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VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Muscat Canelli, First Wine to Show True Texas Terroir
Muscat Canelli with its floral, heady aromas is often called a “seductive” white grape. Muscat Canelli is known under a variety of local names such as Muscat Blanc, Moscato Bianco, Muscat de Frontignan, Muscat de Lunel, Muscat d’Alsace, Muskateller, Moscatel de Grano Menudo, Moscatel Rosé and Sárgamuskotály. There are numerous grapes called Muscat, many of them redundant. It is said that the a catalog of the various sorts of Muscats would be a more interest to a botanist than a wine drinker.
In America, it’s common to find grapes called Muscat Canelli and Muscat Blanc. Some say that in Texas, the Muscat Canelli grape has reached a pinnacle of greatness not seen anywhere else in the United States and it’s wines rival those of Europe capable of both luscious sweet and aromatic dry wines. It is the first grape that actually bears a new world “Texas Terroir”, like the often cited Sauvignon Blanc has attained in New Zealand.
In France, it is more likely called Muscat a Petits Grains or Muscat de Frontignan. It’s the oldest cultivated grape in France, most likely brought to Frontignan, by the Romans. The French even have a term, musqué, that describes clones of other varieties with notable floral, muscat-like perfume.
In Italy, the grape is the most widely planted member of the Muscat family and is most commonly known as Moscato Bianco. It is the oldest known variety grown in Piedmont and is the primary component of the Asti Spumante and Moscato d’Asti wines. In fact, Muscat Canelli is the fourth most planted variety in Italy.
Whereas Muscat Canelli and Muscat Blanc are regarded as functionally similar, Muscat of Alexandria is less highly regarded. The ancient origins of Muscat grapes make it particularly subject to mutation, which adds to the mystery. While Muscats are most often white, as various names imply, mutations may be pink, red or brown; white Muscat grapes when ripe may appear with a rosy hue or bronzed!
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Other varieties of Muscat are:
Muscat Rose à Petit Grains, Muscat Rouge à Petit Grains, Moscato Giallo (or Goldmuskateller), Moscato Rosa (or Rosenmuskateller) are thought to be closely related colored versions of Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains.
Moscatel de Setúbal and Moscatel de Favaios are the most widely consumed varieties in Portugal, usually served in bars or as an aperitif at restaurants.
Muscat of Alexandria (also called Moscatel, Moscatel Romano, Moscatel de Málaga, Muscat Gordo Blanco, Hanepoot, Lexia, Moscatel, Gordo, and Zibibbo) This grape is used for sherry, moscatel or muscatel wines, Moscatel de Valencia, Muscatel Passito and other Muscatel liqueurs and also as a raisin and table grape.
Muscat Ottonel (also called Moskately) Used for dessert wines in Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia, and dry wines in Alsace, Slovakia and Hungary.
Black Muscat (also called Muscat Hamburg, Moscato di Amburgo) Used for some Eastern European wine but mainly for table grapes in Italy and Australia. A dessert wine made from this grape is produced in California and Cyprus.
Orange Muscat. Used for dessert wines in California and Australia. Not surprisingly, has something of an orange aroma.
Texas Muscat Canelli flavor chacteristics: Orange blossom, lychee, apricot, honeysuckle
Wine Characteristics: Still and sparkling wine: light and crisp to full bodied/fortified; dry, off-dry, semi-sweet, sweet/dessert
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Greetings fellow readers!
The 'Fins, Wings, and Other Things' blog tour from Peachtree Publishers continues today here at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers with a special Guest Post from author Melissa Stewart as she shares her thoughts about Earth Day. Let's have a look, shall we?
Guest Post: Melissa Stewart
Author of A Place for FishEarth Day is a time to think about our precious planet and our place in it. And that makes it a perfect time to share the books in the A Place for series with children.Thinking about the environment and environmental issues can be hard on young people. They take it all to heart. Based on the stages of cognitive development, they see the world in black and white. They have trouble compartmentalizing all the problems we know are happening right now on Earth. They see a problem, and they want to jump to action. They want to make a difference. And there are plenty of examples of how that can-do attitude has led groups of children to raise money to buy plots of land, to find ways to make their schools more energy efficient, to create new habitat for endangered animals, and much, much more.A Place for Fish, along with its predecessors A Place for Frogs, A Place for Birds, and A Place for Butterflies describes environmental problems—and solutions. Some people may think the books are a bit idealistic, but young readers need that. They need hope. We all do.Sure there are many environmental problems that haven’t been solved. But plenty have. And those are the ones I highlight. I want kids to see that simple local actions can and do make a difference. By working together, we can protect fish, frogs, birds, butterflies, and countless other creatures. We can preserve their habitats far into the future. That’s a message kids need to hear loud and clear—on Earth Day and every other day of the year.
Melissa Stewart is the award-winning author of more than 100 science books for children. She has always been fascinated by the natural world and is passionate about sharing its beauty and wonder with readers of all ages.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in biology from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University, Melissa worked as a children’s book editor for nine years before becoming a fulltime writer in 2000. She has written everything from board books for preschoolers to magazine articles for adults.
Melissa believes that nothing brings nonfiction writing to life like firsthand research. While gathering information for her books, she has explored tropical rain forests in Costa Rica, gone on safari in East Africa, and swum with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands.
When Melissa isn’t writing or exploring the natural world, she spends time speaking at schools, libraries, nature centers, and educator conferences. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Board of Advisors and a judge for the American Institute of Physics Children’s Science Writing Award.
Thank you so much for that inspiring post Ms. Stewart!
By turning the focus inward to those items that HAVE been tackled successfully, we can see just how far our efforts have taken us and that a positive outcome IS possible for those daunting issues still plaguing us today. What a great way to instill new life into a timeless message.
Time for today's challenge...and your opportunity to gain another entry to win that Peachtree Publishers prize pack of bookish goodness. Are you ready?
Author Melissa Stewart has written several titles in the Peachtree Publishers catalog with focuses ranging from animals to habitat weather but always centering on nature. Take a look at her current body of work. Which of her titles appeals to YOU most...and why?
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tour. In the mean time, be sure to check out A Word’s Worth as they feature a review of Planting the Wild Garden by Kathryn O. Galbraith.
Until next time...happy reading.
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By Jim Kennerly
PV Solar Report guest contributor
Having grown up in Texas, I can tell you that Texans can lay claim to a proud and unique history. One of the most stirring and vivid chapters of Texas history is the siege at the Alamo, which took place in present-day San Antonio, Texas. Outnumbered by more than 10 to 1, the “Texians” fought a pitched battle with General Santa Anna and the Mexican army, and were simply overrun. While the Texans went on to claim their independence, fighting the Battle of the Alamo cost Texas some of its most promising young leaders, including William B. Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett.
As a former Texan, and someone who follows the many state-level solar policy skirmishes, one striking parallel to the Battle of the Alamo seems to shine through. In short. it looks increasingly as if solar’s declining costs and growing customer demand for greater control over their utility bills now have a momentum all their own – and fighting them represents another doomed struggle against inevitability.
Ironically, one of the emerging examples of such a struggle is CPS Energy, San Antonio’s large (and, not infrequently, quite forward-thinking) city-owned electric utility.
CPS Energy’s proposals to restructure solar payments
In recent years, CPS Energy has made two formal attempts to change its approach to solar PV in its service territory, all of which have thus far been abandoned.
In April 2013, CPS first offered its “SunCredit” program for consideration. The SunCredit proposal was twofold: it ended net energy metering in its service territory, replacing it with a “value of solar” tariff that valued few of solar’s benefits, and required customers to sell all their energy back to CPS Energy. After the proposal was criticized by the solar industry and San Antonio’s elected leaders, CPS withdrew it. In 2014, CPS then chose to apply a fixed fee per kW of solar PV capacity, a route favored by Arizona Public Service, Rocky Mountain Power, We Energies, and a variety of other utilities. Just recently, though, CPS withdrew it once again, citing the uncertainty associated with San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro’s departure to join the Obama Administration.
Finally, CPS indicated that it would develop a (familiar-sounding, by now) third approach: it may end net metering by the end of 2015, in exchange for offering a pilot program capped at 1 to 3 MW total, in which customers cannot own their system, or their solar energy onsite. (Net metering is guaranteed to continue only through 2015, and CPS says they want an “alternative” to the program.) As one installer put it to Solar San Antonio, “the only DG solar that would be deployed is that for which the utility has issued an RFP.”
Understanding the CPS process: Adapting a top-down mindset to a bottom-up economy
While I confess I am not deeply familiar with happenings on the ground in San Antonio, it is fairly clear that much of the trial and error that CPS is going through is related not to the specifics of their proposals, but to a particular mindset. More specifically, there appears to be a mismatch between how customers are beginning to think and act about their energy future, and about how utilities like CPS Energy view that relationship with their own customers.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the dominant view of how to govern our nation could be traced in part to central economic and social planning. Much like our economy and society of that time, this approach reflected the view that those at the top – David Halberstam once called them “The Best and the Brightest” – knew better than citizens (and customers) what was best for them and their lives.
However, advances in technology and our society since the 1950s and 1960s have allowed us to build a more collaborative economy. Instead of top-down planning that emphasizes avoidance of risk and uncertainty, our present-day economy is, fundamentally, more service-based, consumer-centered, and “bottom-up.” As the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter explained, economies that are supplemented by governments that make targeted interventions in the marketplace spur competition and innovation, and lead to an appropriate amount of “creative destruction” of investments that no longer add value. Indeed, the process of “creative destruction” is why we have a high technology industry in the first place. The innovation and cost reduction for solar PV and other distributed energy technologies is but one of thousands of examples of “creative destruction” in the energy space.
Despite all this, utilities and their regulators still use the older-style top-down process (called integrated resource planning, or IRP) to evaluate most, if not all, utility investments, and the process tends to be limited to those who have resources to participate in the regulatory process. Once investment decisions are initially made through the IRP process, the costs of those investments tend to be passed on to utility customers. What’s more, despite the fact that nearly 70% of residential customers are demanding more ways to mitigate their utility bills, a critical mass of utilities tend, like CPS, try to skirt the issue by continuing to insist on placing themselves and their investments at the center of their customers’ world, with no one else.
Of course, once these massive, macro-scale assets are built, utilities have a significant incentive to do whatever is necessary to protect their own investments even if they turn out to be too costly, more expensive than an alternative investment, or otherwise imprudent. This is the heart of the common utility argument about the intolerability of “cost shifting” (and CPS’s repeated efforts to end net metering) – the unstated fear that these assets will be stranded because of the very innovation and “creative destruction” our economy is built on.
Thus, like CPS Energy’s pilot proposal, almost all utility solar programs have capacity or participation limits, caps, or other devices (like ending net metering) to ensure that the utility remains, once again, at the center of gravity, with ultimate market power.
Accepting and embracing market forces: Solar markets and utility regulation for a “bottom-up” world
Let’s not kid ourselves — electric utilities deserve the broader solar community’s respect and admiration. They have built and served, in large part, the spectacular growth of America’s industrial economy and modern society, and serve as the backbone of the interconnected, collaborative world in which we live. They truly do, as they often say, “keep the lights on.”
That being said, the onset of a two-way utility system driven by distributed energy resources makes the job of planning our power system one that must be transparent, accountable, and most of all, shared. Indeed, all of this is why New York has engaged in the Reforming the Energy Vision process – they do not want only one, narrow vision of the “utility of the future.” Indeed, New York’s regulators have a broad vision: a distributed energy platform, but one in which both the utilities and the clean energy industries share market power and compete, to the benefit of customers.
Later this year, our team at the NC Clean Energy Technology Center at NC State University will produce a short report on how utilities can effectively own, operate, and engage in the rooftop solar PV market in a way that reflects and respects today’s bottom-up economy. The report’s findings will be based on our exploration of emerging solar technology – friendly best practices.
It is clear that America’s states can match their energy markets and utility regulation to the world in which we live. Indeed, all stakeholders have much to gain from reform, and from abandoning the costly defense of an unraveling status quo.
Jim Kennerly is a senior policy analyst at the NC Clean Energy Technology Center at NC State University, where he works on the Department of Energy’s SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership (SolarOPs) and the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE). He will present at Solar Power International 2014 on how minimum bills, time of use pricing and decoupling can allow states to raise net metering caps.
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed on this site by persons not affiliated with PV Solar Report reflect the judgment of the author and not necessarily that of PV Solar Report.
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Mumbai Local Trains: Railway Board Prohibits Entry of Women with Children
Amid the increasing Covid-19 cases in Mumbai, the Railway Board has decided to prevent women from travelling along with their children in the local trains. They have also decided to deploy Railway Protection Force (RPF) at the entry gates to execute the said order. The decision was taken after women were seen carrying their children along with them. Earlier the government had allowed women to travel in the local trains under the "Begin Again" mission from October.
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To What Extent Does the Fertility Rate Explain the Education Gap?
Posted: 11 Oct 2021
Date Written: October 6, 2021
The theory of Quantity-Quality (Q-Q) trade-off suggests that given the resource constraints in a household, an increase in family size would result in lower investments in human capital development of children. Following this theory, we investigate the role of fertility in explaining the educational gap between Muslims and Hindus in India. A historically large difference in the total fertility rates (TFR) between them, which is as high as 24% in 2015-16, may have contributed to the existing gap in education. Using decomposition techniques, we find that family size accounts for about 11% of the gap in years of schooling between high caste Hindus and Muslims. While examining the likelihood of completion of different levels of education, the contribution of family size increases with the level of education, rising to 15% for secondary education. Our estimates are robust to varied fixed effects and time-trends, which indicate that we do not have the supporting evidence to qualify the access to and quality of schools as potential reasons for the gap. While analysing the policy implications, our data reveals that the unmet needs for family planning of the Muslim women have been higher than Hindu women for both spacing (6.96% versus 5.26-5.46%) and limiting (9.58% versus 7.20-7.52%). Additionally, Hindu women have (72-73%) better access to modern methods of contraception than to Muslim women (61.3%). Hence, appropriate supply side measures addressing these needs should go a long way in reducing the fertility gap, with potential to reduce the education gap in due course.
Keywords: Fertility, Education, Muslim, Quantity-quality trade-off, Decomposition, India.
JEL Classification: I24, I25, J13, O15.
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Mental disorders don’t discriminate. Mark National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month this July.
Quality mental health care should be accessible to all.
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month exists to draw attention to the issues affecting minorities’ access to quality mental health care. We’re delving into why it’s so crucial to talk about, and offering up some top-tier recommended resources.
Our overall well-being is tied to several complex factors, one of the most important being our mental health. Despite leaps in removing the stigma around mental health issues in recent years, there’s still a long way to go. A whole variety of socioeconomic issues that affect minority communities every day still cause many to hold back from seeking mental health help, while being unable to access suitable services is another huge obstacle to contend with.
That’s where National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month comes in. July is the month for raising awareness in our communities of the plethora of barriers that minorities face in mental health spaces. Ultimately, those from ethnic, racial, and other minority populations have worse mental health outcomes, as they are less likely to be able to seek care, less likely to receive support in a timely and appropriate manner, and the services that they can access are also likely to be of lower quality. That needs to change, and that’s why we’re sharing a few of our top hand-picked resources that directly address these issues:
- Rest For Resistance is an inspiring QTPOC (queer trans people of color), trans-led mental health platform offering safe spaces.
- Liberate Meditation is an app with talks and meditations for black individuals, indigenous people, and people of color.
- Latinx Therapy is a podcast based on mental health topics related to the Latinx community.
- Inclusive Therapists help marginalized populations find culturally informed, social justice-oriented therapists.
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Established in 2005, The Montessori Elementary School (TMES) and The Montessori Middle School (TMMS) is charter school through the Public Education Commission (PEC) in the State of New Mexico. TMEMS currently serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade from Albuquerque and the surrounding areas. TMES and TMMS classes incorporate the Montessori philosophy and curriculum, with weekly Suzuki music lessons, General Music and Visual Art classes. All students and parents participate in the Suzuki Strings program, taking lessons in violin, cello or violas.
To learn more about our school, please visit our website- www.tmesnm.com .
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Cité de l’Océan, Biarritz
The Cité de l’Océan (City of the Ocean) is a science museum in Biarritz, on the Atlantic coast of southern France, housed in an iconic building designed by American architect Steven Holl.
Opened to the public on 26 June 2011, the City of the Ocean has been conceived to complement the Biarritz Aquarium by creating a more children-oriented museum presenting the history, geology, and ecology of the oceans mainly through multimedia and interactive exhibits.
Above, view of the Cité de l’Océan in Biarritz at dusk; photo © Iwan Baan.
Steven Holl’s building
The 3,800-square-meter/40,903-square-foot building of the Cité de l’Océan was designed by Steven Holl, in collaboration with Brazilian-American architect Solange Fabião, after winning an international architectural competition organized in 2005 by the City of Biarritz.
From the outside, the museum consists of a glazed building and a concave cobbled plaza, whose shape is reminiscent of that of a huge ocean wave. The plaza is actually the roof of a large exhibition area partially dug below the ground as if it was a submarine city laying concealed under the surface of the sea.
“The building form derives from the spatial concept “under the sky”/“under the sea”. A concave “under the sky” shape creates a central gathering plaza, open to sky and sea, with the horizon in the distance. The convex structural ceiling forms the “under the sea” exhibition spaces. This concept generates a unique profile and form for the building, and through its insertion and efficient site utilization, the project integrates seamlessly into the surrounding landscape.” Steven Holl
A sketch by Steven Holl depicting the spatial concept “under the sky”/“under the sea”; © Steven Holl.
A sequence of cobbled footpaths, dry stone walls, grass fields, and gardens with local vegetation connects the museum with the nearby Atlantic Ocean seaside.
A panoramic view of the Ocean City of Biarritz; image courtesy of Agence d’Urbanisme du Territoire de Belfort.
Site plan, plan of the -1 level, cross and longitudinal sections; images Steven Holl Architects and Solange Fabião.
Exterior view at night, and a view of the gathering plaza with the Atlantic Ocean in the background © Iwan Baan.
The partially sunken exhibition space underneath the gathering plaza; © Iwan Baan.
The permanent exhibition
As mentioned previously, the permanent exhibition of the Cité de L’Océan is clearly oriented at children and families and consists almost exclusively of interactive exhibits and videos, many of which in 3D.
This approach to scientific education, pretty usual some years ago but a bit obsolete today, limits somewhat the attractiveness of the museum to younger people; therefore, we suggest the adults complement the visit to the Ocean City with that to the more science-oriented Aquarium / Musée de la Mer in central Biarritz, if possible.
The exhibition is divided into several sections, called “universes”, presenting various subjects related to oceans, including their origin from extraterrestrial water from comets and asteroids, marine mysteries and legendary tales, oceans’ exploration, influx on climate, submarine geology, and sea life. There is also a gallery dedicated to surfing, of which Biarritz is possibly the most famous spot in Europe
The program of the Cité de l’Océan includes changing exhibitions, conferences, live performances, educational activities, and special events.
The building of the museum also contains a shop, a 104-seat 3D cinema/auditorium, a restaurant, and a cafe.
Three views of the permanent exhibition. Images courtesy of Cité de L’Océan.
Interior view of the museum; photo © Iwan Baan.
Exterior view from the east; photo © Iwan Baan.
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Outside the crop of construction cranes that now dot Vancouver’s bright, downtown greenways, in a suburban business park that reminds you more of dentists and tax preparers, is a small office building belonging to D-Wave. This office — squat, angular and sun-dappled one recent cool Autumn morning — is unique in that it contains an infinite collection of parallel universes.
Founded in 1999 by Geordie Rose, D-Wave worked in relative obscurity on esoteric problems associated with quantum computing. When Rose was a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, he turned in an assignment that outlined a quantum computing company. His entrepreneurship teacher at the time, Haig Farris, found the young physicists ideas compelling enough to give him $1,000 to buy a computer and a printer to type up a business plan.
The company consulted with academics until 2005, when Rose and his team decided to focus on building usable quantum computers. The result, the Orion, launched in 2007, and was used to classify drug molecules and play Sodoku. The business now sells computers for up to $10 million to clients like Google, Microsoft and Northrop Grumman.
“We’ve been focused on making quantum computing practical since day one. In 2010 we started offering remote cloud access to customers and today, we have 100 early applications running on our computers (70 percent of which were built in the cloud),” said CEO Vern Brownell. “Through this work, our customers have told us it takes more than just access to real quantum hardware to benefit from quantum computing. In order to build a true quantum ecosystem, millions of developers need the access and tools to get started with quantum.”
Now their computers are simulating weather patterns and tsunamis, optimizing hotel ad displays, solving complex network problems and, thanks to a new, open-source platform, could help you ride the quantum wave of computer programming.
Inside the box
When I went to visit D-Wave they gave us unprecedented access to the inside of one of their quantum machines. The computers, which are about the size of a garden shed, have a control unit on the front that manages the temperature as well as queuing system to translate and communicate the problems sent in by users.
Inside the machine is a tube that, when fully operational, contains a small chip super-cooled to 0.015 Kelvin, or -459.643 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.135 degrees Celsius. The entire system looks like something out of the Death Star — a cylinder of pure data that the heroes must access by walking through a little door in the side of a jet-black cube.
It’s quite thrilling to see this odd little chip inside its super-cooled home. As the computer revolution maintained its predilection toward room-temperature chips, these odd and unique machines are a connection to an alternate timeline where physics is wrestled into submission in order to do some truly remarkable things.
And now anyone — from kids to PhDs to everyone in-between — can try it.
Into the ocean
Learning to program a quantum computer takes time. Because the processor doesn’t work like a classic universal computer, you have to train the chip to perform simple functions that your own cellphone can do in seconds. However, in some cases, researchers have found the chips can outperform classic computers by 3,600 times. This trade-off — the movement from the known to the unknown — is why D-Wave exposed their product to the world.
“We built Leap to give millions of developers access to quantum computing. We built the first quantum application environment so any software developer interested in quantum computing can start writing and running applications — you don’t need deep quantum knowledge to get started. If you know Python, you can build applications on Leap,” said Brownell.
To get started on the road to quantum computing, D-Wave built the Leap platform. The Leap is an open-source toolkit for developers. When you sign up you receive one minute’s worth of quantum processing unit time which, given that most problems run in milliseconds, is more than enough to begin experimenting. A queue manager lines up your code and runs it in the order received and the answers are spit out almost instantly.
You can code on the QPU with Python or via Jupiter notebooks, and it allows you to connect to the QPU with an API token. After writing your code, you can send commands directly to the QPU and then output the results. The programs are currently pretty esoteric and require a basic knowledge of quantum programming but, it should be remembered, classic computer programming was once daunting to the average user.
I downloaded and ran most of the demonstrations without a hitch. These demonstrations — factoring programs, network generators and the like — essentially turned the concepts of classical programming into quantum questions. Instead of iterating through a list of factors, for example, the quantum computer creates a “parallel universe” of answers and then collapses each one until it finds the right answer. If this sounds odd it’s because it is. The researchers at D-Wave argue all the time about how to imagine a quantum computer’s various processes. One camp sees the physical implementation of a quantum computer to be simply a faster methodology for rendering answers. The other camp, itself aligned with Professor David Deutsch’s ideas presented in The Beginning of Infinity, sees the sheer number of possible permutations a quantum computer can traverse as evidence of parallel universes.
What does the code look like? It’s hard to read without understanding the basics, a fact that D-Wave engineers factored for in offering online documentation. For example, below is most of the factoring code for one of their demo programs, a bit of code that can be reduced to about five lines on a classical computer. However, when this function uses a quantum processor, the entire process takes milliseconds versus minutes or hours.
“The industry is at an inflection point and we’ve moved beyond the theoretical, and into the practical era of quantum applications. It’s time to open this up to more smart, curious developers so they can build the first quantum killer app. Leap’s combination of immediate access to live quantum computers, along with tools, resources, and a community, will fuel that,” said Brownell. “For Leap’s future, we see millions of developers using this to share ideas, learn from each other and contribute open-source code. It’s that kind of collaborative developer community that we think will lead us to the first quantum killer app.”
The folks at D-Wave created a number of tutorials as well as a forum where users can learn and ask questions. The entire project is truly the first of its kind and promises unprecedented access to what amounts to the foreseeable future of computing. I’ve seen lots of technology over the years, and nothing quite replicated the strange frisson associated with plugging into a quantum computer. Like the teletype and green-screen terminals used by the early hackers like Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, D-Wave has opened up a strange new world. How we explore it us up to us.
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For many years, workplace safety leaders have looked to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for definitive guidance on workplace safety. In a COVID-19 pandemic-savvy world though, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will also be a source of useful information.
Many organizations have relocated staff to home offices to telework in response to stay-at-home guidance from State and local leaders. Other businesses, however, require workers in the office or at a plant to meet mission requirements and customer needs. And, most currently teleworking organizations do want to ultimately pursue some level of return to work, under “new normal” conditions.
Here are some factors to consider as you plan your office or team’s return:
- Supporting Infrastructure: Your office works within a larger community of services and infrastructure. If many of your employees, for example, rely on public transit to get to work, then your pace of return will likely be rate limited by the availability of transit. The availability of office security staff and cleaning crews are also a necessary constraint.
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Cleaning Supplies. Think carefully about how different people in different roles interact with other people and with objects around the office. People with high contact needs will also need PPE and disinfecting supplies. For example, will you require staff to bring their own masks? Will you reimburse them for that expense? Thinking through who will need what to stay safe, and how these materials will be procured and distributed is an important planning step to ensure workplace safety.
- Office Architecture. In recent years, many organizations have moved to open space configurations, where desks are close together and there are few barriers. With ongoing trends towards social distancing, more separation and physical cubicle walls may return to being in vogue. Conference rooms may also need to be reconfigured to simultaneously allow hybrid in-person and remote participation.
- Updated Policies and Procedures. In the new normal, existing OSHA reporting requirements may be supplemented with the need for contact tracing for sick employees, quarantine management and health assessments. This will require new policies and procedures that consider roles, processes, privacy assessments and reporting.
Ensuring workplace safety is taking on new meaning in a COVID-savvy world. We hope these ideas help you start to vision and plan for that new real-world future.
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The goal of a good night’s sleep is to feel refreshed and ready to face the day in the morning. Unfortunately, many people find it difficult to wake up in the morning. They go back to sleep for a variety of factors.
Here are seven ways to make waking up easier and more refreshing.
Maintain a consistent sleep schedule
Adults require around eight hours of sleep every night on average, although your needs may vary. Our bodies tend to follow a regular pattern, and our behavior can help to reinforce these natural rhythms. Establishing a consistent sleep routine is one of the greatest strategies to obtain a decent night’s sleep and wake up on time. According to research, too much variation in your bedtime and morning wake-up time might contribute to insufficient sleep.
Get light first thing in the morning
Morning light can promote wakefulness by suppressing melatonin (the sleep hormone) from the body. As you may know, your body follows a natural circadian rhythm and light has the strongest influence on this biological clock.
Ideally, you should wake up to sunshine flowing through your window every day. If it is something you can rely on, sitting in front of a lightbox shortly after waking up can have similar effects.
Put your Alarm far from your bed
An alarm clock will wake you up even if you are in the darkest phases of sleep. Snoozing, on the other hand, can bring you back to Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – A crucial and highly restorative phase in the sleep cycle.
When your alarm goes off in the morning, you’re normally towards the end of your final REM cycle. When you snooze and go back to sleep, You could re-enter the REM stage resulting in waking up feeling fuzzy and disoriented.
If you’re used to hitting the snooze button, move your alarm clock away from your bed so you have to get out to turn it off.
Get regular exercise
If you have difficulties waking up and getting your day started, try being active first thing in the morning. Begin your day with a short exercise to help you get up.
Furthermore, getting daily exercise has been demonstrated to enhance overall sleep quality.
Don’t skip breakfast
Having breakfast is an excellent way to wake yourself up. Even a simple breakfast might provide you with a boost of energy to start your day. You can receive even more benefits if you incorporate a caffeinated beverage. There is evidence that eating low-glycemic, high-protein meals at breakfast can boost energy levels in the morning.
Establish a relaxing bedtime routine
Before bedtime, mentally stimulating activities such as work, reading the news, or browsing through social media can engage your brain, generate unpleasant thoughts, and make falling asleep more difficult. Such activities may negatively impact your sleep quality too.
Initiating a relaxing bedtime ritual about two hours before bedtime can avoid that by sending signals to the brain that it’s time to shut down. What’s relaxing to one person may not be to another, but you can try things like reading, guided meditation, or simply talking to a loved one.
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BAD MANNERS OF PIANO PLAYERS.
It is a mistake to suppose that, even as an accomplishment, piano playing is so very highly prized. I dropped in to spend an hour with an intelligent friend. I was particularly interested in the Franco-Prussian war, and, as he had lived much, both in Paris and Berlin, I hoped to learn about some things not discussed in the newspapers. His youngest daughter, a beautiful girl, had just arrived, fresh from the glories of the closing exercises of a seminary.
We were in the midst of our discussions, and he was repeating some conversations with Bismarck, in which I was intensely interested, when the fond, proud mother said :
“Now, if you will listen, Gertie will play the piece which she played last Thursday evening at Madame ‘s.” Gertie began, alas, and she kept on, and on, and on.
There were four of us gentlemen, three were callers, one the editor of a city paper. We were all eager to listen to our host, of Bismarck and Napoleon.
That unhappy child kept at it. We sat there with a hypocritical smile on our faces, but, internally, as mad as we could be. When at length, the sixteen pages had been finished, and the girl turned around for the prescribed adulation, all but one of us exclaimed, “wonderful, exquisite, delightful!” and the editor, (who, when coming down in the car an hour later, emphasized his disgust with an awful big word,) declared he had never heard anything so wonderful, and added, that she really ought to go abroad to study with the great masters. The lying executed by some of us was perfect. I have forgotten whether this kind of falsehood is mentioned in the works upon white lying, but if I ever write upon “white lies,” I shall give this kind a prominent place.
Girls, if you ever obtrude an average piano performance upon a company of intelligent people, engaged in conversation, nine in ten of them will secretly regard you as a nuisance, no matter how much they exclaim, “exquisite, delicious, wonderful!” Of course your parents will be gratified with your performance; mamma will be pleased and proud with the show-off, and papa will smile. How else could he do, after paying $2,000 piano bills? It is a pretty picture to their eyes — the loved one seated at a splendid, great instrument, executing one of the grandest compositions of one of the immortal masters. And, although you are not inspired with the passion of the heaven-born composer, and your performance is a mechanical, soulless humdrum, that matters not to your father and mother, their loving imaginations will supply all that is needed to make the picture complete. But the rest of us will heartily wish that you had not interrupted our conversation.
It is an amazing blindness on the part of parents. It always astonishes me that they don’t see the impertinence of the thing. They certainly wouldn’t think of asking the company to cease their conversation to hear you speak your piece, or perform a dance. The piano alone is licensed to say to everybody, “cease your conversation, and listen to me; I am about to make a big noise!”
Our Girls, Dio Lewis, M.D., 1871
Mrs Daffodil’s Aide-memoire: Mrs Daffodil is reminded of that scene from Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth Bennet’s sister Mary sets out to entertain: “Mary’s powers were by no means fitted for such a display: her voice was weak, and her manner affected.” And of Mr Bennet’s admirable pronouncement: “That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough.” Dr Lewis no doubt on many occasions longed for a Mr Bennet.
Dr Diocletian Lewis [1823-1886] was a homeopathic physician, temperance and physical hygiene advocate. We have previously read his screed on the insidious poison of the opera.
Mrs Daffodil invites you to join her on the curiously named “Face-book,” where you will find a feast of fashion hints, fads and fancies, and historical anecdotes
You may read about a sentimental succubus, a vengeful seamstress’s ghost, Victorian mourning gone horribly wrong, and, of course, Mrs Daffodil’s efficient tidying up after a distasteful decapitation in A Spot of Bother: Four Macabre Tales.
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Whether it's their own misstep, or an employee's blunder, the most successful business leaders turn mistakes into genuine learning opportunities. But in order to do so, they have to create just the right workplace culture.
An environment that seems overly supportive of mistakes might send the message that they don't take mistakes seriously. On the other hand, an overly punitive environment may discourage employees from admitting to their mistakes.
The best leaders create a learning culture that helps employees accept responsibility without placing blame. To find out how to create a learning environment, I asked successful CEOs to share their insight.
1. Dave Finocchio, CEO Of Bleacher Report
"It's a major violation of trust with me when people don't admit fault or openly talk about what they could have done better. It's just very rare that you earn an A+ on every test, and arrogant if you act like you do. I think it’s really hard for people to move up the ladder if they are overly hard-headed in this area.
I make mistakes all the time, and talk about them openly with people up and down our hierarchy. It fosters a culture where people should feel comfortable critiquing themselves honestly."
2. Geoff Woo, CEO Of Nootrobox
"Life is too short to learn from your own mistakes, so learn from other people's mistakes by absorbing information from any and all high-fidelity sources (blogs, books, conversations with domain experts).
Some companies have a culture of ‘don't come to your boss with problems, come with solutions.’ It's actually horrible advice. Yes, you want smart competent problem solvers on your team, but you also want an open team dynamic where people are working together with honest open lines of communication, not a culture of fear and perfection."
3. Rob Butler, Founder Of Maestro Health
"You can’t start the remedy process until you know what the total damage is. Most people will give you a second chance.
That said, nothing dilutes your credibility and apology more than having to go back and report a ‘worse than I initially thought’ second communication. ‘Hey, so I told you yesterday we messed up 10 of your orders, actually it was 15.’ Credibility party over. "
4. Ross Cohen, Cofounder Of BeenVerified
“In light of a mistake, it is important to personally take the lead. It’s extremely pertinent that all of our team hears directly from the founders on any issue of confusion, mistake, or change of direction that comes up. A quick email from the CEO can immediately answer any questions and provide confidence to the rest of the team.”
5. Andrew Brockenbush, Co-owner Of Beefy Marketing
“The best way to overcome a mistake is to learn from it and put systems in place not to repeat it. Sure failure is educational, and even necessary in many ways, but that doesn’t mean you want to repeat the same mistake over and over.”
6. Joseph Schumacher, CEO Of Goddard Systems, Inc.
“Transparency. If something goes wrong, it’s important to address it and let the organization know that A) something has gone wrong, B) what happened and how, C) it is being corrected, and D) this is how it’s being corrected. This may also empower employees to offer alternate solutions that wouldn’t have been considered otherwise."
7. Sabrina Parsons, CEO Of Palo Alto Software
“Don’t hide the bad news--mistakes only get worse because employees are afraid to share bad news. Raise the flag and bring it up to your manager or exec team and own up to the mistake."
8. Sarah Nahm, CEO Of Lever
"At the team level, we see different teams tackling the opportunity in different ways. Our marketing team started an internal spreadsheet of 'Marketing Mistakes' that they periodically review in meetings, to show that it's not the end of the world when things go wrong and that the main thing is to learn from the experience.
The people who benefit most from documenting these stories are actually the new hires who weren’t even there when the mistake was made. Unless you socialize errors with newcomers, you risk history repeating itself."
9. Pete Christothoulou, CEO Of Marchex
"Ask for feedback--from your team, your boss, your clients, anyone. Every bit of feedback, good or bad, pushes us to ask how can we do better?
And at the end of the day, this question is what will breed growth and lessons learned from our mistakes or failures. Always ask how you can do better and you will always continue to do better."
10. Geoff Gross, CEO Of Medical Guardian
"Own it. Let go of the pride that doesn't want you to admit that you're wrong. And don't waste time letting the guilt or shame consume you. Use that time to come up with a solid action plan to fix it (or at least reduce the negative impacts of your actions) in conjunction with a plan on how you can avoid such a problem in the future.”
Grow Stronger And Become Better
Acknowledging that mistakes are inevitable can go a long way toward encouraging employees to come forward when they've messed up. Then, it's up to leaders to determine how to turn those mistakes into learning opportunities so they won't be repeated.
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, speaker, and the author of the bestselling book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do.
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Category: Accepting differences, living together, getting over fear
When Hassan decides to face the long feared Ghoul living on top of the mountain, he discovers that the Ghoul is just as terrified of people as they are of him. Hassan and Ghoul realize that although they are different from each other they can still be friends.
The villagers are afraid of the “Ghoul”. They spend their life tiptoeing around the village afraid to disturb it. The reasons given are that this monster very different from us. One day the brave Hassan decides to investigate the matter and finds out that the Ghoul is just as scared of humans and for exactly the same reasons.
What we like about it: A story supporting discussion about fear, the concept of discrimination, reality versus fantasy and understanding and accepting differences. We strongly recommend it.
Taghreed Najjar: A pioneer of modern children's literature in Jordan. A graduate of the American University of Beirut,Taghreed started her career as a teacher before becoming a full time writer of picture books and young adult novels. Her YA novels have been celebrated widely by her readers and various schools in the region have adopted them as part of their curriculum. A number of her books have won awards while others have been translated into foreign languages like English, Swedish, Turkish, French and Chinese. One of her most critically acclaimed works is a series of ten picture books revolving around six-year old Jude and her family and friends.'The Halazone Series', deals with everyday childhood issues which are treated with humor and deftness by the author. One of Taghreed’s pet projects was collecting old Arabic children rhymes and publishing them in book and digital form to make them accessible to the modern child and family of today. She published two collections of rhymes, the latest entitled 'Musical Tickles' was selected by the National Centre for Children's Literature.
Hassan Manasra: Completed his studies in applied arts, emphasis on interior design from the University of Balqa’ in Jordan. He also studied fine arts with emphasis on oil painting and took a course in sculpture at the Jordanian National Institute of Arts. He graduated in 2000, and held his first exhibition “Urban Mood” in 2006. He started illustrating for local magazines in 2003. Later on he moved to animation, specifically animation for children. He contributed to the production of an animated series “Pink Panther and Pals” produced by “Rubicon & MGM”. He also illustrated some episodes for a famous children series “Driver Dan’s Story Train” produced by “A Productions Ltd. & BBC”. Hassan illustrated a number of children books published by local and regional publishing houses.
Al Salwa Publishing (Jordan)
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Crane; Stephen; 1871-1900
All of Crane's writing is subjective, but the poems purport to be nothing else and so furnish the best key to his remarkable mind. Crane's "remarkable mind" was a mind troubled with religious and social conflicts. These conflicts are found in both his poetry and prose. However, Crane's poetry furnishes a presise account of the battles which raged within his mind. Writing to the editor of Leslie's Weekly in November of 1895, Crane expresses the value of his book of poetry. "I suppose I ought to be thankful to The Red Badge, but I am much fonder of my little book of poems, 'The Black Riders.' The reason, perhaps, is that it was a more ambitious effort. My aim was to comprehend in it the thoughts I have had about life in general, while The Red Badge is a mere episode in life, an amplification." Crane's thoughts about life in general are best understood through examination of the religious and social conflicts present in his poetry. The majority of Crane's poems dealing with religion and society are found between the covers of The Black Riders (1895). The few poems of War Is Kind (1897), "Columbia Manuscript," and the "Collected Poems" edited by Daniel Hoffman which treat the two subjects will be used to align parallel conflicts or to illustrate the development of a specific conflict.
Hass, Gene Albert, "Stephen Crane's poetry as an expression of his religious and social conflicts" (1960). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 5054.
Northern Illinois University
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Paper No. 5
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
NEW CONSTRAINTS ON ORDOVICIAN MAGMATISM IN THE SOUTHERNMOST EXPOSURES OF THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE IN ALABAMA
In the early 1990’s, one of the authors (Steltenpohl) suggested that the Opelika Complex in central Georgia and Alabama was erroneously assigned to the Inner Piedmont and more likely correlates with the Emuckfaw Group of the eastern Blue Ridge. Both the Opelika Complex and the Emuckfaw Group comprise mostly meta-arkosic schist and gneiss invaded by, respectively, the Farmville and the Kowaliga and Zana metagranites. The Emuckfaw Group occurs along the west limb of the major Tallassee synform whereas the Opelika Complex forms the east limb. The hinge of this NE-plunging synform is covered by Gulf Coastal Plain sediments rendering physical connection by surface mapping impossible. Our detailed, 1:24K geologic mapping, structural analysis, petrography, and geochemical work documents that the granitic intrusions on both limbs also are similar. Earlier geochronological studies had suggested similar Ordovician intrusive ages, but those data were considered suspect without confirmation by dating with more modern methods, mainly because pre-Devonian tectonism and/or magmatism in the southernmost exposed Appalachians of Alabama has been questioned. In 1997 authors Steltenpohl and Mueller reported U-Pb SHRIMP dates on zircons from the Farmville granite (previously dated at 369 Ma based on Rb/Sr whole-rock methods) with a large age range from ~477 to ~425 Ma. We report 36 additional analyses that are similarly spread but give a 440 +/- 7 Ma estimate for the time of igneous crystallization; three rim analyses with low (<0.1) Th/U (likely metamorphic) average 329 Ma. Total population zircon dates on the Kowaliga and the Zana granites reported in 1978 were, respectively, ~458 Ma and ~460 Ma. We report new U-Pb SIMS dates on zircons from the Kowaliga granite that yield an age of crystallization of ~450 Ma with no systematic or significant variations between the cores and rims. New whole-rock major-oxide, LOI, and REE-element analyses demonstrate petrogenetic relationships between the Kowaliga and Zana granites, supporting our working hypothesis that the Zana likewise is an Ordovician granite. Results strengthen our arguments that the Emuckfaw correlates with the Opelika Complex, and also that Ordovician magmatism is more extensive in the southernmost Appalachians than was previously thought.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California loses square mile of farmland every five days, according to the state’s Department of Conservation. And 70 percent of that loss is prime farmland, areas with rich soils and water access.
The department has spent decades mapping out how land has changed due to urbanization. It’s a battleground that’s been brewing and could reach the tipping point soon with Governor Newsom’s call to add an additional 3.5 million new housing units by 2025.
Are the houses needed? Yes.
Is the agriculture needed? Yes.
It’s a delicate balance, trying to house a growing population and preserve some of the most productive farmland in the world.
The goal is to keep both with a plan built around smart growth, something California failed to recognize before 1960. It was around that time Los Angeles County was the leading agriculture producer in the state. Now, recent rankings put Kern County at the top. Los Angeles County doesn’t even crack the top 10.
It was also around 1960 when California counties were required to have Local Agency Formation Committees [LAFCos] to help guide urban development. Brandon Ash, a member of the Colusa County LAFCo, says they aren’t there to stop growth, but simply to have it more organized.
And Ash would know what's needed, because his roots run deep in agriculture. In fact, he’s a fifth-generation farmer living on the land his parents and grandparents farmed.
When describing life in Colusa County, Ash says it all revolves around agriculture. He says you either know someone in agriculture or support someone serving the agriculture business. The loss of the agriculute business and all the multipliers, from processing to manufacturing, would hit Colusa hard.
Richard Sexton, a professor at the University of California Davis, studies the economics and marketing of agriculture. He researched the multiplier effects of support services for agriculture and the effect they can have on counties.
The map above shows those results, with food and beverage processing accounting for 30-50% of Colusa County's employment. If that went away, the county would be hit hard.
Sexton's work also digs into how the food and beverage industry is changing. He sees more and more demand for what California grows, especially from the world’s most populated countries, China and India. These two countries are home to nearly 35% of the world’s population. Sexton says people there are starting to diversify their diets by including more nuts, fruits and vegetables, most of which comes from California.
Add to that, the United Nations estimates the world will need 30-70% more food by 2050. Suddenly, California’s farmland seems even more precious, all in a time when the state must balance its urban expansion and preservation of prime farmland.
Bruce Rominger, a fifth-generation Yolo County farmer, is also taking action. He sees the pressure from developers starting to creep his way, but knows the importance to keep growing food. Because of this, his family collectively decided to put part of their land into the Department of Conservation’s California Farmland Conservancy Program [CFCP]. Once land is put into the CFCP, landowners must preserve the conservation values of the property. By doing so, there are now restrictions for sale and use.
Having these restrictions in place can bring about a big drop in property value if the owner ever wanted to sell. To offset this potential future financial loss, the Department of Conservation pays the lost value of the land.
Rominger and his family recognize their land functions not just as separate parcels, but as a whole: from watershed and animal habitat to range and farmland. It's all part of protecting this highly productive agriculture land 30, 50, to 100 years from now.
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Right now, the Internet is the focus of the recipe-pirating watchdogs. We don’t know much about Attributor, a company that claims its sophisticated software can go out onto the Web and figure out who’s copying what from whom. But because its biggest clients are newsgathering giants the Associated Press and Reuters, we’re figuring Attributor is able to do what it says it can do.
And what it’s doing on the recipe front is an eye-opener. Foodie sites like epicurious.com and allrecipes.com turned to Attributor when they wanted to know where else on the web their original content was turning up. More specifically, they were wondering who was taking their recipes, posting them on other sites, and then charging advertisers to appear next to them on those other sites, instead of those advertisers paying to appear next to those recipes on epicurious.com and allrecipes.com, which had developed and tested the recipes in the first place.
Attributor’s limited study found more than 10,000 instances in which original recipes had been copied. Sixty percent of them appeared without attribution. The company estimates that lost online ad revenue amounted to $1.6 million for Epicurious and $3.1 million for AllRecipes per year. Online recipe pirating is “rampant,” says Attributor spokesman Rich Pearson.
It would be a clear case of copyright infringement…if recipes could indeed be copyrighted. They can’t. The U.S. Copyright Office puts it this way: “Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection.” Preparation directions and other material that accompany a recipe, however, are. You can copyright “substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions,” USCO says.
So Jessica Seinfeld is in the clear then, right? Sort of. She still might be guilty of plagiarism, a crime not punishable by law. Instead, plagiarists are branded as dishonest creeps who pass off the work of others as their own. In the court of public opinion, plagiarism does matter, at least when you’re trying to sell books.
But what about the restaurant world, where there’s plenty of de facto recipe repurposing every day? Does plagiarism ever come up here?
It did for Robin Wickens, chef at Interlude in Melbourne, Australia. His restaurant features cutting-edge culinary creations that have won him attention worldwide.
Maybe too much attention. Here’s how food writer Steven Shaw described what happened in Slate.
“A chef in New York named Sam Mason saw several photographs of dishes at Interlude and noticed striking similarities to dishes at WD-50 in New York, and Minibar in Washington, DC. Other eGullet members soon noticed parallels to dishes at Alinea in Chicago.
“Interlude’s dishes were not just inspired by WD-50, Minibar and Alinea,” Shaw continues. “They were carbon copies, right down to their arrangements on the plate and, in a couple of cases, the use of identical, specially ordered serving pieces.”
Whoops. Chef Wickens’ culinary reputation took a serious hit, but that’s how it works in the restaurant world. Peer pressure—what academic researchers describe as “norms-based intellectual property systems”—is how the industry polices its own.
A pair of university researchers undertook a study to examine how this loose-knit system works. Emmanuelle Fauchart, of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris, and Eric Von Hippel, of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, worked with a group of prominent French chefs to document the existence of a norms-based intellectual property system in the culinary profession.
If there is a court of public opinion in the food world, these guys constitute the Supreme Court.
“These chefs consider recipes they develop to be a very valuable form of intellectual property,” the pair wrote. “At the same time, recipes are not a form of innovation that is effectively covered by law-based intellectual property systems. We identified three strong social norms related to the protection of recipe intellectual property, and we found that accomplished chefs do rely on these norms to enhance their economic returns from their recipe-based intellectual property.”
The three social norms were these:
- “A very strong norm exists that a chef must not copy another chef’s recipe innovation exactly. This norm has a functional effect analogous to patenting: The community acknowledges the right of a recipe inventor to exclude others from practicing his invention, even if all the information required to do so is publicly available.”
- “If a chef reveals recipe-related secret information to a colleague, that chef must not pass the information on to others without permission. This norm gives a chef a property right similar to that attainable via a contract under trade secrecy law.”
- “Colleagues must credit developers of significant recipes (or techniques) as the authors of that information. The chef may choose to selectively or publicly reveal information about his innovation without jeopardizing the valuable related property right of acknowledged authorship.”
Well and good. What happens to those who don’t abide by these norms? Said one chef-participant, “If another chef copies a recipe exactly we are very furious; we will not talk to this chef anymore, and we won’t communicate information to him in the future.”
Shunning within a profession is one thing, but you’d think that a serious charge of plagiarism would be the kiss of death for a book. That wasn’t the case for Seinfeld. Her comedian-husband went onto the David Letterman show to promote his new “Bee Movie,” but spent most of his time cracking wise with Dave about how silly the charge of “vegetable plagiarism” really was as regards his wife’s cookbook. The result: Deceptively Delicious, a book about how to hide vegetables in kids’ food, became the country’s No. 1 best-seller the following week.
That might be how it works in the cookbook publishing industry, especially if Jerry Seinfeld is your main squeeze. But you might want to think twice before passing off someone else’s work as your own in the restaurant world. Whether it’s your peers or someone else out there on the Internet, scrutiny has never been higher. Good luck getting that next job if you get caught.
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Iomab-ACT Program: Next Generation Targeted Conditioning for GeneTx and CAR-T
The Iomab-ACT program is the use of the ARC apamistamab-I-131 and is an expansion of Actinium's strategic focus on targeted conditioning that brings Actinium into the exciting field of gene therapy (GeneTx) and Adoptive Cell Therapy (ACT) including CAR-T. The Iomab-ACT program builds on Actinium's expertise in targeted conditioning gained from its development of apamistamab-I-131 for bone marrow transplant (BMT) conditioning (Iomab-B), which is being studied in an ongoing pivotal Phase 3 trial. Iomab-ACT is a natural progression of apamistamab-I-131 as conditioning is a critical step prior to bone marrow transplant, gene therapy and CAR-T. In each of these applications, the depletion of bone marrow stem cells, lymphocytes or disease or cancer cells is necessary for the new cells to engraft and the therapy to be successful. Current non-targeted chemotherapy and/or external radiation conditioning regimens are toxic, impair patients and restrict the use and efficacy of these potentially curative therapies. Actinium is committed to bringing its ARC targeted conditioning regimens to patients and advancing the fields of bone marrow transplant, GeneTx and ACT such as CAR-T.
Iomab-ACT for GeneTx
Actinium’s apamistamab-I-131 will be the first targeted conditioning regimen to be used in a clinical trial with a GeneTx. The ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial being conducted at UC Davis, is studying an anti-HIV stem cell gene therapy in patients with relapsed or refractory HIV-related lymphoma. The trial will use apamistamab-I-131 for conditioning going forward instead of the chemotherapy conditioning that had been previously used prior to stem cell gene therapy.
In the current clinical trial, the anti-HIV stem cell gene therapy is produced by taking a patient’s own or autologous, blood forming stem cells and genetically modifying them via gene therapy with a combination of three anti-HIV genes. The intended result is for the gene modified bone marrow stem cells to produce a new immune system and newly arising immune cells that are resistant to HIV via a single treatment. Conditioning is necessary prior to adoptive cell therapies such as gene therapy to eliminate certain cell types such as immune cells and stem cells in the bone marrow so the transplanted cells can engraft. Until now, conditioning in this trial, as is typical, used a multi-drug chemotherapy regimen administered over several days. This approach is non-targeted, associated with toxicities that impairs patients and restricts the use and efficacy of cellular therapy. Apamistamab-I-131, which requires just one therapeutic administration, will displace the non-targeted chemotherapy to condition patients in a targeted manner with the goal of reducing conditioning related toxicities and improving patient outcomes.
CAR-T is a revolutionary medical approach that has led to paradigm shifts in the treatment of patients with certain cancers. The rapidly evolving and crowded field of CAR-T is now filled by dozens of companies, including some of the largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, who are working on over 200 CAR-T programs. Despite significant advances in the field of CAR-T, little innovation has been applied to a critical aspect of the CAR-T treatment process called lymphodepletion.
Actinium's Iomab-ACT program is intended to be a universal next generation targeted lymphodepletion solution for CAR-T. Actinium's approach is multi-modal and is intended to lymphodeplete and reduce the patient's tumor burden while also optimizing the tumor microenvironment by targeting regulatory T cells, myeloid derived suppressor T cells and cytokine secreting macrophages. All of these cells express CD45 and would therefore be targeted by Iomab-ACT. In doing so, Actinium believes the Iomab-ACT program has the potential to improve CAR-T efficacy and response duration through improved cell expansion and persistence. Also, through the reduction in macrophages and other cells, Actinium believes it can reduce toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and neurotoxity, which are potentially fatal and black box warning for approved CAR-T products.
Actinium believes Iomab-ACT has the potential to address many limitations of CAR-T that are not addressed by current non-targeted, non-optimized lymphodepletion regimens such as Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide (Flu/Cy) as highlighted below.
Through targeted conditioning for lymphodepletion via the Iomab-ACT program, Actinium hopes it can improve CAR-T patient access and outcomes.
To learn more about Actinium's Iomab-ACT program for next generation lymphodepletion please contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
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We’re getting to the time of year when despite some hummingbirds jealously guarding their favorite feeder, there are enough birds — and enough pressure to bulk up for the coming migration — that birds, and especially young birds, are forced to share.
It’s also the time of year when I’m likely to capture photos like these . . .
I’m reasonably certain this is a young bird. Perhaps not, but I know that last year it was younger birds who were hitting the flowers while their more savvy parents practically lived on the sugar water I generously provided.
Then again, it could be this is one of those ‘organic’ hummers. You know the type; distrustful of anything not natural, thinking that sugar from a flower is better than sugar from a bottle.
. . . probably didn’t pay attention during chemistry class . . .
Before I continue, I have to comment on the flowers . . . they’re looking pretty sad. First, it was the scorching heat, and then heavy and unrelenting rain beat the crap out of them in their weakened state.
We normally clean up dead blooms and try to keep the plants looking good, but this was right after the rain, and we just hadn’t gotten to all the pots. Plus, given the extent of the damage, it’s almost a lost cause . . . but some gentle neglect has them looking better already (but not in these photos).
I also want to say that while I have 25 photos, I’ll not be posting them all here. There is a slideshow at the end of the post, but for the post itself, I’ll only choose a few that I hope readers will like . . . like these:
Anyway, here’s the slideshow where you can see all the photos in THIS SmugMug Gallery:
There’s one photo in that gallery that’s not about hummingbirds; it’s a peek at the subject of tomorrow’s post.
That’s it. This post has ended . . . except for the stuff below.
Note: if you are not reading this blog post at DisperserTracks.com, know that it’s copied without permission, and likely is being used by someone with nefarious intentions, like attracting you to a malware-infested website. Could be they also torture small mammals.
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Bacteria might sound like a scary word but that fear is irrational. These Probiotics will help you in your journey to a healthier, longer and happier life.
If anything abounds in nature, it's bacteria. 90% of the cells in our bodies are of bacterial origin. Without the human microbiota, we would not be able to have healthy growth, protection against body invaders or healthy digestion. It’s even responsible for regulating moods.
Here’s where probiotics come in. Found mainly in fermented foods, they are very beneficial for your gut health.
Probiotics are the link between fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kefir, and kombucha. They are authentic living foods that are adapted to our bodies. These wonderful soldiers remain active in the body, design their strategies, and have an agenda: to prevent bacteria that are harmful to our health.
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Following years of excavation and research, a new species of Allosaurus has been announced in the open-access scientific journal PeerJ. Allosaurus jimmadseni was unveiled at the National History Museum of Utah as the geologically-oldest species of Allosaurus in the world. This species predates its more well-known “younger cousin” Allosaurus fragilis by at least 5 million years.
Roaming the flood plains of western North America during the Late Jurassic Period, the meat-eating Allosaurus jimmadseni was approximately 1,800 kilograms (4,000 pounds) and 8 to 9 meters (26-29 feet) long. In its ecosystem it was the most common and the top predator, due to its relatively long legs and tail, and long arms with three sharp claws.
The “Allosaurus” part of the name translates as “different reptile” whilst the latter part honors the late Utah State Paleontologist James Madsen Jr. who excavated and studied tens of thousands of Allosaurus bones.
Although this paper only recognizes two species of Allosaurus (fragilis and jimmadseni) found in North America, palaeontologists argue that there could be up to 12. Setting this species apart from other members of the two-legged carnivorous Allosaurus genus, who lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous period, relies on an examination of its head.
“The skull of Allosaurus jimmadseni is more lightly built than its later relative Allosaurus fragilis, suggesting a different feeding behavior between the two,” explained co-lead author Mark Loewen, research associate at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Other unique features of the new species include a facial crest stretching down its short narrow skull from the horns in front of the eyes to the nose, as well as a flat surface under the eyes.
The first specimen of Allosaurus jimmadseni was discovered at one of the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America, the Morrison Formation of Dinosaur National Monument. On July 15, 1990, George Engelmann of the University of Nebraska was carrying out a contracted palaeontological inventory at the site when he came across the headless skeleton. During the excavation of the site which followed, explosives had to be used to detach the 2,700-kilogram (5,952 pounds) skeleton block from the surrounding rock before a helicopter was used to fly it out.
The missing head of the dinosaur was reunited with its body six years later after Ramal Jones of the University of Utah used a Geiger counter to locate the radioactive skull. This study provides a complete description of every bone of the Allosaurus jimmadseni skull uncovered and a comparison to the skulls of other carnivorous dinosaurs.
"Recognizing a new species of dinosaur in rocks that have been intensely investigated for over 150 years is an outstanding experience of discovery,” said Daniel Chure, retired palaeontologist at Dinosaur National Monument and co-lead author of the study. “Many more exciting fossils await discovery in the Jurassic rocks of the American West."
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Child sexual abuse is on the agenda in Australia, with state inquiries in Victoria and NSW, and the recent federal government announcement of a Royal Commission into institutionalised abuse of children and young people. The Jerry Sandusky case in the United States confirms – if confirmation is necessary – that not only is the Roman Catholic church responsible for systematic and apparently systemic abuse together with its cover-up. The problem goes way beyond church and church-related institutions.
Predictably, Australia and the United States are not alone.
The ongoing Jimmy Savile scandal in the United Kingdom provides insights into the corporate culture of condonation surrounding child sexual abuse. Savile, who died in October 2011 at the age of 84, is alleged to have spent the greater part of his life sexually abusing children and other vulnerable young people - as well as, according to at least one account, engaging in titillation (for him) involving the bodies of deceased human beings.
The man swept to fame with the support of the BBC, where he featured as a principal player in long-running television programmes including 'Top of the Pops' and 'Jim'll Fix It'. His celebrity grew as he launched charitable enterprises – these, it now appears, being used by him as fronts for his allegedly criminal activities and enabling him, through his 'charitable' guise, to access schools, reformatories and hospitals to engage in criminality with impunity.
Although initially reported as if these revelations were new, it now appears that allegations were ongoing for decades, with knowledge existing in various parts of the organisations where Savile's conduct is alleged to have taken place – including but by no means only the BBC. Police and prosecution services had notice on more than a few occasions.
Colleagues of Savile are implicated, the contention being that he was not alone in his exploitation of young women and girls, particularly in the context of his BBC programmes, and that at least some persons in positions of power and authority within the BBC were aware. It appears, now, that boys and young men were targets, too. Revellations about his exploits at hospitals and other institutions, including a north Wales care home – Bryn Estyn, Leeds general infirmary, Stoke Mandeville hospital and even Broadmoor, add to the infamy.
Peter Sutcliffe, having been convicted in 1981 of the murder of 13 women in Yorkshire, imprisoned 'for life' and now serving time in Broadmoor, has come forward to defend Savile. According to Sutcliffe, allegations against Savile are 'a load of rubbish' with 'people' being 'carried away' and 'jumping on the bandwagon'. The Sutcliffe connection has led to further disclosures including police confirmation that Savile came to their attention during the time of Sutcliffe's crimes and before Sutcliffe was arrested. Savile, it appears, was questioned as part of the 'Yorkshire Ripper' investigation. Later, he became one of Sutcliffe's regular visitors. This has raised questions as to whether Savile and Sutcliffe were acquainted before Sutcliffe's arrest.
Out of this murk and morass, certain factors have become clear. Not only were complaints made about and against Savile during his lifetime, and not only did material from police investigations go forward to prosecuting authorities. Perhaps most damning of all is that despite the complaints, despite the knowledge of Savile's predilection (apparently widespread), charities continued to take his money, lauding him for his 'generosity', while institutions continued not only to welcome him, despite their 'care' of children and young people and responsibility for them. Institutions went so far as not only to give Savile unrestricted entrée, but provided Savile with his own keys and living accommodation on the premises. On top of it all, Jimmy Savile was appointed by then Health Minister Edwina Currie to head a task force at Broadmoor. This occurred in 1988 when strikes led the Thatcher government to impose direct control over the facility. Savile was appointed despite his lack of expertise, training or experience in health matters or employment issues. With police classifying him as a 'predatory sex offender', hindsight now confirms Savile's experience as centred in his abuse – including sexual assault - of Broadmoor patients.
The Department of Health has launched an inquiry into how Savile came to be appointed to the Broadmoor task force, and how he gained access to patients in all three hospitals. Asking that all relevant papers be disclosed, former Minister Currie describes Savile as 'totally evil', and says she has '… nothing to hide over Jimmy Savile'.
So it is that Peter Sutcliffe's words are revelatory: 'He [Savile] visited a lot. He'd always come and chat with me on visits and I would introduce him to my visitors. Several times he left £500 for charities I was supporting.'
Thus money speaks. So, too celebrity.
During Savile's lifetime, when media stories based on claims of his predatory sexual conduct were scheduled to go to print or to air, Savile is said to have threatened journalists, editors or producers. A key plank in his repertoire was the contention that if he and his conduct were 'outed', the charities bearing his name or in receipt of his largesse would be damaged: their financial status would suffer a hit. Charitable institutions, it seems, weighed more than the words of those suffering Savile's abuses. 'Charity' was more important than the bodily and psychic integrity of his once and everyday targets.
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What We Choose to Remember
Imagined Shared Narratives of Education During COVID-19
Keywords:Covid-19, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, equity, social justice, boundary work, memory
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational policies and practices are unprecedented. With the majority of educational institutions forced to limit face-to-face interactions, teaching and learning have rapidly taken on vastly new meanings. Even in the midst of the uncertainties of this pandemic, predictions for the post COVID-19 world have begun to emerge (e.g., Karlgaard, 2020; Kim, 2020). Yet as we move forward, we collectively create the past. That is, historical implications are never objective descriptions of what occurred, but rather collective decisions about how we choose to remember the past (Anderson, 1991; Breuilly, 2016). In this spirit, we ask: As educators imagining education in 2030, through the lens of our COVID-19 experience, what will we choose to remember and what generative impact do we want to take pride in claiming?
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C64 1943 – One Year After
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Today, I am giving a lecture on Dining Gloriously from your Small Space Garden. Here is one more recipe to try. Even a small garden can overproduce summer squash, so a gardener needs several ways to prepare it. In my book, Golden Gate Gardening, there are recipes for stuffed zucchini, cottage chees zucchini fritters, and several recipes in which summer squash can be used in soups or curries. Following is a very simple recipe for summer squash fritters as a side dish. I have been growing tromboncino squash, which is a bit firmer than zucchini, otherwise quite similar, so I used that in this recipe.
1 cup grated summer squash, packed into the cup
1 small carrot, grated (for color and nutrition, but the fritters are fine without it)
1 egg, lightly beaten
flour--about 1/3 cup
Mix egg into grated vegetables. Add flour to take up moisture. Mixture should still be glistening with moisture and not too stiff.
Heat oil or nonstick oil spray in a large skillet. Spoon batter into skillet, making the fritters round and about a half inch thick. Smooth the top, so when you turn them, most of the batter will touch the skillet.
Cook on one side until light brown, turn and cook the other side. Serve hot. I have been enjoying them wiht just a little bit of jalepeno jam.
Makes about 5 fritters.
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Traditionally, the terms programmer and programmer have referred to precisely the same job. But , for the reason that the business world has developed, the lines have blurry and these terms are used to describe varied jobs. The two programming and coding are essential in request development, and businesses that develop and maintain custom-coded software are main employers. But , which one is somewhat more suitable for you? Let’s find out. Exactly what are the benefits and disadvantages of coding vs development?
Although equally involve sophisticated thinking, the main differences https://www.deadbeats.at/guitar-hero-customer-review/ between coding and coding lie in the way they are contacted. In programming, a crypter focuses on the item rather than over the process of producing the code itself. A programmer must spend several weeks or several months creating the last product, and this can be lengthy, and then test it before launching. Alternatively, a coder may only desire a couple of several hours to finish the work. Regardless of the differences between code and coding, both are necessary to build powerful software goods.
When comparing code and coding, a coder should consider their particular problem-solving expertise. In addition to good problem-solving skills, developers need to learn more than coding. As a result, they should be highly skilled and versatile. When coding is the first step in developing a plan, programming requires the application advancement process. Frequently , coders need to use a staff approach, making it possible for them to work with multiple jobs at once.
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Some people who fear getting unemployed can find assurance in a Japanese company. Here is a word of caution though. A number of companies are slowly changing their views regarding this. This practice is governed by the concept of kaizen. Employers believe that each of their employees is in a constant phase of improvement. Because of this, employees are seen worth-keeping unless they do something that damages the credibility of the company.
Fun And Excitement
Perhaps, you do not want to work in Japan forever but just long enough to satisfy your need for adventure. Try some internships in hotels or resorts which extend for at least two months minimum. In these places, you can choose from jobs like teaching snow sports, waiting tables, assisting new guests or cleaning guest rooms. These are perfect ways for you to earn particularly if you are just a student who does not want to get bored while staying in a foreign land for some time.
Just Compensation And Benefits
Not all those working abroad are able to experience this. Japanese employers are keen about following the wage laws set by the government. This covers full-timers, part-timers and interns. Minimum wage costs around 110,000 yen monthly. Allowances and other benefits are also available particularly when you pass exams like Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Rewards For A Job Well Done
Contrary to common belief, over time work hours are paid in Japan. Employers who do work appropriately and beyond the extra mile are rewarded with bonuses. Those who have jobs in hotels or resorts, for example, enjoy free accommodations as reward to their service. Thus, many of them are able to have fun after fulfilling their jobs during the day.
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Lansing Wheelbarrow Co, Workers Circa 1890
The table is overall 52"(long) x 20"wide x 11"high(with 5" up-stand). The glass surface area is 32" x 17.25".
This former Lansing Wheelbarrow Co, hand truck is made of Elm wood and steel and has a leather pocket to hold magazines. It has been re-purposed to begin a new life as a coffee table. It has been fitted with green tinted, safety tempered 0.25" glass with beveled edges. The glass has been adhered firmly to the structure using stainless stain adapters and a specialized invisible UV glue which allows for flush fitting to the bottom of the glass. This leaves the top surface of the table clean and uninterrupted with no protruding fixings.
The Lansing Wheelbarrow Co., was founded in 1881 by Arthur Courtland Stebbins and Edward Sparrow and was situated in Lansing, Michigan, close to the Grand River. Manufacturing material(the elm logs) was floated down stream, supply the manufacturing factory. It took days for a blacksmith to turn out a wheelbarrow, but by 1890, the Lansing company was turning out 10,000 wheelbarrows a year.
The table top is 59.5"(long) x 14.5"(wide) x 37"(high).
Note: The legs are 23"(wide) at the base.
White Oak Console Table with Cast Iron Legs
The table top and shelf are made from quarter sawn white oak wood with a stain and polyurethane finish, complete with two painted mild steel end caps.
The cast iron legs are painted repurposed cast iron legs from a former F & J Barnes treadle lathe(circa 1890) Rockford Illinois USA.
There are two original lathe gears epoxy flush fitted into the top face of the table.
Dimensions: 21"wide x 22" deep x 35" high
This classic Art Deco chair from the General Fireproofing Company, has been fully and meticulously restored from tip to toe. The original, worn casters have been replaced with quality Shepherd classic, soft tread ball casters, which are suitable for hardwood floors. All the aluminium parts have been refinished and clear coated. The chair has been reupholstered using the best quality and natural materials. Natural Dunlop latex foam, natural wool batting, 100% hemp canvas lining and finally recovered using genuine Mexican Palencia cow hide. This leather has been finished with a rich matte finish, that have a slight "pull-up finish" which adds a touch of elegance.
Credit to http://pastpresentfuture.net/
The General Fireproofing Company (GF) was founded in 1902 in Youngstown, Ohio as a manufacturer of building materials. During the panic of 1907, when all building practically ceased, the company decided to emphasize their line steel office furniture. GF’s first 4-drawer steel vertical file was built in 1910, and their first fireproof safe was introduced in 1912.
The world’s first all-aluminum office chair was designed by the ALCOA company in 1924. In 1929 GF began manufacturing their own aluminum chairs, the first of which were shipped in 1930. These first chairs were copies of the wood office chairs popular at the time, and were even painted with wood-grain finishes.
The “Goodform” seating line began in August 1932 with the introduction of the Model #2123. Ten more models were introduced in 1935
During World War II, GF ceased production of all its regular products in order to manufacture aircraft parts. After VJ Day, almost the entire plant had to be converted back to the manufacture of furniture, and by 1946 the company was producing the same volume they were in 1938. In 1948, GF introduced the Mode-Maker line of executive office desks, designed in collaboration with Raymond Loewy.
Many of GF’s furniture lines were discontinued in the 1970’s, and the original company went bankrupt in 1989 and was bought by TANG Industries of Gallatin, Tennessee.
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In this work we report on the processing, melt-drawing, and performance of new vanillic acid based aliphatic-aromatic thermotropic polyesters. It is demonstrated that these materials are easily processed from their nematic melts yielding highly oriented products. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a molecular weight (Mw) of roughly 30 kg/mol is required in order to successfully perform spinning on these polymers. The application of a polymer with lower Mw results in poor mechanical performance and fiber breakage during the winding process. Wide-angle X-ray diffraction analysis has been performed on the fibers and it is demonstrated that the orientation parameter increases with increasing draw-ratio of the fiber. Although these polymers are readily processed from their thermotropic melts, the obtained fibers only retain their orientation up to temperatures in the range of 120–130 °C, after which they start to melt. In general, these fibers exhibit tensile moduli in the range of ~10 GPa and a tensile strength around ~150 – 200 MPa. FTIR and solid-state NMR experiments indicate that only the aromatic components are molecularly oriented during the spinning process. In contrast, the aliphatic moieties exhibit a high mobility, normally corresponding to a local isotropic motion. It is expected that the poor molecular orientation of the aliphatic moieties in these aliphatic-aromatic thermotropic polyesters contribute to the relatively low tensile modulus of the fibers, obtained after the extrusion and melt-drawing process.
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The advancement of the healthcare industry has paved the way for the development of multiple drugs that cater to different illnesses readily available to the public. These medications are usually uniform across the board in terms of dosage and potency to cater to a wide population.
However, there are those whose medical needs require more than the standard medication that’s available. How do they avail of drugs that’ll address an ailment? This is where compounded medicines come in.
What are compounded medicines? Who manufactures these medicines? When and who needs them? These are the questions you might be asking yourself. Well, put your mind to rest; this feature provides the answers to these questions. Read on to learn more.
What Are Compounded Medicines
Compounded medicines are medications that aren’t readily available in the market and are customized by compounding pharmacies to suit a given patient’s needs.
Doctors are often the source of the need for compound medicines. Based on their patient’s needs, they’ll guide them accordingly by writing a prescription entailing the ingredients needed for their medication. You’ll then get this formulation from Fagron Sterile or any other compounding pharmacy. All you must do is present them with the prescription. Most compounding pharmacies have the necessary equipment to custom-make your medication.
As a patient needing compounded medicines, you shouldn’t worry about quality. The practice has a regulatory body that varies from state to state. It’d help to check if the pharmacy adheres to the compounding standards and ensure they’re licensed before working with them.
When Do You Need Compounded Medicines
The need for compounded medicines arises from different situations. Some of them include:
Need For A Different Method Of Delivery
Medicines come in different forms, from tablets to liquids to serums. But a given medication can only be available in one form, for example, a pill. Suppose a patient requires the medication but can’t swallow a pill. They could be toddlers, suffering from conditions such as digestive tract issues, and the like. In this case, you can seek compounded medication in the form the patient can readily take, such as injectables, topical, or lozenges.
Most medicines combine several ingredients, each with a different concentration. Although standard, some patients might be allergic to some ingredients, such as alcohol or lactose. Their intake of such medications could result in adverse effects.
In such cases, compounded medicines are the only option. Here, the compounding pharmacy will formulate a similar drug, only this time, they’ll remove the said allergen. They might add an alternative to the allergen to ensure the medicine is still potent in treating your illness.
Different Dosage Needs
As previously stated, medicines have several ingredients in different amounts. These different amounts are what’s referred to as dosage. With standard medicines, specific dosages are available in the market, which often determines the drug’s potency.
Different patients have different needs depending on their bodies. An existing medication could be too strong or too weak for a given patient’s need, yet, they require it. In this case, compounding is the only option.
If you need compounded medicine, the pharmacist will compound the medication based on your required potency levels. Your doctor will give adequate formulation and patient intake instructions for the final product, eliminating possible errors.
Need For Few Pills
Certain illnesses require the ingestion of several medications at once. Some require you to take six to seven pills at a go. Most patients don’t find this ideal. Some might forget to take some, with others giving up on taking the pills due to the number. Either situation isn’t ideal. To prevent such situations, doctors tend to provide compounding as a solution. Here, the compounding pharmacy will combine the medications appropriately, reducing the pills to two or three. It’s quite easy to take two pills instead of six or seven.
Like any other business, the bottom line of most health centers and pharmacies is to make profits. Medicine manufacturers tend to produce more medications for common illnesses, with few of those for rare needs. It doesn’t make sense to produce thousands of rare illness medicines only to expire due to a lack of users. In such cases, the facilities will discontinue this manufacturing.
Yet just because the numbers aren’t adding up doesn’t mean that no one or two patients still require the medication. The only option for such patients is to seek compounded medicines. The compounding pharmacy will formulate the drug for the patient, providing the needed health benefits.
Medicine compounding is an approach that caters to the minority that has special needs regarding medication. The discussion above shows when compounded medicines come in handy.
As a patient, you don’t have to give up all hope in case you lack the medication you need in the market. For doctors, you’re in a position to prescribe alternative medications to suit your patients’ needs.
Compounded medicines are a solution for all; be sure to adopt and embrace them in your everyday life. They work just as best as standard medications do if taken per proper dosage instructions, along with practicing healthy habits.
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This is an assignment discussing the impact of globalization and how it is changing the world of work in general.
Impact of globalization is changing the world of work
Firstly, begin by viewing the following video on globalization: Inch, J. (2015). Future Globalization. TEDxSuzhou. Retrieved from https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mnet-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mnet&p=youtube+future+globalization+Jason+Inch#id=1&vid=ce7b0d2161327f9ad2b7382a5a25b358&action=click
Secondly, in this assignment, you are the top human resources manager in a hospitality organization. You are responsible for your organization’s human resource function with HRM offices in Brazil, Russia, and China, as well as in a few developing countries. However, you have just received an email from your boss (the CEO). Additionally, he wants you to help explain to the top managers at 10 of your employer locations how the impact of globalization is changing the world of work.
Thirdly, he has asked you to prepare a slide presentation (8 slides) with speaker notes at the bottom of each slide (in a comments section). Also, included in the 8 slides should be a cover page and a List of References page. Additionally, your boss will give this presentation to his top management staff next week. In the presentation he wants to explain why it is important for all managers and supervisors to think globally and incorporate the influence of globalization into their workplace practices. Lastly, your boss wants you to email him the slides with speaker notes “today if possible, and tomorrow at the latest.” He wants appealing slides with meaningful speaker notes so that he doesn’t need to add content.
Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis of the relevant issues and HRM actions, drawing on your research.
Lastly, evaluate resources and select only library/Web-based resources that provide reliable, substantiated information. Leonhard, G. (2016). Digital Transformation: Are You Ready for Exponential Change? Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystdF6jN7hc. Leonhard, G. (2017). Technology vs. Humanity—The Future is Already Here. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=DL99deFJYaI
Additionally, you are to also use this resources: Meister, J. (2017). The Employee Experience is the Future of Work: 10 HR Trends for 2017. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2017/01/05/the-employee-experience-is-the-future-of-work-10-hr-trends-for-2017/#45b61b020a6c Meister, J. (2016). Future of Work: Three Ways to Prepare for the Impact of Intelligent Technologies in your Workplace. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2016/07/06/future-of-work-three-ways-to-prepare-for-the-impact-of-intelligent-technologies-in-your-workplace/2/#3e2eb95f6575.
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In last month’s blog we looked at Genesis chapter 24 and the story of Isaac and Rebecca. We saw Abraham coordinating a marriage for Isaac at the end of his life. Abraham sends a trusted servant with specific instructions; Abraham said in Genesis 24:4, “but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” The faithful servant puts a fleece before the Lord so that he can be certain that this woman is definitely the woman for Isaac. The fleece is answered when Rebecca offers to water the camel’s “until they have finished drinking”. Now let’s see what happens next!
We ended in part one with verse 27 but, we need to back up to verses 22-23. In these verses the servant gives Rebecca a gold ring and two bracelets for her wrists and asks her two questions; “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to stay overnight at your father’s house?” At this point Rebecca in verse 24 says, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah’s son, whom she bore to Nahor.” The servant has found the household of Abraham’s family but, look at Rebecca’s response to the servant’s question regarding a place to stay. Rebecca says in verse 25, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to stay overnight.” At this point we can see Rebecca’s character. Look at all of the active verbs used throughout this chapter up to verse 27, “she came out with her jar on her shoulder”, “she filled her jar”, “she came up”, “she quickly lowered her jar to her hand”, “she gave him a drink”, and “she quickly emptied her jar into the trough”. She is energetic, physically strong, she knows her mind, does not hesitate, and acts without asking her parents. She has a confidence in her judgment which is admirable but, at the same time her rashness will bring her grief later on in her life with Hagar.
The servant follows Rebecca back to her home and meets her brother Laban along with the rest of the household. Laban welcomes him, unloads his camels, gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with the servant. The servant is encouraged to eat, but in verse 33 he says, “I will not eat until I have stated my business”. I find this so interesting because the servant is focused on his master’s business. The servant could have enjoyed himself with the food that was being laid before him along with probably wine but, he is laser focused on the assignment that he was given. How many times do we get side tracked from an assignment that God has given us? How many times do we know that we need to perform a task that is important to God but, we find excuses for not accomplishing the task? This servant is being faithful to his master to conduct the assignment that he has been given. In verses 34-48, the servant recounts the task that Abraham has entrusted to him and how he prayed for a sign that the right woman would be shown to him. The servant ends his story in verse 49 by saying, “So now if you are going to deal kindly and truthfully with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me now, so that I may turn to the right or the left.” Laban and Bethuel reply in verse 50 by saying, “The matter has come from the Lord; so we cannot speak to you bad or good. Here is Rebecca before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.” At this point. both Laban and Bethuel know that this is the Lord guiding and directing the servant. The Lord Himself is the one who placed Isaac and Rebecca together as a couple to continue the blessing that He had promised Abraham. There is an interesting midrash which states that God does not cause the sun of one righteous person to set until He causes the sun of another righteous one to rise, as it is said (Eccl. 1:5); “The sun rises, and the sun sets.” Before God caused the sun of Sarah to set, He caused the sun of Rebecca to shine (Gen. Rabbah 58:2). Rebecca’s birth (Gen. 22) is mentioned before the death of Sarah (Gen. 23), because God prepared the next matriarch before Sarah died. This reminds us of the prayer that the servant uttered to God which was answered before he finished speaking (v.15). In our lives, our God is on His throne and as I said in last month’s blog God is not surprised, confused or trying to make up for lost time because He is caught off guard. He prepared Rebecca from birth to be a matriarch and prepared her to be Isaac’s wife with her talents, giftings, skills, personality, strengths and weaknesses.
When Laban and Bethuel agree to the marriage the servant is overjoyed and wishes to leave the next morning. Laban and Bethuel wish to delay him for ten days at which point the servant objects to the delay and asks them to send him back to Abraham. Rebecca is summoned and asked in verse 58, “Will you go with this man?” and she responds, “I will go.” The response given by Rebecca is so typical of her personality but, it might also suggest her youth with its lack of fear and boldness. One of the midrashic traditions suggest that Rebecca may have been fourteen years old when she married Isaac. It also reminds us of Abraham’s and Sarah’s courage in leaving their land and their family to follow God’s leading. Rebecca was following in their footsteps in leaving her family and her home.
The journey was long for her to meet her future husband. The trip was approximately 500 miles, which would have taken about three weeks for her to arrive at her new home. I can only imagine her thoughts as each day they drew closer. She was probably homesick, missing her parents, her familiar routine, yet excited for her new life that was awaiting her along with a husband that she had never met. Would he find her beautiful? Would he be kind? Those questions were answered when she saw him in the fields and dismounted her camel. Rebecca took her veil and covered herself as the servant told Isaac the entire story of God’s faithfulness. Then all of the questions that Rebecca had about Isaac were answered in verse 67, “Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; so Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.” When Isaac brought Rebecca into Sarah’s tent it announced that she was now the Matriarch. God had not forgotten his promise to Abraham (Gen. 22:15-18) and now God continued his faithfulness through Rebecca.
If you are waiting in line for your promise to come to fruition do not abandon hope. Wait on His timing, continue to wait in your line and wait to see God’s faithfulness!
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The research objective is a page-format electronically controlled Braille output device for blind computer users. Each dot, six of which constitutes a Braille character, is actuated by a short length of fine-gauge wire. The wire is made of a shape-memory alloy: Nitinol. This method has been proved feasible for a single dot. Further research will combine six dots into a standard size Braille character module and incorporate character modules into a multiple-line format. Methods of wire-drawing will be developed for producing the small-diameter Nitinol wire required. A printed circuit board for insertion into an IBM-PC (or alternatively for the Apple-2E) will be developed for driving the output device, along with appropriate software to demonstrate the capability of the system.
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The 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs was the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL). The playoffs began on May 15, 2021, and concluded on July 7, 2021, with the Tampa Bay Lightning winning their second consecutive and third overall Stanley Cup in franchise history, defeating the Montreal Canadiens four games to one in the Stanley Cup Finals. The stanley cup was planned to begin a few days after the 2020-21 regular season, but they began five days prior to the end of the regular season after the Canucks had eleven games postponed.
The league turned to the traditional 16-team playoff format with all series being best-of-seven, after having a 24-team format in 2019 due to the regular season being cut short by the outbreak due to cross-border travel bans imposed by the Government of Canada, the league temporarily realigned this season into four divisions with no conferences. Match ups, with the higher seeded teams receiving home-ice advantage in those rounds. In the Stanley Cup Semifinals, the three remaining teams (one from each division) were reseeded based on their regular season records. Both semi final winners advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals. After initially stating that the Campbell and Wales trophies would not be awarded this season, the league decided in June 2021 that the Montreal Canadiens and Vegas Golden Knights would play for the Campbell Bowl and the New York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning would play for the Wales
Although it was initially unknown whether the Canadian teams that qualified for the playoffs would be able to play in their home arenas after the second round, on June 6, it was announced that those teams would be allowed to play in their home arenas for the remainder of the playoffs. In order to complete the playoffs in Canada, the League applied for a cross-border travel exemption with the] Prior to the announcement, there were some ideas of the Canadian team playing in a neutral NHL city in the US after the second round.
The Colorado Avalanche made the playoffs as the Presidents’ Trophy winners with the most points (i.e. best record) during the regular season. The Pittsburgh Penguins increased their postseason appearance streak to 15 seasons, this lead to the winning team since 1997, all USA based teams, the Anaheim Ducks, and San Jose Sharks, missed the playoffs. For the first time since 1976, each team that qualified for the playoffs was also in the previous year’s postseason. With all of the Canadian-based NHL teams in one division, the format for this season assured that there will be a second round series between two Canadian teams for the first time since 1998.
For the first time since 1994, three of the previous year’s semifinalists, the New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning and Vegas Golden Knights, returned to the round for a second consecutive season.
The NHL is the hardly major professional sports league in North America to refer to its playoffs by the name of its championship trophy, a tradition which has arisen because the Stanley Cup is North America’s oldest professional sports trophy, dating back more than two twenty years before the establishment of the NHL. Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey
Further information: Stanley Cup Current format
The top four teams in each of the four realigned divisions made the playoffs; this was the first time since 1994 that this format had been used.
The following teams qualified for the playoffs:
- Pittsburgh Penguins, East Division champions – 77 points (29 RWs, 34 ROWs)
- Washington Capitals – 77 points (29 RWs, 33 ROWs)
- Boston Bruins – 73 points
- New York Islanders – 71 points
- Carolina Hurricanes, Central Division champions – 80 points
- Florida Panthers – 79 points
- Tampa Bay Lightning – 75 points
- Colorado Avalanche, West Division champions, Presidents’ Trophy winners – 82 points (35 RWs)
- Vegas Golden Knights – 82 points (30 RWs)
- Minnesota Wild – 75 points
- St. Louis Blues – 63 point
- Carolina Hurricanes, Central Division champions – 90 points
- Florida Panthers – 19 points
- Tampa Bay Lightning – 76 points
Stanley cup bracket
In each round, teams competed in a best-of-seven series format (scores in the bracket indicate the number of games won in each best-of-seven series). The team with home ice advantage played at home for games one and two (and games five and seven, if necessary), and the other team was at home for games three and four (and game six, if necessary). The top three teams in each division made the playoffs.
In the First Round, the fourth seeded team in each division played against the division winner from their division. The other series matched the second and third place teams from the divisions. In each round, home ice advantage was awarded to the team that had the better regular season record. Teams advancing to the Stanley Cup Semifinals were re-seeded one through four based on regular season record.
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Look around and it’s very easy to see how technology have changed our kids in day to day lives.
Even many parents are encouraging their kids by giving mobile games to their kids while eating, after completing homeworks and even if they want to go to sleep!
Media and technology have made another virtual world for our kids. Games become so addictive because it triggers the brain’s reward system and shapes a child’s behaviour.
Studies made by the California State University have found that video games can have a similar effect on children’s brain as drug abuse or alcoholism.
The World Health organisation included the gaming disorder in the 11th revision of its International statistical classification of diseases. In today’s era everything has gone online and keeping the child away from the screen is the biggest task of parents.
Although, smartphones, Television and laptops are also a great tool for your child to do learning, I have personally seen mother regularly giving mobile to her standing kid in a crowded bus. Sometimes, this may even end up with bad events due to the carelessness.
Some of the other bad effects are obsessive behaviour, lack of sleep, social isolation, neglect of school activities and responsibilities, lack of interest in other hobbies, irritability and getting depressed when unable to play.
1. Tips To Avoid Mobile Addiction
- Don’t introduce your babies smartphone before 18 months.
- Keep your mobile internet or wifi off- Always don’t teach your child to on the data. Instead, download some youtube kids videos for your baby and give them in offline mode.
- Lock your phone.
- Make them listen to audios like nursery rhymes and divert their interest.
- Don’t give them during eating and sleeping.
- Look back a bit and you can find a variety of traditional outdoor games which are very beneficial for your baby to develop physical and mental growth.
- A very sad fact is that these games will soon be present in the history books for our coming generation since they are on the verge of extinction.
Today we are going to see 10 indoor and outdoor Indian traditional games,you can play with your baby or even make them play with their neighborhood kids! Diving straight to the topic now!
It is a traditional South Indian game originated in Tamil Nadu and then later on other parts like Kerala and Karnataka.
It is an indoor game played by two people. Pallankuzhi is a strategic game with skillful moves and memory about the position and number of coins kept in the opponent’s pit.
Benefits – enhances coordination, memory, observation skills,maths and motor skills.
2. Five Stones
Also known as knuckle bones, is played with five small objects. The simplest throw consista of either tossing up one stone, the jack or bouncing a ball and picking up one or more stones while it is in the air.
This continuous until five stones have been picked up.
Benefits: It improves the dextirity of a child and improves hand-eye coordination.
Antakshari isn’t probably a new word for you especially when you are brought up in an Indian family. No matter what the occassion will be,you can see people gathering their seats to play this game.
Actually it is a musical game where the first singer has to sing two lines from the song and the next singer will have to start a song from the last letter of the previous song. So how it it beneficial for your child?
Well,you can develop his eagerness towards music rather than watching Pokemon in TV. You can also play this game by not only songs!
Play this by introducing names of animals, names of flowers, places, capitals and countries! Your child will come to know about different words easily when he play with his other friends. Believe me!
This works out well for diverting your baby and improving his interest!
Benefits: Improves General Knowledge, linguistics, cognitive functions and memory.
4. Sonalu Kattam
The goal of the game is to make all the game pieces reach the centre and the first person do so wins. It is an indoor game played by 4-8 people as individuals or groups of two usually.
Benefits: Enhances concentration, strategic skills and quick thinking.
5. Chess or Chaturanga
Yeah! The history of chess goes back almost 1500 years. The game was firstly originated in Northern India and spread to Persia.
This game was mostly played by Ancient India specifically among kings due to its master strategic approach.
It was initially called Ashthapada due to eight squares and path and later on called chaturanga. The goal of the game is to kill the king or is called checkmate.
Benefits : develops wisdom, intelligence and forethought.
6. Ezhu kallu ( Seven Stone)
It was played in the villages of India and then found its way to the urban area. This is also known as Lahori and dikoori. A member of one team throws the tennis ball at the pile of stones to knock them over.
The seekers then tries to restore the piles of stones while the opposite team throws the ball at them. A seeker can always safeguard themselves by touching an opposite team member before the ball hits the seeker.
7. Nondi Or Paandi
It is a regional hopscotch game played in the rural parts of India and Sri Lanka. The game is played only for leisure.
A grid is drawn on the ground and the players hops across to complete his lap without stepping on the border. This takes less than 2 minutes to draw the front of your veranda and let your kid to play with his friends.
Benefits: Improves muscle tone and balance.
8. Oru Kodam Thanni /Poshampa
Two people stand together with their hands locks together above their heads and sing a song. The other kids pass from under that bridge and the one who gets caught( when the hands come down like a cage at the end of the song) is out.
9. Goli or Marbles
This is still a popular game played in rural areas. The game is played with round with round glass marbles and the motive is to collect as many marbles as possible by shooting and striking other marbles with the ones you have.
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First published in: The Times Click here to view a map for this walk in a new window
It’s an ironstone landscape here on the borders of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, and the many handsome villages are the beneficiaries in terms of the beauty of their building stone.
On a glorious day of blue sky, with everything near and far standing out as clear as glass, the houses of Upper Boddington glowed the colour of dark honey. Rusty-looking streaks in their walls showed where nodes of iron lay embedded in the stone.
On the outskirts of the village we crossed a brook among milky blue bells of comfrey and a froth of cow parsley newly opened. Buttercups made golden drifts in the meadows by the stream. The path led us north across fields of young wheat, the pale crumbly soil free of stones and already cracked and drying under the sun.
Ahead the land heaved up into the long wooded billow of a ridge. From the top we had a wonderful view west over a great green disc of Warwickshire lowlands.
Lumps and hollows in the slope at our feet betrayed the site of the medieval village of Stoneton, abandoned in early Tudor times when its arable land was converted to more profitable sheep grazing. And the sheep are still here. Ewes called for their lambs, who were playing ‘I’m-the-king-of-the-castle’ on a hollow tree stump with maximum glee.
We made our way down past the rushy moat of Stoneton Manor, across the sheep pastures to the grassy towpath of the Oxford Canal. Walking north along its sharp curves, it was hard to believe that this clay-coloured waterway meandering inconsequentially across the plain could once have been the main communications link between London and the Midlands.
A bare-chested man in a kayak came past in a flash and splash of paddle blades. Narrow-boats cruised by, roof-boxes fragrant with basil, thyme, and rosemary, their freshwater admirals raising cans of beer in cheery salute.
From Priors Hardwick, a picture of perfection in sun-kissed ironstone and immaculate gardens, the homeward path ran above sheep pastures whose medieval ridge-and-furrow showed the patterns of vanished agriculture. Dandelions dotted the fields, their miniature yellow suns all gone into the globular seed heads that children blow to tell the time.
As I leaned on a gate to stare, a fine red fox came across the path twenty feet ahead, low-slung and intent. It stopped dead still, held me at gaze for a few seconds, and then turned tail and raced away to safety in the hedge.
Start: Plough Inn, Upper Boddington, Daventry, Northants NN11 6DH (OS ref SP 483534)
Upper Boddington is signed from Westhorp on A361 (Banbury-Daventry)
Walk (8 miles, easy, OS Explorer 206):
From Plough Inn, left along road; right up Frog Lane. Fork right by Hillside View; follow Millennium Way/MW waymarks north-west for 1 mile. From woodland strip (470547) dogleg right/left to Berryhill Farm; left along drive to road (464545). Right; in 600m, sharp left (466550) across field to drive (463547); in 100m, right to cross canal (458551). Right on towpath; in 1½ miles at Bridge 123 (461568), right (SE) across fields for ¾ mile to road in Priors Hardwick (472563). Right past church and Butchers Arms; right at road; in 150m, left off bend (470559, ‘Hill House’). Immediately left (yellow arrow/YA) across fields (occasional YAs and black arrows), heading SSE for 1¾ miles back to Upper Boddington.
Lunch: Plough Inn, Upper Boddington (01327-260364, ploughinnboddington.co.uk) – a very friendly village inn
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The AHB (Advanced High-performance Bus) is a high-performance bus in AMBA (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture) family. This AHB can be used in high clock frequency system modules.
The AHB acts as the high-performance system backbone bus. AHB supports the efficient connection of processors, on-chip memories and off-chip external memory interfaces with low-power peripheral macro cell functions. AHB is also specified to ensure ease of use in an efficient design flow using synthesis and automated test techniques.
AHB is a technology-independent and ensure that highly reusable peripheral and system macro cells can be migrated across a diverse range of IC processes and be appropriate for full-custom, standard cell and gate array technologies.
Generally, an AMBA-based microcontroller typically consists of a high-performance system backbone bus (AMBA AHB), able to sustain the external memory bandwidth, on which the CPU, on-chip memory and other Direct Memory Access (DMA) devices reside.
In this work, the design of the Advanced High-Performance Bus Protocol is developed which has the basic blocks such as Arbiter, Master, Slave and Decoder.
The arbitration mechanism is used to ensure that only one master has access to the bus at any one time and the AHB decoder is used to decode the address of each transfer and provide a select signal for the slave that is involved in the transfer. This AMBA-AHB protocol can be adopted in all the application provided the design should be an AHB compliant
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TWO Irish men who targeted vulnerable elderly people in more than 40 “despicable” burglaries across England have been jailed for a total of 12 years.
Michael McDonagh and Patrick Connors travelled up and down Britain to commit their crimes, smashing windows and posing as customers, relatives or gas engineers to prey on frail old people at home.
In most cases the two men took cash, jewellery and electrical items while their victims were in the buildings. The pair looted a total of £100,000 in 42 burglaries between September 2012 and January this year.
McDonagh, 32, and Connors, 20, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle the properties at Bristol Crown Court last week. McDonagh was jailed for seven years, while Connors, who also pleaded guilty to money laundering, was sent to a young offenders institution for five years.
Both men have strong links to Ireland and were identified by witnesses on the basis of their Irish accents.
The court also heard that Connors was arrested with £2,200 on February 2 at Pembroke Docks as he tried to board a ferry to Ireland.
In terrifying CCTV footage played to the court, the two men were shown ransacking the living rooms of two pensioners as they sat powerless to resist.
The images were captured by cameras installed in the homes of the vulnerable elderly people after they had been targeted previously.
McDonagh and Connors burgled homes in nine different counties as far apart as Cornwall and Lincolnshire. During their four-month spree, they paid £56,000 into a bank account held by Connors. The account, which still contains around £37,000, has been frozen by police.
“These criminals preyed on the most vulnerable members of our society, carrying out despicable violent burglaries,” said Sue Mountstevens, Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset, where 17 of the offences took place.
“Although incidents like this are thankfully rare, it shows the importance of looking out for vulnerable family members and neighbours.
“It is important that we raise awareness and increase vigilance within communities.”
Detective Inspector Tina Robinson of Avon and Somerset Police added: “All burglaries can have a serious emotional impact, but these crimes are all the more shocking as the victims were some of society’s most vulnerable.”
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The severest test of an advertising man is in selling goods by mail. But that is a school from which he must graduate before he can hope for success. There cost and result are immediately apparent. False theories melt away like snowflakes in the sun. The advertising is profitable or it is not, clearly on the face of returns. Figures which do not lie tell one at once the merits of an ad.
This puts men on their mettle. All guesswork is eliminated. Every mistake is conspicuous. One quickly loses his conceit by learning how often his judgment errs — often nine times in ten.
There one learns that advertising must be done on a scientific basis to have any fair chance of success. And he learns that every wasted dollar adds to the cost of results. Here is a tough efficiency and economy under a master who can’t be fooled. Then, and only then, is he apt to apply the same principles and keys to all advertising.
A man was selling a five-dollar article. The replies from his ad cost him 85 cents. Another man submitted an ad which he thought better. The replies cost $14.20 each. Another man submitted an ad which for two years brought replies at an average of 41 cents each. Consider the difference on 250,000 replies per year. Think how valuable was the man who cut the cost in two. Think what it would have meant to continue that $14.20 ad without any key on returns.
Yet there are thousands of advertisers who do just that. They spend large sums on a guess. And they are doing what that man did — paying for sales from 2 to 35 times what they need cost. A study of mail order advertising reveals many things worth learning. It is a prime subject for study. In the first place, if continued, you know what pays. It is therefore good advertising as applied to that line.
The probability is that the ad has resulted from many traced comparisons. It is therefore the best advertising, not theoretical. It will not deceive you. The lessons it teaches are principles which wise men apply to all advertising.
Mail order advertising is always set in small type. It is usually set in smaller type than ordinary print. That economy of space is universal. So it proves conclusively that larger type does not pay. Remember that when you double your space by doubling the size of your type. The ad may still be profitable. But traced returns have proved that you paying a double price for sales.
In mail order advertising there is no waste space. Every line is utilized. Borders are rarely used. Remember that when you are tempted to leave valuable space unoccupied.
In mail order advertising there is no palaver. There is no boasting, save of super-service. There is no useless talk. There is no attempt at entertainment. There is nothing to amuse. Mail order advertising usually contains a coupon. That is there to cut out as a reminder of something the reader has decided to do.
Mail order advertisers know that readers forget. They are reading a magazine of interest. They may be absorbed in a story. A large percentage of people who read an ad and decide to act will forget that decision in five minutes. The mail order advertiser knows that waste by tests, and he does not propose to accept it. So he inserts that reminder to be cut out, and it turns when the reader is ready to act.
In mail order advertising the pictures are always to the point. They are salesmen in themselves. They earn space they occupy. The size is gauged by their importance. The picture of a dress one is trying to sell may occupy much space. Less important things get smaller spaces.
Pictures in ordinary advertising may teach little. They probably result in whims. But pictures in mail order advertising may form half the cost of selling. And you may be sure that everything about them has been decided by many comparative tests. Before you use useless pictures, merely to decorate or interest, look over some mail order ads. Mark what their verdict is.
A man advertised an incubator to be sold by mail. Type ads with right headlines brought excellent returns. But he conceived the idea that a striking picture would increase those returns. So he increased his space 50 percent to add a row of chickens in silhouette. It did make a striking ad, but his cost per reply was increased by exactly that 50 percent. The new ad, costing one-half more for every insertion, brought not one added sale. The man learned that incubator buyers were practical people. They were looking for attractive offers, not for pictures.
Think of the countless untraced campaigns where a whim of that kind costs half the advertising money without a penny in return. And it may go on year after year. Mail order advertising tells a complete story if the purpose is to make an immediate sale. You see no limitations there are on amount of copy. The motto there is, “The more you tell the more you sell.” And it has never failed to prove out so in any test we know.
Sometimes the advertiser uses small ads, sometimes large ads. None are too small to tell a reasonable story. But an ad twice larger brings twice the returns. A four times larger ad brings four times the returns, and usually some in addition. But this occurs only when the larger space is utilized as well as the small space. Set half-page copy in a page space and you double the cost in returns. We have seen many a test prove that.
Look at an ad of the Mead Cycle Company — a typical mail order ad. These have been running for many years. The ads are unchanging. Mr. Mead told the writer that not for $10,000 would he change a single word in his ads. For many years he compared one ad with the other. And the ads you see today are the final results of all those experiments. Note the picture he uses, the headlines, the economy of space, the small type. Those ads are as near perfect for their purpose as an ad can be.
So with any other mail order ad which has long continued. Every feature, every word and picture teaches advertising at its best. You may not like them. You may say they are unattractive, crowded, hard to read — anything you will. But the test of results has proved those ads the best salesman those lines have yet discovered. And they certainly pay.
Mail order advertising is the court of least resort. You may get the same instruction, if you will, by keying other ads. But mail order ads are models. They are selling goods profitably in a difficult way. It is far harder to get mail order than to send buyers to the stores. It is hard to sell goods which can’t be seen. Ads which do that are excellent examples of what advertising should be. We cannot often follow all the principle of mail order advertising, though we know we should.
The advertiser forces a compromise. Perhaps pride in our ads has an influence. But every departure from those principles adds to our selling cost. Therefore it is always a question of what we are willing to pay for our frivolities. We can at least know what we pay. We can make keyed comparisons, one ad with another. Whenever we do we invariably find that the nearer we get to proved mail order copy the more customers we get for our money.
This is another important chapter. Think it over. What real difference is there between inducing a customer to order by mail or order from his dealer? Why should the methods of salesmanship differ? They should not. When they do, it is for one of two reasons. Either the advertiser does not know what the mail order advertiser knows. He is advertising blindly. Or he deliberately sacrifices a percentage of his returns to gratify some desire.
There is some apology for that, just as there is for fine offices and buildings. Most of us can afford to do something for pride and opinion. But let us know what we are doing. Let us know the cost of our pride. Then, if our advertising fails to bring us the wanted returns, let us go back to our model — a good mail order ad — and eliminate some of our waste.
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Red wine, oranges, chocolate, aged cheese are all common food triggers of migraine. What do these foods have in common? They are all high in histamine!
Histamine increases nitric oxide, which causes vasodilation (ie expansion) of blood vessels. Vasodilation increases blood flow to the brain. The nervous system responds to this increased blood flow with symptoms of pain, flashing lights, double vision, vertigo, increased sensitivity to light, smells and noise as well as nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Histamine doesn’t just come from food! Histamine is increased from:
- Gut dysbiosis – there are certain bacteria found in the gut that release histamine.
- SIBO – an overgrowth of bacteria in the small bowel will release histamine.
- DAO enzyme overload – the DAO enzyme that resides in both the small and large intestines degrades histamine. Dysbiosis and SIBO can cause the DAO enzyme to become overloaded with histamine.
- Oestrogen – oestrogen increases histamine release from mast cells and down regulates the DAO enzyme.
- Mould exposure.
Histamine is reduced by:
- DAO enzyme which resides in the small and large intestine degrades histamine. This enzyme is produced by the DAO gene. Having a mutation on the DAO gene can cause a reduction in DAO enzyme functioning.
- HNMT enzyme which takes over the degradation of histamine from the DAO enzyme when it has become overloaded. This enzyme needs a methyl group to function. If the methylation cycle is not working optimally then the methyl groups are not available. You can read more about methylation here.
- Treating SIBO and gut dysbiosis to take the load off the DAO enzyme.
- Liver detoxification of oestrogen as oestrogen stimulates the release of histamine from mast cells.
- Reducing intake of high histamine foods.
Why do women suffer more from migraines?
Oestrogen stimulates mast cells to release histamine, but what also happens is that histamine stimulates the ovaries to produce more oestrogen! So you can see it’s a vicious cycle of histamine – oestrogen – histamine!!!
To compound issues even further, oestrogen down regulates the DAO enzyme, which is required to degrade histamine in the gut. Progesterone increases DAO enzyme activity so you want to make sure you have good progesterone levels.
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We have a Children’s Unit Designed Specifically To Meet Their Needs
We understand that children and youth have their own distinct needs. Our Children & Adolescent Unit provides services for children with severe behavioral disturbances, mental illness and/or substance abuse problems.
WHEN TO SEEK HELP FOR YOUR CHILD?
Parents and teachers are usually the first to recognize that a child has a problem with emotions or behavior. Still, the decision to seek professional help can be difficult and painful for a parent.
The first step is to gently try to talk to the child. An honest open talk about feelings can often help. It is important to note that listening to your child is often more important than “talking to” your child. Parents may choose to consult with the child’s physician, teachers, members of the clergy, or other adults who know the child well.
The following may indicate that help from a sensitive and caring licensed behavioral health professional is needed. It is important to note that changes in your child’s behavior or mood should raise some level of concern, particularly if these do not resolve within two weeks.
Signs to look for:
- Marked decline in school performance
- Severe worry or anxiety, or chooses not to take part in activities that are normal for the child’s age
- Frequent physical complaints – stomach ache or headaches
- Hyperactivity, impulsive behaviors
- Changes in sleep patterns, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much
- Marked changes in eating habits, such as a sudden decrease in appetite or weight loss
- Prolonged sad, negative, or angry moods
- Difficulty with concentration, poor attention, forgetfulness
- Clingy behaviors; difficulty separating from caregivers
- Persistent disobedience or aggressive behavior toward teachers or other adults in authority
- Frequent, unexplainable temper tantrums
- Threatens to harm (self-cutting) or to kill oneself or others
- Complains persistently of being bullied
- Displays physically aggressive behaviors, such as fighting or property destruction
- Delinquent behaviors such as truancy, theft, vandalism
- Strange, unusual, bizarre thoughts or beliefs
If problems persist or if others involved in the child’s life are concerned, then consider seeking a consultation with a licensed mental health professional, such as a social worker, psychologist or child/adolescent psychiatrist. Your child’s physician or pediatrician can also make a referral for your child.
WHAT TYPES OF TREATMENT ARE AVAILABLE?
Effective treatment approaches are available. Psychosocial therapies are also called “talk therapies” or “behavioral therapy,” and they can help children and adolescents change behaviors. Family and parent therapies that teach parents and children coping strategies can also be effective.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that can be used with children. It has been widely studied and is an effective treatment for a number of conditions and is especially useful when treating depression and anxiety in children and adolescents. Additionally, therapies for Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are numerous and include behavioral parent training and behavioral classroom management.
Some children may benefit from a combination of therapy approaches used with medication.
Our staff will talk with you about any recommendations for medication for your child. If medication is recommended, he or she would also discuss potential benefits and side effects to help you in your decision making process.
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Our qualified staff of physicians, nurses, licensed mental health professionals and addiction specialists will provide you with treatment services which are evidenced based and proven effective while our trained peer support specialists provide you the support you need to help you on your journey to recovery, living a healthy and productive lifestyle.
If you, or a loved one, are in need of services please contact one of our offices near you for assistance:
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How young voters feel about the election in Georgia
Young voters – particularly young people of colour – played an instrumental role in turning Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania from red to blue.
The following voters were imperative to Joe Biden’s victory last month. Based on turnout and exit poll data, some estimate that young voters in crucial states like Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania — particularly young voters of colour — carried Democrats across the finish line to win enough electoral college points.
As per CIRCLE’s analysis, “90% of Black youth supported Biden in Georgia, 85% of young voters of color backed Biden in Pennsylvania (33 points higher than white youth), and 77% of young voters of color in Michigan (19 points higher than white youth)”, concluding: “in states like Georgia… Black and Latino youth may have single-handedly made Biden competitive.”
Not only is it remarkable that these voters turned their states from red to blue, in Georgia’s case for the first time since 1992, but they did so in spite of a well-documented legacy of voter suppression tactics. Celebrating all too rare victories when they come is important. The demographic of the US electorate is changing. But for many, this was more about seeing Trump defeated than Biden succeed. The message seems clear: this is the beginning, not the conclusion, of a fight for a fairer United States of America.
In the following series we talk to voters from these three states. Some of the subjects are first-time voters, others voted in the 2018 midterms, and a handful were of age to vote in 2016. Some, like Roxie Richner from Michigan, voted in counties that gave the Democrats some of its highest margins in history. Others, like Arianna Valbrun, travelled home to vote; in her case to North Carolina, where the gap between parties was significantly closed, despite Black voters’ mail-in ballots reportedly being disproportionately flagged for potential rejection ahead of the election. Here, in Georgia, we meet a handful of these voters, shot by rising Atlanta photographer, Chinedu Nwakudu.
Jamael Shotomide, 19
“There’s still work to do and people to educate. Another old white man is still in power.”
When Jamael Shotomide was casting his vote at a library in Atlanta, he thought about the recipients of DACA. An acronym for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA is an Obama administration policy that allows people brought to the US as children (‘Dreamers’) to receive a renewable two-year period of legal residency and right to work. Trump has called it an “illegal amnesty” and repeatedly tried to rescind the policy. “I realised that for people living in the country that might not have the same problems as me, but share one common obstacle, it makes their fight stronger,” he says.
Aged 19, this was his first time eligible to vote in an election. Fulton, where he voted, is Georgia’s largest county, where most of Atlanta lies. It is considered to be one of the most reliable Democrat counties in the entire country, but still managed to grow its margin of support by 5 points compared to the 2016 election, vital in pushing Biden past the post. But with regards to Georgia as a whole, like many young Atlantans, Jamael’s advice is: “Stay in Atlanta you’ll be aight.”
He wants to see policies that affect change on a local level. “I really feel strong about the education and development of my community,” he adds. “And that I can be a part of a generation that changes narratives and lives in truth only.” As for what comes next? “Let’s get it, bitch!”
Hawa Camara, 22
“Nobody can blame or attack any historically disenfranchised group for having hesitations against voting. There’s a lot of trauma there and rightfully so, some have had family members die for still no change.”
Hawa Camara, a recent graduate in journalism from the University of Georgia, came very close to not voting in this election. “I ended up doing it last minute for the sake of removing Trump, but I’ve never felt less confident in either candidate and either party,” she says. Hawa voted in Cobb, a county which gave Biden a 14-point win. From 1976 to 2016, Cobb voted for a Republican in every presidential election.
Even though she voted for the winner, there’s still a long way to go before she feels adequately seen or heard by the American government. “As a first generation, Black, Muslim woman, I don’t feel like the political system always values my voice or cares to protect me. The Democratic Party sells itself to Black voters as our saviours, yet all of the systems that have oppressed us have been upheld by both political parties — one just smiles more politely.”
While she’s glad Trump is gone, and is happy for Kamala, there’s no trust or genuine connection there. “I feel like it’s back to the regular scheduled systemic racism we grew up on.” Immigration and healthcare are the two most pressing issues in America right now, Hawa believes. “Healthcare is seen as ‘when you have a problem go to the doctor and get prescribed something to ‘fix’ or ‘suppress’ it for a ridiculous amount of money’. Capitalism in the States has now monetised being sick, making us constantly in need of a prescription (that often cause other major side effects). Immigration is just sick. I don’t know how else to say it.”
She also believes the spread of misinformation is a huge problem, “Even things that seem like the appropriate ‘activist’ opinions can be extremely inaccurate or straight up false,” she says. “I think cancel culture, and not listening to each other, is creating and cultivating a lethal environment of fear.” Citing James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Malcolm X as critical voices in shaping her beliefs, she also adds her father as an inspiration. “My dad has been an activist his entire life fighting against regimes in Guinea, almost even being killed. I feel that that passion is very alive in me.”
Next up? “Less talking. Less judging. Less greed. More listening. More acceptance. More balance. Real change starts with more funding and resources to the communities that need it. What can we change in our immediate surroundings?”
Arianna Valbrun, 21
“I think it would be egotistical to say that my generation are the ultimate changemakers, when there so many young people who came before me that gave me this platform.”
Arianna Valbrun is a student and artist based in Atlanta. She grew up in Columbia, Maryland, but is currently registered in Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina, where her mother lives. So she travelled across the northern border to cast her vote in her first presidential election. Though Trump won the state, Black voters in North Carolina shattered early voting records, with Biden losing by just 0.9% in the state thanks to support in counties like Mecklenburg.
“In all honesty, I voted very unenthusiastically,” she says. “I contemplated not voting, as I was so fed up with the American political system and how it often works against us, no matter who we vote for, simply due to the centuries of coded and hidden racist policies, laws and language. I didn't necessarily want to see Biden win, but I absolutely wanted to see Trump lose and for that reason, I found it important for me to vote.”
She felt the same way in 2016. “It sucked back then and still sucks now.” The only difference was that she was still in high school. “The day Trump won I had to go school and directly see just how many people were emboldened to express their hatred for me.” Now, she’s in her final year of college. “I'm HBCU educated, I've grown up and into myself, and this election incited the same panic and anxiety in me as the last one. I just have better words to articulate it I guess. Biden winning was like a half sigh of relief but still very scary.”
As for a policy she feels strongly about, voter suppression is at the top of her list. Recognising that there was a lot of shaming towards non-voters this year, Arianna was upset by the lack of appreciation towards the intersections of privilege and voting. “We must consider that not all people have access, transportation to a poll, and not all people feel safe at a poll. We must also consider that voter suppression preys on poor queer BIPOC, and those are the same people doing most of the community building, mobilisation, organising and grassroots work YEAR ROUND, not just November.”
As for what comes next, Arianna wishes she knew. “I’m taking it day by day. Working on unlearning and relearning.”
Navarro Aschenbrenner, 21
“Protect your sanity, there’s a lot of people not happy with how things have turned out and are not happy feeling equal with us.”
Gwinnett, Georgia’s second largest county and Navarro Aschenbrenner’s home, increased its support for the Democrats by 12.2 points compared to the 2016 election. Its support was crucial to helping elect Biden and Harris. Yet Navarro himself has struggled to make his voice felt by its elected officials. “I have sent numerous emails and letters to city hall officials, governors, mayors and other elected officials with no response,” he says. “Although it is not always expected to receive a reply, you just hope others are also voicing their opinions alongside you and voting on these issues to make a change. The feeling of being disenfranchised is definitely prominent.”
At 21, this is his first time voting for a president and, despite the work that still needs to be done, he is proud of this election. “Not only was this my first time voting in a presidential election, but it was also historical for my state, and the multiple swing states that ended up blue this year,” he says.
He adds there are many small victories to be enjoyed, beyond Trump’s loss, that amplified the voices of POC and the LGBTQ+ community. “Government officials such as Delaware’s first openly transgender senator, Sarah McBride, Oklahoma’s first Muslim, nonbinary state legislator Mauree Turner, and New York’s first openly gay Afro-Latino man elected to Congress, Ritchie Torres. These are three of the many history-makers from this election who bring voices and hope for the nation and me.”
Piera Moore, 23
“I wasn't as fired up about voting in 2016, but I do remember the day he was announced president. That day, I felt so grateful that I attended Spelman College, a women's HBCU, to be surrounded by other Black women, who I didn't have to explain my frustration to, because they already knew and felt it.”
Piera Moore wasn’t a fan of either candidate in this election, but Trump’s rhetoric was enough to convince her to vote for his opponent. “I'm a Black woman and I live in a southern state,” she says, “I don't want to have to look over my shoulder every time I venture outside of my city.” This was her second time voting in a presidential election, and third election overall, having voted in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election (a vote for the state’s governor) in which a Republican, Brian Kemp, narrowly beat Stacey Abrams, 50.2% to 48.8% respectively. But it was her first time voting early via an absentee ballot.
A lifelong resident of Atlanta, she voted in Fulton County, where 72.6% of votes went to Biden. All too aware that, beyond the overwhelming blue counties that make up Atlanta, lies a different side of Georgia, Piera remains sceptical about the next four years. “It's like that joke that was tweeted when Biden won, "Now back to normal racism… the kind we grew up on. Atlanta has this reputation of being a ‘Black Mecca’, and to an extent, there is some truth to that statement, but it’s also known for its huge gap in income. In the rest of Georgia, the Black safe havens begin to fade. The racism may be subtle, like a confederate flag bumper sticker or a MAGA hat, or it can be very blatant, as we saw with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia.”
Aside from her work as an artist and photographer, Piera runs a community organisation and online platform called Buy Black ATL. The founding mission of this was to promote Black businesses, creatives and entrepreneurs in Atlanta with the hope of contributing towards their dreams, but it has since also become a resource for homeless families and other organisations helping those in need in their community. “And there are SO many people in need in different ways,” she says. “Some people need therapy and mental health assistance, some people need to see a doctor for their first check up in years, or ever, some people need access to housing, food, and warm clothing, and some people are just trying to protect and provide for their families.”
Rashad Harrington, 22
“This new generation of voters know what they want and are more aware that the world does not solely revolve around them. ‘If I eat, we all need to eat’.”
Rashad Harrington is currently attending Georgia State University. He cast his vote early, in person, in DeKalb County, a county in the north of Atlanta that voted overwhelmingly for the Democrats -- 83.1% -- increasing their margin by over four points compared to 2016. To vote in this election was so important to Rashad because: “It was a reminder for me that the deaths of thousands of Black people before me to have this right were not in vain.”
This is his second presidential election -- he was 18 when Clinton lost to Trump back in 2016. “Many people, in my opinion, were very unaware of politics and the climate,” he says. “Many people have become more politically aware and have been a lot louder for change since then. But many people have also realised that true change comes from people not politics.”
Now that the election is out the way, Rashad says this is where the real work begins. “No matter your occupation, status, or career, we can all put in some work. No matter if you are marching and protesting on the front lines, keeping the home safe, sound and secure, inspiring others through means of art, informing others and making them aware, acknowledging your own personal biases, ignorance, and privileges, bridging the gap between earth and the divine, donating to organisations in need, or simply looking out for your fellow neighbour and being a decent human being, we all have a hand in making our world a better place.”
Flwr Chyld, 23
“No one should be homeless. Gentrifying historically Black communities for white profit is racist. Everyone incarcerated for marijuana-related charges should be freed. Defund the police (and allocate funds to things that need more attention like education, affordable housing and infrastructure).”
“I’d like to start off by saying that voting is not the be all and end all solution to all of this country’s problems,” 23-year-old Flwr Chyld says. “With that being said, I always tell people that depending on your situation voting may or may not directly affect you, but your decision to not vote could most definitely affect someone else.” This was Flwr’s first time voting in a presidential election. He voted in-person at one of DeKalb County’s early voting locations. “I personally felt way more comfortable going to the polls in person because of all the misinformation going on about casting mail-in ballots,” he says.
When it comes to people who have shaped his political beliefs, the first person that comes to mind is his grandmother. “She is the one person who I know this closely that has told me about her first-hand experiences with racism in the south, especially at the height of Jim Crow,” he says. “Her telling me about her marching and going to jail just for the right to vote is admirable yet so disturbing, because no one should have to fight for human rights. All in all I believe her actions, along with millions of my other ancestors, have made it easier for me to participate in the political process.”
Back in 2016, his attitude towards politics was “nonchalant”. “It was a mix of ‘my vote won’t matter’ and me just not caring enough to simply take the time to educate myself on things.” Times have changed, and the ugliness of the past four years emboldened him. “For most, if not all minorities, we experienced what some would sum up as the worst four years of our lives. All of this most definitely had a direct effect on my decision to vote this year.”
But Flwr says many of his peers still feel futile about party politics. “Leading up to this election my friends and I debated it quite a bit. A few of them felt as though voting wouldn’t matter because the political system has never been for or in favour of us. To their point, a lot of what they’re saying is true and their feelings are valid, but one thing I like to keep in mind is that we can’t limit ourselves when we talk about the ways in which we can effect change. We have to exhaust all of our options the same way those that came before us exhausted their options to get us to where we are today.”
Keyonna Singletary, 23
“As a Black woman in America, I am automatically neglected, underrepresented, and mistreated by the government and political system.”
Keyonna Singletary is 23 and a recent graduate of Georgia State University. She dropped off her ballot early, in Fayette County, in the south of Atlanta. Fayette has been considered a Republican stronghold since the 1980s, owing to its predominantly white population. But recently the gap in support between the two parties has begun to shrink, as the make-up of the county has changed. At this election the Republicans won by only seven points, compared to Trump’s 19.1-point win in 2016, an overall difference of 52.7% to Biden’s 45.9%.
Like many who’ve transitioned from teen to adult under Trump’s presidency, Keyonna says she’s gained more compassion and understanding for others in the last four years. “In 2016, I was a sophomore in college with little to no interest in politics, my life then was just school and work,” Keyonna says. “Yes, I was registered to vote but I thought whatever happens isn’t really going to affect me. I am now more involved within my community.” Her mother played a big part in this. “She stressed the importance of watching the news, being aware of current events, knowing our history and the political system and how it affects our daily lives.” Policy-wise, Keyonna feels that “Equal rights and equal pay for women, as well as reparations for all Black people” are what she feels most strongly about.
She adds that she’s proud to be a part of this generation, because it’s made up of bold, relentless and passionate voices. “We prove people wrong, move to the beat of our own drum, and make ourselves heard not only by using our platforms on social media but really being in the field.”
Stunt McCartney, 22
“What next? The same as always. Finding a decent 10-piece combo and making it home with my ankles still attached.”
Henry, a county in the south of Atlanta in which Stunt McCartney voted, increased its support for the Democrats by almost 16 points this election compared to the last. This is all the more remarkable when considering that, before 2016, the county had voted consistently for the Republicans since 1984.
Joe Biden ultimately won by over 20 points, the best result for a Democrat in the county since 1976 (owing a lot to the power of governor Stacey Abrams). He voted in person on election day, his second time voting, but like many of his fellow Atlantans, he’s far from enthused with what comes next. “It was either vote, or hear my parents complain the next four years,” he says. As for policies he feels strongly about: “Besides all the ones steeped in racism that lingered over from the past years of ‘democratic’ rule,” there’s no one that sticks out in his mind. “I guess net neutrality being ruled out sucks a bit… does anyone remember that?”
In the next four years, he hopes to see “Police reform, undoing the current systems, ignoring the grandstanding and holding the next candidates to their promises.” But he doesn’t see that necessarily happening. “It’s all the same things as previously, this time we’ll just have to cut around the more competently disguised bull.”
Kennedy ‘Mercury’ Malone, 19
“We live in a very classist society and the people in charge of the country only aid those with an immense amount of wealth. I hope that we can start to build America to be inclusive and really for all of the people.”
Kennedy "Mercury" Malone, originally from Memphis, Tennessee -- a Democrat city sat amongst a fiercely Republican state, much like Atlanta -- cast her vote early at Coan Recreation Center in DeKalb County. As a first-time voter, it felt imperative to her to do so. “I felt like the lack of votes in the last election led to the election of Donald Trump and I definitely wanted him out of the office for various reasons,” she says. Like many of her contemporaries in this piece, she’s pleased that Trump is out of office, but unsure if Biden is the best president for the country.
Mercury believes strongly that voter disenfranchisement is designed into the system. “I believe that communities with a greater minority population lack resources that mostly white communities have,” she says. “Plus many people in other counties have more access to money to help with the upkeep and the school districts.”
Understandably in 2016, aged 15, like many she wasn't really too involved with politics. “Now I feel strongly about prison reform,” she says. “I believe that there are many incarcerated people for non-violent crimes, specifically distribution and possession of marijuana. Now that marijuana is legal in many states they should not still be in jail while everyone else is allowed to profit and grow from the business.
“Hopefully,” she adds, in 2020 “the government will aid the citizens of ALL communities and not just the elite.”
Photography Chinedu Nwakudu
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What is SEO?
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Piazza Ticino is elliptical, a shape that lends itself well to expressing the concept of having more than one central point. In fact, the canton has always been divided in two between the Sopraceneri and Sottoceneri areas and into three by its three main cities (Bellinzona, Locarno and Lugano). The Ticino Totem stands in one of the two “focal points” of the ellipse.
The sculpture is made from rock excavated during the creation of the AlpTransit tunnels. Since the start of the twenty-first century, three major railway tunnels have created an infrastructure able to transform the alpine crossing into a level railway. The Ceneri Base Tunnel, which is 15.4 km long, runs from Camorino to Vezia and opened to traffic in 2020. It was the most recent to be built and follows on from the Lötschberg and Gotthard Base Tunnels.
The Ticino Totem shows us the heart of Monte Ceneri, the material from which our Alps and Prealps are made. From clay to sandstone, limestone and gneiss, all the way through to marble, and then quartzite and granites. The illuminated lines that surround it instead show us the routes that have crossed the mountain for centuries: the “Strada Regina” towards Rivera; the “Strada Francesca” towards Cadenazzo (now followed by the Via del Ceneri and For-Ti Monte Ceneri); and the “Strada Romana” (now known as the Montecenerino) towards Quartino.
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Understanding Medicare benefits can seem impossible. There are four different parts to this program, and eligibility varies based on which part you are interested in obtaining. In many cases, you must be at least 65 years of age to enroll, but you may qualify early if you have a particular medical condition. Some programs are only available based on your address. Whether or not you have to pay, and how much, depends on your income level and what part of the program you are utilizing. There is a lot to learn.
Researching the Medicare enrollment process now will help you take full advantage of the program in the future. For example, you can find out how to avoid penalty fees, what parts of the program you are enrolled in automatically and what other plans you have to purchase for complete coverage. The sections below describe the different parts available, how much Medicare costs based on the coverage selected and how you can enroll.
What is Medicare?
The Medicare program is designed to provide comprehensive health insurance to older Americans. Signed into law in 1965, Medicare coverage was created to provide an affordable or free insurance option for older Americans who could not afford other coverage options. Today, the program has grown and expanded beyond its original goals. Now it provides comprehensive coverage that can include both inpatient and outpatient hospital visits, doctor’s visits and prescriptions, depending on the plan you choose to enroll in.
About Medicare Part A
In general, Medicare Part A provides health insurance coverage for inpatient hospital treatment, nursing facility care, hospice care and home health care. Covered inpatient treatment includes all required lab work, hospital rooms and meals, required hospital services such as nursing or intensive care, rehabilitation services and more. Most individuals have no premiums under Part A, and low-cost coverage for certain forms of treatment.
About Medicare Part B
Medicare Part B coverage includes medically necessary services and preventative services, such as flu shots. It also includes emergency and some non-emergency ambulance services, as well as mental health inpatient, outpatient and partial hospitalization services. Seeking a second opinion on a diagnosis and some prescription drugs may be covered as well. Finally, Part B provides medical equipment such as walkers and oxygen tanks, and some outpatient therapy services.
About Medicare Part C
Part C is different from the other Medicare programs. Also known as the Medicare Advantage Plan, this option manages your Part A and B coverage and typically includes Part D as well. The plan may also offer additional benefits, such as dental and vision coverage. These plans are managed by private Medicare-approved companies, so they may be more suitable if you prefer the experience of private health insurance but qualify for Medicare.
About Medicare Part D
Part D covers drugs prescribed to you by your doctor. You are generally required to purchase a Part D drug prescription plan if you want this coverage, as you are not automatically enrolled in it. Different plans offer varying terms, such as cheap or free generics, or a lower price for a particular drug. In some cases, you may be eligible for premium-free Part D coverage. It is important to carefully evaluate the terms of the prescription drug plans available to you before selecting one. You also was to keep your own medical needs in mind.
Learn About Requirements for Medicare
Medicare eligibility requirements vary based on a number of factors. Most people are automatically enrolled in Medicare when they turn 65 years of age. However, eligibility also depends on your work history. To receive automatic coverage with no premiums, either you or your spouse must have paid into the Medicare tax system for at least 10 years before enrolling. If any of the following is true, you can get Medicare Part A coverage without premiums:
- You receive retirement benefits from Social Security or the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB).
- You’re eligible to receive the above retirement benefits but have not applied.
- You or your spouse were employed by the government and covered by Medicare in the past.
You can also get premium-free coverage if you are under 65 years of age. To qualify for this benefit, one of the following must be true:
- You have received Social Security or RRB disability benefits for 24 months.
- You have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
- You have End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
Even if you are not eligible for premium-free coverage, you may still be able to purchase Medicare coverage when you turn 65. The cost of premiums varies depending on how long you paid Medicare taxes. However, you may be required to purchase Part B as well in some cases. These premiums vary depending on your annual income the year prior.
Part D coverage is always optional. However, if you want this coverage you must typically purchase it. Medicare Part C plans are restricted by location, which means you must live in the service area of a particular plan in order to subscribe to it.
How much does Medicare cost?
Most people qualify for premium-free Medicare Part A when they turn 65 years of age. However, they may still have to pay for additional plans for complete coverage. The following price ranges are in place for Medicare plans:
- Part A: Monthly premiums can cost up to $437. Most people qualify for free coverage.
- Part B: Monthly premiums can cost up to $460.50, depending on your income. Most people pay around $130.
- Part C: Variable. Visit the Medicare website to compare plans and premiums.
- Part D: Monthly premiums can cost up to $77.40, depending on your income.
How to Sign Up for Medicare
You can sign up for Medicare Part A automatically when you apply for Social Security retirement benefits. In some cases, you may also be automatically enrolled in Medicare Part B. If you are eligible for Part B, but choose not to enroll in it immediately, you will be charged a fee for late enrollment.
If you are not automatically enrolled in Medicare, you should sign up during the general enrollment period. The general enrollment period lasts for seven months after your 65th birthday. There are three options for Medicare enrollment:
- You can sign up online by visiting the Social Security website and filling out an application.
- You can call the Social Security Office to enroll.
- You can visit your local Social Security Office in person to enroll.
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Universal motors are called “universal” because they are happy to run either off of AC or DC electric power. … These motors produce so much noise because the brushes rub on the slotted armature. In circular saws and drills, you also have gear train noise.
Why are DC motors loud?
For normal DC motors and gearmotors, the sound is likely to be a high pitched ‘whir’ as the motors rotate. … In some instances, the motor has some sort of fault and is generating the noise internally, but the most common issue arises due to the motor’s mounting.
How can I make my DC motor quieter?
Capacitors are usually the most effective way to suppress motor noise, and as such we recommend you always solder at least one capacitor across your motor terminals. Typically you will want to use anywhere from one to three 0.1 µF ceramic capacitors, soldered as close to the motor casing as possible.
Are DC or AC motors quieter?
AC vs DC: The advantages of a DC motor ceiling fan over an AC motor ceiling fan: In most cases, they use less energy – up to 70% less than a standard AC fan. They are generally extremely quiet.
Why are DC motors quieter?
An innovative cartridge brush assembly reduces audible and electrical noise and improves brush life by maintaining optimum brush force throughout the life of the motor. …
Why are chop saws so loud?
The circular saw has a universal motor in it, and this type of motor is extremely noisy. Universal motors are called “universal” because they are happy to run either off of AC or DC electric power. … These motors produce so much noise because the brushes rub on the slotted armature.
Are brushless power tools quieter?
Brushless motors deliver a quieter sound because they need less power to function.
Why are motors loud?
The spark is one of the causes of the electrical noise. Especially when the motor starts from its stalled position, comparably higher current, or a stall current, flows into the windings. Higher current usually causes higher noise.
Why are electric motors quiet?
Typically, noise produced by an electric motor is due to following reasons: Electromagnetics; mechanical structure; aerodynamics. Cogging torque is one of the most prominent electromagnetic causes of noise generation in a motor.
Are there silent motors?
The Nanomotion brand ER series leverages the advantages of piezo motion technology packaged in a tubular motor housing. … The ER motor is a robust and high precision design with integrated drive and encoder. The Piezo Rotary Motor direct drive eliminates gears to deliver zero backlash performance.
Are DC fans worth it?
DC fans are widely regarded as the most efficient type of fans. They consume significantly less power than AC fans. In fact, DC fans consume up to 70 percent less energy to produce the same output as traditional AC fan types. This means, that a 25-watt DC-driven yields the same results as 100-watt AC fan.
Why are AC motors louder than DC?
Which Motor Is More Powerful: AC or DC? AC motors are generally considered to be more powerful than DC motors because they can generate higher torque by using a more powerful current. However, DC motors are typically more efficient and make better use of their input energy.
Is a DC motor best for a ceiling fan?
Benefits of DC Ceiling Fans
DC ceiling fans are highly energy-efficient. In general, DC motors will consume up to 70% less power than their AC analogues. When AC fan consumes 100 watts, the DC one will take up to 30 watts with the same result for you. DC ceiling fans are slimmer.
What is the quietest DC motor?
Capacitor Start-Run motor and Hysteresis motor are the most noiseless motors. From 10 inches, Hysteresis motor is quieter than a wife who is mad at her husband :D. You might find hysteresis motor in tape recorders.
Why do brushless motors make noise?
With a brushless motor, it is possible to control the winding currents in a way that gradually transitions current from one winding to another. This lowers torque ripple, which is a mechanical pulsation of energy onto the rotor. Torque ripple causes vibration and mechanical noise, especially at low rotor speeds.
Are electric motors silent?
Electric motors can be quiet, but are not necessarily quiet. High speed machines in particular are noisier. Bearings, gears, fans and the load (e.g. blender blades) are generally noisier than the motor. Electric motors can be quiet, but are not necessarily quiet.
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DETROIT -- BMW will boost the range of its i3 electric car by about half for the 2017 model year.
This summer, the lithium ion battery pack of the compact EV will be improved, "which puts it into a much more usable range," Ian Robertson, BMW AG board member for sales and marketing, told Automotive News at the Detroit auto show.
BMW doesn't have the exact figure yet, but a 50 percent increase means about 120 miles on a single charge, up from the current 81 miles. The i3 will get other improvements, which BMW has not yet disclosed.
The improved battery would give the i3 a better range than the Nissan Leaf, the top-selling electric car in the world, which can go up to 107 miles on a single charge.
But it will pale in comparison to that of the upcoming Chevy Bolt, which will have a range of 200 miles and cost less than $30,000 after federal tax credits.
The i3 went on sale in the U.S. in the spring of 2014 and has a base price of $43,350 including shipping. A model with a range extender is also available -- with about double the range -- and starts at $47,200 including shipping. Those prices are before tax credits.
BMW sold 24,057 i3s worldwide last year, an increase of 50 percent from 2014. In the United States, BMW sold 11,024 i3s, up from 6,092 in 2014. Nearly 60 percent of those were with the range extender.
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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center recently issued a warning about a rise in payment scams. Victims appear to get a text message from a bank’s fraud alert department. The text asks if the customer initiated an instant money transfer using digital payment apps connected to a bank.
For example, a text may say- Bank Fraud Alert- Did you attempt an instant payment in the amount of $5,000? Reply, Yes or No, or 1 to stop alerts.
The payment amount and financial institution may vary from victim to victim. You may even receive different texts claiming to be from different banks because the crooks are hoping to guess your financial institution.
If the victim responds, they receive a phone call that appears to be from the bank’s legitimate 1-800 support number. The criminals may know a past address, your social security number, and the last four digits of your bank account. This information is used to convince you that the steps being requested are the financial institution’s legitimate process to stop that money transfer.
Once the fraudsters have you on the hook, here is how they steal your money. Using the bank’s legitimate website or application, the crook will instruct victims to remove your email address from their digital payment app and replace it with an email address controlled by the fraudsters. After the email address has been changed, the cyber crook tells the victim to start another instant payment transaction to themselves that will cancel or reverse the original fraudulent payment attempt. Unfortunately, victims are in fact sending instant payment transactions from their bank account to an account controlled by the criminals. Victims often only realize they’ve been scammed after checking their bank account balance.
The FBI recommends the following precautions:
Be wary of unsolicited requests to verify account information. Cyber actors can use email addresses and phone numbers which appear to come from a legitimate financial institution. If a call or text is received regarding possible fraud or unauthorized transfers, do not respond directly.
Instead, contact your bank’s fraud department through verified phone numbers and email addresses on official bank websites or from the back of your credit or debit card, never through a text or email you receive.
Be wary of callers that provide personally identifiable information, including social security numbers. Unfortunately, there have been so many large-scale data breaches over the last decade, criminals may know some of your personal data.
Your best protection, Enable Multi Factor Authentication for all financial accounts, and do not provide those codes to anyone.
If you’ve been a victim of an online fraud, report it to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov.
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Granado is the oldest Brazilian pharmaceutical brand, which was created in 1870 in Rio de Janeiro. José Antonio Coxito Granado, the Portuguese pharmacist, who had a little farm near to Rio de Janeiro opened his first store in town. He was selling his own-produced remedies, medicines and other formulas and products that he made using local plants, herbs and flowers. The quality of his products brought him enormous success and soon he was able to set up his factories and a pharmacy in the most prestigious location of Rio de Janeiro. He and his brother developed many products and formulas that are sold until today such as antiseptic talc or 100% vegetable-based glycerin soaps. The company underwent many modernization processes, change ownership and capital but its main focus and objective remain the same until today: bring back life to traditional Brazilian brands and products, use Brazilian natural wealth and bring it to the people.
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Nimbu ka achaar is what the rest of the world knows as Indian lime pickle. It is a spicy sour side dish often eaten with flatbreads or papadums.
Achaar (pickle) is simple an easy way of preserving a fruit crop for year-round eating. Spicy Indian lime pickle manufacture is centred around Paripat and Haryana – two states south of Kashmir. Traditionally, lime pickle is made in summer when the fruit is ripe and the hot sun enables the fruit to ferment in salt for two weeks. Once fermented, the limes are spiced – predominantly with mustard. They are then stored in a bit of mustard oil.
The recipe we have provided here come from Indian food expert and writer Petrina Verma Sarkar, and it follows exactly the most common method of making nimbu ka achaar.
Nimbu ka achaar
- 24 limes, quartered
- 100g Maldon sea salt
- 35g rock salt
- 8 tsp fennel seeds (toasted and coarsely ground)
- 8 tsp mustard powder
- 8 tsp chilli powder
- 3 tsp turmeric powder
- 250ml cups mustard oil
- 2 tsp mustard seeds, whole
- 1 teaspoon asafoetida
Put the limes into a sterilised pickling jar. Cover with the salt, and mix well. Cover the jar tightly and keep it out in the sun for two weeks.
Mix the mustard powder, fennel, chili, and turmeric powders together and add the spices to the limes. Mix thoroughly.
In a pan, heat the mustard oil to smoking point and add the mustard seeds. They will splutter. When done add the asafoetida and immediately turn off the heat.
Pour this hot oil over the limes and mix everything well. Distributes into sterilised storage jars and rest for another week before eating.
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Good Morning! What are your plans today? Will it be a busy day? Will it be one filled with driving, appointments/meetings, work, school or relaxation? While we may plan our day, we can’t always control what happens within the day, but we can certainly control how we respond during the day. Today, we will finish our reading in 1 Corinthians chapter ten. Enjoy today’s reading.
“31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles or the church of God. 33 I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don’t just do what is best for me; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved.” – 1 Corinthians 10:31-33 NLT
Over the past few weeks we’ve read Paul’s response to the Corinthian church. He instructed the Corinthian church not to be dismayed about what type of meat (pure, unclean) they ate, because the Lord will cover it. Yesterday, in verse 30 we read the question, “If I can thank God for the food and enjoy it, why should I be condemned for eating it?”
Paul wrote about this because it was causing division in the church. He wanted the church to understand the bondage that some new believers still struggled with. If eating certain types of meat made a new believer stumble, then they should not give offense (or offend), they were to refrain from eating unclean meat (meat sacrificed to idols) in their presence until they became more knowledgeable of the freedom that they have in Christ Jesus.
Paul finalized this chapter perfectly with the words “So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.“
While we may attempt to please everyone, our main focus should be to bring glory to God. God is not a manipulator, user, back stabber, once-in-awhile friend or deceiver. God is the real thing. He will love you when you can’t love yourself. He will give you peace when your mind or things around you won’t be still. He doesn’t give us what we deserve (a lifetime of condemnation), but instead he pours out grace, mercy, joy, love, compassion and forgiveness on us.
Sisters and brothers, as we grow in the Lord, we should allow the Lord access to change our hearts and our lives. Allow him to see you – all of you (e.g., the broken, resentful, untrusting, angry, anxious, lost, confused, etc.). If you do, give him those things and ask him to change those things about you. When you do, strap on your seat belt because you will be on the wildest ride of your life. The ride will go up and down, have some twist and turns, sometimes roll backwards, have some steep hills to climb, tunnels and definitely loops but the Lord will be with you, He will have you strapped in, safe and secure until the journey is over. There maybe times when you will want to get off the ride, but don’t…trust Him.
“Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
Father God, thank you for 1 Corinthians chapter ten. From the reminders in the beginning all the way through to giving all glory to you has shown us your faithfulness through the ages. Lord, you have been so good to us. When we look over our lives and look at some of the things that have robbed us of our peace, purity, happiness and at times have broken us, we can now look to you and allow you to use it for your glory. Lord, forgive us for playing the blame game, for manipulating people/friends/family, and for turning away from you. Lord forgive us of our sins (known and unknown). Lord, we choose today as the day we want our lives to change. Lord, no matter what went on yesterday, the month or year(s) before, we want to mark today as the day we are turning everything back over to you. Lord, we desire for you to fulfill your purpose in our lives. We surrender ourselves to you. Lord, we want everything that we do to bring you glory. Lord, you are our only hope. So Lord, tear down these walls that divide us. Transform us and use us in a mighty way to serve you, your kingdom, the least, lost and last. In Jesus name, amen.
Keep praying! Keep Trusting! Keep believing!
Do you have a prayer request? We would love to pray for you. Send your prayer request to:
Bible Reference: http://www.biblegateway.com
Copyright© 2019 Mary E. White Ministries
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Reading is the process wherein someone else’s experiences, lessons learned, and ideas transfer themselves into your mind.
The benefits of reading–even just six minutes of it–have been statistically proven repeatedly over the last century alone. Reading increases the likelihood of a stronger brain as you age, helps build empathy, improves social relationships in work and personal life, leads to overall health benefits for both body and mind, and much more.
Whatever problems, struggles, or circumstances you find yourself in, odds are somebody, somewhere, has written about it–or something close to it. So whether you’re struggling to motivate yourself or your team, trying to find ways to turn your passions into a profession, or wondering what it takes to make your ideas a reality, picking up the right book could be just what you need.
To do what those who have come before you have done–to accomplish what Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or Meg Whitman have done–read what they read.
How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg
Bill Gates has recommended a lot of books over the years as part of his blog–including his self-proclaimed favorite book, The Catcher in the Rye. Yet one book that stands out among his collections is Ellenberg’s How Not to Be Wrong. In the book, Eilenberg delves into the world around us from behind the lens of mathematics. If that sounds daunting, consider the book’s description on Amazon:
The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do–the whole world is shot through with it.
Twelve Against the Gods, by William Bolitho
Elon Musk famously caused a mass rush to find this 1929 book when he told reporters it was his current reading focus. If you can find a copy of the now out-of-print book (Amazon currently lists it at nearly $600), Twelve Against the Gods covers the lives of 12 individuals from history who developed a remarkable amount of success in their lifetimes: from Napoleon, Casanova, and Woodrow Wilson to Charles XII and Isadora Duncan. “It’s really quite good,” Musk declared.
The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton M. Christensen
Steve Jobs was a voracious reader, and one book he kept on his shelf was The Innovator’s Dilemma, which helped Jobs understand the importance of innovation within an organization. Too many companies–and individuals–rely on whatever first brings them success. Thanks to Christensen’s book, Jobs knew that the success of the iPod would have to be leapfrogged if Apple was to truly succeed; Jobs knew it was merely a stepping stone. Which, as we now know, led to the success of the iPhone and iPad.
Playing to Win, by A.G. Lafley
When HP CEO Meg Whitman encouraged all 300,000 or so employees of the company to read Lafley’s Playing to Win, she did so for good reason. The book covers what tradeoffs must be considered in order to “play to win” in a connected and highly competitive world. In an earnings call, Whitman explained why the book was so valuable to her and her teams:
There are many ways to deploy strategy in companies. This is one I found to be particularly helpful because organizations have a lot of trouble making decisions, particularly at our scale…. This notion of where to play, what countries, what market segments, what products, and where not to play because we can’t do it profitably, has been a very good discipline.
The Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch
In 2015, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a goal to read a new book every other week. For the last book in his experiment, Zuckerberg chose Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity, a book which, according to Amazon’s description, “argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe–and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor.”
Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg
Cisco executive chairman and former CEO John Chambers was so inspired by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In that he gave a copy of the book to each member of his senior leadership team. In a company email, Chambers explained:
After reading Lean In and listening to Sheryl, I realize that, while I believe I am relatively enlightened, I have not consistently walked the talk. I think each of you, on reflection, will identify opportunities to operate at a new level with your women employees, leaders, customers, partners, and peers.
source: inc.com BY TANNER CHRISTENSEN
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In contemporary architectural design, the definition of envelope geometry often precedes consideration of its
material build-up. The geometries created in such a top-down manner require subsequent rationalisation for
This thesis addresses methods for the aesthetic and efficient structuring of arbitrary surfaces while respecting
distinct architectural considerations. Digital design tools have been developed to approximate surfaces using
isotropic triangular or quadrangular elements. Various methods for the creation of simplified base complexes
are shown. Such complexes expose a simplified topological build-up of surfaces and are used to create global
parameterisations of surfaces of arbitrary genus. For quadrangular discretisation, the restructuring can be
aligned to a user-defined vector field on the surface. The generated geometries are then optimised with regard
to architectural considerations by means of dynamic relaxation.
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This mod aims to overhaul the behaviour of Factorio's vanilla combat robots to make them more useful.
Defender Units will either follow the player or automatically defend the base in case of a biter attack. (toggle-able)
Distractor Units have been renamed to Sentry Units to better describe their purpose. They patrol a small area (configurable) and act as cheap mobile turrets.
Destroyer Units automatically attack biter nests (and worms) which have been discovered by radar and or player.
For balancing purposes the recipes of the robots have been changed. While the overhauled combat robots are cheaper than the vanilla ones, each capsule only spawns one of them. In return, the robots have slightly increased health, can be repaired and have a unlimited lifespan. Furthermore, the units can be mined to get them back.
To make the combat robots more accessible in the early game, all of them are unlocked after researching the first tier of combat-robotics. Each unit type is also limited separately by the maximum robot follower count.
Please let me know if you think the recipes need to be changed.
Enable Vannila Robots = Play with the vanilla robots enabled
Exclude List = Exclude Prototypes from automatically being defended by defender robots
Sentry Radius = The Patrol area of sentry units (Default: 10 tiles)
Base Defender Perimeter = The maximum distance for defender Units to defend the base. (Default: 2500 tiles)
Defender Distance = Social distancing of defender units while following the player (Default: 3 tiles)
Time before Attack = How long destroyer units wait after being created until they start their attack (Default: 10 Seconds)
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Judges in Florida and Kentucky on Thursday moved to block those states from enforcing bans or restrictions on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had established a nationwide right to it.
In Tallahassee, Florida, Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said he would grant a petition from abortion rights groups to temporarily put on hold a state law that would bar abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
In Kentucky, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the state from enforcing a ban passed in 2019 and triggered by the Supreme Court's decision.
Also on Thursday, the Supreme Court threw out lower federal court rulings that had invalidated abortion limits in Arizona, Arkansas and Indiana based on Roe.
With a federal right to abortion no longer guaranteed, abortion rights groups and clinics have rushed to state courts seeking to slow or halt Republican-backed restrictions on the ability of women to terminate pregnancies that are now taking effect or are poised to do so in 22 states.
State courts in Texas, Louisiana and Utah have also temporarily blocked bans in those states since last week, and abortion providers are seeking similar relief in states including Idaho, Ohio, Mississippi and West Virginia.
Florida's 15-week ban, which was signed into law by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in April, was set to take effect on Friday. The law mirrors the Mississippi law at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court case that reversed Roe.
"I do find the state has failed to provide convincing and credible evidence that this law, HB 5, exhibits a compelling state interest to be protected," Judge Cooper said on Thursday..
Several groups, including Planned Parenthood affiliates and Florida abortion clinics, had filed a lawsuit arguing that the state constitution protects women's right to an abortion for up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Cooper said he agreed the statute violates the state constitution's guarantee of a right to privacy, noting that the state Supreme Court has previously ruled the state right is broader than the federal equivalent and includes the right to abortion.
The judge said his decision would only take effect after he signs a written order, which would not be issued on Thursday.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, a Republican, had no immediate comment. An appeal is likely, though, and the case could eventually reach the state's high court, whose composition has changed and now includes all Republican-appointed justices.
Kentucky is one of 13 states that enacted so-called "trigger" laws designed to take effect if Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy research group.
The Kentucky ban has limited medical exceptions permitting abortion only to prevent the death of or serious, permanent injury to a woman.
Abortion services had halted in the state since Friday, when the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to enact new bans.
Two abortion clinics, including a Planned Parenthood affiliate, challenged Kentucky's ban as well as another that bars abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before some women know they are pregnant.
The decision is temporary, though, and a further hearing is scheduled on Wednesday on the clinics' request for an injunction to further block enforcement of the laws.
"We're glad the court recognized the devastation happening in Kentucky and decided to block the commonwealth's cruel abortion bans," Planned Parenthood said in a statement.
State Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, said in a statement that Judge Perry had no basis under Kentucky's constitution to allow the clinics to resume performing abortions.
"We cannot let the same mistake that happened in Roe v. Wade, nearly 50 years ago, to be made again in Kentucky," he said. "We will be seeking relief from this order."
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston and Joseph Ax in Princeton, New Jersey; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
© 2022 Thomson/Reuters. All rights reserved.
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There is a double standard when it comes to what laws drivers support and what laws drivers following, according to a recent survey done by the AMA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Vice-president of government and stakeholder relations Jeff Kasbrick says there were two notable findings.
“One is that Albertans’ perception of their safety on Alberta’s roads and highways has reduced within the past three years and the second is that we noticed this pattern of a disconnect between what we think is acceptable behaviours behind the wheel versus what we actually admit to doing ourselves.”
The survey shows 82 per cent of Albertans polled think speeding is “never acceptable” on residential roads, but 52 per cent admit to doing it. On highways, 18 per cent say speeding is never acceptable, but 91 per cent say they do it. In school zones, 95 per cent say speeding is never acceptable, while 29 per cent admit to doing it.
“A likely reason as to why we’re seeing this disconnect is because we often perceive our driving skill as being better or more superior to others on the road and in fact the study confirmed that,” explains Kasbrick. So the problem becomes this: if we’re all thinking we’re a better driver than the next person that logic begins to fall apart.”
When it comes to people drinking and driving, the survey says nearly half of Albertans see the issue as only a slight threat or not a threat at all to their personal safety. With people using marijuana before driving, the survey says more than half of Albertans are not concerned.
“Road rage is one area where Albertans see it getting worse over the past three years, along with aggressive driving behaviours such as honking or following too closely,” says Kasbrick. “By and large the significant takeaway, with 72 per cent of respondents thinking the behaviour has gotten worse on the roads, is distracted driving.”
According to the survey, compared to three years ago 49 per cent of Albertans believe road rage incidents are worse today, 57 per cent believe aggressive driving is worse, and 72 per cent believe distracted driving is worse. Although the survey says 65 per cent of Albertans rate themselves as more careful than other drivers and 33 per cent rate themselves as similarly careful.
The telephone survey was conducted between April 18th and May 16th with a random sample of 1,800 adult Albertans. The poll is considered accurate within 2.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Written by Angie Mellen, 106.1 The Goat
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雅思口语Part 3: Is it necessary for everyone to learn swimming? 人们有必要学习游泳吗？
Yea, it is quite essential for all of us. Because swimming is a perfect way to help us stay in shape and reduce pressure. Once you keep swimming, then you won’t worry about your health condition, which is quite important for doing anything you wish. I guess Tian Liang, who was a famous swimmer, could be a perfect example for us. He is now an up and coming entrepreneur who spares no time in dealing with those business matters, it wouldn’t be quite easy for him if he got little time doing sports like swimming to keep fit.
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The Fed says it will build a real-time interbank payments system
But it has given itself a leisurely five years to do it
IN SEVERAL countries—Britain, say, or Sweden—bank transfers are more or less instant. The moment your wages leave your employer’s bank account, they arrive in your own, giving you the wherewithal to pay the bills and feed the family. But America is far behind. Transfers can take days to clear, landing many Americans—chiefly those who can least afford additional expense—with hefty overdraft fees or pushing them towards payday lenders charging high interest rates. In an age when millennials can split a drinks tab on their smartphones before leaving the bar, this almost beggars belief.
The Federal Reserve wants to speed things up. On August 5th it said that it would build a faster-payments system, as central banks have in other countries. But not, alas, instantly. FedNow, its proposed service, will not start before 2023. Covering all of America’s 10,000 banks and other depository institutions will take even longer.
In fact, America already has a real-time payments system. The Clearing House (TCH), which is owned by 25 big banks, has been running one since 2017. Between them, says Steve Ledford of TCH, the 16 banks that have so far joined the system hold just over half of the accounts from which payments can be made. TCH is pushing for near ubiquity next year.
So why does the Fed want its own? First, it is not convinced that TCH’s system will ever connect to all the country’s tiny banks. Mr Ledford says that TCH’s plan is to reach smaller banks through the technology companies that provide their computing systems. Second, it fears that without competition prices will be too high, quality too low and innovation too slow. (The TCH has promised not to discriminate against small banks. It charges sending banks a flat 4.5 cents and receiving ones nothing.) Third, it worries that a single service will create a “single point of failure”. Doubling up will make the whole system safer.
Big banks told the Fed, in a recent consultation, not to bother. Even by considering its own system, it was delaying the adoption of faster payments by more banks. Randal Quarles, the Fed’s vice-chair in charge of supervision, evidently agrees. When the five governors on the Fed’s board voted to back FedNow, he was the sole dissenter. He said he saw no “strong justification for the Federal Reserve to…crowd out innovation when viable private-sector alternatives are available.”
Smaller banks, which for years have been urging the Fed to build a system, are delighted to be promised a choice. “The private sector has a product but not the reach,” says Cary Whaley of the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group. “The public sector has all the reach but not yet the product.” (Most of America’s 4,900 community banks have assets of less than $1bn; the country’s biggest lenders weigh in at $2trn-plus.)
Aaron Klein of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington, argues that the Fed has not gone far enough. Five years is too long to get its new system up and running, he says. Meanwhile, the banks will still be pulling in overdraft fees. He adds that the Fed should also have obliged banks to let customers draw funds as soon as they are deposited.
Last month two Democratic senators, Chris Van Hollen and Elizabeth Warren, who is also a candidate for the presidency in 2020, introduced a bill that would amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act of 1987 to force banks to do just that. Time is money, goes the adage. That’s even more true for struggling Americans than for rich ones. ■
Correction: The original version of this article described Chris Van Hollen as a congressman. He is in fact a senator from Maryland.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Overdue"
Finance & economics August 10th 2019
- The trade war escalates, and the fog of war descends
- How yuan-dollar became the world’s most closely watched asset price
- The surprising departure of HSBC’s chief executive
- The Fed says it will build a real-time interbank payments system
- As yields turn negative, investors are having to pay for safety
- Core elements of the global banking industry are moving to India
- Prices for many goods do not move the way economists think they should
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Help for Seniors: Your Guide to Assistance Programs & Services
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Did you know there are literally thousands of programs that provide help for seniors in America? Whether you are struggling with the cost of housing or home repairs, looking for ways to save on prescriptions or hearing aids, or seeking affordable legal guidance, you can probably find senior citizens assistance programs that are designed to address needs like yours. In fact, the range of available services is so vast that the biggest challenge might be identifying the options that work best for your particular situation.
A good starting point in any search for senior assistance options is to check with your local Area Agency on Aging or use the online Eldercare Locator provided by the U.S. Administration on Aging. Either method can direct you to a host of services for older adults in your area. The directory of resources at the end of this article includes many more sites that can help you find the benefits and programs that are most applicable to you.
The following sections provide information on the many different resources that are available to help older adults meet their needs and improve their quality of life. Check out specific information about 11 different topics, or use the directory of resources to track down additional assistance.
Income and Tax Help for Seniors
According to the National Council on Aging, more than 15 million Americans aged 65+ live below the federal poverty line. There are also millions of other seniors with low or moderate incomes who are technically above the poverty line but still struggle to pay their bills each month. Fortunately, there are programs that can help older adults who are facing income or tax challenges.
Social Security is a federal government insurance program that offers a source of income to those who qualify. In addition to retirement income, the program also offers death and survivorship benefits as well as help for seniors with disabilities.
Social Security is funded by Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes that come off of most workers' paychecks. While you work, you pay a percentage of your income to support the program. When you retire, the maximum amount of benefit you receive is calculated based on the average of the 35 years in which you earned the most income.
For each year you work, you earn credits toward your eligibility for benefits. You get one credit for every $1,300 you earn, to a maximum of four credits per year. In most cases, you need 40 credits to be eligible for benefits, which means you need to have worked for at least 10 years. However, spouses can receive benefits even if they have not met that threshold.
You can begin receiving retirement benefits between ages 62 and 70. The longer you wait to apply for benefits, the more you will be entitled to receive. It's important to note that the amount you initially receive becomes the base for the amount you will continue to receive for the rest of your life.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
The Supplemental Security Income is a government assistance program that provides help for low-income seniors in the form of monthly cash payouts to cover basic costs related to food, shelter, and clothing. SSI benefits provide help for blind seniors, disabled seniors, and those over 65 who have limited income and resources. As of January 2018, the maximum monthly payout under SSI will be $750 for an individual and $1,125 for a couple.
The SSI program is run by the Social Security Administration, and when you apply for SSI you are also applying for Social Security benefits. However, SSI is actually a separate program and is not funded by Social Security taxes. That means, unlike Social Security benefits, SSI benefits are not based on your work history.
State Supplemental Income Program
Additional financial help for seniors with low income is available in many areas. Most states (except for North Dakota, Arizona, Mississippi, and West Virginia) provide supplemental payments to people receiving SSI benefits. Each state has its own rules about who is eligible and how much they are entitled to receive. Supplement amounts often depend on a person's marital status and whether he or she is living independently, receiving home care, or residing in a nursing home or assisted living facility.
In some states, the supplemental program is run by the federal Social Security Administration, so an application for SSI benefits is also an application for the state supplement. Other states have their own agencies that run the supplemental program, which means you'll have to apply directly with that agency in order to receive the additional benefit.
Some provisions of the federal tax code provide special benefits for senior citizens. For instance, you qualify for a higher standard deduction amount if you are 65 or older and you don't itemize deductions. Also, if you're over 65 or you retired on permanent disability, you may be able to claim the Credit for the Elderly or Disabled, which can lower the amount of tax you have to pay. (Note that your income must be within a certain limit.) The credit ranges from $3,750 to $7,500.
In many states, senior or disabled homeowners can qualify for a property tax discount, exemption, or deferral. Age and income requirements vary widely between jurisdictions, as do the specific benefits available, so check with your county or state tax division to see what applies in your area.
There are also a couple of programs that offer free tax help for seniors. People aged 60 or older can get no-charge tax advice from IRS-trained volunteers through the Tax Counseling for the Elderly program. These volunteers can help answer questions related to senior-specific issues such as pensions and retirement benefits. And older taxpayers who need help with actually putting their tax returns together can take advantage of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which offers free tax-prep services.
Medicare and Prescription Help for Seniors
Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people 65 or older, those who are disabled, or those who have end-stage renal disease. It does not pay the full cost of services; you will still have deductibles and copayments. Medicare has four parts:
It is possible to receive Medicare benefits if you are under 65. For instance, you can get Part A for free if you are under 65 but have been receiving Social Security disability benefits for at least two years. And if you receive Social Security benefits for at least four months before becoming eligible for Medicare, you are automatically enrolled in Part A (which you get for free) and Part B (which you can opt to either keep or refuse).
But what if you can't afford the premiums and other costs associated with Medicare? Help for seniors with low incomes is available through a number of programs:
If you have Medicaid, or if you qualify for the QMB, SLMB, or QI programs, you automatically qualify for the Extra Help program that provides prescription help for seniors on Medicare. Under this program, depending on your resources and income level, you may get either full or partial help with the cost of your medications.
Other ways to get help with prescription drug costs
Hearing Aid Help for Seniors
According to a 2016 study in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, hearing loss affects more than 60 percent of adults over age 70, yet only 20 percent of adults who need hearing aids actually use them. Price is the most common roadblock: The devices can cost thousands of dollars each, and most seniors need two of them. But there are ways to get help with those costs.
While original Medicare (i.e., Parts A and B) does not cover hearing aids or the exams required to fit them, some Medicare Advantage plans do, so talk to your insurance provider. In some states, Medicaid will also pay for hearing aids.
Lions Clubs across the U.S. offer the Affordable Hearing Aid Project, which helps seniors with limited incomes access hearing aids that they would otherwise be unable to afford. The program also arranges for the fitting and follow-up care. Each club has its own income guidelines for determining who qualifies, so check around.
The National Hearing Aid Project supplies hearing aids to low-income U.S. residents who lack insurance coverage for the devices. Qualified individuals receive a hearing assessment, a fitting, and a follow-up. Those who receive hearing aids through the program are asked to share their story on a personal fundraising page in order to encourage others to donate to the program.
Hear Now is a national program run by the Starkey Hearing Foundation that helps low-income seniors acquire digital hearing aids. There is a fee of $125 per hearing aid for those who meet the income requirements. (The Hear Now Program is currently suspended due to COVID-19. Applications are not currently accepted.)
Help America Hear provides hearing aids to financially challenged Americans who have exhausted all other resources. Qualified recipients pay an application fee per hearing aid. The fee amount depends on income level, and the hearing assessment is not covered.
The Miracle-Ear Foundation is another possible source of hearing aids for seniors who have significantly limited financial resources. The program has a nonrefundable application fee of $150; if you are accepted, there are no further costs.
Another option is to contact hearing aid manufacturers to ask about participating in a clinical trial. Trial participants generally get to keep the products they test.
Mobility Aid Help for Seniors
Being able to move around inside your home or out in your community is essential for maintaining independence. Older adults are increasingly relying on devices like canes, walkers, and motorized scooters to help them stay mobile. In fact, according to a study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, around a quarter of Americans over age 65 use mobility aids, and a third of those use more than one type of device.
Canes and walkers are relatively inexpensive, ranging from about $15 for a basic cane to $150 for a deluxe rollator walker. Manual wheelchairs can cost anywhere from $100 to $750. And electric scooters and power wheelchairs typically cost well over $1,000.
Medicare Part B can help cover the cost of mobility aids if a qualified healthcare provider determines that such items are medically necessary for you to move around inside your home. So, for instance, if you have a health condition that impairs your mobility within your home, and that condition can't be helped with a cane or a walker, you may be approved for a manual wheelchair. If you lack the strength to operate a manual wheelchair, you may receive approval for an electric scooter.
If your claim is approved, Medicare will cover 80 percent of the cost. If you have supplemental insurance, the other 20 percent may be covered as well.
Dental Help for Seniors
Taking proper care of teeth and gums is a key part of staying healthy. Research has shown that poor oral health can increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and pneumonia. Aging adults are increasingly prone to a range of dental problems, from dry mouth and root decay to tooth loss and oral cancer. Such issues can negatively affect seniors' quality of life.
The good news is that dental help for low-income seniors is available. Most states provide emergency dental benefits through their Medicaid programs, and some even provide comprehensive coverage. (Original Medicare does not cover routine senior dental care such as exams, cleanings, and fillings, though some Medicare Advantage plans do provide dental benefits.)
Your local Area Agency on Aging office, public health department, or state dental association may be able to point you toward free dental programs for seniors in your region. Dental schools with student clinics can be another good source of reduced-cost dental care.
Free or low-cost clinics can be found in many states. Some have income limit requirements, but many will accept patients of any income level, though you may be charged a fee relative to what you can afford. You can search for clinics in your area through NeedyMeds.
The Donated Dental Services program from the Dental Lifeline Network provides free help for seniors who can't afford dental treatment and are ineligible for state assistance. The program has thousands of dentists across the country volunteering to help seniors with their oral care needs. You may qualify if you are over 65, disabled, or medically fragile.
Senior Housing Assistance and Rental Help
Finding affordable housing can be a major challenge for older Americans. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offers a number of programs that provide rent help for seniors and are designed to help low-income people secure decent and safe housing.
It's important to note that demand for government-assisted housing far outstrips supply. Wait lists of two to five years or more are not uncommon, so try to plan ahead as far as possible.
Is your mortgage owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac? If so, one possibility for senior citizen mortgage assistance is either Fannie Mae's High Loan-to-Value Refinance Option or Freddie Mac's Enhanced Relief Refinance Mortgage. If you don't have much equity in your home and you owe as much or more on your mortgage than your home is currently worth, you may be able to refinance under one of these programs and get a lower interest rate or a shorter-term loan. To qualify, you must be current on your payments, and your loan-to-value ratio must meet a minimum threshold.
A reverse mortgage can provide financial help for seniors on fixed incomes or limited incomes who have built up significant equity in their homes. With a reverse mortgage, you borrow against the value of your home and receive either a one-time sum or a series of monthly payments. You retain ownership of the home and can use the money for any expenses; you can even use it to pay the remaining balance on your traditional mortgage. The loan does not have to be repaid until you move out or pass away. Keep in mind that the loan does become due if you live anywhere else, such as in a care facility, for a 12-month period. You have to be at least 62 to qualify for a reverse mortgage.
Help for Seniors With Home Repairs, Improvements, and Modifications
The vast majority of seniors want to stay in their own homes as long as possible. But every home needs regular maintenance and upkeep, and as people age they may require adaptations in their homes to accommodate their changing needs. Finding the money for changes and repairs can be challenging, but there are many different senior assistance programs that can help.
Local and state programs
Every state has at least one Area Agency on Aging (AAA) office that can help older residents with a range of needs, including home modifications and repairs. The office should be able to help you find services that may be offered for free or on a sliding scale; they could include anything from replacing roofs and hot water tanks to installing wheelchair ramps and grab bars. You must be at least 60 years old to be eligible; income limits also apply.
Charities and non-profit organizations often provide free or low-cost home repair services to seniors. You may also be able to find volunteer home repair services in your area through a simple Internet search.
Loans, grants, and waivers
Another option is to get a federally insured loan (known as a Title I loan) to help with the cost of repairs and modifications. These low-interest loans are offered by private banks and lenders but insured by the Federal Housing Administration, making them more accessible to people who might not otherwise qualify for credit.
Additional help for seniors' home repairs is available through the federal government's Very Low-Income Housing Repair Program (also known as Section 504). The program provides loans of up to $20,000 (which must be repaid) and grants of up to $7,500 (which do not need to be repaid) to fix safety and health hazards in the homes of very low-income seniors. To qualify, you must be over age 62, have an income below a certain limit, live in an eligible area, and be unable to get affordable credit anywhere else.
Home modification help for disabled seniors who served in the armed forces is also available. Disabled veterans may qualify for special grants to cover the cost of home modifications that are deemed to be medically necessary. For instance, the Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) grant can be used to pay for things like handrails and roll-in showers. The disability doesn't have to be service-related, but a Veterans Affairs doctor must stipulate that the modification is necessary.
In many states, a low-income senior who qualifies for Medicaid can get Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers that cover the cost of home modifications that boost the person's ability to live independently. (Note that Medicare does not pay for home modifications, though in some cases it will pay for the services of an occupational therapist who can assess a home and decide what changes are needed.)
Home improvement help
Seniors can also get help with home improvements that enable them to save on utility costs. The Weatherization Assistance Program helps low-income seniors lower their bills by making their homes more energy efficient. And the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is designed to help people deal with the costs related to heating, cooling, and weatherizing their homes. LIHEAP benefits differ by state: Some only provide help with monthly energy bills, while others also allow qualified participants to use the funds to fix things like leaky windows or broken air conditioners. Be sure to check what's available in your area.
In-Home Help for Seniors
Household chores like cooking and cleaning get increasingly challenging as people get older, and even basic tasks like bathing, dressing, or using the toilet can become problematic. Household help for seniors living alone or with others can keep older adults in familiar surroundings and allow them to maintain their independence for as long as possible.
Home care services can provide the level of care that seniors need to remain safe and comfortable in their own homes. Older adults who need assistance getting to appointments, attending to personal hygiene, or remembering to take medications can hire a provider to help serve those needs.
The Home Care Association of America offers a searchable directory of caregivers across the U.S. who provide in-home housekeeping, meal preparation, and personal care services (which could include help with dressing, bathing, or toileting). Costs depend on the type of service required.
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
PACE is a Medicare program that provides community-based care and services to seniors over 55 who qualify for care at the nursing home level. It covers home health care, meals, prescription drugs, dental care, hospital visits, transportation, and more. The vast majority of participants are able to continue living in their own communities.
Participants must be enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid and must live in one of the PACE service areas, which are currently spread across 31 states. Those who are Medicaid-eligible do not pay a monthly premium; those who don't have Medicaid pay a monthly premium but don't have copayments or deductibles.
Live-in help for seniors who require around-the-clock care is also available and can be an appealing alternative to assisted living. Some caregivers live in the senior's home full time and do not maintain a separate residence; others keep a home of their own and alternate shifts at the senior's home with a second caregiver.
Live-in caregivers can provide companionship and help with personal needs like toileting and dressing. They typically prepare meals, run errands, do laundry, perform light housekeeping, and drive the senior to and from doctor's appointments and social activities.
Costs vary widely depending on the type of services that are needed. Seniors who are able to give their caregiver free room and board and access to a vehicle can reduce the amount they need to pay in wages.
Downsizing Help for Seniors
Moving can be a stressful experience at any time, but when you're an older adult who is moving into a smaller residence, it can be especially daunting. Many seniors haven't moved in 40 or 50 years; sorting through decades of accumulated possessions and deciding what to do with each and every item can be both a major challenge and an emotional ordeal.
Older adults and their families can get help with the process from downsizing experts known as senior move managers or senior relocation specialists. Services vary, but they typically include measuring the new space and developing a floor plan, sorting and organizing belongings, arranging for the sale or donation of unwanted items, scheduling movers, and unpacking in the new home. Some will help with downsizing the clutter in a home even if the senior isn't actually moving.
Some of these service providers offer packages at a fixed price, but most charge by the hour. Fees range from $40 to $125 per hour depending on the specific services and the geographic location. Always ask for a written estimate and be sure you understand exactly what you are paying for.
The National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) is a non-profit organization that requires its members to carry liability insurance and abide by a professional code of ethics. You can search for a NASMM member in your area and even get a list of questions to ask a possible service provider.
Another option is to look for a Certified Relocation & Transition Specialist (CRTS). This designation is offered under the auspices of the National Certification Board for Alzheimer and Aging Care and recognizes professionals in senior move management and transition services.
Legal Help for Seniors
It's critical for seniors to be able to access legal guidance. Many older Americans require professional help with issues like estate planning, power of attorney directives, foreclosures or evictions, identity theft, and age discrimination. But the costs involved can be prohibitive to many seniors living on fixed incomes. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to get affordable legal assistance.
The Legal Services Corporation distributes federal grants to legal aid organizations that provide civil legal services to low-income Americans of any age. Legal aid practices typically focus on cases involving housing, discrimination, and denial of government benefits. Income limits vary among different communities; be sure to check the details in your area.
Seniors who run into legal issues with their pensions or retirement savings plans can get no-charge assistance from the Pension Counseling and Information Program offered by the U.S. Administration on Aging. Counselors can explain pension laws, track down and claim benefits that have been denied, and provide referrals to other professionals as needed. Services are available to anyone, regardless of age or income.
In many states, free legal services are available through various non-profit organizations. They can help those in the 60-plus population and handle many types of cases, from guardianship and elder abuse to Medicaid issues and debt collections.
Technology Help for Seniors
Many seniors are insecure about their technological prowess. In fact, in a Pew Research Center survey, only 26 percent of Internet users over age 65 said they felt very confident when it came to using smartphones and computers. And almost three-quarters of the 65-plus crowd said they needed other people to show them how to use a new electronic device. But there are plenty of ways that seniors can expand their technological skills.
SeniorNet provides computer help for seniors over 55. It's a non-profit organization that offers computer and Internet training in learning centers all over the country. Courses cover topics like how to use tablets, send email, download applications, and take digital photos. A yearly membership fee is required.
TechBoomers is a free website that teaches older adults how to navigate and use popular sites related to education, shopping, entertainment, and social media. Tutorials are aimed at those with basic computer skills.
Free technology training workshops are also available from AARP TEK. Topics focus on the use of smartphones and tablets. You don't have to be an AARP member to take advantage of these workshops; they are open to everyone.
An Essential Directory of Helpful Resources for Seniors
These websites can help older adults navigate the thousands of assistance options that are available:
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Baled small squares at 14-18 % moisture. Stacked and several days later reads were in the 20’s. Never had this happen before. If these bales are sweating, how long will it take and will the moisture ever read back to the original read. Thanks.
It is a common occurrence, especially when you put up really good hay. I spend more energy on heat from the bales which usually is not noticeable after 4 or 5 days. I am talking about heat above ambient temp by 10-15 degrees, not hot bales. I usually set asi 3-4 of th heaviest bales and put them where they are easy to access and roll to check the confined surface temperatures.
as to ho long it will take, so many variables but there are numerous threads on HT on this topic
As TX Jim says yes it’s normal. I put some up this year at 15-17 % and the next day it was in the low 20’s. I told myself if I put it up 18% or less just quit looking at it. It will drive you crazy if you keep checking it. If you bale when temps are near 100 then expect the hay to be 100 for several days. I have had hay actually drop to below ambient temp several days after baling. There seems to be a lot going on in a bale that can’t be explained.
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The problem discussed in the article “The Role of Organisational Commitment in the Analysis of Resistance to Change: Co-Predictor and Moderator Effects,” written by Peccei, Giangreco, and Sebastiano, is employees’ resistance to change (RTC). The authors point out that organizations need to be ready to implement changes in their business process in order to function successfully and efficiently. Nevertheless, employees’ resistance to change interferes with this capacity to change. Two factors contribute to RTC: whether employees perceive the change as beneficial or detrimental and how the employees are involved in the process of change.
The authors also stress the importance of organizational commitment. Research covering the impact of organizational commitment on employee attitudes is scarce. The authors approach the problem by researching the integration of organizational commitment (OC) in RTC theory and examining whether it can be a potential antecedent of resistance or a moderator between perceived benefits and RTC.
The authors present a set of five hypotheses that focus on the perceived benefits of change (PBC), attitudes toward change (ATC), organizational commitment, and involvement in the change process (IIC). The first hypothesis states that PBC will be positively related to ATC, IIC will be positively related to ATC, and OC will be positively related to ATC; in addition, ATC will be negatively related to RTC, and a negative relationship between PBC and RTC, as well as OC and RTC, will be established. The second hypothesis states that OC will moderate the relationship between PBC and ATC; that is to say, the positive relationship between PBC and ATC will strengthen at higher levels of OC.
The third hypothesis states OC will moderate the relationship between IIC and ATC (the positive relationship between these two units strengthens at higher levels of OC). The fourth hypothesis states OC will moderate the relationship between ATC and RTC (the negative relationship between these two units strengthens at higher levels of OC). The fifth hypothesis states OC will moderate the relationship between PBC and RTC (the negative relationship strengthens at higher levels of OC).
The Need for the Study
The authors point out that there is limited research about the factors that affect RTC, although multiple studies have been dedicated to antecedents of RTC. The problem, therefore, is that research can indicate or predict what influences RTC in employees but lacks any systematic approach to the issue. Furthermore, theoretical models are rarely tested in such research studies, which substantially limits the understanding of RTC and the factors that either enhance or diminish it. Since most companies need to be ready to implement changes in their business in order to function effectively, understanding RTC is directly linked to the companies’ ability to maintain a competitive advantage. The effects of organizational commitment on employees also remain under-researched. OC is not perceived as an antecedent in the majority of the studies.
The research was conducted within an Italian national electricity company (ENEL), which underwent a process of transformation in 1995 that led to a reduction in middle managers. The authors collected the data using survey questionnaires. With the help of the organization’s HR Department, the authors distributed questionnaires to a random sample of middle managers (at headquarters and in the peripheral network). Of all middle managers in the company (6,000), 359 middle managers received the questionnaire; 322 employees returned the questionnaires to the authors of the study. The response rate was approximately 90 percent.
Since the research was conducted in 1997, the authors have been able to observe the changes in the company’s structure and the work of middle managers. These conditions allowed them to better understand the employees’ resistance to change.
Literature Review: Summary
The literature reviewed in the study mostly focuses on the following concepts: RTC, change, organizational commitment, perceived benefits of change, involvement in the change process, and attitude toward change. The authors refer to Giangreco and Peccei (1812), who used the classic RTC model in their research to understand the nature and antecedents of RTC in middle managers in Italy, which makes this work somewhat similar to the analyzed study. At the same time, the classic RTC model was derived from other research studies, for example, Coch and French (512), Lawrence (49), and others.
The key factors (how employees see change and how they are involved in it) are also taken from previous studies conducted by Lawrence (49), Kotter and Schlesinger (106), and others. The authors describe the results of the study conducted by Giangreco and Peccei (1812), who state that RTC negatively relates to PBC and IIC. Furthermore, the impact of PBC and IIC on RTC was mediated by the managers’ ATC. Thus, those managers who thought that the benefits outweighed the costs and took part in the change were more likely to perceive these changes positively.
The authors discuss the two studies that explicitly investigate the OC’s influence on employees’ ATC and RTC. Iverson (122) and Herscovitch and Meyer (765) found that OC positively related to improved employee attitude and response to change. Nevertheless, evidence that could support such statements remained limited, which is why the authors decided to conduct a systematic study. Fedor et al. (3) also stated that very few studies actually examined employees’ reactions to both change and the organization.
Assumptions, Limitations, and Future Research
OC had a significant effect on RTC, but its moderating effect in relation to RTC was not proven by the study. A process of change can create new opportunities for management, as well, and enhance OC among the employees of an organization. Employees need to be involved in the process of change; this way, their attachment to the company will be reinforced.
The limitations of the study are as follows: Its design is cross-sectional and precludes the systematic testing of causal relations between the variables of the study. Self-reports could produce bias related to socially desirable answers. Lastly, the sample consisted of a single occupational group (one company); thus, the generalizability of the results remains doubtful.
According to the authors, future research should focus on testing various models and using longitudinal data that should be collected during different periods of time in different organizations.
The study has found that the OC, PBC, and IIC are important co-predictors of resistance to change. The authors point out that the findings of the study contribute to previous research by providing the following claim: Employees’ ATC is a mediating mechanism that can help OC reduce resistance to change. The role of OC should not be ignored in the analysis of RTC because otherwise, the influence of PBC and IIC can be overestimated. At the same time, the authors also conclude that PBC and IIC can benefit employee commitment to the organization. Thus, the role of OC in reducing resistance to change is more dynamic and complex compared to the previous assumptions expressed in several studies. High levels of OC have the potential to contribute to the reduction of RTC.
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Critique of the Article
The study examines the relations between RTC and OC, and how these relations can negatively or positively influence employees’ RTC and commitment to the organization. The study’s strength is its aim to understand the role of OC as a moderator of RTC; previous studies rarely chose such an approach or did not explicitly examine the relationships between RTC and OC. Another strength of the study is its sample size. It is relatively large and random, and it includes managers both from the headquarters of the company and those who work within the peripheral network. Thus, the sample size is not completely homogenous.
The authors’ decision to test various alternative models of OC should also be seen as one of the study’s strengths since previous studies mostly examined OC as an outcome of the response to change. The survey questionnaire provided to the employees guaranteed anonymous answers and decreased the chance of emerging interpretation bias as this phenomenon happens during open-question interviews. The authors used a substantial variety of studies for their literature review; their critique of the studies was solid and to the point. Furthermore, the authors also conducted research during a major shift in the company, which allowed them to test their hypothesis “in the field” and collect more relevant answers. The multiple hypotheses used by the authors also contributed to the study’s fidelity.
At the same time, the study had several limitations and weaknesses. First, as the authors note, the research was conducted in 1997, but the study was published in 2011, more than ten years after the research had ended. It is possible that the research’s findings were obsolete by the time the study was published. The study was conducted within one Italian organization; therefore, it is very likely that the findings of the study can only specifically relate to the RTC and OC in the mentioned organization and cannot be generalized.
The sample size consisted of middle managers only, all from the same organization and same state, which again interferes with the study’s generalizability. Lastly, the authors relied heavily on a study conducted by other Italian researchers; it is reasonable to assume that the results of such a study would be different in France, Germany, or any other European or non-European state.
Another weakness of the study is its cross-sectional design. Such designs, although often used in social science, are sometimes unable to include additional variables to examine the issue more deeply. Thus, the previous factors that could influence the relationships between RTC and OC are not examined.
The self-reports used in the study also present a danger to the study’s fidelity. As already mentioned by the authors, there is a chance of possible bias among the employees because some of the respondents could have chosen “socially desirable” answers. Furthermore, since the answers were subjective, they could also depend on an individual’s mood, health status, work experience, and relationships with colleagues and top managers/chairpersons. Some of the employees might have decided not to express disagreement or might have chosen to “smooth” some of the answers. Nevertheless, the study provided valuable information about the role of OC in RTC and significantly contributed to the research of RTC despite its weaknesses.
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- Thailand's Department of Industrial Works (DIW) has temporarily halted imports of plastic and electronic scrap, according to ThaiVisa and others.
- Although the ban is temporary, DIW is working toward a long-term measure to indefinitely ban plastic scrap and e-scrap.
- Police have raided a number of facilities during the past month on suspicion that they illegally imported e-scrap, and DIW will work with local authorities to inspect all of the country's more than 2,200 recycling facilities.
Thai government officials say the scrap import crackdown is in response to public outcry over deteriorating environmental conditions. Essentially, that's a trickle-down effect from China's scrap imports ban because Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries now have become so-called "dumping grounds" for the world's scrap. Estimates point to a twofold increase of scrap flowing into Thailand in the months following China's ban.
Thailand is particularly concerned about e-scrap because of the potential health risks related to recovered items that contain hazardous materials including lead, mercury and cadmium. The recycling facility raids primarily relate to e-scrap rather than other types of scrap, and at least one occurred after complaints from residents about a foul smell emanating from the facility.
Thai enforcement authorities report ongoing problems with e-scrap recyclers importing materials that aren't allowed. In addition to potentially creating a human health and safety risk, the outlawed materials can pose environmental dangers. The illicitly imported materials sometimes are forwarded to other facilities that improperly dispose of hazardous materials contained within the e-scrap. The newly promised recycling facility inspections will be an additional measure to track down illegal e-scrap as well as plastics.
Thai authorities have been mulling this type of ban for a while as an environmental measure. But the timing certainly indicates it mainly stems from increased attention to waste-related environmental concerns following China's recyclable materials ban.
The influx of scrap materials to other Southeast Asian countries since China's ban has become overwhelming because those countries only have a fraction of China's capacity to accept such items. Vietnam directly stated that it decided to stop accepting scrap plastic imports last month due to a backlog of plastic scrap-filled containers at its main port. Indonesia was less forthcoming about the exact reasoning behind its new 100% pre-shipment inspections on recovered fiber imports, but the widely understood assumption is that it's also in response to overcapacity related to China's materials ban.
A recent Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) release reiterated China's plan to cease waste and scrap imports by the end of 2020, adding, "BIR predicts further changes to Chinese standards and laws in order to affect its recycled raw material needs." With more action anticipated from China, other Southeast Asian countries likely will follow suit with additional regulatory measures in the coming months.
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5 Things To Know About Kemi Badenoch, Who Could Eventually Be Britain’s First Black Prime Minister
After UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced he was stepping aside after multiple scandals rocked his government, the race has been on to find a new candidate to lead his Conservative Party and serve as prime minister. Among the many candidates who emerged to take the top spot, a surprising favorite for many was a new face for British and Americans alike: Kemi Badenoch, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP). Though she ended up finishing fourth in the current competition for Conservative Party leader, she’s made a name for herself that positions her well to potentially become Britain’s first Black leader. Here are five things to know about her.
She has roots in the UK, Nigeria and the U.S.
Badenoch was born in 1980 in the Wimbledon section of London to parents from Nigeria. Her parents are doctors, and her mother is also a university professor. After spending time in Nigeria and the U.S., Badenoch and her family returned to the UK when she was 16. Badenoch went on to study computer science and law — she used her computer science background in jobs in banking and for the Spectator news magazine.
She was in charge of fighting discrimination in the UK
After being elected as a member of parliament in 2019, Badenoch worked her way up in government and became minister for equalities under Prime Minister Johnson. This role put her in charge of promoting gender and racial equality in the country. Despite her position and identity as a Black woman, Badenoch has criticized identity politics and critical race theory. She was criticized by members of the Black community in Britain for downplaying the existence of structural racism in her role as equalities minister. Britain’s only Black newspaper once called her the “minister for gaslighting” for her stances on racism.
She’s a conservative in every sense of the word
Race is not the only issue on which Badenoch holds conservative views. She has been an enthusiastic supporter of Brexit, the process by which the UK left the European Union. Brexit was largely driven by opposition among British conservatives to immigration into the UK from the EU and other countries. Badenoch also opposes allowing trans people to self-identify their gender and is against gender-neutral public bathrooms, though she claims some of her comments on the issues were taken out of context.
She became a conservative star this month
Before Johnson’s resignation, Badenoch was not a household name in Britain, but the current leadership race has raised her status significantly. Several opinion polls put her at or near the top of the Conservative leadership race, and she was characterized as a rising star within the party. The fascist British First party endorsed her as the anti-woke candidate for leader. She also gained the backing of dozens of current MPs, eventually finishing fourth in the leadership race — the top three candidates continue to campaign this week.
Her loss in the current leadership race may benefit her in the long run
As the contest continues, the candidates have increasingly engaged in mudslinging that many see as damaging to all the candidates. Whoever ends up becoming Conservative Party leader and prime minister will inherit a mess left by Johnson and a Conservative Party seen as hypocrites and out of touch. Johnson and various other Conservative politicians have been implicated in many scandals, including multiple sexual harassment and assault allegations as well as engaging in free-flowing parties even as they enforced very strict COVID lockdown policies on the rest of the country during the height of the pandemic. With this baggage, the next prime minister may end up too tainted by their predecessor to save the party’s reputation.
By avoiding attachment to this mess, Badenoch is well-positioned to reemerge as a viable alternative. With a divided Conservative Party and opposition from the rival Labour Party, British politics will be highly competitive for years to come. Based on her performance this month, Badenoch could end up being a major political force for years to come.
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The aplastic crisis refers to a drastic deterioration in the formation of red blood cells (erythrocytes) as part of haemolytic anemia. The cause of this crisis is usually the coincidence of chronic hemolytic anemia with a ringlet infection. This critical condition can only be overcome with a blood transfusion.
The cause of an aplastic crisis is always an infection with viruses that directly inhibit the production of erythrocytes.
The aplastic crisis is a rare complication of certain viral infections. In particular, the virus, which is responsible for rubella, triggers an aplastic crisis under certain conditions. This is parvovirus B19. In addition to the viral infection, chronic haemolytic anemia is a prerequisite for this crisis.
In the context of hemolytic anemia, there is a rapid breakdown of red blood cells (hemolysis) due to various causes. The viruses ultimately responsible for triggering the aplastic crisis also prevent the formation of new blood cells from the stem cells of the bone marrow. As a result, the body is threatened with the short-term breakdown of all erythrocytes without their formation.
The critical reduction in erythrocytes is life-threatening because the oxygen supply to the organism is highly endangered. The prognosis depends on the severity of the deficiency in erythrocytes. The word "aplastic" means absent or nonexistent. The term "aplastic crisis" is derived from this and is generally characterized by the sudden reduction in red blood cells in an already existing chronic hemolytic anemia.
The cause of an aplastic crisis is always an infection with viruses that directly inhibit the production of erythrocytes. Mostly it is the parvovirus B19. Another prerequisite, as already mentioned, is the presence of chronic hemolytic anemia. Parvovirus B19 causes the normally harmless red rubella infection.
Since an infection with Parvovirus B19 results in lifelong immunity, children are preferably affected because the infection rate is high in children. Then as adults they are immune. But adults who did not suffer from rubella as children can still be infected with this virus.
The virus itself infects the progenitor cells of the erythrocytes and thereby interferes with the conversion of these stem cells into mature red blood cells. An infection with parvovirus B19 is therefore associated with temporary anemia, because mature erythrocytes always die during the time in which no erythrocytes are formed. This is a normal process that happens all the time. The virus only becomes a danger in people who already suffer from chronic hemolytic anemia.
In hemolytic anemia, there is an increased breakdown of red blood cells from the outset. If both processes occur together, a dangerous shortage of erythrocytes can develop, which is often fatal. Rubella virus infection alone does not usually cause severe anemia. Before the normal breakdown of erythrocytes leads to a threatening erythrocyte deficiency, the infection is already subsiding and the production of red blood cells starts again.
Chronic hemolytic anemia can have many causes.Often these are genetically caused blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia, spheroid cell anemia, thalassemia, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria or glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (favism). But also autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system is directed against the body's own erythrocytes, can trigger hemolytic anemia.
Other causes can be drug poisoning or other rare diseases. The aplastic crisis is thus both a possible complication of the infection with parvovirus B19 and one of the chronic hemolytic anemia, which only occurs when both conditions are present at the same time.
In general, a rubble infection is either symptom-free or shows a flu-like appearance without a rash or only a rash without further health problems. In people with chronic hemolytic anemia, the infection does not have a rash.
Instead, the symptoms of an aplastic crisis appear quickly. The patient quickly becomes pale and increasingly tired. Other symptoms are fever, headache, stomach pain, or vomiting. Without treatment, there is severe oxygen deficiency with the risk of cardiovascular collapse.
The diagnosis of an aplastic crisis is first made on the basis of the symptoms occurring in the context of a ringlet infection. In most cases, hemolytic anemia is also known. If there is still an infection with parvovirus B19, the diagnosis of the aplastic crisis can be made as soon as the typical symptoms appear. Laboratory tests show a sharp drop in the hemoglobin concentration to 3 to 4 g / dl within a few days.
Reticulocytes are almost completely absent. These are still young, immature erythrocytes that should have just formed from their precursor cells. This absence suggests that erythrocyte formation is not taking place. Less often, the concentration of thrombocytes (blood platelets) and neutrophils (white blood cells) is decreased.
The aplastic crisis presupposes chronic hemolytic anemia and is caused by the rapid deterioration in the formation of red blood cells. The symptom is associated with a viral infection and represents an extreme situation for those affected. The aplastic crisis primarily affects children of all ages.
The symptom can also break out in adults who have no immunity, in particular against rubella. The crisis is triggered by viruses that attack the stem cells of the bone marrow directly and stop the entire formation of blood cells from there. The life-threatening condition endangers the oxygen supply to the organism. The consequences of complications are fatal and can lead to death if medical help is not taken in good time.
As a rule, the symptom is paleness, tiredness, bulging pain, vomiting and headache accompanied by a fever. The outbreak of an aplastic crisis is particularly dangerous in children with CDA. The spontaneous drop in highly concentrated red blood pigment sets in motion an immediate anemia.
Cardiovascular failure occurs. Parents who do not recognize the signs of illness or misinterpret them put the child in mortal danger. It belongs immediately to the emergency room, where a blood transfusion is initiated. The transfusion is uncomplicated and supports the weakened body in fighting the virus. CDA patients should always avoid contact with people infected with the virus.
If an aplastic crisis is suspected, a doctor should be consulted immediately. If the typical symptoms (flu-like symptoms, stomach pain, fever) are noticed, a visit to a doctor is recommended for further clarification. A medical diagnosis of the underlying disease makes sense solely for reasons of the risk of infection. Therefore, if there are signs of an aplastic crisis, you should always speak to your family doctor or pediatrician.
A specific suspicion, for example if the symptoms are directly related to a viral infection, drug abuse or a long medical history, requires immediate medical clarification. If there are severe symptoms such as paleness, tiredness, severe nausea or vomiting, an ambulance must be called immediately. Infants and young children should be taken to the nearest emergency room immediately if there are signs of an aplastic crisis. This is particularly recommended if you have pre-existing diseases of the immune system or the cardiovascular system. In the event of a circulatory collapse or heart failure, first aid measures must also be taken. When the emergency services arrive, they must be informed of the possible cause.
The aplastic crisis is a serious emergency that requires immediate treatment to avert a life-threatening oxygen deficit. In this situation, a blood transfusion must urgently be carried out in order to avoid cardiovascular failure. With the blood transfusion, the time can be bridged until the virus is completely combated.
The aplastic crisis is an emergency situation. Without immediate medical care, the patient threatens to die quickly. In the situation, the body has no way of helping or healing itself on its own. The longer there is no intensive care, the higher the risk of death for those affected. With fast and professional treatment, the prognostic outlook changes significantly.
In an adult without any other serious illnesses and with a fundamentally stable immune system, a full recovery is possible within a few days or weeks. However, since the crisis is usually triggered by a medical incident or illness, the underlying illness is largely responsible for the prospect of recovery. If the patient has an aplastic history, there is a high risk of death.
Even if the aplastic crisis can be overcome, complications can arise in the further course that result in the loss of life. If there is a one-off incident of red blood cell deficiency, the prognosis improves immensely. The aplastic crisis is often triggered by a virus attack. Once the offending virus can be diagnosed and treated, the patient is on the path to health improvement. Usually, recovery will be achieved within the next few weeks or months.
People with chronic hemolytic anemia are strongly advised to protect themselves from being infected with parvovirus B19 in order to avoid an anaplastic crisis. For example, children at risk should urgently avoid contact with sick children by staying at home if rubella develops in school or kindergarten. However, if contact has nevertheless taken place, it is necessary to consult a doctor immediately.
Children who suffer from an aplastic crisis due to an infection with the parvovirus B19 are subsequently immune for life. With them, follow-up care cannot aim to prevent recurrence of symptoms. However, this does not mean that no follow-up checks are necessary.
Since the immune system is weakened even a few weeks after an illness, a series of blood tests follows after discharge from the clinic. Sometimes the aplastic crisis also affects adults. They have not developed immunity and can therefore get infected again and again. A blood transfusion is indicated for them immediately after the onset of the typical symptoms.
Patients have a high degree of personal responsibility in everyday life in order to prevent infection. Other sick people should be avoided. When viral diseases are rampant, those affected should stay at home. After an aplastic crisis, rest and a healthy lifestyle prevent complications.
The extent of the follow-up basically depends on the underlying disease. An aplastic crisis is the worsening of an unfavorable initial situation. In order to prevent life-threatening consequences, the emergency doctor must be contacted immediately in the event of an acute occurrence. In some cases there is a high risk of death.
An aplastic crisis is a life-threatening condition for the affected patient in which self-help measures are in the background. The disease requires emergency medical treatment and, if there is no timely treatment, sometimes leads to the death of the predominantly child patients. It is usually the parents who make a significant contribution to the chances of recovery from the disease by providing their child with appropriate medical care as quickly as possible.
During the treatment of the acute symptoms, the patients are usually in a hospital, where the parents are at best present. As a result, the child receives emotional support and treatment steps to be discussed with the guardians can be carried out more quickly.
A blood transfusion is usually necessary for the present illness so that the patient is temporarily under intensive care. Those affected follow the instructions of the hospital staff and avoid contact with other people in order to reduce the risk of contracting other diseases in their own interest.
After the illness has been overcome, further medical follow-up checks are necessary in order to quickly identify any consequential damage. A few weeks after recovery, the patient's immune system is still weakened, so that they refrain from extensive exercise and other stresses. A healthy diet supports physical regeneration.
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The Lord's Supper represents God's promises of love to us in Jesus Christ and presents those promises, sealed in our hearts by faith through the power of God's Holy Spirit. The Supper gives us the deepest assurance that we are God's children. We are drawn together with sisters and brothers in Christ into one body with Christ in the church. This workbook will be of great help in enlarging our understandings of the Lord's Supper. It shows us the importance of the Supper in the church's life and our lives. It answers questions while also helping us more deeply and gratefully realize ways that Christ's presence with us in the sacrament unites us with Christ by faith. Reflecting on the materials here will enlarge our vision of ways the Lord's Supper relates to our lives in the world and our ministries in service to the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
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Digital and internet marketing
Digital and Internet marketing are similar concepts. Internet marketing is a channel for promoting services and products, attracting and retaining customers who use only the Internet. This includes SEO/SEM, SMM (social media marketing), online advertising, and the like.Digital or digital marketing is an integrated approach that includes all online and offline channels (QR codes on flyers, IoT, interactive screens, POS terminals, etc.).The development of technology and the struggle for customers take digital marketing to a new level. Companies that become pioneers and introduce completely new approaches to promotion occupy empty advertising niches.
Why is digital marketing necessary?
If you ask yourself what role marketing plays in product development, it is obvious that it is the leading one. At the beginning of its formation, one of the main ideas of marketing was that market leaders should produce the best product in large quantities.Now your product, no matter how good it is, will not be recognized without digital tools.
The main reasons why it's time to create or improve your Digital Marketing Strategy:
1. Constant growth in the number of Internet users, growth statistics
2. Increasing business and customer demand for a safe and convenient online environment and its promotion. One of the factors behind the rapid transition from offline to online has been the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Your future customers are people who were born and raised in the digital environment. Most of them make spontaneous/emotional shopping decisions on social media. Social media statistics
4. Your customers and competitors are online. The more digital marketing channels you cover, the more you will learn about competitor strategies and your users.
5. Digital marketing gives you the opportunity to get to know your customers better. In social networks, they can comment and answer questions. You can create a portrait of the target audience based on their profiles.
Five digital trends for your marketing strategy
Back in 2016, Gartner estimated that in 2020, about 30% of sessions on web pages will be without screen involvement. Modern technology Apple AirPods, Google Home and Amazon Echo, Siri, Cortana and others increase the possibilities of voice search.
Since the specifics of voice commands differ from typed text, it's time to pay attention to long natural queries. That is, instead of the usual “buy a phone in Kyiv”, there will be something like.
“where to buy a phone in Kyiv”.
Domino's has implemented a voice control system for Alexa. It is enough for the user to say:
“Alexa, ask Domino’s to feed me!”, Answer a couple of questions and wait for the order.
Chatbots in marketing are a method of optimizing and simplifying communication with your user. According to preliminary forecasts, by 2024 the value of the global chatbot market will exceed $1.34 billion. Evergreen has been implementing and building chatbots for a long time, so you can see our case studies here.
Incorporating chatbots into your marketing strategy will allow you to:
• Simplify communication with customers. The chatbot will respond instantly at any time. This means savings on the customer support department and a faster response time.
• Track the funnel from the interested user to the sale, save and analyze customer data by asking him questions in the chat and getting answers.
• Distribute your materials: news, promotions, etc.
Video content is what users love. Cisco estimates that by 2022, online video will account for
more than 82% of all consumer Internet traffic — 15 times more than in 2017. This does not
mean that you need to quickly create a Youtube channel and inject traffic into it. No, it doesn't
work that way.
Choose what your business needs: short videos/ streams/ AR/VR features?
UnitHome allows you to “walk” around the apartment to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of layouts. Interactive content encourages the user to take action. Its main advantages are:
• high competitive ability. In the information noise, it is this kind of content that attracts attention;
• Orientation to mobile devices. Games, quizzes, apps are more interesting.
The L'Oreal brand launched the possibility of "online fitting" of cosmetics. On the site, users can test shades in real-time.
One of the areas of development of artificial intelligence is the recognition and interpretation of human emotions and the appropriate response to them. Read more about it here. The most lucrative application for emotional recognition technology is marketing.
For example, by installing an interactive billboard with a camera, you can analyze how and which segment of the audience (gender, age, mood) is affected by one or another advertising. One of the areas of development of artificial intelligence is the recognition and interpretation of human emotions and the appropriate response to them. Read more about it here. The most lucrative application for emotional recognition technology is marketing. For example,
by installing an interactive billboard with a camera, you can analyze how and which segment of
the audience (gender, age, mood) is affected by a particular commercial.
Instead of conclusions
Digital marketing is a flexible, universal channel for communicating with customers and
promoting a company. With it, you can reach out and tell millions of users about your brand
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The words you say, the pictures you post, and the memes you share have consequences.
Don’t be the guy or girl who gets fired or expelled for a stupid mistake you made on social media. You’ll just be next on the long list of people who didn’t realize that trouble awaits behind every ill-conceived post.
It is so easy for everything you do and say to be shared with the world. Forever. Permanently. There’s no going back to having private lives, now, so you just have to deal with it.
Remember when you thought Facebook was a safe place for you to just be yourself without parents, teachers, and bosses seeing what you’re up to? Well, social media sites are universal now. Everyone can see everything.
Even if you think your privacy settings prevent people from seeing what you’re up to, the real truth is that it doesn’t take much for anything you share in the strictest of confidence to be made public.
Here’s what happened to famous people who didn’t realize this. (Hint: they weren’t famous first.)
These folks became infamous after their incidents.
Craig Keefe was a nursing student at Central Lakes College in Minnesota when he used Facebook to make “private” derogatory comments about his classmates. The school nevertheless discovered the comments. Because that behavior violated the school’s code of professional conduct outlines in the student handbook, the student was expelled.
Keefe believed he had protection under the First Amendment to publish whatever he pleased as long as his comments didn’t slander anyone, but that was not upheld in court.
Justine Sacco made a bad decision when she, the lead public relations employee at an advertising company, posted a remark that could be considered racist on Twitter right before her airplane took off. Sacco may or may not have thought her “joke” was racist, but when her flight landed and internet service returned to her phone, she discovered she was fired for quipping about being safe from contracting AIDS in Africa because she was white.
As someone who worked in public relations, she should have known better. Good news for Justine. After only seven months of unemployment, she found another job in communications, working for the fantasy sports company facing legal troubles, FanDuel, according to Sacco’s LinkedIn profile.
Ashley Payne did nothing more than post a photo on Facebook holding a couple of drinks. Payne was a teacher, and even if she kept her profile private, a parent spotted the photograph, taken and posted several years prior, and informed the school’s administration.
She was asked to resign immediately, losing her job for a photograph that depicted nothing illegal. Even if she hadn’t touched alcohol since that photograph, because someone could find it, she had to face consequences.
You may think none of this is “fair.” Here’s what you can do.
Don’t use social media to complain about your job or school. If your boss hasn’t found you on Facebook yet, she will. And hiding posts from people isn’t the perfect solution because any vindictive “friend” can take a screenshot and make your post public.
Realize the public doesn’t have your “context.” If you joke about racism often, and your friends encourage you for some reason, don’t expect that anyone outside of your group will also consider your thoughts appealing. There are laws to protect employees from being fired for illegitimate reasons, but if your conduct in public reflects poorly on the company, you’ll quickly find yourself unemployed.
Remember you represent every group you’re a part of. When your actions become a news story, whether globally, nationally, or just within a group larger than your closest friends, you become a scapegoat for everything people don’t like.
If you’re a student at Yale making an insensitive comment about privilege, you now represent all Yale students to someone who’s not. You represent the Ivy League to anyone outside of that community. You also represent all college students to someone of a different age or life path. To someone outside the United States, you now represent all Americans.
You’re an adult. You’re allowed to do anything you want as long as it’s not illegal, and — presumably — it falls within your code of morals or ethics. It’s OK to go out and have some fun. But posting and snapping your drunk selfies is bound to come back and bite you in the ass eventually. Especially if it happens more than once.
You do you. But maybe just don’t post about it if you have any concern for future opportunities.
It’s worse when you’re a member of a minority, especially if you are part of a group that isn’t well understood by others. If your skin color is dark, every mistake you make is seen as a failing of all those who share that skin color. If your sexual orientation or identity is not normative, despite diversity within your group, your attitudes could come to represent the entire group for those on the outside.
Does it matter what other people think of you, even if they’re ignorant? Yes. Once your behavior hits the news, your identity from an external perspective will be reduced to any identifying group that you could represent, regardless of the depth of your character. And sometimes you need to be respected by those people as an individual, and a capable, responsible person.
Yes, these consequences can stifle free expression throughout society. The world has opened up, and what used to be private communication now has the potential to get you in trouble. If you freak out when your boss finds your Twitter account or when your students find the Facebook account you use with your middle name instead of your last name, you may want to change some of your online behavior.
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A Systematic Classification of Routing in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
Sandeep Kad1, Vijay Kumar Banga2
1Sandeep Kad, Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IKG Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, India.
2Vijay Kumar Banga, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amritsar College of Engineering and Technology, Amritsar, India.
Manuscript received on July 20, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on August 10, 2019. | Manuscript published on August 30, 2019. | PP: 5336-5355 | Volume-8 Issue-6, August 2019. | Retrieval Number: F8779088619/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.F8779.088619
Open Access | Ethics and Policies | Cite | Mendeley
© The Authors. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication (BEIESP). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Abstract: Vehicle ad hoc network (VANET) is a promising aspect in intelligent transportation system (ITS) which is getting considerable attention from researchers. Vehicles formulate a self-organized network with an aim to provide better traffic safety as well as enhance the travelling comfort for the commuters. VANET does not depend upon fixed infrastructure. In contrast to MANETs, the node positions in VANETs keep on changing very rapidly thus it becomes a big challenge to route the information to its destination. In this paper we have surveyed different aspects highlighting architecture, applications, communication technologies, routing protocols, mobility models & simulating tools of VANETs. Finally some research gaps are listed which if addressed, can result in an improved overall driving experience.
Keywords: Dedicated short range communication (DSRC), Intelligent transport system, Mobility models, Routing protocols, Vehicular ad hoc network.
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Camera trap and questionnaire dataset on
ecosystem services provided by small carnivores
in agro-ecosystems in South Africa
Samual T. Williams
, Naudene Maree
, Peter Taylor
Steven R. Belmain
, Mark Keith
, Lourens H. Swanepoel
Department of Zoology, School of Mathematical & Natural Sciences, University of Venda, Private bag X5050,
Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa
Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
South African Research Chair on Biodiversity Value & Change, University of Venda, Private bag X5050,
Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom
Eugène Marais Chair of Wildlife Management, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, 0002,
Received 19 December 2017
Received in revised form
3 March 2018
Accepted 12 March 2018
Available online 22 March 2018
This dataset includes data derived from camera trap surveys and
questionnaire surveys relating to small carnivores in agro-ecosys-
tems in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, South Africa. The data
were collected as part of the study “Predation by small mammalian
carnivores in rural agro-ecosystems: An undervalued ecosystem
service?”(Williams et al., 2017a) . Camera trap locations were
stratified by land use: settlement, crops, and grazing areas. The
camera trap data provide an insight into the ecology of the nine
species of small carnivores that were recorded: striped polecat
(Ictonyx striatus), honey badger (Mellivora capensis), large-spotted
genet (Genetta maculata), African civet (Civettictis civetta), slender
mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), Meller's mongoose (Rhynchogale
melleri), Selous' mongoose (Paracynictis selousi), white tailed
mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda), and dwarf mongoose (Helogale
parvula). We also recorded domesticated animals such as domestic
cats (Felis catus), domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), and cattle
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/dib
Data in Brief
2352-3409/&2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
DOI of original article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.12.006
Corresponding author at: Department of Zoology, School of Mathematical & Natural Sciences, University of Venda, Private
bag X5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa.
E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.org (S.T. Williams).
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(Bos taurus) on the camera traps. The questionnaire data are
comprised of responses of stakeholders to questions regarding the
impacts of these species on rural farming communities. In the
accompanying data repository hosted on Figshare (doi 10.6084/
m9.figshare.4750807, (Williams et al., 2017b) ) we provide raw
data, along with processed data and R code used to analyse these
data to determine the impact of land use and domestic animals on
the species richness and occupancy of small carnivores in rural
agro-ecosystems (Williams et al., 2017a) .
&2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open
access article under the CC BY license
Subject area Biology
More specific subject area Conservation biology, ecology
Type of data Text file, shapefile, R code
How data was acquired Camera traps, questionnaires
Data format Raw, processed
Experimental factors Camera trap data were stratified by land use
Experimental features Camera trap surveys, questionnaire surveys
Data source location Ka-Ndengeza (S23.310028, E30.409812) and Vyeboom (S23.151735,
E30.392782) villages, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Data accessibility Data are available from Figshare (doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.4750807;
Related research article This is a companion article to
Value of the data
The raw camera trap data could be useful for studying the biodiversity and distribution of small
carnivores in agro-ecosystems.
The processed camera trap data may be useful for the study of small carnivore occupancy.
The questionnaire data may be of interest to researchers studying the opinions of people towards
These data could be compared with other data collected in protected areas, other geographic
locations or among other groups of stakeholders, and could contribute to spatial data sets (e.g.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility).
This could contribute towards scientific research or policy documents, for example the Interna-
tional Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened
Species, The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho, South Africa's National
Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, or local wildlife management plans.
We provide data collected using camera trap and questionnaire surveys conducted in agro-eco-
systems (Fig. 1). Data collection focussed on small carnivores, defined as members of the order Car-
nivora with a body mass under 15 kg . A total of nine species of wild small carnivores, and two
species of domesticated carnivores, were detected (Table 1), along with domestic cattle (Fig. 2). The
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Fig. 1. Location of the study sites and the camera traps, showing the settlement, crops and grazing land use types.
Summary of photographs of carnivore species collected during the camera trap study. The table is ordered according to family
level (all capitals).
Number of independent detections per 1000 camera trap
Common name Scientific name Settlement Crops Grazing Settlement Crops Grazing IUCN Red List
Domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris 9324 1270 308 5160 201 37
Striped polecat Ictonyx striatus 0 0 5 0 8 0 Least concern
Honey badger Mellivora capensis 0 0 0 0 0 6 Least concern
Domestic cat Felis catus 324 0 10 720 0 6
Large-spotted genet Genetta maculata 0 643 217 22 173 228 Least concern
African civet Civettictis civetta 0 0 0 0 8 0 Least concern
Slender mongoose Galerella sanguinea 0 254 25 0 148 86 Least concern
Meller's mongoose Rhynchogale melleri 0 48 0 0 0 0 Least concern
Selous' mongoose Paracynictis selousi 0 71 0 0 33 0 Least concern
White tailed mongoose Ichneumia albicauda 0 151 0 27 8 19 Least concern
Dwarf mongoose Helogale parvula 0 32 0 4 4 31 Least concern
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data were collected in two villages in Limpopo province, South Africa, and camera trap locations were
stratified by land use (settlement, crops, and grazing areas).
2. Experimental design, materials, and methods
2.1. Study area
We conducted the study at two villages in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, South Africa: Ka-
Ndengeza (S23.310028°E30.409812°), and Vyeboom (S23.151735°E30.392782°)(Fig. 1). Both sites
receive an annual rainfall of 700–800 mm per year, with a hot wet season from October to March and
a cool dry season from May to August . Natural vegetation is classified as Granite Lowveld and
Fig. 2. Example photographs collected during the camera trap surveys. These images show a) striped polecat, b) honey badger,
c) large-spotted genet, d) African civet, e) slender mongoose, f) Meller's mongoose, g) Selous' mongoose, h) white tailed
mongoose, i) dwarf mongoose, j) domestic cat, k) domestic dog, and l) domestic cow.
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Gravelotte rocky bushveld . Vegetation is characterised by tall shrubs with few trees to moderately
dense low woodland on the deep sandy uplands dominated by Combretum zeyheri and Combretum
apiculatum. Low lying areas are characterised by dense thicket to open Savanna with Senegalia
(Acacia) nigrescens, Dichrostachys cinerea, and Grewia bicolor dominating the woody layer, particularly
the Granite Lowveld .
Three major land-use types were identified in each of the villages. First, the settlement areas were
used for residential purposes (hereafter settlements) . The majority of households had large gar-
dens (50–80 m ×40–80 m) which were used to grow crops (maize (Zea mays), peanuts, beans
(Phaseolus vulgaris), ground nuts (Arachis hypogaea), avocados mangoes, bananas, litchis, and oran-
ges), and to overnight livestock (cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and poultry). The second land-use type
identified was cropping areas (hereafter crops). Residents of both villages practiced either rotational
cropping (maize, ground nuts, and beans) or intercropping (maize, beans, and pumpkins (Cucurbita
spp.)). Land preparation was usually by manual labour, and preparation typically began in October or
November, while planting commenced in early December. Harvesting of crops occurs in February
until late April (crop dependant). Farmers reported yields varying between 5–20 bags (each bag
weighing 50 kg) of maize and 3–10 bags of ground nuts (Swanepoel, unpublished data). Crop residues
were typically used for livestock fodder. The third land-use type was the grazing areas (hereafter
grazing), which comprised of short grass, shrubs and tall trees. In addition to communal grazing of
livestock, these grazing areas also served for areas where firewood were collected and informal
hunting took place. Due to poor land-management practices, however, the grazing areas were typi-
cally overgrazed, with woody plants (D. cinerea) replacing shrubs and grass, typically in low-lying
areas and drainage lines.
2.2. Camera trapping
We divided each study area into a settlement area, cropping area and grazing area, based on recent
satellite imagery , which was then overlaid with a regular spaced grid with a cell size of 300 ×
300 m (9 ha). The size choice of the grid cells was guided by the median home range size of small
carnivores expected to inhabit the study areas , to adhere to the independent assumptions of
occupancy models . We deployed one camera trap in each grid, which resulted in an average
spacing between camera traps of 193 m. Camera traps were set to record 24 h per day, with a 30 s
delay between detections, continuously for 10–12 days. We deployed camera traps at roads, drainage
lines, and well established animal paths. We placed cameras around 30 cm above the ground, and
cleared vegetation in front of camera traps to reduce the number of false triggers.
In the settlement grid cells we deployed 27–30 infra-red flash cameras (Cuddeback Ambush 1194),
as these were less disruptive to the inhabitants of villages than cameras using a visible light flash,
while in the crops and grazing areas we deployed 55–60 xenon flash cameras (Cuddeback Ambush
1170). Camera traps were deployed between 2–26 June 2014 at Ka-Ndengeza and 17 June–27 July
2014 at Vyeboom. This resulted in a camera trapping effort of 810 trap days in Ka-Ndengeza and 738
trap days in Vyeboom. To classify land use we first digitized the different land-use types using
satellite imagery from Google Maps , which we later ground-truthed. We classified crops as either
active fields, i.e. still showing agricultural activity, or as abandoned fields. For each camera trap we
calculated the percentage of crops, grazing and settlement that comprised the camera trapping grid
cell in which each camera trap was located. Camera trap images were catalogued using Camera Base
version 1.7 .
We assessed the opinions of community members towards small carnivores using a structured
questionnaire (based on the questionnaire used by Holmern and Røskaft ), completed by a total of
127 respondents (n¼58 in Ka-Ndengeza and n¼69 in Vyeboom). For each camera trap the
inhabitants of the nearest household were sampled, but when this was not possible another nearby
house was selected. If several households were equidistant to a camera trap, we sampled one of these
households at random. Photographs of small carnivore species were provided to ensure that the
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species were correctly identified. We asked interviewees whether they had seen each species of
carnivore, if they were good for the community, if they kill rodents, if they had impacted the
respondents negatively, and if they were aware if any small carnivore species that are killed by
people. The reasons for any positive and negative impacts of the species were also recorded. We also
asked whether interviewees consider poultry to be an important source of protein.
2.4. Data availability
Raw camera trap and questionnaire data are available in the online repository . We processed
these data to allow us to model the influence of land use on carnivore species richness, and model the
effect of the relative abundance index of domestic animals on carnivore occupancy (see for details
of data processing and analysis). The processed data and R code are also available in .
2.5. Ethical approval
Ethical approval for the study was provided by the Ethics Committee of the University of Venda
(approval number SMNS/14/ZOO/03/2803). We also obtained consent to interview community
members of Ka-Ndengeza and Vyeboom from each community Chief in addition to community
members. We informed each respondent that anonymity would be maintained, and obtained written
consent from interviewees.
We are grateful to the Chiefs and residents of Ka-Ndengeza and Vyeboom for granting permission
to collect these data, and for their support and hospitality. We are indebted to the participants that
completed the questionnaires, and the residents who allowed us to place camera traps on their land.
Data collection was funded by the Sasol Agricultural Trust (South Africa), Univen Niche Fund (SMNS/
17/Zoo/01), International Foundation for Science (D/4984-2), and the European Union through its ACP
S & T Programme (StopRats; FED2013-330223; http://www.acp-hestr.eu/). Further funding was
provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (“BMBF”) (01LL1304A) through
the project “Limpopo Living Landscapes - Understanding the Dynamics of Ecological and Cultural
Landscapes, in the Face of Global Change, in the Northern Limpopo Region of South Africa”of the
SPACES (Science Partnerships for the Assessment of Complex Earth Systems) consortium (https://
www.fona.de/mediathek/pdf/SPACES_Broschuere_Englisch.pdf). STW acknowledges funding from the
University of Venda postdoctoral grant. PJT acknowledges the support of the University of Venda, the
National Research Foundation, (107099), and the Department of Science and Technology under the
South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) (87311) on Biodiversity Value and Change within the
Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, hosted at University of Venda and co-hosted by the Centre for Invasion
Biology at University of Stellenbosch. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewer that helped to
improve this manuscript.
Transparency document. Supplementary material
Transparency document associated with this article can be found in the online version at http://dx.
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How To Repair Fixture Wiring
I accidentally screwed a metal screw in to a fixture wire and the light stopped working. I back the screw out and put black tape on the wire where I damaged it, turned on, but it still will not turn on…
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Background: Rhonda, a Homeowner from Inlet Beach, FL
[ad#block]Question: On a hanging light I accidentally screwed a metal screw in to a wire and the light stopped working. I back the screw out and put black tape on the wire where I damaged it and went to the breaker box to turn on, thought it had turn off a switch but it still will not turn on? HELP
Thanks for your electrical question Rhonda.
Rhonda, sometimes when a wire shorts it can actually melt the wire apart so that the wire connection is lost. To fix this either the fixture wire needs to be replaced or the wire would need to be repaired using a wire splice connector.
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The image processing of a deer is much faster than the human eye, and thus they are extremely sensitive to movement. So the movement reaches them at a slow pace and thus gives them time to react faster. The movement is more visible to them at sunrise and sunset. You cannot control their movement and visual reception but you can always prepare to outsmart them by decreasing or concealing your movement, as you prepare to hunt them down. Bow Hunting Camo can be a great help in this regard as can be 7 other ways.
You can opt for a screen of trees, or hide in the seasonal grass or crop, crawl into a corrugated drainage pipe or hide beneath a large object to focus on your prey, this strategy has its pros. Anything that conceals your movement from the sight of the deer is equally effective.
Topography heavily impacts wildlife movement and habitat. A mere aerial photo or topographical map can help you visualize the terrain of the deer movement. It takes time and experience to get used to the location of hiding and movement of the deer and the accuracy of your prediction but it will be worth it. Eventually, you’ll learn the areas which you can avoid and those that need your focus. You can always follow the ditches and creek beds to stay concealed from deer.
Avoid Obvious Deer Routes
Avoid places where you expect the deer to linger often. If you know the area where they are likely to be present; eating, resting, or drinking, you need to take an indirect approach to it. It may take extra effort and thorough planning but it will be worth a shot. The path you take will leave your scent and if it is the same path the deer use, it will through them off.
Don’t Use a Stand
Deer are smart and well-aware of their environment; they can easily differentiate between something that was not part of the scenery and be alert; this is how they survive. So if you install a stand in the middle of the trees, they can easily detect the presence of a foreign object and react unexpectedly.
Utilize Natural Backing
You can always scout trees and look for natural objects that can break the shadow of your stand. Look for trees with several branches and big leaves, tall or mid-sized coniferous trees or their grouping, huge diameter trees, or multi-trunked trees. The purpose is to ensure the stand doesn’t look like a sore thumb in the natural environment.
Good Old Camouflage
Camouflage always comes in handy. If you’re in an environment where trees and long bushes are scarce you can always get a high-quality camouflage net or suit to blend in with the environment.
You can break off some branches and big leaves from a nearby tree and weave them together to create a platform that conceals your silhouette. You can hoist the sewed bunch to the back of a tree and secure it with a heavy rope.
Concealing your movement is everything when it comes to hunting. You are in a natural habitat and until you keep everything natural, you will no chance at hunting. So these few ideas are sure to cut your movement and give you better opportunities at hunting deer.
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Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has instructed recently appointed EU ambassadors not to appear before the European Parliament in hearings scheduled to begin today. The move is part of a tug-of-war between Ashton and MEPs over the influence that the Parliament should have over the Union’s diplomatic service.
A hearing scheduled for this morning with Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, an Austrian diplomat who has been appointed to head the EU’s delegation in Tokyo, was called off. Schweisgut was one of 28 senior diplomats appointed in mid-September.
Ashton informed Gabriele Albertini, an Italian centre-right MEP who heads the Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, of her move in a letter last week. The foreign affairs committee decided shortly after last month’s appointments were announced to invite ambassadors-designate to China, Georgia, Japan, Lebanon and Pakistan for hearings.
According to an aide, Ashton was “getting annoyed and frustrated” by that decision which, in her view, violates an agreement on the European External Action Service (EEAS) she reached with MEPs and member states in July. “Parliament is acting in an irresponsible manner and changing the goalposts,” the aide said.
Under the agreement, senior EEAS appointees were to appear before the foreign affairs committee after their appointment but before taking up their post. However, the ambassadors have not yet been granted accreditation by their host countries and are not considered fully appointed until that has happened. The aide suggested that public questioning of ambassadors-designate on delicate matters such as human rights in China could jeopardise the accreditation. For that reason, Ashton wants the hearings to take place behind closed doors, while MEPs want them to be public. “If these hearings eventually take place, they should take place as previously agreed with Parliament, in camera,” a spokesperson for Ashton said.
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Does insurance cover IVF for lesbian couples?
Assisted reproduction costs and insurance coverage for lesbian couples varies; reciprocal IVF is more costly than IUI for example. Insurance providers do not cover IVF services when one partner carries a pregnancy and the other provides eggs unless medical necessity is documented.
Can two female eggs mix?
BOSTON — Fertility clinics have put a new twist on how to make babies: A “two-mom” approach that lets female same-sex couples share the biological role. One woman’s eggs are mixed in a lab dish with donor sperm, then implanted in the other woman, who carries the pregnancy.
How many vials of sperm does it take for home insemination?
An average ejaculate yields between 2 and 4 one cc vials of semen. One vial equals one insemination. There is no way to predict exactly how many inseminations/vials will produce a pregnancy but on average it takes between 4 and 8 attempts when the vials have at minimum 20 mil motile sperm per cc.
Can 2 females have a baby?
New fertility procedure allows 2 women to carry same baby, presents new choices for same-sex couples. For the first time in history, two women have carried the same baby thanks to an amazing new medical advance.
How much is it for 2 females to have a baby?
One woman undergoes treatment to create the embryos, while the other is prepared for a fresh embryo transfer. On average, a “fresh” cycle of IVF costs about $12,000 plus the cost of fertility medications, which range from $3,000 to as much as $10,000 for each partner.
Can a female egg fertilize another female egg?
In a bizarre reproductive biology advance, researchers have fertilized mouse eggs with cells from another mouse’s body–instead of sperm. The work is the first demonstration that embryos can develop from the combination of an intact egg and a nonreproductive cell.
Can I carry my girlfriends egg?
Partner IVF is a type of IVF for lesbian couples that lets both partners become physically involved in the conception of their baby. In this option, one partner provides the eggs, which are fertilised with donor sperm, and the other carries the pregnancy.
Can one baby have two fathers DNA?
Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twin babies from two separate biological fathers. The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning the ability to produce offspring.
How long should I leave sperm in to get pregnant?
Once the egg is released from the ovary, it’s only receptive to sperm and able to be fertilized for about 12 to 24 hours, but sperm can remain viable for days after intercourse…which is why you can have sex days before ovulation and still get pregnant.
Can you artificially inseminate yourself?
Artificial insemination is a method for inducing pregnancy that includes placing sperm within the reproductive tract of the female by means other than sexual intercourse. One of the options for Artificial insemination can be done at home and performed by yourself or with your partner.
Can I use a turkey baster to get pregnant?
One artificial insemination method is called ICI (intracervical insemination), in which sperm is inserted into the cervix. This can be done at home and is what you might have heard of as “turkey basting.” For the record, yes, you technically could use a turkey baster.
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The most important aspect for the bride may be, however, the dress. She wants to stand out on this special day, a day that will be photographed, videoed and remembered forever. For every culture and country though the idea of the perfect wedding dress could mean something different. Perhaps when we think of a wedding dress we picture the usual big white dress with a long train and veil. Although popular in many countries this is a relatively new style. Traditionally brides from all over would wore colored gowns on there special day, it was not until Queen Victoria wore white to her 1840 wedding that the white gown became ubiquitous in western cultures. In many countries though they have not adopted the white dress tradition. Each country and culture has their own special way of making a bride look gorgeous for her big day.
Here are just a few of the beautiful traditional wedding dresses we found from around the world, perhaps they will inspire you to try something a little different on your big day.
Indonesia is made up of some 8000 different islands and they all have slightly different traditions when it comes to bridal gowns. Typically, however they are all of vibrant color and heavily embroidered. The groom would wear something similar as well. The use of bright colors is favored in these beautiful island cities.
Again the traditions will vary slightly from region to region but there are similarities seen between them all. The dress will be an embroidered embellished saree, typically a red color. The bride will be adored with gorgeous henna on her hands and arms as well as a veil and jewelry.
The traditional Japanese wedding dress is typically red and white as these are the national colors, although at times it will be more colorful. They will often wear a floor length komono although gowns are becoming more common now as well. You may also see some Japanese brides wearing a white silk hood over the bun in their hair this is called a wataboshi and is one of the oldest Japanese wedding traditions. The hood represents humility and modesty.
The wedding dresses in Tibet are very traditional and they hold a lot of meaning. They are given the day before the wedding by the groom, along with jewelry often times with a small statue of Buddha as well. They are full of color and embroidery as well.
Wedding dresses in Turkey are very similar to the white ball gowns that we are so used to. They will often be made of lace or tulle. It is tradition in Turkey, however, to always tie a red ribbon around the waist of the bride. This gesture is done before going out of her home, by the bride´s brother or uncle, the color is symbol of happiness, luck and sexuality.
Wedding dresses in Bulgaria have a centuries-old tradition, cover the entire body of the woman up to the head. Which is then adorned with some kind of white hat with a scarf around the neck. Ensuring that the bride is modest and covered.
Wedding dresses and traditions most definitely diver from country to country, but I´m sure we can all agree that regardless the tradition the bride is always glowing with joy on her special day!
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- Research article
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Expression and role of oncogenic miRNA-224 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
BMC Cancer volume 15, Article number: 575 (2015)
Aberrant expression of miR-224 is associated with tumor development and progression. This study investigated the role of miR-224 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) ex vivo and in vitro.
A total of 103 esophageal intraepithelial neoplasia, ESCC tissue specimens, and their matched distant normal tissues were collected to test miR-224 expression using qRT-PCR analysis. Western blot was used to quantify the level of PH domain leucine-rich repeat protein phosphatase 1 (PHLPP1) and PHLPP2 in ESCC tissues. Cell viability, apoptosis, invasion, and colony formation assays were used to assess the altered phenotypes of esophageal cancer cell lines after miR-224 expression or inhibition. A luciferase reporter assay was used to confirm miR-224 binding to PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 mRNA.
miR-224 was significantly overexpressed in esophageal intraepithelial neoplasia and ESCC tissues, while the expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins, the target genes of miR-224, was downregulated in ESCC tissues. miR-224 expression was associated with advanced clinical TNM stage, pathologic grade, and the level of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins in ESCC tissues. Ectopic overexpression of miR-224 promoted proliferation, migration, and invasion, but suppressed apoptosis of ESCC cells. miR-224 was able to bind to the 3′ untranslated region (3′-UTR) of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 mRNA to suppress their expression.
The current study demonstrated that miR-224 acts as an oncogenic miRNA in ESCC, possibly by targeting PHLPP1 and PHLPP2.
Esophageal cancer is a lethal disease with poor prognosis. A large percentage of patients with esophageal cancer are diagnosed at the advanced stages of disease [1, 2]. Histologically, esophageal cancer occurs in two major forms, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and esophageal adenocarcinoma, each of which has distinct geographic patterns of incidence and risk factors [3, 4]. Stretching from northern Iran through the central Asian republics to North-Central China, ESCC is the predominant histological subtype, accounting for 90 % of the total esophageal cancer cases . To date, surgery is the only cure option to treat esophageal cancer patients, but this only applies to limited numbers of patients due to their inoperable disease; thus, the overall five-year survival rate for the patients is 14 to 20 % . Although multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations have been detected in ESCC [5, 6], the precise pathogenesis of ESCC remains to be discovered. Molecular markers for early diagnosis and prediction of prognosis or treatment responses are quite limited . Thus, further studies on the targeted prevention and early detection of esophageal cancer could help to limit the lethality of this disease.
microRNA (miRNA) is a class of small-regulatory non-coding RNA molecules with 18 to 22 nucleotides long. It can post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression through pairing with the 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of the targeted messenger RNAs (mRNA) and control translation or induce degradation of target gene. miRNA plays an important role in basic physiological processes in cells, such as cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, energy metabolism, and immune response . Previous studies demonstrated that aberrant miRNA expression can act as either a tumor suppressor or oncogene [8, 9]. A number of miRNA expression profiling studies have been conducted in ESCC, and the expression of miRNAs, including miR-21, miR-25, and miR-223 have been shown to be altered. These miRNAs could be further evaluated as biomarkers for association with ESCC progression and clinical outcome [9, 10]. Other studies showed that dysregulation of miR-145 and miR-195 was able to modulate ESCC cell viability, proliferation, invasion, and metastasis [8, 11]. In our unpublished study, we identified several differentially expressed miRNAs in ESCC tissues, compared to paired distant normal tissues, using the Agilent microarray and found several high expressed miRNAs, including miR-244. Indeed, miR-224 has been reported to be dysregulated in various human malignancies and can potentially affect many cancer-related cellular processes, including gene transcription, proliferation, differentiation, and cell death [12, 13]. Bioinformatical studies have shown that miR-224 may target PH domain leucine-rich repeat protein phosphatase (PHLPP)-1 and PHLPP2, both of which function as a tumor suppressor by blocking Akt signaling. Down-regulation of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins has been found in a variety of malignant tumors, including colorectal cancer , prostate cancer , and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) .
In this study, we first assessed miR-244 expression in esophageal intraepithelial neoplasia biopsies, ESCC tissues, and their matched distant normal tissues, then associated the expression pattern with clinicopathological features from ESCC patients. We also examined the effects of miR-224 expression or inhibition on regulation of ESCC cell viability and mobility and investigated the underlying molecular events in esophageal cancer cells in vitro.
In this study, we collected 103 cases of esophageal patients from General Surgery Department and Digestive Disease Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (Jiangsu, China), between January 2013 and December 2013. Patients who had received radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or other esophageal surgery before esophagectomy were excluded. Specifically, we obtained 10 pairs of low-grade intra-epithelial neoplasia (LG-IEN) biopsies and their matched distant normal tissues (5 cm away from the lesion), 30 pairs of HG-IEN biopsies and their matched distant normal tissues, and 63 pairs of ESCC tissues and their matched normal esophageal tissues (5 cm away from tumor lesion according to NCCN guideline of esophageal cancer) for this study. Patients with a postoperative pathological result including both IEN and ESCC were included into ESCC group. And only those paitients who had IEN only were included in the IEN group. All tissue specimens were immediately snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and then stored at −80 °C. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, and a written informed consent was obtained from each patient.
RNA isolation and quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR)
Total cellular RNA was isolated from tissue specimens or cell lines using the Trizol reagent (TaKaRa, Dalian, China), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. For qRT-PCR, 2 μg each of these RNA samples were reversely transcribed into cDNA using PrimeScript RT Master Mix (TaKaRa), and PCR amplification was performed at an initial 95 °C for 5 min and then 40 cycles of 95 °C for 20 s, 60 °C for 20 s, and 70 °C for 10 s in the StepOnePlus™ PCR system (ABI, USA) using SYBR Premix Ex Taq (Takara), according to the manufacturer’s procedures. The qRT-PCR miRNA Primer Set (one RT primer and a pair of qPCR primers for each set) specific for miR-224 was designed and synthesized by RiboBio (Guangzhou, China). U6 small nuclear RNA was used to normalize miR-224 expression. All qRT-PCR amplification was performed in triplicate and repeated at least once. The relative miR-224 expression levels after normalization to U6 small nuclear RNA were calculated using 2-[(Ct of miR-224) – (Ct of U6)]. The increasing fold of miR-224 were expressed relative to the matched normal tissues and calculated using 2-ΔΔCT(ΔΔCT = ΔCTIEN/ESCC-ΔCTNormal). All data after logarithm transition (y = LnX) were applied for the statistical analysis.
Cell lines and culture
Human ESCC cell line TE13 and Eca109 were obtained from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Shanghai, China) and cultured in Rosewell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI)-1640 medium with 10 % fetal bovine serum (FBS; Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) in a humidified incubator with 5.0 % CO2 at 37 °C. To avoid possible effects on gene expression, antibiotic was not used in cell culture.
Transient gene transfection into ESCC cell lines
hsa-miR-224 mimic, miR-224 negative control (NC), miRNA-224 inhibitor, and miRNA-224 inhibitor negative control (INC) were purchased from Genepharma (Shanghai, China). hsa-miR-224 mimic and NC were incomplete complementary double stranded, while miRNA-224 inhibitor and INC were single stranded. All oligonucleotide sequences are listed in Table 1. ESCC cells were seeded and grown overnight and next day, these RNA oligonucleotides were transiently transfected into cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen), according to the manufacturer’s protocol. After 24 or 48 h incubation, the cells were harvested and subjected to different experiments.
Cell viability assay
After transfection with aforementioned RNA oligonucleotides, TE13 and Eca109 cells were seeded in 96-well plates at a density of 4000 cells/well and cultured for 24 to 96 h. At the end of each experiment, Cell Counting Kit-8 (Dojindo, Shanghai, China) reagents were added into each well and the plates were incubated for 1.5 h, and the optical density (OD) was then measured at 450 nm using NanoDrop 2000 (Thermo, USA). The experiments were performed in 5 replicates and repeated three times.
Colony formation assay
Forty-eight h after transfection with RNA oligonucleotides, cells were trypsinized and plated on 6-well plates at a density of 300 cells/well and cultured for 10 days. The colonies were then fixed with methanol for 15 min and stained with 0.4 % crystal violet at the room temperature for 30 min. The number of colonies, which were defined as > 50 cells/colony, were counted. The experiments were performed in triplicate and repeated three times.
Flow cytometric apoptosis assay
Forty-eight hours after transfection with RNA oligonucleotides, cells were harvested through trypsinization and washed two times with phosphate buffered saline (PBS). Apoptosis was assessed using a FITC Annexin V Apoptosis Kit (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Cells were then analyzed using a flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson) within 1 h of staining using the FL1-H (FITC) and FL2-H (PI) lines.
Tumor cell migration and invasion assay
Tumor cell migration and invasion were assayed using 24-well Transwell plates with 8 mm pore size (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA). For migration assay, 48 h after transfection with RNA oligonucleotides, ESCC cells were trypsinized, washed, resuspended in 2 % FBS-containing medium, and added to the upper chamber, while 15 % FBS-containing medium was added to the bottom chambers. The Transwell chambers were incubated at 37 °C for 48 h and non-migrating cells were removed by a cotton swab, while the migrated cells were fixed, stained with crystal violet, and counted for ten random fields/chamber. The experiments were conducted in triplicate and repeated three times. Tumor cell invasion assay was the same as the migration assay, except that the membranes were coated with Matrigel (BD) and the Transwell plates were fixed and stained 72 h after the invasion assay.
Using online tools, including miRBase, TargetScan, and miRDB, we found that PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 are potentially targeted by miR-224. The miR-224 binding site is localized between 518 to 524 bp of the PHLPP1 3′-UTR (a total of 1002 bp long) or between 3562 to 3568 bp of the PHLPP2 3′-UTR (3941 bp long). The sequence of PHLPP1 pGL3-3′-UTR-wt (5′-AUAUGGAGACUAACUCCUAGGAGUUGCUUUACUCUGUCAGGUGACUUAAGUCACUGGGAUUCACUAAUUUUCUCUGAGAGAACAGCUG-3′), pGL3-3′-UTR-mut (5′-AUAUGGAGACUAACUCCUAGGAGUUGCUUUACUCUGUCAGUUAUGAUCAGUCACUGGGAUUCACUAAUUUUCUCUGAGAGAACAGCUG-3′), PHLPP2 pGL3-3′-UTR-wt (5′-CCGACUCCCAAUCAUGAAGGCAAGUUAAUCUUUCCAGUUAGUGACUUUUGCCCCAUAGUUGGGGUAAGCACUUVVUAGAUUGAAAA-3′), and pGL3-3′-UTR-mut (5′-CCGACUCCCAAUCAUGAAGGCAAGUUAAUCUUUCCAGUUAUACUGUAUUGCCCCAUAGUUGGGGUAAGCACUUCCUAGAUUGAGAAAA-3′) were generated by Invitrogen-China. Eca109 and TE13 cells were then co-transfected with pGL3-3′-UTR and miR-224 mimic or inhibitor, or their matched miR-negative control. After 24 h transfection, Firefly and Renilla luciferase activity was measured using the Dual Luciferase Assay kit (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The data were normalized against the activity of the Renilla luciferase. The experiments were performed in triplicate and repeated three times.
Protein extraction and Western blot
Tissue specimens and cells were homogenized, and the total cellular protein was extracted using the RIPA Lysis Buffer (Beyotime, Jiangsu, China), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Protein concentration was measured by the BCA method (Beyotime). Western blot was performed using anti-phospho-AKT, anti-AKT, anti-GAPDH (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA), anti-PHLPP1, and anti-PHLPP2 (Abcam, Cambridge, MA, USA) antibodies. The relative levels of protein expression were quantified by densitometric scanning (Image J Software, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA), and the relative gray values of protein levels were calculated based on the band intensity of protein of interest divided by the band intensity of loading control.
Seventy-two h after gene transfection, Eca109 cells were fixed in 4 % paraformaldehyde for 15 min at the room temperature, washed three times in PBS, and incubated for 60 min at the room temperature in a blocking solution (Beyotime). The primary antibody (anti-PHLPP1 and anti-PHLPP2 from Abcam) in the blocking reagent was added and incubated overnight at 4 °C. The next day, the cells were washed with PBS for three times, and the fluorescent probe conjugated secondary antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch, USA) was added to the cells. The cells were further incubated for 60 min at the room temperature and then washed three times in PBS. Cell nucleus was counterstained with DAPI (Beyotime). Photos were then taken using a Nikon Fluorescence microscope.
The data were summarized as mean ± S.D. and analyzed using Student’ t-test, Chi-square test, mono factor analysis of variance, and the correlation analysis with SPSS 17.0 software (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). A p-value less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
Overexpression of miR-224 is in esophageal intraepithelial neoplasia and ESCC tissue specimens
miR-224 was significantly overexpressed in esophageal intraepithelial neoplasia and ESCC tissue samples compared to that of the matched distant normal tissues (p < 0.05, Fig. 1a; Additional file 1: Figure S1 and Additional file 2: Figure S2). Specifically, qRT-PCR data showed that expression of miR-224 was increased for more than two folds in 70 % of ESCC patients compared to normal mucosae (Additional file 1: Figure S1). Moreover, miR-224 expression was significantly different between ESCC and IEN (p < 0.001, Fig. 1b). To further investigate clinicopathological significance of miR-224 expression in ESCC patients, we chose the mean of fold increase of miR-224 expression in ESCC samples as the cut-off point of low and high expression of miR-224. We found that miR-224 expression was associated with ESCC pathologic grade (p < 0.01, Fig. 1c and Table 2) and TNM stage (p < 0.01, Fig. 1c and Table 2), but not with other clinicopathological data from the patients (Table 2).
Ectopic expression of miR-224 changed phenotypes of ESCC cell in vitro
Next, we altered miR-224 expression in esophageal cancer cell lines. As shown in Fig. 1d, transfection with miR-224 mimics or inhibitor significantly up- or down-regulated the level of miR-224 expression in Eca109 and TE13 cells compared to the control oligonucleotides-transfected cells.
We then assessed the phenotypes of Eca109 and TE13 cell lines. The CCK-8 assay revealed that overexpression of miR-224 significantly increased viability of Eca109 and TE13 cell lines compared to negative control (NC)-transfected cells, whereas transfection of anti-miR-224 reduced tumor cell viability (p < 0.05, Fig. 2a). Moreover, tumor cell colony formation assay showed that miR-224 mimic increased the colony-forming efficiency of Eca109 cells, whereas anti-miR-224 suppressed the colony-forming efficiency of Eca109 cells (p < 0.05, Fig. 2b). In addition, the flow cytometry assay showed that anti-miR-224 increased apoptosis of both ESCC cell lines compared to the negative control (p < 0.05, Fig. 2c).
Furthermore, as shown in Fig. 3, overexpression of miR-224 significantly promoted migration and invasion of Eca109 and TE13 cell lines, whereas anti-miR-224 suppressed migration and invasion of these two cell lines compared to the negative control.
miR-224 directly targets tumor suppressor gene PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 in ESCC cells
To predict miR-224 targets, we utilized Bioinformatical algorithms of miRBase, TargetScan, and miRDB and showed that miR-224 could bind to the 518–524 bp and 3562–3568 bp, 3′-UTR region of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2, respectively (Fig. 4a). To confirm this prediction, we constructed luciferase reporter vectors and performed the luciferase reporter assay. The data showed that miR-224 mimic significantly reduced both PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 reporter gene luciferase activity compared to the controls. In contrast, miR-224 inhibitor significantly promoted both PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 reporter gene luciferase activity (p < 0.05, Fig. 4b). Mutations of the potential miR-224-binding sites of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 3′-UTRs prevented the ability of miR-224 mimics and inhibitor to alter luciferase activity, suggesting that miR-224 is able to target the predicted PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 binding site. Indeed, qRT-PCR, immunofluorescence, and Western blotting data showed no change in the levels of PHLPP1 or PHLPP2 mRNA in miR-224-transfected cells compared to the controls (p > 0.05, Fig. 4c), whereas levels of their proteins were dramatically down-regulated in miR-224-overexpressing cells and up-regulated after inhibition of miR-224 expression in esophageal cancer cell lines (p < 0.05, Fig. 5). These data indicated that miR-224 affects translation of PHLPP mRNA.
Ectopic expression of miR-224 affected the Akt signaling in ESCC cells
To explore the possible underlying molecular mechanisms of miR-224 action in ESCC cell lines, we analyzed the downstream signals of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2. As shown in Fig. 5a, phosphorylation levels of AKT protein was increased in miR-224-overexpressing ESCC cells, whereas anti-miR-224 suppressed the levels of phosphorylated AKT protein compared to the negative control.
Down-regulated PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 expression associated with miR-224 expression in ESCC tissues
The level of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 protein was significantly reduced in 12 cases of ESCC tissue samples compared to that of the matched distant normal tissues (p < 0.05, Fig. 6a and Additional file 3: Figure S3). Correlation analysis showed that expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins was associated with miR-224 expression in ESCC tissues (the correlation coefficient was −0.596 and −0.620, respectively; p < 0.05, Fig. 6b).
In the current study, we first assessed miR-244 expression in esophageal IEN biopsies, ESCC tissues, and their matched distant normal tissues, and associated the expression pattern with clinicopathological features from ESCC patients. We also investigated the effects of miR-224 expression or inhibition on regulation of ESCC cell viability and invasion capacity, and determined the underlying molecular mechanisms in esophageal cancer cells in vitro. We found that miR-224 was up-regulated in esophageal IEN and ESCC tissue specimens compared to that of the matched distant normal tissues, and miR-224 expression was associated with aggressive characteristics of IEN and ESCC. Furthermore, ectopic overexpression of miR-224 promoted proliferation, migration, and invasion, but suppressed apoptosis of ESCC cells in vitro. miR-224 was able to bind to PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 3′-UTR and suppressed their expression and may subsequently induced activity of the AKT signaling, while the levels of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins were associated with miR-224 expression in ESCC tissues. Our current data indicates that miR-224 is an oncogenic miRNA and targets expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins in ESCC.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that miR-224 can be up-regulated or down-regulated in different types or subtypes of cancer. For example, miR-224 expression was frequently up-regulated in hepatocellular carcinoma , colorectal cancer , medulloblastoma , thyroid cancer , pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma , renal cancer , cervical cancer , and glioma . In contrast, down-regulation of miR-224 has been observed in prostate cancer , ovarian cancer , giant cell tumor , and oral cancer . These data suggest that miR-224 can function as an oncogene or tumor suppressor through regulating the expression of different target genes. For example, in hepatocellular carcinoma, ectopic overexpression of miR-224 significantly down-regulated HOXD10 expression and promoted cell migration and invasion , whereas inhibition of miR-224 expression enhanced cell migration and invasion of prostate cancer cells through direct regulation of oncogenic TPD52 . In support of the tumor-promoting role of miR-224 in ESCC, our current data showed that miR-224 was up-regulated in esophageal IEN and ESCC tissue specimens compared to that of the matched distant normal tissues, and miR-224 expression was associated with aggressive characteristics of IEN and ESCC. These data further confirmed that miR-224 can function as an oncogene by regulating the expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins.
Furthermore, our current data also showed that ectopic overexpression of miR-224 promoted proliferation, migration, and invasion, but suppressed apoptosis of ESCC cells in vitro, which is consistent with the data on HCC . Importantly, our current study further confirmed that PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 are two target genes of miR-224. Both of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins contain each of a PH domain, leucine-rich repeat, phosphatase domain, and PDZ-binding motif . As tumor-suppressor phosphatases, PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins act to suppress cell survival pathways. They can directly dephosphorylate a conserved regulatory site (termed the hydrophobic motif) of Akt protein, protein kinase C, and S6 kinase. In turn, these phosphatases block signaling of these pro-survival kinases, and promote apoptosis and suppress tumor growth [30, 31]. A number of studies showed altered expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 and their functions in various malignancies [32, 33]. Indeed, a previous study showed expression and association between miR-224 and PHLPPs in colorectal cancer . Another study reported by Cai et al. suggested that PHLPP2 was a bona fide target gene of miR-205 and associated the up-regulation of miR-205 with cell growth and vascularization. Our current data further demonstrated that the loss of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 expression occurred in ESCC tissue samples and their expression was associated with miR-224 expression in ESCC tissues. These data revealed the mechanisms responsible for PHLPP expression, because to date, little is known regarding regulation of PHLPP expression in different human cells .
However, our current study is limited to proof-of-principle and further investigations are needed to understand the role of miR-224 in esophageal cancer and clarify how miR-224 regulates expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 proteins during esophageal cancer compared to other cancer pathogenesis.
In summary, our current study showed that miR-224 up-regulation could promote ESCC development, possibly through inhibiting PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 expression, indicating that miR-224 has oncogenic activity in ESCC. These findings may not only increase our understanding of ESCC development and progression, but may also help us to develop a novel therapeutic strategy for ESCC.
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We thank all patients who participated in this study. This study was supported in part by a grant from the College graduate research and innovation projects of Jiangsu Province (#CXZZ11_0705). We thank Medjaden Bioscience Limited for assisting in the preparation of this manuscript.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
XH, ZZ, and RS designed the study, interpreted the data, and wrote the manuscript. XH, ML, SL, and LR performed the experiments. XH, HZ, and BX collected the human samples and clinical data. All authors read and approved the final version of this manuscript.
Xiaoyan He and Zhimei Zhang contributed equally to this work.
Expression of miR-224 in 63 pairs of ESCC and their matched normal esophageal tissue specimens. The data were quantified by using ΔΔCT = ΔCTESCC-ΔCTNormal. (TIFF 235 kb)
Expression of miR-224 in 40 pairs of IEN (intraepithelial neoplasia) biopsies and their matched adjacent normal tissues. The data were quantified by using ΔΔCT = ΔCTIEN-ΔCTNormal. (TIFF 486 kb)
Expression of PHLPP1 and PHLPP2 in 12 pairs of ESCC and their matched normal esophageal tissue specimens was detected by Western blot. The relative gray values of protein were calculated as band intensity of protein of PHLPPs/band intensity of GAPDH. (TIFF 720 kb)
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He, X., Zhang, Z., Li, M. et al. Expression and role of oncogenic miRNA-224 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. BMC Cancer 15, 575 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-015-1581-6
- Esophageal Cancer
- Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cell
- Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patient
- Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tissue
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Transaction Costs in Constructing Small and Medium Hydro Power Plants in Albania
Identifying the transaction costs helps knowing which are the real costs of starting a new business, finding bottlenecks, can serve to reduce inefficiencies and encourage more effective reforms. In this article we analyze the impact of transaction costs in interactions between firms and public authority, when firms participate in the bidding procedure for constructing new hydropower plants until the stage of producing electricity. In the first years, after granting the concession right, firms face many difficulties due to a complex normative regulation, contractual conditions and bureaucracy. Although in the majority of the cases, winning firms are provided by the public authority with the concessionary permit within the legal deadlines, they fail to start producing electricity within the declared timetable. Even though direct transaction costs computed by measuring the actual costs that firms or individuals face during these procedures may be relatively low, fairly 1-2 % of the total cost of investment, opportunity costs considering the potential loss in the revenues due to delays in producing and selling electricity, in some cases, can be equal to the total cost of constructing the implant.
Keywords: transaction costs, concessions, hydro power constructing, regulation.
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Congenital blindness is associated with atypical morphology and functional connectivity within and from visual cortical regions; changes that are hypothesized to originate from a lifelong absence of visual input and could be regarded as a general (re) organization principle of sensory cortices. Challenging this is the fact that individuals with congenital anosmia (lifelong olfactory sensory loss) display little to no morphological changes in the primary olfactory cortex. To determine whether olfactory input from birth is essential to establish and maintain normal functional connectivity in olfactory processing regions, akin to the visual system, we assessed differences in functional connectivity within the olfactory cortex between individuals with congenital anosmia (n = 33) and matched controls (n = 33). Specifically, we assessed differences in connectivity between core olfactory processing regions as well as differences in regional homogeneity and homotopic connectivity within the primary olfactory cortex. In contrast to congenital blindness, none of the analyses indicated atypical connectivity in individuals with congenital anosmia. In fact, post-hoc Bayesian analysis provided support for an absence of group differences. These results suggest that a lifelong absence of olfactory experience has a limited impact on the functional connectivity in the olfactory cortex, a finding that indicates a clear difference between sensory modalities in how sensory cortical regions develop.
Keywords: anosmia; homotopic connectivity; regional homogeneity; resting-state; sensory loss.
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press.
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Taranto is nicknamed the city of two seas, thanks to its particular position straddling the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo.
The city of Taranto is located on the Ionian coast of Puglia, in the innermost area of the great gulf to which it gives its name. It has one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean. The city is divided into three urban centers: the Old Town, of medieval type, is an island linked to the mainland by two bridges, one of which is the well-known swing bridge; the second nucleus consists of the New City, which developed in the last decades of the 19th century, and the Porta Napoli area, of an industrial nature.
The best way to discover the beauty of the city is to take Corso Vittorio Emanuele III, a road that runs alongside the sea and offers a wonderful view of the Ionian Sea.
The symbol of the city is the Aragonese Castle , which is located at the very beginning of the Old City.
The castle watches over the city and is located in a position of protection of the Mar Piccolo.
The castle was built in 1486 by Ferdinando I of Naples. Before those years the building was made up of tall and slender towers, but with the inventions of cannons and gunpowder it was necessary to modify the structure with smaller and larger towers. Today the Castle is managed by the Navy.
The old city is connected to the new city by the Ponte Girevole and the Ponte di Porta Nuova. Right next to the castle is the Town Hall with the famous three columns of the Doric Temple. These are the oldest Doric columns of ancient Greece.
Among the churches, the Cathedral of San Cataldo deserves our attention, dedicated to the patron saint whose name it bears. It is located in the center of the old city and is the oldest Apulian cathedral.
The Cappellone , of elliptical shape, is noteworthy, it is characterized by the marble decoration that continues downwards from the Corinicione. Around it you can see five niches that keep statues, the most important is the central one, where the silver statue of San Cataldo is kept.
Not to be missed is a visit to the MARTa, the National Archaeological Museum .
Here you can discover not only the history of Taranto but also of Italy.
The museum is in fact considered one of the most important in all of Italy.
Inside the MARTA you can admire many finds from the period in which the city was a Spartan colony in Magna Graecia.
The museum gives the opportunity to relive the entire history of the city starting from the medieval period.
Of particular interest is the collection of the Golds, an exhibition of many jewels that belong to ancient times but which seem to be of a modern age.
To better discover this wonderful city, you can book guided tours through the streets of the historic center.
Taranto offers the opportunity to spend a few hours with the dolphins.
In fact, the Jonian Dolphin Conservation (JDC) is very famous, an association that is committed to the protection of the sea and cetaceans.
It is precisely from the Sant’Eligio pier that you can book a catamaran excursion, thus navigating the Apulian coast you will be able to spot the dolphins that have lived in this sea for many years.
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Lift Zones in California
As part of its ongoing commitment to help connect low-income families to the Internet so they can fully participate in educational opportunities and the digital economy, Comcast announced in 2020 a multiyear program to launch more than 100+ WiFi-connected “Lift Zones” in community centers throughout Northern California by 2021. Working with its network of nonprofit, and city partners, Comcast is providing robust WiFi in facilities they have identified to help students and adults get online, participate in distance learning, workforce development trainings and access critical resources.
The COVID-19 crisis has put many low-income students and families at risk of being left behind and has accelerated the need for comprehensive digital equity and Internet adoption programs to support them. Lift Zones will be located across California Comcast service areas including cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley, and Greater Sacramento Area.
The initiative will provide free connectivity and access to hundreds of hours of educational and digital skills content to help families and site coordinators navigate online learning. Lift Zones complement Comcast’s Internet Essential program, which, since 2011, has helped connect more than 10 million low-income people to the Internet at home.
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The Mississippi legislature has introduced two bills, SB 2179 and HB 386, to make the Holy Bible the state book. The specific version of the Bible is not mentioned, nor is the rationale for the proposal. The bills are nearly identical and they read as follows:
SENATE BILL NO. 2179
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE HOLY BIBLE SHALL BE THE OFFICIAL STATE BOOK; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. There shall be an Official State Book. The
Official State Book shall be the Holy Bible.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after July 1, 2015
State symbols are meant to represent something about the cultural heritage or history of the area. For example, some of the Mississippi symbols include:
Mississippi State American Folk Dance: square dance
Mississippi State Automobile Museum: The Tupelo Auto Museum
Mississippi State Grand Opera House: Grand Opera House of Meridian
Mississippi State Historical Industrial Museum:
Mississippi Ind. Heritage Museum
Mississippi State Language: English
Mississippi State Motto: “By valor and arms” (Virtute et armis)
Mississippi State Natural Science Museum:
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
Mississippi State Soil: Natchez silt loam
This type of proposal ignores separation of church and state and it is an abuse of power for lawmakers to use their position to launch such a proposal. There is a provision in the United States Constitution called the Establishment Clause that has long been interpreted to be a separation of church and state. The other part of it is the Supremacy Clause, which means that the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land, taking precedence over state provisions:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
The Establishment Clause was written by Congressman Fisher Ames in 1789, who derived it from discussions in the First Congress of various drafts that would become the amendments comprising the Bill of Rights. This clause is immediately followed by the Free Exercise Clause, which states:
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
These two clauses make up what are called the “Religion Clauses” of the First Amendment.
The Establishment Clause is a limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation respecting an establishment of religion. The second prohibition inherent from this specified prohibition is no preference by the U.S. government of one religion over another; an aim desired by the Founding Fathers necessary to accommodate all of the many denominations in the United States.
Because religion is a choice for people, these bills are a sneaky way to ram the religious preferences of a very few down the throats of the passing public, without bothering to consent with people- even those who already identify as deeply religious. It is in essence using an elected office position to proselytize. In addition, the proposal ignores literary giants whose birthplace is Mississippi, such as Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner.
Jimmie E. Gates, writes in The Clarion Ledger opinion page:
It may be a worthy idea that people want the good book as the state official book, but wouldn’t it be better for our legislators to leave the book of religion to religion?
It’s sort of like someone wanting to dictate their religion to others.
One legislator said last week he isn’t trying to force religion — or even reading — on anyone, but he sees the Bible as a good guide for promoting kindness and compassion.
Each person’s religious beliefs must be individual.
You don’t have to wear it on your sleeve. It must come from the heart.
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A caregiver invoice is a billing document used by professional caregivers and healthcare aides to charge for the time spent on taking care of those who are sick, elderly, or disabled. Creating and sending an invoice that accounts for the specific tasks and costs incurred during their services is essential for caregivers because building trust with their clients and their families is imperative for maintaining a lasting, trusting relationship.
What is a Caregiver?
Caregivers assist those who cannot take care of themselves, be it because of age, an injury, or physical or a mental disability. In addition to the many services they offer, above all else, they are companions, sticking by the side of those they care for day in and day out. The caregiving profession is far from easy, but those with a strong desire to help those who can’t help themselves will find the profession rewarding. Caregivers can work on their own as freelancers (also called “private caregivers”) or can work for retirement homes and other agencies.
What do Caregivers do?
The roles and responsibilities of formal caregivers can be extensive, with the level of service dependent on the frailness and degree of self-reliance exhibited by the individual being taken care of. The most common duties caregivers are responsible for providing on a daily basis include:
- Cleaning + general housekeeping duties
- Administering medication and monitoring their response
- Assist with the caregiver’s basic needs (dressing, using the bathroom, general grooming, etc.)
- Purchase food + cook meals
- Transport the needy to and from appointments, meetings, and leisurely activities
Depending on if the caregiver is self-employed or working for a business is a large determinant to the day-to-day factors required of the caregiver, as larger agencies may assign a specific task to the caregiver. In contrast, private caregivers may be a type of “jack-of-all-trades,” due to the need for them to assist with many, if not all, of the caregiving duties for an individual in need.
Caregiver Salary & Hourly Rate ($/hr)
Hourly Rate: $14.64/hr
(Source: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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As a small enterprise employer or HR supervisor, it’s possible you’ll be craving for the day Covid now not impacts your workers.
However with case numbers nonetheless excessive, staff are persevering with to go off sick with Covid signs.
Vaccinations stay the important thing device for maintaining folks at work, and Covid vaccination insurance policies are an essential a part of many small firms’ efforts to assist workers keep away from the virus or scale back the depth of signs.
Covid vaccines are a posh, delicate topic, so having a coverage helps keep away from disputes and confusion by clarifying your organization’s stance on the problems, and explaining your expectations of managers and workers.
Given the sensitivities concerned, it is best to take care with the way you create and implement a coverage to verify it helps the workforce in the best way you propose, and avoids authorized points (though it’s price getting authorized and employment recommendation on this).
This text will advise you on the present scenario within the UK round vaccinations, how vaccination insurance policies assist your corporation, and how you can implement one.
Right here’s what we cowl:
Present scenario round vaccinations for staff
In accordance with government data from 1 April 2022, vaccinated folks proceed to be much less prone to catch Covid. For instance, safety towards symptomatic Covid was over 90% two weeks after receiving a booster vaccine.
However vaccination charges range considerably by occupation.
Well being professionals (85%) had been most definitely to have acquired three jabs, whereas these in elementary trades (58%) had been the least prone to have had three.
Vaccines usually are not at present mandated within the UK.
Between 11 November 2021 and 15 March 2022, vaccination was obligatory for all these working in care properties in England.
Since 15 March 2022, that rule ended and it was now not obligatory.
The federal government additionally reversed proposals for mandated jabs for frontline well being and social care staff from April 2022.
Nonetheless, whereas it’s not a authorized obligation, vaccination is taken into account knowledgeable duty.
UK employers in all sectors are nonetheless subsequently strongly inspired by the federal government and medical consultants to make sure their workers are vaccinated towards Covid.
What’s a Covid vaccination coverage?
A vaccination coverage is a doc you’ll be able to create and implement to stipulate your stance in the direction of workers getting a vaccine, for instance, whether or not you supply them day off or incentives.
It additionally covers different vaccine-related issues akin to the way you take care of recruitment, exemptions, refusals, and personal knowledge.
How a Covid vaccination coverage might help your workforce
Simon Bloch is employment regulation associate at JMW Solicitors.
He says: “Covid vaccination insurance policies might help SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises] and their workforces as a result of encouraging vaccine uptake protects staff and their colleagues from potential severe sickness, and contributes to the broader public well being effort.”
In customer-facing sectors, it helps defend your clients, too.
“Vaccination insurance policies assist SMEs fulfil their obligations to scale back office dangers and take cheap care of their workers’ well being and security,” says Simon.
“Additionally, if a lot of the workforce is vaccinated, there must be fewer infections and absences from work, permitting a smoother operating of operations.”
Conserving a vaccination coverage and retaining any communications encouraging vaccination might assist your defence if any workers complain that you’ve taken insufficient steps to guard their well being.
Reporting laws checklist Covid as a reportable illness for employers, so maintaining the illness to a minimal amongst your workforce must also assist scale back this reporting burden.
Whereas most workers welcome vaccination, some could also be unable or reluctant to get a jab.
This might be for causes akin to medical standing or non secular beliefs, nevertheless it may be resulting from a concern or disbelief about vaccinations typically.
In accordance with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Improvement (CIPD), it’s primarily the federal government and well being providers’ function to fight such vaccine hesitancy.
Nonetheless, employers additionally play a key function in serving to persuade folks to have vaccinations, as they’re gatekeepers for his or her workers’ well being.
Can I actually not make vaccinations obligatory?
Some consultants say it could be doable to mandate vaccinations amongst workers when you have a really sturdy cause.
However Vicki Area, director of Area HR, says: “Now the NHS are now not required to have obligatory vaccinations, I can not see any justification for mandating them.
“Firms don’t mandate every other vaccination akin to flu or MMR. It is advisable deal with Covid the identical manner.
“I’d, nonetheless, embrace within the coverage that, whereas there is no such thing as a obligation have a Covid jab, the employer encourages them to.
“Embrace that you’ll, for instance, help the rollout of the vaccination programme by offering correct communications and even paid day off.”
Simon provides: “Imposing obligatory vaccinations with out specific settlement could be illegal and will give rise to discrimination allegations, destructive publicity, in addition to related points recruiting and retaining employees.
“It may be a breach of human rights beneath the European Conference on Human Rights.
“Any employer that dismissed a person for refusing to get the vaccine could also be uncovered to claims of unfair dismissal.
“SMEs ought to subsequently guarantee they will justify any dismissals and comply with a good course of.”
Individuals who can’t be vaccinated for medical causes are protected beneath incapacity legal guidelines.
On this case, employers could defend their well being by way of different steps akin to extra common testing, help for distant working or contemplating completely different roles.
There’s a balancing act right here, although, as you even have an obligation to guard the well being of your different staff.
If an worker refuses to get a vaccine however their function means this endangers others, it’s possible you’ll want to search out options akin to one other, extra distant, function within the agency.
If there aren’t any options, it’s possible you’ll, as a final resort, need to dismiss them. In such conditions, authorized recommendation is very really helpful.
Your coverage might state your general place on this, whereas making it clear such instances must be handled on a person foundation.
What else to incorporate in your vaccination coverage
Different elements to think about when writing your vaccination coverage embrace:
- Normal steerage, schooling and encouragement on vaccinations
- What depart you supply for workers to get vaccinated
- Another incentives or advantages
- What proof, if any, you count on workers to offer on their vaccination standing (see under)
- The factors for exempting or excluding anybody from the coverage
- How the coverage will apply to company employees, contractors, guests and different third events.
Your coverage might also embrace some pointers about how you can take care of disputes, hesitancy or refusal.
If an worker voices vaccine-related considerations, particular person discussions with a trusted employees member could allay their fears.
However workers shouldn’t be pressured into agreeing to a vaccination.
Whether or not individuals are vaccinated or not is an emotive topic that may be divisive, so it’s possible you’ll wish to ask workers to not enquire about colleagues’ vaccination standing, or to not focus on it within the office.
What occurs to workers’ vaccination knowledge?
Gathering well being knowledge is one other potential minefield. Begin by telling workers what knowledge you intend to assemble as a part of the vaccination coverage and what you intend to do with it.
In accordance with the CIPD, employers can ask if workers have been vaccinated or not, offering they’ve a great cause – for instance, defending the security of colleagues.
This data is delicate private well being knowledge and employers should adjust to the info safety guidelines such because the Normal Knowledge Safety Rules (GDPR) and Knowledge Safety Act 2018.
Beneath this laws, processing private well being knowledge akin to vaccine information is prohibited until it’s crucial and proportionate to maintain workers and the general public protected.
For instance, it might be essential to adjust to employment regulation, and your employer’s well being and security duties.
If processing vaccination knowledge, be sure you even have a coverage doc and knowledge threat evaluation that covers the related necessities.
By no means acquire private knowledge you don’t want.
5 steps to implement your vaccination coverage
1. Conduct a risk-benefit evaluation
Begin by conducting a risk-benefit evaluation of worker vaccinations and the way they might influence your organization.
This can assist inform whether or not you want a coverage and if that’s the case, what its targets and scope must be.
2. Create a vaccination coverage enterprise case
Set out the moral framework and enterprise case for why you want a coverage.
Work out who the coverage ought to apply to, together with contractors and different third events – and the situations for exemption or exclusion.
3. Talk together with your workers – and supply recommendation and help
Subsequent, assign obligations for implementing your coverage within the organisation, with actions and expectations for every stage or function.
Embrace an academic marketing campaign explaining the dangers and advantages of vaccination for workers and plan how you’ll talk these.
Take into consideration whether or not and the way you intend to fight misinformation.
Simon says: “To pre-empt any confusion, all the time give workers prior discover that you’ll be placing a Covid vaccination coverage in place.
“Present empathy to the workforce and take care of any advanced questions from workers in a delicate and understanding method.
“Hold all communications with workers to a single channel, akin to one e-mail deal with and or HR supervisor.
“Additionally reassure employees that vaccination knowledge can be saved strictly confidential.”
4. Test your vaccination coverage complies with the foundations
Be certain your coverage is compliant with present guidelines and laws.
As soon as implementation is full, monitor whether or not the coverage is reaching its goals, together with anonymised vaccination charges.
5. Replace your coverage when required
Lastly, maintain abreast of developments akin to further vaccination booster rounds, altering authorities and medical recommendation, and altering authorized points round vaccinations.
And replace your coverage accordingly.
Ultimate ideas on Covid vaccination insurance policies
Covid vaccinations proceed to be a difficult concern for companies.
For instance, a number of well-known firms have discovered themselves in a authorized and reputational wrangle for insurance policies akin to slicing sick pay for unvaccinated employees.
This makes clear, fastidiously written Covid vaccination insurance policies much more essential.
Nevertheless it’s not nearly defending your corporation and avoiding advanced conditions.
A great Covid vaccination coverage exhibits workers that you simply care about their welfare and public well being typically.
The correct coverage will subsequently increase your status within the eyes of your workers, wider stakeholders and your neighborhood.
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AVA Academia is a new list of college textbooks, which aims to bridge the gap between traditional text-heavy reference books and the visual eye candy of showcase books. Each title will be written by a leading college professor or lecturer and will be edited to fit into the diverse curricula of art schools and colleges around the world. One of the first titles in this new imprint, The Fundamentals of Creative Design offers an introduction to key elements of the creative process. Each subject matter, or 'fundamental', uses detailed diagrammatic explanation, associated theories, and historical references to explain the underlying principles of design practice. Examples from contemporary designers and practitioners will be examined in terms of Brief, Process and Result and accompanied by personal explanations from the creatives involved. This book offers a unique insight into the working methods of creative professionals and enables the reader to understand both how and why these fundamental rules are so important.
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A Brief History Of Bluetooth
In 1989, a Swedish telecommunications company known as Ericsson started developing radio technology that allowed computers to interact with wireless headsets. By the mid-1990s, Ericsson engineers Jaap Haartsen and Sven Mattisson invented the MC-Link, which aimed to let devices interact with one another without using a cable. In order to operate worldwide, they had to make use of a license-free radio band. This means that unless they constantly hop frequencies, Bluetooth devices are prone to interference from several sources, such as microwave ovens and wireless phones.
In 1989, a Swedish telecommunications company known as Ericsson started developing radio technology that allowed computers to interact with wireless headsets.
Throughout the decade, other companies started experimenting with the idea of short-range peer-to-peer connections between mobile devices and computers. Eventually, they realized that they needed to work on a universal standard so that devices from different companies could seamlessly connect with one other. In 1996, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Toshiba, and Nokia formed the Bluetooth Special Interest Group or “SIG” for short. It’s a non-profit organization that oversees the development and licensing of Bluetooth tech.
Soaiy S52 Led Bluetooth Speaker With Lights
The SOAIY S52 LED Bluetooth speaker is a visually stunning speaker with 11 LED display modes and pulsating LED lights. The speaker comes with built-in 28 RGB LED lights which can create lightshows with different modes including color waves, starry sky and equalizer. The speaker delivers really good sound performance and comes with a 10W full-bodied stereo with dual high-performance drivers with 7W rated power and enhanced bass response. The SOAIY S52 speaker also has a built-in 2000mAh rechargeable battery that provides up to 7 hours of continuous playtime and recharges in under 3 hours. We liked the fact that the speaker also features sensitive touch controls which allow you to change the volume, soundtracks and LED lighting modes with a touch of a button. This speaker is designed to be lightweight and portable, and is suitable for outdoor or indoor use. If you are looking for a small but heavy duty LED Bluetooth speaker with lights, we highly recommend the SOAIY S52 Bluetooth speaker.
Darkblue Portable Bluetooth Speaker Conclusion
The DarkBlue Portable Bluetooth Speaker is a great waterproof Bluetooth Speaker. Coming in at just under $50, its great value for money. While it is a budget speaker, the IPX6 waterproof rating still provides waterproof protection. Its surprisingly loud for its size and price, making it a great choice if youre buying on a budget.
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Sony Xb40 Portable Wireless Speaker Bluetooth Speaker Lights
XB40 comes from a famous XB series of Bluetooth speakers made by Sony. All the speakers from this series starting from XB20have the LED lights and look pretty good. XB40 is larger than XB20 and XB30 and delivers bigger sound with more bass and its also more expensive than those smaller models.
XB40 is a great portable Bluetooth speaker with lights. Its important to emphasize that the lights are not the only good thing about this speaker. There are many great things about it its nicely built, it has a powerful battery, and it can really fill small and medium rooms with sound. Its one of our favorites when it comes to portable Bluetooth speakers with lights.
Whats in the box?
XB40 comes in a nice-looking box. Its nothing flashy but it looks good and everything inside the box is nicely packed and protected. Along with the speaker, you will get a proprietary charging cable with a wall adapter , user manual and a bunch of other documentation, and 1-year warranty card.
The speaker is kind of hefty. Its 3.94 inches tall, 11 inches wide, 4.1 inches deep, and it weighs 3.3 pounds.
Things We Like
XB40 also features a built-in mic and its compatible with and Siri. The microphone performs very well theres no echoing and your voice will sound loud and clear on the other side.
Things We Dont Like
XB40 is on one of the most expensive portable speakers on the market. Its more expensive than some large party Bluetooth speakers.
Whats in the box?
Things We Like
Big Bass With Subtle Lighting Effects
Sony’s SRS-XG500 is the most direct competitor to the JBL Boombox 2. They’re similarly priced and sized, with both featuring an integrated handle. The Sony is a little larger but weighs slightly less at 12.34 pounds .
I went back and forth comparing the sound of the two speakers. While I liked the JBL’s sound a bit more because it came across as sounding a little clearer with better detail, the Sony pumps out a lot of bass — it has a warmer, boomier sound quality that some people may prefer.
It’s IP66 water-resistant and dustproof, meaning it can take a sustained spray of water but it can’t be fully submerged. You also get a mic/guitar rear input and dual USB-out ports for charging your devices. Battery life is rated at 30 hours at moderate volume levels, which is very good. Crank your tunes and that number drops substantially.
At night, you can light up the speaker with the LED light strips that ring the inside of the bass ports and use the Fiestable app to control the LEDs. The Sony Music app allows you to tweak the sound profile. Additionally, you can link the speaker with other Sony Bluetooth speakers to augment the sound.
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Wireless Portable Pa Speaker System 700 W Battery Powered Rechargeable Sound Speaker And Microphone Set
It is equipped with powerful 700W power and features complete range stereo sound reproduction as well as treble base echo volume controls for remarkable bass response. It also has multi-colored LED party lights and LED lights. It also has an inbuilt convenient carry handle and wheels thus highly portable. As well, it has a Bluetooth for wireless music streaming from Bluetooth devices like computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and many more.
It also has four media inputs such as flash USB, MP3, and micro SD card connectivity and comes with a wireless handheld microphone and FM radio. Additionally, it is powered by a large capacity rechargeable battery with more play time for portability.
Aiscool Night Light Bluetooth Speaker Best Budget Bluetooth Speaker With Light Show
This Aiscool Night Light Bluetooth Speaker has lots of cool and inviting LED light show functions that make this unique. This wireless speaker doubles as a touch control LED lamp and is compatible with TF/SD cards, USB card connections, and even with aux inputs and hands-free speakerphones.
The LED lights have seven different color schemes and three different brightness settings. You can customize the light strength at low, medium, and high brightness levels to perfectly fit your room or mood.
Strobing effects and pulsing to the beat of the rhythm are two of the most popular light settings. You can create a relaxing, soothing, or even romantic ambiance depending on the light schemes you choose.
Getting the most from your money.
The sound quality is outstanding, especially considering this is a cheaper speaker, and you get loads for your money with this model. The 5W/2.1 full frequency magnetic speakers ensure deep and throbbing bass while providing crystal clear high-end sounds. Its the perfect birthday or Christmas present for your kids or friends.
If you are concerned about the battery life, dont be. Five to eight hours of continuous music playing is possible after a two to three-hour charge. It all depends on which mode and settings you use. This might be a cheaper model, but it does have great sound and a decent battery. Certainly one of the best Bluetooth speakers with light show on the market.
- Lower battery life than the competition.
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What Kind Of Music Do You Usually Play
Your preferred genre of music also determines which Bluetooth speaker with light show is most suitable for your needs.
If you prefer EDM, R& B or other kinds of classic party tunes, then bass is an important consideration to get the most out of your speaker. You should choose a boombox style speaker, or one that at the very least has bass optimization features to make your music shine.
Due to the thumping basslines of these types of music, you will get the most enjoyment from an LED light show that synchronizes to the beat. Speakers that include DJ capabilities like an included microphone and audio effects can also be excellent party-starters.
However, if you are looking to play a wide range of music or err more on the side of acoustic, then a giant bass-boosting speaker isnt going to suit your needs.
Your priority should be speakers that include in-built equalizers and the option to further customize sound quality through the included app. This will allow you to get the best sound quality from all genres of music.
Buyers Guide To A Bluetooth Speaker With Lights
So far, we have listed five great options that can help you put together a great party with amazing sound. But it can get difficult to choose between these options.
For your benefit, we have put together a comprehensive buyers guide based on the best features of all the speakers mentioned on this list.
These aspects will help you consider whats most important to you so that you can find something based on your requirements.
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Best Design And Sound Combo
JBL’s second-generation Boombox 2 doesn’t really look different from the original. But it’s more energy-efficient, with a new Bluetooth 5.1 chipset. Also, the speaker weighs about 1.5 pounds more , which means the added weight went into other components besides the battery, which is the same capacity.
The big difference in the sound between the Boombox 2 and the original is the bass. It goes deeper and has more punch to it. While the power rating is a little higher for the Boombox 2, its top volume is about the same as the original. It sounds fuller and more dynamic at its top volume. Unlike the original, it doesn’t have indoor and outdoor modes. You can link up wirelessly to the latest JBL Bluetooth speakers, but sadly you can’t link to the original Boombox.
Like the UE Hyperboom , this has a USB-out port that allows you to charge external devices like your phone, and there’s also an analog audio input if you want to go wired and connect a device without using Bluetooth connectivity .
For outdoor use, I like the design of the Bluetooth Boombox 2 better than UE Hyperboom. The portable bluetooth speaker is easier to carry around and just looks more like an outdoor speaker. It’s also fully waterproof . However, while they both play loud and deliver plenty of bass, the Hyperboom sounds more natural and has a bigger soundstage with better overall clarity and great sound.
Jbl Partybox 300 Review Best Overall
Our favorite of the lot: the powerful, premium PartyBox 300 by JBL. Its superior construction makes for next level sound that must be heard to be believed.
What we like: A very loud, bass-heavy unit that brings the party vibes.
What we dont like: A large and heavy speaker that is difficult to transport.
You get what youre paying for with the PartyBox 300: the signature JBL sound that comes from superior audio technology. This includes dual 6.5-inch woofers and a trio of 2.25-inch tweeters that create a booming sound that is clear of distortion and has an emphasis on bass. This is a boombox style audio that can create such volume that one user even reported his neighbors calling the police on him!
The light show capabilities of the PartyBox 300 are sure to bring an incredible atmosphere to your next gathering. The speaker features a full panel light show with three different modes: meter, mood, and pulse. While were certain that youll love the rave-like effect of the LED lights, there is the option to disable them if youre hosting a more low-key gathering.
JBL has designed the PartyBox 300 with multi-functionality and user-friendliness in mind. It includes a rechargeable battery that can last an unbelievable 18 hours to keep parties going well into the next day. The speaker accepts playback from Bluetooth wireless, AUX, and has inputs for microphones or guitars, allowing for whatever sound you need.
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Monster Rockin Roller 270 Portable Indoor/outdoor Wireless Speaker
This high quality large portable speaker has an inbuilt Qi charger which wirelessly charges your devices to ensure they are fully juiced. As well, it has IPX4 water resistant rating thus able to withstand water splashes in case of accidents. It also delivers 200-watts for up to 100 hours of playtime and allows you to easily connect 2 TWS speakers to create a left and right channel for optimum performance.In addition, it is equipped with telescoping wheels and handle thus very simple to take with you to whenever you want. Moreover, it emloys true Stereophonic which is a matchless form of multi-directional sound thus you experience absolute 270-degrees sound
Large/party/tailgate Bluetooth Speakers With Led Lights
Speakers in this category are much larger and less portable than the first five. They also have a different purpose. The next five speakers are basically party speakers and can be used for home parties, backyard/BBQ parties, tailgate parties, etc. Not all of them are battery-operated so you might want to be careful when choosing the right speaker depending on your needs and the future purpose of the speaker, you should check if the speaker has a built-in battery or not. These speakers are also more expensive than the first five speakers on the list. Some of the large/party speakers are quite rugged and can be used outdoors while others look more fragile and should be used indoors only. Our favorites in this category are Sony GTKXB7BC and ION Audio Road Warrior .
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What Is Bluetooth And How Does It Work
Whenever devices connect to one another through Bluetooth, they form what’s called a piconet, which is a term used to describe a very small network.
Simply put, Bluetooth is a form of wireless communication technology that allows certain gadgets to connect with other compatible electronics nearby. It was designed specifically for communication across short distances, with most devices usually having a range of up to 30 feet. Some of its common uses include transferring files between two devices, streaming audio through wireless speakers, and even playing multiplayer games.
Bluetooth works by sending and receiving radio waves through antenna-equipped microchips. It operates in the unlicensed industrial, scientific, and medical radio band at around 2.4 to 2.485GHz. Bluetooth devices can communicate with each other as long as they’re within range. In order to avoid unintentional interference, Bluetooth uses a technique called frequency hopping spread-spectrum. With FHSS, a pair of devices will constantly hop around different unused frequencies, sending small packets of data through each before switching to the next.
Aside from FHSS, Bluetooth devices also avoid interference by only consuming very little power. The downside to this feature is that Bluetooth tends to be very slow compared to Wi-Fi. Because of this, it is typically only used to reliably transfer a few megabytes worth of data at a time.
Clever Bright Portable Bluetooth Led Speaker Best Portable Bluetooth Speaker With Light Show
This Clever Bright Portable Bluetooth LED Speaker looks great and is one of the most attractive models in my review. Take advantage of the seven LED light patterns, high-quality bass, and lightweight design for easy transportation. It also comes equipped with a built-in microphone, aux inputs, and a rechargeable battery.
You can use it both indoors or outdoors for family gatherings, parties, or to spruce up music listening at home. The seven LED patterns have varying sequences to create different moods. You can use a strobe lighting effect or even make the light pulse to the beat of the rhythm. Either way, you get lots of options with this speaker.
Flexible wireless connectivity range
Bluetooth 5.0 compatibility ensures you get a 33-feet wide wireless connectivity range, giving you lots of flexibility. This model is protected against coffee or drink spillages or even smaller rain showers. You can literally give it a wipe, and everything will still run perfectly. This makes it one of the best waterproof Bluetooth speakers with light show on the market.
If you want to boost your sound at a party, the True wireless stereo function allows you to pair up two Clever Bright speakers to your device to double the volume. You will receive a 1-year warranty and lifetime customer support if you buy this speaker, so all in all, its a great deal.
- The build quality is reflected in the price.
Best Portable Party Speaker
JBL’s new-for-2021 PartyBox 110 packs some serious punch and delivers bigger sound than some of the portable boombox speakers on this list, including JBL’s own Boombox 2 . There’s an integrated handle for toting the speaker, but the PartyBox 110 is pretty hefty, weighing in at 23 pounds and measuring slightly more than 22 inches tall. You can put this bluetooth boom box up vertically as shown in the picture above or place it horizontally, as it has rubber feet on both sides of the speaker.
It’s rated for up to 12 hours of playback time at moderate volume levels and has a redesigned light show that syncs to the beat of your music .
The speaker has Bluetooth or a wired USB connection and there are guitar and mic inputs. It’s also worth noting that the speaker is IPX4 splash-proof and you can wirelessly link two PartyBox 110 speakers together for stereo sound. I didn’t test the stereo mode, but I was impressed with the sound of a single PartyBox 110 — this bluetooth device puts out lots of well-defined bass with good overall clarity in the highs and mids — and I suspect that pairing two of these together would be pretty awesome.
I also liked how the speaker has no external AC adapter brick and only requires a cord for charging . For longer parties during which you’re really cranking the tunes, you’d want to plug the speaker in if possible. But it does deliver enough volume to fill a spacious living room with sound and also plays loud enough for a small pool or beach party.
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How to Refill R410A Gas for Your Aircon? If your air conditioning unit is not cooling properly then a low level of refrigerant in it can be one of the main reasons for this problem. In such a condition, you will have to refill the refrigerant. Earlier various types of refrigerants including R22 gas etc. were used for this purpose but now R410A gas is considered the safest refrigerant for the environment as well as your aircon. But it has to be refilled very carefully as it can cause frostbite if any part of your body is exposed to it.
Some tips to refill R410A gas safely in your aircon are provided in this write-up for your guidance.
Before starting to refill R410A gas you will have to be prepared for it. It can be easy to refill the refrigerant in the AC if you are equipped with proper safety measures and equipment. You should have a pair of eyeglasses to protect your eyes and gloves to protect your hands. Equipment required for this purpose may include manifold gauge set for AC, Vacuum Pump with 1-4 horsepower and refrigerant. You will have to start and accomplish the procedure patiently to avoid any unwanted situation.
First of all, you should find the discharge line on the high side and suction line on the low side of your air conditioner. I window AC you can find them on the back of the device and the outer unit in split AC. The suction line located above the line of discharge remains cool by touch whereas the discharge line remains warm. The refrigerant is recharged into the aircon through its suction line.
Your second step is to unscrew the suction line by loosening the bolt inside it by using a Torx hex key. You should not remove the screw from the suction line as it will control the flow of refrigerant as a valve by not allowing it to flow out or in until it is attached to the line. So to refill the R410A gas in the aircon it is necessary to loosen the screw of the suction line.
Now take the blue hose from the manifold gauge kit of AC to attach to the port on the suction line by removing the bolt. Now you should attach the vacuum pump to the yellow hose from the kit. The entire air in your system has to be removed before refilling the gas as the moisture in the air can damage the compressor.
At this stage, you should ensure that all the valves of the manifold gauge of the AC are closed properly. Now yellow hose should be connected to the tank containing R410A gas. The yellow hose should be loosened slightly at the end of the manifold before opening the knob of the gas tank. Now the knob of the gas tank should be opened just for a second and closed immediately. It will help you in removing the entire air in the pipes connected to your aircon.
Now, for 3-4 seconds, you will have to open the knob on the lower side of the manifold and close it instantly. Now you should turn on your AC and wait for the starting of its compressor.
The valve on the lower side of the manifold should be opened again as the compressor starts. Open the valve for 4 seconds and close it for a few seconds. When the valve is closed you should note the level of pressure settled on the gauge as you will have to continue the process of opening and closing the valve until the pressure on the gauge settles between 60 PSI and 70 PSI.
At this stage, you should also keep in mind that the refrigerant is refilled into an aircon in small amounts in a gradual manner as it can damage your compressor if R410A gas is released instantly in the large amount.
As the pressure on the gauge settles within the range of 60-70 PSI you should close the valve of the manifold, close the knob of the tank containing refrigerant. From the suction line, you should unscrew blue hose to remove it and from the refrigerant tank, the yellow hose should be unscrewed to remove.
Thus the process of refilling R410A gas into your aircon can be completed safely.
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Protecting forests through protecting rights
OrganizationRainforest Foundation US
Why: Indigenous peoples in Guyana need secure land rights and must participate in programs affecting their lands and resources.
Recent studies prove that deforestation rates on indigenous and community lands are demonstrably lower than in other areas at a global level. Securing land rights is therefore critical to protect forests and keeping carbon dioxide emissions low.
Indigenous communities are the primary actors in the forested regions of Guyana, which cover some 85% of the country. Nonetheless, vast swathes of their customary lands remain without title, despite persistent community efforts. Meanwhile, these forest lands are being allocated to mining and logging interests.
Although Guyana has promoted a low carbon development strategy since 2009, core issues brought up by indigenous communities, including the titling of customary lands and the application of free prior and informed consent, have not yet been adequately addressed.
Norad intends to offer NOK 36,3 million in total for the period 2016-2020.
What: Advocacy, outreach, trainings, and community-led mapping and monitoring.
On the national level, this project will engage with civil society to conduct sustained advocacy on issues such as land tenure, governance, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), as well as trainings on indigenous rights.
The project will also provide governance and rights trainings directly to communities across the interior of Guyana, supporting them to make solid decisions regarding their lands and resources.
It will support the expansion of community-led environmental monitoring into areas threatened by mining and logging. A land tenure assessment and maps of indigenous lands will be made publicly available through an online database, and compared with logging and mining concessions.
Finally, the project aims to promote young people’s involvement in an innovative way, through the facilitation of participatory film production documenting indigenous ways of life and traditional forest knowledge.
Indigenous land rights and FPIC are promoted through a rights-based approach to forest protection in Guyana.
- Policies regarding indigenous lands, forests, and climate protection in Guyana are strengthened and comply with international human rights standards.
- Maps and research regarding indigenous customary lands in Guyana are made publicly available, and used by communities and government agencies.
- Forest governance in Guyana is improved through the development of community bylaws, monitoring programs, and other community-based initiatives.
Rainforest Foundation US, Amerindian Peoples Association, Forest Peoples Programme, South Central People’s Development Association.
About the project descriptions
The project descriptions give insight in the NICFI portfolio for civil society organisations supported by Norad.
The descriptions presented are written by the project partners. Only minor edits have been undertaken by Norad. Their presentations and conclusions do not necessarily reflect the views of Norad.
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New museum collection depot for Ballenberg Open Air Museum
Supervisor_Prof. Dieter Geissbühler & Prof. Dr. Uwe Teutsch
Typology_Collection depot, Museum, Barn
The brief for the project was to develop a collection depot for Ballenberg Open Air Museum, Bern. The functional areas were given and included in the new depot. Design were developed with condition of the facade adapting to the village scale and vernacular architecture setting in Ballenberg. Theoritical research were done on Classical Modernity by Stanilaus Von Moos and Karl Freidrich Schinkel with intention that the new depot could showcase the idea of Classical Modernity as the most advanced architectural style.
In order to maintain the village scale, a ‘village’ concept was adopted to accommodate about 6000 m2 of functional area and act as an entrance for the museum.
The design process of the structure were developed from the idea of simple the grid as a basic understanding of building structure using wood, as material connected to the vernacular architecture in Ballenberg. The research of the structure, taken from wooden furniture scale inspired by Japanese wood workings, was adapted to the large span of the storage buildings using the principle used by Robert Mallaird in Magazini Generali, 1925. This method allowed the space of 80x20m to be free span. The architecture of the depots were developed by segregating the public and private spaces with ‘hanging columns’. This project is a testament to Classical Modernity as the most advanced architectural style after the Swiss Chalet, in the context of collection depot for an open-air museum in Ballenberg.
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The podcast is on pause for a year (as of August 2021) as I am tackling the final year of my masters in education (which I am doing alongside my full-time job). In the meantime, please revisit the considerable back catalogue of episodes. Also, give me a follow on Twitter, where I am still very active and sign up for my personal newsletter here. You can visit The Teaching Space website here: theteachingspace.com.
Notion has enabled me to conduct a yearly and monthly review
consistently for the first time ever. I am also refining my weekly
review process. This is the first time I have managed this
behaviour consistently, and it is game changing. This is a personal
review - but could easily apply to work and there is always some
cross over. Undertaking personal reviews is enabling me to meet my
On the subject of goals, that’s where it all starts, so I am
going to walk you through my process.
Annual review (03:09)
Review the year (screenshot).
Consider your life buckets (e.g. health, work, business,
personal life, travel, money etc) and use the plus, minus, next
method to reflect.
Identify your proudest achievement/s and biggest
Set goals for next year and keep them visible
You might like to set a theme or word for the year - mine is
Monthly review (07:50)
Now page - currently in Notion and template available.
Now page template includes goals.
Review: progress on my goals, achievements, what next, theme
for the year update and currently reading.
Diary note for next month.
Weekly review (09:45)
Empty my quick capture inboxes (refer to episode 121).
Plan for next week - calendar, tasks, exercise etc.
Clear down tasks.
Also an opportunity to plan meals.
Don’t refer back to goals but perhaps I should.
Everything comes together in my Notion dashboard which works as
well as it does thanks to Notion Mastery. Template available
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Skip to Main Content
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Professor Ronald Rivest of MIT created the MD5 cryptographic hash function in 1991 to replace the earlier MD4 algorithm. It employs a 128-bit hash value, typically expressed as a 32-character hexadecimal number. For instance, an MD5 hash generated from an OpenOffice.org download (v2.3.0 for Win32, English language) looks like this:
Since that time, MD5 has become an Internet standard (see RFC 1321 for details), and has come to be used for a great many purposes. While I am not aware of any statistical studies that support or dispute this, I believe the two most common uses are:
- hash comparison for password authentication
- hash comparison to verify file integrity
In either case, the MD5 algorithm is used to generate a hash value from the known good data — either the original password in the first case or the original file in the latter case. For password authentication, then, whenever the password is entered by someone attempting to log in, a hash is generated from the entered password and compared against the stored hash. If they match, authentication is determined by the system to be successful. For file integrity verification, such as when downloading an application installer, there is often an MD5 hash (often called a “checksum”) provided along with the download. To verify the file is the original, uncorrupted file you wanted, generate a new hash from the file and compare it against the MD5 hash provided with the download.
There are at least a couple of reasons to verify the integrity of a software download, such as with an MD5 hash:
- The file may have been corrupted during download, such as by lost packets if there is significant network latency.
- It’s always a good idea to make sure someone has not somehow arranged for your download to be compromised so that you get a modified or different file that can be used to crack security on your computer when executed.
When working with the software management system of most open source Unix-like OSes, such as portupgrade for FreeBSD or APT for Debian GNU/Linux, it should handle hash comparisons for you automatically, behind the scenes. That is one of the reasons for a modern software management system: it simplifies the end-user’s part of the process of making sure that software installation is as secure as it reasonably can be.
If you are a developer, an alpha tester, or a user of an OS that does not provide this sort of protection for most software installation, you may find you need to install software that is not handled by a software management system. In such cases, it is still (at least usually) a good idea to verify hashes to make sure you are getting exactly what you expect.
The OpenOffice.org website provides some instructions on how you can verify MD5 hashes on a variety of platforms. As of this writing, it provides instructions for verification using the MD5 Hash Tool extension for the Firefox browser regardless of OS, the digestIT tool for MS Windows, and the md5sum command line tool for Linux systems.
A command that exists on BSD Unix systems like FreeBSD is simply called md5, and it works in much the same way as md5sum on Linux systems like Debian GNU/Linux. An example of generating an MD5 hash from a file called “test.txt” follows, where > is the shell’s command prompt:
> md5 test.txtMD5 (test.txt) = d76b04fbbf392f6917e119bedf78d2ef
As you can see by comparing this with the OpenOffice.org Using MD5 Checksums page, the FreeBSD md5 utility can be used the same way as the Linux md5sum utility. The only difference is the format of its output.
While MD5 is not the strongest cryptographic hash tool in the world these days, it is still generally useful for verifying file integrity when downloading software. Because so many open source software development projects use MD5 hashes for verification, it is a good idea to learn how to use it and keep an MD5 hash generating tool handy if you ever need to go outside of a secure software management system when installing software.
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This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2008)
Imperial Group plc v Philip Morris Ltd, 1982 FSR 72, was a case of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The plaintiff endeavoured to register the trade mark "MERIT" for cigarette products, but was unable to do so on the grounds that the trade mark was too descriptive. Instead, it registered the mark "NERIT", without any intention of using the mark, but in order to prevent other traders from using the mark "MERIT" because it would be considered too similar to the registered mark "NERIT". The intention was to obtain a de facto monopoly over the unregisterable mark "MERIT".
The defendant began using the mark "MERIT" for cigarettes and was sued by the plaintiff for infringing its mark "NERIT".
The court struck down the registration for "NERIT" on the basis that the plaintiff had no genuine intention to use the mark (despite some "trivial and insubstantial" efforts at launching a NERIT-branded product).
- TRADE MARKS ACT 1995 DECISION OF A DELEGATE OF THE REGISTRAR OF TRADE MARKS WITH REASONS at ipaustralia.gov.au - Cited as a case study for this reference document.
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Although there is few questions i have that cannot be answered somewere on this site i seem to have one in which i cannot find an answer. It is stated that the hair loss gene comes from your mothers genes(hence if your mothers father is bald you will be bald.)If this is fact i have a question with a certain situation. If my father started balding early(about the age of 23-24) But my mothers father started around the age of 55-60, what is in store for me? My hairline is as my mother’s father’s was but it is not the same as my fathers, also my hair color and texture is like my mothers fathers. What is your opinion?
Hair loss is genetic, but it does not follow a specific predictable genetic pattern. It has been observed that the hair loss gene seems to favor the mother’s side (about 52%), but this is not always the case. While scientists can say hair loss is genetic, they still have not found the specific gene for hair loss because it probably reflects a series of genes. In addition, carrying the gene does not mean that the gene will be expressed and you need to express the gene to be balding. So when we get smart enough to learn how to control the ‘expression of the gene’ then the solution to hair loss may be at hand.
There is an old joke known in this industry — A bald father with a heavily balding son complains to his wife, “Look what you and your family gave him” (pointing to the son’s hair loss). In our male dominated society, we tend to blame women for every conceivable problem with the children, because we know that as men, we are just perfect.
I hope the sarcasm comes through to the casual reader.
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Banners are an essential part of printed marketing campaigns and are an extremely effective way of promoting businesses. However, they have proven to be quite unsustainable and if poorly done, not the most environmentally friendly form of advertising. Vinyl banners can also be used only for short periods of time since they can quickly become outdated if they release a new product or campaign.
Reuse Old Banners
There is no point in buying new banners for every event since they waste time, money, and resources and can be very harmful to the environment. Reuse banners and take them to several events. It is also important to remember just because the banner is being thrown out does not mean that it isn’t being recycled. During the next phase of design for a campaign that uses printed banners, try to put together a design which can be used across several campaigns. In order to do so:
- Avoid adding dates or years on banners, and use pamphlets and digital media for that instead.
- Try to avoid event-specific messaging and stick to brand promotion content only on banners.
- If you want to include date or event-specific content on a banner, try to have an area dedicated to publishing fresh content stuck each time.
- A smart way of reusing banners is to combine different banners and change the central one from campaign to campaign. For instance, there may be three banners working together to promote something, but only one of them would be campaign-specific, while the other two are campaign neutral.
Business Waste Recycling Collection
Recycling collection from the office is perfect for both the business as well as the environment. There is no need to take time out of your busy schedule to go down to the local recycling centre since it will be picked up from your front door. The main part of the work is done by the collectors who will dispose of the waste in a safe, eco-friendly manner. A strict recycling scheme is vital for such an operation. If not exercised properly, there is a pretty good chance that they will end up in another landfill site, contributing to the mass waste and further harming the environment. If the customers know that they are committed to recycling the correct way, they will be more likely to offer their long undulated support to your brand as they will feel like they are contributing towards helping the environment. If you cannot seem to find any use for a banner, donate them to local schools, nurseries and youth clubs instead of throwing them away. They can prove to be the perfect material for arts and crafts. You will be helping them by saving them money while at the same time enhancing the brand image with a nice gesture.
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While last week’s stories in the Health & Wellness News & Info recap spoke about non-GMO candy, this roundup includes plant-based foods in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines proposal. In addition, there’s been talk about how cholesterol may not be such a big health issue, as well as how the rise of iPhone and individual devices may be causing hearing risks.
Explaining Cold Pressed Juices
During the early morning routine, in my usual rush, I stood on my tippy toes and grabbed for my juicer and the parts came tumbling down. I caught most, but broke one integral part. So now I have a decision to make. Do I go the cheapest route and just purchase the damaged part? Or do I investigate buying another juicer? Without the use of my current one, I’ve been stocking up on the pricey, organic vegetable cold-pressed juices. My understanding is that using a cold-pressed masticating machine packs in more nutrients than my home centrifugal juicer. They also have a longer shelf life, so I could juice and store in the refrigerator for a week rather than just 24 hours.
U.S. Dietary Guidelines Proposal Complete
The committee that oversees the U.S. Dietary Guidelines sent their proposal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to review. It includes information expected such as decreasing sugar and saturated fat intake. However, for the first time, the committee notes the importance of sustainability; foods better for the environment such as plant-based fruits/vegetables are more beneficial (higher nutrient value, lower calories) for the country. In addition, the committee mentioned that cholesterol isn’t such a big health issue. Individuals are encouraged to submit written comments to the government on the advisory report by April 8, 2015.
Under Armour & HTC Partnership: New Souped Up Fitness Tracker
Phone maker HTC announced a partnership with Under Armour at the Consumer Electronic Show this past January. And just this week, the companies revealed a new fitness tracker, the HTC grip, to rival even the most popular ones on the market. What makes this device unique is that it will record and store runs that can be saved in Under Armour’s Record database.
World Health Organization (WHO) Warns that Many Individuals are Exposed to Unsafe Sound Levels
Do you blast your iPhone to pump you up during a workout? Did you used to love attending concerts and jamming near the speakers? Studies published by the WHO claim that sound levels from personal audio devices and entertainment venues can be a health loss risk.
20 Ways Changing Your Space can Change Your Life
I’ve been focused on detoxifying my home by removing chemicals in my every day products. One area that also is healthy for the mind, body and soul is to reorganize your space. I don’t know much about Feng Shui but this piece from Mind, Body, Green really engaged me to improve some of our high-traffic aka cluttered spaces.
Motherhood: I’ll Love You Forever
I met Kate Crawford from TheChroniclesofCancer.com this weekend at a Kids II PinkPowerMom award ceremony. She’s a dynamo, exuding life, love and such passion to help others. She created her own Mommy Bucket List after being diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Her piece on Motherhood struck a cord with me and think it will with many others.
How was your week? Any health and wellness news that sparked your interest?
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The Chinese vaccine against coronavirus CoronaVac, manufactured by Sinovac (Beijing), has been approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization.
The WHO Press Office reports on its website:
WHO today approved the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving countries, funding agencies, procurement agencies and the community confidence that it meets international standards for safety, efficacy and production.
The approval of the World Health Organization is an important step and a prerequisite for the vaccine to be included in the list of drugs that are distributed under the COVAX program. WHO approval is also required for international procurement.
More than 200 million doses of CoronaVac have already been delivered to different countries of the world, approximately 100 million vaccinations with this drug have already been made. In Ukraine, for example, vaccination with a Chinese drug has been carried out for almost 2 months, starting from April 12. In some cities – Kiev, Odessa, Lviv – only CoronaVac is available.
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Making an Unperturbed Home.
Your destination of relaxation that ought to be your best should be your home. To the owners however some homes are the source of stress. The regret of many people is the fact that they are going back to their homes after work. This however can change only when you decide to take time to invest to your home. This helps you to invest in the value of your property. What this will do is helping on the improvement of the time that you spend there within some time. Making your home the best destination helps a lot to boost your happiness.
To have the best of your home you will need to work on your interior design. A cool apparel is what is given to your home by creative decorations. There are colors that are made so that they can bring relaxation to the home. These are the colors that you want to see in your home. The mood that you want to create is what they should match. Getting into your home at all-time indicates that you welcome that mood in you. When the interior design scheme that you love is the one that is in your home it helps you to create positive home energy.
What is needed by your house is organizing. In your house an environment that is well planned is what you will need. It becomes very hard to find peace in a house that is cluttered. The things that are not necessary you should get rid of them and you keep those that you want.The place where the unnecessary things are taken is in the store. You should be left by the things in your house that you love. A positive outlook of your house is what this presents.
What every part of your house ought to be is being appealing to you. For the areas that you are scared of getting into you will need to hire an exterminator. Through these areas you will not get a relaxation moment. Your focus is shifted whenever you get to have a round in your environment. You will need to hire professionals to keep yourself safe. What they will be eliminating includes termites, bedbugs and mice and others. A relaxed environment is what this helps you to create.
Through the power of negative thinking people see that things cannot come to be. You can towards you attract happiness in your life by just the virtue of having to embrace positivity in you. Making people happy are some quotes or some phots. You should ensure that these thing are part of your home. On your home walls you ought to hang them at all times to ensure you have a smile. It helps you a lot to have something physical. Something to be held on when you are down is what they provide. These objects are very important in giving you motivation.
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