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KARLY PIPPITT, MARLANA LI, HOLLY E. GURGLE
Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diagnoses made by family physicians, and the prevalence in the U.S. population is increasing. Screening for type 1 diabetes is not recommended; however, screening for type 2 diabetes is recommended based on patients' age and risk...
TIMOTHY J. COKER, DANIEL M. DIERFELDT
Acute bacterial prostatitis accounts for an estimated 10% of all prostatitis diagnoses. It can cause irritative and obstructive voiding symptoms, with dysuria, urinary urgency, and incomplete voiding commonly reported among patients who experience an infection. Diagnosis is...
LAWRENCE LEEMAN, LEE T. DRESANG, PATRICIA FONTAINE
Elevated blood pressure in pregnancy may represent chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, or preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension. Proteinuria is not essential for the diagnosis of preeclampsia and does not correlate with outcomes....
Federal Officials Call for Changes to EHRs | AAFP Seeks Changes in Diabetes Program | AAFP: End Ban on Gun Violence Research | CMS Pushes to Improve Health Care Quality
NORMAN S. MARKS
Your patients are likely using some type of dietary supplement, whether they tell you or not. What can a physician do to support and protect patients from harm if they choose to use readily available dietary supplements?
MIRANDA A. MOORE, MEGAN COFFMAN, ANURADHA JETTY, STEPHEN PETTERSON, ANDREW BAZEMORE
In a 2014 national survey, only 15% of responding family physicians (FPs) reported using telehealth in the previous year, even though most agreed that telehealth could improve access to and continuity of care for their patients. More than one-half of FPs identified lack of...
MARK H. EBELL
Bridging anticoagulation worsens outcomes for patients with atrial fibrillation who undergo an elective invasive procedure, resulting in more episodes of major bleeding and no difference in the rate of stroke or venous thromboembolism.
NGUYETCAM V. LAM, ANA CASTELLANOS, KATHERINE THOMPSON
A Vietnamese girl who had been experiencing upper respiratory tract symptoms presented with the sudden appearance of linear erythematous lesions on her back.
The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women to prevent adverse maternal health and birth outcomes.
The USPSTF recommends screening for abnormal blood glucose as part of cardiovascular risk assessment in adults aged 40 to 70 years who are overweight or obese. Clinicians should offer or refer patients with abnormal blood glucose to intensive behavioral counseling...
TINA FAN, JASON BLITZ
A 28-year-old woman presents for a routine antepartum visit. She is 33 weeks pregnant and also has a four-year-old son. She has no particular problems, and the findings from your examination are unremarkable. She asks if her blood iron level should be tested.
NIGEL D'SOUZA, KAREN NUGENT
What are the effects of surgery compared with antibiotics for acute appendicitis?
• Serologic screening for HCV should be performed in all persons with HIV infection on initial assessment.
High blood pressure (also called hypertension) happens when your blood moves through your arteries at a higher pressure than normal. Having high blood pressure while you are pregnant can cause serious problems. There are different names for it depending on when it starts and...
All editors in a position to control content for this activity, AFP journal, are required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. View disclosures.
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2019 new AUD 20 banknote dedicated to REIBEY and FLYNN
- October 07, 2019
The new Australian $20 banknote will be put into circulation in October 2019.
He pays tribute to Mary Reibey, an inmate who escaped rigid social norms to become a smart and successful businesswoman, and to Reverend John Flynn, who pioneered the world’s first air medical service in 1928, now known as the “Royal Flying Doctor Service”.
On the obverse is a De Havilland Dragon aircraft and a pedal transceiver developed to improve communications in remote areas, two symbols of Flynn’s history.
On the reverse is a schooner from Port Jackson to Sydney Cove in the early 1800s. Next to it is a traditional “Eora nowie” (a kind of canoe). In Reibey’s time, there were many Aboriginal women fishing on these boats in the harbour.
New and innovative security features have been incorporated into the new $20 note to protect it from counterfeiting. These security features are similar to those of the $5, $10 and $50 notes issued gradually since 2016:
- The transparent top-to-bottom window that contains a number of dynamic elements, including an inverted number and a flying bird
- A badge with an undulating colour effect
- Microprints containing excerpts from Flynn’s book “The Bushman’s Companion” and the names of the ships owned by Reibey.
Each note in the new series also features a different species of caruncles and birds native to Australia.
The $20 note features the Acacia Buxifolia and the Dacelo novaeguineae (laughing Kookaburra).
As previously announced, the key aspects of the existing design – colour, size and people represented – have been retained in order to facilitate the identification of the ticket and minimise disruption to businesses.
The new series of banknotes also has a “touch” function to help visually impaired people distinguish between different denominations of banknotes.
All notes issued by the Australian Central Bank (RBA) are legal tender.
The first denomination in the new series, the $5 note, was issued on September 1, 2016. The new $10 note was put into circulation on 20 September 2017 and again on 18 October 2018. The new $20 is expected to be issued in October 2019.
The new $100 note will be issued in 2020.
Sources: Reserve Bank of Australia and NUMISMAG.
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Search The Library's Lexicon
that which is put before. The word has several significations; sometimes it means the statements which have been before made; as, I act upon these premises; in this sense, this word may comprise a variety of subjects, having no connexion among themselves; it signifies a formal part of a deed; and it is made to designate an estate. estates. Lands and tenements are usually, called premises, when particularly spoken of as, the premises will be sold without reserve.conveyancing. That part in the beginning of a deed, in which are set forth the names of the parties, with their titles ana additions, and in which are recited such deeds, agreements, or matters of fact, as are necessary to explain the reasons upon which the contract then entered into is founded; and it is here also the consideration on which it is made, is set down, and the certainty of the thing granted. The technical meaning of the premises in a deed, is every thing which precedes the habendum.
equity pleading. That part of a bill usually denominated the stating part of the bill. It contains a narrative of the facts and circumstances of the plaintiff's case, and the wrongs of which he complains, and the names of the persons by whom done, and against whom he seeks redress.
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Electric Charging Stations PennDOT
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is asking for public feedback as it puts together a plan to build more infrastructure in the state for electric vehicles.
The program will allow for charging stations that would provide up to an 80% charge to a vehicle in about 30 minutes. It’s called the National Electric Vehicle Program and it was created through the bipartisan infrastructure law passed by Congress.
PennDOT officials say as part of the law, they will receive and distribute millions of dollars toward EV charging infrastructure over the next five years. PennDOT says the plan is an evolving document that can be updated annually to new initiatives and areas of focus.
“PennDOT is committed to making future-focused investments in Pennsylvania to update our highway network to accommodate more electric vehicles and hybrids,” PennDOT secretary Yassmin Gramian said.
If you want to submit your feedback on the plan, you can do that online here. The deadline for public comment is June 30.
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A new detailed analysis just released from the hub of Italy’s Covid-19 outbreak found 10 cases of a Kawasaki disease-like illness in children, adding to reports of about 90 similar cases from New York and England.
Kawasaki disease is a rare condition that typically affects children younger than five years old. It causes blood vessels to become inflamed and swollen. Typical symptoms include fever and rash, red eyes, dry or cracked lips or mouth, redness on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, and swollen glands.
But it is a disease that is very similar to Kawasaki disease that has the medical community worried.
Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome or PMIS is a new health condition that has started appearing in children during the pandemic and it shares similar symptoms to Kawasaki disease, marked by a persistent fever that lasts several days, inflammation and poor function in one or more organs. Kawasaki disease also presents suddenly, although it’s usually only seen in children under 5. PMIS is showing up in patients up to 21 years old, although most of the New York cases have involved kids between the ages 5 and 14. While most children do fully recover, some children get sicker more rapidly, and this can lead to organ failure if left untreated.
Three children in New York have died from this mysterious infection. New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo said that New York State and the Department of Health are at the “forefront” of investigating this nationally, and urged that “parents should be aware, and parents should be informed of this.”
“It’s a wide array of symptoms, as you can see, which makes it even harder for parents to know exactly what they’re dealing with,” Cuomo said previously.
“As a parent, I can tell you this is a parent’s worst nightmare, right?” he continued. “We thought that children were not specifically affected by the virus. To now find out they might be, and it might be several weeks later … this is truly disturbing.”
Doctors in Italy have become the latest to raise the alarm over a worrying spike in children getting sick with a rare but serious inflammatory syndrome they say is tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
A new study, published in the medical journal The Lancet on Wednesday, found a significant rise in the number of cases of the syndrome in the Bergamo province of Italy shortly after the coronavirus pandemic spread to the region.
The researchers found that while only 19 children had been diagnosed with the condition in the area in the five years preceding the middle of February, there were 10 cases diagnosed since then, all between March 17 and April 14, which was after the coronavirus pandemic spread to the region. That spike represents a 30-fold increase in the disease’s incidence rate, according to the study.
So what can parents do?
Well, first, it’s important to note that it’s hard to diagnose. There’s no specific test and doctors have torule out other diseases that can have the same symptoms.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now planning to release information to doctors nationwide to be on the lookout for it.
Dr. Jennifer Ashton said parents should look for symptoms, including fever, rash, swollen hands and feet, and abdominal pain.
“We have to emphasize this is still rare and uncommon,” said the ABC News chief medical correspondent. “Doctors are following it closely because it’s evolving.”
Doctors say many of the children with the Kawasaki-like disease test negative for COVID-19 but later test positive for the antibodies.
Posted on May 15, 2020Dr. P. Gould, BDO Medical Contributor
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Every day we are more exposed to falling into the temptation of gambling, due to the closeness and ease of access through the internet and the anonymity that is achieved using the online gambling modality. The increasing number of cases and the age of onset, which is getting younger and younger, is becoming worrisome, generating addicts at a speed never seen before.
Gambling addiction, or gambling addiction , grew up to 12% in 2021 and its treatment is usually only initiated by family or social pressure due to the difficulty of recognizing the problem, which comes when economic losses or the breakdown of your personal life is already evident. These people have in a gambling addiction center the best formula to begin treatment to abandon this practice that is so inadvisable in order to lead a balanced life.
Diagnosis of pathological gambling
If you have problems controlling the game you should seek information and go to a mental health professional or your doctor to make a first evaluation of your case where they will review the following steps:
- Betting habits : time, places, format, economic amounts, etc.
- Family authorization . It could be that it is requested to be able to speak with relatives or close people about the case, since the patient may not reflect all the real perception of the problem. Logically this is limited by confidentiality.
- Medical history . Impulsive reactions could be derived from other types of disorders, illnesses or treatments that predispose to this situation, so it should be taken into account.
- Psychiatric evaluation . An attempt will be made to detect gambling-related mental health disorders, usually using the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) as a measure.
Phases of pathological gambling
The detection of this problem is usually easily identified since there are obvious behavioral changes apart from the tangible ones: economic losses.
- Earnings Phase . At the beginning, the first spontaneous gains appear that create the sensation and need to play again (dopamine) so that the impulse to play becomes uncontrollable, despite this the person does not recognize their problem.
- Loss Phase . Increasing the frequency and habit disproportionately wastes time and money.
- Despair phase . Very large changes in the player’s behavior and personality occur and are often associated with other behaviors such as alcohol or substance use.
Treatment of pathological gambling
Once the problem has been recognized and the previous step of becoming aware of it has been carried out, a motivation to solve it begins with the treatment phase, which can be complex and will be conditioned by that possible resistance to it. The ease of access to this type of problem is such that people have frankly difficult to get away from the context that led them to fall into the problem. Treatment approaches will be:
- Therapy . Treatment through a psychology professional who applies behavioral or cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques are usually the best for these cases. Through systematic and controlled exposure and psychoeducation, the patient is taught the necessary prevention strategies and the mechanisms that work in addiction to identify beliefs about gambling that become irrational, in order to be able to replace them through cognitive reconstruction. The family will also be important in this aspect, being able to incorporate them into the process.
- Pharmacology. In some cases, psychiatrists may use antidepressant or mood stabilizer treatments to lessen problems associated with problem gambling such as depression, attention deficit disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorders. In addition, in some cases the anxiety generated is not easily controllable and also requires pharmacological support, at least in certain phases of treatment.
- Support groups . There are groups such as anonymous gamblers or similar in which to share experiences and help to a great extent to understand and empathize with people who suffer from related problems, which makes the person not feel so alone in the process.
- personal strategies. The treatment should not only be seen as external help, but the person should gradually internalize coping mechanisms and strategies that resist the need to gamble, such as: focusing on the goal of not gambling; verbalizations and self-talk about the risks of the game; learn to ask for help; avoid game situations and contexts.
We live in a society exposed to all kinds of games related to gambling and not only the classic bookmakers, but video games and social networks behave in a similar way within our brain, capturing our attention and creating digital addicts to reinforcement by variable interval. This is how most of these systems work, they create a need with the risks that this entails.
Control. This is not a game.
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To mark the tenth anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, PRIO Gender Team, in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held a two day conference at PRIO in November 2010. The aim of the conference was to addresses the most pressing research challenges the themes of the resolution pose.
Even though awareness of the gender dimensions of peace and security issues has increased as a consequence of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the level of precise knowledge and reliable information on the gender dimensions of today’s conflicts is still limited. This is true of both the qualitative and the quantitative impact of wars and conflicts on countries and people. Most of the statistics on the consequences of wars and conflicts on women and children are unreliable. Little is known about the effectiveness of national and international programs as well as the strategies and policies which are aimed at ameliorating the suffering of women and children. We do not know which effects the increasing participation of women in peace keeping operations has, and whether there has been an increase in the influence of women on decision making in general and peace building efforts in particular.
Thus, the team brought together researchers and practioners working within the fields of peace and security studies and gender studies to foster inter-disciplinary dialogue. The conference focused on three key research challenges:
- Sexual violence in war: what are the most important research questions?
- Post-conflict peace-building: What is the value-added of applying a gender perspective?
- Decision-making: What is the influence of women?
You can find the conference concept note and conference programme on the left.
Conference Papers and Powerpoint Presentations
Keynote Speech: Bineta Diop
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Drop Kick Push Pull
Objects can have both an implicit and explicit gestural meaning. The differences in hand and finger positions, in maintaining a grip on an object, are defined by the performance of engaging the object’s shape. Changes in the shape, weight, and materiality of an object challenge the manner of human gesture, and the differences, whether large or small, define the corresponding behavior of the hand and body and relationship to its use. The physical significance of this is profound, and in the definition of aesthetic, the aggressiveness of an object’s physical geography can be directly related to its presence in daily activities versus specific rituals. In understanding the relatedness of the human body to movement and its variability in relationship to the size, shape, and pliable distortion of objects, this proposal is to define a range of interactive testing for levels of physical activity categorized as low (seated or resting movements), medium (stretching to light walking), and high (climbing, jumping, running). By addressing issues of sedentary body positions in institutional settings, this research investigates the flexible resonance of silicone by embedding sensors that react to pressure and displacement in surfaces. The intent is to encourage the physical engagement of the surface within a specific zone or along a linear path of travel, and the results demonstrate an applicability of the sensor in measuring a variety of small and large movements associated with specific physical behaviors, developing objects that engage and encapsulate the body’s physical movement.
Primarily this research has tested for flexibility, resilience, strength, and durability in withstanding repetitive activities related to compressive and tensile displacements by questioning sensor typologies in soft surfaces and the plausibility of kinetic resonance within the surface for activation. Evaluating the performance criteria for embedded sensors, and testing their ability to receive information dependent on the thickness of material around their setting and its flexibility. Equally, the research positions material inquires against larger spatial questions of physical adjustments in the body when encountering a range of varied surfaces, demonstrating methods for physically suggestive distortions in a surface based on displacement of a body along the surface pattern. Consequently, future iterations of these research activities will demonstrate the viable consideration of enhanced surfaces to track and evaluate the energy expenditure achieved by modifications within the surface condition.
U. Sean Vance, Siyang Ziui Chen, and Rebecca Hasson
Ian Donaldson, Eric Minton, Tianhua Zhang, Noel Hernandez, Xuefei Yuan, Yunjae Lee
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Many homeowners insurance companies use risk assessments as part of determining homeowners insurance premiums. There are some of the factors you may be able to change to lower your risk assessment score.
Some variables used in risk assessments are smoking habits, credit rating, home security, size of the mortgage and location of the home. In past years, your credit score was mainly used to determine interest rates on loans. In recent years, it has also been used in other decisions such as insurance premiums, being considered for a job or when renting an apartment. Your smoking habits and having a home security system are a couple of items that determine the safety of your home. If you are a smoker, there may be a higher chance of having a fire in your home than if you are not.
The location of your home is often a factor in determining your premiums. For example, insurance costs are based on higher chances of natural disasters and higher crime rates. In many cases, if you live in an area of frequent flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters, you may need additional coverage to your usual homeowner’s insurance. Many people think homeowners insurance will cover damage from flooding, but it does not. You need additional flood insurance to cover damage from flooding or sewer backup.
Each insurance company may have a different risk formula but a simple way of determining how much risk a homeowners insurance policy has is to assign a cost percent weight to each risk factor for a risk profile.
In areas that have frequent disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes can lower their risk somewhat by reinforcing their homes to withstand these disasters. It may cost money up front to do this, but the expenses may off over the years. By adding these protections may also increase the value of your home, if you end up putting it on the market.
One example of this is if a homeowner in Texas has the risk factor of not having an upgraded roof for tornado protection. The insurance company may assign a 12 percent cost percent risk factor for that risk. Other items that could increase your risk factor are owning dangerous pets, having a swimming pool, a trampoline and other dangerous items. There are many accidents reported annually because of swimming pools, trampolines and pets.
Since the more claims you file will cost the insurance company more money, your risk profile can have an affect on your homeowners insurance rates.
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Sister Ann Miriam was born on December 4, 1913 and died on August 11, 2010.
Sister Ann Miriam was born Mildred Elizabeth Zell on Dec. 4, 1913. She died on Aug. 11, 2010. She was 96 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 77 years.
Sister Ann Miriam entered the Congregation on Aug. 20, 1932. She professed first and final vows on Jan. 23, 1935 and 1941, respectively.
Her teaching ministry of close to five decades began at Marywood, Evanston, Illinois. She taught at other schools in Illinois, as well as schools in California. In 1985, she retired from teaching and offered tutoring and parish service at St. Elisabeth Parish, Gardena, California. She returned to the Woods in 2000.
She entered the Congregation only two months after graduating from high school.
Sister Ann Miriam is featured in the following content on the Sisters of Providence website:
Donate in her honor
Has this sister made a difference in your life? Help continue the mission.
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A new poll by market research firm Ipsos indicates that support for the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is shrinking.
In the General Election in 2014, the ANC won 62% of the votes and in the Local Government Elections (2016), 54% of votes were cast for the party.
Indications from a new public opinion survey conducted in May this year showed this support could be even lower with less than half (47%) of South Africans indicating that they would vote for the ruling party if there were an election ‘tomorrow’.
This figure should, however, not be regarded as a prediction of the 2019 General Election, Ipsos warned, noting that it is simply too long before the time to start making predictions.
About a quarter (24%) have not chosen a particular political party. This can also be seen against the background of the 44% of South Africans who expressed the opinion in July 2016, just before the Local Government Elections, that there was no political party expressing their views.
“The feeling of alienation from political parties is thus very real,” Ipsos said.
The research firm pointed out that at the time of the Local Government Elections last year 26.3 million of the 36.8 million South Africans eligible to vote were registered with the IEC (Independent Electoral Commission) as voters. However, only 15.3 million turned out to vote.
“With the DA and their partners taking over the administration of three metropolitan areas from the ANC after the Local Government Elections, there is also speculation that the opposition might win in more provinces than just the Western Cape,” Ipsos said.
However, results from the poll show that the ANC is still, by far, the strongest political party in the country. In four provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, the Free State and North West the ANC achieves an outright majority.
In four others, Gauteng, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and the Northern Cape the ANC support is measured at below 50% – but the DA support in these provinces are not challenging the ruling party at the moment.
In the Western Cape, the ANC has the support of one in every five potential voters, while the DA achieves 47% in this province.
Regarding those who say that they “will not vote” or who are “not registered to vote” as they are not interested in politics and elections, this feeling is the strongest in the Eastern and Northern Cape.
Ipsos said those who “refused to answer” the question or said that they “don’t know” are not necessarily apathetic, but are still making up their minds about their political choices. This feeling is strongest in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, followed by Limpopo and North West.
“It is clear that political parties have a lot to do all over the country to convince voters to support them – and to turn out to vote in 2019,” said Ipsos.
The research firm tested the trust people place in political parties. Overall, the ANC enjoys the highest trust of the three biggest political parties, although the “trust score” for the ANC is scarcely above 50.
However, when one looks at the trust placed in each political party by their own supporters, the ANC does not do as well as the DA or EFF, Ipsos said.
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Similarly, How many teaspoons of coffee should I put in cup?
a couple of tablespoons
Also, it is asked, How many tablespoons of ground coffee do you use per cup?
For making coffee, the typical ratio is 1-2 tablespoons of ground coffee per 6 ounces of water, with 1 tablespoon for lighter coffee and 2 teaspoons for stronger coffee. In a regular coffeemaker, the 6-ounce measure equals one “cup,” but bear in mind that a normal mug is closer to 12 ounces or greater.
Secondly, How much coffee do I use for 4 cups?
Use 36 grams of coffee and 20 ounces (2 1/2 measuring cups) of water to create four cups of ordinary strength coffee. That’s around 4 level scoops or 8 level teaspoons of coffee. Use 41 grams of coffee (4 1/2 scoops or 9 tablespoons) to make the coffee robust.
Also, How much coffee do I put in a 12 cup Mr Coffee?
9 tablespoons (10g/each) Mr. Coffee Coffee Maker per 12 cups (60 fl. oz)
People also ask, Is 2 tablespoons of coffee too much?
If you assume 100 percent caffeine extraction (60mg per tablespoon), you shouldn’t brew more than 6.5 tablespoons of ground coffee per day to keep within the FDA’s daily caffeine limit of 400mg for healthy people.
Related Questions and Answers
How many teaspoons does it take to make coffee?
Two tablespoons of coffee (about 10 grams or 0.36 ounces) should fit into a level coffee scoop. For every 6 fluid ounces of water, use two teaspoons or one coffee scoop of ground coffee.
How much coffee do I use for 2 cups?
Approximately 2 teaspoons of coffee may be held in a level coffee scoop. One scoop per cup is recommended for a robust cup of coffee. If you want a weaker cup, use 1 scoop per 2 cups of coffee or 1.5 scoops per 2 cups.
How many scoops of coffee do I put in a coffee maker?
Use an equal amount of scoops for each cup of coffee you intend to make. So, if you want to make a 6-cup coffee pot, use 6 scoops of coffee.
How many tablespoons of coffee do I use for 16 oz of water?
a quarter cup
How many tablespoons of coffee do you use for 6 cups?
We suggest using 10 Tablespoons (60 grams) of coffee to make 6 cups. We believe 14 Tablespoons (80 grams) of coffee is a reasonable starting point for preparing 8 cups. Depending on your chosen coffee strength, you may need to use more or less coffee.
What is the best ratio for coffee to water?
Ratio of coffee to water The “Golden Ratio” is a common rule of thumb: one to two teaspoons of ground coffee for every six ounces of water. This may be tweaked to fit one’s own tastes.
How much coffee do I put in a 10 cup coffee maker?
To make one cup of coffee, use 1-2 teaspoons of coffee per 6 ounces of water. This indicates that you should use 10-20 teaspoons of ground coffee for 10 6oz cups. This is referred to as the “Golden Ratio.”
How many tablespoons of coffee do you use for 10 cups?
12 12 tablespoons medium grind coffee and 50 ounces cold water for 10 coffee cups 10 tablespoons coffee, medium grind, and 40 ounces cold water for 8 coffee cups
Is a coffee scoop 1 tablespoon?
Two tablespoons of coffee (about 10 grams or 0.36 ounces) should make up a level scoop of coffee. According to this, for every 6 fluid ounces of water, use two teaspoons or one tablespoon of ground coffee.
Is 4 teaspoons of instant coffee too much?
This implies you’ll need roughly 3.4 teaspoons of instant coffee to make a 12-ounce cup of coffee. Caffeine content is 96.22 mg. The FDA suggests that you limit your daily caffeine consumption under 400 mg, which means you may consume up to four cups of instant coffee per day.
How many tablespoons of coffee is safe?
For most healthy individuals, 400 mg of caffeine per day — the equivalent of 4 cups (945 ml) of coffee — seems to be safe, according to many authorities ( 3 , 5 ). Many others, however, drink far more than that and have no problems.
How many tablespoons are in a cup of drip coffee?
When it comes to accurate proportions, drip coffee is more forgiving than other techniques. Still, don’t overdo it or skimp on the coffee—a good rule of thumb is two healthy teaspoons per 16 ounces of water. (Approximately one tablespoon per cup.) 5
How much water do you use for a tablespoon of coffee?
If you don’t have a scale and want to measure coffee or water using tablespoons and ounces, use the 1:4 ratio: 1 tablespoon of coffee for every 4 ounces of water.
How many tablespoons of coffee are in a 16 oz bag?
Anyway, assuming the same measures of 4 tablespoons or 1 oz of coffee to produce a 16 oz cup of coffee, a 1 pound bag of coffee beans will make 16 cups of 16 oz coffee.
What are the three T’s of coffee brewing?
The Three Ts are the fourth and last point to consider. Time, temperature, and turbulence are the Three Ts of combustion, which are also the Three Ts of coffee.
How much sugar should you put in a cup of coffee?
Coffee with Sugar Adding sugar to coffee Total added sugars from coffee cups per day 1 tblsp.14.2 g2 tblsp tsp.312.6 g4 tsp.416.8 g 28.4 g3 tsp.416.8 g
What are the four fundamentals of coffee?
The four essential components of a superb cup of coffee are proportion, grind, water, and freshness. Understanding and adhering to the standards for each of them will guarantee a consistently excellent cup of coffee.
How do you make coffee in 7 steps?
The following are the details: Choose. Select the appropriate portafilter for the beverage. Grinding. After around 20 minutes, ground coffee will get stale. Dosing. Levelling. Tamping. Rinsing/flushing Brewing.
How do you make 2 cups of coffee?
How to Brew Steaming Coffee 1.5 tablespoons instant coffee in a cup 3 tbsp. hot, boiling water To begin, combine the coffee and sugar with the water. Then, for 3 to 4 minutes, vigorously swirl and beat the coffee. Beat the coffee until it lightens in color and a frothy layer forms on top.
How much is a typical coffee scoop?
a couple of tablespoons
How many tablespoons are in a scoop?
Of course, it also works the opposite way around. To find out how many tablespoons a scoop can contain, divide 64 by the scoop# and voilà! For those of you following along at home, a #16 scoop contains 4 tablespoons (or 1/4 cup).
What happens if I add too much coffee?
Caffeine usage in moderation has been linked to improved energy, mood, weight, cognition, and physical performance. Too much coffee, on the other hand, may produce headaches, anxiety, insomnia, irritability, respiratory problems, chest discomfort, thirst, and frequent urination.
Does drinking coffee everyday make you lose weight?
Coffee will not prevent you from losing weight unless it is laden with added sugar and creamer. In fact, coffee may help you boost your metabolism and get more out of your exercises.
Does adding more coffee make it stronger?
Yes, adding extra coffee to the recipe makes it stronger. As previously stated, the coffee-to-water ratio has to be greater in order for this to happen.
What is the healthiest amount of coffee to drink?
Caffeine doses of up to 400 milligrams (mg) per day seem to be safe for most healthy persons. Four cups of brewed coffee, ten cans of cola, or two “energy shot” beverages have about the same amount of caffeine. Keep in mind that the caffeine concentration of beverages varies a lot, particularly in energy drinks.
The “how many grams of ground coffee in a tablespoon” is a question that has been asked for years. The answer is 3.5 grams per teaspoon, or 5.3 teaspoons per cup.
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Our school combines learning experiences and structured play in a fun, safe and nurturing environment – offering far more than just child care. We help children discover, explore and learn to their fullest potential.
Our enthusiastic teachers genuinely care about children, and understand each child’s individual developmental needs and learning styles. They take the time to help each child discover, in his or her own way, a fascinating world of play and learning.
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Our school encourages a highly productive partnership between teachers, principals and parents. Parents receive a daily email with a photo and report of their child’s day. Through our mobile app, Links 2 Home, parents can easily view photos, teachers notes and reports at anytime. Parents can also furnish special notes for their child’s teacher. Links 2 Home is available on the App Store and on Google Play.
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This investigation compares and analyses the experiences and subjective cognitive workload of students undertaking a lesson on an aspect of micro-level writing skills in a web-based and paperbased version. Both versions of the lesson were based on the principles of interactive learning, specifically on a modified version of Chou’s (2003) model. The analysis is based on two quantitative and qualitative questionnaires and subjective cognitive workload is examined using the NASATLX. Analysis showed that while students were positive about the lesson in both modes, they experienced a higher subjective cognitive workload with the web-based lesson. The paper speculates that this difference may be accounted for by different approaches to providing feedback to students, and suggests that this factor be tested by future research.
Emerson, L., & MacKay, B. (2006). Subjective Cognitive Workload, Interactivity and Feedback in a Web-based Writing Program. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 3(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.53761/18.104.22.168
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10 Must-Know Things About Cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency sector is becoming more visible as a result of global recognition and nations competing for cryptocurrency supremacy. It is impossible to ignore as, with time, more and more investors are becoming interested in it and attempting to make money by investing in digital currencies.
However, there are a few things you probably didn’t know about cryptocurrency. Here are the facts regarding cryptocurrencies that everyone should be aware of so that you don’t lose out on the world’s largest digital transformation. Before we get into the details, let’s first set a common ground and clarify the basics.
What Is Cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency is a type of payment that may be exchanged for products and services online in the same way that traditional currencies such as the US dollar and the GBP can, and it all happens online. Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was introduced over the years back. Other coins such as Dogecoin and Ethereum have grown in popularity since then. And now there are plenty of places where you can buy cryptocurrency, but are you sure you can use all of them? I’m not. So, go here to be 100% sure on the place you’re buying it from.
10 Facts About Cryptocurrency You Must Know
Here are the ten digital currency facts you should be aware of before investing in the cryptocurrency industry.
1. Cryptocurrency Is Highly Volatile
Numerous external factors significantly impact the value of cryptocurrency, just as there are in a traditional stock market. They are quite volatile and rely heavily on your trading intuition.
The valuation can fluctuate considerably, which can work in your favor at times as well as against you at other times. People avoid it because of its digital-only presence and risk component.
2. Decentralization Is Key
The fact that blockchain technology is decentralized is what makes it so appealing. There is no single hub where data is stored, nor is there a huge data center that cyber criminals may attack and seize control. Because of this security, blockchain has emerged as a superb secure platform for large-scale transactions.
3. Blockchain Technology Is Advantageous
Blockchain technology has more to offer than just decentralization, such as being faster than traditional banking and eliminating the need for an intermediary, which saves money. Furthermore, blockchain provides user transparency and control.
4. Cryptocurrencies Do Not Have Any Fundamental Backing
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that, unlike traditional currencies, are not backed by central banks or governments. They also lack tangible fundamental features to aid in determining a suitable valuation.
As a result, determining the value of cryptocurrencies in the traditional sense is increasingly challenging.
5. Blockchain Is Where the True Value Lies
When considering the trading of digital currencies, it is critical to understand what lies beneath those potentially valuable cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain technology is the architecture upon which the top cryptocurrencies are built. It is a computerized and decentralized ledger that securely and efficiently records payment and transfer transactions. It is also a significant reason why huge firms are ecstatic.
6. There Are More Than Thousands of Different Cryptocurrencies
There are over 1,300 different virtual currencies that investors can purchase, with over two dozen having a market valuation of more than $1 billion. However, Bitcoin is the genuine market king. BTC was the first marketable cryptocurrency to hit the market, and it now accounts for 54% of the total $589 billion market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies.
7. Miners Play an Important Role
As bitcoin transactions must be confirmed, the blockchain is constantly expanded to accommodate new payment transactions. As a result, the entire task of bitcoin miners comes into play.
Crypto mining utilizes powerful computers to verify and log transactions to solve complex mathematical equations in a competitive manner. As a result of miners’ increasing demand for graphics-card hardware, NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices’ sales have surged as well.
8. Blockchain Has Its Drawbacks
Blockchain technology has downsides, such as the fact that it is a fledgling technology that is still being developed. It can occasionally result in poor transaction speeds or important authentication downturns. There are also challenges with incorporating this modern technology into the system.
9. The Total Amount of Cryptocurrencies Is Limited
That’s correct. Consider again if you believed you could acquire an infinite amount of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency, like gold or oil, is a finite resource. This is why, as supply decreases, the value of Bitcoin continues to rise.
10. Cryptocurrencies Are Banned in a Number of Countries
Even though cryptocurrencies are the trendiest issue globally, they are also illegal in many nations. Some countries have chosen to explicitly prohibit the usage of digital currencies, while others have chosen to allow trading in them.
Here’s the list of a few countries where cryptocurrency rights aren’t available because they’ve been outlawed.
Keep in mind that digital currencies are a highly speculative field. For every overnight bitcoin millionaire, there are several other investors who have invested millions into the virtual token sector only to see it disappear.
In this article, we’ve covered ten things you should know if you’re new to cryptocurrency and aren’t sure whether to invest in cryptocurrencies. Investing in this sector entails taking a risk.
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This brief article could equally be entitled Birding Site of the month. The Osuna Triangle, that great birding area in-between Osuna, Marchena and Lantejuela, certainly lived up to it’s reputation recently. Several ABS members visited the area during January, some under blue skies and warm weather, while some braved the cold, wet and miserable grey days to witness record numbers of Great Bustard.
An earlier group of ABS members reported several large flocks and seeing so many at the same time came up with a total count in excess of 120 birds. As far as we know this was a record for the area. Later ABS visitors reported flocks of 50 plus Great Bustard, a far cry from earlier years when 20 in a flock would have been an achievement.
Of course the time of year is helpful, crops are at a low growth stage and the birds can be observed easily from a distance. There can be no doubt Great Bustard have increased in the ‘Triangle’ over the last decade. It is a credit to local people and yes even the local farming community, that this welcome increase has been actively encouraged. Could local farmers and the local community perhaps encourage similar attitudes towards Little Bustard?
As I said earlier, this could equally be a tribute to the Osuna Triangle as to the amazing numbers of Great Bustard. At any time of year it is a great birding area worth visiting. Thanks to Kevin Wade for the use of his wonderful photo of the flock taken at the ‘Triangle’ this month.
Note: The views expressed in articles are those of the authors, and are not necessarily those of the Society.
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Forex, also known as Foreign Exchange or FX, is a global marketplace for trading or exchanging significant world currencies. You can either buy or sell in Forex, and its demand and supply determine the value of a currency. Due to the worldwide reach of the trade, Forex markets seem to be the largest and the most liquid asset in the world. The volume of Forex traded daily exceed $ 1 trillion; hence it is a market with huge potential to make lots of money, especially if you can speculate rightly.
So, is Forex a Pyramid Scheme?
Forex is not a Pyramid scheme because you don’t invite people to sign up and don’t get paid commission or sell any product. You only trade currency pairs.
A Brief History Of Forex
Forex markets have been around for over a hundred years, but it has never been done professionally. People have been exchanging goods and currencies to purchase goods and services, and today’s forex market has become a modern invention.
More currencies were allowed to float freely after the collapse of the famous Bretton Woods accord of 1971. The value of each currency was determined by the amount in circulation and their demands. The values are monitored closely by the foreign exchange trading service providers.
At that time, commercial and Investment banks were initially the significant players conducting most trading on behalf of their investors in the forex markets. Currency trading became an asset class around this era, and you earn interest in the differential interest rates between two currencies. You may also profit from changes in exchange value between traded currencies.
Before the coming of the internet era, trading forex individuals was extremely difficult for individuals to trade. Most forex traders before the internet era were multinational companies, wealthy individuals, and hedge funds operators. The reason for this difficulty is that forex trading requires huge capital.
With the availability of the internet, there is a worldwide retail market that targets individual traders, thus providing access to foreign exchange markets through secondary markets, brokers, banks, and individuals. Today, we have many forex brokers and dealers that offer high leverage to individual forex traders that can invest in large trade even with a small capital account balance.
An Overview Of The Forex Trading Market
The forex market is where currencies are traded today. It is continuous and non-stop. An exciting part of it is that there are no physical buildings that serve as the venue for trading. The trading is done through trading terminals alongside computer networks. The participants are the institutions, retail investors or individuals, and banks.
Disclosures are not mandatory in forex trading. Several things can influence the value of a currency, including socio-political turmoil and natural disasters.
There are three ways to trade Forex today, these are;
- Spot market
- Forwards market
- Future markets
1. Spot Market Trading
Spot market forex trading is the largest trading market because it trades the largest for forward and futures markets. This arrangement of trading means that when people refer to Forex trading, they are referring to Spot market trading.
It is where the currencies are purchased and sold based on their current trading prices. Their supply and demand determine the price of currencies. The supply and demand of currencies are calculated based on several factors, including the economic performance of the owner country, sentiments based on the current socio-political situation in the country, and interest rates. The perception of the future performance of a currency against the other may also determine their prices.
The “spot deal” is referred to as the agreed-upon exchange rate value between two currency pairs. Spot trades deal with the main Forex transactions.
2. The Forwards and Futures Markets
A forward or futures market contract is a pact between two parties to purchase a country in the nearest future and at a pre-determined price. Unlike spot markets, forwards and futures markets don’t deal with actual currencies; instead, they deal with contracts that reflect claims to a certain type of currency plus a specified price per unit and a future date for the deal settlement.
In Forwards and Future markets, contracts are purchased and sold at the OTC based on the size of the trade and settlement dates.
How To Get Started With Forex Trading
Trading forex is similar to other forms of trading like Equity trading. The following steps are essential for beginners trying to trade Forex;
1. Learn About Forex
Perhaps the first step to take is to learn about Forex Trading. Though it is not complicated, you need to have some knowledge of trading speculations. The leverage ratio in forex trading is higher than that of equity trading. You should learn to read the currency trends and, if possible, learn to read charts, graphs, and other instruments that can help you predict currency trends. It would be best if you learned about how to minimize loss and maximize your winning potentials. Today, you can sign up for trading robots that can trade on your behalf based on set parameters.
2. Set Up a Brokerage Account
You can either get an account with a broker or set up your own brokerage account. There are online forex account brokerage service providers who charge nothing to trade on their platforms. While individual forex brokers with physical offices don’t charge a commission, but they make money from spreads or pips. Setting up a micro forex account should be ideal for beginner forex traders. Micro forex brokerage accounts require lower capital requirements. They come with variable trading limits.
A typical standard account lot can be as much as 100,000 currency units.
3. Develop a Strategy for Forex Trading
Many beginner forex traders who have gone to become professional traders today started with virtual trading platforms. Starting with a virtual trading market can help you build a strategy to make more gains than losses when you eventually start live trading.
It is extremely difficult to predict time and forex market movement, but having a strategy can help you set guidelines and a winning roadmap in forex trading. An ideal forex trading strategy should be based on the reality of your finances and situation; The strategy takes into account the cash amount you are willing to put up for trading and the number of risks you can tolerate. Keep in mind that forex trading can be a high-leverage market that will benefit those willing to take the risk.
3. Don’t Trade with Emotions.
Emotional trading is the number one problem with forex traders. Beginner forex traders are mostly affected by the emotional roller coasters of trading. When they lose a trade, they want to recover quickly by jumping on the next trade, which may eventually lead to losing everything.
It is important that you don’t get carried away by your trading position; you should rather cultivate the habit of emotional equilibrium in the midst of trade gains and losses. It would be best if you remained disciplined about closing your winning and losing positions when necessary.
Key Forex Terminologies For Every Beginner Forex Traders
Learning forex trading language is part of the beginning process. You should be familiar with some terms of the trade.
1. Forex Account
This is the account your money is kept, and from here, you decide how much you want to use to trade. There are three different accounts you can get, and these are; Micro forex accounts, Mini forex accounts, and standard forex accounts. Micro forex accounts allow you to trade up to $1000 worth of currencies on a lot. Mini forex accounts allow you to trade up to $10000 on a trading lot, and standard forex accounts allow you to trade up to $100000 worth of currencies on a lot.
This is the size of your trade. It can be a term used in defining a borrowed capital to multiple your returns. For instance, you can add your $1000 to a broker’s $9000 to expand your trade volume and increase your trading gains.
3. Lot Size
Measured in units, this is the worth of total money you put in a trade. For instance, you can use 1000$ to purchase 100 units; hence the larger the units or lot sizes, the higher your potential gains or losses. Lots of sizes are displayed as you enter your trading amount; you don’t have to work this out independently.
Margin is the amount of money set aside in an account for your currency trade. It is the margin you choose that will help you remain in trading for a long time because it helps you remain disciplined. Margins help reduce reckless spending.
Spread is the difference between the bid or sell price and the Ask or buy price. You make money through spread. If you set your trade at buy, for instance, and the trend favors it, you will make gains once you close it.
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To register to vote you must:
- be a U.S. citizen and a resident of the state of Kansas.
- have reached the age of 18 years before the next election.
- have received final discharge from imprisonment, parole, or conditional release if convicted of a felony.
- have abandoned your former residence and/or name.
Registration closes 21 days before the election and re-opens the day after the election. You must re-register each time you change your name, address, or party affiliation for voting.
Voter Registration Application – Online
Kansas Voter Registration Application – Paper form
If you can not vote in person on Election Day, you may request an advance/absentee ballot. Ballots can be mailed starting 20 days before the election. Click the below link to fill out the application, sign it, and return it to the County Election Office.
An advance ballot will be mailed to you, (or you may vote the ballot in the Clerk’s office). If by mail, you must return the advance ballot to the Clerk’s Office by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day.
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Would “Buy Now, Pay Later” affect your purchase decisions?
Do you too have a long shopping wish list but can’t afford them all? What if you can buy all those items now and pay for them later? Would that change your decisions?
“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) allows you to pay for items in instalments. It is gaining momentum as online shopping grows in popularity during the pandemic. More recently, some fintech companies have launched BNPL services in Hong Kong.
BNPL platforms offer fast and easy interest-free instalments to consumers. These platforms partner with different merchants to offer a wide range of goods, e.g. gadgets, household goods, electronic appliances. All these items allow consumers to “buy now and pay later”. When a consumer shops at a merchant’s store and pays via a BNPL platform, the purchase can be split into several instalments. If each instalment is paid on time, no interest or handling fees will be charged. The revenue from BNPL platforms mainly comes from the merchant commissions which are charged at a certain percentage of the transaction amount. Merchants are eager to work with BNPL platforms to drive sales.
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Note: Some loan products or credit/debit card instalment plans may offer BNPL features, but these products may have different terms and conditions, interest and charges.
Enticement to spend more
BNPL does not only offer flexibility in bill payments, but also encourages consumers to make purchases and often enables them to spend more. With the option to pay in instalments, consumers can end up funding a lifestyle that they cannot afford and jeopardising their financial health. Some may even end up in debt due to BNPL.
BNPL and credit card instalment plans are no different from borrowing. When we shop and make purchases, we should look at how much we can afford and be very clear about “needs” and “wants”. Furthermore, BNPL platforms may not be regulated. If you decide to use these services, check whether there is sufficient consumer protection provided by the platforms.
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Dyslexia was classified as a reading disorder by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991 and as a disability in 1993. It affects up to 20% of the general population, regardless of culture or region of the world. This percentage varies in particular according to the spelling characteristics of the language in which children are learning to read. Often perceived as lazy or with limited intellectual abilities, these children face difficulties that have long been underestimated, as does their potential. Recently, a team of American researchers put forward a new hypothesis: dyslexia is not an ordinary neurological disorder, but an evolutionary advantage. People with dyslexia would be more proficient at exploring the unknown. This probably plays a fundamental role in human adaptation to changing environments. These results thus shake our view of dyslexia.
Dyslexia is defined by the World Federation of Neurology as ” a disorder in children who, despite classical classroom experience, do not acquire language skills in reading, writing and spelling that correspond to their intellectual abilities “.
Many factors, both environmental and biological, can underlie difficulties in learning to read. It is therefore not possible to reduce all reading difficulties to a single cause or disorder. Nevertheless, research for more than a century has shown that a certain number of struggling children have severe dyslexia, despite being normally intelligent and having learned appropriately in normal family and social settings. Therefore, a specific reading disorder was hypothesized, a disorder also known as developmental dyslexia and often abbreviated as dyslexia (to be distinguished from alexia or acquired dyslexia, which occurs in adults after brain injury). .
Recently, researchers at the University of Cambridge studying cognition, behavior and the brain as a whole used an evolutionary approach to understand this phenomenon of dyslexia, which is found in all cultures. They wanted to determine the usefulness of this type of cognition and concluded that people with dyslexia would specialize in exploring the unknown. Your work will be published in the journal frontiers of psychology.
Dyslexia through the prism of evolution
The team’s hypothesis builds on that of Norman Geschwind, who noted a growing body of research suggesting that people with dyslexia have superior talents in certain non-verbal skills related to art, architecture, engineering and athletics. Ge Schnell was the first to point out a likely evolutionary basis for the observed differences. Furthermore, he suggested that when a relatively large proportion of a population is in what appears to be an unfavorable condition, ” It’s worth considering whether there might be a compensating advantage at play “. Not to mention that this disorder affects multiple genes and is said to have a heritability of at least 60%.
In addition, the researchers are based on a brand new theory of evolution by the same team at the University of Cambridge. The latter proposes that successful adaptation in humans results from collaboration between individuals specialized in different but complementary neurocognitive research strategies. In other words, the complementarity of individual intelligences is key to the evolution and survival of the human species.
In the present study, the authors examine the cognitive differences associated with dyslexia from an evolutionary perspective through an interdisciplinary approach by reviewing all currently available scientific literature.
dr Helen Taylor, a researcher affiliated with the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, said in a statement: ” The deficit-centric view of dyslexia doesn’t tell the whole story. This research provides a new framework to help us better understand the cognitive strengths of people with dyslexia “.
Complementary cognition underpins dyslexia and our survival
As previously mentioned, the new theory developed by Taylor and his colleagues that supports the findings about dyslexia posits that our ancestors evolved to specialize in distinct but complementary ways of thinking, reflecting human ability enhanced to adapt through collaboration.
Furthermore, these cognitive specializations are rooted in a well-known trade-off between exploring new information and using existing knowledge. Exploration includes activities that involve searching for the unknown, such as experimentation, discovery, and innovation. In contrast, exploitation involves the use of what is already known, including refinement, efficiency, and choice.
The authors use a concrete example: If you eat everything you have, you could starve when it’s gone. But if you spend all your time looking for food, you’re wasting energy that you shouldn’t be wasting. “. As with any complex system, one must balance the need to exploit known resources and explore new resources in order to survive.
Taylor explains: Finding a balance between exploring new possibilities and reaping the benefits of a particular choice is key to adaptation and survival, and underlies many of the decisions we make in our daily lives. “.
Researchers believe that people with developmental dyslexia have specific strengths related to exploring the unknown that have contributed to the successful adaptation and survival of our species.
Areas of preference for dyslexia
Considering this trade-off between exploration and exploitation, exploratory specialization in people with dyslexia seems to explain why they have difficulty with exploitation-related tasks such as reading and writing. Taylor adds: It could also explain why people with dyslexia appear to be drawn to certain careers that require research-related skills, such as art, architecture, engineering, and entrepreneurship. “.
In fact, a 2009 study of entrepreneurs in the United States found that 35% of them were dyslexic, of which 22% were severely or extremely dyslexic. Additionally, in a 2014 research across several UK universities across four disciplines (engineering, law, medicine and dentistry), scientists reported that self-identified dyslexia accounted for 28% in engineering, compared to 5%.
In addition, the team found that their findings were consistent with evidence from several other areas of research. For example, an exploratory bias in such a large segment of the population suggests that our species must have evolved during a period of great uncertainty and change. This ties in with findings in the field of paleoarchaeology, which show that human evolution has been shaped by dramatic climatic and environmental instability over hundreds of thousands of years.
Finally, the researchers suggest that collaboration between individuals with different abilities may help explain our species’ extraordinary adaptability. Several studies have shown that people with dyslexia have improved skills in various aspects of divergent thinking. The latter includes the ability to generate many solutions or ideas to solve a problem, the flexibility to switch between categories, and the ability to flesh out and develop an idea. This also includes originality, i.e. the ability to come up with new and unusual ideas.
Therefore the authors conclude: Schools, colleges and workplaces are not designed to get the most out of inquiry-based learning. But we urgently need to start fostering this mindset so that humanity can continue to adapt and solve important challenges. “.
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Referred to as the original walking safari destination, Zambia offers some of the most authentic bush experiences. The country is graced by Africa’s 3 largest rivers – the Luangwa, the Zambezi and the Kafue- and most of the safari locations are centered around these systems. Exploring the bush on foot is a profoundly intimate experience, inviting you to explore more closely the wonders of the African wilderness.
South Luangwa National Parks is Zambia’s premier national park, a hot spot for the elusive leopard, several endemic species and the highest carrying capacity of hippo. The Lower Zambezi National Park, bordered by a rugged escarpment to the north, features 140 km of stunning river frontage, numerous islands, lagoons, and riverine forests along with game-rich floodplains. In Kafue National Park, the vast Busanga floodplains attract large numbers of grazers such as buffalo and other rare antelope.Game-viewing in Zambia is varied and exciting – walking, boating and canoeing complement game drives.
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“Freedom Day” – what does this mean?
With 38,928,936 people having had a 1st dose of vaccine and 30,452,042 the 2nd in the UK [at the time of writing] most people feel safer and more hopeful that life will return to how it was. Many are venturing out to more places, people are gradually spending time back in the workplace and some are even taking their first trips away.
Realistically though there are many in our communities who are struggling to get out and about. For some this is due to a physical or mental health condition that existed before the pandemic and for others existing conditions have been exacerbated by their experience of the last 18 months. There are also people who have developed mental health conditions particularly anxiety and depression and we need to be as aware as possible and supportive to those around us who might need our help.
In the context of HeadsUp we are thinking about ways to support people who are unemployed and really want to find work, but for a variety of reasons including some of those listed above, struggle to do so. One thing that we might chat about with our participants is to consider volunteering. If someone is struggling with confidence, interacting with other people or generally just getting into a routine of having work commitments, then volunteering is a positive first step. It can provide a healthy boost to your self-confidence, self-esteem, and life satisfaction and gives the opportunity to develop skills that might help you get back to work when you are ready (depending on what you are doing it could also have a bonus of helping you stay physically healthy too!).
There are many different challenges around us and with the right support it is possible to move on with our lives, one small step at a time.
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|Slapton Sands and Ley|
Slapton Sands is situated on Start Bay in South Devon. Sands is a misleading name since it is a three mile long straight shingle beach streching from one headland at Strete Gate to another by the village of Torcross. Another anomaly is that the village of Slapton is actually half a mile inland from Slapton Sands. The village that lies alongside the beach is Torcross. The area is a National Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the habitat and the rare species which thrive in the unique conditions.
It started to be formed over 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age and its formation led to the creation of Slapton Ley, the largest natural freshwater lake in the South West of England.
The Ley actually consists of two leys, a Lower Ley and a Higher Ley. The higher ley to the north consists of rich fen vegetation and wet willow woodland (called Carr) with the larger open-water lower ley to the south with its underwater plant life and reed fringes.
The reserve consists of a variety of habitats, including reedbed, fen, woodland and carr. This has led to the wonderful diversity of plants and animals seen at Slapton Ley. The Reserve is famous for its diversity of bird life as well as providing a home for fish, dormice, badgers and otters, insects and rare flora. Among the rarities found here are the largest population in England of Cetti's Warbler and Britain's last remaining example of the vascular plant strapwort.
The shingle bar is a constantly changing environment, which alters throughout the seasons due to weather and wave conditions. Breaching of this ridge by the sea can occur in winter storms and a section of the A379 road which runs between the Ley and the beach was seriously damaged by stormy seas in January 2001. The A379 had to be closed, until a new section of road was built some 25 metres further inland. The whole area remains under threat and the decision whether to protect the coastline or do nothing, and let nature take its course has yet to be made.
The flora of the shingle bar is also continually changing. Pioneer species such as yellow-horned poppy and sea spurge establish themselves on the bare shingle leading the way to the establishment of plants such as sea campion and sea thrift. These plants are adapted to the harsh conditions of the shingle beach with its frequent salt spray and lack of freshwater - an arid climate compared to the usual mild English climate.
The whole area was evacuated during the second world war and used by the US Army as a training area during the preparations for the Normandy landings. In 1944, Exercise Tiger - the rehearsal for the Normandy landings - took place off Slapton Sands. Hundreds of servicemen were killed when German E-boats attacked them during the exercise. On the beach at Slapton sands stands a granite memorial to this wartime role and in the village of Torcross there is another war memorial - a Sherman Tank raised from the sea bed in 1984.
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Energy expenditure refers to the amount of energy a person uses to complete all regular bodily functions, from movement to breathing to digestion. Energy expenditure is measured in calories, a unit of heat. In the app, the momentary rate of energy expenditure is shown in kcal per day.
Energy expenditure is mainly a sum of internal heat produced and external work. The internal heat produced is, in turn, mainly a sum of basal metabolic rate and the thermic effect of food, which is related to digestion. The basal metabolic rate generally accounts for 50-70% of total energy expenditure, and is roughly 50-60 kcal per hour in females and 60-75 kcal per hour in males. The basal metabolic rate is influenced by genes, age, illness, exercise, muscle mass, and can drop by up to 45% during starvation or crash diets.
External work may be estimated by measuring the physical activity level. External work often accounts for about one-fifth of energy expenditure but may account for the majority of expenditure in some endurance athletes. Energy expenditure can vary widely from person to person and for an individual will also vary by activity. For instance, energy expenditure during sleep is ~10% lower than sitting quietly. Light intensity activities such as desk work or slow walking may expend up to three times as much energy as sitting quietly. Moderate-intensity activities such as leisurely cycling or sexual activity may expend 3-6 times as much energy as sitting quietly, while vigorous-intensity activities such as jogging or doing push-ups expend more than 6 times as much energy as sitting quietly. For those of you that can run at 22.5 km per hour it is estimated to use 23 times the amount of energy as sitting quietly!
Total energy expenditure, also known as metabolic rate, is affected by such factors as the amount of physical activity a person does, the number of hours spent sleeping, the types of foods consumed, exposure to extreme temperatures, and the amount of muscle mass a person carries.
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The face of news is changing. It is estimated that 46% of people get their news online at least three times a week and almost every news entity has turned to virtual media to keep up with the demand. Online news revenue now generates more than print newspaper revenue and over 50% of people have learned about breaking news through social media rather than official news sources. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and other social media platforms make sharing and accessing the news easier than ever while mobile phones and devices mean that we can be constantly “tuned in” and connected. What implications do these technologies and new ways of exchanging information have for the future of journalism?
The ongoing transition from print to digital and the rise of the amateur “citizen journalist” are events that have been assessed quite critically. Now that any one of us can act in an immediate journalistic role, questions arise around legitimacy and accountability. Almost 50% of people reported that they received a “breaking news” update through social media that was later discovered to be false or incorrect. Who takes the blame when a false story goes “viral” on the internet? When high-profile news outlets participate in social media and every news anchor reports through a Twitter handle alongside citizen journalists, how should the legitimacy of news stories be accessed?
The speaker will discuss the legitimacy of non-institutional news reporting and how outlets of such news might be held to higher standard if something goes wrong. He will also attempt to address how larger media outlets can be held accountable for their reporting and what citizen journalism has meant in the coverage and evaluation of news in Lethbridge.
Speaker: Kim Siever
Kim Siever has been writing and editing for over 25 years. He recently completed a bachelor’s degree in dramatic arts at the University of Lethbridge and is pursuing a master’s degree in English. Kim runs a communications consulting company, Hot Pepper Communications, specializing in copywriting, copy editing, and social media management. Kim is also the editor-in-chief of Lethbridge News, an independent, citizen journalism news outlet in Lethbridge. He and a handful of people dedicated to breaking, independent news started the service in 2010. Since its inception, Lethbridge News has grown to incorporate about a dozen volunteers, and it has over 10,000 readers on social media- more than any other local news outlet.
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Workplace Safety and Health Control Measures – WSHCM
previously known as DEVELOP A RISK MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (DRMIP) – BizSafe Level 2
The new Workplace Safety & Health Act came into force on 1st March 2006. The Act intends to reduce risk at source by requiring all stakeholders to eliminate or minimise the risk they create at the workplace and to in still greater industry ownership of occupational safety and health standards.
Under the Workplace Safety & Health (Risk Management) Regulations (w.e.f. 1st September 2006), workplaces are required to conduct risk assessments to identify sources of risks and to eliminate or minimise risks posed to any person.
Top Management, EHS personnel, Line Supervisors, Team Leaders who are tasked with the responsibilities to lead and/or manage the risk of a workplace.
Assumed Attitude, Skills and Knowledge / Entry Requirement
Workplace literacy and numeracy Level 5 under Employability Skills System (ESS) or equivalent.
On completion of this course, learners will acquire the knowledge and skills to be a Risk Management Champion for the organisation in reducing risks at source by managing the risk management process at workplace and for recognition of bizSAFE level 2 by Workplace Safety and Health Council. It involves developing a practical risk management implementation plan for the organisation which identify specific actions to be taken, by whom and time for their completion. It also entails formation of risk management team, risk assessment; controlling and monitoring the risks, communicating these risks to all persons involved and in compliance with the Risk Management Code of Practice (RMCP) explains the 14 elements of WSH Management System and key features of SS506 and OHSAS18001
- Risk Management Concepts
- Regulations and Code of Practice for Risk Management
- Hazard identification process
- Risk evaluation methods and procedures
- Risk control measures
- ALARP concept
- Implementation of control measures
- Effectiveness of Control Measures
- Risk Communication
- Developing Workplace Risk Management Plan
- Case studies related to hazardous construction activities
Course Duration: 15 Hours + 1 Hour assessment.
Medium of Instruction: English
Teaching Methodology: Face to Face class room teaching
Learning Environment: Our ergonomically designed class rooms are fully air-conditioned, equipped with white boards; audio/video equipment’s and free wi-fi
Qualification or experience of facilitators:
A facilitator and assessor of this course will possess the following:
- Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA)
- WSQ Advanced Certificate in Workplace Safety & Health (WSH) or equivalent.
- Registered WSHO with MOM or WSH domain subject matter expert.
- 5 years of relevant industry experience at supervisory or managerial level
Key Person In charge: Monish V (Administrative Manager)
Class Size: Maximum 20
Facilitator/Learner Ratio: 1:20 for Theory Lesson & Assessment
Course Attendance: 100% Attendance
Written exam / Oral Questioning / Group Activity
Funding & Claims
- Skill future credit/funding available
- Based on the successful completion of the course and assessment, a Statement of Attainment (SOA) from the Skillsfuture Singapore (SSG) and a Safety Pass from Eversafe Academy Pte. Ltd. will be awarded to the trainee.
- E-cert available
- 2 Kampong Kapor Rd, Little India, Singapore 208674
- 3 Soon Lee Street, #04-14/16&17, Pioneer Junction, Singapore-627606
- 2, Joo Koon Road, Singapore-628966
Renewal Points for professionals
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There were also calls to dehumanize and demonize the image of Armenians in an organized way along with the calls to kill and destroy Armenians among Azerbaijani users of various social media both during and after the war (see this in our previous article).
The terms “enemy”, “fascist”, “terrorist”, “unfortunate tribe”, “weed”, “vampire”, “disgusting neighbor”, “immoral” and similar obvious negative offensive and racist terms were used to “describe” the Armenian nation.
It should be noted that similar calls, speeches and statements were also regularly made by Azerbaijani officials.
16.10.2020թ․ – Nargiz․
“We have met a nation, having no equal in terms of inhuman acts on the face of the earth, the most hated enemy. We call Armenians fascists, however fascists are poor compared to them…”
17․10․2020թ․ – Güler․
“Fascists, terrorists, get out of here. You are such an unfortunate race, that you attack unarmed, spread like weeds in the world, shameless Armenians. Let God give you trouble, savages!”
17.10.2020թ. – Nigar Veliyeva.
”Armenian will drink our blood like a vampire, will our pain pass with a ceasefire?”
04․10․2020թ․ – Aydan.
“In Azerbaijan we don’t say “Armenian”, we say “immoral, useless, illegal birth, shameless, terrorist”…and I think this is awesome.”
04․10․2020թ․ – Kefsiz İsgəndər.
“I wonder, what is that grave sin, that for so many centuries we have been living with this awful neighbor.”
29․09․2020թ․ – – İTV news presenter Jale Hesenli
“Villains who have nothing, invaders who turn a blind eye to what others have. Azerbaijani Turk’s blood flows in my veins. The blood doesn’t change, being Azerbaijani is an honor, being Armenian is an offensive. Please don’t insult me.”
28.12.2020թ. – BEN AZERİ.
29.12.2020թ. – Lahe Memmedova
“I am afraid of the Azerbaijanis of my nation, carrying an Armenian blood…”
28.12.2020թ. – BEN AZERİ.
29.12.2020թ. – Fuad Əliyev.
“The generation of this hyena nation should be destroyed. These are so disrespectful, selfless, worthless and shameless tribe, that they must be collected and buried alive. Then they say, come and live with an Armenian in a same place. Will it be possible to live with this rag nation?”.
06.10.2020թ․ – Azərbaycan Türkcəsinin Dirilişi.
-Pasha, what do you think of the Armenian-Turkish friendship?
Enver Pasha – A germ cannot be friends with a human being.
01.11.2020թ. – Sova Asi.
“What is the feeling of steeling and taking? You have to be ruthless, traiter, forger, aggressor, flattering, shameless, unknown, silly, selfless, liar, terrorist and in a word, Armenian to be able to do that. I do not know a second nation that can do that. You are unfortunate, if you are Armenian.”
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A Guide to Internet Writing Boards & Groups & Associated Nonsense
I belong to a bunch of writing boards both on specialist writing web sites and social media platforms and delight in expressing my contrarian opinions. Many writers don’t like conventional ‘wisdom’ being challenged, so I am constantly getting into arguments. I haven’t been banned yet, alas, but I’m working on it.
My observations below detail why I enjoy interacting with my fellow writers and how I do everything I can to annoy them. If you have been lurking on a group, or you are thinking of joining one, here’s a guide to what you can expect. I tried to keep to ten points, but I had too much fun and kept going:
1. No one knows anything (including, and especially, me).
2. All advice is opinion.
3. Any opinion that includes always, must, can’t, never or anything else definite is worthless.
4. Anyone who resorts to personal insult just lost the argument.
5. People who insist on having the last word will invariably finish with a stupid and useless comment (I know I always do).
6. Anyone who judges you, your character and/or your ability as a writer solely on a single comment or question either has supernatural powers or is an idiot.
7. A precise question is usually pointless, as a large number of people will answer something you have not asked in order to big note themselves.
8. People who big note themselves are invariably small note writers.
9. What works beautifully for one writer may be useless for you – and there is nothing wrong with this, and there is nothing inferior about your preferred method.
10. If anyone tells you what you must do, you must not do it unless you want to prove them wrong.
11. Anything and everything anyone claims about writing can be proved wrong.
12. Grammar is a tool, and so is anyone who lectures you pedantically on the subject.
13. Any question you ask regarding writing has been asked before, probably word for word, so use search if available. The answers will still be useless, by the way.
14. When it comes to advice and/or opinion, comments by a published writer have no more validity than those of an unpublished writer. Their actual writing skills may be more advanced, but their opinions about writing are just as useless as anyone else’s.
15. If something you read on a writing board makes sense or appears to be useful, you are either delusional or you have crossed into a different dimension of time and space.
16. Yes, there are stupid questions.
17. If someone doesn’t like what you say, you are on the right track.
18. If asking, ‘am I allowed to…?’ stop typing. The answer is yes.
19. If anyone, like me, converts an answer to your post into a promotion for their book, they are desperate for sales.
20. If anyone starts a response with, “nothing personal, but,” they are about to get personal.
21. The main danger when joining a writing board is taking anything seriously.
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- This event has passed.
GAF Lockdown Reading Group discusses: Braiding Sweetgrass
30 July, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Our aim with these meetings is to discuss different subjects each time so it is not necessary to have joined a previous session to participate. Before each meeting we will share a variety of readings of different lengths and types to give some background information on the subject to be discussed. Participants are invited to pick and choose what they would like to read in preparation. No prior knowledge of any of the subjects is necessary as our aim is to make these events as inclusive and broad as possible.
For thousands of years communities lived in reciprocity with nature, caring for the land as it cared for them, until imperialist forces sought to take that land for themselves. Now that capitalism, a uniquely extractive mode of economic organisation, has come to dominate the world, what can we learn from the wisdom of indigenous peoples in our shared struggle against environmental collapse?
For this session we will be doing things a little differently as we will be concentrating on one book: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Join us as we discuss the questions:
- What might a post-capitalist gift economy look like? (see ‘Gifts’ theme below)
- How can we apply indigenous wisdom to our own projects and to new environments? (see ‘Wisdom’ theme below)
- How can we live in reciprocity with nature in our individual lives and in our collective efforts? (see ‘Reciprocity and Gratitude’ theme below)
- How do language and grammar shape the way we think about the world? (see ‘Language’ theme below)
We would like to remind you that you don’t need to do all the readings, just pick and choose the ones you want to do. We would highly recommend doing as much of the reading as you are up to in preparation.
The chapters of the first half of the book have been grouped by theme to make it easier for the reader to explore the topics of most interest to them. The chapters are relatively short (except The Honourable Harvest, which is substantially longer) and standalone.
- The Gift of Strawberries
- Maple Sugar Moon
- Epiphany in the Beans
- The Council of Pecans
- Asters and Goldenrod
- The Three Sisters
- Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass
- Reciprocity and Gratitude
- An Offering
- Allegiance to Gratitude
- Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket
- The Honourable Harvest (this chapter is a lot longer than the others but covers many topics)
- Witch Hazel
- A Mother’s Work
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Only about 10 per cent of Cambodia’s workforce is being granted paid annual leave, a report released last week says.
Under the 1997 Labour Law, workers who work a standard 48-hour week are entitled to 18 days of paid annual leave, in addition to one day off per week.
But according to the Cambodia Labour Force 2012 report, released on Thursday by the International Labour Organization and the Ministry of Planning’s National Institute of Statistics, 90 per cent of regular employees are not being given any paid annual leave – a figure that is similar when it comes to paid sick leave.
“According to the responses … only 9.5 per cent of them were allowed any annual paid leave and only 10.4 per cent had provision for paid sick leave,” the report says.
These figures relate only to the 46 per cent of the workforce considered “employees”, rather than those who are self-employed (33 per cent) or contributors to a family business (20 per cent).
Ou Tepphallin, vice-president of the Cambodian Food and Service Workers’ Federation, said the beer promotion sector was one in which only workers at a select few companies were given annual leave.
“Not only do [most] not get annual leave … they have to work seven days per week without getting a holiday,” she said yesterday. “If they want to take time off, their salary will be cut.”
Tepphallin said that some workers did not even know what the Labour Law was and would benefit from more regular government inspections.
Sat Sakmoth, secretary of state at the Ministry of Labour, and In Khemara, director of the ministry’s inspection department, could not be reached.
Dave Welsh, country manager for labour-rights group Solidarity Center, said that for industries other than the garment sector – which is responsible for more than 85 per cent of Cambodia’s exports – the report’s statistics “are not surprising”.
“Outside of the garment sector, unless you’re working for an international hotel, workers and their [bosses] are probably not aware of it [the Labour Law requirement],” he said. “But it is a violation of the law.”
Within the garment sector, compliance is much greater, Welsh added.
The report surveyed 9,600 households across the country.
“By industry, the largest proportion of the employed population was engaged in agriculture, at 33.3 per cent, followed by 17.5 per cent in wholesale and retail trade and 17.4 in manufacturing,” it says.
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Sovereignty over Takeshima
In 1618 (Note), Ohya Jinkichi and Murakawa Ichibei, merchants from Yonago, Hōki Province, in Tottori Domain, received permission for passage to Utsuryo Island (then called “Takeshima” in Japan) from the shogunate via the lord of Tottori. Following that, the two families took turns in traveling to Utsuryo Island once each year, and engaging in catching abalone, hunting sea lions and felling trees.
Note: Some believe that this was in 1625.
Both families engaged in fishing around Utsuryo Island using ships with the hollyhock crest of the ruling shogunate family on the sails, and usually presented the abalone they caught as gifts to the shogunate and others. Thus they monopolized the management of the island with the de facto approval of the shogunate.
During this period, Takeshima, on the route from Oki to Utsuryo Island, came to be used as a navigational port, docking point for ships, and rich fishing ground for sea lions and abalone.
As a consequence of the above facts, Japan had established sovereignty over Takeshima by the mid-17th century (early Edo period) at the latest.
If the shogunate had considered Utsuryo Island and Takeshima to be foreign territories at the time, it would have banned passage to these islands in 1635 when it issued its directives to close Japan to the outside world and to prohibit Japanese from traveling abroad. However, no such ban was issued.
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Z/IP Gateway Advanced Configurations#
This session covers advanced configurations that are required to deploy the Z/IP Gateway.
Where to Apply Configurations#
These settings are configured by the developer, or by the Z/IP client. If using Z-Ware, Z-Ware will do so, as they are an integral part of how Z-Ware works. In the previous session, part of setting up Z/IP Gateway was to apply some configurations. For example, the RF TX power to increase the range to the allowed range within Europe. This introduced the zipgateway.cfg file that can be used to apply different configurations.
Z/IP Gateway is not Certifiable Without a Client#
The main thing to remember about configurations that apply to Z-Wave is that Z/IP Gateway can't pass certification by itself. Z/IP Gateway is only part of the controller stack and it needs a Z/IP client to handle the application-level command classes. The problem is that, to build a certifiable Z-Wave controller, more application logic is needed. Most of the application logic required is related to command classes that Z/IP Gateway cannot support by itself because, in many ways, it is just a bridge.
These examples are not directly related to transport functionalities (SRN14435 section 6.1.2), of command classes that the Z/IP Gateway can support by itself. It can do so because the functionality is narrowly defined.
“Time command class”, where a Z-Wave device can request the current time from Z/IP Gateway. Z/IP Gateway knows how to get the current time on the host system and return it, no high-level application logic required.
“Z-Wave Plus info command class”; the gateway has sufficient information about itself to provide this information to any node in the network which requires it.
“Indicator command class”: This is used to identify a device physically in a network. It allows a user to send an indicator command, triggering the device to do something to draw attention, for example blink an LED. Z/IP Gateway has hardware interfaces to do this, no application logic required.
“Manufacturer specific command class”: Serial numbers and UUIDs.
“Version command class”: Z/IP Gateway supports this command class for all the command classes it provides support for. As a Z/IP client may have added more command classes as supported, any version get command for these specific command classes will be forwarded to the Z/IP client.
Command Class Support Required to Certify#
A Z/IP client is required to support a range of command classes. The most common examples are as follows:
“Association command class”: Association command class and lifeline association were introduced in the training for embedded devices. All Z-Wave devices are required to have a lifeline association group, which must have at least a single association group and, depending on the supported command classes, there are requirements for minimum lifeline reporting. The minimum requirement for controllers is that if it has been included into an existing Z-Wave network and it is reset, it must send a “device reset locally” command to tell the remaining controller in the network that it has been reset. With association, you can add much more application level functionality. This is seen with slave devices that offer direct control of other devices without any runtime involvement with controllers, and in the same way a controller could have multiple association groups. This is not something that Z/IP Gateway can handle.
“Association group info command class”: Provides information about association groups. As association command class is not supported by Z/IP Gateway, neither can it support association group info command class.
“Multi command command class”: an encapsulation layer that allows to send multiple Z-Wave commands within the same Z-Wave frame.
“Version command class”: While partially implemented by Z/IP Gateway, it must be supported by the Z/IP client as it will have to support it for the command classes it implements support for. For example, if requesting which version of “association command class” supported by this particular controller, Z/IP Gateway will not know it, and it will forward the request to the client.
Z/IP Gateway Deep Package Inspection#
When data is received from the Z-Wave network, Z/IP Gateway inspects that payload in deep packet inspection to see if the frames payload fulfill the requirements for the given command class. If the requirements are fulfilled, the frame is forwarded to the unsolicited destination, which is configured either in zipgateway.cfg, or through the “Z/IP Gateway command class”.
Deep packet inspection is different depending on whether the received payload is a command that requires support, such as “set” and “get” commands, or whether it is commands that require control, typically “report” commands. For the commands that requires “support”, Z/IP Gateway checks whether it is a command that it has listed as supported in its “node information frame”, or in “secure commands supported report”. If listed, it will check whether the command was received at the highest granted key class of the destination, meaning Z/IP Gateways highest granted key class.
If not true, the frame will be dropped. Z/IP Gateway will also, if the command is supervision encapsulated, reply with a supervisor report on behalf of the Z/IP client.
For command classes that requires control on the destination, Z/IP Gateway checks if the frame was sent at the source nodes highest granted key class. If receiving a frame from a door lock, Z/IP Gateway will check if the frame was sent using “access key class”.
Finally, there are general checks on the parameters of the command class, such as payload length.
Does the command require support (i.e.,) set and get commands
Is the command listed in Z/IP Gateway's NIF / secure commands supported
Is the command received at the destinations (i.e., Z/IP Gateways) highest key class granted to Z/IP - Gateway
Does the command require control (i.e., report commands)
Is the commands sent at the source’ highest granted key class
General checks on other parameters like payload length.
Z/IP Gateway Deep Package Inspection#
Commands that pass are forwarded to “unsolicited destination”.
Commands that fail check is discarded
If discarded commands are “supervision encapsulated”, Z/IP Gateway will respond with a supervision report on behalf of the unsolicited destination
The gateway needs to know what to do with frames it did not ask for (or in other words did not solicit).
The payload is inspected and whether they pass deep packet inspection
They are forwarded to the “unsolicited destination”
The unsolicited destination is configured in zipgateway.cfg
TLS Tunnel Connection#
Z/IP Gateway can connect to a Z/IP client, through a TLS tunnel, sending TLS encapsulated IPv6 frames to a remote instance of a Z/IP client. This is used with Z-Ware in “portal mode”, where Z-Ware can be running on a remote location while Z/IP Gateway is connected behind a NAT router.
The TLS tunnel relies on mutual authentication through RSA certificates, meaning that both devices must have certificates, signed by the same certificate authority. The cloud instance of Z-Ware will verify that a Z/IP Gateway connecting is an authentic for the particular service, and Z/IP Gateway will verify that it is connecting to an authentic instance of Z-Ware. The mutual authentication allows both ends of the connection to be certain that they are connecting to a trusted party.
The Z-Ware portal instance can host many accounts; thousands potentially. Each of the individual Z/IP Gateway instances are identified by the serial number of the certificate.
TLS encapsulated IPv6 frames
Mutually authenticated through RSA certificates
Both Z/IP Gateway and portal must have certificates signed by same CA
Z/IP Gateway instances may be linked to individual accounts through certificate serial numbers.
Z/IP Gateways logfile contains a lot of information, both about the networks, Z-Wave and IP, but also about the communication passing through Z/IP Gateway. For debugging purposes, this information is essential as the network information, can be used to configure other debugging tools, such as the Zniffer and any IP tracing tools.
Z/IP Gateways log file contains all information about
The current network
A Look into zipgatway.log - header#
The logfile, starting with the header, contains very useful information about:
Network capabilities, meaning Z-Wave network capabilities
The controller’s role in the network
What they are
What the maximum security of the network is
Z-Wave home ID
Z-Wave node IDs
Z-Wave virtual nodes
In the following details are given on extracting this information from the log file.
ESC[32;1m10352130 Opening config file /usr/local/etc/zipgateway.cfg ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352130 RF Region EU = 0 ESC[0mStarting Contiki Opening eeprom file /usr/local/var/lib/zipgateway/eeprom.dat Lan device tap0 LAN HW addr 32:9C:B0:61:C0:9A ESC[32;1m10352132 Starting zipgateway ver7_13.01 build ver7_13.01 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352132 Resetting ZIP Gateway ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352132 Serial Process init ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352132 Using serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352175 Version: Z-Wave 7.13, type 7 ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352229 ...... Firmware Update Meta Data command class version: 5 ...... ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352235 Magic check 191da1 == 191da1 ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352242 NVM version is 2 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352249 L2 HW addr ESC[0m00:1e:32:1e:0e:ec ESC[32;1m10352249 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352266 700 series chip version 0 serial api version 8 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352272 I'am SUC ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352370 Key class 80 ESC[0m4C8DEEF8631D1FDA5654667C28B7B58D ESC[33;1m10352376 sec0_set_key ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352397 Key class 1 ESC[0mDCBBF75E55E8D1A553D7EBA42BB4635B ESC[34;1m10352411 Key class 2 ESC[0mE2F1966BCA7266F0AC7208E48735E267 ESC[34;1m10352425 Key class 4 ESC[0mF9F9DE5BFC0DA4546CC79BE19965CF99 ESC[32;1m10352431 Network scheme is:ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352431 S2 ACCESS ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352437 Resetting IMA ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352437 Indicator blink script from config file (not sanitized): zipgateway_node_identify_generic.sh ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352437 Using indicator blink script: /usr/local/etc/zipgateway_node_identify_generic.sh ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352438 I'm a primary or inclusion controller. ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352454 Command classes updated ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352460 nodeid=1 0x00 ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352517 Waiting for bridge ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352517 ZIP_Router_Reset: pan_lladdr: 88:9a:06:d5:00:01 Home ID = 0xd5069a88 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352517 Tunnel prefix ESC[0m:: ESC[32;1m10352517 Lan address ESC[0mfd00:aaaa::03 ESC[32;1m10352517 Han address ESC[0mfd00:bbbb::01 ESC[32;1m10352517 Gateway address ESC[0mfd00:aaaa::1234 ESC[32;1m10352517 Unsolicited address ESC[0mfd00:aaaa::b156:ad51:8fb:2032 dynamic ECDH Public key is 58225-04923-43331-28077- 06312-33855-41199-50032- 46474-14320-16623-54729- 25929-50757-25842-13413- ESC[32;1m10352552 DTLS server started ESC[0mESC[33;1m10352552 mDNS server started ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352552 DHCP client started ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352552 Starting zip tcp client ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352552 ZIP TCP Client Started. ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352552 No portal host defined. Running without portal. ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352557 DHCP client started ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352557 Found storage file /usr/local/var/lib/zipgateway/provisioning_list_store.dat ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352557 Using file /usr/local/var/lib/zipgateway/provisioning_list_store.dat for provisioning list storage. ESC[0mESC[34;1m10352557 Imported 0 provisions, stored 0 ESC[0mtap_dev: tapdev_send: write: Input/output error tap_dev: tapdev_send: write: Input/output error tap_dev: tapdev_send: write: Input/output error fd00:bbbb::01 fd00:aaaa::03 fe80::21e:32ff:fe1e:eec tap_dev: tapdev_send: write: Input/output error ESC[32;1m10354117 Comming up ESC[0mESC[32;1m10354166 temp_assoc_virtual_nodeids (count=4): 6 7 8 ... 9 ESC[0mESC[32;1m10354188 Bridge init done ESC[0m1759 ESC[32;1m10354195 HomeID is d5069a88 node id 1
In the following sections the log file above is broken down.
Logfile – Version information#
ESC[0mESC[32;1m10352272 I'am SUC 1m16888 Starting zipgateway ver7_13.01 build ver7_13.01 32;1m16937 Version: Z-Wave 7.13, type 7 32;1m20309 700 series chip version 0 serial api version 8
Starting from the top, Z/IP Gateway's own version is seen, and the protocol version running on the Z-Wave module.
There are a lot of Z-Wave protocol versions, and Z/IP Gateway does not print the least significant digit. In other words, while this was captured on 7.13.06, It cannot be seen from the log.
Logfile – Z-Wave Network Information#
ESC[0mESC[34;1m20565 ZIP_Router_Reset: pan_lladdr: b5:b0:ea:f9:00:01 Home ID = 0xf9eab0b5 ESC[0mESC[34;1m1751818 nodeid=1 0x00 ESC[0mESC[32;1m1753617 temp_assoc_virtual_nodeids (count=4): 2 3 4 ... 5
The home ID is shown along with Z/IP Gateway's node ID. Typically referred to as Z/IP Gateways own node ID; 1. The virtual node IDs, which in this case are 2 through 5.
All information is added sequentially to the zipgateway.log, so when doing network management operations, such as resetting or joining other networks, the home ID and the node IDs will be changing, and both old and new home IDs will be shown sequentially.
The node IDs are useful for understanding where the traffic is coming from in a Z-Wave network. If the frames are sent from Z/IP Gateways own node ID, typically 1, then the traffic will be originating from Z/IP Gateway itself, while if the frames are coming from any of the virtual node IDs, the traffic was sent from a Z/IP client. This can be seen on the Zniffer.
Logfile - IP Network Information#
ESC[32;1m750873 Lan address ESC[0mfdd1:3ca1:d800:01:21e:32ff:fe1e:eec ESC[32;1m750873 Han address ESC[0mfdcf:d2d9:1152:02:: ESC[32;1m750873 Gateway address ESC[0mfd00:aaaa::1234 ESC[32;1m750873 Unsolicited address ESC[0mfd00:aaaa::b156:ad51:8fb:2032
PAN address: The home area network address, which is the prefix used for the Z-Wave nodes.
gateway address: This is the default IP gateway in the network; a router to reach the rest of the Internet. If in a network, was it possible to route the IPv6 address globally,
This informations is very useful if debugging on the IPv6 layer. It allows for extracting the gateway address and the prefix for the Z-Wave nodes. It cal also be used to filter out traffic from individual Z-Wave nodes on an IP trace.
ESC[0mESC[34;1m759092 got OFFER ESC[0mESC[34;1m759092 send REQUEST ESC[0mESC[34;1m759094 got ACK ESC[0mESC[32;1m759094 Node 1 has ipv4 address 192.168.80.233 ESC[0mESC[34;1m759094 Checking for new sessions ESC[0mESC[34;1m759094 We should send a discover ESC[0mESC[32;1m759094 New IPv4 assigned for node 1
Information about IPv4. For each Z-Wave node there is a DHCP frame exchange with “offer”, “request” and “ack”. For each node this results in an IPv4 address. The IPv4 address may change over time depending on the configuration of the DHCP server, so these IPv4 lease acquisitions will be scattered throughout the log file. Again, this information is useful for debugging, while not as readable as the IPv6 addresses, it may be relevant depending on the chosen IP environment.
Logfile – runtime information#
2739937 ClassicZIPNode_dec_input: pkt: 23 2 len: 12 2739938 Sending long attempt 2739938 process_node_queues: uip_len:60 2739938 ClassicZIPNode_input: uip_len:60 2739938 ClassicZIPUDP_input len: 12 secure: 1 fdd1:3ca1:d800:01:7415:87ff:fe38:24c6 2739938 temp_assoc_lookup_by_zip_client 2739938 temp_assoc_lookup_by_zip_client() found: 0x7d716c 2739938 Sending 2->6, class: 0x20, cmd: 0x2, len: 2 2739938 Sending with scheme 2 2739938 S2_fsm_post_event event: SEND_MSG, state IDLE 2739938 S2_set_timeout interval =65000 ms 2739939 Sending S2_send_frame 14 2739963 S2_fsm_post_event event: SEND_DONE, state VERIFYING_DELIVERY 2739963 S2_set_timeout interval =274 ms 2739973 ApplicationCommandHandler 6->2 class 0x9f cmd 0x03 size 17 2739973 S2_fsm_post_event event: GOT_ENC_MSG, state VERIFYING_DELIVERY 2739973 s2incl process_event event: S2_INCLUSION_SEND_DONE state: S2_INC_IDLE 2739973 send_using_temp_assoc_callback_ex for node 6 status 0 2739974 queue_send_done to node 6 queue 2 status: 0 2739974 ApplicationCommandHandler 6->2 class 0x20 cmd 0x03 size 5 2739975 bridge_virtual_node_commandhandler Handled 2739978 Sending long attempt 2739978 process_node_queues: uip_len:65 2739978 ClassicZIPNode_input: uip_len:65 2739978 DeMangled HAN node 6 Virtual Node 2 2739978 Packet from Z-Wave side (nodeid: 6) to port: 51607 IP addr: fdd1:3ca1:d800:01:7415:87ff:fe38:24c6 2739979 queue_send_done to node 6 queue 2 status: 0
This is an example of sending a payload to a Z-Wave node. From the top, there is an entry saying that an incoming frame, hex
23 02, Z/IP encapsulation, was received. This is the Z-Wave over IP encapsulation used when transferring Z-Wave payloads over IP. As the destination is a Z-Wave node, a temporary association is assigned meaning that Z/IP Gateway is allocating a virtual node to use for the communication from a certain IP source to a certain Z-Wave destination. Finally, the payload is transmitted from virtual node 2, to the destination device, node ID 6, and the payload being sent can be seen, hex
20 02; a basic get.
A few lines related to S2 are seen because the destination supports S2. Timeouts are also there. It can also be seen that, because the payload is a “get” command soliciting an answer, Z/IP Gateway is automatically using the “verify delivery” mechanism discussed in the previous section. The timestamps are in milliseconds, so this process is running swiftly. A lot of it is within the same millisecond and, when Z/IP Gateway transmits to something relying on the Z-Wave RF interface, slower. It can be seen that node ID 6 is returning a frame to node ID 2. Z/IP Gateway processes this frame in steps. The first step is to inspect the command class, hex 9f 03, which is an encrypted s2 message encapsulation, then Z/IP Gateway decrypts the frame. A few lines later, the decrypted payload is shown,
20 03, a basic report that was inside the encryption encapsulation.
If there are frames with multiple encapsulation layers, Z/IP Gateway will iterate through these steps, showing at least the command class and command identifier for each of the steps, until the frame is fully deencapsulated an processed into a payload that can forwarded over IP.
The frame is forwarded to the IP destination, which happens to match the same destination as the get was originally sent from, due to Z/IP Gateways use of temporary associations.
This is what it looks like, Z/IP Gateway processes an incoming get command from a Z/IP client. The Z/IP client sends a get, Z/IP Gateway forwards it to the Z-Wave destination, using verify delivery because the command is triggering a response. When the reply is received, if encapsulation layers are used, Z/IP Gateway will break it down, layer by layer, until reaching the core payload, that is forwarded to the IP destination.
If using non-secure communications, the process looks significantly simpler, while the security is the current baseline.
Log File – Deep Packet Inspection#
5558013 ApplicationCommandHandler 1->2 class 0x32 cmd 0x02 size 7 5558013 nm_fsm_post_event event: NM_EV_FRAME_RECEIVED state: NM_IDLE 5558013 Cmd class 0x32 command 0x02 identified as version 5 5558013 Command class 0x32 : 0x02 not supported 5558013 Unhandled command 0x32:0x02 from fda3:9838:93fe:02::01 5558014 5558014 Check security for rnode:1 scheme ff class 32 command 02 5558014 Frame not forwarded to unsolicited because it was not sent on right scheme or not supported.
In this example, an incorrect meter report was received. Z/IP Gateway does not list the specific reason for discarding the frame, but it could be:
Incorrect key class (lower than the highest granted for the device)
In this case, the frame is discarded and, if it had been supervision get encapsulated, Z/IP Gateway would transmit a supervision report on behalf of the Z/IP client.
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In schools across the Semarang region of Indonesia, a small revolution is taking place.
Students, parents and head teachers are coming together for the first time to challenge poor school facilities and teacher performance via Cek Sekolah Ku (Check my School), an online platform that publicises school budgets, allows students to highlight teacher absenteeism, and reports issues directly to the Department of Education.
Making All Voices Count's Lucy von Sturmer visited schools in the region to ask them how Cek Sekolah Ku is working on the ground.
To get people on board, you need to show success - and fast
SMP 41 secondary school was chosen by project lead Rosihan Widi Nugroho to launch the platform in Semarang.
But, despite picking a school where the principal was known for welcoming change, launching any new project is an uphill battle - and SMP 41's Principal Nurwahidah was wary about embracing a platform which revealed the school's budget data and encouraged students to question and report on teachers.
Rosihan knew he had to work hard to gain her trust: he needed a quick win.
Walking around the school grounds, Rosihan noticed the school's toilet was too small and had no roof - and spotted an opportunity.
He uploaded a picture of the toilet on the Cek Sekolah Ku platform. This alerted the district’s Head of Education and, within a week, the toilet was fixed.
“This small, visible change inspired the whole school to start using the platform,” says Principal Nurwahidah. “I now tell my students: if you see something wrong, send a complaint to Cek Sekolah Ku so we can get it fixed!”
Students need both support and safe spaces in order to question authority
The Cek Sekolah Ku platform has also become an active part of the students’ daily lives, and the school's IT classes include training on how to access the site and lodge questions.
Rian Pratana (above right), age 14, says that the platform feels like a safe space.
“If I couldn’t give feedback here, I wouldn’t know where to do it.”
Aisyah Dini (above left), also says she’s noticed that since the school began using the platform, teachers are now always on time and much more engaged in their lessons.
She points to recent examples of complaints that have been logged on the platform and brought quick responses from the school - including fans for every classroom and new desks replacing the old ones that were rotten with woodworm.
The right information can turn ‘feelings of concern’ into actionable complaints
Just down the road, at SMP 23 elementary school in Semarang, parents said that they were concerned for years that teachers’ requests for ‘voluntary’ payments were actually fraud, but had no proof that anything was being done wrong.
“Teachers kept asking us for money on an almost daily basis. They said it’s for a refurbished prayer room, an outdoor excursion, or new equipment, but we were frustrated with these on-going demands. These we’re not really voluntary, because the teachers would stand by the donation box and the students felt intimidated not to pay.” – Parents Committee, SMP 23
But, using the budget information on Cek Sekolah Ku, the Parents’ Committee was able to see just how much funding was coming into the school and what it was being spent on – helping to highlight where these ‘requests’ were actually already covered by the school’s budget.
At the monthly Cek Sekolah Ku meetings, where parents, school leadership and education department discuss reports lodged on the platform, the Parents' Committee finally felt they could raise the issue, using the school's budget information to back up their complaint.
“The teachers defended the requests saying there were teaching the students generosity... but after this meeting the requests stopped.”
We're changing minds - one toilet at a time
The changes in schools may be small, but the changes in attitudes of parents, teachers, students and the education authority is significant.
Sujono Soedjono, Education Agency Secretary, responsible for all 400 schools in the city explains
“We used to receive complaints in a wooden box; now it’s an online platform - it feels like a very big difference."
And the small victories really do seem to be adding up to big changes.
This blog is one of a series of articles highlighting some of the new voices that are emerging in Indonesia’s quest for better governance, showing how school children, university students and women are speaking up about issues that affect them.
To explore projects Making All Voices Count is supporting in Indonesia see here.
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When a libertarian says that the most basic individual right is the right not to be aggressed against, a clever interlocutor may accuse the libertarian of begging the question, of stuffing the rabbit into the hat. The trick, the critic will say, is in the word aggress: libertarians allegedly rig the game by restricting the category of aggression to only the actions they disapprove of, thereby institutionalizing many corrupt activities.
For example, If Jones tells Smith to get off land to which Jones has legal title, is it really clear that Smith is in the wrong and Jones is in the right? The critic will offer a counter-narrative: it's considered Jones's land because the political system arbitrarily defines property rights in a certain way. It might have defined rights differently so that Smith could walk on the land as wishes. So why not see Jones as the aggressor against Smith?
If the libertarian responded that Jones transformed the hitherto unowned parcel by mixing his labor with it, perhaps by clearing and fencing it, the critic might respond that Jones's act constituted aggression because, unlike yesterday and the day before, no one now may step on the land without Jones's permission. Jones, in other words, restricts everyone else's freedom. Who's right and who's wrong would depend on one's point of view.
This case against libertarian property rights implies that land has never been unowned because it has always been owned by humanity in common. Such a position was taken most famously by Henry George. While George did not oppose individuals' use of parcels of land, he said that users ought to have to pay land rent to the community, the true owners. This was George's "single tax." Murray Rothbard rebutted George's case in both its moral and economic dimensions. (See also Rothbard's Power and Market.)
If the point of rights theory is to enable human beings to flourish as they live side by side peacefully and cooperatively in society, then any theory that regards land and other scarce resources as jointly owned by all of humanity is in for problems. The moral is the practical. So imagine the impracticality of determining how a piece of land is to be used if everyone is to have a say in the matter. Yet if human beings are to prosper, decisions about how to use scarce resources are crucial. No one is infallible or has a monopoly of wisdom about the "best" use of resources, but we have the next best thing: the market and its price system. The market provides indispensable signals about ever-changing supplies and consumer preferences. Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek made their marks as great economists by, among other things, showing that market prices are the only things we have to relieve, insofar as possible, our ignorance about how scarce resources can be used best to serve everyone's welfare. Private property and free markets expand rather than contract the public's access to resources.
The critic of libertarianism may listen and nod but continue to insist that we have no objective way to tell who is the aggressor: Smith or Jones. But maybe we do.
Life is not an abstraction. Individual people are beings who live day to day through the pursuit of projects, which usually involve the cooperation of others. Since we are physical beings, that pursuit requires control over things, including land, and therefore noninterference by other people. How could we live and plan long term if our activities could be interfered with and the fruits of our efforts could be appropriated by others? I take for granted that each person is a self-owner because denial of this principle collapses in absurdity. Lincoln wrote that "if slavery isn't wrong, nothing is wrong." Abolitionists called slave owners "man-stealers." If self-ownership isn't right, then nothing is right.
The principle of nonaggression is universal: you may not interfere with me, and I may not interfere with you. Liberty for all means no one is aggressed against. Society should be based on consent and cooperation.
In the story above, if we assume Jones acquired the land justly through homesteading, purchase, or gift, then the land is part of his project, and Smith's trespass constitutes interference with Jones's life. (Of course, trespass can be trivial, and methods of prevention or redress would have to be proportional to the offense. Put bluntly, Jones can't shoot Smith merely for setting foot on his land.)
Yes, in a physical sense, Jones's ownership "interferes" with Smith's freedom, although not his ability to live as a human being (except perhaps in an emergency). But human action is never merely physical. Justice is relevant. The same physical act can be just or unjust depending on the circumstances.
I think this demonstrates that the libertarian case does not pack its conclusions into its definition of aggression. Hard cases of course can arise, but generally we can determine who is the rightful owner and who is wrongfully interfering.
Finally, I have not tried to sort out the case of ownership clouded by historical injustice, namely, theft. What to do about this is a complicated matter, in part because of the variety of cases, on which I claim no particular wisdom. Those who wish to delve into the problem can begin by looking at what Rothbard had to say in The Ethics of Liberty.
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How to buy Drones – 10 best buying tips
Read the 10 tips below to get started. Be sure to check out our Everything you need to know about Drones feature to get familiar with the subject.
1 – Price – from $30 to $3000
Drones are available in many different price ranges. Most popular drones have price tags ranging from 30 dollars to 3,000 dollars or more. Define clearly what your budget is for this new high-tech toy. Your budget mainly depends on your wallet, but you also need goals.
2 – Reliable supplier – Don’t buy from anywhere
Buy drones from a reputable supplier that specializes in the area of drones. For more expertise in this area, we recommend that you buy to your drones drones from specialist shops. Especially if you want to replace parts – think about an extra battery or a better camera in the future – a specialist can advise you better about your purchase.
Of course you can get second model drones for a good price, but do realize that the plane may have certain defects that are difficult to determine. For the best guarantees for a safe trip, we recommend you to buy a new copy.
3 – What brand or model?
Drones are available in many brands, models, and designs. The choice of model depends mainly on your personal needs and goals. A drone is a complex machine that has several components.
All drone models have unique components and therefore unique features. In many cases, you simply pay more for better features of the device. What characteristics are important to you is a personal choice and you will need to determine this before purchase.
4 – Battery
The battery is an important part of a drone, because the battery simply determines how long you can fly with your drone. Better battery simply ensures longer flying fun.
The maximum flight duration of drones is an important feature to compare when you decide between different models drones. Also the predetermined length of time of charging time required to fully charge the battery is an important feature.
5 – Maximum flight distance
Each drone model have a maximum flight distance. With this maximum flight distance we mean the distance the drone can make from its starting point before the connection to the remote control is lost. Cheaper models drones can fly only tens of feet away, where expensive models can fly miles away.
Determine how you are going to use your drones and calculate the maximum flight distance that is sufficient for the desired use. View drones that meets the maximum distance requirement.
6 – Remote
Just as model aircraft, drones are also operated with a remote control. All brands and/or models has an individual remote. Some drones have a remote control, other drones you can control with your smartphone or tablet via a free downloadable app. Pay close attention to how the drone is controlled before you purchase a drone.
Some remote controls feature a screen where you can view the camera images directly. Other models drones use a smartphone in addition to the regular controller to view the images. Consider carefully what you want during your flight before you buy just any drone.
Also note the power of the remote control. Most remote controls are operated via a number of AA batteries.
7 – Camera – HD or 4K
Drones are usually used to detect and / or to take pictures, making the camera a very important part of a drone. There are drones available with many types and quality cameras. Today, most standard models drones equipped with cameras filming in HD quality and pictures of over 10 Megapixels. Newer models also features camera’s that can shoot in 4K. Determine in advance what the characteristics of the camera on the model drones needs to be before you buy.
Some models drones have a fixed camera, other models have a camera that can turn a certain angle to take better shots.
8 – GPS
Some model drones can also be equipped with GPS (Global Positioning System), allowing the drones to determine its exact location. Not only very useful information that can be fed back to the pilot, but the GPS can also be directly linked to the images taken with the camera.
Some models drones also have a “Go Home” function; this means that the drones automatically returns to its starting point if the drones threatens to go beyond its maximum distance.
9 – Check additional functions
The tips 4 to 8 are the most important properties, but there are numerous additional features a drone can be equipped with. So take the time to carefully study these functions before you actually considering purchasing. Do not forget to view the drones reviews to understand all the important features of the most popular drones at the moment. Study and compare!
10 – Check out online forums!
Should you, despite the tips above, have questions about purchasing drones, place your question in the drone forums. Here you usually get quickly answer to any questions you have about buying drones. The clearer you formulate your question, the better other people can provide you with an appropriate response.
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Have you ever had a Sunday when your children’s program just seemed to fall apart? Here’s how HeartShaper helped one church!
Your goal was clear: Helping kids of all ages and abilities connect with God. Classrooms were ready and supplies were available. Teachers had prepared fun activities and creative Bible lessons.
You even had assistants available for each age level! But then it happened.
Two children showed up for the toddlers’ class. One was quiet, shy, and withdrawn; the other just wanted to run around—no sitting and listening to a story today!
What would these children know when Sunday school was over? How could both toddlers be included in the Bible time and activities?
The preschool area was alive with energetic children. A game of looking for “lost sheep” (hidden around the room beforehand) was under way. Then another child arrived—in a wheelchair.
How could this child be included in the game? Would she connect with the Bible story about God’s love for each person?
The situation in the elementary was different. Or was it? A mom stood at the check-in station. Her child was quietly turning in circles. No eye contact. No verbal communication—until the child saw the fluorescent ceiling lights and heard the loud music playing.
Before you knew what was happening, the child grabbed a chair, knocked it over, and went for a second chair.
Other kids in the area quickly moved out of the way and stared at the child. The mom went into action. She grabbed her child’s arm, mumbled “I told you to be good today!” and they left.
The question arose again: How could this child be included . . . in any class? Would the child ever experience today’s lesson about showing love to God and others?
While these (and similar situations) may not all take place on the same Sunday, they often occur in many Bible school settings.
As we began to see more and more differences in the children and families we were serving, we knew we needed a curriculum that could help us achieve our over-arching goal: Kids of all ages and abilities will leave the Sunday school hour connected to the Bible lessons taught.
We know that choosing a Sunday school curriculum is one of the most important decisions children’s ministry leaders make. And it’s not an easy task!
In our ministry, we have some kids who have grown up in the church and others who know very little about the Bible.
After looking at the needs of our teachers, our volunteers, and, most importantly, the families and children we serve, we determined that we had to find something that would help us:
If your children’s ministry goal is similar to ours, you might want to take a closer look at what we used to reach that goal.
Your teachers and volunteers have the privilege of helping kids grow in Christ as they grow up!
For kids to leave the Sunday school hour connected to a lesson from the Bible, they have to know and understand what is being taught. The best place to start is where the kids are in their current knowledge of the Bible and build on it.
One way to help kids build this foundation is to guide them through the Bible multiple times from their preschool through elementary years.
Each time a child encounters Bible people and stories, he or she builds understanding of God’s big plan for sending His Son, Jesus, to the world and offering salvation to everyone.
Understanding the spiritual needs of children is vital for instilling God’s truth in their hearts.
You can help facilitate this by equipping your teachers and volunteers with knowledge of when the kids in their classes should be learning specific Bible facts. Knowing and understanding these things is a game changer.
It helps us to lead children in ways that meet them where they are in their learning process.
Memorizing key Bible verses also helps instill God’s Word in kids’ hearts. We all have to know God’s Word before we can live it!
Instilling Connection with God
If kids are going to connect the truths of the Bible to their lives, they must know how to find what they need in the Bible.
Even from the earliest age levels, we can introduce Bible skills that will give kids the ability to study God’s Word on their own for the rest of their lives.
It opens the door for them to develop a personal relationship with God and to apply God’s truths to anything that might come their way.
While instilling God’s Word in kids’ hearts is a big responsibility, there are resources available to make it easier on us as leaders. Take a breath. We don’t have to know everything—there is help!
For kids to leave church connected to a Bible lesson, they have to be involved in the learning.
Students have different learning styles—and combinations of styles! Any one class may include visual learners, auditory learners, tactile (or kinesthetic) learners, and reading/writing learners.
Bible lessons that include options can help teachers choose activities that match up with the learning styles and preferences of all the kids in their class.
Service projects are especially good for involving older kids and helping them leave the classroom connected to God’s Word. As they participate in serving others, kids get to live out what they’ve learned in the classroom.
And, even though sometimes discarded, take-home papers can help to involve not only the children, but their families as well. Involving parents and caregivers is key to helping children grow up with Jesus in their lives.
Perhaps the most important need for our teachers and volunteers (and maybe for you) is to learn how to include kids with varied abilities, so that every child can connect to the Bible lessons.
A flood of questions often rises when children’s ministry leaders decide they will open their doors to all children, including those with different abilities and disabilities.
Coming up with solutions to include kids with visible obstacles is easier. You can adjust table heights and create open space for a child who needs a wheelchair to get around.
But how do you understand and include the child who has not-so-obvious obstacles, such as Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
And what can you do to include and help the parents and siblings of these children?
Including and connecting every child to God’s Word may seem to be an overwhelming task. But here’s the good news: There is help!
In our search to find a resource that would help us meet the goal for connecting kids of varying ages and abilities to the Bible lessons, we discovered HeartShaper® Children’s Curriculum.
HeartShaper provides tools to include kids with varied levels of Bible knowledge, different learning styles, and diverse abilities.
With this curriculum, our children go through the Bible five times from their preschool to middle elementary years.
Having learned what the Bible teaches, our preteens look at topics that impact their everyday lives. Then they look at Scriptures that help them live out God’s Word in those situations.
Every child learns that God prepared for salvation, He sent salvation, and He offers salvation.
Bible Skills that Last
From the earliest age levels, our kids begin to learn Bible Skills.
HeartShaper helps kids memorize God’s Word too. Unit Bible memory verses are taught at every age level. Preschoolers and pre-K and kindergarten children even learn the verses through songs and motions!
Two great HeartShaper resources have helped equip our teachers. The Spiritual Growth Chart offered helped us understand how children develop spiritually. And, the Bible Skills Plan taught us what Bible skills should be taught at specific age levels.
Interaction that Counts
This curriculum involves kids!
HeartShaper even offers online helps for involving families in the spiritual formation of their kids. Modifiable family connection letters and weekly downloadable family pages are provided on their website too.
HeartShaper’s Special Needs Friendly symbol, found throughout each teacher guide, makes it easy to find activities that work well with all kids. The symbol also points to helpful tips and activity adaptations.
HeartShaper has answered a lot of our questions about including kids with different abilities. Our teachers were relieved to know that they didn’t need to be experts in the field of special needs.
They simply need to get to know the children in their care and their individual needs.
Our volunteers will tell you that when children have friends, or “buddies,” to come alongside and help them with areas of weakness, all kids can join the adventure of discovering God’s love.
With the tools provided by HeartShaper, we discovered how to view our teaching areas through sensory lenses.
Then we made some simple changes to meet the needs of children who were sensitive to particular forms of lighting, over-stimulating smells, and loud noises.
HeartShaper’s Sensory Inventory Form guided us to ask parents for their input too: What kind of activities does your child enjoy? Which activities or situations would your child find unpleasant? Can you share anything else that can help us provide the best environment for your child?
The answers we receive help us plan activities that meet the abilities and preferences of all the children in our care.
Our New Reality
So what do our Sunday school classes look like now?
Are kids of all ages and abilities leaving the Sunday school hour connected to the Bible lesson?
We continue to ask ourselves these questions regularly. We know it’s a big job, but teaching God’s Word to children is also a privilege. And there are resources available. There is help.
For us, HeartShaper Children’s Curriculum has provided that help—and more!
It can do the same for you.
You can get a complete lesson for free here. If you have the same questions we did, if you have the same needs, if you want these things for your students—we encourage you to check it out today.
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Burning herbs— also known as smudging — is an ancient spiritual practice. It is a way to energetically cleanse a space, yourself, or an object to invite positive energy.
Smoke offerings are found in Buddhism, Indigenous practices in the U.S., and many other spiritual religions. As the smoke rises, our wishes and intentions ascend into the universe.
Reasons Why You Should Try Smudging
Smudging has long been used to connect to the spiritual realm or enhance intuition. It may also serve to rid yourself — or your space — of negativity such as past traumas, bad experiences, or negative energies from others. This may help you set a positive environment for meditation or another ritual. It can be useful to smudge an item like new purchases, gifts, or secondhand items.
How To Prepare For a Smudge
When choosing the type of herb you’ll burn, some common plants used to create a smudge stick are sage, cedar, sweet grass, and lavender. My personal favorite is palo santo, a tree bark from South America.
Before burning your chosen herb, set an intention if smudging for spiritual, energetic, and negativity clearing reasons. Open up all the windows to allow smoke to escape.
- Light the end of your herb with a match. But do not allow it to catch fire for too long. The idea is that the leaves should smolder slowly, releasing smoke.
- With a feather or fan, direct this smoke around your body and space with one hand while holding the herb bundle in the other.
- Allow the ash to collect in a ceramic bowl or shell.
- Once finished, put out the embers by dabbing the end on the bowl/shell.
- When it’s completely put out, store it in a safe, dry place out of the sun.
Start at the front door of the home Then, move around the home while speaking words of life such as “I’m blessed and a blessing, my home is full of love and peace, my life is abundant, etc.” Move mindfully and with care allowing the smoke to drift into hidden spaces, like inside closets, basements and dark corners. After you’ve smudged the entire space, end the ceremony where you began at the front door.
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The exact cause of Bell’s palsy remains unknown, but it is often related to having a viral infection. 1.
Medical researchers believe that Bell’s palsy is most likely caused by viral infections typically herpes simplex and herpes zoster.2
Individuals with this idiopathic facial condition may have facial pain or abnormal feeling, distorted taste, and intolerance to loud noise.3,4
Bell’s palsy is an uncommon neurologic disorder involving the nerve that controls the muscles on one side of the face. The condition results from the dysfunction of the seventh cranial nerve that includes functions such as eye blinking and closing, smiling, and facial expressions.
It can be the most worrisome phase of life, but people make a full recovery. Bell’s palsy was named after a British surgeon, anatomist Sir Charles Bell who made several types of research on the nervous system.
Is Bell’s Palsy Caused By A Virus?
Bell’s palsy is temporary in most people and the symptoms tend to improve within three weeks. The recurrence of the condition is very rare and only a small number of people continue to have the syndrome for the lifetime.
Bell’s palsy symptom occurs a week or two after a cold sore, ear infection, and eye infection. The exact cause of Bell’s palsy remains unknown, but it is often related to having a viral infection. Most cases are developed due to cold sores induced by herpes viruses.1
Medical researchers believe that Bell’s palsy is most likely caused by viral infections usually herpes simplex and herpes zoster. When the nerves become inflamed, it starts to stress and pinch the cheekbone within the narrow gap. It is typically the herpes virus that inflames the nerve. As the nerves are pressed, it may cause damage to the defensive covering of the nerve.
Several other viruses that cause this condition include
- Chickenpox or shingles virus
- varicella-zoster virus
- Infectious mononucleosis (Epstein-Barr)
- MMR (Mumps, measles, rubella virus) cause acute peripheral facial palsy
- Lyme disease can be present asymptomatic but idiopathic Bell’s palsy might be the first symptom.2
Why Is Bell’s Palsy So Painful?
Bell’s palsy can impact anyone irrespective of the age. The initial symptoms are pain and discomfort on one side of the face. Since the cause of the condition varies from a person to person, every individual encounter varying symptom. Medical research states that facial nerve does not contain pain sensors, so, when there is damage to the facial nerve, you don’t experience any symptoms.
In certain cases, Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (caused by Herpes Zoster Oticus) can be very distressing. This condition develops when there is an outbreak in the shingles virus affecting one of the facial nerves near the ear. This produces inflamed rashes and in most severe cases produces a facial loss, paralysis, and hearing loss in the affected ear. When compared with Bell’s palsy, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can produce serious paralysis and very less probability of complete recovery.
Some rare cases of Bell’s palsy turn chronic and the pain persists over their lifetime. The pain may be due to the facial muscles becoming inflamed, swollen, and compressed. This eventually causes stiffing or tightening of your facial muscles making them droop.
Facial paralysis may interfere with your speaking abilities, swallowing difficulties, and talking. Life will become a complete questionnaire in these patients. During such instances, you may seek the help of the physiotherapist or speech therapy to help improve symptoms and overcome your problem.3,4
- “Bell’s Palsy.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2 Apr. 2020, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bells-palsy/symptoms-causes/syc-20370028.
- “Bell’s Palsy Fact Sheet.” National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/patient-caregiver-education/fact-sheets/bells-palsy-fact-sheet.
- Publishing, Harvard Health. “What to Do about Bell’s Palsy.” Harvard Health, www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/what-to-do-about-bells-palsy.
- Erin D. Callen, PharmD. “Bell’s Palsy and the Pharmacist.” U.S. Pharmacist – The Leading Journal in Pharmacy, 18 Jan. 2019, www.uspharmacist.com/article/bells-palsy-and-the-pharmacist.
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- Client: European Commission, DG ENERGY
- Implementation period: September, 2020 - June, 2021 (Completed)
- Geographic coverage: European Union
Technical support for RES policy development and implementation: delivering on an increased ambition through energy system integration
A consortium led by Trinomics and including E3M, LBST and Artelys supported the European Commission, DG ENERGY with the preparation of the Impact Assessment supporting the revision of the Renewable Energy directive. The review of the renewable energy targets is one of the key initiatives of the European Green Deal, as renewable energy is one of the main pillar contributing to increase the EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction for 2030 to at least 55% compared to 1990.
The project team provided a qualitative and modelled assessment of several options across 8 thematic areas: overall renewable targets; system integration; heating and cooling; renewable electricity; transport; buildings; industry; and bioenergy.
Key tasks were:
- Mapping of relevant EU-ETS rules and assess when these could be followed in the national tax and when not;
- Advising on various elements related to the overall system design (e.g., how to deal with electrification);
- Contributing to the development of a trading scheme for credits (dispensation rights);
- Providing strategic policy advise on communication with all stakeholders;
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Antibody purposes in most cancers immunotherapy contain various methods, some of which redirect T cell-mediated immunity through engineered antibodies. Affinity is a trait that’s essential for these methods, as optimum affinity reduces undesirable unwanted effects whereas retaining therapeutic operate.
Antibody-antigen pairs possessing a broad affinity vary are required to outline optimum affinity and to analyze the affinity-associated purposeful profiles of T cell-engaging methods akin to bispecific antibodies and chimeric antigen receptor-engineered T cells.
Here, we reveal the distinctive binding attribute of the developed antibody clone MVR, which reveals strong binding to B-lymphoid cell traces. Intriguingly, MVR particularly acknowledges the extremely polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR complicated and reveals various affinities which can be dependent upon the HLA-DRB1 allele kind.
Remarkably, MVR binds to the conformational epitope that consists of two hypervariable areas. As an software of MVR, we reveal an MVR-engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that elicits affinity-dependent operate in response to a panel of goal cell traces that categorical totally different HLA-DRB1 alleles.
This instrument evaluates the impact of affinity on cytotoxic killing, polyfunctionality, and activation-induced cell demise of CAR-engineered T cells. Collectively, MVR reveals large potential for the analysis of the affinity-associated profile of T cells which can be redirected by engineered antibodies.
Measuring antibody avidity to Plasmodium falciparum merozoite antigens utilizing a multiplex immunoassay strategy.
Antibodies (Ab) play a big position in immunity to Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Usually, following repeated publicity to pathogens, affinity maturation and clonal choice happen, leading to elevated antibody avidity. However, some research counsel affinity maturation could not happen to malaria antigens in endemic areas.
Information on growth of antibody avidity is complicated and conflicting, partly, as a result of totally different strategies have been used to measure avidity. Today, bead-based multiplex immunoassays (MIA) are routinely used to concurrently quantitate antibody ranges to a number of antigens.
This research evaluated the feasibility of growing an avidity MIA with 5 merozoite antigens (AMA1, EBA-175, MSP1-42, MSP2, MSP3) that makes use of a single chaotropic focus.METHODSThe most typical ELISA protocols that used the chaotropic reagents guanidine HCl (GdHCl), urea, and ammonium thiocyanate (NH4SCN) had been tailored to a multiplex MIA format.
Then, totally different concentrations of chaotropes and incubation occasions had been in contrast and outcomes had been expressed as an Avidity Index (AI), i.e., proportion of antibody remaining sure within the presence of chaotrope.
Experiments had been carried out to (i) establish the assay with the widest vary of AI (discriminatory energy), (ii) decide the quantity of chaotrope wanted to launch 50% of sure Ab utilizing plasma from adults and infants, and (iii) consider assay repeatability.
RESULTSOverall, Four M GdHCl and eight M urea had been weaker chaotropes than three M NH4SCN. For instance, they didn’t launch vital quantities of Ab sure to MSP1-42 in grownup plasma samples; whereas, a spread of AI values was obtained with NH4SCN. Titration of NH4SCN revealed that 2 M NH4SCN gave the widest vary of AI for the 5 antigens.
Binding research utilizing plasma from 40 adults and 57 1-year outdated infants in Cameroon confirmed that 2.1 M ± 0.32 (imply ± SD) NH4SCN (adults) and 1.eight M ± 0.23 M (infants) launched 50% of sure Ab from the merozoite antigens.CONCLUSIONSAn avidity MIA is possible for the 5 merozoite antigens that makes use of a single focus (2 M) of NH4SCN.
The assay gives a easy technique to shortly get hold of details about Ab amount and high quality within the acquisition of immunity to malaria in endemic populations.
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It’s time to talk about mental health.
Wednesday, Jan. 30 is the eighth annual Bell Let’s Talk day, a day that’s become the largest conversation about mental health in the world.
“Everyone’s engagement in mental health is crucial to making progress, and we can all join the conversation on Bell Let’s Talk Day by sending messages of support to fight the stigma, call for action and directly drive Bell’s funding for mental health programs,” said Mary Deacon, Chair of Bell Let’s Talk, in a statement. “We’re grateful to these leading organizations for encouraging everyone to get engaged in the mental health cause and make sure our voices are heard on what promises to be the biggest Bell Let’s Talk Day ever.”
Since its inception in 2011, over 867,000,000 interactions happened over the phone and online in accordance with Bell Let’s Talk, with an expected 1 billion interactions to happen by Wednesday. Over 900 partners will help lead the day by focusing on four pillars: Anti-Stigma, Care and Access, Research and Workplace Leadership.
On Jan. 30, Bell will donate five cents to Canadian mental health programs to help fund these pillars for any one of the following interactions:
- Talk: any phone call made (including long distance) by Bell wireless phone customers
- Text: every text message sent by Bell wireless customers
- Twitter: Every tweet using #BellLetsTalk, featuring the Bell Let’s Talk emoji, or the Bell Let’s talk day video at twitter.com/bell_letstalk
- Facebook: Every view of the Bell Let’s Talk day at Facebook.com/BellLetsTalk, or the use of a Bell Let’s Talk profile picture frame
- Instagram: Every Bell Let’s Talk day video at instagram.com/bell_letstalk
- Snapchat: Every use of the Bell Let’s Talk filter and video.
So far, the day has raised $93,423,628.80, and by Jan. 30, Bell hopes to surpass $100 million.
For more information, visit bell.ca/letstalk
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coralberry Caprifoliaceae Symphoricarpos
Leaf: Opposite, simple, oval, 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, entire margins, velvety and soft, dull green (blue-green) above, paler below.
Flower: Small bell shaped, yellowish white, tinged in purple; occur in short, dense clusters in leaf axils and at ends of twigs in mid to late summer.
Fruit: Berry-like round drupe, 1/4 inch across, coral to purple in color; mature in the fall and persist into the winter.
Twig: Slender and at first scruffy brownish green, later darkening to a reddish brown with very fine peeling strips; scales present where new branches emerge; single bundle scars.
Bark: Brown and finely shreddy.
Form: A small shrub up to 5 feet tall; open crown with arching branches.
Looks like: snowberry - Morrow honeysuckle
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Sports Injuries. So undesirable, yet so unavoidable! Whether you are a national athlete or playing at the school level, sports injuries are certainly a common thing. While sports is all about momentum and consistency, injuries are akin to stumbling blocks.-- Advertisement --
A minor niggle is enough to keep you out of that all-important final or, at the very least, affect your performance. In fact, history books are replete with incidences where sports injuries have ruined athletes’ entire career. Some of those unfortunate souls include Bobby Orr, Shane Bond, Varun Aaron, Ledley King, and Ashish Nehra.
Bobby Orr, in particular, presents a compelling case. The ice hockey legend had won almost everything there was to win in the NHL just before the age of 28. However, before he could enter his prime, the Canadian legend suffered a freak knee injury from which he could never return.
Although he is still among the greatest ever to grace the game (he was inducted in the Hall of Fame at 31, the youngest to do so), Orr’s could have been a grander story had he played more. Had he known more about his infamous knee injury beforehand and had taken proper precautions.-- Advertisement --
Sports injuries have the power to make or break your career. And if you are a sportsperson, knowing about them is all too vital. It helps in avoiding and recovering from them faster.
What are Sports Injuries?
Sports Injuries can be broadly described as an injury which occurs while playing sports or doing any athletic activity or exercise. Their occurrence may be due to overtraining, lack of conditioning or improper form and technique. Failing to warm up and cool down further increases the risk of sports injuries.-- Advertisement --
Sports injuries can broadly be classified as Acute and Chronic
Acute injuries are the ones that occur suddenly. These may be during playing or practising, such as sprained ankle caused due to an awkward landing.
Chronic injuries, on the other hand, occur due to overuse of muscle groups or joints. For example, Patellar tendonitis (pain over the knee) is due to overuse of knee muscles. Moreover, Faulty posture, poor techniques and structural abnormalities also contribute to the development of these injuries.-- Advertisement --
As per the statistics by NCHS (National Centre for Health Statistics US), almost 8.6 million sports and recreation-related injuries occur in a year. The common causes of sports injuries are overuse, direct impact, or the application of force that is greater than the body part can structurally withstand.
With increasing participation in sports, the competitive nature of the game over a period of time has led to an increase in the rate of injuries. In conjunction, the advancement in Physiotherapy and Sports Science research is also on the rise that helps bring down the incidence.
However, there is not an appreciable awareness regarding these newer options. Through this article, we as Physios want to draw your attention to understand the dimensions of sports injury and the role of physiotherapy in the field of sports.
Types Of Sports Injuries
To simplify these sports injuries, they are broadly classified as:
- Sprains (sudden stretch or twisting force subjected to a ligament)
- Strains (fatigue, overuse or inappropriate loading of a muscle leads to muscle strain)
- Spasm (painful and tender increase in the tone of a muscle due to sudden demand placed on the muscle)
- Ligament tears (partial or complete break in the continuity of the ligament)
- Muscle ruptures (partial or complete tear in the integrity of a muscle)
- Dislocations (mal-alignment in the integrity of the joint)
- Fractures (discontinuity in the bony architecture)
- Meniscal injuries (disruption in the structure of crescent-shaped cartilage in the knee joint due to twisting or rotating movements at the knee)
- Concussion (a mild traumatic head injury)
Most of these injuries have an additional component of muscular imbalances which could also be the cause of the injury.
For example, if you are a bowler with a weak set of upper back muscles, you are more likely to land up with a shoulder injury. This is because the most common cause of injury is compensation done by shoulder muscles for the weaker upper back muscles.
This overloads the comparatively smaller shoulder muscles causing fatigue and weakness in them. Hence, the strength of the muscles stabilising the shoulder joint is as essential as having a complete range through which your shoulder moves.
It is imperative to focus on the upper back muscles as it not only reduces the risk of injuries but also helps upgrade your bowling performance by enhancing stability to your shoulders and deducting the time spent out of practice due to an injury.
Sports Injury Treatment
The treatment for any sports injury will depend on multiple factors. These include the severity of the injury, age of the player and also the body part affected. However, the first line of management in almost all sports injury commonly involves the famous acronym RICE (Rest Ice Compression Elevation).
Its modern-day version is POLICE (Protection, Optimal Loading, Ice, Compression, Elevation).
The swelling occurs in a majority of the cases. However, it resolves within the first few hours with appropriate Cryotherapy (using ice-bags/ gel ice-packs) and compression sessions. Early mobilizations have very likely to improve the rate of recovery.
Progressively graduated exercises help reduce the risk of re-injury. On the contrary, sometimes immobilization becomes necessary to prevent further damage to the joint and tissue. It is important to consult an expert after an injury so as to make the right decision about recovery.
In sports physiotherapy, taping techniques, gentle manual mobilisations and equipment with modern facilities like electrical stimulation (electrical currents having therapeutic benefits), vacuum electrodes aid in achieving oedema reduction and accelerate the healing process.
In these machines, the vacuum created inside the electrodes helps in creating space in the tissues. This, in turn, helps to promote draining of the swelling. An add-on effect is produced by electrical muscle stimulation that brings about active muscle contraction.
This helps in promoting the removal of excess tissue fluid from the site of injury. As swelling reduction and early mobilization is necessary for an athlete to fulfil his early return to sport demands.
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Following this initial phase of injury management, the plan of care in the next phase involves working on the injured muscle groups, identification of weaknesses and generating stability in the supporting structures.
Joint motion and muscle strength are simultaneously worked upon to yield the combined end result of normal and pain-free movements. It is important to perform exercises under supervision so as to have a healthy recovery.
The understanding of the progression of exercises plays a crucial role in physical rehabilitation, particularly in sports injuries. Usually, the exercises are graduated from non-weight bearing to partial weight-bearing finally progressing up to full weight-bearing exercises in case of lower limb injuries.
In the later phase, physiotherapy exercises involve a lot of plyometric and sports specific training. Currently, the idea of sport-specific training is to be able to duplicate a specific skill or action of one’s sport or activity in a controlled atmosphere.
These specific drills help to encourage players to have a stronger comeback as a part of the return to sports training. The exercises involved in this phase are exclusively athlete-centric and goal-oriented.
It’s important to attain optimal & symmetrical muscle strength and joint mobility either side to minimise the re-injury incidence. Agility, balance and coordination drills while incorporating sport-specific activities help enhance performance in training sessions on the field.
Combined with training sessions under the coach, we can thus help make a comeback stronger than the setback!
Are Sports Injuries avoidable? Of course!
We commonly come across people saying ‘injury is part and parcel of playing any sport’. Or tags like ‘no pain, no gain’. But the concept is changing over a period of time.
A fairly new concept of PREHAB – Preventive Rehabilitation is emerging and getting a focus in sports. The injury rate in sports cannot be nullified, but the risk and number of injuries sustained can be surely reduced.
As we saw earlier, Sports injuries are of two types:
- Traumatic injuries
- Overuse Injuries
Traumatic injuries, as the name suggests, occur in that fraction of a second when the athlete executes on the field. However, overuse injuries are a resultant of the accumulated impact of imbalances existing in the musculoskeletal system. These imbalances could be in the form of strengths, lengths, and proprioception.
PREHAB basically involves working on these imbalances before they land up in overuse injuries. We, at REHAB STATION, can help you identify these imbalances and work on the time to help reduce the overuse injuries incidence.
Like it is often said but rarely applied, “An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”, we help you work on these flaws to keep the chances of an injury to minimal and enhance your longevity as an athlete or passionate fitness enthusiast!
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Hello everyone! I'm writing this lesson on my flight to Italy and throughout my travels, where I will be doing my little guitar clinic tour and promoting my new CD, "Chameleon".
Being a musician that likes to travel and loves going to new places can be very inspiring. Hopefully, everything goes right and there are no major problems (well, there is usually something that happens).
For a long time now on my flights and in my travels, I have always composed music - cmplete songs to small ideas, patterns, etc. I normally use a laptop and a notation program to do this. Usually on a flight you can't pull a guitar out, which it is really tempting. But, the guitar doesn't produce the music, you do. The guitar is just a tool to use to express yourself and to help get your ideas across to your audience.
Sometimes when I want to generate new ideas, I may start with a scale or an arpeggio. If I want to incorporate a certain sound, or if I want to get better at using a certain scale, then I will only take those notes and work out many possible permutations and I will use different intervals to make up lines and patterns. These ideas will come in handy when you have your instrument with you and when you are working on your songs. You don't have to just do patterns, you can write melodies and complete songs. I have written complete tunes with just a laptop and a notation program.
Your ear is a very essential part when you are composing, it is very important to develop your ear. There are many different exercises you can do that will help develop you ear. Transcribing melodies and whole songs is a great way to develop your ear. Being able to identify diatonic and chromatic intervals, chords, scales and chord progressions is very important. You can get software programs that can help you with this or you can make up your own with your instrument.
This is not a ear training lesson, but I just want to touch on the subject and I will give you a few exercises that you can practice. In Example 1, I listed the diatonic intervals in C major in the first octave. For Example 2, I want you to play the first note on your instrument and sing the next one, follow this all the way up the scale. Be sure to check yourself with your instrument to see if you where correct. Overtime you won't need your instrument for this. Example 3, is all the chromatic intervals within the first octave. Now, do the same as in example 2 for these as well, play the first note then sing the next note. I strongly suggest that you sing or hum everything you play, this will help unlock the music that you hear in your head and it will help you improvise better. Take this simple melody in Example 5 and try to play and sing it in all positions on your instrument and in each octave. Be sure to play it off each left hand finger. If you want to get better at singing melodies, take any song that is written in notation and just play the first note and then sing the rest of it without playing. You can choose any starting pitch if you don't have your instrument with you. We will do more of this in a future lesson.
I have written many solos or ideas for solos in the car on long drives just by singing along to backing tracks of the tunes I was composing. I would have the progressions of the tune on a CD and play it over and over and I would sing melodies over it until I got something I liked. If you keep doing this you get better at it, just like anything else.
Also, visualization is really important as well for composing music. If you have a clear picture in your mind of what you want it will eventually happen and this can help you memorize scales and several techniques without even playing it. When I used to go bike riding I used to come up with a lot of great ideas. But wherever I go, I'm always thinking about music and I will have a mental picture of the fretboard.
OK, that is it for now! In my bext lesson I will give you a few lines from my latest CD, "Chameleon" that I wrote without my guitar. Be sure to check out the new CD and visit mikecampese.com.
Mike Campese is an all-around music performer, session artist and teacher competent in many musical styles, electric and acoustic. He has studied at G.I.T. (Honors Graduate), and with Paul Gilbert, Norman Brown, Stanley Jordan, Scott Henderson and Keith Wyatt.
His latest CD is entitled "The Fire Within", brand new for 2018.
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In an age of specialists, Christoph Baumer is a rare creature: a generalist. Explorer, archaeologist, adventurer, enthusiast, historian, photographer – no one could be better qualified to tackle a subject so vast in time and space. He must also be a book lover, for this, the first of four volumes on the subject, is a gorgeous creation, with creamy paper, crisp design and perfect colour pictures.
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Does the Bronze Age Flash's suit have any intrinsic powers? Specifically, is it embued with its own power, thereby granting any wearer super ability?
Only one "Flash" derived his powers artificially, needing his costume to use his powers. In general, no Flash's costume provided them with any superhuman abilities. Their powers were intrinsic to the person as a result of a change in the person by connecting them to the Speed Force, the source of a speedster's powers.
Jay Garrick: called the Golden Age Flash, Garrick was the first character dubbed the Flash and gained his powers from a "hard water" accident.
His powers were completely personal and his costume's only concession to a super-power was his winged hat.
He could fling it at superspeed to disarm opponents, break gun barrels, or knock larger opponents down. He was also seen using it to catch bullets inside of it when he had to deal with a group of people using machine guns.
Barry Allen: The Silver Age Flash, or the Flash of Earth-One used to keep his costume compressed inside of a ring with a secret compartment.
When the button was pushed and the costume was exposed to air, it would expand and Barry would then put it on before engaging in crime-fighting.
Barry's costume did have a radio for scanning police frequencies in the winged earpieces and would later include a communication device for working with the Justice League.
Other than looking very cool (for the Silver Age) it had no other powers (besides appearing to rarely get dirty, damaged or affected by his use of super-speed, a side-effect of his speed-aura, no particular property of the costume.)
Kid Flash: Wally West, nephew to Barry Allen and sidekick to the Flash, Kid Flash's costume was stored the same way Barry's was and had a similar communication device in the earpiece.
Post-Crisis Flash: Wally West would inherit the mantle of the Flash after Barry death during the Crisis.
Wally's powers were diminished for years but eventually they began to grow in strength allowing him to utilize the Speed Force (the source of DC Universe's speedsters) in ways Barry never had.
One of those ways was to create a costume from the energy of the Speed Force. This costume had no particular powers other than covering Wally's nakedness with his signature and slightly different looking costume.
Professor Zoom/The Reverse Flash: Eobard Thawne, an enemy of the Silver Age Flash from the 25th century, he gained the powers of the Flash artificially.
He found the costume of the Silver Age Flash and discovered trace energies of the Speed Force clung to the costume. By amplifying those energies artificially he could replicate the powers of the Flash as long as he wore it.
His amplification of the costume inverted the colors making the red turn yellow and the yellow red, hence the moniker, the Reverse Flash. In theory, the process empowered the suit, so anyone who was wearing it could learn to use the power and become the Reverse Flash. Later versions of the character had different origins which did not create an empowered suit.
The empowered suit version of the Reverse Flash appears to be the version of the character being used in the CW's televised version of The Flash.
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How idyllic it is when a marvelous, healthy little baby is born after the pregnancy in term, by natural birth. We all want this to happen in as many families’ lives as possible.
The last five to six decades of obstetrics and co-ops has brought tremendous advances (screening, ultrasound, CTG, flowmetry, prenatal genetics, etc.) and improved obstetric and perinatal indicators, but the incidence of pathologies of pregnancy, the number of premature babies and the frequency of caesarean section still don’t decrease significantly enough.
Our mission is to help medical professionals working in pregnant care to make it possible for healthier moms to give birth to healthier babies.
We are pleased to introduce our PregnaScan home-based pregnancy monitor system, a “virtual lab” service: it makes it possible for the doctors to remotely monitor numerous physiological parameters of pregnant moms, and track certain trends in these parameters.
The more risk factors, the more pathological pregnancies
Increasing risk factors (maternal age, obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, other more common chronic conditions, IVF, etc.) cause more and more women to face with certain pathologies of pregnancy. Fortunately, with the help of detection in time, the emergence of the critical stages of these illnesses can be avoided by a preterminal caesarean section. However, the early caesarean section is not an optimal solution to the problem, only the currently known “least bad” along with all its possible complications.
Thanks to the Internet’s freedom of information, patients can easily find out about the processes that threaten their pregnancy – and uncontrollable information can easily result in anxiety. In addition to the reassuring words of the doctor, with the appearance of PregnaScan a system can be placed in the hands of the obstetricians, with which maternity can be under professional supervision. In case of a risk of any level.
Trends can point out the risk
Based on the literature data, when certain physiological parameters are followed closely we can notice trends that may call the pregnancy care attendant to intervene before the symptoms appear. The significance of lifestyle change is often underestimated, but if it is objectively measurable then both the patient and the doctor may be more motivated to use this approach. Of course, if necessary, pharmacological solutions will also apply – if we know that they are needed.
Comfortable measurement, increased safety, calm doctor and mom
PregaScan measurement is non-invasive, fast, comfortable, and it gives an opportunity for moms to measure themselves even more than once a day, in multiple situations. By transferring measurement data to doctors, it provides adequate control over the health of pregnant women with high risk, and moms will sleep well, since they know that they are looked after even between consulting hours.
The medical evaluation surface of PregnaScan
(Swipe the pictures to the right or left.)
Our heart constantly adapts and responds to all internal and external physical and psychological effects. The parameters of cardiac function and regulation can be accurately described and recognized by mathematical algorithms. Functional parameters and changes of the heart not only correlate well with healthy and sick states but also transitions between the two can be monitored well.
Reading and understanding of the parameters described by physiological sciences and validated in the residency have not belonged to the daily routine of medical care so far, but with a brief re-imaging it can provide a concept really quickly, and it can become an indispensable element of our daily medical decisions - in addition to the current pregnant care protocol. What happens to patients in two trials, particularly how they respond to therapies becomes more visible and understandable.
So, we have reached a new quality level in pregnant care:
If you would like to
- provide your patients with an outstanding attendance
- optimize pregnant care based on more information
- give the opportunity of comfort for moms offered by the 21st century
then PregnaScan is your partner in pregnancy care.
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This week, both Wired and Gizmodo published detailed investigations into the identity of Bitcoin's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Both posited that an eccentric Australian entrepreneur and bitcoin expert named Craig Steven Wright is the real Nakamoto.
After releasing the cryptocurrency's code in 2009, Nakamoto disappeared, allegedly resurfacing only briefly in 2014 to deny the validity of a previous investigative report by Newsweek. The most recent investigations were also almost immediately cast into doubt by Vice Motherboard in a technical breakdown of Nakamoto's alleged cryptographic keys.
Whatever the true identity of Bitcoin's founder, and despite occasional entreaties by developers and users for the creator to return and give guidance as to how the cryptocurrency should evolve, Bitcoin is now controlled in an entirely distributed manner—it is "fatherless" by design. The increasingly vitriolic internal debates among the Bitcoin crowd about block size and the future of the currency will have to be resolved by consensus, not by appealing to an individual who went to great lengths to prevent it from having any centralized authority.
Watch Reason TV's interview with Xapo's Wences Casares below, in which he clarifies the current debate over Bitcoin's future and discusses why he believes that the cryptocurrency "may change the world more than the Internet did."
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One hundred years ago, in 1913, the Jewish community in Palestine was roiled by controversy, set off when the German aid organization Ezra began work in Haifa on the Yishuv’s first institution of higher education, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Board of Governors decided that German would be the main language of instruction. In response, some teachers said they would refuse to teach and students walked out of their classes. The Board of Governors eventually backed down, and Hebrew became the sole language of instruction.
- Word of the Day / Milhemet Hasafot
- Technion to Switch to English in Its Main MBA Program
- Study at Hebrew U., Without the Hebrew
- Profs Fume: Too Much English in Academia
- Jury Out on Teaching Law in English
- English Law Studies Nipped in the Bud
Now, a century later, a new language war, as the Technion dispute was named, has broken out. The issue this time is whether Israeli academic institutions may offer English-only studies in Israeli law.
Last May the Council for Higher Education in Israel appointed a committee of Israeli law professors to study the matter and submit its recommendations, which it is expected to do shortly. The committee is chaired by Prof. Amnon Rubinstein of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Its other members are professors Ariel Bendor of Bar-Ilan University, Ruth Plato-Shinar of Netanya Academic College, Kenneth Mann of Tel Aviv University and Haim Sandberg of Tel Aviv’s College of Management, representing the Council for Higher Education. Rubinstein is said to favor permitting instruction in English language, while Plato-Shinar and Sandberg are said to be opposed.
Many law school faculty members support the proposal. Prof. Yuval Shany, dean of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, and Prof. Eyal Benvenisti of Tel Aviv University, sent the committee a letter in support of the initiative. Former Supreme Court president Prof. Aharon Barak has also come out in support of permitting English-language law programs. Bar-Ilan University has not taken an institutional position on the matter, and both positions are represented in its law school.
Only two schools are interested in offering law studies in English, both of them private institutions with relatively small student bodies: Ramat Gan’s College of Law and Business and Herzilya’s IDC. Much of the debate is one of principle and ideology.
Leading the fight against permitting undergraduate law programs in English is the dean of the Netanya Academic College law school, Prof. Sinai Deutch. His allies in battle include the Israel Bar Association, Safed Academic College and Sha’arei Mishpat College of Legal Studies in Hod Hasharon.
“This is a more of a public matter than just a few departments that may be established where they will teach in English,” Deutch says. “There is no reason in the world they should teach in English a subject that is purely Israeli.”
He adds, “There are thousands of books on law in Hebrew, tens of thousands of articles and more than a million legal rulings. There is traditional Jewish law and the Scriptures. I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be some courses taught in English, and I did my doctorate in the U.S., but an entire degree program is entirely another story.”
According to Deutch, Israel has a very divided population that is united solely by the acceptance of Hebrew as the language of discourse and this should not be undermined.
“Would anyone think to open a law faculty in the U.S. that will teach in French,” Deutch asks rhetorically. “Perhaps instead of passing laws in Israel we should translate other countries’ laws?”
Deutch sent a letter to Education Minister Shay Piron on the issue and plans to meet at the end of the month to discuss the issue with MK Shimon Ohayon (Yisrael Beiteinu), historian Zvi Tzameret and Nathalie Akun, who heads a center for the promotion of Hebrew around the globe. “We will discuss how to bring this important question to attention of the masses because it is a question for the public,” Deutch says. “The job of the education minister is to represent not just the educational establishment but also the public.”
Deutch says he is worried that Hebrew-speaking Israelis might prefer an English law program, with the goal of emigrating to the United States. He says salaries for lawyers in private practice and in academia in the United States are four times higher than in Israel, and that Ramat Gan’s College of Law and Business offers courses that prepare students for the U.S. bar exams.
Prof. Sharon Rabin-Margalioth, dean of the IDC law school, argues that there is demand for an English-language Israeli law program. She says she isn’t sure whether Hebrew-speaking Israelis would be interested in it.
The College of Law and Business was the first school to seek approval for undergraduate law studies in English. The dean of the law school, Prof. Moshe Cohen-Eliya, believes such a program would encourage immigration to Israel, not emigration from the country. He says the target audience is Jews from English-speaking countries who will be able to study Israeli law in their native language.
He doesn’t think many Hebrew-speaking Israelis will want to study law in English. “I can certainly see a situation in which Israeli students join English-language courses, for example in private international law,” he says. “But why would an Israeli student want to learn Israeli civil law in English?”
The president of the Israel Bar Association, Doron Barzilay, explains his reasons for opposing the English-language programs. “The ability to function as a lawyer in Israel is inextricably related to a fluent command of Hebrew and without the steadfast position of the bar association regarding the in-depth control of its members in the Hebrew language, the association cannot ensure that lawyers will be able to provide the best service to clients,” he says.
Cohen-Eliya says opposition is as based on irrational fears. “This program will bring foreign students who will be familiar with Israeli law and will make Israeli law accessible to the world, giving [Israeli law] greater influence,” he says. “We can be part of the global dialogue on topics faced by many nations … the position against it is provincial and it’s distressing that Israeli law should be buried and not develop,” he says.
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Whitmer expands order on face coverings as virus cases continue to rise
As the number of positive coronavirus cases in Northern Michigan and the state increases, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has issued a new executive order that toughens and expands a face mask requirement that has been in effect since April.
The order extends the face mask requirement beyond indoor public spaces to outdoor spaces where people can’t maintain six feet of separation with people from outside their households. It also requires stores, restaurants and other businesses to refuse entry to people not wearing a mask, unless they have a medical reason to not wear one, and makes violations a misdemeanor subject to a $500 fine.
The order went into effect Monday for businesses. Under the order, businesses must also post signs instructing customers of the legal obligation to wear a face mask.
Those exempt from wearing a mask in Michigan businesses include people younger than 5, those who cannot medically tolerate a face covering and those eating or drinking while seated at a food service establishment.
Meanwhile, Lisa Peacock, health officer with the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, said the quick rise of COVID-19 cases across Northern Michigan is tied to increased travel into and out of the region.
“Many of our recent cases have been connected to travel in some way,” Peacock said in a statement on July 9. “Either someone coming into the area or returning home from trips out of the area. Several of the participants have been in families such as weddings, graduation parties or family reunions, others have been young people who are interacting with others from out of the area.”
Along with a rise in cases in the health department’s four-county jurisdiction (Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet and Otsego counties), the number of close contacts per case has also risen sharply, Peacock noted, with many positive cases reporting close contacts between 10-20 — or in some cases more — within the 48 hours prior to being tested.
According to the Michigan Safe Start Map, which may be accessed at www.mistartmap.info, both Northern Michigan (classified as the Traverse City Region for the state’s COVID response purposes) and the Upper Peninsula have seen increased case rates and testing positivity, and are both now at the “medium” risk level.
“We were in the low risk, but that was bumped up to medium risk, and why that happened is because as our test results and percent positive increased — it’s still below 3 percent — it did trend upward recently and the big thing is we had a big increase in the number of cases and case counts since June 30 and over the July 4 weekend,” said Dr. Josh Meyerson, medical director for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan. “Case rates are trending upward.”
On July 12, an additional 390 coronavirus cases in the state were reported by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), bringing the statewide total to 69,338. The state health department also confirmed one new COVID-19 death, bringing the statewide death toll to 6,068.
MDHHS data shows Otsego County’s COVID-19 counts stood at 107 cases and 10 deaths as of July 12. Crawford County had 81 cases and five deaths at that point, while Cheboygan County had seen 25 cases and two deaths.
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Because we use electricity safely all the time, it's easy to take for granted just how dangerous it can be. The powerful nature of electricity is governed by a few simple rules, with an understanding of these rules, you will be better equipped to identify common electrical hazards in the workplace.
By maintaining a safe work environment and by implementing safe work practises, you can help prevent electrical related incidents happening to you, and to your co-workers.
With our online Electrical Safety Course, you will learn the basics of electricity and the dangerous effects it can have on the human body. We’ll take a look at the sources of electrical hazards and how to manage them, inspecting and testing requirements for electrical equipment, and first aid requirements.
More Course Information
The learning outcomes for the Electrical Safety Course are:
- Electricity and the human body
- Electricity general principles
- Electrical equipment
- Electrical hazards
- Working with electricity
- Protection, isolation & testing
- Overhead, underground and hidden electricity
Pricing & Attendance
$40 (incl. GST)
Obtaining a Certificate of Completion in Electrical Safety
You will receive a certificate outlining the course name and a list of your learning outcomes
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Cloud Security: Avoiding Threats
Cloud solutions have been commercially available for about two decades and are used almost universally. Nowadays, about 95% of companies confirm that they have a cloud strategy. Although cloud service providers have made significant improvements to their security systems, the use of such services still involves risks. Fortunately, these risks can be minimized by using advanced up-today security solutions. Many users seeking a reliable antivirus solution ask themselves which one to choose or, for instance, “is Avast Cleanup worth the money? ”
Of course, protective software solutions’ choice depends on the user’s preferences, cloud service, network, and device configuration. However, before all, one should know the security basics antivirus, especially regarding cloud capacity.
Basic cloud security principles
The most critical cloud advantage is installing, managing, and using essential applications much faster than any other solution. At the same time, employees and customers gain real-time access to sensitive information wherever they are and whichever gadget they use. This demands flexible resource management and intuitive applications. From the other side, the internal devices’ workflows must be highly available, flexible, and support critical functionality and transactions executing.
Security is a critical element of any cloud environment, primarily as cybercriminals seek to exploit promptly growing attack opportunities, Avast security experts said. But to achieve high efficiency, security technologies must be as flexible and dynamic as the protected cloud infrastructure itself. Moreover, protecting the cloud with outdated security solutions is as overwhelming as building a modern cloud using obsolete networking elements and day-old application development strategies.
Efficient security solutions must protect communications between data and users and monitor every physical or virtual device channel in corporate infrastructure.
How to Protect Your Data in the Cloud
While the widespread implementation of the highest security level would be overkill, companies must pay enough attention to securing their sensitive data. Otherwise, they risk losing intellectual property and subject to regulatory fines.
Figure out the most sensitive data
The initial task is determining the information which is subject to protection. A unique mechanism is to discover and classify data. Install a comprehensive solution that can find and protect sensitive information on your network, on endpoints, and in the cloud. It will provide the flexibility and mobility you need for your business.
Storing and data access
Although sensitive data can be stored in the cloud, this is not currently commonly held. According to the McAfee Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, up to one-fifth of all files in the cloud contain sensitive information. However, experts note a sharp increase in this indicator every year. Most of this information is stored in well-established enterprise cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Thus, it is essential to understand that none of these solutions are entirely risk-free and secure.
For this reason, it is necessary to examine the permissions and data access policy in your cloud environment and make the required adjustments. In some cases, you will have to delete sensitive data already in the cloud or quarantine it.
Data sharing policy
The volume of confidential data exchange increases significantly every year. No matter how intelligent your threat mitigation strategy is, you can’t simply react to the incidents that occurred. In this case, the risks for your stored sensitive data are too significant. An access control policy must be developed and enforced before data enters the cloud. Only a small number of employees should be able to edit documents, as most of them settle for read-only mode.
Similarly, not all users with access to specific data should be permitted to share it. It is necessary to create groups and configure rights so that only a small group of authorized persons can send such information. This will significantly limit the distribution of sensitive data.
Comprehensive encryption of files should be the keystone of all security measures in the cloud. Although cloud service providers encrypt your data protecting it from third parties, they nevertheless get access to your encryption keys. Companies need to implement up-to-day cryptographic solutions with their own keys to ensure full protection and apply them before uploading data to the cloud.
I am a technician specialist with a deep background in digital marketing. So my mission is to dive into these schemes and explain which security software solution is truly bright, and which is just the result of marketing campaigns.
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Used cars will save money, help the environment, and offer peace of mind when purchasing a used car. Whether you are looking for an economical vehicle or want to be able to take the vehicle in for service if needed, buying a used car can provide many benefits. In this article, we will cover everything you need to know about buying a used car, including where to find them and how to negotiate with the seller.
When purchasing a used car there are several things that people should look out for, such as cars that have been involved in accidents or those with significant damage such as dents and dings. People should also look for cars that have been in the exact location for a long time, such as an owner who may have put thousands of miles on the car over time.
Finding a good used car can be difficult sometimes, but there are some ways to find reliable used cars fresno and many new features that have been added to more recent models that you can use as a guide when looking at cars. Manufacturers also offer incentives, such as extended warranties and financing options or trade-ins that can help you find the right vehicle. Another essential thing to keep in mind is that many people purchase cars through auctions, which is another place to look for great deals on used vehicles.
There are many different things to look for when purchasing a used car, including the type of model that is fashionable and in high demand, safety features such as brakes, and whether the car has been in an accident or had maintenance done. The best way to find a great deal on a used car is by researching your options. Not all cars are created equal, so they may not be worth purchasing. Find out what information you can find about how many miles the car has been driven before you buy it. Other helpful tips include checking out how long the owner has had their vehicle and whether it has any performance issues or has been involved in an accident.
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From the archives: First published in this form in Education Otherwise, August 1997
Excerpts of an article from the paper journal, Taking Children Seriously 23. For the full article, see: Objectifying education sabotages learning
One of the most important duties of parents is to help their children to discover and pursue new interests, retaining the love of learning that is almost universal in young children and almost universally extinct in conventionally educated adults. Standardised curricula, and the stultifying educational hoops that schoolchildren have to jump through, sabotage this aim. This can cause trouble for parents who have to satisfy other people (such as local education authorities, or grandparents) that they are educating their children properly. Under pressure, they may slide into a ‘homeschooling’ mentality that distorts and damages their children’s education.
For instance, they may keep diaries of educational activities or portfolios of their children’s work. This may sound innocuous, but in making themselves continually aware of their children’s education as education, parents are likely to convey this to the children who are then likely to start thinking about their ‘education’ at the expense of their own interests. Education then becomes performance. Children’s creativity is diverted into the problem of how to be seen to be meeting the external standards implicit in the curriculum and to produce ‘evidence’ of ‘progress’, instead of solving problems that arise naturally out of their own personalities and experiences.
The more important the parents consider this ‘evidence’ to be, the more likely they are to exert subtle pressure on their children to perform. For many children, this will be enough to change the focus of their endeavours from genuine learning to performance. One educationalist recently objected, when I made this point: “But children like to see the progress they have made. If parents don’t keep their work, they won’t be able to see how far they have come.” Yes. Children in school may indeed “like to see the progress they have made”, but that is likely to be no more than a sad reflection of the focus upon performance that is the raison d’êtreof their whole ‘education’.
The carrot of ‘good progress’ is, by logical necessity, backed by the stick of ‘poor progress.’ Being motivated by either is equally harmful. Children’s work should remain their own private property, not to be seen by anyone unless they want to show it. If they do want to show it, are they excited about having solved a problem they were working on? Are they seeking criticism and help solving a problem? Or is the purpose to get affection and attention from their parents? In that case, the parents are manipulating their children by the implicit threat of withholding that affection or attention.
If you are keeping your children’s work it might be worth asking yourself whether you are defining your children by who they once were. If so, they too may start to define themselves by moments in their pasts, and so be less able to grow and learn. Avoid encouraging children to look back at the history of their learning. For that matter, don’t encourage them to look at their learning at all. Learning is one thing. Looking at one’s learning is something quite different.
For the full article from which the above excerpts were taken, see: Objectifying education sabotages learning.
Sarah Fitz-Claridge, 1997, ‘Beware the curriculum mentality’, Education Otherwise August 1997, https://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/beware-the-curriculum-mentality/
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Claims readings could be distorted because a smaller share of those potentially eligible for benefits are applying. The share of recently unemployed workers seeking benefits has fallen this year to just above 50%, according to the National Employment Law Project, a group that advocates for the unemployed.
The rate is down from record high of almost 80% just after the recession ended.
The application rate typically declines as expansions age, but the current pace is the lowest in 15 years. NELP Policy Analyst Claire McKenna said the low rate reflects a vastly different labor market for those who recently lost their jobs versus the long-term unemployed.
The unemployment rate for those out of work for five weeks or less fell below prerecession levels this year. The rate for those out of work for six months or more is well down from 2009, but it remains about double the rate recorded in mid-2007.
“This late into a very slow recovery you have a sizable population of unemployed people that are less likely to establish eligibility for benefits,” Ms. McKenna said. In past cycles, even those workers who didn’t find long-term jobs would have landed shorter-term work that subsequently allowed them to again seek for benefits.
Must be a consequence of income reductions for people getting oil related revenues…
Six years into Greece’s economic crisis and following successive “bailouts,” there still seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. Greece’s economy continues to shrink and unemployment remains at record high levels while the Syriza-led government coalition has reneged on its promises of radical change and ending austerity. The troika, in turn, continues to insist that strict austerity measures, including budget cuts and mass privatizations, be enforced in Greece.
In this interview, economist Warren Mosler, a leading figure in the field of modern monetary theory and the cofounder of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, discusses money, debt and the role of the European Union’s deficit limits in perpetuating the crisis, and shares the proposals he believes could help lead Greece out of its crisis.
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#Radio: Liberty and Justice for ALL!
On the #RADIO show we discuss transgender rights and the importance of not allowing bullying on our watch, we also discuss how important, positive changes are still happening at the school district, city, county, and state levels. Then we discuss exactly how high impact all the recent activism has been and get tips for taking action. Next up is a conversation with an immigration rights attorney about a "Know Your Rights” video in English & Spanish that has gone viral. We close the show talking about the wage gap, who is impacted, and how to fix it.
- Sarah McBride, Human Rights Campaign, @SarahEMcBride, @HRC;
- Carolina Rubio MacWright, immigration attorney;
- Anna Galland, MoveOn, @annagalland;
- and Sung Yeon Choimorrow, NAPAWF
HOW TO LISTEN:
- In the DC-area and on many stations across the nation;
- On TuneIn's Progressive Voices
- On WeActRadio
- As a podcast on iTunes
- Right here on the MomsRising site.
Tweet your thoughts with hashtag #risers!
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Every single time Fanessa Chamberson, 59, ate anything with a tomato sauce base or fried foods, she would pay dearly with heartburn. “I used to indulge in foods that made me miserable. One night, I made up my mind to seek help! Thankfully, I went to a gastroenterologist, a doctor who specializes in diseases of the digestive system and was diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). She helped me make lifestyle changes which led me to change how I was eating. She also gave me a prescription med that works well for me and now, I can get through my day without the awful heartburn. I can also now sleep through the night!”
Fanessa is not alone in her heartburn misery! Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) typically produces heartburn which is a burning sensation in the middle of your chest that occurs when the contents from the stomach travel back up into the esophagus (the tube that carries the food from your mouth to your stomach). The condition affects more than 15 million Americans every single day. Some 35 percent of African Americans are GERD sufferers according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Older people are more apt to suffer from GERD, and people over age 65 are often prescribed medications to treat it.
What are the symptoms?
The main symptoms of GERD are:
- sour/bitter taste in your mouth
- a cough that comes and goes
- bad breath
- sick feeling
Your symptoms will probably worsen after a meal, when lying down or when bending over.
It is also important to note that some people might not experience a sensation of heartburn but they can have a few of the symptoms noted above.
What are the causes?
According to clinicians, there is no obvious reason as to why some foods cause or worsen GERD. The following triggers do seem to make the sufferer feel very uncomfortable:
- fried foods
- acidic foods (like tomato based sauces, OJ, citrus fruits)
- large meals
- coffee, alcohol, fatty or spicy foods
- anti-inflammatory meds like ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil)
In addition there are other conditions that can also contribute to GERD:
- hiatal hernia (an opening in the diaphragm–the muscular wall separating the chest cavity from the abdomen)
When to see a doctor?
You should make an appointment to see a doctor if the following GERD symptoms persist:
- Symptoms persist despite taking OTC medications
- Difficulty swallowing
- Nausea or vomiting
- Weight loss
- Heartburn occurs two-plus times a week
A physician will determine what’s causing your discomfort and then decide how to treat it. Diagnostic testing might include an upper endoscopy, in which a long, flexible tube explores the esophagus (while you’re asleep), or the esophageal pH test, an outpatient procedure in which you wear a small probe for 24 hours to detect the amount of acid being produced.
When GERD is confirmed, your doctor will help you with lifestyle changes like:
- Losing weight
- Wearing looser fitting garments
- Not consuming meals right before bedtime
- Propping yourself up while you sleep instead of lying flat
- Eating smaller meals
- Staying upright for at least three hours after a meal
Your doctor will also discuss medications that are available to treat your condition such as:
- Antacids that are OTC or prescription
- H2 blockers that reduce the amount of acid your stomach makes
- Proton-pump inhibitors that further reduce the amount of acid your stomach produces and are available both over the counter and by prescription
- Prokinetics that help clear stomach contents and strengthen the lower esophageal sphincter or LES
There are some GERD sufferers who might need a surgical procedure such as Fundoplication where the upper part of the stomach is wrapped around the lower part of the esophagus to strengthen the LES.
Word to the wise! Not treating GERD can seriously damage your esophagus or lead to precancerous changes called Barrett’s esophagus. You might also put yourself at risk for esophagitis (irritation/swelling of the esophagus) or esophageal stricture (a consequence of esophagitis where scar tissue narrows the esophagus making swallowing difficult).
Finally, esophageal cancer can be another consequence of not seeking treatment for GERD and this can be deadly. Most people who develop esophageal cancer are over 50 and predominantly male.
So PLEASE do yourself a favor, PUT DOWN the OTC Pepto-Bismal, Tums, Rolaids, Maalox, Mylanta, and Milk of Magnesia and hightail it to a doctor pronto to treat your heartburn!
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Email marketing has long been lauded as one of the most reliable components of an effective digital marketing strategy – and for good reason. This practice involves companies sending informational and promotional material to their database of email contacts, for example weekly newsletters, special offers, announcements, and event invitations. Whilst not a particularly glamourous or highly visible form of advertising, its effectiveness lies in its simplicity and ability to connect directly with past and potential customers. In fact, email marketing has been shown to generate $44 for every $1 spent in terms of ROI. Here’s why.
1. It’s a simple, low-cost method of marketing
There are over 4 billion active email accounts worldwide, with the majority of users admitting to checking their emails first thing as soon as they wake up. Email marketing allows brands to land directly on their computer and mobile phone screens without having to spend budget to advertise on digital platforms like Facebook or Google Ads, whilst also eliminating things like printing costs associated with more traditional forms of direct marketing.
Businesses that use email also avoid the complex task of navigating constantly-changing algorithms that dictate what content gets prioritised on social networks such as Facebook and Instagram. Plus, instead of testing different audiences and targeting characteristics, marketers simply upload their list of contacts to have complete control over who sees their messaging.
2. It can drive a range of goals
Despite its simplicity, email marketing is a preferred form of communication for many brands due to its versatility in facilitating a number of different goals and conversions across a wide range of business types. Like with all publications, one of our major considerations at Year13 is to increase traffic, and this is easily driven through email campaigns that round up our highest quality content. Similarly, retail companies can use email campaigns to drive purchases by linking to popular products.
As for the youth market, education providers can use newsletters to maintain communication with students and keep them up to date with news and events around campus. There’s also huge commercial benefit by using email campaigns as a method of capturing and nurturing leads for potential enrolments. Employers and employment agencies can work similarly, emailing their database with information about new roles and facilitating their progress across the user journey.
3. You’re interacting with an engaged audience
Email lists are built by importing previous customers’ contact details, capturing new email addresses by offering incentives and services in return, or a combination of both. This means your database is full of people that are already familiar with your brand and have engaged with your marketing before. Therefore, instead of focusing your efforts on getting their attention in the first place, you can use email campaigns to more easily drive high value conversions.
Get in contact with our team to find out how we can build a highly engaged database of leads for your business.
4. There are a range of tools to help you optimise
Sites like Mailchimp, Constant Contact, and Campaign Monitor make it extremely easy for brands to build email campaigns and optimise for greater engagement. Many of these sites have free email templates or ways for you to create your own templates so that your emails are engaging and visually appealing.
Personalisation these days goes beyond modifying emails to include the recipients name in the subject header, though this is proven to be effective in its own right. One simple yet effective tool is list segmenting, which means separating your list based on things like location, demographics, past activity, or customer data. This allows marketers to send different content to different sections of their audience, maintaining relevancy across a potentially broad spectrum of customers or clients.
These sites will also have automation tools that allow businesses to smooth the user journey at little to no effort on their behalf. For example, students who have expressed interest in a specific university may receive an automated email notifying them of the enrolment period finishing soon with a CTA to finish their application. Similarly, employment sites can set up an automated email a week after somebody has started the registration process, prompting them with tips on how to complete the process.
5. You can use stats and insights to guide you
These email marketing platforms also provide detailed statistics on the engagement of your emails and these can be used to improve future efforts. They record the overall open rate of an email, as well as the click-through rate of specific links within the campaign. A skilled marketer will be able to identify the common attributes of high performing campaigns and replicate this moving forward.
The level of insight these platforms provide extends to specific user data – that is, marketers can see if a contact has been engaging more or less with their marketing compared to other people in their database. This allows further list segmenting and can mean you send heavy CTAs to contacts you know engage heavily with your brand.
Download our Media Kit to find out how we can help you achieve your marketing goals, including building an email database of potential leads for education or employment.
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Hoyt was a railroad community a half mile southeast of Alba near what is now U.S. Highway 69 in southwestern Wood County. The community began as a station on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line, which built through the area from Greenville to Mineola in 1881. Hoyt had a post office from 1914 to 1924. In the early 1930s the community reported one business and a population of 100; by the mid-1940s Hoyt's population had fallen to about thirty. Though the railroad line through Hoyt was closed in 1956, the community's population continued to be reported at thirty until 1966, when it dropped to twenty-six. No population figures are available for Hoyt after 1966. The community was not shown on the 1988 county highway map.
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Are you thinking about buying some real estate market? If you do, you will need to learn everything you can about investing before making your first investment. Read on to learn how to get started the right way.
You need to decide the type of investments you want to invest in prior to beginning your first property. You may like flipping real estate quickly without too much work.
You should take the time to learn as much as you can before you begin a career as a real estate investor. Doing so can give you a lot of useful advice about how to make money in real estate. You can read books, watch DVD programs, sign up for workshops and take classes to learn all about real estate.
Always try to find out what the local values.Finding out who the neighbors are and mortgage values in a particular area can tell you more about a home’s value than the financial statements.
Never invest your money in a piece of real estate that has not had inspected by an independent property inspector. Sellers who pony up their own inspector may use professionals that are biased towards them. You need neutral inspections or reports from a professional you can trust.
Never invest your money into property that you have not personally seen and inspected. The seller may offer to pay for an inspector to inspect the property but they may know the inspector who will favor the seller. Always get a neutral report or a lookover from someone that you personally trust.
Be certain to choose regions that are in a well-known area in which potential tenants might be interested. This is something that’s important because it will help the property. Try finding property that you can easily be maintained.
You can learn a lot this way. You can even speak with these people.
Investing in retail and industrial properties requires that you pay attention to two things. The first thing is to never pay a premium for dirt. Do not spend too much money on the business either. Look at the property and what you can expect in terms of rental income. Ensure that both numbers meet your needs.
This allows you get on the property. There is nothing worse than paying out of your own pocket because the renter’s payment cannot cover it.
Don’t spend your money in real estate with doing the research first. Errors in this field can generate some major losses if you don’t watch out.
Do not make the assumption that property values will always increase. This is an assumption that can be quite dangerous regardless of the type of property you own. Your safest bet is to only invest in properties that provide a nearly immediate positive cash flow. Property value appreciation will help you invest in future properties.
Look at the entire neighborhood before buying a property. Neighborhoods that are desirable will have a lot of value at all times, while depressed areas might cost you money or yield a lower return. Location will always going to be essential when assessing a property’s value.
If you buy a property with a plan to rent it out, it is vital that you wisely choose your tenants. The prospective tenant needs to be able to give you money for the first month as well as a deposit. If they can’t get their money together at this time, there is a greater potential that they will be unable to maintain payments. Keep looking for the right tenant.
The rent you are getting from properties should cover their mortgage. You should make sure it does. You don’t want to end up having to dip into your own pocket to pay any part of the mortgage.
Have an idea of your time’s opportunity cost. You might love rehabbing a property yourself, but is the time you’re spending on it time well spent? Or is it better suited to looking for the next great investment opportunity. It’s worth it to free some time for more important parts of the business you have.
Real estate can bring you a lot of profit, if done right. Use the tips you’ve read here to keep you on the right track. Be sure to utilize these tips as you move forward.
You want to stay away from rock bottom real estate prices. Even if the price is tempting, you may end up being stuck with the property for a long time to come because there will simply be no buyers. Try spending some time to get something better that can help you earn your money back.
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Qatar is a country located in the west of Asia, particularly near the Arabian Peninsula, with Doha as its capital city. It is known for its oil reserves and the massive petroleum and gas industries, making the country one of the richest in the world.
There are also many things Qatar is famous for, such as its world-class airlines and airports, unique landscapes, and is one of the safest places on Earth. Besides these, you’ll also find Qatar an ideal place to study. It has built the Education City where you can find several international universities. You can also choose to study at some of its local universities.
But before sending your applications, find out what most international students are taking in Qatar schools. Here are the best subjects to study in Qatar!
Top Subjects to Study in Qatar
1. Gulf Studies
Gulf Studies covers various topics, such as Politics, Economics, Energy, and History, providing a deeper understanding of the Gulf Region, and it is a top subject to consider in Qatar. You can also learn about the culture and society of this side of the Arab region. More importantly, taking Gulf Studies provides you the opportunity to delve into research and look for answers to timely and thought-provoking issues in this region. For these reasons, Gulf Studies is among the best subjects to study in Qatar.
You can study Gulf Studies in Qatar at Qatar University. There are also related subjects at the other universities in the Education City in Qatar, such as Carnegie Mellon University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Studying in these universities can provide you with a world-class education and top-caliber facilities. With such training and preparation, you’ll be ready to take on the world.
Some of the careers for international students with a background in Gulf Studies are in the academe and schools. You can also apply for work at international agencies such as the United Nations and the European Union. Finally, studying Gulf Studies can help you start a career in business and politics as an analyst.
2. Arabic Language
There are many advantages to learning a new language, such as Arabic. Besides the cognitive benefits, learning Arabic can also open doors to career opportunities abroad. And while it’s more accessible to learn a new language by using a mobile app or enrolling in an online class, it’s still best to learn it in its most native form. For that, the Arabic language is one of the best subjects you can study in Qatar.
The country is the most open in the region, allowing international students to explore its cities. By doing so, you can learn the language just like how the locals use it in their everyday lives. You’ll surely pick up and improve on your Arabic.
Besides how you can learn the language by being in an actual Arab society, it’s also important to learn it in a formal setting. Some of the best places you can learn the Arabic Language in Qatar are Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the Loghati Center, and the Islamic Cultural Center.
3. Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering is a diverse field that extends well to other fields, such as Biochemical, Environmental, and Material Engineering. It’s one of the best programs to study in Qatar. Here, you’ll learn about the petroleum, petrochemical, and gas industries in the country. In particular, you can study and acquire marketable skills in the development of new technologies and energy products.
Being in Qatar also provides you the unique opportunity to explore the industry that makes it one of the economic powerhouses in the world. There are large gas reserves, as well as treatment and refining facilities in the country. By studying in Qatar, you’re closer to starting a career in these industries.
Considering how valuable chemical engineers are in many companies and businesses in Qatar, its education system ensures to provide competent professionals through high-quality education. Some of the best universities where you can study Chemical Engineering in Qatar are the:
- Qatar University
- Texas A&M University Qatar
- College of North Atlantic Qatar.
4. Mass Communication
Mass Communication deals with creating, sending and analyzing messages to vast audiences through different forms of media, and it is an excellent program to study in Qatar for aspiring international students. This is a diverse subject that tackles the what and how of communication among large groups of people, as well as the why of it. In Qatar, you can study Mass Communication and enjoy the perks of being a country that sees its significance in today’s society.
Besides the world-class education, you can also enjoy technologically advanced facilities, and learning methodologies aligned with international standards. It’s also crucial for international students to learn Mass Communication in a practical setting, which Qatar offers. Moreover, universities in the country, such as Qatar University, ensure that students get a full understanding of how Mass Communication impacts society.
If you’re looking to explore specializations within this field, you’ll find that Qatar universities also offer related subjects to international students, such as Journalism and Strategic Communication. And besides Qatar University, you can also study in other academic institutions such as:
- Doha Institute of Graduate Studies
- Northwestern University in Qatar
- Georgetown University
5. Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering is the subject area that deals with built structures, such as roads, railways, bridges, airports, dams, and other infrastructures. By studying this, you’ll learn how to plan, design, and develop these structures, which are significant proof of a society’s economic success. Considering how important this field is, it’s important to choose a country where you can study this.
In relation to that, Civil Engineering is another excellent subject to study in Qatar. The country is known for its impressive infrastructures, such as the Burj Doha Tower and the newly built Lusail Stadium, which will host the final game of the FIFA World Cup in 2022. With these in mind, studying Civil Engineering in Qatar means you’ll get inspiration from structures built by present successful engineers.
And it doesn’t seem like the country is slowing down with its infrastructure projects. That means there’ll be more jobs available to engineering graduates in Qatar in the near future. As an international student, this will be a great opportunity for you to start a career. It’s a lucrative career and only takes you higher on the career ladder as you acquire more knowledge, skills, and work experiences. So, make sure to study Civil Engineering at top universities in Qatar such as:
- Qatar University
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- Texas A&M University Qatar
I hope that this article on Best Subjects to Study in Qatar was helpful. To know more information on studying abroad, check out the Available Programs for International Students.
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Tuition Fees Reintroduced at Some German Universities
Germany has become widely known for its free university education – one factor amongst several in its rapid rise in popularity as a study destination in recent years. However, the south-west state of Baden-Württemberg has this week announced plans to reintroduce tuition fees for international students from outside the European Union (EU), starting from autumn 2017.
What tuition fees will be charged?
From the start of the 2017/18 academic year, non-EU students will be required to pay €1,500 (~US$1,600) per semester – totalling €3,000 (~US$3,200) per year. Students gaining a second degree will pay a reduced fee of €650 (~US$700) per semester. Although education at German universities in Baden-Württemberg will no longer be free, it’s worth noting that these tuition fees are still significantly lower than in many other parts of the world.
Some international students will be exempt from the reintroduction of tuition fees. Exemptions apply to:
- Refugees with a right to stay in Germany.
- International students who earned their higher education entrance qualification ‘Bildungsinländer’ in Germany.
- International students from Erasmus member states, including non-EU countries such as Iceland and Turkey.
- Students from non-member countries with permanent resident status in Europe.
- Existing non-EU students already undertaking degrees at the affected universities.
Which German universities are affected?
The state of Baden-Württemberg is home to major German cities such as Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. German universities affected by the changes to tuition fees include:
- Universität Freiburg
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg)
- KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Universität Konstanz
- Universität Mannheim
- Universität Stuttgart
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Why have fees been reintroduced?
The state of Baden-Württemberg actually scrapped tuition fees in 2011, three years before Lower Saxony became the final German state to abolish them in 2014, and had earlier this year promised not to reintroduce general fees. However, the decision to reintroduce tuition fees has now been made in order to help universities cover operational costs – the country currently has a €48m (~US$51m) higher education funding gap. In short, the higher education ministry can no longer afford to provide free education for all students.
The ministry is reportedly keen to get the funding situation under control, while at the same time avoiding negative repercussions for German universities. A spokeswoman from the University of Konstanz told The Independent: “While the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education and Research has to do its part in reducing costs, it also wants to avoid drastically damaging the reputation and growth of science and research at state universities along with their high student numbers.”
Will other German universities charge fees?
Unless the proposed change in tuition fee policy is overturned by student protests or other political developments, it seems feasible that other German states will also reintroduce fees in the coming years, again in a bid to reduce the higher education funding deficit.
The reintroduction of tuition fees may be a concern for some students, including UK students affected by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. However, the UK is unlikely to complete the process of leaving the EU until around March 2019; UK students can still benefit from free or low tuition in many EU countries during this time. It’s not yet clear whether the UK will remain a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and/or the Erasmus scheme.
There is also the possibility of more scholarship opportunities becoming available to help non-EU students to study in Germany.
Are other European nations reintroducing tuition fees?
Earlier in 2016 it was also announced that tuition fees for non-EU students will be reintroduced in Finland in autumn 2017. This follows suit with fellow Nordic nations Denmark and Sweden, which introduced tuition fees for non-EU students in 2006 and 2011 respectively. This means that from August 2017, non-EU students will pay a minimum fee of €1,500 (~US$1,600) per year. The only Nordic country to retain free tuition for students of all nationalities is Norway, which is not a member of the EU.
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This article is an extract from a longer article that originally appeared on the Workday blog.
We’re experiencing seismic, global shifts in the world of work. Leaders and employees alike are still figuring out how to adjust to hybrid and flexible work as the new normal, and companies continue to struggle with how to diversify their workforces.
That’s where skills management comes in. Skills management is the practice of identifying and tracking the skills of employees, mapping those skills to jobs or roles in the business, and measuring how effectively employees use their skills to operate and respond to market shifts.
The importance of managing employee skills is moving into the forefront as organisations need to navigate these big changes in the business landscape:
Democratisation of work: The pandemic has democratised work by making it more accessible. Companies rely more on employees with the right skills even if those skills are outside their specific role.
Technological progress: Digital transformation has accelerated during the pandemic. Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, for example, have enabled companies to adjust to new business models, create efficient business processes, and create new products or services.
Tremendous uncertainty: As the pandemic has worn on, uncertainty has become part of the business landscape. As a result, business leaders have adopted agile operating models to navigate change.
Having insight into the skills of employees is beneficial for strategic initiatives across the organisation, not just in HR. Organisations with a skills-based strategy are more responsive to change and emerging opportunities, whether that’s getting new products or services to market faster or redefining how work gets done.
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By James Eyers
The millennial generation wants banks to offer personalised and predictive products and allow them to control their data when they buy financial services through mobile apps, says Telstra in a new report on millennials' attitudes towards banking.
"Millennials may be the first generation to live their lives never requiring, nor engaging with, a traditional institution and only ever associating the word 'branch' with a tree," says Telstra's global industry executive for banking, finance and insurance, Rocky Scopelliti, in his Millennials, Mobiles and Money – The Forces Reinventing Financial Services report.
To keep up with the demands of tech-savvy youth, advertising strategies will have to change and banks will have to tap a variety of data sources to ensure relevant and timely offers are delivered to prospective customers in real time, the report suggests.
"The ability to customise and tailor offers, connect at an emotional level and automate will be strong levers that financial services providers can use for differentiation," Mr Scopelliti said.
"Our research highlights that to millennials, we simply can't advertise our way into their attention – just because they're always connected, doesn't mean they're listening."
Retaining millennials, those born between the early 1980s to around 2000, is a key focus for management at the highest levels of Australia's big banks as fintech disrupters bite at their heels.
For example, Commonwealth Bank of Australia's head of retail Matt Comyn said during a presentation last week a key aim of the bank's digital strategy is to reduce the number of young customers leaving the bank. He pointed to figures showing that 42.4 per cent of people aged 24 to 34 consider CBA to be their "main financial institution" but this falls to 30.1 per cent of people aged between 35 and 49.
Changing service providers
Millennials will comprise 42 per cent of the Australian workforce by 2020, and Telstra says they currently spend, on average, 2.1 hours a day on their mobile phones. The always connected, automated and hyper-personalised online mobile world ensures millennials now demand speed, convenience, flexibility and customisation, the telco says, and they are willing to shift service providers to find it.
"They value relationships grounded in security, privacy, flexibility, real-time, multi-channel, customised, emotionally connected, personalised, predictive and automated – and they're open to whoever provides it."
Mr Scopelliti's report was built off a study of mobile financial services application behaviour of 30,000 millennials across eight countries – Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Britain and the US. A separate survey of 2817 millennials was also conducted to explore in more detail their attitudes towards banks.
Banks seen as 'trustworthy'
The study provided some good news for incumbents as they attempt to fend off the fintech threat: when asked which platforms (or types of organisations) they trust with personal information, 76 per cent of millennials nominated banks and no other provider came close.
"Banks have a massive amount of 'trust capital'," the report said. "This is a major competitive advantage for the traditional financial institutions to leverage but trust is perishable."
Nevertheless, "the threat from fintech is significant", Telstra said, noting that two-thirds of millennials prefer to receive advice on financial products and services via a digital platform. "Automated robo/digital financial advice is perceived to be independent and preferred, and a real threat to traditional advice models."
Telstra predicts ongoing collaboration between incumbent banks and fintech startups, even though only half of bank executives report their digital tie-ups are proving their value "beyond doubt".
Fintechs targeting millennials have attracted $US3.7 billion in funding globally while spending on mobile enterprise applications by financial institutions reached $US752 million in 2014-15, with growth expected to be 21 per cent compound annual growth rate through to 2019. Mr Scopelliti will be discussing his report with the banks over the coming months.
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Sales is a field that is constantly changing. Whether you are in B2B or B2C the landscape across the board continues to change. Customers are more informed, and businesses also have access to more data. The industry continues to change, and it’s important to be aware of new trends to stay competitive. We’ll discuss the trends every knowledgeable sales professional should know about going into 2017.
Data & Analytics Drive Smart Sales
To begin, we can discuss a trend that is impacting various industries: ‘big data’. Being able to gather data based on customer tendencies and behaviors has huge implications for sales. More than ever, this data is shaping how deals are getting closed. Furthermore, harnessing this data allows for predictive selling to be done.
Visualize how Netflix’s ‘For You’ predictions work. By analyzing the hours of media you’ve watched and rated, it knows what next show or movie you may like. Gathering data may one day make sales operate the same way. While it is only in it’s infancy right now comparatively, predictive analytics could mean the end of cold calling and lead generation.
Fantasy Sports Meets Sales Goals
Talking about the importance of data may lead you to wonder how it is all tracked. Already many companies are utilizing Customer Relationship Management software systems, which enable companies to conveniently keep track of all of these data points in one place. It optimizes sales tracking, and also allows managers to easily view performance of team members. As a result, gamification has also seen rising popularity in the industry.
Some CRM software companies have integrated a ‘gamified’ version of their database, and there are also third party apps for the same purpose. For anyone unfamiliar, gamification transforms the sales process into a fantasy football-esque competition. Lead generation and closing sales generate points, which are tracked. Some companies break up their workers into teams, and reward the winners every month. It’s certainly a unique trend to the industry, however, it has worked in several other situations.
Millennials Drive Mobile Sales
The location where sales are completed is also changing. Millennials now make up a significant portion of the consumer market, which has to be considered. We live in the mobile age, and customers expect ease of use when completing a purchase. This means shopping on mobile devices, as well as through social media.
Many companies fail to seriously consider the potential of social selling. This could leave many companies behind especially as platforms like Instagram optimize for e-commerce. Consumers are now more informed by doing research on potential purchases. This means salespeople need to be open and available to consumers in order to make the sale when the customer is ready. Thus, sales reps are expected by management to be more tech savvy than ever to meet customers no matter where they are.
In order to achieve this, many companies are trying to strengthen the connection between their sales and marketing departments even further. Many consumers have done research and mostly reached a decision before they decide to make a purchase. This means that the efforts of the marketing team tie directly into the efforts of salespeople. They need to be selling the product in a way that is congruent with how the sales team will pitch the product to a wary consumer. Having a strong relationship between these to departments will be beneficial for many companies.
We hope you found some useful information regarding sales trends in this blog post! If you believe we’ve left any important trends, please leave us a comment, and we’ll be sure to reply.
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Marine Iguana by Chris Townend.
Swallow-tailed Gulls by Simon Colenutt.
Giant Tortoise with a Cattle Egret on Santa Cruz by Simon Colenutt.
Endemics 31 (A penguin, four mockingbirds and 17 finches) Galapagos Dove, Galapagos Rail, Galapagos Penguin, Lava (Green) Heron, Flightless Cormorant, Lava Gull, Galapagos Hawk, Galapagos Flycatcher, Darwin’s (Galapagos Vermilion) Flycatcher, Galapagos Martin, Floreana Mockingbird, Galapagos Mockingbird, Espanola Mockingbird, San Cristobal Mockingbird, Grey Warbler-finch, Green Warbler-finch, Vegetarian Finch, Sharp-beaked Ground-finch, Large Tree-finch, Medium Tree-finch (Floreana), Small Tree-finch, Mangrove Finch (Isabela), Woodpecker Finch, Vampire Ground-finch (Darwin and Wolf), Small Ground-finch, Medium Ground-finch, Genovesa Ground-finch, Large Ground-finch, Espanola Cactus-finch, Common Cactus-finch and Genovesa Cactus-finch.
(Waved Albatross nests (April to December) on Espanola Island in the Galapagos and Isla de la Plata (a few pairs only) off Ecuador, and ranges at sea to the Humboldt Current off Ecuador and Peru, sometimes Chile. Swallow-tailed Gull nests all year round on Galapagos and Mapelo Island (in small numbers) off Colombia, and ranges at sea from Colombia to Peru, rarely to central Chile)
American Flamingo, Red-billed Tropicbird, Blue-footed, Red-footed and Nazca Boobies, Magnificent and Great (mostly Apr-Sep) Frigatebirds, White-cheeked Pintail, Galapagos (Dark-rumped) Petrel, Galapagos (Audubon's) Shearwater, Elliot's, Band-rumped (Madeiran), Markham's, Wedge-rumped and White-vented Storm-petrels, Brown Pelican, Yellow-crowned Night-heron, Purple Gallinule, Black-necked Stilt, Wandering Tattler, Brown Noddy, Smooth-billed Ani, (Galapagos) Barn and (Galapagos) Short-eared Owls, (Galapagos) Vermilion Flycatcher and (Mangrove) Yellow Warbler. Also a chance of White-faced Storm-petrel, Paint-billed Crake, Sooty Tern (nests only on Darwin Island, a long way north of the main archipelago, and seen infrequently elsewhere) and Dark-billed Cuckoo.
Bottlenose Dolphin, California Sealion (usual pupping season is Aug-Nov) and Galapagos Fur Seal. Also a chance of Common Dolphin, and Bryde's, Killer and Sperm Whales, and an outside chance of Fraser's, Long-snouted Spinner, Pantropical Spotted, Risso's and Striped Dolphins, and Blue, Blainville's Beaked, Cuvier's Beaked, Dwarf Sperm, Humpback (mostly June), Fin, Melon-headed, Minke, False Killer, Pygmy Killer, Pygmy Sperm, Short-finned Pilot and Sei Whales (all whales mostly May-Nov).
Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish
Giant Tortoise, Marine and Land Iguanas, (Pacific) Green Turtle (females come ashore to lay eggs Dec-Jun mostly Jan-Mar especially February, hatchlings mostly Apr-May), and Whale (Jun-Nov, mostly May-Aug, when pregnant females gather around Darwin Island), (Scalloped) Hammerhead (mostly July) and White-tipped Reef Sharks. Also a chance of Manta Ray, Golden and Spotted Eagle Rays, and Hawksbill, Leatherback and Olive Ridley Turtles.
Waved Albatross by Lee Dingain.
Two bird species, Waved Albatross and Great Frigatebird, usually nest only from April to September, and the best time to see these, as well as Blue-footed Booby, displaying at their colonies is usually May to July, especially May-June, but the peak time for turtles laying their eggs on the beaches is January to March, especially January, with the hatchlings usually appearing in April-May. The best time for snorkelling/swimming with fish, penguins, sealions and turtles is the slightly wetter season between December and May when the waters are warmer, clearer and calmer, and the weather hotter and more humid, with the chance of showers. June to November is usually the driest, coolest and least humid time of the year but it can be misty at this time and the sea cooler, murkier and choppier.
Collins Traveller's Guide: Wildlife of Galapagos by J and D Fitter. William Collins/PUP, 2016 (Revised Second Edition).
Travellers' Wildlife Guides: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands by D Pearson and L Beletsky. Interlink Books, 2013.
Bradt Wildlife Guide: Galapagos Wildlife by D Horwell and P Oxford. Bradt, 2011 (Third Edition).
Watching Wildlife: Galapagos Islands by D Andrew. Lonely Planet, 2005.
Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands by A Swash and R Still. Helm, 2005 (Second Edition).
Reef Fish Identification: Galapagos by P Humann and N Deloach. New World Publications, 2003 (Second Edition).
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. Originally published in 1839 and reprinted many times since.
Where to watch birds in South America by N Wheatley. Helm, 1994.
Don’t know which country/countries to visit in South America? Then it may be worth considering taking a look at this book, written by this website’s author. It is many years old of course but it still provides a starting point, an overview and a guiding light to the best birds and the best places to look for them on the continent, and could save hours of searching for similar information on the internet. However, it is important to check more up-to-date sources for sites which have been opened up, sites and species which have been discovered, lodges that have been built etc. since the book was published.
Many trip reports, some for Galapagos, are posted on the websites listed here. On some of these websites some reports are independent and some are posted by tour companies who organize tours to Galapagos. These tour companies and others also post their own reports on their websites, which are listed under 'Some Organized Tours to Galapagos' below.
The costs of organized tours partly reflect the quality of the tour leaders. Some leaders are certainly better than others and many companies claim their leaders are the best but even the best rely at least to some extent on the exceptional skills of the local guides they employ. If you are travelling independently, employing such local guides will greatly increase your chances of seeing the wildlife you wish to see.
There are many tour companies who organize tours to see mammals, birds, other wildlife and other natural wonders. The cost of these tours vary considerably according to such variables as the airlines used, the number of days the tours last, the number of sites visited, the number of people in the group (an important consideration if you wish to see such wildlife as rainforest mammals and birds), the number of tour leaders, the standard of accommodation and transport, and the percentage profit the company hopes to make. Generally, where the number of days tours last and the number of sites visited are similar, the cheapest tours are those that use the cheapest airlines, accommodation and local transport, that have the largest groups with the least number of leaders, and that make the least amount of profit. The most expensive tours tend to be those which are exceptionally long, use the most expensive accommodation (ridiculously lavish in some cases, even for single nights) and which make the most profit. Some tour costs partly reflect the quality of the tour leaders. Some leaders are certainly better than others and many companies claim their leaders are the best but even the best rely at least to some extent on the exceptional skills of the local guides they employ.
While tour companies organize tours with set itineraries many also organize custom tours for individuals and private groups who instead of taking a tour with a set itinerary want to follow their own itinerary to suit their own personal tastes, whether it be mammals, birds, other wildlife, other natural wonders or even man-made attractions, or a mixture of them all. Many organized tours with set itineraries are also fast-paced and target as many species as possible, whether they are mammals, birds or other wildlife or everything, which usually leaves little time to enjoy the best sites and individual species, but on a custom tour those taking part can specify the pace and the sites and species they wish to concentrate on. Custom tours also suit people who like to travel with people they already know, rather than with a group of strangers, and people with partners with different interests. Individuals and small groups will almost certainly have to pay more than the price of an organized tour with a set itinerary but a large group of friends may be able to travel for less than the price quoted for a set tour.
Tour companies who run organized tours or can arrange custom tours to Galapagos include the following.
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Does polyurethane cause yellowing?
Last Update: April 20, 2022
This is a question our experts keep getting from time to time. Now, we have got the complete detailed explanation and answer for everyone, who is interested!Asked by: Ryley Ortiz
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Oil based polyurethanes will give you a yellowish coat, so your floors will have a yellow tint. They will continue to get darker and more yellow over time. Now, it's not quite as simple as just use a water based poly.
Does polyurethane make things yellow?
Both oil- and water-based polyurethane can be applied to latex/acrylic paint, however oil-based polyurethane will create a yellow or amber hue, especially to light colors. To add durability without affected color, use a water-based finish.
How do you remove yellowing from polyurethane?
When the finish has other defects that detract from the appearance of the piece, you can sometimes fix them and lighten the yellowing by scuffing the old finish with 220-grit sandpaper and spraying on a new coat. The old finish re-softens when coated with fresh material and amalgamates into it.
Does polyurethane make white paint yellow?
Any waterbased polyurethane will go on clear and will not yellow over time. Oil-based finishes start yellow and get more amber as they age. ... For what it is worth, there is rarely any reason to go over paint with clear polyurethane as there are plenty of white paints that are adequately durable on their own.
Is there a non-yellowing polyurethane?
The Best Non-Yellowing Water-Based Polyurethane
The best non-yellowing clear coat is Minwax's Polycrylic. It's easy to use, dries within a few hours, can be applied multiple times within 24 hours, dries completely clear, and doesn't yellow over time.
Top Coat Yellowing
Why is clear polyurethane yellow?
What causes hardwood floors and polyurethane to yellow? ... Oil based polyurethanes turn the floors yellow…and over time, they become more yellow…and sometimes even a bit orangish. It's the UV rays from the sun that turn them a darker yellow or amber and the more they are exposed over time, the yellower they get.
Why does my clear coat turn yellow?
Yellowing of clearcoats is a natural phenomenon during weathering processes, as well as from extreme baking conditions, due to polymer degradation. However, occasionally yellowing may be caused by unexpected chemical reactions occurring in the clearcoat.
Will Polycrylic turn white yellow?
Yes, if you put enough oil based poly on light woods you will see an amber tint. I only sprayed a single coat and it's fine. The polycrylic didn't give the paint a tint - it actually changed the color significantly and immediately.
What finish does not yellow?
Acrylic based finishes, both water and solvent based are the best choice for non-yellowing finishes. Waxes also will not yellow as well as some catalyzed lacquers and varnishes.
Will polyurethane darken stain?
Wood Finishing Techniques: Test Clear Finishes, Too
Oil-based poly has an amber tone that can dramatically change the color of stained or unstained wood. Water-based polyurethane affects the color only slightly.
Does polyurethane make wood waterproof?
No, polyurethane does not make hardwood waterproof, but it does make wood water resistant. Polyurethane gives hardwood its protection. It repels water and prevents water absorption, but it never fully blocks it so it will never make it 100% waterproof.
Is Minwax Polycrylic yellow?
Water-based polyurethane dries completely clear, so you can use it over light woods like maple without concern for yellowing. Polycrylic is generally said to dry clear, too, but as long as you're careful with your application; it can take on a milky appearance if applied heavily over dark wood or paint.
How do you get yellow furniture white again?
Mix 1/2-cup baking soda with 1/4-cup water to make a paste. Dip a damp sponge, soft toothbrush or nylon-bristled scrub brush into the paste. Scrub the yellowed spots gently. Leave the baking soda on the cabinet for 5 minutes.
Which is better Polycrylic or polyurethane?
The formula has an acrylic base; polyurethane is added for better adhesion and durability. Polycrylic is not as durable as polyurethane and is meant to be used only on interior surfaces such as cabinets, furniture, and trim.
What is better lacquer or polyurethane?
Despite being available in variances, polyurethane is more durable. It is thick and leaves a strong coating. Lacquer is thin and penetrates the wood surface. It is also durable but susceptible to scratches and discoloration after some time.
What type of plastic is polyurethane?
Polyurethanes are plastic polymers made by combining diisocyanates ( TDI and MDI) and polyols. There are literally hundreds of different types of polyurethanes and each is made in a slightly different way: Carbon dioxide is used as a blowing agent to create the soft, comfortable feel of a mattress or sofa.
Does Waterlox yellow over time?
Will not yellow over time.
How do you keep wood from turning yellow?
Use Polishes and Varnishes With Urethane
Coating your woodwork in a layer or two of urethane or polyurethane varnish or polish can help avoid any yellowing.
Will General finishes top coat yellow?
All bright white paint will yellow slightly with time, with or without topcoat. Water-based topcoats are reactive and more likely to draw out substances in the wood such as tannins or unknown substances in existing finishes causing the topcoat to yellow.
Why is my fresh white paint turning yellow?
Moisture. ... Moisture is a common cause of white paint turning yellow on wood and white painted cabinets turning yellow, as cabinets are often located in places that receive more moisture. For example, kitchens and bathrooms are among areas most exposed.
How do you keep white paint from turning yellow?
Shed Some Light
Light, both natural sunlight and artificial light, significantly slows the yellowing process of alkyd paint and can even reverse it. To prevent yellowing, use alkyd paint only in rooms that receive copious amounts of light.
Can Polycrylic be yellow?
* Polycrylic is WATER-clear Poly, & can't "yellow". Water-based poly's are completely clear.
Does clear lacquer turn yellow?
It resists most household liquids, chemicals and solvents, in addition to being fairly scratch resistant. However, pre-catalyzed lacquer suffers that same problem as the nitrocellulose lacquers that came before it, and which it is also made with; it will yellow over time.
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“Is there life on Mars?”
For centuries, this question has plagued scientists, visionaries and even David Bowie. Though the verdict is still out, NASA recently took one giant leap toward finding an answer. In February 2021, the Perseverance Rover landed on Mars’ surface, and for the next two years, it will collect samples and help researchers determine if the planet is capable of sustaining life.
As we await NASA’s findings, we can’t help but imagine how Equipmentshare’s fleet management and robotics solutions can be at the forefront of Mars colonization, connecting earthbound teams with assets across the universe as they build new worlds.
“EquipmentShare connects construction jobsites regardless of geography,” President and Co-founder Willy Schlacks said. “Our company has begun expanding to new continents. Is it crazy to also at some point start thinking about interstellar endeavors? Maybe so. But, our company is not known for sitting back and expecting others to solve problems.”
Since launching in 2014, EquipmentShare has grown to more than 2,000 employees and has opened 74 locations. With more than 50,000 construction assets using our technology, we are dedicated to boosting productivity at jobsites across the globe — and eventually, even the solar system. According to NASA, the data rate from Mars to Earth currently varies between 500 bits per second and 32,000 bits per second, which is considerably slower than the dialup modems used back in the 1990s. However, if Mars colonization becomes a reality — or even a necessity — we can only expect for these speeds to increase, allowing for our full-scale construction operating platform to work its magic.
EquipmentShare Robotics, for example, could make it possible for construction equipment on Mars to be remotely operated by teams located anywhere on Earth. Through our Machine Automation Portal (MAP) iOS app, users could draw jobsite boundaries, set routes for autonomous equipment or control their assets in real time from their mobile devices. Meanwhile, EquipmentShare’s award-winning fleet management technology solutions would provide construction firms with a holistic view of their entire fleet and empower them to monitor the location, performance and health of each asset from afar.
This hardly scratches the surface of how EquipmentShare’s technology could help build new habitats on Mars. Though we might be several decades away from this potential reality, it’s never too early to start thinking big thoughts.
“EquipmentShare was founded upon the idea of disrupting the construction industry, and we will continue carrying out that mission for years to come,” Schlacks said. “That is why we are investing heavily in robotics, knowing that it represents the future of our industry — on Earth, and perhaps even someday on Mars, too. For now, we will keep our feet on the ground as we work tirelessly to develop solutions for contractors. But, from time to time, we will make a point to look up and beyond.”
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The image below is an image of the oldest known spiral galaxy that scientists believe formed 12.4 billion years ago. The ancient galaxy is named BRI 1335-0417, and the image was taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile. The image is remarkable because it shows that spiral galaxies formed as early as 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Photographs like this are essentially a step back in time because we see it as it was over a billion years ago due to the time it took for its light to reach us.
Astronomer Dr Kai Noeske says the photograph shows that galaxies began to resemble modern galaxies about 1 billion years earlier than previously believed. Scientists say spiral galaxies are more mature forms of galaxies. In the early stages of a galaxy, dark matter gathers hot gases into clusters that create stars. The stars then merge to create larger galaxies which, at the start of their life, are distorted. Eventually the galaxies begin to rotate, creating disc-like shapes.
Spiral galaxies occur when these disks start to be disturbed. Noeske says that aside from looking pretty, the spiral arms also compress gas to become catalysts for new star formation. Currently, scientists believe that galaxy formation peaked around 3.3 billion years after the Big Bang, when most of the stars in the universe formed. It was a surprise that BIS 1335-0417 already had structures similar to nearby galaxies long before the active phase of galaxy formation. Before discovering BIS 1335-0417, the oldest known galaxy formed 2.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
This ages the BIS 1335-0417 by about 1 billion years. The new discoveries are changing scientific knowledge about how and when galaxies formed and evolved into what we see today. Astronomers note that while BIS 1335-0417 is the oldest known spiral galaxy, it is not the oldest galaxy ever observed. This title goes to a galaxy called GNz11 spotted last December that formed 13.4 billion years ago, barely 400 million years after the Big Bang.
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Wole (pronounced “Wally”) Ajala can make a squirrel out of a plank of wood in one minute flat.
It’s a skill he demonstrated Friday night at STEAM Junction, downtown Burlington’s makerspace, where he showed off his father’s 1936 treadle-powered scroll saw and the numerous toys, tools and art it can make.
At the age of 6, while living in his native Nigeria, Ajala started helping his father and grandparents by pedaling an ingenious food-powered lathe and scroll saw machines, which led to an interest in woodworking that’s only grown over the past 55 years.
“I like working with my hands and the creativity because from childhood my grandparents, they would give you a piece of wood and see what would come out of that piece of wood, so it kind of is a challenge that I love,” he said.
A display table in the middle of the makerspace showed off animal puzzles, a church collection plate, chess pieces, Styrofoam sculptures, a cutting board, and even an old record turned into a clock with carved out animals, all made with a scroll saw.
Ajala teaches mathematics at Hillside New Tech High School, a magnet school in Durham, where he incorporates woodworking into the curriculum through projects that use statistics and geometry.
“I’ve been teaching math now for over 40 years, so I use a lot of geometry and calculus, and do a lot of integrated application to see that there’s a relationship between art and science and mathematics, because some of my students say, ‘Am I going to use this?’ and I say, ‘Yes, you’re going to use it every day because even in woodwork I use math,’” he said.
When he’s not teaching, Ajala does charity work in his home city of Greensboro.
In 2006, he started the “Make and Donate Clinic” where children learn scroll saw techniques to make wooden toys to donate to the U.S. Marine Corps for underprivileged kids or disaster relief efforts.
The program’s goal is to create and donate 5,000 wooden toys per year, though Ajala lets the kids keep some as well.
In addition, he runs a mobile workshop that will soon be solar-powered to operate at least 10 scroll saws and taken to public schools and outdoor events for easy access. Right now, it’s being used to help feed and teach the homeless in Greensboro.
Ajala is driven by the empathy his parents and grandparents instilled in him, as well as the desire to share his passions with others.
He told the crowd at STEAM Junction on Friday night that his next venture is to get woodworking classes back into schools, where students can learn to make things with their hands again, and learn a skill that could one day become a great love, as it did for him.
“I’m looking forward to getting the city involved to make it more attractive for the kids, and then they’re on board, because they can make a living out of this. … If there’s a way the city can actually create [a space] for people like us to have a location where kids can come in and learn the skill, that would be awesome,” he said.
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List Of 36 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Hemp History, Benefits, And Uses:
1. The oldest evidence of its use is represented by a piece of hemp fabric, discovered in Mesopotamia, which dates back to over 10,000 years. The oldest paper comes from China, two millennia ago, and is made from hemp fiber. Even pharaohs used hemp in the construction of the Great Pyramids.
Hemp became so important in 16th century England, that in 1553 King Henry VIII passed a law, whereby farmers who didn’t grow at least a quarter-acre of hemp on their land for every 60 acres they owned, were being fined.
2. Around 1619, when the US was still made of 13 colonies, farmers were obliged by law to grow hemp. It was used for manufacturing ropes, clothes, and linen. Also, cultivating hemp at that time was considered an act of patriotism. In 1850, in the US there were more than 8,000 hemp farms.
3. The word “marijuana” was first used in the mid-1930s to defame the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant. Another version of the name’s origin is Spanish, as a Mexican slang for cannabis. It is believed to be derived from the Spanish pronunciation of the names Mary and Jane. These two names were part of slang language used by the Mexican army to describe prostitutes and brothels.
4. Marijuana has over 200 nicknames, but the best known are – grass, hashish, chocolate, or ganja.
5. California was the first US state to legalize the medical use of cannabis in 1996. Currently, 23 US states plus DC have legalized marijuana.
6. Since January 1st, 2010, the Czechs can grow up to five plants of cannabis and have several marijuana cigarettes (joints) in their pockets, without the fear of prosecution.
7. In 2014, Uruguay legalized marijuana.
8. Only 2-3% of the varieties of hemp are considered “marijuana” because only these have particularly high levels of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), a psychoactive ingredient found in the leaves and flowers, that gives the “high” feeling.
Facts about the hemp plant
9. Indian Hemp or Cannabis Sativa is an annual herbaceous plant of the Cannabaceae family, with a high waist of 2-3 meters, which can grow up to 5 meters in exceptional cases. It has an unbranched stem, long lanceolate leaves with serrated edge and dense, semi-compact inflorescences.
10. In addition to an interesting array of vitamins and minerals, whole hemp seeds contain approximately 25% protein, 31% fat (in the form of a nutritious oil) and 34% carbohydrates. Due to this composition, hemp seeds can be used for the extraction of oil used in diet or manufacture of margarine. Unrefined oil is used to obtain lacquers, paints, linoleum, soap, and wax blades.
11. The seeds are widely used, as such or in concentrated food, in the diet of poultry (especially exotic birds: parrots, canaries, peacocks, etc.).
12. Hemp cakes that remain from oil extraction are used as such or in concentrated food for poultry, cattle, horses, sheep, fish, etc – 600 g hemp cakes equal the nutritional value of 1,000 g grains. In feeding pregnant cows, hemp cakes must be used in a restrictive manner as it may cause abortion.
13. Hemp wood represents about 55% of the stem’s weight and it contains more than 50% cellulose. The remains of the extraction are used for the manufacture of – paper, sound-insulating chipboard, in the furniture industry, artificial silk, lint for soundproofing between plasterboard.
14. Chaff resulting from seed crops is a very valuable fertilizer: 10 t husk of hemp equals 40t manure.
15. Almost all remedies have toxic effects, but hemp is not one of them. There are no records throughout the medical literature describing a death, documented and proven to be cannabis-induced.
16. Drugs used in medicine regularly receive a classification called LD-50. This classification shows at what dosage, 50% of test animals that received the drug will die as a result of drug-induced toxicity. A large number of researchers have tried to determine the LD-50 value for marijuana on test animals, without any success. Simply put, the researchers were unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.
Currently, LD-50 is only estimated at around 1: 20,000 or 1: 40,000. This means that in order to induce death to a marijuana smoker, one should use 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of marijuana that a single cigarette contains. Cigarettes provided by NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) weigh approximately 9 grams. A smoker should consume 680 kg of marijuana, within 15 minutes, to induce a lethal response.
Practically – impossible!
17. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whom Barack Obama offered the position of a general counselor on health issues (Surgeon General), spoke on CNN about the fact that the medical benefits of this plant cannot be ignored anymore. “We already speak about more than a few isolated cases. There are already studies to support this,” said Gupta.
At the same time, the neurosurgeon wrote a letter apologizing for nearly 70 years in which the US public opinion was systematically misled and its part in this matter, referring to the general belief that the plant has a high potential for abuse and ignoring its medical benefits. “In fact, sometimes cannabis is the only thing that works,” states Gupta in this letter, originally published on CNN’s website.
The same neurosurgeon explains the functioning of medicinal cannabis:
“In the brain, there are cannabinoid receptors that control aspects such as the intensity of pain, hunger, mental status related parameters. On this plan we can find the potential benefits of cannabis”, said Gupta. Referring to specific cases in which cannabis’ action was determined, he spoke of improving the acute lack of appetite or headaches caused by chemotherapy, states of people who are infected with HIV, neuropathic pain, tremor caused by MS.
18. According to a study conducted by the University of Alabama, those who smoke a few joints per week have a higher lung capacity and strength of breath than those who don’t use marijuana. According to the same study, regular consumption of marijuana can prevent lung and breast cancer. Also, marijuana doesn’t cause any cancer, instead, it prevents it.
19. Hemp can be used in the manufacture of medicines. Let’s not forget that in the past the American Medical Association used to support cannabis-based treatments, which are more natural and less harmful to the human body than drugs that are based on petrochemical compounds.
20. Hemp seed oil is a unique remedy on Earth. About 3,000 years BC, the seeds were used to fight skin inflammation and were considered a tonic, regenerative, laxatives, diuretics, excellent for removing roundworms in newborns and animals. The oil contains three essential fatty acids: Omega 9 Omega 6 and Omega 3.
In a period of two weeks of use, the oil will reduce spasticity and neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders resulting in spasticity. In the case of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome – a neuropsychiatric disease in which the patient presents verbal and motor tics – the oil improves cognitive function and reduces the frequency of tics.
In cases of head trauma and cerebral ischemia, it reduces intracranial pressure and potential post-traumatic seizure, also glaucoma, in which case the intraocular pressure is reduced almost by half.
The seeds and oil are used in asthma, as they act as long-lasting bronchodilators.
Finally, the hemp seed oil is successfully used in cases of cancer and AIDS, preventing the side effects of chemotherapy and significantly increasing the quality of life of these patients. Like vitamins, essential fatty acids cannot be synthesized by the human body and therefore must be obtained from food. Well, hemp seed oil is the only one that contains fatty acids Omega 6 and Omega 3 in the magic ratio of 3:1.
21. Marijuana causes damage to neurons. This is a myth as the studies have contradicted this idea, proving that it actually protects the brain from the damage caused by alcohol.
22. Marijuana is NOT a bridge to other powerful drugs! Numerous studies have dismissed this idea, without a shadow of a doubt, that marijuana consumption leads to stronger drugs. In fact, marijuana has been successfully used in reducing addictions to other powerful drugs. In conclusion, it is the opposite of a drug that would lead to stronger drug use.
23. Aside from alcohol, marijuana is the most used drug in the world. According to a study, it is estimated that 162 million people use marijuana at least once a year, and 24.6 million use it daily (in 2013). Another study determined that daily 6,000 Americans use marijuana for the first time.
24. A hectare (10,000 square meters) of hemp can produce as much paper as 1.62 to 4 hectares of forest with a production cycle of 20 years; instead, it takes just four months for the hemp stem to reach maturity. Not only that but hemp paper can be recycled several times.
25. Hemp is ecological because it doesn’t require herbicides and pesticides and the soil where it is cultivated turns into humus. It also removes heavy metals from the soil and absorbs large quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
26. The hemp stem has the longest and strongest fibers of all plants, which can be transformed into any building material.
27. The Chinese used it as a medicinal plant and Indians used it in religious ceremonies. This was just the beginning. Whether it’s construction materials, types of paper, beer, most durable twine, hemp was always the main ingredient. Some of the most important documents in history were signed on hemp paper – the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence.
28. Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his work on hemp paper, so it’s no surprise that great empires of the world considered it a “strategic” plant.
29. The first diesel engine was designed to use vegetable oils, including hemp oil. In the 1930s, Henry Ford produced a car that was composed 70% of plastic material made of hemp. Paintings of great artists such as Rembrandt, van Gogh, and Gainsborough were made on hemp canvas, using watercolors extracted from the same plant.
30. All plastic materials should be made from hemp seed oil. Hemp plastics are biodegradable and will not pollute rivers. Throughout their lives, they decompose and don’t harm the environment. Instead, plastics made from petroleum ruin nature. Hence, they are not biodegradable and unfortunately do great harm to the planet.
31. Hemp cultivation and manufacturing are no danger or threat to the environment. This statement was confirmed by the United States Development Agency (USDA), indicating that this plant produces 4 to 7 times less pollution than other organic substitutes of this plant.
32. Hemp contributes to the production of sustainable clothing, which is highly durable in time. However, in some US states such as Kentucky, extreme measures were taken in this matter, like wearing clothes made of hemp is considered a felony. Can you imagine being arrested on the street for wearing hemp jeans?
33. According to the FBI, in 2013 693,481 people were arrested for possession of marijuana in the United States.
34. According to the United Nations, Paraguay is the largest producer of marijuana in the world; Mexico is in 2nd place.
35. In 1631 and early 1800 USA, it was lawful for people to use hemp as currency to pay their taxes.
36. In 1916, the US government predicted that by 1940, all newspapers will be printed on hemp paper and thus there will be no more need for trees to be cut down. Studies show that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.3 acres of trees.
In conclusion, marijuana remains a highly dangerous plant, as in dangerous for pharmaceutical companies’ income and their political servants.
Leaving aside the impossibility of synthetical reproduction of any substances generated by this plant, proven and documented positive effects of cannabis are due not only to its individual components but precisely to its hallucinating combination of 488 substances, which modern science has been unable to decipher yet, in close correlation with the human endocannabinoid system.
“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?” – Bill Hicks
In 2018, Thailand’s military government unanimously approved medical marijuana use. Also, President Donald Trump signed the farm bill on Thursday, that legalized industrial hemp in the United States.
In August 2019, over a quarter of the United States population now lives in a state which allows marijuana for nonmedical purposes.
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Four of the most common metals utilized throughout the world of construction are stainless steel, copper, aluminum, and stainless steel. That being said, there is another type of building material known as monel that you might want to consider. With that in mind, here is more information about model including how it compares to stainless steel.
The Invention of Monel
Monel is primarily made up of both nickel and copper. In addition, monel also contains trace amounts of manganese, iron, carbon, and silicon. This material was patented in 1906 by Robert Crooks Stanley. Monel received its name after the President of the International Nickel Company, Ambrose Monell. Interestingly the final letter L was dropped from the name of this metal due to the fact that surnames were not eligible to be included in trademarks at that point in time.
Monel Vs Stainless Steel
There are differences to note when comparing monel vs stainless steel. One of the main differences between these metals is the alloy that each of these materials is primarily composed of. While stainless steel is primarily made from steel alloys, monel is primarily composed of nickel alloys. Another difference to look at when comparing monel vs stainless steel is corrosion resistance. While both of these metals are extremely durable, monel has been shown to be better and remaining protected against corrosion. If stainless steel products aren’t able to provide you with enough strength, you might want to consider using monel instead.
Industries Where Monel is Commonly Used
Considering the strength of monel, this material is commonly used in industries where extreme conditions are often the norm. In fact, Monel 400 is able to retain its strength and durability in temperatures reaching up to 2,372 degrees Fahrenheit. Monel is often used heavily within the aircraft industry in order to construct frames of certain rocket planes. You’ll commonly find this material used throughout the oil industry. Monel is especially resistant to corrosion, making it a material often where resistance to various acid types is essential. While you might not expect, monel is also widely used throughout the music industry. From heavy duty electric guitar strings to rotors in brass instruments, monel continues to remain a popular crafting material for music instrument manufacturers around the world.
In conclusion, monel is a material is that was first invented in the early 1900s. Since its invention, monel has become a material that is widely used throughout many industries. This material remains popular due to its ability to retain its strength in extreme temperatures. In addition, monel is also extremely resistant to corrosion.
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This course will teach you how to see things from others' viewpoints based on their needs, values, beliefs, experiences, skills, knowledge, and self-interests. You will learn to approach difficult situations by answering the questions: who? what? where? when? how? and why? And by answering these questions, you will understand who your difficult people are, what they're like, how you react to them, and their response to your actions.
You will also practice analyzing your interactions with those you share space with. By observing others closely, you will learn to read their identifying characteristics. Once you can identify which type of person you're dealing with, you will be able to choose appropriate reactions to their behaviors.
By the time you finish this course, you will understand that assertiveness involves taking responsibility when meeting your needs in a way that preserves the dignity and rights of others.
A new session of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when lessons are released. You will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to complete all of your course work, including the final exam.
In the first lesson, you will find out the answers to four very important questions that impact the success of your relationships with others. The answers to these questions will help you identify your preferred communication styles.
In this lesson, you will begin to build a database about not only your difficult people—those who are different in communication style from you. You will also enhance your skills in reviewing and resolving problems with these people.
This lesson discusses four types of hostile people. These are people who want to control everything and everyone but have no self-control. This group is called Hostile-Aggressives.
In this lesson, you will learn appropriate options for interacting well with those who are stubborn or critical—people known as Negative-Thinkers.
This lesson focuses on the appropriate way to effectively deal with aggressive individuals. You will learn how to recognise these people and share space with them.
In this lesson, you will take another look at another personality type called Relators. Plus, you will learn ways to effectively handle the difficult subcategories of this type.
Some of your difficult people probably also feel that you're their difficult person, but you may be totally unaware of this. Do you feel that ignorance is really bliss? You will go through some exercises in this lesson that should help you figure it out.
In this lesson, you will work toward improving your own flexibility skills: confidence, tolerance, empathy, positivity, and respect. To help, you will answer a few questions about each of your own skill sets as you move through the lesson's materials.
In this lesson, you will learn that a certain set of characteristics is essential if you want to relate well with others. As you will find out, you must first improve your versatility skills to maintain a positive attitude, and then learn to view obstacles and problems as "opportunities."
After finishing this lesson, you will understand what assertiveness is and what it isn't. You will begin to see why assertive behaviour is so important to your success in getting along well with others. You will also carefully examine your own level of assertiveness and identify which of your skills need fine-tuning.
This lesson focuses on simple, yet powerful assertive-communication techniques. You will learn to use self-disclosure appropriately to share information about yourself—your thoughts, feelings, and opinions—to build relationship trust and common ground.
After this final lesson, you may be surprised to discover that your listening skills need improvement. Listening well is a complex process, and your own selective filtering often keeps you from real understanding.
If you are an Australian citizen you may be eligible to receive financial support, meaning you can defer payment of your course fees. Additionally, if you are an Australian resident you may also be eligible to receive Abstudy/Austudy or Youth Allowance.Student support
We live in a society where the pressures of daily living are high with financial expenses, personal and work commitments, and mortgage and rental obligations. Then there are the unexpected life challenges that also get thrown our way. With this in mind the thought of taking on study can be daunting for most people. Here at Learning Cloud we understand that life doesn’t run in a straight line it has many ups and downs.
As an enrolled student at Learning Cloud, you are entitled to access a variety of non-academic support services from the Student Services Unit. These supports are designed to walk beside you throughout your studies they will assist you in life’s ups and downs to provide you the best opportunity to successfully complete your chosen course.
STUDENT SERVICES PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
Want more information about financial and student support? Fill out the enquiry form to the right and a study consultant will contact you with the details you need.
How will this course advance my career?
Learning Cloud programs have been developed in response to industry demand and are specifically designed to equip graduates with work-ready skills. Each participant will be trained and assessed in theory and in practical tasks and Real-world exercises are used throughout the program.
Studies prove, time and again, that college-educated workers earn more than those with only a high school qualification. College graduates often enjoy additional benefits, including greater job opportunities and promotions. Though the proof for greater earning potential exists, some might wonder whether the cost of the education warrants the overall expense in the long run.
College Graduate vs. Non-Graduate Earnings
The National Centre for Education Statistics (NCES) analyses employee earnings data biennially, according to education level. Findings indicate that workers with a qualification earn significantly more than those without. Since the mid-1980s, education has played a large part in potential wages, with bachelor's degree holders taking home an average of 66% more than those with only a high school diploma do. While college-educated workers' wages have increased over the past two decades, those with only a high school education have seen decreases in annual salaries in the same time period (nces.ed.gov).
How else will I benefit from studying with Learning Cloud?
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Is AutoCAD OpenGL or DirectX?
In 2010, Autodesk abandoned OpenGL and embraced DirectX. And now you know why AutoCAD works well with the consumer level cards. With a DirectX rendering pipeline, consumer level graphics are more than enough for all but the most complex CAD applications.
Does CAD use OpenGL?
As we peel the onion back layer by layer, the fact that most CAD platforms are dependent on a graphics API called Open GL is revealed. It’s a fitting joke that the API sounds like a bad 90s band, considering that the Open GL implementation for CAD hasn’t changed significantly for about as long.
Does AutoCAD use DirectX?
From AutoCAD 2015 through AutoCAD 2021, the program used DirectX 11 by default. For AutoCAD 2022 and newer, DirectX 12 can be used, but will use version 11 with some hardware/driver combinations. AutoCAD will automatically pick the most current DirectX version if a graphics card is capable of utilizing it.
Is AutoCAD a graphics software?
Like other CAD programs, AutoCAD is fundamentally a vector graphics drawing program. It uses primitive entities — such as lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and text — as the foundation for more complex objects. AutoCAD supports a number of application programming interfaces (APIs) for customization and automation.
What do you need to run AutoCAD?
AutoCAD System Requirements
- Operating System: 64-bit Windows 10.
- Processor: 2.5 GHz (3+ GHz recommended)
- Memory: 8 GB (16GB recommended)
- Disk space: 10.0 GB.
- Display: 1920 x 1080 resolution with True Color.
How do I turn off hardware acceleration in AutoCAD 2014?
Enter the OPTIONS command or choose it from the Application menu to open the Options dialog box. On the System tab, click the Graphics Performance button. Then click the Hardware Acceleration button to turn it off or on.
Is OpenGL dead?
OpenGL will not die. Yes, Vulkan has more features and is faster that OpenGL but not everyone wants to use a low level API. As an analogy, Think of C++ and Python.
What games still use OpenGL?
Games developed in OpenGL
- Ballenger a Platformer.
- Sauerbraten an open source 3D FPS and also a game engine.
- Doom (2016 video game) a FPS.
- Minecraft a sandbox video game.
Are games written in OpenGL?
Any 3D game that runs at least on a platform different from microsoft, nintendo and sony uses OpenGL. This includes any game that runs on Linux, Android, Mac Os X, iPhone/iPad, Symbian and probably more. AAA games usually have got an engine written ad-hoc for the game (or for a little set of games).
Why is AutoCAD so expensive?
Cost of CAD
Computer Aided Design software has always been at the top end of the software pricing scales. … It’s probably the most fundamental reason why the software costs so much to acquire – because it is what the market will bear.
What are the disadvantages of AutoCAD?
Following are disadvantages of AutoCAD :
- Line – As AutoCAD produces drawings with help of line and shape tools and curves, arcs and straight lines helps in producing shapes. …
- Limited File Formats – As it is leading CAD, it limits number of file formats it can import or export. …
- Color, Fill and Texture – …
- Non-Parametric –
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How to Become a Truly Green Lady, According to the Truly Rich Lady
I am proud to say that, when I was in grade school, I was the vice president of Friends of Mother Earth, the after-school club for young people who were passionate about saving the planet from the iron fist of pollution and stupid people.
Our regular activities include recycling, not using electricity (meetings were lit by candles and warm), and making posters with natural dyes. Our greatest triumph was increasing threefold the collection of crushed aluminum Coke cans.
But we were not considered cool. Most students thought we were crunchy weirdos in our Birkenstocks and the mean girls even spread a rumor that we smelled of dried leaves and day-old fish. Back then being a FOME was social suicide.
Now that I am a Truly Rich Lady, I am still a great friend of the environment and, what do you know, being pro-nature and wearing Birks are cool now. My years of staying faithful to green living have paid off. In fact, in my circle of privileged friends, I am considered the influencer when it comes to saving the planet.
Because the polar caps are melting, the Amazon Forest is burning, and the weather is becoming more erratic than my hair, the words on the lips of every Truly Rich Lady who feel guilty about having so much money and so needs to do something good is climate change. They are very worried and they turn to me.
A rich friend asks: “Si-si, I am so rich to the point of embarrassment. I would like to help save the planet from boiling. What can I do to start? Where can I throw my money at to solve the crisis of the climate.”
Well, So Rich Friend, I am Truly Rich, but I do not like to just write a check and then lay my head on a pillow stuffed with money. Instead, I actually do things.
Green Idea 1: Start with something easy.
Indeed, there are many ways to go about this. You can start by changing all the light bulbs in your mansions from regular power-hungry units to energy-efficient LED lights. You can also stop eating gourmet burgers, whose patties are made from cows, animals whose upkeep put tremendous stress on the earth. You can also reduce the use of plastic by bringing someone with arms (an assistant or house staff) who will carry all the stuff you have bought from the eco-store.
Green Idea 2: And then do something chic.
While these are valid, they are also boring. For you, a woman of means and I presume style, I prescribe something natural: shopping. I point you to the many designer or specialty brands that produce lovely frocks made from upcycled materials. Sure, they have this faint feel of a hand-me-down retaso, but that homespun vintage look is all the rage right now. I am sure you were at the artisanal fairs that sell local products made from green materials? I, myself, bought a wardrobe of tunics to help save the environment and now I look chic.
Green Idea 3: Try something uncomfortable.
My Truly Rich Mother and I have agreed to use the same car every Tuesdays and Thursdays.
At first, it was ugh. Sharing a ride was difficult because where will I put my bag if my mother is sitting beside me? And how can I prepare for an impromptu date if we have to pick her up from wherever she was? My Truly Rich Mother was not happy about this, so I said to her: “This is for the future of the greatest mother, Mother Earth.” And she replied, “I would be dead when that future arrives, Si-si, so please let us use two cars today.” Okay.
Green Idea 4: Never give up.
When Mother refused to budge, I decided to stay at home and let her use the car. And when I had to go somewhere, I did the bravest thing a Truly Rich Lady can ever do: I asked my assistant to order those cars from the app. A premium car and even a regular car were not available so when the service arrived at my house, there were other people there. How novel. It was a tight squeeze and someone smelled of carbs, but I just told myself that this was for a good cause.
Green Idea 5: Think big.
A woman of means, access, and influence can do more than switch lightbulbs and use her mouth when drinking from a glass. I am jealous that I did not come up with the idea of putting together a green bazaar where my friends can spend obscene amounts of money on goods made out of recyclables. But there is room for more, so why not put a competing bazaar scheduled after the original bazaar. They won’t mind, right? If you do not want to ruffle any feathers, establish a charity, ball, auction or a charity ball auction in the name of the planet. Another powerful course of action is talking to your politician, who are your dear friends, about this matter.
Green Idea 6: Be calm.
In the middle of my gentle proselyting, some heathen had the nerve to say, “Si-si, please shad up. Climate change is not real. Stop blathering about light bulbs and upcycling.” I bit the inside of my cheeks to prevent myself from screaming. After a beat, I told her:
“I am not sure what you’ve been told, but the alarming rate of the earth’s warming is going to make a future world unlivable or, at least, uncomfortable for your spoiled grandchildren or even your children, so chew on that while your munching on your juicy burger made of cows, which are, by the way, responsible for 14.5 percent of global greenhouses. You, existing and eating right now, are actually a problem. But don’t worry, dear! I will put together my charity ball auction for the enlightenment of climate change deniers. You are of course invited. The dress code is green.”
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Carbon credits and tax on agenda for APEC finance meeting
Carbon credits and other measures to spur sustainable finance and the digital economy will be high on the agenda when Finance Ministers meet at APEC in Thailand later this year, Thai officials said last week.
Thailand has made the bio-circular-green (BCG) economy a key pillar of its national development strategy and so it will push issues related to that during this year as host of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Dozens of meetings are scheduled throughout the year with a summit of leaders from the 21 APEC member economies in November.
Woratai Kosolpisitkul, Fiscal Policy Office Adviser at the Ministry of Finance said that meetings of second-tier officials (Senior Officials Meeting –SOM) from Finance Ministries and Central Banks is scheduled for March 16-17 to set the meeting agenda. The meeting of the Finance Ministers will take place on October 19-21 in the Kingdom.
Sustainable finance and the digital economy will be the focus of the meetings, Woratai said. Sustainable finance consists of the use of fiscal tools to create sustainable development, such as green bonds and a carbon tax. Carbon credits and taxes are designed to fight climate change.
Many development experts and environmentalists have said that greater involvement by the financial sector is essential to achieving sustainable development and turning the tide on climate change.
As host of APEC, Thailand has chosen the theme: Open, Connect and Balance. “OPEN to all opportunities, CONNECT in all dimensions, and BALANCE in all aspects. As we believe that the world needs a paradigm shift and actions to achieve a more balanced and sustainable post-COVID-19 economy,” the government’s APEC website states.
Photo courtesy of https://m.facebook.com/pg/APEC2022Thailand/
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Cybersecurity Awareness: What you must know
Did you know that October for a long time has been the National Cyber Security Awareness Month? There will be more cybersecurity awareness throughout the month of October. If this awareness engendered this month becomes a norm, it will reduce cybercrime.
Thinking Outside the Conventional Security Measures
If you’re pre-emptive against cybersecurity threats on a daily basis, it is very difficult to get attacked. There are several traditional security measures available like using a strong password, using different passwords for each platform, and also avoiding unrestricted Wi-Fi. As much as these methods are very important, they are other robust ways to avoid any compromise.
For instance, you can analyze where possible risk in your company may arise from by asking these simple questions:
- Where do I lose data?
- Do I have important data? (For example, personal financial information).
- Where is the risky and sensitive data?
These questions will help you protect the important data. That way, you will be able to protect them in case of any cyber attack. We have so many sensors that monitor any form of cybersecurity hazard for our corporate clients 24/7.
Numbers Display the Feasibility of an attack
Numbers are very helpful when it comes to dealing with a cyber attack. You will understand this better with the internet security statistical figures from Edge. This was compiled from 1st of January this year.
|Interrupted Incoming Connections Through Edge Technology Group Global Latency||251,648 deterred attempts to use publicly sided services in a mischievous way.|
|Website cleaning of the whole Edge Tech. Group UK Client core Base||Out 640 million requests to access the website, 9 million was blocked for being a potential cyber attack.|
|Mimecast Rejected e-mail Edge Tech UK office||From the 255,000 emails, 31,141 were rejected as dangerous or spam. This number represents 12 percent.|
From the record, it is obvious that a cyber attack is on the rise and we are still some days to the end of the year. Most people are always interested in getting a valid antivirus or data damage or loss blockage. Your concern, frankly, should be how to pinpoint the cyber risk that you want to guard against.
Find out what the difficulties and distresses are and get the best cybersec solution. Sometimes the solution is just by the corner, but you may not know. They are so many websites that proffer solution for cyberattack in details. Our favorite two are;
- HOT FOR SECURITY (powered by Bitdefender)
Cybersecurity with Edge
- Cybersecurity consciousness with Edge creates an opportunity to audit and also process the volume and data you use. We will also show you a comprehensive report that gives you an idea of the vulnerabilities. You might be surprised by our findings because it will be somewhat revealing.
If you want to know more about how to obtain a cybersecurity risk analysis for your company, connect with Edge. And arrange for an appointment immediately.
Don’t take cybersecurity awareness for granted. It requires a 24/7 commitment. Those who perpetuate several cyber attacks don’t relent. They are ready to go to any length to achieve their aim. So make cybersecurity a priority.
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25 January 2022
Irish research is increasingly focusing on the social science aspect of the climate crisis.
Late last year we had the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change in the Irish Mind report and now today we’ve got brand-new research out of the Economics and Social Research Institute (ESRI) to dig into.
The body’s Behavioural Research Unit conducted a multi-choice quiz with participants back in October 2021 and produced a number of key findings – and we pulled out some that caught our eye.
People care about climate, but it’s dwarfed by concern for housing and health
According to the study climate change is the third most important policy issue for Irish people. It is however completely overshadowed in the study by two other topics, housing and health.
This was particularly clear when participants were asked what their number-one-top-of-the-list issue was. Nearly 13 per cent of participants said it was climate, while about a third claimed it was healthcare (including Covid-19 pandemic), and just over 29 percent said that it was housing.
So while climate change is coming in third overall, in the ESRI’s own words, the issue is “dwarfed” by concern for healthcare and housing.
This is consistent with current political trends. Exit polls showed a similar picture to the one that was seen in Ireland’s 2020 general election (which, to most people, feels like a lifetime ago).
According to an Ipsos MRBI PollA little over a third said that their primary concern was health, and just under a quarter claimed that housing was their main concern.
Carbon tax remains quite controversial
And when it comes to carbon tax (a controversial policy tool to address the climate crisis) – it seems to retain its contentious status.
Carbon tax will increase by €7.50 this year, rounding up the total figure to €41 per tonne. Half of that increase will go towards increasing fuel allowance.
The authors concluded that opinions about carbon tax were related to how much people understand about climate change. Participants took part in a short quiz to find out the answers. After that, the number of people who thought a carbon tax would work well to change behaviour increased by 25%.
However, overall opinions on carbon tax were different across respondents.
About half of the participants said the carbon tax as set out in Budget 2022 should be increased, with a quarter saying that increase should be by €10.
And at the same time – over 20 per cent believed that a carbon tax was ultimately ineffective as a policy tool. A third of respondents agreed that the figure should be reduced.
A third of the population isn’t aware of how much agriculture in Ireland emits
When it comes to Ireland’s largest emitting sector, one in three participants were not aware that agriculture was a primary source of emissions in Ireland.
As we’ve pointed out before: Ireland remains a European outlier when it comes to emissions from agriculture. It is responsible to more than a third of the country’s greenhouse gas pie. This is substantially higher that the European Union average share, which is ten per cent.
And while other areas such as transport saw their emissions decline during lockdown restrictions, agriculture’s actually increased by 1.4 per cent in 2020 according to the EPA.
The growth was attributed by the agency to increased nitrogen fertiliser use and higher livestock numbers, in particular when it concerns dairy cattle.
After the 2015 removal of the EU dairy quota, Irish dairy production has increased significantly. In 2020 alone the total dairy herd grew by 3.2 per cent – which is reflective of a broader trend.
Over the past decade, the number and production of dairy cows have increased by more than 45%, while milk production has increased by 60% in the same time frame.
People are less likely to take on higher-impact individual actions.
There’s also a lot in this research to unpack when it comes to what actions people say they are willing to take as individuals.
Low-impact and environmentally harmful actions, such as recycling waste in the general trash bin, were considered more unacceptable than high-emitting ones like driving a car or continuing eating meat.
This also tracked with people’s willingness to do certain things: Participants were less inclined to engage in high-impact behaviours than they were to lower-impact ones.
Recycling and using energy efficient bulbs were the most popular household actions.
The authors also make an important conclusion on a key finding: that providing information on climate change increased participants’ willingness to engage with moderate and high-impact behaviours, but that overall the effects on intentions were small and “unlikely to translate into the kind of behaviour change required.”
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There are numerous approaches to get a color for your designing undertaking. Designers may go on a test-based way to deal with find an appropriate color while there’s likewise the likelihood that you need to bring inspiration from someplace. You can basically utilize a Color picker model to pick a particular color. So for today, what we have for you is a wonderful Material design color picker example using HTML, CSS, and React JS.
You should have a decent understanding of colors to utilize this React color picker since there’s no range of choices to pick as a matter of course. It requires sliding and adjusting RGB esteem alongside the straightforwardness level to get the outcome.
In the event that you need to play with colors, by then, this design is for you. With this, you can have the shade of your decision on your fingers. So, as the name alludes, this one depends on Material Design. You get the chance to play with the RGBA esteem in this delightful design.
React Material Design Color Picker Live Preview
In the design, you get two boxes i.e. an outer box and an inner box. You get the range controls inside the inner box. Along with the controls, you get a small screen where you can know how the color works. You get 4 range sliders to play with the Red, Green, Blue, and opaqueness (transparency). As you play with it, you can see the same specific color on the small screen and the design’s background.
Also, the value you chose for the RGBA extensions can be seen just below the small screen inside a bracket ‘()’. The design is basic and can likewise be put on the sidebar of the application as a simple choice strategy. In any case, because of its element that we just examined on it requires some training to get to the right color in a brief timeframe.
Moreover, for more info about this React Material Color Picker, have a glance at the table below.
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Bhai Dooj is an event of brother and sister. In this, sisters apply tilak to their brother and pray for their brother’s long life. And brothers give gifts to their sisters.
Bhai Dooj is celebrated after the end of Diwali. In Nepal, there is a government holiday on this occasion.
It is also known by other names :
- Bhai beej
- Bhau Beej
- Bhai Phota
- Bhai Tika
- Bhai Phonta
Known by different names in different states of India.
- In Maharashtra and Goa, it is called “Bhau Beej”
- West Bengal “Bhai Phota”
- Uttar Pradesh and Bihar “bhai Tika”
- Nepal “Bhai Tihar”
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Erectile dysfunction drugs may be better than nitroglycerin in protecting the heart from damage before and after a severe heart attack, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers report.
During a heart attack, the heart is deprived of oxygen, which can result in significant damage to heart muscle and tissue. After the attack, most patients require treatment to reduce and repair the damage and improve their chances of survival. With the exception of early reperfusion, there are no available therapies that are truly effective in protecting or repairing such damage clinically.
Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D., professor of medicine and Eric Lipman Chair of Cardiology at VCU, and colleagues compared nitroglycerin with two erectile dysfunction drugs -- Viagra, generically known as sildenafil, and Levitra, generically known as vardenafil -- to determine the effectiveness of each for heart protection following a heart attack. Nitroglycerin is a drug used to treat angina, or chest pain. It is a vasodilator and opens blood vessels in order to improve the flow of blood to a patient's heart.
The research team reported that in an animal model, sildenafil and vardenafil reduce damage in the heart muscle when given after a severe heart attack. In contrast, nitroglycerin failed to reduce the damage in the heart when administered under similar conditions. The findings were published in the February issue of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, the official publication of the International Society for Heart Research.
"Erectile dysfunction drugs can prevent damage in the heart not only when given before a heart attack, as we discovered previously, but also lessen the injury after the heart attack," said Kukreja, who is the lead author of the study.
According to Kukreja, the protective effects on the heart produced by these erectile dysfunction drugs may be potentially useful as adjunct therapy in patients undergoing elective procedures, including coronary artery bypass graft, coronary angioplasty or heart transplantation. In addition, he said another potential application could be to prevent the multiple organ damage that occurs following cardiac arrest, resuscitation or shock.
"Preserving heart function is critical to optimal cardiac outcomes," said George W. Vetrovec, M.D., chair of cardiology at the VCU Pauley Heart Center. "These agents have significant potential to enhance patient outcomes, particularly in high risk circumstances, such as acute heart attacks."
For several years, Kukreja and his colleagues have studied a class of erectile dysfunction drugs known as phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors as part of ongoing research into heart protection. The team first investigated sildenafil, and then vardenafil, and found that both compounds were protective when given before a heart attack under experimental conditions.
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Pope Francis’ Message in Nagasaki
This place makes us deeply aware of the pain and horror that we human beings are capable of inflicting upon one another. The damaged cross and statue of Our Lady recently discovered in the Cathedral of Nagasaki remind us once more of the unspeakable horror suffered in the flesh by the victims of the bombing and their families.
One of the deepest longings of the human heart is for security, peace and stability. The possession of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction is not the answer to this desire; indeed they seem always to thwart it. Our world is marked by a perverse dichotomy that tries to defend and ensure stability and peace through a false sense of security sustained by a mentality of fear and mistrust, one that ends up poisoning relationships between peoples and obstructing any form of dialogue.
Peace and international stability are incompatible with attempts to build upon the fear of mutual destruction or the threat of total annihilation. They can be achieved only on the basis of a global ethic of solidarity and cooperation in the service of a future shaped by interdependence and shared responsibility in the whole human family of today and tomorrow.
Here in this city which witnessed the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of a nuclear attack, our attempts to speak out against the arms race will never be enough. The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit the integral development of peoples and to protect the natural environment. In a world where millions of children and families live in inhumane conditions, the money that is squandered and the fortunes made through the manufacture, upgrading, maintenance and sale of ever more destructive weapons, are an affront crying out to heaven.
A world of peace, free from nuclear weapons, is the aspiration of millions of men and women everywhere. To make this ideal a reality calls for involvement on the part of all: individuals, religious communities and civil society, countries that possess nuclear weapons and those that do not, the military and private sectors, and international organizations. Our response to the threat of nuclear weapons must be joint and concerted, inspired by the arduous yet constant effort to build mutual trust and thus surmount the current climate of distrust. In 1963, Saint John XXIII, writing in his Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris, in addition to urging the prohibition of atomic weapons (cf. No. 112), stated that authentic and lasting international peace cannot rest on a balance of military power, but only upon mutual trust (cf. No. 113).
There is a need to break down the climate of distrust that risks leading to a dismantling of the international arms control framework. We are witnessing an erosion of multilateralism which is all the more serious in light of the growth of new forms of military technology. Such an approach seems highly incongruous in today’s context of interconnectedness; it represents a situation that urgently calls for the attention and commitment of all leaders.
For her part, the Catholic Church is irrevocably committed to promoting peace between peoples and nations. This is a duty to which the Church feels bound before God and every man and woman in our world. We must never grow weary of working to support the principal international legal instruments of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, including the Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Last July, the bishops of Japan launched an appeal for the abolition of nuclear arms, and each August the Church in Japan holds a 10-day prayer meeting for peace. May prayer, tireless work in support of agreements and insistence on dialogue be the most powerful “weapons” in which we put our trust and the inspiration of our efforts to build a world of justice and solidarity that can offer an authentic assurance of peace.
Convinced as I am that a world without nuclear weapons is possible and necessary, I ask political leaders not to forget that these weapons cannot protect us from current threats to national and international security. We need to ponder the catastrophic impact of their deployment, especially from a humanitarian and environmental standpoint, and reject heightening a climate of fear, mistrust and hostility fomented by nuclear doctrines. The current state of our planet requires a serious reflection on how its resources can be employed in light of the complex and difficult implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in order to achieve the goal of an integrated human development. Saint Paul VI suggested as much in 1964, when he proposed the establishment of a Global Fund to assist those most impoverished peoples, drawn partially from military expenditures (cf. Declaration to Journalists, 4 December 1964; Populorum Progressio, 51).
All of this necessarily calls for the creation of tools for ensuring trust and reciprocal development, and counts on leaders capable of rising to these occasions. It is a task that concerns and challenges every one of us. No one can be indifferent to the pain of millions of men and women whose sufferings trouble our consciences today. No one can turn a deaf ear to the plea of our brothers and sisters in need. No one can turn a blind eye to the ruin caused by a culture incapable of dialogue.
I ask you to join in praying each day for the conversion of hearts and for the triumph of a culture of life, reconciliation and fraternity. A fraternity that can recognize and respect diversity in the quest for a common destiny.
I know that some here are not Catholics, but I am certain that we can all make our own the prayer for peace attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
In this striking place of remembrance that stirs us from our indifference, it is all the more meaningful that we turn to God with trust, asking him to teach us to be effective instruments of peace and to make every effort not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
May you and your families, and this entire nation, know the blessings of prosperity and social harmony!” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/full-text-of-pope-francis-nagasaki/#.Xd16I4VcPzB
The next day, the Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ International Justice and Peace Committee, Bishop David Malloy, reaffirmed their commitment to global nuclear disarmament. The statement said,
“For our part, the Catholic bishops of the United States remain firmly committed to global nuclear disarmament. We declared in 1993: ‘The eventual elimination of nuclear weapons is more than a moral ideal; it should be a policy goal.’”
“The United States and Russia have over 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons. This fact alone calls for our nation to exercise global leadership for mutual, verifiable nuclear disarmament. The extension of New START Treaty with Russia would be a prudent next step.” https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2019-11/us-bishops-statement-nuclear-weapons.print.html
1. GIVING TUESDAY New Mexico is Tuesday, December 3rd. Please support CCNS and the work we do to keep you informed weekly with the latest nuclear safety news, action alerts and sample public comments. It costs money to produce the weekly CCNS News Update broadcast and social media outreach. Consider a monthly contribution. We are truly grateful for your support! #GivingTuesdayNM
2. Wednesday, December 4, 2019, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at Cities of Gold Hotel & Casino Conference Center in Pojoaque – LANL will hold a public meeting about the application they will be submitting to NMED for renewal of the Hazardous Waste Act permit. The current permit expires in December 2020. LANL wants NMED to continue regulating 27 hazardous waste units, as well as to add three interim status units.
CCNS will ask LANL to submit a permit application for the Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, a hazardous waste facility, to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) as part of their permit renewal application. Join us!
3. Maybe – on Monday, December 16th – LANL will host a public meeting as required by the 2016 NMED Consent Order. No public notice has been released. Here’s a link to a recent posting of the Updated Fiscal Year 2020 Appendices A, B, and C to the Consent Order – https://ext.em-la.doe.gov/eprr/repo-file.aspx?oid=0902e3a6800c30b4&n=EMID-700658_FY20_Consent_Order_Apps_A,B,C_110719.pdf
Maybe – on Monday, December 16th – NMED will host a community meeting about the 2016 Consent Order. No public notice has been released.
Maybe – in early January, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host public meetings and/or public hearings about LANL’s industrial waste water draft discharge permit and the individual stormwater permit. No public notice has been released.
Please stay tuned.
4. There are a number of BAD nuclear waste and consolidated interim storage facility bills moving through Congress that must be stopped. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE TO OPPOSE THE BILLS. These bills include:
This week, the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee passed House Bill H.R. 2699 – Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019, out of Committee. It will go to the House floor soon. The bill “would also authorize the U.S. Department of Energy to take ownership of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel at private, consolidated interim storage facilities (CISF). This radical change to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended, would risk “interim” becoming de facto permanent surface storage, meaning loss of institutional control over time would guarantee large-scale releases of hazardous radioactivity directly into the environment.”
For more information, please check out Kevin Kamps’ Beyond Nuclear report at http://www.beyondnuclear.org/yucca-mountain/2019/10/10/radioactive-racism-is-not-progressive-urge-your-congress-mem.html
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Newswise — La Jolla, Calif., October 18, 2017 – A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) identifies potential new therapeutic avenues for patients with Alagille syndrome. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, identifies the cells and genes in zebrafish necessary to make liver ducts, thin tubes that transport a fluid called bile from the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine. Patients with Alagille syndrome have fewer than the normal number of liver ducts, causing jaundice, liver disease and liver failure.
“We use zebrafish to study Alagille syndrome because these vertebrates allow us to use experimental approaches that aren’t possible with other disease models,” says Duc Dong, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Human Genetics Program at SBP and senior author of the paper. “Organ development, especially the liver, is highly conserved among vertebrates—including zebrafish—and the mutations we create in zebrafish alter embryogenesis in a manner consistent with humans, making it an ideal model system to study diseases such as Alagille syndrome.”
Alagille syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations primarily in the JAGGED1 gene. In less than 1 percent of cases, a mutation in the NOTCH2 gene is the cause. The disorder has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 70,000 births and can affect the liver, heart, kidneys, blood vessels and other tissues of the body. One of the major features of Alagille syndrome is liver damage caused by loss of liver ducts. There is presently no drug or surgical procedure that can correct for the loss of liver ducts.
“We wanted to gain further insight into the way Jagged works during liver development,” says Dong. “We already knew that Jagged triggers Notch signaling in neighboring cells—a key step in the development of many organs, including liver. But a deeper understanding of how Jagged regulates duct cell formation in livers could shape strategies to help fix these structures to potentially spare the 10 to 30 percent of patients that eventually need a liver transplant.”
Using mutant zebrafish, the research team discovered that Jagged signals come from an unexpected cell type, endoderm-derived cells within the liver itself, stimulating duct cell identity in the liver. The findings contrast with research in mice, which suggest ducts are malformed due to insufficient Jagged signals from cells in hepatic veins. Dong’s team demonstrated that Jagged directly triggers Notch activity to generate all duct cells in the liver.
“Our findings are important because knowing the location and specific cell type that require Jagged expression gives us the information we need to target therapeutics to the right place to compensate for the lack of Jagged function in Alagille syndrome,” says Dong. “And with advances being made in gene therapy using technologies like CRISPR/Cas9, our discoveries put us closer to being able to deliver genetic ‘corrections’ of JAGGED1 mutations.
“Because duct cells are lost due to a lack of Jagged function, and are not just malformed as previously thought, we now need to also consider regenerative therapeutic approaches to replace duct cells lost in this disease. Indeed, we have unpublished data suggesting that duct cells can regenerate when we allow normal Jagged function to resume.”
“We are also exploring the possibility of using zebrafish to identify potential drugs that could alleviate pathologies caused by loss of Jagged function,” adds Dong. “In fact, we are now gearing up for a chemical screen and working on finding funding for this project.”
“This study shows the value in studying alternative disease models. In this case, zebrafish were critical for advancing our understanding of Jagged function in the liver, allowing us to devise new therapeutic strategies for Alagille Syndrome.”
Co-authors include Danhua Zhang, Keith P. Gates, Joseph Lancman and Xin-Xin Zeng from SBP, Lindsey Barske, Megan Groff, Kapser Wang and J. Gage Crump from USC, and Guangliang Wang and Michael J. Parsons from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) is an independent nonprofit medical research organization that conducts world-class, collaborative, biological research and translates its discoveries for the benefit of patients. SBP focuses its research on cancer, immunity, neurodegeneration, metabolic disorders and rare children’s diseases. The Institute invests in talent, technology and partnerships to accelerate the translation of laboratory discoveries that will have the greatest impact on patients. Recognized for its world-class NCI-designated Cancer Center and the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, SBP employs about 1,100 scientists and staff in San Diego (La Jolla), Calif., and Orlando (Lake Nona), Fla. For more information, visit us at SBPdiscovery.org or on Facebook at facebook.com/SBPdiscovery and on Twitter @SBPdiscovery.
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Our fast-paced world full of technological innovation and non-stop social media interaction can sometimes seem a cold and impersonal place, leaving many longing for a simpler, more relaxing and, above all, more spiritual time. It’s little surprise then that increasing numbers of people in countries across the globe are adopting a new age lifestyle. Of course, ‘new age’ is a very broad term, but at its heart, it encompasses a return to earlier beliefs, a determination to live a more environmentally friendly life, and the importance of meditation and understanding yourself and your role in wider society. If you have friends who meet this description, then they’re sure to love these thoughtful new age gifts.
Sharing The Power Of Crystals
Crystals are natural mineral deposits that can be incredibly beautiful, but if used the right way, they can also bring powerful changes into your life, and with this in mind, people with a new age spirituality or an open mind will always welcome a gift of crystals. Humans have recognized the power of crystals for thousands of years, but only now do we once again understand this ancient knowledge. Different crystals have different powers, so while transparent quartz has the ability to purify the space it stands in, creating positive and calming energy, a pink quartz is associated with love and so makes an ideal addition to a bedroom. Take time to understand the meaning of crystals and stones, as shown on the 10awesome website, and you’ll be able to present a perfect and personalized gift.
Taking Control Of Your Dreams
Whilst we have control of our everyday waking lives, to some extent at least, for most of us, dreams are simply random things that come to us at night. It doesn’t have to be like this, as with a little training we can learn to control our dreams and interact with them in any way we choose. This is called lucid dreaming and can be achieved by simply believing you can do it and then following a series of instructions before retiring to bed. Having a lucid dream can be the most incredible experience because things that are impossible suddenly become possible. Buying an instruction book on lucid dreaming can help your friend enter an incredible new world, and a beautiful journal to record dreams in, an essential step in the process, is a great additional present.
Thoughtful Presents That Help The World
One of the key new age beliefs is that we must do all we can to protect the environment we live in, and so if your friends have adopted a greener lifestyle, there are plenty of presents that they’d particularly appreciate. Organic toiletries will always be welcome, of course, but an alternative gift would be to pay for a good cause in their name. It’s possible to adopt a goat or a village well. These gifts are actually given to communities in the developing world, but your friend will receive details of their gift and the ways that it will help people live better and healthier lives.
You don’t have to have wholeheartedly embraced the new age lifestyle to love these three gifts. Anyone would love organic soaps and toiletries, a beautiful journal, or eye-catching crystals, but if you have friends who have embraced their spiritual side, then these could be the most welcome present of them all, without costing the earth.
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The communications industry has long struggled to prove the value of its work. In part, the answer must be to do more self-evidently valuable work, but making the case beyond that has often been haphazard.
What follows is not an attempt to justify advertising value equivalents (AVEs). Not at all. Nor is it to criticise those who don’t use measurement to make their communications more effective. After all, any measurement will be more informative than none, provided it is clear what is and is not being measured.
The communications industry is picking the wrong fight
For all that nobody likes AVEs, the reason they won’t go away is because they can sometimes measure something useful just as well as some other bad measures that the industry does accept. What’s the difference between AVE and OTS, after all?
In other words, it’s a double standard. The industry is picking the wrong fight. What the industry should fight is bad measurement or no measurement at all.
It’s a more nuanced position, but there might be more chance of success focusing outrage and opprobrium on the wrong use of AVEs rather than just wishing them out of existence.
Good measurement should have two purposes. The first (and most common), to justify why the activity was done. To evaluate whether it did what it set out to do.
Second, measurement should help inform how future campaigns can be more effective. At its best, it can even inform how a business behaves and develops.
Effective measurement goes to the heart of building and protecting reputation, driving sales, building loyalty, changing legislation, motivating your people or any of the other reasons for communicating.
Recognising the value of reputation
There is growing evidence that as boards start to appreciate the value of reputation they are seeing it as too important to be left with communications teams.
Compliance and risk management departments are getting in on the act. They have more scientific and business-friendly approaches to measurement than their communications counterparts. The Financial Reporting Council has argued that boards should pay closer attention to reputation.
The difficulty is that communications teams often use evaluation without being clear what they are trying to measure or how they are going about it.
Be clear what you are measuring
Though heresy to say it, in that respect the universally condemned advertising value equivalent is hardly worse than many more fashionable measures.
Many industry award bodies refuse to accept AVEs. The once-favourite measure has long been on its last legs, but it may still be valid to ask whether AVEs still have a place in the tool kit.
That place would not be to measure return on investment, the reputation of a business or the contribution to sales. But up to a point, by approximating the volume and reach of coverage, AVEs can say how loud a campaign has been, if not who listened or what they did.
Until the communications industry really starts to take measurement seriously perhaps it should let AVEs stick to what they do. To measure the noise, if not isolate the signal or assess the value of the work.
Rather than condemn AVEs, the industry should out-shine them with something palpably better.
The misunderstood and meaningless AVE
More than a third of businesses still use AVEs, no doubt too often simply to measure what is possible to count, rather than having identified what is important or informative and then selected the best tool to track it.
Few people really understand what AVE means, other than it is roughly what editorial coverage might cost if it were advertising space. But the criticism is rightly that AVE numbers are muddled. They do mix up different sorts of hazy information.
For example, most people don’t understand the multiplier used with AVEs, if they even know a multiplier is used. That’s when the advertising value of coverage is multiplied three, five, seven or 11 times.
The proliferation of multiplier values reflects the lack of any meaningful research into how far audiences value editorial more than advertising. Perhaps the AVE rate should reflect that increased value. But the lack of rigour behind what is a legitimate multiplier (which, done properly, may vary by media type) adds to the confusion.
Increasing volumes of media inventory, particularly online, and dwindling audiences mean the cost of advertising fluctuates. So the AVE measures a moving target.
And the cost is based on the rate card, not what the market actually pays for advertising. So it is a false comparison as AVEs cannot reflect the heavy discounts that brands and wholesale media buyers get.
What’s more, that rate-card price is a “cost”. The value it delivers is another far more complicated question.
In other words, AVEs fail to compare like with like. There’s no doubt they do not measure the value of editorial on its own intrinsic merits.
But that is very hard to do given editorial does not have a tradeable currency.
More rigorous approaches
Meanwhile, the steps that the media evaluation industry have made to establish better and more effective metrics should rightly be applauded.
They are based on the desire to measure the outcomes of any activity, and so they focus on linking those to the outputs that brands and agencies can influence.
Arguably the Valid Metrics biggest contribution goes beyond evaluation. They encourage the PR and communications industry to think about the business impact it has, or the impact that it would like to have.
That said, the Valid Metrics are often easier to explain than they are to put into practice. For anything but the most straightforward business they need sophisticated data analysis or very keen reporting to work out which channel had what effect. That requires the right data to get started. It is not always easy.
For many businesses that should not be a problem. Those that do have the data available and the expertise and budgets to crunch the numbers can get a clear view of what each of their comms channels is delivering.
Something is better than nothing
Yet as Leo McGarry said in West Wing, “we can’t afford all the things we want”. In other words, many businesses simply don’t have the budgets, data, sophistication or inclination to work through that level of detail. In many cases their scale of activity wouldn’t justify it.
Communications evaluation should be democratic enough to cater for those that don’t have the resources for full-on data analysis. They should have a quick measure which tells them something about the value of their work and how to improve it.
The right tool for the right job
There are many other measures available to help deliver low-budget evaluation that can show the impact activity has.
Some of these include message-to-audience, opportunities to see, cost per thousand, web traffic, qualitative research among intermediaries, changes in favourability or awareness, share of voice against competitors, increasing numbers of followers to a blog or community, gross rating points, stakeholder feedback and direct sales inquiries, to name but a few.
They also include the much-maligned advertising value equivalent.
Whichever method is chosen, the important thing is to be clear what it is that’s being measured, why and what it means. One size does not fit all.
In defence of AVEs
For some businesses, and in some cases, it is hard to see what’s wrong with using AVEs. If the business has a clear view of which media it wants to be in, it may simply want to track whether this year was (broadly) louder than the last one.
It may want to see which story made the most noise or how the share of voice compared with a competitor in that media. It may simply want a measure of volume, space and audience numbers (regardless of who they were). Or it may wish to measure just a specific element of the broader comms programme.
As with all evaluation, the key is to be clear what any measure does and does not tell you and not to over claim, over interpret or misinterpret. If you know the shortcomings, fine. Operate within them.
Everything has its place
All that the PR industry has done to get beyond using AVEs as the default evaluation tool should be applauded. There is much further to go, to find an accurate way of putting a monetary value on the investment in communications.
But are we in danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water?
Just as using AVEs can often rightly be criticised as lazy thinking isn’t it just as lazy simply to condemn them out of hand on every occasion?
Why wouldn’t the cash value of the right media space be a simple shorthand for measuring a goal, if that goal is simply to maximise the volume and reach of coverage?
If the rehabilitation of the AVE was ever going to be taken seriously standardising how it is measured would be vital. Get rid of the multiplier altogether. Don’t vary the base data as advertising rates fluctuate.
Recognise it is based on an advertising cost, and that understanding the value of publicity is a different thing.
Find a way to get like-for-like comparisons across print, TV, radio and online, not to mention meaningful figures for non-commercial BBC. This shortcoming also applies to many other measures such as opportunities to see and audience reach.
(A mention on Mail Online reaches an audience of 250 million people, apparently. That’s everyone in the UK and two thirds of the USA.)
Time for a rethink?
Who knows, one day it might even be time to let AVEs back into the annual award programmes, perhaps re-framed as ACEs (advertising cost equivalent).
Of course, entrants would have to make the case for why AVEs are the right measure to assess whether that campaign made a valid contribution to the business.
A clear understanding of that value and how it is delivered is still the challenge across the board.
That’s why I’m delighted to be part of the communications and evaluation team that set up The Measurement Practice (www.measurementpractice.com) to help business better measure, understand and improve the value their PR and communications deliver.
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Guy Corbet (@GuyCorbet) is an independent communications consultant and an associate of The Measurement Practice which helps businesses and agencies better measure, understand and improve the value that communications delivers.
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Locksmiths are professionals that install, repair, and modify locks for clients. It may be the right career for you if you enjoy working with your hands, engaging in creative problem solving, and are fascinated by security technology. To become an emergency Ottawa locksmith, get a high school diploma or a GED. Then, complete a vocational program or take a short class on locksmithing to get the education necessary for certification. The certification process varies depending on where you live, so look the requirements up online. Submit your certification paperwork to the state where you live and find an entry-level position in your area to begin your career as a locksmith.
What does a locksmith do?
Locksmiths install, repair, replace, unlock and adjust locks on doors, windows, car doors, safes and more. They also provide consultation services to homes and businesses that want to improve security by focusing on their locks and peripheral security services. Locksmiths are also well-known for working untraditional hours to provide emergency on-call services to people who are locked out of homes and automobiles.
Average salary for locksmiths
According to Indeed Salaries, locksmiths make $47,513 per year. In some cases, they may receive overtime pay for working outside of business hours. The typical tenure for the locksmith position is between 2 and 4 years.
How to become a locksmith
If you want to become a locksmith, consider following these steps:
- Complete a training program.
- Take on an apprenticeship.
- Get your license in applicable states/provinces and districts.
- Work for a locksmith company and develop skills.
Whether it’s your home or business, getting locked out of your property can be highly inconvenient and stressful. Finding a trusted, 24-hour emergency locksmith in Toronto you can call when you need them, will give you peace of mind when you are in a pinch. Just like the name suggests, locksmiths are professionals who have been trained to work with keys and locks. They can replace locks, duplicate keys, and even break a lock, without damaging the doorway.
Lost or Stolen Keys
One of the main reasons why you may need to call a locksmith is you’ve lost the keys to your house or business. In such a situation, you may not have another option but to call a professional locksmith, who will help you gain access. Whether you’ve lost your keys or someone has stolen them, there is a high chance that someone could use them to access your property. If you’ve lost your keys or someone has stolen them, you should contact a professional locksmith right away. A locksmith will re-key or replace your locks and then make new keys.
Moving into a New Home
Some people assume that when they move into a newly built home they don’t have to worry about security issues. But if you’ve just moved in, you have no idea how many people have copies of your keys. There is a high chance that the builder already has a master key, which they used to get access to your home at any time. Apart from the builder, plumbers, electricians, drywall contractors, and flooring specialists, will also need to access your home at some point during the construction phase, meaning they might also have a copy of your keys. Once the building phase is completed, and you’ve moved in, you will need to work with a locksmith, to rekey or replace your locks.
Due to metal fatigue and regular use, your keys will eventually undergo wear and tear. If the key breaks off inside the lock, then it can be very difficult to remove it. When you encounter such an unfortunate scenario, you should call a locksmith in your area. A residential locksmith will work on the lock, and then help you access your premises. After that, they can then re-key the lock, cut a new key or even replace the lock, if it’s necessary.
When we moved in to our current apartment back in 2006, we had the standard lock on the door which was ok but not what we were used to. When we were leaving Kuwait to settle back in India, we bought a few nice things for our house here. One of those things for our house and later in the apartment were these big door locks. You need a good locksmith to set those up for you in your home. If you’re in the GTA area maybe check out these good folks at Locksmith Toronto.
So these locks that we have on my front door are a bit odd. They are really strong (from Italy) and pretty difficult to break into. Also the odd thing is they open the opposite way to all other door locks. You can lock it three times for the strongest lock or leave it at 1 or 2. It is the best option that I have seen and better than most locks in other homes I have been to. You can find good locks here on Amazon India if you want to look for something similar.
I remember when I was kid, maybe 7 or so I managed to get myself locked in. The door that separates the main bedroom, bathroom and kitchen of our flat in Kuwait City from the living room and the key broke in the lock. I was panicking and my mother was panicking but finally she managed to get hold of my dad who called in the locksmith that he knew and an 90 minutes later, I was free. And given a Pepsi and a shawarma dinner to ease my worries.
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Why Ireland for SPVs
Ireland is the leading European jurisdiction for SPVs, structured finance and securitised structures. SPVs play an integral role in the operation of the international financial services industry and are used by a growing number of industries in Ireland including aircraft leasing, insurance / reinsurance, Irish regulated funds and securitisations.
There are more than 3,000 SPVs in Ireland with over €1 trillion in assets, representing over 26% of the European market by assets.
For over 30 years Ireland has been developing the infrastructure and expertise that offers a well-established environment for the global structured finance industry in Ireland.
- A well-developed infrastructure – With a network of specialist service providers, such as directors, advisers, listing agents and trustees, the industry in Ireland supports and services the widest range of structured finance deals. There are 3,900+ people involved in the structuring and servicing of SPVs and debt securities in Ireland.
- A highly regarded and trusted legal and regulatory regime – Ireland is an international jurisdiction that is a member of the EU and of the OECD. SPVs are established as companies in Ireland, and are subject to Irish laws, regulations and tax, which provide security, certainty and protection for investors.
- A European ‘passport’ – Once approved by the Central Bank of Ireland, securities issued by an Irish SPV can be accepted throughout the EU for public offers and/or admission to trading on regulated markets.
- A Common Law Jurisdiction – Ireland, like the US and the UK, is a common-law jurisdiction.
- Innovation and defining best practice – Ireland continues to lead the sector in determining and defining best industry practice.
- Double Taxation Treaties with 70+ countries worldwide – Ireland’s double taxation treaty network covers over 70 countries worldwide and the vast majority of global GDP.
- An efficient listing mechanism – Euronext Dublin has extensive experience in the listing of specialist debt securities.
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Scott’s election is likely to have an impact on Vermont energy policy. He is an opponent of further development of wind power on Vermont’s mountaintops, and that view is likely to shape policy in the Department of Public Service, which weighs in on energy projects. But a larger impact will likely come from the decisive votes in Windham and Grafton rejecting the wind project proposed by Iberdrola, the Spanish energy giant. Iberdrola’s effort to bribe voters by promising them annual payments failed, though it probably succeeded in souring Vermonters throughout the state on industrial wind.
Phil Scott was justified in claiming a mandate for fiscal prudence after his decisive win in the race for governor on Tuesday. He is also aware that voters elected a Legislature dominated by Democrats with an agenda that may go beyond his own.
Scott’s job will be complicated by the arrival of the Trump administration in Washington. One of the major issues in state government is the future of Vermont Health Connect, the state’s health coverage website. If Congress follows through on its promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the entire health care landscape will be changed, and Scott and the Legislature will have a major challenge on their hands. It seems certain the new all-payer proposal is already history.
Scott has tapped a pair of knowledgable veterans of the Douglas administration to help in his transition. They are Tim Hayward and Neale Lunderville, who know how things work. But Scott sought to dispel the notion that he was contemplating a rerun of Jim Douglas’s tenure as governor. He has new challenges before him and will have to set new priorities.
Number one will be the issue of what he describes as “affordability” (echoing the language of Jim Douglas). He has promised that the state budget will not grow faster than the state’s economy or workers’ wages. Thus, the Legislature can expect to see a budget from the new Scott administration with an array of cuts.
The economic situation today is not as dire as that facing Douglas or Peter Shumlin; the level of economic growth at present will allow some growth in the budget. But Scott will avoid costly new ventures as he seeks to bring spending into balance with revenue.
Still, the needs facing the state are not going away, and as Scott sets his priorities, it will be important that the budget ax does not cut too deeply in some areas. Child care, housing, addiction treatment, lake cleanup and higher education require attention and continuing support, in part as economic development measures and in part as humanitarian investments.
Health care remains a huge question mark. If tens of thousands of people are thrown off federal programs and if federal subsidies are axed by a Trump administration, Vermont will be back at square one in devising health care solutions. In the years preceding the Obama administration, Vermont had developed several important programs to help Vermonters gain access to health care, including Catamount Health and the Vermont Health Access Program. It remains to be seen if these will have to be reconstituted in some form.
Scott’s election is likely to have an impact on Vermont energy policy. He is an opponent of further development of wind power on Vermont’s mountaintops, and that view is likely to shape policy in the Department of Public Service, which weighs in on energy projects. But a larger impact will likely come from the decisive votes in Windham and Grafton rejecting the wind project proposed by Iberdrola, the Spanish energy giant.
Iberdrola’s effort to bribe voters by promising them annual payments failed, though it probably succeeded in souring Vermonters throughout the state on industrial wind. The giant machines can make a contribution to the energy mix out in open country, but they are less welcome looming over people’s homes in the pristine environment of Vermont’s ridgelines.
Sue Minter, Scott’s Democratic opponent, refused to rule out wind power, but that could not have been the primary issue in her decisive loss. Rather, voters probably saw in Scott a reassuring and familiar face, someone they could rely on to keep a steady hand on the tiller in turbulent times. Minter was bursting with new ideas and ambition and knowledge about policy, but for now it appears Vermonters have had enough of that.
Scott wants to get the budget process in order and to help the economy grow so that increasing prosperity gives the private and public sector the means to address the state’s problems. Legislators will have plenty of ideas for how the public sector can be part of those solutions. They and Scott will have to figure out how to marshal the state’s limited resources to the best effect.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman declared all of West Virginia and parts of Virginia and four other states drought disaster areas on Monday.
The declaration, which likely will be expanded in the coming days, makes farmers in the affected areas eligible for low-interest loans. Fourteen counties in Virginia are covered, along with 20 counties in Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The Virginia counties are Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Bland, Buchanan, Clarke, Craig, Frederick, Giles, Highland, Loudoun, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Tazewell.
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3D printing technology is immensely popular, and is making rapid advancements. But have you ever wondered what are its advantages and disadvantages? This Techspirited post tells you how we can benefit from this technology and also its possible negative effects.
Did You Know?
The Photonic Professional GT is a 3D printer created by Nanoscribe, which can print 3D objects of widths smaller than the diameter of a strand of human hair, and with great precision.
3D printing employs layered printing to create tangible objects using digital 3D models. In other words, if you possess the blueprint (CAD file) of an object, say a cup, a toy car, or the Eiffel Tower, you can print it in three dimension. This means you can ‘print’ a miniature replica of the famous monument in Paris, or a real cup that you can use to enjoy your favorite coffee!
The raw materials used for 3D printing, include plastics, wood, paper, resin, and glass. Now, imagine seeing your imaginations come to life, with you doing nothing but creating the design using a 3-dimensional design software. Isn’t it amazing? Well, it’s almost too good to be true.
Merits and Demerits of 3D Printing
In spite of the huge hype surrounding 3D printing and how it’s on its way to revolutionize the way we manufacture products, it has its own share of disadvantages. Here we shall look at both sides of the coin.
Manufacture of Customized Products
With 3D printing technology, manufacturing stuff has become easier than never before. Now, anyone can manufacture any product they want, using nothing but a 3D printer and the desired raw material. This has paved the way for customized products, as it allows you to create your own designs in 3D, and get them printed.
Since 3D technology can manufacture stuff in an instant, it facilitates rapid prototyping, which means, it takes really short time for designs to get converted into the respective prototypes.
Low Production Cost
You might think that the cost of 3D printing is very high, but the truth is that while the initial cost or cost of set-up is high, it is less when compared to labor costs and other costs involved in manufacturing the product in the conventional way. Add to this, the fact that the cost of manufacturing using 3D printing is the same for small-scale and mass production, and you have a winning technology at hand.
Elimination of Storage Costs
Mass production gives rise to the problem of storage. Since small-scale production does not cost higher when using 3D printing technology, the need for mass production is eliminated and along with it, the requirement and costs of storage are also done away with.
Creation of Employment Opportunities
The increasing use of 3D printing technology would create the requirement for highly-skilled designers who are adept at using 3D printers, and technicians who are skilled at troubleshooting.
Boon for Organ Donation
One of the biggest breakthroughs brought about by 3D printing technology would be in the field of medicine, and organ replacement to be specific, where thousands of people die every year for the want of donor organs. This technology of creating human organs using 3D printing, is termed as bioprinting, and the time is not far away when we shall be able to create complex human organs, such as the heart and the brain, using tissue from the organ recipient. This will not only address the shortage of donor organs, but also cut down organ rejections.
The biggest possible disadvantage of 3D printing is counterfeiting or production of “fake” stuff, and the copyright infringement issue arising due to it. This technology makes a manufacturer out of anyone who owns a 3D printer, and gets hold of the blueprint. Thus, it would be very difficult to trace the source of fake items, and copyright holders would have a hard time protecting their rights.
Manufacture of Dangerous Items
If you give technology in the hands of people, there will always be a few who would use it for the wrong purposes, and 3D printing is no exception. With everything being created with a click of the mouse, this technology can be easily used to create guns and other dangerous weapons. In fact, a Canadian man has reportedly created the world’s first 3D-printed rifle out of plastic, using a blueprint that he downloaded from the Internet. Also, the technology can be used by small children to print out stuff that might prove hazardous.
At present, 3D printers have limitations when it comes to size of the objects created. However, in the near future, we shall have printers that can even print architectural structures.
Production of Unnecessary Stuff
Another possible disadvantage of 3D printing is that people would print stuff on a whim, and this would result in a huge number of unnecessary stuff being produced. Add to that, the difficulty we already face in recycling stuff, and you have a serious problem here.
Raw Material Limitations
Currently, 3D printing is viable for items made from a single raw material only. However, the technology of creating stuff using more than one material is being developed, and will soon be a reality.
Invented during the ’90s, 3D printing has surely come a long way. The cost of 3D printers is quite high, and it is yet to become accessible to the common man. However, efforts are being made to bring this technology to the masses with the manufacture of printers that are not so expensive.
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It was recently reported by Balkanweb that already more than 15 state institutions are protected by Illyrian Guard, a private company owned 100% by the Ministry of Interior. Until the establishment of Illyrian Guard in April 2019, security services were subject to public procurement.
Over the years, private security firms have kept prices artificially high through price fixing schemes. Exit has frequently reported about these cartels, which received little pushback from the Competition Authority. The last time security firms were fined for obstructing free competition was in 2012. Later investigations into price fixing schemes were all concluded without result.
The public procurement of security services for public buildings has no doubt been the main source of income for the private security sector. Between 2015 and 2019, Eurogjici earned 302M lekë (~€2.4M) from state tenders, Toni Security 481M lekë (~€3.9M), and Dea Security 138M lekë (~€1.1M). For local governments alone, the amount spent on security tenders from 2015 to 2019 amounts to 703M lekë (~€5.7M), which is over €1 million per year.
With the establishment of Illyrian Guard, the Rama government has de facto nationalized the greater part of the security sector, turning an oligopoly into a state monopoly. State institutions are automatically required to procure their security services from Illyrian Guard. According to Decision of the Council of Ministers (VKM) no. 177 of April 4, 2019,
10. All public institutions and subjects that administer state property, whose security needs to be realized by services specialized to this end, turn themselves, with a request, to this society for physical security and protection services.
11. If this society decides that it is unable to provide the requested services, public institutions and subject may secure this service according to the pertinent legislation in force.
Naturally, this led to resistance of the security firms. Gëzim Demiraj, owner of Pelikan Security and chairman of Union Security Albania, the professional society of security firms, stated in June:
According to our conviction, we say that this law directly attacks the right to business development of security firms. It is in an open conflict of interest because security firms have found themselves with this VKM outside any security market. This act also violates the law for public procurement because Illyrian Guard […] signs contracts without any market competition. […] This is a violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, violation of the State Police Law, violation of the Public Prosecution Law, and violation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement.
With the publication of this VKM many of those firms will leave the market and many of these employees will tomorrow be outside the labor market.
Union Security Albania complained against the VKM at the Competition Authority and filed a lawsuit on May 25 at the Administrative Appeals Court in Tirana. In its verdict of July 25, the Competition Authority stated that Illyrian Guard services may be procured outside the public tender process through so-called “in-house procurement.”
The Competition authority further added, not without a sense of irony:
Seen from the perspective of competition, the increase of the numbers of those who offer services on the market profits free and effective competition by bringing the possibility of choice.
Finally, the Competition Authority advised Illyrian Guard to abide by art. 9 of Law 9121/2003 on the Protection of Competition, which prohibits “abuse of a dominant market position.”
The fact that already 15 state institutions have switched over to Illyrian Guard suggests that this dominant market position will soon be a fact. The establishment of Illyrian Guard will thus have a profound influence on the security market in Albania. This has not turned out for the worst for all companies involved. Remarkably, just at the moment his company suffered this major economic setback caused by a policy of the Socialist government, Safet Gjici, the director of Eurogjici, was elected mayor of Kukës for the Socialist Party.
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Are you drawn to the prominence and artistry of Navajo rugs and want to bring some authentic Navajo culture into your home? The Navajo rug is a cultural textile made by the tribes in the Southwestern United States and is one of the most popular types of Native American rugs. This rug style is the most colorful and best-made textile and has been admired and coveted as a trade item for a century. Likewise, collectors, archivists, and weavers regarded the Navajo rug as an art form. Here’s a short narration on Navajo weaving that will help you characterize the most common terms and assist you when you set off to purchase this luxurious masterpiece. A Brief Story About Navajo Weaving The Navajo are the largest Native American tribes within the United States and among the finest rug makers across the globe. Early Navajo people were mobile hunters and gatherers; after moving to the Southwest, the Pueblo Indians taught them how to weave using a vertical loom. Then, the Navajo started to herd sheep, and they were able to weave long, soft, and durable fibers to make rugs and blankets. These became the first versions of what is currently known as Navajo textiles. For the tribe, the process of weaving is a spiritual one – each weaving is gifted with the soul and creative energy of the weaver. The tradition of Navajo Rug weaving incorporates multiple aspects of their life, belief, and lifestyle into one lasting practice. Common Navajo Rug Designs Most of the rug designs got their names from origin or what influenced them. The following are some of the typical styles of Navajo weavings Ganado Ganado is a classic and most widely recognized Navajo rug that originated in the town of Gando. This design is characterized by a red background with a black, white and gray design based on a central diamond or two. Simple geometric decorations are seen on the edges, and serrated or stair-stepped patterns, crosses, zigzags, and simple geometric shapes surround the central design. Klagetoh Klagetoh is among the most sought-after Navajo weavings. It is woven with gray or tan backgrounds, with a large central diamond design, usually in red, black, and white, and simple geometric figures throughout the rug design. Natural colors are used, except the red and black might contain a tinge of commercial dye. The gray can be brownish or even tan with this rug, depending on the sheep’s fleece used. Two Gray Hills Two Gray Hills is a historic Navajo style in which no coloured dyes were used. These are woven from undyed, hand-spun wool from different sheep to create subtle hues of the Two Gray Hills (white, black, and brown). The Navajo women made delicate geometric figures and a spirit line that serves as accents around the plain, dark borders of these rugs. Teec Nos Pos Teec Nos Pos (Cottonwoods in a Circle) rugs offer exceptional beauty to your floor. This rug design features a wide border, along with complex geometric motives. The colors are vibrant in Teec Nos Pos rugs. They have an elaborate center design surrounded by stylized images, enhanced with feathers, arrows, and claw-like hooks extending from the ends of diamonds and triangles. There are no color restrictions, except they must complement. Storm The storm rug is defined by its design, not its colors. The design is recognizable by its central rectangle representing the center of the universe, with four smaller rectangles in the corners symbolizing the four sacred mountains of the Navajo world. The shades of these rugs are often red, black, and white on a gray or red background. They typically have a dark border with geometric teeth on one side, and abstract feathers, clouds, arrows, geometric designs, and animals are everywhere. Wide Ruins Most Wide Ruins rugs are distinguished by fine, tightly-spun fleeces and a straight, uniform weave. These rugs will have broad plain color bands, some with geometric designs and thin strips with complex motifs, combined with narrow, even lines of contrasting colors. These rugs are recognized for their imposing colors. They feature a vast array of vegetal colors, like olive green, blue, lilac, pink, yellow, beige, deep corals, and various shades of browns and tans. Crystal Rugs Early crystal rugs used aniline dyes and were bordered rugs. The current version does not have a border on it. This distinct natural rug is differentiated by its horizontal streaks of natural wool with vegetal-dyed hues and design elements, including arrows, stars, triangles, and diamonds. Navajo Rug Characteristics No Fringe – Navajo weavers use vertical looms.Wool or Cotton Yarn – Most Navajo rugs are made using wool or cotton. Not many authentic Navajo rugs are made of synthetic yarn.Selvegas Lines – These lines run along the sides of the rug.Lazy Lines – A diagonal line in the fabric’s weave of the fabric Want To Have Your First Navajo Rug In Your Home? If you’re searching for a quality Navajo rug for your home, visit our shop. At Southwestern Rugs Depot, all Navajo rugs are woven using traditional procedures and follow the colors, patterns and craftmanship that originated many years ago. We’re regarded as the best Navajo rug shop by most interior designers so please check out our rugs.
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THE Executive Chairman, Alimosho Local Government, Hon Jelili Sulaimon, flagged off the first-round novel Oral Polio Immunization Campaign today at a brief ceremony, which took place at Bola Tinubu Health Care Centre, Akowonjo.
The occasion, which witnessed the presence of the Executive Chairman, Hon Jelili Sulaimon; his Vice, Hon Akinpelu Johnson; the immediate past Supervisor for Health Hon AbdurRasheed Abolade, the MOH, Health Department, Dr Kayode Odufuwa, the Apex nurse, Mrs Kudirat Odunoye among others, was were used to encourage the health workers and nursing mothers present to partake fully in the exercise as it is very important for the general well-being of children.
It will be recalled that Nigeria was certified free from Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in August 2020 after three years of reporting no case of the Virus. However, there has been an increase in transmission of Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (VDPV) due to low routine Immunization coverage occasioned by COVID-19, security challenges and poor access to health care.
According to the MOH, the situation led the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Lagos State Ministry of Health and Lagos State Primary Health Care Board with the support of WHO, UNICEF, CHAI, Rotary International etc to declare this exercise as a necessity in other to curb the menace of VDPV.
Jelili Sulaimon advised mothers at the Health Care Centre and other parents in Alimosho to make their children within age 0-5years available for the Immunization.
In order to demonstrate the relevance of the exercise, the Executive Chairman, Vice Chairman and the immediate past Supervisor for Health administered the vaccine to some of the children present.
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Russian language centers in Kyrgyzstan. Salam.ru
We have the goal of expanding international cultural and humanitarian cooperation between Russia and the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of supporting and promoting the Russian language in Kyrgyzstan, conducting cultural, educational, educational and scientific-methodological events aimed at popularizing the Russian language for its study, as well as improving the level of teaching Russian. language in Kyrgyzstan. Our foundation signed a Memorandum between the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Bishkek (Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Kyrgyz Republic) and the business company "M Bulak". Our intention is to improve the quality of Russian language proficiency, improve speaking and writing skills in the Russian language for all interested citizens of Kyrgyzstan.
Salam.ru project plans
The main goal of our partnership is to provide opportunities for schoolchildren / graduates of secondary schools of our country to receive further education in Russia, and for the adult population of Kyrgyzstan to expand outbound labor migration to Russian cities.
We are planning to:
• Attract Russian language teachers from Russia.
• Create educational centers for teaching the Russian language for children and adults in all regions of our country.
• Develop methodological work to improve the qualifications of local teachers of the Russian language.
• To motivate our citizens to expand their knowledge of the Russian language and culture.
The first language center will be opened in Osh city.
About the budget
"M Bulak" company has become an example of corporate social responsibility, which expands the network of partnerships for the development of the project, as well as provides financial services and socially oriented financial products for the development of the infrastructure of the centers.
Rossotrudnichestvo is engaged in the selection of professional teachers, will provide methodological aids, special textbooks for Russian language courses to the centers, and will also provide its premises in Osh city to launch a pilot language center. Upon completion of the courses, our partner from Russia is ready to attract the best graduates to various cultural and educational Russian exchange programs and educational excursions around Russia.
"Apake" Foundation, as an independent public organization, assists in organizing the educational process, attracting course participants, helping teachers during their arrival and stay in Kyrgyzstan, and is also ready to provide its crowdfunding platform to attract donations to everyone who is not indifferent to our idea. We, together with our information partner "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", will keep you informed about the events of the project.
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In this modern age, in which the world goes towards software so , there is also a need for motorisation in solution evaluation system. Currently, the web answer evaluation is available to get mcq based question, consequently evaluation in the theory solution is hectic for the checker. Instructor manually checks the answer and let the marks. The current system takes even more manpower and time to assess the answer. This kind of project is definitely an application based upon the evaluation of answers using machine learning. The project is developed specifically to reduce the manpower and time consumption. Since in manual answer evaluation, the manpower plus the time ingestion is much more. Likewise, in the manual system, it might be possible that the marks provided to two same answers are distinct.
This application system offers an automatic analysis of solution based on the keyword offered to the application in kind of the dataset by the end user which will give equal syndication of signifies and will lessen time and personnel. Keywords”OCR, Backpropagation algorithm, ReLU, ANN Advantages (Heading 1)Manual answer evaluation is a very tedious task. The manual looking at is a very time consuming process and also requires plenty of manpower. Also, the paper checker struggles to give marks equally. So , our system is going to evaluate response based on some keyword and also manpower will probably be saved. Only one has to check out the conventional paper then, based upon the key word in the response the system can provide the markings to the query according to the dataset present. Likewise, With this product, the evaluation error with the marks to the particular issue will be decreased. So , our system will examine answer based on some keyword and also personnel will be preserved. Only one needs to scan the paper then a system can split the answer using OCR, based on the key word in the response the system provides the markings to the problem according to the dataset present . There is a need for such application which will provide an convenient evaluation of answer and will provide eligible marks. As well, this app will help numerous colleges, university, coaching start to evaluate the answer in less time and with much less manpower.
Checking answers requires high concentration for the large amount of time which frequently leads to mistakes. The software of this activity will increase the efficiency of answer evaluation on a large scale. After a short discussion, it absolutely was understood that answer linen is examined keeping in mind selected keywords that moderators look for the answer whilst evaluating a response. Our suggested algorithm will need keywords while inputs. These types of keywords will be provided by the topic expert. The proposed algorithm will meet these keywords with detected words which can be extracted from the answer sheet using closely watched learning protocol. Learning phase of the style will require handwritten dataset pertaining to English terminology alphabets.
These kinds of datasets are available online in various formats to become used to educate the version. The machine learning model employed in our suggested algorithm is neural systems with multiple hidden levels. The version calculates the error using backpropagation formula. The weights from the network happen to be updated inside the direction opposite to the partial differentiation of error regarding weighted suggestions to the neuron in a particular layer. The activation function used for the model can be ReLU(Rectified Geradlinig unit) which usually calculates since: f(x)=max(0, x)Here the changing x can be an type to the function. Our recommended algorithm will also consider the size of the answer as being a parameter to get evaluation of the answer. The perfect answer duration will be accepted as an input from the tutor.
“An Method to Evaluate Very subjective Questions to get Online Exam System” analysis paper simply by Sheeba Praveen, Assistant Mentor, Dept. CSE, Integral College or university, Lucknow, U. P, India. In recent years we certainly have seen that the number of government authorities, semi-government assessments are gone on the net, for example [IBPS Common Written Assessment (CWE)]. This product or any other these systems will be advantages in terms of saving solutions. However , we certainly have observed the particular systems accommodate only mcq and there is no provision to extend these devices to subjective questions. The objective should be to design an algorithm for the automatic evaluation of solitary sentence detailed answer.
The paper presents an approach to look into the degree of learning of the student/learner, by assessing their detailed exam solution sheets. By simply representing the descriptive response in the form of chart and comparing it together with the standard response are the crucial steps in the approach. N Vanni, Meters. shyni, and R. Deepalakshmi, “High accuracy and reliability optical character recognition methods using learning array of ANN” in Proc. 2014 IEEE International Meeting on Signal, Power and Computing Solutions (ICCPCT), 2014 International Convention. Optical Character recognition refers to the process of translation the written by hand or branded text right into a format that is certainly understood by machines with regards to editing, looking, and indexing. The Overall performance of the current OCR demonstrates and clarifies the actual errors and image resolution defects in recognition with illustrated cases. This conventional paper aims to make an application interface for OCR using the manufactured neural network as a backend to achieve large accuracy price in reputation. The suggested algorithm employing neural network concept gives a high precision rate in recognition of characters. The proposed way is executed and analyzed on separated character data source consisting of English language characters, numbers and computer keyboard special personas.
This project is a credit card applicatoin for automated answer evaluation using the matching keyword via a dataset based on machine learning algorithm. Some applications are available but are different than this kind of and they employ different method. Some obtainable application only evaluates MCQ’s (multiple decision questions) not the subjective question. For making use of this application merely one has to search within the answer to that question then your system is going to split the answer keyword using OCR . Based upon keywords crafted in the answer and the keywords in the dataset, the application will give you marks inside the range of you to 5. Procedure for evaluate the answerProvide answer sheet to the system in jpeg (. jpg) format present keywords, optimum marks and minimum length required for the answer.
The system will certainly separate words from the offered answer the given phrases will be kept in. csv document the length of the answer will be computed by counting words in the CSV document check the percentage of keywords matched examine the percentage of words created compared to those of minimum length check the percentage of marks allotted pertaining to the provided percentage of keyword-matched form the graph examine the percentage of marks allotted for the given percentage of phrase length from your graph multiple both the percentage of the maximum marks to get the answer display the markings obtained function to calculate % represents for keywords matched(x) = 25 to get 0=<, x<, 20 f(x) = (1. 5 5. x) 5 for 20=<, x<, forty f(x) sama dengan x + 15 to get 40=<, x<, 80f(x) = (0. twenty-five * x) + seventy five for 80== (y, x) <, = 100. The results are quite obvious. According to statistics of population in India, there are many students. Just about every student shows the exam in least 4 times in a year. Therefore in every 12 months at least 4 times conventional paper correction is completed. In every test due to the manual evaluation of marks and manual checking out 1-2 a few months, time receive wasted and a lot of manpower can be used in the process. The following is where colleges and universities can make usage of this application to get the result sooner than ahead of and can as well save staff members. This application will provide several automated solution evaluation. Which can be employed by the college, universities, coaching study centers etc ..
Our application will save manpower and time. Also, the application will about the same distribution of marks. As you may know, the manual paper modification is period taken. For correcting a single answer bed sheet manually estimated time can be 10 minutes. Our system takes less than 10 mere seconds to evaluate one particular answer therefore if you will discover 12 concerns in the paper then the period taken by the device will be two minutes. Therefore , our clever system will probably be 400% faster than the manual system.
ConclusionIn this software program, we have created an application which will evaluate assumptive answers and offer marks based on the keyword complementing which will lessen manual function and will save you time with faster effect evaluation. A person will need to collect the answer copy in the student and scan that. The machine will take the image because input and may evaluate the answer based on the length of the answer and important keywords covered that happen to be specified by the teacher with each response which is to always be evaluated. The algorithm assigns marks in basis of The amount of keywords matched. Length of the solution.
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Vote Yes Lake George is a grassroots movement of volunteers in the Lake George School District whose ultimate goal is to focus on the immediate needs of students while keeping long-term solutions in mind.
The cost of maintaining a high quality school system is not as much as you might think.Lake George tax payers pay nearly the least school taxes, on average, of all surrounding communities.
In these challenging times, students need to be supported by more than NYS and Federal funding, in order to enable an enhanced curriculum.
The school administration is working to reduce costs wherever possible, but too many cuts lead to a decline in the quality of the entire school system.
Last year the district failed to pass two budget increases, which ended up saving the tax payers very little money. Students faced cuts in extra-curricular activity as a result.
Coming off of a contingency budget, the district is already behind in their ability to keep up with increasing costs of state mandated programs and an organized teachers union. The only portion of the budget that the school district has complete control over are extra-curricular courses, programs, activities (this includes art, music and sports), and teacher/staff positions. These areas are likely to be the first to be cut if this year’s budget isn’t passed.
A few of the cuts made last year include: a 20% cut in classroom supplies, a 40% cut in athletic equipment, reduced field trips, and the elimination of a PE position, several teaching assistants, the school musical, modified athletics, the Jump Start Summer Enrichment Program, and more than a half dozen after school clubs.
If the quality of education isn’t maintained, families simply won’t want to live in the area. Property values will decline, and future students won’t have the same advantages as past graduates.
If you’re over the age of 18 and live in the Lake George School District, you should head to the polls on May 15 (Lake George Elementary School, 10am – 8pm) and Vote Yes for Lake George. Remember, it won’t cost you much, but could end up costing the students everything.
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