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Mount Kailash Trek is the main trekking route to the majestic and sacred Mountain Kailash (6,638m). The mountain is located in the western part of Tibet,The route has been traversed by millions of pilgrim goers for hundreds of years, as the mountain is held in reverence by four religions: Buddhism, Bön (shamanistic religion of Tibet), Hindu and Jain(Tibetan Buddhists).
Buddhism and Bon, consider the mountain to be the center of the universe and home to Chenresing (Buddha of compassion) and worship the mountain as the soul of the region. Jains, on the other hand, believe that their prophet – ‘Rishabhanatha’ received illumination atop the mountains. Hindus, however, consider Mount Kailash as the abode of their deity Lord Shiva.
No matter the belief, the trekking route sees thousands of pilgrims make their way to Mount Kailash to take part in the ‘La Kora’ every year. La Kora is a ritual and spiritual walk around Kailash Mountain. While every pilgrim goer performs the La Kora in a clockwise direction of the mountain, Bön followers traverse the trek in an anti-clockwise direction per their religion.
Mount Kailash Trek, is the most famous pilgrimage through Tibet. From Lhasa – the starting point of this trek; we trek through gravel covered roads to reach the surroundings of Mount Kailash. During the journey, we will come across the immense Changthang plateau – the domain of nomadic pastors and the source of the three great sacred rivers of Asia: Indus, Sutlej, and Brahmaputra. Lake Manasarovar, considered to be sacred in the Hindu religion, also falls en route to Mount Kailash. The highlight of the region, however, is the majestic Pangong Lake, one of the largest lakes in all of Asia.
The trek often includes 3 days of walking, with a maximum of 8 hours of walking, 500 meters of elevation gain during the day. The average altitude of the trip is relatively high: 3650m in Lhasa to 5600m on Mount Kailash. Thus, your health must be in optimal condition before opting for the trek. The paths made specifically for La Kora, are of good quality and maintained regularly.
As the trek to Mount Kailash passes over altitudes of 5,650m, the trekkers will have to acclimatize themselves first at the banks of Manasarovar and then again in the Inland Khora before attempting the La Kora. Due to high altitudes, rugged landscape, treacherous hilly roads throughout the Mount Kailash Trek – participating in sports activities or endurance training before departure is highly recommended.
Arrival in Kathmandu international airport transport to hotel
Short in-city tour of cultural and religious sites of significance within Kathmandu.
Take a 7-hour drive to syprubashi, from Kathmandu.
Take a drive to kerung from syprubeshi.
Rest day for acclimatization and exploring the town of kerung.
kerung to drive Saga.
Saga to drive dongba.
Dongba to drive Manasarovar lake.
early morning puja beside of lake and rest day.
after Launch drive to Darchen.
Darche to drive 5 km to till Yamdowar and from yamdowar to we have to walk to Derafu
early morning from derafu to cross the Dolma Lah pass and juthalfu. today is the toughest day in this tour.
juthalfu to 8 km walk and ending point of kailash cora and from there direct drive to dongba.
Dongba to drive kerung..
kerung to drive dorder side and finished the immigration formality and cross the border and direct drive to kathmandu.
free day Kathmandu of Departure to international airport
arrival and departure two night hotel in kathmandu.
all local transportation and government tax
staff salary and insurance of staff
all trekking meals vegetarian food
Nepali team leader and the coordinator.
All transportation is done via a Bus.
Procurement of all necessary travel permits and visas within Tibet.
Entrance fees of Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash.
Entrance fees for Langtang National Park.
Emergency evacuation management. first aid kid
Duffel bags to carry personal goods during the Kailash Tour.
Personal, Insurance, Medical, and Emergency expenses.
Cost of renting a Horse and a helper during Kailash Parikrama.
Tips for the staff.
Cost of the hotel in Kathmandu in case of unforeseen circumstances (Obtaining the permit late, early arrival from Kailash Trek)
if incase delay due to natural disaster or due to weather condition or permit issue delay from immigration
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CEO and President Penny Young Nance wrote an opinion piece recently for Foxnews.com explaining how a new standard could have implications in protecting children on the Internet:
Google and Mozilla recently announced plans to begin testing a new standard that would encrypt the Domain Name System, often referred to as “the address book of the Internet.”
Depending on how DNS encryption is implemented, it could have serious implications for the protection of children.
While encryption in the name of additional security is a laudable goal, it needs to be done in a way that does not have the unintended consequence of impeding law enforcement and efforts to filter inappropriate and, in the case of child pornography, illegal content.
As a leading organization dedicated to protecting children and ending sexual exploitation, Concerned Women for America is deeply concerned about any potential changes to the functioning of the Internet that could inadvertently open the floodgates of harmful content and hurt efforts to identify and stop sex trafficking and child pornography.
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Virtues are defined as positive traits of character to think and act in ways that are good. It is to do what is morally right. I will not attempt to discuss the concept or philosophy of virtues as a whole, that is not my area of expertise. But I have been in the health care industry and teaching profession long enough to know that the character of a person is not given much weight in the evaluation process for entrance to medical or nursing schools, nor is it given much focus in the teaching curriculum. This lack of emphasis is in my opinion, a big oversight on the part of medical/nursing schools and residency programs.
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Aarhus University tests P removal from drainage water in Denmark
The main compartments of the system that is built at the Fensholt fieldsite are i) a patented sediment filter for particle-bound P removal, ii) a reactive filter for retention of soluble P and iii) a sediment sludge storage tank.
The sediment filter consists of lamellae and a mesh filter that retains particles. Periodically it is automatically flushed with resident water to resuspend particles before the slurry is pumped into the storage tank. After allowing for sediment settling, water flows back from the storage tank to the filter system.
The reactive filter consists of a cylindrical iron net cage with a volume of 2.53 m3 (figure below). The reactive filter is packed with 2-4 mm granules of Diapure™, a calcinated diatomaceous earth with an iron oxide coating. Drainage water flows from the outside to the inside of the filter due to the hydraulic gradient. This specific design combines a high cross-sectional area with a high hydraulic residence time.
The P filter system is additionally equipped with a flow meter and a number of pressure transducers, recording continuously the water levels in the different wells. Drainage water samples are collected automatically by ISCO samplers, located at the inlet (ISCO1), between the sediment and reactive filter (ISCO2) and at the outlet (ISCO3).
Monitoring has started in March 2019, at the end of the drainage season. Thus, the data set is currently too small for a system evaluation. However, initial results indicate that total phosphorus (TP) concentrations were reduced by about half in the P filter system (figure below).
The monitoring will be continued in the next drainage season.
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Police are investigating after a spate of vandalism at 5G sites - feared to be fuelled by 'baseless' conspiracy theories around coronavirus.
A series of vandalism attacks have taken place across Glasgow in the past week, including in Springboig, in the city's East End - where underground copper cabling was destroyed overnight between Thursday and Friday.
The rise in attacks mirrors trends across the UK, which have seen engineers verbally abused and even told they were going to be murdered by people who mistakenly believe 5G is linked to the spread of Covid-19.
While there is no single theory blaming the installation of the next-generation mobile network on the worldwide pandemic, many are now being increasingly shared on social media groups.
This includes "5G - Glasgow Under Attack" on Facebook, which has nearly 5,000 online members and frequently spreads misinformation from the likes of conspiracy theorist David Icke.
Telecoms engineers and academics are increasingly worried about the impact these "baseless" suggestions are having.
Craig Anderson, Scottish regional secretary for CWU, a union representing thousands of telecoms workers across the UK, said: "Around 99.5 per cent of the work of our members has nothing to do with 5G and it is very rare that it is.
"It would be an absolute miniscule fraction of the work going on at the moment in Scotland.
"The priority for our members is actually to provide connectivity for the public during lockdown.
"We are providing for hospitals, chemists, and for phone lines for an awful lot of vulnerable people in the community.
"We are effectively trying to keep the nation connected so people can work from home, call their relatives and use the technology available to them.
"I haven't seen any legitimate scientific evidence that in any way proves the theories that are circulating about 5G."
Mr Anderson's worries are shared by Muhammad Ali Imran, professor of communication systems and dean at University of Glasgow UESTC.
Prof Imran said: "People hear words like 'microwave' and 'radiation' and they immediately try to associate it with their own experiences.
"Some people worry if they are using microwaves to communicate, then they must be hurting us.
"That is not true and microwaves have been used for a long time and even back to 3G.
"We are using these to connect different data stations, which connect to your mobile handset.
"There is no credible scientific link or study which proves 5G is dangerous to human health.
"The myth of 5G and Covid-19 is more baseless than these.
"That is a physical impossibility.
"The reason is electromagnetic radiation is a wave and it is not a physical thing. It cannot carry material things.
"We cannot use this technology to share viruses or spread them.
"As soon as pandemic came, people started to share conspiracy theories about it and there were existing ones about 5G.
"People seem to have just started to put them together to create another one.
"One simple example to dispel this nonsense is looking at a country like Iran, which has been badly impacted by Covid-19.
"Iran has no 5G base stations of their own and hasn't deployed any 5G frequencies yet."
Police Scotland has been approached for comment.
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Most of the businesses are promoted by making their brand popular among the masses. Reusable bags can be a very effective tool to promote your brand in a very inexpensive manner. In order to make your reusable bag more attractive so that it is noticed by people, you need to create any creative artwork. Visual effect will always be useful in promoting the brand, as people will notice the artwork first and then try to read further.
You’re likely to have one thing in your home, no matter where you are in the world, if you’re a mom: a bag filled with plastic bags. This is a common habit across the globe, regardless of race, nationality, or any other reason.
It’s a way to store the bags until you find a use for them. While some may use them to carry groceries or objects, many people just keep them there until they get tired and throw them away.
Although it may be a joy to finally get rid of your bags, that happiness is fleeting when you see what happens to them.
Here are few ideas to make your Printed Reusable Bags little more attractive so that it can easily draw the attention of any passer by when such bags are carried by any of your customer.
- Create contrasting color
Certain color combinations like white and black, cream and dark blue, green and silver are very classic contrasting color combination that are visible in lowlight conditions too. Nobody will ever fail to notice it.
- Design your logo
Logo makes big impact about the company. It should be such that it should tell you all about your business. Did you ever notice the logo of Mercedes or McDonald? It should make immediate impact on the mind of the viewer just by viewing your logo. So, take help of any good designer to create your logo.
- Bag must match with the brand
Obviously, the design of the bag must match with the brand otherwise your effort to promote your brand may fail. Observe how some of the successful brands design their package.
- Display the name of company
Your business and what you are doing must be clearly mentioned in the bag. People should be able to identify the name of your company by looking at your logo.
- Choose the right color
Color plays a big role in promoting any brand. Prefer a color which can be immediately noticed by anyone. Color like red, green or yellow can be immediately noticed from far way. Also, black color can be an impressive choice. Do not restrict your logo in any single color but print in number of colors too.
- Black and white can also click sometime
In quite a few cases, it has been observed that any monochrome choice can also be quite attractive to people instead of going for colors.
- Do experiment with placement
It is not necessary that placement of your logo must be any fixed place. You can change the location of your logo and see the fun.
- Go casual
For certain type of home business promotion, casual styles can be a perfect idea. The artwork that you present must show certain hand drawn patterns. Bags should also display a laid-back nature of business.
- Class it up
Your bag choice must indicate the level of the class or luxury that can suit for any technical start-ups or any law firms. Use clear sans serif fonts to word your lines.
- Use green color to convey your message
If you are trying to make an appeal for saving the environment then try to play it up by using green color which anybody can easily connect with.
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Koch Vision Entertainment
Cast: Jerry Orbach, Doug Preis, Laura Dean, Hubert Kelly
Extras: Commentary Tracks, Pilot Demo, Interview, Music Video, Music Tracks, Slideshow, Trailer
"In 2086, two peaceful aliens journeyed to Earth, seeking our help. In return, they gave us the plans for our first hyperdrive, allowing mankind to open the doors to the stars…." So begins the prologue on each episode of "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers," explaining how a team of special agents was assembled to bring law and order to Earth and its allies across space. Known as the Galaxy Rangers, this team consists of four individuals with computerized brain implants that enhance their unique gifts: Zachery Foxx, a partially bionic man whose implant provides him with temporary superstrength; Shane "Goose" Gooseman, a genetically engineered Supertrooper who can change shape and become virtually invincible for short periods of time; Niko, an archaeologist with psychic powers; and Doc Hartford, a computer wiz who can communicate with computer systems. Together, they travel through space and to distant planets to bring peace and justice, although their primary interest in stopping the reign of the evil Queen of the Crown who is holding Zachery's wife prisoner.
If one thing can be said for "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers," it's that the series is undeniably a product of its time. In the early 1980s, creator Robert Mandell worked on the Japanese animated version of the 1960s hit "Thunderbirds," which his father had been a part of, and this was one of the primary catalysts for the development of "Galaxy Rangers." As toy companies began using animated television series to promote their lines of products, from "He-Man" to "Care Bears," there was a surge of popularity in animated children's programming throughout the decade. With his new interest in futuristic stories, Mandell conceived "Galaxy Rangers" as a space Western, taking cues from numerous influences, including "Star Wars," "Star Trek," Clint Eastwood Westerns, and even "The Seven Samurai," itself inspired by American Westerns. These diverse inspirations opened the door for a wide array of imaginative characters and storylines.
In keeping with the Western roots, Mandell modeled the Galaxy Rangers after the Texas Rangers, complete with gold star badges, cowboy hats, and robotic horses. The character of Goose was modeled after Clint Eastwood's Western protagonist in both appearance and personality, and he is appropriately the most mysterious of the heroes. The science-fiction aspects are mixed in wonderfully as the Rangers travel to various planets, each with their own unique landscape and race of aliens. At times, the mixture becomes a little too reminiscent of "Star Wars," most noticeably in an early episode in which a saloon scene bares an unquestionable (and likely intentional) similarity to George Lucas' famous canteen scene. Part of the series' charm, however, are its visual allusions to past films and TV shows. In addition to Goose's Eastwood persona, there is also Buzzwang, a robot aid who certainly owes a debt to C-3PO, the Rangers' spaceship computer that was clearly based on HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," and the Queen of the Crown who looks like a sexed-up, dominatrix version of the Queen from Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Unlike so many of the popular children's series of the 1980s, "Adventures of Galaxy Rangers" was given much more depth both in its storylines and characters. Some of the episodes address surprisingly sophisticated subject matter, as in the episode "One Million Emotions," which takes a psychological approach to death unusual for kiddie fare. The fate of Zachary's wife remains a constant thread hanging over the heroes' heads and provides an overriding structure for the episodic plots. With this level of sophistication, not to mention the amount of violence and use of guns, "Galaxy Rangers" would probably not be targeted toward as young an audience today as it originally was. Older children will be able to appreciate the complexities of the story and characters, but younger viewers may find it confusing and sometimes scary.
Of course, more than two decades since its premiere, the show is dated in several aspects. Although frequently beautiful, the animation is stilted, much like 1980s anime (the series was, in fact, animated in Japan). Movement is jerky, and the characters lack expressive range. Humor plays a large role, though it is often clunky. Doc Hartford is, it must be said, the show's token black character, and he functions largely as comic relief with his characteristic wisecracks. By far, however, the most dated element is the music. Younger viewers may chuckle at the action scenes as 80s rock songs blast away on the soundtrack. While these aspects may keep the show from drawing in newer viewers, fans will appreciate the nostalgic quality. As someone who had never heard of "Galaxy Rangers" until now, I was drawn in completely by the retro feel and sound. Yes, it's cheesy. But this is the kind of entertainment I remember seeing as a kid in the late 1980s, and members of that generation will no doubt smile in fond — and perhaps slightly embarrassed — remembrance.
After releasing a handful of episodes on DVD in 2005, Koch Vision now brings the first 32 episodes of the show to DVD in chronological order and completely uncut in this four-disc set. Here is the episode breakdown:
Disc 1: "Phoenix," "New Frontier," "Tortuna," "Chained," "Smuggler's Gauntlet," "Mistwalker"
Disc 2: "Wildfire," "Ghost Station," "One Million Emotions," "Traash," "Mindnet," "Tune-Up," "Space Sorcerer," "Progress," "Queen's Lair"
Disc 3: "The Ax," "Shaky," "Space Moby," "Scarecrow," "The Power Within," "Games," "Showtime," "Psychocrypt," "Renegade Rangers"
Disc 4: "Edge of Darkness," "The Magnificent Kiwi," "Armada," "Birds of a Feather," "Stargate," "Buzzwang's Folly," "Heart of Tarkon," "Murder on the Andorian Express"
While no clear restoration has been performed on these episodes, they generally look good. The prints are clean, save for a few negligible specks. Image quality is not extremely sharp, but it is adequate. Strangely, the color is the least consistent aspect. Some episodes are filled with lush, vibrant colors while others appear slightly muted and washed out. It must be said that the show looks its age, but in spite of some technical flaws, the presentation should be good enough to satisfy longtime fans.
Audio fares about the same, presented in a Dolby Digital 2.0 track. The sound is fairly flat and not very dynamic, but it gets the job done. Dialogue is always clear. What suffers the most is the rock music score, which lacks the rush and power that a stronger presentation could give it. There are no subtitle options.
Koch Vision has provided some very nice supplemental features for this set, beginning with audio commentary from series creator Robert Mandell, story editor Christopher Rowley, and voice actor Henry Mandell on select episodes: "New Frontier" on Disc 1, "One Million Emotions" on Disc 2, and "Scarecrow" and "Psychocrypt" on Disc 3. The three have an easygoing rapport as they reminisce about the series and offer some background information on the production and their influences.
The rest of the bonus features are contained on Disc 1. The first is a "never-before-seen" pilot/demo reel, which lasts 13 minutes and is basically a condensed (and slightly more coherent) version of the first episode with some alternate animated footage. This has not been as well preserved as the official episodes and will be of interest mostly as a curiosity item.
Following this is a 14-minute video interview with Robert Mandell. He opens up about his career and some of the things he worked on before "Galaxy Rangers" and elaborates on some of the things he mentioned in the commentaries. Fans of the series should certainly enjoy the insight Mandell provides in this feature.
Next is an animated music video for the series theme song, "No Guts, No Glory." I'm not sure if this existed already or was created for the DVD release, but it consists primarily of clips from the series framed by footage of the four main characters singing. It looks quite aged, so I'm assuming this is probably an old video.
I may be alone here, but I was absolutely loving the next feature, a collection of original music tracks. The songs "No Guts, No Glory," "Fight to the Finish," "Psycho-Crystal," and "Somewhere a Heart" are included in their entirety in a sort of jukebox-like format. All are classic 80s rock and much better than I ever would have expected of a children's animated series. I actually listened to these tunes as I wrote this review!
The next feature is a slideshow recreation of a vintage "talking storybook" (oh, how I used to love those) version of the episode entitled "Tortuna." All of the audio from the original cassette tape is included, complete with the chime that indicates when it's time to turn the page. In place of the illustrations from the original book, screenshots from the episode are displayed on each slide. Finally, a trailer for the DVD release is included.
In addition to all of this, a 32-page booklet insert is included in the package, providing a guide to all of the show's major characters. With biographical information for the heroes, allies, and villains, this is especially helpful for viewers who, like me, are new to the series and may have trouble sorting out the complex story arc.
As a piece of 1980s animation nostalgia, "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers" still has the ability to entertain, and Koch Vision has ensured that viewers can finally appreciate the show's complexity in its entirety. Despite its cheerfully dated quality, the series can still be recognized for its sophistication and fanciful blending of science fiction and Western genres. Although it may not find much of an audience today outside of its cult legacy, it is good enough to stand on its own and enthrall its longtime fans.
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All Pounamu is sacred and highly valued by Ngāti Waewae. Carving this sacred stone has been a cornerstone of our culture for hundreds of years and we are honoured that you have chosen to adorn yourself with this most scared gift.
Meaning tears of sadness or grief, these are named for their teardrop shape, and are widely regarded as touchstones in healing and meditation. Roimata carvings are also believed to hold strong connection to the land
Length = 56mm
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Stone type: Kawakawa
Waewae Pounamu is proud to be part of the Ngāi Tahu Pounamu authentication system.
All authentic Waewae Pounamu pieces carry a unique traceability barcode that, when entered online, identifies the origin and history of the carving. This system guarantees that the stone has been obtained by legitimate means, and has been treated using appropriate cultural values.
Visit Ngai Tahu Pounamu to trace your piece.
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|Memorial Day Remembrance|
Welcome to our blog where we view life from the eyes of an artist's soul and explore how creativity enhances the inner spirit.
First and foremost today, Monday in the United States, we are celebrating Memorial Day in memory of all those who have gone before us. So the above photos are a tribute to my ancestors, friends, husbands and all those brave war heroes who died fighting believing in freedom and the 'American Way.'
Life does go on so today we are offering you our Magical Monday Meme blog hop, Macro Monday and Creative Everyday. To link up with the blog hop see link just below the end of post. For Macro Monday I am posting the wonderful poppy again because it is a flower that is frequently used to honor our 'war' dead. For Creative Everyday, the post below is a set of haiku; once again honoring all those who gone before us.
thanks for memories
you fought the good fight always
proud of you we are.
honoring all those lost
to war, to sickness, to age
wherever you are.
we hold you close dears
heroes, heroines start to end
brave souls ever loved.
As the infamous Bob Hope used to say 'Thanks for the Memories.'
May you begin each new day gathering warm and loving memories as you live well each day.
Hugs and namaste,
We love to have you post your comments, thoughts or questions to delight us all in the day, especially, ArtMuse Dog ^_^
QUOTE FOR THE DAY: ' What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.' (Katherine Patterson)
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- Online education—done well—holds tremendous potential for both students and universities. Yet, as with any college experience, many students still struggle to succeed and persist on their pathway to a degree.
- There’s a big opportunity for behavioral science to identify and design for barriers specific to online learning environments, particularly as more colleges are recognizing the need for (and value of) remote learning.
- We worked with Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) to develop behavioral solutions to student persistence in online learning.
Online education—done well—holds tremendous potential for both students and universities. It can make college accessible to more students, including those who might live far from campus, have children at home, or need to work during traditional school hours. It can be designed in a way that frees up faculty and staff time for those high-impact engagements that foster student success. And it can be less expensive for schools and students alike, allowing scarce resources to go to other priorities.
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) has long been a pioneer in online education, having offered its first online courses as far back as 1995. With one of the largest online programs in the country, SNHU has significant experience supporting online students as they enroll in, persist through, and graduate from college.
And while SNHU has worked hard to increase access to high-quality degrees using a variety of approaches—including lowering tuition, providing mental health resources, and offering personalized advising through a student’s academic journey—university officials wanted to know what else they could do to support student persistence in online learning, with a particular focus on the first few terms.
We partnered with SNHU to learn more about why students were withdrawing and what was getting in their way. We first analyzed previous research that SNHU had conducted on student persistence and satisfaction. Next, we interviewed current (and also recently withdrawn) SNHU students, as well as instructors and advisors to learn about the greatest barriers to maintaining enrollment throughout the first few terms. We found six key factors that made students likely to withdraw:
- Encountering challenges early in the term
- Feeling that dropping out is an appropriate response to poor academic performance
- Frustrating interactions with instructors
- Not seeing the connection between general education requirements and longer-term goals
- Feeling isolated from other students, faculty, and staff
- Failing to connect with advisors at key times
To address these barriers, we explored the potential of dozens of behaviorally informed designs, ultimately focusing on the following three solutions:
Core Behavioral Insight
|It’s important to have multiple, light-touch ways of checking in so that students receive support at the moments when they need it most. Students often don’t proactively reach out for help, and it can be easy for their struggles to go unnoticed when they aren’t physically surrounded by other students, faculty, and staff.||Temperature Check embeds an interface for repeated, light-touch check-ins into advisors’ web dashboards, where advisors observe key information for all students on their caseload. This helps advisors spot struggling students before it’s too late.|
|It takes a long time to complete a degree, and providing shorter-term rewards can help students stay motivated and engaged. These rewards might be especially valuable for students who don’t have access to the social and emotional rewards of being in a classroom and building social connections.||Strong Start Rewards program through which students earn points for each assignment submitted. These points can be redeemed for rewards (such as swag or textbook credits) as encouragement to persist through their first few terms.|
|Students, particularly ones with work or family obligations outside of the classroom, often struggle to balance competing commitments. The more colleges can offer slack to accommodate those moments when “life happens,” the more students will be likely to persist through challenges and succeed.||One Late Pass per course, allowing students to submit an assignment up to one week late with no penalties and no questions asked.|
Online learning can create a big opportunity for more students to access higher education, but it also introduces new challenges for students facing all the demands of college without the social support that comes with in-person learning. Behavioral science can help identify and address barriers specific to online learning environments.
SNHU will be refining and potentially piloting some of our proposed solutions through 2022 with the goal of evaluating their impact on student persistence. While these solutions were designed specifically for SNHU’s context, many of the core components would likely apply to other online learning environments as well.
Remote education isn’t going anywhere, and applying behavioral insights like these is needed to support students as they navigate online learning environments. Both college and the world surrounding it have changed, and schools should not underestimate the need to adapt to students’ changing needs as they enroll in, persist through, and graduate from this new context.
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The Lake Huron Forever initiative was developed in 2019 by shoreline community foundations and conservation partners from the United States and Canada to advance water quality protection and healthy, sustainable communities on both sides of the lake. The Lake Huron Forever initiative aims to support community conversation and collaboration in the design and implementation of on-the-ground work to strengthen the health and well-being of residents as well as natural resources.
Protecting water quality, ensuring the diversity of plant and animal life, and supporting communities across the region means committing to the long-term protection of Lake Huron. In the coming years, they will strive to engage communities and activate collaboration and partnerships to sustain a healthy Lake Huron through the Lake Huron Forever initiative.
Now is the time to take action. Forever starts today.
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This section of the lesson allows students to determine what they already know about wetlands and wetland plants. It also gives them the opportunity to consider questions about the topic that they can find the answer to throughout the lesson. Students begin by reading a short article about wetland plants. Then students discuss and answer a set of questions in small groups. Finally, there is time for each small group to share a summary of what they discussed with the rest of their classmates. Students do not investigate the answers to the questions at this time. Instead, they share what they already know and form questions they would like to have answered. This phase of the lesson also allows the classroom teacher to assess the prior knowledge and any misconceptions the students may have about wetlands.
By reading a short article, students will learn about what areas are considered a wetland and about some basic characteristics of wetland plants. Through small group brainstorming and class discussions, students will begin thinking about how wetland plants could be affected by tides.
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Large sheets of paper or poster board
- Ask students to read an article related to wetland plants.
- Divide the students into small groups (no more than four students) to discuss the following questions. Students should only use their prior knowledge and experiences to answer the questions.
- Stress to the students that they will not be penalized for wrong answers. This activity is to simply see what they already know about the topic.
- Discussion Questions:
- Have you ever been to a wetland such as a swamp, marsh, or peatland? If so, what characteristics did you observe?
- What factors might cause the water level near the surface of the soil in a wetland to change?
- Do you think that all wetlands experience the same patterns of fluctuation in water level near the surface of the soil? Why or why not?
- Would you expect to find the same types of plants growing in every area of a wetland? Explain your answer.
- After the students have been given ample time to discuss the questions in their small groups, have each group share their answers with the rest of the class.
- Hang large sheets of paper or poster board on the wall. Ask each group to write on the paper a summary of what they discussed or their one best answer for each question.
- Review the responses on the large sheets of paper.
- Do not tell the students if what they have discussed is correct or incorrect. Save the large sheets of paper to refer back to at a later time.
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A compounding pharmacy is a long-established tradition in pharmacy practice that enables physicians to prescribe—and patients to take—medicines that are especially prepared by a compounding pharmacist to meet an individual’s specific needs. Compounded medications are a vital part of quality medical care since a growing number of people have unique health needs that are not met by over-the-counter prescription medicines. For these individuals, custom-compounded medications prescribed by expert physicians and mixed safely by trained, licensed compounding pharmacists are the only way to better health.
There are many reasons why using a compounding pharmacy is necessary, such as:
- Treatments that require a customized dose for patients with unique needs
- Patients who have allergies to certain binders, dyes, or preservatives found in over-the-counter medications
- Improving compliance for patients who must consume several medications by creating combined prescriptions
- When the required medication in its original form is difficult or impossible to ingest by the patient, it can be altered to liquid, cream, or any other form that is easier to take
Are Bioidentical Hormone Pharmacies or Compounding Pharmacies Safe?
In order to become a licensed pharmacist, a student must complete pharmacy school, which for every state, requires instruction in the compounding of pharmaceutical ingredients. These pharmacists have studied the compatibility of chemicals and have learned how to prepare alternate dosage forms of medications. Every compounding pharmacy is licensed, inspected, and regulated by their respective state boards of pharmacy.
Additionally, the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board, a national accreditation program, evaluates and grants recognition only to bioidentical hormone pharmacies or compounding pharmacies that meet the highest standards of quality assurance. All compounding pharmacies recommended by BodyLogicMD have this accreditation.
Trusting Only the Best
With an estimated 3,000 compounding pharmacies, filling 30 million prescriptions a year in the United States, consumers have a wide range of choices. The decision in choosing a compounding pharmacy should not be based on proximity, but on industry reputation. A qualified compounding pharmacy needs to have the best products—that are tested—with the most knowledgeable pharmacists and a staff that provides superior customer service.
At BodyLogicMD, only expert bioidentical hormone pharmacies are selected for your customized treatment options. Intensive criteria must be met before BodyLogicMD network will refer a patient to a compounding pharmacy. All compounding pharmacies are not the same—that is why the pharmacies recommended by BodyLogicMD are experienced, reliable, reputable, and cost effective.
Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB)
The Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB) was formed to provide quality standards for compounding pharmacies through a voluntary accreditation program. PCAB assesses those pharmacies that voluntarily apply, and awards the PCAB Seal of Accreditation to those pharmacies that accept the PCAB requirements, meet the criteria, and comply with the Rules and Terms of the PCAB program, including adherence to PCAB Standards. The PCAB Seal of Accreditation provides evidence of adherence to quality standards and to principles of the profession of pharmacy compounding.
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Dairy farmers keen to be part of shaping the dairy sector’s future are encouraged to consider joining DairyNZ’s Board of Directors.
The Great Futures in Dairying plan is the sector's strategy for shaping dairy farming as a competitive career option through a range of workplace and technology.
"Dairy farms employ 37,000 people on-farm. The success of dairy is critical for those working in the sector and to New Zealand as a whole," says DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle.
"New Zealand is facing significant social changes which will require many businesses to work harder to attract and retain staff. These include an ageing population, increasing urbanisation, wider career options, lower fertility rates and technological change."
Mackle says these trends mean the dairy sector needs to be forward-thinking and develop fresh ideas to attract and keep the right staff.
"Farmers are resilient and practical people, and we know they are focused on finding solutions to this challenge."
The Great Futures in Dairying plan is led by DairyNZ in partnership with farmers, government and farming sector representatives. The plan identifies three key focus areas to make dairy a competitive career option.
"As a sector we firstly want to shape up to ensure we are attractive in an increasingly competitive labour market. We are looking at a range of initiatives, including piloting an induction experience for new dairy staff and developing clear career training pathways for people to progress into more senior roles," says Mackle.
The second focus area - change the job - looks at embracing new technology and strategies to improve workplaces. Smart cow collars, milking cup removal technology and flexible milking are some initiatives proposed to provide staff with a better work-life balance.
"Lastly, we want to look in new places - like Pacifika communities, women and people with disabilities - for our dairy teams to draw on a larger and more diverse talent pool," says Dr Mackle.
The 2021 Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer of the Year Quinn Morgan is one of the farmers supporting the new plan. He grew up in the city and previously worked in the city and previously worked in the fitness industry. Morgan now manages a team of eight on a Taupo dairy farm.
"For people who aren't familiar with farming, it can feel intimidating to consider applying for a dairy job.
"So, it's awesome that the dairy sector is looking to encourage a wider range of people to work on farms," he says.
Morgan's team is already focused on developing their skills by using online video learning, and they are looking forward to welcoming a staff member who is new to farming soon.
Taranaki farmer Hayden Lawrence is one farmer who is embracing new technology, with his farm team.
"We use a project management platform which allows our team to see and manage farm tasks. This gives us the flexibility to better manage workloads to avoid too much overtime," says Hayden.
He says it is a priority to support his team to upskill themselves so they can move into more senior roles in the sector.
Mackle says that the Great Futures in Dairying plan is ambitious and will require contributions from many organisations to succeed.
"We already have some of the initiatives in the plan underway - like our GoDairy recruitment campaign. The next step will be working with other stakeholders to secure funding for other projects and plan their rollout. We hope to see the Government get behind the plan, as the dairy sector is vital to New Zealand's future."
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Our scene shifts back to the bastions and bulwarks of Louisbourg and the amateur army which had landed in whale boats on the shores of Gabarus Bay. There then followed, as we have seen, "a short but smart engagement." The few brave Frenchmen who had met their attackers on the beach, other than those that were captured, fled to the safety of their stone walls. The colonial troops then "filled the country." The French inhabitants who lived and worked within a mile or two of the walls of Louisbourg ran to the gates and did not apparently spend time gathering up their possessions.1 The New Englanders were disorganized and undisciplined. Directly they found an empty French structure, they put it to the torch. The officers, when they finally caught up with their enthusiastic raiders were to take them to task; not so much that they were to make certain French families homeless by their activities, but because many of these structures housed very valuable supplies which the invaders might well have come to use, for example, sails and cables.2
The older and more experienced of the New Englanders (no less enthusiastic but possessed of an understanding that first things came first) continued to stick to the shores, or returned after taking a peek at this fabled fortress: supplies had to be landed and a camp set up.3 This was to take time and some planning as there was considerable difficulty in landing guns and stores "for want of a harbour" and "the surf running very high" and the men "obliged to wade into the water to their middles and often higher."4 By the 3rd, all the men meant to be ashore, were ashore. And, while there was yet some heavy work to do in getting the cannon off the ships and placed before the walls of Louisbourg, the view at this early point, is -- "We all seemed to of one heart and things are in a good posture."5
I now tell of an event that occurred just after the New Englanders landed and pushed to the outskirts of their objective; a very fortunate event, indeed; an event which was yet another piece of good luck for these amateurs who had "a tough nut to crack"; an event which made a critical difference in the capture of this prize: Fortress Louisbourg. The colonial invaders were to take the Royal Battery away from the French without a shot being fired. But before telling of that event we best remind ourselves of the physical positioning of the principal defences of Louisbourg.
| The Mouth of Louisbourg Harbour.|
Click on the Island Battery, the Royal Battery and the Lighthouse point.
In describing the fortifications of Louisbourg in the earlier part of this work, it was pointed out that the defence of the town depended on two fortified gun batteries located beyond the reaches of the main fort, itself stuck on a rocky peninsula which acts as a lower jaw at the mouth of the harbour. (See clickable map.) This mouth stretches for about a mile to the upper jaw, Lighthouse Point. It is through this mouth that a ship must sail in order to get to the harbour side of the town. The outer edge of the peninsula, the eastern facing edge of Louisbourg, is impregnable having as it does a piece of Nova Scotian "iron bound coast," an eastern facing shore lined with a granite face and smashed continually with the breaking waters of the North Atlantic. These shore conditions extend out to the end of the peninsula on which Louisbourg is located, and beyond, in a submerged fashion, half way out into the harbour's mouth to an island located about midway between the inclosing jaws of the peninsula and Lighthouse Point. No ship can enter to the south of this island, between the island and the peninsula; she would be grounded and soon come to pieces from the action of the churning waters against the graveled granite just below the surface. The channel into the harbour was to the north of this small island, between it and Lighthouse Point. On this island the French built a small independent fort with cannon; the Island Battery, with thirty-six guns broadside to the narrow entrance.6 A second independent fort was located on the shore of the harbour immediately opposite, northwest, situated like a uvula to the mouth of the harbour. Thus, it was, that any ship trying to get into Louisbourg harbour would face a deadly cross-fire between the Island Battery and the shore battery.7
The shore battery to which we just referred, it needs be pointed out, was not only located opposite the entrance of the harbour but also opposite, or nearly so, to the north-western edge of the town. (Again, see clickable map.) Old Louisbourg, as has been stated, is located on a peninsula, the neck of which wore its heavily fortified walls; the town is within and is principally served by is docks located on the north side of the peninsula and behind the walls; but the north side of Louisbourg is comparatively exposed, as it must be, if it is to carry out its water borne trading activities at the edge of the harbour waters. The shore battery was located about two miles along the curved shore of the harbour, but only about a mile across the harbour, in a straight line, just as a cannon ball would fly. This shore battery was very much the pride of the French engineers: it was called the Royal Battery. It was a very impressive stone structure complete with walls; towers; and twenty-eight 42 pounders, mounted and pointed to the mouth of the harbour.8 The French were just then (1744/45) in the process of carrying out improvements to the Battery's land-side walls; in preparation, they had leveled certain areas leaving openings which were vulnerable to attack. There was to this fortification, more generally a serious geographical flaw: inland of it, there was higher ground which an invading enemy might easily command.9
Given the above description, one might now imagine the surprise of our colonial raiders, when the very next day after they land, a detachment sneaks up to take a look over the brow of the hill in behind the Grand Battery and find that it was deserted; the French had left it for them, guns and all. Well, these colonial English couldn't believe their luck. The small force which occupied the Royal Battery was headed up by Colonel William Vaughan; it was to be Vaughn's moment of glory.
One version10 has it that Vaughan did it with twelve men. They had just finished, without any resistance, it would appear, torching "several large storehouses," likely somewhere between the fort and the Grand Battery. These storehouses were filled with combustible naval supplies (pitch, tar, cordage, and wood); it sent up a glorious signal. Being handy, the small group decided to have a peek at the Grand Battery: -- And what to their surprise! No one was home! We quote from a journal kept by one of the New Englanders:
"This morning we had an alarm in the camp supposing there was a sally from the town against us we ran to meet them but found ourselves mistaken. I had a great mind to see the Grand Battery, so with five other of our company I went towards it and as I was a going, about thirty more fell in with us. We came in the back of a hill within long Musket shot and fired at the said fort and finding no Resistance I was Minded to go and did with about a dozen men setting a guard to the northward, should we be assaulted [when we saw] two Frenchmen whom we immediately took prisoners [along] with two women and a child. [We] then went in after some others to the said Grand fort and found it deserted."11Fairfax Downey describes the event this way:
"The Battery was strangely silent. There was a lifeless look to it; no smoke from the chimneys, a soldier pointed out. But even the impetuous Vaughan was not going to be drawn into a trap with a rush to storm a fort of that size with thirteen men. He beckoned an expendable one of them, a Cape Cod Indian, gave him two lusty swigs from his silver flash of brandy and told him to take a look inside. The Indian slithered through the brush like a snake and up and over a low-leveled stretch of rampart. He vanished, reappeared, stood up and waved them forward. Muskets cocked - it might still be a trap - the colonials crawled through embrasures, squeezed past the big spiked 42s, and entered the deserted stronghold. Aside from themselves, the only living things in the fort were a forlorn woman, left behind in the haste of departure, and a puppy. Vaughan called over eighteen-year-old William Tufts of Massachusetts, borrowed his bright red coat, and had it hoisted up the bare flagstaff."12
A message was sent to Pepperrell, -- sweet to all the colonials only just then trying to take up positions before the looming fortifications of Louisbourg; and sweetest of all to Vaughan -- "May it please your Honour to be informed that by the grace of God and the courage of 13 men, I entered the Royal Battery about 9 o'clock, and am waiting for reinforcement and a flag."13 Incidentally the New Englanders had made up their own flag and brought it with them, a crude drawing of Lady Britannia sitting with banner and a union jack shield.
Why did the French desert one of their prime defence positions. This decision, as more generally the defeat of the French, at Louisbourg, in 1745 -- can be laid at the feet of Governor Du Chambon. The fact is: that as soon as the New Englanders arrived, Duchambon hauled everything in, turtlelike, and hunkered with his people behind the stone walls of Louisbourg. The governor did consult with his advisers, but the only discussion, somewhat heated, that was had was whether the battery should be totally destroyed, or not. Verrier, the proud builder of the Royal Battery must have been very upset to see, so early in the conflict, the French give up the "Royal Battery"; but, he was totally distracted by the suggestion that it should be blown up; a suggestion to which he was "firmly opposed." Verrier won out; the governor did not insist; and, Louisbourg suffered. "The battery would be abandoned but not destroyed, its gun would be spiked and its stores of foodstuffs and munitions evacuated to Louisbourg." The work was too hurriedly carried out; and, while steel rods were driven into the touch holes, the anxious soldiers neglected to smash "either trunnions or carriages" and left "virtually all the stores behind in their flight into Louisbourg."14
In short order, as we have seen, Vaughan and his small band entered this fortification of which the French were so proud and which the French believed they could reoccupy directly the New Englanders got tired and went back where they came from. Their pride was pricked when they spied from their ramparts, across the harbour, and instantly took note of the red "flag" flying from their Royal Battery. Soon they had "four boatloads of troops" being rowed across the bay; determined they were, to go back, retake, and make sure that their earlier spiking job was good enough. But as few as the New Englanders were, they now, in respect to Royal Battery, had the upper hand; they occupied an impressive fortified position which could hardly be taken from the shore. The approaching barges were peppered with musket balls. More then musket balls were flying: the French boys at the main batteries located at both Louisbourg proper and at the island decided to join in and were lobbing cannon balls at the Royal Battery, which, as most fell short, thereby only served in the colonial defence. The French troops in the boats, thus, were getting shot at from the front and the back; with the arrival of fresh New England troops, the meager French attempt to regain the Royal Battery came to an end and a hasty retreat was called. The Royal Battery (also known as the Grand Battery) from this point on was to remain firmly in English hands.
By May 3rd, the armourers of the enterprising New Englanders, headed up by Major Seth Pomeroy, had drilled out the spiked vents of three of the big guns at the Grand Battery; and had them leveled; and, in time had them doing the deadly work for which they were designed.15 The inhabitants of Louisbourg were soon to feel the effect as deadly projectiles dropped directly into the town. As one resident of Louisbourg bewailed, "the enemy saluted us with our own cannon, and made a terrific fire, smashing everything within range."16
In time, most all of the big guns of the Royal battery were unspiked and made operational. Samuel Waldo, who was put in charge of the Grand Battery's guns was certainly impressed with them, "as good pieces as we could desire." The problem was, "they devoured too much powder." Waldo feared he couldn't keep them going. Not, however, for lack of balls! The reader will recall that the optimistic New Englanders had brought large cannon balls along which would just fit these big French 42 pounders.17 However, due to falling levels of gun powder,18 the New Englanders could not keep up the intensity of the cannonading to any great extent; at any rate the most serious problem was that, "we are in great want of good gunners that have a disposition to be sober in the daytime."19 Here Waldo puts his finger on the most difficult problem which faced the commanders of the New England forces, to which we will refer.
And so we see, that within three to four days of their arrival, the invading New Englanders were in full charge of the fields outside of the walls of Louisbourg. They had with considerable ease, with thanks to a thoughtless move on the part of the French, captured 36 big guns which they could have never brought, landed and emplaced; and which, in turn, were used with terrifying effect on the French people harbouring within their walls. The English had much, so far, for which to be thankful and none in that age were embarrassed to get down on their knees under the direction of their religious ministers and offer to their maker their thanks.20 So far, so good: but there was siege work ahead; and, too, death and disappointment.
[NEXT: Pt. 4, Ch. 9 - Siege Work.]
_______________________________[The Lion & The Lily -- Book 1 (1500-1763)]
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While burping is not a medical condition, it can definitely be embarrassing. Burping, or belching, is just the result of swallowing too much air, and it actually serves a purpose.
It’s the way the body removes gas from the stomach – if it wasn’t eliminated there, you might suffer from severe stomach cramps. Fortunately, there is a way to prevent excessive burping and the embarrassment that results.
Scarfing your food down is a great way to encourage burping, so if you’d like to avoid this, eat your food slowly and deliberately, chewing everything completely before swallowing.
Most of us are in such a hurry that we tend to quickly chow down our food, getting a lot of air into the stomach. It’s also important to keep your mouth closed while you chew. It’s not only good manners – it will help to prevent swallowing air.
Chew on ginger
Ginger is great for all types of digestive ailments, including burping. Try chewing on a piece of whole ginger twice a day, or sip ginger tea, which is equally effective. Drinking most any type of herbal tea, especially chamomile or mint, after a meal is also a good way to get rid of those burps.
Cut back on gassy foods
When you eat, the digestive system breaks down your food into usable energy to power the body’s various processes and functions. However, the gut has a difficult time breaking down certain foods into just energy and waste, so gas is the leftover product when these types of foods sit in the colon.
Reducing your consumption of foods that tend to cause gas, like milk and other dairy products, beans, cabbage, prunes, and artificially-sweetened foods like soda and candy, can help reduce burping.
Now you have one more reason among a very long list to quit smoking. Those who smoke tend to burp a lot as smoke accumulates in the stomach – if you smoke regularly, you’ll inhale more smoke than you’ll exhale. This leads to an accumulation of nicotine in the body, which can cause frequent burping.
Drink a baking soda/lemon mix
If you’re a chronic burper, this is a very simple method to control it. Just mix one tablespoon of lemon juice and one-quarter teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water and drink it after each meal. It aids digestion and also eliminates burps.
Drinking water, fresh juice or tea instead of soda, beer and other carbonated beverages is not only better for your health, it can also reduce that unpleasant belching.
Eat more papaya
Eating organic papaya not only offers great health benefits, including better skin, it can also help to eliminate burping. Papaya contains an enzyme known as papain which aids digestion and helps to prevent gas from forming in the stomach, getting rid of those embarrassing burps.
If despite following all these tips your frequent belching continues, you may have to accept it as a natural body function, as most physicians feel there is really no reason to suppress it.
-The Alternative Daily
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Floating armouries deemed unsafe
Despite operating without incident for some time, report has concerns.
Floating arsenals designed to protect shipping from pirates deemed unsafe
Report warns that vessels full of weapons for hire are ‘a danger to regional stability’
Floating armouries – ships packed to the gunnels with machine-guns, ammunition and other military equipment – are operating in international waters with a “worrying lack” of regulation. A new report has warned that the vessels could pose a threat to “regional peace and stability”.
The armouries were set up to supply private security guards employed to protect shipping from pirates, particularly off the East African coast. The report – commissioned by the Remote Control Project, a body that raises awareness of new military trends – said there was an “urgent need” for an international agreement to set minimum standards for the vessels.
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what happens to air in nasel cavity before it reaches's lung's ?
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As air passes down the tracheobronchial tree, it is warmed and water is added. Contaminants must also be removed. The air in the nasal cavity is filtered by nose hairs and tiny microscopic hairs called cilia that line the passage. The passage is also lined with mucus which helps in this filtration. Cilia beat in a synchronized fashion brushing any collected dirt and mucus up toward the mouth. The accumulated material is then coughed out or swallowed. By the time the air reaches the alveoli, it is virtually sterile.
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In the effort to modernize and transform, federal leaders should look beyond short-term and ad hoc solutions.
“It’s really about reimagining the world in a digital context, creating this roadmap that’s really game-changing,” said Cameron Chehreh, vice president and general manager of global public sector at Intel.
In a rapidly changing world, governments can take advantage of digital transformation to deliver a higher level of service to citizens and, on the defense side, to stay ahead of nearby adversaries. Intel can help: Beyond just making the microchips that support IT modernization, Chehreh said, the company also has the expertise to help the government make the most of emerging tools.
“We can really present ourselves as a trusted advisor, to help with technology adoption,” he said. Intel’s public sector team “is focused on ensuring that the government unlocks the full value of what it has already purchased or will purchase that is based on Intel technologies.”
In addition to this advisory role, Intel is of course focusing on the production of microchips. At a time when pandemic-related supply chain issues have strained chip availability, the company is investing heavily in domestic chip production, a move that Chehreh says will bolster the government’s long-term resilience. term.
The company is making multi-billion dollar investments to upgrade its existing US chip production facilities and plans to build the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing site in Ohio.
“We serve the full spectrum of semiconductor needs across the spectrum of R&D, design, manufacturing and packaging capabilities, all in the United States at all of our locations, including the Ohio factory. . This end-to-end capability is important: it’s what allows us to make variations of the silicon for integration into the F-35 and other advanced systems,” Chehreh said.
Domestic production promises to help smooth the global supply chain and provide a higher level of security at a time when the Pentagon and others are concerned about the integrity of the IT supply chain. With strong domestic chip production, “the US government, as well as NATO and allied nations, will know they can build sovereign systems that will be safe and secure,” he added.
Currently, 80% of global microchip production occurs in the Asia-Pacific-Japan region, he said, with 8% of production in Europe and 12% in the United States. “We need to rebalance this supply chain,” Chehreh said. . “You can’t put all your eggs in one basket.
While Intel is globally focused on building greater resilience on the chip production side, Chehreh’s federal team is devoting much of its attention to helping the government get the most out of its digital assets. emerging.
With Intel chips serving as a key ingredient in a wide array of solutions, “our customers are already ingesting our technology, and we’re here to help them optimize,” Chehreh said.
“We have digital transformation experts helping them rethink their people, processes, placement and product capability – the four Ps. We help them rethink the world, digitally, onsite, offsite, in the cloud, at the edge,” he added. “We’re partnering with them to help them rethink how they embrace technology to fulfill their mission.”
Intel’s active engagements in the open source community typify this collaborative mindset. An open-source approach helps ensure the government has immediate access to the latest advancements “and that’s what it’s all about,” he said. “It’s about bringing together an ecosystem of partners to help government digitally transform.”
While Chehreh said he is optimistic about the potential for digital transformation, he would also like to see things happen faster. He would like to see Congress pass the CHIPS for America Act, which would provide “more than $50 billion in incentives to accelerate and catalyze domestic production of advanced semiconductors,” according to a Commerce Department analysis.
“We have to go extremely fast,” Chehreh said. “It should be a national imperative, because our adversaries do not stand still. We should not stand still. We need to be able to bring that value to the entire partner ecosystem: activating our technology and our defensive capabilities. You want to have these things available when needed, and in today’s world they are needed right now.
Having served nearly 30 years in public sector support, Chehreh said he was personally proud to be able to play a role in supporting the federal mission, particularly on the defense side. He had an early mentor, a Navy rear admiral, who gave him a deep appreciation for the mission and for the people who dedicated themselves to the security of the nation.
When he spends long hours, “it’s out of passion and love,” he says. “There are brave men and women protecting our country and the rest of the world, and they deserve the best. It’s what gives me a real sense of purpose every day.
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What does it mean to be trans? The word trans is an umbrella term for people who do not conform to the sex they were assigned at birth. Within the trans community there are many self-identifiers, including transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-fluid, and non-binary. There is a widespread lack of understanding in our society of what it means to be trans. People who identify as transgender endure discrimination, even violence. They face barriers to equality, including basic needs such as housing, educational opportunities, and employment. A new exhibition of charismatic portraits underscores the challenges of acceptance for transgender people.
"Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Trans List," an exhibition of 40 photographs and a film, opens in September at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by Anastasia James, the show features portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders of celebrities such as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox, as well as trans people who are well known in the LGBTQ community, many of whom are activists. Included are US Army Sergeant Shane Ortega; Janet Mock, author, journalist, and television host; Kylar Broadus, professor of law and senior public policy counsel for the National LGBTQ Task Force; Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist and veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Riots; Caroline Cossey, model and the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of Playboy; and Amos Mac, queer art connoisseur, photographer, producer, and publisher. Also on view is Greenfield-Sander's documentary film The Trans List, which gives visitors an opportunity to learn more about the participants' stories.
Photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (b. 1952, Miami Beach) has received critical acclaim for his portraits of world leaders, actors, writers, artists, musicians, veterans, and more over the past four decades. His feature documentary Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart won a Grammy in 1999. Greenfield-Sander's portraits are in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery. Greenfield-Sanders has a personal connection to SUNY New Paltz: his father-in-law, Joop Sanders, was a professor of art there from 1966 to 1985.
"The Trans List" is the result of a conversation between Anastasia James, the Dorsky's Curator of Exhibitions and Programs, and Greenfield-Sanders about presenting exhibitions that are relevant to the student body and ask challenging and important questions. To engage students in a deeper conversation, James invited two students to curate an exhibition. The resulting show, "Alive and Yelling: Trans Zines and Radical Subcultures," will be on view in the Dorsky Museum this fall alongside "The Trans List."
James is committed to embracing diversity and inclusion at the Dorsky Museum. She is a believer in the importance of allyship: of using your privilege (no matter how small) to take informed and accountable actions for those less privileged who struggle in the face of inequality. This principle guides Greenfield-Sanders in his choice of subject matter. He uses his influence in the art world to focus his lens on people who have been traditionally marginalized and discriminated against. He enables them to share their stories of identity, family, struggle, love, and accomplishment with a wider audience. "The Trans List" is part of a larger body of work titled Identity: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits, which includes "The Black List," "The Latino List," "The Out List," and "The Women's List."
"The Trans List" shows us that the experience of being transgender is different for every person. There are myriad forms of identity and many distinct stories in the transgender community. Above all, this exhibition makes it clear that trans people deserve the same rights as everyone else to live their lives as they choose, and to succeed and thrive.
"Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Trans List" is on view through December 9 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum. Accompanying the show is an exhibition catalog with an interview between Anastasia James and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. (845) 257-3844.
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Essential oils show up seemingly everywhere. They’re in lotions, hair care products, aromatherapy, cleaning supplies and more.
As gifts, they might arrive in little jars with a diffuser device. Essential oils are steam-distilled or cold-pressed extracts of almost any part of a plant such as seeds, flowers, fruit, leaves, stems and roots — so they retain natural smells and flavors. Think lavender or jasmine.
Depending on which oil, the products are touted as helping with sleep, alertness, relaxation and other benefits, but are they always safe? While they’re benign for many users if properly used, some people report allergic reactions or breathing problems — potentially an asthma concern.
“There is no evidence that essential oils can help asthma,” said Melanie Carver with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. “In fact, breathing in the particles released by the oils may actually trigger airway inflammation and asthma symptoms.”
“It is best to talk with your health care provider before trying anything new.”
Consumers also should be mindful that bottled essential oils are highly potent and “50 to 100 times” more concentrated than the oils in the plant itself, a Dec. 10 Washington Post article cited.
Research offers promising results, along with mixed evidence of health benefits for essential oils, said the article, which included comments from Harpreet Gujral, director of integrative medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.
“The research is quite promising,” Gujral said. She also cited continuing clinical studies striving to measure the degree to which oils can alleviate symptoms of anxiety and nausea, as well as how they affect mood. “The results are mixed but the research is there,” she said. “We just need more.”
About 10 of 100 most common essential oils have been researched “in great depth” in recent decades, the article cited, with evidence such as “the cooling sensation of peppermint oil, the bacteria-killing power of tea tree oil or the calming effect of lavender,” but the results aren’t guaranteed for everyone.
As products distilled from plants, essential oils — like vitamins — aren’t regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Sandy Falkner and Peggy Ward of Spokane, Wash., tell people that if you’re new to essential oils, it’s best to start with a small amount applied cautiously. The sisters use essential oils and sell them as distributors for Young Living Essential Oils.
“We always say start low and go slow, meaning you want to start by applying a small amount to the bottom of feet to see if you’ll have a reaction,” Ward said. “Every human body is different.”
If using an essential oil in a diffuser, Ward also suggests that people try a shorter period of time at first to test for any reactions. Ward said she has allergies, including to citrus, along with an almond sensitivity.
“I haven’t found any challenges with using any of the essential oils, although I have a ton of allergies. I can’t eat citrus, but I can consume and use citrus oils without an effect.
“The reason for that is with steam distillation or cold-press distillation that is done in the citrus oil, it removes the protein that most people would have an allergic reaction to.”
She said another consideration is the quality and purity of oils used. Research a company to make sure there aren’t additives.
“If you’re using a lower- grade oil, perfume oil or a floral water, you’re not going to get the effects,” Ward said. “And there’s a good chance they’re going to contain synthetics, pesticides, fertilizers or chemical extenders.”
Pure coconut, grapeseed or virgin olive oil can be used to dilute an essential oil for topical use, she said. These carrier oils have larger molecules than essential oils, Ward added, so a mixture will penetrate skin at a slower rate.
Ward added that peppermint oil is an example of an essential oil that should be used cautiously and diluted with a carrier oil. Young Living says on its website that peppermint’s cooling sensation can be too intense. Also, children and seniors often have more sensitive skin, Ward said.
Falkner said customers largely report benefits from use of essential oils such as for facials and skin care. She turned to essential oils in a search of a chemical-free lifestyle.
Most essential oils are distilled, but consumers should check on labels and research companies to make certain that solvents or chemicals weren’t used in the oil extraction process, Falkner said.
“Learn the company, learn how the oil is distilled, learn how it’s extracted,” Falkner said. “There are many ways you can do it, but the ways that are steam and cold-pressed keep out the chemicals and all the other stuff that can cause breathing problems.”
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Update: No tsunami risk for BC after 7.7 magnitude earthquake off Haida Gwaii
After a strong earthquake struck near Haida Gwaii in Northern BC, Emergency Info BC has cancelled a tsunami advisory that included almost all of the western BC coast, including parts of Victoria and Saanich, zones A,B,C and D. The areas advised to be on guard were:
ZONE A: The North Coast and Haida Gwaii
ZONE B: The Central Coast including: Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Shearwater.
ZONE C: The outer West Coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Port Renfrew
ZONE D: The Juan de Fuca Strait from Jordan River to Greater Victoria, including the Saanich Peninsula
Emergency Info BC had also notified people that a tsunami warning is in effect for north Vancouver Island, asking people in a low coastal area to "move inland right away".
7.7 magnitude earthquake sent tsunami advisories as far as Hawaii
This is following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the BC coastal community of Haida Gwaii Saturday night at 8:04 pm PT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Environment Canada and the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for the area from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to Cape Decision, Alaska. Tsunami advisories were reported all down the U.S. coast as far as Hawaii.
Haida Gwaii residents, such as Daniel Cross and his wife Yvette Adams of the Haida Gwaii Art Shop and their children, temporarily evacuated after the earthquake struck.
"I'm back home now from my mountain top retreat in Skidegate -- no injuries or damage," he wrote around midnight.
Areas affected by the earthquake according to Earthquakes Canada:
- 139km (86mi) South of Masset, Canada
- 202km (126mi) South-South West of Prince Rupert, Canada
- 293km (182mi) South West of Terrace, Canada
- 556km (345mi) North West of Campbell River, Canada
- 635km (395mi) South South East of Juneau, Alaska
Earthquakes Canada reported a 4.6 magnitude aftershock in the Queen Charlotte region at 8:52 pm PT.
This earthquake is said to be the strongest in the region since August 1949.
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In a lecture at the Meta Tech Org. Conference, B. Robertson spoke on the subject: Secret Earth Activities of Some Extraterrestrial Groups, Especially the Markabs, Towards Takeover of Full Control over the Earth. Among other things, he spoke of the fact that over the last fifty years, at least 200,000 Markabians have been secretly immigrated to the country, trained as young civil servants, secret service agents, armed forces and police officers, entrepreneurs and financiers. The whole event was highly concealed not only before the Congress and the US Senate, but also before the world and the Great Galactic Council. The mission of this Marxian extraterrestrial contingent may well be the creation of a “fifth column”, destined to gradually conquer the Earth planet to connect the Earth as the eighth planet to the Markabian federation.
I do not have the authenticity of this information irreversibly confirmed, but the indices available are clearly in favor of its credibility. The significance of this information lies primarily in indicating the origin, mode of infiltration and mission of these “black passengers” of the planet Earth. It must be admitted that these Markrabians have their right identity very thoroughly and they seem to be successfully hiding and skillfully using the modern technology of disinformation and manipulation of information. Sometimes they call themselves the Sirians, sometimes Orion Empire, then Deros, but the Galactic Central Government calls them the only name “Markabbi,” and we still do not know much about their origin and intentions. It is certain that he belongs to one of the most powerful militant groups of the Sirians, probably having close genetic links to the civilization of the Vega system.
The production of human clones was acquired in 1977 according to the alien technology (Markabian-Sirians) at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) research laboratories. The world learned about it the same year when American television and television scientists and camera attendees the original man and his clone were shown. The session was interrupted at the command of the government and was never repeated. The actual production of clones takes place at the Mount Hood underground base (about 60 miles east of Portland) and has the character of biological manufacturing. The production of a fully grown human clone (replicator) lasts about 14 months (today it is reportedly a shorter period), but must take place in artificial mammals stored in locations with a stable geomagnetic field and must meet other specified properties.
In American underground literature, the Illuminati and their secret (gray) unpopulated government, which are in parallel with the official government appointed by the elected president, are often referred to in various contexts. Until recently, the existence of this secret government had been doubted until the high-ranking retired officials began talking about the secret government underground Mount Weather complex. Only a very small number of Americans and members of Congress are aware of the existence of this mysterious
underground government base built deep within the Mount Weather at Bluemont in Virginia, just 74 miles from Washington DC. The Base Underground, also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations (WVOCCO), is hidden not only in hard granites but also thoroughly hidden. In March 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article titled The Mysterious Mountain. The rapporteur, Richard Pollock, was based on information based on the Senate Subcommittee inquiry committee report, interrogation records, and several confidential interviews with officials previously associated with Mount Weather. His report and article at The Time Magazine, 1991, called Doomsday Hideaway, gave a lot of information about what really is in the underground of Mount Weather. Ted Gup, writing for The New York Times, describes the underground base as follows:
“Mount Weather is an independent Federal Emergency Management Agency underground facility (FEMA). This facility is an operating center for approximately 100 other federal relocation centers located mostly in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Together, this network of underground facilities is the backbone of the US program “Continuity of Government.” In the case of nuclear war, or the declaration of martial law, or other cases of national emergency, I have to relocate the Wahington President and his Cabinet, and the rest of the executive forces would be ” resettled “.
Pollock’s report contains stunning information about the base staff. In this underground city, according to data from former senior officials of the base, a secret (gray) government of the United States is stationed. Information from high state resources, Pollock has only been given the promise of adhering to the str
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The Ethiopian Red Cross has warned that tens of thousands of people may die of starvation due to 80% of the conflict-ridden Tigray region being cut off from the rest of the country.
The announcement was made Wednesday, as the conflict between Ethiopian and Allied forces, and troops of the Tigray government entered its fourth month.
Abera Tola, the President of Ethiopia Red Cross Society, told the press that deaths caused by starvation are occurring already but the numbers could climb fast.
Tola stated, “The number today could be one, two or three, but you know, after a month it means thousands. After two months it will be tens of thousands.”
Tola said that the aid response has been restricted to roads north and south of Mekelle, leaving out the rural areas. He further stated that once aid is able to get to the rural areas, they will meet “a more devastating crisis.”
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Several of the divergent opinions in African literary theory and criticism owe their origin (or at least their proliferation) to a scenario of rapid transition from an overwhelmingly oral phase to one of a predominantly written nature; one much more closely associated with African literature in the 20th century. This paper underlines the internal complementary dimension of three aspects of African literary theory and discourse - ideology, orality, and language choice. Although my discussion focuses on a very specific period of African writing, that of the 50s and 60s, and the emergence of the Négritude movement, it is arguable that some of the conclusions proposed offer useful insights into the way African literature continues to operate to this day.
In asserting that: "For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.", the Latin poet Horace was invariably endorsing the author's mandate to instruct, to amuse, to excite, and to record the experiences of society through the use of both passion and reason for the better. Horace's pronouncements underline the opening of the office of 'writer' to 'whosoever will'. In both colonial and pre-colonial Africa, the stakes in this endorsement were raised by the capacity of the literary endeavor to influence syllabus reformulation in schools, colleges, universities and public policy at large.
It must be underlined that the writer's work of correcting and influencing the lives of individuals and the wider community through the use of literary aesthetics, could not be done ex-nihilo. It had to be derived from the interpretation of the collective experience.
However, the representation and interpretation of the collective experience are influenced by the personal as well as communal perceptions within one and the same society. These factors were compounded by the different levels of ambition, courage, and capabilities to erode all possibilities of a uniform perception (among different writers) as regards matters of truth and their interpretation even within the hitherto enclosed belief systems of pre-colonial Africa.
This is why the landscape of 20th Century African literary discourse is in many respects akin to the operation of power relations in a multi-party pluralistic democracy. For instance, the earlier pre-eminence of surrealist and symbolist influence on the Négritude Movement did not in any way invalidate or preclude their coexistence with the Romantic or Phenomenological perceptions in matters of theme, language choice, ideology, style, and methodology. It is therefore not surprising that African literary works and the criticism thereof, are full of divergent objectivities all of which could be valid in relative terms.
This diversity is born of either a generalization or the universalization of personal experiences, the dramatization of isolated incidents and the exaltation of ideas which, just then, were beginning to make their mark. Equally it has parts of its roots in the free access offered by large-scale literacy brought by colonization. It was in the midst of these divergent opinions about African art that writers and critics expressed their views in terms which echoed closely those of a Shakespearean character: "I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind."
The general belief that all writings express societal experiences often resulted in a situation where the author's mandate was taken for granted. It promoted a literary production characterized by a sense of laissez-faire; one in which authors could spuriously claim to possess unquestionable right and recognition which conferred on them the role of societal guides and representatives able to pontificate on matters of theme, language, audience, ideology, and style.
It is against this background that the contending issues surrounding discourse-ownership in African literary theory and aesthetics as they pertain to language choice, elitism, participation, ideology, style, and methodology must be placed. Many African artists and critics assumed a position akin to that of Césaire and transformed their literary preoccupation into an instrument of liberation. This can be seen in the theme of the second Congress of Black Artists, Rome 1959, where culture was raised to the level of an instrument of political liberation..
One of the consequences of this direct link between power and literary discourse can be inferred from what Dathorne sees as: "...tension between an ancient aristocracy and a new technocracy, between traditionalism and westernization, between the dignity of the old and the sprawling vulgarity of the new." The new writer was thus considered the opponent or usurper, rather than the complement of a traditional oral artist.
In this context the prominence of the former was strengthened by the avowed and conspicuous adoption of decolonization as a metaphor for progress and evolution, both in literary terms and more generally at the level of societal models. This ability to juxtapose decolonization (here clearly linked to written literature) to an oral tradition which, in turn, could be seen only as a backward literary manifestation, raised the image of the new group of African writers/artists. It even elevated them to the status of combatants.
A particularly illustrative example is that of Aimé Césaire who often assigned himself the role of a literary spokesman: both the representative and the voice of the oppressed:
And in Cahier de Retour au pays natal, Aimé Césaire castigates colonialism on account of the:
That for him suffering and oppression were often seen in strongly racialised terms, a dichotomy of black versus white, recalls Feuser's views in his discussion of the nature, content, and evolution of African literary criticism. Referring to what he saw as a critical model which stressed literature and literary theory as a tool in the anti-colonial struggle, Feuser notes: "As a critical theory it underestimates the social and geographical determinants of literature while setting up racial militancy as an artistic yardstick."
The assumption of the role of spokesperson by the writer and his/her speedy ascension to pre-eminence did not constitute a demise or even a subjugation of the traditional oral artist. Rather, in a sense it fostered the growth and continuity of culture insofar as it adapted the oral message to the written word, thereby creating the conditions for a much greater and diverse audience. Admittedly the scope of this putative audience may itself have been limited by the fact that literacy rates in the period to which I am referring were demonstrably low. Nevertheless, and as I argue below, such texts were in part addressed to a foreign audience. They were inserted within the kind of 'writing back' process Ashcroft et al explore in The Empire Writes Back (1989).
This process in turn gave occasion to heated polemics of the sort between Camara Laye and some of his critics such as Mongo Beti and Albert Franklin. Reacting specifically to accusations that his work L'Enfant noir (The African Child) was not sufficiently critical in its depiction of colonialism, Camara Laye asserted:
This is one of the many examples that underline the divergence in opinion among African critics as regards the nature and magnitude of vitriol and remonstrance to deploy in the discourse of protest literature. Hence Leopold Senghor could argue in his defence of Négritude and in the face of vituperous criticism, that: "Reason is Greek, Emotion is African.". To Senghor's assertion, Franklin responded in a scathing essay, "Presence Africaine": "We know that reason is not any more Greek than emotion is Negro...reason and emotion are at the same time Negro, Greek, Yellow and Red; that is to say, they belong to all humanity." Such divergent views, with, on the one hand, Négritude writers who represent pre-colonial Africa in idyllic terms of beauty, peace and progress, while on the other, their Anglophone counterparts seek to expose the full image of pre-colonial Africa with all its virtues and vices. These differing views epitomize the ideological rumples in African literary discourses of the 1950s and 60s.
The conflicting perspective that resulted from the large-scale infusion of the written word into African oral literature in the 20th Century, therefore, has confirmed Horace's opinion that: ("Difficult est propre communia dicere.") "It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way." This is especially plausible when one considers that such a process resulted in the adaptation of the communal and participatory essence of traditional African literature to modern exigencies. Again, and what is more important, it provoked a situation where the claim of many African writers to represent their people was contested and occasionally branded as an elitist imposition and a linguistic and aesthetic distortion of authentic African art. The implications for educational and social policy as well as syllabus reformulation in schools, colleges, and universities raised the stakes in this discourse and its ownership.
The debate over the issue of participation revolves around what often appears to be the virtual monopoly of the oral artists' right to represent the society in traditional communities. The arguments are often shrouded in the fallacy that one of the merits of oral African literature is that it addresses:
We submit that the contention is however too facile upon closer observation and is, in many instances, the opposite of the truth. That is not to say that written literature was in itself any more democratic, a claim the poor rates of literacy alluded to earlier would serve to undermine, but to call attention to the equally flawed role of an oral tradition. This is because in many traditional societies access to the practice of verbal artistry and dramatization were regulated by hereditary controls which made it impossible for an ordinary member of the community to assume the role of artist or literary spokesman. Traditionally roles were passed on from father to son, making arts such as praise-singing, drumming and ritual drama, etc., the exclusive preserve of a few. On these grounds alone therefore, the so-called benefits of the often lauded institutionalized oral literature of pre-colonial Africa and its practical disadvantage are asymmetrical. The disadvantages are just as prominent as the advantages.
It is therefore legitimate to contend that far from being a usurpation of the collective role of the people, the introduction of the written literature of the African writer/critic and its eventual triumph constitutes the liberation of African art from the trappings of tradition and culture. Indeed it enfranchised all of the talented and opened its production and consumption to a wider variety of hitherto 'ostracized' aspirants. In this sense the son of the traditional "griot" did not lose his right to artistic and literary production, rather this right was made available to all and sundry. The stakes in fame, power, and money were thus increased and opened to all for the development of African literary pursuit. In a sense discourses were democratized.
The choice of foreign languages as the media of literary expression in Africa is another area of contending discourses. Opinions here range from wholesale acceptance to utter denunciation. One of the latter stated that:
Evidently this accusation overlooks the obvious fact that the very quest for the revival of African values and pride had to target a colonialist audience; one which needed to be informed about an African world view and values. The message therefore had to be in the language of the colonizer and not the colonized. This is certainly not to purport that the African subject of colonization achieved "signification only through the colonial language." It is to point out that the official languages of the Colonial Empire as well as its creole variants became linguistic vehicles which (like Greek and Latin among the subjects of the Hellenistic and Roman Empires) strengthened the anti-colonial struggle with all its ramifications - cultural, social, political, economic and linguistic. It is not surprising then that regarding Wole Soyinka, Patrick Chabal notes that his: "...work is at once utterly modern in the Western sense but also fundamentally African in both inspiration and artistic sensibility" This assertion is equally applicable to the position of Ngugi wa Thiong'o as exposed in his work Decolonizing the Mind (1986). Foreign languages were also the best medium through which to appeal to the educated Africans and unite them for a common cause. This was all the more important since they belonged to different ethnic groups, in many cases devoid of any linguistic inter-comprehensibility. The protest of the people had to be heard in a foreign voice for very specific reasons. As such, his was a legitimate option available to the author in: " . . . trying to find an authentic language attuned to local experience."
We deem it apt to end this brief commentary on the realm of ideology, orality, and language choice in African literary discourse by remarking that the development of African literature has not been without the usual friction that makes normal movement and progress possible. Conflicting literary opinions have served to advance the cause of African literary pursuit and clarified issues relating to the various aspects of the nature and purpose of its discourse.
The introduction of formal education and the liberalization of the verbal art of literary production in 20th Century Africa, therefore, inaugurated an elaborate written literature which transferred the focus and nature of African literary production from its communal hereditary concerns to a diversified and group perception. And the consolidation of the written African literature did not end this diversity in unity and incorporation. It is this sense of accommodation which a critic evokes when indicating that: "Senghor is as wrong in wanting to impose negritude forever on African writers as Wole Soyinka of Nigeria is in challenging the Senegalese writer by saying that a `tiger does not speak of its tigritude'." We wish to suggest that from their respective standpoints, Senghor and Soyinka were possibly both correct.
In conclusion it is appropriate to observe that the overall effect of this diversity within the African literary scene has even been reinvigorating and renewing. It is indicative of the fact that the varied nature of the African experience should be expressed differently by different people in different places. It is this experiential diversity which precludes, in principle as well as in practice, any possibility of a representational monopoly. In this situation it is the capacity for skilful observation, effective, and relevant themes that will project the artist to the position of eminence when the audience/reader identifies with what they consider their own reality.
This has enriched the practice of exploring the varied meanings of African texts. It has highlighted a more critical and flexible way in which people speak of their experience, state their ideas, share their desires and read the implicit and explicit motives and norms of the African text. This has meant a deconstruction of the (traditional) conventions of the metaphorical coherence, the thematic unity, and the representation of reality in African oral text. The exercise will certainly guide African literary theory and discourse in the years ahead to reflect and represent the Continent's current societal experience in democratization, globalization and the quest for peace and progress.
Horace, Ars Poetica, 3, 84.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act V, Sc 3, 1.66
Such stances came to be particularly evident in the writing of authors such as the Nigerians Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, and the Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o. In a recent study of Nigerian Writing - A Mask Dancing: Nigerian Novelists of the Eighties (1992) Adewale Marja-Pearce revisits the controversial site of writing as 'an instrument of political liberation', offering a scathing critique of Achebe's place within an earlier generation of Anglophone African writing, precisely that addressed in my paper.
O.R. Dathorne, African Literature in the Twentieth Century, London: Heinemann, 1976, p. 319.
Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal, Paris: Présence Africaine, 1956, partie 1.
Aimé Césaire, "Discours sur le colonialism", quoted in Jacques Chevrier, Littérature Nègre, Paris: Armand Colin, 1984, p. 175.
Wilfred Feuser. "Alain Ricard, Théâtre et nationalisme, Wole Soyinka and LeRoi Jones". Durosimi Jones, Eldred (ed). African Literature Today, No. 8: Drama in Africa. London: Heinemann, 1976.
Egejuru, Akubueze. Towards African Literary Independence: a Dialogue with Contemporary African Writers. London: Greenwood Press, 1980, p. 123.
I am using the expression 'protest literature' here to refer to that body of writing which set out to deliberately challenge and deconstruct colonial representations of African society. Apart from Laye, others whose work engaged in this process include Achebe, in Things Fall Apart (1958), Amos Tutola, in ThePalm-wine Drunkard (1952), and Sembene Ousmane, to name but a few]
Albert Franklin, `La Négritude: réalité ou mystification', in Présence Africaine, No. 14, 3, décembre, 1953.
Horace, Ars Poetica, 3.
O.R. Dathorne, African Literature in the Twentieth Century, London: Heinemann, 1976, p. xiii.
ibid. P. xii.
Christopher Miller L., Black Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985, p. 55.
Patrick Chapal, "The African crisis: context and interpretation", in Postcolonial Identities in Africa, Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger (eds.). London/New Jersey: Zed Books, 1996, p.4
David Lee, Competing Discourse: Perspective in Ideology in Language, London: Longman, 1992, p. 155.
Okechuku Mezu, S. The Poetry of L. S. Senghor, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1973, p. 94.
Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart. London: Heinemann, 1958.
Maja-Pearce, Adewale. A mask dancing: Nigerian novelists of the eighties. London; New York: Hans Zell Publishers, 1992.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Homecoming: essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture and politics. London: Heinemann, 1972.
Ngugi was Thiong'o. Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African literature. London: J. Currey; Portsmouth, N.H. Heinemann, 1986.
Raja, Rao. Kanthapura/Raja Rao. (London): Oxford University Press, 1947.
Sembene, Ousmane. Bouts de bois de Dieu. English, God's bits of wood, translated by Francis Price. 1962.
Soyinka, Wole, Art, dialogue and outrage: essays on literature and culture. 2nd, rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1993.
Tutuola, Amos. The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Deads' Town. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.
Kwaku Asante-Darko currently lectures in African and European Literature at the National University of Lesotho in Southern Africa. After studying History, Literature, and French Language in Kumasi, Ghana, where he was born some three decades ago, he proceeded to further studies in French and International Relations at the Universités Stendhal and Pierre Mendès France, both in Grenoble, France. His current research interest is in the areas of race and literature, as well as Pan-Africanism.
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You probably didn’t witness the usual endless spectacle of lush green soybean plants and golden corn if you drove through rural Minnesota this year. “It was a ridiculous year,” says Jared Goplen, University of Minnesota Extension crops educator. “The crops look terrible.”
There’s just no sugarcoating it. The skies of 2019 delivered a deluge during prime planting weeks. Hail pounded young seedlings in some areas. One news story showed a soybean farmer canoeing through his fields.
Because farmers’ decisions involved complicated global economics, late planting or no planting, and federal crop insurance programs, Extension faculty and educators had their work cut out for them.
“There were no easy answers,” says Seth Naeve, Extension soybean specialist, “but Extension shared information through the ag radio stations and websites farmers depend on, through Extension’s own Crop eNews and podcasts, and in person.”
Four hundred farmers showed up for one in-person event to learn everything they could before deciding what to do when weather prevented them from planting.
Protecting the land, feeding the animals
There was one silver lining. Many more farmers this year than in other years planted cover crops—crops that are often planted between growing seasons for the benefits they provide to the soil and the environment.
“The situation presented an opportunity for people to try them out,” says Liz Stahl, Extension crops educator based in Worthington. “Of course they would much rather have had a cash crop in the field, but getting living roots in the ground conserves the soil, helps control weeds, and lets farmers look ahead to next year.”
Many of the cover crops also serve as food for livestock, which has been in short supply. A rule change this year moved up the date when cover crops may be hayed or grazed, opening a window of opportunity. Farmers will be able to collect payments this year on the crops that weather prevented them from planting, while still harvesting food for livestock.
“Cover crops this year put some of the negative energy into something positive and added economic value to the system at a time when it’s sorely needed,” says Goplen.
Selecting cover crops
Goplen and Stahl shared more decision-making factors in Extension’s Crop eNews, but some cover crop options for forage include:
- Warm-season cereals like sorghum, sudangrass and millets, which do well in hot conditions.
- Cool-season cereals like oats, wheat, barley and rye, which can be chopped or baled for dry hay.
- Legumes, like peas, which mix well with small grains to add protein for silage.
- Brassicas, like turnips and radish, which don’t work for silage, but serve as grazing options and forage for animals.
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We’ve heard it ad nauseum at this point, but it’s nevertheless true: we are in unprecedented times. The forced changes in our lives and the uncertainty has created levels of stress we’ve not previously faced, and have proved difficult for many to deal with. That stress above what we’re used to dealing with can have a damaging effect on both our work and personal lives and our productivity and mindset.
To get a sense of how to deal with the stress we’re all feeling, I spoke with Rian Doris, COO of Flow Collective Research, an organization that does research and training on the science behind achieving peak performance.
Mary Juetten: What does your company do, and how can it help during the crisis?
Rian Doris: We work with business leaders who struggle with stress, overwhelm and burnout, and we use a neuroscience-backed approach to peak performance, to help them get more done in less time with greater ease, which our clients have found immensely helpful during this crisis.
Juetten: What is the biggest issue you've seen over the past few weeks?
Doris: I would say the biggest challenge at the moment that we've seen with our clients is overwhelm and the paralysis that comes off the back of that overwhelm. There has been so much chaos, noise, and so many variables being thrown at people that there is a form of paralysis that we've seen taking hold over our clients, regardless of their competence or peak performance. This often results in a downward spiral where they're paralyzed out of an inability to act. Then they do not do what is helpful for them, the things that they know will expand their capacity and allow them to navigate these kinds of situations, like sleeping well. And as a result, they get pushed into this downward spiral of inaction and unfortunately, stagnation, which is not a good state to be in at all.
Juetten: What are the biggest pitfalls people are facing now that many of us are always at home and thus always at work?
Doris: One of the biggest pitfalls that we found with our clients is a difficulty setting boundaries between work and recovery time to work and family time. Oftentimes, our boundaries are set for us through the environmental distinctions that are built into the way we live. In other words, you wake up and you leave your house to go and work in your office. Or you at least, if you work at home, you have an office and often designated workshops. Whereas what's happened with COVID-19 is that those boundaries that we often rely on are shattered, and the lines are now blurred between work and not work, which causes people immense amounts of stress. This vulnerability or susceptibility to what we call the gray zone, which is that state where you're not fully optimally productive, and you're also not actually recovering effectively either. And you're sorta stuck in the middle of both of those two states, not recovering or enjoying yourself and definitely not being optimally productive or efficient. So setting clear boundaries and avoiding the gray zone is very important there.
Juetten: How can employers and employees maintain productivity at a time when stress is so high?
Doris: One important piece here is actually to focus on the stress part of this equation, and potentially reorienting goals and expectations so as not to overwhelm people. Do everything possible to decrease the stress and pressure placed on employees when working from home. I think that will result in greater outcomes and greater output. Another thing that's important for employers is to be actively engaged with their teams, especially when they're working remotely. The extra phone calls, texts, check-ins, FaceTimes all make a huge difference for keeping employees engaged and letting them know where things are at with the company and their role.
Juetten: What tips do you have that people could implement today to improve their productivity and their ability to manage stress?
Doris: Well, we've many, but for now, I'll just give you one super-simple tip that is not easy. And it's to map out in detail every element of the next day at night before they go to sleep. Because it’s really important to separate thinking and doing, or strategy and execution. You want to have the time that is dedicated to strategizing distinct from the actual doing or executing. And in stressed times where overwhelm is high, it's all the more important to separate those two modes. So ideally, you have dedicated time at the end of the day to map out your next day in detail and do that thinking in one block. And then you can wake up the next morning and just execute on what you have previously determined is important to do. That's one tip.
Thanks to Rian for the insight on how we might manage our current situation. Hopefully, we can all learn to deal with the stress in order to make it through the challenges we’re all facing. Stay safe, stay home, stay strong. #onwards.
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Clive Ramage is an award winning painter and printmaker living and working in Dunfermline.
He says: ‘In my paintings and prints I try to recreate the atmosphere, sensations and inspiration I feel when I am out in the landscape or wandering around a city. I will often make sketches and take lots of photos for reference then usually complete my paintings back in my studio. I’m very lucky to have my studio in one of the oldest and most historically important buildings in Dunfermline, the ancient capital of Scotland. It’s called the Abbot House and my studio is at the top of the southern tower which it looks over Dunfermline Abbey, the final resting place of Robert the Bruce.
I primarily use oil on canvas, but I also like to work with watercolour and ink. I am influenced by many great artists from the past, including Schiele, Klimpt, Turner, Picasso and Whistler; as well as some more modern and local artists like Joan Eardley and John Bellany. However, it is the beauty to be found in the cities and the landscapes of Scotland which continue to inspire me most.
Clive is a member of the Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop Cooperative (FDPW)
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Washington – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday lauded the U.S. Environmental Agency’s reversal of its decision to delay a new rule that would lower the level of ozone emissions permitted from fossil-fuel burning, such as the exhaust from auto tailpipes and power plant smokestacks.
The new Obama-era rule was scheduled to be implemented on Oct. 1, but EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided in June to hold off implementing that rule for about a year to study its impact. A provision in the Clean Air Act allows for the delay of implementation of new regulations if the agency needs to collect more information.
Late Wednesday, Pruitt decided to allow the tougher standards for ozone emissions to be put into place as scheduled.
“This reversal of direction bodes well for the people of Connecticut and for all those fighting for clean air in America,” Malloy said.
Pruitt’s decision comes a day after 16 state attorneys general, including Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, sued to block the new rule.
In a statement, Pruitt said he decided to work “with the states through the complex designation process.”
Malloy had also pressed Pruitt to implement the tougher standards.
In a letter written to Pruitt in June, Malloy reminded Pruitt of a conversation the men had over the issue at the National Governors Association winter meeting.
“I presented you with the fact that my state is already designated nonattainment for ozone and that we measure the highest levels of ozone in the Northeast,” Malloy wrote. “More than 90 percent of this pollution blows into our state from other places. So in fact, on some days, every power plant and factory in our state could shut down and Connecticut could still exceed ozone (standards).”
Malloy said Connecticut already has stringent ozone restrictions in place, and “remains at a competitive economic disadvantage against states that ignore critical air quality issues in an effort to maintain a low-cost environment for their businesses.”
Ozone is a gas created when chemical emissions from burning fossil fuels are exposed to heat and sunlight.
The resulting smog has been linked to childhood asthma, lower infant birth weights and lung disease.
On Friday, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Rob Klee said, “Connecticut continues to suffer the public health and economic consequences of being a downwind state that receives air pollution from states to our west that burn dirtier and cheaper fuels.”
The Obama-era rule that will go into effect on Oct. 1 sets a new national standard for ozone of 70 parts per billion, down from 75 parts per billion.
Although it was less strict than manufacturers had feared, some industry leaders criticized the rule as overly burdensome.
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ArcelorMittal has unveiled on June 19, 2018 a radical new concept for the use of steel in construction, which will facilitate the next generation of high performance buildings and construction techniques and create a more sustainable life-cycle for buildings.
Known as Steligence®, the concept revolves around the idea of buildings as holistic entities where all aspects of design are considered in an integrated way, as part of the whole. As such, it proposes the need for better dialogue between various specialist architectural and engineering disciplines, recognizing not only specialist expertise, but also the need for enhanced co-operation between experts. Steligence® further suggests that the use of best available technology in steelmaking, as well as modularization of steel components in buildings where possible, has the capacity to generate efficiency gains in the design, construction and configurability of buildings as compared to those using traditional construction methods.
Additionally, because steel is infinitely recyclable, Steligence® sets the stage for architects to consider the life-cycle, recyclability and, ultimately, re-usability of a building and its components at the earliest point in the design process.
This new approach to construction from ArcelorMittal has been brought about by real advances in technology which now make steel an even more attractive material for construction than was previously the case. As such, the Steligence® concept has the potential to drive significant architectural and sustainability benefits.
These benefits include more building storeys within a given height than is the case with traditional building systems and materials; less deep and therefore less costly foundations due to the lower weight of steel buildings compared with traditional materials; and far longer uninterrupted spans between columns, resulting in much better flexibility of interior floor layout.
In addition, buildings designed using the Steligence® philosophy will be easier to assemble (and potentially disassemble) and therefore quicker to build, leading to significant efficiencies and cost savings for the construction sector.
While steel’s infinite recyclability potential is clearly superior to that of alternative materials, even then there are associated costs given the energy necessary to melt and re-form. In this context, design where possible using modular steel components can enable re-use rather than re-cycling of steel components in new buildings at the end of life of the original building. This ‘re-use’ possibility gives steel a huge advantage over traditional building materials, particularly as regulations strengthen regarding the sustainability credentials of buildings.
Steel already plays a big role in the circular economy. Steligence® will enable the construction industry and buildings themselves to play an even more significant role in it.
Speaking at a launch event in London, Greg Ludkovsky, ArcelorMittal’s global head of research and development, said: “As climate, energy and resource scarcity intensifies, win-win solutions like Steligence® become imperative for business and society at large. Buildings play a huge part in all our lives, so creating a construction concept that improves their social, economic and environmental impact while dramatically enhancing their functionality and aesthetics has been a huge but important challenge.”
“Steligence® is the culmination of several years’ intensive scientific, independent peer reviewed research to develop specific-use steel for the construction industry. By combining this R&D with extensive consultation of leading players in the construction industry, we have landed on a radical new approach to construction which is underpinned by a clear philosophy: to build a sustainable business around a sustainable construction industry that delivers for future generations.”
Notes: Ten key benefits of the Steligence concept
- Optimal space and height. Use of the Angelina™ beam and CofraPlus 60 compact floor enables greatly reduced building height resulting in average 11% cost savings across façade, stairs and core elements.
- Lighter weight foundations. Steel foundation solutions, less than half the weight of equivalent structures, can result in an average 39% foundation cost saving, like-for-like.
- More flexible office space. Using the Angelina™ beam, un-interrupted spans of up to 13m can be achieved. Consequent reduction in columns allows easy reconfiguration of office space and therefore increased rental value.
- Speed of construction. Best in class steel solutions using 13m spans can be erected up to twice as fast as concrete equivalents in 8m and 5m spans resulting in up to 24% construction costs saving.
- Cost of ownership. Total costs of building ownership, taking into account all economic benefits, are at least 15% less than those constructed using alternative materials, when all components of the concept are applied
- Lower environmental impact. With comparatively low environmental impacts and higher recycling rates than other building materials, steel is the first choice for sustainable construction. Steel enableS access to the green building market with consequent increase in property value.
- Sustainability ratings. Buildings using ArcelorMittal steel solutions attain higher levels of certification in building rating schemes such as BREEAM and LEED than those built with traditional materials.
- Improved comfort. Steel buildings provide a more comfortable environment for building users due to optimised thermal behaviour during warm weather.
- Site traffic. Steel requires fewer site deliveries than comparative materials, resulting in less traffic congestion and so reduced impact on the urban environment.
- Creativity. Steel cladding solutions offer an unparalleled choice of creative, attractive finishes, adding materially to the urban landscape.
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The creations of the software has increased today thanks to the development of technology. There are different types of applications, one that stands out is based on the exchange of data with another application, which is why this article will explain what middleware is.
What is middleware?
Currently there are many software, so it is normal to have the doubt that it is middleware since it is impossible to know each program, much less its main functions. This application consists of communication and data interaction with various software, also with various networks, different operating systems and software packages are included.
The middleware is responsible for facilitating the work of the software in the computer system to establish the corresponding connections and the necessary updates for optimal operation. With each system distributed in the equipment, the exchange of data must be carried out for the complete assistance of the quality of service.
It offers the answers and solutions to improve the operation of an application, it also reduces failures in network connections allowing Internet browsing without any problem. It grants a security in the information of the user so that they can execute the programs to carry out different tasks.
It is responsible for updating the service directory to increase the tools with innovative functions that can be applied in the system. It gives the possibility of sending and receiving messages through a specific application, so it has the advantage of maintaining communication with other programs that have the same function.
Because it facilitates the use of other applications, the system can be operated without presenting errors in the data transfer. It has layers that are in charge of distributing the tasks of the programs that are linked to the system, thus maintaining the interaction of other applications by sharing the data necessary for the execution of the operator.
To understand what middleware is, you must understand its main functions since it has layers that operate from the operating system to access the network. It uses the programming language required to apply its tools and have the necessary commands to establish communication with another application on the device or equipment.
Communications networks must be fragmented so that a corresponding software distribution can be exercised. Different layers can be presented, both internal and those of applications, this with the intention of maintaining a management of the data that is being shared with other programs, in turn, a guarantee of the security of the personal information of the users can be given. who use this application.
Depending on the complexity in a network, adjacent commands can be executed that are obtained by API so that the distribution of data in the application layers can be carried out with greater speed, that is, that systematic information is communicated to another application in less time so it can be operated from the corresponding program.
The programming language given by API allows the operation of the operating system protocols to be activated in a corresponding network to simplify the programming of a software. With these policies in the system, the management in the program is facilitated so that various types of services can be acquired from this middleware application.
Understanding the functions in general lines and what middleware is, we can talk about its client mode, which is aimed at users who want to run the operating system libraries that give the possibility of establishing a new line of communication in a certain network, for what is included other essential tools so that the navigation of these functions can be simplified and operated without any difficulty.
This application offers various links between the programs available in the operating system as long as they are independent with access to the network. As it is responsible for the links to make a connection between programs with the exchange of data they have, in this way you can access your system simplifying the process of your entry.
Middleware gives the possibility of establishing a connection between two programs for data transfers at a higher speed, saving the time that is applied in its programming. It also offers the option of protecting the applications that are available in the operating system, so that the entry of your account will be secured from other people who wish to enter your personal information.
Just understanding that it is middleware is not enough to know the history of the development of this software, since it had to go through several phases and stages to get it to be a software with the ability to share data between applications as presented in Today, its beginnings were the first steps to ensure that data has the possibility of being exchanged from one program to another.
Since 1960, reference can be made to the origin of middleware, which was where this word was used for the first time in a programming event or conference, which was called “1960 NATO Software Engineering Conference” which was based on the connection of the updated operating system on older computers.
These types of events and conferences have been held for decades, where innovative systems and programs for technology development are presented. Middleware was considered as a software that was in charge of the management and organization of access to various networks, so there is the possibility of browsing the Internet and applying tools for operation in a specific operating system.
However, each year technology increased, and middleware was no exception, its development was simultaneous to the advancement of the system and technology. For this reason, it can be said that I stand out at a point when the exchange of data was required since the use of the applications was increased but the transfer of the software information was not executed properly.
The evolution of the middleware was obtained with the advancement of the visualization of a set of protocols and parameters that the system can operate through a programming language according to its service. In the 1990s it can be said that it is the point of history that middleware was required in operating systems for the execution of data transfers and movements.
It was in that year that companies noticed all the advantages that middleware offered by facilitating access to a network and increasing the execution speed of the system, thus giving faster results. Companies required this style of software because they need an increase in the development and production of their projects.
The control it gave in the various applications was what drove its development, so nowadays any system or server has the middleware application. The advancement of technology is exponentially, this being a reason for the increase in software, and to maintain the link between them, this software is used, which facilitates the distribution of data between the programs that are running on the system.
By explaining what middleware is, you can proceed to define the classification or taxonomy that this type of software has, everything is defined by its programming bases and its operation, so with the advancement of the development of this program, a new classification can be added , only in the case in which this evolution is innovated and grants new tools with the capacity to supply a need that is present in the operating system.
The middleware application taxonomy is defined in two categories known as Integration and Application, but each of them have subdivisions. Due to this, the complete classification of this software is presented below, highlighting all the fields that cover its programming and the characteristics of each division or classes that it has:
Integration what is middleware software
The integration category consists of the ability of the middleware software to connect the heterogeneous systems that an operating system has. This in turn depends on the programming language used by a computer, since the division of systems can change according to the protocols that are executed in the programming.
The link that occurs in these heterogeneous systems allows access or the combination of applications, but it must be taken into account that each version of middleware has certain protocols and paradigms to establish data communication, so that the operation of the programming may be different.
They also depend on the applications in which this data transmission is operated, since these also have conditions and policies in the communication of information on the network. This type of integration can be divided into various ways, which is why below are shown how the divisions of this category can be displayed: what is middleware software
Based on system processes
When explaining what middleware is, it can be understood that they are based and oriented to the data interaction procedures, so that the synchronization of a specific process is executed, a reference or an example of this procedure is the synchronization on a phone, in which the data of different applications that are linked to a specific network are synchronized.
It is known that this software applies the “Client Stub” for the operation of data management and its corresponding distribution, complying with the protocols established in each system. It is also characterized by presenting the function of “Server Skeleton” which also provides a fragmentation in the division of information from the various systems or programs associated with a network.
They convert the requests or tasks generated by the server into a call to an application related to the command, so that it can be operated correctly and processed by the system. The reverse process can be generated, in order to certify the presence of a failure or an error in the results obtained by the software. In the event that one of these inconsistencies exists, the process must be suspended.
It uses a standard procedure for remote services to solve problems that arise on the network, establishing control over the wide range of formats that shared data can be received. They depend on the heterogeneous levels that a system has, so optimal performance in applications is guaranteed.
But as a disadvantage it can be highlighted that scalability is not available, that is, it does not have the ability to execute a return of the data from one program to another, avoiding the possible reflection of information to a different software. The processes that are applied are very rigid, that is, by not complying with the established parameters, good results are not obtained from your exchange procedure. what is middleware software
Set on specific objects
In this subdivision it is possible to support the requests and requests of the distributed data, for this it must establish specific objects for communication between different programs. The synchronization between the interaction of objects can be of a lazy class or of an unsynchronized type.
This is because it does not operate automatically, but rather a command must be executed for the system to request the software to carry out data communication. It orders and manages the data of an application to proceed with the transmission corresponding to one of the lower layers that the program has, for this it uses a computer agent known as “Broker”.
It can support different tasks that are similar so it is performed by several clients simultaneously in one operation. The customer has the responsibility of executing the call of a procedure based on a logical method to acquire in the system a remote object that is operated from the operating system.
Through the broker an essential point is established where the communication of different sources of information is executed, known as the computer library of the system, by this means the interaction of data can be operated avoiding the loss of commands or important information for the programming of the system. system.
The IP addresses of the servers are obtained to collect the necessary data to proceed to organize them to execute a consecutive and simultaneous distribution, depending on the operation applied by the system. When processing the information, the server produces a result to be returned to the application where the command was executed, that is, the reverse steps are followed to deliver the response to its request to the client.
These reflection and scalability functions allow the system to execute and process various types of data and information which are in different states, depending on the program that is being used. A disadvantage to be aware of is that you can find links that are running before sharing the data, so this extra code also participates in the exchange.
The code that is presented before sharing the data can generate a greater weight or traffic in the transfer of information, so the system must also process these extra codes which can decrease the speed of programming and distribution in the application layers. fragmented by software.
Oriented to MOM what is middleware software
When referring to the MOM-oriented subdivision, it is said that they are based on messages, since the acronym stands for Message oriented middleware, that is, that the middleware software has a programming that is oriented to the messages of the application to execute the distribution of specific data to each program related to a specific network.
It should be known that this subdivision can be classified into two types which are called Waiting and Publication. It is first started with the program that sends the message to the software, this can be done by more than one client simultaneously as long as they comply with the MOM protocols.
After the message passes from the Waiting state to the Subscription state, which is the same Publication state, this for the reason that the message of the request produced by the application must be fragmented to generate the responses corresponding to each one of them, so that the results may present a higher level of efficiency.
The Messsage Broker server is used to manage the requests generated by the client, in this way a software collapse is avoided and each one of the tasks produced by the program is kept in a queue. Then it joins the memory bus, to establish the corresponding protocols according to the programming language that is being applied.
A characteristic with the MOM server is that they have several similarities with a router since it is responsible for distributing the links and data according to the connection established by the equipment. You can register an event when you have the information available for the customer’s entry, this will have access to the system’s network and in turn, the software programming.
Depending on its components
When speaking of a component, it refers to a program that is responsible for establishing various functions in a specific program. Its structure allows it to run with other applications, there is also the possibility of interacting with other components, this can be achieved more easily depending on the program that is running.
It has a configuration that allows the middleware software to communicate with other programs through their compatible components. One of the main advantages of this subdivision is that it can be configured as many times as necessary and has a high level of execution speed.
One of its advantages is the flexibility it provides in the programming of responses since it facilitates the distribution of commands to reduce the wait for execution before a request given by a client. Configuration can be done at the same time as the data interaction process, thus simplifying data transmission.
When explaining what middleware is, the application of various agents that are in charge of multiple fields of the operating system stands out. These can have different components associated so that tools can be executed to facilitate the distribution procedure, so that the equipment does not present any delay in its response. what is middleware software
Among the components that these software agents have, the Entities, the Media and finally the Laws stand out. Through these processes it is possible to generate responses to the requests generated by the client through a program, that is why it is necessary to know in detail the components that are available.
You have the possibility of using objects or multiple processes for data distribution, this can be processed by different links to the network or by channels that have the function of transferring corresponding information. You can identify or point out the interaction that you have in each system.
The agents also participate in the synchronization of the components to facilitate the process of fragmentation and distribution of the requests of the clients. It has the ability to make different requests simultaneously as it employs a special agent for each assigned task.
Support multiple strategies and schemes that are based on the operating system, this in order to include each tool available and simplify data transfer by helping the software to respond to each request received, this is because they can present different levels of complexity increasing the difficulty of the management and handling of the operations that must be implemented.
App what is middleware software
This category that makes up the middleware taxonomy has the ability to perform various tasks on behalf of the client in order to solve the conditions available for each application related to the same network. Adjustment of programs is managed by software to ensure optimal results.
With access to the network through the server, a data distribution can be executed, being the answer to the doubt that it is middleware. Due to this, the subdivision or classification that makes up this category is shown below for optimal operation according to the need presented by the client:
Access to information what is middleware software
This classification is based on the DAM, which is the acronym for Data Access middleware, which consists of the communication of the data generated by the information source of a specific program. The transfer runs with the operating system to establish the layout at each layer of the system.
They have several advantages in the communication of information, since it uses the programming language according to the protocols available in the system processes. The transaction or the procedure of its operations is based on the access to the network since it is compatible with a wide range of file formats.
Desk what is middleware software
It presents the ability to expose information and data that have been lost during the distribution process, this is due to an inconsistent procedure due to requests generated by customers. For this, a management and organization of the applications linked to the middleware must be established, for which it controls and manages the protocol services entered by the network.
It offers a backup to save essential and important data for the client, so that any loss can be recovered with this command option. Network access controls can be guaranteed by applying the software correctly, as it is responsible for filtering any link that has the potential to be malicious.
Web based what is middleware software
The middleware that is based on the web consists of helping the client in accessing and browsing the Internet, since different interfaces must be used to enter a specific page. You have the possibility of offering recommendations which are obtained through an analysis of the user’s movements, in the same way you can present the modifications that may be of interest to the user. what is middleware software
It has an identification service to recognize all the applications compatible with the equipment, so selecting one starts the data transfers necessary for its operation. The communication between the operating system and the application must be based on the protocols established by the network, they also depend on the platform that the data programming is found.
One of its advantages is that it increases efficiency and performance in the results and responses of the requests made by the user, since the link with the network must be strong to guarantee data transfer. In turn, it must comply with the operating system parameters since they have requirements that may not be compatible with other programs.
The availability of the data of an application can be obtained through a web link, which is why companies show their programs on special pages for download and sale. You have the option that if you had an old version of a software you can recover all the stored data by downloading the new version.
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(EIA) — The national average retail price for regular gasoline has fallen for three consecutive weeks for the first time since December, reading $3.87 per gallon on April 23, seven cents per gallon lower than the 2012 peak of $3.94 per gallon on April 2. While global oil markets remain tight, some easing has occurred in recent weeks.
Evidence of this easing can be seen in decreases in prompt prices for crude oil, reduced backwardation in the Brent futures curve, and accompanying builds in U.S. crude oil inventories, particularly in the important Gulf Coast (PADD 3) market.
The retreat in global crude prices came after the Brent spot price reached its year-to-date peak of $128 per barrel on March 13. Since that time, the Brent spot price fell about $10 per barrel to about $118 per barrel on April 20. This decline has been concurrent with a decrease in the spread between the 1st and 3rd month Brent futures contracts. On March 13, the five-day average 1st to 3rd month backwardation was $1.05 per barrel; by April 20, it had narrowed to $0.51. As would be expected when backwardation narrows, we have seen strong inventory builds in the United States since March 16, over two-thirds of which has occurred in the Gulf Coast market. Gulf Coast crude inventories have increased 18.1 million barrels (520,000 barrels per day [bbl/d]) to reach 183.3 million barrels (Figure 1); a typical build over this period is about 4.3 million barrels (120,000 bbl/d).
Lessening incentive to sell barrels into the prompt market is only part of the story behind rising Gulf Coast inventories. Crude oil imports into the Gulf Coast have also risen significantly over the last month. Imports for the week ending April 20 were 4.79 million bbl/d, 430,000 bbl/d more than the week ending March 16. This increase is likely due largely to an increase in volumes from Saudi Arabia being received on the Gulf Coast. While EIA weekly data does not break out country-level weekly imports by area of entry, U.S.-level data show the four-week average crude imports from Saudi Arabia on April 20 at 1.56 million bbl/d, a 190,000-bbl/d increase compared to the four weeks leading up to March 16. Most of this increase likely went to the Gulf Coast, the destination of almost three quarters of Saudi imports in 2011. Some of that volume may have been destined for Motiva’s expanded Port Arthur, TX refinery. As Motiva (a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Shell) has prepared for the impending startup of its new 325,000-bbl/d expansion, inventory requirements for the refinery have likely contributed to recent builds.
Shifts in regional crude pricing may have attracted some additional imports to the Gulf Coast. During the first ten trading days of March, Gulf Coast benchmark Louisiana Light Sweet (LLS) fetched a premium of about $1.30 per barrel to Brent; for the remainder of March that differential widened to around $3 per barrel on average. Similarly, a strengthening LLS-Bonny Light differential in late March might have pulled some Nigerian barrels across the Atlantic.
Compounding the impact of those new crude flows, Gulf Coast refinery runs, far from keeping up with rising imports, have inched down counter-seasonally by about 10,000 bbl/d from the week ending March 16 to the week ending April 20. Some Gulf Coast refineries may have conducted late-season maintenance in March and early April, after runs had been relatively high through the typically heavy February maintenance period. Crude units expected to come back on line in late April could temporarily draw down some of the recent Gulf Coast inventory builds. However, as crude shipments resume on the Seaway Pipeline following its reversal that is now expected to be completed in mid-May, line fill and new southbound crude flows could lead to structurally higher inventory levels in PADD 3, even as the reversed pipeline starts reducing stocks in Cushing (PADD 2).
Gasoline and diesel fuel prices fall below year-ago levels
The U.S. average retail price of regular gasoline decreased more than a nickel this week to $3.87 per gallon, almost a penny per gallon lower than last year at this time. This is the first time the U.S. average price has been lower than the same week the previous year since October 2009. All regions across the country were down this week, with the largest drop coming in the Midwest, where prices fell eight cents versus last week. Gulf Coast prices shed five and a half cents on the week to become the lowest in the country at $3.75 per gallon. The East Coast saw a decline of more than four cents on the week. The West Coast average price dropped almost three cents, but remained the most expensive in the country at $4.14 per gallon. Gasoline in the Rocky Mountains saw only a small decline on the week to remain at $3.80 per gallon, marking the first time in 2012 the region has not had the least expensive gasoline in the country on average.
The national average diesel fuel price decreased about four cents to $4.09 per gallon, about a penny per gallon lower than last year at this time, and the first weekly price below the year-ago level since November 2009. All the major regions saw diesel prices drop this week, and the declines were fairly consistent across the regions. The Midwest, Gulf Coast, and West Coast all saw average diesel prices fall between four and five cents. Average prices on the Gulf Coast and in the Rocky Mountains both shed between three and four cents on the week.
U.S. propane inventories post a build
Total inventories of propane grew again last week, adding 1.1 million barrels to end at 47.4 million barrels, nearly 21 million barrels (79 percent) higher than the same week a year ago. The largest gain occurred in the Midwest region, with 0.9 million barrels of new propane stocks. The Gulf Coast added 0.6 million barrels, and the Rocky Mountain/West Coast regional stocks were up slightly. Meanwhile, East Coast inventories dropped by 0.3 million barrels. Propylene non-fuel-use inventories represented 7.8 percent of total propane inventories.
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North Wales Assembly Member Mark Isherwood welcomed new fuel poverty initiatives in Flintshire and Denbighshire when speaking in the Assembly chamber and said it is crucial that people are made aware of the help they, and other fuel poverty schemes, provide.
Mr Isherwood, who is Chair of the Assembly Cross Party Group on Fuel Poverty, referred to Flintshire’s Affordable Warmth Scheme and Denbighshire’s Fuel Poverty Action Plan when questioning the Minister for Natural Resources and Food on Welsh Government Action to tackle Fuel Poverty.
Mr Isherwood said: “Although schemes such as Flintshire’s Affordable Warmth Scheme and Denbighshire’s Fuel Poverty Action Plan are welcomed - and both are newly launched - we heard at this lunch time’s meeting of the Cross-Party Group on Older People and Ageing, that older people are still often unaware of the help available and lack support in key areas, where Arbed and Nest will only ever reach 1% to 2% of fuel poor households in Wales annually.
“How, therefore, do you respond to the calls that were made at that meeting today for the restoration of the Fuel Poverty Ministerial Advisory Group in Wales, alongside those elsewhere in the UK, and for the Welsh Government to raise its fuel poverty game beyond Arbed and Nest, welcome though they are?”
In his reply the Minister agreed with Mr Isherwood that it is crucial to ensure that “people who can benefit from fuel poverty schemes are able to do so, and have the knowledge of the schemes and information about those schemes to enable them to take full advantage of their access to those programmes.”
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The Medical Minute: Hand sanitizers effective, but handwashing is better
Whether they dangle from keychains, spritz from pens or froth and pump out of clinic and classroom dispensers, hand sanitizers are convenient alternatives to handwashing, and they do work.
But when it comes to keeping germs away as we enter the cold and flu season, nothing beats a good scrubbing with soap and water.
“For the average person, they are super convenient, and I think they do have a place in hand hygiene,” he said. They are also easier to use than ever. Some come pleasantly scented, while others add moisturizers to keep skin from drying out.
The trouble arises when users neglect traditional handwashing in favor of the alcohol-based concoctions.
“Washing appropriately with soap and water can actually rid your hands of more germs and – depending on what you are coming in contact with – some chemicals,” Newman said.
For times when skin is really dirty or laden with grimy material, only a real handwashing will do.
Wet hands with water. Add soap. Cover all surfaces.
Most people know the basics. The key, Newman said, is to rub vigorously for about 20 seconds, or about how long it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” through twice or talk through the alphabet.
“What the soap does as you are scrubbing is release all the dirt and germ particles from the surface of the skin,” he said. “They get bound up in the soap lather so when you rinse, all those germs and debris get washed away.”
Cold, warm or hot – the temperature of the water doesn’t matter. It’s the length of time spent scrubbing and rinsing off appropriately that are key to a good handwash.
When that’s not possible, turn to a sanitizer with alcohol content of 60 to 95 percent.
Newman cautions that because hand sanitizers are an alcohol-based product, they should be stored out of the reach of children and used by children only with adult supervision.
While the claims on most sanitizers saying that they kill 99% of bacteria and germs are true, Newman said some viruses can still sneak through: “Not all sanitizers are effective against norovirus and some healthcare-related bacteria.”
Increased use of hand sanitizers has prompted some to question whether overuse can create problems with bacteria resistance. While it’s a legitimate concern that is being studied and discussed, Newman said it comes up more with antibacterial soaps than with hand sanitizers.
“Sterility is not always better,” he said. “Sometimes getting some exposure – as long as it’s not life-threatening – can actually be adaptive and beneficial to our immune systems.”
For clinical staff, waterless hand sanitizer is preferred over hand washing if hands are not visibly soiled and no contact with a patient with spore forming organisms is encountered, according to Dr. Cynthia Whitener, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
The Medical Minute is a weekly health news feature produced by Penn State Health. Articles feature the expertise of faculty, physicians and staff, and are designed to offer timely, relevant health information of interest to a broad audience.
- The Medical Minute: Are cell phones really covered in germs?
- The Medical Minute: Alcohol-based sanitizers win the germ war
- The Medical Minute: Preparing preteens for good hygiene practices
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Reinforcement learning models postulate that neurons that release dopamine encode information about action and action outcome, and provide a teaching signal to striatal spiny projection neurons in the form of dopamine release1. Dopamine is thought to guide learning via dynamic and differential modulation of protein kinase A (PKA) in each class of spiny projection neuron2. However, the real-time relationship between dopamine and PKA in spiny projection neurons remains untested in behaving animals. Here we monitor the activity of dopamine-releasing neurons, extracellular levels of dopamine and net PKA activity in spiny projection neurons in the nucleus accumbens of mice during learning. We find positive and negative modulation of dopamine that evolves across training and is both necessary and sufficient to explain concurrent fluctuations in the PKA activity of spiny projection neurons. Modulations of PKA in spiny projection neurons that express type-1 and type-2 dopamine receptors are dichotomous, such that these neurons are selectively sensitive to increases and decreases, respectively, in dopamine that occur at different phases of learning. Thus, PKA-dependent pathways in each class of spiny projection neuron are asynchronously engaged by positive or negative dopamine signals during learning.
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Out of the seven billion people currently populating the planet, it’s a good bet to presume that six billion are influenced by some form of digital marketing technique every day. In fact, traditional marketing strategies (print, radio commercials, static billboards) have almost reached the end of their extinction event, wiped out by the rapid domination of digital marketing over the past 20 years.
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Search Engine Optimization: the Bedrock of Digital Marketing
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Russia operates multiple news sites with the aim of spreading fake news and systemic propaganda. These sites are often easily traced back to Russia, where the front-end target is often members of the EU and/or the United States. Since mid-March 2021 Germany has been targeted at least 700 times and France was targeted 300 times with articles containing fake news. Analytics state that South Front, one of the Russian-backed news sites, could have as many as 1.5 million views per month. While this may seem like a small amount, South Front is just one of the hundreds of thousands of Russian news sites. Read more about how to avoid falling for pro-Kremlin propaganda here.
Welt, a German news site, interviewed Holger Frommert, about his work as a volunteer translator for the Russian misinformation site, South Front.
Frommert was a reader of South Front because he wanted to keep up on international news, but believed German reporting was not critical enough. Then he signed up to be a volunteer who translated articles into German and English. He began receiving direction over email from “Rene SF Team,” who sent him more than 100 articles to translate. He no longer works for the website because he was frustrated with their relationship. However, when Welt asked about South Front’s Russian origins, he claimed not to be bothered by it. In fact, he still reads South Front almost every day. Additionally, South Front itself is once again asking for German volunteers.
Find Frommert’s full interview in German here.
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Young people often find themselves either wanting or needing to work, but don’t know where to begin. Reaching out to them using tools they are familiar with can increase the likelihood of making a true connection that can lead to the start of a lifelong successful career journey. All of us, at one time or another, need to “see what we can be.”
The Partnership collaborates with Chicagoland area businesses and organizations to provide work readiness training to eligible out-of-school youth, ages 16-24 and in-school youth, ages 16-21. There are a wide variety of programs designed to prepare youth to be productive in the workforce. The programs range from summer internships to year-round support for youth.
Engaging young adults is a priority for The Partnership.
The Partnership will invest more than $16.5 million in federal WIOA funding in Program Year 2023 to serve youth ages 16-24 in Chicago and suburban Cook County. Forty-two community-based organizations in our network will offer young adults experiences and skills to connect them with fulfilling career opportunities with family-sustaining wages.
- $2 million to serve youth in school
- $11.7 million to serve youth out-of-school
- $2.8 million in Individual Training Accounts (ITAs) to give youth access to training in high-demand, high-growth industries
OpportunityWorks and OpportunitySummer
Working with the Office of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and private funders, The Partnership created Opportunity Works. Designed as a training program for opportunity youth (young adults who are not in school and not connected to employment) in suburban Cook County that connects them with businesses in high-growth sectors, Opportunity Works offers participants paid internships exposing them to careers they may not have considered in Manufacturing, Information Technology, Healthcare, and Transportation, Distribution and Logistics.
Apply online now: Opportunity Works Youth Application
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MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed the Philippine government for its alleged failure to “protect children who dig and dive for gold in dangerous small-scale mines.”
The group released Wednesday, September 30, its report on the subject, highlighting hazardous conditions child miners for gold are made to endure.
“Children work in unstable 25-meter-deep pits that could collapse at any moment. They mine gold underwater, along the shore, or in rivers, with oxygen tubes in their mouths,” the report read.
“They also process gold with mercury, a toxic metal, risking irreversible health damage from mercury poisoning,” it added.
The report, entitled “What…if Something Went Wrong: Hazardous Child Labor in Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Philippines,” documented the experiences of over 135 people, including 65 child miners aged 9 to 17 in small-scale gold mines in the provinces of Camarines Norte and Masbate during the years 2014 and 2015.
Juliane Kippenberg, HRW associate children’s rights director, wrote the report.
Kippenberg concluded that the problem of child labor is one of enforcement, and stressed the need to empower Filipino families to move out of poverty. This would remove the need for even minors in the family to work.
“In order to tackle the root causes of child labor, the government needs to assist the poorest families financially and ensure their children are able to attend and stay in school,” she explained.
“The government needs to take urgent steps to ensure a safe and child-labor-free mining sector so that families can earn income without putting their children at risk,” she added.
Risks of hazardous work
HRW found that both underground mines and underwater or compressor mines put the children at risk of injuries from mine collapse and drowning, respectively.
In compressor mining, some adolescent boys are made to stay “underwater for several hours at a time in 10-meter-deep shafts.”
“I was 13 the first time [I dived]. I felt scared because it’s dark and deep,” the HRW report quoted one of the child miners.
“Sometimes you have to make it up fast, especially if you have no air in your hose. It’s a normal thing. It’s happened to me,” said another.
Exposure to mercury during the processing of gold also make the children vulnerable to brain damage, the report said.
Supposedly, state laws do not permit compressor mining and mercury in mining.
Despite the ban instituted in March, there remains a struggle in implementing the law.
“The Philippine government should be introducing mercury-free gold processing, as practiced in Benguet province, to reduce the threat to all children,” HRW urged.
The group also said the Philippines must ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury of 2013, aside from “testing mercury exposure among residents in mining areas.”
While the Philippines benefits from small-scale mining in the provinces, HRW said the industry must be rid of any and all elements that force children to live adult lives.
Child labor in the Philippines
Under Philippine law, “child labor refers to the employment of children who are below 18 years old that deprives them of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially, or morally dangerous and harmful.”
Citing government data, the International Labor Organization on June 10 said there are 2.1 million child laborers aged 5-17 years old in the Philippines.
About 96% of the child laborers are involved in hazardous work.
State figures for 2011 show that there are 5.5 million children in the Philippines engaged in labor, including permissible work for children.
In the Philippines, employing a child laborer in hazardous work is a crime punishable under Republic Act 9231, which seeks to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the country. It is also punishable under RA 7610, which grants special protection for children against abuse, exploitation, and discrimination.
Those guilty of child labor could face a fine ranging from P100,000 to P1 million or imprisonment from 12 years and one day to 20 years or both, depending on the court’s verdict.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has urged teachers to help identify child laborers among students exhibiting absenteeism, habitual tardiness, poor performance, and other similar indicators.
Child labor “interferes with a child’s right to education, as well as risks a child’s health, safety, and development,” she said. – Rappler.com
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Zapata Falls is a Bureau of Land Management Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA). There are 23 single campsites, one group site, and one campsite host. The campground is located on BLM road 5415, seven miles southwest of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The campground sits at 9,000 feet at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It offers sweeping views of the San Luis Valley, the San Juan Mountains and nearby Great Sand Dunes National Park—plus spectacular sunrises, sunsets and night skies.
A new trailhead in the campground supplies a link to the South Zapata Creek Trail # 852, and the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness. A second trail, North Fork South Zapata Trail # 868, just above the campground in the day-use area, leads visitors on a mildly steep half-mile hike to the falls that give the campground its name.
Getting to the falls is an adventure in itself, involving a wade through cold creek water and a climb over slick boulders. The falls are located on land owned by the Colorado State Land Board, and people who visit them need to be cautious and realize that the climb can be risky.
Zapata Falls campsites, one group site and one camp host site are spaced around two, one-mile-long loops. The sites on one loop are designed for tent campers. Parking spurs on the second loop vary a little in length but in general can handle RVs, towed campers or other configurations of vehicles up to about 50 feet long. Each single site has a picnic table, fire grate, parking and tent pads and a bear-proof food locker. The accessible group site has three picnic tables, three tent pads and a group fire ring. The campground is open year round but access in the winter can be difficult – call ahead for conditions. QUIET HOURS & no generator use 10 pm – 7 am. For more information, please contact the San Luis Valley Field Office.To reach Zapata Falls Campground: From Highway 160, about 5 miles west of Blanca, turn north on Highway 150 and travel about 10.5 miles to BLM road 5415; turn east and travel another 2.5 miles to the campground entrance.
To reach the road to the campground from the Great Sand Dunes National Park, travel about 7 miles southwest on Highway 150. The unpaved road from the highway to the campgrounds gains 1,000 feet in 3.6 miles and is rough in places. Passenger cars and RVs can navigate the road, but it may be too challenging for some vehicles719-852-7074No reservations needed.Two sites are ADA Accessible
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Rolando Toro – 97 years; transformation through Biodanza; future [2021 Corona crisis]19. April 2021
97 years old today would have been Rolando Toro and in this time of deprivation of Biodanza Vivencias (in real life) I may realize how much we need Biodanza and how valuable Biodanza is for me.
A transformation! – It has arisen and I have welcomed and embraced it.
from Martin Matyus
- Time of crisis
- Biodanza and the crisis
A transformation that I was allowed to experience with Biodanza Anselm Grün sums up in words that I could not formulate better:
from Anselm Grün
Longing is the beginning of all transformation.From “Stay on the Trail of Your Dreams” – Book of Desire
And this is something quite different from change.
Change is something for doers, planners and activists.
Transformation is not made: it happens.
Transformation does not want to get things under control,
to stop what is wrong or to avoid it by force.
It does not work with noise, but thoughtfully and quietly.
Because what grows does not make noise.
Transformation happens in the encounter, in love.
The benevolent gaze of the other transforms us.
When we encounter love, we emerge renewed.
Another person can love something out of us,
that was previously hidden within us.
Love awakens a power that lets us discover our own secret.
Whoever sets out on the path, his longing will be satisfied.
Time of crisis
We may not, but may we do without?
Already since the beginning of the Corona crisis – or is it possibly a crisis of humanity – we are recommended “social distancing” and any contact with other people is charged with fears. Politics, media and also scientists still recommend coercive measures as a rescue from Corona.
Will it help us to let fears guide us?
Certainly Covid-19 is real, certainly precautions, science, medicine and an evidence-based approach are needed to manage this pandemic. But what do I experience here in Austria and learn from other countries?
Chaos, violence and obsession with power! – Fearful people are docile, easier to manipulate and hope for rescue. All this politicians and media make use of to be able to reach personal goals and to satisfy personal sensitivities.
Fear is and always has been a bad advisor and will be in the future!
Biodanza and the crisis
For more than a year, Biodanza Vivencias have been more or less prohibited in Austria. With a few exceptions, we had to refrain from meeting, embracing and experiencing Biodanza together.
These exceptions have been sources of strength and have nourished the hope that the crisis will end soon. That’s how necessary it would have been and how urgent and important it is to be able to dive back into Vivencias as soon as possible. Not only for us, who have already gained experience with Biodanza, but also from other people I see, feel and hear the need for encounters – unintentional and unbiased.
Doch die Kommunikation der Angst ist präsent und penetriert uns ständig.
- Can we manage to free ourselves from it?
- Can we manage to meet people in the foreseeable future without an inner voice signaling us danger?
- Can we overcome the traumas of this time?
I am sure: Biodanza will help us! – Thank you Rolando Toro and all the people who carry Biodanza and preserve it for humanity!
As soon as I’m allowed – yes, I don’t want to flout the law and regulations – I’ll start weekly groups again, no matter how many participating people join.
Also the program Biodanza-Teacher-Exchange will be continued and there will be weekend – Vivencia dates that bring us together internationally. – Stay tuned!
Gratefully I can report that the Facebook page “just-Biodanza in Vienna” already has 1000 people interested and reading these messages, as well as over 1400 people interactively participating in the Facebook group “just-Biodanza international”.- You make me happy, thank you!
In the meantime, I am working on the completion of Compose-V, a platform to support the composition of Biodanza Vivencias:
- Calculation of planned courses
- Calculation of duration of vivencias
- Feedback on compliance with Biodanza methodology
- Verified procedures and internationally validated data
- More time for creation, through well-prepared tools for the
composition of exercises and music pieces
Be at the forefront andstay tuned:
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Learn a Language
These digital resources contain encyclopaedias, dictionaries, magazine databases and general reference material covering a wide variety of subjects.
Duolingo is the free science-based language education platform that has organically become the most popular way to learn languages online.
Each lesson includes a variety of speaking, listening, translation, and multiple choice challenges, and records how many days in a row you spend learning a language.
The following 29 languages are available to learn:
- High Valyrian
Learn a language with thousands of video clips of real native speakers, fun and effective games to practice your skills.
Languages available to learn include Mexican Spanish, Spanish, French, German, Japanese (Kanji), Italian, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish, Danish or even English.
Learn Te Reo Māori
Tikanga Māori, Whakahuatanga and a selection of online resources to learn te reo Māori suggested by Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori, the Māori Language Commission.
This website provides access to a range of free online resources for independent learning and action.
Learn te reo Māori online free for New Zealand residents with Te Wānanga o Raukawa, a tikanga Māori tertiary education provider based in Ōtaki, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The course is NZQA approved at Levels 4 and 5.
Learn NZSL is a free learning portal on New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). NZSL is the language of New Zealand’s Deaf community and an official language of New Zealand. Whether you’re studying NZSL, trying to connect with a Deaf friend, or just having fun with a new language, Learn NZSL has a lot to offer!
Watch, learn and practise how to use NZSL in common situations, shown as nine topics below. Within each topic, you’ll find plenty of videos, resources and exercises to keep you busy. Go through the topics in sequence to get the full story of Learn NZSL.
The Ministry of Education’s resource, Mua Ō! An introduction to Gagana Sāmoa, has been designed for use by educators in New Zealand, including those who are new to or beginners at Gagana Sāmoa themselves. It is available as a downloadable pdf.
Fāgogo is an oral account told at night to a child after a day’s chores. The Sāmoan fables presented here intend to allow the student of Sāmoan language to learn as a Sāmoan child primarily does – by listening.
Rays of Sound is a digital audio bookshelf created by the Learning Language Centre at Victoria University.
A Sāmoan language learning app available for free from the App store for iOS devices.
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Browse the glossary:
change in cost
— The additional cost, for example, of a treatment in relation to a specified comparison treatment
incremental cost, difference in cost
The incremental cost of a treatment is the additional costs (resource use) or savings associated with the treatment in comparison to usual care (or “no treatment”), a placebo or another treatment.
cost · incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER)
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Nasal congestion is a condition that is much more common than nosebleeds, affects more individuals for a longer period of time, and is nevertheless neglected.
Yes, think about it. How many people around you sleep with their mouths open? You? your child? And, how many of them sought a solution because of this?
However, if I were to count the causes of nasal congestion, I would have to write at length. After all, dry mouth, sleeping undisturbed at night is not enough?
I am not talking about the temporary stuff of nasal congestion. When you have a cold, it is normal for a person to have a blocked nose for a few days. Then his nose will be opened and his nose breathing will return to the old way. What I ask of my patients is that they can indicate how many days of the year their noses are stuffy. A total of 10-15 days of blockage per year is not considered to be chronic nasal congestion.
Deviation (curvature of the middle part of the nose), enlargement of the nasal concha and enlargement of the adenoids in young children are the leading causes of chronic nasal congestion. These conditions are very easy to diagnose and equally easy to treat.
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The UAE SDG Images Award recognizes the immense energy of photos, to helping us increase consciousness as a globally group attain the objectives of a better world in distinctive approach. Fully built-in with WordPress Customizer Modify Look settings in a reside preview. No matter what you change parts colors, background, typography, layout type, textual content or images, you will see the results immediately. Discover the wealthy and diversified history of fashion photography via Icons of Type: A Century of Style Photography. Greater than 200 pictures by well-known practitioners and lesser-identified, yet influential artists present a broad and various perspective on vogue images and its trajectory from area of interest trade to highly effective cultural force. The exhibition surveys the gradual recognition of fashion images as an art kind.
Yendani lives with a mental health situation. He was brought to the Pentecostal church of Bokiccenag in Togo by his mom to be cured by healing prayers. In some elements of West Africa, spiritual camps are arrange for people with mental illnesses, who could also be shackled and obtain prayer as their solely remedy. When this photograph was taken, roughly 15 adults with mental health problems had been chained to bushes or posts while they waited to be cured by means of prayer. If you wish to take your photographs from boring and bland to exciting and bold, give some selective pictures lighting methods a try. You may be pleasantly shocked at how much of a distinction this will make subsequent time you’re out searching for a new picture to catch.
Despite experimentation here and there and the occasional outlier, smartphone cameras are pretty much the same. They have to fit inside just a few millimeters of depth, which limits their optics to a few configurations. The scale of the sensor is likewise limited — a DSLR would possibly use an APS-C sensor 23 by 15 millimeters across, making an area of 345 mm2; the sensor in the iPhone XS, most likely the most important and most superior in the marketplace proper now, is 7 by 5.eight mm or so, for a total of forty.6 mm2.
Access to HE courses – Typical provides for applicants with Access to HE would be the Entry to HE Diploma or Entry to HE Certificates (60 credit, 45 of which should be Level 3, including 30 at advantage or greater) along with different qualifications or evidence of expertise in Artwork or Images. Illustration images encompasses studio photographs for advertising, industrial use, vogue, portraits, and magazine illustrations for print and the online. Photojournalism is a draw to photographers who like the joy of being in the discipline as tales unfold, capturing picture—usually with sound and text—for newspapers, magazines, and multimedia.
Learning intermediate professional digital functions and processes is crucial for skilled photographers. College students achieve a more superior understanding of laptop use in picture processing using numerous skilled software. Theory on input of digital photographs is supported by demonstrations and assignments. Easily change the product worth font colour by coloration picker. Many photographers nonetheless carry a lightweight meter, even within the days of excessive finish digital SLRs. If you happen to’re packing gentle you should utilize a styrofoam cup over the tip of your lens and use your digicam’s mild meter, hold it in place with certainly one of your rubber bands.
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Brazil’s incoming mines and energy minister, Bento Albuquerque, supports more nuclear and wind power development to diversify the country’s energy matrix, while saying hydropower had reached its limit, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported.
Albuquerque favors restarting construction of the Angra 3 nuclear power plant, which has been halted since 2015, as well as promoting the mining of uranium in Brazil, he said in an interview with Folha.
The admiral is currently the Brazilian Navy’s head of nuclear development and technology, responsible for building five submarines, including a nuclear-powered vessel scheduled to enter service in 2029.
Angra 3 would be Brazil’s third nuclear plant. Earlier this year sources told Reuters that the project was struggling to find investors. Albuquerque said that up to 49 percent of the project was open to private investment.
“They say (Angra 3) needs 15 billion reais ($3.84 billion) more, and we’ve already spent 16 billion reais. Is it worth it? I think it’s very worth it,” said Albuquerque, who was chosen by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be minister after the Jan. 1 government transition.
Bolsonaro had suggested the country build more hydropower stations in the Amazon, raising fears of increased deforestation among environmentalists, but Albuquerque said that expanding hydro power is not viable.
“The model of large hydropower stations is no longer viable, whether for environmental concerns or for the depletion of water resources,” he said in the interview.
Albuquerque said he had not yet made up his mind on the privatization of state-owned energy utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, proposed under the current administration of President Michel Temer.
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Last year, Wildlife Services killed a jaw-dropping 1.75 million animals. That is the equivalent of 200 animals killed per hour – an astonishingly high rate for an agency that claims to be ending animals' lives out of necessity. For years, scientists and environmentalists have been telling us that the harmony between our agricultural output and local ecosystems can be managed in much more humane ways than going on a literal animal killing spree – which actually turns out to be as ineffective as it is cruel. So why is the USDA still engaging in such reckless, ruthless behavior?
Sign now to demand the USDA overhaul this inhumane wildlife management system!
The impacts of this merciless program were felt by dozens of species, including vital native animals. In a single year, Wildlife Services killed over 400,000 animals that are a part of native species – from gray wolves, to black bears, to bobcats and foxes. Nearly 65,000 coyotes were slaughtered, some of them chased down and shot by people in helicopters – imagine how terrified they must have been.
These astronomical numbers are frankly unsustainable, even though sustainability is part of the excuse for all this murdering. Overall ecosystem health is put at risk when predator populations decrease, for example, by allowing for invasive species to thrive.
Beyond misunderstood animals that have historically fraught relationships with the USDA such as coyotes and wolves, the agency also killed alligators, armadillos, doves, owls, turtles, and many other beloved species. And in the midst of the ruthless violence, a moose, antelope, and even a bald eagle were shot. Accidental victims of the violent killing even include dogs, bears, and foxes, because Wildlife Services uses methods like brutal "leg hold traps, snares, and poisons" which don't discriminate in what they kill.Obviously Wildlife Services desperately needs an overhaul. It is deeply ironic that a federal agency is claiming to slaughter animals in the name of public health – while the same government refuses to fund basic healthcare services that would actually keep humans healthy and safe. We must end this cruel and pointless practice by Wildlife Services. Sign to tell the USDA now: curb the killing!
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What is the Royal Engineers Association?
The Royal Engineers Association (REA) is the Regimental Association of the Royal Engineers. The REA was originally founded in 1912 under the name of The Royal Engineers Old Comrades Association, which was later changed to the Royal Engineers Association in 1952.
- To promote the Corps among the Association by:
- Fostering espirit de corps, comradeship and service.
- Maintaining an awareness of Corps traditions.
- Acting as a link between serving and retired members of the Corps.
- To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their spouses, widows, widowers and dependents who are in need.
- To make grants, within Association Guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and other charities that further the objectives of the Association.
- To ensure that all members of the Sapper family have access to comradeship and support that enables them to live full lives.
The Sapper family are the focus of all of our activities, and we are fully committed to realizing the welfare needs of our serving soldiers, veterans, and families.
We will always respect the needs, experience and diversity of individuals. We are fully committed to providing a compassionate and caring environment where the contribution of everyone is valued.
The Structure of the REA
The Association is organized into a Headquarters, Groups and Branches. The Association HQ is located in Chatham and operates the day to day running on the organisation. There are a total of eleven Group Headquarters located in major Royal Engineer military bases, all of which supervise and organize Branches within their local regional area.
Branches are established in towns, districts, or units of the Crops and are administered by elected Branch officials, and there are currently over one hundred Branches located in the UK and abroad. There are a growing number of branches that relate to various activities within the Corps that give each branch a distinct identity. Currently these are Plant, Bomb Disposal, Commando Engineers, Military Survey, Armoured Engineers, Radio, Junior Leaders, Airborne Engineers, Postal & Courier, and Amphibious Engineers. The REA has the aspiration to expand the scope of National Branches to include community interest groups with various identities.
Your REA HQ Team
Kenneth Kirk Chief Executive Officer
Ken served with the Corps from 1981 to 1989 serving mainly in BAOR with 28 Amph Engr Regt, 23 Engr Regt, 25 Engr Regt and Junior Leaders Regiment RE. On leaving the Corps he joined the Port of London Authority at Tilbury Docks.
He held various senior management posts in Forth Ports Plc, including project managing major capital infrastructure projects building new Port Operating Facilities. Following this he became Managing Director of a major UK Port Operator for several years with operations across the UK.
He then went on to own and run a marine manufacturing business based on the South Coast. Having enjoyed a varied and rewarding career, he was delighted and honoured to have the opportunity to return to serve the Corps as Controller (now CEO) of the Royal Engineers Association.
Ken is married with two grown up sons and lives in Wouldham, where as well as still enjoying running and cycling, he is church warden of All Saints Parish Church and the local Poppy Appeal Organiser.
Iain George Operations Manager
Iain George joined the Corps in 1972 as a Junior Leader at Dover. He served 25 years in the ranks and finished as the Corps Regimental Sergeant Major. He was commissioned in 1997 and served until 2015. His final posting was SO2 Transition London District.
After leaving, he worked for the Stoll Foundation, a Veterans charity in London looking after homeless and vulnerable veterans. As the Assistant Controller (now Operations Manager), Iain’s responsibilities include the assessment of benevolence cases and the staffing of benevolence cases to the REA Benevolence Committee. He also organises the REA Annual Dinner, Sapper Sunday and the production of the HQ Circular.
Iain has been married to Melanie for over 40 years and they have two grown up children and three grandchildren.
Ann Richardson Membership Secretary
Ann Richardson is part of our membership team. She first joined the REA in 2009 as part of the benevolence team. Ann maintains all Membership records of which we have over 70,000. She is the contact for all membership enquiries and processes all new membership applications.
Ann also assists with setting up new Branches, advising on the membership status of the founding members. Her skills extend to editing the REA website, keeping it up to date with Branch and Group officials contact details.
Ann is married to John. Between them they have eight adult children and 18 grandchildren who keep them particularly busy. She also has four dogs. When not at work she loves gardening, reading, crafts and music, but mostly loves spending time with her grandchildren
Julia Ferguson Member Services Coordinator
Julia Ferguson joined the REA Benevolence Team in 2002 and moved to our membership team in 2009. She co-ordinates ticket requests for our external annual events and assists with administration for the Association Badge of Merit, notifications of RE In-Pensioner admittance to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, medical discharge, retirement and death notifications receipt of donations and legacies.
Julia also coordinates REA Branch submissions for The Sapper including publication of obituaries in the magazine and the Corps Memorial Book. She is also the point of contact for the arrangement of Standard Bearer representation at cremations and funerals.
Julia lives with her partner Tim, a former Royal Engineer who served 22 years with the Corps. Outside of work she enjoys walking, gardening and researching her family tree. Julia and Tim are both animal-lovers and are ‘parents’ to their adopted (and rather bossy) cat, Oreo.
Matt Gadd Digital Marketing Assistant
Matt joined the REA as a Digital Marketing Assistant in March of 2022. He works on all things relating to Digital Marketing within the organization, helping us to gain more exposure in the online space. This increased exposure ultimately allows us to reach more of our Sapper family that may not be aware of the help and support we can offer them.
When not at work Matt likes to spend his free time listening to music, gaming, socializing with friends, and eating out.
Rodney Henderson Benevolence Secretary
Rodney came to the busy REA Benevolence Secretary job in March 2019, having already worked in REHQ in a different role. Rodney receives all benevolence cases and prepares them for consideration of assistance; he also works on preparing cases to be brought before the REA Benevolence Committee as well as liaising with caseworkers from other military charities regarding ongoing cases.
Rodney is married to Jo and enjoys holidays abroad, especially cruises. In his spare time, he plays golf, enjoys spending time with friends and eating out.
Fiona Louch Business Manager
Fiona joined the Association team in October 2018, having previously been a secondary school teacher for 10 years and working as part of a pastoral team in the same school prior to that. She is the Association’s Business Manager but continues her role as Employment Coordinator for Sappers Network, an employment support service under the auspices of the REA, covering all Sappers, whether regular, reserve or veteran. Fiona also stands in for the Benevolence Secretary when required and enjoys the variety and complexity of the work in all of her roles.
Fiona is married to Steve and they have one son who currently works in the hospitality industry. She has been a Sea Cadet instructor and administrator at her local Unit on the Isle of Sheppey for over 30 years. When time allows, she likes to socialise with friends, read and listen to a wide variety of music.
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The BC Ministry of Advanced Education has announced the formation of a sub-committee to advise on Canada’s first publicly funded open textbook project. It has been formed with representatives from post-secondary institutions all over the province.
“The project will ultimately prepare and offer free, online, open textbooks for 40 high-enrolment and high-impact first and second year post-secondary courses,” it said.
Sounds great on paper, but I think the project will have plenty of hurdles ahead of it, such as copyright issues and whether the texts will be used for classes once they’re ade available.
However, the idea is long overdue. So long overdue, that it’s time may have come and gone already.
For those of you reading this who don’t use a computer, you are rapidly becoming a minority. Just as television has invaded 96.7 per cent of North American homes (and 20 per cent of the world’s), so computers will become a standard piece of the furniture.
Considering that most students already carry a smartphone or portable computer with them to class, it seems like a no-brainer that they should be able to store and access their textbooks on them. Add audio so students can choose to listen or read.
The black and white TV was the height of technology when I was in school – hooked up to a reel-to-reel tape player. And the Gestetner machine. Photocopiers? Who knew? We were all too impaired by the alcohol fumes on the paper.
A while back I was chatting with a trustee during a break at a school board meeting and we were talking about online learning. I mentioned that I had pretty much taught myself how to quilt through information I found on the web and tutorials on YouTube. The trustee was flabbergasted.
As a tool for learning, the internet is unparalleled – but so were libraries not so long ago. I wonder what the next generation of library will look like.
Free text books are a great idea, but why are we still bound to learn from textboks when the knowledge is already out there?
Wendy Coomber is editor of the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal
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TE Connectivity, a manufacturer of connectors and sensors, has introduced the new IPT-HD power bolt high-voltage connector.
TE’s IPT-HD power bolt high-voltage connector complies with ISO and LV standards. It offers a new shielding design, and provides low-contact resistance and thicker options for conductor cross-sections used in MCU, E-axle and E-motor applications for EVs operating in harsh environments. TE says the connector can be used in extreme temperatures (-40o C to +125o C) and high engine-level vibration conditions.
“Providing our customers with products that help their vehicles operate safely and efficiently in harsh environments continues to be top of mind for us at TE,” said Product Manager Kimmy Jin. “Our new IPT-HD power bolt high-voltage connector is a reliable solution for alternative-energy vehicles with its enhanced EMC performance, increased assembly efficiency and broader range use in applications.”
The IPT-HD power bolt series comes in 50 mm² and 70 mm² conductor cross-sections, with a 95 mm² option available soon. The connector series provides a separate, single wiring harness designed to increase assembly flexibility.
Source: TE Connectivity
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As Christmas lights twinkled overhead, sparks flew on the streets below as 100 people marched for Bristol’s annual Reclaim the Night march on Thursday evening (November 25).
Although the march from the Victoria Rooms to Queen Square was planned in advance, protesters made a number of unscheduled stops along the way where they drew crowds with their chanting and samba drumming.
Organiser Alena Chety said that she wanted the protest to ‘show people what we think and what we believe and just to feel heard.’
Headline issues raised at this year’s protest include the rise in incidences of drink spiking in clubs, and the fact that 2021 has seen the highest number of reported rapes on record.
‘It’s hard to feel safe,’ said Alena, who has friends who have been spiked. ‘It’s so normalised and that makes me angry.’
Last month, Bristol City Council launched a campaign against drink spiking, and the Council has been awarded £282,000 of Home Office funding to tackle crimes against women at night.
Alena said that these moves make her ‘optimistic,’ but she feels that work still needs to be done in education, such as consent education at universities and men’s education through, for instance, men’s groups ‘to undo that toxic masculinity.’
Reclaim the Night began in 1977 in Leeds to protests violence against women and has since grown into an annual event across the country.
Thursday’s protest was organised single-handedly by Alena after she saw no one else doing it.
Asked for her advice to others who want to organise their own protests but feel intimidated, Alena said: ‘There’s a lot of mental barriers and you need a lot of reassurance so find a friend who can reassure you through every step.’
‘Just reach out to different Facebook groups who share the same etos and cause, often you will find someone who has done it before and has the right contacts. And it’s word of mouth and just trying to spread the word as much as possible.’
Thursday’s march ended in Queen Square where the statue of William III was bedecked with a Reclaim the Night banner and placards were placed around the foot of the plinth.
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Are dogs intelligent?
Dog lovers will often extol the intelligence of their canine counterparts, and not without reason—dogs are indeed pretty smart. Man's best friend can understand up to 250 words, interpret human emotions, and even pull off crafty tricks when trying to score a snack.
Are dogs more intelligent than humans?
“Their stunning flashes of brilliance and creativity are reminders that they may not be Einsteins but are sure closer to humans than we thought.” According to several behavioral measures, Coren says dogs' mental abilities are close to a human child age 2 to 2.5 years.
Which dog has highest IQ?
- Border collie. According to The Intelligence of Dogs, which ranks 131 dog breeds in terms of their relative intelligence, the border collie is the smartest dog breed known to man. ...
- Poodle. ...
- German shepherd. ...
- Golden retriever. ...
- Doberman pinscher. ...
- Shetland sheepdog. ...
- Labrador retriever. ...
How smart can a dog be?
On the whole, psychologist and dog researcher Stanley Coren estimates, the average dog's intelligence is roughly as sophisticated as a 2.5-year-old baby's. So far, research has suggested that dogs can read our cues, show emotional connection to their owners, and even display jealousy.
How smart is a dog in IQ?
What's The Average Dog's IQ? The average dog's IQ is about 100. Based on the results done to test a dog's IQ, it turned out that dogs, even the average ones, have the IQ same as a 2-years old human.
How Intelligent are Dogs, Really? (feat. @Trace Dominguez) | Animal IQ
What is the stupidest dog breed?
The 10 Dumbest Dog Breeds and Why They've Been Characterized as “Dumb”
- Afghan Hound. The Afghan Hound is the “dumbest” dog. ...
- Basenji. Basenjis also make the list of dumbest dog breeds. ...
- Bulldog. Bulldogs are known for their stubbornness. ...
- Chow Chow. Chow Chows can also be difficult to train. ...
- Borzoi. ...
- Bloodhound. ...
- Pekingese. ...
Do dogs think humans are dogs?
Well, let's not leave you hanging, here. The short answer to “do dogs think humans are dogs?” is no. Sometimes, they'd probably like us to roll in the mud with them and get as excited about the dog park. Beyond that, they probably don't think of us as tall hairless doggos with a source of dog treats.
Do dogs understand death?
Dogs don't understand death
Dogs probably don't have the cognitive ability to understand permanence or death. Behaviorally healthy dogs take separations in stride—they don't lose their marbles when we take one dog to the vet for a checkup and leave the other one at home.
What do dogs think of humans?
Dogs treat their humans like family.
Along with a reaction from the reward center in their brains, dogs also feel a "secure base effect" from their humans. This effect is comparable to human-infant bonding, where human infants view their parents as a secure base in a scary, unknown world.
Do dogs recognize words?
"Body language, tone, and words are all involved in effective canine communication." Even though many scientists agree that dogs understand specific words, some believe they don't comprehend full sentences. They feel that saying “trees, birds, grass, walk” invokes the same meaning as, “let's go for a walk”.
Why do dogs lick you?
Licking is a natural and instinctive behaviour to dogs. For them it's a way of grooming, bonding, and expressing themselves. Your dog may lick you to say they love you, to get your attention, to help soothe themselves if they're stressed, to show empathy or because you taste good to them!
Can all dogs see TV?
Dogs absolutely can see TV, and many seem to enjoy it. There are a number of features about television shows that dogs find attractive. Some of these are visual, such as motion, while others relate to the sounds coming from the TV. Dog eyes are very different from human eyes, so they see things on TV differently.
What is the most loyal dog?
Top 10 Most Loyal Dog Breeds
- #8: Yorkshire Terrier. ...
- #7: Dobermann Pinscher. ...
- #6: German Shepherd. ...
- #5: Golden Retriever. ...
- #4: Staffordshire Bull Terrier. ...
- #3: Labrador Retriever. ...
- #2: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. ...
- #1: Xoloitzcuintli.
Are dogs dumb?
It's not that dogs are dumb, it's just that they aren't as exceptional as we may have thought. After reviewing 300 studies on dog intelligence and doing his own study, Stephen Lea, an emeritus professor of psychology at Exeter University, found there's no scientific evidence to support dogs as super intelligent.
What words do dogs understand?
Researchers say canines can understand words including water, park, cat and gentle. It is a question that has been pondered by dog owners since the animals were first domesticated: Does my pet understand me?
Do dogs understand kisses?
Many dog owners talk to their dogs in a cute or gentle manner when they are kissing them. The dog then learns to associate the kisses with a warmer tone, meaning they might respond accordingly. So while dogs do not understand what kisses really mean, they can eventually learn to realize they are positive messages.
Do dogs see us as parents?
And what the studies show is welcome news for all dog owners: Not only do dogs seem to love us back, they actually see us as their family. It turns out that dogs rely on humans more than they do their own kind for affection, protection and everything in between.
What language do dogs think in?
Dogs don't read or write, so they don't think in words and symbols the way humans do. However, they can certainly be taught to recognise symbols and words and the actions associated with them, but this is done through very careful training and isn't their natural state.
Do dogs worry about their owners?
Doggy don't worry, don't worry, no more. For a long time, cynics have argued that dogs don't really love their Owners. The truth, they posit, is that dogs are simply adept at manipulating humans – their chief food source. Again, most Dog Owners don't need a study to know their pooches love them.
Do dogs cry?
While dogs can feel sadness and grief, they don't actually cry in the same way humans do. In other words, their sad feelings don't prompt a flow of tears. Humans, in fact, are the only animals on the planet to shed tears as a result of their emotional state.
Will we see pets in heaven?
The pets that we had to say goodbye to are alive in heaven right now in their spiritual bodies and we will see them again if we accept Jesus as our Savior. Your Pet Is Not Gone Forever.
Do dogs smile?
Most experts agree dogs smile in response to the human smile. Dogs seem to smile more when relaxing, playing, feeling content or greeting someone they know. Dogs don't smile in response to a joke, but they may smile in response to you. Usually, when a dog smiles it is known as a submissive grin.
Do dogs think you're their mom?
So, yes, a puppy can definitely think of you as his “mother” — that is, his provider and protector — and develop as strong an emotional bond with you as if you were blood-related. Your puppy will also quickly learn to pick you out among strangers, both by sight and through his powerful sense of smell.
What do dogs think about all day?
In general, Bray says dogs probably think about all the staples in their lives, from food and play to other dogs and their pet parents. Like humans, how much time they spend pondering a specific focus “depends on the dog and their individual preferences and experiences,” she notes.
Why do dogs sleep next to you?
Your dog wanting to sleep next to you is also a sign of affection and closeness. It means they like your company and consider you a member of the pack. Sleeping by your side also proves their loyalty, trust, and willingness to protect you.
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- 1 How do I know if a painting is valuable?
- 2 How do I find the value of artwork?
- 3 How do I find the value of an original painting?
- 4 Is a painting valuable?
- 5 What makes a painting valuable?
- 6 Are oil paintings worth money?
- 7 How can I sell my artwork?
- 8 What is the most expensive painting ever stolen?
- 9 How do I know if my art is good enough to sell?
- 10 Who buys the most art?
- 11 How much are oil paintings worth?
- 12 Are Lee Reynolds paintings worth anything?
- 13 Is art a talent or skill?
- 14 What is the most expensive painting ever sold?
How do I know if a painting is valuable?
One good indicator of how to tell if a paint is valuable is to figure out who owned the painting beforehand. If someone who was high up or well-known in the art community owned the painting, then there might have been a reason for it. They knew that it was worth more.
How do I find the value of artwork?
Consider finding an appraiser to determine the value of your artwork. Appraisers are trained specialists who work for a fee. They evaluate your piece and give you a written statement of its value. Although the following organizations do not provide appraisals themselves, they each publish a directory of their members.
How do I find the value of an original painting?
Multiply the painting’s width by its length to arrive at the total size, in square inches. Then multiply that number by a set dollar amount that’s appropriate for your reputation. I currently use $6 per square inch for oil paintings. Then calculate your cost of canvas and framing, and then double that number.
Is a painting valuable?
While original paintings fetch the highest prices, a rare or specialty print may still be worth millions in some cases. A print of a painting by a well-known artist is often worth more than a genuine painting by an unknown artist.
What makes a painting valuable?
An artwork’s provenance, the documented history of who it has belonged to, is a huge determining factor in its value. For example, if a painting was once owned by a celebrity, a prominent collector, or perhaps a respected gallery, it will certainly attract higher offers when put on sale.
Are oil paintings worth money?
While it’s not a blanket rule and depends on the artist, paintings typically painted with oils on canvas or board are going to have more value than those on paper. How complex is the artwork? Depending on the artist, a fully completed painting is usually more valuable than a drawing or sketch.
How can I sell my artwork?
Yes, you can make money selling art online! Here are some of the best places to virtually sell your art.
- Fine Art America. Fine Art America is the world’s largest online art marketplace and print-on-demand technology company.
What is the most expensive painting ever stolen?
The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990 when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively valued at $500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the pieces stolen was Vermeer’s The Concert, which is considered to be the most valuable stolen painting in the world.
How do I know if my art is good enough to sell?
Get critiques from other artists Let them know that you’re interested in selling your art, and ask point blank what you need to change to do so. Don’t be surprised if they seem hesitant to give you a specific number; but if they do mention a set price, it probably means they believe your art is good enough to sell.
Who buys the most art?
In 2020, the United States, United Kingdom, and China were the leading countries in the global art market, cumulatively holding over 80 percent of the total market value. That year, while the U.S. generated the highest overall sales value, China retained the biggest share of fine art auction revenue worldwide.
How much are oil paintings worth?
The majority of emerging artists will usually sell an oil painting within the $100-$1,000 range. An artist who can sell an oil painting for $30,000 would be considered by most people to be very successful. Then there’s the top of the art world where some artists can sell an oil painting for $500,000 and more.
Are Lee Reynolds paintings worth anything?
The prices for Lee Reynolds Paintings can vary depending on size, time period and other attributes. On Amazon, the price for these items starts at $840 and tops out at $3,335, while pieces like these can sell for $1,970 on average..
Is art a talent or skill?
Art has elements of SKILL, just like learning to write an essay has techniques, or playing football has techniques. If you never learn those basic skills and steps, then of course you will have limited skill! But, if your education incorporates those techniques and skills, you will become more skillful.
What is the most expensive painting ever sold?
Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi (ca. After a drawn-out 19-minute long bidding war, Salvator Mundi became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
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may 2018 | Volume 167
Cast of Bears. Photo by Alexis McKeown.
Bears advertises itself as an “unapologetically political” play. And it is that, a ferocious attack on the oil sands and the Kinder Morgan pipeline, co-produced by two Alberta companies, playwright/director Matthew MacKenzie’s Punctuate! Theatre and Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts. But it’s also very funny, theatrically fresh and delightful, a change from the kind of pro-environmental work we’ve come to expect on our stages.
Sheldon Elter, a large, lithe and sensational Métis actor, plays Floyd, an oil fields worker involved in an unexplained workplace accident, who flees Alberta and the pursuing RCMP for a journey through the BC wilderness along the Kinder Morgan pipeline route. In the course of narrating his journey, Floyd tells us about the environmental degradation of his work place and finds BC, with its clearcuts and mine tailings, no better.
Floyd is also a great fan of grizzlies. As his journey progresses, he becomes more and more like a bear himself. This trope is supported by the play’s wonderful use of a chorus: seven women dancers in Brianna Kolybaba and Monica Dottor’s excellent white costumes, who play a wide range of animals—from butterflies to sheep, birds, fish and otters—and provide funny choral commentary, almost always punctuated by an f-bomb. Dottor also choreographs, superbly, the dancers swirling around Floyd who gets into the action himself, including in a great pas de deux with a female grizzly.
MacKenzie’s writing is wry and offbeat. After the chorus of chickadees saves Floyd from a landslide, he says, “Chickadees were something a guy could count on, like caffeine and momentum.” When Floyd, standing in a clearcut, observes female grouse failing to respond to the mating ritual of a male, the chorus says, “Nothing kills the mood like a fucking clearcut.”
T. Erin Gruber’s lighting and set—textured rocks and mountains on flats—are nicely effective, as is Noor Dean Musani’s symphonic hip hop sound design. Playing Floyd’s mother, Christine Frederick stands off to the side, dispensing soft-spoken wisdom and protection. Frederick is fine but the part is underwritten.
It’s great to see another Aboriginal company delivering such fine work, and it’s exciting to know that the Resistance is alive and well in Alberta.
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Bad News Got You Down Lately, Mama? Mental Health Check-In Time! – With all the bad news circulating (a nation divided on reproductive rights, formula shortages, and school shootings to name a few…), it’s so easy to fall into a pattern of non-stop worrying. If your anxiety has been on the rise, it’s time for a check-in! Do a check-in on your mental health with these calming questions right here on Newsymom!
If you’ve been glued to the news channels or scrolling through your For You page on TikTok, you might’ve seen a lot of bad news. It seems the entire United States is suffering as our government tries to get a grip on how to assist with formula shortages, school shootings, and reproductive rights issues. Top it off with labor shortages, stagnant wages, rising costs, and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, it’s easy to feel helpless.
As a mom, it’s easy for us to FEEL all the pain and suffering. Our mama-mode kicks in and we just want to reach out and care for EVERYTHING…make all the hurt stop… protect our children…
The reality is this: One person can’t do it all. So before you start spiraling into those thoughts of non-stop worry, calmly reassure yourself by asking these questions:
“Are my worries based on reality?”
The worst questions that spike your anxiety normally start with “What if…?” Creating scenarios that haven’t happened yet take your mind through a spiral of worry that won’t help you or your mental health. For example, with the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, there’s been chatter of the war potentially spreading further beyond Ukraine. A “What If?” spiral could look like,
“What if Russia invades another country? What if the United States gets involved? What if my son is drafted? What if…?”
You see how easy it was to spiral? Now you’re worrying about events that haven’t taken place and bring yourself down in the process. It hasn’t happened, therefore, that’s not the reality. Be aware of current events, but don’t let your imagination take you to a dark place!
“Can I do something that makes an immediate impact or change?”
When it comes to the thing you’re worrying about, is there something that you can do that will immediately change or make an impact to where you won’t have that worry anymore? If not, that worry is going to drag down your mental health.
For instance, let’s say your child is getting bullied at school. You can definitely change the course of worry through a variety of ways: informing the school, getting the bully’s parents/teachers involved in disciplining the bully, teaching your child self defense (or taking them to a class) to have better odds of protection, taking them to see a therapist to express their feelings, etc.
On the flip side, let’s take the devastation of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas as an example of things beyond our control. (Stay with me for a moment.) Though it hurts us as moms to see other parents experience the loss of their kids, there isn’t anything we can do for those children whose lives were already taken. That’s why it hurts us so bad. This situation was beyond anyone’s control except the shooter. He had the gun; he made his choice long before he arrived to hurt people.
You can still be the change you want to see…
However, as moms with an ignited passion for protecting our children, we CAN get involved in the prevention of an incident happening here at home through various ways: joining PTA meetings or Neighborhood Watch programs, teaching our children what to do if there’s an emergency, and getting involved with local police to help boost your community’s safety and security! You could also look into private school or home-schooling if you feel public school isn’t the safest option anymore.
If you’re still worrying about said thing after those questions, try asking yourself this final question to put the “What If?” to rest: (Writing the answers will help!)
“What is the best case scenario, worst case scenario, and the most realistic scenario?”
Let’s do an example!
Here’s the worry: I’m having trouble making ends meet this month: We’re going to be homeless.
Best case scenario: You received a surprise amount of birthday money to make your rent on time. Woo-hoo!
Worst case scenario: You don’t have enough to make your rent on time. The choice was between food or shelter and food won. You’re at risk of an eviction. However, you could communicate with your landlord about an arrangement and hope for the best. An eviction takes about a month anyway, so you have that time to find somewhere to go if they aren’t understanding.
Most realistic scenario: You don’t have enough for rent right now, but you already applied for rent assistance through a community organization (such as the Stark County Community Action Agency) and are pending approval. You’ve already let your landlord know, who is more than willing to cooperate with the process. They don’t want to incur the expenses for an eviction, meaning you will not be homeless! Go you!
Mama, the next time you come across your spiraling worries, use those questions and these resources to help you care for your mental health:
- Dealing With Mom Guilt
- 8 Self-Care Tips for Moms and Caregivers
- It’s Not Selfish to Focus on Your Health
Take care of yourself, mama. If you lose your mind, who else can brave the storm you battle everyday?
Motherhood is full of ups and downs, but you don’t have to do it alone. The SCCAA Community Actions Pathway HUB is available for pregnant and new mothers in need of support, education, and community services.
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Trial begins of former prosecutor who helped send Milada Horakova to gallows
On Tuesday a court in Prague began hearing the case against Ludmila Brozova-Polednova, the last living participant in one of the most notorious show trials of communist-era Czechoslovakia. In 1950, Mrs Brozova-Polednova was a 29-year-old prosecutor who helped condemn the democratic politician Milada Horakova to death. Now 86, she is being tried as an accomplice to murder.
In 1950 Ludmila Brozova-Polednova recommended "absolute punishment" - i.e. the death penalty - for Milada Horakova and three co-defendants, on trumped up charges of forming an imperialist fifth column that plotted to overthrow the people's democracy of Czechoslovakia. Frantisek Sedivy, the deputy chairman of the Federation of Czech Political Prisoners, had this to say to Czech Television:
Ludmila Brozova-Polednova did not, as expected, appear in court on Tuesday, requesting that the trial continue in her absence. "I'm almost blind," she said in a note to the judge. "I can't speak and I wouldn't even make it to the courtroom."
They were the words of an old, frail woman, albeit one who denies any wrongdoing. "I was fighting for my country and for a social order where no-one would be out of work," is how she defended her actions when tracked down by journalists.
But other words were heard in court on Tuesday. They included the contents of a note written by an anonymous eye-witness to Milada Horakova's execution. "Don't break her neck on the noose," it quotes Mrs Brozova-Polednova as saying. "Suffocate the bitch - and the others too."
Milada Horakova's execution 57 years ago was the death knell for the rule of law in Czechoslovakia, and a harbinger of things to come under communism. Now, 57 years later, the state is making a belated attempt to bring those responsible to justice.
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This assignment is for you to create a developmental action plan for yourself.
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This is the very basic outline of how to create a development plan.
A good personal development plan takes all these factors into consideration — the WHAT, the HOW, the WHY, and the WHEN.
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It’s a phenomenon that’s sweeping the nation, from coast to coast
In August, the Port of Virginia reached an agreement to lease 72 acres of the 287-acre Portsmouth Marine Terminal to Dominion Energy for the staging and pre-assembly of components for the 2,600-megawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm. Virginia has a legislative target to generate 5,200 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2034, to be supplied in part by the Dominion Energy project, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
The Port of Virginia, noted Dominion Energy CEO Robert Blue, “has deep water access, no overhead restrictions” and “is perfectly situated to serve the Virginia offshore wind project and grow the domestic supply chain needed to complete other offshore wind projects in the United States.”
The connection between offshore wind energy and local port development has been evident for some time. The United States lags behind Europe in the development of wind energy and its infrastructures, but that has provided policymakers on this side of the Atlantic an example from afar on how the offshore industry can stimulate economic development and create jobs in their comunities.
Benefits of Wind: Grimbsy, England
The town of Grimsby, England, is one case of a community that has benefitted from the development of a port facility to support offshore wind. Grimsby was once a struggling fishing village, but that changed when an offshore wind port brought a supply chain of manufacturers, suppliers, support vessels, and services to the town. Within a few years, Grimsby saw significant economic growth thanks to the offshore wind industry.
In 2019, the Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted, a key player in the New Jersey wind story, opened an expanded operations and maintenance (O&M) hub in the port of Grimsby, where offshore-related activities had been ongoing since 2010, after investing $12.3 million at the Grimsby Royal Dock and surrounding areas. The hub, which employs over 350 workers, serves as an O&M base for five of Ørsted’s operational wind parks in British waters, and a sixth to become operational in 2022. A report from the think tank Green Alliance found that hundreds of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in investments flowed into Grimsby even before Ørsted’s 2019 expansion.
The offshore wind industry “is creating high-value jobs and helping to offset the long-term decline of employment in other local industries like fishing,” said Matthew Spencer, director of Green Alliance.
The offshore wind industry in Grimsby brought “a range of economic benefits to the town,” the Green Alliance report found, including the prospect of stable, long-term jobs. “A typical offshore wind farm has an operating life of 25 years,” the report said, “meaning the operations and maintenance of existing North Sea wind farms will provide jobs in Grimsby for at least a generation.”
In the U.S., the first commercial offshore wind farm, three miles off Block Island, Rhode Island, which opened for operation in 2016, also provided a boon to local ports. The original 30-megawatt project led to Rhode Island’s approval of a larger 400-megawatt facility further out to sea, and a consideration of how logistics assets should be deployed in support of that and other offshore projects. Forty-million dollars in investments soon flowed to the Port of Providence and other Rhode Island facilities, including the port of Davisville, where expansion is ongoing to expand berthing space to accommodate wind energy projects.
Critical to Grimsby’s success, according to Green Alliance, was a “stable national energy policy.” In the U.S., development of the offshore wind industry has been largely being driven by the states, but the Biden administration’s commitment to developing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy nationally could alter that picture, and bode well for economic development in wind port communities. With the prospects of national policies and funding being put into place, communities on this side of the Atlantic are vying to emulate Grimsby by grabbing a piece of the lucrative offshore wind supply chain.
North Carolina is now studying how it can put its logistics assets to use for the wind industry. The Kitty Hawk Offshore project, to be located 27 miles off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, recently passed a first federal permitting milestone for an 800-megawatt project to begin operations in 2024.
A North Carolina Department of Commerce report released earlier this year recommended assessing “the competitiveness of an installation port along the southern North Carolina coast, as one input to the location of future lease areas off the coast.” The possibility of using facilities at the ports of Wilmington and Morehead City for wind-energy projects, the report noted, would “allow North Carolina earlier access to supply offshore wind projects.” The department also urged an evaluation of the 600-acre Southport/North Carolina International Terminal Property, which it described as “a one-of-a-kind opportunity to be developed into an OSW [offshore wind] mega-port facility.”
Other North Carolina assets under consideration include Radio Island, adjacent to the Port of Morehead City, an undeveloped location near a deep-water channel and intermodal connections. The Wilmington Business Park, which could be used for manufacturing and staging of components, is “already developed to support heavy manufacturing activities,” the report noted.
While much offshore wind energy activity is being focused off the east coast, the west is not being left out of the process. In July, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management designated a 206 square-mile area off northern California for the Humboldt Wind Energy Area and will be conducting a lease auction for a site 20 miles off Humboldt Bay. It’s a pretty good bet that the local harbor be retrofitted to meet the needs of future offshore wind projects, and, in fact, it’s already in the planning stage, with the help of federal dollars.
It’s not a big surprise that port communities in the U.S. seek to attract the wind energy industry, considering the example on economic development provided by the U.K.’s Grimsby. A University of Hull study found that the U.K. will be tripling direct and indirect jobs supported by the wind industry by 2030 and that Grimsby will more than triple its offshore workers to over 6,000 in that same period, while also adding thousands more indirect jobs in local businesses.
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glasses. And he disliked the small figure exceedingly, he wanted it removed.
Then Loerke rattled the box which held the biscuits.
“Biscuits there are still,” he said.
And reaching from his seated posture in the sledge, he handed them to Gudrun. She fumbled, and took one. He would have held them to Gerald, but Gerald so definitely did not want to be offered a biscuit, that Loerke, rather vaguely, put the box aside. Then he took up the small bottle, and held it to the light.
“Also there is some Schnapps,” he said to himself.
Then suddenly, he elevated the battle gallantly in the air, a strange, grotesque figure leaning towards Gudrun, and said:
“Gnädiges Fräulein,” he said, “_wohl_—”
There was a crack, the bottle was flying, Loerke had started back, the three stood quivering in violent emotion.
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For many people, video gaming has become an important way to spend time with friends and create memories. Though we love video games, it is important that we understand how to make video gaming videos for our channel and become a success in this industry.
In the world of video gaming, there are so many different types of video games that it can be difficult for people to understand what makes a good gaming montage video. So today, we want to explain to you the most important ways you can build your own gaming montage videos and start making them for your YouTube channel today!
What is a Gaming Montage?
A gaming montage is a compilation of clips from online gameplay, usually set to music. It’s a great way for gamers to share their most entertaining moments with friends and fans.
Montages can be fun and inspirational or funny and embarrassing. They can also be educational – showing off your best moves and strategies can help build your audience and grow your channel.
But What Exactly is Involved in Making a Gaming Montage?
It all starts with the gameplay footage that you capture yourself. Then, using video editing software, you will pick out the best parts of your gameplay and edit them together into one video. After that, you will add music, sound effects, and any other elements that might help make your montage stand out.
Below are some steps to create your own gaming montage videos for your channel.
1. Plan Your Game Selection
The first step in creating your gaming montage is planning out your game selection. In order to have a good gaming montage, you need at least a half-dozen games with a good variety of actions so that you can include some of them in your video.
First, consider what kind of game you want to create: whether it’s an action-packed first-person shooter or an adventure role-playing game will influence which games you choose. Do you want a more epic feel? Or are you looking for something lighthearted and fun?
Once you’ve decided on a game type, start by picking out games that are similar. If you’re doing an action game montage, try to stick with games from one series (like Call of Duty).
This way, your video will have a consistent feel throughout. Once you’ve selected about five games, open each one up and look for moments where there’s lots of activity going on – like when someone gets killed, or there’s lots of fighting going on.
2. Get a Recording Program
Recording the gameplay is the first step in making a gaming montage video. You will need to use a recording program that allows you to record your games and upload them to your computer. The most popular programs for recording game videos are Fraps, Hypercam 2, and PlayClaw.
Depending on your operating system, you can select a program that is compatible with it. For instance, if you have Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can use PlayClaw because it has recording software that works best with these operating systems.
However, if you have Windows XP or any other operating system, then Fraps and Hypercam 2 would be better options.
3. Design Your Video’s Intro
Gameplay montages can be a great way to build excitement around your channel. When people watch a video game montage, they’re already expecting something exciting and fun. This is especially true for those who are looking for gaming-related content on their favorite platform, namely YouTube.
It gives you time to develop an intro for your gaming videos that will catch people’s attention and give them a reason to keep watching! If done correctly, it can also help get your name out there as well.
If you want to create a good gaming montage intro, there are a few things you should do: Write down what you think would make a good gaming montage intro. Consider adding video transitions and upbeat music to go with it.
A lot of people have trouble coming up with ideas for these kinds of things, but if you really think about it and brainstorm some concepts, you might just come up with something amazing!
Don’t worry if you don’t have any ideas right away; sometimes inspiration comes from unexpected places. Consider talking to other gamers or even asking friends or family members what they think would make a good introduction.
4. Choose a Theme Song
First, think about what you want your gaming montage video to be about. Are you creating a montage for a specific game or character? If so, search for songs that match both your video and your subject. Try to find music that matches up with what’s happening in your video and have lyrics that fit well with those situations.
Themes from action movies or heroic video games like Lost Odyssey can fit very well here. It’s also good to pick something that is catchy but not too distracting. You don’t want people focusing on how great your song is instead of watching your video!
Once you have an idea of what kind of song you want, listen to some similar music online until you find one that fits perfectly. Then download it!
5. Record Your Gameplay
If you’re playing a popular, mainstream game (like Call of Duty), you can likely find a recording program that allows you to record your gameplay automatically while you play.
However, if you’re playing an indie game or something else not found on Steam or Xbox Live, it might be worth investing in Game Cam or ShadowPlay. These programs allow you to capture footage from within games and edit them down into montages without having to do much work at all. It’s like magic!
If you’re planning on uploading your montage video to YouTube, make sure it is under 15 minutes and under 2GB in file size. People find that most of the clips that are 60 seconds or less in length work well on YouTube.
There’s nothing worse than working hard on creating a video for hours and then having YouTube reject it because it’s too large!
It’s worth noting that montage videos can be a bit more involved than other types of videos – though it’s a time investment that is well worth it, particularly for those who are trying to get noticed.
Whether you’re hoping to promote your YouTube channel or just trying to create compelling and entertaining content in general, we hope this guide has provided some helpful insight and inspiration to put you on the fast track toward creating high-quality gaming montage videos for your own interests.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are invaluable in today’s military and civilian initiatives. However, most unmanned systems are being designed to execute the long-running mission. Thus, it is necessary for UAVs returning to the base for refueling.
Under this circumstance, autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) becomes an important capability for the future employment of UAVs. Vision based sensor and navigation system are widely used in AAR, while experiments are done for both probe-and-drogue refueling system and boom approach.
Researchers developed a platform aiming to realize the real-time simulation of AAR in air. An octocoptor serving as tanker UAV and a hexacoptor serving as receiver UAV in the platform. When the receiver arrives at the visual field of the cameras on the tanker (about 5 meters), the binocular vision system will operate to capture the maker on the receiver.
The on-board next unit computing (NUC) processes the images and estimates the pose of the receiver. Then the visual information obtained from the vision system is transferred to the flight controller and boom controller to control the flight of the UAVs and the movement of the boom towards receptacle. Figure 1 shows the configuration of our binocular vision-based UAVs autonomous aerial refueling platform.
The binocular vision system consists of two primary procedures: feature extraction and pose estimation. The pixel coordinates of red markers painted on the receiver UAV are generated after feature extraction. The generated pixel coordinates are utilized in the pose estimation process. Pose estimation procedure is exploited to calculate the relation matrix between the binocular vision system and marker coordination system.
To verify the effectiveness of vision algorithm of the boom approach in AAR, researchers developed a mimical refueling boom system. After achieving the frame sequences of the marker on the receiver, the next unit computing (NUC) mounted onboard will conduct pose and position estimation.
An arm microcontroller obtains the results, and figures out the control level to control steering engines. Refueling boom will point at the receptacle in the resolved pose and position, and implement connect in air. Figure 2 shows the experimental results of binocular algorithm
A series of out-door flight tests are conducted in various environments to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of this developed platform, strong and poor light conditions included. Considering the safety and easy observation, the flight height of the UAVs is about 10 meters. The experimental results verified the feasibility and effectiveness of the UAVs boom approach AAR platform.
Research paper: Duan H B, Li H, Luo Q N, Zhang C, Li C, Li P and Deng Y M. “A Binocular Vision-based UAVs Autonomous Aerial Refueling Platform”. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
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OCTOBER 30, 2015
IN 2014, FRENCH AUTHOR Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.” With the first-year anniversary of his award having just passed, it seemed as if it would be a good time to review a large portion of his fiction and discuss some of the themes that inform his writing, which deserves a wider audience in the United States.
Modiano is a prolific writer. He has written more than 20 works of fiction as well as screenplays (Lacombe, Lucien co-written with Louis Malle) and children’s books and memoirs. He published his first novel, La Place de l’étoile, in 1968, for which he was awarded the Fénéon Prize and Roger Nimier Prize. His most celebrated work, or perhaps the most widely known, Missing Person, won the Prix Goncourt in 1978, the year of its publication. Over the years, Modiano has won many other French literary awards, including the Grand Prix National des Lettres, in 1996, for his work overall.
Generally Modiano writes short, easy-to-read novels (most are around 200 pages long, some shorter) with big themes: memory, loss, identity, seeking. They are easily approachable and satisfying to read. Despite this, he is still not widely read in the United States. At the time he was awarded the Nobel Prize last October, many of his books were unavailable in English translation and, Missing Person, the novel for which he won the Prix Goncourt in 1978, had sold only 2,425 copies in the United States. The availability of his work in English has now been largely solved through the industrious work of several talented translators, and more of his novels are becoming available on an almost monthly basis.
Works discussed in this article include Ring Roads (Les Boulevards de ceinture, 1972), Missing Person (Rue des Boutiques Obscures, 1978), Suspended Sentences (Remise de peine, 1988), Honeymoon (Voyage de noces, 1990), Flowers of Ruin (Fleurs de ruine, 1991), Afterimage (Chien de printemps, 1993), Out of the Dark (Du plus loin de l’oubli, 1995), Dora Bruder (1997), Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (2007), and Pedigree: A Memoir (Un Pedigree, 2015).
Modiano achieved literary recognition early in his career, at least in France, but his creation of himself as a writer could not have been easy, given his penurious and precarious early life. He was born in 1945, just outside Paris, but his family had not been in the terroir of France for very long. His mother was Belgian, born in Antwerp. His Jewish father’s family was originally from Greece and came to France by way of Italy. His mother and father met and married during World War II, had two children (Modiano’s younger brother Rudy died of leukemia at age 10), and separated sometime after that. Socioeconomically, the family would classify as petite bourgeoisie and after 1947 they slipped into what Modiano refers to in Pedigree as “splendid poverty.” Suspect because of their outsider and low-class standing, frequently nearly destitute, they were sometimes driven to crime. Modiano himself admits to stealing books from both private individuals and from libraries in order to sell them to second-hand book dealers; his mother was not beyond shoplifting.
His mother was, as he notes in Pedigree, “a pretty girl with an arid heart.” She abandoned the family to pursue a theatrical career, landing bit parts in minor plays throughout Europe, often leaving Modiano in the care of friends or relatives. His father, with whom Modiano never established a bond, continually placed him in schools in and out of Paris whenever he could afford to, and eked out a living through shady deals with disreputable people, some of whom were thought to have been gangsters. Given the petty larceny that mother and son engaged in, and the father’s suspicious illegal dealings, and the paranoia that follows in the wake of criminality, it is understandable that the narrator of Ring Roads (a semi-autobiographical novel about father and son) remarks that in Paris, for people like them, “Menace loomed everywhere.”
It has been claimed that Modiano’s range of work is narrow and repetitive. He himself has said that for over 45 years he has always been writing the same novel (on fait toujours le même roman). But if his works deal with a narrow range of themes and are repetitive, they are so in the way that Ravel’s Boléro is repetitive: a simple melody with insistent, intricate, increasing orchestration that holds our attention from beginning to spectacular end.
The novels reviewed in this article, like most of Modiano’s work, revolve around tragedy while not conforming to the classic structure of tragedy, in which someone who possesses high social position, or great wealth, or intelligence, or power, or beauty suffers a reversal of fortune due to some flaw of character. Rather, his novels are infused with the tragic sense of life, as defined by the philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, who named this state of existence: the sense of tragedy that comes from our being self-conscious creatures who, through the act of living, are brought face to face with our frailty and our limitations, the chief one of which is our mortality.
Modiano’s work is also different from classic tragedy in that, for the most part, the people he writes about are from the lower strata of society — gamblers, drifters, grifters, prostitutes, slumlords, and jockeys. Modiano admits in Ring Roads that:
I know the life stories of these shadows is of no great interest to anyone, but if I didn’t write it down, no one else would do it. It is my duty, since I knew them, to drag them — if only for an instant — from the darkness. It is a duty, but for me it is also a necessary thing.
Commentators and critics have pointed out that the structure of many of Modiano’s novels borrows the format of detective stories. However, while his characters are frequently chasing down clues and coming up with theories about the behavior of the people they are investigating, and imagining what that person could have been doing or thinking at any given point in time, Modiano’s writing is not the stuff typical of the detective genre. In fact, his narrators, who are frequently carrying out some sort of investigation, have more in common with Samuel Beckett’s deracinated, self-reflecting characters (especially in the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable) than they do with Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade or Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe — who always get their man. For in Modiano, no villain will be captured, no vengeance wreaked, no one brought to justice.
Also as in Beckett, characters in Modiano’s novels share their mental states, memories (or lack thereof), and describe their physical locations (or lack thereof) with great gusto and enthralling detail. What happened to them, where they are, where they are going, why they are going where they are going, what they have lost, what they have left, are questions with which they struggle. Coincidentally, perhaps, both Modiano’s and Beckett’s protagonists/narrators are writers, or want to be writers, or tell people they are writers. And, they struggle with memory issues. In Malone Dies, Malone writes: “At first I did not write, I just said the thing. Then I forgot what I had said. A minimum of memory is indispensable, if one is to live really.”
Memory occupies an odd place in consciousness, somewhere between reality and dream. This intersection is an area of interest for Modiano, and he is acutely aware of the intermittent interpenetration of these different states of consciousness and how, for example, “the contagion of dreams into reality” affects our existence.
What our memories hold, how we maintain them or find them when they seem to have disappeared, and how we verify that they are correct if we find them, are the very subjects about which Modiano writes. By capturing his memories about people and places and writing them down, in the form of novels and memoirs, he forces himself, and us, to remember them. This is because, as he says in Afterimage, “I refused to accept that people and things could disappear without a trace. How could anyone resign himself to that?”
Other writers have devoted their art to capturing memories, notably Proust, to whom Modiano is often compared. In Proust, however, memories arise from sensations or sensorial impressions, and in Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel, the narrator of the novel, does not question the verisimilitude or reality of his memories. His concern is whether a memory will “ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old dead moment.”
Modiano is not concerned with bringing what he calls a “dead moment” to consciousness, nor with the structure of memory or how it functions, as Proust was. A narrator in a Modiano novel either has a memory of an event: “I remember a car ride, five years later, from Pigalle to the Champs-Elysées”; or, he has no memory of an event. Or, like a character in Beckett’s trilogy, he has no memory even of himself, as the narrator in search of himself in Missing Person, thinks: “I no longer remember if, that evening, my name was Jimmy or Pedro, Stern or McEvory.” Characters in Modiano stories often find themselves in a state in which reality, memory, and dream are becoming conflated, as with the narrator in Out of the Dark: “I was in a dream, and I had to wake up. The ties connecting me to the present were stretching.”
Modiano’s protagonists unearth names, dates, old telephone directories, addresses, pictures, police files and fabricate a past (real or imaginary?) out of the memories they disinter. But Damocles’s sword hangs over them, constantly threatening obliteration. It is Modiano’s work to keep the threat at bay for as long as possible so that he can proceed with his investigation. The exquisite structure and pacing of his storytelling technique allows him to create, like Proust, a hallucinatory world of intense emotional reality.
I will not attempt to convey ways in which his intricate plot lines alone provide pleasure, nor comment on the sheer stylistic beauty of his classic French prose — the clarity, the precision — nor analyze his technique of shifting timeframes, and use of multiple verb tenses, all of which create a unique aesthetic experience while reading him. I will instead discuss the way his themes play out in his art — and since Modiano says he is always writing the same book, it should do to analyze one or two of them. Because Modiano gives away the end in the beginning of most of his stories, I don’t think anything here counts as a spoiler.
Modiano was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Missing Person more than 30 years ago, but the novel reads as fresh as if it had been written yesterday. It begins portentously with the sentence: I am nothing. This early work is constructed like a detective tale, and the narrator is a detective. Guy Roland, which may or may not be the narrator’s real name, has worked at a detective agency under the direction of his boss, Hutte, for over eight years. Guy is suffering from amnesia and when he went to work at the agency, Hutte provided him with papers to back up his adopted name and identity. It is only after his boss retires, and he is freed from labor, that he can take on the task of finding himself.
Naturally this involves an investigation. At first Guy is led to believe, mistakenly, that he may be a man called Freddie Howard de Luz. However, in time his research leads him to believe his real name may be Jimmy Pedro Stern, and he may have been born in Greece. But some evidence indicates that his real name and identity might be Pedro McEvoy and he might be from the Dominican Republic. If he is Stern, he disappeared in 1940. If he is McEvoy, he left France before the war.
In seeking his past, the narrator rounds up the usual (Modiano) suspects for questioning, and gives us their names, addresses, old photos, and telephone numbers. Missing Person is a slim book of just over 150 pages, in which more characters — no fewer than 22 — make an appearance than in many novels twice the length. Not an insignificant number of them have died or committed suicide.
In his search to discover who he is, Guy works by intuition, premonition, supposition, and dream-like imaginings. He constantly hypothesizes about people’s motives and behavior. The disparate details he uncovers serve as his Ariadne’s thread — one he hopes will lead him to himself. But even when he feels he is making some progress, he acknowledges when he feels stymied and baffled: “Scraps, shreds have come to light as a result of my searches…But then that is perhaps what a life amounts to…Is it really my life I’m tracking down? Or someone else’s into which I have somehow infiltrated myself?”
Guy believes that places hold traces of the lives that have lived there:
I believe that the entrance-halls of buildings still retain the echo of footsteps of those who used to cross them and who have since vanished. Something continues to vibrate after they have gone, fading waves, but which can still be picked up if one listens carefully.
Yet, despite his persistent attempts to raise clues from the locations he visits, physical reality resists his efforts. When Guy discovers that he and his girlfriend at the time, Denise Coudreuse, might have been living in the same building in which the Blue Rider murdered Scouffi, he ponders: “An event as tragic as this must surely have left some trace, if we had lived through it on the floor below.” But, he concedes: “Not a trace of it in my memory.”
Guy follows a number of leads in his search for himself. Early on, the Russian Styoppa de Dzhagorev gives him a red box containing mementos and keepsakes, photographs and newspaper clippings of the past that might be useful in his search. Later on, Guy visits the former villa of Freddie Howard de Luz, whom he thinks may have been a childhood friend. Bob, the groundskeeper he interrogates, gives him useful information, and before he leaves gives him a box of full of Freddie’s keepsakes and mementos. Guy notes, sadly: “It certainly seemed everything ended with old chocolate or biscuit or cigar boxes.”
Finally, his investigation leads him to conclude that he and Denise were probably victims of a double-cross when, in an attempt to cross the Franco-Swiss border in the winter, during the waning days of the war, Denise disappears. He, too, may have disappeared. The trauma of being tricked and abandoned in the mountains in the cold, and left to die, may have been, he decides, the traumatic event that produced his amnesia, but he can never confirm it. Denise’s physical whereabouts remain unknown, but thanks to Guy’s work she now has a name and a history. In the end, Guy is physically present, but despite his efforts he remains a missing person, with no verifiable name or history. He may be Jimmy Pedro Stern or he may be Pedro McEvoy. Or he may be neither. Or, it may be, as he says in the beginning of the novel, that he is nothing.
Honeymoon (Voyage de noces) is one of Modiano’s novels in which the mystery proposed at the commencement of the book is more or less solved right away. The plot is straightforward: it is told in a series of shifting scenes and time warps that provide a sense of depth that a linear narrative would not be able to accomplish. Jean B, a documentary filmmaker and explorer, is on his way to Paris by train. He has a stopover in Milan. While there, he learns that a Frenchwoman killed herself in his hotel just two days before. Later, he realizes he knew the woman when he was 20, 18 years ago.
Not long after returning to Paris, instead of flying to Rio for work, he abandons his wife and his life and goes to live in the Parisian suburbs in an attempt to piece together the life of the woman who committed suicide: Ingrid Teyrsen. He explains why he is doing this to a friend: “It’s very simple. I just feel tired of my life and my job.” He admits he may attempt to write her biography.
The novel contains two significant newspaper notices. The first Jean B reads in the train on the way to Paris. Printed in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, it is the formal report of Ingrid Teyrsen’s suicide. The second notice, we learn later, was given to Jean B by Ingrid herself many years earlier. It is a notice that had been placed in a Paris paper when she was a girl, a notice penned by her father: “Missing: Ingrid Teyrsen, sixteen, 1m60, oval face, grey eyes, brown sports coat, light blue pullover, beige skirt and hat, black casual shoes. All information to M. Teyrsen, 39bis, Boulevard Ornano, Paris.”
Between these two notices, we learn through Jean B some details of Ingrid’s life. She was married to a man named Rigaud, and Jean B met her and her husband purely by chance, in the south of France during the final months of World War II. The couple was hiding out on the Côte d’Azur, telling people they were on honeymoon. They picked Jean B up hitchhiking, took him with them to Saint-Tropez, and insisted that he stay with them for a few days. When he had to go, they paid for his train ticket to Paris, even giving him spending money since his had been stolen.
That is the last he sees of Ingrid until years later, when, once again by chance, he happens upon her in Paris. They have a meal together and a desultory conversation during which Jean B notes:
It does also happen that one evening, because of someone’s attentive gaze, you feel a need to communicate to him not your experience, but quite simply some of the various details connected by an invisible thread, a thread which is in danger of breaking and which is called the course of a life.
And of course the thread is broken. Jean’s detective work uncovers the fact that Ingrid’s father was an Austrian Jew (and that she is therefore half-Jewish) and so couldn’t leave the city after the Germans invaded France. Returning from a dance class one night, Ingrid simply doesn’t go home. For whatever obscure reason, she cannot return. “Why did she feel so discouraged this evening at the prospect of going home to her father?” Perhaps, Jean B suggests: “She had a presentiment that if she went down the boulevard like the other people going home to the eighteenth arrondissement, the frontier would close behind her forever.” So she walks on.
Soon after abandoning her father, she calls to let him know she is okay. But she does not reach him. She calls again and although she is told he is expecting her call, she hangs up before speaking to him. While Modiano does not give us a word about the father’s feelings, one can only imagine his fretting, his worry, his heartbreak at not knowing what happened to his 16-year-old daughter since it was during that time period that Jews were routinely rounded up and shipped to transit camps and then off to concentration camps and certain death. And then, one can picture his anguish and emotional collapse when he is eventually taken away, by “some men,” forever, not knowing what became of his daughter. And then, later, his daughter’s shock and distress when she finally decides to return to her father — only to discover that he has been, in today’s language, disappeared.
Ingrid never sees her father again. That night she does not return home, she takes up with Rigaud, whom she meets in a café. After selling the contents of his mother’s apartment to raise money, he takes her under his protection to the south of France, where they cross paths with the narrator.
In many ways, Ingrid’s plight resembles Dora’s in Modiano’s novel about another missing girl, Dora Bruder. Dora wanders away from the school that was protecting her from the Nazis, also for reasons that remain undiscoverable. Like Ingrid’s father, Dora’s parents place an advertisement in the paper seeking the whereabouts of their daughter. And Dora, like Ingrid’s father, never returns. The last known notice of her occurs in the Tourelles Register for 1942. She had been interned: all the women in Tourelles were transferred to Drancy, and then on to Auschwitz where they were murdered by the Nazis.
Modiano speculates that perhaps Dora experienced “the illusion that the passage of time is suspended,” and that she “need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around” her. And perhaps Ingrid was under the same illusion when she did not return home to her father that fateful night.
Unlike Dora, Ingrid managed to avoid being rounded up and shipped off to a death camp, and she survived the war. But she could not survive the continual onslaught of her memories: “Circumstances and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then, like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off.”
Out of the Dark is probably the most straightforward of these works in structure: boy meets girl, boy wins girl, girl leaves boy, boy finds girl many years later. The characters in this novel (as in many Modiano novels) are mainly young people, in their early 20s. They are separated from their parents, cut off from history by either necessity or by choice. They are, as they often remind us, aimlessly drifting, trying to figure out their lives, or escape from them. They are lonely, alienated from the society in which they live. It is as if they are living out the lyrics from Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”: without a home, complete unknowns.
The unnamed narrator is befriended by a couple he encounters in a café, Jacqueline and Gérard Van Bever. The narrator makes his living from selling old books, and the Van Bevers appear to make theirs from gambling. The three of them are drifters, living in the shabbier section of Paris. Gérard plays an insignificant role and is poorly delineated; Jacqueline becomes the central figure, but she nevertheless remains an enigma.
Like Jean-Luc Godard’s Nana in Vivre sa vie — Godard’s groundbreaking film that traces the slow and haphazard descent of a young Parisian woman into prostitution — Jacqueline’s motives remain opaque (Godard’s Nana is a reference to the eponymous heroine of Emile Zola’s Nana in which a prostitute brings wreck and ruin to each of the successive men with whom she is involved — up until the day she dies from smallpox.) Jacqueline, like Godard’s Nana, rarely exhibits emotion. Both women occupy a Paris of coffee bars, pinball machines, and tawdry hotels. Jacqueline leaves Van Bever without too much thought or premeditation, just as Nana abandons her husband and child. Jacqueline dreams of escaping to Majorca; Nana dreams of becoming a movie actress. They live in a circumscribed reality in which there is nothing to do but imagine having money and leaving Paris. Whether Nana decides to become a prostitute or drifts into prostitution to keep body and soul together is unclear. Just as it is unclear why Jacqueline accepts money for sex. Both women appear impassive and dissociated from themselves except for the drive to fulfill their vision of life. The two of them live their lives the best they can.
Jacqueline does so by going from man to man. Before departing on one of his gambling trips, Van Bever leaves Jacqueline under the watch of the narrator. She and the narrator get high on ether and sleep together. Neither of them informs Van Bever of this indiscretion. Shortly thereafter Jacqueline introduces the narrator to a friend of theirs, Pierre Cartaud. As it turns out, he is having sex with Jacqueline from time to time and gives her money for this privilege, of which Van Bever is aware. Learning this does not give the narrator pause, nor stop him from continuing to sleep with her.
One day, Jacqueline suggests that the narrator sneak into Cartaud’s apartment and steal a briefcase full of money so they can escape Paris. Thrilled at the prospect of having Jacqueline to himself, he commits the crime. Afterward, while waiting to meet up with Jacqueline, he fantasizes, writing on pieces of paper the names and places of the people that have become part of his life. This exercise causes him to be overcome by the arbitrary nature of his existence:
So this was my life? So my whole existence at this moment came down to about twenty unconnected names and addresses that had nothing in common but me? And why these rather than others? What did I have to do with these names and places?
For the crime he commits, Jacqueline rewards him by taking him out of Paris, the city in which he was aimlessly adrift, amid a meaningless concatenation of names and addresses.
While some commentators have called this a love story, I’m not inclined to see it that way. The narrator’s happiness (a rare and unusual sentiment in Modiano’s work) has little or nothing to do with his being in love with Jacqueline and, I think, more to do with his escape from “all the gray, uncertain years I had lived up to then.” By taking him with her to London, she frees him from himself. What he feels, he says, is not love but “fleeting euphoria”:
When the taxi turned onto the Mall and that shady, tree-lined avenue opened up before me, the first twenty years of my life fell to dust, like a weight, like hand-cuffs or a harness that I never thought I would be free of. Just like that, nothing remained of all those years. And if happiness was the fleeting euphoria I felt that afternoon, then for the first time in my existence I was happy.
In London, the narrator and Jacqueline are nearly destitute, since it turns out there was very little money in that suitcase. Their life there is the mirror image of what it was in Paris, except this time the narrator and Jacqueline are a couple. They meet a woman in a café, Linda Jacobsen, who introduces them to an older man, Peter Rachman, who “likes young people.” He takes an immediate interest in Jacqueline. Soon she begins accepting money from Rachman, just as she did from Cartaud, and the narrator realizes that she has found a way “to express her gratitude” to Rachman, just as she had with Cartaud. While the narrator begins writing a novel (about two young people), and ignoring the situation, as did Van Bever, Jacqueline begins going out at night with Linda and coming home in the early hours of the morning. One day she vanishes without a trace, leaving the narrator, just as she left Van Bever.
Fifteen years later, back in Paris, the narrator encounters Jacqueline again. He spots her in the street and follows her to a party. He learns she is married and has changed her identity: she is now called Thérèse Caisley. At first she doesn’t acknowledge him, but over the course of the evening, he breaks through to her. They leave the party together and she offers to drive him home. On the way they stop in a nearby park, deserted at that hour. She parks the car under some trees and once again they fall into each other’s arms.
Fifteen years after the interlude at the party, he sees her once again. They are on the metro together. She doesn’t recognize him. He follows her. She looks weary and her face thinner. He had been dreaming about her lately: “I saw her in a little fishing port on the Mediterranean, sitting on the ground, knitting endlessly in the sunlight. Next to her, a saucer where passers-by left coins.” This time he does not engage her and leaves us with a final image of her as a lonely woman standing at a bar, pouring herself a glass of beer. A far better fate than the one that befalls Godard’s Nana or Zola’s.
The number of characters that unaccountably go missing or vanish or who have committed suicide in Modiano’s work is astonishing. In Honeymoon, the narrator abandons his wife, to investigate the suicide of a woman who abandoned her father; in Missing Person, Guy Roland is abandoned by his boss which freed him to search for himself (earlier he had been abandoned in the mountains, in the snow, left to die); in Out of the Dark, Jacqueline abandons Van Bever and then the narrator; in Dora Bruder, Dora abandons her school and family and is murdered by the Nazis; in Ring Roads, the narrator’s father abandons him; in Suspended Sentences, the narrator and his brother are abandoned by their mother; in Afterimage, the photographer Jansen vanishes; in Flowers of Ruin, a young couple commits suicide and Philippe de Pacheco, whose real name turns out to be Charles Lombard, the one man who may be able to help the narrator understand the reasons for the suicide, vanishes; in Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue, Jacqueline Choureau (a different Jacqueline from the one in Out of the Dark), whose maiden name was Delanque but was known as Louki, abandons her husband and disappears without a trace and, ultimately, commits suicide; in Pedigree: A Memoir, Modiano himself tells us he was abandoned, for all intents and purposes, by both his mother and his father, and by his brother Rudy, who died at the age of 10.
Abandonment, people disappearing, with or without cause, is something that Modiano recognizes but doesn’t want to believe in: “I refused to accept that people and things could disappear without a trace,” he has the narrator say in Afterimage, a sentiment echoed by many of his other protagonists. But in novel after novel, people do simply disappear, and not only do they disappear, but, as the concierge in Honeymoon tells the narrator, they “don’t come back any more. Haven’t you noticed that, Monsieur?” In other words, they vanish.
Perhaps the most poetic example of someone disappearing, or vanishing, occurs in Modiano’s Flowers of Ruin. The narrator and a girlfriend are holed up in her room, waiting for her despised lover to leave his lookout outside her apartment: The “old prick,” as she refers to him, is standing in the street in the rain. The narrator watches him out the window:
Little by little, that man melted into the wall. Or else the rain, from falling on him so heavily, had dissolved him, the way water dilutes a fresco that hasn’t had time to dry properly. As hard as I pressed my forehead against the glass and peered at the dark gray wall, no trace of him remained. He had vanished in that sudden way that I’d later notice in other people, like my father, which leaves you so puzzled that you have no choice but to look for proofs and clues to convince yourself these people had really existed.
The act of vanishing is one of the central metaphors in the works under consideration in these novels. The implications — of leaving, of being left, of disappearing — are profound. Abandonment creates a pervasive disequilibrium in one’s life: as one suddenly finds oneself unbalanced, everything seems precarious. It doesn’t matter whether the abandonment is physical or emotional, if it is self-inflicted or other-inflicted. Like any act of abuse, the event leaves a psychic scar that produces restlessness, anxiety, anomie: conditions present in all Modiano’s characters.
Because of this, Modiano’s protagonists exist in a world of perpetual existential emergency in which they are desperate to recapture a state of equilibrium within themselves. They count on their memory and the memory of others to help them do it. That is why Modiano’s narrators are constantly looking through newspaper articles, police files, and phone books, seeking confirmation, evidence, something: “some tangible proof,” the narrator of Suspended Sentences says, “that it wasn’t all in your head.”
The tragedy is that memories are mortal; they degrade over time and disappear, abandoning us just like people. And Modiano suggests that loss, abandonment, and the threat of vanishing is the fate that we all suffer, that every day we, too, are abandoned. Loved ones pass away, children leave home, our significant other leaves us, or we leave them, our memory fails us, our friends unfriend us. His stories, told without sentimentality or emotion (the lack of which some readers find unnerving), portray the struggle in which we are all engaged as we work to keep our lives in balance in the face of these ongoing losses.
The experience of reading Modiano helps us comes to terms with the fact that people and things do simply disappear, that memories fade and die, and that in the end life itself will abandon us; our tacit acknowledgment of this ineluctable outcome is what produces the haunting sense of melancholy that pervades his writing.
At one point in the Flowers of Ruin, the narrator asks himself: “Why bother chasing ghosts and trying to solve insoluble mysteries, when life was there, in all its simplicity, beneath the sun.” It seems that, for Modiano, the answer appears to be: he has to.
Modiano is served well by his English translators — Daniel Weissbort, Barbara Wright, Mark Polizzotti, Caroline Hillier, and Jordan Stump — who have delivered nuanced and sensitive renderings of the French, capturing the tone and, importantly, the atmosphere of his writing. There is, however, a curious blooper in Honeymoon. In the French, a young man “ouvrit l’une des portières d’une conduit.” It is pretty clear that he opens a car door, and that the word in English text should be sedan, not saloon. But these things happen.
Proust’s investigation into the nature of memory and time brings him to this conclusion which is I think, worth quoting at length for it sheds light on his technique, and the differences between him and Modiano — as well as for its sheer beauty:
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection […] Undoubtedly what is thus palpitating in the depths of my being must be the image, the visual memory which, being linked to that taste, has tried to follow it into my conscious mind.
Another story in which a man abandons his life and his wife occurs in Michelangelo Antonioni’s film The Passenger. In this film David Locke (played by Jack Nicholson) is, like the narrator, a documentary filmmaker. We meet him in Africa as he is fruitlessly trying to meet with rebel leaders for an interview. Back at the hotel, he discovers Robertson, another hotel resident to whom he has talked once or twice, has died and with no apparent forethought he assumes the identity of the dead man. While it is evident that he is running away from something, it is never clear what it is. It may be the same reason that Jean B gives his friend: “It’s very simple. I just feel tired of my life and my job.” Locke appears to be suffering from the futility of merely existing as himself; he’s pursued by a free-floating anomie he cannot shake. But no sooner does he take up the dead man’s diary/appointment book and begin living his life, than he finds himself trapped in it and realizes he must flee from Robertson’s life just as he did from his, discovering too late that there is no escape.
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Brain and personality differences in cocaine users with and without addiction
People who take cocaine over many years without becoming addicted have a brain structure, which is significantly different from those individuals who developed cocaine-dependence, an inter-Departmental study by members of Cambridge Neuroscience has found.
The research, led by Dr Karen Ersche (pictured right), was published in the journal Biological Psychiatry and shows that recreational cocaine users who have not developed a dependence have an abnormally large frontal lobe, a section of the brain implicated in self-control.
For the study, individuals who regularly use cocaine underwent a brain scan and completed a series of personality tests. These individuals were split into two groups: those who were cocaine dependent, and those who were not addicted. The groups were then compared to non-addicted siblings and unrelated healthy volunteers.
Dr Ersche and colleagues including Professor Ed Bullmore discovered that a region in the frontal lobes of the brain, known to be critically implicated in decision-making and self-control, was abnormally bigger in the non-dependent recreational cocaine users. The research team suggest that this abnormal increase in grey matter volume, which they believe predates drug use, might reflect resilience to the effects of cocaine, and even possibly helps these recreational cocaine users to exert self-control and to make advantageous decisions which minimise the risk of them becoming addicted.
The study also found that this same region in the frontal lobes of the brain was significantly reduced in size in people with cocaine dependence. The authors believe that at least some of these brain changes are the result of drug use, which causes the user to lose grey matter.
They also found that people who use illicit drugs like cocaine exhibit high levels of sensation-seeking personality traits, but only those developing dependence show personality traits of impulsivity and compulsivity.
Dr Ersche said: “These findings are important because they show that the use of cocaine does not inevitably lead to addiction in people with good self-control and no familial risk.”
“Our findings indicate that preventative strategies might be more effective if they were tailored more closely to those individuals at risk according to their personality profile and brain structure.”
The researchers will next explore the basis of the recreational users’ apparent resilience to drug dependence. Dr Ersche added: “Their high level of education, less troubled family background or the beginning of drug-taking only after puberty may all play a role.”
This work was funded by a Medical Research Council and received institutional funds from the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), which is jointly funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
Adapted Department of Psychiatry News.
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(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday announced the Justice Department is taking action to combat hate crimes through the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, mentioning how last weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo is being investigated as such a crime.
DOJ is investigating whether the shooter who gunned down 10 Black people last Saturday at a Buffalo supermarket targeted the victims because of their race.
Garland told an audience that included Black and Asian community leaders that “an entire community was terrorized.”
“Last weekend’s attack was a painful reminder of the singular impact that hate crimes have not only on individuals but on entire communities,” he said. “They bring immediate devastation. They inflict lasting fear,” he continued.
“We are employing every resource we have to ensure accountability for this terrible attack, to ensure justice for grieving families and provide support for the community,” he said.
Garland pledged to use “every available tool” to investigate hate crimes overall, saying they are “evolving” and that federal prosecutors must evolve strategies to combat them.
DOJ is required to do so by congressional mandate in the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.
“No one in America should fear violence because of who they are,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said. “This department will not tolerate any form of terrorism, hate based violence or unlawful discrimination.”
DOJ says they are partnering with the Department of Health and Human Services to lay out steps “law enforcement, government officials, community based organizations and others can take to raise awareness of increased hate crimes and incidents, and to use this increased awareness as a tool for prevention and response,” according to a Justice Department official who briefed reporters on Thursday.
One example, the DOJ official said, was addressing the need for language and cultural competency when engaging with communities affected by hate crimes
Garland also announced grant solicitations “including to programs established under the new Hire No Hate Act to support states to create state run hate crime reporting hotline and to support increased law enforcement reporting to the National Incident based Reporting System.”
On the same day as Garland’s announcement, leaders from the NAACP were set to meet with him, and they released a two-page plan to stop another mass shooting.
“We’re focused on preventing the next attack. We need to act. Democracy and white supremacy cannot coexist and will never coexist,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “It’s one or the other. We’re fighting for democracy.”
An NAACP source told ABC News the “spread of white supremacy across social media platforms” would be a main topic of discussion.
ABC News’ Beatrice Peterson contributed to this report.
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Sickle Cell Disease: Centers of Excellence And Gene Therapy
July 11, 2020
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hemoglobinopathy associated with defective ‘sickle’ red blood cells. Two hemoglobinopathies, β-thalassemia and SCD, are different in the following way. β-Thalassemia has low or absent production of β-globin, while SCD has defective β-globin due to a specific mutation leading to defective hemoglobin.
Genetically, SCD is inherited in the autosomal recessive manner with only one gene being affected: the gene of the β-hemoglobin subunit that typically has the GAG to GTG mutation, resulting in the Glu-to-Val substitution in position 6. Despite the single-gene, single-mutation nature, SCD is a multiorgan, clinically heterogeneous disease. A plethora of medical literature describes signs and symptoms of the disease, but for me as a non-clinician, what stands out the most is the horror of debilitating pain and perpetual fatigue. For many patients, the quality of life is poor. Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) is the most severe form of SCD, and is the focus of many clinical trials of disease-modifying treatments.
Currently, the approved treatment with a curative potential is an HLA-matched transplant. However, as you can guess, for multiple socioeconomic reasons, finding a donor is not easy, with less than 1/4 of all patients having this option. Unfortunately, other approved treatments do not have curative or disease-modifying potential.
Pipeline Of Cell And Gene Therapies For Sickle Cell Disease
Trying to achieve a long-lasting and, hopefully, curative effect, many companies and academic groups are designing novel cell and gene therapy (CGTx) approaches to treat SCD. A haploidentical transplant is in Phase 3 clinical development, while gene therapies are in Discovery through Phase 3/Registration, as shown in the pipeline below (expands to full screen).
General Therapeutic Strategies
Let’s look at a few general strategies before discussing specific GTx modalities.
0 – To deliver a healthy β-globin gene
Purposefully, I call it ‘Strategy Zero’ because, unlike for some other autosomal recessive, single-gene diseases, this strategy is not a slam dunk for SCD. Notably, the β-globin gene is large, and gene silencing is a problem. Scientists have been trying to design a vector that can fit the gene and all regulatory elements to achieve safety and efficiency of gene expression. Currently, there is no such therapy in the pipeline, yet.
1 – To have fetal hemoglobin do the job for adult hemoglobin
First, there are two hemoglobins, fetal (HbF) and adult (HbA). HbF is present before birth, and its level declines steadily after birth. In contrast, the production of HbA ramps up after birth, and HbA becomes the main hemoglobin carrying oxygen in healthy adults. Consequently, HbA is the most common.
The relevance of HbF to SCD management is the following: if you increase the amount of HbF, you could compensate for defective HbA. This is one of the approaches used in GTx development. Scientists noticed that elevated HbF levels compensate for HbA deficiency in β-thalassemia and have a potent anti-sickling effect in SCD, reducing symptom severity.
How can HbF be increased?
While HbA has 2 α and 2 β chains, HbF has 2 α and 2 γ chains. Therefore, one drug development approach is to increase γ-globin production.
Conveniently, BCL11A plays a major role in repressing γ-globin gene expression. Therefore, BCL11A suppression (by creating specific mutations) results in persistence of HbF.
2 – To reduce sickling properties of defective HbA
Instead of tackling the disease-causing Glu-to-Val mutation in position 6, scientists noticed that the Glu-to-Thr change in position 87 of β-globin provides compensatory anti-sickling properties.
Sickle Cell Gene Therapy Examples
For the purpose of the article, we classify gene therapy candidates into 1) lentivirus-mediated gene transfer and 2) gene editing.
Lentiviral vector-mediated gene transfer
First, the most advanced therapy is Lentiglobin bb305 (HPV569 vector), by Bluebird Bio (formerly Genetix Pharma), currently in Phase 3/Registration. It has the Glu to Thr change in position 87. After the original LG001 trial, the vector was optimized, and new Ph1/2 trials HGB-205 and HGB-206 were conducted in France and the U.S., respectively.
Second, LentiV shRNA targeting BCL11A uses erythroid-specific shRNA that induces HbF in human erythroid cells derived from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
Other lentiviral vectors include GLOBE (San Raffaele, Italy), RVT-1801 (Aruvant, Cincinnati Children’s), TNS9.3.55 (Memorial Sloan Kettering, halted development), and AS3-FB (UCLA).
As compared to gene transfer/addition, gene editing has an advantage of not losing efficacy due to gene silencing (at least as currently believed). Examples of gene editing approaches to treat SCD include CRISPR/Cas9, zinc figure nucleases (ZFN), nuclease-free editing, and base editing. Most of editing happens ex vivo in patient’s HSCs. However, in vivo approaches are on the rise too. Editing tools are delivered using primarily viral vectors (lentiviral or AAV) or electroporation. The pipeline figure above provides details on some of these approaches (expand to full screen).
Clinical Trial Centers
Importantly, sickle cell disease is a rare condition, with ~100,000 people living with the disease in the U.S. Therefore, not many hematologists consider themselves experts in the disease, and not many centers have the experts. Then, where are SCD experts located? Where do patients go if they want to enroll into a trial? And what if patients are looking specifically for a gene therapy trial?
Below is the map showing clinical sites that have been conducting interventional trials in SCD:
Sites activated in the past 12 months (green),
Sites with CGTx experience (orange),
All other sites with interventional trials (blue).
To obtain this refined dataset, we applied the following Exclusion criteria:
Conditions: trials where SCD is one of many diseases
Trial Phase: no phase information
Sponsor: no industry sponsor involvement
Trial type: observational or expanded access trials
Dates: trials completed before 2016, or trials not updated in the past ~5 years
Sites: exUS sites, trials without appropriate clinical site information
Of 151 site, 30 sites have initiated at least one interventional clinical trial in sickle cell disease in the last 12 months (on map: green) and 29 sickle cell centers have had at least one trial involving a novel cell/ gene therapy (on map: orange). See tables below with the names of the institutions that represent these 30 & 29 sites (expand for full screen).
Does the sickle cell disease gene therapy development get sufficient attention from the scientific and drug development community?
For example, at the 23rd Annual Meeting of ASGCT, 22 posters and oral presentations highlighted progress towards novel and potentially curative treatments for SCD. Comparing to other disorders, SCD is one of the most discussed, both in 2019 and 2020. (For more detail, see our insights article on non-oncology diseases at ASGCT).
Notably, the 2020 conference featured a broad spectrum of SCD gene therapy studies, including in vitro, in mice and non-human primates, patient samples, as well as clinical trials. Unsurprisingly, ex vivo approaches are dominant. However, in vivo approaches are being gradually developed, with most notable examples being HDAd5/35++ vectors by University of Washington, Seattle (posters 199, 373, 629, 810, 811 and talks 546 and 1322) and AAVHSC-delivered nuclease-free editing by Homology Medicines.
In conclusion, SCD seems to get significant attention from the CGTx development community as compared to many other rare diseases. However, not many centers have an option to enroll patients in such trials. Optimistically, a multitude of preclinical programs gives hope for more trials to open up in the future.
Disclaimer: This article is for the educational purpose only. It is the property of BioHeights LLC. This article is written based only on non-confidential information provided on company websites, in press releases and scientific publications, and on clinicaltrials.gov. BioHeights LLC and its members are not responsible for any damages resulting from reading this blog article. BioHeights LLC takes no responsibility for completeness or correctness of this article and its contents.
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Can you name a list of fruits with the alphabet f which you find delicious? Here are 19 fruits that start with f, which are incredibly delicious and can instantly uplift your mood.
If you are keen to know which fruits you are the ones you cannot resist their taste, then read on.
- 1. Fazli Mango
- 2. Flatwoods Plum
- 3. Florida Cherry
- 4. Fox Grape
- 5. Fukushu Kumquat
- 6. False Mastic Fruit
- 7. Fairchild Tangerine Fruit
- 8. Fig
- 9. Fuji Apple
- 10. Farkleberry
- 11. Five Flavor Berry
- 12. Feijoa
- 13. Florida Strangler Fig
- 14. Forest Strawberries
- 15. Fibrous Satinash Fruit
- 16. Fe’i Banana
- 17. Finger Lime
- 18. Fascell Mango
- 19. False Jaboticaba
1. Fazli Mango
This monsoon fruit is a native to Bangladesh. They grow up to the size of a kilo having an overall flattened shape, compared to other mangoes. When ripe they turn yellow with a flavorful, sweet and a delicious pulp. They have a great aroma too. This delicious variety of mango is used as juices, eaten directly and serves as a great mix for fruit salads.
2. Flatwoods Plum
These wild fruits of the deciduous trees are a native to the woods of Southeastern United States. These plum trees are short with beautiful flowers. The fruits are round and purple. When unripe tasting bitterness and tart and gradually become sweet as they mature. This fruit make perfect jams and jelly.
History narrates that, it was the Native American who discovered these fruits under the shade of woods, thereafter naming them ‘forest plants.’
3. Florida Cherry
These small trees bear flowers having four white petals with slender stalks. The unripe cherries are green and as they begin to ripe it turns orange, scarlet or maroon. These cherry’s which are a rich source of vitamin C has a sour and tangy taste making them a flavor for jams and jelly.
4. Fox Grape
These North American grapes belong to a woody vine having small greenish flowers. The grapes are in various colors such as black, red, green and amber having a juicy pulp. It makes a fine topping for salads or the base of flavor for jams and jelly.
5. Fukushu Kumquat
These small trees also make a beautiful ornamental shrub. These oval-shaped fruits have a thin and sweet rind with a flesh that is tart and acidic in nature. They have only a few seeds.These fruits can be baked into cakes or muffins or made into sauce.
6. False Mastic Fruit
Do you like fruits having bold colors? The evergreen trees of this fruit which are often very dense and large, bear yellow and orange fruits. These fruits have a gummy pulp inside them. The fruit tastes great eaten freshly off the tree.
7. Fairchild Tangerine Fruit
This fruit is a hybrid of Clementine mandarin and an Orlando tangelo. Their thin skin of deep orange color is pebbly in nature that doesn’t peel easily. The juicy fruit with seeds owns a rich sweetness to its taste. High in vitamin A, vitamin C and other nutrients, they can be eaten raw or made into juice.
This fruit which is a member of the mulberry family is found in Asia. A fruit that is packed with proteins and minerals are often eaten fresh, dried or used in jams. Fresh figs are delicate and perishable so they are dried to preserve them for a longer duration
9. Fuji Apple
This crossbreed apple has got its name from the town Fujisaki, (the first part of the town’s name) where this fruit got developed. This fruit is round in shape with flesh that is dense, crispy and sweet. They are eaten raw and mixed into fruit salads.
This large branched tree with beautiful flowers is also considered an ornamental tree. The fruits that start being green gradually become shiny black as they ripen. These bitter-sweet berries are mealy and drier, having 8-10 seeds each. Traditionally these berries have been used in jelly and pies but it is also good to be eaten raw or put into dishes.
11. Five Flavor Berry
These purple-red berries having dense clusters possess five tastes such as sweet, salty, bitter, pungent, and sour.They are renowned in several countries for rendering many health benefits. In the Chinese medicine too, it is considered beneficial to qi, which is also known as the life force in all beings. They are eaten in dried form.
This fruit of South American origin is also called pineapple guava. The plant has golden-yellow flowers with white petals making them very attractive. This oval-shaped fruit in green resembles a guava, from a distance. Feijoa fruits have a sweet and delicious taste with a smell resembling banana and pineapple or pineapple and guava.
They are eaten directly and with other fruit mixes too.
13. Florida Strangler Fig
Golden figs, as they are called, belongs from Florida and its native provinces. These green figs turn golden-yellow as they mature. They have a sweet and a caramel flavor to them being rich in calcium and other vital minerals.
14. Forest Strawberries
These perennial herbaceous plants belonging to the rose family are mostly seen in the northern hemisphere. They grow in the wild. From the months of April to June, these strawberries bloom and turns thicker having red color. They have dry seeds over their skin. They are smaller in shape with a juicy and sweet flesh.
These fruits make them a great addition to ice cream or as juices.
15. Fibrous Satinash Fruit
These rainforest trees are from Indonesia and its natives. They have pink flowers with many stems and the fattened globular fruits are pink or red with a single seed. Having a sour taste to it, confectioneries jams, jelly is the best-suited places for it to be included.
16. Fe’i Banana
These unique trees are different and recognizable for their bright orange fruit. They have a short and are broad bodies. The sap is either dark violet or pink, unlike other bananas. These fruits have a sweet and tangy flavor and when cooked they turn soft and starchy. These fruits are filled with nutrition and can be eaten boiled, roasted or baked.
17. Finger Lime
Finger lime trees are thorny and produce lime that is in the shape of fingers. These wild grown fruits have a greenish-yellow skin with a fleshy pulp. They are not the common limes we are accustomed to but having a citrusy and tart flavor they can substitute limes. These fruits are used in sauce, jams and other culinary recipes.
18. Fascell Mango
Michael Fascell was the man who had cultivated this fruit for the first time hence it is named after him. This compressed looking fruit has no beak that resembles the shape of the heart. Upon maturity, this fruit turns yellow having a distinguishing bright carmine blush. This fruit tastes sweet and has no fiber but a mono embryonic seed. They are enjoyed just like any other mangoes.
19. False Jaboticaba
These fruits taste like grapes but aren’t from the family of grapes, hence the name. The snowy white flowers of this plant are in clusters and are attractive. These blue grapes grow on the branch directly and are sweet to taste, having a fruity aroma. Their pulp and pit are similar to the grapes. These fruits are eaten directly.
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Bruising is one of the most common problems related to undergoing an injectable procedure, whether it’s a BOTOX or Juvéderm injection. It’s important to know that the bruising isn’t necessarily the result of the product injected, but more a side effect of the injection process itself.
Bruising occurs because of the amount of pressure applied to the area treated during treatment. Some areas may not experience any bruising at all. On the other hand, other areas, particularly the lips and around the eyes, are very susceptible to bruising because they tend to be more delicate, have more blood vessels, and are sensitive. Some other factors that can contribute to a higher rate of bruising include:
if you have a history of bruising
if you take medication or supplements that thin the blood
if you have a bleeding disorder
You’ll also find you tend to bruise more easily, in general, when you’ve consumed alcohol.
The length of time your bruising lasts depends on your body – how fast you heal. To speed up your recovery, try eating pineapple, which contains nutrients that help expedite repair processes. You may also want to avoid alcohol and smoking (which can impair your body’s ability to heal).
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Farmers in parts of the Prairies are worrying about crop failures and water-deprived livestock, and communities are already facing local water restrictions and at least one forest fire, as the region enters a period of near-record dry conditions.
With one of the most parched springs in recent years coming on the heels of an unusually dry fall, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is reporting extreme drought conditions in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan, with moderate drought across most of the rest of the Prairies, CBC News reports. John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, said soil moisture levels are below 40% of normal in some locations.
While droughts are a normal part of the agricultural cycle, this one extends “from Vancouver Island to southern Quebec, down into the United States, into California, right into Mexico,” Pomeroy told CBC. “It’s enormous.”
The impacts will show up quickly in a part of the country that depends on water for irrigation, hydropower, potash mining, and fossil production, CBC says.
“Back about 20 years ago, there were four years where there was a C$10-billion hit to the western Canadian economy from drought and 41,000 jobs lost in Saskatchewan alone. So there’s an impact,” Pomeroy told the national broadcaster. “It’s like losing the automotive industry out of southern Ontario.”
That dire future may not be far away, said Starbuck, MB canola grower Chuck Fossay.
“If we don’t get a rain, a nice, gentle, soaking rain in probably the next two weeks, we’re probably talking a crop failure out here in Manitoba,” Fossay said. “Dry is dry and nothing grows without water. That’s just a fact of life. You need water to live. And if you don’t have enough water, nothing grows.”
“We always say that April showers bring May flowers. Well, it also brings me grass,” said cattle farmer Bill Campbell, president of the Keystone Agriculture Producers advocacy group. When that grass is brittle and dry, herds can eat forage, but only until supplies run out.
Beyond that, “we rely on retention ponds, dugouts, springs, creeks, various water streams,” he told CBC. “A lot of them are dry, and cattle will not survive without water.”
Dave Sauchyn, a researcher at the University of Regina’s Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative who co-authored a report on climate impacts and adaptation, said small, rural communities with less reliable water supplies are at risk when wells and reservoirs are depleted. Already, CBC says, one southern Manitoba community has asked residents to cut their water consumption 25%, the province has banned campfires and closed back country trails in drought-stricken areas, and a forest fire has hit Whiteshell Provincial Park, near the Ontario border.
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Support for All Students
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Empathy is defined as the ability to identify with the emotional state of others in a way that builds connection, creates safety and enables trust.
Creating safety may sound like an odd concept, but as Simon Sinek explores in his TED Talk ‘Why good leaders make you feel safe’– you can’t just tell people to ‘trust you’ and expect they’ll cooperate. You have to uncover what’s at the root of their concerns and frustrations. This is what separates good leaders from great leaders.
Empathy is redefining the way we lead. To get results with and through others, the best starting point is understanding what they’re thinking and feeling. When you understand what is at the crux of their motivation, you’ll know what you need to do to help them offload the emotion so you can access their higher thinking and tap into their potential.
Empathy isn’t just about feelings, it’s actually a gateway to results. View this webinar and find out how you can connect with people to tap into their potential and achieve your desired outcomes.
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The walls of the auricles are much thinner than those of the ventricles. The wall of the left ventricle is much thicker than that of the right ventricle; but no such difference is perceptible between the two auricles (Figs. 11 and 12, I and 3).
9. In fact, as we shall see, the ventricles have more work to do than the auricles, and the left ventricle more to do than the right. Hence the ventricles have more muscular substance than the auricles, and the left ventricle than the right; and it is this excess of muscular substance which gives rise to the excess of thickness observed in the left ventricle.
The muscular fibres of the heart are not smooth, nucleated bands, like those of the vessels, but are bundles of transversely-striped fibres, and resemble those of the chief muscles of the body, except that they have no sheath, or sarcolemma, such as we shall find to exist in the latter.
Almost the whole mass of the heart is made up of these muscular fibres, which have a very remarkable and complex arrangement. There is, however, an internal membranous and epithelial lining, called the endocardium; and at the junction between the auricles and ventricles, the apertures of communication between their cavities, called the auriculo-ventricular• apertures, are strengthened by fibrous rings. To these rings the moveable partitions, or valves, between the auricles and ventricles, the arrangement of which must next be considered, are attached.
10. There are three of these partitions attached to the circumference of the right auriculo-ventricular aperture, and two to that of the left (Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14, tv, m v). Each is a broad, thin, but very tough and strong triangular fold of the endocardium, attached by its base, which joins on to its fellow, to the auriculo-ventricular fibrous ring; and hanging with its point downwards into the ventricular cavity. On the right side there are, therefore, three of these broad, pointed membranes, whence the whole apparatus is called the tricuspid valve. On the left side, there are but two, which, when detached from all their connexions but the auriculo-ventricular ring, look something like a bishop's mitre, and hence bear the name of the mitral valve.
FIG. 12.-LEFT SIDE OF THE HEART OF A SHEEP (LAID OPEN). P.V. pulmonary veins opening into the left auricle by four openings, as shown by the styles: a, a style passed from auricle into ventricle through the auriculo-ventricular orifice; b, a style passed into the coronary vein, which, though it has no connection with the left auricle, is, from its position, necessarily cut across in thus laying open the auricle.
M.V. the two flaps of the mitral valve (drawn somewhat diagrammatically): Pp, papillary muscles, belonging as before to the part of the ventricle cut away; c, a style passed from ventricle in Ao. aorta; Ao1. branch of aorta (see Fig. 8, A'o'); P.A. pulmonary artery; S.V.C. superior vena cava. 1, wall of ventricle cut across; 2, wall of auricle cut away around auriculoventricular orifice; 3, other portions of auricular wall cut across; 4, mass of fat around base of ventricle (see Fig. 8, 2).
The edges and apices of the valves are not completely free and loose. On the contrary, a number of fine, but strong, tendinous cords, called chorda tendineæ, connect them with some column-like elevations of the fleshy substance of the walls of the ventricle, which are termed papillary muscles (Figs. 11 and 12, pp); similar columnlike elevations of the walls of the ventricles, but having no chorda tendineæ attached to them, are called columnæ
It follows, from this arrangement, that the valves oppose no obstacle to the passage of fluid from the auricles to the ventricles; but if any should be forced the other way, it will at once get between the valve and the wall of the heart, and drive the valve backwards and upwards. Partly because they soon meet in the middle and oppose one another's action, and partly because the chorda tendinea hold their edges and prevent them from going back too far, the valves, thus forced back, give rise to the formation of a complete transverse partition between the ventricle and the auricle, through which no fluid can pass.
Where the aorta opens into the left ventricle and where the pulmonary artery opens into the right ventricle, another valvular apparatus is placed, consisting in each case of three pouch-like valves, called the semilunar valves (Fig. 11, S.V.; Figs. 13 and 14, Ao. P.A.), which are similar to those of the veins. But as they are placed on the same level and meet in the middle line, they completely stop the passage when any fluid is forced along the artery towards the heart. On the other hand, these valves flap back and allow any fluid to pass from the heart into the artery, with the utmost readiness.
The action of the auriculo-ventricular valves may be demonstrated with great ease on a sheep's heart, in which the aorta and pulmonary artery have been tied and the greater part of the auricles cut away, by pouring water into the ventricles through the auriculo-ventricular aperture. The tricuspid and mitral valves then usually become closed by the upward pressure of the water which gets behind them. Or, if the ventricles be nearly filled, the valves may be made to come together at once by gently squeezing the ventricles. In like manner, if the
base of the aorta, or pulmonary artery, be cut out of the heart, so as not to injure the semilunar valves, water poured into the upper ends of the vessel will cause its valves to close tightly, and allow nothing to flow out after the first moment.
Thus the arrangement of the auriculo-ventricular valves is such, that any fluid contained in the chambers of the heart can be made to pass through the auriculo-ventricular apertures in only one direction: that is to say, from the
R.A.V. right auriculo-ventricular orifice surrounded by the three flaps,
L.A.V. left auriculo-ventricular orifice surrounded in same way by the two flaps, m.v. 1, m.v. 2, of mitral valve; P.A. the orifice of pulmonary artery, the semilunar valves having met and closed together; Ao. the orifice of the aorta with its semilunar valves. The shaded portion, leading from R.A. V. to P.A., represents the funnel seen in Fig. 11.
auricles to the ventricles. On the other hand, the arrangement of the semilunar valves is such that the fluid contents of the ventricles pass easily into the aorta and pulmonary artery, while none can be made to travel the other way from the arterial trunks to the ventricles.
FIG. 14.-THE ORIFICES OF THE HEART SEEN FROM ABOVE, THE AURICLES AND GREAT VESSELS BEING CUT AWAY.
P.A. pulmonary artery, with its semilunar valves; Ao. aorta, do. R.A.V. right auriculo-ventricular orifice with the three flaps (v. 1, 2, 3) of tricuspid valve.
L.A.V. left auriculo-ventricular orifice, with m.v. 1 and 2, flaps of mitral valve; c, style passed into coronary vein. On the left part of L.A. V., the ection of the auricle is carried through the auricular appendage; hence the toothed appearance due to the portions in relief cut across.
II. Like all other muscular tissues, the substance of the heart is contractile; but, unlike most muscles, the heart contains within itself a something which causes its different parts to contract in a definite succession and at regular intervals.
If the heart of a living animal be removed from the body, it will go on pulsating for a longer or shorter time,
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Globally loved soft drink, Coca-Cola became the first soft-drink on space in 1985 when it was drunk by astronauts.
This was made possible due to the deal Coca-Cola company had with NASA to allow astronauts that were going into space test their new Coke can, which had zero gravity on a shuttle flight.
At this time packaged carbonated drinks were not allowed to space due to the fact that there was no suitable container that would be able to dispense drink in space from the change in gravitational level.
This innovative coke can specially designed for compatibility with the space atmosphere cost about $250,000 to make and used a special nozzle and valve switch at the top of the 12-ounce coke can to dispense the drink.
That same year due to the obvious competition between the two biggest soft drink companies Coca-cola and Pepsi. Pepsi also developed a special Pepsi container and struck a deal or it to be present in the 1985 tip to space. The Pepsi specially design space can cost the company about $14 million to develop.
The 1985 trip to space became an historic one as NASA opened up to drink company interested in taking their drinks to space once it meets the required space standard. Coca-cola and Pepsi were the only drinks in space that year but coca-cola was the first drink the astronaut drank in space shortly after the astronauts also took a gulp of the Pepsi drink.
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Mission & Values
To create high quality, culturally relevant education for all children through the collaboration of early learning centers.
Anti-Bias Education Goals
While there isn't one "right" way to implement anti-bias education into a classroom, at SCCS, we use the Four Goals in Anti Bias Education as published by NAEYC.
GOAL 1: Identity
Teachers will nurture each child's construction of knowledgeable, confident, individual personal and social identities.
Children will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.
GOAL 2: Diversity
Teachers will promote each child's comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from diverse backgrounds.
Children will express comfort and joy with human diversity, use accurate language for human differences, and form deep, caring connections across all dimensions of human diversity.
GOAL 3: Justice
Teachers will foster each child's capacity to critically identify bias and will nurture each child's empathy for the hurt bias causes.
Children will increasingly recognize unfairness (injustice), have language to describe unfaireness, and understand that unfairness hurts.
GOAL 4: Activism
Teachers will cultivate each child's ability and confidence to stand up for oneself and for others in the face of bias.
Children will demonstrate a sense of empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.
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Wellington health professionals ready to transform health through nutrition
DFN’s Hannah O’Malley (BPharm) and GP Dr Luke Wilson presented to 50 clinical colleagues at a recent professional workshop, in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand.
A Food Odyssey
Dr Wilson began the presentation by taking attendees on a ‘Food Odyssey’, exploring how human dietary patterns have changed through history, arriving at where we are now, and how we can get to a better place. Dr Wilson then presented the Gisborne BROAD study (of which he was a co-lead), and used a range of evidence to explain the powerful benefits of plant-based nutrition.
Dispensing Lifestyle Medicine
Pharmacist Hannah O’Malley asked the audience, “If you had access to a pill that could significantly reduce the risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and bowel cancer, without any side effects, would you recommend it?”. She went on to present on ‘Practical Ways To Dispense Lifestyle Medicine’, where time and again, the evidence has shown that whole food plant-based eating does just that.
Feedback from the event corroborates what we already know: that a lack of nutrition awareness is common in the health profession but that there is a great appetite to fill this knowledge gap. As one attendee put it: “I have really been impacted by the realisation that poor diet and nutrition is the leading cause of so many health conditions. Will certainly be improving my current diet.”
>90% would recommend or highly recommend the workshop to other health professionals
Many members of the audience came away inspired to start incorporating their learning in their personal and professional lives. “I am going to use this info starting NOW – in my own lifestyle and then when I’ve learnt more, will share with others.” Several have committed to undertaking further professional development in nutrition as a result, with one calling the workshop “truly life changing”.
Handouts, references and further resources
Links to further educational resources are provided on our website here.
Please also browse our information on the impact of nutrition on many common health conditions and stay tuned for further resources and guidance that are in the pipeline.
We are always open to delivering similar workshops to health professionals around New Zealand and Australia. Enquire here.
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Top 9 How To Be Successful Books For 2022
Being successful is a matter of mentality and style. Changing your mindset in the right way will most likely bring in significant things and achievements. But if you have spent your entire life thinking the way you do today, making this switch can be a challenge.
Being successful can be a daunting task, but with the right approach and the help of books, anyone can become a success. Here are some tips for being successful:
- Start with a plan. Having a concrete plan of what you want to achieve will help you stay on track and avoid any unnecessary distractions.
- Set goals and deadlines. Without set goals, it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle and lose sight of your objectives. Deadlines give you something to strive for and keep you focused.
- Get organized. Having an efficient system for tracking your progress will help you stay motivated and on track. It’s also important to have systems in place for filing paperwork, staying on top of communications, etc.
- Fail, fail more and remember failing will put you one step closer to your ultimate goal
- Stay positive!
One of my favorite example in goal setting is the story of John John Florence.
His dream was to win the Triple Crown surf competition, so in his childhood he decided to make a plan, which was basically the following picture.
Did his plan worked out? In 2016 he was the youngest winner of Triple Crown Championship.
This means sometimes plans shouldn't be complicated at all.
Here are some of the best how to be successful books to help in your journey.
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth
Do you know what is the key ingredient of success? What differentiate successful people from unsuccessful ones? The answer is simple: Grit.
Grit takes readers to the West Point cadet school to meet first year students and the problems they will need to tackle. You will also meet teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest.
Your effort ultimately counts twice toward your goal because grit can be learned, regardless of your IQ or circumstances. Grit is a learned behavior that can be developed through practice and repetition.
How To Be Successful, by M. Curtis McCoy et al.
This book tells stories and ideologies from more successful leaders out there. It helps you think like a leader and see things like a leader. In other words, it helps you overcome obstacles and understand that every problem has at least one solution. Each co-author has a story to motivate you and help you understand what life is about.
Author Curtis McCoy has become rich quickly. At the age 27 he owned many companies and businesses, but his illness changed everything — he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Today we measure success in money, but it is false, money is only one part of the big picture. This book shows how you could balance your life to experience a more successful life.
Limitless, by Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik says people have no limitations. Despite what others tell you, your potential is incredible when you use your brain the right way. The renowned brain coach has helped managers, CEOs, sports people and actors all over the world. He reveals a few successful techniques to push your brain, but he will also help you master habits, unleash your productivity, eliminate the mental fog and get the right motivation on track. It is definitely one of those books that can change your life to 180 degrees.
Jim Kwik has been working with successful people around the world for greater than 25 years to help them uncover their inner potential. In this groundbreaking book, he shares the science-based practices and tested tips to accelerate self learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed.
The Universe Is Calling You, by Char Margolis, Victoria St. George and RuPaul
The Universe Is Calling You teaches you how to get hooked into the power of essence. You can draw things you want closer to you if you do it right. You can draw wisdom, happiness and strength by establishing the right connections.
All in all, this book will introduce you to sources of power, help you get rid of negative energies and teach you how to overcome obstacles in your life.
It could be rated as a spiritual book as well, but one thing is for sure – it will certainly motivate you.
The Invisible Game, by Zoltan Andrejkovics
While the book is written for esports athletes and their coaches the book contains the evergreen truth about success not just for gamers.
The author, talks about how we can be successful if we are willing to work hard. He also discusses how to set a proper goal and what mindset you will need if you are in the middle of competition. But every day in your career is very similar to a contest even if it isn't about video games.
The book is perfect for Y, Z and Alpha generation gamers, who want to learn about success through video game competition examples. The translation into four languages reflects the book's wide appeal and demonstrates its popularity among readers around the world.
Joy At Work, by Marie Kondo and Scott Soneshein
The workplace can be a joyful place, as well as a messy experience. There are lots of unneeded tasks, disorganized files and one email after another – things that will seriously harm your productivity and drain your energy.
This book helps you eliminate clutter in a simple and efficient way – both mental and physical clutter.
In the long run, you will boost your productivity, become more successful and enjoy the success associated with a clean working mentality.
Million Dollar Habits, by Stellan Moreira
In his book Stellan Moreira shows you 27 daily habits in order to achieve a more successful living. These habits are connecting to practice meditation, breathing, gratitude, foster meaningful relationships and more.
Hence these habits sound simple practicing them every day would lead you discover a more extensive life.
After reading this book, you will be in an altogether different light with enhanced confidence, you will find happiness and opportunities in every facet of your life, and you will truly achieve total financial freedom and affluence: but only if you incorporate the knowledge it imparts into every aspect of your life. As I've said, the choice is yours.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson
Positive thinking has been recommended for decades to be a key factor in a fulfilling life. But Mark says “F**k positivity!” Forget about the bullshit and remain honest, with yourself.
Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our potential to turn lemons into lemonade, but on our ability to learn to stomach lemons better. Human beings are imperfect and limited.
Money is important but being passionate about what you do with your life will give you more worth, because true wealth is a result of experiences. A much-needed back-and-forth grope of the shoulders and encourage you to act in the way of entertaining stories and coarse, ruthless humor, the book is a break from a generation to help them lead prosperous, enjoyable lives.
Get Out Of Your Head, by Jennie Allen
Motivational speaker and Bible teacher Jennie Allen has written a book aimed at women. It is the type of book that will help women lost in frustration and the worries of everyday problems. The book teaches you where the battle actually takes place – in your brain. She will help you overcome toxic thoughts and battle distraction.
This book isn't for everyone, but if you're looking to be successful, it's a great read. The author provides a lot of helpful tips and advice on how to achieve your goals and be successful in whatever you do. If you're looking for a motivational book that will help you get where you want to be, I highly recommend this one.
Bottom line, these are the top rated how to be successful books. No matter what you struggle with, chances are you will gain the right mindset to make major changes in your life.
Reading books on how to be successful can help you achieve your goals. However, these books are not a guarantee to success and should not be used as a substitute for hard work and dedication. Follow the advice in these books, put in the effort, and you will be on your way to achieving your dreams.
If you want to dig further check out our favorite books on mental toughness.
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Accelerating learning for pro-poor health markets
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Background: Given the rapid evolution of health markets, learning is key to promoting the identification and uptake of health market policies and practices that better serve the needs of the poor. However there are significant challenges to learning about health markets. We discuss the different forms that learning takes, from the development of codified scientific knowledge, through to experience-based learning, all in relationship to health markets. Discussion: Notable challenges to learning in health markets include the difficulty of acquiring data from private health care providers, designing evaluations that capture the complex dynamics present within health markets and developing communities of practice that encompass the diverse actors present within health markets, and building trust and mutual understanding across these groups. The paper proposes experimentation with country-specific market data platforms that can integrate relevant evidence from different data sources, and simultaneously exploring strategies to secure better information on private providers and health markets. Possible approaches to adapting evaluation designs so that they are better able to take account of different and changing contexts as well as producing real time findings are discussed. Finally capturing informal knowledge about health markets is key. Communities of practice that bridge different health market actors can help to share such experience-based knowledge and in so doing, may help to formalize it. More geographically-focused communities of practice are needed, and such communities may be supported by innovation brokers and/or be built around member-based organizations. Summary: Strategic investments in and support to learning about health markets can address some of the challenges experienced to-date, and accelerate learning that supports health markets that serve the poor.
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©1996-2019 All Rights Reserved. Online Journal of Bioinformatics . You may not store these pages in any form except for your own personal use. All other usage or distribution is illegal under international copyright treaties. Permission to use any of these pages in any other way besides the before mentioned must be gained in writing from the publisher. This article is exclusively copyrighted in its entirety to OJB publications. This article may be copied once but may not be, reproduced or re-transmitted without the express permission of the editors. This journal satisfies the refereeing requirements (DEST) for the Higher Education Research Data Collection (Australia). Linking:To link to this page or any pages linking to this page you must link directly to this page only here rather than put up your own page.
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Volume 10 (1): 29-39, 2009.
Derivation of a protein-marker from heat-denatured protein-aggregate.
Lahiri T, Mishra H, Kumar U, Misra K.
Division of Bioinformatics and allied sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India
Lahiri T, Mishra H, Kumar U, Misra K, Derivation of a protein-marker from heat-denatured protein-aggregate, Onl J Bioinform., 10 (1): 29-39, 2009. Aggregation of protein was studied with an objective of finding its specificity to constituent protein. The heat-denaturation based aggregation method that is universally applicable to any protein was used to study Heat Denatured Protein Aggregates (HDPA). Ordinary microscopic images of aggregates were acquired, processed and analyzed to extract the feature, Intensity Level-based Multifractal Dimension (ILMFD). It was found that ILMFD could differentiate and identify proteins selected for our study. For enhancing the degree of differentiation among the selected proteins, a simple neuro-GA (Artificial Neural Network followed by application of Genetic Algorithm) classifier was successfully tested. Finally the potential of ILMFD feature as a protein-marker was discussed.
Key Words: Heat denatured protein aggregate; Multifractal dimension; Neuro-GA classifier; Protein-marker
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The Human Spark: Becoming Us
Airs Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV
Uniquely human abilities — to think in symbols; recombine those symbols into infinite meanings; invent a technology to disseminate the message; ponder the past; speculate about the future; imagine the unknown; build cities; compose music — constitute the “human spark.” In this three-part series, host Alan Alda searches for the origin and nature of this spark.
Alan discovers, from visits to sites where Neanderthals once lived, that Neanderthals were tenacious and resourceful. But they appear to have lived in and of the moment; certainly they produced no art, and employed a stone tool technology that changed little over millennia. The people who painted the caves, our ancestors, were strikingly different, possessed of what we are calling the "human spark," capable not only of art but of innovative technology and symbolic communication.
The questions Alan explores: Where and when did the human spark first ignite? In these caves, as archeologists have long believed? Or at a much earlier time - and on another continent? Finding the answer involves scanning Neanderthal teeth in a giant particle accelerator to learn about their childhood; reading Neanderthal's genetic code in DNA extracted from 50,000 year-old bones; and discovering and reconstructing the weaponry that made possible - and relatively safe - the hunting of large animals in East Africa.
We will also unearth the beads that are the first evidence of our species' fascination with social status - and a powerful new means of long-distance communication; recover from the teeth and bones of both Neanderthals and our ancestors evidence of what they ate; and explore the Great Rift Valley in East Africa with archeologists who believe that it was there that the human spark first began to glimmer, tens of thousands of years before it burst into flame in Europe. Watch the full program online.
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This week’s Along the Alphabet Path studies was pleasantly filled C! If you are unaware of what the Along the Alphabet Path is go to THIS post to read all about it.
Letter C is for Columbine Fairy and Saint Cecilia
***Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. Thank you!
We started off with reading the Along the Alphabet Path story and oral narration. While listening to the beautiful fairy song, the kids painted their Columbine flower fairy picture. The Alphabet Flower Fairy songs are all available on Amazon Music which makes it super convenient to just play on your phone. You can get the Flower Fairies Alphabet coloring book on Amazon or you may have some luck googling it. I highly recommend printing on cardstock if you plan on painting them. We also had a simple discussion about the Columbine flower using my flower facts card.
The next day we read about the patroness of musicians, Saint Cecilia, in our special red book, the Catholic Alphabet Book of Saints. Afterward, we said a prayer to Saint Cecilia and they colored a picture that you can find here.
Both the Alphabet Saint Prayer cards and Flower Fact cards are available to download for free.
The read alouds for letter C:
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes (Pete the Cat books are Avila’s favorite because they use a lot of these in speech therapy)
Crinkleroot books (some of our favorite books for nature study!!)
Children book of Virtues: Work on the virtues Compassion and/or Courage
– A Child’s Prayer
-It Can Be Done
Children’s Book of America:
–The Bravery of Abigail Adams
-America the Beautiful
Children’s Book of Faith:
-The Legend of Saint Christopher
-Saint Martin’s Cloak
-Why the Chimes Rang
The author for letter C: Eric Carle
Who doesn’t love Eric Carle books?! His signature, unique, colorful illustrations are a favorite amongst our family. For those interested in doing an author study can read a biography of Eric Carle HERE.
Dancing to the Columbine fairy song, learning about the lovely Saint Cecilia, learning more about Michael’s journey in the Along the Alphabet Path, and enjoying Eric Carle’s colorful books was a fun week! Next week… Letter D.
What are some of your favorite activities and books for letter C? If you liked this post please share and don’t forget to pin!
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Prosume is a blockchain-based platform that guarantees an autonomous place that will permit users to exchange different energy sources, promoting and accelerating new energy community models.
ICO start date: 2017-11-06
The products that will be offered by the project's team include:- Crypto-equity for renewable energy projectsWith this platform prosumers are incentivized to donate in a specific wallet becoming co-owners of renewable energy plants and storage assets owned by the community. - P2P energy exchange platformThis platform provides users with a simplified payment method to pay energy with different tools and coins, receiving a direct benefit on transaction costs and data forecasts.- Smart community energy aggregator developmentThis Platform will empower people to participate to specific aggregator requests of energy demands, where the consumers choose different energy sources.- Smart metering / billing / energy . - Electric vehicle platformThis platform enables electric vehicles management, data collection, identity management in a fast and reliable way, empowering electric vehicle rentals with energy barter systems.- Storage + Transmission exchange With the use of storage systems and blockchain technology it is possible to forecast and manage load balancing in a more profitable way. - Trading and Managing oil and gas assets with blockchain technology
More information in the project whitepaper: http://prosume.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/white-paper_v2-2017.pdf
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It should come as no surprise that retail prices on Swiss watches, like the costs for most goods and services, are rising. Even before the war in Ukraine clouded the global economic picture, the lingering effects of the pandemic were still rippling across the watch industry’s supply chain. And the soaring cost of fuel now threatens to keep those price increases coming.
“Every day we are talking about price inflation on labor, energy costs, logistics, etc.,” Jean-Philippe Bertschy, a luxury goods analyst at Vontobel, a private banking and investment management group based in Zurich, said on a recent call. “And brands will take the opportunity to increase prices.”
Mr. Bertschy then ticked off a list of those that already had done so this year — including Hublot, Rolex and Audemars Piguet.
They were far from the only ones. Julien Tornare, the chief executive of Zenith, said his company had raised prices on select models and Jean-Marc Pontroué, the chief executive of Panerai, said he expected to do so as well.
“We have to make some corrections, between 3 percent and 4 percent, max,” Mr. Tornare said on a recent call. “Global inflation made our costs go up, so at some point we have to adjust. But it’s also linked to currency.”
Escalating manufacturing costs and fluctuating exchange rates are both important factors in the luxury watch price surge, but they explain only part of the story.
In a much broader sense, the entire category is moving steadily upmarket. Take Oris, for example. Known for its accessibly priced mechanical timepieces, the Swiss brand saw its average price rise by 10 percent last year, said Rolf Studer, the brand’s co-chief executive.
He singled out the October 2020 introduction of Oris’s in-house Calibre 400 in the Aquis Date collection — $3,300 for a model on a rubber strap and $3,500 on a stainless steel bracelet — and noted that the prices were about 50 percent costlier than the Aquis models without in-house movements.
“We just couldn’t make enough,” Mr. Studer said, although he would not disclose actual numbers. “That shows to what extent people are ready to spend money.”
Whether consumers are gravitating to more expensive products, or are simply willing to overlook their ever-increasing prices, Ruediger Albers, president of Wempe Jewelers in New York City, interpreted the phenomenon as a sign of the watch market’s health.
“Most companies have raised prices since the beginning of the year and our business has been extremely resilient,” Mr. Albers said on a recent call. “I have never had the January I had this year. Demand is undiminished.”
And yet that does not appear to be true for everyone. Guido Terreni, chief executive of the boutique brand Parmigiani Fleurier, pointed out that price increases make sense only for brands that are desirable. “You can increase if you’re confident,” he said on a recent call. “But I wouldn’t say that everybody is in the same shape. And this you can see very well from Swiss exports.”
Last year was a record-breaking year for the Swiss watch industry: Exports peaked at 22.3 billion Swiss francs, about $24.1 billion, 2.7 percent higher than in 2019 and a 0.2 percent improvement over the 2014 record export level, according to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry’s 2021 year-end report. But while exports grew in value, the number of items exported continued to decline, to 15.7 million, a decrease of 23.8 percent compared with the 2019 total.
Watches with a wholesale price of less than 500 francs fell sharply, accounting for more than 95 percent of the decline in volumes, while watches with wholesale prices of more than 3,000 francs grew by 9.7 percent.
The dramatic polarization between high- and low-priced watch exports began in 2017, Jean-Daniel Pasche, the federation’s president, wrote in an email. He laid blame on a host of factors, including competition from smartwatches and less expensive fashion watch brands manufactured in Asia, as well as the strength of the Swiss franc. And he suggested the phenomenon could damage Switzerland’s watchmaking sector.
“Volumes are important as they create activities and jobs,” Mr. Pasche wrote. “It is a matter of preoccupation as the Swiss watch industry has to provide consumers with products in all price categories. On the other side, middle price and high-end segments generate more than 94 percent of the exports in value for our industry.”
On the secondary market, the jump in prices during the past two years for some pre-owned and vintage models — particularly those by the “Big Four’” brands: Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille — has been even more striking.
“With the shortage of Rolex watches (not only the steel sports models, but just about everything in any type of material), prices on a steel Rolex GMT-Master II ‘Pepsi,’ for example, are going through the roof,” Robert-Jan Broer, editor of the online watch publication Fratello Watches, wrote in an email.
The model retails for $10,750, but is selling for more than $33,000 on secondary channels, Mr. Broer wrote.
“It shows that the demand for these unobtainable Rolex watches (or the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, or Patek Philippe Nautilus) comes from speculators, and has nothing to do with the love for watches anymore,” he added. “The watch has become a status symbol (again), more than ever.”
But is it a bubble? Not exactly, some say.
“I don’t see prices coming down,” Mr. Broer said. “When the Royal Oak was worth around 30,000 to 40,000 euros on the pre-owned market in 2019, I thought it couldn’t go any higher. Now, it’s almost 100,000. There’s no end.”
Mr. Bertschy agreed that there seemed to be a disconnect between prices and value on the secondary market, but consumers have not yet shown any resistance to the increases.
“I think it’s a virtuous circle for the brands, but also a vicious circle because the more prices are increasing, the more consumers want to invest in these brands,” he said. “A friend told me he wanted to invest and I told him to invest in a watch, and he bought two Rolexes. So that’s happening.”
Indeed, Bob’s Watches, an online dealer specializing in pre-owned Rolex watches, released a report in early February based on 10 years of sales data that tracked the appreciation of Rolex watches (by model) compared with major asset classes including stocks, bonds, real estate and gold.
“We were hoping Rolex would be in the top two leading asset classes but it ended being No. 1,” Paul Altieri, founder and chief executive of Bob’s Watches, said on a recent call. “How many things can you enjoy that double in value in five years?”
According to numerous sources, the year 2017 proved to be just as pivotal for the resale market as it was for new watches. Artemy Lechbinskiy, the chief executive of Ineichen Auctioneers in Zurich, said that was when new watches started to sell on the secondary market for more than their original retail prices — a shift he attributed to some producers decreasing production in an effort to control the gray market, a term referring to watches sold outside of authorized retail channels.
“Producers needed to protect their price policy,” Mr. Lechbinskiy said. “It doesn’t influence the industry if the retail price goes up 5 percent or 10 percent. But it’s not so easy to do when the gray market price is lower than your retail price. They played this game and it worked. And now for popular models, you need to pay double or triple ” on the resale market.
Asher Rapkin, co-founder of Collective Horology, a California-based collectors group, expressed a more circumspect view. “It’s easy to armchair quarterback and decide who has the right to make money,” he said on a recent video call. “Rolex has increased prices close to annually, usually on a 2 percent to 3 percent basis. And because of the market performance of Rolex, people are generally OK with it.
“The challenges are when watches that were disproportionately priced to begin with raise their prices and people are shut out,” he added. “Prices are rising but that doesn’t necessarily change the value exchange of the watch itself. We all know what we can get for the same amount of money.”
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Jaikumar Vijayan reports:
A decision by lawmakers to slash funding for the unpopular Real ID national driver’s license program has put an already struggling program on life support.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate approved a $43 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2010, which began Oct. 1. The measure included substantial increases in DHS spending in several key technology areas, but slashed Real ID funding by 40%, from $100 million to $60 million in 2010.
That reduction all but ensures that Real ID is going nowhere, said Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute. But continuing hesitation by Congress to kill the program entirely highlights the somewhat touchy political nature of the program, he said.
Read more on Computerworld.
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The growing need for tech designers is driving the industry to seek out multi-disciplinary talent and leading to more inclusive hiring practices. Highlighting this trend, John Maeda, former design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has published a new report on what companies are looking for.
In the third annual “Design in Tech” report, Maeda found a hunger for qualified designers among small and large tech companies — Amazon, Google, and Facebook have collectively grown their design personnel by 65 percent in the past year, according to a search on LinkedIn. Of startups that he surveyed, Maeda found that the design headcount is also expanding here. Smaller companies who identified design as important planned to add up to two more employees, while so-called unicorns plan on adding at least 10 more designers over the next 12 months.
Last year, Maeda highlighted several types of design every company needs: Classical, Design Thinking, and Computational Design. Classical design is the education that designers currently receive in school and is used in media like print and physical displays. “It’s art,” he explained, saying that it will be around for centuries and will affect designers’ ability to be creative.
Design Thinking is geared toward business-focused design. The last type, Computational Design, is perhaps most attuned to the needs of tech companies, as it involves an understanding of algorithms and processes, which is helpful when creating mobile apps, Internet-connected devices, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and other products.
Hybrid designers are able to recognize the complexities that exist within tech products, as well as the design challenges that lie within them. Whether it’s designing solutions for voice-powered services, hardware, mobile apps, or making something more accessible to a variety of people, staying in one’s lane is no longer an option, at least not in tech.
As companies accelerate their hiring of designers, Maeda believes we could also see more inclusive hiring practices, which could lead to more inclusive products and designs. “Creative people tend to be more inclusive,” he said, adding that in a survey he conducted, 90 percent of respondents told him a diverse team is important.
“As products and services in our lives become more personalized, there is a growing need for the teams that build to look and feel like the users on the other side. Recruiting and retaining diverse teams is essential for inclusive design — it’s more important than ever before,” Maeda previously wrote.
With social networks becoming more popular than ever before, companies need to have teams that understand design problems as they relate to harassment, image recognition, and enhancing the overall user experience, both in the software and hardware space. One example that was cited was the use of a special grip on Oxo kitchen ware made for those with arthritis, while in another case, a chair was designed to accommodate those living in apartments with limited space.
“If you want to be good in design, you have to be good in inclusion,” Maeda said.
As tech companies increase their headcount with more designers, it’s important to select ones with an eye for solving problems that customers face, offering a fresh approach to product development.
This year’s “Design in Tech” report looks at other issues, as well, including China’s design progress and its impact on tech in Silicon Valley, the current state of acquisitions in the industry, and other trends.
While previous reports were produced by KPCB, this is the first year since Maeda left the investment firm to join WordPress parent company Automattic.
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The data come from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit.
A major study on the findings is due to be published by the British Medical Journal next week.
Professor Marian Knight, of the University of Oxford, the lead on the study, told The Telegraph that while she could not be certain she thought all six babies had caught the virus after being born.
She said: “All we can say about these six babies is that they were neonatally acquired and, if I were to be putting my finger on anything, it is more likely it was acquired around birth rather than before birth.”
Of the six babies who contracted the virus, only one needed to be treated in a neonatal unit, Prof Knight said.
There had been no tests of amniotic fluid, umbilical cord blood or the placenta, which would tell doctors whether the virus was passed to the babies in the womb.
Prof Knight and her team are already looking at a wider study of a bigger group of babies to see how they have contracted the virus. She said there was no evidence that babies were catching it through breast milk.
“For me, this study does not give us strong evidence of a major health impact for babies of coronavirus such that we should be advocating separating them from their mums or stopping mums from breastfeeding,” she added.
“We have absolutely no evidence that it is in breast milk – all we know is that it is in respiratory droplets. So the advice from the Royal Colleges of midwives and obstetrics is that women breastfeed with a mask on, because we know that cuts down on any droplets spread.
“These babies had a positive test at a very young age… [but] it is very unlikely that breastfeeding is a mechanism of transmission for these babies.”
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Hearing loss affects the language and behavioral development of millions of children (WHO, 2018). The prevalence of behavioral disorders in children with hearing loss is over double than in children with normal hearing (J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1994;35:917). Timely treatment of hearing loss with hearing aids or cochlear implants may mitigate oral communication deficits, but does not address co-existent behavioral problems (Pediatrics. 1998;102:1161; Dev Med Child Neurol. 2011;53:269). Untreated patterns of disruptive behavior that develop in early childhood can lead to negative social and educational outcomes later in life (Am Psychol. 1989 Feb;44(2):329). A recent systematic review evaluated the connections between behavioral problems and hearing loss in children, as well as the characteristics of the methods used to manage these issues in this population (DOI: 10.1177/0194599818797598).
PREVALENCE OF BEHAVIORAL ISSUES
The review identified 36 studies on behavioral problems in children with hearing loss. These studies described the use of a wide range of tools to assess behavior and included children of different age groups with widely varying degrees and types of hearing loss. The most frequently used validated behavioral assessment tools were the Child Behavior Checklist, Vineland Behavior Adaptive Scale, and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Nearly one-third of the studies assessed the behavior of children with permanent hearing loss treated with hearing aids or cochlear implants. They found strong evidence of internalizing behavioral disorders that can be characterized by emotional and social withdrawal, depressive symptoms, poor self-esteem, and anxious behavior. These behaviors were reported by parents and/or teachers, and negatively influenced conduct and educational engagement. Two studies found that cochlear implantation did not reduce internalized behaviors in children, but that it did help reduce externalized behavioral disorders, characterized by outwardly aggressive, defiant, destructive, and impulsive behavior (Otol Neurotol. 2012;33:751; Cochlear Implants Int. 2006;7:61). Thirteen studies assessed the behavior of children with permanent hearing loss who were not treated with hearing aids or cochlear implants. All but one study observed internalized behavioral problems among the children studied. Eight studies looked into the behavioral issues of children with otitis media, minimal hearing loss, or unilateral hearing, and reported conflicting evidence on the connections between behavior and hearing.
ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION
Like early intervention for hearing loss, early intervention for behavioral problems is critical to preventing life-long adverse outcomes. Evidence-based and effective behavioral interventions have been well studied in normal hearing children (J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2008;36:567). However, very little research has been done on the development and delivery of behavioral interventions for children with hearing loss. This review identified only two studies that evaluated behavioral interventions within this population. Play therapy, also known as filial therapy, was found to be effective in addressing behavioral problems in children with hearing loss; however, this therapy was only studied in a school setting with older children. This form of therapy was time- and effort-intensive for the children and their families. These limited studies suggest the need for the adaptation of evidence-based interventions to this vulnerable population.
Many parents and providers are aware of the challenges in the care of children with hearing loss and the wide range of behaviors that can affect consistent usage of hearing aid or cochlear implant or participation in speech therapy. However, assessment of behavioral disorders in children in the hearing clinic setting is not a common practice. While the interaction between hearing and spoken language development is quite familiar to hearing health care specialists, the connection between hearing loss and the development of early childhood behavior disorders is likely an unfamiliar territory—but this connection may influence care delivery and long-term outcomes.
AREAS OF INTEGRATION
Hearing-related challenges affecting early childhood communication may lead to maladaptive interactions with others, which could lead to disruptive behavioral disorders. Despite their apparent connection, hearing loss and behavioral disorders are treated very differently. According to Stevenson, et al., early treatment of hearing loss and speech delay does improve long-term language development outcomes; however, hearing loss treatment does not prevent or treat behavioral problems in young children with hearing loss (Dev Med Child Neurol. 2011). Compared with their normal-hearing peers, children with hearing loss who wear hearing aids or cochlear implants have shown a higher prevalence of disruptive behavioral disorders (e.g., oppositional defiant disorder). Yet, these children are less likely to obtain mental health services (Otol Neurotol. 2017;38(10):1456). Current standard behavioral interventions can require weeks of therapy. Families of children with hearing loss who already struggle with multiple audiology and speech therapy appointments may find it overwhelming to add behavioral therapy sessions to the list. While research on effective behavioral treatments for this population is limited, there is a great potential to integrate behavioral evaluation and intervention into hearing health care. Providers need to increase awareness of the relationship between behavioral disorders and hearing loss, expand the use of validated methods to assess behavior in children, and develop approaches and interventions to treat these problems.
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The Indian Treaty Piscary Profit and Habitat Protection in the Pacific Northwest: A Property Rights Approach
96 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2005
Nineteenth century treaties promised Pacific Northwest Indian tribes the right of taking fish in common with the citizens... The meaning of those ten words has produced numerous court decsions in the ensuing century-and-a-half, including a half-dozen from the U.S. Supreme Court. This article explores that case law, and in particular explains how the treaty fishing right evolved from a right to access historic fishing ground (an easement), to a right to be free from state licensing fees and discriminatory regulation (a negative servitude), to a right to an equal harvest share (also a negative servitude, since it restricts non-Indian harvests).
An unresolved issue is whether the treaty fishing right protects the habitat necessary to sustain the fish that were the subject of the treaty promise. A quarter-century ago the tribes filed suit, claiming that the treaties implicitly protected fish habitat necessary to make meaningful their treaty-guaranteed right, which the Supreme Court interpreted to be a livelihood, that is to say a moderate living. Although a district court agreed with the tribes, the Ninth Circuit ducked the issue and vacated the lower court decision, due to the fact that it was issued in the absence of a concrete factual dispute.
This article argues that, despite the Ninth Circuit's evasion, there is a good deal of case law suggesting that such a right to habitat protection exists, surveying cases involving dams, water rights, timber harvests, and other water-related development projects. The article then attempts to sketch how such a right would function in practice, drawing on pertinent case law and an executive order. The article concludes that the treaty fishing right should be interpreted as a profit a prendre, a venerable real property interest, in this case a piscary profit. Profit-holders may enjoin activities unreasonably interfering with the exercise of the profit, and the article maintains that courts should use this standard to protect the treaty fishing right from habitat damage that interferes with tribal fishing livelihoods.
Keywords: Indigenous Peoples, Treaty Rights, Environmental Protection, Natural Resources Law, Water Law
JEL Classification: H82, K11, K32, N52, O13, Q22
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
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A number of sites including Soylentnews, in places, use self signed certs for https encryption.
The first time you go to such a site, you will see some sort of warning from your browser. The exact nature of that warning varies, each browser handles it a little differently. What is important is that you need to use whatever facility is provided to tell your browser that it is ok to continue on connecting, and, unless you want to deal with that message every time you visit the site, you need to tell it to remember your choice.
Some examples of typical browser warnings
Below, I have loosely recorded the steps I had to take with some of the browsers I have available here. If you are having trouble, reading through these - even if your exact browser is not here - may help a bit. You can at least get a rough ideas of what is required.
-- Mac Version 3.6
This Connection is Untrusted
/Get me out of here/
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.homeviva.demmers.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.
What Should I Do?
If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.
www.xxxxx.org uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
The certificate is only valid for yyyy.xxxxx.org
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As part of the process of bringing a product to market, product marketing involves setting positions and messaging, launching the product, and ensuring sales people and customers are aware of it. Product marketing is designed to increase the demand and usage of the product.
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If you are searching for a job in product marketing, then the answer to your question is this: Without a product, you have nothing! And if you don’t have a product, you probably won’t have a job. However, product marketing is not just about getting people to buy your stuff. And it’s also about how you get those people to trust and respect you.
You could say that product marketing is the ultimate guide to finding a job in any career. The reason is that virtually all careers require a product to sell. Think about every occupation in which you work. Some are very physical and require tools, machinery, and other things to make their job easier. Other occupations, such as teaching or law, rely on words alone. And even more, most jobs involve marketing-something which would be considered product marketing-because without marketing; and there wouldn’t be a market for the products or services you offer.
So, why does a person need to understand the importance of product marketing? First of all, if you can create, produce, or deliver a product, then you can count on marketing to help you with your goals. Marketing agencies can help you market your products and give you advice on how to improve them. They can help you create effective advertising campaigns, develop new products or even launch a successful promotional campaign.
But what does this have to do with finding a job in product marketing? If you have the technical skills that marketing agencies need, such as graphics design, copywriting, animation, or sales know-how, you may be a good fit for a job in marketing. You should be able to market your products effectively using the proper media and methods. If you’re creative and innovative, you could use your skills to help a company improve its product. The possibilities are endless.
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And a sword will pierce your own soul too.
The greetings of “Happy New Year!” may still echo in our memory. We were glad to receive them. But we know very well, they were not promises made to us. They were wishes.
They express hope that the new year will lead us to happiness.
However, from experience, we have learned that the path our life takes may lead us to some sad days. After all, “Happy Days” was just a TV show.
If we ask “What could go wrong in this new year?” a long list of misfortunes comes to mind.
The next question is, “Why? Why do bad things happen even to the people of God?”
Then, there are times when we might be tempted to say, “especially to the people of God?”
Human nature assumes we deserve credit for doing good and extra credit for believing the Lord is our Savior God. It tells us that our life should be happier than the life of one who rejects God.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that we don’t deserve anything but condemnation from the Holy One. Even one moment of happiness is an undeserved gift from him. It is the result of grace—his undeserved love.
More than that, it shows that the loving God may plan for misery to come into our lives. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is an example. We learn that pain was waiting on her life’s path.
The angel Gabriel startled her with the words: “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28).
She surely was favored. Of all the women born on earth, she was chosen to become the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, who was the Son of God from eternity. What higher honor could any woman receive?
Her response to the seemingly impossible news came from her steadfast faith: “My soul glorifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior” (Luke 1:48).
She confessed that she was a sinner who needed saving. She rejoiced to know that the Lord God would rescue her.
She delighted in that blessed assurance.
Because we know that, we might be surprised to hear the prophetic words of Simeon to her, “And a sword will pierce your own soul too” (Luke 2:35).
The prophecy was fulfilled. We hear: “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother…” (John 19:33).
She saw her son crucified. It was as if a sword had cut through her soul.
Simeon had warned that the Lord planned for pain on her path as she walked through life.
He would not forsake her. She would remain precious in his sight.
But the pain would come. It was part of his plan to bring great joy to her and all people.
Her Son needed to die. Her Son needed to suffer agony so that she, and all humanity, might live forever in the peace that surpasses all understanding.
The pain was God’s gift to her—and us.
His people need to know this.
If we have found pain lying on the path we have already walked in life, if there is pain lying ahead on our path, we have the same assurance that Mary had. We are still in our Savior’s hands. His will is always wise. His way is always best.
“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary had told Gabriel. “May it be to me as you have said.”
Will our New Year be a happy one? We surely must expect some pain ahead. But that’s all right.
The loving Lord is in control. And do we not say, “I am the Lord’s servant”?
Yes, we do.
We know a perfectly happy, never-ending New Year awaits beyond the edge of time.
We sing the song of blessed assurance:
Be still, my soul; the Lord is on your side; Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to your God to order and provide; In every change, he faithful will remain.
Be still my soul; your best, your heavenly friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.” Amen.
(Christian Worship 847:1)
Written by Rev. Paul Ziemer, WELS National Civilian Chaplain and Liaison to the Military, Belle Plaine, Minnesota.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. Note: Scripture reading footnotes are clickable only in the web version.
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The United States, Australia, and Israel were the only UN member states out of 193 to vote against the Palestinian Delegation being able to chair the upcoming Group of 77 meetings on Oct. 16.
Fifteen countries, including Canada, Honduras, and Poland, abstained from voting.
The remaining 146 countries voted in favor of the action, which will grant the Palestinian Delegation some official status and additional privileges at the assembly. The Palestinians will now be procedurally acting more like a full UN member state during the 2019 G77 meetings, among developing nation member states. China will also be in attendance.
#UNGA just voted in favor of #Palestine chairing group of 77 developing countries (#G77). 146 voting in favor of the resolution. #US, #Israel, and #Australia were only three to vote no. Fifteen abstentions. @Palestine_UN pic.twitter.com/8Aqxgn0XG9
— Michelle Lonnquist (@MMLonnqui) October 16, 2018
U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said that the UN should not have been able to grant the Palestinian Delegation “privileges” that are reserved for full-fledged members, according to a statement.
Haley added: “Today’s UN mistake undermines the prospects for peace by encouraging the illusion held by some Palestinian leaders that they can advance their goals without direct peace negotiations.”
“In fact, today’s vote does nothing to help the Palestinian people.”
U.S. Deputy U.N. Ambassador Jonathan Cohen echoed Haley’s stance, saying, “We cannot support efforts by the Palestinians to enhance their status outside of direct negotiations.”
The United States mission to the United Nations (USUN) stated in a press release on Oct. 16 that “the United States does not recognize a Palestinian state.”
USUN said the United States would continue to draw attention to the fact that the Palestinian Delegation was never admitted to the assembly as a UN Member State, and that the United States “does not believe that the Palestinians are eligible to be admitted as a UN Member State.”
The Palestinian Authority (PA), which represents Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza but not Palestinian refugees and Palestinian citizens of Israel, was voted into the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 with the status of an observer—similar to that granted to the Vatican. In 2013, the PA declared itself the “State of Palestine” in a decree signed by Mahmoud Abbas. As a non-member state, the Palestinian delegation can participate in some voting at the general assembly as well as join some international bodies. However, it cannot speak in meetings until all member states have spoken, according to diplomats.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, thanked the assembly for granting his delegation the chair of the G77 plus China meetings.
“The State of Palestine will spare no effort to prove worthy of this trust in its capacity to represent and defend the interests of the Group of 77 and China, while also engaging constructively, and in an inclusive and transparent manner, with all partners, in order to advance cooperation and mutually beneficial agreements, for the common good of all humanity,” he said.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had announced one day earlier on Oct. 15, that his government would be voting against the Palestinian Delegation’s bid to chair the G77 plus China meetings. At the same time, he announced that Australia was in the process of considering suggestions to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and perhaps move its embassy there from Tel Aviv.
He said that the announcement was to give Australians and others a “much clearer picture” of his government’s position on related Middle East issues before the UN vote, adding that he stressed very strongly that Australia remained committed to a two-state solution in the Middle East. “Nothing has changed when it comes to the Government’s position on this matter,” he said.
He went on to expand on his government’s position on the Palestinian resolution: “We will be voting against that resolution because we don’t believe that conferring that status, especially at this time, would add to the cause of moving parties towards the two-state solution.”
“This is what we’re seeking to achieve,” he said.
Morrison said that following suggestions made to him in May by Australia’s former ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, he was remaining “open-minded” to new approaches that could move Israel and Palestine towards a two-state solution.
“Frankly, it hasn’t been going that well. Not a lot of progress has been made. And you don’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results,” Morrison said, according to the press release.
Morrison emphasized that the Australian government “made this decision without any reference to the United States.”
“It has not come up in any discussion I have had with the President or with officials,” he said. “Australia makes its decisions about its foreign policy independently. We do so in our own national interests, consistent with our own beliefs and our own values.”
Penny Wong, opposition leader in the Australian Senate, said that in her view, the prime minister’s announcement was a “desperate” attempt to gain Jewish votes in the upcoming Wentworth by-election on Oct. 20, a claim that Morrison strongly denies. “I think the point you overlook is that Australia has no control over when votes are scheduled in the United Nations General Assembly,” he said.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki, who was attending solidarity events in Indonesia at the time, said Morrison’s statement was “very sad news.”
“Australia, by doing so, is risking trade and business relations with the rest of the world, particularly the Arab world and Muslim countries,” he said at a joint news conference with Indonesia’s foreign minister. “I hope Australia would reconsider that position before taking action.”
But Morrison played down concerns from the media about Australian-Indonesian trade relations, saying that he had personally briefed the Indonesian president Joko Widodo and was “very pleased with the response.”
The Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) reported an unnamed Indonesian official commented that the announcement could harm trade negotiations between the two countries. But Indonesia’s Trade Minister, Enggartiasto Lukita, told Reuters that there was “no such thing,” saying that it was likely the trade agreement was still on track to being signed this year.
Australian U.N. Ambassador Gillian Bird told the General Assembly, “Australia’s decision to vote no on this resolution reflects our long-standing position that Palestinian attempts to seek recognition as a state in international fora are deeply unhelpful to efforts towards a two-state solution.”
Israel’s UN deputy ambassador Noa Furman said that the vote had in effect given the Palestinian Delegation more rights than is necessary for it to chair the G77 plus China meetings. Furman said the resolution “clearly weakens and undermines the UN” and accused Ramallah, the Palestinian city in the West Bank, of a “pattern of manipulative behavior.”
The G77 was founded in 1964, with its member state nations being home to about 80 percent of the world’s population. Included are countries like South Africa, Cuba, Bosnia, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia, reported The Times of Israel.
With reporting by Reuters and The Associated Press
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The data that will be presented will enable clinicians to evaluate comparative dressing attributes and the impact that dressing function has on clinical and economic outcomes. Through the presentation of clinical evidence and case studies, the role of dressings in controlling infection, minimizing wound trauma, reducing pain, increasing staff efficiency and generally promoting the optimal burn healing environment will be illustrated.
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ConvaTec is a leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies that have helped improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. With four key business divisions - Ostomy Care, Wound Therapeutics, Continence and Critical Care and Infusion Devices - ConvaTec products support health care professionals from the hospital to the community health setting. From its operational headquarters in Skillman, New Jersey, the company oversees more than 8,000 employees in over 90 countries serving consumers and their health care professionals on six continents. For more information, please visit http://www.convatec.com.
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Letter of appointments of Owen Anthony Poole, 1796; papers relating to the provisional cavalry including returns of horses and men, 1796-1798; General Meetings of the Lieutenancy papers and minute books, 1798-1813; Owen Anthony Poole's correspondence mainly relating to the enforcement of the Additional Forces Act 1804, 1796-1805; militia lists for Pwllheli and Llanystumdwy, 1798-1812; official government directives, 1798-1806; correspondence between Buckeley and Poole, 1801-1821; letters of acceptance as deputy lieutenants, 1820; miscellaneous papers, 1775-; accounts for the official duties of Buckeley and Poole, 1802-1817; militia demands on parishes, 1809-1817; correspondence between Thomas Assheton-Smith of Vaynol, Poole and his nephew Richard Anthony Poole, 1822-1824; correspondence between Lord Willoughby de Eresby and Richard Anthony Poole, 1828-1849; correspondence of Sir Richard Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley, 1852-1861; correspondence between Colonel the Hon. Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant and Edward Griffith Powell, 1854-1860; correspondence between the War Office and Edward Griffith Powell, 1855-1860; lists of deputy lieutenants, 1831-1860; commissions and related papers for deputy lieutenants, 1781-1846; qualifications to be deputy lieutenants, 1852-1860; county militia corps commissions and related papers, 1787-1858; notices of commission and gazetting, 1866-1872; returns and nominal rolls for the county militia, 1810-1871 with miscellaneous papers, 1852-1870 and printed acts, 1806-1860; royal visits, 1946-1958, and Lord Lieutenant's Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace files, 1920-1970.
Lord Lieutenancy Papers
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Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Lord Lieutenant was the chief executive authority of the crown in a county, through whom the policy decisions of the central government would be directed and would represent the considerations of the county at Court and to the government, and taking prime resposnibility for the magistracy and militia. Deputy lieutenants would be appointed to carry out the directions given by him. The office had the power to recommend, and constitute the Commission of the Peace, the body of justices of the peace or magistrates who supervised the legal and administrative systems of the county through the medium of the Quarter Sessions court. Successive Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire were Thomas James Warren Bulkeley, 1781-1822; Thomas Assheton-Smith, 1822-1828; Peter Robert Burrell, 1828-1851, and Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 1851-1866. Buckeley raised the Loyal Anglesea Volunteers in 1797 and commanded them until their dissolution in 1802. From 1803, he commanded the Anglesey Loyal Voluntary Infantry and from 1808-1816, the Anglesey Local Militia. Owen Anthony Poole, a solicitor in Caernarfon, was appointed Clerk to the General Meetings of the Lieutenancy in 1796 and co-ordinated Lieutenancy business under Bulkeley's direction; he was also Buckeley's agent for the family's Caernarvonshire estates. Poole died in 1823 and both the Clerkship of the Peace and the General Meetings were passed to his nephew, Richard Anthony Poole. Edward Griffith Powell was the county treasurer between -1860. The Militia Act of 1757 assigned to each county a quota for the number of men raised for the militia, an auxiliary force for the defence of the realm independent of the standing army. These men were selected by ballot from militia lists made up by the tithingmen or parish constables. The Caernarvonshire regular militia was raised in 1762 under the 1757 Act, and continued regular training until 1783. It was reconstituted in 1793 and deployed to counter the French invasion. From 1810-1813 served in Ireland and spent the rest of the war stationed in Scotland. The corps returned to Caernarfonshire in June 1814 and disembodied. The regular militia remained in dissolution until 1820 and was sporadically trained. The voluntary corps were formed in 1803. The Carnarvon, Bangor and Conway corps were algamated the following year. These forces were dissolved under the Local Militia Act 1859, creating a county Local Militia commanded by Thomas Assheton-Smith. Volunteer corps founded after 1859 were the Caernarvonshire Artillery Volunteers and the Caernarvonshire Rifle Volunteers.
Arranged into the following : Appointments of Owen Anthony Poole; papers relating to the provisional cavalry; General Meetings of the Lieutenancy papers and minute book; Owen Anthony Poole's correspondence relating to Additional Forces Act of 1804; militia lists; official government directives; correspondence between Buckeley and Poole; letters; miscellaneous papers; official duties accounts of Buckeley and Poole; militia demands; correspondence between Thomas Assheton-Smith of Vaynol, Poole and his nephew Richard Anthony Poole; correspondence between Lord Willoughby de Eresby and Richard Anthony Poole; correspondence of Sir Richard Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley; correspondence between Colonel the Hon. Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant and Edward Griffith Powell; correspondence between the War Office and Edward Griffith Powell; lists of deputy lieutenants; commissions; qualifications; county militia corps; notices; returns and nominal rolls; royal visits and Lord Lieutenant's Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace files
Restricted access for Lord Lieutenant's Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace files. They are closed for a period of 75 years at the direction of the Lord Chancellor, but the Archivist may allow access at his discretion for records more than 30 years old. The Lord Lieutenant has agreed to similar conditions of access to those records not under the Lord Chancellor's direction.
Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW project. The following sources were used to compile this description: Caernarfon Record Office, Catalogue of the Lord Lieutenancy Papers; The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959).
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"The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Othergenocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?"
Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
In 2013, the theme chosen by the United Nations for this International Day is:
“The Courage to Care: Rescue during the Holocaust”.
It highlights the exceptional actions of individuals or groups that contrast to an indifferent majority. They took action despite tremendous danger. These stories of rescue are rare but provide strong evidence that action is always possible in the face of injustice and gross violations of human rights.
credits: Euronews 2012
Each person who becomes aware of this history will no doubt reflect upon his or her own capacity to turn compassion for others into decisive and heroic action in their time of need.
photo: Children portraits
Before the ceremony, UNESCO organizes a conference entitled "From Holocaust Education to the Prevention of Genocide: What have we learnt from the Past?" in partnership with the Office of the United Nations Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide.
"Freedom, goodness, giving, courage, happiness, humanity, usefulness…"
Learning about this universal history can engage students in a critical reflection about the shared heritage of humanity, the roots of genocide, and the necessity to nurture peace and human rights to prevent such atrocities in the future.
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January 2013), UNESCO has published a new brochure, “Why teach about the Holocaust?” which provides an overview of Holocaust education.
The brochure explains that:
The brochure explains that:
- The Holocaust was a defining historical moment;
- Genocide is not inevitable;
- States and citizens have responsibilities;
- Silence contributes to oppression;
- Prejudice and racism have roots.
Last year a short film entitled “Hidden Children” by renown film maker Robert Bober was shown. The film brought to light moving letters of hidden children read by French actress Anouk Grinberg.
- How do schools worldwide handle the Holocaust as a subject?
- In what areas of the world does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching?
For the first time it will be possible to compare representations of the Holocaust in school textbooks and national curricula.
Holocaust Education exemplifies UNESCO’s vision of education as the starting point for building peace and nurturing the principles of dignity, equality and mutual respect of all men and women.Teachers:
Why Teach the Holocaust, Brochure 2013
UNESCO "Why Teach the Holocaust", Brochure 2013 can be downloaded here .
Resources for Teaching the Holocaust And Other Genocides here
Anne Frank official website (Netherlands) has projects and activities that you can use at school, no matter the curriculum. Students can be involved in cross-curricula.
Visit Education to inspire you and adapt the best resources to the level you teach.
Activities: Reading & Writing
It somehow surprises me that there are so many kids who don't know anything about the Holocaust or World War II or Anne Frank. I don't know why, but I just assumed that they were a part of everyone's school experience, and as a teacher, I am always dismayed when I discover yet again that the students are not informed about this aspect of very recent world history.
Thus, in 2012, a survey showed that a fifth of young Germans do not even knew Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp.
Diary of Anne Frank (manuscrit)
Tuesday, 7 March 1944
Think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Literature and Languages curriculum is the perfect curriculum. We can talk, read, write, and learn about every subject.
Reading and writing are two important skills that students must handle easily and digital literacy as well.
Diaries are an interesting part of the Narrative text. Students love to read diaries written from other young people.
How do diaries help us teach about this special narrative text ?
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank is at once exceedingly special and totally normal. Her circumstances, her writing skill, and her insight make the diary extraordinary.
What is it about diaries that make them such rich resources? Diarists are among the most honest writers you'll ever know! Very few lies exist in a diary that carries the expectation of being private forever.
Also, diaries are written in a way that is characteristic of an era. One can learn about speech patterns, syntax, and changes in language from reading diaries.
The Diary of Anne Frank is part of my lessons when I teach the Narrative text.
Anne's diary should not be taught without context. Students must understand the circumstances surrounding the Franks' decision to go into hiding.
So, invite your students to do a research on the official website of Anne Frank (in the classroom and at home); Anne Frank House (Facebook up-to 13), to understand better all the events during the World War II, taking some notes to discuss in the classroom.
Of course, you must prepare carefully your lessons, choosing the best resources for the level you are teaching, reviewing in detail each one.
Students love to read The Diary of Anne Frank, they discuss a lot about Anne's ideas shared on her diary. You can read (Portuguese language) some thoughts of my students on the Dia Internacional da Memória do Holocausto (blog of my students in Portuguese language).
She inspires them to write touching creative texts: pages of a diary; letters to Anne; storytelling; poetry.
They always ask for other suggestions about books on the same or similar subject.
Note: If you're going to use the diary as a reading book, try to fit in the whole thing.
- Elementary education (up-to 8-13 years)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2009) based on the book by John Boyne
- High Junior School | Secondary Education
Sophie's Choice, Alan J. Pakula (1983) based on the book by William Styron
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, O Cônsul de Bordéus (2011), a true story of rescue, (English subtitles).
- App "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank: ipad (all levels)
The app has a wealth of embedded content: video footage of Frank's only living relative Buddy Elias, audio extracts of the diary read by Helena Bonham Carter and translated facsimile pages from the original diary. There are also "Story Trails" with titles such as "Fear" and "Life in Hiding".
iPad screenshot | Anne Frank app
ipad screenshot | Anne Frank app
The diary has been translated into dozens of languages, is read by millions of people and is on the curriculum of so many schools around the world.
Anne Frank’s diary has inspired children’s authors to write books that continue the importance of telling the stories. There are some good books for young people that we can include in the curriculum.
- Books (e-books) | Authors - Literature & ICT
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (on this blog)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (students blog)
O Mundo em que vivi by Ilse Losa (German-Portuguese children's writer)
Let Me Whisper You My Story by Moya Simons
Trilogy Then | Once ! Now by Morris Glietzman
The Reader by Stephen Daldry
- BD | Manga
Anne Frank au pays du manga
Anne Frank au pays du manga est une BD documentaire interactive. Un voyage en BD documentaire interactive "pour comprendre ce qui, de la Shoah et d'Hiroshima, peut - ou non - constituer une expérience commune au Japon et à l'Europe."
- Web | Social media
Anne Frank official website
Anne Frank House | Facebook
Official Anne Frank Channel | YouTube
Ilse Losa: uma escritora luso-alemã
The Anne Frank Center US
The Insurbodinate Consul of Portugal
Sousa Mendes Foundation, vidéo (French language, English subtitles)
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, O Cônsul de Bordéus (2011) Portuguese language, English subtitles
Sousa Mendes saved more lives than Schindler | The Independent
I'm sure you will develop wonderful projects with your students. They love History and Literature. Love biographies of other young people.
You don't have to finish in a week. Give some time of your lessons to really help your students to understand the values of a young girl who died tragically but never lost her faith in a better world.
"Transmitting the memory of the Holocaust is a vital part of the struggle to combat ignorance and prejudice through education in humanist values, the sharing of cultures and knowledge of history.”
Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
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An environmental group asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order a stop to construction of the Dominion Energy Inc.-led, 1.5-Bcf/d Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline project after it lost a wildlife permit in a court case.
"Now that a federal court has revoked the incidental take statement for the [pipeline], FERC must order an immediate halt to all construction activities along the full length of the proposed route," Sierra Club attorney Nathan Matthews said in a May 17 statement.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on May 15 ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to appropriately limit the authority granted by an incidental take permit issued to developers of the pipeline and consequently vacated the permit. The permit authorizes the accidental killing or disruption of certain threatened and endangered species during construction. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit docket 18-1082)
Dominion has said the court ruling only pertains to portions of the 600-mile pipeline route and that it would adhere to the order. The developer does not anticipate a significant interruption to the construction schedule.
The $6 billion to $6.5 billion project is a joint venture of Dominion, Duke Energy Corp. and Southern Co.'s Southern Co. Gas. FERC authorized the pipeline in an October 2017 certificate order. (FERC docket CP15-554)
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