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In a converged newsroom, you can do a multimedia version of the story for the Web, but also produce completely different variations for a print publication like a newspaper, for a tv newscast, for a radio program or perhaps a pure textual content model for wireless applications. This course walks you thru putting collectively a multimedia feature story by yourself. But the talents you derive from doing this story can be used to assemble a staff to do a breaking news multimedia story as well. — Those in which the editor/producer is in cost, usually breaking news or special initiatives.
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Legislation and higher consciousness of particular person needs has resulted in increasing numbers of video shows available with captions. Many educational supplies and most children’s and prime time television applications are closed captioned. Transcription is word-for-word translation of audio content into a textual content file. Although an applicable alternative for audio recordsdata, it’s best for movies to make use of captions that are synchronized with the visual content material. They are most frequently used for stay packages corresponding to videoconferences and sporting events.
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BLANTYRE, August 2, 2015: President Professor Peter Mutharika described the Zambia’s agricultural fair as a successful event Malawians could learn a lot from.
Mutharika said this on Sunday at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe upon his arrival from Zambia where he went on Friday.
He said apart from attending the agricultural fair in Zambia, he held talks with President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu, and former President Kenneth Kaunda.
“There is a lot that Malawi can learn from the fair, for example, there is a pavilion to do with value addition which is a good innovation,” said Mutharika.
He added: “I also laid wreaths on the past Presidents of Zambia and I visited the home of former President Kenneth Kaunda whom I knew for the past 51 years and we discussed a number of issues.”
The Agricultural fair, held under the theme ‘Innovation beyond Jubilee’, opened on Sunday and will run for five days.
The pavilions on display cover agriculture, science, and construction among others.
Malawi also has her pavilion at the fair although it was mounted late, according to President Mutharika.
Mutharika is concluding an eventful week which saw him sue critic Z. Allan Ntata and the Nyasatimes. His personal press secretary Gerald Viola has been caught in controversy of power abuse after authoring a letter that asks government departments and agencies to advertise on Galaxy FM Radio which belongs to the late President Bing WA Mutharika, the brother to the current Malawi head of state Peter Mutharika.
Last Week also saw Vice President Saulos Chilima create un-necessary controversy by trying to speak in parables and leaving his remarks open to interpretation from both supporters and foes.
What is clear is that the President unlike many before him faces a very active Social Society and enlightened Millennials familiar with modern digital communication tools available and are taking every advantage to question every move he makes.
Many social commentators have observed that the President should not have taken the bait from Allan Ntata. However we at The Maravi Post while we also agreed the President should not have sued Nyasatimes and our friend Z. Allan Ntata, we commended him for using an open forum to rebut his critics as opposed to what has been done in the past by other Presidents who muzzled reporters by jailing them.
At the same time we see his methods as chilling to Free Media. The President has deep pockets and can afford to hire lawyers to defend him in court. Private Citizens and small media houses cannot afford to fight the President in court.
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When the Guerrilla Girls began wheat-pasting posters on walls near galleries and museums in downtown NY in the mid-1980s, they didn’t know what effect these posters would have on the art world nor exactly how long that effect would last. The purpose of their posters was to foster social change; to lay bare the gender and race inequality long endemic to the art world. Using statistics and sarcastic humor, the posters quickly raised both eyebrows and consciousness. They also started a slow process of incremental change that is still accelerating today.
While it was not their original intention, Guerrilla Girls posters are now also considered art works and are found in the collections of many prominent museums. Here they are prized as prime examples of the downtown art scene of the 1980s when artists were more interested in politics than in aesthetics.
Five years ago a Gallery 98 online exhibition of Guerrilla Girls posters quickly sold out. We are pleased that we have recently acquired more of these vintage posters, including some that are among the Guerrilla Girls’ greatest hits. You can view these new acquisitions here.
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The use of solid-state refrigerators to cool appliances and electronic devices is a possible technological application for a theoretical study conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil.
Although this application is not considered in the study, which was based on computer simulations, such applications are on the horizon and could be an efficient and environmentally friendly alternative to vapor-compression refrigerators, which currently dominate the market and contribute to ozone depletion and global warming.
The study, led by Alexandre Fonseca with participation by his former student Tiago Cantuário, was part of the project “Carbon nanostructures: modeling and simulations,” supported by São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP. The results are published in an article in the journal Annalen der Physik.
“Solid-state cooling is a young field of research with promising results. The method we investigated is based on the so-called elastocaloric effect (ECE), which makes use of temperature variations in a system in response to mechanical stress. We performed computer simulations of this effect in carbon nanotubes,” Fonseca said.
In the macroscopic world, an analogous effect is observed when a rubber band warms up as it is rapidly stretched and cools down again as it is released. The effect occurs if the deformation is applied to the material so that there is no heat transfer into or out of the system, i.e., when the process is adiabatic.
“We began our research on the basis of an article entitled ‘Elastocaloric effect in carbon nanotubes and graphene’, published in 2016 by Sergey Lisenkov and collaborators. It described a computer simulation study showing that when a small deformation was applied to carbon nanotubes, corresponding to up to three percent of their initial length, they responded with a temperature variation of up to 30 C,” Fonseca said.
“In contrast with Lisenkov’s research, which simulated only simple strain and compressive force applied to the nanotubes, we reproduced the process computationally for a complete thermodynamic cycle. In our simulation, we considered two phases—nanotube strain and release—and two heat exchanges with two external reservoirs. We estimated the heat that would be extracted by the nanotube if it was in ideal contact with a certain medium. We obtained a good result for the performance coefficient compared with those of other experimentally tested materials.”
The performance coefficient is defined as the heat extracted by a system from a given region divided by the energy expended to do so. In the case of a household refrigerator, for example, it shows the amount of heat extracted by the appliance from the internal environment in proportion to the electricity consumed.
The best household refrigerators have performance coefficients on the order of 8, meaning they transfer eight times more thermal energy from inside to outside than the amount of electricity extracted from the supply grid to perform the exchange.
“Simulating the process for two different nanotubes, we obtained performance coefficients of 4.1 and 6.5. These are relatively good numbers compared with those for other heat exchange phenomena,” Fonseca explained.
Another advantage relates to atomic and molecular structure.
“In the case of certain materials, the application of tensile strength makes the sample change phase by modifying its crystal structure. In the case of nanotubes, the thermal effect is due solely to expansion and relaxation of the structure, which is not modified. This is an advantage because phase changes make the material gradually lose its capacity to effect the function of interest. In the case of nanotubes, however, the process doesn’t produce any structural transformations capable of causing defects. The atoms are separated during expansion and return to their original positions with relaxation,” he said.
According to Fonseca, rupture tests have shown carbon nanotubes to be capable of stretching as much as 20 percent. This deformation resistance combined with high performance in elastocaloric effects makes carbon nanotubes interesting materials for the development of nanoscale electronics.
“The core problem in electronics is cooling. Our motivation was imagining a device that could use a simple cycle to extract heat from an appliance. Carbon nanotubes proved highly promising,” he said.
“They also have another virtue, which is that they’re small enough to be embedded in a polymer matrix, a desirable property at a time when manufacturers are investing in research and development to obtain flexible electronic devices such as foldable smartphones.”
All this is part of a larger picture in which vapor-compression refrigerators are replaced by solid-state refrigerators in the context of global climate change.
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Producing excellent graphs
Date: Thursday 13 August
This free half-day seminar online via Zoom will discuss the principles of producing graphs to enhance the quality of your thesis and research presentations. It will cover a software package freely available to University of Melbourne graduate research students and staff. If you are frustrated about the quality of the graphs you are currently creating and how much time it is taking, this seminar is for you.
Research impact and alternative funding routes through translation
Date: Monday 17 August
Time: 10am - 11am
David Gurr is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, with leadership involvement in two of the most important international educational leadership projects of the past two decades. In this seminar, he will draw on a recent chapter he wrote that frames a book focussed on leadership in schools with complex and challenging circumstances. Initially highlighting eight trustworthy claims at the end of the chapter, he will discuss the construction of the chapter and how he arrived at these claims. David will also discuss the role of international networks and collaborations in the work of academics, and how they influenced the conception of the book.
Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to download the chapter to review before the seminar.
Human research ethics drop-in
Date: Monday 24 August
Time: 11am - 12pm
Do you need a hand with your ethics? Not quite sure how to tackle a particular problem? Come chat with Tricia Eadie, Acting HEAG Chair, and Tim Mattingsbrooke, Ethics Consultant at MERI, and get all your questions answered.
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About 5-8 Science Program
5th Grade Science
In 5th grade science students get a taste of each of the 3 different major topics they will be covering in grades 6-8. We will be discussing topics in Life Science concerning animal and plant structures and ecological systems. In the Physical Science part of the curriculum we will be investigating motion and simple machines. We will also be spending time this year on Earth Science, discussing Earth’s structure and weathering processes as well as spending some time on minerals, renewable and non-renewable energy, and the effect of humans on the planet.
6th Grade Science
In 6th grade science we will be focusing on the broad category of physical science which is a combination of chemistry and physics. We will be covering topics such as elements, the periodic table, what makes a solution, and how matter is conserved in chemical reactions. We will be talking about Newton and his 3 Laws of Motion, energy and in its many forms and how it can be converted, as well some basic engineering practices.
7th Grade Science
In 7th grade science we will be focusing on the broad topic of Life Science. We will be covering topics such as how life began on Earth, the cell (including structure, cell energy, transport, and division), DNA and genetics, evolution, taxonomy (how things are named), and ecology.
8th Grade Science
In 8th grade science we will be focusing on the broad topic of Earth and Space Science. We will be covering the structure of the Earth, processes on Earth (including continental movement/drift, earthquakes, and volcanoes), types of rock, weather (including movement of air and water), our solar system, and phases of the moon.
Wellness will be a once a week class for students. In 5th grade we will be using a more general format, discussing nutrition, how to keep our bodies healthy, some basics on body systems (respiratory and circulatory), and puberty (separate boys and girls).
Wellness will be a once a week class for students. In 6th grade we will be focusing on nutrition, drawing heavily on the non-fiction book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. We spend time on the major types of macromolecules (lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates), human nutrition, the food industry, and ethics.
7th and 8th Grade
Wellness will be a once a week class for students. In 7th and 8th grade we will be focusing on body systems, fulfilling the middle school science standards on the large topic. We will cover the circulatory and respiratory systems, the digestive system, and the immune system. I will add other systems as time allows, allowing for students to choose other systems of interest.
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« PredošláPokračovať »
A work of amusement, the subject matter of which is “Law and Lawyers,” will, perhaps, be thought to require some explanation. The public are so much disposed to regard the study of the Law as a pursuit destitute of all attraction and interest, that the
present attempt to glean from that ample field a few grains of amusement, will, probably, be looked upon with surprise. Those, however, who have rendered themselves acquainted with our Law Books, well know, that there exists in them a copious store of curious and interesting matter, which often enliven those severer labours, VOL. I.
of which information, and not entertainment, is the object. Intimately connected as the Law is with various other branches of knowledge, blended as it must always be with the history of the country which it governs, and over the institutions and manners of which it must always exercise a powerful influence, it would, indeed, be singular, if the study of such a science were wholly barren of interest. With the view of collecting together these scattered curiosities of the Law Books, the present compilation has been undertaken.
There is also another class of books, to which frequent recourse has been had in the preparation of these volumes,—the various collections of Legal Biography and Anecdote. All these works have been diligently gleaned, and the most curious and important portions of their contents have been carefully selected. Some of the most valuable and entertaining pieces of biography in our language are to be found amongst the Lives of our Lawyers. The Memoirs of the Lord Keeper Williams, and the Lord Keeper Guilford, are inimitable works. From those volumes, some rich and copious extracts will be found in the pages of the present publication.
With a view of conferring a somewhat bigher character upon our work, than a mere compilation would be entitled to claim, some original papers, on subjects connected with the Law, have been scattered through the volumes. In these little dissertations, care has been taken to cite with accuracy the authorities referred to, in order that, whatever may be their intrinsic value, they may at all events be useful in directing the further enquiries of the reader.
Nor have the lighter anecdotes and bon mots which are current in the profession been neglected. The witticisms of our Lawyers, with a few exceptions, are not, perhaps, very brilliant; but the best which could be collected are now presented to the public.
It is hoped that the following volumes will not only interest the Lawyer, but likewise the general reader. With the mere technicalities of professional learning they have no connexion, and they will, therefore, it is anticipated, be found both intelligible and acceptable even to those who are without the pale of the profession.
King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple,
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The Standard Model describes the fundamental building blocks of matter (quarks and leptons) and their interactions. Particle accelerator experiments have been testing it for the last thirty years with unprecedented accuracy. One of the key elements of this theory, the Higgs field, whose role is to provide a mass to the elementary particles, is under high scrutiny at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Despite its success in describing a host of experimental results, the Standard Model fails to explain observations such as the existence of dark matter, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe, and the smallness of neutrino masses. Moreover, certain theoretical conundrums find no explanation within the Standard Model, e.g. the quantum instability between the electroweak scale and the Planck scale, at which gravitational interactions become strong. Physics beyond the standard model strives to give answers to these puzzles by envisaging more fundamental theories involving new particles and their interactions, or employing model-independent techniques with which one can extract information relevant to those theories directly from experimental data (high-energy collisions, cosmic rays, cosmological observations, neutrino oscillations, rare decays...). Several key phenomena such as the dynamics of the electroweak symmetry breaking, the nature and properties of dark matter, the origin of the mass of neutrinos, and also the nature of dark energy are under study using these complementary approaches.
Cosmology aims to retrace the history of our Universe since the Big Bang, in order to understand its content as well as its large scale structure. The astrophysical objects that we observe today (galaxies, clusters of galaxies...) are due to the gravitational collapse of small density irregularities that appeared in the primordial universe. Our research topics range from studies of the primordial universe (statistical properties of the initial fluctuations, generation of gravitational waves or magnetic fields...) to studies of the gravitational dynamics of large-scale structures in the recent universe (spatial distribution of galaxies...). These theoretical predictions are confronted with observations to constrain cosmological scenarios (measurements of the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, of the distribution of clusters of galaxies, of the distortion of the images of background galaxies by the gravitational potential along the line of sight...). Observational cosmology also confronts particle physics with numerous problems. The nature of dark matter, of dark energy, the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, the nature of the inflaton and the space-time cosmological structure, are all questions which physicists are attempting to answer.
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the fundamental theory that underlies the strong nuclear interactions. It governs the short-distance interactions of quarks and gluons, which are the constituents of protons and neutrons. QCD explains the confinement of quarks and gluons inside these particles. Understanding the strong interactions is crucial to the analysis of data collected by experiments running at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. QCD interactions have the remarkable property of becoming weaker at shorter distances, which allows the use of a perturbative approach to study high-energy processes. Conversely, it becomes stronger at long distances. This strong-coupling regime motivates the study of effective theories, or of related theories with additional symmetry, such as maximal supersymmetry, and of dual string pictures. QCD may also require non-perturbative techniques in situations involving a large number of particles, even at weak coupling. This happens in the wavefunction of a proton or nucleus: the gluon density increases rapidly with energy until it saturates, a situation that can be handled by the so-called ‘color glass condensate’. At high temperatures, nuclear matter undergoes a deconfinement transition to form a quark-gluon plasma. Its properties can be studied in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven.
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The lenses of your glasses aim to correct, protect and enhance your vision so choosing the right ones is essential. With advancements in materials and technology, there are now many innovative options available on the market, so how do you know what type of lens is best for you? Our team of qualified optical dispensers are here to help you navigate the different options available and to choose the one that is right for you. Here is a short guide to understanding some of the different lens materials available.
Thin and lightweight, polycarbonate lenses are more impact-resistant than standard plastic lenses. Polycarbonate is a popular material of choice for children’s lenses, sports lenses and safety lenses due to it’s better impact resistance than other materials. However, polycarbonate features a low abbe value (the amount of chromatic aberrations in a lens) and this sometimes means that people with high astigmatism may suffer poorer quality of vision, distortion, or sometimes a halo effect in their peripheral vision.
Similar to polycarbonate but with higher quality optics, Trivex lenses provide exceptionally clear vision. Lighter in weight than standard plastic but not quite as thin as polycarbonate, Trivex is impact resistant like polycarbonate, and also rigid. This makes it a good choice for rimless or semi-rimless frames and for young children.
These lenses have flatter peripheral curvatures than regular spherical lenses. This reduces the amount the lens bulges out from a spectacle frame, improving the appearance – especially in plus powered lenses. Flatter peripheral curves also reduce distortions that occur when looking away from the centre of the lens, making vision crisper.
High-Index Plastic Lenses
Made from a plastic material that refracts light in a different way to regular plastic lenses, high-index lenses correct vision with less material, making the lens thinner. As they are thinner, these lenses are also lighter, which improves comfort for the wearer. A great solution for patients with high prescriptions, as glasses can be made lighter and more cosmetically attractive.
Polarized lenses are most commonly available in grey or brown tint but can come in other colours. Vertically polarized lenses decrease bright glare by blocking horizontal polarized reflected light. Most commonly used in sunglasses, however they are also found in glasses made specifically for fishing, water sports and snow sports.
These lenses have a special chemical coating which allows them to be clear whilst indoors, yet change to a dark tint in the sunlight. Photochromic lenses are light-adaptive and the darkness of the tint will depend on the light conditions, making them very versatile. Perfect for those who do not wish to purchase or carry a separate pair of prescription sunglasses.
From scratch resistant coatings and ultraviolet treatments, there are countless types of lenses available for glasses. The best thing you can do is consult your local optometrist and qualified optical dispenser for advice on which is best suited to your needs.
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Peadair is a Boy name. The name is originated from ‘Irish’ origin. The baby name Peadair means “Greek”.
Origin of the name is: “Irish variation of Peter”
Peadair is a Boy name.
The pronunciation of the name is: “PAY + tuhr”
Peadair Name Meaning:
The name Peadair means Greek, “rock”. It is a masculine baby name.
It is a Christian baby name.
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Famous people with this name:
pronounced like “pah-dur”
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) (opens in new tab) is to make its printer cartridge packaging lighter and smaller in a bid to reduce the company's carbon footprint. It has redesigned the packaging (opens in new tab) for its printer cartridges to use more recycled and recyclable material.
According to HP, the new packaging will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 37 million pounds this year alone.
The new, lighter design will apparently save 15 million pounds of materials throughout 2007, including 6.8 million pounds of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic through material reduction, and substitution of recycled content plastic and paperboard.
Shipping the cartridges will be more efficient due to the smaller size, and HP estimates that traffic for cartridge shipments in the US and Canada will be reduced by 1.5 million miles this year. HP said this was equivalent to taking 3,600 cars off the road.
An HP LaserJet toner cartridge now uses 45 per cent less packaging than before, and a standard shipping palette can now fit in an average of 203 cartridges, instead of 144, HP said.
According to the company, the overall package weight for its inkjet cartridge multi-packs has gone down by 80 per cent since 2003.
Pradeep Jotwani, senior vice president at HP's supplies, imaging and printing group, said: "Developing environmentally responsible packaging is not only valued by HP, our customers and our partners; it is also good business."
A spokesperson for HP in the UK said the smaller, lighter packaging would not initially be available in the UK. No information about possible reductions in price was given.
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This article was originally published by The Hill.
Twenty-five years ago, on October 11-12, 1986, Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev met in Reykjavík, Iceland and came close to agreeing to eliminate their nuclear arsenals within 10 years. The main sticking point was the US “Star Wars” missile defense technology. Reagan wouldn’t give up its development and future deployment, and Gorbachev wouldn’t accept that.
The two men had the vision and the passion to achieve a world without nuclear weapons, but a difference of views about the role of missile defenses that kept them from concluding an agreement. For Reagan, these defenses were seen as protective and helpful. For Gorbachev, these defenses upset the strategic balance between the two countries by making the possibility of US offensive attacks more likely.
The summit at Reykjavik was a stunning moment in Cold War history. It was a moment when two men, leaders of their respective nuclear-armed countries, almost agreed to rid the world of its gravest danger. Both were ready to take a major leap from arms control negotiations to a commitment to nuclear disarmament. Rather than seeking only to manage the nuclear arms race, they were ready to end it. Their readiness to eliminate these weapons of annihilation caught their aides and the world by surprise. Unfortunately, their passion for the goal of abolition could not be converted to taking the action that was necessary.
When the two leaders met in Reykjavik, there were over 70,000 nuclear weapons in the world, nearly all in the arsenals of the US and Soviet Union. Today there is no Soviet Union, but there remain over 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world, with over 95 percent in the arsenals of the US and Russia. In 1986, there were six nuclear weapon states: the US, Russia, UK, France, China and Israel. Today, three more countries have been added to this list: India, Pakistan and North Korea.
In 1986, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was in force and had been since 1972. An important element of the Soviet position was that this treaty should remain in force, preventing a defensive arms race that would feed an offensive arms race, and maintaining treaty provisions that would prevent an arms race in outer space. In 2002, George W. Bush unilaterally abrogated the ABM Treaty, and this has remained a strong element of contention between the US and Russia.
At the time of the summit in Reykjavik, there was a strong anti-nuclear movement in the US, the Nuclear Freeze Movement, but its goals were modest: a freeze in the size of nuclear arsenals. Today, many people have lost interest in nuclear disarmament and it has largely slipped off the public agenda. Public concern faded rapidly after the end of the Cold War in 1991, although serious nuclear dangers still plagued humanity then and continue to do so. These include nuclear proliferation, nuclear accidents, nuclear terrorism, and new nuclear arms races (for example, between India and Pakistan). As long as the weapons exist, the possibility will exist that they will be used by accident, miscalculation or design, all with tragic consequences for the target cities and for humanity.
There were other differences in the positions of the two sides at Reykjavik that would have needed to be worked out, even had they gotten through the stumbling block of missile defenses. While both side’s proposals called for a 50 percent reduction in strategic nuclear forces in the first five years, the proposals differed on the next five years. The Soviet proposal called for the elimination of all remaining strategic offensive arms of the two countries by the end of the next five years. The US proposal called for the elimination of all offensive ballistic missiles in the next five years, thus not including the elimination of strategic nuclear weapons carried on bomber aircraft. This was not an insignificant detail.
What is important to focus on is that these two leaders came close to achieving a goal that has eluded humanity since the violent onset of the Nuclear Age. They demonstrated that with vision and goodwill great acts of peace are within our collective reach. These two leaders didn’t reach quite far enough, but they paved the way for others to follow. In the last 25 years, there has been some progress toward eliminating nuclear weapons, but not nearly enough.
The people of the world cannot wait another 25 years for leaders like Reagan and Gorbachev to come along again. They must raise their voices clearly and collectively for a world free of nuclear threat. It is long past time to stop wasting our resources on these immensely destructive and outdated weapons that could be used again only at terrible cost to our common humanity.
Five important steps, supported by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, that would move the world closer to the goal are: first, make binding pledges of No First Use of nuclear weapons to reduce concerns about surprise attacks; second, lower the alert levels of all existing nuclear weapons to prevent accidental launches; third, negotiate a Middle East Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone; fourth, bring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty into force with the required ratifications of the treaty; and fifth, begin negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention for the phased, verifiable, irreversible and transparent elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Age and Exercise
Many people believe that exercise should be done only in childhood. The life process benefits all ages, though the type of exercise may differ. For children, games are the best, because they are interesting and every child likes to play. Children who get involved in studies and neglect games, should be encouraged to play games. If it is not possible then they should be coaxed to doing exercises. If the child plays a game where only legs are exercised then he should be taught exercises for upper parts of the body also. When a person completes his studies start doing exercises to keep fit throughout his life. This can be supplemented by games or gymnastics whenever possible.
When a person approaches his fortieth birthday, he is at the peak of his productive period. He is too busy and comparatively richer, he is too busy to exercise and eats rich food. At this age the bodily function starts slowing down. Circulation of blood becomes sluggish, there is tendency to become obese and joints will start getting stiff. At this age, exercise is most important. It will slow down the ageing process. He can play badminton or golf which is comparatively less strenuous. If you have been strenuous exercises can be done during your middle age. But if you are going to start exercising after a long lay-off then you have to do so slowly.
Amount of Exercise
At the age of 60, this will depend more on the condition of your body. A few can still do a strenuous exercise if they have been regular. For others a brisk walk to keep the circulation going is good enough. Keep winding your body clock with the aid of exercises so that it will keep on running smoothly. If you have frail health then go slow and do simple exercise. In old age, the body is like a fatigued machine. It is difficult to start it, but gradually it goes on working smoothly.
Motherhood and Exercise
Exercises during pregnancy, lactation and menstruation should not be discontinued. Exercises during pregnancy keep the abdominal muscles firm and help for a painless and easy delivery. They can be modified in the last few weeks of the pregnancy. A few day’s rest will be necessary after delivery. Exercises done during lactation will keep the body in shape. During menstruation, exercises can be continued. If bleeding is profuse they can be modified.
When to Exercise
You should exercise any time of the day, when you are free. If you have a choice, the afternoon time is the best. After a day’s work the flexibility in the joints is more, so the exercise can be done easily.
You can do them in the morning. At this point of time, the joints are a little stiff and the heart has slowed down after the night’s rest. You may do a little warming up before you start doing a strenuous exercise. There should not be any tiring of the body. For you will not be left with energy to do the day’s work.
It can also be done before retiring to bed. It will refreshing for those who do mental work. Those who exert physically during the day it will be very refreshing, but do not forget to take your meal 2 hours before doing exercise. Do not take a heavy dinner.
If the routine of work gives time for exercising twice a day, do some exercises in the morning for additional little exercise in the evening will give a full quota of day’s exercise.
Exercises should never be done close to meal times. Vigorous exercises should be done atleast half an hour before or two hours after the main meal. When food is taken, the blood goes to the digestive organ and the nerve energy is diverted to it. If exercises are done just after a meal, the blood and nerve energy will be diverted to muscles and digestion will be impaired. It is better to give the body on e task at a time and then it functions better. If you want to do light exercises like walking or playing golf you can do it just after a light meal of curd and salad or soup and toast or fruits. But if you feel uneasy even after such a sparse meal follow the rule of half an hour after meals.
You need not exercise 365 days of a year. Take a day off every week, but do not keep on increasing the off days. Do not do extra exercise the next day if you have missed a day of exercise. If you have missed it for a week, do not think that it requires some rituals to start it again.
When not to Exercise
A useful weapon can be misused if you are over-enthusiastic. Do not exercise when you are ill. Rest is the best cure during illness. Stop there and then if you feel pain during or after exercises or if you have inflammation of certain joints give some rest for healing. You may feel sore the next day after exercises, this may happen when you are a beginner or over enthusiastic, take rest for a day and you will recover.
If you are weak or too tired avoid active exercises you can take a passive exercise in the form of massage. Avoid exercises if you have a strain or a torn ligament. Rest for few days and you will come out of it. A few stretching exercises are permitted to keep up the mobility.
Go easy on Exercises
Start with exercises which are easy to perform. If you start with strenuous exercises to get quick results you will be disappointed. When you start exercises you will develop soreness, sprains or strain in your joints. Take few days’ rest. These are not permanent and they will pass off. Do not over exercise, do not use all your surplus energy for exercise, it may be destructive.
Slow and steady wins the race
Select the right exercises, do them properly and for a limited time. You can increase your exercises once a week. Know your limit. Always be sure that exercises you are doing can be done easily.
Overdoing or underdoing exercises is bad. If you do not feel any increases in the strength or girth of your muscles steadily probably you are underdoing your exercises. Test yourself and you will know how far you can go.
Start with 5 minutes of exercises if you are a beginner. The speed and the pause between exercises will determine what exercises are to be taken. You will be surprised to find out how much you can do in five minutes.
You may increase your exercise time by two minutes every week do not exceed 2 minutes. This time is carefully chosen to keep you fit for physiological needs. The rate of exercises can be slowed or increased. If you feel you have not done enough exercise you can increase the speed till you feel exhausted. Select your exercises. Exercises done in a reclining position need more exertion than while standing. You can choose a special apparatus to exercise if you require support. If you are keen on muscles lay stress on muscles then keep on increasing the resistance.
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Perhaps you have encountered some strange mammals in the zoo, including a quite recognizable species that looks like a hybrid of a lion and a tiger. If so, then what you may have witnessed is a liger or a ligress, a mixed breed offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. At first, they may be thought of as absurd or another experiment of cross-breeding. But in reality, ligers actually exist, and they can be found in zoos. But how are ligers different from tigers? They may have come from the same genetic breed, but as ligers are mixed with lion DNA, they sure have their differences. So, what are the features that differentiate the liger vs the tiger? In this article, we will take a deep dive into the attributes that set each wild cat apart.
Comparing a Liger and a Tiger
|Size and Weight||– largest known cats in the world; measures 9.8 to 11.8 ft long (3 to 3.6 m) and weighs up to 900 pounds||– relatively smaller; measures 8 to 11 ft (98 to 154 in) and weighs up to 660 pounds|
|Appearance||– golden colored with a spotted forehead and pale stripes along the back and mane (for males)||– distinct markings of orange fur with black or brown stripes|
|Behavior||– relatively gentle and docile; known to interact well with their handlers||– territorial in nature; solitary hunters|
|Roar distance||– can be heard from 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) away||– can be heard from 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) away|
|Lifespan||– can live between 13 to 18 years in captivity||– can live between 8 to 10 years|
The 5 Key Differences Between a Liger and a Tiger
It is not surprising that ligers and tigers have too much in common. They share some same genetics after all. But looking closely, these two wild cats are different in their ways. The main differences between ligers and tigers include their size, weight, appearance, behavior, roar distance, and lifespan. Ligers are born from a hybrid of a lion and a tiger, thus their similar appearance with tigers. Like tigers, ligers also belong to the genus Panthera which encompasses all spotted wild cats that have specific anatomical structures that help them roar. However, despite the similarities between the two wild animals, it is still easy to spot the differences between the two. Below, we are going to review and break down what makes a tiger different from a liger.
Liger vs Tiger: Size and Weight
On average, a liger weighs around 900 pounds, while the biggest tiger breed (the Siberian Tiger) weighs between 600 and 660 pounds. A liger can sometimes weigh more than 900 pounds, making it the largest known species of cat. Ligers typically measure between 9.8 to 11.8 ft long, while tigers can only reach 8 to 11 ft long. Since the lion is significantly bigger than tigers, the cross-breed between the two results in a massive wild cat. Apart from a longer and heavier body, ligers also have bigger body structures compared to tigers.
“Hercules”, a giant 10-feet-long liger has made it to Guinness World Records as the world’s largest living cat, weighing 922 pounds. Similarly, many tigers have been recorded to weigh more than 650 pounds. In 1986, Jaipur, a Siberian tiger kept in captivity, weighed roughly 932 pounds.
Liger vs Tiger: Appearance
While tigers are easily spotted due to their iconic orange fur striped with black lines, ligers have a golden to tawny brown color that they got from lions. Ligers have a fur coat that is more similar to lions. However, this lion fur is striped with black lines like that of a tiger. Looking closely, ligers seem to have more abundant and more compressed black stripes than tigers. While ligers have a lion’s face, the fur in their face exhibit spots or markings similar to tigers.
Moreover, lions are distinguished by the remarkable mane on males. Some ligers also have manes, but they do not grow as big and bushy as lions. On the other hand, tigers do not have mane at all.
Liger vs Tiger: Behavior
Ligers typically get their personality from both of their parents. However, despite having fierce, predatory parents, ligers are more docile and gentle compared to lions and tigers. While ligers can be gigantic, they are not aggressive animals. In zoos and other sanctuaries, ligers are reported to gently interact with their handlers. They also love to swim like tigers and are very fast hunters in the wild. Tigers, however, are more territorial and prefer to live alone. They only interact with others for mating reasons. Tigers are good climbers as well. They can climb trees and leap a distance of 4 kilometers. Ligers can also leap that far, but they cannot climb trees. Their heavy bodies aren’t swift enough to move through trees like tigers often do.
Liger vs Tiger: Roar Distance
Ligers are known to make sounds that both lions and tigers make. But when it comes to their roar, you can really hear who among the two is the real king of the jungle. A liger can be heard roaring like a lion from at least five kilometers away. A tiger’s roar, on the other hand, can only be heard from 3 kilometers away. Like a tiger, a liger chuffs, which is thought to be a welcoming sound gesture.
Ligers, overall, are more like their lion father than their tiger mother. For instance, a liger’s roar sounds more like a lion’s roar than a tiger’s.
Liger vs Tiger: Lifespan
Ligers are studied to live longer than tigers. While tigers only live for 8 to 10 years in the wild, ligers can reach 18 or even 20 years in captivity. A ligress in Salt Lake City was reported to have lived until age 24. Ligers live up to 18 years on average, and few tigers can also reach 20 years in captivity.
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New Mexico Liaison Ron Keller was awarded a grant to replace the tires on a vital piece of airstrip maintenance equipment at this Rodeo, New Mexico strip, NM90.
Keller and Amigos Del Cielo Airport Manager Peter Jarosak feared that the old, worn tubeless tires on the Ingersoll Rand surface roller could fail, stranding the equipment on the airstrip, and forcing its closure.
“This project will help ensure that Amigos del Cielo will continue to be a stellar recreational destination, and provide a consistent landing surface for a wide variety of airplanes and pilot skill levels,” Keller said, adding, “As with any recreational airstrip, continued maintenance is needed to keep the airstrip in a safe and enjoyable condition.”
Keller points out that Amigos Del Cielo is famous for bird watching and star gazing, as well as its close proximity to Coronado National Forest and the Chiricahua Wilderness.
The RAF has previously granted funds for improvements at Amigos Del Cielo that Keller used to organize the installation of two foldover windsock poles and socks, and extend the crosswind runway.
See the Airfield Guide for more information about Amigos Del Cielo.
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Many campuses utilize proximity cards (also called prox cards) to control access to buildings and facilities. Typically, these have been a stand-alone ID card separate from the official campus ID. Today, however, more and more institutions are opting to merge the two cards, adding the proximity technology to the official ID. While not yet commonplace in the higher education environment, contactless cards are becoming the technology of choice for many transportation fare collection systems, financial ‘wireless’ payments, and many secure credential projects. Both proximity and contactless cards employ the same fundamental technology–radio frequency identification (RFID)–for operation.
Are proximity and contactless cards the same thing?
RFID systems enable a card and a card reader to communicate without the need for one to physically touch or contact the other–hence the term contactless. The card need only be placed in close proximity to the reader for communication to occur–hence the term proximity. While it is common for the two terms to be used interchangeably, there is actually an important difference between the two technologies. Proximity cards typically enable read-only functionality while contactless cards enable both read and write capabilities.
This distinction has led to the common uses of the technologies. Proximity cards are used mainly in access control applications requiring only that an identification number be transferred from the card to the reader. Contactless cards are often used in more complex applications requiring that information be read from the card and updated information written to the card. While both technologies will work well as an access control token, contactless cards open up the potential for the card’s use in other applications as well.
How do these cards work?
Here is an analogy to help illustrate the concept of RFID. You may remember the childhood science experiment demonstrating the concept of static electricity. A balloon was rubbed on fabric to generate a buildup of static electricity strong enough that when held near a person’s head would make the hair stand up, attracted to balloon.
An RFID system works in much the same way. The card reader emits electromagnetic energy that forms a field emanating out the reader. When a card is placed inside this field, it uses its internal antenna to draw power from the field sufficient to turn itself from off to on. Once powered up, the card is able to send and receive instructions and information to and from the reader. When the card is removed from this field or held too far from it, sufficient power is no longer available and it turns off. Just like the hair near the balloon, it is the distance from the power source (the card reader or the balloon) thatdetermines if the energy will be sufficient for operation.
The concept of frequency
So that explains how the card receives power, but how is it able to transfer data through mid air? This is the fundamental key to RFID–the concept of frequency. Radio waves travel through the air at varying rates. Low frequencies have a smaller number of waves (referred to as ‘cycles’) per second while high frequencies have a large number (see Figure 1). Frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz). A single Hertz is equal to one cycle per second.
Radio waves cycle extremely quickly and thus are seldom measured in Hz. Prefixes are added to Hz to make it large enough to describe frequencies in manageable terms. The prefix kilo (k) means 1000. A single kilohertz (kHz), therefore, is equal to 1000 Hz. The prefix mega (m) equals 1 million and, thus, a single megahertz (mHz) is equal to 1 million Hz.
In RFID systems, two common frequencies are 125 kHz and 13.56 mHz. Many read-only proximity cards used in access control arenas operate at frequencies on or around 125 kHz. That means that the radio waves are cycling at 125,000 waves per second. That is a staggering number, yet, the 13.56 mHz technology used in many contactless smart card systems relies on waves cycling at 13,560,000 waves per second! While these frequencies seem astoundingly high, wireless networks and satellite systems operate at frequencies that are measured in gigahertz (GHz), or 1 billion waves per second.
So we see that it is the rate of the radio waves that determines frequency. And we see how this frequency is measured in Hz, kHz, mHz, and gHz. But what does this really mean? Why does a 900 mHz cordless telephone operate at 900 mHz while a 13.56 mHz contactless card operates at 13.56 mHz?
In a RF system, there are two required components–a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter sends radio waves while the receiver catches them. In order for a transmitter and a receiver to communicate–to send and receive radio waves–they must both be ‘speaking’ at the same frequency.
To illustrate this point, think of the transmitter as a whistle and the receiver as an ear. When a normal whistle is blown, it creates noise at a frequency that the human ear can receive. But when a dog whistle is blown, the frequency of the resulting noise is above that which is audible to the human ear. A dog can hear it, but a human cannot.
In a similar manner, the frequency recognized by a transmitter and a receiver must be compatible. When a 13.56 mHz card (the transmitter) is presented to a 13.56 mHz reader (the receiver), signals are recognized. But when a 125 kHz card is presented to the 13.56 mHz reader, they are unable recognize one and other.
So frequency measures the number of waves per second, but thepractical importance of this is that it determines whether transmitters and receivers can speak to each other. At any given moment, the air is filled with radio waves with hundreds of different frequencies. If the waves accepted by a particular receiver were not limited to certain frequencies or frequency ranges, it would be overwhelmed with incoming signals.
In the different regions of the world, governments or quasi-governmental bodies have allocated the spectrum of available frequencies to specific uses. Thus, television receivers are not likely to be bombarded by non-approved signals and RFID card systems are not likely to be jammed by unauthorized or unintended signals from other RF-generating systems.
How do these radio waves carry data between the card and reader?
Radio waves have distinct frequencies so that compatible cards and the readers can recognize each other. But how is meaningful information (e.g. ID numbers) carried through the air on radio waves? This leads to the next key concept of RFID–modulation. Modulation is the act of changing a radio wave in a specific, deliberate manner. These changes are done to create a binary situation–an either/or, on/off, one/zero situation. In much the same way that the magnetic stripe holds data in a series of positive and negative charged areas, a modulated radio wave holds data in a series of modulated and un-modulated cycles.
The most basic form of modulation is achieved by adjusting the height of the radio waves. Height is referred to as amplitude so the term for this process is amplitude modulation. Sound familiar? Amplitude modulation is abbreviated AM and it is the source of the common AM radio signal. With AM radio, audio data is carried on radio waves by adjusting the height or amplitude of the wave. Other common forms of modulation include frequency modulation (you guessed it … FM radio) and phase modulation.
RFID in summary: The technology and the benefits for card programs
To summarize, a card is held within the electromagnetic field created by a card reader and it draws power from this filed. Once powered on, the card and reader communicate by sending radio waves at a shared frequency or range (e.g. 125 kHz). The data is carried on these radio waves by modulating certain waves and leaving others un-modulated. This forms a binary situation that enables data to be encoded in the waves. In this manner, RFID systems enable data to shared without the card and reader ever touching each other.
And as most campus card system administrators can attest, any ID transaction that can be conducted without the card needing to be inserted into or swiped through a reader can have great benefits. With no openings or exposed components, the chance for damage due to weather, vandalism, or normal operation is greatly diminished. Additionally, user convenience is increased and the need for user education is reduced. All this guarantees that we will be seeing a great deal more proximity and contactless cards on campuses across the country.
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The application of ecological concepts and principles in farming is known as agroecology. It is a branch of applied science that investigates ecological processes in agricultural production systems. Applying ecological principles to agroecosystem management can lead to new management approaches. The term is frequently used imprecisely because it can refer to a science, a movement, or an agricultural practice. A great example of agroecology is agroforestry. It is a method of combining trees and farming that demonstrates how food production and nature can coexist.
Agroecologists research a wide range of agroecosystems. Although some use the term specifically for alternative agriculture, the field of agroecology is not associated with any one method of farming, whether organic, regenerative, integrated, or conventional, intensive, or extensive.
Farming thrives when it collaborates with local ecosystems, such as improving soil and plant quality through available biomass and biodiversity, rather than fighting nature with chemical inputs. Farmers who practice agroecology strive to increase food yields for balanced nutrition, strengthen fair markets for their produce, improve healthy ecosystems, and build on ancestral knowledge and customs.
The OECD defines agroecology as “the study of the relationship between agricultural crops and the environment.” Agroecology, according to Dalgaard et al., is the study of the interactions between plants, animals, humans, and the environment within agricultural systems. Francis et al. use the definition in the same way, but believe it should be limited to food production.
Agroecology is a comprehensive approach that seeks to reconcile agriculture and local communities with natural processes for the benefit of both nature and livelihoods. Agroecological farming acknowledges agriculture’s multifunctional dimensions, as well as local and Indigenous knowledge and practices. This entails farming that generates not only food, jobs, and economic well-being, but also cultural, social, and environmental benefits. Agroecology also safeguards and provides ecosystem services such as pollination, natural pest control, nutrient and water cycling, and erosion control.
Agroecology is by definition multidisciplinary, encompassing sciences such as agronomy, ecology, environmental science, sociology, economics, history, and others. Agroecology employs various sciences to comprehend ecosystem elements such as soil properties and plant-insect interactions, as well as social sciences to comprehend the effects of farming practices on rural communities, economic constraints to developing new production methods, and cultural factors influencing farming practices. Productivity, stability, sustainability, and equitability are some of the system properties of agroecosystems that have been studied.
Agroecology does not have a fixed scale; it can range from a single gene to an entire population, or from a single field on a given farm to global systems.
Agroecology is recognized as a climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy. Consumers are increasingly demanding healthier foods as well as a closer relationship with food producers. Global social movements – many led by women’s and indigenous organizations – are uniting in campaigns for a healthy food system based on environmental and human rights principles. Agroecology is becoming more popular.
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Upset with the polarization he sees in the country, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is calling for a nationwide cutoff of all campaign contributions
On Tuesday night, Howard Schultz, the man who envisioned coffee as more than a morning jolt and transformed American urban culture, set out to do something even bigger. Now Schultz wants to help transform American government. And if his new venture can reawaken the promise of self-government the way his first venture -- Starbucks -- has opened the drowsy eyes of ordinary Americans, it will be a big step forward in reclaiming the time when being Americans together was more important to our public officials than being a Republican-American or a Democrat-American (the party identification being the important descriptive).
Schultz has put forth a plan that combines vision with practicality. Launched In a national telephone conversation hosted by No Labels, a non-partisan organization dedicated to re-establishing a government that puts problem-solving ahead of party advantage, Schultz has combined vision with practicality. His vision is new commitment to investment in job creation. But as one notes when observing Starbucks coffee shops on thousands of urban corners -- sites carefully selected and catering to virtually every caffeine-craving taste -- Schultz is no pie-in-the-sky daydreamer. Thus he has conceived of a practical way to get the attention of public officials who too often hew to a party line and play to a narrow ideological base. In the modern political world, in which getting one's message out to voters is a costly affair, Schultz has taken dead aim at the financial inbox. He is calling on citizens who share the frustration he feels, and that led to the creation of No Labels, to cut off all campaign contributions until "a transparent, comprehensive, bipartisan debt-and-deficit package is reached." He demands no particular outcome; he is silent as to whether taxes should be raised or entitlements reformed or military spending reduced. He is not trying to become a substitute for the president or the members of Congress. He is merely demanding -- and "demanding" is the right word -- that they all come together to put America back on "a path to long-term financial health and security."
Here is why Schultz and No Labels are so important. Unlike other organizations which focus on putting more players or more parties into the political mix (we've done that repeatedly and nothing changes), No Labels is focused on changing the fundamentals of the system -- the "closed" primaries that allow small bands of zealots to deprive general election voters of a wide range of choices, the drawing of congressional district lines (and thus shaping constituencies) to gain advantage for whatever party dominates a particular state legislature, allowing party leaders to demand loyalty in exchange for seats on important congressional committees, etc. No Labels' goal is to create a federal government in which the party identifications are set aside and the Executive and Legislative branches become working groups of concerned citizens acting together to solve national problems. Which doesn't seem like too much to ask. And Schultz -- the living proof that capitalism, done right, can work -- understands the importance of the incentive system. Right now, the primary incentives of the system discourage compromise and reward hard-line intransigence; Schultz, by working to cut off campaign funds, is seeking to provide a greater incentive for cooperation than for partisanship.
So I'm joining No Labels -- an organization with which I've happily aligned myself -- in urging support for the Schultz initiative. A cooperative, less partisan government? I'll drink to that. No latte, please, or cappuccino: I'll take my reform straight.
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July 20, 2022Middle East and North Africa
The United States has long tried to negotiate a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but several factors, including deep divisions between and within the parties and declining U.S. interes…
November 3, 2021COVID-19
It is crucial to learn the facts about how COVID-19 emerged to prevent future outbreaks. But China is rebuffing calls for further investigations focusing on Wuhan.
May 18, 2007Iraq
Public disapproval of the Iraq war is starting to create fissures among Republicans and posing challenges for Democrats seeking to balance national security and political gains .
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Damage to the 30 fuel assemblies occurred inside a cleaning tank designed, manufactured and operated by Framatome ANP.
The incident was provisionally registered as level 2 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). The incident has been reevaluated, and given a final rating of INES 3.
A statement issued by Paks said it appears that insufficient cooling of the fuel elements within the cleaning tank submerged in the transfer pond was responsible for their irreparable damage due to overheating. Five batches of fuel had been successfully cleaned before the incident occurred. It will take some time to remove the damaged fuel and make provision for it, thus extending the plant's outage at a cost of some $220,000 per day — plus around $450,000 to replace the written-off fuel.
The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA) has begun an 'independent investigation' into the incident. The HAEA said its decision to launch the investigation was 'contrary to routine practice' and that the 'data collection phase' had already been completed. The HAEA is due to publish its findings at the end of this month. A report by Paks into the incident was submitted to the HAEA earlier this month.
Order of events
Oxalic acid cleaning of the fuel assemblies was completed by at around 4:00pm on 10 April. Since work was being carried out on the reactor internals, the crane and the fuel handling machine were not available for removal of the cleaning tank lid and unloading of the fuel assemblies.
The cleaning tank was continuously maintained at 37 degrees C by Framatome ANP specialists by circulating the coolant using a submergible pump. The pressuriser tank was continuously filled through the vent line of the cleaning tank. At 7:20pm, measurements indicated that the pressuriser level had increased by around 70mm in about 20 minutes. This level change was also detected in the level measurement of the decay pool.
At 9:50pm, the cleaning system krypton-measuring display showed an increase in activity. At 9:53pm, the 'emergency' level was reached by the noble gas activity concentration monitors within the reactor hall, and then the operational dosimetry systems installed in the ventilation stack indicated an abrupt increase of noble gas activity (0.2x10E13Bq/10min). Soon after, the shift supervisor ordered an extraordinary maintenance work committee meeting for 1:00am.
At 11:30pm, dosimetry service personnel measured 20mSv/h dose rate in the cleaning unit by-pass tank. Due to the dose rates, the shift supervisor instructed workers to evacuate the area except the two Framatome ANP employees who had to monitor the cleaning tank cooling system. They were supplied with breathing apparatus.
The extraordinary maintenance work committee decided to open the cleaning tank in order to carry out its visual inspection and, if possible, to separate the leaking fuel assembly; they also decided to analyse the water in the decay pool. The first results of water chemistry analysis were obtained at 4:00am on 11 April. The fission products Cs-134 and -137, I-131 and -132, Xe-133, and Kr-85 were identified in the samples at activity level of 10E4-10E7Bq/kg.
At 2:15am, the hydraulic lid locking system of cleaning tank was unlocked. An immediate large increase in activity (3,1x10E7MBq/10min noble gas release) was observed in the dosimetry control and monitoring system. At the same time the level of the decay pool decreased from 13,410mm to 13,340mm and a pressuriser measuring location also indicated level decrease by around 70mm.
During the cleaning tank lid removal operation, one of the three cables of the lifting tackle broke, thus the lid removal failed. The covering lid of the cleaning vessel was lifted on 16 April, and a video camera was inserted. According to the images, the condition of the assemblies was significantly worse than expected. Most of the assemblies were deformed and claddings opened.
The Paks report states: "The direct reason of the emergency was the insufficient cooling. Prior to the investigation of the potential reasons it is absolutely necessary to evaluate the cooling requirement." According to a joint statement issued by the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA) and Governmental Coordination Committee: "There is no increase in the atmospheric emissions, and a coordinated programme for environmental measurements has started. There is no detectable increase in population doses. Currently, there is no need for the introduction of any countermeasures."
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When one company believes another has violated the principle of good faith in registering a name similar to its own, thus infringing on its legitimate rights and interests, it can submit the dispute to the administrative authority for adjudication.
Although the Provisions on Administration of Enterprise Name Registration, revised in 2012, provided for the handling of disputes concerning enterprise names, they mainly regulated the use of enterprise names without specifying the administrative procedures.
Another revision in 2020 clarified for the first time that if an enterprise believes other registered names infringe its legitimate rights and interests, it may bring a lawsuit to court or request the enterprise registration authority handle the dispute.
Company A is the Chinese headquarters of a global electronics manufacturer. The manufacturer first began doing business in China in the early 1970s, and invested in a number of enterprises, including company A, in mainland China in the early 1990s. All such enterprises bear the same brand name, which enjoys a distinct reputation in China. The brand name of company A has no literary meaning in the Chinese language, and the registered trademark with the same characters has been officially recognised as a well-known trademark. Companies B and C, established in 2005 and 2006, respectively, bore the exact same brand name in their enterprise names as company A. Their registered business scope was also largely identical to that of company A.
Company A believed the enterprise names registered by companies B and C infringed on its legitimate rights and interests, and engaged us to file an administrative adjudication request with the enterprise registration authorities of companies B and C, respectively.
NATURE OF ADJUDICATION
In this case, both companies B and C claimed that the original registration authority had approved their enterprise names, their registration was legal and compliant, and thus they should not be required to change it. Under the enterprise name pre-approval system, such a defence has been accepted by some administrative authorities.
According to the provisions, an enterprise name shall not be the same as or similar to the registered enterprise name in the same industry within the jurisdiction of the registration authority. After comparing the enterprise names of companies B and C with the registered enterprise names in the same industry within its jurisdiction, the registration authorities approved the registration of their enterprise names.
This process was administrative licensing, occurring between the registration authority and the two companies.
However, the dispute arose between company A on the one hand, and companies B and C on the other. Companies B and C registered the same brand name and operated similar products, damaging the prior enterprise name right enjoyed by company A. Company A applied to the administrative authority to settle the dispute, the lawful ruling of which would be an administrative adjudication, and so different from the administrative licensing.
As Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court pointed out in the Jiangsu Red Ant Design Decoration Engineering v Kunshan Market Supervision Management Bureau (2018) administrative judgment, “The settlement of disputes over enterprise names is different from the enterprise name registration application system. It has different system functions and value orientations, focusing on correcting inappropriate enterprise names and protecting the civil rights and interests of the prior right holder.” This difference in nature is particularly evident under the current enterprise name application and commitment system.
In cases of registering brand names of other enterprises and causing confusion, as specified in article 6 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL), how can the right holder connect the enterprise name dispute with the administrative complaint procedure of unfair competition?
Article 21 of the provisions provides, “if an enterprise believes other enterprise names infringe the legitimate rights and interests of its own name, it may bring a lawsuit to the court or request the enterprise registration authority that handled the registration of the alleged infringer to settle the issue”. Article 22 provides, “where an enterprise name is used to engage in unfair competition, it shall be handled according to relevant laws and administrative regulations”. Thus, article 21 resolves the disputes over infringement upon the prior rights and interests of others during registration of enterprise names, while disputes arising from use of enterprise names shall be resolved under the AUCL as provided in article 22.
The practical implications of these regulations are: (1) the choice of administrative authorities. At present, the administrative examination and approval service bureau is responsible for handling disputes over enterprise names in some areas, and the administration for market regulation is generally responsible for complaints of unfair competition; (2) the choice of procedure.
The above-mentioned regulations are to provide a legal basis for decisions of administrative authorities. However, to protect rights, all the procedures mentioned can require the infringer to change the enterprise name. For example, if the infringer registers and uses the name, claims can be made simultaneously under article 21 of the provisions and the AUCL. If the infringer only registers but does not use the name, or does not use the name illegally as provided in the AUCL, when claiming under article 21 of the provisions, the right holder should elaborate on the possibility of confusion, such as the popularity of the previous brand name, the competition within the same industry, and the subjective state of the infringer. Company A’s cases fell under such a category, and they resulted in companies B and C changing their names.
The provisions set out the administrative adjudication procedure for disputes over enterprise names, but supporting rules are still required to ensure their smooth implementation and further improve the enterprise name relief mechanism and measures. The State Administration for Market Regulation issued the Interim Measures for Settlement of Disputes over Enterprise Names (Draft for Comment) in February 2021, but the official version has not yet been promulgated. Moreover, relevant regulations can be formulated against registered enterprise names that obviously “take advantage of famous brands” for the administrative authorities to handle them in a uniform and consistent manner.
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Pastors often struggle to discern how to advocate for social change when public advocacy is so fraught with the possibilities of violence, division, and partisan power.
Pastor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, led a movement for social change in racial inequality and oppression, poverty injustice, and unjust warfare. He did so as a pastor and leader and his decision to lead a nonviolent movement meant that he led as a Christian pastor. He led in a way that was distinct from political leaders.
Pastors today can follow in Dr. King’s shoes, but first we have to understand what he meant by nonviolent action. This central aspect of his pastoral leadership in society gives a picture of how a pastor can participate in nonviolent action in society for social change in a biblical and Christian way.
Dr. King’s article “An Experiment in Love” in Jubilee 1958 (included in The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr) was inspired by his reflections on Christ and the nonviolent movement in India under Gandhi is a place to start to understand how love and nonviolent action go together. I reflect on this not as a King scholar, but as a pastor.
Nonviolence is not passive.
Nonviolence is sometimes perceived as passive inaction. Dr. King writes, “nonviolent action is not a method for cowards. It does resist.” Nonviolence is not merely avoiding situations where violence might occur, hiding in the church or home. It is not passive. It is active, and it involves resistance and does not “quietly and passively accept evil.” Dr. King encourages pastors to get out in society, to find evil, and to be peacefully present where evil exists. He calls this method passive physically but “active spiritually.” As I reflect on this I recall Jesus teaching to “turn the other cheek.” We can’t receive that slap on the other cheek if we are hiding away somewhere. We must be out in the world, interacting, in order to turn the other cheek.
Many people have no choice but to suffer injustice, oppression, poverty, or abuse. Nonviolent action calls me, as a pastor, to go out and find where these people are and be with them. I have to learn to see Christ in them, and to resist with and for them.
As I reflect on this as a pastor, I have to ask myself whether I am trying to understand where evil and injustice are occurring around me? Am I willing to join with others to go where injustice is occurring, and to be a nonviolent presence? Or am I “looking away” like the Pharisee who doesn’t want to see the man in the ditch.
The Prayer Book includes the Collect for Social Justice which calls us to go out into society “to contend fearlessly against evil and to make no peace with oppression.” We can’t hide away.
Nonviolent action is not an attack on human beings.
Action to oppose injustice could be viewed as a desire to destroy or attack our fellow human beings. If we are to see all human beings as made in God’s image, and thereby sacred, how can we actively resist people who are committing evil or contributing to injustice? Are we attacking people?
St. Paul said that we do not battle “flesh and blood” but “principalities and powers.” Dr. King believed that all human beings have a God-given moral sense, and that nonviolent resistance is a way to “awaken” that moral sense. It “does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.”
As a pastor, I am called to serve every person. I am called to serve even the most blatant white supremacists and to treat them with dignity and love. And yet I am also called to oppose white supremacy and racial inequality. It is pretty easy for me to Tweet against white privilege. But I find it much harder to make speak up when I see it in a local church or neighborhood group. I’m afraid that I will be attacking the person rather than the injustice.
Dr. King’s nonviolent resistance is a way to oppose injustice without dehumanizing the unjust. Being present in society where injustice occurs, as a pastor, allows for the spiritual battle to be made visible to the world. It allows for the Holy Spirit to convict hearts. It exposes evil. And yet we are also present as a witness that every person, and every institution, can be reformed. When “love comes to town” things change. Dr. King calls this “redemptive goodwill.”
As I reflect on this, I have to ask myself what I see in the white supremacist. Do I see another human being? Am I placing myself above him? Or am I making myself present to resist him, while at the same time seeking his conversion and salvation? Am I speaking up, or am I afraid?
Nonviolent action is an expression of Agape love.
Finally, for Pastor King, nonviolent action is an expression of love. He writes that Agape love seeks not one’s own good, but the good of my neighbor. It is directed both toward friend and enemy. And agape is not “weak, passive love. It is love in action.” It will “go to any length to restore community.”
The first letter of John says that “perfect love casts out fear.” Dr. King did not picture a world in which being nice to people always heals relationships quickly. He did not picture a movement that would paper over real evil and injustice, or pretend things were better when they are not. Agape, for him, was not a quick fix or an act of denial about the real state of the world.
Agape is the action of a redeemed people in a world that needs healing, love, and grace. The “perfect love” the Bible talks about casts out fear because it keeps being present. It keeps seeking healing. It keeps working toward the common good.
As I reflect on this as a pastor, I have to ask myself where I am seeking the common good in my own community. Where am I seeking to foster and make present agape love?
Today, our prisons and morgues are filled with a massively disproportionate amount of Black men. Poverty is spreading like a virus among service workers, while billionaires profit from the pandemic. Undocumented immigrants are being treated like pawns in a political game while they and their children suffer under a broken immigration system that we created. Violence is growing on our streets. Unborn children, and born children, are treated as commodities. As pastors, are we a visible, nonviolent presence in these places of injustice and evil? Or are we looking the other way?
Dr. King’s vision of nonviolent action can be lived out by pastors who emulate him. By seeking out places and spaces of injustice, where human beings suffer at the hands of other human beings, and then actively being present to resist injustice, we can point to the way of love. There is a better way.
None of us is Christ himself. We are simply undershepherds of the Great Shepherd. But even in our imperfect acts of nonviolent love, we can see his perfect love at work in our world.
All references are from “An Experiment in Love” The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. Edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 1986. Pages 16-20
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Ball, John E.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Honey bees are some of the most important pollinators for agriculture in the world and are pivotal to the health of worldwide ecosystems. Like all insects, bees struggle with exposure to parasites, diseases, and other environmental factors that can negatively affect the overall health of the colony. Recently, a new unexplainable phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been wreaking havoc on bee populations worldwide. As a result, a system capable of tracking bees is required to understand the different contributions of chemicals, parasites, etc. to CCD. This research seeks to show data supporting the development of systems for an X-band harmonic radar system. Overall, it was found the harmonic oscillator’s conversion and antenna efficiency were the most important design factors for determining detectability at increased ranges. Therefore, multiple harmonic oscillators were simulated and developed at a fundamental frequency of 5 GHz with these design factors in mind.
Woo, William B., "A harmonic radar system for honey bee tracking to better understand colony collapse disorder" (2022). Theses and Dissertations. 5501.
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Hi @jgregory105 ...
Merging and splitting cells in a table seem to work fine for me. For example, in a new page in my "sandbox" Canvas course, I created a 3 x 3 table. While still in editing mode, I selected the top two left-most cells in the table and then selected the "Merge cells" option from the "Table" tool. The two cells merged together as one. Keeping my cursor in that merged cell, I then clicked on the "Split cell" option from the "Table" tool, and my table returned to the 3 x 3 shape that I originally created.
I hope this helps, Jane.
Took me a while to find this as I was trying to merge the cells by using the pop up table options that pop up at the bottom of the table.
All you need to do
1. select / highlight the two table cells
2. click on the table icon in the editor
3. select Cell / Merge Cells
Thank you for your input! I actually discovered that the problem was my browser. Once I switched from using Firefox to Internet Explorer, the table editing features all worked fine.
I just checked and it looks like it is possible to split cells. You have to click into the merged cell, then you can select the Table icon in the RCE, hover over Cell, and pick Split cell.
I didn't see anyone discuss accessibility in the posts above. Merging cells in tables can cause accessibility issues with screen readers; Penn State has a great page on table accessibility and they say:
Even with headers properly marked, if cells are merged, a screen reader could find it difficult to determine which cell when cells become merged. Therefore it is recommended not to merge cells.
I hope this helps!
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The clinicians at Redpoint use experiential therapies to assist clients in processing thoughts, feelings, and past experiences in a new way. We offer a wide range of treatment modalities for individuals struggling with substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health disorders, including experiential therapies like gestalt, psychodrama, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Clients using these tools become more aware of the mind-body connection and find healthy ways to reprocess stressful emotions, beliefs, and memories.
What Is Experiential Therapy?
Experiential therapy allows clients to use expressive activities and other therapeutic exercises to analyze and process past and current events. Many people have difficulty connecting what they feel with how they act and the events they have experienced. Experiential therapy bridges that gap by giving clients ways to explore abstract concepts through physical activities.
In experiential therapies, clients use various therapeutic tools to relive and process past or recent events in a safe and controlled environment. By doing this, clients can bring their own unconscious thoughts, experiences, and emotions into focus. In addition, these modalities allow clients to confront past and current conflicts and focus on improving self-awareness.
Reflecting on Past Experiences
Experiential therapies require clients to reflect on past events while remaining mindful of their current thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. Self-reflection under these circumstances often reveals unconscious biases and motivations that affect current behaviors and thought patterns. The various experiential techniques we use at Redpoint involve analyzing and processing any issues that cause the client distress.
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Cranberry is a polyphenol-rich fruit that protects and provides essential advantages for the urinary tract, especially with a strong cranberry concentrate. Multiple studies confirm potent cranberry concentrate strengthens and sustains the health of the bladder's muscles and promotes healthy urination and bladder emptying.*
- Sustains the health of the muscles that control the bladder*
- Promotes healthy urination and bladder emptying*
- Helps protect urinary tract surface and lining*
Cranberry is a rich source of various plant chemicals that benefit the urinary tract. These include flavonoids, anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins, glycosides, and triterpenoids.
There probably isn't a grown woman alive in America who hasn't at least heard of using cranberry juice for urinary tract health.
The science is relatively simple. The phytochemicals in cranberry protect the urinary tract surface and lining by making it resilient.
But cranberry concentrate has another, less publicized benefit to both men and women: it promotes complete bladder emptying by strengthening the bladder muscles/ This makes them more efficient in emptying the bladder, resulting in fewer trips to the bathroom. One study found that it reduced daily urination by 16.4% in women.
Furthermore, cranberry effectively promotes prostate health and inhibits the 5-alpha reductase enzyme, preventing the testosterone from converting into DHT.
- Vidlar A et al. The effectiveness of dried cranberries ( Vaccinium macrocarpon) in men with lower urinary tract symptoms. Brit J Nutr, 2010 Oct;104(8):118-9. Summary: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) powder in men at risk of prostate disease with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA), negative prostate biopsy and clinically confirmed chronic non-bacterial prostatitis. The results of the present trial are the first firm evidence that cranberries may ameliorate LUTS, independent of benign prostatic hyperplasia or C-reactive protein level.
- Wang CH et al. Cranberry-Containing Products for Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections in Susceptible Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(13):988-996. Summary: The results of the present meta-analysis support that consumption of cranberry-containing products may protect against UTIs in certain populations.
- Luis A et al. Can Cranberries Contribute to Reduce the Incidence of Urinary Tract Infections? A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis of Clinical Trials. The Journal of Urology. Volume 3 198. Issue 3. September 2017. Pages 614-621. Summary: The findings clearly showed the potential use of cranberries for the clinical condition of urinary tract infection. Cranberry products significantly reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections as indicated by the weighted risk ratio (0.6750, 95% CI 0.5516–0.7965, p < 0.0001). The results could be used by physicians to recommend cranberry ingestion to decrease the incidence of urinary tract infections, particularly in individuals with recurrent urinary tract infections. This would also reduce the administration of antibiotics, which could be beneficial since antibiotics can lead to the worldwide emergence of antibiotic resistant microorganisms.
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Did all pirates fly the Jolly Roger?
It may be the most famous of pirate flags, but there were others that pirates used too, says historian Dr Rebecca Simon
When we think of famous pirates, we sometimes think of a black flag adorned with a skull and crossbones, flying high above their ship. This is close to reality, but there were many other different types of pirate flags.
During the 17th century, for instance, pirates sailed under a plain red flag (the ‘bloody flag’), and by the turn of the 18th century, some ships also began to sail under a plain black flag. These soon came to take on two different meanings: red meant that pirates would give no quarter (mercy), while black meant that pirates would give quarter.
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By the 1710s the red flag had pretty much gone out of fashion and was almost entirely replaced by the black flag, which became known as the Jolly Roger. This itself sported many different designs, one of the most common versions depicting a bloody heart alongside a devil holding a trident.
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However, the first iteration of the skull and crossbones flag put into widespread use was designed by the pirate Captain ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham, who created an image of a skull above a pair of crossed cutlasses. This became the most popular emblem, and by the mid-18th century the skull and crossbones flag was used exclusively.
The symbol, simply meaning ‘death’, can also be found on headstones, and in later maritime logbooks next to the names of deceased crew members.
This content first appeared in the December 2021 issue of BBC History Revealed
Was the Jolly Roger only used by pirates?No, writes Justin Pollard
The Jolly Roger is the universally recognised symbol of piracy, first recorded in France in 1687 (and used then on land rather than at sea). By the 18th century Charles Johnson in his General History of the Pyrates could record buccaneers flying a variety of black or red flags with ghoulish motifs, from the traditional skull and cross bones, to an hourglass and images of a skeleton piercing a heart with a spear.
Their purpose was simple. When pirates intended to attack they would raise the Jolly Roger to indicate to their prey that they weren’t going to fight by the normal rules of engagement so they’d do well to surrender. But the Jolly Roger is still sometimes flown today – and not by pirates. Various military units have used the skull and cross bones as an insignia but the most famous flyers of the pirate flag are the Royal Navy’s submarine service who still allow the flying of the Jolly Roger on vessels returning from a successful mission.
Legend has it that this originated when Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson (1842–1921), controller of the navy, called early submarines “un-English” and suggested that captured crews should be hanged “like pirates”. This story is repeated in many naval histories but a glance at Wilson’s memorandum on the matter of 21 January 1901 shows that he never said such a thing – although he was not in favour of the British building submarines.
The belief that submarines operated outside the normal rules of engagement was widespread, however, and this led Lieutenant Commander (later Admiral Sir) Max Horton to fly a hastily sewn Jolly Roger on HMS E9 as it returned to port having successfully torpedoed SMS Hela in September 1914. And the tradition has remained ever since, despite various political attempts to abolish the practice.
The most recent occasion of the Jolly Roger flying from a British submarine was 20 June 2011, when HMS Triumph returned to Devonport having fired Tomahawk missiles at targets in Libya as part of Operation Ellamy.
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Working with Kids
Sarah Thane CBE outlines the findings of her review into the reform of the child licensing regulations which could have significant impacts on the work of children’s content production if they become law. The session also provides a brief run-down on the new guidelines for the vetting procedures which will replace CRB checks.
Keith Arrowsmith, Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP
Sarah Thane, Consultant
For any of the delegates who work directly with children this session was a must as it attempted to unpick the minefield of child licensing.
Sarah Thane was asked by the previous Government to review the current regulations in the Children and Young Persons Act which dates back to 1963. They are widely thought to be complex, difficult to interpret and hard to apply to contemporary broadcasting and the world of online. Her report was published on 20th March this year but within weeks there was a General Election and a new Government which means it is still to be acted upon and no one is quite sure when that is going to happen.
Sarah told delegates that she and her team met with all the key stakeholders as part of the review, including psychologists, chaperones, BBC, ITV, Sky, Disney, PACT andOFCOM and it was widely felt that the rules governing child licensing are simply not appropriate any more.
Sarah accepts the current system makes life difficult for producers and thinks there’s an urgent need for the whole system to be overhauled. She knows we often need to get hold of licences at short notice and believes that children should not necessarily have to have medicals. She believes parental assurance on a child’s health should be enough. The bottom line? It’s just not flexible enough.
One of her recommendations is that chaperones should have more rigorous training. She also understands there’s a postcode lottery as far as local authorities are concerned. As any producer who has tried to get a child licence will know, some local authorities are incredibly helpful and knowledgeable and some are not. Sarah thinks one way to get around this would be for some local authorities to act as centres of expertise. She says some areas are used to dealing with requests and are very efficient – these could be developed and give advice to other authorities which have little experience of dealing with licensing. But she insisted the onus should be on employers to deliver a safe working environment for children.
Sarah is due to meet with Children’s Minister, Tim Loughton, to discuss her recommendations.
Lawyer, Keith Arrowsmith, who was the moderator of the sessiontalked briefly about CRB checks. He told delegates that plans for an enhanced CRB check which would link it to the vetting and barring system have been put on hold for the time being. It’s still not clear who will be subjected to the additional continual checks.
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Mineral dust is the second largest atmospheric emission by mass and one of the least understood sources. The shape of the particles depends on their composition and has implications for particle optical properties and reactive surface area. Mineral dust particles are often approximated as spheroids to model their optical properties. In this study, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is used to measure the aspect ratios of calcite, quartz, NX-illite, kaolinite (KGa-1b and KGa-2), and montmorillonite (STx-1b and SWy-2). In addition to traditional SEM images of the top of the particles, the SEM infstrates are oriented approximately normal to the electron beam in order to image the side of the particles. In this manner, aspect ratios for the top and side orientation of the particles are determined. Calcite particles have an aspect ratio of approximately 1.3 in both orientations, while quartz particles have an aspect ratio of 1.38 in the top orientation and 1.64 in the side orientation. The clay minerals studied all exhibited plate-like structures with aspect ratios of 1.35 to 1.44 for the top orientation and 4.80 to 9.14 for the side orientation. These values are used to estimate the specific surface areas (SSAs) of the minerals, which are compared to Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area measurements. Through this study, we present a simple method for determining the aspect ratios of aerosolized samples, rather than relying on literature values of model systems. As a result, this technique should provide a better method for determining the optical properties of mineral dust particles.
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Assessing the construct validity of the situational test of emotional management.
Hartman, Michael J.
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The current study examined the construct validity of the Situational Test of Emotional Management (STEM), a newly developed measure of emotional intelligence. A logistic regression approach was utilized to assess the STEM, at the item-level, on two factors, gender and Extraversion. It was hypothesized a logistic model including gender and Extraversion would significantly predict classification of participants into two groups (correct response on STEM items and incorrect response on STEM items) beyond a simple intercept-only logistic regression. Data analysis revealed that the gender and Extraversion did not significantly enhance the classification rates of participants into the two groups, but gender was a significant univariate influence on four items. Explanations as to why the hypothesis was not fully supported are discussed, as well as avenues for future research.
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African Child Policy Forum
The 6th edition of the African Report on Child Wellbeing provides a comprehensive review and analysis on the state of girls in Africa. By using a robust proprietary statistical framework called The Girl-Friendliness Index (GFI), the report examines the performance of African governments in their fulfillment of their obligations to girls. Furthermore, targeted multi-country qualitative studies are carried out by listening to the voices of girls in Africa.
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What ship did Vader fly?
Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1 was a starfighter used by Darth Vader during the Galactic Civil War, leading Black Squadron, and flown by him during the Battle of Yavin. It was a modified early prototype of the TIE Advanced x1 line, and in fact was the first of the limited production.
What is Darth Vader's small ship called?
Darth Vader's TIE Advanced was a TIE Advanced x1 starfighter used by the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader during the reign of the Galactic Empire.
What is Vader's Star Destroyer called?
The Devastator was an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer of the Imperial Navy famous for its participation in the Battle of Scarif, the capture of the Tantive IV and as Darth Vader's flagship for a time. It later participated in the Imperial victory at Hoth and was destroyed during the decisive battle fought at Endor.
What Fleet did Darth Vader command?
During the Galactic Civil War, Death Squadron was the personal fleet of Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader.
What is the big ship in Empire Strikes Back?
Depiction. Within the Star Wars universe, the term "Super Star Destroyer" is a colloquialism used to refer to any ship larger than an Imperial Star Destroyer. The largest and most powerful of these is the Executor, which first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as the personal flagship of Darth Vader.
How do Star Wars Ships Fly? Star Wars Lore Explained
What is the most powerful ship in Star Wars?
The Super Star Destroyer is one of the largest, most powerful Imperial vessels ever created. A smooth hull presents an arrowhead shaped profile when viewed from above. Resting in the center of this hull is an "island" of habitable volume.
What is Darth Maul's ship called?
A fittingly fearsome vessel for its deadly pilot, the Sith Infiltrator is the personal starship of Darth Maul, Dark Lord of the Sith. Maul used the sleek ship to silently travel wherever his master, Darth Sidious, ordered.
What is Snokes ship?
A capital ship built on a nearly unimaginable scale, the Supremacy is a vast flying wing more than 60 kilometers wide. In addition to being a warship with enormous firepower, it serves Supreme Leader Snoke as throne room and the First Order as mobile capital.
What ship was KYLO Ren on?
The powerful flagship shared by General Hux and Kylo Ren, the dagger-shaped Finalizer is nearly twice the length of an Imperial-era Star Destroyer.
What was Luke Skywalker ship?
Luke Skywalker's starship (Harix), vessel Skywalker used on his missions to Harix.
What rank was Darth Vader?
Specific references had Vader and Skywalker as "Supreme Commander of the Imperial Forces" and Pellaeon rather as "Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet" or "Supreme Fleet Commander"; but all three men's ranks were sometimes abbreviated to "Supreme Commander".
What is the biggest Star Destroyer?
The Executor-class Star Dreadnought, also known as the Super-class Star Destroyer, was the largest model of Star Destroyer ever built by the Galactic Empire.
Is Darth Vader's ship a TIE fighter?
Darth Vader piloted this distinctive experimental TIE fighter above the first Death Star, using its blaster cannons and his uncanny abilities with the Force to blast Rebel starfighters into glittering fragments.
What is Kylo Ren's Star Destroyer called?
The Finalizer was a Resurgent-class Star Destroyer of the naval forces of the First Order. It served as the flagship of General Armitage Hux and Kylo Ren.
What is the most powerful TIE Fighter in Star Wars?
The TIE Interceptor is without a doubt the best TIE ever made. The Interceptor is the Lamborghini of the TIE line, with every line, every panel screaming speed and mobility. This is a ship that just looks fast and deadly.
How many Star Destroyers are in the final order?
When Ren confronted Sidious on Exegol, the Sith Lord raised his entire fleet, named the Final Order, and all of its 1,080 Sith Star Destroyers from beneath the planet's surface.
Is snoke's ship bigger than the Death Star?
Show activity on this post. A Super Star Destroyer like Vader's Executor is approximately 19,000m long and some 6000m wide and about 1500m deep. By comparison, Snoke's mobile capital is 13,000m long, over 60,500m wide and more than 3000m deep.
Is the supremacy the biggest ship in Star Wars?
Dimension. The Supremacy was the sole Mega-class Star Dreadnought in the First Order's service with a colossal wingspan of 60 kilometers and a length of 13 kilometers. These proportions made the Supremacy the largest capital ship in galactic history.
What happened to Snoke's ship?
After Kylo Ren killed Snoke and became the new Supreme Leader of the First Order, he ordered the ship scuttled, as it was too damaged to be of use despite remaining fully operational in spite of its bisection.
What was Count Dooku's ship?
Built by the Geonosians, Count Dooku's Punworcca 116-class interstellar swoop was an example of a solar sailer, a beautiful and expensive ship notable for the sails it would unfurl for interstellar flight.
What is mandalorians ship?
A former military craft used to patrol local territories in the time before the Empire, the Razor Crest serves as the trusty transport and living quarters for the Mandalorian and the Child, as they travel from world to world, staying out of reach of the Imperial Remnant.
What happened mauls ship?
The Scimitar travels to Tatooine. At the time of the Invasion of Naboo, the Scimitar was the personal starship of Darth Maul, who used it in an attempt to track Queen Padmé Amidala on Tatooine. After his defeat, the ship fell into the possession of Maul's master, Darth Sidious.
What is the smallest ship in Star Wars?
Produced by Kuat Drive Yards for the Imperial Navy, the Vigil class was considered the smallest vessel in the iconic Star Destroyer line of ships. With a dagger-shaped hull, heavy armament, and relatively large crew complement for its class, the Vigil class shared many iconic design features of a true destroyer.
Which is the fastest ship in the Star Wars?
The Millenium Falcon is the fastest ship in the galaxy - just ask Han Solo, and he'll tell you that she "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs." According to Han, the Falcon has a Class 0.5 hyperdrive, which is definitely the fastest canon hyperdrive.
What type of ship is the ghost?
The Ghost was a modified VCX-100 light freighter originally made by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. It was named by Hera for her ability to evade Imperial sensors. Although an old vessel with a few dogfight battle scars from the Empire, it still performed reliably.
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How do you keep cats off wires?
- Wrap exposed wires in rubber covers.
- Keep your cat entertained.
- Give your cat more attention.
- Spray the cords with bitter apple spray.
- Remove access to cords.
- Take your cat to the vet for a checkup.
How do you stop cats from messing with wires?
- Cord Covers: A rubber cord cover is a great solution to this problem.
- Vet Visits: As we mentioned, the underlying cause for the chewing could be due to health or dental issues.
- Deterrent Sprays:
- Chest Rub:
- Spray Bottle:
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- Replace the Cord:
How do you pet proof wires? How Do I Puppy Proof Electrical Cords? Depending on your pup, simply tucking and hiding cords behind or under furniture will work just fine. Attach cords with zip-ties to the legs of tables or desks. Another option is to run cables under rugs or along with door frames and attach them with clips to keep them in place.
Will cats chew wires? A dangerous household item cats often chew is electrical cord and wire. As with plastic bags, cats can find the oral sensation of chewing on cords pleasant. Kittens in particular can chew cords as part of their exploratory development.
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In healthy humans ventilatory chemoreception results in exquisite regulation of arterial blood gases during NREM sleep, but during wakefulness other behavioral and arousal-related influences on breathing compete with chemoreceptive respiratory control. This paper examines the extent of chemoreceptive control of breathing within the normal physiological range in awake and sleeping humans and explores the consequences upon breathing of absent chemoreceptive function. Recent studies of subjects with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) demonstrate the extent of behavioral and arousal-related influences on breathing in the absence of arterial blood gas homeostasis. CCHS subjects lack chemoreceptor control of breathing and seriously hypoventilate during NREM sleep, requiring mechanical ventilation. Many CCHS subjects breathe adequately during many waking behaviors associated with arousal, cognitive activity or exercise-presumably reflecting input to the brainstem respiratory complex from the reticular activating system, the forebrain or mechanoreceptor afferents. In most situations, and despite changes in metabolism, the non-chemoreceptive inputs to breathing result in surprisingly well controlled arterial blood gases in CCHS patients.
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There was great excitement in the San Francisco temple. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, affectionately known as Prabhupada, had given a lecture the night before, and the chants had been sung with much enthusiasm. Now today was the Jagannath Car Festival. Through the mercy of the spiritual master the disciples are able to enjoy transcendental bliss, and therefore the temple was very much elated.
Food was being prepared in large, shining-new barrels, as there were no pots large enough to hold all the prasadam. Prasadam means spiritual food because it has been offered to God. The scriptures state that food which has been offered to Krishna takes on all His power. So we were prepared to distribute Krishna to thousands.
The women’s quarters were filled with carnations and gardenias, to be for garlanding the large car. And a special garland would be made to be placed around the neck of our spiritual master.
Everyone was busily working to make sure that everything was perfect. All the last minute details were checked. This year our ingenious Godbrother Nara-Narayan Das had installed a movable top which could be raised and lowered; the previous year there had been trouble with the top of the cart hitting telephone wires.
The car was being moved by 11:00 a. m. On top of the car were placed the Jagannath Deities. According to the sanskrit scriptures, there are two types of Deity worship, nirguna and saguna. Nirguna worship means without possessing the power of the Supreme, or idol worship, (the word nirguna also means that Krishna’s qualities are beyond estimation), and saguna means possessing the powers of the Supreme. Krishna consciousness engages in saguna Deity worship; therefore, by the mercy of the Supreme, the Deities have all the power of the Supreme Lord Krishna.
Lord “Jagannath” means He is the Lord of the universe. Along with His Brother and Sister, Jagannath was placed on top of the car where a devotee undertook the auspicious assignment of fanning Them with a peacock feather fan.
On the car’s topmost level, devotees passed along a walkway adding final decorations.
Below the Jagannath Deities was a magnificent throne for His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Someone might ask, “Why is there a throne for the spiritual master? Does he think that he is God?” The answer is definitely “No.” The spiritual master is honored and worshiped with all the honor due to the Supreme Lord only because he is a bona fide representative of the Lord. His Divine Grace never states that he is Lord Krishna. He has always made plain to his devotees that he is a servant of Lord Krishna. This is one of the symptoms of a pure devotee. The throne that His Divine Grace sat upon was a deep velvety red and as the day was relatively clear it could be seen for quite a distance.
Directly behind the throne of His Divine Grace there was a large section for the musicians. Included in the ensemble were harmoniums, kartals (hand cymbals), mridangas (sweet drums) and singers of the Hare Krishna Mantra. To enhance the music of these performers there were microphones and amplifiers, and the chanting could be heard very clearly and for a considerable distance.
The large steel barrels of food, dozens of watermelons, thousands of “simply wonderfuls” (the name given to a favorite recipe of the devotees by His Divine Grace), as well as other assortments of fine Indian vegetarian foods cooked in savory butter, were already moved to their destination. Everything done in Krishna consciousness is acted through the sanction of higher authorities as revealed in the scriptures. The prasadam was cooked directly from recipes found in Vedic scriptures, and the effort and care taken by the devotee-cooks was primarily for pleasing the transcendental Senses of the Supreme Lord Krishna. All of this food was taken to the Family Dog Auditorium, the site of the feast. Rathayatra Festival is also called the march to the sea. The festival-march was to start at Haight and Ashbury streets and to end at the seaside auditorium.
Right on schedule the cart began moving at Haight and Ashbury Streets. Meanwhile the prasadam, which had already been taken by truck to the ocean auditorium, was being arranged for mass-serving. Inside the auditorium devotees were sweeping the floor and decorating the stage with flowers. A place onstage was reserved for the throne of His Divine Grace. The auditorium was brilliant with red and white flowers, all carefully placed.
The Radha Krishna temple was empty and silent save for a few people. Outside the temple, the Jagannath Car had been moved to the designated place to wait for union with His Divine Grace. Everyone was waiting for Srila Prabhupada to arrive, and the assembled devotees could feel the auspiciousness of this event.
His Divine Grace was driven by auto to Haight and Ashbury Streets, and a giant hush fell over the crowd as his car pulled up beside the Jagannath Cart. The devotees immediately bowed on sight of him and paid their obeisances to the eternal guru. Prabhupada was helped up to the altar. He took his seat and sat with a majestic stature. Prabhupada always has this majestic presence, projecting his confidence in his movement and his confidence that Sri Krishna will help him spread Krishna consciousness.
The streets were filled to capacity and at first the predominant sound was the wind. San Francisco is very windy and that was the prevailing sound whistling through the hills; but then His Divine Grace’s voice was heard. He spoke in calm yet commanding tones. His words are always precise and clear every time he speaks. He speaks like a surgeon, cutting away all unnecessary words and speaking only of the Supreme Absolute Truth, Sri Krishna. Prabhupada never speaks nonsense.
After a short lecture, the march to the sea began. People were dancing and singing the Hare Krishna Mantra all the way to the sea. The entire atmosphere was one of happiness and bliss, and His Divine Grace exhibited his most wondrous smile. Working together as a team, the devotees pulled the car slowly and smoothly over the route. The leader of the car expertly guided it through the streets, spreading the glories of Krishna by singing His Holy Name. At certain points along the route devotees were seen dancing in flower patches, and flowers were continually distributed. As with the foodstuffs, the flowers were offered to Krishna, and thus they were spiritualized, prasadam. They had all the power of Krishna. Anyone who took a flower would have his door to liberation opened wide, even without his knowing it. According to the Vedic authorities, the chanting of Hare Krishna is the special Mercy given by Lord Krishna to the people of this Age of Kali. People are not capable in this age of going to the woods and meditating for a hundred or a thousand years or following the rules and austerities of the bona fide Yoga system. Krishna has said that by chanting the Holy Name, Hare Krishna,—or just by taking prasadam—you can very soon become self-realized. On the day described, thousands took part in the special dispensation of the Holy Name and thousands accepted prasadam of foodstuffs and flowers.
The car joyously reached the auditorium, and His Divine Grace gave another lecture. During his talk he sang a special chant which he does not usually sing. Then the auditorium was filled with the transcendental sound vibration of Hare Krishna. Any person of any sensitivity could surely feel the vast amount of energy and happiness that was radiated by the chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord.
As the chanting gradually subsided, the prasadam was served by the devotees. While the foodstuffs were being distributed a lovely girl devotee was singing a prayer to the spiritual master:
“I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami who is very dear to Krishna on this earth due to his taking shelter of the transcendental Lord.” This young girl’s voice was dominant over the murmer of the crowd, and one could feel her overwhelming affection for her spiritual master. Another devotee sat with Srila Prabhupada’s shoes in his hands until Prabhupada was ready to leave.
One may ask, “Why are these people being so humble and subservient to their spiritual master?” Some examples may be cited: If a servant of a king does his duties and sweeps the palace and is always there when the king calls for him, then the king will give him nice foodstuffs, nice shelter, and thus the servant is enjoying; only by satisfying the king can the servant be happy. Or, if a man is working in an office and he reports to work on time, never makes any mistakes on the forms, is willing to do anything for his boss, then he gets monetary gain and respect and prestige in his company. Similarly, if the spiritual master is satisfied, he will bestow his mercy upon you and you will advance spiritually. It is stated throughout the Vedic scriptures that there is no spiritual advancement without the mercy of the spiritual master.
This Car Festival is only one of the many festivals that are held throughout the year in different cities. Each Sunday at 4:00 in Los Angeles there is a love feast comprised of 15 courses of vegetarian foodstuffs prepared directly from the holy scriptures.
Krishna consciousness is more than a religion. It is the postgraduate of all religions. All religions are trying to become aware and conscious of God. All religions are trying to become Krishna conscious. The devotees of all the Krishna consciousness temples humbly request that if anyone has any questions, no matter how mundane, please go to one of the temples and inquire about this transcendental science. Please also look forward to the festivals that will also be taking place in the future. If you can do none of these we humbly request you simply chant Hare Krishna and your life will be sublime. Hare Krishna.
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Trucks are large vehicles that are built to carry goods and materials from one place to another. Due to its size, it may be difficult to maneuver properly, especially in traffic. Furthermore, with thousands of drivers occupying the roads, it makes it even more complicated for truck drivers to get by. Not only will a car driver prevent a truck driver from entering their lane, but they will perform reckless actions to cut them off, as well.
There are drivers who have openly expressed having ochophobia or semiocophobia, both of which involve having a fear of trucks or semi trucks. If a driver is afraid of driving next to a truck, their nerves will influence them to do anything they possibly can to avoid being near one. This can be dangerous, especially if the driver is in panic mode, as they can blindly drive into another lane and potentially crash into a driver nearby.
Negligent drivers are one of many factors that can contribute to the cause of a truck accident. Other possible causes of a truck accident include the:
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If you would like to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation at our Woodland Hills personal injury law firm, please reach out to our 24/7 legal team by calling (818) 514-9423 or emailing [email protected].
All trucks are expected to comply with state laws, federal laws, and regulations. Unfortunately, there are truck drivers and truck companies that intentionally ignore these rules in order to prevent themselves from falling behind on schedule. This can cause a truck driver to experience severe fatigue that will make it difficult for them to have their eyes open while on the road. Not only will this affect their sleeping habits, but it can also harm their health. Regardless, it is not ideal for an employee to overwork themself.
Under California Vehicle Code 21702, a truck driver may receive a misdemeanor if they spend over twelve consecutive hours driving on the road for a 24-hour period. A truck driver who does not comply with this law and causes an accident will be responsible for damages.
It is understandable for people to have a fear of driving near trucks. As stated before, the fear of driving near a truck can influence people to commit negligence actions that may result in an accident.
Below, we have created a list of tips you should consider taking to drive safely around a truck.
If you have sustained injuries in the city of Woodland Hills as a result of a truck accident, West Coast Trial Lawyers will help you recover compensation for the losses you have suffered, including medical bills, property damage, emotional distress, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
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Qaza’a related from Abu Sa’id. He said: I heard from him (Abu Sa’id) a Hadith which impressed me, and I said to him: Did you hear it from the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)? Thereupon he said: (Is it possible) that (I should) say about the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) that which I have not heard? I heard him saying: It is not proper to fast on two days, Adha and Fitr (at the end) of Ramadan.
Chapter : Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha.
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Medics operating to remove a “tumor” from a baby were astonished to discover it was actually the child’s twin inside his tummy.
The 3-month-old baby was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a kidney mass after his parents noticed his stomach was swelling up.
But when doctors operated, they found a 2-pound parasite twin — complete with eyes and skin — that was feeding off the baby.
The condition, known as “fetus in fetu,” is caused by the incomplete separation of twins, when one fails to grow and instead becomes an internal part of the healthy twin.
It is believed there are only 200 reported cases of the rare condition worldwide.
Dr. S.P. Sharma, who cared for the baby, said: “The baby was wrongly diagnosed with a tumor.”
“We were surprised and shocked to see a malformed fetus inside his stomach.”
“We have successfully operated to remove the parasite twin out of his body.”
“The baby is recovering well after the operation.”
“He has been shifted to ICU.
“We hope to discharge him sometime by the end of this week.”
Parents Ranjubala and Satyendra Yadav from Bhabhua district in Bihar, India, noticed their baby — whose name they have not revealed — had a painful swollen stomach.
The couple consulted local doctors; some said it was a urine problem while others who said it was a tumor.
Baffled, they visited Banaras Hindu University Medical College and Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, where medics found the twin and successfully operated.
Dad Satyendra, a farmer, said: “We were blessed with a baby four years after our marriage but we were always living in fear that the baby might not live long as his condition started worsening within days after birth.”
“I see these doctors here as the living incarnation of God.”
“They have not only cured our baby and rid us of all our pains too.”
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Walking in Love, Light, Wisdom, and Worship
Ephesians Chapter 5:1-20
Paul’s style in many of his letters was to begin by climbing the heights of theology, then descending to level of everyday life/application. Nowhere do we see that more eloquently portrayed than in Ephesians:
a. He has taken us to be seated in heavenly places in Christ in chapters 1-3
b. And now in chapters 4-6 He is going take us into the street, the job, and the home.
Ephesians 5:1 – Therefore (used 15 times in Ephesians, 141 times in Paul’s writings) be imitators (a mimic) of God as dear (beloved) children.
5:1 Mimic God; you are His offspring. Mirror Translation
Eph. 5:2a – And walk in love,
5:2 This is how, let love be your life; equal to the love of Christ in the way He abandoned Himself to us. His love is contagious, not reluctant but extravagant. Sacrificial love pleases God like the sweet aroma of worship. (Resembling the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer, to be burnt on the golden altar of incense in the inner court of the tent of meeting. Ex.37:25-29.) Mirror Translation
NIV – LIVE A LIFE OF LOVE, literally means to receive the benefits of God’s love, bask in its blessings, and then to express the same kind of love ourselves to others.
Now he says, “Walk in love.”
a. The worthy walk is a walk of love
b. Love is the fulfillment of the law
c. Love is the fruit of the Spirit
d. If we are walking in the Spirit, we are walking in love, &
e. If we are walking in love, we are walking in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
3 kinds of love: (Gk)
• Eros- erotic, romantic love
• Phileo-brotherly love
• Agape’- unconditional, God’s kind of love
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
LOVE OF – Love of Christ for men- attributes
John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. Divine John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. Self-sacrificing John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Inseparable Rom. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Cor. 5:14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
Gal. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Manifested by His Death 1Jo 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Eph. 5:2 b & c as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
5:2 b-c Sacrificial love pleases God like the sweet aroma of worship. (Resembling the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer, to be burnt on the golden altar of incense in the inner court of the tent of meeting. Ex.37:25-29.) Mirror Translation
Leviticus 2:9 ‘Then the priest shall take from the grain offering a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. It is an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.
Exodus 29:18 “And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Hebrews 13:15-16 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Since we are made in the image and likeness of God, I am Love, you are Love! WHAT???”
1 John 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
One thing that really helped me realize the truth of who I am was by comparing and contrasting what I understood about the concept I was taught of a God and what I knew and had experienced about Love. From the perspective of a human being God is always something outside, separate, and above you. This God is always connected with judgment and causes the one who believes in him to tremble in fear. Love on the other hand, which can be compared to the Father’s love, is completely different. This Love is a life-giving Spirit. It is the very life within you.
This Love understands it brought you into being by giving you its very life within. Love knows you as itself. He is in you. He is Love and you are Love.
And to answer, “how are we love”? We are love by knowing who God is and who I am. He is Love; that is all and all. We are ALREADY enough. We know as we are known and the more you get to know someone by the Spirit of Love, the more you bear witness to the truth.
Since we have the love of God inside and are love, act accordingly.
We will continue with Lesson 6 next week.
The blessings of the Lord are upon you whether by blood, adoption/sonship or assignment. The blessing of the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. Prov. 10:22
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Another update has dropped, and we have some exciting Fusion 360 drawing updates to share. Take a look at what’s new below.
Revisions are now available in Fusion 360 drawings. This new toolset includes revision tables, markers, and clouds. Additionally, your title block now shows the latest revision.
Revision markers can be added to the drawing. Also note, the latest revision is the default, choose older revisions from the menu.
Sketch your revision clouds anywhere on the sheet to highlight an area tied to a revision.
When editing a revision table, the settings under “Revision History” let you choose “All” revisions or a specific number of the latest revisions. Unticking a revision will change this to “Custom” but only the selected revisions will display on the drawing. Turn on your hidden revisions at any time. So, hiding a revision in the table will hide any revision markers for that revision.
By default, document settings are set to a Revision Scope of “Drawing”. Drawing scope will show the same revision table on each sheet, this is the revision of the entire drawing. But changing the Scope to “Sheet” allows you to set a different revision per sheet, which is handy when you want to control the revision of individual component sheets.
Revision numbering schemes
Three revision numbering schemes are available; alpha, numeric, and custom. Set up your revision numbering scheme in document settings. Of course, Alpha numbering schemes exclude the letters; I, O, Q, S, X, and Z. But note that custom schemes allows you to enter just about any scheme imaginable.
If you have set up your own title block, but want to show the latest revision, create a custom attribute called REV. Your custom REV attribute will be in sync with the Revision table.
To see this all in action take a look at the following video:
What’s next for Fusion 360 Drawings?
Our team is working on several new features including, arc length dimensions, auxiliary views, more model properties (attributes) in title blocks and parts lists, and more! You can stay up-to-date with what our Drawings teams are working on by visiting the Drawings Roadmap Mural. Want to talk to us directly? Book a 30-minute Zoom session with the drawings team, by clicking here.
New to Fusion 360 and ready to get started? Download a 30-day free trial today.
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Here's a summary of what my talk will be about:
The West African Student’s Union was a London based group, which existed from 1925 to 1966. The W.A.S.U was born out of a very prosaic need: the need for bed and breakfast. Landladies in the 1920s were not partial to black lodgers so the W.A.S.U’s hostel, founded in 1933, served as a shelter for African students seeking lodging in a hostile city.
Yet, the W.A.S.U’s founder, Chief Ladipọ Ṣolankẹ, also had a vision of the Union as a centre for debate and discussion, a place where student could eat good African home cooking as well as meet with the black icons like Paul Robeson, who was a W.A.S.U patron; a place where these students would begin to think of themselves as future leaders. It wasn’t long before Whitehall began to take note. For as independence movements developed on the African continent, the question arose: who would rule when the British had departed? Who else but these young, eloquent, well dressed, confident young men and women who peopled the rooms of the W.A.S.U hostel in Camden Square.
Catch em’ young, became Whitehall’s strategy. Keep them sweet. The W.A.S.U met with Lords, politicians, intellectuals. Union members dined with the great and good. The hostel’s running costs were subsidised by the Colonial Office and complaints about British policy in West Africa were carefully responded to; you didn’t want the Communists to get them.
And yet, little is known about the W.A.S.U today. The flame of many African independence movements, was kept burning in a now forgotten building in Camden Town. Kwame Nkrumah passed through the W.A.S.U. Jomo Kenyatta was affiliated with the W.A.S.U. They went to lectures. They took the tube. And all the while, a continent was waiting.
Full details below.
TRANSATLANTIC HISTORICAL APPROACHES: A KCL-UNC GRADUATE WORKSHOP
Location: S8.08 Strand Campus
When: 11 (10.00) – 12/05/2015 (20:00)
If you wish to attend a panel, the entire workshop, and/or the keynote, please email email@example.com.
Monday 11 May, King’s College London, Strand Building, S8.08
Panel 1: 10.00 – 11.30
Patrick Griffith (KCL) and Corey Ellithorpe (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Commentator: Peter Heather
‘The Orchestration of Propaganda and Ideology within the Roman and Post-Imperial Worlds.’
Patrick Griffith: ‘Barbarians and bishops as lawmakers: post-Roman political communities and their relationships with the legal ideology of Empire.’
Corey Ellithorpe: ‘Tokens of Subjugation: The Use of Numismatic Symbolism during the High Empire.’
Panel 2: 12.00 – 13.30
Laura Forster (KCL) and Lindsay Ayling (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Commentator: Richard Vinen
‘Contested Memory: English Positivists, Artistic Polemics, and the Paris Commune of 1871.’
Laura Forster: ‘Forgotten Friends: The English Positivists and the Paris Commune.’
Lindsay Ayling: ‘A People Massacred, A Civilization Destroyed: Artwork and Polemics in Dueling Narratives of the Fall of the Paris Commune.’
Panel 3: 14.30 – 16.00
Chibundu Onuzo (KCL) and Mark Reeves (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Commentator: Vincent Hiribarren
‘The West African Student Union and African Independence.’
Chibundu Onuzo: ‘The West African Students’ Union: An Introduction.’
Mark Reeves: ‘Nnamdi Azikiwe, the West African Students’ Union and the 1943 Press Delegation.’
It'd be lovely to see you there.
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ERSA welcomes the news that the latest figures, published today by the Office of National Statistics, which show that the unemployment rate has fallen again in the last quarter and is now at 6.4% (the lowest level since 2008) and that youth unemployment has seen the largest annual fall since records began.
ERSA also welcomes Governments recognition of the employment support sector in reducing long term unemployment by 171,000 on this year.
Chief Executive of ERSA, Kirsty McHugh, said:
‘Youth unemployment can have a lifelong negative effect on people so it is imperative that young people get the right support to either find that first job, or move back into work. The Work Programme has already helped over 143,000 young people into work and is contributing to the record fall in youth unemployment seen in this past year.’
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High Wycombe Tuition Centre
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Call us now on 01494911655 or book a free trial below!Book a free trial
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- All of our lessons are tutor lead and paper based with our resources that go beyond the curriculum.
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We provide a wide range of different tuition courses here at our centre, including:
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Original Tour to Delos
This is a cruise and walking tour to the island of Delos, only 40 min by boat from Mykonos.
This island is one of the most important archaeological sites in Greece. According to mythology, this was the place where god Apollo was born, which is why the entire island was devoted to his cult.
In the ancient times, Delos was a major religious pilgrimage but with time it acquired political importance. Many temples and buildings were constructed, the Delian games were celebrated every five years, the treasury of the Delian League was kept there, congresses were held in the temple of Apollo and the largest slave market in the region was maintained on the island.
Apart from a religious centre, Delos was never properly inhabited. Today it is an open archaeological site and also has an interesting museum.
09:30 Meeting time
10:00-10:40: Boat trip to Delos
10:40-10:50: Introduction and entrance tickets
10:50-12:20: Guided tour on the island
12:20-13:50: Free time for the museum
13:00: Departure of the boat
13:30: Arrival back to Mykonos
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It’s become more and more popular over the last few decades to say that Sodom and Gomorrah’s sin was not what we call sodomy or homosexuality, but it’s just not Scripturally accurate.
Genesis 19:1-5 shows that the men (not the women) of the city wanted/desired to have sex with the male visitors.
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 calls this very act to’evah, often translated abomination, and this is easily seen by even pro-gay “Christian” proponents, because their argument here is just: “The law is no longer binding through Christ.” Unbelievers see it clearly too. I once heard Ian McKellan say that he tore out the Leviticus 18 page of the Gideon Bible when he slept in a hotel room, because he didn’t want to sleep beside such garbage. They all see it; it’s not hard to see.
Jude 1:7 then says the cities were given over to ekporneuo, a Greek word meaning sexually immoral acts, and suffered the punishment of eternal fire. The strange flesh Jude mentions isn’t speaking of the men wanting sex with angels - they didn’t even know the men were angels - it’s speaking of the flesh being different than female, i.e. a male-to-male sexual relationship.
The text many progressives like to go to is in Ezekiel 16:49. There we find that *a* sin of Sodom was pride connected with a neglect of helping the poor and needy. Most do not read the next verse though where it says that Sodom practiced to’evah, the same word used in Leviticus 18:22 (and verse 26, 27, 29, and 30) and Leviticus 20:13.
It would be fine to say that practicing homosexuality was not Sodom’s *only* sin, but that’s certainly not how those using Ezekiel 16:49 frame it. They attempt to bypass the Older Testament Law by saying Leviticus has been abolished, or they try to use some fancy footwork to get around what Genesis and the rest of the Bible teaches against, all in hopes of appeasing a modern crowd.
White and Neil write, “Indeed, arrogance and pride are closely related to a willingness to twist even the most basic and fundamental aspect of our being, our sexuality, and to flaunt this in the face of God and our fellow creatures.” (The Same Sex Controversy, p.42)
Some try to say gang rape is in view in Genesis 19:1-5, but it was only the men of the city who were lustfully wanting the *male* visitors. They weren’t interested in the females. And there was no violence going on in Genesis 19:1-5, only a request that righteous Lot knew was wicked (2 Pet. 2:6-8).
Yahweh even held the Canaanites accountable to their many sexual sins; that’s how Leviticus 18 begins and ends. He tells Israel to not act like the Canaanites, because the Canaanites were vomited out of their land due to their sexual sins (Lev. 18:27-28). It’s similar to when Yahweh speaks of the “iniquity of the Amorites” (Gen. 15:16). Homosexual practice is just like adultery, it’s not limited to being prohibited in Israel.
In the beginning Yahweh made them male and female (Mt. 19:4). This is why a man leaves *father and mother* (one family unit) and *he* cleaves to his *wife* (forming a new family unit), Genesis 2:23-24. It’s been happening for thousands of years.
Some people use the, “Well Jesus never condemned homosexuality.” I can at least understand if an unbeliever says something like that (because they don’t believe the Bible), but for a believer to say such is unacceptable. We are supposed to be whole Bible Christians. Yeshua (Jesus) doesn’t have to address something for it to be a sin. His Father is the law-giver, and is top authority. As a matter of fact, Yeshua didn’t even speak his own words (John 12:49-50).
Stick with the whole Bible my friends. Don’t let anyone fool you by quoting one verse. #pridemonth
Blog by Matthew Janzen. Lover of Yahweh, Yeshua, my wife and 5 children. All else is commentary.
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Truck drivers work day and night to supply stores. Wherever you drive on the highway, you see truck drivers driving. They cannot be missed in today’s economy. Yet there’s a significant shortage of truck drivers, but why is this?
In this blog article you’ll read:
It all starts with the rising economy of our prosperous country. According to a calculation by the CBS (Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands), gross domestic product grew by 1.9% in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the previous quarter. This growth is mainly due to an increase in household consumption.
Thus, the increasing purchases of consumers require more supplies in the supermarkets. And this is where truck drivers come in. To meet consumer demand, more truck drivers are needed. At the moment there aren’t enough of them and this causes a shortage of drivers at transport companies.
According to Randstad Transport (Dutch employment agency), there are 18,000 vacancies for drivers across the country.
The impact of corona
In the second quarter of 2020, total retail sales increased by 5.9% compared to the second quarter of 2019. Consumers made more online purchases during the corona crisis than before. This is partly due to the government’s advice against shopping unnecessarily in the ‘physical’ stores from bricks and mortar. In addition to that advice, the various partial lockdowns also had an impact on rising online purchases. With the rise in online purchases, more drivers are needed to deliver the products to people’s homes. This has created more demand for drivers.
But even though the demand for drivers is increasing, the availability is not increasing, this is also one of the consequences of the coronapandemic. For example, in early 2021, no theory exams were allowed for four months and no practical exams for two months. This delayed truck drivers in training who wanted to obtain a drivers license from the CBR (Central Bureau for Driving Licenses).
Truck drivers have a vital profession; they are crucial in keeping society running. After all, if supplies aren’t brought to the supermarket, consumers can’t shop. But what do you earn as a truck driver?
The job rating for truck drivers in the Netherlands goes up between pay scale B and E. According to the 2021/2022 CLA for professional goods transport, the gross monthly salary is between € 1,966 and € 3,015 per month. The amount of the gross monthly salary obviously depends on the exact activities that the truck driver performs. Think about whether you work abroad as a driver, whether you work overtime a lot and what you transport.
As a truck driver, you’ll end up on a scale in terms of salary. Are you a rookie driver? Then you’re in scale B and start at € 2,031 with an ultimate maximum of € 2570 gross per month.
For routine activities you are on scale C. This starts at € 2,119 and ultimately provides a maximum of € 2,681 gross per month.
For routes with more freedom and less simple tasks (also international), you’re in scale D at € 2,256 with a maximum of € 2,854 gross per month.
The last scale, E, is for chemical transport and starts at € 2,336 with a maximum of € 3,113 gross per month. Eventually you make periodic steps in the scales until you reach the maximum.
If you want to earn more money you have to transport other freight and get the required paper for it, or work more hours.
Most truck drivers find it necessary to work overtime to eventually make decent money.
The work schedules of a truck driver are very diverse. For example, some work internationally and are away from home for 5 days and others only work evenings or weekends. Because of the irregular hours it’s sometimes difficult to find a balance between work and private life. If you have a family at home it’s often difficult to be away from home for a week.
According to the IRU (International Road Transport Union) report, therefore, only 7% of drivers are younger than 25. The average age is over 50 and only ¼ of the drivers are under 50.
The figures show that the influx of young people into the profession is low. The reason may be that young people find the basic salary disappointing. Do they want to earn more money? Then they usually have to drive internationally or on weekends. This is a major setback for the social life of a truck driver and therefore also a turn-off for many, including young drivers.
The cause of the driver shortage is mainly due to the low intake of younger truck drivers. According to the figures from the IRU report, it can be seen that ¼ of truck drivers are under 50 years old.
Also, for many, the salary of a truck driver isn’t a greasy spot. Want to earn more? Then it’s necessary to work overtime or earn extra with allowances such as driving abroad. A social disadvantage for many drivers if you’re away from home for one week, for example.
The corona pandemic has also thrown a spanner in the works recently. Online purchases have increased during coronacrisis and because there were no exams at the CBR for months, truck drivers in training had to wait months until it was their turn.
In short, the growing economy and online purchases have increased the demand for truck drivers. The influx of new drivers is stagnating partly due to low salaries and poor working hours.
Sources (in Dutch)
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The Third Wave is Coming. Here’s How to Prepare for the Quest of a Lifetime.
The Third Wave of the internet is coming. What does this mean? The Third Wave is the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning in our everyday lives. This means that we need to prepare for a new era where AI will be everywhere and will be able to perform tasks that we never thought possible.
The Third Wave is coming, but it’s not here yet. So what can you do to prepare for it? You can start by educating yourself on AI and its benefits, as well as its potential drawbacks.
Third Wave Quest is a life-changing journey through the world of spirituality. It is a quest for self-awareness, self-growth, and spiritual enlightenment.
It is not a religion or cult that tries to convert you into something you are not. Third Wave Quest is an open forum where people can explore spirituality and religion in their own way without being judged or criticized.
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>Also, how do u determine the UDMA ur IDE device is running at?
Given that I don't have your mobo/proc setup, I can't say for certain, but most BIOSes will tell you at start up (most likely after the device detection phase). Often it'll list your proc speed, memory found, the status of your cache, as well as your IDE devices where they're found on your IDE chain, and the mode they're using. For example, on mine it reads something along the lines of:
Pri. Chan. Master: WD-xxxxx,LBA,66
Pri. Chan. Slave: Tobisha DVD-ROM,33
Sec. Chan. Master: Velo CDR,66
Sec. Chan. Slave: WD-xxx,LBA,66
The numbers at the end signify the UDMA mode that the device is operating at. Note that the "Pause/Break" key often works at this stage, so if you'd like to halt output, hit it and take a gander.
Note that just because a device you have might be using a particular mode doesn't mean that Windows is using it. For example, every time I install Win2k it uses PIO mode for my Velo despite it being perfectly capable of doing DMA transfers.
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Aim: To assess the performance of the QRISK score for predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) in an independent UK sample from general practice and compare with the Framingham score.
Design: Prospective open cohort study
Setting: UK general practices contributing to the THIN and QRESEARCH databases.
Cohort: The THIN validation cohort consisted of 1.07 million patients, aged 35–74 years registered at 288 THIN practices between 1 January 1995 and 1 April 2006. The QRESEARCH validation cohort consisted of 0.61 million patients from 160 practices (one-third of the full database) with data until 1 January 2007. Patients receiving statins, those with diabetes or CVD at baseline were excluded.
End point: First diagnosis of CVD (myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and transient ischaemic attack) recorded on the clinical computer system during the study period.
Exposures: Age, sex, smoking status, systolic blood pressure, total/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, body mass index, family history of premature CHD, deprivation and antihypertensive medication.
Results: Characteristics of both cohorts were similar, except that THIN patients were from slightly more affluent areas and had lower recording of family history of CHD. QRISK performed better than Framingham for every discrimination and calibration statistic in both cohorts. Framingham overpredicted risk by 23% in the THIN cohort, while QRISK underpredicted risk by 12%.
Conclusion: This analysis demonstrated that QRISK is better calibrated to the UK population than Framingham and has better discrimination. The results suggest that QRISK is likely to provide more appropriate risk estimates than Framingham to help identify patients at high risk of CVD in the UK.
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Competing interests: The authors of this paper were the authors of the original QRISK paper.
Contributorship: The study was initiated and designed by all the authors. All authors contributed to the interpretation of the results and drafting of the paper. The analysis was undertaken by JHC and checked by YV and CC.
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Dedicated to delivering highly personalized instruction, guidance, support and entrance strategies to high school and middle school students and their families through all phases of the college admissions process.
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Planning for college, especially in these times, can be intimidating. With a multitude of options, soaring tuition, increased competition and the rapidly evolving demands of our 21st century economy, families must educate themselves to find the right match, earn acceptance, and minimize costs.
Mati College Prep is here to help you better understand and navigate every step of the process, providing the individualized guidance, preparation, and support necessary to make thoughtfully considered, forward-looking and financially sound decisions.
The state of the college admissions landscape today is such that grades, coursework, extracurricular activities, and standardized test scores are often not enough to separate one applicant from another; the subjective parts of a college application are pivotal in determining acceptance.
Your Personal Statement and Supplemental Essays are golden opportunities to show why you will add value to the college of your choice.
Every summer, we offer a limited number of three day writing workshops that guide students through the college essay and application process in a dynamic, small group setting. From the development of an original and compelling idea, to the drafting and revision process, every student benefits from both professional and peer review, and will leave the workshop not only with a vivid and memorable Common App. Essay, but also with a better understanding and appreciation of the art of composition.
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These services are most useful for students in 10th and 11th grade as they prepare for the college admissions process. Services include tutoring in Readin/Writing, Math, and Personal Essay Coaching. Sessions are typically 10 weeks and students may register for more than one session depending on their success rate.
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The Meanings of Military Service Project seeks to create more diverse teaching materials concerning the First World War, which will be a required topic at KS3 in the new National Curriculum, and to involve academics in the selection of material that will both engage students and exemplify complex concepts.
The project is sponsored by the Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Public Engagement http://www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengagement/. It is a collaborative project led by the History Department http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/ and Archives http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives to engage teachers and students from local secondary schools in the meanings of military service. The Project is also supported by Barts Health NHS Trust.
The Project draws on the Queen Mary University of London Archives and the archives of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Royal London Hospital Archives http://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/about-us/museums,-history-and-archives/ to identify rich individual stories that exemplify essential ideas about wartime service, including enlistment, exemption, wounding, death and survival.
Working with teachers from QMUL’s partner schools, the project team will also produce lesson plans and teaching packs based around these stories. These education resources will be devised in collaboration with teachers from Greater London schools and will be made on the website in October 2014.
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Food is what brings friends and family together, and family means everything so buying the freshest ingredients is not only healthy and delicious but also can save you a buck when you shop for seasonal produce. This spring, RED magazine picked 3 great ingredients that can be confidently used in your everyday cooking.
Green beans definitely serve a great base to a nice salad. They can be steamed or pan-fried but be careful not to overcook them. In preparation, trim the ends from both sides of the stem. For a great recipe, see our Food section on how to make a delicious Green Bean & Fig and Goat’s Cheese Salad.
Blueberries are well known for its sweet and delicious flavours. These berries are delicate and can be used for desserts, breakfast cereals, drinks and some other savoury dishes. Full of antioxidants and vitamins can make a great addition to a nice meal for the family.
Asparagus is very delicious when cooked on a BBQ, pan-fried or steamed. A fantastic idea for a full of flavour salad or risotto on a nice spring afternoon lunch. It does not take long to cook, it is unique flavours and crunch will make your mouth water. Please note that it is important to trim the ends with a knife to cut to the point where it meets less resistance. Enjoy!
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Social and cultural continuity and change (India)
Hey everyone!! These are my notes on social and cultural continuity and change (India) for society and culture.They're comprehensive and easily applicable to HSE style questions through adaptation. I have also utilised a table format to ensure that my answer explicitly aligns to the syllabus.
Side note: These notes have been edited by my teachers and I have collated various points from other resources to form a stronger analysis, ensuring that you achieve the best possible outcome in section I of the exam.
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Have you ever wondered what that little arrow is on your screen? That’s called the mouse pointer, but do you know What is a Mouse pointer and what it does?
Well, wonder no more! In this post, I will look at the brief introduction to a mouse pointer and discuss its purpose and functions. Also, some tips on making the most of this vital tool.
So, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced computer user, read on to learn more about the mouse pointer!
What is a Mouse pointer?
The mouse pointer is a small arrow that appears on your computer screen, and it can be moved when you move your little pointing input device, a mouse. It helps you navigate the screen, selecting the options or opening files, moving or changing the position of objects, holding and dragging the things.
In the case of a laptop, there is usually a small pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard to move the cursor. In short, it is substitute for your hand in the computer world.
The mouse pointer was initially called the arrow because it looks like an arrow shaped. The name later modified to mouse pointer because the pointer is not just used for the arrow only. It has now different cursor types and shapes that kept changing; still, the most common one is the arrow.
Other types of mouse cursors include:
- The hand is used to click on links.
- The text selection cursor is used to select text.
- The crosshair is used to determine objects in specific programs.
And the I-beam is a particular type of cursor that is used to enter text which is used in word processing. It looks like a small vertical line with two horizontal lines above and below it. When the mouse pointer is over a text field, it will change to the I-beam cursor.
What are the Functions of Mouse Pointer?
The mouse pointer interacts with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It allows the user to move around the screen and select different options like to click on buttons, links, and other elements within the GUI. It is done by help of motion sensor and red light at the bottom of the mouse.
The functions of the mouse pointer will be different depending on what you are doing on your computer at the time.
Generally, though, the mouse pointer has three main functions: to indicate where you are clicking on the screen, to show where links or buttons are, to initiate drag-and-drop operations. and to show which program is currently open.
For example, if you hover your mouse pointer over a link, the pointer will change into a hand, which tells you that you can click on the link to go to the website. Or, if you have two windows open on your computer and you move your mouse pointer to the edge of one of them, the pointer will change into a double arrow, which tells you that you can click and hold to resize the window.
Thus, some computer mouse pointers are animated, and they sometimes change shape when you hover over different objects.
The mouse pointer is not up to use indicate and serves only for operations such as opening and closing documents or selecting one or more elements.
The fact is that a change in its appearance indicates some processes occurring in the system. Who doesn’t remember the hourglass in the early days of Windows? Then it was a piece of direct evidence that the system “thinks” or is in the process of executing a particular function, that is, busy. Each icon is designed to give the user specific information.
What are the Main Advantages and Disadvantages of a Mouse Pointer?
The main advantages of a mouse pointer are that it is easy to use and provides an accurate way to control what is on the screen. The main disadvantage of a mouse pointer is that it can be confusing for new users, with hand-eye coordination and repetitive stress injuries. Additionally, a mouse cursor may not work well on surfaces, such as glass or mirrors such as laser mouse.
Making the Most of Your Mouse Pointer – Tips
Now that you know what is a mouse pointer, here are 10 tips to help you make the most of it:
So, as you can see, the mouse pointer is a convenient tool that can help you do various tasks on your computer. Make sure to experiment with it and see what all it can do!
I hope this post has helped you better understand “what is a mouse pointer?” and how to use it.
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This post explores conceptualization of Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing or Caregiving relationship styles through the lens of Internal Family Systems and managing parts-of-self.
This post explores the Other-Directedness domain schemas of Approval Seeking, Self-Sacrificing, and Subjugation and the impact that these schemas have on anxiety.
This post explores Self-Sacrifice Schema and the impact of projective identification, particularly related to guilt and self-absorption, on ones tendency to be manipulated by others.
This post explores characteristics of individuals who have a tendency towards caregiving behaviors versus those who have a tendency towards narcissistic behaviors.
This post explores the impact of the Early Maladaptive Schemas Self-Sacrifice and Emotional Inhibition in caregiver and codependent type individuals, often leading them to attract Narcissistic individuals and one-sided relationships and to feel unseen and unvalued.
This post explores narcissism and caregiving and how at the core of both is a difficulty with vulnerability and either creating boundaries with caregiving and respecting boundaries with narcissism. Post explores the giving-taking spectrum and how to go about growth from either end of the spectrum.
This post explores an individual’s tendency to not heed warnings in relationships and offers tips for seeking healthy and mutual connection.
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Lithuania will be able to survive without Russian gas after its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal starts up soon, redrawing the energy map for the Baltic states, President Dalia Grybauskaite said Tuesday.
The floating LNG import terminal at the port of Klaipeda is planned to open on Oct. 27, ending the supply monopoly of Russia's Gazprom and isolation from global gas markets. Commercial deliveries are due to start after the terminal's testing in the beginning of 2015.
Lithuania will be able to meet all the gas needs of its 3 million citizens, and also supply LNG to Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia.
"We will have no dependence on Gazprom supplies. In the case of gas supply disruptions, our terminal can serve and fulfil about 90 percent of the three Baltic states' gas supply needs," Grybauskaite said.
Its long-term gas supply contract with Gazprom expires at the end of 2015.
"So really, we don't care anymore (about Russia gas supply cuts)... I'm not concerned about gas supplies for the upcoming winter, at least for Lithuania."
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Agricultural, military and industrial activities since long have contaminated the soil, surface and ground water around the world causing great stress to the ecosystem and the natural resources. It is important to get rid of these toxic chemicals for which different remediation methods are used.
Remediation using the conventional techniques, are expensive and also disturb the natural fragile ecosystem, it is hence important to resort to environmentally sustainable technologies. One such efficient new age technology is phytoremediation.
It is the use of living plants to remove and break down contaminants in soil, ground water, surface water and sludge. Plants accomplish the remediation process by converting the contaminants into being less harmful and storing it near the root zone or in the stems, leaves, etc. these contaminants are often broken down by the microbes in the soil and are also released into the air by conversion into vapours rendering the soil free of toxins.
Plants also effectively slow down the movement of contaminated groundwater to the clean site by means of hydraulic control, riparian corridors and buffer strips. Tetrachloroethylene used as solvents in dry cleaning and as an ingredient in inks, paints and disinfectants exist at the bottom of the aquifer and are known to cause neural, kidney and dermatological problems in animals and increase the risk of cancer too.
In a case study that dealt with remediating tetrachloroethylene from groundwater using Populus tree, it was found as a viable option for cleansing the groundwater off the tetrachloroethylene contamination. Populus tree was selected for the purpose due to its high pumping capacity, high rates of transpiration and ability to cross breed causing hybridization. Lead and chromium in 6+ contamination of the soil may also be effectively dealt with by means of phytoremediation and phytostabilization thus inactivating the metals in the soil.
Water hyacinths were used as effective means to remove arsenic from water supplies in Bangladesh and radioactive strontium and cesium were removed from Chernobyl site using sunflower as success stories of phytoremediation.
Phytoremediation can clean up the contaminants from the environment by the following methods-
Phytovolatilization- It is the uptake of the contaminants like volatile organic compounds by the roots of the plants and release into the atmosphere is detoxified form. For example, trichloroethylene can be volatilized as carbon dioxide and chlorinated acetates by hybrid poplar trees, metals too can be remediated by this method like selenium in the form of dimethylselenide. Genetically modified plants like tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera) with genes from modified form of coli can be used to volatilize methyl-mercury into the atmosphere. Typical plant examples are phreatophyte trees (poplar, cottonwood, willow), grasses (sorghum, Bermuda, rye), legumes (alfalfa, clover, cowpeas)
Microorganism stimulation or Phytostimulation- It is the enhanced biodegradation of the organic toxics with the help of the microbes in the rhizosphere i.e. the root zone. Plants provide enzymes, oxygen and organic substances that promote the growth of microorganisms. Five enzyme systems present in soil investigated by U.S. EPA are- 1) Nitrilase (oxidation reactions), 2) Laccase (breakdown of aromatic ring structure in organic compounds), 3) Peroxidase (oxidation reactions), 4) Nitroreductose (nitroaromatic degradation), 5) Dehalogenase ( dechlorination of chlorinated hydrocarbons). Typical plant examples are phenolic releasers (apple, mulberry, osage orange), fibrous roots (fescue, bermuda), aquatic plants.
Phytostabilization- It is the immobilization of contaminants like heavy metals in the soil. It involves the reduction in the contaminant solubility hence decreasing its bio-availability, reduction in soil erosion and minimizing the wind-blown dust. Phytostabilization may also be accomplished by decreasing the solubility of the metals and hence reducing their leaching into the ground water by increasing the amount of organic matter, bio-solids, alkalizing agents and phosphates in the soil. Typical plant examples are phreatophyte trees for hydraulic control, grasses for stabilization of the soil, plants with dense root systems for reduced mobility of the contaminants.
Phytoaccumulation/extraction- The process involves the removal of heavy metals from the soil into the leaves and stems. It can be an induced process by the use of chemicals which increase the bioavailability of the contaminant or a continuous process by the use of fast growing hyper accumulating plants. Berkheya coddii having the potential to store as much as 3.8% of nickel in it was grown on the contaminated soils. Typical plant examples are Indian mustard, sunflower, rape seed, crucifers, etc.
Phytodegradation– It is the direct degradation of the contaminants in the plant tissues or by the release of enzymes. Poplar trees (Populus) have been successfully used in metabolization or degradation of toxins and recalcitrant organic compounds. Typical plant examples are Phreatophyte trees like poplar, cottonwood, willow, grasses like fescue, sorghum and legumes like clover, cowpeas, alfalfa.
Phytoremediation is being increasingly used, for example it has been employed in cleaning up of the contaminated groundwater site at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland near a disposal site. This site was heavily contaminated due to the burning and disposal of warfare and industrial chemicals since 1940 through the 1970s. It was in 1996 that 183 poplar trees were planted to cater to the hovering problem of groundwater contamination. The trees were not only found to degrade the chemicals but also kept the plumes from moving to the clean areas. It was estimated by EPA that the contaminant concentration in the ground water would decrease by up to 85% within 30 years of the start of the project and hence would be fit for use in the near future.
Phytoremediation is a long and time consuming process, depends on climatic condition and may also affect the food chain on consumption of contaminant plant tissues yet seems to be a viable option in today’s world for various reasons. Phytoremediation is a method that improves the aesthetic value of the contaminated site and at the same time offers its services of cleansing the site. It also increases the soil stability and improves the ambient air quality, moreover the cost incurred for phytoremediation treatment is considerably low and doesn’t require huge and heavy equipments and can be carried out either at the site of contamination or at some other place under regulated conditions. Plants have always helped in providing solutions to the problems devised by humans and this new era technique seems like a knight in the shining armor which might save the earth by cleansing it off the dangerous contaminants.
Anushua is currently pursuing her masters in Environment Management from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi having completed her graduation in chemistry from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She did her schooling from Ann Mary, Dehradun which instilled in her the passion for environment. She has particular interest in energy and water pollution domain and loves to read and write about researches in the field of science.
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This section summarises the key steps taken in developing the surface water models for predicting the hydrological impacts of coal resource development in the Gloucester subregion. It includes discussion of the spatial and temporal modelling domains, the spatial resolution of the modelling, the development of a future climate trend, the development of time series of open-cut coal mine footprints, and the estimation of additional coal resource development (ACRD) impacts on streamflow.
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Carmen Pacheco-Jones has been fighting for criminal justice reform in Spokane for years.
The region has made a lot of progress toward addressing racial inequities in her time here, she says. And Pacheco-Jones doesn’t want to see the criminal justice system take a step backward.
But she fears a new proposal to dissolve the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council would do exactly that.
Reform advocates are bashing a proposal from Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell to eliminate the 25-member Law and Justice Council and replace it with a 13-member Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee. The concept is under consideration by the Spokane County Commission.
Haskell’s proposal draws heavily from an October report by the independent Spokane Criminal Justice Commission, which wrote the 2014 “Blueprint for Reform” that led to the re-establishment of the Law and Justice Council.
The Criminal Justice Commission’s report argued that the Law and Justice Council is failing to live up to its charge because it has too many members, too much infighting and receives “ongoing public scrutiny.”
The Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council doesn’t have any decision-making power. It’s an advisory body made up of leaders in local government, criminal justice and the general community. The council exists to help the county create a “racially equitable, cost-effective criminal justice system.”
If the Spokane County Commission adopts Haskell’s resolution as written, the new committee would have a narrower focus. Some Law and Justice Council members said the smaller committee wouldn’t work much on reform or racial equity. Instead, it would mainly deal with interactions between local jails and the state prison system.
Under the proposal, the four at-large community representatives would lose their seats, as would a host of local elected officials, including the county commissioners, Spokane County public defender, Spokane mayor and a Spokane council member.
The new committee would retain most of the seats designated for individuals who specifically work in criminal justice – the sheriff, prosecutor and court representatives, for instance.
Many Law and Justice Council members strongly oppose dissolving the Law and Justice Council, arguing the community representatives are the ones best able to advocate for people of color, victims of crime, the homeless, the previously incarcerated, the mentally ill and people who have substance abuse disorders.
Multiple council members told The Spokesman-Review that those groups, which are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system, need more representation, not less.
“(This proposal) eliminates the voices of people who are often marginalized and most deeply impacted by the criminal justice system,” said Erin Williams Hueter, who holds one of the council’s at-large community member seats and serves as director of Lutheran Community Services Northwest.
People within the system don’t understand how law enforcement and jails affect people of color and other marginalized groups, Pacheco-Jones said. That’s why the community representatives are so important.
“We know better,” she said. “What the community brings is a collective voice and leverage on reform.”
She said Haskell and the county commissioners “want to go back into their siloed existence where they’re not held accountable by the community.”
Spokane County Commissioner Al French, who chairs the Law and Justice Council, said county commissioners haven’t made any decisions yet about changing the council’s structure. He said he doesn’t want to see community voices go away.
“I think it’s premature to assume they’d be removed,” French said. “If it is somebody’s agenda, it’s not mine. … The citizen voices can be very much part of the new structure.”
The commissioner said he doesn’t know yet if he’s in favor of dissolving the Law and Justice Council.
“I’m looking forward to the ongoing discussion,” he said.
Multiple Law and Justice Council members and reform advocates said the push for a scaled-back Law and Justice Council isn’t new. Haskell has long argued for this, they said.
Kurtis Robinson, who sits on the council’s Racial Equity subcommittee, said the prosecutor’s office and county commissioners have been working to suppress the community voice on the council for years.
“This is not a new game being played,” Robinson said during the subcommittee’s Thursday meeting.
Spokane Valley City Attorney Cary Driskell has a seat on the council and chairs its Strategic Planning subcommittee. He said he’s strongly opposed to paring down the Law and Justice Council.
“I’m not sure cutting it back would result in a more functional committee,” he said, adding that it would be more difficult for the stripped-down committee to tackle racial equity and systemic bias issues.
Driskell also noted that losing municipal seats would be a blow. For instance, Spokane Valley only has a representative on the council because Driskell’s serving on behalf of all county municipalities besides Spokane.
Under the proposed structure, Spokane would lose its allotted mayoral and council seats. All cities would have one lone representative on the new committee.
There’s nothing wrong with the county looking at different approaches, Driskell said. But he questioned why it would reduce input from people of color and community advocates if the council’s goal is to improve the criminal justice system.
“If we believe that parts of our system need to be fixed, this seems to be probably not the best approach,” Driskell said. “Generally speaking if you want to solve problems, you take in the maximum amount of information. It seems to me like we’re not doing that.”
Haskell did not respond to The Spokesman-Review’s multiple requests for comment.
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Air Health in USA – level 1
Scientists study air pollution. From 1999 to 2015, they study it in the USA. They watch how much fine matter is in the air.
This fine matter comes from industry, power plants and mostly cars. One piece of the matter is 30 times smaller than a human hair. If you breathe the matter in, it can go deep into your body.
The scientists find that there is less and less of this fine matter. However, the pollution is dangerous. It connects to the death of 30,000 people.
Difficult words: pollution (when something is not clean and has dangerous things in it), fine matter (very small things), connect (has something to do with it, can be one of the reasons why the people die).
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Florida Secondary School Redesign Act.
Florida Secondary School Redesign Act.
1003.413 Florida Secondary School Redesign Act.—
(1) Secondary schools are schools that primarily serve students in grades 6 through 12. It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for secondary school redesign so that students promoted from the 8th grade have the necessary academic skills for success in high school and students graduating from high school have the necessary skills for success in the workplace and postsecondary education.
(2) The following guiding principles for secondary school redesign shall be used in the annual preparation of each secondary school’s improvement plan required by s. 1001.42(18):
(a) Struggling students, especially those in failing schools, need the highest quality teachers and dramatically different, innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
(b) Every teacher must contribute to every student’s reading improvement.
(c) Quality professional development provides teachers and principals with the tools they need to better serve students.
(d) Small learning communities allow teachers to personalize instruction to better address student learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses.
(e) Intensive intervention in reading and mathematics must occur early and through innovative delivery systems.
(f) Parents need access to tools they can use to monitor their child’s progress in school, communicate with teachers, and act early on behalf of their child.
(g) Applied and integrated courses help students see the relationships between subjects and relevance to their futures.
(h) School is more relevant when students choose courses based on their goals, interests, and talents.
(i) Master schedules should not determine instruction and must be designed based on student needs, not adult or institutional needs.
(j) Academic and career planning engages students in developing a personally meaningful course of study so they can achieve goals they have set for themselves.
(3) Based on these guiding principles, district school boards shall establish policies to implement the requirements of ss. 1003.4156, 1003.428, and 1003.493. The policies must address:
(a) Procedures for placing and promoting students who enter a Florida public school at grade 6 through grade 12 from out of state or from a foreign country, including a review of the student’s prior academic performance.
(b) Alternative methods for students to demonstrate competency in required courses and credits, with special support for students who have been retained.
(c) Applied, integrated, and combined courses that provide flexibility for students to enroll in courses that are creative and meet individual learning styles and student needs.
(d) Credit recovery courses and intensive reading and mathematics intervention courses based on student performance on FCAT Reading and Mathematics. These courses should be competency based and offered through innovative delivery systems, including computer-assisted instruction. School districts should use learning gains as well as other appropriate data and provide incentives to identify and reward high-performing teachers who teach credit recovery and intensive intervention courses.
(e) Grade forgiveness policies that replace a grade of “D” or “F” with a grade of “C” or higher earned subsequently in the same or a comparable course.
(f) Summer academies for students to receive intensive reading and mathematics intervention courses or competency-based credit recovery courses. A student’s participation in an instructional or remediation program prior to or immediately following entering grade 9 for the first time shall not affect that student’s classification as a first-time 9th grader for reporting purposes.
(g) Strategies to support teachers’ pursuit of the reading endorsement and emphasize reading instruction professional development for content area teachers.
(h) Creative and flexible scheduling designed to meet student needs.
(i) An annual review of each high school student’s electronic personal education plan created pursuant to s. 1003.4156 and procedures for high school students who have not prepared an electronic personal education plan pursuant to s. 1003.4156 to prepare such plan.
(j) Tools for parents to regularly monitor student progress and communicate with teachers.
(k) Additional course requirements for promotion and graduation which may be determined by each school district in the student progression plan and may include additional academic, fine and performing arts, physical education, or career and technical education courses in order to provide a complete education program pursuant to s. 1001.41(3).
(4) In order to support the successful implementation of this section by district school boards, the Department of Education shall:
(a) Share best practices for providing a complete education program to students enrolled in course recovery, credit recovery, intensive reading intervention, or intensive mathematics intervention.
(b) Expedite assistance and decisions and coordinate policies throughout all divisions within the department to provide school districts with support to implement this section.
History.—s. 19, ch. 2006-74; s. 17, ch. 2008-108; s. 6, ch. 2008-235; s. 1, ch. 2010-22; s. 25, ch. 2010-70.
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Turkey has ruled out striking any migration deal with the European Union that is limited to financial assistance, amid concerns of a new migrant wave after the Taliban's taking of power in Afghanistan.
“With regards to the issue of Afghans, if the EU has an understanding of 'We give money, keep Afghans in the country,' there can be no such cooperation,” Çavuşoğlu said on Sept. 2.
The minister made the remarks while addressing a joint press conference along with his Dutch counterpart Sigrid Kaag in Ankara.
Çavuşoğlu said that the existing migration deal with the EU needs to be updated to cover many issues, “from the safe repatriation of Afghans, if Afghanistan's security and stability is maintained tomorrow, to the safe repatriation of Syrians.”
“If it [migration deal] is a problem for the EU, it is also a problem for Turkey. It is especially being used by racist fractions and the opposition to wear down the rulership [in Turkey]; in the end, it is a social, political problem. The EU needs to give up on simple formulas or understandings such as 'We would give you money and it would be solved,'” Çavuşoğlu said.
Çavuşoğlu said that it is not possible for Turkey to accommodate any Afghans should they be evacuated by a country from Afghanistan.
“It is not possible for Afghans to stay in our country for a specific period of time, should they be evaluated by a country. Even if such a proposal comes, we have been saying from the beginning that we will not accept it,” Çavuşoğlu said.
Çavuşoğu previously rejected claims that the United States and the U.K. would establish offshore asylum centers in Turkey for Afghan refugees.
The Turkish minister has been saying that “it is out of the question” for Turkey to take “an additional refugee burden.”
The events in Afghanistan have fuelled worries in the European Union of a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis, when nearly a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and beyond crossed to Greece from Turkey before traveling north to wealthier states.
To stem the flow of refugees, the EU reached an agreement with Turkey in 2016 for it to host Syrians fleeing the war in their country in return for billions of euros for refugee projects.
Taliban: Turkey, Qatar working to restart operations in Kabul airport
Meanwhile, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that Turkey and Qatar were working to restart operations in Kabul airport, BBC Turkish reported on Sept. 2.
In statements made during an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica, Mujahid said: "Qatar and Turkey are working to make the airport functioning again. Everything will be cleaned up in three days and rebuilt in the shortest time possible. I hope that the airport will start to function once again in September."
Following the withdrawal of western states from Afghanistan, the Taliban will now depend mainly on money from China, the spokesman said. “China is our most important partner and represents a fundamental and extraordinary opportunity for us, as it is ready to invest and rebuild our country,” he said.
A new government in Afghanistan will be formed soon, but it will not compromise female ministers, Mujahid also said, adding that women will be allowed to work in ministries, police forces and judiciary as assistance.
Qatar says working with Turkey to reopen Kabul airport
Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said on Sept 2 the Gulf state was talking with the Taliban and working with Turkey for potential technical support to restart operations in Kabul airport.
Sheikh Mohammed was speaking at a joint press conference with Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in Doha.
“We are engaging with them (Taliban), engaging also with Turkey if they can provide any technical assistance on that front. Hopefully in the next few days there will be some good news,” Sheikh Mohammed said.
“There is no clear indication when (the airport) is going to be fully operational yet…We remain hopeful that we will be able to operate it as soon as possible.”
The Taliban seized control of Kabul last month, but has not yet revealed how it intends to operate the Kabul airport.
Ankara said that last week's bombing at the airport underlined the need for a Turkish force to protect any experts deployed there.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey has not made a final decision about operating the airport because of security concerns and that his country was "not in a rush to start flights" again to Kabul.
"The Taliban have made a request regarding the operation of the Kabul airport. They say, 'We'll ensure security and you can operate it.' But we have not made a decision yet because there is always a possibility of death and such things there," Erdoğan said on Aug. 27.
Turkish pro-government journalist Hande Fırat wrote last week that the Turkish Airlines or a private company might take on the operation of the Kabul airport if the security issue is tackled.
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Holy Week—the days leading up to Easter Sunday—is upon us. Regardless of your religious affiliation, or lack thereof, it’s an opportune time to check out the six-part podcast Plague: The Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church.
A common narrative of the HIV epidemic casts the Catholic Church as a villain of the HIV and LGBT communities. Not only does the church condemn homosexual acts as an “intrinsic moral evil,” but it has also been vocal against the use of condoms. The conflict famously came to a head in 1989 when AIDS activist group ACT UP New York held a disruptive protest called “Stop the Church” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
But there’s more to this story, and journalist Michael J. O’Loughlin, who is gay and Catholic, uncovers nuanced and compassionate viewpoints by interviewing people who were there in the ’80s and ’90s, inlcuding priests, LGBT parishioners and ACT UP protesters. Available for free on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Spotify, the podcast is produced by the Jesuit journal America.
POZ recently interviewed O’Loughlin to get the stories behind the stories of Plague.
What’s your personal connection to the HIV epidemic, and how’d you first learn about it?
I’m gay and Catholic, and I’ve been reporting on the challenges that face LGBT people of faith for more than a decade. But because I’m too young to remember much about the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the United States, I was unaware that the Catholic Church was such a major player during that time. A priest friend told me about his own ministry to people with HIV and AIDS in the ’80s, which he said helped shape his welcoming attitude toward LGBT people in the church. I was curious and started to explore more, digging through archives and cold-calling people who worked in that space to learn more.
Because the church was so heavily invested in health care ministry in the United States, it meant there was a huge confrontation between the church and the LGBT community, with many LGBT Catholics figuring out how they fit into everything. I ended up interviewing dozens of people and collecting hundreds of hours of audio. The result is the podcast Plague, which explores complex issues such as faith, sexuality, politics, public health and more. [Editor’s note: Listen to the first episode below.]
As for me personally, it’s been an incredible honor to get to know so many LGBT Catholics a few decades older than me who have walked a similar road, albeit with different challenges, and who are willing to share their stories with me and our listeners.
To honor the people who have been so generous with their stories, I’ve actually signed up for the AIDS LifeCycle. [Editor’s note: The 545-mile bike trek slated for early June and stretching from San Francisco to Los Angeles has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though fundraising efforts continue.]
The church is well known for its charity work worldwide. Can you give us some examples of how the church cared for or supported the HIV/AIDS community?
There are the more well-known examples of how the church cared for people with HIV and AIDS during the height of the crisis, and we go into some of those in Plague. For example, we interview doctors, nurses, pastoral care providers and former patients at the now-closed St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York. This was a Catholic hospital run by the Sisters of Charity of New York that became a haven for the LGBT community in the ’80s and ’90s. Today its history is seen as inevitable, given that it was located in an area with lots of gay men, but as we show in the podcast, it was never guaranteed to turn out this way. The sisters had to step back and ask how they could do better after protesters pointed out that some gay patients had been subject to abuse and harassment from some of the hospital staff.
We also introduce listeners to some of the less well-known examples of the church providing care, such as in the fifth episode, which covers a Catholic sister from a small city in southern Illinois who moved to New York for six months to learn about HIV and AIDS care before returning home and opening one of the first AIDS drop-in centers in that part of the country. And the Catholic priest who came out as gay early in the 1980s as an act of solidarity with the people living with HIV and AIDS whom he ministered to in New York. There are lots of examples like this of quiet, heroic work undertaken away from the spotlight.
We conclude the series with interviews of Catholics ministering to people with HIV and AIDS in South Africa, the nation hardest hit by HIV today. The Catholic Church is one of the leading providers of HIV and AIDS care in the world today, but, as we found out through our reporting, many of the debates that raged in the United States in the ’80s and ’90s are still going on internationally today. And, of course, as nearly everyone I interviewed noted, none of this work serves as an excuse for the homophobia many people experienced at the hands of other Catholics.
One of the recurring themes is how Catholics who are LGBT or support LGBT causes try to reconcile their faith with the staunch antigay teachings of the church. What insight did you gain on this struggle?
Almost every LGBT Catholic I interviewed mentioned that they had at one point or another thought about leaving the church because of bad experiences with homophobia. But many of them also said that to leave a parish they loved felt like giving into institutional bullying. I asked some of the people I interviewed for advice about how they made it work, and the answers generally included some variation of “once you decide to stay, you have to stand firm.”
David Pais is featured in our first episode, in which he tells us what it was like to be gay, HIV positive and Catholic in the 1980s. He actually left the church for a while, but, as he put it, he eventually decided he was going to stay and fight.
Cliff Morrison, the nurse who set up the AIDS ward [Ward 5B] at San Francisco General Hospital, told me his Catholic faith was a huge support during the height of the HIV and AIDS crisis. (His story is featured in the fourth episode of Plague.) He was a parishioner at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro, and he said he struggled with the church’s stance on LGBT issues. But once he decided to stay, he stayed, and he actually helped revitalize the parish by going out into the gay community and inviting people in. He told me to rely on inner strength and to seek out allies in the church to talk to about my journey. That’s been hugely important to me—finding priests, sisters and laypeople who fully welcome the LGBT community into the church, not only tolerating us but celebrating and affirming our gifts.
Even today, there’s a lot of tension between the Catholic Church and HIV and LGBT advocates. You cover this a few times with regard to condoms and how some Catholic leaders found a way around the church’s stance against condoms. I particularly enjoyed the episode recounting an ACT UP protest at St. Vincent’s hospital I was unfamiliar with. However, to me, as a gay man in the United States, the condom issue pales in comparison to the church basically condemning homosexual acts as “intrinsically evil” and fighting (financially and otherwise) against marriage equality and for the right to discriminate against LGBT people, even today in 2020. What would you say to someone who views this podcast as an apologia for, or defense of, the church? I mean, it was interesting to learn in your podcast that New York Archbishop John O’Connor ministered, privately, to people dying from AIDS-related illness in the 1980s, but I suspect that anecdote would not change the minds of many New Yorkers from that time period who considered him an enemy of LGBT equality and HIV education and safe sex.
I can see why someone might make that critique, but I would encourage them to listen to the whole series. We sought to give voice to the people who lived, worked and grieved their way through the height of the HIV and AIDS crisis. Rather than tell people what to make of this history, we invite them to hear the stories of the people we interviewed—people living with HIV, people who lost loved ones to AIDS, people who protested the Catholic Church, people still recovering from experiences of homophobia—and draw their own conclusions.
I’ve heard from hundreds of listeners. Some have said they didn’t realize the church did so much in health care but added they don’t think that running hospitals excuses the homophobia that was present in the church at the time. One takeaway for me in making this series is the realization that many things can be true at once. There were intensely homophobic Catholics in the ’80s and ’90s, there were incredibly caring Catholics who did the right things during the height of the crisis and there were lots of LGBT Catholics struggling to make sense of it all. As for the church’s opposition today to things such as same-sex marriage and some nondiscrimination laws, we didn’t get into those issues in the podcast because we were focused on this unique period in our history. But I hope listeners will hear the very real debate still going on within the church about these issues.
On a lighter note, I was fascinated to learn about the patron saint of HIV/AIDS, St. Aloysius Gonzaga. I’m not a Catholic (I was raised Southern Baptist but am no longer practicing), so could you give some context as to whether having a patron saint of HIV/AIDS is a big deal and how it can be helpful to church members?
Basically, it depends. For many of the Catholics affected by HIV and AIDS whom I interviewed, having St. Aloysius Gonzaga as their patron saint was a sign that they weren’t alone in the church, that others empathized with what they were experiencing. The artwork depicting Aloysius, much of it created by Father Bill McNichols, whom we profile in episode three of Plague, helped bring awareness to the HIV and AIDS crisis. And on a spiritual level, some Catholics affected by HIV and AIDS truly felt they had a friend and advocate in the saint.
Why is it important to document the topics covered in Plague?
Sometimes because of the rapid advancement of LGBT civil rights in recent years, the issue of how LGBT people relate to the Catholic Church feels new. This can feel overwhelming at times because there isn’t a road map about how to handle things like being out in the church or getting married as a gay Catholic. So getting to know older LGBT Catholics has been hugely important because they have insight to share and stories to tell. And because it’s been about three decades since the start of the HIV and AIDS crisis, we risk losing those stories if we don’t capture them now. During the three years I spent researching the podcast, some of the people I sought to interview actually passed away, showing me the urgency we have in capturing these stories now.
What were you surprised to learn as you worked on this project?
Many things! But two things come to mind right now. First, the amount of work Catholics undertook in areas far away from the gay hubs on the coasts. For example, a group of Catholic sisters set up an organization to help people with HIV and AIDS navigate health care and housing challenges in Louisville, Kentucky, and another sister opened a drop-in clinic in Belleville, Illinois. And there are many more stories like that. Second, I was surprised to learn how out and proud many LGBT Catholics were in the ’70s and ’80s. This can be a taboo in many Catholic communities today, in 2020, so I was surprised at how vocal some LGBT Catholics were back then. In fact, a number of people told me they thought it was actually easier to be LGBT and Catholic 30 years ago.
What other feedback have you heard about the podcast, notably from the HIV community and from the Catholic community?
The reaction has truly been overwhelming. We got a great review from The New York Times and were featured on NPR. But most meaningful to me are the hundreds of emails, voice mails and messages on social media I’ve received from listeners. Many people want to share their own stories from the height of the HIV and AIDS crisis. More than a few have said no one has asked them about this traumatic period in their lives and they feel appreciative that they finally were given an outlet. That meant a lot to me because I feel like we owe the people who lived through this the chance to share what they learned or even to grieve anew. Some listeners have said they wish the church would teach more about this part of its history; others have said we painted too rosy a picture of how the church acted at this time. But mostly, people have expressed appreciation that the bulk of the podcast is people telling their own stories, which we did intentionally so that listeners can make up their own minds about what happened.
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Does your house ever smell weird, with no indication of where the smell is coming from or what’s causing it? There can be many reasons for this.
Some smells are harmless, and just mean that something that shouldn’t be there has been ignored for too long. Other smells, however, could be dangerous, and may require professional cleanup, but these smells are fairly rare and often come with many other signs of danger.
If your house has been smelling especially funky these days, here are three possible reasons, and how to take care of the problem.
Mold—And How To Remove The Smell
Mold is quite common if you live in an area with high humidity, or your house has incurred water damage recently. Odor resulting from mold is usually musty, and even though it’s harmless in the beginning, it could pose health risks if left to grow for too long.
To remove mold, inspect your house for any damp areas that could encourage its growth. Once you’ve found all the areas, you can use simple household detergents with water to scrub it all off. Avoid using bleach as that will only kill mold spores that are alive, and not the spores. Once you’re done cleaning, dry the area properly and neutralize any humidity.
Tobacco—And How To Make Your House Smell Fresher
If someone in your house has been secretly smoking, household items will soon start smelling of tobacco because of the substance sticking to their surfaces. Cigarette smoke can penetrate carpets, bedding, and even your HVAC system, making your house reek of smoke, which poses health risks, especially for younger children.
To remove cigarette odors, start by opening all your windows and let the air out. Next, clean out or replace your filters, including air filters and AC filters. You can clean your walls using ammonia and glycol and seal them with a fresh coat of paint.
Pet Urine—How To Make It Go Away
If you have a pet that isn’t trained yet, getting rid of urine odor is probably a constant problem. Removing pet urine odor from nonporous surfaces like metal and plastic is easy, and your household detergent will be enough for that.
However, if your pet has peed on your carpet or sofa, it may be best to call in a professional cleaning company.
If you live in Scarborough, ME, our team can come in and make sure your house is squeaky clean and smelling fresh. We specialize in pet stain and odor removal, mold remediation, and water damage restoration. If you have any queries or questions, contact us here.
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Is It An Invention? First things first. You can not patent an idea simply because you feel you are the first person to come up with it. A patent is there to protect an ‘invention’, not simply an understanding. When you apply for a patent what you’re doing is specifying, through text and drawings, the way your invention works. In exchange for this public release of How Do You Patent An Idea With Inventhelp, if it really is new the state will grant you exclusive rights to it for 25 years. Therefore so that you can patent your idea, its core concept needs to be explainable in simple and direct terms.
Another reason you can’t just patent a concept is that it must involve a novel and inventive step. The novel bit is easy but a standard misconception is the fact lots of people think they are able to obtain a patent because they are the very first person to come up with the idea. However when you take a seat for your first meeting having a patent attorney one of the first things they may wish to establish is if your invention is really an invention. It really is vital that you understand this, so you don’t spend time looking into patenting something that is just not patentable. A very simple explanation of the ‘obviousness’ test is just as follows: Would a hypothetical skilled person, that knows everything but does not have the slightest spark of inventive ingenuity, think of the identical idea when they knew all of the prior art (all previous ideas), but had not read your patent application? If the correct answer is yes in that case your idea is not really an invention, its simply the logical implementation of current day knowledge to an alternative problem and therefore you can’t patent it.
This is a good description in more legal relation to the EU method of judging inventiveness (the UK is slightly different): Can there be any teaching in the prior art, in general, that would, not merely could, have prompted the skilled person, faced with the goal technical problem formulated when contemplating the technical features not disclosed from the closest prior art, to change or adapt said closest prior art while taking account of this teaching [the teaching of the prior art, not simply the teaching in the closest prior art], thereby arriving at something falling in the relation to the claims, and so achieving exactly what the invention achieves? It’s the “would, not simply could” which is the important definition here.
The Usa is a bit different to Europe and this inventiveness step is regularly not properly tested or applied, resulting in many patents being granted in the united states that are actually very obvious logical implementation of existing ideas. Most companies have spent huge sums of money attempting to overturn such patents but although a granted US patent can be overturned its is very rare that a person is. In lots of ways the usa patent product is more akin to what lots of people assume about patents right here, if your the very first person think of an idea then you could patent it. The most obvious downside is that numerous bad patents have been unfairly granted and also have unfairly blocked numerous others from having the ability to produce products that must not have been protected by patents to start with.
Commercial Value – If you’ve reached here then hopefully you have Free Invention Help which may be patentable. The following tests tend to be completely overlooked at the outset but they are also really important. The first and most important is the thing that will a successful granting of the patent do for you personally? Patents cost money. Sure you can search and file yourself nonetheless its incredibly time intensive and just like all things legal attracting a specialist, as a patent attorney, is normally a far greater route. Carrying out the searches and filing your patent application with an attorney will surely cost a couple of thousand pounds. Afterwards you have a relatively short time period before you must decide if you are planning to submit the patent in other countries all over the world, which costs more money and if you are filing in plenty of countries the translations may become very costly. Once you’ve got your patent afterwards you have ongoing costs every year to patent offices to help keep the patent active. So whatever it is your looking to patent has got to be worth this coming from a commercial business perspective (if you are put off by the very thought of being forced to spend several thousand pounds using a patent attorney is what your doing really worth patenting at all?).
Many individuals and corporations apply for patents to get the IP, in order to then attract investors to assist them place their invention forward. If you’ve watched a couple of episodes of Dragon’s Den on the TV then it must have become very obvious that investors usually do not take wild risks and if you would like someone to invest in your company or idea they have to feel secure by doing this. In case you have a patent for recommended which can be commercialised it is going to often provide exactly this protection for the investor so you are a stage even closer to getting them to part with that important cash (you’ll probably have also noticed that although investors are sometimes not very nice people they have an inclination to only desire to work with nice people!).
Another misconception is the fact when you have a patent no-one else can copy your idea. Well although legally they can’t, the State won’t actually stop them. If someone infringes on your patent it really is right down to one to stop them, typically by spending large sums of money with lawyers and using the courts. If the infringer is really a large company, or several companies infringe your patent you have to be in a position to fund the legal action. If your invention is commercial enough then these legal steps will not be a problem as you’ll find the money, win the truth and eventually get a lot of it back. However, if your fighting a large company which has many money to string from the court action for some time will it be actually worthwhile? Is definitely the idea your seeking to patent commercial enough to justify this.
There are many smaller companies available that view patenting as a complete waste of money and time and choose to direct their resources, attention and funds at being the first to market and first to innovate. In the event you be one of them as opposed to spending what could be lots of your time and money protecting your idea?
You may be trying to patent your invention to then license it to a different company to produce. For twelve months from filing your patent you may have international patent protection and you need to make use of the first 10 months of the to make certain your idea can be commercialised before having to make a decision on which other countries also to apply in and giving your attorney monthly or two to undertake the essential work. You need to move bloody fast! In case you are approaching big companies they are going to often take several months to return to you before you could even demonstrate to them the invention and begin negotiations. If your carrying this out 6 – 8 months in its too late as they know you might have virtually no time and definately will often play for time to force you right into a bad business position, or just in the hope you wont complete the patent if the twelve months is up. Whilst you can’t tell anyone about your invention prior to deciding to file you patent application you can get round this by asking companies (including us) to sign non disclosure agreements and begin work on the growth and development of your products or services ahead of time so you hit the ground running the second the application is filed.
In the event the above hasn’t place you off maybe you do have that elusive brilliant idea. Book a consultation using a patent attorney (a bit of good attorney should provide you with a first appointment free of charge) and get cracking! For more information there are lots of great web resources on filing patents which we won’t attempt to re-create here.
A couple of patent help tips – When researching an invention you’ll often need to go through existing patent applications to make sure your idea is totally new. Patents could be many pages long and horribly worded, but generally its merely the first primary claim in a patent that is certainly critically important. The rest will simply be lesser claims the patent can fall to should the higher claims ever be overturned or rejected by the patent examiner.
Where there could be ambiguity in a claim the patent description has the ability influence the claims and might therefore happen to be deliberately written therefore, so look through the description to see if it attempts to provide this.
Patent claims are certainly not exclusive. Because a claim describes just one way of doing something doesn’t imply that it couldn’t be performed differently.
Patents incorporate a detailed description which can be generally intended to produce an explanation / instructions of how the invention could be utilised. Bear in mind that this only has to cover one specific utilization of the invention and doesn’t exclude the claims being utilized in alternative methods.
Claims generally relate to an Apparatus (equipment designed or assembled for a particular purpose) or even a Method (a means of performing something), and quite often patents include both using the intention that the method claims may be fallen back on if the apparatus claims be rejected.
Interestingly one of the aims of patents is to promote Inventhelp Patent Referral Services. Whilst blocking other businesses from copying ideas may seem to perform the actual opposite, the natural reaction when confronted with a patent it to try to work around it. We’ve dealt with several companies and done exactly this, having been briefed with a product they want to produce as well as the existing patent seeming to bar it. There exists typically a way round a patent but the aim is to try to do it in a way that leaves you having a commercial product which still serves its purpose in an affordable way (great patents block this by protecting against each of the economical ways of achieving the same).
Filing a patent application doesn’t suggest that any searching will likely be done. All that happens is definitely the application is filed and given the once over. It can then be examined in depth by way of a patent examiner but even when the patent is awarded it may be overturned at any time if prior art could be proved. If you wish the application to have a level of commercial value (should your carrying it out for IP purposes) you should also do a search. However even so bear in mind that searches are not necessarily as skilled as you may expect and patent office searches will not necessarily search anything apart from previous published patent applications and filings. Should you be just filing in the united kingdom then a UK patent office search will needless to say be the greatest route, but if you plan to submit internationally be aware that searches performed for EU or international applications are frequently significantly more detailed and thorough. The reason is that you will find much more EU patent examiners which is likely to mean that individual examiners have the ability to be considerably more knowledgeable within their specialised areas. It is possible to elbgql for 3rd party searches but whilst these are often extremely expensive (£1000 and upwards) they are certainly not necessarily superior to the search great britain patent office provides except if you spend a lot of cash (the expense of the united kingdom search is subsidised). The one thing to always remember about searches is the fact that its very difficult to quantify searching result. Simply because searching didn’t find prior art doesn’t mean that a different search won’t.
There is not any point giving the patent attorney excessive information. They have to write the patent using their experience and knowledge, not from your bad attempt. Here’s what ought to be ideally provided:-
* Drawings and descriptions of the drawings to have the idea across.
* The main advantages of the invention.
* Modifications which are easy to the invention.
* Crucial points and optional points.
* Don’t include plenty of existing patents – they’ll simply have to read them which will therefore cost more. A couple of might be helpful though.
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Children and Teeth Whitening Treatment - Is It Worth the Risk?
In the summer of 2007, US
Weekly reported that Britney Spears had asked a Los Angeles-area dentist to
whiten her toddler son's teeth. Her child, Sean Preston, was almost two years
old at the time.
The magazine claimed that the dentist Spears consulted refused to perform treatment on the child, and then berated the star for feeding her children junk food and sugary drinks.
Professional Teeth Whitening in Children - Is It Safe?
According to policy
guidelines developed by the American Association of Pediatric Dentistry, the
majority of testing to gauge the safety of teeth bleaching has been done on
adults, not children or teenagers. However, the AAPD encourages:
1. The judicious use of bleaching for vital and non-vital teeth
2. Patients to consult their dentists to determine appropriate methods for and the timing of dental whitening within the context of an individualized, comprehensive, and sequenced treatment plan
3. Dental professionals and consumers to consider side effects when contemplating dental bleaching for child and adolescent patients
4. Further research of dental whitening agents in children
- Policy on Dental Bleaching for Child and Adolescent Patients, American Society of Pediatric Dentistry, 2004
Consult an Expert
in having their child's teeth professionally whitened should always consult a
qualified dentist prior to treatment; a dentist can examine your child's teeth
and gums to determine whether teeth
whitening will cause increased sensitivity or permanent damage.
Parents should know that it is normal for children's baby teeth to be whiter than their adult teeth, though some parents and children may find the discoloration to be embarrassing. It is important to remember that the difference in color should no longer be noticeable once all baby teeth have been lost.
Over-the-Counter Teeth Whitening and Children
teeth whitening systems are not recommend for use on children under the age
of 12. These systems include whitening strips, pens, and gels with mouth guards.
However, many whitening toothpastes, mouth rinses, flosses, and gums can be used by children. Be sure to check each whitening product's label to determine whether it is appropriate for use on children.
Help Your Child Maintain Healthy, White Teeth
Rather than focusing
on quick teeth whitening treatments that could cause damage to your child's
teeth, you may want to consider making some changes to you and your child's
eating habits to prevent teeth from becoming yellowed or stained.
Foods and drinks you and your child should avoid:
- Sugary fruit drinks
- Candy and other junk food
- Soy sauce
- Balsamic vinegar
- Cranberry juice
- Dark grape juice
- Tomato sauce
To promote good oral health, make sure your child brushes and flosses his or her teeth on a regular basis. Use toothpastes and mouthwashes with fluoride to prevent tooth decay and cavities. And don't forget to schedule dental exams for your child every six months.
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Today’s Essential Reads
Hydraulic fracturing’s impact on aquifers, land use and air pollution is a legitimate public concern, said the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fuel Fix reports.
A Pennsylvania-based watchdog/tracking agency for hydraulic fracturing is coming to Ohio.
Despite ongoing protests in hopes to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York, CBS reports the state is about to green-light the controversial practice. An announcement detailing the plan’s regulations is expected soon.
Hydraulic fracking: The process for extracting natural gas, oil, methane and other minerals and liquids from the earth, by drilling a hole inserting a pipe and encasing the pipe with cement anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 feet under the earth’s surface, injecting water, sand and chemicals under high pressure, thus fracturing the shale deposit and freeing whatever is present. The gas or liquids are supposed to go to the surface through the drill hole. However when the gas and other substances are released, they tend to take the path of least resistance to the surface, not always using the drilled hole to get to the surface, and not always getting to the surface. Sometimes the chemicals used in the fracking process are going into aquifers, thus polluting the aquifer.
BP OIL SPILL:
In a letter to the Coast Guard, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., says she appreciates “the practical need to wind down response activities” to the 2010 BP oil spill. But there’s still more work to be done, and the Coast Guard needs to keep the pressure on BP, according to Landrieu. Much of Louisiana’s coast is inaccessible, Landrieu said, making it vital that the state ensure that all the oil has been removed before putting an end to monitoring efforts.
The secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recalled, for the Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association at their annual conference in Chalmette last week, that all those cheery TV spots left the impression that everything was beautiful, and the communities along the Gulf of Mexico had recovered nicely during the couple years since the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon accident. The accident killed 11, injured 17 and released about 200 million gallons of crude oil off the coast of Louisiana.
Commissioners from most of Florida’s Gulf Coast counties meet in Panama City Beach on Aug. 16 to discuss creating a consortium to vote on how to spend oil spill fine money.
Government regulators issued a final set of safety rules for offshore drilling Wednesday, fine-tuning a series of emergency measures put in place after the BP oil spill in 2010.
During last year’s nuclear disaster, the deadly radiation inside Fukushima 1 became one with the surrounding environment contaminating everything. Things aren’t getting any better. Record quantities of the deadly radioactive isotope cesium-137 have just been discovered in the fisheries around Fukushima.
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Mass Culture has partnered with Ryerson University on a research project to map arts service organizations across Canada as cultural research conduits. Watch this introductory video to better understand the purpose of this project:
Your answers will seed future activity with Mass Culture, and will also assist in building a culture map with the Ryerson researchers. Please note: only 1 representative per organization should take the survey.
Take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/masscultureryerson
ABOUT MASS CULTURE
Mass Culture is an organization that strives to support artists, arts organizations and academic institutions across the country. The intent is to form a network of stakeholders, which, through research, will address cultural research issues at organizational, sectoral, and governmental levels.
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We like to ridicule campus snowflakes. They need their safe spaces. They need their trigger warnings. They need their chill zones with nap mats and beanbag chairs.
The public thinks of them as a bunch of feminized, whining losers. The public is correct. They are.
The problem is this: the American economy is becoming a snowflake economy. Major sectors of the economy are becoming safe spaces that are protected by law. These are reduced-competition zones. They are licensed by bureaucrats and protected by bureaucrats.
This is not a recent development. It began no later than 1901, when Teddy Roosevelt became President. The essence of the Progressive movement was always the creation of a regulatory state which became more and more bureaucratic over time. This development began Europe in the late 19th century, so Europe has a head start on the United States. The essence of the modern regulatory state is the substitution of bureaucracy for free market competition. In the name of protecting consumers, unelected, tenured bureaucrats create protected areas of life throughout the economy. Bureaucrats reconstruct society in their own image.
The essence of the process is the public school system. It has been bureaucratic from the beginning. From top to bottom, it is staffed by bureaucrats who seek and gain tenure. Tenure is the heart, mind, and soul of the snowflake society. Laws force almost the entire population to go into a massive bureaucracy to be trained, beginning no later than the age of six, and continuing through graduate school. Career success hinges on people's ability to tolerate enormous boredom in the classroom, and then pass specialized examinations in order to enter their chosen professions. Almost 30% of America's professions require examinations and licensing in order to enter them. Everybody wants protection. Everybody wants a safe space. Bureaucrats promise this, and voters believe them.
THE COMPLACENT CLASS
Tyler Cowan's latest book, The Complacent Class, is one of the most important books in decades. It is well written, under 200 pages, and irrefutable.
He is a free market economist who teaches at George Mason University, a semi-Austrian department. He is a big fan of entrepreneurship. He shows that it is declining in the United States. New business formation is one indicator. Innovation is declining outside of Moore's law areas of the economy. Economic growth is declining.
I have my theory of the main culprits: relentless regulation including licensing, Nixon's destruction of the gold-exchange standard, and federal deficits. This does not hurt the book. These are politically irreversible, given the present political order. What is important is the trend, which appears irreversible.
In every area of our lives except digital technologies, we are dependent on the state to protect us. He understands that this is what ultimately lies behind the process. Voters use the government to create zones of immunity from competition. Then, lo and behold, there is less competition. This has been going on since the rise of the Progressive movement and the triumph of the Progressives under Teddy Roosevelt in 1901. He doesn't mention this, but it ought to be obvious.
I think it really goes back to the rise of copyright and patents in the 18th century. These are both interventions by the government into the economy. But there is a lot of debate about this within free-market circles, and we've certainly had a lot of economic growth under copyright and patents.
PROTECTING THE INCUMBENTS
While he did not mention this, there is a parallel in political life. There has been a bipartisan move at the state level to make certain that congressional districts are locked in by political incumbents. There are changes in districts in response to the census every 10 years. Each party uses gerrymandering techniques to make certain that congressional districts are safe. Parties on the losing side every 10 years have support in Congress from political incumbents. The survivors have their districts made even safer. There are fewer districts for one of the parties, but the ones that remain are safe for another decade, and the incumbents appreciate this. This is why there is not a hue and cry every 10 years in Congress when states re-district congressional districts.
It is virtually impossible to replace an incumbent Congressman prior to the next census and redistricting. When that comes, it is decided by state legislatures, not by Congress. So, politically speaking, Congress is immune to political opposition. Congress can do whatever it wants, and there will not be political repercussions at the next election. Things change only at the margin.
The public was overwhelmingly opposed in October 2008 to the $700 billion TARP bailout. That did not stop Congress from passing it.
This redistricting plan was never foreseen by members of the Constitutional convention, but Elbridge Gerry figured it out in 1812. Gerry had been a member of the Convention. He was one of the three men who refused to sign it at the end of the Convention, because he thought it needed a Bill of Rights. Here is a classic case of the law of unintended consequences. The Convention did not see the rise of political parties, which was by far the most important single development of the Constitution. Members of the Convention hated political parties, and yet they created them as a result of the Constitution.
What state governments do for congressional districts every ten years is what virtually every aspect of government does in every aspect of life that it regulates, which is just about everything. Every group wants protection from competition. Every group appeals to the civil government to provide this protection. It is all done in the name of protecting the consumer. It in fact protects the producers. The process is now relentless.
One of the trends that he discusses is one which I have discussed for years. At the national level, I regard it as the most important political development. The most important development is nonpolitical, namely, the expansion of federal regulation, as revealed in the Federal Register. This is completely beyond politics. It cannot be solved by politics. It is truly irreversible. It is a worldwide phenomenon, and it is sapping the Western legal tradition. But what about politics? What is the primary trend there?
The primary trend is the expansion of the nondiscretionary budget. These expenditures are built into previous legislation. The main ones are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Pentagon's budget, and interest payments on the federal debt. There are others, but they are smaller programs that are not listed in the breakdown that we read on Wikipedia or anywhere else.
According to Cowan, in 1962, two thirds of the budget at the federal level was discretionary. He says that the present percentage is approximately 20%. But, most important in the book, he said that in 2022, it will be down to 10%.
This means that, even if the Democrats come in with a majority in both houses of Congress and the presidency in 2022, the way they came in 2009 for one term, they will not be able to start any new federal program. It will not be politically possible.
I think it is likely that by 2030, the discretionary portions of the budget will disappear. This means that politics will be all sound and fury, signifying almost nothing. It will be about who is appointed to the Supreme Court. It will have to do with issues of free speech and rights of non-cooperation. It will be all hat and no cattle.
I do not think Trump will be impeached and convicted in this term of Congress. The Republicans obviously can block this. They control the House and the Senate. It would take a political upheaval in 2018 for the House to go back to the Democrats. It would not take an upheaval for the Senate to go back to the Democrats. But that gives the country two more years before the first President in American history will ever be impeached and convicted. Frankly, I don't think it's going to happen. I think the media will undermine the presidency, 24×7, until Trump leaves office. The media are undermining public confidence in the Presidency, which is altogether a good thing. We haven't had a principled defender of limited central government as President ever since Grover Cleveland left office in 1897. When something doesn't work as planned for over 120 years, it is fair to conclude that it was poorly designed.
Even if the Republicans lose the House and the Senate, they will not lose the vice presidency. Mike Pence is far more conservative than Trump is. If Pence becomes President, the media will back off. They will have driven Trump out of office. To continue to attack Pence in the same way would be to admit that getting Trump out of office was politically meaningless. The media will want to make certain that he is not elected President in 2020, but they will not go out of its way to vilify him personally. A recession will play into their hands.
All the Republicans have to do over the next three years is nothing. I think that is pretty much all they will do. I don't think they're going to roll back ObamaCare. I don't think they're going to roll back Obama's tax system. I think Trump has been politically neutered. There is not going to be any wall with Mexico. Tariffs are not going to change much. Nothing is going to change much.
He may get his tax reductions through Congress. It is a long shot, but it is conceivable that he can do this. That will increase the federal deficit. But the federal deficit is going to go through the ceiling, which is fake anyway, due to the recession. We are going to see unprecedented federal deficits in the next recession. We're going to see falling interest rates on Treasury debt. Treasury bonds will rise in price. This will encourage a massive transfer of capital to the federal government. That will reinforce what Tyler Cowan is talking about in his book. It will strip the American economy of investment.
THE GREAT DEFAULT
We are headed relentlessly toward the Great Default. The unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare are relentlessly transforming the federal budget into a nondiscretionary fiscal sinkhole. Politically, nothing can reverse this. Nothing that happens in Washington is going to change the direction in which we are headed. Cowan talks about the relentless increase in spending on Social Security and Medicare. These two gargantuan welfare state monsters are going to get much bigger. He sees this. He does not think there is anything that can be done to reverse this.
I think the political system is being gerrymandered by the nondiscretionary components of the federal budget. Congress is running out of elbow room. Nobody in Congress is going to vote against increases in Social Security and Medicare. It is clear by now that nobody is going to vote against the Pentagon's share of the budget. Nobody is going to run for federal office in 2018 on a political platform of cutting the Pentagon's budget in half.
Nobody in Washington talks about what is statistically obvious, namely, that there is no way to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. There is bipartisan acceptance of the federal deficit. There is no political movement capable of rolling back the federal deficit. The Tea Party has come and gone. It would never take a stand against Social Security and Medicare, which meant that it was politically irrelevant from day one.
By the time the Democrats can get back into the White House in 2022, it will be too late for the incoming President to have any effect on federal spending. Yet politics is all about special-interest groups getting their hands into the federal till. Political promises are made to these special-interest groups, but the absence of discretionary components in the federal debt will prevent almost all of these promises from being fulfilled. For all intents and purposes, national politics will be decided in terms of debates over social issues that have no budgetary consequences. All the rest of politics will simply be political rhetoric: sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Americans have become snowflakes. They have done everything they could to get governments to create barriers against competition. This is seriously reducing American innovation. It is undermining American character.
The economic pie is not growing as fast as it did in the past. Meanwhile, population is growing. Young adults who are coming into the economy are going to find that America is becoming more like Europe. The economic system is being rigged against the campus snowflakes. Older people who have jobs are going to protect these jobs through government. The snowflakes coming out of the college system are going to be melted early. They are not going to have any safe spaces, because their parents have politically gerrymandered the economy. They are going to find it hard to break into this economy. Robots will be competing against them. Algorithms will be competing against them. Their third-rate educations will do them little good. Their bachelor degrees in sociology will let them get entry-level jobs. Not very many of them will move up the career ladder. If they did not major in engineering, they will find economic success elusive.
We have seen all this in Spain, Italy, and Greece. It is the European disease, especially in southern Europe. The United States has been relatively immune, but I think Cowan is correct. The complacent class is in charge of both politics and economics, and the days of American innovation are slowing. We are importing the European disease. We have been doing this systematically since the early 1970's.
The Great Default is going to change this. There is no way to fund Social Security and Medicare. The unfunded liabilities of the two programs will overwhelm the federal budget. The federal government will have to cut the expenditures. This means cutting off granny. The only way to delay this is to slaughter a lot of sacred federal cows. This will overturn the New Deal's legacy. But it will take a political upheaval before the straitjacket of the federal welfare state is finally ripped to shreds. The Great Default is going to overturn American politics and the American regulatory state. I am optimistic about the long-run effects of the Great Default. But between now and then, the federal straitjacket will be tightened by the federal bureaucracy. There will be 80,000+ pages in the Federal Register every year.
The welfare state works only as long as the government can get its hands on other people's money. There are serious limits politically on the ability of the federal government collect taxes from the public. That limit is about 20% of GNP. The increase in nondiscretionary spending in the federal budget is going to place the welfare state in a straitjacket. This is good news in general. There is no way that America can grow its way out of the straitjacket. But the straitjacket is limited by the enforcement of federal laws, and without money for enforcement, Americans are going to get out of the federal straitjacket. I won't live long enough to see it, but maybe you will.
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Your body is a habitat, a complex ecosystem, housing a vast and expansive myriad of tiny residents. In fact, each of us plays host to a hundred trillion non-human micro-organisms. They outnumber our human cells 10 to 1. These creatures inhabit our body and live in distinct communities with a variety of different environments. Some species live on our skin, some live in our mouths, and the biggest population lives inside our gut. Many health coaching clients may be confused or even unaware that this complex ecosystem exists within them and just how big of a role the gut plays in their overall health.
As Functional Health Coaches, we educate clients on the “gut microbiome” – the colony of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in our digestive tract. This virtual menagerie of microbes can have a huge impact on your client’s immune system, digestion, hormones and mood. Conversely, their lifestyle also has a major impact on the microbes. Everything from the food they eat to the way they think has influenced the creatures that take up residence in their gut and it’s important to help them understand as much as they can about these residents.
What are gut bugs?
The diverse population of residents living inside the intestine is often referred to as the “gut flora” or gut microbiota. It is comprised of at least 1000 different species. It is believed that about one third of the microbes are common across the board in most people. The remaining two-thirds are completely unique to each individual. The leaders of this microbial metropolis are known as the “essential flora.” They keep the peace by controlling unfriendly and unproductive members of the bacterial community, while also performing some very important functions necessary for human health.
In the microbiome, there are “good bugs” and “bad bugs “that determine how we feel physically and emotionally. Numerous things affect which ones survive.
Many of the complexities of the gut microbiome still remain a mystery. But we have been able to identify some key roles that gut flora plays in our health. We also have seen how these microbes interact with one another.
What causes dysbiosis?
“Dysbiosis” is a term used to describe a maladaptation or imbalance inside the body, furthermore, “gut dysbiosis” occurs when there is an imbalance in the number and diversity of your gut microflora. Essentially, the bad bugs start to outnumber the good. This can impact your client’s health in various ways and can cause them to develop gut related issues such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowl Syndrome and Diabetes, just to name a few.
There are many possible factors that could be contributing to your client’s gut dysbiosis:
- Overuse of Antibiotics
- Exposure to Chemicals
How can you help your clients with their gut bugs?
Don’t Feed the Animals
In this case, we are talking about the less civilized, bad bacteria. These less beneficial flora thrive with a diet high in sugar, certain fats, and processed food. As a result, they can cause gas, discomfort, bloating, and inflammation. This flora can also emit chemicals that compromise the intestinal lining. By motivating your clients to cut sweets and processed foods out of their diet, this makes it easier for their friendly flora to keep the bad seeds in line.
Curtail Killing Sprees
As a Functional Health Coach, you should encourage to avoid overuse of antibiotic medications and antibacterial products. These kill bacteria, but do not differentiate between the good and the bad. With continued use, they may kill off enough of the good guys to allow the bad bacteria to take over.
Probiotic that is. The good bacteria in fermented foods and supplements can bolster the number of friendly bacteria in the gut. Bifidobacteria, found in most yogurt and kefir, release chemicals that create an acidic environment. It is this environment in which many harmful bacteria can’t thrive. For those clients with dairy allergies or intolerances, fermented vegetables like pickles or coconut kefir can be good options. However, fermented foods are not the best choice for everyone. Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® takes a personalized approach with each individual to ensure they receive the unique guidance necessary.
Feed your Flora
Prebiotics, which contain non-digestible carbohydrates which are found in onions, garlic, leeks, artichokes, asparagus, and chicory root nourish the essential gut flora. Regular intake has been associated with decreases in irritable bowel syndrome and fat storage. Well-fed friendly flora are able to perform their jobs better and tend to increase your client’s overall feeling of well-being
Stress may change the makeup of your gut flora according to a 2011 study. The study reported that stressed-out mice experienced a significant plunge in beneficial bacteria. They also experienced an increase of inflammatory chemicals in the blood. Chronic stress also appears to alter the functioning of the immune system. It does this by suppressing its response to foreign invaders. For the good of your client’s gut, recommend they take measures to eliminate both internal and external stressors.
Looking Beyond the Microbiome
Although the severity of the effect of “bad bugs” can range between individuals. The best way to ensure your clients are at a lower risk of susceptibility to the more harmful pests is by coaching up their overall health. The idea most health coaches have is that if you find a bug, you found the problem. Unfortunately, although the bug is a problem, it’s not the original problem. The fact that it exists means your client is not healthy enough to ward off or defend themselves from the bug which points to other issues.
It all comes down to lowering risk and there are ways to assess and address this. As a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, you will have access to the functional lab training, data-driven protocols and tools you need to understand all the areas where attention should be focused. Hidden stressors or malfunction in any area, left unchecked or not corrected in the body, will cascade downstream into other areas and create problems, such as bugs. By using tools like functional lab tests to identify healing opportunities, FDN® provides the keys to help your clients get well and stay well, naturally – and get rid of those “bad bugs” for good.
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“The Art of Learning” by Josh Waitzkin has a chapter called “Making Smaller Circles,” in which Waitzkin argues for the importance of drilling the fundamentals of a practice over and over again to increase potency and efficacy. He gives examples from the martial arts and chess, but you can apply this notion to any area of interest.
The way I apply the concept of “making smaller circles” in my life is to focus on decreasing the complexity of my form of expression while increasing the potency of the expression.
A simpler way to put it is that I focus on economy of expression, which, to me, comprises the elements of style (including elegance), tone and effectiveness. It’s akin to minimalism: Minimal effort for maximum effect.
Another way to approach economy of expression is to think about “phrasing,” or how an idea is expressed.
This applies to various modes of expression, of which there are many. I like to focus on physical movement, writing, art and music as my modalities.
In the mode of physical movement, I’ll offer the same example as Waitzkin does in his chapter of “Making Smaller Circles”: a jab. If you practice the fundamentals of a jab–a type of punch coming from your lead arm–you will eventually know the body mechanics of the movement through the way it feels. Keep practicing the mechanics, and you will eventually throw a jab naturally, without your mind getting in the way, as Waitzkin says. A jab embodies economy of expression because it is a basic boxing/martial arts movement that becomes potent with the work that you put into repeating the fundamentals of the movement. You can watch a top-notch boxer to see the elegant power in a jab.
In the mode of writing, economy of expression is the communication of complex ideas via a minimal amount of words. It’s wonderful to know a lot of words, but to choose words with precision is more effective than throwing a lot of big words together to show that you know what they mean. This is why Ernest Hemingway is regarded as a great writer: He practiced economy of expression. To tie it back to physical movement, it’s like having a high power-to-weight ratio: high density of thought expressed through few words.
In the mode of art, while there are artists whose work I admire because of they way they capture visual intricacies (for instance, Tiepolo), in my own artwork, I focus on minimalist contours and shading, using only one pen to do the work. I’m fascinated by how much you can express–a reality, an idea, beauty–through economy of expression. (See my designs at Society6 and RedBubble.)
In the mode of music, I love listening to artists who create using economy of expression. I’ve been playing along on electric guitar with The Black Keys’ albums lately, and it’s really pleasurable. The Black Keys has only two band members, but they produce a big sound. As I’ve been been playing along in my own way to their albums, I’ve noticed that guitarist Dan Auerbach employs the concept of “making smaller circles” to maximum effect. You can play scales up and down the fretboard on a guitar, but Auerbach is a minimalist when it comes to playing. I notice I fit right into the style of his music when I concentrate my phrasing on a particular scale in one section of the fretboard. The movement of my fingers on the fretboard may seem simple–but the effect is full of soul, and, in my opinion, that’s what the best music has: soul.
To sum up: Economy of expression is a way of making minimal effort for maximum effect.
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Dr. Bronner’s 18-in-1 Pure-Castile Soaps are good for just about any cleaning task. Face, body, hair & food, dishes, laundry, mopping, pets—clean your house and body with no synthetic preservatives, detergents or foaming agents.
Small squirt of Pure-Castile Liquid Soap applied to wet hands or washcloth.
Wet face and lather several drops of soap into hands. Massage into skin. Rinse.
A couple drops for close cropped hair or up to 1⁄2 Tbsp. (7.5 mL) for long hair, either worked directly into very wet hair or pre-diluted in a cup of water.
Approximately 2 Tbsp. (30 mL) soap for an average sized tub. (Doesn’t bubble, but still cleans.)
Face, 10 drops; Underarms, 3 drops; Legs, 1⁄2 tsp. (2.5 mL). Work to a lather in wet hands, apply to area.
1 drop on a toothbrush. (Yes, it tastes like soap.)
1⁄2 Tbsp. (7.5 mL) in a small tub of hot water.
1 Tbsp. (15 mL) of Peppermint or Eucalyptus in a bowl of steamy hot, but not boiling water. Breathe in mist with a towel draped over the head.
Pre-dilute 1:10 with water. Squirt on scrub brush.
MOPPING (WOOD, LAMINATE & STONE FLOORING)
120 mL)soap in 12 L hot water. Dunk mop (micro-fiber, preferably) and wring thoroughly. On wood and laminate, avoid excess water and mop up wet areas.
ALL-PURPOSE CLEANING SPRAY
60 mL soap in 1L of water in a spray bottle.
1 Tbsp. (15 mL) soap in 1L of water in a spray bottle. Spray and squeegee. Follow with a spray of pure club soda or half vinegar/half water and squeegee.
80-120 mL soap for a large load in a regular washer. Add 240 mL vinegar to the rinse cycle. Optional: For extra whitening/deodorizing, add 120 mL baking soda to wash cycle.
1 capful soap in about 4L cold water. Swish gently. Let soak 10 minutes. Swish again. Rinse with clean water. Gently press out excess water with a towel. Hang clothing or lay flat to dry.
Pre-dilute 1:4 with water in a squirt bottle. Add 1⁄4 tsp. (1.25 mL) tea tree oil. For best results, empty toilet. Squirt bowl thoroughly, sprinkle baking soda on the brush, scrub bowl, let sit 10 minutes, turn water on, flush.
FRUIT & VEGGIE WASH
1 dash (approx. 1⁄4 tsp. [1.25 mL]) in a bowl of water. Dunk produce and swish. Rinse in clear water.
Wet dog thoroughly. Massage in enough soap to create a good lather. (Amount varies based on size, hair type, and overall dirtiness.) Rinse thoroughly.
CLEANING MAKEUP BRUSHES
Wet the make-up brushes in water. Add 1-2 drops soap to the bristles. Massage in gently for 10+ seconds, then rinse. Repeat as needed until water runs clear.
PLANT SPRAY FOR BUGS
1 Tbsp. (15 mL) in 1L of water. Spray plants twice daily until infestation clears.
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A method including the steps of: providing an electric coffee brewing machine; providing a single-use, disposable brew basket, inserting the disposable brew basket into the electric coffee brewing machine; brewing a single cup of coffee with the electric coffee brewing machine; and discarding the disposable brew basket after the single cup of coffee has been brewed. The electric coffee brewing machine has a cold water reservoir, an electric heating element for heating the water, and a basket receiving recess. The disposable brew basket has a bottom wall ...
What is claimed: 1. A method of supplying in-room beverage service to a lodging establishment, the method comprising:providing a drip-type beverage dispenser for use in a room of the lodging establishment by a number of different lodging guests expected to stay in the room over a period of time; andproviding a plurality of drip-type single serving disposable brew baskets for use with the drip-type beverage dispenser, the brew baskets comprising a bottom and a wall extending generally upwardly from the bottom to define a brewing reservoir, the bottom and ...
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Would you consider yourself to be a Networking Ninja?
The Ninja Networker
Developing some of the qualities of a Ninja would greatly enhance your Networking toolkit.
The following characteristics are attributed to Ninjas:
- They accept the consequences of their actions.
- Ninja don’t sweat!
- Ninja never wear headbands with “ninja” printed on them.
- Ninja can breathe underwater anytime they want.
- Ninja can change clothes in less than 1 second.
- Ninja don’t smoke.
- Ninja work hard at being Ninja!
- Ninja always land on their feet.
- Ninja don’t eat or drink very much, and they never have to go to the bathroom.
- Ninja don’t play sports.
- Ninja do not attract attention.
- Ninja can crush golf balls with 2 fingers, any two fingers.
- They wear headbands.
- Ninja can live in your house secretly for days.
- Ninja can remove their shadow if needed.
- They go anywhere they want instantly.
- They can run 100 miles on their hands. (taken from a list on Google)
While it is fun to read about these characteristics, what does this have to do with Networking for your business?
If you want to achieve Mastery in your business, then the Ninja are a good model because they are masters and specialists. Some aspects of the Ninja warrior principles are valuable for application to networking activity.
Being a Ninja is hard work! They use their masterful skills to move stealthily.
Making good decisions about where to show up to network is a prime skill to develop. Showing up at any and all networking events does not demonstrate good and wise decision making. Network at events where your target market shows up. Make sure that the networking events that you participate in are a group of people who can use your products or service. To do otherwise is to waste your valuable time and resources.
Ninja do not attract attention by being quiet or withdrawn. They are social and friendly!
Be Ninja-like in your “getting to know you” actions. Be sure to have your “weapon” ready. Your weapon is your introduction. Sharp like the Ninja’s sword, your introduction is free of dull or unnecessary phrases or words. Remember 12 – 15 well chosen words can tell your story.
Ninja build endurance, agility, strength and flexibility. The important thing is to stretch.
Stretching or going beyond your comfort zone can create options or opportunities that are not yet visible. And, that is what networking is about, isn’t it? To create options and opportunities. The Ninja is always on alert, always aware of the environment.
Ninja feed their mind. They know that knowledge makes you successful. With knowledge comes resourcefulness. When you are seen as a reliable resource, you are recognized as having mastery and adding value. People seek you out because you share your knowledge and information.
When you find the flow in situations and know your place in the flow, you exhibit Ninja qualities. There is a flow and rhythm to networking and when you can dance the dance, you will reap the rewards.
Be Ninja-like in your approach to Networking!
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The Story behind Feer
The first draft to this game goes back in time. In January 2018 in an Italian café we came up with the idea, that visual impaired people, should have a game, that allows them to compete with the sighted on an equal level.
Most games are not accessible for the blind and the others, designed for the blind, are not accessible for the sighted.
With the hours of talking we lined up a game draft, that has both, visual elements for the sighted and acoustic elements for the non-sighted.
Back in Vienna, where we both are located, we set up the basic elements of our project. Zombies, lonely woods, spooky and immersive sounds and an endless challenge. The following months we spent drawing, coding and a lot of discussions.
After the first characters were drawn and animated and the core features of the game were implemented, we just had a lot of fun, playing round in our little zombie world.
But the workload seems to endless. Game menu, alpha- and beta testing, bug-fixing, PressKit, Social Media accounts, Questions and answers, new features.
So FEER is, what it is, an endless run in front of and behind the curtain.
The Team behind Feer
Studied computer sciences and philosophy. After her historical thesis about image recognition and computerized emotional detection, she moved directly into the field of coding. She worked for several years in different companies and organizations, coding from webpages, webshops and standalone educational apps.
With the idea of FEER and the new collaboration the step was taken to enter the field of game design.
Studied Visual Communications and started his career with production design, till he was confronted with the challenge of designing exhibition in the dark, which became later famous and spread worldwide as „Dialogue in the dark“. Together with Andreas Heinecke he developed and realized many of the early exhibitions. Later returned back to visual design for museums, science exhibitions, theater, film, but never missed the experience of this other world where other things mattered.
With FEER the game a lot of experience from the past goes into the new digital world.
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Shocking footage shows an entire building collapsing into the Yellowstone River in Montana as the area has been hit with 'unprecedented flooding'.
Parts of Yellowstone National Park were forced to be evacuated this week as an influx of rain and rapidly melting snow triggered floods and mudslides in the area.
Impacts of the adverse weather events were caught on camera on Monday (13 June) in Gardiner, Montana, where Casey White filmed from one side of the river while a house on the other had its supports washed away by the rapidly flowing water.
See the building get swept away here:
A GoFundMe page set up in the wake of the flooding explained five families and other individuals who lived in the building had 'lost everything' they were unable to take with them when evacuated.
Onlookers could be heard expressing their shock as the house teetered forwards after its stilts gave way under the force of the water. It soon tipped entirely into the river and began floating away on the current.
The home wasn't the only structure affected by the flooding, as a bridge on the same river is also said to have been swept away, as well as a number of other homes. There have been no immediate reports of injuries as a result, according to officials cited by NBC News.
Gardiner, which is located at the northern entrance to Yellowstone, found itself isolated as bridges and roads were overcome with water, with damage from the flooding described by Park County Sheriff Brad Bichler as 'significant'.
⚠️UPDATE (6/14 @ 6:38pm)⚠️— Yellowstone National Park (@YellowstoneNPS) June 15, 2022
Northern portion of Yellowstone likely to remain closed for substantial length of time due to severely damaged, impacted infrastructure. Visitors traveling to park soon must stay informed about current situation, roads & weather https://t.co/mymnqGvcVB pic.twitter.com/li6Vwy4qLt
"The water's coming down and it's kind of showing us exactly what kind of damage we're dealing with," Bichler said at a news conference.
A Montana helicopter company named Rocky Mountain Rotors helped approximately 40 people escape the flooding in Gardiner on Monday and Tuesday, though Laura Jones of the company told CNN they haven't specifically 'rescued' anyone who was in danger.
"We have mainly been transporting people out of there. We have also taken some passengers in who had pets they needed to get to or live there and needed to get home," she explained.
The Yellowstone River reached a record high on Monday, according to CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller, with a gauge located at Corwin Springs, Montana reaching 13.88 feet on Monday afternoon.
Many residents in affected areas have been advised to avoid drinking local water due to a broken water main and submerged wells.
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There are many kinds of luggage, such as trolley bags, handbags, handbags, backpacks, mountaineering bags, school bags, cosmetic bags, tool bags, music equipment bags, sports bags, and so on. Recently, bags made of PVC fabrics are popular with consumers because of their waterproof, mildew-proof and easy-to-clean characteristics.
PVC fabric is a type of fabric, which can be canvas, Oxford cloth, nylon cloth and other fabrics. The reason why it is called PVC fabric is that glue containing PVC is applied to the fabric to make the material smoother and more waterproof.
PVC is a kind of vinyl polymer, and its material is an amorphous material. In actual use, PVC materials often add stabilizers, lubricants, auxiliary processing agents, pigments, impact resistance agents and other additives. It has non-flammability, high strength, weather resistance and excellent geometric stability.
PVC has a strong resistance to oxidants, reducing agents and strong acids. The fabric coated with PVC glue will also have the same characteristics. Compared with ordinary fabrics, PVC fabrics have better water resistance, flame retardancy, abrasion resistance and scratch resistance than ordinary fabrics. Therefore, the price is also higher. a little.
If the cloth backpacks sold or customized on the market are water-repellent, they are basically made of PVC fabric. You can see the difference when choosing the material because whether the backpack fabric is added with a PVC coating can be visualized and touched. It can be felt, and it is more intuitive and obvious.
As a professional fabric manufacturer, Hangzhou Xiaoshan Zhengda Textile Co., Ltd. can provide you with PVC coated fabrics and luggage fabrics. For more details, please contact us.
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By Mark Freeston & Kevin Meares
Up to 44 in every 1000 adults suffer from Generalised Anxiety Disorder. This is more than the normal worrying we all do – it can lead to significant personal and social difficulties. This user-friendly, step-by-step approach explains why they worry, how to recognise what feeds it and develop effective methods of dealing with it. With each step the authors introduce new ideas that add to the picture of worry, and use questionnaires, exercises and tasks to help the reader understand and then challenge unhelpful habits and beliefs.
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Cold & flu during winter is very common in winter because of the weather change. It is contagious, and thus one should be very careful about hygiene in cold & flu season. Since there are no remedies for basic colds or this season’s cold virus, prevention is the best procedure for limiting the interruptions to work and public activity. There are numerous things you can do to lessen your opportunity of being presented to these infections. Below mentioned are few tips you can follow to avoid catching a cold & preventing yourself from the surrounding chorus of coughs and sneezes.
8 Tips to avoid cold & flu:
Wash your hands often: Most important to get rid of cough & cold is washing your hands properly. Whenever you are getting in contact with people who are contagious, make sure to wash your hands by scrubbing hard for 20 seconds at least. Don’t forget to wash your hands after using bathroom. Remember to clean under the nails, between the fingers, and wash your wrists too.
Maintain your fingers: We have a habit of rubbing our eyes, noses & cover our mouth with our hands, which is a certain method to taint yourself with cold virus particles. Hence keep your fingers far from your nose and your eyes to abstain from tainting yourself with cold infectious particles.
Keep a sanitizer in your bag. In bus or auto while travelling if you are not carrying water you can simple wash your hands with sanitizer. It can kill cold & flu germs also.
Stay away from crowds & sick people: Try to maintain distance from individuals who you know have a cold or influenza and avoid crowded places during this season to decrease your opportunity of contamination.
Vitamin D in your diet is a must: Try to eat healthy food with plenty of Vitamins. It boosts your immune system. Fill your plate with green, fresh vegetables at lunch & dinner.
Exercise daily: Regular exercise is a proven immune booster. Though it is not the swimming season, but try to do some kind of exercise to stay moving during the winter season. If you do moderate exercise like brisk walk for 30 to 45 minutes a day, and 5 days in a week, it reduces the chance of a cold by a third. Keep on doing exercise to prevent you from cold & flu.
Get enough sleep: Sleep gives your brain rest for some time. Sleep properly for 7 to 8 hours during this season to reduce your stress if any. Plenty of sleep keeps your immune system healthy & better able to withstand infection.
Make kids aware of hygiene: Kids share cold infections very easily & thus everybody in the family gets affected by it. Teach your kid to cough or sneeze into a tissue & to throw it in a dustbin. Make it a habit for them. Also make it a habit for them to wash their hands immediately after coming back home from outside or after touching any dirty things.
Get a flu vaccine: If you are very prone to cold & flu during winter, then it is better to get a flu vaccine during the flu season. Flu viruses are continuously changing, and new vaccines are developed every year to protect against new strains.
Conclusion: Maintaining hygiene is most important during this cold & flu season. Make a life-long habit that is the key to illness prevention: handwashing. If it is not a common cough & cold, don’t ignore then. Book Doctors immediately through CureMantra Healthcare.
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Good news: Pennsylvania will no longer spend 40 percent of the general fund budget on public welfare.
Instead, we’ll spend it on “human services.”
Yesterday, the general assembly approved HB 993 to rename the Department of Public Welfare the Department of Human Services.
The stigma associated with the department has nothing to do with branding but everything to do with its failure to lift people out of poverty—despite ever-growing budgets. New census numbers reveal the poverty rate in Pennsylvania is 13.7 percent, which is a 30 percent increase since 2003.
Meanwhile, welfare spending continues to grow faster than taxpayers’ ability to pay, consuming 40 cents of every dollar spent by state government.
Lawmakers should be concerned with reforming the safety net—not renaming it.
Their first priority should be to address the welfare cliff, in which families are punished for earning higher wages. Because safety net benefits decline more quickly than earned income increases, the system encourages families to settle for less. That’s wrong. Fixing the cliff should be the primary focus for advocates of low-income Pennsylvanians.
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New public buildings, infrastructure developments and talented young local architects are contributing to the creative boom said Mann, who is a partner architect at Mann Shinar Architects, a Tel Aviv firm founded by his father.
"There's something very inspiring happening once again in Israel," Mann told Dezeen.
"Before that, the last inspirational moment was back in the 1960s and 70s, or even the Bauhaus period and the initial planning initiative."
Contemporary projects to surpass Bauhaus architecture
Israel's built environment was strongly impacted by the Bauhaus, the German design school that had a major influence on modernist architecture.
Jews who studied at the school, or were influenced by its teachings, emigrated to the region to flee persecution during the interwar years.
As a result, Tel Aviv contains the world's largest collection of Bauhaus buildings.
However, Mann believes the current era of development will far outweigh Bauhaus architecture in terms of quality, as buildings in that period were often built cheaply and quickly to provide mass housing to accommodate the surge of immigrants.
"The Bauhaus is cheap building and, as you see in Tel Aviv, the facades of those old buildings don't look great," he said. "They're stucco, they're falling apart, and they all need a re-do."
Tel Aviv home to "extremely talented young architects"
According to Mann, the current boom can be partially credited to a wave of homegrown architects that are choosing to base themselves in Israel and are contributing to the country's development.
"A lot of young talent of architects who studied abroad or studied in Israel are coming in with new ideas," he said.
"I see extremely talented young architects in Tel Aviv, like really hot stuff."
Other changes influencing Tel Aviv's landscape are large-scale projects spearheaded by well-known international firms.
British-Israeli architect Ron Arad, for example, has recently completed an iceberg-like office tower, while KPF has proposed a 340-metre-high supertall skyscraper that could be the country's tallest building if completed.
"All of these crazy towers that are shooting up in Tel Aviv," said Mann, who added that there are a number of projects are underway in Jerusalem – like a library his firm is working on with Herzog de Meuron for The National Library of Israel and a new building for Israel's Ministry of Justice.
"A lot of public buildings are coming into place, especially in Jerusalem," he added. "It's going to get interesting."
Government buildings and infrastructure projects are also developing, including Tel Aviv's above-ground metro line that is expected to complete in 2021, and a bullet train that links the city to Jerusalem which launched in 2018.
"Israel coming into an adolescent period"
The boom is not just limited to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv however. Other building proposals around the country include the development of Haifa's waterfront and a city centre in Be'er Sheva, both by Mann Shinar Architects, as well as a cancer centre designed by Arad.
Mann credits Israel's architecture boom to a growing stability in the country, which has been in a long-term conflict with Arab states.
"Israel is really coming into an adolescent period," he said. "It's finished with kindergarten, and it's there to stay. It's not any more question of: 'Are we gone tomorrow?'."
"It doesn't matter what your political stances are. After a long period of major wars, we're looking at over ten years of relative stability which impacts all kinds of development. Israel has become a lot more stable."
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Many businesses are gaining quick success and we think this is the combined result of its team efforts, mutual collaboration with office staff, planning, processing, etc. All these things need to be first coordinated for efficient results. That’s why most enterprises find coordination helpful. It’s an effective synchronizing method that reduces the project hurdles and helps achieve unity in actions. All these systems that are touching the organizational goals are interlinked at the end.
What is Coordination?
It’s a detailed procedure of scheduling staff or team members to facilitate them and improve their understanding to work together professionally. Coordination covers almost all aspects of a company, starting from planning to organizing and controlling the projects. This way, a business helps its staff perform their respective parts with proper regulation, which eventually achieves the set organizational goals. That is why this entire process is termed coordination which should be the top-most priority of every management.
Why is Coordination Important in Management?
There are different types that start from generating the best business plans and steps further to organizing and, in the end, controlling the entire project. We cannot separate the coordinating part from management even if we want to! It’s more appropriately the core of management that holds immense significance. A company wishing for rapid success should involve coordination in its business from the start. Lacking this facility can lead to ineffectiveness, incompetency, and a poor employer-employee relationship.
Coordination is an Ongoing Exercise
This process has always had its prominence in every step of management. Coordination doesn’t confine to only a single action that is performed once and ended. It’s an ongoing exercise that is important to every stage while managing a project. If you’re running a business, you must be familiar with fluctuations appearing in several parts of a project. Without coordination, one might find it challenging to manage these ongoing issues as they cause business imbalance. Hence, coordination is vital to maintain continuity.
Coordination Cheers up Team Working
Working in a group of people may often lead to confusion and conflicts as everyone has different points of view. An organization also consists of various individuals and multiple staff who might have a different perspective for your business objectives. It’s essential to involve coordination to avoid any conflicts or complications coming in the way of an ongoing project. It will help a team schedule its working, so there are minimum chances of an argument. Coordination motivates a team to work together and achieve the set goal, thus improving team efforts.
Coordination Directs Properly
An organization includes several departments that are assigned their particular tasks. Coordination plays a key role in bringing these departments together and helping them plan how to work regularly. Hence, a company can efficiently meet its defined goals through proper directions by a coordination team.
Coordination Builds Good Relationships in an Organization
As we have discussed earlier, there are different departments in a company. It means an organization has numerous staff members, from the chief manager to other employees. Everyone is linked to each other while handling a specific project. When a company indulges a coordination system, the principal manager consociates well with the one under him. Similarly, the staff in the middle develops a good coordinating bond with individuals under them, and it goes on. Thus, coordination is essential to building good relationships among staff members in an organization.
Coordination Improves Functioning
It has always been a wise decision to add a coordination system in management. When all departments under a company, with different staff members, are coordinating well with each other and understanding the part they’ve to pay for the project, it will automatically improve project working. It means coordination is indirectly a great tool to enhance a company’s functioning.
Coordination Makes the Best Use of Project Resources
Sometimes, the companies purchase large stock for processing, but it goes to waste if it’s not utilized correctly. Coordination is the critical step that helps you integrate the individual and material resources in the best possible way. One can rely on its system to get maximized use of resources. Moreover, coordination presents appropriate planning that will assist a company in minimizing the leftover.
Coordination Improves Efficiency
When a company is utilizing its resources to the maximum extent, it will ultimately improve efficiency. It is better to call efficiency a relationship between returns and costs. With the help of coordination, management can make the best products, increasing returns and decreasing costs.
Reach a Verdict
Coordination should never be considered separate from your business working; in fact, it’s the core element to reach progress. It holds great significance in management, be it from an individual or departmental level.
Matthew is a Co-Founder at BusinessFinanceArticles.org. Matthew was a floor manager at a local restaurant in Wales. He lost his job after the pandemic and took initiative to make a team and start the project.
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Background: Microprocessor-controlled knee joints appeared on the market a decade ago. These joints are more sophisticated and more expensive than mechanical ones. The literature is contradictory regarding changes in gait and balance when using these sophisticated devices. Methods: This study employed a crossover design to assess the comparative performance of a passive mechanical knee prosthesis compared to a microprocessor-controlled knee joint in 15 subjects with an above-knee amputation. Objective measurements of gait and balance were obtained. Results: Subjects demonstrated significantly improved gait characteristics after receiving the microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee joint (p < 0.01). Improvements in gait were a transition from a hyperextended knee to a flexed knee during loading response which resulted in a change from an internal knee flexor moment to a knee extensor moment. The participants' balance also improved (p < 0.01). All conditions of the Sensory Organization Test (SOT) demonstrated improvements in equilibrium score. The composite score also increased. Conclusions: Transfemoral amputees using a microprocessor-controlled knee have significant improvements in gait and balance.
- Leg prosthesis
- Postural balance
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- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
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|The Courier N° 158 - July - August 1996 - Dossier: Communication and the Media - Country Report: Cape Verde (EC Courier, 1996, 96 p.)|
In no country in Europe are ethnic minorities more organised than in the United Kingdom - though they are still not adequately organised, in the opinion of many, to pool their considerable resources together and overcome stereotypes, racism and unenployment. But this may change if the morale engendered by a recent exhibition of minority businesses in the UK is anything to go by.
The statistics speak for themselves. There are 3.3 million Asians, Africans and Afro-Caribbeans in Britain, about 5% of the population (and the figure is projected to double in the next 25 years). They have six elected Members of Parliament - five Labour and one Conservative - as well as numerous personalities in the world of sports and the media. According to the 1994 Labour Force Survey, 48% of ethnic minorities are graduates or are in full time studies and 55% earn salaries well over &15 000 (ECU 18 000) annually. They have a combined gross annual income estimated at f42 billion and an annual spending power of at least f26 ten.
Over the past 15 years, ethnic minority-owned businesses have grown considerably. In the last two years alone, they were responsible for more than 30 000 new business concerns throughout the country, according to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE). Although many are in the retail trade, the 10% or so involved in production or manufacturing are extremely dynamic, particularly those connected with the clothing industry or operating franchises.
There are considerable differences between Asians on the one hand and Africans and Afro-Caribbeans on the other. The former are more business oriented and account for well over 80% of all ethnic enterprises. This success in business is often attributed to Asians' industriousness, but there is another crucial and often neglected factor: Asians have a stronger sense of group solidarity and patronage than Africans and Afro-Caribbeans. Whereas the former spend virtually all their earnings within their community, the latter (who are mainly Christians and are known to make greater efforts at integration into the British society) spend theirs in the society at large.
Unemployment among the black population in general is 19% compared to 8% for whites (in London it is three times higher). They are much more likely to be turned down by employers even when they have better qualifications than their white counterparts. Often self-employment is the only way out. This explains why there has been a boom in business start-ups by ethnic minorities over the past two years.
Although several black profffsional associations have come into being in recent years, it has been clear for some time to black leaders that the community's energies are dispersed and that these needed to be harnessed for the benefit of ethnic minorities as a whole. Blacks clearly have political and business clout to be exploited.
The idea for an exhibition of black businesses in the United Kingdom was mooted by a black business couple who, were influenced by a similar event held annually in the United States called 'Black Expo USA'. But the impetus came from the 'Race for Opportunity Campaign' launched in October last year by the Conservative Government through the Department of Trade and Industry. The campaign has so far seen more than 20 big British companies pledge to do business with ethnic minority enterprises. These include British Airways, British Gas, British Telecom, British Aerospace and several high-street banks and finance houses.
Held at the Barbican Centre in London on 4 and 5 May, the exhibition was aimed at creating awareness among ethnic minorities of their potentialities, showing the opportunities available to them not only in the UK but also in Europe, and at promoting networking amongst their businessmen and women.
The exhibition, which had a cross-party support, could not have come at a more favourable time. Both the Tory government and opposition Labour Party have expressed support for policies favourable to small and medium-sized enterprises, which means that there should be continuity in this area if Labour comes to power in the next general election.
This was borne out by the enthusiasm with which the shadow minister for small business, Mrs Barbara Roche greeted the exhibition. To her, the event should be seen in the context of Labour's overall policy on small businesses. Speaking at one of the seminars which was run alongside the exhibition to discuss various aspects of minority business problems, Mrs Roche explained that there were three important reasons why her party was promoting small enterprises, especially those involved in exports.
The first was that large companies were downsizing, and job-creation towards the end of this century and into the next would be largely by small and medium-sized enterprises. The second was that small businesses were efficient distributors of wealth and the third was that they were good at innovation and using new technologies.
Because a large number of small businesses are folding, or are struggling to survive in the UK today (often as a result of late payment of bills by large companies), Mrs Roche said a Labour government would introduce a statutory limit of 30 days for the settlement of bills by large companies. The latter would then have to pay interest to small businesses for any late payments. Ethnic minority businesses, she also said, were part and parcel of Labour's strategy for economic growth and jobs in Britain.
The Barbican exhibition attracted more than 80 exhibitors mainly in retailing, finance, telecommunications, consultancy, arts and crafts, publishing, electronics and education. There were very few exhibitors from the manufacturing sector (a disappointment considering the number of Asians in the clothing industry) and virtually none in engineering. Some of the big companies connected with the 'Race for Opportunity Campaign' like British Airways and British Gas, as well as the newly created government-backed Business Link, the Customs and Excise department, the Inland Revenue, the Army and the Metropolitan Police were there. Also present was Louis Farrakan's 'Nations of Islam', (not necessarily on a recruitment drive, though that must have been part of the game), but as a reminder of its campaign for greater self-reliance by the black community which culminated late last year in the 'Million-Man' march on Washington DC. Video tapes of the march and speeches by Farrakan and other black leaders in the United States were on sale.
The seminar run concurrently with the exhibition attracted many notable speakers, among them Members of Parliament, Keith Vaz, Bernie Grant and Barbara Roche and Commissioner Dr Zaka Khan of the Commission for Racial Equality. Jessie Boseman, vice-president of 'Black Expo USA, who was also scheduled to speak, did not turn up.
There was general agreement on the main factors inhibiting the growth of ethnic minority businesses, the most obvious being racism and discimination. Ethnic businesspeople not only have difficulties obtaining public contracts, but they are often denied access to finance, market and even premises. Furthermore, they suffer from lack of management skills, networks and feedback. Dr Khan of the Commission for Racial Equality highlighted mounting racist attacks, mostly against Asianowned shops, which have claimed a number of lives in recent years.
Integration into mainstream economy
It is no longer a hidden fact that banks discriminate against black businesses. Surveys carried out by the NatWest and Midland banks have confirmed that fact. The latter though, it must be acknowledged, has a laudable Fellowship Programme, designed to encourage ethnic minority university students to take up careers in the Midland Bank on graduation. Lack of access to the market has effectively meant that black businesses have been left out of the mainstream of the British economy. Everyone agreed that it makes good economic sense to see them integrated into it. This was particularly the position of both Barbara Roche and Zaka Khan. The question was: would it be possible?
Some of the issues raised on the floor by businesspeople revealed that many were sceptical that racism and discrimination could be overcome in multiracial Britain. The Commission for Racial Equality symbolises the fight against these two evils and Dr Khan had a hard time defending its role. The CRE was criticised for constantly quoting statistics on improvements in the living conditions of ethnic minorities which, it was argued, were totally removed from reality. Despite this, Dr Khan remained upbeat. To him the future promises great things for ethnic minorities. He promised to look into the grievances aired by some businespeopie during the seminar. Barbara Roche, for her part, promised that a Labour government would encourage the banks to offer packages of assistance to small enterprises, in particular, black-owned ones. They would also ensure that local councils offered minority enterprises a share of local government contracts.
Greater self-reliance and global trade
In view of the problems black businesspeople have had to contend with over the years, Bernie Grant, the Member of Parliament for Tottenham in North London, did not devote much time to the idea of integrating them into mainstream British economy. He felt that racism and discrimination were so prevalent that there was little chance of that happening. For him, the future for black businesspeople in Britain lay in greater self-reliance and entry into international trade.
In a speech entitled 'political responsibility, and black import and export business', the M.P. set the Barbican exhibition in the context of the global economic situation - one where he said, 'the countries of the North are exploiting those of the South, in particular African countries.' Africa's heavy debts to the West should in fact be the other way round. He argued that the new world trade agreement, which opens up the developing countries to competition, was unfair. 'This means that countries where minorities in the UK came from are going to have problems, and it is the duty of thee minorities to ensure that their countries have a fair deal,' he said. Mr Grant cited, by way of example, the EU's banana protocol under the Lomonvention which gives preferential treatment to small Caribbean island producers and which is currently being 'unfairly' challenged by South American producers under the WTO rules. The role of multinationals, which are effectively acting es 'middleman', was, he believed, pernicious for developing countries. There was a need for black businessmen to step in.
Minority enterprises in the UK do not exist in isolation from the rest of the world, he elaborated. They should seek to engage in international trade and take advantage of their connection with their countries of origin. To facilitate this, Mr Grant said that a group under his chairmanship had set up a Global Trade Centre in his constituency in North London with the aim of helping black and minority enterprises establish direct trade links with Africa, the Caribbean and black America. The Centre was already in contact with a number of African countries which have expressed interest in the idea. Such a link would not only ensure a better deal for African producers but also favour the growth of minority businesses across the world. This was, he confessed, 'a political agenda' designed to reduce the excessive profits of multinationals, if not put an end to their 'outright exploitation' of Africa and the Caribbean. Mrs Roche expressed support for the Centre for the role it could play in boosting British exports.
UK minorities and the
A self-confessed Eurosceptic, who would have preferred the UK to strengthen economic ties with the Commonwealth rather than with Europe, Mr Grant displayed an extraordinary understanding of the European
Union's affairs. What worried him most about greater European integration, he said, was racism and the fact the UK job market, where black and ethnic minorities are already heavily disadvantaged, will be exposed to further competition from other Europeans most of whom speak several languages. However, he had no alternative but to support the Labour Party's line on Europe and work to secure the best advantage of British membership for ethnic minorities. He contrasted Tory 'divisions' on Europe with Labour's 'united' policy and condemned the British Government's attitude generally towards the Union.
The development of the Union, Mr Grant said, was of great significance to black people. He was sure the Government's Immigration and Asylum bill, which had come up against strong opposition in the House of Lords, was aimed at harmonising immigration laws with other countries in the Union. The bill, if passed, will change the UK's visa regime and have serious implications for ethnic minorities and their businesses in Britain. He revealed that, with the support of ethnic minority members of the British Parliament, Bill Morris, the black General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (the second biggest trade union in the UK) and other European trade union leaders, the Intergovernmental Conference was being lobbied for the inclusion of a stronger clause against racism in the Treaty of Rome. The aim, ultimately, is to see measures in line with the UK's laws against racism and discrimination enacted at the Union level. This would include the establishment of a European equivalent of the Commission for Racial Equality - with similar powers - so as to establish a level-playing field for ethnic minorities in competition for jobs and in business throughout Europe.
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Running A Blog can appear to be very simple, since it seems like everyone today has one. You’ll meet bloggers everywhere; your friends and neighbors blog as much as celebrities do. However, there are many factors to consider when you start blogging, ones that will contribute to your success or failure. The following hints and tips can help you get started on creating a blog that is perfectly suited to you or your business.
Don’t ever try to copy something else. Plagiarism is a very serious offense, and being fingered as a plagiarist can destroy your reputation. Successful running a blog is more about displaying your passion for your subject than writing like a professional.
Ask already established bloggers if they would like to write guest posts on your blog. This is a great way to increase the quality of your own blog and generate excellent content. You may also glean additional traffic when they let their readership know about their postings on your site. You can build up a really content-rich blog quickly if you can get several good guest bloggers on board.
Post content on your blog often. This will help you to increase traffic, as well as maintain the current visitors you have. Visitors won’t return if they aren’t getting updated content that isn’t available elsewhere. If possible, try to make at least one post per day.
Allowing guests to make posts within your blog is extremely helpful. Guest posting helps you network with other bloggers, and doing this can pay dividends in the future. Do not disregard the importance of building cooperative relationships. Perhaps that blogger will be able to return the favor one day.
You can hold readers’ attention and encourage them to visit your blog frequently by supplying new content for them as often as you can. Good blogs generally post at least once each day. If you aren’t sure where to start, think of material before you start posting. This helps to make posts for days that you have writer’s block.
Your blog needs to be kept in tip top condition at all times. Complete maintenance tasks often, such as checking for broken links and code or changing items within the layout to keep it fresh. This will ensure that your readers have easy access to your site and will keep them coming back.
Don’t burn yourself out on blogging. If you allow things to get out of balance, you’ll burn out and not be able to produce new content. Make sure to give yourself time off from blogging. Make time to go for a walk, visit with friends or just take a five minute break. Taking some time off will let you return to your blog refreshed and ready to write.
Choose a topic for your blog which you are passionate about. It will seem more authentic and sincere, if you write from the heart about topics you love. This will create a stronger connection with your readers and your blog posting will thrive!
Make bullet points and include italic text along with keywords that are part of your niche. Search engines like this kind of content and site traffic will increase accordingly. This little method can help to increase traffic.
Sticking with a simple routine may not be the best idea for maintaining your blog. Use a businesslike approach to your blog and strive to keep learning and growing in the craft. Take your cues from experienced bloggers, always integrating new techniques and ideas. If you are always learning new ways to make your blog better, it will help you move forward.
Look for other successful bloggers to guest write on your site. This is a great way to increase the quality of your own blog and generate excellent content. One good side effect of this strategy is that you’ll probably receive a traffic bump, as many bloggers link any guest posts they make to their own blogs. This can be done with several guest bloggers in order to assist you in creating a blog that has a greater amount of quality content.
Try not to overdo using other types of social media on your blog. If all you do is tweet blog links every five minutes, your tweets will soon be ignored by everyone. Post your links in between other posts or tweets that are relevant and interesting to your followers.
Use bold and italicized type for all your keywords. This is a practice that is not only helpful to search engine indexers; your readers will appreciate it, too. Doing this will help prompt people to click on your keyword, which is something you want them to do.
One way to increase your blog’s visibility is to allow guest posting. This is a great way to network with other bloggers. Do not disregard the importance of building cooperative relationships. Guest blogging will give a boost to both of your sites. There is also the added benefit of having someone who you can ask for favors in the future.
Social media sites offer wonderful opportunities to increase traffic to your blog site. Do not overlook the power of social media as the latest and best way on the internet of connecting you with the people you want reading your blog. Posting blog content to Twitter or Facebook is recommended as a means to promote your blog.
Be sure your blog makes it easy for readers to access your contact information. Your readers can use this page to get in touch with you if they need to. You don’t know who is visiting the blog, and you may receive excellent feedback when they are allowed to contact you.
Be sure to create interlinks within your blog. This increases traffic and makes your blog easier to navigate. Your readers will flee if they can’t get around your blog through obvious navigation methods!
Put emotions aside when reading and responding to comments and other reader feedback. Regardless of the topic or your thoughts, there is always someone who will see it differently. Use the constructive feedback to improve your position and make your blog more interesting. With destructive or negative comments, respond politely and leave it at that. Your other readers will appreciate your professionalism.
As previously discussed, starting a blog may appear relatively easy. Everybody has a message and information they’d like to share. But don’t forget that creating a popular blog means making wise decisions and planning out your course of action. The information from this article will help you design a successful blog, learn how to keep it going and achieve your blog posting goals.
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We have put together some helpful information for you to use in estimating your project needs, to assist you with design options and ideas, and general tidbits you might find useful. Please select from the PDF’s to the right.
The color and type of mortar joint used will greatly affect the overall appearance of your masonry project. Different types of joints can be achieved using a variety of jointing tools. Examples of joint types include; Concave, Grapevine, V-Joint, Convex, Beaded, Weathered, Recessed, Struck and Flush. Another factor that affects the overall look of stonework is how tight or wide a joint is. In addition, the color of mortar used to fill the joints between the stone or brick will have an impact on the final appearance. The PDF above shows examples of different joint types and the effect of joint color.
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Suddenly you can’t open a newspaper without reading about racial inequality. The publication of the government’s Ethnicity Facts and Figures website has hit the headlines and as Theresa May promised, many of its findings make ‘uncomfortable’ reading. Among these is the stark statistic that ethnic minorities are twice as likely to be unemployed as white people.
Of course, this won’t surprise the many BME graduates who have become resigned to opening rejection letters during the course of a long, fruitless and increasingly dispiriting search for work. Nor will it shock those of us who have read report after report on race inequality from select committees, all-party parliamentary groups and government-backed reviews with increasing frustration.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission had already pointed out the disparity in unemployment rates between white people and the rest of the population in its Healing A Divided Britain report way back in August 2016. The Casey Review of December 2016 went even further. It showed that black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi people are three times more likely to be unemployed than their white counterparts. And the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee revealed that faith, as well as ethnicity, blights the prospects of millions of people in its Employment Opportunities for Muslims in the UK report.
What is different is that, as the prime minister has said, ‘now there isn’t anywhere to hide’. It’s no longer possible to avoid the issues when the statistics are there for all to see on a government website.
But what hasn’t changed is that there’s no guidance about how everyone can, and should, play a part in making Britain work for all and making sure that Britons of all ethnicities can work at all.
With my colleague Adeeba Malik CBE, I have helped 800 directors and senior managers of large private- and public-sector organisations to develop ways of recruiting, retaining and rewarding BME staff. We’ve also supported 350 small and medium-sized companies in England and Wales to draw up action plans and practical solutions to address the underrepresentation of ethnic groups.
As you would expect, we advised some of those organisations’ most senior figures – those who would have greatest influence in rolling out new methods of working. So of course we suggested ways of encouraging diversity by making changes to practices at corporate level such as being open about how career pathways operate and making sure job experience opportunities are available to all.
It’s relatively easy to see how an organisation is performing in these areas or evaluate the success of any new initiatives. But sometimes the obstacles that prevent ethnic minority staff from progressing, or joining a company at all, are much more difficult to pin down.
I’m talking about the expectation that a good team player will join his or her colleagues in the pub after work – and the relationships that are so often forged with more senior managers over a pint and a packet of crisps; or the assumption that essential professional skills involve the ability to navigate a golf course; or the belief that an ability to follow unspoken dress rules is more important than skill, talent and experience.
And if this sort of environment is challenging for many ethnic minorities, it’s just as awkward for women, people from lower-income backgrounds and anyone else whose face doesn’t fit. Maybe the best way of opening up opportunities for all is simply to ask ourselves whether we’re creating a home from home for the chosen few or an alienating experience for the silent majority.
Dr Mohammed Ali OBE is the Chief Executive of QED Foundation, a Bradford-based national charity that supports the social and economic progress of disadvantaged ethnic minority communities.
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Baby jumping spiders have vision that’s almost as extraordinarily good as the grown-ups, scientists have discovered – despite the baby spiders being around a hundredth of the size. A new study reports on how this feat of biological engineering is achieved.
The teeny tiny spiderlings pack the same number of light-capturing photoreceptors into their four pairs of eyes as the adults do. The difference lies in size, not number: baby spiders have smaller receptors, and they’re packed more closely together.
It helps to explain why very young jumping spiders (Phidippus audax) can hunt down and catch prey just as effectively as older members of the species, and could teach us more about the evolution of eyesight in animals and insects.
“Spiderlings can adopt prey-specific hunting strategies,” says biological scientist Nathan Morehouse, from the University of Cincinnati. “They can solve problems. They’re clever about navigating their environment.”
“This suggests their eyes are providing as much high-quality information when they’re small as when they’re large. And that was a puzzle.”
The team of researchers solved the puzzle by carefully building a customised micro-ophthalmoscope – not unlike the tool used by eye doctors – to peer into the peepers of baby jumping spiders. It took years to refine, but it gave them an unprecedented look into how the spider’s eight eyes developed from birth.
Spiderlings were found to have the same 8,000 photoreceptors in their eyes as the adults, but at a smaller size. Many of the cells are shaped like cylinders too, to cram in more side by side, and maintain the ability to distinguish objects at a distance.
“For humans, it takes three to five years before babies can reach the visual acuity of adults,” says biologist John Thomas Gote, from the University of Pittsburgh. ”Jumping spiders achieve this as soon as they exit the nest.”
“What intrigued me most was learning about just how well jumping spiders could see, despite their incredibly small size. For example, cats and jumping spiders can see the world in surprisingly similar detail.”
Based on a microscopic analysis or histology of the spider eyes, the team found the arachnids start life off with eyes that are much bigger in proportion to the rest of their bodies – in other words, the eyes don’t have as much growing to do.
It’s a known growth pattern called negative ontogenetic allometry, which can also be seen in the feet of puppies: dogs grow into their feet in the same way the P. audax spiders grow into their eyes.
These smaller photoreceptors are compromised in some ways though: baby jumping spiders can’t see as well in the dark, for example, because their smaller, still-growing eyes can’t capture as much light. They’re “a bit stumbly” in their movements, Morehouse says.
Together with other colleagues, Morehouse is now busy working on a related jumping spiders projected sponsored by the National Science Foundation, looking at the habitats of the insects and the evolution of colour vision.
“It was a massive success,” says Morehouse. “We encountered at least three species brand new to science. And we found described species for which there were no previous records in Singapore.”
The findings have been published in Vision Research.
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ean Murphy writes for ABC News Australia that pig effluent could be used to grow algae or seaweed that is fed back to pigs as part of a closed-loop system for intensive piggeries. Pig manure can also help reduce use of costly fertilizer in the process.
Researchers at Murdoch University’s Algae Research and Development Centre have proven they can grow some aquatic species on untreated pig waste, despite the high concentration of ammonium.
Centre director Dr. Navid Moheimani said algae grew naturally in harsh conditions and was a potentially protein-rich source of food for pigs and other animals. “The algae normally contains one third carbohydrate or sugar, one third protein and one third lipid,” he said. “A lot of algae do not produce a lot of cellulose, which means they are very easily digestible. The other very important thing for us is to find out what sort of other bacteria like pathogens are coming in with the feed and so we’re also testing that.”
Even if the algae were too contaminated to use as a feedstock, Dr. Moheimani said it would greatly increase the production of methane in on-farm biogas systems.
Biogas systems capture methane from manure, turn it into electricity and export it to the national grid. At Blantyre Farms near Young in New South Wales, Australia, they paid $1 million three years ago for such a system. Edwina Beveridge, who runs the 25,000-pig operation, said her investment paid for itself in two and a half years. “It used to cost us about $15,000 a month for electricity and gas and now we get paid about $5,000 a month for selling excess electricity,” she said.
The farm is one of seven piggeries sharing $7 million a year from the Commonwealth’s Emissions Reduction Fund for its greenhouse gas abatement through methane capture. “So not only did the biogas project make good economical sense, it’s good for the environment as well,” she said. “Who would think a pig farmer could also be a renewable energy supplier?”
Despite producing just 0.4 per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, the pork industry has been at the forefront of research into carbon abatement and finding other profitable uses for effluent.
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Well, it’s October 2021 and you know what I like best about the month of October, (besides Halloween)? I love to see the leaves on the trees and bushes begin to turn colors before they fall off. You know during the summer most trees and plants are a beautiful shade of green, and I love that, too. But in the fall also called Autumn, the leaves on the bushes and trees begin to turn to red, brown, yellow and orange. I read about the change in the colors and I’m going to share it with you here:
As summer fades into fall, the days start getting shorter and there is less sunlight. This is a signal for the leaf to prepare for winter and to stop making chlorophyll. Once this happens, the green color starts to fade and the reds, oranges, and yellows become visible.
Hey, there’s a funny word in the explanation above. It’s chlorophyll. What is chlorophyll? What does it have to do with the fall of the year? Good question. The short answer is, chlorophyll is what makes the leaves on the trees and bushes turn green during the summer.
Look what happens when we read; we learn a lot Now we know that as the summer turns to fall/autumn and the days get shorter the trees stop making chlorophyll and that makes the leaves change to orange, yellow, red and brown.
Look at some fall pictures below. Talk to you later.
Online Reference: https://www.verywellhealth.com/chlorophyll-5088796
Online Reference: https://scijinks.gov/leaves-color/
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Various studies have shown that ductwork leakage has a major impact on energy use (i.e. increased fan energy use, heating & cooling losses etc.). However, in most European countries, it is not common to perform ductwork airtightness tests, which is probably due to the lack of awareness on the consequences of ductwork leakage. As follows, ductwork airtightness is not properly taken into account in most Energy Performance Regulations and Calculations.
The protocol to perform ductwork airtightness tests is also an issue for stakeholders who want to promote ductwork airtightness in a regulatory context. Various European standards deal with ductwork airtightness but none of them fully describes the protocol to perform the test. As a result, some countries have developed their own protocols.
The objective of this webinar was to present existing European standards & protocols for ductwork airtightness tests and compare the different approaches.
Presentations & Speakers:
- On site ductwork airtightness tests in standardization (revision of EN 12599), Frank Bitter, Convenor of CEN/TC156 WG8, WSPLab, Germany
- Ductwork airtightness tests in France: the FD 51-767, Laurent Bonnière, Air-efficience, France
- Ductwork airtightness tests in UK: The DW 143, Peter Rogers, Chairman of BESA ventilation group technical committee, UK
- Ductwork airtightness tests in Sweden: AMA VVS & Kyl, Erik Osterlund, Chairman of the national Swedish standardization committee for ventilation, Sweden
For further information please scroll down to view the recordings and download the flyer & slides.
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Intelligent Power Stabilizer (IPS) is an electronic power converter that provides stable power to critical electrical equipment found in general aviation aircraft. Electronic equipment such as engine monitors, EFIS and GPSs can be operational before and during engine starting. With this important feature, the IPS saves fuel and operating expenses by not having to run the engine during flight plan loading or clearance delivery. When used with aircraft engine monitors, it ensures the pilot can monitor critical engine operating parameters such as oil pressure during the engine starting process. The IPS is available in three different models and is suitable for use with equipment such as the Garmin GNS-430/530 series of GPS and the G900X and GU370/375 series avionic system.
The patented technology in the Intelligent Power Stabilizer system ensures the connected electronic equipment is provided with a stabilized source of power even when the aircraft battery voltage drops significantly. This is particularly important during engine starting or alternator out conditions. IPS provides aircraft bus voltage surge and sag protection for the connected electrical equipment by actively clamping the regulated output voltage.
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|Input Voltage:||5 15 volts DC||5 15 volts DC||10 30 volts DC|
|Output Voltage:||> 11.25 volts DC||> 11.25 volts DC||> 24.0 volts DC|
|Output Current:||4 amp continuous||8 amps continuous||5 amps continuous, 10 amps peak|
|Converter:||True DC:DC converter with output over voltage, over current and over temperature protection||True DC:DC converter with output over voltage, over current and over temperature protection||True DC:DC converter with over voltage, over current and over temperature protection|
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|Wiring:||4ft leads, Mil-spec wire||Insulated barrier strip, #6 screws||Insulated barrier strip, #6 screws|
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Please note, Aircraft Spruce's personnel are not certified aircraft mechanics and can only provide general support and ideas, which should not be relied upon or implemented in lieu of consulting an A&P or other qualified technician. Aircraft Spruce assumes no responsibility or liability for any issue or problem which may arise from any repair, modification or other work done from this knowledge base. Any product eligibility information provided here is based on general application guides and we recommend always referring to your specific aircraft parts manual, the parts manufacturer or consulting with a qualified mechanic.
Per the supplier: No, it is not.
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Planting a hard mast species is a great way to add beauty to your property and improve its value for wildlife. And in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be a welcome diversion to get your hands in the dirt and establish new plant life in your backyard.
This activity is drawn from the Maine Forest Service’s forthcoming 2nd edition of its popular 1999 publication, “The Woods in Your Backyard.” Courtesy of the Maine Tree Farm Committee and the Maine Forest Service.
Mast is the botanical term for the nuts, seeds, or fruits of trees and shrubs that are eaten by wildlife. Hard mast includes nuts and seeds such as acorns, hickory nuts, and walnuts. Mast trees can serve as a food source for wildlife while providing you with many other benefits. Planting a mast tree in your yard can provide you with shade on hot summer days and can help beautify your property. Although there are many species that can be planted to provide food for wildlife, planting a native species is the best option for wildlife and for optimal tree growth. In the Northeast, northern red oak grows well, has red leaves in the fall, and produces nutrient-rich acorns. Shagbark hickory, black walnut, and disease-resistant chestnuts are other good options. Visit your local garden center to check out some native mast-producing species, and don’t forget to have fun planting your tree with family.
Read further for instructions on selecting a planting site, choosing a tree, planting, and caring for your new tree.
And stay tuned for the new, 2020 edition of The Woods in Your Backyard in late summer!
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March 25, 2013—An interdisciplinary studies major in mythology, James Boyman (C’13) built his major “from the ground up” three years ago with the help of faculty members and College deans. Now, he is writing an original myth for his senior thesis.
Boyman first became interested in mythology in high school, when he took a class about world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, as well as lesser-known ones, such as Zoroastrianism.
His interest continued to grow at Georgetown, where in his first semester he enrolled in the Ignatius Seminar Myth and Realization taught by Rev. G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. The class opened his eyes to the influence of ancient mythology on Western culture.
To explain this extensive influence, Boyman often uses examples from popular culture. “Many of the movies that Disney does are based on religious narratives. One of the big ones is The Lion King,” Boyman said.
“The basic plot of The Lion King is that there is a young prince who has an evil uncle that wants to take power. So the uncle kills the king, takes power for himself, and sends the prince into exile—where he hangs out until his deceased father calls on him. Then, the prince goes back and takes power from his uncle.”
According to Boyman, the plot of the film mirrors the thousands-year-old tale of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead. In the myth, Osiris is king of Egypt but is killed by his treacherous brother, Seth. Osiris’s son Horus is exiled by his uncle until his father appears to him in a vision. Horus returns to his homeland and defeats his uncle, Seth, reclaiming the kingdom.
“People often compare The Lion King to Hamlet, but I’d say that Hamlet is just another interpretation of that same archetype,” said Boyman, who cites the myth of Osiris as one of his favorites. “You can see the myth in the movie with the imagery of the rising sun. Horus is the god of the rising sun.”
Boyman was inspired to create his own mythological tale during his junior year, when he became more interested in creative writing while studying abroad in Florence, Italy. Rather than write a typical academic paper as his capstone project, he chose to infuse his knowledge of symbolism and tradition into an original story.
The Scepter and the Orb, which Boyman describes as an “epic framed within a fairytale,” is about a young prince who is raised in seclusion in an ice castle and discovers that his father rules the kingdom in tyranny. Appalled by the oppression of innocent townspeople, the prince escapes, receives training from a society of outcasts, and joins their forces to restore balance and justice to the kingdom.
“I use a lot of imagery from a lot of different stories I’ve read. I counted it up, and there are at least four major world traditions that I weave throughout the story: Buddhism, Christianity, Greco-Romanism, and German paganism,” Boyman said.
“All of the characters are named after Norse gods, and the prince has this big [transformative] experience—which is the centerpiece of the story—that is straight from the myth of Odin with my own additions.”
Boyman plans to turn his love and knowledge of mythology into a career as an author of children’s stories, which often incorporate lessons and archetypes from religions around the world. He is already working on his first book, The Well of Gemstones, which tells “the story of a young girl who tries to relive her past, but in the process gives up her present and her future,” he explained.
“The big theme that you can find in all of my works is, ‘Don’t cling to things that you can’t hold onto. Be flexible and allow time to run its course,’” Boyman said. “I think that the concept of not clinging to the past and being able to flow with what life gives you is a major aspect of mythology.
“Mythology also gives a sense of hope,” he continued. “These are stories that people have found significant for thousands of years. I think there is genuine wisdom in them if we study them and think about them. I am always trying to figure out what that wisdom might be.”
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Yes….according to a manifesto to be published soon in Nutrition. The abstract:
The inability of current recommendations to control the epidemic of diabetes, the specific failure of the prevailing low-fat diets to improve obesity, cardiovascular risk or general health and the persistent reports of some serious side effects of commonly prescribed diabetic medications, in combination with the continued success of low-carbohydrate diets in the treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome without significant side effects, point to the need for a reappraisal of dietary guidelines.
The benefits of carbohydrate restriction in diabetes are immediate and well-documented. Concerns about the efficacy and safety are long-term and conjectural rather than data-driven. Dietary carbohydrate restriction reliably reduces high blood glucose, does not require weight loss (although is still best for weight loss) and leads to the reduction or elimination of medication and has never shown side effects comparable to those seen in many drugs.
The lead author is Richard Feinman. Others include Lynda Frassetto, Eric Westman, Jeff Volek, Richard Bernstein, Annika Dahlqvist, Ann Childers, and Jay Wortman, to name a few. Some of them disclose that they have accepted money from the Veronica and Robert C. Atkins Foundation. That doesn’t bother me.
I’m familiar with most of the supporting literature they cite, having read it over the last decade.
Steve Parker, M.D.
PS: The linked article is preliminary and may undergo minor revision over the coming months.
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I was in a conversation with a few writers of historical fiction earlier this week and the subject of the appropriate flowers in bloom at a given time of year and a given location was raised.
This is a tricky issue that I have spent a lot of time thinking about and researching myself as I work on my own novel set in Vancouver 1884-1913.
It’s tempting to think about the flowers and plants that currently exist in the place where your story is set. However, many of those trees and plants could well have been introduced to your location at a later date and not be historically accurate in a different era.
The past can be as much a different place as any foreign site halfway across the world.
Fortunately for me, my story is set in the city where I live, Vancouver, BC. so it is easier for me to know what exists today or at least find sources to educate me, and to use this information as a starting point. For example, many of our city streets are currently resplendent with Japanese cherry tree and plum trees now in blossom, adding beauty and colour, and a general feeling of cheerfulness and whimsy. But I’m sure these trees are not native to this region, but were introduced, as were many flowers, largely to replicate the classic English gardens that settlers established in their yards in a kind of sentimental gesture. Roses, lavender, and peonies come to mind.
Which eliminates one problem but presents another.
How do you find out what plants were native to a particular place?
To go back in time and learn what existed in earlier periods I have found that First Nations (aka Native, Aboriginal, Indian) sources of knowledge to be the best and most accurate, as well as being more comprehensive, encompassing medicinal, nutritional, and tool-making elements that are fascinating to learn about and possibly incorporate into our own daily lives, if not into our writing and other creative work.
We are fortunate here in B.C. in that our First Nation people are strong and have retained more of their culture than in other parts of the country and possibly even other parts of the world, and so there are sources of native plant and animal information quite readily available.
Human knowledge, medicinal plant walks, books, blogs, and websites from First Nations organizations are all rich sources to tap for authentic historical plant and wildlife information.
And the settler community has finally begun to recognize and acknowledge that knowledge and the value that natural diversity and reclamation holds for environmental health and longevity.
For example, last week I biked by New Brighton park in east Vancouver and came across a reclamation site where native plants are being re-introduced on that part of the waterfront.
Posted information taught me about the native plants in that original marshland region, indicating what grew at different times of the year and also showing me the kind of landscape that had been overtaken by urban development founded on settler values .
Reading more about it after I’d gotten back home I discovered that the New Brighton project is also connected to another local reclamation project in Hastings Park called the Sanctuary which also features native plants and educational information.
And this got me thinking about the locations of additional sources of information regarding native plants and animals.
Walking tours of native plants and medicinal plants could exist in your jurisdiction. I know of at least two people who lead those here in Vancouver.
And I just tried to find some information about a Vancouver tree inventory – I was sure I’d seen one somewhere but haven’t come across it again. So I did a search for one in Seattle which has a similar climate and geography as Vancouver, another research tip you can use if local sources don’t exist. For this search I found the Washington Native Plants Society site.
I also found this native plants page on a local landscaping firm, Fontana Water Features
The local non-profit society, False Creek Watershed Society and other similar watershed societies can also provide valuable information and contact with knowledgeable sources. I will explore and share some of the False Creek Watershed Society resources in the weeks to come.
Be sure to also search through municipal, regional, or provincial or federal park websites, educational institutions, and organization websites, blogs, and books on the same subject matter. Additional resources could also be found under anthropological records in museums, archives, and libraries.
When carrying out research, be sure to use the various search terms for First Nations, including “native”, “Indian” “indigenous” and any other local term in currency in your region.
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(world citizen class)
Respond to at least 2 of the following ideas from the video:
- Some believe that human rights is merely a Western construct.
- We have the idea of right and wrong rooted in religion…When we construct a secular ethic to substitute for the religious one in which we no longer hold any confidence…the instructions turn out to be quite similar.
- All powerfully emancipatory ideas get sucked into a vortex of power which seeks not to remove them but to twist their meaning to suit the powerful.
- We risk our culture if we collude in the idea that our culture is so valuable that we can afford to depart from it in order to secure it.
- We are driven to engage in this energetic, empathetic solidarity…this common intuitive commitment to reaching out. This is what makes us, in the end, a human rights culture.
*Also, please note that this video was created in 2012. Many things have happened since the time of filming; keep that in mind as you listen to the cultural references being made. A stellar response will refer to more recent examples.*
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Pets have a great life in the Wolverine State but there are many reasons why you should get pet insurance in Michigan
It may be home to America’s motor industry but Michigan is a fantastic state for things on for legs as well as four wheels. With shores on four of the five of the Great Lakes, mountains, thick forest, and bustling cities, it’s got something for everyone.
If you’re an outdoors-loving pet parent in Michigan – and have an outdoors loving pet – you’re going to have a fine time. You can’t talk about the state without mentioning the Great Lakes. Michigan touches four of them: Erie, Huran, Superior and, of course, Michigan. This means that there are beaches galore and plenty of them are dog-friendly, particularly on Lake Michigan.
Dogs are welcome in the crystal clear waters of Lake Michigan Beach near Glen Haven, Bayfront Park near Petoskey, Hagar Beach near Coloma, and many more. Most require your dog to be on a leash but that shouldn’t stop them enjoying the water. Speaking of enjoying water, make sure they drink plenty when you’re out at the beach, or anywhere else. Dehydration and heat stroke are dangerous for dogs, who can’t self-regulate their body temperature. They’re also expensive, landing a vet bill up to $6,000 in fact – which can be financially crippling without pet insurance.
Michigan is also famous for its dense forest, particularly on the Upper Peninsula. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, which runs along 40 delectably beautiful miles of Lake Superior, is a great spot for you to take your Doberman or Chihuahua. They’re welcome on trails and in the water, as long as they remain leashed. For a gentler day out, Al Sabo nature preserve has over 8 miles of trails through fields, forests, and wetlands. Be warned, though: ticks love this kind of terrain and cause Lyme disease, which will cost around $1,000 in diagnostic and treatment costs.
The isle of dogs
You can also take your pet on plenty of fun tours. Lots of places that will let you take your pet out onto the water. Great Turtle Kayak Tours, which is based on Mackinac Island on Lake Huron, are happy for your pooch to join you for a paddle, as long as you bring a dog lifejacket. If you feel like a subterranean adventure, the people at the Delaware Copper Mines in Mohawk love having dogs come for a tour.
“Gastroenteritis could end up with a vet bill in four figures”
Mackinac Island is a great place to visit in general, especially if you have a dog. There are no cars on the island, but plenty of trails and beaches to enjoy – and leashed dogs are welcome just about everywhere. Be careful when taking your faithful hound to anywhere with tourists, though. People love a picnic or brown bag lunch, which inevitable leads to scraps on the ground that are irresistible to a food-focused animal. Eat the wrong thing and they could end up being poisoned or with a bout of gastroenteritis – and you could end up with a vet bill in four figures.
Pets and the city
If you want to spend a more bacchanalian afternoon or evening with your pet, you won’t struggle for choice. Round Barn Winery in Baroda is very dog-friendly – and it also has a distillery and brewery. The Tri-City Brewing Company in Bay City will happily serve you some craft beer and a bowl of water to your dog.
Cities in Michigan have excellent dog parks, from Ann Arbor to Kalamazoo. These places are fabulous for letting your dog run free and many have ponds for water-loving mutts. But remember that play can get a bit rough – and sometimes turn into a fight – and injuries can happen, even by accident. An open wound can cost hundreds of dollars to treat, especially if a general anaesthetic is required or it gets infected.
Why get pet insurance at all?
At Petted, we sincerely believe that pet insurance is a must for all pet parents, whether you live in New York, North Carolina or Nebraska. It doesn’t matter if you’re a city- or country-dweller, if you have a Bull Mastiff or a Burmese, your beloved pet is at risk from injury, illness and inherited conditions – and these things can cost a lot of money to fix.
If you don’t have a very large savings account then you run the risk of either getting into a ton of debt (we’re talking tens of thousands of dollars in some cases) or – and we hate to think about this – not being able to pay for your pet’s treatment and having to either give them up or, tragically, have them euthanized.
So, for the sake of a few dollars a month, please buy yourself some peace of mind and your pet a healthier, more secure future. To find the best pet insurance policy for where you live, click here. We'll fetch you the perfect quotes in less than a minute.
It’s a real worry when your pet gets sick. But with plenty of reimbursement options available, pet insurance can help cover up to 100% of veterinary costs for new accidents and illnesses – plus much more.
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General check ups
Follow up care
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One of the decisions that patients and parents may have to make after deciding that comfort is now the goal of care is whether or not there should be any attempts to revive (or resuscitate) your child if and when your child’s heart or breathing stops.
- A DNR or “Do Not Resuscitate” order applies to situations where your child has a respiratory arrest (stops breathing) or a cardiac arrest (heart stops beating). DNR means that no CPR (chest compressions, cardiac drugs, or placement of a breathing tube) will be performed.
- A DNI or “Do Not Intubate” order means that chest compressions and cardiac drugs may be used, but no breathing tube will be placed.
- An AND or “Allow Natural Death” order is a term used at some hospitals as an alternative to the more traditional DNR order. While a DNR simply states that no attempts should be made to restart breathing or restart the heart if it stops, an AND order is used to ensure that only comfort measures, designed to provide excellent control of pain or other symptoms, are taken. This includes withholding or discontinuing resuscitation, artificial feedings, fluids, and other treatments that prolong the dying process without adding to your child’s quality of life. Allowing a natural death means not interfering with the natural dying process. It also means that every effort will be made to have your child’s time of death be calm and peaceful, with you and your child surrounded by as many family and friends as you, the parents, and your child wish.
Full discussion with a health care provider is critical so everyone understands the circumstances under which a DNR, DNI, or AND order would go into effect and the specific actions that will or will not be taken.
Above all, remember that DNR/DNI/AND decisions are reversible and can be withdrawn at any time. In addition, the healthcare team must confer with you periodically (every few days or weeks) to verify that you still want the DNR/DNI/AND order in place. If able, your child should participate in the discussion so you know that you are carrying out what your child wants. Sometimes parents worry that if they decide to forgo curative treatment, their child will no longer receive good care. However, the findings from a number of recent studies show that there is as much – or even more – intense care after a DNR/DNI/AND order is signed and comfort care only begins.
What If It Seems That My Child Wants “Everything” Done?
Without question, there are children and families who do not want to leave any stone unturned and decide to use any drugs or other treatments that might offer, at the very least, more time. You and your child are communicating with each other every step of the way as you make decisions about treatment. Phrases like “don’t give up on me” or “I want to keep trying” are always times to talk about all the alternatives, opportunities, and possibilities that medicine has to offer. Some families ask for a second opinion about additional treatment. For some diseases, there are cancer centers that can offer Phase I trials, research studies designed to test therapies that have shown promise in laboratory or animal research, but are just beginning to be studied in humans. If a child and family ask, referral for treatment at such a center can be explored. As with any decision, all the risks and benefits need to be weighed and the best option for your child pursued. But, even if the decision is made to seek the most aggressive treatment available, all of the principles of communication, keeping the best interests of the child paramount, and providing as much comfort as possible while undergoing treatment must still be foremost in everyone’s mind.
Quality vs. quantity of life will always be one of the hardest judgments you and your child will make. Only you and your child know what value each of you place on time together and at what cost. And, only by talking about it and listening to each other through words or actions can you, together, make the decision that is best for your child.
Second guessing is second nature to almost everyone. Sometimes parents worry that they have made a “wrong” decision. But, no matter what you decide, you will not make the wrong decision if you keep your child’s desires as well as best interests uppermost in your decision making. Whatever decision you make, for whatever time your child is with you and forever after, you will know that you made choices that, given what you knew at the time and taking into account all the recommendations of trusted providers, best reflected your love of your child.
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Thailand is a contemporary democratic Country in Central South East Asia. ” Thai ” may be the Tai phrase for ” cost-free ”. The ” Thai ” identity was fashioned while in the late 13 th C at Sukhothai and is not to get bewildered with ” Tai ” the name of your ethnic teams of people that migrated from Yunnan in the twelfth & thirteenth Hundreds of years. The character with the Thai Country nowadays and of its persons can only be appreciated by exploring its 2000 a long time of recorded history as well as cultures of the assorted peoples who Reside in this article. Thailand’s all-natural landscape involves tropical soaked evergreen forests in Southern Thailand to temperate deciduous forests in North Thailand and we investigate these while in the Thailand Countrywide Parks. Thailand art architecture and decorative objects must be thought of with regard to the influences of faith, mythological beliefs and regional painaidee inventive designs. Thailand is so big and various we detail all about Thailand in separate locations, North or Northern Thailand, South or Southern Thailand, Central Thailand and North East Thailand [ I ‘san ].
North Thailand Journey & Locations Of Fascination
The Thailand Federal government defines North Thailand as consisting of both equally [ one ] the eighty four,000 square kilometres comprising 8 provinces of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phayao, Nan, Lampang, Lamphun, Phrae and Mae Hong Son, which spot at first comprised the Lan Na principalities in-depth within the North Thailand Background hyperlink [ the Upper North ], and [ 2 ] the 86,000 sq. kilometres of your Reduce North, comprising the provinces of Kamphaeng Phet, Tak, Sukhothai, Uttaradit, Uthai Thani, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit Phitsanulok and Phetchabun, which area initially comprised the Kingdoms of Sukhothai and later the northern elements of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, Thon Buri and Bangkok Kingdoms.
The Dissimilarities Concerning The Higher North Thailand Plus the Lower North Thailand
One particular discernable distinction between the Higher and Reduced North Thailand is topography. Upper North Thailand is characterised by extensive valleys typically operating north south. The weather has 3 seasons, incredibly hot [ April to Might ] awesome and rain [ July to September ]. Approximately seventy two% of the world is mountainous, 21% upland and eight% lowland. The lowland is cultivated by the Tai individuals to generate moist rice.
Decreased North Thailand has forty five% of its full land mass under a hundred and fifty metres above sea stage and is As a result much like Thailand’s Central area. Having said that the two mountain extensions in the Higher North, [ one ] Thanon Thang Chai Assortment for the west and, [ 2 ] Petchabun Variety towards the east appeal to an extension of swidden hill tribe communities as in the Higher North, all Section of the exodus from China of those ethnic minorities in the last many hundreds of several years. The geographic variances in topography have to be appreciated as being the ethnic, sociological and cultural variances are in essence involving lowlanders and highlanders [ Hill tribes ]. These classifications and comprehensive explanations are talked over in North Thailand Individuals .
About Central Thailand
Central Thailand is positioned around the central plains in the Chao Phraya River and the Meklong River valley. The 1st considerable civilisation listed here was that from the Mon individuals And through the 6th – ninth C its Buddhist Kingdom was referred to in chinese documents and on silver coins as ” Dvaravati ”. Influences from India when merged with Mon features shaped The premise of faith, art, architecture and public administration.
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