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Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) invites residents to keep a tally of all sightings of hen turkeys and poults (young-of-the-year) from June 1 through August 31 as part of the Wildlife Division’s Annual Wild Turkey Brood Survey. Results from this survey allow DEEP biologists to determine turkey productivity and reproductive success by estimating the average number of turkey poults per hen statewide, assess annual fluctuations in the turkey population, gauge annual reproductive success, and evaluate recruitment of new birds into the fall population.
Connecticut’s wild turkey population has been stable in the past several years, but at a lower level than the peak population that occurred in the mid-2000s. Despite some declines, the state’s population remains healthy and productive.
Hens are distinguished from toms by size, plumage, and head characteristics. Hens are usually smaller than toms (weighing in at about 8 to 10 pounds; whereas toms will exceed 15 pounds). Hens have feathering to the top of their head that generally is blue/gray in color, while toms have larger heads with prominent red, white, and blue coloration. A hen’s feathers appear light brown in color in contrast to the tom’s black and iridescent feathering.
To participate, volunteers should use a Wild Turkey Observation Form provided on the Wildlife Division’s website to record all of the hens and poults observed during normal travel. Each observation is categorized by the total number of hens observed, total poults, and a total number of hens with poults. Observations of male (tom) turkeys are not requested for this survey. Each participant is asked to submit a tally of results to the Wildlife Division shortly after the end of the survey period (June 1-August 31).
The Wild Turkey Observation Form (PDF) can be downloaded from
www.ct.gov/deep/WildlifeCitizenScience; instructions are on the data sheet. New this year, observers also have the option to report turkey brood sightings on iNaturalist (in place of the observation form) at https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ct-deep-wild-turkey-brood-survey. Any questions should be directed to Wild Turkey Program Biologist, Michael Gregonis at email@example.com.
“This is an excellent way to partner with DEEP to monitor the state’s wild turkey population,” said Michael Gregonis, Turkey Program Biologist for the DEEP Wildlife Division. “Citizen involvement in this survey is a cost-effective means of gathering useful data. Participants should look carefully when counting turkey broods as the tiny camouflaged poults may be difficult to spot in grasses and leaves. If you are unable to obtain an accurate count of the poults, please do not report the sighting on your data form.”
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Since the arrival of Industrial IoT (IIoT), connecting all the production assets, such as sensors, actuators, robots, and the myriad of other equipment, typically involved proprietary, vendor-specific networking. The availability of single-pair Ethernet (SPE) looks set to change this legacy approach. What is SPE technology, what are its advantages and benefits, and how can it enable cloud to sensor connectivity using a single protocol stack?
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Cluedo known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt.
The object of the game is to determine who murdered the game’s victim, where the crime took place, and which weapon was used. Each player assumes the role of one of the six suspects and attempts to deduce the correct answer by strategically moving around a game board representing the rooms of a mansion and collecting clues about the circumstances of the murder from the other players.
In the 1930s and early 1940s, a British musician named Anthony Pratt played gigs at country mansions. The elegant guests would often play act at these get-togethers, and it was typically crimes involving “skulking, shrieking, and falling dead to the floor.” Pratt took mental notes of these games while he played piano.
Holed up in his home in Birmingham, England during air raids on the city during World War II, Anthony E. Pratt, recalled the murder mystery games played by some of his clients at private music gigs as well as the detective fiction popular at the time, most notably Agatha Christie.
In 1944, Pratt applied for a patent of his invention of a murder/mystery-themed game, originally named Murder! Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife, Elva Pratt, who had helped design the game, presented it to Waddingtons’ executive Norman Watson, who immediately purchased it and provided its trademark name of Cluedo (a play on “clue” and Ludo, ludo being Latin for “I play”).
Pratt’s original patent included 10 characters and 11 rooms. It also included more weapons in addition to the revolver, dagger, rope, lead pipe, candlestick, wrench: there was also a shillelagh, a hypodermic syringe, an unused bomb, fireplace poker, an axe, and poison. (Jeez, man take it easy.)
In 1947, Pratt patented the game and sold it to a U.K.-based game manufacturer named Waddington’s and its American counterpart, Parker Brothers (now owned by Hasbro). But because of post-war shortages the game was not released until 1949—as Cluedo in England and Clue in the United States. In both versions, the object is for players to collect clues to figure out the murder suspect, weapon and location. The game took place in a Victorian mansion. The victim’s name? Mr. Boddy.
Cluedo was originally marketed as “The Great New Detective Game” upon its launch in 1949 in North America. A deal was quickly struck to license “The Great New Sherlock Holmes Game” from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate. Advertising at the time suggested players would take on the guise of “Sherlock Holmes following the path of the criminal”, but no depictions of Holmes appear in the advertising or on the box. From 1950 until the 1960s, the game was marketed as “The Great Detective Game,” at which time it became the “Parker Brothers Detective Game”.
With the launch of the US 1972 edition, a television commercial showed Holmes and Watson engaged in a particularly competitive game. Adjusting with the times, in 1979 US television commercials a detective, resembling a bumbling Inspector Clouseau from the popular Pink Panther film franchise, looks for clues.
The comedy whodunnit Clue (USA, 1985) was based on the boardgame Cluedo. It starred Tim Curry (UK) as the butler, Wadsworth, aiming to finger the killer of his employer, Mr Boddy. The six suspects are all characters from the game: Mrs Peacock (Eileen Brennan, USA), Mrs White (Madeline Kahn, USA), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd, USA), Mr Green (Michael McKean, USA), Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull, USA) and Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren, USA). Three different endings were filmed, and a different one shown at different theatres.
In 1993, Peter DePietro and Tom Chiodo of the Manhattan Rep Company promoted a Clue world championship event in New York City. Part competition and part performance art, contestants played while interacting with actors dressed as Clue characters. Clues were doled out in dialogue and via music. The winner was Josef Kollar from the UK, who also came dressed as Colonel Mustard. Kollar won a trip to Hollywood.
In the UK, Cluedo was marketed as “The Great Detective Game” from the mid-1950s until 2000, when it was rebranded as the “Classic Detective Game.”
One of the most significant changes to Clue in the last 70 years, says Ricketts, came with the introduction of a rare new character. In 2016, Hasbro’s Clue killed off the housekeeper Mrs. White, replacing her with the more accomplished Dr. Orchid, the adopted daughter of the mansion’s owner. Dr. Orchid has a fancier career — she’s a working scientist with a Ph.D. — but she comes with a sinister background, having been expelled from her Swiss boarding school after a (dun dun dun!) near-fatal daffodil-poisoning incident. | <urn:uuid:b7b59711-e537-4607-ba0d-1b7025ca28c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://justfunfacts.com/interesting-facts-about-cluedo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974352 | 1,125 | 2.59375 | 3 |
BACK TOTOP Browse A-ZSearchBrowse A-ZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0-9 E-mail FormEmail ResultsName:Email address:Recipients Name:Recipients address:Message: Print-FriendlyBookmarksbookmarks-menuSkin lesion removalShave excision - skin; Excision of skin lesions - benign; Skin lesion removal - benign; Cryosurgery - skin, benign; BCC - removal; Basal cell cancer - removal; Actinic keratosis - removal; Wart - removal; Squamous cell - removal; Mole - removal; Nevus - removal; Nevi - removal; Scissor excision; Skin tag removal; Mole removal; Skin cancer removal; Birthmark removal; Molluscum contagiosum - removal; Electrodesiccation - skin lesion removalA skin lesion is an area of the skin that is different than the surrounding skin. This can be a lump, sore, or an area of skin that is not normal. It may also be a skin cancer.Skin lesion removal is a procedure to remove the lesion. Description Most lesion removal procedures are easily done in your doctor's office or an outpatient medical office. You may need to see your primary care provider, a skin doctor (dermatologist), or a surgeon.Which procedure you have depends on the location, size, and type of lesion. The removed lesion is usually sent to the lab where it is examined under a microscope.You may receive some type of numbing medicine (anesthetic) before the procedure.The different types of skin removal techniques are described below.SHAVE EXCISIONThis technique is used for skin lesions that rise above the skin or are in the upper layer of skin.Your doctor uses a small blade to remove the outermost layers of skin after the area is made numb. The area removed includes all or part of the lesion.You usually do not need stitches. At the end of the procedure, medicine is applied to the area to stop any bleeding. Or the area may be treated with cautery to seal blood vessels shut. Neither of these will hurt.SIMPLE SCISSOR EXCISIONThis technique is also used for skin lesions that rise above the skin or are in the upper layer of skin..Your doctor will grab the skin lesion with small forceps and lightly pull up. Small, curved scissors will be used to carefully cut around and under the lesion. A curette (an instrument used to clean or scrape skin) maybe used to cut any remaining parts of the lesion.You will rarely need stitches. At the end of the procedure, medicine is applied to the area to stop any bleeding. Or the area may be treated with cautery to seal blood vessels shut.SKIN EXCISION - FULL THICKNESSThis technique involves removing a skin lesion in the deeper levels of the skin down to the fatty layer under the skin. A small amount of normal tissue surrounding the lesion may be removed to ensure it is clear of any possible cancer cells (clear margins). It is more likely to be done when there is a concern about a skin cancer.Most often, an area the shape of an ellipse (an American football) is removed, as this makes it easier to close with stitches. The entire lesion is removed, going as deep as the fat, if needed, to get the whole area. A margin of about 3 to 4 millimeters (mm) or more surrounding the tumor may also be removed to ensure clear margins. The area is closed with stitches. If a large area is removed, a skin graft or flap of normal skin may be used to replace the skin that was removed.CURETTAGE AND ELECTRODESICCATIONThis procedure involves scraping or scooping out a skin lesion. A technique that uses high frequency electrical current, called electrodesiccation, may be used before or after.It may be used for superficial lesions that do not need a full thickness excision.LASER EXCISIONA laser is a light beam that can be focused on a very small area and can treat very specific types of cells. The laser heats the cells in the area being treated until they "burst." There are several types of lasers. Each laser has specific uses.Laser excision can remove:Laser excisionLaser surgery uses laser energy to treat the skin. Laser surgery can be used to treat skin diseases or cosmetic concerns such as sunspots or wrinkle...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Benign or pre-malignant skin lesions Warts Moles Sunspots Hair Small blood vessels in the skin Tattoos CRYOTHERAPYCryotherapy is a method of super-freezing tissue in order to destroy it. It is most commonly used to destroy or remove warts, actinic keratoses, seborrheic keratoses, and molluscum contagiosum.CryotherapyCryotherapy is a method of superfreezing tissue in order to destroy it. This article discusses cryotherapy of the skin.Read Article Now Book Mark Article Cryotherapy is done using either a cotton swab that has been dipped into liquid nitrogen, with a spray canister containing liquid nitrogen, or with or a probe that has liquid nitrogen flowing through it. The procedure usually takes less than a minute.The freezing may cause some discomfort. Your doctor may apply a numbing medicine to the area first. After the procedure, the treated area may blister and the destroyed lesion will peel away.MOHS SURGERYMohs surgery is a way to treat and cure certain skin cancers. Surgeons trained in the Mohs procedure can do this surgery. It is a skin-sparing technique that allows skin cancer to be removed with less damage to the healthy skin around it.Mohs surgeryMohs micrographic surgery is a way to treat and cure certain skin cancers. Surgeons trained in the Mohs procedure can do this surgery. It allows sk...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Why the Procedure Is Performed It may be done to improve a person's appearance, or if the lesion is causing irritation or discomfort.Your doctor may recommend having a lesion removed if you have:Benign growths Warts WartsWarts are small, usually painless growths on the skin. Most of the time, they are harmless. They are caused by a virus called human papillomavirus ...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Moles MolesA birthmark is a skin marking that is present at birth. Birthmarks include cafe-au-lait spots, moles, and Mongolian spots. Birthmarks can be red or...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Skin tags Seborrheic keratosis Seborrheic keratosisSeborrheic keratosis is a condition that causes wart-like growths on the skin. The growths are noncancerous (benign).Read Article Now Book Mark Article Actinic keratosis Actinic keratosisActinic keratosis is a small, rough, raised area on your skin. Often this area has been exposed to the sun over a long period of time. Some actinic ...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Squamous cell carcinoma Squamous cell carcinomaSquamous cell cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the United States. Other common types of skin cancer are:Basal cell cancerMelanoma...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Bowen disease Bowen diseaseSquamous cell cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the United States. Other common types of skin cancer are:Basal cell cancerMelanoma...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Basal cell carcinoma Basal cell carcinomaBasal cell cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. Most skin cancers are basal cell cancer. Other common types of skin cancer...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Molluscum contagiosum Molluscum contagiosumMolluscum contagiosum is a viral skin infection that causes raised, pearl-like papules or nodules on the skin.Read Article Now Book Mark Article Melanoma MelanomaMelanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer. It is also the rarest. It is the leading cause of death from skin disease. Other common types o...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Other skin conditions Risks Risks of a skin excision may include:Infection Scar (keloids) Bleeding Changes in skin color Poor wound healing Nerve damage Recurrence of the lesion Blisters and ulcers, leading to pain and infection Before the Procedure Tell your doctor:About the medicines you are taking, including vitamins and supplements, herbal remedies, and over-the-counter medicines If you have any allergies If you have bleeding problemsFollow your doctor's instructions on how to prepare for the procedure. After the Procedure The area may be tender for a few days afterward.Taking proper care of your wound will help your skin look its best. Your provider will talk with you about your options:Care of your woundA skin lesion is an area of the skin that is different from the surrounding skin. This can be a lump, sore, or an area of skin that is not normal. ...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Allowing a small wound heal itself, since most small wounds heal well on their own. Using stitches to close the wound. Skin grafting during which the wound is covered using skin from another part of your body. Applying a skin flap to cover the wound with skin next to the wound (the skin near the wound matches in color and texture). Outlook (Prognosis) Having lesions removed works well for many people. Some skin lesions, such as warts, may need to be treated more than once.Open ReferencesReferencesDinulos JGH. Benign skin tumors. In: Dinulos JGH, ed. Habif's Clinical Dermatology. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2021:chap 20.Dinulos JGH. Dermatologic surgical procedures. In: Dinulos JGH, ed. Habif's Clinical Dermatology. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2021:chap 27.James WD, Elston DM, Treat JR, Rosenbach MA, Neuhaus IM. Cutaneous laser surgery. In: James WD, Elston DM, Treat JR, Rosenbach MA, Neuhaus IM, eds. Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. 13th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2020:chap 38.Pfenninger JL. Skin biopsy. In: Fowler GC, ed. Pfenninger and Fowler's Procedures for Primary Care. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2020:chap 26.Stulberg D, Wilamowska K. Premalignant skin lesions. In: Kellerman RD, Rakel DP. eds. Conn's Current Therapy 2022. 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12 June 2015
Statement of the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, after meeting with the President of Peru, Ollanta Humala
LIMA/VIENNA, 12 June (UN Information Service) - In cordial and productive talks with President Humala, held on 4 June, I informed the President that Peru is a key ally for UNODC, particularly in the areas of alternative development, precursor control, demand reduction, and wildlife and forest crime.
I told President Humala that the increased emphasis on investments in alternative development was also having a significant and positive impact on the cultivation of illicit drugs.
Thanks to the President's support of alternative development, and the excellent work of the country's international partners, including USAID, Germany, and others, Peru now has more surface area covered by alternative crops, around 80,000 hectares (ha), and more families benefiting from alternative development than it does with coca.
The increasing willingness of the Peruvian government to enter into cost-sharing arrangements for programmes is also commendable.
I also welcomed President Humala's advocacy of UNODC's annual coca survey, which will next be published in July. There have, in recent years, been positive results showing that the surface occupied by coca has fallen from 60,400 ha in 2012 to 49,800 ha in 2013-a drop of 17.5 per cent.
New areas of assistance were also discussed, including the welcome decision by the Peruvian authorities to join the global container control programme co-managed by UNODC and the World Customs Organization. The president and I also found much to agree on with regard to illegal logging and wildlife crime that are ever present threats in Latin America and elsewhere.
On the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem, to be held in April 2016, I thanked President Humala for Peru's active engagement.
I also informed him that the process offered opportunities for the exchange of ideas and lessons on illicit drugs. The process. I said, will do much to help achieve the goals set out in the Political Declaration and Plan of Action by 2019.
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From time to time, I will pull out a “dental zebra” from the archives: a case that you won’t see every day, but you’ll see it at least once in your career. This month’s zebra is one that you likely have seen before simply because it’s been accepted as a standard in some dog breeds. If you’ve ever treated a Chinese crested dog, a Mexican hairless dog (a.k.a. Xoloitzcuintl), or a Peruvian hairless dog, you’ve already seen the genetic disease that is the topic if this month’s column: ectodermal dysplasia (ED). Chinese crested and Mexican hairless dogs are breeds affected by an autosomal dominant form of ED. Many other breeds are affected by recessive X-linked hypohidrotic ED (XLHED), including miniature poodles, Belgian shepherds, Labrador retrievers, bichon frisés, whippets, cocker spaniels, and mixed breeds of the miniature pinscher and Pekingese. Due to its X-linked nature, it tends to manifest in males.1
What characterizes canine ED
Ectodermal dysplasia in humans is usually noticed shortly after birth. The ectoderm is responsible for formation of not only the teeth, but also of structures in skin, including the sweat glands. As humans with ED are born without sweat glands, ectodermal dysplasia often will present with a fever of unknown origin in the newborn.2 Because dogs don’t rely on perspiration for thermoregulation, dogs with ED do not present with a fever.
Margret Casal, DVM, Ph.D., DECAR, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has studied XLHED. This condition is characterized by alopecia or sparse hair, inability to sweat, decreased lacrimation, frequent pulmonary infections, and missing and malformed teeth. Affected patients produce a defective protein, ectodysplasin A (EDA), encoded by the EDA gene.
Dental alterations can affect both the deciduous and permanent teeth. Delayed eruption of the permanent teeth in dogs has been documented with ED. Deciduous canine teeth are commonly persistent and crowd the erupted permanent canine teeth. In addition, deciduous canine teeth are often mesioverted (also referred to as “lance” or “spear” canine teeth) in dogs with ED (Figure 1).
One of the most prominent dental manifestations of ED is marked oligodontia (Figure 1). In humans, absence of teeth is more common on the mandible than the maxilla. The distribution of missing teeth in ED dogs varies. The incisor and premolar teeth are most commonly absent in affected dogs.
Teeth that are present may exhibit conformational abnormalities such as conically shaped crowns, often referred to as “peg” teeth. Peg teeth, when not referring to the maxillary second incisors in lagomorphs, refer to abnormally shaped teeth that are often smaller than normal (Figure 1). ED teeth often exhibit decreased numbers of roots compared to normal counterparts, fused roots, supernumerary roots (Figure 1 B), or dilaceration of the roots. In humans, anterior teeth tend to be conical in shape, while posterior teeth are reduced in size and number of cusps. In dogs, the conical shape of crowns is not limited to the anterior teeth, with the maxillary fourth premolar and mandibular first molar teeth being commonly affected (Figure 2).
Craniofacial abnormalities also have been documented in humans with ED. The face often appears smaller due to frontal bossing and depression of the nasal bridge. The lips can be prominent and the ears may be more prominent. A high palatal arch or even a cleft palate also may be present in humans with ED. As its development is dependent on the presence of teeth, edentulous areas show a hypoplastic or nonexistent alveolar process. In dogs, prominent lips are present in affected dogs at birth.
ED treatment options
Dr. Casal’s research laboratory studies treatment options for the disease. As a canine model of human disease, the genetically missing EDA was compensated for by postnatal intravenous administration of soluble recombinant EDA. Untreated XLHED dogs have an incomplete set of conically shaped teeth. After treatment with EDA, significant normalization of adult teeth was achieved in four of five XLHED-treated dogs. Treatment restored normal lacrimation and resistance to eye and airway infections and improved sweating ability.3 This is but one example of the “one health” concept of veterinarians treating veterinary diseases that, in many ways, benefit the human species as well.
1 Lewis JR, Reiter AM, Mauldin EA, Casal ML. Dental abnormalities associated with X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia in dogs. Orthod Craniofac Res. 2010; 13(1): 40-7.
2 Stiles FC, Weir JR. Ectodermal dysplasia presenting as fever of unknown origin. JAMA. 1955; 158(16): 1432-1433.
3 Casal ML, Lewis JR, Mauldin EA, et al. Significant correction of disease after postnatal administration of recombinant ectodysplasin A in canine X-linked ectodermal dysplasia. Am J Hum Genet. 2007; 81(5):1050-1056.
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The Patient Safety Movement Foundation placed significant energy into the development of Patient Safety Curriculum & Education for healthcare professionals beginning in 2018. We assembled a workgroup to create a core curriculum that can be applied across all health professions. Dr. Steven Scheinman and Dr. Margrit (Peggy) Shoemaker, from Geisinger Commonwealth, Co-Chair of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s Patient Safety Curriculum Workgroup. This dedicated group developed a core curricula which addresses the following elements:
Ownership of patient safety and quality embedded within the professional identity formation for all health caregivers;
Core curriculum common to all health professions. The fundamental elements of the core curriculum will include:
Interprofessional team-based models
Definition of competencies to be achieved, outcomes to be assessed and milestones (which will be specialty-specific) to be identified for each stage of one’s professional career (UME, GME and unsupervised practice, across all professions)
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Age of Propaganda
The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Author: Revised Edition; Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson
Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundbites and manipulative messages.
Drawing on the history of propaganda as well as on contemporary research in social psychology, Age of Propaganda shows how the tactics used by political campaigners, sales agents, advertisers, televangelists, demagogues, and others often take advantage of our emotions by appealing to our deepest fears and most irrational hopes, creating a distorted vision of the world we live in.
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I work with IT teams that are so passionate about Red Hat’s open source mission that they bring a "default to open source" mentality to every project we work on. We’ve been quite successful in finding open source solutions for many of our business needs. Naturally, we turn to our own open source solutions for our operating system, middleware, and cloud needs. Beyond that, we always seek out open source solutions first for our other business needs, such as user authorization and telephony.
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It’s through these first-hand experiences that I’ve reflected on the reasons why open source is a good fit for the enterprise. Here are some fundamental advantages I believe open source offers over proprietary solutions:
1. FLEXIBILITY AND AGILITY
IT leaders must fundamentally provide flexibility and agility for their enterprise. If you can’t compete on agility, you’re going to get left behind by the competition. Open source enables technology agility, typically offering multiple ways to solve problems. Open source helps keep your IT organization from getting blocked because a particular capability isn’t available from a vendor. Instead of waiting for the vendor to deliver that capability, you can create it yourself.
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As another example, today I could stand up an OpenStack instance, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux instance or the community equivalent thereof, or a MongoDB instance, and I could do it on my own with the open source software available freely over the Internet. I could start building a project, or a platform, or testing feasibility or developing my skills.
If I were to attempt to do that with similar proprietary products from VMware or Microsoft or Oracle, I would spend days or weeks simply negotiating terms and conditions and fees just to get started. Or, at a minimum, I’d at least have to go through an extensive process to sign off on some sort of pilot project with their sales organization.
Your enterprise will soon be competing on speed, if it isn’t already. Open source enables speed. A great advantage of open source is the ability to take the community versions, get started, understand whether they can solve your business problem, and begin to deliver value right away. Once you make that determination, professional support and services are increasingly available for open source products, especially those supported by Red Hat.
This allows you to get the best of both worlds — flexibility, agility, and the ability to get started quickly and inexpensively, with the ability to mature to a large scale, fully supported, enterprise-grade implementation, and you don’t have to go over proprietary licensing hurdles to get there.
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Open source is generally much more cost-effective than a proprietary solution. Not only are open source solutions typically much more inexpensive in an enterprise environment for equivalent or superior capability, but they also give enterprises the ability to start small and scale (more on that coming up). Given that enterprises are often budget challenged, it just makes financial sense to explore open source solutions.
4. ABILITY TO START SMALL
With open source, you can start small and quickly with community versions, and then migrate to a commercially-supported solution as your business requirements drive you there. If the project doesn’t require support, you can continue on the community version indefinitely. You have the option to try the various alternatives, pick the one that’s going to work, and then scale up with a commercial solution.
5. SOLID INFORMATION SECURITY
Commercial open source has a solid information security record in a dangerous world. Obviously, it’s difficult to claim security superiority for any solution and it’s a challenging environment for all of us, but the responsiveness of the open source community and vendors relative to information security problems has been very good. The fact that we’ve had eyes on code that in some cases is decades old, and we were able to identify and fix problems when they became apparent, rather than have the code molder in a proprietary environment where few knew about the exposure but some were exploiting it, is an advantage of open source.
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6. ATTRACT BETTER TALENT
Open source gives enterprises the ability to attract better talent. Most professional technologists are well aware of open source and many believe it’s where the industry is headed. Many enjoy creating their own projects and having the ability to interact with others outside their enterprise to develop solutions. Giving developers flexibility and freedom can be an important tool in attracting better talent.
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7. SHARE MAINTENANCE COSTS
You can solve your enterprise problems while effectively sharing some of the maintenance costs. One of the fundamental advantages of open source is community involvement. Rather than writing an application and having to sustain it yourself, you can share the cost of maintaining and sustaining applications among multiple parties.
8. THE FUTURE
Open source is the future. Web, mobile, and cloud solutions are increasingly built predominantly on open source infrastructure. Some data and analytic solutions are only available in open source.
Future architectures are highly likely to be based on open source, as they are today in mobile solutions with the Android platform; web solutions, where the large majority of websites are based on open source technology; and cloud solutions, where almost all, with the exception of Microsoft’s cloud, are based on open source solutions as well.
Open source is a good investment in the future.
Where are you using open source now? And where would you like to be using it in the coming year?
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Last week, I wrote a post in which I rounded up some of the Canning 101 entries I’d previously published. At the end, I asked for suggestions as to other topic areas that you all felt needed some clarification. A bunch of you offered up some really great suggestions and so I’m going to spend the next few weeks working through your questions.
To start, I’m going to define some common canning terms. Like so many activities, canning does have its own vocabulary and it’s important that we’re all speaking the same language.
Boiling Water Canner: Also known as a boiling water bath or hot water bath. It is a large pot, tall enough to fully submerge your canning jars with an inch of water over top. It is for both the sterilization of jars prior to filling and also for boiling the jars once they are filled.
Canning Rack: A shallow rack that elevates your jars slightly off the bottom of the canning pot. It can be a rack designed precisely for this purpose or it can be a round cake cooling rack. Canners use these racks for two purposes. The first is to keep the jars from being in direct contact with the heat of the stove. The second is to ensure that the boiling water is able to be in contact with all facets of the jars.
Processing: This is the term most often used for the time when you submerge your full jars in the Boiling Water Canner and boil them for the amount of time prescribed by your recipe.
Set point: 220 degrees. Also known as the gel point. This is what you look for when cooking jam without pectin.
Siphoning: When small amounts of your product seeps out of the jars during process or cooling. This happens most often when the jars have been insufficiently bubbled or undergo drastic changes in temperature. You can prevent it in some cases by doing a better job of bubbling your jars, or leaving your jars in the canner with the heat off for a few minutes when the time is up.
Bubbling: The process of removing any air bubbles from your jars before applying the lids and rings. This is done to help prevent liquid loss during or after processing.
Cold Pack: This is when you pack your jars with raw ingredients (cucumbers, green beans, cherries, etc.) and then filling them with hot brine or syrup. This is of particular benefit when you’re working with more fragile ingredients that need to have their exposure to heat limited as much as possible.
Hot Pack: This is when you simmer the fruit or vegetable that you’re working to preserve in the brine or syrup prior to filling jars. I particularly like doing this with peaches, as they shrink a bit in the syrup and so I’m able to squeeze a few more slices into the jars.
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Imagine all the ways having an extra eye could make life easier. Lucky for iguanas, they don't have to imagine! With the help of this stimulating volume, reptile-loving readers will learn about these scaly creatures, from their diets and habitats to how exactly that extra eye comes in handy. Colorful photographs provide a close-up view of these wonderful reptiles and keep readers engaged while they absorb important life science concepts. Informative text is laid out in sections that are easy to digest, making for a book that your readers will benefit from.
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Writer-Director Billy Wilder’s 1944 film “Double Indemnity” is considered by many to be the definitive example of that style known as Film Noir. Cynicism, femme Fatales, dark, shadowy images. These are all the things that make up the style of film which was made in America during the 1940s and 1950s. The term wasn’t used by Hollywood and didn’t gain a great deal of traction until the 1970s. French film critics coined it noticing a certain similarity in many crime films.
Based on James M. Cain’s novel of the same name, “Double Indemnity” is the story of insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), whose been in the game a long time and is slicker than an iced-over road. Neff pays a call to the Dietrichson household to check in about a car claim that’s past due. Neff meets Mrs. Dietrichson, Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck). Phylis is a bored and dissatisfied housewife, almost immediately sparks fly between the two.
Phyllis works on Neff to come up with a scheme to convince her husband to sign up for a life insurance policy. Neff, using his knowledge of the company, works out a way to murder Mr. Dietchrsion in a way that won’t be questioned by anyone at the company. Neff’s biggest fear is his boss, claims manager Barton Keys, played fantastically by Edward G. Robinson. Keys has a sort of “second sight” about these things and it’s almost impossible to pull the wool over his eyes in any combination.
“Double Indemnity” is, rightfully, considered one of the greatest American movies ever made. The script, which Wilder co-wrote along with famed Noir novelist Raymond Chandler, cracks with the kind of snappy dialogue that’s been parodied ten times over in every Noir spoof ever made. Wilder, who was very fond of biting the hand that fed him, took a novel that everyone in Hollywood said could never be filmed and turned it into a crackerjack of a movie.
Billy Wilder is one of my favorite directors and “Double Indemnity” is one of his best films. To those who may only know Noir through cliques, you may see this movie and feel like it’s full of them. That’s because so many things took inspiration from this movie. A lot of the Noir stereotypes that are the backbone of the genre can be found in this movie. This was one of the first movies ever made where the protagonists are the bad guys.
The Criterion Collection releases “Double Indemnity” this week for the first time in 4K Ultra HD, and for the first time an edition from them. The original negative for the film is long gone, so this new 4K digital restoration was sourced from a 35mm nitrate composite fine-grain held by the British Film Institute. A 35mm lately film duplicate negative made in 1986 from a now-gone nitrate element was used to replace missing frames from the BFI fine-grain.
The results are truly outstanding. I’ve never seen “Double Indemnity” look so dark. The shadows are deep and rich, it’s hard to imagine the film looking better than it does here. This is noir turned to 11. The image can be a touch soft here and there, but considering no original negatives still exist that’s not a problem. Overall, this is a very impressive image. The sound is uncompressed mono audio taken from the nitrate fine-grain’s optical track. It sounds clear and sharp.
Criterion has loaded down this edition of “Double Indemnity,” first off it’s a three-disc collection. One UHD disc and two regular blu-ray discs. The UHD disc features the movie and the commentary track by film critic Richard Schickel which dates back to the first DVD release from Universal in 2006, the documentary from that release is also ported over here, but you won’t find that edition's inclusion of the 1973 TV movie of the week remake—not a loss.
New features include an interview with scholar Noah Isenberg and a conversation between TCM host and noir expert Eddie Muller with historian Imogen Sara Smith. Two radio adaptations and a trailer round out the bonus material on the first blu-ray, which also has the full movie and commentary track. The second blu-ray features the 1992 film “Billy, How Did you Do It?” That features interviews with Wilder.
Criterion has, unsurprisingly, knocked it out of the park and made the best home edition of “Double Indemnity” to date. The film is an important landmark in American cinema and the development of Film Noir. It’s well worth owning and this new edition would fit home nicely in your collection. Absolutely recommended. See you next week. | <urn:uuid:11d77daa-c8fd-48f7-bd1e-678732ee94d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theloafer.net/post/double-indemnity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957806 | 1,061 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Macroprudential decision: A minimum risk weight level of 15% on mortgage loans, no changes to the loan cap, no countercyclical capital buffer requirement
The Board of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) has set a minimum risk weight level of 15% for residential mortgage loans applicable to credit institutions that have adopted the Internal Ratings Based Approach for the calculation of capital requirements. The decision on the 15% minimum risk weight will enter into force as from 1 January 2018, in accordance with the plan announced earlier, and will be valid for two years. The entry into force of the decision is subject to the EU Council not objecting to the decision.
The Board did not apply any other macroprudential tools. The loan cap remains unchanged, i.e. the maximum loan-to-value ratio will remain at 90% (for a first home purchase at 95%) and the collateral security requirements will remain unchanged. The countercyclical capital buffer requirement (variable capital add-on) applicable to banks will remain at 0.0%.
'Higher risk weights are aimed at strengthening the resilience of the financial system', says Dr Olli Rehn, Chairman of the Board of the FIN-FSA. 'Although growth in indebtedness has faded, household indebtedness is still at a high level.'
The size of the risk weight determines the amount of own funds that a credit institution must hold on its balance sheet to hedge against credit losses from residential mortgages. The minimum risk weight applies to the average risk weight on residential mortgages from credit institutions, and it is set under Article 458 of the Capital Requirements Regulation. Upon proposal by the European Commission and opinions issued by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and the European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU Council may reject a measure proposed by a Member State.
The credit-to-GDP gap, used as the primary indicator for setting a countercyclical capital buffer requirement, continues to give a reference value of 0.0% for the countercyclical capital buffer requirement. The credit-to-GDP gap has shown a downward trend since 2010, and the latest observation is the smallest since 2003. In addition, the supplementary risk indicators used in preparation of the assessment are not signalling such an increase in financial system cyclical vulnerabilities as would necessitate a higher countercyclical capital buffer requirement. Nor are key indicators pointing to an immediate need to tighten the conditions for the maximum loan-to-value ratio.
The Board of the FIN-FSA made its decision upon a proposal by the Director General of the FIN-FSA and after consultation with the Bank of Finland, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. In accordance with the regulations governing the Single Supervisory Mechanism, the European Central Bank was also consulted in respect of the decision.
For further information, please contact
- Peik Granlund, Financial Analyst, tel. +358 9 183 5236.
The Bank of Finland and the Financial Supervisory Authority today published an assessment of the domestic macroprudential situation (Macroprudential Report 1/2017, in Finnish only), which will support decision-making. The report is published bi-annually.
- Board decision (pdf)
- Proposal by the Director General of the FIN-FSA circulated for comment (pdf, in Finnish)
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As an element of a larger corpus entitled The fresco of life, The Scream was painted in 1893. Besides this marvellous canvas, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch bequeathed to humanity a text as a byway right to his inspiration: “I walked with two friends. Then the sun sank. Suddenly the sky turned as red as blood, and I felt a touch of sadness. I stood still, and leant against the railings. Above the bluish-black fjord and above the city the sky was like blood and flames. My friends walked on, and I was left alone, trembling with fear. I felt as if all nature were filled with one mighty unending shriek.” An eloquent work of silence, to put it simple. | <urn:uuid:8ce120b1-d33b-4658-89e3-c4389b46f25d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/metal37/metal-no-37-remaking-the-past-by-alexandra-von-fuerst-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979446 | 160 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Most of the 13 million taxpayers who get a return this year, averaging at $3,600, are putting the money into savings or paying off debt.
The findings by global accountants H&R Block have alarmed retailers who want them to spend the money as the sector worries about shaky consumer confidence.
Australian Retailers Association executive director Russell Zimmerman said the sector wants money to come in during the tax return period.
"Certainly there are hopes people will spend their refunds as consumer confidence remains a concern for retailers," he said.
"We're seeing around 4.6 per cent year-on-year growth in the retail sector, which is good, but we'd like to see that increase to over six per cent.
"The retail sector employs around 10 per cent of the Australian working population and we need to see it supported."
H&R Block spokesman Mark Chapman said given uncertainty around the economy, it was not surprising only around 10 per cent of taxpayers would spend their refund on things like holidays, electronics, cars, gifts and new outfits.
"Australians will be using their 2015 refunds to pay off their debts, especially as credit card interest rates still average close to 20 per cent," he said.
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Things to do with Mountain Gorillas : Am sure if you have booked your mountain gorilla trekking trip, you already know you will be spending one hour with the gorillas. And one hour may seem too short and too long for others but it’s the allocated time for trekkers during the mountain trekking experience.
So depending on where you fall on the spectrum – whether you feel, one hour is long or whether you feel one hour is short we are sure you can spend that hour well and enjoy it to the fullest. So here are some of the things you do in that one hour you spend with the mountain gorillas.
- Watch them
You watch them, the reason you on this trekking trip or experience is to watch mountain gorillas so you have to take time and just watch them, watch them as they go about their gorilla business, feed, interact with each other, play, use different things around them etc. Generally just watch.
- Take photos
Then also take photos for keeping the record. You can take as many photos as you wish or like or as many as your garget can handle at the time. You can take photos of the surrounding, of the gorillas, of the gorilla trekking group, of yourself in the presence of the gorillas of anything you wish. You have one hour, so make it count.
As you take the photos please remember to keep your flash off. Flash photography is not good for the gorillas.
- Cross check facts
If you are one of those trekkers who came well-read and informed about the gorillas, you can cross check you facts with what you are seeing in front of you. Sometimes what you have read may not correlate with what you seeing or it may correlate so, just cross check;- make use of your one hour with the gorillas.
- Observe and take notes
On the other hand you may be the one who is going to write on the gorillas so you can keenly observe and take notes of what you are seeing. How the mountain gorillas are behaving and all the other things happening while you are in the presence of the mountain gorillas. You never know you may need to refer to these notes some time in future.
- Ask for explanations from the rangers
On the trekking experience you have a mountain gorilla trekking ranger who is also your guide on this activity. So ask all you need to know about the gorillas and anything you need to know about mountain gorillas and mountain gorillas trekking. You can ask as you observe the gorillas, but remember do not point in the gorillas.
- Enjoy the forest atmosphere
Enjoy the forest, when was the last time you were in a forest stationery and secure that nothing is going to happen to you, you there legally with company no one is chasing you. Enjoy the forest, learn the tree species and get more information about them. You have the time so use it.
Basically those are some of the things you can do with your one hour in the presence of the mountain gorillas. You should also know that there are things you shouldn’t do, which are:-
- Do not engage in behavior that will irritate the gorillas
- Do not get so close to the gorillas – always keep a 7 meter distance
- Do not use flash photography
- Do not feed the gorillas
- Do not touch the gorillas
- Do not shout in front of the gorilla
- Do not make funny noises
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After months and months of incurring a litany of salty tweets from melting orange popsicle Donald Trump, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has finally fired back, and it is glorious to behold.
After President Barack Obama publicly endorsed Clinton on June 9, Trump (predictably) tweeted his reaction—in this case, illuminating his disdain for the current POTUS and Clinton—all the while referring to the first female candidate in a national general election by his favorite epithet, “Crooked Hillary.”
Clinton (or rather, one of the members of her social media team) responded to Trump’s post with a curt and effective gem.
Vox broke down the meaning of “delete your account,” which can be categorized as typical jokester jargon, rather than a literal request or order:
“Delete your account” is a pretty standard joke tweet, especially in political and media Twitter (which both the people writing “Hillary Clinton’s” tweets and the people reading them in the middle of a Thursday afternoon are likely to be familiar with). But this is a well-executed iteration of it.
You don’t tweet “delete your account” in response to an outrageous or offensive tweet, because it’s not a serious demand. So many of the things that Trump tweets (or retweets) wouldn’t be appropriate targets. Rather, “delete your account” is used when someone has tried to be funny on Twitter — for example, by attempting to land a sick burn — and failed.
After the tweet went viral, Trump attempted a retort with a strategy that can only be described as “part obvious redirect, part quasi-conspiracy theory.”
Here’s the answer, courtesy of Samantha Bee:
Contact the author at email@example.com.
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The rains that hit New Delhi last week were bad news for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the biggest sporting spectacle ever to come to India. The event's two shooting ranges, one of them inaugurated just 60 days ago, were extensively damaged in the downpour. A week earlier, the temporary roof of the table-tennis court in the Yamuna Sports Complex collapsed under another deluge, and the new Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Swimming Complex, hyped as the best aquatic arena in the country, is now a mess of debris, electric cables and leaking eaves.
But it's not just bad weather that's plaguing India's efforts to get ready in time for its gold-medal moment in October. Inside the new showcase Nehru Stadium, construction of the weight-lifting arena was neglected until the end of July. A young swimmer this week tripped on a loose grill and hurt herself during the National Federation Cup, a test event held at the recently finished Talkatora Stadium. According to a six-month investigation and report by India's top anticorruption agency, the Commonwealth Games' infrastructure is in all-around bad shape, chiefly because of "large-scale corruption, usage of substandard material and repeated delays."
TIME obtained a copy of the Central Vigilance Commission's report, first made public on CNN-IBN on Wednesday, July 28. The report warns that the games, expected to draw at least 150,000 spectators, might turn into a hazard for athletes and spectators alike. Among the findings: "electrical installations not tested in 14 out of the 17 venues"; "quality-test records are fabricated to show compliance"; "quality of anticorrosive treatment on reinforcement steel was found poor"; "concrete core samples taken from the already laid concrete also failed to meet the requirement of strength during testing in an independent outside laboratory." The list goes on. "There is no guarantee of quality of the work done for the games," the report warns. "Electrical mishaps cannot be ruled out."
The Commonwealth Games, first held in 1930, draw athletes from countries of the former British Commonwealth and are billed as a prestige event. For a country that had been hoping to showcase its best to international tourists and media, India now seems to just hope to avoid disaster, with only two months remaining until the Oct. 3 opening ceremony. Whispers of corruption and shoddy construction have been making the rounds of the capital for months. On a recent visit to two of the 17 venues, the problems described in the Vigilance Commission's report were obvious. There were loose tiles, loose grilles, unfinished staircases and seating arrangements, protruding iron rods, leaking roofs and walls, and debris inside and out.
The report also found pervasive overcharging by the private contractors building the new venues. The Delhi government, the Sport Authority of India, and the central government, which bears most of the games' cost, oversee construction for the games, but all have so far refused to comment on the problems found in the Vigilance Commission report. In an interview this week, Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the organizing committee for the games, absolved himself of responsibility for the construction problems: "It's not our business to oversee the making of the stadiums. My job is to run the games, not construct stadiums."
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday, July 29, minimized the problems. "I have reviewed the situation with the Cabinet Secretary on Wednesday, and I am satisfied that all necessary preparations are in place and will be in place," he said. "We look forward to a very successful games."
But the projected cost of the event has already exploded from an initial estimate of $75 million (3.45 billion rupees) to nearly $7.6 billion (350 billion rupees). And if the games go awry, there will be a political cost as well. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's main opposition party, says the games are turning into a major embarrassment for the country and warns that it will hold the ruling Congress Party accountable. "There is no way out now," says senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde. "And if, God forbid, the games flop, they have to answer to the nation and the world."
This view is not limited to the opposition. A.K. Walia, a Congress Party politician from Delhi and member of the Commonwealth Coordination Committee, is not sure if all the venues will be ready by the Aug. 15 deadline, when they are supposed to be handed over to the organizing committee. After an inspection of some of the incomplete venues this week, Walia criticized the way the work was being handled. "The way the work is going on, I have doubts over some of the games venues, but I hope that they will be ready in time," he said.
To make matters worse, many top athletes have already decided to give the games a pass, from Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser to British cycling champion Victoria Pendleton and Australian tennis star Samantha Stosur. And for the first time in 44 years, Queen Elizabeth II will not attend, sending Prince Charles in her place. The Queen cited a busy social calendar as her reason for missing the games. Given the new concerns over safety, Delhi's other invited guests may soon be sending regrets as well.
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A second deer is on the mend, after being caught in a wire snare in downtown Sitka.
State Fish & Game biologist Phil Mooney shot the doe with a tranquilizer dart Tuesday (9-16-14) near the Hames Center. Like a deer captured last Friday, this animal also had a smooth wire around its neck.
Mooney says the doe did not appear to have a fawn, and is younger than the previous deer. It probably broke the snare loose struggling to free itself. Other than a couple of scabs from being poked by the wire ends, the deer was uninjured.
Based on the size of the wire, Mooney believes the two deer were snared unintentionally. Still, he says, “It’s not a good thing.”
Like its predecessor, this deer received antibiotics, an ear tag, and a bright orange collar with a Global Positioning System data recorder. Mooney will include the animal in a local habitat study with several other deer. The collar will release automatically next summer.
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Securing Your Car, Motorbike or Bike
Securing Your Automobile
Always lock your doors. Be certain all windows are totally shut. When driving, keep all doors secured. It is most ideal to park in attended lots. If you have to leave a key with someone, leave only the ignition part if possible. In all cases lock your car. At night, park in well-lighted locations.
Even if you have a garage area, make sure you’ve locked your car as well.
Among 3 methods might be used to protect the car even further:
- An anti theft steering wheel lock to prevent the wheel from being turned. They are inexpensive, easily applied and removed.
- An audible alarm. Yes, they are obnoxious and loud but they also make your car less desirable because there is unwanted attention on it.
- If you don’t want or can’t spring for an alarm, placing decals that say you have an alarm and a small decoy flashing light on the top of the dash can do the trick. This will deter a lot of criminals looking for the easiest target.
Protecting Your Bike
You don’t leave your automobile unlocked, so manage your bike the same way.
Use an authorized chain and padlock whenever you are not on the seat! Lock it to the garage area – with a 3/8″ x 6″ eye screw fastened to a stud. The eye screw must be at the very least 3 feet above the floor, because this uses a crowbar a lot more hard.
Whenever you lock your bike in a public area, chain it to a safe shelf or put it through the framework and a wheel. Keep the bike in plain view.
This minimizes the take advantage of for a crowbar or bolt cutter assault.
Minimum Criterion for an Approved Chain
A chain really needs to be a the very least 5/16″ hardened steel alloy. Links should be of continuous bonded building. Lighter chain, or chain with open web links just will not hold up well to bolt cutters.
Securing Your Motorcycle
After making the investment in this mode of transportation that can cost almost as much as or sometimes even more than a car it makes no sense to skimp. The bike should be safeguarded with a mated 3/8″ set steel alloy chain and a padlock of equivalent strength. Sheathed wire has not proven to be a very effective way to prevent burglary.
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Boisterous celebrations by Syrians on New Year’s Eve in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, where the Syrian flag and Free Syrian Army (FSA) banners were waved amidst anti-Assad chants, has reignited the heated debate in Turkey over Syrian refugees.
Many are claiming Syrian youngsters are enjoying a good time in Turkey instead of traveling to Syria — “where Turkish soldiers are fighting and dying” — to liberate their country from a tyrant.
Fact and fiction are entwined in this debate, which is laced with accusations of racism and intolerance. Many Turks are angry, for example, over the privileges the government has been extending to Syrians while ordinary Turks struggle to eke out a living. Many also argue that Syrians are undercutting the labor market and depriving Turks of their livelihood. Also fueling the debate is “Syrian ghettoization” in Istanbul and other cities, where certain districts have been overrun with Arabic shop signs.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to boast about the 3.6 million Syrians Turkey has given shelter to. He also complains that Turkey has been footing the bill while European countries squabble over quotas on how many refugees they will accept. Ankara says it has spent over $30 billion from its own coffers on the refugees so far.
There is some justification to what Ankara says. Turkey has also been commended by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for the burden it has assumed in this respect.
Despite such praise, though, disgruntlement over the presence of the Syrians is becoming more vocal in the Turkish media. The concerns of ordinary Turks include demographic, economic, social, cultural and security issues stemming from such a large injection of foreigners into Turkey.
Most pro-government analysts presume that criticizing the presence of the Syrians is merely another device the opposition is using to hit at Erdogan and his government. Nevertheless, there are those in the pro-government media who are concerned that the presence of the Syrians will cause serious social unrest.
There are also strong opponents of the Erdogan government who accuse those complaining about the presence of the Syrians of intolerance and racism, demonstrating just how complex the issue has become for Turkey.
According to Turkey’s Directorate General of Migration Management, Syrians in Turkey surpassed 3.6 million in 2018. Even thought 291,000 refugees returned to Syria after Turkey’s Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations in 2017 and 2018, respectively, the total number of Syrian refugees increased in 2018 by 187,000.
Sevilay Yilman, a Haberturk columnist who is known for her incendiary articles, kicked of the debate after she deplored the spectacle of the Syrians in Taksim Square on New Year’s Eve.
“Taksim is no longer the Taksim we knew from previous New Year’s celebrations,” Yilman, who has stood by Erdogan’s government in the past, bemoaned. “The Syrians that filled Taksim Square were not celebrating but demonstrating.”
Yilman argued, “Everyone wishes the Syrians to be free. But Syrians who want to see that happen even more than us should not be waving those flags in Taksim, but in Syria. … Rather than shouting and yelling in Taksim they should join our soldiers in Syria who are keeping watch there night and day.”
Yasin Aktay, an adviser to Erdogan, refuted the claim that Turkish soldiers were fighting for Syria. “Turkey is in Syria primarily to protect its borders and its people from the threat of terrorism and invasion,” Aktay wrote in the pro-government Yeni Safak. He was referring mainly to Turkey’s fight against the Kurdish People's Protection Units, which Ankara says is a terrorist group that threatens Turkey’s security.
“The greatest support in this task comes from heroic young Syrians who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with Turkish soldiers,” Aktay added.
However, Aktay’s fellow Yeni Safak columnist Hasan Ozturk supported Yilman, arguing that the lifestyles Syrians are forcing on Turkey would pose serious problems in the future.
“We don’t say the Syrians should forget their traditions, but they have the responsibility of complying with the rules of the countries they have taken refuge in,” Ozturk wrote. “To argue that we successfully incorporated a large population in our midst is nothing but negligence, and amount to sweeping the problem under the carpet.”
Meanwhile, many situations have arisen that serve as reminders of the social problems the presence of the Syrians is causing around the country.
In September, violence erupted against Syrian refugees in the eastern province of Sirnak after a fight between Turkish and Syrian children escalated into a pitch battle between the families and resulted in the Syrian side shooting and killing two Turkish brothers. Syrian shops and houses were attacked and damaged by infuriated locals, resulting in 45 arrests and the expulsion from Turkey of 639 Syrians. In October, 250 Syrians in the western province of Denizli were relocated following demonstrations by locals after a number of Syrians allegedly harassed a 14-year-old girl.
These are by no means unique cases. Many independent observers believe incidents such as these are generally underreported by the pro-government media.
Political talk show presenter Fatih Altayli has indirectly suggested that the government’s avid support for the Syrians owes to their Muslim identity. Writing for Haberturk, Altayli referred to the government’s argument that the Syrians were from lands that were once part of Turkey — meaning the Ottoman Empire — a century ago. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has contended that Syrians should be welcomed as kin by Turks because of this history.
To highlight his point, Altayli speculated about unlikely scenarios in Greece or Armenia that could force millions to seek shelter in Turkey and questioned whether the welcome extended to Syrians would have been shown them.
Nationalist commentator Mehmet Farac also wrote a provocative article in which he asked rhetorically whether it is Syria or Turkey that is under occupation. Farac claimed that the tax exemptions, social benefits and free medical care extended to the Syrians by the government are angering Turks and preparing the ground for serious social conflict. He wrote, “Whose shame is it that our citizens in need of medical care have to get Syrians to apply for them in order to obtain it?”
The government maintains that that scope of the assistance provided Syrian refugees is being grossly exaggerated by the opposition, but undermines its own case by stating that it has spent $30 billion to date on the refugees.
Meanwhile, some pro-government commentators are invoking what they refer to as “European tolerance for outsiders” to counter anti-Syrian sentiments in Turkey. Resul Tosun from Star newspaper, which acts as a mouthpiece for the government, is one of them.
“I was surprised when I saw the Turkish district in Berlin or saw the Turkish and Arabic shop in Preston, New York. It saddens me to see our excessive reactions to our co-religionists the Syrians when Germans and Americans show foreigners such tolerance,” Tosun wrote.
What is really surprising is that columnists like Tosun, who represent a point of view that usually vilifies the West over its intolerance for Muslims, are all of a sudden lauding the West for its tolerance for outsiders.
Seasoned political analyst Fehmi Koru laid out Turkey's situation in stark terms. “You understand the situation better when you talk to these people. Although they miss their country, they make it evident that they will continue to live among us,” Koru wrote in his widely read daily blog. “Whether we like it or not, our country will have a significant Arab population after a while,” he argued.
Koru went on to stress the need to take advantage of the benefits that Syrian professionals could provide Turkey, rather than forcing them to seek their future in the West because of the disregard they face in this country.
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Square A has side lengths each measuring x inches. Square B has side lengths each measuring 2x inches. What is the ratio of the area of the smaller square to the area of the larger square? Express your answer as a common fraction.
Area of smaller square = x^2
Area of larger square= (2x)^2 = 4x^2
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Arts Council Azerbaijan draws attention to ecological issues [PHOTO]
By Laman Ismayilova
Some of the world's biggest environmental problems like global warming, climate change, waste disposal and water pollution cause threats to the whole planet
Arts Council Azerbaijan actively draws attention to emerging issues of environmental concern.
A comic book "On the Caspian Sea shore" has been presented at the Sumgayit Youth House at the initiative of the organization with the support of the French Embassy in Azerbaijan.
The idea ofpublishing the comic belongs to the Saglam Dushunje Youth Organization.
The project draws the attention of young people to ecological issues.
The work on the comic book "On the Caspian Sea shore" brought together talented scriptwriter Hikmat Mursalzade, editor Ismayil Asadov, artist Esmira Aslanova.
The head of the Arts Council Azerbaijan Dadash Mammadov and Nigar Muzaffarova also took part in the work on the project.
Speaking at the event, the Cultural Adviser of the French Embassy Jerome stressed the importance of the new comic book and its contribution to youth education.
The head of the Arts Council Azerbaijan Dadash Mammadov noted that the topic covered in the comic is very important and relevant.
"The comics format allows you to reveal the necessary topic, making it exciting and concise for children and teenagers. Teenagers show great interest in comics, and therefore this format allows them to clearly and meaningfully inform them on such a serious and important topic as ecology.
Arts Council Azerbaijan has already worked on the comics on social topics. The organization plans to continue work in this direction.
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The Origins of Homophobia
In the latter days of the Roman Empire, after the adoption of Christianity as the official state religion, a long, dark period of anti-sexual, homophobic, pleasure-denying control of the human spirit began. The roots of this prejudice are so deep they have been forgotten in the modern world.
Back in the late 19th century, a time when the spiritual and mystical was still more engaged in society than it was a century later - and people were more educated in classical literature and history - early pioneers of gay liberation definitely and defiantly could still feel the connection to the religious and political reasons that the world turned against us, and knew of the associations in ancient times between queer people and the sacred.
In those ancient days the shoots of gay repression were noticed. Plato wrote:
"Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) believed all of humanity would eventually shake off the morbid, body-denying religions of the world to free the pure soul within:
"The meaning of the old religions will come back to him. On the high tops once more gathering he will celebrate with naked dances the glory of the human form and the great processions of the stars, or greet the bright horn of the young moon which now after a hundred centuries comes back laden with such wondrous associations – all the yearnings and the dreams and the wonderment of the generations of mankind – the worship of Astarte and of Diana, of Isis or the Virgin Mary; once more in sacred groves will he reunite the passion and the delight of human love with his deepest feelings of the sanctity and beauty of Nature; or in the open, standing uncovered to the Sun, will adore the emblem of the everlasting splendour which shines within” Edward Carpenter, Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure 1889
What the world forgot, and queer people are now gradually remembering, is that we were once prominent in sacred roles in the pagan world. Victorian gay writers knew this, and some modern writers since the 1970s have been reclaiming it too - so have some queers, in our hidden sanctuaries around the world -and since 2016 in public at QUEER SPIRIT FESTIVAL - but the mainstream, commercially driven gay culture does not grasp or share this fact. It usually keeps its consciousness firmly locked in the lower chakras.
John Addington-Symonds (1840-1893) wrote:
"...it is of the highest importance to obtain a correct conception of the steps whereby the Christian nations, separating themselves from ancient paganism, introduced a new and stringent morality into their opinion on this topic, and enforced their ethical views by legal prohibitions of a very formidable kind."
Frankly, this hasn't yet happened, and although certain gay prophets in the late 20th century - such as Arthur Evans ('Witchcraft and the Gay Counter-Culture"), Larry Mitchell ('The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions'), Judy Grahn ('Another Mother Tongue'), Randy P. Connor ('Blossom of Bone') - pointed the way, as yet the queer community has not embraced this past. The modern queer movement tracks its history usually only as far back as the 1960s, at most to the 19th century, and buys into the bizarre idea that homosexuality and transsexuality, as identities, are a solely modern phenomenon.
"Christ uttered no opinion upon what we now call sexual inversion. Neither light nor leading comes from Him, except such as may be indirectly derived from his treatment of the woman taken in adultery. When the Empire adopted Christianity, it had therefore the traditions of the Mosaic law and the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans to guide its legislators on this topic. The Emperors felt obscurely that the main pulses of human energy were slackening; population all tended to dwindle; the territory of the empire shrank slowly year by year before their eyes. As the depositaries of a higher religion and a nobler morality, they felt it their duty to stamp out pagan customs, and to unfurl the banner of social purity. The corruption of the Roman cities had become abominable. The laziness and cowardice of Roman citizens threatened the commonwealth with ruin. To repress sexual appetites was not the ruler's object. It was only too apparent that these natural desires no longer prompted the people to sufficient procreation or fertility. The brood begotten upon Roman soil was inadequate to cope with the inrushing tide of barbarians. Wisdom lay in attempting to rehabilitate marriage, the family domestic life. Meanwhile a certain vice ran riot through society, a vice for which Jehovah had rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom, a vice which the Mosaic code punished with death, a vice threatened by St. Paul with "that recompence of their error which was meet."
"Justinian, in A.D., seems to have been terrified by famines, earthquakes and pestilences. He saw, or professed to see, in these visitations the avenging hand of Jehovah, the "recompence which was meet" mysteriously prophesied by St. Paul. Thereupon he fulminated his edict against unnatural sinners, whereby they were condemned to torments and the supreme penalty of death. The preamble to his famous Novella sets forth the principles on which it has been framed: "Lest as the result of these impious acts whole cities should perish together with their inhabitants; for we are taught by Holy Scripture, to wit that through these acts cities have perished with the men in them.... It is on account of such crimes that famines and earthquakes take place, and also pestilences." Before Justinian, both Constantine and Theodosius passed laws against sexual inversion, committing the offenders to "avenging flames." But these statutes were not rigidly enforced, and modern opinion on the subject may be said to flow from Justinian's legislation."
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Beyond Good and Evil, wrote that "Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice"
Following the fall of the Roman Empire the Catholic Church set out to form alliances with newly emerging rulers, gradually gaining vast power, money and influence. There were other Christian groupings that resisted the spreading influence of the Church - they objected to its wealth, its authoritarianism and its efforts to suppress women and sexuality. Some of these became so powerful - such as the Cathars who were dominant in south western France, that armies were sent to suppress them, and their reputation tainted in the eyes of the mass population by emphasising the 'sexual deviance' going on in the groups. European Christians did the same thing when they arrived in north America and discovered the holy shamans were cross-dressing, gender-bending queers - they labelled them 'berdache', a slang term for a gay bottom.
In the late Middle Ages a tide of virulent homophobia swept through Europe, with legislation enacted similar to that of the late Roman Empire, much of it revealing the mutuality in the minds of people at the time between homosexuality, heresy and magic. Once again the population was declining, due to plagues and wars, and homosexuality was increasingly normalised amongst the religious communities - medieval monks have left us love letters, treatises (such as Aelred of Rievaulx's On Spiritual Friendship), and other writings (such as the Debate Between Ganymede and Helen, which echoes works from ancient Greece). Benedictine monk Bernard of Cluny in France wrote that same sex lovers "are as numerous as grains of barley, as many as the shells of he sea, or the sand of the shore." The Inquisition was given the power to prosecute people for gay sex, because it was assumed that the act itself was a sign of heretical beliefs. Attempts by the medieval Church to eradicate same sex love from its priesthood (which are evidenced by the many rules for priests that mention it), entirely failed, but in the second millennium the Church tried another tactic - by turning its attention to and encouraging laws regulating the sex lives of the general population, the atmosphere changed, the people themselves became homophobic and started doing the Church's dirty work for it. The first attempt in England to have sodomy declared a deadly sin from every pulpit, at the Council of London 1102, was blocked by Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury who stated that sodomy was common and regarded as normal by most people. 500 years later when Henry V111 brought in the Buggery Act he used it to justify shutting down the Catholic monasteries, which had long been safe havens for queers. But in following centuries this law was enforced with more rigour against same sex lovers from all levels of society, and although in England persecution of queers came later than in continental Europe, it went on for much longer too.
It took two centuries of the so-called Enlightenment in the West and scientific advancement before the Anglo-Saxon nations repealed their vicious homophobic laws. For by the time religion lost its hold on men's minds it had done its dirty work of poisoning them against queer people, the prejudice was ingrained. The Latin nations fared better, with repeal of anti-gay laws coming in France for example in the Napoleonic revolution of the late 18th century, though obviously the attitude of the Catholic Church left its marks on us and society.
It was reason and justice, and eventually, after a long time, medical and scientific sanity that prompted the massive shift in attitudes towards queer people in the West. Now, having once exported its homophobia, the West now seeks to spread its ideas of tolerance and respect. As it does so we come across the fact that in so many cultures the world over there is still some memory of the time when queerkind held spiritual, sacred roles. This happened the world over, from the mahu in Polynesia, to the Indian hijra, the Angolan Quimbanda to the Native American Two Spirit.
Once queer people held sacred power in Europe too. The modern LGBTQ+ movement pays this little attention, gives it no air, no credence. But at Queer Spirit Festival this is exactly what we celebrate. Here we explore the deeply creative, loving, spiritual and mystical energies of QUEER.
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To answer the question in a word, “No.” There’s something amiss with your sleep routine, whether by choice or by physical or mental condition that needs correcting, if you’re constantly tired in the daytime.
If you’re not deliberately burning your candles at both ends, robbing you of precious sleep, and you experience any of the difficulties listed in the following bullet points, you should seek professional help:
- Feeling sleeping and/or irritable in the daytime
- Having difficulty staying awake while sitting and reading or watching television
- Feeling tired or actually drifting off while driving
- Facing trouble concentrating
- Hearing comments from others about how tired you look
- Finding your reactions slowed down
- Taking a nap daily or nearly daily
- Loading up on caffeine in the day to keep going
If you find yourself with any of these symptoms, you should first examine your sleep hygiene (we’ve published quite a few posts here on good sleep habits) and then seek professional advice from a sleep clinic or doctor.
Insomnia is the most common sleep problem in the U.S., but your sleep can also be interrupted by allergies, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), restless leg syndrome (RLS) and narcolepsy. None of these problems is something you should put up with, and all will rob you of the rejuvenation your body and mind need at night.
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When people want to buy/sell crypto, they often ask the following questions:
Many times, when I say “crypto investment”, they think that means investing in a get-rich-quick scheme. This is not what we mean here. What we are going to talk about here is the difference between trading and investment. If you trade crypto then you are looking for a quick profit, you might be a day trader or swing trader and that’s fine.
Those guys who trade on an exchange usually sit in front of their computer screen, watching the charts all day long. They pick up coins that have volume and pump them to make money. A lot of guys dabble in trading to make some quick cash, and some of them are very good at it. This is not what we are going to talk about here though.
What is the difference between Crypto Trading and Investing?
Some people think trading and investment are the same things but there is a big difference between the two. Investing in crypto means you will buy coins not to sell them immediately, just like investing in stocks or bonds – you hold your coins and you wait for them to increase in value. It takes time to see results, but the reward can be much greater than what you might get from day trading or shorting crypto.
So if you buy some BTC and HODL (hold on for dear life) then at the end of the year, maybe that $100 you invested is worth $500 by today’s prices. In a year you made a 100% profit on your investment, and that was just from holding BTC. If instead, you shorted Bitcoin then sold it after it went down then maybe you made a short-term profit of $1000 or more too, great! But if the price of BTC goes up ten times in the next year then what happens to your $1000?
You would be losing money by shorting BTC and every time you sell it, you are paying a commission on top of that. So if you sell your Bitcoins for a quick profit then take out commissions into account then maybe you made a total profit of $500 or more.
The reason it’s called “crypto trading” and not “crypto investing” is because every day people trade crypto on the exchanges and make profits through BitIQ. People who invest in stocks or bonds don’t have to sit in front of their computer screens all day long watching the prices go up and down.
Should I trade or invest in Crypto?
Only invest in what you can afford to lose, and only for the amount of time that you can commit. Even if you think there is a good chance that BTC will go up in value, it might not happen this year or next year – or even 5 years from now. So don’t invest your life savings into crypto! You should only risk money that you can afford to lose.
If you are looking for short-term profits then trade, but don’t blame us when the price drops even though you only held it for a few hours. If you want large, long-term gains then invest in crypto and hold on until your investment pays off in full. Remember that the prices of all crypto assets are influenced by a lot of different factors which you can read about here.
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“You don’t get to pick what obsesses you,” said Catie Rosemurgy, the soft, late summer sunbeams streaming through the window of her Bliss Hall office.
Recently the recipient of a $60,000 Pew Fellowship, Rosemurgy’s current obsession is her latest project, tentatively titled The Small Museum of Our Burning, an interwoven collection of poetry and prose wherein she pieces together the history of Gold River, a fictional town that fans will recall from her second book, The Stranger Manual.
“All my projects tend to grow out of each other,” the associate English professor said. Though, as she began her third project, it was a far cry from the town of Gold River.
“I was attending a lot of dance and working with a choreographer and I did develop some pieces, a few of which ended up in my second book, and I thought that would be the natural extension that led into the third book,” she recalls. “When writing, the body almost disappears and you become [part of it]… dance is very much like poetry, except that it is completely embodied.”
While the similarities between dance and poetry compelled her, she can’t pinpoint the moment when that project decelerated, outpaced by her interest in researching the histories of the small lumber and shipping towns of the great American Upper Midwest.
“My interest was in this town and the history and backstory that were unknown, all the things that have happened there that you would never even know. In Philadelphia, where I live now, the history is marked with signs and there are tours, and of course there are so many things that have happened that we have no record of, but the tension between the history that is enacted by guys in Ben Franklin suits versus the stuff that is invisible and, maybe, completely lost—that kind of tension began to really obsess me.”
Loosely inspired by her formative years in Michigan and historical accounts of disasters in that part of the country, Gold River is a town haunted by fire, shipwreck, and drowning.
“There was a huge fire in the same year as the Chicago fire in 1871 that was the most destructive forest fire in the history of the United States of America, largest loss of life, huge loss of property and natural resources. Same day as the Chicago fire, which was much smaller. We know about the Chicago fire because it’s part of history.”
The unspoken questions that seem to fuel her obsession revolve around contemporary approaches to history, an interest she didn’t even know she had.
“A lot of research goes along with this, and that’s one of my favorite parts of it.”
She spends time in small museums such as the Peshtigo Fire Museum (in Peshtigo, WI), acquainting herself with the American stories and histories that haven’t made their way into textbooks.
Exploring and uncovering the history, Rosemurgy is all the while grappling with the expectations of fiction versus poetry, and blurring the genre rules in an effort to connect fiction and poetry and history.
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Hotel On North: Marrying History With The Present
A 19th century building in Pittsfield, Massachusetts has been transformed into a hotel that captures the vibrant and creative spirit of the Berkshires region. The building’s owners David and Laurie Tierney wanted to help revitalize the town where they grew up. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the building originally housed the legendary Besse-Clarke menswear and sporting goods emporium. The architect, Karen Hunt, is also a local resident. “I grew up in Pittsfield, and on Thursday nights, North Street was the go-to place. It had a real feeling of community. Working on the Besse-Clarke project was great because that was the building that people remember.”
The creative team behind Hotel on North was committed to maintaining as much of the history as possible and preserving the essence of the building. Any of the original elements that had character were either savedor repurposed. Wood floors, brick walls, tin ceilings, and wood beams were all incorporated into the new design. Many of the new elements were designed and created by local artisans and craftsmen. “We’re grateful to the many Berkshire artists, artisans, purveyors, and entrepreneurs that have banded together to help us bring Hotel on North to life,” says Co-owner Laurie Tierney. “And we’re proud to be a new milestone in Pittsfield’s cultural renaissance.”
Marvin windows were chosen because the principals were looking for quality products, reliable service, and they wanted to work with a team that would help them achieve state and federal historic tax credits, which were key to the success of the project. Karen Hunt explains, “It’s architecture 101 — the windows are the eyes of the building. They are the connection of outside to inside and inside to out. The windows on the street give a building a rhythm. They give it personality. They had to be right. Marvin and our local dealer went to great depths with us. They came to the site, measured, and gave us great advice. There are several styles of windows in the project, but my favorite are the windows in what we call the North Building. We have soaring 17 foot ceilings there and the windows are almost 9 feet high with a singular elegant divide muntin down the middle and a little segmented arch.”
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Villagers from Stung Treng whose homes stand to be flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam met with representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy at an NGO Forum-sponsored meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, in hopes of establishing a dialogue towards a long-awaited compromise.
One observer, however, said the meeting was fruitless, and faulted the government for failing to offer any new alternatives to the holdouts.
Nong Sareth, the Ministry of Mines and Energy’s deputy director of hydro-electricity, said that four villages, or 846 households, in Sesan district will be flooded as a result of the dam project. Of these households, Sareth said, 126 – or 13 percent – have not accepted compensation.
According to Sareth, compensation for each household includes one 80-square-metre house with 1,000 square metres of land, plus 5 hectares of farm land and a stipend of 20 kilograms of rice per month for one year.
Sareth said the dam will operate its first turbine in November 2017. Seven other turbines will go into operation in 2018, ultimately generating 400 megawatts of power.
But villagers remain reluctant to go. Nath Sota, an ethnic Lao villager from Sesan district’s Sre Kor village, said she wants the government to allow her and other villagers to stay on their ancestral land.
Moreover, she said her current location enables her to make a living growing crops and fishing. “I feel sorrow for my farmland, my ancestors’ tombs . . . [Even] if we would be flooded, we still want to live here,” said Sota.
Srey Libi, a villager who already accepted compensation and moved to a location 10 kilometres from the hydro dam, said that villagers who relocated found themselves lacking roads and clean water.
He added that villagers who moved no longer have work and requested that the government continue providing them with rice for five years.
Sareth responded that he would report the villagers’ concerns to his ministry and that he intends to maintain dialogue with those who did not accept compensation. He was steadfast, however, that they could not go on living in their villages, because flood waters could rise as high as 3 or 4 metres.
Bun Leap, a coordinator of 3s Rivers Protection Network (3SPN) who attended the meeting, said that yesterday’s discussion was not fruitful as the ministry did not offer the villagers any new solutions, such as allowing them to stay in four “safe” locations they have identified closer to their original homes.
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Irrigation backflow preventer refers to a specific piece of complete irrigation system. In most of the areas, they will be required feature in your irrigation system. Furthermore not all backflow preventers are allowable. Since most of them do not offer adequate protection. Thus don’t be surprised if you are told what type of backflow preventer you might need. It is also referred to as cross- connection control.
Existence of irrigation systems that triggers backflow prevention
The existence of irrigation system is important for many reasons. They will release something called dihydrogen monoxide. It is an odorless and tasteless substance, but you should also know that they have the potential to kill you once you inhale it accidentally. It is nothing more than just water. Unclean water can make you sick and fatally fall ill. Thus the water used in irrigation, is considered to be contaminated and dangerous water.
Irrigation water takes the worst out of pesticides, fertilizers and animal wastes and juices them up together. The problem with irrigation system is that ordinarily this unclean water would come back up through your pipes. This means you would be drinking clean water straight up from the faucet if not for an irrigation backflow preventer. Everyone must have a device from the local city water supply to a person who owns the well.
Backflow could be a problem for many reasons
It protects you from a valve break or a valve leak, as valves are not powerful enough or foolproof to the extent that they can contain backflow. Why is backflow a problem, when the water pressure in an irrigation system keeps it moving forward? This is mainly due to the reason that the water pressure dips. Although they do not often happen, they do happen, as they can possess a significant health risk. After all you are sharing your water with construction sites and the fire department. Whenever they manipulate the water, this causes pressure drops, and can lead to backflow occurring in other neighborhoods.
What backflow preventer can do when valves cannot
Even with the valve closed, it will not prevent the possibility of tainted water coming through. With the help of irrigation backflow preventer it can do what the valves cannot. Valves are directional, and backflow preventer is designed to stop backflow. One popular type of preventer includes reduced pressure type, a double check type and a pressure vacuum breaker.
Many type of backflow prevention models available
There are many types of irrigation backflow prevention models, though the local city office might have some suggestions, about what type of backflow prevention is appropriate for your city. Choosing a preventer device, ask yourself if you want an underground installation, or if you want above the surface sprinkler fields. Some models are ideal for smaller areas, whereas others are meant for larger yards, on irrigation sites. In the end, the backflow preventer will be cheaper than huge hospital bills.
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We never lose sight of how often we criticize a child, nor do we realize how rarely we praise it. But the key to success is in the proportions and in our attitude.Therefore, reinforce your child if he or she is doing something good (Source: iStock) If you want your child to do the best for himself, let's see when he is doing well and give him positive feedback. Negative things are much easier for everyone than positive ones, and the behavior of children is also much easier to spot. If we put these things in the eye of the kid, maybe megbьntetjьk йrtьk, we will not help in the long run the viselkedйse fejlхdйsйn.It is much better to make them aware that children can run from time to time, malice, and thus chase their parents. However, you should not smoke because you do not help them learn the right patterns of behavior. When we scold the kid like that, he can feel that way there is no certainty that they do not like it, which can cause frustration.Just before we criticize a child's behavior, it is better to lose some of the air first and tell us that a child behaves just like a child, because he is a child. we decide to react to our behavior. This can eliminate a great deal of home disputes and anxieties. So, if we are looking for a mistake in the child and facing it, it does not help them to change and develop. However, if they feel loved, respected, they will also be willing to work together. If you want your child to do the best they can, they should try to get things done during the day. To do this, let's first try to notice if your child is going to the right office for one thing, even if you don't do it perfectly. Here's an example of praising you for having to ask for your games just once - because at least after a warning. asks your friend after you repent. " Let's take a look at who - for example, when a preschool lectured on a tree, it made you think it was a tree and let's not criticize it for speaking loudly to the public. This is the job of uvunny, who put together the show, not the parent. Most difficult, though, is perhaps the most important thing is to try to positively see confused things - for example, tell him that he really loves having that much energy, instead of scolding it again.By putting this into practice, let's figure out how to summarize your child's day with this approach:"I love being so cheerful in the morning. You always make me wake up. I noticed how kind you were last night with your brother. I love when you brush your teeth anymore, I need to remind you. that it is disappointing that this has not been done right now, but I see you are over it. It will be much better soon. as good as you find it. I like when we talk in the car in the morning. that you are always paying attention to the animals and you are kind to me. How can I be so lucky to be your mother? " be like that (VIA)Related links: | <urn:uuid:49e2a160-2ddb-42bf-89ed-5577dfb87e34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tz.aceaustin.org/6048-change-strategy-in-criticism-and-praise.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976009 | 713 | 2.96875 | 3 |
I was thinking of a world where environmentalists are voted into power, and have decided that humans should no longer pollute the natural resources or cause any sort of disturbance to other living creatures. Following this, all the land on Earth is completely evacuated and left for the forests to grow back. All zoos have their animals released to their specific habitats. Humans decide to spend the rest of their lives in deepsea underwater cities which are covered by glass domes:
Industrial factories have been shifted to the dark side of the moon, so that the earth isn't polluted, and so that the moon doesn't look too bad from earth (they don't want to scare the howling wolves). Air is transferred into the underwater cities from the outside, which is largely purified due to the increased growth of vegetation outside.
Because of the efforts to maintain the air purity, the environmentalists have banned all sorts of intentional human-caused combustion and burning that takes place on earth, whether on the land or in the underwater cities. Although the environmentalists would love it, natural calamities like forest fires and volcanic eruptions are unavoidable, although they would immediately send a crew to lessen the impact of such natural calamities. My question is, would there be any major consequence due to this ban? I thought about a few effects this ban would have:
- All kitchen stoves would have to be electrically heated, or induction based.
- All vehicles and machines would have to be made to run on electricity, and not fuel.
- No more barbecue chicken (the saddest part)
- No campfires and cooking marshmallow on a stick (although you can electrically heat marshmallows, but not as fun)
- Smoke signals and flares won't be allowed, so if you're lost, you're lost forever with no way to signal for help. (I'm not sure about if glow-sticks would be good for signaling purposes)
- (Smokers better head for therapy and rehabilitation)
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By Alen Sulzbacher firstname.lastname@example.org
Dr. Sulzbacher is a consultant eye specialist. He trained in Germany and is now working at Lisbon´s biggest eye hospital.
Flashes of light or black floaters that look like spiders or tadpoles are quite commonly seen by people with normal eyes. They occur because of changes in the vitreous jelly, which lies directly in front of the retina. Any changes in the vitreous jelly can give rise to the appearance of floaters but do not usually lead to any serious problems. Therefore no treatment is necessary.
Separation, or detachment of the vitreous from the retina, is a common phenomenon particularly in people over 50 years of age. In 90 per cent of patients, this is an entirely innocent change with no damage to the retina. Vitreous detachment is a once in a lifetime event and the vitreous cannot become re-attached. Often the floaters will persist but become less noticeable with time.
Flashes and floaters usually remain the same or get better. If they are troublesome, the effect of floaters may be minimised by wearing dark glasses. This will help, especially in bright sunlight or when looking at a brightly lit surface.
The situation is entirely different should you see flashes or floaters in connection with a black shadow or a curtain effect, that interferes with your vision. These changes could indicate a detachment of the retina. Detachment of the retina and changes in the vitreous can be connected.
The retina is the crucial part at the back of the eye, where the actual physical process of vision takes place. For visual acuity, the integrity of all parts of the retina, particularly though of the central parts, is crucial.
When I worked as a casualty doctor, these flashes and floaters often presented a tricky problem because the symptoms of those harmless changes in the vitreous and those of a detachment of the retina are pretty much the same, only that the latter could leave the patient blind in the affected eye. The diagnosis can only be made with a thorough eye examination after dilating the pupil to be able to inspect the retina in its full extension. I always felt this should be left in the hands of a specialist eye doctor (ophthalmologist). As casualty officer you have no choice and we did our best not to miss anything. If I was not 100 per cent certain, I always referred on to the eye department. There is no point taking any risks when it comes to the precious eyes.
Now that I am a fully trained ophthalmologist with many years of experience, I value the availability of modern technology, in this case particularly the ultrasound for the eye. Most important though is the practical experience you gather during the years of training with experienced colleagues.
I am often asked by GPs how to differentiate safely between a floater and retinal detachment. My honest answer is “by sending the patient to an eye specialist”.
Advances in Ophthalmology
There are quite a few exciting new developments:
The examination of the back of the eye, which is a crucial test for every diabetic patient can now be done with the retina camera. This fantastic piece of equipment takes photographs of the retina without even having to dilate the pupil. This is very convenient for the patient. These photos can then be stored for comparison at a later stage. Patients with diabetes and high blood pressure should have a thorough eye check every year, including the retinal camera.
Macular degeneration, which is a common reason for deterioration of visual acuity that can lead to blindness had no treatment for many years. There are now new drugs that can be injected into the affected areas. These treatments show promising results.
Cataracts can now be removed with very sophisticated surgical techniques. These procedures are only minimally invasive and can be done as day surgery under local anaesthetic.
Laser surgery for short sightedness can be done in various fashions. A safe way of doing it is by ‘LASIK’. If you consider any of these treatments make sure that you get good impartial advice from an eye specialist. I advise strongly against ‘eye surgery at the shopping centre’.
With regards to Laser surgery, make sure that the centre you go to has a lot of experience with the operation and that the latest equipment is being used.
And last but not least, my tip for the coming hay fever and summer season. Protect those precious eyes from the pollen, dust and radiation. Always use good quality sunglasses. The boot market is not the place where you should buy them. Go to a good optician and make the most of their skill to find the best glasses for you.
Your Dr. Alen Sulzbacher, Consultant Eye Surgeon
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We have been contacted by some readers asking about a new stem cell transplantation clinical trial for Parkinson’s disease about to start in China (see the Nature journal editorial regarding this new trial by clicking here).
While this is an exciting development, there have been some concerns raised in the research community regarding this trial.
In today’s post, we will discuss what is planned and what it will mean for stem cell transplantation research.
Brain surgery. Source Bionews-tx
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition.
This means that cells in the brain are slowly being lost over time. What makes the condition particularly interesting is that certain types of brain cells are more affected than others. The classic example of this is the dopamine neurons in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra, which resides in the midbrain.
The number of dark pigmented dopamine cells in the substantia nigra are reduced in the Parkinson’s disease brain (right). Source: Adapted from Memorangapp
Approximately 50% of the dopamine neurons in the midbrain have been lost by the time a person is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (note the lack of dark colouration in the substantia nigra of the Parkinsonian brain in the image above), and as the condition progresses the motor features – associated with the loss of dopamine neurons – gradually get worse. This is why dopamine replacement treatments (like L-dopa) are used for controlling the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
A lot of research effort is being spent on finding disease slowing/halting treatments, but these will leave many people who have already been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease still dealing with the condition. What those individuals will require is a therapy that will be able to replace the lost cells (particularly the dopamine neurons). And researchers are also spending a great deal of time and effort on findings ways to do this. One of the most viable approaches at present is cell transplantation therapy. This approach involves actually injecting cells back into the brain to adopt the functions of the lost cells.
How does cell transplantation work?
We have discussed the history of cell transplantation in a previous post (Click here to read that post), and today we are simply going to focus on the ways this experimental treatment is being taken forward in the clinic.
Many different types of cells have been tested in cell transplantation experiments for Parkinson’s disease (Click here for a review of this topic), but to date the cells that have given the best results have been those dissected from the developing midbrain of aborted embryos.
This now old fashioned approach to cell transplantation involved dissecting out the region of the developing dopamine neurons from a donor embryo, breaking up the tissue into small pieces that could be passed through a tiny syringe, and then injecting those cells into the brain of a person with Parkinson’s disease.
The old cell transplantation process for Parkinson’s disease. Source: The Lancet
Critically, the people receiving this sort of transplant would require ‘immunosuppression treatment’ for long periods of time after the surgery. This additional treatment involves taking drugs that suppress the immune system’s ability to defend the body from foreign agents. This step is necessary, however, in order to stop the body’s immune system from attacking the transplanted cells (which would not be considered ‘self’ by the immune system), allowing those cells to have time to mature, integrate into the brain and produce dopamine.
The transplanted cells are injected into an area of the brain called the putamen. This is one of the main regions of the brain where the dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra release their dopamine. The image below demonstrates the loss of dopamine (the dark staining) over time as a result of Parkinson’s disease (PD):
The loss of dopamine in the putamen as Parkinson’s disease progresses. Source: Brain
In cell transplant procedures for Parkinson’s disease, multiple injections are usually made in the putamen, allowing for deposits in different areas of the structure. These multiple sites allow for the transplanted cells to produce dopamine in the entire extent of the putamen. And ideally, the cells should remain localised to the putamen, so that they are not producing dopamine in areas of the brain where it is not desired (possibly leading to side effects).
Targeting transplants into the putamen. Source: Intechopen
Postmortem analysis – of the brains of individuals who have previously received transplants of dopamine neurons and then subsequently died from natural causes – has revealed that the transplanted cells can survive the surgical procedure and integrate into the host brain. In the image below, you can see rich brown areas of the putamen in panel A. These brown areas are the dopamine producing cells (stained in brown). A magnified image of individual dopamine producing neurons can be seen in panel B:
Transplanted dopamine neurons. Source: Sciencedirect
The transplanted cells take several years to develop into mature neurons after the transplantation surgery, and the benefits of the transplantation technique may not be apparent for some time (2-3 years on average). Once mature, however, it has also been demonstrated (using brain imaging techniques) that these transplanted cells can produce dopamine. As you can see in the images below, there is less dopamine being processed (indicated in red) in the putamen of the Parkinsonian brain on the left than the brain on the right (several years after bi-lateral – both sides of the brain – transplants):
Brain imaging of dopamine processing before and after transplantation. Source: NIH
Sounds like a great therapy for Parkinson’s disease right?
So why aren’t we doing it???
1. The tissue used in the old approach for cell transplantation in Parkinson’s disease was dissected from embryonic brains. Obviously there are serious ethical and moral problems with using this kind of tissue. There is also a difficult problem of supply: tissue from at least 3 embryos is required for transplanting each side of the brain (6 embryos in total). Given these issues, researchers have focused their attention on a less controversial and more abundant supply of cells: brain cells derived from embryonic stem cells (the new approach to cell transplantation).
Human embryonic stem cells. Source: Wikipedia
2. The second reason why cell transplantation is not more widely available is that in the mid 1990’s, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided funding for the two placebo-controlled, double blind studies to be conducted to test the efficacy of the approach. Unfortunately, both studies failed to demonstrate any beneficial effects on Parkinson’s disease features.
In addition, many (15% – 50%) of transplanted subjects developed what are called ‘graft-induced dyskinesias’. This involves the subjects display uncontrollable/erratic movement (or dyskinesias) as a result of the transplanted cells. Interestingly, patients under 60 years of age did show signs of improvement on when assessed both clinically (using the UPDRS-III) and when assessed using brain imaging techniques (increased F-dopa uptake on PET).
Both of the NIH trials have been criticised by experts in the field for various procedural failings that could have contributed to the failures. But the overall negative results left a dark shadow over the technique for the better part of a decade. Researchers struggled to get funding for their research.
And this is the reason why many researchers are now urging caution with any new attempts at cell transplantation clinical trials in Parkinson’s disease – any further failures will really harm the field, if not kill if off completely.
Are there any clinical trials for cell transplantation in Parkinson’s disease currently being conducted?
Yes, there are currently two:
Firstly there is the Transeuro being conducted in Europe.
The Transeuro trial. Source: Transeuro
The Transeuro trial is an open label study, involving 40 subjects, transplanted in different sites across Europe. They will receive immunosuppression for at least 12 months post surgery, and the end point of the study will be 3 years post surgery, with success being based on brain imaging of dopamine release from the transplanted cells (PET scans). Based on the results of the previous NIH funding double blind clinical studies discussed above, only subject under 65 years of age have been enrolled in the study.
The European consortium behind the Transeuro trial. Source: Transeuro
In addition to testing the efficacy of the cell transplantation approach for Parkinson’s disease, another goal of the Transeuro trial is to optimise the surgical procedures with the aim of ultimately shifting over to an embryonic stem cells oriented technique in the near future with the proposed G-Force embryonic stem cell trials planned for 2018 (the Transeuro is testing the old approach to cell transplantation).
The second clinical study of cell transplantation for Parkinson’s disease is being conducted in Melbourne (Australia), by an American company called International Stem Cell Corporation.
This study is taking the new approach to cell transplantation, but the company is using a different type of stem cell to produce dopamine neurons in the Parkinsonian brain.
Specifically, the researchers will be transplanting human parthenogenetic stem cells-derived neural stem cells (hpNSC). These hpNSCs come from an unfertilized egg – that is to say, no sperm cell is involved. The female egg cell is chemically encouraged to start dividing and then it becoming a collection of cells that is called a blastocyst, which ultimately go on to contain embryonic stem cell-like cells.
The process of attaining embryonic stem cells. Source: Howstuffworks
This process is called ‘Parthenogenesis’, and it’s not actually as crazy as it sounds as it occurs naturally in some plants and animals (Click here to read more about this). Proponents of the parthenogenic approach suggest that this is a more ethical way of generating ES cells as it does not result in the destruction of a viable organism.
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we are extremely concerned about this particular trial (Click here and here to read previous posts about this). Specifically, we worry that there is limited preclinical data from the company supporting the efficacy of these hpNSC cells being used in the clinical study (for example, researchers from the company report that the hpNSC cells they inject spread well beyond the region of interest in the company’s own published preclinical research – not an appropriate property for any cells being taken to the clinic). We have also expressed concerns regarding the researchers leading the study making completely inappropriate disclosures about the study while the study is ongoing (Click here to read more about this). Such comments only serve the interests of the company behind the study. And this last concern has been raised again with a quote in the Nature editorial about the Chinese trial:
“Russell Kern, chief scientific officer of the International Stem Cell Corporation in Carlsbad, California, which is providing the cells for and managing the Australian trial, says that in preclinical work, 97% of them became dopamine-releasing cells” (Source)
We are unaware of any preclinical data produced by Dr Kern and International Stem Cell Corporation…or ANY other research lab in the world that has achieved 97% dopamine-releasing cells. We (and others) would be interested in learning more about Dr Kerns amazing claim.
The International Stem Cell Corporation clinical trial is ongoing. For more details about this second ongoing clinical trial, please click here.
So what do we know about the new clinical study?
The clinical trial (Titled: A Phase I/II, Open-Label Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Striatum Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells-derived Neural Precursor Cells in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease) will take place at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan province.
The researchers are planning to inject neuronal-precursor cells derived from embryonic stem cell into the brains of individuals with Parkinson’s disease. They have 10 subjects that they have found to be well matched to the cells that they will be injecting, which will help to limit the chance of the cells being rejected by the body.
In testing the safety and efficacy of these cells, the trial will have two primary outcome measures:
- Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events, as assessed by brain imaging and blood examination at 6 months post transplant.
Number of subjects with adverse events (such as the evidence of transplant failure or rejection)
In addition to these, there will also be a series of secondary outcome measures, which will include:
- Change in Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score at 12 months post surgery, when compared to baseline scores. Each subject was independently rated by two observers at each study visit and a mean score was calculated for analysis.
- Change in DATscan brain imaging at 12 months when compared to a baseline brain scan taken before surgery. DATscan imaging provides an indication of dopamine processing.
- Change in Hoehn and Yahr Stage at 12 months, compared to baseline scores. The Hoehn and Yahr scale is a commonly used system for Parkinson’s disease.
The trial will be a single group, non-randomized analysis of the safety and efficacy of the cells. The estimated date of completion is December 2020.
Why are some researchers concerned about the study?
Professor Qi Zhou, a stem-cell specialist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Zoology will be leading the study and he has a REALLY impressive track record in the field of stem cell biology. His team undertaking this study have a great deal of experience working with embryonic stem cells, having published some extremely impressive research on this topic. But, (and it’s a big but) they have published a limited amount of research in peer-reviewed journals on cell transplantation in models of Parkinson’s disease. Lorenz Studer is one of the leading scientists in this field, was quoted in an editorial in the journal Nature this week:
“Lorenz Studer, a stem-cell biologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City who has spent years characterizing such neurons ahead of his own planned clinical trials, says that “support is not very strong” for the use of precursor cells. “I am somewhat surprised and concerned, as I have not seen any peer-reviewed preclinical data on this approach,” he says.” (Source)
In addition to the lack of published research by the team undertaking the trial, the research community is also worried about the type of cells that are going to be transplanted in this clinical trial. Most of the research groups heading towards clinical trials in this area are all pushing embryonic stem cells towards a semi-differentiated state. That is, they are working on recipes that help the embryonic stem cells grow to the point that they have almost become dopamine neurons. Prof Zhou and his colleagues, however, are planning to transplant a much less differentiated type of cell called a neural-precursor cell in their transplants.
Neuronal-precursor cells. Source: Wired
Neuronal-precursors are very early stage brain cells. They are most likely being used in the study because they will survive the transplantation procedure better than a more mature neurons which would be more sensitive to the process – thus hopefully increasing the yield of surviving cells. But we are not sure how the investigators are planning to orient the cells towards becoming dopamine neurons at such an early stage of their development. Neuronal-precursors could basically become any kind of brain cell. How are the researchers committing them to become dopamine neurons?
Are these concerns justified?
We feel that there are justified reasons for concern.
While Prof Zhou and his colleagues have a great deal of experience with embryonic stem cells and have published very impressive research on that topic, the preclinical data for this trial is limited. In 2015, the research group published this report:
Title: Lmx1a enhances the effect of iNSCs in a PD model
Authors: Wu J, Sheng C, Liu Z, Jia W, Wang B, Li M, Fu L, Ren Z, An J, Sang L, Song G, Wu Y, Xu Y, Wang S, Chen Z, Zhou Q, Zhang YA.
Journal: Stem Cell Res. 2015 Jan;14(1):1-9.
PMID: 25460246 (This article is OPEN ACCESS if you would like to read it)
In this study, the researchers engineered embryonic stem cells to over-produce a protein called LMX1A to help produce dopamine neurons. LMX1A is required for the development of dopamine neurons (Click here to read more about this). The investigators then grew these cells in cell culture and compared their ability to develop into dopamine neurons against embryonic stem cells with normal levels of LMX1A. After 14 days in cell culture, 16% of the LMX1A cells were dopamine neurons, compared to only 5% of the control cells.
When the investigators transplanted these cells into a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease, they found that the behavioural recovery in the mice did not differ from the control injected mice, and when they looked at the brains of the mice 11 weeks after transplantation “very few engrafted cells had survived”.
In addition to this previously published work, the Chinese team do have unpublished research on 15 monkeys that have undergone the neuronal-precursor cell transplantation procedure having had Parkinson’s disease induced using a neurotoxin. The researchers have admitted that they initially did not see any improvements in movement (which is expected given the slow maturation of the cells). At the end of the first year, however, they examined the brains of some of the monkeys and they found that the transplanted stem cells had turned into dopamine-releasing cells (exactly what percentage of the cells were dopamine neurons is yet to be announced). The monkey study has been running for several years now and they have seen a 50% improvement in the motor ability of the remaining monkeys, supported by brain imaging data. The publication of this research is in preparation, but it probably won’t be available until after the trial has started.
So yes, there is a limited amount of preclinical research supporting the clinical trial.
As for concerns regarding the type of cells that are going to be transplanted:
Embryonic stem cells have robust tumour forming potential. If you inject them into the brain of mice, there is the potential for them to develop into dopamine neurons, but also tumours:
Title: Embryonic stem cells develop into functional dopaminergic neurons after transplantation in a Parkinson rat model
Authors: Bjorklund LM, Sánchez-Pernaute R, Chung S, Andersson T, Chen IY, McNaught KS, Brownell AL, Jenkins BG, Wahlestedt C, Kim KS, Isacson O.
Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Feb 19;99(4):2344-9.
PMID: 11782534 (This article is OPEN ACCESS if you want to read it)
In this study, the researchers found that of the twenty-five rats that received embryonic stem cell injections into their brains to correct the modelled Parkinson’s disease, five rats died before completed behavioural assessment and the investigators found teratoma-like tumours in their brains – less than 16 weeks after the cells had been transplanted.
A teratoma (white spot) inside a human brain. Source: Radiopaedia
Given this risk of tumour formation, research groups in the cell transplantation field have been trying to push the embryonic stem cells as far away from their original pluripotent state and as close to a dopamine fate as possible without producing mature dopamine neurons which will not survive the transplantation procedure very well.
Prof Zhou’s less mature neuronal-precursor cells are closer to embryonic stem cells than dopamine neurons on this spectrum than the kinds of cells other research groups are testing in cell transplantation experiments. As a result, we are curious to know what precautions the investigators are taking to limit the possibility of an undifferentiated, still pluripotent embryonic stem cell from slipping into this study (the consequences could be disastrous). And given their results from the LMX1A study described above, we are wondering how they are planning to push the cells towards a dopamine fate. If they do not have answers to this issues, they should not be rushing to the clinic with these cells.
So yes, there are reasons for concern regarding the cells that the researchers plan to use in this clinical trial.
And, as with the International Stem Cell Corporation stem cell trial in Australia, we also worry that the follow up-period (or endpoint in the study) of 12 months is not long enough to determine the efficacy of these cells in improving Parkinson’s rating scores and brain imaging results. All of the previous clinical research in this field indicates that the transplanted cells require years of maturation before their dopamine production has an observable impact on the participant. Using 12 months as an end point for this study is tempting a negative result when the long term outcome could be positive.
As we mentioned above, any negative outcomes for these studies could have dire consequences for the field as a whole.
So what does it all mean?
Embryonic stem cells hold huge potential in the field of regenerative medicine. Their ability to become any cell type in the body means that if we can learn how to control them correctly, these cells could represent a fantastic new tool for future cell replacement therapies in conditions like Parkinson’s disease.
Strong demand for such therapies from groups like the Parkinsonian community, has resulted in research groups rushing to the clinic with different approaches using these cells. Concerns as to whether such approaches are ready for the clinic are warranted, if only because mistakes by individual research groups/consortiums in the past have caused delays for everyone in the field.
While China is very keen (and should be encouraged) to take bold steps in its ambition to be a world leader in this field, open and transparent access to extensive preclinical research would help assuage concerns within the research community that prudent care is being taken heading forward.
We’ll keep you aware of developments in this clinical trial.
EDITORIAL NOTE No.1 – It is important for all readers of this post to appreciate that cell transplantation for Parkinson’s disease is still experimental. Anyone declaring otherwise (or selling a procedure based on this approach) should not be trusted. While we appreciate the desperate desire of the Parkinson’s community to treat the disease ‘by any means possible’, bad or poor outcomes at the clinical trial stage for this technology could have serious consequences for the individuals receiving the procedure and negative ramifications for all future research in the stem cell transplantation area.
EDITORIAL NOTE No.2 – the author of this blog is associated with research groups conducting the current Transeuro transplantation trials and the proposed G-Force embryonic stem cell trials planned for 2018. He has endeavoured to present an unbiased coverage of the news surrounding the current clinical trials, though he shares the concerns of the Parkinson’s scientific community that the research supporting the current Australian trial is lacking in its thoroughness and will potentially jeopardise future work in this area. He is also concerned by the lack of peer-reviewed published research on cell transplantation in models of Parkinson’s disease for the proposed clinical studies in China.
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Source & Author: Francisco Blaha
In September I wrote about the public beta version of Global Fishing Watch (GFW) that is available to anyone with an Internet connection and allows users to monitor when and where commercial “apparent fishing activity” is occurring around the world.
They added a feature that may help some people doing intelligence analysis. If you now the name or identity of a specific vessel you would like to find, here’s a step-by-step guide on how to find it.
Is important to understand that AIS is not a specific Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), that is a general term to describe systems that are used in commercial fishing to allow environmental and fisheries regulatory organizations to track and monitor the activities of fishing vessels.
GFW uses data about a vessel’s identity, type, location, speed, direction and more that is broadcast using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and collected via satellites and terrestrial receivers. But the AIS unit can be switch off anytime…
AIS was developed for safety/collision-avoidance. It is a maritime navigation safety communications system standardized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that provides vessel information, including the vessel’s identity, type, position, course, speed, navigational status and other safety-related information automatically to appropriately equipped shore stations, other ships and aircraft; automatically receives such information from similarly fitted ships; monitors and tracks ships; and exchanges data with shore-based facilities.
AIS use for fisheries compliance and MCS is argued quite substantially, it can be useful in my opinion as backup system when VMS fail (until vessels come to port) of when operating in the High Seas. And while AIS is not as fisheries specific as VMS, the fact that one can individualise a vessel anywhere in the world, can only be good!
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Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for setting up a webcam in the Rutgers University dorm room that he shared with Tyler Clementi so that he and follow students could watch while Mr. Clementi had sex with another man. Ravi’s actions resulted in convictions for 15 different offenses, including invasion of privacy and intimidation with anti-gay bias. The case became internationally prominent because Clementi committed suicide a few days after learning about what Ravi had done. A link between Ravi’s actions and Clementi’s suicide was never established, and Ravi was not convicted of causing Clementi’s death and surely Ravi could not reasonably have foreseen Clementi’s suicide. However, his death focused attention on the challenges and bullying that many gay people have to confront.
Ravi’s sentence also illustrates the challenges that judges confront when they have to punish behavior that is perhaps as insensitive and immature as it is illegal. People all too often engage in behavior that is demeaning, intimidating or ignorant. But if all such activity were deemed to be criminal, jails would be more crowded than urban freeways. Moreover, at the outer edges the notion of “equal justice for all” is challenged by punishment that differs according to the circumstances of particular victims. Ravi is fortunate that the judge sentenced him to a short jail term rather than a few years in prison. But given the difficulty of drawing rational lines between ignorant and criminal actions, the judge probably got it about right. Whatever the answers to motivating people to accept others for who and what they are, the criminal justice system is unlikely to provide them. | <urn:uuid:24384ad0-59d8-4d60-aadb-e87136e0fd90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.nolo.com/criminallaw/category/civil-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984085 | 339 | 2.03125 | 2 |
In its broadest definition “culture” is “the way we do things” and corporate culture is the way an organization is organized. Defined by the people who manage and work in the organization, it partly comes about naturally. On the other hand, corporate identity is a Western term to describe ways for making a company distinctive and better able to clearly differentiate itself from competitors in the market so as to be able to sell more and obtain a bigger market share. The concept of a corporate identity must be well planned and strategically implemented; a central part of it is branding, i.e. creating a strong and positive impression of a company, its workforce and its products by elements such as logos, design products, mission statement and a consistent theme in its public appearance.
While the idea of marketing corporate identity as means to catch a bigger market share has been well developed in the West, by now they have been globally adopted in tune with the spread of the capitalist market economy in almost all nooks and corners of the world. One should think that is what makes the market look very much alike globally. Only with a closer look, one realizes that together with the commonalities, there are quite some differences as well which are culturally determined. When you get out of almost any airport in the world, the first thing you see is a McDonald’s restaurant. But apart from the design of the building, the logos and the interior are mostly common everywhere while the food and the way it is served will have its own local flair. From the outside, this may not be visible for customers, but the atmosphere within the company, the relationship between the management and workforce and the overall feeling of identification with the company can also be quite different from place to place.
Influenced by an individual’s life experiences, culture represents the belief and thought process of a person. When those beliefs are developed at opposite ends of the world, dissonance can occur. To establish a sound culture, a company’s purpose must be defined and the behavior it wants to encourage should be seen in its business strategy. Corporate culture points directly to the strength of an organization’s leadership. Values play a large role in the development of strong business culture. Values are important, but culture cannot be changed easily. Culture impacts a person’s actions, thoughts, successes and failures. It represents beliefs, behaviors and attitudes that one consciously lives by. In a Muslim country or corporation, values such as “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) is important and is supported by the religious values that should be present among Muslims. Social responsibility is of course a two-way item, it is directed at the customers and sometimes the public and at the employees. Only a sound corporate culture including social responsibility can provide for a strong corporate identity in the market.
What exactly does this mean? It means that a company has to act responsibly towards customers and the larger public by honestly describing the product and the services it provides. No white lies! In addition, the products and services offered should not be harmful to customers or society at large, and the company should not be environmentally hazardous. That is true for internal social responsibility as well. Health and environmental hazards are to be avoided; employees should be insured against health problems they acquire as a result of their service in the company. There could be many more features to illustrate this point. For Muslim countries, social responsibility means taking care of the well-being of its employees. This includes many more initiatives than in the Western world for the company or organization.
An example of what good corporate culture would look like is that of a Pakistani private security company uniting under its umbrella five different companies (merged into two in a Security Services Division (SSD) effective 01 July 2022). Operating Pakistan-wide with a presence in almost all bigger cities, it has about 12,000 employees (including 3000 in a separate technology division) in over 50 cities/towns in Pakistan.
Providing security to banks, embassies, etc makes individuals vulnerable to the risk of being wounded or even killed on the job, this is much higher for employees than in other companies. That is why the welfare package of the company contains, apart from handsome salaries, a health insurance coverage for all employees including spouses and children for in-patient treatment in all leading hospitals of the country along with the provision of free medicines at medical centers set up within the company.
In addition, paid, annual, casual, and medical leave is provided to all employees and maternity leave to all female employees. In case an employee dies, the company takes care of the deceased’s family by payment of the full salary for 6 months and half salary for another 18 months. If he (or she) lays down his (or her) life in the line of duty, the company pays full salary to the deceased’s family for 6 months and half salary till the youngest child is 18 years old. There is an employment offer for the eldest son or daughter if that is wished. Insurance payment of Rs 5 lacs is separate in case of normal demise or double in case of violent death in the line of duty. However, the insurance is withheld until it is confirmed by the company that the widow is not vulnerable to “vultures” ready to take advantage of her (his) period of grief. The company and families share a common interest in the well-being of the business and form something like a company-family.
Attending this year’s Eid congregation (Bara Khan) one foreign observer was astounded when she saw employees from all parts of the company including management down to the guards, cooks and office staff, etc come together for sharing the food provided by the Group’s kitchen. The company’s successes were shared in a talk by the Group Head, certain people were cited for their good achievements and pay incentives for the security guards was announced. All major cities were holding similar get-togethers with the employees which seems a considerable achievement in the field of social responsibility and corporate culture. A scheme for a monthly bonus that was instituted nearly a year ago is being changed from 01 July 2022 because of the recent enormous price hike to a “Mehngai Ration Package” for those with salaries less than Rs. 25,000.
The Western idea of building a corporate identity for a larger market share has been amended here by including Islamic and oriental values that make an owner responsible for the welfare of their people.
The writer is a defense and security analyst
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AUSTIN — With recent droughts looming on the minds of residents and state leaders, the Texas Legislature took a step to help address future water needs May 20.
House Bill 4, which is headed for the Gov. Rick Perry’s desk, helps garner money for the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas. This is basically a water infrastructure bank that, if properly managed, will finance all of the 2012 State Water Plan projects.
Since its passage, the water plan hasn’t been fully funded.
State Sen. Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay), who authored the legislation, said the bill will help Texas meet its future water needs.
“I think every member of the Texas Legislature wants to do something to leave a mark,” he said. “I can think of no better legacy for all the members of the Legislature than to have found a solution so that our children and our grandchildren and all the generations to follow will have the water they need to thrive.”
According to Fraser’s office, the 2012 State Water plan shows that, during the next 50 years, Texas’ water supply is going to decrease by 18 percent. During that same time, however, water demand will increase by 27 percent.
Texas and the Highland Lakes have been wrestling with water issues for many years, but the past several have brought the problem to the forefront.
According to the Lower Colorado River Authority, the combined water storage of lakes Buchanan and Travis is 39 percent of capacity. As of May 21, Lake Buchanan’s level was 990.83 feet above mean sea level compared to the May average of 1,013.58 feet. Lake Travis is at 627.94 feet above mean sea level compared to the average May measurement of 671.07 feet.
The Texas Water Development Board released its drought report May 20 that showed much of the state suffering from some level of drought. A severe drought still gripped the Highland Lakes while the High Plains and Panhandle regions continue to endure extreme to exceptional drought conditions.
The National Weather Service is predicting a continuing drought this summer for the western half of Texas while the eastern part of the state could see some relief. Central Texas, including the Highland Lakes, falls in a section that likely will endure more drought conditions but with some improvement, according to the NWS.
The state’s reservoirs are 66 percent full, according to Fraser’s office.
“The drought not only has an impact on the health and safety of our communities, but also it affects our state’s economy and the ability to attract new businesses,” Fraser said. “I am glad that we finally passed HB4 to implement the State Water Plan, so we can ensure Texas will have sufficient water supplies during times of drought.”
House Bill 4 would:
• restructure the Texas Water Development board to three full-time members;
• set out the oversight and management of the (State Water Implementation Fund);
• direct the local regions and the Water Development Board to prioritize projects;
• enhance the state’s bonding capability from existing constitutionally created programs and revenue bond programs;
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EU TRANSFORMED BY CRISIS OR FACING THE ULTIMATE TEST: THE OLD VALUES RETURN TO PRE-EU RE-NATIONALIZATION
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Economic and financial crisis has had a stronger impact on the European Union. The effects were quickly felt by citizens and their concerns, in the absence of measures taken by policymakers, have continued to grow that in some cases become chronic. This fear (a suddenly and unexpectedly imbalance) reveals human values and attitudes that in the past, taken to the extreme, triggered conflicts that ground the continent.
Today, in a world increasingly globalized, where its actors are increasingly dependent on each other, the European Union as an actor of this scene, is forced to remain united. A disunited union is not a union. Therefore, to remain a major player on the international stage, the EU is forced to lead a fight externally and internally. If external policies tend to be increasingly better regulated, internally, crisis has revealed new (but also old) bogyman: the fear of an increase by extreme nationalism.
If for some EU was not just an umbrella under which they are more than safe but a comfortable rescue boat, it turned out to be the one who woke them up to reality under cold showers of financial constraints.
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“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Many of my friends are aspiring artists like myself. Being a part of the youth culture here in Los Angeles has been an amazing experience. I feel so fortunate to have been surrounded by encouraging people with whom I share similar feelings of victory and defeat. Together, we trek along the road ahead, the road to Mastery.
|| The Five Attributes of A Master ||
1) They take their work very seriously & consistently perform at a high level
2) They aspire to improve their skills
3) They’re precise clean in presentation
4) They’re impatient
5) They’re passionate
Mastery is a skill in which one cultivates a greater control over reality, self, and others. This skill takes time to develop, and much like a treasured diamond, it’s created as a result of pressure. This pressure can be in the form of a crisis or deadline as well as constant work on a project.
As we begin to perfect our craft we become absorbed in it, feeling focused and energized. I know this because I’ve felt it and second handedly experienced it with my friends. It’s a time when ideas flow, people are less resistant to your influence, and you inspire others respect.
This high is not one that can be replicated. It is pure, giving us access to the heart of life and touching us to the core. When an art form has been mastered it has the ability to connect heaven and earth. Completely transcending space and time, it will spiritually move you to a new place and leave you forever changed. In this life, my ultimate goal is to achieve this level of greatness.
The biggest risk in attempting mastery is the word itself, attempt. If we only ‘attempt’ instead of ‘attain’ we have allowed our emotions to get the best of us. As much as I have experienced the ultimate highs, I have also felt the lowest lows of boredom, confusion, impatience, fear, and confusion. These limiting feelings bring the entire process to a halt if we can not learn how to manage them as they stifle our ability to observe and learn. This is in fact a process, an ebb and flow, which entails different stages.
|| THE HOLY TRINITY ||
|| THE STAGES ||
1). Observe. Follow the lead of others for gained clarity. This is where we begin to learn the rules of the game we’ve chosen to play.
2). Practice, practice, practice. Here we begin to gain fluency and master the basic skills, making room for new challenges to present themselves. Typically, this is the stage where emotions set in and many give up. When you find yourself in this “Tunnel of Challenge” you must remember why you set out to be a master in the first place, focus on the light at the other end and break on through the darkness.
3). Persistence. This is where we emerge into the light and begin to see the connections once invisible to us in that dark tunnel. Gaining confidence, solving problems, and working around weaknesses becomes effortless. Like a well-trained dancer, your moves are fluid, internalized and forever engraved. This is when we move from student to practitioner and bring our own style into play. This is also the time where we have learned the rules so well that we have the right to break them or even better, re-write them. For that reason alone, I must become a Master.
|| MAV MANTRA ||
I learned the rules well. Now watch me re-write them.
|| THE MUSES ||
Mastery by Robert Greene
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CASE STUDY – Have you ever considered how Lean Thinking could apply to politics? The author explains how the result of a mayoral race in southern Italy was ultimately determined by the lean approach adopted by one of the candidates.
Words: Alessandro Martemucci, Lean Coach, Istituto Lean Management – Italy
EDITOR’S NOTE: Planet Lean does not endorse or support any political party, in Italy or elsewhere. The content of this article is meant to inform readers on the approach adopted by one of the candidates, independently of his political affiliation, and provide a unique perspective on how a political campaign can be managed.
On September 20-21, millions of Italians were called to the polls to vote in local and regional elections. Up for grabs were seven regions and several cities, including Matera. This town of 60,000, located in the southern region of Basilicata, is known for the Sassi, two extensive areas of cave dwellings that represent one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world. It’s a place of great beauty that, in 2019, was the European Capital of Culture.
You might wonder what this has to do with Lean Thinking. Well, for the first time in Italy, a lean approach has been used here to run a political campaign – in this case, that of Domenico Bennardi of the Five Star Movement. The idea was simple: achieving maximum value – winning the election – with the minimum investment. In this case study, I will explain how this objective was reached and how the people involved reacted to this rather unusual, marketing-driven approach to politics.
MAPPING THE CURRENT STATE
To understand the background and fully grasp the current state, the team relied on the A3 model and on the Lean Marketing Canvas (a tool I described in a recent Planet Lean article). In particular, these frameworks were used to:
- Gather figures from the previous election (number of eligible voters, number of actual voters, number of party lists, run-off results);
- Identify the mistakes made in the previous election;
- Study the Electoral Law as well as the political process and dynamics;
- Analyze the Voice of the Customer (actively listening to the problems brought up by citizens);
- Identify the main causes of dissatisfaction with the current political establishment;
- Lay out a vision to establish a new, younger political class.
Following that, we defined the minimum and maximum objectives, the KPIs we’d be tracking, and our target audience:
- Our minimum objective was to get 10,000 votes and reach the run-off round of the mayoral race (which was held on October 4-5) with 20-23% of the votes;
- Our maximum objective was to win the election with the highest number of city councillors;
- We strived to renew the political class by ensuring 80% of our lists were first-time candidates.
- Our target: people aged 18 to 99, corresponding to 50,730 eligible voters.
PROBLEMS AND COMPETITORS ANALYSIS
Once we analyzed the initial situation, we realized that no party list (excluding the Five Star Movement’s) could run on its own and hope to reach the minimum objective – reaching 20% of the vote. There were several reasons for this: they didn’t have many representatives in the city council; they were newly established and therefore little known lists; they did not have much of a presence in public institutions; they had less of a history compared to other parties and less activists.
To solve this problem, the decision was made to create a coalition with other party lists to reach the minimum objective, with one caveat (in line with the beliefs of the candidate and his party’s statute): that no candidate to city council could have been part of other coalitions in the past or run with other parties that governed Matera in the previous legislature.
Another important step in any campaign (be it political or marketing, in fact) is to understand who you are competing against. So, we went on to analyze the other candidates in the mayoral race and the lists supporting them. Here they are:
- Rocco Sassone, for the center-right, with six lists (Lega, Forza Italia, Fratelli d’Italia, and three civic lists) representing 188 candidates for city council.
- Giovanni Schiuma, for the center-left, with five lists (including the Democratic Party) and four more civic lists, for a total of 138 candidates.
- Pasquale Doria with two civic lists and 54 candidates.
- Nicola Trombetta with one civic list of 32 candidates.
- Luca Braia with one civic list and 26 candidates.
- Domenico Bennardi, the candidate we supported, with four lists (Five Star Movement, VOLT, VERDI PSI and Matera 3.0) and 106 candidates.
In parallel, we initiated a nemawashi process to informally lay the foundations for the change we wanted to achieve by discussing our approach with the people involved in the campaign and continuously supporting them as they adjusted to the new method.
At the beginning, the candidates were skeptical. They were not used to measuring their performance and were really struck by the practice of analyzing mistakes in front of their fellows. After the first couple of weeks, however, they started to see the benefit of this approach (it made it easier not to repeat the same mistakes) and got on board wholeheartedly.
OUR LEAN MARKETING STRATEGY
With our objectives clearly defined, we were ready to move to the execution phase. But not before clarifying roles and responsibilities in the campaign staff: social media, communication, logistics, strategic marketing, PR, operating manager, etc. This went a long way to developing a sense of ownership in each member of the team.
At this stage of the campaign, our analysis assumed a vital role. The Italian Electoral Law rewards the coalition that receives the highest number of votes at the first round of election for the mayoral candidate and not for those running for city council. Based on this, we started to coach and develop both staff and candidates, explaining to them how the law works in detail, aligning them towards a common goal and motivating them. We’d either win the election together, or we’d lose it together.
The coaching took place throughout the campaign, with weekly 35- to 40-minute alignment sessions with the candidates. During these meetings, we provided them with the tools they needed to effectively campaign – for example, data reports. As far as KPIs go, we mainly tracked leads and prospects (the former being a potential voter who has not engaged with the candidate yet; the latter being a voter that has actively engaged with the candidate already). Week after week, we looked at the results achieved and at any deviation that might have occurred. This informed how we planned for rallies and other campaign events, which were supposed to address the gap identified.
Thanks to this approach, based on continuous analysis and control and on motivation, the entire coalition stayed focused on the True North, getting Domenico Bennardi elected, even when that meant sacrificing their own votes.
OUR APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION
Another reason behind the success of the Bennardi campaign was the style of communication of the mayoral candidate and the rest of the coalition. This is what the coaching was ultimately about: ensuring alignment of the candidates and shaping their communication during rallies and meetings with voters. The focus was on listening to the Voice of the Customer, discussing the real needs of the people of Matera rather than responding to rivals’ attacks (in fact, part of the strategy was to avoid even mentioning Bennardi’s opponents). All 106 candidates were expected to adopt this approach and only share information related to the Bennardi’s plan, rather than waste time in futile wars of words with opponents. At first, this was perhaps the hardest thing of the campaign – it’s difficult not to respond to provocation and personal attacks – but ultimately even the “keyboard warriors” in the coalition began to adhere to the policy, after seeing the great results we achieved week after week.
Lean Thinking even shaped the slogan of the Bennardi campaign, which was inspired by the Italian translation of the word kaizen: “Cambia in meglio”, which means “Change for the better”. This message was clearly appreciated by Matera’s citizens and has clearly contributed to Bennardi’s win.
We also realized the importance of making the information we shared as easily consumable as possible. With that in mind, we summarized Bennardi’s election program (which was still available in full on the website) into a foldable one-pager with different colors corresponding to different topics – from the environment to city planning, tourism to sports. It is pictured above. Lean teaches us the power of visuality, something we took to heart as we defined our approach to communication.
In order to reduce the time and costs of designing and printing out flyers, programs, posters, billboards, etc, we decided to rely on a single look for the entire coalition. This also helped us to convey a message of consistency and unity, while offering voters a clear overview of who was part of the party lists. Each flyer or other electoral material could therefore by personalized by candidates in the coalition. Another added benefit of this approach was that we were able to avoid personalisms and ensure an equal level of visibility for all candidates (which is very important for those who can’t spend the money to print and post billboards).
The website we created, which contained the most relevant information on Domenico Bennardi, his background and his plan for Matera, also became a tool to inform the campaign and adjust our aim: the analytics provided us with precious information on the users.
Our social media strategy mainly focused on Facebook and Instagram. The Facebook page, in particular, became the go-to platform that the candidate used to reach out to his base. Here, we posted all the photos, graphics, activities, rallies, slogans, videos, lives to keep people up to date with Bennardi’s day-to-day activities.
Critically, the analysis of the page’s insights allowed us to measure the response to each post and, more importantly, take the pulse of the electorate and their opinion on important topics. Our work on Facebook helped us to understand the campaign’s “hot topics”, the things people cared about the most and the type of the communication they most responded to. Synchronizing our messaging (with all the candidates resharing posts consistently and quickly) boosted the visibility and popularity of our content, which forced our competitors to spend money in ads and sponsored content to try and catch up with us.
Due to the pandemic, people proved reluctant to join rallies and other in-person events, which is why videos and live events on Facebook represented such an important part of our strategy. Not only did they allow us to reach more people, but as mentioned above, they also provided us with great insights that helped us to shape our message.
Instant messaging applications, like WhatsApp and Telegram, also played an important role inside the campaign. They were used to inform staff of ongoing activities and last-minute changes of plans, thus ensuring the campaign ran smoothly.
RESULTS AND REFLECTIONS
In the first-round of the election, Bennardi received 27% of the votes (or goal was 20-23%), which meant that he’d be facing Rocco Sassone (from the center-right coalition) two weeks later in the run-off round. The choice was to not join forces with other coalitions; instead, Bennardi and his campaign doubled down on their lean-inspired communication efforts and carried on with the strategy.
On October 4-5, this approach paid off, leading Bennardi to a resounding victory against Sassone. The final result was 68% of the votes for Bennardi and 32% for Sassone (who was the most-voted candidate in the first round). So, maximum value was achieved for the Bennardi campaign, with the minimum cost: it spent one-sixth of what the opponents did.
Infusing lean into our communication strategy meant that we could concentrate most of our campaigning efforts into a handful of platforms, which in turn resulted in much lower marketing costs and in our ability to control the campaign more closely. We also felt the Covid-19 effect: the fear of infection kept people at home and effectively digitalized the campaign, largely moving it to social media. By measuring the impact of our posts and online activity, we could understand what voters really cared about and adjust our message accordingly so to address their concerns.
Matera’s new mayor and his coalition had never thought the scientific method could make or break a political campaign. People believe that politics is all about relationships, rallies, and emotions. While this is partly true – there is no doubt emotion plays a role in choosing who to vote for – it’s been incredible to see how successful the campaign has been thanks to the consistent analysis of data, a focus on voter needs and a strategy based on continuous improvement. If this is not proof that lean always wins, I don’t know what is!
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By now we’ve probably all heard about the father arrested for playing catch with his daughter in a park. Regardless of whether you think the lockdown should continue, be lifted, or if you’re undecided on the issue, most people would agree that this incident was a bit heavy-handed. After all, one of the good things about this coronavirus is that families are spending more quality time together.
Quality family time is something long touted by physician Leonard Sax. Before this coronavirus, Sax made a name for himself by encouraging common sense parenting. Putting away screens, making time for family dinners, and minimizing extra-curricular activities were some of his suggestions for ensuring families and children thrived.
Sax isn’t changing his tune now that this coronavirus has given families abundant time together. He recently encouraged parents not to give into the siren call of screens, instead encouraging them to try a list of activities The Wall Street Journal recently put together. A favorite at his house was creating a radio program with free BBC sound effects.
“You may answer that creating a radio program with my daughter will very likely involve looking at a screen, unless we choose to use an old-fashioned microphone and recorder. This objection raises an important point. When my daughter and I are using a computer to create a radio program, we are creating content. When a parent and child are looking at cute videos on YouTube, they are consuming content. We have good evidence that when a parent and child create content together, they are building a bond, and that’s great. But when a parent and child are consuming content, the benefits are reduced. And when a child is watching a screen alone, while parents engage in their own screen … then that’s not good.” [Emphasis added.]
Sax makes a great point. In times like these, it’s easy to spend time together, but it is how we spend it that makes the difference in our children’s lives. Actively creating takes more effort than consuming, but the return on investment is much more powerful when we do the former.
Whittaker Chambers recognized this as well. A former communist spy turned Time magazine editor, Chambers wanted to escape the detrimental mindset of communism and give his children something better. As a result, he and his wife bought a farm and went to work tilling the land and raising animals alongside their two children.
The task wasn’t easy by any means. As Chambers explains, they exchanged comfort and consumption for a life of toil and hard work. But in leaving comfort and working alongside their children, they discovered great freedom, satisfaction, and familial closeness:
“In that sense, the farm is our witness. It is a witness against the world. By deliberately choosing this life of hardship and immense satisfaction, we say in effect: The modern world has nothing better than this to give us. Its vision of comfort without effort, pleasure without the pain of creation, life sterilized against even the thought of death, rationalized so that every intrusion of mystery is felt as a betrayal of the mind, life mechanized and standardized—that is not for us. We fear it if only because standardization leads to regimentation, and because the regimentation that men distrust in their politics is a reflection of the regimentation that they welcome unwittingly in their daily living.” [Emphasis added.]
The coronavirus has changed the lives of every American family. In all likelihood, we’ve left comfort and consumption behind for a while. Unlike Chambers, we didn’t choose such a situation… but might we find benefits along the way? Will creating and toiling alongside our children make family bonds that will far outweigh the comforts we knew in our lives before coronavirus?
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Date issued: 22 August 2018
Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists are set to benefit from a major funding boost to support schemes making it easier and smoother to travel across the borough as part of an agreement between Colchester Borough Council and Essex County Council (ECC).
Both councils have agreed to put an additional £100,000 each this year into the Colchester Local Highways Panel – the joint body between Colchester Borough Council and ECC responsible for recommending and prioritising highway schemes in the borough.
With the panel currently having an annual budget of around £500,000 it means this year it will have £700,000 to invest in schemes such as junction improvements, 20mph zones, and cycleway enhancements.
A total of 32 schemes have already been agreed to be carried out by the end of March 2019, with a further 72 traffic management, rights of way and passenger transport schemes totalling nearly £180,000 already in the pipe line for 2019/2020.
In addition to the extra money being invested it has been agreed the panel will meet in Colchester rather than Chelmsford, where the meetings of the county’s 12 Local Highways Panels are normally held. This will help provide a greater local focus on the improvements needed and their potential solutions.
The agreement supports the aims of Colchester Borough Council’s dynamic two year action plan to make Colchester an even more attractive place to live, work and visit. This plan forms the basis of the Better Colchester campaign launched earlier this month.
Colchester Borough Council’s Portfolio Holder for Waste, Sustainability and Transportation, Cllr Martin Goss, said: “Our objective is to ensure that people are able to travel across the borough as smoothly and safely as possible.
“This agreement with ECC is a fantastic step forward in ensuring Colchester residents and businesses get the highways network they deserve. I am delighted we have come up with a way we can work closer together to provide even more highway initiatives across the borough.
“It also shows the commitment we have on delivering on our ambitious plans to create a Better Colchester.”
Cllr Kevin Bentley, Deputy Leader of Essex County Council and Cabinet Member for Infrastructure, said: “I am delighted that Colchester Borough Council is match funding Essex County Council’s additional monies to support Local Highways Panel schemes. The investment will help to improve roads across the borough, making travelling safer and easier for those who live and work here.”
Among the work currently scheduled to be undertaken through the Colchester Local Highways Panel include:
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Furthermore, it is primarily the factors those funds produces confidentiality, that’ll be certainly used by individuals who intend
to make use of it for nefarious and reasons being illicit. And also this refers to one of several disadvantages of income from your perspective of governing bodies, it permits important lender funds getting utilized for uses specially funds laundering, terrorism financial support, and various other illegitimate tasks.
Additionally it enables economic activity that end up being genuine to attain the tincture, meaning it’s really no longer parts about the tax internet and certainly they minimizes regulators incomes.
Nevertheless these tend to be phenomena we need observed for some time. The need for huge denomination banknotes world wide relocated up a whole lot, hinting that men and women check out end up being wishing on hold to funds getting a shop of value in lieu of fancy a medium of transactions or system of trade.
Understandably, it is not easy to determine just how much cash to the rise in money holdings is really evaluated by illegal tasks, but it is hard to imagine that the increase of money program in illicit activities features hopped throughout the pandemic. And so I think it is really individuals returning to just what actually they feel secure with, that will be possessing revenue also it le even though they need.
Will cash disappear completely totally
It really is difficult to think revenue staying a feasible route of change on the go when you work through your following five to many years, in accordance with which place your own referring to. And that I feel the real reason for that will be that whether group want to incorporate earnings, for using money is absolutely a hale. They have to deal with revenue.
They need to generate customization. They ought to store funds. Money is absolutely vulnerable to lo and thievery. And in addition we’re presently watching close the world, you will be mindful, liking to electronic different duties. Therefore I believe both towards the comparative side of and subscribers, the will to make use of money is gonna decline even faster after they even more available options. Making it just problematic to possess a scenario by which cash carries a future that’s practical.
Really does that advise we’re utilizing essential financial electronic currencies
That’ll be determined by to some degree on how the is literally setup. Therefore, as an example, when an electronic digital money got in fact organized such each of people held an essential loan provider digital wallet towards using we could use effortlessly for transactional functions, if that is payment techniques, which means no matter what fees program a merchant have, it is easy to create money that’ll truly, i believe, impel all of us .
Let me make it clear, credit rating status debit and credit card companies and credit card issuers for instance happen efficient at maintaining their particular additionally they exercise by bribing men. Once you take advantage of a wearing a transaction, you need to pay for this as well as the earnings is fully gone.
Creating a charge card you pay a short while later, in addition to the charge card team gives you some money right back or just several things from the usage or lodge account. Therefore i believe no less than in the this is exactly why we see credit card debt nevertheless keeping a role which rather crucial.
But I actually do believe gradually they may typically getting wanting to eschew the business of cash and repositioning to money which happen to be electronic through either a or through on the list of pre established electronic types of expense. And surely, the will probably call for other sorts of wages companies, like debit and credit card bills, Apple spend being a whole lot more efficient, minimize his/her pricing. Therefore we could at some period come to be stepping into a remarkable future of quite simple, affordable electric resources.
Now that you’ve done the guidelines and carried this out wide review, it appears as you invariably was an optimist. Would be that reasonable expressing
I am quite optimistic. I reckon these technology that are latest huge hope. We have ton’t go into this with our eyes blinkered and therefore tech will correct all trouble like we mention when you look at the publication. You will not pick just issues but additionally broad with what this means to reside in a community where payments are just electric, and in which the lender that’s main end using the exceedingly unpleasant role inside our community and our energy. I reckon you should have conversations about these situations in a social amount instead of witnessing these as merely economic or technocratic .
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Locate the green 3.5-mm (1/8-inch) plug-in adapter hole on the rear of the computer. In most desktops, it is next to a blue and pink plug-in hole of the same size.
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Plug the 3.5-mm male adapter plug from the speakers into the green plug-in adapter hole. Then, plug the AC adapter into an electrical outlet. If necessary, insert the plug-in adapter for the AC adapter into the correct hole or slot on the speakers.
Boot your computer and log-in to your Windows operating system.
Click on the "Start" button and then "Control Panel" tab. Once the "Control Panel" screen is displayed, double-click on the "Sounds and Audio Devices" icon.
Enable the "Place Volume Icon on the Taskbar" option. Also, ensure that the "Mute" option is not checked. Adjust the volume for Windows applications by adjusting the volume slider control with your mouse. Click and drag the slider until the dial is at the desired volume level.
Click on the "Advanced" tab. Make sure the "Desktop Stereo Speakers" option is displayed in the drop-down box and click the "OK" button. Click "OK" again to finish the installation of the speakers.
Turn on the power to the speakers. Insert a music CD into the CD/DVD drive of your computer or play other sounds on your PC to test the new computer speakers.
Click on the "Start" globe or button and then the "Control Panel" label. The Control Panel main screen will display on your monitor. Click on the "Hardware and Sound" link.
Click the "Manage Audio Devices" link in the "Sound" section on the Control Panel screen. The "Sound" configuration window will then open.
Click the "Speakers" label under the "Playback" tab. Click the "Configure" button to open the "Speaker Setup" configuration window and select the "Stereo" option. Click the "Next" button.
Enable the "Front Left and Right" option box by clicking the check box. Once the check mark appears in the box, click both small speaker icons to test the sound from the speakers. You should hear sound from the two right speakers when you click the speaker icon labeled "R," and the two speakers on the left should produce sound when you click the icon labeled "L."
Click the "Next" button and then the "Finish" button to complete the speaker setup.
Adjust the volume by clicking on the speaker icon near the time and date area in the taskbar. Use the slider control to adjust the volume to the desired level.
If you want to install 5.1 or 7.1 surroundsound speakers, refer to the installation guide that comes with the speakers. Generally, the installation process is the same; however, you will use the pink and blue plug-in holes in addition to the green one. Furthermore, you will need to change the speaker settings in the "Control Panel" to "5.1 surround speakers" or "7.1 home theater speakers."
If you want to hook up external speakers to a Dell laptop, plug the speakers into the headphone jack on the computer.
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An Intelligence Briefing? These People Protect Their Patrons Not The American People
There are moments in time that help crystalize the state of the world. Somehow, they just sum up a myriad of facts and define precisely where we are and the danger we are in.
One such moment is now, as the heads of the American intelligence community testify before the House Select Committee on Intelligence in Congress regarding Ukraine and the threats facing the United States. At one time, in one place we will see the people who run the world’s largest intelligence apparatus providing us the benefit of their wisdom, insight and counsel.
So, who are these people, the ones Joe Biden has assembled to be our eyes and ears and to keep the republic safe?
William Burns, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency:
Burns comes to the CIA from his position as head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This institute is part of what is known as the United Front, a worldwide Chinese effort to co-opt foreign elites and influence them to adopt pro-CCP policies.
The Carnegie Endowment funds the Beijing-based Carnegie-Tsinghua Center, which partners with one of China’s top technological universities, Tsinghua University. Tsinghua University is part of China’s Thousand Talents Program, via which the CCP recruits American scientists and steals American technology. Tsinghua University is funded by the Chinese military and has launched cyber-attacks on the US Government.
As President of the Carnegie Endowment Burns oversaw the think tank’s involvement with the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). CUSEF is funded by the Chinese Overseas United Front Work Department (UFWD). This is the agency responsible for coordinating United Front influence operations.
As head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns has invited close to a dozen congressional staffers on trips to China to meet with communist party operatives and leaders of Chinese front groups. Burns also welcomed Chinese businessman Zhang Yichen, CEO of CITIC Consulting, to join the think tank’s board of trustees. Zhang is linked to two organizations with Chinese Communist Party ties, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Center for China and Globalization. The CPPCC is the party group that directs the United Front Work Department and includes a member of the Politburo Standing Committee – the collective dictatorship that rules China.
Zhang’s firm gave Carnegie a donation of between $500,000 and $999,000 between 2017 and 2018. In the 2020 fiscal year, the firm made donations to the think tank between $250,000 and $549,999. Carnegie also received donations between $100,000 and $249,999 from China-United States Exchange Foundation, an organization the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Jamestown Foundation described as “a major player in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s organizational apparatus for conducting United Front work in the United States.” According to a Jamestown Foundation report, the China-United States Exchange Foundation engages in lobbying efforts that “allows it to play a valuable role in Beijing’s efforts to sway public opinion and build influence in America.”
Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence: Avril Haines is the former owner of an independent bookstore and coffeehouse in Baltimore, Maryland. The bookstore won the Baltimore City Paper’s “Best Independent Bookstore” award in 1997 and was known for featuring local writers, small press publications, and erotica reading nights. Tiring of life as a bookstore owner, Haines eventually enrolled in law school and graduated from Georgetown in 2001.
Haines then embarked on the familiar path of an aspiring bureaucrat and ladder climber in Washington, D.C. Her first stop was as a legal officer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Within a year of taking that job, however, she had moved on, taking a position as a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Danny Julian Boggs. Again, within a year she was gone.
The next stop was the Department of State where Haines worked in the office of the Legal Adviser – first in Treaty Affairs and then in the Office of Political-Military Affairs. By 2007 Haines had parlayed that experience into a position as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Majority Senate Democrats on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. The chairman of the committee at the time, predictably enough, was Joe Biden.
Haines had made the critical connection. She was a made woman.
From 2008 to 2010 this former owner of an independent bookstore was the assistant legal adviser at the Department of State for treaty affairs.
In 2010, Haines was appointed to serve in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs at the White House.
In 2013 Haines became Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. As such she was the second most powerful person in the Agency, reporting only to the Director, John Brennan. Haines replaced Mike Morrell, infamous for his complicity in the coverup of the Benghazi disaster in this position.
A little over a year later Haines was named to be the Deputy National Security Adviser in the Obama White House. In this capacity, she worked directly for Obama’s National Security Adviser, Susan Rice.
The list of individuals who have lined up over the years to laud her performance reads like a Who’s Who of individuals implicated in or close to the Spygate scandal. It includes Susan Rice, James Clapper and John Brennan.
Christopher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
Wray is not an FBI agent. He is a lawyer. He has worked for the Department of Justice. He has also worked in private practice.
In 2006 the Bidens had a partnership with CEFC China Energy, which is owned by the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China. CEFC sought to purchase a 14% stake in the Russian gas giant Rosneft. Wray represented Rosneft. He was the lawyer for this Russian gas company. Subsequently, before he was named to head the FBI, Wray deleted all references to ever having worked for Rosneft.
The key issue with which Wray was wrestling in 2006 was finding a way to complete the sale of a portion of Rosneft at a time when U.S. sanctions appeared to prohibit the sale. Hunter Biden, functionally acted as the “personal attorney” for Ye Jianming, the chairman of CEFC, in this deal.
In advance of the 2020 election Wray’s FBI came into possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop. That laptop contains a myriad of details on the Biden family’s dealings with Russia, China, and a host of other foreign nations. It may, in fact, provide the smoking gun proving that Joe Biden has been at the heart of a worldwide influence-peddling scheme for many years.
The FBI did nothing with the laptop. It is unclear at present that the laptop was ever even formally logged into evidence. To all appearances, the Bureau simply buried evidence that may well have changed the course of the election that followed.
Ever since the Spygate scandal broke Wray’s FBI has consistently fought to prevent investigators from getting to the bottom of what happened. Efforts to investigate those who falsely accused Donald Trump of ties to Russia and then attempted to destabilize Trump’s presidency have been contested at every step of the way. The clear agenda is to ensure that no one is ever held responsible for what amounts to an attempted coup.
None of these three individuals is a career intelligence officer. None of them is an expert on any of the issues that will be discussed. Every single one of them is tied to the powerful interests that have led this country to where it is today.
All three are steeped in corruption. They don’t represent the American people. They don’t care about its national security. They have made their way to the top of a corrupt, incompetent bureaucracy based on personal contacts and inside dealing.
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ABOUT ERIA AND JCIE
The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) are working in partnership with AHWIN to develop and maintain this website and to carry out other related projects.
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
ERIA is an international organization based in Jakarta. Since its founding in 2008, it has been supporting the regional economic integration process among ASEAN member countries through its research. As the leading economic think tank in the region and the Sherpa institution for the East Asia and ASEAN Summit processes, ERIA’s research and policy recommendations have influenced the policymaking process in the region. ERIA conducts research under three pillars: (1) deepening economic integration; (2) narrowing development gaps; and (3) sustainable economic development. ERIA’s studies cover a wide range of areas such as trade and investment, human resource and infrastructure development, globalization, and energy issues. ERIA publishes books, reports, discussion papers, and policy briefs that present the key recommendations of its studies. In partnership with regional research institutes, ERIA regularly conducts capacity-building seminars and workshops for policymakers, administrators, researchers, and business managers of the CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Viet Nam) and other developing areas in East Asia to strengthen the link between research and policymaking.
ERIA’s activities have largely focused on the promotion of the ASEAN Economic Community, which is one of the three pillars of ASEAN, but since 2017, ERIA has expanded its activities to cover the other two pillars as well, and especially the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. In response to the launch of the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN), ERIA began carrying out research on population aging and long-term care in 2017. This research is expected to contribute to the policymaking processes of ASEAN member states where rapid population aging is projected to take place in the near future.
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
Founded in 1970, JCIE is a nonprofit and nonpartisan international affairs organization dedicated to strengthening Japan’s role in international networks of policy dialogue and cooperation. JCIE undertakes a wide range of programs of policy research, international dialogue, and exchange related to the themes of globalization, governance, and civil society. Since the late 1990s, it has been promoting policy studies and dialogues focused on human security issues, and since the early 2000s, JCIE has been a leader in policy research and dialogue in the health sector through its Global Health and Human Security Program, which seeks to develop a better understanding of the critical value of human security to global health and aims to explore ways for Japan to enhance its leadership role in global health over the long term and to build domestic and international support for such a role. As an extension of that work, in 2017 it began looking at the critical impact of aging on Japanese and other societies. Partnering with ERIA, it has launched a program on Healthy and Active Aging in Asia, which will work in close consultation with the government of Japan’s AHWIN initiative and will contribute to the promotion of bilateral and regional cooperation on aging-related challenges in Asia. | <urn:uuid:ddbee3f7-990b-4e73-ae03-95882307dee0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ahwin.org/partners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946082 | 676 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The nine sectors which the survey focussed on included manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accomodation and restaurant, IT/BPO and financial services. The IT/BPO sector logged 152% growth, followed by health (77%), financial services (48%), education (39%), manufacturing (22%), transport (68%) and construction (42%) during this period compared to 2013-14 economic census.
Employment in the two services sectors, trade and accommodation and restaurant segment, declined by 25% and 13% respectively due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, consistent with the evidence which has been available so far.
The survey results showed that of total employment in the selected nine sectors, manufacturing accounts for 41%, education 22% and health 8%. Trade and IT/BPO engaged 7% of the total estimated number of workers.
According to the QES, the pandemic-induced dip in employment affected about 27% of the 12,000 establishments surveyed. During the period Match 25, 2020 to June 30, 2020 when the one of the strictest lockdowns was in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, 69.5% of the establishment showed no change in employment while 26.7% establishment reported decreased employment as on July 1, 2020 compared to March 25, 2020, the survey showed. Decreased employment was relatively higher for the manufacturing sector, construction, accommodation and restaurant sectors.
The survey results showed that 38.1% establishments in the manufacturing sector, 34.5% in the construction sector and 34.4% in the accommodation and restaurant sector reported decreased employment during the nationwide lockdown. The health sector registered the highest percentage share (7%) reporting an increase in employment during the lockdown, the survey showed.
Speaking to TOI, principal adviser to the labour and employment ministry, D P S Negi said, “Total employment (between the three-month lockdown period) fell from 3.078 crore to 2.848 crore or by 24 lakh. This has been slightly more than made up during July 2020 and March 2021, making the total employment figure on April 1 as 3.08 crore.”
Majority of the estimated establishments (80.7%) reported that their employees received full wages during the lockdown., while 16.6% reported receiving reduced wages. Only 2.7% of the total estimated establishments reported that they paid no wages to their employees during the lockdown. The highest share of the estimated establishments reporting that their employees received no wages the lockdown was in the construction (6.7%) and accommodation and restaurants (4.9%) sectors.
Released by Union labour and employment minister Bhupender Yadav, QES is the first part of the All India Quarterly Establishment Based Employment Survey (AIQEES), which assessed establishments employing 10 or more workers in the manufacturing, construction, health, education, finance services, IT/BPO, trade, transport, and accommodation and restaurant sectors.
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Beholderkin, Eye of the Deep
Large Aberration (Aquatic)
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|Source(s):||Lords of Madness, Tome of Horrors 1, 1E Monster Manual 1, Monstrous Compendium Volume 1, Monstrous Manual, Black Spine, Creature Catalogue (AC9)|
|Also Known As:||Aquatic Beholder|
|Alignment:||Usually Lawful Evil|
|Organization:||Solitary, pair, or cluster (3-6)|
Thought to be a distant relative of the beholder, these underwater dwellers have a beholder-like head with a mass of tentacles dangling beneath and two large arms that end in pincers. Unlike beholders they only have two eyestalks and a central eye, though each has magical powers. | <urn:uuid:e983dfa8-9eb3-4bea-acb0-f5dca46fc6f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sulerin.com/creatures/creatures.asp?op=open&a=20030319213938 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.736737 | 225 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Division Transit Project will create new jobs and bring economic benefits to the region. The project is expected to create more than 1,400 jobs, including 650 construction jobs, and more than 780 indirect and induced jobs. More than $137.7 million in added economic value is estimated to be created in the corridor.
The project has a goal of awarding 20 percent of the design funding, and 36 percent of the construction funding to Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms, supporting businesses owned by people of color and women.
In 2020, TriMet awarded the project’s general contractor contract to Raimore Construction, a certified DBE with a 20-year work history with TriMet. The contract is the largest construction contract in Oregon history.
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises are small, for-profit business that are at least 51% owned by individuals who are socially and economically disadvantaged, as defined by the federal government.
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The Hunter Engineering Company is the world leader in Wheel Alignment, Wheel Balancing and Tyre Changing. The Hunter HawkEye Elite Wheel Alignment we use is the world’s fastest Wheel Aligner. It blends speed with precision and accuracy to ensure that there are no compromises on the wheel alignment done on your car. The Hunter HawkEye Elite also uses special wheel adopters to ensure that there is no scratch on your car’s alloy wheels.
We also use a special software to ensure a straight steering wheel after alignment. The Hunter Camera based Wheel Alignment system is capable of aligning all cars, starting from the humble but ubiquitous Maruti 800 to a Mercedes Benz S Class or a Ferrari 488 GTB. Wheel Alignment is the process of setting certain suspension angles to the OEM specification. These angles, like Toe, Caster and Camber can change over a period of time. Regular Wheel Alignment identifies mis-alignment and resets the angles to OEM specs.
Before we understand what Road force Balancing is about; we need to understand what wheel balancing is. Wheel Balancing is a process of measuring the imbalance of the tyre and wheel assembly and correcting it by adding weights directly opposite the heaviest point on the assembly. This eliminates only part of the vibration problems.
In today’s modern cars, road force variation can also cause vibration which can cause excessive wear and tear of suspension components and in extreme cases can be felt while driving as well. Hunter’s Road Force Balancer, has a load roller which applies a load on the tyre simulating the real world road condition and can help diagnose problems with either the tyre or the wheel. It helps diagnose issues faster and without the need to follow a trial and error method.
The Hunter Road Force Balancer also checks the lateral(side to side) pulling of the tyres and recommends the best possible locations for the set of 4 tyres. This eliminates another major problem with Wheel Balancing and Wheel Alignment as many times, the car pulls to one side due to the tyres. To eliminate this problem, tthe only solution is to try different positions for the set of 4 tyres to find the best possible setting. The Hunter Road Force Balancer ensures that a lot of time is saved and no trial and error is required.
Tyre Changing is seen as a very basic, simple job. However, with today’s cars, alloy wheels and low profile tyres, it is not!
If the fitment of the tyre isn’t done properly, it can lead to tyre damage, alloy wheel damage and in extreme cases tyre failure due to the bead not being seated properly. Hunter Revolution Tyre Changer is the world’s most advanced tyre changer and it is the highlight of our store in Wilson Garden, Bangalore. We also have a Hunter TCX 57 which complements the Revolution perfectly.
We use special tyre changers which have soft plastic tools to ensure there are no scratches on Alloy Wheels. Many tyre shops use soap water to lubricate the tyre and rim during installation and this corrodes the wheel.
We use a special tyre paste that is imported from Germany to ensure smooth fitting of the tyre without damaging the tyre or the rim.
Our Nitrogen machine produces 95% pure Nitrogen to fill your tyres. Normal air is 78% Nitrogen. The remaining 22% is made up of mainly oxygen and trace amounts of carbon dioxide, water vapour and other gases.
Oxygen and water vapour can cause rusting of the rim. Also, normal air expands with increase in heat. So running a car for extended periods of time can cause the tyre pressure to increase. In some cases this can be dangerous.
Nitrogen eliminates this problem. There is a negligible increase in tyre pressure with Nitrogen. Nitrogen molecules are also bigger than Oxygen molecules and this leads to one of the best advantages of Nitrogen inflation – longer gaps between topping up and checking air pressure.
The car’s AC system has a refrigerant called R-134a which circulates inside the system and plays a primary role in chilling the outside air which is blown through the AC vents
Over a period of time, the quantity of this refrigerant can reduce in the AC system. Our Texa AC Recharging systems sucks out whatever is left of the refrigerant, recycles it, checks for leaks and then refills the correct quantity of the AC refrigerant back into the AC system.
Wheel Balancing is very common and popular for car tyres. However, with the increase in the number of higher end bikes manufactured by companies like KTM, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda, Triumph, Harley-Davidson, Ducati, Benelli and many more, wheel balancing for bikes is going to become an important service.
As the tyres for such bikes are wider than the typical tyre on a 100-200cc bike, any imbalance in the tyre gets magnified and can lead to vibrations. These vibrations can further cause handling problems, suspension wear and tear and rider fatigue.
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“Too Loud” and "Too Jewish": Standing up for Gun Control
My friends sitting next to me in the library whispered: “Just do it.”
We were at a school open mic about gun control in the weeks following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting. Lunch was nearing its end and I would miss my opportunity. All the other speakers had been older guys. They went on and on, spiritedly spitting statistics and saliva, mentioning Second Amendment rights and how it was all just “a mental health issue.” I was appalled by their statements, but who was I to take them on? I was a random freshman. They were upperclassmen, prominent leaders in the school.
The only person who I agreed with was one of my friends from theater, a fittingly lanky boy. We were the two organizers of our school’s protest in solidarity with Parkland. As he spoke at the front of our library, people looked down on him from the second floor, his crooked limbs practically dancing to his impassioned words. I agreed with his points. They were smart, but people didn’t seem to take him seriously. I needed everyone to understand just how important gun control was. I needed my peers to realize how grave the situation was. No one else was arguing my beliefs. I had an itch that I couldn’t scratch by staying silent. I made up my mind.
I got up from my seat at a table facing the impromptu stage, and I stood in line. A junior boy spoke before me. He was the president of our school’s political activism club, which was, in reality, an alternative name for “Republican students.” He also used the argument of mental health. He exited the stage and I stepped up to the mic.
“If it truly is a mental health problem, a bullying problem, then why is it straight white men shooting up schools? Why not the gay, female, fat, or black kids who get bullied for the way they are?” I asked.
The bell rang. Students filed out of the library and I went to grab my backpack and head to my world studies class, but the student who spoke right before me started yelling. He ran up to me, pointing his finger in my face, and started yelling about generalizations. Students all around us glanced back as they left the library. The principal went to him and started calming him down. As I left the library to go to my next period, a friend came up to me. She told me that she would never be able to do what I did.
Out of a dozen or so speakers, the fact that I was the only girl to voice my opinion on gun control seemed wild to me. Was I the only one who knew anything about it? Was I the only one who cared? Or was I the only one who didn’t care about scrutiny? I’ve been judged throughout my life for my actions and words, so it wasn’t new to me to be disliked for voicing my perspective.
I realized then that many girls can’t speak up for what they believe in because of the way we are viewed for doing so. Being the only girl to speak during that open mic made me understand just how scrutinized women are for having strong opinions. Out of all the speakers, I was the only one who was yelled at, heckled, and criticized publicly for sharing my beliefs.
I realized that day that, as long as I am a girl, people will view me differently for being outspoken. People will think that I’m “bossy,” “intimidating,” and “bitchy” when I say what’s on my mind because girls are supposed to be quiet.
I’m not the only woman to be scrutinized for being outspoken. Too often, women are told they are “too loud.” This is especially the case for Jewish women. We are stereotyped and criticized for having loud voices and opinions. I have been told too many times that I need to be quieter, keep my thoughts to myself, and stay in line. I have been told too many times that I’m “too Jewish” because I stand up for what I believe in. But I embrace my Jewishness, my loudness, and my refusal to be quiet.
Since that open mic, I have continued to be loud. I decided that day that no matter how loud someone is yelling at me or how loud they are yelling over me, I will not be silenced. I have kept my head and my hopes high, fighting for what I believe is right, no matter the pushback. I continue to fight for what I believe in: gun control, an end to climate change, women’s rights, and every other issue I am passionate about. I won’t let the world silence my female Jewishness. Instead, I will welcome it, and use my identity to make my voice heard. Like Queen Esther, who declared her Judaism at the risk of her life, I will refuse to hide who I am, and I will refuse to stay quiet.
This article was republished on Teen Voices.
This piece was written as part of JWA’s Rising Voices Fellowship.
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I thought I knew it all. I had been to numerous and important peace conferences and gatherings: the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993; thereafter the international donor conference for the establishment of a new Palestinian Authority with Clinton, Arafat and Peres; and in the following years, the Casablanca and Amman conferences on regional economic cooperation with Arab kings and presidents, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Bill Clinton. These were significant conferences that also made political progress, but they did not result in a process of social reconciliation or economic cooperation. They hardly touched the people of the region.
The YaLa Young Leaders Conference did. ( YaLa Conference Link)
Hundreds of thousands saw posts on peace on our Facebook page, thousands watched video greetings from world and regional leaders, and most importantly, hundreds dialogued with each other.
It is this human encounter that is the most important consequence of the conference. Peacemaking is about humanization; both from an ideological perspective and from a pragmatic interests.
I was deeply impressed by the thousands of dialogues at the conference. They should be taught at the Harvard School of Negotiation. These talks are actually leading to peaceful coexistence between people who understand that they have a common destiny and that one’s future cannot come at the expense of the other’s. On Facebook, on YaLa, nobody is superior, nobody is rejected, nobody is violent, and everybody – Palestinian, Egyptian, Israeli, Saudi – can be friends and study together at the YaLa Academy.
I also take away from the conference the critical aspect of peace. YaLa in its three years has developed a YaLa persona – a persona identified with the MENA region and its future. The YaLas understand the link between independence and interdependence. With the creation of an independent Palestine (within the 1967 lines), regional cooperation must take a concrete form and be led by the young leaders of the region. As such, with time, a vision of MENA should evolve, as the EU did after WWII.
The creation of a regional persona, ongoing dialogue and collaborative study must lead to strong Israeli-Palestinian peace advocacy to affect outdated political leadership.
In the age of social media, the conference teaches us that it is possible. To my YaLa friends I say: “Well done, lead the way, rebel against the past and create a new future.”
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Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN)
Carla Dinardo, MD, PhD, explains why the Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN) remains a challenge despite the many advances made to either prevent, or diagnose and treat HDFN and its complications.
What Can SARS-CoV-2 Serology Testing Tell Us About Immune Status?
Two years into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the role of serology testing to evaluate immune responses has not yet been defined. This webinar will explore the role of serology testing to assess immune status.
The Strengths and Weaknesses of HbA1c in the Diagnosis of Diabetes
Dave Koch, PhD, DABCC, covers the strengths, weaknesses and practical details of HbA1c in the diagnosis of diabetes. This includes how HbA1c is useful in diagnosing and monitoring diabetes and how hemoglobin variants in the patient sample and other patient characteristics might impact the HbA1c result that is obtained.
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SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19
- What Can SARS-CoV-2 Serology Testing Tell Us About Immune Status?
Two years into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the role of serology testing to evaluate immune responses has not yet been defined. This webinar will explore the role of serology testing to assess immune status. This includes understanding how SARS-CoV-2 serology testing results correlate with individual immune responses to COVID-19 infections or vaccinations, and the value of SARS-CoV-2 serology testing and potential role of quantitative assays in determining protection against COVID-19. This webinar will also review serological responses from SARS-CoV-2 variants with a new quantitative assay that can differentiate multiple neutralizing and binding antibodies within a single test.
- Making the Choice – Serology Assays in COVID-19 Diagnostics and Surveillance
It has been suggested that combining serological diagnostic testing with molecular testing may be useful in confirming COVID-19 infection or exposure to the virus. This webinar will look at the role of serology tests in the pandemic response, the clinical value of a Total Ab assay, and the actual performance and clinical utility of Platelia SARS CoV-2 Total Ab Assay for the COVID-19 pandemic response. Presented by Jean-François Mouscadet.
COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA)
- How Can Galactomannan Detection Improve CAPA Diagnosis?
In this on-demand webinar, Pr Denning presents interesting data related to a retrospective multicenter review performed in France in 2020. For patients admitted to the ICU with positive SARS-CoV-2 qPCR, most included in this study were mechanically ventilated during their hospital stay. For patients whose clinical picture worsened, some may have had a blood and/or bronchoalveolar lavage sample taken for galactomannan detection, BDG, or PCR testing. In the case of a positive result, the patient was considered as having a probable underlying Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis (IPA). For patients classified within the “IPA” group, the mortality was significantly higher than patients classified within the “no IPA” group (71% mortality vs 37%).2
- COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA): Definition, Diagnosis, and Treatment
In this on-demand webinar, Dr. Philipp Köhler presents the different diagnostic procedures that can be routinely used to diagnose CAPA. Dr. Köhler presents about the CAPA incidence during 2020 in many countries and notes that the incidence is higher with mechanical ventilation.3 He references the 2020 ECMM/ISHAM consensus criteria for research and clinical guidance.4
- COVID-19 Expertise
More recently, Bio-Rad has provided a wide range of products for use in the support of COVID-19 diagnostic screening, confirmation of test results, surveillance, and therapy/vaccine research and development. From virus detection using real-time PCR, Droplet Digital PCR or Ag Rapid Test Assay, to immunology assays, our wide range of solutions provide best-in-class sensitivity and accuracy. Learn more.
- Bio-Rad Mycology & COVID-19 Solution
In order to fight against COVID-19 and to offer better management of patients, Bio-Rad, since the beginning of 2020, has continued to expand its offer with a complete range of reagents, instruments, and quality controls. Bio-Rad’s first assay was the Platelia SARS-CoV-2 Total Ab test, introduced in April 2020. To learn more about the Bio-Rad microplate solution related to invasive fungal infections and SARS-CoV-2, please view the following video.
Transfusion Science Webinars
- "D" Solution: When Serology Meets Genotyping
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Sofia Lejon Crottet, PhD, head of the Swiss National Immunohematology Reference Laboratory, will tell us how the reference laboratory clarifies serologically weak or discrepant D (RH1) results by phenotyping and genotyping.
- How to Deal with ABO Discrepancies
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Malcolm Needs, FBBTS, will tell us how ABO anomalies come about and what techniques can be used to elucidate the true ABO type of an individual.
- Laboratory IT and Service Consolidation: Shared Resources, Better Care
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Benjamin Holmes, Blood Transfusion Laboratory Manager for Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, UK, will explain to us how a networked solution and the associated Bio-Rad software has afforded further benefits to their organization.
- Why in D World Are There “D”screpancies in RhD Typing?
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Sue Johnson, Director of Clinical Education at Versiti and Director of the Transfusion Medicine Program at Marquette University, will share the challenges faced by laboratory scientists in typing for RhD and discuss strategies for detecting and identifying weak and partial D variants.
- Complex Antibody Identification
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Shane Grimsley, Manager of the Red Cell Reference Laboratory at the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL), based in Bristol, UK, will show us how complex cases can be resolved and in particular, will discuss the many tools that are available for the resolution of complex antibody investigations.
- New Blood Groups and Antigens Recognized by the ISBT from 2019 to 2021
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Dr. Christoph Gassner, professor of Medical Biology at the Institute for Translational Medicine of the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein, will walk us through the process of recognizing new blood group systems and antigens. Using the most recent blood group systems identified by the ISBT from 2019 to 2021, he will show how complex it is for a blood group to be fully recognized.
- Five Years with anti-CD38 – Experience from a Reference Laboratory
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Sofia Lejon Crottet, PhD, head of the Swiss National Immunohematology Reference Laboratory, will tell us how a reference laboratory deals with anti-CD38 in a pretransfusion setting. She will guide us through the methods available to overcome the anti-CD38 interferences in the Indirect Antiglobulin Test (IAT), their pros and cons, as well as their financial impacts. In this review, Sofia will present some case studies which will show how pretransfusion testing can be efficiently carried out despite interferences from anti-CD38.
- Issues in ABO Antibody Titration
In this second episode of our automated antibody titration series, Dr. Meenu Bajpai, MD, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi, will explain the main challenges in ABO Antibody Titration. She will walk us through the characteristics of ABO antibodies, the methods in use for the determination of ABO antibody titer, and the clinical applications for the results. She will also touch upon the automation of ABO titration for the gel method on the IH-500 system with all its benefits.
- Automated anti-D Quantification in Immunization and Prophylaxis Contexts
In this first episode of our automated antibody titration series, Dr. Cécile TOLY-NDOUR, PharmD, PhD, medical biologist at the French National Reference Center in Perinatal Hemobiology (CNRHP) will explain how automated anti-D microtitration on the IH-500 system can easily distinguish a passive from an immune anti-D when the Indirect Antiglobulin Test is found positive after an anti-D prophylaxis. She will also share with us the benefits of the automated gel anti-D titration method on the IH-500 system, its correlation to the reference tube method, and the added value of the gel titer score to monitor pregnancies complicated by an anti-D alloimmunization.
- Resolution of Complex Immunohematology Antibody Problems
In this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Sandra Nance, MS, MT(MASCP)SBB, will share with us how a National Reference Laboratory deals with complex immunohematology cases that can be magically solved with the use of various techniques. Through a case review approach, she will share how investigations are carried out using a stepwise analysis of each testing result.
- Electronic Issue in Blood Transfusion
The rapid provision of blood units is of major importance in transfusion medicine. The use of Electronic Issue (sometimes called 'electronic crossmatch') has facilitated rapid provision of RBC units through the avoidance of the serologic crossmatch in eligible patients. In this webinar, Malcolm Needs will walk us through the process which has made the Electronic Issue a matter of course in Blood Transfusion.
- Hemolytic Anemia and Why Patient History Matters
In an ideal scenario of an immune hemolytic anemia investigation, laboratory results would allow the identification of a causative agent, leading to proper patient treatment. However sometimes, laboratory findings do not bring the expected results, hence the importance of patient history. In this webinar, case studies will be presented where the test results are inconsistent with the patient clinical condition, leading to further investigations.
Diabetes / Hemoglobinopathies
- The HbA1c Diagnostic Test and Its Role in My Endocrinology Practice
Managing patients living with diabetes using the HbA1c diagnostic test: Insights to guide healthcare providers and laboratories personnel. Presented by Dr. David G. Robertson.
- World Diabetes Day #Testing2Prevent Webinar
With the advent of HbA1c as a diagnostic test for diabetes, it is vitally important to be aware of potential confounding factors for the assay, in particular, haemoglobin variants for which some examples will be reviewed. Presented by Dr. Chris M. Florkowski.
- The Strengths and Weaknesses of HbA1c in the Diagnosis of Diabetes
This webinar covers the strengths, weaknesses and practical details of HbA1c in the diagnosis of diabetes. This includes how HbA1c is useful in diagnosing and monitoring diabetes and how hemoglobin variants in the patient sample and other patient characteristics might impact the HbA1c result that is obtained. Presented by Dave Koch, PhD, DABCC.
- Evaluation of Hemoglobinopathies by HPLC
In this webinar, we will discuss the evalaution of hemoglobinopathies by HPLC testing and will focus on hemoglobins, phenotypes, and hemoglobin disorders through the review of chromatograms. Presented by Marco Flamini, Senior Global Product Manager, Bio-Rad Laboratories.
- Thalassemia and Sickle Cell: Past, Present and Future
Although thalassemia and sickle cell are among the most common monogenic hemoglobin disorders in the world, disease awareness is still far from acceptable. Presented by Dr. Michael Angastinioti and Dr. Daniel E. Bauer.
- Newborn Screening for Hemoglobinopathies and Thalassemia: Current Practices
In commemoration of World Sickle Cell Day on June 19th, Bio-Rad is pleased to invite you to register for a webinar about the current practices in newborn screening for Hemoglobinopathies and Thalassemia. Presented by M. Christine Dorley, MSP, BS MT (ASCP).
- How "Load and Go" QC Optimised the Quality Control Process
Dr. Silvia Gelsumini and Dr. Lorenzo Cerutti from Bergamo hospital, Italy, discuss how they've transformed the way their diagnostic laboratory manages QC using Bio-Rad tools. You will learn exactly what they did to boost efficiency, simplify the process, and improve patient outcomes as a result.
- The Future of Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostic Labs: An Expert Discussion
We know that maintaining the highest quality standards in diagnostics is vital, from the most basic blood test to crucial transplant testing. But it can be challenging and time-consuming – especially in molecular diagnostics labs, where quality control techniques can lag behind clinical chemistry labs. Join Dr. Jérémie Gras to learn how advanced quality control in molecular diagnostics has the power to change the direction of a life.
- QC strategy for Serum/Plasma Indices (HIL) detection around the EFLM recommendations
Join Dr. von Mayer to learn about the recommendations from the EFLM (European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine) working group on pre-analytical evaluation. In this webinar, we will discuss: why pre-analytical focus is important to ensure quality results in your laboratory; how to create a robust quality assurance strategy for pre‑analytical work in your laboratory; and what to do if your QC fails once your process is set up. | <urn:uuid:966ef868-4932-41f7-b1d8-f4eee837f33a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bio-rad.com/en-us/clinical-diagnostics/support/webinars?ID=1631574160938 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.875091 | 3,228 | 2.125 | 2 |
Before you embark on physical data recovery procedures, first you may need to identify the kind of damages caused on the drive. For instance, there are certain types of damages, which may just require some repair using software. Some of the symptoms on such problems include failure in the hard drive being listed on the disks available on your machine. Incase this happens; you may need to consider using some kind of software that will help you identify the kind of problem in this.
Some damages are physical and can be seen. You therefore, need to exercise some high level of caution on the same, to avoid total loss of data. If your hard drive has been exposed to some bad conditions such as floods and fire, you may not find it easy to have it repair by yourself. You will need the help of a physical hard drive recovery expert who will ensure a higher percentage of your data is recovered. You can easily identify damages on your hard drive by regularly checking the software on your machine. Modern hard drives can easily monitor your machine to identify its progress and incase of any complications, it can check and have it repaired.
How You Can Start Your Own Physical Hard Drive Recovery Procedure
First, when you find out that your hard drive is not responding as expected, check all your connections. The best way to do this is to disconnect everything and begin afresh. It may occur to you that one of the connections was not right or you simply interchanged some wires. In this case, you do not need to spend money in paying someone to do such a simple thing. Some complications on your hard drive could also be as a result of some loose connection. Ensure that all the connections are tightly fixed to the power cables as well as to your machine.
In case your connections make things worse, you may want to involve an expert in physical hard drive recovery other than involving yourself in some of the things that may cost your drives. You need to be careful not to lose any data. Remember, a hard drive must be handled with a lot of care since any mishandling may lead intense and unplanned loss of important data.
Secondly, you can check out for any simple damages that may have been caused on the hard drive. For example, you may have dropped it in such a way that it experiences some breakage. Identify the part that is broken and have it replaced. | <urn:uuid:55c0244f-e4fc-4ba3-a256-d2e41b5baa05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://harddriversecoverygroup.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/how-to-identify-damages-on-your-hard-drive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95917 | 478 | 2 | 2 |
BREACHES OF THE PEACE AND RELATED OFFENSES
644:13 Unauthorized Use of Firearms.
I. A person is guilty of a violation if, within the compact part of a town or city, such person fires or discharges any cannon, gun, pistol, or other firearm, except by written permission of the chief of police or governing body.
II. For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Blank ammunition" means a cartridge loaded with propellant and a wad, but no projectile.
(b) "Compact part" means the territory within a town or city comprised of the following:
(1) Any nonresidential, commercial building, including, but not limited to, industrial, educational, or medical buildings, plus a perimeter 300 feet wide around all such buildings without permission of the owner.
(2) Any park, playground, or other outdoor public gathering place designated by the legislative body of the city or town.
(3) Any contiguous area containing 6 or more buildings which are used as either part-time or permanent dwellings and the spaces between them where each such building is within 300 feet of at least one of the others, plus a perimeter 300 feet wide around all the buildings in such area.
III. Paragraph I shall not apply to the firing or discharge of a cannon, gun, pistol, or other firearm within the compact part of a town or city for the following events, provided that the person responsible for organizing the event notifies the police department and the fire department prior to the following events using blank ammunition:
(a) The celebration of, or practice for the celebration of, military events, military funerals, national holidays, or other military or veterans commemorations, conducted by United States armed forces personnel; or
(b) Military re-enactors registered with the secretary of state's office and who meet the requirements of the state fire code pursuant to RSA 153:5; or
(c) Funerals or commemorative events conducted by law enforcement agencies, fire departments, emergency medical services, or other public safety agencies, or official veterans organizations including but not limited to the American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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On Thursday night the Bogotá Post hosted an expert panel discussion at the Espacio Media Incubator in Medellín, in which leading environmental researchers discussed the numerous threats to Colombia’s biodiversity in the post peace agreement era. The implementation of the 2016 peace agreement has opened up vast areas of land, rich in biodiversity, which could now be exploited by a variety of groups for legal and illegal activities.
Speaking at the event were Dr. Nicolas Clerici, a landscape ecologist from Bogotá’s Rosario University, and Dr. Jesus A. Anaya from the Faculty of Engineering of Medellín University.
One of the evening’s main talking points was the rampant deforestation which has seen vast swathes of Colombian land stripped for logging, mining and in order to grow illegal crops. Dr. Anaya, who tracks deforestation using remote sensing technology and cloud computing, said that currently 200,000 hectares of land is used in Colombia for coca plantations. He added that a particularly high density of these crops are located on the Pacific Coast, many in areas with high levels of poverty where the State has no meaningful presence and coca farming provides armed groups with sizeable revenues to finance their activities.
Dr. Clerici spoke of two main threats biodiversity, the first being the distribution of land by illegal armed groups seeking to boost their social status among the local population in their areas of operation. The second threat comes for land-grabbing. In various parts of Colombia, dominant land owners are able to accumulate cheap land for mining, logging and farming, which not only accelerates deforestation but is also one of the main drivers of internal displacement in Colombia.
Both speakers stressed the far-reaching consequences of deforestation, which pose a serious threat to the biological corridors fuelling Colombia’s biodiversity. Dr. Clerici noted that Colombia is the second-most biodiverse country in the world and possesses a so-called “Megacorridor”, stretching from the Andes to the lowlands, which allows biodiversity to develop by providing a bridge for species to move across an enormous geographical area. Deforestation disrupts the gene connections which rely on biological corridors and thus significantly reduces the creation of new species.
Another major issue mentioned by Dr. Anaya is that of pollution. The professor said that large-scale mining projects frequently leave behind pools of water spread over hundreds of kilometres, contaminated with various chemicals such as mercury. This not only affects wildlife, but also the local population who use the pools for fishing.
Following the discussion on the main threats to biodiversity, the speakers outlined possible strategies for preventing the mass destruction of habitats.
Both agreed that the State needs to a establish a legitimate physical and legal presence in areas outside of the government’s sphere of influence, to stop land-grabbing and deforestation. Dr. Anaya argued that protected areas, for example national parks, require more assistance from state security forces to deal with threats from armed groups. Although several conservationist NGOs and IOs are present in Colombia, for security reasons there are some areas where they simply don’t go; this is where the State has to establish greater control and guarantee the protection of biodiversity.
Additionally, both panelists linked Colombia’s struggles to protect its ecological resources to the widespread poverty in areas with high deforestation rates. Dr. Clerici suggested that involving locals in the protection and management of natural resources could provide an economic incentive to protect land and simultaneously generate much-needed revenues in impoverished regions with few employment opportunities. Teaching people the value of environmental conservation, a complex issue difficult to explain to non-experts, would be a positive step in a country whose education system currently does not teach ecological issues.
Dr. Anaya mentioned the need to address cocaine demand, suggesting that efforts should be made to inform users of the disastrous effects that cocaine production has on forests and biodiversity.
With new president Iván Duque being sworn in just two days ago, neither Dr. Clereci nor Dr. Anaya could provide a clear picture of how biodiversity protection will pan out under the new administration. Dr. Clereci said he was pessimistic, an understandable viewpoint given the present scale of illegal activity. Thus, despite entering an era of relative peace, Colombia faces a tough battle to keep it biological corridors connected and to protect its richness in biodiversity. | <urn:uuid:858c5b9f-eb21-478a-aadd-c3e0da9a9155> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebogotapost.com/the-bogota-post-hosts-expert-panel-on-threats-to-colombias-biodiversity/31515/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944671 | 886 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The Executive Order has been signed in light of the necessity to take urgent measures in response to the unfriendly actions taken by the European Union, several other foreign states, their citizens, stateless persons who are permanently or temporarily residing in these countries, and the holders of travel documents issued by these states or the European Union against the Russian Federation, its citizens and legal entities.
The President has ordered the suspension of several provisions of international treaties signed by the Russian Federation in accordance with Clause 4 of Article 37 of Federal Law No. 101-FZ of July 15, 1995, On the International Treaties of the Russian Federation.
Several clauses of the agreements on visa facilitation for the citizens of Russia and the European Union signed between the Russian Federation and the European Community, and similar agreements signed between Russia and Norway, Russia and Denmark, Russia and Iceland, Russia and Switzerland, and Russia and the Principality of Liechtenstein, will be suspended.
The Foreign Ministry has been instructed to forward notifications on the suspension of the above-mentioned provisions of international treaties signed by the Russian Federation to the EU Delegation to Russia and the embassies of the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland and the Swiss Confederation in the Russian Federation.
The Foreign Ministry, working together with the federal executive bodies authorised to take decisions on denying entry to the Russian Federation, is to introduce personal restrictions on the entry to and stay in the Russian Federation for foreign citizens and stateless persons who are taking unfriendly actions against the Russian Federation, its citizens or legal entities.
The Government has been instructed to submit to the State Duma a draft federal law suspending the provisions of the international treaties of the Russian Federation mentioned in this Executive Order. | <urn:uuid:6caf0b93-f404-4e00-af12-c0b4016c27a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news/68137 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95697 | 350 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Local ladies hate conflicts, and it’s not common for the culture of this country to quarrel and blame someone. You ought to search for single Chinese women if you additionally consider that confrontation solely ruins relationships. This study examines Chinese women’s perceptions of fate by looking into the custom of bridal laments that had been practiced in rural Hong Kong for over three centuries. The bridal lamentation afforded a special ritual house for Chinese women to specific themselves publicly. The last section, on the communicative options of the bridal laments, analyzes the distinctive language structure of the laments. In doing so, it casts mild on the attainable hyperlink between the destiny of the women and their articulation of their life experiences.
The former is linked to like, success, happiness, prosperity, luck, fertility, honor, and loyalty, whereas the latter is a logo of wealth. Nicole Froelich is an expert vacation spot wedding ceremony planner and proprietor ofNicole Please. Based in Hong Kong and fluent in Mandarin, German, Swiss-German, French, and English, she’s pulled off picture-perfect weddings in Spain, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Italy. Cherisse Harris is a fact-checker with a concentrate on lifestyle, beauty, and parenting. We stumble upon each other in Shaadi and connected based mostly on each other preferences.
Since «po» (婆) translates to «grannies» in English, it suggests that aged female characters dominated the «marriage market». Indeed, in the novel The Golden Lotus , the 4 matchmakers Wang, Xue, Wen, Feng were all elderly female characters. In historic China, people believed that marriages belong to the «Yin» side (the reverse is «Yang»), which corresponds to females. In order to maintain up the steadiness between Yin and Yang, women should not interfere with the Yang aspect and men should not interfere with the Yin facet. Since breaking the balance could result in disorder and misfortune, males have been rarely seen in marriage arrangements. Furthermore, unmarried girls were not within the occupation as a result of they themselves knew little about marriage and weren’t credible in arranging marriages. As a outcome, nearly all marriage brokers in the literary work had been offered as elderly females.
The Argument About China Brides
Any male would recognize it if the girl is nice to him and his family. At the same time, she should be friendly to all of her family members, kids, animals, and strangers, not only the chosen ones. But don’t go overboard; else, you risk turning into a mother instead of the best girl. Platforms and companies claiming that western males can literally mail order Chinese girls, i.e. get a Chinese spouse without meeting her in actual life are simply misinforming individuals. So, everyone who’s going to find a Chinese mail order bride must also contemplate the prices of trips when planning a finances. Statistics show that from 1979 to 2010 there was a major rise in the variety of marriages between Chinese and international citizens, and most of them were Chinese brides who married foreign men.
They must be excited about giving you a glimpse of what you’re up towards on their website, to motivate you to join their neighborhood. As for the profiles, don’t get alarmed if you see that the pictures look professionally made and never too casual. A Chinese brides agency normally hires a professional photographer to help the woman reveal all her winning sides on photographs. However, the agency doesn’t rent a professional author for her to create her profile description.
Sometimes it’s unimaginable to guess the real age of an area woman, so your future spouse will look beautiful even when she crosses the border of her late 50s. If you find Chinese girl, you may be probably to acquire not merely a nurturing girl but likewise actual help in some of your efforts. Chinese women are enticing, slim, in addition to romantic, so they’re actually greatest applicants for marital relationship.
China Highlights tailor-makes China excursions to assist travelers discover China their means. We’re a passionate staff of one hundred avid vacationers who love to share our knowledge of China with those in search of a extra authentic journey experience, extra … Decorations in the corridor will usually contain 囍 the «double joy» character, reserved solely for matrimonial usage. Colors are pink and gold principally, and banners with needs in varied totally different phrases, may also be held on the doors and home windows of the venue to find a way to want the model new couple properly. Nanzan University is a private university located in Nagoya, a metropolis in central Japan.
Chinese wives are affected person and understanding past belief, but when a man solely cares about his job, they will by no means be ready to accept it. No matter how prestigious and demanding your job is, you all the time need to put household first. The interview system additionally appears to be deterring some people who have already been granted visas based on their alleged marriages.
Chinese postal mail order girlfriends or wives are good listeners, they understand the factors of perspective of their husbands, and they’re usually trustworthy with the companions. Claim your itemizing free of charge to reply to reviews, update your profile and manage your itemizing. China-brides.com has a consumer score of 5 stars from 1 evaluation indicating that virtually all prospects are typically happy with their purchases. The Nine Treasures Wedding Box is normally gifted to the bride by the bride’s family. Yes, Chinese brides admire Western men, especially American ones. They consider that they’ve an excellent training and are more open-minded than Chinese men.
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DR. LEONARD HOROWITZ INTERVIEW ON CHEMTRAILS
REDDEN: What about the current controversy over chemtrails - the theory that airplanes are spraying the population with some kind of chemical or biological weapon. As I understand it, a number of researchers believe that many of the contrails in the skies these days are not the normal contrails formed by high-flying jets, but are actually trails of chemical or biological agents which spread out and then fall on the earth.
HOROWITZ: ... I believe the chemtrails are responsible for a chemical intoxication of the public, which would then cause a general immune suppression, low grade to high grade, depending on exposure. An immune dysfunction, which would then allow people to become susceptible to opportunistic infections, such as mycoplasma and other opportunistic infections.
REDDEN: So you believe that high-flying planes are, in fact, spraying something on the population, that the theory is real?
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Sacred geometry. What is the Vesica Piscis and what does it symbolize?
July 12, 2022
The name Vesica Piscis comes from Latin and literally translates to the inner chamber of a fish. The figure is two equal circles and their centers are on the perimeter of each other.
As with many forms of sacred geometry, the real power may be hidden from our conscious minds, but it does not go unnoticed by the subconscious.
To make this power visible, we have to add or highlight a few lines to the vesica piscis.
The sacred formulas in the Vesica Piscis
The round shape (feminine energy) and the square shape (masculine energy) appear, both symbolizing creation and complementarity in a dual world.
From this pattern, three numbers emerge that according to Pythagoras are fundamental to all creation: √2, √3 and √5.
The √2 is the binary sequence and we not only find it throughout nature, the temple of Solomon and that of Tor in England follow this sequence, as well as the origin of the entire digital system.
The √3 appears in the area where both circles overlap, also known as Mandorla, and its proportions are the exact length of the diagonal of a cube, and that in a very synthesized way defines a three-dimensional space. The number 153 is key in √3 and precisely in the Bible, after the resurrection of Jesus, he helped his disciples to fish (another allegory to Vesica Piscis) and precisely they caught 153 fish.
Does a linear symbol of a fish sound familiar to you to symbolize Jesus Christ? This form comes precisely from the Vesica Piscis.
In the √5 sequence we find the famous Golden Ratio, also key in nature. Our brain is attracted to this ratio and for this reason we see it in many architectural and artistic forms.
The Vesica Piscis symbolizes feminine power
The story of the 153 fish also alludes to the importance of Mary Magdalene. Feminine power is even deliberately expressed in Celtic churches, where many female figures such as Sheela Na Gig or Isis Aphrodite follow the proportions of the sacred geometry of the Vesica Piscis.
And it is that the Mandorla is very much assimilated to the female form, revered since the origins of humanity (let's remember the Donis figures of Prehistory) and respected for its powerful energy. Also known as Yoni in Sanskrit, it is and symbolizes the passage from one world to another, the threshold between the soul and the material world.
The shape of the mandorla and also of the entire Vesica Piscis has been used in many religious sculptures and in the construction of temples and churches (the Washington Monument, Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican, even the sphinx of the Giza pyramid). . And also in companies and secret societies, without going any further brands such as Mastercard, Gucci, Chanel and dollar bills.
Taking this form of sacred geometry from a spiritual point of view, the Vesica Piscis represents creation, the womb of the universe. A circle is itself the Source of Energy, and if we add one more, then there is the creation where everything begins.
That the two joined circles create a form recognized as the female sex makes the clear symbology of this sacred geometry even clearer: the power of women.
The sacred geometry of Vesica Piscis is a talisman of feminine power and that, being the channel, we have all the energy of the universe to empower our actions, our decisions, our body and our feelings; and for us to walk with the powerful steps that our divine and feminine nature possesses.
To meditate with the Vesica Piscis and awaken its strength within you, first get into your most comfortable position to meditate with the help of a meditation zafu, those in the form of half Moon are among the most ergonomic there is, or a yoga chair it also favors long meditations.
Breathing rhythmically, visualize the two circles large enough that you can eventually focus on the shape of the mandorla and feed on it.
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In the British parliamentary democracy, the official opposition to the elected government has been recognized as integral and vital as the cabinet itself. In the British two-party system, the main opposition party is generally termed as the “Shadow Cabinet”. However, in the multi-party system of democracy as in India, the situation is different. Here the opposition comprises several parties and heterogeneous groups, which are often opposed to each other on several policy issues.
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“Ragadia luzonia,” Dr. Aimee Lynn Barrion-Dupo said matter-of-factly as she pulled out a brown-banded butterfly from her insect net and showed it to her companions.
“Look at the eye spots,” she said, as two of her companions bent down to look closer at the butterfly wings adorned with a band of black circles that looked like dilated pupils.
Nearby, a young entomologist tried his luck at catching butterflies. Hopping from rock to rock, he extended his arm, flicked his wrist and trapped another winged insect.
The rest of the small group, also professors and students at the University of the Philippines Los Banos, watched in amusement, seated on large rocks several meters away from the barbed wire fence that kept people away from Mt. Makiling’s extremely hot mudspring.
Dupo is one of only two spider experts in the Philippines. And that Sunday in March, she joined other entomologists – insect experts – as they collected samples of butterflies and other invertebrates.
Sundays are Dupo’s only rest day but she said they have decided to integrate field work in their leisurely treks.
“It’s hard to balance (field work and office work). If you ask me, I really have to spend more time outside because there are a lot of species to document. It’s also a race against time because some of the areas are changing,” she told ABS-CBN as the news team tagged along with their group.
The group of entomologists nonchantly enumerated the scientific names of the butterflies and moths they have collected. It seemed like a game of Pokemon Go, where the aim was to “catch ‘em all.” But Dupo said they only collect two per species to protect the insect species and to comply with the permit they got.
In the end, they collected less than 10 specimens, which they slid into a re-sealable plastic bag.
As they headed back to the main road, the group of entomologists refilled insect traps with alcohol and picked up trash left by other hikers. Dupo, who did not want to do a sit-down interview, started talking about her unconventional childhood.
As the second child of spider taxonomist Alberto Barrion and spider geneticist Adelina Barrion, Dupo spent her childhood at her father’s lab.
“I grew up playing with insect nets and vials,” she said.
Eventually, she learned to love the creatures that people were often scared of. She called them the “underdogs of entomology.”
She took up agriculture as an undergraduate student at UP Los Baños and then focused on entomology for her graduate studies in the same institution.
Her family’s dream was to co-write a pictorial guide on Philippine spiders. But it got delayed after her mother — the original Spider Woman — died in 2009.
Today, Dupo has been used to being called “Spider Woman” in news reports and features. She said she doesn’t necessarily like the title but she understands how it helps promote spider conservation.
“When it comes to conservation, people have high affinity toward butterflies. They think moths are ugly. I want to change their perceptions about spiders, as well as moths so that conservation efforts are not limited to those that look beautiful,” she said.
From ogres to Urduja
Currently, there are 534 recorded species of spiders in the Philippines, according to Dupo. However, there are a hundred or so new species that have been discovered in the country but have not yet been written about.
Among her favorites are colorful spiders that use their attractive patterns for mating or so-called ogre-faced spiders that have a fascinating way of catching prey.
“They look ugly and they have two big eyes. Their faces do look like ogres…But I prefer using their other name – ‘net casting spider,’” Dupo said. “These spiders seemingly knit their web into a net. And while hanging upside down like Spiderman, they use the web to catch their target.”
For Dupo, discovering a new species feels like getting a good bargain at the mall.
“Very exciting when you see a new species. It’s like seeing an item at the mall that you really want to buy and it’s on sale,” she explained laughing.
She said it means you have gotten something unique and that your name is “immortalized, forever tied to it.”
While they are not allowed to name new species after themselves, they can name it after any person.
“You can name it after a person you dislike if the spider is ugly,” she joked. “That’s the beauty of naming stuff. You can also tie it to culture.”
Dupo said this was the case with the miniature tarantula species Masteria urdujae, which was discovered by her apprentice in a cave in Pangasinan.
“Because the Masteria spider comes from Pangasinan, my advisee named it after the warrior princess, Princess Urduja,” she explained.
Dupo said it was a great idea since it could be discussed in school as part of social studies class.
Butterfly trade, spider derby
But now that she is a curator at the UP Los Banos’ Museum of Natural History, Dupo said she is also trying to do more conservation work.
“Not much of discovery. But the highlight of my career is to serve and help educate. When I see someone appreciating spiders in the field of taxonomy, I feel that I am part of that success,” she said.
Dupo said she is happy to see people who have changed their minds about spiders – letting them be instead of killing them like pests.
Dupo pointed out that large huntsman spiders found in homes are actually helpful since they eat cockroaches.
She said something should also be done to protect spiders from being used for the blood sport of spider derby.
“Actually they are much endangered like our vertebrates,” Dupo said. “Because they are also threatened by trade. There is a lot of illegal trade when it comes to arthropods (insects, arachnics, etc.) but because there is also no data, they remain unprotected.”
She said they have already released a red list of species of insects that are being endangered.
She said traders are attracted to insect trade, such as those involving butterflies, because it has become lucrative.
On the other hand, gamblers prefer spiders because of their low purchase price and high betting value.
While they do not have data on whether this has negatively affected the population of spiders, Dupo said they know that majority of the spiders being used for the fights are female, who are crucial in the reproduction of their species.
A world without insects
“The surge of mosquitos or even flies could be an indication of their decline in the ecosystem because there are no predators (like spiders),” Dupo explained.
Recently, it was reported that 40 percent of insect species are declining. Among the causes are land conversion, agrochemical pollutants, invasive species and climate change.
Dupo said fewer insects would have a large impact on the environment and humans.
In addition to increased populations of harmful insects like mosquitoes, cockroaches and other pests because of the absence of predators like spiders, there will also be fewer pollinators.
“All the fruits that we are enjoying now is because of pollinators, which are usually insects,” she said.
Dupo explained that having fewer insects could also affect animals who feed on them.
“If you don’t like insects but you like birds, you have to also love them. Because insects are their major prey,” she said.
Two hours or so later, Dupo and her group reached the site of Mt. Makiling’s elusive rafflesia plants. Like before, she goes closer, takes photos of the spider hiding inside the weird-smelling flower’s central part.
Already, she’s thinking of the permits they will need to gather specimen of flies and other insects that play an important role in the pollination of the endangered plant.
We will return, she promised.
Fears and challenges
With Dupo’s level of commitment, one would think that she was indeed a superhero like Spiderwoman but she admits how challenging it is to be a female scientist while caring for her family.
The news team’s interview with her almost did not push through as she was under a lot of stress just days before the trek.
“We had a workshop for our staff and then we had another training. Then my children got sick,” she said.
Her youngest child also has autism so she has to regularly be there for his therapy.
At one point, she also feared what might happen during their hikes. This was after the death of fellow entomologist James Alvarez in 2018.
Alvarez suffered from dehydration during a hike in Mt. Apo.
“We know the reality of our field. We can be bitten by a snake, fall off a cliff…it could be our last climb,” she said.
After Alvarez’s death, their group became hesitant about going on hikes.
“We were all traumatized because we would remember that he was always with us when we would go hiking…He was actually at the peak of his health, very fit…That’s why we were shocked when we got the news that he had died,” she said.
In the end, it was Dupo’s husband, an entomologist working for a pesticide company, who convinced her to face her fears.
“I thought of just staying in a safe place but my husband said I would not be happy,” Dupo recalled.
In the end, she and her colleagues became even more active in climbing the nearby Mt. Makiling.
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WESST Introduces Women Who RISE Program
By Katie Knipe | August 5, 2020
Contributing to the strength of women’s business ownership
Through June 2021, WESST is presenting “Women Who RISE,” a series of special events and training opportunities designed to provide women entrepreneurs the opportunity to build skills around small business development and the space to be heard and respected as a small business owner.
WESST Albuquerque’s Regional Manager, Margarita Guarin, was quoted in a recent Albuquerque Journal article discussing the value of woman-to-woman mentorship. Though she sees value in all mentoring, Guarin believes woman-to-woman mentoring is especially effective. Relationships are built on a foundation of trust, which can take time to establish. But women often find common ground with each other quickly, she said.
“There is a different energy when we have just women in the group,” Guarin said. Click here to check out the full article!
WESST is excited to foster the unique energy Margarita referenced through upcoming Women Who RISE training and networking opportunities for all-women cohorts. Our next Women Who RISE virtual event on August 19 event represents the first of three panel discussions as part of our “Women Who Own It Speaker Series.” Click here to register so you can hear from our panelists, Monica Jojola, Marisa Saavedra Gutierrez and Claudia Marquez!
Women remain underrepresented among the ranks of entrepreneurs and experience barriers to starting and growing a business that men do not. Until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 was signed into law, lenders could require a male cosigner and women were forced to jump through additional hurdles to access credit. While there are consequences when this law is broken today, there are many ways that gender disparities and biases continue to adversely affect women.
According to Department of Labor statistics, women make up about half of the overall workforce, but they are still underrepresented in higher pay, leadership and senior-level positions. Women are half as likely as men to start a business and compared to men, women small business owners feel they have less access to key resources like capital, clients and new business opportunities.
Since our inception in 1989, WESST’s services have focused on programs and support for women that wanted to defy these odds. The rate of new entrepreneurs among women has increased by 15.4 percent since 2016 and WESST wants to continue to contribute to the strength of women’s business ownership and a diverse, inclusive economy. Women Who RISE achieves this goal by focusing on all-women training cohorts.
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Organized by the Biocubafarma business group, the congress has been held since Monday and will run through Friday at the Plaza America Conference Center in Varadero.
Besides lectures, there will be a commercial exhibition of agrobiotechnological products from different enterprises, such as the National Center of Biopreparations, the University of Havana, Labiofam and the Center of Scientific Research, among others.
One of the lecturers, Marc Van Montagu, professor emeritus at Ghent University in Belgium and awarded the World Food Prize, spoke about the use of science to achieve a sustainable lifestyle on the planet.
For his part, Mario Pablo Estrada, director of Farming Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, gave an overview of farming products and research projects developed by this high tech enterprise in Cuba. He noted that food production for human beings is currently a challenge due to adverse weather conditions, wars and pandemics, whose effects bring about higher food prices.
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Yes, FreeDesktop are cool but out of the box many don't come with a proper set of URI handlers. How to open, for example vnc:// or ssh:// or icr:// - or some that you may make up in the future. Some Web-Browsers, such as Firefox, have a built-in configuration that you can set per Browser profile, but that won't affect the whole desktop or other browsers, or other system users!
This How-To will demonstrate how to create a custom URI handler, for all desktop applications using FreeDesktop standard methods. We'll simply update the list of mime-handlers and create the custom wrapper. To start the configuration will work for the current user, but can be upgraded to a system-wide configuration.
Registering Custom URI Handler
There is a file,
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list that contains a list of MIME handlers.
Take note of the special MIME category of "x-scheme-handler", with it's sub-type begin a URI scheme.
Here is a sample:
To create a custom handler, simply create an entry under the [Added Associations] section. We have two examples listed, one for vnc and the other for SSH. The format is x-scheme-handler/%s=%d, where %s is the scheme name and %d is the desktop entry file.
Creating the Handlers
Some handlers are simple enough you can just pass the parameters directly, others may need some wrapper script.
These handlers are created in the users application directory:
Here is a sample vnc:// handler Desktop file
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Exec=/home/atom/vnc-handler.sh %u Icon=vncviewer StartupNotify=true Terminal=false Categories=Utility;X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vnc Name=VNC Launcher Comment=Launch VNC
And VNC Handler had to be specially built, it's not built-in, that's vnc-handler.sh
#!/bin/bash host=$(echo "$1"|perl -ne '/vnc:\/\/(.+)[:\/]/ && print $1') port=$(echo "$1"|perl -ne '/:(\d+)$/ && print $1') vncviewer $host::$port
That will properly respond to URIs like: vnc://host:5900.
And here is a another example for ssh:// handler Desktop file (in
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Exec=/home/atom/xdg/ssh-handler.sh %u Icon=roxterm StartupNotify=true Terminal=false Categories=Utility;X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ssh Name=SSH Launcher Comment=Launch SSH
Another special handler that's exo-ssh-handler.sh
#!/bin/bash ( set -o xtrace echo "" echo "$1" | perl -ne '/^(ssh):\/\/([^:@]*)?:?([^:@]*)?[:@]?([^:@\/\?\#]*)/ && print "$1\n"; print "$2\n"; print "$3\n"; print "$4\n"' echo "" # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 user=$(echo "$1"|perl -ne '/ssh:\/\/([^:@]*)(:?.*)@?(\w+)/ && print $1') [ -z "$user" ] && user=$USER host=$(echo "$1"|perl -ne '/ssh:\/\/.*([\w\.]*):/ && print $1') port=$(echo "$1"|perl -ne '/:(\d+)$/ && print $1') [ -z "$port" ] && port="22" roxterm --separate --title="SSH $1" --execute ssh -p $port $user@$host ) >> /tmp/exo.log 2>&1
That will properly respond to URIs like: ssh://host or ssh://host:2200
The gvfs system may take precident over what you have specified here, specifically the ssh:// handler is aliased to sftp://.
Looking in the directory: /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/ we can find the handlers.
sftp.desktop and remove the SchemeAlias, like the following example.
[Mount] Type=sftp Exec=/usr/libexec/gvfsd-sftp AutoMount=false Scheme=sftp # SchemeAliases=ssh DefaultPort=22 HostnameIsInetAddress=true
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At times it is very difficult to make sense of a country as complicated as India is. What complicates the situation further is the fact that we have very little data going around in many cases. But then there are broader trends, which one can comment on.
One such thing is the demographic dividend or to put it more precisely India’s demographic dividend. Nearly eleven years back, when I didn’t understand much economics or finance, this was one of the terms I heard people connected with the investment industry, continuously talk about.
India will do well in this decades to come because of its demographic dividend, they said. In fact, some of them are still talking about it.
So what is the demographic dividend? As country progresses it moves from being a largely rural agrarian society to a predominantly urban society. Along the way it changes from being a society with high fertility and mortality rates to a society which has low fertility and mortality rates.
As Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason write in an article titled What is the demographic dividend in the Finance and Development magazine of the International Monetary Fund: “At an early stage of this transition, fertility rates fall, leading to fewer young mouths to feed. During this period, the labour force temporarily grows more rapidly than the population dependent on it, freeing up resources for investment in economic development and family welfare. Other things being equal, per capita income grows more rapidly too.”
The infant mortality rate in India was 75 in 1996. It has come down to 38 in 2015, data from World Bank shows. The infant mortality rate is essentially defined as the number of infants who die before reaching one year of age, for every 1000 live births during the course of a given year.
Along with the infant mortality rate declining, the general technological advances as well as access to medical facilities have improved. This essentially means that in the coming years there will be a huge bulge in the number of young people in the country. In this stage, the workforce of the country will increase dramatically.
There are multiple estimates of what India’s workforce will look like in the years to come. Most of these estimates essentially suggest that India’s workforce is increasing at the rate of one million workers per month and will continue increasing at this rate in the years to come.
The Planning Commission, before it was disbanded by the Narendra Modi government, had made an estimate on India’s workforce in the years to come.
As the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) document pointed out: “One hundred and eighty-three million additional income seekers are expected to join the workforce over the next 15 years.” This essentially means that a little over 12 million individuals will keep joining the workforce every year, in the years to come. This works out to around one million a month. And at this rate, the Indian workforce is expected to be larger than that of China by 2030.
And this is India’s demographic dividend. As these individuals enter the workforce, find work, earn money and spend it, the Indian economy is expected to do well. When economists and politicians talk about an economic growth of close to 10 per cent per year, they are essentially hoping that India’s demographic dividend will play out as it is expected.
But the question is how likely is this? How have things with other countries been in the past? Have countries which were expected to benefit from the demographic dividend benefitted from it?
As Ruchir Sharma writes in his new book The Rise and Fall of Nations—Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World: “The trick is to avoid falling for the fallacy of the “demographic dividend,” the idea that population growth pays off automatically in rapid economic growth. It pays off only if political leaders create the economic conditions necessary to attract investment and generate jobs. In the 1960s and ‘70s, rapid population growth in Africa, China, and India led to famines, high unemployment and civil strife. Rapid population growth is often a precondition for fast economic growth, but it never guarantees fast growth.”
Sharma then talks about the Arab world which despite being poised to, did not benefit from a demographic dividend. As Sharma writes: “The Arab world provides a cautionary tale. There between 1985 and 2005 the working age population grew by an average annual rate of more than 3 percent, or nearly twice as face as the rest of the world. But no economic dividend resulted. In the early 2010s many Arab countries suffered from cripplingly high youth unemployment rates; more than 40 percent in Iraq and more than 30 percent in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Tunisia, where the violence and chaos of the Arab Spring began.”
This is something that India and Indians need to be aware of. The demographic dividend benefits a country if the government of the day is able to create the right environment in which jobs are created. As Sharma writes: “In India, where hopes for the demographic dividend have also been sky high, ten million young people will enter the workforce each year over the next decade, but the lately the economy has been creating less than five million jobs annually.”
If this were to continue, there will be no demographic dividend for India.
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There’s no direct link between football or sports and human trafficking. There is, however, a huge connection between supply and demand. The conditions surrounding huge sporting events — like the Super Bowl — foster an increase in exploitation. Surrounding large sporting events we find excessive drinking, inhibitions, and a greater demand for commercial sex. Like any other business, the sex trade industry responds with greater supply to meet the increased demand. This is human trafficking.
Sex trafficking IS a big deal.
- Human Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. It is a rapidly growing criminal industry second only to drug dealing and equal in scope to arms dealing. Human Trafficking involves the use of force, fraud and/or coercion for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Contrary to popular belief under federal and state law, Human Trafficking does not require movement of people across borders.
–NJ Coalition Against HT
- Currently, there are very few ways of collecting statistics on Human Trafficking. However, at the governmental level there is an acknowledgement of the potential increase of Human Trafficking around large sporting events. In recent years Governors of states where the Super Bowl has taken place each implemented increased training of law enforcement, raised awareness among community members, and reached to at-risk kids during the Super Bowl.
- In 2014 New Jersey’s Attorney General made anti-Human Trafficking enforcement a priority. They established a NJ Human Trafficking Task Force that worked for over year prior to the Super Bowl, training law enforcement, working with non-profits, schools, and other civil society and business leaders to ensure that systems were and are in place to deter trafficking. The goal is to set-up a united front where the traffickers avoid coming to the State, but this does not necessarily correlate with an increase in arrests. Traffickers tend not to come to the host State if they know law enforcement is watching.
- In 2016 a Super Bowl Sex Trafficking Sting netted 570 “johns” (would-be sex buyers) and 23 pimps. This operation involved 17 states and recovered 83 sex trafficking victims. (Source)
- The Super Bowl is also an opportunity to educate the community. People will stop and listen if you mention Super Bowl but not necessarily if you just talk about Human Trafficking. There has also been a number of missing children found each Super Bowl and there are a few evangelical groups, including Free International, that come to the state of the Super Bowl and work with at-risk children and specifically look for those missing and sexually exploited.
Raising sex trafficking awareness is not a one time, one event, cause. Rather, promoting awareness, especially during a national event such as the Super Bowl, allows for wide-spread community attentiveness to the issue.
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Dental hygienist is ranked #32 in the Top 100 U.S. jobs today. In fact, there is an expected 6% growth rate in jobs available between 2019 and 2029, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The industry is quickly growing due to the patient demand for oral healthcare and the need for more dentistry specialists. So, what is a dental hygienist and what makes it a desirable job today? Here, we will look a little more into this coveted career in dentistry and how to make it possible for you.
What is a Dental Hygienist?
Dental hygienists work with dentists to ensure the oral health of the community. While responsibilities vary state to state, some examples of a dental hygienist’s responsibilities are health screenings, taking radiographs or X-rays, removing plaque from the teeth, adding preventive solutions to teeth and counseling patients about the importance of oral hygiene.
The majority of dental hygienists work in dentist offices; however, other job opportunities may lie in hospitals, public school systems or community dental educational programs. Training to be a dental hygienist requires a 2-year program to obtain an associate degree in a community college or technical school. The average salary for a dental hygienist is about $77,000 annually.
Why Become a Dental Hygienist?
If the competitive salary was not enough for you, there are more perks to being dental hygienist. Working as a dental hygienist allows you to have direct contact and care of people to help them maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dental hygienists educate patients on the importance of oral health and provide preventive treatments to help them maintain good oral health.
You may have experienced a job in the past that left you feeling unfulfilled. Dental hygienists make a difference by helping others pursue better health and life, all while bringing a smile to the faces of patients. If working directly with people is something you enjoy, a dental hygienist may be good career choice for you.
Another reason to pursue a career as a dental hygienist is that it never gets boring! If you enjoy sitting behind a desk all the workday, you may not enjoy being a dental hygienist. They are frequently on their feet, assisting dentists in patient care. No two days are the same, as you see different patients with different needs every day. If you grow tired of office work, there are always other work environments to explore.
Another big reason that this career is so popular is that dental hygienists have the opportunity for advancement within their career. Typically, one will start out with an associate degree and can start getting experience in the field of dentistry. Some hygienists wish to continue to pursue a bachelor or master’s degree in dentistry. There are a few paths that a dental hygienist may seek to advance their skills. These include a work corporate position that involves sales, public health careers, educators of dentistry or an administrative position. Often, these positions require a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in the field.
Job flexibility is another perk of being a dental hygienist. They have an option to work full-time or part time, but there are also temporary agencies that hire dental hygienists. As a temporary hire, dental hygienists have the freedom to travel and spend more time with family and friends. They also have more control over their salaries and benefits, as an agent will assist you in finding the right job position that fits your demands.
How to Become a Dental Hygienist
There are over 100 schools in the United States that offer training as a dental hygienist. The important thing is to ensure that the school is accredited. The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) is the only accrediting agency for dentistry-related careers. Once you have chosen an accredited program, expect to dedicate at least 2 full years toward your training. Once your degree has been awarded, you will be required to pass the National Board Dental Hygiene examination, in addition to passing your state examination.
How to Start a Career as a Dental Hygienist
Once you have obtained your associate degree as a dental hygienist, it is time to start career searching. As we mentioned before, most dental hygienists are employed in dental offices. However, the other options are worth exploring. Are you unsure of where to start? Agencies like Strategic Dental Staffing Solutions can help you find the career you want.
Strategic Dental Staffing Solutions looks for employees that will be a perfect fit for a client. There is also more flexibility; just tell your agent what you are looking for and they will find a match in your area. Whether you are looking to get your feet wet in the career of dentistry, or you are looking for your dream career, let Strategic Dental Staffing Solutions help you find your way! | <urn:uuid:1735194c-050f-45bd-8e4a-3f38eab8a087> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://strategicdentalstaffingsolution.com/dental-hygienist-jobs-continue-to-be-coveted/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961454 | 1,050 | 2.5625 | 3 |
In the United States, like many other countries, you automatically have a copyright in a work (to the extent that it is copyrightable) as soon as you have created it. Registration of your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office is not mandatory, but it is highly advisable to register your copyright as soon as possible after the work has been published. Without registration you can only get your actual damages, which you must prove, in a lawsuit for infringement of your copyright. Recognizing the extreme difficulty of proving or even quantifying your actual damages in a case of copyright infringement, the federal legislature created the copyright registration system to allow an alternative measure of damages in lawsuits for infringement.
Registration of copyrights in the United States
Registering your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office grants you the right to statutory damages and attorney fees in a claim for infringement, if the registration is made within three months of publication or prior to an infringement. The availability of statutory damages means that you can get damages determined by the court, if your lawsuit is successful, starting at a minimum of $750 USD, up to $30,000, per infringement. In addition, if the infringement is found to be willful, up to $150,000 per infringement is available as statutory damages. Since the statutory damages are awarded per infringement, the amount can quickly add up in a case with a series of many infringements (making multiple copies of a work, distributing those multiple copies, etc.).
Registration of your copyright is also a prerequisite to filing a lawsuit for infringement in the United States; you must register your work before filing a lawsuit for infringement. Without registering your copyright in a timely manner after publication, a lawsuit for infringement that you may need to bring is not as strong as it could be if your copyright was registered as soon as possible. If the registration is not made within the specific time frames, you are limited only to your actual damages in a claim for infringement and you must prove these damages. While copyright registration is not required to maintain your common law copyright, there are distinct advantages in doing so, to protect your valuable copyrights.
Also, the registration of a copyright within five years of publication of the work serves as prima facie evidence of the validity of the copyright before a court.
Pre-registration of copyrights in the United States
Pre-registration is only available for certain types of works, such as computer software and video games, where there is a chance that the work could be infringed upon before it is published or released. Pre-registration was designed to provide the advantages of registration to a work before it is published, since a work can only be registered once it is published. Pre-registration allows for statutory damages and attorney fees if a work is infringed before it is published. Note that a work which is pre-registered must still be registered separately after it has been published. | <urn:uuid:97704f92-f8bc-4534-94e2-3fcd3e3bedc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bodendavidson.com/node/8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958291 | 590 | 2.46875 | 2 |
1. Mental illness is more common than many think, with roughly 25% of the adult population in America suffering from at least one of these conditions and disorders.
2. Approximately 20% of American children under the age of 18 years old is diagnosed with a mental disorder, and this is one of the more troubling facts and statistics.
3. 4 of the top 10 disability causes are obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and major depression. These conditions can have an enormous impact on daily life.
4. Around 18% of the adults in the USA will struggle with some type of anxiety disorder every single year, and many of these do not receive any type of treatment.
5. Depression strikes 1 in 10 adult Americans each year and can lead to severe debilitation and disability.
6. 1 in 25 Americans over 18 will experience post traumatic stress disorder in any given year. Symptoms can range from mild to severe, and affect every aspect of life.
7. Around 3% of the adult population in the USA will suffer because of bipolar disorder in every year, and these individuals may require different treatments before an effective treatment regimen is found because of the varying symptoms that are experienced at different times with this mental illness.
8. The facts and statistics show that bipolar disorder may be misdiagnosed as major depression if the patient presents during a depressive stage instead of a mania stage.
9. Schizophrenia affects around 1% of the population, and some may have a single schizophrenic episode and then be fine while others struggle with this disorder every single day. | <urn:uuid:44b236c3-d1b5-4d94-ae77-49ee12938860> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://valiantrecovery.ca/9-mental-illness-facts-and-statistics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938329 | 320 | 3.125 | 3 |
Foods to Give Spring to Your Step
Spring is a time of renewal – but that doesn’t mean we don’t feel run-down from time to time. Fortunately, adding the right nutrients to your diet can help you heal your psyche and your body from the inside out, and there are a few superfoods designed to do just that.
A healthy mind should be your first priority when dredging yourself up out of exhaustion into stable, positive energy. And the first step is to get those Omega 3 oils in there to support brain function with salmon, walnuts, almonds, and flax seeds. One of my favorite easy recipes is to pan fry salmon and top with ready-made mango salsa, served over a bed of greens. Try it!
In order to feel balanced, your body has to find its own blood-sugar equilibrium. That means you can’t stress-eat carbs! Start your day with a smoothie that has hemp protein powder, yogurt, and your favorite fruits. The hemp protein will slow down the carbs as they run through your metabolism giving you sustained energy without spikes or crashes.
Ultimately, health is all about how you feel, and to start feeling great, it helps to give your emotions a boost. Did you know Goji Berries are nicknamed “the Happy Fruit“? It’s one of the top superfoods in the world, not just for making you feel cheerful, but also for its extremely high concentration of antioxidants (which help you look and feel younger and more vibrant). You also need more Vitamin D (we all do); so if you can’t take a long walk on the beach every day, be sure to increase the amount of mushrooms in your diet. Yep, mushrooms are a great source of natural Vitamin D (ironic, since they grow in the dark).
Need a quick boost? Make your own Goji berry and walnut trail mix (maybe with cashews – because cashews are delicious – and dark chocolate chunks for an extra mood enhancer).
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The major action of milk thistle is on the liver. The liver performs an incredible number of functions in the body. The major functions of the liver include the production of bile and the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, fats and many other compounds used by the body. It also metabolises drugs and detoxifies numerous ingested substances such as alcohol, as well as toxins produced by the body.
Milk thistle supports the liver and has an antioxidant and free radical scavenging action. This action appears to be largely due to the action of the active constituents in milk thistle which are a complex of flavanolignans collectively called silymarin.
Silymarin can help protect the liver against toxins that cause liver damage, as well as stimulate the replacement of old and damaged cells with new liver cells.
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With the current Covid-19 pandemic situation, the long wait for the vaccination, and the increase in the number of positive cases every day even our day to day supplies of farm produce carry a high risk of transporting the virus. The need for healthy living is gaining importance as never before. In its bid to provide people with the option of consuming organic produce and eating healthy, leading realty major- Raheja Developers has come up with ready for delivery developed farms “Riyasat Hills Farmlands”, which would help customers in meeting most of their daily needs of fresh and green vegetables/fruits/pulses as well as poultry, fish, milk, etc. The Farmlands is spread over 100 acres and is in one of the highest capital appreciation zones of Gurugram near Sector 95B.
Despite being one of its kind projects, Raheja Developers has priced it very competitively, and one can take possession immediately after the execution of freehold Sales Deed in his/her favour. The company is offering Farmlands in the sizes of 1-acre and above, which will provide infinite opportunities to buyers. The farmlands could be used for Organic Farming, Dairy Farming / Poultry Farming, maintaining Plant Nursery and practising Apiculture, Horticulture, etc.
Knowing it fully well that cultivation is not something that everyone can do, Raheja Developers have planned to rope-in specialized agencies for the same. “To take care of farming and allied activities, the services of cultivation and managing the harvest would be done by a specialized outsourced agency as per buyer’s individual needs. The agency would also help to farm on a larger scale, and further help to sell the produce in the market to generate good income,” said Mr. Achal Raina, COO, Raheja Developers.
The biggest advantage that ‘Riyasat Hills Farmlands’ offers is that it is well-connected with various parts of Gurugram and Delhi, but yet away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The site has connectivity from the New Delhi-Jaipur Super Expressway, just a few minutes’ for Delhi and Gurugram’s elite residential areas. To its North lies Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary; West -Kundli Manesar Palwal (KMP) Expressway; to its South is New Delhi and the Residential Sectors of 80 to 90s – Gurugram; while Dwarka Expressway on the East to these farmlands. Presently, the access to ‘Riyasat Hills Farmlands’ is from Pataudi Road, Prithviraj Chauhan Crossing, with further access from the 60-meter Sector Road originating from Dwarka Expressway near Sector- 88A Gurugram, soon. | <urn:uuid:56dd6004-5dea-4330-9b62-d748824f4b0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cxooutlook.com/reclaim-your-life-naturally-with-riyasat-hills-farmlands-raheja-developers-launches-one-of-its-kind-farmlands-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958883 | 580 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Imagine, if you will, an overflowing toilet in your bathroom. You’ve just flushed the toilet, and unlike the hundreds of times before it, this time, the water continues to rise.
Higher and higher the water rises, until it reaches the very top of the bowl.
Your heart stops, but, thankfully, at the very last moment, the water slowly begins to drain.
Relief washes over you as the water level continues to fall and eventually returns to normal. Phew – you were lucky this time around. But what about the next time you flush?
There are some things that just aren’t designed to be flushed down the toilet. Most of the time, the following objects are perceived as flushable because of the similarity in look and texture to toilet paper, or because we have been misled into thinking it is flushable (we’re looking at you, “flushable” wipes.)
Cotton balls, cotton buds, paper towels
They’re just cotton, right?
Right, but they’re not designed to dissolve in water the way toilet paper does.
They main feel pretty flimsy in your hand, and you can easily rip apart a cotton ball, but they do not decompose in water. (Further, some cotton balls from certain brands are not actually made from cotton; instead, they are made up of bleached synthetic fibres.)
Over time, they’ll clump together, trapping other materials along the way, and can lead to a pretty nasty blockage.
Paper towels they look and feel pretty similar to toilet paper, however, they do not dissolve the same way toilet paper does. Even if you do flush it and you can no longer see it in your bowl, it’s likely to get stuck somewhere further down where you can’t see.
Next time you’re tempted to make your paper towel disappear, toss it in the bin instead.
These are the absolute worst, mainly because when they first gained popularity, they were marketed as “flushable”. People loved the concept – they offered a convenient way to remove makeup, clean up messy toddlers, or even freshen up the… ahem… bathroom “experience”.
Rather than disposing of these in the bin, we now believed we had the option to flush them down the toilet, just like you would toilet paper.
It’s not your fault really – if the packet calls them flushable, you should expect to flush them without issue. However, we soon learnt that “flushable” was a term used lightly on these packs.
Removing the wet wipes is a labour-intensive process, as Sydney Water production officer Fiona Copeman says. She also highlights the environmental damage these wipes are causing: if the wipes are not manually removed in treatment plants, she explains, “they end up in our oceans”.
Before you know it, sea creatures are ingesting them, and now, the polyester material has entered the food chain.
The bottom line on those “flushable” wipes
Just because they’re labelled “flushable”, it doesn’t mean they will properly dissolve like toilet paper does. But that’s what we reasonably assume when we buy these products.
Buzzwords like “biodegradable” and “dispersible” are misleading customers, and they understandably buy these products under the assumption that they are safe to flush. In fact, some people are using them as a toilet paper replacement.
Meanwhile, plumbers and others associated with the industry are urging users to keep these wipes out of the pipes!
Not convinced of the damage wet wipes can cause? Check out these images of wet wipe clusters that have been pulled from Sydney sewers! They’re quite astounding.
Many nappies are made from plastics that are designed to expand when they come into contact with liquid – exactly how a nappy expands when a baby has filled it!
Flushing disposable nappies is a big no-no – in the chance that it will even flush properly, it will quickly be caught in the bend and cause a horrible blockage.
Don’t flush these things down the toilet, either!
Blockages are also caused by flushing the following down the toilet:
- Kitty litter (yep, some people really do this, which can lead to not only blockages but also public infection – yuck!)
- Medication (more contamination issues!)
- Facial tissues (while they feel and look pretty much identical toilet paper, they do not dissolve the same way)
Not only are blocked toilets unpleasant, it can also be very inconvenient.
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Erna Zarges-Dürr (1907-2002) was a German silversmith. She was professionally active Pforzheim, Leipzig, Berlin. and Stuttgart. Between 1924-27, she trained at Bruckmann und Söhne, Heilbronn, as the first women in the silversmiths’ department. From 1927, she studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Pforzheim, under Theodor Wende and others.
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Teaching character to your elementary-aged children doesn’t have to be hard, and it doesn’t have to take a long time each day. It can also BE FUN!
Lads & Ladies of Virtue Character Curriculum provides you with 5 months of character lessons, which will take minimal preparation, and can be taught in 5-10 minutes a day. The lessons include a memory verse for the week, and 5 daily lessons a week.
What are three activities that an educator could use to teach character and values to students?
Provided in the 20 weekly lessons are a memory verse, 3-4 KEYS that relate to applying the character quality in their daily life, games, object lessons, or role-play, and a prayer for the child to pray about applying what they have learned. There is also a coloring page for each lesson.
Teaching character to your elementary-aged children
Included is a reward chart with a treasure chest, and space to display the “treasure” that they earn each week as they grow in wisdom.
This is an EASY and FUN way to help your kids grow and become lads and ladies of wisdom!
The curriculum is available in a print, bound form or as a downloadable PDF file.
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Character training for elementary-aged children
This curriculum for elementary children is a sequel to Little Lads & Ladies of Virtue, our preschool/early elementary character curriculum. If you have elementary-aged children, you can just start with this curriculum. It is made to be adaptable for grades 1-6. For the younger kids, have them only memorize the main part of the Bible verse, rather than the whole thing.
Lads & Ladies of Wisdom Copy Work & Activities (ebook)
Available as a supplement to the character curriculum is a 285 page daily Copy Work and Activity book that goes along with the lessons. The copy work includes both manuscript and cursive. Each day the student will copy the memory verse, and the KEYS for each lesson. This will give them handwriting practice, while also helping to reinforce what they are learning in the daily lessons.
Also included are additional fun activities for the kids to do, like word search puzzles, crossword puzzles, match-ups, and word scrambles.
Included in the 285-page book are:
- A copy work page in manuscript for each daily lesson. (100 pages)
- A copy work page in cursive for each daily lesson. (100 pages)
- A coloring page or simple activity page for each weekly lesson. (for younger elementary students)
- A fun activity page (word search puzzles, crossword puzzles, match-ups, word scrambles) for each weekly lesson (for older students)
- A few extra charts and activities to supplement what the curriculum teaches.
The copy work includes not only includes both manuscript and cursive but is also in dotted format for new writers to trace. Advanced students can just copy it below. Each day the student will copy the memory verse and one of the KEYS for the weekly lesson. This will give them handwriting practice, while also helping to reinforce what they are learning in the daily lessons.
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January’s Book of the Month is Famous Problems in Mathematics by Heinrich Tietze, first published in German in 1959, and republished in 1990 by DTV. An English translation published by Graylock Press in 1964. The preface contains a beautiful metaphor and explanation of the nature of mathematical learning.
The original work is entitled Gelöste und ungelöste mathematische Probleme aus alter und neuer Zeit.
The full English translation has the title Famous Problems of Mathematics: Solved and Unsolved Mathematical Problems from Antiquity to Modern Times.
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SENACAL Mission Statement
The Senegalese Association of Calgary (SENACAL) is a not-for-profit, non-political and non-religious organization fully incorporated in the province of Alberta. Its mission is to promote community interaction among Senegaleses and to support its members to establish, grow and develop in the city of Calgary. Furthermore, it is SENACAL mission to facilitate dialogue between Senegalese community and the general Calgary community.
The goals of the association include the following:
- To bring together all the members regardless of their religion or political affiliations,
- To promote solidarity and networking among members,
- To assist in the settlement and integration of new immigrants of Senegalese origin in Canadian society,
- To establish co-operation with other ethnic communities and contribute to the Canadian Multiculturalism,
- To raise funds to achieve the objects of the Association. This includes accepting gifts, donations, grants and legacies,
- To use funds of the Association
Our membership is open to all people, without regard to race, nationality or gender.
- We offer support and assistance within the means of the Association to Senegalese newcomers to Calgary.
- We organize activities to entertain and showcase Senegalese culture, values and diversity in Calgary.
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White Lotus Day (May 8) commemorates the death of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the primary founder of the Theosophical Society. On this day Theosophists around the world celebrate her life and work. Her teachings have some remarkable parallels with the ancient wisdom of China, particularly the Confucian BRRT principles: Brotherhood, Regularity, Reciprocity, and Trying. In her early writings, Blavatsky was less sympathetic to the work of Confucius than in her later years. She came to recognize that Confucianism has a profound system of ethics similar to Theosophy. In this program, David Bruce delivers this talk for John Algeo, who had written the lecture but was unable to make this White Lotus Day appearance due to unforeseen circumstances. 53 minutes. 2009. | <urn:uuid:b7ccf969-6fa2-40a2-9cfa-b6a735abe105> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://questbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59&product_id=2357 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962598 | 168 | 2.875 | 3 |
Honoring those who served
In our community
DEMING — Americans shift from the joys of the holiday season to a somber mood in remembrance of Veterans Day. A group in Deming continues a tradition of honoring our veterans who have made all holidays possible.
Members of the American Legion, Bataan Post 4, and the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 4, in Deming, will present the Veteran’s Day event at 11 a.m., Friday Nov. 11, at Veteran’s Park, 301 S. Silver Avenue.
All branches of the military are welcome to attend as well as families of those who have served. The public is also invited, and the program is free.
During the ceremony, students from Bell Elementary School will perform patriotic songs and leading the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance while Deming Mayor Benny Jasso will provide introductions. Members of the American Legion will also be honoring local veteran Florentino Pacheco for his service in WWII and the Korean War.
"The day is for honoring and recognizing the veterans in our community,” said Ed Miller, Bataan Post 4 Commander.
After the ceremony, the American Legion will host a lunch for veterans and their families at the post home, 619 W. Spruce St. "Members have been honoring veterans in the ceremony for many years and the American Legion continues to do so throughout the year," Miller said.
Veteran’s Day began as Armistice Day in 1919 as the end of WWI was formally recognized at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, 1918. The initial purpose of the day was to commemorate those who had served in WWI and eventually grew to include veterans of all conflicts and time throughout U.S. history. The holiday is a day of recognition for all members of U.S. military and ceremonies often include community participation to show respect for those who have served the country. In 1954, Veterans Day replaced Armistice Day.
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If you go
Who: American Legion Bataan Post 4, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 4
What: Veteran’s Day Ceremony
When: 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11
Where: Veteran’s Park, 301 S. Silver Ave.
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Table of Contents
Houseplant pests are vicious. They are exhausting and once they take over one plant they tend to go all over the place in an entire collection. That is why The first tip to naturally preventing any kind It houseplant pests are going to be…
1. Quarantining Your New Plants
Take your new plants and make sure for 30 days that they’re separate from all of the other plants. If they have any pests on them you will see them before they cover your entire collection. You will be able to deal with them on just the one plant right away and not have to deal with an entire pest-infested area. Which definitely very exhausting.
2. Wiping off the leaves of your plants
If you are wiping down the leaves of your plants and you can clean all of the dust and debris off of it it is going to help to make a healthier plant. And a happy clean plant in a much less homey environment for all those nasty little pests that like to be there. Cleaning your plant leaves is super easy! All you have to do is take a cloth, and get some more water on it. You want it to be warm water. Then you simply go up and down and you wipe the leaves down(front and back of each leaf). This is going get all of that dust and is actually gonna make your plans a lot happier and healthier as well because they’ll be able to photosynthesize and soak up all that light a lot better which brings me to number 3
3. Happy Plants Happy Life
Make sure that your plants are getting what they need. An unhappy, unhealthy plant is going to send out signals that are literally calling pests to it. Similar to a hurt animal in the wild. I know that is a very horrible analogy but it’s very very true that is why your struggling plants tend to always get those pests all the time. It is because they’re literally calling out to the pests that they are a free buffet. So definitely want to make sure that your plants are getting what they need. Are they getting the right light? Are they being watered regularly or are they being cleaned regularly? Are they fertilized properly? Are they actually healthy plants? Even if they are healthy plants and they do get some pests they will usually be able to fight the pests off before the infestation is even bad enough for you to notice. Making sure that your plants are as happy and healthy as possible is a very very critical and crucial natural device for pest management.
4. Check Your Plants
If you don’t actually physically check your plants then you are not going to notice when they are struggling. You are not going to notice when the pests first pop up. To check your plants, You want to go ahead and check the stem, the underside is leaves, if you have a very compact plant then definitely go and check inside the interior as much as possible. Dig through the little tiny jungle you have in that pot to check and see what’s going on in there.
Pests like mealy bugs and thrips can really thrive in those tight little areas. Spider mites like to thrive at the little corners of the leaves there where the petiole will meet the stem. You definitely want to make sure that you’re checking all of those areas for pests regularly and that way you could take care of them as soon as they appear.
When you first notice a pest on your plant you want to remove it from the other plants as quickly as possible. You want to quarantine it and separate it from the other plants and you want to treat it as soon as possible.
For example: If you notice one mealybug on a plant; take that plant away. Put it somewhere else where it’s going to be happy. Clean it all off and make sure that it’s a nice happy clean plant. All its needs are being met.
You can treat it however you want to. You can use just a little alcohol in a cotton swab. You can just rinse it off with water or you can use some type of insecticide. You can get also get beneficial bugs that you release into that little quarantine plant hospital area or even through your entire collection.
There are many different ways that you can treat pests. Definitely make sure that you are treating them as soon as you notice them so that way you could have a happy healthy plant.
Also, note that just because one plant called out and got a pest does not mean that all the other plants are going to have pests as well. However, as I said in the previous step, make sure you are checking your plants on a regular basis. Just because there’s not a pest there today that you noticed; does not mean, that there will not be a pest there big enough for you to see tomorrow.
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The pressure group, OccupyGhana, has lashed out at the government for seeking IMF support at a time Ghana’s public finances have taken a severe hit as a result of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo defended his government’s decision to go to the IMF on Thursday, saying all countries around the world are working to return themselves to a state of normalcy following the devastating impact of the pandemic of COVID-19, whose effects have been exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Economies have been plunged into recessions, businesses have collapsed, and lives and livelihoods have been disrupted. Food and fuel prices have escalated dramatically, as global and domestic inflationary pressures mount. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, the world will make up on lost time,” the president said.
“In our case, we have decided to seek the collaboration of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to repair, in the short run, our public finances, which have taken a severe hit in very recent times as a result, whilst we continue to work on the medium to long-term structural changes that are at the heart of our goal of creating a Ghana Beyond Aid, that is building a resilient, robust Ghanaian economy.”
However, in a statement on Friday (8 July 2022), OccupyGhana said officials have failed to prevent losses and thefts at the public sector, a situation it argued has led the country to the Fund.
“That is why this return to the IMF for a ‘paltry’ US$2 billion leaves a bitter taste in our mouths. We would not be submitting ourselves to this forced and humiliating ‘Ghana [is not yet] beyond aid’ position if we had prevented the losses and thefts in the first place. In the second place, we would not be here if we had taken the simple steps of recovering the monies lost and stolen.
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Teamwork and communication are the foundation of successful counselor-CBO partnerships.
When you boil it down, public school counselors and community-based organizations focused on higher education have one common goal: to get their students to college.
But public school counselors, especially those in schools with underserved student populations, also have to juggle a lot of other duties: managing class scheduling for entire grade levels or the whole school, helping families navigate special education requirements like individualized education plans, and attending to students’ often fragile mental health and emotional needs.
College counseling can understandably get moved to the back burner on a public school counselor’s crowded stove. That’s where community-based organizations (CBOs) that help students get to and through come in.
To establish a strong relationship and set students up for success, public school counselors and CBO leaders suggest three things:
- Communicate, communicate, communicate—on both sides
- Pay attention to a school community’s nuances to ensure you’re serving them well
- Figure out how to take work off a school counselor’s plate
Communication is Key
The most important part of the relationship between Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Scholars, a CBO that serves “academically ambitious first-generation students from under-resourced communities in Chicago,” is regular communication, said Rachael Accavitti, vice president of programs at Chicago Scholars.
Chicago Scholars hosts a yearly lunch for counselors to update them on students’ success and plans for the next year. One of their team members also meets regularly with someone from Chicago Public Schools’ Office of School Counseling and Postsecondary Advising for updates from both sides.
Recently, Chicago Scholars and Chicago Public Schools expanded those lines of communication even further by signing a data-sharing agreement, Accavitti said. That allows both sides to see a student’s progress in Chicago Scholars’ program and empowers the counselors to give students a nudge if they’re late on completing a portion of the program.
And that demonstrates the ultimate goal of this increased communication, Accavitti said: to support the students.
“I’ve seen, especially in the last year [during the COVID-19 pandemic], the way in which it is easier for a student in this virtual space to not show up, to not be reached,” she said. “I think that (having) more trusted people in their lives…reaching out to provide this support, to create this net of resources to catch them, has been vital.”
Pay Attention to Nuance
When Jennifer Nuechterlein, college and career counselor at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey, has meetings with her students, they almost always include their family members.
She works in a rural/suburban school district about two hours from New York City and said her students’ families are heavily involved in their college decisions these days. Candice Mackey, college counselor at Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) in Los Angeles, sees the same thing, despite working in a much more urban environment than Nuechterlein.
For Mackey, the CBOs that succeed in her community are those who offer wraparound services to students and their families—and she thinks that’s key regardless of where your school is based.
“You’re always going to have working parents in your community, and they’re always going to need support through the weekends, in different languages, and in different formats—virtual and in-person,” Mackey said.
Ruth Lopez is one example of how paying attention to a student’s nuanced situation helps. Lopez is a senior at LACES, graduating in June 2021 and heading to College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. In addition to meeting with Mackey regularly, she also met with an adviser from College Match, a community-based organization that helps “talented students from low-income families get into and graduate from the nation’s top colleges and universities.”
Ruth is Latina and her parents’ only child. It’s hard for her family to talk about money, she said, and her parents worried about her living away from home. But Mackey and Ruth’s College Match adviser worked together to answer all of the family’s questions—bringing in Spanish translators to talk to Ruth’s parents, sitting with Ruth as she video chatted with The College Board, and giving her personalized feedback on her essays.
Having both her counselor and her adviser in her corner greatly eased Ruth’s mind, she said.
“They can answer questions the other one can’t answer,” she said. “That made it easier for me to ask them questions and not feel shy about it, because they would discuss it and brainstorm together.”
Make Counselors’ Lives Easier
Learning that nuance has also been key for Peggy Jenkins, the founding director of Palouse Pathways, a community-based organization in Moscow, Idaho, that provides information and resources on college and career planning to students in the area. The schools Palouse Pathways serves vary widely: Some are in logging or farming communities, while others are in college towns. Learning what those counselors’ work environments are actually like has been key, Jenkins said.
The other key: Offering to “take something off counselors’ plates,” Jenkins said. When she and one of her board members met with principals and counselors from the Moscow school district a few years ago, they asked that question, and the counselors immediately asked for help with preparing students for college admission tests.
For three to four years, Palouse Pathways was able to train and pay a few local teachers and hold test prep classes in the evenings. This year, a school district approached the organization and asked them to write a grant for summer classes to help students recapture credits they may have lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working to help in a way the schools want and need is immensely beneficial for the counselor-CBO relationship, Jenkins said.
Counselors “are people who are mostly really overworked and stressed out,” Jenkins said. “If they don’t respond to you, it’s not necessarily because they don’t want you there. If you can get a working knowledge of what life is like for them and what their responsibilities are, that can make a big difference.”
Pressley Frevert is a freelance writer living in North Carolina.
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Legislative Affairs Director Todd Bonlarron updated the Palm Beach County Commission on Tuesday about the county’s 2015 legislative agenda and highlighted some of the accomplishments of 2014.
County legislative staff was successful in getting the Environmental Protection Agency to back off for now on enforcement of its recently created numeric nutrient criteria.
“The numeric nutrient criteria was an issue that we fought hard back on, and the EPA withdrew their federal rules in September of last year,” Bonlarron said, explaining that the county has been among the leaders in the discussions going on and rulemaking, and in working with legislators, the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the rules.
The county also received more than $1 billion last year for Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan projects, water resource funding of $65.5 million for construction of restoration projects, and almost $20 million for operations and maintenance.
Meanwhile, the State Road 7 extension to Northlake Blvd. received a favorable biological opinion on the snail kite study as a result of work with federal agencies.
For public safety, the county received $75 million for repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike and was successful in getting relief to homeowners for new flood insurance regulations. It also worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get significant beneficial changes to the proposed flood maps.
“We have become a model in the State of Florida on how to work with FEMA on these issues through the appellate process,” Bonlarron said.
He hopes to build on those achievements and other county-related issues in 2015.
The federal agenda proposed for the year includes bringing forward a climate compact with Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
“We will also continue to work on the Hoover Dike project,” Bonlarron said. “We’ve been actively working with a colonel at the Corps of Engineers to continue to expedite that, as well as the [water standards] and continue to push back with federal regulators on how that could affect us, and we’ll continue to do that this next year.”
Bonlarron’s office also plans to continue to push for better regulations of sober homes at the state and federal level, and will continue to work with the congressional delegation on that.
Flood insurance issues will continue to top the agenda.
“The pushback that we’ve done has gotten us some favorable results, but we still have a long way to go, particularly in the Glades region with the Herbert Hoover Dike and the flood areas in that region, and we’re going to have to continue to work on those issues,” he said.
The county also wants to be involved with the so-called “Cadillac Tax” under the Affordable Care Act. “Basically, what it does, is it would penalize us for having a program for our employees that is considered too generous,” he said. “One of the things that staff has asked us is if we can look at that, and there’s a number of different strategies about how we can approach this with the federal government.”
Bonlarron expects that initiative to take some time.
“It doesn’t kick in for several years,” he continued, “but I think we need to start working now to see if we can find some alternatives to that Cadillac Tax if our board is going to continue to provide the same benefits to our employees in the future and not be penalized with millions of dollars in fines.”
Mayor Priscilla Taylor asked about the status of the numeric nutrient criteria rules, and Bonlarron said his staff brought together representatives of the EPA, the Department of Environmental Protection and the South Florida Water Management District for a two-day discussion.
“We have drafted a lengthy response and comments to them with about a half-dozen or more suggestions,” he said. “We’re still in that comment period working with them. I feel like we’ve gotten a good conversation going with them, and we’ve gotten a lot of support.” | <urn:uuid:733c7f89-8c03-4e44-90d6-bd82fc02f31d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gotowncrier.com/2015/01/pbc-lobbying-priorities-federal-water-quality-rules-flood-maps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964647 | 863 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Annette Jones* knew she and her boyfriend of two years weren't going to last.
She'd been unhappy for months, and he was withdrawn. But they shared a large social circle. And she cared deeply for him. She also couldn't afford to leave.
The 30-year-old from Kanata works in the service industry and doesn't make much money. She didn't have much in the way of savings. She worried about making rent on a place on her own. In short, she was too broke to break up. As the months dragged, she grew bitter and depressed.
"It made me feel helpless - like I was stuck, like I had no autonomy," she says.
The pair did eventually break up, though Jones says the relationship probably lasted six months too long.
"I think we both just sort of ignored the issue because he was also aware that my financial situation would put me in a rough place," she says. She stayed with friends for a few weeks, and her ex helped her cover first and last month's rent when she found an inexpensive place to live. But she had to dip into her credit, which stressed her out further.
She isn't alone: a recent study from TD Canada found half of millennials and gen-Xers who were divorced or separated were not financially prepared to live life solo, while another 23 percent delayed a breakup because of unexpected costs.
While millennials in particular are delaying marriage, generally (average age of marriage is 31 for men, 28 for women, according to Statistics Canada), opting instead for common law partnerships (the number of common law relationships grew 16% between 2006 and 2011, according to the most recent census), breakups remain an inevitability, though there are few stats tracking decoupling.
But with generally lower wages, and with high cost of living in certain cities (such as Toronto and Vancouver), it can put a huge financial strain on couples – particularly those with young children, says Shelley Smith, a financial planner with TD.
"Breaking up is so, so stressful," she says. Pre-planning is the key to alleviating this stress. While no one plans for a breakup, it's important for couples to come up with contingencies, such as separate savings that both parties contribute equally to, she says. However you save money, it should leave each party in a position to manage finances solo short-term should something catastrophic (such as a breakup, or worse, death) happen.
Financial autonomy is the key for any relationship, says Shannon Lee Simmons, a financial planner and owner of New School of Finance. It's not about financial independence, she says, rather both partners need to know what's happening with the money.
"I've seen a lot of time where one person is the financial quarterback of the household – they handle all the finances – and then [the couple] gets divorced and that can be a huge smack in the face for someone who's been hand-off," she says. "It's not even just divorce – what if someone passes away? Do you know enough about how to take the reins [of the household] and run with it?"
And in the end, it's never worth staying in a relationship over money fears: while it can be stressful, there's always a way to manage finances, Simmons says. "Breaks up suck – they're hard on everyone, but they're often necessary and people do pop up on the other side okay."
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The Dilemmas that we experience on a daily basis vary from deep Dilemmas fueled by a principal Burden that gets in our way to ordinary linear decisions that we are challenged to reach.
There is the tendency to inflate our problems sometimes due to the emergency feelings that we encounter. Simply getting to a certain, simple task can throw us off temporarily. A comment by your spouse gets under our skin. Asking for what you want brings up feelings of being unwanted/uncared for.
Yet, as I read my 365 Tao Meditation book today, “problems” confront us at different levels. Ming-Dao postulates that problems are a Puzzle, an Obstacle or Entanglement. A puzzle “needs only to be analyzed carefully.” There is really no entrapment in feelings per se, just something to be unraveled. Unwinding a spool of yarn can be a simple “problem.”
An Obstacle “must be overcome.” Ming-Dao says that, “We must use force and/or perseverance to either destroy or move away from what is blocking us.” It can be an impersonal or personal obstacle. Notice here that deeper feelings become more relevant and perhaps a notable relationship can be at stake. Here we are entering into decision-making that defines a Dilemma. Either one chooses to approach/attack or avoidance/perseverance.
Now the next “problem” Ming-Dao defines is a more exotic one-an “Entanglement mires us in a maze of limitations.” Thus, an Entanglement mirrors for us what confronts us when we are in our “Mars in retrograde” type of day. We feel limited in a lose-lose situation and it appears that our options are limited. Relationships are by their nature complex.
First of all, it might be helpful to distinguish what type of problem we are facing. Often we tend to make a “mountain out of a mole hill” and the entanglement might be best served by first seeing the provoking moment as more of a “puzzle.” Now this might be dependent on just how much you have learned by extricating yourself from personal dilemmas.
So? “I have been here before. Did my typical strategy work with this dilemma then?” If it did, you might simply untangle it like a “puzzle.” The tendency, however, is to get stuck in the feeling state which the situation provokes. And then there is an inclination to overcome the adversity of the situation. We all have a desire to WIN and not lose. It becomes an internal or external competition to win. So you put your chips down on trying to gain an advantage.
This is particularly relevant in our country today. We do get mired in an elaborate maze of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t. “I can’t afford to let THEM get away with it.” “I’ve got to teach them a lesson.” “If I don’t act/demonstrate now, our government will be destroyed.” So when you mired in a Dilemma, it can feel like doomsday.
This is why at P2SW we literally preach to be seriously cautious about the decision to Withdraw, Attack or Defend (the WAD theory). Once we feel an “entanglement,” we either want to defend ourselves – “You don’t understand me,” or “I’m sick tired of your antics and you need to take a look at yourself,” or internally, “I would like to knock the crap out of…,” or sulking away and distancing one’s self.
So what do you do? Perhaps, first, break the situation down into whether it is a Puzzle, an Obstacle or Entanglement. It is likely that most folks go right to the Entanglement (not that the Problem may be of paramount importance) but people, them, of course, ha, not us, typically over-react and won’t respond as to what the situation calls for. In fact, you might want to ask yourself, “What does this situation (not my feelings) call for?” – to create some emotional distance. One needs to see Dilemmas from both sides. Getting triggered happens to everyone way too much.
Then we go into an Empathic Reflective Listening mode. That is, we honor the antagonist by reciting what they are requesting of us. Take responsibility for your/my part. And then listen further. (Again, the It’s Not About the Nail YouTube video illustrates this process up until the man says, “If you would only…”) When it comes down to it, we all have our issues. Every day we/you will be confronted and triggered by someone who replicates some earlier creator who was the origin of our Burdens.
You need to question on which side do you stand – the probability of approach/attacking or avoiding/defending. Now here is where finding your Spiritual Path is paramount. The other person, the so-called enemy is a spiritual being as well. The challenge we face is discovering not only our spiritual nature but theirs as well. It’s not a “mountain or mole hill” but a spiritual moment. | <urn:uuid:cea31638-b6b5-4c96-96f9-08eeb839d052> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pathtospiritwarrior.com/a-mountain-or-a-mole-hill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941267 | 1,170 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Airbnb says it will temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees globally
The company said it would work with charities and aid workers on the ground around the world to try and coordinate the resettlement programme.
Tuesday 24 August 2021 14:27, UK
Airbnb has said it will pay to temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees while they wait to find permanent accommodation around the world.
The online letting company did not specify how long it would host the refugees for, but said that the situation in Kabul was "one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time".
It said that the offer was effective immediately, and the company was already working with charities on the ground to help facilitate the transfer of people.
“As tens of thousands of Afghan refugees resettle around the world, where they stay will be the first chapter in their new lives,” said Brian Chesky, founder and chief executive of Airbnb.
"For these 20,000 refugees, my hope is that the Airbnb community will provide them with not only a safe place to rest and start over, but also a warm welcome home."
Airbnb said that the cost would be paid by the company and Mr Chesky, who has a net worth of more than £8bn.
"I hope this inspires other business leaders to do the same,” said Mr Chesky. “There's no time to waste."
In a statement, Airbnb said it would closely collaborate with resettlement agencies and partners to “go where the need goes, and evolve this initiative and our support as necessary".
For its part, the UK has said it will take up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans over the coming years as part of a resettlement plan following the Taliban takeover of their country.
The government has faced criticism, including from some of its own backbenchers, that it is not moving quickly enough after it said it would take 5,000 in the programme's first year. | <urn:uuid:0a9e178d-10d2-4821-8d1c-7541bb226385> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.sky.com/story/airbnb-says-it-will-temporarily-house-20-000-afghan-refugees-globally-12389469 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976524 | 394 | 1.804688 | 2 |
A case against Page Object Model — part2
In a previous article a laid out a theoretical case against page object model and why you shouldn’t use it.
In this follow up article I’ll tackle few topics:
- Give a reply to some of the critics to the previous article
- Provide an alternative to Page Object Model
- Give a concrete example
1: Reply to critics
You picked a simple example.
One critic is that in my examples of LoginPage and HomePage, there’s no internal state, but there could be some other cases when the page object class does hold an internal state.
My reply is that in most cases, the overwhelming majority of the times, page objects are stateless.
So going through the trouble of creating all of these page objects for the rare cases when they hold an internal state (let alone the cases when the internal state is actually relevant to the test case) is too much of an overhead.
In addition to that I think it’s a bad practice to hold internal state that effects code execution path for automated tests, as this is prone to the nasty test smell of Conditional Test Logic that has the potential to induce test flakiness and unclarity.
You picked a dynamically typed language
The argument here being that statically typed languages (Java, C#) have more safe guards on the code.
Such that for example when we return a new page object from a method, this insures that the test code will take this object and operate on it’s methods accordingly.
This way we can avoid mistakes by the test code writer.
My reply is two folds:
- This is not true, python (similarly to most dynamically typed languages) has a static type checker.
So the alleged benefit can be achieved in both cases.
- I still think that constraining the test script coder in such ways makes no sense.
Because more often than not, there will come a moment when the constraint doesn’t fit the test case, and now the test coder is reluctant to find work arounds to the imposed barrier.
Imposing limitations that don’t fit the test case not only take longer to conceptualize and develop (analysis paralysis), but they lead to inconsistent code that is more difficult to understand.
PageFactory and Screenplay
I was presented during the discussion with 2 additional design patterns that could be regarded as advantages of POM.
The first one is the PageFactory pattern.
It is internally provided by selenium web driver to achieve 2 main things:
- It eases on the writing of the page object model.
- It provides (at least in java language) out of the box solutions to various problems, for example, stale element exceptions are avoided by “pinging” the element again and again before it’s operated on.
The second pattern is Screenplay, which I have to admit, I was unaware of.
This design pattern subjects the page objects to the BDD format with the existence of “actor”.
The actor effectively orchestrates the entire test code, and provides an object through which all actions are handled (acting, querying etc).
My reply in general is that adding more design patterns is pretty much a dead give away.
When we pad our design with more and ever growing bandages, this should raise all of our red flags that maybe our initial idea doesn’t fit the problem.
We software developers, we are men and women of principles, we love our principles, we live for our principles and we will die for our principles, and if you don’t like our principles — we’ve got more principles.
PageFactory does provide a nice cover for page objects, as it deals with many of the pain and flakiness related to UI tests.
However it was designed under the assumption that page objects are the way to go.
It could do the same thing in a straight procedural style in a similar fasion with Playwright or Cypress.
And as to Screenply, I think this is way too much conceptual overkill that wouldn’t pay off.
Not only your padding your automation code with more “things”, abstract entities that readers would have to understand, you’re not really solving the problems of page objects but rather covering them up with a happy face.
Page object is a nonsensical class, the solution to nonsensical class cannot be adding more nonsensical classes…
Page Object is great if done correctly
Yeah, if you do what works it will work…
Tautological statements like that really reflect the circular reasoning behind page object models, if it doesn’t work for you, you’re not doing it right.
2: What’s the alternative?
Unfortunately, I feel like when I was asked for an alternative, I wasn’t asked for a good way to structure test code but rather to provide a new buzzword.
If I’m telling them not to use page object, then I must suggest some other design pattern or some mysterious ninja technique.
No, I don’t have a new buzzword — I think the last thing we need is a new buzzword.
What I offer instead is a straight procedural code.
Use functions to commit your high level actions and constants to store your locators, split them up to modules (or namespaces) when the need for that arise.
This way you don’t need to wonder about the purpose of these various objects and “things”, and access to locators is now more directed so that when locators are shared between different pages you don’t have to criss-cross your code to pave your way from one class to another.
OOP marries operations with data; and it’s not a happy marriage.
Because in the end, you end up with those giant objects with a lot of unrelated data in them that you poke in different parts of your software
— Stoyan Nikolov, OOP is Dead, Long Live Data-Oriented Design
Lets take the original example and re-write it in a procedural style
re-write into procedural style:
In the procedural style we don’t need to wonder about the significance of any class.
We don’t have to do silly things like creating a whole instance of a class call a few methods and throw it away.
We don’t need to ask philosophical questions about the nature of the pages and what purpose do they serve.
We can have a direct access to all locator at any given moment so that if some elements gets shared by several pages we don’t need to poke holes in our design to access them.
We can split our units of codes when we feel that it’s necessary instead of speculating how the different parts of codes will be wired up in the future.
Our code base is flatter and more direct instead of hierarchical and overly indented.
Just to clarify, I am not entirely against the idea of classes.
My test code for example is nested inside a class.
I think that classes can provide an important solutions for some problems, when some data fields and behaviors are closely aligned with each other.
In the test code, the behavior of the code is entirely intertwined with the state of the driver, hence the need to encapsulate the two together in a class and ultimately as an object.
But trying to shove every single part of your automation code into a class, the attempt to pad it up with more “actors” and “doers”, and speculatively trying to anticipate future needs, leads to those problems I mentioned.
I think that the default mode should be to write your code in a plain procedural style, and when cases do arise, when you found that some aspects of your code are coupled and should be encapsulated — by all means do it.
But don’t try to shove all of your behaviors into a page object and expect that to add clarity to your code, more often than not it will do the exact opposite.
Page object models virtues can be achieved in procedural style.
Classes and objects are just tools in the toolbox and they are ought to be used when needed, not just because they simply exist.
More specifically, classes are useful for encapsulating state with behavior and these are the cases when classes should be used.
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In 2014, seven Concordia Index countries will partake in executive elections. Citizens in Colombia, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, and Egypt all will have a chance to set their country’s direction in 2014.
By Jacob Berman
In 2014, seven Concordia Index countries will partake in executive elections. Citizens in Colombia, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, and Egypt all will have a chance to set their country’s direction in 2014. These elections are all in the developing world, and provide both exciting opportunities and difficult challenges with regards to public-private partnerships(P3s) and their countries’ broader economies. Here are the seven elections Concordia will be watching closely:
The first election will take place in May in Colombia, with President Juan Manuel Santos looking to win re-election for a second four-year term. Colombia has made substantial economic improvements over the past few years, with national unemployment rates under 10%, down from 12% in 2010 and 20% in 2000. Ongoing peace talks with the FARC may soon conclude, which would allow the government to focus on addressing pressing issues, including youth unemployment (almost 20%), infrastructure deficiencies, and ineffective regulation. Colombia has had many successful P3s begin operation over the last few years, and increased political and economic stability should allow further opportunities to come to fruition.
The world’s biggest election will take place throughout this spring, as 1.2 billion Indians will elect a new national government. The main opposition to the ruling Congress party comes from the Bharatiya Janata Party which has been galvanized by Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat. A large grassroots anti-corruption movement has also taken shape under the leadership of Anna Hazare over the past 3 years, and seeks to shake up the political establishment. India has experienced rapid private sector investment in certain sectors over the past few years. That said, large structural reforms are needed to sustain this trend and to expand it to the economy at large. India’s bureaucracy is resistant to large scale changes, but the hope is that the new government will provide sufficient energy to overcome this resistance.
In July, South Africa will hold its fifth general elections since the end of Apartheid with President Jacob Zuma attempting to win re-election for the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC has won comfortably in each of the last four elections, but their majority may be diminished by growing national concerns over unemployment, labor relations, and corruption. South Africa has many advantages: it remains rich in resources with tremendous opportunities for private sector investment, it is extremely politically stable compared to other African countries, and it has favorable demographic trends. But if the new government cannot get its economic and social problems under control, it risks alienating the private sector and losing out on the great opportunities afforded by its natural and human resources.
Also in July, Indonesia will hold its first direct Presidential election where the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cannot run. It is too early to forecast who the election candidates will be, but it is clear that there are tremendous challenges ahead. After five years of tremendous growth, Indonesia struggled in 2013 as investors took their money elsewhere. While this was partly due to external macroeconomic trends, it also was a result of the persistent problems of insufficient infrastructure, stifling bureaucracy, and systemic corruption. If the new leader can inspire enthusiasm and confidence among Indonesia’s citizens, then the private sector will certainly follow, and the sky will be the limit for successful P3s.
Brazil will have a Presidential election in October where incumbent President Dilma Rousseff will attempt to win reelection for her Worker’s Party. Brazil is poised to raise its international profile tremendously with hosting Soccer World Cup this summer, and then the Summer Olympics in 2016. The influx of global tourism will result in short-term economic and prestige gains along with a renewed sense of national pride in Brazil. But these events also carry high infrastructure costs, along with the potential for unwanted attention on economic inequality and corruption. It is imperative for Brazil to use their world showcases as opportunities to continue their decade-long reform process, and as an impetus to systematically tackle the long-term issues facing Brazil.
A new election in Turkey will mark the beginning of the Constitutional Reforms enacted after the previous election. Three-term incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will seek to become the first directly elected President in Turkish history. The new government will have to continue to deal with the collateral damage from Civil War in Syria, while convincing the private sector that Turkey still sees itself as part of Europe and the West when it comes to investment opportunities. This will not be easy as Prime Minister Erdogan has become less tolerant of opposition in recent years, culminating with a brutal crackdown on protests in 2013. Turkey and the global private sector have a tremendous amount to offer each other, but increased political tolerance would go a long way towards implementing and achieving successful P3s.
The final election will take place in Egypt, which after three years of revolution will look to finally achieve stability. It is too early to determine who the main candidates will be, but it appears probable that the election will feature current and former Generals from the Egyptian army. The main economic question is whether the triumphant candidate will be able to inclusively work towards modernizing Egypt’s economy, which is extremely dependent on tourism and international loans. There are many obstacles facing Egypt over the next few years, but the hope is that a stable head of state will be able to begin to address the underlying causes of social unrest that have plagued the country in recent years.
A substantial part of the future of P3s lies in the developing world. These seven elections in 2014 will inevitably have a profound impact on the state of the developing world’s economy and on P3s more specifically. In order for P3s to flourish under the new regimes that will take power this year, it is imperative to continue promoting the value of P3s for all sectors. | <urn:uuid:4c470c57-1b4f-44dd-b8a8-28c85b34332f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.concordia.net/newsroom/blog/election-report-on-concordia-index-countries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95948 | 1,232 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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