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Filipino / Tagalog language translation for the meaning of the word magpatugtog in the Tagalog Dictionary.
Definition for the Tagalog word magpatugtog:
[verb] to have played (music)
Verb conjugations of magpatugtog:
Focus: Actor Root: tugtogConjugation Type: Magpa-
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Magpatugtog Example Sentence in Tagalog:
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Nagpatugtóg na lang akó ng
heartbreak playlist ko dito sa opisina
I just put on (played) my "heartbreak" playlist here at the office.
Alternate spelling(s): magpatutugtog
, nagpatutugtogAlternate spellings may include: abbreviations, informal spellings, slang, and/or commonly misspelled variations.
How to pronounce magpatugtog:
MAGPATUGTOG AUDIO CLIP:
Related Filipino Words:tugtógtumugtógtugtugíntugtuganpatugtugínitugtógpagtugtóg
Related English Words:playhave playedplay musichave music playedplaysplayingplayed
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Indiana lawmakers are quickly pushing ahead a plan to combine the state’s four diplomas into one after federal education officials gave the green light last week — and it could take effect as early as this year.
But lawmakers are proposing to essentially still preserve the state’s four current diploma tracks, as four categories under the umbrella of a one diploma.
The “designations” would indicate whether students worked on a standard Core 40 track or opted to follow a less rigorous course of study based on the current general diploma. It would also show if students earned academic or technical honors.
The urgency to combine diplomas stems from a change in federal law that no longer counts the general diploma in the graduation rate, which would result in lower graduation rates for many schools. Graduation rate is a critical factor in high school A-F accountability grades, which can determine federal funding as well as state intervention.
This week the House and the Senate are expected to both approve a one-diploma plan, each with bipartisan support. That will allow the bills to advance to the next chamber during the second half of the legislative session.
House Bill 1426 passed the House on Monday, 84-5, and includes a provision that would also require the state board to create an “alternate” diploma for students with severe cognitive disabilities. More expansive than the Senate version, the bill would make a few other significant changes, including changing the state high school exam to a national college-entrance exam such as the SAT or ACT and removing the requirement that schools give the Accuplacer test to identify students for remediation. The bill next heads to the Senate.
Senate Bill 177 passed the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday, and it now mirrors the diploma language in the House version. The Senate bill is expected to go up for a final vote early this week.
Only one bill will eventually become law. Because state policymakers have already indicated they want to move to a college-entrance exam as the high school test, the House bill is better positioned to move forward during the second half. If it becomes law, the diploma plan would take effect immediately, meaning students in the graduating class of 2018 would receive the new diploma.
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Bodø is a coastal town in northern Norway and for many the gateway to the Lofoten archipelago. The town is in the traditional district of Salten in what is today Nordland County. This is an area just north of the Arctic Circle. Bodø is with its 40.000 inhabitants the largest town in Nordland County and the second-largest town in northern Norway. The town is on a peninsula along the eastern shores of Vestfjorden, a large fjord or sea between the Salten district and the Lofoten archipelago.
Interesting fact: Bodø is a part of Sápmi, the cultural region in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia that is inhabited by the Sámi people. The name of the town in Lule Sami, which is the language spoken by the local Sámi, is Bådåddjo.
A Short History of Bodø
This area has been inhabited for centuries prior to becoming a part of what is today Norway. Fishing and boat building have played an important part in the livelihood here. The area belonged during the Viking Age to the kingdom of Hålogaland. Bodø continued to play a central role in the region of Nordnorge, but it took until the 19th century before any major development took place. Bodø became a town in 1816 when the local factory Hundholmen was granted township status. The earlier small village has since expanded both in regards to land and population.
A Diplomatic Dispute
The new town became known already in 1818 when it was the center of the Bodø Affair. This was a diplomatic dispute between Sweden-Norway and the United Kingdom. The establishment of trade in the town also brought with it illegal trading activities. A British trader John Everth came in 1818 with three ships loaded with contraband that the local authorities tried to seize. It resulted in a dispute that lasted until 1821, involving kidnappings, escapes, counterfeit documents, and many influential men in Britain and ministers in Sweden and Norway. British influence did eventually prove to be the most significant factor in the final outcome resulting in payments to the British.
Fishing, War, and Further Development
The population of the town remained low for the first decades. In 185, there were still just 230 inhabitants. That changed in 1864 with the arrival of a long period of large herring schools. The herring stayed until the 1880s and the town had at the turn of the century around 6000 inhabitants.
The Second World War meant severe destruction of large parts of the town. It was one of the most severely bombed towns in Norway during the war and large parts of the population lost their homes. It took seven years after the German retreat before the town was in most parts rebuilt. The last major building to be restored was the courthouse which was completed in 1959. The following Cold War meant further military establishment in the area. It was especially the military airfield that became an important strategic resource for NATO.
Bodø has since the end of World War II continued to grow. The population exploded during the 1950s and had in 1965 grown from around 5.400 inhabitants at the end of the war to around 14.000. New communications also connected the town with the rest of Norway. The ferries of Hurtigrutten were prior to the war the main means of transportation. It was joined by flying in 1950 and railway in 1961.
Things to Do and See
The gateway to Lofoten has a lot to offer by itself. The cold Atlantic water is never far away, the mountains are visible in the background and the modern town rises at the shores of the peninsula. Many sights are related to the Second World War or its aftermath, but there is a bit more to explore.
Bodø Cathedral, or domkirke in Norwegian, is close to the center of the town. The first church in Bodø was built in 1887, but it did not survive World War II as it was destroyed in bombings in 1940. The new church, the current cathedral, was completed in 1956 and has seats for about 850 people. It is a part of the Church of Norway.
Bodø City Museum
The Bodø City Museum is housed in one of the oldest surviving buildings in the town. The yellow building is dating back to 1903 and exhibits important objects from the area’s past.
Norwegian Aviation Museum
The Norwegian Aviation Museum, or Norges nasjonale museum for luftfart as it is known in Norwegian, is where you can learn more about the aviation history of Norway. The museum has several known aircraft models, both military and civilian. Here you can find the Starfighter, the Catalina, the Spitfire, and many more.
Bodø Bunker Museum
The Germans built several bunkers in Bodø during the Second World War. One of these bunkers, the one at Jentofthaugen, has been turned into a museum by a local group known as Bodø Bunkermuseum. The bunker was built in the winter of 1943 and 1944. It was used as a transmitting station for the German Luftwaffe. The renovations took place in 2014 and the museum is today open on request.
Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum
Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum showcases an important part of Norway’s history. The trade of stockfish was important for the area and was usually carried out on jekts. A jekt is a kind of cargo sailboat that delivered these stockfish from all the way to Bergen. The museum’s exhibit is centered around the one only jekt that remains in northern Norway, the Anna Karoline. This is the one and only out of what is believed to have been more than 3000 of these ships.
How to Get to Bodø
Flights: Bodø Airport (BOO) is directly on the outskirts of the town. It offers mostly domestic flights to towns such as Oslo, Tromsø, and Trondheim. But there are also seasonal international flights available.
Car: The town is located where road 80 meets the sea in the west and continues with the ferry to Moskenes in Lofoten. In the east, this road continues to the town of Fauske, where it connects to the E6 going through Norway between Oslo and Kirkenes.
Train: The railway connects Bodø with Trondheim as an end station along the Nordland Line.
The driving distance from 5 major Norwegian cities, according to Google Maps:
Oslo – 1195 kilometers (15 h 58 min) Bergen – 1332 kilometers (19 h 12 min) Trondheim – 703 kilometers (9 h 42 min) Narvik – 301 kilometers (5 h 1 min) Kirkenes - 1214 kilometers (14 h 51 min)
Find out more about other destinations in Norway by visiting our page Exploring Norway
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A DESCRIPTIVE-ANALYTIC AND A PRESCRIPTIVE-NORMATIVE REFLECTION[*]
The Descriptive-Analytic Task
The Prescriptive-Normative Task
As we approach the end of the century and try to bring some perspective to its most traumatic event, the Shoah, the task before us seems overwhelming. Can one really "bring some perspective" to such an event? Is the very attempt to do so a banalization of the lives of those who died, or survived? For theologians, two questions cry out for answers. First, where was God? How can we, as religious people, reconcile our belief in the continuous presence of God in the life of the Jewish people with the horror of the Shoah? I have ventured an answer in Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, but this is not the place to rehearse those arguments.
The second question is, where was humanity? Here, the issue is not the cruelty and sadism of the Shoah for, although these were certainly present, cruelty and sadism were not peculiar to the Shoah. Nor is the question one of numbers, for there have been other mass murders and even genocides in which large numbers of people have been killed. The issue is also not one of state policy, though that certainly set off the Shoah from previous forms of genocide. The real horror of the Shoah lies in the compliance of the masses with the final solution. The key question about humanity, then, is: why did so many tens of millions of people go along with the Shoah? How did the nazi regime persuade the overwhelming masses of Europe to remain bystanders? to accept passively, if not actively, the extermination of the Jews? Terror was certainly a factor but it is not a sufficient answer.
An equally puzzling question is posed by those who rescued Jews: Why did they rescue? How did the rescuers manage to resist the persuasion of the nazi regime such that they defied it? If obedience characterized the masses, what describes the resistors and rescuers?
The answer to the question, where was humanity, lies first in careful historical study of the period of the Shoah. Extremely useful data, however, can also be found in the field of social psychology. A series of social psychological experiments in compliance, known loosely as "the obedience experiments," were conducted and the results have been widely discussed. A series of experiments in prosocial action, known loosely as "the altruism experiments," were also conducted and their results are rather widely known too. Unfortunately, within the discipline of social psychology, experimental work in obedience and in altruism is not usually done together. Nor is analysis of these complementary phenomena usually undertaken as a whole. Similarly, within the discipline of history, systematic social psychological questions are not often asked. To answer the question, where was humanity, however, one must study the obedience experiments and the altruism experiments, as well as the historical literature on perpetrators and rescuers during the Shoah. Such research generates a unified field theory of antisocial and prosocial human behavior and helps us address the issue of the nature of human responsibility.
Finally, the question, where was humanity, poses a particularly serious problem for eduators and theologians, for it raises the issue: Where did moral and religious education founder? Why did the teaching of good and evil in organized societal and religious institutions fail to prevent the Shoah? If there are answers to the question of human compliance and resistance in social psychology and history, then it is the responsibility of educators and theologians to bring these insights back into the church, the synagogue, the mosque, and the school, and to modify what one teaches and how one teaches it so as to increase resistance to evil and to encourage the doing of good.
The problem, where was humanity, then, implies two tasks: first, a descriptive-analytic task rooted in history and social psychology and, then, a normative-prescriptive task intended to better humankind's ability to teach resistance to evil and to cultivate doing of good.
A word about the term "banality": The concept of "the banality of evil" is a very powerful analytic tool. Used originally by Hannah Arendt, the term has been construed to mean three things: (1) evil which is normal, prosaic, or matter-of-fact; (2) evil which is rationalized as good because it is obedient or because it serves a larger purpose; and (3) evil which is trite, hackneyed, or stale. The last implies that evil is not immoral or grossly wrong. Arendt never meant to imply that nazi evil was trite and hence not immoral. Rather, Arendt meant to say that nazi evil was "banal" both in being matter-of-fact and in being so because it was rationalized as good. I follow Arendt in this usage. In this sense, even abusiveness can be "banal," that is, normal, prosaic, matter-of-fact, and rationalized as a greater good. Indeed, as Alice Miller has pointed out, Hitler was a role model for abusiveness precisely because his actions were very close to the everyday reality of middle-European family life.
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Social psychological research in the areas of both obedience and altruism, taken together with historical evidence from the Shoah and other moments in history, yields a unified field theory of good and evil human behavior in which we can identify four social psychological factors which facilitate evil and which also facilitate good, as follows:
First, insertion into a social hierarchy in which legitimate authority does, or tolerates, evil facilitates the doing of evil and, conversely, insertion into a social hierarchy in which legitimate authority does, or tolerates, good facilitates the doing of good. Thus, in the Milgram experiments, subjects were instructed to administer electric shocks of increasing intensity to other human beings in order to help them learn a set of associated words. Subjects regularly showed signs of nervousness when the other person manifested pain and discomfort but subjects also routinely followed the instructions of the experimenter and continued administering shocks well into the painful, and even into the lethal, range. The conclusion drawn from these experiments was that the demand of a legitimate authority within a social hierarchy (the experimenter) was sufficient to allow, even to compel, the subject to do precisely the act he or she knew was wrong. Similarly, during the period of the extermination of Polish Jewry, ordinary conscripts into German police battalions were instructed to round up and kill Jews. Such persons regularly showed signs of nervousness when first asked to kill wantonly but also routinely followed the instructions of their superiors and continued to round up and kill Jews. Again, insertion of the subject into a social hierarchy in which the legitimate authority (the commander) demanded an act the subject knew was wrong was sufficient to allow, even to compel, the subject to do precisely the act he knew was wrong.
Thus, too, in the Milgram experiments, when a second authority figure (another experimenter) was present who legitimated stopping the shocks or who allowed the subject to choose the shock level, resistance increased dramatically with subjects following the authority who sanctioned the doing of good. In the Staub experiments, when a legitimate authority gave permission to leave the room to help a suspected victim in an adjacent room, subjects left to help while, when the same authority forbade leaving the room, subjects did not leave to help. Similarly, among those who rescued Jews during the war, fully 67% did so only after they had been asked by someone, usually a legitimate authority, to do so. And, when categorized by motivation, over half (52%) of the rescuers indicated they rescued for "normocentric" reasons; that is, because caring behavior was the moral norm set by the intimate authorities in their environment. Furthermore, research with businesses, schools, and other institutions that encourage prosocial action indicates that, where authority demands, or sanctions, the values of caring, acts of goodness will flourish.
An important corollary: The ability of legitimate authority to rationalize wrong action for the subject also facilitates the doing of evil and conversely, the ability of legitimate authority to rationalize why the doing of good is necessary also facilitates the doing of good. By clarifying values and motives, legitimate authority grants intellectual-moral permission to the subject to do that which it demands. Thus, in the Milgram experiments, authority rationalized the need for administering electric shocks by appealing to the need for scientific knowledge: science required that the experiment go on. In the German police battalions, authority rationalized the rounding up and killing of Jews by appealing to the need to obey orders and to antisemitic and racist teaching. Thus, too, moral communal authorities, by their reasoning, granted intellectual-moral permission to rescuers to rescue.
To put this more precisely: The ability of legitimate authority to appeal to rules, to define roles in the hierarchy, and to evoke the values of discipline, duty, and unquestioning loyalty facilitates the doing of evil and conversely, the ability of legitimate authority to appeal to rules, to define roles in the hierarchy, and to evoke the values of caring, justice, and inclusiveness facilitates the doing of good.
Finally: The very social processes by which authority acts -- insertion of the subject into a social hierarchy; definition of rule, role, and value; rationalization; salience; and so on -- enable an individual to do good or to commit wrongful acts while believing that he or she is actually doing something good. In defining rules, roles, and values, legitimate authorities within social hierarchies persuade individuals that obedience is goodness and that compliance -- even with demands for wrongful acts -- is morally proper. Thus, subjects in the Milgram experiments, while they admitted feeling uncomfortable, nonetheless did not have the feeling of having done wrong. Soldiers in the German police battalions did not feel guilty. Hannah Arendt observed that Eichmann did not feel any remorse at having organized the extermination of vast numbers of Jews; rather, he clearly felt he had been a good person and an obedient soldier. Milgram called this an "agentic shift." Arendt coined the phrase "banality of evil" to describe the non-pathological nature of this evil that disguises itself as obedient goodness. And Kelman and Hamilton used the phrase, "Crimes of Obedience," to describe wrongdoing which appears as an act of goodness. Thus, too, church figures, relatives, resistance leaders, and others, through the use of the normal social processes by which authority acts, were able to turn normal people into active rescuers.
Second, a teaching of exclusivism facilitates the doing of evil and conversely, a teaching of inclusivism facilitates the doing of good. Thus, a society that teaches the alienness of the other, the fear of the stranger, and the dichotomy between "us" and "them" prepares the individual for the committing of wrongful acts. Exclusivism undermines the humanity of the other, limits the possibility of empathy for the victim, and reduces salience to the oppressed. Further, a culture that uses the language of exclusiveness and xenophobia and that, in the family and social environment, cultivates punitive norms for the outsider facilitates the doing of evil. It sets linguistic and behavioral norms that are antisocial. In the Riceville experiment, the categorization of blue-eyed and brown-eyed children differentiated the one from the other and set the one, and then the other, in a lower social place allowing prejudice to be expressed. In the German police battalions, the categorization of Jews as subhumans and Germans as superhumans, embodied in the contrast between armed uniformed men and unarmed civilians, set the Jews apart and made action against them easier. The dehumanization of Jews in the concentration camps into numbers and the "excremental assault" practiced on them made it easier to see them as non-human and hence to act to kill them. Indeed, all racism, sexism, and antisemitism work on a teaching of the alienness and inferiority of the other.
Thus, too, a society that teaches the common humanness of the other, that stresses the values of caring, and that emphasizes compassion and responsibility prepares the individual for the doing of acts of goodness. Inclusivism affirms the humanity of the different other, sustains empathy for the victim, and increases salience to the oppressed. Further, a culture that uses the language of empathy and responsibility and that cultivates norms of caring in the family and social environments facilitates the doing of good. It sets linguistic and behavioral norms that are prosocial. Thus, persons who came from close and large families and/or who had previous contact with Jews were more likely to be rescuers. Fully 37% of those who rescued indicated that they were motivated by empathy for the victims. Further, many of the rescuers continued caring work with displaced persons, the elderly, the sick, and the homeless. Research with businesses, schools, and other institutions that encourage prosocial action also indicates that inculcation of the values of caring produces acts of goodness.
Third, the normal socialization processes of modeling, identification, peer support, incremental learning, and so on facilitate both the doing of evil and the doing of good. Thus, seeing one's superiors committing or encouraging wrongful acts allows modeling and identification to influence individual persons to do, or tolerate, wrongful acts. Seeing one's peers committing or tolerating evil makes it easier to do the same. And, as the proverb says, "practice makes perfect." The first wrongful act may be difficult but the tenth is no longer hard to execute. "Incremental learning" facilitates the doing of evil. These socialization processes are present in all groups; one cannot have a human society without them. They allow a society to be "normocentric"; that is, these processes allow a society to set norms of accepted behavior for its members. In a society that tolerates and teaches evil, the normocentric thrust of socialization facilitates evil.
Thus, too, seeing one's elders doing and sustaining acts of goodness allows modeling and identification to influence one to do likewise. Seeing one's peers doing acts of caring makes it easier to do the same. In the Milgram experiments, when a planted subject resisted, the true subject went along and, in the Staub experiments, when a planted subject helped, the true subject also helped. The availability of a network for rescuers made rescue much easier. Research with businesses, schools, and other institutions that encourage prosocial action indicates that where the values of caring are modeled, acts of goodness are done. And, as the proverb says, "practice makes perfect." The first act of caring may seem awkward but, by the tenth such act, doing good seems "normal." "Incremental learning" facilitates the doing of good. In a society that tolerates and teaches good, the normocentric thrust of socialization facilitates good.
Fourth, discipline in childhood, when it is erratic and/or excessive, inculcates obedience to authority. If a child is disciplined erratically, it will adapt by being as obedient as possible in order to avoid erratic punishment. Similarly, a child who is disciplined excessively will adapt by being as obedient as possible in order to avoid being excessively punished. Thus, Alice Miller, in analyzing child-rearing manuals from pre-nazi and nazi Germany, concluded that erratic and excessive discipline was a common phenomenon in central European culture. She even remarks that Hitler's screaming, which Americans see as comical because of Charlie Chaplain's parody thereof, was precisely the kind of erratic and excessive discipline to which Germans had become accustomed through the kind of child-rearing advocated in their manuals and practiced by many parents.
By contrast, discipline in childhood, when it is reasoned and proportionate, inculcates caring attitudes. This is the main conclusion of the study of rescuers: that, if a child is disciplined in a way that makes the `punishment fit the crime' and if punishment is explained and comprehended, the child will acknowledge the elementary justice of the discipline. Furthermore and more important, if the `punishment' does not fit the `crime' and the child can appeal and discuss the punishment, the child will learn that authority is reasonable. Such a child will acquire a sense of self-competency and will be willing to challenge other authority when the occasion arises.
To summarize the results of the descriptive-analytic task: Insertion into a social hierarchy in which legitimate authority appeals to rules, defines roles, and evokes values; the ability of legitimate authority to rationalize as well as to create salience to the authority or to the victim; the capacity of a society to set behavioral and linguistic norms; the socialization processes of modeling, identification, peer support, incremental learning, and so on which set the normocentric thrust of a society; and finally, childhood disciplinary patterns, ranging from erratic and excessive forms of physical and sexual abuse across the full spectrum to reasoned and proportionate forms of caring punishment -- all these facilitate the doing of good as well as the doing of evil.
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All the evidence -- social psychological as well as historical -- indicates that religious affiliation and praxis is not a determining factor in antisocial or prosocial behavior. Religion did not help or hinder subjects in the Milgram, Staub, or other experiments in any systematic way. Nor was it a factor, in any systematic way, among the German soldiers of the police battalions, or among the rescuers. Rather, the role of religion is episodic. Some, indeed most, use it to justify antisocial behavior and some use it to justify prosocial behavior; there is no overall consistent pattern.
In view of this, we as theologians, religious educators, and morally sensitive human beings, need to move from the descriptive-analytic task to the normative-prescriptive task; that is, we need to move from analyzing the factors that facilitate the doing of good and evil to prescribing norms that will discourage evil and encourage good. We need to ask, what ought religious -- and non-religious -- authorities and institutions do to cultivate prosocial attitudes and behaviors and to discourage antisocial attitudes and behaviors? This, it seems to me, is the normative answer to the question, where was humanity. It is the prescriptive implication of the description and analysis. Setting prosocial moral norms is also the answer to the question, where will humanity be the next time a major social crisis occurs.
There are seven steps that religious authorities must take to assume their responsibilities in the area of moral education.
First, religious authorities must admit the failure of much of their previous efforts to discourage antisocial attitudes and behaviors and to encourage prosocial attitudes and behaviors. As noted, the results of social psychological and historical research indicate that religion is not a factor, in any systematic way, in people's choice of good and evil; however, this does not seem to have penetrated fully into the minds of religious educators. To put it most simply: If religious moral education works, why do we not see more prosocial action among religious persons?
Second, religious authorities must identify and actively teach prosocial texts and traditions. For the Tanakh, this would include the stories of: Shifra and Pu'ah, the midwives who resisted Pharoah's genocidal decrees; Rahab, the prostitute, who resisted the Jericho secret police to hide the spies; Nathan, the prophet, who confronted King David forcefully on his adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband; Saul's officers who refused to kill the priests of Nob who had sheltered David; Abraham who argued with God about the justice of destroying the cities of Sodom and Gemorrah; Moses who consistently defended the people of Israel against God's unjust threats; and the author of Psalm 44 who protested vehemently against God's desertion of God's people in time of war. Rabbinic Judaism is particularly rich in prosocial value-concepts, texts, and traditions.
Third, religious authorities must identify and actively inculcate prosocial value-concepts. A "value-concept" is a term which has both intellectual content that can be analyzed and normative value that sets moral expectations. All societies have value-concepts through which values are analyzed and taught. I recommend the following:
(1) Teach the specific value-concepts of prosocial action. There are a large number of prosocial value-concepts. Discuss the terms: inclusiveness, extensivity, globalism, goodness, kindness, justice, fairness, law, integrity, virtue, uprightness, rectitude, equity, impartiality, righteousness, ethics, caring, morality, protest, resistance, bonding, humanness, and humanity. And the complements: exclusiveness, isolationism, ethnic superiority, injustice, oppression, prejudice, unfairness, uncritical compliance, inhumaneness, and inhumanity. Discuss specifically religious prosocial value-concepts, as noted above.
(2) Use the language of justice and caring. The way we phrase what we want to say forms who we are and who we become. Discuss the values: pity, compassion, concern, affection, love, care, cherish, nourish, protect, understanding, empathy, kindness, mercy, sympathy, attachment, devotion, heart, feeling, respect, awareness, recognition, intimacy, attention, warmth, and consideration. And the complements: pain, sorrow, grief, worry, anxiety, distress, suffering, trouble, sensitiveness, stress, intimidate, persecute, threaten, and terror. Further, use these words in conversation on all topics and issues.
Fourth, religious authorities must teach the nature of social processes. They must provide formal instruction about social hierarchies. Discuss the terms: authority, obedience, disobedience, resistance, protest, heteronomy and autonomy, norms, rules, values, normocentric, agentic shift, salience, permission, ingroup-outgroup, conflict management and resolution, win-win, socialization, identification, modeling, peer support, incremental learning, and excessive vs. caring discipline.
Fifth, religious authorities must teach critical thinking. Thinking against the social grain is crucial. Students must be consciously taught to ask: how does one identify a lie? What is propaganda? Who is manipulating whom? Whose power is at stake here? Do I agree with the truths being expounded here; and if not, why? What do I think, independent of what I feel?
Sixth, religious authorities must teach the following five prosocial skills:
(1) perspective taking and empathy -- This enables one to understand how the other feels, to appreciate the affective dimension of the other's situation. Ask: "What do you think he or she feels?" "What does she or he feel even if she or he cannot express it?" "How angry, happy, ashamed, proud ... is he or she?" "What would you feel in that person's place?" "What is empathy? What is sympathy?" Everyone is capable of perspective-taking and everyone will need to be the object of perspective-taking by others in the course of life. Being able to empathize is an important prosocial skill.
(2) identifying and coding one's own feelings -- Our feelings are basic to who we are; they are the ground for much of our being and the agency for much of our action. We need to know our own feelings. Ask: "What did you feel when you saw ...?" "Can you recall feeling ashamed, guilty, joyous, powerful, hurt, nurturing, modest, immodest, content?" "What is the difference between anger and rage? Have you ever felt either? What was it like?" "How do you feel when someone threatens you, challenges you publicly, or praises you in front of others?" Almost everyone has experienced every one of these emotional states at one time or another. Being able to recognize and label them is an important prosocial skill.
(3) identifying authorities, hierarchies, norms, roles, and social processes -- As noted, everyone exists within a series of social hierarchies. Ask: "What is the social hierarchy in this particular situation?" "To whom are you subordinate? To whom are you superior?" "Is there more than one authority at work here? more than one set of subordinates?" "Upon what is the legitimacy of the authority in this situation based?" "What would you have to do to break the rule, the norm? What would you have to do to challenge the authority?" "Are you, as an authority, acting in a responsible way, within the limits of your legitimacy? And, if not, how do you as an authority challenge your own authority and reshape it?" Knowing one's place in various hierarchies and, hence, imagining how one might challenge these hierarchies is a major prosocial skill -- and it can be learned.
(4) externalizing repressed prosocial impulses -- Doing good, as Batson has shown and as rabbinic tradition teaches, is a basic part of being human. All people want to do good to others, even if the motivation for that is, sometimes, egoistic. Yet, many people hesitate to do good. Ask: "What does your impulse to do good tell you to do?" "What act of caring have you done today?" "What can you do that would be really kind?" "Whom do you know who is a really good person? What does she or he do? How do you know he or she is good?" Realizing that one does know good when one sees it, recognizing good impulses in oneself, and realizing that the impediments to doing good are not as formidable as they seem is an important prosocial skill.
(5) conflict management skills -- Conflict does not need to be "overcome" or "eliminated." Quite the contrary, conflict is a natural part of life. It does, however, need to be managed so that human relationships do not deteriorate into resentment, hatred, and violence. Teach the skills of mediation. Instruct people in the art of finding superordinate goals. Ask: "What is at stake behind the surface issues for each party?" "What are the common goals of these people?" "Why should these persons cooperate with one another? And if they cannot live in harmony, what intermediate relationship could they have?"
Seventh, religious authorities must recognize that it is not only what one teaches but how it is taught that makes the difference. It is not only the content of the teaching but the social psychological context in which it is taught that makes the real difference between successful and unsuccessful moral education. In order to accomplish this goal, I make the following additional six strong practical recommendations for how to teach prosocial values.
(1) Establish a means by which authority can be challenged. Use an ombudsperson and/or a whistle-blowing mechanism to create a legitimate way to challenge authority. Also, use a "care team" whose task it is to oversee and aid institutions to develop and maintain caring relationships with those for whom one is responsible.
(2) Model prosocial attitudes and behaviors. Do them yourself. Hire staff who have a record of prosocial action. Use prosocial attitudes and behaviors as part of the evaluation and promotion process. Acknowledge prosocial heroes and heroines.
(3) Implement prosocial action. Undertake specific projects. Establish personal contact with the disadvantaged. Create a feedback mechanism. Provide a full-time person to develop prosocial programming.
(4) Develop syllabi and a curriculum of instruction in prosocial action.
(5) Develop networks. They must be broad. Make everyone stakeholders. Involve legitimate authority.
(6) Be intentional about what you are doing. Do all this knowingly, conscious of what you are doing and why.
The question that is our legacy from the Shoah, where was humanity, and in particular, where were the passive masses of humanity, will haunt us well into the next century. Indeed, this question may well become the premier question that the twentieth century commits to human history. Description and analysis of the data pertaining to this question from the disciplines of history and social psychology can allow us to achieve some intellectual clarity in answering this question. And, prescribing and setting norms which discourage evil and encourage good will allow us to achieve more influence on human history.
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For many years I used the word "holocaust" to designate the destruction of European Jewry during the Second World War. I have since been persuaded that "holocaust" should not be used for two reasons: (1) It bears the additional meaning of `a whole burnt offering,' which is certainly not the theological overtone to be sounded in this context. And (2), the destruction of European Jewry happened to Jews and, hence, it is they who should have the sad honor of naming this event with a Hebrew term. The word "Shoah" has been used for a long time in Hebrew to denote the catastrophe to Jewry during World War II and has even been adopted by many non-Jews as the proper designation. I now adopt this usage and acknowledge my debt to Professor Jean Halpérin of Geneva and Fribourg for the insight. As a matter of theological and moral principle, I do not capitalize words like "führer," "final solution," "nazi," etc.
On the "use" of the holocaust, see D. Blumenthal, "The Holocaust and Hiroshima: Icons of Our Century," available on my website (http://davidblumenthal.org) and "From Anger to Inquiry," From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable, ed. C. Rittner and J. Roth (Westport, CT, Prager: 1997) 149-55, also available on my website.
Westminster / John Knox: 1993.
S. Katz, "The `Unique' Intentionality of the Holocaust," in Post-Holocaust Dialogues ed. S. Katz, (New York, New York University Press: 1985) 287-317. Idem., The Holocaust in Historical Context (New York, Oxford University Press: 1994-).
On the perpetrators, see for example: C. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York, Harper Collins: 1992). On the rescuers, see for example: S. and P. Oliner, The Altruistic Personality (New York, Free Press: 1988), reviewed by me in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 3 (1990) 409-11.
See for example: S. Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, (New York, Harper and Row: 1974), also available as a film -- hereinafter, "the Milgram experiments." See also the films, "In the Eye of the Storm" and "A Class Divided," the latter having appeared as a book by W. Peters, A Class Divided Then and Now (New Haven, Yale University Press: 1987) -- hereinafter, "the Riceville Experiment" because it first took place in the town of that name.
See for example: E. Staub, "Helping a Distressed Person," L. Berkowitz, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (New York, Academic Press: 1974) 7: 293-341; J. M. Darley and C. D. Batson, "From Jerusalem to Jericho: A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27:1 (1973) 100-8 -- hereinafter, "the Princeton Experiment"; C. D. Batson, The Altruism Question, (Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 1991); and P. and S. Oliner, Toward a Caring Society: Ideas into Action, (Westport, Praeger: 1995). The last is a study of prosocial practices in business, educational, and other social institutions and is hereinafter referred to as "research with businesses, schools,...."
For a preliminary attempt, see E. Staub, The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (Cambridge, Cambrdige University Press: 1989).
One should also include other historical data fields such as Vietnam, African-American slavery, etc.
A. Miller, For Your Own Good (New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux: 1983) is the classic text on abuse in nazi culture.
For purposes of this analysis, one need not have a philosophically well-developed "definition" of good and evil. It suffices to say that evil is that which is antisocial -- i.e., causes harm to others -- and good is that which is prosocial -- i.e., causes benefit to others. Individual humans differ but a rather broad and formally undefined consensus exists on these matters.
The typology is that of H. C. Kelman and V. L. Hamilton, Crimes of Obedience (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press: 1989).
H. Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York, Viking Press: 1963).
"He [or she] has, in the course of moving from a biological creature to a civilized person, internalized the basic rules of social life. And the most basic of these is respect for authority.... there is an internalized basis for his [or her] obedience, not merely an external one.... The most far-reaching consequence of the agentic shift is that a man [or woman] feels responsible to the authority directing him [or her] but feels no responsibility for the content of the actions that the authority prescribes. Morality does not disappear, but acquires a radically different focus: the subordinate person feels shame or pride depending on how adequately he [or she] has performed the actions called for by authority" (Milgram, 152 and 141, with 145-46).
T. Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1976), reviewed by me in Journal of Jewish Studies, 41 (1979) 330-2.
The term is derived from S. and P. Oliner, The Altruistic Personality, cited above.
Put differently: If a child is prohibited from making age-appropriate decisions, it will not develop the requisite empowerment and self-esteem.
A. Miller, For Your Own Good (New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux: 1983).
It is to be regretted that the subjects in the social psychological experiments conducted in America were not questioned about discipline during their childhood years. If Miller is right, those who conformed most would be those who came from backgrounds where childhood discpline was more erratic and/or excessive.
Put differently: If a child is encourated to make age-appropriate decisions, it will develop the requisite empowerment and self-esteem. It would be interesting, for instance, to know something about Schindler's childhood discipline background. It is to be regretted that the social-psychological experiments on altruism and prosocial behavior did not control for the history of childhood discipline. If the Oliners are right, those who resisted most would be those who came from backgrounds where childhood discipline was reasoned and proportionate.
The incidence of obedience / resistance also varies with the amount of stress applied externally. In the standard Milgram experiments, 65-85% of the subjects conformed while 15-35% resisted. This is close to the 60% indifference rate and 40% helping rate among the Princeton experiment subjects and the 50-75% non-helping rate and 25-50% helping rate among the subjects in the Staub experiments. As might be expected, among the German police battalions where pressure was greater, 80-90% conformed while 10-20% resisted and, among rescuers, where pressure was at its greatest, the number of resistors was very very small. It seems to me, then, that the antisocial-prosocial parameter (sometimes inaccurately called, the obedience-resistance parameter) is not linear but constitutes a continuum which yields a dynamic range of results. This continuum, it further seems to me, is better than a set of discrete categories which yield static unrelated results.
Unfortunately, in American English, the word "norm" has two meanings which must never be confused. The first indicates `that which is in fact done,' `that which is normal.' The second indicates `that which ought to be done,' `that which is morally desireable.' Norms, in the sense of usual behavior, are descriptive and are deduced from data but norms, in the sense of `oughts,' critique usual practice and are prescriptive. The former are learned by imitation and practice; the latter are consciously articulated and taught by legitimate authorities as moral and ethical desiderata of human behavior.
In what follows, I shall only address religious authorities but the same certainly holds true for secular authorities who embody the values of the enlightenment.
Rabbinic value-concepts include: tselem (image, imitatio Dei); brit (covenant); talmud Torah (study of Torah); mitsva (commandedness); tsedek (justice); lifnei `iver (you shall not put stumbling block before the blind); ve-`asita ha-tov veha-yashar (you shall do what is right and proper); patur mi-dinei adam ve-hayyav be-dinei shamayim (exempt in a human court but not in heaven); tsedaka (righteousness, charity); middat hasidut (the standard of the pious / caring / non-violence); hesed (loyalty, grace, caring); gemilut hasadim (doing good deeds); lifnim mi-shurat ha-din (beyond the line of the law); shalom (peace); mipne darkhei shalom (for the sake of social peace); tikkun `olam (repairing / restoring the world); yetser ha-ra` and yetser tov (the impulse to evil / to good); and pikuah nefesh (saving a life). There are many more. Prosocial rabbinic texts and traditions include: norms for proper court procedure and judicial protest; laws commanding one to reprove one another and to rescue someone in trouble; the uses and limits of military disobedience and non-violence; and the doctrines of "doing good deeds," "going beyond the demands of the law," "honoring God's creatures," and martyrdom.
The term comes from M. Kadushin, The Rabbinic Mind (New York, Jewish Theological Seminary: 1952).
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Henry Wood (1805-1886) of the Portsmouth Dockyard
1887 Obituary
HENRY WOOD was born on the 12th of June, 1805.
He entered the Portsmouth Dockyard, which was to be the scene of his long and distinguished service, at the early age of fourteen as a “Chip boy.” His taste for engineering ere long began to manifest itself, and by dint of sheer hard work in acquiring theoretical as well as practical knowledge, and by never allowing any opportunity of gaining information to pass by unimproved, Mr. Wood, in the course of five years, qualified himself for the position of draughtsman. In this capacity he was appointed to the Portsmouth branch of the Department of the Director of Engineering and Architectural Works of the Navy. Here he continued to serve for forty-five years, and having once got his foot upon the ladder, gradually mounted until he attained the highest rank to which he could aspire, becoming in 1864, the Superintending Civil Engineer of the Dockyard.
During the period of his service that establishment was almost re-created, so extensive were the additions and improvements made to it. In 1840 its extent was only 81 acres ; it contained seven small dry docks (the largest of which was but 220 feet in length), five building slips, two small basins, and a limited number of workshops and storehouses which have since been re-constructed. The extension of the yard commenced in 1864, and is scarcely yet completed. It was the most important work entrusted to Mr. Wood, and was carried out by him in a very successful manner. The cost of this undertaking has up to the present time amounted to about £2,200,000. There had previously been important additions to the yard ; notably the construction of the steam basin (opened by Her Majesty in May 1848), the steam factory, completed in 1849, and No. 11 Dock ; but these may almost be said to have been insignificant when contrasted with the great extension works by which the area of the yard has been increased to 293 acres, comprising fourteen dry docks, some of them of the largest size, with two lock entrances and basins, having respectively water areas of 3, 7, 14, 14 and 22 acres, as well as a tidal basin of 10 acres. The frontage of the yard has also been provided with jetties at which the largest ships in the Navy can lie at low water; and numerous important buildings have been erected, among which may be mentioned the new steam factory, smithy, iron and brass foundries, shop for iron shipbuilding, armour-plating shop and several others. These structures were all built under the supervision and direction of Mr. W0od.
Mr. Wood was a man in whose vocabulary the word "impossible" had no place. Whatever the emergency he was always ready to meet it, and he was a tower of strength to Commanders-in-chiefs and Admiral Superintendents, who ever relied with the utmost confidence on his promptness when arrangements had to be made for the reception of distinguished visitors to the dockyard, or on any of those state occasions which frequently occur at that great military port. There are doubtless many who still remember how when the French Fleet visited Portsmouth in 1866, Mr. Wood, in an incredibly short time, transformed an open flagged court into a magnificent and elegant ball-room.
In addition to the works at the dockyard, Mr. Wood during the latter period of his service, had charge of the Royal Marine Artillery Barracks at Eastney, the Royal Marine Light Infantry Barracks at Forton, the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, the Gunboat Yard at Haslar, the Coast Guard Buildings, and all other Admiralty works in the Portsmouth district. The extensive dredging operations in Portsmouth Harbour and on the Bar, and the construction of the Queen’s Landing Place at East Cowes were also carried out by him, and his great local knowledge was often of service in the questions of foreshore rights which have at times arisen at Portsmouth.
Although engaged in official duties sufficiently arduous to satisfy the appetite of the most ardent lover of work, Mr. Wood found time to attend to and interest himself in local improvements. The sanitary welfare of Portsmouth was an object which he had much at heart, and he was one of the first supporters of a public movement for securing to the inhabitants of the town as well as to the various members of the Government Service in the place, an improved and constant supply of pure water, which resulted in the establishment of the existing water company, from whose works upwards of 5,000,000 gallons of water are now daily distributed throughout the borough instead of 500,000 gallons, which was the limit of supply some thirty years ago.
Though a civil servant of the Crown, Mr. Wood was not devoid of military aspirations. He served as a captain in the Portsmouth Dockyard Brigade until its abolition, and when the Volunteer movement was started he joined heartily in it, and was for several years Major of the 3rd Rants Volunteer Artillery. A man of refined mind, he found relaxation from the toils of office in the cultivation of his taste for the fine arts. He was possessed of considerable musical talent, and was a connoisseur of paintings, of which he had a small but choice collection. Some of his most amusing anecdotes, for he was an excellent narrator with an inexhaustible fund of reminiscences to draw upon, related to the way in which he picked up many of his pictures from dealers in promiscuous articles, who knowing his artistic proclivities, informed him when anything likely to tempt him had come into their possession. He was, moreover, a good geologist, a great lover of flowers, and an ardent admirer and student of Shakespear.
Mr. Wood retired from the Admiralty in 1879, receiving a special pension on account of his long and faithful service, and he died on the 23rd of December 1886, respected and regretted by all who knew him. In his life he thoroughly practised those great principles of charity inculcated by the masonic body in which he held high rank. He was essentially one of nature’s gentlemen, and at the conclusion of his prolonged term of official life, though he had made host of friends, he was without a single enemy. Mr. Wood has left to the cadets of the profession a noteworthy example of what may be effected by industry, perseverance, zeal and integrity.
He was elected a Member of the Institution on the 41h of April, 1871.
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Can you imagine what a Tradie would do without a measuring tape?
If you’re in the building, plumbing or painting industry, having the right measurements is absolutely critical. Without the right measurements, doors and windows wouldn’t close, plumbing fittings would not match, steps would be crooked and dangerous, water wouldn’t flow the right direction in pipes… buildings would fall down.
Come to think of it, measurements are critical in every area of life… including business.
Most Tradies spend more time out on the job measuring up than measuring how their business is going. Looking at their business numbers is generally not high on their priority list, although I recommend it should be, and not just for Tradies.
Keeping track of and improving five critical measurements in your business can actually result in you needing to work less… a lot less… and make a lot more money… what a fantastic way of being rewarded when you’re paying attention to your business numbers!
So let me introduce you to the first two of these critical numbers now and I will get to the other three in Part 2 of this article.
Gross Profit in $ / Gross Margin %
Let’s say we’re talking about a Tradie, and let’s call him Bob… He’s started his business and is running some ads in the local paper and on Facebook. Things seem to be going okay. The inquiries come in. Bob manages to convert some inquiries into sales. And he finishes a few jobs.
Bob thinks things are going well… until… his wife goes to the bank… and there is NO MONEY.
The phone has been ringing. He’s been busy doing jobs – in fact so busy he’s hardly had time for his family (let alone himself). Where has all the money gone? Let’s see if the numbers can tell the story.
Has Bob been making enough Gross Profit? Has Bob been monitoring his gross margin?
To illustrate this scenario I am using the following example:
A Sales ($) 2000
B Cost of Goods / Direct Cost ($) 1500
C Gross Profit ($) 500 (A-B)
So by deducting the Cost of Goods / Direct Costs ($) from Sales ($), you arrive at the Gross Profit in dollars. Of course Bob will need to invest some of his gross profit into buying further materials to be able to do more jobs to earn more money. He understands that he needs to make enough money to purchase more materials AND feed his family.
The trouble is that he’s only looking at the gross profit on a job by job basis and since he’s got more than one job going at any one time Bob is bound to lose track of where he really sits on the percentage scale of his Gross Margin.
His Gross Margin (%) in this example is calculated to be 25.00%, ie 100 x (C/A)
Does he now have enough money in the bank for his wife to be able to meet all household expenses? Not quite. That’s where the second critical number comes in.
Most people understand that Markup in business is what defines the profit margin further. Markup is calculated by using this formula: (A-B)/B, and in our example, it equals 33.33%.
So how much Markup can Bob place on his services or materials to increase his bottom line? The answer is partly determined by market conditions but also by the kind of clients Bob is helping with his business. Most importantly, however, Bob would want to know his Gross Profit in dollars before making a decision on how much Markup he should apply on his Sales, which could be either labour/service cost or the sale price of materials and other goods he needs to provide services to his customers.
In order to know how much gross profit Bob makes overall in a month and then work out what his gross margin percentage is, Bob needs to keep track of his business numbers, what he spends on material costs and what he makes on labour. Whether he does it himself or gets some help from his wife or an external bookkeeper, Bob really needs to document his transactions in a timely way.
Bob can do one other thing to learn whether he has a profitable business: he can look at benchmarks from other businesses in his industry. However, for that, he would also need to know what the real figures in his business are to make a comparison. As you can see, from little things big things grow.
When Bob starts documenting his critical business numbers he can then create a budget and cash flow forecast. Armed with this information he can begin to have more certainty regarding his business’ income. Bob’s wife would be pleased immensely and Bob would have peace of mind instead of sleepless nights pondering how he can make the business work better.
Please Note: Many of the comments in this article are general in nature and anyone intending to apply the information to practical circumstances should seek professional advice to independently verify their interpretation and the information’s applicability to their particular circumstances. Copyright © 2017 Robert Bauman.
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Creating a biography for school can be a difficult task if you’re not sure where to start. This guide will certainly assist you begin composing a bio. After deciding on the subject of your biography, it’s time to choose the emphasis of your biography. If your subject is a famous person, you probably won’t intend to dedicate much time to his/her early life. Nevertheless, if you want to create a biography of a well-known person, you can consist of details about his or her wartime life.
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Thematic declarations are essential parts of a biography. A biography must be written from a person’s viewpoint and also stimulate sensations as well as feelings in the visitor. It should additionally be composed from an individual’s point of view. A person’s life is a reflection of his or her individuality, so it is essential to locate a biography that makes the subject remarkable to him or her. This post belongs to a series on how to compose a biographer.
Throughout research study, you can examine the timeline as well as note-taking to recognize styles. As a writer, you’ll need to be able to establish the motif of your biography. A biography can have various styles, as well as this is what makes a good one. During study, you will require to make use of many different resources of information. You can make use of a mixture of print resources, online sources, as well as personal meetings to create a significant biography.
When creating a biography, remember to include a motif. This will certainly aid the reader recognize the main point of the person in question. A motif will certainly help readers recognize his or her life as well as job. As an example, a famous person may have a passion for math or scientific research. A student must check out the styles in their study. It is practical to have a thesis or an argumentation about a celebrity. A bio can be helpful for anybody who intends to acquire understanding about a particular individual.
Throughout the study phase of a bio, styles will certainly commonly emerge. A style will aid the visitor recognize the life and achievements of a person in question. Throughout the study phase, you can additionally compose thematic statements. Thematic declarations can aid pupils understand the essence of a bio as well as add deepness to the writing procedure. You may additionally utilize a narrative design or compose a narrative bio, if you have a history in the topic.
Thematic statements can be utilized to help the viewers comprehend the main point of a bio. Whether you intend to focus on a person’s life or a specific topic, they can aid you locate the best way to inform the story of the subject. Using thematic declarations can likewise assist you determine the motif of your bio. A thematic statement can be really helpful in guiding the visitor through the tale of an individual. They may have the ability to utilize this to far better relate to the subject.
A bio is an account of a person’s life from birth to death. It can be composed on a historical number, a living individual, an unsung hero, or an unique group of individuals. The writer will certainly give details about the subject’s youth, coming-of-age, and job, and point out major minutes in their life. The bio should also consist of quotes that show the individual’s character and also job. The end product must be an artwork.
Thematic declaration: When composing a biography, it is very important to make use of motifs to produce depth. Thematic statements can be crafted from information located in print sources or in meetings with people that recognized the topic. A biography is a work of art, and also a well-written one will be a delightful read for its target market. While researching the bio, pupils must also watch out for unexpected or downplayed truths, which may spark a brand-new concern about the topic.
Styles: In writing a bio, themes are often recommended by the subject. This is a vital action in the composing procedure. Thematic statements supply depth to the writing. As a matter of fact, a biographer’s tale is more intriguing when it has several styles. It is best to develop them at an early stage in the study process. Developing a style is necessary for trainees’ personal development, so they will establish a deeper understanding of the topic’s life and also payments to culture. Click here!
Motifs: Thematic statements can help the author establish a solid narrative. A trainee ought to include info related to the subject’s childhood years, family, and legacy. Thematic declarations should be supported by dialogue and quotations. In addition to a thematic statement, the trainee must keep an eye out for hidden treasures in the resources. Utilizing these insights will certainly assist form the instructions of the bio. They will certainly give ideas for the composing procedure and will also enhance the material of the bio.
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When you see 110 VAC on a device, it means 110 volts AC. Voltage is a measure of “circulatory pressure”. It refers to how hard electricity pushes through a circuit.
Household electricity used by our North American devices is 120 VAC (Volts Alternating Current), 60 Hz. (60 cycles/second). As electric current flows, it rises from 0 volts to 120 volts back to 0 volts and then falls to negative 120 volts and rises back to 0 volts.
VAC. AC volts. Performance, excitement, technology. Performance, excitement, technology.
VOLTAGE TYPES (VAC / VDC)
This means that the fuse can be used on a maximum voltage circuit that will operate at that voltage. For example; If your fuse is rated at 250 VAC, it can be used on a 250 VAC circuit or on a lower voltage or lower voltage circuit such as 12 VAC, but it must not be used on a circuit rated above 250 VAC, ie
Typically, a VDC output power supply is a simple AC to DC converter that takes a supply voltage of 110 or 220 VAC and converts it to 3V, 5V, 9V. 12V or 24VDC. Overall, these VDC output power supplies come in a variety of configurations, sizes, and output levels.
Voltage, Current and Frequency
There is no such thing as VAC power – it’s just AC. If you see 110 VAC on a device, it means 110 volts AC. Voltage is a measure of “circulatory pressure”. It refers to how hard electricity pushes through a circuit.
What is a 240 volt outlet? A standard outlet contains a 120 volt wire and a neutral wire that provide power through one phase of your electrical outlet. 240-volt outlets use two 120-volt wires simultaneously plus a neutral wire to power a single outlet.
Example: A 120 V air conditioner is operated with 900 watts.
The formula for converting voltage to watts is watts = amps x volts.
That means if you were to use an oscilloscope to look at the peak-to-peak reading, it would be closer to 30 volts. But if this transformer is for a power supply, the AC power, after being rectified and filtered, is slightly above 24V, so it’s fine to regulate down to 24V.
It’s just a rating from an isolation/safety perspective – similar to how a switch can be rated for 12V but not for 240V. Most common glass fuses (3AG) are rated for at least 125V, but in countries with 230V AC they are always available for 240V.
The main difference between DC fuses and AC fuses is the size of the fuse. When the current in a DC circuit exceeds the limit, the metal wire in the fuse melts, cutting off power to the rest of the circuit.
If a fuse with a lower voltage rating than the circuit voltage is used, arc suppression will be compromised and under certain overcurrent conditions, the fuse may not safely extinguish the overcurrent.
12V power supplies (or 12VDC power supplies) are one of the most commonly used power supplies today. Generally a 12 VDC output is obtained from a 120 VAC or 240 VAC input using a combination of transformers, diodes and transistors.
VDC is an abbreviation for “Volt DC”. DC stands for “direct current” which means that the voltage is constant (unlike alternating current, alternating current where the voltage constantly oscillates between positive and negative polarity).
The current available from a wall outlet in the United States is 120 volts AC, 60 cycles. The great benefit AC brings to the power grid is the fact that it’s relatively easy to change the voltage of the electricity using a device called a transformer.
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All students in Year 10 and 11 study a common core of subjects which are: English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Science and core PE. In addition to the core subjects, all KS4 students study four option subjects.
Options – Please Click here to Access the Year 9 Options Resources
All subjects follow the relevant national curriculum programme of study. For more information please visit this site
We arrange the timetable to allow the maximum time possible for each subject. Therefore, we teach 5 lessons per day totaling 25 lessons a week. However, we organise this over 10 days, following a two-week timetable, to ensure that subjects with smaller time allocations have reasonable contact.
Every Thursday there is a timetabled tutor period where Personal, Social and Health Education is taught by the tutors.
The number of periods allocated to each subject can be found below:
5 or 6
5 or 6 (options with fewer periods in Year 10 will have more in Year 11)
See the document below for additional information on the content which is currently covered in for Year 10s and 11s
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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)—The Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center has issued a warning about possible cases of fentanyl-laced marijuana.
The center says it’s a potentially emerging public health threat.
The Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center says several patients out of state were treated in ER’s for opioid exposure and overdose after they claimed to have only smoked marijuana.
A sample of the laced marijuana was found in Connecticut.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says there have not been any laboratory-confirmed laced cases in Michigan. The department says ever since June 1 there have been eight suspected cases of fentanyl-laced marijuana in Michigan. Those cases were identified in a review by probable opioid overdose Emergency Medical Services responses.
However, to date, there have not been any reported deaths among the suspected cases.
The symptoms you should be aware of that are related to opioid abuse include:
• Pinpoint pupils
• Respiratory depression (i.e. slowed breathing)
• Respiratory arrest
• Low blood pressure and low heart rate
The Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center suggest when purchasing marijuana people should only purchase from licensed vendors.
For more information click here.
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Engaging patients in all steps of their health and healthcare is key to communicating and understanding fundamentals in treatment and disease management, especially as wider treatments become available for the treatment of atopic dermatitis. As resources, experts, and time are limited in the clinic, patients often find, consume, and share unverified information online that is not based on evidence. As such, in collaboration with the AD patient committee, we identified the need for a digital tool to facilitate information exchange and education as a key priority by both patients and clinicians.
Expert and patient partners were engaged on a local and national level in order to develop a mobile health application, EczemaQ, to address this need. This award-winning bilingual tool will feature patient-driven topics and evidence-based content, as well as interactive modules that help with therapy management and flare tracking. The app is designed to facilitate communication between patient and physician, through visual and historical data sharing.
An iterative process is currently underway to co-produce and validate EczemaQ in partnership with patients and healthcare providers, using integrated knowledge translation and participatory research. While EczemaQ is still in the developmental phase, here is a sneak peek:
EczemaQ will feature the following functionalities:
- Information and educational modules (What, Why, Where, When, What Now)
a. Short videos
c. Text-based content
d. Language at 5th grader level
- Featured content which highlights key messaging
- Language option (French or English)
- Personalized and interactive features
a. My notes
b. My bookmarks
c. My diagnosis
d. My body
- POEM scoring (tracks score over time, exportable data)
- Photo gallery and diary function with notes
- Interactive body map with treatment information, which can be personalized
- App content can be updated by admin on an ongoing basis
The body map is an interactive feature that allows the user to learn about AD, as it pertains to each body part:
● Selecting each body part highlights basic information and a list of treatments specific to the selected body part
● User can bookmark specific treatments that are currently prescribed to him/her for each specific body part. This information will be saved in a personalized map called “My Body”
● Information saved to My Body can be added or removed based on current flare-ups and prescriptions
This feature allows the user to take photos using their phone’s camera, or to upoad photos from their phone’s photo gallery.
● Photo can be tagged based on body part
● Notes can be added to each photo taken
● Photos are saved and organized by date
● Photos can be shared with dermatologist
● Allows user to take notes
● Notes will be organized based on date of entry
POEM scores can be collected daily, or as frequently as the app user desires.
● Graph shows POEM score over time
● Results can be shared (exported to email, presented to dermatologist during clinical visit)
Want to try out a beta version of EczemaQ?
Eczéma Québec is looking for patient partners to give feedback on the app during its development. Send us an email at the address below if you would like to participate.
Want to help launch EczemaQ?
While EczemaQ is still in production, Eczéma Québec is looking for donations to cover the costs of the educational content.
Donate today at the link below to help Eczéma Québec reach its goal of $10,000.
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While strolling across the paddy fields, out of curiosity I’d asked my father ( a farmer from Coorg) of how they controlled the pests before the pesticides even existed? His answer was a simple one. But the depth of it made me write this article.
The introduction of high yielding varieties ( HYV) of seeds and the increased use of fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation facilities are collectively known as the Green revolution. ‘ The definition seems oddly familiar since we as kids were asked to by heart it for a 1 mark question. Followed by the ‘benefits of the Green revolution‘ for a 5 mark question.
Ever wondered of why wasn’t there a ‘ disadvantages of the Green revolution’ question?
The Green revolution was implemented with the core motive to feed the growing Indian population and to make the developing country self-efficient. The aftermath of the British rule was chaotic indeed, considering their brutal economic exploitation, which had earlier lead to horrific famines in the country. And the Green revolution was the ‘ knight in shining armor’ for the hungry ‘ Damsel in distress’ Indians.
Now that India has jumped from its status of ‘ the begging bowl’ towards being in the 72nd position out of the 113 major countries, in terms of the food security index, it is about time that we start worrying about the consequences of the Green revolution, sooner or later.
To improve the crop produce at that time fertilizers, pesticides, and HYVs were used ruthlessly. And the condition today is no different. The Green revolution was no doubt a one-way ticket to escape from the starvation, the country was heading towards at high speed. But no one said that the use of the traditional method was incapable of a good yield. The only difference between them both is that the modern ways of farming are doing more harm than benefits, in a long run.
Disadvantages of the Green revolution
Now, we all know that the use of the pesticides is harmful to the nature. But why is there a no stop to it?
It has contaminated the soil, the groundwater, completely wiped out several species of organisms, is a major threat to the biodiversity and the aquatic life, causes biomagnification and the list goes on. But wait… We Homo sapiens are least concerned about our environment unless our own species is threatened. That is why the below information might grab your attention.
According to WHO, each year there are about 3,000,000 cases of pesticide poisoning, and 2,20,000 deaths are reported in developing countries and 2.2 M people are at risk of exposure to pesticides.
The number of zeroes is really disturbing, isn’t it?
An alternative? Of course, there is. The one which already existed and was removed from its roots because it was ‘ traditional and unyielding’.
” Back in our days, we…” And the story goes on.
When asked about the time before the pesticides were even introduced, my father explained that they never needed any sorts of pesticides in the first place. The crop varieties which they had at that time were pest resistant. The yield was also good when incorporated with cow dung manure. But sadly, the varieties were lost during the ’90s. ( A/N: Guess who the culprit was?) Also that now they use the varieties the government provides, which particularly needs a lot of pesticides.
This hiked my interest and I continued pestering him with more questions.
How were the fertilizers different from the ones we use today?
He answered, ” The varieties we use today as I said, need a lot of inputs. And fertilizer is a major one. Both organic and inorganic give the same results but at different phases. On applying the inorganic fertilizer the result is seen in mere days. But it takes a while for the organic ones to kick in.
With the inorganic ones, the amount to be applied is fairly specific. On applying more fertilizer, the crop tends to be more susceptible to Rice Blast diseases. If the nitrogenous content increases, the tip of the rice plant tillers tend to turn pale orangish-yellow, which in turn reduces the yield. There are no restrictions on the amount of cow dung we incorporate into the fields. The yield remains intact.”
How did you handle the pests and insects back then?
My father patiently took me to a neighboring field, which had a major pest infestation. He pointed at a white moth, ( Which on later enquiring with my professors, I got to know was a Caseworm) and explained, ” This insect goes to the paddy tillers and lays its eggs on the leaf blade. On hatching, the larvae feed on the leaf and build a cylindrical tube-like structure inside which it lives. The Caseworm remains dormant during the day and comes out during the night to vigorously feed on the leaves, which eventually decreases the yield. Spraying pesticides during the day are useless as the insect is safe inside its cocoon. “
He took me to a tree, Ficus exasperata, commonly known as the Sandpaper tree, with very rough leaves. The secretions from the tree cause skin irritation. He explained that back in the days, they used to take a branch from this tree and brush it along the paddy fields. When the worm tube comes in contact with the rough surface of the leaf, it detaches itself from the leaf blade. And the worm falls to the stagnant water and dies or is eaten by birds like the Common Myna. On draining the paddy fields, the ants climb the plants and feed on the insects.
a) Ants feeding on insects after the water is drained from the fields b) The rough leaves of the Sandpaper tree
Rabbits are pests too. Yep… Even I disagreed at first. I argued with my father that they are too cute to be pests but my father said otherwise. A couple of days back, on our daily visit to the field, we found footprints of a rabbit that had visited our field earlier. On further exploration, we found that Mr. Bunny had completely devoured a paddy plant and left a generous amount of bunny poop behind. ( Which I later tossed into the field).
I found it very amusing that the bunny dined on our crop and had left a generous amount of tip as fertilizer.
Then how did they prevent Mr. Bunny from devouring the crop?
A stand was made with two vertical poles and a horizontal pole across the two. This stand was a landing place for nocturnal predators like owls to sit on. This made it easy to hunt for preys. So whenever Mr. Bunny hopped by, Mr. owl made sure that he was taken care of.
Add the moral of the story is that...
If you observe carefully, you’ll find that there were no organisms harmed, no soil or groundwater polluted, no biomagnification and no harm similar to the ill effects of chemicals was caused whatsoever. The field is an ecosystem where not only the crop but many other species of organisms co-exist. They are inter connected in a chain of symbiotic relationships, which maintains a balance in nature. The practices used were in favor of the farmer, ants, birds, rabbits as well as the owls.
The pesticides that we use work on a broad-scale mechanism and harm anything that comes in contact with it. I’ve heard my elders tell that there were even fishes swimming within the paddy field waters back then. But the increased use of chemicals made sure that it never happened again. The only advantage that the pesticide has is that the wild boar to not attack the paddy fields. But we should not unsee the fact that the wild boar stays away from the crop because of its toxic smell.
The solution for the wild boar is simple. It eats the crop, we eat it. As simple as wild bacon and eggs.
There are and will be many articles about the ill-effects of chemicals. But there is no use if the article is only read and left aside. Our ancestors co-existed with the nature scientifically, even when there weren’t macbooks and Alexas.
History always repeats.
And this time we may not have an option other than to revert back and listen to the ‘ Nisargadhwani‘( nature’s voice)
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Beyond Meat founder Ethan Brown ’94 to give keynote address at Commencement
Renowned entrepreneur and environmentalist Ethan Brown ’94, the founder, president and CEO of Beyond Meat, will deliver the keynote address at the College’s 103rd Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
Brown, one of the newest members of the Connecticut College Board of Trustees, majored in government and history at Conn while competing on the men’s basketball team and serving as publisher of the Connecticut College Review. He went on to earn an MBA at Columbia and a Master of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.
“This combination of history, policy, business, journalism and competitive sports would prove to be a formidable foundation for his future career,” President Katherine Bergeron wrote in a letter announcing Brown’s selection to the College community.
Brown first held leadership roles at Ballard Power Systems, the world’s leading hydrogen fuel cell developer. While working in the alternative energy industry, he had a revelation about the environmental impact of livestock production, an insight that led him to imagine an alternative meat industry. In 2009, Brown founded Beyond Meat with the revolutionary concept that muscle could be synthesized from a variety of plant-based proteins, providing an animal-friendly and environmentally responsible alternative for traditional meat eaters. Prominent early investors in the company included Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio.
In May of 2019, Beyond Meat made its public debut. The first plant-based food company to go public on a major exchange, the company closed its first day of trading 163% above its initial valuation, making it the best performing first-day IPO in decades. Today, the company’s valuation stands at about $8.75 billion.
Brown has long been a distinguished environmentalist. He created and opened a center for fuel reformation and has held prominent positions in the renewable energy industry, including as Vice Chairman of the Board at The National Hydrogen Association and Secretary of the U.S. Fuel Cell Council. The Aspen institute named him a Henry Crown Fellow—a distinction reserved for young entrepreneurs that demonstrate leadership driven by a spirit of community. In 2018, he received the United Nation’s highest environmental recognition—the Champion of the Earth award.
“Brown’s devotion to creating a better world has been evident in all his commitments,” Bergeron wrote. “His address to the Class of 2021 should be a perfect culmination of the work being advanced this year both by the Office of Sustainability, with its theme of ‘Nourishing Community,’ and by students in our new Food Pathway.”
During the ceremony, the College will confer on Brown an honorary degree—a doctor of humane letters honoris causa—an award that reflects not only his achievements as an entrepreneur dedicated to environmentalism but also his commitment to the values that animate the College’s mission of putting the liberal arts into action.
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A home with automation capabilities brings to your family - simplicity and control.
The value of the Smart Home is that it brings all your important controls: lighting, entertainment, data, media, climate and security - and manages them as a cohesive whole, rather than individual fragments.
Home Automation Options
- Saves you precious time by performing dozens of tasks - automatically
- Schedules lights automatically for you to leave and when you arrive
- Energy Management software can keep your home comfortable - and save you hundreds of dollars
- Accomplish in two seconds versus seven minutes of walking through the home and grounds
- Makes your home accessible through real time video from anywhere in the world
The Smarter Home
Arm your alarm or press a single button and you set the entire home to “away” mode. This action turns off specific lights, ensures the oven and specified appliances are off, locks every door in the house, checks that every window is closed, closes selected drapes and blinds, schedules outside lights to come on at sundown, randomize specific interior lights to turn on and off, and finally, close the garage door.
All of these actions were implemented and all you did was arm the alarm as you head out for the day... Security and the Smarthome are integrated together for good reason. It makes things simple and keeps your home secure.
Windows are a key design element and often a focal point in many residences. However, achieving the greatest beauty and efficiency in each room means being able to control the amount of window light. Motorized and automatic window treatments operate with quiet precision and are available in an endless variety of colors, textures and fabrics to complement your home’s décor.
Motorized shading and drapery transforms harsh glare into soft pleasing light, preserving exterior views, reducing solar heat gain and providing UV protection of expensive furnishings and artwork.
Use drapes, shades or screens to add privacy and shade to any room, or schedule to open and close - for the time of day. Automated drapes and screens are perfect for those hard-to-reach windows. Motorized lighting control can also be tied into the lighting control, so that they work in unison. Let us help you create the functional and beautiful home - with lighting and shading controls.
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In the framework of the Russian President May decree implementation aimed to increase the freight traffic along the Northern Sea Route up to 80 million tons by 2024, VostokCoal plans to ensure production and transportation via NSR up to 20 million tons of coal in 2024.
Exploration works in frame of the exploration licenses and preparation for the start of production VostokCoal has been carrying out since 2016. Two fields have been discovered, production licenses have been obtained, launch of production is scheduled for 2019.
The Malolemberovskycoal fieldwas discovered in December 2016. In 2017 an exploration and production license was obtained. Approved reserves - 2 million tons, categories C1, C2, coal grades A and T.
At the end of 2018, the Nizhnelemberovsky coal fieldwas discovered. Its total approved reserves are 67 million tons. The commencement of commercial development is scheduled for the end of 2019 after securing the initial permit documentation.
In 2019 an exploration and production license was obtained for the Lemberovsky site bordering the Nizhnelemberovsky coal field on a competitive basis. The license allows exploration with an associated production. The license is valid until 2044. The site is promising for development. It’s located near the seashore, where the construction of a coal terminal is planned.
During the summer navigation of 2019, the delivery of equipment and diesel fuel will start as well as mobilization of contracting organizations which will carry out exploration works at Lemberovsky site, areas adjacent to it and the Nizhnelemberovsky coal field.
Mined coal will be exported through the own coal terminals. During the winter navigation Atomflot icebreaker assistance will be used.
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Making sense of Belt and Road – The Non-Belt and Road project borrower: Southern Gas Corridor, Azerbaijan
Euromoney is in the Socar Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan, about a mile from the Caspian Sea. Here, two members of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) holding company’s executive team are describing a complex gas pipeline project reaching from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian, through Azerbaijan and Georgia, the length of Turkey and ultimately across Greece, Albania, the Adriatic Sea and into Italy.
Nothing in this picture has much to do with China. Even at the Azerbaijani end we are thousands of miles from China’s borders. And this project has nothing to do with China’s energy security: in fact it takes Central Asian gas and moves it to Europe.
But even here, China’s expansionism is visible. Euromoney has come here because it represents the biggest single funding effort so far by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with a $600 million loan alongside facilities from the World Bank and the African Development Bank. It is not, crucially, a Belt and Road project: neither the Silk Road Fund, China Eximbank nor the China Development Bank can be seen in its funding structure. But the fact that it is partly funded by a China-domiciled multilateral, albeit pooling the money of more than 60 nations, still tells us something about China’s role in global infrastructure development.
At this stage, the AIIB, still lacking in institutional capacity, tends to piggy-back on other multilaterals, particularly the World Bank, which in this case put in $400 million. “Essentially the AIIB was co-financing to the IBRD [World Bank] loan, so for the most part they relied on the work done by IBRD,” says Elmir Musayev, senior financial analyst in the finance department of Southern Gas Corridor CJSC, the borrowing company.
The same is true in disbursement ($382.1 million had been disbursed at the time of writing) and reporting, and helps to explain why the AIIB loan received board approval just one day after the IBRD in December 2016. AIIB conducted its own due diligence for financing. “We look at it as one loan of $1 billion,” says Musayev, “but the sources of this loan come from two different banks.”
AIIB’s involvement is specific to just one part of a vast and complicated $34 billion gas sector development: TANAP, the Trans-Anatolian pipeline through Turkey. SGC itself is wholly owned by the Azerbaijan state, 51% through the ministry of economy and 49% through Socar. But in total, the whole project is a complex geopolitical jigsaw covering not only six countries but crucial decisions on exemptions from the European Commission and the EU.
It is, in short, the sort of deal where the World Bank has typically thrived and where AIIB will now seek to step up. Its distance from any kind of Chinese state policy objective only underlines the image that AIIB is keen to project: a grown-up at the heart of infrastructure funding, cross-border, wherever the need and opportunity presents itself.
From the borrower perspective, it is all the better – offering more sources of funding. “Conceptually, they are all pretty much the same,” says Musayev, “though each international financial institution has its own specific requirements. AIIB made a good impression in terms of their responsiveness. This went pretty smoothly.”
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Touted as the Silicon Valley of India, Bengaluru has led the way in the Indian sub-continent as a startup hub. India’s tryst with startups began with this dynamic city and moving to Bengaluru has proved to be a game-changer for entrepreneurs and startup job seekers. The entrepreneurial energy of the city is driven by the strength and talent of the multitude of people moving to Bengaluru to make the best of its business climate.
Bengaluru is a thriving city with a population of 8.7 million and a GDP of $45 billion. The city has grown to become a favourite destination for starting a business not just for Indian entrepreneurs but also for startups all over the world who are moving to Bengaluru. This has helped attract monetary capital to the city as well. According to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the trade association for the IT-BPM industry in India, the country saw an increase in funds by 108% in 2017.
Characterised with more than 8,500 startups and a proclivity for tech activities, Bengaluru has managed to stay the startup capital in South India. Home to one of India?s largest e-commerce website and other global names that have been acquired by the likes of Facebook and Google, Bengaluru can be safely called as the cradle of the startup revolution in India. Apart from the obviously prominent tech sector, the city also has a booming hospitality and manufacturing industry.
Why is Bengaluru the Hotspot for Startups?
Bangalore’s success as a startup hub lies in a solid economic and business foundation. This foundation has been laid down by the various companies who have set up their headquarters here and are giants in their respective industries. The city?s tryst with technology began way back in the 1970s, thanks to the pioneer R.K Baliga who played a pivotal role in transforming the city?s IT landscape. Moving to Bengaluru, the information capital of India, comes with an array of business advantages.
Startups in Bengaluru can Rely on an Innovation Supporting Government
The growth of Bengaluru as a startup hub has contributed significantly to the city’s and the state’s economy. This contribution has not gone unnoticed by the state government of Karnataka that has rolled out several policies and initiatives to help entrepreneurs and startups moving to Bengaluru. These government measures are intended to help the different ecosystem players find fertile ground for growth.
The government of Karnataka has a set a vision of helping over 20,000 tech startups boom by 2020 as a part of a five-year policy for improving the startup scene. Entrepreneurs moving to Bengaluru with revolutionary business ideas but are bootstrapped can rely on the government plan to help with the funding.
Move to Bengaluru to Discover a Wellspring of Talent
A strong talent pool is an essential asset for any city, and the one in Bengaluru has grown as more and more startups started shifting bases here. The high concentration of startups and offices of large public companies has brought the cr?me de la cr?me of all fields to the startups in Bengaluru. The premium educational institutions in the area like the Indian Institute of Management and the International Institute of Information Technology also play a huge role in strengthening the local talent pool. Tech companies moving to Bengaluru hit the jackpot as the tech labor here is one of the cheapest in the world.
Move to the Indian IT Capital for Wealthy Sources of Funding
The city’s success as a startup hub has created a secure network of investors that comprise of both local and international players. Entrepreneurs often move to Bengaluru in the hope to get noticed by the 6000+ angel investors in the city. The IT capital had secured over 250 deals in 2017 and raised more than $7 billion in funding in the same year. The venture capital scene in Bengaluru has helped put India in the spotlight globally several times.
Startups in Bengaluru can Count on the Entrepreneurial Community for Support
The entrepreneurial spirit in the city is contagious and is embodied in its startup community. The community includes all kinds of startup players and partners. Moving to Bengaluru gives startups and startup job seekers numerous opportunities to network and create the right connections. 10,000 Startups, an initiative by NASSCOM, is aimed at helping 10,000 startups grow by 2023 and conducts more than 3,000 startup events every year in the city. The city’s array of incubators and accelerators have also helped hundreds of entrepreneurs materialize their startup dreams.
Find the Best Offices With Co-Working Offices in Bangalore
Apart from a robust digital infrastructure that is creating a favourable climate for startups in Bengaluru, players like co-working office space brands are also making a difference. These well-designed offices are a boon for those looking at affordable commercial real estate options. Brands like SNEED, 91springboard, BHIVE, and Bangalore Alpha Lab are some of the key players in Bengaluru. 91springboard and BHIVE offer shared workspaces in more than two locations in the city offering more options for entrepreneurs and startups in Bengaluru.
The Rich Tech Sector in India?s Bustling IT Capital
Bengaluru surely opened up new avenues for technology-based companies in the region. The city’s tech labor may be cheaper than most other global startup ecosystems but the engineering knowledge is also at par with them. Close to 95% of the workforce in Bengaluru have a technical academic background which is higher than even the most significant tech ecosystems around the world. The sector has its fair share of unicorns and is known for its growing fintech,edtech, and advanced manufacturing(IoT) sub-sectors.
Edtech Sector for Startups & Entrepreneurs in Bengaluru
The growth of the edtech sector in Bengaluru is a result of the increased need for transforming the Indian education system. India has more than 1.5 million schools that are responsible for educating a body of 260 million students. One of the most excellent examples of an edtech startup would be of BYJU’s, an edtech firm that is revolutionizing the way children study in India. The company offers easy learning solutions and programs through its learning app which is targeted at students in classes 6 through 12. The potential of the company has been recognized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent holdings who have made a combined investment of $244 million in the company. Success stories such as that of BYJU’s has inspired more edtech startups and entrepreneurs to move to Bengaluru.
(IoT) for Startups & Entrepreneurs in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is home to 504 companies in the Indian IoT space which consists of 1000 companies. 2017 turned out to be a historic year for this segment as it saw a 100% growth from the previous year which indicates the fast growth of the sub-sector in the city. Startups in these segments are supported and nurtured by initiatives like the Intel India Maker Lab which has helped more than 50 companies by offering support in various ways. This support has been in the form of mentorship and providing technology and the right infrastructure.
Fintech Sector for Startups & Entrepreneurs in Bengaluru
The fintech sub-sector in Bengaluru shines in the tech niche with the highest amount of venture capital funding. Fintech startups in Bengaluru have been responsible for bringing in 20% of the total local venture capital funds in the region between 2012 and 2017. Startups like Razorpay Modern and Capital Float are important flag bearers of the sub-sector. Razorpay Modern, a payment gateway solutions provider, got $20 million through Series B round of funding and the online capital finance provider platform, Capital Float, got $45 million in funding in 2017.
The startup culture in Bengaluru is fuelled not only with the startups and investors but also with the help of the vital ecosystem partners. Startups moving to Bengaluru are continually growing with the help of ecosystem partners like:
The India Network
Global Incubation Services
The plethora of benefits for foreign investors, a supportive government, and a ripe pool of talent have inspired hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and startup job seekers to move to Bengaluru. The city has a vibrant and active social life offering ample outlets for releasing stress after a long day at work. The town is blessed with the right blend of greenery and top-notch business infrastructure making it a great place to live and work mainly for tech professionals.
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You probably can’t call yourself a book nerd if this article from The Toast doesn’t make you laugh. Here are a few signs you are living out a Jane Austen plot:
- Someone disagreeable is trying to persuade you to take a trip to Bath.
- Someone disagreeable is trying to persuade you to join a game of cards.
- A picnic has gone horribly wrong.
- Someone you know has fallen ill. Not melodramatically ill, just interestingly so.
- A charming man attempts to flirt with you. This is terrible.
- Your mother is dead or ridiculous.
- You are in a garden, and you are astonished.
Would you read an 18th-century novel entitled The Adventures of an Ostrich Feather of Quality? How about Memoirs of an Old Wig? Because I totally would (and now intend to). The Toast compiled this list of real book titles from the 1700s, and it has suddenly made me very, very curious about a) that particular century, obviously, and b) whether writers were an even stranger breed back then than they are now.
Some of my personal favorites from the (quite long) list:
A Modern Anecdote Of The Ancient Family Of The Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns
Reft Rob; Or, The Witch Of Scot-Muir, Commonly Called Madge The Snoover
Love And Madness. A Story Too True. In A Series Of Letters Between Parties Whose Names Would Perhaps Be Mentioned Were They Less Well Known Or Less Lamented
The Egg, Or The Memoirs Of Gregory Giddy, Esq: With The Lucubrations Of Messrs. Francis Flimsy, Frederick Florid, And Ben Bombast. To Which Are Added, The Private Opinions Of Patty Pout, Lucy Luscious, And Priscilla Positive. Also The Memoirs Of A Right Honourable Puppy. Conceived By A Celebrated Hen, And Laid Before The Public By A Famous Cock-Feeder
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When real estate investors and developers set a goal, they may not always have the necessary knowledge and resources to make fully informed decisions. This gap of information is normally addressed by getting in touch with one or more consultants who possess the expertise and local experience.
However, there’s a number of different professions associated with real estate consulting. In this article, the real estate experts from VERTEX will clarify the critical differences between real estate consultants and real estate brokers. Keep reading to learn more.
What is a real estate consultant?
Also known as “real estate counselors” or “advisors”, real estate consultants provide expert advice and recommendations to clients who are looking to acquire and develop properties. Their clients tend to be commercial real estate stakeholders rather than single-family residential home buyers / sellers.
Real estate consultants can perform an extensive variety of services based on their experience and background. One typical consultant is a construction professional or engineer who does property condition assessments (PCA) and inspections to identify and document any physical deficiencies of the land and/or structure. Other real estate consultants can be advisors and market researchers who are networked with local real estate professionals to analyze market trends, and draw on their own extensive industry experience to provide their clients with key data.
Real estate consultants commonly assist their clients with:
- Property development, in which the real estate consultant researches prospective construction sites, analyzes the competition, and conducts feasibility reports.
- Real estate investment, in which the real estate consultant performs a thorough economic analysis to help property buyers make sound financial decisions.
What exactly is a real estate broker?
Real estate brokers are licensed professionals who play a key role for property sellers and buyers. Their service is to act as intermediaries in real estate transactions. They typically specialize in a single segment of the real estate market (for instance, industrial real estate). This enables them to stay on top of any shifts in the market and obtain in-depth information about the available properties in a particular area, as well as the local tax laws, regulations, and customs.
Armed with this specialized knowledge, real estate brokers are supremely qualified to facilitate real estate transactions and even buy or sell property on their clients’ part. By providing crucial data about the property you’re thinking of purchasing, they help you make an informed decision and successfully navigate the transaction process. Finally, real estate brokers can negotiate the details of the transaction and finalize deals to their clients’ advantage.
How do real estate consultants and brokers charge?
Another way real estate consultants are different from brokers is in how they’re paid for their services. Real estate consultants work for a fee, which is typically calculated based on an hourly rate. Some real estate consultants also offer the option of paying for deliverables (usually a report of their findings).
On the other hand, real estate brokers primarily deal with property sales or purchases. Because of this, they’re normally only paid a transaction or commission fee when they finalize their work to close the real estate transaction.
When should you hire a real estate consultant vs a broker?
The timeline really depends on the investor’s or developer’s needs. The real estate industry in each market region has its nuances and depending on the person, the order of hiring can change.
Real estate consultants such as PCA inspectors are usually hired after the client has found a property they want to acquire. The consultants will then conduct extensive inspections to obtain detailed information about the property in question. Based on this data and the consultant’s advice, the client will then decide whether to go through the purchase of the property or look elsewhere.
For developers / investors who are trying to acquire property, sometimes they go to a real estate broker first to help identify potential buys. In other cases the client might have already selected a few properties through their own research and if they decide to proceed with the deal, they then get a real estate broker involved, who will negotiate and finalize the deal for them.
Property owners who are looking to sell their property will usually skip the services of a real estate consultant and go straight to a broker. This is ill-advised. A consultant can provide essential advice on how to maximize the property’s value prior to the sale and even determine the optimal time to put the property on the real estate market.
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I'm well into my journey into the field of conservation now, after volunteering and freelancing for a couple of different organisations over the past two years, and am looking to establish more connections and acquire more work. I'm currently working with the RSPB and the Arribada Initiative, on projects ranging from camera traps for birds to sensor enclosures for manta rays.
I am able to offer CAD/3D Design services, as well as software programming services for microcontrollers and limited machine learning model building via Edge Impulse. If there's anyone looking for help with their conservation project out there and want to discuss if we might be able to work together, please don't hesitate to message me/reply on here, Twitter or Linked in. Below are development images of some of the projects I've worked on. If you'd like to know more about the projects just let me know!
You can find me on Twitter and Linked in here:
The first set of images is for an enclosure designed to attach to a manta ray via a vacuum cup, the project is still in development. This device contains a Horizon GPS board developed by the Arribada Initiative, as well as an accelerometer sensor and a battery. It's designed to have removable "wings" that allow the client to attach different sensors to the main body. All components in the centre case are encapsulated in resin, which is why a separate box is included in the design.
The next set of images shows an enclosure that contains a Horizon GPS tracking module that attaches on to the back of a Gharial, between its tail scutes, so that they can be tracked throughout their habitat. The components are again encapsulated in resin, and two scaffolds have been created to hold the components in place whilst the resin sets.
This final set of imagery shows the use of an off the shelf Evatron enclosure used to create a machine learning based camera trap for the RSPB. There was a specific requirement for a high IP rating for the enclosure, so something that was already manufactured to a high standard was necessary. There was CAD work involved in creating a custom mounting point for the internal hardware, as well as Raspberry Pi and Edge Impulse ML work in setting up a web interface and the image capture and object detection.
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New Mexico State University or NMSU or NM State is the oldest state-run university in New Mexico. It has been around since 1888 and is one of the state’s two flagship state-run universities. The university is sprawled across its 900-acre campus where it houses 8 colleges for prospective students to choose from. In this article, we will be looking at the acceptance rate at New Mexico State University.
There is the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences or ACES where students can choose from among 22 bachelor programs. Students will gain highly marketable skills in such industries as agriculture, food production, hotel and restaurant management, tourism, clothing and fashion, animal sciences, and a whole lot more.
There is the Arts and Sciences College which is actually the largest college in NMSU. They offer courses in Fine Arts which include Creative Media that deals with modern media.
Students can also sharpen their business sense in the College of Business through any of the offered majors like accounting, marketing, management, international business, and information systems. There is even a PGA Golf Management program that the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) fully endorses and accredits.
If teaching is in your blood, the College of Education is where you should be. You can learn many specialties from early childhood to special education. There are also many other graduate programs to prepare students for a career in academics and even clinical therapy through highly specialized courses.
The Engineering college of NMSU offers Chemical and Materials Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical, and Computer Engineering, Engineering Physics, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering as well as Engineering Technology and Surveying Engineering. These majors are offered in Bachelors, Master, and Doctorate levels. You can join this excellent university since the acceptance rate at New Mexico State University is not very competitive.
The college of Health and Social Services is great for students who want a career in social work, nursing, and public health- all very noble professions needed in society.
The NMSU also has an Honors College for the select scholars who are given the opportunity to do interdisciplinary research in a very vibrant and diverse community of scholars under the guidance of apt faculty.
All of the colleges mentioned above have graduate programs that are accessed through the Graduate School. There are currently more than 50 graduate-level programs available for local, state, and international students.
Each enrollment sees more than 15,000 students composed of highly diverse ethnicity with Hispanics making up about 45% and whites 20% with other minority races making up the rest of the 35%. Enrollment, when divided by gender, shows more than half being female with 55% and 45% being male. 80% of all students are undergraduates with graduate students comprising the rest of the 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio is at 16 is to 1.
There are many on the campus as well as many affiliate housing options available for prospective students to choose from. You can choose the best that fits your housing needs.
Student life as an Aggie from NM State is filled with exciting activities in sports through the many intercollegiate athletic meets. There are also more than 30 clubs and organizations that allow students to fill their social lives with activities while meeting like-minded peers.
Acceptance Rate at the New Mexico State University
The acceptance rate is about 64% for all applicants and candidates should have an ACT score of 21, SAT average at 1030, and a GPA of 3.5.
I hope that this article on the New Mexico State University acceptance rate was helpful! To know more information on studying abroad, check out the Available Programs for International Students.
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The TPX3CAM is a fast optical detector for time stamping of optical photons. It is based on a new silicon pixel sensor. In combination with the Timepix3 ASIC and readout it is suitable for a wide range of applications which require time-resolved imaging of electrons, ions, neutrons or single photons. The detector can be easily integrated in table-top lab setups as well as synchrotron and free-electron-laser environments.
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There are many ways to earn Real Estate Investments. There are many different strategies to choose from, and you may be amazed at how profitable this type of investment can be. Here are some examples to help you get started with real estate investments. You might be amazed to discover that they can increase your wealth by a significant amount. Even even if you don’t have a lot of knowledge about investing, you can earn a decent income from these strategies. Check out the following article for more information!
A substantial investment is required to purchase a house. In addition, you will be required to pay for maintenance. In order to get a mortgage you will need to have lots of money. You will have to manage tenants, paying their bills, and maybe even making repairs. A rental property is the best choice for investors. You can flip it to make an impressive profit If you are able to get it early and complete the renovations yourself.
In addition to the high returns that real estate investments can bring, they can also provide tax benefits as well. You can make an income that is decent based on the type of property that you invest in. You may qualify to receive tax benefits when you invest in real estate in a particular city or state. You can invest in both residential and commercial properties to get the most out of your investment. It is crucial to read the terms and conditions before investing in real estate.
A real investment in commercial property can earn you a lot of money, but it also has a lot of risk. The lack of information could mean that you don’t receive an adequate return. You could be wasting your money on a non-profitable project. There are many inefficiencies within the real estate market. Many investors, who lack information, pool their money in projects that are not profitable. Real estate capital appreciation does not happen at an exact rate, and there is no time frame that is predetermined. All of these factors could cause poor returns or even depreciation on your investment.
You can also invest in smaller investments and not have to pay cash upfront. This is the most suitable option for newbies since you can purchase shares for less equity than it takes to purchase the whole property. Before you can sell the property, it is essential to decide how much risk you are willing to take and for how long you’re willing to stay. In addition to these, you should always check the conditions and terms of every property prior to investing in it.
Like any other investment the most important thing to do to make money from real estate is to be aware of the market and know the most you can about the particular property. You can make use of the knowledge you gather to negotiate a better deal and enhance your property. You can also discover innovative ways to generate additional revenue from your property. And remember that real estate is rarely passive. A lot of work and knowledge is required to succeed in real property investing. It pays off when you make a big profit.
Another way to invest in real estate is by buying a REIT. REITs are often a safer option for novice investors because they provide higher yields and higher levels of income stability than the S&P 500. However, there are a few negatives to investing in REITs. While you can take advantage of tax breaks and higher income, they also tend to have less operational flexibility and less potential for growth through investing operating cash flows.
Another drawback of investing in real property is that it is not very liquid. It takes a significant amount of time and money to purchase and sell a home, and it is not as liquid as other investments. Although you may lose money when selling the property, you’ll be liable for any legal fees if you don’t pay. You could also lose money investing in real estate. If you’re looking for a good investment, this could be a good choice for you.
If you’re a first-time investor REITs are a great option. REITs are liquid, so investors can buy and sell shares without worrying about the investments. However, REITs have the same risks as other investments. Like stocks, REITs are vulnerable to liquidation due poor management. Make sure to thoroughly research any REITs before investing. However, it is important to remember that investing in REITs comes with the same risks that buying stocks or shares.
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If you missed it, ReasonTV put out a great video on the city of Harrisburg’s fiscal disaster, asking whether Harrisburg’s nightmare is America’s Future.
Much of what happened in Harrisburg—from owning a baseball team to spending millions on artifacts for a Wild West museum that never happened to the boondoggle of an incinerator—are unique to the capital city. But other cities, like Scranton and Johnstown, may not be far behind.
One trend most commonwealth cities face is declining population. Responding to high taxes, failing schools, growing debt and pension costs, “yellow pages” government and high crime, residents are fleeing cities.
With the exception of Allentown, Pennsylvania’s major cities have all lost population from their peak. Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Altoona, Scranton, and Wilkes-Barre have all lost more than 40 percent of their population. Johnstown has only one-third its population from 1920!
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A resistive micro-sensor for humidity sensing based on a conductive polymer material that is deposited electrochemically is presented. The resistor is formed by filling a narrow air gap (12 mu m) between two conductor pads with conductive poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) polymer, and the resistance of the polymer micro-resistor thus formed is measured to be 41 Omega at a temperature of 20 degrees C. The conductor pads are prepared with a thick layer (20 mu m) of nickel using a multi-user microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) process. The area of the entire sensor is around 100 x 200 mu m, making it very compact. The humidity sensor has been characterised within a sealed chamber where the relative humidity is controlled by different saturated salt solutions at a constant temperature of 20 degrees C. The resistance of the sensor varies from 37 to 62 Omega from 22 to 99.9% of relative humidity at room temperature.
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Until a few years back, one of the biggest challenges facing renewable energy sources was their cost of generation.
Now, however, with the cost of solar power dropping fast, and the cost of fossil based power generation increasing in many countries, the cost of the renewable energy is perhaps no longer the toughest challenge facing the sector.
The real challenge now for renewables is their intermittent nature and as a consequence, their infirmness and lack of reliability.
The two main renewable energy sources (solar and wind) are intermittent in nature and cannot be fully relied upon as standalone resources for electricity. As a result, storing these is the only known way now to make them a reliable source of energy on their own.
(One might question about biomass and also about renewable energy sources such as geothermal power which can actually work 24×7. These sources however have a limited capacity to scale and cannot contribute anywhere close to the quantum of power that the world requires today)
Storage of power, mainly done through batteries, is however a very expensive proposition even today, even after the cost of battery storage itself had dropped significantly in the past few years.
Thus, if one were to state the one key bottleneck that stops the world go completely renewable, it would be the economics of large scale energy storage.
I have been in cleantech since 2007, and during this period, I have heard enough bull about battery storage having become really economical.
That bull lasts only until you actually ask the proponent to put down hard numbers on the paper and do the actual math.
I have been surprised how even some bright guys in the energy business simply believe the hype that battery storage is now affordable to all. This hype appears to have percolated to the top in countries like India where there have been suggestions of implementing 100+ MW of ground mounted solar power plants with battery storage.
Good luck with that!
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Railroads were the first big business enterprises of
America and made possible many other industries. They knitted our
expansive nation together and ably transported people, materials,
supplies, goods, and mail.
Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of railroads were built in the
United States during the nineteenth century. Among the more colorful was
the New York and New England Railroad, which connected Boston with the
Hudson River via the uplands of Connecticut. If ever a company had its
share of trials and tribulations it was this firm. Yet its fascinating,
topsy-turvy past is today largely forgotten.
This work brings to life how the New York and New England Railroad
evolved from humble beginnings to becoming a potent transportation
force. Meticulously researched with many period images and a lively
text, our journey begins in the 1840s and lasts until the late 1890s.
Climb aboard for a special trip into this unique chapter of American
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Researchers have used airway gene delivery to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension in a large animal model. Led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the study was published in the May 3 edition of Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
A rare disease with no cure
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare progressive disease characterized by abnormally high blood pressure within the pulmonary artery, the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. This high pressure occurs due to the thickening and narrowing of the pulmonary artery, which can in turn damage the right ventricle of the heart. Initial symptoms include shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting spells, chest pain and swelling of the legs and ankles. Eventually, the heart can fail, leading to premature death.
The disease is rare; the United States sees about 1,000 new cases of PAH each year. However, there is currently no cure, and about 50 percent of those diagnosed will die from the disorder within five years. The disease disproportionally affects young adults and women, with female patients comprising about 72% of the affected population.
A gene to target
It is known that the narrowing of the pulmonary vessels is trigged by abnormal calcium levels within vascular cells. The sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase pump (SERCA2a) is responsible for regulating intracellular calcium ion levels. Scientists believe that using gene therapy to deliver more of the SERCA2a gene into affected vessels could help halt the progression of PAH.
In the new study, researchers delivered the SERCA2a gene using aerosolized adeno-associated viral vectors, a technique in which therapeutic genes are delivered in aerosol form. Previously, the aerosol inhalation technique had been effectively used to deliver the SERCA2a gene in a rodent model. Now, researchers applied the approach to a large animal model: a Yorkshire swine affected by pulmonary hypertension in a similar way as humans.
A potential new treatment
“This should help restore function and improve survival in human patients.”
The researchers had two objectives in this study. First, they wanted to confirm it was feasible to deliver SERCA2a in aerosol form to damaged blood vessels in the lung using an engineered adeno-associated virus as the vector. Second, they wanted to see if the aerosolized gene transfer would effectively slow or stop the vascular changes that result in PAH.
The researchers tested 20 pigs, half of which received the aerosolized viral vector treatment and half of which received a saline spray control. Two months after the procedure, the team confirmed that the SERCA2a gene delivery was indeed successful, and as a result, PAH progression had been halted in the treated pigs. In those pigs, heart and lung function had improved, while the abnormal cellular changes that lead to PAH had been reduced.
“”I’m excited that there is a potential new treatment for patients with this deadly disease,” lead author Roger J. Hajjar, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said in a press release. “By tailoring the gene therapy, it looks like we can halt the proliferation of smooth muscle cells in the blood vessels. This should help restore function and improve survival in human patients.”
Additional animal studies are needed before this technique can be tested in human clinical trials to ensure both safety and long-term efficacy. However, the research team is hopeful that airway gene delivery might eventually be used to help patients with a range of pulmonary vascular diseases.
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More than a billion farmers and their families around the world are on the frontline of climate change. Their lives and livelihoods are directly affected by its impact, and they are also vital to implementing many of the solutions we need to help delay and deflect it.
To guide policy making, decision makers will need access to knowledge about best practices, scientific and engineering knowledge and technologies that are specific to their context. Additional research work should take into account the existing available scientific knowledge while identifying gaps as well as the linkages which exist between agriculture and other types of interventions.
Addressing climate change through agriculture should involve the following approaches:
1. Support the unique role of agriculture in the global climate change response.
- Ensure that agriculture is included within the UNFCCC annual climate change negotiations.
- Refrain from setting an absolute emission reduction target for agriculture as an industry.
2. Encourage the use of all available and applicable climate change solutions.
- Promote agricultural best practices, particularly Integrated Crop Management (ICM), conservation agriculture, intercropping, improved seeds and fertilizer best management practices.
- Support increased investment in agricultural research, including links between agriculture and climate change, involving research centres, programmes and industry R&D.
3. Promote funding mechanisms which support the needs of all levels and forms of farming.
- Urge agricultural inclusion within multilateral financial mechanisms.
- Promote voluntary carbon credit systems for GHG offsets from agriculture and land use to reward farmers for their contribution.
- Extend the scope of carbon markets to encompass the critical role of soil as a carbon sink.
- Establish international technology assessment and sharing programmes for climate change, as well as capacity-building programmes, including the development of local and global centres of excellence.
4. Reward resource-based productivity improvements as a direct contributor to climate-change effectiveness.
- Encourage productivity improvements – in a sustainable way – on existing agricultural land to avoid additional land clearing and give priority to the rehabilitation of degraded agricultural soils.
- Recognise the positive contribution of sustainable land management practices through increased coordinated agricultural research.
- Include robust methodologies and field-testing to overcome uncertainties around measurement, reporting and verification.
- Provide incentives to farmers and other stakeholders which reward adoption of sustainable and responsible production systems, better performing technologies and the efforts of early adopters.
5. Invest in capability sharing to encourage all farmers to play a role in climate change while safeguarding local and global food security.
- Enhance capacity building to implement sustainable land management policies and programmes.
- Create a dedicated adaptation fund for agriculture accessible to farmers’ organisations in developing countries.
6. Prioritise research imperatives
- Invest in R&D aimed at scaling up a broad range of new mitigation and adaptation technologies and practices addressing diverse climate needs, including locally-adapted drought-tolerate, salinity-tolerant and heat-tolerant varieties.
- Develop climate information services and early warning systems, as well as best possible estimates of weather and climate impacts on crop or forage production, at a temporal and spatial scale useful for vulnerable rural communities.
- Promote partnerships between farmers and scientists to develop adequate and fit-for-use technologies as well as land and water management tools where they are most needed.
- Instigate a system for monitoring GHG emissions from agriculture, including developing performance indicators for agricultural practices that reduce emissions.
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A HOUSE legislator has asked the government, especially the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), to provide more assistance to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to help them transition to a more digital economy after the pandemic.
Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund F. Villafuerte, Jr. said adopting digital business models can help MSMEs recover from the losses they incurred during the public health crisis.
“Our MSMEs will be left behind if they cannot effectively transition to the digital economy, more so now that the trend is moving towards online transactions,” he said in a statement.
He cited data a report commissioned by Google Philippines estimating that digital transformation can create up to P5 trillion in annual economic value and make the economy more resilient.
A DTI survey conducted in September indicated that 73% of MSMEs require capacity-building to digitize their operations.
Mr. Villafuerte also touted a bill that will help facilitate digitization efforts, such as House Bill 6924 or the proposed Bangko sa Baryo Act and House Bill 1248, which was substituted for House Bill 6927, or the proposed E-Government Act.
Both of the bills have been approved by the House with counterpart bills at the Senate currently at committee level.
Mr. Villafuerte also filed House Bill 7189 or the proposed Outside Class Learning and Digital Education Act, which seeks to develop the basic education curriculum to integrate other modes of learning such as distance learning.
The measure is pending at the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture. — Russell Louis C. Ku
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I’ve always had a healthy respect for bees… in the last few years my respect has broadened and grown to encompass many more bee species as i’ve discovered their seemingly less obvious existence (at least to modern white Australia). The sheer diversity that Australia holds in native bees is of huge wonderment to me and I rarely get quite as excited as when I manage to spot one lured back to the suburbs or out on a bushwalk.
More recently, it seems like a dam has broken in my head… I think triggered by the successful division of the original Stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) box here and/or the acquisition of a couple of new colonies at the end of 2015. I’d been researching trap nest construction for a couple of years and floodgates wide open, I decided it was time to get serious about my home’s beneficial insect housing options to bolster the more solitary of the native bee species as well as any other happy coincidental residents that felt like moving in.
One moderately sized insect hotel wall quickly became two as I feared running out of space for the quantity and variety of nesting material I wanted to try. I’ll talk more in the future about specific types and the species they have attracted but the range briefly includes Mud blocks, Cob blocks, Pithy stem bundles, Hollow stem/Wax paper straw bundles, Drilled hardwood holes down and across grain, same with soft-woods, varying hole sizes from 3-10mm. Some large hole-dwelling wasps will seemingly use up to ~13mm holes.
It doesn’t all happen at once but adding the biggest range of nesting materials ensures the greatest diversity of inhabitants. Of coarse, housing is only one side of the coin with these things… you need a good amount and diversity of flowering plants to provide food and initial attraction to the area. An accessible source of water is needed too, this means pond with floating aquatics to land on, or even just putting a stick or rock in your bird-bath so bees can drink without drowning.
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I’m an embodied coach, facilitator, and equity and inclusion practitioner with over 20 years of experience influencing individual and institutional change. I provide visioning, strategic planning, and concrete action steps, focusing on work that develops the intercultural capacity of educators, leaders, community activists, and others committed to social justice. My approach is collaborative and passionate, modeling vulnerability, lifelong learning and a growth mindset. (Photo credit: Charissa Uemura)
Coaching sessions are designed to build somatic awareness, teach self-regulation skills,
and practice resourcing to cultivate greater resilience
So much of facilitation is holding the right, generative space for “the thing” to be done, making the process easy, enjoyable, collaborative, creative, even juicy.
To assist clients in resolving conflict, I hold a safe space for deep listening, radical honesty, and a generative examination of what lies at the heart of the dissension.
Marie is one of the strongest people I know for navigating conflict, tension and confusion within relationships, particularly across differences of race, class, gender and so on but also in general. She brings a presence and practice that uses a mix of deep listening, somatic or body-based listening, and general trauma and relationship awareness. Marie also brings this strength to one-on-one coaching, helping people to identify and shift patterns that keep them stuck rather than expanding to their full capacity.
Susan Raffo, Bodyworker, Writer, Cultural Worker
Marie meets people where they are at in their process of understanding themselves in relationship to systems of powers and others in the world. She builds a relationship rooted in trust in order to coach people's thinking and action. [. . . ]
Thanks to her mentorship, I worked to become a more aware and active white teacher who cares about social justice
and the work of equity. Marie leads
by example and is guided by a deep
respect for the work completed by educators with young people.
Teresa Gloppen, 8th Grade English Teacher, Minneapolis Public Schools
In the days following the murder of George Floyd, Marie worked with us to create healing spaces for staff to unpack the myriad of feelings that were present in their bodies. She is truly gifted in creating brave spaces in which individuals can do the work of grounding themselves and reflecting on how their mind and body respond to the racialized world around them. Marie has taught me to be still, attend to my body, breath
and heart. This has been vital in
the racial equity work I do.
Kandace Logan, Director of Equity and Integration, Minneapolis Public Schools
How . . . we live and grow and stay purposeful in the face of constant change . . . determine[s] both the quality of our lives, and the impact that we can have when we move into action together.
-- adrienne maree brown
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) analyses “deliciousness” of agricultural products
MOT’s Associate Professor Hiroyuki Noda developed a technology which statistically analyzes “deliciousness” of agricultural products by a convenient non-destructive image analysis of vegetables and fruits.
Thanks to this impressive technology, producers will be able to provide quality information to consumers. In addition, producers will also be able to utilize analyzed feedback information of the products as well as cultivation methods such as fertilization to accurately improve the quality.
Artificail Intelligence (AI) might seem difficult. However, this AI technology features ease of use in which users just take product’s photos by smartphones and send them to cloud. AI in cloud will analyze the photos with large database and visualize “deliciousness” of the products. This technology will be extended to cover 16 kinds of vegetable and fruit by next year.
The technology was co-developed by Associate Professor Hiroyuki Noda and Makuta Amenity Company. The research was supported by METI, Japanese Government in 2016- 2017.
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|Seminars / Tutorials||10 x 2hr seminars|
|Assessment Type||Assessment length / details||Proportion|
|Semester Assessment||Written analysis of scientific paper(s) (3000 words limit), followed by an oral presentation and discussion on the same.||40%|
|Semester Assessment||Written assignment contrasting the use of several methods discussed in the course, applied to data provided by the lecturers (4000 words).||60%|
|Supplementary Assessment||Resubmission of failed/nonsubmitted components or others of equivalent value.||100%|
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate competence with the machine learning methods and tools considered in this scheme.
Show proficiency in analysing data sets using the appropriate tools.
Demonstrate skills in designing, running and documenting experiments using machine learning.
Demonstrate capability to write and present a detailed analysis of an application of machine learning.
1. What is Machine Learning? (2 hrs)
Foundations and assumptions of ML.
2. Supervised Learning. (2 hrs)
Learning from labelled examples.
3. Bayesian Decision Theory. (3 hrs)
Probability and optimality in learning.
4. Parametric Methods. (2 hrs)
5. Dimensionality Reduction. (2 hrs)
Detecting unnecessary attributes and removing them to improve accuracy.
6. Clustering. (3 hrs)
K-means, hierarchical, consensus clustering techniques.
7. Nonparametric Methods. (3 hrs)
Learning without constructing a model (esp. kNN); transductive learning.
8. Hidden Markov models. (3 hrs)
Probabilistic, structural models from data.
9. Assessing and Comparing Classification Algorithms. (3 hrs)
10. Combining Multiple Learners. (3 hrs)
Obtained improved results by combining the predictions of multiple classifiers.
11. Reinforcement Learning. (2 hrs)
Learning sequences of actions with reward.
Additional material requested by students via questionnaire. (2 hrs)
|Skills Type||Skills details|
|Application of Number||Inherent to subject|
|Improving own Learning and Performance||Inherent to subject|
|Information Technology||Inherent to subject|
|Personal Development and Career planning||Encourages students to see roles in subject for career and personal development|
|Problem solving||Inherent to subject|
|Subject Specific Skills||Representation and Reasoning for Intelligent Systems|
Reading ListRecommended Text
Alpaydin, Ethem. (2010.) Introduction to machine learning /Ethem Alpaydin. 2nd ed. MIT Press Primo search Mitchell, Tom M. (1997.) Machine learning /Tom M. Mitchell. McGraw-Hill Primo search Witten, I. H. (2005.) Data mining :practical machine learning tools and techniques /Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank. 2nd ed. Morgan Kaufman Primo search
This module is at CQFW Level 7
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Prior to the rise of Liberal Anglicanism, gender and sexuality were not generally areas of widespread transformation or dispute in Anglicanism. There was controversy over the prospect that Elizabeth I, when she restored Protestantism to the English realm after her accession in 1558, might become the supreme head on earth of the Church of England, as Henry VIII and Edward VI had been. She was designated instead the "supreme governor." Also, there is a rich body of scholarship on the history of contributions by women in Anglicanism, and women have been ordained as Anglican deacons (assisting clergy) since the 19th century. But matters such as women ordained to the priesthood and liturgical rites for homosexual marriage simply were not culturally ripe for great ecclesiastical action or dispute.
All this has changed wholesale over the last century. Indeed, it is probably safe to say that gender and sexuality have become the most visible arenas of transformation and conflict arising from Liberal Anglicanism. Liberal Anglicanism tends to qualify the authority of scripture and tradition, instead emphasizing reason, experience, and ethics, with ethics often defined as much in terms of cultural norms as biblical pronouncements. Thus, as new technologies and social movements have confronted the culture, they have confronted the Church, as well. To a greater extent than in many other Christian traditions, large and influential groups within Anglicanism have embraced the outcomes of Liberalism. Meanwhile, those adhering to traditionally orthodox perspectives have taken increasingly strong stands against such outcomes within the Church, and Anglicanism has become so sharply divided that massive schism seems all but inevitable.
One should not conclude from this that changes regarding gender and sexuality are limited to liberal groups within Anglicanism. For instance, the use of artificial contraception was once condemned in Anglicanism, but now it is accepted by most among liberals and conservatives alike. Similarly, Anglicanism once rejected the marriage in the Church of a person who has been divorced, but now it is rare to find opposition to the practice.
The issue of women in the priesthood has been somewhat more complex. The practice received its first official sanction in Hong Kong in 1970. Canada followed in 1976, and the U.S. in 1977. England was a relative latecomer, in 1993. The practice met with enormous resistance, and some conservative groups departed the Anglican Communion. The matter remains controversial, but there is not a simple division between liberals and conservatives. A number of Anglo-Catholics who have resisted the influence of Liberalism remain opposed, as do many Evangelicals. However, many other Evangelicals embrace the practice. The outcome is a predictably confused portrait of Anglican ministry. Most Anglican provinces now ordain women to the priesthood, although there are some dioceses within these provinces that do not adhere to the practice. Some provinces also have women bishops, and one has a woman primate. In the United States, among the conservative groups that have broken off from The Episcopal Church there are some that ordain women and some that do not. It appears that the proposed North American province that would unite them allows for, but does not mandate, the ordination of women to the priesthood. Only men, however, may be ordained as bishops.
A much greater controversy in Anglicanism surrounds homosexual practice. Historically, Anglicanism (and Christianity generally) has condemned homosexual practice. Indeed, the 1998 Lambeth Conference upheld the biblical principles of fidelity between a man and a woman in marriage, and abstinence for those not called to marriage. By the time of that Conference, however, some Anglicans had begun to question this stance, and ordinations of openly gay clergy were already taking place. It has been argued that the biblical principle of fidelity remains relevant, while the specific biblical moral injunctions regarding homosexuality were culturally conditioned and are no longer applicable. Thus, the Church should support "monogamous" homosexual relationships.
This and similar arguments began to carry increasing weight in North American Anglicanism, and homosexual clergy had probably been quietly tolerated for years in some dioceses. Then two separate events of great significance occurred in 2003. In one, the Diocese of New Hampshire elected the first openly gay non-celibate bishop in the Anglican Communion, V. Gene Robinson. In the other, the Diocese of New Westminster (Canada) determined to bless same-sex unions in the Church. These events were hailed as transformative by progressives both inside and outside Anglicanism. They were condemned as apostate (contrary to the faith) by conservatives, again, both inside and outside Anglicanism. They were also condemned by some as contrary to the 1998 Lambeth Conference, and therefore schismatic in nature.
The resulting conflict is causing massive divisions, and indeed the continuing unity of the Anglican Communion is in doubt. And while on the surface it is differences over sexuality that are to blame, it may be seen that underlying these differences are fundamental theological disagreements that have stemmed, in large part, from the rise of liberalism.
1. How has Liberal Anglicanism shaped conversations about gender and sexuality?
2. Do women have the same opportunities for leadership within the Anglican Church as men? Explain.
3. What is the Anglican stance on homosexual practice?
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The oldest source of drinking water at the Krumlov Castle was a deep well which is located in the so-called Vaclav cellars ( Cellars in the IV. Courtyard of Český Krumlov Castle) up to the present. The first and main waterworks, constructed in the 16th century under the supervision of Jakub Krčín of Jelčany, a Rosenberg regent, were still in operation in this century. A little later, again from the 16th century, there is mention of subsequent waterworks from the forest called Dubík. In addition to the castle, that one supplied the area of a Krumlov suburb called Plešivec. Over the course of the later centuries, there were other waterworks added. A preserved description dated 1736 states six aristocratic waterworks :
waterworks from the spring at Dubík to the princely kitchen
waterworks from the well under Nový dvůr (waterworks of Krčín)
waterworks from the meadow of Starý dvůr, under Haderberk, towards the brewery, dated 1729 (nowadays the waterworks from Waterfountain)
waterworks from Novosedly to New Upper Aristocratic Park, consisting of 8-9000 tubes
waterworks from the well above Kvítkův dvůr to that court
Another description of aristocratic waterworks including their length comes from the year 1756, made up by Jiří Plansker, a princely geodesist.
The last entire description of seigniorial waterworks in Český Krumlov was formed by Karel Habl, a geometrist, in 1907. It dictates them in the following numerical order :
- waterworks from Blanský les to the court of Nový dvůr and to Český Krumlov Castle, with two main lines and many branches.
- waterworks of the brewery from the meadow At the Waterfountain.
- waterworks from Polečnice going from the filtering station at limekiln.
- waterworks from the limekiln to the ponds for small fish.
- waterworks for industrial purposes, from the pond at Dubík to the pond of the Castle Gardens.
- waterworks from the well at Kvítkův dvůr to the pond of the Castle Park leading on to the Cascade Fountain.
- waterworks for drinking water, from the virgin spring to the Castle kitchen.
The most important waterworks of all were those from Blanský Forest, also called "the old of Krčín". Their original purpose was to supply the Castle and the brewery, and later just the Castle. Water was collected from a few springs and led by wooden pipes which were later replaced by cast-iron. Until the last century, water was led to fountains and stone troughs, from where people could draw it when necessary. At that time water distribution to flats and offices was hailed as a big achievement.
During 1923 - 1924 the waterworks took water from 12 springs of Kleť mountain. The system consisted of 4153 m of cast-iron pipes with a diameter of 80 and 50 mm, plus 1656 m of wooden tubes with the same diameters. The main waterworks branched off towards a few houses in Vyšný, Špičák and Latrán, with a total length of 1937 m. The waterworks from Kleť measured in total 7737 m. 250 people plus the entire Castle operation including the stables, diary, and others all drew from it. These waterworks were also exploited, besides by the employees of the Castle and the large estate, by people from elsewhere, who only paid a symbolic fee of 1 Koruna.
The other waterworks of the Castle complex served a large estate in that time. The brewery in Latrán, for example, had its own waterworks from the 18th century. The pond at Dubík still leads to the pond in the Castle Park today as well as supplying the Castle with water for industrial purposes.
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Environmental Sciences Seminar:
Reductive Defluorination of PFAS by Acidimicrobiaceae sp. A6 while Oxidizing Ammonium or Hydrogen under Iron Reducing Conditions
The oxidation of ammonium (NH4+) to nitrite (NO2–) under iron-reducing conditions is referred to as Feammox. The genome of an organism responsible for this process, Acidimicrobiaceae sp. A6 (referred to as A6), has been sequenced, and contains reductive dehalogenase-like genes (RDases). Hence, 100-day incubations were conducted with a series of PFAS over a concentration range from 0.1 mg/l to 100 mg/l, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). Either NH4+ or hydrogen (H2) were used as the electron donor for A6 to reduce Fe(III) during these incubations. Results show that all of the PFAS examined, including perfluorinated compounds such as PFOA and PFOS were defluorinated with either electron donor. Independent of the initial concentration, after 100-day incubations ~ 60% of PFOA or PFOS was degraded during the incubations. Analyses of fluorinated intermediates, fluoride ions produced, as well as Fe(II) produced and NH4+ oxidized during these incubations, indicate that that the process is a reductive defluorination. Buildup of acetate, in combination with a carbon balance shows that at least a partial production of completely defluorinated degradation products did occur. RDases were not expressed when either NH4+ or H2 were oxidized under iron-reducing conditions in the absence of PFAS, but they were expressed in both the pure A6 culture and the A6 enrichment culture in incubations when PFAS were present and fluoride was produced. While incubations with the pure A6 culture produced little if any fluorinated compounds with shorter carbon chains, production of such intermediates was observed during incubations using the A6 enrichment culture, indicating that once A6 partially defluorinates these PFAS, other organisms present in the enrichment culture can then break the carbon-carbon bond. To our knowledge this is the first reported anaerobic mineralization of perfluorinated compounds such as PFOA and PFOS.
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The prostate is a walnut-sized gland that sits under the bladder and wraps around the urethra. Only men have prostates. As a gland, it produces secretions that ultimately end up in the ejaculate. Small outgrowths of the prostate, called the seminal vesicles, produce most of the seminal fluid. Most importantly, the prostate has muscle fibers in its substance that squeeze the urethra closed during ejaculation so that the fluid that is excreted goes out through the tip of the penis and not backward into the bladder. After removal of the prostate gland, the ejaculate will go into the bladder and not out of the tip of the urethra during orgasm. The fluid will be eliminated at the next urination.
Three conditions affect the prostate gland: enlargement, cancer, and infection or inflammation. For some mysterious and unfortunate reason, the prostate gland grows as men age. Because the prostate wraps around the urethra, the growth process can impinge upon the urethra and squeeze it. The result is that the urine has to pass through a small passage in order to exit the bladder. Symptoms of an enlarged prostate include frequent urination, slow flow, and a sense of incomplete bladder emptying.
Unlike benign prostatic enlargement, prostate cancer is an asymptomatic condition. A normal size prostate can have cancer cells in it just as easily as an enlarged prostate. Most prostate cancers are slow-growing and not life-threatening. As a matter of fact, there is a saying among urologists that 80% of men at the age of 80 will have prostate cancer. The challenge is trying to figure out which men have aggressive cancer that needs to be treated. We have ever-emerging diagnostic methods of looking for cancers that need to be managed. And, our treatment options have evolved as well. Robotic surgery, focal therapy, chemotherapy, and radiation are available.
Finally, prostatitis, or inflammation of the prostate, can be very uncomfortable and highly symptomatic. Affecting men of all ages, prostatic pain is caused by bacteria, viruses, stress, sitting too much, and unexplained inflammation. Maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly will help keep bowel movements regular and relax the pelvic muscles, which helps men with prostatitis. Anti-inflammatory agents, such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen, can help alleviate acute episodes of prostatitis. Rarely, antibiotics are necessary, but only in cases in which cultures confirm a bacterial source. If you would like to learn more about prostate disease, please call our office or press the "Book Online" button to make an appointment to see one of our physicians.
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Tips for the Class of 2022!
- Be aware of how many credits you have and what you will need for graduation. Start thinking about what options could be available to you your senior year as you discuss your credits (Early Graduation, Work Program, Transfer Academy, Job Shadowing, CEO Program).
- Consider getting involved in extracurriculars and volunteer experiences if you aren’t already involved. These involvements can help you gain new friendships, develop your interests, develop new skills, and help you stand out on college applications. Consider a job outside of school. Talk to your counselor if you will need a work permit.
- It’s never too early to start considering colleges. Consider taking a college visit over the summer or during school breaks.
- Attend IVCC campus events.
- Check out the Career Fair when it comes to the school during lunchtime.
- Ask Military Recruiters questions when they visit the school.
- PSAT will take place in April. Khan Academy is a great resource to help prepare for the test. https://www.khanacademy.org/
- Consider the classes that will challenge you, as well as classes that help you towards your post-secondary goals. Start learning about AP courses and dual credit class options.
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“This site contains HIV prevention messages that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Since HIV infection is spread primarily through sexual practices or by sharing needles, prevention messages and programs may address these topics. If you are not seeking such information or materials, please exit this website.”
Diversity and Inclusion
At the most basic level, diversity is about differences. Inclusion is what we do with those differences. There are all kinds of differences among people. There are things you can see, such as race, gender, and physical ability. Additionally, there is a whole host of things that you cannot see, such as learning style, sexual orientation, mental health, religious beliefs, personal values, and more. Given this understanding, it’s safe to say that diversity is just a natural part of our organizational life. Diversity is all around us, in the people we teach, work with, provide services to, and share a community with.
Recognizing and appreciating diversity is a critical component of fostering wellbeing. Being a member of a community wherein people feel valued, respected, and supported by others has a positive impact on physical and psychological health, and creates a buffer against stress. Conversely, the experience of exclusion, harassment, and discrimination produces physical and mental health risks to individuals and harms the health of the organization as a whole. In this light, it is in the best interest of every member of our community that we work together to create a healthy workplace culture that is inclusive of everyone.
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I've noticed that there are a very large number of oranges in Sheridan's quarters for some reason, and I also noticed a few in Garibaldi's (although Zach did ask, are you on a diet? hinting that it might not be ordinary). It doesn't seem that it was referenced in any special way or explained as I recall. Why is this?
John's obsession with oranges seems to stem from his childhood, eating oranges from his family's orchard.
When I was 12, I used to sit in my dad's garden the air full of the smell of orange blossoms watching the sky, dreaming of faraway places.
The Geometry of Shadows
And deprivation of them while he was out on the rim as captain of the Agamemnon.
I haven't had an orange in almost two years. I used to dream about them. Grapes, nectarines, plums, the black ones, not the red ones. I mean, it's amazing what two years on the Rim can do to you. I have a hunch I'll be spending a lot of time in Hydroponics.
Points of Departure
Obviously as captain of the station, one of the perks is access to stocks directly from the hydroponic gardens, including oranges.
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My research broadly concerns the security of machine learning systems, as well as the use of machine learning for security. Machine learning is becoming ubiquitous and an understanding of its vulnerabilities is of pressing concern for those deploying the system, as well as those affected by it. My work has spanned attacks on and defenses for machine learning systems, as well as the development of a fundamental understanding of their robustness.
Fundamental bounds on robustness
Evasion (or test-time) attacks represent worst-case perturbations to data encountered at test time by an ML system, and an immense variety of attacks and defenses have been proposed. It is thus critical to understand the fundamental limits of learning in the presence of such attackers from two standpoints: i) how is the process of learning itself impacted by the presence of such an attacker, and ii) what is the change, if any, in the lowest loss achievable by any classifier in the presence of a given attack. Our work at NeurIPS 2018 tackled the first question, demonstrating the impact of evasion attacks on the number of samples required to learn good classifiers if an evasion attacker is present. In two papers at NeurIPS 2019 and ICML 2021, we leveraged the theory of optimal transport to show the impact of test-time attacks on the minimum achievable 0-1 and cross-entropy loss, respectively.
Practical attacks on machine learning systems
Machine learning systems are vulnerable to attacks that aim to induce misclassification of inputs, either via test-time (evasion) or training-time (poisoning) manipulation. However, most of these attacks make unrealistic assumptions about the attacker’s capabilities, such as white-box access to the internals of the ML system. Our work on black-box attacks was the first to demonstrate that attackers with only query-access to the ML system under attack could be as powerful as white-box attackers.
Distributed machine learning is becoming increasingly popular for its privacy and computational benefits, but has critical security vulnerabilities as demonstrated by our work on model poisoning attacks. We were the first to show that even a small fraction of compromised agents can lead to the misclassification of attacker-chosen instances at test time.
Protecting machine learning via provable and lightweight defenses
Securing machine learning systems against attacks is necessary, but security solutions are likely to be adopted only if they provide guarantees and do not impact performance signifcantly. We have provided solutions satisfying both these conditions against patch-based test-time attacks as well as model poisoning attacks during training.
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The number of local gay bars and pubs in east London is significantly decreasing. Many beloved establishments have been lost and those that remain have had to adapt. ELL has mapped the decline of LGBTQ venues in our boroughs over the past 30 years from 1985 to 2015. Follow the story this week to find out why this is happening and what it means for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
The Old Ship pub, The White Swan club and The Backstreet leather bar are Tower Hamlets’ last remaining queer venues. The most recent loss to the borough’s LGBTQ scene was The Joiner’s Arms in Shoreditch, one of east London’s most-loved gay bars, which was closed in January.
The management was informed last year that its lease would not be renewed after it ended in January as a development company was planning to build flats on the site. The current owners, Robobond LTD, had attempted to have the Asset of Community Value status removed so the pub could be demolished.
The Hackney Road bar was turned into a gay venue in 1997 by David Alexander Pollard and was described as “Britain’s trendiest gay dive”, frequented by figures such as Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane and Patrick Wolf.
The Save The Joiners group was set up to protest the closure and try to save the venue. After an online petition and a campaign of protests, they have been successful in getting Tower Hamlets Council to reinstate the ACV status for the pub. This will help to protect it from developers and is a huge step towards reopening the pub as an LGBTQ community centre.
Comments from those who signed the Change.org petition to keep the pub open show its significance: “The Joiner’s Arms is an important institution in East London. It’s a safe haven for a huge group of LGBT Londoners,” said Brett Mortensen.
“The venue is an important cultural forum for an underprovided for minority,” said Justin Hiskett and Jack Marshall said: “I feel safe in there.”
Last month NewStatesman spoke to Dan Glass, a 31 year-old LGBTQ community worker and campaigner to save the Joiner’s Arms: “There’s no queer community centre in London, which is horrific.”
“It’s about time our community bloody woke up,” said sex worker and staple on the London scene Sleaszy Michael. “This is not just about the Joiners Arms. This is a real and present danger to our whole community.”
The only remaining gay pub in Tower Hamlets is The Old Ship on Wakeling Street. After it was threatened with closure two years ago, the pub has confirmed its position as a community pillar.
As ELL reported in 2013, when Tower Hamlets Council decided to sell their lease for the Old Ship to build housing, a local petition was started to save the pub. Within a month it had 1,250 signatures and the council reversed their decision.
Pub landlord John Fell told ELL: “The neighbours and people who used to live in this area would come in and say ‘we want to sign this petition because too many pubs have closed down; it’s gone too far.’”
ELL went to the Old Ship on a Friday night and spoke to the punters, pub-quizers and drag queens who call it their local.
Richard Brooke, aged 39 (who preferred not to be filmed) and Shaun Hanson, aged 42, have been coming to the Old Ship for about a year since they moved to Canning Town. The friends, originally from Wales and the Midlands respectively, have lived in London for about 15 years.
How have they seen LGBTQ society change? “There’s Soho but even that’s under attack,” said Brooke. “The gay scene as we know it has contracted to the centre more than anything else,” said Hanson. “Bars have been closing further out from central London.”
“There are a couple of reasons for this, firstly you had the smoking ban which didn’t just affect gay bars, it affected all bars. But I think when it becomes a bit more unique to the gay scene is when you’ve got the smartphone and apps like Grindr.”
“Now you can meet people without going out and find out who is around you locally without going to the bar. For the gay scene, it’s a bad thing. It’s destroying the gay scene when it comes to bars and clubs.”
Since its invention, the internet has been instrumental for the LGBTQ community as a method of spreading information and connecting people in different places. Recently gay people have utilised online communication with dating apps like Grindr, which allows gay and bisexual men to meet people nearby.
Once the queer community used secret slang and coloured handkerchiefs to find each other, today all you need is 3G. As it’s put in Channel 4’s new gay comedy Cucumber, “everywhere’s a gay bar now”.
Brooke: “When we go to The White Swan there’s people there on Grindr. It’s spoiling the art of conversation because rather than talking to people around you, you’re just trying to check out who’s there. What’s the point of standing in the middle of a nightclub with your phone? It’s bloody awful!”
Hanson: “Well, without damming Grindr too much…”
B: “He’s always on it, that’s why.”
H: “No, not necessarily! Without damning it too much, if you are in a bar such as the White Swan you can check someone out before you talk to them and you find out what their interests are before you talk to them.”
B: “And they say romance is dead.”
“We’re old school but a lot of the youngsters, especially if they’re at university or something, go out with their friends and they might just go to a normal club anyway and do whatever they want, they don’t actually go to specific gay places like we used to. There’s a lot of that now where everyone just goes where they want. When I go out I like to know everyone is gay”, says Brooke, laughing.
“I think a lot of young people take these things for granted,” said Hanson, “whereas for someone like myself, who’s 47 and grew up in the 80s, the gay scene was different then and you had to be careful who you might have looked at or touched even.”
“If I was going to a straight bar I wouldn’t be as easy or complacent as the young people are today because I’ve been conditioned to keep myself to myself. I still don’t think it’s 100% safe out there. It only takes one person to not like you because you’re gay…”
How did Hanson find becoming part of the gay scene as a young person? “You’d pick up on things but you had to learn fast,” said Hanson, “I had to learn fast because I wasn’t living in the straight world which school brought me up in and even with sex education was never geared towards what my life might be like.”
“Having learnt, dealt with and accepted how other people lived, it was time to learn fast about how I should live and the only way I could do that was from people who were like-minded because there was no other source of education.”
Jonathan Swaddle, aged 42 from Chingford and Dan Martin, aged 35 from South End spoke to us over a pint before the pub quiz started. Swaddle, who was off duty for the night, performs as a drag queen in the Old Ship as well as many other venues, queer and straight.
What did he think is to blame for the decline in local gay bars? “Drugs, the smoking ban and older people wanting to stay in,” he said. “The older you get, the more you stay in and with the gay scene, the young crowd are all in Soho. Pubs like this depend on middle aged to older people. It’s a struggle to fill a gay club now out of town.”
“You’ve also got Grindr now, the gay sex app. If you want to have sex you just use that to find someone. Twenty years ago when I was young there was no such thing, so you went out to meet people. Now you don’t have to.” “It’s tough for pub owners,” said Martin.
Swaddle is a patron of the Albert Kennedy Trust which supports LGBTQ youth: “They foster and take care of young kids – teenagers who have been booted out by their families and are on the street. They’re often fostered by gay couples who would then introduce them to this. They’re too young to come in and drink but it’s something to look forward to, a community.”
“I came out in the late eighties when I was 16 in a tiny little village up north called Wall,” said Swaddle who worked as a performer in Spain for eight years before returning to the UK circuit and the Old Ship 15 years ago: “The scene was different when I came back. Drugs had taken over. Everyone took drugs or takes drugs.”
Why are fewer gay people going to gay venues? “If I’m not working I’d usually rather go to a straight bar. But I think that’s a lot of people now – a lot of people just want to be normal, they just want to mix in with the normal crowd, they don’t want to be stigmatised in a gay pub and have to go to gay bars.”
Will this decline continue until there are no local gay bars left? “I would imagine so. It’s a total shame,” said Swaddle. “I absolutely love working here and I can’t imagine this not being here. But unless people come out and support it, it won’t be here. It’s a business at the end of the day, it’s got to make money.”
What about the situation in other parts of the city? “The gay scene in south London is just awful,” said Martin, “You had The Eagle which shut down, and Southern Pride and The Black Sheep. It’s just rough. It doesn’t feel comfortable to go there. You had really good drag queens who went there but you didn’t feel comfortable outside.”
“I used to manage a gay bar in Stratford for eight years,” said Martin, “The Angel.”
“I did the opening night and the closing night,” said Swaddle fondly. “But the owner went bust.”
“That was a real tragedy – The Angel going.” said Martin. “It used to be the hub of the gay scene in east London.”
They reminisce over the good times they had in the many bars and clubs which have since disappeared before joining their their quiz team and continuing to enjoy their night.
For more information on how the data behind this article was collected, see our methodology.
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We know also that the Son of God has come . . .
He is the true God and eternal life.
(1 John 5:20, NIV)
On June 5, 2019, my wife, Cheryl, and I, along with another couple, were privileged to visit Normandy, France, the day before the seventy-fifth anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Our time there was moving and memorable. Seeing reenactors, watching WWII era planes soar overhead, talking with veterans who participated in the invasion, and visiting the cross-lined cemeteries—that day was one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life. What happened on that hallowed ground seventy-five years earlier changed the course of history and the lives of millions of people.
One event from that time is etched on my mind. On June 6, 1944, in a German prisoner of war camp, one of the prisoners was secretly listening to the BBC. Hearing of the allied invasion of Normandy, he could hardly contain himself. He began whispering three simple words to other prisoners, “They have come.” One prisoner was so overcome with joy that he threw reserve and restraint aside, ran into the barracks, and began shouting, “They have come. They have come.” Weak men jumped for joy. Strong men hugged each other and wept with excitement. Some stood on tables and shouted as others rolled on the floor in ecstasy. Their German captors, not knowing about D-Day, thought they had gone crazy. For the prisoners, nothing had changed outwardly, but inwardly everything had changed. Their rescue was certain. “They had come.”
The same is true of Christmas. Bethlehem was God’s Normandy. Jesus came to defeat the enemy and set the prisoners free. Our rejoicing should be no less great. We must not keep the news to ourselves. Our situation may not change externally, but internally everything changes. Rescue is certain. This Christmas we should loudly, joyfully proclaim—“He has come! He has come!”
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Diploma in Human Rights & Law
(An autonomous diploma course of Indian Law Society, Pune)
Admissions for Diploma in Human Rights and Law are still continued( till 15th November 2021). The lectures for the course will begin from Tuesday, 16th November 2021 from 3 to 5 pm. Link for the lectures will be mailed to students enrolled on Monday, 15th November 2021.
For any further queries please write to : email@example.com
Course Co-ordinator – Dr Sita Bhatia (Contact – 9881159569)
Eligibility – I year BA LLB (appeared) onwards, any graduate, professionals
Commencement of Lectures – 16th November 2021
Number of Seats – Minimum 40; Maximum 60
Registration – By Online payment only
Last Date – 15th November 2021. Admission will be confirmed on payment of the fees.
Payment of Fees – Online through Direct SBI, Net banking and Credit Card only. Debit Cards payments are not acceptable.
Fees – Rs 12390/- (Current ILS students) Rs 14750/- (Non ILS including ex-students of ILS) including GST
Class timings and days – Every Tuesday and Wednesday, 3 pm to 5 pm (tentative). Classes will be conducted online.
Assessment Pattern – Written examination 50 marks; Viva-voce 20 marks; Dissertation 30 marks (Total 100 marks). Written examination/Dissertation may be conducted online/offline depending upon the pandemic situation.
Module 1 : Theory and philosophy of Human Rights
Module 2 : Panoramic view of Human Rights
- International Instruments on Human Rights
- Regional instruments on Human Rights
Module 3 : Human Rights in the pre-independence era and its protection in India
Module 4 : Human Rights and the Indian Constitution
Module 5 : Human Rights & various Legislations
Module 6 : Challenges to Human Rights
Module 7 : Enforcement Mechanism for Protection of Human Rights
Module 8 : Agencies for Protection of Human Rights
Module 9 : Voluntary Organizations/People’s participation and Human Rights
Module 10 : Specific Human Rights, Vulnerable group and other
Module 11 : Rights to Development and Human Rights
Module 12 : Right to Self determination
Module 13 : Humanitarian Law and Armed Conflict
Module 14 : Project/Dissertations on various Human Rights topics/issues
Module 15 : Practical and Legal Training
Note : Online lectures will be conducted till the further notice of physical attendance at the college.
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COMMON NAMES: Bella Union, Borrachero, Chacruco, Chipiritsontinbaka, Chiricaspi Salvaje, Chiric-Sanango, Huha Hay, Kiss-me-quick, Manaka Root, Sanango, Picudo, Royal Purple Brunfelsia, Uhahai
Brunfelsia grandiflora is a tree-like shrub indigenous to the tropical regions of South America, ranging from Venezuela to Bolivia. It is especially abundant in Brazil and on the Caribbean Islands. In the wild this plant can grow up to 10 feet (3 meters) tall, and produces many dark green long oval leaves that will grow up to 12 inches (30cm) long. This shrub produces many ornamental flowers and has long been cultivated for its aesthetic beauty. The flowers are thin, trumpet-like and will grow up to 4 inch long, producing five petals and varying in color from lavender, dark blue and violet to light purple and white (Ratsch 1998, 112). View more images of Brunfelsia grandiflora flowers.
Most Brunfelsia species may be propagate through cutting or root pieces. However, the plants rarely produce fruit in cultivation. Indoor plants need to be watered regularly with water that has been let sit out for some time. They like to be fertilized every two weeks between April and August (Ratsch 1998, 112).
TRADITIONAL USE: The indigenous peoples of the Amazon have used Manaca for ritual healing ceremonies, and in magical and religious observances. The shaman of the Kofan Indian tribe drink a tea made from the roots and root bark of the plant to see into the body of an ill patient. The plant allows them to understand the nature of the ailment and to help heal the patient. Many tribes throughout the Amazonian River basin add Brunfelsia grandiflora leaves, roots and root bark to their Ayahuasca brews, to produce a brew that is blessed by the plant and animal spirits. In Peru, the roots are sometimes taken as a plant teacher for a period of one month. It is said that the older, thick roots are toxic, whereas the young roots that are 1.5cm or under are safe for use. A dose generally consists of two or three roots (Plowman 1977).
TRADITIONAL PREPARATION: There are several different preparation methods used by the Amazonian tribes, but the most common method is to make a tea from the roots and bark of the plant. The Shuar Indians make a potent tea using the leaves, roots and bark and then straining out the plant materials. Other tribes use a cold water extraction by shaving the bark from the roots and stems and then allowing them to soak in cold water until much of the active alkaloids are leeched out. Another common preparation used by the indigenous peoples was to extract the active compounds into an alcohol mixture. They used about 2 ounces (50 grams) of the root, macerated it, and allowed it to soak in 34 ounces (1 liter) of cane juice alcohol (Plowman 1977).
The Jibaro make a version of Ayahuasca by boiling Banisteriopsis caapi vines, Brunfelsia grandiflora roots and another vine only known as Hiaji. The Banisteriopsis vines are boiled for 14 hours, after which all the other ingredients are added and boiled until only the thick dark residue remains. In the Yabarana tribe, the leaves are routinely dried, crushed, mixed with tobacco, and smoked (Ratsch 1998, 113).
MEDICINAL USES: The Amazonian tribes used this magical plant to treat many different ailments: fevers, symptoms of syphilis, snake bites, yellow fever, and arthritis. They even made a topical rub used to heal minor skin rashes and insect bites. Although it is not widely used in modern Western Medicine, the main active alkaloid in Brunfelsia grandiflora is scopoletin which has been shown to help regulate blood pressure, and has anti-inflammatory properties that are beneficial to those suffering from asthma and other bronchial disorders. Recent research has shown that scopoletin may also help balance serotonin levels, and this can be very useful for people suffering from depression and various anxiety disorders (Ratsch 1998, 114).
TRADITIONAL EFFECTS: The plant’s psychoactive compounds are found in the leaves, stems, roots, and root bark. The roots are especially abundant in active alkaloids like aesculetine, cuscohygrine, manaceine, manacine and scopoletin. Recent research has shown that the bark and roots of this plant contains as much as .08 percent manacine (Schultes 1979 cited in Ratsch 1998, 114).
According to early reports, the effects of consuming Manaka Root are not very appealing. The effects include dizziness, exhaustion, nausea, excessive salivation, muscle weakness, lethargy, facial paralysis, mouth pains, swollen tongue, numbness in the extremities, tingling sensations, tremors, feeling of unbearable cold and blurred vision. At higher does, there are reports of delirium, sustained mental confusion, and possible blindness. Modern reports liken the experience to an overdose of nicotine for non-smokers. Jonathon Ott has commented on his personal Brunfelsia experience, stating that his self experiments with this teacher plant nearly killed him (Ratsch 1998, 115).
When added to ayahuasca brews, B. grandiflora is said to make the brew stronger and make a sound ‘like rain in the ears’. The Quechua call the plant ‘chiricaspi’, meaning ‘cold tree’. By this they are referring to the chills and tingling sensations that the plant causes once consumed. If the plant is consumed over a period of time as a tonic it is said to give one strength and resistance to cold (Voogelbreinder 2009, 106).
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Voogelbreinder, Snu, Garden of Eden: The Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Flora and Fauna, and the Study of Consciousness. Snu Voogelbreinder, 2009.
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For many people, giving a presentation is not easy. Doesn’t matter if you are presenting virtually or in person. Some are comfortable standing in front of a crowd, clicker in hand, attempting to impart a message.
However, comfort doesn’t necessarily mean competency.
I have seen many first-timers ace a presentation and many seasoned professionals make a right hash of it.
So here are a few simple presentation tips, that many people forget about, which will help you consistently deliver far better presentations.
Avoid death by PowerPoint
This advice is probably in every presentation skills article I have ever read, and yet I regularly meet with people who have a phenomenal number of slides in their deck.
One of the leading causes for packing the presentation slide deck is sheer nerves. People are nervous that they will forget what they wanted to say, and the content on the slides is there to prompt them with the right words. Others are apprehensive that what they have to say isn’t of interest, so face the screen to avoid making eye contact with the audience.
People didn’t come to hear a reading from you. They don’t want to spend an hour looking at the back of your head while you read from the screen.
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You and your knowledge are the most crucial element of your presentation. Your slides are only there to reinforce the main points of your message. Have confidence in your message and never read to your audience. Use the slides only to reinforce your message.
Tell your story
Just getting confidence is not easy. The notion that it is just, ‘lost under the couch’ or ‘hiding in the garage somewhere’ for you to find is just nonsense, I know. Confidence comes with repetition and practice.
However, one of the areas I address in my podcast is that to become an agile speaker; you need to know your topic and prepare for your presentation.
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Avoid style over substance
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Control your space
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China Mobile's 15-year-old messaging app Fetion is finally shutting down – but its new 5G messaging business is struggling to get traction.
In a website announcement China Mobile has told users that the service, which once counted 200 million active subscribers, will end on September 30.
Fetion was one of the first services to offer free voice, data and SMS, and it grew virally for several years until it ran into the WeChat juggernaut in 2011 (see China Catches OTT Fever).
Fetion has been in decline ever since, while WeChat is now a national super app, essential for payments and authentication as well as providing messaging and social media.
It is not clear how many people are still using Fetion – it has been years since China Mobile disclosed any operating data.
But it is a salutary lesson in the difficulty, if not impossibility, of even an operator with a billion users competing directly against a super-agile OTT app not tied to a single carrier.
It's with that in mind Chinese operators have made another run at this market with RCS-based 5G messaging, which they are pitching as a function-rich marketing channel that potentially could reach China's 1.6 billion mobile subscriber population.
China Mobile and China Telecom have officially started commercial service, and China Unicom has said it plans to start next month. Both Mobile and Telecom say they have signed up hundreds of merchant customers – but they have no user base to speak of.
Lack of cooperation
The telcos say the biggest problem has been a lack of cooperation from handset-makers – as a native app, device support is essential, but some brands are actively opposed to 5G messaging.
According to one account, a national contest for 5G messaging apps last year attracted 400 new apps, yet only three handset models were available that could display them.
Meanwhile, China Mobile is turning its attention to another platform business – the metaverse.
Among telcos, SK Telecom has been the early metaverse champion, with more than a million users on its Ifland platform and plans to expand worldwide.
China Mobile's progress is slightly more modest.
It announced last week it would set up its metaverse headquarters in the southern city of Xiamen. Its mobile content unit Migu reportedly impressed local authorities by building out metaverse versions of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone Memorial Hall and Party History Museum.
The good news for China Mobile and China Telecom is that Hurun research firm places both of them in its metaverse top 20 "greatest potential" companies, along with giants like Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei and iFlytek.
The bad news is that, according to Hurun researchers, only the telcos' network capabilities offer any business value.
- China Catches OTT Fever
- China Mobile preps world's first 5G VoNR service
- In 2022, will telcos get the RCS message at last?
— Robert Clark, contributing editor, special to Light Reading
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SALT LAKE CITY – WGU Labs, Inc. (WGU Labs), an affiliate of online nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU), has announced a product and market development agreement with MajorClarity—an education technology company designed to help students discover their future careers and the postsecondary paths needed to attain them. As part of the partnership, WGU Labs will develop content for interactive career simulations and provide support for MajorClarity’s market expansion.
“The term ‘college and career readiness’ is used widely throughout the education industry, but the career portion of the equation almost always takes a backseat to the college piece,” said Joe Belsterling, founder of MajorClarity. “We want to flip the focus to empower K-12 learners to begin their postsecondary planning with a deeper understanding of themselves—their strengths, aptitudes, and interests—and how the career landscape fits them.”
MajorClarity is based in Richmond, Va., and unifies teaching, counseling, and career readiness in a single platform that puts the student at the center of their own future. Rather than simply reading about careers or watching videos, MajorClarity engages students with career “test drives” through authentic, career-specific projects designed to give students a deeper understanding of different careers to help them determine which roles might be a good fit.
This career-first, student-centric approach is a shift from how college- and career-readiness systems have typically engaged students. Moreover, many high school career- and college-readiness programs focus heavily on four-year college pathways, often leaving students who are pursuing other options to fall through the cracks.
“The career simulations we develop with Major Clarity will empower students to test drive careers before they invest time and money down any one path,” said Jess Stokes, Head of Product Management for WGU Labs. “We are passionate about MajorClarity's role in inspiring students to pursue careers that align with their interests, and for helping students avoid costly missteps.”
“The last program we used had some video and activity content, but nothing compared to MajorClarity’s platform,” said Ginger Jones, Director of Counseling and Student Support Services for Rankin County Schools in Brandon, Miss. “Our students used to do a lot of digging to research potential colleges and scholarships, but with MajorClarity they can log in, research, compare, and save postsecondary opportunities—all in one spot.”
Belsterling believes that adding value to the workforce and society is more important than whether a student gets into college immediately after high school.
“Our vision is focused on helping students achieve successful career outcomes,” said Belsterling. “Of course, at the center of everything we do are the students and educators that we have the privilege to offer our service to—we simply hope to amplify the incredible work already taking place in school districts across the country by providing career readiness at a critical point in students’ lives.”
About WGU Labs
WGU Labs is a nonprofit applicant that is an affiliate of WGU. WGU Labs primarily provides research, services, invents, builds, and secondarily invests in strategically aligned innovative learning solutions that improve quality and advance educational outcomes for learners everywhere. Building on social psychology, learning science, and industry trends, WGU Labs accelerates education startups and develops its own research-supported, scalable products. Learn more about WGU Labs at https://wgulabs.org/.
MajorClarity, Inc., is an educational software company providing career exploration and academic-planning services to 1,500+ schools nationwide. MajorClarity unifies academic planning and career readiness for schools and students, helping ensure that every student’s education leads to a successful career outcome. MajorClarity offers the only academic-planning platform with interactive-career simulations (or “test drives”), in addition to its video content. MajorClarity helps every student leverage their career exploration to build out a course plan and a postsecondary plan that leads to their desired career outcome, whether that is through a 4-year degree, a 2-year degree, a technical certificate, the military, or going straight into the workforce.
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The evolution of oil prices over the last 50 years feels like a roller-coaster ride—a sequence of steep hills, unexpected jumps, and sharp drop-offs. For the world economy, this bumpy ride has been anything but fun.
Take 1973, when oil prices skyrocketed unexpectedly. Within two years, US unemployment had doubled, leaving the nation deep in the throes of a recession. (The rest of the world soon followed.) Similar tailspins occurred in 1979 and 1991, both caused by sharp increases in oil prices.
“The few recessions where we can name the culprit are oil-driven recessions,” explains Sergio Rebelo, a finance professor at the Kellogg School.
But what makes oil prices so volatile? Despite the high stakes, economists have not had enough data to answer this question. Do shocks to suppliers yank prices upward, or is shifting demand from developing countries part of the problem? And will this volatility continue?
Rebelo set out to answer these questions with fellow economists Gideon Bornstein, a PhD student at Northwestern, and Per Krusell of Stockholm University. The researchers had one critical advantage: a massive oil industry dataset containing historical information on every oil field in the world.
“Those data allowed us to take a close look at the inner workings of the oil industry for the first time,” Rebelo says.
With the data in hand, they have teased out how supply and demand each contribute to the volatility of oil. Counterintuitively, they also predict that fracking—the controversial technique of fracturing underground rock to tap its oil reserves—will eventually smooth out the market’s jagged roller-coaster ride.
“It’ll take out the peaks and troughs of oil prices,” Rebelo says.
A Data Treasure Trove
Three years ago, Rebelo and his coauthors procured a proprietary dataset covering some 14,000 oil fields operated by 3,200 companies since 1900. (For the purposes of their analysis, the researchers zeroed in on the period from 1970 to 2015.)
The data set, which is meant to be used by energy companies, provides unprecedented amounts of information, including not only the amount of oil produced annually, but which countries are producing it, and—crucially—the dollar amount that companies invest in their oil fields each year.
With these data in hand, the researchers set out to draw some basic facts about the oil industry over the last half century. “For instance,” Rebelo says, “we didn’t know much about the investment behavior of this industry.”
When they charted year-to-year changes, the authors found that the amount of resources energy companies invest in oil exploration and extraction was more volatile than oil prices. And when oil prices increased, investment in the oil industry increased along with them, as energy companies sought to capitalize on the higher profit margins.
Curiously, though, those investments did not seem to immediately affect the amount of oil extracted. “We show it’s very difficult to produce more oil in the short run,” Rebelo explains.
Suppliers can boost oil production in one of two ways: by extracting more quickly from existing oil fields, or by finding and drilling new fields. But there are upper limits to how fast oil can be extracted—and developing new wells takes time. The upshot: companies cannot boost production quickly in response to high oil prices.
“In our data, there’s an average lag of 12 years between investment and production,” says Rebelo.
What Explains Oil-Price Fluctuations?
The researchers also set out to understand what drove the volatility in oil prices.
Ask your average person, and you will likely get an answer that revolves around suppliers, Rebelo says. “When you read the Wall Street Journal, it sounds like OPEC—Saudi Arabia in particular—by producing more oil or less, can really manipulate the market.”
Indeed, a quick look at the data revealed that at certain moments, suppliers had effectively cut production—like in 1973, when the oil-producing Arab member nations of OPEC placed an embargo on oil exports to the US. During this period, “we see oil fields getting shut down,” Rebelo says.
But were these moments telling the full story? To find out, the researchers created a mathematical model to estimate the fraction of all oil-price fluctuations that could be attributed to shifts in supply.
What they found is that abrupt changes in supply explain only about half of the jumps in prices.
Rebelo notes that turning oil production on or off is a serious decision that costs millions of dollars. “It’s not like you have a tap, like you’re in the bathtub and you can put in more warm water or less,” he says.
That difficulty in adjusting supply in the short run explains why a full half of oil-price fluctuations were due to changes in consumer demand, which moved up and down according to the changing needs of the world economy.
Shifts in oil investment, on the other hand, appear to be driven primarily by fluctuations in demand. Rebelo says that this is due to the lag between investment and production, combined with the fact that the kinds of supply-side interruptions that ratchet up oil prices tend to be short-lived.
When the first Gulf War started, for example, oil production stalled in Iraq and Kuwait, leading prices to soar. But Rebelo says it did not make sense for companies to try to capitalize on those high prices by finding new oil sources. “By the time that new oil comes online, the shock will be gone, and the prices will be back to normal.”
Demand, on the other hand, tends to be more stable, and therefore provides a better incentive for investment, says Rebelo. “If China is going to grow more than expected for another decade”—and thus experience a steadily growing thirst for oil—“then it makes a lot of sense to invest.”
“By the time that new oil comes online, the shock will be gone, and the prices will be back to normal.”
Fracking and the Future
Where does fracking fit into this picture?
“Fracking started at a time when there was a lot of volatility in oil prices. So fracking and volatility tend to be linked,” Rebelo says.
But his new findings defy the consensus that fracking exacerbated volatility. Instead, the study suggests that fracking could eventually help stabilize oil markets. Fracking, which is short for hydraulic fracturing, involves the high-pressure injection of water into the ground to extract oil and natural gas. It is an environmentally controversial practice, in part, because of concerns over contamination of nearby groundwater.
Because it takes an average of 12 years to produce oil from an investment, companies have not historically been able to quickly capitalize on high prices. Today, however, that is no longer the case. The researchers found that fracking firms can produce oil much more nimbly than traditional firms.
“It takes on average about one year between investment and production in a fracking field,” says Rebelo.
As such, when oil prices rise, fracking firms will be able to take advantage of many booms before they end. And by producing more oil, they will put downward pressure on oil prices. Conversely, when oil prices are low, they are able to more easily halt production, driving prices upward.
In total, the authors calculate that fracking will reduce oil-price volatility by an astounding 65 percent.
Rebelo warns that we are still in the midst of the fracking transition, so it might be a while before the full effect can be seen. “We don’t have a situation where the fracking industry is yet mature,” he says. (The paper did not look at the potential environmental costs of fracking.)
Rebelo and his coauthors are interested to see if their prediction is borne out. Until then, they are glad to have helped shed light on such an important sector of the economy.
“We had this unusual opportunity to study the mechanics of the oil industry,” he says.
Source: Kellog Insight
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Sakuma Drops: All about the Japanese Fruit Candy
A work of Studio Ghibli, “Spirited Away” won Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003, and in Japan, it is known as the movie that recorded the highest receipts in the history of Japanese films.
As you know, Studio Ghibli has another hit movie “Grave of the Fireflies”, in which, “Setsuko (節子)”, a younger sister of the main character “Seita (清太)”, loves a tin can of candies.
Actually, the hard candy that appears in the movie exists in reality and has been loved by us Japanese for as long as over a century.
The name of the Japanese treat that can be seen in Studio Ghibli’s work “Grave of the Fireflies” is “Sakuma Drops”, which actually comes in 2 varieties.
One is “Sakuma’s Drops (サクマ式ドロップス)” manufactured by “Sakuma Seika (佐久間製菓)” Confectionery which is known as the original, while the other is “Sakuma Drops (サクマドロップス)” by “Sakuma Seika (サクマ製菓)”.
Originally, Sakuma Seika was one company, which introduced the original Sakuma Drops in 1908. But during the Second World War, it, unfortunately, went out of business because of the short supply of sugar.
After the war, 2 Japanese persons relating to the original company founded “Sakuma Seika (佐久間製菓)” and “Sakuma Seika (サクマ製菓)” respectively.
How to Open the Tin Can
When I was a boy, I used to buy the original Sakuma Drops and enjoy sucking on the fruit candy. I liked shaking the tin can to guess how many drops still remained in it.
Actually, the hole of the tin can is sealed up firmly with a removable lid, so when opening, you need to use something hard, like a coin or scissors, to lift it up.
The tin can contains 26 pieces of hard candy in total, which are made up of 8 flavors.
As the picture above shows, the 8 flavors are
- Grape (Purple)
- Apple (Green)
- Lemon (Translucent)
- Strawberry (Red)
- Pineapple (Yellow)
- Japanese Peppermint (Milky White)
- Chocolate (Brown)
- Orange (Orange)
With a beautiful bright hue, each flavor tastes very good and doesn’t easily melt even in the summer heat.
Ingredients and Calories
Lastly, let’s see the specific ingredients and calories of Sakuma Drops. According to the list on the side of the can, with 391 kcal per 100 grams, the original Sakuma Drops, Sakuma’s Drops consists of sugar, starch syrup, fruit juice (apple, orange, grape, strawberry, lemon, pineapple), cacao mass, acidifier, flavoring, and colors (anthocyanin, cape jasmine, monascus, paprika).
(Reference Page: Wikipedia サクマ式ドロップス )
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PRESENT COMPLAINERS, NOT HEIRS OF OLD SUFFERERS. 291
Spenser, Davis, and the writers referred to by Camden, long resident in the country, and eye-witnesses of all they describe, we really do not know what Mr. O'Driscol has to oppose, but his own patriotic prejudices, and his deep-rooted conviction, that no English testimony is to be trusted on such a subject. We must be forgiven for not sharing in his generous incredulity.
As to the more modern parts of the history, though he nevers fails to manifest an amiable anxiety to apologize for Irish excesses, and to do justice to Irish bravery and kindness, we really are not aware that this propensity has led him into any misrepresentation of facts; and are happy to find that it never points, in the remotest degree, to any thing so absurd as either a separation from England, or a vindictive wish for her distress or humiliation. He is too wise, indeed, not to be aware of that important truth, which so few of his zealous countrymen seem, however, able to comprehend — that there are no longer any of those injured Irish in existence, upon whom the English executed such flagrant oppressions two hundred years ago! and that nine tenths of the intelligent Irish, who now burn with desire to avenge the wrongs of their predecessors, are truly as much akin to those who did, as to those who suffered, the injury. We doubt whether even the O'Driscols have not, by this time, nearly as much English as Irish blood in their veins; and are quite sure, that if the lands pillaged from their original Celtic owners, in the days of Elizabeth and Cromwell, were to be given back to the true heirs, scarcely one of those who now reprobate the spoliation in good English, would profit by the restitution. The living Irishmen of the present day may have wrongs to complain of, and injuries to redress, on the part of the English Government: But it is absurd to imagine that they are entitled to resent the wrongs and injuries of those who suffered in the same place centuries ago. They are most of them half English, by blood and lineage-and much more than half English, in speech, training, character, and habits. If they are to punish the descendants of the individual English who
A VALUABLE HISTORY.
usurped Irish possessions, and displaced true Irish possessors, in former days, they must punish themselves; -for undoubtedly they are far more nearly connected with those spoilers than any of the hated English, whose ancestors never adventured to the neighbouring island. Mr. O'Driscol's partiality for the ancient Irish, therefore, is truly a mere peculiarity of taste or feeling — or at best but an historical predilection; and in reality has no influence, as it ought to have none, on his views as to what constitutes the actual grievances, or is likely to work the deliverance, of the existing generation.
MIDDLE AND EXTREME PARTIES.
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. By THOMAS MOORE. Fourth Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Longman and Co. 1826.*
WE have frequently had occasion to speak of the dangers to which the conflict of two extreme parties must always expose the peace and the liberties of such a country as England, and of the hostility with which both are apt to regard those who still continue to stand neutral between them. The charges against this middle party- which we take to be now represented by the old constitutional Whigs of 1688-used formerly to be much the same, though somewhat mitigated in tone, with those which each was in the habit of addressing to their adversaries in the opposite extreme. When the high Tories wanted to abuse the Whigs, they said they were nearly as bad as the Radicals; and when these wished in their turn to lessen the credit of the same unfortunate party, the established form of reproach was, that they were little better than the Tories! Of late years, however, a change seems to have come over the spirit, or the practical tactics at least, of these gallant belligerents. They have now discovered that there are vices and incapacities peculiar to the Whigs, and inseparable indeed from their middle position: and that, before settling their fundamental differences with each other, it is most wise and fitting that they should unite to bear down this common enemy, by making good against them these heavy imputations. It has now become necessary, therefore, for those against whom they are directed, to inquire a little into the nature and proofs of these alleged
What is here given forms but a small part of the article originally published under this title, in 1826. But it exhibits nearly the whole of the General Polities contained in that article; and having been, as I believe, among the last political discussions I contributed to the Review, I have been tempted to close, with it, this most anxious and perilous division of the present publication.
CHARGES AGAINST THE MIDDLE PARTY.
enormities; the horror of which has thus suspended the conflict of old hereditary enemies, and led them to proclaim a truce, till the field, by their joint efforts, can be cleared for fair hostilities, by the destruction of these
Now, the topics of reproach which these two opposite parties have recently joined in directing against those who would mediate between them, seem to be chiefly two: First, that their doctrines are timid, vacillating, compromising, and inconsistent; and, secondly, that the party which holds them is small, weak, despised, and unpopular. These are the favourite texts, we think, of those whose vocation it has lately become to preach against us, from the pulpits at once of servility and of democratical reform. But it is necessary to open them up a little farther, before we enter on our defence.
The first charge then is, That the Whigs are essentially an inefficient, trimming, half-way sort of party too captious, penurious, and disrespectful to authority, to be useful servants in a Monarchy, and too aristocratical, cautious, and tenacious of old institutions, to deserve the confidence, or excite the sympathies, of a generous and enlightened People. Their advocates, accordingly-and we ourselves in an especial mannerare accused of dealing in contradictory and equivocating doctrines; of practising a continual see-saw of admissions and retractations; of saying now a word for the people -now one for the aristocracy-now one for the Crown; of paralysing all our liberal propositions by some timid and paltry reservation, and never being betrayed into a truly popular sentiment without instantly chilling and neutralizing it by some cold warning against excess, some cautious saving of the privileges of rank and establishment. And so far has this system of inculpation been lately carried, that a liberal Journal, of great and increasing celebrity, has actually done us the honour, quarter after quarter, of quoting long passages from our humble pages, in evidence of this sad infirmity in our party and principles.
Now, while we reject of course the epithets which are
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here applied to us, we admit, at once, the facts on which our adversaries profess to justify them. We acknowledge that we are fairly chargeable with a fear of opposite excesses-a desire to compromise and reconcile the claims of all the great parties in the State-an anxiety to temper and qualify whatever may be said in favour of one, with a steady reservation of whatever may be justly due to the rest. To this sort of trimming, to this inconsistency, to this timidity, we distinctly plead guilty. We plead guilty to a love for the British Constitutionand to all and every one of its branches. We are for King, Lords, and Commons; and though not perhaps exactly in that order, we are proud to have it said that we have a word for each in its turn; and that, in asserting the rights of one, we would not willingly forget those of the others. Our jealousy, we confess, is greatest of those who have the readiest means of persuasion; and therefore, we are generally far more afraid of the encroachments of arbitrary power, under cover of its patronage, and the general love of peace, security and distinction, which attract so strongly to the region of the Court, than of the usurpations of popular violence. But we are for authority, as well as for freedom. We are for the natural and wholesome influence of wealth and rank, and the veneration which belongs to old institutions, without which no government has ever had either stability or respect; as well as for that vigilance of popular controul, and that supremacy of public opinion, without which none could be long protected from abuse. We know that, when pushed to their ultimate extremes, those principles may be said to be in contradiction. But the escape from inconsistency is secured by the very obvious precaution of stopping short of such extremes. It was to prevent this, in fact, that the English constitution, and indeed all good government everywhere, was established. Every thing that we know that is valuable in the ordinances of men, or admirable in the arrangements of Providence, seems to depend on a compromise, a balance; or, if the expression is thought better, on a conflict and struggle, of opposite and irreconcileable
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A consolidated bill seeking to ban all forms of hazing and repeal the “Anti-Hazing Law of 1995” has advanced to the plenary after hurdling the committee level in the House of Representatives.
The House Committee on Revision of Laws approved the “Servando Act of 2015” on a regular panel meeting this week, almost eight months after De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde student Guillo Ceasar Servando died in an alleged hazing activity conducted by members of Tau Gamma Phi or TGP in a residential house in Makati City.
Also dubbed as the “Anti-Hazing Act of 2015”, the consolidated bill was based on House Bill No. 4714 of Valenzuela City Congressman Win Gatchalian that was filed weeks after the death of the 18-year-old Servando, who was last seen alive in a condominium along Taft Avenue in Manila.
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Gatchalian, a senior member of the House committee on local government, was appointed head of the technical working group or TWG that merged HB 4714 with four similar measures namely HB Nos. 501, 636, 4164, and 4692, which seek to amend the current anti-hazing law.
In his TWG report, Gatchalian, a former three-term mayor of Valenzuela City, said the monitoring and regulation of community-based fraternities, sororities, and other organizations in the consolidated bill will be under the jurisdiction of local government units or LGUs.
Gatchalian, who is also a member of House Committee on Higher and Technical Education, said putting LGUs in-charge of community-based groups will enable authorities to monitor groups operating outside school grounds.
“Currently, some groups are not allowed to operate within school premises. These groups, however, still manage to operate outside academic grounds. So upon the request of DepEd, we included a provision that will allow them to register with their respective barangays,” said Gatchalian.
He explained that the TWG has agreed to remove the provision regulating the training and test of police and military academies upon the request of Philippine National Police or PNP and the Armed Forces of the Philippines or AFP to maintain discipline among their ranks.
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“The approval of the ‘Servando Act of 2015’ will give teeth to the current ‘Anti-Hazing Law’ (R.A. 8049) in going after those responsible for such violent hazing acts and those who always keep a policy of silence on the matter,” Gatchalian said.
Under the proposed law, schools and universities shall have all organizations operating within their grounds registered for the enforcement of the measure. This will make ensure that colleges and universities cannot shirk responsibility whenever someone dies or is injured during initiation rites of fraternities.
Meanwhile, community-based groups will be required to register with the barangay or municipality or city where it is primarily based and shall submit a comprehensive list of members and officers which shall be updated yearly from date of registration.
In the proposed measure, hazing is defined as “any physical or psychological suffering, harm or injury inflicted on a recruit as a form of an initiation rite or practice made as a prerequisite for admission or a requirement for continuing membership in a fraternity, sorority or organization.”
If hazing is held in the house of one of the officers or members of the fraternity, sorority, or organization, the parents shall be held liable as principals when they have actual knowledge of the hazing conducted therein but failed to take any action to prevent the same from occurring or failed to promptly report the same to the law enforcement authorities if he can do so without peril to himself or his family.
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School authorities and local government officials who consent to the hazing or who have actual knowledge thereof, but failed to take any action to prevent the same from occurring or failed to promptly report the same to the law enforcement authorities if he can do so without peril to himself or his family shall be punished as accomplices for the acts of hazing committed by the perpetrators.
Officers of the fraternity, sorority, or organization as well as participating members involved in the hazing will face reclusion temporal and a fine of P1 million. If found to be under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs, they will be fined P2 million and face reclusion perpetua.
If the hazing resulted in death, rape, sodomy, or mutilation of the victim, participants will be penalized with reclusion perpetua and a fine of P3 million. And if found guilty, such judgment, regardless of when it was given, will be reflected in the scholastic record, personal or employment record of the person convicted.
“Under the ‘Servando Act of 2015’, the school will also be fined P1 million if it approved the written application to conduct initiation by a fraternity, sorority or any student organization and hazing occurred during the activity or if no school representatives were present during initiation rites,” Gatchalian concluded. (Tim Alcantara)
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HousingNew York CityElite Sky International’s seafood company, which tried to disguise 5,666-pound shark fins as spiny lobsters and shipped them to China, was charged by federal prosecutors of violating the Lacey Act; Officials accused some seafood companies of taking advantage of loopholes in federal and state law to market shark fins.
The Associated Press recently started a discussion on the ecological environment with the shark fin market as this topic, denouncing this market chain that kills more than 73 million sharks each year; According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are about 500 species of sharks. More than a third of shark species are endangered, and since the 1970s the ocean has lost 71 percent of sharks to overfishing.
Several indictments from federal officials allege that some seafood companies in the United States took advantage of loopholes between state and federal laws to sell shark fins for profit, as doing a one-time trade in ivory as part of the industry chain. criticized. May be exported to China, and is also suspected of falsely claiming lobster purchased from overseasFloridaof lobster sold by the authorities for violating the Lacey Law.
Another South Florida seafood store, AIF, was also sued by federal officials in Florida for violating the same law; Court sources reveal that a seafood company run by a Chinese woman exported half of it to China without a license in 2016. Live Florida lobster, indicted by federal prosecutors, after reaching a plea with authorities.
In accordance with federal regulations, since 2000, although shark fins have been banned before being thrown back into the ocean, some states have weak policies on finning from dead sharks or importing shark fins from overseas; Congress tried to compare Canada. 2019, which banned all trade in shark fin outright, was opposed by Litian International, and launched a joint online settlement asking Congress not to pass the resolution.
Congress debates whether to ban the import and export of shark fins, saying more than 10 million shark fins are shipped to Asia undeclared every year; The report states that although not all sharks are killed for shark fins for their meat, bones and comparisons. Jaws, the export value of shark fins is high, a pound of shark fins sell for hundreds of dollars.
Florida Coarse OceanarchiveDirector Damien Chapman said that even if the US shark fin trade were banned outright, it would not improve current international demand; He pointed out that while other countries with looser fishing policies would make up for US market share, similar problems still occur.
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Join the movement
Schools everywhere are engaging in public-private partnerships that expand educational opportunities for all young people. Until now, there has been no single place where educators and community leaders could turn for support in the design, implementation, and improvement of high-impact partnerships.
National Network of Schools in Partnership (NNSP) was created to meet the growing demand for models of best practice and access to expertise in developing partnerships, in order to scale innovation more quickly – and with greater results.
Hear from Claudia Daggett, President of ISACS answer the question "What does NNSP mean to you?"
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This article sets out to demonstrate some key principles in sales and how we can improve on them through the use of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
NLP and Sales
You don’t need to know anything about Neuro-Linguistics to be able to follow this article but if you are interested in finding out more I invite you to explore the NLP Techniques section of the website. For the sake of brevity I will restrict this article to just how the subjects relates to good sales technique but most of this material you can apply to lopts of different contexts.
Having integrated NLP into many different sales models, companies and individuals I have found startling increases in conversions, buyer satisfaction and retention. Several planned case studies include the use of hypnotic language in written form increasing sales by over 400%, interview techniques (selling yourself) getting people jobs that were far removed from the perceived experience, and massive increases in sales through NLP motivation techniques.
My opinion on selling is that it is simply the process used to:
- take a person with a potential need (prospect) to recognising their need
- attach value to the product or service you offer to their needs
- removing obstructions allow them a clear thought process
- encouraging them to make a decision (closing the sale)
- settling their mind to prevent buyer’s remorse
Behind all of this is are a few things that need to be in place for the process to work well.
- A product or service
- The belief of the salesperson about themselves
- A prospect with a need that outweighs the price
- Belief in the product / service by the sales person
There is the opportunity to make sales without these things in place but if you are interested in good, clean and ethical selling then all these things need to be in place.
In my world, people would come to me knowing they have a need. I show them my services which they instantly recognise as a solution and then they shower me with money. Then I wake up and realise there are some pitfalls that don’t allow this to happen simply… at least not every time. But using some straightforward NLP techniques can drive you closer to this dream situation.
So here are a few of the common problems in sales.
Beliefs of the Sales Person
The process of selling is all about a relationship between seller, product and buyer. The beliefs of the sales person can have a dramatic effect on every part of the process. Imagine the implications of a sales person that has any of these beliefs:
- I can’t sell
- Selling is bad / worthless
- The prospect can’t afford it
- The product / service is rubbish
This is just a small sample of a whole range of beliefs that will certainly blow out the process and dent any results you might have achieved.
A range of NLP techniques including belief changes, self-esteem patterns and reframing the importance of sales, the product, and the sales person would help these circumstances.
Excitement about the Product
I have worked with many small businesses and there is a common trait in most of them. They are usually excited, motivated and interested in their business. They usually know their product / service inside out and can talk at great depth about it.
Normally, and in most situations this is a huge benefit. But I have notice that in the sales process this can often be a real hindrance.
Consider this for a moment; you don’t need to understand electricity to be able to watch programmes on a TV. In fact for most people having someone explaining the detailed mechanics a TV is unlikely to induce you to buy it. What will work is someone explaining, in your language how this new TV would meet your needs.
Complex, technical products or intangible services are particularly prone to this issue Watching sales people talking in jargon that seems like another language whilst the eyes of their prospects glaze over is something I have seen more times than I would like. This can often happen with people that have a deep interest in their products / services, but it can also happen when the salesperson has little faith in either themselves or the product.
A good NLP sales course will give you a whole bunch of tools and techniques that will allow you to focus on the customer, match their language and understand their needs.
Sales Mastery and NLP the relationships between seller, prospect and product is more important than the individual components Click to tweet
A Sales Process
Let us imagine that you have the belief in yourself and your product and that you have brushed up your communication skills to the point that you can almost mind read your prospects and know exactly where they are coming from. There is still one area where you can easily lose the sale. This is all about the sales process. If you don’t get the sequence right you may not make the sale. A simple example to illustrate the point if I asked you for the money before you recognised your need for the product then you are not going to buy. If this is not the case please give me a call because I have some Excess Navel Fluff Removers that are going very cheap at the moment.
Here is a short video from my Hypnotic Sales Process that explains further:
And if you want to see the rest of the material for the Hypnotic Sales Process you can click through and find out more about the course here:
NLP, Modelling Excellence
NLP was born out of the desire to deconstruct the process of success and then being able to train others to be able to do the same. As such one of the biggest contributions NLP makes to the world of sales is being able to model great sales processes and integrate the best elements for any context.
Selling a commodity, impulse buy on the internet would be different to selling a multi million pound project to a government and therefore elements of the sales process would change. The advantage of good NLP Sale Course is that you learn the mindset, methodology and tools to be able to construct the sales process for any given context.
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National Voter Registration Day 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. (September 18, 2015) - The South Carolina State Election Commission, along with Americans across the nation, will be celebrating National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) on Tuesday, September 22, 2015. This is a nationwide effort to register voters before upcoming elections in November. Celebrate democracy in America by encouraging individuals to exercise one of our most basic rights: the right to vote!
The State Election Commission encourages all South Carolinians to exercise that right in all elections, including the more than 150 elections being held throughout the state on November 3. The first step to doing that is registering to vote.
YOU MUST BE REGISTERED BY OCTOBER 3 TO VOTE IN A NOVEMBER 3 ELECTION.
There's an election happening nearly every Tuesday somewhere in the state. To find out if you are having an election on November 3 or any other date, check out the list of upcoming elections by clicking this link.
In South Carolina, voter registration has never been easier:
- Register online at scVOTES.org (requires SC Driver's License or DMV ID Card)
- Register at your county voter registration and elections office
- Download a voter registration form from scVOTES.org . Complete and return it to your county voter registration and elections office:
- By mail (postmarked by October 3)
- By fax (received by October 3)
- By email attachment (received by October 3)
- If you have moved, make sure you are ready to vote by updating your registration.
- If you have moved from one county to another, you must register in your new county by October 3 to be eligible to vote.
- If you've moved within your county or changed your name recently, it will help ensure a smoother voting process for you - and your neighbors - by updating your information prior to November 3.
Please promote NVRD this year by using #CelebrateNVRD and #NVRM2015 on your social media accounts. @CelebrateNVRD is the official twitter handle of National Voter Registration Day.
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7 Things To Consider When Voting By Mail During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Vote-by-mail may become more popular amid the coronavirus.
March 20, 2020 at 7:20 pm
People can ensure they are participating in this year's primary election amid the coronavirus by mailing in their ballots.
There are a few caveats to note if you are voting via mail for the first time or if you're wondering how elections are going to play out during the coronavirus pandemic.
Here's everything you should expect if and when you are voting by mail.
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Amazon set to disrupt payments after retail?
IF YOU LIVE in the UK and your shopping habits are anything like mine, you might have received an interesting email from Amazon last week, writes John Stepek at MoneyWeek magazine.
From 19 January next year, Amazon won't be accepting Visa credit cards (debit cards are still okay). To compensate users, they're offering £20 (Prime subscribers) or £10 (not Prime subscribers) to set your default payment method as being a debit or non-Visa credit card.
This might seem minor. The UK is a significant market, but still a small one. And there is a domestic Brexit-related angle to it all.
But none of that explains why Visa's share price slide by about 5% on the news.
And that's because this goes a lot deeper than just a local spat.
On the surface, this story of Amazon barring Visa credit cards can easily be dismissed as little more than a side-effect of Brexit, and plenty of outlets have done so. How so?
In 2015, the European Union capped the level of "interchange" fee that Mastercard and Visa could charge. In effect, this is like a road toll – it's a charge for using the payment processing system. The credit card companies don't get the fee – the banks involved in the transaction do.
With the UK having left the EU, the pair were able to duck out of the cap. Interchange fees on credit cards went up from 0.3% to 1.5% for payments made across borders.
Now, as economist Julian Jessop notes on Twitter, the UK regulator – the Payment Systems Regulator – could easily have capped fees instead. So while this has been made possible by Brexit, it didn't have to be.
So far so good. But the obvious question then is: why is Amazon targeting one and not the other? Well, this is where – having made a point about Brexit – some of the news coverage on the topic rather peters out.
Yet as always – and as the Visa share price reaction demonstrates – it's a bit more complicated than this. Amazon has already introduced surcharges on Visa usage in Australia and Singapore. And, as Michiel Williams reports in City AM, businesses generally are fed up with high transaction fees.
So one aspect to this is plain old negotiating tactics. If Amazon wants better rates or some other deal from Visa, then it is certainly big enough to try.
But there's more to it than that. Mastercard and Visa have in many ways been an effective duopoly. But competition is creeping up. A big part of the point of the whole "fintech" space and blockchain etc is to provide wider, cheaper options for transferring payments, particularly across borders. Cutting out the banks to improve efficiency and cut costs is the whole point.
So the fact that Amazon now feels that a public dispute like this is worth having points to how far this sector's evolution has come.
I mean, think about it in broader terms. You've got one of the most powerful retailers in one of the biggest retail markets in the world (shopping is yet another area in which the UK punches above its perceived weight) telling one of the Big Two credit-card providers where to shove it.
And bear in mind, this is Amazon we're talking about here. Amazon has mastered the art of one-click ordering. Its goal is to reduce the time between the impulse to buy and the fulfilment of that impulse to zero or less. This is not a company which makes the decision to put hurdles in the way of its customers buying stuff lightly.
So as far as Amazon goes, the potential reward for taking this risk has to be high. And clearly it deems the risk of giving its customers the nudge towards using or considering other payment methods worth it in this case.
What does all of this tell you? It tells you that the balance of power is shifting, and that the spectacular margins which Visa and Mastercard have been able to command – 60-70% at the EBITDA level, notes Lex in the FT – are very likely at risk.
As Lex adds, it's notable that Visa's marketing costs have risen sharply as have Mastercard's. When you're having to spend on advertising, that's proof that your market is becoming more competitive. It might not happen today and it might not happen tomorrow, but "the good times are coming to an end for one of business's most enduring duopolies", says Lex.
It's ironic that Amazon – the great disruptor – could be doing for the payments system too.
What does it mean for your money? I think investors in Visa are right to be concerned. This spat might get resolved before the January deadline, but at least some of the money pouring into the fintech and crpyto space has to stick.
As for what you might want to invest in instead, that's trickier. This is a youthful sector and there's so much out there.
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Every week another lad or lass from St. Louis, Toronto or Sydney makes the trip through Turkey to the Islamic State. A reporter dispatched by a local paper to talk to the neighbors scribbles down the same recollections about how nice and normal Jihad Joe or Jihad Jane was.
Classmates remember a loud partier or a shy student. Neighbors mention that everything seemed normal until those last few years when he began wearing a robe and she began wearing a burka.
The Somali and Algerian immigrants, the German and American converts, the black burkas and dyed beards, headed into the dying summer to kill Christians and Kurds, Turkmen and Shiites, to behead babies and crucify critics, don’t seem like monsters. They loved their parents. They posed for jokey snapshots on Facebook. They had dreams of becoming biologists or boxers. Until they began killing people, they seemed just like the rest of us.
And with one difference, they were.
The forensic examinations of their lives rarely reveal anything of significance. The extensive digging into the lives of the Boston bombers told us nothing about why they would plant a bomb near a little boy.
The answer lay in the topic that the media carefully avoided. As with the other Muslim terrorists, the meaning of their motives was in the little black book of their religion which commanded them to kill.
The Jihadist isn’t a serial killer. While there are some converts attracted to Islam for its violence, the Muslim convert usually doesn’t convert for the killing, he kills because he converted. Likewise the nice Muslim Jihadist next door might well be moderate by inclination and immoderate by faith.
As the Koran says, “Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah knows, while you know not.” (Quran 2:216)
Allah knows you have to kill. Even if you think you shouldn’t.
The nice Jihadists flocking to rape Yazidi girls in Mosul are convinced that Allah knows best and his Caliph knows best. The worst of them are acting on impulse. The best of them are acting on faith.
Faith is irrational. Believers believe without understanding and act without thinking. The holy men of our religions acted on faith. So do the holy men of Islam. It’s what they have faith in that is the problem.
Charles Manson’s girls, Jim Jones’ followers and Mohammed’s companions all believed in much the same things. They saw the world as a fundamentally hostile place and they believed that only one man could change the world. And they believed that people had to die for that change to come about.
In a multicultural environment in which we believe that all religions are the same, we don’t like to think about what might have happened if Charles Manson had a million groupies instead of a few elderly women locked up in prison. Nor do we like to think about how we would handle Jim Jones if he were running California, instead of just being closely linked to the political infrastructure of the men like Governor Brown and Harvey Milk who did run it.
It’s easy to dismiss a small enough religion as a cult because its leader sleeps with young girls and its members are willing to kill for him. But when the cult grows big enough, we say it’s a religion of peace and hope that its followers believe the peaceful version of Islam that the infidels preach to them.
And they never do. Why should they?
Mohammed was quite clear about what he wanted. For all the abrogations, the Koran is reasonably clear on what it expects its followers to do. Mohammed’s history was that of a man who tried to convince the Arabs that he had seen an angel by telling them and failed, and who succeeded only when he killed enough of them, not to mention the Jews and any other infidels hanging around the place.
That is the history of Islam.
Germany was not a nation of monsters. It was a nation that behaved monstrously. The average German would not stick his neighbor in an oven in his basement or chain him up as a slave. He would however do these things in Poland because he was contextually contaminated by a monstrous ideology.
As an individual he was a nice man who loved his children, petted his dog and enjoyed street fairs. As a loyal member of a system run by the Nazi Party, he would do monstrous things. And then when the Nazi machine was switched off, he would go home to his wife and children without ever killing anyone else.
He was not a good man. Good men don’t do the things he did. But he wasn’t a budding serial killer. He was just doing what a death cult told him to do.
The problem isn’t “radicalization”. What Western governments call radicalization is the process by which the Muslim becomes aware of the dictates of his faith and their relevance to his life. It’s not the internet preachers with their fatwas. They are just the vectors for that awareness. The problem is Islam.
The current misguided thinking is that we can win a debate between a “good Islam” and a “bad Islam”. The good Islam will tell Muslims to refrain from joining ISIS, to work for social change, to embrace diversity and to champion democracy. But this “good Islam” is just a liberal’s conception of what religion should be. Its only real followers are liberal non-Muslims and it has little to do with what Islam really is.
Within the historical context of Islam and in the words of the Koran, our idea of the good Muslim is actually a very bad Muslim. And our idea of the bad Muslim is the best of all Muslims. When we argue that Islam is a religion of peace, we are pushing against the full weight of over a thousand years of history and religious ideas and counting on Muslims to be too ignorant of them to know any better.
Those who genuinely want to change Islam will not do it by lying to Muslims about their religion. Trying to convince the nice Jihadist next door that Mohammed would have rejected his expedition to rape and pillage non-Muslims in Syria is futile. The nice Jihadist may not be a scholar, but he knows his Koran.
If they want to change his mind, they will have to be honest about what Islam is.
Mohammed would have been as happy rampaging around Iraq and Syria as a pig rolling around in dung. ISIS is Islam. It’s the naked religion. There are no angels or djinns, no revelations, just piles of mutilated corpses and children playing with severed heads while other children are raped in prison cells.
It’s Mohammed, but it’s also Saddam Hussein, Bashar Assad and Gaddafi. Islam doesn’t end the cycle of tyranny and oppression. It is the reason that the cycle continues.
“Deradicalizing” the nice ISIS Jihadist by lying to him will fail in the long run. Telling him the truth and offering him a clear choice is the only way.
Americans were brutally honest about the evils of Nazism, but failed to equally condemn Communism. Germany hasn’t had another Fuhrer, but Russia is back to acting a lot like the Soviet Union. And while Nazism is confined to trailer parks, sympathy for the red devil is prevalent among Western elites. ISIS is exposing its own evil to the West in a way that neither the brownshirts nor the flyers of the red flag did. If we destroy ISIS without exposing the ideology behind it, then we will have won a Pyrrhic victory because we will still be fighting the nice Jihadist next door for the next thousand years.
Daniel Greenfield is the Editor of Sultan Knish.
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Housebreaking is a term that just means toilet etiquette for puppies. Training your furry buddy the proper way to relieve itself is the very first step of training and adjustment to its new home.
Inside, Outside, or Both?
It’s the most important question, which you need to answer even before you take your furry buddy home. Do you want to toilet train it inside or outside? Or do you wish to mix both? It depends on your personal preference and your living situation. There is no wrong or right way.
Indoor Potty Training
Obviously, if you live in a building without easy access to the street or a yard, then this is the appropriate potty training for your dog since short and repeated trips outsides will virtually be impossible.
Set aside space in your house as an exclusive space for toilet use. Be sure that the area is away from your pooches water and food.
Please note that indoor training is best suited for dogs of a smaller breed. If you are planning to get a large breed, like a Labrador, indoor potty training is impractical.
Also, be reminded that if you indoor train your pup; you may have to frequently deep clean to remove stains and smells of accidents.
Outdoor Potty Training
If you have access to a yard or a quiet street, then you owe it to your home, dog, and yourself to do the training outdoors.
Evidently, potty training outdoors is easier and cleaner since once your four-legged buddy gets trained, there is less chance of mess on the floors and carpets in your house.
On the other hand, you will need to brave the weather of the outdoors – rain, sleet, or snow, scoop your pooch’s poop, and properly discard it.…
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"Bush partisans would have you believe that his $ 63 million (as of December 20 ) represents nothing so much as a vast out-pouring of public support. ÔThe media's monomania about Bush's fund raising,' wrote George Will in a recent column, Ôreflects an obdurate refusal to recognize that Bush has lots of money because he has lots of supporters, not vice versa.' Will, whose penchant for Republican front-runners is legendary, may want to fire his research assistant: According to the latest Federal Election Commission filings, Bush has managed to raise more than twice as much as AI Gore with about 20,000 fewer donors. And it's no surprise that of Bush's top-10 fundraising zip codes, two are in Greenwich (his pere's home turf), one is on New York's Upper East Side, and eight are in Texas. Like any mainstream Republican, Bush gets most of his money from the usual collection of establishment and business types, with added boosts from Texas oil and gas interests and from his father's old fundraising network." The American Prospect, 1/31/00
Search The Library's Lexicon
Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
Votes are either given, by ballot or viva voce; they may be delivered personally by the voter himself, or, in some cases, by proxy.
A majority of the votes given carries the question submitted, unless in particular cases when the Constitution or laws require that there shall be a majority of all the voters, or when a greater number than a simple majority is expressly required; as, for example in the case of the Senate in making treaties by the President and Senate, two-thirds of the senators present must concur.
When the votes are equal in number, the proposed measure is lost.
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Total hip replacement (also known as hip arthroplasty) is one of the most common orthopaedic procedures. Replacing the hip joint with an implant or “prosthesis” relieves pain and improves mobility so that you are able to resume your normal, everyday activities.
Traditionally, surgeons have used the posterior approach, which means from behind. The anterior approach is an approach to the front of the hip joint. In minimally invasive total hip replacement, the surgical procedure is similar, but there is less cutting of the tissue surrounding the hip. Rather than an eight to 12 inch incision, the surgeon may make an incision as small as three to four inches long. The artificial implants used are the same as those used for traditional hip replacement. However, specially designed surgical instruments are needed to prepare the socket and femur and to place the implants properly.
Research suggests that this technique may be associated with reduced muscle damage and pain, as well as faster recovery. Patients who undergo the anterior approach may also be able to avoid certain post-surgery precautions.
As your California Pacific Orthopaedic surgeon if you are a good candidate for the minimally invasive anterior hip approach.
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Post written by Grafton deButts, VP of Membership & Government Affairs
One of the greatest threats to America’s economic recovery and future growth is currently being debated in Congress. The PRO Act, a bill which seeks to undermine workers’ rights to privacy and free association, would create a one-size-fits-all rewrite of labor laws in 50 states, hurting workers across the United States, including here in Loudoun County.
First, the PRO Act would eliminate Right-To-Work laws in all states, ending the sacred protection of a worker’s freedom to choose to join a union or not. Repealing Right-To-Work would force employees to either pay union dues or be fired, whether they wish to be represented by the union or not.
The PRO Act would undermine the will of Virginia’s electorate, who have elected Republican and Democratic majorities to the General Assembly in Richmond, majorities that have consistently protected Virginia’s Right-To-Work laws by wide margins. Virginia is currently one of 27 that kept their Right-To-Work status for their citizens and workforce.
Secondly, if passed, the PRO Act would eliminate an employee’s fundamental privacy rights when voting in favor or against joining a union. Union leaders continually seek to bring intimidation and coercion to the workplace by singling out employees that oppose union membership. Protection from voting intimidation and a right of privacy are cornerstones to fair democratic elections in our Nation. Shouldn’t the same rights be present in the workplace?
Lastly, The PRO Act unfairly targets independent workers in the “gig” economy. Per surveys by Small Business Labs and Gallup, more that third of all working age adults, or roughly 59 million citizens, are independent contractors or “gig” employees. These Americans would lose the right to independence and flexible scheduling, and the work-life balance that goes with it. Employers would be forced to take on overhead and other expenses go up, limiting the resources they have for employees’ salaries and force cost increases on customers.
In Loudoun County, where average home sales and rental rate exceeds what the average household can afford, secondary jobs such as driving for Uber or picking up occasional jobs on Task Rabbit are critical. In addition, many talented professionals prefer to work from home as independent contractors in numerous industries, providing them the flexibility to care for their children or other family members.
Any law which would limit secondary job opportunities while increasing the costs of goods and services to the customer is a “lose-lose” for our community and our workers.
The Loudoun Chamber will continue to urge our nation’s lawmakers, particularly US Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, to oppose the PRO Act and protect our economy as we seek to recover from the lost jobs and income as a result of the pandemic.
– Grafton deButts, Vice President of Membership & Government Affairs, Loudoun Chamber
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The term “recomendation” (spelled with one “m” in the word “recommendation”), is the most common spelling error I see when people come to my various writing help websites looking for help and info about how to write recommendation letters.
That’s right, the word “recommendation” always has two “m”s when spelled correctly. Recomendation, spelled with one “m” is just plain wrong.
Nevertheless, if you happened to make a typo, or if you just misspelled the word “recommendation”, but were still looking for information related to “recommendation letters”, I am going to direct you to that information below.
Something else that you may not be aware of is that there is a great deal of confusion worldwide between the two terms, “recommendation letter” and “reference letter”.
For example, what are the similarities and differences between these two types of letters? When do you use a “letter of recommendation” and when to use a “letter of reference”?
Given the overlap and ambiguity related to the definitions and use of these two types of letters, this confusion is very understandable.
It just so happens that I have written a book on the whole subject of recommendation letters and reference letters which is considered by many people worldwide to be the definitive standard on that subject. On this website, I have posted a couple of excerpts from that book that demystify and define what these letters are all about. Here are the links to those definitions:
Recommendation Letters Defined
Reference Letters Defined
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A majority vote of our City Commission is 3 of 5, or 60%. Charter Amendment #10 would require 4 of 5 to approve changes to our city master plan, or an 80% vote. This would be a Super – Super Majority.
Carolyn Cooper and Tom McMacken want you to give control of our city master plan to a minority of the City Commission through Charter Amendment #10. If Amendment #10 passes two City Commissioners will be able to veto any change to our city master plan. This measure was put on our March 9, 2010 ballot by a 3 to 2 vote of the City Commission. SEVEN Winter Park Mayors have spoken in opposition to Charter Amendment #10 for good reason, (1) it is bad governance and (2) it will lock future Commissions into today’s master plan while circumstances and needs are certain to change.
The Super – Super Majority voting called for by Charter Amendment #10 represents bad governance at the fundamental level of democratic process. We accept the rule of law because we know we can change the laws by a majority vote. As circumstances change and as elected officials take action we can judge whether the current laws make sense and vote people out of office in order to change the laws. Retaining laws by vote of a minority of elected officials in opposition to the wishes of a majority of elected officials (and thus by representation the wishes of a majority of voters) is not democracy, it is rule by minority.
Charter Amendment #10, if approved, would have the effect of obstructing change in Winter Park and would not protect us from anything. It would instead make it nearly impossible to increase city revenues needed to maintain and improve our quality of life. See: Winter Park Realities – No Need to Fear.
Finally, we cannot put this Super – Super Majority voting requirement on ourselves without understanding and agreeing to the city master plan that would be subject to such restrictions to change. See: The Flawed City Master Plan.
We can ensure sound governance by voting FOR David Lamm and Peter Gottfried, and by voting NO on Super Super Majority Charter Amendment #10.
Other writings on the Winter Park Super – Super Majority Amendment #10:
Winter Park – Maitland Observer Story – February 3, 2010
Winter Park – Maitland Observer Letter – February 3, 2010
Cooper’s Comprehensive Incompetence
Chamber of Commerce Opposes Charter Amendment #10
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Te Ao o te Māori
A window into the rich lifestyles of contemporary Māori
Photographs and words Nā Phil Tumataroa
A rūnanga business in Kaikōura is changing lives, the environment and the narrative when it comes to pest control in its takiwā.
“The norm for most organisations that operate in pest control has been about eradication,” says Rawiri Manawatu, the Managing Director of Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura, “but we are changing that narrative to restoration – restoring the balance of nature.
“Kia haumanu te koha o Marokura is what we have named it. Marokura was one of the atua that came down to Kaikōura and the northern east coast and beautified it in preparation for man and animals to live on the land – it was a time when everything was balanced. So our kōrero is that we are restoring the gift of Marokura and restoring the balance of nature.”
Three years ago the rūnanga realised it needed to be prepared for future commercial opportunities within its takiwā. From a table-top review a list of opportunities was identified and Rawiri was engaged to get the company work ready.
He started building and strengthening relationships with Treaty partners, the Department of Conservation, Environment Canterbury and the local councils of Kaikōura, Marlborough and Hurunui.
Covid intervened and with it the Government’s Jobs For Nature programme presented an unexpected chance to propose pest control along 130 kilometres of coastline.
With the support of Treaty partners the company secured a $2.1 million three-year contract for pest control from the Oaro River north to the Awatere River.
Since July last year the company has grown to 11 fulltime employees, all from the local community and all Māori. Seventy per cent are Ngāti Kurī/Ngāi Tahu.
“Our business outcomes include whānau employment, personal development, training, creating career pathways, connecting people to the whenua, culture and whakapapa – it’s more than just doing the mahi, it’s connecting them as kaitiaki and giving them pride in being Māori and working for a Māori organisation.”
All pest control is done by trapping; no poisons are used. The team, which is predominantly rangatahi, spent the early months building the 1100 traps that come September will line parts of the coast.
They mainly trap rats, ferrets, weasels and stoats that are responsible for killing native bird colonies that nest and breed along the coastal flats. All traps are geo-located by GPS and all trapping data is collected remotely.
Rawiri says the company is focussed on building capability within its own people and creating a strong foundation and structure from where they can develop their kaimahi to become the next generation of kaitiaki.
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* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Adolescent girls are neither women nor children, yet they carry the burdens of both during conflicts and crises. A new report from the Women’s Refugee Commission calls for more targeted programs to help them to survive and thrive
Adolescence is a deeply testing, transformative and frequently traumatic period in our lives. The choices and experiences we face between the ages of 10 and 19 as we make the critical transition from childhood to adulthood will fundamentally shape our direction for years to come.
The poet E. E. Cummings said of adolescence, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Yet in most countries, just being young and female presents many more obstacles to realizing your true potential than merely summoning the courage to make good choices.
From unequal gender roles within families and communities and lack of economic opportunities to poor access to education, resources and services, adolescent girls face significant disadvantages compared to boys. For half of the 1.5 billion adolescents in the world, persistent inequality means that, as a girl, you are more likely than a boy to be denied the chance to attend school.
You are also far more likely to be socially isolated, marginalized from male-dominated public life and less likely to meet potential mentors and role models to help you along the way. You are more likely to be a victim of sexual assault; in fact, 50 percent of all sexual assaults happening to girls aged 15 and younger. What’s more, you might face complications from early pregnancy and childbirth – a leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 in low- and middle-income countries.
When crisis or conflict hit and people are displaced, these inequalities and vulnerabilities are exacerbated. The institutions, systems, social norms and community cohesion that can help to support girls’ development, protect them from violence and uphold their human rights are severely undermined.
Research by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and others shows that being torn away from the home, family or community as a result of conflict or disaster puts girls at higher risk of gender-based violence (GBV), trafficking, coercive or transactional sex, early marriage or being drafted into armed combat.
Indeed, a 1999 survey of sex workers in Sierra Leone found that 37 percent were children, with 80 percent being unaccompanied and displaced from the civil war. A study in Rwanda put the average age for marriage for a girl before the 1994 genocide at between 20 and 25, but in the refugee camps during and after the genocide, it was 15. More recently, humanitarian workers in Syria have reported a rise in early marriage, with underage girls being married off to older, often foreign, men.
Yet despite the life-threatening risks facing adolescent girls, a new WRC report published today shows that most humanitarian responses fail to adequately target their needs – either in mainstream programs or in separate interventions.
Having long promoted economic opportunities for displaced women as a way of reducing their exposure to violence, WRC’s researchers worked on a three-year global advocacy project called the Protecting and Empowering Displaced Adolescent Girls Initiative to find ways to equip adolescent girls with skills and resources to transition safely to adulthood and into dignified livelihoods.
In pilot programs in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda, we tested promising approaches in adolescent girls’ programming – exploring alternative means of empowerment to increase protection through establishing safe spaces, where displaced girls can build confidence and gain crucial skills for their future.
The resulting report, Strong Girls, Powerful Women, calls on humanitarian organizations working in crisis-affected areas to strengthen their programs to include girls as primary beneficiaries. In reality, programs directed at youth or women are mostly attended by male youth and adult males or older women respectively, so we need to level the playing field for girls by centering interventions on them alone.
The creation of safe spaces to bring girls together outside of the public spaces dominated by men and boys are crucial too, in providing a portal for delivering services and building girls’ social networks, knowledge and skills. And since we know that those who are most in need are least likely to access services and programs, including married girls, girls who are heads of households and girls with disabilities, smart outreach is also essential.
In addition, our research found that girls and communities mutually benefit from mentorship and leadership models. Strong networks of girl leaders improve the status of females: as a female participant at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania told us, “Being a mentor helped me to build social standing among the community.” WRC is calling for these networks to be built more regularly into programs.
Humanitarian responders should also integrate programs with economic strengthening activities, such as financial literacy and vocational skills training, to increase a girl’s economic prospects. As women and girls reinvest an estimated 90% of their income into their families and communities, the wider benefits of such an approach are clear.
Finally, we must recognize the power of involving men and boys in programs as partners for changing gender norms. Engaging men and boys with an explicit focus on transforming unequal relations holds great potential for positive outcomes.
A male refugee community leader involved in a safe space project in Tanzania, for example, observed that “girls had no hope for the future beyond doing house chores, getting married, taking care of children... but now they are starting to think about their life ahead and plan.”
The WRC shares his view that adolescent girls in humanitarian settings should not just be seen as a vulnerable group needing protection, but as one which possesses enormous capacity to become a source of transformation and innovation within their families and societies.
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It has long been believed that, based on the Bayeux Tapestry, Harold was shot in the eye by an arrow. K. Lawson argues that the tapestry was badly restored within the 19th century, and that we should not essentially consider what we see. He goes to sources that depict the tapestry before that restoration and reveals some breathtaking insights which will revolutionize the greatest way we view both the battle and the demise of Englandâs last Saxon king. Meanwhile, William had assembled a big invasion fleet and gathered an army from Normandy and the relaxation of France, together with massive contingents from Brittany and Flanders. William spent nearly nine months on his preparations, as he had to assemble a fleet from nothing. The Normans crossed to England a couple of days after Haroldâs victory over the Norwegians, following the dispersal of Haroldâs naval force, and landed at Pevensey in Sussex on September 28.
The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts within the sources, however all agree that William led his military from his fort and superior in the course of the enemy. Harold had taken a defensive position at the prime of Senlac Hill (present-day Battle, East Sussex), about 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from Williamâs fort at Hastings. Only a remnant of the defenders made their method again to the forest. Then, after he realized his hopes of submission at that point were in vain, he began his advance on London.
The Normans stole food, burned houses and killed English people. The Saxon army consisted of a giant quantity of well-trained housecarls, the king’s private bodyguards; a lot of the Fyrd, the native leaders of every shire; and different troops as wanted. Sources differ on what number of males fashioned the Saxon facet on that fateful day.
In a time when the overwhelming majority of the population was illiterate, the Tapestry’s pictures had been designed to tell the story of the conquest of England from the Norman perspective. It focuses on the story of William, making no point out of Hardrada of Norway nor of Harold’s victory at Stamford Bridge. The following are some excerpts taken from this extraordinary document. In one violent day of battle, England was transformed from an Anglo-Saxon land of earls and peasants to a conquered island nailed down by the need of a single manâWilliam, Duke of Normandy. The 14 October 1066 Battle of Hastings was the ultimate defeat for the Anglo-Saxon King Harold II, and in the intervening time he died, England became Norman ever after. Anyway, about Harold being hit in the eye after which killed by the Norman knights, this depiction is not too far off the mark.
It was a tactic utilized by different Norman armies during the period. Some historians have argued that the story of the use of feigned flight as a deliberate tactic was invented after the battle; nonetheless most historians agree that it was used by the Normans at Hastings. Williamâs disposition of his forces implies that he deliberate to open the battle with archers within the entrance rank weakening the enemy with arrows, adopted by infantry who would engage in shut fight.
The story of the Battle of Hastings was put onto a piece of tapestry referred to as the Bayeux Tapestry. William apparently promised he would build an abbey if he received the battle and he did precisely that following his victory. Many of the people who lived in England at the time of the battle had been often recognized as Anglo-Saxons. Although we refer to it as the Battle of Hastings, the battle actually took place about 6.5 miles northwest of Hastings at Senlac Hill, now often recognized as Battle. Norman language and tradition then began to influence the nation and changed the future of England. It may need taken place 950 years in the past, but the Battle of Hastings remains one of the most famous battles in English history.
It is a reminder that the difficult, ambivalent, and typically hostile relationship between England and the the rest of Europe goes back a long way. What we now believe on a lot evidence is that the master designer and the embroiderers have been English. The proven reality that the English made the tapestry raises many fascinating questions on whether or not or not the English were including another narrative to that which was being promoted by the https://bestessayservicereviewhere.com/gender-stereotypes-as-the-characteristic-of-modern-society/ Norman propagandists. One instance is that when Harold, the English claimant, is proven in the tapestry he is at all times identified as Harold the King, Harold Rex.
It was widespread for a soldier to hold a kite shaped shield of their left hand. These shields were typically constructed of wood, covered with leather-based, and painted colourful. The normal concern weapon for these soldiers consisted of a spear with a leaf-like head posted on an ash shaft. The spears were utilized by both horsemen and foot soldiers alike (âNorman Weapons, Arms and Armorâ, 2006). Three weeks earlier than the battle of Hastings, Harold defeated an invading army of Norwegians on the battle of Stamford Bridge, a victory which was to value him pricey. The major armour used was chainmail hauberks, often knee-length, with slits to allow riding, some with sleeves to the elbows.
Williamâs good scouting events were a bonus, and the strategy of the English army was quickly reported. In April 1066, just some months earlier than the Battle of Hastings, Halleyâs Comet blazed brilliant across the skies of Europe. For many it was a crucial sign â in Normandy it was the star of William the Bastard and a certain, good omen for his conquests. The Battle of Stamford Bridge, from âThe Life of King Edward the Confessorâ by Matthew Paris. The rule over England in the meantime fell into the hands of Harold Godwinson âthe Earl of Wessex and the richest and strongest aristocrat in Anglo-Saxon England. But as quickly as he acquired the throne, Godwinson was confronted with stress and troubles.
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Sciatica references the pain that travels along the sciatic nerve, which extends from your lower back through your buttocks and hips, and then down each leg. This condition usually only affects one side of the body. Sciatica most commonly arises in cases of herniated disks, bone spurs on the spine or spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spine). All of these can compress parts of the nerve, leading to pain, inflammation, and sometimes numbness in your leg.
While sciatica can get quite painful, most times, you can feel relief with non-surgical treatments as well as physical therapy, chiropractic adjustments, massage therapy, exercises and cold therapy.
Common causes of sciatica can include:
- Compressed Lumbar Disc, also known as lumbar radiculopathy, AKA sciatica
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- Spondylolisthesis (caused by trauma to the spine)
- Trauma to the gluteal area
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It’s always wise to explore all non-surgical options before resorting to an operation as a last-ditch effort. Here are some ways sciatica can be treated without surgery.
How to Alleviate Sciatica
Mild cases of sciatica only need some rest and self-care treatments at home such as hot or cold ice packs. If your symptoms are lasting more than a week, or have resulted from an injury or trauma, see your doctor.
Here are some non-surgical options for sciatica treatment:
- Exercise: Because inflammation improves when you stay active, taking short walks can help.
- Limited bed rest: Sleep on a firm mattress and stay mostly in bed for a few days to see if that helps.
- Hot and cold packs: Apply to the lower back, on and off, a few times a day. Do cold packs first for a couple of days, then switch to heat packs.
- Alternative therapies: Yoga, massage, biofeedback, acupuncture
- Medication: You can take over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen and NSAIDS such as ibuprofen and naproxen but don’t use for a long period of time without discussing it with your doctor.
- Physical therapy: PTs can come up with an exercise and stretching routine to improve posture and relieve pressure on the sciatic nerve.
- Stretches: Do lower-back stretches every day.
- Non-surgical procedures: These include Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection, designed to relieve lower back and radiating leg pain. Steroids reduce the swelling and inflammation caused by a variety of spinal conditions.
Surgery isn’t the only option when it comes to sciatica and other spinal pain. Trying non-invasive techniques first can save you a lot of time, money and post-surgical issues.
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In his popular book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” author Steven R. Covey warns that, “We must never become too busy sawing to take time to sharpen the saw,” implying that just because you’re successfully humming along in your work doesn’t mean there won’t come a time when things get harder, or the methods that are working so well for you now suddenly become ineffective. Because of this possibility, it often pays to look for ways to improve on your current techniques and tools today, in order to minimize the difficulties of tomorrow. In this month’s retina issue, the authors and other ophthalmologists who share their insights have taken Mr. Covey’s advice to heart.
It’s most evident in Steve Charles, MD’s, cover story on the use of preoperative optical coherence tomography on cataract-surgery patients (p. 32). Cataract surgery is the pinnacle of what a successful, modern-day surgery should look like: It’s minimally-invasive, quick, has a low rate of complications and a high rate of success, and it features that elusive “Wow” factor other surgeries lack, by virtue of restoring a patient’s eyesight. Dr. Charles argues, however, that there’s room for improvement. By using OCT to catch retinal pathology that would otherwise be invisible—even at the slit lamp—you help ensure even better outcomes and avoid any confusion on the part of these patients in terms of what might be causing less-than-ideal postoperative vision.
Speaking of successful treatments, not many interventions have been as successful as anti-VEGF injections for wet age-related macular degeneration. Even with anti-VEGF injections, however, says Boston retina specialist Chirag Shah (p. 26), there’s room for improvement in terms of handling non-responders. The challenge is that the treatment modality has been so successful, no one has put the time or funds into a randomized trial to determine what’s best for the unfortunate few in whom it’s not a success. Dr. Shah helps fill this research void with tips from his own practice, as well the latest data that does exist on the subject.
Finally, nothing embodies the spirit of innovation and the quest for improvement more than the new-product pipeline, which is highlighted in Senior Associate Editor Kristine Brennan’s article on page 38. Retinal researchers and companies are hard at work on myriad ways to attack VEGF, as well as other causes of AMD, which may be able to improve on today’s already excellent methods.
So, this month, pause for a minute, give these articles a read, and get ready to sharpen the saw.
—Walt Bethke, Editor in Chief
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Have you ever felt like you had to shrink part of your authentic self to fit in at work? Has your passion for sharing your idea or point of view ever been mislabeled as too aggressive or assertive? If so, you may be one of many women who struggle every day with silencing their voice in the workplace to make others feel comfortable. But eventually, your inability to speak up about workplace issues can affect your ability to advance in your career.
Joan Wilmer knows firsthand about the pressures women face to not speak up in fear of retaliation or even being fired. Having served 20 years as a human resources leader partnering with C-suite executives across multiple organizations including The Federal Reserve, Caesars Entertainment, and Citigroup, to name a few, she’s been involved in candid and unedited discussions about budding leaders. “I hear what decision-makers say and I have seen black women being taught to make others in a group feel comfortable. When in the company of others, black women are trained to dim their light and intelligence to not make them feel inferior. Some call it ‘code- switching.’ As a black female, I too have experienced this personally,” she says.
Are You Code-Switching To Hide Parts of Your Identity?
Dictionary.com defines code-switching as the modifying of one’s behavior, appearance, etc., to adapt to different sociocultural norms. Whether you’re changing your communication style based on the people you’re dealing with, using a different tone of voice to tone down your blackness or even changing your hairstyle or personality, oftentimes, the pressure to switch it on and off between work and home is at the expense of devaluing yourself.
“Yes, we still have work to do to increase female representation at the C-suite level,” says Wilmer. “However, we also need to equip those women who make it to ‘the table’ with the tools and skills to ensure their voices are heard and their talents are put to good use.” Below, Wilmer shares three pieces of advice:
Be prepared to share your knowledge, perspectives, and experiences. Well-prepared and constructed questions that can be presented in a meeting provide a gateway into the conversation and ensure your voice is heard and valued. My preparedness strengthens my voice and allows me, the leader, to show stronger at the table.
As a human resources leader, I’m often asked to attend meetings where the subject of the meeting has no mention of human capital, but it is my business acumen and thought leadership that is invited. For example, if it is a finance meeting focused on budget and business performance I study the numbers (and their trends) before I arrive at the meeting.
Sometime I will schedule a “coffee chat” with the chief financial officer to ask questions and get an advance preview of the agenda to ensure readiness in the larger forum. It also allows me to vet any concerns openly and directly with the meeting host before getting in a larger forum. This is not a tactic to silence my voice in a meeting, but to clarify my thoughts and to provide a professional courtesy to those I will be engaging at the anticipated meeting.
Get involved. When you allow yourself to be silenced, you open the door for others to question your overall presence and value. You were hired for the job, you are there for a reason, and you have something to contribute.
- Raise your hand to be included in as many meeting forums as possible.
- Volunteer to join and lead cross-functional corporate (strategic) initiatives and push your comfort zone in this space.
- Help on projects you are not assigned to and do not “fit” within your area of expertise. This will broaden your institutional knowledge and strengthen your relationships with those who are around the table.
Don’t go it alone. Find a career team. You need support in the room, whether you are there or not. Your team should include a career coach, mentor, sponsor, or someone who’s been around the office for a while. This team can help you navigate your career, and open the door for your voice to be heard in important business discussions.
When I served in the position of vice president of human resources at Citigroup, the chief technology officer would say in meetings “Joan, what are your thoughts on this matter?” or “Joan, I want to hear your views as a decision maker on this matter.” He made sure I was included in the conversation and given a platform to showcase my knowledge and leadership. Often being the only woman and person of color in the room, this also gave me a boost of confidence.
Also, the chief technology officer who served as my sponsor was a white male and not a member of the human resources executive team, but served effectively in this role for me. Sometimes members of your career team can be identified broadly across an organization and their roles can be leveraged to ensure your voice is heard.
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Divide-and-conquer algorithms are suitable for modern parallel machines, tending to have large amounts of inherent parallelism and working well with caches and deep memory hierarchies. Among others, list homomorphisms are a class of recursive functions on lists, which match very well with the divide-and-conquer paradigm. However, direct programming with list homomorphisms is a challenge for many programmers. In this paper, we propose and implement a novel system that can automatically derive cost-optimal list homomorphisms from a pair of sequential programs, based on the third homomorphism theorem. Our idea is to reduce extraction of list homomorphisms to derivation of weak right inverses. We show that a weak right inverse always exists and can be automatically generated from a wide class of sequential programs. We demonstrate our system with several nontrivial examples, including the maximum prefix sum problem, the prefix sum computation, the maximum segment sum problem, and the line-of-sight problem. The experimental results show practical efficiency of our automatic parallelization algorithm and good speedups of the generated parallel programs.
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CeGaT’s new tumor report has been completely revised and raised to an even higher level. Using comprehensive molecular genetic analysis, our report provides doctors and patients with an overview of the medically significant characteristics of their tumor sample. All relevant information, as well as applicable drugs, has been listed in an easy-to-understand format. Thus, you receive all the information you need to initiate the optimal therapy for your patients.
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We promote compliance with democratic and rule of law standards. We advocate for independence of the judiciary and transparency of public institutions. Established rules and procedures have to be clear and understandable to citizens.
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1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. – Luke 2:1-7 ESV
Chapter one ends with the note: “the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel” (Luke 1:80 ESV). In a single sentence, Luke compresses the timeline of John’s life, taking the reader from his birth to the early days of his earthly ministry. In the space of 23 words, Luke has taken John from the womb to the wilderness. The one appointed to herald the arrival of the Messiah is now positioned to perform his God-ordained role. It appears that, at an early age, John left the confines of his family home and relocated to the wilderness of Judah, where he lived an ascetic lifestyle. Matthew records that John lived a simple and somewhat spartan life.
Now John wore clothing made from camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey. – Matthew 3:4 NLT
When the angel Gabriel had announced to Zechariah that his wife would give birth to a son, he had added the command that they were to deny him access to “wine or strong drink” (Luke 1:15). He would be Spirit-filled (Luke 1:15) and his entire life would be dedicated to one purpose: To prepare the way for the coming Messiah. Matthew records that, when John was questioned as to his identity, he responded:
“I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” – John 1:23 NLT
He was quoting directly from Isaiah 40:3, where, centuries earlier, the prophet had recorded his Spirit-inspired prophecy concerning John’s future earthly ministry.
A voice cries out,
“In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord;
build a level road through the rift valley for our God.” – Isaiah 40:3 NLT
The messenger was in place. Now John turns his attention to the birth of the Messiah. To do so, he begins by setting up the historical setting into which the Son of God would be born. As we have seen before, Luke puts a high priority on time and timing. He goes out of his way to convey that the birth of the Messiah took place at a particular time and in a very specific place, according to the perfectly timed will of God.
He begins chapter two with the mention of two important individuals, which helps to place the birth of Jesus within a historical context.
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes. This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria. – Luke 2:1-2 NLT
The first man mentioned in this passage is Augustus Caesar, who served as the emperor of Rome from 63 BC to AD 14. His birth name was Gaius Octavius, and he was the nephew of Julius Caesar. His uncle eventually adopted him and appointed him to be his successor. Upon Julius’ death, Gaius Octavius found his path to the throne blocked by others who aspired to the position. But eventually, he consolidated his power and secured his role as the first Roman emperor.
Another interesting and pertinent note regarding Augustus Caesar was his reputation as a divine being. In 42 BC, the Roman Senate had officially declared his uncle, Julius Caesar, to be divine, giving him the title of divus Iulius (“the divine Julius”). When he became the Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar would assume the title of divi filius (“son of the god”). And it is no coincidence that Jesus, the true Son of God, was born during the reign of this man-appointed god.
The other individual Luke mentions is Quirinius, who is said to have been the governor of Syria. There has been much debate about this statement because, at the time Jesus was born, Herod the Great was governor. Some argue that this is evidence of a biblical error. But the easier and more likely explanation is that Luke is referring to two different censuses that were taken. Historically, we know that Quirinius served as governor on two different occasions (3-2 BC and AD 6-7). Herod had served as governor until 4 BC. The first census went out during his governorship, which places the birth of Jesus sometime around late 5 or early 4 BC
The phrase, “This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria” can better be translated as “This was the first registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria.” Luke is differentiating between two different censuses. During the governorship of Herod, Augustus Caesar issued his first census, which required that Joseph return to his ancestral town of Bethlehem in order to be registered for taxation purposes. Augustus Caesar would later issue another decree which called for a second census. This took place somewhere around AD 6 and 7. It is mentioned by Luke in the book of Acts (Acts 5:37). The Jewish historian Josephus also mentions this second census and links it to an uprising led by Judas of Galilee. Luke is simply trying to provide “an orderly account” (Luke 1:3) that gives an accurate portrayal of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth.
This decree, issued by the Roman Emperor, required that each Jew “be registered, each to his own town” (Luke 2:3 ESV). As stated earlier, this census was for taxation purposes. Since land was one of the greatest assets any Jew possessed, they were required to return to their hometown in order to assess the value of their inherited property. Since Joseph was of “the house and lineage of David” (Luke 2:4), he returned to the small town of Bethlehem, where his ancestor, David, had been born.
Once again, Luke is emphasizing the role that timing played in the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. Had not the emperor issued his decree when he did, Joseph would not have made the trip to Bethlehem, especially with a pregnant wife. But he was required by law to travel from Nazareth in Galilee all the way to Bethlehem in Judah. This would have been a 90-mile trek that took as many as four days to make. But it was all part of God’s sovereign plan and so that the prophetic promises found in Scripture might be fulfilled. Centuries earlier, the prophet Micah had recorded that the Messiah would be born in the small and insignificant town of Bethlehem.
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf. – Micah 5:2 NLT
And Luke announces that while Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem, the time came for her to give birth. This was all part of God’s impeccable timing. Luke wants the reader to know that every aspect of this story was divinely preordained and happened according to plan. There was no chance involved. Nothing was left to fate. From Caesar’s decree to Joseph’s lineage, it was all part of God’s sovereign will. And Luke ends this section by stating that Mary “gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7 ESV).
The Son of God had entered the world, but there was no place for Him. Rather than giving birth to the King of kings in a well-appointed palace assisted by servants and in an atmosphere of splendor, Mary was forced to deliver God incarnate in less-than-regal surroundings. There were no royal dignitaries present. The birth of the heir-apparent was not met with the cheers of adoring citizens. The humble village of Bethlehem was a far cry from the royal palace in Jerusalem. But this was the way God intended for His Son to enter the world. And the apostle Paul described the Messiah’s invasion of earth in stark but highly significant terms.
though he existed in the form of God
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,
but emptied himself
by taking on the form of a slave,
by looking like other men,
and by sharing in human nature.
He humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
—even death on a cross! – Philippians 2:6-8 NLT
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Permanent Text Edition® (2016). Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
New Living Translation (NLT) Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Statistical Downscaling of Maximum Temperature in Hoshangabad District of India
Ankit Balvanshi1, H.L. Tiwari2, Mayank Gupta3, Akhilesh Sharma4
1Ankit Balvanshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, S.I.R.T.E., Bhopal, India.
2H.L. Tiwari, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India.
3Mayank Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, S.I.R.T.E., Bhopal, India.
4Akhilesh Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, S.I.R.T.E., Bhopal, India.
Manuscript received on August 01, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on August 05, 2020. | Manuscript published on September 30, 2020. | PP: 493-496 | Volume-9 Issue-3, September 2020. | Retrieval Number: 100.1/ijrte.C4484099320 | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.C4484.099320
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Abstract: The Global Climate ModelsCanESM2 and CGCM3 were utilised to downscale the maximum temperature for Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The area of study comprises to be of 6704 km2. The predictors employed for CanESM2 were ncepmslpgl, ncepp500gl, ncepp850gl and ncepmslpas, ncepp500gl, ncepp850gl were the predictors fixed for CGCM3. The total duration of the study was from the years 1979 – 2001. The two GCMs, CGCM3 and CanESM2 were checked for their capability in downscaling the maximum temperature climatic parameter. The GCM outputs were evaluated on Nash Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) and coefficient of determination (r2) criterias. The period of calibration was taken to be 1979-1995 and 1996-2001 was chosen as the period of validation. GCM CanESM2 obtained NSE of 0.77, 0.75 and r2 of 0.79, 0.79 during the periods of calibration and validation respectively. It was concluded that CanESM2 model is found comparatively more suitable for downscaling of maximum temperature for Hoshangabad region. The GCM can be further employed to generate the future scenario of maximum temperature in the region.
Keywords: Global Climate Model, CGCM3, CanESM2, NSE, r2.
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Impact analysis studies of clinical prediction rules relevant to primary care: a systematic review.
OBJECTIVES: Following appropriate validation, clinical prediction rules (CPRs) should undergo impact analysis to evaluate their effect on patient care. The aim of this systematic review is to narratively review and critically appraise CPR impact analysis studies relevant to primary care.
SETTING: Primary care.
PARTICIPANTS: Adults and children.
INTERVENTION: Studies that implemented the CPR compared to usual care were included.
STUDY DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial (RCT), controlled before-after, and interrupted time series.
PRIMARY OUTCOME: Physician behaviour and/or patient outcomes.
RESULTS: A total of 18 studies, incorporating 14 unique CPRs, were included. The main study design was RCT (n=13). Overall, 10 studies reported an improvement in primary outcome with CPR implementation. Of 6 musculoskeletal studies, 5 were effective in altering targeted physician behaviour in ordering imaging for patients presenting with ankle, knee and neck musculoskeletal injuries. Of 6 cardiovascular studies, 4 implemented cardiovascular risk scores, and 3 reported no impact on physician behaviour outcomes, such as prescribing and referral, or patient outcomes, such as reduction in serum lipid levels. 2 studies examined CPRs in decision-making for patients presenting with chest pain and reduced inappropriate admissions. Of 5 respiratory studies, 2 were effective in reducing antibiotic prescribing for sore throat following CPR implementation. Overall, study methodological quality was often unclear due to incomplete reporting.
CONCLUSIONS: Despite increasing interest in developing and validating CPRs relevant to primary care, relatively few have gone through impact analysis. To date, research has focused on a small number of CPRs across few clinical domains only.
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today (Thursday, May 31) that the core part of the Defense of Marriage Act, barring federal recognition of marriages of same-sex couples, is unconstitutional. An appeal of that decision is expected to be filed fairly quickly with the U.S. Supreme Court and is likely be before the high court this fall.
The First Circuit panel said that, under simple rational review of the law, the same-sex couples seeking to overturn DOMA “cannot prevail.” But, importantly, the panel also said that, because DOMA implicates both equal protection and federalism, the law requires “a closer than usual review based in part on discrepant impact among married couples and in part on the importance of state interests in regulating marriage.”
In its 33-page decision, the judges affirmed the U.S. District Court ruling that DOMA violates the equal protection rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. It did not agree that DOMA also violates the spending clause or Tenth Amendment rights of states. While DOMA does “intrude” into a realm of law “primarily confided to state regulations,” said the panel, “Nevertheless, Congress surely has an interest in who counts as married.”
“That Congress has traditionally looked to state law to determine the answer [to what defines marriage] does not mean that the Tenth Amendment or Spending Clause require it to do so.”
“However,” said the panel, “the denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married does burden the choice of states like Massachusetts to regulate the rules and incidents of marriage….These consequences do not violate the Tenth Amendment or Spending Clause, but Congress’ effort to put a thumb on the scales and influence a state’s decision as to how to shape its own marriage laws does bear on how the justifications are assessed.”
It then proceeded to reject—using an “intensified scrutiny”— each of the arguments put forth by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), a Republican-dominated Congressional committee that authorized an outside attorney to defend DOMA in federal lawsuits around the country. Those arguments included such things as “preserving scarce government resources,” “support child rearing,” and to preserve the traditional definition of marriage.
“For 150 years, this desire to maintain tradition would alone have been justification enough for almost any statute,” said the panel. “… But Supreme Court decisions in the last fifty years call for closer scrutiny of government action touching upon minority group interests and of federal action in areas of traditional state concern.”
“To conclude, many Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Americans live in states where that is the law today,” said the panel. “One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage. Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress’ denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest.”
“We think that this is a fantastic decision that is crisp and solid and well-reasoned,” said GLAD’s Bonauto. “And it’s really rooted in the last 50 years of equal protection jurisprudence and federalism jurisprudence.”
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said the ruling “vindicates the decision by the Obama administration not to defend the “Defense of Marriage Act,” which denies rights to millions of Americans. It is also a tribute to the thoughtful, principled legal strategy by Mary Bonauto and her associates at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.”
“I am confident that the U.S. Supreme Court will add its support for this decision which is so firmly grounded in long-standing American constitutional principles,” said Frank.
The universal reaction among LGBT civil rights groups was similar.
“Whether it is California’s Proposition 8 or the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, court after court has affirmed that marriage discrimination against gay and lesbian Americans is unfair, unjust, and unconstitutional,” said Adam Umhoefer, executive director of the American Foundation for Equal Rights which has been pressing the challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban. That challenge has succeeded at the U.S. district court and Ninth Circuit panel levels. It is now awaiting word on whether the full Ninth Circuit will hear an appeal of those lower court decisions.
In coming to its decision, the panel decided that an earlier First Circuit decision on a case challenging “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” “has already declined” to grant “suspect classification” to laws based on “sexual preference.” And the panel said it was neither empowered nor willing to “create such a new suspect classification for same-sex relationships.”
It also ruled that, while a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court dismissal of Baker v. Nelson is “precedent binding on us,” subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, in such cases as Romer v. Evans and Lawrence v. Texas, make its usefulness in the current cases limited. In Baker, a gay couple in Minnesota appealed a ruling of their state’s supreme court that held the state could deny them a marriage license. The U.S. Supreme Court, in 1972, dismissed the couple’s appeal. BLAG attorney Paul Clement had argued the First Circuit was bound to do the same with the DOMA challenge
“The panel stayed its decision, meaning the federal government is not obliged to immediately begin recognizing same-sex marriages. But Mary Bonauto, lead attorney for same-sex couples on the case, said she expects the decision will be appealed in short order.
The decision was written by Judge Michael Boudin and joined by Chief Judge Sandra Lynch and Judge Juan Torruella. The panel heard oral arguments in the two cases—Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. Health and Human Services—on April 4.
The “case” before the panel was a consolidation of three cases, brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They are generally referred to as Gill v. Office of Personnel Management.
In Gill, GLAD argued that DOMA’s ban on federal recognition of same-sex marriages violates the equal protection of same-sex couples. In Massachusetts v. HHS, the state argued that it interfered with the state’s authority to regulate marriage. In Hara v. OPM, GLAD argued a very narrow case involving the benefits due to one plaintiff, Dean Hara, the widow of the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds.
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled in July 2010 that Section 3 of DOMA violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection, its Spending Clause, and the Tenth Amendment right of states to sovereignty.
Section 3 of the federal law, passed in 1996, states that, for federal government purposes, “the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.” None of the First Circuit lawsuits challenged the section of DOMA that enables any state to ignore valid marriage licenses issued to a same-sex couple in other states.
© 2012 by Keen News Service. All rights reserved.
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I keep seeing articles debating the use versus non-use of handwriting in the post-PC era. Personally, I don’t think we’ll ever figure out a way of making handwriting totally obsolete. It’s just too organic, natural, and cozy-feeling to make ink trails on a page without the aid of an electronic device.
I find handwriting useful in at least two settings:
- In meetings
- While problem-solving
Handwriting in meetings
- Reference information
- Meeting notes
- Action items for others
- Action items for me (i.e. the note-taker)
Stephen also made a handy TextExpander snippet.
I’ve never used a formal template like this, but you might find it useful. I like how Stephen’s form identifies the most important takeaways from most any meeting. It makes post-meeting processing easier. That’s a good thing because I think the most people suck at turning notes into action.
I still prefer mind maps. I like writing all over a page, in no linear order. As tasks bubble to the surface of the mind map, I mark them with a box (symbolizing a checkbox). This makes it easy to enter the actions—which often need additional editing—into OmniFocus later.
Michael’s post-meeting process mirrors mine pretty closely:
After each meeting, my action items are entered into OmniFocus (or completed if they only take a few minutes), I email or explain tasks to others, scan the form into Evernote for reference and shred the paper.
Doodling my way out of problems
I’m an actuary, and my job involves tackling complex quantitative problems. I have an extensive background in mathematics, but I’ve learned that real problem-solving is much more about art than mechanistic number-crunching.
Problem-solving is an organic mental exercise: A messy, flawed, no-one-way-of-doing-things dance across a gradient that flows from knowing less to knowing more.
For me, handwriting, more specifically, doodling, is an artistic lever in the problem-solving I do. It’s a way of staying active while sorting through different scenarios.
Doodling may be better described as ‘markings to help a person think.’ Most people believe that doodling requires the intellectual mind to shutdown, but this is one misrepresentation that needs correcting. There is no such thing as a mindless doodle. The act of doodling is the mind’s attempt to engage before succumbing to mindlessness.
If you find yourself staring at a problem on a screen—of any size—without taking any action for more than five minutes or so, pen and paper might be your ticket out.
When you move your hand, you move your mind.
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The international coalition battling to oust ISIS from Mosul on the surface appears to be a united front against the extremists currently occupying the Iraqi city.
But little binds this motley crew.
The operation is being waged by a disparate collection of fighting forces, each with its own, often-conflicting objectives. If and when ISIS is pushed out of the city, it's not clear how these differences will be reconciled.
"It's a very, very dangerous cocktail," said Marina Ottaway, a Middle East expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "This is a group with completely different end-goals. There is a real fear that when they get rid of ISIS from Mosul then things are really going to blow up."
Here's a rundown of who's involved in the offensive — and what they want.
Iraqi Security Forces
Leading the charge to recapture Mosul are Iraq's security forces.
They have a point to prove; this week's offensive comes more than two years after they were widely criticized for relinquishing control of the city in the face of a far smaller group of ISIS fighters.
The capitulation was so humiliating that the then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki fired four of his top security officers for abandoning their "professional and military duty."
This surrender allowed the city of 2 million to become ISIS' stronghold in the country. More symbolically, Mosul was also where the jihadis' leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared his caliphate in June 2014.
Now, leading a coalition of some 65,000 troops, the Iraqis have returned to the scene of their defeat as a renewed force. Trained and equipped by the U.S., they have achieved successive victories liberating other ISIS-held cities in recent months.
"They've managed to salvage their reputation and they've regained a lot of confidence," said Michael Knights at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank.
Iraqi forces have been advancing on Mosul in a pincer movement from the south, recapturing towns, villages and oil wells on their route into the city.
On Tuesday, they were joined by Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service, also known as the Golden Division. The recent success of this elite group fighting ISIS has been a major factor in helping restore the army's reputation.
But Iraq couldn't have launched its assault on Mosul alone. The U.S. says much of the initial gains have been down to the unprecedented cooperation between government forces and the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iraq's military "does not have the force size to take both the city and its environs on its own," according to a situation report from the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. "They will need to cooperate with the [Kurds], who hold the majority of terrain surrounding the city."
Just as the Iraqi security forces have been attacking from the south, forces from Iraqi Kurdistan have advanced from the east and north.
These Kurdish forces are known as the peshmerga — meaning "those who are ready to die" — and in some instances they are fighting side-by-side with the Iraqis on the battlefield.
"This is the first time in five rotations here in Iraq that I've seen the Kurds and the Iraqis cooperate," Gen. Gary J. Volesky told a Pentagon briefing Wednesday.
This pact was forged by pragmatism — the immediate needed to defeat ISIS — as well as a U.S.-brokered oil deal signed in August.
But it is a potentially uneasy alliance. While the Iraqi government aims to drive ISIS out of its divided country, the Kurds have additional motive, namely their long-held ambition to become an independent, internationally recognized state, separate from the central government in Baghdad.
"The Kurds have one objective: for the Americans and the international community to support their independence," according to Knights. "To do that they have got to be very, very cooperative in this battle."
In the past, Washington has been reluctant to arm the Kurds, fearful that after ISIS is driven out its weapons will be used to fight the separatist cause, a problem for Washington's ally in Baghdad.
After the dust settles on Mosul it's far from clear how these tensions will be resolved.
Both Knights and Ottaway agree that while the Kurds would likely be disinterested in governing Mosul — a Sunni Muslim Arab city where their presence would be unwelcome — they will likely try to keep control of their territorial gains to the east.
Fighting alongside the Iraqi forces is an umbrella group of militias, most of whom are Shiite Muslims backed by neighboring Iran.
While not officially part of the Iraqi security forces, the Popular Mobilization Units, or PMU, was formally recognized by the Baghdad government earlier this year as an "independent military formation."
The PMU's involvement in the ISIS fight has drawn significant criticism. An Amnesty International report this week accused the militias of "war crimes" and "gross human rights violations," alleging its fighters were guilty of torturing, forcibly disappearing and executing Sunni Muslims they suspected of being ISIS sympathizers.
The militias were heavily involved in the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq's Shiite-dominated south. But the Iraqi and U.S. governments are keen for them to play a more reduced role in the Sunni-majority north, where the their presence and history of alleged abuses could inflame sectarian tensions, according to Knights.
The Shiite militias have been banned by Iraq and the U.S. from entering the city itself. And any role the PMU does have in the fight to retake Mosul will likely involve its minority of Sunni militias, Knights said.
The Shiite elements of the PMU are more likely to head 40 miles west of Mosul and help retake ISIS-held Tal Afar, according to Ottaway. Unlike the rest of northern Iraq, the town has a significant Shiite majority.
According to Ottaway it's possible that a victory for the Tehran-backed PMU in Tal Afar could lay the groundwork for a corridor between Iran and its ally Syria.
"They all know if they are not part of the battle they will lose influence in Iraq," Dr. Renad Mansour, a fellow at British think tank Chatham House, told TIME.
Tal Afar may also be seen as a prize for the Turkish military, Ottaway added.
Ankara's involvement in the Mosul operation is still somewhat vague — but it's clearly determined to have a hand in the fight.
"Turkey will take part in the Mosul operation and hold a seat at the table," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said this week. "It is out of the question for us to remain outside."
Turkey has set up a base in Kurdish-controlled territory inside Iraq. This has angered the Baghdad government, which has not sanctioned Turkey's presence.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi "is totally against the presence of Turkey and he's made it perfectly clear that they are not supposed to participate in the campaign on Mosul," Ottaway said. "But Erdogan [Turkey's prime minister] has replied that they have a right to be involved."
Turkey has also been training local Sunni tribesmen to join the assault on Mosul. Local Christian and Yezidi fighters are also involved in the offensive.
One fighting force that certainly has the backing of Baghdad is the United States military.
American forces have been assisting Iraqi and Kurdish allies with fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery, as well around 200 personnel deployed near the front lines.
U.S. warplanes have been pummeling ISIS positions on the road into Mosul and its AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships have been supporting Iraqi troops during night missions.
But it's not just the past few days. Since Aug. 2014, U.S. aircraft have carried out some 10,200 strikes in Iraq, taking out ISIS' oil infrastructure, communications and killing key leaders.
This is something Maj. Gen. Volesky called "a real holistic targeting effort" during his briefing Wednesday.
On the ground, the U.S. has more than 4,800 troops stationed in Iraq and Volesky said "a good sizable portion" are at Qayyarah Airfield, a base 40 miles south of Mosul that was recaptured from ISIS in July.
Some 200 U.S. personnel are embedded with Iraqi and Kurdish forces closer to the front. These are mostly special forces troops advising their Iraqi counterparts, or Joint Terminal Attack Controllers tasked with calling in airstrikes.
"Some will be closer to the front than others because of the unique role that they're carrying out," Pentagon press Secretary Peter Cook told a briefing Monday. "There are Americans in harm's way as part of this fight."
Others are in Iraq training the country's forces, teaching them how to use everything from M1 tanks to assault rifles.
It's not just the U.S., though. Other nations carrying out NATO's "train, advise and assist" mandate include forces from Australia, New Zealand, France, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, and others.
"This is almost of the G20 nations playing quite an active and productive role," Knights said. "It's not just the U.S. ... it's a lot more international than most people think."
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Liz Kelly: Holiness is not just an ideal for saints, but what everyone is created for
Liz Kelly vividly remembers going to a day-long retreat as a sixth-grade student in southern Minnesota at a Catholic school. Her class visited Schoenstatt On the Lake near Sleepy Eye, and she experienced what she described on June 4 “like a kind of beginning in me.”
“I recognized at that moment, for the first time in my life, that there was something very special, something very sacred about choosing to go and seek the face of the Lord with great intentionality, and moreover, that there was something about creating an environment in which others could enter into this encounter, thus seeking the face of the Lord,” she told the 500 people. gathered at Cretin-Derham Hall in Saint-Paul for the Assembly of the Archdiocesan Synod.
“And even if I might not have been able to articulate it at 11 years old, I understood that the retreat, the prayer, the search for the face of the Lord, was invigorating, that this authentic encounter, this invitation to meet the Lord in a real way, was exceptionally important for the life of the children of God.
An author, retreat leader, and speaker whose ministry focuses on Catholic women, Kelly gave a short reflection ahead of the table discussion on Synod Focus Area #2, Forming Missionary Disciples Who Know the Love of Jesus and respond to his call. Previously, she had written a theological guidance document on the subject and presented her ideas for the Parish Leadership Team Consultation, a day-long event in February and March that was part of the 2022 Archdiocesan Synod process.
“Of course, this is the main theme of our efforts this weekend: to ask ourselves to what extent we – as a Church and as individuals, in our small groups, in our service to the poor, in our adult education programs or large-scale events – how well do we carry out this sacred task of creating opportunities, experiences and environments that will foster a living and authentic encounter with the Lord, and an opportunity for greater conversion deep?” she asked. “And then, to what extent do these encounters nurture and bring about real change in us?”
A parishioner from St. Pius X in White Bear Lake and St. Mary in Lowertown St. Paul said it is “a sacred task to create opportunities, environments and relationships that invite others to seek and find the face of the Lord”.
“And we want to be a people where others find in us the gaze of the Lord,” she added.
Each person is a soul deserving of reverence, she said, emphasizing that reverence is reflected in listening without judgment, criticism or trying to fix or change it. “We want to receive others and listen to them as Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and in adoration listens to us and receives us.”
In encountering Jesus, “we cannot stress enough the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. … And that requires my imagination to be well ordered, to ‘believe in all things seen and unseen,’” Kelly said, citing the Nicene Creed. “I need to submit my imagination to the Holy Spirit, so that I can see in the bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ.”
Once a person establishes a relationship with the Lord and recognizes their need for a savior, repentance ensues, as does an ongoing process of deeper conversion.
“And we jump into this terrible and wonderful river that leads us to paradise,” she said.
To many, “holiness” may seem like an intimidating word, an ideal reserved for saints, or at least other people, with demands that seem unattractive or out of reach.
“Rather, I want to invite you to consider that you were truly created for holiness,” she said. “You thrive, you are at your best when you work and cooperate with the holiness of God.”
Holiness is “choosing the highest good,” she said. “The highest good leads to the deepest joy, a joy that can never be taken away from you, no matter what happens to you – to your body, or around you, or in the world – that joy cannot to be raptured, and you were created for it.
Kelly encouraged Synod Assembly attendees to seek humility and its “twin,” magnanimity, “the aspiration of the spirit to do great things.”
“We want to pursue what is great in the eyes of God and organize our lives in such a way that we become worthy of this great thing,” she said.
Following Kelly’s presentation, assembly participants spent the afternoon in prayer, including multilingual decades of the rosary, two separate periods of table discussion on proposals or action points, related to topics such as adult formation, small groups, prayer and retreats, encounter with Christ through service to others, large-scale events that foster an encounter with Jesus, discipleship in life daily life, networks of faith relationships, resources for those in need, marriage preparation and ongoing support, ministry for separated and divorced people.
After the two discussion tables, some delegates were chosen at random to share their ideas with Bishop Bernard Hebda. Among the topics they discussed were the need for adult faith formation, the need to reach people who are not yet practicing faith, the need to help people build personal relationships with God and the success of small faith-sharing groups.
“I really think a small group initiative would have the potential to cover so many” challenges that people observed and shared during table discussions and with the Archbishop, one woman said. “Through small groups, you can deepen and grow in your faith. During this time, you are able to connect and bond with each other and increase that sense of belonging.
A man asked how Catholics could adopt “the Christian way of life in the modern world”.
At the end of the session, the Synod Assembly delegates voted on the top three proposals they “believe the Holy Spirit invites the Archdiocese to prioritize.” Early results showed that the proposals that received the most votes were Adult Training, Small Groups and Discipleship in Daily Life.
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Inspirational migrant women take centre stage at the Royal Festival Hall.
The awards were presented by Samira Ahmed, with Livia Firth, Phyllida Lloyd, Zahera Harb and Lindsey Hilsum, and were held as part of the WOW (Women of the World) Festival on in The Royal Festival Hall at London’s Southbank on 11th March. Music was provided by Woman Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) choir from Manchester- winners of the 2015 Liberty Human Rights Arts Award. This remarkable choir brings women refugees and asylum seekers together in song and raises awareness of the injustices suffered by women who are seeking asylum in the UK.
Livia Firth said: “It is wonderful to be back at this amazing Awards Ceremony at the WOW Festival, to recognise the achievement of women who make a huge difference to our society, despite the extremely difficult experiences they have been through.” Mariam Ibrahim Yusuf, orignally from from Somalia now living in Manchester, was awarded The Woman Of the Year Award. Mariam arrived in the UK in 2008 fleeing war and gender-based violence in Somalia and leaving behind her two children, convinced that they would soon join her. But eight years later, having been detained, destitute and homeless, Mariam is still stuck in the asylum system. Wanting something positive to come out of her experience, Mariam has dedicated her time to campaigning to ensure that asylum-seekers are not forced into similar hardships. A tireless champion for the rights of women who have experienced domestic violence and FGM, Mariam is a source of support and hope for many people who are seeking protection and trying to rebuild their lives. She is not giving up hope of seeing her children again.
The Young Woman of the Year award went to 21 year-old Seada Fekadu. At the age of 16 she fled Eritrea and found her way to the UK, via Calais, on the back of the truck, on her own. Without knowing a word of English, she managed to find her way to safety in London, and as soon as she was able to do so, she started helping other young people with similar experiences. In addition to mentoring other young people, Seada is working to ensure their voices are heard in places where decisions are made about their lives. She was quickly granted refugee status and soon started volunteering, becoming a mentor and a role model to many young people. Seada is a powerful advocate for many of those who often do not have a voice and who, like she once was, are children seeking protection and trying to start a new life on their own. She is about to go to university to fulfil her dream of giving back to Britain by becoming a doctor.
The Awards also recognised Citizens UK as Champion of the Year. Citizens UK coordinated the Refugees Welcome movement in 85 towns and cities across the country and successfully campaigned to increase the number of Syrian refugees resettled in the UK in 2015. Citizens UK is the largest broad-based community organising alliance in the UK. Its membership comprises over 300 civil society groups, including schools, faith institutions, trade union branches and universities. The main aim of Citizens UK is to increase participation of civil society in public life, by organising communities to act together for the common good. Citizens UK have been campaigning on refugee and migrant issues for over a decade, but have really stepped up their efforts in promoting rights of refugees and migrants in the past year. The main aim of their campaign is to restore dignity and respect for migrants and refugees. The Award was presented by Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, UNHCR Representative to the UK and Director Phyllida Lloyd to women leaders: Razan Alakraa, Joon Lynn Goh, Rabbi Janet Darley and Reverend Karen Rooms.
The ceremony celebrated outstanding media coverage of the protection needs of refugee and migrant women. This year, in memory of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, the Media Award was renamed The Sue-lloyd Roberts Media Award. The Awards was presented by Sue’s husband, BBC producer, Nick Guthrie and went to Jackie Long and Lee Sorrell for their C4 news piece Inside Yarls Wood. Read more about Sue here.
A Parliamentary inquiry followed this special investigation and an independent review into conditions at Yarl’s Wood detention centre was commissioned. The centre has been branded ‘a place of national concern’. The special report exposed the ordeal of many refugee and migrant women detained and mistreated at the detention centre. The report was executed skillfully and demonstrated high commitment to ethical journalism. It brought the sufferings of those women into the public domain. It gave the detained women of Yarl’s Wood a voice, a strong one to reach out and say ‘pay attention to our rights as human beings.’
“What we have witnessed here today, in the past hour, sums up the past year – a year on the move – a year of struggle for 60 million displaced people, a year in which a new phrase – “weaponising refugees” – entered our vocabulary – two words which sound as sinister as “collateral damage”. But we have also witnessed a year of survival, humanitarianism, goodwill and welcome on a scale that has never been seen before. And two different words now for the first time in my lifetime stand together in our public conversations – refugees welcome! We’ve got the hashtag, and we’ve got the t-shirt and we are not going away. I know that there is a danger of being labeled as emotional, guardian reading, churchgoing, lefty, no borders, anarchist. And there is nothing wrong with that. But this is actually about being very rational, knowing our history and not repeating it. So when we say never again – we mean it.”
Zrinka Bralo, CEO of Migrants Organise, the Founder of the Women on the Move Awards
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My Child’s Mobile Devices
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Initially we need to address the real question: Do children need boundaries with technology? There are tons of bad things that COULD happen as your child uses his/her mobile device and setting boundaries on those will help protect them. BOUNDARIES GIVE PROTECTION.
In Exodus 16 we read about the Israelites in the wilderness. They’re starving and begin to complain. God miraculously provides manna and quail for them WITH some boundaries. The instructions are that every person is to collect ONLY what they need FOR THAT DAY. However, there are people that decide they want to collect enough for tomorrow too, and the extra gets infested with maggots!
Yes, our kids need boundaries with their mobile devices. We can help provide boundaries a few ways:
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- Limit apps. BE SMART about apps, they are not all OK. Many parents allow children to have apps like snap chat-which allows easy access to nude pictures, and Kik Messenger-an anonymous texting app. Know the app your child is requesting. You can check out reviews of apps for kids at commonsensemedia.org and iparent.tv.
The sex talk used to be the awkward talk that parents had to have, and, YES, you still need to have that one. But in today’s society we must have talk with our children about the risks associated with technology. They should know WHY boundaries exist. There are tons of resources out there that provide boundaries for kids’ mobile devices, so take some time to do a little research, and set your child up for technological success!
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Strawberry and Cream-cheese Santas
Bring on the Santa parade!
These fanciful treats were fun to make, if a little time consuming considering they have only a few ingredients. Mum and I had a recipe to work from, but we sized it down to make 11-12 Santas.
The recipe can be suitable for those who are gluten-free. Just check the icing sugar is gluten-free and use gluten-free chocolate to make tiny drops for the eyes.
By using light cream-cheese instead of whipped cream, the recipe is slightly healthier. The cream-cheese has the added advantage of being firmer in consistency than whipped cream, so it holds in place.
But, if constructing this recipe quickly, fresh whipped cream can be used, (canned whipped cream is not advisable) and the whipped cream will hold its shape long enough, if they are going to be consumed soon after making. Otherwise they may melt and red strawberry juice may leach out into the white cream.
This recipe is for 11 Santas.
80 g of Philadelphia Light cream-cheese
3 teaspoons of icing sugar (to taste)
11 strawberries (medium to large) + extras just in case.
22 small chocolate drops (for the eyes)
Wash the strawberries and pat dry. Cut the green end of the strawberry off to form a flat base. Cut the top third off each strawberry and put aside, making sure to keep the two pieces together. Mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together until it is smooth. Either use a spoon or a piping bag (even a plastic bag with the end cut off works) to form the ‘head’ of the Santa. Then place the rest of the strawberry on top of the cream-cheese to form the ‘hat’. Change to a smaller piping nozzle to create the small cream-cheese ‘buttons’ and the pom-pom on the ‘hat’. Use tweezers to add the chocolate eyes to each Santa. Make sure to refrigerate when they are finished.
In constructing our Santas, Mum and I struck unexpected glitches along the way. Mum and I had bought a bag of chocolate drops but they were far too big for the size of the Santa, and his eyes were way out of proportion. So we melted the chocolate drops in a double boiler and used a knitting needle point to drop chocolate onto a piece of baking paper to make tiny eyes. We had tried chocolate chips, but they didn’t have the same effect. The ‘piping bag’ we used was a plastic bag with the end cut off, fitted with random nozzles. This was a bit of a trial as we used the plastic bag with the end cut off to form the Santas’ heads, then we had to remove the remaining icing from the bag in order to change to a fine plain nozzle for the buttons (as we found the buttons had to be quite small), then put the icing back in the bag, then repeat the process to change to a rosette nozzle to create the ‘pom-pom’ on the hat.
My workmate, (BR) made some the same weekend. She struck some glitches as well. We both had a copy of the recipe, but we took different approaches BR wanted to make the Santas quickly for dessert, so for convenience opted to use whipped cream from a spray-can and square chocolate chips for the eyes. It was a hot day when she made them and her photos showed Santas with trickles of cream, as they melted in the heat. She had even chilled the ingredients (strawberries and cream) in the fridge before constructing them. This goes to prove that Santa is suited to the chilly temperatures of his homeland The North Pole, rather than tropical climates. We both commented how the recipe’s 15-minute construction time was way off the mark, as it took considerably longer than this. We both used this as a test run for making these again at Christmas, and I guess now that we know what to do, we are hopefully wiser, and the next time we make them it should be quicker.
Mum’s next-door neighbour had her 7-year-old grandson staying. He was unwell, so we took him some Santas to cheer him up and hopefully make him feel better. They did the trick, he was thrilled and was all smiles. They make Mum smile too each time she opens the fridge door and sees the Santas there. She sent me a text the day after we made them to say “still smiling when I open the fridge”.
They may be whimsical, but they make people happy.
The cake stand in the photo was just the right size and proved perfect for displaying 11 Santas on. My lovely kind workmate (TB) bought it for me as a present, an excellent choice (Thanks, TB).
Leftover Santas ready to go into the fridge. It was a lot of fiddly work, but Mum and I were pleased with the result and we think they turned out really well.
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Auburn’s two cemeteries have an honored role in the annual Memorial Day Services. Please contact the Administration office to inquire about this year’s Memorial Day event.
Shadyside Cemetery is located on East Washington Street near the corner of State Route 44. It is on the south side of the street and across the road from the Auburn Museum.
Maple Shade Cemetery
Maple Shade Cemetery is also located on East Washington Street, just east of the Administration Building. Access is available off Auburn Road just north of East Washington Street as well. There are no graves available for purchase in Maple Shade.
Inquiries regarding the purchasing graves, internments or burial records should be directed to our cemetery sexton:
This is a great website link to find the grave of ancestors. If a picture of the grave site you are searching for is not available, you may fill out a request and dedicated volunteers will search it out, take a picture, and send it to you via email.
Auburn is very fortunate to have one of those volunteers living in our township.
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Canon M50 vs Sony A77 II
The Canon EOS M50 and the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II are two digital cameras that were announced, respectively, in February 2018 and May 2014. The M50 is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, while the A77 II is a DSLR. Both cameras are equipped with an APS-C sensor. Both cameras offer a resolution of 24 megapixels.
Below is an overview of the main specs of the two cameras as a starting point for the comparison.
Going beyond this snapshot of core features and characteristics, what are the differences between the Canon EOS M50 and the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II? Which one should you buy? Read on to find out how these two cameras compare with respect to their body size, their imaging sensors, their shooting features, their input-output connections, and their reception by expert reviewers.
An illustration of the physical size and weight of the Canon M50 and the Sony A77 II is provided in the side-by-side display below. The two cameras are presented according to their relative size. Three successive views from the front, the top, and the rear are shown. All width, height and depth dimensions are rounded to the nearest millimeter.
The M50 can be obtained in two different colors (black, white), while the A77 II is only available in black.
If the front view area (width x height) of the cameras is taken as an aggregate measure of their size, the Sony A77 II is considerably larger (46 percent) than the Canon M50. Moreover, the A77 II is substantially heavier (66 percent) than the M50. It is noteworthy in this context that the A77 II is splash and dust-proof, while the M50 does not feature any corresponding weather-sealing.
The above size and weight comparisons are to some extent incomplete since they do not consider the interchangeable lenses that both of these cameras require. Hence, you might want to study and compare the specifications of available lenses in order to get the full picture of the size and weight of the two camera systems.
The adjacent table lists the principal physical characteristics of the two cameras alongside a wider set of alternatives. In case you want to display and compare another camera duo, you can use the CAM-parator app to select your camera combination among a large number of options.
|1.||Canon M50||116 mm||88 mm||59 mm||390 g||235||n||Feb 2018||779||ebay.com|
|2.||Sony A77 II||143 mm||104 mm||81 mm||647 g||480||Y||May 2014||1,199||ebay.com|
|3.||Canon M50 Mark II||116 mm||88 mm||59 mm||387 g||305||n||Oct 2020||599||amazon.com|
|4.||Canon SL3||122 mm||93 mm||70 mm||449 g||1070||n||Apr 2019||599||amazon.com|
|5.||Canon M6 Mark II||120 mm||70 mm||49 mm||408 g||305||n||Aug 2019||849||amazon.com|
|6.||Canon T7||129 mm||101 mm||78 mm||475 g||500||n||Feb 2018||449||amazon.com|
|7.||Canon M6||112 mm||68 mm||45 mm||390 g||295||n||Feb 2017||779||ebay.com|
|8.||Canon M100||108 mm||67 mm||35 mm||302 g||295||n||Aug 2017||499||ebay.com|
|9.||Canon SL2||122 mm||93 mm||70 mm||453 g||650||n||Jun 2017||549||ebay.com|
|10.||Canon T7i||131 mm||100 mm||76 mm||532 g||600||n||Feb 2017||749||ebay.com|
|11.||Canon M5||116 mm||89 mm||61 mm||427 g||295||n||Sep 2016||979||ebay.com|
|12.||Canon M3||111 mm||68 mm||44 mm||366 g||250||n||Feb 2015||679||ebay.com|
|13.||Nikon D7200||136 mm||107 mm||76 mm||765 g||1110||Y||Mar 2015||1,199||ebay.com|
|14.||Nikon D7100||136 mm||107 mm||76 mm||765 g||950||Y||Feb 2013||1,199||ebay.com|
|15.||Sony A68||143 mm||104 mm||81 mm||610 g||540||n||Nov 2015||699||ebay.com|
|16.||Sony A7 II||127 mm||96 mm||60 mm||599 g||350||Y||Nov 2014||1,999||ebay.com|
|17.||Sony A77||143 mm||104 mm||81 mm||732 g||470||Y||Aug 2011||1,399||ebay.com|
|Note: Measurements and pricing do not include easily detachable parts, such as add-on or interchangeable lenses or optional viewfinders.|
Any camera decision will naturally be influenced heavily by the price. The retail prices at the time of the camera’s release place the model in the market relative to other models in the producer’s line-up and the competition. The M50 was launched at a markedly lower price (by 35 percent) than the A77 II, which puts it into a different market segment. Usually, retail prices stay at first close to the launch price, but after several months, discounts become available. Later in the product cycle and, in particular, when the replacement model is about to appear, further discounting and stock clearance sales often push the camera price considerably down.
The size of the imaging sensor is a crucial determinant of image quality. A large sensor will tend to have larger individual pixels that provide better low-light sensitivity, wider dynamic range, and richer color-depth than smaller pixel-units in a sensor of the same technological generation. Further, a large sensor camera will give the photographer additional creative options when using shallow depth-of-field to isolate a subject from its background. On the downside, larger sensors are more costly to manufacture and tend to lead to bigger and heavier cameras and lenses.
Both cameras under consideration feature an APS-C sensor, but their sensors differ slightly in size. The sensor area in the A77 II is 11 percent bigger. As a result of these sensor size differences, the cameras have format factors, respectively, of 1.6 (M50) and 1.5. Both cameras have a native aspect ratio (sensor width to sensor height) of 3:2.
Even though the A77 II has a larger sensor, both cameras offer the same resolution of 24 megapixels. This implies that the A77 II has a lower pixel density and larger individual pixels (with a pixel pitch of 3.91μm versus 3.72μm for the M50), which gives it a potential advantage in terms of light gathering capacity. It should, however, be noted that the M50 is much more recent (by 3 years and 9 months) than the A77 II, and its sensor will have benefitted from technological advances during this time that at least partly compensate for the smaller pixel size.
The M50 has on-sensor phase detect pixels, which results in fast and reliable autofocus acquisition even during live view operation.
The Canon EOS M50 has a native sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 25600, which can be extended to ISO 100-51200. The corresponding ISO settings for the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II are ISO 100 to ISO 25600, with the possibility to increase the ISO range to 50-51200.
Technology-wise, both cameras are equipped with CMOS (Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor) sensors. Both cameras use a Bayer filter for capturing RGB colors on a square grid of photosensors. This arrangement is found in most digital cameras.
Since 2007, DXO Mark has published sensor performance measurements that have been derived using a consistent methodology. This service determines an overall sensor rating, as well as sub-scores for low-light sensitivity ("DXO Sports"), dynamic range ("DXO Landscape"), and color depth ("DXO Portrait"). The following table provides an overview of the physical sensor characteristics, as well as the sensor quality measurements for a selection of comparators.
|2.||Sony A77 II||APS-C||24.0||6000||4000||1080/60p||23.5||12.7||1442||77|
|3.||Canon M50 Mark II||APS-C||24.0||6000||4000||4K/24p||24.0||13.6||1939||83|
|5.||Canon M6 Mark II||APS-C||32.3||6960||4640||4K/30p||24.0||13.5||1848||83|
|16.||Sony A7 II||Full Frame||24.0||6000||4000||1080/60p||24.9||13.6||2449||90|
|Note: DXO values in italics represent estimates based on sensor size and age.|
Many modern cameras are not only capable of taking still images, but also of capturing video footage. Both cameras under consideration have a sensor with sufficiently fast read-out times for moving pictures, but the M50 provides a higher video resolution than the A77 II. It can shoot video footage at 4K/24p, while the Sony is limited to 1080/60p.
Beyond body and sensor, cameras can and do differ across a range of features. The two cameras under consideration are similar with respect to both having an electronic viewfinder. However, the one in the M50 offers a slightly higher resolution than the one in the A77 II (2360k vs 2359k dots). The adjacent table lists some of the other core features of the Canon M50 and Sony A77 II along with similar information for a selection of comparators.
|1.||Canon M50||2360||n||3.0 / 1040||swivel||Y||1/4000s||10.0/s||Y||n|
|2.||Sony A77 II||2359||Y||3.0 / 1229||full-flex||n||1/8000s||12.0/s||Y||Y|
|3.||Canon M50 Mark II||2360||n||3.0 / 1040||swivel||Y||1/4000s||10.0/s||Y||n|
|4.||Canon SL3||optical||n||3.0 / 1040||swivel||Y||1/4000s||5.0/s||Y||n|
|5.||Canon M6 Mark II||optional||n||3.0 / 1040||tilting||Y||1/4000s||14.0/s||Y||n|
|6.||Canon T7||optical||n||3.0 / 920||fixed||n||1/4000s||3.0/s||Y||n|
|7.||Canon M6||optional||n||3.0 / 1040||tilting||Y||1/4000s||9.0/s||Y||n|
|8.||Canon M100||none||n||3.0 / 1040||tilting||Y||1/4000s||6.1/s||Y||n|
|9.||Canon SL2||optical||n||3.0 / 1040||swivel||Y||1/4000s||5.0/s||Y||n|
|10.||Canon T7i||optical||n||3.0 / 1040||swivel||Y||1/4000s||6.0/s||Y||n|
|11.||Canon M5||2360||n||3.2 / 1620||tilting||Y||1/4000s||9.0/s||Y||n|
|12.||Canon M3||optional||n||3.0 / 1040||tilting||Y||1/4000s||4.2/s||Y||n|
|13.||Nikon D7200||optical||Y||3.2 / 1229||fixed||n||1/8000s||6.0/s||Y||n|
|14.||Nikon D7100||optical||Y||3.2 / 1229||fixed||n||1/8000s||6.0/s||Y||n|
|15.||Sony A68||1440||Y||2.7 / 460||tilting||n||1/4000s||8.0/s||Y||Y|
|16.||Sony A7 II||2400||n||3.0 / 1230||tilting||n||1/8000s||5.0/s||n||Y|
|17.||Sony A77||2359||Y||3.0 / 921||full-flex||n||1/8000s||12.0/s||Y||Y|
|Notes: *) Information refers to the mechanical shutter, unless the camera only has an electronic one.|
One differentiating feature between the two cameras concerns the touch sensitivity of the rear screen. The M50 has a touchscreen, while the A77 II has a conventional panel. Touch control can be particularly helpful, for example, for setting the focus point.Both cameras have an articulated rear screen that can be turned to be front-facing. This feature will be particularly appreciated by vloggers and photographers who are interested in taking selfies.
The Canon M50 has an intervalometer built-in. This enables the photographer to capture time lapse sequences, such as flower blooming, a sunset or moon rise, without purchasing an external camera trigger and related software.
The M50 writes its imaging data to SDXC cards, while the A77 II uses SDXC or Memory Stick PRO Duo cards. Both cameras can use UHS-I cards, which provide for Ultra High Speed data transfer of up to 104 MB/s.
For some imaging applications, the extent to which a camera can communicate with its environment can be an important aspect in the camera decision process. The table below provides an overview of the connectivity of the Canon EOS M50 and Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II and, in particular, the interfaces the cameras (and selected comparators) provide for accessory control and data transfer.
Mic / Speaker
|1.||Canon M50||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||micro||2.0||Y||-||Y|
|2.||Sony A77 II||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|3.||Canon M50 Mark II||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||micro||2.0||Y||-||Y|
|4.||Canon SL3||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||-||Y|
|5.||Canon M6 Mark II||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||micro||2.0||Y||-||Y|
|6.||Canon T7||Y||mono / mono||-||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|7.||Canon M6||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||Y|
|8.||Canon M100||-||stereo / mono||-||-||micro||2.0||Y||Y||Y|
|9.||Canon SL2||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||Y|
|10.||Canon T7i||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||Y|
|11.||Canon M5||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||Y|
|12.||Canon M3||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|13.||Nikon D7200||Y||stereo / mono||Y||Y||mini||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|14.||Nikon D7100||Y||stereo / mono||Y||Y||mini||2.0||-||-||-|
|15.||Sony A68||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||micro||2.0||-||-||-|
|16.||Sony A7 II||Y||stereo / mono||Y||Y||micro||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|17.||Sony A77||Y||stereo / mono||Y||-||mini||2.0||-||-||-|
Studio photographers will appreciate that the Sony A77 II (unlike the M50) features a PC Sync socket, so that professional strobe lights can be controlled by the camera.
Both the M50 and the A77 II have been discontinued, but can regularly be found used on ebay. The M50 was replaced by the Canon M50 Mark II, while the A77 II does not have a direct successor. Further information on the features and operation of the M50 and A77 II can be found, respectively, in the Canon M50 Manual (free pdf) or the online Sony A77 II Manual.
So what conclusions can be drawn? Is there a clear favorite between the Canon M50 and the Sony A77 II? Which camera is better? The listing below highlights the relative strengths of the two models.
Arguments in favor of the Canon EOS M50:
- Better video: Provides higher definition movie capture (4K/24p vs 1080/60p).
- Better live-view autofocus: Features on-sensor phase-detection for more confident autofocus.
- Fewer buttons to press: Is equipped with a touch-sensitive rear screen to facilitate handling.
- Easier time-lapse photography: Has an intervalometer built-in for low frequency shooting.
- More compact: Is smaller (116x88mm vs 143x104mm) and thus needs less room in the bag.
- Less heavy: Is lighter (by 257g or 40 percent) and hence easier to carry around.
- More legacy lens friendly: Can take a broad range of non-native lenses via adapters.
- Easier wireless transfer: Supports Bluetooth for image sharing without cables.
- More affordable: Was introduced into a lower priced category (35 percent cheaper at launch).
- More modern: Reflects 3 years and 9 months of technical progress since the A77 II launch.
Advantages of the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II:
- Easier setting verification: Features a control panel on top to check shooting parameters.
- More detailed LCD: Has a higher resolution rear screen (1229k vs 1040k dots).
- Faster shutter: Has higher mechanical shutter speed (1/8000s vs 1/4000s) to freeze action.
- Faster burst: Shoots at higher frequency (12 vs 10 flaps/sec) to capture the decisive moment.
- Longer lasting: Gets more shots (480 versus 235) out of a single battery charge.
- Better sealing: Is splash and dust sealed for shooting in inclement weather conditions.
- Sharper images: Has stabilization technology built-in to reduce the impact of hand-shake.
- Easier device pairing: Supports NFC for fast wireless image transfer over short distances.
- Better studio light control: Has a PC Sync socket to connect to professional strobe lights.
- More heavily discounted: Has been around for much longer (launched in May 2014).
If the count of relative strengths (bullet points above) is taken as a measure, the match-up finishes in a tie (10 points each). However, the relative importance of the various individual camera aspects will vary according to personal preferences and needs, so that you might like to apply corresponding weights to the particular features before making a decision on a new camera. A professional wedding photographer will view the differences between cameras in a way that diverges from the perspective of a travel photog, and a person interested in cityscapes has distinct needs from a macro shooter. Hence, the decision which camera is best and worth buying is often a very personal one.
How about other alternatives? Do the specifications of the Canon M50 and the Sony A77 II place the cameras among the top in their class? Find out in the latest Best Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera and Best DSLR Camera listings whether the two cameras rank among the cream of the crop.
In any case, while the comparison of the spec-sheets of cameras can offer a general idea of their imaging potential, it remains incomplete and does no justice, for example, to the way the M50 or the A77 II perform in practice. User reviews, such as those found at amazon, can sometimes inform about these issues, but such feedback is often incomplete, inconsistent, and biased.
This is where reviews by experts come in. The table below provides a synthesis of the camera assessments of some of the best known photo-gear review sites (amateurphotographer [AP], cameralabs [CL], digitalcameraworld [DCW], dpreview [DPR], ephotozine [EPZ], photographyblog [PB]). As can be seen, the professional reviewers agree in many cases on the quality of different cameras, but sometimes their assessments diverge, reinforcing the earlier point that a camera decision is often a very personal choice.
|1.||Canon M50||..||+||4/5||79/100||..||3.5/5||Feb 2018||779||ebay.com|
|2.||Sony A77 II||4/5||..||..||80/100||4.5/5||5/5||May 2014||1,199||ebay.com|
|3.||Canon M50 Mark II||4/5||..||4/5||..||4.5/5||3.5/5||Oct 2020||599||amazon.com|
|4.||Canon SL3||..||o||4.5/5||79/100||4/5||4/5||Apr 2019||599||amazon.com|
|5.||Canon M6 Mark II||..||+||4.5/5||85/100||4/5||4/5||Aug 2019||849||amazon.com|
|6.||Canon T7||..||o||3.5/5||..||3.5/5||3.5/5||Feb 2018||449||amazon.com|
|7.||Canon M6||..||..||..||80/100||4/5||4/5||Feb 2017||779||ebay.com|
|8.||Canon M100||3/5||+||..||..||4/5||3.5/5||Aug 2017||499||ebay.com|
|9.||Canon SL2||4/5||+ +||4/5||78/100||4.5/5||4.5/5||Jun 2017||549||ebay.com|
|10.||Canon T7i||4.5/5||..||3.5/5||80/100||4.5/5||4/5||Feb 2017||749||ebay.com|
|11.||Canon M5||4/5||+||4/5||82/100||4/5||4/5||Sep 2016||979||ebay.com|
|12.||Canon M3||4/5||o||..||75/100||4.5/5||4/5||Feb 2015||679||ebay.com|
|13.||Nikon D7200||4/5||+ +||..||84/100||4.5/5||4.5/5||Mar 2015||1,199||ebay.com|
|14.||Nikon D7100||5/5||+ +||..||85/100||4.5/5||4.5/5||Feb 2013||1,199||ebay.com|
|15.||Sony A68||3/5||..||..||..||4/5||4/5||Nov 2015||699||ebay.com|
|16.||Sony A7 II||5/5||+||4/5||82/100||4.5/5||5/5||Nov 2014||1,999||ebay.com|
|17.||Sony A77||5/5||91/100||..||81/100||..||5/5||Aug 2011||1,399||ebay.com|
|Notes: (+ +) highly recommended; (+) recommended; (o) reviewed; (..) not available.|
The above review scores should be interpreted with care, though. The ratings were established in reference to similarly priced cameras that were available in the market at the time of the review. Hence, a score should always be seen in the context of the camera's market launch date and its price, and comparisons of ratings among very different cameras or across long time periods have little meaning. Also, please note that some of the review sites have changed their methodology and reporting over time.
Other camera comparisons
Did this review help to inform your camera decision process? In case you would like to check on the differences and similarities of other camera models, just use the search menu below. As an alternative, you can also directly jump to any one of the listed comparisons that were previously generated by the CAM-parator tool.
- Canon 1D Mark II vs Canon M50
- Canon 1D X Mark II vs Sony A77 II
- Canon G1 X vs Canon M50
- Canon G7 X Mark III vs Canon M50
- Canon M50 vs Nikon D90
- Canon M50 vs Olympus E-400
- Canon M50 vs Panasonic G9
- Canon SX710 vs Sony A77 II
- Nikon D600 vs Sony A77 II
- Nikon D780 vs Sony A77 II
- Olympus TG-6 vs Sony A77 II
- Panasonic ZS80 vs Sony A77 II
Specifications: Canon M50 vs Sony A77 II
Below is a side-by-side comparison of the specs of the two cameras to facilitate a quick review of their differences and common features.
|Camera Model||Canon M50||Sony A77 II|
|Camera Type||Mirrorless system camera||Digital single lens reflex|
|Camera Lens||Canon EF-M mount lenses||Sony A mount lenses|
|Launch Date||February 2018||May 2014|
|Launch Price||USD 779||USD 1,199|
|Sensor Specs||Canon M50||Sony A77 II|
|Sensor Format||APS-C Sensor||APS-C Sensor|
|Sensor Size||22.3 x 14.9 mm||23.5 x 15.6 mm|
|Sensor Area||332.27 mm2||366.6 mm2|
|Sensor Diagonal||26.8 mm||28.2 mm|
|Sensor Resolution||24 Megapixels||24 Megapixels|
|Image Resolution||6000 x 4000 pixels||6000 x 4000 pixels|
|Pixel Pitch||3.72 μm||3.91 μm|
|Pixel Density||7.22 MP/cm2||6.55 MP/cm2|
|Moiré control||Anti-Alias filter||Anti-Alias filter|
|Movie Capability||4K/24p Video||1080/60p Video|
|ISO Setting||100 - 25,600 ISO||100 - 25,600 ISO|
|ISO Boost||100 - 51,200 ISO||50 - 51,200 ISO|
|Image Processor||DIGIC 8||BIONZ X|
|Screen Specs||Canon M50||Sony A77 II|
|Viewfinder Type||Electronic viewfinder||Electronic viewfinder|
|Viewfinder Field of View||100%||100%|
|Viewfinder Resolution||2360k dots||2359k dots|
|Top-Level Screen||no Top Display||Control Panel|
|LCD Framing||Live View||Live View|
|Rear LCD Size||3.0inch||3.0inch|
|LCD Resolution||1040k dots||1229k dots|
|LCD Attachment||Swivel screen||Fully flexible screen|
|Touch Input||Touchscreen||no Touchscreen|
|Shooting Specs||Canon M50||Sony A77 II|
|Focus System||On-Sensor Phase-detect||Phase-detect AF|
|Manual Focusing Aid||Focus Peaking||Focus Peaking|
|Max Shutter Speed (mechanical)||1/4000s||1/8000s|
|Continuous Shooting||10 shutter flaps/s||12 shutter flaps/s|
|Shutter Life Expectancy||100 000 actuations||150 000 actuations|
|Time-Lapse Photography||Intervalometer built-in||no Intervalometer|
|Image Stabilization||Lens stabilization only||In-body stabilization|
|Fill Flash||Built-in Flash||Built-in Flash|
|Storage Medium||SDXC cards||MS or SDXC cards|
|Second Storage Option||Single card slot||Single card slot|
|UHS card support||UHS-I||UHS-I|
|Connectivity Specs||Canon M50||Sony A77 II|
|Studio Flash||no PC Sync||PC Sync socket|
|USB Connector||USB 2.0||USB 2.0|
|HDMI Port||micro HDMI||mini HDMI|
|Microphone Port||External MIC port||External MIC port|
|Wifi Support||Wifi built-in||Wifi built-in|
|Near-Field Communication||no NFC||NFC built-in|
|Bluetooth Support||Bluetooth built-in||no Bluetooth|
|Body Specs||Canon M50||Sony A77 II|
|Environmental Sealing||not weather sealed||Weathersealed body|
|Battery Life (CIPA)||235 shots per charge||480 shots per charge|
116 x 88 x 59 mm
(4.6 x 3.5 x 2.3 in)
143 x 104 x 81 mm
(5.6 x 4.1 x 3.2 in)
|Camera Weight||390 g (13.8 oz)||647 g (22.8 oz)|
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Sciatica is a term generally used to describe pain that is usually associated with the irritation of compression of one of five nerves roots that ultimately give rise to each sciatic nerve. Pain from sciatic nerve irritation is usually felt in the buttocks, lower back and in many cases that pain has been known to resonate to that legs and foot. Many who have suffered from pain in the sciatic nerve have also reported what is said to be a tingling or numbing sensation in the listed affected areas. The pain associated with sciatica can vary in individuals that are affected. While there are those that may complain of a mild discomfort, others may experience difficulty moving or controlling limbs. Cold weather tends to be a trigger for sciatic nerve pain. More often than not the pain is usually concentrated to one side of the body.
Sciatica is a common form for lower back and leg pain but the causes of the condition tend to vary. There are several causes for the condition. The primary cause is compression of a dorsal nerve root typically in the lumbar region of the back. Spinal disc herniation, which is a herniated intervertebral disc in the spine, and degenerative disc have both been known to contributing to the nerve irritation that causes the condition. Other causes include but are not limited to slipped disc, tumors, trigger points, pregnancy, habits such as poor posture, habitual inaccurate lifting, long periods of sitting and standing, pelvic fracture or injury, spinal stenosis, and piriformis syndrome which is a pain disorder that involves the piriformis muscle in the buttocks.
Many people mistake sciatica for a diagnosed condition when actually the term is simply used to describe a set of symptoms used to describe what is irritating the nerve root and causing pain. To properly identify sciatica is extremely important as the symptoms described directly affect the mode of treatment.
Most symptoms of sciatica are described as follows:
- Sharp pain that may be so intense that there is difficulty standing, walking or performing any locomotive activities.
- Constant pain concentrated in one side of the buttocks
- Numbness, weakness or difficulty moving the leg and/or foot
- Tingling and/or burning traveling down the leg
- Pain in one leg or on one side of the buttocks that gets worse when sitting.
The cause of sciatica varies but usually is a result of compression of lumbar nerves or the sciatic nerve itself. Compressed nerves can be caused by various conditions. Spinal disc herniation, which is a condition where a tear of the outer ring of an intervertebral disc allows the central portion of the disc to bulge out, is a common cause. With spinal disc herniation the affected bulging disc can compress a nerve causing sciatica.
Lumbar spinal stenosis, a condition in which the spinal canal narrows and compresses the spinal cord, and/or sciatica nerve root, is another cause.
Pregnancy and obesity are also causes. Excessive weight gain can cause added pressure to the lower back resulting in the pinching of nerves. In pregnancy, the uterus often presses on the sciatic nerve.
Treatment for sciatica can range from natural/milder treatments to surgery. It is important that you exhaust all methods of mild treatment before resorting to surgical procedures. Here are a few suggested treatments below:
These are just a few forms of massage treatment, for more information on sciatica treatment with massage visit losethebackpain.com.
- Massage therapy: Massages have been known to increase blood circulation to affected areas while offering muscle relaxation and releases pain causing tension in the lower back.
- Stretching: Stretching the lower back helps to elongate the spine, relieving the compression that may be the cause of the pinched nerves.
- Exercise: Swimming, walking, and yoga have all been known to work wonders for strengthening the back which can be great for preventative care. Try exercises that strengthen your core to eliminate disc slippage.
These are just a few methods of treatment. For more treatment options do not hesitate to visit losethebackpain.com.
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Reduction of parkin function is responsible for the bulk of autosomal recessive parkinsonism. Western households.14 Since then, more than 100 mutations possess been described in sufferers of diverse cultural backgrounds, accounting for the bulk of autosomal recessive parkinsonism. Er selvf?lgelig stress originates from the accumulation of unfolded secretory protein, perturbations in calcium redox or homeostasis position, adjustments in energy or glycosylation starvation. The Er selvf?lgelig offers evolved sophisticated tension response signaling paths collectively called the unfolded proteins response (UPR), destined to boost the Er selvf?lgelig foldable capacity, to PP1 reduce the foldable insert and to restore PP1 ER homeostasis (reviewed in Ron and Wally15). Alternatively, when ER stress conditions are constant or serious, apoptotic cell death is normally activated (reviewed in Kim … ATF4 is normally a transcription aspect, which is normally turned on under Er selvf?lgelig stress. Some poisons utilized to model PD possess been linked with Er selvf?lgelig stress, therefore we analyzed whether mitochondrial membrane layer dissipation activated by CCCP may cause ER stress. Regulations of gene reflection in response to Er selvf?lgelig stress is normally mediated by the UPR, a stress-response plan that re-establishes mobile homeostasis by the combinatorial action of PP1 particular transcription elements, presenting to ER stress-responsive elements in the regulatory regions of UPR focus on genes (reviewed in Ron and Wally15). To check whether CCCP induce Er selvf?lgelig stress, we cloned a luciferase news reporter construct containing the ER stress-responsive element ERSE-II (ERSE-II-luc, Supplementary Amount 5). Treatment of cells transiently showing Alox5 the luciferase news reporter build with tunicamycin (TM) activated an boost in luciferase reflection, showing the efficiency of this Er selvf?lgelig stress news reporter construct (Amount 1d). Furthermore, CCCP was also capable to considerably boost luciferase reflection from ERSE-II-luc (Amount 1d). In addition, we quantified mRNA amounts of the Er selvf?lgelig chaperone BiP, which is a main focus on of the UPR. CCCP treatment triggered an upregulation of BiP mRNA, suggesting that the mitochondrial contaminant CCCP can stimulate Er selvf?lgelig tension (Amount 1e). Parkin gene manifestation is usually upregulated in response to ER stress In a next step, we tested whether manifestation of parkin is influenced by ER stress. SH-SY5Y cells were incubated with either the ER Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin (TG) or the N-glycosylation inhibitor TM. Both ER stressors significantly increased the levels of parkin mRNA with a maximum at 12?h after treatment (Figures 2a and w). Another classical inducer of ER stress is usually amino acid starvation. We therefore made use of -histidinol, a histidine analog, which inhibits activation of histidine by histidyl-tRNA synthetase. Also in this ER stress paradigm, parkin mRNA levels increased (Physique 2c). Notably, the upregulation of parkin under ER stress, induced by TG, TM or -histidinol, was also observed on the protein level (Figures 2dCf), and was not restricted to SH-SY5Y cells, as a significant upregulation of parkin in response to TG or TM treatment was also observed in HEK293T cells, mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) and primary mouse cortical neurons (Figures 2gCi). Oddly enough, the upregulation of parkin upon ER stress in not dependent on PINK1 expression (data not shown). Physique 2 Parkin gene manifestation is usually upregulated in response to ER stress. (a and w) Parkin mRNA levels are increased under ER stress induced by thapsigargin or tunicamycin. SH-SY5Y cells were incubated with 1?… Parkin interferes with ER stress-induced mitochondrial damage Obviously, parkin does not reduce ER stress causes ER stress. Furthermore, increased parkin manifestation does not decrease the severity of ER stress, arguing against a direct role of parkin in the ERAD pathway. In support of this notion, the antiapoptotic activity of parkin is usually impartial of the proteasome. We observed that proteasomal inhibition does not impair the ability of parkin to prevent ER stress-induced cell death. Which activity of parkin might then be responsible for its protective effect under ER stress? In this context, it is usually important to note that organellar stress within cells cannot be regarded in an isolated manner. In fact, our study adds evidence for an conversation between the ER and mitochondria in response to stress.32 ER stress can induce mitochondrial stress, resulting in a bioenergetic deficit and mitochondrial fragmentation. Our working model would suggest that, at this interplay, PP1 parkin seems to enter the stage, preventing the pathophysiological consequences of ER stress on mitochondrial integrity (Physique 9). The next important step will be to physique out what the precise role of parkin might be in the communication between the ER and mitochondria. Physique 9 Interplay between ER stress, mitochondrial PP1 stress.
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The Wonder of Medical Sheepskin
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Sheepskin is truly a versatile and wonderful product. Did you know that sheepskin can actually be used for medical purposes? Yep, it's true! When someone is bedridden, what's one of the biggest complaints? Bedsores. If anyone has ever had an extended stay in a hospital bed, you know how uncomfortable it can be just lying there all day long. Now imagine if you're recuperating at home and have to stay in bed most of the time. Bedsores are likely to form. Medical Sheepskin pads are known to prevent bedsores from happening. Sheepskin blankets in general are exceptionally cozy and warm for anyone, whether you're stuck in bed or not. The single medical sheepskin pads are hypoallergenic, naturally flame-retardant, and will insulate against both the heat and the cold. You can place the pads on your bed, couch, or chair. They even make wheelchair pads to fit over any standard wheelchair. If a particular area of your body is feeling sore though, you can purchase a knee, heel, forearm, or elbow wrap. They also make covers for crutches. Just about everyone will be covered! Start feeling the difference with medical sheepskin. Soon you'll find yourself ordering sheepskin rugs and sheepskin slippers because you won't be able to feel cozy without it.
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The Congress believes it is right in obstructing Parliament. However, a survey by instaVaani reveals that three out of four people think it is wrong in disrupting the ongoing winter session.
An overwhelming proportion?nine out of 10 people?say political parties need to collectively take responsibility and accord priority to legislative business.
Significantly, only 24% of those surveyed said the Congress is right in obstructing Parliament, compared with 43% in August, suggesting a clear erosion of support for its actions.
Like the monsoon session, the ongoing winter session is heading for a washout. The session has seen little business transacted, especially in the Rajya Sabha, following disruptions led by the Congress. Unlike in the Lok Sabha, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is in a minority in the upper House.
The survey, which was conducted among 522 people across the six major metros of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, found that 76% of the respondents said the opposition led by the Congress is not right in disrupting Parliament.
In what will put pressure on the Congress and other political parties who are at the centre of the protests, 89% of respondents wanted all political parties to show collective responsibility and ensure priority to legislative business.
?It is not fair to comment on a survey because we have not seen the full report. There are crucial bills which need to be discussed in both houses of Parliament. The government has so far not succeeded in building consensus but talks are going on. These are very important bills and different parties have different views on it. The government should accept views from all political parties and incorporate them in the bills. We have opposed some of the bills because our views differ from those of the government,? said a senior leader of the Congress, not wanting to be named.
?The Congress party under its president Sonia Gandhi has stalled legislations and development work because the NDA government has taken a zerotolerance stand against corruption. The cases against Karti Chidambaram, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and the recent National Herald case are all old cases which were not started by the government,? said Shrikant Sharma, national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
?The Congress is blocking development of the country by not allowing Parliament to function. Once the winter session is over, BJP will lead a nationwide campaign against Congress on corruption,? Sharma added.
Separately, Supreme Court judge A.K. Sikri said political parties needed to strike a consensus on a policy agenda. He was speaking on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Friday.
?If a few parties can come together to form a government with a minimum common programme, why can?t all the parties think of a minimum common programme in the interest of the country?? he asked.
?Why not have certain issues, those issues which will be for economic development, maybe social issues also, and other kinds of issues? Why should we not shed our party politics, come together, sit together, all the leaders of the different parties, and devise some common programme for the development of the country? It may include GST (goods and services tax), it may include SEZs (special economic zones), it may include even land acquisition.?
Meanwhile, at an all-party meeting called on Friday by vice-president Hamid Ansari, who is chairman of the Rajya Sabha, members of the NDA and the opposition parties agreed that the upper House should function without any disruption for the remaining three days of the winter session. They, however, failed to agree on allowing passage of the legislation to enable GST.
?There is no consensus on the passage of the constitutional amendment bill to allow rollout of GST, but the parties have agreed to pass other pending bills. Another crucial legislation, the real estate bill, can also be taken up for discussion next week and there is a possibility that it will also be taken up for discussion in the three remaining days of the winter session,? a member of the NDA who attended the meeting said on condition of anonymity.
In the meeting, the parties agreed that legislative business must be carried on without any disruption and crucial bills like the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2015, the Whistle Blowers Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015, the Anti-Hijacking Bill, 2014 and the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 should be debated and discussed in the upper House.
Interestingly, 67% people interviewed for the instaVaani survey said scrapping the antidefection law will result in better functioning of Parliament.
?The Anti-Defection Act of 1985, by forcing parliamentarians to vote along party whips, has rendered parliamentary debate moot. It is impossible to see in India a debate like the recent debate in the UK on sending troops to Syria (where a majority of the Labour shadow cabinet supported the motion in defiance of their party whip),? said Karthik Shashidhar, Bengaluru-based analyst and a Mint columnist. ?This leads opposition parties to believe that there is no constructive mechanism for them to influence debates and parliamentary procedures, encouraging them to resort to obstructionist tactics,? he added.
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How bacteria keep your skin healhty
A good resistance of the skin is important in order toachieve the best results at the end. Just like in our intestines, good microorganisms should be present on the skin to fight the harmful within their species. Bacteria, viruses, yeasts and fungi together are called the human microbiome.
The microbiome is part of our immune system, which protects us from sickening bacteria and helps to digest our food. The microbiome largely determines how our body functions.
The bacteria that live on your skin are called the skin microbiome. The skin microbiome varies from person to person, and also varies by body part. The microbes in, for example, your groin are very different from the ones on
your face. Certain skin conditions often find their cause in the intestines, so healthy nutrition plays an important role.
The most bacteria are found on the epidermis, but also in the deeper layers of the skin. The skin microbiome and skin protect you from harmful external influences. The good bacteria keep the bad ones in balance and protect your skin.
Oolaboo is therefore introducing its new line morning dew hydra-active prebiotic program.
A new and innovative program for dry, sensitive and eczema-sensitive skin. Thanks to a natural prebiotic, the good bacteria, which are important for healthy skin, are kept intact. This rebalances the skin microbiome and naturally reduces skin problems.
Prebiotics are nutrients for the good bacteria (probiotics), which occur naturally in foods such as vegetables, grains and fruits. So prebiotics are not living bacteria but they encourage the growth of probiotics (good bacteria). They help to support your own personal bacterial ecosystem. (skin microbiome)
Probiotics are living (good) bacteria and yeasts that have important benefits for our overall health. Probiotics also positively affect the skin flora. They are reducing the acidity by producing, for example, lactic acid and antibacterial substances. So by applying good bacteria, sickening bacteria are less likely.
Morning dew products contain the natural prebiotic preBIULIN AGA, submitted by chichorei, a root, family of chicory. PreBIULIN AGA balances the skin microbiome, prevents skin aging and reduces skin problems. In addition, preBIULIN AGA has the ability to directly counter the harmful effect of preservatives. It hydrates faster, more intensively and longer compared
to hyaluronic acid. PreBIULIN AGA provides 24-hour skin hydration.
Hyaluronic acid also provides the skin with a dose of hydration, blurs fine lines, makes the skin smoother and firmer.
Along with hyaluronic acid, ceramides (supplement of fats that occur aturally in your skin) and natural moisturizers, reduce dryness lines and protect the skin from harmful external influences.
We used grapefruit oil that has a calming effect on the skin, and also purifies and improves the skin. Agave extract increases skin elasticity and softens fine lines. In addition, karité butter keeps the skin smooth and cupuaçu butter provides hydration. Alöe Vera is very healing. Macadamia oil contains a natural UV filter and reduces moisture loss. Squalane, extract from olive oil, is a strong oxidant. It restores the natural balance of the skin, retracts quickly and does not seal off the skin. Squalane penetrates deep into the skin, softens and heals.
Morning dew contains no silicone, is 100% vegan and is enriched with an essential (natural)perfume. (citrus)
The morning dew products are launched with a corresponding morning dew treatment that can be booked at our Oolaboo partner salons.
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Flutter Logging - a Guide to use it effectively
In this tutorial we will cover how to effectively log in your application to help debug and improve your long term maintenance. This tutorial will not cover logging to a file or logging to a remote service. The strategies / ideas behind this tutorial can be applied to any logging library so the location of the logging is irrelevant for this topic. We are only focussing on logging in a manner that provides useful feedback and insights into what's happening in your application.
When something goes wrong, or you're adding a new feature and suddenly somethings aren't working as it should, you want to have a history of everything that happened up until that point. This will give you a better change to figure out what caused the problem without having to debug. I confess that I don't know what the software engineering guides are to logging. This tutorial will detail the rules I follow based on the apps that I've built as well as apps that I frequently maintain and update. It's what has consistently provided me with an easy journey during the testing / bug fixing phase.
Lets go over when, what and how I log to expose potential bugs that may creep in. First thing's first, you need to have logging levels. That's not even a guideline, that's a given. Without having logging levels you'll end up with a mess that makes it even harder to debug. With that said lets get onto the guidelines.
There are a few hard rules that I follow and then there are a few that will depend on the situation and what you consider to be important. Lets start with the basics.
If you adopt any one of these logging suggestions this one would be at the top of my list. One quick way you can determine the path your code is running is by placing a log at the start of every public function logging it's name and the parameters passed to it.We'll use the format "[methodName] | parameterName: value" This log should be an info log. Given you separated your code properly, like in this tutorial there should be a clear public api within your code base that can detail to you everything that happened. Following these calls will show you how your user is moving through the app and what they're doing. This includes your navigation, so it's good to setup a singular point of navigation like this where you can log the requested path with the arguments.
In addition to the info logs you can go one step further and add
debug logs to private functions that these public calls make use of and log their parameters as well. When you start implementing your app like this you'll see that in time you'll be able to tell when something is wrong given the path your code was "supposed" to take.
I've found that warnings are more helpful than errors. You want to give yourself as many chances to figure out where something is going wrong to help determine the cause of a problem, if it results in the worst. A Crash. Certain exceptions you can handle and recover from, you can even finish your intended tasks for the user, but others you can't. You should log a warning when something has not happened as expected. Not things like user input errors. More along the lines of when your app expects something, and it's not there or it's not in the form you need it to be. Expected a certain type of response, expected a value to already be on disk by the time you enter a function or expecting the data to be in a certain format when you start processing it. All of these should be warnings because all of these will lead to nulls being passed around somewhere, which can end up in a crash. If you warn yourself all the way down the line you can trace the origin and fix it before even setting any breakpoints.
While you're developing you have the most knowledge of what's going on and what's causing the problems. When you get any exceptions log it specifically using the Exception type that was thrown and put a specific message. If the error is thrown because of an argument passed in then log the error with the potential cause message, and print out the arguments. Make it contextual. If it helps you, print out the stack trace as well. Try and limit it to the last 5 calls. If you followed the rules above you should be able to follow the code up until the error occurred.
Networking is important, but not important enough to warrant a full info log with all it's information. The public rule above will cover the basic logs for the API class which will log the url you're using and the parameters of the request. What we won't log using info is things like the headers and the response body. That we'll put as a debug log. Try to direct all your requests through a single function where you can debug log the request packet as well as the response packet. Headers and body.
This is where you can log the inner workings of your application. When you're parsing something that needs to be converted and used in a critical part of the app, verbose log the input of the parsing value as well as the output. These won't show during debug and you'll have to specifically enable it during your app run to make sure you see all the logs. If you're placing values on a stream and it's required down the line for processing or functionality then log every time you add a new value to your controller using a verbose log. You want to add many logs, but not ones that serve no purpose. Try and make sure every verbose log contains a value that has been calculated or set within code, this will keep you away from logs like "Here now" or "This works". Rather have logs like "Results parsed, 4 retrieved from Api, other 6 from cache". Where the 4 and 6 would be calculated using variables in that current scope.
These are the rules that I actively develop with, when I'm at the point where I introduce an architecture into my application. If I didn't add this in, which sometimes I don't we'll push to get this in before a release so that there's information to fall back on when things go south.
That's it for my logging guide, check out some of the other tutorials for some more Flutter knowledge.
Also check out
Complete Beginners Guide to Futures
A tutorial that covers the basics around creating and Handling Futures in Flutter.
A Complete Guide to Flutter Streams
In this tutorial we cover the basics of Streams and how to manage them
A Guide to setting up better Logging in Flutter
This article covers logging in Flutter to help with debugging.
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Finding the appropriate pillow can take some time and can be downright aggravating as there are hundreds of types available in the industry. Health conscious men and women nowadays are leaning more toward making use of organic and natural cotton pillows due to the fact of their normal parts that improve the sleeping knowledge. tafts.com/blog/top-4-best-silk-pillowcases-for-skin-and-hair/ write-up will offer some helpful guidelines so you too can find the right organic and natural cotton pillows like the authorities do.
Guideline # one – Go for hand-created pillows.
Hand-made pillows, this sort of as organic cotton pillows, are significantly much more cozy and will previous lengthier for several years to appear. As much as feasible steer clear of artificial pillows due to the fact not only are they expensive, but they could contain substances that can be dangerous to your properly-getting.
Equipment-manufactured pillows also have the inclination to get flattened and will not appear back again to its original position following employing it for some time. In flip, you have to place 2 or 3 far more pillows to provide enough cushion to your head as you sleep.
Guideline # 2 – Assist + convenience = much better snooze.
Organic and natural cotton pillows are very great in the sense that they provide assist to your head in a lightly company way and at the very same time offer you the comfort you need. When you put your head on the pillow it compresses only by one/three, hence, offering you much more cushion. Some pillows may give support but oftentimes they are also organization to sleep on. So a excellent stability amongst assist and convenience is a very good way to go.
Guideline # 3 – Decide on which sort of pillow matches you greatest.
Pillows also occur in diverse designs and dimensions. For instance, a standard pillow is usually twenty inches x 26 inches in size, queen-dimension pillows are 20 inches x thirty inches, and a king-dimension pillow is about twenty inches x 36 inches. Depending on your need, select only the variety which matches your bed or mattress dimension. For a queen-sized bed, two queen-dimensions pillows are generally sufficient. If you like to journey, you may possibly also think about getting oneself a vacation pillow which works great with autos or on plane rides.
The approach is not to overly things your mattress with needless pillows. You are most most likely to lessen allergic reactions and at the same time be ready to conserve cash for future use. Always remember that it is not the quantity that counts but what satisfies you and your wants greatest.
Guideline # 4 – Pick effortless to handle pillows.
For most folks, cleaning pillows can be a challenging activity. With organic cotton pillows, you can put them under the sunshine for a few of several hours and make confident to air it so that air flows by way of the pillow and will take away everything that is hooked up to it.
Prior to making a obtain, often make positive to go through the cleaning instructions. Some will call for you not to clean the pillows because if you do, it will drop its firmness. However, there are also others that require a a lot more comprehensive cleaning process. If you want to keep away from this hassle, natural cotton pillows can be the ideal resolution.
Pillows are an crucial element of every property and a bedroom would not be complete without having it. This report just showed you some of the most essential recommendations to stick to in deciding on the appropriate pillow for you, just like natural and organic cotton pillows. With this in mind, you are now armed with the proper data to make the best selections in strengthening your residence and in generating it greater sleeping setting.
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AEGIS - GDPR: Analyze, Limitation, Documentation, Accountability.
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AegisField Of Application:
GDPRControls and Penalties:
The Authority for the Protection of Personal Data is granted the right to control compliance with the Regulation. In case of violation, fines of 10,000,000 euros or 2% of the total annual annual turnover of the previous financial year (depending on which is higher) are provided for violations of the obligations of Art. 8, 11, 25 to 39, 41 par. , 42 and 43 and fines of 20,000,000 euros or 4% of the total global turnover of the previous financial year (depending on which is higher) for violations of basic principles (no. 5,6,6,7,9), Subject rights (art. 12 to 22) and the conditions for transfer to a recipient in a third country (art. 44 to 49). Finally, the right to compensation of the subject and the responsibility of the controller are defined.
- INCREASED RIGHTS OF THE SUBMITTED DATA
- INSPIRATION OF CHILDREN'S PROTECTION
- KNOWLEDGE OF PRODUCTION OF DATA OF PERSONAL CHARACTER
- DATA PROTECTION BY DESIGN AND BY DEFAULT
- RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE COMPLETION PROCEDURE OF THE SUBMITTED DATA
- REPLACEMENT OF ANTIQUE RELATED TO THE PROTECTION OF THE DATA
- ARCHIVES OF ACTIVITY ACTIVITIES
Observance of the Principles Governing the Regulation
The new regulation strengthens the established framework for the protection of personal data, establishing new obligations for the person in charge of personal data processing with 3 main axes: compliance with predetermined basic principles for processing personal data, taking appropriate technical and organizational measures and strengthening rights. of the subjects as they are presented in detail below:
Lawfulness, Fairness & Transparency
The data is processed in a legal, legitimate and transparent manner.
The data is appropriate, relevant and limited to the purposes for which it is being processed.
The data is kept in a form that allows the data subjects to be identified only for the period required for the purposes of processing personal data.
Data collection is for specific, explicit and legal purposes and is not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes.
The data must be accurate, up-to-date and all reasonable measures must be taken to immediately delete or correct personal data which is inaccurate in relation to the purposes of the processing.
Integrity & Confidentiality
The data is processed in a way that guarantees the appropriate security of personal data.
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