tunisia and Morocco and Egypt, and we've pulled out of -- actually, in some cases, we've had to pull out of Israel because we got a lot of resistance," Frank said.
"People are just concerned about going to that part of the world."
There have been many booking cancellations, added Micky Arison, chairman and CEO of Carnival.
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After in-person study abroad returned, Soliya CEO Waidehi Gokhale worried that colleges would “ricochet” away from the nonprofit’s virtual cultural exchange services.
Soliya connects students internationally to work on online projects to teach learners about working across time zones and incorporating global perspectives. Instead of tapering off services once in-person travel began, Gokhale told EdScoop, she saw institutions keep or expand Soliya as an option.
“It’s a yes-and, not an either-or,” she said. “We haven’t lost any demand at all with a return to travel. People have really seen this as a way to broaden their outcomes.”
Higher education institutions are expanding some digital services that often served as the only option when the coronavirus pandemic hit to offer more options and flexibility for students. These services, including counseling services, success coaching and virtual exchange platforms, are designed to serve as compliments to in-person services and help support institutional goals like retention or graduation rates.
Morgan State University, a historically Black institution in Baltimore, is using Soliya to pursue a goal of 1,000 students every year participating in cultural exchange programs, including in-person and virtual study abroad.
“[Virtual options are] the only way we’ll reach out to more students because face-to-face study abroad is expensive,” Yacob Astatke, assistant vice president for International Affairs, told EdScoop.
Morgan State began exploring using Soliya before the pandemic hit to expose students to international education. Astatke said Morgan State’s student population is largely first-generation students, many of whom have never left Baltimore. The Soliya platform connects students in the U.S. to institutions in nearly 30 countries.
Logging on to work with students internationally as part of a class helps students learn to actively listen (other students may not speak English as a first language) and consider other perspectives, Astatke said. Doing a digital exchange program also led some students to reach out to the university to figure out a path to studying abroad in person, he said.
Seeing value in the relationship
Surveys and service-use data can provide insights for institutions reviewing digital services. The number of students participating in Morgan State’s Soliya “Connect” program grew to more than a hundred per year since it was introduced in 2019, Astatke said, and the majority of students surveyed found the experience improved teamwork and critical thinking skills.
College counseling centers are using data aggregated from digital service platforms to advocate for resources, campus leaders told EdScoop. Data can indicate when students want to connect with counselors or where they feel comfortable seeking help, like group sessions or workshops.
Illinois Central College released data last week from the first year of its partnership with InsideTrack, a company that offers virtual “student coaching” services and training for advisers. Researchers found a 18% higher retention rate among the hundreds of students that connected with coaches in spring 2020 over those who did not receive the coaching.
InsideTrack’s President Ruth Bauer White told EdScoop that InsideTrack’s coaches needed to adjust their outreach efforts to connect with the community college’s working students, reaching out through emails and texts at different times of day to make contact. The goal after making that initial contact, she said, is making sure the student sees coaching as “a service that is there to help them,” rather than another task to complete.
The four-year partnership with InsideTrack is designed to “reduce dependence” on face-to-face counseling as the Illinois community college, which serves 10 surrounding counties, redesigned its advising system. InsideTrack coaches worked with students on setting goals for their time at ICC and connecting with campus services, like device lending or internet access.
The year of digital advising also gathered more information about what students were struggling with, which informed the process, according to the case study. InsideTrack is currently working with adult education staff and advisers to integrate some of the company’s strategies.
Bauer White said despite InsideTrack being virtual, one-on-one coaching can help learners feel direct support from their college, particularly those who are entirely online and simultaneously working.
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If you love a certain interior style you most probably develop an eye for its characteristics. I love the Italians. I admire all the interior design, fashion style and creativity they have in their DNA. That doesn’t mean I’d live like this since you need the right architectural structure but I certainly love to see it. It breathes sophisticated colour palettes and wonderful finishings.
Behind the walls of an building of the nineteenth century, interior designer Vincenzo De Cotiis has created a cozy apartment Milan for a young couple and their son .
In a corner of the room, the wall, quietly functional, appears as a composition of panels that are all closets. The office work of Vincenzo De Cotiis was made from reclaimed wood. In the foreground, the cage-room balcony of the child. Berber carpet and chair 1950s.
a bathroom misleading perspectives through the wall mirror, has been designed around a marble desk 1950s, used furniture down here. It is with the same marble as the floor is covered. The mirror above the sink is framed in an old Italian altarpiece.
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The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles and several tendons that surround the shoulder joint. The four muscles comprising the rotator cuff are the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. These muscles and tendons work in harmony to keep your shoulder joints in position while allowing for shoulder and arm mobility.
Many instances of shoulder pain are generated by rotator cuff injuries or diseases. These issues are regularly a result of trauma or calcific tendonitis. A common cause of a traumatic muscular tear of the rotator cuff is falling onto the associated arm or shoulder. Calcific tendonitis may be caused or aggravated by overuse of the shoulder. This type of rotator cuff disease is often caused by a constant, repetitive movement such as those used during a specific sport or work task.
The following symptoms can point to a rotator cuff tear, especially if your rotator cuff has experienced trauma or overuse:
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We’ve talked about eating less meat and dairy. If you have a few New Year’s resolutions, and the one right before “save money” and right after “stop staring at my dumb phone all day,” is eat more plant-based meals…
…we’re on the same page. This can be harder than it seems, though, especially if you have kids who might be a little particular in the vegetable department. Sara Forte, the brains behind vegetable-forward Sprouted Kitchen and wonderful cookbooks, hears you on that one. Before she had kids, Sara assumed they would love all the foods that she and her husband loved — she’s a professional, after all — and, well, you know how that story goes. “My kids, 3 and 5, cannot be persuaded with any amount of convincing nutritional information, that would lead them to choose broccoli over a hot dog,” she says in her new e-book Little Sprouts.
Little Sprouts is dedicated to getting more vegetables into kids’ bodies. She offers lots of logical tips for struggling parents — e.g., kids like smaller chunks of vegetables, romaine lettuce barely registers as a flavor or color when whirled into a smoothie, etc. — but the biggest takeaway is this: Add produce to foods your kids already enjoy. Don’t try to do too much more than that. The result is a collection of simple, approachable breakfasts, snacks, and dinners that everyone in the house will appreciate. Here’s what she says about her popular veggie burger…
From Sara: Instead of getting frustrated that your child does not get excited about a kale salad, how about we flip the script. What DO they like? And how can we add vegetables into that? My kids love meals between bread. These veggie burgers have a base of cooked sweet potatoes and rice, and while they generally don’t care for mushrooms, I can pass them through because the rice and potatoes are somewhat masking the flavor.
Sara’s Veggie Burgers
Leftovers make an awesome lunch in a lettuce wrap with some avocado and fixings
Makes 6 patties
1 tablespoon avocado or olive oil
8 oz. mushrooms, cleaned and well chopped
1 small shallot, chopped
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon tamari or soy sauce
1 cup cooked brown rice or bulgur
2 tablespoons flaxmeal
1/4 cup oats
Generous pinch of salt
1 tsp. chili powder
1 cup parsley or cilantro
1 small steamed (or leftover roasted bits) sweet potato, about 1 cup total
1 cup cooked black beans, drained well
Avocado or olive oil, for cooking
For serving: Buns, avocado, cheese (optional), butter lettuce
In a medium pan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the chopped mushrooms, shallot and garlic, along with a pinch of salt. Sauté for a moment, then leave it all undisturbed for a few minutes, so the mushrooms release their water. Sauté again, until browned in some parts and excess water has evaporated. Set aside to cool completely.
Into a food processor, combine the egg, tamari, rice, flaxmeal, oats, 1/2 tsp. salt, chili powder and herbs and pulse a few times to break down. Add the sweet potato, black beans, cooled mushrooms, and pulse for another minute until everything is in tiny pieces, BUT NOT PUREED! We do not want a mash; we want flecks! Set the mixture aside in the fridge to chill for at least 30 minutes, up to overnight.
To cook, preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment and spray or brush the bottom with oil. Form the dough into about 5 small patties. Spray or brush the tops with a bit of oil and bake for 20-25 minutes to set.
Assemble the sandwiches with toasted English muffins, smashed avocado, cheese, if using, butter lettuce… or just ketchup. ;)
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|The Complete Dick Tracy Vol. 9|
|Publication date||December, 2009|
The Complete Dick Tracy Vol. 8
The Complete Dick Tracy Vol. 10
The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 9 contains the strips written and drawn by Chester Gould originally published in newspapers between the dates March 23rd, 1944 and September 19th, 1945
It includes the following storylines:
Itchy is introduced near the end of this volume, but his storyline would be concluded in the subsequent volume.
The book also includes original introductory material, including a Preface by editor Dean Mullaney, the essay "Darkness Into Light" by Jeff Kersten (which includes a description of the audio production Dick Tracy in B Flat), and the essay "He's Violent!" by Max Allan Collins.
- The book includes a disclaimer acknowledging the presence of racial caricatures in the strips and states that they are "reprinted without alteration for historical reference".
- The first edition of this volume contained a printing error in which 2 daily strips were duplicated and 2 strips were omitted. The missing strips (from June 24th, 1944 and May 24, 1945) were included in Volume 10. This error was corrected in later printings. | <urn:uuid:a76a1dff-d133-4320-a0d3-89903d50eb89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Complete_Dick_Tracy_Vol._9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952337 | 296 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Information technology service management (ITSM) gives IT teams a structured system to improve IT services delivery, efficiency, and quality. The term “service” here can mean anything from managed IT services to mobile phone services and customer service in general; in fact, ITSM is relevant in all areas of support and services that a company offers.
Therefore, if you’re looking for software solutions that are ideal for managing your support services, you should be able to benefit from ITSM platforms like Zendesk and Jira. These two tools have been designed specifically for companies that need an organized approach to provide their customers with excellent support.
Also read: Top ITSM Tools & Software
What is Zendesk?
Zendesk is a customer service and software-as-a-service (SaaS) support solution that manages support issues and tickets from multiple channels. In addition, its self-service portal offers live chat, email, phone, and social media integrations. The platform also allows you to organize your support team into different departments based on their roles within your organization, such as sales, marketing, or technical services.
- Zendesk is best suited for end-user communication.
- With Zendesk, you can customize reports and get insights into the metrics, such as your customer base’s health and how it affects your business.
- Zendesk facilitates collaboration. When an issue occurs, agents can exchange information through private comments to help address the problem as quickly as possible.
- The built-in SLA (service-level agreement) in Zendesk allows agents to establish their criteria and use up-to-date measures to track the progress of a particular ticket.
- Zendesk is a multichannel support application that can be accessed by email, social networking sites, chat, phone, message, and SMS.
What is Jira?
Jira is an issue-tracking tool that helps organizations develop software efficiently. Through Jira, you can set up your team’s workflow and prioritize tasks, leading to more efficient development processes and greater productivity.
Jira offers several capabilities, including built-in support for agile development, a complete mobile app suite to keep teams connected on projects, a help desk solution with ticketing functionality, and even a user management system that provides role-based access control. It spans a range of functions and use cases, from service desk to HR services, facilities, operations and more.
- With custom SLAs and reporting, Jira allows you to track your team’s response time, resolution data, etc.
- Users can set up automated rules in order to automate repetitive tasks.
- The tool is highly configurable; you may create different directories and procedures for task completion and assign importance to tasks.
- Jira is best suited for project management.
- Jira provides a self-service platform in which your employees can find answers to frequently asked questions.
What are the Similarities Between Zendesk and Jira?
Zendesk and Jira are enterprise-level products designed to address a wide range of needs in one cohesive system. Both tools offer configurability and customization options and are highly scalable. If you’re looking for an all-in-one ticketing solution that can grow with your company over time, either could fit your needs perfectly.
While there are some differences between them, they share much in common—most notably a focus on organization and ease of use. Other similarities include:
- Both offer tools that can help you manage support tickets and communicate with customers on a day-to-day basis.
- They offer add-ons that give you additional functionality.
- Both tools provide knowledge base integration, multichannel support, and SLA reporting.
- They’re both cloud-based SaaS programs.
- Both platforms offer time tracking, ticketing, and integration with other popular apps.
Zendesk vs. Jira: How are They Different?
By providing both project and operational support tools, Jira covers concept to launch, while Zendesk focuses on communication, support, and feedback.
In reality, both are essential to managing your business and processes. IT leaders use Zendesk for maintaining ongoing communication with customers and employees, while project managers use Jira to plan projects and measure outcomes. Jira offers more of a project management focus, but it does have customer service capabilities that allow you to track requests and organize tickets by status.
|Alerts and escalations||✓||✓|
|Social media integration||✓||✓|
|Incident and problem management||✓||✓|
|Ease of use||✓||✓|
|IT asset management||✓|
Zendesk vs. Jira Service Desk: Pricing
|Zendesk (billed annually)||Jira|
|Suite team per agent per month: $49||Free plan: Free for 3 agents|
|Suite growth per agent per month: $79||Standard plan per agent: $20|
|Suite professional per agent per month: $99||Premium plan per agent: $45|
|Suite enterprise per agent per month: $150||Enterprise plan: Contact Jira team for quotes|
|Additional enterprise-ready plans fromper agent per month: $215|
How to Choose a Service Desk Platform
Choosing the right service desk platform for your company is often a matter of determining your specific needs and use case. Some companies may need more robust ticketing capabilities than others, while some organizations might want to be able to manage multiple software products from one place.
In addition, some companies may need more extensive reporting features than others. Ultimately, you’ll want to consider your requirements carefully before deciding which platform will work best for you.
We found that, as in-house help desk software, Zendesk is best at making two-way communication easy. You can integrate with tons of different apps and customize it all around your business. So, if you’re looking for in-house help desk software that lets you communicate easily between users and IT departments, go with Zendesk.
Meanwhile, Jira has a good knowledge base, automates many routine tasks, and can adapt to your processes over time. The strength of Jira is robust enterprise-level features like multiple activities feeds at a project, team, issue, user levels, and assessment/reporting tools. If you’re looking to support a large team and need to see exactly who’s doing what at any time with complete visibility into their workflow and issues, then Jira is your best option.
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STEM for All Multiplex: September Theme of the Month - Partnering Culturally Responsive teaching and Place-Based Science Education
In recent years there has been increased attention paid to the importance of both culturally responsive teaching and place-based learning (PBE). In this “Theme of the Month”, we make use of a small set of videos from the Multiplex to illustrate some recent efforts in these areas. Our group of panelists, both researchers and practitioners, will use these artifacts and their own expertise to highlight the power generated at the intersection of culturally responsive teaching and PBE.
When: September 10, 12PM EDT
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Source: European Journal of Teacher Education, Volume 37, Issue 3, 2014, pages 374-389.
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the efficacy of using ePortfolios to enhance career skills for newly qualified teachers (NQTs).
Specifically, this paper focuses on a new area of ePortfolio-related research in teacher education; the transition from university into employment.
The context is the final phase of a longitudinal action research project investigating whether an ePortfolio, created as a pre-service teacher to evidence a digital story of developing professional identity, could transition into employability, i.e. the first year as an NQT.
The findings indicate a changing purpose of the ePortfolio from training to the workplace, an increasing strength of ownership as part of the transition, and empowerment in becoming a teacher.
Secondary findings demonstrate an increasing acceptance amongst head teachers regarding the usefulness of the ePortfolio in pre-service teacher education and in the continuing professional development of qualified teachers. | <urn:uuid:8620b06c-c56c-4834-9f22-b6292911b2cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://education.eng.macam.ac.il/article/3647 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943581 | 205 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Photography Internships in Travel and Volunteer Opportunities Abroad
Show someone a beautiful, colorful film or photograph if you want to grab their attention and keep them there. Tess Flanders, a newspaper editor, suggested in 1911 that journalists and publicists use photography internships. The phrase “It’s worth a thousand Words” has been repeated and misquoted many times since then. However, it still rings true.
Professionals in the visual arts are needed for many reasons. Video and photographs are a part of our DNA. Vision is the primary way your brain processes information. 20 percent of your brain goes to this purpose. Vision is accompanied by the ability to see colors, which can increase recall of information by as much as 82 percent. Photography internships are available for high school students. Volunteer opportunities for practicing artists are also available. Journalism internships are available for college students.
Intern Abroad Headquarters offers internships for college and graduate students. They offer top-notch internships around the world, from media and communications in Greece to event and PR management in Bali.
Global Leadership Adventures is a great option for teens and high school students. The organization offers a hands-on learning experience and professional photographers for its community service projects. While abroad, you’ll be able to attend lectures and participate in workshops. This organization offers opportunities to travel to India, Peru, and Cuba.
African Impact also offers photography internships. You will be able to go on safaris with amazing animals like elephants, lions and antelope. This internship is a great opportunity to improve your landscape photography skills and animal portraiture, and raise awareness about conservation.
South Africa Photography Internship
African Impact’s creative professionals will help you gain experience in photographing wildlife, people and landscapes in South Africa’s Greater Kruger Area. While you are assisting wildlife projects in South Africa, this internship will allow you to work with professional photographers to improve and develop your skills.
Your photography internships will allow you to create a stunning portfolio of photos that show your talent and raise awareness about conservation. The internship will give you experience in the pre-visualization, production and editing of photos. During this internship, you’ll learn more about South Africa’s animals and their habitats as well as the challenges they face. You will not only be photographing, but you will also edit the photos you have taken and improve the image.
Global Nomadic was founded in 2009 and has placed over 10,000 people in meaningful volunteer programs, internships, TEFL classes, and research projects in over 40 countries. The organization provides projects that cover everything from wildlife rehabilitation and environmental conservation to human rights and social sustainability. Global Nomadic is a company that helps young professionals to develop William Kofron Photography research and internship projects that will enhance their careers. You can check out their various summer journalism internships. | <urn:uuid:16efaacd-9354-49ac-89a6-8d7e9f153cc1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailytravelstudy.com/photography-internships/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952396 | 599 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Bursts of Energy...
Recommended grade levels: 4-6
Goal: Students will record the variation in wind speed over time.
Collecting data, Hypothesizing, Making graphing and Measuring
Frameworks: Force and Motion
Materials: (per student group)
one disposable plastic plate, stapler,
one stick approximately 1" x 2", 24 inches long, one nail, four paper cups with handles and a stopwatch.
Teacher background information:
Today there is a growing interest in using the energy of the wind to generate electricity. For wind to be a dependable source of energy it must be steady and strong over long periods of time.
Before a wind generator is built, studies are made of how reliable the local winds are. In this activity, students will be able to conduct a similar study of the winds in their community.
Student groups will:
- Color one of the cups red, then staple the cups to the plastic plate by the handles. All the cups should face the same direction.
- Make a hole in the center of the plate large enough that the plate can spin on the nail. Insert the nail through the hole and pound the nail into the top of the stick.
- Place the stick in the ground outside.
- Use the red cup to count how many times the plate turns in the wind. Count the turns in one minute. Multiply by 60 to get the approximate speed per hour. Have students repeat this activity several times in a day, or each day for a week.
- Did the wind speed stay the same each day?
- How could wind speed be used to generate energy?
- Would this be a good site for a wind-powered electrical generator?
- Discuss how wind affects our life (e.g. as an energy source, the weather, or clothes on a laundry line).
1. Read a poem about wind to the class or have students write or find poems.
2. Have students write about where they would build a wind generator. Is Nebraska a good area? Tell why.
3. Have students describe the wind in writing.
1. Have students graph the data.
2. Have the students make up story problems involving wind speed. Have them exchange problems and solve.
Additional lessons from Bursts of Energy can be found in the Nebraska Energy Office publications section.
Gardener, Robert & Webster, David, Science Projects about Weather
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Balance, as defined by Merriam-Webster, means “physical equilibrium; stability produced by even distribution of weight on each side of the vertical axis.”
Tennis is a sport comprising many components and moving parts, one of the most elusive being the ability to keep yourself balanced. You must be balanced not just when hitting the ball, but getting to it and recovering to get to the next one. (Remember, the most important shot in tennis is the next one. Gee, where did I hear that before?)
Good balance starts with the “ready” position. That is, understanding the difference between your standing height and playing height.
With your feet shoulders’ width apart and knees bent just enough so you can’t see your shoelaces, that’s correct playing height. With your weight slightly forward and on the balls of your feet, not flat-footed, you’ve got control of your balance and are in “ready” position to move to the ball.
Now, think about reaching with your feet, not with your hands. If your racquet is ready (racquet back when the ball leaves your opponent’s strings), reaching with your feet maintains better balance, control and distribution of weight to hit the ball, and the racquet will do the work, rather than just swinging away with all arm.
It’s also important to note the use of small, quick steps, which are better for good timing and balance than taking big strides. Take a tip from the pros when watching them move between hitting balls. It’s not unusual to see them take almost a dozen small steps between groundstrokes.
After completing your shot (i.e., following through) and bringing your outside foot (back foot) forward, incorporate a split step to get back to “ready” position and maintain control of your balance. Now you’re ready and balanced for the next ball.
Although proper footwork is the main factor, two other components add to the mix:
- off hand: pointing at the ball to gauge the distance it needs to be away from your body when hitting forehands, and as a counter balance on the one-handed backhand.
- head: staying completely still with eye on the ball through contact.
All these components working in tandem are keys to help you keep your balance and play better tennis!
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The Voices of Youth program is a collaboration between Southwest Michigan Second Wave and KYD Network.
On a July evening this past summer, Ella Johnson was unloading a car filled with food, socks, blankets, and personal care items for the more than 150 men, women and children who were living in a now-closed homeless encampment off of Riverview Drive.
Ella, along with her mother, father, younger sister, and several family friends were volunteering for a regularly-scheduled meal train through the Kalamazoo Coalition for the Homeless. Portable tables in front of the encampment were laden with items that were donated or purchased. A steady stream of homeless residents began walking up to select food and supplies to see them through another day.
Ella, 17, a senior at Portage Central High School, and her fellow volunteers were kept busy replenishing the tables and talking with the encampment residents who expressed their appreciation with smiles and quietly murmured thank you’s. They did not linger, preferring instead to go back to their tents to settle in for the night.
The encampment, located on Ampersee Avenue, was cleared out in October by police officers with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety at the direction of city officials. Those who called it home scattered and Ella says she doesn’t know where they went.
“During that whole big fuss, residents of the encampment went to towns around us,” Ella says. “There are still tons of homeless people here and it’s hard to get in touch with them. They’re hiding. Lots of them will gather outside of a food pantry during the day and I don’t know what they do during the night or where they go. I have no clue where they’re sleeping. Some of them have had to find abandoned buildings to stay in at night. They can’t set up tents anymore because the cops will take them down and arrest them.”
Ella Johnson donates a portion of the profits she makes from her online art and thrifted clothing business to help the homeless.
Since the encampment was cleared out and shut down, Ella and her mother, Lisa, have been driving around Kalamazoo at least once a week to distribute food and supplies to people living on the streets. Some of these people knew them through the encampment but the majority are people they have met as they make their way throughout the city.
On a good day, Ella says they may come across 50 of the estimated 250 individuals who called the encampment home at one time or another. Her mother says, “It’s been a lot harder to see people, and we don’t know where they scattered to, or what help they’re getting.”
“We drive around random streets in Kalamazoo and ask if they need food and ask when they last saw someone and eventually we run out of meals,” Ella says. “We have our car stuffed with toiletry kits, blankets, sleeping bags, and food.”
Part of each day for her family is spent organizing and packing up meal kits or figuring out the next distribution event.
Because they are familiar faces and represent the one constant in an otherwise chaotic existence, the Johnsons have established trust with homeless residents and their conversations will frequently include questions about what else they need, in addition to checking on the welfare of those they haven’t seen in a while. One man recently said he could use a pair of size 12 boots and a call was put out to volunteers on the Homeless Coalition’s Facebook page which resulted in getting those boots into his hands.
On Dec. 14, volunteers organized a Christmas event that was held outside the People’s Food Co-op for the city’s homeless. About 50 people received food and warm clothing and some received tents.
Ella says, “Facebook has been an invaluable resource for volunteers trying to connect and go in the same direction. There’s not any one big group. We follow multiple groups. There are 30 or 40 people all of the time volunteering to help provide resources.”
On Dec. 14, volunteers organized a Christmas event that was held outside the People’s Food Co-op for the city’s homeless. Ella says about 50 people received food and warm clothing and some also received tents that were donated through a site set up on Amazon specifically for those living on the streets.
“We get Amazon deliveries every day,” Ella says.
Putting her concern into action
In December 2020, Ella and her family participated in their first meal train. Lisa Johnson says she and her husband saw a news story about the rapid rate at which the area’s homeless population was growing.
“We said that’s not OK,” Johnson says. “On our own, we put together 60 meal kits. My husband posted this and a friend said he’d signed up for a meal train and he was going out on Sunday. We joined him.”
From that point on, the Johnsons were joining other meal train efforts that were happening weekly and sometimes more than once a week. They were joined by friends and neighbors who had committed to making sure homeless individuals had food and other items that were either donated or purchased.
It was during these early days that Ella decided to donate a portion of the profits she makes from her online art and thrifted clothing business
. She is the artist behind all of the paintings available for sale and also creates resin jewelry and Christmas ornaments. What isn’t used to purchase food and other necessities for the city’s homeless population, is put into a savings account for college.
“I was selling paintings on Facebook when I was 9, 10, or 11 and I started selling online when I was 14 or 15,” she says.
Ella’s philanthropic efforts have encouraged her friends to do what they can to help out. They have joined her to serve food and hand out other necessities at meal trains and also donated inexpensive items which Ella says “goes a long way” to making a difference in the lives of those with very little.
Her parent’s initial involvement with organizations like Generous Hands
in Vicksburg and later the homeless coalitions served as her inspiration. Generous Hands provides backpacks filled with kid-friendly, nutritious food every Friday to children so that they have healthy food to get them through the weekend.
Ensuring that people have access to healthy food and a warm place to stay are basic human rights, Ella says, adding that the homeless often get a bad rap.
“There’s a very bad and negative connotation around everything that has to do with being homeless,” Ella says. “I think a lot of times people are scared when they see someone on the news or see someone with a sign up asking for money. It tends to dehumanize people and just seems scary.”
This, she says, makes her angry because the general population doesn’t have enough factual information about how people come to be homeless.
“A lot of the critics don’t realize that everyone is just a paycheck or two away from being homeless. There were people at the encampment who got laid off during COVID and if they can’t pay rent, they end up on the street,” Lisa Johnson says. “There was a guy we saw quite a bit of this summer. He had a job and was living in one of the tents. There was one woman who was at work and could see everything at the encampment where she was living being bulldozed.”
The Johnsons have been joining meal train efforts since December 2020 that have been happening weekly and sometimes more than once a week. They are, from left, Bill Johnson, Delaney Johnson, Ella Johnson, and Lisa Johnson.
“They’d much rather be in their own house with a warm bed,” Ella says. “Lots of communities are having successes with tiny houses or pods that they use for transitional housing. The homeless in these communities also get social services so that they can help themselves. For any homeless person who can go through social services and receive therapy, they can have a good life.”
But these services can be hard to come by for many homeless individuals who remain largely invisible. Those with mental health issues have very few resources and younger people who had been victims of sex trafficking or identify as LGBTQ plus are on their own, Ella says.
“I talked to a couple of kids who have made it to school and I talked to a few who were going to school, but that’s not a top priority if you’re on the streets,” she says. “There’s not enough resources. There are some great resources out there, but many are packed or overcrowded.”
Lisa Johnson says, “We need to come alongside them and help them heal from whatever trauma they have.”
A painting of the Ampersee encampment by Ella Johnson.
But, now that temperatures have dropped, the most immediate needs take precedence.
Hypothermia is a major issue and the blankets distributed by Ella and other volunteers often get wet, making them useless. Identification documentation also doesn’t withstand the cold and wet. This is why, she says, the work that she and others are doing is so critical.
Johnson says those who volunteer or donate connect through their humanity. She says she is proud of Ella and her passion for helping those most in need.
“A lot of people want to help, but they don’t know how,” Ella says. “We see a lot of people in the worst time of their lives. They are all trying to survive. Whether they’re being more successful or not, they’re all trying.”
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What are the critical challenges in organising a firm’s operational activities and processes? And how can firms use technology to gain an operational edge? This course helps students understand the complex systems and processes underlying the development and manufacture of products and the design and delivery of services.
How to formalise and analyse operational processes across industries and functional areas
Challenges involved in terms of integrating operational processes across organisations
The organisation of the product development process
The use of IT in optimising operational processes
In this course students will learn about foundational techniques and concepts related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of a firm’s operational processes in manufacturing, service design/delivery, and new product development.
Course: Monday to Friday 14:00 – 17:00 hrs, October 30th – November 8th 2017
Exam: November 10th 2017
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Final 3 hour exam
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The course emphasises small-scale, interactive teaching that focuses on real-life case studies. Students will be debriefed, in hindsight, on what really happened.
A study pack with course readings and case studies will be provided at the start of the course.
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Jaw crusher is a compression style rock crusher, useful in crushing the medium-hard to very hard material into a smaller particle size at primary crushing stage in the crushing circuit. Applications mining, quarry, construction waste recycling, aggregate making, etc. Materials Limestone, cobblestone, cobblestone, quartz, basalt, iron ore, granite, shale, sandstone, gypsum, and a variety of ores.
Therefore, adjusting the amplitude, angle of the miner, and fully releasing the screening function of the miner is the best way to increase productivity. 5. Adjust the discharge opening and angle. The size of the discharge port of the jaw crusher determines the processing capacity of the equipment.
Aug 01, 2019 It is very important to get the right jaw crusher. Our jaw crushers have different types and functions. For example, our stationary jaw crusher always get the required discharge. With a wide range of functions as standard, the jaw crusher range meets the demands of many different applications in the aggregate and mining sectors.
Cone crushers are commonly used for secondary, tertiary and quaternary crushing duties. Two variations are available - standard and short head The chief difference between cone and gyratory or jaw crushers is the nearly parallel arrangement of the mantle and the cone at the discharge end in the cone crusher. This is illustrated in Figure 5.2.
The equipment structure, use functions and product efficiency all indexes of C6X Jaw Crusher present modern advanced technology, solving such problems as low production efficiency, and difficult installation and maintenance of the existing jaw crushers on the market. It
Feb 17, 2016 The capacities are based on the crusher receiving full, continuous feed of clean, dry, friable stone weighing 100 lb/cu ft. These capacity tables show several significant differences between the two common types of primary crushers. A jaw crusher has a wider range of settingsgenerally, a maximum of two to three times the smallest setting.
The jaw crusher MOBICAT MC 120 PRO is extremely robust and impresses with its low-maintenance operation. The machine therefore guarantees high production outputs. Feeding unit. Prescreening. Continuous Feed System (CFS) Rock chisel. Drive. Control system. Crusher discharge conveyor and
Largest jaw crusher is 1600 x 2514 mm with motor ratings of 250-300 kW. Metso crushers (C200 series) are 1600 x 2514 mm with motors rated at 400 kW. The largest particle that can enter the opening of the jaw crusher can be estimated by Largest particle size 0.9 x gape
Jun 15, 2021 The output size of cone crusher is determined by the distance between mantle and concave. But many people dont know much about the discharge adjustment dvice of cone crusher. Here, we introduce 3 types of discharge adjustment devices for cone crushers fixed pulley, hydraulic pusher, and hydraulic motor.
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Using a small jaw crusher, the wear of the crusher liners has been studied for different settings of the crusher. The experiments have been carried out using quartzite, known for being very abrasive.
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Type Jaw Crusher Motor Type AC Motor Motor Power 5.5-160kw Application Mine and Metallurgy Materials Granite, Limestone, Hard Rock, Gold Ore, Iron Ore Outlet Size Adjustable10-200mm
Jaw-crusher Construction. Jaw crushers are heavy-duty machines and hence must be robustly constructed. The main frame is often made from cast iron or steel, connected with tie-bolts. It is commonly made in sections so that it can be transported underground for installation. Modern jaw crushers may have a main frame of welded mild steel plate.
Applications of Jaw Crusher Jaw crusher is mainly used to reduce the size of various materials. Coarse crushing, medium crushing and fine crushing are all available, the first two of which are the major functions. Jaw crusher can be applied to crush more than 200 kinds of hard and soft ore or stones with less than 300MPa compressive strength.
Aug 09, 2019 It is the driving part of jaw crusher and has three main functions. That is, transmit power, adjust discharge opening and function as a safety device. Transmit power Toggle plate is a power transmission part of jaw crusher. It is used to support movable jaw plate and transmit crushing force to the back of body frame.
The size of the discharge port of the jaw crusher determines the processing capacity of the equipment. Jaw crusher is often used as coarse crushing equipment, and the size of its discharge port should be based on the best feeding particle size of secondary crushing, and the size of discharge port cannot be increased or reduced arbitrarily.
Jaw Crusher Cone Crusher. Cone crusher machine and jaw crusher machine is the most commonly used crusher equipment. And how to distinguish these two crusher. According to the different feeding and discharge size. The aggregate jaw crusher is mainly used for the stage of coarse crushing, that is to say the primary crushing purpose.
Mecru crawler jaw crusher (tracked jaw crusher) has the functions of feeding, crushing, screening and conveying, with reasonable and compact layout.. Intelligent automation control, fully hydraulic drive, efficient jaw crushing host, high-strength car body and chassis. Convenient transportation, especially suitable for narrow and complex area.
Feldspar Brucite Pyrophyllite Barite Stone Jaw Crusher. 1.Product Application The jaw crusher machine consists of two jaw plates, the dynamic jaw and static jaw.The working part of the jaw crusher is two jaw plates, one is the fixed jaw plate (stationary jaw), the other is the mobile jaw plate (dynamic jaw), the position is inclined, with the fixed jaw plate forms the upper big lower small
16.30 4.80 4.10. Description. 1. The parameter in brackets is the onboard generator scheme. 2. Crusher processing capacity is related to stone hardness, feed size, and discharge size. 3. Basic configurationmanual control wireless remote controlAutomatic feeding system. 4.
5. Large capacity. Stone crusher machine / Jaw Crusher. 1. Application Bestlink Jaw crusher is a trusted and reliable brand for its high quality and good manufacturing. Jaw Crusher which is widely applied to crush high hardness, mid hardness and soft rocks and ores such as slag, construction materials, marble, etc.
Functions Of Cone Crushers . To Function The Cone Crusher Dayuse Torino For jaw gyratory and cone crushers k 1 is the value of the set and k 2 is the size above which all particles will be broken.18.104.22.168 cone crusher functions according to the same kinetic principles as a gyratory crusher but instead of being suspended the nut is supported at ...
High performance Scrap Jaw Crusher For Syenite,Bauxite. Jaw crusher Application 1. Jaw crusher is mainly used for metallurgy, mining, chemical, cement, construction, refractory materials and ceramic industries as well as broken and finely various kinds of hard with rocks and ores.
Used Telsmith 32x44 Hydra-Jaw Jaw Crusher in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada for sale. 6 ft x 16 ft Vibratory Grizzly Feeder, Telsmith H3244 32 in x 44 in Jaw Crusher, 150 hp Drive Motor, 48 in x 24 in Fines Discharge Conveyor, WEG 150 hp Motor, Tri/A Carrier, Hydraulic Leveling There was no power source to connect the unit to. The unit could not be operationally checked
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The large feed opening and force-feeding action from the inward and downward eccentric movement of the swing jaw mean that our jaw crusher can increase the capacity. The jaw has a smaller discharge setting, allowing for a higher degree of flexibility with relative equipment,Positive setting adjustment is easy. 2. Smallest Jaw Crusher Main ...
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Swing Jaw 10. Discharge 11. Fixed Jaw. Jaw Crusher Parts. G Gape width, b maximum feed size, This is generally desired to be between 80% and 90% of the inlet width L Crushing area length Around double the gape width W Crushing area width Varies between 1.3 and 3 times the gape width.
Sep 12, 2019 The jaw crusher is very powerful. It needs to carry out all-round inspection and replace worn parts during overhaul. The general overhaul period is 1-2 years. In combination with the jaw crusher function, the components of the equipment should be cleaned regularly. Different methods can be selected for cleaning, including vibration cleaning ...
Jaw Crushers are sized by the top opening of the crushing chamber. For example, a 32 x 54 Jaw Crusher measures 32 from jaw die to jaw die at the top opening or gape opening and 54 across the width of the two jaw dies. The narrower bottom opening of the crushing chamber is used to size the discharge material.
Function Of Toggle Plate In Jaw Crusher For Sale. 08 toggle plate the toggle plate traversing the bracket flat surface produces no friction or polishing to ensure minimum friction the toggle plate system has the following characteristics 1 require no lubriaion 2 process high crushing force 3 extend the service life of the jaw plate and bracket in addition the jaw plate provides the.
Mar 07, 2015 Teori Perhitungan Jaw Crusher Kapasitas Jaw crusher secara empiris dapat dinyatakan dalam rumus T 0,6 x L x S Dimana T Kapasitas Jaw Crusher L Panjang dari Receiving opening (in) S lebar dari discharge opening (in) Rumus tersebuat adalah untuk perhitungan kasar dari kapasitas Jaw crusher, karena hanya tergantung pada discharge ... | <urn:uuid:0d2cb1f0-d95e-4b51-a812-4806d3fd09eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kanjeevaramsilks.in/triturar/Jul_30333.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.872184 | 2,413 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Where does Ivo van Hove find the time? The ubiquitous Belgian director’s newly announced version of The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau will be staged in London in March, starring Ruth Wilson. His subterranean take on Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, made for the Odéon in Paris, has just run at his ensemble’s home, the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Several of his shows for ITA’s repertory continue to tour. His epic revenge drama Age of Rage – about the Trojan war – is planned for spring at the Barbican, where his take on Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice was scuppered by the pandemic.
He is one of Europe’s most in-demand stage directors, but while his reputation was made on radical, virtuoso versions of ancient Greek tragedies and weighty American dramas, his rise is also inseparable from his passion for cinema. Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes and Luchino Visconti are among the auteurs whose films he has reimagined for the stage with his partner, the designer Jan Versweyveld.
Those collaborations have become the subject of an exhibition, All About Theatre About Film, put together by the duo at Amsterdam’s canal-side Eye Filmmuseum. It’s a show that leaves you giddy: desperate to watch or rewatch the films that inspired them, vexed about the stage productions you missed, and bowled over by their development of intricate, thrumming worlds – culminating in the TV studio-cum-working restaurant that filled the National’s Lyttelton theatre for Network in 2017.
In the museum’s vast gallery space, the pair have created a number of immersive rooms each with its own distinctive mise-en-scène to evoke the cinema-inspired stage productions. You walk from the detached, cool-blue room memorialising their Antonioni Project – based on three films by the Italian director – and on to the messy domestic realm of Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, where you sit on scattered cube chairs to watch footage of Van Hove’s actors unleashing accusations, festering resentments and murderous dreams in his sprawling adaptation. The rooms contain original props, costumes and sound recordings – played on directional speakers – as well as photographs and notebooks. Many of them also juxtapose scenes from the original films with corresponding footage of the stage versions.
What comes through is the consistency not just of Van Hove’s style – he has developed an increasingly sophisticated use of live video on stage – but also of his themes. In a 2004 fax to Bergman, exhibited in the Scenes from a Marriage room, he writes: “Family life … has always been the central core of my work as a director … The inevitable burden and haven it presents in man’s life are a central starting point to speak about society and politics.” He could be talking about the Wingfield family who have burrowed underground in Versweyveld’s earthy set for Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Or the cocoon-like court of Ludwig II of Bavaria, whose tragedy – filtered through Visconti – he staged in Munich in 2011. Or the hardscrabble family who settle in Milan in Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers, which he staged with the audience surrounding a huge square that doubled as dining table and boxing ring. That table dominates one room of the exhibition, holding piles of dirty dishes and a pot of spaghetti bolognese.
In Rocco, the actors came together to eat a meal on stage and this exhibition attracts our senses, too. A citronella diffuser is used in the first room, which marks Van Hove’s 1999 production India Song, based on Marguerite Duras’s experimental film. With warm lighting from above and a carpet beneath our feet, it evokes the woozy romance spun by Duras, whose characters are represented by a black gown and a white linen suit, both by Dries van Noten, hanging on mannequins. The installation complements the rather grainy archive footage of the original staging (a reminder how far filmed theatre has come) to give an idea of what it would have felt like to watch the intimate production, which invited audience members to sit on the stage.
A later room, devoted to Van Hove’s version of Visconti’s thriller Obsession, is filled with a heavy rusty smell. A huge grimy engine is suspended from the ceiling, as in the 2017 production, in which Jude Law played a drifting mechanic whose passionate affair leads him to murder. Here, the engine resembles a projector as it hangs in front of a screen with clips from the production; a huge shadow cast on the floor bringing to mind the oil that was spilled on stage. I found much of the Barbican show tacky, not least Law’s frantic getaway on a treadmill. But in the tighter space of the exhibition room, with clips of the show at cinema-screen size, you see the quality of the performances. A sense of claustrophobia encroaches in a manner that is perhaps impossible on the vast, exposing Barbican stage where Obsession was presented.
The hulking engine could be an installation in itself and seems charged with the essence of Obsession: a sweaty, pungent and rather lumbering production. The idea that objects can encapsulate a play is a notion pursued in speeches chosen from Van Hove’s adaptation of After the Rehearsal, and the original film by Bergman, which are screened next to each other. The director Henrik tells actor Anna that the furniture around them in the theatre that has previously been used for Strindberg productions – a stool from Miss Julie, chairs from A Dream Play – are “acquaintances all” and that these objects bring with them resonances of their previous uses on stage. This is an idea explored by Strindberg himself in A Dream Play, where an old shawl is said to have absorbed years of sorrow. But actors bring a residue of their old roles, too – something that is felt all the more profoundly in an ensemble like ITA whose core actors reappear from room to room in the exhibition, inviting us to make connections between their roles.
We watch the clips from After the Rehearsal while sitting on “the Hedda Gabler sofa” – that is, the stained Ikea-style couch used by Van Hove in his version rather than the elegant sofa used by Bergman. Linger for long enough and memories come back of the interiors in Van Hove’s Hedda Gabler with Ruth Wilson at the National: the solemn piano, the framed gun, the flowers stapled to the walls. The exhibition’s room for Bergman’s Persona, which he staged as a double bill with After the Rehearsal, presents another installation, this time using an artwork that inspired Van Hove. A waxy torso sculpted by Berlinde de Bruyckere is presented in a cabinet that stands on a flooded stage, its reflection in the water rippling to evoke melting flesh and chiming with Persona’s inquiry into blurring identities.
As well as the copious handwritten notes by Van Hove and the meticulous model boxes and photos by Versweyveld, we are given a hands-on sense of their approach to theatre-making, with clips from a documentary about the making of Husbands, one of three John Cassavetes stagings represented together in a single room. We watch footage of rehearsals from rows of old cinema-style seats but a huge blown-up photo on the adjacent wall reminds us of Van Hove’s radical immersion of audiences into the world of his plays. Theatregoers for Faces reclined together on beds to watch the drama unfold around them.
It’s a reminder of an age before social distancing and the threat that the pandemic continues to pose to theatre. The day after I saw the exhibition and Van Hove’s Glass Menagerie, the Netherlands brought forward its curfew for evening entertainment, leading ITA to cancel shows for the weeks ahead. The exhibition remains open daily and deserves a European tour of its own (the Barbican would be the natural space in London, considering its past presentations of the duo’s pair and their stylish merging of design, film and theatre). But part of the exhibition’s achievement is how well it fits the space of the stunning Eye Filmmuseum. Its final coup de theatre is how you emerge, from a room containing the news desk of Network’s mad-as-hell Howard Beale and footage of the huge working restaurant at the Lyttelton, into the museum’s own restaurant, with its tiered seating, cool angular lines and installation-style lighting clusters by Olafur Eliasson. It is a world as if imagined by Van Hove and Versweyveld themselves. | <urn:uuid:b0a289be-acf6-459d-8d09-a95ea42f9415> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businesscable.co.uk/all-about-theatre-about-film-ivo-van-hoves-big-screen-obsessions-in-focus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95206 | 1,904 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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DG SANTE and the Commission’s Joint Research Centre are seeking to select public health best practices i.e. practical interventions that have shown to work at local, regional or national level, that can be transferred between Member States or scaled-up and are conducive to reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4. to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by one-third by 2030. Stakeholders are invited to submit evaluated practices through the best practice portal until 31 January 2019. All practices submitted by this date will be assessed in spring 2019 (practices submitted after that date, will be assessed later). The owners of the practices selected as “best” would be invited to a “marketplace” workshop with Member States representatives to present their practice (planned for June 2019). It is foreseen that all practices selected as “best” receive a certificate of recognition and are published on the best practice portal. External evaluators will assess the submitted practices against the criteria adopted by the Steering Group on Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Management of NCDs. Before submitting, please consult the submitter’s guide. | <urn:uuid:ff7ca567-8f42-4758-8584-393009e532b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.efna.net/best-practices-conducive-to-reaching-sdg-3-4-submit-now-through-dg-santes-best-practice-portal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947535 | 335 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Archaeologists that participate in the Pyramid of the Sun Project, conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH Conaculta), discovered a series of deposits at the interior of the Prehispanic construction; one of them may be the offering placed during the first 50 years of our era, to consecrate the beginning of the construction of the greatest monument of Teotihuacan
The team of researchers integrated by archaeologists Alejandro Sarabia, Saburo Sugiyama, Enrique Perez Cortes and Nawa Sugiyama, announced this finding registered during explorations conducted in the 65-meters high pyramidal structure from 2008 to 2011.
Using the 116-meters long tunnel excavated in the 1930’s decade by archaeologist Eduardo Noguera, the Pyramid of the Sun Project, directed by Alejandro Sarabia, excavated 59 stratigraphic wells and 3 short tunnels, in order to reach the mother-rock level and verify the presence of burials and offerings.
“We knew that if Teotihuacan people would have placed something inside the monument it would have been done at the tepetate level, so we made a probing well at the end of the tunnel and a short conduct to reach the center of the pyramid, since Noguera tunnel was carved approximately 6 meters to the west of the center of the monument”, commented Perez Cortes.
Over the course of the exploration were discovered –at different distances from the entrance of the tunnel- 3 architectural structures constructed before the Pyramid of the Sun, as well as 7 human burials, some of them corresponding to infants, that were buried before the construction of the building, as well as 2 offerings, one of them of great richness.
The sumptuous offering was discovered at the meter 85 of the tunnel, inside the constructive filling, “so we know it was deposited as part of a consecration ceremony of the structure, probably at the beginning of its construction more than 1900 years ago” mentioned Perez Cortes, researcher at Zacatecas INAH Center.
The rich deposit, where a greenstone mask outstands, was integrated by several levels of objects; since the area of archaeological material extended to the south of the limits of the probing well, they decided to expand the exploration.
Objects that integrate the offering “were elaborated with different materials and techniques; a considerable amount of obsidian pieces outstand, such as projectile heads, small knives, an anthropomorphic eccentric artifact and 3 anthropomorphic figures adorned with shell and pyrite eyes, also accompanied by projectile heads”.
Among the 3 greenstone sculptures found, outstands an extraordinary anthropomorphic mask carved out in one piece, with eyes inlayed in pyrite and shell, declared Perez Cortes; the serpentine mask, according to studies conducted by Dr. Jose Luis Ruvalcaba, from the National University Physics Institute (IF UNAM), is the only greenstone mask discovered until now in the ritual context of Teotihuacan.
The 11 centimeters high, 11.5 wide and 7.8 cm deep mask is different to other Teotihuacan masks because it presents smaller dimensions and has volume; it is possible that it was a portrait. A seashell was found next to the sculpture.
The offering also contained 11 Tlaloc vessels, most of them fragmented, placed in the center of it. Other objects deposited include 3 pyrite discs, being the one with 45 centimeters diameter mounted on a slate slab the greatest recovered until now in Teotihuacan.
An important amount of animal skeletons was found. The skull of a feline was placed to the northeast; a canine to the south, and an eagle covered with volcanic rock, to the southeast. The bird was fed before the sacrifice with 2 rabbits, as analyses reveal. This kind of fauna is similar to the one found at offerings of the Pyramid of Moon.
Researchers from the Pyramid of Sun Project at Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone (ZAT) remarked that the offering remained underwater, since humidity of the monumental structure concentrates on the base and central area.
Dr. Saburo Sugiyama, professor at Aichi University, Japan, and Alejandro Sarabia, director of the archaeological zone located in Estado de Mexico, indicated that for a long time before the discovery, the function of the pyramid was linked to the underworld because of the tunnel excavated by Teotihuacan people.
“Nevertheless, objects found would be indicating that the Pyramid of the Sun –which covers an approximate area of 5.6 hectares- was possibly offered to a rain deity, an early version of Tlaloc, during the first 50 years of the Common Era”.
“Until now, we can only offer a general interpretation of the findings, although it is evident that some of them present the same distribution pattern already observed at the Pyramid of the Moon burials”, concluded the specialists.
The Pyramid of the Sun is the largest building in Teotihuacan and one of the largest in Mesoamerica. Found along the Avenue of the Dead, in between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Ciudadela, and in the shadow of the massive mountain Cerro Gordo, the pyramid is part of a large complex in the heart of the city.
The name Pyramid of the Sun comes from the Aztecs, who visited the city of Teotihuacán centuries after it was abandoned; the name given to the pyramid by the Teotihuacanos is unknown. It was constructed in two phases. The first construction stage, around 100 A.D., brought the pyramid to nearly the size it is today. The second round of construction resulted in its completed size of 738 feet (225 meters) across and 246 feet (75 meters) high, making it the third largest pyramid in the world, but being much shorter than the Great Pyramid of Giza (146 meters). The second phase also saw the construction of an altar atop of the pyramid, which has not survived into modern times. The Adosada platform was added to the pyramid in the early third century, at around the same time that the Ciudadela and Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent were constructed.
Over the structure the ancient Teotihuacanos finished their pyramid with lime plaster imported from surrounding areas, on which they painted brilliantly colored murals. While the pyramid has endured for centuries, the paint and plaster have not and are no longer visible. Few images are thought to have been included in the mural decorations on the sides of the pyramid. Jaguar heads and paws, stars, and snake rattles are among the few images associated with the pyramids.
It is thought that the pyramid venerated a deity within Teotihuacan society but the destruction of the temple on top of the pyramid, by both deliberate and natural forces prior to the archaeological study of the site, has so far prevented identification of the pyramid with any particular deity. However, little evidence exists to support this theory.
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The purpose of civil law is to provide a forum for dispute resolution and to protect the rights of citizens. Civil law courts do not have the same authority and jurisdiction as traditional courts of law. These courts of law are created to settle disputes between individuals, corporations and the government. These courts are not like traditional courts. They take a neutral approach to disputes between individuals and organisations, although some cases can be contested by competing parties.Although civil law’s purpose was to facilitate dispute resolution, it is different from traditional criminal law in that its objectives are not the same as traditional courts. Civil laws are based on a “social responsibility” theory, which holds that the society should be just and protect the rights of individuals as much as possible. While they generally favor individuals, it is not always the case. If a society is morally bound to stop cruelty to animals, then it would be reasonable to expect that it would also prevent cruelty from humans. Civil law courts may seem to place a greater importance on the welfare of society as a whole than on the individual. Because the goal is to prevent more harm than to impose a particular outcome, this is a common misconception. Social responsibility refers to the notion that one can serve the ends by acting to avoid an immediate effect. Utilitarian theory may make it seem wrong to justify the means even if an individual feels that the ends justify them. Utilitarianism states that there is some good result without regard to whether click through the up coming page means actually serve the end. Although utilitarianism may seem idealistic, it is not always true in practice. A utilitarian would not act against people getting medical treatment because doing so would prevent something worse from happening. This utilitarian would not also support killing people to alleviate poverty or to make sure that those who are living in poverty have enough money to take care of them. While utilitarianism can seem contrary to some moral principles and may not be the best way to prevent interpersonal violence, those principles are the only rational foundation. Modern moral theories, however, do not consider acts morally bad as taking away someone else’s freedom, property, rights, or liberty. It is morally unjust if an act causes one to lose liberty or cause harm to another person. It can be morally wrong if it causes harm to another person’s dignity. But it doesn’t have to do more damage to the object. Similar to the above, force used to inflict pain on another person or cause them to suffer or accept suffering may be considered morally unjust. But it is only if it does no further harm to the victim. A society’s overall moral values can be used to protect the best interests of its members. In this way, everyone would have equal moral rights under the law. All individuals would be protected from any unjust acts by others. Every person can be considered to live in a just world because they have equal moral and legal rights. Justice would therefore be primarily served click through the up coming page legislation. According to animal rights theory, society should expand its moral and legal obligations to all animals. Animals are capable of feeling pain and are thus entitled to the same rights as humans, even if they are not able to speak or make claims in legal court. It could be accused of a crime that will lead to imprisonment if a person intentionally kills an animal. If it is proven that the killing was due to the animal’s welfare, then it could be considered justifiable homicide.
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Residence of General Stephen Moylan, N. E. Corner of 4th & Walnut Sts., 1796-1810
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St. Patrick's, Phil. Pa. 1859-1912
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Researchers have demonstrated a new way of achieving negative refraction in metamaterials. Researchers belonging to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have collaborated to achieve the 'extraordinarily strong' negative refraction. They have reported a negative refractive index of -700.
When compared to previous negative-index metamaterials, the present research brings negative refraction technology into a miniature area and the negatively refracting light is confined into a very small area.
While previous research in this area involved magnetic inductance, the present study considered kinetic inductance. According to Newton's law, kinetic inductance represents the unwillingness to change in the mechanical world. Kinetic inductance becomes more than magnetic inductance when electrons are confined flawlessly into two dimensions. The very strong negative refraction achieved in this study is due to the large 2D kinetic inductance.
Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at SEAS, the principal investigator of the project, and Hosang Yoon, a SEAS graduate student, utilized a 2D electron gas (2DEG) for the study. 2DEG forms at the aluminum gallium arsenide-gallium arsenide interface. The team sliced a 2DEG sheet into an array of strips. Then they utilized microwaves to hasten electrons in the leftmost strips. The adjacent strips feel the electron movements and the electrons get accelerated. The researchers considered this as a "staggering" degree of negative refraction.
The novel technology allows localization of electromagnetic waves into ultra-subwavelength scales which leads to a significant reduction in size. The concept may lead to development of powerful optical tweezers and microscopes which will enable study of individual molecules and viruses.
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(CNN Español) — A few days after the European Union announced plans to rationalize gas, the Russian state energy giant Gazprom resumed gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Germany.
In addition, Ukrainian officials said that the Russian forces are trying “all the time” to break the defensive lines in the eastern region of Donetsk while targeting the “main objective” of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Mira las principales noticias de la war de Rusia en Ukraina de este jueves 21 de julio.
Russia resumed the flow of gas to Germany, but very poor under its capacity
The Russian state energy giant Gazprom resumed gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Germany, according to data from the operator’s web page.
“We are in the process of resuming gas transport through the gas pipeline. It may take some time to reach the nominated transport volume,” said a spokesperson for Nord Stream 1 on CNN this Thursday.
Nord Stream 1 había estado cerrado durante 10 días de maintenance programado, y se temía que Rusia no reanudara las entrega una vez terminadas las obras.
La lectura de este jueves showed that they sent 21,388,236 kWh/h of gas through the gas pipeline between the 1st and the 2nd of the morning, this time, much below the capacity of Nord Stream 1.
The head of the German network regulator, Klaus Mueller, said on Twitter this Wednesday that Gazprom had scheduled the delivery of only 30% of the capacity of the gas pipeline.
Before the closing of the gas pipeline, Gazprom only delivered 40% of its capacity after the dispute but the repair of the key gas turbine.
A bit of context: This Wednesday, the European Union announced plans to ration gas until next spring, before fearing that Russia could drastically cut the flow of natural gas to the continent. The plan “Ahorrar gas para un invierno seguro” establishes the objective of que los 27 Estados miembros reduzcan su demanda de gas en un 15% between agosto and marzo del próximo año.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said this Wednesday that a total Russian gas cut was a “probable scenario.”
La región de Donbás “aún no está perdida” a manos de las fuerzas rusas, dice un alto general estadounidense
The Ukrainian region of the Donbás “has not lost yet” to the hands of the Russian forces, said the head of the Joint Mayor’s State, general Mark Milley, during a press conference in the Pentagon after a virtual meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine .
“The conclusion is that the cost is very high, the profits are very low, there is a war of disgorgement that is being produced in the region of Luhansk, Donbas,” said Milley. “Para responder a su pregunta sobre “¿está perdido el Donbás?”. No, todavía no está perdido. Los ucranianos están haciendo pagar a los rusos cada centímetro de territorio que ganan”, dijo este miércoles.
Los cambios de territorio entre las fuerzas ucranianas y las rusas en la región del Donbás “se miden literally en cientos de metros. Algunos días puedes sacar uno o dos kilometers a los rusos, pero no mucho más que eso”, added Milley.
Tras la campaña de 90 días que Russia ha realizado para centrarse en la conquista de la región de Donbás, las fuerzas rusas han nado “muy, muy poco” terreno, dijo a los periodistas. Sin embargo, he pointed out that the war is very intense.
“Es muy intensa, mucha violencia: tens of thousands of artillery shots every 24 hours, mucha bajas en ambos bandos, mucha destrucción de pueblos, etc.”, he said.
El presidente de Belarús advierte de un “abismo” nuclear si la guerra en Ukraina no llega a su fin
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, asked today for the end of the war before avoiding an “abyss of nuclear war”
“Hay que parar, llegar a un acuerdo, poner fin a este lío, a la operación ya la guerra en Ukraina”, said Lukashenko in an interview with the French news agency AFP.
“Hay que parar, no hay que ir más allá. Más allá está el bismo de la guerra nuclear”, added Lukashenko.
Lukashenko continued saying that the West is guilty of the war in Ukraine.
“Ustedes han created this war. This is not just una creencia mía, está basada al 100% en los hechos, puedo demoraslo. Ustedes han created y continúa esta guerra”, said Lukashenko during the interview.
“Hemos visto la causa de esta guerra. La causa es que si Rusia no se hubiera adelantado a ustedes, la OTAN, se habría organizado y golpeado contra ella”, he added.
Lukashenko also urged the Kyiv authorities to sit in the negotiation table with Russia.
The objectives of Russia in Ukraine now extend beyond the eastern region of the Donbass, according to the Russian chancellor
The objectives of Russia in Ukraine now extend beyond the eastern region of the Donbás to the south of the country, said a senior government minister.
When the war in Ukraine reached its fifth month, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serguéi Lavrov, told the state media that “geography is different”.
“The RPD (People’s Republic of Donetsk) and the RPL (People’s Republic of Luhansk) are far from being alone, as well as the region of Kherson, the region of Zaporizhia and a series of other territories, and this process continues, continues constante y persistente”, said Lavrov during an interview with RIA Novosti, publicada este Wednesday.
Lavrov’s statements are an example of the Kremlin’s new focus on the war in Ukraine.
Just three months ago, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, transferred his military efforts to the east of the country after the failure to take over Kyiv.
When the Russian forces complied with Putin’s order and captured the last city in the Luhansk region that was in Ukrainian hands — Lysychansk — at the beginning of this month, it was predicted that its next movement would be in the neighboring region of Donetsk.
As Donetsk fell, Moscú would invade the whole region of Donbás, in the east of Ukraine, which harbors separatist factions backed by Russia since 2014.
Sin embargo, the Multiple Launch Missile Systems (MLRS, por sus siglas en inglés) supplied recently by the United States, por valor de US$ 400 million, reinforced the capacity of the Ukrainian army to attack Russian objectives, an important factor that has caused nuevos problemas a Moscú.
At the beginning of this month, it produced enormous explosions in various occupied areas of the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Jersón. Las pruebas disponibles, coming from las imágenes por satellite y de los analistas occidentales, indican que los attacks han sido muy efficacious.
Mykhailo Podolyak, asesor del Jefe de Estado Mayor del Presidente de Ukraine, repitió este miercoles en la televisión ucraniana la petition de más armas HIMARS.
“direct threats”: Lavrov said that while the West is supplying Ukraine with more long-range weapons, including the High Mobility Artillery Missile System (HIMARS), Russia’s geographical objectives in Ukraine will move away from the current line.
“We cannot permit that the part of Ukraine controlled by Zelensky or those who replace him have weapons that assume a direct threat to our territory or the republics that have declared their independence or that want to determine their future independently,” Lavrov said. .
“El presidente fue muy claro, como usted ha citado: desnazificación y desmilitarización en el sentido de que debe haber ninguna menace para nuestra seguridad, ninguna military menace desde el territorio de Ukraina, y este objetivo se mantiente”, said Lavrov.
Putin is “sane” despite the “rumors”, says a high functionary of the American intelligence
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is “completely healthy” despite “many rumors” about his health, according to a senior official from the United States intelligence services.
“There are many rumors sobre la salud del presidente Putin y por lo que podemos decir, está completamente sano”, dijo el director de la agency CIA, Bill Burns, cuando se le pregunto directamente si Putin está está sano o es unstable.
Burns recognized that his public declarations of this Wednesday in the Security Forum of Aspen, in Colorado, were not “a formal judgment of intelligence”.
Putin recently appeared in photos with an apparent facial swelling that he has speculated that he could be sometiendo a medical treatment but unknown illness.
The Kremlin previously denied the rumors of ailments.
“I don’t believe that any person in their sano judgment can see signs of some type of disease or illness in this person. I want them in the hands of the conscience of those who spread rumors despite their daily opportunities to ensure that they know who they are.” try,” said the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serguéi Lavrov, a la cadena francesa TF1 in May.
Some antecedents: when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, politicians and former diplomats speculated about Putin’s stability.
From the use of a huge message during the conversations with the French president Emmanuel Macron after the rejection of a Russian test of covid-19, to the pronunciación of a speech plagued by conspiracy theories to justify the invasion of Ukraine, some los comportamientos de Putin han rozado la extrañeza.
According to a CNN report published in March, the United States officials are also “on guard before the possibility that Putin’s strategy is projecting instability, in an attempt to use the United States and its allies to give them what they want but fear that pueda hacer algo peor”.
When he asked me in March how there have been notable changes in the behavior of Putin, the psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Dekleva told CNN: “Sí y no”.
Dekleva, who previously worked at the United States Embassy in Moscow and specializes in leadership analysis/political psychological profile with the aim of national security, said that Putin’s behavior is a sign of frustration with the pace of Russia’s invasion .
“No creo que sea errático ni que haya cambiado, pero ciertamente tiene más prisa”, said Dekleva.
“The saddest thing here, the most tragic thing is that Putin stopped being a respected world leader when he came to power… now he looks more and more like Slobodan Milosevic of Russia”, added Dekleva, comparing Putin with the autocrat Serb who died in La Haya in 2006 while awaiting trial for war crimes. | <urn:uuid:ca6e3a69-4ae7-4d9e-a27f-acf4fd2d9448> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lezbankzreview.net/russia-resumed-gas-flow-to-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.680403 | 2,694 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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Tanunda, SA - Tabor Lutheran (30186)
Year Built: 1849
Last Updated: 03/01/2021
History and Architecture:
A number of pioneer families in the district organised the Free Evangelical Lutheran Tabor Congregation on 1 October 1850 under Dr Carl Muecke, Pastor, educator and journalist. The first Church was built in 1849, extended in 1871 and in 1910, and completely renovated in 1970. It has three bells in the tower, and an orb on top which contains congregational records.
The church was named Tabor after Mount Tabor, one of the most interesting and remarkable single mountains of Palestine. In 1870, the original Church was rebuilt. The tower and choir gallery were added in 1910. The belfry carries three bells imported from Apolda, Germany; Gloria (glory), Concordia (harmony) and Laetitia (joy). The largest bell weighs over 300kg.
The Church garden covers the graves of the congregations original cemetery. After complaints by neighbours about late night burials and the apparent smell it was moved in 1864.
This list may not contain every serving cleric, past or present, for this church.
Further submissions welcomed.
|1850 -||Pastor Dr Muecke|
|1870 - 1895||Pastor F Rechner|
|1900 -||Pastor Hossfeld|
|-||Pastor T G. Obst|
|-||Pastor C. C Zanker|
|-||Pastor Leslie Willam Auricht||2018|
|-||Pastor N. C. Keller|
|2011 -||Rev David Gogoll|
In 1978 a Mr Ross Waters of Adelaide was commissioned to build an organ for the church.
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British utility company Thames Water revealed that it found a fifteen ton blob of fats, oils, and grease (FOG), and other trash items; or what it terms a huge “fatberg;” which clogged a 19×28 inch (48-70 centimeter) sewer by approximately 95 percent of its capacity.
Residents, please alleviate strains on municipal sewers by trashing your FOG and other trash items like baby wipes instead of draining or flushing them.
For lovely photos from Thames Water and its often thankless job of keeping sewers operational, see its flickr page.
It will only get worse as more residents gain access to motor vehicles. Adherence and enforcement of traffic laws would do wonders at keeping drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians safe. Otherwise, one must be diligent when crossing the street.
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The benefits of using a treadmill can be unclear to even the most experienced user since there are so many. The treadmill is one of the most recognizable and well-known pieces of exercise equipment. Whether you’ve been in the gym once or five hundred times, you likely know what a treadmill does and how to use it.
You may not know the totality of the benefits of using a treadmill, though, and that’s why we’re here today. The treadmill is much more than meets the eye. Sure, running is an easy way to burn calories, but the treadmill is thankfully much more than a calorie burner.
Let’s discuss two of the major benefits of using a treadmill:
NEAT stands for non-exercise activity thermogenesis. It’s a fancy term for the things that we do that aren’t considered formal exercise. Folding laundry, vacuuming, walking, washing dishes, etc. would all fall into the NEAT category.
NEAT is an extremely important thing to be aware of because it contributes to your total calories burned in the day. If you are wanting to lose body fat, it is crucial to be burning more calories in the day than you are consuming. Aside from eating healthy, getting enough protein, and lifting, you can make fat loss easier when you are doing all of those things while eating less than your body burns in the day. We have many ways we burn calories throughout the day. We burn calories exercising, performing NEAT, digesting, breathing, and more. The two easiest ways to manually burn calories are both formal exercise and NEAT. Assuming that formal exercise is already a part of your weekly routine, it is wise to increase calorie burn through NEAT. After all, we can only do so many bouts of cardio and weight lifting.
The easiest way to track NEAT is through your daily steps. If you have a wearable like Apple Watch, FitBit, etc., you can see your daily steps. Having a treadmill at home is a great way to get your daily steps in. You may be thinking that you can simply go outside instead of walking on a treadmill indoors. If you have the option to go outside, you most definitely should. But for some, going outside in harsh weather conditions simply isn't an option. Rather than saying “screw it” to your daily step goal, you can throw on your favorite show and take a stroll on your treadmill.
I recommend you find your average daily steps as life is now, then increase it by 1,000. Once that new number is a habit, increase it by another 1,000 steps.
Treadmills aren’t only meant for walking, jogging, and running on flat surfaces. Many treadmills go on an incline and can actually change and mimic a hiking trail depending on the software and technology the machine uses. One of the benefits of using a treadmill at home is that it can be a very useful way to prepare for your very first trail hike, or your fifth 14’er.
If you have any questions about the benefits of using a treadmill or want to learn more about our selection of treadmills, reach out to your local Push Pedal Pull to speak with an exercise equipment expert!
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Improperly applying nitrogen fertilizers,especially those with nitrogen in a water-soluble,quick-release form,or accidentally spilling or overlapping fertilizercan burn the lawn,leaving streaks or spots of brown,dead areas of grass. Dog urine can also create spots of injured nitrogen-burned grass.
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Is your lawn being burned by nitrogen?
Still, the lawn is not 鈥渂urned鈥? What takes place in the presence of excess nitrogen is simply that the salt content in the fertilizer is pulling the water from the grass plants, leaving them to quickly dry out and turn brown, looking 鈥渂urned鈥?
Does nitrogen make grass green?
The answer is yes, nitrogen does make grass green. It is an essential nutrient in every plant鈥檚 life and is required in the right proportion for a green and healthy lawn. Always lookout for signs of nitrogen deficiency in your lawn and take to solve this problem.
How long does it take for nitrogen to work in lawns?
You can expect to see results from 1 to 5 days after using a certain type of fertilizer. Does nitrogen make grass green? Nitrogen is the number one way to change the color of your lawn. It pushes the production of the plant鈥檚 chlorophyll in the grass. The plant can get more sunlight by growing more green. Can you put too much nitrogen on your lawn?
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Policy Issues in Planning and Finance: Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning
Publication date: 2003
Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning � Targeting is a practical approach to the achievement of program goals that directs scarce resources to those most in need. � Targeting is part of a broader package of public sector interventions that creates a business environment conducive to private sector involvement. � Targeting promotes equity, stimulates increases in available resources, and improves overall efficiency in family planning services. Policy Issues IN PLANNING & FINANCEN O. 3 • O C T O B E R 2 0 0 3 POLICY Issues in Planning and Finance, a series of policy briefs, presents the findings and implications of POLICY-supported research. The series is intended to focus attention on the importance of developing a favorable policy environment that encourages appropriate and adequate FP/RH/AIDS program financing. 2 “‘Targeting’ refers to concentrating resources, particularly resources for social programs, on the people who need them most.” —Newbrander et al. (2001) Global demand for familyplanning services continues to increase rapidly. By 2015, the number of women using modern contraceptives is expected to nearly double (Ross and Bulatao, 2001). This dramatic growth is due in part to an increase in the number of women of reproductive age. It also stems from the fact that national family planning programs are doing a better job of both reaching out to women in need of family planning products and removing barriers to family planning services. Demand for condoms is rising even faster as a “dual-use” product, protecting against unwanted pregnancies as well as against sexually transmitted infections (STI), including HIV. New challenges for family planning programs have arisen from their success. In many family planning programs operated by the public sector, resources are falling short of growth in demand for services. At the same time, individuals with unmet need for family planning services are increasingly concentrated among hard-to-reach groups. Moreover, as low-cost public services come to dominate the family planning market, they compete with and crowd out the private sector. This brief explores one potential solution—targeting—to meet these challenges, alleviating barriers to the expansion and use of family planning services. Targeting is a mechanism that directs scarce resources in a planned manner to achieve program goals equitably. Targeting can help remove barriers and improve access for underserved groups, making it possible to turn unmet need1 into contraceptive use while permitting better use of scarce resources and improving equity (see Box 1). This brief also reviews the related concept of vulnerability and provides practical guidelines and approaches to targeting that can be applied in public sector programs as tools for enhancing contraceptive security.2,3 Roots of Untargeted Family Planning Programs In the context of increasing contraceptive use and declining fertility, programs are finding it more difficult to meet the escalating costs associated with rapidly increasing demand for family planning services. Figure 1 shows the growing gap between the expected cost of providing subsidized contraceptives and expected donor financial contributions in 87 donor-recipient countries. Even under the most favorable scenarios of future donor contributions, the financing gap will be large. Filling the gap will be complicated by several related factors. � Demand—Demand for public financing for other health and social services is also increasing, leaving little room for reallocation of resources to family planning. As a result, family planning programs are losing ground among competing health sector priorities (Aloo-Obunga, 2002). POLICY Issues in Planning & Finance • No. 3 Targeting: An Essential Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning This issue of POLICY Issues in Planning and Finance was prepared by Jeffrey Sine with technical inputs from Kokila Agarwal, Harry Cross, Varuni Dayaratna, Karen Foreit, Karen Hardee, Lane Porter, Margaret Rowan, Suneeta Sharma, and Carol Shepherd. The author would like to thank Ruth Levine of the Center for Global Development and Alan Bornbusch, Rose McCullough, Mark Riling, and Elizabeth Schoenecker of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for their careful review and constructive comments. The views expressed in this document, however, do not necessarily reflect those of USAID. The POLICY Project is funded by USAID under Contract No. HRN-00-00-00006-00 and is implemented by the Futures Group International in collaboration with the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI). � Unmet need (nonuse of family planning among women who want to space or limit fertility) � Inequitable distribution of family planning commodities and services (bias toward better-off communities) � Product availability (too large a program for available resources) � Sustainability of family planning commodities and services (donor phaseout or structural adjustment conditions) BOX 1. Targeting can help programs move toward contraceptive security by addressing: 1 A woman who expresses a desire to postpone her next pregnancy for two or more years or who wishes to have no more children but who is not using any contraceptive method to reduce her chances of becoming pregnant is defined as having an unmet need for family planning. 2 Contraceptive security is defined as a condition achieved when every person is able to choose, obtain, and use high-quality contraceptives and other reproductive health supplies whenever she or he needs and wants them. Countries can achieve contraceptive security regardless of the source of financial support for reproductive health programs. The definition of contraceptive security does not imply that reproductive health programs need to be independent of external assistance. 3 A vulnerable group is one that, without special program effort, would not have ready and easy access to contraceptive supplies and services due to some physical, financial, social, or cultural access barrier. � Financing—Public sector finances have deteriorated in many countries, making it difficult to fund any expansion of health and social services. In addition, donor commitments to development in general and to family planning in particular have not kept pace with increases in demand for public sector services. � Entitlements—Gwatkin (2000) notes that the gap between the growing demand for and ability/willingness of governments and donors to fund family planning services is not just the result of changes in service demand and the financing environment. He suggests that the “health for all” movement of the late 1970s and 1980s encouraged many countries to develop free, publicly provided health services for all segments of their populations regardless of the users’ ability to pay. Many national family planning programs continue to reflect the “health for all” approach; yet, political conditions sometimes undermine efforts to adopt an approach more appropriate to a country’s public financing circumstances.4 In addition, past donor policies with respect to supporting national family planning programs have encouraged governments to provide widespread access to free (or heavily subsidized) services and commodities, rewarding public sector programs for any expansion. These programs tended to grow dispropor- tionately in urban and better-off communities, where it was easier (and perhaps less costly) to increase the number of users. Given that public programs lacked policies, regulations, and strategies to differentiate among consumer types and consumers’ ability to pay, it is no surprise that large numbers of non-poor clients chose to obtain their family planning products and services from public sector sources. Such consumer choices have had the effect of stifling private sector growth and, in turn, fostering an attitude of entitlement among public program leaders and their citizenry. The success of untargeted programs in contributing to fertility decline is now colliding with the realities of today’s resource constraints. Without reform, these constraints threaten to prevent countries from progressing toward contraceptive security.5 Any rethinking about the role of government in the provision of family planning services should look at the lessons to be learned from the broader context of poverty reduction. The experience of countries that have adopted targeting approaches in their poverty- alleviation efforts makes it clear that targeting should be extended to the family planning sector (Adams, 1998).6 Consequences of Not Targeting Targeting enhances a country’s prospects for contraceptive security because it expands access to family planning products and services. It directs public resources to those in greatest need by helping to bridge access barriers. Targeting as a mechanism to influence contraceptive security is therefore a subject for discussion within the context of equity (Gwatkin, 2000; Price, 2001; Newbrander et al., 2001). Faced with resource constraints, policymakers must decide what services should be provided to whom, and how best to ensure that those services reach those who will most benefit from them. Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning 3 3% increase in donor financing Past donor financing Projected costs U S$ ( m ill io n s) FIGURE 1. Gap between Expected Costs of Subsidized Contraceptives and Donor Financial Contributions in 87 Donor-Recipient Countries Adapted from Ross and Bulatao, 2001 4 For example, user fees for health services provided in government facilities are sometimes abolished for political reasons. 5 Citing the World Bank, Mills (1998: 33) refers to inefficiencies in public provision of services and calls for a redefinition of the government role from primarily service delivery to financing and empowering the private sector. Such a role redefinition would in effect require public services, whether directly provided or financed through the private sector, to become better targeted. 6 The wisdom of targeting in public sector STI and HIV prevention programs is perhaps more debatable, especially in countries emphasizing the reduction of STI and HIV transmission regardless of social class. However, the intersection of family planning and STI/HIV programs suggests that how STI and HIV prevention programs handle the targeting issue will influence the supply of condoms available to family planning programs, making policy linkages between the programs appropriate. In Kenya, for example, about 80 percent of condoms are used for disease prevention. Only 20 percent are used for contraception (POLICY Project, 2002). 4 Failure to adopt targeting allows a substantial share of public sector subsidies to go to the non-poor while vulnerable groups remain underserved. Figure 2 illustrates distortions in the public sector family planning programs of several developing countries. In some countries, public sector family planning programs tend to benefit the better-off segments of the population more than the poor. In Tanzania, Zambia, and Guatemala, for instance, clients in the lowest two standard-of-living quintiles constitute 40 percent of the total population, yet they consume only 22, 21, and 16 percent, respectively, of public sector family planning services. In a well- targeted program, the poor would be over- represented in the public sector program’s client base. Even in Vietnam and India, countries with better-targeted programs, all income groups are more or less equally represented in public sector programs; the poor are not over-represented. The fact that the poor are, at best, equally represented in many public sector programs reflects a lack of explicit targeting policies, socioeconomic differentials in contraceptive use, and the distribution of public sector infrastructure that favors better-off segments of society. Regardless of the mix of reasons in a given country, the failure to target public resources to those most in need must be overcome if countries are to achieve equitable coverage and contraceptive security. Appropriate targeting is particularly important in donor-dependent countries where donated products form the backbone of public sector programs. Failure to target also has consequences for health outcomes. Programs that do not explicitly designate target groups tend to put in place services and systems that are designed for the largest numbers of users. Given that the largest number of users tends to be better-off, married women, other women may not find services easily accessible. When adolescents are explicitly targeted, for instance, program managers are more likely to pay closer attention to their particular needs as they develop services that are physically and socially accessible to young people. Targeting is also consistent with international conventions such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. As the United Nations (1990) commentary on that covenant noted, “…even in times of severe resource constraints whether caused by a process of adjustment, or economic recession, or other factors, the vulnerable members of society can and indeed must be protected by the adoption of relatively low-cost targeted programmes.” Chapman (2000) writes that “…[t]o be consistent with a human rights approach … funds should be invested to bring about the greatest health benefit for the population. This requires giving priority to public health measures … and governments should accord priority to efforts to rectify existing inequities and imbalances in the distribution of resources in the health sector so as to bring currently underserved and disadvantaged groups up to mainstream levels.” Putting a Targeting Strategy in Place Like most policy-change initiatives, the process of establishing targeting involves several steps. Multiple stakeholders need to participate, political consensus must be reached at several points in the process, development of information based on sound analysis is essential, and advocacy is needed to support every stage of the process. A year or more may be required to complete the process.8 Figure 3 outlines the basic process and its three main steps: defining target groups, selecting targeting approaches, and operational planning. Step 1: Determine Need for Targeting The process of implementing a targeting strategy begins with defining groups that are in special need of subsidized family POLICY Issues in Planning & Finance • No. 3 7 Figure 2 uses an asset-based standard-of-living variable as a proxy for income data sets, which was derived from asset data in Demographic and Health Survey data sets using the Filmer-Pritchett wealth index methodology developed by Davidson, Gwatkin, and Rohini Pande (World Bank). 8 In Turkey, obtaining political consensus, defining target groups, and developing an approach took one year. Operational planning and pilot testing occurred over another year. Scaling-up began in the third year (see POLICY Project, 2001). Upper 40% Middle 20% Poorest 40% GuatemalaZambiaTanzaniaMalawiGhanaIndiaVietnam Pe rc en ta ge Sources: Vietnam DHS 1997, India DHS 1998/9, Ghana DHS 1998, Malawi DHS 2000, Tanzania DHS 1999, Zambia DHS 2001/02, Guatemala DHS 1998 FIGURE 2. Income Groups as a Proportion of Public Sector Family Planning Clients7 planning services. There are both political and technical dimensions to defining target groups. Determining the degree to which target groups are currently underserved is an important aspect of achieving political consensus that a targeting strategy is necessary to address an existing inequity.9 At this early stage, consensus among planners and managers of the national family planning program is generally sufficient. Planners and managers must lead the way in considering targeting options. Other stakeholders can be drawn into the dialogue as planning proceeds. Defining target groups requires consideration of who is vulnerable; that is, who faces physical, social, or financial barriers to needed family planning products and services (Price, 2001). The time required to achieve consensus depends on the degree to which planners and managers encounter resistance to targeting as a strategy for rationing public resources and the extent to which key stakeholders agree or disagree about who is most vulnerable and in need of targeted assistance. Often vulnerability is conceptualized in terms of socioeconomic status. But the concept of vulnerability may also include groups other than the poor, such as ethnic minorities, geographically isolated populations, rural residents, urban slum residents, the uninsured, newly married couples, adolescents and young adults (especially unmarried, sexually active youth), traditional method users, and stigmatized groups such as HIV-positive persons and tuberculosis patients. Box 2 provides country examples of vulnerable groups that have been targeted for special program attention. Analysis of who is served and who is not served in the family planning market is essential in identifying groups around which a targeting strategy may be built. The characteristics and sizes of underserved groups need to be determined. Analysis should also show the extent to which public resources are distributed to groups not considered to be in need of subsidized services (for example, well-off urban residents). Once consensus is achieved as to who is in fact most vulnerable and underserved, planners and managers can undertake more detailed analysis of the social, demographic, and geographic characteristics of those groups before developing a strategy to reduce barriers to family planning services. Many countries lack the public resources to serve all vulnerable groups. They must therefore assign priorities to different groups and include a financial analysis to ensure that resources match program scope. No targeting strategy will be perfect, and some clients who are not members of priority groups will always receive program services. (See below for a discussion on limitations of targeting.) As decisions about who is to benefit from public subsidies are in part political, the broadest possible range of stakeholders, including representatives of vulnerable groups, should participate in the policy dialogue. If the needs of the truly vulnerable are to be reflected in policy decisions, dialogue must be supported by sound analytic information. Step 2: Select an Appropriate Targeting Approach There are two main categories of targeting approaches: characteristic targeting and individual targeting.10 Figure 4 outlines the two types of targeting approaches and the types of access barriers each can address.11 Characteristic targeting. Characteristic targeting approaches (also known as indirect targeting) attempt to deliver public subsidies to groups of individuals with specific, readily observable characteristics Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning 5 Definition of target group(s) Market analysis Definition of “vulnerable” Problem recognition Selection of targeting approach Political consensus Operational planning Pilot testing Scaling-up Monitoring and evaluation FIGURE 3. Process for Targeting Strategy Development 9 As noted in Leighton (2001), “Specific equity goals are rarely explicit” in national policy documents. Remedying the absence of explicit goals may be useful for the sustainability of implementing targeting approaches, but it may not necessarily be a starting point in encouraging countries to adopt better-targeted approaches to family planning service delivery. 10 A third category, provider-based targeting, is much less common (see Cotlear, 2000). The goal of a provider-based targeting is to encourage providers to change practice patterns (as opposed to changing consumer behavior) in such a way as to create better access for clients (Leighton, 2001) 11 See Newbrander et al. (2001) for a typology and descriptions of major targeting approaches. 6 that make them vulnerable to poor access to services. Lower contraceptive prevalence rates, for instance, are often associated with certain social characteristics, such as membership in an ethnic minority group, young age, or marital status as a newlywed. Lower contraceptive prevalence rates are also often associated with geographic characteristics such as rural residence or residence in an urban slum. Given that these characteristics are either directly observable or easy to establish, minimal means-testing is required to determine eligibility for services. Individual targeting. Individual targeting approaches (also known as direct targeting) attempt to deliver subsidies to individuals according to less observable characteristics. Such approaches are appropriate when the access barrier to be addressed is financial, such as poverty and the inability to pay, or when the major determinants of vulnerability are associated with personal choices, such as unwillingness to seek mainstream services. Given that poverty and ability to pay are generally not as readily observable as social and geographic characteristics, more rigorous means- testing is required to determine eligibility.12 Mixed approaches are also possible. For instance, an individual approach (with means-testing) may be implemented in a specific geographic area, or vulnerable groups may be defined on the basis of a particular characteristic (such as young age or membership in an ethnic minority group) with group members means-tested to determine eligibility for subsidized or free services. Box 3 provides examples of targeting approaches used in family planning programs. Discussions about access barriers to family planning and STI and HIV prevention programs and services and what constitutes vulnerability (see Step 1) will help shape decisions about the type of targeting approach to be adopted. If the priority access issue is financial and poverty or inability to pay is generalized rather than concentrated, then an individual approach may prove most reasonable. If access barriers are concentrated among certain social groups or in certain geographic areas, then a characteristic targeting approach may be more appropriate. During the planning stage, planners and managers should consider the relative costs and effectiveness of various targeting POLICY Issues in Planning & Finance • No. 3 12 Depending on the degree of rigor in means-testing, clients may be required to provide public employees with access to personal information. Another challenge to the success of means-testing is, therefore, to create an environment of trust and confidence that the information will be held in confidence. Country Target Groups Romania Students, the unemployed, the poor (Feranil, forthcoming) Turkey Clients unable to pay fees (POLICY Project, 2001) Guinea Chronic disease patients (Newbrander et al., 2001) Peru Residents in “poorest” departments (Cotlear, 2000) Ghana Leprosy and tuberculosis patients (Nyonator, 2002) BOX 2. Examples of target groups in public sector health and family planning programs Access BarriersTargeting Approaches Characteristic (indirect) Targeting Eligibility defined by presence/absence of characteristic Individual (direct) Targeting Requires means-testing Social • ethnicity • caste • age • newly married • postpartum women • HIV-positive status • tuberculosis patient Physical • geographic isolation • rural residence • urban slum residence Financial • poverty • inability to pay fees • unwillingness to pay fees • unemployed FIGURE 4. Targeting Approaches and the Access Barriers They Can Address approaches. If the degree of means- testing required for individual targeting is expected to be administratively or financially infeasible, then a characteristic approach may be preferable. In some situations, even though a characteristic approach would be reasonable from an administrative or financial perspective, it may be politically infeasible to distribute subsidies on the basis of social or geographic characteristics. Ethnic politics, for example, may impede a program’s ability to target one group over another, even when that group is clearly more underserved than other groups. In such a situation, it may be easier to generate support for an individual approach. Step 3: Undertake Operational Planning and Implementation Operational planning, pilot testing, and scaling-up are required to transform the agreed-upon targeting approach into an operational plan. The goal is to ensure that sufficient commodities and services reach places where targeted populations are located and that targeted populations are aware and avail themselves of those services. Targeting often requires reconfiguration of some existing program elements as well as the introduction of new elements. Operational planning is generally the most time-consuming part of the process; it can take a year or more to develop operational plans and to complete a pilot test of those plans. Figure 5 shows the main components of operational planning and implementation for a targeting strategy. Planning logistics and service delivery systems to accommodate expected changes in demand. Targeting is likely to affect the demand for services, increasing it in some places, decreasing it in others. Logistics systems must be modified according to the expected changes. If geographic targeting is to be implemented, for instance, logistics systems will need to be reconfigured to increase the flow of contraceptive commodities to target regions and perhaps reduce the flow to nontarget regions. If young adults are to be targeted, then contraceptives need to be delivered in sufficient quantities to the service delivery sites most frequented by them. Projections are needed to estimate where demand is likely to increase (where concentrations of the target group are expected to be served) and where it is likely to decrease (where those who are not members of the target group are expected to switch to other sources). Defining eligibility criteria and determination mechanisms. Eligibility criteria must be defined and an operational mechanism developed to apply them. For characteristic targeting approaches, setting criteria and defining screening mechanisms are relatively straightforward tasks. For example, a person presenting for services in a geographically defined target region can be deemed eligible for the subsidy without further screening. In the case of targeting based on social characteristics, some characteristics are more easily observed than others such that screening mechanisms need to be tailored Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning 7 Characteristic Targeting Guinea—Chronic disease patients are exempted from paying fees for other health services (Newbrander et al., 2001). Indonesia—All residents in designated “poorest” villages are issued health cards entitling them to free maternal health and family planning services at the nearest health facility (Newbrander et al., 2001). Romania—All students and all rural residents are eligible to receive free contracep- tives on presentation of proper identification (Feranil, forthcoming). Individual Targeting Romania—The poor who are neither students nor rural residents are eligible to receive free contraceptives after completing a means-tested certification process (Feranil, forthcoming). Turkey—Public sector family planning clients are asked if they are willing to make a donation to cover the cost of their commodities. Those who self-declare that they are unable to make the donation receive their contraceptives for free (POLICY Project, 2001). Korea and Costa Rica—Early in their family planning programs, Korea and Costa Rica distributed vouchers to the poor on the basis of means-testing. These vouchers entitled the holder to family planning services at his or her choice of source. The government reimbursed providers for vouchers submitted (Kim et al., 1972; Lemkin, 1972). Mixed Approaches Thailand—Means-testing identifies those who fall below an income threshold (individual targeting) among unmarried couples, single households, children, the elderly, the handicapped, and veterans. Those below the income threshold are eligible for free access to a designated health center (Giedion, 2002). BOX 3. Country approaches to targeting in family planning programs 8 accordingly. For individual targeting approaches, the eligibility determination process is often more difficult. Characteristics—for example, being poor or unable to pay fees—are less easily observable compared with characteristics such as ethnicity, residence, or age. Means- testing is a mechanism to determine eligibility based on formal consideration of information about the client. There is a continuum of possible means-testing mechanisms, all with varying degrees of complexity. The simple forms of means-testing ask for clients’ self-declaration of poverty or inability to pay, as is the case in Turkey, where “donations” from non-poor clients subsidize contraceptives for the poor. More complex means-testing may involve multiple stages of documentation and certification by local community, administrative, and health officials. In Romania, clients must first obtain appropriate certification of poverty or unemployment from the mayor’s office and then present the certification at the health care facility to indicate eligibility for subsidized contraceptives. If an individual cannot provide documents to support eligibility, a local administration official must visit his or her home and community for verification and documentation before issuing the needed certification. In one rural district in Cambodia, poor people are targeted to receive free health services at local health care facilities. Pagoda volunteers and village chiefs determine eligibility for exemption from fees using a list of households considered too poor to pay user fees. The chief monk of the pagoda reviews and verifies the list and then provides a copy to the health facility and a signed letter to each eligible household. On matching the name on the letter (presented by patients at the time of service) against the list of eligible households, health staff exempt the letter bearer from user fees (Jacobs, 2002). Determination of eligibility may be required for each client visit or may be granted for a longer period.Individualized screening may decrease the likelihood that ineligible clients will obtain subsidies (an occurrence termed leakage). However, complex mechanisms are administratively burdensome and costly and may not work. They may also have the unintended effect of deterring some vulnerable individuals from availing themselves of services (Gilson et al., 1995). The appropriate level of complexity must be determined in accordance with the public sector’s desired degree of efficiency and its administrative and financial capacity to implement means-testing properly. Adopting a characteristic targeting approach can reduce the administrative burden of means-testing, particularly when, for example, eligibility is determined by geographic residence or attendance at a particular clinic. Political considerations are also important; some leakage may be politically necessary as a condition of obtaining sustained support for targeting (Ravallion, 1999). Other aspects of operational planning. Additional planning and advocacy are required to ensure that the intended target population is made aware of its eligibility and how to obtain services. In Cambodia, user fees and exemption criteria are set in consultation with catchment-area communities. In addition, decisions need to be made as to where means-testing is to occur (in the health facility, outside, or both) and who will collect and process information for the eligibility determination process (providers, social workers, administrators, and so forth). If user fees are to be collected from nontargeted clients, a process is needed for handling and using the revenue. If target clients are to receive waivers from user fees, funds to compensate providers need to be identified, and a mechanism to process those compensatory payments must be established. An orientation plan needs to be developed for all parties POLICY Issues in Planning & Finance • No. 3 Orient • Facility staff • Administrative officials • Community leaders Plan user fee system (prices, collection process, waivers, revenue management) Plan and implement pilot test Develop and implement scale-up plan Define eligibility criteria Define eligibility determination process Develop plan to inform community Develop monitoring and evaluation plan Policy development: Designate target groups and define approach Modify logistics, training, and service delivery systems Estimate public and private capacity and expected changes in demand FIGURE 5. Operational Planning and Implementation for a Targeting Approach required to participate in implementation of the targeting strategy—from those who will determine client eligibility to those who will be responsible for the management and reporting of user fees. A sound monitoring and evaluation plan should be developed to track performance of the targeting strategy. Information must be collected, analyzed, and linked to program and policy decisions. Shifts in vulnerability, both group and individual, must be monitored after the targeting strategy is in place. Those who are disadvantaged when targeting is introduced may not be the most disadvantaged at a later date. It may be difficult to obtain data on individual or community vulnerability (national surveys, for example, are generally conducted only at four- or five-year intervals). Effective targeting requires periodic review to ensure that the most vulnerable consistently benefit most from scarce public resources. Changing demographic and poverty patterns, migration within countries, changes in public budget environments, and political considerations are just some of the factors that may indicate a need to revise targeting policies. As programs implement targeting strategies, they must take care that groups not targeted for subsidized services also have access to family planning services. Often, these groups are better off financially and can afford to pay for family planning products and services. Identifying alternative, private sources of products and services is important for building political support for targeting. If private sector services are not readily accessible to all nontargeted groups, then the public sector may consider serving a broader clientele by instituting user fees for nontargeted groups.13 Piloting and scaling-up. Piloting and scaling-up (expanding implementation to a national scale) are two other components necessary for implementing a targeting strategy.14 The pilot test permits early identification of trouble spots and provides an opportunity for revision of the operational plan before full-scale implementation. It also provides an early indication of impacts on demand among both current clients and new target groups. After a pilot test, additional planning is required to scale up the strategy to the broader program. Human and financial resource requirements for scaling-up can be substantial. Phasing in the scale-up spreads some of the costs over time; however, defining the sequence of the phasing may involve considerable political dialogue and logistics planning. Measuring Success of Targeting Strategies Targeting is intended to increase equity and promote contraceptive security by improving access to family planning services among disadvantaged groups, including people with unmet need, by channeling public resources to those least able to tap the private sector. However, targeting can miss its mark. Expectations about effectiveness and efficiency of different targeting options should be incorporated into the early planning stages of strategy development. � Effectiveness (Coverage) The extent to which target group members make use of a service is a measure of the service’s effectiveness. Higher participation rates (or coverage) among the target population indicate a more effective strategy. Effectiveness can also be measured in terms of impact on other indicators (see Box 4). � Efficiency (Leakage) The extent to which beneficiaries belong to the target population is a measure of a targeting strategy’s efficiency. With an efficient strategy, few ineligible people obtain benefits; that is, fewer benefits “leak” to ineligible people. The cost per client served is not necessarily a good measure of program efficiency. The cost of reaching more vulnerable populations is often higher than the costs of reaching populations with better physical or social access to services (World Bank, 2002). � Trade-Off between Coverage and Efficiency Often, there is a trade-off between effectiveness in reaching a target population and efficiency in limiting subsidies to those who need them. Lenient criteria may reduce the administrative and financial burdens of implementing a targeting strategy and increase the proportion of individuals in the target population Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning 9 � Decreased differentials in contraceptive prevalence or STI, including HIV infection � Increased contraceptive or condom use among defined target groups � Decreased unmet need in target group populations � Decrease in reports of problems with access among target group members � Decreased differentials in unwanted/unintended pregnancies Source: Price, 2001 BOX 4. Indicators of an effective targeting strategy 13 This paper focuses on how to target public resources to vulnerable populations. Another important issue is how to ensure that adequate alternatives are available to serve the needs of better-off populations not included in the public sector’s designated target groups. That issue, however, is beyond the scope of this paper. 14 An example of piloting a targeting strategy in Turkey is provided in POLICY Project (2001). 10 who avail themselves of program services. At the same time, lenient criteria reduce efficiency. Characteristic targeting approaches, whereby eligibility is based on social group membership or residence, may permit subsidies for target group members who are not disadvantaged and do not face access barriers. For instance, not all rural residents are poor and unable to access services; yet, all would be eligible for services under a targeting strategy based on area of residence. The desired balance between coverage and efficiency is therefore a matter of political judgment. While individual targeting may be more precise (efficient) in ensuring that the truly disadvantaged receive subsidies, it tends to be more costly. Carefully specifying criteria for determining disadvantaged status, implementing an accurate process for assessing those criteria, and ensuring objective eligibility decisions all translate into higher costs. Yet, simpler means-testing or poor implementation leads to lower efficiency. In some places, ineligible persons such as civil servants or relatives of personnel who determine eligibility may be unfairly granted access to the target service (Gwatkin, 2000). Individual targeting approaches can also be prone to low effectiveness if target population members find the eligibility determination process daunting. In summary, in the absence of an ideal targeting approach, decisions about which targeting strategy is most appropriate depends on whether a program is more committed to ensuring that as many eligible people as possible receive services or that as few noneligible persons as possible gain access to services. Table 1 summarizes the possible effectiveness and efficiency combinations of targeting approaches. Why Don’t More Family Planning Programs Use Targeting? Targeting, which is one policy option for rationing scarce resources, would seem to be a sensible approach to contraceptive security in a world that foresees a major gap between the demand for publicly financed family planning services and the resources available to meet that demand. A number of factors may explain why targeting is not used as extensively as it could be in national family planning programs. First and foremost, the concept of targeting is sometimes viewed as out of step with the ideology of “health for all” that evolved in the late 1970s, when that idea was interpreted as free public services for all. Family planning programs of that era emphasized an overall increase in contraceptive use with less regard for equity, thus fostering a sense of entitlement to heavily subsidized family planning services. More than two decades later, many country programs have evolved to a point where contraceptive prevalence is relatively high, particularly among the better-off segments of society, but the sense of entitlement to public subsidies persists. If entrenched programs are to serve disadvantaged groups more fully, they must reorient themselves by overcoming political resistance and achieving consensus on target groups and approaches. It is more difficult to withdraw benefits from groups that can influence public policy (such as urban, high-income groups) than to offer new benefits to a disenfranchised group. Yet, this is precisely what targeting requires if a program lacks the resources to serve everyone. There is also legitimate concern that private sector alternatives may not be adequate to serve better-off clients who would need to seek services elsewhere. POLICY Issues in Planning & Finance • No. 3 Lo w H ig h High Low Effectiveness (Coverage) E ff ic ie nc y (L ea ka ge ) � High proportion of target population participates � Few nontarget population clients benefit (Characteristic approaches in areas with high concentrations of target group members or well-designed and implemented individual approaches) � High proportion of target population participates � Many nontarget population clients benefit (Characteristic approaches in areas of low concentrations of target group members or individual approaches with lenient means-testing) � Low proportion of target population participates � Few nontarget population clients benefit (Individual approaches with stringent and well-administered means-testing but poor outreach to target groups) � Low proportion of target population participates � Many nontarget population clients benefit (Individual approaches with lenient and poorly administered means-testing and poor outreach to target groups) TABLE 1. Efficiency and effectiveness of targeting strategies Accordingly, viable alternatives must be in place to prevent the creation of a newly disenfranchised group. Clearly, the public sector bears some responsibility for creating a policy environment conducive to private sector growth in the family planning market. In addition, targeting may require major changes in the way complex family planning systems are organized and operated. Some health care facilities may need to be closed, others reduced in scale, and still others opened or expanded, with staff and commodities redeployed as appropriate. In addition, provider retraining may be needed to reduce social access barriers, such as biases against providing services to unmarried adults and newly married couples, and to improve the quality of communication with poor and less educated clients. Furthermore, for political as well as administrative reasons, instituting targeting in family planning programs may be more difficult in the absence of targeting for other health services. Some national family planning programs already include elements of targeting (Gilson et al., 1995), but they may not be using those elements effectively. As noted earlier (see Figure 2), in some programs, better-off clients account for a substantial proportion of the public sector program’s clientele. In these programs, fees may be in place for cost recovery purposes and not as part of a targeting scheme to improve equity. If so, waivers can help minimize the impact of fees on the poor. It may also be that poorly targeted programs are a consequence of poorly planned or poorly implemented targeting strategies. Targeting is not relevant only to mature family planning programs; it can also be an effective tool for countries with low contraceptive prevalence rates. Improved targeting at early stages of program development can help avoid some of the more difficult aspects of reorienting programs as they grow larger and more complex. Conclusions As with all policy processes, targeting requires considerable effort. Empirically based planning needs to occur in parallel with efforts to build consensus, turn resistance into support for targeting, and find common ground regarding who should benefit from targeting. Despite these challenges, maintaining progress toward contraceptive security requires countries to find ways to ensure that access for the most vulnerable clients is improved, even when resources do not grow as fast as overall demand for family planning services. While a well-targeted public sector program can help ensure that resources are directed to those most in need, public sector resources alone will not be sufficient to meet the fast-growing demand for family planning services, even in better-off, middle-income countries. The private sector, both the commercial and nongovernmental segments, needs to be encouraged and supported to increase its participation. How to encourage greater private sector involvement in delivery of family planning services is, of course, a complex issue of its own. One important way to promote private sector growth is to demonstrate a client base that can pay for family planning products and services and, through targeting policies, convince the private sector that the public sector will tailor its programs and services to those less able to pay. However, targeting alone will not produce a more active private sector; it must be part of a broader package of public sector interventions that create a business environment conducive to private sector involvement. Depending on the country and the context, interventions may include reexamining policies on pricing, advertising, distribution, service provision, and import taxes. Despite the challenges associated with targeting, public sector programs in poor as well as in middle-income countries must protect the most vulnerable groups in their populations. Trends in donor financing clearly show that governments in all but the poorest countries will not be able to rely on external funding to finance future growth of public sector programs. The non-poor currently consume significant proportions of public sector family planning services while unmet need is increasingly concentrated among the poor. Failure to implement more targeted approaches to public sector service delivery could mean that vulnerable groups will become increasingly marginalized as resources become scarcer and that growth in contraceptive prevalence will stagnate. When well planned and properly implemented, targeting is a practical approach that can move a country substantially closer to contraceptive security. � Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning 11 12 POLICY Issues in Planning & Finance • No. 3 For more information, please contact: Director, POLICY Project Futures Group International 1050 17th Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036 Tel: (202) 775-9680 Fax: (202 775-9694 E-mail: email@example.com Internet: www.policyproject.com www.futuresgroup.com References Adams, John. 1998. “Structural Adjustment, Safety Nets, and Destitution.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 46(2): 403-420. Aloo-Obunga, Colette. 2002. “Country Analysis of Family Planning and HIV/AIDS: Kenya.” Unpublished paper. Washington, D.C.: POLICY Project. Chapman, Audrey R. 2000. “Indicators and Standards for Monitoring the Right to Health.” Unpublished paper. 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The move to Hong Kong was so long ago that the Ngs can’t remember exactly when they arrived in Tai O, a remote and picturesque fishing village on the west of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island.
They have worked side by side throughout, largely unmoved by decades of political change, including campaigns that have at times spilled over into the territory from the Chinese mainland.
Many in Hong Kong fear that communist-ruled China will exert more and more control over semi-autonomous Hong Kong, contrary to Beijing’s promises to respect Hong Kong’s civil liberties and its semi-autonomous status for 50 years. after Britain ceded the city to China 25 years ago on July 1, 1997.
But Ng Koon-yau agrees with Beijing being in charge.
“Hong Kong is part of China, and I never thought of moving anywhere else,” he said. “I hope China will make Hong Kong a better place where everyone can thrive. For us at Tai O, we wouldn’t think of moving to live elsewhere.
Tai O’s houses, perched on stilts above its small harbour, are a picturesque remnant of Hong Kong’s skyscraper-studded past. Hundreds of years ago, before the arrival of British settlers in the mid-1800s, fishing was a way of life here and in other villages in the Pearl River Delta region.
But small-scale coastal fishing is a dying industry in Hong Kong.
The Ng used to sail the seas in a large ship, catching thousands of fish a day. Now they only keep a small boat and carry small catches.
“Now there are fewer and fewer fish to catch. The waters in the Pearl River Delta and around Guangdong are so polluted that there are fewer fish,” said Ng Koon-yau.
Young Hong Kongers are moving on.
“In the 1960s, there were over 10,000 people living here, but the population gradually declined as young people moved to town to work,” Ng said.
“My sons have gone to work in the city. Now it’s just us old people and only 2,000 to 3,000 live here,” he said.
Tourism is now an important activity for the remaining residents of Tai O, selling snacks made from dried fish and shrimp sauce to visitors and operating tourist boats. One of the attractions is spotting a pink dolphin. Diminishing like the villagers of Tai O, some of the special dolphins are still present, sometimes breaking the surface of the sea in sight of the city’s skyscrapers. | <urn:uuid:70211487-bb87-40bb-aa4a-6c4f00636ed2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nagsheadpickhill.co.uk/hong-kong-fishermen-keep-their-old-ways-25-years-after-the-handover/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958703 | 553 | 2.65625 | 3 |
CT Summer at the Museum Free Admission for Kids
The intent is to provide children and families with engaging summer enrichment and learning experiences this year following the pandemic. From July 1 to September 4, 2022, all Connecticut children age 18 and under – plus one accompanying adult – will receive free admission to any of the participating museums, including historic house museums, historic sites, historical societies, art museums, children’s museums, science centers, special-interest museums, natural history museums, university museums, arboretums/botanical gardens, and zoos.
Some of the participants include the Connecticut Science Center, Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Mystic Aquarium, and Mystic Seaport Museum, among many others.
The full list of participating museums is available at www.CTSummerMuseums.com.
“This program provides a unique opportunity for children to take advantage of the world-class museums and attractions offered in Connecticut, while having both a fun and educational experience,” Governor Lamont said. “Museums are centers of exploration, recreation, and learning, and will play an important role in helping provide social-emotional, mental health, and educational growth opportunities that were limited during the pandemic. It is my hope that families take advantage of this unique opportunity happening in Connecticut this summer.”
The Connecticut Summer at the Museum program is funded through a $15 million investment from the federal COVID-19 recovery funding Connecticut is receiving from the American Rescue Plan Act. It is being administered by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts in partnership with Connecticut Humanities, and supported with an advertising campaign lead by the Office of Tourism. | <urn:uuid:beed4dd7-46b9-41be-917b-38cbab7712a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kidtivity.com/ct-summer-at-the-museum-free-admission-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941509 | 357 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Glad Products Company believes that communities are built around human connections and giving back to those around you. They also believe that by sharing stories of what people are doing everyday to help their communities, inspires others to get involved.
Recognizing the role their products played in in-kind giving around the country, The Glad Products Company sought out to use their platform and share of voice to help encourage acts of kindness and demonstrate how one act of giving can inspire another through an integrated marketing campaign, Glad to Give. Primary campaign goals included:
On the cusp of the holiday season and largest time for giving, The Glad Products Company launched the second year of its Glad to Give campaign. For this next go round, the brand not only wanted to make giving easier but also celebrate the people who would "give the shirt off their backs" – ultimately working towards motivating the brand audience to take part in the Glad to Give movement. Through media placements, celebrities and online Influencers alike, the brand put together a campaign of arresting imagery and real stories that show real people giving back in a big way.
Glad enlisted the help of famous celebrity philanthropists including: actor Tyrese Gibson, lifestyle expert Ayesha Curry, champion boxer Andre Ward and viral online sensation Kid President to tell a personal story of giving. Stories were brought to life through a video and imagery content series launched across social via celebrity Twitter, Facebook and Instagram handles along with GLAD Facebook carousel adds. Images and video showcased each philanthropist giving the shirt off their back, food off their plate or socks off their feet to inspire their followers and communities to give back.
In addition to celebs, the team partnered with online influencers and social stars to turn emotion into action by leveraging their social impact to start an online movement using hashtag #GladtoGive. Through authentic and engaging storytelling, content creators shared the many ways they give back to those in need via blog post and supporting social media shares via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest starting a social rally and prompting their audience to share what they're #GladtoGive. Glad users across the country shared personal giving stories or nominated someone they believed to be particularly generous using hashtag #GladtoGive on Twitter and GLAD's Facebook page for the chance to be featured on GladtoGive.com.
The real story submission of Chucky Williams, a twelve-year-old who took his personal heartache and turned it into helpfulness quickly caught Glad's eye. After losing his father, Chucky was determined to honor his memory by donating toys to sick children. He set a goal to collect a storage unit full of toys to donate to his local children's hospital for the holidays. To his surprise, the Glad team matched Chucky's efforts and filled a semi-truck-sized storage unit with toys to donate on his behalf. Chucky's story was captured on video and featured on GLAD's Facebook page and GladtoGive.com for all to see.
In addition to the content series, the Glad brand asked their users to put their money where their mouth is in support of a retail activation in partnership with WE Charity, an international charity and education partner helping communities to rise above poverty, and create awareness for hunger across the globe. For each Glad product purchased in the month of January, Glad made a donation to WE equalling one meal. This allowed the brand to get people sharing and caring through the holiday season and beyond.
To date, the Glad to Give campaign has garnered over 189.7MM impressions, shattering our original goal of 100M impressions through 47 media placements in outlets like People Magazine, The Huffington Post, PR Week and the East Bay Times.
Celeb giving stories, Chucky's real story and the campaign anthem video have generated over 2.4M views.
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Juana Maria de los Dolores de Léon Smith was born 27th March 1798 into a noble Spanish family. Her great-grandfather was Juan Ponce de Léon, who was the first to explore Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth.
At the age of 14, in 1812, Juana and her sister were orphaned during the Peninsular War when British troops besieged her native town in the final Siege of Badajoz. British officers, encamped outside the walls of the city, gave the sisters protection from the sacking and looting that followed the successful assault. One of them was Capt. Harry Smith, of the 95th Rifles Regiment, who married her a few days later and eventually became Brigadier-General Sir Harry Smith.
Rather than going to live with her new husband’s family, she chose to accompany him during the rest of the war. She travelled with the luggage train, sleeping on the battlefield, walking beside the troops and sharing the deprivations of the campaign. The soldiers idolised her for her beauty, courage, amiable character and good judgment. She was admired by the officers including the Duke of Wellington, who knew her well.
With the exception of the Anglo-American War of 1812, Juana accompanied her husband to all his postings, the most noteworthy of which was South Africa where Sir Harry served as Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony.
The Governor enjoyed bacon with his breakfast but Juana Smith preferred cantaloupe. The Afrikaans chefs jokingly referred to the melon they served her as Spanish bacon or, in Afrikaans, Spaanse spek. Cantaloupe is known to this day in South Africa as spanspek.
In December 1848, the British Parliament granted Juana Smith a pension of £ 500 in recognition of her husband’s service to the country.
After Sir Harry’s death, Juana Smith was granted the title Lady Smith in her own right. The towns of Ladysmith and Ladismith in South Africa and Ladysmith in Canada were named after her. She died 12 October 1872. Sir Harry and Lady Smith are buried in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
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Youth COVID-19 Messaging Grants are intended to support youth-led projects for middle and high school students that meet the following GOALS:
1. Increase awareness that COVID-19 is an extremely contagious virus that people can give to other people -- even if they don’t have symptoms.
2. Increase community awareness of the need to flatten the curve (slow the rate at which people get the virus).
3. Help connect people to resources in the community.
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Having a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit is an incredibly difficult time. Here are 15 practical tips to support someone with a premature baby
My daughter had twin boys, George and Arthur, two months ago at 30 weeks (she still hasn’t even reached her due date!). All are thankfully well and thriving now. And they are all home together.
The care they received in Holles Street as public patients was off the charts. There was not a single thing we could fault in any way, little or large. The whole family was treated with utmost sensitivity and expertise.
Still, the first few days and weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as you familiarise yourselves with a world you never knew existed and learn its whole new emotional and verbal vocabulary, are terrifying.
You run on adrenalin. Even if you want desperately to help in some tangible way, your options are painfully limited both as a parent and as a relative.
Thankfully, gradually, you learn to navigate the situation.
I can only imagine what it must be like for a new mother, already on a hormonal rollercoaster – even though I saw my own daughter go through it first-hand. My heart often broke for her and her husband, but still I can’t begin to fathom what it’s really like to go home empty-handed or to have your milk come in but not be able to hold your baby let alone feed them.
Or to not be able to have your siblings meet your babies.
Or to try and juggle commuting back and forth for feeds with looking after yourself – not pampering, just the basics: eating relatively healthily, tending to stitches, drinking enough water, stealing some sleep.
Happily, if we on the periphery listen and concentrate on logistics, there are some things we can do to make things a little easier for the new family while they are in the NICU. There are even things you can do to help with breastfeeding, which is a top priority for preemies – it is literally liquid gold.
In the hope that this by no means definitive list might help, here’s what worked for us.
1. Morning routine
Whenever possible, help parents get to the hospital first thing in the morning for doctors’ rounds as information is more readily accessible then. There will be ups and downs in every NICU journey and there will be great comfort in being able to discuss things with staff.
2. Parents first
Bear in mind that it can be an extra strain on new parents to accommodate grandparents for visiting hours, which are limited to two evening hours at the end of a long day – always be prepared to ditch your visit if parents seem to need to get home for some rest themselves. Only one grandparent per baby is allowed in at a time and no other visitors are permitted.
3. Cot sheets
Gather up muslins and cot sheets – borrow or buy – as the hospital will expect the family to provide them. Wash them and afterwards, give them to parents so they can sleep with them before bringing them into hospital for the babies to smell in their incubators.
Bed linen also affords an opportunity to personalise the babies’ space which is a real boost.
4. Admin duties
Take over some of the birth admin – registering the birth, applying for PPS numbers, passports, etc.
5. Breast pump
If you can afford to rent a hospital grade milk pump, organise this as soon as you can and set it up for the new mother. The hospital will know the nearest supplier.
6. Cooler bag
Pretty immediately, parents will need a simple, compact over the shoulder cooler bag and ice inserts for transporting milk. Amazon and Lidl have excellent ones for about a tenner.
7. Pumping bra
Order proper pumping bras to hold breast pump suction cups tightly in place. They put less strain on nipples, speed things up and will allow a new mother some invaluable handsfree time. Alternatively, cut a small hole out of the centre of each cup in an old, tight fitting sports bra – the pump suction cup goes inside the bra and the tube comes out the new hole.
8. Zipper bags
Buy plastic zipper bags in bulk – a near infinite supply for transporting sterilised equipment and clean laundry is a must.
9. Free now
Provide open-ended lifts wherever possible – dropping off is preferable to waiting around, which puts time pressure on parents.
10. Parking fees
The cost of parking can be a huge strain. Call the county council and explain the situation – you may be able to negotiate a break from parking fees.
11. Batch cook
Batch cook to beat the band and when people ask you what they can do, ask for food. You can guarantee that new parents will be too tired to make meals when they get home from hospital every day.
12. Tiny clothes
When the babies are finally ready for clothing, it can be surprisingly hard to find very tiny things. M&S, Primark and Dunnes do some sweet miniature onesies and Danish brand Konges Sloejd has the most delicious tiny wraparounds, but there is often very limited selection in shops so buying ahead online can make sense.
If possible look for ones with Velcro closures – they make access to tubes easier for medical staff. Hats aren’t as vital as you might have thought; they can be difficult to manage with equipment and temperatures are strictly controlled in the units anyway.
13. Home time
Anticipate what will be needed on discharge and have it ready – car seat inserts for small babies, hand sanitiser, sterilisers etc. Holles St is a big fan of Tesco bottles and Bella Baby Happy Nappies Size 0 (available on Amazon sporadically). Stock up.
14. Vaccinate yourself
Organise vaccinations for anyone who will be spending a lot of time with the babies. Whooping cough, flu and shingles vaccines are recommended.
15. Manage expectations
Once they are back home, help parents limit home visitors until the babies are full term. They may be home for a few weeks before it’s safe to expose them to loads of new people. It can be hard to keep people away, but if you can help manage expectations there will be less pressure on the new family to do so.
We also found it tough logistically when one twin was still in hospital and the other was out, as is so often the case with multiple births. Try to be flexible about minding the one at home because parents are not allowed to bring them back on the ward during visits.
Read more: Things to know before you leave the hospital with baby
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Vladimir Putin enacted more than 100 new laws today. Here are the ones you need to know.
The integrated ‘foreign agents’ law
The Russian authorities can now designate anyone they consider under “foreign influence” a “foreign agent” — even without evidence of the receipt of foreign funding. In addition, those blacklisted as “foreign agents” are now banned from teaching at state and municipal schools, receiving government financial support for creative projects, and selling goods and services to the state. What constitutes “foreign influence” remains unclear.
Expanded felony liability for war-related crimes
Defecting to the enemy’s side in any armed conflict is now considered on par with treason and carries punishments ranging from 12 to 20 years in a prison colony. Any Russian citizen or resident who participates in armed actions against Russian interests abroad can also face up to 20 years behind bars. Secretly cooperating with foreign intelligence agencies now carries punishments ranging from three to eight years in prison.
‘Special economic measures’
The Russian government now has the right to implement special economic measures during “counter-terrorism and other operations” abroad (such as the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which the Kremlin formally calls a “special military operation”). Such measures include, for example, directly managing manpower in certain organizations — meaning the government can make company employees work overtime, as well as nights and weekends. The government can also prohibit companies from refusing to enter into state procurement contracts, including defense procurement and acquisition agreements.
Veteran status for civilians
Civilians involved in the Kremlin’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine will now qualify for veteran status and social security benefits. This includes maintenance workers, doctors, and other specialists assisting the army, as well as defense correspondents covering the hostilities. A one-day “business trip” to Ukraine is now all it takes to qualify for veteran status.
Turnover penalties for ‘landing law’ non-compliance
Foreign tech giants that fail to comply with Russia’s “landing law,” which requires major IT companies to establish full-fledged representative offices in Russia, can now face fines equivalent to up to 10 percent of their total Russian revenue — or up to 20 percent for repeat violations. Until now, companies that failed to comply with the “landing law” risked being banned from advertising in Russia, as well as having their web traffic throttled or their websites blocked. All of these measures remain in place.
Classifying Russia’s reserves
How big are Russia’s gold and foreign currency reserves? The answer to this question is now considered a state secret. This particular bill was adopted to make it harder for the international community to impose further sanctions: since the start of the February invasion, the European Union and the United States have frozen roughly $300 billion of Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves. As of July 8, the Russian Central Bank valued the country’s FX reserves at more than $572 billion.
Countering ‘discrimination’ against Russian media
Russia’s attorney general can now ban foreign news media in response to “hostile” actions taken against Russian media outlets abroad. The new law also allows the attorney general to revoke any outlet’s media license for disseminating “publicly significant information” deemed illegal or dangerous, or information “expressing clear disrespect for the state.” First time offenders may face a three-month suspension rather than losing their media licenses right away. Journalists will also be held liable for republishing information that “discredits the use of the Russian army” or contains calls for street protests.
Putin’s ‘new Pioneers’
Vladimir Putin has signed off on the creation of a new, nationwide children’s and youth movement modeled on the Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers organization. The movement, called The Great Change (Bolshaya Peremena, in Russian), will be under the president’s personal control. Participation is supposed to be voluntary.
Upping punishments for torture
Coercing someone to testify and abuse of power involving the use of torture are now considered especially grave crimes with maximum punishments of up to 12 years in prison. Or, in the event of the victim’s death, up to 15 years in prison. The new law also introduces the legal concept of “intimidation.” At the same time, it drew criticism from human rights activists for failing to add a separate article on torture to the Russian Criminal Code.
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Each new season brings change. Seasonal change on land is something that we’re familiar with and adjust to regularly. But what happens to billions of plankton in the ocean each season? How do they adjust to changing sunlight patterns and mixing of the water column? And what impact do these tiny critters have on us, so far away on land?
To answer those questions and others, NASA’s North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) mission began its fourth and final deployment, making it the first research mission to conduct an integrated study of all four distinct phases of the world’s largest phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic and how they impact the atmosphere.
“Most scientists studying the bloom head to sea during its climax in late spring and early summer. We did that, but we also went out during the other seasons to fully capture the minimum and transitions of the bloom.” said NAAMES Deputy Project Scientist Rich Moore.
“This thoroughness pays off as our ship-based scientists use these data to fully describe the entirety of the plankton bust/boom cycle,” he said. “No one has done this before, and we’re excited about the science findings that are beginning to trickle out now.”
NAAMES research challenges traditional ideas about bloom dynamics and species succession. Findings from three deployments have already confirmed a distinct shift in the annual cycle of the phytoplankton bloom and researchers have noted a clear lack of larger-sized plankton during the peak of the bloom. The implication of these findings will be presented in a series of journal publications over the coming year.
During previous NAAMES deployments, researchers completed 220 research hours aboard an instrumented C-130 aircraft along specific tracks and maneuvers over the North Atlantic, including fly overs of the Woods Hole Oceanic Institute’s (WHOI) Research Vessel Atlantis, which carries more than 50 researchers and crew members.
The ongoing ship deployment is currently collecting observations of ocean biological composition and stocks, aerosol measurements and optical properties of the North Atlantic study area.
Satellites such as CALIPSO, a joint NASA and CNES mission, also help to study the ocean and the atmosphere – from the depths of the phytoplankton bloom, to the clouds and atmospheric particles in the sky above.
This final NAAMES study researches the “ascending transition” of the bloom, which occurs after the phytoplankton minimum in February. In the March-April phase, the plankton are growing steadily, with their abundance in the water continuing to increase or accumulate toward the maximum of the bloom between May and July.
This final NAAMES campaign provides a unique opportunity for researchers aboard Atlantis to do experiments that study growth and decay of the phytoplankton population.
“For scientists watching the rates of growth, this is the exciting time, because the accumulation rate is expected to be going through the roof and stay high for the next few months,” Moore said. Rates of phytoplankton accumulation are critical for understanding the ocean conditions that lead to phytoplankton growth and its timing, a key to unlocking the environmental drivers and controls of biological dynamics.
Because scientists are also interested in the link between the ocean, atmospheric particles and clouds, they’ve conducted meteorological balloon launches from the ship on a regular basis to capture information relevant to cloud formation processes.
By combining global data from NASA satellites with the ship, aircraft, and autonomous assets such as floats, along with laboratory research and balloon data, scientists are able to not only understand the current state of the atmosphere, but also how it is evolving over time.
“At this point in the study, we’re using the logistical lessons learned from the first three deployments to execute what is needed to fill in the last piece of the science puzzle about what drives the accumulation phase for phytoplankton growth,” Moore said. “Then the real fun starts,” he said, referring to the ongoing analyses of the data and publication of findings in scientific journals. | <urn:uuid:4542a0f3-67cc-4189-88f1-3a21653cf8c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-believe-tiny-sea-creatures-hold-secrets-to-earths-climate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932751 | 860 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Hardly any declaration of war against Russian culture
Dostojevsky, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Pushkin, Nabokov, Turgenev, icons of Russian literature, breathing the soul of mother Russia, the depth of heavy historical burdens and despair, touched by nostalgia for Holy, Imperial Russia and cruelty of dictators like Stalin, the national conscience and pride wounded by invasions of Nazi Germany and Napoleon. Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, revelations of sensuality and musical power, anchored in history, for now, and eternal, music sheets blowing like flags, craving for grandeur.
Now, all this culture is threatened to be erased, burned like books in Hitler’s early days, menaced by evil forces, heirs of fascist hordes which follow Hitler’s traces. Vladimir Putin, the self-righteous President, set the tone when he ordered leading cultural figures to join him in the Kremlin some weeks ago. He forced them to listen to yet another reason, why he has to unleash cruise missiles and turn brotherly Ukraine into dust- Russia is engaged in a cultural war against the West.
“Today, they try to cancel a thousand years old country”. He said without blinking an eye. (“Aljazeera”, March, 25, 2022) Russian composers were excluded from concerts in the nasty West, and books by Russian authors were banned. “The proverbial “cancel culture” has become a cancellation of culture. , He insisted the President who tries to play the piano at times. “The last time such a mass campaign to destroy unwanted literature was carried out was by the Nazis in Germany almost 90 years ago…books were burned right on the squares. ” Ajazeera, march 25, 2022)”.
The refusal to read a Russian author, or listen to Rubinstein on the piano, is the reaction of a few, irritated, angered by Russian war crimes. There is not, there should not be any comparison: Germany considered communist, Jewish, socialist, pacifist, anarchist authors, and even sexologists as “Volksverraeter”, traitors of the Reich. Their books were burned and the works of some of the greatest minds of history, Albert Einstein Karl Marx. Those who could not escape in the 1930s, ended like books, without pity or remorse.
Jewish music teachers were driven out of their profession, Jewish singers and conductors escaped to the US or Cuba. “I am talking about the progressive discrimination against everything connected with Russia,” Putin complained, “about this trend that is unfolding in a number of Western states, with the full connivance and sometimes with the encouragement of Western elites.” In his younger years, Mr. Putin worked as a KGB spy. He knows perfectly well that no one in the US or Europe has been imprisoned for being a devoted follower of Tchaikovski, applauding the dancers of the Kirov Ballet . Or reading Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment or Doktor Zhivago.
Since Putin decided to defeat and conquer Ukraine, no books of Tolstoi or Dostoevsky were burned on the Place Dauphine in Paris, in Hyde Park of London, or under the Brandenburg Gate of Berlin, only in Putin’s imagination. Yes, musicians of Cardiff’s Philharmonic Orchestra did not feel of embracing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture- a celebration of Russia’ s fight against Napoleon’ s invasion including a volley of cannon fire;- for the musicians a piece of inappropriate music in the days Ukraine is struggling for survival (“London Evening Standard” March, 11, 2022).
The orchestra's title, “Little Russian”, of Symphony No 2, deemed offensive to Ukrainians. The Cardiff Philharmonic will play, as programmed for the rest of the year, works by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, famous Russian composers. . Though de temps en temps basic humanity takes precedent over art and history, it must be acceptable. Spain’s Teatro Real canceled performances by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, which did promise Putin to stage performances in support of Russia’s “military operation” in Ukraine, with the profit given to the families of Russian war deaths.
The National Gallery in London renamed Degas’ “Russian dancers “ to “Ukrainian dancers” once experts did determine that the depicted dancers were wearing Ukrainian traditional folk dresses . Hardly any declaration of war against Russian culture. Nevertheless, Putin, reported the” New York Times”(March 30, 2022) “ lashed out at Western leaders for what he described as a campaign to cancel Russian culture and history, saying that composers like Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov were being removed from programs, even though the vast majority of orchestras and opera houses in the West have continued to prominently feature Russian works and artists. That night, after Putin s fake news cascade, noted the “New York Times”, the New York Metropolitan Opera opened a revival of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”, featuring Russian, Ukrainian, American , French Armenien, Polish and Estonian artists.”
Yes, admitted: two icons of opera music, two Russians, two allies of Putin, more or less, have been punished for their collaboration with the Russian leader, conductor Valery Gergiev, and Anna Netrebko, a world star, a diva, based in Austria, and over decades the most admired soprano at New York’s Met.
For years the conductor Valery Gergiev,Russia’s most powerful musician, “avidly embraced Vladimir Putin, and suffered nothing for it”, wrote Alex Ross in the “New Yorker”.(March 3, 2022) He endorsed the annexation of the Crimea, admired Putin’s capacity to instill fear, and was ready to promote the greatness of his friend, whom he met in the early 1990s when Putin was still an official in St Petersburg, and Mr. Gergiev began his tenure as the leader of the “Marinsky”, then known as Kirov. The Maestro was in demand, conducting in Salzburg, Bayreuth, and from 2007 to 2015, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
“ This senseless war of aggression”
Gergiev was removed from his job as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, which he led for seven years, when he refused, as demanded by the local mayor, the financier of the state institution, to denounce Putin and his invasion ”New York Times” (March, 1, 2022). Anna Netrebko, married to a Russian tenor, also declined to denounce the Russian PPresident for his dramatic, and brutal invasion. The Metropolitan Opera decided to replace the diva in her role in “Turandot” with a Ukrainian soprano, Lindmyla Monastyrsko, and cancel Netrebko’s season in New York.
Other opera houses, Munich, Zurich, scrapped upcoming appearances of the Russian diva as well. The singer supported Putin publicly in elections, and she was photographed with a flag used by Ukraine separatists in Ukraine. Days later, many performances were canceled, and the singer again explained her position:”
I have said I am opposed to this senseless war of aggression, and I am calling on Russia to end this war right now, to save all of us. We need peace right now.”Again, no critical word on Putin, whom she hardly ever met, the soprano insisted(“New York Times”, March 30, 2022). The general manager of the Met Peter Gelb, was not impressed:” The Met stands by its position that artists who support Putinare not going to be allowed to perform at the Met. “Asked about Mrs Netrebko suddenly opposing the war:” In the case of somebody ,who is so closely associated with Putin, denouncing the war is not enough”. Before the Met performed Verdi’s “Don Carlos”, the orchestra played the Ukrainian National Anthem.Gelb: “We are cancelling Putin, not Pushkin.”
At the end of last year , Vladimir Putin toured the Moscow “GES-2” Museum alongside Leonid Mikhelson ,one of the nation's wealthiest business men, who financed the multimillion-dollar, Renzo Piano construction. Now the walls are empty, the space designed for greatness, competition with the London based Tate Modern lost in silence. ”It is not the time for contemporary art when people are dying, and blood is spilling”, explained Russian artist Evgeny Antufiev his decision to withdraw from an exhibition shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, “we can ‘t pretend that life is normal.”(“Guardian”, April 17, 2022
)We need to end this illusion that things will get back to how they were before the war. Drinking cocktails at art openings as people are being killed, feels criminal.”The manager of GES- 2, Francesco Monacorda, resigned after the war started:” I imagine that (exhibiting anti-war work)is out of the question. , -Making an anti-war statement has legal consequences- a jail term of up to 15 years for spreading “fake news” about the military in Ukraine. | <urn:uuid:67f14f10-b267-4c03-8288-1b7dc1438869> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.policycenter.ma/publications/ukrainian-art-another-damage-war-part-ii | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951208 | 2,034 | 2.453125 | 2 |
You may have heard of a Chamber of Commerce, but do you know what they do? The Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives defines a Chamber of Commerce as “an organization of businesses seeking to further their collective interests, while advancing their community, region, state or nation.” With nearly 4,000 Chambers of Commerce located within the United States, it’s easy to find one that would be relevant to your business. They are a great resource of information on a wide range of topics, including exporting.
The Basic Guide to Exporting references several examples of how different Chambers of Commerce can help businesses when it comes to exporting advice/support:
- Export seminars, workshops, and roundtable discussions
- Trade promotion programs including overseas missions, mailings, and event planning
- Contacts with foreign companies and distributors
- Export sales leads and other opportunities for members
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) has partnered with numerous Chambers of Commerce with partnerships ranging from co-hosting events to being an active member of the Chamber. One example of this partnership is EXIM’s relationship with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. “The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has the back of the business community – providing companies with the resources, networking, and visibility to help them succeed” said Brock Hesler, Vice President, Membership and Foundation Relations.
Examples of these co-hosted events with the Indiana Chamber includes:
Examples of co-hosted events with other Chambers of Commerce include:
- Guam Chamber of Commerce, Saipan Chamber of Commerce & EXIM Present: The World Is Your Marketplace: Protecting Your Exports with EXIM
- Global Opportunities for U.S Virgin Islands, featuring the St. Croix Chamber of Commerce
- Tri-County Black Chamber of Commerce, SBA, & EXIM: Expanding Global Opportunities During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Increase Your Company Revenue with Exporting, featuring the Tulare Chamber of Commerce
- Export Expansion: Trade Finance Solutions for U.S. Exporters, featuring the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
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In 2004, a European Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products (2004/24/EC) was introduced. This new THMRS requires quality and safety of the product to be demonstrated, with efficacy being based on the traditional use of the herbal medicine, provided the claimed pharmacological effects are plausible. Devils Claw is a traditional herbal medicinal product used for the relief of backache, rheumatic or muscular pain, and general aches and pains in the muscles and joints. Exclusively based upon long standing use as a traditional remedy. The name of this plant is derived from its fruit, which have large woody hooks – designed to disperse seed – which can occasionally cause irritation to livestock after becoming lodged in the mouth, feet or hooves. The part used for medicinal purposes is the swollen secondary root. Each JointEeze® film-coated tablet contains 300mg of dry extract from Devil’s Claw root (Harpagophytum procumbensD.C. and/or H. Zeyheri L. Decne radix) equivalent to 1050-1500mg of Devil’s Claw root.
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Thanks again Bob.
And so as not to waste a post here is some info on Fahey's book.
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NFTs Aren’t As Risky as You May Think
How the Era of NFT 2.0 is Building NFT Security and Reducing Risk
You’re likely a marketer or in another brand guardianship role if you’re reading this. Stop us if this train of thought sounds familiar to you:
“An NFT marketing strategy? For brands? I thought they were just for exclusive collectibles? I’m not even sure how they work. Aren’t they still risky to use?”
Indeed, those are all valid questions and concerns. And in fact, a 2021 poll determined that only one in four U.S. adults can describe an NFT — much less how to market or how to make and sell NFTs. (It’s why we demystified them with our NFTs Explained post.) Now, the landscape is changing as people get more acquainted and brands dip their toes in the water by looking into how to create NFTs. And as they become more commonplace, a concern arises regarding NFT security as marketers wonder how risky cryptocurrency is, particularly NFTs. After all, they are a new-ish tech housed within a slightly less-new tech, all taking place within the most freshly-baked iteration of the internet — web3.
That’s a lot of “new” to learn and adopt. NFTs have inevitable staying power, and selling/buying/distributing NFTs can be accomplished with less risk than imagined .But, let’s start with one of the main questions you might have regarding implementing them in your plans: What’s the risk?
Having More Knowledge Can Eliminate Crypto Risks
A lack of education on any given topic can undoubtedly lead to unpredictable events. The same goes for utilizing NFT marketplaces and NFT storefronts. Fortunately, we’re here to help you better understand the technology as a tool and not simply a gimmick. Our solution is to arm you with the knowledge you need to unlock their power and create deeper digital communities. We even created a neat Myth-Busting guide to that effect! (Side note: Yes, NFTs can be sustainable).
For example, your customers don’t necessarily need to own or trade crypto to interact with your NFTs. With platforms like Mint, they can purchase your drops via credit card, like any other ecommerce transaction. This already limits the amount of interaction with crypto that your customers need to buy your NFTs. You don’t even need to sell the NFTs, but can leverage other means of distribution as both incentives and rewards.
4 Ways to Reduce Risk with Tokenized Marketing
When you understand your options and how NFT ecommerce actually works, things become much easier.
1. Vet and trust your web3 technology
The first tactic for avoiding NFT risks is to ensure you’re picking the right technology. This includes your blockchain, wallet, and ecommerce platform. Blockchain is a large “Wild West,” where there are still many unvetted technologies that aren’t suitable for scalability.
- Blockchain — All blockchains are not created equal. Each has its own system of verification, such as proof-of-work vs. proof-of-stake, and its own rules and specialties. It’s essential that you choose an established, vetted blockchain that can support your operations. For example, Mint uses the Flow and Polygon blockchains, which are two reputable and reliable systems that can handle NFTs with ease. Not to mention — they’re environmentally sustainable as well. The energy spent to mint an NFT on Flow is less than running a single search on Google.
- Wallet — Your wallet is where you keep your crypto and NFT tokens. Where brands are concerned, it can be a big indicator of a consumer’s digital identity — a place where you can learn about who they are based on what they own and hold. A reputable wallet technology can ease consumer apprehension by providing a safe place where people can store their cryptocurrency. It offers safeguards against intrusion and cyber tomfoolery. With secure options like Blocto (used by us at Mint), you can feel confident in providing a place to store tokens with minimal risk.
- NFT Marketplace and Storefront — NFT ecommerce requires connecting to secure blockchains and wallets and an easy purchasing experience. Brands can go multiple routes when approaching marketplaces. You can go with an option such as OpenSea, or with something more bespoke. Mint offers a unique, custom NFT Storefront experience that does all of the backend work of managing blockchains and wallets providing an easy ecommerce experience. This type of setup significantly reduces risk as all consumers need to do is purchase their NFT with a card.
2. Introduce utility and value
When we mention the “Wild West” of NFTs, we’re talking about NFT 1.0. This iteration is what most are familiar with — taking advantage of the digital “gold rush” that NFT collectibles provide. In the ensuing chaos, it’s easier to open yourself up to risks by trying to navigate the different blockchains for something valuable. However, we’re all about NFT 2.0, the future of how to make and sell NFTs to establish communities for your brand.
In a nutshell, NFT 2.0 is the era of customizable , tokenized ecosystems in which brands can cultivate digital communities through NFT Storefronts and gated experiences. Instead of a collectible, you’re assigning value to NFTs through their utility. An NFT becomes an exclusive access pass to an IRL event or a ticket to a livestream and community event. And any consumer who holds that NFT gets those privileges. So, go further than simply offering something incredibly colorful and unique — give your NFTs a purpose and role in your marketing strategy so that they remain sustainable. Delivering a value exchange reduces risk.
3. Keep it in your ecosystem
When you go a step deeper with solutions that include an all-inclusive ecommerce NFT experience where people purchase with fiat or credit card, you avoid having consumers directly interact with blockchain technology. In doing so, you’re engaging people with a more secure, comfortable, familiar transaction. That’s why NFT 2.0 is really about using NFTs to build community and provide utility within a closed ecosystem over which you have more flexibility and control.
While there will always be some measure of uncertainty in dealing with digital transactions and finances, you can significantly mitigate NFT risks by building a solid process with credible technology. Mint offers this type of closed, branded ecosystem which provides safe transactions for consumers and secure interactions with blockchain for brands.
4. Attach broader goals and strategies
NFT marketing strategy needn’t be a separate aspect of your overall marketing approach. It should be woven into your plans as another tool that can help you establish a digital presence, introduce products, and build audiences. When you’re confident and educated on the value of NFTs, you can feel safer introducing them. When laddered up to a larger strategy, you won’t have to worry about making a mistake at the cost of brand credibility. That’s because all the NFTs you’d create are bespoke to your objectives, whether they be tied to awareness or conversation.
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Differences Between PHI and PII and How they Impact HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA (Health Insurance Accountability and Affordability Act) compliance is required by pharmacies, like CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid, medical facilities, and any other organization that gathers, stores, or transmits personal medical information. To remain HIPAA compliant, these establishments must keep their customers' health information, including what prescriptions or other medications they are taking, private.
To keep the personal data of their customers safe, pharmacists must understand the differences between personal health information (PHI) and personal identification information (PII) and how both of them are involved with HIPAA compliance.
What is PHI?
PHI is any medical information that contains past, current, or future, health-related data that also contains information that can link those medical records back to the individual it refers to. In other words, lab test results that are part of a blind study are not PHI because they do not contain any information that identifies the individual to whom those test results belong, but your personal medical history is PHI and must be protected in accordance to HIPAA regulations.
Medical records that contain one or more of the following identifiers are considered PHI and must be kept private.
- Social Security numbers
- Telephone or FAX numbers
- Dates, except those that only list the year
- Geographic data, including, but not limited to, home addresses
- Email addresses
- Account numbers
- Medical record numbers
- Health plan ID numbers
- Numbers listed on any certificates or licenses, including driver's licenses, passports, and visas
- Vehicle VINs or license plate numbers
- Web URLs or IP addresses
- Serial numbers from medical devices, those used to treat an individual or those implanted into an individual
- Facial photographs or any photographs of uniquely identifiable features like tattoos, scars, or birthmarks
- Biometric identifiers including fingerprints and retinal scans
- Any code or number that is unique to the individual
What Is PII
PII is defined by the Department of Homeland Security as, "any information that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information that is linked or linkable to that individual." In other words, all of the above-listed information is considered PII.
PII as a whole is not protected from release by government regulations. It is the responsibility of the individual and the organizations they interact with to keep this information confidential unless that information is linked in any way to the person's medical records.
PHI, PII, and HIPAA
As far as HIPAA regulations are concerned, PHI and PII are inseparable. PHI is any medical information that contains even one of the listed PII identifiers.Since any records that are gathered, stored or transmitted by medical facilities and pharmacies must contain some way to identify the customer it refers to, all medical data should be considered PHI except in very specific cases such as blind research studies.
In order to remain HIPAA compliant, any organizations that handle PHI, including medical facilities, pharmacies, and the companies that provide data storage and transmission for them, must not release this information to anyone except the individual it pertains to.
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To apply for an FAA Aircraft Dispatcher Certification, you must be at least 23 years old and be able to read, speak and write English. Dispatcher candidates must accrue 200 hours of training on specific topics. Then, students must pass a written knowledge test, a practical flight planning test, and an oral exam.
What is the role of an aircraft dispatcher?
- Aircraft Dispatcher Role An aircraft dispatcher is employed by an airline and is heavily involved in the pre-planning of flights to ensure the safety of the trip. They review the plane’s crew, monitor the plane in-flight, and focus on maximizing efficiency.
What is aircraft dispatcher Course?
A flight dispatcher (also known as an airline dispatcher, flight follower or flight operations officer) assists in planning flight paths, taking into account aircraft performance and loading, enroute winds, thunderstorm and turbulence forecasts, airspace restrictions, and airport conditions.
Is it hard to become a flight dispatcher?
Persistence, commitment, and organization are all characteristics of successful aircraft dispatchers. Each student should be aware of own their strengths and weaknesses. The online course is much more difficult simply because students must hold themselves accountable.
How much does an aircraft dispatcher make?
What is an Aircraft Dispatcher’s Salary? The website Payscale lists the average aircraft dispatcher salary as $54,0951, with other sources such as Glassdoor reporting the average salary as $46,823.
How long does it take to be a Flight Dispatcher?
Specific training usually takes anywhere from 2-6 months, depending on the airline. This starts with ground school, followed by on-the-job training, where you learn your day-to-day duties. As part of your training, you also get the cool experience of sitting in the jumpseat on the flight deck with the pilots!
Where do aircraft dispatchers work?
An aircraft dispatcher is employed by an airline and is heavily involved in the pre-planning of flights to ensure the safety of the trip. They review the plane’s crew, monitor the plane in-flight, and focus on maximizing efficiency.
How can I get flight dispatcher license in India?
Student should have attained the age of 21 years. The minimum educational qualification required is pass in 10+ 2 standard examination with mathematics and physics subjects from a recognised Board / University. DURATION OF THE COURSE: The duration of the training will consist of 360 hours or 12 weeks of Ground Classes.
What is the duty of flight dispatcher?
Perhaps the most important task of aircraft dispatchers is to make sure that an airliner operating as safely as possible. These professionals will monitor on the weather before and airliner’s departure, during its arrival, and along the route. They monitor the plane for any malfunctions or mechanical issues.
How do you become an aircraft dispatcher in Canada?
To become a Flight Dispatcher in Canada, you must speak either English or French fluently. At the time of your application for a Canadian Flight Dispatcher certificate (with all training, examinations and competency check completed), you must be at least 21 years of age.
What is the ADX test?
‘ADX’ stands for Aircraft Dispatcher. This is a standardized 80-question, multiple choice examination taken at an authorized testing center (such as Sheffield School). A passing score of at least 70% is required – this would meet one of the prerequisites for passing an FAA-approved Aircraft Dispatcher course.
Is a flight dispatcher the same as an air traffic controller?
Flight dispatchers look at flight size, weather, travel time, and other areas to plan the timing of arrivals and departures. Air traffic controllers work from the airports, directing traffic on the ground and updating pilots with new information during their flights.
How many flight dispatchers are there?
There are over 5,038 Flight Dispatchers currently employed in the United States.
Do aircraft dispatchers need a medical certificate?
– Certification – Flight dispatch school will give you the training you need and the certification for aircraft dispatch. – Medical History – Unlike pilots, aircraft dispatchers do need to pass a minimum level of health requirement.
Is there a demand for flight dispatchers?
Aircraft dispatchers are in very high demand. The position is expected to continue to grow in the next few years as more people fly to travel to their destination and airlines continue to expand their operations.
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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, consistently ranked among the world’s top science and technology research universities, is Israel’s first university. Since its founding in 1912, the institute has educated generations of engineers, architects, and scientists who have played a key role in laying the State of Israel’s infrastructure and establishing its crucial high-tech industries. Beginning with 17 students, Technion has been Israel’s primary source of technological manpower and the nation’s largest comprehensive academic center for advanced science and technology education, as well as applied research. In addition, Technion is one of only a handful of technology institutes in the world with an affiliated medical school.
Technion has 18 academic departments in engineering, natural sciences, medicine and architecture, as well as 60 research centers. Students may choose from some 50 undergraduate and 82 graduate academic programs. There are currently close to 14,000 students at the Technion (~9,300 BSc, ~2,800 MSc, ~1,000 PhD, and ~ 660 MD). To date, Technion has awarded around 100,000 degrees. Technion graduates have brought the unique skills and penchant for innovation which helped conceive and consolidate the modern State of Israel – commonly acknowledged to be the “Start-up Nation.”
The staff of the Technion includes 620 faculty members; 1,000 technical and administrative staff; 250 clinicians; and 950 adjuncts and instructors.
The main campus, Technion City, is a 300-acre site located on Mount Carmel in Haifa that comprises 90 buildings and is frequented by thousands of people every day. Technion City includes a substantive network of dormitory villages offering individual and family accommodation (4,200 dormitory beds) to students and young faculty. The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is located off-campus, in the Bat Galim seaside neighborhood, adjacent to the Rambam Health Care Campus — northern Israel’s largest medical center.
Technion Graduates Drive Israel’s High-Tech Economy: Technion graduates make up the majority of Israeli-educated scientists and engineers, constituting more than 70% of the country’s founders and managers of high-tech industries. Technion graduates founded and/or lead two-thirds of Israeli companies on NASDAQ.
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- What are Website Templates?
- What are "Stand Alone" Website Templates?
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- HTML at Wikipedia
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Responsive & Mobile DesignResponsive design is a style of design where the webpage layout flexes or responds to the device web browser it is being viewed in. This type of code is created primarily using css styles and detects the screen resolution of the viewing device to respond to, and then renders the webpages. Webpages designed as mobile will almost always include Media Queries css code to allow for this flexibility, although it's not strictly required.
- What are Responsive Templates?
- RWD at Wikipedia
- Google Responsive Web Design Basics
- Mobile vs Responsive
Image Types Used In Web TemplatesNot just any type of images can be embedded into HTML websites. For an image to properly display and load quickly on a site it should be one of three types:
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Regardless of the reasons why you’re in the market for a new hot water system, you may be finding yourself overwhelmed by the large number of choices available to you. With so many different systems across a wide range of brands, there’s a lot of factors for you to take into consideration.
The real question is, how do you pick the right one for your home and your needs? To make your decision-making process a little easier, we’ve put together a quick guide on the various types of hot water systems you can choose from.
Continuous Flow Or Storage Tank
Also called instantaneous hot water systems, continuous flow heaters are small, wall-mounted units that are ideal for households of 3 people or less. As the name suggests, the unit will provide a continuous flow of hot water while in use and will only heat water as it is needed, leading to reduced energy consumption. Available in electric and gas, continuous flow systems are generally more expensive to purchase upfront but are more cost-effective in the long term. Rinnai, Rheem and Bosch all offer continuous flow hot water systems.
On the other hand, with a storage tank hot water system, water is heated and stored in an insulated tank. In the effort to maintain the temperature of the water at all times, a storage tank heater will need to use more power than an instantaneous system. Unless using solar heat, most storage tank systems will usually have higher running costs as a result. On the upside, storage tank hot water systems have relatively low upfront costs and are usually suited to households of 4 people or more.
Electric Hot Water System
When selecting the best hot water system for you, it’s important to weigh up the upfront versus ongoing costs. Electric hot water systems are fairly affordable to purchase and install, but they are the most costly to run in the long term. Electric hot water systems are generally available in storage tank and continuous flow options across most major brands. A household of 4 people or more will most likely need a 125-160L tank.
By opting for a larger electric storage system, you may be able to switch to a cheaper off-peak tariff. Your system will then heat up overnight, leading to a reduction in electrical bills. While this will make your electric hot water system more economical to run, it will not reduce its impact on the environment.
Gas Hot Water System
In terms of cost and energy efficiencies, gas hot water systems offer the opposite equation to electric heaters. Gas hot water systems tend to be more expensive upfront, with lower overall running costs. When natural gas is used, gas water heaters are far more environmentally friendly than electric systems. Plus, if you experience a black out, you can continue to use your hot water as the system is ignited by a pilot light as opposed to electrical current.
Gas hot water systems are available in tank and instantaneous options. For households of four people or more, a storage system will require a tank of approximately 135-170L.
Solar Hot Water System
Given the nature of a solar hot water system, there is no option to select between continuous flow and storage tank systems. A solar hot water system involves installing solar collector panels on the roof of your home, with a connected storage tank that uses the heat from the sun to regulate water temperature.
As you would expect, solar hot water systems are the cheapest to run, however, purchasing and installing a solar hot water system could set you back thousands of dollars. Thankfully, the government has introduced rebates and incentives to offset costs and encourage the use of sustainable water heating practices.
While there are a lot of benefits to be enjoyed from solar hot water systems, not all homes are suited to them. For one, you need to have enough space for it. The average four-person household will need around 4m2 of roof space to dedicate to the collection panels, plus space on the ground for a 300-360L tank.
Your home also needs to be ideally positioned to make the most of the sunlight, otherwise the heater will have to rely on either an electric or gas booster to make up for the lack of natural heat. Luckily in Perth we get a lot of hot sunny days, so this will tend to only happen during winter and overly cloudy days.
Best Hot Water System Brands
According to a customer satisfaction survey conducted by CANSTAR Blue in 2018, Rheem leads the way in terms of the reliability and effectiveness of its systems. But when it comes to value for money, its Rinnai that comes out on top. Rinnai received 5-star ratings for value, reliability and ease of use, only losing out to Rheem in two out of seven categories. Vulcan is a sub-brand of Rheem that specialises in electric and gas hot water systems, while Bosch offers a wide range of instantaneous hot water systems.
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1) The sector makes a vast array of products
From shampoos and soaps, to industrial products derived from petrochemicals and dyes, the chemicals sector has a hand in almost every aspect of our daily lives, without us often realising.
Indeed, while it does produce a number of consumer facing goods such as cosmetics and detergents, it primarily makes industrial goods used in other sectors supply chains. Think fertilisers used in agriculture, plastics in the automotive sector, rubber in construction…etc etc
2) It has a complex structure…
…and we mean it, just check out our “simplified” diagram below.
This (hopefully) shows that the chemicals sector has a presence across the value chain, from source right up to the final consumer. The sector is unique in this respect given that few others encompass such a wide range of activities.
3) Foreign investors are attracted to the UK's chemicals sector
While the chemicals sector has remained an integral part of UK manufacturing, its diverse demand base, opportunities for scale, and scope for evolution, makes it an attractive proposition for foreign multinationals. As a result the sector has become increasingly foreign owned.
In fact over a tenth (10.7%) of chemicals enterprises are foreign owned, with the US, Germany and Switzerland topping the list of foreign investors. This is a significantly larger share than the 2.7% recorded in the total manufacturing sector, and is perhaps best represented by the break-up of former powerhouse ICI.
4) The sector has strong fundamentals
The sector has strong fundamentals, including higher weekly wages than the manufacturing average - 30% higher in fact - and an impressive slice of R&D expenditure (6.6% of total manufacturing). However it is its productivity performance that catches the eye most. Between 1996 and 2016, the chemicals sector real productivity growth more than doubled (+102.2%), significantly exceeding the UK economy average.
5) It is a big energy consumer
The chemicals sector, and particularly manufacturers at the source of the value chain, are highly energy intensive and in 2015 the sector was the second highest energy consumer amongst manufacturers after the basic metals sector.
Encouragingly, despite retaining its position as one of the most highly energy intensive sectors, the chemicals sector’s energy consumption has actually fallen by around 40% since 2007, while its industrial production has remained broadly stable, illustrating a more efficient use of resources
6) Chemicals is a globalised industry
While not as export intensive as some other sectors, for instance mechanical equipment and automotive, chemicals still derives significant value from exports. In fact the sector is actually one of the most open to trade in manufacturing, boasting the highest proportion of exporting companies of any sector (53.6%) and the second highest proportion of importing companies (52.5%).
7) High energy costs are a risk to the sector...amongst others
A well-known fact but an important one…. High energy costs are a particular concern for energy intensive manufacturers at the source of the value chain, given it is a cost that is ultimately out of their control. Ohh and there is a little thing called Brexit to worry about too.
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JavaFX Rich Client Programming on the NetBeans Platform
Addison-Wesley, 2015; 900 pages.
Foreword by Geertjan Wielenga, NetBeans Product Manager
View the Table of Contents in PDF format.
JavaFX is a state-of-the-art graphics toolkit that is now built into Java and can be easily integrated with the NetBeans Platform. With JavaFX, you can create advanced user interfaces, manipulate media, generate graphical effects and animations, and much more. The NetBeans Platform provides a framework for building robust, modular applications with long life expectancies. Together, JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform provide the basis for creating visually appealing, industrial-strength applications.
Focusing on JavaFX as the front end for rich client applications, this book's examples cover JavaFX 8 with the NetBeans Platform and Java 8. The authors fully explain JavaFX and its relationship with the NetBeans Platform architecture, and systematically show Java developers how to use them together effectively. Each concept and technique is supported by clearly written code examples, proven through extensive classroom teaching.
- Background basics with Java, JavaFX, and UI events
- Building loosely coupled applications
- NetBeans Platform Modules and Lookup
- NetBeans Platform Nodes, Explorer Views, and Actions
- Building CRUD-based applications
- Integrating JavaFX with a Swing-based framework
- Using JavaFX Charts with the NetBeans Platform
- Using the NetBeans Platform File System and Data System
- Keeping the UI responsive | <urn:uuid:984794b6-7d36-45f4-92d6-8bd32a14cb89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asgteach.com/books/javafx-rich-client-programming-book/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.844698 | 342 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The Geek Atlas
128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more. Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them.
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The White House pushed the G7 Summit leaders to impose further sanctions on Russia, while U.K prime minister Boris Johnson has compared the importance of a Ukrainian victory to the outcome of World War II.
At G7 Summit in Germany over the weekend, the White House pushed for increasing sanctions on the Russian economy, focusing on the armaments and technology sector to undermine their ability to produce weapons, according to a statement. The new restrictions are intended to target state-owned defense companies.
The G7 leaders have also agreed to ban gold imports, which constitute Russia’s second-largest exports, Reuters reported. Increased tariffs from Russia will be reinvested into the war effort with Ukraine.
The U.S. is committed to “long-term security commitment to providing Ukraine with financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support as long as it takes,” the White House said in the statement.
As U.S. exports to Russia have dropped significantly, other signs of the crippling Russian economy include a major foreign debt default, the first since World War I.
Russia was unable to make a Eurobond payment due May 27, CNBC reported. There was an attempt to pay in Russian Rubles, but the contracts do not allow for the payments to be made in domestic currency. As Russia has been excluded from the international banking system, they were unable to make payments according to contracts. (RELATED: McConnell: Putin Should ‘Absolutely Not’ Be Allowed Back In The G7)
Johnson compared the Ukrainian war efforts to World War II, and told the BBC that defeating dictators back then “took a long time” and was “very expensive” but up led to “decades of stability and long-term prosperity.” The British prime minister has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine’s war against Russia. (RELATED: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Makes Surprise Visit To Kyiv)
The 48th G7 Summit was hosted in the Bavarian Alps of Germany. It was attended by all member countries — the U.S., U.K., Japan, Germany, France, Canada and Italy — as well as representatives of the European Union and multiple guests. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy also joined per video call and asked for more help to end the war by next winter, according to BBC. | <urn:uuid:f8759fb6-a98b-4703-8142-1970e5ac7a09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/27/g7-summit-sanctions-russia-gold-weapons-world-leader-compares-ukraine-war-ww2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969109 | 484 | 2.265625 | 2 |
OASIS OF HEALTH
The Crikvenica Riviera was one of the first places in Croatia to engage in health tourism as soon as the 19th century. In case you didn't already know, with more than 2,300 hours of sunshine a year, it’s one of the sunniest places. Here, the fresh sea air mixes with the pleasant currents of the mountain air, the sea is clean, and the climate and micro-climate mild and therapeutic. With the help of the local nature, the superb services offered by the leading health resorts, the wellness and spa facilities, and the cosmetics treatments on offer, every day here will become an oasis of harmony and well-being for you. In 2010, Crikvenica celebrated 130 years of tourism as the most successful health tourism destination in Croatia. Top experts in renowned health care institutions have greatly contributed to this. | <urn:uuid:f0cff96b-f807-4aba-89f9-16fe8373d531> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rivieracrikvenica.com/en/oasis-of-health?language=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965134 | 182 | 1.585938 | 2 |
What does Abijah mean?
The name Abijah is of Hebrew origin.
The meaning of Abijah is "the lord is my G-d".
Abijah is used as both a boys and girls name.
It consists of 6 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced A-bi-jah.
The Given Name Abijah
The name Abijah, has a wonderfully luminous quality.
Chic yet attractive, the name is a great blend of character and flair.
Although unique, your little refined Abijah, is sure to make it a memorable one.
In the U.S. in 2018, less than 5 girls were given the name. It ranked 9,628
in baby name popularity for boys with 7 occurrences.
In contrast, the year before it ranked 14,089 in baby name popularity for girls with 6 occurrences. It ranked 6,681 in baby name popularity for boys with 12 occurrences.
The trend's your friend. See how Abijah has changed in popularity since 1880 by visiting the Abijah Name Popularity Page.
Abijah Related Names
The name Avia is a form of Abijah.
- Abijah ~ Judean King (c. 915-c. 912 BCE), Biblical Character (1 Chr. 2:24, 2 Chr. 29:1), Biblical Character (1 Chr. 24:10, 1 Chr. 3:10, 1 Chr. 7:8, 1 Kgs. 14:1, 1 Sam. 8:2, Neh. 10:7)
Want to know how your name choice may effect your child?
Then take a look at the Numerological Report For Abijah.
It may give you some insight about your new baby.
Children named Abijah are often cuddly and aware but most of all they are read more >>
Abijah Name Fun
Be creative with the name Abijah.
Just for fun, see the name Abijah in Hieroglyphics, learn about ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics and write a Hieroglyphic message.
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Face it; we Texans love a lush green lawn, as well as
home-grown vegetables from the garden. If you’ve tried
to have either then you probably are aware that those
water bills can sure get costly during the summer
months. But did you know there are some simple steps
you can take to ensure you water efficiently to reduce
waste and expense?
July is national Smart Irrigation Month and it is a great
time to take stock of the methods we use to keep our
outdoor plants alive. The event, sponsored by the
Irrigation Association, is timed to coincide with the peak
water use month across the country.
With that in mind, here are some suggestions to tune
up your irrigation system to help you keep a healthy
lawn, landscape and garden without wasting water and breaking the bank:
Make sure your watering system is appropriate for the task. Rotary, oscillating or any other type of
sprinklers that sprays water into the air to spread over a wide area is appropriate when trying to cover a lawn,
but can be wasteful for landscaping and gardens. For these tasks, one should focus the water where it will do
the most good, atop the root system immediately around the plant. You might consider a drip irrigation system.
This allows one to slowly release water at specific sites. Connecting the system to a timer, one can carefully
regulate how much water the plants get. For more on drip irrigation, please click this link.
Check your irrigation system for leaks, other issues. Like anything,
these devices can break down over time. Make sure there is a good
seal where the hose connects to your home’s water supply. Also, check
for malfunctioning sprinkler heads and make sure they are pointing the
right direction to put water where you want it and not on the street or
Make sure you are watering the right amount The Texas AgriLife
Extension Service has an online calculator to help people apply within a
10th of an inch the amount of water their turf grass needs. The calculator
allows people to plug in specific weather information about their area,
the type of grass, amount of sunlight it gets and other factors, before
determining the amount of water needed to sustain a lawn. You can find
the calculator here. Once you get the recommended watering amount,
the next step is to determine your sprinkler’s watering rate. There is a
simple, low-tech way to do this. Put out one or more empty tuna cans in
the yard and turn on the sprinkler for 30 minutes. Then, get a ruler and
measure the water’s depth in each can. Double that amount and you get
how many inches of water your sprinkler puts on the lawn in an hour.
Go native. You can also cut down on the amount of
watering needed by using native or drought tolerant plants
and turf. There are many varieties of colorful and lush plants
that can make your yard a beautiful place while using little
water. While it may be appealing to plant many traditional
flowerbed favorites used by our northern neighbors, often
they are not well suited for Texas heat and drought
conditions. For more information about appropriate plants for
your situation, please click here.
Planning your garden well can also help keep from wasting
water and the plants will likely benefit. Some plants have
shallower roots that require more frequent watering. These
plants include broccoli, cabbage, celery, sweet corn, lettuce,
potatoes and radishes. Other plants with deeper roots, such
as tomato, cantaloupe, watermelon and okra typically require
longer, but less frequent watering. Design your garden so these types are kept apart to get optimal moisture.
If you’d like some more ideas for using your watering system wisely, check out the Irrigation Association’s
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Interactive Projection Solutions
Are you looking for a new way to increase engagement or make a promotion stand out?
What are interactive projections?
A relatively new piece of technology, interactive projections are composed of projected images which react to touch or movement. The setup usually consists of a short throw projector using projection mapping.
Digital Vision AV supplies and installs interactive projection systems and with 30 years of technical experience nothing fazes us. So no matter how much you want to push the projection boundaries, get in touch and we’ll work with you to find a solution.
Due to their interactive nature they are engaging for all abilities and ages, making them a unique medium to make an area or promotion stand out. They have been put to great use in museums, education, retail, and hospitality, indoors and out.
Make it immersive
The best way to make a projection immersive is to use a light coloured floor for maximum impact, as well as considering the type of projector (short throw or rear projection), whether to use multiple projectors (to create a large, seamless display) and the configuration of sound, imagery, video or logos to support your message.
The applications are practically endless and include floor or wall based games or learning, interactive product information, or even to place an interactive art piece onto a piece of architecture.
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We carry out a site survey free of charge and provide a detailed quote showing everything you need to get your system up and running. Once installed we make sure you understand exactly how to use the equipment so you get the most out of your investment.
We even offer servicing and maintenance plans for complete peace of mind. If you’re ready to make an impact with interactive projection, get in touch today so we can make your digital vision a reality.
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techno.rentetan.com – The controversial tool could keep a wave of easy hacks checked or unlocked.
One of the Web’s most controversial cybersecurity projects will be revived next week. Pokspider, mainly a web-based tool for creating a web-based searchable database of hackable sites, will be resurfaced next week, WIRED reports. This is their first time since darkness came in 2015. This is the tool.
In short, PunkSpider works by scanning sites on the open internet automatically and “fuzzing.” Especially hacker speaking to feed data into a website’s code to see which vulnerabilities jump out. PunkSpider will then search for sites that could lead to some of the common exploits in an arsenal of hackers, such as SQL injections and scripting of cross-Sites. Although these are considered to be quite easy to remove (and protect from), tons of sites throughout the web are wide open.
Back in 2019, for example, HackerOne showed that white-hat hackers reported the aforementioned cross-site scripts, which basically allow hackers to inject malicious links to otherwise benign (and sometimes neglected) sites, were the top vulnerability in their bug bounty program. More recently, we have seen a few prominent sites such as the far right refuge Gab being hit by SQL injections; in Gab’s case, 70 gigabytes of its user’s data have finally been leaked.
Ten years ago, PunkSpiders original iteration of Dev Alejandro Caceres and of its software firm, Hyperion Gray, started the pet project of the software. But Caceres soon met with technical – and tax – blocks that led to the scanning of the web only once a year, before it collapsed completely. However, the Virginia-based technology company QOMPLX acquired Hyperion Gray earlier this year and announced that PunkSpider will be rebooting not long after that.
The new project will include an extension of the Chrome browser to check the websites you visit to identify possible security defaults that users can search through a site URL or the type of vulnerability they are curious of. PunkSpider will assign a rating on a given site, depending on how crooked a site is by bugs, using the “fire-dump” rating system which rates (as the name suggests) the amount of a site security dumpster.
However, there is always an ethical question that comes with releasing them to the public with one of these sort of hackers-friendly search engines — like PunchSprider, Shode or Censys. On one hand, it could convince the site operator to get its shit together and close this gap when tipped away from a site vulnerability. On the other hand, having a list of easily accessible sites means that everyone, good or bad, can walk about free.
That means there’s a very real possibility that some of these sites will be opened for dangerous attacks that they won’t otherwise suffer for the cyber Security community as all the good tools of Caceres can do. At the very least, this motivates these operators to take their safety seriously. | <urn:uuid:959c79ea-b161-42fc-acf4-19bc33221ee0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techno.rentetan.com/2021/07/29/punkspider-the-web-exploits-search-engine-rises-from-death/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942684 | 637 | 1.640625 | 2 |
An organization aimed at bringing cattlewomen together in the United States, has the potential to come to Canada.
American National CattleWomen (ANCW) empowers and supports women as advocates who share a passion for the beef community.
President of ANCW, Penny Zimmerman, says women in Canada can join the organization online and learn long distance through their resources until they can establish a group of their own.
"I just hope women in Canada realize they can become part of this grassroots organization, to be an advocate for agriculture. We all have the same struggles, challenges, and parts of our lifestyles are the same, so we can communicate and relate to one another."
The three main focuses of ANCW are beef promotion, education and development, and staying up to date on legislative items of interest.
They offer programs in learning to become a beef advocate to bridge the gap between the farm and the fork, and opportunities to get involved in school and consumer education.
For more information, you can visit their website.
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The OJAI API library provides a standard for creating, reading, updating, and deleting unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data that resides in documents. OJAI documents are based on the JSON data model, supporting all data types that are natively supported by JSON and supporting a number of other data types in addition.
For this 1.0 release, uses of OJAI are restricted to the reference implementation that is included in the OJAI library and to MapR's implementation of OJAI for MapR-DB. The reason for this restriction is that OJAI does not yet provide means of creating connections to document stores.
Starting with the 2.0 release, you will be able to write implementations to work with OJAI documents in any document store, such as MapR's MapR-DB, MongoDB, Apache Drill, and relational databases.
The OJAI API library is organized into two primary categories: interfaces for working with documents, and interfaces for working with document stores. The first category is subdivided into interfaces that use a DOM-based model that is appropriate for working with small to medium-sized documents, and interfaces that use an event-driven model that allows for high-performance actions on large documents.
The reference implementation that is included in the OJAI library implements the first category of interfaces: those for working with documents. The implementation lets you create, read, modify, and view JSON documents in memory. These features are illustrated with a number of code samples.
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In this series, we’re highlighting the stories of people who remain connected to their home countries—either those with immigrant parents or those who are immigrants themselves. With “We Are All Immigrants: Stories About the Places We’re From,” you’ll hear from those most acutely affected by changing policies and a shifting reality, those who exist as part of multiple cultures at once. Here, Jessica Nabongo, founder and CEO of Jet Black boutique travel agency, and writer behind The Catch Me If You Can shares her story.
In the mid-afternoon, sun shining high above, after four hours along a bumpy Masaka Road, we arrived in Mbale. Things had changed. We no longer needed to walk part of the way; the road had been flattened a bit, enough. I remembered this place. Now I am here, my grandmother, or jaja, is not. I paid my respects, the ceramic tile only recently having dried in place. You could still see the footprints of the mourners.
They treated me like a muzungu, a regional term that means “white person.”
I checked in on my mother to ensure she was okay, though I knew she wasn’t. My father, the only man she ever loved, was about to be buried, and due to complications and distance, we arrived in Uganda one day after my grandmother’s burial. I was met by aunts, uncles, cousins, pigs, and chickens. Met by fresh avocado, pineapples, mango and the faint smell of eucalyptus. I was home, sort of.
In the markets of Kampala I searched for fabric and a new bag. I negotiated in English. They treated me like a muzungu, a regional term that means “white person.” I have the voice of a muzungu here.
Then, I was heading back home, another home. Wheels down, anxiety piqued, I prepared for immigration. My heart raced not knowing what questions they would ask, not knowing if I would be pulled out of line as I had been before. I was stopped. “Passport please.” Before reaching immigration, an armed member the United States military—my military—asked me, only me, for my passport. I questioned him. He demanded it. I questioned him again. He demanded it again, this time with his finger on the trigger of the military grade weapon in his hand. I gave in. He looked at my passport. I said, with attitude, “You didn’t think I was American did you?” He handed it back. He said nothing. I continued to immigration.
I am an American, but the world sees me as an African.
I am a native-Detroiter, a Michigander. I am a member of the Mutema clan, I am a Muganda.
I am an American, but the world sees me as an African—a non-specific, nondescript African. Before I speak, my American-ness is often erased by my hair cut, dark skin, high cheekbones, wide nose, and big lips. I am unmistakably African, but I have only briefly lived on the continent. My blood is purely Ugandan, but my birthplace and my accent, they are American. Inside of my American home I was raised as a Ugandan. Thanksgiving did not consist of macaroni and cheese and stuffing. We had matoke and benyebwa.
In 2008, I moved to Japan. I was American then. In 2009, I moved to London for graduate school; there, I was an American-born Ugandan. I moved to Benin in West Africa in 2010; there, je suis américaine mais mes parents sont ougandaise. I moved to Rome in 2011; there I was American because of my passport, but Ugandan inside the walls of the United Nations where I worked, where I could advocate for my ancestral continent.
As I regularly travel the world (very regularly: 36 countries in 2017, as of the end of August), I travel as an African, because that is how the world sees me. My second passport and my back tattoo specify that I am Ugandan. My accent and my primary passport are nods to America’s role in my life. As I continue to grow, learn, and explore this thing called identity, I realize that African, perhaps Afropolitan, is an identity befitting those of us born outside of our parents’ home country, and yet still feel tied to our specific cultures. Befitting those of us who feel a kinship with others like us: born of the continent but not on the continent. | <urn:uuid:f356baae-0629-42ad-a2cd-8a19d0fe52a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heremagazine.com/articles/immigrants-jet-black-travel-jessica-nabongo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975424 | 997 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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