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Sine Wave Amplitude Modulation Concept for Linear Behaviour of Phase Modulated Resonant Converters
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Vol. 60, Nº 5, pp. 2074 - accepted, May, 2013.
ISSN (print): 0278-0046
ISSN (online): 0278-0046
Scimago Journal Ranking: 2,21 (in 2013)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2228137
This paper focuses on a DC-AC resonant power converter using a special sine wave amplitude modulation concept with the objective of achieving a linear input-output behavior, low harmonic content at the output, and reduced stages number. This technique can be applied to a wide range of resonant converters’ applications. Sine wave generation techniques and phase modulation methods limitations are analyzed. Alternative solutions, such as a new pre-distorted phase modulator, are developed. A prototype was designed and implemented. Presented experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented principle. | <urn:uuid:c54983a7-7345-495c-b6ff-7076362fe61d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/7158 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.793137 | 233 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Ontario College of Trades - Proposed Professional Misconduct Regulation
Bill or Act:
Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act 2009
Summary of Decision:
The approved regulation will define professional misconduct that will be central to every stage of the Ontario College of Trades complaints and discipline process.
October 19, 2012
Summary of Proposal:
The College was established to grant Ontario's 157 trades the ability to self-regulate. This ability is a privilege that comes with a duty to serve and protect the public interest (OCTAA, section 10). This duty will be fulfilled in part by defining professional misconduct in a regulation that will be central to every stage of the College's complaints and discipline process.
The College is inviting stakeholder feedback and public comment on a proposed Board regulation defining professional misconduct.
To review the proposed regulation and instructions for submitting comments on it, please visit the College's website via the link in the "Further Information" section below.
PLEASE NOTE: Do not submit comments using the email link at the bottom of this page. The College will only consider comments submitted through a completed comment form which is available on the College's website.
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So How Do You Create A Smarter City? To get the best out a city you need to understand what makes up a city. This is where Density comes in. Understanding Urban Density is pivotal to development and creating cities that are smarter and happier places to live in.
Employed by South African Cities Network, we created an animated explainer video that details the thinking and philosophy behind Density and how it is being used to build better cities here in South Africa. At Incubate Productions this is something we specialise in, taking complex topics and turning them into eye catching and easy to understand animated videos. Watch this explainer video and get a better idea of how South African Cities Network is using the science of Urban Density to develop a public transport framework to improve the lives of all us city dwellers. Yuo can check more of our work at www.incubatevideo.co.za | <urn:uuid:c60e6557-cc09-41d5-8e50-45131f0ce360> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.incubatevideo.co.za/post/2016/06/27/sa-cities-explainer-video | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.930077 | 185 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Wärtsilä is to provide gensets that will run on a hydrogen and natural gas blend for Keppel Offshore & Marine’s (Keppel O&M) Floating Living Lab (FLL), a first-of-its-kind offshore floating testbed in Singapore.
The FLL project comprises a floating barge with LNG bunkering facilities for harbor craft and small vessels. It will also house an embedded power-generation system to power onboard operations, with excess electricity to be exported to the national grid or stored in the FLL’s energy storage systems (ESS).
The power-generation system will utilize two Wärtsilä 34SG engines running on natural gas/LNG with a combined output of 11.6MW. The engines can also operate on gas with up to 3% hydrogen, and with modifications can utilize up to 25% hydrogen. They are scheduled for delivery in the third quarter of 2021, and the power generation system is expected to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2022.
“As the maritime industry moves toward cleaner energy solutions, Keppel O&M is leveraging its expertise to optimize energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions for marine vessels by exploring different energy mixes such as blending hydrogen into LNG, and using its Floating Living Lab to testbed these solutions. This is in line with Keppel’s Vision 2030, which includes seizing opportunities in new energy such as hydrogen. We are looking for futureproof solutions, so engines with overall efficiency and capability for burning hydrogen were an important consideration in the award of this contract,” said Tan Leong Peng, MD (new builds), Keppel O&M. | <urn:uuid:5a5404ab-0ea0-41a4-93a4-327eb2c341ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electrichybridmarinetechnology.com/news/power-and-propulsion/wartsila-to-supply-hydrogen-gensets-for-floating-offshore-testbed-in-singapore.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.932413 | 344 | 1.789063 | 2 |
By Justin Webb
BBC News, Washington
The White House has failed for a second time to force the Senate to vote on John Bolton, President George W Bush's controversial choice for UN ambassador.
President Bush thinks Mr Bolton will "get the job done"
The failure leaves open the possibility Mr Bush will appoint Mr Bolton without Senate approval during a recess.
There are 100 senators and 55 of them are Republicans, so a straightforward vote on John Bolton would almost certainly result in his confirmation.
But 60 members are needed to override a delaying filibuster in the Senate.
So, provided the Democrats remain united, Mr Bolton will not be passed.
The Democrats say they are not blocking the nominee completely.
They would allow a vote if further information were given on his behaviour while he worked at the state department.
But the Bush administration says that demand is unreasonable.
The two sides are deadlocked.
Assuming Mr Bolton does not withdraw, the president is faced with a tough political choice.
He has the power to appoint his man over the heads of the senators during their recess for the 4 July holiday - an appointment which would last until 2007.
Would that look like a bold move overcoming petty partisan politics, or the desperate strategy of a lame-duck second-term president?
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Propane New Jersey
Stillwater Township is a township located in Sussex County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 4,099, reflecting a decrease of 168 from the 4,267 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 14 from the 4,253 counted in the 1990 Census. Located in the Kittatinny Valley, Stillwater is a rural farming community with a long history of dairy farming. Stillwater was settled in the eighteenth century by Palatine German immigrants who entered through the port of Philadelphia. In 1741, Casper Shafer, John George Wintermute (Windemuth), and their father-in-law Johan Peter Bernhardt settled along the Paulins Kill. Stillwater remained mainly German for a long time after that, around 50 years. Stillwater was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 27, 1824, from portions of Hardwick Township when Sussex County was divided in half by the legislature a few weeks earlier to create Warren County. Portions of the township were taken to form Fredon Township on February 24, 1904.
Stillwater is the home of Swartswood State Park, established in 1914 as the first state park established by the state of New Jersey. In the center of the park lies the Little Swartswood and Swartswood Lake. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.
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TRUE CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY
LIBERALITY, generosity, is essentially a Christian grace. God is love, and all who partake of his spirit must be proportionately loving and generous. But as we are instructed not to be wise in our own conceits, nor to be wise above what is written in God’s Word, so likewise it is well for all true children of God to beware of assuming to have a greater, wider or deeper love than that clearly set forth in God’s Word as the only real and true standard. God’s people are to set up a standard neither for God nor for themselves; but as obedient children they should not fashion their minds and faith after their own defective conceptions, but according as the Lord has revealed.
Some err on one side of this question and some on the other; but the remedy for both errors is the same—submit your heads and your hearts unto the direction of the Lord through his inspired Word.
That Word nowhere teaches that everlasting torment is the wages of sin, but that the wages of sin is death. Every plain (non-symbolic) statement of the Scriptures agrees that “the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Surely, then, no one is justified in maligning, yea, blaspheming God’s character and plan by teaching directly or indirectly the contrary—that he will keep the sinner’s soul alive to all eternity in order to torment it. There would be neither love nor justice in such a course.
On the other hand the Word nowhere teaches Universalism,—that the entire human
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family will be everlastingly saved to divine favor and blessing. And those who rush from the one extreme of faith in an almost universal torment, to the other extreme of belief in Universalism are carried from one human error to another human error. However, the finding of the one error to have been the result of a too careless handling of God’s Word and a leaning to perverted human reason and judgment should put all upon their guard thereafter: but frequently it does not, as we see; and, getting filled with the thought of God’s love, they seem to forget that God has more than one attribute of character and that these must all be co-ordinated in any plan that is his—that his Wisdom and his Justice each join with his Love in his plan for man’s salvation from sin and its penalty, death.
The Scriptures do, indeed, teach that the great ransom-sacrifice given by our Redeemer will sooner or later bring to every member of the human family fullest opportunity for the recovery of all that he lost in Adam. But they forget that although Adam had life, its everlasting continuance was not assured: for this he was on trial when he wilfully sinned and thus cut short his trial and brought upon himself, and upon us in his loins, the sentence of death.
It is what was lost, and all that was lost that our Lord came to save. The salvation made possible by his ransom-sacrifice is a new trial for life everlasting, the results of which are expressed in John 3:36; Rev. 21:7,8.
It is sufficient that God should grant a universal, impartial trial to all; that those who, under the favorable conditions of the New Covenant, will fully submit themselves to God may have life, and that others may be manifested and, as cumberers of the ground, may be destroyed in the Second Death. Love, Wisdom and Justice could never agree to let a wilful sinner live to mar the peace of the holy; nor could they consent that such should be deprived of their own wills in order to their everlasting existence, for their companionship is not sufficiently desirable; nor could they consent that they should be kept alive, and that their wills should be kept under divine restraints to all eternity. Such lives and such companionship are undesirable: the remainder of God’s universe would be blessed by their destruction in the Second Death. Let us not be more
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wise, more loving, or more just than the only living and true God who dwells in a light which no man can approach unto, and whose mind is communicated to us through his Word.—1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 5:9,10.
Let us practice the grace of liberality according to, and not outside of, the boundaries laid down in the Lord’s Word.
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There’s an interesting story in Exodus 15. Right after the kids cross the
Red Sea, right after God drowns their enemies, there are
two significant events:
The first is a party about the multiple miracles in their escape from slavery. Moses and the kids sang a song about his glory and his strength. It sounds like three million people (historians’ best guess for the size of the crowd exiting Egypt through the middle of the Red Sea) spend the better part of a day partying with God, and Miriam and the ladies took up the refrain and went after it with dance and tambourines. That is a serious party! Have you ever had three million people at one of your parties?
After the party, they headed out into the wilderness, though they weren’t particularly well prepared for the wild-ness of it, and then the second significant event happened: the bitter waters of Marah. The hike from the party spot at the edge of the
Red Sea was about three days, and by
the third day, there was a lot of complaining among the community. These people
had been slaves for hundreds of years, and had received their every provision
from their slavers, and who had lived on the banks of one of the greatest
rivers on the planet. They weren’t so good at taking care of themselves, and
never thought they needed to bring water!
But the desert they were waking through had no water. Unfortunately, there wasn’t one person, except Moses himself, who had backpacked through the wilderness before, and I’m thinking Moses had other things on his mind besides telling three million people how to pack for the journey. The beginning of the trip was hard to plan for anyway, so it’s not completely unexpected to discover that they didn’t actually carry three days’ worth of water with them.
So on that third day, they’re whining and complaining, focusing mostly on their need (their thirst) when they round the bend and look, there’s water!
And it is there that the problem exposes itself. Here were a very large number of people who had been focused on their thirst for the last several miles of their trek through the wilderness, and when they come around the bend and discover something new, they interpret it through their focus for the past couple of days: they make an assumption.
I hate assumptions. They get me into all sorts of trouble, and it appears that an assumption got this vagabond community into trouble as well.
The people were so heavily focused on their lack (of water) and their problem (their thirst), that when they saw the water they made the assumption that this water had to be God’s provision for them.
The thought process apparently went something like this: “I’m following God, and I have a need. Here’s something that looks like it might be an answer. Therefore I conclude that this is God’s answer for my need.” Suddenly, the whole world was to be interpreted through the particular need that they were focused on. (I suspect that there were other things that this vagabond metropolis needed besides water, but water appears to be the primary one they noticed at the moment.)
And apparently that was an incorrect assumption, as the water wasn’t even drinkable: it was bitter. But they’ve already concluded that this must be God’s provision for them, so they go after Moses, who goes to God, and in his mercy, God provides a solution to the problem of the bitter water.
If the rest of their journey is any example, and if we’re able to learn from hindsight, then it is not unreasonable to infer that God’s plan actually had more to do with water flowing from a rock at the command of the man of God, than it did with a loving Father’s provision consisting of a nasty puddle of ickyness in the wilderness.
God, of course, had intended that instead of the people trusting what they found along the road, instead they would trust him for their provision, and I think that this is the crux of the issue with these people, and perhaps in our day as well. They trusted their need – and their interpretation of their need – more than they trusted God to take care of them.
I have known people – God’s kids even – who do this very thing. They discover they have a need, a lack, and they fix their attention on that lack, and now a disproportionate portion of their lives is defined by their lack. It’s easy to interpret a great many things by the vocabulary of that one perceived lack, and that perception begins to define their relationship with the Almighty.
I have lived among people who described their provision as “living by faith.” But some of them lived a life that could better be described as “living by hints,” and by the donations that came as a result of the hints. Others have lived by scrounging: always on the lookout for money lying around, on the floor, in pockets, in vending machines, in parking lots. (Since I’ve participated in these patterns, I’m afraid I know whereof I speak; if others have not lived there, then I suggest they give thanks, rather than pass judgment.)
Even affluent people can fall into the problem of relating to the world through their lack, whether in regards to money, or to the need for a husband (or a wife), or the need for acceptance, or significance, any lack, really. Their interpretation of the world – and ultimately of God – revolves around the need that they are fixated on. This presents some problems.
· Some of us see every expense, every scrap of money coming or going as an expression of God’s provision for our (very real) financial need. Often, these people find themselves “living by faith,” and financially living on the edge, where “enough” is a scarce commodity, or has fallen off the radar entirely.
· Some of us see every relationship in terms of our own needs, and their conversations often center around their own healing, their own goals, rather than about the real need for community. If every relationship is evaluated by “Do they help me feel better?” then I’ve become just as guilty as these Israelites: I’ve stopped looking to God for my provision. Instead, I’m looking to my own understanding, though I may disguise the issue by using religious terms like “God wasn’t leading me that way.” I may slap a prayer onto the process to convince myself that I’m focusing on God, while I focus on my own needs.
· Some of us see every sickness and injury as a ballot on whether God is still in the healing business, or whether they’re good enough, devout enough, or holy enough to be successful at healing the sick. If we were to look at the situation from God’s perspective, we’d see it differently.
· And we tend to judge (yes, “judge”) God’s care for us, predominantly by that one issue: has he met this need? At the waters of Marah, the people judged Moses and the God whom he served as having failed, because this puddle that they so desperately wanted to be God’s provision for them was not actually God’s provision for them.
Note that these are not illegitimate needs. We need provision. We need real relationship, we need to walk in the power of the Kingdom. And the Children of Israel in the desert really needed water! Those are real needs.
The issue is not in having a need, or even in acknowledging a need. My need is not a problem. It’s only when I begin to make a solution for my need apart from my relationship with God that I get into trouble.
This leads us, or at least it leads my own thinking, to an uncomfortable place: much of this could be resolved by simply trusting God – the God who promised to provide for us – to actually provide for my needs. It’s a shame that this is something of a radical proposition.
Trusting God really shouldn’t have been a great stretch for these particular folks. Apart from the testimony of their ancestors (Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, though their reputation was not yet what it is now), these same people had just watched a grand showdown between their God and the gods of the Egyptians. It wasn’t even close, which, of course, was God’s plan: God was showing off his provision for them, his advocacy of them. And in the actual departure, he made these former slaves wealthy, wealthy enough to construct a very impressive gold-laden tabernacle a few months later.
Oh, and the parting of the
Red Sea (and the drowning in that sea
of one of the most powerful armies in the world at that time) was what? four
days behind them? They spent a day partying and singing about it! God had
demonstrated his supernatural provision this
week, another set of testimonies last month, and the testimony of their
ancestors. God had proven both his willingness and his ability to provide for
the people. But they hadn’t learned the lesson.
And then I’m reminded of the many times that God has very effectively provided for me and my household, and I’m reminded that every time he’s provided for me is another testimony of his faithfulness, and another reminder that I need to focus on God and his provision more than I focus on my own needs and wants. God – my omnipotent and beneficent, heavenly Daddy – is my provider, not the mud puddles along the road of my life.
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Letter to the editor is a formal document. In CBSE it is a question to write a letter to the editor of a newspaper. It is asked in Class 8 to Class 12. Considering this we are providing a letter to the editor topics to help you to practice, letter to the editor format CBSE class 9 to help you obtain good marks, letter to the editor example for students of class 9 & 10 which is a beginning letter to the editor on Safety Measures for Pilgrims. These can be additionally used for the letter to the editor newspaper. So let’s dive in-
Religious lairs and congregations are frequently held in our country. We read about disastrous happenings that take place in such fairs in the form of big fires. Stampedes, etc. in which hundreds of Pilgrims die. This all happens because of mismanagement and maladministration. Write a letter to the editor. The Youth Times, Delhi that government now pay more attention to the plight of pilgrims and should make proper arrangements for the safety and well being of the pilgrims.
145, Preet Vihar
May 19, 2020
The Youth Times
Subject: Safety Measures for Pilgrims
Through the esteemed columns of your newspaper, I would like to aware the masses and the government to the plight of pilgrims and suggest some measures for the safety and well being of the Pilgrims. As we all know India is a religious country and people have a strong attachment with their religious feelings. Religious fairs and congregations are frequently held in our country. We read about disastrous happenings that take place in such fairs in the form of big fires, stampedes, etc. in which hundreds of pilgrims die. This all happens because of mismanagement and maladministration.
A number of measures like the trans-shipment facility and deployment of rescue teams for the evacuation of people have been initiated for the Char Dham Yatra. The gel mat technology was also being used in roads cross-crossing the holy shrines. This latest technology lets water seep in the ground while allowing people a smooth passage even if roads are covered with slush and debris due to the rain-induced landslides.
Labourers have also been deployed at different places so that roads could be immediately cleared of debris in case of landslips. The communication network has also been strengthened. “Besides, intense patrolling is also being carried out in. In Uttarakhand, the state government has decided to issue biometric cards and registering the mobile numbers of pilgrims visiting the state for the Char Dham Yatra, so that a timely weather forecast can be provided. Keeping in mind the health of the pilgrims a mobile medical team will also be stationed at every 10-15km along the route.
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JQI Podcast Episode 12
In our own galaxy and beyond, violent collisions fling a never-ending stream of stuff at the earth, and astrophysicists are eager to learn more about the processes that produce this cosmic barrage.
Researchers from around the world have teamed up to build the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gammy-ray observatory, an array of hundreds of huge water tanks on a mountain in Mexico. HAWC helps astrophysicists spot active cosmic neighborhoods by capturing the shower of particles created when high-energy packets of light smash into the earth’s atmosphere.
Jordan Goodman, HAWC’s lead investigator, and Dan Fiorino, a postdoctoral researcher at UMD, tell Chris Cesare about the details of the HAWC experiment and how it promises to fill some gaps in our understanding of the universe. To learn more about HAWC, please visit www.hawc-observatory.org. The collaboration is preparing to publish the first results of its search, and you can read about the details in an upcoming source catalog or a paper about high-energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula.
This episode of Relatively Certain was produced by Chris Cesare, Sean Kelley and Emily Edwards and edited by Chris Cesare and Kate Delossantos, featuring music by Dave Depper, Podington Bear, Kevin MacLeod and Chris Zabriskie. Relatively Certain is a production of the Joint Quantum Institute and the University of Maryland, and you can find it on iTunes, Google Play or Soundcloud.
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In this episode, we look back at the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when impending lab closures were threatening scientific progress and graduate student careers.
We all know that diamonds can hold great sentimental (and monetary) value. As luck may have it, diamonds—particularly defective ones, with little errors in their crystal structure—also hold great scientific value.
Gravity is a fixture of our everyday lives, particularly apparent when we drop a piece of toast on the kitchen floor or trip over an unseen step. Not surprisingly, physicists have studied gravity heavily over the centuries. | <urn:uuid:27f3e617-6424-4542-8205-5d6b3ebb98cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jqi.umd.edu/news/podcast/jqi-podcast-episode-12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.905171 | 451 | 2.421875 | 2 |
We have ears to hear, but do we really know how to listen?
The findings of Dr Alfred Tomatis on the importance of the ear and listening, led him eventually to state that, “man is entirely an ear”. In other words, he meant that the true calling of human beings and their fulfilment is to be a veritable antenna tuned to the universe. Listening is the primordial condition of humanity in every situation whether relational, educational or creative. In this dynamic, the ear plays the role of a conductor, getting our whole body and senses to listen. This book gives us new keys to help understand the origin of failure and obstacles. Indeed the acquisition of listening is long, difficult and often disturbed by traumas that punctuate our childhood, and these impact on our personal and professional development. This book is also presented as a practical guide for the different fields of application of the Tomatis listening therapy. It will allow the reader to discover what can be done with this approach to be able to progress in areas as diverse as concentration, memory, communication, singing, the integration of modern languages, physical coordination and balance.
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The vaccine is currently likewise offered under an emergency situation use consent for youngsters ages 5 with 11. This injection is about 91% effective in preventing COVID-19 in children ages 5 with 11. It likewise has a lower dose than the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination used for people age 12 as well as older. A public-private collaboration between 코로나 검사 the Egyptian federal government as well as Eva Pharma has actually caused another suspended coronavirus vaccine called EgyVax. The main Oriental country of Kazakhstan started research on a vaccination made from inactivated coronaviruses in the summertime of 2020. On August 28, 2020, their Study Institute for Biological Security Issues registered a Stage 1 test on the injection.
On Dec. 19, Kazinform reported that scientists had completed the Stage 2 trial, finding that the vaccination was safe and produced an appealing immune feedback. Kazakhstan’s vice preacher of education as well as scientific research announced that the vaccination, called QazVac, was expected to be accredited in April, regardless of the lack of published results from the Stage 3 trial. In May 2021, issues over the vaccine’s performance arised in the U.A.E. In action, the government announced that it would supply booster dose to those who have received two doses of BBIBP-CorV. On Aug. 29, the U.A.E. mandated booster injection for all homeowners who obtained BBIBP-CorV. A rep from Sinopharm reported at a W.H.O. meeting in October that a booster tripled antibody degrees over their height after two dosages.
These alarming reports stirred issues that CoronaVac’s defense was winding down. In its June 2021 permission of the vaccine, the World Wellness Organization kept in mind that they observed possible indicators of waning resistance in the initial three months of the clinical test in Brazil. A research released on July 25 located that 6 months after getting two doses, healthy adults experienced a huge decrease in antibody levels.That exact same study revealed that a booster of CoronaVac can recover high antibody levels.
It has a “self-replicating” style that brings about a higher production of viral healthy proteins. In August, Arcturus released a Stage 1/2 test at Singapore General Healthcare Facility. On Nov. 9, the business introduced that an interim evaluation of the test showed that the vaccination created an immune response that’s in the range of reactions seen in individuals that recouped from Covid-19. On Jan. 6 Arcturus revealed that they had approval to begin the Phase 2 part of the trial in both Singapore as well as the United States.
On Dec. 31, TASS reported that preparations were being made for manufacturing Convasel in 2022. Chinese firm Sinocelltech has actually established two protein vaccinations, called SCTV01C and also SCTV01E, versus the coronavirus. In February 2022, the researchers signed up a collection of Phase 2 booster researches to examine their capability to create immunity in grownups as well as adolescents who have actually already gotten various other vaccines. BOOSTERSOn Dec. 21, 2021, Novavax announced that it was prolonging its Stage 3 clinical test right into a booster test. They will provide volunteers a 3rd shot of NVX-CoV2373 to observe its security as well as effectiveness. In a separate trial, British researchers checked Novavax’s injection in a “mix-and-match” test, in which volunteers switched over from one vaccine to another for a booster.
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The main legislation in Malta that are focused on employment are Chapter 452 – Employment and Industrial Relations Act (EIRA) and Chapter 343 – Employment and Training Services Act. At the same time, the Department for Industrial and Employment Relations (DIER) is there to protect the interests of parties in employment contracts while actively promoting a healthy employment relationship in a spirit of social partnership, and to contribute towards stable industrial relations.
The local authorities in Malta also work alongside with the EU Employment law framework and other international labour organisations to ensure a good working relationship between employers and employees to know their relevant rights and obligations.
When an employment contract is drafted, it ensures that employees have all their rights safeguarded thanks to the statutory conditions of employment. These include the right to work in a safe workplace, that at least the national minimum wage is paid, gender equality, vacation leave, and that no discrimination will take place.
If the legally binding contract is breached by any of the parties, meaning that either the employer or employee breaks one of the terms, a legal action is required to take place. Then there is also unfair dismissal. Dismissal and the rights and obligations of the respective parties are matters subject to strict regulation under the Maltese law. The Employer may only terminate a contract of employment based on a ‘good and sufficient’ cause, redundancy, or the employee reaching retirement age.
The following are a few example scenarios that are not considered to be ‘good and sufficient’ causes:
- Getting married
- Going on maternity
- Becoming a member of a trade union
- Joining religious groups
- Employer no longer having the confidence of the employee
- Disclosing information to a public regulating body regarding alleged illegal activities being committed by the employer.
In case of disputes, if the Tribunal reaches the conclusion that employment was terminated without a ‘good and sufficient’ cause, the employee may seek to either be reinstatement or ask for compensation. If any of these unfair dismissals sounds familiar to you, we invite you to contact our office for assistance. Our team will help you fight for your rights and compensations. Please contact us on +35679890072 or [email protected].
Article written by Ms Charlene Sciberras, B.A. (Hons), guest writer, a marketing and business administration specialist with a special focus on corporate, accounting, and legal matters.
Sciberras Advocates founded by Dr Adrian Sciberras, is a law firm based in Malta. The firm prides itself to be multi-disciplinary, innovative and flexible in order to meet the changing times and any challenges in the local and international legal scenario. No matter what private or corporate complex demands are called for, Sciberras Advocates offers practical and cost-effective legal solutions to achieve your desired results. You may reach Sciberras Advocates by phone on +35627040903 or via email on [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:130676cd-c8a5-4bc4-a5e0-9a7fee9d19b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciberras.legal/2022/02/24/unfair-dismissals-in-malta/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.934058 | 604 | 1.765625 | 2 |
In this course, accessible for those who have already attended the Level One and Two Courses, we will go in depth about the Estill Model.
After reviewing the Figures and Qualities, their applications, the problems and solutions, we will focus on different aspects of “working with Estill”. With particular attention to practicing with the participants’ repertoire, we will work on “permutations”, the many possible variations of the original qualities.
There will be also a Q&A moment for the participants about topics such as Estill and performance, teaching and working with Estill, etc.
This 3 days course is also a great added value to those who are preparing for the EFP certification.
During the days you will work with both Dorte Hyldstrup, DK & Annti Annola, FI
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If you’re at a loose end, try sorting this little game out.
Each Curvy puzzle consists of a grid of hexagonal tiles. On each tile appears a single or double set of lines, and each set of lines has its own color. These tiles must be rotated to find a solution in which lines of the same color connect, with no loose ends.
Alternatively, if you don’t want to actually win the game:
Dead trees – Unit 520
Dead Trees is a game prototype / destructible physics experiment that is totally not inspired by the popular block laying game™ of unknown origin that takes the initial concept ad absurdum.
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This course is designed to get you familiar with Rescue Boat systems and to increase your overall understanding of it. The aim of this course is to guide you through all the necessary checks and inspections you need to do on the several components on Rescue Boat systems in order to have a well maintained and ready for use system on board.
The course is conducted as e-learning.
Upon completion of the course, the participant will know which are the necessary inspections he has to perform, during maintenance on the various components of the system, such as the Rescue boat, its Launching appliance and the Release mechanism. In combination with the manufacturer’s manuals on board the vessel, you will be able to perform weekly and monthly maintenance in a safe way in order to keep the system safe and ready for use during drills or in actual emergencies.
All crew members with maintenance duties on Rescue Boat systems.
This e learning can be taken in the seafarer’s own pace.
Recommended every three years
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Welcome to Archoncad
Vectorworks Tutorials and Vectorworks Training
Are you looking for the best Vectorworks Training? If so, you have come to the right place. We have been teaching Vectorworks for over 20. We have been designing and presenting Vectorworks courses for over 17 years. These course have been updated with every version of Vectorworks, they have been made in into self-paced manuals sold by Vectorworks Inc, they have been presented face-to-face in clasrooms, and now these courses are avialable online.
1000's of users have learned Vectorworks using this training, and you can too. These courses are designed to teach you the most important aspects of Vectorworks, while allowing you to work at your own pace.
What People Say
What real people said about Archoncad.
“One of the training manuals we have at the office is Jonathan Pickup’s Vectorworks Essentials. Jonathan’s book is clear, methodical, systematic and thorough. He’s pioneered mixing text, video and training files to produce manuals that are easy to follow, with deceptively simple exercises that elegantly capture the skills everyone needs to use Vectorworks to its fullest. You might think you’re buying a book, but you’re really getting a whole training curriculum.”
“Jonathan’s teaching methods, as typified in his Essentials Tutorial Manual, are superb. His manner of explaining techniques, tasks and tools is wonderfully clear, concise and well illustrated. Following the lessons in the manual guided me to build up my Vectorworks skills with ease. This manual is perhaps the single best resource available for developing a solid foundation with the application.”
“His approach to teaching the skill makes the complex seem simple.”
“I have been a Vectorworks user for the past ten years. I’ve developed a pretty reliable set of hatches and symbols and have always enjoyed its object-based logic and its native feel on a Mac. That said, I’ve never taken advantage of the BIM or 3D aspects of the program. It always seemed unnecessarily complicated and not worth the time to learn. Well, the time to learn has arrived, but the complicated interface never became more intuitive. I search the Vectorworks manual and website, user forums, and everything else that was FREE. All were disappointing. The information never seemed complete or it was too convoluted. It seemed that time was running out to learn BIM, so I bought a subscription to Jonathan Pickup’s Archoncad. It was cheaper than classroom training and even the books available on Amazon.com. I figured that if the subscription didn’t prove effective, I would have spent the least amount of money. NOT SO! I found the website immediately useful. The videos are great as well as the manuals. I highly recommend Archoncad to Vectorworks users.”
“I think the online subscription group works very well for a lot of Vectorworks users at all levels of experience and expertise, but especially in my case where I’m switching from hand drafting and had very little real-world CAD experience. Thanks for all your help, I’m finally feeling confident enough to use Vectorworks in most of my design work, and my clients have appreciated the results.”
“I have been able to change my business model to one who can provide modeling, rendering, presentations, and construction document production to otherarchitects. I am enjoying my work more than I ever have, business is picking up, I am making more money, and most importantly I am providing a much betterproduct to the people I am serving. Thank you Jonathan!”
What you will learn online
BIM Training and Archicad Tutorials
This website covers the best parts of Vectorworks. It is really fun and rewarding to complete a Vectorworks course online, you will learn about:
- BIM models
- BIM components
- BIM library components
- BIM architecture
- BIM construction
You will be able to create the projects you want and will learn how to design a project and think from different angles. We have Vectorworks training classes for high school students and college students.
You may be asking yourself.
How can you create this coffee machine? This coffee machine is mainly made from simple extruded objects with a couple of complex curves. How can I design this BIM 3D model?
Our online Vectorworks courses explain the basic concepts you need to create complex models effectively. Each online series provides modelling exercises designed to show you how individual tools and commands work. Some of the exercises on Archoncad will use a few tools or commands together to show you the flow of work from a simple block to the final model.
Fine tune you BIM Architecture Knowledge
Following your Vectorworks course introduction, you will be introduced to architectural modeling exercises to bring several modeling tools, commands, and concepts together to develop a models.
The final part of your training will include a project to work through a long series of exercises to create a final project. You will learn how to break your project down into small parts and model each of these. Archoncad will teach you how to do more advanced modelling, how to use some of the advanced tools for creating curved 3D models, and how to move through a series of tools and commands to get the model that you want.
Learn about drawing in Vectorworks, our courses will show you how to draw the objects to the correct real-world sizes regardless of the scale of the layer that you are working on.
I think you’ll agree with me when i say:
It is really hard when you are drawing in Vectorworks, draw the objects to the correct real-world sizes regardless of the scale of the layer that you are working on.
Or is it?
This website is intended to be used with the standard Vectorworks workspace. After you have completed your online course, you can carry out the 3D modelling you want with more efficiency.
Over 1000 Students and Growing
A Thank you from Archoncad
We want to thank you for completing our courses. You might be wondering if there is more to the Vectorworks program. There is! We have other courses available and are adding new Vectorworks courses each month.
If you want someone to help you while you work through the courses, or if you just want someone to help you learn Vectorworks, you can contact me, as this is a service that I offer: firstname.lastname@example.org
All of our previous courses and movies are searchable on our website, giving you access to more than 60 course subjects and thousands of tutorial movies.
Jonathan Pickup is an architect trained in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom with more than 25 years of experience. He received his Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He later spent more than eight years in England where he learned to use several CAD packages, including MiniCad, and began teaching this forerunner of Vectorworks. Upon returning to New Zealand in 1997, he established archoncad, a Vectorworks training and consulting company. He has written several Vectorworks training manuals for architects, landscape architects, educators, and design students. He organizes the New Zealand Vectorworks User Group and provides its main direction. Jonathan Pickup.
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What to Do at Work if Your Pregnancy Ends in a Miscarriage
South Africa's administrators care very much about your health and wellness during pregnancy. Therefore, you can use the legislation in the Employment Act 75 of 1977 that will help you recover if you lose your child due to miscarriage or stillbirth in the third trimester. The government recognizes the need for parents to grieve and heal themselves during this time. The following are some steps you should take if you lose your child in a miscarriage or stillbirth situation:
Contact Your Employer
The first thing you need to do is contact your employer to report your loss. Your employer will have a process that it will want you to go through to receive your time off. The legislation provides for six weeks of maternity leave after the loss of a child. Once your employer is aware of and approves your leave, you can feel confident about taking your time off.
Get Plenty of Rest
The most important thing to remember when you're recovering from any loss is to get plenty of rest. You'll need to allow your body time to heal, and you will need time to resolve your emotions. Don't take on too many tasks as that may cause you additional stress.
Spend Time With Your Loved One
Take this time to spend with your loved one so that the two of you can comfort and support each other. The loss of an unborn child is as traumatic as any other loss of a loved one. You deserve the time to recover your mind, body, and soul so that you can heal and return to your place of employment.
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Sovereign Foods sources its Pecans from Las Piedras Farm, the oldest Pecan Orchard in Australia located 90 minutes from Brisbane in Junction View.
These scrumptious pecans are Australian Certified Organic, adhering to strict ACO regulations when growing and processing to ensure they are genuinely organic in every sense of the term.
Las Piedras boasts over 2200 Certified Organic established pecan trees over 15m in height, and have been producing pecans for 50 years.
Pecan trees produce one crop each year, with the nuts starting to form in early summer, by the end of Autumn, they are fully grown and ready to harvest. The harvest season usually takes around two months. The nuts are harvested using specialised equipment which shakes the trees in such a way that does not damage the tree, and only causes the ‘ripe’ nuts to fall from their husk, allowing the others to stay on the tree until they are ready to drop. The nuts are then swept into lanes along the ground, so the harvester can take the nuts from the ground and transport them to the "sorter". The pecans are sorted using a series of equipment including a conveyor belt which allows them to be inspected them by hand. The pecans are then moved to a moisture controlled silo, where they are kept until the moisture content is ready for final processing and packaging.
Product repacked by Sovereign Foods in compostable bags.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the days following the March 16 shootings in Atlanta that left eight people dead, including six Asian American women, protests and vigils took place around the country remembering the victims and calling for an end to a growing wave of anti-Asian racism and violence.
“We must support all victims of violence and stand in solidarity with those who are vulnerable in our communities,” said Atlanta Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer in a March 17 statement.
He also pointed out many people “endure discrimination, aggression and violence every day of their lives,” and said Christians must work to protect the whole community, speaking up against aggression and actively pursuing an end to “racism and discrimination of every kind.”
Bishop Oscar A. Solis of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Island Affairs, echoed the Atlanta archbishop’s call to stand in solidarity with the vulnerable.
In a March 22 statement, he said the Atlanta shootings have “prompted national dialogue on addressing anti-Asian bias that has taken the form of numerous other acts of physical violence, verbal attacks and destruction of property against those of Asian descent over the last year that have left communities across the country traumatized.”
The bishop said he was deeply saddened the mass shooting has “tragically taken the lives of eight people and has renewed concerns about a rise of hostility against individuals of Asian descent.”
“As bishops, we decry any kind of hatred and violence, particularly based on race, ethnicity or sex,” he said. “We pray for the families and friends of those who were lost, and for their communities, who may feel unsafe and vulnerable at this time.”
Although the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Long of Woodstock, Georgia, has been arrested and charged with eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault for the shootings at three spas in the Atlanta metro area, he has not yet been charged with a hate crime.
Investigators are still looking into if the crimes were racially motivated or if, as Long claimed, they were committed to end his temptation because he is a sex addict.
Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich specifically addressed “brothers and sisters in the Asian American community” in a March 18 statement, telling them they should know the archdiocese and the entire church stands with them “in this moment of grief and horror.”
He noted there has been a 150% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in the past year, and that while hate crimes in general dropped 7%, this situation is intolerable.
“We pray for all who suffer racist violence and hate speech,” Cardinal Cupich said. “There can be no place for either in our society, and it is incumbent on all of us to resist language, culture and acts that denigrate Asian Americans and all people of color — because they have deadly consequences.
“We must be ever vigilant against words that inspire acts of hate — this responsibility is even greater for elected officials.”
Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron also noted the Atlanta-area shootings occurred against a backdrop of an “increase in reports of verbal and physical assaults against Asians and Asian Americans” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During this time, we have witnessed with growing alarm the increase in reports of verbal and physical assaults against Asians and Asian Americans,” the archbishop said March 21.
The archbishop, who is USCCB vice president, said the Atlanta shootings “cut deep into existing wounds carved over the past year” and urged prayers for the victims and their grieving friends and families.
Days after the Atlanta shootings, President Joe Biden said he urged Congress to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. He said the measure would expedite the federal government’s response to hate crimes that have risen during the pandemic, support state and local governments to improve hate crimes reporting and make information on hate crimes more accessible to Asian American communities.
While the Adrian Dominicans stressed the need for strong hate-crime legislation, they also said they were praying “for a profound conversion of heart among us all that we may root out the racism that continues to cause such injury to our sisters and brothers of color and to erode the moral fabric of our nation.”
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Students are required to wear the TMA Preschool t-shirt along with black or khaki bottoms. Closed toe shoes that fasten are also required. Occasionally we have special days that require specific clothing. In these cases, teachers will give advanced notice and will clearly communicate to parents.
We seek to provide daily rest time for all students. Mats labeled with each child’s name are set up in the classrooms. As children are asked to lie quietly, teachers offer back rubs and play music to help them relax. All children are given the opportunity to sleep. Parents are required to provide a crib sheet (recommended) or a blanket and pillow. Children may also bring a stuffed animal if they wish. If children are unable to sleep, they may look at books or draw quietly on their rest mats. Afterward, children are provided with a snack, art activity or a continuation of the morning project and outdoor playtime.
We ask that parents provide a lunch for their child — either from home or purchased through our dining service. School lunch can be ordered by Sunday night of the week before through FACTS, our student information system. We are unable to heat up any food.
A morning and afternoon snack will be provided; we try to provide a variety of options, taking food allergies into consideration.
A calendar of preschool events will be sent home on a monthly basis. Daily communication is provided through an app called Seesaw, which informs parents of daily happenings by creating a digital learning portfolio for your student— along with messages from the teacher. Teachers will communicate with families through Seesaw, email, FACTS, or by phone when helpful. Please message your child’s teacher with any questions or concerns. We believe communication is the key to successful teacher and parent partnerships. If issues of conflict arise, we ask parents and teachers to speak directly with one another. If additional support is needed, the director may be asked to assist. | <urn:uuid:e73500db-bbc3-4d15-b75d-1eb036f12312> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mastersacademy.org/preschool/faqs.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.953365 | 397 | 1.765625 | 2 |
In the heat of the glowing July afternoon, the room, with blinds carefully closed, was full of a great calm. From the three windows, through the cracks of the old wooden shutters, came only a few scattered sunbeams which, in the midst of the obscurity, made a soft brightness that bathed surrounding objects in a diffused and tender light. It was cool here in comparison with the overpowering heat that was felt outside, under the fierce rays of the sun that blazed upon the front of the house. Standing before the press which faced the windows, Dr. Pascal was looking for a paper that he had come in search of. With doors wide open, this immense press of carved oak, adorned with strong and handsome mountings of metal, dating from the last century, displayed within its capacious depths an extraordinary collection of papers and manuscripts of all sorts, piled up in confusion and filling every shelf to overflowing. For more than thirty years the doctor had thrown into it every page he wrote, from brief notes to the complete texts of his great works on heredity. Thus it was that his searches here were not always easy. He rummaged patiently among the papers, and when he at last found the one he was looking for, he smiled. For an instant longer he remained near the bookcase, reading the note by a golden sunbeam that came to him from the middle window. He himself, in this dawnlike light, appeared, with his snow-white hair and beard, strong and vigorous; although he was near sixty, his color was so fresh, his features were so finely cut, his eyes were still so clear, and he had so youthful an air that one might have taken him, in his close-fitting, maroon velvet jacket, for a young man with powdered hair. The word "obscurity," as it is used in the first paragraph, is meant to describe which of these? 1. A shadowy place 2. An uncertain aura 3. A misplaced object 4. A forgotten person
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Nowadays, where there is a fight for jobs, on the other hand, if you try your hand in any business, then there is also a possibility of earning big money.
Although some patience is required in business, but from the point of view of earning, earning more than a job.
Today’s educated youth are also turning fast towards farming and earning lakhs of rupees a month very easily.
Similarly, today we are telling you about Brinjal Farming.
There are many varieties of it.
Depending on the variety and maintenance, these crops can last from 8 months to 12 months.
You can earn huge profits from Brinjal Farming, but first it is important to decide which brinjal is sold in your area.
That is, before growing brinjal, do some research by going to the market and then grow the variety of brinjal in demand.
how to cultivate brinjal
Brinjal can be grown throughout the year in all seasons including Kharif and Rabi.
Brinjal is also cultivated as a mixed crop.
To get more production of brinjal, proper planting of seeds should be done.
The distance between two plants should be taken care of.
The distance between two plants and two rows should be 60 cm.
Before planting the seeds, the field should be leveled by plowing 4 to 5 times in a good way.
Then according to the need in the field, beds should be made.
In the cultivation of brinjal, 300 to 400 grams of seeds should be applied per acre.
After sowing the seeds to a depth of 1 cm, they should be covered with soil.
Brinjal crop is ready in two months.
how much will it cost
In the cultivation of one hectare of brinjal, till the first harvesting, about Rs 2 lakh will be spent.
At the same time, another 2 lakh rupees can be spent in maintenance throughout the year.
That is, you will have to spend about 4 lakh rupees in the cultivation of brinjal in the whole year.
At the same time, from one hectare to 100 tonnes of brinjal can be produced in a year.
style="text-align: left">how much will be the profit
Even if you sell brinjal at an average price of Rs 10 per kg, then at least 10 lakh rupees will be earned from the brinjal crop.
That is, if you remove the cost of 4 lakh rupees, then you will get a profit of about 6 lakh rupees in a year from the brinjal crop. | <urn:uuid:9258ad1c-edbd-4126-86f0-83b525cc8db9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techywebtech.com/business-opportunities-start-brinjal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.942739 | 565 | 2.359375 | 2 |
What 3 letter word has Z in the middle?
What Scrabble words have Z?
3 letter words that start with z
What letters go with Z in Scrabble?
You may be surprised at the slang found on the tournament SCRABBLE board: BRO, HOMEY, and YO are all accepted words. ZA is the most played word containing the letter Z (and the only playable two-letter word with the letter Z) in tournament SCRABBLE play. via
How many Z words are there?
Another vocabulary puzzle that stumps many is when they need to come up with a word starting with- or even containing- the letter 'z'. 'Z' is often underestimated and underutilized, but truth be told, there are actually around 32,913 words containing the letter 'z'. via
What is a 3 letter word with Q?
3 letter words with the letter q
Is Zaw a word?
(Zero Administration for Windows) An umbrella term from Microsoft for enhanced network administration features such as automatic distribution of new software and upgrades. via
Is Za word in scrabble?
According to Hasbro's official Scrabble dictionary, the definition of "za" is that it is a term for pizza. You can also use the plural, "zas." The Merriam-Webster dictionary agrees and notes that it is a slang term. "Chi" also denotes a letter of the Greek alphabet, so it remains valid in Scrabble. via
Is Ja a scrabble word?
JA is not a valid word in the Scrabble US dictionary. With games that don't differentiate between the US and UK word lists, JA is usually a playable word. via | <urn:uuid:bc68b64a-35ef-43d5-94a9-613f8026d4a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gamerquestion.com/what-word-has-a-z-in-the-middle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.938298 | 367 | 2.109375 | 2 |
This paper will cover medical errors and how Continuous Quality Improvement can address them. Health care managers have addressed the issue of medical errors for many years. Medical errors can be caused by lack or communication and leadership. Quality improvement in the health care environment is a hot topic and managers are researching ways in which they can increase the quality of care that a patient receives. The quality of care that a patient receives can be the determining factor as to whether they live or die. It is critical that managers develop policies and implement control measure to control the rise of medical errors.
Attention to medical errors escalated over five years ago with the release of a study from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which found that between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year in U.S. hospitals due to preventable medical errors (Kaiseredu, 2010). Hospital errors rank between the fifth and eighth leading cause of death, killing more Americans than breast cancer, traffic accidents or AIDS. Serious medication errors occur in the cases of five to 10 percent of patients admitted to hospitals. These numbers may understate the problem because they do not include preventable deaths due to medical treatments outside of hospitals (kaiseredu, 2010).
Health care managers, along with the Food and Drug Administration, have study the medical error reports to determine the cause of errors. Medical errors are one of the leading causes as to why health care has declined. To improve healthcare managers must determine how to decrease the mortality rates. Managers can determine this by studying and analyzing medical reports. These reports provided managers with detailed information on what procedure was being conducted or what medication the patient was administered. In a study by the FDA that evaluated reports of fatal medication errors from 1993 to 1998, the most common error involving medications was related to administration of an improper dose of medicine, accounting for 41% of fatal medication errors. Giving the wrong drug and using the wrong route of administration each accounted for 16% of the errors. Almost half of the fatal medication errors occurred in people over the age of 60. Older people may be at greatest risk for medication errors because they often take multiple prescription medications (Stoppler & Marks, 2010).
History has shown that many surveys and research studies have been conducted, so that providers can learn where and why mistakes are being made. Once providers have a clear understanding, they can implement control measure to insure these mistakes do not occur. National Patient Safety Foundation Survey: The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) commissioned a phone survey in 1997 to review patient opinions about medical mistakes. The findings showed that 42% of people believed they had personally experienced a medical mistake. In these cases, the error affected them personally (33%), a relative (48%), or a friend (19%) (Wrongdiagnosis, 2010). Patients that were given the survey have experienced the following medical errors:
Medication error (28%),
Medical procedure error (22%),
Administrative error (4%),
Communication error (2%),
Incorrect laboratory results (2%),
Equipment malfunction (1%), and
Other error (7%).
Patient safety should be the number one concern for health care organizations. Health care managers are held accountable for ensuring that patients are provided with quality care. They are also accountable for the patients that are injured or die due to a provideraa‚¬a„?s medical error. The health care industries along with scientific researchers have developed tools in which the quality of care can be measured. Organizations can use these tools to determine if effective care is being provided. Once they have determined the level of care they are providing, they can educate providers on what they are doing both wrong and right. The most common method used to determine the quality of care, is through the use of surveys. Health care organizations can provide staff and patients with surveys to determine what areas the organization can improve and sustain. These surveys will not be provided to every patient the provider has treated but only a selected few will be surveyed.
Quality measurement in the healthcare industry requires a large amount of resources and funding. Researchers will most likely use methods that have worked before and have provide them with data; they could use to enhance the level of care the organization is providing. Healthcare researchers are constantly trying to find ways in which the completely eliminate medical errors. Due to the continuous cycle of experienced providers leaving and new providers being hired, medical errors in many cases will never be eliminated. Health care organizations can however implement the necessary control measures to ensure that patients are not misdiagnosed or the wrong limb is not amputated (Cohen, 2007).
Healthcare organizations can decrease medical errors by establishing a continuous quality improvement plan that calls for the development of a multidisciplinary team to research and investigate the causes of medical errors. The Department of Veteran Affairs uses a CQI model developed by the Joint Commission to reduce the number or medical mistakes made by providers. Joint Commissions surveys all the Veteran Affairs Medical centers to see whether their staff is following the medical policies and regulations in providing quality care.
Joint Commission has also established policies regarding how health care organizations will report and handle sentinel events. A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. The phrase, “or the risk thereof” includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome. Such events are called “sentinel” because they signal the need for immediate investigation and response (Jointcommission, 2010).
In conclusion medical errors can occur at anytime while a patient is receiving care. It is important that health care providers communicate and provide education to their staff on reducing the number of medical errors, the facility has encountered. Medical errors can lead to the organization being sued by the patient or the patient family member. Law suites can be devastating for any organization to go through and can reduce the amount of funds that have been allotted to providing quality care. Therefore it is important that medical errors are reduced and even eliminated. | <urn:uuid:d2eef12d-ba9a-4c59-8c3e-5cbf336be245> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fromemuseum.org/how-continuous-quality-improvement-can-address-medical-errors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.955089 | 1,243 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Nowadays, everyone somehow has access to the internet and a plethora of resources available at one click. From social networks to on-demand streaming platforms, even banking transactions and diversified online purchases, the diversity of tools on the digital universe make it possible to understand people's behavior and needs, tracking some data that they agree to authorize when browsing the networks or using certain services.
Just to get a sense of the grandeur of this, according to data from the website Datareportal, 5 billion people are regularly active on the internet, representing almost 63% of the global population and, in the last 10 years, this number has more than doubled. Brazilians appear as one of the most connected countries, spending an average of 10 hours a day on the networks. Among the most used social platforms today*, Facebook ranks first with 2.9 million monthly active users, followed by YouTube (2.5 Mi), WhatsApp (2 Mi), Instagram (1.4 Mi), Wechat (1.2 Mi) and TikTok (1 Mi).
Given that internet access can be practically universal in some societies, the exposure of the population to the risks of the digital world is also considerable. In Brazil, the increase in cases of scams on social networks increased by 16.8% compared to 2020, which totaled 4 million scam attempts recorded in 2021*. And when it comes to data leakage, an action that contributes to facilitating coup attempts in the country, 24 million Brazilians had some type of personal data exposed, leaving the country in the 6th place of vulnerability**.
For all that, worth knowing some tips that are fundamental to make it difficult to leak data and expose yourself in frauds attempts. Check it out below:
To avoid having your data leaked
- First of all, check if you have ever been exposed to data leakage here. On this website, just by entering your e-mail address, you can get an idea if any of your data has ever been exposed (yes, it's reliable!).
- Change your passwords regularly: on average, every six months, update your passwords for social networks, emails and the like. Thus, you avoid that in a possible data leak, your access information is exposed for a long time.
- Use special characters: mixing lowercase and uppercase letters, special characters ($, @, #, &) and numbers in a single password are smart strategies to make it difficult for suspicious people or bots to access.
- Avoid saving passwords, especially in the cloud: with a possible data leak, information saved in the cloud can be quite a risk! So try to memorize your accesses, or write it down on paper or somewhere only you can access.
- Two-Factor Authentication: In social networks, mainly, two-factor authentication is like a new layer of protection, asking for an SMS code as soon as you log in. If possible, always leave it on. If someone has access to your Facebook password, for example, they would still need the password sent by SMS in real time to validate access.
To avoid being scammed on the internet, especially through social platforms
- Never share passwords or SMS codes: As stated above about two-factor authentication, data like this is too intimate to be shared. If someone calls you asking for this code, for example, stay alert. Everything points to the completion of a coup.
- Do not click on suspicious links: if received by WhatsApp, or from an email in which you do not recognize the domain, or if you have a warning of an attempted scam of the same, never click!
- Be aware of sweepstakes and promotions in which they ask you for access data: scams on WhatsApp, for example, have grown considerably under the promise of people who have been awarded something and, for that, they would have to share a code sent. This code is what they ask to try to access your WhatsApp and impersonate you. So pay close attention, okay?
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Together we can make the internet a pleasant and, of course, safer environment.
* Fonte: Datareportal.com (Digital 2022: Global Overwier Report). (1) Entre usuários ativos com 16 e 64 anos.
** Fonte: Associação Brasileira de Segurança Cibernética.
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THE BEST TIME TO VISIT BELGIUM
If you are traveling to Belgium, you have to think about the weather, especially because this is a country you visit when you want to enjoy the beauty of Europe in a leisurely manner. Thankfully, Belgium`s climate is rather moderate, even though it follows the standard temperature as the rest of Europe. Most of the bigger cities in Belgium, like Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, and Antwerp are all year round destinations, but each season has something special to offer. High tourist season is considered to be July and August, this is when you`ll find the crowd levels at their peak, especially in the coastal towns. The country is at its best between April - June or September - October. This is when the weather is absolutely beautiful and will leave you feeling refreshed. The winter months (November - February) are chilly, but offer some amazing carnivals, especially during the Christmas and Lent season. Overall, Belgium enjoys a mild temperature year round, so you will be able to travel without any interruptions, no matter which season you visit in. | <urn:uuid:4402c1da-d71c-4c30-8fd3-049d4815d941> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.europeandestinations.com/Cms/7118 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.973987 | 225 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Data Envelopment Analysis on the Context of Spherical Fuzzy Inputs and Outputs
Keywords:Efficiency anaysis, Data Envelopement analysis, Spherical trapezoidal Fuzzy number, CCR Model
In this study, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models are improved by employing spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs), which is an extension of generalized fuzzy sets. SFSs were recently introduced as a novel type of fuzzy set that allows decision-makers to express their level of uncertainty directly. As a result, SFSs provide a more preferred domain for decision-makers. Fundamental Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) model is discussed on the context of spherical trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (STrFNs), which consider each data value’s truth, indeterminacy, and falsehood degrees, and a unique solution technique is implemented. This method converts a spherical fuzzy DEA(SF-DEA) model into three pair of crisp DEA model, which may then be solved using one of many existing approaches. The largest optimal interval is determined for each DMU such that the efficiency score lies inside that interval. Furthermore, an example demonstrates this novel method and clearly explains the DMUs’ ranking technique.
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There’s nothing rather like a 20-minute sweat session in a sauna. You feel a lot more loosened up and relaxed after you’re done, and the warm helps ease sore muscles and enhances your total health and wellness as well as well-being carbon infrared sauna vs ceramic.
Yet if the heats of a conventional sauna are just too much for you to manage, an infrared sauna might supply the advantages of a sauna without the severe warmth.
What is an infrared sauna?
Unlike a standard sauna, infrared saunas don’t heat the air around you. Rather, they utilize infrared lamps (that utilize electromagnetic radiation) to heat your body straight.
” These saunas make use of infrared panels rather than traditional heat to easily pass through human tissue, heating up your body before warming up the air,” clarifies physiotherapist, Vivian Eisenstadt, MAPT, CPT, MASP.
An infrared sauna can run at a lower temperature (usually between 120 ˚F as well as 140 ˚F) than a traditional sauna, which is normally in between 150 ˚F and also 180 ˚F.
Producers assert that in an infrared sauna, only concerning 20 percent of the warmth goes to heat the air and the various other 80 percent straight warms your body.
Advocates of infrared saunas claim the heat permeates more deeply than heated air. This allows you to experience a much more extreme sweat at a reduced temperature.
Eisenstadt claims this environment is extra bearable, which permits you to remain in the sauna much longer while boosting your core body temperature by 2 to 3 degrees.
What are the supposed advantages of using an infrared sauna?
The meant advantages of using an infrared sauna resemble those experienced with a conventional sauna. These include:
- far better sleep
- weight reduction
- remedy for aching muscular tissues
- relief from joint discomfort such as joint inflammation
- clear as well as tighter skin
- help for individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome
People have been using saunas for centuries for all type of health and wellness conditions. While there are several studies as well as research study on conventional saunas, there aren’t as lots of studies that look specifically at infrared saunas:
A little 10-person studyTrusted Source located that people with fatigue syndrome benefited from making use of an infrared sauna as part of a total therapy.
One more 10-person studyTrusted Resource discovered that infrared saunas helped lower muscular tissue soreness and also increase healing from strength-training sessions.
According to one evaluation, a number of research studies have found that infrared light treatment saunas might help reduce high blood pressure.
The absence of strong evidence as well as wide-spread studies about the possible benefits of infrared saunas leaves the consumer (you) to arrange with the insurance claims made by the companies that provide this solution.
In a similar way, there are no reports of adverse results until now, past the cautions concerning any type of sauna experience. These include the opportunities of getting too hot, drying out, and also disturbance with medication, along with the prospective risks for those that are expectant, have heart problem, or are intoxicated of drugs or alcohol, among others.
Fortunately: Even if your sweat session doesn’t do all of things it asserts to do, a minimum of it still really feels excellent. And also, it contributes to your total health and wellness and health by assisting you kick back, chilling out stiff or tight muscle mass, minimizing joint discomfort, as well as providing you some much required time to on your own.
Exactly how do you utilize an infrared sauna?
Many people will do infrared sauna treatments at a health club, health spa, or physician’s office, while others will certainly purchase and also develop one in their house. If you make a decision to provide an infrared sauna a shot, it is necessary to recognize that they do not included global instructions.
There are guidelines you can adhere to, however eventually, exactly how you choose to utilize an infrared sauna is up to you. Right here are some ideas to obtain you started.
Consume water. Make sure you’re hydrated prior to going into an infrared sauna. Consume alcohol a glass of water before your session. You can also bring water right into the sauna, specifically if you’re sensitive to greater heats.
Pick the temperature. The typical temperature for an infrared sauna varieties from 100 ˚F to 150 ˚F, with beginners beginning at the lower end as well as more experienced individuals at the greater end. If this is your very first time, start with 100 ˚F. You may want to remain at this temperature level for a few sessions. You can constantly boost the temperature each session up until you get to 150 ˚F.
Size of time. For new customers, begin with 10 to 15 mins. You can include time each session until you reach the suggested time of 20 to 30 minutes. Saunas feature a timer, so make certain to establish it. You do not intend to remain in there as well lengthy and also threat ending up being dehydrated.
Apparel. How you dress is your option. Some individuals will certainly use bathing suits, while others favor to enter nude.
What you can do while in the sauna. Relax, check out, practice meditation, listen to music, or see with pals. Just don’t go to sleep.
After the session is over. When your session is done, it’s recommended that you take your time and also allow your body cool down. When cooled off, do not hesitate to shower or bathroom. Simply make certain you are drinking lots of water.
Variety of sessions weekly. A lot of centers that provide infrared sauna therapies suggest utilizing the sauna three to 4 days weekly. If you are healthy and endure the 4 days, you can utilize the sauna daily.
What should you know prior to you try an infrared sauna?
There are a couple of things you ought to know before indulging in your very first session.
Stay clear of making use of an infrared sauna if you’ve been drinking alcohol.
If you really feel unwell or have a high temperature, it’s ideal to wait to make use of the sauna up until you’re really feeling far better.
Using an infrared sauna will create you to sweat a lot, so you may feel lightheaded when you stand up. If this happens, see to it you rise slowly and take a seat once you leave the sauna. Consume water right away after finishing your session as well as wait for your body to cool down prior to doing anything else.
In extreme cases, some people might experience getting too hot (warm stroke and warm exhaustion) or dehydration.
If you have any health and wellness conditions such as high blood pressure, heart troubles, or are under treatment, get removed by your physician prior to your first session. Although infrared saunas have been located to be fairly risk-free, you don’t intend to take any kind of possibilities when it pertains to your health and wellness. | <urn:uuid:e9fc25b8-f775-48ad-b3eb-b2fb3815aad6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scgg.org/carbon-infrared-sauna-vs-ceramic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.943131 | 1,529 | 1.734375 | 2 |
If you are learning how to make recipes for wild game it can be the most challenging but also the most fun. Game includes all wild birds and animals. Most popular are the rabbits, game birds and venison. Grouse, quail, partridge, pheasant and wild duck are the most popular of the game birds. There are others that are used to a lesser extent. They are prepared and cooked much like the chicken.
I have never been into wild game cooking, but I remember my dad saying many times, “You must soak wild game overnight in salt water to take that wild taste away.” My dad, as well as my mom, was a good cook so I always listened to what he had to say. Many times I remember having wild rabbit and other wild game on the table and everyone would rave on the flavor.
If you are learning how to make recipes for wild game cooking a guinea hen might be a first step. Although guinea hen has long been a staple in European countries it has not been so popular here in the United States. When I was young there were hundreds (maybe thousands) of these creatures around my home. I never thought anyone would eat them. They were so noisy! They were like an alarm to oncoming visitors. They were used back then as a means of ridding the area of bugs. Learning how to cook guinea hen will provide a succulent source of protein. It has a light colored breast on the order of chicken but much more flavorful.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
The hen can be stuffed or place a medium size onion in the cavity
with 2 tablespoons butter. Place in a shallow roasting pan, breast side
down. Lay 2 strips of salt pork over the back. After 30 minutes, remove
the pork and turn the bird breast side up.
Allow 30 minutes of roasting for each pound of guinea. If stuffed, you must consider the total weight.
All those who are interested in learning how to make recipes for wild game, they certainly will want to know how to cook rabbit. Making a fried rabbit recipe is very common among those who hunt for wild game. Although roasted rabbit is also popular, a fried rabbit recipe is much like fried chicken. When I was young, I remember my brothers tricking Mom into eating fried rabbit by telling her it was fried chicken. She didn’t know it wasn’t!
Melt ¼ cup of fat into a heavy covered frying pan. Cut a young rabbit into serving pieces. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and roll each piece in flour. Place in the hot fat and brown evenly. Add ¼ cup of water and cover the pan. Reduce the heat and simmer until meat is very tender.
There are many people interested in learning how to make recipes for wild game who really want to know how to cook squirrel. I have never tried squirrel but have been told by everyone who has eaten it that it tastes very much like rabbit or chicken.
Squirrel is similar to rabbit but is more delicate in flavor. It is cooked the same as rabbit. A medium squirrel is about 2 servings. It is quite lean and if roasted, should be covered with salt pork or fat.
When learning how to make recipes for wild game, you will learn that cooking quail is very much a part of it. Like other wild game, the gamy flavor can be reduced by soaking in salt water overnight. The key to tender delicious quail recipes is to cook until done but do not overcook. You can butterfly the bird for quicker cooking.
Season the bird with salt and pepper. Put some melted butter in the bottom of a baking pan. Lay the bird in the pan and pour a little butter over the top. Can also add a couple strips of bacon on top.
Place in a hot oven at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and roast until brown and tender. Basting occasionally with water will add to the tenderness.
Fry quail the same way you would fry chicken, only add more oil or fat.
To my knowledge, cooking dove was not part of cooking recipes for wild game in my area. You will find that different areas are known for hunting different wild game. For instance bear hunting is really big in the mountain area of Tennessee where in Ohio I never saw a bear.
Sprinkle dove with mixture of flour, salt, pepper and a little allspice. Place in a heavy skillet with hat fat or oil. Cover and brown on moderately high heat for about 20 minutes. Turn birds over and brown other side for about 20 minutes.
Dilute 1 can of cream of mushroom soup with a little water, stirring until smooth. Pour into skillet and cover with lid again. Simmer for another 20 minutes or until birds are tender.
When learning how to make recipes for wild game pheasant is a very common game. Pheasant hunting was big in Ohio so most hunters knew how to cook pheasant. Pheasant recipes consisted of a variety of spices and other ingredients.
Preheat oven at 300 degrees.
Split birds and sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika. Coat with flour and brown in melted butter. Place in a roasting pan. Add the remaining ingredients to the butter in the pan used to brown the birds and heat. Pour mixture over the birds in the roasting pan. Bake for 1 ½ hours or until tender.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Roll meat into flour and brown in a little oil. Put meat into a baking pan. Add the remaining ingredients and cover. Place in the oven for 1 ½ hours. Add more water if pan becomes dry.
Soak groundhog overnight in salt water. Cut into pieces. Combine flour, soda, salt and pepper. Rub the mixture into the meat and brown in hot fat. Sprinkle with the sugar and add the water. Cover and simmer for 40 minutes or until meat is tender.
Sauté the onion in the butter. Blend in the flour. Add the remaining ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf before serving.
Opossum is one of the wild game recipes that I have which I know of no one who has ever cooked it. It is up to you to try and let me know!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Catalyst Schools - the key ingredients
Updated: Apr 20
We close our series of WCID 2022 articles by introducing a project which is very close to our creative hearts. In June 2021, following a pilot programme we delivered for Catalyst, it was confirmed that Catalyst had secured funding from the Department for the Economy to deliver ‘Catalyst Schools’ for the academic year 21/22. Collaboratively designed and developed by Peter Worth , designer and facilitaor of transformative learning experiences , and Rejig , this programme has been delivered in partnership with Catalyst.
Catalyst is an independent, not-for-profit organisation working for the greater good to build a connected entrepreneurial ecosystem throughout Northern Ireland. Catalyst ‘make it easy to innovate’ and currently supports over 900 entrepreneurs across NI. Catalyst is committed to the development of a grassroots entrepreneurial ecosystem and are home to two initiatives in support of this: ‘Generation Innovation’, a work experience programme for 16–17-year-olds and Catalyst Schools.
In a rapidly changing world, it is becoming increasingly complex to prepare all young people for this world of work and civic life. School communities lead this work, but the broader community can play a key role. As part of this community, Catalyst Schools brings high-quality, authentic professional learning to leaders and teachers. Grounded in design thinking, this programme brings together school leaders, teachers, pupils and Catalyst business partners to empower one another to prepare the next generation of innovators for the future of work, learning, and civic life.
Since October 2021 twenty schools from across Northern Ireland have participated in Catalyst Schools which has engaged 32 school leaders, 36 schoolteachers, 836 pupils and seven businesses. Amid a global pandemic and an ongoing substitute teaching crisis we have been thrilled to work with these schools, their leaders and their staff witnessing their whole hearted commitment to the programme in an exceptionally difficult environment.
The key deliverable for this project were:
School leaders explored how to hack towards inclusive innovation and worked on developing equitable aspirations for their schools
Teachers explored tools and techniques which might help them in classroom delivery and reflecting a bias towards action teachers agreed to deliver a one-hour design challenge to pupils back at their school
We visited five of the schools and had the opportunity to go deeper with students in an extended design challenge, supported by the teachers
The Catalyst Schools business programme kick started a two-way conversation between schools and business to begin to create meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships. Several business prototypes were developed further and tested with a mix of school leaders, teachers and businesses.
Throughout the programme one “tool” stood out as highly engaging all participants – leaders, teachers and pupils - “Alternative uses for an empty water bottle”. We challenge participants in a race against the clock to come up with as many wild ideas as they can to use an empty water bottle in different ways. We find that the ‘water bottle’, a simple established tool, never fails to help demonstrate what an idea actually is making this a practical, memorable and fun way to introduce ideation. This exercise generated genuine laughter, smiles and fun while also giving everyone the freedom to think differently.
It was a huge privilege to work with twenty schools this year who are passionate about and committed to failing forward and hacking towards more inclusive learning communities. This is just the beginning of the journey, and we look forward to continuing this work in partnership with Catalyst and schools across Northern Ireland as we help prepare young people for the future of work and civic life. | <urn:uuid:5fa5fe8d-5347-4fee-aa98-d5e331668185> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rejig-inc.com/post/catalyst-schools-the-key-ingredients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.96374 | 722 | 2.125 | 2 |
Bill blocking governor from shutting houses of worship during disasters gets early OK in Texas House
The Texas House on Thursday granted preliminary approval 117-29 of a measure that would prohibit the governor from closing houses of worship, even during disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Greg Abbott classified houses of worship as essential when he issued a stay-at-home order soon after the coronavirus arrived in Texas, which allowed churches and other religious sites to stay open if they chose to do so.
The Senate approved an identical bill in March. Republican senators said they want to prevent the possibility of a future governor closing churches during a disaster; leaders in other states attempted to shutter houses of worship during the pandemic. The measure was one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's priorities for the session.
Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton last year recommended that houses of worship find virtual alternatives for services, but they did not offer any capacity limits for in-person church services. Still, many churches shifted to virtual or outdoor services.
Rep. John Turner, D-Dallas, proposed narrowing the bill by defining a "house of worship," using the definition in the state's tax code.
Turner argued the bill defines houses of worship as "the entire planet, essentially" and could possibly qualify concert venues that play worship music, schools that host religious services, religious bookstores and more.
"If you support this idea of religious liberty, you shouldn't allow just anybody to call themselves a church or you shouldn't inadvertently extend this to a wide range of other facilities," Turner told lawmakers.
But Republicans argued that church members should be able to branch out from their churches and start their own religious groups, which often occur within homes.
Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, said most churches do not start in "predominantly known houses of worship."
"These are communities that help countless people," Toth said. "Government can't do everything and shouldn't do everything. The church needs to be more responsible for helping those that would help themselves."
The amendment was defeated 85-63. A second amendment from Turner also was defeated.
Austin health officials have expressed concern over the bill, although just one person — Dallas Council Member Lee Kleinman — registered against the measure while the bill was in the House State Affairs Committee last month.
Dr. Mark Escott, interim Austin-Travis County health authority, has said in-person church services can spread of COVID-19 because the virus spreads easily in large gatherings.
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A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice by Don Saliers and Emily Saliers (2005) San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Book review by Lucinda DeWitt
An inspiring book about music and its ability to stir our souls. Beginning with their own stories as musicians (Emily as half of the folk-duo the Indigo Girls, Don as a well known church musician and theologian), the father-daughter Saliers explore music as a spiritual practice. Their discussion/conversation includes: the bodily and sensory experience of music, music across the lifespan, how music can bring us together as well as divide us, how music shapes our identity, music’s role in grieving, and music’s role in work for social justice. The spiritual aspect of music is woven throughout these topics; different perspectives on spirituality are included.
I truly enjoyed this book. It reminded me why I still consider myself a musician (though I rarely play anymore). I’m inspired to rediscover my own “songline,” the story of who I am as revealed through the music I love.
My only criticism is that sometimes the flow of the writing is uneven, but that is to be expected when two rather different perspectives and voices try to join together. Each individual voice is strong, but together their differences sometimes impinge on the harmony. Still, all in all, the underlying message of the song comes through.
My favorite quotation from the book: “whenever music touches us deeply, the potential for transformation exists. What we think and what we perceive about the world and about ourselves can change. What music calls to your restless heart? Where in music does your soul encounter an aspect of reality that shatters your complacency or your fear?” (p. 174-175)
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3DPrinterOS is an operating system available for 3D printing. The service allows users to manage, edit, fix, slice, share, and print objects from any web-enabled device, and since it was launched earlier this year, the OS has been used to take on more than 4,500 hours of printing through 1,300 printers in a total of 68 different countries.
Now 3DPrinterOS says they’re releasing their groundbreaking cloud client for 3D printers through open source.
The CEO of 3DPrinterOS, John Dogru, says this release makes it possible to potentially connect any 3D printer to the cloud. He adds that it’s his hope that contributors will add features, fix bugs, and further customize the cloud client to fit their printers and unique user requirements.
If you’re that kind of development monster, you can now find the source code for the cloud client here on GitHub.
This cloud client already sports support for the majority of desktop 3D printers, and through the GNU Affero General Public License, it’s being shared.
Developers will now have access to the set of tools available in the 3DPrinterOS cloud platform, and the access is meant to allow 3D printer developers, educators, tinkerers, and manufacturers to access – and hopefully expand and contribute to — the current array of 3DPrinterOS features and functionality.
“Our goal is to radically reduce the latency between design, manufacturing and distribution of physical products, at the point of need and time of need,” Dogru says. “Connecting 3D Printers to the cloud is an essential step towards the connected factory of the future. We are excited about the opportunities this release creates for our industry and beyond.”
He says this release of the cloud client grants the ability to access support for Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi, and Ubuntu GNU/Linux, auto-detection and auto-connection via USB and Ethernet ports, and features for multi-printer management to connect multiple printers to a single machine. The open source release also includes access to a large number of 3D printer drivers; three separate web camera control modules that can monitor the printing process; and tools for visualizing, editing, slicing, model, and Gcode repair tools and the sharing functionality already available in the 3DPrinterOS cloud.
“This open source release makes it simple for every user and manufacturer to access the power of 3D printing through the cloud. Now any manufacturer – large or small – can modify, customize and build on top of this release to extend their functionality and make 3d printing easier for their users,” Dogru said.
He adds that 3DPrinterOS is actively encouraging developers to push any changes or modifications they might create to the repository on Github.
Will you contribute modifications to the 3DPrinterOS Cloud Client project on Github? Let us know in the 3DPrinterOS Releases Open Source forum thread on 3DPB.com.
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Salt River community celebrates shared heritage with the Palestinian cause
New murals a break from “cultural gentrification”
On Saturday the Salt River Heritage Society held a community arts festival unveiling three new murals celebrating the history and politics of this working-class suburb of Cape Town.
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When Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, she was relatively unknown. By 2020, though, her work in Georgia and for Democrats across the country made her a household name, in time for a second run.
Abrams ran unopposed in this year’s Democratic primaries. Now, she faces current Gov. Brian Kemp (R), whom she lost to by a narrow margin in 2018, in another contentious race. But this time, Abrams has an army of newly registered voters behind her.
In 2020, Abrams and a team of grassroots organizations registered more than 800,000 new voters, turning Georgia blue for the first time in decades and helping then former Vice President Joe Biden secure the presidency.
That mobilization will play greatly into Abrams’ chances to become the state’s first Black female governor, said Adrienne Jones, a Morehouse College assistant professor of political science and director of the historically Black college’s pre-law program. Now, Jones said, Abrams will need to grab the “multicultural vote” in higher numbers than she did in 2018.
“The GOP tends to have a lock on white voters, but the demographics in the state are changing,” Jones said. “So, [she’s] got to get some cross section of all of the groups. ”
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|Education for Health (WHO, 1988, 274 p.)|
|Chapter 3: Planning for health education in primary health care|
In the first chapter we discussed the important effect that the presence or absence of resources can have on behavior. This section looks at ways of finding the resources necessary to promote health, and conduct health education programmes.
Resources inside the community
Be aware of the resources within your own community that can be used in solving the problems of individuals, of groups, or of the whole village.
Here are some examples of the many kinds of resources you will need:
- Places to hold meetings, discussions, and training sessions, such as schools, and town halls.
- Some people may be able to donate money to buy materials.
- Some people may have skills that would be useful for community projects. Among these are carpenters, teachers, masons, artists, traditional healers, weavers, and potters.
- Many able-bodied people can give their labour.
- Some people may own bicycles, motor cycles, or other vehicles. Transport is valuable for carrying materials for projects or taking sick people to the clinic.
- Materials such as wood, cloth, and food can be given by people for large community projects, or to help families in times of crisis; for treating sick people you may find that some local herbs work very well; you can encourage people to make tools and equipment for their projects.
Make sure you know who has any of these resources, and how they can be obtained. As can be seen from the list above, the members of the community themselves are the most important resources for solving problems.
Resources outside the community
It is best to solve problems with resources from within your own community. Sometimes, though, the project may be too big for the resources available. Also the problem may be difficult to solve. Then it is necessary to look outside. Here are some resources you may find outside your community:
- Some agencies and ministries give funds and technical assistance for community projects or for individuals and families in need.
- People with skills, such as finding underground water for wells, may come from outside.
- Materials such as cement may have to come from outside as well; for educational material such as films and posters, you may look to different agencies; vaccines, drugs, and medical equipment are sent from outside; many kinds of machines and equipment are sold, loaned, or given by outside agencies.
We have said that it is best to find resources inside your community. For one thing, it saves money. But, more important yet, people are proud to be able to help themselves. This pride will encourage people to try to solve more problems by their own efforts.
Use local resources to solve problems. Carpenters in this community have helped by making crutches for handicapped children.
It may not be necessary to buy cement outside to make incinerators, for example. Mud, clay, bricks, and stone are appropriate local building materials.
A tractor may look like a wonderful answer to farmers' problems. After some time though, they may be disappointed when they see the cost of petrol and the difficulty of getting repairs when the tractor breaks down. An improved design for local ploughs or the use of horses, mules, oxen, or buffalos might be more appropriate and have better long-term results.
Linking people with resources
Once resources have been found that will help solve the problem of the person, the group, or the community in need, you must still bring the people and the resources together. Good relationships with people and communication skills are very important here. Only through good relations can you bring together the people in need with the people who have the resources.
This woman is collecting special leaves and grasses that can be used to make medicine these are often a valuable local resource.
When we talked about participation, we said that it was a mistake to do work for people that they can do for themselves. This is true with resources, too. Do not get resources for people if they can get them for themselves. If you do it for them, they may not be able to find help the next time they are in need. This is what happened to one community worker, Mr Neb.
Mr Neb was talking one day to a farmers' cooperative in his district. The farmers said that they needed money to buy seeds and fertilizers. Mr Neb promised he would help. He went to the Ministry of Agriculture and found the section that gives loans to farmers. He got the forms and brought them back. After asking the farmers a few questions, he filled in the forms for them. He took the forms back to the ministry and got the money for the farmers.
Later that year Mr Neb was transferred to another district. When the time came to repay the loan, the farmers did not know what to do. Only Mr Neb knew all about the resources at the ministry. Finally, an angry official from the ministry came to collect the money. The farmers gave it to him, but were afraid to ask him more about loans because they could see his anger. When the next planting season came, the farmers did not know how to get a loan.
Sometimes problems become more confused when a health worker tries to get people a resource that they could have obtained themselves. This is what happened to Mrs Sandos.
Mrs Sandos, a community midwife, heard that people in her community needed a reliable well. She volunteered to go to the provincial capital to seek help at the Ministry of Public Works. An official at the ministry gave Mrs Sandos plans for a well. The officer also promised to help with costs and supplies if the villagers dug the well exactly to plan.
The villagers were happy to receive Mrs Sandos' report and began digging the well right away. Before they were half-way down to the depth required by the plan, they struck water. Though they tried, they could not go deeper. When Mrs Sandos reported back to the ministry, the official said that he would not give any help now, because the well was not dug according to the plans. Mrs Sandos tried to explain the problem, but the officer would not listen. Mrs Sandos was embarrassed to return home with the bad news and, when she did, the villagers accused her of Iying. They gave up interest in the project and today they still have no reliable well.
Think about these two stories What could the two health workers have done to make a better link between village and resource?
Actually there are several things that you can do to assist individuals, groups, and whole communities in learning to link up with resources. First you must supply background information that will help people to make an effective link. Such information should include:
- Names of agencies, organizations, and individuals that have resources.
- Description of type of resources provided.
- Location of the resource agency.
- Special requirements the agency may have before giving resources.
Selecting the best resources
Discuss the benefits and difficulties that might come with each resource and what is best considering the culture and needs of the community itself. The people involved should make the decision. Do not force an idea on the people.
The community will learn more about the resource if a visit is made to the agency that has the resource. While you may provide some background information, it is better if the people learn at first hand what the resource agency offers.
You should not go to the resource agency alone. If the villagers are not confident enough to go by themselves, you can go with them the first time. But they must soon learn to go by themselves. If you are working with a group, the group may send a few representatives to see the resource agency. You can introduce the people but should encourage them to speak for themselves. The person or the group who made the visit will report back and encourage further discussion.
Many different resources can be used to solve a problem. For example this health worker has many drugs to choose from when supplying a community medicine kit. The pharmacist can help her choose the most appropriate ones for her community.
Obtaining the resource
The people should make their own decision whether to accept the resource or not. They themselves should also make all arrangements directly with the agency. You can be with the people to make sure that they understand what is happening and that no-one is taking unfair advantage of them. People must know in advance what, if anything, the agency expects them to do in return.
At each step of the linking process, explain carefully to the people what is happening. Be sure that more than one person in a group or community knows how to link up with resources. Then, in case of sickness or travel, there will always be someone around who knows what to do.
Communities will benefit from the resources of many different agencies education, agriculture, social development, information, public works, and a variety of voluntary and special purpose organizations. Help the community establish ongoing links with these different agencies.
Health education resources
In this section we have talked about resources needed to achieve actual programme goalscement for a well, or volunteer labour to build a community meeting-hall, for example. We must also remember that special resources are needed to communicate the health message that will encourage people to undertake the programme in the first place. All the points we have raised about general programme resources (type, availability, and appropriateness) also apply to education and communication resources.
When collecting information about the community, you should look for local and traditional means of communication. These may include proverbs, stories, and fables which elders use to pass traditional values on to the young. Local leaders may use town criers or bell-ringers to announce coming events. Traditional songs or plays may communicate important ideas and values. Some people may own a print shop and be able to make posters to inform the public. There may also be a photographer in the neighborhood.
Consider which of these and other communication media are available in your community. Use the ones that will best support your health education efforts. By using locally available means of communication you will be involving the community in the programme. Get their ideas on which traditional proverbs, songs, or stories will be most appropriate for conveying the health message. Involve local leaders so that they would be willing to use their town criers to announce important health events and rally the community to take part. Local artists, printers, and photographers can be involved in designing, and producing educational material.
Also identify communication resources outside the community. These may include mass media such as newspapers and radio. The ministries of health and of information may have films, posters, and vans with loudspeakers that can be borrowed for local health education programmes. Find out who in the community has access to newspapers, radios, and other information sources. These people can be encouraged to share the health information they obtain. A local school-teacher who subscribes to a newspaper can save articles that relate to health and use them to teach pupils and inform parents. A community member who owns a radio could invite neighbors to listen when health programmes are broadcast.
You, as a local health worker, should be aware of such newspaper articles and radio programmes so that you can encourage community members to read and listen, and benefit from the information provided. This involves resource-linking. Contact the radio or television station and obtain their programme schedule. When health programmes are broadcast, encourage community members to listen. You may even encourage them to gather as a group to listen, so that after the programme a discussion can be held to make sure that everyone has understood the ideas presented.
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A century ago, astronomers proved the general theory of relativity — and made him a global household name.
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2019 marks the 100 year anniversary of the eclipse that proved Einstein’s theory and ultimately catapulted him to fame.
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Einstein was widely thought to be public enemy number one of the Nazis.
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His diaries reveal a xenophobic, misogynistic side.
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A Month to the Start of the Autumn Term
The countdown has begun to the start of the new school year in the UK, in just over a month the summer holidays will be over and many school children will have already settled in as the autumn term commences. It was only a few short weeks ago that team members at Everything Dinosaur were packing away their dinosaur themed teaching resources after finishing their last teaching assignment of the summer term. Now we can all look forward to the challenges ahead.
For grown ups looking to inspire the next generation of palaeontologists, or for those wondering how to motivate and enthuse youngsters when it comes to going back to school, a good place to start is with Everything Dinosaur’s range of prehistoric animal themed school kits, pens, pencils and stationery.
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Staff are already working on a number of new palaeontology themed teaching assignments, including creating suitable lesson plans for key stage activities that will relate to teaching about evolution in the new UK curriculum.
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There are many benefits to the sun. It can lift our mood, help create vitamin D which is essential for healthy and strong bones, and according to many people, it helps with acne. Unfortunately for the sun bakers out there, this is outright wrong as sunlight can actually trigger a particular variety of acne known as Acne Aestivalis, more commonly known as Mallorcan Acne. And while you may not care about the formal names of this reaction, what you should know is that it darkens the appearance of acne scars, or hyperpigmentation. GASP! This may come as a shock to you if you grew up listening to a mother or grandmother tell you that the sun in fact does help with acne. | <urn:uuid:b563cce2-9fce-4508-9141-83246140f556> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yumadermatology.com/news?page=19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.969865 | 148 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Heliconius antiochusMargarita Beltrán and Andrew V. Z. Brower
Early stages: Eggs are yellow and approximately 1.1 x 0.8 mm (h x w). Females usually place 5 to 40 eggs on growing shoots of the host plant. Mature larvae have a yellow body with black scoli and head; length is around 1.2 cm. Caterpillars are gregarious (Brown, 1981)
Heliconius antiochus is disributed from Panama to the Amazon. The map below shows an approximate representation of the geographic distribution of this species. The original data used to draw these maps is derived from Brown (1979) which is available at Keith S. Brown Jr. (1979). Ecological Geography and Evolution in Neotropical Forests .
H. antiochus occurs from sea level to 1,000 m in riparian forest. Usually individuals fly slowly and in the canopy. The males sit on female pupae a day before emergence, and mating occurs the next morning, before the female has completely eclosed. Adults roost at night in large groups on twigs or tendrils over water (Brown, 1981).
Host plant: H. antiochus larvae feed primarily on plants from the genus Passiflora, subgenus Astrophea (Brown, 1981).
Heliconius antiochus antiochus (Linnaeus, 1767) widespread east of the Andes from Venezuela to Peru
Heliconius antiochus aranea (Fabricius, 1793) eastern side of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela
Heliconius antiochus araneides Staudinger, 1897 Venezuela
Heliconius antiochus salvinii Dewitz, 1877 eastern Venezuela (an interesting form with a broad transverse yellow band on the hindwing, reminiscent of the pattern of the allopatric H. cydno weymeri).
Lamas (2004) lists a further undescribed subspecies from eastern Peru.
Brown K. S. 1981 The Biology of Heliconius and related genera. Annual Review of Entomology 26, 427-456.
Lamas, G. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papiionoidea in J. B. Heppner, ed. Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera, Gainesville.
Linnaeus C. 1767. Systema naturae. Editio duodecima reformata. Holmiae, Laurentius Salvius. 1(2): [ii] , 533-1328 , pp.
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1. The renal response to a low-sodium diet alone and a low-sodium diet plus the daily oral administration of chlorothiazide was examined in rats. Sodium restriction resulted in a decrease in sodium excretion until day 4, after which it remained constant. The administration of chlorothiazide resulted in an initial natriuresis. By day 6, however, the natriuresis had abated and thereafter sodium excretion remained the same as that of the low-sodium group.
2. After the animals were in balance on their respective regimens, clearance and micropuncture studies were performed. The glomerular filtration rate was lower in the chlorothiazide-treated rats than in control rats and/or in the low-sodium group. End proximal tubule TF/Pinulin ratios were higher in the diuretic-treated animals than in control rats. TF/Pinulin ratios in low-sodium animals were lower than in the diuretic-treated animals but higher than in control rats.
3. These studies demonstrate that the escape from the chronic effects of chlorothiazide is due to a decrease in the glomerular filtration rate and to an increase in fractional reabsorption in the proximal tubule, resulting in a reduction in delivery of filtrate to the cortical diluting segment where chlorothiazide exerts its major inhibitory effect. | <urn:uuid:65f5e72d-c8ff-4ba2-8b54-3e0d9916121a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/article-abstract/49/2/107/70444/Chronic-Effects-of-Chlorothiazide-on-Reabsorption?redirectedFrom=fulltext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.936322 | 293 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Observing birds in their natural habitat, a popular pastime and scientific sport, developed during the 20th century. Until the 19th century, bird-watchers could identify an unfamiliar species only when its corpse was in their hands. Modern bird-watching was made possible largely by the development of optical aids which enabled people to see and study wild birds without harming them. Bird watching is a great way to escape from the monotonous life and be one with nature. No one knows the sights and sounds of nature better than a bird-watcher. By looking at the plumage and listening to the call note of a bird, a bird-watcher can tell you what bird that is. This is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. In fact, bird-watchers are generally more observant than the average person.
Three dozen residents in Sandy Springs, Georgia, were fighting a proposed expansion of the local school. They also filed a property tax appeal to get up to a 12% reduction in their property tax. They based their appeal on the increase in school traffic and inconvenience that it caused. Claiming that the before and after school traffic created a nuisance to the neighborhood.
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Here, thrown directly into his past, those thoughts and emotions crept back to the surface from the deep abyss that he hid them within. All he had to do was look at the great sculptures of industry rising up on the river banks. They were triumphant sculptures at their birth. Tangles of twisted steel and concrete forming a perfect union of essentials of engineering economic analysis might. The towns gloated over these shiny beacons of economic opportunity. Small, unadorned towns that all of the sudden represented the ingenuity of man. It was a sight, these towers producing smoke that formed a perfect mushroom cloud over the valley.
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A CHAT with a few people just home from travelling the world last week reminded me of some of my own perspectives after returning home nine months ago.
They all missed the heat and novelty of Australia or South East Asia or South America or wherever their odyssey had taken them. And the freedom of being away from home, with work only an occasional distraction, and very few cares in the world, is one of the most liberating parts of the experience.
But none of these thoughts is at all new or surprising. It’s why people do these ‘gap’ years and we can’t expect to live such nomadic, carefree lives forever. Reality has to bite you eventually.
You know you are going to have to return to a 9-5 routine – and that’s only if you’re lucky as the country currently stands – and you’re well aware that Ireland won’t get the same level of sunshine as Australia. So you prepare yourself for those and the effect isn’t as severe.
But what struck me most in those conversations I had were things I myself was annoyed by after my return from a year ‘galavanting’, as the older generation would put it.
And as time passed these things became second nature once more – like they had been before I left – and I didn’t pass any notice.
It was only when the returning travellers highlighted what I’m about to say that I became acutely aware once more of the fact.
And that is that we, the Irish, are an incredibly negative and depressing people in a lot of what we say and do.
Sure we can have the ‘craic’ and make our reputations on such an image and in a social context that’s a valid point but what about day to day life?
Try this mini survey some day. Take ten people you’re going to meet in the course of your day and ask them ‘how are things?’
I would nearly guarantee at least half will say ‘not too bad’.
‘Not too bad’! What a negative response when you stand back and think about it. ‘Could be worse’ is another one. Talk about negative energy! We say ‘not too bad’ when we might actually mean something positive.
I answered the phone at work last week and someone asked me how were things. My answer? I said ‘mighty’. ‘Really? Why?’ was the dumbfounded reply. As if to say ‘how could things be mighty?’. I would have said ‘not too bad’ if I had known saying ‘mighty’ was going to lead to such an inquisition.
Why do we appear to be happier when we are giving out? The weather is a wonderful example of this. When it rains we look out the window as if it is a meteorite shower, something we’ve never seen before.
If any nation should be used to rain it’s Ireland. But it shocks us and nearly brings on our own waterworks every time.
And then when the sun comes out it’s often too hot and people, not just farmers whose rationale you can understand, will ask ‘for a dropeen of rain’. We’re never happy.
And another point emphasised by my returning friends was how the recession has taken over from the weather as the premier topic of conversation. After all it is even more gloomier than what is in the sky so it’s manna from heaven for the Irish psyche.
I’m not suggesting we adopt a put our heads in the sand approach to it. The recession is real and we have to deal with it.
But do we have to hear about it so often? Can we not look for something to smile about? Is it too hard to have a positive outlook on life?
It is the most galling part of returning home. Well, that and good oul-fashioned Irish begrudgery (another story altogether).
If an Aussie asked you how you were and you replied ‘not too bad’ they’d ask you what happened.
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Elementary school closes because of COVID-19 and other illnesses
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VICTOR — Illness among staff and students at Victor Elementary School has closed its doors for three days.
The closure comes as seven staff members and more than 60 students have been absent, according to Teton School District 451 Superintendent Monte R. Woolstenhulme. He says some of the absences are in relation to COVID-19 and corresponding quarantine protocols, while others are associated with other sicknesses.
The school has kindergarten through third-grade students and will be closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Woolstenhulme said students and staff are expected to return to the school Monday. While the school is closed, students are receiving learning support at home.
Teton School District has recently made headlines as Woolstenhulme announced schools are not bound by the city of Victor’s mask mandate. Mayor Will Frohlich’s mandate says people in the city must wear masks in public settings.
“The decision on how to best balance the need to effectively educate students and to protect their health and safety while in school is best left to the school board and its administrators,” Woolstenhulme wrote in a letter to Frohlich. “The balancing of education and student health is much different, in both kind and degree, than the balancing of such activities as shopping or dining out with public health.”
Victor city Attorney Herb Heimerl disagreed and said in a letter to the city he believes the mandate is lawful and that the school district must comply. Heimerl cited Idaho law that says the mayor has jurisdiction over “all places within the corporate limits of the city,” when it comes to public health ordinances.
As of Tuesday evening, Eastern Idaho Public Health reports 30 active COVID-19 cases or 25.8 per 10,000 people in Teton County. EIPH reports 49% of the population is fully vaccinated in the health district against the coronavirus.
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How is change managed in Agile?
The change management approach must align to Agile process phases and must be selective regarding which activities drive value. Change management resourcing needs vary across an Agile development effort and must be ready to pivot based on employee impact of a given phase.
How is change management applied?
5 Steps in the Change Management Process
- Prepare the Organization for Change. …
- Craft a Vision and Plan for Change. …
- Implement the Changes. …
- Embed Changes Within Company Culture and Practices. …
- Review Progress and Analyze Results.
What is change management examples?
Some of the most common examples when change management is necessary to successfully implement changes within organizations include:
- Implementation of a new technology.
- Mergers & acquisitions.
- Change in leadership.
- Change in organizational culture.
- Times of a crisis.
What is change in agile?
Agile is a project management approach that works by breaking projects into short, iterative cycles called “sprints”. At its core, Agile is based on the assumption that circumstances change as a project develops. … They continue to change as the project takes form.
How do I manage change requests?
5 Steps for Managing Change Requests
- Request any supporting materials. …
- Determine whether the change request is in inside or outside the scope. …
- Have your team assess the priority of the change request. …
- Approve or reject the change request. …
- Decide on a course of action going forward.
Are there change request in agile?
There are change requests and then there are agile change requests. … All change requests are not created equal and should not be treated the same way. In this post I will describe two major types of change requests as I see them and why you need to treat them differently in agile software development.
Who can raise Change Request?
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AIMS: To compare a histological hepatic iron index with a biochemical hepatic iron index, derived from atomic absorption spectroscopy measurements of hepatic iron content, for the diagnosis of genetic haemochromatosis (GH). METHODS: Histological sections of liver biopsy specimens from 70 subjects, who had previously had their biochemical hepatic iron index measured, were examined. The iron stores were scored to derive a histological hepatic iron index and were also graded from 0 to 4 by a standard grading system. The case history of each patient was then reviewed to establish a definitive clinical diagnosis and patients were classified as GH, non-GH or indeterminate. RESULTS: There were 26 cases of GH, 40 cases of non-GH and four indeterminate cases in whom a definite clinical diagnosis was not established. Using a biochemical hepatic iron index cut off level of 2.0, two cases were misclassified, with one case of GH having a biochemical hepatic iron index of 1.8 and one non-GH case having a biochemical hepatic iron index of 3.1. This could not have been improved by altering the cut off level. Using the recommended cut off level of 0.15, the histological hepatic iron index was raised in all cases of GH, but was also increased in 11 of the 40 non-GH patients. The specificity of this histological index can be improved by increasing the cut off level to 0.30. A histological iron grade of > or = 3 is more specific than the histological index but has a lower sensitivity, which particularly affects the diagnosis of younger patients with GH. CONCLUSIONS: The biochemical hepatic iron index is a reliable method for establishing a diagnosis of homozygous GH. In contrast, the histological hepatic iron index as originally described is non-specific and does not reliably distinguish patients with GH from others with a raised hepatic iron index due to other causes. The specificity of this index can be improved by increasing the cut off level used, but the discrimination provided by the histological index is still inferior to that provided by the biochemical hepatic iron index.
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A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of any narrative that reveals plot elements. Typically, the details of the conclusion of the plot, including the climax and ending, are especially regarded as spoiler material. It can also be used to refer to any piece of information regarding any part of a given media that a potential consumer was not intended to know beforehand.
One of the first print uses of the term was in the April 1971 issue of National Lampoon, in which an article by Doug Kenney entitled "Spoilers" revealed the endings of famous films and movies. Kenney wrote: "Spoilers! What are they? Simply the trick ending to every mystery novel and movie you’re ever liable to see. Saves time and money!"
The term spoiler was introduced in the early days of the Internet, and came to prominence in newsgroup conversations. It is still common in internet articles and social media discussions. Early rules of netiquette insisted that spoilers could and should be normally avoided, but if the posting of "spoiling" information was unavoidable, it be preceded by a warning such as "SPOILER ALERT", or the spoiler itself has to be masked so that it can not be visible to any but those keen for details and not fazed at the thought of such potentially plot-revealing information.
Sometimes, these warnings are omitted, accidentally or deliberately, and some unwitting readers have had literature, films, television programmes and other works that they were looking forward to experiencing "spoiled".
There is a common demand, especially among internet users, to have protection against accidentally seeing material considered to include "spoiler" information, even in the internet version of settings where such material has conventionally and historically appeared, such as discussion groups or literary reviews. As a result of this level of objection to spoilers, trolls may post them purely for their own pleasure, finding amusement in believing they are completely ruining a narrative experience for others. Depending on the level of moderation taking place at a website, such posts can be reported and taken down, and posters blacklisted, but only after the fact.
Website policies and features
Wikipedia discloses spoilers in its articles without giving advance warning, although it previously did give such warning before 2006. Mathew Prichard, the grandson of Agatha Christie, criticized Wikipedia for giving away spoilers in the play The Mousetrap. Andrew Jarecki, the producer of the documentary Catfish, argued that Wikipedia should have spoiler alerts. The ending had been posted on Wikipedia before its theatrical release because the film had been shown at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Jay Walsh, a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson, said that Wikipedia is intended to be an exhaustive knowledge source, so it would have spoilers.
Some internet forums and reference sites, such as the IMDb FAQ section, have optional spoiler tags covering major plot details. The information underneath may be revealed by highlighting the text or, in the case of IMDb, rolling over the spoiler tag.
There are some applications that prevent users from reading spoilers, such as TVShow Time's Google Chrome extension, which, once set up, blocks posts on social media about episodes that the user has not seen.
On Usenet, the common method for obscuring spoiler information is to precede it with many blank lines known as 'spoiler space' – traditionally enough to push the information in question on to the next screen of a 25-line terminal. A simple cipher called ROT13 is also used in newsgroups to obscure spoilers, but is rarely used for this purpose elsewhere.
Most discussion websites provide a means of tagging certain threads as containing spoilers for those who wish to discuss a fictional work in depth, including the outcomes of events and the handling of the narrative resolution. Social media platforms, like Twitter and Tumblr, allow their users to tag posts with spoiler content using hashtags that can then be placed in a user's blacklist to avoid spoiler discussions during and after the work has come out, until they have consumed the work or media.
Some[who?] have felt compelled to avoid participating on public websites altogether, set up "closed" websites to exclude those who are sensitive about spoilers, or decided they had to unilaterally blog at the expense of public exchange.
In 2011, Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt of UC San Diego did a psychological experiment testing whether spoilers diminish enjoyment of fiction. They gave subjects short stories with twist endings to read, giving some of the subjects information about the twist in advance. For nearly every story, subjects who had the story "spoiled" enjoyed the story more than the subjects who didn't know the ending in advance.
The spoiling of James Holzhauer's loss on Jeopardy!, which was reported upon by both print and Internet sources hours before it aired on most of the show's stations, had a somewhat unexpectedly positive impact on that episode's ratings. Instead of ruining the outcome, the spoilers had teased just enough to encourage viewers to tune in to see how the previously dominant Holzhauer was beaten. Jeopardy! does not contractually require its audience members to remain silent in regard to spoilers; members have generally followed the honor system in not leaking spoilers before episodes air.
Writers and directors
Ne soyez pas DIABOLIQUES!
Don't be DIABOLICAL!
In an interview about his Dark Tower series (appearing in issue #4 of the 2007 Marvel Comic adaptation The Gunslinger Born), Stephen King was asked if there are spoilers in the first few novels that would ruin someone's experience of the comic. "There are no spoilers!", King replied, "You might as well say 'I'm never gonna watch Wizard of Oz again because I know how it comes out'". Later, in 2014, King was widely criticized for revelling in a major character's demise in HBO's Game of Thrones on Twitter, only moments after the episode's airing, thus revealing a plot twist for non-live and offshore audiences. King responded by commenting the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and the death of the eponymous protagonists. He echoed the incident in a talk with the author and screenplay writer of the scene, George R. R. Martin in 2016, summing it up as "You can't spoil a book!", followed by impromptu plot revelations for seminal works, including Citizen Kane.
In April 2015, the Under the Gun Theater created Swarm of Spoilers, a parody show based on George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. The comedic play recapped the previous four seasons of the HBO television show. Kevin Mullaney, who directed Swarm of Spoilers, stated: "I'm somebody who's very sensitive about spoilers, so I wanted to make sure it was very clear from the title," though he went on to say, "There's actually this theory about spoilers that we think that they hurt the enjoyment of shows, and I definitely feel that way sometimes, but I think there's been studies that show the other side: that when we know the ending of a story that we haven't read before, it actually enhances the story, so I don't know if it would actually hurt anyone to come see it [Swarm of Spoilers]." The final production included 45 of the series' characters, and was played by an 18-person ensemble.
Some producers actively seed bogus information in order to misdirect fans. The director of the film Terminator Salvation orchestrated a "disinformation campaign" where false spoilers were distributed about the film, to mask any true rumors about its plot.
The market campaigns for Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel Avengers: Endgame extensively promoted the maintenance of secrecy regarding the films' plots, with the latter's social media campaign including a hashtag (#DontSpoilTheEndgame), a signed letter from the Russo brothers and a video featuring the film's ensemble cast demanding that earlier viewers of the film refrain from spoiling the plot.
- The characters in movies do not always do what we would do. Sometimes they make choices that offend us. That is their right. It is our right to disagree with them. It is not our right, however, to destroy for others the experience of being as surprised by those choices as we were. A few years ago, I began to notice "spoiler warnings" on Web-based movie reviews -- a shorthand way of informing the reader that a key plot point was about to be revealed. Having heard from more than a few readers accusing me of telling too much of the story, I began using such warnings in my reviews.
Ebert used two spoiler warnings in the article, saying "If you have not yet seen Million Dollar Baby and know nothing about the plot, read no further" and later said, "Now yet another spoiler warning, because I am going to become more explicit." Ebert discussed six films in the article and mentioned how many critics handled The Crying Game and also noted a detail about the film The Year of Living Dangerously. Ebert also mentioned two films alongside Million Dollar Baby.
Ebert additionally criticized two commentators, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved (the latter of whom had "for a long time been a political commentator, not a movie critic"), for deliberately revealing the ending of the movie due to a moral disagreement with the lead character's life decision. "[S]hould no movie be allowed to consider [the moral issue]?" Ebert asked. "The separation of church and state in America was wisely designed to prevent religions from dictating the personal choices of those who do not share the same beliefs."
In an art exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneous de Monterrey (Mexico) artist Mario Garcia Torres presented a series of works titled Spoiler Paintings in which spoilers of mostly Hollywood films were written on large color canvases.
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- "Spoilers Don’t Spoil Anything" -(Jonah Lehrer, Wired)
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The difficulty of balancing a professional life while also dealing with the full-time management of a rare neuroimmune disorder can be daunting. Whether you are already in the workforce or thinking of entering it, you may have some questions. How do I talk about my disorder with my employer? Are there any resources out there I can use? Is it possible to even have a successful career post-diagnosis?
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation shares helpful questions and advice in their Living With Paralysis: Employment for People with Disabilities guide. In it, they explain “Disabilities do not need to limit the pursuit of fulfilling work. Whether seeking a career in an office or building one from home, there are many paths to successful and rewarding employment. Disabilities may affect the shape of a life, but they do not determine what is possible.”
Today, we’re sharing some great resources and tips to help you move forward with confidence in your career and most importantly, yourself.
Be Your Own Advocate
Self-advocacy is defined as “the action of representing oneself or one’s views or interests.” This takes practice. It’s crucial to know your worth and understand your rights. If you are located in the United States, a great first step is looking at the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination and ensures those with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Later in the Living With Paralysis: Employment for People with Disabilities Article, Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt, Paralympian, former SRNA Board Member, and current Director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, states, “It’s awkward to put yourself out there, but it’s not about the disability,” she says. “It’s about saying, ‘These are my skills, and this is what I’m looking for.’ It’s about reaching out to people and leveraging the relationships that many of us already have in terms of our stories.”
Do your research on the company. What is their medical leave policy? If your job is in-person, do they allow remote work when you need it? Do they value accessibility and if so, how does their office environment support that? Even if you’ve been with your employer for a long time, it is never too late to begin advocating for yourself. Approaching the conversation with confidence is the key.
What to Ask for
The Job Accommodations Network is a great resource offering free and confidential guidance on job accommodations and disability employment issues. According to their website, they can assist with individualized consultations about:
- Employers and their representatives seeking guidance on practical ways to engage in the interactive process, provide job accommodation solutions, and comply with Title I of the ADA;
- Individuals with medical conditions and disabilities seeking information about job accommodation solutions, employment rights under the ADA, and self-employment and entrepreneurship opportunities; and
- Family members and rehabilitation, medical, educational, and other professionals in their effort to support successful employment outcomes for individuals with medical conditions and disabilities.
The most important thing we want you to remember is that you are not alone. Your needs and accommodations are important and worth speaking up for.
Attend a Pathways to Employment – Employment Resource Group meeting with the United Spinal Association. Meetings are held every other Monday at 5 pm (Eastern).
For college students: the Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students with Disabilities (WRP) connects federal and select private-sector employers nationwide with college students, graduate students, and recent graduates with disabilities.
Join a Support Group with SRNA and connect with others experiencing a Rare Neuroimmune Disorder.
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This step by step tutorial of how to make an intriguing cardboard box cat toy that will challenge your feline friend. Everyone who owns a cat knows that when you bring a cat into the home, it immediately becomes that cat’s domain. Sure, you might live there and pay the rent, but that cat runs things. It will have you begging for attention, buying the best foods, and bringing home the newest toys, all without really trying.
Unfortunately, taking care of a cat can get a bit expensive. And it only gets worse if you have more than one cat. Thankfully, this tutorial offers you a money saving solution. You can build this toy for your cat without spending any extra money. And the best part is that your cat will adore it! Unlike most store bought toys that will sit abandoned after one or two plays, this cardboard toy will be used every single day. This will keep your kitty entertained for hours. And, everyone who owns a cat will tell you, a happy cat equals a happy home!
If you’re still unsure about making this, check out the video at the bottom of the tutorial to watch the author’s cats play. That will convince you!
For this tutorial, you’ll need the following materials:
– Box or Cardboard
– Small Balls
– Round Object
By placing the balls inside the cardboard with circles cut out, you’ll create an almost cat and mouse like apparatus. Your cats will reach their little paws into the holes and try to catch the balls, only to have them move away. They’ll have a blast!
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While we are certain this is not an exhaustive list, we hope you will find these resources helpful in your continuing journey to integrate faith and learning.
Books and Culture presented an evangelical analysis of the books, movies, music, and ideas that shape the world around us—all with an eye from the Christian perspective.
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education.
Christian Scholars Review offers the integration of Christian faith and learning on both the intra- and inter- disciplinary levels and provides a forum for the discussion of the theoretical issues of Christian higher education.
Faith and Economics is published twice a year by the Association of Christian Economists to advance Christian ethical reflection and Christian scholarship in and about economics.
Faith and Philosophy is published quarterly by the Society of Christian Philosophers. The journal encourages discussions among philosophers representing a wide variety of theological perspectives and philosophical orientations that fall largely within the philosophy of religion.
Fides Et Historia is the refereed journal of The Conference on Faith and History. Founded on the principles of CFH stands, the journal is open for submissions on a variety of topics as it seeks to promote the impact of Christian commitment on the study of history.
IMAGE Journal a literary and arts quarterly founded in 1989, is a unique forum for the best writing and artwork that is informed by—or grapples with—religious faith.
The Journal of Biblical Integration in Business is published by the Christian Business Faculty Association and serves as a forum for discussing “faith-learning-life links in business.” Also published by the CBFA is The Christian Business Academy Review (CBAR), devoted to promoting Christian business education through publication of faith-based articles that focus on Research in Business Education, Creative Instruction, Curriculum Development and Professional Issues.
Journal of Christian Nursing is a peer-reviewed, quarterly, professional journal helping nurses integrate issues of faith with nursing practice and sustain excellence in nursing care since 1984.
Mars Hill Audio Journal is published bimonthly to encourage sensibilities and habits of thoughtful cultural engagement.
Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith, the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation.
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by Alice Alpert and Danya Rumore
Amid observing and analyzing the INC5 negotiations, one question that seems to be on many of our MIT team members’ minds is “As scientists and academics, what is our role in influencing policy and decision-making?” More specifically, where does the line between science and advocacy lie, and how should a scientist who cares about a given issue—like mercury—interact (or not) with the policy realm?
Looking for answers, a couple of us cornered Dr. David Evers after an INC5 side session on “Global Mercury Hotspots.” Hosted by David and his colleagues at the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and IPEN, the side session shared with decision-makers the findings of a recent scientific report, available here, which found high levels of mercury contamination in marine and freshwater ecosystems around the world.
David, the Executive Director of BRI, is an excellent example of a scientist who, through his work, seeks to work at the boundary between science and policy.
Explaining his work, David is quick to say, “I try very hard to be that unbiased scientist that goes about getting data in an unbiased way.” Trained as a conservation biologist, he readily acknowledges that he has a fundamental interest in the sustainability of human interactions with ecosystems. As a result, he has chosen to research mercury, a compound that is harmful to ecosystems and human health. However, he makes clear, he does not have a policy objective in mind when he formulates his research questions. Nor does a particular policy objective drive his research.
Instead, David says, his goal is to provide policy makers with the best possible information about mercury and its impacts on ecosystems; it is the decision-makers’ job to translate this information into the best possible policy, whatever that may be.
For example, one of David’s recent projects brought together a team of mercury researchers with the goal of compiling scientific findings about mercury in the northeast region of the US. The team then translated these scientific findings into a language and format that is easy for policy makers to fully understand, and shared this information with Congressional staffers and federal agencies in Washington, DC.
In contrast to a policy-advocate, David doesn’t focus on whether the scientific information he is presenting supports a certain policy objective. Nor does he interpret what his findings should mean for policy and decision-making. “I’m an advocate for scientific information,” not a policy advocate, he explains. And while he thinks that the scientific findings presented during his Global Mercury Hotspots presentation are reason for concern, he adds that, here at the INC5, “I’m not advocating, it’s strange to say, for a stronger mercury policy.”
One concern many members of our MIT team struggle with is how to influence the world of policy with our research without compromising our integrity as unbiased scientists and academics. David recognizes this concern, but says that he feels that the boundary between science-advocate and policy-advocate is quite clear. As long as you’re only advocating for the use of good information in decision-making, you haven’t compromised your position as a credible source of unbiased information. Once you begin to let policy objectives direct your research or start advocating for specific policies, however, you’ve crossed the line into policy advocacy. And, he adds, “there’s no going back.”
So what’s his advice for academic “youngsters”, like us, who are interested in the intersection of science and policy?
First off, don’t be afraid to walk the line between science and policy, David says, just make sure to push for good science and focus on making this information readily available and understandable, rather than advocating for particular policies or regulations.
Second, you don’t need to know everything, and you can’t be an expert in everything. When your work crosses over into a discipline, like public health, that you don’t know well, bring in colleagues to help.
Third, as a scientific expert, people will often corner you to ask what you think the policy implications of your research are; when you respond, keep your opinion out of it and make clear that you are simply interpreting the data you have gathered.
Finally, he says, many scientists fear the media, because they are afraid that the media will misinterpret or skew their research and findings. David says that, when possible, it is preferable to work with journalists that you know and trust. But it’s important to get your findings into the public conversation, so don’t shy away from the media.
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Over the last few months, we’ve talked to a number of women living abroad with their families in a series called Black Moms Abroad. But even if you don’t plan on leaving the United States, learning another language can help you and your children become global citizens with a deeper understanding of your identities as people of color.
“Children’s minds are so pliable and adaptable!” says Dr. Kami Anderson, an associate professor at Kennesaw State University, and the author of Language, Identity and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society. “Learning languages is one of the best things we can offer them. I think just the small act of learning a language can help to push children toward a level of mutual respect never before seen.”
Dr. Anderson practices what she preaches in her own home outside of Atlanta, where she and her husband Jeff are raising their four children—Jeffrey II (6), Jachin (4), and twins Jason and Jasira (2)—to be bilingual. The results have been extremely positive, she says. Her eldest “reads at a third grade level, can accomplish math tasks at a second grade level, and has the vocabulary span of a 4th grader.”
We spoke with Dr. Anderson about what piqued her curiosity in other languages, and the benefits of exposing your children to languages other than English.
…it is so much more than teaching my children to count to ten like Dora…
You grew up in Milwaukee, which isn’t exactly the most diverse place in the country. How did you first become interested in studying other languages and cultures?
I went to a gifted and talented middle school that required foreign language. When I was being enrolled, they asked “Do you want French or Spanish?” I chose Spanish, and the rest was history.
I had an awesome teacher who made it a point to give us culture-based lessons. We also had a student in our class from Bolivia who [the teacher] would call on periodically to corroborate what was in our textbooks. I loved that part of the class! I would say the cultural context of language is what solidified it for me.
What inspired you to write your book? What do you hope to accomplish?
There’s this ascribed generalization that Blacks in America can barely speak English, much less another language. I don’t like this stereotype. I have found that there are many of us who not only speak other languages, but are actually bilingual and biliterate.
What comes with this generalization is that those of us who can [speak other languages] are an anomaly, and have achieved some perceived “unattainable goal.” I wrote the book because I want the realness of Black bilinguals to be known. We exist in large number and we struggle within society for this intentional lifestyle, because it is so much more than teaching my children to count to ten like Dora the Explorer. But I also want to show the feasibility of it.
You are a mother of four! How do others respond to your choice to raise them bilingual?
It depends. The first question I almost always get is “Where are you from?” The next question is “Do you tutor?”
It’s not always met warmly, but I am honest about being from Wisconsin and pretty candid about telling folks that tutoring will not get your child to where my children are. [Raising bilingual children] is an intentional lifestyle, not just a cute hobby for the weekends. It’s a lot of work, it takes a lot of planning and effort to make sure that developmentally my children are hitting linguistic milestones in more than one language.
Then you have friends and family. Of course I get the relative or friend who jokingly says to my children “Tell your mother to speak to you in English so you know what she’s talking about!” I see that as a microaggression though; it’s not all that funny to me, and I don’t see too much innocence in those type of statements.
I’m not expecting all of my friends and family to dote over the fact that my children speak more than one language, but I do have an expectation of normalcy, not novelty.
Why is it so important to introduce other languages to children?
By giving [children] more than one language, if done correctly, you are making little global citizens. You expose them to the language, which should lend itself to exposure to the culture, which feeds to a level of cultural consciousness and self-awareness some of us wished we had.
I look at my children, confidently, but respectfully, correcting people when they use a Spanish term incorrectly, asking about where the Black people live in Peru, and teaching adults how to move comfortably across the cultural boundaries we put in place. It’s amazing to watch!
How early can you begin exposing your children to another language?
I started with my children from the day they were born! The earlier the better, actually. It’s best to start while they’re still learning and exploring language. It helps them separate the language rules for the multiple languages easily, because their brains are already set up to do these categories while they are learning to talk.
If you think about it, one of the main reasons why learning a new language as an adult is so hard is because we have to retrain our brains to think differently about the language rules we’ve been following unconsciously for decades. Not all of us do that effectively, that’s why so many [adults] get frustrated.
You are making little global citizens.
How many languages can you introduce to your children at one time?
As many as you can handle! However, you will need to make a firm to commitment to speaking exclusively in one language. Flip-flopping back and forth confuses the language rules I just talked about.
If there are two of you in the household, one speaks in one language [and] the other speaks in another when talking to the child. In my house, I speak Spanish exclusively, my husband speaks English. It helps with the child being clear about which language rules go with which language.
Do you need to be fluent in a given language to teach it to your children? Can you learn together?
Immersion is the best option, but it is not always at our disposal. The ultimate goal is to be sure they hear the language being used correctly as often as possible.
I would encourage making sure that the child gets significant exposure to the language being spoken fluently. Some cable companies have the SAP function on the TV remotes. We use it all the time at our house. It makes the children’s programming they would watch anyway available in Spanish. We change the language options on DVDs to Spanish, we play Spanish radio stations in the car—all to keep the exposure high.
It will take a bit longer for the children to reach fluency if you only do those things, but more and more preschool and public schools are offering dual-immersion programs for education, and that takes the burden off of non-fluent parents significantly.
Do you have any advice for parents who want to introduce a new language to their children?
Just start! Don’t worry about the mistakes. Don’t worry about what it looks like. I find myself making grammatical mistake all the time when speaking to my children. I just correct it and move on.
Exposure is so important. Try taking the DVD they have watched a million times and play it in another language. Find their favorite bedtime story in another language; French and Spanish are readily available at a lot of bookstores/libraries. In our house we have Spanish versions of almost every Ezra Jack Keats book, Goodnight Moon, and Where the Wild Things Are. | <urn:uuid:23304ea0-b4ac-4911-b8ad-59c8c80da411> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://matermea.com/raising-bilingual-kids-kami-anderson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.966778 | 1,659 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Answer: To discover the upper world, a Kabbalist or two are enough, and after that a few dozen more, and others must adhere to them. Everything descends and moves downward in a pyramid.
Today, those who methodically study the wisdom of Kabbalah in our world community are enough to be ready to bring the upper Light into our world. What remains is only for the rest of the world to join us somehow.
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Keep up-to-date with Pax Christi and other peace-related events. If you are organising a Pax Christi event in your own area send us details and we will post them here.
Opposing War Memorial Design Launch.
Edinburgh based artist Kate Ive’s design for a Memorial to Conscientious Objectors and all who oppose war will be unveiled. Doors 6:10 pm open for a cup of Tea. Pax Christi is a part of this group.
Come meet the artist. Hear about her creative process, view a maquette of her engaging design. And find out how you can get involved in creating the sculpture and supporting the project. Historian Dr. Lesley Orr will speak about opposition to the First World War in Scotland and introduce Kate.
Following the offer of a site in Princes St Gardens, a World Heritage site that is visited by millions of people, a consortium of civil society groups and peace campaigns held a competition and invited four artists to submit designs for a memorial to conscientious objectors and all who oppose war. The artists engaged with descendants of COs, academics and adult learners who have been investigating conscientious objectors of the First World War. Edinburgh based artist Kate Ive’s design has been selected and a maquette will be unveiled at the launch event.
Kate Ive’s winning design will pay tribute to First World War COs whose resistance laid the groundwork for a wider peace movement that continues to this day and will continue into the future. Organisers hope the finished sculpture will be installed by April next year, the centenary of the end of the First World War for COs who were imprisoned until April 1918.
Each generation of peace campaigners provides the resources to strengthen the next generation. Join us at The Peace Museum and discover how peace campaigners in the Nineteenth Century produced the songs which encouraged those who opposed the First World War. Their words even inspired Martin Luther King 50 years later. Those generations of war-resisters can inspire us today.
This talk, given by Clive Barrett, will be looking at the poems, hymns and songs that inspired conscientious objectors, drawing from three sources: personal diaries, graffiti from the prison cells of Richmond Castle, and especially from an item in the collection of The Peace Museum, “The Conscientious Objector’s Song Book”, 1916. It will be an illustrated talk, including sound recordings, and even the opportunity to join in!
This is the 40th Annual Conference of the National Justice and Peace Network. This year the conference is organised in partnership with Apostleship of the Sea, Church Action on Poverty, Housing Justice and Prison Advice and Care Trust.
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Join us in the Piazza of Westminster Cathedral, London on both days between 10.00am and 5.00pm. Prayers at 11.30 and 3.30
Here you can download service outlines with prayers, litanies and readings for use on either day and other resources and background on nuclear weapons today, for stalls and events.
Members of Pax Christi Liverpool will be supporting and speaking at this event . There will be a wreath laid to remember the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A short service of remembrance is planned to commemorate those who died and to witness to the continuing need for peace, disarmament and reconciliation. It will take place at the Peace Pole in the grounds of St. Anne’s Episcopal and Methodist Church, Westgate, Dunbar
This day is also the feast of the Transfiguration and there will be a Eucharist in St. Anne’s Church at 10.30am to which all are invited.
I would be grateful if you could advertise this service to members of your congregation and display the attached notice.
If you or any member of your congregation would like to participate in leading part of the service, please do let me know.
A commemoration of light and peace, linking Hiroshima with Romford, with speaker Bruce Kent, Vice President of CND and of Pax Christi.
Refreshments available after the service
Organised by Pax Christi Liverpool the day will be led by Fr Gerry McFlynn, Chaplain to Irish prisoners and member of the Pax Christi Nonviolence Working Group.
Pax Christi is delighted to be taking part in a creative parallel programme being organised for the National Eucharistic Congress, offering sessions on reconciliation and peacemaking.
We will be in St Philip Neri Church, Liverpool between 12 noon and 6.00pm, working with colleagues from the Northern Diocese Environment Group and Together for the Common Good.
We aim to offer:
- Two meditation sessions with the Pax Christi ICON of peace
- A panel conversation with women peacemakers: Emma Atherton, Ella Holliday, Carol Burns and Pat Gaffney
- A talk from Jenny Sinclair on Reconciliation
- Craft activities for families
and more…we will up-date as activities are confirmed.
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Things Made with Wooden Pallets
Still that time is pretty fresh in my mind when the wooden pallets were mere a tool for the carriage or rather safe carriage of several delicate items. And once the task was accomplished, the wooden pallets were simply dumped. And then there came a phase when the amateur crafters took an initiative and they started making different wooden items out of the shipping pallets. And later on this became a full time recycling activity where people from all around the world showed their interest and pursued it as a full time activity. Here I am presenting some of the things that are made with the wooden pallets.
The very first in the line is pallet wood repurposed single room bed. These wooden room beds have always been an expensive wooden furniture item, but since the wood pallet crafters have started working on it, we see ever new ideas related to the wooden pallet made room beds.
A wooden cable reel has always been an integral item in the creation of these recycled pallet furniture items. The main reason is the free availability and ease of dealing with the wooden cable reels. Here we see the closing ends are made using the shipping wood pallets.
Wooden pallet planters have always been a bounty or an incentive for the ones who remained obsessed with the gardening and stuff. These squared pallet wood planter lying in the patio are all purely made with the wood pallet. They provide pretty excessive space to plant all of desired breeds.
One more excellent thing that could be done with the shipping pallets is the wall art or the wall cladding. And a very smart and easy demonstration could be seen right here where some random and raw wood pallet planks are put to the task in making this wooden pallet wall cladding. | <urn:uuid:07b9e675-cd13-4200-b15d-7f47f3789129> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.woodpalletsfurniture.com/projects/things-made-with-wooden-pallets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.969328 | 362 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Its age is unknown; but it comes from a very distant and hoar antiquity . . . It is like a piece of ancient armor; rusty and battered, and yet strong. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow CHARACTER LIST Much of the early action takes place in Herot, a great mead hall, or banquet hall, where the wellloved and generous Danish king Hrothgar holds court. The following list includes the principal characters in Beowulf, some of whom appear in the genealogies on page 13.
Beowulf, an ideal warrior of the Geats and the hero of the poem Dragon, a fire-breathing, snakelike monster that terrorizes the Geats Grendel, a monster with human qualities that terrorizes Herot for twelve years Grendel’s mother, a monster that also terrorizes Herot Hrothgar, Danish king and builder of Herot Higlac, king of the Geats and uncle of Beowulf Shild, legendary king of the Danes and greatgrandfather of Hrothgar Unferth, a warrior in Hrothgar’s court who challenges Beowulf’s bravery Welthow, Hrothgar’s wife Wiglaf, a young warrior and relative of Beowulf
BACKGROUND It is a curious fact that some of the world’s greatest literature has come to us from an unknown hand. Beowulf, the first epic poem in the English language, ranks high among such literature. Scholars believe that this epic about a brave warrior who vanquishes evil monsters was composed between the mid-seventh century and the end of the tenth century. Some of the story materials the poet uses may have been passed down by word of mouth from one generation to the next.
Beowulf was probably composed in writing by one man. Although no one knows the identity of the author, he lived in what is now England, probably somewhere north of the river Thames. Little more can be said about the author with certainty, except that he was highly skilled in poetic technique and was thoroughly familiar with the traditional themes and legends of early Germanic culture. What is it about Beowulf that moved the American poet Longfellow to compare it to “a piece of ancient armor; rusty and battered, and yet strong”?
Perhaps it is that the poet fused early Germanic history, legends, mythology, and ideals with Christian faith and values to create an enduring work of art that inspires as it entertains. Or perhaps it is that we still cherish many of the qualities that Beowulf embodies—among them courage, loyalty, and generosity. Early Denmark and Sweden During the Time of Beowulf Swedes Geats Jutes North Sea Danes Ba l ti c Se a THE TIME AND PLACE The poem is set mainly in Denmark and Geatland (now southern Sweden) during the sixth century. The map at right shows the locations of peoples mentioned in Beowulf.
The proximity of those peoples to one another, together with the warrior code they followed, made for frequent clashes. 14 Frisians Franks Beowulf Study Guide Did You Know? In 1939, excavations at Sutton Hoo (in Suffolk, England) uncovered a royal treasure-filled ship buried in the seventh century—perhaps not long before Beowulf was first composed. The ship is thought to be the burial site of an early Anglo-Saxon king or nobleman. The treasures found there were so much like those described in Beowulf that scholars suggest Beowulf may have been based, in part, on memories of the ancient burial.
Some have even speculated that the poem was composed as a tribute to the late king, but no solid evidence has been found to support this notion. CRITIC’S CORNER The account of the hero’s funeral with which the poem ends . . . [is] at once immemorial and oddly contemporary. The Geat woman who cries out in dread as the flames consume the body of her dead lord could come straight from a late-twentieth-century news report, from Rwanda or Kosovo; her [lament] is a nightmare glimpse into the minds of people who have survived traumatic, even monstrous events and who are now being exposed to a comfortless future.
We immediately recognize her predicament and the pitch of her grief and find ourselves the better for having them expressed with such adequacy and dignity and unforgiving truth. —Seamus Heaney, introduction to Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Beowulf Study Guide 15 Before You Read Beowulf Prologue–Part 18 FOCUS ACTIVITY Who are today’s heroes? What special qualities do these people possess? Share Ideas With a small group of classmates, brainstorm a list of people who are admired as heroes. Next to the name of each person on the list, jot down a few qualities that make this person a hero.
What does your list suggest about the qualities that people prize today? Setting a Purpose Read to discover the qualities that make Beowulf a hero. BACKGROUND Did You Know? Beowulf contains one of the earliest instances in English of a flyting—a dispute, or an exchange of personal abuse, in verse. In part 8, the Danish warrior Unferth calls Beowulf a “boastful fool” and taunts him for undertaking and losing a reckless swimming match. Beowulf responds by telling how the match really went, accusing Unferth of fratricide, and faulting him for lacking the heart to confront Grendel.
The Epithet An epithet is usually an adjective or a brief phrase used to characterize a person, place, or thing. For example, in Beowulf God is variously described as “the Lord of all Life,” “the Ruler of glory,” “the Lord of heaven and earth,” and “our eternal Lord. ” As you read Beowulf, pay attention to the epithets. Note how they provide a brief summary of major characters’ most essential qualities. VOCABULARY PREVIEW lair [lar] n. home or resting place, esp. of a wild animal (l. 125) ? lament [l? ment ] n. expression of sorrow or grief (l. 128) loathsome [loth s? m] adj. xtremely disgusting; repulsive; offensive (l. 985) ? purge [purj] v. to cleanse or rid of whatever is unclean or undesirable (l. 432) reparation [rep?? ra sh? n] n. act of giving satisfaction or making amends, as for a wrong or an injury ? (l. 158) reprisal [ri pr? z? l] n. retaliation against an enemy for injuries or losses suffered, with the intent of inflicting equal or greater injury (l. 597) solace [sol is] n. relief from sorrow or disappointment; comfort; consolation (l. 185)
16 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Active Reading
Beowulf Prologue–Part 18 Several key characters are introduced in the first section of the poem. Write a brief description of each character in the appropriate boxes below to help fix the character in your mind. Shild Beowulf Hrothgar Unferth
Welthow Grendel Beowulf Study Guide 17 Name Date Class Responding Beowulf Prologue–Part 18 Personal Response What are your first impressions of Beowulf? Analyzing Literature Recall and Interpret 1. Why does Hrothgar build Herot? Why doesn’t it collapse when Beowulf engages Grendel in combat?
What might its collapse have symbolized? 2. How did Hrothgar come to know Beowulf’s father? Do you think that Beowulf feels indebted to Hrothgar for his past kindnesses to the family? Explain. 3. Briefly describe Grendel. What might Grendel symbolize? 4. Contrast Beowulf and Unferth. What function does Unferth serve in the poem? 5. Based on Welthow’s actions in the poem, what role or roles do you think women played in Anglo-Saxon society? 18 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Responding Beowulf Prologue–Part 18 Analyzing Literature (continued)
Evaluate and Connect 6. In your opinion, would the story be better if it were written in prose rather than verse? Explain. 7. How might a contemporary of Beowulf’s answer the Focus Activity question on page 16? Literature and Writing Analyzing Purpose In a few paragraphs, analyze the purpose of the prologue, or introduction, to Beowulf. How does it set the stage for the action that follows? Extending Your Response Literature Groups Some readers view Beowulf as a boastful glory seeker. Other readers view Beowulf as a noble, selfless man. With a small group of classmates, discuss each point of view.
Try to come to a consensus on Beowulf’s character. Then share your opinion with the class, supporting it with evidence from the poem. Learning for Life Using the author’s descriptions of Grendel, develop a psychological profile. Describe the monster’s personality and possible motivations for his behavior. Save your work for your portfolio. Beowulf Study Guide 19 Before You Read Beowulf Parts 19–31 FOCUS ACTIVITY Recall a time when you stood up for a friend or family member. Why did you defend the person?
Journal In your journal, describe the situation and explain why you took a stand. Setting a Purpose Read to find out who stands up for Grendel and why. BACKGROUND Did You Know? During medieval times, nobles often chose marriage partners for their children. A princess of one people might be given in marriage to the ruler of another in order to create alliances between their two peoples. As you read Beowulf, note the marriages that are described and think about the alliances that they create. Foreshadowing in Beowulf Foreshadowing is the use of hints or clues to prepare readers for events to come.
As you read Beowulf, look for clues about how the tale will end. Pay close attention to speeches and descriptions that appear to suggest more than what they actually describe. VOCABULARY PREVIEW exulting [i zult in ] adj. rejoicing greatly (l. 1881) fetters [fet ? rz] n. anything that confines or restrains (l. 1609) host [ho st] n. large number; multitude (l. 1788) ? imperious [im per e ? s] adj. dictatorial; domineering; overbearing (l. 1932) ? ? niggardly [ ni ? rd le] adj. miserly; tight-fisted; penurious (l. 1929) ? surging [surj in ] adj. moving with a violent, heaving, swelling motion (l. 453) 20 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Active Reading Beowulf Parts 19–31 Many of the characters in Beowulf are motivated by vengeance. As you read the next section of Beowulf, use the chart below to note characters who seek revenge. To avenge the death of Hnaef, King Hengest kills Finn. To avenge Beowulf Study Guide 21 Name Date Class Responding Beowulf Parts 19–31 Personal Response What lines linger in your mind? Why? Analyzing Literature Recall and Interpret 1.
Grendel’s mother is a major figure, but nothing is known about Grendel’s father. In a poem in which ancestry is important, what does Grendel’s ancestry suggest about his character? 2. What is the mood at Herot at the beginning of Part 19? How does the mood change? Why? 3. What does Beowulf’s speech just before fighting Grendel’s mother suggest about his relationship to his men? To Higlac? 4. Contrast Beowulf and Hermod. How does the contrast help define Beowulf’s character? 5. What sword does Beowulf take into battle?
Who gave him the sword? What does the sword’s failure in battle suggest about its owner? 22 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Responding Beowulf Parts 19–31 Analyzing Literature (continued) Evaluate and Connect 6. The literary term deus ex machina refers to the improbable and unexpected introduction of a person or device to make things turn out right. In your opinion, does the term apply to Beowulf’s fight with Grendel’s mother? Explain. 7. In Beowulf what are the consequences of seeking revenge? What other ways might problems be worked out? Literature and Writing
Recognizing Allusions Allusions are references in a work of literature to a well-known person, place, event, written work, or work of art. Beowulf contains numerous biblical allusions. For example, Grendel is described as an offspring of Cain. In a paragraph or two, explain what this allusion or any other allusion of your choice adds to the poem. Extending Your Response Literature Groups With a small group of classmates, discuss Beowulf ’s portrayal of women (including Grendel’s mother). Based on the portrayal of women in the poem, describe the “ideal” Anglo-Saxon woman.
How would she have behaved? What roles would she have played? Share your description with the class. Performing With a partner, discuss the tone of parts 20 and 21, in which Hrothgar laments the murder of his trusted counselor Esher and Beowulf responds. How do you think the king and Beowulf feel? How might these feelings be conveyed in their tones of voice and facial expressions? Choose roles and rehearse the scene; then perform it for your class. Save your work for your portfolio. Beowulf Study Guide 23 Before You Read Beowulf Parts 32–43 FOCUS ACTIVITY
Are some things worth sacrificing one’s life for? What might they be? Think-Pair-Share With a partner, talk about someone who risked his or her life to help someone else. What was the result? Setting a Purpose Read to discover how, out of selflessness, a man makes the ultimate sacrifice. BACKGROUND Did You Know? Old English poems rely heavily on alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity. Note, for example, the alliteration in these lines from the prologue to Beowulf: “We’ve heard of Danish heroes / . . . and the glory they cut . . . winging mighty swords! / How Shild made slaves of soldiers from every / Land, crowds of captives he’d beaten. ” As you read the final section of Beowulf, look for instances of alliteration, and think about how they add to the music of the poem. The Kenning As a Literary Device Another device that often appears in Old English poetry is the kenning, a descriptive figure of speech that takes the place of a familiar noun. Beowulf contains numerous examples of this special use of words. For example, the route that Beowulf and his men sail is called a “sea-road,” and the waves are called “ocean furrows. As you continue to read, look for other examples of this literary device. VOCABULARY PREVIEW bolt [bolt] v. to break away from control; start and run off (l. 2888) ? hoary [hor e] adj. venerable; ancient (l. 2553) ? livid [liv id] adj. having a grayish-blue coloration from a bruise (l. 2724) reproach [ri proch ] n. act of reproaching; blame; reproof (l. 2331) ? skulk [skulk] v. to move in a furtive or stealthy manner (l. 2366) venomous [ ven ? m? s] adj. able to inflict a poisonous wound, esp. by biting or stinging; secreting and transmitting venom (l. 2838)
24 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Active Reading Beowulf Parts 32–43 Beowulf is a narrative poem that moves through a sequence of events. As you read Parts 32–43 of the poem, trace the events from the beginning of this section to the end by completing the boxes below. At the end, predict the fate of the Geats. A fugitive steals a cup from the dragon’s hoard. Beowulf prepares to fight the dragon alone. The dragon wounds Beowulf mortally. Beowulf is accorded a hero’s burial. Outcome for the Geats:
Beowulf Study Guide 25 Name Date Class Responding Beowulf Parts 32–43 Personal Response Were you surprised by the conclusion of Beowulf? How would you have ended the poem? Why? Analyzing Literature Recall and Interpret 1. What incident leads the dragon on the path to vengeance? 2. How does Beowulf become king of the Geats? Explain how his ascension to the throne reinforces the character traits he displays earlier in the poem. 3. In what way does Wiglaf resemble the younger Beowulf? What makes him a worthy successor to Beowulf? . Why is Beowulf’s death a turning point for the Geats? 5. What is usually done with treasures taken from a defeated enemy? Why is it significant that the treasure from the dragon’s den is buried with Beowulf? 26 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Responding Beowulf Parts 32–43 Analyzing Literature (continued) Evaluate and Connect 6. How might you account for the enduring popularity of Beowulf? Would you recommend it to a friend? Why or why not? 7. How do you think Wiglaf would answer the question in the Focus Activity on page 24? Why? Literature and Writing
Pretend that you are Beowulf writing a letter to Wiglaf, your successor. What advice would you give to him to lead the Geats? What mistakes might you warn him against making? What values would you suggest he hold dear? Draw upon details from Beowulf’s life that you think would be instructive to the young leader. Extending Your Response Literature Groups With a small group of students, discuss a theme, or main idea, developed in Beowulf. Together, write a sentence or two that sums up the theme. Then share your summary with the class, explaining how you arrived at it.
Learning for Life With a small group of students, write the script for a news broadcast on the death of Beowulf. Recap his illustrious career, the main events in his life, his rise to fame and eventual death. Include brief “man-on-the-street” interviews with Geats responding to the loss. Choose roles and rehearse the broadcast; then videotape the production and play it for your class or, if you prefer, do a live performance. Save your work for your portfolio. Beowulf Study Guide 27 Name Date Class The New Beowulf Online NewsHour with Seamus Heaney
Before You Read Focus Question What do people mean when they say that something is “lost in translation”? What does it take to create a good translation of a work? Background Rarely does poetry make the bestseller list. Yet Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf did just that. Heaney’s translation has been hailed as “both direct and sophisticated, making previous versions look slightly flowery and antique by comparison. ” In this interview, Heaney talks about the work. Responding to the Reading 1. What does Heaney mean when he says that the Beowulf poet “lived in two worlds”? 2.
What connection does Heaney make between the Old English in which Beowulf was originally written and the language spoken in the rural community where he grew up? 3. According to Heaney, in what ways are conflicts in Beowulf similar to the conflicts in contemporary Northern Ireland? How are they different? 4. What does Heaney mean when he says that “poetry has no tense”? Do you agree? Explain. 5. Making Connections In the interview, Heaney reads his translation of lines 86–96 of Beowulf. Compare with Heaney’s translation Burton Raffel’s translation in your text. Which translation do you prefer?
Why? Writing About Literature Heaney’s translation of Beowulf has been described as being more accessible than earlier versions of the poem. Get a copy of Heaney’s translation of Beowulf from your school or community library and compare it with the translation in your text. Then, in a few paragraphs, tell what you think makes it more accessible than Raffel’s version. Support your opinion by quoting passages from both translations. 28 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class John Gardner Before You Read from Grendel Focus Question Think of a time when you had to weigh two sides of a story before you could form an opinion.
How did the two points of view differ? How did you decide which one to believe? Background John Gardner taught creative writing and published poems, novels, short stories, criticism, and children’s books before his untimely death in 1982. This excerpt is from the last two chapters of his novel Grendel. It describes Grendel’s encounter with Beowulf from the monster’s point of view. Responding to the Reading 1. What is Grendel’s reaction to Beowulf’s seizing his arm? How does he explain it? 2. What does Grendel think of Beowulf? 3. What was the accident that, in Grendel’s mind, gave Beowulf the upper hand?
4. Does Grendel attribute Beowulf’s success to his prowess or to the accident? How do you know? 5. Making Connections How does the portrayal of the monster in Grendel differ from the portrayal in Beowulf? Creative Writing Using the excerpt from Grendel as a model, rewrite a folktale from the monster’s point of view. For example, you might retell “Little Red Riding Hood” from the wolf’s point of view or “Jack and the Beanstalk” from the giant’s point of view. Share your story with your class. Beowulf Study Guide 29 Name Date Class ranslated by Charles W. Kennedy Old English Riddles Before You Read Focus Question Why are riddles able to engage and hold our interest? Background The Exeter Book, a collection of Old English texts from which these riddles come, contains ninety-five such poems, suggesting the popularity of riddling in Anglo-Saxon society. Responding to the Reading 1. What is the solution to each riddle? Which words and phrases in the first riddle provide the best clues to the solution? 2. What paradox, or apparent contradiction, is set up in the first two half-lines of the second riddle? 3.
Why might the object in the third riddle be described as “smitten”? 4. In which riddle does the subject express itself with the greatest emotion? is the object given the most emotional content? In what terms does it describe itself? 5. Making Connections Choose a kenning from Beowulf and explain how it might be viewed as a riddle. Creative Writing Using these riddles as models, write a verse riddle of your own. Choose an everyday object and describe its most essential characteristics. Share your riddle with your classmates and see if they can solve it. 0 Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class Dino Buzzati The Slaying of the Dragon Before You Read Focus Question Monster movies continue to draw large audiences. Why do so many people enjoy stories about monsters? What is the appeal of movie monsters like Godzilla and King Kong? Background Italian author Dino Buzzati wrote several distinguished fantasy stories and novels. In his works, he often combined the real and the fantastic. Buzzati died in 1972. Responding to the Reading 1. What warning does Dr. Taddei give Andronico? Why doesn’t Andronico heed Dr. Taddei’s warnings? 2.
Briefly describe the dragon. In your opinion, is the portrayal of the dragon sympathetic? Explain why you feel as you do. 3. In your opinion, are the dragon slayers in this story heroes? Explain. 4. What might the dragon symbolize? 5. Making Connections Compare the dragon in “The Slaying” with the dragon in Beowulf. In what ways are the two monsters similar? different? Literature Groups With a group of classmates, discuss the techniques that Buzzati uses to make the story of the dragon plausible. Beowulf Study Guide 31 Name Date
Class Jane Cahill Before You Read Medusa’s Story Focus Question If someone could foretell your future, would you want the person to describe what will happen to you or would you rather not know? Why? Background If you believe that there are two sides to every story, then you will enjoy this retelling of the Medusa myth. “Medusa’s Story” recounts the events in the Greek myth from the monster’s point of view. Responding to the Reading 1. Why does Athena punish Medusa? In your opinion, does the punishment fit the crime? Explain. 2. How does Medusa feel about her impending death?
Why? 3. How might Medusa answer the Focus Question? How can you tell? 4. Does Medusa arouse your sympathy? Explain why or why not. 5. Making Connections Describe the role of fate in Beowulf and in “Medusa’s Story. ” How are Beowulf’s and Medusa’s responses to fate different? Listening and Speaking Use library resources or the Internet to find a copy of the Greek myth on which “Medusa’s Story” is based. Compare and contrast the portrayal of Medusa in the two works. Then share your findings in a brief oral report to your class. 32
Beowulf Study Guide Name Date Class edited by Minnie Postma The Woman with the Big Thumbnail from Tales of the Basotho Before You Read Focus Question Many folktales tell about monsters. What do the monsters in folktales have in common? Background Virtually all cultures have legends about man-eating monsters. This African folktale describes a legendary monster who has a unique way of killing people. The tale is an old one that has been handed down from one generation of Basotho to the next. Responding to the Reading 1. Why is Sechakatane so lonely? 2. How does Sechakatane meet Bulane?
3. How do Bulane and his men manage to kill Machakatane? 4. What evidence is there in the story that the tale has been conveyed orally from generation to generation? 5. Making Connections What similarities do you see in “The Woman with the Big Thumbnail” and Beowulf? Performing Practice reading “The Woman with the Big Thumbnail” aloud. Pay attention to the natural rhythms of speech it captures and vary the rate and pitch of your voice to express the varying tones of the story. Then read the story aloud to your class. Beowulf Study Guide Test 33 | <urn:uuid:a7e676ca-70ff-4b7e-9394-64cbf10721fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://graduateway.com/beowulf-study-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.93291 | 5,820 | 3.625 | 4 |
For years physicists have been refining invisibility cloaks—physical setups that cleverly reroute light around a region in space, effectively concealing any object that might be inside. Now researchers at Cornell University have built the first temporal cloak, a device that obscures an object or event at a specific moment in time.
In a preliminary demonstration Cornell postdoctoral researcher Moti Fridman and his colleagues shone a laser beam through an experimental apparatus and into a detector. A physical object or even another beam of light in the laser beam’s path would typically create a change in the laser light that the detector would register. With some clever optics, however, Fridman and his co-workers were able to open up a brief time gap in the beam and then close it back up as if the beam had gone undisturbed and in such a way that the detector did not register the interruption. The gap allows anything that would have otherwise affected the beam, such as an object, to instead slip right through, leaving no trace for the detector to pick up.
The researchers used the cloak to obscure an optical pulse that ordinarily interacts with the laser beam to produce a telltale spike at a certain wavelength. Yet when the event was cloaked, the telltale spike was nearly undetectable.
The cloak, described in the January 5 issue of Nature, relies on the fact that light of different colors moves at different speeds through certain media. Using a device that they call a time lens, the researchers split a single-color laser beam into a spread of wavelengths, then slowed half those wavelengths while speeding up the others. That created a very brief time gap that could be closed again before the beam reached the detector by reversing the lensing process, restoring the beam to a single, seemingly undisturbed wavelength.
The gap achieved by Fridman and his colleagues was extremely small—just 50 picoseconds, or 50 trillionths of a second, in duration. The investigators note that it is possible to extend the gap somewhat but that scattering and dispersion effects limit the scope of the temporal cloak to a few nanoseconds.
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Germany: The list of standards and other technical specifications under ProdSG updated
APRIL 2020 – RELEVANT FOR: HARDLINES, TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS
In the Joint Ministerial Journal No. 1 of 17 January 2020, p. 20, the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Baua) has announced the updated list of standards1 and other technical specifications2 identified by the Product Safety Commission (AfPS), that provide the presumption of conformity to the German Product Safety Law - ProdSG.
Highlights of standards among the updated lists are:
- DIN 30760 April 2019 Mobile waste and recycling containers- containers with two wheels with a capability from 60 l to 360 l for diamond lifting devices
- DIN 75302 June 2019 Roof racks for wheel vehicle and its trailer- requirements and test methods
- DIN 75303 June 2019 Rear load carrier for wheel vehicles and its trailers - requirements and test method
- DIN EN 527-2 July 2019 Office furniture- work tables-part 2: safety, strength and durability requirements; German version EN 527-2: 2016 + A1: 2019
- DIN EN 748 April 2018 Playing field equipment - football goals - functional and safety requirements, test methods; German version EN 748: 2013 + A1: 2018
- DIN EN 1335-2 April 2019 Office furniture - office work chair - Part 2: safety requirements; German version EN 1335-2: 2018
- DIN EN 1888-1 May 2019 child care article- wheeled child conveyance – part 1: pushchairs and prams
- DIN EN 13236 July 2019 Safety requirements for super abrasives; German version EN 13236: 2019
- DIN EN 14619 October 2019 Roller sports equipment - kick scooters - safety requirements and test methods; German version EN 14619: 2019
- DIN EN 1176-4 May 2019 Playground equipment and surfacing - Part 4: Additional specific safety requirements and test methods for cableways German version EN 1176-4: 2017 + AC: 2019
- DIN EN 1176-6 May 2019 Playground equipment and surfacing - Part 6: Additional specific safety requirements and test methods for rocking equipment German version EN 1176-6: 2017 + AC: 2019 etc.
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Is Retrieval of Forest Biochemical Traits Stable over Variety of Environmental Conditions?
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|Popis||A network of 15 small forested catchments established in the Czech Republic (the GEOMON network) has been used since 1994 for a long-term monitoring of the input-output element budgets and to study the ecosystem response to anthropogenic pressures (e.g., air pollution and soil acidification). The small catchments (22 – 260 ha) are predominantly covered by Norway spruce (Picea abies) forests, they were exposed to different levels of air pollution in the past and represent variety of environmental conditions (e.g., altitude, bedrock, soil types, forest age). During summer 2017 we collected airborne hyperspectral images with the CASI and SASI spectroradiometers (400 – 2400 nm, 162 bands with band width varying between 10 and 15 nm, pixel size of 1 m) and complementary field data on leaf chlorophyll, carotenoid, and water contents and leaf mass per area for 10 out of 15 watersheds (in total 120 trees were sampled at 40 subplots). Taking the advantage of such a rich dataset, the main objective was to optimize the retrieval of biochemical traits for varying conditions in coniferous stands and to test the retrieval stability in respect of varying environmental, forest and data acquisition conditions. Retrievals were optimized for coniferous stands by employing 3D radiative transfer model DART that allowed simulation of look-up tables for variety of forest and environmental conditions (variable biochemical traits, tree height, tree density, leaf area index, topography, and forest floor), as well as for different image acquisition conditions (i.e., illumination geometry). The look-up tables were used to train a machine learning algorithm, support vector regression (SVR) in combination with feature extraction to retrieve biochemical parameters from the airborne hyperspectral images. The field data on leaf biochemical traits indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the catchments, nonetheless the variation between the subplots is large and it varies from 35 to 60 ug cm-2 for leaf chlorophyll content, from 4.6 to 7.6 ug cm-2 for leaf carotenoid content, from 0.018 to 0.026 g cm-2 for leaf water content, and from 0.014 to 0.024 g cm-2 for leaf mass per area. The preliminary results of retrieved traits from airborne hyperspectral images show systematic overestimation of leaf chlorophyll content and the most stable estimates across the catchments were obtained for leaf water content. The most influential feature of the retrievals was the terrain topography.| | <urn:uuid:c10a844f-d7a1-4b56-b27c-e29b6824b14f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.muni.cz/vyzkum/publikace/1550861 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.901836 | 597 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Commercial building windows serve many purposes: they let natural light in, provide views, and add to the curb appeal of a building. A building’s windows also have a big effect on how energy efficient the facility is.
Not only is having a more energy efficient building good for the environment, but it can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on your utility bills. Green buildings are also more attractive to potential tenants, so you can lease revenue-generating spaces faster.
How Commercial Windows Affect Your Building’s Energy Efficiency
Different Types of Commercial Building Windows
When looking at the energy efficiency of different commercial windows, there are two main components to consider: the glass itself and the frames.
Most modern commercial facilities use some type of tempered safety glass for their windows. This is a special type of glass that shatters into thousands of tiny, harmless pieces when it breaks, instead of into jagged, sharp shards.
For a building to be energy efficient, the windows should be double- or triple-pane, meaning that there are actually two or three panels of glass set into each frame.
Though most contemporary buildings are built with these types of windows, older facilities might have single-pane glazing, which doesn’t do much of anything for energy efficiency.
Now, let’s take a look at how different types of framing can affect the energy efficiency of your windows as well.
Common types of commercial window framing:
Vinyl windows are one of the most common types of windows in new commercial buildings. This is because they are very durable, energy efficient, and affordable. A downside of vinyl frames is that they are fairly chunky, meaning that there is less glass space in the frame.
Another popular choice for commercial building windows is fiberglass. Similar to vinyl, fiberglass windows are durable and energy efficient. In fact, fiberglass is even stronger and more resilient than vinyl.
Fiberglass frames also typically have a lower profile, so there is more room for the glass. Though fiberglass-framed windows are more expensive than vinyl ones, they’re a good investment if cost isn’t the only concern.
Though less commonly used in modern commercial construction, a third option for window frames is composite wood.
Wood-framed windows are more expensive than vinyl and fiberglass ones, but wood is even more energy efficient than other materials. Wood windows also give a building a more traditional, elegant look that modern materials just can’t achieve.
Another option you have for commercial window frames is aluminum. Aluminum is very strong, so it’s favored for very large window openings because it can support a lot of weight. However, aluminum windows are less energy efficient and require more maintenance than other varieties.
If you want the strength of aluminum with better energy efficiency, you can get aluminum-clad windows. These types of windows have aluminum on the exterior side and wood on the interior side.
Aluminum-clad window frames are more insulated than frames that are only made of aluminum, so they’re more energy efficient. And, the wood is protected from the elements by the aluminum cladding, making them more durable than wood frames.
So, now that you understand a little more about how different types of windows can impact the energy efficiency of a commercial facility, let’s move on to your options for making existing commercial windows more energy efficient.
How To Make Commercial Building Windows More Energy Efficient
Using Commercial Window Film to Improve the Performance of Windows
If your building was built with energy efficient windows, such as double- or triple-glazed vinyl windows, great! But what if you have an older facility that’s not so green? What can you do to improve the performance of your existing windows?
Replacing all your existing windows with contemporary, energy efficient models can be prohibitively expensive, not to mention disruptive to building tenants. But don’t worry, that isn’t your only option.
We have another solution for you: low-emissivity window film.
Low-emissivity window film, or low-e window film, is a special type of pliable coating that can be applied directly to the glass surface of any existing windows.
What this type of window film does is add another layer of insulation to your glass. Essentially, you’re upgrading a single-pane window to a double-pane window, or a double-pane to a triple-pane.
Low-e window film helps reflect heat back inside during the winter and keep cool air in during the summer, thus reducing the amount you need to run your heating or air conditioning system.
This not only improves the environmental friendliness and indoor comfort of your facility, but it can save you tons of money on your monthly utility bills.
In fact, many people who decide to invest in low-e window film see a return on their investment in the first year simply due to the reduced energy costs.
Benefits of low-emissivity window film:
- Quick and easy to install
- Reduces your reliance on HVAC systems
- Can be applied to any existing glass surface
- Doesn’t change the appearance of the glass
- Blocks out harmful UV rays
- Reduces glare
- Provides energy savings in all climates
If you want your building to look exactly the same, you can choose clear low-e window film. Clear film boosts the energy efficiency of your windows without altering the appearance of your glass in any way.
However, you could also seize the opportunity to give your building a facelift by opting for a tinted, mirrored, or colored variety. This can make an older building look more modern and improve its curb appeal for potential tenants.
Windows aren’t just for letting light in and providing you with views of the outdoors. They also play a big role in making commercial facilities more energy efficient. So, don’t overlook your windows when you’re looking to make green, money-saving upgrades to your building!
We have years of experience improving the energy efficiency of commercial building windows with our window films. Contact Campbell Corporation today for more information or to schedule a consultation. | <urn:uuid:f55c88b6-f997-4d3b-8faf-30d7a18e1798> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://campbellwindowfilm.com/how-commercial-building-windows-affect-energy-efficiency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.929455 | 1,305 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Now over 2.5 years since COVID-19, workplaces have developed new working norms that establish flexible and hybrid work as a sustained feature of the modern workplace, rather than a pandemic response.
Hot desking has become a typical component of the modern workplace. Driven by a clear shift towards a hybrid working model, in which 74% of companies are transitioning into. Research shows that desks in offices are empty almost 60% of the time (Global Workplace Analytics).
- Reduced costs of running the office (estimated at around 30%).
- Saving of floor space (estimated at 15-25%).
- Greater collaboration and social culture between employees.
- Accommodates for remote employees, consultants, part-timers, interns.
- Disperses hierarchy within the office.
Although there are three key drawbacks that need to be overcome to reduce friction and manage change.
Loss of employee homebase
Employees have previously found comfort and security from their own permanent desk and cabinet. In any transition to a hot desking model, employees need a homebase, e.g. a storage locker, to supplement the loss of secure space. The need for storage lockers is more critical given the unpredictability of who is in the office and general access to hot desking areas.
Increased uncertainty for employees
Employees will now have multiple decisions and unknowns before each work week, from deciding on which days to come into work (typically based on team) and not knowing if there is an available seat for them when in the office. Multiple workplace management platforms exist to co-ordinate teams and book desks. This will reduce any anxiety caused from increased uncertainty within the employee user journey.
Permanent desks meant that desktop computers could be setup along with phone lines – setup for the relevant employee. Employee technology needs to be flexible with laptops that can be plugged into available monitors. Investment into appropriate IT resources is important in enabling hot desking.
The transition to hot desking is a form of change management that will create friction within the workplace. It is critical within a workplace change management strategy to keep employees informed and provide the necessary resources for them to thrive within a hot desking model, e.g., storage lockers, flexible technology, and platforms to co-ordinate office days. | <urn:uuid:b9bba886-d631-44b9-b66b-a17ceb9bc404> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yellowbox.app/articles/what-you-need-to-know-before-transitioning-to-a-hot-desking-model | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.950858 | 471 | 1.96875 | 2 |
In the early part of 1991, the SDA Reform Movement with headquarters in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, and the International Missionary Society with headquarters in Mosbach, Germany, appointed representatives from each side for the so-called Unification Committee. Peace dialogues were started and a unification plan was adopted on the basis of three agreements signed in 1991. But, during the IMS delegation session held in Ecuador, March–April 1993, the hard-liners carried the majority of votes; and the unification plan already accepted by both General Conference Councils, according to the three agreements, was rejected.
Our second international youth congress was held in the beautiful Waldensian valley, at a place called Bobbio Pelice, near Turin, Italy, in August 1994. There were attendants from many Unions and Fields, even from distant countries, such as Australia, Brazil, India, Korea.
|Temporarily (1984–1995), the General Conference used several small buildings on a 10-acre lot that was secured for the building of the GC headquarters (Roanoke, Virgina, USA). In front of one of these buildings are the members of the GC Council elected in 1983.|
Workers transferred during the quadrennium 1991–1995: Chang Won Jun (Nehemiah), from the United States to Japan (1991); Herinaldo Gomes, from Ecuador to Brazil (1992); Luiz Araujo, from Brazil to Portugal (1994); Emilson Motta, from Italy to Brazil (1995).
|General Conference headquarters, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, dedicated in 1995.|
An important feat which was accomplished in 1994 was the distribution of two challenging books, The Great Controversy (over 300,000 copies) and The New World Order (over 4,000,000 copies), in cooperation with an independent Adventist ministry of reform-minded brethren, in twelve or more countries. The results were encouraging. While there were some negative responses from bigoted individuals who were enraged at the contents of these books, a great number of letters were received from people who wanted to know more about the truth and especially about the impending crisis which is coming upon the world. Many doors were thus opened for Bible studies.
Another important accomplishment during this administrative period was the building of the edifice for the General Conference headquarters in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, in l994–l995. | <urn:uuid:c7785b19-8b7e-4f97-aafa-2c77e39088dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sdarm.org/about-us/origin/international-work/1991-1995 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.973674 | 496 | 1.742188 | 2 |
whole womens health
Second Nexus Perspective
A woman’s right to an abortion could become much more difficult to exercise in Texas in the months to come. Seventy-five percent of the forty clinics spread throughout the state a mere two years ago will be shuttered if the Supreme Court denies the petition for certiorari filed earlier this month in Whole Women’s Health v. Lakey. This would leave a mere 10 clinics to service the second largest and second most populated state in the union. These clinics, which are clustered around the five metropolitan areas in Texas, would leave approximately 1 in 6 women of reproductive age in Texas over 150 miles from their nearest clinic.
The case is a result of Texas’s 2013 law House Bill 2, which would add a series of onerous and largely inapplicable restrictions on abortion clinics. Two of these restrictions are challenged in Whole Women’s Health.
First, the petition challenges the requirement that the physician performing the abortion have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles from the clinic. While this provision purports to establish minimum standards of care, admitting privileges often have no bearing on a doctor’s competence. Many doctors who perform abortions have no formal hospital affiliation, ironically, because the procedure itself is so safe that these doctors rarely, if ever, need to admit their patients to a hospital. As a result, they often do not meet the hospitals’ minimum requirements for number of patients admitted or surgeries performed.
So a provision ostensibly drafted to promote women’s safety actually penalizes those doctors -- and the clinics -- for their exemplary safety records.
via Flickr user ann harkness
The second restriction requires that abortion clinics meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). ASCs are designed to provide sterile environments for surgeries historically performed in hospitals. Implementing ASC standards would require,
among other things, an operating room, designated storage space for general anesthesia, restricted access to surgical suites, and special ventilation, which are unnecessary for the vast majority of abortions.
These two restrictions alone would close more than 75 percent of Texas’s abortion clinics.
The Supreme Court’s Brushes with H.B. 2
via Flickr user John Marino
The Supreme Court is no stranger to H.B. 2. The provision requiring admitting privileges was challenged separately in the 2013 case Planned Parenthood v. Abbott. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision with Justice Kennedy as the swing vote, upheld the Fifth Circuit’s decision that resulted in the admitting privileges provision going into effect. As a result, roughly half of Texas’s abortion clinics were forced to close – down to 18 currently from 41 in 2012.
In 2014, the Court vacated a stay in Whole Women’s Health, which prevented the ASC provision from going into effect until the Fifth Circuit heard the case. After the Fifth Circuit reached its decision upholding the ASC provision, the Supreme Court issued a stay, allowing the clinics to stay open until the Court decided whether to hear the case on appeal. If the Court denies certiorari, the stay will lose effect and an additional eight clinics will close, leaving just ten.
Because of the Supreme Court’s active involvement in the case thus far, it is likely that it will accept the petition for certiorari, perhaps as early as November, and hear the case. If so, a decision may be reached by June 2016.
Fifth Circuit: If “Any Conceivable Rationale” Exists, the Statute Must Be Upheld
The petition in Whole Women’s Health emphasized the aberrance of the Fifth Circuit’s opinion upholding H.B. 2. In order for an anti-abortion statute to be constitutional, it must not place an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to have an abortion pre-viability. However, the Fifth Circuit’s interpretation of “undue burden” is significantly less restrictive than other
jurisdictions. Most circuits require that a law actually advance the state’s interest in promoting women’s health. The Fifth Circuit, in contrast, found that a law must be upheld if “any conceivable rationale exists for its enactment,” even if all medical evidence shows that it does not promote women’s health. Here, the Fifth Circuit found that the “conceivable rationale” test was met because the legislation’s stated purpose was to promote the health of the mother, despite all medical evidence to the contrary.
Here, the statute likely would not have the effect of furthering women’s health. The District Court agreed, pointing to “the dearth of credible evidence supporting the proposition that abortions performed in ambulatory surgical centers have better patient health outcomes compared to clinics licensed under the previous regime” in supporting its decision to find the statute unconstitutional.
An amicus brief filed by the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists further warned that the statute may actually impair women’s health: “[T]here is simply no medical basis for requiring that abortion facilities meet the standards for ambulatory surgical centers or for enforcing a local admitting privileges requirement against abortion providers. H.B. 2 does not serve the health of women in Texas but instead jeopardizes women’s health by restricting access to abortion providers.” (Another clue that women’s health may not be its primary concern lies in the short title of the statute regarding abortions performed after 20 weeks: the “Preborn Pain Act.”)
A Million Women Would Have to Travel Hundreds of Miles for an Abortion
The statute would have the effect of seriously restricting access to abortion clinics for millions of Texas women. The admitting privileges requirement has already moved the average Texas County up to 111 miles from the nearest clinic, from 72 miles pre-H.B. 2. Close to a million women would have to travel over 150 miles, each way, for the abortion. If certiorari were denied, or if the Court hears the case and affirms the Fifth Circuit’s decision, only ten abortion clinics would be left to service the entire state of Texas. These clinics would be clustered in the major metropolitan areas of Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, Houston and San Antonio.
via Flickr user Steve Rhodes
The western portion of the state would be hit the hardest. The two clinics located in El Paso—the only ones in the western portion of the state—would be forced to close. This would leave no licensed abortion facilities west of San Antonio, a swath of Texas occupying over 100,000 square miles.
Women throughout the state, not just those located in rural areas, would be impacted by the statute. With only ten clinics left to service the roughly 60,000 women who seek an abortion in Texas each year, wait times would increase dramatically – in some cases,
past the point where women may legally and safely obtain an abortion. (These clinics are currently servicing about 14,000 women.) And while abortion is deemed an extremely safe procedure, the chances of complications rises with gestational age.
Additionally, the cost of abortions would rise. Most of the clinics that would be forced to close perform abortions at lower rates than the average ASC, due in large part to the additional costs associated with being an ASC. Women in Texas could expect the typical in-state abortion to rise about 15 percent, to just over $700.
Ramifications Beyond Texas
The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case would have an impact far beyond Texas. H.B. 2 is merely one of the latest in a recent surge of anti-abortion legislation. In 2013 alone, 22 states enacted 70 anti-abortion measures, down slightly from the 92 enacted in 2012. More state abortion restrictions were enacted from 2011 to 2013 than in the entire preceding decade.
Among these, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 26 other states have also passed ASC or admitting privileges regulations, with more expected in upcoming legislative sessions. Mississippi’s law, which is also pending before the Supreme Court, would leave one clinic open in the entire state. Alabama’s law, which was struck down by a federal district court, would leave only two.
via Flickr user Steve Rainwater
With the 2016 elections in sight, it is unlikely that the pace of the anti-abortion legislation will slow down. If anything, the momentum is likely to increase as Republican candidates cater to their constituents on the right. If the Supreme Court issues its ruling on Whole Women’s Health in June 2016, as expected, it is likely that abortion will once again make its way to the front of the national debate, just in time for the election ramp-up.
In the meantime, Texas earns has a temporary reprieve as the Court considers whether to hear the case. Whether that reprieve will last is now in the hands of the Court.
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New Decision Narrows Scope of Georgia Computer Trespass Statute
The Georgia Supreme Court recently concluded that Georgia’s equivalent of the CFAA should be viewed narrowly, similar to the US Supreme Court’s recent, similar decision in Van Buren. In Kinslow v. State, the Georgia Supreme Court held that even if there is unauthorized use of a computer or computer network, there must be enough evidence to prove that the defendant used the computer network knowingly without authority and with the intention of obstructing or interfering with the use of data.
The court acknowledged that in the case at hand, the defendant lacked authority when he altered his employer’s computer network settings in such a way that his supervisor’s emails were forwarded to defendant’s personal email address. However, there was not enough evidence to prove that the defendant had the intention to obstruct or interfere with the flow of data in the form of emails, as the supervisor still received emails that were intended for him. The court went through a deep analysis of each of the elements of the statute. Applying the canons of construction, it found that there must be evidence of the intention to obstruct and interfere, which was lacking in this case. As a result, the court overturned the defendant’s felony conviction under Georgia’s computer trespass law.
Putting It Into Practice: This case shows that the scope of state computer trespass/fraud statutes may be narrowed, similar to the narrowed scope of CFAA. As we noted following the Van Buren decision, companies should think about regularly auditing and updating access rights to their IT systems. | <urn:uuid:75c0ae3f-1371-4456-b331-4cec3cd4f2f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-decision-narrows-scope-georgia-computer-trespass-statute | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.96949 | 331 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Quantum physics tells us that everything in the universe is made up of energy. What differentiates a boulder from a flower is the different vibrational frequencies of their energies. Intangibles such as thoughts, words and feelings also have their own unique energies and vibrational frequencies. This fundamental universal law is the key to building your best life.
We have all experienced this. Have you ever seen a movie that had a very heavy, tragic theme and then you notice that the heavy energy of that film sticks with you for hours or even days? Do you have a certain friend that you always pick up the phone and call when you are having a bad day because you know you can count on them to make you laugh and help lift you into a better mental space? That is the kind of energy we are talking about here. It is real, and you can feel it affect your mood, thoughts and emotions.
One of my favorite illustrations of this concept is the work of Masaru Emoto. His well-known experiments with water crystals are a fantastic visual example of these intangible energies. For a quick introduction to his work, I like to refer my clients to his children’s book, which provides a beautiful overview in just 20 illustrated pages. You can access that book at this URL (which is much better viewed on a big screen): https://www.slideshare.net/lindsaylovebottle/the-childrens-book-pdf-presentation.
In his book: The Message From Water, he states that, “spoken words have vibration”. Then he goes on to demonstrate how both the spoken and the written word can alter the crystalline structures in the water. This connection between human consciousness and the ability to affect matter was also covered extensively in the documentaries: The Secret, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, and I Am. I highly recommend all three of those films.
These works clearly demonstrate the power of thoughts and words. When someone is going through a hard time, we often say, “My thoughts and prayers are with you”. Even if you are an atheist, you can send positive words and thoughts to a person who is dealing with a traumatic event and it does help; it does make a difference. The references that I have listed clearly demonstrate that fact.
When we become aware of how powerful words are and the impact they have on those around us, it raises the bar on our responsibility to choose our words with care and consciousness. We need to pay better attention to what we say, and make sure it is in alignment with what we want to create. Do we put others or ourselves down with labels such as: fat, lazy, scatterbrained, etc.? Watch out for trap phrases like these examples: “That kills me when he does that”, “I’ll buy that today and worry about where the money is coming from later”, or “That will kill two birds with one stone”. Take a closer look at the words in those phrases. We think we are just illustrating a point, but what energy do the words “kill” and “worry” carry? Think about cussing. We have become a society where curse words filter into our ordinary conversations with great regularity. It’s interesting to consider that they were long ago labeled “curse” words. It seems that when that description originated, people were aware of the potency those words carry. Yet now they are used with a frequent disregard for the energy and negative power they wield.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, the dampening effects of watching a heavy movie can linger for hours or even days afterwards. Keep this in mind when you make choices about your leisure time activities. Think about your choices for television viewing. If you choose violent action shows, courtroom dramas, boxing matches and medical emergency shows, you are bringing a lot of tension energy into your space. If you finish out each evening with the nightly news, you are taking in a lot of upsetting information just before you plan to get a restful night’s sleep. That is not a good combination. Also consider what messages are expressed in the music you listen to.
We often float through our days on autopilot. We have developed certain habits that we repeat over and over again without question. We speak certain phrases or words without thinking twice about them. If you are ready to create your best life, it is time to step out of the autopilot mode and into conscious living. Watch your words, and know that they have great power. Choose words that generate positivity. Spend your time with people who are uplifting and fun. And choose leisure time activities that raise your vibrational frequency. As you create a better energy space for your own life, know that it also benefits everyone you come into contact with throughout the day. Energy is real, and it is contagious! | <urn:uuid:f5897842-fa37-4e59-8988-b3a74dab54d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lglifeandwellness.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.966716 | 1,012 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Haley breaks with Trump: 'In America, our political opponents are not evil'
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley insisted Thursday night that “in America, our political opponents are not evil,” a sharp rhetorical break from her boss, President Donald Trump, who has labeled Democrats as “evil,” crime-loving and unwilling to defend the nation.
Addressing the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, Haley said the “toxic political environment” has prompted both sides of the aisle to “describe their opponents as enemies or evil.”
“In America, our political opponents are not evil,” she said, highlighting atrocities committed against political opponents in Syria and Sudan as examples of true evil permeating the world of politics.
Haley’s statement was an apparent rebuke of language used by Trump on the campaign trail in recent weeks, especially in the wake of the contentious confirmation battle over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
During an address at a law enforcement conference earlier this month, Trump said sexual assault allegations brought against Kavanaugh “was a disgraceful situation, brought about by people that are evil, and he toughed it out.” The president was later asked whether he should call Americans evil, to which he replied, “I know fellow Americans that are evil ... I’ve known some fellow Americans that are pretty evil.”
And at a campaign rally last week in Iowa, Trump labeled Democrats who opposed Kavanaugh’s confirmation “really evil people” who “want to destroy people.” At other campaign stops, the president has often suggested Democrats are “the party of crime” and labeled the press “the enemy of the people.”
Thursday evening, at a rally in Montana, Trump praised GOP Rep. Greg Gianforte for assaulting Guardian journalist Ben Jacobs last year. The president jokingly warned to “never wrestle” Gianforte and told the crowd that “any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy.”
But Haley, in her Thursday night speech, said she has seen “true evil” during her time as U.N. ambassador.
“In South Sudan, where rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, that is evil,” she said. “In Syria, where the dictator uses chemicals weapons to murder innocent children, that is evil. In North Korea, where American student Otto Warmbier was tortured to death, that was evil.”
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis, his liturgy office and his communications team made very deliberate decisions over the past year with the goal of letting people experience how close the pope was to them in their isolation and suffering.
And people — tens of thousands of them — responded, praying with him and for him.
As the Vatican and much of Italy prepared for another Holy Week in lockdown, although a modified version compared to 2020, that dialogue continued on social media and influenced the planning of the papal liturgies, including details like the positioning of video cameras for television broadcasts and livestreaming, attention to the music and the pacing of the commentators offering translations in multiple languages.
Of course, live broadcasts have been part of the Vatican’s Easter offerings for decades.
“They are a sign of the pope’s closeness to the people of God,” Natasa Govekar, director of the theological-pastoral office of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, told Catholic News Service.
“Most of the faithful will never have an opportunity to come to Rome to meet the pope at an audience, a Mass in St. Peter’s or another event,” she said. “So, the pope draws close to people, arriving in their homes, to share with them the word of God and prayer, to communicate the Lord’s mercy, to confirm them in the faith and to accompany them where they are.”
The Dicastery for Communication, which includes the Vatican television production center, always plans the coverage of papal Masses, including the camera positions, with the pope’s master of liturgical ceremonies.
“The most obvious difference is that with the COVID-19 regulations we have gone from a full basilica to a situation with far fewer people, distanced at least a meter from each other,” Govekar said. “That’s why it was decided to move the celebrations to a more intimate part of the basilica,” the Altar of the Chair behind Bernini’s towering baldachin.
But there is no attempt to hide the fact that the celebrations are different. In fact, according to the dicastery staff, “there is always a camera very far” from the altar that frames not only the congregation of 100-150 people, but much of the empty space around them.
A particular challenge, Govekar said, is “relaying the community aspect” of the liturgy when the assembly is small, socially distanced and not allowed to exchange a sign of peace.
Even when it was possible to fill St. Peter’s Basilica with thousands of Catholics or fill St. Peter’s Square with tens of thousands for a Mass, she noted, Pope Francis still needed the help of a microphone and, in the square, megascreens.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the church is using other means, and often miniscreens, to amplify his voice and help people feel that they are there, praying with him.
Experts have estimated that in the first year of the pandemic, the use of social media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others — grew by 12% as people sought ways to be connected to one another.
The Twitter (@Pontifex) and Instagram (@franciscus) accounts of Pope Francis grew as well. His Twitter accounts, in their nine language versions, had a total of more than 52 million followers March 24 — that was a growth of almost 740,000 followers in nine months, according to the Dicastery for Communication. And, over the past year, the Instagram account grew by 1 million followers to reach 7.7 million followers in late March.
Seven of the 10 most popular tweets — those “liked” or retweeted — in the past year, Govekar said, were requests for prayer with the hashtag #PrayTogether, “creating a community around the world that was praying with the Holy Father, spiritually united despite the distances.”
The comments on social media, she said, showed that people found strength and consolation in connecting with the pope and others around the world as they prayed.
“This service was especially evident in the early months of the pandemic when almost 4 billion people around the world were confined to their homes,” Govekar said. “Through the live broadcasts of the different celebrations, Pope Francis wanted to accompany them in a time of difficulty, fear and uncertainty, and to pray with them, fortify them in the midst of tribulation and communicate hope and trust in the Lord who will never abandon us.”
Over the 69 days from early March to mid-May 2020, when the public celebrations of Mass were banned in Italy, Pope Francis decided to livestream the Mass he celebrated each morning in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
“We received countless comments, including through the mail, that made us see just how much people felt accompanied by the ‘homiletic magisterium’ of Pope Francis, that is, how important it was for them to be able to hear his voice and not just read quotes in an article,” Govekar said.
Social media, television, radio and the internet have helped the pope “to be near to people all over the world in a year that has been difficult for everyone,” she said. “And people have responded in turn with their closeness to the pope. There has been a kind of virtual dialogue unprecedented in the history of the church.” | <urn:uuid:c60e0bf7-386d-4156-a7d1-44f37dff7800> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.catholicsun.org/2021/03/25/virtual-closeness-real-community-popes-ministry-flourished-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.97102 | 1,173 | 1.640625 | 2 |
What is Really Going on with El Salvador’s Free BTC?
It has recently been reported that every citizen of El Salvador will be entitled to $30 USD worth of Bitcoin when they register for the country’s official wallet, named Chivo. This is an initiative designed to entice users into downloading the wallet (which can hold both BTC and USD, the country’s other legal tender) and engage in crypto.
But is $30 truly enough to significantly increase adoption? The truth of the matter is that El Salvador’s economy is starkly different from most Western countries, and so answers to these questions are not common knowledge. This further leads us to ask what the economics and politics of the country are like, too, and how they fair into these new Bitcoin laws.
Cost of Living in El Salvador
Firstly, let’s look at what $30 will buy you in El Salvador. Data from El Salvador Info notes that, for utilities, $30 dollars will pay for one month of cooking gas, or about one month of water. It will also pay for most doctor’s appointments, as they range from $5 to $50.
These are pretty reasonable purchases, the likes of which might be enough incentive for somebody to activate their official wallet. Especially considering how all businesses, regardless of size, must accept Bitcoin in due time, meaning that they can stretch their BTC further by also using it for groceries in local shops.
We can gain further insight by comparing this to the cost of living in the US. El Salvador is considered 34.8% cheaper than the US overall. Breaking this down, it is 27.3% cheaper for its groceries, and 57.1% cheaper for housing. However, there are a handful of areas where El Salvador is actually more expensive than the US for living, such as clothing, which is 9.5% higher, and transportation, which is 2.5% higher.
This suggests that $30 stretches further in El Salvador than it does in the US, although, this difference is not huge. However, as this money will be in Bitcoin, that means it can surely appreciate in value. At the moment, $30 equals 0.00092 BTC, but just a few months ago when Bitcoin was at its all-time-high, 0.00092 BTC was equal to $55, which is far more incentivizing.
An additional incentive for engaging with Bitcoin is that its transaction fees are lower than international fiat transaction fees in El Salvador. This is important as many citizens within the country have family who live abroad who they oftentimes send money to. Of course, BTC’s transaction fees can still get quite high, but that could soon be reduced in future upgrades.
What Influenced El Salvador’s Adoption of Bitcoin?
It helps to understand the political landscape that laid the groundwork for Bitcoin support within Congress. For starters, the push for BTC appears to be part of a larger initiative from President Nayib Bukele to reduce the number of unbanked individuals in the country. In March 25th, the President released his National Financial Inclusion Policy, aimed at giving more people access to bank accounts and more official means of money management.
The country’s Chiva wallet fits directly into this narrative as it can hold both BTC and USD. This is not the first time crypto has been used to bring more people into the online banking fold – earlier in the year a similar program was launched by VISA and Stellar to target underbanked people and give them greater financial tools.
El Salvador’s reasoning for choosing Bitcoin may also be tied to its reasons for adopting the US dollar all the way back in 2001. One paper notes that its aim was to “increase foreign investment” and “control inflation and interest rates” which would help with “sparking economic growth.”
Arguably, the El Salvadoran government may be hoping for the same benefits with Bitcoin, especially with regards to controlling inflation. With constant fears that the US dollar is losing its grip on inflation, they may have chosen to look elsewhere to help protect themselves against possible damage from the US Federal Reserve.
Together, this paints a fascinating picture of El Salvador’s political and social landscape. The $30 offering to anybody who activates their wallet could be of great help to some of its citizens, as well as help reduce its unbanked population, but there are also larger factors at play such as protecting and growing the country’s economy as a whole.
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Government allocates first increase in five years, but it is not enough to revert recent cuts.
The Spanish government has proposed its first increase in science funding since 2009, as part of the 2014 budget it presented today. Spending on non-defence research will grow by 6.1%, and the overall budget for research and development will go up by 1.3%.
However, the government plans to award more than half of the €6.14-billion (US$8.33-billion) research budget — up to €3.38 billion — as loans, a funding method that has previously been criticized by scientific societies. The rest would be awarded as grants and subsidies, amounting to €2.25 billion for non-defence research — which is still less than what the country budgeted in 2006. Military research will get a 39.5% boost in the 2014 budget, to a total of €506 million. That only partly compensates for two years of cuts including a 50% slash last year.
“This is a budget of recovery,” said Cristóbal Montoro, the minister of finance and public administration, at a press conference that outlined the budget on 27 September. This is the first time that the current government, controlled by the centre-right People's Party, has raised non-defence research spending; in fact, the move ends a trend of continued cuts in which Spain's research and development budget decreased by a total of 39% in cash terms over five years. The planned increase for science stands out among general cuts in spending for the majority of the government’s ministries.
Despite the overall increase in government science spending, the budget of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) remains almost flat, with a 0.1% nominal increase. The CSIC is going through its largest funding crisis in decades and scientists are finding it difficult to spend research money already awarded by the European Union and other sources.
After several years of austerity, some research centres will see small improvements to their finances. Funding will go up by 0.9% for the energy-research centre Ciemat, and by 2.4% for the Carlos III Health Institute, which does biomedical research. The National Research Institute for Agriculture and Food Technology will get a 10.8% boost, and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography will get 4.4%. However, funding for the Spanish Geological and Mining Institute will go down by 0.6%.
Although the proposed increases in research spending are welcome, they fall well below the demands of the Open Letter for Science movement, a lobby group comprising scientific societies, university presidents, researchers and trade unions. The group last month asked the government to raise spending on research and development grants by €636 million every year for three years, a move that would have restored science spending to 2009 levels in cash terms by 2015. The group also called for the repeal of a law that restricts public hiring at research centres, and for the creation of an agency to improve distribution of research spending.
“We’ll have to analyse the budget proposal in full detail, but on first sight it looks very far from what our scientific system needs to guarantee its survival,” says José Manuel Fernández, a spokesman for the Federation of Young Investigators, which supports Open Letter for Science. “It also looks like public hiring would remain as it is,” he adds, and says that it is unlikely that the requested agency will be created in 2014.
The budget will now be subject to debate and approval by the Spanish parliament and senate. Last week, all the opposition groups in the Spanish parliament pledged to amend the budget bill to meet the demands of Open Letter for Science, but that promise could be futile because the People's Party holds an absolute majority in both chambers.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release September 8, 1993
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
President Clinton welcomes the historic decision in South Africa to establish a Transitional Executive Council in anticipation of South Africa's first democratic election next April. He commends all those who achieved this important step along the road to a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa and looks forward to the ratification of the agreement by South Africa's parliament next week.
In separate phone calls this afternoon to State President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela, President Clinton congratulated the two leaders on the historic breakthrough and said, "The historic agreement on the Transitional Executive Council paves the way for the transition to a multiracial, democratic South Africa. The United States will remain a partner in the process of building democracy and promoting economic development in South Africa." President Clinton indicated that the United States looks forward to announcing a number of new initiatives to support the smooth transition to democracy.
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Beached dead whale stinks up town in Newfoundland
TROUT RIVER, Newfoundland (AP) — The 60-ton carcass of a blue whale is rotting on the shore on Canada's east coast, stinking up a town and triggering fears that it could burst.
Provincial officials said Wednesday they're working with federal agencies to help small towns on Newfoundland's west coast deal with the rotting carcasses of whales, including one that washed ashore near the town of Trout River.
The town's clerk, Emily Butler, said the 26-meter (28.4-yard) blue whale is beached next to a community boardwalk and is emitting a powerful stench that is spreading through the town of 600 people. Butler said residents are worried that the methane gas brought on by decomposition could cause the animal to burst.
"I'm not sure with the heat and gases that are trapped inside of this mammal if at some point in time it will explode," Butler said.
Jack Lawson, a research scientist with Canada's Fisheries Department, said the risk of the whale blowing up is "very small."
It's more likely gases will escape as the whale's skin breaks down, deflating like an old balloon, Lawson said. Local officials have raised health concerns, and worry that the stench could affect the looming tourism season.
The scientist said large, beached whales can either be buried with heavy equipment or cut up and shipped to a landfill.
Butler asked the province's Environment and Government Services departments as well as the federal Fisheries Department for help to remove the carcass. Butler said the town council considered asking fishermen to tow the mammal out to sea but concluded it would need to be supervised by an expert. "Nobody has been properly trained in the removal of whale carcasses of this size," she said.
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Just how much more sitting are Americans doing?
If you’re sitting while reading this, you might want to stand up.
A new study shows that Americans spent about as much time sitting while watching TV – about 2 hours per day – as they have in previous years. The number of people who sat down using a computer for more than an hour per day rose across all ages, though. The study suggested that from 2007-2016, total sitting time rose from 7 hours per day to 8.2 hours for teens and from 5.5 hours per day to 6.4 for adults.
Experts say this way of life can make physical activity practically non-existent for some people. If continued for long periods of time, it can lead to a whole host of health problems.
“Risks of a sedentary lifestyle include obesity, hypertension and diabetes,” says Dr. Robert Johnson, a cardiologist at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill. “Incorporating some regular physical activity can greatly reduce these risks and even reduce the risks of cancer, depression, falls and perhaps dementia.”
While these health risks may seem like problems someone would face later in life, adults are not the only ones in danger. Sedentary habits often begin during childhood. Dr. Johnson warns parents to keep watch on children’s daily activities and get them moving regularly.
“Kids form habits that may persist for a lifetime, so it’s important to have a routine of physical activity at home,” says Dr. Johnson. “You can play a sport with them or even just take a walk after dinner. The most important thing is to make the habits they develop good habits.”
For those who sit in front of a computer all day at work, it can be hard to find time to get the physical activity you need each day. But if you’re looking for ways to help keep serious health risks away, try incorporating some of these tips from Dr. Johnson into your work day:
- Take a break to walk around your office or outside
- Climb a few flights of stairs possibly twice a day
- Avoid snacking at your desk to reduce unnecessary calorie intake
- Consider a standing desk as this can be helpful for fitness and calorie burn
Remember that you can start by incorporating one new habit, then add more over time. Some change is better than none. The goal is to start moving every day to create a healthier lifestyle for you and your family.
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Lead pipes, used in the early 1900s, have a life expectancy of 100 years, but they can leach lead into your drinking water, a potential health hazard. Lead pipes are typically dull gray and the surface of the pipe can be easily scratched with a knife or key. If you suspect that your home has lead water pipes, have the water tested.
26/10/2012· Red Long Life Antifreeze Coolant, LLC, has a required change interval of 2yrs or 30k miles, whichever comes 1st. Pink Super Long Life Antifreeze Coolant, SLLC, has a required change interval of 50k/5years, after the initial 100k/10yrs, whichever comes 1st. :nono:
They have a 5000, which is a conventional oil good for 5,000 miles, a 7500, which is a synthetic blend that’s good for 7,500 miles, and a full synthetic that’s capable of going 15,000 miles for some of those cars that are rated for 13,000 or 15,000 miles. But now you’ve got the oil, there’s another problem.
13/8/2013· One can buy a fuel hose for more or less 4 dollars a feet. I asked a salesman and he said that it can last from 4-9 years but it i think no one can really predict the precise life expectancy so it needs to be regularly checked for wear and fatigue Last edited by a moderator: Oct 30, 2009 C Cliff Beer Oct 22, 2009 #13
16/2/2018· Call OnTime Service at 205-942-1405 or contact us online to schedule your HVAC, electrical, and pluing inspections. Our experienced team of technicians is fully trained to handle any heating system. As always, we will troubleshoot your home and give you straightforward pricing options before any work begins.
Heating oil, or No. 2 oil as it is often called, continues to be a popular option for homeowners looking to heat their homes. Consider these statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): About six million homes currently use fuel oil for their heating needs.In 2015, nearly 3.5 billion gallons of heating oil was sold to residential consumers, 84% of which was in …
14/8/2018· An above ground oil storage tank can have a lifespan of 20 years up to 40 years or more if you properly maintain it. There are a few variables which come into play regarding an AST’s life expectancy including: Indoor storage tanks are capable of lasting for 60 years or more as older tanks are often made of stronger steel than more modern
4/3/2013· PEX can be bent, thus eliminating the need for many fittings at corners. The NACHI chart gives a rough life expectancy for CPVC of 50 to 75 years; PEX, 40 years. But NACHI does not explain the difference. Often, however, PEX fittings include brass or copper and could be subject to the same corrosion issues as copper piping.
The average life expectancy for a properly maintained oil furnace is usually 15 to 20 years. Some furnaces may last as long as 25 years. The key to efficient operation of …
1/10/1995· It is a very tough flexible hose that can be used for operating temperatures ranging from -65°F to 250°F. It also has a maximum operating pressure of 2,000-3,000 psi for the relatively small hose sizes you will be using. This capability also makes it acceptable for your hydraulic system (brakes, gear, etc.) needs.
2/6/2015· Using the above ‘ready reckoner’ formula, and using it in reverse, we can then work out an approximate life in service at 150°C. LIS Continuous @ 200°C = 6 weeks LIS Continuous @ 190°C = 12 weeks LIS Continuous @ 180°C = 24 weeks and so on I have worked out that LIS Continuous @ 150°C would be around 190 weeks.
19/1/2018· According to research conducted by general insurer IAG, flexible braided hoses accounted for 22% of water damage claims in Australian s in 2016, with the claims most likely to be for kitchen and bathroom damage. IAG has even labelled flexible connectors a ‘ticking time bo’ and put notices on its website advising home owners that flexible hoses …
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BRITAIN’S hottest summer on record may now have passed, but a giant 50-foot artificial sun is being installed at intu Lakeside on 29 September in a bid to extend the summer and make people happier.
The glowing, bright orange sphere which took 12 weeks to build, has a 15-metre circumference and shines as brightly as 12,000 lightbulbs. Its installation follows intu’s happiness survey, which reveals that four in five people in Essex (81 per cent) feel happier when it’s sunny.
The artificial sun has been modelled on a photograph captured by NASA and will be shining inside intu Lakeside during its tour of 11 intu centres across the country as part of the shopping centre owner’s pledge to make shoppers smile. There will be a special ‘Sunny Spot’ at intu Lakeside for people to sit back on deck chairs and bathe in the sun with ice creams and mocktails being handed out to lucky shoppers.
According to the intu Happiness Survey, one in four people in Essex (26 per cent) say 2018 has been their happiest summer in memory despite the economic uncertainty, with a third (31 per cent) crediting the sunshine for their increased happiness levels.
The research from intu also revealed that over two-thirds of people living in the UK (69 per cent) feel happier in the summer than they do in the winter, with sunshine (27 per cent), longer days (24 per cent), summer holidays (16 per cent) and more outdoor activity (15 per cent) the top reasons given. 80 per cent say the much needed summer rays also make them feel healthier.
Ben Leeson, marketing manager at intu Lakeside comments: “The weather forecast this week at intu Lakeside is guaranteed to be ‘sunny’ so shoppers are encouraged to bring a pair of sunglasses with them when they visit! We know that people feel happier when it’s sunny and after a glorious summer we wanted to extend the sunshine and create something sunny for our shoppers. At intu Lakeside we have something for everyone, so whether you’re on a shopping spree or just want to sit back and enjoy the sun, we have you covered.”
The 50-foot, artificial ‘sun’ will be visiting 11 intu shopping entres around the country including intu Trafford Centre, intu Lakeside and intu Metrocentre from 19 September to 8 October. For more information on when it will shining in your local centre follow #intuSun on Twitter. intu owns some of the UK’s largest and most popular retail destinations in the country including centres in Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow.
SUN STOPS :
19-20 Sept: intu Trafford Centre, Manchester
22 Sept: intu Metrocentre, Gateshead
24 Sept: intu Derby, Derby
25 Sept: intu Victoria Centre, Nottingham
26 Sept: intu Potteries, Stoke
27-28 Sept: intu Merry Hill, West Midlands
29-30 Sept: intu Lakeside, Essex
1 Oct: intu Chapelfield, Norwich
2 Oct: intu Milton Keynes
3 Oct: intu Watford
5 Oct: intu Braehead
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The fate of the 1993 law, Section 654,Title 10, mislabeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is now in the hands of the full Senate. Both the full House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Service Committee approved President Obama’s Repeal Deal, which would over turn the law and allow open homosexuals to serve in the U.S. military. Both votes have enraged the heads of the four armed services and the major veteran’s organizations whose letters of opposition were disregarded in this rush to paint a rainbow on the Pentagon during June, proclaimed by the White House as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Equality Month.” However, a key group of Senators, led by Senator John McCain, plan to filibuster a final vote on the repeal when it reaches the Senate floor. Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, has more on how you can support this filibuster and maintain the combat readiness of our troops.
More information on the transgendered activist in uniform at the White House protest visit: Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.
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As writers, designers, instructors, and individuals, empathy is the most vital tool we have. Without excluding anyone, inclusive writing helps us connect directly with our audience. It’s critical that we not just know but also understand our audience to the point that we can anticipate their every requirement. Empathy strengthens us, our users, our product, and the user experience as a whole.
This is something that we all understand. As UX writers, we aim to pay attention to people’s sentiments and requirements at all times. It’s critical, though, that we don’t overlook the needs of all of our users, regardless of their background, education level, ability, culture, or identity.
Below are some crucial aspects to consider when designing digital products and user experiences that are inviting to everyone who uses them to create the intended impact and build trust with our customers.
Don’t let unconscious bias get in the way of your success
We all have prejudices that affect our job, whether we like it or not, in our daily lives and our professional work. We all have privileges that influence how we approach our work, and we must do serious introspection to recognize, acknowledge, and correct our biases.
We hold our biases in our subconscious mind, which accounts for 98% of our thinking, whether we’re aware of them or not. The outcome of the brain functioning automatically to create decisions without thought is unconscious bias. Our brain instinctively deflects what we know since it is automatic.
This does not make you a bad person; instead, it makes you human. It’s critical to acknowledge these biases and privileges and apply that knowledge to modify our habits so that all users can benefit from inclusive writing.
Remove gender from the equation
Generally, some brands position themselves to serve only one gender. On the one hand, I understand. We all know that the more detailed you can be about whom you serve, the more likely you are to make a genuine connection with that ideal client the moment they visit your website. And perhaps you’ve discovered that your personality, style, or background is best suited for a particular type of client.
However, it’s essential to consider whom you might exclude when you specify your ideal client’s gender and publish it on your website.
For instance, your natural design aesthetic is more feminine if you’re a designer who primarily works with female entrepreneurs. But what if you meet a fantastic guy entrepreneur who admires your style and wants to collaborate with you? What about persons who identify as transgender, non-binary, or any of the other gender categories in our society? If your site is solely for ladies, everyone else who wants to work with you may feel uncomfortable because they don’t quite match that type.
Here’s my take: you can let your work speak for itself and communicate in a way that speaks to your ideal client without focusing on one gender in specific. When I’m writing copy for a client, that could mean reflecting their personality, values, and style in a manner conducive to their ideal client without mentioning the gender of that person.
There will always be exceptions to this rule, and if you actually only work with persons of one gender, it’s best to make that explicit on your website.
Write to empower
When someone visits our website, it’s safe to assume we don’t know everything about them. We have no idea how they grew up or what they’ve experienced. We have no idea what events formed them into the person they are now. As a result, we must avoid using language in our copy that may cause someone to feel alienated, mistreated, or misunderstood.
You may apply these ideas to almost any other human experience – race, financial level, educational background, etc. – but the most important thing is to be aware of how your words may be perceived by others who read them and edit change accordingly.
For example, regardless of a reader’s health, abilities, or condition, here are two filters to make your writing more empowering:
Identify people the way they want to be identified. Some people prefer terminology that emphasizes “people first” (for example, “people experiencing homelessness” rather than “homeless people”). Others prefer terminology that emphasizes “identification first” (for example, “disabled person” vs “a person with disabilities.”) Because this varies so much from group to group and individual to person, it’s wise to ask your audience how they want to be identified whenever possible.
Substitute more explicit terminology for ableist words. Replace “I was blind to…” with “I didn’t realize…” and “that’s insane” with “that’s unbelievable.”
You’ll be able to welcome all kinds of people to your website and make them feel really excited to work with you if you write in a way that lifts your readers rather than defining them by a predicament or a constraint.
Substitute verbs for nouns
It may probably be a lot, but it is how we communicate. We utilize verbs more often than nouns. Then why not just do the same when we write?
Write “We’ve performed an analysis of your complaint and chosen to take action,” instead of “We’ve conducted an analysis of your complaint and decided to take action.”
Notice how it also makes our writing more concise and clear?
Use easy to understand language
My editors trained me to write at a fifth-grade level when I started working as an SEO content writer. The purpose wasn’t to impress anyone with our language or technical knowledge; instead, we wanted to provide everyday people with access to meaningful information. As a result, I tried to utilize everyday language that anyone could comprehend, regardless of their educational degree or experience. As a website copywriter, I still use the same approach to create clear and easy-to-understand material for my customers’ audiences.
That’s not to imply you should eliminate all jargon and slang from your site. For example, if your target client is a photographer, you’ll almost certainly include language that relates to that person’s expertise in their field in your text.
However, by removing the burden of surprise and delighting your audience with your writing, you can concentrate on connecting with them, speaking their language, and demonstrating that you understand their perspective. And it will only increase their confidence in you as a professional and make them feel more at ease about hiring you.
We must remember why we write in the first place throughout our process: to provide an empathetic experience for every customer. Practicing inclusive writing necessitates a determined, conscious effort to ensure that no one is left out and that work begins with us. And besides, there is no universal way to express troubling thoughts.
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being safe from bad weather or danger
a place which is safe from bad weather or danger
give shelter to; protect
"they were huddled together for protection"
"he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
"After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people"
A covered shelter..to which the mothers and children could retire on showery..evenings.
出自： A. P. Herbert
The storms of the law may drive men to the shelter of the gospel.
The vendor..made use of the act for sheltering fraud.
出自： W. Cruise
A..centre that shelters battered women.
No trees then sheltered the building.
出自： R. Fraser
The climbers had to shelter from the snowstorm in a mountain hut.
登山队员不得不在山中的一个小棚中躲避暴风雪。 shelter sb/sth from sth/v-ing
You can't shelter your brother from blame in the accident.
He is trying to shelter his boss from criticism.
The wall sheltered the soldiers from gunfire.
He tried to shelter his friend from knowing of his father's death, but he was too late.
This woollen hat is to shelter your face from the bitter cold.
The trees shelter the house from the wind.
Is our country's industry sheltered from foreign competition?
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New climate research by the Country Fire Authority (CFA) shows the number of high-risk bushfire days could triple in some parts of Victoria by the end of the century.
- Modelling indicates a 10-20 per cent increase in extreme fire risk days
- The largest increase in extreme-risk bushfire days is set to impact north-west Victoria
- Central and eastern Victoria could see a doubling or tripling of very high-risk days
The research looked at how fire danger may increase in Victoria under different climate change scenarios.
CFA manager of research and development Sarah Harris said the research gave regionally specific information on how fire danger would change in the future.
While the outlook was bleak, Dr Harris said she was "not surprised" by the findings, as it corresponded with other research.
"What's exciting about this research is having this data set now to understand the implications of these changes for fire agencies and communities," Dr Harris said.
The projections will allow the CFA to look at how it can adapt to increased fire dangers in the future.
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report projecting the Earth's temperature could rise 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030 based on our current trajectory.
Beyond a warming of 1.5C, serious and frequent fires, droughts, floods, and cyclones are expected to wreak havoc on humanity.
The CFA's modelling indicates the greatest increase in "extreme" fire risk days per year will occur in north-west Victoria, where much of the state's grain is produced.
The greatest change in "very high" fire danger days per year will occur in central and eastern Victoria.
Farmer and Mallee Fire Advisory Committee member Scott Anderson, who lives in region, said the increased fire danger could make it more difficult to harvest grain crops.
"In the last year or so we're certainly seeing most growers around us, [on] those nasty days, people just pull up [their equipment]," Mr Anderson said.
Mr Anderson said many people in the region were already preparing their properties to combat bushfires and becoming more self-sufficient.
"When we get those really nasty [fire] days, quite a lot of other spots in the state often get elevated fire risks," he said.
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Onse in Tagalog How did this get to mean "swindle"? One explanation is the fact that some people consider Judas to be the 11th apostle.
Apparently, nag-anam na ka wagtang ang pinulungang bisaya ilabi na ang mga laglum nga binisaya. Gamay na lang mga nakahibalo ani ug hangtod mawagtang na gyud. So the reason for the author to give birth of this site Bisdak Words.
About the author
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1At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’2He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them.3And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.4Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.5And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.
Causing to stumble
6‘If anyone causes one of these little ones – those who believe in me – to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung round their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.7Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.9And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
The parable of the wandering sheep
10-11‘See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. (Lu 19:10)12‘What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?13And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.14In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
Dealing with sin in the church
15‘If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.16But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that “every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” (De 19:15)17If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.18‘Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.19‘Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.20For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.’
The parable of the unmerciful servant
21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?’22Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.23‘Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him.25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.26‘At this the servant fell on his knees before him. “Be patient with me,” he begged, “and I will pay back everything.”27The servant’s master took pity on him, cancelled the debt and let him go.28‘But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. “Pay back what you owe me!” he demanded.29‘His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, “Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.”30‘But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.32‘Then the master called the servant in. “You wicked servant,” he said, “I cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.33Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?”34In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.35‘This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.’ | <urn:uuid:17531341-0dd6-488d-86e3-ee662e4ab7f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bibleserver.com/NIV/Matthew18%3A21-22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.977536 | 1,106 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Are you looking for a fun way to your kinesthetic learners up and moving while they practice identifying digraphs? In this Beginning Digraph Write The Room activity, your kids will say the sound that a picture starts with and write or dot the ch, sh, and th on their recording sheet. It’s an engaging and entertaining phonics activity for beginning readers!
Beginning Digraph Write The Room Activity:
What is a Digraph? A digraph is two letters that make one sound. Some common digraphs are ch, ph, sh, th and wh. Words can begin or end with digraphs but some are found only at the beginning such as kn. Learning digraphs can be very difficult for children. They have to listen very closely to each individual sound in words when they are learning to read and spell words with digraphs.
Getting Ready To Use The Beginning Digraph Write The Room Activity:
- 18 Digraph Picture Cards (6 ch, 6 sh, 6 th cards)
- 2 Recording Sheets
What Else Is Needed:
To prepare this write the room activity, click on the button below. Then, download and print the picture cards and recording sheets. I like to print my resources on white card stock, because it is more durable. But, you can use copy paper too.
Next, laminate the cards so you can reuse this activity over and over. Then, cut the picture cards apart. Finally, tape the picture cards around your classroom room or house.
How To Use The Beginning Digraph Write The Room Activity:
To begin this write the room activity, your kids will walk around the room and find a picture card. They will then say the sound that the picture begins with such as “sheep begins with sh.”
Next, your children will mark the sound on the recording sheet for the number matching the number on the picture card. For example, the picture of “sheep” has the number 13, so your kids will mark “sh” on the number 13 spot on the recording sheet.
There are two different recording sheets. On the first one, your children will mark the digraph. They can use crayons, dot markers, or stickers. On the other recording sheet, your kids will write the digraph.
This Beginning Digraph Write The Room activity is a fun way for kids to practice identifying digraphs ch, sh, and th. This phonics activity is also great for getting your children up and moving around the room. (Perfect for cold, snowy days!)
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Moral hazard occurs when a party protected from risk behaves differently than it would if it were fully exposed to the risk. It arises because an individual or organization does not take full responsibility for its actions so that the consequences of bad behavior do not befall on that party. Instead, responsibility passes to another party that covers the cost of the risky behavior. The recent bailout of troubled financial institutions is an example of moral hazard. It is also the theme of the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps that is a follow-up to the original 1987 movie Wall Street. The original promoted the idea "greed is good" that some people point to as causing the financial crisis on Wall Street.
Imagine if you had some money to invest in a security or other financial product and were told that any loss you sustain would be covered by another party. You might decide to invest in a riskier product with the hope of a higher return. This is exactly what happened in the recent financial bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored-entities (GSEs) that purchased asset-backed securities from investment banks that had made real estate loans to borrowers without proper documentation. Congress decided that Fannie and Freddie were too big to fail.
The banks knew they could package the mortgages and sell them to Fannie and Freddie so that the risk of nonpayment was transferred to these GSEs. Little incentive existed to establish stricter requirements for loans especially because Congress was pressuring the banks to make home ownership more affordable. With the downturn in the economy in 2007, many homeowners failed to make their mortgage payments on time and houses went into foreclosure because homeowners lost their jobs and were unable to pay or they simply decided to walk away from their obligations. The reason was they had more debt in their home than what it was worth at current market value – an underwater mortgage. To date, the government has spent $145 billion to bail out Fannie and Freddie to keep them afloat, or $1,300 per citizen, and the final amount may be as high as $400 billion. Some critics charge that the GSEs knew the government would bailout them out so purchasing the securitized mortgages held little risk.
From an ethical perspective, the question to ask is whether protection against risk leads to irresponsible behavior that costs the public and may lead some people to conclude that if the big financial institutions are bailed out then why not me? Irresponsible behavior that is protected begets more irresponsible behavior. Last May a 60 Minutes segment focused on homeowners who were walking away from houses that were worth as little as half of what they paid for them. Some people did the math and decided making monthly mortgage payments was a waste of money so they strategically defaulted on their loans leaving the banks to clean up the mess. It has been estimated that 15.2 million American households hold mortgages that exceed the value of their homes. The 60 Minutes segment noted that at least a million of Americans who can afford to stay in their homes simply walked away.
Adding to the moral hazard effect are three government programs developed in the aftermath of the real estate meltdown. The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) allows homeowners to modify mortgage terms with their banks to enable them to stay in their homes. The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) enables homeowners to refinance their debt if it is no more than 125% of the current fair market value of their home. The most glaring example of moral hazard is the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act and Cancellation that enables a taxpayer to exclude from income the discharge of debt on their principal residence if certain conditions are met. The Act was recently extended through 2012. Here’s an example of how it works.
Assume that a residential home was purchased in 2005 for $400,000. The value of the home has declined to $300,000 and payments are in arrears. The delinquency has added interest and late fees to the mortgage balance, which is now $396,000. The bank forecloses on the home and later resells it for $286,000. The result is the cancellation of $110,000 of debt ($396,000 - $286,000) that would have been taxable as ordinary income absent the Debt Forgiveness Act.
What does this all mean? Well, I have a house with a $445,000 mortgage that has been appraised for $200,000. I can make the monthly payments but, at least on a financial level, there is a significant incentive to simply walk away from my debt because of the Debt Forgiveness Act. I already feel I’ve been unfairly treated because I can’t refinance under HARP and take advantage of an interest rate that is more than 2% lower than my fixed rate since my mortgage doesn’t come close to meeting the 125% loan-to-value test. My bank won’t modify my mortgage terms under HAMP because it knows I can afford to keep up my payments. I can rationalize walking away from my obligation but I don’t because it would be wrong to do so. I signed on the bottom line and must meet my commitment.
This brings up the point that ethics is not relative to the situation. If we define right from wrong based on how it affects us in a particular situation then we adhere to the principal of ethical relativism and that is a dangerous path to take. It means my neighbor may decide to walk away and rationalize that action while I do not. Relativism holds that all points of view are equally valid and the individuals determines what is true and relative for them. Ethical relativism represents the position that there are no moral absolutes, no moral right or wrong. You may have heard the expression: What’s right for you may not be what’s right for me. But, how can that be? Is it acceptable for one person to steal from another because of financial need while another in a similar situation does not? If we allow for ethical relativism then the end result may be moral chaos. | <urn:uuid:3c8b079c-96a9-471d-9dad-bce13105aaf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ethicssage.com/2010/10/moral-hazard-and-ethical-relativism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.97276 | 1,244 | 3 | 3 |
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National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
30 September 2021
Today, people across Canada will mark the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Coming in the wake of this summer’s tragic discoveries of thousands of unmarked graves at residential schools, this historic day is an opportunity for each of us to learn, reflect, and commit ourselves and our institutions to healing deep and longstanding wounds and forging true partnerships with Indigenous Peoples.
Today, Prosper Canada staff are taking time to build our understanding of the Indigenous experience in Canada, barriers to healing and reconciliation, and the practical actions we can take to remove or overcome these. Here are some
we are using, if you’d like to join us.
Learning about the Indigenous experience in Canada and the enduring painful legacies of colonization can sometimes feel overwhelming and cause us to wonder how we can make a difference. The reality is that we can all make a difference – the important thing is to educate ourselves and to act. We have included a list of personal actions we can all take below, adapted from Bob Joseph’s book
21 Things you may not know about the Indian Act
(pp. 166-167, we have added the headings):
Participate in Indigenous community events
Attend or volunteer at a National Indigenous Peoples Day event.
Participate in a Walk for Reconciliation or organize one.
Attend a pow wow.
Attend and support Indigenous community events.
Read and share Indigenous stories
Read books by Indigenous authors.
Read books by Indigenous authors to your children.
Donate books by Indigenous authors to school libraries.
Celebrate and support Indigenous cultural expression
Learn the Indigenous names for where you live and work.
Buy food from an Indigenous food truck; eat in an Indigenous-owned restaurant.
Support Indigenous language revitalization.
Attend an Indigenous film and/or music festival.
Mobilize the power of sport to support healthy Indigenous communities
Donate sports equipment to remote Indigenous communities.
Donate time to coach Indigenous sports teams in your community.
Stop cultural appropriation
Support efforts to stop inappropriate usage of Indigenous imagery for mascots.
Speak up when you observe cultural appropriation and ensure you don’t promote cultural appropriation when choosing a Halloween costume.
Ensure you buy authentic Indigenous art.
Encourage others to join in advancing truth and reconciliation
Speak up when you hear someone making derogatory remarks about Indigenous Peoples.
Ask your children’s teachers if they include curriculum related to residential schools and the
Write a letter to your MP to support the dismantling of the Indian Act.
Encourage family and friends to commit to helping you change the world.
These are small steps we can all take, but institutional and systemic change are also needed and absolutely essential for real progress to occur. For a complete list of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, please visit
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
and let all of us consider what more we and/or our organizations can do to advance structural change and a more just, inclusive, and promising future for Indigenous communities and Peoples in Canada.
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I managed to complete the pset4/resize, but am having difficulty understanding the concept behind how it works. That gap is showing up in my attempt at pset4/jpg.
fread as far as I know doesn't tell the computer where to begin getting the data(e.g. the 40 bytes in BITMAPFILEHEADER, which begins after byte 14).
Is it by the datatype, BITMAPFILEHEADER?.. if so, are we just lucky microsoft specified and named the datatype for us..?
What if we are trying to do the same for Jpg, but they don't have structs pre-defined like microsoft did for .bmp files. How do I create, then access them?
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Storybook Character Day is Wednesday, so make sure to dress up like a storybook character! We will continue working on the spelling list from last week.
- Spelling: Follow the link to spelling city for list N6. Our test will be on April 25.
- Writing: We are learning about story elements and how to create our own stories from the structure of others.
- Reading: We are learning to use clues to make inferences about what is happening in a story.
- Math: We are learning to divide by identifying sets, items divided into sets, and how many items are in each set.
- Social Studies: We will begin learning about the Inuit.
- Science: We will learn how heat is transferred through convection.
- Art: We will learn how to sketch contours.
- Bible: We will review our lessons in Christian Character.
- April 20 Storybook character day (dress up like a storybook character)
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Skill Building Warm-up. There are many activities that can warm up our players’ bodies, which at the same time develop baseball skills. Instead of running the kids across the park and back, take them through a series of activities that develop baseball skills.
Thousands of first-time baseball and softball coaches take the field each year, and many wonder where to start. How do you keep a group of 10 or more players engaged and learning over the course of a practice session? | <urn:uuid:d2484b03-bb89-4c59-968b-fbf99fdd1d0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://spokaneindiansyouthbaseball.org/coaches-resources-practices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.974519 | 102 | 2.328125 | 2 |
As I mentioned a few days ago, eliminating the risk of rabies in animal shelters is pretty much impossible. Another shelter-associated rabies exposure situation highlights the problems.
A cat at the Washington Area Humane Society was recently diagnosed with rabies, resulting in three people receiving post-exposure prophylaxis (i.e. rabies antibodies and a series of rabies vaccines). What’s quite interesting here is the fact that the cat had been in the shelter since May. So, unless the cat was exposed to rabies in the shelter (possible, but very unlikely), that means the incubation period was at least 6-7 months. That’s not unheard of, but it’s pretty long for a cat. We don’t know exactly how long the incubation period can be, except that it’s long. In humans, cases have been identified a few years after the presumed exposure. This situation shows how the 6 month quarantine that is used after exposure of unvaccinated animals is very reasonable, but still not a guarantee. It also shows how short-term isolation of animals in a shelter after arrival can’t guarantee there will be no rabies exposure (although it’s good for many other reasons). | <urn:uuid:e04a45b7-6f52-40f2-9a4a-e5eea3921bd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2014/12/articles/animals/cats/rabies-exposure-in-a-shelter-again/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.953018 | 260 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The J-CAP Foundation was founded in 1980 by Executive Director Thomas White Jr. in 1980. Thomas White Jr. was an advocate for the Southeast Queens Community for over 30 years.
A native of South Jamaica, Tom has worked tirelessly to develop community-based programs for senior citizens and youth, crime prevention, drug and alcohol treatment.
He has worked with programs to prevent teen pregnancy, and he has helped to create programs for those suffering from HIV/AIDS, a program to assist young mothers with continuing their education with on-site childcare.
As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the largest and most successful alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs in the State of New York, he has helped to reclaim over 20,000 young men and women who have suffered the effects of abuse, misuse and addiction. Thomas White Jr. has helped these young people find positive goals and helped them become assets to the community.
Thomas White’s tireless efforts on behalf of the community had repeatedly been recognized by Governor Mario Cuomo. Governor Cuomo called upon Mr. White significantly to lend his expertise to bettering the quality of life not only for Southeast Queens but for the State of New York. He was appointed by then Governor Mario Cuomo as a member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Mr. White was appointed by Governor Cuomo as Democratic delegate to the 1984 National Democratic Convention.
He also received the Governor’s Official Citation for “Outstanding Contributions” from New York State by Governor Hugh L. Carey.
In 1991 Tom White was elected to his first term as Councilman to the 28th Councilmatic District of Queens. During his 10 year tenure as a NYC Councilman he delivered over 200 million dollars to a very diverse community in southeast Queens. Thomas White Jr. knew the strength of a community rests on the foundations built by the elders. He always fought for quality of life issues for elders.
As a resident of Rochdale Village, he helped create N.O.R.C. (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) a senior citizens’ program that offers comprehensive services to seniors who live in Rochdale Village and surrounding areas. Some of the services include: Senior Help hot line, On-site Nurse, Breakfast and Lunch programs, transportation and recreational activities.
On November 8, 2005 history was made as the voters in the 28th Council District overwhelmingly voted Thomas White Jr. back into office, making him the first NYC Councilmember to be reelected after stepping down because of term limits.
Through the J-CAP Foundation he was able to provide an outreach program to the community to educate those with substance abuse issues about treatment and prevention.
After his passing on August 27, 2010 J-CAP Foundation was reorganized to continue the mission he had set. Under a new board of directors and under the leadership of Bryan D. White, J-CAP Foundation has helped to provide educational opportunities to high school and college students through its’ scholarship program. The Foundation has also partners with local community organization to educate the community about Equal Pay Rights, Gun Violence and child care.
In 2013, the board of directors decide to rename the foundation after its’ founder and renamed J-CAP Foundation to The Thomas White Jr. Foundation for Progress. Inc. Still saving lives and providing hope for a better tomorrow. | <urn:uuid:6adcaf75-9d3a-4311-8be1-1f3f05b3bfe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thomaswhitejr.org/about-us.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.978695 | 689 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Decommissioning and removal operations for offshore production plants are becoming very common and, being very sensitive for environment and safety, the certification guarantees that the work is planned and performed with a quality and a level of risk consistent with the reference international standards and tolerable for all the players involved.
The verification covers the planning and execution of the marine operations for the offshore cutting, handling and sea transport.
Key aspects of a removal operation include:
The certification service is made up of:
The certification involves the issue, before the operation starts, of formal approval which attests that the operation planning and the dedicated equipment design are in compliance with the requirements of RINA Rules or other applicable internationally-recognized standards.
After the operation is completed, a "Certificate of Conformity" is also issued which attests the suitability of the vessels, materials and equipment used in the operations, as well as their correct execution in conformity with approved procedures.
We are regularly involved in the verification and certification of offshore projects, especially as regards design, construction and installation activities, where we can provide a long list of references acquired in the last three decades.
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Are there any disability and Social Security benefits for youth in foster care to receive?
There are several types of Social Security benefit programs for which you may be eligible. Some of these programs are administered by the federal government while others are administered by the state with federal participation.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is the largest provider of benefits to children. Benefits, for which a child may be eligible, as the result of a parent having been previously determined eligible, include: Social Security benefits (i.e., Retirement, Survivor’s Benefits, Disability and Health Insurance), Veterans Administration (VA) benefits, and Railroad Retirement benefits.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits are available to children based on their own disability and limited financial resources.
When a child returns home, leaves out-of-home placement, is adopted, or when a Kinship Legal Guardianship order is signed, the assigned CP&P Worker advises the child’s parent or caregiver to file a claim for the SSA or SSI benefits on the child‘s behalf.
For more information see the DCF policy on federal benefits.
Please note that these are often determined on a case by case basis and you may need to try more than one option below:
- If you have an open CP&P case, check with your assigned worker, who should advise you or your caregiver on how to file a claim for the SSA or SSI benefits.
- Disability Benefits 101 gives New Jersey residents tools and information on health coverage, benefits, and employment. There is section dedicated to benefits for young people.
- To apply for Supplemental Security Income go to the SSI For People Ages 18 To 64
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The University of Saskatchewan and McMaster University have issued the following press release on behalf of the Canadian Neutron Initiative, on :
University-led group urges plan to address Canada’s looming shortage of neutron beams for materials research
A non-profit group of Canadian university and industry researchers says Canada must act now or it will lose access to a critically important scientific tool—neutron beams—when the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River closes in March of 2018.
Neutron beams reveal nanometre-scale details about molecular structures that cannot be seen with other scientific tools. The many diverse applications range from clean energy technologies to medical device coatings to development of light-weight alloys to make cars and airplanes more energy-efficient.
In a recent submission to the House of Commons Finance Committee, the Canadian Neutron Initiative (CNI)—led by University of Saskatchewan and McMaster University—is calling for federal investment in a national program that will retain the country’s capacity for materials research with neutron beams beyond March of 2018. The CNI estimates that researchers from more than 30 Canadian universities currently use Canada’s neutron beams to carry out their work.
“Once that research capability is lost, it would be difficult to regain, and would mean a loss of knowledge for the next scientific breakthroughs in materials science and related new commercial technologies,” said Karen Chad, Vice-President of Research at University of Saskatchewan. “We need to plan now how to train students for these highly skilled careers and retain our experts so that Canada can remain on the leading edge of science and technology in the coming decade.”
The CNI calls for a 10-year investment to provide access for Canadian researchers to leading neutron-beam facilities around the world and in university-based capabilities including upgrades to the McMaster Nuclear Reactor to enable it to support a much larger portion of Canada’s neutron user community.
“We are proposing to establish a new framework that makes the most of our domestic capabilities, while building partnerships with world-leading neutron-beam facilities abroad,” says Robert Baker, Vice-President of Research at McMaster University. “This will enable Canadian researchers, students and industry to have continued access to this valuable and versatile tool.”
The CNI estimates that the recommended initiatives would cost about $24 million over the next three years, following by an investment from 2021 to 2029 of about $19 million per year. The CNI notes that this is considerably less than the more than $100 million per year that the federal government has been spending in years on the NRU reactor.
Neutrons are penetrating but non-destructive and can be used to examine most materials. Knowledge generated using neutrons complements the work done at national science facilities such as the Canadian Light Source at the U of S and the TRIUMF lab in B.C.
“Canada has been a world leader in this field for over half a century, with Canadian neutron-beam research contributing to two Nobel prizes in the last 25 years,” said Baker.
McMaster physicist Bertram Brockhouse was co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize and Bill Buyers of the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre contributed to the research by three American scientists honored by the 2016 Nobel Prize.
About neutron beams
Neutrons are subatomic particles that researchers use to peer inside the molecular and nano-scale structures that make up materials. Canadians apply neutron beams for scientific exploration and technology development in areas such as health and food security, production and storage of clean energy, conversion of vehicles to clean technologies, and advanced manufacturing methods for cars and airplanes.
Just as beams of light are used in a microscope to learn about materials on a micrometre scale, beams of neutrons reveal nanometre-scale details about materials’ molecular structures and motions that cannot be seen with other scientific tools – details that are critical to how materials perform. Examples of research success stories are available here.
About the NRU reactor
The shutdown of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s (AECL) NRU reactor at Chalk River in March 2018 was announced by the Government of Canada in February 2015. In addition to supplying neutron beams, the NRU reactor has been the primary testing facility for Canada’s nuclear power industry, and was a major world supplier of an important medical isotope, Molybdenum-99, up to October 2016.
About the Canadian Neutron Initiative
The Canadian Neutron Initiative is led by the University of Saskatchewan, McMaster University, the Canadian Nuclear Association, and the Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering. The Canadian Neutron Initiative (CNI) is intended to establish a new framework for leadership, management and funding of Canada’s capacity for materials research with neutron beams, building on existing national and international resources. The new framework will ensure Canadians can access neutron beams as part of their complete set of tools for participating at the leading edge of science and technology for maximum global benefit, in decades to come.
For more information, please contact:
Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation
Manager, Media Relations
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The National Theatre, under its artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, is one of the cultural glories of the great city of London and the Olivier the only theatrical venue in the West End in which you’re likely to see contemporary plays conceived on an epic scale.
It would be heartening to report that Richard Bean’s England People Very Nice was as successful as it is ambitious, but despite its many qualities and its sheer breadth of scale, it’s not the triumph it might have been.
A play-within-a play, it involves a group of muti-racial asylum seekers and would be immigrants in anxious limbo as they await to be informed by letter who will be granted work permits and who will be sent back to their countries of origin. To pass the time, they decide to put on a play of their own about immigrants, integration, and multiculturalism over the last four hundred years.
It begins with the arrival of the persecuted Huguenots, followed by the Irish who are seeking refuge from famine, continues with the arrival of the Jews fleeing the Russian pogroms, and comes right up to date with the influx of Bengalis and Pakistanis.
They all fetch up in London’s East End, become Cockneys, inter-marry and attempt to assimilate into the British way of life while, at the same time, trying to maintain their ethnic identities as they contend with racialism and violence in their fight for acceptance.
It’s a massive canvas to say the least, and the problems inherent in making multiculturalism work in today’s hate infested society, are only superficially addressed.
But how could it be otherwise? As it is, the play is three hours long and, because Bean’s message emerges very early on, hard-core content gives way to a series of episodic incidents, all of them saying similar things and culminating with the serious problem provided by today’s Muslim fundamentalists, many of whom rejoiced in the catastrophe of 9/11 and continue to preach terrorism.
Bean’s approach to his subject is very much a comic-book one, and, benefiting from Pete Bishop’s Pythonesque animations, encapsulates some of the more colourful events that occurred between the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572 to 2008 when London’s Bangladeshi population rose to 150,000.
The origins of Chicken Tikka Massala in London to the invention of the ballpoint pen by Laszlo Biro in 1938 and the Bethnal Green tube tragedy in 1943 when 173 people were crushed to death as they entered the station’s bomb shelter, are treated as sketches in some vast historic cavalcade, while the recurring characters are, in the main, racial caricatures. A rather feeble Jewish song, for example, is called Oy vey.
Fortunately, political correctness is never an issue, and despite the abundance of laughs with which Bean has crammed his text – there is no question that there will be audiences who be offended by the bad language and the stereotypes. Others with a less squeamish disposition will celebrate its exuberant roller-coaster approach to history and find much to enjoy in it. As I did.
What both camps will agree, however, is the energy and pace of Hytner’s life-affirming direction, the inventive use of the vast Olivier stage, the aforementioned animation, and some engaging performances by a large cast, most notably Sophie Stanton as a Spittalfields barmaid and Sacha Dhawan and Michelle Terry as the on-going love-interest.
England People Very Nice is far from perfection – but it’s just the sort of play the National should be doing.
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Pain management consultants have been recommending anti-depressant pills to cure intractable pain for quite a while now.
It was discovered 30 years ago that a side-effect of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) was to block the pain pathway to the brain. However, many GPs remain unaware of this or are reluctant to use them because of their association with mental ill-health.
Yet specialists who treat back pain say TCAs such as amitriptyline and nortriptyline are excellent when conventional pain-killing drugs fail to work. TCAs seem to increase the brain chemicals serotonin and noradrenaline, which in effect raises the pain threshold, so most pain is not felt.
To work as an anti-depressant, the drugs need to be taken in doses of as much as 150mg a day. For pain relief, they are prescribed normally at no more than 25mg. Experts say that at low doses and taken for up to six months, anti-depressants are non-addictive and side effects are rare, though some people may experience drowsiness or a dry mouth.
I have been on amitriptyline for a number of years now and have played around with different doses to get the best effect but anything over 30mg does cause a very dry mouth. It was so bad with me sometimes that I could not get my words out properly but it definitely helps you to sleep. I recently saw Roger Knaggs who was appointed Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacy Practice at the University of Nottingham in September 2011 to provide a highly specialist pharmacy service to the Pain Management Service at NUH.
My pain consultant had made me an appointment to talk about the medication I am on. I found out more tips in that appointment than I have known for years. One of which I put into practice straight away. For years I have been taking my amitriptyline just before I go to bed and if I wake up at night and cannot go to sleep then I take another. This was, in fact, the wrong thing to do as the effect would then last well into the morning. He suggested I take it around 8.30pm and if I wake up in pain to take a Tramadol rather than the amitriptyline.
According to a leaflet written by the Isle of Wight NHS – Amitriptyline and Nortriptyline are medicines used to treat depression and relieve chronic pain.
They are often helpful for nerve related pain, for high pain sensitivity (also called central sensitisation) and if the pain is leading to sleep disruption. Their effect is different from standard painkillers, so are often prescribed in combination. As they affect the central nervous system in complex ways, the effect often takes a while to be felt and requires regular intake. Amitriptyline and Nortriptyline won’t help your pain if taken as needed. We recommend a trial of at least four weeks to judge the pain relief effect. If good, it
may be taken on a regular long-term basis; if there is no distinct relief they should be discontinued after the trial period.
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FMLA, ADA and Workers' Compensation: How the Laws Interact
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is an updated version of one that appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of LGC's A Matter of TrustLeading the Way newsletter on the same topic.
The provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) often affector are affected byother federal and state employment laws. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state workers' compensation laws are two laws that often interact closely with FMLA. While it is not feasible to address all the subtleties of the FMLA's relationship to other laws in the scope of this article, the following information provides an overview of areas where the laws' requirements intersect.
ADA and FMLA Interplay
The FMLA and ADA may both apply when an employee is seriously ill or injured. When this happens, employers may be required to grant leave and accommodate the employee under both the FMLA and ADA. Although legal requirements of the FMLA and ADA do have some similarities, an employer may find that, at times, they contradict one another as well. In these cases, it is essential to know which law takes precedence.
The first step should always be to determine whether the laws apply to both the employer and employee.
Generally, private employers are required to comply with the ADA only if they have 15 or more employees. State and local governments are required to comply with the ADA regardless of the number of employers they have. Private employers with 50 or more employees located within a 75-mile radius on each working day for 20 or more weeks in any calendar year are covered employers under the FMLA.
In contrast to the FMLA, the ADA does not require that a worker be employed for a given period of time before becoming entitled to its protections. Additionally, the FMLA is a leave provision for employees only. It does not apply to applicants for employment, except to the extent that it prevents an employer from discriminating against applicants on the basis of their past use of FMLA leave. Unlike the ADA, the FMLA does not prevent disability discrimination or require accommodation beyond granting leave.
Consider the requirements for ADA eligibility, which specify that the employee must be:
- A "qualified" individual: Generally defined as someone who satisfies prerequisites for the position and can perform the essential job functions, with or without reasonable accommodation, at the time of the employment decision; and
- Disabled, as defined by the ADA.
Next, evaluate whether the employee is disabled. An employee may be disabled if he/she:
- Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities;
- Has a record of such an impairment; or
- Is regarded as having a physical or mental impairment, regardless of whether it is perceived to substantially limit a major life activity.
If the employee is not disabled, the employer generally does not have to worry about ADA compliance. However, the employer must still consider whether they have any obligations under the FMLA by asking the following questions:
- Has the employee worked long enough (and worked enough hours) to be an eligible employee under the FMLA?
- Does the employee have any leave remaining for this leave year?
- Does the employee suffer from a serious health condition?
It is possible for the employee's serious medical condition, defined broadly, to include a physical or mental illness, injury, condition or impairment that involves either inpatient care, continuing treatment by a healthcare provider (as defined), any period of incapacity because of pregnancy or prenatal care, any period of incapacity because of a chronic serious condition (meeting specific requirements), any period of absence to receive multiple treatments by healthcare providers for reconstructive surgery or for a condition that would likely result in a period of incapacity of more than three consecutive days if untreated. The serious medical condition may be the employee's own or that of a parent, spouse or child.
Additional qualifying events for FMLA eligibility may include:
- Leave for birth, adoption or foster care.
- Qualifying exigencies arising from an employee's spouse, son, daughter or parent on active duty, or their notification of an impending call or order to active duty, in support of a contingency operation. A contingency operation is generally a military operation in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions, operations or hostilities against an enemy or opposing military force.
- Serious injury or illness for purposes of service member caregiver leave. For a member of the armed forces, the term "serious injury or illness" means an injury or illness that was incurred or aggravated in the line of duty while on active duty in the armed forces and that may render the member medically unfit to perform the duties of the member's office, grade, rank or rating.
If both the ADA and FMLA apply, the employer is required to provide leave under whichever law gives the greater protection to the employee.
If the employee is disabled but not eligible for FMLA leave, the employer can consider offering leave as a reasonable accommodationeven if the employee is not entitled to leave under the FMLA. Questions to consider include:
- If leave is provided, will the employee be able to perform the essential functions of the job?
- Will it cause the employer an undue hardship?
- Is there another reasonable accommodation that will allow the employee to perform the essential functions of the job?
If an employee is disabled and qualifies for FMLA leave, the employer may be required under the ADA to offer the employee an opportunity to take a different job as a reasonable accommodation (rather than taking FMLA leave). However, the employer may not require the employee to take the reasonable accommodation instead of FMLA leave.
If the employee exhausts their FMLA leave and is still unable to perform essential job functions, the employer may be required to offer an accommodation that would enable the employee's return to work.
Workers' Compensation Act and FMLA
Each state has a workers' compensation statute designed to compensate employees injured on the job. Although specific laws vary from state to state, the principles are basically the same: Employers who are subjected to workers' compensation must carry liability insurance for the medical expenses and lost wages of employees who suffer a work-related injury or illness. Employees are typically allowed to take leave if they are temporarily unable to work due to a work-related injury.
New Hampshire's Workers' Compensation Law (WCL) requires "employers" or their workers' compensation carriers to provide compensation and other benefits to "employees" who suffer a compensable "injury," "personal injury" or "occupational disease." The WCL covers public and private employers who employ one or more employee(s). With respect to public employment, the term "employee" is defined by RSA 281-A:2, VII(a).
Employees taking leave due to a work-related injury or illness may be eligible for leave under both FMLA and workers' compensation laws. In order for the leave to fall under both the FMLA and workers' compensation, the employee must:
- Work for an employer who has at least 50 employees.
- Be eligible under the FMLA.
- Have FMLA leave available for the current leave year.
- Suffer from a serious health condition that occurred during the course of, and arose out of, his/her employment.
The FMLA regulations contain detailed descriptions of the relationship between the FMLA and workers' compensation leave. Some major provisions include concurrent leave, contact with the healthcare provider, when workers' compensation ends first, when FMLA ends first and reinstatement.
If your group can use assistance with administering workers' compensation, consider the LGC Property-Liability Trust's Workers' Compensation Program. It offers an in-house nurse case manager plus knowledgeable claims representatives who work with you as a team to ensure the best possible outcomes. For more program information, visit our website's Coverage Programs section or call our Claims Department at 800.852.3358, ext. 158 or 246.
Combining the Laws
In order for an employee's leave to be subject to FMLA, ADA and state workers' compensation law requirements, the employee must:
- Work for an employer with at least 50 employees;
- Be an eligible employee under the FMLA;
- Have FMLA leave available for the current leave year;
- Be disabled under the ADA;
- Suffer from a serious health condition that occurred during the course of, and arose out of, his/her employment; and
- Be capable of performing essential job functions if allowed to take leave as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA.
When faced with a situation where all three laws may apply, the employer should analyze their obligations under the FMLA and workers' compensation laws first. Those laws, while complicated, tend to be more clear-cut than the ADA. Given the complexity of these laws, it is always wise to consult an attorney before taking any final action.
Jaclyn Mandrake is Director of Human Resources for New Hampshire Local Government Center.
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This study describes the chest radiographs of 50 adult patients with histologically verified histiocytosis X, proposes a radiological classification, and examines the role of radiology in assessing the prognosis of the disease. Radiologically the lesions predominate in the middle and lower lung fields, usually sparing the costophrenic angles, and are typically micronodular, reticular, or cystic. These features are especially suggestive of histiocytosis X if lung volume is normal or increased, there is an associated pneumothorax, they occur in a young male and there are no other intrathoracic changes (pleural or mediastinal). The three evolutionary patterns of improvement, stabilisation, and worsening are analysed with respect to the initial radiological features; one which carries a good prognosis is sparing of both costophrenic angles.
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In this short video we look at the different forms of Accreditation, namely: Individual Accreditation, Training Provider Accreditation and Programme Accreditation.
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How to creating a learning culture in your organisation.
It is critical to understand that a learning organisation is not about promoting learning for the sake of learning. It is about providing learning to enhance work processes and service.
That’s why in learning organisations individuals move from fearing mistakes to viewing problems and errors as information to help decision-making processes and enable success.
- Do your organisation have a learning culture,
- do you struggle to get people to come to your training course, or
- is training the last think your boss want to hear of.
If this is your organisation, then you definitely looking at the right video.
What you don’t know, is that you have all the resources to your expose to make your mark and turn that negative energy into a positive one, and yes, it’s actually very easy if you get the hang of it.
Lets take a minute and review why organisations don’t have a learning culture, and yes, this is always the easiest one to answer. Most popular responses to this question start with:
- A, my boss is not interested in training,
- B, training is boring, and
- C, I have no budget for training.
Now let’s look at some resources for turning your organisation into a learning culture.
- My boss or manager is not interested in training.
- Did you ever heard the expression that knowledge is power.
- Did you ever attend a SEETA meeting and felt left out because everyone is using terminology that you don’t understand.
People are also hesitant to get involved into programmes or activities that they do not understand or have no knowledge of. Start by implementing small programmes where you can start educating people on this level with the types of terminologies used, including OBE, skills development and the benefits of skills programmes and learnership to the organisation.
- Training is boring.
Firstly, we need to determine if your trainers are qualified, have the required subject matter expertise to facilitate the require programme, able to implement OBE principles and formative activities in the classroom. Do you review feedback from learners received after a training session, do your homework and check for references before appointing a training provider.
- I have no budget for Training.
What do you classify as training?
Training could be in the form of in-house courses, meetings, conferences, presentation, general talks and presentation. Training is not only something that happens in the classroom, but also outside the classroom.
- Selection of target groups
- How do you select the employees for training.
- Do they meet the minimum entry level requirements, such as numeracy and literacy levels.
- Do they have the previous experience required before you scheduled them to the course.
- Do they want to be on this training course.
- Do they even know why they on this training course.
- Is this course part their career planning.
- Completing a proper Learner Needs Analysis.
Did you complete a proper needs analysis based on the GAP principles, by confirming the organisations and the learner requirements.
- Selection of the course.
- Who selected this course for the learners.
- Do the course outcomes meet the requirements.
- How did you select the Training Company, or the facilitators that you using.
- Do your facilitators have the requires subject matter expertise to offer this course.
- Policy and Non-Conformance
- What is your organisations policy regarding non-conformance. (if someone don’t follow the rules, for example someone who don’t pitch for training with no valid excuse.
- Is there a set procedure how training or interventions will be scheduled?
- How will you communicate training to learners.
- Available Resources.
- What available resources do you have, such as facilities, manuals or equipment.
- Do you have a proper training room that is air-conditioned?
- What is the layout of the classroom that you want to use.
- Do you even have desk for the learners.
- Timing of Courses
- When is the best time for scheduling your course in the year, month, week and even the day.
- Do you schedule this during low production periods.
- Do you inform the learners and stakeholders well in advance of your planning.
10. Your Marketing Strategy.
Your staff is like any other person out there. They not going to be interested if you don’t sell it to them. Take for example our social network, like facebook. In the evening when you get home, only the popular stories and pictures captures your attention. We must also find ways in our business to sell learning interventions to learners, making it more attractive and bring the, “I want to do this” back.
11. Involvement of stakeholders
Do you involve other people like the management and supervisors in your planning for courses. By involving more people in you planning will secure more participation in your projects. Lack of knowledge is one of the biggest reasons people don’t get involved in new projects.
These stakeholders may be:
•The CEO of the company
•Subject matter experts
•Internal Auditing department
•Quality control staff
•Skills Development Facilitator
13. Feedback to learners and stakeholders.
- Do you provide feedback to the learners on their progress, their queries or assessment results.
- Do you provide feedback to the stakeholders, like management and supervisors about the course.
- Do you delegate any problem areas identified during the learning intervention.
14. Do you allow for progress.
- Do you allow the resources required for progression in your organisation.
- Do your follow-up courses allow for progression of employees, for example: This year you offered the supervisor NQF 2 learnership and next year you offer the NQF 3 learnership.
- Do you issue certificates.
Also one of the biggest element that add to employee motivation during a learning intervention is the issue of certificate or recognition after completion of a course. What does your certificate look like. Do you mention the employees name in the internal newsletter, maybe a notice on the notice board or mention it during a staff meeting.
- Recruitment and Promotion Policy.
Do you have a recruitment or internal relieving or promotion policy with guidelines that enable or promote internal development. For example: Do you advertise new positions first internally before allowing external candidates to apply for the position.
- Life long learning.
Do you create or have a culture of “life long learning” in your organisation, meaning that you create opportunities for growth and excitement to progress to a next level, or interest in new courses.
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When we wash our car in the street we can easily pollute our rivers and harbors. The dirty soapy water and all the dirt that runs off the car, oil, grease and gasoline, as well as the car wash soap and other cleaners go into the storm water system. But where do they actually end up? Every car owner should be aware that all this rinse water and contaminants that run into drain system end up in rivers and other open water, as storm water, unlike the water which enters the sewers, does not undergo treatment before it gets into the lakes, rivers and oceans.
It is not easy at all to change the behavior of chronic car washers (people who wash their cars at least once a week), as many of this category don?t see or don?t want to see the connection between their actions and water quality. And if you are not too much worried about environmental protection you should keep in mind that polluting waterways in such a way is a breach of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 and may result in a $750 fine for individuals or a $1500 fine for corporations.
Those car owners who are concerned that they may be fined for washing their cars on the street often send their enquiries to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). Questions arise from fleet vehicle owners, civic groups, equipment wash companies and others about the proper wash water disposal in their activities. The number of such enquiries proves that this burning question is not widely covered in mass media.
In the USA a car is considered to be the second closest man?s friend after the dog. With more than 750 motor vehicles for every 1.000 Americans the car became a symbol of independence and freedom. Car owners want to know how to wash their cars in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.
The following tips will help you to get answers to your questions. They are assigned not only for concerned individuals who ?want to do the right thing? but also for those people who traditionally views car washing on private property as unregulated and ?unregulatable?. Also you should keep in mind that while all of these tips are management practices and common sense recommendations, they must be observed by persons performing washing activities in order to be in compliance with Maine law.
Where to Wash Your Car
1. Wash your car on the grassy surface to minimize the runoff. Make sure you are not causing any inconveniences to pedestrians. As this is the breach of local councils? regulations.
2. You can wash your car in the driveway if it drains onto a lawn or garden area but never do this if the water runs into a street or a drain.
3. When you wash your car you must be sure that the area does not drain into the stormwater system, including the drains in the street.
4. If you can?t reasonably avoid washing the car over impervious surfaces (for example, in apartment communities), block off the storm drains and divert the runoff water to the sanitary sewer or a safe recharge area.
5. In case of absence of a suitable area to wash your car look for alternative area ? maybe one of your friends or neighbours has a suitable ground.
6. Suitable areas for car washing are always provided by service stations. The best place where you can wash your vehicle is a self serve car wash where the runoff water is treated to remove pollutants before getting into the sewer.
7. When washing your car use a trigger hose, hoses with automatic shut-off nozzles or at least bucket to save water.
8. Don?t use much detergent or soap. You?d better wash the car with plain water and coarse sponge. If you prefer detergents they must be biodegradable low- and no-phosphate.
9. The waste water must be disposed onto a lawn or garden.
10. Wash you car once, maximum twice a month and reduce the amount of cleaning products per wash.
Nowadays a lot of governmental and private corporations start campaigns which aim to encourage ?Do It Yourself? DIY car washers to switch to using commercial car washers. Such campaigns as ?Take Me Out to the Car Wash? promote the benefits of professional car washing and spread the word about the negative consequences of DIY car washing.
Commercial car washs
Commercial car wash premises treat the runoff water before disposing it into the sewer. However they have negative features also. Commercial car washes spend much more soap and hot water than hand washing.
There are some quite new car washes which clean, recycle and reuse the runoff water. Such systems consume much less water than standard ones and all waste water is treated before disposal.
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